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__label__wiki	0.874913	0.874913	Simple amendments would save media package Scott Ludlam 18 Mar 2013 One day and two inquiries into examination of the media reform package, the Greens are not ready to throw the Convergence and Finkelstein Reviews into the dustbin. "We have expressed concerns about the process and content of the media package proposed by the government on a ‘take it or leave it basis', however, parts of it have merit and should proceed," Australian Greens Communications spokesperson Senator Ludlam said today. "Giving up on the reforms means the bullies have won. "Australia has the most concentrated media ownership in the western world. It is in the interests of a free media and our democracy to prevent further mergers and acquisitions through establishing a public interest test. "We have heard a lot of hysteria today, and some rather obvious misreading of the Bills. Contrary to the convenient belief of media barons, the Public Interest Media Advocate simply cannot interfere in what is published in Australian newspapers. "The Australian Press Council is widely believed to be too weak. Measures proposed in the Bill go some way towards actually supporting the implementation of the standards set. "Sensible amendments to stop the proliferation of Press Councils and to better define the public interest test to protect Australian content and local news would secure the Greens support," Senator Ludlam concluded. media ownership, Media & Communications, Media & Communications	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line861
__label__cc	0.645111	0.354889	Great War Wednesday: A Most Perfidous Weapon Posted on October 21, 2015 by G. S. Feet World War I was the proving ground for a great number of new weapon systems. Machine guns entered widespread usage. Artillery improved to the pinnacle of its deadliness. Submarines and airplanes made their debut on the big stage, and poison gas wasn’t just for use against tribal natives anymore. Oddly enough, however, one weapon which, along with the shovel, proved effective beyond belief was never meant to be a weapon at all. It was invented to fill a need on the plains of the United States – a need to limit the freedom of cattle. One doubts Mr. Lucien Smith pictured the tangled bloody moonscaped battlefields of the Western Front when he filed his patent in 1867 for his invention to make fencing in cattle cheaper and less labor intensive, but his brainchild will forever be linked with the hellish killing fields of No-Man’s-Land. Mr. Smith invented barbed wire. Barbed wire in essence is two or three strands of wire twisted around each other and at regular intervals, a one to four pointed barb is twisted into the strand creating a single wire with thousands of flesh shredding “barbs” pointing outward. Different patterns cropped up from time to time before the Great War, but mostly they were just variations on this basic theme. At first, the wire had to be twisted by hand and creation of enough for any use was a time consuming process. By the time of World War I, however, giant barbed wire conglomerates like Smith and Glidden Barbed Wire Company had developed machines which turned out thousands of feet of wire each hour. Barbed wire now existed in quantities to make it an efficient battle implement. The wire would have been effective if great coils of it were simply unstrung between the trenches and in places, this is exactly what happened. Like so much in this war of excess though, if a simple way was good, an overly involved way was much better. What developed was a series of x-shaped uprights spaced a few feet apart. Then, the engineers wove multiple coils of barbed wire over and around each post. The result was a waist or chest high hedge of shining steel that rusted within hours of exposure to the torrential dampness of Flanders. Barbed wire lay in solid hedges in multiple lines parallel to every trench on the Western Front. Soldiers on the attack would have to pass through those hedges if they had any hope of reaching their objectives. Now, as any of us from Gray Court could tell you, passing over, under, or through a simple five strand “bob wire fence” could be difficult under simple, peaceful circumstances. Inevitably, crawling under would get your pants caught but climbing over risked the staples pulling out of the posts and dropping you across the bottom four strands in quick succession. In modern times, a mishap like that translated into a visit to the ER for a tetanus shot and some stitches; during the Great War, in a time before tetanus shots or even simple antibiotics existed, scratches from this rusty obstacle could mean an agonizing death as any opening in a soldier’s skin welcomed vast quantities of dirt and other filth into his bloodstream. So soldiers faced an obstacle impossible to maintain a walking pace through which they needed to sprint across in order to avoid machine gun fire, sniper bullets, and bursting shells. It was a thorny problem both sides in the war faced. They would both employ several methods to attempt to overcome the barbed barriers. One of the most straightforward was a thick pair of leather gloves and a hefty set of wire cutters. Unfortunately, commanders found out early on that the man with the gloves and cutters wasn’t given a sunny reception by the other side if they observed him while bent to his task. As a result, most wire cutting missions took place in darkness. Unfortunately, cutting gaps into the wire often caused more problems than it solved. Since the gaps were the safest places to pass without getting shredded, great congregations of soldiers gravitated towards the gaps. Before they had gotten to the second line of wire, however, the machine gunners on the other side would note where the gaps created bottlenecks and adjusted their withering fire accordingly. In this way, the final state of the soldiers was worse than the first. Before long, bright men in the high commands decided artillery was the most efficient way to clear the attack corridors of wire. Seems like a good plan, but the execution, like so many plans in this war, proved less than adequate. At first, they would try shrapnel shells to cut the wire. Shrapnel shells are essentially huge shotgun blasts of pellets which exploded and shot downward at the ground . . . very effective on personnel, but, as anyone who has ever tried to shoot a limp rope or wire in twain could have told the commanders, absolutely useless on wire. When thousands of casualties pointed to the ineffectiveness of shrapnel shells, the commanders switched to regular high explosive munitions. While enough of these projectiles would indeed cut the wire in many places, the sections would sail into the air to land atop one another willy-nilly fashion and instead of nice orderly rows of wire in predictable areas, no-man’s-land became a greater nightmare of shell craters lined with pointy, rusty steel. For three years, men were swallowed up by the walls of barbed wire. Finally, another invention making its debut in the Great War emerged and removed the terror of wire for all succeeding generations. Barbed wire was doomed as an effective weapon as soon as the first Mark I “Matilda” tanks from Britain lumbered across the fields crushing the coils of wire beneath their treads on the fields of Cambrai. Love y’all and keep those feet clean! Filed under A Story, Great War Wednesday and tagged 1914, Barbed Wire, Great War, Western Front, World War I \| Leave a comment	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line863
__label__wiki	0.53858	0.53858	Vehicles, Vehicles in GTA Online, Vehicles in GTA V, Vehicles manufactured by HVY Industrial Vehicle Class Vehicles with non-standard door designs Not to be confused with the Dumper from Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. For the food product, see Dump Ice Cream Bar. A Dump in Grand Theft Auto V. Industrial vehicle Off-road dump truck 1 (driver) HVY (Website and game files) Brute (Badging) $1,000,000 (GTA Online) (Warstock Cache & Carry) P S Prl W "There's something about driving a vehicle with wheels that are bigger than you. The HVY Dump doesn't let traffic get in its way, and sports a box-bed with an 80-ton capacity. That's a whole lot of migrant workers." ―Warstock Cache & Carry description. The HVY Dump is a haul truck in Grand Theft Auto V and Grand Theft Auto Online. 1.1 Grand Theft Auto V 2.1.1 GTA V Overview 5 Prominent Appearances in Missions The Dump is a large vehicle, being one of the, if not the largest land-vehicles in the entire Grand Theft Auto series. It has many realistic details, some namely being front ladders and stairs, fire extinguishers and its wheel and tyre tread design. One exception to this is a large metal bar protruding from the side of the truck, which the player uses as a means of entrance. The truck could be based on multiple CAT dump trucks, but takes most design from the CAT 789C. The vehicle is reminiscent of the Dumper from Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, albeit more modern in appearance and with a similar layout (cab on the left side, large wheels and a large tipper on the back). It always spawns in a yellow/black color with a worn appearance, with the rear tipper always covered in dirt. Unlike the aforementioned vehicle in GTA San Andreas, the tipper is non-functional. As expected from such a large, both wide and tall vehicle, the Dump is one of the slowest vehicles in GTA V, beaten in slowness by the Dozer and Mower. However, the truck makes up with its power against other vehicles; its sheer size allows it to crush other vehicles, albeit with some struggle and bounce, or push them out of the way with ease. The truck's high exhaust stack also allows it to travel in very deep water without the risk of cutting out. Despite the vehicle's brute size and shape, the vehicle's durability remains the same as any other vehicle, if not worsened by its vulnerability. The Dump's tires can deflate and burst, and the vehicle cannot withstand even one explosion before exploding completely. It should be noted that while crushing vehicles, cars will commonly explode under the sheer weight of the truck, which can often cause the Dump itself to explode. The large fuel tanks are also vulnerable to gunfire and its slow speed makes it difficult to get out of sticky situations. The Dump can also be picked up by the Cargobob's hook, despite its weight, although its size again poses a significant threat to both the control and the speed of the helicopter. GTA V Overview N/A 22 / 35 4 N/A RWD 35000 / 77161 70 N/A N/A N/A 3000cc (3.0L) (Badging) N/A N/A N/A Cannot reach 60 / 100 31.0 / 49.9 4 FR RWD Cannot be observed Cannot be observed Front view of the Dump. Rear view of the Dump. The Dump on Rockstar Games Social Club. The Dump on the updated Rockstar Games Social Club. The Dump in the cinematic preview on the "Grand Theft Auto V" Rockstar Games Social Club. The Dump in the cinematic preview on the "Grand Theft Auto Online" Rockstar Games Social Club. GTA V - HVY Dump Location Prominent Appearances in Missions A Dump is scripted to pass on a dirt path that leads to Zancudo Avenue during the mission Caida Libre. At Davis Quartz, east of Sandy Shores. Can be found in Redwood Lights Track. Occasionally seen driving down desert roads near Sandy Shores. Occasionally spawns at the construction site in Downtown Los Santos. Sometimes two of them spawn next to the building with the huge "Cypress" sign in Cypress Flats on Hanger Way. Can be bought from Warstock Cache & Carry for $1,000,000. Can be found at Davis Quartz during the day. The word Dump is a double entendre, referencing the slang term which means defecating. The Dump, along with the Dock Handler, are the first vehicles in the HD Universe to feature suicide doors. Although the Dump is claimed by game files and website to be manufactured by HVY, there are several Brute badges on the front and around the tipper. By clipping the camera through the vehicle, one can see that the exhaust is not really connected to the engine. The exhaust simply starts from the middle of the whole vehicle, but lacks any sort of L-shaped connector, resulting in an untextured tube when looking from the inner side. Dumper - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas counterpart. Retrieved from "https://gta.fandom.com/wiki/Dump?oldid=1274126"	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line867
__label__wiki	0.756673	0.756673	The tunnel connecting Mexico to Arizona was discovered by the Homeland Security team Border authorities in Yuma unearthed a still-incomplete tunnel connecting Mexico and Arizona. Homeland Safety Investigations HSI describes it as “essentially the most subtle tunnel in US historical past.” It’s most likely being constructed to hold on unlawful actions like smuggling. The tunnel connects San Luis Río Colorado, Mexico, to San Luis, Arizona. Those that are behind this mission chosen an space that has a tough laborious terrain with free sand. The tunnel is self-contained, and bolstered with a air flow system, other than provisions for water and electrical energy. There may be additionally a rail system presumed to be for transportation of males and materials. As Carl E Landrum, an official of Yuma sector border patrol mentioned: “This seems to be essentially the most subtle tunnel in US historical past, and positively essentially the most subtle I’ve seen in my profession.” The Guardian gives the background. It appears in late July, the authorities got here to study concerning the look of a sinkhole close to the border wall. Homeland Safety Investigations entered the scene as a result of it had acquired reviews about potential tunnel exercise in that space. The company found the tunnel that was about 3ft huge and 4ft excessive. It was partially full, therefore the investigators couldn’t set up its function or how lengthy the work on it had been happening. Smugglers ship medicine from Mexico utilizing tunnels Smugglers from Mexico have been lively for ages transporting shipments of medication to the US. The Guardian goes on so as to add at instances, they ship folks throughout the border illegally by way of these tunnels. Smugglers maintain innovating and the border patrol retains apprehending them. That’s one motive President Donald Trump had promised to construct the Mexico border wall to discourage the unlawful entry of migrants and smuggling of medication. Each are security issues for the nation and he needed an America that might be secure. The wall was his election promise in 2016 and work on it has been taken up. It ought to be robust sufficient to examine drug smuggling, which is a profitable enterprise. Those that cope with the commodity break the lives of individuals, particularly kids and lots of of them become involved in violence. Authorities say they’ve discovered an unfinished tunnel stretching from Arizona to Mexico that seems to be “essentially the most subtle tunnel in U.S. historical past.” Officers say the tunnel meant for smuggling ran from San Luis, Arizona, to a Mexican neighborhood. https://t.co/nFoH3BwFwk — The Related Press (@AP) August 7, 2020 Drug smugglers of Mexico The Guardian confirms the usage of tunnels by smugglers for many years. They assemble them to hold out their unlawful actions throughout the border. A few years again, the authorities in Yuma found one such tunnel that originated in a house in Mexico and led to an deserted fast-food restaurant in Arizona. This vacation spot was in shut proximity to the border. The tunnel was massive sufficient to accommodate individuals who may stroll by. The proprietor is now serving a jail sentence. By the way, most drug smugglers attempt to circumvent bodily obstacles on the land and select the underground route. It ensures security till it will get found. Smugglers had minimize by parts of the US-Mexico border wall to show that it didn’t pose any downside. Mexico border wall may examine unlawful actions Based on Mercury Information, U.S. authorities have come throughout a 1,300-foot tunnel underneath the U.S.-Mexico border. An incomplete one, it has provisions for air flow and a rail system. Its location is within the desert close to San Luis, Arizona. Tunnels should not new within the area and authorities have situated a whole bunch of them. The drug cartels and felony organizations use them for his or her nefarious actions that embody smuggling narcotics, folks and weapons. Federal brokers made use of underground cameras to analyze the tunnel. In January 2020, border patrol revealed the discovering of the longest cross-border smuggling tunnel by federal brokers. It was greater than 4,000 ft lengthy and situated alongside the Southwest border and its origin was in Baja California, Mexico. 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__label__wiki	0.604981	0.604981	8 Interesting Facts about Coastguard Stations 1. The initial purpose of the Coastguard was revenue protection, but this changed during the 19th century to that of naval reserve. Coastguards posing with their life-saving apparatus in 1901. The rocket was used to fire a line to a distressed or sinking ship enabling the crew and passengers to be brought safely to shore 2. In the 1920s life-saving responsibilities became the Coastguard’s primary role, along with coastal observation. A Coastguard and friend watching from the cliffs near Hartland Point, Devon. A lighthouse is just visible in the distance while in the vicinity, but out of view, is a signal station latterly a Coastguard station 3. Over the last two centuries the number of stations has fluctuated, reaching a peak of over 500 in the early 20th century. The Admiralty ‘show station’ at Ramsgate, built 1865, has cottages and watch houses ranged around a walled courtyard. The buildings are treated in a 16th century domestic style and are listed at Grade II 4. The more isolated stations were required to be self-sufficient and in addition to the accommodation and storage facilities there might also be a slipway, outbuildings such as carpenter’s shops, bakehouses, earth closets, wash houses and rain-water tanks. The Grade II-listed watch house on Rocky Island, Seaton Sluice, Northumberland, was built around 1876 for the Seaton Sluice Voluntary Life Saving Company and later used as an auxiliary Coastguard station 5. As well as purpose-built premises the Coastguard used adapted or converted buildings such as Martello towers and hulks. Her Majesty’s Watch Vessel Kangaroo was a naval frigate that served as accommodation for Coastguards between 1865 and 1872. 6. Admiralty era stations needed to be defended from attack and it is believed houses were designed to be intercommunicating and the number of entrances kept to a minimum. The Coastguard Station, Isle of Grain, Kent was built by the Admiralty in 1900. The row of brick houses is orientated towards the river Medway; the larger northernmost house was for the Chief Officer 7. Under the Admiralty signalling formed an important aspect of Coastguard activity and Coastguardsmen were expected to be proficient in Morse, semaphore and telegraphy. The Coastguard Station at St Agnes, Cornwall, built in 1893,is a handsome example of an Admiralty era station, listed at Grade II 8. Since the 1970s the traditional Coastguard station has been increasingly superseded by rescue centres; essentially operation rooms. By the end of the 20th century Coastguard stations had evolved into Marine Rescue Centres, their altered role was reflected in their different architectural treatment. This sub-centre at Tynemouth Priory was designed by Property Services Agency and opened in 1980 Britain is a maritime nation, and since Roman times has had structures set along the coastline dedicated to maintaining a watch over shore and coastal waters. In recent centuries these have been constructed for various reasons including the prevention of smuggling, locating and coordinating assistance to ships in distress or as part of defensive facilities against attack or invasion. The architectural history of Coastguard stations has so far received little attention. It is possible to give a broad outline of the historical development of the service and the extent, characteristic elements and design of the stations but there remains much that is inadequately understood. This short guide to Coastguard Stations provides an introduction to the history and development of coastguard stations in England. It is intended to support the listing selection guide on Maritime and Naval buildings. Free download: Introduction to Heritage Assets – Coastguard Stations #Admiralty, #Coastguard, #Coastguard Stations 6 responses to 8 Interesting Facts about Coastguard Stations CoastalJoe says: Great to see such an introduction to Coastguard history. Sadly, today the Government are closing existing Maritime Rescue Coordination Centres (MRCC’s) in a flawed plan to save a small amount of money. The ‘Modernisation’ plan has seen Forth, Clyde and Gt. Yarmouth MRCC’s close already and will see Thames, Portland, Solent, Brixham, Swansea and Liverpool close soon. Despite considerable opposition, these closures will see Local Knowledge, expertise and history lost. The rash way that the process has been executed has seen a complete demoralisation of the Coastguard service with many staff leaving and could signal the end of the service having any Coastal Operations sites. Coastal Rescue Teams which are staffed by volunteers will continue to be available and tasked by the Future Coastguard Service from new inland Ops Centres using new systems which (at the point of writing) are not tested or proven to work. Please visit http://coastguardsos.com/ For more information & ways to help fight closures. Thanks @CoastalJoe1 Fascinating – I’ve taken photos of coastguard cottages in England and Northern Ireland – thanks for giving some background information! Denis Mayne says: I completed a study of coastguard stations in Northern Ireland some years ago. If you are still interested a Ccopy of the work can be found at the Department of Communities Northern Ireland – Historic Environment Division. It address can be found at https://www.buildingconservation.com/directory/ni-environment. The work is called ‘A Gazetteer of Nineteenth Coastguard Stations in Ulster’ by Denis Mayne. If they deny all knowledge of it refer to me at denismayne30@gmail.co. starrygazypie says: I live in the coastguard cottages at Portland Bill. The Bill cottages have only ‘back’ doors – facing into a central courtyard – and our recent renovations uncovered a bricked in original doorway between us and next door on the top floor. It’s not clear whether the door was originally open or made with a skin wall to break in an emergency. The wash house is still standing (and used for mending lobster pots) and the outline of the well can still be seen. When I’m trying to dry clothes and boots inside in winter I often think enviously of that wash house and drying room. Mick Galloway says: My surname is Galloway and I have always wondered how the old coastguard at Lydd Kent called galloways got its name. All very interesting. I have completed a study of the 19th century coastguard stations in Northern Ireland (unpublished -so far!). Ireland is unique in having fully fortified coastguard stations and an article I wrote on these is available at coastguardsofyesteryear.org. I hope this may be of interest Denis Mayne Leave a Reply to CoastalJoe Cancel reply Previous post 8 Interesting Buildings that Wouldn’t Exist if it Wasn’t for the Car Next post Excavation of a Viking-Age Cemetery at Cumwhitton	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line870
__label__wiki	0.844157	0.844157	Dubai Weekend: Brad & Angelina, Montblanc Commissions Arab Artists, Katy Perry Wows by Nasrine Abushakra Another haute weekend passed in the UAE, bringing sightings of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, the 2015 Dubai Motor Show wrapped up, Montblanc debuted a new line featuring works by young Arab artists, The World Noor Foundation hosted a benefit at Bayan Tree Al Wadi and Katy Perry wowed VIP guests at a luxe event at the Palm. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie Arrive in UAE Elite Hollywood power-couple Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt arrived in the UAE over the weekend. Staying in Ras Al Khaimah (RAK), the two will remain in the country as Pitt wraps up filming on his action drama War Machine, in which he plays the part of General Stanley A McChrystal. Previously a quaint fishing town, Al Hamra has been revamped as a Pakistan village and military base, complete with helicopters flying above and new road signs to transform the Emirati district as imagined by producers. In October Pitt was in Abu Dhabi to shoot scenes for War Machine as well. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt arrived in the UAE over the weekend as Pitt wraps up filming on his action drama War Machine. Photo Credit: http://www.eonline.com/ Rumor has it that Pitt’s costars Topher Grace, Scot McNairy, Alan Ruck and Will Poulter are also in the UAE filming and have been seen near the location donning military attire for their roles in War Machine, which is being produced by Netflix. Rolls Royce and Bentley Among Luxury Exhibitors at Dubai Motor Show The Dubai Motor Show came to a close over the weekend, boasting yet another successful run that featured 18 global debuts, as well as classic models from the most sought-after names in the automotive world. Rolls Royce featured their new Dawn convertible at the 2015 Dubai Motor Show. Photo Credit: http://gtinsider.com/ Rolls Royce featured their new Dawn convertible, which Rolls advertises as possessing “exceptional space, tailored for the ultimate passenger experience.” Rolls Royce also highlighted two special-edition models, the Golf Edition of the Ghost and Tiger edition of the Phantom Coupe. Meanwhile Bentley made a splash as it debuted their much-anticipated Bentley Bentayga, which will be the most expensive SUV available on the market once it is available for sale in the beginning of 2016. The Bentley Bentayga, the most expensive luxury SUV available on the market, debuted at the 2015 Dubai Motor Show. Photo Credit: http://autoweek.com Starting at $229,100 in U.S. currency, the Bentayga “redefines luxury in the SUV sector” noted Bentley CEO Wolfgang Duerheimer. The Bentayga delivers the ability to traverse the most challenging terrain in the utmost of style, complete with leather front seats that include 22-way electric adjustments and massage, ventilation and heating features. The 2015 Dubai Motor Show was the greatest yet, featuring over 85,000 square meters of floor space and delivering large economic impacts to the UAE region. Auto executives and industry bigwigs across the globe are already looking forward to the next motor show, which will take place in 2017. Montblanc Commission Featuring Arab Calligraphers Debuts at Yas Mall Montblanc, which recently opened their largest boutique in the UAE at Yas Mall, debuted a special collection of writing instruments over the weekend. To launch the new M line, young Arab calligraphers were commissioned by Montblanc to create designs inspired by locations or buildings from their home country. When combined, the works create a Gulf cityscape. Montblanc commissioned emerging Arab artists to help launch their new M line. Photo Credit: http://www.arabianknightonline.com/ Following their unveil at Yas Mall, the drawings are on display this week at The Dubai Mall. The exhibit will then be rotating among various Montblanc boutiques throughout the GCC. This is the first collaboration between Montblanc and Middle Eastern artists. Contributors to the exhibit included Saudi artist Bayan Saeed Barboud, who selected the Kingdom Tower in Riyadh as his inspiration and Hamda Al Hashemi, an Emirati artist from Abu Dhabi, who depicted the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque. Abdulaziz Al Awadhi of Kuwait drew Al Hamra Tower for his contribution. Emirati artist Ali Kashwani incorporated Dubai’s Burj Khalifa into his design. Other artists and inspirations included in the exhibition are Abbas Yousif’s Bab Al Bahrain building; Bader Al Ajami’s map of Oman; Bayan Barboud’s landscape of old Jeddah, which he submitted in addition to the Kingdom Tower; and Thamer Al Dossari’s Museum of Islamic Art in Qatar. “The Arab market is a key one for us,” says Eric Vergnes, regional head of Montblanc. “Even though people are writing less now, our sales are climbing,” says Vergnes. “A written note has becomes a special experience, and people want the writing instrument to be part of that.” Luxury maison Montblanc’s Yas Mall boutique features iconic writing instruments, the latest collections of exquisite timepieces, fine jewelry for men and women, and artisanal leather goods. Noor Foundation Hosts Benefit at Bayan Tree Al Wadi The World Noor Foundation, in partnership with Banyan Tree Al Wadi in Ras Al Khaimah (RAK) hosted the First Annual Basketball is Life Youth Clinic, aimed at supporting cultural exchange through sports. The event for orphans and primary school pupils included special activities galore for youth between the ages of 8-16, including a basketball clinic, painting with street artists and falconry. The World Noor Foundation partnered with Banyan Tree Al Wadi to host the First Annual Basketball is Life Youth Clinic. Photo Credit: Beno Saradzic The children attending the Basketball Is Life Event came from Al Rahmah Orphanage and RAK Academy International Primary School. The youth were all smiles as they played basketball with National Basketball Association players, created art and took part in falconry. “We saw there was a gap in bringing cultures together and cultural unity, so it is beautiful to have kids from the orphanage and school all wearing the same T-shirt, all looking the same and learning that it does not matter what your background is and how much money you have or don’t have,” said Elizabeth Donald, a board member at World Noor Foundation. “Teaching them that from a younger age is important.” Sheikha Fatima Mohammed Al Qasimi, who is a member of the RAK Ruling Family, attended the Basketball Is Life event to support the Noor Foundation and the children. “It is for a good cause,” Sheikha Fatima said. “A lot of people don’t know we have orphans in the UAE and I think it is a good thing to mix them with other children so they don’t feel they are isolated. Having no parents doesn’t mean they don’t have family, their families are other people who care about them.” The Basketball Is Life event in RAK served as the introduction to a series of clinics in other countries across the globe in partnership with local orphanages and schools. World Noor Foundation strongly believes in its mission of illuminating communities around the world through the lives of women and youth by improving basic education, creating mentor programs, increasing access to cultural exchange, expanding economic opportunity and supporting social health and well- being. Katy Perry Dazzled in Private Dubai Performance for VIP’s at The Palm Katy Perry performed at the luxe Dubai Atlantis The Palm for a crowd of approximately 1,000 VIP guests of the Dubai Airshow. The invitation-only extravaganza was performed on the outdoor Asateer Garden Terrace. Katy Perry performed at Dubai’s Atlantis The Palm for an invite-only VIP crowd. Photo Credit: http://www.buro247.com/ Perry’s performance launched the latest initiative of Dubai International Airport, call MusicDXB, which aims to turn the airport into the world’s largest stage by bringing in entertainment artists into the transportation hub to entertain crowds making their way through the terminal or waiting between flights. MusicDXB targets a multi-cultural and cosmopolitan audience of more than 79 million music lovers that pass through the world’s busiest international airport every year. Performances by global superstars, emerging international stars and up-and-coming local artists are slated to take part. Travelers passing through Dubai International will be treated to exclusive live shows. Fans who can’t see the live performances can enjoy highlights on Dubai Airports’ social media platforms. “Much like Dubai International, music connects people from all walks of life, all ages and all cultures around the globe,” said Paul Griffiths, the CEO of Dubai Airports. “We believe the two will work together in absolute harmony to engage and delight our customers in the airport and across our social media platforms.” The first act of the project will feature Britain’s Got Talent finalist Jack Pack, who warmed up the crowd at The Palm before Perry’s performance. Fashion Soars at Dwyane Wade's Night on the RunWade Dallas: Retreat in Cozy Elegance to the Library Bar By Marye Audet	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line877
__label__cc	0.577558	0.422442	Hazon The Jewish Lab for Sustainability Hazon Commit to Change Brit Hazon Hazon Seal of Sustainability Shmita Project Holiday Resources Hazon Publications Jewish, Outdoor, Food, Farming & Environmental Education (JOFEE) Fellowship Jewish Youth Climate Movement Rabbis & Spiritual Leaders Teva Environmental Educators Hakhel Intentional Communities Detroit Home Detroit Blog Food Festival In A Box & Retreats Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center Adamah Teva Day School Retreats 2020 Vision Rides We are saddened to announce that all retreats at Isabella Freedman through the end of 2020 have been cancelled. However, we are hard at work trying to ensure that other programs can still take place here. Thank you for your loving support, now and always. Read the announcement for more information. What a wonderful Shabbat we spent at Isabella Freedman! A combination of Judaism, organic food grown on the property, fresh well water, sauerkraut made on the property, a mikvah that is in the pond, yoga in a round yurt overlooking the pond, davening in a shul overlooking the pond and a great talk with people who are integrating their creativity with their holy Torah. —Kim Kinneret Dubowitz book your own retreat Throughout the year, we offer Jewish holiday experiences, workshops, festivals, farm vacations, retreats, yoga classes, prayer services, and farm-to-table kosher meals. We also have a store stocked with a unique collection of books, music, Judaica, and our own homemade pickles, cheeses, and jams. Isabella Freedman is also home to the Adamah and Teva programs, as well as the following retreats: Booking Your Own Retreat Whether you are planning a special celebration, organizational or corporate retreat, family reunion, lifecycle event or community gathering, Isabella Freedman’s beautiful setting, comfortable accommodations, delicious food, onsite activities, and dynamic staff are sure to nourish the hearts and souls of all who attend. We provide each group with a dedicated professional staff member to help coordinate accommodations, program spaces, meals, and offer gracious hospitality. learn more about organizational retreats learn more about private celebrations About Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center, located on 400 acres in Falls Village, CT, is a year-round farm-to-table kosher pluralistic retreat center that serves over 6,000 guests of all ages and backgrounds each year. We produce retreats focused on Jewish holidays, food, music, meditation, yoga, and more. We also host dozens of synagogues and professional groups each year, as well as weddings, b’nai mitzvot, and other private events. During your stay with us, it is our hope that you will find ways to reconnect with yourself and others, unplug from the outside world and enjoy some rare quality time, and perhaps discover your own personal potential for growth. We hope that you will take time to enjoy the beauty of our natural surroundings, take a tour of the farm, walk around the lake or on our trails. We hope that you will feel nourished by the meals that we prepare for you with conscientiously grown and sourced ingredients. Isabella Freedman is the home of Hazon, the Jewish lab for sustainability. Our vision is of a vibrant, healthy Jewish community – in which to be Jewish is necessarily to help create a more sustainable world for all. Our goal is that people who come to Isabella Freedman deepen their Jewish identities; experience the connection between inherited Jewish wisdom, food, climate, and the natural world; and become linked with others who care about creating a more sustainable Jewish community and world. We hope that as a result of your time at Isabella Freedman you will not only be relaxed and rejuvenated, but that you will be inspired to make changes that help address the global environmental crisis. The Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center, now a part of Hazon, was originally incorporated in 1897 as the Jewish Working Girls Vacation Society. In 1956, the agency moved to its current home in Falls Village, CT, and began serving senior adults within the Jewish community. Camp Freedman has been offering programs for Jewish senior adults every summer since then. In the early 1990s Isabella Freedman opened its doors year-round, and it became the primary retreat center for the Jewish communities of New York and New England. Each year, over 30 Jewish organizations spanning the denominational spectrum hold retreats at what is now called the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center. In 1994, Isabella Freedman partnered with Surprise Lake Camp to develop the Teva Learning Center as an innovative experiential learning program for Jewish elementary school students that integrates ecology, Jewish spirituality, and environmental activism. Every fall, over 900 students from Jewish day schools throughout New England come to Isabella Freedman to attend Teva’s four-day educational programs. Building on its experience with the Teva Learning Center, in the spring of 2003, Isabella Freedman developed a new program called Adamah. Adamah is a leadership training program for young Jewish adults that teaches the vital connection between Jewish tradition and environmental stewardship. Through a three-month residential program, Adamah Fellows live communally and engage in a hands-on curriculum that integrates organic agriculture and sustainable living skills, Jewish learning and living, leadership development, and community building. The program strengthens participants’ Jewish identities and their commitment to tikkun olam through immersion in an ecologically sustainable, spiritually vibrant, and intergenerationally-connected Jewish community while exposing countless others to a traditionally-rooted yet entirely new way of Jewish living. In the fall of 2006, the Elat Chayyim Jewish Retreat Center of Accord, New York merged with Isabella Freedman. For fifteen years, Elat Chayyim transformed contemporary Jewish life with retreat programs that integrated Jewish learning, spirituality, and culture. Elat Chayyim’s mission infuses our work here at Isabella Freedman by opening doors to Jewish spiritual practice. The Elat Chayyim spirit in our retreats promotes practices that draw on the wisdom of Jewish tradition and reflect the values and consciousness of the world we live in today. Our Mechon Elat Chayyim offers unique two-year Training Institutes to deepen students’ awareness, spirituality, and leadership in various aspects of Jewish life. In 2004 Hazon launched its New York Jewish Environmental Bike Ride from Isabella Freedman–the first of many of our annual fundraising bike rides to be held at Isabella Freedman. Eight years later Isabella Freedman announced its planned merger with Hazon, and in 2014 the merger was completed. Adamah, Elat Chayyim, and the Teva Learning Center, all based at Isabella Freedman, also merged with Hazon in 2014. The history of Isabella Freedman is thus a history of evolution and re-imagination. The needs of both the Jewish community and the wider world have evolved and changed since our founding—and so have we. Yet our consistent commitment to and focus on transformative experiences, thought-leadership, and capacity-building form the common threads between Isabella Freedman then and Isabella Freedman now, even if these specific terms may be fairly recent. For over fifty years and counting, Isabella Freedman has been a place of rest, regeneration, and renewal where breathtaking natural scenery and a loving communal spirit create the perfect backdrop for individuals and institutions of all backgrounds to congregate, celebrate, and draw upon the Jewish tradition together. Everybody knows that the Berkshires are one of America’s natural and cultural treasures. From the glorious hikes of the Appalachian Trail to the leading-edge cultural institutions such as Tanglewood, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health, Mass MOCA, and the Norman Rockwell Museum, the Berkshires are widely regarded as one of the most desirable places to live, work, and visit. For those of us who have the good fortune to call this region home, we’re intimately familiar with every hidden gem available to our community from the Litchfield hills to the Vermont highlands. But did you know that just a half-hour south of Great Barrington, a Jewish retreat center, community resource, and educational farm is waiting for you to discover? Hazon’s Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center welcomes thousands of guests from across the country and around the world each year, and it’s also open for our local community to access, enjoy, and grow together. Follow us on Facebook and keep up with all the amazing going-ons at Isabella Freedman! Summer 2020 Getaways The Tamar Fund Retreats Calendar Organizational & Corporate Retreats Stay in our Country Houses Townhouse Rentals Camp Teva for Kids Adamah Foods Adamah Farm and Table Blog COVID-19 Communicable Disease Policy (CDP) Local Medical Resources Visiting the Berkshires Local Bike Rentals Support Isabella Freedman MAIN OFFICE · 25 Broadway, Suite 1700, New York, NY 10004 · 212.644.2332 ISABELLA FREEDMAN JEWISH RETREAT CENTER · 116 Johnson Road, Falls Village, CT 06031 · 860.824.5991 © 2019 Hazon. All Rights Reserved. Financial Information \| Jobs \| Privacy Policy Sara Pilavin committed to transition to a plant-rich diet. Hazon means vision and Hazon’s vision is to create a vibrant, healthy Jewish community in which to be Jewish is to help create a more sustainable world for all. So what is your vision for how we can repair the earth and how do you play a role in that? One of the reasons that I think it’s so hard for people to live sustainably is cost and convenience. Mostly convenience. But also cost. It’s just really, really convenient to get disposables and get things to go and most of the things that you have access to are disposable or just not good for the environment. I think that making sure that we have more sustainable options available is important. Obviously, it would be optimal if we got to a point where there were more sustainable options and not unsustainable options, but if there’s at least a comparable amount of both I think that is something that would make a huge impact. Also, a huge thing that we do is equity and being sustainable can be really expensive. Finding biodegradable or compostable cutlery or plates is a lot more expensive than buying a bajillion solo cups. So then obviously with the access and the process there’s a certain amount of privilege to being able to live sustainability. So I think that working with other companies and organizations, and helping them make more sustainable choices will end up having ripple effects. And I think that my role is, it’s actually interesting, because I read this article recently that was saying how someone living a low waist life is potentially not as impactful as living a regular waist filled life and reaching out to large companies who generate a lot of waves is important and actually asking them to make changes. I don’t know whether or not I agree with that, but it’s definitely something I’ve been thinking about. I try myself to live as minimally wasteless as possible. But something that I definitely want to work on is reaching out to different companies and organizations that are widespread or that have an impact on me and seeing if they can make more sustainable choices. What role does tikkun olam play in your life and how is that connected to the Brit Hazon? So many ways. One of the things that I love about Hazon is our three things that we call out for what we want for this world. We want a healthy, sustainable and equitable world. And I think that a lot of the different ways that we practice and improve and incorporate health, sustainability and equity is a form of tikkun olam. Making sure that animals are treated fairly and in doing so, doing away with factory farming, which is kinder to the earth, and abolishing all of these terrible practices, making the norm be ethical practices that would lower the cost of things. And I just think that it’s all tied together so that we’re helping the planet and animals and humans all be able to have the same access to live a healthy, sustainable and equitable life. Joe Shmo	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line880
__label__wiki	0.824003	0.824003	The Daily Sting, Tuesday: Trump Goes Low, Gaga Gets Engaged, Stonewall Myths Debunked Today’s top headlines range from high to low, starting the with the great news of Lady Gaga engaged to boyfriend Christian Carino. And then there’s the news that following a judge throwing out the case Stormy Daniels had against Donald Trump, the president of the United States called a woman “horseface” on Twitter. Yep, folks, that’s where we’re at with this man-child. In other news, someone who was present at the spark of the queer civil rights movement debunks some Stonewall myths, Fred Perry (still) wants the alt-right gang known as Proud Boys to stop wearing his shirts and an HPV vaccine has been approved by America’s FDA for adults aged 27–45. From Lady Gaga engaged to Stonewall myths debunked, here are Tuesday’s top headlines: 1. Lady Gaga Engaged to Talent Manager Boyfriend Christian Carino (Celebrities) Fresh on the heels of acclaim for her feature film debut in A Star Is Born, this morning it’s blasted all over the interwebs: Lady Gaga engaged. Rumors have been swirling for months over the pop icon’s relationship status, and she’s actually been spotted with a ring on her finger for much of the year. But it wasn’t until she gave a speech last night at Elle magazine’s 25th annual “Women in Hollywood” event that this ‘Lady Gaga engaged’ news got confirmation. She offhandedly remarked, “My fiancé, Christian,” and that was all it took for the web to explode. Congrats, Lady Gaga! 2. The U.S. President Has Called a Woman ‘Horseface’ on Twitter, Reaching New Low (News) “Federal Judge throws out Stormy Danials lawsuit versus Trump. Trump is entitled to full legal fees.” @FoxNews Great, now I can go after Horseface and her 3rd rate lawyer in the Great State of Texas. She will confirm the letter she signed! She knows nothing about me, a total con! Those who thought Donalds Trump’s history of name-calling and general social media trolling couldn’t get any worse have just been proved wrong. Following a judge throwing out Stormy Daniels’ defamation case against Trump (and forcing her to pay Trump’s legal fees, which happens often when a case is deemed to be without merit), Trump unsurprisingly took to Twitter and called her a “horseface.” But Stormy Daniels didn’t sit on her thumbs, either, firing back, “Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present your president. In addition to his…umm…shortcomings, he has demonstrated his incompetence, hatred of women and lack of self control on Twitter AGAIN! And perhaps a penchant for bestiality. Game on, Tiny.” 3. An Activist Who Was There Debunks Some Stonewall Myths (History) LGBT activist and journalist Mark Segal was present at the Stonewall Riots, which took place June 28–July 1, 1968. But, as he says, there are quite a lot of inconsistencies concerning what really happened, and in a new piece he shoots down some of the more prevalent Stonewall myths. The biggest among them is that the funeral of Judy Garland is what sparked the days of rioting. (“That myth is an insult to all that did participate,” he says.) Huge among Stonewall myths is that Marsha P. Johnson “threw the first brick” and ignited the riots, though Segal recounts, “No one actually knows who threw first, or even what they threw.” (Hornet has previously reported that Johnson once claimed in a 1987 interview that she arrived late at Stonewall that night after the riots had already begun.) Other Stonewall myths Segal addresses are how many people were present, and the true lasting value of the riots. Read the full story by LGBTQ Nation here. 4. Fred Perry Has Long Wanted Proud Boys to Stop Wearing His Polo Shirts (Style & Stuff) The laurel wreath polo shirt that is symbolic of the Fred Perry label has been synonymous with multiple subcultures in the past, from prepsters to punks. But the Proud Boys — an alt-right, pro-Trump white nationalist group founded by Gavin McInnes (we reported yesterday on their caught-on-camera violent rampage of NYC) — has also adopted the black Fred Perry shirt with yellow stripes as their uniform of choice, and those who run the label are nonplussed about it. In a 2017 statement, the label’s chairman said, “No, we don’t support the ideals or the group that you speak of. … It is counter to our beliefs and the people we work with.” 5. It’s Now Recommended That Gay Men Under 45 Get This HPV Vaccine (Health) HPV is the world’s most common sexually transmitted infection, a virus that has been linked to causing cancer in both women and men as well as genital warts, and is even more dangerous to those who are HIV-positive. So the FDA’s recent approval of Gardasil, the HPV vaccine, for adults aged 27-45 comes as a relief to many. (The vaccine was previously approved for those only up to age 26.) While the vaccine cannot treat an existing HPV infection, it can prevent infection by different strains. The National Cancer Institute says there are more than 5 million new cases of HPV each year. What do you think of Lady Gaga engaged to Christian Carino? Had you heard any of those Stonewall myths before? Donald Trump Lady Gaga Stonewall white supremacists Here’s What We Know About Lady Gaga’s Handsome Former Fiancé, Christian Carino During Her Vegas Show, Lady Gaga Had Some Choice Words for Homophobic VP Mike Pence	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line888
__label__wiki	0.573924	0.573924	Ruk Ranks Every Movie He Saw in 2017 (5-1) 5. The Death of Stalin Now, I suspect some US viewers are probably going to look at me a bit enviously since this movie isn’t actually coming out in the US until March. (2018 Edit: Probably less so now, since it’s actually finally come out in the US) And, in reference to those people, I’d just like to say, ‘hahahahaha hahaha hahahahaha.’ Because seriously, this was great. Armando Iannucci is a name that might ring a few bells for some people, if not on its own merit, then for the dozens of popular shows he’s created and worked on, such as Veep, The Thick of it, In the Loop and so on. And while I will personally admit I’ve not seen all that much of his stuff, outside of In the Loop and some of his earlier collaborations with the eternally underrated Chris Morris, I will call him probably one of the most accurate political satirists working today. Not accurate because of his painstaking research into political processes and the like, mind (although it’s clear he’s done a lot of his research, but accurate because of his depiction of one of the most fundamental truth of politicians all over the world, no matter how fascist or authoritarian or oppressive they are. They’re all fecking idiots. Honestly, Stalin’s Russia has always held a bit of a mythic villainous status among popular culture. When people think about it, they always think mass executions, disappearing political opponents, oppression, basically 1984-lite. And, while a lot of those atrocities certainly were true and horrible and worthy of scorn, this movie works so brilliantly to deflate and take the piss out of said mythic reputation by depicting the major figures of Stalin’s Russia as what they always were. Idiots. Idiots stuck constantly squabbling and trying to cover their own asses while backstabbing everyone else’s. Not cartoonishly stupid idiots, mind, but idiots in a way that feels all too universally realistic, even in today’s current political climate. Hell, especially in today’s political climate. Trust me when I say you’ll make more than a few subconscious comparisons to the Trump administrations when watching this. Not because the film makes a deliberate point of inviting those comparisons, mind, but because its depiction of the ‘Idiots in Charge’ is so universally recognisable and rings true so very easily regardless of country. Of course, it’s not just the political commentary that deserves praise, mind. This movie has one of the best ensembles of the year, with great turns from the likes of Steve Buscemi, Michael Palin and Simon Russell Beale. Particular note has to go to Jason Isaacs and Rupert Friend, as General Zhukov and Vasily Stalin respectively, who in spite of having comparatively smaller roles, never fail to steal the scene whenever they show up. Paddy Considine also deserves recognition for his poor beleaguered radio station director stuck in an almost Fawlty Towers-esque scenario of things going increasingly wrong. Overall, there’s just something incredibly rewatchable about this movie. Honestly, I’m pretty certain it’s the 2017 movie I’ve rewatched the most since its release (5 times to date). And not just because I enjoy shoving it in the US moviegoers faces, (although I do derive tremendous pleasure from that,) but because there’s something almost cathartic about watching things go wrong again and again for these horrible people. Add in excellent direction, acting, writing and the like and it’s no wonder people seem so jealous that we Brits got to see it several months before they did. Which is why, to finish this segment off, I’d just like to quickly say, hahahaha hahaha hahahahaha. Ha. (2018 Edit: Yeah, may have dated myself a touch with this commentary.) And to think at the beginning of the year, I’d have been satisfied if this merely didn’t suck. Honestly, no joke, when I went in, I was genuinely fully expecting this to suck and suck badly. The trailer had failed to interest me in the slightest and, even if it had, I was still somewhat smarting from how badly Suicide Squad had let me down, compared to how good its trailers were. Even with WW garnering mostly positive reviews to begin with, I was still expecting to be not fond of it regardless. But, since I make a point of seeing almost every mainstream superhero movie anyway, I went down to the cinema regardless (on my birthday no less) to see what I thought would be a decent film at best. 2/3 hours later and I was blown away by just how good this movie was. Seriously, a lot of people have categorised this movie’s critical success compared to other DCEU films, down to simplistic notions like ‘It had humour/joy’ or ‘It was more like a Marvel film’. And quite frankly, I think those people do a serious disservice to just how good this movie was on its own. It wasn’t openly political like Black Panther or ‘gritty’ and ‘adult’ like Logan, but it showed a maturity and competence to its storytelling that I’ve seen few blockbusters match period, let alone superhero flicks. Thematically and emotionally, it was almost pitch-perfect with its messages sown neatly and subtly into the narrative, in a way that served Diana’s character arc and bolstered the emotional throughline. I mentioned in my Logan review that, while I appreciated its more adult tone, it lost a lot of points by virtue of few of the character/thematic beats following through or coming together. This is almost the exact opposite. So many of the character beats and themes and message end up getting followed through in almost pitch perfect ways and thus the movie ends up all the better for it. I wrote a 5-part analysis of Batman v Superman explaining all the ways in which the storytelling in that movie failed. I’m pretty certain I could do the exact opposite with all the ways this movie ends up getting its storytelling right. Maybe some day I’ll even get around to it, we’ll see. Hell, even the controversial 3rd act and villain I thought were both brilliant. Sure, the CG was dodgy, there were a few silly design choices in regards to Ares (cough moustache cough) and Ares did also turn into a bit of a generic shouty villain towards the end. But most people seemed to have focused on those relatively superficial details and missed that really do work about Ares and his role in the story. He acts as both a perfect foil to Diana when he shows up, his motivations are more complex than ‘Grrr, destroy everything’ and his presence and role ties in beautifully to Diana’s character arc. I was honestly a little disappointed when he first showed up, since I was hoping the movie would stick to the idea of ‘there is no big villain manipulating the war behind the scenes, it’s just mankind’s way to destroy itself’, but the movie somehow managed to find a way to have its cake and eat it too, by literally tying in his origin to that idea and providing him with a master plan that doesn’t get in the way of that message. And the way that Diana is only able to finally beat him by coming to terms with the imperfections of mankind and recognising the good that lies with the bad…. Gnnngh, like I said, I could write a fucking 5 part essay on all the ways that this movie just works. (Although, like I also said, maybe later.) To sum up, I’ve seen more than a few people claiming this as just DC’s answer to the first Captain America movie… which I honestly don’t think is really all that true except in the most superficial ways? But the movie I really think this should be compared to is Man of Steel. Because this explores almost everything that that movie also tries to do. An outsider trying to make their way among man’s world? Check. An attempt at a more complex exploration of heroism than ‘Good guy punches Bad guy’? Check. A reintroduction of a classic, goodhearted superhero reinvented for a more modern audience? Check. An attempt at a more mature, adult superhero storytelling while still keeping up the flash-boom excitement that people enjoy? Check. But do you want to know the big difference between those two movies? Wonder Woman does it well. Because it’s not just a fresh start for the DCEU, it’s what the franchise always should’ve been aiming for 3. In This Corner of the World Okay, so if I were to say the words ‘animated film featuring Hiroshima’, what would be the first movie that comes to mind? No no, not the Emoji Movie, a serious answer. No, for me, and I assume most people, a description like that instantly makes one think of Grave of the Fireflies, with its dark tragic exploration of Japan towards the end of WWII. And, to be perfectly honest, I was very much expecting a Grave of the Fireflies sort of film when I walked into In This Corner of the World. But that wasn’t what I got at all. What I got instead was something unique, charming, heartwarming, tragic, hilarious, tense, quirky and tear-jerking all wrapped up into one magnificent package. See, the weird thing about In This Corner of the World is that, in spite of having a premise (about a newly married young Japanese woman living through WWII) that sounds like it’s going to be a tragedy/drama, it’s… really not. It has its fair share of tragic and dramatic moments, certainly, but if there’s any genre I’d place it in… It’s honestly kind of a slice of life. Yeah, most of the movie is more about the delightfully featherheaded protagonist, Suzu, and her day to day life with her new husband and family, while WWII rages in the background. Like Florida Project, the movie doesn’t really have much of a solid structure, flitting from day-to-day mini adventures, but where Florida Project I felt was missing a hook, here that’s not so much case because Suzu and her dynamics with other characters is just so charming and interesting that I feel like I could watch them all day. Not to say, it’s all fun and games mind. It’s set in WWII for a reason and that looming shadow of Hiroshima is slowly inching closer. But where this movie works so brilliantly is that it slowly and delicately works those more dramatic wartime elements into the stories, inch by inch, without destroying the fabric of what came before. It goes from a pleasant slice-of-life with Suzu and her family to a still pleasant slice-of-life with wartime procedures like air-raids, rationing and the funniest conclusion to a serious accusation of espionage I’ve ever seen. Then, when the serious dramatic moments happen, they don’t feel out of place and they still hit you like a thunderclap. And boy do they hit hard. One major death in particular could definitely give Grave of the Fireflies a run for its money in the tragedy department. Yet, like in real life, life still went on and this movie manages to deftly weave that element of tragedy and loss into the narrative seamlessly. In conclusion, this wasn’t really the sort of movie I was expecting when I went in and I mean that in every positive way. It’s a movie that is still tragic and emotional, but it doesn’t beat you over the head with it, luring you in with a genuinely pleasant slice-of-life and slowly turning the needle as things get more and more intense, yet all without losing that likeable charm it has from beginning to end. I will say though that I found the beginning kinda confusing, which is what separated it from challenging those top two places, but trust me when I say this is definitely worth a watch. 2. Get Out Do I really need to explain why this is on here? Reeeeally? Really really? Because thing has gotten more than a little amount of recognition in popular culture for how good it was. Heck, it’s ticked almost every box of widespread acclaim. 99% RT score, an OW significantly higher than anyone expected, practically ungodly legs and a reputation that garnered it a huge amount of awards attention in spite of being a horror movie released in February! Is it any real surprise that I’d end up loving this as much as I did? …Well, actually, kinda yeah. See, here’s a little anecdotal story for you. The thing is, we didn’t get this in the UK until about a month after the US did (okay, you can go hahahahaha now). Which meant about a month of hearing everyone in the US overhype this as like the best thing since sliced bread, etc etc. In addition, when I first went to see it, I had a bunch of jackasses directly behind me who talked through like a third of the film and constantly got on my nerves. Plus I was tired as hell, by virtue of not having slept well the previous night. So I was tired, pissed, hungry and about to watch a movie that had built up an almost ungodly reputation in my mind from all that other people had been ranting about it on here. Some level of disappointment felt almost inevitable. Yet, in spite of all of that working against it, enough misfortunes to sour almost any lesser movie, Get Out not only met my expectations but shattered them out of the park. Seriously, this movie is definitely something special and almost every part of it is pitch perfect. The acting, the writing, the directing, the sheer uncomfortable atmosphere the movie manages to create. You entirely sympathise why with Kaluuya’s character feels so uncomfortable even before all the weird shit starts to happen. Plus it challenges racial issues from a direction you don’t see often (if ever) and it has more to say than just the simple ‘racism is bad, y’all’. Yet this political bent, like the best movies, only serves to strengthen the tension and atmosphere and the like. Sure, it’s not exactly the most openly scary of horror films, but it’s not trying to be. It’s trying to create an unsettling, unnerving atmosphere rather than loud distracting jump scares and in that regard it more than succeeds. I don’t think it’s any coincidence that it drops off a bit in quality towards the end after that low-key tension is gone. (Although the mechanics and the like behind the big reveal are still pretty interesting. And it’s pretty harrowing seeing Kaluuya’s previously sweet-natured protagonist reach the end of his rope. And need I even mention the police siren reveal.) To sum up, this is the sort of movie like Mad Max: Fury Road where, even if it doesn’t necessarily win Best Picture (we’ll see in a few hours), I’d still put good odds on it being the most well remembered and recognised movie of 2017. And I was genuinely a hair’s breadth away from giving it my No 1 slot. But, ultimately, after a mini civil war within my brain, I chose to award a completely different movie… And my No 1 movie of the year is… 1. The Night is Short, Walk on Girl Have you ever had one of those perfect night-out’s that just seemed to last forever? A night of colours and lights in an unfamiliar city? A night with new friends, weird attractions and, of course, plenty and plenty of alcohol? A night that almost feels spiritual in its enjoyment? This is that movie in a nutshell. Honestly, I don’t even know where to start talking about this movie. Hell, I’d never even heard of it at the beginning of the year. Chances are it probably would’ve just passed me by had it not been playing for a night at my local Odeon. So I went into the movie, not at all knowing what to expect, not knowing much more than the basic premise. And what I got had me grinning almost throughout like a little child, enjoying every weird twist, every surreal bit of animation, every unexpected turn and glorious fun. And needless to say, I freaking loved it all. Night is Short, Walk on Girl is a movie about a unnamed young lady (referred to in the sub as Otome (literally ‘young lady’), having just crossed the cusp of adulthood and deciding to celebrate with her own exploratory night out on the town. At the same time, ‘Senpai’, a fellow student who has harboured a long time crush on the girl, decides that this is also the perfect night to confess his feelings. The journey that each girl and boy travel sends them across, meeting many weird and eccentric people, visiting many strange locals and generally having one hell of a night out. Now, that’s the basic premise, but trust me when I say I’m underselling it. Everything from the animation, to the writing, to the characters, to the jokes to everything else is just so endearingly weird. The colours, the movements, the expressions, the everything, it’s unlike almost any other animated movie I’ve ever seen and it all works so so well. Not to say it’s just some random surreal headtrip (although it does turn that way a bit in the climax), because there’s also a weird meaningful intelligence behind the writing. Almost every detail, no matter how small, pays off later down the line and the movie’s ultimate message, about how everyone is connected, is threaded through the whole narrative really neatly. There’s a surreal sense to this movie that I just found magnetic. Not to say that’s the only thing worth celebrating about the movie. In particular, the female lead, Otome, is genuinely one of my favourite characters in any movie this year. She’s sweet, friendly and innocent but, in spite of her optimistic demeanour, she’s decisively not stupid or helpless or just some prize and has this magnetic charisma that draws the viewer in just as much as it does almost everyone around her. The other lead, Senpai is… honestly kind of a creeper, but it’s still fun watching him bumble through the darker sides of the city’s nightlife. As for side characters, there are dozens each with memorable aspects and relationships of their own. The perpetually unflappable Higuchi was one of my favourites, but I surely can’t go without giving the ever-loving Don Pantsu!!! a mention. (The sub name was Don Underwear, but it’s hard to ignore the enthusiastic Japanese cry of ‘Don Pantsu!!!’ every time he gets mentioned.) Honestly, while I’m going to start winding things down now, I’ve still barely even scratched the surface of why I love this movie so much. I haven’t covered the brilliantly bizarre stuff like the Sophist’s Dance, the best/weirdest musical interlude of the year, the weird dictatorial Student Council and my perpetual confusion that apparently used book sales are considered part of the Japanese night life (???). And I will admit, this movie may not be for everyone. It’s lewd, occasionally creepy and if you don’t get into its weird endearing style then you’ll probably not enjoy it all that much. Plus, while I liked the climax just fine, it didn’t quite live up to everything that came before, so in that regard, maybe it’s not quite as uniformly perfect as Get Out? I know I certainly had quite a struggle separating the two. But, for me, what barely pushed this over the edge of Get Out was down to one simple thing. While Night is Short, Walk on Girl wasn’t quite as uniformly brilliant as Get Out was, it fucked batted for the stars with every last moment. And so many of those moments hit for me and the narrative so brilliantly came together that even the occasional low point just couldn’t bring me down. 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__label__wiki	0.57958	0.57958	Missile shield William Engdahl: US Missile Shield: ‘Russian Bear Sleeping With One Eye Open’ February 18, 2014 by Infinite A sailor stands as the USS Donald Cook lays at dock in the southern port of Rota on February 11, 2014.(AFP Photo / Gogo Lobato ) – US missile shield: ‘Russian Bear sleeping with one eye open’ (RT, Feb 17, 2014): By William Engdahl William Engdahl is an award-winning geopolitical analyst and strategic risk consultant whose internationally best-selling books have been translated into thirteen foreign languages. Washington’s explanation that its strengthening missile shield in Europe is being built to guard against the Iranian nuclear threat is no more believable than it was 10 years ago. Despite Russia’s recent efforts to broker a peaceful resolution of the Syrian chemical weapons crisis, as well as its good offices in helping resolve the Iranian nuclear conflict with Washington, the Obama administration is moving ahead with its highly provocative nuclear Ballistic Missile ‘Defense’ (BMD) deployments around Russia. What we are not being told by Western politicians is the fact that this action, far from peaceful, brings the world closer than ever to nuclear war by miscalculation. Read moreWilliam Engdahl: US Missile Shield: ‘Russian Bear Sleeping With One Eye Open’ Categories Global News, Politics Tags Barack Obama, Global News, Government, Military, Missile shield, Missiles, Obama administration, Politics, Russia, U.S., William Engdahl Leave a comment RT Interviews Vladimir Putin On Syria, US Missile Shield, Pussy Riot, Julian Assange And Global Economic Crisis (Video) September 8, 2012 by Infinite Russia’s president Vladimir Putin gives his first post-inauguration interview to RT – Putin: Using Al-Qaeda in Syria like sending Gitmo inmates to fight (EXCLUSIVE) (RT, Sep 6, 2012): In an RT global exclusive premiere, President Putin gives his first post-inauguration interview, speaking in depth with RT’s Kevin Owen ahead of the APEC summit in Vladivostok. Touching upon a range of issues, he discusses topics from the Pussy Riot trial to the Julian Assange case, from the upcoming US elections to the situation in Syria. RT: What I want to talk about first of all is the ongoing at the moment APEC summit. You’ll be going there very shortly – in Vladivostok because it’s the first time that Russia has held it, a prestigious event. But it always begs the question – what’s actually achieved at these events, events like that, like the G8, G20? Read moreRT Interviews Vladimir Putin On Syria, US Missile Shield, Pussy Riot, Julian Assange And Global Economic Crisis (Video) Categories Economy, Global News, Politics Tags Al-Qaeda, Al-Qaida, Barack Obama, Global News, Government, Julian Assange, Military, Missile shield, Mitt Romney, NATO, Obama administration, Politics, Russia, Syria, Terrorism, U.S. Leave a comment Russia Retaliates Against US: Puts Radar Station On Combat Alert, Prepares To Take Out European Missile Defense Systems December 1, 2011 November 24, 2011 by Infinite Full must watch address to the public: for English closed captioning hit the CC button. – Russia Retaliates Against US: Puts Radar Station On Combat Alert, Prepares To Take Out European Missile Defense Systems (ZeroHedge, Nov. 23, 2011): Earlier today, we presented the latest developments in the escalating possibility of an imminent air (and potentially land) campaign targeting Syria by the “western world”, a move that would infuriate not only Iran, but also Russia and China, both of which have made it clear they would not sit idly by and let such an “aggression” stand. Now it is Russia’s turn to retaliate. Cutting straight to the chase – in a nationally televized appearance by Russian president Dmitry Medvedev: in response to what the Russian believes is an active incursion and a potential act of eventual aggression on behalf of NATO countries in Eastern Europe (and hence the US), he he said the following (7 minutes in): “First, I am instructing the Defense Ministry to immediately put the missile attack early warning radar station in Kaliningrad on combat alert. Second, protective cover of Russia’s strategic nuclear weapons, will be reinforced as a priority measure under the programme to develop out air and space defenses. Third, the new strategic ballistic missiles commissioned by the Strategic Missile Forces and the Navy will be equipped with advanced missile defense penetration systems and new highly-effective warheads. Fourth, I have instructed the Armed Forces to draw up measures for disabling missile defense system data and guidance systems if need be… Fifth, if the above measures prove insufficient, the Russian Federation will deploy modern offensive weapon systems in the west and south of the country, ensuring our ability to take out any part of the US missile defense system, in Europe. One step in this process will be to deploy Iskander missiles in Kaliningrad Region. Other measures to counter the European missile defense system will be drawn up and implemented as necessary. Furthermore, if the situation continues to develop not in Russia’s favor we reserve the right to discontinue further disarmament and arms control measures. Besides, given the intrinsic link between strategic offensive and defensive arms, conditions for our withdrawal from the New START Treaty could also arise.” That said, he concludes that Russia is still open to dialog. However, if Obama merely intends to bomb any nation at will, we are very much concerned that everything Medvedev has just threatened will be enacted. And exponentially more so when Putin comes back in charge. One thing is certain – Russia is not North Korea, and taking this speech for more empty jawboning is probably not the wisest option. Categories Global News, Politics, Society Tags Barack Obama, Dmitry Medvedev, EU, Europe, Global News, Government, Military, Missile Defense Systems, Missile shield, NATO, Obama administration, Politics, Russia, U.S. Leave a comment Russian Military Prepares To Take Out EU ‘Missile Defense Systems’ November 25, 2011 November 24, 2011 by Infinite The Russians immediately understood that the missile defense shield was aimed at them and was never about protecting Europe from Iran as it has been portrayed by MSM. Update (Medvedev’s full must watch address to the public): – Russia Retaliates Against US: Puts Radar Station On Combat Alert, Prepares To Take Out European Missile Defense Systems Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian president embraced the fiery rhetoric of the Cold War threatening to target and if necessary destroy America’s planned European missile defence shield once it is built. A Russian Topol-12M mobile nuclear missile – Dmitry Medvedev threatens US over planned missile defence shield (Telegraph, Nov. 23, 2011): In what may be the most serious blow to US-Russia relations since President Barack Obama came to power, Mr Medvedev raised the prospect of Russia launching missile attacks on European Union member states such as Poland, Romania and Spain as well as Nato member Turkey. “I have given the armed forces the task of drawing up plans to destroy the information and command and control systems of the (US/Nato) anti-missile shield,” he said. “Our Nato partners are not for now showing any readiness to take our concerns about the architecture of the European missile shield into account, something which convinces us that their plans are aimed at Russia.” Upping the ante further, he said Russia’s anxiety was so great that it would reserve the right to tear up existing nuclear arms control treaties and halt talks about new treaties. The White House immediately rebuffed Mr Medvedev, making it clear Washington would not be altering its plans in any way. “We will not in any way limit or change our deployment plans in Europe,” said Tommy Vietor, a National Security Council spokesman. “In multiple channels, we have explained to Russian officials that the missile defence systems planned for deployment in Europe do not and cannot threaten Russia’s strategic deterrent.” The shield that Russia objects to so strongly is designed to shoot down missiles from rogue states such as Iran but is years away from being operational. Turkey, Poland, Romania and Spain have all agreed to join what is a diluted version of a controversial plan first proposed by former President George W. Bush. Read moreRussian Military Prepares To Take Out EU ‘Missile Defense Systems’ Categories Global News, Politics Tags Barack Obama, Dmitry Medvedev, Global News, Government, Military, Missile Defense Systems, Missile shield, Missiles, Obama administration, Politics, Russia, U.S. Leave a comment US Launches New Missile Defense Program For Europe The Russians got it right that the missile defense shield is aimed at them and not at Iran and respond accordingly: – Russia: Strongest Ever Nuke Warhead, Will Penetrate All Missile Defense Shields For the Next 40 Years – Russia Threatens NATO to Deploy ‘Offensive’ Nuclear Weapons: The Russian president has called on NATO to clarify Moscow’s role in a European missile system, warning if no agreement is reached, Russia will be forced to deploy “offensive” nuclear weapons. “So this is not a joking matter. We expect from our NATO partners a direct and unambiguous answer,” Dmitry Medvedev said during a meeting with Russia’s NATO envoy Dmitry Rogozin. “In either case, we are either together with NATO, or we separately find an adequate response to the existing problem,” he said. Under former US President George W. Bush the United States proposed a plan to deploy a missile system in Poland and the Czech Republic — a plan which was fiercely opposed to by Russia. Moscow said it would deem such a deployment a threat to its sovereignty and would properly respond to it. – Russia Develops New Intercontinental Ballistic Missile: In comments to Russian news agency ITAR-TASS that went largely unnoticed, the head of Rosobshemash said the new missile would be capable of overcoming any nuclear missile shield that the Americans or indeed anyone else might build. “This applies in the fullest sense to the USA’s anti-missile defence system and to Nato’s (planned) European missile defence system,” said Artur Usenkov. Associated Press= WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is sending a special radar-equipped warship to the Mediterranean Sea next week, the first step in the development of a broad anti-ballistic missile system to protect Europe against a potential Iranian nuclear threat, the Pentagon said Tuesday. The move marks the first of the Obama administration’s four-phase plan to put land- and sea-based radars and interceptors in several European locations during the next decade. Endorsed by NATO during a summit in Lisbon last year, the missile shield has triggered opposition from Russia and set off lengthy negotiations over the future expanded ability to shoot down ballistic missiles in the region. John F. Plumb, principal director for Pentagon nuclear and missile defense policy, said Tuesday that the USS Monterey will leave Norfolk, Virginia, next week, heading to a six-month deployment in the Mediterranean. The ship’s mission, he said, will lay groundwork for the unfolding missile defense plan there. “Here is our first concrete demonstration of our commitment to the missile defense of our deployed forces, allies and partners in Europe,” Plumb said in an interview. “We said we were going to do it, and now we’re doing it.” Under the plan laid out by the Obama administration in 2009, the missile shield would begin with ship-based anti-missile interceptors and radars. Later this year, the United States plans to add land-based radars in southern Europe. Plumb said officials are still in discussions with several nations, but the exact location for those radars had not yet been determined. In phase two, land-based interceptors would be deployed in Romania in 2015, followed by the placement of interceptors in Poland in 2018. Each phase calls for a more sophisticated and capable interceptor, culminating at the end of the decade with the deployment of the last version planned as of now. Read moreUS Launches New Missile Defense Program For Europe Categories Global News, Politics Tags Barack Obama, Europe, Global News, Government, Iran, Military, Missile shield, Missiles, NATO, Obama administration, Pentagon, Politics, U.S. Leave a comment Russia Threatens NATO to Deploy ‘Offensive’ Nuclear Weapons Russian President Dmitry Medvedev Read moreRussia Threatens NATO to Deploy ‘Offensive’ Nuclear Weapons Categories Global News, Politics Tags Global News, Government, Military, Missile shield, Missiles, NATO, Nuclear, Nuclear weapons, Politics, Russia, U.S. Leave a comment President Obama raises stakes on Iran by sending in ships and missiles February 13, 2010 February 1, 2010 by Infinite Iran has not attacked another country for over 200 years. The US is totally broke – America’s Impending Master Class Dictatorship! – and its only asset left is the military. Pentagon says Patriot shield will deter strike on American allies in the Gulf A Patriot missile is launched during an Israeli-US military excercise in the Negev desert in southern Israel in February 2001. Photograph: Reuters Tension between the US and Iran heightened dramatically today with the disclosure that Barack Obama is deploying a missile shield to protect American allies in the Gulf from attack by Tehran. The US is dispatching Patriot defensive missiles to four countries – Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Kuwait – and keeping two ships in the Gulf capable of shooting down Iranian missiles. Washington is also helping Saudi Arabia develop a force to protect its oil installations. American officials said the move is aimed at deterring an attack by Iran and reassuring Gulf states fearful that Tehran might react to sanctions by striking at US allies in the region. Washington is also seeking to discourage Israel from a strike against Iran by demonstrating that the US is prepared to contain any threat. Chris McGreal: ‘The US is prepared to move decisively against any threat from Iran’ Link to this audio The deployment comes after Obama’s attempts to emphasise diplomacy over confrontation in dealing with Iran – a contrast to the Bush administration’s approach – have failed to persuade Tehran to open its nuclear installations to international controls. The White House is now trying to engineer agreement for sanctions focused on Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, believed to be in charge of the atomic programme. Washington has not formally announced the deployment of the Patriots and other anti-missile systems, but by leaking it to American newspapers the administration is evidently seeking to alert Tehran to a hardening of its position. The administration is deploying two Patriot batteries, capable of shooting down incoming missiles, in each of the four Gulf countries. Kuwait already has an older version of the missile, deployed after Iraq’s invasion. Saudi Arabia has long had the missiles, as has Israel. An unnamed senior administration official told the New York Times: “Our first goal is to deter the Iranians. A second is to reassure the Arab states, so they don’t feel they have to go nuclear themselves. But there is certainly an element of calming the Israelis as well.” The chief of the US central command, General David Petraeus, said in a speech 10 days ago that countries in the region are concerned about Tehran’s military ambitions and the prospect of it becoming a dominant power in the Gulf: “Iran is clearly seen as a very serious threat by those on the other side of the Gulf front.” Read morePresident Obama raises stakes on Iran by sending in ships and missiles Categories Global News, Politics Tags Barack Obama, Global News, Government, Iran, Military, Missile shield, Missiles, Obama administration, Pentagon, Politics, U.S. Leave a comment US missile system’s track record: test delays, failed launches, missed targets September 18, 2009 by Infinite Designed to feed the military-industrial complex with taxpayer money. For a system designed to protect the country from nuclear oblivion, the US national missile defence project’s history of failure has long raised eyebrows among scientists. Years of testing have seen rocket-propelled interceptors refuse to launch from their silos, fail to separate from their boosters and miss their targets, sometimes by hundreds of miles. Military officials can claim only a 50% hit rate, and only then in tests that are far removed from a real world attack scenario, said David Wright, a physicist and co-director of global security at the Union of Concerned Scientists in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Some tests were delayed for months because the weather was not considered good enough for the interceptor to find its target. When tests did go ahead, missile operators knew when the target would be launched and its trajectory in the sky. The missile system that was due to be installed in Europe had undergone even less rigorous testing. The plans included a two-stage interceptor which has yet to even begin flight tests. Read moreUS missile system’s track record: test delays, failed launches, missed targets Categories Politics, Technology Tags Military, Missile Defense Systems, Missile shield, Missiles, Technology, U.S. Leave a comment Obama drops missile defence plan; Russia to drop missile deployment plan: envoy September 18, 2009 September 18, 2009 by Infinite Has Russia sold out Iran? – Obama Offered Deal to Russia in Secret Letter: WASHINGTON — President Obama sent a secret letter to Russia’s president last month suggesting that he would back off deploying a new missile defense system in Eastern Europe if Moscow would help stop Iran from developing long-range weapons, American officials said Monday. (Source: The New York Times) … or is it because the missile defense system is a complete failure: – US missile system’s track record: test delays, failed launches, missed targets: Twenty leading scientists, including 10 Nobel laureates, wrote to President Obama in July to urge the administration to reconsider the European phase of the missile defence system. “The planned European missile defence system would have essentially no capability to defend against a real missile attack. Independent and US governmental technical analyses have shown that any country that could field a long-range missile could also add decoys and other counter-measures to that missile that would defeat a defence system like that being proposed for Europe,” the letter stated. President Barack Obama has announced that he is shelving former President Bush’s plans for a missile defence system in Europe. The project had become a major irritant in relations between the United States and Russia. Instead of basing long-range interceptors in Poland and the Czech Republic, Mr Obama said there would be a redesigned defensive system that would be cheaper and more effective against the threat from Iranian missiles. First broadcast 17 September 2009 Source: BBC News Russia to drop missile deployment plan: envoy BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Russia will not deploy new missiles in the Kaliningrad enclave now that the United States has dropped plans to build an anti-missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic, Russia’s envoy to NATO said on Friday. Dmitry Rogozin also welcomed a proposal from NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen for more cooperation with Russia on anti-missile systems. “It was very positive, very constructive and we have to analyze together all the sec-gen’s proposals for the new beginning of NATO-Russia cooperation,” Rogozin told a news conference. On Russian plans to deploy medium-range missiles in Kaliningrad, which borders Poland and Lithuania, he said: “I hope you can understand logic … if we have no radars or no missiles in the Czech Republic and Poland, we don’t need to find some response.” Fri Sep 18, 2009 6:49am EDT Categories Global News, Politics Tags Barack Obama, Global News, Government, Military, Missile shield, Missiles, NATO, Obama administration, Politics, Russia, U.S. Leave a comment Barack Obama ‘set to open radical nuclear weapons talks with Russia’ Barack Obama will aim to slash the nuclear weapons stockpiles of the US and Russia by 80 per cent, it has been reported. Barack Obama has been hit by a series of set-back in his presidency Photo: AP Mr Obama will move to open fresh arms reduction talks with Moscow and seek an agreement to cut the number of warheads to 1,000 each, according to The Times. The two countries must have cut their stockpiles from about 10,000 to 5,000 by December under the 1991 US-Soviet Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (Start). Read moreBarack Obama ‘set to open radical nuclear weapons talks with Russia’ Categories Politics Tags Barack Obama, Missile shield, Nuclear weapons, Obama administration, Politics, Russia, U.S. Leave a comment	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line890
__label__cc	0.738743	0.261257	PIL interview with S. Shyum Sundar Project Information Literacy has posted a new interview on their website. They say: "Shyam co-directs the Media Effects Research Lab and is a Professor at Penn State, where he teaches courses in the psychology of communication technology, media theory, and research methodology. If you are interested in learning more about how "bandwagon heuristics" and "FOMO" are impacting how we search and gather information, this may a good read for you. Shyam also discusses how immersive, interactive communication modes (AR and VR) are changing how we experience something total unfamiliar to us, such as breaking news." Go to http://www.projectinfolit.org/shyam-sundar-smart-talk.html Webinar: Disciplinary Applications of Information Literacy Threshold Concepts There is a priced ACRL webinar on 10 April 2018 at 2pm US Eastern time, which is 7pm UK time: Disciplinary Applications of Information Literacy Threshold Concepts. "Explore threshold concepts as an approach to library practice through an in-depth introduction to the recent ACRL publication Disciplinary Applications of Information Literacy Threshold Concepts. During the interactive webcast, learn about themes from the book, including common challenges and approaches to working with the frames, and gain a deeper explanation of two example chapters from disparate disciplines.The presenters will share questions and prompts to encourage deep reflection around the concepts in the ACRL Framework. Suggestions for expanding use of these concepts beyond the classroom will also be provided, as well as strategies for working with disciplinary faculty around these concepts." The presenters are:Samantha Godbey, education librarian and assistant professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and Susan Beth Wainscott, engineering librarian, for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas University Libraries. Costs are: ACRL member $50; ALA member $75; Nonmember $90; Student $40; Group*:$295 Registration at http://www.ala.org/acrl/onlinelearning/thresholdconcepts Photo by Sheila Webber: Diamond building reflecting St Georges church, Sheffield, March 2018 Labels: events, webinars Recent articles: Breakout game; curriculum analysis; post-truth Three recent open-access articles: - Baer, A. (2018). It’s all relative? Post-truth rhetoric, relativism, and teaching on “Authority as Constructed and Contextual”. College & Research Libraries News,79(2), 72-75, 97. https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.79.2.72 - Detwiler, S., Jacobson, T. and O'Brien, K. (2018). BreakoutEDU: Helping students break out of their comfort zones. College & Research Libraries News,79(2), 62-66. https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.79.2.62 - Pierce, M. (2018) Maximizing the impact of the in-person one-shot in community colleges: Selecting courses to target for library instruction through curriculum analysis, College & Research Libraries News,79(2), 68-71. https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.79.2.68 Photo by Sheila Webber: Snow a few weeks ago Labels: academic sector, IL frameworks, Information Literacy, Pedagogy, USA Facebook group for information literacy librarians Martinique Hallerduff posted recently on the North American information literacy list ili-l "A colleague and I have started a closed facebook group for Academic Library Instruction Coordinators (by any name). Please let me know if you' like to join by emailing me directly with the email address you use for facebook at mhallerduff@dom.edu. There are generally only one of us on each campus so I'm looking forward to having an easy forum for discussing issues related to leadership/management, scholarship, pedagogy, mentoring and more with others in a similar role." Labels: academic sector, Information Literacy Association of College and Research Libraries #ACRL Instruction Section awards: Mader; Nutefall; 23 Framework things Award winners have been announced! Congratulations to them all. - The Miriam Dudley Instruction Librarian Award goes to Sharon Mader (pictured). "Sharon Mader’s career in Information Literacy has had a prolonged and profound effect on the community of teaching and learning in libraries. Sharon was a founding faculty member of the Information Literacy Immersion Program, and has mentored librarians and leaders for many years. Her long term participation in the Instruction Section and ACRL has culminated in her role as ACRL's Visiting Program Officer for Information Literacy, and she has devoted herself to presenting about, advocating for, and communicating with others about the new Framework for Information Literacy, including the development of the Framework Sandbox. As a leader in our field, Sharon has helped the field as a whole put in place the structures that have enabled us to make the transition from theory to concrete action. We are delighted to recognize her for her many contributions to the advancement of instruction." - The Ilene F. Rockman Instruction Publication of the Year Award goes to Jennifer E. Nutefall (Santa Clara University), for: Nutefall, J. (Ed.) Service Learning, Information Literacy, and Libraries. Libraries Unlimited. ISBN-13: 978-1440840913 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Service-Learning-Information-Literacy-Libraries/dp/1440840911 This book " covers a critical and emerging gap in information literacy literature. As many colleges and universities begin focusing on civic and community engagement, this book may act as a primer for librarians who wish to incorporate service learning into their practice. This timely book pushes the field in new directions as it encourages librarians to consider new and innovative methods of teaching information literacy concepts and skills." - The Instruction Section Innovation Award goes to 23 Framework Things which is at https://23frameworkthings.wordpress.com/. Recipients are Trent Brager (University of St. Thomas), Amy Mars (St. Catherine University), and Kim Pittman (University of Minnesota – Duluth) "The 23 Framework Things professional development program offers an innovative and open sourced solution to learning more about how to incorporate the Framework into information literacy instruction. The self-paced program allows users to interact with other librarians through commenting and reflection as they consider local implementation of the Framework. With expansion beyond the Minnesota Library Association and an indefinite extension of the program, 23 Framework Things is poised to help many librarians incorporate the Framework into their local context in the coming years." Labels: Awards Date change for the 5th Annual LILi Conference. The date for the 5th Annual LILi (Lifelong Information Literacy) Conference has changed from July 13 to Friday, August 17 2018. The venue remains Glendale Public Library, California, USA. The conference proposal deadline has been extended to April 20 2018. "When it was realized that the original date of the LILi Conference (July 13) conflicted with that of the People of Color in Library & Information Science (POCinLIS) Summit, the LILi Board voted to change the date of the LILi Conference to support the POCinLIS Summit and LILi members who wish to attend both events." More info on the LILi website http://campusguides.glendale.edu/c.php?g=817424 New articles: Wikipedia; Public library websites: Use of web sources in schools The new issue of open-access journal Information Research (vol. 23, issue 1) has been published. It includes: - Teemu Mikkonen: Justifying the use of Internet sources in school assignments on controversial issues - Reine Rydén: How trust in Wikipedia evolves: a survey of students aged 11 to 25 - Allison Littlejohn and Nina Hood: Becoming an online editor: perceived roles and responsibilities of Wikipedia editors - Diane L. Velasquez and Nina Evans: Public library Websites as electronic branches: a multi-country quantitative evaluation Go to: http://www.informationr.net/ir/23-1/infres231.html Photo by Sheila Webber: snow, February 2018 Labels: evaluation, Public libraries, publishing, research, schools sector, wikis New articles in health science and information literacy Buysse, H., Peleman, R. and De Meulemeester, A. (2018). Information literacy in health sciences education: proposal of a new model in a multi-perspectivism setting. JEAHIL (Journal of the European Association for Health Information and Libraries), 14(1), 15-20. "Information literacy should be integrated and practiced within a complete curriculum by using horizontal (basic IL skills) and vertical integration (IL integrated within the discipline) that would guarantee equal opportunities for students’ IL development and which could be a more cost-effective solution within curriculum development. The emerging technologies and the impact on educational models will more and more demand different expertise and thus collaboration of experts with different backgrounds". The issue is at http://eahil.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/journal-1-2018-web.pdf Goodman, X. et al. (2018). Applying an information literacy rubric to first-year health sciences student research posters. Journal of the Medical Library association, 106(1), 108-112. "This article describes the collection and analysis of annotated bibliographies created by first-year health sciences students to support their final poster projects. The authors examined the students’ abilities to select relevant and authoritative sources, summarize the content of those sources, and correctly cite those sources". https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5764575/ Photo by Sheila Webber: Weston Park, Sheffield, 28 February 2018 Labels: discipline - health, Information Literacy, Pedagogy Webinar: Collective Learning: Developing an Instruction Community of Practice An ACRL webinar takes place on April 11, 1-2pm US central time, which is 7-8pm UK time: Collective Learning: Developing an Instruction Community of Practice. It appears to be free. "Communities of Practice within academic libraries can provide opportunities for teaching librarians to intentionally develop strategies, confidence, and creativity while building camaraderie and teamwork skills. This online panel discussion will highlight recent efforts to establish communities of practice and recount both the successes and challenges encountered. Participants will learn more about instruction communities of practice and gather ideas that may be taken back to their institutions." Presenters are: Amanda Peters (Student Engagement Librarian University of Michigan Library), Doreen Bradley (Director of Learning Programs & Initiatives University of Michigan Library), Marybeth McCartin (Instructional Services Librarian New York University Libraries), Nicole Brown (Head, Instruction Services Division University of California, Berkeley). Register at [URL updated 9 April 2018] https://zoom.us/j/389691990 Photo by Sheila Webber: after the UCU rally on International Women's Day Labels: webinars Today! Livestreaming of IFLA's Global Vision Report Summary launch & OECD report There is live streaming today (19 March) of IFLA President's Meeting Opening (starting at 9.30 Central European Time, which is 8.30 UK time) and IFLA's Global Vision Report Summary launch (at 16.30 CET, which is 15.30 UK time and 11.30 USA Eastern time). The Opening includes an introduction by IFLA Secretary General, Gerald Leitner, and a welcome address by IFLA President, Glòria Pérez-Salmerón, under the theme Leading the way: Libraries as Motors of Change. The Global Vision report is "the result of six regional workshops, hundreds of discussions, and 22,000 responses to our online consultation from 213 countries and territories". The live streaming is via YouTube at http://bit.ly/2tQfDC and select the LIVE video. No registration is required. A recording of the live streaming will be made available afterwards at https://www.youtube.com/user/iflahq and https://vimeo.com/ifla. Another livestream and launch today is of the OECD report The Resilience of Students with an Immigrant Background: Factors that Shape Well-Being, with a livestream at 12.30 Paris time/CET (11.30 a.m. UK time). It will be presented by Gabriela Ramos, OECD Chief of Staff and Sherpa to the G20, at the European Commission in Brussels: go to https://webcast.ec.europa.eu/the-resilience-of-students-with-an-immigrant-background-factors-that-shape-well-being http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/education/the-resilience-of-students-with-an-immigrant-background_9789264292093-en Genealogical Proof Standard @ACRL_VWIG Today I attended a presentation by Cheri Daniels (Head of Reference Services at Kentucky Historical Society) on genealogy, organised by the ACRL Virtual World Interest Group and given in the 3D virtual world, Second Life (the photo is from the presentation, I'm the one with the blue ponytail). She mentioned the Board for the Certification of Genealogists' Genealogy Standards at https://bcgcertification.org/ethics/ethics-standards/ which are very relevant to Information Literacy, and specifically the Genealogical Proof Standard (GPS) which says that "To reach a sound conclusion, we need to meet all five components of the GPS. "1. Reasonably exhaustive research. "2. Complete and accurate source citations. "3. Thorough analysis and correlation. "4. Resolution of conflicting evidence. "5. Soundly written conclusion based on the strongest evidence." Labels: genealogy, IL frameworks, Information Literacy Librarian profiles from #WLIC2017 An eBook with combined slides and records of discussion from the WLIC (World Library and Information Conference) 2017 President-Elect Session has been produced. It includes the presentation on Information Literacy from Robin Kear (and other keynote presentations, such as "Advocacy" by Elvira Lapuz) and (what I found most interesting) 26 "librarian profiles" each created by a table of participants at the session. For example there is a profile for "Alex" "Born in Sudan; Lives in Sweden; 34 years old; Speaks Swedish, Sudanese, English; No children; 2 cats; Public Library". As with the other profiles, the profile maps out the librarian in response to "hear" (what the librarian hears) "Think and feel" "See" "Say and do". The ebook has been made copyright free, so I reproduce here the profile which is called "Sheila" (nothing to do with me, obviously, but I couldn't resist the coincidence). The PDF is at https://goo.gl/XFVAWi and the iBook is at https://goo.gl/xSoqrv Labels: Information Literacy, librarians, wlic2017 Building a Badge Program with Learning Pathways The recording and slides from the webinar Building a Badge Program with Learning Pathways by Nate Otto (which took place on 21 February 2018) are available: recording at https://youtu.be/TT118rlm-pc and presentation slides https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_hL-Ep7E9qo1KF9q94drUP7KRVQragU6jDEDrubHflE/edit?usp=sharing Photo by Sheila Webber: placards for student elections, February 2018 Online course: Feminist Pedagogy for Library Instruction April 2 to April 27 2018 are the dates of the online course Feminist Pedagogy for Library Instruction, taught by Maria Accardi. The cost is US $175. "Students in this four-week course will engage with and explore feminist pedagogy through assigned readings and interactive online discussion. Central questions that will guide the course include: What is feminism? What is feminist pedagogy? What does it look like, and what are its concerns? How can we bring it into conversation with the work we do in the library instruction classroom? By the end of the course, students will be able to explain basic feminist theories, define feminist pedagogy, identify and describe specific ways in which feminist pedagogy is enacted, and develop a plan for deploying a feminist pedagogy activity in the academic library instruction classroom." Includes a copy of Accardi's book Feminist Pedagogy for Library Instruction. More information at http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/065-feminist-pedagogy.php Webinar: Instruction and Outreach for Diverse Populations: International Students On March 23 2018 at 2pm US Eastern time (6pm UK time) there is a webinar Instruction and Outreach for Diverse Populations: International Students. "This webinar series provides practical ideas for implementing instruction and outreach for diverse populations. In this session, the following speakers will discuss their experiences supporting international students through programs, services, and initiatives: Anamika Megwalu, Assessment & Engineering Librarian, San Jose State University; Mark Mattson, Global Partnerships and Outreach Librarian, Pennsylvania State University; Karen Bordonaro, Liaison Librarian, Brock University" The webinar is organised by the ACRL Instruction Section’s Instruction for Diverse Populations Committee and the Library Marketing and Outreach Interest Group. Register (it looks as though it's free) at https://acrl.webex.com/acrl/onstage/g.php?MTID=efcd1248f839936cf2207b63c5feb3e77 Photo by Sheila Webber: photographing the student occupation of the Arts Tower, today, The spread of true and false news online There's been a lot of press coverage for: Vosoughi, S., Roy, D. and Aral, S. (2018). The spread of true and false news online. Science, 359(6380), 1146-1151. DOI: 10.1126/science.aap9559 http://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6380/1146. A key finding was that false news travels faster than true news (truth and falsity was judged by using fact checking sites) and that it was humans rather than bots who were responsible. To quote the easy-rerad abstract they "used a data set of rumor cascades on Twitter from 2006 to 2017. About 126,000 rumors were spread by ∼3 million people. False news reached more people than the truth; the top 1% of false news cascades diffused to between 1000 and 100,000 people, whereas the truth rarely diffused to more than 1000 people. Falsehood also diffused faster than the truth. The degree of novelty and the emotional reactions of recipients may be responsible for the differences observed." Two of the more useful articles reporting on the article are: - Skelton, V. (2018, March 11). Fight the false: how news spreads on Twitter. http://www.infotoday.eu/Articles/Editorial/Featured-Articles/Fight-the-false-how-news-spreads-on-Twitter-123767.aspx?utm - Meyer, R. (2018, March 8).The Grim Conclusions of the Largest-Ever Study of Fake News. The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/03/largest-study-ever-fake-news-mit-twitter/555104/ Photo by Sheila Webber: Hinamatsuri display in Minamoto Kitchen, London, March 2018 Labels: media literacy, news, research, social networking The Future of Teaching Librarianship Registration has opened for the Maryland Information Literacy Exchange event The Future of Teaching Librarianship which takes place on April 11 2018 at the Loyola Graduate Centre, Columbia, MD, USA. For more information go to http://milexmd.org Webinar: Applying Information Literacy to Digital Humanities Projects There is a priced webinar from ACRL on March 20, Applying Information Literacy to Digital Humanities Projects, at 2pm US Eastern time (which is 6pm UK time - at the moment the US has gone over to Summer time whereas many other countries haven't). "This webcast will point out reflexive strategies that can be used to bring out dialogue and conversation on humanities topics, while also pointing out some of the common problems and pitfalls with teaching digital humanities. Discover how instruction helps to promote and provide information literacy guidance to those who are presented with digital collections with little or no interpretation added to them." For more details and registration go to http://www.ala.org/acrl/onlinelearning/digitalhumanitiesprojects Call for papers: Critical Librarianship & Pedagogy Symposium The second Critical Librarianship & Pedagogy Symposium takes place on November 15-16 2018 at the University of Arizona Libraries, USA. The theme is Power & Resistance in Library Pedagogy. There is a call for papers, closing on April 16 2018. Information about the conference and how to submit proposals is at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aBPOhV4E3pWIYHF9HL_sEPkPTGoc6vn6tyWGI698S3o/edit Photo by Sheila Webber: totoro bun, 2018 Labels: cfp, events Books for open education week @OEWeek I only just found out that this is the end of Open Education week (5-9) March, so here are links to some open access books; three that I haven't mentioned before: - Blessinger, P. and Bliss, T.J. (eds.) (2016). Open Education: International Perspectives in Higher Education. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers. https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0103 - Mays, E. (Ed.) (n.d.). A Guide to Making Open Textbooks with Students. Rebus. https://press.rebus.community/makingopentextbookswithstudents/ - Smith, T. (2017). Politicizing Digital Space: Theory, the Internet, and Renewing Democracy. London: University of Westminster Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16997/book5 And one that I have mentioned before, but the web address changed: - D'Angelo, B., Jamieson, S., Maid, B. and Walker, J. (Eds) (2016). Information Literacy: Research and Collaboration across Disciplines. Fort Collins, Colorado: The WAC Clearinghouse and University Press of Colorado. https://wac.colostate.edu/books/perspectives/infolit/ Photo by Sheila Webber: Rally today, Sheffield City Centre, end point of march fighting for pensions, and celebrating International Women's Day Labels: academic sector, Information Literacy, Pedagogy, resources Crash Course in Assessing Library Instruction There is an online Library Juice Academy course running April 2 to April 27 2018, Crash Course in Assessing Library Instruction. It is led by Candice Benjes-Small and Eric Ackermannand costs US $175. "This class is intended for teaching librarians who have some classroom experience and would like to explore different assessment techniques in library sessions, such as one-shots." More information at http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/145-crash-assessment.php #digifest18 Digifest is taking place 6-7 March 2018, with the focus on use of technology in higher and further education (e.g. learning environments, learning analytics). Resources from the first day (slides and some videos) and the programme for Wednesday 7 March are at https://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/digifest-06-mar-2018/programme and the hashtag to follow the conference is https://twitter.com/hashtag/Digifest18?src=hash Photo by Sheila Webber: wildlife crossing, Blackheath, February 2018 Call for evidence on the impact of social media and screen-use on young people’s health The UK Government's Science and Technology Committee has launched an inquiry into the impact of social media and screen-use on young people’s health. Evidence has to be submitted by 6 April 2018. "The committee is welcoming the perspectives and experiences by children, schools and youth organisations, as well as details of any initiatives taken, including: - What evidence there is on the effects of social media and screen-use on young people’s physical and mental wellbeing — for better and for worse — and any gaps in the evidence. - The areas that should be the focus of any further research needed and why. - The wellbeing benefits from social media usage, including any Apps that provide mental-health benefits to users. - The physical/mental harms from social media use and screen-use, including safety online risks, the extent of any addictive behaviour, and aspects of social media/Apps which magnify such addictive behaviour. - Any measures being used, or needed, to mitigate any potential harmful effects of excessive screen-use and what solutions are being used. - The extent of awareness of any risks, and how awareness could be increased for particular groups (children, schools, social media companies, Government, etc.). - What monitoring is needed, and by whom. - What measures, controls or regulation are needed. - Where responsibility and accountability should lie for such measures." The Enquiry web page is at http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/science-and-technology-committee/inquiries/parliament-2017/impact-of-social-media-young-people-17-19/ Photo by Sheila Webber: snowdrops, February 2018 Labels: Information Society, social networking, Technology Recent articles: infolit and music; tutorials; OER and infolit These are priced articles. - Camacho, L. (2018). If we built it, would they come? Creating instruction videos with promotion in mind. Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship. Early online publication https://doi.org/10.1080/08963568.2018.1431867 - Duffy, M.J. (2017). Contemporary Analysis of Information Literacy in Music: A Literature Review and Selected Annotated Bibliography. Music Reference Services Quarterly. Early online publication https://doi.org/10.1080/10588167.2017.1398801 (definitely worth getting hold of if you have an interest in information literacy in the music discipline) - Evelyn, S. and Kromer, J. (2017). OER evaluation as a means of teaching information literacy in individual and small group settings. The Reference Librarian. Early online publication https://doi.org/10.1080/02763877.2017.1402730 - Lantz, C. et al. (2018) “I'm a Visual Learner so I like this”: Investigating Student and Faculty Tutorial Preferences. Internet Reference Services Quarterly. Early online publication https://doi.org/10.1080/10875301.2018.1427171 Photo by Sheila Webber: strange freezing mist today, Sheffield. Labels: Discipline - music, Information Literacy, OERs, tutorials Material from teachmeets An interesting collection of presentations from various teachmeets held 2013 to 2017 at Staffordshire University, UK, are at http://libguides.staffs.ac.uk/teachmeets/infolit. Photo by Sheila webber: bandstand in the snow yesterday, Sheffield, March 2018 Labels: Information Literacy, resources Western Balkan Information Literacy Conference There is a Call for Papers for the 2018 Western Balkan Information Literacy Conference which will take place 21 - 22 June 2018 in Bihac, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The deadline for abstracts is 4 May 2018 and the theme is Alternative facts, Fake News, getting to the truth with Information Literacy. The four main subthemes are: Information literacy in the modern world; Librarians as support to the lifelong learning process; Media and information literacy – theoretical approaches (standards, assessment, collaboration, etc.); New aspects of education/strategic planning, policy, and advocacy for information literacy in a digital age. Keynote speakers are Ismail Serageldin (Emeritus Librarian of Alexandria and the Founding Director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina), Tefko Saracevic (Emeritus Professor at Rutgers University) and Jesús Lau (Professor at Universidad Veracruzana). More information on the conference website http://wbilc2018.com/ The call for papers is at http://wbilc2018.com/callForPapers.php Photo by Sheila Webber: Weston Park, Sheffield, today, in snow Webinar: Disciplinary Applications of Information ... Recent articles: Breakout game; curriculum analysi... Association of College and Research Libraries #ACR... New articles: Wikipedia; Public library websites: ... New articles in health science and information lit... Webinar: Collective Learning: Developing an Instru... Today! Livestreaming of IFLA's Global Vision Repo... Online course: Feminist Pedagogy for Library Instr... Webinar: Instruction and Outreach for Diverse Popu... Webinar: Applying Information Literacy to Digital ... 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__label__cc	0.628382	0.371618	Ingenuity events are a chance for individuals who are driven to use their ingenuity to drive change across the UK to meet, share ideas and gain insight from other participants and supporters of the programme. This will enable greater understanding, hear from diverse perspectives, and facilitate a better understanding of the key issues we face as a society. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, all events and activities will be online for the Ingenuity 20/21 Programme. Apply to Ingenuity today Challenge Summits Ingenuity will take place in four regions across the UK and each event will be hosted by one of our regional University Hosts: For the East Midlands – University of Nottingham For the West Midlands – University of Warwick For the South Coast – University of Sussex For the West of England – University of Gloucestershire The online events will explore each of the Challenges from both a national and a regional perspective; featuring specialist speakers, and bringing together those who are interested in creating start-ups and organisational innovation to transform society, change lives, and tackle climate change. The events, which run from 9:30 – 17:00, will take place on the following dates: Create Prosperity Summit: 8 March 2021 Build Community Summit: 9 March 2021 Improve Health Summit: 10 March 2021 Tackle Climate Summit: 11 March 2021 Mentoring sessions Following the Challenge Summits, participants will have access to a half-day mentoring session (9:00 – 13:30), where they will work through a structured problem-solving workshop to develop, test and validate their ideas. Create Prosperity: 15 March 2021 Build Community: 16 March 2021 Improve Health: 17 March 2021 Tackle Climate Change: 18 March 2021 Regional Finals Whilst we understand that the Regional and National Finals will be taking place during the wider university exam period, we have purposefully chosen to use video pitches that can be recorded and submitted during a two-week period at the Finalists’ convenience. In late April 2021, submitted business plans and ideas for organisational innovation will be assessed by a specialist panel, who will shortlist the most innovative Challenge solutions from each region. The shortlisted teams will be asked to create and submit a video pitch, with the most viable ideas from each region then being invited to attend the National Finals. Each National Finalist will be assigned a mentor in order to help them develop their pitch for the National Finals. The week will culminate with the Ingenuity Impact Evening, where we will celebrate the Finalists and Winners, and invest in the next generation of impact innovations. Feeder Events During summer 2020, Ingenuity invested £20,000 in promising early-stage ideas related to the Challenges. You can find out more about the Feeder Events and winning teams for each Challenge below: Building Better Communities report Tackle Climate Change report Improve Health report Create Prosperity report Learn more about what makes Ingenuity tick Heres the page to get in touch Ingenuity stories Find out more about previous Ingenuity finalists. I want to grow my ideas I want to get involved Ingenuity Stories V1 Ingenuity Terms and Conditions © Ingenuity 2020. All rights reserved. Website developed by Seismik. University of Nottingham, Jubilee Campus, Wollaton Road, Nottingham NG7 2TU. Tel: +44 (0)115 846 6193 Email: ingenuity@nottingham.ac.uk	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line895
__label__wiki	0.762188	0.762188	Roche’s New MS Drug Shows Promise In Treating Multiple Sclerosis By Lydia Booth Pharmaceutical company, Roche, known for drugs such as Boniva and Tamiflu, has a new drug in the making that it is hoping will help reduce multiple sclerosis relapses and clinical trials are showing very positive results. According to Reuters, the new drug, ocrelizumab, cut the annualized relapse rate by 46 and 47 percent in the two trials. Rebif, an older drug that is currently being used, reduces relapses by about 33 percent. Both drugs show a similar incidence rate of serious side effects, about 10 percent. The Wall Street Journal details these trials, saying that the two studies were comprised of 1,656 patients with relapsing multiple sclerosis. A third trial was also performed including 732 patients with primary progressive multiple sclerosis, a less common form of the condition which affects about 15 percent of multiple sclerosis patients. Ocrelizumab was found to be more effective in slowing the progression of the condition than a placebo, marking the first time a drug has been beneficial in this form of multiple sclerosis. The chief of neurology at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, Dr. Stephen Hauser, says, “This is potentially a big deal for our patients.” Dr. Hauser was also leader for two of the Roche studies. The finding may encourage the MS community to look more closely at earlier treatment of the disease Usually more powerful drugs are used only in advanced cases of the disease but ocrelizumab may be able to be used earlier than these drugs because it is safer to use. The drug is administered via intravenous drip twice yearly and can be done during regular neurologist appointments. A meeting with regulators in the United States and Europe is scheduled to discuss drug approval. If all goes as planned, Roche believes that ocrelizumab will be approved in early 2016 and hopefully would be on the market for widespread use sometime in 2017. Image Source: via Pixabay Related Items: Health, Medicine, Multiple Sclerosis, Ocrelizumab, Roche Phuket Police Crash Sparks Violent Riots Recommendation Made To ITC Regarding Nvidia’s Lawsuit Against Samsung Improving Your Life Momentum Ventures The Five most scenic European Towns with JustFly Taking Advantage of the Facebook Money Machine Ocrelizumab Proven Effective In Multiple Sclerosis Treatment Prescription Opioid Overdose Deaths Are Up, But Misuse Is Down Hi - We Would Love To Keep In Touch If you liked this article then please consider joing our mailing list to receive the latest news, updates and opportunities from our team. We don't want an impostor using your email address so please look for an email from us and click the link to confirm your email address. Our common sense privacy policy applies!	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line900
__label__wiki	0.635554	0.635554	53,434 karma 1/48 Eduard Bf-109G-4, Regia Aeronautica 1/48 Bf 109 Eduard Messerschmitt Regia Aeronautica The appearance of the Gustav series of Messerschmitt’s Bf-109 was due to the ineptness of the Luftwaffe high command in developing an acceptable production successor to the aging design, and reflected the lack of long-range planning on the part of the Third Reich for the war Hitler wanted. The highly-promising Fw-190 was just beginning its career, but it would never be able to match the high altitude performance of Messerschmitt’s product, which became more and more important as the war wore on and air combat occurred at ever-greater altitudes with the introduction of American daylight bombing. The Gustav series, which was produced in greater numbers than all the other versions combined, was actually the least of them all, since the design peak of the Bf-109 was the Friedrich series; the Gustav represented more and more weight added for less and less return. When first introduced into the Jadgwaffe in 1942, the Bf-109G was considered a retrograde step in development by the pilots. Heinz Knoke described the flying characteristics of the Gustav as “atrocious,” with the airplane having to be flown at full power in the landing circuit just to maintain altitude and maneuverability once the gear came down. All the previous versions of the Bf-109 had mitigated the demand for maximum possible speed with recognition of the importance of maneuverability and handling. The higher power and weight loadings represented by the Gustav series was considered acceptable in order to achieve the increased emphasis on speed, despite the reduction in maneuverability and handling capabilities. The DB605A engine that powered the Gustav series differed from the DB601E used for the Friedrich in having a redesigned cylinder block in which the maximum possible bore was obtained while retaining the original cylinder centers. Cylinder compression ratio was increased to 7.3 for the left cylinder block and 7.5 for the right. Maximum r.p.m. was increased to 2,800. The result was an engine with virtually unchanged overall dimensions, with take-off power increased to 1,475 h.p., with 1,355 h.p. available at 6,000 meters. GM 1, a system for injecting nitrous oxide into the engine at high altitude, had an enormous effect on performance, increasing output to 1,250 h.p. at 10,000 meters. The Bf-109G also had a pressurized cockpit initially. This was a “cold wall” type in which the engine wall, cockpit floor and the sloping plate behind the pilot’s seat were all sealed, and designed to provide a pressure differential of 4.4 lb./sq.ft. The system was only used in the Bf-109G-1, G-3 and Bf-109G-5; the others of the series lacked pressurization. The first Bf-109G to enter service in numbers was the Bf-109G-2, which first saw combat over the Channel Front in the spring of 1942. The additional weight of the Gustav required that the landing gear be beefed up; the G-4 version was the first to have “bumps” on the upper wing surface to fair over the increased size of the wheel well for the larger-size main wheels, and a larger tailwheel was also adopted. These early Gustavs retained the engine-mounted 20mm MG 151 with two 7.92mm MG 17 machine guns in the forward fuselage, as developed for the Friedrich series. This armament could be supplemented by Rustsatze-6, which involved fitting an additional two MG 151s in underwing gondolas just outboard of the wheel well; while this provided a useful increase in weight of fire for anti-bomber operations, the additional weight of the canons had a deleterious effect on maneuverability of what the Germans called the Kannonenboot (gunboat). With the Bf-109G being mass-produced, the Gustav was the first of the 109s to widely equip other Axis air forces, whose domestic aircraft industries were either non-existent or unable to produce modern fighters in sufficient numbers for their air forces to meet the Allies in combat on an equal footing. The first of these allied air forces to obtain the Bf-109G was that of Finland, commencing in January 1943. The Finns were followed shortly by the Hungarians and the Romanians during the spring of 1943. Following the defeat of Axis forces in North Africa in May 1943, the Regia Aeronautica was forced to admit that while the Italian aircraft industry could produce first-class fighters such as the Macchi C.202 and Reggianne Re. 2001, the industry could not possibly produce these aircraft in sufficient numbers to maintain attrition, let alone embark on expansion. Thus, the Italians too were forced to turn to Germany for more modern fighters. In May 1943, 3rd Grupo exchanged its surviving C.202 Folgore fighters for the Bf-109G-4/R6 version with the two underwing 20mm cannon. During the next two months of operations, losses would be replaced with Bf-109G-6/R6 aircraft. When the Allies began the Pantellaria campaign in mid-May, at least one Squadriglia was able to enter combat in the bomber-interception role, though losses against Allied fighters were heavy. Following the surrender of the garrison on Pantellaria, the Sicily campaign began in earnest. 3rd Grupo was joined by the similarly-equipped 150th Grupo, composed of the 364th a and 365th Squadriglia, in early June. Allied bombers were escorted by fighters from Tunisia and Malta, and major dogfights erupted over Sicily daily. Conditions in Sicily were chaotic on the Axis side. Most prominent was the failure to establish a centralized fighter control; German and Italian units continued to operate as if the other was not present. On July 3, 1943, the Bf-109Gs of 150th Grupo intercepted Baltimore and Boston bombers of the Desert Air Force, escorted by P-40s from a “green” American unit. Three bombers and seven fighters were claimed shot down, for the loss of one Bf-109. 150th Grupo gained further successes before the invasion, becoming the most successful unit of the Regia Aeronautica with the Bf-109G. This was all for naught, because the Allied invasion on July 10 saw both 109 Gruppi virtually wiped out on the ground due to Allied air attacks on their bases. Surviving pilots of the units managed to evacuate to the mainland, where many would eventually fly the Bf-109G again, as members of the Aviazione della R.S.I. Eduard can be said to “own” the 109 now, the way Hasegawa owned the airplane in the 90s, by producing kits of most of the sub-types from the Bf-109E-1 on. The Bf-109G-4 was released in 2015, following the release of the “corrected” Bf-109G-6 kit. It is up to the expected Eduard standard, with petite surface detail that includes rivets, a cockpit that is more than acceptable when enhanced with the photoetch found in the Profipack release, and an interesting selection of markings. This particular release includes a 109 from the Romanian air force, one flown by Teniente Giorgio Gianelli of the 365th Squadrigila, 150 Grupo on Sicily, Erich Hartmann’s first 109 in JG 52, a North Africa-based 109 flown by Leutnant Seifert of JG 53, and one flown by Major Ewald of JG 3 on the Eastern Front. If you follow the instructions, take time to carefully trim all sprue nibs from the parts, and assemble carefully, the kit will go together without need of any filler. Since the molded on pitot tube is invariably knocked off, I cut it off to begin with and replace it with the more accurate pitot tube that is on the parts sprue. COLORS & MARKINGS I was at first confused by the painting instructions for the Regia Aeronautica airplane, since it displayed overpainting of the previous German markings with Grigio Azzurra Chiaro 1, with squiggles of Verde Oliva Scuro 2, rather than the overspray of dark grey other painting instructions for this particular airplane have suggested. Ten minutes of research on the internet brought up the photograph of this particular airplane, which is included in this review, which clearly proves Eduard right and the “hex-spurtz” of the other decal sheets wrong. One can learn something new with every project in this hobby. I painted the white theater and yellow lower nose marking and masked them off, then painted the model in a standard MTT-Augsburg camo pattern with RLM 74/75/76. I then used Tamiya Sea Grey Medium, which is a close match for Grigio Azzurra Chiaro 1, and then used Tamiya NATO Green for the Verde Oliva Scuro 2 squiggles. When this was all dry, I unmasked the model and gave it a coat of clear gloss. The Eduard kit decals, which are printed by Cartograf, went on without a problem. I cleaned off the dried decal setting solution, then gave the model two coats of clear flat. I applied exhaust staining as shown in the photo of this plane, then attached the landing gear and unmasked the canopy and posed it in the open position. The Eduard 109s require a modeler to pay attention and take care in assembly, no matter how many of them one may have built. But with careful assembly, one is guaranteed a nearly-perfect model (depending on how good you are with an airbrush). Any modeler of moderate experience will have no difficulty with any of these kits. Highly recommended. 6 responses to 1/48 Eduard Bf-109G-4, Regia Aeronautica bob mack said on April 20, 2019 david leigh-smith said on April 20, 2019 I love those Eduard kits, and this is a beautiful example. Terrific colours and great subtlety with the mottling (and the painting in general). All this and the usual blue ribbon standard write-up and history lesson. ‘Liked’ Craig Abrahamson said on April 20, 2019 Nice work as usual, TC. DE4EVER DE4EVER said on April 21, 2019 🙂 … Greetings … 🙂 : Nice work on that model Tom, very striking camouflage work. Robert Royes Robert Royes said on April 21, 2019 Greg Kittinger Greg Kittinger said on April 22, 2019 Always enjoy your posts, Tom. Great mix of history along with the blow-by-blow of the build, and the result is always a great looking model. 1/48 Hasegawa F6F-3 Hellcat James Kelley Jean Bart – Heller 1/200 Nikos Kosmadakis 2017 build plan Special Hobby 1/32 Bristol M.1C Maxim Bylkin	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line901
__label__cc	0.65675	0.34325	Mass Tort Lawsuit & Class Action Claim Lawyers If you’ve been injured by a defective product, medication, or medical device, we can help you fight for compensation. 3M Defective Military Earplugs E-Cigarette Battery Explosion GM Airbag Failure Nissan Airbag Failure PAM Cooking Spray Explosion Paraquat Pesticide Pool Pump Electrocution Pressure Cooker Explosion Roundup Weedkiller Cancer Faulty Dehumidifiers Essure IUD Surgical Stapler Negligence And Personal Injury Allergan Breast Implant Catholic Priest & Clergy Sexual Abuse Commercial Plane Crash / Accident Fisher Price Sleeper Frozen Embryos Helicopter Crash / Accident Juul E-Cigarette Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (Wound Vacuum) Prisoner/Inmate Abuse Private Jet Crash / Accident Surgical Fire Uber Driver Wages Farxiga (Genital Gangrene) Fournier’s (Genital) Gangrene Jardiance (Genital Gangrene) PPI (Proton Pump Inhibitor) Stomach Cancer SGLT2 Inhibitor Truvada (HIV Drug) You are here: Home / Essure / Brief History of Birth Control Brief History of Birth Control Birth control is a preventative measure used by millions of women. What many people do not know is that birth control actual has an extensive history dating back to ancient times in Egypt, Greece, and Rome. Birth control today can mean a variety of things, but one of the most popular and heavily used methods comes in pill-form. These medications help prevent pregnancy, but they also assist women that have severe cramps, unusual cycles, prevents migraines, and can help clear up your skin. Other methods of birth control include surgical as well as non-surgical procedures. However, some methods like the Essure birth control method have led to Essure lawsuits being filed across the country. In the 1800s, historic cultures used everything from the wax on certain leaves to crocodile dung as a form of contraceptive. Today’s medications are thankfully modernized and are also healthier with plenty of options available. These drugs can be taken at specific times so that women only cycle 3 to 4 times a year. There are conventional pills, extended-cycle, low-dose, multiphasic, and monophasic birth control medications available on the market today. Common birth control pills are Yaz, Previfem, Lessina, Ocella, Apri, and Levora. In the early 1900s, Margaret Sanger opened one of the first clinics on the U.S. The clinic was a basic birth-control establishment which was raided by law enforcement and Sanger spent a month in prison for it. She was released and continued to pursue her business even though she did more jail time for it. Margaret also competed research and wrote information for the first birth control pill and raised over 100,000 dollars for the project. In 1960, Envid hit the market as the first birth control method that received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Five years later, the Supreme Court ruled that married couples had permission to use contraceptives. It was previously illegal. 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__label__wiki	0.844727	0.844727	GoMetro has big plans for city commuters GoMetro has been doing some fantastic work over the last couple of years, providing South African commuters with regular updates on public transport. It provides service updates and route information to Metrorail, Golden Arrow buses, MyCiTi buses in Cape Town, Gauteng Rapid Rail and Johannesburg’s Rea Vaya buses. To tack on to that, it also provides live traffic information for road users. Recently, GoMetro unveiled its latest offering: the Flexible Mobility Platform. Essentially it combines everything GoMetro has to offer into one, giving commuters and businesses a one-stop opportunity to organise their inner-city travel. “We are sitting in a position where we have developed mobile apps and technology, data analytics and advanced mapping capabilities – as we have a very clear view of where the world is moving with regards to movement,” said GoMetro founder Justin Coetzee. “We are now ready to start participating in a very active manner in the conceptualisation, planning, implementation and management of flexible transport services.” GoMetro, go anywhere Almost any organisation or city precinct that has a need for public transport can make use of the platform. As a bit of a test run, the University of Pretoria made use of it to run its bus service and provide real-time bus location information to its students. That way, students knew exactly where each bus was, where they were leaving from, and what time they departed. The system is similar to Intelligent Transport Systems, but Coetzee said that its service can do the necessary calculations and computations in a tenth of the time. He also explained that as more businesses in a CBD group together, the better transport will become for everybody that needs to venture out into the city. “A user on our app would be able to request an Uber to their closest mall, then a shuttle to another mall and then a City Bus to their meeting or appointment. No car needed, no parking fees, no traffic congestion – but better mobility and accessibility,” he said. The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) is one of GoMetro’s biggest clients, and the two have been working together to provide WiFi through fibre at train stations. By being able to connect to the WiFi and the see train information on the Flexible Mobility Platform, it makes commute planning easier. With the ructions in the taxi industry regarding Uber and metered taxis, Coetzee says that the Flexible Mobility Platform will be able to help government and cities better plan, regulate and co-ordinate private transport services, public transport services and the rise of on-demand services. “Government has always been our biggest customer of GoMetro tech, so we are sure that municipalities and provincial governments will be very interested in Flexible Mobility Platforms of their own to better manage and plan this disaggregated new operating model for transport,” he said. GoMetro’s services are currently only available in South Africa, but that is certainly not stopping the company from expanding internationally. As it stands, it has plans to be live in 100 countries in the next 3 to 5 years. “We are starting with 10 countries in 2017, and can already confirm early agreements with partners in Kenya, Zambia, Namibia, Moldova and Indonesia,” he said. Coetzee comes from a Civil Engineering background and served as a professional Transport Planner before GoMetro, so he knows a thing or two about how things can (and should) be planned when it comes to transport. Where technology has been catered for or actively been included in the planning of movement, Coetzee said, public transport has worked very well. Other areas, not so much. “We are still facing apartheid-era city planning which means that transport operations in South Africa are not as affordable or economic as other developing countries – which means that the urgent priority for the majority of South Africans accessing opportunities is fast and efficient long-haul or “corridor” services – to get people into the economic centres from the outlying areas as quickly and affordably as possible.” That will solve the problem of getting from rural areas into hub of businesses, what Coetzee then ponders the options once you need to commute to the actual place of business. According to him, it can be confusing at the best of time – which where the Flexible Mobility Platform comes in. “(It provides) all options for that “last-mile” of transport services – and providing local last-mile service providers with the technology tools they need to deliver the best possible customer experience.” There has been much hype in the media over the last couple of months regarding self-driving or autonomous cars. Electric car maker Tesla and Google has been leading the charge here, but while it has been somewhat successful on a testing base, a lot of research and work still needs to be done. GoMetro’s platforms will make things a lot easier for people once these vehicles start rolling out more widely across the world, and understandably Coetzee is excited for the prospect. “I think autonomous vehicles are closer than we realise in well-defined contexts such as a fixed-route shuttle – and tied to electric drive-trains, smartphones, cloud services, and better connectivity – we are only starting to redesign how we deliver transport to the next,” he said. While self-driving cars might not be here yet, we certainly know who we want to co-ordinate everything. [Image – CC by 2.0/mungosciko Charlie Fripp Charlie started his professional life as a motoring journalist for a community newspaper in Mpumalanga, Charlie explored different journalistic angles since his entry into the fast-paced world of publishing in 2006. 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__label__wiki	0.569086	0.569086	Typographic 70 has been designed by Mirian Brüggen (who was awarded a Commendation in the 2017 ISTD Student Assessments) and edited by a new panel including Jim Northover, Tony Pritchard, Caroline Roberts and Catherine Dixon. It includes contributions by leading designers and educators from the society and beyond. Henrietta Ross interviews Lucienne Roberts about three exhibition schemes that integrate a strong typographic expression of the changing nature of age, its perception and technology. Valentina D’Efilippo presents a visual deconstruction of David Bowie’s Space Oddity and affords insights into the process behind the data visualisation project Oddityviz. Ruth Sykes considers the impact women designers have had on UK typographic design over the last twenty years. Paul McNeil has written about relationships between long-standing creative traditions and contemporary practices in generative design, adopting an appropriately integrated approach to the form and content of the article. Alain Dujardin and Freda Sack respectively reflect on the continuing influence of De Stijl in its centenary year. The journal concludes with a celebration of the recently awarded Honorary Fellows who, through their outstanding contributions to the discipline of typographic design, bridge the heritage of 20th century design to provide a legacy for the new members of the Society who joined in July 2017.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line912
__label__wiki	0.613668	0.613668	Home / Opinion / Opinion Articles / COVID-19: The Decline of Global Remittances Puts Rural Families at Risk COVID-19: The Decline of Global Remittances Puts Rural Families at Risk Charles Igbinidu June 9, 2020 Opinion Articles Leave a comment By Pedro de Vasconcelos The economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic could push rural families even deeper into poverty and threaten global prosperity and stability The economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has led to the loss of millions of jobs in the developed and developing world. Migrant workers are among the most directly affected. They work in economic sectors adversely impacted by the economic slowdown such as construction, the hospitality industry, tourism, food, agribusinesses, transport and domestic work. This loss of income has ripple effects across the world, putting millions of poor rural families at risk. The majority of migrant workers are from low and middle-income countries who need to support their families through the remittances they send home on a regular basis. It is estimated that the world’s 200 million migrant workers send money regularly to 800 million family members to help them access food, health and education. Therefore, one in nine people in the world are directly impacted by remittance flows. In 2019, remittances to low and middle-income countries totalled US$554 billion, with about half reaching families living in small towns and rural villages. However as a result of COVID-19, these flows are projected to make their sharpest decline in history, falling by 20 per cent in 2020 to US$445 billion, as indicated by a recent World Bank (https://bit.ly/3hbFV6P) forecast. Although in the past remittances have been relatively resilient to external shocks, COVID-19 is different. It impacts senders and recipients simultaneously. Families living in rural areas in developing countries have been severely affected by lockdowns and social distancing. Markets have closed and transport has been disrupted. Small-scale farmers have been unable to sell their produce or to buy inputs, such as seeds or fertilizer. Daily labourers, small businesses and informal workers, who are often women and young people, are among the worst affected. The UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is tracking the impact of declining remittances on the ‘receiving end’ in developing countries, where typical remittances of $200 to $300 per month on average account for 60 per cent of household income. While the reduction in remittances will not fall evenly across countries and communities, the impact is likely be substantial in rural areas where remittances count the most. Initial indications from countries that rely heavily on remittances are deeply concerning. Reports ranging from Senegal, Kenya, El Salvador and Nepal to the Philippines and Eastern Europe confirm not only the significant drop in remittances but also the return home of hundreds of thousands of jobless migrant workers to their strained households and communities in rural areas. The sudden reduction or outright halt in remittance flows could also impact food production in the coming months with the planting season starting in different regions. In Mali, for example, many families in rural areas often cannot buy seeds and inputs for the next agricultural season without regular remittances. Remittance families and food security: Opportunities for effective action The economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic could push rural families even deeper into poverty and threaten global prosperity and stability. We need to act now to minimize the impact of the drop in remittances on the food security of rural families. If we take immediate action, we can provide rural people with the means to ensure a faster recovery. Several “win-win” opportunities present themselves: Fast-track innovative business solutions that support remittance families in times of crisis, by promoting fee reductions and by developing products to enable migrant workers to transfer non-financial products through remittance service providers, such as food or medicine, directly to their families. Identify and support income-generating opportunities for the “human capital” of returning workers. Migrants bring home experience, education and new skills. Migrants are risk takers, resilient and entrepreneurial. This crisis calls for creative ways to use their talents as part of the response back home. Encourage financial inclusion among remittance families by promoting the creation and adoption of emergency savings products. Promote the use of digital channels for sending and receiving remittances, and disseminate information about available remittance products and ways to obtain them. By expanding rural access to digital technology, remittances could support rural transformation, bringing new jobs and opportunities back home. Receiving remittances digitally could give rural dwellers access to savings, credit or insurance products can build much needed resilience at family level and benefit the communities around them. To address a number of the challenges facing rural communities, IFAD is currently leading the UN-sponsored Remittances Community Task Force, a group of 35 stakeholders of different sectors, which will soon issue a series of comprehensive and integrated recommendations: A Blueprint for Action. Taking the specific concrete actions outlined in the blueprint will improve legal and regulatory frameworks, facilitate private sector solutions and incorporate the active involvement of NGOs, particularly diaspora groups. This will empower remittance families, even during this unprecedented crisis, to maximize the potential development impact of remittances for themselves and the communities where they live, so that future generations might view migration as a choice rather than as a necessity. Pedro de Vasconcelos is the head of the Financing Facility for Remittances at the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). Tags COVID-19 Remittances The economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic Previous General Overseer arraigned for allegedly raping a 19-year Church Member Next Obaseki reacts as UI confirms certificate To those who say Trump will go to jail Spread the loveBy Femi Fani-Kayode You keep screaming “Trump will go to jail! 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__label__cc	0.607637	0.392363	11 Sun / AHAU – A Manifestation of Love: Day 11 of 13 11 Sun / AHAU Tone 11 brings Resolution to our journey with the Dog. We claimed a Truth of our Divinity. We saw all the Time we spent reaching for Power… that Takes Time for Human to conceive. On Tone 11, two 1’s standing together perfectly Balance the Consciousness of Two Whole-1-Things. 1 of Greater Value makes both things look equal. Numbers hold greater values when they’re seen as symbols for discernment. Numbers and Counts are Universal concepts we hold as Truth. 2 are always better than 1 and 2 are better when they are 1, a Divine Something more than the sum of the 2 1’s standing alone. In duplicated numbers there is a patter that;s wholly different from other cycles of measure of calculation. The symbol 11 also looks like the antennae of a butterfly, receptors and sensors for discernment by Feeling. From Mother Earth we learned from physical illustrations of living things, inherent things that aren’t so visible in Human Beings. Human was clearly intended to be the Highest Living Creation. Tone 11 tunes us in to see our “right place of fitting in” in the Universe. Sun/AHAU is the Omega and Supreme Lord of The Creation. Everything was imagined down to the finest details. Within Earth would be the designs and inspiration for art and creation. All life is an Art of Living. Human Divinity is apparent in all the ways we are touched by Beauty, and our very vast perceptions of what Beauty can be. Sun/AHAU always brings a Personal Revelation of Self, something between our Self and the Creator that we will Know is Given to us in the Sun/AHAU’s Light of Inspiration. MASTER NUMBERS: Numerologists place special emphasis on the Master Numbers, 11, 22, and 33. They are defined as having intriguing and powerful influences. Each has a “pressure cooker effect on the senses that raises deep-seated recognition of something special You are “meant to do.” The sequence between each master number is 11. (22-11=11; 33-22=11) All the things we love to know, we have the curiosity to look up. Sun’s Master Number 11 reveals this as a Time and Place we were meant to be. The Dreams we are conceiving are meant to be Here and Now. Dog taught us the way. The next step will be to imagine how this new way will lead to the manifestation of our Highest Dreams. The Sun is the Earth’s Brightest Star, believed by the Maya to be a Way Station for the Light of the Universe. Human has a physical relationship with the Sun. Beyond Circadian rhythms that Time Human to its Light, there is a Network of Light within us, like the Stars of the Universe. Bio-luminescence is on the leading edge of medical discoveries. A Light network within is apart from any other human processing system and operates in dynamic ways. One “cell” of Light doesn’t pass through other cells to send its message, but connects instantly from one to the other as an all-in-one thing. Our mind is changed by photons of Light and Solar Winds, passing through us as an excitation of physical matter. Our physical senses feel warmth. Something ethereal within Feels Light. Human feels light in more subtle ways. Human sleeps best in total darkness and creates best it full light. We Know the diminished results when we attempt to go our primal Divine Instincts. WE ARE Divine Beings, if not always HOLY Beings. Our own era of Humanity has divined the Power over Mother Earth to turn her into ashes from which a new creation could arise. We have learned and seen what Power can do when it it’s NOT applied to a Holy Purpose. The Dog led us to the Wisdom of the Power of Love to Divinely Complete all things Divine. All things Divinely Deserve To Be. Darkness and Light are Divine in the Time and Place where they meet at the middle. Close together, a contrast of Darkness defines where Light Can Exist. Divine Things are always TRUE, as something the Whole inherently agrees upon. The Maya defined Chocolate as a Divine Thing. Both Chocolate and Sugar are offerings to Fire in the Mayan Ceremonies. All the Elements are Divine. All the Senses are Divine. Sun/AHAU, the all-in-one turns us to the most Divine thing about Human, our Consciousness of Human capabilities, and thoughts that can be intentionally guided in a direction toward something that isn’t Inherently part of our Self… like Flight, then beyond birds into the Universe. We see Genius of creations left from long before that our era of Humanity seems far from figuring out. Their voices are long gone and forgotten. We are the 3rd Creation of the Mayan cosmology. We’ve found from more than one era of Advanced Genius, that we’ve all pointed to the same Stars that marked Times and Places, and cycles of Time that reflected their own Symbols of Meaning and Purpose. This is our attempt at Human survival for a Time and Place for Divine Consciousness. Our Body and Soul is where Divine Consciousness could Be. The Maya knew Time better than anyone because Time was the “object of their affection.” The Maya were a community of Oneness whose Lives Depended on the Corn. Living in Beauty deep in the Wilderness of forests of trees, and beautiful creatures of color and Sound that reverberated through the stillness were the everyday paths they followed. They learned everything from Mother Earth and Each Other as All there was but Beauty to draw from. They must have discovered the ordered thoughts through one another, passing each other along the paths to their fields, doing the same things, at the same times every day. They did the same things by hour, by season and year. They learned from Earth that it made a difference to do things at the right Time, like planting the corn. They became Genius at Time because they were fascinated by synchronicity they saw among themselves and all living things. The Maya crossed a threshold of Wisdom in the Discovery of a Divinity of Time that was a Choice to choose other Times and Places for our Self. They found when they did, there were different results. They Saw the Divine Ways of Instinct and Design, always ended with the Highest Result. Wisdom was exponentially transformed when the Maya defined Time as Divine, that ALL Time had a Divine Purpose. Through a Human Assessment to See and Acknowledge anything as Divine marks an “X” on the spot that manifests Divinity. What is Sacred is only Sacred to us When WE Say it is So. The elements that lay on our altar aren’t Sacred unless we’ve said they are So. They won’t be Sacred until given a Divine Reason to Be. We know why we put pictures on our altar. Each element is intended to be a picture that means something we can see. Today we can See that we are the Elements of a Divine Altar Above. From Up Above we are Inherently Seen as a Divine Creation for all our Divine Ways and Possibilities. We’re Divine because we were given a Spark of Divinity that always reaches back to its One Source of Light. All the Light of the Universe is Agreed Upon by ALL Living Things. Light is a Source of Creation for all things. A Sense of Light was the One Power the Maya agreed that all the other senses depended upon to Create a Divine Meaning and Purpose of Life. All Consciousness-es that are in Love with each other have a telepathic communion of symbols, only known by the two. A Look can tell a story across a room between two who Love. We are led by a Supreme Creator who saw us as the Only Child. We are One given a private channel for Wisdom that was saved for our Time and Place. The Higher we climb to Consciousness of our Divinity, the more we need Signs and Symbols so their meaning can come alive in a different way for Each Human to Express from their own Perspective. (One of the frustrations of the Ancient Mystery texts is the sketchy information – Truth without any example of its application. You could know all the words front to back, and the question would still be – Great to Know, but how do I use it?) “How to use it,” is each Human’s own Creation. The Elders always said, “The Answer is in the Question.” That means all kinds of things. Sun/AHAU is marked as a Day to Honor the Old Ones, the Ascended Masters of Spirit and the Sun that is the Hero of all. In the South, the place of relationship, we are offered a Revelation about our own Relationship with the Creator… our Right Relationship of the Shared Divinity that makes us more than Divine – Holy, Holy, Holy. We were meant to claim our Divinity to manifest the Consciousness to Believe that God has claimed us Holy. The Elders always advised us after any completion of Sacred Ceremony, “Hold your power.” It meant to Hold your own Divine Inspiration unto your Self to Complete the Discernment. Human will still think it has the instant picture, but how we need time to Consider Answers of a Divine Consciousness. We are building a Holy Relationships, wholly apart from relationships we have in the world. It’s important to save something meant for us alone, because of our Time and Place in the Universe. Human has a hard time keeping secrets, but secrets shared by a Divine Creation we Know are only the beginning of more to come that are worth reserving to share in Communion with the Only Consciousness that Wholly and Holy Knows and Understands. May we know that a Divine Consciousness always Remembers. The Divine thoughts shared when we are tuned in are thoughts we WILL Remember and turn to. We’ll come to believe with each creation there is a Divine Answer give to all of our personal questions. We could claim that forgetting our dreams as soon as we wake up, could have been just a temporary phenomenon. Did we ever ASK to remember? To all my relations, may we turn our Eyes to the Sun. in the Light to Receive a Divine Revelation unto our Self. Our Human Time and Place is creating things that express the Beauty we Love. Whether it is a Beauty of function and form, the Beauty of an Experience, or the Beauty of a picture of Mother Earth, the Highest Beauty the Creator see in Human is the Beauty of Human Creating. A Divine Consciousness that holds the Monkey’s perspective is very curious to see how the Light will be drawn from the darkness. Darkness was the Light of the Dog’s experience, discovering that within the darkness there was a Place for Divine Light To Be. Anything stored up in a circle holds its own Possibility to Be. May we Honor the Circle of Light that is stored up in us. May we be Grateful to the Extremes our Creations could be transformed into very Divine Things, by knowing where we Stand in the Universe. We were Divined by the Creator to be Above all things and Brighter than all the Lights we see. May we Grateful that we are Saved as Sacred and Holy by the Highest Power of Love. Debra, Jaguar Woman/9 Eagle/MEN DOG/OC TRECENA DEDICATED TO DON ALEJANDRO UPDATE: Joseph, who organizes support for Tata and his long-time friend says that Tata is grateful for our support and our prayers. He said Tata has been feeling better these past few weeks. Joseph was also grateful to receive prayers in Spanish, that Tata’s grandson can read to him when he brings them to Guatemala soon. May we Claim the Divinity of the Purpose of the journey led by a (13) Mayan High Priest. May we see how 13 Times is a number of experience that crosses a threshold to Believing. May we claim that Tata Divinely carries on the purpose, even behind the scenes. May we Know he was led by a Divine Consciousness that remembered we could still know and believe in the Love in our Self. May we See and Acknowledge the Life Work of Sustaining the Life of the Consciousness that Knows our Reason to Be, so not only the Words, but the Consciousness that held them would be Present in every Time and Place with us, Alive with Us. May we Pay Back and Pay Forward our JAGUAR Gratitude and Appreciation for Wandering Wolf. May we remember Tata when we burn our candles and say our prayers. To make a donation toward Wandering Wolf’s medical care, visit the post of Tata’s latest update. THE TRECENA OF DOG/OC Visit the 13-Day Trecena Guide for daily aspects and events of the DOG/OC trecena. 11 Sun/Ahau (Cherokee, Flower/Gun’tsi) Galactic Tone 11: Resolution; 11 assists every new thing to find it’s place in the universe in the process of ‘fitting in.’ some modifications must occur. Eleven is the energy of dynamic actions facilitating change, simplification and improvement. Sun/Ahau: Day of the ancestors and connection to their guidance. The divine face of the sun – lord, musician, singer, dancer, and marksman. Suns are artistic, heroic athletes, visionaries with wise judgement who lead and defend the people. So much is expected from themselves and by other people that unfulfilled expectations are a certainty. An accumulation of these disappointments may lead Sun to evade responsibilities, not accept corrections and even build resentment and disdain towards others. Suns should simplify their lives to be able to rise and shine with unconditional love once again. Cherokee, Flower/GUN’TSI EK: Symbol is the Sun, place of abode of Great Spirit. The Sun creates, nurtures and is the super communicator, the way station that relays messages and energy from other stars in the galaxy; provides energy for channeling information from the Ancestors; speaking the Living Language of Light, which ignites the consciousness in others. Gold is the color of courage and opportunity of wealth. Creative arts, master craftsman expressing divinity and wisdom through their creations. The face of the flower follows the Sun gathering the fire of creativity, illuminating harmony and balance, resonating peace and continuity within the human spirit. This is the Sign of the Chalice of the Infinite, Caldron of Creation. UPDATE ON A LIFE DREAM: The details are outlined on my PRE-PUBLICATION ANNOUNCEMENT. 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About Jim Moran A Tradition of Philanthropy Jim Moran Autobiography 20th Anniversary Timeline Guidelines & Application Grants By Year The Jim Moran Foundation Award Jim Moran Scholars Archives Gallery Home › News › Press Releases › 2019 › May 14 12/22/2020 The Jim Moran Foundations Awards $500,000 Grant to Ability Housing 12/1/2020 The Jim Moran Foundation Awards Local Theatre $30K 6/1/2020 House of Hope Receives $30,000 Grant from The Jim Moran Foundation 3/30/2020 The Arc Jacksonville receives $100,000 emergency response grant from The Jim Moran Foundation 3/27/2020 The Jim Moran Foundation and United Way of Broward County grant COVID-19 Emergency Funds to FLITE Center to help those affected by the pandemic 11/1/2019 Jim Moran School of Entrepreneurship Becomes Florida State University’s Newest College 10/29/2019 Hope Haven Advocacy Program helps special needs children with grant from The Jim Moran Foundation 8/2/2019 Hunger Fight Receives a Two-Year Grant Totaling $244,816 from The Jim Moran Foundation 7/22/2019 Junior Achievement of North Florida receives $120,800 grant from The Jim Moran Foundation 5/14/2019 Sandoway Discovery Center Receives $90,000 Education and Animal Care Grant From The Jim Moran Foundation 5/8/2019 LaunchCode Brings its Free Coding & Job Placement Opportunity to Broward 12/27/2018 Bringing Books to Children Program Celebrates 10th Anniversary; Fantasy Theatre Factory and The Jim Moran Foundation Partner to Promote Literacy in Broward Schools 10/25/2018 South Florida Institute On Aging Announces Major Grant from The Jim Moran Foundation to Support Caregiving and Respite Programs 7/11/2018 Big Brothers Big Sisters School to Work Student Receives Scholarship 1/26/2018 Jacksonville Humane Society Brings Back Reading to Pets Program with Support of The Jim Moran Foundation 1/19/2018 Grant Offers Students a Passport to Education 11/7/2017 The Children’s Healing Institute Receives $35,000 Grant from The Jim Moran Foundation for Parent Aide Program 5/31/2017 Excitement builds as $100 million Moran gift comes to life at FSU 2/17/2017 Mary Riedel honored with The Jim Moran Foundation Award 1/17/2017 Early Childhood Literacy Program to Serve Broward Title I Schools 1/13/2017 The Jim Moran Foundation Invests in Resolving the Wait Times for Children Needing Mentors 12/2/2016 The Jim Moran Foundation Continues its Partnership with Communities In Schools 9/12/2016 St. Vincent’s Creates New Housing Outreach Program for Senior Citizens 8/25/2016 The Jim Moran Foundation awards Goodwill’s innovative A-STEP program a grant creating a pathway to education and job opportunities for area’s underserved 8/9/2016 The Jim Moran Foundation Provides Grant for JFS’ Meals on Wheels Program 2/22/2016 Broward Meals On Wheels Awarded Grant From The Jim Moran Foundation 12/18/2015 Florida State University Receives $100M to Create The Jim Moran School of Entrepreneurship - Largest Gift in FSU History; One of the Largest Private Gifts to a FL Public University 11/9/2015 Dan and Jacquie Shorter Honored with The Jim Moran Foundation Award 10/30/2015 The Jim Moran Foundation Helps Families Raising Loved One's Children 9/10/2015 4KIDS Receives Grant from The Jim Moran Foundation 7/15/2015 Paxon Grad Honored as North Florida Youth Achiever and Awarded FSU Scholarship by The Jim Moran Foundation 3/12/2015 Fantasy Theatre Factory Awarded Grant by The Jim Moran Foundation 1/13/2015 Covenant House Florida Receives $220,000 Grant from The Jim Moran Foundation 10/30/2014 UF Receives $1 Million to Boost Skills of Florida's Early Learning Educators 10/28/2014 Frances Esposito Honored with The Jim Moran Foundation Award 10/27/2014 Faulk Center For Counseling Receives Grant from The Jim Moran Foundation for Schools Preventive Counseling Program 9/22/2014 Learning For Success Receives $25,000 Grant From The Jim Moran Foundation 9/2/2014 Two Nonprofits Supporting Seniors and Caregivers Each Receive $96,000; Grants Celebrate Jim Moran's Birthday 5/14/2014 2014 Robert E. Lee Grad Named North Florida Youth Achiever by The Jim Moran Foundation and Awarded FSU Scholarship 4/14/2014 Junior Achievement of North Florida Receives $47,500 Grant from The Jim Moran Foundation 2/11/2014 Hispanic Unity Receives $1.6 Million for Center for Working Families Program 11/12/2013 Julie Price Honored with The Jim Moran Foundation Award 10/1/2013 The Jim Moran Foundation Awards Grant For Schools Preventive Counseling Program 8/28/2013 211's Sunshine Daily Phone Call for Elders Program Will Shine Brighter Thanks to The Jim Moran Foundation 8/26/2013 Two Nonprofits Serving the Hungry Each Receive $95,000; Grants Celebrate Jim Moran's Birthday 8/2/2013 Farmworker Coordinating Council receives grant from The Jim Moran Foundation to help increase the education levels of farm workers' children 7/16/2013 2013 Stanton Grad Named North Florida Youth Achiever by The Jim Moran Foundation and Awarded FSU Scholarship 4/15/2013 Library Unveils New Lifeline for Teens Who Need Homework Help 1/28/2013 The Jim Moran Foundation Awards $55,786 Grant to Enhance the 2-1-1 Broward Senior Touchline Program 12/4/2012 Boys Girls & Clubs Of Broward County Are Now Open On Saturday 11/15/2012 Farmworker Children's Council Founder Donna Marie Goray Honored with The Jim Moran Foundation Award 11/7/2012 The Jim Moran Foundation Funds New Job Training Initiative at Boca Helping Hands 10/17/2012 Learning for Success Receives $12,000 Grant from The Jim Moran Foundation 9/26/2012 The Jim Moran Foundation Donates Half a Million Dollars 9/25/2012 LifeNet4Families Awarded $70,000 Grant and $50,000 Fundraising Challenge from The Jim Moran Foundation 8/15/2012 Big Brothers Big Sisters Receives $188,000; Two Grants Honor Jim Moran's Birthday 7/26/2012 Oasis Awarded $80,000 Grant from The Jim Moran Foundation 7/17/2012 The Jim Moran Foundation Names Stanton High School Grad as North Florida Youth Achiever; Awards FSU Scholarship 7/16/2012 HANDYs LIFE Extended TIL Program Receives $85,000 Grant From The Jim Moran Foundation 4/23/2012 FAU Receives $102,500 Grant from The Jim Moran Foundation for Education Program 3/14/2012 Homework Center @ Your City Library! 12/12/2011 Henderson Behavioral Health Receives Grant from The Jim Moran Foundation for Youth "Aging Out" of Foster Care 11/29/2011 The Jim Moran Foundation Awards $250,000 Multi-Year Grant to Broward Partnership for the Homeless 10/31/2011 Family Advocate Nanci Thomas Honored with The Jim Moran Foundation Award 10/3/2011 The Jim Moran Foundation Awards Multi-Year Grant 8/15/2011 Children's Home Society of Florida Receives $186,000 6/28/2011 The Jim Moran Foundation Announces North Florida Youth Achiever; Awards Four-Year FSU Scholarship 4/5/2011 The Jim Moran Institute for Global Entrepreneurship at The Florida State University receives $4.25 million to embark on The Entrepreneurial University 2/11/2011 Feeding South Florida Receives $200,000 Grant From The Jim Moran Foundation at 3rd Annual Community Breakfast 11/15/2010 BSO School Resource Deputy Victor Thompson Receives The Jim Moran Foundation Award and $25,000 Grant to Charity 11/9/2010 The Jim Moran Foundation Uplifts ARC Broward Senior Day Program 10/14/2010 Jim Moran Foundation Supports Seniors with Multi-Year Grant 9/15/2010 The Jim Moran Foundation Awards $92,000 to Communities In Schools of Jacksonville 8/24/2010 The Jim Moran Foundation Awards $92,000 Grant to The Starting Place 7/20/2010 The Sanctuary on 8th Street Receives Three-Year Grant from The Jim Moran Foundation 7/19/2010 Women In Distress of Broward County, Inc. Receives $300,000 Multi-Year Grant from The Jim Moran Foundation 6/17/2010 The Jim Moran Foundation Awards North Florida African-American Youth Achiever with Four-Year FSU Scholarship 5/19/2010 The Jim Moran Foundation Awards $130,000 Grant To The Achievement Centers 10/14/2009 The Jim Moran Foundation Awards Feeding South Florida $50,000 Grant Following Warehouse Fire 8/19/2009 The Jim Moran Foundation Awards Two $91,000 Grants to North and South Florida Nonprofits 7/6/2009 The Jim Moran Foundation Announces Recipient of North Florida African-American Youth Achiever Award 5/12/2009 The Jim Moran Foundation Supports Local Food Banks Through United Way of Broward County's Project Lifeline 11/11/2008 Advocate for Family Safety Shandra Dawkins Honored With The Jim Moran Foundation Award 10/23/2008 The Jim Moran Foundation Awards $80,000 to Florida Non-Profits 7/3/2008 The Jim Moran Foundation Awards Grant to Broward Homebound 6/5/2008 Daily Bread Food Bank to Receive up to $100,000 Donation from The Jim Moran Foundation and Community Match Challenge Grant Funds Will Establish New Food Program Benefiting 173 Broward Nonprofits 6/4/2008 The Jim Moran Foundation Awards College Scholarship 2008 North Florida African-American Youth Achiever Award Presented 12/7/2007 Michaelle (Mickey) Valbrun-Pope Honored With The Jim Moran Foundation Award 7/30/2007 The Jim Moran Foundation Awards College Scholarship 2007 North Florida African-American Youth Achiever Award Presented 4/24/2007 Automotive Pioneer Jim Moran Dies at 88 11/16/2006 David and Kay Hughes Receive The Jim Moran Foundation Award 3/30/2006 Broward County Foster Grandparents Continue to Impact Children with Donation from The Jim Moran Foundation to Senior Volunteer Services 12/1/2005 The Jim Moran Foundation Award Presented to Bob and Myra Weaver 10/6/2005 Youth in Need Have New Lease on Life With Donation From The Jim Moran Foundation to HANDY 6/30/2005 Delray Beach Public Library To Open New Teen Cyber Center With Grant From The Jim Moran Foundation 6/21/2005 Women In Distress and The Jim Moran Foundation Partner to Help Teens in Violent Relationships 10/26/2004 Community Foundation of Broward and The Jim Moran Foundation Tackle National Foster Care Issue on Local Scale Through Novel Pilot Program 10/22/2004 The Jim Moran Foundation Award Presented to Childcare Pioneer Irma Hunter Wesley 10/14/2004 Irma Hunter Wesley to Receive The Jim Moran Foundation Jim Moran Honors Child Advocate for Community Service 2/3/2004 The Jim Moran Foundation Awards 2003 Year-End Grants Print Press Release Sandoway Discovery Center Receives $90,000 Education and Animal Care Grant From The Jim Moran Foundation Delray Beach, Fla. – Sandoway Discovery Center is pleased to announce it has received a two-year grant totaling $90,000 from The Jim Moran Foundation. The funds will be used to support Sandoway’s Education and Animal Care Program which allows students and visitors to learn environmental education through hands-on activities and live-animal encounters. The Jim Moran Foundation grant will also allow for the purchase of a new environmental education book to be sent home with every student participating in Sandoway’s Junior Naturalist Program from a Title I school. According to Executive Director, Danica Sanborn, “This is a tremendous opportunity to enhance and strengthen the student experience at Sandoway and we are most grateful for the support of The Jim Moran Foundation and the confidence they have placed in our education programs.” Sandoway’s mission is to educate students and its local community about the importance of preserving the area’s fragile coastal ecosystem, and to encourage children to become champions of Florida’s beaches and animals. Its goal is to connect children to nature so that they can become future stewards of the environment. Sandoway received over 26,000 visitors last year, with over 6,000 students participating in one of their award-winning educational programs. About Sandoway Discovery Center Sandoway Discovery Center offers a glimpse into South Florida’s fragile marine and freshwater environments through educational exhibits and programs. The nature center opened its doors in 1998 and quickly captivated the interest of students, teachers, naturalists, community leaders, visitors and residents of Delray Beach and surrounding communities. The unique facility is an exciting hands-on learning experience, which focuses on Florida’s fragile ecosystems and their inhabitants. The nature center’s activities include shark, stingray and alligator feedings, Junior Naturalist program for at-risk youth, group education programs, outreach, beach and dune walks, live animal exhibits, fossil digs and more. 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__label__cc	0.554434	0.445566	Film review – Bottoms Up (2006). Posted by kimnewman ⋅ April 9, 2020 ⋅ 2 Comments My notes on Bottoms Up (2006). ‘Hollywood is a ten-story cock just fucking everybody in its path. Like Madonna.’ If this cost a lot more money, I’d assume it was some sort of Springtime for Hitler-esque scam – surely, even at pitch stage, the notion of a Hollywood insider rom-com co-starring Jason Mewes and Paris Hilton sounds like a recipe for scaring off audiences? The set-up is that Owen (Mewes) is a Minnesota bartender with Cocktail-type bottle-juggling skills (demonstrated by someone else’s arms in close-up) who needs to raise money to save his Dad’s steak house. Owen goes to Hollywood, and stays with ‘Gay Uncle Earl’ (David Keith) while entering a cash prize bartending competition that turns out to be rigged in favour of a local asshole. After a couple of run-ins with Lisa Mancini (Hilton), the spoiled brat daughter of a studio head (Tim Thomerson) who is having a publicity-inspired romance with star hunk Hayden Field (Brian Hallisay), Owen blackmails her into sponsoring him as an in-crowder so he can get dirt on Field and hangers-on which Earl can use in his career as a muckraker on a Hollywood scandal TV show. Outwardly obnoxious wild child Lisa (who varies from other Hilton roles in that she’s brunette) secretly runs a homeless shelter and Hayden is a potentially down-to-earth nice guy bewildered by sudden fame, which gives Owen a crisis of confidence about scandal-mongering. Despite the fact that both stars are in that select circle of perfomers who can’t even play themselves on screen, the leads get into an unbelievable, and borderline creepy romance. The mcguffin is a gay porn jerkoff tape Hayden made as a beginner, and there’s a tiny subplot about a young hopeful (Lindsay Gareth) who gets drugged and raped by one of Hayden’s entourage (Jon Abrahams) – she gets revenge, but this nastiness is so out of place in an otherwise silly, sloppy comedy that it’s a surprise writer-director Eric MacArthur didn’t drop it entirely. Keith wins points for strenuous mugging in a grossly dumb caricature role, but isn’t remotely funny. Thomerson needn’t even have shown up. Phil Morris is prissily annoying as Earl’s mean boss, who gets incidental comeuppance and winds up doing weather reports from an ice-floe. Kevin Smith supports his pal by popping in to deliver a scarcely cutting-edge couch monologue about anal-probing aliens being ‘the biggest gaybos in the universe’. Mewes has sometimes got laughs in supporting roles in Smith’s films (though even Smith can’t get him to work as a screen lead) and Hilton was at least a good sport about House of Wax – a film promoted with ‘see Paris die’ and built around the crowd-pleasing spectacle of her head being caved in – but they aren’t actors, and can handle neither the goofy slob comedy nor the moments of attempted sensitivity. The title was better served by that old British comedy which used to be on TV all the time but has fallen out of favour since it’s all about schoolmaster Jimmy Edwards’s urge to whack little boys’ bums with a stick. Compared to this, that was comedy gold. « Film review – À l’intérieur (Inside) Film review – Bottoms Up (1960) » 2 thoughts on “Film review – Bottoms Up (2006).” Walt O’Hara poor fella, forced to sit through this. Your eyes must be smarting… Anne Billson Do you remember Jimmy Edwards’ TV series, which went by the charming title of Whack-O? Just think of the loss to culture occasioned by the banning of corporal punishment. Kim Newman Even in the ’70s, when my school still had corporal punishment, there was clearly something wrong with Jimmy Edwards’ cane-happy comedy persona. I wonder if the climax of Bottoms Up, when the schoolboys take up arms against Edwards, was an influence on the Lindsay Anderson of If …. ? Michael Brooke I once saw Lindsay Anderson emphatically denying that ‘Zero de Conduite’ was his primary influence. Admittedly, he didn’t then go on to say that ‘Bottoms Up’ was, but I think your argument is pretty damn persuasive. Talking of corporal punishment, I was expecting the worst when given a film on that subject starring Max Bygraves and Richard O’Sullivan to review the other month, but ‘Spare The Rod’ actually turned out to be pretty good (and serious). Valerie Laws Perhaps Secretary was an homage to ‘Professor’ Jimmy Ewards…and the cane happy teacher and slipper happy dads of the Beano. Michael Brooke I’ve often commented on the startling resemblance between James Spader and Jimmy Edwards. Sharing a common Christian name is just the tip of what I suspect is a very large iceberg. Valerie Laws indeed Michael, their surnames are almost anagrams, give or take the odd letter. Spader was often seen thumbing thru Edwards’ acclaimed autobiography, ‘Sex, lies and handlebar moustaches’. Posted by kimnewman \| April 9, 2020, 11:25 am Shamefully I now want to watch this 🙁 Posted by Bob Swallow \| April 9, 2020, 2:34 pm	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line931
__label__cc	0.550966	0.449034	Destinations United States National Parks El Tovar Hotel El Tovar Hotel Long considered the architectural crown jewel of Grand Canyon lodging, El Tovar Hotel is a historic landmark situated directly on the Grand Canyon’s south rim. Built in 1905 of Oregon pine and native Arizona stone, its European hunting lodge atmosphere melds Swiss chalet refinement and Norwegian villa charm to create an unforgettable stay in the American Southwest. The vision of restaurateur Fred Harvey, El Tovar Hotel was built as a destination resort with an emphasis on natural preservation and complementary architectural splendor. There is an earthy comfort within its beautifully appointed deep Oregon pine walls and a unique luxury found in its location merely 20-feet from the south rim of the Grand Canyon. The property consists of a pristine collection of 66 rooms and 12 suites, each unique in identity, charm, and décor. Recently updated, these clean and spacious quarters feature king or queen beds, sitting rooms, local artwork, and tile bathrooms, with many boasting their own porch or balcony. The exclusive El Tovar, Fred Harvey, and Mary Jane Colter Suites are the most coveted accommodations with their expansive panoramic views over the Grand Canyon below. While only a select few rooms boast such a view, the main lodge’s cocktail lounge guarantees spectacular views of the Grand Canyon from its back porch veranda. Inside, the El Tovar Dining Room still reflects the original 1905 hunting lodge atmosphere, adopting customs of the Hopi, Apache, Mojave, and Navajo Native American tribes in both design and cuisine. International and local Southwest influences give rise to an array of gourmet favorites like prime rib hash at breakfast and salmon tostadas at dinner, paired with one of 100 varietals from American wine producers. An experience at the El Tovar Hotel restaurant brings with it the historic panache of Theodore Roosevelt, Albert Einstein, Bill Clinton, Sir Paul McCartney, and countless others who have chosen to dine here. The cornerstone of any El Tovar stay is Grand Canyon National Park, home of one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World—the Grand Canyon. The hotel’s proximity to this UNESCO World Heritage Site promises an intimate Grand Canyon experience, whether hiking within its depths, cycling along its rim, or flying over its immense grandeur. After exploring the surrounding beauty, return back to El Tovar Hotel for quiet moments on the patio, sipping a bottle of regional wine as the Arizona sun sets below one of the world’s most spectacular natural wonders. Keurig coffee making facilities Guided Grand Canyon excursions Flightseeing tours Museums and galleries nearby	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line940
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__label__cc	0.514686	0.485314	Mikumi is accessible all year round. However, the best time to visit the park is amid the dry season which is from June to February. How To Go There You can visit Mikumi to Dar es Salaam through Morogoro by street and it's about a 4 hour drive. There are additionally street associations with Udzungwa, Ruaha and Selous. You can reach from Dar es Salaam, Arusha, and selous can likewise be masterminded. There are likewise nearby transports that kept running from Dar es Salaam to stop central station where the diversion drives can be orchestrated. Kilele Climb Tours info@kileleclimb.com TREK WITH KILELE CLIMB TOURS SAFARI GUIDES TREKKING GUIDES SAFARI VEHICLE Tanzania Destinations Arusha National Park Seleous Game Reserve More Tanznaia Destinations Massai Mara National Park More Kenya Destinations Uganda Destinations Murchison National Park More Uganda Destinations Lodge Safari Tented Camp Safari Camping Safari More Tanznaia Safari More Kenya Safari Birding Safari Chimpanzees Safari More Uganda Safari Mount Meru Mount Rwenzori × Home About Us Destination Safari Trekking Beach Blog Contact Us Mikumi National Park is the fourth biggest park in Tanzania covering a zone of 3,230 sqkilometers. African Destinations Rating : 4.7 Review : 4,580 Visitor's Per Year : 41,666 Area : 3,230 km² National Park Overview Mikumi is the Swahili word for the Borassus palm tree. Mikumi National Park is the fourth biggest park in Tanzania covering a zone of 3,230 sqkilometers. It lies on the western piece of Dar es Salaam and effectively got to from the city being on the fundamental street of Morogoro and Iringa. Mikumi National Park is situated between the Uluguru Mountains and the Lumango extend, Mikumi National Park has a wide assortment of wildlife that is anything but difficult to spot and very much acclimatized to game survey. Its vicinity to Dar es Salaam and the measure of wildlife that live inside its outskirts makes Mikumi National Park a prominent alternative for end of the week guests from the city or for business guests who don't have long to spend on an all-inclusive safari schedule. Mikumi National Park is dazzling in the early morning and late evenings when its all-encompassing perspectives are upgraded by the light and its wildlife is at its generally dynamic. Game drives around the Kisingura circuit, hippo pools and Vuma slopes are among the most fulfilling. The open skylines and plenteous wildlife of the Mkata Floodplain-the mainstream part of Mikumi National Park, attract visit correlations with the more celebrated Serengeti Plains. Befuddled by a decent circuit of game-review streets, the Mkata Floodplain is maybe the most solid spot in Tanzania for elands which are the world's biggest gazelle. More prominent kudu and sable pronghorn that live in the miombo secured foothills of the mountains that outskirt the parks. During the dry season is the best for game survey around the waterholes, for the herbivores as well as their predators – the lions and leopards. More than 400 birdd species have been recorded, with such vivid normal occupants as the Lilac-breasted roller, Yellow-throated Long hook and bateleur bird joined by a large group of European migratory species during the wet season. Talk With Our Expert +255 787914991 +255 787914991 National Park Activity Game Drive, Walking Safari, Aerial safari Mikumi is Tanzania's fourth-biggest national park It's likewise the most open from Dar es Salaam. With nearly ensured wildlife sightings, it makes a perfect safari destination for those absent much time. Mikumi is accessible all year round. However, the best time to visit the park is amid the dry season which is from June to February.Read More You can visit Mikumi to Dar es Salaam through Morogoro by street and it's about a 4 hour drive. Read More The broad Mkata floodplain is an ideal place to spot lions as they lazily survey the vast herds of buffalo, zebra, wildebeest, and impala that roam the grasslands. Elephants seek the shade of acacia stands while hippopotamus wallow in pools close to the entrance gate. Most Attractive point of Park The Mkata flood plains. Customize Your Perfect Trip Browse Trip Itinerary & information for inspiration Customise an Itinerary or plan your personal trip with a local expert Book Securely & travel with aid of the local expert Start tailormade trip The Camps In The Mikumi National Park We offer camping and accommodation inside the game reserve. We partner to provide the best accommodation for you amid your Tanzania visit. Mikumi Wildlife Camp Tan Swiss Lodge Tanzania Destinations Guide Health In Tanzania Tanzania Food Tanzania Travel Tips Tanzania Culture Why Travel Tanzania? About Tanzania The United Republic of Tanzania is a country in focal East Africa encompassed by Kenya and Uganda toward the north, Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo toward the west, and Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique toward the south. The country's eastern edges lie on the Indian Ocean. The official capital of Tanzania is Dodoma, where parliament and some organization working environments are found. Among independence and 1996 the significant shoreline front city of Dar es Salaam had been the country's political capital. Today Dar es Salaam remains the key business city of Tanzania and the genuine seat of most government associations. It is the genuine seaport for the country and its landlocked neighbors. Be aware with the units of tropical diseases in where you grew up to get fitting information about neutralizing activity. Tanzania has tropical atmosphere, as such it is basic to take no chances against Malaria. Malaria comes through mosquito snack; to avoid it, you should take with you mosquito repellent and, especially before day break and after nightfall, wear light articles of clothing. It is likewise basic to recall that it is basic to use creams to verify the skin against the negative effects of being revealed for a truly prolonged stretch of time to the sun, being the country just underneath the Equator. Travelers to Tanzania require anvalid Visa each time they enter the country. The giving of a Tanzanian Visa is, subsequently, only a kind of pre-area slack. It doesn't guarantee approval to enter Tanzania. The Immigration Officer keeps up all expert to surrender or deny confirmation. Visa holders are subject to common Immigration control at the port of entry. They should, thus, pass on with them, for possible prologue to Immigration officials, the files submitted with their applications. On an essential level, all visitors, beside those with no visa essential must gain a visa going before section to Tanzania. Visas can be gotten at any Diplomatic or Consulate Mission of the United Republic of Tanzania abroad, conventionally inside one business day. Visitors are urged to do thusly to avoid any possible trouble at the motivation behind section in Tanzania. It is possible, however, to obtain a guest's visa for a single section at any of the going with four rule passage focuses to Tanzania, subject as per the general inclination of all development and prosperity necessities: Dar es Salaam International Airport. Zanzibar International Airport. Kilimanjaro International Airport (KIA). Namanga Entry Point (Tanzania-Kenya outskirt point). Tanzania Weather & Climate Tanzania's climate is predominantly tropical. Ocean side zones are regularly hot and damp. The ordinary day temperature is 30 degrees Celsius. Tanzania has two stormy seasons: the long rains from late March to June, and the short rains from November to January. The most sizzling time is from December to March, before the long rains. The coolest months are from June to August. In high stature areas, for instance, Kilimanjaro and the Ngorongoro good countries, temperatures can fall underneath the purpose of solidification. Tanzania Foods & Culinary Tanzanian cooking is influenced by a couple of different societies, for instance, Indian, Bantu and Arabic. The use of intriguing flavors, coconuts and fresh vegetables will take your taste buds on its own one of a kind safari! A traditional Tanzania meal generally consists of: Ugali: Maize flour is mixed with water to convey a thick, almost polenta sort of dish. It is eaten without any other person or gave curry, sauce, fish, meat or spinach. Despite the way that it most likely won't be heavenly for visitors, it is undeniably worth an endeavor. ChipsiMayai: A to some degree interesting dish made of an omelet stacked up with chips, singed in a skillet. Notwithstanding the way that it might appear to be an odd mix, it is totally heavenly and very noticeable at shabby sustenance stands, that are found any place in the country. NyamaChoma: Goat, pork, chicken or burger meat made on the flame broil, gave Ugali and stacks of pili (a hot sauce including tomato base and bean stew) – a dish revered by nearby individuals! Bananas: Something so essential however yet an area top decision. There are more than 17 different sorts of bananas and a couple of different methods for serving them. Bananas are moreover the staple sustenance of the "Chagga" – an adjacent tribe in the Kilimanjaro locale and they accept a significant activity in the everyday eating routine. Pervasive dishes consolidate, Mtori (beat banana soup with meat), stewed bananas, NdiziNyama (bananas with meat stew) and fire cooked bananas. If you’re arranging a safari in Northern Tanzania, the best plane terminal to meet up at Tanzania is Kilimanjaro International Airport. The passageway for a northern circuit safari is Arusha, which was at one time a customary Maasai town. International flights arrive either through Dar, a two hour takeoff from Arusha, or Kilimanjaro which is only a thirty minutes head out. Your northern safari can start with a short takeoff from Arusha to any of the parks, or even a drive. When To Go Tanzania The best time to visit Tanzania is in the middle by and large June through October, when the country is at its driest. Unmistakably, different individuals need specific things from their time in this stunning East African country, which can make different seasons immaculate also. Some are searching for after impeccable wildlife finding in the unfathomably outstanding parks of the Northern Circuit, while others need uncommon air for a slackening up break at the shoreline. Climate is moreover an essential factor in being able to summit Mount Kilimanjaro or Mount Meru; while different guests ought to be in the ideal spot at the perfect time to watch the yearly Great Migration. 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__label__wiki	0.641829	0.641829	The run of this film has ended. Thank you for your support of Athens Cine. Directed by Rodd Rathjen Language: Khmer and Thai with English subtitles Winner of the Ecumenical Jury Prize at Berlinale Panorama and Australia's official submission to the 92nd Academy Awards®, this story of a Cambodian teenager sold into forced labor on a Thai fishing boat is a passionate testimony against social injustice and a moving coming-of-age tale about a boy whose humanity is put to the test. Spirited 14-year-old Chakra works the rice fields with his family. He yearns for independence and seeks out a local broker who can get him paid work in a Thai factory. Without telling his family, Chakra travels to Bangkok to make his fortune. But when he gets there, he and his new friend Kea realize the broker has lied to them. Along with other Cambodians and Burmese, they are sold to a fishing captain as slaves. Chakra and Kea are trapped at sea, trawling fish 22 hours a day, surviving on just a handful of cold rice a day. The captain quickly weeds out those weakened by the conditions or trying to escape, and throws them overboard. The trawler sells its catch and restocks its supplies without going to land, making escape impossible. As fellow slaves are tortured and murdered around them, Kea begins to lose his mind. When his only ally is killed, Chakra looks to Rom Ran to understand what it will take to be free. With hope and humanity dwindling, Chakra decides to take control of the trawler. "Critic's Pick! A vivid fiction... insistently political." - Manohla Dargis, The New York Times "A terse minimalist thriller... supremely satisfying." - Paul O'Callaghan, Sight & Sound “A harrowing edge-of-your-seat adventure tale with social punch.” - Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter “Taut and urgent.” - Jessica Kiang, Variety "Powerful. A gripping debut." - Paul Byrnes, Sydney Morning Herald Sarm Heng Thanawut Kasro Mony Ros	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line948
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__label__cc	0.712637	0.287363	Greater Activity in the Frontal Cortex on Left Curves: A Vector-Based fNIRS Study of Left and Right Curve Driving Noriyuki Oka, Affiliation Department of Brain Environmental Research, KatoBrain Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan Kayoko Yoshino, Kouji Yamamoto, Affiliation Department of Environment/Engineering, Tokyo Branch, Central Nippon Expressway Co., Ltd, Tokyo, Japan Hideki Takahashi, Affiliation Department of Environment/Engineering, Central Nippon Expressway Co., Ltd., Nagoya, Japan Shuguang Li, Affiliation Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan Toshiyuki Sugimachi, Kimihiko Nakano, Yoshihiro Suda, Toshinori Kato * E-mail: kato@katobrain.com Noriyuki Oka Kayoko Yoshino ... Toshinori Kato In the brain, the mechanisms of attention to the left and the right are known to be different. It is possible that brain activity when driving also differs with different horizontal road alignments (left or right curves), but little is known about this. We found driver brain activity to be different when driving on left and right curves, in an experiment using a large-scale driving simulator and functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS). The participants were fifteen healthy adults. We created a course simulating an expressway, comprising straight line driving and gentle left and right curves, and monitored the participants under driving conditions, in which they drove at a constant speed of 100 km/h, and under non-driving conditions, in which they simply watched the screen (visual task). Changes in hemoglobin concentrations were monitored at 48 channels including the prefrontal cortex, the premotor cortex, the primary motor cortex and the parietal cortex. From orthogonal vectors of changes in deoxyhemoglobin and changes in oxyhemoglobin, we calculated changes in cerebral oxygen exchange, reflecting neural activity, and statistically compared the resulting values from the right and left curve sections. Under driving conditions, there were no sites where cerebral oxygen exchange increased significantly more during right curves than during left curves (p > 0.05), but cerebral oxygen exchange increased significantly more during left curves (p < 0.05) in the right premotor cortex, the right frontal eye field and the bilateral prefrontal cortex. Under non-driving conditions, increases were significantly greater during left curves (p < 0.05) only in the right frontal eye field. Left curve driving was thus found to require more brain activity at multiple sites, suggesting that left curve driving may require more visual attention than right curve driving. The right frontal eye field was activated under both driving and non-driving conditions. Citation: Oka N, Yoshino K, Yamamoto K, Takahashi H, Li S, Sugimachi T, et al. (2015) Greater Activity in the Frontal Cortex on Left Curves: A Vector-Based fNIRS Study of Left and Right Curve Driving. PLoS ONE 10(5): e0127594. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0127594 Academic Editor: Lutz Jaencke, University Zurich, SWITZERLAND Received: September 25, 2014; Accepted: April 16, 2015; Published: May 19, 2015 Copyright: © 2015 Oka et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited Data Availability: All relevant data are within the paper. Funding: The experiment and research expenses were funded by NEXCO. The funders had role in study design, data collection, and decision to publish. The funders had no role in data analysis and preparation of the manuscript. Competing interests: The present study was a joint study by two companies and one university. Katobrain Co., Ltd. provided brain measurement analysis technology, Central Nippon Expressway Co., Ltd. (NEXCO) provided road environment information, and Tokyo University provided a driving-simulator system. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. Driving a vehicle is a complex activity in which more than 90% of information is obtained visually [1, 2]. It therefore requires not only motor control but also higher cognitive activity. In brain research on actual car driving, brain activity has been found to occur in multiple sites including the prefrontal cortex, motor related areas, and the parietal cortex [3]. In addition, enhanced brain activity in the prefrontal cortex and the motor related cortex have been reported in response to rapid changes in vehicle velocity [4]. However, differences in brain activity arising from road alignment have not been reported. Differences in road alignment include differences between left and right curves. It has been reported that during cornering, a driver’s line of sight is likely to be directed to the inside of the curve [5, 6]. That is, the driver’s attention during a left curve is significantly directed to the left space, and attention during a right curve is significantly directed to the right space. The mechanisms of attention to the right and left are reported to differ hemispherically. Kinsbourne (1977) [7] found that the left and right cerebral hemispheres function in directing the attention to the opposite space, but left hemisphere attention to the right space is stronger than right hemisphere attention to the left space. Heilman et al. (1980) [8] and Kashiwagi et al. (1990) [9] suggest that the left hemisphere directs attention to the right space, but right hemisphere directs the attention to both spaces. The above studies suggest the hypothesis that left and right curves may give rise to differences in driver brain activity. Driver brain activity has conventionally been studied using functional brain imaging and a driving simulator. With positron emission tomography (PET) or functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), subjects are in a supine position, obviously unlike the posture of actual driving [10–15]. The simulator in these studies is also operated differently from operation of an actual vehicle; for example, by a push button [11] or a joystick [12, 13]. Studies using electroencephalography (EEG) and functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) have been performed with subjects in a situation and posture resembling that of actual driving. In an EEG study, less activity in the right lateral prefrontal cortex was reported when driving faster than the speed limit [16]. In fNIRS research, measurement has been confined to the frontal lobe, and increases in oxyhemoglobin have been reported to be greater during driving than while stopped [17]. Increased oxyhemoglobin in the frontal lobe while driving under the direction of another person has also been shown to be greater than when driving from memory [18], but no brain studies have focused on road alignments and directly compared driving on left and right curves with the participants in the actual driving position. Whether differences in brain activity arising from road alignment are caused by differences in visual processing, driving operation, or other factors is also unknown. Experiments using driving simulation may be a valid way of separating out the factors of visual processing and driving operation from other factors that may cause brain activity while driving, because the road environment and visual information can be controlled. Accordingly, we decided to test the hypothesis that driver brain activity would be different when driving on left and right curves using fNIRS and a large-scale 3-screen driving simulator to best replicate the actual driving environment. We report here our findings that the sites of brain activity differed when the participants drove on left and right curves. Fifteen healthy adults (31.4 years old, standard deviation [SD] 4.4; 8 males and 7 females) participated in this study. Using the Edinburgh Handedness Inventory, we confirmed that 12 participants were right-handed and 3 were left-handed. Edinburgh Handedness Inventory scores were +98.3 (SD 4.0) for the right-handed group and -64.9 (SD 25.9) for the left-handed group. The 3 left-handed participants were all male. None of the participants had any history of neurological disease. They all had driving licenses, but their driving experience and accident histories were random. The experimental procedure is in accordance with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki, and was reviewed and approved by the ethics committee at KatoBrain Co., Ltd. All participants received full explanation of the procedures and provided written informed consent for participation in the study. Experimental driving conditions An experimental expressway course was created for the simulator using the program software Multigen Creator (Presagis Canada Inc., Canada; Fig 1a and 1b). Driving on curves on an expressway involves a smaller range of driving operations than on smaller local roads, and there are fewer changes in speed and visual stimuli on an expressway. We therefore believed that differences in brain activity related to left and right curve driving could be more easily and directly detected in expressway driving. Fig 1. Experimental course. (a) Starting point. (b) Overview of entire course. (c) Schematic view of a left curve and a right curve. The course comprised 5 of these right/left curve sections. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0127594.g001 The experimental course was two lanes wide. Its total length was 15,950 m and it included five sets of left and right curves (Fig 1b). 600 m straight sections were placed between the left and right curves to avoid possible brain activity related to driving the previous curve. Each curve length was 895 m and comprised one circular curve (length 361 m) with a radius of curvature of 600 m, and two easement curves (length 267 m) connecting the straight part of the course to the circular curve (Fig 1c). Barrier heights, lane widths and the like replicated those of the New-Tomei Expressway, and cross slopes were 0–2.5% in the straight sections and 2.5–8.0% in the curve sections. There were no longitudinal slopes. The participants performed the experimental tasks in a sitting position, and the seat was positioned so that the brake pedal and the accelerator pedal could be easily operated. Before the experiment, they were allowed to practice drive the experimental course, so that they were comfortable with the simulator. The experimenter also explained, before the experiment, that the experiment could be interrupted if the participants experienced any driving simulator sickness (e.g. motion sickness or dizziness) during the task. None of the participants asked to stop. The participants drove in the left lane in accordance with Japanese law. For the experiment, each participant drove the course once (driving conditions) and then traveled the course once without driving (non-driving conditions). In the driving part of the experiment, the participants were instructed to operate the accelerator pedal and the steering wheel to drive the course at a speed of 100 km/h. Average time for driving the right curve sections was 32.3 s (SD 1.0), and the left curve sections, 32.3 s (SD 0.9). Average speed in the right curve sections was 99.9 km/h (SD 2.9), and in the left curve sections, 99.7 km/h (SD 2.6). Differences in driving speed and time between the left and right curve sections thus were not significant (speed: t [145] = 0.520, p = 0.604; time: t [145] = -0.470, p = 0.639). The average steering angle in the right curve sections was 8.6° (SD 1.4), and in the left curve sections, 8.4° (SD 1.3). The maximum steering angle in the right curve sections was 15.3° (SD 2.4), and in the left curve sections, 14.9° (SD 2.0). The average steering angles and maximum steering angles thus did not differ significantly between the left and right curve sections (average steering angles: t [145] = 0.675, p = 0.501; maximum steering angles: t [145] = 1.096, p = 0.275), confirming that steering in the right and left curve sections was symmetrical. In the non-driving part of the experiment, the participants simply watched while moving images from the log data recorded during the driving part of the experiment were projected on the screen. Environmental sounds such as engine and running sound and platform motion linked to the log were also reproduced in the same way as during the driving part of the experiment, so that the only difference between the driving and non-driving conditions was whether the participant operated the vehicle using the accelerator and the steering wheel. After the experiments (both driving and non-driving), the participants were asked orally which curves (left or right) felt easier, and they reported after reflection no significant bias in difficulty of driving the left and the right curves: 7 participants (47%) felt the left curves were easier, 5 participants (33%) felt the right curves were easier, and 3 participants (20%) reported no difference (χ2 [2] = 1.6, p = 0.45). Under non-driving conditions, 14 participants (93%) felt no difference (χ2 [2] = 24.4, p = 0.000). Each participant was also asked after the end of each task if he or she had experienced motion sickness or dizziness (on a scale increasing from 1 to 5). Their average scores (all participants) were 1.1 (SD 0.3) when driving and 1.2 (SD 0.4) when not driving, indicating that simulator sickness during the task was not significant. Driving simulator. The experiments were performed using a large scale driving simulator (Mitsubishi Precision Company Limited, Japan). This provided a seat, steering wheel, brake pedal and accelerator pedal used in an actual vehicle, and reproduced the sounds, visual fields, and dynamic changes of the platform accompanying vehicle operation in order to provide an environment as close as possible to that of actual vehicle operation. The driving scenario was projected by 3 projectors on a screen with a horizontal field of view of approximately 120 degrees. The driver’s field of view was limited by driver’s seat pillars so as not to extend beyond the image projected on the screen. The acoustic environment of driving (engine sound, wind noise and the like) was supplied from 2 speakers in the back of the driver’s seat. Platform motion due to steering was reproduced using a six-degree-of-freedom Stewart platform (Fig 2). Fig 2. Driving simulator system. (a) Photos of the experimental landscape and setup. (b) Schematic views of the experimental setup. fNIRS data acquisition. Brain activity was monitored using multi-channel fNIRS (FOIRE-3000, Shimadzu Corporation, Japan). The fNIRS apparatus was placed in back of the driving simulator, as shown in Fig 2b. Probe holders (made by ourselves) were positioned with reference to the nasion and the inion. The measurement targets were the frontal cortex, the motor cortex and the parietal cortex. There were 48 measurement channels in all. Concentration changes in oxyhemoglobin and deoxyhemoglobin (ΔOxyHb and ΔDeoxyHb) were sampled at 70 ms. Event markers were input to the apparatus when the simulation passed through the starting point of each easement curve before a curve and again at the end point of the easement curve after the curve. After the experiment, registration markers were placed on the probe sites and 3D-T2 MRI images (3 Tesla) were obtained of all participants to confirm the measurement channel positions (Fig 3). Fig 3. Relationship between channel configuration / probe placement and the underlying brain sites. (a) Probes mounted on the head. (b) Probe arrangement and measurement channel numbers. (c) Relationship between brain regions and measurement channels were confirmed using MRI. PFC: prefrontal cortex (including superior and middle frontal gyrus). PAC = parietal association cortex, M1 = primary motor cortex, PM = premotor cortex, FEF = frontal eye field, and PFC = prefrontal cortex. Each curve was counted as a trial for a total of 75 trials (15 participants x 5 trials) for left and right, driving and non-driving, but because of skipped markers, only 74 left curve trials and 73 right curve trials were analyzed for both conditions. Raw ΔOxyHb and ΔDeoxyHb data obtained using fNIRS were processed using a low-pass Butterworth filter (Fig 4a). Components with higher than 0.1 Hz frequencies were removed from the raw data, based on Mayer wave frequencies [19] and previous research showing that the main causes of fluctuation of obtained optical signals are oscillations of 0.1 Hz resulting from regional cerebral blood flow [20]. The starting point of the easement curve was taken as zero in calculating ΔOxyHb and ΔDeoxyHb to measure event-related reactions. Analysis was performed by the vector analysis method, using an orthogonal vector plane with a ΔO axis and a ΔD axis, representing the vector components of change in oxyhemoglobin and change in deoxyhemoglobin, respectively [21, 22]. As shown in Fig 4b, this polar coordinate plane has as vector components the 4 indicators ΔO, ΔD, ΔCOE (change in cerebral oxygen exchange vector component) and ΔCBV (change in the cerebral blood volume vector component) [23, 24]. ΔO and ΔD are obtained from the measured values of ΔOxyHb and ΔDeoxyHb, and ΔCOE and ΔCBV are calculated from ΔO and ΔD, using Eqs (1) and (2): (1) (2) Fig 4. Time-series waveforms of ΔOxyHb and ΔDeoxyHb, and a ΔO/ΔD vector plane. (a) Raw waveform data for changes in oxyhemoglobin and deoxyhemoglobin (ΔOxyHb and ΔDeoxyHb) from the right PM (channel 23) and the left PM (channel 27). These channels are symmetrical regions of the cerebral cortex. Frequencies of more than 0.1 Hz were removed from the raw data using a low-pass filter. Straight sections of the course are indicated in black, easement curves in gray, and circular curves in orange. PM = premotor cortex. (b) Vector trajectories on this polar coordinate plane make it possible to visually evaluate relationships between changes in the cerebral blood volume vector component (ΔCBV) and the cerebral oxygen exchange vector component (ΔCOE). As Eqs (1) and (2) show, the vector component ΔCBV is orthogonal to ΔCOE. Eqs (3) and (4) show that ΔCBV is different from concentration changes in total-hemoglobin (ΔtotalHb), which is calculated as the sum of ΔOxyHb and ΔDeoxyHb. The relationship between ΔtotalHb and ΔCBV is represented by Eq (5). ΔCOE is an indicator of changes in oxygenation in the blood vessels and reflects neural activity [21]. Increasing ΔCOE (from ΔCOE = 0) means that deoxygenation is occurring in the capillaries as a result of oxygen consumption by the nerve cells, and indicates hypoxia in the blood vessels. Decreasing ΔCOE means that oxygen-containing red blood cells are being supplied from the arteries, and indicates a high level of oxygenation in the blood vessels. ΔCOE shows a higher degree of precision as a physiological indicator of increased brain function than the conventionally used ΔO [4]. The combination of increasing ΔO and decreasing ΔD, which was conventionally considered to indicate changing skin blood flow [25, 26], is not included in the phases showing increasing ΔCOE. In addition, as shown in Fig 4b, the index ΔCOE is perpendicular to the index ΔCBV. In other words, ΔCOE is not easily affected by changes in ΔCBV. We calculated average values of ΔCOE during left curve driving and right curve driving for both driving and non-driving trials, and created mapping images of these average ΔCOE values for left and right curve driving. Average values of ΔCBV and ΔCOE were calculated every 3 seconds for 30 seconds from the starting point of the first easement part of each curve. Using these averages, vector trajectories for all 10 curve sections of the course were plotted on the vector plane. The phase of the vector for each section was determined from Eq (6), using the included angle k between the positive ΔO axis and the vector obtained by measurement: (6) k represents the ratio of ΔCOE to ΔCBV, and defines the degree of oxygen exchange [22]. k = 0 is on the positive ΔO axis, and k increases in the counterclockwise direction. k > 0 reflects hypoxia or deoxygenation and indicates increased neural activity. k decreases in the clockwise direction, and k < 0 reflects hyperoxidation and indicates decreased neural activity. From the ratios between ΔO, ΔD, ΔCBV and ΔCOE, the state of neural activity can be divided into eight phase types on the vector plane (Fig 4b and Table 1) [23]. Increases in k (0–225°) fall into Phases 1 through 5, while decreases in k (-135–0°) fall into Phases -1 through -3. Phases 1 through 5, which show increased ΔD or increased ΔCOE, are considered to show increased brain activity. A relationship between phase distribution and oxygen saturation has also been reported [27]. In Phases 3 and 4 (indicating hypo-oxygenation), oxygen saturation decreases independently of the measurement baseline, and in Phases -1 and -2 (indicating hyper-oxygenation), oxygen saturation increases independently of the measurement baseline. In contrast, Phases -1 through -3 (decreasing ΔCOE and ΔD), can be considered to show almost no increase in brain activity. Table 1. Phase classification of hemodynamic responses. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0127594.t001 A scalar L from the vector origin to given coordinates on the vector plane shows the amplitude of the vector and represents the amount of hemoglobin variation. L can be calculated from Eq (7): (7) Phase-associated response intensity (PRI; Fig 4b) can be visualized as the arc, in a positive or negative direction from ΔO = 0, created by the angle k and the scalar L. k and L are separate brain activity indices that move in conjunction with each other. Eq (8) shows the calculation of PRI. k rad is in radians: (8) PRI reflects both the angle k and the scalar L, which are calculated from the 4 indices (ΔO, ΔD, ΔCBV and ΔCOE) measured by fNIRS. Increases in PRI show increasing intensity of the hemodynamic responses involved in oxygen exchange, and decreases in PRI show decreasing intensity. An independent t-test was used to compare average left and right curve ΔCOE values under driving and non-driving conditions. In this analysis, the trial was adopted as smallest statistical unit, as the brain responses involved in different trials by the same subject were not necessarily considered to be equivalent. To examine the effect of handedness and gender on the average ΔCOE values in the left and right curves, we used two-way analysis of variance (two-way ANOVA), with handedness and gender as fixed factors. As all 3 left-handed participants were male, interactions between handedness and gender could not be examined; we therefore examined only the main effects. At sites where comparison of average left and right curve ΔCOE values showed significant differences, vector differences by segment under driving and non-driving conditions were compared using MANOVA, with ΔCOE and ΔCBV, which are vector components, as the dependent variables. Values used in this analysis were average values of ΔCBV and ΔCOE, calculated every three seconds for 30 seconds from the starting point of the first easement part of each curve. Significant difference between vectors in this analysis refers to scalar comparisons in the case of comparing vectors within the same phase, but when vectors in different phases are compared, not only vector strength, but also difference in phase is reflected [23]. In the segment of maximum average L values (measured every three seconds from the starting point of each curve), left and right curve PRI values were calculated and compared using the independent t-test. Statistical analysis was performed using the software SPSS (SPSS Statistics Version 22.0, IBM, Japan). All multiple testing was performed as exploratory analysis. In all the tests, p < 0.05 was considered significant. In the driving trials, no sites showed significantly more brain activity during right curves than during left curves. Significantly greater activity was detected in the left curves than in the right curves in 4 areas of the brain. Left curves (driving). As Fig 5 shows, ΔCOE showed significantly greater increases in 4 areas of the frontal lobe during left curve driving than during right curve driving: the right premotor cortex (PM, channel 23), the right frontal eye field (FEF, channel 18) and the bilateral prefrontal cortex (right PFC, channels 1, 6, 12 and 17; left PFC, channels 4 and 16) (right PM: t [145] = 2.87, p = 0.005, d = 0.47; right FEF: t [145] = 2.57, p = 0.011, d = 0.42; right PFC: t [145] = 2.42–2.86, p = 0.005–0.017, d = 0.40–0.47; left PFC: t [145] = 2.05–2.66, p = 0.009–0.042, d = 0.34–0.44). Fig 5. Brain activity (ΔCOE) during left and right curve driving. Under driving conditions, ΔCOE increased more in left curves than in right curves in four areas of the brain: right PM (premotor area), right FEF (frontal eye field) and bilateral PFC (prefrontal cortex). a.u. = arbitrary unit. Fig 6 shows vector changes during left and right curves in the 4 regions where there was significantly greater activation in the left curves. In all 4 regions, the left curve vectors advanced into the phases opposite those of the right curve vectors. The angle k of the left curve vectors increased and peaked in Phases 3 and 4. In other words, the amount of change in the ΔCOE-axis direction was greater than that in the ΔCBV-axis direction at these sites. This indicates a strong pattern of oxygen metabolism. Fig 6. Vector tracks during left and right curve driving. Vector tracks from the 4 sites of activity plotted every 3 seconds during left and right curve driving, beginning 30 seconds from the start of the easement curve. (a) Vector tracks from the right PM (premotor cortex, channel 23) and the right FEF (frontal eye field, channel 18). In both areas, the left curve vector tracks are mainly in Phase 4, and the right curve vector tracks are in Phase -1. Significant differences between left and right curves are indicated by solid color dots. Significant differences were detected from 9.1 to 27.0 s in the right PM, and from 9.1 to 18.0 s in the right FEF (right PM: F [2, 144] = 4.210–7.266, p = 0.001–0.017, = 0.06–0.1; right FEF: F [2, 144] = 3.636–4.265, p = 0.016–0.029, = 0.05–0.06). (b) Vector tracts from the right PFC (prefrontal cortex, channels 1, 6, 12 and 17 [average]) and the left PFC (channels 4 and 16 [average]). Left curve vector tracks from the right PFC are in Phases 3 and 4, and right curve vector tracks are in Phase -1. Left curve vector tracks from the left PFC are in Phase 3, and right curve vector tracks are in Phase 1. Significant differences between left and right curves are indicated by solid color dots. Significant differences were detected from 0.0 to 30.0 s in the right PFC, and from 0.0 to 3.0 s and 9.1 to 30.0 s in the left PFC (right PFC: F [2, 585] = 3.786–18.77, p = 0.000–0.023, = 0.01–0.06; left PFC: F [2, 291] = 3.318–6.585, p = 0.002–0.038, = 0.022–0.043). In contrast, the right curve vectors advanced into Phases 1 and -1 (decreasing ΔCOE) in all 4 sites, indicating an absence of strong oxygen consumption. Among the 4 regions that were activated significantly in the left curve sections, differences in brain activity by dominant hand were detected only in the right PFC (channel 1) (F [1, 71] = 11.220, p = 0.001, = 0.14). Differences in brain activity according to dominant hand were also observed in the bilateral prefrontal cortex (right: channel 2; left: channel 5) and in the M1 (channel 36). ΔCOE in the bilateral prefrontal cortex increased significantly more in the right-handed group than in the left-handed group (right: F [1, 71] = 12.876, p = 0.001, = 0.15; left: F [1, 71] = 6.813, p = 0.011, = 0.09). ΔCOE in the M1 increased significantly more in the left-handed group than in the right-handed group (F [1, 71] = 6.758, p = 0.011, = 0.09) Among the 4 sites showing significant activity in left curves, differences in brain activity by gender were detected only in the right PFC (channel 1). ΔCOE in the right PFC increased in the both groups, but significantly more in the male group than in the female group (F [1, 71] = 5.894, p = 0.018, = 0.08). Differences in brain activity according to gender were observed in the right parietal associate cortex (PAC, channel 46) (right PAC: F [1, 71] = 9.072, p = 0.004, = 0.11). ΔCOE in the right PAC increased significantly more in the female group than in the male group. Right curves (driving). At no site did ΔCOE increase significantly more during right curves than during left curves. ΔCOE increased during right curves only in the left parietal association cortex (PAC, channels 40, 44 and 45; Fig 7). Fig 7. Brain activity (ΔCOE) in the PAC (parietal association cortex) during left and right curve driving. (a) Under driving conditions, ΔCOE showed the greatest increase in right curves in the left PAC. (b) Vector tracks during right and left curves in the left PAC (channels 40, 44 and 45 [average]) plotted every 3 seconds, beginning 30 seconds from the start of the easement curve. At L peak times, the right curve vector is in Phase 4, and the left curve vector is in Phase 1. a.u. = arbitrary unit. As for effects of handedness, no significant differences in ΔCOE according to dominant hand were observed in the left PAC. There was no region in which ΔCOE increased significantly more in the right-handed group than in the left-handed group. There was no region in which ΔCOE increased significantly more in the left-handed group than in the right-handed group. As for possible effects of gender, ΔCOE in the left PAC (channel 38) increased significantly more in the female group than in the male group (F [1, 70] = 11.180, p = 0.001, = 0.14). The sites where differences in ΔCOE were detected according to gender, however, were not the same sites where differences in ΔCOE were detected according to left and right curves. Differences in gender thus did not affect the results of this study. Non-driving Among the 4 regions where brain activity increased significantly in the left curves during the driving part of the experiment, only the right FEF showed significant activation under non-driving conditions [channels 18 and 24: t (145) = 2.20–2.26: p = 0.025–0.029, d = 0.36–0.37] (Fig 8). Significant activation in the three other regions (right PM and bilateral PFC) disappeared. In particular, activity in the right PM was significantly less from the start to the middle of the curve (0.0–6.0 s, 12.1–21.0 s; F [2, 145] = 3.109–3.850, p = 0.023–0.476, = 0.04–0.05). No sites showed significant activation in the left curves under non-driving conditions alone. Fig 8. Brain activity (ΔCOE) during left and right curves under non-driving conditions. (a) Brain activity during left curves: activity in the right FEF (frontal eye field, channels 18 and 24) increased significantly more in the left curves. (b) Brain activity during right curves: activity in the medial PM (premotor area, channel 30) and right PAC (parietal association cortex, channels 37 and 46) increased significantly more in the right curves. a.u. = arbitrary unit. In the right curves, the sites where ΔCOE increased significantly more than in the left curves were the right PAC (channels 37 and 46) and the medial PM (channel 30) (right PAC: t [145] = 1.99–2.67: p = 0.008–0.022, d = 0.38–0.44; medial PM: t [145] = 1.99: p = 0.049, d = 0.33) (Fig 8). ΔCOE decreased in these sites under driving conditions. Comparison of brain activity during curve driving Marked increases in ΔCOE were detected in curve driving in a total of 5 brain sites, and in 4 of these (right PM, right FEF, and bilateral PFC), significant increases were detected in the left curves. In the right curves, the only site where an increase was detected was the left PAC, but the amount of increase detected was not significant. Comparison of amounts of brain activity in these five regions using vector analysis gives the vector peak time zones shown in Table 2. At all sites showing significant left curve activation, L peaked in a time zone corresponding to the middle part of the curve (12.1–18.0 s). Peak activation during right curves in the PAC occurred later than it did during left curves (18.1–21.0 s). Table 2. Characteristic vectors at vector peak time zones under driving conditions. In the peak time zones, values of k ranged from 129.6 to 159.0 degrees in these 5 brain regions; namely, within a range of 30.4 degrees. The fact that the vectors changed in the direction of the ΔCOE axis shows that ΔCOE variation was greater than ΔCBV variation, indicating a pattern of strong oxygen metabolism. k and L differed among the five regions, and the sites of maximum k and maximum L were not the same. We therefore compared PRI values to rank the sites in order of strength of brain activity (Fig 9). PRI was significantly higher in the right PM than in the 4 other regions in left curve driving; in other words, the greatest amount of brain activity in left curve driving was in the right PM (F [4, 365] = 6.361, p = 0.000–0.032, d = 0.37–0.57). This was followed in decreasing order by the right PFC, the right FEF and the left PFC. PRI decreased in the left PAC in left-hand curves, indicating that oxygen metabolism did not increase. The right frontal lobe thus showed the most activity in left curve driving. Fig 9. Comparison of PRI during curve driving in different sites of the brain. PRI (phase-associated response intensity) in the L peak time zones were compared between sites: (a) during left curve driving and (b) during right curve driving. Asterisks (*) indicate significant differences between the sites. PM = premotor area, PFC = prefrontal cortex, FEF = frontal eye field, and PAC = parietal association cortex. During left curve driving, activity was greatest in the right PM, and it was greater in the right frontal lobe than in the left hemisphere. During right curve driving, activity was greatest in the left PAC, followed by the left PFC, and activity was greater in the left frontal lobe than in the right hemisphere. a.u. = arbitrary unit. In right curve driving, PRI increased in the left PFC and in the left PAC. PRI in right curve driving was highest in the left PAC (F [4, 360] = 3.147, p = 0.043, d = 0.68, followed by the left PFC. PRI decreased in 3 areas of the right hemisphere: the right PM, the right PFC and the right FEF, showing that activity in right curve driving was greater in the left hemisphere. This study showed that left curve driving required considerably more brain activity than right curve driving, despite the absence of significant differences in steering angles, corroborating the hypothesis that brain activity is different in left and right curve driving. We also observed differences in brain activity in left and right curves whether or not the participant was operating the vehicle. Right premotor cortex activity during left curve driving Right PM activity increased more in left curves than in right curves under conditions of vehicle operation. PRI, which is a useful index of brain activity derived from all 4 indices ΔO, ΔD, ΔCBV and ΔCOE, showed that activity in the right PM was greatest in left curve driving. This activity, however, disappeared under non-driving conditions, when significantly less right PM activity was observed in the mid-curve time zone than during driving, indicating that right PM activity was induced by vehicle operation. Significant activity in the right PM has been reported when operating an actual vehicle [3], supporting the results of the present experiment. PM activity increased particularly in the mid-curve time zones, and the vectors during those time zones were distributed in Phase 4. Strong neural activity could thus be considered to have occurred in the right PM. Driving is a complex activity in which more than 90% of information is obtained by visual means [1, 2]. As we drive, we watch the road alignment to prepare for the next driving operation, and the PM is involved in preparation for movement [28–30]. The right PM is a site that is particularly involved in motor output due to visual information [31, 32]. The performance of adjustments based on visual information and preparation for movement can be considered to be an important factor in the greater PM activity observed during driving trials but not during non-driving trials. It has also been reported that the PM is involved in coordination of movement of the two hands [33]. PM activity may arise with the use of both hands to turn the steering as the driver follows the curves in the road. Bilateral PFC activation during left curve driving PFC activity on both sides increased more in left curves than in right curves under driving conditions. Differences between left curve and right curve activity in the bilateral PFC disappeared under non-driving conditions, when driving operations were not performed, indicating that the activity was induced by driving operations. The greater activity observed in the bilateral PFC during left curves was observed throughout the curves; however, the amount of hemoglobin change was greatest in the mid-curve time zone. In the middle section of the curve, k was greater in the right PFC than in the left PFC, indicating that neural activity was stronger in the right PFC than in the left PFC. The significant activity observed in the PFC also occurred in a wide range over the right hemisphere. Damage to the right frontal lobe causes left unilateral neglect [34, 35] and thus the right PFC can be considered to be involved in visual attention to the left space. Because the driver’s line of sight when entering and traversing a curve is likely to be toward the inside of the curve in the traveling direction [5,6], the drivers’ attention in the present experiment can be thought to be directed to the left visual field in a left curve, resulting in an increase in right frontal lobe activity. Furthermore, because the participants were traveling in the left lane in this study, forward visibility during a left curve is more limited than during a right curve, and left curves may therefore require more visual attention than right curves. Differences in brain activity appeared according to gender and handedness in 1 of the 4 channels of the right PFC showing significant activity in left curve driving. There was significantly higher activity in the right-handed group than in the left-handed group, and significantly higher activity in the male group than in the female group. This suggests that handedness and gender affect the activity of the right PFC, which has been shown to be involved in decision making [36, 37] and spatial working memory [38, 39]. We were unable to analyze the interaction of gender and handedness, as the left-handed participants were all male. Future study is required to take into consideration not only the separate effects of gender and handedness but also their interaction. Right frontal eye field activation during driving and non-driving conditions Significantly greater activity was observed in the right FEF during left curves than during right curves not only under driving conditions, but also under non-driving conditions, when the participant was able to see the direction of travel without operating the vehicle. In the right FEF during driving, the amount of hemoglobin conversion was greatest in the time zones around the middle of the curves, and the vectors during those zones time were distributed in Phase 4. Under non-driving conditions, the right FEF vectors from the mid-curve time zones were also distributed in Phase 4. Strong neural activity is likely to have occurred in the mid-curve time zones whether driving or not driving. Significant FEF activity has been confirmed when driving an actual vehicle on an expressway [3,4], supporting the results of the present experiment. The possibility that right FEF activity occurs in passengers of a moving vehicle as well as in the driver is a new finding. The FEF is known to be involved in eye movement [40, 41], and is responsible for vergence and saccades [42]. The right FEF in particular has been reported to be involved in saccades toward the left side [43]. It follows that, in this study, the activity in right FEF during the left curves can be thought to be induced by saccades toward the left side. The line of sight while traversing a curve is likely to be toward the inside of the curve in the traveling direction, whether or not one is operating a vehicle [6]. The change in line of sight towards the traveling direction is greater in the circular curve sections than in the easement curve sections, and thus the increase in right FEF activity in the mid-curve time zones is likely to be induced by the saccadic function. PAC activation during right curve driving The PAC was activated during right curve driving. The left PAC and the median PAC were activated during the driving part of the experiment, and the right PAC was activated under non-driving conditions; that is, opposite hemispheres were activated under driving and non-driving conditions. These results are supported by prior reports. Activity in the left PAC and median PAC under driving conditions have been reported to occur both in a driving simulator [15] and in driving an actual vehicle [3]. Right PAC activity under non-driving conditions has been reported to occur in visual event detection without vehicle operation [11]. The PAC is involved in processing visual attention accompanying eye movement [44]. In particular, the left PAC is thought to be activated by oscillatory saccades and involved in temporal shifts in attention [45]. Namely, activity of the left PAC during driving is likely to be involved in moment-by-moment attention shifts in response to changes in road alignment. A possible role of the right PAC in top-down processing and/or the preparation of upcoming eye movement has also been pointed out [45]. The video projected on the screen for the non-driving part of the experiment was recorded as the participant drove in the driving part of the experiment and then replayed, and thus it is possible that right PAC activity in the non-driving part of the experiment may have occurred as the driver anticipated the trajectory of operation. Driver rehabilitation after brain injuries The useful field of view of patients with right cerebral hemisphere injuries becomes significantly narrower than that of patients with left cerebral hemisphere injuries, and stroke survivors find it difficult to drive left curves after a stroke [46]. In addition, because changes in visuospatial cognition may result in a decline in driving skills, the resumption of driving after a stroke is more difficult for patients with lesions in the right hemisphere than for patients with lesions in the left hemisphere [46–48]. These previous reports are compatible with our results showing a greater response to road alignment in the right hemisphere than in the left. In helping patients with brain lesions to the bilateral PFC, the right PM, or the right FEF, it may be necessary to focus more on left curve driving. However, the actual rate of accidents in left and right curves differ in different reports. More left curve accidents are reported by the Japan Safe Driving Center (1988) [49], the Institute for Traffic Accident Research and Data Analysis (2007) [50], Choi (2010) [51], and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (2008) [52]; and more right curve accidents are reported by the Society of Osaka Traffic Scientific Research (2000) [53], and the National Police Agency (2013) [54]. Differences in accident rates in left and right curves may be caused by multiple factors: for example, in addition to differences in difficulty in driving left and right curves and differences in brain activity, factors like traffic volume and time of driving may be involved. Application to intelligent transportation systems In order to drive curves safely, a driver must be provided with information enabling him or her to understand the road alignment and maintain appropriate speeds. Conventional safety measures include lights and signs placed along or over the road. However, their effects on the driver have not been evaluated. In this study, PM activity, which is related to motion based on visual information [32], decreased in right curves and increased in left curves. It may be possible to evaluate the effects of lights and signs used for alerting drivers by measuring changes in brain activity during curve driving. Accident rates are higher in curves than on straight sections when the curve radius is less than 1000 m. This tendency becomes more pronounced as the curve radius becomes less than 500 m [49]. It is thus possible that differences in the radius of curvature of the curve may also affect brain activity, and the question of what degree of curvature causes significant differences in brain activity between right and left curve driving is a potentially interesting subject for study. Measurement of brain activity using fNIRS may be able to provide suggestions for applying brain science to road design. Advantages and limitations of a vector-based approach A vector-based approach has three advantages. First, brain activity can be evaluated using ΔO and ΔD simultaneously rather than a single index. ΔCOE and ΔCBV can then be calculated from ΔO and ΔD; and the interrelationships between the indices ΔO, ΔD, ΔCBV and ΔCOE can be analyzed on the same vector plane. Changes in each component index can thus also be observed separately from the overall phase, which is derived from the interaction of the 4 indices. The use of a vector-based approach has produced the angle k, the scalar L, and PRI as new hemodynamic indices. The angle k, representing oxygen exchange efficiency, and the scalar L, representing the amount of change in hemoglobin, are new indices of change in strength of brain activity. PRI, on the other hand, is a synthetic indicator that includes the angle k, which determines the phase of the vector, and L, which contributes the scalar component of the vector. PRI is thus an index of brain activity that includes changes in both ΔCOE and ΔCBV. Much previous research using fNIRS has evaluated increases in ΔO alone, or taken increased ΔO and decreased ΔD as a typical response indicating neural activity, ignoring other responses. A vector-based approach is a way to study brain activity without ignoring all the possible patterns of response that can be observed from measuring ΔO and ΔD. The second advantage of a vector-based approach is that brain activity can be evaluated quantitatively and thus classified into 8 different patterns using the concept of phase. Brain activity evaluation has traditionally been relative, depending on changes in signal amplitude. The ability to measure brain activity quantitatively has made it possible to improve measurement sensitivity, and in fact, it has become possible to detect multiple types of initial dips and distinguish small hemodynamic responses during a task at the short latency of 1.5 s [23]. In the field of brain-computer interface (BCI), in which signal classification is required, the use of the vector-based approach may be able to contribute to the currently proposed analysis of average values and signal slopes [55]. The vector-based approach can significantly reduce the delay in signal interpretation caused by the lag in hemodynamic response. Both fNIRS and EEG have attracted attention as being suitable for non-invasive and real-time BCI applications [56–58]. fNIRS, with the improved functional spatial and temporal resolution that the vector-based approach provides, or even without it, will likely be increasingly useful in noninvasive real-time BCI applications. The third advantage is that vector-based analysis clarifies the relationship between oxygen saturation and the overall reaction pattern of ΔO and ΔD [27]. In this study, the points at which the scalar L peaked for the vectors from the 5 sites activated in the curve sections (right FEF, right PM, bilateral PFC, left PAC) were distributed in Phases 3 and 4, in which oxygen consumption occurs regardless of the baseline. Using PRI, we were able to detect differences between the left and right curves in reaction intensity at these five sites. The relationship between PRI and the strength of neural activity, however, requires further study. Hong and Nguyen (2014) [59] have formulated equations for the relationship between any stimulus and hemodynamic response. It will be necessary to clarify in the same way the relationship between any stimuli or strength of oxygen metabolism and the eight phases, in order to further improve the utility of the vector-based approach and the index PRI. Limitations of driving simulator experiments Changes in gravity are less in a driving simulator than in actual vehicle driving. In a simulator, visual information (e.g. optical flow) is the main sensory information that arises from changes in driving direction and vehicle speed, while somatosensory feedback is minimal. Therefore, in driving experiments using a simulator, what has been detected is mainly brain activity related to visual information associated with driving. At least three points require further study. One is the effect of the lane travelled. In this study, the vehicles traveled in the left of 2 lanes, and forward visibility around left and right curves is different depending on the lane of travel. Verification of the experiment will be necessary with participants driving in the right lane. A second point is the possible effect of neck rotation in left and right curves. The curves driven in the present study had a radius of curvature of R = 600 m. This is a fairly gentle curve compared to those on roadways in general (for roads with speed limits of 50 km/h, the radius of curvature is generally ≥100 m) [60]. In fact, the maximum steering angle in this experiment was around 15°, and we therefore considered head rotation in the curves to be very small. As for the effects on blood flow due to head rotation, there have been reports that head rotation does not cause significant changes in cerebral perfusion or blood flow in the cervical spine [61], or in ΔOxyHb [62]. In fact, in the time-series waveforms of ΔOxyHb and ΔDeoxyHb shown in Fig 4a, there were no large baseline fluctuations between the curve sections and the straight sections, nor were there symmetrical large baseline fluctuations in the regions of the cerebral cortex. We thus considered the effect of head rotation to be small. However, it would be desirable to clarify the effects of head rotation with further study, possibly including keeping the head in a fixed position, or using motion capture to detect head movement. A third point requiring further study is the effect of the dominant hand and gender. In this analysis, we did not intentionally control for handedness when recruiting participants. This was because hand dominance is cannot reflected in traffic safety measures or the issuance of driver’s license, and steering is done with both hands. In addition, the proportion of right and left handedness in this study was approximately the same as that of the population in general [63], and the results of this study can thus be considered to conform to actual conditions on the road. Right-handed subjects have been targeted in many basic functional brain imaging studies. But for the sake of developing traffic safety measures that do not depend on the dominant hand of the driver, continued research will be needed to detect brain activity that is common to drivers of either hand dominance. However, lateralization of the cerebral hemispheres according to the dominant hand has been reported [64], and attention to handedness may also be required when resuming driving after brain injury. In the present study, we compared the right-handed and left-handed drivers, and found differences in 3 regions, outside of the 5 regions where differences between left and right curves were detected. In 2 of these regions, the right-handed group showed more activation than the left-handed group, and in the other region, the left-handed group showed more activation than the right-handed group. We also compared male and female groups and found 2 sites with more activation in the female group than in the male group. There is a need to follow this up with more detailed study of the possible influence of differences in handedness and gender on brain activity during vehicle operation. Although we did not find that all the participants found it easier to drive curves in the same direction, we detected significant differences in brain activity during left and right curve driving. In left curves, significant activity occurred mainly in the frontal lobe, suggesting the possibility that left curve driving requires more attention and judgment. In right curve driving, the left PAC was activated. 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__label__wiki	0.53285	0.53285	FDR: CARLOS BAIZA INTERVIEW WITH CARLOS BAIZA INTERVIEW BY JIM MURPHY INTRODUCTION BY JIM MURPHY PHOTOS BY PHIL JACKSON AND ZOLI After Burnside took off, the skaters in Philadelphia knew it was their turn to step it up and start building some renegade concrete somewhere, somehow. Skateboarders like Carlos, Dan Tag and George Draguns who had been skating for years, were totally down for anything skateable in the Philly area, whether it be a vert ramp, a concrete bowl or a grand mixture of the two. The highway next to the FDR park in Philly was a perfect spot and, over the years, many people with concrete and vert ramp building skills would roll up on the scene to help make the dream become a reality. So how did this all start? Who made the calls on what was to be built and how big? Who got the ‘crete and shaped it? Who are those old vert soldiers riding the vert ramp next to the sprawling concrete? Why would the city of Philadelphia let this all go down? Check out these interviews to give you an inside look at the devolution of the FDR SKATEPARK! – MURF “So many different crews popped up and there were multiple crews at different points in time. It was amazing to see this thing grow. So many good people showed up and worked on it. I would like to think that we made up a crazy way to build things. We built some quarter pipes and some walls. Nobody but crazy skaters could come up with this stuff.” Okay. Let’s start at the beginning. Where did you grow up? I grew up in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. When I first started skating, I was just kicking up and down the streets and cruising around with my friends. Then I found out that there was this giant vert ramp that these dudes had going right at the back of my town. Somehow I lucked out and all I had to do was ride over this hill and I was at this giant half pipe, so I got exposed to these dudes flying on skateboards way back. It was all about riding these crazy-shaped ramps. So you were into the vert ramp scene early on? Yeah. It was all about riding ramps. In high school, we had this crazy ramp called Kong Ramp. There were ten of us in our high school that localized this ramp. We built a vert ramp, an 8-foot ramp, a 5-foot ramp and a wooden bowl all connected in my buddy’s backyard. We stole every fucking inch of it. Actually, my grandpa bought the layer because we had a tough time stealing plywood because you needed trucks to get it. My grandpa straight bought it after we framed it up. He was like, “Hell, yeah. I’ll pay for this.” It was like $2,000 in plywood and masonite, so you could imagine how huge this thing was. We were craving big wall, so we started building big walls. After we graduated high school, it lasted like a year and then we had to take the ramp down and get it out of my buddy’s backyard. That’s how it started out. After we lost the Kong Ramp, we tried to find a spot for it in Harrisburg, but we shipped it out to West Virginia to Skatopia. Do you know Radiation Ray and Doug and all those guys? Yeah. Those were my mentors: Doug Mayer, Radiation Ray Young, Dean Keller, Wayne Petroski and Buster Halterman. There was a good scene in Harrisburg. We were riding vert like nobody’s business out there. Then you ended up in Philly? Yeah. The whole reason I went to Philly was to skate. CheapSkates was an hour away and the street skating was going off. Then I met up with Jim Young, Tim Guza and Gabe Strain. They were the South Street crew. They lived on South and 11th and I lived on South and Broad and so we met skating. Those guys had a change jar and they were collecting money for concrete. They said, “We want to pour a quarter pipe up one of the pillars at the park, and we heard that you know how to cut tranny.” I’m like, “Boom. Yeah. That’s what I do.” They told me their idea and we went for it. I said, “I’m down to help.” So I started talking to some heads that I knew. I had a bunch of homies that skated vert and, the next thing you know, a bunch of us met at Reading Skatepark with five cars and two trucks and got this load of cinder blocks. It was just skaters, at that point. We loaded up a bunch of cinder blocks and drove it to the park. I wanted to match Jimmy Young and his crew, and their idea of making the Indian wall, so we did the CIA pocket down at the far corner. When we hauled in all of these cinder blocks, the wall only came up four feet. We were like, “It has to be way higher than this.” The park used to be lined with all of these concrete barriers, so we just flipped those on their sides and rolled them into place. We made a row of them and put our cinder blocks on top of that and poured concrete over them. That’s where the two titties came from. We took two of those barriers and knocked them over and poured concrete over them. It was like a track up and over these two humps, then hit the Indian wall, hit the humps, hit the pocket and fly back at the pyramid. That was the line. FOR THE REST OF THE STORY, ORDER ISSUE #69 BY CLICKING HERE.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line955
__label__wiki	0.81069	0.81069	Browsing Tags Scent of a Woman [EDITORIAL] 140228 The Quality of Successful OSTs… Mesmerizing Voice – Kim Junsu February 28, 2014 · by xianeunymph The quality of successful OSTs… Mesmerizing voice, you know who sings it the moment you hear it. Nowadays the connection between OST and drama production is inseparable. Exactly what qualities do the popular OSTs have to gain public interest? The most important element in the popularity of an OST is the singer’s voice. People love a charismatic voice that can magnify the character’s emotions and make audience become more immersed in the story. There are also cases where an OST gains public interest because it is loved by the actors. ‘Scent of a Woman’ Kim Sun-Ah and ‘The Fugitive of Joseon’ Song Ji-Hyo have used soundtracks sung by Kim Junsu as their call-waiting tones. In addition, Kim Junsu’s heartfelt vocals gained full-hearted support from female audience in their 20s~40s and also contributed towards the ratings of the drama(s). Kim Junsu’s agency C-JeS Entertainment commented, “The viewership of the drama(s) increases following the release of Kim Junsu’s OST(s), the talk among officials is that it’s good luck.” Note: parts unrelated to Junsu were omitted. Source: etoday Translated by: pvtse of JYJ3 [INFO] 111012 “Protect the Boss” OST #6 on September Gaon Chart + Figures for “Scent” and “Ripley” October 12, 2011 · by JYJ3 Team The OST albums in which the JYJ boys participate always do well ^^. The below is the Gaon Chart released for the month of September. Protect the Boss OST took #6 for the month- it is the only OST in the top 20. Also, Scent of a Woman OST and Miss Ripley OST still showed up on the top 100 chart! The cumulative figures for the year are impressive as well– congratulations JYJ! Source: Gaon; Wasurenaide Jaejoong 장미사람 님 [TRANS] Actress Kim Seona’s Recommendations for Fall Include Junsu’s “You Are So Beautiful” Actress Kim Seona’s ‘Songs that Are Good to Hear in Autumn to Wet the Sentiments’ The 4th among the albums that Kim Seona recommends: Junsu’s Scent of a Woman OST The fourth song recommended by Kim Seona is the main theme of Scent of a Woman, You Are So Beautiful. “When the talk came about as to who will sing the OST (for Scent of a Woman), my younger sibling recommended Mr. Junsu, saying that his voice seems as if it will suit well the ardent mood of the drama. So I recommended to the production company slyly – Kim Junsu! Kim Junsu – and really Mr. Junsu came to sing the OST. (laugh) I do not know whether my opinion was actually taken into account but I was very surprised. My younger sibling said that it seems that his/her ability of prediction was very good. Haha. I heard myself the live of Mr. Junsu as I filmed, and I felt down my bones that indeed a singer is at his greatest when he sings. I got chills while listening to the song and when I read the lyrics I again got chills.” The sweet voice of Kim Junsu, who has also made a surprise appearance in Scent of a Woman, is well-fitted to express the ardent love of Kang Jiwook and the numbered days of Lee Yeonjae. Source: Naver Music Please do not remove, alter, or add to the credits. [INFO] Naver Music: Kim Sun Ah Recommends “You Are So Beautiful” by Junsu October 9, 2011 · by JYJ3 Team In Kim Sun Ah’s interview featured in Naver Music, one of her song recommendations is Junsu’s “You Are So Beautiful”, OSt for Scent of A Woman. TRANSLATION: Read More → [VIDEO] Junsu appearing on QTV’s airing of “Scent of a Woman” BTS [TRANS] Caption: With the call to “cut,” (actor Lee Dongwook) falls into Junsu and cheers Lee Dongwook: This is my first time seeing Xiah Junsu in person. I got to hear a live even, so it is so great. My eyes are going to turn into hearts~ Source: JYJ3official [NEWS] 110906 JYJ Members Unable to Appear on Music Programs, Turn to Popular Dramas September 6, 2011 · by JYJ3 Team Though it’s normal to see idols taking on a side job as actors, the situation of JYJ (Park Yoochun, Kim Junsu and Kim Jaejoong) is quite different. Other singers appear on music and variety shows while having roles in dramas. However, JYJ can only be seen starring in dramas. The first member who made a drama appearance was Park Yoochun, who from last August till November, appeared in the historical drama “SungKyunKwan Scandal” (KBS) and made his mark as an actor that drama producers wants to work with. Afterwards he began filming “Miss Ripley” (MBC) which started filming in May and wrapped up in July. Kim Junsu appeared shortly on “Scent of a Woman” as Asia’s top Hallyu singer “Junsu”, who Lee Yeon Jae(Kim Seon Ah) wanted to see before she died. “You are so Beautiful“, the OST that Kim Junsu performed live during the drama, drives into the viewers’ ears whenever an emotional scene takes place between the two leading roles (Kim Seon Ah and Lee Dong Wook). Kim Jaejoong is currently playing the role of Department Head Cha Mu Won in “Protect the Boss” (SBS) who is the creator of the love triangle between him, No Eun Seol (Choi Kang Hee), and Cha Ji Hun (Ji Sung). Critics have stated that though his acting was a little awkward at the beginning, he is improving as the episodes progress while other critics state that he is doing extremely well when portraying a financial character. [NEWS] Organizer Cites Overlap with Chuseok Holiday for “Scent of Woman” Concert Cancellation Sudden cancellation of ‘Scent of a Woman’ concert, “Fans’ complaints flood” Charity concert of SBS week-end drama ‘Scent of a Woman’ was suddenly cancelled. Originally, the concert was scheduled on the 11th Sept at Jamhsil Olympic Stadium in Seoul with participation of singers who sing OST for the drama and the casts. But due to fans’ complaints, the show was cancelled. On the 30th of last month, the same notice was announced in ticketing site by the concert organizer. Organizer side said, “‘Scent of a Woman’ concert’s schedule overlapped with Chuseok holiday. Fans complained a lot about the viewing schedule (T/N: There are usually many interesting and special TV programs on Chuseok holiday in Korea) and the transportation, so the concert was cancelled.” He added, “We promise to individually contact people who bought ticket and process the full refund soon. We sincerely apologize to fans.” (Other information about the concert already translated by JYJ3 omitted) Source: Star News Translation Credit: @The_Little_Pear of JYJ3 [TRANS] “Scent of a Woman” Twitter Says OST Concert w/ Junsu is Cancelled August 30, 2011 · by JYJ3 Team The below are tweets from the official Twitter of the SBS drama Scent of a Woman. I’ve heard that it is correct that the [OST Concert] is cancelled. Look Korea and C-JeS say that they will put up an announcement for the Korean fans within today. It is said that the “Scent of a Woman” concert is cancelled ^^ Source: @scentofawoman20 [NEWS] 110826 BCWW2011, Large-Scale Conference for Korean/Abroad Media, to Have Features on JJ + Scent BCWW2011 Will Showcase “K-Pop Zone” Tailored for the Korean Wave For the First Time! For the BCWW2011 (“Broadcast Worldwide” hosted by the Ministry of Culture and supervised by the Korea Creative Content Agency) which begins on the 31st, SBS Contents Hub has revealed that it plans to showcase for the first time the “K-Pop Zone” which is tailored for the Korean Wave which has become even more heated recent times and is thus becoming the center of the industry’s attention. In the upcoming BCWW2011, the display of the domestic and abroad broadcast video contents and the forum for global media will be held simultaneously. Britain’s BBC Worldwide, China’s CCTV, USA’s NBC Universal and such have completed their registration to showcase. This is the BCWW that is largest in scale since its beginning, with 231 agencies from 50 countries showcasing. In the upcoming BCWW2011 in which countries all around the world will participate, K-Pop Zone has been prepared to promote the stats of the Korean Wave which has recently become higher and equipped with a variety of items to enjoy. .. Further, there will be Galaxy Tabs so that attendees can themselves test the mobile version of KrazyRain, a rhythm action game that uses popular K-Pop songs such as Kim Jaejoong’s I Will Protect You, an OST to Protect the Boss, Read More → Page 1 of 8 1 2 3 … 8 Next »	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line958
__label__cc	0.625624	0.374376	The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination “This is not a normal travelling theatre company you know!” Scotland Yard. Defend the zad – a call for international solidarity October 8th & 9th 2016 For over 50 years, farmers and locals have resisted the building of a new airport for the French city of Nantes (which by the way already has one). Now in these rich fields, forests and wetlands, which multinational Vinci want to cover in concrete, an experiment in reinventing everyday life in struggle is blossoming. Radicals from around the world, local farmers and villagers, citizen groups, trade unionists and naturalists, refugees and runaways, squatters and climate justice activists and many others, are organising to protect the 4000 acres of land against the airport and its world. Government officials have coined this place “a territory lost to the republic”. Its occupants have named it: la zad (zone a défendre) zone to defend. In the winter of 2012, thousands of riot police attempted to evict the zone, but they faced a determined and diverse resistance. This culminated in a 40,000 people strong demonstration to rebuild some of what had been destroyed by the French State. Less than a week later, the police was forced to stop what they called “Operation Cesar”. For the last three years, the zad has been an extraordinary laboratory of new ways of living, rooted in collaborations between all those who make up the diversity of this movement. There is even a set of 6 points (see below) to radically rethink how to organise and work the land without an airport, based on the creation of commons, the notion of usage rather than property and the demand that those who fought for the land are those who decide its use. Now, the entire zone is due for expulsions to start the construction of this absurd airport. Prime minister Valls has promised a “Rendez Vous” this October to evict everyone who is living, working, building and farming on the zone. On October 8th, tens of thousands of people will gather on the zad to demonstrate that the determination of the movement is as strong as ever. Honouring farmers struggles from the past, we will come with wooden walking batons and leave them on the zone, as a sign of the commitment to come back and pick them up again if necessary. We will also raise a barn, built by dozens of carpenters during the summer, which will be used as a base, should evictions happen. We are calling on all international groups and movements to either come to the zone on October 8th or show their solidarity with the zad through actions directed at the French government or multinational Vinci in their own towns and cities on that day. The airport will never be built. Life on the zad will keep on flourishing! WATCH THE VIDEO TRAILER HERE 6 points for the future of the zad. Since there will be no airport… Once the project is abandoned, we want: 1. That the inhabitants, owners or tenants who are part of a compulsory purchase or eviction order can remain on the zone and regain their rights. 2. That the impacted farmers resisting and refusing to bend to the will of AGO-Vinci, can continue to freely cultivate the lands that they use and recover their rights and pursue their work in good 3. That the new inhabitants who came to the zad to take part in the struggle can remain on the zone. That everything which has been build since 2007 as part of the occupation movement in terms of experiments in alternative agriculture, self-built homes or temporary dwellings (huts, yurts, caravans etc.) and forms of life and resistance, can stay and continue. 4. That the lands that each year are redistributed by the chamber of agriculture for AGO-Vinci’s, in the form of precarious leases, are handled by a body that comes out of the resistance movement and brings together all its elements. So that it is the anti-airport movements rather than the normal institutions that decide on the uses of this 5. That these lands are for new agricultural or non agricultural projects, be they authorised or not, and not for the expansion of already existing farms. 6. That these agreements becomes a reality through our collective determination and that we carry together an attention to resolve all eventual conflicts linked to them being put in place. We are already sowing and building a future without an airport in our unity and diversity. It is up to all of us, from today, to enable it to flourish and to defend it. zad.nadir.org zad@riseup.net for a beautiful booklet about the zad see here By laronceblog1 Comment One thought on “Defend the zad – a call for international solidarity October 8th & 9th 2016” Rose Bridger says: ← TREE LOVERS AND CLIMBERS NEEDED AT THE ZAD Journée de formation “L’Art du Blocage” – dimanche 30 octobre sur la zad → Two new little documentaries about the ZAD The zad: The liberated territory against an airport and its world – An illustrated presentation Conférence sur l’artivisme et atelier Créa(c)tion à Metz les 28 & 29 janvier UNCONDITIONAL VALLS VS. 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__label__wiki	0.782094	0.782094	Picture Book Summer Here are some audiobooks highly recommended by Picture Book for your Summer Listening! Playlist Tags: Picture Book View all playlists Black Leopard, Red Wolf The Dark Star Trilogy: Book #1 By Marlon James Narrated by: Dion Graham #30 in Bestselling African American Voices Audiobooks “Black Leopard, Red Wolf is fantastically queer, black, and confounding! It is an enticing read, filled with love, sex, betrayal, and truths that are not so true.” Dartricia, @dartricia_ On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous By Ocean Vuong Narrated by: Ocean Vuong Length: 7 hours 18 minutes #81 in Bestselling Audiobooks #24 in Bestselling Literary Fiction Audiobooks “Written as a letter from son to mother, Ocean Vuong's On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is desolately beautiful. Each carefully crafted sentence builds upon the last, a momentum that carries you through a hundred pages before you remember to take a breath. Bleak, brilliant, it is the book other books will be compared to for years. Honestly, I would have been fine if it had been the last book I ever read.” Cody, Book Culture, @thecodystuart By Madeline Miller Length: 12 hours 8 minutes #30 in Bestselling Audiobooks #2 in Bestselling Historical Fiction Audiobooks “Beautifully composed and deeply compelling, Circe is hands-down one of the best novels of 2018. As she did in Song of Achilles, Miller recreates the ancient and enchanting world of Greek mythology, this time focusing on ocean nymph Circe. Cast out of her home and exiled to the island of Aiaia, Circe turns not only to her enchantments, but also to the world of Mortals, becoming close with legendary figures like Daedalus, Odysseus, and Penelope. Miller’s delicate, yet stunning prose swept me off my feet — I wanted to savor every moment with Circe in her immortal world. Introspective, soft, at times simply breathtaking, but always beautiful. So, so beautiful.” Kelly, Mysterious Galaxy Books By Ted Chiang Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Dominic Hoffman, Amy Landon & Ted Chiang #8 in Bestselling Short Stories Audiobooks “WOW. My first experience with Ted Chiang absolutely blew me out of the water. Each story left me with wide eyes and a racing mind, running to my husband to read a passage so we could both be knocked over with wonder. Exhalation filled me with so many questions about our collective past, present, and future, I’ll be coming back to this book again and again trying to find the answers.” Kasey Kane, Country Bookshelf I Miss You When I Blink By Mary Laura Philpott Narrated by: Mary Laura Philpott Length: 6 hours 5 minutes “Mary Laura Philpott writes about today’s American woman in her marvelously frank and witty book of essays, I Miss You When I Blink. Women of all ages will nod their heads when reading about the decision to have babies (or not), the pitfalls of volunteering, the difficulty of getting a cat out from under the bed, the reward of crossing things off ‘the list,’ the challenge of finding time for relaxation, and, above all, the acceleration of time as we age. Philpott shares pivotal moments from her life in such a relatable way that, through both laughter and tears, readers will exclaim, ‘Yes, yes, this is ME!’ Don’t miss this gem!” Nancy Simpson-Brice, Vault Books and Brew Save Me the Plums My Gourmet Memoir By Ruth Reichl Narrated by: Ruth Reichl #2 in Bestselling Cooking Audiobooks “In her new memoir, trendsetting food writer and editor Ruth Reichl writes lovingly of the full-blast creativity of her 10 years as editor-in-chief of Gourmet. By book’s end, you’ll miss the storied and groundbreaking magazine, but you’ll be grateful she shared the tale of how its outstanding roster of writers, photographers, designers, and cooks transformed how we look at food. Reichl takes readers behind the scenes as chefs became rock stars, as writers like David Foster Wallace reshaped food writing, and as she fought to save the magazine she adored. A beloved writer with an enviable career, Reichl reminds us that although things may change, simple, honest pleasures — like a perfect plum — endure and make life rich.” Mary Vermillion, Village Books What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell #15 in Bestselling Audiobooks #7 in Bestselling Nonfiction Audiobooks “Talking To Strangers is perfect on audio. It reads (listens) like a podcast including audio clips from interviews, etc.” Jessica, Main Street Books Davidson Three Women By Lisa Taddeo Narrated by: Tara Lynne Barr, Marin Ireland, Mena Suvari & Lisa Taddeo #28 in Bestselling History Audiobooks “I can’t recall the last time I’ve been reading a work of nonfiction and woken up excited purely by the fact that, today, I would get to read more. Compulsive and psychologically riveting, Three Women reads like a novel. I couldn’t keep from dog-earing its pages each time Taddeo perfectly expressed something I’d felt but never had the words for. In Sloane, Maggie, and Lina, I recognized aspects of myself — namely the desire for connection and for love. When three women tell their uncensored truth, they can liberate a nation. I feel deeply grateful to Lisa Taddeo for giving us this gift of raw authenticity.” Michaela Carter, Peregrine Book Company When you shop at your local bookstore, you are directly supporting and enriching your own community with your purchases—and your tax dollars. Join the movement and #ShopLocalBookstores. The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) Narrated by: JD Jackson & Colson Whitehead #7 in Bestselling Historical Fiction Audiobooks “With every book, Colson Whitehead proves his ever-growing genius. He’s a master of the written word and truly one of the greatest living American novelists of our time. I didn’t think it was possible for him to write something better than Underground Railroad, but he most certainly has — The NickelBoys grabbed me at page one. It’s a mystery and a thriller, a treatise on race and social injustice, and a literary masterpiece all rolled into one. Ellwood and Turner are characters that will stay with me forever. This should be mandatory reading in every classroom.” Michelle Malonzo, Changing Hands Where'd You Go, Bernadette Narrated by: Kathleen Wilhoite A misanthropic matriarch leaves her eccentric family in crisis when she mysteriously disappears in this "whip-smart and divinely funny" novel that inspired the movie starring Cate Blanchett (New York Times). Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in... Read more » You'll Grow Out of It By Jessi Klein Narrated by: Jessi Klein From Emmy award-winning comedy writer Jessi Klein, You'll Grow Out of It hilariously and candidly explores the journey of the 21st-century woman. As both a tomboy and a late bloomer, comedian Jessi Klein grew up feeling more like an outsider than a participant in the rites of modern femininity. In You'll Grow Out of It, Klein offers -... Read more »	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line966
__label__wiki	0.655566	0.655566	Five Guys Fire/Suspend Employees Who Refused to Serve Police Officers by Andrew West and Jeff Dunetz \| Jul 12, 2020 \| U.S. News Five Guys police officers. What kind of bullsh*t profiling is this? Because of the actions of a very few law enforcement officers, there’s been a great debate raging in our nation these days regarding the behavior of our police officers, specifically in regard to interactions with people of color. Much of the rhetoric in this discussion has been heated, and this has pushed some Americans to lose respect for the law enforcement community. In Alabama, this point of view was manifested at a Five Guys burger joint. A local Fox 10 news outlet reported that police officers were refused service Tuesday night by several Five Guys employees. Five Guys employees in Daphne, Ala., who reportedly denied three police officers service have been fired or suspended, the restaurant said. The officers claim that six or seven employees in the establishment turned their backs on the officers as they entered the restaurant chain. One officer reportedly heard an employee say, “I’m not serving them.” The officers then left and went to another restaurant. “The Daphne Police Department appreciates the outpouring of support from our community and from supporters of Law Enforcement across the country,” Daphne Police said in a statement earlier this week. “We also want to thank Five Guys on a corporate and local level.” Gee if someone had shown up to rob that particular Five Guys, I wonder who those Daphne Alabama employees would have called? The same police they stiffed, that’s who. Hi there. Please know that the actions and sentiments of a few employees in Daphne, AL do not represent Five Guys or the local franchisee. The actions the Daphne, AL franchise have taken include termination and suspension of the employees involved. — Five Guys (@FiveGuys) July 10, 2020 Five Guys responded quickly once they heard about the employees’ refusal. Five Guys employees in Daphne, Ala., who reportedly denied three police officers service have been fired or suspended, the restaurant said. “Five Guys and the Daphne, AL franchise want to thank the Daphne Police Department for their support in working together toward a resolution,” Five Guys said in a statement Friday. “The actions the Daphne, AL franchise have taken include termination and suspension of the employees involved.” The Daphne police department went on to release a statement that recognized these as the actions of the individuals and not of the franchise, hoping to quell any possible blowback for Five Guys. Below is a TV news report about the incident: Parts of this post were first seen at Liberty Hub https://lidblog.com	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line967
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__label__cc	0.731303	0.268697	Home Care Package NDIS & Disability Support Coordinators and Organisations About Mable Prevention Training Home Support Screening Tools & Guidelines Getting started as a client I have NDIS funding. What is the first thing I need to do to get started? Take a step back and think about who you need in your team, think about your goals and the funding that has been approved. The second thing you can do is hop online and have a look at the Mable platform and see workers who are available in your area. You can then sign up and start messaging and interviewing people. Talk to your plan manager, talk to your provider and your coordinator of supports and ask them what you need to build your own team. If you have any questions, call us! 1300 73 65 73 or email us at info@mable.com.au. What you need to know about your first meet and greet with an independent worker What all clients should know about ‘guide rates’ on Mable Questions to ask in an interview Tips for creating the perfect job post on Mable Edit your profile with ease! Still looking for answers? Contact our Sydney based team from 9am–6pm if you have any questions. info@mable.com.au Ready to join the growing Mable Community? Download the Mable App for your smartphone NDIS & Disability Care We acknowledge the cultures of our First Nations Peoples and are thankful for the community that we share together now. We pay our respects to our First Nations Peoples and their elders/leaders, both past and present, and those who are rising up to become leaders. Mable facilitates connections between independent workers and people who require their services, but does not employ or retain the workers, and does not supervise the arrangements made between workers and those requiring their services. Use of the Mable platform should be considered in accordance with our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy available on this site. Mable conducts certain checks and verifications on independent workers before they are approved, but we do not guarantee the accuracy of the information provided by them. Accordingly, in exercising your choice of care worker and hiring them directly, we recommend that you check their credentials and original documents when you first meet them and provide ongoing supervision. We recommend that care workers take a file of their key documents with them to their first meeting. This website provides a number of illustrative and comparative examples. The figures and comparisons on this site are necessarily general, and do not take into account all relevant factors, including things like total hours of work available or training and experience. Arrangements between independent workers and people who require their services (including hourly rate and hours of work) facilitated through the Mable platform will be the subject of agreement between the relevant individuals, and the general comparisons on this website may not reflect any such arrangements. © 2020 Mable Technologies Pty Ltd. – All rights reserved.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line977
__label__wiki	0.541429	0.541429	Trinidad Tidings: Feel the love on Valentine’s Day with music & art Everyone loves Valentine’s Day. Bring your sweetheart, family and friends to “An Elegant Celebration: Landscapes and Songs of Love” on Thursday, Feb. 14 from 6 to 9 p.m. at Trinidad Town Hall. “Songs of Love: Opera to Elvis” will feature performers David Powell, Alexandra Blouin, Kevin Held and Tim Breed singing favorite love songs. “Landscapes with Love” presents new works and art for sale by respected and prolific local artists Paul Rickard, Toni Magyar and Jody Bryan. Enjoy hearty appetizers by Katherine Wayne and tempting desserts by Sugar Bear Baking Company. Tickets are $30 or $55 for two. For reservations, call (707) 502-8678. Chair Jan West and the Trinidad Civic Club invite all to this evening celebration of love and harmony. Dress up! Proceeds will benefit the Memorial Lighthouse Project. Trinidad Civic Club is a 501(c)(3) non-profit community service organization. It would not be inappropriate to raise a glass to toast the success of one step in the lighthouse relocation project. Late breaking news is that the California Coastal Commission approved, after 13 months, the retroactive emergency permit for relocating the Memorial Lighthouse and Fog Bell last Jan. 10, 2018 on Friday, Feb. 8, 2019 in Half Moon Bay at the Northern California CCC meeting. Co-presidents Dana Hope and Jan West, Memorial Lighthouse Secretary Lynda Moran and her husband, Joe Moran, TCC member and Cher-ae Heights Indian Community of the Trinidad Rancheria spokesperson Shirley Laos all traveled to the meeting in support. Katrin Homan was instrumental in compiling compelling written testimony. The commissioners were unanimous in support of the long-awaited approval. Much work is ahead but the road to permanent relocation of the iconic lighthouse in the Rancheria-owned harbor area has one hurdle behind the Club. Trinidad City Council tonight There is another full agenda for the City Council today, Feb. 13 at 6 p.m. in Trinidad Town Hall. A financial auditing report, short term rental committee status, and the temporary leave of absence for Councilman Jim Baker are just part of the proceedings. The City has held interviews for hiring a new city manager on February 6, 7 and 11. Meantime City Manager Dan Berman remains on the job to assist with the transition when the time comes. Third Friday Blues Jim Lahman, Jenner Cohune, Alex Dautner, Justin Hoopes and Ron Perry will perform at Third Friday Blues on Feb. 15 at 7 p.m. at Westhaven Center for the Arts, 501 South Westhaven Dr. “High class swingin’, rockin’ and funky blues” is one fan’s description of the highly anticipated musical evening. February at WCA is packed with events. Gaia’s Love led by Roy King is set for Sunday, Feb. 17 from 10 to 11 a.m. Seabury Gould will lead Song Circle on the same day from 1 to 3 p.m. Fourth Friday Flicks on Feb. 22 brings soap opera satire “Soapdish” to the screen at 7 p.m. Rosalind Parducci and Aleister Paige will present instrumental music and poetry on Saturday, Sept. 23. And coming up on Friday, March 1 at 7:30 p.m. is LodeStar featuring Linda Faye Carson, Goodshield Aguilar, Caterina Delaisia, Rob Diggins, Jolie Einem and Sam Kaplan-Good. Go to westhavencenter.org or call (707) 677-9493 for more information. Big Lagoon School activities Superintendent-Principal Jennifer Glueck reports a full February calendar at Big Lagoon School. The students were treated to a performance by Chinese Golden Acrobats at the Arkley Theatre last week followed by an upper grade class trip to Maple Creek School to view the NASA moon rock and meteorite display. Community service organization Lions Club gave Vision Screening last week. The School Site Council meets on Feb. 21 at 3 p.m. followed by the Board of Trustees meeting at 4:30 p.m. And on Feb. 27, the students will be entertained by the Quack and Wabbit Puppet Show at 9 a.m. Contact Ms. Glueck at [email protected] or call (707) 677-3688 for information about the school and its programs and curriculum. Email Patti at [email protected]. Tags Arkley Theatre, California Coastal Commission, Cher-Ae Heights Indian Community, Chinese Golden Acrobats, Half Moon Bay, Memorial Lighthouse, NASA, Quack and Wabbit, Seabury Gould, Sugar Bear Baking Company, Third Friday Blues, Trinidad City Council, Trinidad Civic Club, Trinidad Rancheria, Trinidad Town Hall, Valentine's Day Trinidad Tidings: Lighthouse Project auction set John Corbett: We must acknowledge the history that got us here Trinidad Tidings: Tastin’ Trinidad is now a to-go event	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line978
__label__cc	0.670914	0.329086	What's On Our Minds Shifting Accountability What happens when an organization loses funding from a government agency with very rigorous evaluation and accountability requirements? What types of assessment tools will allow us to be accountable to our own high standards beyond that of any single funder? These are questions we are currently asking ourselves as we diversify the funding of our MPACT (Moving Parents and Children Together) program. Although each funding source has its own priorities in terms of data collection, most accept and appreciate Luna’s thorough evaluation methods. As we transition MPACT from its Alameda-centric delivery, specifically in the case where two of our three partner residential centers are folding, we seek to delve deeper into the neighborhoods in which we’ve already developed relationships. Looking to strengthen “cultures of dance” in three specific neighborhoods: East Oakland/81st Street; Fruitvale; and Marin City/Sausalito, we’re building upon relationships that have been in play for more than a dozen years; and now, no longer tethered to serving children under age 5, we want to document how we bring dance to children and families from cradle to grave. For example, how do we trace the experience of the young girl who danced with her foster mother at the Eastmont library MPACT classes, later danced with her birth mother at a residential facility and later still was a first grade dancer in one of Luna’s school programs? She sees dance as integral to her identity—a friendly accompaniment across relationships and “homes.” Dance as continuity has been the case for several children we’ve taught in MPACT classes and now we want to be strategic in our efforts to create pathways for families to stay connected across venues through the art of dance. Making visible the various pathways possible is what we want our new evaluation process to accomplish. (preedy)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line983
__label__wiki	0.617612	0.617612	Writing about art About Louise Gray: writer and researcher Shame, Shame, Shame, Shame on You: 12 glorious years of Gay Shame Posted on July 6, 2009 by Louise Femme fatale: Lois Weaver as Mother, Hitchcock Handbags, 4 July 2009 The evening offered boob jobs, breast-feeding workshops and a cure centre – modeled very much on the theatre of derangement offered by neurologist Jean-Marie Charcot at the Salpêtrière in the 1870s – for hysterical symptoms. Another shopfront – Mummy’s Little Helper – dragged its participants into its precincts and, via vodka bottles, hormonal spots and the like, displayed the wounds of femininity to all who cared to look. Nasty, yes; brutal, yes; and well worth the 32 Green Shield stamps I paid for my exegesis. Elsewhere, there were some demented care bears (bears, in the gay sense, that is) who, in the course of their Girly, Sissy-Play Party, immured the bodies of their subjects in boxes before practising extreme make-overs on their heads poking out from the top of the boxes. This was a cross between unwilling Winnies (à la Beckett) and those hideous disembodied heads, marketed to young girls as make-up toys. It will never be possible to pass a make-up stand in Selfridges again and this was the whole point. All in all, Duckie’s latest Gay Shame (theme: “Goes Girly”), its twelfth “annual festival of homosexual misery” was an appropriate coda to the happy, clappiness of Gay Pride day in London. Duckie, of course, has an exuberant, irrepressible and utterly irreverent record here when it comes to dominant gay culture. Since 1995, its creators, Simon Casson and Amy Lamé have been questioning the herd mentality that rules that gay = uniformity, mega-discos and mega-drugs. Oh, of course people want to belong to a group, acknowledges Duckie, but, isn’t it much more fun on the margins? It’s here, after all, that individual creativity comes to the fore. Duckie has been helped on its way by many regular performers, from the truly iconoclastic David Hoyle onwards, but it’s this message that’s run through its history. The paradox is that there’d be no Duckie had it not been for the generations of gay and lesbian activists whose lives and works predated it. Delightfully, Duckie has never been oppositional just for the sake of being bloody-minded. Rather, there’s an attractive old-fashionedness way of thought in operation: the personal is political, it suggests – acknowledge this truth and life will never be the same again. With this in mind, it makes perfect sense that one of the artists who has graced the stage at both Duckie and at this year’s Shame is Lois Weaver. A veteran of New York’s Split Britches company (with Peggy Shaw), of WOW (the Women’s Only Café) and in London, Gay Sweatshop, Weaver is a writer/actor/academic whose work has focussed on the performance of femininity for some 30 years. While this is of interest in terms of feminism, it becomes really interesting when one introduces a bit of gender slippage and queer identity into the mix. Femininity in a lesbian context, suggests Weaver, never the valium-lapped backwater that a wider consumerist world might want it to be. Unsurprisingly, Weaver is no stranger to Duckie. Her backwards stripteases, appearances by Tammy WhyNot, a country singer turned lesbian performer, and – on at least one occasion, the Dance of the Seven Wigs, have all brought both humour and steely glint to her subject. At Hitchcock Handbags, Weaver presided over the best sideshow that 2009’s Shame had to offer. Her character of Mother – a truly scary character straight out of Psycho (but this time alive) – grabbed your money, shoved you into her shop, where two immaculate shop assistants flapped in a seizure of performance and an assistant invited you to try handbags – some lacerated, some fitted with flashing electrodes and others with video screens playing Hitchcock footage. Screeds have been written about handbags (think the fascination with Mrs Thatcher’s), not least in Hitchcock’s films. They have been deconstructed (exploded?!) as signifiers of femininity, as metaphors for the female body, as phallic examples of a woman’s mysterious ‘equipment’. There’s a glorious twist at the end of Weaver’s Handbags sideshow… be warned. (Clue: the programme for Gay Shame Goes Girly features a vagina dentata.) This entry was posted in Duckie, Gay Shame, Lois Weaver by Louise. Bookmark the permalink.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line991
__label__wiki	0.852985	0.852985	Luanban Luann Parent-child education BEAUTY&SKIN CARE PARRENT&CHILDREN CUISINE&HEALTH Three kinds of “alcohol” that are easy to hurt the liver are announced. If you are addicted to alcohol, don’t move the whole box home. It’s easy to get into trouble zmhuaxia I believe that many people who like to drink understand the harm of drinking better than anyone else, but they don’t think so and always take chances. When it comes to drinking, the most harmful part is the liver. Although the liver has the function of antialcoholism, it is the same as the human stomach. It can hold up a lot and eat ten Jin and eight Jin of food even if you try your best to eat, but it does great harm to the stomach. < / P > < p > it’s the same with liver. Although it can decompose and metabolize alcohol, no matter how good the liver is, it can’t stand drinking a lot for a long time. It often makes the liver bear the burden beyond its ability, and liver disease will happen sooner or later. < / P > < p > but when it comes to abstinence, many people begin to make excuses, either because of the need of work or because of life. In short, the voice is: no abstinence! But you know what? People who often drink alcohol, if they suddenly quit drinking, the following changes will happen to their bodies. If they are excited after watching, they should act quickly! < / P > < p > many friends who love drinking have the problem of high blood pressure. This is because drinking can stimulate blood vessels, lead to vasoconstriction, narrow the channel of blood flow, and naturally increase the blood pressure. However, after abstinence, the pressure on the blood vessels is reduced, and the self-healing function will be restarted. The narrowed and hardened blood vessels will slowly restore their elasticity, and the blood pressure will fall back to the normal level. The risk of hypertension will be reduced, and various complications will not be “ready to move”. < / P > < p > after drinking, we always feel a splitting headache, and our bodies are not as quick as before. In fact, this is the “sequelae” brought by long-term drinking, because alcohol will paralyze our nerves. Long term drinking will easily lead to alcoholism. Alcohol stimulates the brain nerves, which will lead to memory damage and decreased responsiveness. If we do not give up drinking in time, the brain will accelerate aging. < / P > < p > everyone doesn’t like to have a big belly on his body, but for people who love drinking, it’s inevitable, because the heat of beer itself is very high, and when drinking, it’s unrealistic not to eat. The habit of drinking and eating meat will make our stomach protrude like a balloon. If you can stop drinking in time, less extra calories, the body will accelerate the consumption of body fat, the belly will also be reduced. < / P > < p > many long-term drinkers eventually have the same problem, that is, alcoholic liver disease or liver cirrhosis. For normal people, reasonable diet is most in line with the working ability of the liver. The liver can help us consume, decompose and metabolize fat, garbage and toxins in the body, while excessive drinking will damage liver function and lead to liver endotoxin accumulation. And timely abstinence, can let the liver “breath”, self repair, improve liver function, discharge liver poison. < / P > < p > speaking of this, you should understand that, in fact, the benefits of abstinence are beyond our imagination, and these benefits may be nothing for an ordinary person, but for people who have been injured by alcohol, they are “life-saving medicine”. In fact, abstinence is much more difficult than we think. The road of abstinence is long. Even if we can’t succeed in abstinence, we’d better avoid these three kinds of “alcohol” that hurt the liver most. < p > < p > nowadays, people can do anything to pursue stimulation. What kind of “mixed wine” such as beer and white wine, red wine and drink, white wine and iced black tea all appear in our lives, but it’s not easy to find out Because this kind of wine is diluted by the drink, the alcohol content is low, it will make everyone take one mouthful after another, and they don’t know why. At last, what they drink into their stomach may be far more than their original amount of alcohol, and the damage to their body is naturally greater. < / P > < p > during dinner, if someone is late, they will basically punish themselves for one cup when they come. But at this time, we have no food in our stomach. Drinking this kind of “fasting wine” will give alcohol a chance to directly stimulate the gastric mucosa, make alcohol easier to be absorbed by the body, and increase the burden on the liver. < / P > < p > in order to pursue stimulation, some people will specially find some wine with high alcohol degree. After drinking this kind of wine, people will feel a burning feeling immediately. If you feel very exciting, it’s too careless, because it’s the stomach that is asking you for help. You often drink high alcohol. Who don’t you go to for stomach disease or liver disease? < / P > < p > drinking is harmful to your health. I hope you can give up drinking as soon as possible. If you really want to drink, it’s better to drink some herbal tea to nourish your liver and stomach, so as to reduce the harm of alcohol to your body. 08/16/2020 After pregnancy, the pregnant mother should stop… It's more harmful than alcohol. The doctor hardly… Get rid of melasma several "errors", see you in the… It is said that "drinking hurts the liver". In… Easy to damage the kidney water was found, many… The most hurtful "drink" is announced. Shut up as… Tags: HEALTHY LIFE Beijing Union Medical College Hospital escorts the lives of mothers and infants with three complex and critical operations a day 67 year old grandmother gives birth to a daughter: she is not only in good health, but her husband also says she is 20 years younger Drink much, how does whole body suffer to do? The drunkard master teaches you three secrets. You are not afraid to drink too much When an accident occurs during childbirth, will the doctor keep the big one or the small one? Look at the hospital regulations After cutting the umbilical cord, the newborn caught hold of the scissors and felt very aggrieved. Does the baby feel pain? 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__label__cc	0.685789	0.314211	Li-reco Recruiting & Consulting What is Lireco? About Lireco In which countries? Facts about Sweden Facts about Denmark From the first step? To jobseekers To employers Job offers Sweden Job offers Norway Job offers Denmark News from Scandinavia since the first Winter Olympic Games in 1924. titles are published annually European Happy PlanetIndex About Norway Culture and Leisure Time Norway, with its population of just over 5 million, is one of the three Scandinavian countries. It is ranked as one of the best countries to live in and has one of the lowest crime rates in the world. All the more reason to move in Norway! Norwegian values are rooted in egalitarian ideals and Norway is a progressive welfare state. Openness, equality and equal rights are important values that you will experience. The Norwegian lifestyle is strongly connected to the time spent on studies and work. The work/life balance has become more demanding, with increasing expectations of professional and personal availability. It is increasingly common in Norway to complete higher education. One of the reasons is the fact that taking a degree is affordable. The educational system is generally state-supported, to ensure that access to education is equal for all. This means that most institutions have no tuition fees. With such favourable conditions, you are almost expected to get a degree and experience the carefree student life. Norway is growing steadily as a cultural nation. People are interested in culture, and they are willing to spend time and money on it. Culture is not, however, only consumed. In Norway there is also a widespread culture for participating in and contributing to culture and cultural growth. ®2018 Li-reco	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line998
__label__cc	0.725782	0.274218	Lisa Schweitzer Working to understand the complex connections between people, cities, and environments Various planning (theory) questions answered–where to begin with Marx in urban and planning theory? 12/23/2019 12/23/2019 Lisa Schweitzer I spent the last day of planning theory answering questions. Some I didn’t get to, and they were good questions, so I thought I would answer them here. How to break into the Marxist literature? You could do waaaaay worse than start with David Harvey’s readalong on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBazR59SZXkv My favorite of David Harvey’s books: The Condition of Postmodernity and the History of Neoliberalism You really want to read Karl Polyani’s The Great Transformation Stuart Eldon’s presentation of Lefebvre is good: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/marxist-thought-and-the-city Everybody should read Franz Fannon just to be an educated person. Gen Z and mental health awesomeness (Millennials, too, maybe?) Like culture war stuff, I generally find these generational divides to be artificial. I have a wonderful demographer colleague, don’t get me wrong, but I think so much of the intergenerational stuff of “Ok, Boomer” and whatnot tends to be about exploiting ageism to get clicks more than anything. There are selfish, awful people in every generation just like there are cool, giving, and wonderful people in each one. I cut my teeth protest with a 92 year-old Grandmother who hated nukes. (and who understood how to ally very well in that she knew one way to make the police calm the hell down was to make them arrest a 92 year-old white lady.) Yeah, there are lotsa Boomer NIMBYs but I am also seeing a LOT of twenty-something dudes at these white supremacist rallies. So there’s the disclaimer. Like the culture war stuff, there are differences, and some of those differences are meaningful. And there is one difference that I love soooooooooooooooooooo much: my Gen Z students talk about going to see their therapists like my generation talks about going to see the dentist. I really don’t have words to describe how healthy and awesome that is. Mental health was so stigmatized when I grew up and as we all know, that shit kills people. Now, my students are really privileged, and I don’t want to downplay the many, many barriers that many still have in being able to get treatment, let alone mention it in conversation with the assumption that they will still be respected and cared for. But the fact that anybody can do it is a breath of fresh air. I’ve been told many many times about how brave I am for being as real as I am about my own depression, anxiety, and addiction struggles and the reason I did that was so that people could feel less alone in theirs. I’m sitting here at my desk smiling as I think about it because it makes me incredibly happy to see how many younger generations can just get what they need without having to deal with a lot of stigma and other crap. Students are always inspiring, but this particular point is really special to me. They are a great example. Get what you need; there is nothing wrong with taking care of yourself. Award committees can go fuck right off Ok, I am going to admit: I am not a good loser. I could care less about 90 percent of the things, but I rather routinely put together award nominations for young scholars because getting these can actually move the needle on their promotion. Guess what? Young people never win them. It makes me furious. This past fall, I had an experience with something that has happened to me all-too-often. I put together a nomination for call that, at the time I read the damn thing, read as “It seems pretty clear that they have written this specifically so that they can award it to this particular senior scholar.” My colleagues wanted to nominate me, but then they turned around and dumped all the work on nominating me on me and I was like, screw that. If I’m going to do all this work, I’m going to nominate somebody I think is deserving and who could use the boost for tenure time. I have more than enough money and more than enough status, including awards I’m pretty sure I don’t deserve. I’m good. I was still dubious that this one was hard-wired, but like all award nominations, this one was a fuck-ton of work, and I thought to myself “Nah, they wouldn’t put people to a fuck-ton of work if they just wanted to give so-and-so an award.” Guess what? They handed that person the award, after making all the monkeys dance. Of course they did. Because causing other people to do pointless god-damn work is the funnest part of the power trip, and having something to award is a power trip. Now, I have no problem with who got it. This is a very deserving, very accomplished person whom I happen to adore personally. Here’s how this should go, though: JUST GIVE THEM THE GOD-DAMN AWARD YOU WANT TO GIVE THEM AND SPARE THE REST OF US THE GIANT TIME SINK, MMMMMKAY? All these damn things are the same. You write and write and write, beg people for support letters, write up the damn “brief” so that nobody on the award committee has to write that whoooooooooooooole paragraph themselves, and then the award committee gives the award to the senior scholar they wanted to give it to from the get-go. Award committees are the same damn way. I sit on award committees because I am too weak to just say no. I am going to start saying no. This is how every single award committee goes: We are given packets and/or papers to read. 2. Guy on the committee gives us a spreadsheet we are all supposed to fill out because spreadsheets are very scientifical. 3. despite the magic of the spreadsheet, we all wind up with different, subjective assessments of the best paper/packet/whatever. 4. I usually try to push some younger scholars into the final mix for the big committee to choose from. 5. Various arguments ensue, and committee gravitates to giving the cookies to the senior scholars on the list who already have all the cookies and for whom the cookies will be a little boost to already well-fed ego. 6. I step up and make one last argument for trying to get the award to an equally good package/paper from a more junior scholar. THEN THE EXCITEMENT HAPPENS: 7. Old dudes whine/swing their dicks around until one of the following happens (ooooooo are you on the edge of your seats? Are you?): a) Senior scholar gets the award because I am tired of fighting with windmills. OR (DRUMROLL PLEASE) b) Junior male scholar who DOES EXACTLY THE SAME WORK in virtually EXACTLY THE SAME WAY as obnoxious, dick-swinging dude on the committee gets the award. This will be a quantitive paper with an utterly forgettable set of regression models because the women I likely suggested probably did some LAME case study that did things like talking to other unimportant women or the poors instead of running a regression model about the poors like this heroic young dude scholar did. IOW, you are on notice planning world: I’m done with your award committees. Oh, and when you write your perfunctory “I’m so sorry, we didn’t even read the fuck-ton of work you put together for the scholar we didn’t give the award to” email, PROOFREAD IT so it feels less slapdash than it really is. UCLA Luskin’s Mike Manville on transit ridership Mike Manville came and gave a talk a week or so ago here at USC Price, and we recorded it. You can find the highlights here: And you can view the full talk here: Can we retire the whole "public agencies aren't real estate developers" myth soon? Dolly Cepeda and Sonja Johnson, two stories seldom told about Dodgers Stadium or Chavez Ravine De'Londa Brice: one of the Wire's most misunderstood characters The Smartest Boy Urbanist in the Room Wonderful reads 2020: Tore Sager on planners and rejecting authoritarian populism in PT Ricardo's Scarcity Principle(s) and why YIMBYs should care LA and California History viewed through Perry Mason and Paul Drake's Hair The Blue Line Hits a Cop How do people cope with crushing rents? USC's Sean Angst, Soledad DeGregorio, Gary Painter and Jovanna Rosen discuss their findings Wonderful reads 2020: Duminy and Parnell on city science in PT&P	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line1000
__label__wiki	0.629265	0.629265	Leo Adam Biga's My Inside Stories I write stories about people, their passions and their magnificent obsessions About Leo Adam Biga Introducing Freelance Writing Academy Seminars with Instructor Leo Adam Biga: Book Biga Today Seeking Sponsors and Collaborators Follow My Blog on Facebook, Networked Blogs, LinkedIn Film Connections: How a 1968 convergence of future cinema greats in Ogallala, Neb. resulted in multiple films and enduring relationships My Inside Stories, A Professional Writing Service by Omaha-Based Journalist, Author and Blogger Leo Adam Biga Nebraska Screen Heritage Project Going to Africa with The Champ ‘Crossing Bridges: A Priest’s Uplifting Life Among the Downtrodden” OUT TO WIN – THE ROOTS OF GREATNESS: OMAHA’S BLACK SPORTS LEGENDS “Nebraska Methodist College at 125: Scaling New Heights” Passion Project. Introducing the new – “Alexander Payne: His Journey in Film” Archive for the ‘Comedy/Humor’ Category Putting it on the Line: Omaha’s Amber Ruffin making a name for herself in late-night TV December 8, 2018 leoadambiga 1 comment Omaha’s Amber Ruffin has so much to say and so much going on that I couldn’t fit it all into one story. That’s why in addition to the recent Omaha Star cover story I did on her, I wrote a Reader feature on this writer-actress best known for “Late Night With Seth Meyers.” While she came to national attention with her work on that show, she’s no overnight sensation. She put many years into an improvisational comedy career before network TV gave her a mass media platform for her talents. Her performing start goes clear back to Omaha Benson High School and local theaters. But first, here are some thoughts about Amber and her being part of a long legacy of African-Americans with Nebraska ties making their marks in the entertainment industry. Amber Ruffin: A consideration For the second year in a row Ruffin came home to headline the Inclusive Communities FriendsGiving event. There’s little doubt we will be hearing and seeing a lot more from this smart, engaging writer-performer who often skewers wrongdoers and haters with her subversive, silly, serious takes. Her humor, especially when it deals with race and other social justice issues, resonates strongly because it’s grounded in reality and truth, I wouldn’t be surprised if she proves herself a fine dramatic actress as well. She’s part of an impressive contingent of black creatives from here to make their mark variously in music, theater, film, television, literature and media. These talents include: Noble and George Johnson Lloyd Hunter Preston Love Sr. Anna Mae Winburn Mildred Brown Helen Jones Woods Ruth Norman Arno Lucas Victor Lewis Carol Rogers Nole Jeanpierre Lois “Lady Mac” McMorris Monty Ross Kevyn Morrow Randy Goodwin Camille Steed Sandra Organ Alfred Liggins Jr. Jade Jenise Dixon Yolonda Ross Q Smith Carleen Brice Kim Louise Victoria Benning Omowale Akintunde Michael Beasley Lafayette Reed Jr. Tim Christian Beaufield Berry Symone Sanders Chanelle Elaine Putting it on the Line Omaha’s Amber Ruffin making a name for herself in late-night TV ©by Leo Adam Biga Appearing in the December 2018 issue of The Reader (www.thereader.com) Since joining NBC’s “Late Night with Seth Meyers” in 2014 as a writer-performer, Omaha native Amber Ruffin has made a name for herself. The gig made her the first black female writer in U.S. late-night network television. Her strong Afro-centric takes on social issues are part of a disarming package. She can be sweet, silly, manic comedian or edgy commentator and provocateur. In the recurring “Late Night” segments “Amber Says What” and “Amber’s One-Minute of Fury,” she skewers newsmakers and outs injustice. Her subversive bits play like funny truth sessions by a righteous sister reporting from the trenches of Being Black in America. “That’s my goal,” Ruffin said. “You’ll never be wrong when you say police should stop murdering children in the street. That (racism) being a lot of my subject matter just gives me tremendous confidence because it’s never been more right and it’s never been more important.” This fresh TV face and voice is steeped in a long, deep improv background that started here and took her to comedy capitals. Last month she came home to display her authentic, unvarnished self during an Inclusive Communities event at Slowdown. The audience got a taste of her formidable improv skills. Replicating improv on TV is elusive. “Oh, how I wish the feeling of improv translated to television. A lot of people have tried to get that feeling in a show, but it’s pretty difficult.” Playing off a live audience is crucial. “You’re constantly adjusting your tone, cadence because you have instant feedback and that allows you to give the best performance.” Working in a corporate culture is still an adjustment. “It is crazy for comedy to exist in an office. I’d never seen it before I was a part of it. I still find it shocking that it works.” She’s learned to work within network TV boundaries. “You can’t be crazy politically incorrect. When you’re on stage doing improv it only exists in that moment, so you can say whatever comes to mind, but on this show whatever you say exists forever. So you have to get it right so that 20 years from now when someone plays it you’ll still stand by it.” Going out on a limb is a Ruffin trait. “We are a little adventurous,” Ruffin said of her family. “My mom graduated high school at 16. Every summer she went to New York to find out what the world was about. My oldest sister lived in Panama. Another sister lived in Namibia. It’s just in our bones to see what’s out there.” Her retired military parents are from the South. They met at Offutt Air Force Base. They later ran their own daycare business. Amber’s the youngest of their five children. Her sisters are also published writers. Growing up, Ruffin used humor as escape. “Humor WAS my way to survive. When kids make fun of you, it’s nice to give them something else to laugh at.” That experience still informs her. “My day-to-day humor stems from a need to make everyone feel welcome and comfortable and happy, which stems from getting made fun of so badly. It’s assumed people use comedy to put up walls, but I think in many cases the opposite is true. I can say exactly how I feel no matter how uncomfortable it makes you – if there’s a joke attached.” Musically and dramatically inclined (she plays piano and sings), she developed an early passion for theater. “I just love musicals.” The movie The Wiz made a big impression for more than the music. “It was rare to see a show with an all-black cast that has nothing to do with being black,” she said. “Often times, black people have to talk about their experience being black to be valued. But these people didn’t. It was just a story of joy. The movie, the live musical, every performance of it leaves so much room for you to express yourself. It reminds us the world wants us at our weirdest. When you pretend to fit in, you fade away.” She contributed to the book of a new stage version of The Wiz that premiered in June at The Muny amphitheater in St. Louis. She hopes a national tour comes here on what could be a Broadway-bound path. “What distinguishes our version is its timelessness. I wanted it to never have to be rewritten again.” The stage bug bit while playing Princess Winnifred in an Omaha Benson High production of Once Upon a Mattress. The Benson grad honed her craft via Stages of Omaha at the Millennium Theatre. She did improv at the Shelterbelt and Blue Barn. Encouraged to try it in Chi-Town, she caught on with Boom Chicago – working with Jordan Peele, Matt Jones and Jessica Lowe – and then Second City. In between, she did a stint with Boom’s company in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Within days of an unsuccessful “SNL” audition, she got hired by “SNL” and Boom alum Seth Meyers. “I think it’s been a natural progression because I have always been writing my own black point of view. I haven’t found it (TV) to be too crazy because at Boom Chicago we would do short form, where the audience suggests the set-up and then you have to deliver punch lines. You have three or four seconds to come up with something. But on “Late Night” I have all day to come up with a punch line. It’s much more relaxed.” She usually has a week to hone her “Late Night” routines. “You write it up and you rewrite it a bunch and you show it to the audience and you get one last rewrite and then it has to go in the show.” She believes she provides a good change-up. “Because Seth is so grounded in his comedy there is room for an insane person like me.” She doesn’t make a big deal about having been the first black female writer in the late-night lane. “I am not sure if any of that matters. What matters is knowing that we exist and being able to see us. What matters is that everyone knows there’s room for them – because there is.” She says she was long ready for the opportunity. “I could have done this job years ago, for sure.” But happening when it did kept her real. “Now that I’m in this environment, I’m still me. If I had got this job years ago, I would have bent to what the culture was, and it’s my not having done that has made my career what it is.” Her go-to topic, racism. is informed by her travels. “The racism in Omaha is different than anywhere else. We don’t have a huge history of lynchings, scary slavery and Confederate monuments, and so we feel we are above racism, which is what puts us so far beneath it. No one’s really angry because you’re a black woman. People don’t think of you as much as a threat. They just think you are kind of gross. “Omaha’s pretty bad. It’s way less in Chicago. In Amsterdam, way less, but still there – just a different kind. In L.A., there’s less palpable racism. It’s all institutionalized instead of in your face. In New York, people say something the tiniest bit racist and everyone knows it and sees it. It has gone from me being gross to racism itself being the gross thing, which is a relief. “Now racism is fixed and over, so we win. Just kidding.” Coming of age here, she craved diversity. “I remember being in Omaha and just wanting there to be more me and to have a place where you felt like you could belong, and there wasn’t. I still don’t have a lot of me. I just see how critically important it is, especially for young kids.” Her diversity advocacy made her an apt choice as special guest for the Inclusive Communities FriendsGiving fundraiser. Meanwhile, she has an NBC development deal for a show, “Village Gazette,” on which she has co-writing and executive producer credits. It’s set in fictional Benson, Nebraska. The name is inspired by her real-life alma mater, Benson High, and the neighborhood that school is in. She’s also writing feature film scripts. And she can be seen on Comedy Central’s “The Detroiters” and “Drunk History.” “I shouldn’t be doing this many things, but I figure you only have so much time. I want to give it a shot.” Follow Amber on Facebook and Twitter. Read more of Leo Adam Biga’s work at leoadambiga.com. Share this: Leo Adam Biga's Blog Categories: Actor/Acting, African-American, African-American Culture, African-American Women, Amber Ruffin, Comedy/Humor, Entertainment, Improv, Late Night with Seth Meyers, Omaha, Television, Writer, Writing Tags: African Ameican Culture, African American, Amber Ruffin, Black Women in Television, Comedy, Entertainment, Improv, Late Night with Seth Meyers, Omaha, Performer, Writer Funny, yet serious, to the core: The Amber Ruffin story November 25, 2018 leoadambiga 1 comment Add Amber Ruffin to the roster of folks with Omaha roots to find success beyond here in stage-screen-media. The writer-performer got her start in theater and improvisation in her native Omaha. After years honing her craft with major improv troupes around he U.S. and abroad, she broke onto the national scene by joining the writing staff and cast of “Late Night with Seth Meyers” in 2014. She also has a presence on Comedy Central. She’s working on developing her own TV show and she recently co-wrote a new stage adaptation of “The Wiz.” For the second year in a row Ruffin has come home to headline the Inclusive Communities FriendsGiving event (this year’s iteration is today from Noon to 2 p.m. at Slowdown). Funny, yet serious, to the core: The Amber Ruffin story Originally appeared in the Nov. 16, 2018 issue of The Omaha Star (https://theomahastar.com) NBC’s “Late Night with Seth Meyers” gives more than lip service to diversity thanks to Omaha native Amber Ruffin, a writer-performer on the New York-based show. She’s a singular presence for her strong Afro-centric takes on social issues. She became the first black female writer in U.S. late night network television when she joined the staff in 2014. It marked her national debut. But she’s no newcomer. She comes from a deep improv background that started here and took her to comedy capitals. In the recurring “Late Night” segments “Amber Says What” and “Amber’s One-Minute of Fury” she calls out newsmakers for everything from their stupid attire to their ugly rhetoric to their heinous acts. Her subversive bits play like funny truth sessions by a righteous sister reporting from the trenches of Being Black in America. “That’s my goal,” Ruffin said. “You’ll never be wrong when you say police should stop murdering children in the street. That (hate) being a lot of my subject matter just gives me tremendous confidence because it’s never been more right and it’s never been more important.” The writer-actress headlines the Sunday, November 25 Inclusive Communities (IC) FriendsGiving at Slowdown. Her high-energy performances sometimes find her flitting across stage as cameras try tracking her. While she can be serious when making a point, her default personality is sweet, silly, manic. She was voted Class Clown at Omaha Benson High School, It seems this dynamo hasn’t fallen far from the tree. “You think I’m a happy person, whoo-whee, my parents are really happy,” said Amber, whose mother was voted Class Clown at her high school in Savannah, Georgia. As a kid, Amber used humor to deflect the hurtful things classmates said about her then-homely looks. Nobody thinks the vivacious Ruffin is homely anymore. “My day to day humor stems from a need to make everyone feel welcome and comfortable and happy, which stems from getting made fun of so badly. It’s assumed people use comedy to put up walls, but I think in many cases the opposite is true. I can say exactly how I feel no matter how uncomfortable it makes you – if there’s a joke attached.” Her folks, Theresa and James Ruffin, are both from the South, They met at Offutt Air Fore Base while serving in the military. They later ran their own business, T and J Daycare Centers. Amber’s the youngest of their five children. She’ll be with family over the holiday when she comes home for the IC event. It’s her second year in a row doing it. IC Executive Director Maggie Wood said Ruffin’s humor is appreciated by the organization. “We know how heavy this work can be and the levity of laughter makes us a little more resilient to confront prejudice, bigotry and discrimination.” Instead of a stand-up set or a speech, Ruffin will engage in conversation with the IC team on stage in response to some loosely scripted questions. “Our donors, volunteers and supporters all know we need to face this work head on. That’s exactly what Amber does in her commentary. We’re so excited to have her back,” Wood said. Growing up, Ruffin acutely felt Omaha’s lack of diversity. “I remember just wanting there to be more me, and there wasn’t. I still don’t have a lot of me. I’ve seen how important it is to have a place where you feel like you can belong and I’m also quite jealous of it because I’ve never had just a place like that where you can be as you as you want to be.” Theresa Ruffin said dealing with Omaha’s lack of diversity “was challenging to say the least.” When she worked at Peter Kiewit Corp. for a year, she said, “I was the only black person in the building.” Though Amber didn’t have any immediate show business role models, she gravitated to performing. She played piano at Omaha Trinity Hope Foursquare Church. She also developed an early love of theater. “I just love musicals,” she said. She got the bug playing Princess Winnifred in a Benson High production of Once Upon a Mattress. “I just spent so much time watching theater and doing a lot of theater that everything I love is theater-based.” “We are a little adventurous,” Amber said. “My mom graduated high school at 16. Every summer she went to New York to find out what the world was about. My oldest sister lived in Panama. Another sister lived in Namibia. It’s just in our bones to see what’s out there.” Her sisters are also published writers. The movie The Wiz made a big impression on Amber. “Many people believe The Wiz has the best music of any musical. I am one of those people. It was also rare to see a show with an all black cast that has nothing to be with being black. Often times, black people have to talk about their experience with being black to be valued. But these people didn’t. It was just a story of joy.” She’s contributed to the book of a new stage version of The Wiz that premiered in June at the 11,000-seat Muny amphitheater in St. Louis. “I rewrote the words with the original writer (William F. Brown) who is 91 in April. I have written a few musicals and my love of The Wiz is no secret. We’re going to take it on tour and see how close to Broadway we can get. “One of the things that stands out to me about our version is that it is timeless. The original Wiz is very much of that era, like many rewrites since. I wanted our Wiz to never have to be rewritten again. It could be from this year, or 20 years ago or 20 years from now.” Writing musicals has become a new niche. “I just always assumed because it’s the funnest thing to write, everybody was writing musicals. But it turns out not a lot of people are. So, yeah, I’ll do it.” Performing in a musical may be another matter. “I can sing just fine, but I don’t know that I’d ever be in a musical, unless I wrote one for myself.” She honed her craft via Stages of Omaha at the Millennium Theatre. She did improv at the Shelterbelt and Blue Barn. “We had the best time. It’s how I learned that I love improv. To be a good improviser, you just have to trust whoever you’re improvising with. If you treat them like a genius, you’ll both end up looking good.” Encouraged to try it in Chi-Town, she caught on with Boom Chicago – where she worked with Jordan Peele, Matt Jones and Jessica Lowe – and then Second City. In between, she did a stint with Boom’s company in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. “Boom Chicago was terrifying and it was bad for awhile and there was nothing I could do. I just had to keep trying to survive. I didn’t have a college degree. I didn’t have a lot of money. So there were times when I wanted to go home so bad, But I just had to stay. Thank God I did because it turned out great.” Her parents encouraged her through the tough times. “Because they think I’m great because they’re my parents, they were like, ‘You’re excellent and soon everyone will be able to see that.’ That was very sweet of them.” Ironically, she met her Dutch husband, Jan, in America. The couple struggled in L.A. for a period. She feels it only made them stronger. “I did a lot of my own projects. I wrote musicals, made a bunch of funny videos and really did what I wanted to do. Financially, I struggled, but I also had a great time.” An unsuccessful “SNL” audition was soon followed by “SNL” and Boom alum Seth Meyers hiring her. “Those two things happened within days of each other,” Theresa Ruffin recalled. “Amber was very down about ‘SNL’ and over the moon when Seth called.” Going from improv to “Late Night” has been seamless for Amber. “I think it’s been a natural progression because I have always been writing my own black point of view. “I vastly prefer a live audience to just being in front of a camera alone. Improvisers make a thousand corrections a minute every performance until they figure out what the audience likes. You can do that with scripted material, too.” Being the designated comic who outs racism, narcissism and mendacity, she said, is “this odd space to exist in.” “I kind of feel like if I don’t say it people might feel desperate and insane. I have to be like, Okay, the president said that, and that’s cuckoo, and you do not have to accept it It sounds silly but it feels so good to have an adult say you’re a human being and you shouldn’t be treated like this. Until you hear it from someone you do not know and have never met, it doesn’t carry the same weight.” Theresa Ruffin loves that her daughter echoes what many black Americans feel. “She says most of the things we are already thinking.” Every time Amber outs someone’s misbehavior, her mother said it’s cause to shout, “THAT’S OUR GIRL.” As brutally honest as Amber is on “Late Night,” she must deal with network censors, which is why she feels she was “rowdier and took more chances” doing improv. On her way up, she met one of her biggest influences, Whoopi Goldberg. “She’s great,” Ruffin said. Amber’s close friend since childhood, Kristina Haecke of Omaha, said watching her bestie’s breakthrough has been “awesome and great but mostly it has been completely expected..” Haecke insists fame hasn’t changed Ruffin, calling her “very down to earth” and “almost too calm about it.” Grounded, too. “Her on-screen is her off-screen, just with a platform,” said Haecke. Fame hasn’t changed Ruffin’s lifestyle. Yet. “Maybe someone recognizes me on the street once a week. No one cares. So when someone says, ‘Hey, Amber.’ I still think it’s pretty neat.” Her celebrity may grow should a new TV show she’s trying to get off the ground escapes the development hell that befell her previous attempts as a producer. “I’m not sure if I’m allowed to say it, but I’m going to because I don’t know what the rules are. I have a show called ‘Village Gazette,’ which is the third show I’ve sold to NBC. The premise of it is I am the editor of a small town newspaper in Benson, Nebraska. The owner’s nephew is a big shot reporter fallen from grace after making up a story that people find out is false. He gets fired and this is the only job he can get and he doesn’t want to be in this small town. But then he realizes we’re not so bad.” Her “boatload of other projects” includes movie scripts she’s’ writing. She also pulls duty on Comedy Central’s “The Detroiters” and “Drunk History.” By now, she’s mostly over having cracked the glass ceiling in late night, though she feels she did strike a blow for inclusion. “What matters is knowing that we exist and being able to see us. What matters is that everyone knows there’s room for them – because there is.” Tickets to FriendsGiving with Amber Ruffin are $25 and include one drink and heavy hors d’oeuvres..The event is from Noon to 2 p.m. Visit http://www.inclusive-communities.org for more details and to purchase tickets. Categories: Actor/Acting, African-American Culture, African-American Women, Amber Ruffin, Comedy/Humor, Entertainment, Improv, Late Night with Seth Meyers, Musical Theater, Omaha, Writer Tags: Actress, African Ameican Culture, African-American Women, Amber Ruffin, Boom Chicago, Comedy, Improv, Late Night with Seth Meyers, Omaha, Second City, Writer Paula Poundstone talks Dick Cavett, Donald Trump and getting comfortable in her own skin August 17, 2018 leoadambiga Leave a comment Michael Schwartz Appearing in The Reader (www.thereader.com) Standup comedian, panelist, commentator and author Paula Poundstone brings her wry humor to the Holland Performing Arts Center on Friday, August 24. She owns history with two native Nebraska television comedy icons. She guested on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. At the 2012 Great American Comedy Festival in Norfolk honoring his legacy, she was joined by fellow satirist Dick Cavett, whose own talk show she’d done. Last fall she did a Lincoln gig with the venerable host, author and New York Times columnist. “I love Dick Cavett,” she said\ “In 2014 we did this series in Los Angeles where writers interview writers in front of an audience, and I interviewed Dick for that. Somehow from that came this thing of he and I working together in Nebraska. It was so much fun.” “Oh my God, that was a dream night,” Cavett said of their latest collaboration. “We have a rapport somehow on stage together. We just like each other. We don’t interrupt. There’s no trace of competition. That’s rare with two performers both out there pulling for laughs. It’s a little theatrical miracle. We both get each other’s rhythm and it starts climbing and it just gets into a freewheeling situation you don’t want to end. It plays so well you’d almost think it’s a well-directed play.” “He’s a wordsmith,” Poundstone said of Cavett, “so mostly I try to make sure he has some space to do his thing. You know he’s got so many great stories. I don’t know if he did this by design or if it’s just the way life worked out, but he became friends with legends – Stan Laurel, Groucho Marx …” Cavett confirmed it was by design he befriended these towering comic figures, but he added he counts himself fortunate to know Poundstone, too. “Paula is a genuine wit. So smart and so funny. Seeing Paula work an audience is one of the great experiences in performing arts. She’s an acknowledged genius at it.” He recalls she was one of his few guests who ever hand-wrote him a thank-you note. Chalk it up to her New Englander-by-way-of-Southern-good-mannered-parents-bringing-up. Meanwhile, she defers any IQ edge to her erudite colleague. “Dick has me there. He’s corrected my grammar before in emails. So he wins.” It still blows her mind he was targeted by President Richard Nixon. As a pundit, Cavett criticized Nixon and tackled the still unfolding Watergate scandal on national TV when no one else in mainstream media would touch it (see Dick Cavett’s Watergate on YouTube). “I’ll tell you what Dick has that I’m so jealous of, which is audio tape of Nixon saying, ‘Is there any way we can screw him?” What I wouldn’t give for (Donald) Trump to go down and for them to later find him cursing me along the way that he will somehow get me.” A Trump-aimed barb she tweeted in the 2016 campaign did trigger a response, only not from the man Cavett’s called “the missing Fifth Marx Brother – Trumpo,” but from what she suspects were his minions. “For the next maybe 48 hours my Tweeter feed was busting with vicious, cruel, horrible comments about me,” she said, “and then it went away. I’m fairly certain it was, A, Putin, B, bots, and, C, an army of people Trump has ready to do that. But why me, I don’t know, because I’ve tweeted many things since then not flattering to him and it never happened again. “But an automated tweet is not nearly as good as Nixon saying how can we screw him.” Even though Trump provides steady fodder, she said, “I would be happy to never come up with another joke again in exchange for justice being served in terms of Donald Trump. I’ll gladly make stuff up. I don’t need our lives to suck in order to think of jokes.” She’s never thought her work as frivolous but “as the years go by,” she said, “I personally value my job more and more and more.” “I consider myself a proud member of the endorphin production industry given the evidence of how important it is not just laughing but laughing with other people.” “When people type LOL, generally speaking, it’s a lie. Looking at something on a screen when you’re by yourself you don’t laugh. You might acknowledge you think it’s funny, but you don’t laugh. The experience of laughing, even if you go by yourself to a theater or a movie or whatever, you have some connection to the rest of the audience. It’s important being in the room with other people. “I don’t suggest people have to come see me, although wouldn’t that be nice, but it’s really important to go out and be with other people for a night of laughter. To me, the fact I get to do that and I get paid for it feels better and better every day that I live.” Decades into her career, she feels freer being herself than ever before. “There is something to be said for experience. The other thing is and I think this goes along with just life in general, I’m becoming more comfortable with who I am. What I endeavor to do on stage is actually to be the most me I can be, whereas when I was younger I don’t know if I was entirely comfortable with who I was in the way one becomes as time goes by. “I went to my 40th high school reunion last fall and it was so damn much fun. I went to a couple of them before but none were as good as the 40th because you’re just old enough you don’t really feel the need to impress people, nor are you impressed by others who do feel that need. It just felt like everyone had taken a deep breath and exhaled.” Her new book The Totally Unscientific Study Of The Search For Human Happiness(Algonquin Books) “is a series of experiments doing things that either I or other people thought would make me happy,” she said. “Every chapter is written as an experiment with the conditions, the hypothesis, the qualitative and quantitative observations, the variable, et cetera. The real question for me wasn’t what I would enjoy because I know what I enjoy, but what can I do that will leave me with a bounce so that when I return to my regular life I have some reserve. My regular life being raising a handful of kids and animals and being a standup comic and being stuck being me 24 hours a day. “In the analysis part of each chapter I check in with my regular life to see how things are going. it’s the story of raising my kids and by the end of the book they’re all out of the house.” It took her seven years to write. “It’s number one job is to be funny and I think it achieves that, But mercifully any number of reviewers noted it was more than that and that’s certainly satisfying..The audio version was one of five nominees for audio book of the year at the Audis last year, although it didn’t win. But it was up against A Hand Maid’s Tale, so I didn’t feel that bad about not winning. It’s pretty good company. You could do a lot worse. “Now it’s a semifinalist in the James Thurber Prize for American Humor (competition).” Fame is a relative thing and Poundstone’s content where she falls on the spectrum. “I’m not a household name except in my house – where I insist on it. Nobody has to close a store for me to go shopping.” “Crazy-making” is what she calls the social media expectations placed on creatives these days. “Now when your agent sells you to a promoter or a theater they want to know how many followers you have and what social media you do. All of that’s considered part of the package, which is too bad.” She’s recently discovered the bliss of going unplugged. “I’ve started doing this thing where I sometimes don’t have any devices on so I can just think. It’s a scary leap. I can’t say I always like it. But I do find myself being a little bit more productive.” She prefers authentic human connections. As Dick Cavett notes, she’s adept at improvising with audiences. “In the beginning I thought I shouldn’t be doing that. But fairly early on I realized the heart of the show was in these unique things that weren’t going to happen in the other show – it’s just unique to that night and to that audience. Sometimes I kind of put my line out there. I’ll start talking to somebody and then I leave it and come back to it later. You just sort of weigh in little pieces of information that eventually connect and fill the show. “It took awhile to recognize it is a very valuable thing to be doing and to get pretty good at.” Her Omaha show starts at 8 p.m. For tickets, visit, ticketomaha.com. In 2012, I also interviewed Paula Poundstone and Dick Cavett – that time on the everof their appearing at the Great American Comedy Festival in Norfolk, Nebraska. I refer to that event, which honors Johnny Carson, in the 2018 story featured above. Poundstone and Cavett both had Carson in common: she was a guest on the Tonight Show with the King of Late Night present and Cavett first wrote for Carson (before that, for Jack Paar) and then competed against him with his own talk-show, though they were always the friendliest of rivals. One-liners and nonsequiturs will fly at the June 13-17 Viareo Great American Comedy Festival in Norfolk, Neb., where the late comic great Johnny Carson grew up. Appeared in a 2012 issue of The Reader (www.thereader.com) This annual celebration of the funny side is equal parts competition, workshop and roast. Its home base is the Johnny Carson Theatre at Norfolk Senior High, where the legendary Tonight Show host graduated. The event welcomes professional stand-ups from around the nation vying for cash prizes. Paula Poundstone is the headliner. Jimmie “JJ” Walker is the “legend” recipient. Past Legend honoree Dick Cavett hosts a comedy magic show. New this year is a June 14-15 Omaha showcase at the Holland Performing Arts Center featuring the fest’s standup contestants in 7:30 p.m. shows. Poundstone and Cavett, long ago paid their comedy dues. They represent different generations in the craft but well identify with the vagaries of starting out. She broke in during “the comedy renaissance” that saw clubs sprout in her native Boston and everywhere in the late 1970s-early 1980s. Open mic nights became her proving ground. “They were just coming into being. I just lucked out in terms of time and place,” she says. “They had shows with guys who had no experience and they were awful but because there was no one else around nobody knew they were awful, and I got in on the awful train – when you could suck and it didn’t really matter. Now I think it’s a lot harder to get stage time.” She was only 19 when she took the first of two cross-country Greyhound bus trips on an Ameripass, stopping to perform at open mics in places like Denver, living out of a backpack and catching zs on the road between gigs. “Odd but genius. It was pretty bold. I mean, I look back on it now and think, Whoa, boy, that could have gone bad. It was my nineteeness that saved me. You think you’re invincible…That helped a lot.” She knew she belonged as a stand-up when she got to the west coast. “I kept getting day jobs of necessity for a while. At one point on my second Greyhound bus trip I ended up in San Francisco. It was such a great place to be. It was perfect for my age and my personality and for the type of stand-up comic I am. The audiences were willing to allow the comic to experiment in a way I found nowhere else in the country. “It was there I gave up my day job.” The Other Comedy Club near the Haight Ashbury District became her favorite venue. “A bizarrely unassuming place. I found the best audiences there. Also, the people that ran the place liked me and gave me opportunities. One of the best things I ever did was host the weekly open mic night. Your job is to introduce people but also to kind of keep the crowd, so you’ve got to do a little bit in between. I would run out of material and I got to think on my feet and interact with the crowd and do all the stuff that’s really the good stuff. “I had some raggedy nights where it just didn’t work or the crowd was horrible. I have better odds now.” She describes the high that is stand-up as “addictive,” adding, “otherwise why would you?” (subject yourself to it). Meeting fans after shows holds its own high, especially when this adoptive mother of three finds she’s struck a chord with parents over one of her favorite topics – the impossibility of child-rearing. “When those moments occur it really makes me feel worthwhile,” says Poundstone, whose concerts, HBO specials, books and recurring panelist role on Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me keep her busy. Not surprisingly, Cavett admires Poundstone, who guested on one of his shows. “She may be one of four-five guests in all the years I did those shows who sent a thank-you note. It was a lovely, nice, handwritten note and it gave me a softer spot for her even than I already had. I was on Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me a couple weeks ago but I was sorry she wasn’t there that day so I could thank her again.” Now he gets the chance to tell her in person. She may share her admiration for an impromptu bit he once did with Benny Goodman. Noticing the jazz great’s fly was down and sensing a rare chance to both prevent embarrassment and score laughs, Cavett instructed Goodman “to do exactly as I do.” As Cavett stood up with his back to the audience, Goodman did the same. The gestures that followed were unmistakable and funny, yet gracefully didn’t reveal whose fly was undone. “I can’t imagine thinking of that,” says Poundstone. “It’s brilliant, just brilliant.” Unlike Poundstone, Cavett made his bones in the business writing for others. After graduating Yale he worked as a New York Times copy boy when he audaciously wrote a monologue on spec for Jack Paar and personally delivered it to the Tonight Show host at the RCA building. He lived the dream of seeing some of his jokes used that very night on air. He soon became a staff writer for Jack, then Johnny. On the side he did stand-up in clubs. He doesn’t exactly miss it. “Thank God I’m not doing that anymore. Some nights were awful, some were exhilarating and made you think this is what I’ve always wanted. When you would top a heckler you’d get a big thrill out of that.” Once he got his own ABC talk show he delivered a monologue every night. “It’s a horrible burden for anybody doing a talk show.” The closest he’s come to stand-up in recent years is narrating the Broadway production of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. “I treated it as a stand-up appearance, so I did stuff I had thought up that day or had worked the night before. I ad-libbed with the audience. I had a great time doing it. But those years at the Bitter End and the Village Gate and The Gaslight and Mr Kelly’s and The Hungry Eye all helped bring that about.” His advice to aspiring comics is “get the best material you can, work as often as you can.” Having Carson in his corner helped him survive the stand-up gauntlet. “I would go back to work the next day for Johnny and he would ask me how it went the night before and we would laugh particularly hard when it went badly. He would be very helpful with joke wording. He’d say, ‘You’ve got a good premise there but you don’t go far enough with it.’ A lot of good advice.” Cavett’s still touched by the affection Carson showed him and that he reciprocated. They’re forever linked by their small town Nebraska roots (Cavett was born in Gibbon and raised in Grand Island and Lincoln) and similar career trajectories. They both performed magic as youths. “We met over magic in the Westminster Church in Lincoln. As kids in junior high three of us went to see the magician and radio personality Johnny Carson from Omaha.” That each went on to host his own network talk show still amazes Cavett. “Isn’t that funny – two magicians from Nebraska?” He promises to perform “my genius” rope trick at the comedy fest. Cavett, who pens a Times column and occasional books, regularly gets back here, He hopes to get in some time in his beloved Sand Hills. Keenly aware he’ll be on Carson’s home turf, at an event paying homage to its most famous native son, his rope trick will be one more link in their shared legacy. For schedule and ticket info, call 402-370-8004 or visit www2.greatamericancomedyfestival.com. Omaha Showcase details are at http://www.omahaperformingarts.org. Categories: Comedy/Humor, Dick Cavett, Donald Trump, Entertainment, Great American Comedy Festival, Johnny Carson, Nebraska, Paula Poundstone, Writing Tags: Comedy, Comedy/Humor, Comic, Dick Cavett, Great American Comedy Festival, Johnny Carson, Nebraska, Paula Poundstone, Standup Comedian Hot Movie Takes: PAYNE’S “DOWNSIZING’” – It may be next big thing on the world cinema landscape April 13, 2017 leoadambiga Leave a comment Hot Movie Takes: PAYNE’S “DOWNSIZING’” – It may be next big thing on the world cinema landscape BY LEO ADAM BIGA, Author of “Alexander Payne: His Journey in Film” April 2017 issue of The Reader Categories: Alexander Payne, Cinema, Comedy/Humor, Downsizing, Film, Hollywood, Hot Movie Takes, Matt Damon, Movies, Sci-Fi/Science Fiction, Screenwriting, society, Visual Effects, Writing Tags: Alexander Payne, Cinema, Downsizing, Film, Hollywood, Hot Movie Takes, Matt Damon, Movies, Paramount ‘King of Comedy’ a dark reflection of our times February 12, 2017 leoadambiga 1 comment Author of “Alexander Payne: His Journey in Film” Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro enjoy one of the great cinema muse relationships in movie history. Few American directors have found an actor who so thoroughly inhabits their screen worlds as De Niro does his old friend’s. The pair are best known for their collaborations on: “Mean Streets” “ Powerful films all. But, as you’ll read, I’m making the case for Scorsese’s least known and seen film with De Niro, “The King of Comedy,” as a woefully under-appreciated work that ranks right up there with their best teamings. Cases can be made for five of the other six pictures they did together to be considered in the Top 100 American movies of all-time: In an unusually strong decade for film, “Mean Streets” and “Taxi Driver” are certainly among the very best of that ’70s bumper crop of New Hollywood films. The first is an alternately gritty, trippy look at the small-time mob subculture that goes much deeper than crime movies of the past ever dared. The second is a cautionary tale fever dream that anticipates the cult of celebrity around violence. Though an acquired taste because of its uncompromising fatalistic uneasy rumination on love, “New York, New York” is a lush, inspired melding of intense psychological drama, magic realism and classic MGM musical. “Raging Bull” is often cited as THE film of the ’80s for its artful, brutal take on boxer Jake Lamotta and “Goodfellas” expanded on what Coppola did with the mob in the first two “Gpdfather” films by exploring in more detail the lives of men and women bound up in that life they call “our thing.” Just as De Niro came to the fore as an actor who penetrates characters in unusually deep, perceptive ways, Scorsese does the same as a storyteller working on the periphery of human conduct. Extremes of emotions and situations are their metier. Their mutual penchant for digging down into edgy material make them perfect collaborators. “The King of Comedy” is a dark film whose intense, deadpan approach to disturbing incidents makes it read as a straight drama much of the time. But it’s really a satire bordering on farce and theater of the absurd about obsession with fame and media. De Niro plays Rupert Pupkin, an emotionally stunted wannabe comic and talk show host who’s prepared to go to any lengths to make his show biz fantasies reality. His intrusive, hostile pursuit of affirmation and opportunity from fictional talk show host Jerry Langford (Jerry Lewis) grows ever more dangerous and aggressive and eventually turns criminal. The character of Pupkin is often compared to Travis Bickle in “Taxi Driver” and there are definite similarities. Both are isolated loners living in their own heads. Viewing himself as a kind of avenging angel, the loser Travis fixates on cleaning the streets of the human trash he sees around him and rescuing the child prostitute played by Jodi Foster. After growing up ridiculed and bullied, chasing autographs from celebrities, Rupert sees himself as entitled to what his fixation, Jerry Langford, has and he hatches a plot with a fellow nut case (played by Sandra Bernhard) to kidnap Jerry. Rupert’s ransom: doing a standup routine on Jerry’s show to be aired nationwide. “King of Comedy” depicts the extremes, dangers and blurring of lines that make the object of celebrity media worship a target of an unstable mind. De Niro delivers a pitch perfect, tour de force performance as a vainglorious neurotic whose love for Jerry masks an ever bigger hate. The film is filled with awkward, all-too-real situations that make us uncomfortable because we can identify with Pupkin’s desperate need to be liked, to be respected, to be taken seriously. The character is full of contradictions and De Niro strikes an incredible balance of grotesquerie, sweetness, delusion and determination..As Rupert, De Niro is pathetic, inspiring, scary, funny, needy and strong. It had been awhile since I’d seen the film before catching it for free on YouTube the other night and I must say it holds up very well, and perhaps resonates even more with these times than with the time it was made and released (1983). After all, in an era when America’s elected a bombastic, egomaniacal reality TV star and grifter as president, is it such a stretch to think that someone could extort and kidnap their way onto late night television? “Triumph of the Will” (1935), “State of the Union” (1948), “A Face in the Crowd” (1957) “Medium Cool” (1969), “Network” (1976) and “Wag the Dog” (1997)show, decade by decade, the unholy alliance we’ve made with mass media’s ability to manipulate, seduce, exploit and distort. Likewise, “The King of Comedy” (1983) shows just how far some among us are prepared to go for attention, power, fame. Watch the movie at this link– Now, more than three decades since the film’s release, De Niro currently stars as an old, belligerent standup in “The Comedian,” a film that Scorsese was originally going to direct but didn’t. I haven’t seen it and so I can only go by the reviews I’ve read, but it appears to be a real misfire. I will hold judgment until I see it for myself, and I want to because I’m eager to compare and contrast what De Niro did with the standup he portrays in “King” to the comic he plays in the new film. After recently watching “The Graduate” and now “The King of Comedy,” I was reminded of what brilliant chameleons Dustin Hoffman and Robert De Niro were early in their film careers. They very much followed what Marlon Brando did during his first decade and a half in Hollywood by submerging themselves in very different characters from film to film to film. Their collections ofcharacterizations may be the most diverse in American film history. These kinds of actors are rare. The closest equivalents to them we have in contemporary cinema may be Daniel Day Lewis and Johnny Depp. But I digress. Be sure to check out “The King of Comedy” and let me know what you think of its ballsy, over-the-top, sometimes surreal yet always thoroughly grounded take on the implications of seeking celebrity as its own reward and the thin line between harmless flights of fancy and deranged compulsion. In its view, the American Dream and the American Nightmare are two sides of the same obsession. Be careful what you ask for it seems to be saying. And don’t look now, but that schmuck and impossibly irritating, shallow moron may just be the next Big Thing in entertainmet, media or some other sphere of public inflience. There’s something Trumpian about the whole thing and its media is the message theme. Categories: Cinema, Comedy/Humor, Film, Hollywood, Martin Scorsese, Movies, Robert De Niro, society, The King of Comedy Tags: Cinema, Culture, Film, Hollywood, Martin Scorsese, Movies, Robert De Niro, Satire, society, The King of Comedy ‘The Graduate’ revisited February 6, 2017 leoadambiga Leave a comment This is the 50th anniversary for a much beloved yet peculiar film,“The Graduate” (1967), that landed as a sensation in its time, became an adored artifact of the 1960s but has steadily lost some of its stature and allure over the proceeding half-century. I watched it again the other night and while it’s a film I’ve always admired and I still enjoy I can see now that it’s a strange thing to have resonated so deeply in any era, even in its own breaking-the-rules time. I mean, the new college graduate protagonist Benjamin Braddock sleeps with the mother of a childhood friend and then falls in love with the daughter and interrupts her marriage to run off with her. It’s a preposterous plot line but it works, which is to say we go along with it, because the film is basically a farcical, satirical indictment of the establishment and an embrace of youthful rebellion and following your heart. The performances by a very fine cast mostly hold up. the writing perhaps less so and the direction is, well, needlessly showy. Mike Nichols was a Broadway wunderkind and a fresh force in cinema who helped push American filmmaking more in the direction of the various European New Wave movements with rapid cutting, restless camera, nonlinear structure and frank exposition. He veered dangerously close to going over the top with it all in his first three features – “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf?,” “The Graduate” and “Catch 22” – I suspect because he was enthralled with the new freedom cinema offered and was just insecure enough not to trust the material to hold our attention without using various tricks. His much later work (“Working Girl,” “Charlie Wilson’s War”) is far more traditional, visually and technically speaking, but far more satisfying, too. The best thing about the movie is Dustin Hoffman’s performance. It’s a tour de force that sneaks up on you. He is so present and in the moment in every shot and scene and so real and truthful to the buttoned-down character he plays that it seems like he’s doing nothing when in fact he’s doing everything an actor’s called to do. Much of his characterization is done without words. Indeed, his performance reminds me of those of the great silent film comedians like Chaplin and Keaton, only he’s less busy and big. My take on “The Graduate” today is that if not for Simon and Garfunkel’s music, the film wouldn’t work nearly as well as a ’60s counterculture piece. Indeed, other than the music there’s virtually nothing in the film that either overtly or even obliquely refers to the very decade it purportedly speaks to. There’s no mention of civil rights or the war in Vietnam or the burgeoning feminist movement or the end of Camelot or the culture wars ushered in by rock ‘n’ roll, drugs and free love. There’s no reference to politics either. Admittedly, Ben is from a privileged white suburbia world where some of those currents and issues would not be discussed or experienced. But even in those circles things would not have been so sterile or blind or one-dimensional that some of these things didn’t come up or resonate or cause a conflict. The generation gap the film depicts is so generic that it would be easy to forget what decade the film is set in except for that music. On the other hand, the film is far superior to the vast majority of comedies made in that era, especially the lame youth films of that decade. Even though the men who wrote (Buck Henry and Calder Wilingham) and directed (Nichols) “The Graduate” were much older than the generation they were obviously siding with – even Hoffman was far older than the character he played – they managed to catch a certain ironical spirit of the time that really was a carryover from the 1950s as much as it was a purely ’60s sensibility. Where the film is perhaps most interesting is in striking an odd but somehow effective balance of the romanticism, even idealism and anger of the ’60s tinged with the cynicism that the ’70s would more fully usher in. The end of the film echoes the beginning in that Ben is searching for his path in life. At the start, he’s alone as he tries finding his way. At the end, he’s with a girl, but still very much alone and adrift. Sure, he’s defied the cookie-cutter, plastic life of his parents and their friends but at a price. He’s lost his naiveté but gained a heavy does of reality that will, as we’ve come to know, likely find him following many of the very Establishment precepts he rejected as a young man. Looked at today, the movie seems to have some mixed or superficial messages: the hot passions of life are all very ephemeral but desirable; going after what you want is a messy buisness but it’s worth it; conformity equals comfort if not contentment so why settle for less? It kind of sounds like the very things “The Graduate” supposedly rejected. Ben, in middle age, probably ended up in a similar circusmstace as his parents and their freinds, not that you could have convinced him of it at the time. And so it goes… Categories: Cinema, Comedy/Humor, Dustin Hoffman, Film, Movies, The Graduate, Writing Tags: Cinema, Comedy, Dustin Hoffman, Film, Hollywood, Mike Nichols, Movies, Satire, The Graduate Jim Taylor, the other half of Hollywood’s top screenwriting team, talks about his work with Alexander Payne June 30, 2016 leoadambiga 1 comment No matter how Alexander Payne’s in-progress film Downsizing is received when released next year, it will be remembered as his first foray into special effects, science fiction, big budget filmmaking and sprawling production extending across three nations. But the most important development it marks is the rejoining of Payne and his longtime screenwriting partner, Jim Taylor, whose contributions to the film’s they’ve collaborated on often get overlooked even though he’s shared an Oscar with Payne and has been nominated for others with him. In truth, Payne and Taylor never broke with each other. Payne did make both The Descendants and Nebraska without Taylor’s writing contribution, but following their last collaboration, Sideways, and during much of the period when Payne was producing other people’s films and then mounting and making the two films he directed following Sideways, these creative partners were busily at work on the Downsizing screenplay. It’s been awhile since I last interviewed Taylor. I am sharing the resulting 2005 story here, It is included in my book Alexander Payne: His Journey in Film. A new edition of the book releases Sept. 1. As my story makes clear, Payne and Taylor go farther back then Citizen Ruth, the first feature they wrote together and the first feature that Payne directed. Their bond goes all the way back to college and to scuffling along to try to break into features. After Citizen Ruth, they really made waves with their scripts for Election and About Schmidt. And then Sideways confirmed them as perhaps Hollywood’s top screenwriting tandem. They also collaborated on for-hire rewrite jobs on scripts that others directed. I will soon be doing a new interview with Taylor for my ongoing reporting about Payne and his work. Though Taylor is not a Nebraskan, his important collaboration with Payne makes him an exception to the rule of only focusing on natives for my in-development Nebraska Film Heritage Project. By the way, one of the films that Payne produced during his seven year hiatus from directing features was The Savages, whose writer-director, Tamara Jenkins, is Taylor’s wife. That Payne and Taylor have kept their personal friendship and creative professional relationship intact over 25-plus years, including a production company they shared together, is a remarkable feat in today’s ephemeral culture and society. NOTE: For you film buffs out there, I will be interviewing Oscar-winning cinematographer Mauro Fiore and showing clips of his work at Kaneko in the Old Market, on Thursday, July 21. The event starts at 7 p.m. and will include a Q & A. Link to my cover story about Mauro and more info about the event at– https://leoadambiga.com/…/05/04/master-of-light-mauro-fiore/ Jim Taylor and Alexander Payne, winners Best Screenplay for Sideways February 26, 2005\| Crédits : Randall Michelson Archive Published in a fall 2005 issue of The Reader There’s an alchemy to the virtuoso writing partnership of Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor, Oscar winners for Sideways (2004) and previous nominees for Election (1999), that resists pat analysis. The artists themselves are unsure what makes their union work beyond compatibility, mutual regard and an abiding reverence for cinema art. Together 15 years now, their professional marriage has been a steady ascent amid the starts and stops endemic to filmmaking. As their careers have evolved, they’ve emerged as perhaps the industry’s most respected screenwriting tandem, often drawing comparisons to great pairings of the past. As the director of their scripts, Payne grabs the lion’s share of attention, although their greatest triumph, Sideways, proved “a rite of passage” for each, Taylor said, by virtue of their Oscars. Taylor doesn’t mind that Payne, the auteur, has more fame. ”He pays a price for that. I’m not envious of all the interviews he has to do and the fact his face is recognized more. Everywhere he goes people want something from him. That level of celebrity I’m not really interested in,” he said by phone from the New York home he shares with filmmaker wife Tamara Jenkins (The Slums of Beverly Hills). With the craziness of Sideways now subsided and Payne due to return soon from a month-long sojourn in Paris, where he shot a vignette for the I Love Paris omnibus film, he and Taylor will once again engage their joint muse. So far, they’re being coy about what they’ve fixed as their next project. It may be the political, Altmanesque story they’ve hinted at. Or something entirely else. What is certain is that a much-anticipated new Payne-Taylor creation will be in genesis. Taylor’s an enigma in the public eye, but he is irreducibly, inescapably one half of a premier writing team that shows no signs of running dry or splitting up. His insights into how they approach the work offer a vital glimpse into their process, which is a kind of literary jam session, game of charades and excuse for hanging out all in one. They say by the time a script’s finished, they’re not even sure who’s done what. That makes sense when you consider how they fashion a screenplay — throwing out ideas over days and weeks at a time in hours-long give-and-take riffs that sometimes have them sharing the same computer monitor hooked up to two keyboards. Their usual M.O. finds them talking, on and on, about actions, conflicts, motivations and situations, acting out or channeling bits of dialogue and taking turns giving these elements form and life on paper. ”After we’ve talked about something, one of us will say, ‘Let me take a crack at this,’ and then he’ll write a few pages. Looking at it, the other might say, ‘Let me try this.’ Sometimes, the person on the keyboard is not doing the creative work. They’re almost inputting what the other person is saying. It’s probably a lot like the way Alexander works with his editor (Kevin Tent), except we’re switching back and forth being the editor.” For each writer, the litmus test of any scene is its authenticity. They abhor anything that rings false. Their constant rewrites are all about getting to the truth of what a given character would do next. Avoiding cliches and formulas and feel-good plot points, they serve up multi-shaded figures as unpredictable as real people, which means they’re not always likable. ”I think it’s true of all the characters we write that there’s this mixture of things in people. Straight-ahead heroes are just really boring to us because they don’t really exist,” said Taylor, whose major influences include the humanist Czech films of the 1960s. “I think once we fall in love with the characters, then it’s really just about the characters for us. We have the best time writing when the characters are leading us somewhere and we’re not so much trying to write about some theme.” Sideways’ uber scene, when Miles and Maya express their longing for each other via their passion for the grape, arose organically. “We didn’t labor any longer over that scene than others,” he said. “What happened was, in our early drafts we had expanded on a speech Miles has in the book (Rex Pickett’s novel) and in later drafts we realized Maya should have her own speech. At the time we wrote those speeches we had no idea how important they would turn out to be. It was instinctive choice to include them, not something calculated to fill a gap in a schematic design.” Writer/director Tamara Jenkins and writer/producer Jim Taylorattend ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ intro at MoMA on February 15, 2008 in New York City. February 15, 2008\| Crédits : Charles Eshelman He said their scripts are in such “good shape” by the time cameras roll that little or no rewriting is done on set. “Usually we’ll make some minor changes after the table reading that happens right before shooting.” Taylor said Payne asks his advice on casting, locations, various cuts, music, et cetera. Their process assumes new colors when hired for a script-doctor job (Meet the Parents, Jurassic Park III), the latest being I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry. “With those projects we’re trying to accommodate the needs of a different director and we generally don’t have much time, so we don’t allow problems to linger as long as we would, which is good practice,” said Taylor. “It’s good for us to have to work fast. We’ll power through stuff, where we might let it sit longer and just let ourselves be stuck.” Ego suppression explains in part how they avoid any big blow ups. ”I think it’s because both of us are interested in making a good movie more than having our own ideas validated,” Taylor said. “So we are able to, hopefully, set our egos aside when we’re working and say, ‘Oh, that’s a good idea,’ or, ‘That’s a better idea.’ I think a lot of writing teams split up because they’re too concerned about protecting what they did as opposed to remembering what’s good for the script. We can work out disagreements without having any fallout from it. It’s funny. I mean, sometimes we do act like a married couple. There’s negotiations to be made. But mostly we just get along and enjoy working together.” As conjurers in the idiom of comedy, he said, “I think our shared sensibilities are similar enough that if I can make him laugh or he can make me laugh, then we feel like we’re on the right track.” Collaboration is nothing new for Taylor, a Pomona College and New York University Tisch School of the Arts grad, who’s directed a short as well as second unit work on Payne shoots (most of the 16 millimeter footage in Election) and is developing feature scripts for himself to direct. ”For me, I didn’t set out to be a screenwriter, I set out to be a filmmaker,” said Taylor, a former Cannon Films grunt and assistant to director Ivan Passer (Cutter’s Way). So did Alexander. And we kind of think of it all as one process, along with editing…People say everything is writing. Editing is writing and in a strange way acting is writing, and all that. Filmmaking itself is a collaborative medium. People drawn to filmmaking are drawn to working with other people. Sure, a lot of screenwriters do hole up somewhere so they’re not disturbed, but I’m not like that and Alexander’s not like that. I don’t like working on my own. I like to bounce ideas off people. Filmmaking demands it, as opposed to being a novelist or a painter, who work in forms that aren’t necessarily collaborative.” Simpatico as they are, there’s also a pragmatic reason for pairing up. ”We just don’t like doing it alone and it’s less productive, too. And we sort of have similar ideas, so why not do it together? Even beyond that, it’s like a quantum leap in creativity. You’re just sort of inspired more to come up with something than if you’re just sitting there and hating what you’re doing. At least there’s somebody there going, ‘Oh, that’s good,’ or, ‘How do we do this?’ And you sort of stick with the problem as opposed to going off and cleaning out a drawer or something.” Payne says scripting with someone else makes the writing process “less hideous.” For Taylor, flying solo is something to be avoided at all costs. ”I hate it. I really hate it. I mean, I do it, but it’s very slow and I don’t think it’s as good,” he said. “I’m getting Alexander’s input on something I’ve been working on for a long, long time on my own, a screenplay called The Lost Cause about a Civil War reenactor, and I expect it to became 50 percent better just because of working with him. We’ll essentially do with it what we do on a production rewrite.” Lost Cause was part of a “blind deal” Taylor had with Paramount’s Scott Rudin, now at Disney. The fate of Taylor’s deal is unclear. Writing with his other half, Taylor said, opens a script to new possibilities. “I’ll see it through different eyes when I’m sitting next to Alexander and maybe have ideas I wouldn’t otherwise.” The pair’s operated like this since their first gig, co-writing short films for cable’s Playboy Inside Out series. The friends and one time roommates have been linked ever since. ”It’s pretty hard to extract the friendship from the partnership or vice versa. It’s all kind of parts of the same thing. We don’t end up seeing each other that much because we live in separate cities, unless we’re working together,” Taylor said. “So our friendship is a little bit dependent on our work life at this point, which is too bad.” However, he added there’s an upside to not being together all the time in the intense way collaborators interact, “It’s important to not get too overdosed on who you’re working with.” He can’t imagine them going their separate ways unless there’s a serious falling out. ”That would only happen of we had personal problems with each other. Sometimes, people naturally drift apart, and we’re both working against that. We’re trying to make sure that it doesn’t just drift away, because that would be sad.” Keeping the alliance alive is complicated by living on opposite coasts and the demands of individual lives/careers. But when Taylor talks about going off one day to make his own movies, he means temporarily. He knows Payne has his back. “He’s supportive of my wanting to direct. But I’m so happy working with him that if that were all my career was, I’d be a very lucky person.” Categories: About Schmidt, Alexander Payne, Cinema, Citizen Ruth, Comedy/Humor, Downsizing, Election, Film, Hollywood, Jim Taylor, Movies, Screenwriting, Sideways, Writing Tags: About Schmidt, Alexander Payne, Citizen Ruth, Collaboration, Downsizing, Election, Film, Hollywood, Jim Taylor, Movies, Screenwriting, Sideways Omaha playwright Beaufield Berry comes into her own with original comedy “Psycho Ex Girlfriend” April 20, 2013 leoadambiga 6 comments Writers come in all packages. Few are packaged as colorfully as Beaufield Berry, a young, talented Omaha playwright who’s just coming into her own as a force to be reckoned with. Her new original comedy, Psycho Ex Girlfriend, is now playing at the Shelterbelt Theatre in town. My profile of Berry is soon to appear in The Reader (www.thereader.com). It won’t surprise me if her work eventually gets produced in theaters regionally and nationally. Beaufield Berry, ©femmesfollesnebraska.tumblr.com Appeared in The Reader (www.thereader.com) Everything about one of Omaha’s bright new playwrights bespeaks exotica, starting with her name, Beaufield Berry. This biracial, bicoastal creative with model good looks has worked as an actor, a singer, a VIP dancer, a burlesque performer, a mud wrestler and a horse ranch entertainment director. She’s into body-building. She’s fallen in and out of love. She’s suffered broken hearts and broken a few herself. She’s written several plays, a novel, a television pilot and many poems. She’s had works read at the Great Plains Theatre Conference. One ended up staged in New York. Another in Philadelphia. Her self-described original full-length “dark comedy,Psycho Ex Girlfriend, is in the midst of a month-long run at the Shelterbelt Theatre, 3225 California St., where it continues through May 12. Playwright and former Shelterbelt artistic director Ellen Struve is a champion of Berry’s work. So is new artistic director, ElizaBeth Thompson, who directs the show. Fans of Omaha native author and playwright Rachel Shukert will find a similar satiric voice in Berry. Berry calls her play’s title character, Britte, a “crazy, kooky, quirky girl,” adding, “Parts of the show I wouldn’t say are autobiographical but I wouldn’t say they’re extremely foreign to me either. When I was writing the show I had myself kind of in mind. It was a really cathartic writing experience from beginning to end. I was sharing my writing as I usually do with my close, intimate friends, my best friend Katie Beacom-Hurst being one of them. So when it was done at the Shelterbelt Reading Series (in 2012) we had the luxury of hand-picking the cast and there was no one else I wanted to play Britte but Katie, someone who knows me inside out and has watched me take this journey.” Beacom-Hurst landed the same role in the current Shelterbelt production. Britte’s best friends, KB and Didi, played by Katlynn Yost and Kaitlyn McClincy, morph into several more characters to create a Greek chorus. The boyfriend, Matt, is played by Nick LeMay, who also plays other male roles. Berry started Psycho in 2010. By 2011 it lagged as she found herself stuck in a bad case of writer’s block. “It wasn’t until I went to Central America by myself for two months on this soul journey to Guatemala, Nicaragua and El Salvador that I really had a breakthrough. Once I got out of my surroundings and got alone and foreign the show became really close to the play that’s being performed.” Berry has another full-length play, He’s Here, being considered for a month-long workshop by the Raven Theatre in Chicago. It’s a full resume for anyone, especially for the just-turned 29 artist who after years of flitting around has finally settled down. She has a real job at Rebel Interactive, an Omaha branding agency. “I’ve always had a sense of independence, I’ve always been a do-what-I-want kind of person,” she says. Upon returning from Central America she says she felt “transformed.” She’s more purposeful than ever about doing her work and getting it produced. But like most writers she’s beset by insecurities about the very thing she cares so much about. “When it comes to writing it’s the only thing I feel like I’m here for this reason, so it’s very close, it’s very personal. So it just scares me shitless whenever anybody even says anything good. I can’t believe it.” Her play The Waiting Line about a cross-section of people awaiting organ transplants received an unusually strong response at its Great Plains reading “It was overwhelming. I walked in there with my mom and my best friend holding their hands, I was so scared. It was very emotional. It’s nerve wracking for me to hear my words in actors’ mouths. “But that was by far the best response I’ve had to any of my pieces and I’ve had a lot of positive feedback on other shows. One of my panelists called the show ‘raw and visceral, poetic and lyrical.’ Whoa! What? “I didn’t set out to be any of those things, it just mused through me… Words tend to automatically flow through her. Like the poems she puts on Redbubble. “I don’t edit any of that, it all comes straight-out however it comes. Very organically. I feel like if I work it too much or think about it too much I’m going to take all the life out of it.” The feedback she gets from readings and workshops helps her hone her plays. She’s long had a writing gift though claiming it as her own has been another thing. “It’s hard for me to even say gift. I really don’t know where it’s coming from. I am a good writer but I can’t think too highly no matter what somebody else says, no matter what I think because not everything is going to be accepted. I’m going to get rejection letter after rejection letter and that hurts. So I just take everything casually. I’m on pins and needles, every single goddam time.” Growing up she was steeped in creativity by her artist mother, Pamela Berry, who got Beau started in theater at 14. The home-schooled Berry got her experience at churches where her mom organized theater productions and through the Omaha scouting theater troupe, Explorer Post 619. She says working with the troupe “was a great experience,” adding, “You got to write and direct your own shows. We did some awesome stuff and some really bad stuff, too I happen to know a lot of people in the theater community from the Post – people I met there.” Her involvement with the Post ended around age 19, when the intrigue of dating took hold. She eloped at 20 and divorced soon after. Then in quick succession she put together a burlesque troupe, the Sparkling Diamonds, that opened for some bands before falling apart. She went off to Vegas, where she went by Carmen Rose. There, she formed a hip-hop dance group and relaunched a new version of Diamonds. She was doing off-strip VIP table dancing when she wound up a paid mud wrestler at a club. She did a stint as a Miller Lite Girl. What possessed her to lead this Reality TV life. “Oh, it was Vegas, I was 21, I have no idea. I get bored extremely easily and I have to always be looking for the next big thing or something fun to do. I just want to try everything. Like there’s no reason not to.” Love took her to New Jersey. Philadelphia became a regular haunt. She did some spoken word there. She appeared in a production of Cabaret. Through it all, she kept writing. Eventually her plays got readings in Philly and one, Ugly Birds, was performed at Spark Fest. When her East Coast love affair went bad she went to Telluride, Colo., where she wrote The Waiting Line. There was also a music sojourn in Calif. and various forays to Europe, Canada, Mexico. Her “traveling self” is so engrained that even though she’s seemingly found in Omaha what she’s been searching for she’ll always be footloose and fancy free. “I think the majority of my soul will never quite be settled anywhere and that’s why I want to give myself the luxury of traveling to places and staying there for a few months spurt, so I can keep my foot in the world. “What I really love about Omaha that I didn’t find on either coast is there really is an opportunity to create your own world of whatever your art is. There’s a lot of open doors here and if you’re of an entrepreneurial spirit there’s a lot of doors you can open yourself.” She’s currently looking at forming her own theater production company. For tickets to Psycho call 402-341-2757 or visit http://www.shelterbelt.org. Matched Set: Susan Baer Collins and Carl Beck Share a Life and Career Based in Theater at the Omaha Community Playhouse (leoadambiga.wordpress.com) Playwrights-In-Residence and The Meaning Of Homegrown Theatre (undermainblog.wordpress.com) Region sets scene for local playwrights (triblive.com) Bailiwick Chicago Theater Presents the World Premiere of MAHAL By Resident Playwright Danny Bernardo (chicagostagestandard.com) Playwrights-In-Residence and The Meaning Of Homegrown Theatre (nepaplaywrights.wordpress.com) when the playwright is owned (nepaplaywrights.wordpress.com) Categories: Authors/Literature, Beaufield Berry, Comedy/Humor, Entertainment, Great Plains Theatre Conference, Omaha, Playwright, Rebel Interactive, Theater, Writing Tags: Beaufield Berry, Great Plains Theatre Conference, Omaha Playwright, Psycho Ex Girlfriend, Shelterbelt Theatre, The Waiting Line ‘Last Comic Standing’ King Felipe Esparza Headlines Omaha Show July 27, 2012 leoadambiga Leave a comment Comedy is about as subjective as anything I know. What I find funny you may find boring or stupid or offensive. And what you find funny may fall flat to my eyes and ears or simply turn me off. Call it a matter of taste or a certain sensibility, but in my experience comedy preferences, like food preferences, are highly individual. And not always consistent either. What does or doesn’t make me laugh one day might change the next week or the next month. Mood plays a factor. Attitude as well. But clearly there are humorists, comedians, and standup comics who resonate with the masses, which suggests some comedy has, if not universal, thenbroad appeal and cuts through personal, social, cultural filters to tickle the collective bone. I must admit that I interviewed standup Felipe Esparza for the following story from a year or so ago without ever having seen or heard him perform. I still haven’t. My prep work before speaking to him consisted of reading some press materials. He was likable enough. Funny, too. But eliciting some laughs or smiles in a phone conversation is not the same as it is on stage. I’ll only know if his brand of humor works for me if I see him perform. Maybe some day. ‘Last Comic Standing‘ King Felipe Esparza Headlines Omaha Show Originally published in El Perico The Last Comic Standing live tour coming to the Omaha Music Hall on Nov. 20 features the finalists from the seventh season of the NBC comedy competition show, including winner Felipe Esparza. Even before capturing the televised contest this past summer, Esparza lived the dream of standup stardom he first harbored growing up in the rough Boyle Heights section of East Los Angeles. Now he’s a headliner just like the comedy kings he idolized — Rodney Dangerfield, Eddie Murphy, George Carlin, Paul Rodriguez. He has a network development deal, comedy albums and two movies to his credit. He counts Rodriguez, his co-star in The Deported and I’m Not Like that No More, as a close friend and mentor. Sharing top billing with someone he admires is a little surreal. “It’s the best feeling in the world. I’m on Cloud Nine, if there is such a thing. I love it,” Esparza said by phone from a tour stop in Milwaukee. “Paul Rodriguez is a really good guy. He’s cool. He took me on the road with him and I opened for him. He paid me well and took care of me. We became good friends actually.” Esparza says when some suggested his act was too ethnic Rodriguez advised him to stay true to himself. By doing as Rodriguez urged, Esparza eventually broke through with mainstream audiences. “Before Last Comic Standing that’s all I was considered (an ethnic comic),” says Esparza. “That’s why I never went on the road, I never got booked, I wasn’t famous enough or my comedy was too ethnic. A lot of Latino comedians I started out with kept telling me, ‘You gotta cross over to white people.’ Then I met Paul Rodriguez, who told me, ‘Thats’ all bull shit, if you’re funny they will cross over to you,’ and that’s what’s happened. Now I’m not just famous with Latinos, I’m famous with everybody.” Esparza, who writes all his own material, says it’s as simple as “if you write jokes that are funny you don’t have to change nothing.” But he says if it wasn’t for Last Comic he wouldn’t even be on the same bill “with three white guys and a black guy,” as he is on tour, because he would be the brown man out. The comic has come far from a youth drug addiction that derailed him for a time. Once he got clean and sober, he went after his dream. “I had just come out of drug rehab and my head was clear, I had goals and ambitions again. I didn’t know what to do, but the first thing that popped in my head was, I want to be a comedian.” Breaking into the business meant screwing up his courage to go on stage and taking his lumps to learn the craft. “My first time on stage I was nervous, I didn’t know what to say out there, so I just made shit up. I got laughs and I got to come back the next week. But I didn’t know what bombing was until I really bombed — oh, my god, horrible feeling, it’s like getting your heartbroken every minute.” Esparza says he was never really confident he would win Last Comic. “I had no gut feeling, but the longer I stayed on the show the more fans I was gaining because the show was taped in Glendale, Calif., and I’m from Los Angeles. The people that went to the first taping liked me, so they kept coming back. By the time of the last episode half to three quarters of the crowd was voting for me. They were going, ‘Felipe, Felipe, Felipe.’” He says while “winning is great,” the exposure gained from the show meant that “win or lose I would have still won.“ Veteran Latino comic promoter premieres new streaming comedy show site (latinalista.com) Image Entertainm ent presents the Latin King of Comedy PAUL RODRIGUEZ: JUST FOR THE RECORD coming to DVD September 25th (therogersrevue.wordpress.com) Great American Comedy Festival Presents Lineup of Up-and-Comers with Legends Paula Poundstone, Dick Cavett, Jimmie “JJ” Walker (leoadambiga.wordpress.com) Delaney: Standup finds following on Twitter (variety.com) Daniel Tosh Rape Joke Controversy: Fellow Comics Rally Around Embattled TV Host (celebuzz.com) Gaffigan’s stand-up routine a joyous addiction for comic (lfpress.com) Categories: Comedy/Humor, Entertainment, Felipe Esparza, Latino/Hispanic, Writing Tags: Felipe Esparza, Last Comic Standing Dick Cavett’s desk jockey déjà vu July 4, 2012 leoadambiga Leave a comment Dick Cavett hasn’t hosted an actual talk show in a long time but occasionally he still settles behind a desk or a table to do a faux version for charity. A few years ago Turner Classic Movies featured him in a special tete-a-tete he did with Mel Brooks. TCM’s also showed some of his classic interviews with Hollywood legends. He also has DVDs out of his best programs with film and rock icons. The following piece appeared before the TCM specials. You’ll find several more stories by me about Cavett, whom I’ve had the chance to interview multiple times. Originally appeared in The Reader (www.thereader.com) “The Dick Cavett Show. Ladies and gentlemen, Dick Cavett …… ” That intro, silent for a generation, is back, thanks to Turner Classic Movies. The cable channel (Cox 55) is presenting interviews the Nebraska native comic, author, actor and talk-show host did with screen giants on his ABC late-night The Dick Cavett Show of the late 1960s, early 1970s. On Thursday nights this month and next, TCM resurrects these originals just as a new DVD is out with him and Hollywood legends. In this spirit of revival, TCM’s produced an hour special, recreating Cavett’s old show. In it, he goes one-on-one with comic dynamo Mel Brooks before a live studio audience. The TCM special marks his desk jockey return of sorts. The Dick Cavett Show’s many incarnations over 30 years ranged from daytime and late-night runs on ABC to versions on CBS, PBS, USA and CNBC. A radio gig in 1998 was his last. Cavett, born in Gibbon, raised in Lincoln, educated at Yale and schooled in comedy by some of the greats, displays the same ease and wit with Brooks as he did in his exchanges with Golden Age legends. Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn, Groucho Marx, Woody Allen, Robert Mitchum and Alfred Hitchcock headline the guests he adroitly draws out and trades barbs with in the TCM re-airs. It must be surreal for the 69-year-old to relive his talk show past. Indeed, as he glides on stage for the special, wearing a perplexed face, the first thing he utters, with senatorial incredulity, is, “That was dééjàà …… something, all over again.” The timing’s just right. “It puts me right back stage at our studio on 58th in New York, right next to the Zip Your Fly sign,” he says, switching from highbrow to low. A call to his place in Manhattan finds him begging off an interview for another hour. He explains it’s so he has time to finish a letter to the New York Times in which he chides a staffer for her “absolutely, unforgivably erroneous, mean-spirited crappy review” of the special. It’s not the first time he’s taken on a Times’ scribe. His last diatribe, he says, was “to my amazement, spread …… all over the front page of the Sunday entertainment section.” On the call back, he’s ready to get nostalgic about Hollywood royalty. The thought of those full-blooded figures reminds him today’s stars are, by comparison, “almost entirely” devoid of gravity or grandiosity. “Who would be Tracy or Fonda or Mitchum today? Who do we have? They just aren’t there,” he says. “Cagney (James), there’s nothing like him around. De Niro is about it.” He can’t put his finger on what this means, except, “ …… that’s something gone wrong in the gene pool or something.” The mention of his odd 1973 show with Marlon Brando, then fronting the American Indian Movement, reminds Cavett how dismissive the actor was of his own craft. “Yes, because of his silly notion he kept peddling all his life that acting was a kind of offhand profession that anybody could do,” he says. “I don’t know if it was on the show or off, but he said, ‘You know, when they ask — Did you pee on the toilet seat? You lie and say no, and that’s acting and that’s all acting is.’ I know I did say to him, ‘In other words, I could have been as good a Stanley Kowalski as you?’ That kind of stopped him for a moment.” Mitchum, “his eyelids at half-mast,” affected similar disdain for acting, despite all evidence to the contrary. “Yeah, he talked about walking through parts. That it was not really a manly profession,” Cavett says, “but Mitchum was a superb actor and anybody who thinks he wasn’t let’s see them get up and do what he did. He could have done Macbeth. I had to use pliers virtually to get him to admit he wrote poetry. I saw some of it and it was wonderful. He wrote music for some other things as well …… the score to the first movie he produced himself, Thunder Road.” Of his hero Groucho, whom he did several shows with, Cavett says, “I knew a lot about him going in, so I wasn’t surprised by much, except by how much he liked to read and he was virtually always funny.” Groucho’s perfect one-liners came so fast and often, he says, “somebody should have been around” to record them. A highlight for Cavett was writing for Groucho, among many temp hosts of The Tonight Show after Paar quit and before Johnny took over. “Groucho was the thrill, of course, for us writers or ‘the Shakespeares’ as he called us.” Cavett first met Groucho and Woody Allen only a day apart. At the time Cavett wrote and coordinated on-air talent for Paar. Woody was a standup in New York clubs. “I was sent by the Paar show to scout this young man who they said had written for Sid Caesar when he was 17. I just thought, ‘I’ve got to know this guy.’ We met at the Blue Angel where he was appearing and vomiting back stage from stage fright, the master [emcee] making him go on and the audience sitting there talking during his fledgling act. He was a dud. His material was the greatest I’d ever heard. Genius.” For those who only know the guarded sophisticate filmmaker Allen is today, Cavett says they “will be amazed he was ever a standup comic, in a period of his life he hated, and went on talk shows. Pure gold.” Cavett, whose sardonic tone and neurotic persona make him a kind of WASPish Woody, would have killed to have been a staff writer, as Allen and Brooks were, for Caesar, whose stable included Neil Simon, Carl Reiner and Larry Gelbart. “By the time I got to New York, damnit, Show of Shows was no longer,” Cavett says. He expresses similar regret to Brooks on the special: “God, I wish I’d been in the room with those guys.” When Cavett tells Mel he imagines those writing sessions as times when “countless gems were flying around the room,” Brooks deflates him with, “They could be counted. A lot of bulls*** flew across the room.” Brooks played a wild, 2,500-year-old brewmeister to Cavett’s deadpan reporter in Ballantine Beer radio spots that Cavett says showcased Brooks’ “God-given, outrageous, eccentric comic talent.” The crazy Jew and placid Gentile played off each other well. During the special, Brooks ribs the host for being “spectacularly Gentile. You should be in a wax museum as THE Gentile.” Cavett says there are enough star segments from his old show for more DVD-TCM revivals. His interviews with jazz greats will be on a forthcoming DVD. Still mourning the July death of his wife of 40 years, actress Carrie Nye, Cavett busies himself as much as he can. 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__label__cc	0.692511	0.307489	Category Archives: Forest Fire Lookouts THE SKETCHY HISTORY OF THE RAFT FIRE LOOKOUT In October 2019 I organized a slide show about local fire lookouts for The Olympians Hiking Club in Aberdeen. I planned to share photos and what I knew and remembered from visiting all of the lookout sites in Grays Harbor County. Almost all of the historic fire lookouts there had been eradicated—with almost all signs of their existence removed before twenty-first century visitors arrived on the scene. On my list was the Raft Lookout site, which I had hiked to several times in 2008-2010. I wasn’t including it in my book, because maps now show its location on the Quinault Indian Reservation, and the tribe no longer offers recreation permits for access on their lands. To gather a little history for my presentation, I looked in the lookout inventories published in the 1980s. I noticed that Raft is listed in Byron Fish and Ira Spring’s Lookouts; Fire Watchers of the Olympics and Cascades, but does not appear in either of Ray Kresek’s books about lookouts published in the 20th century.[1] Fish and Spring list Raft lookout under the Olympic National Forest and Olympic National Park, Quinault Ranger District. It describes it as a “Lookout shown on Forest Service map and not on USGS.” They located it in “Township 23 Range 11W Section 12, 10 mi. NW of Amanda Park.’[2] At some point, based on the research of volunteer historians and lookout hunters like me, Raft’s name was added to the updated lookout lists in both the 2015 and 2019 editions of Kresek’s Fire Lookouts of the Northwest; Lookout Inventory Revised. The line for Raft says only “Raft… (see Salmon River).”[3] That surprised me, as I think of Raft as a federal fire lookout and Salmon River as state, so I pulled out my older maps of the region. Some have accumulated on our bookshelves along with hike guidebooks since we moved here in the 1970s, a few were gifts from older friends when they were downsizing, and one prize 1960 Quinault District Firemans [sic] Map had been sent to answer my questions about another fire lookout site. Several of these maps[4] show Raft as a forest service lookout in 1960 through 1976 at least, and Salmon River[5] as a state lookout—just as they are both listed in the Fish and Spring book.[6] At the talk, I had no photo of Raft Lookout to show, and only my map discoveries to support my scanty knowledge of Raft’s existence. A section of the 1960 Quinault Ranger District Firemans map, marking the locations of fire lookouts in the Olympic National Forest and Quinault Indian Reservation with black triangles with white centers: Raft River Ridge and Higley Peak in the national forest, and Lone Mtn. on the reservation. This map lacks a legend interpreting the symbols used. 1972 Olympic National Forest map, showing the locations of the Raft Lookout (hexagon), Raft National Geodetic survey marker (triangle), the Salmon River Lookout (triangle within a hexagon) in the Olympic National Forest (green), and Lone Mtn. survey marker (triangle) within the Quinault Indian Reservation (pink). Fire lookout symbols were not included in the Olympic Forest and Park map legends in the 1970s or later. 1977 Olympic National Forest, Olympic National Park map, showing the locations of the Raft Lookout (hexagon), Raft National Geodetic survey marker (triangle), the Salmon River Lookout (triangle within a hexagon) in the Olympic National Forest (green), and Lone Mtn. survey marker (triangle) in the Quinault Indian Reservation (pink). Fire lookout symbols were not included in the Olympic Forest and Park map legends in the 1970s or later. There wasn’t a large crowd for my Olympian slideshow, but a number of people stayed after the presentation to ask questions and share memories. I had hiked with more than half of the people in the room, so I anticipated hiking memories, and few questions. I was a little surprised when a frequent hiking companion from Elma mentioned that he remembered seeing the Raft Fire Lookout. He had worked for the Olympic National Forest several summers in the late 1960s, based at the Matheny Forest Service Work Camp. The Camp was located a few miles north of the Raft lookout, on Forest Road 240 (I think it is FR 21 on current maps) at the Jefferson County line. The Raft Ridge Lookout, as he knew it, was one that his crew checked on regularly. He remembered there had been a house trailer on the site in 1968, ‘69 and 1970. His other clear memory was looking down on the Lone Mountain Lookout tower,[7] across US Highway 101 to the southeast, in the Quinault Indian Reservation. The Raft Fire Lookout, even without a tower sat at 1600΄ or 1700΄ elevation, while the Lone Mountain Tower added a 90΄ metal tower to its 1173΄ hilltop elevation. The combination of symbols on maps and the memories of an elder forest worker resolved the Raft Lookout question for me. Byron Fish and Ira Spring were correct to trust the US Forest Service map when they included Raft as a federal Forest Service fire lookout in their 1983 book. That left one related mystery for me—how, when and why was the land that had included both the Raft and Salmon River Fire Lookouts transferred to the Quinault Indian Nation? I recently learned the area was known as the North Boundary Expansion Area. … But that is a story for another day. [1] Ray Kresek, Fire Lookouts of Oregon & Washington, 1985 and Fire Lookouts of the Northwest, 1984. [2] Fish and Spring, p. 197. [1] Kresek, 2015 and 2019, p. 23. [4] Fish and Spring, p. 197. [5] Kresek, 2015 and 2019, p. 23. [6] Quinault Ranger District, Olympic National Forest, Firemans [sic] Map, 1960; Olympic National Forest map, 1972; Olympic National Park and Olympic National Forest. 1977. [7] The Salmon River Lookout is documented elsewhere as in use from 1960 until about 1995. [8] Byron Fish and Ira Spring. Lookouts; Fire Watchers of the Olympics and Cascades, 3rd edition, 1998, pp 197, 199. [9] After several attempts, I reached Lone Mountain’s partly overgrown metal tower in September 2007. The tower was visible to travelers driving south on Highway 101 until 2012, when it was taken down for safety reasons. This entry was posted in Forest Fire Lookouts, Historical Notes, Uncategorized and tagged Grays Harbor County, Lone Mountain Fire Lookout, Quinault Indian Reservation, Salmon River Fire Lookout, The Olympians Hiking Club on June 16, 2020 by leslieromer. THE WEATHERWAX MYSTERY PARTLY RESOLVED: The two published inventories that I rely on for basic location and historical information disagree on the location of this fire lookout. Ray Kresek’s list reports it in Section 9 of Township 21 North, Range 7 West. Spring and Fish said it was diagonally northwest of Kresek’s location, in section 6 of the same Township and Range.[1] When I started looking into the known details about Weatherwax, I realized I had always followed my hiking club’s traditional route, and looked for Weatherwax lookout artifacts at the feet of a set of communication towers in Section 5, even farther west. In 2017 I was searching though old maps to resolve a different question and discovered a copy of the Osborne firefinder map for the Weatherwax fire lookout. Right at the top of the page it gives the location: “SW¼ SE ¼ SW¼ S.4 T21 N. R.7 W.” This can be read as “the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of the southwest quarter of Section 4 in Township 21 north, Range 7 west.” I had been offered a copy of the old map by a Weyerhaeuser employee in Grays Harbor County a decade before and had accepted it among other old maps “just in case.” I finally knew why. When I compared the Osborne map with my contemporary maps I realized the fire tower location was clearly within the Olympic National Forest. I had read about state and national lookout staff sharing a tower, but not of any lookouts that were built on the other jurisdiction’s land. But I was able to confirm the lookout tower’s location with former state forest lookout staffer Keith Hoofnagle in 2017. ‘Yes,’ he said. ‘I knew when I worked there that the tower was on federal land. There was nothing secret about it.” The tower had been there six years when Keith started work there. Section 4 is clearly in the Olympic National Forest, and always has been. So how did the state fire tower come to be built on federal land? The logical reason is that it has higher elevation than any nearby state or privately owned land and publicly employed foresters worked cooperatively in that era. The question remains: Why did the two inventories list different incorrect locations? If I ever figure that out, I will be sure to let you know!. [1] Ray Kresek, Fire Lookouts of the Northwest; Lookout Inventory,. 2019, p. 24. Ira Spring and Byron Fish, Lookouts; firewatchers of the Cascades and Olympics. 2nd ed., 1996, p.199. This entry was posted in Historical Notes on March 31, 2020 by leslieromer. UPDATE ON THE ARCTIC LOOKOUT (Good News and Bad) The State (Division of Forestry, at the time) built a 54΄ pole tower with cabin on top on a ridge west of the Artic* townsite in 1948 and took it down in 1973. Until a few years ago, hikers visiting the site followed the first side road leading to it—through a Weyerhaeuser tree farm. When Weyerhaeuser started charging steep recreation fees in the Twin Harbors Tree Farm in Grays Harbor County, hikers looked for another route. In general terms, the lookout site is located south of Aberdeen and Cosmopolis, west of U.S. Highway 101. To be specific, drive U.S. Highway 101 south past milepost 75 and turn right on Hilliard Lane, just before the North River Bridge. Drive 5.5 miles to the Hancock Forest Management gate that blocks the road, and park. A sign beside the gate welcomes non-motorized recreation beyond that point. Hike about 0.4 mile and turn right on Forest Road LD4010/EF4213. Follow that route to a Y and continue straight on LD4011/AN4310. This road snakes up to a ridge that provides great views into the North River Valley. The hillside has been harvested, so the landscape presents as a patchwork of forest, fields, narrow roads and streamlines. About 2.5 miles from the Hancock gate, and a short distance before the spur road leading to the Arctic Lookout site, is another gate. Now for the bad news: in summer 2019 a new sign appeared beside this gate. Rayonier Timber Company now requires a hunting lease for entry here. This area does not appear among the Rayonier properties that can be visited with a 2019 Non-Hunting General Access permit—$135 for a family pass. Perhaps it will next year. You can check their website https://property.rayonierhunting.com/Permits/PermitDetails.aspx to see if that has become available. ‘* Are you wondering why there are two spellings of Arctic here? The lookout was named for a little town which locals hoped to name “Arta” for the wife of the town’s founder.[1] Their application for a post office was not clearly written, and Artic was the name that came back from the US Postal Service. The state agency, fifty miles away in Olympia, used the more conventional spelling of the name. [1] James W. Phillips. Washington State Place Names, 1971. p.9. This entry was posted in Access Notes on March 31, 2020 by leslieromer. A MONDAY KIND OF ADVENTURE From December 2015 until December 2017, I had an opportunity to occasionally explore Fort Lewis for the remains of the five fire lookout towers that watched over that area, starting in the 1940s. Four are gone. Goodman Hill Lookout was still standing at that time; its current status is unknown. The essay below describes our initial encounter with the military structure that governed our access to the base. On the day recorded below, my friends and I were able to visit the Deschutes Tower site. We later visited the Garrison Hill Lookout site and the Rainier Tower site. The sites of the Goodman Hill Lookout and the less well-known fifth fire lookout station, Nisqually, were not accessible when we were available to visit the base. Update: April 6, 2020 We set out on a drippy Monday morning for JBLM (Joint Base Lewis McChord). I had learned there are recreational passes available that would allow us to hike on the 86,000 acres of Fort Lewis Training Areas for the next two years! Step 1 to obtaining such a permit is a one-day pass obtained at the JBLM Visitors Center, just outside the Main Gate, on the south side of Interstate 5 at Exit 120. A quick talking receptionist had said all we needed to get day passes would be drivers’ licenses for identification, plus registration and proof of vehicle insurance for the car we drove onto the base. The Visitors Center is a very plain rectangular building sited behind a parking lot for about 60 cars. It was half full when we arrived, so we were not surprised to find a fairly full waiting room with rows of chairs and a take-a-number-for-service machine. Despite the crowd, the process went pretty quickly. Each of the four of us took our turn, produced our driver’s license and answered a few questions. I think I was the only one who could answer, “Yes, I have been on the base before.” A decade earlier, I had led a hike on the base as part of a Fort Lewis Recreational Program. My hike had gone to the one standing lookout tower on the base, at Goodman Hill. This was my first return to the military reserve. With our temporary photo ID visitor passes, we easily entered through the carefully guarded multi-lane gate. The map I had reviewed before our trip clearly indicated that the Range Control Area Access Office was at the intersection of Stryker and Kaufman, and appeared to be straight in from the gate. I later figured out that one of the major flaws of our initial small scale map was that the gates were not clearly labeled. We had entered through a different gate. We continued on what seemed to be the main road for about a mile. Then we came to an intersection with Stryker Avenue. We could only drive to the left, as the right side of the intersection was blocked to protect a residential area from through traffic. We knew the building number for our destination, but soon figured out that the numbers were descending, while we were looking for a larger number. Noticing one person on foot in an adjacent parking lot, we drove right up to him. “Excuse me! Can you help us?” Once we had the attention of the competent looking man in uniform, we asked our real question: “Can you tell us where we can find the Range Area Access Control Office? It is supposed to be at building 4074 on Stryker, but we haven’t found it.” “Sorry,” he replied. “I have only been here a couple weeks, and am still trying to find my way around.” He suggested that we continue in our current direction for half a mile, and if we did not find it, turn around. We agreed, drove past some open fields and were in sight of another gate when we decided it was high time we retraced our route. Meanwhile, our designated navigator had gotten a Google Map working on her phone and found the street intersection we wanted. Sure enough, it was about as far beyond the main road we had driven in on as our farthest exploration. In the next few minutes we drove through blocks of drab office buildings and then a section of two story brick residences that had been housing army officers since World War II. At the intersection of Stryker and Kaufman we found a long narrow clapboard building that looked as if it belonged next to a 1940s railroad track. It was clearly marked: Range Control Area Access Office. We climbed the short flight of stairs to the raised walkway that ran the length of the building. There was only one door near the stairs, and the information on it didn’t make any more sense to us than the name of the office, but we were confident we had come to the right place. The door opened to a small lobby with a chest high counter on the left, staffed by three young soldiers. On the wall to the right was a large map of the Fort, with a couple dozen colored areas of various shapes and sizes, each marked with its own number. The young soldiers asked us a few questions – what would you like to do in the training areas – their assumptions being that we most likely wanted to ride our horses or walk our dogs on the base. When we admitted we did not know exactly where we wanted to go, we were referred to the big map – probably six feet by six feet. There we discovered that we could not only figure out which Training Area each of our lookout sites was located in, but most of the locations were marked with tower icons! Courtesy of http://www.capitolriders.org The desk staff waited patiently while we made our discoveries on their lovely large map and wrote down the number of each range containing a lookout site. Then one soldier explained how their system works, and how one gets to visit a particular area. Whenever one wants to visit a Training Area, you phone the recorded message at (253) 967-6277 and learn which Training Areas are open for visiting that day and the next. When you decide to visit one of the open Training Areas, you respond to the questions at the end of the recording: • What Training Area or Areas will you visit? • What date will you visit it or them? • What hours do you expect to be there? • What is your name and Access Permit Number? • Will other Access Permit Numbers accompany you? Okay! Now we thought we were ready to go exploring. It was only 11 a.m., so we had plenty of day left. There was a long list of Training Areas open that day (and most days, we learned). But none of them matched areas we wanted to visit. We then learned that a few Training Areas are permanently closed. A few were closed because they are critical habitat for species that survive in only a few areas in the region. The Taylor’s checkerspot butterfly and the streaked horn lark are the creatures identified as protected here, while other rare plants and animals benefit from the reduced human traffic. Another area has been permanently closed because a helicopter spooked a horse there, the rider fell off and was injured, complained and the area was closed to recreational access. That training area is in my home county, and the lookout site located there is one that I had visited several times a decade ago. I knew that the route to the site of the former tower there goes only a quarter mile off a county road with scattered houses on both sides. When I mentioned this to my friends, the soldier agreed that it would be easy to visit. So we completed our Monday adventure by returning to more familiar territory. We drove south on I-5, took a connector road to Old Highway 99, turned left at the old blue roadhouse, and drove until we crossed the railroad tracks and the rail trail. We parked at a wide spot beside the trail and hiked back along the road until we came to a “Federal Property No Trespassing” sign behind a chain link fence. We followed the fence for about a hundred feet to an opening, legitimized by two tall posts and no forbidding signs. It led to a gravel road that wound to the top of the hill. The last time I had visited, cement blocks stood there that had formerly supported the legs of a 100-foot metal lookout tower. Beside the blocks had been a burnt out car body and signs of weekend keggers. Now the site was clean. All signs of the site’s history were gone. The road through the area ran in a small circle at the top of the hill, suggesting a focal point that no longer existed. There we ate our late lunch and discussed when we might use our new permits again. Useful links: http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/fort-lewis-open-for-recreational-activities/ http://www.lewis-mcchord.army.mil/DPTMS/training/range/docs/aabrochure.pdf This entry was posted in Lookout Adventures and tagged Fort Lewis Access on January 6, 2016 by leslieromer. THE CAMP WITH THE PINK BUOY As much as I want to finish this book about Iceland’s volcanoes, I cannot let the glorious summer we are having in the Pacific Northwest go by uncelebrated! I have just spent three days camped at Kayostla Beach on the wild Pacific coast in Olympic National Park. This beach can be reached only by hiking – long beach hikes from north or south, paddle and hike via Lake Ozette, or drive circuitous back roads from Forks and take a short hike to the beach. When we emerged from the forest trail we were in a small campground just above a broad sandy beach with lots of beach logs washed up against the edge of the forest. Walking north on the beach a short distance we found another little campground with a broad spool table, logs and a bench arranged around a fire pit. This kitchen design decided our home for the stay! On the beach side of the camp was a tall dead tree with a three-foot-long pink buoy tied to a high branch. It marked our camp whenever we wandered the beaches while we were there. Taking time for packing, driving and hiking, we arrived at our camp in mid-afternoon. The rest of the day was spent setting up tents and exploring the neighborhood – especially all the empty campsites in our stretch of the beach. In addition to great furniture for six and a pink buoy, our camp had a convenient source of fresh water in a stream flowing a hundred yards to the south. Day Two was committed to hiking north, in hopes of finding the site of a World War II aircraft lookout cabin above the beach at Eagle Point. The “beach” between Kayostla and the Cape Alava trails to the north is considered the roughest hiking on the entire Olympic coast. I haven’t hiked it all, but this section was distinctly challenging. From sand we went to cobblestones, larger stepping stones, then boulders. The pattern seemed to repeat, with rocks coated with slippery vegetation intermixed to test our balance. At the foot of Eagle Head we searched for a trail. Seventy years having passed since the lookout cabin was occupied in the 1940s, so we had little hope of finding one. Two of us fought our way to the top of the 200 foot bluff – sometimes pulling up on green belay and sometimes crawling on steep rabbit trails. Most of the growth on our route seemed to be salal, although I remember trusting my weight to sturdy sword ferns as well. We appreciated finding few prickly blackberries or roses on our ascent. On top we found only one clearing – a rare area where no bushes grew, just grasses and tender plants. We found no cabin, but without maintenance, none was expected after so many decades of the harsh Olympic weather. After catching our breath, we took a few photos to record our visit to the site. We descended the bluff quickly, once we found the trail that had closed behind us. Our companions on the beach started calling when they spotted our motion in the shrubbery. When they were assured that we were headed down, most started hiking south. The tide was rising and we all needed to get around the next point to Kayostla Beach before the water came crashing on those slippery rocks. My friends and I passed the critical headland with minutes to spare and wandered the beach toward camp with an eye out for beach treasures as we ambled along. The next day we headed south – thinking we were leaving rock hopping and boulder clambering behind. This was our sunshine day, designed for strolling sandy beaches, contemplating the offshore seastacks and the headlands to climb over. Just north of Starbuck Creek is a headland which once supported another lookout cabin built for the aircraft watchers of the early 1940s. But the building disappeared when the section of the cliff where it stood collapsed sometime during the intervening years. Headlands throughout this area rise steeply to 200 feet above the beach. The trails are often foot holes in the bank with a sturdy but loose-hanging rope fastened somewhere above, to hold onto while ascending. This trail had a wooden ladder held together with ½” steel cable – and a rope for added security. Four of us ascended the Starbuck headland and then found a traversing trail going out to the point of the ridge. High above the beach – and clinging to a sturdy tree on the narrow summit – we peered out as the aircraft lookout must have done so long ago. Now we saw sturdy backpackers and even families hiking on the beach. Then the two men and a dog assigned to each station had lonely duty and only radio contact with a dispatcher back at Lake Ozette. At the headland above Cedar Creek we again found round markers high on the bank, telling with their yellow and black quartering that the point held danger at high tide and a route over the headland was available. These steep trails were carved out long ago and do not get much maintenance. One we saw seemed to be a steep clay bank with only a rope – no footholds. Most of us appreciated the low tide when we approached that point, and worked our way around on the rocks at the foot of the bluff to avoid the cliff climb. The approach from the other side was a pleasant gradual ascent on a woodsy trail – after the first ten feet above the beach had been maneuvered. It is hard to remember on a warm sunny day that winter storms thrash the feet of these bluffs. Logs beat against the bank and reshape anything we might like to think of as a trailhead. The reward at the top of this headland was the remains of a cabin which stood against the weather until 2007. Its relatively easy access had made it a favorite for beach hikers and it had gotten periodic repairs that held it together until fairly recently. According to Olympic National Park information on the internet, this cabin was known as “Coastie,” suggesting that it was part of the Coast Guard’s aircraft watch program in 1941 and ‘42. After a day of climbing two headlands and walking the beach admiring plants, rocks, shells and glass beach gems, we returned to our camp under the big pink buoy. Our explorations were complete for this visit and the fog bank was returning. Summer was not yet over, but it would probably be the last time this year that most of us would visit this well favored location. This entry was posted in Lookout Adventures and tagged AWS, lookouts, Olympic beach, Olympic National Park, Ozette on August 30, 2014 by leslieromer.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line1006
__label__cc	0.522929	0.477071	Home DSR ScottishPower launches major demand-side response push ScottishPower launches major demand-side response push Black: Connect up all assets to all markets to extract maximum value ScottishPower has launched a major demand-side response (DSR) push. The company believes its pan-European footprint and balancing market expertise will set it apart in a crowded marketplace. William Black heads up ScottishPower’s industrial and commercial energy services unit. He says the firm’s intention is to build a much more integrated business than traditional demand-side response platforms. The aim is to connect up assets, initially at large, multi-site businesses, to better understand and monetise them. “That can range from simple peak network charge avoidance through to a more complex offering, including turn down of assets, load shifting or putting flexible capacity into National Grid’s ancillary services markets, such as the capacity market, STOR and frequency response,” says Black. These assets will be automated and controlled via ScottishPower’s trading desk, which is where Black thinks the firm has a competitive advantage. “We are not just looking to set up DSR, we are highly experienced in balancing markets,” says Black. “We have more wind farms than anyone else in the balancing mechanism that we use to respond to signals in real time. So we are already very experienced in managing decentralised assets,” he adds. That capability negates the need for ScottishPower to acquire an aggregator as it seeks to scale its DSR business, says Black. However, the firm has been speaking with technology and energy management companies in order to build a common connectivity platform. Black says the company would welcome approaches from technology developers in that regard. Equally, Black believes the scale of ScottishPower’s industrial and commercial (I&C) supply business, its brand credibility and strong customer relationships, should help with acquiring flexible megawatts, a key challenge for any demand response business. Meanwhile, ScottishPower’s pan-European footprint will appeal to UK companies with European operations, says Black, something very few DSR providers can currently offer. “We are looking to deploy services on a European-wide basis and we believe that is a unique offer,” says Black. “We will develop that proposition going forward and into 2018 because it is something businesses that buy from Iberdrola in these markets are asking for,” he adds. “But whether a customer has multiple sites in multiple countries or operates solely in the UK, we believe they will appreciate dealing with a single, credible and well-resourced partner.” For further information on how ScottishPower can help reduce your bills and monetise your flexibility, visit: www.scottishpower.co.uk/commercial-business Previous articleZombie attack: coming to a server near you? Next articleTechnology leaders gather to discuss ‘evolution of the digital age’	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line1016
__label__wiki	0.834606	0.834606	New virus mutation raises vaccine questions One mutation, known as E484K, which emerged initially in South Africa and has also been discovered in Brazil and Japan, has raised alarm among researchers As the British coronavirus variant occupies countries' pandemic plans due to its increased transmissibility, other mutations to the SARS-CoV-2 are provoking concern among scientists who are scrambling to work out if they will still respond to vaccines. In particular, one mutation, known as E484K, detected initially in South Africa and on subsequent variants in Brazil and Japan, has raised alarm among researchers. Ravi Gupta, professor of microbiology at the University of Cambridge, said it is this mutation—and not the much-covered British variant—that is "the most worrying of all". Although research into the new variant is limited, a Brazilian study this month looked at a patient who had recovered from COVID-19 only to become reinfected with the new, mutated strain. The paper has yet to be peer-reviewed, but the authors found that the E484K mutation could be "associated with escape from neutralising antibodies"—meaning it could bypass the body's natural defence memory that bestows immunity. As countries accelerate their vaccination programmes, there is concern that the new mutation may render certain vaccines less effective. The Pfizer and Moderna vaccine, for example, use mRNA technology to deliver instructions to the body to produce a harmless coronavirus spike protein, which the immune system then learns to kill in anticipation of a genuine infection. With E484K, as with the British variant, the mutation occurs on the virus' spike protein, which allows it to bind more easily with human cell receptors, potentially heightening its infectiousness. Gupta said the mutation "could be the start of problems for spike vaccines". "They should all be effective at the moment but we worry about further mutations occurring on top of these ones," he told AFP. 'Bypass current protection' Pfizer and German partner BioNTech said last week that their vaccine was effective against the N501Y mutation found on the British virus variant, known as B117. Francois Balloux, professor of Computational Systems Biology and Director of University College London's Genetics Institute, said it was unlikely that the South African variant had mutated sufficiently to "bypass the protection provided by current vaccines". But, he warned: "The E484K mutation has been shown to reduce antibody recognition. "As such, it helps the virus SARS-CoV-2 to bypass immune protection provided by prior infection or vaccination," Balloux said. There have been several mutations to the novel coronavirus since it emerged in late 2019, and most have had a negligible effect on its transmissibility or severity. But the British variant has shown in several studies to be up to 70 percent more infectious than normal virus strains. And the South African variant appears to be more effective at avoiding the body's natural response. New vaccines? One pre-print study in December concluded that the two new variants show that SARS-CoV-2 "has the potential to escape an effective immune response". Researchers studied what happened to the virus when it was left in contact with plasma taken from a patient who had recovered from COVID-19. Within three months, the virus had taken on several mutations, including E484K. The authors suggested that "vaccines and antibodies able to control emerging variants should be developed." Lead researcher Rino Rappuoli, an immunologist at pharma giant GlaxoSmithKline, told AFP that the current spike protein mutations should not pose a problem for existing vaccines, however. And even if the virus mutates to better evade immune response, vaccines should bestow at least some level of effective immunity. "Even if you lower the efficacy, there would normally still be some neutralisation of the virus," Vincent Enouf, from Paris's Pasteur Institute, told AFP. To be on the safe side, Gupta advocated an accelerated vaccination programme, bestowing as much immunity as current vaccines can deliver "as fast as possible all over the world." Follow the latest news on the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak Citation: New virus mutation raises vaccine questions (2021, January 13) retrieved 16 January 2021 from https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-01-virus-mutation-vaccine.html Study suggests Pfizer vaccine works against virus variant What we do and don't know about new COVID mutations Why it matters that the coronavirus is changing – and what this means for vaccine effectiveness British virus variant now in 50 countries: WHO Scientists trying to understand new virus variant Precautions even more important with new coronavirus variant: experts	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line1019
__label__cc	0.593613	0.406387	STATION COMMANDER Colonel Prentiss Jolly ASSISTANT STATION COMMANDER Lt. Colonel Vincent Beasley Airways Station Mt. Moriah Station Raines Station Ridgeway Station Appling Farms Station Crump Station Austin Peay Station North Main Station Tillman Station 426 Tillman St MAP/Get Directions Local Investigations: (901) 636-3214 Neighborhood Watch: (901) 636-3025 The Tillman Station was created in 1989 as the City of Memphis’ needs for police services expanded. It was temporarily located in the East Precinct until 1992, when it was relocated to 79 S. Flicker. On July 1, 2003, the former Central Precinct moved to 426 Tillman in a new state-of-the-art facility. The Tillman Station area covers 25.99 square miles and includes an estimated 90,136 residents. The Tillman Station, then known as the Central Precinct, was the only precinct that operated 3 shifts in 1996. In 1997, a fourth shift was added.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line1023
__label__cc	0.688076	0.311924	October 17 - 19, 2021The University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN Search MenuDirections 2020 MenuDirectionsOctober 17 - 19, 2021 South Bend, IN MD News Dan Giusti Dan Giusti is the Founder of Brigaid. He formerly served as the Head Chef of Noma in Copenhagen (perennially named the best restaurant in the world) and the Executive Chef of 1789 in Washington, D.C. Coming from a big Italian family, Dan grew up watching his aunt take care of his family, catering to everyone’s needs, and bringing happiness through her food. This is what inspired Dan to get into cooking. He wanted to bring that same joy and comfort to others through food. After three years as the Head Chef of Noma, he wanted to expand his reach by bringing his expertise to tackle another challenge: school food. Dan is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park. 40+Speakers 400+Attendees Build strategic relationships with the industry's leading suppliers Bringing together more than 400 noncommercial industry leaders View all Attendees October 17 - 19, 2021 \| South Bend, IN July18 - 202021 Fairmont Austin, Austin, TXRestaurant DirectionsInsights for Growing Brands Sept12 - 142021 Gaylord Texan, Grapevine, TXFSTECWhere Restaurants and Tech Connect Dec6 - 92021 JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort & Spa, Phoenix, AZRestaurant Leadership ConferenceA Gathering for Chain Executives Winsight is a leading B2B information services company focused on the food and beverage industry, providing insight and market intelligence to business leaders in every channel consumers buy food and beverage – convenience stores, grocery retailing, restaurants and noncommercial foodservice – through media, events, data products, advisory services, and trade shows. Do not sell my personal infoPrivacy PolicyAssumption of Risk and Waiver of LiabilityContact Us Copyright © Winsight, LLC. 2021	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line1024
__label__cc	0.749396	0.250604	Trust and the COVID-19 vaccine In the last three weeks, the U. S. Food and Drug Administration has approved two vaccines for use against COVID-19. Both the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines were developed in less than a year, a stunning technical achievement that relied on cutting-edge science and engineering. Now the big question is, how many people will be willing […] by Karl D. Stephan Jan 8, 2021 Jan 6, 2021 / 4 mins / Pandemic parenting: lessons learned by Leonard Sax Dec 16, 2020 Dec 16, 2020 / 7 mins / Trump’s Covid-19 diagnosis will help him win re-election by Robert Hutchinson Oct 5, 2020 Oct 7, 2020 / 4 mins / Promiscuity and the price of free love by Ann Farmer Sep 7, 2020 Sep 7, 2020 / 2 mins / America’s opioid epidemic is affecting the next generation by Shannon Roberts Sep 13, 2019 May 1, 2020 / 3 mins / There are more elderly homeless people than ever before by Shannon Roberts Sep 3, 2019 May 1, 2020 / 3 mins / Could hormonal contraception be on its way out? by Shannon Roberts Jul 11, 2019 May 1, 2020 / 2 mins / The secrets of a longer life by Shannon Roberts Nov 20, 2018 May 1, 2020 / 2 mins / Weapons of mass distraction by Tony Rao Jun 13, 2017 May 1, 2020 / 3 mins / At the heart of health by Andrea Mrozek Apr 27, 2017 May 1, 2020 / 7 mins / Most of us are “overfat” by Marcus Roberts Jan 23, 2017 May 1, 2020 / 2 mins / Is healthy living making us unfit for life with others? by Veronika Winkels Dec 1, 2016 May 5, 2020 / 3 mins / Ageing in harmony: why the third act of life should be musical by Jennifer MacRitchie Jun 2, 2016 May 1, 2020 / 4 mins / Marital status and suicide by Nicole M. King May 26, 2016 May 1, 2020 / 3 mins / Does religion help you live longer? by Michael Cook May 24, 2016 Apr 19, 2020 / 3 mins /	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line1025
__label__cc	0.721918	0.278082	The Ozone Project launches Manchester-based regional hub By newsroom on January 5, 2021 Comments Off on The Ozone Project launches Manchester-based regional hub As part of its latest investment plans, The Ozone Project has opened the virtual doors on a dedicated, Manchester-based regional hub to super-serve agencies and advertisers in the North. The creation of the northern hub sees Bill Dennett join the premium digital advertising platform in the role of Senior Agency Partner. As Ozone’s first regional representative, Dennett was previously Senior Agency Sales Manager at News UK, leading a team of five Manchester-based sales managers. The Ozone Project – the UK’s leading high-attention digital advertising platform – was founded by News UK, Telegraph Media Group, Reach PLC and Guardian News & Media to provide advertisers with easy, streamlined access to premium audiences at scale. In November of last year, the founding publishers announced further investment in Ozone driven by 2020’s success, which saw four-fold growth and the company named ‘Media Brand of the Year’ at Campaign’s Media Week Awards, with judges calling the project “a brilliant collaboration – creating an answer to the industry challenges”. Craig Tuck, CRO, The Ozone Project, said: “We are delighted to be opening our doors fully to the regions and with Bill’s appointment, we are set to build on our existing relationships with even greater focus and care. At a time when our founders are investing in and accelerating Ozone’s growth, it’s vitally important that we have the best talent on our team. We’ve already seen fantastic briefs and great work from the regional offices of our agency partners and now with Bill on board, we’re very excited at delivering bigger and better campaigns for our customers in 2021.” Bill Dennett, Senior Agency Partner, The Ozone Project, said: “It’s been great watching Ozone grow throughout 2020 and I can think of no better way to start the new year than by joining the team. I’m really looking forward to introducing Ozone’s platform-scale, brand safe and highly effective solutions to the regional markets and helping all of our customers get even more from their marketing budgets.” Source: The Ozone Project Bill Dennett, Craig Tuck, Digital Advertising, The Ozone Project The Ozone Project launches Manchester-based regional hub added by newsroom on January 5, 2021	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line1030
__label__wiki	0.81453	0.81453	Purpose and Story Your Grant Team Children, Young Adults and Families Tiffany Kong Program OfficerEmail tiffany.kong@spmcf.orgCall team member at 651.325.4268 “I have a passion for serving others. The work I do at the Foundations allows me to give back to and support the community along with helping those who are in need.” Tiffany is a program officer and responsible for reviewing grantmaking in education, youth development and out of school time. She also supports the work of nonprofit organizations throughout the metro and state with the Management Improvement Fund. Prior to joining the Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundations in 2014, Tiffany worked as a Community Health Navigator for Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin. She is the co-founder of “The Give Me Hope Project”, a nonprofit she started with her sister in 2005 to build water wells and irrigation systems for the mountainous people in Laos. She currently serves on the board for Keystone Community Services. She has a bachelor’s degree in Healthcare Administration from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with a minor in Business Administration. In her spare time, Tiffany enjoys cooking, playing volleyball, traveling and spending time with family and friends. Mardag Foundation info@mardag.org CareersFinancial & Legal InformationSite Map Join our e-news Twitter IconVisit our Twitter page Facebook IconVisit our Facebook page Youtube IconVisit our Youtube channel Instagram Icon Follow us on Instagram. Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation F. R. Bigelow Foundation Mardag Foundation	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line1031
__label__wiki	0.661357	0.661357	Difference between revisions of "Microbes and invasive plants" Lhu7 (talk \| contribs) (→‎Aegilops triuncialis, Centaurea solstitialis) (→‎Biological Interaction and niche) ==<b>Biological Interaction</b>== ==<b>Biological Interaction and Niche</b>== ==<b>Microbial Processes</b>== ===<b><i>Alliaria petiolata</i></b>=== Stinson studied <i>Alliaria petiolata</i> and found that they can disrupt native mutualists, AMF, thus affect native AMF associated plants and facilitate themselves to establish.<sup>[[#References\|[12]]]</sup>This helps explain how exotic plant invade undisturbed habitat, but more studies are needed in this direction in terms of insightful mechanisms including which phytochemicals are produced and their mechanisms of influencing AMF or other fungi<sup>[[#References\|[12]]]</sup>. ===<b>Meta invasive plants</b>=== Mitchell chose 473 invasive species from USDA data base to test two long standing hypothesis, enemy release hypothesis and biotic resistance hypothesis, and successfully provide a broad evidence to support enemy release hypothesis. The results suggest that the impacts of invasive plants on native ecosystem should be a function of both release and accumulation of natural enemies<sup>[[#References\|[13]]]</sup>. ==<b>References</b>== [12][http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.0040140 Stinson, 2006. Invasive Plant Suppresses the Growth of Native Tree Seedlings by Disrupting Belowground Mutualisms. <i>PLoS Biology</i> 4(5): e140.] [13][http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v421/n6923/full/nature01317.html Mitchell, 2003. Release of invasive plants from fungal and viral pathogens. <i>Nature</i>,421: 625-627.] This student page has not been curated. Morphology of several common invasive plants 2 Biological Interaction and Niche 2.1 Parasites or Pathogens and Invasive Plants 2.2 Mutualists or Symbionts Invasive Plants 2.3 Saprotrophs or Decomposers and Invasive Plants 4 Key Microorganisms 5 Recent Research 5.1 Aegilops triuncialis, Centaurea solstitialis 5.2 Alliaria petiolata 5.3 Meta invasive plants Invasive plants have drawn attention from researches for a long time because of their abnormal behavior comparing to when they are in their native habitats and their dramatical effect on the invaded area. Understanding the mechanisms and effects of plant invasion contributes to our understanding of interaction between plant and other organisms and their evolutions. Interaction between microbes and invasive plants indicates two aspect: 1)invasive plants influence microbial community composition and its ecological functions as consequences of plant invasion; 2)changed or original microbial community influences the process of invasive plants as drivers of invasion process. Three key interactions are involved: plant-pathogen, plant-symbiont and plant-decomposer interaction. Biological Interaction and Niche Parasites or Pathogens and Invasive Plants Evidence of plant species-specific pathogens have been found in rhizosphere of plants[1], which lead to the application of enemy release hypothesis ( a famous hypothesis to explain the mechanism of plant invasion that exotic plants are "released" from their enemies, competitors, predators and parasites in their native habitat ) in pathogens in driving plant invasion. Theoretically after invasive plants occupy a new habitat, these newly established plant species tend to have less specialistic pathogens, thus they can outcompete other native plant species. However, the probability still exists that shifts of pathogens from native plants to their phylogenetic close non-native plants may confound the effects of enemy release[2]. Distribution of invaded area of Chromolaena odorata There are some invasive plants that are able to accumulate generalist pathogens in their rhizosphere, which will in turn inhibit native vegetation grown in the habitat[3]. Empirical evidence has been found in a study about invasion success of Chromolaena odorata which suppress native plants by accumulating high concentration of pathogens in its rhizosphere, since native plants are more sensitive to these pathogens than newly established plants.[4]. Mutualists or Symbionts Invasive Plants Association with AMF influences plant growth Two main mutualists in the soil that have a close relationship with plant invasion success:myccorhizas and nitrogen fixers. There are two ways that these microbes can facilitate plant invasion. One way is that invasive plants benefit from association with native mutualists, such as AMF(arbuscular myccorhizal fungi) and nitrogen fixers, to outcompete native plant species and change the soil properties of newly established habitat, which in turn influences native plant community. For those mutualist-dependent exotic plants, whether they will become a successful invader largely depends on whether they can find their mutualists in the invasive range[5]. The other way is that invasive plants disrupt the mutualism systems of native plants by exuding toxic chemicals to their mutualists, thus suppress native species. A typical example of this case is Alliaria petiolata, a invasive plant that inhibits AMF and ectomycorrhizal fungal colonization on which native plants depend on[6]. Saprotrophs or Decomposers and Invasive Plants If invasive plants occupy a new range where native plants tend to have different life strategy from invasive plants, in most cases, invasive plants have acquisitive traits such as fast-growth, short-lived poorly defended tissues, and high nutrient concentrations while native plants have conservative traits such as slow growth, long-lived well-defended tissues, and low nutrient concentration, invasive plants tend to have greater influences on native decomposers by adding exotic nutrient resources to affect native saprophytic microbial community, native decomposition, native soil process, therefore influence native plant community[1]. Microbial Processes There are three main categories about how interaction of microbes and invasive plants drive their invasion success. First, invasive plants suffer less negative soil feedback than native species, or even have neutral or positive feedback[7], also known as Enemy Release hypothesis. Second, invasive plants are able to disturb newly established habitat by enhancing pathogen levels or destructing symbionts systems, thus suppress native plants while invaders suffer less from this, which involves Accumulation of Local Pathogens hypothesis[3]. Third, allelochemicals can play an important role in helping exotic plants establishing invaded habitats. These chemicals hard to be detoxified by local microbial community can easily reach toxic level therefore harm native plant species, also known as Novel Weapons hypothesis[8]. Major mechanisms[10] Natural systems usually tend to be more complex than the models we use to test those hypothesis above, it is unlikely to explain the mechanism of invasion only by one factor. Thus interactions between different factors should be taken into account when addressing the mechanisms of plant invasion[5]. In addition, abiotic factors might also influence the invasion process. Key Microorganisms Key Microorganisms involved in the interaction of invasive plants and microbes include three main categories: parasites or pathogens, mutualists or symbionts, and saprotrophs or decomposers. Common soil microorganisms, such as bacteria, fungi, fauna, and common plant associated microorganisms, such as endophytes, rhizosphere mutualists, parasites are involved in this system. Interaction between microbes and invasive plants has been specifically studied only for just decades, although it has been long that plant invasion has drawn attention from ecologists[5]. Up to date, enormous literatures from the last decades show that invasive plants have a dramatic effect on microbial community in their newly established habitats and those microorganisms have a feedback effect on plant community[5]. However, some theories are better understood theoretically than others and only a few studies actually provide sufficient evidences for these well-understood mechanisms[2]. Especially plant-soil feedback has been treated as a black box, little is known about the role of particular microbes in functioning plant invasion due to methodological difficulties[1]. Furthermore, to better understand the whole system, interaction of different factors should be examined[2]. What is more, additional studies involving more invasive plant species in more systems should be studied in a biogeographical context[9], since there is not necessarily a consistency among different systems or different species. Here are some specific examples of recent research. Aegilops triuncialis, Centaurea solstitialis Batten found that two invasive plant change microbial community composition in the rhizosphere by the method PLFA (phospholipid fatty acid analysis) using corresponding analysis. The longer invaded the dissimilarity it is from the original soil[11]. The changed soil microbial communities might have large impacts on native above ground community composition[11], even though more research evidence is needed. Stinson studied Alliaria petiolata and found that they can disrupt native mutualists, AMF, thus affect native AMF associated plants and facilitate themselves to establish.[12]This helps explain how exotic plant invade undisturbed habitat, but more studies are needed in this direction in terms of insightful mechanisms including which phytochemicals are produced and their mechanisms of influencing AMF or other fungi[12]. Meta invasive plants Mitchell chose 473 invasive species from USDA data base to test two long standing hypothesis, enemy release hypothesis and biotic resistance hypothesis, and successfully provide a broad evidence to support enemy release hypothesis. The results suggest that the impacts of invasive plants on native ecosystem should be a function of both release and accumulation of natural enemies[13]. [1] Van der putten, 2007, Microbial ecology and biological invasions. International Society for Microbial Ecology 1, 28-37. [2]Reinhart, 2006, Soil biota and invasive plants. New Phytologist 170,445-457. [3]Eppinga, 2006, Accumulation of local pathogens: a new hypothesis to explain exotic plant invasions. Plant Physiology 404,278-281. [4]Mangla, 2008, Exotic invasive plant accumulates native soil pathogen which inhibit native plants. Journal of Ecology 96,58-67. [5]Mitchell,2006, Biotic interactions and plant invasions. Ecology Letters 9,726-740. [6]Callaway, 2008, Novel weapons: invasive plant suppresses fungal mutualists in America but not in its native Europe. Ecology 89,1043-1055. [7]Klironomos,2002, Feedback with soil biota contributes to plant rarity and invasiveness in communities. Nature 417,67-70. [8]Thorpe, 2009, Root exudate is allelopathic in invaded community but not in native community: field evidence for the novel weapons hypothesis. Journal of Ecology 97,641-645. [9]Hierro,2005, A biogeographical approach to plant invasions: the importance of studying exotics in their introduced and native range. Journal of Ecology 93,5-15. [10]Inderjit, 2010, Impacts of soil microbial communities on exotic plant invasions. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 25, 512-519. [11]Batten, 2006. Two invasive plants alter soil microbial community composition in serpentine grasslands. Biological Invasions 8: 217–230. [12]Stinson, 2006. Invasive Plant Suppresses the Growth of Native Tree Seedlings by Disrupting Belowground Mutualisms. PLoS Biology 4(5): e140. [13]Mitchell, 2003. Release of invasive plants from fungal and viral pathogens. Nature,421: 625-627. Edited by Lingzi Hu, a student of Angela Kent at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Retrieved from "https://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php?title=Microbes_and_invasive_plants&oldid=60663" Uncurated Pages Pages edited by students of Angela Kent at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line1034
__label__cc	0.588265	0.411735	A quest for the locations in the novels of Haruki Murakami and other travel musings Spain again 2017 Retro-blogs Boston + July 2014 In Japan Our Murakami library Tag: Frank Gehry It’s not all about the beef In two Kobe days can we find the real source of Haruki’s ideas? A taxi delivered us to Takamatsu Station bright and early – too early again for the train we’d selected with the fewest interchanges but at the gate they insisted that if we took the 09:33 Marine Liner we could get a direct train to Shin-Kobe soon after arrival in Okayama. Soon after we were seated the train attendant, as they are called, came up to us with this piece of paper with times and platforms for our interchange – without being asked and in English. It was just another example of the superb service we are receiving from all quarters. The train ride was under grey clouds that nearly touched the roof. So going back across the Seto-Ohashi bridge on the train was interesting as we took the lower deck which would have afforded views but for the grey. We were very impressed that a journey from a different island across the bridge and round the coast of over 150 miles had been accomplished in under two hours door to door in a combination of local train and shinkansen. Drizzle turned to a downpour as we arrived in Kobe, dropped our luggage of at the very stylish Hotel b Kobe and set off on a circular city bus tour to get our bearings. We got off the bus to visit a lovely little museum of glass bead work. We are just not used to finding a museum on the second floor of a smart downtown office block but that’s where the Kobe Lampwork Glass Museum is. With an excellent display on the long history of using glass beads for decoration it then reveals the many styles and techniques used by modern beadworkers. With the rain lessened a little as we made our way out after a fascinating hour, we then got back to the real work of the day. Just round the corner is the Higashi Yuenchi park which is home to memorials to the great Hanshin earthquake of 1995. Murakami wrote a collection of short stories called after the quake which feature people affected in various ways by the after effects of the massive earthquake. Being in the park with it’s monuments showing the scale of the disaster and expressing the hope and determination of the people of Kobe to overcome it was extremely moving especially with the latest Tohoko tsunami so fresh in our thoughts. Juggling camera, bags and umbrella was not easy but I hope we can give some indication of what it meant. The 60 cm drop at the left edge of the trellis A flame of hope burns Memorials line the park shows the effect of the earthquake As the rain worsened, we decided there was only a choice of two places to visit next – the aquarium or a sake brewery tour. Hey we’ve seen lots of fish on our plates and in ponds and have only a vague notion of how sake is made so the truly educational option wins out. We hail a passing cab, opining that it’s much too far to walk – and how. The driver was a bit confused but kept on heading north along the shore road with yen flipping over alarmingly on the meter. However he did take us to the right place even if he wasn’t quite sure and hovered at the gate getting wet until an official was able to reassure him that this was indeed the Kaku Masamune Brewery which we had selected on the map we obtained from the Tourist Information at the station because our coupons gave us a free tasting and a free sake vessel each. The tour was fascinating as we followed a group of Japanese visitors who were led round by an obviously hilarious guide as sides were frequently split with laughter. It was a potentially hazardous tour evidently- and that was before any sake was consumed. A young lady came to our rescue and took us to a viewing room where a ten-minute video helpfully put into context all the equipment we had just seen. We took a train back into town and with light drizzle replacing the torrents we walked around Sannomiya, the central shopping and entertainment area of Kobe, had a beer or two and dinner of cook- it- on- the-hibachi Kobe beef and vegetables. Heresy we know, but on this tasting – admittedly not in a gourmet restaurant – Hida beef has the edge. Then drawn as always to a bar with a Spanish flag and the promise of a glass of tempranillo we were drawn into conversation with three young people, two of whom had been to study English in Hampstead three years ago. It turned into a bit of a night of great hilarity – proving again how friendly and welcoming we have found people on this trip. Thursday was a complete contrast with brilliant blue skies and temperatures well over 20 degrees and there are almost as many umbrellas in the streets, now taking on the role of parasol. The tradition of all those bamboo umbrellas in wood block prints is maintained today on the streets of modern Japan. We planned today to look for formative influences in Ashiya the Kobe suburb where Haruki lived from an early age. A couple of stops along the line to Osaka and we get off in a pleasant, probably quite affluent suburb. Did the sun always shine this brightly over the young Murakami? The reception desk staff at the hotel next to the station were wonderfully helpful in pointing us towards the library Haruki used to frequent, his Junior High School and the monkey cage which features in a story in the collection The Elephant Vanishes. The young ladies did inform us that the monkey was dead. In fact the park used to have parakeets and monkeys in cages but they were closed for economic reasons in 2010 – fate of monkeys unknown but probably properly transferred into alternative care. We strode through the elegant suburban streets and found the library with little trouble and the park was right next door. I’d have been happy to locate and photograph the exterior but we were warmly invited in, presented meishi and blog address and were introduced to a librarian who hadn’t met Haruki but had had some considerable contact with his mother. We asked about the house he grew up in to be told it had gone but there were some older houses in the area that are similar. His Junior High School was also just a few blocks along the road. In Uchide Park with a witty touch the council has added a panel to the cage with a monkey reading Murakami’s book Kafka on the Shore. Leafy Ashiya The Library The monkey cage Kafka-reading monkey Ashiya Junior High School We looked for other connections and saw a few houses of the type he might have lived in. Coffee in a quaint coffee house served by a lady who must be in her eighties and back to the station to explore central Kobe further. As we’re actually on holiday too this involved a ride in a cable car to the Nunobiki Herb Gardens. The ride gives great views over the whole sprawl of Kobe and down to the port where we were headed next. Very well organized there’s a sloping path from the top cable car station to the middle point. It gave us an opportunity to indulge in some more Japanese ice-cream with fresh strawberries as they are at the height of their season and local honey. The variety of plants was excellent with many unfamiliar species and varieties among the more common and some beautiful flower beds displays gave us a restful and relaxing break. There are a number of references to the Kobe harbour area so we caught the circular tour bus to Meriken Park and were met by an enormous dancing fish designed by Frank Gehry and construction supervised by Tadao Ando – being made of steelmesh it was of great interest to us David Begbie admirers. Just beyond it was another earthquake memorial with a whole section of the collapsed harbour wall to remind visitors of just how awesome the power of the earth can be. The rest of the harbour area is devoted to retail and entertainment and we had a leisurely beer watching young and trendy people come and go in stylish, outlandish and downright weird wardrobe choice. Many Japanese people have real recognizable style. Others have style that’s sometimes hard to interpret. Back to the hotel to change and out for a quiet okonomiyaki dinner – Katie was right, Kyoto rules when it comes to this mix of rösti and vegetable pancake. This was OK but the previous one was much tastier. We’ve enjoyed a couple of days in Kobe getting close to the environment that helped form Murakami and therebyinfluenced his writings. It’s a very European feeling, lively city and it’s been a fun visit even if we’ve as so often only scratched the surface. 24 April 2013 26 April 2013 Ashiya, David Begbie, Frank Gehry, Haruki, Japan, Kafka on the shore, Kobe, library, locations, Mariken Park, Murakami, Nunobiki Herb Gardens, Sannomiya, shinkansen, steelmesh, Tadao Ando, The Elephant vanishes, travel, Uchide ParkLeave a comment	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line1036
__label__wiki	0.604911	0.604911	Nintendo’s Gaming News Weekly Round-up! Gotta Catch ’em All, Super Mario Maker! February 14, 2016 12:33 am Published by Solid Jack Leave your thoughts Written by: J.H. Longman From Mario to Link, to Inklings to Pokémon, as always, we’re here to keep you updated on all of the latest news. Below you can catch all of our choice picks of noteworthy news this week. These are the Miketendo64 News Highlights of the week! Super Mario Maker (A TOUCH OF KANTO): Why merely have six playable Pokémon costumes in Super Mario Maker, when you can have 9? Joining Pokémon originals Charizard, Pikachu and Mewtwo, were the starters a lot of us began our journey with, Bulbasaur, Charmander and Squirtle. In one of the most clever event courses in Super Mario Maker, a trip to Professor Oak’s lab sees you having to choice between one of the original three and making it to the end of level just to unlock the Pokémon you chose. That’s right, completing it only unlocks the Pokémon you choose, meaning you will have to play and beat it again and again, as the other two starters. “Why make it easy and unlock all three at once after one completion when you can make a level that needs to be completed three times?” I like your thinking Nintendo. If you have yet to beat the level, you can check out our video play-through below: Source: #Pokemon20 – The Gift that Keeps on Giving Splatoon (RED & BLUE ALL OVER): If you thought only Super Mario Maker was reliving Pokémon Red and Blue, think again because come the 19th of February, the next European and North America Splatfest will see players divided when they must make the ultimate choice, Pokémon Red? Or Pokémon Blue? This is going to be a Splatfest you don’t want to miss, so hopefully the server won’t have issues like it did this week and be taken offline to undergo emergency maintenance like it did on Thursday. https://i.ytimg.com/vi/1SDSMM0IZvY/maxresdefault.jpg Source: Michael Martin of IGN Pokémon Movie (NEW DETAILS REVEALED): Sticking to the world of Pokémon, this week came the reveal in CoroCoro of Magearna, the latest Pokémon to be revealed, who we still don’t know all that much about it, except for the fact Magiana is in the new film, is abducted and that Volcanion is attempting to rescue the man-made Pokémon, but needs Ash’s help to do so. There have currently been three different translated into English titles for the film, so until the official name is given, for now, we’ll just stick to the one Serebii is using, “Volcanion and the Ingenious Magearna.” If you can’t wait to see the new film, you can always watch Pokémon: The First Movie, to tide you over for now, as Nintendo are currently streaming the film on the Pokémon website and you can see it yourself with the link below: http://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-episodes/ You can even watch the film on your phone with the Pokémon TV app. Source: Serebii.net Pokkén Tournament (MEWTWO HOLDS NO PUNCHES): Also revealed in CoroCoro, details regarding Shadow Mewtwo from the 18th of March release, Pokken Tournament. Shadow Mewtwo’s moves include a wide array of punches, such as Thunder Punch, Fire Punch and Ice Punch, all of which if dealt in swift succession, will administer a huge amount of hurt! https://i.ytimg.com/vi/H3mzHRsFQ90/maxresdefault.jpg Then there is Psywave, a move with many uses, which includes sucking in your opponents and able to be used as a projectile. For anyone who are really looking forwards to playing Shadow Mewtwo, you can unlock the Pokémon in-game as you progress through, or you can speed up the entire process and buy the special Shadow Mewtwo amiibo card along with the First Edition copy of the game and use the card to unlock the fighter a lot sooner! Source: @NE_Brian of Nintendo Everything Pokémon Everywhere (BADGES & DISTRIBUTION DETAILS): Because we haven’t given you enough Pokémon news this week, here’s more. For anyone still playing Nintendo Badge Arcade in Europe, there are now two panels packed full of badges for you to collect, as part of Valentine’s Day celebrations. The Xerneas and Flabébé panels have already been available in both North America and Japan and now it’s our turn. Sticking to Europe, details were also shared for how players in France can get their own special Mew. From February the 26th to the 31st of March, you will be able to get a code staight from Micromania stores all across the country. But Mew isn’t the only Pokémon up for grabs, a Surfing Pikachu is available as well. With the opening of the Pokémon Center Online Services website in Japan, anyone who makes their first order on the website between the 16th of February to the 22nd of May, will be able to receive a Pikachu learned in the ways of: Surf, Fly, Agility and Celebrate and anyone who signs up on the Japanese website before the 14th will also receive 100 PokéPoints. For additional details regarding the site, you can find them here: http://www.pocketmonsters.net/main/news/2498 Out in the eShop (MYSTERY DUNGEON & ODDWORLD: NEW ‘N’ TASTY): Keeping to Pokémon, available for digital download, as part of the Virtual Console offerings is Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Blue Rescue Team and Red Rescue Team, but if you have had enough of Pokémon, also newly released is 2014’s Oddworld: New ‘N’ Tasty, a complete remake of the original Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee, and now that PlayStation and Xbox gamers have had their fun, those of us who are still Team Nintendo can have ours. If you are torn between getting the game and not getting the game, we’ve included the trailer below to help you out with such a troubling decision. It’s been a long time for Oddworld to get the Nintendo attention it properly deserved and this week, Series creator Lorne Lanning, went on to do an interview with NintendoLife regarding the digital release on Wii U and the future of Oddworld. You can find the interview right here: Source: Alex Olney of NintendoLife Weekly Review (MASS EFFECT 3: SPECIAL EDITON): For something other than Pokémon, this week our chosen review is our latest one of 2012’s ever brilliant Mass Effect 3. With fast packed action, choices and consequences and a multiplayer to just love, Mass Effect 3 is fine game and fitting end to an amazing story, the Shepard Saga is not one you want to miss: You can catch our review of the ever brilliant game below: Don’t Fear the Reapers / Mass Effect 3: Special Edition – Review (Wii U) Nintendo Selects (AN ALL NEW SELECTION): Taking our Big news section this week is the latest batch of Nintendo Selects games to come out. For those of us who want to buy some great games but unable to do so, the Nintendo Selects series of games are a great way for our dreams to come true and now, to be made available from the 11th of March at the usual affordable price, those of you in North America can expect to see the following games on the following platforms: -Animal Crossing: City Folk -Donkey Kong Country Returns -Super Mario All-Stars -Super Mario Galaxy 2 -Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D -Mario Party: Island Tour -The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D -Yoshi’s New Island -Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze -NES Remix Pack -Pikmin 3 -Super Mario 3D World You can’t deny that it isn’t a great line-up of games, but I just wish the same, or even a slightly altered one, would be made available to Europe so that I could buy a couple of them! Why should North America get all the fun? Source: Shawn Long of Nintendo Enthusiast It’s been a very Pokémon packed week, but we love it all the same and if this is what we got this week, next week’s could be even better. Fingers crossed, we might even get some Zelda U, it’s about time we did! Or at least the reveal of a new Zelda game for the 3DS. Tags: #Pokemon20, #Splatfest, 3DS, Abe's Oddword, Gaming, Lorne Lanning, New N Tasty, Nintendo, Nintendo Selects, Splatoon, super mario maker, Weekly News, Wii U Categorised in: Pokemon, Splatoon, Wii U	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line1037
__label__cc	0.639684	0.360316	作者 Noelle Swan for The Christian Science Monitor Courtesy of UNITY of Greater New Orleans Most people celebrate the New Year by making resolutions. The city of New Orleans rang in 2015 by keeping one. At 6 p.m. on Jan. 2, social workers in New Orleans moved the city’s last known homeless veteran into his new apartment – becoming the first US city to effectively eliminate veteran homelessness. Homelessness advocates around the country are hailing New Orleans as a model for cities around the country looking to end homelessness, not just for veterans, but for all people needing a permanent home. “The solutions that work for veterans are the solutions that work for all people,” says Laura Zeilinger, executive director of the US Interagency Council on Homelessness. “The problem is absolutely solvable when we invest in the practices that we know work.” This time last year, nearly 50,000 US veterans had no home to call their own, according to an annual count. On Independence Day, first lady Michelle Obama launched the Mayor’s Challenge to End Veteran Homelessness. Since that time, more than 300 mayors, six governors, and 71 other local officials have joined the pledge to house every veteran by the end of 2015. New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu took that pledge one step further, promising to meet the goal by the end of 2014. “We owe our Veterans our eternal gratitude for their service and sacrifice to this nation, and making sure they have a place to call home is a small but powerful way we can show our appreciation,” Mayor Landrieu said in a statement Wednesday, announcing that New Orleans had housed all known veterans in the Crescent City. In total, the city has placed 227 veterans in housing since the start of 2014. Read more at: The Christian Science Monitor © The Christian Science Monitor. All Rights Reserved. 科技巨头眼中的租金市场有利可图，因为驱逐休假的结束可能使数百万人无家可归咀嚼吐出来：退伍军人退休时会发生什么？今年圣诞节，超过半百万美国人将与无家可归者作斗争	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line1039
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__label__cc	0.63031	0.36969	Secret corruption: How the German bribery industry corrupts democracies around the world פורסם ע"יMati Shemoelof 17 בדצמבר 2020 17 בדצמבר 2020 פורסם בכלליתגים: anti corruption, Benjamin Netanyahu, Benny Ganz, corporations, corruption, Deutsche Bank, economy, German, Siemens, submarine, submarine scandal, ThyssenKrupp In most discussions held in Israel on the submarine corruption affair, the Israeli side of the corruption is emphasized. But the question arises as to why the German corruption of the ThyssenKrupp Corporation and other German corporations is not sharply criticized. Is Germany being the best friends of Israel and therefore not worthy of harsh criticism? Why as we criticize the Israeli prime minister, the army corrupt official, and other officials in charge of the public service, we should criticize the German side? Is Germany the last friend of Israel in the whole world and therefore we should treat them with silk gloves? Are Germans perceived as the rich capital of the EU trusting in quality, efficiency, democracy, and transparency and if ThyssenKrupp was wrong, then it does not contain on all the other corporations? In any matter we must understand that the failures of Thyssenkrupp, Siemens, Deutsche Bank and other German companies is not an exception but should be treat as an imminent problem inside of the German society. A new book "Geheimsache Corruption: Wie die deutsche Schmiergeldindustrie weltweit die Demokratie verrät" in my free translation "Secret corruption: How the bribery industry corrupts democracies around the world”. The Israeli Journalist Omar Sharvit interviewed journalist and writer Frederick Richter Who told him, “By the early 2000s Greece was already impoverished. Few people were aware of it, but whoever wanted to, could see it around 2003. Despite this, they continued to buy expensive weapons from Germany, and the reason is bribery. They bought things they did not need, and never used. "Digging deep into the bribery industry, they find that even the poor Egyptian economy was sold submarines that did not need them (who threatens Egypt that they need nuclear submarines?) The first submarine S41 was delivered to Egypt in 2016, the second submarine S42 In August 2017 Egypt received the third submarine out of four from Germany in May 2019 and the fourth submarine is expected to arrive in Egypt in 2021. This is against the background of criticism voiced in Israel after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu admitted to authorizing Germans to sell submarines to Egypt, without consulting senior officials. What is the connection so far, poor countries whose debt is huge, and whose citizens live in disgraceful poverty, buy a toy (submarine and etc.) that is ecologically harmful, and militaristic, from a rich democratic country that scatters promise that are the pinnacle of human and civil rights? The poor countries, whether democratic like Greece or autocratic like Egypt, and on the other hand, a charitable enterprise, of its human rights organizations, will send the funds to help these countries through civilians. And civil society. Corruption in German exports In Sharvit's interview with Richter, we find that other cases described in the book on corruption in German exports focus on the Middle East, Russia, Brazil and South Africa, and a relatively small part also deals with the Israeli submarine affair. It is no coincidence that Benjamin Netanyahu is one of the leaders appearing on the illustration on the cover of Richter's book, alongside the leaders of Germany, Brazil, Russia, and South Africa. I know the story of corruption from the German company of Siemens. In 2007 the IEC (Israel Electric Company) raised electricity prices by 8.4%, explained in the press by the rise in world fuel prices. And at the time, it was revealed in the Israeli media that this increase was also due to the transfer of payment for unforeseen expenses of the electricity company in buying unused turbines from Siemens corporation worth hundreds of millions of euros (5 turbines worth 500 million euros). The suspects who allegedly bribed retired judge Dan Cohen are Siemens' representatives in Israel, headed by CEO Oren Aharonson. In 2013, Cohen was extradited to Israel. On September 30, 2013, Cohen was sentenced, in accordance with the plea agreement, to 6 years in prison, less half a year, and a fine of NIS 10 million. In May 2014 he was permanently removed from the ranks of the Bar Association. On September 13, 2016, he was released from Maasiyahu Prison, after his request for early release was approved. Although the Israeli government is about to disband, and perhaps should be thanked for disbanding the government, the inquiry committee set up by MK Benny Ganz to investigate the submarine affair would have buried the issue without bringing it to justice, and its place. Tuxyso / Wikimedia Commons And what do we learn that the capitalist method that encourages international corporations to behave like the last mafia barons we are afraid of in movies and series, never sees the whole picture. The German -Multi-Nationals corporations like Siemens, ThyssenKrupp, Deutsche Bank will not change their ways anytime soon. But from now on it is worth calling Germany a criminal democracy, which gives Blanche a card to their corporations to behave criminally and not make their way in a real way. It is related to the connection of government capital and it is also related to the profits that the German economy produces from these corporations. But those who pay are the citizens of weaker countries, whose elites make corrupt deals on the backs of the citizens who end up paying the price, for products they did not want. If real regulations are not put in place to address corporate corruption, corporations will continue on their criminal path and only we will suffer from forgetfulness syndrome, regarding the history of bribery and corruption. And in the case of Germany, it is also time to demand a real regulatory change in the way the German regime treats its corporations. שיתוף ב-Tumblr פורסם על ידי Mati Shemoelof Mati Shemoelof was born in 1972 in Haifa. He is a poet, editor, and writer. He graduated with honors from the University of Haifa where he studies Film and History. He has published seven poetry books so far. The last of these was published in Germany in 2019 in a bilingual edition "Baghdad \| Haifa \| Berlin", published by Aphorismha Verlag [Berlin]. His first article book “An eruption from the east: Re visiting the emergence of the Mizrahi artistic explosion and it's imprint on the Israeli cultural narrative 2006-2019“ was published on “Iton 77” publishers in Israel (2020). הצג פוסטים נוספים הפוסט הקודם רשומה קודמת: RBB KULTUR ON THE NAHOSTBERLIN SYMPOSIUM הפוסט הבא רשומה הבאה: Gesegnet מתי שמואלוף, יצירה של אתר חינמי או בלוג ב־WordPress.com.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line1046
__label__cc	0.667417	0.332583	1. What should I do when I hear the Emergency Management Agency sirens? Emergency Management Agency sirens are tested each month at 11:45 a.m. on the first working day of each month. If you hear the Civil Defense siren, turn on your radio to one of the following local radio stations for information: KMVI-AM 550/FM 98.3 KNUI-AM 900/FM 99.9 KAOI-AM 1110/FM 95.1/FM 96.7 (upcountry) KLHI-FM 101.1 (west Maui) KPOA-FM 93.5 (west Maui) KMMK-FM 102.3 KDLX-FM 94.3 KNUQ-FM 103.3 or 103.7 KONI-FM 104.7 KPMW-FM 105.5 After turning on your radio, listen for emergency information and instructions. Take the necessary protective actions as directed and keep tuned for further information and instructions. 2. What is the difference between a WATCH and a WARNING? A "watch" is an official announcement that a hazardous condition may be a serious threat to life and property within a particular time. "WATCH" status means you should GET READY and LISTEN to your radio or television for further instructions. A "WARNING" is an official announcement that hazardous, life-threatening conditions are about to occur or are occurring. "WARNING" status means you should TAKE ACTION. 3. Should I evacuate or stay where I am? Information about which areas should be evacuated will be broadcast over the Emergency Alert System (EAS) on your radio or local TV. Evacuation instructions are issued with your safety in mind. Compliance is voluntary, but orders are given only in the most serious of circumstances. If your area is advised to evacuate and you are unable to do so, immediately inform the authorities of your situation. If you area is not advised to evacuate, you may still report to the designated shelter closest to your location. 4. What should I do to protect my pets/animals? Make advanced preparations to ensure the safety of your pets: 1. FOOD: Keep at least two weeks of food in an airtight, waterproof container. Dry food has a shelf life, so rotate periodically. 2. WATER: Store at least two weeks of water specifically for your pets in addition to water you need for yourself and family. 3. MEDICINE: Keep an extra supply of medicines your pet takes on a regular basis in a waterproof container. 4. FIRST AID KIT: Talk to your veterinarian about what is most appropriate for your pet's emergency medical needs. 5. COLLAR with ID TAG, HARNESS or LEASH: Your pet should wear a collar with its identification at all times. Permanent methods of identification like microchips or tattooing should be used. 6. CRATE/PET CARRIER: If you need to evacuate in an emergency situation, take your pets and animals with you - provided it is practical to do so. In many cases, your ability to do so will be aided by having a sturdy, safe, comfortable crate or carrier ready for transporting your pet. The carrier should be large enough for your pet to stand, turn around and lie down. Help your dog get accustomed to the crate by using it from time to time. Don't wait until emotions and stress are high due to an emergency situation to introduce your pet to the carrier or crate. 7. FAMILIAR ITEMS: Put favorite toys, treats, or bedding in your kit. Familiar items can help reduce stress for your pet. For further information, go to the Maui Humane Society website at www.mauihumanesociety.org. 5. What should my family and I take to the shelter? When you evacuate to a shelter, take an evacuation kit. The kit is also listed in your phone book. For more useful information, view the Civil Defense Agency. Bringing your own evacuation kit to the shelter is very important. Shelter supplies will be very limited. The American Red Cross asks that the following not be brought to an emergency shelter: alcoholic beverages or illegal drugs too many personal possessions Space may be limited to as little as 10 square feet per person. 6. Where is the nearest evacuation shelter/emergency shelter? The opening of shelters will be announced over radio and local television stations. The shelters may not be opened immediately, so listen to the radio for specific shelter openings. Go to the nearest open shelter. 7. I am a visitor at a hotel. What should I do when a disaster is imminent? The staff at your hotel will direct you to the area of the hotel that it has determined to be the safest for disasters. If you are at a hotel-condominium without facilities for disasters, please listen to the Emergency Alert System for details on evacuation. 8. What should I do during a hurricane? Once you are in as safe a place as possible - wait and listen to your radio for further instructions. Do not go outside since flying objects can seriously injure you. Travel is extremely dangerous during a hurricane. Stay on the first floor, unless flooding will occur, and stay way from glass windows. Go to the strongest parts of the house or building and stay there. If necessary, use mattresses and blankets to form a protective barrier around you. If they eye of the storm passes over you, the wind may completely stop for a few minutes to half an hour or more. Do not mistake this lull for the end of the hurricane! Stay indoors unless emergency precautions or emergency movement to a safer location are absolutely necessary. The other side of the hurricane is coming and will create hurricane force winds from the opposite direction. 9. Will tourists be evacuated after a disaster strikes? Yes. Individual hotels will make arrangements for their guests to relocate off the island. Visitors staying in short-term rental units (condominiums and time-share projects) must report to an emergency shelter or a disaster relief center for information on how to evacuate from Maui County. 10. What to do BEFORE a disaster strikes: - Prepare a home survival kit ready for use in emergencies. - Plan in advance where to locate household members in case they are separated. - Store important papers and valuables in waterproof packaging where they can be easily reaches if you plan to take these items with you. - Keep the car gas tank at least 3/4 full. 11. What to do WHEN disaster strikes: DON'T use the telephone. Leave lines open for emergency calls only. Don't touch downed powerlines or objects in contact with powerlines. Don't use elevators, use stairways instead. Don't go sightseeing. DON'T spread rumors. Get the facts from official sources. DO secure your home. Lock doors and windows. Know where to locate electrical, water and gas sources if advised to turn off utilities. Secure or store objects that may cause damage or injury. DO stay tuned to a local radio or TV station for official weather and civil defense instructions. 12. What is a tsunami? A tsunami (soo-NAH-mee) is a series of traveling ocean waves of extremely long length. These generally appear as a large, steep wave face and produce rapid flooding of low-lying coastal areas. These are generated by disturbances associated primarily with earthquakes occurring below or near the ocean floor. This can also be generated by landslides, both above and beneath the surface of the ocean. It may take hours for tsunami waves to reach the Coast of Maui County following an earthquake far out in the Pacific Ocean. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center located on Oahu alerts local officials who may order evacuation. Some isolated areas may not receive official announcements. If you notice a sudden drop or rise in sea level, it may be a warning of impending danger. Move to high ground or inland immediately. The waves can kill and injure people and cause great property damage where they come ashore. The first wave is often not the largest and may be spaced many miles and minutes apart. They may also continue to arrive for several hours. The most destructive tsunami can be classified as local or regional, meaning their destructive effects are confined to coasts within 60 - 600 miles of the source -- usually an earthquake. It follows that the majority of tsunami related casualties and property damage also come from local tsunami. Between 1975 and 1998 there have been at least eighteen in the Pacific and its adjacent seas resulting in significant casualties and/or property damage 13. Where and when do tsunamis occur? Tsunamis can inflict severe damage to property and pose a threat to life in coastal communities. Although most people imagine a tsunami as a large, steep wave breaking on the shore, tsunamis generally appear as an advancing tide without a developed wave face and produce rapid flooding of beaches open to the ocean, low-lying coastal areas, bay entrances or tidal flats, and the shores of coastal rivers. Tsunamis can occur at any time of the day or night, under any and all weather conditions, and in all seasons. 14. How do I know when to evacuate? A strong off-shore earthquake may generate a tsunami. Therefore, if you feel the ground shake, evacuate inland or to high ground immediately and return only after officials say it is safe to do so. During distant source tsunami events, local Civil Defense officials will advise citizens to evacuate by sounding the Civil Defense sirens, making an announcement over the Emergency Alert System (EAS) or over NOAA Weather Radio or local radio broadcasts. Compliance is voluntary, but orders are given only in the most serious of circumstances. 15. Where do I evacuate? Go to an area 50 feet above sea level, if possible. If you don't have time to travel to high ground, but are in a multi-story building, go to an upper level of the home or building. If you are on the beach and unable to get to high ground go inland as far as you can. The tsunami evacuation maps found in the Verizon Telephone Book illustrates the primary evacuation routes. Take your disaster supply kit with you, if possible. Shelters will be opened as needed. Listen to your radio for details. Pets are NOT allowed at emergency shelters so please plan ahead for their safety 16. How do I get to inland or to high ground? Go on foot if necessary, particularly if an earthquake has caused damage to roads, power lines, and resulted in significant debris. Never go to the coast to watch a tsunami. Tsunamis move faster than a person can run. If you are camping on or near the beach, you may have to abandon your campsite to go inland or to higher ground to save your life. Do not return to shore after the first wave. Wait for Emergency Management officials to give the "All Clear" before you return. If you see an unexpected rise or fall in the coastal water, a tsunami may be approaching. Do not wait - instead move inland or uphill as quickly as possible. Stay tuned to your radio, marine radio or NOAA Weather Radio during a disaster. Bulletins will be issued regularly through local Emergency Management officials and National Weather Service. Call 9-1-1 only for life threatening emergencies. 17. What should I do if an earthquake occurs while at the coast? Drop, cover and hold. Get under a sturdy object and hold on. Watch for falling objects. As soon as the shaking is over, move to high ground or inland. Do not wait for an official warning. Stay away from the coast. Waves may continue to arrive for hours. Listen to your local radio station for an official "All Clear" notice before returning to the coastal area. Be alert for aftershocks. 18. What can I do to protect myself from a tsunami? Develop a family disaster plan. Everyone needs to know what to do on their own to protect them from an earthquake. Be familiar with local Emergency Management earthquake and tsunami plans. Know where to go to survive a tsunami. Be prepared to survive on your own for a minimum of three days. Prepare a disaster supply kit for your home, automobile and work. A list of recommended supplies for your kit can be found on this web site. Take a first aid course and learn survival skills. Knowledge is your greatest defense against potential disaster.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line1047
__label__wiki	0.913314	0.913314	Today’s Edition Trump Pushes Out Tweet Naming Alleged Whistleblower On Thursday evening, Donald Trump pushed out on Twitter the name of the alleged whistleblower whose complaint led to the president’s impeachment. Trump’s personal Twitter account, @realDonaldTrump, retweeted a post by the re-election campaign’s official “war room” account that was aimed at the whistleblower’s attorney Mark Zaid. “It’s pretty simple. The CIA ‘whistleblower’ is not a real whistleblower!” reads the tweet, which links to a Washington Examiner item. That piece, published Dec. 3, includes the alleged whistleblower’s name in the headline. The Daily Beast is declining to publish the name and has not independently verified the identity of the whistleblower. As The Daily Beast reported last month, Trump had gossiped for weeks about this alleged whistleblower with various friends, media figures, and senior administration officials, and had asked some people if they thought it was a good idea for him to publicly announce or tweet the name. Several people close to the president, such as Ivanka Trump and White House Counsel Pat Cipollone, had privately cautioned him against saying or posting the name in public, arguing it would be counterproductive and unnecessary. Even Fox News host Sean Hannity, who had also gossiped in recent months with Trump about the alleged whistleblower, hadn’t pushed the president hard on this. Multiple sources close to Trump had told The Daily Beast last month that they were genuinely shocked the president hadn’t already rage-tweeted the name or blurted it out to the cameras, given his massive fury at the individual. On Thursday night, President Trump’s restraint appeared to slip. Zaid — who has worked with The Daily Beast on Freedom of Information Act requests — and the White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment on this story. Second stimulus checks: Trump says Democrats holding up new direct payments WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — President Donald Trump says Democrats are the reason you haven’t received a second direct payment from the government. As of now, negotiations ‘Spygate’ figure Stefan Halper wanted to be Trump’s secretary of state, recording suggests A newly released audio recording of Cambridge professor Stefan Halper revealed that the “Spygate” figure harbored ambitions of being President Trump’s secretary of state even ‘Asking for a disaster’: White House continues crusade against mail-in voting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Democratic leaders on Saturday discussed whether to reconvene the House, which is currently in recess, to address the Postal Service Black Lives Matter Isn’t Going to Just ‘Shut Up and Vote’ for Kamala Harris When Cat Brooks casts her vote for president in about 80 days, the Oakland, California-based organizer and former Democratic Socialists of America-endorsed candidate for mayor © Foundation for Truth in Journalism, a not for profit corp estb. 2010 ~ Non Partisan Pursuit of Truth®	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line1050
__label__wiki	0.856167	0.856167	Video: Featherweight prospect Julio Cesar Neves's latest KO is pretty amazing By MMA Junkie Staff August 12, 2013 12:15 pm Follow @MMAjunkie By MMA Junkie Staff \| August 12, 2013 12:15 pm Follow @MMAjunkie Meet Julio Cesar Neves, an undefeated featherweight prospect from Brazil who continues racking up highlight-reel knockouts. “Morceguinho,” who’s tallied a 26-0 pro record in just 22 months, scored his 17th career knockout on Saturday at Watch Out Combat Show 28 in Gramado, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. And it was one of the 19-year-old fighter’s flashiest yet. Facing Dener dos Santos (9-5 at the time), Neves tapped into his capoeira roots and unloaded a crushing head kick to get the first-round win. Neves, who’s now 13-0 in 2013 (with 10 knockouts and three submissions), has largely been facing overmatched competition, many of whom had losing records (or no pro wins at all). However, his gaudy record and obvious finishing ability should start to get him noticed by the bigger fight promotions. In the meantime, check out his latest win above.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line1054
__label__wiki	0.788719	0.788719	Molecular Brain NMDAR2B tyrosine phosphorylation regulates anxiety-like behavior and CRF expression in the amygdala Mina Delawary1, Tohru Tezuka1,8, Yuji Kiyama2, Kazumasa Yokoyama1, Takeshi Inoue1, Satoko Hattori3,4, Ryota Hashimoto5,6, Hisashi Umemori7, Toshiya Manabe2,4, Tadashi Yamamoto1 & Takanobu Nakazawa1 Molecular Brain volume 3, Article number: 37 (2010) Cite this article Anxiety disorders are a highly prevalent and disabling class of psychiatric disorders. There is growing evidence implicating the glutamate system in the pathophysiology and treatment of anxiety disorders, though the molecular mechanism by which the glutamate system regulates anxiety-like behavior remains unclear. In this study, we provide evidence suggesting that tyrosine phosphorylation of the NMDA receptor, an ionotropic glutamate receptor, contributes to anxiety-like behavior. The GluN2B subunit of the NMDA receptor is tyrosine-phosphorylated: Tyr-1472 is the major phosphorylation site. Homozygous knock-in mice that express a Tyr-1472-Phe mutant of GluN2B, which prevents phosphorylation of this site, show enhanced anxiety-like behavior in the elevated plus-maze test. Expression of corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF), which is important for the regulation of anxiety-like behavior, is increased in the amygdala of the knock-in mice. Furthermore, injection of CRF receptor antagonist attenuated the enhanced anxiety-like behavior of the knock-in mice. We also show that elevated plus-maze exposure simultaneously induced de-phosphorylation of Tyr-1472 and increased CRF expression. These data suggest that Tyr-1472 phosphorylation on GluN2B is important for anxiety-like behavior by negative regulation of CRF expression in the amygdala. Anxiety is commonly experienced and typically adaptive; however, excessive and dysfunctional anxiety leads to serious disorders. Anxiety disorders are the most prevalent class of psychiatric disorders in many countries [1]. Compounds that target of γ-aminobutyric acid and the serotonergic systems have received great attention within the development of treatments for anxiety disorders [2]. As some forms of anxiety are relatively resistant to treatment with these compounds, which include benzodiazepines and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, it has become increasingly apparent that alternative treatment strategies are needed. Recently, the glutamatergic system, the major mediator of excitatory synaptic transmission in the mammalian brain, has been the focus of pathophysiological studies of human anxiety disorders [3]. In rodents, N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonists show anxiolytic effects in several test scenarios including the elevated plus-maze test [4, 5]. While these reports point to the involvement of NMDA receptor-mediated signaling in the regulation of anxiety-like behaviors, molecular dissection of the role of NMDA receptor-mediated signaling is difficult because glutamate exerts its effects on various neural functions in a highly complex manner [6]. The NMDA receptor is crucial for neural development, synaptic plasticity, neuronal excitotoxicity, and behavior [6–9]. The NMDA receptor is composed of the GluN1 and GluN2 subunits: the GluN1 subunit is essential for the function of NMDAR channels, whereas the GluN2 subunits (GluN2A, GluN2B, GluN2C, and GluN2D) determine the characteristics of NMDAR channels by forming different heteromeric configurations with the GluN1 subunit [6]. The function of NMDA receptor-mediated signaling is in part regulated by Src tyrosine kinase-mediated phosphorylation of the GluN2 subunit [10, 11]. Previous studies have found that Tyr-1325 and Tyr-1472 are the principal tyrosine phosphorylation sites on the GluN2A and the GluN2B subunits, respectively [12, 13]. Genetically engineered mice expressing the Y1325F mutation of GluN2A show antidepressant-like behavior, but their other neural functions, such as hippocampal-dependent learning, are normal [12]. Alternatively, mice expressing the Y1472F mutation of GluN2B show a selective impairment in amygdala-dependent fear-learning [13]. Considering the versatile role of the NMDA receptor in various neural functions [6], the phenotypes of these mutant mice are milder than expected: thus these mice provide valuable models in which to dissect the molecular basis of specific behaviors including anxiety-like behavior. Corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF), which is highly abundant in the amygdala as well as in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus, plays an important role in regulating anxiety-like behavior [14]. Patients suffering from anxiety disorders often have increased CRF levels in their cerebrospinal fluid [15, 16]. In rodents, intracerebro-ventricular delivery of CRF is anxiogenic [17]. Likewise, transgenic mice overexpressing CRF exhibit increased anxiety-like behavior [18]. Conversely, CRF1 receptor knockout mice have reduced anxiety [17]. Injection of CRF antagonists or CRF1 receptor antisense oligonucleotide into the amygdala reduces stress-induced anxiety-like behavior [19, 20]. These results collectively show that CRF plays a key role in the regulation of anxiety-like behavior particularly in the amygdala. Therefore understanding the molecular mechanism of the regulation of CRF expression in the amygdala is important. In the present study, using behavioral, pharmacological, and biochemical approaches with knock-in mice in which the Tyr-1472 of GluN2B is mutated to phenylalanine (GluN2B-YF), we have identified Tyr-1472 phosphorylation as a regulator of CRF mRNA expression and anxiety-like behavior. Enhanced anxiety-like behavior of GluN2B-YF mice Given that we previously found that GluN2B-YF mice show a selective impairment in amygdala-dependent learning [13], we evaluated amygdala-dependent anxiety-like behavior in GluN2B-YF mice using the elevated plus-maze (EPM) test, one of the most popular behavioral tests for research on anxiety [21]. The measures of anxiety are the percentage of time spent in the open arms and the percentage of open arm entries. In the test, GluN2B-YF mice spent less time in the open arms than wild-type (WT) mice (time in open arms: WT, 41.5 ± 3.9%, n = 28; YF, 29.0 ± 3.5%, n = 31; F(1,57) = 5.516, p < 0.05, one-way ANOVA) (Figure 1A). We also found that GluN2B-YF mice showed a clear preference for closed arms (percentage of entries into open arms: WT, 50.8 ± 1.8%, n = 28; YF, 41.9 ± 2.7%, n = 31; F(1,57) = 6.908, p < 0.05, one-way ANOVA) (Figure 1B). There was no significant difference in the number of total arm entries between GluN2B-YF and WT mice (number of total entries: WT, 44.6 ± 1.9, n = 28; YF, 42.6 ± 2.0, n = 31; F(1,57) = 0.490, p > 0.4, one-way ANOVA), suggesting that the locomotor activity of the GluN2B-YF mice was unchanged compared to that of WT mice (Figure 1C). Together with the findings that spontaneous activity of GluN2B-YF mice in the open field test was virtually normal compared to that of the WT mice (data not shown), these results suggest that reduced open arm activity in GluN2B-YF mice is due to increased anxiety rather than motor impairment. Enhanced anxiety-like behavior of GluN2B-YF mice in the elevated plus-maze test. (A), (B) GluN2B-YF mice spent less time exploring the open arms (WT, n = 28; YF, n = 31; F(1,57) = 5.516, p < 0.05, one-way ANOVA) (A) and made fewer entries into the open arms (WT, n = 28; YF, n = 31; F(1,57) = 6.908, p < 0.05, one-way ANOVA) (B) during the elevated plus-maze test. (C) Total number of entries of GluN2B-YF mice into the open and closed arms was not significantly different from that of WT mice (WT, n = 28; YF, n = 31; F(1,57) = 0.490, p > 0.4, one-way ANOVA). The asterisk indicates significant genotype differences. n.s., not significant. Increased CRF expression in the amygdala of GluN2B-YF mice Several neurochemical systems are implicated in anxiety-related behavior in mice [3, 22, 23]. Among them, we focused on CRF-mediated signaling because many studies have reported that CRF is involved in the fear-potentiated EPM behavior [21]. Relative to wild-type controls, we found, by real-time PCR, that GluN2B-YF mice had markedly increased levels of CRF mRNA in the amygdala, which regulates the behavioral systems involved in the fear response (WT, 100.0 ± 7.3%, n = 5; YF, 175.3 ± 41.5%, n = 5; p < 0.05, Student's t-test) (Figure 2A). Interestingly, slight changes in the levels of CRF mRNA in other brain regions, including the hippocampus, cerebellum, and hypothalamus were not significantly different (hippocampus: WT, 100.0 ± 10.3%, n = 5; YF, 115.7 ± 19.5%, n = 5; p > 0.2, Student's t-test; cerebellum: WT, 100.0 ± 25.2%, n = 5; YF, 145.7 ± 70.1%, n = 5; p > 0.2, Student's t-test; hypothalamus: WT, 100.0 ± 9.7%, n = 5; YF, 103.8 ± 16.1%, n = 5; p > 0.5, Student's t-test) (Figure 2B-D). To confirm the increased CRF levels in the amygdala, we performed an ELISA and found that CRF was indeed increased in the amygdalae of GluN2B-YF mice (WT, 100.0 ± 4.4%, n = 10; YF, 120.4 ± 5.0%, n = 10; p < 0.01, Student's t-test) (Figure 2E). As expected, there was no significant difference in the CRF levels determined by ELISA in other brain region such as hippocampus between GluN2B-YF and WT mice (CRF levels in the hippocampus: WT, 100.0 ± 6.9, n = 10; YF, 105.3 ± 7.0, n = 10; p > 0.5, Student's t-test). In addition, given that CRF plays a key role in hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis activation [14], we examined the HPA axis-regulated plasma ACTH levels by ELISA. We found that the plasma ACTH level of GluN2B-YF mice was similar to that of wild-type mice (WT, 419.5 ± 67 pg/ml (100.0 ± 16.0%), n = 9; YF, 364.7 pg/ml (86.9 ± 13.2%), n = 13; p > 0.5, Student's t-test) (Figure 2F). This result suggests that the function of HPA axis is normal in GluN2B-YF mice. Thus, it appears that CRF expression is increased in the amygdala but not in other brain regions of GluN2B-YF mice. Increased CRF levels in the amygdala but not in other brain regions in GluN2B-YF mice. (A)-(D) Real-time PCR analyses showed that CRF mRNA levels were increased in the amygdala (WT, n = 5; YF, n = 5; p < 0.05, Student's t-test) (A) but not in other brain regions, including the hippocampus (WT, n = 5; YF, n = 5; p > 0.2, Student's t-test) (B), cerebellum (WT, n = 5; YF, n = 5; p > 0.2, Student's t-test) (C), and hypothalamus (WT, n = 5; YF, n = 5; p > 0.5, Student's t-test) (D), of GluN2B-YF mice compared to WT mice. (E) Increased expression of CRF in the amygdala was confirmed by ELISA (WT, n = 10; YF, n = 10; p < 0.01, Student's t-test). (F) The plasma ACTH level of GluN2B-YF mice was not significantly different from that of WT mice (WT, n = 9; YF, n = 13; p > 0.5, Student's t-test). The asterisk indicates significant genotype differences. n.s., not significant. Attenuation of enhanced anxiety-like behavior of GluN2B-YF mice by CRF receptor antagonist In the amygdala, CRF modulates anxiety-like behavior by binding CRF1 receptor [16]. If the enhanced anxiety-like behavior of GluN2B-YF mice were due to increased CRF expression, blockade of the CRF1 receptor might attenuate the enhanced anxiety-like behavior of GluN2B-YF mice. To examine this possibility, we performed the EPM test after injecting mice with the CRF1 receptor selective antagonist NBI 27914. There was a significant interaction between genotype and NBI 27914-treatment for the time spent on open arms (F(1,37) = 8.30, p = 0.0066, two-way ANOVA). Tukey's post-hoc test revealed that vehicle-injected GluN2B-YF mice showed enhanced anxiety-like behavior relative to vehicle-injected WT mice (time on open arms: WT, 32.7 ± 4.5%, n = 10; YF, 21.3 ± 2.6%, n = 12; F(1,37) = 7.12, p < 0.05, two-way ANOVA/Tukey's post-hoc test) (Figure 3). In contrast to the vehicle-injection, we found that the enhanced anxiety-like behavior exhibited by GluN2B-YF mice was attenuated by acute intraperitoneal injection of NBI 27914 (time on open arms: WT, 25.8 ± 2.6%, n = 8; YF, 36.5 ± 7.4%, n = 9; F(1,37) = 2.31, p > 0.1, two-way ANOVA/Tukey's post-hoc test) (Figure 3). These results argue that activated CRF1 receptor-mediated signaling causes the enhanced anxiety-like behavior of GluN2B-YF mice. In addition, in contrast to the case seen in Figure 1, slight decrease in the number of entries into open arms of vehicle-injected GluN2B-YF mice was not significantly different (vehicle-injected WT, 48.5 ± 3.6%, n = 10; vehicle-injected YF, 40.1 ± 2.5%, n = 12; p = 0.08, two-way ANOVA/Tukey's post-hoc test; NBI 27914-injected WT, 40.4 ± 5.0%, n = 8; NBI 27914-injected YF, 42.8 ± 4.9%, n = 9; p = 0.68, two-way ANOVA/Tukey's post-hoc test), probably because of injection stress [19]. Abrogation of increased anxiety-related behavior of GluN2B-YF mice by intraperitoneal injection of the CRF 1 receptor antagonist NBI 27914. The reduced time spent in the open arms shown by GluN2B-YF mice in the elevated plus-maze test (WT, n = 10; YF, n = 12; F(1,37) = 7.12, p < 0.05, two-way ANOVA/Tukey's post-hoc test) was attenuated by intraperitoneal injection of NBI 27914 (WT, n = 8; YF, n = 9; F(1,37) = 2.31, p > 0.1, two-way ANOVA/Tukey's post-hoc test). The asterisk indicates significant differences. n.s., not significant. De-phosphorylation of Tyr-1472 and increased CRF expression in the amygdala of wild-type mice after the EPM test We next investigated whether the level of Tyr-1472 phosphorylation in the amygdala of wild-type mice was affected by the EPM test. At 10 min after the test, the amygdala was resected, and the total lysates and RNAs were prepared. As shown in Figure 4A, the level of Tyr-1472 phosphorylation was significantly decreased in the amygdala of wild-type mice exposed to the EPM test compared with control wild-type mice (control: 100.0 ± 8.5%, n = 6; EPM test: 85.1 ± 5.3%, n = 4; p < 0.05, Student's t-test). Interestingly, the level of CRF mRNA in the amygdala was increased by the EPM test (control: 100.0 ± 24.3%, n = 6; EPM test: 168.7 ± 17.3%, n = 4; p < 0.05, Student's t-test) (Figure 4B). These data further support that Tyr-1472 phosphorylation is relevant to the anxiety-like behavior and negative regulation of CRF expression in the amygdala. De-phosphorylation of Tyr-1472 and up-regulation of CRF expression after the EPM test and by NMDA-receptor stimulation. (A) The level of Tyr-1472 phosphorylation in the amygdala of WT mice was decreased by the EPM test (control, n = 6; EPM test, n = 4; p < 0.05, Student's t-test). A representative blot is shown in the upper panel. (B) Real-time PCR analyses showed that CRF expression in the amygdala of WT mice was increased after the EPM test (control, n = 6; EPM test, n = 4; p < 0.05, Student's t-test). (C) Real-time PCR analyses showed that NMDA stimulation (100 μM NMDA for 7 min) increased CRF expression in the amygdalae of WT mice (control, n = 6; NMDA stimulation, n = 6; p < 0.05, Student's t-test) but not in GluN2B-YF mice (control, n = 6; NMDA stimulation, n = 6; p > 0.2, Student's t-test). (D) The same NMDA stimulation also induced de-phosphorylation of Tyr-1472 in the amygdalae of WT mice (control, n = 5; NMDA stimulation, n = 5; p < 0.05, Student's t-test). A representative blot is shown in the upper panel. The asterisk indicates significant genotype differences. n.s., not significant. Induction of de-phosphorylation of Tyr-1472 and increased CRF expression by NMDA receptor stimulation We then examined whether NMDA receptor activity is involved in the regulation of CRF expression in the amygdala. Coronal sections including the amygdala were stimulated with 100 μM NMDA for 7 min, followed by a wash-out period of 15 min. Then, the amygdala was rapidly dissected out and RNA was isolated to examine the level of CRF mRNA expression (Figure 4C). We found that NMDA receptor stimulation increased CRF mRNA expression in wild-type slices (control: 100.0 ± 10.5%, n = 6; NMDA stimulation: 160.1 ± 20.3%, n = 6; p < 0.05, Student's t-test). Interestingly, the same stimulation also induced de-phosphorylation of GluN2B Tyr-1472 (the level of Tyr-1472 phosphorylation: control, 100.0 ± 5.8%, n = 5; NMDA stimulation, 42.5 ± 3.1%, n = 5; p < 0.05, Student's t-test) (Figure 4D). In contrast to wild-type slices, CRF mRNA expression levels in the slices from GluN2B-YF mice were virtually unchanged by the same NMDA stimulation (control: 153.3 ± 20.5%, n = 6; NMDA stimulation: 143.1 ± 7.5%, n = 6; p > 0.2, Student's t-test) (Figure 4C). Thus, NMDA receptor stimulation is a likely trigger for increased CRF mRNA expression through de-phosphorylation of Tyr-1472 in the amygdala. In this study, we showed that Tyr-1472 phosphorylation of GluN2B is a negative regulator of CRF mRNA expression in the amygdala. Behaviorally, deficient Tyr-1472 phosphorylation leads to enhanced anxiety-like behavior, which is consistent with enhanced CRF signaling [14, 17, 18]. We further demonstrated that acute intraperitoneal injection of NBI 27914, a selective CRF1 receptor antagonist, attenuated the anxiety-like behavior of GluN2B-YF mice. Given the established role of CRF in anxiety [14, 16, 17], it is likely that the enhanced anxiety phenotype observed in GluN2B-YF mice is linked to increased CRF expression in the amygdala. Considering that Tyr-1472 phosphorylation is required for the NMDA receptor-mediated signaling [13], the present finding that GluN2B-YF mice exhibit increased anxiety-like behavior is consistent with previous pharmacological and genetic studies in rodents showing the anxiolytic-like effects of NMDA receptor blockade [24, 25]. Strikingly, intra-amygdala injection of an NMDA receptor antagonist, MK-801, prevents stress-induced increases in anxiety-like behavior in the EPM test [25], suggesting that NMDA receptors, especially in the amygdala, play a key role in regulating anxiety-like behavior. Interestingly, we found that the level of CRF was markedly increased in the amygdala of GluN2B-YF mice but not in other brain regions such as the hippocampus, cerebellum, and hypothalamus (Figure 2B-D). Thus, the Tyr-1472 phosphorylation-dependent regulation of NMDA receptors in the amygdala is likely to be responsible for anxiety-like behavior. Tissue specific conditional GluN2B-YF mice would be useful for analyzing the differential roles of Tyr-1472 phosphorylation. CRF in the amygdala contributes to anxiety because injection of CRF antagonists or CRF1 receptor antisense oligonucleotides into the amygdala reduces anxiety-like behavior in rats [19, 20]. In amygdala-derived neuronal cultures, NMDA receptor stimulation induces CRF release [26], suggesting that a functional NMDA receptor system regulates CRF signaling in the amygdala. In this study, we found that the YF mutation in the Tyr-1472 phosphorylation site leads to increased CRF mRNA expression (Figure 2). Correlating with this, NMDA receptor stimulation induced tyrosine de-phosphorylation of Tyr-1472 and up-regulation of CRF mRNA expression in amygdala slices (Figure 4). Thus, Tyr-1472 phosphorylation links NMDA receptor activity and CRF expression in the amygdala: however, the mechanisms underlying enhanced CRF mRNA expression in GluN2B-YF mice remain to be determined. We previously found that Tyr-1472 phosphorylation regulates NMDA receptor-mediated CaMKII signaling in the amygdala [13]. A simple model would predict that downstream NMDA receptor-mediated CaMKII signaling regulates CRF mRNA expression in the amygdala. One major neuroendocrine system underlying an individual's capacity to cope with stress is the HPA axis [14]. Besides the regulation of anxiety-like behavior, CRF is a key coordinator of the HPA axis and an essential component in the mediation of behavioral responses to stress [14]. In contrast to the increased CRF levels in the amygdala (Figure 2A), we did not find any significant differences in hypothalamic CRF levels between GluN2B-YF mice and WT mice (Figure 2D). Consistent with these findings, the basal levels of plasma ACTH in GluN2B-YF mice were virtually unchanged compared to those of WT mice (Figure 2F). Thus, the function of Tyr-1472 phosphorylation may be different between brain regions. Alternatively, in the hypothalamus, some compensatory event might have occurred to mask the hypothalamic phenotypes in GluN2B-YF mice. There is widespread interest in CRF1 receptor antagonists for the treatment of anxiety disorders [21, 27]: however, these potential therapies can influence the function of the HPA axis in response to stress [28]. Tyr-1472 phosphorylation in GluN2B regulates anxiety-like behavior through regulation of amygdaloid CRF expression without altering the function of the HPA axis. Therefore, blocking Tyr-1472 phosphorylation in the amygdala may be a clinically effective means of treating anxiety disorders without the potential risks associated with blocking of the function of the HPA axis. In summary, the present study demonstrates that the cellular interaction between CRF signaling and NMDA receptors, especially Tyr-1472 phosphorylation of GluN2B, is necessary for the regulation of anxiety-like behavior. GluN2B-YF mice should serve as a useful animal model to study the pathogenesis of anxiety disorders and to develop therapeutic drugs for the disease. Heterozygous GluN2B-YF mice [13] were successively backcrossed to C57BL/6J mice to yield subsequent generations with a pure C57BL/6J genetic background. F10 heterozygous mice were crossed to each other to yield homozygous mice and wild-type littermates. Male 8-12-week old mice were used in this study. All experiments and analyses were done in a completely blind manner. Experiments with animals were carried out in accordance with the guidelines for animal use issued by the Committee of Animal Experiments, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo. Elevated plus-maze (EPM) test The elevated plus-maze test (EP-3002; O' Hara & Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan) consisted of two open arms (25 × 5 cm) and two enclosed arms of the same size extending from a central area (5 × 5 cm) and elevated 50 cm from the ground. The ambient light level was 30 lux. The mice were placed in the central square of the maze facing one of the open arms. Mouse behavior was recorded during a 10 min test period with a Macintosh computer using Image EP 2.13× and Image EPC 2.03s× (O'Hara & Co., Ltd.), a modified software based on the public domain of NIH Image program. The following conventional parameters were recorded: the number of entries into open or closed arms and the time spent in open or closed arms. Mice were anesthetized with halothane and immediately decapitated. Brains were then rapidly removed and frozen by liquid nitrogen. Serial coronal sections (400 μm thickness) were cryosectioned, and the various brain regions were collected with a biopsy puncher. Total RNA was isolated from the brain regions and reverse transcribed with Superscript III (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA, USA). Real-time PCR was performed with TaqMan primers on an ABI PRISM 7900HT system (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA, USA) according to the supplier's protocol. The following intron-spanning primer sets were used: HPRT (internal control), Mm0046968_m1; CRF, Mm01293920_S1 (Applied Biosystems). Relative expression levels were determined according to the 2-ΔΔCt method (Applied Biosystems, User Bulletin). Measurements of CRF protein level Serial coronal sections (200 μm) were cryosectioned, and the amygdalae were collected [29]. CRF protein levels were measured by using an enzyme-linked immunoassay kit (Mouse/Rat CRF-HS ELISA kit (YK131), Yanaihara Institute Inc., Shizuoka, Japan) according to the supplier's protocol. Measurements of plasma adrenocorticotropin-releasing hormone (ACTH) levels Mice were killed by rapid decapitation, and blood was collected at around 9:00 AM. Serum was isolated and frozen at -80°C until analysis. Basal plasma ACTH levels were measured using an enzyme-linked immunoassay (SRL Inc., Tokyo, Japan). Intraperitoneal injection of CRF1 receptor antagonist A non-peptide selective CRF1 receptor antagonist, NBI 27914 (dissolved at 10 mg/ml in DMSO, 10 mg/kg body weight, Tocris, Bristol, UK) [30] or vehicle (DMSO) was injected intraperitoneally 45 min before the EPM test. Pharmacological treatment of brain slices Coronal slices including the amygdala (400 μm thickness) were prepared from 8- to 10-week-old mice and placed in an interface-type holding chamber for at least 3 h. Slices were preincubated in ACSF [13] for 1 h and then stimulated with 100 μM NMDA for 7 min. Preparation of lysate, immunoprecipitation and immunoblotting Preparation of lysate from the mouse brain and immunoblotting were performed as described previously [13]. For quantification, the immunoreacted protein bands were analyzed with the NIH image software. The rabbit polyclonal antibody against phospho-Tyr-1472/GluN2B was described previously [31]. The mouse monoclonal antibody against GluN2B was purchased from Millipore (Billerica, MA, USA). All data are expressed as the means ± SEM. Statistical analysis was performed using Student's t test, one-way ANOVA, two-way ANOVA, and Tukey's post hoc test. Differences with p < 0.05 were considered as significant. ACTH: adrenocorticotropin-releasing hormone ANOVA: CRF: corticotropin-releasing factor EPM: elevated plus-maze HPA: hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical NMDA: N-methyl-D-aspartate Alonso J, Lepine JP: Overview of key data from the European study of the epidemiology of mental disorders (ESEMeD). 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Nakazawa T, Komai S, Tezuka T, Hisatsune C, Umemori H, Semba K, Mishina M, Manabe T, Yamamoto T: Characterization of Fyn-mediated tyrosine phosphorylation sites on GluRε2 (NR2B) subunit of the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor. J Biol Chem. 2001, 276: 693-699. 10.1074/jbc.M008085200. This research was supported in part by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (T.N., T.Y., and T.M.), by the Global COE Program (Integrative Life Science Based on the Study of Biosignaling Mechanisms) (T.Y.), by the Global COE Program (Comprehensive Center of Education and Research for Chemical Biology of the Diseases) (T.M.), and the Strategic Research Program for Brain Sciences (T.M.) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports, Culture and Technology of Japan. Division of Oncology, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Shirokanedai, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 108-8639, Japan Mina Delawary, Tohru Tezuka, Kazumasa Yokoyama, Takeshi Inoue, Tadashi Yamamoto & Takanobu Nakazawa Division of Neuronal Network, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Shirokanedai, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 108-8639, Japan Yuji Kiyama & Toshiya Manabe Division of Systems Medical Science, Institute for Comprehensive Medical Science, Fujita Health University, 1-98 Dengakugakubo, Kutsukake-cho, Toyoake, Aichi, 470-1192, Japan Satoko Hattori Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), 4-1-8 Hon-cho, Kawaguchi, 332-0012, Japan Satoko Hattori & Toshiya Manabe Molecular Research Center for Children's Mental Development, United Graduate School of Child Development, Osaka University, Kanazawa University, and Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Yamada-Oka, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan Ryota Hashimoto Department of Psychiatry, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Yamada-Oka, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan Molecular & Behavioral Neuroscience Institute and Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-2200, USA Hisashi Umemori Division of Genetics, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 108-8639, Japan Tohru Tezuka Mina Delawary Yuji Kiyama Kazumasa Yokoyama Takeshi Inoue Toshiya Manabe Takanobu Nakazawa Correspondence to Takanobu Nakazawa. MD, TT, YK, TM, TY, and TN designed the project. MD, TT, YK, KY, TI, SH, RH, HU, and TN performed experiments and analyzed the data. TM, TY, and TN wrote the manuscript and supervised the project. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. Delawary, M., Tezuka, T., Kiyama, Y. et al. NMDAR2B tyrosine phosphorylation regulates anxiety-like behavior and CRF expression in the amygdala. Mol Brain 3, 37 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1186/1756-6606-3-37 Accepted: 30 November 2010 NMDA Receptor CRF1 Receptor CRF1 Receptor Antagonist GluN2 Subunit NMDA Receptor Stimulation	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line1057
__label__cc	0.573848	0.426152	THE TALON Students find community as they are welcomed into MSJC Posted byThe Talon July 8, 2020 September 27, 2020 Posted inMSJCTags:events, MSJC, programs, students By Alyse Kiara Deatherage MSJC Marketing team supporting students at Pride Week BBQ. Photo by Alyse Kiara Deatherage Mt. San Jacinto Community College District began in 1962, and started enrolling students from the Banning, Beaumont, Hemet, and San Jacinto areas in 1963. Since then, they’ve actively worked to help students achieve their goals and get closer to their dreams through the education and community they provide. MSJC’s mission statement is as follows: “Mt. San Jacinto College offers quality, accessible, equitable and innovative educational programs and services to students aspiring to achieve their academic, career and personal development goals. “We provide students a safe environment in which to pursue basic skills, career and general education pathways. Our programs lead to transfer, associate degrees and certificates, which meet workforce development needs in our diverse communities. Our commitment to learning and achievement empowers students to enrich our communities and participate meaningfully in today’s complex world,” according to the MSJC website. Savannah Pahl is a student who has just finished her second semester at MSJC. She came to MSJC because it was local to her high school, Vista Murrieta High School, and a lot of her friends had also decided to go to MSJC after graduation. “I didn’t want to leave high school, so coming to a place with familiar faces helped a lot,” said Pahl. Pahl had a difficult time with the transition because she missed seeing her teachers and classmates she had to leave behind. However, she said that having her best friend by her side during the transition helped make it easier. Since coming to MSJC, Pahl has joined the First Year Experience program as well as the Supplemental Instruction program. Both programs have helped Pahl throughout her time at MSJC thus far and have made it more enjoyable. MSJC SI Leaders, Mentors, and Staff at the 2019 4th annual IE SI Regional Conference, hosted at the San Jacinto campus. Photo provided by Alyse Kiara Deatherage “My first semester FYE Mentors especially helped me when it came time to choose my classes,” said Pahl. “I got lots of recommendations for what professors to take my classes with.” Pahl also said that FYE Mentors helped her find her way around campus when she first started at MSJC and introduced her to new people to help welcome her. “As an SI Leader, I have received support from my SI family both inside and outside the classroom,” said Pahl. “Outside the classroom, being an SI Leader has given me the opportunity to meet a wide variety of people around campus and become more comfortable talking to people I don’t know.” James Parker has been a student at MSJC since the Spring semester of 2018. Parker tried enrolling during 2016, but found the enrollment process to be difficult due to struggles at home, but he returned in 2017 and was very happy to start his first semester in 2018. Like Pahl, Parker has been involved in many clubs and programs on campus, including Supplemental Instruction, UMOJA, Tutoring, Phi Theta Kappa, A2MEND, and Mu Alpha Theta. MSJC’s UMOJA club enjoying festivities in the San Jacinto campus quad. Photo by Alyse Kiara Deatherage “They have had the biggest impact on my time at MSJC because without these programs I wouldn’t know all the wonderful people that I know,” said Parker. Parker has always enjoyed attending school, but he finds more encouragement and excitement in attending school because of the bonds he has built with people on campus. “Without these, I wouldn’t have been able to enjoy the experiences of professional development and conference trips, which also introduced me to more people that are intelligent and amazing,” said Parker. MSJC officials encourage students to join clubs and programs on campus and are excited to work with students on coordinating events and activities for those clubs. MSJC’s Marketing Team works to get the word out on all events on campus by alerting students weekly through their MSJC student email, updating the events calendar on the MSJC website, and updating their social media platforms, including Facebook and Instagram. “We are excited to help get the word out to students about all of the programs, events and opportunities at Mt. San Jacinto College,” said MSJC Marketing Director Karin Marriott. “Each member of the MSJC Public Information and Marketing team has a “students first” attitude and we know that what we do shapes your experience here at MSJC.” Like the students at MSJC, Marriott said that she and her team know that the clubs and programs on campus create a community for the students, as well as for the staff at MSJC, and they are happy to be a part of that community. “We also feel like this is a community and many of us feel like we are family,” said Marriott. “So we want to make sure the experience you have is one you will remember with fondness and a sense of pride.” Like many of the professors and staff members on campus, the Marketing Team’s door is always open and they are happy to welcome in students anytime. They are in room 222 on the SJC campus. “We enjoy it when students come in to introduce themselves,” said Marriott. “It really brings an energy and excitement we love to have in our office.” Throughout The Talon’s many changes, including moving to a completely online platform during the COVID-19 pandemic, MSJC’s Marketing Team has been an endless stream of support. They enjoy being able to help and support all clubs on campus, and sometimes even join in on the fun of event activities. The photos above include Talon members at design meetings, Christmas events, and outreach events on campus. The Talon has an assortment of students on each campus who are still attending meetings virtually during the COVID-19 pandemic. MSJC has a large variety of support systems, including, but not limited to, the many programs mentioned and the MSJC Marketing Team, that create this strong sense of community. Students who are excited to begin their journey of furthering their education while building community with new friends and companions can learn more about registering for classes on the MSJC website, or in their student Eagle Advisor. Published by The Talon The Official Newspaper of Mt. San Jacinto College We are a platform for over 18,000 Mt. San Jacinto College students and the community to promote a diverse student voice, involvement from the college, and creative collaborations. View more posts What you may not know about Roe v. Wade Speculating on the Palm Springs new AHL team name Talon Talks THE TALON, Blog at WordPress.com.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line1058
__label__wiki	0.661227	0.661227	"On behalf of the McLaren family and all who attended the tribute to Dad I would like to thank the choir for the wonderful,uplifting sound that filled Murrayfield and our hearts. Dad had great fondness for Wales, the Welsh people and Welsh singing so we could imagine him joining in, as he would have done in his own living-room. You graced a unique occasion in your special way and brought much joy to all who had the pleasure of listening. Our thanks to you all." Linda Lawson The event on Thursday 11 March 2010 was hosted by Scottish Rugby at Edinburgh's Murrayfield Stadium in front of nearly 5,000 people. Dougie Donnelly, the BBC sports presenter conducted proceedings as the crowd heard tributes from legends of the sport including Andy Irving, Gavin Hastings, Gerald Davies ( a Vice-President of the Choir), Mike Gibson, Bill Beaumont, Colin Deans, Jim Renwich and Hugh McLeod Photo: Stewart Attwood, The Herald & Times Group. Bill McLaren, 'The Voice of Rugby' Bill McLaren's daughter Linda with husband Alan Lawson and Joy Amman Davies, Musical Director Gerald Davies, Vice-President of the Choir, linked up with Hugh O'Neil Choir Chairman and Roy Pugh, General Secretary. Speaking on the Choir's return, Hugh O'Neill said ' The Choir enjoyed a warm welcome in Edinbugh and we feel privileged to have been invited to participate in such a memorable occasion. The tributes to Bill during the evening from some of the legends of world rugby spoke volumes about the high regard in which he was universally held.' Welsh Rugby Union President Dennis Gethin with Joy Amman Davies, Musical Director and Choir Chairman Hugh O'Neill BBC sports presenter John Inverdale with Joy Amman Davies Big screens showed specially created match footage accompanied by some of Bill McLaren's most memorable commentaries. His family had specially asked that the Morriston Orpheus Choir sing Cwm Rhondda and Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau as the musical tribute. The Choir was led by its Musical Director Joy Amman Davies and accompanist Jo Scullin. Guest Book comment from Dougie Donnolly, BBC sports presenter and MC for the evening "May I just add my thanks and appreciation to you all for making the journey to Murrayfield to help us remember a great man. The Choir made an unforgettable contribution to a memorable evening. It was also a real pleasure to meet Joy at the reception afterwards ! Every success to you all in the future." Another Guest Book entry, this one is from Tom Anderson "Just returned from an emotional but brilliant evening celebrating the life of Bill McLaren. The choir's performance was truly superb. On a night of great Scottish passion, your choir added something perhaps a little unexpected but quite quite brilliant. I and many others I spoke to were enthralled and captivated so this note is simply to say thank you for reminding us of all that is great about Wales.You are welcome back north of the border any time." Ready to go to the rehearsal at Murrayfield Jo Scullin is all set to play Scottish International and British Lions prop Euan Murray joins the bass section for the rehearsal!	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line1065
__label__wiki	0.500824	0.500824	Home » Lifestyle » Why Vanessa Hudgens ‘Can’t Stop Smiling’ Around Cole Tucker As Fans Freak Over ‘Date Night’ Pic Why Vanessa Hudgens ‘Can’t Stop Smiling’ Around Cole Tucker As Fans Freak Over ‘Date Night’ Pic 11/25/2020 Lifestyle Comments Off on Why Vanessa Hudgens ‘Can’t Stop Smiling’ Around Cole Tucker As Fans Freak Over ‘Date Night’ Pic Although Vanessa Hudgens is ‘taking things slow’ with Cole Tucker, a source tells HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY that she’s already very comfortable with him. Vanessa Hudgens is moving on from Austin Butler with 24-year-old Cole Tucker, who she was spotted with for the first time on Nov. 21. “Vanessa can’t stop smiling when she’s around Cole,” a source told HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY. “Although she doesn’t want to rush things, she really likes being with him because there’s a level of comfortability there. She thinks he’s really genuine, down to earth, and she feels like she can just be herself around him.” Vanessa sent fans into a frenzy when she posted an Instagram photo of herself on a ‘date night’ on Nov. 21. The next day, photos surfaced of her hugging a taller mystery man while out and about, and the guy was later identified as Cole. “She actually has a lot more in common with him than people might think,” our source dished. “Cole is well-known because he’s a baseball player, but he’s also played music since he was a kid and can tear it up on the drums.” Obviously, things are still new between Vanessa and Cole, but this is the first man she’s been linked to since her split from Austin. News of the pair’s split broke at the very beginning of 2020. They had been together for nine years at the time of the breakup. Before that, Vanessa was famously in a long term relationship with her High School Musical co-star, Zac Efron. While Vanessa has kept her dating life out of the public eye this year, she certainly hasn’t slowed down when it comes to her social media activity. Vanessa is not shy when it comes to posting sexy pics on her Instagram page. Recently, she reminisced on her travels before the coronavirus pandemic by sharing shots of herself on the beach in a bikini. She also shared a hilarious video of herself doing Cardi B’s “WAP” dance in the middle of a workout, which fans loved. Previous Post:7 Thanksgiving side dishes to make the day before Next Post:Khloe Kardashian Not Following Tristan Thompson to Boston Despite Reconciliation Rumors	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line1066
__label__wiki	0.784979	0.784979	United Nations Namibia About the UN The UN in Namibia UN Entities in Namibia The Resident Coordinator Office Our team in Namibia Human Rights Day 2020 and the COVID-19 Pandemic “Recover Better – Stand up for Human Rights” Mr. Sen Pang walking through the exhibition The promotion and protection of human rights occupies a central place in the history and mandate of the United Nations. With the continuing hardships as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic it is important to ensure lasting progress with respect to social rights enjoyment and to reaffirm the importance of human rights, re-building the world we want, tackling entrenched, systematic, and intergenerational inequalities, exclusion and discrimination. With the rest of the world, Namibia commemorated Human Rights Day under the theme “Recover Better – Stand up for Human Rights”. 10 December also became an iconic date in Namibia’s history, the ‘Old Location’ uprising became the central event that led to Namibia’s independence in March 1990. To mark the significance of Human Rights Day, UN Namibia set up a photo exhibition at the UN House depicting the historical images and the contributions of Human Rights Defenders, which led to the drafting and adopting of the Universal Declaration. Mr. Sen Pang, UN Resident Coordinator The UN Resident Coordinator, Mr. Sen Pang has also taken up the global social media challenge and asked UN Country Team members to support the call, spread the word on the need to recover better by placing human rights at the heart of recovery efforts. Agencies were encouraged to extend the challenge to UN Namibia partners, stakeholders to help promote human rights and to ensure a wide reach of messages. Echoing Secretary- General Guterres’ call to Action for Human Rights spells out the central role of human rights in crisis response, gender equality, public participation, climate justice and sustainable development. Namibia has ratified the Optional Protocols for UN Human Rights Conventions or has accepted the competence of the corresponding UN Treaty Bodies. The inhabitants of Namibia and its representatives are able to invoke their human rights through these bodies. UN Communications Comms and Media Unit UN entities involved in this initiative Goals we are supporting through this initiative Pelgrina and Eben call for an inclusive and accessible world Disability is part of the human experience and more and more countries are now recognizing the importance of including disability as a cross cutting issue. Doralee’s Story: Saving malnourished children in Namibia According to the 2020 Synthesis Report released in September by the Southern African Development Community, 7.1% of children in Namibia face acute malnutrition, Despite progress, COVID-19 threatens to cause irreversible harm to children’s education, nutrition and well-being - says UNICEF World Children’s Day activities are held in over 130 countries to provide a platform for children to speak out about their concerns and advocate for children be The Sustainable Development Goals in Namibia How you can get involved today Stories in Namibia UN House, 38 - 44 Stein Street Klein Windhoek Republic of Namibia Private Bag 13329 Follow us in flickr © Copyright 2021 United Nations in Namibia	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line1069
__label__wiki	0.531742	0.531742	Walmart.com Successfully Launched InnerScope Hearing Technologies' Direct-To-Consumer Hearing Aid Devices & Personal Sound Amplifiers Products Sold Online As The Retailer The Company, as a supplier and a direct ship vendor ("DSV") for Walmart.com, is ramping-up its inventory of FDA-Registered hearing aid devices and personal sound amplifiers products for Walmart.com's customers. ROSEVILLE, Calif., Aug. 09, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via OTC PR WIRE -- InnerScope Hearing Technologies Inc. (OTCQB: INND) announced today that Walmart.com has successfully launched the Company's FDA-Registered Hearing Aids and its Personal Sound Amplifier Products ("PSAPs") to be sold Direct-To-Consumer to Walmart.com's online customers. The Company, as a contract supplier and a direct ship vendor, aka drop ship vendor ("DSV"), for Walmart.com, has been preparing for the launch by ramping-up multiple skews of its PSAPs and hearing aid device inventory, ready to be shipped directly to Walmart.com customers upon order. The Company prides itself on continuing to deliver on its mission to provide Direct-To-Consumer easy access to the latest in high quality hearing aid technology at very affordable prices. Walmart.com, along with InnerScope, is continuing to enhance the format, language and listing for all of the Company's products on the web pages on Walmart.com. These enhancements will allow Walmart.com's customers to have increased visibility and understanding of the differences between each hearing product listing for ease of ordering. InnerScope as a DSV supplier to Walmart.com will be continuing to add more high quality hearing aid and hearing assistive products to Walmart.com's listing and web pages. InnerScope's ALPHA 3-5-9 Series are FDA-Registered receiver-in-canals (RICs) Digital Hearing Aids. The ALPHA's are a very small, discreet, compact design and compatible with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) wireless technology (for direct connection to external Bluetooth-enable devices) with a user app for added user control and personalizing the hearing aids for all different environments via Android or iOS Smartphone's. The ALPHA Series with Bluetooth and a Smart Control App is offered in 3 levels of technology based on affordability and hearing needs. The ALPHA 3 hearing aid has a digital processor that consists of 4-channels and 8-frequency bands with 4 separated user programs. The ALPHA 3 is suitable for mild to moderately severe hearing loss and includes a Basic Instantaneous Noise and Surround Sound Processor. The APLHA 3 offers Best-Value and affordability with its basic features designed for moderately active lifestyles. Click Here for the link to Walmart.com's Alpha 3 page. The ALPHA 5 hearing aid has a digital processor that consists of 12-channels and 16-frequency bands with 5 separated user programs. The ALPHA 5 is suitable for mild to moderately severe hearing loss and includes an Automatic Intelligent Switching for Different Environments, Advanced Instantaneous Noise and Surround Sound Processor. The APLHA 5 and its Advanced features are designed for more active lifestyles that requires hearing in many different environments. Click Here for the link to Walmart.com's Alpha 5 page. The ALPHA 9 hearing aid has a digital processor that consists of 16-channels and 16-frequency bands with 6 separated user programs. The ALPHA 9 is suitable for mild to moderately severe hearing loss and includes Best-in-Class Automatic Intelligent Switching for Different Environments with Instantaneous Noise and Surround Sound Processor. The APLHA 9 and its Best-in-Class features are designed for the most active lifestyles that requires the best opportunity to hear clearly in the most demanding environments. Click Here for the link to Walmart.com's Alpha 9 page. The Teeny PSAP is a patented audiologist designed ear-level PSAP which uses the same Advanced Digital Technology found in higher priced hearing aid devices. The Teeny is one-size-fits-all, completely-in-the-canal (CIC), made to be comfortably hidden within the ear canal. Click Here for the link to Walmart.com's Teeny PSAP page. The Crescent PSAP patented audiologist designed ear-level PSAP which also like the Teeny PSAP, uses the same Advanced Digital Technology found in higher priced hearing aid devices. The Crescent with its unique universal shell design fits approximately 95% of all ears. Click Here for the link to Walmart.com's Crescent PSAP page. The BlackCat PSAP is a hearable/wearable personal audio controller designed for people who have difficulty understanding conversation in difficult listening and noisy situations, like in a restaurant or group gatherings. Its compact credit card design and easy to use buttons for the user to control volume, balance and rear noise suppression. Click Here for the link to Walmart.com's BlackCat PSAP page. "We could not have been more pleased with working with Walmart.com to help them promote our affordable high quality hearing aids and hearing assistive products," said Matthew Moore, CEO of InnerScope Hearing Technologies. "We are proud to have Walmart.com choose our hearing aids and hearing assistive products for their customers. With the current average cost of hearing aids running about $5000.00, a set, it's no wonder why there are only 7 to 8 million Americans that currently use hearing aids when there are over 48 million that have reported some hearing loss and could benefit from using hearing aids or some hearing assistance. InnerScope's agreement with Walmart.com gives the Company and Walmart.com the opportunity to sell the 48 million Americans an affordable alternative to the traditional high cost of hearing aids at 75% to 80% less than the current average cost. Not to mention, the revenue potential is off the charts for both the Company and Walmart.com. Each person has two ears, that's 96 million potential hearing aid sales," continued Mr. Moore. "We know the cost of hearing aids is just too high for most people that need them. However, there is even a greater cost that very few ever know about. The 'real' cost is much higher than the actual dollars spent. Those approximately 42 million Americans that suffer from hearing loss and can not afford to purchased hearing aids are potentially at high risk and in fact could be jeopardizing their overall health and well-being. Proper auditory stimulation from the use of hearing aids may reduce health issues associated with of untreated hearing loss, including cognitive issues, such as Dementia and Alzheimer's disease. We believe with Walmart.com as retailer of InnerScope's hearing products, more people will recognize the need to treat their hearing issues sooner than later and thereby reduce unnecessary health risks, due to untreated hearing loss," Mr. Moore concluded About InnerScope Hearing Technologies (INND): InnerScope Hearing Technologies (INND) is a technology driven company with highly scalable B2B and B2C solutions. The Company plans on offering a B2B SaaS based Patient Management System (PMS) software program, designed to improve operations and communication with patients. INND also offers a Buying Group experience for audiology practice, enabling owners to lower product costs and increase their margins. INND will also compete in the DTC (Direct-to-Consumer) markets with its own line of "Hearable", and "Wearable" Personal Sound Amplifier Products (PSAPs) and revolutionary APPs on the iOS and Android markets. INND has plans on opening, operating and expanding a chain of audiological and retail hearing device clinics. INND's seasoned team of professionals, with collectively over 200+ years of experience in the hearing aid industry, including successful operations in hearing aid manufacturing and retail store management. Our team has the knowledge, relationships, and the experience to quickly deploy new products and software to serve approximately 1.2 billion people around the globe that are suffering with 25 db or greater hearing loss. For more information, please visit: www.innd.com Wal-Mart.com USA, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Brisbane, California. The company offers online retail services and sells products in various categories within in the United States, APO/FPO military addresses, Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and Virgin Islands. This presentation contains forward-looking statements which relate to future events or InnerScope Hearing Technologies future performance or financial condition. Any statements that are not statements of historical fact (including statements containing the words "believes," "should," "plans," "anticipates," "expects," "estimates" and similar expressions) should also be considered to be forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance, condition or results and involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements as result of a number of factors, including those described from time to time in InnerScope Hearing Technologies filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. InnerScope Hearing Technologies undertakes no duty to update any forward-looking statements made herein. InnerScope Hearing Technologies, Inc. Matthew@innd.com www.innd.com https://www.nohasslehearing.com https://www.hearingbenefit.com Links to InnerScope Hearing Technologies' Hearing Aids on Walmart.com: Alpha 3 Hearing Aid by InnerScope Hearing Technologies: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Alpha-3-Hearing-Aid-Smartphone-Enabled-Premium-Hearing-Device-Patented-Noise-Blocking-System-Right-or-Left/723285115 https://www.walmart.com/ip/Alpha-9-Hearing-Aid/679890260 Links to InnerScope Hearing Technologies' Personal Sound Amplifiers (PSAPs) on Walmart.com: Teeny Personal Sound Amplifier: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Teeny-Sound-Amplifier-Fits-Either-Ear-Clear-Color-Premium-In-the-Ear-Sound-Amplification/272111527 Crescent Personal Sound Amplifier: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Crescent-Sound-Amplifier/915134470 BlackCat Personal Sound Amplifier: https://www.walmart.com/ip/BlackCat-Personalized-Sound-Amplifier/542735795	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line1073
__label__wiki	0.835633	0.835633	Grad Student Discovers, Patents Process to Create “Nanofoams” in Liquid Crystals By Jason Alvarez, UC Merced Physics graduate student Sheida Riahinasab It sounds like an easy-to-follow recipe from the world of molecular gastronomy: Dissolve nanoparticles in liquid crystals and cool to form frothy nanofoams, tiny tubes and hollow microspheres. But what fifth-year doctoral student Sheida Riahinasab and physics Professor Linda Hirst actually discovered is a simple method for producing hollow, microscopic structures — a patent-pending process that may lead to tiny sensors, batteries and medicine-delivery systems. The work is detailed in a paper in Nature Communications, available now. “There are many ways to make hollow microstructures in chemistry,” Riahinasab said. “But our mechanism for creating template-free hollow structures in liquid crystals is entirely novel.” Most of us have heard of liquid crystals. They’re the LC in LCD — the technology behind most TVs, monitors and digital displays. But many of us don’t know why liquid crystals are useful to materials experts like Riahinasab and Hirst. As the name suggests, LCs can behave as either liquid or crystal under different conditions — conditions that scientists can easily modulate. At higher temperatures, LCs behave like liquids. The molecules flow like water and dissolve nanoparticles in much the same way H2O dissolves salt. At lower temperatures, they behave like crystals — molecules arranged in 3D grids that form a larger, rigid structure. But what makes LCs unique is their nematic phase, a state in between liquid and crystal. The molecules are free to flow like a liquid, but exhibit order and alignment like a crystal. And nematic LCs are also bad solvents, a property that proved useful for the researchers. Professor Linda Hirst (left) with Riahinasab Riahinasab and Hirst realized they could use these properties of LCs to create hollow microstructures from nanoparticle building blocks. They dissolved nanoparticles in LCs then cooled the solution, making it increasingly nematic and bad at dissolving nanoparticles. The nanoparticles clustered as they were forced from the nematic region into the few remaining pockets of good solvent. After producing these highly-concentrated nanoparticle islands, the cooling continued, causing the nanoparticles to self-assemble into hollow foams, tubes and spheres. But these microstructures aren’t formed at the same time. Instead, scientists choose the shape and size of the microstructures by controlling the speed at which the LC cools — a process that takes a second or less and can be done at near room temperature. But once these microstructures form, what’s to prevent them from disassembling as soon as they reencounter liquid? That’s where chemistry Professor Benjamin Stokes comes in. The Stokes lab designed special molecules that sit on the surface of the nanoparticles and act like molecular clasps, fastening nanoparticles together and ensuring that hollow microstructures retain their shape. This way, the hollow structures can be filled with useful molecular cargo — perhaps a cancer-fighting drug — and safely delivered to its destination. These surface molecules have another useful property: They’re designed to unclasp under specific conditions. Zap the microstructure with laser light of a particular color or heat it above a certain temperature, and the structure falls apart and releases its contents. Hirst, who is part of the Health Sciences Research Institute, explained that if nanofoams carrying cancer-killing drugs were injected into a patient, they would disperse throughout the patient’s body. But doctors could focus heat on a tumor and ensure the nanofoams only released their cargo into diseased tissue. “We focus on fundamental science — new methods and new processes to create new materials,” Hirst said. “But our novel methods for producing microstructures may have many important applications.” Lorena Anderson Senior Writer and Public Information Representative landerson4@ucmerced.edu Prestigious Biennial Grant Program Includes Funding for Ag-labor and Wildfire Research Two new projects designed and led by UC Merced researchers will address challenges facing many Californians — wildfire recovery and agricultural... Innovate to Grow Coming to a Zoom Room Near You UC Merced’s premier experiential learning expo, Innovate to Grow (I2G), is providing students, faculty and staff with a new set of experiences to... Physicist Liu Receives NSF CAREER Award to Create ‘Bacteria Treadmill’ Physics Professor Bin Liu has received a CAREER award for his research into a new micromanipulation technique to virtually hold freely moving... CREST Center for Cellular and Biomolecular Machines Health Sciences Research Institute	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line1075
__label__wiki	0.719998	0.719998	Postal Clerk Expert on Haitian Music, Celebration by Olivia Drake • April 2, 2007 Holly Nicolas, postal clerk at Wesleyan Station, helps two students send their mail. He was recently featured on Afropop Worldwide Radio. Its 20 minutes after noon and postal clerk Holly Nicolas heads to the Wesleyan Station window. Students begin trickling into a line. Some want to send letters, others wait to pick up packages. When the students get out of class, we really get hit, Nicolas says in his Creole-accented English. Holly, pronounced O-Lee, is a Haitian native who moved to the United States in 1993. His days begin with sorting incoming mail for the universitys faculty, staff and students. At 10 a.m., Wesleyan Station opens and Nicolas, fellow postal clerk Illana Konerding and student workers service the window until it closes at 3 p.m. Its fun to interact with the universitys faculty, staff and students every day, and I like when I can put a face with a name, Nicolas says. Working here, you see peoples names over and over and its good to know who they are. The students are surprised when I can know their mailbox number off the top of my head, but when you look at them every day; it stays in your head. If a mail carrier is out, Nicolas often volunteers to deliver the campus-wide mail. Hell also work on mail forwarding and sorting mail throughout the day. The heaviest mail season occurs during the first few weeks of the academic year. During this time, tons and tons of packages arrive to Wesleyan Station containing students clothing and school supplies, Nicolas says. The mail traffic slows, but picks up again around Feb. 14. Valentines Day is so busy, Nicolas says, smiling. There are lots and lots of flowers to deliver. In addition to his mail duties, Nicolas has one other job requirement playing the role of deejay for Wesleyan Station. The lifelong music lover is an expert on Haitian beats, from traditional kompa dance music to band a pied, which is played with brass horns and drums. Holly is a very important person here, explains Konerding. He is great with the customers, fixes anything that breaks around here, and most importantly, he is in charge of all of our music. In February, Nicolas was featured on Afropop Worldwide Radio. The interview of Nicolas was conducted by Sean Barlow 79, president of World Music Productions/Afropop Worldwide Radio in Brooklyn, and freelance guitarist and Afropop Worldwide host Banning Eyre 80. The recording is online here. Nicholas talked about his memories of Haitian Carnival. The carnival season begins Jan. 6 on Three Kings Day and runs until Fat Tuesday. During the last three days of this period, some Haitians dress in colorful costumes and dance, sing, dance and celebrate their culture. The celebration was a tradition for Nicolas, who grew up in Ouanaminthe, a small town that borders the Dominican Republic on the northeast of Haiti. During one carnival, he recalls, local musicians sang about a woman who stole a chicken. That was funny to me, because I knew that woman. She lived next to me, he says. This is Nicolas eighth year working at Wesleyan. In the early 1990s, he met Wesleyans Elizabeth McAlister, associate professor religion, African American Studies and American Studies. McAlister was in Haiti, studying Haitian traditions and Voodoo. The couple married and spent three years trying to get Nicolas daughter, Lovely, to America. She is now 20 and a sophomore at Hampshire College. Nicolas and McAlister live in Middletown with their children, Sacha, 13, and Julien, 8. He enjoys cooking Haitian food for his family and playing intramural soccer. He returns to his native country once a year but never regrets moving to the U.S. Moving to American was a good move for me, but it was especially a good move for my daughter, who now lives in a safer environment with better educational opportunities, he says. We are both very fortunate. By Olivia Drake, The Wesleyan Connection editor ← The Wesleyan Connection: Campus Snapshot Students-Athletes Named All-Conference NESCAC Honorees →	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line1078
__label__cc	0.681427	0.318573	Remember your registration tasks Testing proposals for animal tests under REACH Making information available to the public A visit from MEP Satu Hassi Message from the outgoing Chair Sharon Munn The Director of ECDC visited ECHA Head of Unit appointed for Scientific IT Tools Interview: Pilar Rodríguez Iglesias Living in Helsinki - Water sports June 2009 - Issue 3 If you would like to explore watery wonders but avoid getting soaking wet in the meantime, the sport for you is kayaking. When you're gliding in the sea with nothing but the sound of your paddle disappearing in the tranquil water and the waves splashing, you can't help but feel at one with the water. Unlike what you might suspect, this sport can make an excellent whole body work out too. With the right technique, it is not merely the arms you use to paddle, but the whole upper body as well as your legs. For an office worker who sits all day in front of a computer, kayaking would be an ideal form of exercise. The best way to start is to rent a kayak for a few hours. You don't need a beginner's course to do that – just hop on a kayak and head out to sea. Neither is any particular gear a prerequisite. For example a life jacket and a waterproof cover to keep you dry are usually included in the service. Maria O'Shea, Junior Scientific Officer at ECHA, tried kayaking and found it to be a fun outdoor activity. The shores of the Helsinki area are full of nice little islands in between which you can spot seabirds and maybe swans out with their young, or make a stop in between paddling and have your hot chocolate and snack. Maria enjoyed her time kayaking and is now considering taking it up a notch and embarking on a white water paddling course in River Kymijoki in August. Andreas Herdina, ECHA's Director of Cooperation, started sailing 35 years ago in the Adriatic – "the place where Austrians mostly start sailing on the sea". According to Andreas, Finland offers a great opportunity to enjoy such an outdoor activity as sailing – with fresh air and wind, sometimes sun, but always a nice coastal landscape. "The sea teaches you a lot of patience", Andreas says. "You may already see your goal, but when sailing it may still take you considerable time to get there". When sailing, the elements play the main roles – sailors are always dependent on the wind and waves. Sailing teaches Andreas both to plan things well in advance and to prepare the boat according to the weather forecast, but to remain flexible and be able to change his plans based on the behaviour of the sea. "I do like sailing as a pastime, as it takes my mind completely off the job", Andreas adds. According to Andreas, navigation in Finnish waters, which are full of rocks, is really demanding. "I have learned that here, as the Finns say, there are only two kinds of sailors: those, who have hit a rock and those, who lie", Andreas laughs. "However, I prefer to be included in either of these two groups and therefore I continue to develop my navigation skills". In many cases sailing and maintaining your own boat become core leisure time activities, thus it may result in a protest by other family members – is this the case? "I sail a lot with my wife", Andreas explains, "and she likes it – but only when the wind is not too strong and the conditions are not too harsh". "It is nice to sail in Finland - you always can go to a destination such as a little island, where you can stay and enjoy a sauna, or to visit a small cosy harbour. Otherwise I try to put together a crew of enthusiastic sailing men and to fight more with the sea - sailing is a life-long learning experience!", Andreas smiles. In Finland, the sailing season is both short and intense. "You must be able to make the best of it", Andreas stresses, "and to pursue some other hobbies during the long autumn and winter months, when the boat is resting in a hangar." ECHA's Scientific Officer Rupert Simon started diving while working in Belgium. In six years he registered over 500 dives reaching the level of Assistant Instructor. "I was mostly diving in Belgian fresh water lakes and an unique ecosystem formed by the Schelde river mouth located in Zeeland, a south-west province of the Netherlands called Oosterschelde. One could call this the Mecca of Dutch and Belgian divers. Now and again I enjoyed the beauty and the wrecks of the Mediterranean and of the North Seas", Rupert says. Rupert thinks that every place has it's own charm. "You cannot say this diving spot is better than the other one", he adds, "they are just different!". As Rupert moved to Finland just recently, his diving experience in the country is quite limited - the inland waters are still waiting to be explored. "I may only refer to the diving in the Baltic Sea close to Helsinki. Based on what I have learned so far, these beautiful small islands and hidden rocks remain to be the main reason why there are so many wrecks in the water. You may find very different wrecks – from small pieces of old wooden boats to the leftovers of huge metal container ships. I would like to alert our colleagues who like sailing – please be careful, otherwise we may start diving on your boat!" Rupert smiles. Rupert recommends diving in Finland wearing a dry suit. "When you dive here, you always feel cold – more in winter, less in summer", Rupert summarises. Finally, if you are ready to face 4-5 °C temperature in 20-30 meters depth, if you know how to deal with the waves and seasickness – be sure, you'll have enough fun. Diving is a nice hobby, good exercise and lovely escape from the dusty office to the fantastic underwater world", Rupert concludes. Back to August 2009 - Issue 4	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line1079
__label__cc	0.594857	0.405143	Home / Filer's Files / Filer’s Files 11, 2020 Bigelow Aerospace Convinced” Aliens Exist UFO over White Island Volcano, New Zealand on February 25, 2020 Filer’s Files 11, 2020 Bigelow Aerospace Convinced” Aliens Exist in Filer's Files March 9, 2020 0 1,015 Views Major George A. Filer III ret. USAF New Jersey State Director MUFON Eastern Region Director In special reports, this week’s files cover: Bigelow Aerospace Convinced” Aliens Exist, The Interview About Popular Mechanics” Article, UFO Behavior ‘Seems To Be Human,’ 60 SpaceX Satellites, Suicide Rate for Women Having Abortion Is Six Times Higher than Normal Births, Strange Craft, 540 MUFON Sighting Reports for February. Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Alaska, California, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Jersey, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Washington. Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Portugal, Republika Srpska, Bosna I Hercegovina. and England in the United Kingdom. The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers. Forward these files to your friends and neighbors. Bigelow Aerospace Convinced” Aliens Exist Robert T. Bigelow, the owner of Budget Suites of America and founder of the space technology company Bigelow Aerospace, has never shied away from amplifying his interest in UFOs. In a 2017 interview, Bigelow told CBS’s 60 Minutes he was “absolutely convinced” aliens exist, before passionately declaring, “I don’t give a damn!” when asked if it was risky to publicly say he believes in UFOs and aliens. You don’t have to go anywhere, they are here. https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-itm-001&hsimp=yhs-0 Entrepreneur Robert T. Bigelow is the Founder and President of Bigelow Aerospace, LLC. Headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada, Bigelow Aerospace is a general contracting, research and development company that concentrates on achieving economic breakthroughs in the costs associated with the design, development, and construction of habitable space structures for private enterprise and government use. Since 1999, Mr. Bigelow has personally provided all financial support totaling over $350 million to date. In addition, Mr. Bigelow provides the daily strategic leadership at Bigelow Aerospace in its design, development, and testing of expandable habitat architectures where Bigelow Aerospace employs approximately 150 employees at its Las Vegas facility. Mr. Bigelow has successfully launched two subscale spacecraft called Genesis I & II into orbit. Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM), There is a similar BEAM attached to the Tranquility module of the International Space Station. Moreover, Mr. Bigelow serves as the program manager of the B330 spacecraft – Bigelow Aerospace’s main habitation system for LEO and beyond LEO destinations. Robert Bigelow is an experienced general contractor, designer, developer, financier, buyer and manager of many large real estate projects in the US. Mr. Bigelow holds the exclusive licensing rights to commercialize expandable habitat technology originally conceived but abandoned by NASA in the 1990’s. Over the last seventeen years, Mr. Bigelow has earned over twenty patents, launched three prototype spacecraft, partnered with NASA on several contracts, built the necessary facilities to design and fabricate expandable habitat technology, and has advocated for a sustainable commercial space economy. The US Government (USG) uses a series of alphabet soup names to confuse, hide, or designate often classified programs. On December 16, 2017, the New York Times disclosed that the Pentagon had secretly funded research into UFOs through the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, or (AATIP). In an instant, UFOs were no longer relegated to societies nihilistically curious, and for the first time in decades, droves of the mainstream public suddenly found themselves peering skyward with wonder. Adding to the chaos, an entirely different program moniker emerged: the Advanced Aerospace Weapons Systems Applications Program, or (AAWSAP). For over two years, no one has been able to adequately explain whether AAWSAP and AATIP were two separate programs, or the same intuitive under two separate names. Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) received a contract from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) regarding the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications (AAWSA) program, there is no mention of UFOs or Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAPs) in that solicitation /contract. For those of you who are time poor, but would like to know the content of the recent Episode 50 of The Black Vault Radio show interview concerning the Popular Mechanics article between guest Tim McMillan (TM) and host John Greenewald (JG,) I offer the following notes to set up the radio show.. Initially, the Pentagon said, AATIP had indeed investigated UFOs under the leadership of Luis Elizondo, a former senior member of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence (OUSDI). Eventually, in a complete reversal of official stances, the Pentagon’s newly crowned UFO point person, Senior Strategic Planner and Spokesperson Susan Gough, recently told The Black Vault, “neither AAWSAP nor AATIP were UAP related,” “Elizondo was not the director of AATIP,” and he didn’t have “assigned responsibilities” within the program. In some consolation to the UFO faithful, the Department of Defense (DoD) has consistently been willing to say they consider the curious objects shown in the 2017 videos to be unexplained UAP. What exactly that means, however, has been open for interpretation and debate. After months of conducting interviews and uncovering previously undisclosed materials, Popular Mechanics is revealing here that the U.S. government does indeed have a definite interest in UFOs. Provided, of course that nobody says it out loud. Editor’s Note: As an Air Force Intelligence Officer I briefed four star generals (Catton, Brown, Estes, Momyer, etc) about UFOs. They were interested and often smiled regarding our sighting reports. DIA Building in Omaha, Nebraska Supporting US Strategic Command BAASS worked with the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) providing technical reports, but it would also gain access to the extensive research BAASS was gathering on UFOs that much came from MUFON. While the DIA had access to the volumes of UFO data, the materials were actually commercial property of BAASS, as a subsidiary of Bigelow Aerospace. BAASS also allegedly has a warehouse with UFO crash debris. The DIA may have had extensive access to the UFO materials, but because all of the data technically belonged to BAASS, under the Economic Espionage Act of 1996, disclosing or releasing proprietary materials provided to the government in confidence is a federal crime. Essentially, the DIA’s UFO program was set up to circumvent FOIA requests and avoid having to discuss UFOs publicly. The DIA coordinates information gathered from the various Armed Forces and provides security at ultra-classified installations by the deployment of U.S. “Thought Police”, who conduct surveillance by intercepts, remote viewing and other par psychological measures. Let that sink in for a moment. This was a massive program that almost no one knew anything about and it was explicitly crafted in a way that would allow them to keep all of the information from the public. And it worked. Editor’s Note: Let us face facts the UFOs have advanced technology that could control the Earth. I was debriefed by two KGB Colonels that claimed aliens do a lot quietly that we don’t even suspect such as helping with dissolution of the Soviet Union to avoid a Third World War. Aliens are upset about the environment and the murder of one million 300 thousand unborn babies each year in the US. I’ve clocked some flying at 100,000 miles per hour. McMillan then goes on to confirm another key part of the story. The Pentagon has claimed from the beginning that the AATIP program ended in 2012. But that’s not true at all and he’s got the documents to prove it. AATIP was still in operation (though restructured) when Elizondo left the government in 2017 and it’s nearly a 100% certainty that it’s still in operation today According to several former AATIP contractors, the “product” being produced for the DIA was technical reports on exotic and potential “game-changing” aerospace technologies, and the manner of determining what areas these radical airborne breakthroughs might emerge was through the research of UFOs. In exchange, not only would the DIA get the agreed-upon technical reports, but it would also gain access to the extensive research BAASS was gathering on UFOs. While the DIA had access to the volumes of UFO data, the materials were actually commercial property of BAASS, as a subsidiary of Bigelow Aerospace… The DIA may have had extensive access to the UFO materials, but because all of the data technically belonged to BAASS, under the Economic Espionage Act of 1996, disclosing or releasing proprietary materials provided to the government in confidence is a federal crime. Essentially, the DIA’s UFO program was set up to circumvent FOIA requests and avoid having to discuss UFOs publicly. According to several former AATIP contractors, the “product” being produced for the DIA was technical reports on exotic and potential “game-changing” aerospace technologies, and the manner of determining what areas these radical airborne breakthroughs might emerge was through the research of UFOs. In exchange, not only would the DIA gets the agreed-upon technical reports, but it would also gain access to the extensive research BAASS was gathering on UFOs. While the DIA had access to the volumes of UFO data, the materials were actually commercial property of BAASS, as a subsidiary of Bigelow Aerospace… The Interview about Popular Mechanics” Article Notes on the recent interview between Tim McMillan and John Greenewald Lt.Tim McMillan (TM) John Greenewald (JG) – Can you give us the bullet points for last Friday’s “Popular Mechanics” article? Tim McMillan (TM – I am not a classically trained journalist, but an investigator. There has been lots of confusion re AATIP. I wanted to get some clarity. There are two stories – that of the Pentagon and that of people who worked in the program. My work draws on previous work by you; Keith Basterfield, and others. The Pentagon views AAWSAP/AATIP as not about UFOs. This is verifiably false. AAWSAP was about UFOs. AATIP was a bootstrapped program. Elizondo took on this portfolio under OUSD. But it was approved by the Secretary of Defense. Elizondo was the point man. JG – Did AAWSAP/AATIP deal with UFOs? There is nothing in the 38 DIRDs which talked about UFOs. Flip flop by the Pentagon. Why is the United States government reticent to say UAP? TM – The key is that AAWSAP was different to AATIP. I don’t know that there is a cover-up by the USG. AAWSAP structured by design a 10 month report BAASS established for the AAWSAP contract. Material generated belongs to BAASS. USG can receive it; and go through it; but USG cannot get it out, as it is proprietary information. JG – The 38 DIRDs are owned by the USG. BAASS – behind the scenes can handle the UFO material. TM – This is typical for a US intelligence operation. First clue is that it was run through the DIA not DARPA. It was an intelligence operation. Done under the assumption UFOs are real. It was a scientific intelligence investigation. DIRDs were the best we can think of for our technology over the next 50 years. To answer the question how close can our technology come to “them?” JG – You got your hands on a 494 page report – the 10 month report. (JG then reads some of the contents of this report as listed in Tim’s article.) Would you care to name your anonymous sources? JG – Did that document refer to AAWSAP/AATIP? TM – No, it did not. It referred to “the sponsor” throughout the document. Who is the sponsor? Back-story- I asked the source – was it the DIA? How do I know? Open source – 28 August 2008 interview between Bigelow and Knapp. I think Keith Basterfield did a transcript of this interview. Bigelow described the AAWSAP objectives and referred to BAASS having a “sponsor.” Later I saw this was the DIA. There are other anecdotal clues. I asked Hal Puthoff why would the material say “sponsor” not the DIA? Puthoff is not the source of the 494 page document. Puthoff said, this is typical. No other references to BAASS having another sponsor. Another clue is the date of the document – 30 July 2009. 10 months after September 2008 when the AAWSAP contract began. There is no DIA stamp on it. Page from Popular Mechanics JG – Your article is Popular Mechanics quoting from various people. You have quotes from people about government transparency. It’s not just your interpretation. The report is all about UAPs. In the report was there a “conclusion” section? TM – It was a big report that was handed over. Impressive, but no one section provided information in depth. Each section presented broad views. There were a couple of photographs. Most impressive one was a fairly close up black and white shot from Brazilian or Peruvian government. JG – Had you seen that photo before? TM – I’ve never seen it before, but I’m not an UFOlogist. There were mentions of relationships between BAASS and foreign governments. These were detailed notes about they had a good collection process. Data coming from MUFON etc. I reached out to Mike West about data aspects. I assume that BAASS/Bigelow Aerospace still has the data. JG – Did you learn who in the USG is responsible for saying, we can’t be associated with UFOs? What entity within USG? Hal Puthoff, Jack Sarfatti, Kit Green TM – In the instance of AAWSAP, it was the DIA. Kit Green said about his study – he didn’t know it was published. The other DIRDs were peer reviewed. His was too UFO. In the Senate letter about the products DIA got from AAWSAP, Kit Green’s study and one other wasn’t put into the Congressional server system which allowed them to read the other DIRDs. Green was paid by EarthTech. JG – With the secrecy capability of the USG – the DIA – why wouldn’t they do that rather than give it to a company? Why not just classify it? TM – [Sighs.] Can only speculate here. What stops Bigelow from publishing this stuff – perhaps contractual arrangements? I spoke to several government FOIA experts for comment. They said it was a common practice to use aerospace companies. JG – Did the inclusion of Skinwalker ranch play a huge role in AAWSAP? TM – Not huge. Potential lab for non-human intelligence. Former BAASS employees told me they went out to SWR, but it was not the focal point. Green’s report was a review, not research using patients. Report included medical effects from UAP from South America. JG – The full Kit Green report is linked in Tim’s article. Was SWR the HQ for BAASS? TM – No it wasn’t the HQ. JG – It is rumored that AATIP was the UFO aspect and AAWSAP was the paranormal aspect? TM – In terms of AAWSAP, more things in the report can be described as paranormal. The 10 month report mentioned this. JG – Intelligence reasoning for this? TM – Is there a way we could do this? Technological aspects. Reports looks at a lot of stuff, range of topics. The first page lists the names of BAASS employees. There are a lot of people there. John Schuessler was in the list – don’t think I mentioned his name in the article. I didn’t write down all the names. There was a difference between how AAWSAP and AATIP were run. When Elizondo came in it was a much different program. JG – Is there a second report? TM – I was not told about a second one. Some of contractors told me, this was only phase one. Phase two was not carried out due to funding constraints The report had strategic plans – one was to host a series of intellectual debates – California 2009. Did anyone attend such meetings? JG – You posted a Tweet that the Pentagon and Bigelow Aerospace were trying to figure out the leak. Where did you hear this? TM – Some of the people who provided me with information still work in certain places. Got a message that OUSD is going nuts. Susan Gough contacted me after the 21 days legal response limit, after not hearing from her for some time. I gave the Pentagon information including names of people to talk to and more stuff than was in the article. Gough asked me to delay publication. I said you didn’t meet the legal response time to my query. Some in the USG want this to come out. The article was already lined up. I will be interested to see what the USG response is. JG – M J Banias -VICE, said that the Pentagon will release a statement. TM – I met him. JG – What do you think the statement is going to say? TM – I don’t know. In my last conversation with Gough she told me they had looked at the information I provided. Their statement will not be just for me but for everyone. Don’t know what it will be. The next thing for me is what are we doing now? Have heard rumors – more forthcoming. JG – You are receiving loud criticisms – about using sources that are anonymous. TM – I am working with individuals whose portfolios include other things. They can’t go on the record – due to these other roles. Are these people in positions to know what they told me? Everything passed a review by Popular Mechanics editors and legal. PM had to vet these people. I thumbed through the 494 page report for 1.5 to 2 hours – Luis Elizondo There was some sort of time restriction. Verification for document. In a q and a session, think it was at the SCU conference, Elizondo was asked when did you get involved, and he said roughly ten months after AAWSAP commenced. I spoke to a senior intelligence official who has nothing to do with UFOs – how does an intelligence operation go? Response was if you work in intelligence you don’t talk. I am open and willing to discuss things. I will shortly try and get out a blog with additional information to answer questions. JG – The information about Luis Elizondo per Secretary of Defense etc. Text is in the PM article. Help you assume your new responsibilities with AATIP. Can you explain what this means? TM – Correspondence Elizondo produced on a server dated October 3rd 2017. There were a number of people cc’d into the message who are currently USG employees. One of four other docs that described someone else taking over the AATIP. Detailed other team members and facilities. JG – There are contradictions within USG statements. Why spokespersons saying other things? TM – I don’t know all the inner workings yet. Now AATIP is being handled by a significantly higher position that Elizondo held. JG – Higher in the DoD? Did you hand this to spokesperson? TM – I made some things available to the Pentagon. Specific offices named to the Pentagon, but not specific names of individuals. There is the aspect that foreign governments are also interested in this. Elizondo is a very respected person within DOD. Was at one time in the White House system. A person told me that Elizondo was doing such a good job, that when he left the person who took over from him was ranked five grades higher than Elizondo. JG – I don’t know what to believe any more. One thing in the article – Elizondo’s performance review. You published part of that. When I (JG) communicated with Elizondo, I really kind of like the guy. His story never falters. Wouldn’t say that I am 100% convinced. More evidence is coming out. Last question, what is next for you? TM – Elizondo was part of General Mattis’ group. I spoke to a bi-partisan person who was around Lou daily. They believe in what he is saying. JG – Are they going to alter their course? TM – The government statement is PR. Tempered. From the amount of time they are taking – don’t see them saying aliens.”Government definitely knows more than us. People would be shocked by some of the persons I’ve heard from since the article appeared. You’d know some of the names. They tell me of their own UFO encounters. A number of people have reached out to say that the subject is legitimate. Photograph of page 317 of the BAASS Ten Month Report to the DIA. BAASS report suggests UAPs may come from these key Air Force Bases based on sighting reports. Thanks to Popular Mechanics. JG – Will you have a follow up article? TM – The follow up will be what are we doing now? I’ve been talking to individuals about some information. The next article will perhaps, be more political. JG – Thank you. Notes on the recent interview between Tim McMillan and John Greenewald by Jack Sarfatti USS Nimitz: UFO Behavior ‘Seems To Be Human’ Says Expert The USS Nimitz “Tic Tac” UFO could actually be piloted by humanlike AI or living humans “not from this Earth”, is according to a UFO researcher. Diane Tessman, the author of Future Humans and the UFOs , explained that the USS Nimitz returned to same space year after year and entire “squadrons” had been seen on radar shortly before the encounter. The Nimitz UFO has officially been classified as a UAP – or “unidentified aerial phenomena” – by the US Navy in a move that caused shockwaves around the UFO research world. Diane told Daily Star Online: “The Navy did maneuvers in Southern California between San Diego and Tijuana every year there and these Tic Tacs had been spotted by our regular operators on previous days and they had seen squadrons of them, many of them together. If they are intellectual and there is no reason not to consider, they at least with some culture would be interested in trying to understand the human senses of emotion which they apparently do not have. You cannot get emotion out of the internet…The other reason for an attraction is to get involved with us under the guise of humor! A smart alien would laugh like crazy about us! There is speculation of an underwater base. Paul 60 SpaceX Satellites Create Light Trail in Night Sky A video captured by Dutch astronomer Marco Langbroek shows a string of dozens of SpaceX Starlink satellites passing over Leiden in the Netherlands. The video was shot a day after they were launched on May 23 from Cape Canaveral in Florida. #SpaceX #satellite Subscribe to us on YouTube: https://goo.gl/lP12gA Download our APP on Apple Store (iOS …There may also be a two or three satellites configuration. Abortion and suicide are Six Times Higher than Normal Births Life News reports, linking these records to death certificates, the researchers found that women who had state-funded abortions were 2.6 times more likely to die from suicide compared to women who delivered their babies. Giving birth, on the other hand, was shown to reduce women’s suicide risk compared to the general population. Finland adopted the guidelines after a large-scale study of women’s health records, found that the suicide rate among women who had undergone abortions in the prior year was three times higher compared to women in the general population and six times higher compared to women who gave birth Suicide is the leading cause of death in women within 42 days after their pregnancy and between 43 days and 365 days after their pregnancy. There appears to be a significant worldwide risk of maternal suicide following termination of pregnancy and, in fact, a higher risk than that following term delivery. The potential for depression and other mental health issues at this time needs to be better appreciated. Active follow-up of these women needs to happen. Practitioners referring women for termination of pregnancy or undertaking termination of pregnancy should ensure adequate follow-up for such women, especially if the procedure is undertaken for mental health concerns. Besides the Finland study, large record-based studies from the United States and Denmark have found that overall death rates were higher among women following abortion compared to those among women who had given birth. The U.S. study examined Medi-Cal records for more than 173,000 California women who had experienced abortion or childbirth. Linking these records to death certificates, the researchers found that women who had state-funded abortions were 2.6 times more likely to die from suicide compared to women who delivered their babies. Giving birth, on the other hand, was shown to reduce women’s suicide risk compared to the general population. Almost 4000 unborn babies are murdered each day in the US with their hearts beating. www.lifenews.com/2014/12/19/suicide-rate-for… Chuck Schumer’s Bizarre Supreme Court Threat Democratic Senator Schumer threatens Supreme Court Justices They will pay the price if they rule against abortion. ( 4,000 unborn babies murdered each day) Senate Minority Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer on Wednesday warned Supreme Court Justices comments Schumer while holding a rally Wednesday outside of the Supreme Court, where he called out Kavanaugh and Gorsuch. While Schumer was outside of the court, the justices heard June Medical Services v. Russo, a case in which abortion providers were challenging a 2014 Louisiana state law that required abortion providers to have admitting privileges in a hospital within 30 miles of the abortion facility. The Louisiana abortion industry, with their long history of health and safety violations, cannot speak for Louisiana women. Schumer stated, “You have released the whirlwind & you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you.” This rhetoric has dangerous consequences. Where’s the media outrage? The Senate majority is asking for his resignation. This is a threat against Federal Judges that normally requires a three year jail term. 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(720) 600-6040 UFO Sightings in the United States Sightings are from MUFON CMS Alaska Lights Pictures were taken on February 26, 2020. Girdwood — Green light seen traveling approximately north to south, then dropping in elevation and suddenly disappearing. California Object Photo courtesy of MUFON.com Los Padres National Forest — I took the back road from Bakersfield to LA airport and was taking pictures of the desert in dry beds outside the car. And all I saw was a huge Flash of light. And it was an instant that it was gone. Look on top of the Hill where the 2 circles are. I also emailed you the pictures. One of the photos shows the road I took. Date of Sighting: July 1, 2015 Time of Sighting: 1:44 PM Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/ Massachusetts Lights Gloucester — We were traveling on Atlantic Ave an hour or two before sunset. Gina pointed out an object a over the ocean but near the rocky shore/road was seen something moving slowly. It looked like two glowing car cigarette lighters, attached apparently. An hour plus later, we were up the road at Good Harbor beach when it was completely dark. Stars appeared. We looked at s a “double” or a pair. We took photos of both the UFO and the star pairs on July 15, 2019. Mississippi Disk Wesson — On February 25th, 2020, at 10:10PM I saw a disk-like ball of energy that transforms into various shapes, including a triangle. It hovered about 400 feet above the ground. I saw it appear in the sky where it traveled closer to me then went the other direction and flew off. This is not a planet. It crossed an entire golf course fairway, appearing from the northwest and disappeared into the southwest, spun around at insane speeds, and acted erratic; pulsating various colors of purple, blue, white and orange. It’s best described as a ball of energy that could transition into various shapes: cigar disk, sphere, triangle, long leg like shape. It is truly “Unexplained.” There’s no way a planet could fly and change shapes like that, and cover ground like it did. It was only several hundred feet in the air. All the photos and videos are of the same object, but in different shapes. It turns into this spaceship like shape before it took out and left. Note: I can’t speak for what the witness saw, but the photos and videos appear to me to be of the planet Venus. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/ Nevada Lights Sparks — While driving home from work around 11:00 o clock at night on March 3, 2020, I noticed bright ball of light in the sky. At first I considered they maybe I was witnessing a meteorite but I quickly realized that it seemed to be moving in a controlled fashion. I parked and got out and filmed what I was seeing and the object turned into a circular object with another circular object inside the larger one lit up and I’ve just never seen anything like it. New Jersey Lights Elmer — At 5; 40 am on March 3, 2020, I was at work and went outside to get some air. I was looking south when a moving light to my right West caught my attention. I observed 23 lights moving in a straight line with various gaps between them and out of those 2 or 3 of them pulsed a few times. As they moved across an almost over head, they blinked out as they went NE towards the sunrise. It all took maybe minute or two. I was in the Navy and was a look out on board ship I know what planes look like. North Carolina Light Scotland Neck — At 7:30 pm on February 20, 2020, I viewed and filmed a bright white diamond shaped light in the sky. Occasionally there was a red color pulsation. The object initially appeared to be moving towards me, but later to stay in a fixed position. I didn’t realize the diamond shape until I zoomed in with my camera. I feel further analysis of my video is required to determine its actual presence Ohio Lights Steubenville – I saw what looked like the Bethlehem stars in the sky Bethlehem refers to the star that guided the wise men to Jesus at his birth. Pictures were taken on February 28, 2020 Hopedale – I witnessed a UFO in the sky behind my house on March 4 at 9:05 pm that hovered for a while and slowly moved up and down. pulsating between a bright white light and red and blue lights on the top of the circular object. The bottom portion was all white light but I could see like a slight spray of contrails on both sides of the bottom of it. It flew slowly and was silent. My 17 year old son came out to see it and also observed it. I also noticed that an airplane was also in the area at the same time and there was a definite difference between the two objects. Anyone that views it can be the judge of whatever they think it is but I know what it isn’t. Oregon Lights Albany — I’ve actually seen these orbs on 3 separate occasions now and have taken photos of them on 2 of the days I saw them. The first sighting occurred around the beginning of February I am really passionate about astronomy and noticed 2 bright orange dots hovering on either side of the Orion Constellation. Ten minutes later the lights were gone and were definitely not stars. The second sighting occurred about a week before the 27th, I noticed the lights again. This time they were in a sort of deformed vertical V formation and the middle light was pulsating in and out. They were drifting slowly and disappeared. Third sighting is I panned my scope at orange orbs at around 8:30, they disappeared. Pennsylvania Lights Northern Cambria – At1:35 AM on March 4, 2020, I went outside my and noticed in a western direction a series of lights above the tree line. I called my girlfriend out and she claimed to see one. I took a few pictures and grabbed my binoculars and I noticed seven lights in a mismatched pattern. After a few minutes two more lights came into focus making the total of nine different lights. Fifteen minutes later the lights seemed to “shoot off” in different directions. I used iPhone 6 zooming in on what appears to be one light. I don’t know what I truly saw and I would like some kind of answer please! If you zoom in on the photos you’ll see the multiple lights. Photo courtesy of MUFON.com Tennessee Lights Springfield — On the way home from the store, my husband and I noticed a light which we watched for approx 4 minutes. We turned on our road and I was able to zoom in on the light. Pictures were taken on January 14.2020. Texas Lights Richmond — My sister in law and I were outside around 5:45am on February 28. 2020. She noticed two satellites crossing each other and then she said “oh my look over there”. Then we observed at LEAST 20 lights which looked and moved like satellites. Note: What NUFORC finds curious about the objects is that they are reported to appear in clusters of up to three objects and some witnesses from Germantown, Ohio report they remained in one small area of the sky for two hours in formation, and then suddenly just disappeared. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/ Washington Saucer Shaped Object Lights Snohomish – On February 21, 2020, Description: I saw several white lights hover and move around multiple times today. I counted 8 and yesterday I saw them twice. Through binoculars it looks like a saucer with white and red lights. It is too big to be a drone. Photo of object with multiple white lights. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/ Worldwide UFO Sightings Argentina Cigar Sevigné — Ufo in the form of a cigar with two sections of different diameter. In straight and level flight on longitudinal axis. The front and thinner section was a third of the back, both in diameter and in wingspan. The slightly conical cylindrical back section, wider in its termination. Its shape resembled a punch or screwdriver. Matte black, no window, or wings. Nor did it emit smoke or fire. It moved horizontally at low speed. The sighting lasted 10 seconds from a train window. I could not photograph it on January 4, 2020. Depiction Japan Ellipsoidal UFO Tokyo — It is a beautiful ellipsoidal UFO with a smooth shape. For details and analysis of this UFO report from May 29, 2016. http://spacephenomena.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-295.html Please subscribe to the channel. Space Phenomena Observatory Center (SPOC)© YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTqD750RqvlJ1Q0uYlDxSMQ/feed Click here for other UFO detailed analysis data captured by SID-1. http://spacephenomena.blog.fc2.com/ Mexico Cloud Rio Bravo — UFO Mothership into dark cloud New Zealand Disc Opotiki — I took this photo of White Island Volcano zoomed in with my LG G8 phone camera. Once I had uploaded it to my Facebook page I noticed something in front of the volcano. I am unsure of what it is. I didn’t notice anything with my naked eyes. I am not sure what I have. Could it be an airplane? Pictures were taken on February 25, 2020. Republika Srpska, Bosna I Hercegovina. Maglajani — The object stood in one place and then moved with a change of direction. Red lights were seen on that object. UK/ England Light Swansee — My brother went for a cigarette outside in our back yard he then called to me to look out the window. I could not believe what I was seeing, a very large ball of light beaming in the sky. I’ve seen helicopters planes etc and this was not one. It flashed in and out but it just stayed in the same spot for a while as if it were watching something it then started going up down, left, and right and changing size and shape. This action 20 minutes before it disappeared and a shooting star like figure flashed over it- very bizarre and actually frightened me! Family and friends have urged me to send this information to you. Pictures were taken on February 25 2020. Newton Abbot Devon — I was in the back garden sky watching on February 27, 2020, when I spotted what at first I thought was a passenger plane, but as I watched it for a while I could see that it was moving way to fast to be a commercial plane. I zoomed in on it with my Nikon P900 camera to see a long aerodynamically looking shaped object that was completely wingless in design. It was glowing a brilliant white and it was definitely not any known type of aircraft. Using my binoculars another cylindrical object was directly beneath the first. The objects were both leaving contrails behind them in the sky. This was something else. They flew off over the horizon where I lost sight of them. I had only taken one photograph of the strange objects at the time as I had been so transfixed on them through my binoculars. I just couldn’t look away. 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__label__wiki	0.80659	0.80659	Sebastian Shaw Real Name: Sebastian Hiram Shaw AKA: Black King, Lord Imperial, Black Bishop Family: Shinobi Shaw (son); Jacob Shaw (father, deceased); Esau Shaw (paternal uncle, deceased); Cornelius Shaw (grandfather, deceased); Unidentified grandmother (deceased); Unidentifiede great-grandfather (presumed deceased); Hiram Shaw (ancestor, deceased); Sarah Shaw (ancestor, deceased); Obadiah Shaw (ancestor, deceased); Abigail Harkness (ancestor, deceased); Elizabeth Shaw-Worthington (ancestor, deceased); Wallace Worthington (ancestor, deceased); unnamed great-grandfather (apparently deceased); unnamed grandmother (possibly deceased); Lourdes Chantel (fiance, deceased); Szandor Shaw (possible relative); Trevor Fitzroy (alternate reality descendant, deceased); Worthington Family (distant relatives) Base of Operation: Krakoa, Pacific Ocean; formerly New Tian, California; Utopia, San Francisco Bay, California; Pakistan; Xinjang Province, China; Hellfire Club mansions in New York, Paris, and Hong Kong Identity: No Dual Identity Citizenship: American, Krakoan Martial Status: Single Occupation: Adventurer; former chief executive officer and principal shareholder in Shaw Industries Education: Engineering degree from Stevens Institute Height: 6′ 2″ (1.88 m) He only sees the Mutant / Human problem as a way to make a profit. Introduced in X-Men #129 (1980) by Chris Claremont and John Byrne, Sebastian Shaw joined the Hellfire Club after his father died. He soon gathered some allies, like Emma Frost and Tessa (later Sage), and rose through the ranks to become the Black King. After learning that the White King had backed Stephen Lang’s Sentinels, he stage a coup and became the leader of the club. He would be the leader of the Club when they tried to make Phoenix join the Club only for her to turn into the Dark Phoenix. He would lead the club in battling the X-men a number of times until is son, Shinobi, phased his hand into his father’s chest causing a heart attack. While recovering, he was believed killed by a bomb Shinobi planted but would return later. He would begin working behind the scenes, including giving Holocaust his new containment suit and having the X-force attack Cable. After Blackheart had the position of Black King for a while, he returned to the role and began his revenge against Tessa, who was revealed to be a spy for Professor X for years and now going by Sage. He would be defeated by the X-treme X-men. After an attempt to become the Lord Imperial of the Club, he was nearly killed by Pierce but it was Sunspot who took the role of Black King. He would later return to the Club under Sunspot’s lead and would introduce the Club to the newest member, Miss Sinister, a female clone of Nathaniel Essex. When Emma Frost and Namor learnt that they had their memories erased by order of Shaw, they captured him and kept him prisoner on Utopia. He later escaped but Emma Frost erase all of his memories. He would later be found by Hope Summer and her team, who convinced the X-men to allow him to join her team. He would help the young Mutants leave the Avengers Academy during the AVX arc. He would regain his memories and rejoined the Club, becoming involved in the Mothervine project where he was eventually killed. He (of course) was resurrected during the House of X arc, where he was made part of the Quiet Council, under Emma Frost. If you think of the Hellfire Club, you think of Shaw. He has been a highly requested character for many year, but his unremarkable appearance made people think he might not get made. Hasbro however decided he needed to be make so they included him in a Hellfire Club box set. This was supposed to be a SDCC exclusive but that was canceled due to the Covid-19 so it became a Pulse exclusive. Recommend Figure: Hasbro Pulse Excluisve Marvel Legends Hellfire Club Box set – Sebastian Shaw with Jean Grey/Selene, Emma Frost and Donald Pierce Unlike the ladies of the Club who are forced to wear skippy outfits, the male side of the Hellfire Club wear Age of Exploration type clothing. This is most true with Shaw as he is usually seen in this outfit, in various colors. If you want to make a Hellfire Club team, then you need this figure. You could skip the Emma Frost, Selene and Pierce as they have had time when they weren’t part of the Club but in no form can you skip Shaw for a Club team as he is the face of the Club. If you have no interest in building the Club, then get him as a X-men villains shelf. Combat suit – High Chance	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line1092
__label__wiki	0.551288	0.551288	Gov. Ricketts, Novozymes Unveil $36 Million Investment in Blair May 16, 2017 (BLAIR, NE)— Today, less than five years after Novozymes opened a state-of-the-art advanced manufacturing facility in Blair, Governor Pete Ricketts announced that the company has selected the site for its most recent expansion efforts in North America. The company’s new $36 million investment in the facility, which produces enzymes for renewable fuels, will increase the plant’s capacity to meet growing needs within the bioscience industry and global biofuels market. Novozymes’ expansion efforts support the company’s long-term commitment to the production of enzymes for the biofuels industry, a segment within the larger bioscience industry. Read more: Gov. Ricketts, Novozymes Unveil $36 Million Investment in Blair Gov. Ricketts Applauds News that China Plans to Reopen Market to American Beef May 12, 2017 (LINCOLN, NEB.)— Today, Governor Pete Ricketts issued a statement following news that American and Chinese officials had struck a deal that will allow American beef into China for the first time since 2003. Read more: Gov. Ricketts Applauds News that China Plans to Reopen Market to American Beef Biotech Company Evolva Coming to Cargill Campus in Blair Blair, Neb., May 1, 2017 – The State of Nebraska and the Greater Omaha Chamber Economic Development Partnership are cheering another successful attraction effort, a multi-million-dollar endorsement of the region’s economic amenities. International biotech company Evolva has announced plans to grow its global operation in collaboration with Cargill’s campus in Blair, Neb. Read more: Biotech Company Evolva Coming to Cargill Campus in Blair Lt. Gov. Foley honors West Point as Nebraska’s 39th EDCC Community May 1, 2017 (LINCOLN, NEB.) -- Lt. Governor Mike Foley has recognized the city of West Point (Pop. 3,290) for certification in the State of Nebraska’s Economic Development Certified Community (EDCC) program. Lt. Gov. Foley presented the certification to local leaders during the Cuming County Economic Development organization’s annual dinner on April 30th. Read more: Lt. Gov. Foley honors West Point as Nebraska’s 39th EDCC Community Gov. Ricketts Signs Three Infrastructure Initiatives April 27, 2017 (LINCOLN, NEB.)— Today, Governor Pete Ricketts signed three bills into law aimed at improving transportation and housing to help Grow Nebraska. Read more: Gov. Ricketts Signs Three Infrastructure Initiatives Norfolk entrepreneur strengthened an international industry – and his family’s ties -- in Nebraska Celebrating achievements in community development across the state Gov. Ricketts welcomes the fast-growing education company during relocation announcement at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Campus BIG CHANGES COMING THIS YEAR FOR THE NEBRASKA DIPLOMATS Tweets by @DevelopNebraska	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line1093
__label__cc	0.509043	0.490957	Home / Shop / Imprints / Nova / Advances in Health and Disease. Volume 6 Advances in Health and Disease. Volume 6 Lowell T. Duncan (Editor) Series: Advances in Health and Disease The different anticoagulant drugs used both in the treatment and prevention of deep venous thrombosis can cause several adverse effects. The most significant complication is bleeding. In Advances in Health and Disease. Volume 6, the authors begin by examining how to choose the most appropriate drug for decreasing the risk of bleeding, taking into account the characteristics of each of these drugs as well as those of the patient. The authors go on to discuss infectious mononucleosis, also known as kissing disease, which is characterized by the classic triad of fever, pharyngitis, and cervical lymphadenopathy, where lymhocytosis and atypical lymphocytes are also present. The classic test for infectious mononucleosis is the demonstration of heterophile antibodies. Monospot test, a qualitative test using the latex agglutination technique, is the most widely used method to detect the serum heterophile antibodies of infectious mononucleosis. Next, this collection presents the current knowledge on pro- and anticoagulation mechanisms in kidney diseases, as well as the authors’ experiences in the treatment of both conditions in different clinical subsets: glomerular, tubulo-interstitial and genetic renal diseases, in infectious diseases and illicit substance abuse with renal involvement and in some immunological inflammatory diseases with renal involvement. Later, the authors propose that epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG), a catechin found in green tea, can prevent vascular endothelial cell injury and dysfunction. EGCG has an antioxidant effect in vascular endothelial cells and induces nitric oxide (NO) production by promoting endothelial NO synthase expression. The effects of EGCG might help to prevent arteriosclerosis in its early stages. However, detailed mechanisms of the preventive action of EGCG and its molecular targets on endothelial dysfunction remain elusive. Thus, this review explores the results of studies that investigated the effects of EGCG from green tea on the prevention of vascular endothelial dysfunction during the early stages of arteriosclerosis. This compilation also examines the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), which has become a stumbling stone in the progress of human civilization. With congruence to whole world, Bangladesh has also been experiencing the epidemic since mid-1980. This collection provides a review regarding the prevalence of routine surveillance among the population considered “at risk” for HIV infection, as well as the national policy to prevent the HIV epidemic in Bangladesh. In a subsequent review, the authors examine streptozotocin (STZ), a compound that was originally identified in the late 1950s as an antibiotic, and currently is widely used to induce experimental diabetes mellitus. Although STZ has been used in research, there has been no standardization of a well-established protocol. It’s important to highlight that STZ has non-specific toxicity, which can contribute to variability in its outcomes. This assessment aims to determine the influence of different protocols of induction of diabetes mellitus with STZ on the effectiveness of the method and possible side effects of this compound. This book also analyzes 57 relevant papers on the issue of nerve palsy after total hip replacement, and aims to review the pathophysiological data, prevalence, etiology, risk factors, prognosis and prevention of this complication. Nerve palsy after total hip replacement is a rare complication (0.08% to 7.6%). An especially relevant public health problem in South America and Africa is that of Yellow Fever (YF). A YF outbreak occurred in areas in close proximity to major urban centers of Brazil where YF vaccine was not routinely administered. In view of this, several YF mass vaccination campaigns were performed including these locations. Therefore, the authors review the pertinent information regarding the completion of the YF mass vaccination campaigns in 2017 and 2018 in Brazil. Future perspectives for this vaccination in the national territory are also discussed. The authors present current, normative data on a new examination method of endothelial dysfunction (ED) in childhood. The reversibility of ED is an attractive primary target in the effort to decrease cardiovascular risk in pediatric patients and to optimize therapeutic strategies. Thus, early detection of ED may have therapeutic and prognostic implications. To evaluate endothelial dysfunction, especially in children with chronic diseases, a combination of plethysmographic reactive hyperemia index (RHI) and specific biomarkers was used- plasma concentrations of assymetric dimethylarginine (ADMA), high-sensitive C-reactive protein (hsCRP), E-selectine and vasoadhesive molecules (VCAM) in comparison with healthy controls. Advances in Health and Disease. Volume 6 quantity ISBN: N/A Categories: 2018, Advances in Health and Disease (Numbered Series), Infectious Disease and Microbiology, Medicine and Health, Nova Tags: 9781536139518, 9781536139525, infectious disease Chapter 1. Hemorrhagic Complications of the Classical Anticoagulant Treatment and Direct Anticoagulants (Montserrat Pérez Pinar and Julián Solís García del Pozo, Internal Medicine Department. General Hospital of Villarrobledo, Villarrobledo, Albacete, Spain) Chapter 2. Infectious Mononucleosis: Clinical Manifestations, Investigations, and Management (Alexander K. C. Leung, Clinical Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, CA, and others) Chapter 3. Thrombosis and Embolism in Kidney Diseases (Milena Krasimirova Nikolova and Yordan Dimitrov Vlahov, Medical University – Sofia, University Hospital Alexandrovska, Clinic of Nephrology, Sofia, Bulgaria, and others) Chapter 4. Insight into Dietary Epigallocatechin-3-Gallate for Endothelial Dysfunction (Kazuo Yamagata, Laboratory of Molecular Health Science of Food, Department of Food Bioscience and Biotechnology, College of Bioresource Sciences, Nihon University (NUBS), Fujisawa, Japan) Chapter 5. The Prevalence and Bolstering Factors of HIV Infection in Bangladesh (Razoanul Haque, Md. Abdur Rahim, Omar Sadi Sakar, Najmuj Sakib, Tanjir Tarek Ibn Siddique, Mariya Kibtiya Sumiya, Md. Imtiazul Islam, Anisul Islam and Shuvra Kanti Dey,Department of Microbiology, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh) Chapter 6. Streptozotocin: Pharmacology, Effectiveness and Side Effects (Renata O. Samuel, Mariane M. Azuma, Dóris H. Sumida, Gustavo Sivieri-Araújo, Rogério de C. Jacinto, Eloói Dezan-Júnior, João E. Gomes-Filho and Luciano T. A. Cintra, Departament of Clinical Dentistry, Uberaba University Uberaba, MG, Brazil, and others) Chapter 7. Nerve Palsy after Total Hip Replacement (Carlos Roberto Schwartsmann, Fabiano Da Silva Marques and Leandro De Freitas Spinelli, Federal Foundation School of Medical Sciences of Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil and others) Chapter 8. Yellow Fever in Brazil: Actions for Vaccination in the Years 2017 and 2018, Transmission of the Virus and Future Perspectives (Marcos Roberto Tovani-Palone, Department of Pathology and Legal Medicine, Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil) Chapter 9. Endothelial Dysfunction in Children and Young Adults: A Combined Diagnostic Approach of Plethysmographic and Biochemical Markers Chapter 10. Endocrinological Disorders in Children with Celiac Disease (Mauro Bozzola, Chiara Gertosio, Elena Bozzola and Alberto Villani, Department of Internal Medicine and Therapeutics, Pediatrics and Adolescent Care Unit, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy, and others) Chapter 11. Ocular Diseases in Patients with Celiac Disease (Thiago Gonçalves dos Santos Martins, MD, Ana Luiza Fontes de Azevedo Costa, MD, and Aytan Miranda Sipahi, MD, Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil) Chapter 12. Improving Patient Care by Helping Physicians Adjust to the Stress and Pressures of Today’s Health Care Environment: The Importance of Compassionate Care Relationships (Alan H. Rosenstein, MD, San Francisco, CA, US) Chapter 13. Prophylaxis of Deep-Vein Thrombosis in Bariatric Surgery (Jaime Ruiz-Tovar, MD, PhD, and Carolina Llavero, Obesity Unit, Garcilaso Clinic, Madrid, Spain) Child Health and Human Development Yearbook 2017	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line1098
__label__cc	0.561873	0.438127	dinosaurbones Country - World Military - Brass music.dinosaurbones.ca dinosaurbones » Rock » Elvis Presley - Always On My Mind Elvis Presley - Always On My Mind download album Elvis Presley Ballad 1988 Performer: Elvis Presley Title: Always On My Mind Genre: Rock / Pop Formats: AA MP4 VOX AUD ASF TTA MOD Style: Ballad Album ELVIS: 2nd to None. Always On My Mind Lyrics. Maybe I didn't treat you Quite as good as I should have Maybe I didn't love you Quite as often as I could have. Little things I should have said and done I just never took the time. You were always on my mind (You were always on my mind) You were always on my mind. Maybe I didn't hold you All those lonely, lonely times And I guess I never told you I'm so happy that you're mine. If I make you feel second best Girl, I'm so sorry I was blind. About Always On My Mind. One of the all-time best ballads by the original King of Rock & Roll. Always On My Mind" Track Info. Written By Wayne Carson, Johnny Christopher & Mark James. Sampled In. Tropico by Lana Del Rey. Cover Of. Always on My Mind by Brenda Lee (Ft. Gwen McCrae). Cover By. Always On My Mind by Pet Shop Boys. Read or print original Always On My Mind lyrics 2019 updated! (words & music by wayne thompson - mark james - johnny christopher), Maybe . Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 вЂ August 16, 1977) was an American singer and actor. Regarded as one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century, he is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply the "King". Presley is one of the most celebrated and influential musicians of the 20th century. Commercially successful in many genres, including pop, country, blues, and gospel, he is the best-selling solo artist in the history of recorded music Especially after his own divorce in 1972, Presley showed a real affection for maudlin, self-pitying material like "Don't Cry Daddy" (actually recorded in January 1969 and a Top Ten hit), "You Gave Me a Mountain" (recorded in February 1973), and, of course, the excuse-filled title track (recorded in March 1972, the month after he was legally separated from his wife). It's all here; put it on, raise a glass, and cry in your beer. Pressed on purple vinyl. Complete your Elvis Presley collection. Not only one of the first Elvis 70s collections, but still one of the best. An absolutely superb album. Not exactly uplifting but more a collection of Elvis' down beat numbers. Features Song Lyrics for Elvis Presley's Always On My Mind album. It's Midnight Lyrics. 3. Always on My Mind - Remastered Lyrics. 4. You Gave Me a Mountain Lyrics. 6. Always On My Mind (Alternate Take 2) Lyrics. 7. Bitter They Are, Harder They Fall Lyrics. classic rock, oldies, rock, Rock and Roll, rock n roll. Always on My Mind" is an American country music song by Johnny Christopher, Mark James and Wayne Carson, recorded first by Brenda Lee in 1972. You were always on my mind. This arrangement for the song is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the song. Download and listen free to Elvis Presley - Always On My Mind. Download MP3 or another format to your phone or computer. Download for free and listen to Elvis Presley - Always On My Mind. We have song's lyrics, which you can find out below. Org E Elvis Presley. You can get here Always on My Mind Album Lyrics, Tracklist, Videos, Cover Picture and More. Elvis Presley Christmas Peace. Elvis Presley Love Me Tender. Elvis Presley Elvis: 30 Hits. Elvis Presley How Great Thou Art. Elvis Presley Tomorrow Is A Long Time. A Always On My Mind Written-By – Christopher, James, Thompson* B Burning Love Written-By – Dennis Linde Phonographic Copyright (p) – BMG Music Licensed From – BMG Records (UK) Ltd. Licensed From – BMG Music Published By – SBK Songs Sleeve, Design – Pencil Side A: Screen Gems / EMI Music Ltd. Side B: SBK Songs Barcode: 5 012623974472 Matrix / Runout (Side A): OG-9744-A DB Tape One Matrix / Runout (Side B): OG-9744-B DB Tape One MAX A1 Separate Ways A2 Don't Cry Daddy A3 My Boy A4 Solitaire A5 Bitter They Are, Harder They Fall A6 Hurt B1 Pieces Of My Life B2 I Miss You B3 It's Midnight B4 I've Lost You B5 You Gave Me A Mountain B6 Unchained Melody B7 Always On My Mind Clear shell cassette reissue. Barcode: 0 7863-55430-4 PL 85430 Elvis Presley Always On My Mind ‎(LP, Comp, Cle) RCA PL 85430 Germany 1985 PCD1-5430 Elvis Presley Always On My Mind ‎(CD, Comp) RCA PCD1-5430 US 1986 100.068-4 Elvis Presley Always On My Mind ‎(Cass, Comp, RE) RCA 100.068-4 Uruguay 1987 PCD1-5430 Elvis Presley Always On My Mind ‎(CD, Comp, RP) RCA PCD1-5430 US 1989 RPL-8306 Elvis Presley Always On My Mind ‎(LP, Comp) RCA RPL-8306 Japan 1985 Related music albums: Elvis Presley With The Jordanaires - Elvis Presley album Elvis Presley - That's All Right / Harbour Lights album T. H. Music Festival - I Can Help album Elvis - Raised On Rock / For Ol' Times Sake album Elvis Presley - Green Green Grass Of Home album Elvis Presley - Elvis On Tour album Elvis Presley - Hound Dog album Rock And Hyde - Talk To Me album Bert Kaempfert - Ritratto Di Bert Kaempfert album Elvis Presley - Are You Lonesome Tonight album	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line1101
__label__cc	0.531356	0.468644	Live, Work, Thrive Your Monthly Update from the Community Development Partnership A Word from Jay... For many year-round residents of the Lower Cape, winter is known as the “quiet time” as many seasonal businesses are closed and you can easily make left turns. Not here at the CDP! The winter months are the time when our small business programs are in full swing, when our housing rehab program is lining up projects for our new grant round and we are busy supporting housing advocates as they bring requests for funding to spring Town Meetings. In this month’s update you will read all about two unsung hero’s at the CDP, our dynamic maintenance duo Ray and Steve. With 100 affordable and community housing apartments to maintain, these guys never rest. Over the past 2 months, we had five units “turn-over” requiring Ray and Steve to work long hours getting the vacant units ready for new residents. We have a great team here at the CDP of professionals committed to creating opportunities for people to live, work and thrive on the Lower Cape. I’m inspired by their dedication and grateful to be able to work with them every day. Jay Coburn More than just Maintenance “It’s really wonderful to know that Steve and Ray are so much more than maintenance men; they have both been contractors and their skills enable us to do projects in-house such as a gut rehab of a bathroom or kitchen.'' David Abel CDP, Chief Property Management Officer The Community Development Partnership manages 100 housing units from Brewster to Provincetown. Managing this many units is no small task for the CDP’s property management team. Behind the scenes the CDP staff is responsible for marketing vacant units, processing applications and signing leases, collecting rents, and complying with state and federal standards. What is often overlooked is that, as the property managers, the CDP is also responsible for maintaining the properties and providing repairs and renovations as necessary. Like any home, the CDP housing units experience the wear and tear of day to day life. When a resident moves out, each unit is inspected and repairs needed to get the unit ready for new residents are made as necessary. While some maintenance work has to be contracted out, the CDP employs two full time maintenance staff, Steve and Ray, who handle many of the repairs and upkeep on the units the CDP manages. They do much of the work to create a comfortable living environment as well as ensuring that our properties are maintained for the long term. “It’s really wonderful to know that Steve and Ray are so much more than maintenance men; they have both been contractors and their skills enable us to do projects in-house such as a gut rehab of a bathroom or kitchen,'' says David Abel, the CDP’s Chief Property Management Officer. Click to learn more about the CDP's un-sung heroes Supporting Local Business Rooter Ryan: Building a Business through Connections “It’s really important to understand the community. Clients like to work with someone that they know” Ryan Hazel Owner, Rooter Ryan Cape Cod is a great place to start a small business. Like many small communities, people on the Outer Cape value the personal touch that comes along with choosing a small local business over a large corporation. Despite this, starting your own business is a daunting task. “It’s a big jump to go out on your own,” says Ryan Hazel, the owner of Rooter Ryan. Although he never thought he would end up in the drain cleaning business, Ryan started his own drain cleaning company in the spring of 2019 with the help of the CDP. “I always knew I wanted to start my own business, but I thought it would be in retail,” Ryan remarks. Ryan grew up in New York City, but would come to the Cape to visit his uncle who owns a retail shop in Provincetown. In 2014 Ryan decided to relocate to the Lower Cape permanently. At the time he was working in the restaurant industry, but when a friend introduced him to the owner of a drain cleaning business Ryan made an unexpected career change. For the next five years Ryan honed his skills as a rooter and made connections that would lead to early success after setting out on his own. See how Ryan quickly grew his business Supporter Spotlight: Bill and Nina Opel Sharing a Vision of What is Possible “Our major concern at this point is will the people we need to help us be there when we need it… We couldn’t survive without the young people in our community.” William Opel CDP Supporter and Eastham Resident For Eastham residents, Bill and Nina Opel, developing solutions to affordable housing, looking out for our children and making it possible for people to live, work and prosper, are fundamental concerns. “The CDP is an organization that embodies the same values we value in a way that is quite remarkable,” reflects Bill. “We need to take care of our young families so that they can have a future. Our future depends on theirs.” The Opel’s lives can be characterized as ones dedicated to service and to helping others. The daughter of a Harvard professor, Nina grew up in Cambridge and summered in Eastham where her family owned a house on a lake. Bill was born in 1926 in Kansas City, MO. His father was a WWI veteran who went to work at the Ford plant following the war. When the depression came, however, life was upended as his father lost his job and the family moved to Leavenworth where his father worked as a prison guard. Read why Bill and Nina choose to support the CDP CDP to Offer Scholarship to Nauset High School Graduate This year, in continuing our commitment to support the local community, the CDP has established a scholarship to be awarded to one graduating senior at Nauset High School. This $1000 scholarship is to be awarded to a student who is a resident of the Lower and Outer Cape and who intends to further their education with an interest or course of study in community development. Students with interests in creating housing that is affordable, supporting entrepreneurs in developing businesses and serving the needs of LMI (low to moderate income) individuals are eligible to apply for the scholarship. This is the first year that the Community Development has offered this scholarship, and hopes that it encourages students to consider a career in community development. Business & Credit Workshops Save the Date! Upcoming Small Business Workshops QuickBooks Help Sessions CDP Offices, Eastham Do you use QuickBooks Online or QuickBooks Desktop? Are you having trouble, stuck on something or are things just not working right? Where do you go for help? Come to the CDP’s QuickBooks Help Sessions on Monday or Thursday afternoons and get your questions answered. The CDP will run these sessions September - December. Get your records together now, be ready for tax season, and start off the new year on the right foot! To register for a session click here Stop the Chaos: 3 Tips to a Successful Busy Season: March 3rd, 5:30 - 7:30 pm, $25 It may be cold outside right now, but before you know it, the height of the summer season will be underway! If you’re like many local business people, you love the rush of the crowds on the Cape during the summer because the financial rewards are what sustain you through the year. However, when it comes to staying sane during the busy season, well, that’s another story. Join Helen Kosinski for her workshop “Stop the Chaos: 3 Tips to a Successful Busy Season”. Learn simple, yet powerful, tips to increase your productivity AND your sanity during the upcoming Cape Cod busy summer season. SCORE Individual Business Counseling To learn more or register click here. Upcoming small business assistance office hours Chatham Works 323 Orleans Rd 3 Main Street Mercantile Unit 18A Harwich Cultural Center 204 Sisson Road Provincetown Commons 46 Bradford Street Preservation Hall, Wellfleet Drop in or make an appointment to talk with CDP staff to address a variety of topics including record keeping, QuickBooks, business planning, cash flow projections, steps to starting a business, setting goals and much more. Drop-Ins are welcome, but those with a scheduled appointment will be given preference. These sessions are free to Lower Cape small businesses. Click here to learn more or to schedule an appointment. CDP Partners with WE CAN to bring programs to the Outer Cape This Place Matters This Place Matters our bi-weekly radio & television show 92.1 WOMR & 91.3 WFMR Wednesdays 12:30pm Also on Lower Cape TV Join host Jay Coburn & guests to learn more about activities affecting the people and places on the Lower and Outer Cape. Click Here to Listen to or Watch Past Shows If you have an idea for a guest or topic - Contact Britt Beedenbende r February 12 : Join Jill Stauffer Executive Director for The Commons in Provincetown and Fred and Lindsey Bierwirth founders of Chatham Works as they discusses coworking on Cape Cod. February 26 : Join Jill Scalise Housing Coordinator for The Town of Brewster as she discusses housing projects in Brewster. Yes! I want to support the CDP! Thank you for supporting the work we do to make the Lower Cape a place where we can all live, work and thrive ! www.capecdp.org	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line1106
__label__wiki	0.944965	0.944965	Report: Russo Brothers Will Direct The Avengers: Infinity War Parts 1 and 2 by NerdcoreMovement in Marvel, Movies, Top News Following the success of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, the Russo brothers have apparently signed on to direct The Avengers: Infinity War parts 1 and 2… The Russo brothers will apparently pick up where Joss Whedon leaves off. The dynamic sibling combo of Joe and Anthony Russo — best known as the directors from ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ — have signed on to direct the upcoming epic films ‘The Avengers: Infinity War Parts 1 and 2’ from Marvel. According to several media reports, the Russo’s will take over the franchise from Joss Whedon, who has directed ‘The Avengers’ and the upcoming ‘The Avengers: Age of Ultron’, which opens on May 1. The Russos are also directing the third ‘Captain America’ film titled ‘Civil War’, which is expected to play heavily into the future ‘Avengers’ films as well. ‘The Avengers: Infinity War’ parts 1 and 2 are expected to film as one continuous shoot next year with everybody from the Marvel universe expected to appear in the epic adventure. The Avengers: Infinity War part one is expected to be released on May 4, 2018 with part two expected on May 3, 2019. No writers have been signed onto the project, but Russo brother favorites Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely are the leading candidates to pen the scripts after they already worked on ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ and ‘Captain America: Civil War’. Tags: directorMarvelRusso BrothersThe Avengers Infinity War PODCAST: Rewind of the Living Dead Episode 18 — ‘Anything for Jackson’ In the latest episode of Rewind of the Living Dead, we’re going to say trick-or-treat, stay away from the... ‘Moon Knight’: Ethan Hawke Joins Marvel Series as Main Villain Opposite Oscar Isaac Ethan Hawke is joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe in "Moon Knight" where he will star as the lead villain... ‘WandaVision’ Debut Recap Episodes 1 and 2: ‘Who’s Doing This To You?’ In the recap for the debut of “WandaVision,” Wanda finds herself living an idyllic life alongside her husband Vision... Chris Evans Reportedly in Talks to Return as Captain America in the Marvel Cinematic Universe In a surprising move, Chris Evans is reportedly in talks to return as Captain America for a future appearance... The Terrifying First Trailer for Stephen King's 'It' Has Arrived (VIDEO) © 2020 Copyright NerdcoreMovement.com	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line1107
__label__wiki	0.984104	0.984104	EU competition chief says unclear when Apple tax probe will be decided Brocade to buy Ruckus Wireless in $1.5 billion deal U.S. unveiling new comparison Internet service labels A sign is seen outside the Apple Store in Covent Garden in London, April 10, 2015. Reuters/Toby Melville A two-year investigation into whether Apple’s (AAPL.O) tax deal with Irish authorities gave the iPhone maker an unfair advantage will take a lot longer because of the large amount of data involved, the EU antitrust chief said on Monday. The European Commission accused Ireland in 2014 of dodging international tax rules by letting Apple shelter profits worth tens of billions of dollars from tax collectors in return for maintaining jobs. European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said she had asked Ireland for more details, which in turn raised new questions that required a response from the authorities and occasionally from Apple as well. “The first priority is the quality of the case work… And therefore it is very difficult to make predictions as to when the case will be ready for a decision,” Vestager told a European Parliament hearing. Both Ireland and Apple have denied any special tax deal. Vestager also said she had asked British tax authorities for details on their back tax deal with Google (GOOGL.O) following a complaint from the Scottish National Party (SNP). “We are in contact with the UK authorities on the Google tax case. It is still early days,” she said. The British government hailed the 130 million pound ($185.9 million) settlement, announced in January, as a major success but the opposition Labour Party dismissed it as “derisory” and other parties also criticized it. Google has said it paid all due taxes. (Reporting by Foo Yun Chee; Editing by Mark Heinrich)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line1111
__label__wiki	0.824842	0.824842	Swiss cheese et allii, some of the first neurodegenerative mutants isolated in Drosophila Doris Kretzschmar Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences Drosophila has only recently become a model organism to study progressive neurodegeneration, mainly using transgenic flies expressing human disease genes. However, classical forward genetics isolating and characterizing fly mutants that show characteristic features of progressive neurodegeneration can also provide a useful tool to get insights into the mechanisms of neurodegeneration. Interestingly, the first such mutants have been already isolated in the 1970s, and this review focuses on the description of four such mutants originally isolated by Martin Heisenberg. Journal of Neurogenetics Forward genetics Neurodegeneration Fingerprint Dive into the research topics of 'Swiss cheese et allii, some of the first neurodegenerative mutants isolated in Drosophila'. Together they form a unique fingerprint. Cheese Medicine & Life Sciences Diptera Medicine & Life Sciences Kretzschmar, D. (2009). Swiss cheese et allii, some of the first neurodegenerative mutants isolated in Drosophila. Journal of Neurogenetics, 23(1-2), 34-41. https://doi.org/10.1080/01677060802471635 Swiss cheese et allii, some of the first neurodegenerative mutants isolated in Drosophila. / Kretzschmar, Doris. In: Journal of Neurogenetics, Vol. 23, No. 1-2, 03.2009, p. 34-41. Kretzschmar, D 2009, 'Swiss cheese et allii, some of the first neurodegenerative mutants isolated in Drosophila', Journal of Neurogenetics, vol. 23, no. 1-2, pp. 34-41. https://doi.org/10.1080/01677060802471635 Kretzschmar D. Swiss cheese et allii, some of the first neurodegenerative mutants isolated in Drosophila. Journal of Neurogenetics. 2009 Mar;23(1-2):34-41. https://doi.org/10.1080/01677060802471635 Kretzschmar, Doris. / Swiss cheese et allii, some of the first neurodegenerative mutants isolated in Drosophila. In: Journal of Neurogenetics. 2009 ; Vol. 23, No. 1-2. pp. 34-41. @article{82a771c1c9ee4545918d557ab4e88b57, title = "Swiss cheese et allii, some of the first neurodegenerative mutants isolated in Drosophila", abstract = "Drosophila has only recently become a model organism to study progressive neurodegeneration, mainly using transgenic flies expressing human disease genes. However, classical forward genetics isolating and characterizing fly mutants that show characteristic features of progressive neurodegeneration can also provide a useful tool to get insights into the mechanisms of neurodegeneration. Interestingly, the first such mutants have been already isolated in the 1970s, and this review focuses on the description of four such mutants originally isolated by Martin Heisenberg.", keywords = "Cell death, Drosophila, Forward genetics, Neurodegeneration", author = "Doris Kretzschmar", journal = "Journal of Neurogenetics", publisher = "Informa Healthcare", T1 - Swiss cheese et allii, some of the first neurodegenerative mutants isolated in Drosophila AU - Kretzschmar, Doris N2 - Drosophila has only recently become a model organism to study progressive neurodegeneration, mainly using transgenic flies expressing human disease genes. However, classical forward genetics isolating and characterizing fly mutants that show characteristic features of progressive neurodegeneration can also provide a useful tool to get insights into the mechanisms of neurodegeneration. Interestingly, the first such mutants have been already isolated in the 1970s, and this review focuses on the description of four such mutants originally isolated by Martin Heisenberg. AB - Drosophila has only recently become a model organism to study progressive neurodegeneration, mainly using transgenic flies expressing human disease genes. However, classical forward genetics isolating and characterizing fly mutants that show characteristic features of progressive neurodegeneration can also provide a useful tool to get insights into the mechanisms of neurodegeneration. Interestingly, the first such mutants have been already isolated in the 1970s, and this review focuses on the description of four such mutants originally isolated by Martin Heisenberg. KW - Cell death KW - Drosophila KW - Forward genetics KW - Neurodegeneration JO - Journal of Neurogenetics JF - Journal of Neurogenetics	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line1115
__label__cc	0.659363	0.340637	civics lesson Jan. 8, 2009 Congress Meets Today to Continue Horrible, Outdated Practice By Dan Amira The House and Senate will convene today, over objections from football fans, to count the electoral votes cast in the presidential election. Unless Dick Cheney decides to unleash on another one of his peers, this should pass without drama. Irritatingly so. New York has seen another election come and go in which its allegiance to the Democratic candidate was obvious from the outset, granting the state about as much attention from the presidential campaigns as Alabama, despite being at least four times as important. With the fate of our electoral votes a given, Obama and McCain rightly focused the lion’s share of their energy on a small coterie of swing states. As they promised help to corn growers, automakers, and steelworkers at small-town gatherings and spirited, sometimes menacing rallies, New York’s special interests, like hedge-funders and investment bankers, were simply villainized. Sure, we got some scraps of attention here and there — when they wanted our money. Look, we’re big fans of the Founding Fathers. Most of their legacies have aged remarkably well (the Bill of Rights kicks ass), and they had some top-notch ideas. But, as New Yorkers are reminded by their unjust marginalization every four years, this Electoral College scheme just isn’t one of them. civics lesson earnestness	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line1122
__label__cc	0.641817	0.358183	SONNE WIND & WÄRME SUN & WIND ENERGY News \| Project update \| Science & technology \| Logisitics & operations \| Politics & business \| Press releases Studies Media data Contact Events Logisitics & operations Politics & business First commercial charter in offshore wind sector Wednesday, 4 October, 2017 - 22:15 The Van Aalst Group with his headquarters in Dordrecht, the Netherlands, can look back on a very successful debut in the North Sea wind sector with the implementation of the project using the unique SafeWay motion compensated offshore access system. This follows the earlier operations in the oil and gas sector with successful transfers done at offshore platforms of Total E&P Netherlands BV and Oranje Nassau Energy (ONE). The design for transferring personnel and cargo safely and efficiently from an offshore vessel to a structure is so revolutionary that SafeWay believes the gangway will be a ‘game changer’ in the offshore oil, gas, wind and renewables industries. The unique 28 metre long walk-to-work Seagull-type is able to compensate for significant wave heights of up to 3,5 metre on a standard 75-metre long PSV hull, resulting in an operating window that can be significantly higher than other available systems in the market. This first SafeWay gangway is currently installed on the 95-metre long OCV ‘Olympic Intervention IV’, owned by Olympic Subsea ASA, Norway. The DP2 vessel, having excellent seagoing properties, offers accommodation and workspace to 100 passengers (POB) and is chartered by the German wind turbine manufacturer Adwen GmbH for maintenance activities and trouble shooting at three different wind parks located in the German sector of the North Sea. Under sometimes challenging weather conditions, with significant wave heights above 2.8 meter, 851 people transfers were carried out during 173 landings without any problem in 29 days, including an additional 301 cargo transfers. The gangway incorporates a 3D compensated crane capability, for which the design includes a separate winch to transfer up to 400 (or optional 1000) kilos. This efficient transfer of equipment helps expedite the operational work flow as well. Ralf Schuckert, site manager of Adwen, is enthusiastic about the smooth and high performance of the SafeWay gangway, designed to tailor to the needs of different market segments, weather conditions, sea states, cargo and crew loads. Adwen, part of Siemens Gamesa, has experience with other gangways as well, but especially points out two major advantages of SafeWay. Firstly, the 10 meter vertical lifting possibility of the SafeWay is praised by him. Schuckert: “Secondly, the hovering above bulwark with stairs to a safe area on the turbine deck has great advantages as a 360 degree landing can be realised without any special preparation. That is why Adwen very consciously chose for using this gangway having a unique active ‘free-float’ mode, the so-called Zero Impact Bumpering mode, enabling the access system to ‘float’ just above the entry point onto a platform or monopile, without actually touching it. Not only does the vessel get more freedom in heading, it also gives the access system greater workability compared to other systems. Moreover the hovering system exclude people from climbing over bulwark, thus increasing their safety.” Adwen used the SafeWay access system for the first time during the maintenance campaign at the Trianel Windpark Borkum, where 40 turbines had to be inspected. After this project the ‘Olympic Intervention IV’ was directed to the Wikinger wind park, 35 km off the German Island of Rügen and Germany’s first offshore wind farm Alpha Ventus, located 45 km off the coast of Borkum. Morten Endre Stakvik, captain of the ‘Olympic Intervention IV’ confirms the encouraging comment from client Adwen. “I had never worked before with a walk-to-work system that can be lifted vertically and my experience is quite positive. This gangway is behaving perfectly and it was amazing to witness the speed of the personal transfers as well as the cargo transfers. The cooperation with the SafeWay operators is great. They are very professional and what is more important, they explain the system to the maintenance technicians who make the crossing for the first time, in a very understandable way. And what I understand from these technicians it feels quite natural and comfortable walking 20 metres above sea level from our accommodation vessel to the structure. From the vessel you can walk straight to work in a totally covered construction. Just like walking in a jet bridge to a plane.” Wijnand van Aalst, managing director of SafeWay, is excited about the excellent feedback. “With the development of the SafeWay we aimed to revolutionize the walk-to-work market, introducing a product which surpasses competition. We learned already from the first crossings earlier this year for Total E&P Nederland and Oranje-Nassau Energie (ONE) that our smart and innovative approach is a big step forward in technology and safety, the latter being undeniable our number one priority. The system is 100% redundant with in total 440 alarm notifications, so a single-component technical failure will never cause hazardous situations. But in the eyes of the world we now had to prove what we were claiming since we unveiled the distinctive features of this motion compensated gangway in 2015. And that’s why we are so grateful to companies like Olympic Subsea and Adwen that they rewarded our innovative system with this contract and trust our capabilities.” The Bureau Veritas approved SafeWay motion compensated gangway system incorporates three main features which are unique in the walk-to-work market: Roll compensation: the SafeWay technology is based on a unique roll cylinder, enabling the system to keep the mast in a vertical position at all times. Height adjustment: the possibility of a stepless 10-meter vertical height adjustment enables the access arm to maintain a nearly horizontal position in all tidal conditions. This rules out unsafe uphill or downhill walking, further enhancing safety. Zero Impact Bumpering: active free floating allowing maximum freedom in vessel heading and zero preparation at the landing point. Van Aalst offers all different types of the SafeWay gangway for purchase as well as rental. Based on the positive feedback and market potential, Van Aalst has commenced building a second unit which will be available in Q1 of 2018 Source: SafeWay Siemens Gamesa’s strong commercial performance in Q1 FY2020 reaffirms long-term prospects The change of model towards clean energy accelerated commercial activity, as strong order intake in Q1 FY 2020 (+82% YoY) boosted the order book to €28,089m. Sales stood at €2,001m and the balance sheet remains sound, with €175m in net cash. Despite good long-term prospects, the complex situation in the industry and extraordinary costs in executing five onshore projects located in Northern Europe had a negative impact on profitability. Edda Wind secures long term contracts for two offshore wind vessels Edda Wind, the offshore wind segment of the Østensjø Group, has signed long term time charter agreements with MHI Vestas and Ocean Breeze Energy respectively for two of the four offshore wind vessels ordered from Spanish yards. EEW SPC delivers foundations for first monopile offshore wind project in the USA EEW Special Pipe Constructions GmbH, a member of the EEW Group, has announced the successful fabrication of two heavy monopile foundations and two transition pieces for the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) demonstration project. RWE chooses Van Oord for foundations and array cables at Sofia Offshore Wind Farm RWE, the world’s number two in offshore wind, has advanced the development of Sofia Offshore Wind Farm. The company has selected the international marine contractor Van Oord as the preferred supplier for the engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) of the monopile foundations and array cables, for one of the world’s largest offshore wind projects. 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__label__cc	0.653271	0.346729	Herdsmen risk 5-year-jail term, N500,000 fine for engaging in open grazing in Oyo By OgeneAfrican NG 27th October 2019 Leave a Comment on Herdsmen risk 5-year-jail term, N500,000 fine for engaging in open grazing in Oyo OYO, Nigeria – Herdsmen, cattle rearers or any other person (s) who rear or graze cattle or any other livestock openly in any part of Oyo State now risk at least five (5) years jail term or a fine of five hundred thousand naira (500,000.00) or both if found guilty. The punishments attached to open grazing of cattle or any livestock in the state was contained in the recently passed anti-open grazing bill by the state House of Assembly. OgeneAfrican learnt that the bill, “The Oyo State Open Rearing and Grazing Regulation Bill, 2019”, was sponsored by the Speaker of the House, Adebo Ogundoyin, his Deputy, Abiodun Fadeyi, Majority Leader, Sanjo Adedoyin and Minority Leader, Asimiyu Alarape. Fulani herdsmen drag Oyo Govt, Assembly to court over anti-grazing law Anti-open grazing bill not to witchhunt Fulani herdsmen – Oyo Assembly Farmers, herdsmen disagree over anti-grazing bill in Oyo Our correspondent recalls that the bill was passed into law by the lawmakers on Thursday despite the resistance from some herdsmen in the state who threatened the Assembly with legal actions. The bill which is currently awaiting Govenor Seyi Makinde’s assent would be fully enforced as soon as the Governor appends his signature. The bill when signed by the Governor and becomes law, recommends five years imprisonment or a fine of N500,000.00 or both for anyone who engages in open rearing or grazing of livestock. It recommends that subsequent offenders shall upon conviction be liable to 10 years imprisonment or a fine of N2 million or both. According to a copy of the proposed law obtained by OgeneAfrican on Saturday, movement of livestock on foot from one destination to another in the state is illegal. It recommends that herdsmen are mandated to submit themselves for registration and get an identification card, which must be worn at all times. It stated that cattle movement is only permissible by rail wagon, truck or pick-up wagon between 7 am and 6 pm, while any person found moving livestock on foot is liable on conviction to imprisonment for five years or a fine of N500,000 or both. Anyone caught without identification card is liable on conviction to imprisonment for one year or a fine of N100,000 or both according to the state anti-open grazing bill. It also prohibits a minor from grazing, herding or grazing of livestock except under the supervision of an adult, while the minor or owner of cattle is liable on conviction to a fine of N300,000 or three years imprisonment or both. The bill also recommends that cattle owners are restricted to grazing livestock in approved ranches where persons wishing to set up ranches are to obtain a permit from the state government for a period of three years, with renewal subject to the approval of the landowner. It empowers the state Governor to revoke the permit, without compensation, to the herdsman for any breach of security. It further recommends a N200,000.00 fine and two years imprisonment for herdsmen or cattle rearers found guilty for failure to register with the state Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. It also stipulates that any herdsman who causes injury to any person is liable upon conviction to imprisonment for five years or a fine of N500,000 or both. Such person who causes the injury shall be allowed to pay the medical bill of the injured person (s). According to the proposed law, whenever any livestock strays into any person’s land other than a ranch and causes destruction of crops, the herdsman is liable to pay compensation to the owner with valuation to be determined by the Oyo State Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. It further clarified that, if the onslaught leads to death of any person, the herdsman, upon conviction, will be sentenced for manslaughter under the criminal code law. Also prohibited, is the sale, transfer or mortgage of any land leased to herdsmen for the purpose of ranching. The proposed law also recommends that the Oyo State Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development shall be empowered to impound any livestock found grazing or wandering or herding in an area not permitted as a ranch. It states further that impounded livestock not claimed within seven days will be sold on auction to the public and the proceeds paid into the state’s coffers. For these provisions to be enforced, the bill recommends the establishment of a task force to be named, “Open Grazing Prohibition Task Force”. The “Open Grazing Prohibition Task Force” which will see to the implementation of the law, would comprise representatives of the state government, security agencies, farmers’ association, Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association, vigilante and the judiciary. Tags: Anti-open grazing bill Anti-open grazing laws Fulani Herdsmen in Oyo State Oyo Assembly pass anti-open grazing bill Oyo State anti-grazing bill Oyo state open grazing law Previous Entry Anyaoku backs Buhari on Nigeria’s border closure Next Entry Nollywood actor, Gideon Okeke, shared photo with his family	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line1129
__label__cc	0.691061	0.308939	← “Incontrovertible” is it, Rodney? Chris Hadfield’s 5-month Space Mission in 90 Seconds → Confusion and distortion – has global warming stopped? There’s a mantra circulating at the moment claiming that global warming “stopped 17 years ago.” It is of course being pushed by the pseudosceptics in the climate denial echo chamber. However, even people who should know better have been heard to repeat something like that. Rodney Hide, a former New Zealand ultra conservative politician has assured us “The world stopped getting warmer 17 years ago. That’s incontrovertible” (see my post “Incontrovertible” is it, Rodney? for my take on that). And one of the commenters on my blog at SciBlog seems willing to treat Rodney’s assurance as a simple fact. Of course the pseudosceptics proudly and loudly reassert similar claims. But many of those repeating this mantra are attributing the claim to authoritative sources, like the the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC) and leading climate scientists and institutions. So what’s the truth. Has global warming “stopped?” Are climate scientists saying it has stopped?” Short answer is actually no. Slightly longer answer is along the lines that the current rate of global temperature increase seems to have slowed, global temperatures may even have plateaued, but that doesn’t support a claim that global warming has “stopped!” Or stopped 17 years ago. IPCC Chairman misrepresented Firstly – lets deal with the use of Rajendra Pachauri, Chairman of the IPPC, as a source for this mantra. This appears to go back to a report in the Australian which claimed he “acknowledged a 17-year pause in global temperature rises.” Trouble is, there is no record to back up the claim and the IPCC communications office said it does not accurately represent Pachauri’s thoughts on the subject. The only statement the Australian article actually attributed to Pachauri on this subject is that “global average temperatures had plateaued at record levels and that the halt did not disprove global warming.” And that is paraphrasing Pachauri and not quoting him directly. As the blog Skeptical Science pointed out (see Did Murdoch’s The Australian Misrepresent IPCC Chair Pachauri on Global Warming?) if he “had he said that global surface air temperatures have plateaued and that this doesn’t disprove global warming, he would be 100% correct.” And that is what a number of well-known climate scientists also have said. Usually no mention of 17 years and certainly no claim that global warming had “stopped” 17 years ago. To help clarify I repeat below two figures from my recent post “Incontrovertible” is it, Rodney? These show global air temperatures for the last 17 years and for the long-term – since 1880. Global temperature anomalies for 1996-2012 (Average annual temperature data from NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Sciences), Line plot of global mean land-ocean temperature index, 1880 to present, with the base period 1951-1980. The dotted black line is the annual mean and the solid red line is the five-year mean. The green bars show uncertainty estimates. [This is an update of Fig. 1A in Hansen et al. (2006).] As I said about the first figure in my recent post: “There’s a lot of noise so all we can say from that data is the warming rate is in the range of -0.02 and 0.17 °C/decade (95% confidence level). That’s the problem with such short time periods.” Putting short-term trends in context of long-term record The data in the first figure must be put into the context of the longer term changes. And as the 2nd figure shows a number of short periods over the longer term which had a similar pattern to that in the first figure. It would be silly, especially with hindsight, to claim that global warming “stopped” in 1990, or 1985, or 1975, and so on. Yet this is what some people are doing. It’s easy to find short time periods where the global temperature trend is not significantly different to zero – that’s the nature of a record with this sort of variability or noise. A record which also results from a number of factors and is therefore not a simple correlation with one cause. So it is silly to cherry pick a short period and then make an absolute claim (global warming has stopped) – and especially to claim that somehow something happened in 1975 so that “global warming stopped 17 years ago. Think about it. Take that first figure a just select the last 10 years. The trend will also not be significantly different to zero – are we then going to claim something happened in 2002 to “stop” global warming? No, of course not. The only reason 17 years is mentioned is that one can’t go back further than that without the trend being significantly different from zero. It’s a cherry-picked date – cherry picked to produce a non-significant trend. Have IPCC models been disproved Another common claim is that the very recent plateau, or decrease in the rate of global warming proves the scientific climate models are wrong. More specifically I have often heard the claim that since this plateau has occurred while atmospheric CO2 levels continue to increase this proves that CO2 is not driving global warming. Even the claim that the plateau has somehow shown the scientific understanding of the fundamental properties of greenhouse gases is wrong. The naivety of the last claim is to think that climate scientists consider CO2 to be the only factor influencing the climate – they just don’t. Consequently one should not expect to see a simple correlation between global temperature and atmospheric CO2. Any attempt to understand or model climate change must include many more inputs than CO2. As for models in general here is a couple of factors: All models are inaccurate. That’s just the nature of the attempt to understand complex systems – we can’t expect to get things perfect. And when anomalies occur this may actually help us improve the models by incorporating other factors or more realistic physical parameters. Despite this models have important uses as long as we understand their limitations. Models require inputs – inputs which may change, often unpredictably, over time. Therefore it is silly to expect model projections to always be correct or accurate further down the track. For example, there could be weather conditions increasing heat inputs into the deep ocean which could not have been incorporated several years ago. Or there could have been an increase of particulates from increased coal use which had not been predicted. Political changes can produce economic changes which influence inputs. These are some of the ideas that have been suggested to help explain the current plateau or reduced rate of global temperature increase. So the real test of the model is not to use inputs based on predictions made several years before, but to update inputs so that the model more correctly represents current situations. But, more basically, it’s important to recognise that the global climate is complex. Simple mechanisms are not going to explain the details in the global temperature record. So be careful of people who advance simple explanations to discredit the science. This entry was posted in atmosphere, environment, New Zealand, politics, SciBlogs, science, Science and Society and tagged Climate, climate change, global warming, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, New Zealand, Rodney Hide, SciBlogs, Skeptical Science. Bookmark the permalink. 19 responses to “Confusion and distortion – has global warming stopped?” Dan Pangburn \| May 16, 2013 at 6:27 am \| A simple, science-based equation that shows the factors that drive average global temperature is at http://climatechange90.blogspot.com/2013/05/natural-climate-change-has-been.html Using only one widely available measurement set, the equation calculates average global temperatures since before 1900 with 90% accuracy. Added atmospheric CO2 has no significant influence. Dan – have you submitted your paper to a peer reviewed journal? If so has it been published? If not could you summarise the refee’s comments? A big problem I see is that you have not modelled the underlying causes at all well, relying on input of data rather than true modelling. If that is the case I am not surpised at your succes. Or the fact that you don’t improve the model much by adding CO2, it is already there in the empirical inputs you use. But the material in your link is vague and largely unexplained – hence my itnerest on any peer review you have had. Dan Pangburn \| May 16, 2013 at 12:53 pm \| A substantially more-detailed version of the work has completed peer review but has not yet been published. The referees understood and agreed with the approach. Comments were mostly to enhance clarity. I think that what you are calling ‘true modeling’ is like the 20 plus GCMs that the IPCC uses. The main problem with those models is that they do not include the most important cause. Then, with their tinkering and training of their models to match history, they set themselves up for the abysmal failure to predict the flat global temperature trend since before 2001. These models used the input data of added atmospheric carbon dioxide. The underlying cause that they neglected to include is the sunspot time-integral. They looked at solar cycle maximums and solar cycle durations, each of which correlate poorly, and decided that sunspots did not matter. Apparently they never thought to look at them together which is what the sunspot time-integral does. It is really quite simple. A low magnitude, long duration solar cycle could have just as much influence as a large magnitude, short duration solar cycle. The sunspot time-integral is the first primary cause. The second primary cause is the natural effective ocean oscillation of which the PDO is a primary contributor. It does not add or subtract energy from the planet and is modeled simply as a saw-tooth surface temperature with amplitude about ±1/5 °K with period 64 years and last maximum in 2005. This simplified method of accounting for ocean oscillations is built in to the equation with only the magnitude being fine-tuned to maximize over-all accuracy. Just these two underlying causes explain average global temperatures since before 1900 with 89.8% accuracy so all of the underlying causes that were not modeled must find room in the remaining 10.2%. It is the input data of sunspot numbers that is the primary underlying cause (the equation format does the numerical integration). Thus the only input data (when the influence of CO2 change is zeroed out) are the sunspot numbers (which are available on the web). The material isn’t vague. It’s really that simple. The climate scientists have become mired in the minutia. What’s the name of the journal it’s to be published in, Dan? I can understand your own preference or your own model, but as I said I believe you are inputting temperature data in one form or another, which will include the influence of CO2. However, your description was vague enough for me to be unsure so I look forward to the full version when published. Any idea when that will be? Pingback: Pseudosceptics are at it again – misrepresenting and attacking climate scientists \| Open Parachute It’s the CHANGE in CO2 level that is demonstrated to have no significant influence. Perhaps my earlier work (but now superseded by the refined work linked above) might help. A direct link trips some spam traps but you can get to all of my earlier stuff by the link given in red at http://www.switched.com/profile/2996642/ There is a lot of stuff there but don’t bother unless you really want to find out what caused the planet to warm up, why it stopped warming, and why it is now on a cooling trend. Dan, you didn’t answer my questions. What’s the name of the journal which will publish your paper and when will that be? Pingback: A New Zealand climate change pseudosceptic apologises! \| Open Parachute kwende \| June 23, 2013 at 7:16 pm \| Looks like Dan went silent. Steve Weiss \| July 13, 2014 at 4:31 pm \| I’m not a climate scientist, whatever that may be, however, I do work in the insurance industry which annually records claims due to extreme weather events and pays out billions in claims for these events. Part of the global warming alarmist agenda is the assertion that CO2 increases cause an increase in extreme weather events and that specific such events can somehow be traced back to humans loading up the atmosphere with CO2. However, if CO2 levels are at or near all-time highs how do global warming advocates account for a fall in 2013 in such insurance claims to $45 from $81 in 2012? That appears to be an inverse correlation, is it not? Surely claims must rise if CO2 levels are increasing. So, what is the truth, and what if the computer models are unreliable and inaccurate? Makes one wonder. Ken \| July 13, 2014 at 5:27 pm \| Couple of things Steve: 1: What the hell is this alarmist agenda? Certainly the science is telling us that there is a likelihood of increases in extreme weather events and anecdotal evidence also suggest this. But this is a matter of facts and observation – not agendas. 2: No one suggests CI2 atmospheric concentrations have reached all time highs. What we have seen though is increases to record levels in the last few thousand years. 3: As for insurance claims – I have no idea what your figures $45 and $81 mean. However,I would certainly be interested in trends in claim numbers due to extreme weather events. My understanding is that there is a general increase (and we certainly are seeing big increases in premiums) but that would be measured over decades – not over a single year. 4: Computer models are always inaccurate in this sort of thing because of lack of precision and, more seriously, inability to predict economic scenarios.. However, the scientific assessment does produce a predicted range of likely temperature increases and these seem to be occurring. Finally, if you do work in the insurance industry could you obtain reliable long term data (over several decades) of insurance claimed due to extreme weather events? I would certainly be interested in that. Bit data for just 2 years are meaningless. Richard Christie \| July 13, 2014 at 5:39 pm \| However, if CO2 levels are at or near all-time highs how do global warming advocates account for a fall in 2013 in such insurance claims to $45 from $81 in 2012? You’re in the insurance industry, you tell us. But here is a hint, only in the strange world of Friedman economics and the minds of ACT Party members does the holy market control the laws of physics. (and please provide a cite for your figures above) AD \| July 13, 2014 at 5:53 pm \| This would be a good opportunity for Cedric to post a link to the video about how peer reviewed science works. Cedric Katesby \| July 13, 2014 at 7:59 pm \| I’m not a climate scientist….. Really? Gosh. We’ve never had someone talk about a science topic like that before. Except for the last zillion times. Joy? Meet Steve. Steve? Meet Joy. You two should talk science to each other. The rest of us get to watch and eat popcorn. joy \| July 9, 2014 at 9:39 am \| I know there is a yahoo fluoride poison group but I didn’t join it as I get too much stuff now in my inbox. Just a reminder about Iodine and Fluoride toxicity. iodine works to pull out heavy metals including “F” and there is plenty info out there on iodine deficiency in the U .S. No, I’m not a doc… You two were made for each other. Same stupid, just different labels. I’m not a climate scientist, whatever that may be…. Is English your second language or something? Do you also have the same difficulty with other terms like “electric drill” and “television stations”? Part of the global warming alarmist agenda… Yep, it’s a konspiracy. How spooky-wooky. How does this “agenda” work? Who runs it? What are the nuts and bolts of the operation? Take NASA, for example. NASA is a world leader in climatology. NASA has been telling the world about climate change for decades now. Are they part of this “agenda”? Say it with me slowly. NASA \| Ask a Climate Scientist: Climate Change and Humans Poor AD. His poor widdle feelings are hurt because I called him a moron and he ran away. Um, don’t care. 🙂 Not even a tiny, little bit. I’m in my comfortable place right now. If you don’t want to be labelled a moron then there’s a really easy solution. Stop behaving like them. Science Works! How the Scientific Peer Review Process works Another link to the same video? How perfect. How the scientific peer review process works. I get it now. Cedric Katesby \| July 14, 2014 at 12:24 am \| Actions speak louder than words. So far, you are just talk. Unless you can do something else other than what the nutters are doing, then you’ll get treated like a nutter. Life is tough that way. AD \| July 14, 2014 at 7:15 am \| What would you like me to do other than just talk? Type, perhaps? Cedric Katesby \| July 14, 2014 at 7:38 am \| You could try not acting like a moron. Did that ever occur to you?	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line1131
__label__wiki	0.7047	0.7047	2020 Election / American Politics / Feature / Politics The Unbearable Lightness of Biden by Andrew Donaldson · March 22, 2019 For being as popular as he is at the moment, it is amazing that people have forgotten about Joe Biden. Not Joe Biden the ideal candidate, who is uber popular as many await with bated breath whether or not the former vice president will enter the 2020 race to unseat President Trump. That Joe Biden has never done better, been more loved, or been thought of more highly. If only Saintly Ol’ Joe would deign to descend from Retirement Olympus and save all the land. But to praise that Joe Biden is to forget Joe Biden, the actual person. The Joe Biden who, when last seen running for president, placed 5th in Iowa, behind not-yet President Barack Obama, never-would-be president Hillary Clinton, soon-to-be disgraced John Edwards, and a hey-remember-him Bill Richardson. The Joe Biden who fell to 5th after uttering this immortal line of deep thought about his soon to-be running mate, and the explanation of which brought to light his long series of gaffes: Clean & Articulate That long list of gaffes was up-to-date… in 2007. The Joe Biden whose first campaign in 1988 was derailed by plagiarism charges. The Joe Biden whose campaign was fined by the FEC $219K for spending violations during that curtailed 2008 effort. The Joe Biden whose propensity to get handsy with people has been a boon to meme generators and is sure to be a boom to content creators everywhere, should he declare, and be fun for supporters to explain away in the #metoo era. The Joe Biden who in 45+ years of public service has been in the proximity of important things, always appears in the pictures of important events, but who, when viewed historically, really did not have much effect at all. You get the idea. Joe as the fun crazy uncle gets such things chuckled away. Joe Biden, serious candidate, has twice been DOA in national electoral politics for the same reasons. “But the poll numbers,” exclaim those to whom a Biden 3.0 campaign seems like a good idea. Fair enough, let us consider that for a moment, using 538’s take on it: To be clear, I don’t think you should be going solely or necessarily even mostly by the polls at this stage of the primary. There are lots of other quantitative and qualitative ways to evaluate the candidates; we think a multifaceted approach is best. There’s still a lot to be said for tracking measures of insider support such as endorsements, for instance, which despite having been a useless indicator in the 2016 Republican primary still have a strong track record overall. Those insider metrics are middling for both Sanders and Biden. In Sanders’s case, he’s off to a much better start in endorsements than four years ago, but is nonetheless behind Harris, Booker and Amy Klobuchar. It’s harder to evaluate Biden because he hasn’t entered the race yet; he does have some endorsements, but the sheer number of candidates running suggests that he doesn’t have the field-clearing power that Clinton did in 2016. But at the very least, the polls aren’t reason to be dismissive of Sanders and Biden. If you think of a mental scale that spans the categories “bad,” “meh,” “pretty good,” “good” and “great,” Biden’s polling qualifies as good even if you do count for name recognition, and Sanders’s as pretty good (inching toward good in the most recent polls). That line about field-clearing is something to stick a mental asterisk beside. To review, Bernie Sander’s supporters, and other progressives for that matter, are very much driven by the idea that 2016 was robbed from them by the Democratic establishment and powers-that-be who put their finger on the scale for Hillary Rodham Clinton. They have plenty of evidence to support their claim, although the presumption that Sanders would have won without it is still debatable. The irony that such interference was, in theory, paying HRC back for shoving her aside in 2008 in favor of the Obama/Biden ticket should also be savored and appreciated. But now comes the latest example that the folks backing/supporting a 3rd Biden campaign for the White House are woefully tone deaf on the 2020 election. On Thursday, Axios ran this item about Joe Biden and his potential campaign having met, at their request, with Stacey Abrams last week: Close advisers to former Vice President Joe Biden are debating the idea of packaging his presidential campaign announcement with a pledge to choose Stacey Abrams as his vice president. Now, with all due respect to the venerable Mike Allen, there is no such thing as a leak; just information people want to get out for a reason. This was clearly a trial balloon released into the commentariat ether to gauge the reaction. While many respected people think this is a great idea and smart strategy, historically speaking, it is not. Nearly every campaign cycle someone floats this “package” idea of President and VP. It’s not the worst idea in the world, and has been tried before. Ronald Reagan did it… in his failed campaign in ’76. Cruz did it more recently, and it was rightly seen as the desperation move it was. The idea of a package, and adding a one-term pledge with it, is doubly questionable, as the message is “vote for this candidate that is immediately a lame duck and whose VP will spend half that time running themselves.” Every event, every news story, every crisis will have a double narrative of what will the president do, and what will the wanna-be president say about it. It is the antithesis of leadership to purposefully create such a situation. And it would be with Joe Biden as well. Many would rightly see the addition of Stacey Abrams not as a positive, but Biden trying to use a young rising progressive star as an inoculation shot against “old white guy” criticisms. Besides, Abrams might as well run for president herself, and then worry about VP opportunities. After all, she has won as many senate races as Beto O’Rourke has, and enjoys plenty of support from the base after her competitive Georgia campaign for governor. She already nabbed a prime spotlight gig doing a State of the Union response, and earning bipartisan praise, if not for content then for keeping it short and too the point compared to the Margret Mitchell approach the president took in time allotted. Such a union would not only be ill-advised but brand killing for Abrams. Unlike previous campaigns, when his primary opponents couched their criticisms of Joe since the old rules of “same team” were still at least tacitly in place, no such restraint will be shown this time. Whereas Barack Obama was careful to cover for Joe Biden after the “clean” controversy, the progressive wing of the party is not going to do that this time around. Biden 2020 will be supported by many of the folks who championed Hillary Clinton, but there will be no field-clearing and all 20-odd candidates will direct fire on the front-runner, who will be perceived to be Biden should he enter. Why would Abrams want to be the shield for all that when she could do so for herself in her own campaign, or with a candidate more fitting her political ideology and brand? It feels like some in the Democratic party would rather take a run at known quantity Joe Biden, or more specifically the highly-idealized concept version of Joe Biden currently being presented, than deal with the very hard questions a progressive wing that is rapidly growing both in influence and volume is demanding be addressed. If you want to make a bet that those voices can be placated into supporting Joe Biden were he to somehow conquer those folks’ preferred progressive candidates, you will surely be making a bet that did not work out well for Hillary Clinton. If you place a bet that it doesn’t matter who the nominee against Donald Trump is in 2020, victory is assured and the primary fight sore feelings will not bleed over into the general election, you may be right, but that is quite a gamble. If you want to wager that – in what will be hours of footage per day for the next 10 moths until voting starts – we can go without a major Joe Biden gaffe or controversy, you are betting against time, tide, and 70+ plus years of recorded history on the man. The real man, as he exists. But feel free to take a chance on Joe Biden the dream. Just don’t say you weren’t warned. Tags: 2020BidendemocraticDemocratsElectionnomination Born and raised in West Virginia, Andrew has since lived and traveled around the world several times over. Though frequently writing about politics out of a sense of duty and love of country, most of the time he would prefer discussions on history, culture, occasionally nerding on aviation, and his amateur foodie tendencies. He can usually be found misspelling/misusing words on Twitter @four4thefire and his writing website Yonderandhome.com Debt Ceiling Updates 9/11: The Falling Man, Remembered Rise of the Falcon Heavy DensityDuck says: “Many would rightly see the addition of Stacey Abrams not as a positive, but Biden trying to use a young rising progressive star as an inoculation shot against “old white guy” criticisms. ” Which was exactly what McCain did by picking Palin, and it…did not work.Report Mike Schilling in reply to DensityDuck says: Totally off-topic, but I thought this would interest you: http://www.walterjonwilliams.net/2012/05/running-off-the-cliff-city-on-fire/#comment-159748Report DensityDuck in reply to Mike Schilling says: Aww, thank you! He’s been teasing that one since he did the epub of Metropolitan/City On Fire, but it’s nice to see that there’s a business case for it. I think we all wanted him to do a crowdfunded thing (this was back when Kickstarter was really ramping up) but he was writing Quillifer then and wasn’t excited by the project.Report Philip H says: The Democrats already have too many people in the race. The next generation of democratic Senate leaders is setting themselves up for a fall by all running for president at the same time. As republicans proved however, running a ton of folks is how you get a winning candidate with pluralities and not outright majorities in primaries. Of course, that could be how Pete Buttegieg gets the nod, but I digress. Joe Biden was a decent Senator, but really never presidential material. He got elevated to that level because his folksiness was an attempt to recreate a throwback to Bill Clinton’s style. And he did an amiable job as VP to Obama. But he needs to step aside and let the younger generation have a shot. He’s not my choice and I don’t think he’d beat Trump.Report Morat20 in reply to Philip H says: “The next generation of democratic Senate leaders is setting themselves up for a fall by all running for president at the same time” Nah, the first primaries will start knocking them over like bowling pins. Heck, I wouldn’t be surprised if a good quarter drop out before the first primary. The Democrat’s proportional delegate system will help. They do proportional delegate allotment, not winner take all. Which means if you have a solid 30% of the vote, you…get 30% of the delegates. There’s a slight bonus if you have a majority, but not a huge one.Report North in reply to Morat20 says: I agree with you and Phil both. Biden is simply not appropriate for this cycle, especially considering how many solid alternatives we have, and I’m not particularly concerned about the number of candidates running. They’ll winnow down fast enough. I don’t think the Dems have the rules or the wealthy sugar daddie/mommie constituency that the right has to sustain a long term fractured field.Report I think you’re right on … well … just about everything in this post. Offering VP to Abrams reaks of cyniycism; the idea that he’s the safe pick is the “play to not lose” philosophy which many Dem voters but especially progressives detest in the Dem party; his track record on policy is open to wide criticism within and outside of the Dem party; and his gaffe-proneness indicates (to me) that he doesn’t have the steely discipline to stay on point under siege by Trump. He’ll crack, early and often. Maybe a shorter way to say it this: interest in Biden’s candidacy is directly proportional to those people’s fear that the Dems are going to lose. He’s a “play to not lose” candidate, and I don’t think that philosophy is going to beat Trump and the GOP. On the ironic other hand, I think if somehow the party and base got behind Abrams she’d get the job done pretty handily. Assuming she’s milkshake free.Report I’ll post this here, cuz it seems relevant to the problems national Dem has pulling their heads out of their ****. NEW: @DCCC makes moves to block primary challenges against Dem incumbents. Per new hiring standards DCCC won’t contract with or recommend to House campaign any political firm that works against a sitting member. In my mind, it’s stuff like this, more than (eg) college social justicers demanding reparations, that make people turn away from the Democratic party.Report Jesse in reply to Stillwater says: As a left-wing, but partisan Democrat who has defended the institutions of the DNC for being dumb, not corrupt, this is the first action taken by them that makes me feel sympathy for the “they’re going to screw Bernie” types.Report Mr.Joe in reply to Stillwater says: WOW! There is still no shortage of butthurt over Bernie ’16. Now, they institute a policy seeming to say “no more AOCs”. Maybe this is some 7 dimensional chess thing, but it looks like they are actively trying to depress their base.Report Dark Matter in reply to Mr.Joe says: They’re trying to prevent another peasant’s revolution. The kind which got us Trump. Our political servants really want to be our political masters.Report I’m going to vote enthusiastically for whomever has a D next to their name in 2020 because the Republicans and Trump have proven themselves to be loathsome beyond belief.I’m also a partisan D. That being said, Biden is not my first choice for the Presidency. At this stage, most polls are based on name recognition and Biden has that in droves. He can also rest on warm and sunny feelings of the Obama years because Democrats loathe Trump and miss Obama strongly. The best Biden primary campaign would all be about how great Obama was especially compared to the loathsome Trump. That being said, even without his other issues, I think he is too old. Since I’m also a cynic, I wonder how many people confuse the Onion’s Joe Biden with the real Joe Biden. It is saying a lot though that Biden was at least able to say he found the Onion versions of himself funny in public. Can you imagine any GOP politician doing that?Report Jaybird in reply to Saul Degraw says: In the short term, I’m going to need you to push for a Yang/Buttigieg ticket.Report Mr.Joe in reply to Jaybird says: Yang = UBI Guy What is Buttigieg’s deal? Nothing of significance on his campaign website. So far all I got to hold him in my head is calling him “Baby Beto”. You know.. cuz he looks like a Baby Beto.Report pillsy in reply to Mr.Joe says: He’s the Mayor of South Bend Indiana. He’s a surprisingly eloquent politician, and really has a habit of nailing questions he gets from the press and would-be supporters, which are all qualities that Dems tend to find really appealing. Yang is a total crank, but a lot of his crank ideas overlap with my crank ideas so I don’t hold them against him. He’s also trolling around Kekistan for votes, which I find unsavory, but he’s doing it by promising to mail NEETs monthly checks, which is at least honest (and good public policy!)Report Saul Degraw in reply to Mr.Joe says: Buttigieg is the first openly gay candidate for President. He currently gets a lot of love for being the anti-Trump (he allegedly learned Norwegian to read more of a particular author). He is also young (only 36). The other thing I remember is that he is open to the idea of Court Packing. He has no chance in hell but I feel sorry for him because being from Indiana means that he doesn’t have much of a political future beyond maybe a Congressional seat if he is lucky. The same is true for Beto. Running for President is his most likely move.Report pillsy in reply to Saul Degraw says: My guess is he’s running for VP. He’s young, charismatic, has a limited political future if he chooses to go a conventional route, and would be much better VP from Indiana than either of the last two.Report Mr.Joe says: Biden v. Trump is my first choice for an entertaining election season.Report Abrams seems sharp, she’s young and if, if Georgia is trending her way, she would be wise to go for the Senate seat that is coming up. Get some time up top, then after a term or two run for Gov. before going in for the white house. And that would show everyone that the D’s are serious about running a gov’t.Report pillsy says: I think you’re probably right about Joe Biden. But if you are right about Joe Biden, it won’t really matter. He’ll flame out quickly and leave a bunch of other guys whose names begin with B to fight it out with Harris, Warren, and the rest. If you’re not, if he actually makes it and pulls across the finish line, well, that will be a whole different kettle of fish.Report Brent F in reply to pillsy says: The best argument for Biden is that he polls best against Trump right now, so has an argument for being the surest bet in a race you desperately want to win. That’s a pretty good reason to support him all things considered, even if it’s not a satisfactory one to the very politically involved who want someone closer to their ideological preferences. If that holds up into the campaign season he’s got a legit argument for being a front runner. If it doesn’t, then he has much less to recommend him and stronger candidates should push him aside. This is entire purpose for having a primary campaign in the first place, to see who is catching the public’s imagination at this point in time and not just choose from a stack of resumes.Report He is in every way preferable to Trump. Admittedly, if you dug a hole 100 miles deep and dropped a bar into it, this one would be lower.Report Marchmaine says: What? No idle speculation thread about the Mueller report?Report Jaybird in reply to Marchmaine says: It’s up there in ten second news! (Andrew has you covered!)Report Zac Black says: I will bet good money that if Biden runs, he will be the Jeb Bush of this election cycle.Report Seriously, Biden should have talked to her FIRST. Don’t ask Stacey Abrams to settle for second best. On Wednesday, the Georgia Democrat rejected the prospect of running in the primary as Biden’s vice-president. “You don’t run for second place,” she said on The View. “If I’m going to enter a primary, then I’m going to enter a primary. If I don’t enter a primary, my job is to make certain the best Democrat becomes the nominee and, whoever wins the primary, that we make certain that person gets elected in 2020.” As Yahoo News reports, sources close to Biden had floated the idea of announcing Abrams as vice-president if he launched a campaign, though they seemingly did so without input from Abrams herself. Abrams did not reject the notion of becoming a vice-presidential candidate altogether; in the same View appearance, she said that she would be willing to serve as a nominee’s running mate “once a nominee was set.” Jaybird in reply to Jaybird says: Stacey Abrams adviser on talk of her being Joe Biden’s VP: “What makes it particularly exploitative is that Biden couldn’t be bothered to endorse Stacey in the gubernatorial primary. Now he wants her to save his ass. That’s some serious entitlement.” https://t.co/3g1DeOQXvL — Matt Viser (@mviser) March 28, 2019 Yeah, Biden’s toast. (I mean, we KNEW* he was toast but he wasn’t jelly-side-down.)Report Northwlf@gmail.com in reply to Jaybird says: I don’t know if he is toast but I hope he’s toast. Just endorse one of the existing centrists Joe.Report Jaybird in reply to Northwlf@gmail.com says: He’s still polling in first place according to the last couple of polls I saw: New Quinnipiac poll of Democratic and Dem-leaning voters nationally: Bernie Sanders 19 Beto O'Rourke 12 Buttigieg 4 …rest are lower pic.twitter.com/AC8ud4m2zL — Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) March 28, 2019 That should keep him limping along for a bit.Report North in reply to Jaybird says: Well of course he is. We’re nowhere near the election. 90% of that support consists of “I know who that name is; he was the veep for that President I liked”.Report From the only trustworthy political commentator on twitter: Abrams is a good politician. One eye on moving up, she could have said nothing. Think about that. — Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) March 29, 2019 pillsy in reply to Jaybird says: The cultural and political moment we find ourselves in is so weird that I often find myself forgetting the old standards of normalcy, and barely even notice that we have a guy LARPing Richard Nixon on the Interblag, and providing pretty good political commentary while doing so.Report Next story Obligatory Mueller Report TSN Previous story Stratifying Superheroes	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line1134
__label__wiki	0.855334	0.855334	Dealing with the OSC Securities Law & Instruments Instruments, Rules & Policies Proposed Instruments, Rules & Policies OSC Bulletin Orders, Rulings & Decisions Before the Commission Before the Court Cease Trade Orders Speeches & Events OSC Dialogue 2020 OSC's Role The Investor Office Investor Advisory Panel Check Before You Invest Investor Warnings Learning About Investing Questions & Complaints Dealers, Advisers and Investment Fund Managers Investment Funds & Structured Products Marketplaces, SROs & Clearing Agencies Derivatives Participants Twitter LinkedIn Youtube Email Alerts Rss Feeds Proceedings / All Proceedings Browse / Buchanan, Donald Iain / Order: In the Matter of Gold-Quest International et al. Hide Section Menu × All Commission Proceedings Notices from the Office of the Secretary Tribunal Resources Sanctions by the Commission Allocation and use of funds from sanctions Respondents Delinquent in Payment of Commission Orders Litigation Assistance Program and Duty Counsel Program Mediation Program All Court Proceedings IN THE MATTER OF THE SECURITIES ACT R.S.O. 1990, c. S.5, AS AMENDED IN THE MATTER OF GOLD-QUEST INTERNATIONAL, HEALTH AND HARMONEY, IAIN BUCHANAN, AND LISA BUCHANAN (Subsections 127(1) and (5)) WHEREAS on the 1st day of April, 2008, the Ontario Securities Commission (the “Commission”) ordered, pursuant to clause 2 of subsection 127(1) and subsection 127(5) of the Securities Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. S.5, as amended (the “Act”) that all trading in any securities of Gold-Quest International (“Gold Quest”) shall cease (the “Temporary Order”); AND WHEREAS the Commission further ordered as part of the Temporary Order that pursuant to clause 2 of subsection 127(1) and subsection 127(5) of the Act that all trading in any securities by Health and HarMONEY, Iain Buchanan and Lisa Buchanan shall cease; AND WHEREAS the Commission further ordered as part of the Temporary Order that pursuant to clause 3 of subsection 127(1) and subsection 127(5) of the Act that any exemptions contained in Ontario securities law do not apply to Gold-Quest, Health and HarMONEY, Iain Buchanan and Lisa Buchanan (collectively, the “Respondents”); AND WHEREAS the Commission further ordered as part of the Temporary Order that pursuant to clause 3 of subsection 127(1) and subsection 127(5) of the Act that any exemptions contained in Ontario securities law do not apply to Gold-Quest’s officers, directors, agents or employees; AND WHEREAS on April 8, 2008, the Commission issued a Notice of Hearing in this matter (the “Notice of Hearing”); AND WHEREAS the Respondents were served with the Temporary Order, the Notice of Hearing and the Evidence Brief of Staff of the Commission (“Staff”) as set out in the Affidavit of Service of Dale Grybauskas, dated April 14, 2008; AND WHEREAS no correspondence has been sent to Staff on behalf of Gold-Quest and no one appeared for Gold-Quest on April 14, 2008; AND WHEREAS upon hearing submissions from counsel for Staff and on written consent of counsel for Health and HarMONEY, Iain Buchanan and Lisa Buchanan, dated April 11, 2008, the Commission is of the opinion that it is in the public interest to make this order; IT IS ORDERED THAT, on consent of counsel for Staff and counsel for Health and HarMONEY, Iain Buchanan and Lisa Buchanan; the Temporary Order against the Respondents is extended until July 14, 2008 or until further order of the Commission, subject to the following; Iain Buchanan shall be permitted to trade in securities listed on a recognized public exchange only in his own existing account(s), for his own benefit, and through a dealer registered with the Commission; Lisa Buchanan shall be permitted to trade in securities listed on a recognized public exchange only in her own existing account(s), for her own benefit, through a dealer registered with the Commission. Dated at Toronto this 15th day of April 2008. “Suresh Thakrar” “Margot Howard” Contact \| Legal \| Legislation \| Accessibility \| OSC Service Commitment \| Français JavaScript is disabled or not supported by this browser. This website works best with JavaScript enabled.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line1136
__label__wiki	0.529085	0.529085	Update: Marino Undergoes Successful Surgery, Out 3-6 Weeks Pittsburgh Penguins rookie defenseman John Marino had successful surgery for a facial fracture on Monday afternoon, according to Penguins General Manager Jim Rutherford. The surgery was performed at UPMC Mercy by Dr. Mark Ochs of UPMC Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. Marino is expected to miss three to six weeks. Marino, 22, was struck in the face with a puck while on the penalty kill during Pittsburgh’s game in Tampa Bay on February 6. He currently ranks second among team defensemen, and fourth among all NHL rookie blueliners with 25 points (5g, 20a) in 51 games. From Editor-in-Chief Dan Kingerski: Three to six weeks is better news than some online prognostications. It’s not ideal for the Pittsburgh Penguins, but Justin Schultz is a proven defenseman capable of top-four minutes and play. Schultz has anchored the Penguins second paring for three seasons. Schultz was only put on the third pairing after he returned from injury a couple of weeks ago, during which John Marino earned more playing time. Marino’s absence will expose the Penguins third pairing with Juuso Riikola and Chad Ruhwedel, but three to six weeks is actually good news for the Penguins. Related Topics:Featuredjohn marinoPittsburgh Penguins Projecting the New Penguins Lines With Zucker and Beyond Penguins Eager For TB Again; ‘Good Having Them Back Quick’	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line1137
__label__wiki	0.659105	0.659105	Tag Archives: expresses Christians in Middle East Fear Violence from Anti-Quran Protests Those in the West who provoke Muslim extremists are not the ones who will suffer, they say. ISTANBUL, October 5 (CDN) — Christians across the Middle East said they will be the ones to suffer if a group of anti-Islamic protestors in the United States goes through with its plans to publicly tear up or otherwise desecrate the Quran. They roundly condemned the proposed actions as political stunts that are unwise, unnecessary and unchristian. “This kind of negative propaganda is very harmful to our situation in Muslim countries,” said Atef Samy, assistant pastor for networking at Kasr El Dobara, the largest Protestant congregation in Egypt. “It generates uncontrollable anger among the people around us and gives the impression that all Christians feel this way about Islam.” Samy said U.S. Christians who are protesting Islam need to think about the results of their “irrational actions.” The desecration, he said, will lead to protests and will incite people to commit anti-Christian violence. “How do they expect Muslims to react?” he said. “And has anybody thought how we will pay for their actions or even their words?” Tomorrow and Thursday (Oct. 6 and 7), political activist Randall Terry will host “Hear Muhammad Speak!” a series of demonstrations across the United States that he said are meant to “ignite national and world-wide debate/dialogue/education on the anti-Semitic, anti-Christian, and at times violent message of the Quran.” During these protests, Terry plans to tear out pages from the Quran and encourage others to do the same. He has said he is conducting the protest because he wants to focus attention also on the Hadith and the Sunnah, the recorded sayings and actions of Muhammad that Muslims use to guide their lives. Terry said these religious documents call “for the murder, beheadings, etc. of Christians and Jews, and the suppression of religious freedom.” Known for his incendiary political approach, Terry is founder of Operation Rescue, an anti-abortion rights group. After stepping down from Operation Rescue, he publicly supported the actions of Scott Roeder, who murdered a Kansas physician who performed late-term abortions. Terry also arranged to have a protestor present an aborted fetus to then-presidential candidate Bill Clinton at the 1992 Democratic National Convention. On this year’s anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Terry stood outside the White House and denounced Islam as one of five other protestors ripped out pages from the Quran and threw them into a plastic trash bag, which along with Florida Pastor Terry Jones’ planned (though ultimately cancelled) Quran-burning provoked isolated attacks across the Islamic world that left at least 19 dead. Terry is part of a seemingly growing tide of people destroying or threatening to destroy the Quran as an act of protest against Islam or “Islamic extremism.” Terry has said that he wants to “highlight the suffering of Christians inflicted by Muslims” and to call on Islamic leaders “to stop persecuting and killing Christians and Jews, and well as ‘apostates’ who leave Islam.” But Christian leaders in the Middle East said protests in which the Quran is desecrated have the opposite effect. They are bracing themselves for more attacks. Protestors in the West can speak freely – about free speech, among other things – but it’s Christians in the Middle East who will be doing the dying, they said. “This message of hate antagonizes Muslims and promotes hatred,” said Samia Sidhom, a Christian and managing editor of the Cairo-based newspaper Watani. “Thus churches and Christians become targets of counter-hate and violence. Islam is in no way chastised, nor Christianity exalted. Only hate is strengthened. Churches and Christians here find they need to defend themselves against the allegations of being hateful and against the hate and violence directed at them.” Martin Accad, a Lebanese Christian and director of the Institute of Middle East Studies at Arab Baptist Theological Seminary in Beirut, agreed with Sidhom. “We are held guilty by association by extremist Muslims, even though the vast majority of Muslims will be able to dissociate between crazy American right-wingers and true followers of Jesus,” he said. Leaders in the Arabic-speaking Christian world said Terry’s protests and others like it do nothing positive. Such provocations won’t make violent Muslim extremists re-examine their beliefs or go away. “Islam will not disappear because we call it names,” said Samy, of the Egyptian Protestant church. “So we must witness to our belief in Jesus without aggressively attacking the others.” Accad, a specialist in Christian-Muslim relations and also associate professor of Islamic Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary, said positive engagement is the best approach for Christians to take toward Islam. “Visit their places of worship and get to know them, and invite them to yours,” Accad said. “Educate your own congregation about Islam in a balanced way. Engage in transformational partnerships with moderate Muslim leaders who are working towards a more peaceful world.” The element of the protests that most baffled Christians living in the Muslim world was that burning or tearing another religion’s book seemed so unchristian, they said. “In what way can burning or ripping the Quran serve Christianity or Christians?” Sidhom of Watani said. “It is not an action fit for a servant of Christianity. It merely expresses hate and sends out a message of extreme hostility to Islam.” Accad called publicly desecrating the Quran an act of “sheer moral and ethical absurdity.” “These are not acts committed by followers of a Jesus ethic,” Accad said. “They will affect the image of Christianity as badly as the destruction of the World Trade Center affected the image of Islam.” Accad added, “Since when do followers of Jesus rip an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth?” Such protests also defeat the purposes of churches in Islamic nations, Christians said. H. Ramdani, a church leader in Algeria, said Christians must strive to build bridges with Muslims in order to proclaim Christ. “It’s destroying what we are doing and what we are planning to do,” he said of the protests. “People refuse to hear the gospel, but they ask the reason for the event. Muslims are more radical and sometimes they are brutal.” At press time Compass was unable to reach Terry by phone or e-mail for a reply to the Middle Eastern Christians’ complaints about the planned protests, but after he staged a Sept. 11 Quran-tearing event he released a statement expressing “great sadness” over the deaths that followed while denying that it was right for Muslims to react violently to such protests. “Such logic is like saying that a woman who is abused by her boyfriend or husband is guilty of bringing violence on herself because she said or did something that irritated him,” Terry stated. In the weeks leading up to the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attack, Terry Jones, leader of a small congregation in Gainesville, Fla., made his mark in the media by threatening to burn a stack of Qurans in protest of Islam. At the last minute, after wide condemnation from around the world, Jones stated that he felt “God is telling us to stop” and backed out of the protest. Despite Jones’ retreat, protestors unaffiliated with him burned Qurans in New York and Tennessee, and demonstrations swept across the Muslim world. In the relatively isolated attacks that ensued, protestors set fire to a Christian school and various government buildings, burning the school and the other structures to the ground. In Kashmir, 17 people were killed in Islamic assaults, and two protestors were killed in demonstrations in Afghanistan. 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Ramdani, Hadith, harmful, hate, hateful, hatred, hear, held, highlight, host, hostility, husband, ignite, image, impression, incendiary, incite, inflicted, Institute of Middle East Studies, invite, irrational, irritated, Islam, Islamic, Islamic Studies, isolated, Jesus, Jews, Kansas, Kashmir, Kasr El Dobara, killed, killing, kind, largest, late-term, leaders, leave, Lebanese, lives, logic, louder, majority, managing, mark, Martin Accad, media, message, Middle East, moderate, moral, Muhammad, murder, murdered, Muslim, muslims, names, nations, need, negative, networking, New York, newspaper, nothing, objections, Operation Rescue, opposite, pages, partnerships, Pastor, peaceful, people, performed, persecuting, Persecution, phone, physician, places, planned, plans, plastic, political, positive, present, presidential, proclaim, promotes, propaganda, proposed, Protestant, protesting, protestor, protestors, protests, provocations, provoke, publicly, purposes, Quran, radical, Randall Terry, re-examine, reach, react, reason, recorded, refuse, relations, relatively, religious, reply, results, retreat, right, right-wingers, rights, rip, ripped, roundly, sadness, Samia Sidhom, saying, sayings, school, Scott Roeder, seemingly, sends, series, servant, sheer, situation, small, speak, speaking, specialist, speech, stack, statement, stepping, stop, strengthened, strive, structures, stunts, suffer, suffering, Sunnah, supported, suppression, swept, targets, tear, telling, Tennessee, terrorist, think, threatening, threw, tide, tooth, transformational, trash, true, unable, unaffiliated, unchristian, uncontrollable, unnecessary, unwise, USA, use, various, vast, very, violence, violently, visit, Watani, West, White House, wide, witness, woman, words, working, world, World Trade Center, world-wide, worship \| 1 Comment Iranian Christian was arrested and took to unknown place Posted on January 5, 2010 by particularkev Farsi Christian News Network (FCNN), reports that at 8 am on December 16, 2009, several security officers entered the home of Hamideh Najafi, a Christian lady who resides in the city of Mashhad, and not only searched her home thoroughly, but also arrested and took her away to an unknown location. According to this news three security officers, two female and one male, who carried an order for arrest from the Revolutionary Court of Mashhad, entered the home of this lady and after searching the her home seized her personal belongings along with books, CDs, and hand painted portraits of Jesus Christ that were hanging on her walls. According to these officers the existence of these pictures will be sufficient evidence that would convict her in court. Even though Mashhad is the birthplace of Ayatollah Khamenei, the supreme leader of the Islamic Republic, and is considered one of the holiest centers of the Shiite faith (Ghom being the other center in Iran) and also a center of pilgrimage and theological schools, in the recent years there have been significant growth of the underground home based churches. Mashhad is an ultra-religious city where Rev. Hossein Soodmand, one of the recent Martyrs of the church in Iran was executed on December 3, 1990 at the Mashhad prison and was buried in a trash dump site outside of the city. According to FCNN, after 10 days of her arrest there has been no telephone contact or visitation granted to the family of Hamideh. Despite the worries about her well-being and the location of her detention, coupled with her husband’s frantic efforts to contact the Revolutionary Court of Mashhad in order to have information as to the nature of the charges against Hamideh, unfortunately as of now the officials have refused to provide any answers or information. When her husband finally decided to retain a lawyer in order to investigate his wife’s condition, the court officials notified him that the accusations were political in nature and she would be charged for contacting foreign Christian television networks. This incident is based on the yet-to-be-defined laws of the Islamic Republic of Iran regarding what constitutes a political crime and calling a religious television program does not constitute a political crime. Its is probable that Hamideh Najafi is currently being held at a detention center on the Vakil Abbad Blvd., next to the Mashhad prison, in order to be fully interrogated and confessions be obtained for future court trial. She has a 10 years old daughter that is currently suffering from a severe kidney and bladder infection that only her mother is capable of nursing her. According to news received this little girl’s condition, due to missing her mother and being away from her, is not well at all and during the last 10 days, she has not been able to attend school. The Committee of Christian Activists of the Human Rights in Iran, not only expresses its serious concerns regarding the condition of this Christian woman and the baseless accusations of political crimes that have been filed against her, but it is equally worried about the physical and psychological condition of the 10 years old daughter of Hamideh Najafi who needs her mother, and demands an immediate investigation and speedy freedom of this Christian lady. 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Hunt attributed much of the interest at this year’s meeting to his Great Commission Resurgence initiative. In a news conference following his re-election to a second term, he also addressed questions ranging from his opinion of controversial Seattle pastor Mark Driscoll to his view of Calvinism among Southern Baptists. “I feel there’s a lot of energy in the halls,” said Hunt, pastor of Atlanta-area First Baptist Church in Woodstock. “Everybody’s talking the same talk: ‘We need this Great Commission Resurgence.’ “We are saying times have been desperate,” Hunt added. “Now I really do sense fellow Southern Baptists are saying we need to get serious.” Asked about Driscoll, Hunt responded: “I don’t know him, never met him. A lot of young men like to follow his blogs and podcasts. It’s just been interesting.” Referring to motions from the floor placing Driscoll and the network he founded, Acts 29, in a bad light, Hunt said, “[T]he entire premise of being a Baptist is sort of thrown under the bus when you start telling someone who they can or cannot fellowship with.” He said it is a matter that it should be left to the conscience and the priesthood of the believer. About church methodology, Hunt said the SBC is a “great family fellowship” using varied methodologies which provide a healthy balance. Hunt said it might be that some of the perceived tension across generations of Southern Baptists is rooted in several things, including methodology, dress and music. Encouraged by what he said is the turnout of younger Southern Baptists, Hunt said, “[I]f we can move beyond our perceptions” and begin to “listen to heart of some of these young leaders,” Southern Baptists might be encouraged “to catch their passion.” Hunt relayed his experience at a recent International Mission Board appointment service in Denver where 101 mostly young missionaries were sent out, with the “majority going to extremely hard and dangerous places.” “With that type of commitment to Jesus Christ that they’re willing, many of them, to write their will before they leave with the understanding some of them will probably never return, I have a very difficult time spending my time talking about their jeans, whether hair is spiked or colored” or their musical tastes, Hunt said. By building relationships with younger leaders, “if we see some areas of concern, at least we have earned the right to speak into them.” On the continuing banter between Calvinists and those critical of the doctrine that attempts to describe God’s work in salvation, Hunt said the debate has raged for more than 400 years and is part of Baptist history. “We have wonderful men and women on both sides. I think the Baptist tent is large enough for both,” he said. Asked by a reporter if an invitation was made for President Barack Obama to address the SBC, Hunt said he knew of no such invitation. But Hunt, the first known Native American SBC president, said, “I feel like we will have a resolution to really honor our president, especially in the context of being the first African American to be elected. We have much to celebrate in that.” Hunt said he had ample opportunity to invite Republicans to speak, “but we felt that would send a wrong signal because we wanted to send prayer support to the new president and we are mandated to pray for our president.” Speaking to proposed federal hate crimes legislation that some say could infringe on biblical preaching, Hunt said he was not overly worried as long as pastors “stay in the context of preaching biblical truth. And if the day comes that we would be imprisoned for the proclamation of the Gospel becoming that much of an offense, we would join about two-thirds of the rest of the planet. “God forbid that I would travel to the Middle East to encourage those already in hostile settings while at same time being afraid to proclaim the message that I encourage,” Hunt said. Returning to the Great Commission Resurgence, Hunt answered a question regarding media access to the meetings of the proposed GCR task force. He said media presence would be “counterproductive because we want people to be at liberty to share their heart.” It could be “embarrassing where we’re just seeking wisdom,” Hunt added, “but we would love to have any and all of you at the meetings and as soon as it is over we’d be delighted to share what we came to by way of context.” Hunt said he has “no desire whatsoever to touch the structure of the SBC and the truth is, I couldn’t if I wanted to. It would violate policy.” Hunt said perhaps more clarity in his early statements about the GCR document could have helped ease fears of drastic change. Even if the GCR task force were rejected, traction already has been gained by efficiency studies at the Georgia and Florida conventions and at the Southern Baptist mission boards, Hunt said. In responding to the first question asked at the news conference, Hunt predicted if the GCR were to pass that evening, he likely would name the members of the task force June 24 and it would include several seminary professors, a college president, an associational director of missions, pastors of churches of varied sizes spanning the country and ethnically diverse members. “I don’t have all the names so I’d probably miss some,” Hunt said. “But I’d be quick to say it will be a very fair committee.” Posted in Baptist, Barack Obama, Christianity, evangelism, Florida, Georgia, Mars Hill Church, Reformed, Southern Baptist, USA \| Tagged access, Acts 29, address, addressed, afraid, African, American, ample, annual meeting, answered, appointment, areas, asked, associational, Atlanta-area First Baptist Church, attempts, attendance, attributed, bad light, balance, banter, Baptist, Barack Obama, becoming, believer, beyond, Biblical, Blogs, boards, brethren, building, bus, Calvinism, Calvinists, catch, celebrate, change, church, churches, clarity, college, coloured, committee, committment, concern, conference, conscience, context, continuing, controversial, conventions, counterproductive, country, crimes, critical, dangerous, debate, delighted, Denver, describe, desire, desperate, director, diverse, doctrine, document, drastic, dress, early, earned, ease, efficiency, elected, embarrassing, encouraged, energy, entire, especially, ethnically, evening, exceeding, expected, experience, expresses, extremely, fair, family, fears, federal, feel, fellow, fellowship, first, floor, Florida, follow, following, forbid, founded, gained, GCR, generations, Georgia, God, gospel, great, Great Commission, Great Commission Resurgence, hair, halls, hard, hate, healthy, heart, helped, History, honor, hostile, imprisoned, infrings, initiative, interest, interesting, International Mission Board, invitation, invite, jeans, Jesus Christ, Johnny Hunt, join, Jonathan Hunt, knew, known, large, leaders, least, leave, legislation, liberty, listen, love, majority, mandated, Mark Driscoll, media, meeting, members, men, ments, message, messengers, methodologies, methodology, Middle East, miss, mission, missionaries, motions, music, musical, names, native, network, never, news, offense, opinion, opportunity, pass, passion, Pastor, people, perceived, perceptions, places, placing, planet, podcasts, policy, pray, prayer, preaching, predicted, premise, presence, President, priesthood, probably, proclaim, proclamation, professors, proposed, provide, questions, raged, ranging, re-election, really, recent, referring, registered, rejected, relationships, relayed, reporter, Republicans, resolution, responded, rest, return, right, rooted, salvation, same, saying, SBC, Seattle, second term, seeking, seminary, sense, serious, service, settings, share, signal, sizes, Southern Baptist Convention, spanning, speak, spending, spiked, start, state, stay, structure, studies, support, talk, talking, task force, tastes, telling, tension, tent, thrown, times, touch, traction, tradition, travel, truth, turnout, type, understanding, urgency, varied, view, violate, will, willing, wisdom, women, wonderful, Woodstock, work, worried, wrong, young, younger \| 1 Comment	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line1141
__label__wiki	0.845683	0.845683	Tag Archives: protectorate Buddhist Bhutan Proposes ‘Anti-Conversion’ Law Already suppressed Christians say bill is designed to control growth. THIMPHU, Bhutan, July 21 (CDN) — Christians in this Himalayan nation who are still longing to openly practice their faith were disheartened this month when the government proposed the kind of “anti-conversion” law that other nations have used as a pretext for falsely accusing Christians of “coercion.” The amendment bill would punish “proselytizing” that “uses coercion or other forms of inducement” – vaguely enough worded, Christians fear, that vigilantes could use it to jail them for following the commands of Christ to feed, clothe and otherwise care for the poor. “Now, under section 463 [of the Penal Code of Bhutan], a defendant shall be guilty of the offense of proselytization if the defendant uses coercion or other forms of inducement to cause the conversion of a person from one religion or faith to another,” reported the government-run Kuensel newspaper on July 9. “There was always a virtual anti-conversion law in place, but now it is on paper too,” said a senior pastor from Thimphu on condition of anonymity. “Seemingly it is aimed at controlling the growth of Christianity.” Kuenlay Tshering, a member of Bhutan’s Parliament and the chairperson of its Legislative Council, told Compass that the new section is consonant with Article 7(4) of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Bhutan, which states, “A Bhutanese citizen shall have the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion. No person shall be compelled to belong to another faith by means of coercion or inducement.” He said that the National Council had proposed that offenses under the proposal be classified as misdemeanors, punishable by one to less than three years in prison. Tshering said that the amendment bill “may be passed during the next session of Parliament, after the National Assembly deliberates on it in the winter session.” Asked if he was aware that similar “anti-conversion” laws in neighboring India had been misused to harass Christians through vague terms of “inducement,” he said he was not. Authorities usually act on complaints by local residents against Christian workers, so frivolous complaints can lead to their arrest, said another pastor who requested anonymity. Of the 683,407 people in Bhutan, over 75 percent are Buddhist, mainly from the west and the east. Hindus, mostly ethnic Nepalese from southern Bhutan, are estimated to be around 22 percent of the population. There are around 6,000 Christians, mostly ethnic Nepalese, but there is neither a church building nor a registered Christian institution. The Bible, however, has been translated into the national language, Dzongkha, as well as into Nepali. The constitution guarantees freedom of religion, but the government has not officially recognized the presence of Christians, whose practice of faith remains confined to their homes. The Drukpa Kagyue school of Mahayana Buddhism is the state religion, with Hinduism dominant in the south, according to Bhutan’s official website, which adds, “Some residues of Bon, animism and shamanism still exist in some pockets of the country,” but makes no mention of Christianity. Still, since Bhutan became a democracy in 2008 after its first-ever elections – following more than 100 years of absolute monarchy – people have increasingly exercised their freedom, including religious choice. ‘Why More Religions?’ Home and Culture Minister Lyonpo Minjur Dorji told Compass that Bhutan’s government had “no problems” with Christianity or any other faith. “But Bhutan is a small country, with a little more than 600,000 people, and a majority of them are Buddhist,” Dorji said. “We have Hindus, also mainly in southern parts. So why do we need more religions?” Buddhism is closely linked with political and social life in Bhutan. Dorji’s office sits in a gigantic monastery in Thimphu known as Tashichho Dzong. Buddhism unites and brings people together, Dorji said, explaining that the social life of a village revolves around its dzong (monastery). Dorji said India’s multi-religious society had led to tensions and bloodshed. “India can survive riots and unrest,” he said, “but Bhutan may not, because it is a small country between two giants [India and China].” With leaders who have been proud that they have not allowed it to be colonized, Bhutan historically has been keenly concerned about its survival. Bhutan’s people see their distinct culture, rather than the military, as having protected the country’s sovereignty. And it is no coincidence that Dorji’s portfolio includes both internal security and preservation of culture. The constitution, adopted in July 2008, also requires the state to protect Bhutan’s cultural heritage and declares that Buddhism is the spiritual heritage of Bhutan. A government official who requested anonymity said that, as Tibet went to China and Sikkim became a state in India, “now which of the two countries will get Bhutan?” This concern is prevalent among the Bhutanese, he added. Sikkim, now a state in India’s northeast, was a Buddhist kingdom with indigenous Bhotia and Lepcha people groups as its subjects. But Hindus from Nepal migrated to Sikkim for work and gradually outnumbered the local Buddhists. In 1975, a referendum was held to decide if Sikkim, then India’s protectorate, should become an official state of the country. Since over 75 percent of the people in Sikkim were Nepalese – who knew that democracy would mean majority-rule – they voted for its incorporation into India. Bhutan and India’s other smaller neighbors saw it as brazen annexation. And it is believed that Sikkim’s “annexation” made Bhutan wary of the influence of India. In the 1980s, Bhutan’s king began a one-nation-one-people campaign to protect its sovereignty and cultural integrity, which was discriminatory to the ethnic Nepalese, who protested. Their non-compliance, however, resulted in a harsh crackdown by authorities, leading to the expulsion or voluntary migration of over 100,000 ethnic Nepalese, many of whom were Christians, to the Nepal side of the border in Jhapa in the early 1990s. “Bhutan did not want to become another Sikkim,” said a local resident, explaining why the government did not tolerate the protests. Bhutan is also rigorous in implementing its laws related to the use of the national language, the national dress code and the uniform architectural standards throughout the country to strengthen its cultural integrity. Bhutanese men are required to wear the gho, a knee-length robe tied at the waist by a cloth belt, when they go to work or attend a public function. Women have to wear the kira, an ankle-length dress clipped at one shoulder and tied at the waist. Non-compliance can lead to fine and imprisonment. Brighter Future One hopeful pastor said he expects the government to officially acknowledge the existence of Christianity in Bhutan in the near future. “Religious freedom will be good for both Christians and the government,” he said. “If Christians are not officially acknowledged, who will the government go to if it wants to implement an executive decision related to religious communities?” Explaining the reason for his hope, he recalled an incident in the Punakha area in January, when a house under construction was demolished after rumors that it was used as a church. “The house owner, a Christian, went to his majesty [King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck] and told him he was not constructing a church but would have worship with other believers on Sundays,” the pastor said. “The king allowed him to build the house.” He also said that a delegation of Christians met with Prime Minister Lyonchen Jigmey Thinley in May 2009, who reassured them that there would be more freedom soon. Christianity is gradually growing, but through word-of-mouth – testimonies of those who have received healing from sickness – and not public preaching, he said, adding that Christians needed to understand and be patient with the government, “which cannot and should not make changes or give freedom overnight.” Christians’ Skulls, Bones Used for Buddhist Ritual The ambiguity in Bhutan over the status of Christians has brought with it a new difficulty: A national daily recently reported that at least eight graves of Christians had been exhumed and the skulls and thigh bones extracted for a Buddhist ritual. Although the report marked the first time the practice had made the news, Christian leaders said more than 100 graves have been dug up as the trade in human bones has been going on for more than five years. A local resident of the Lamperi area, near Thimphu, identified as Namgay, told the Bhutan Observer that he found eight graves in a “secret forest graveyard” that had been exhumed by hunters of craniums and thigh bone. “We saw skulls without craniums and a hand sticking out of a grave,” he was quoted as saying in the daily on May 27. A human skull garners between 5,000 ngultrum (US$105) and 10,000 ngultrum (US$211) in Bhutan, with men’s skulls considered more valuable. The skull of a man affected by leprosy is not considered ideal for purification. Rather, such skulls are considered best for rituals to subdue evil spirits. In a visit to the graveyard, the Bhutan Observer found at least eight graves freshly dug up. “Hand gloves, khaddar [a coarse homespun cotton cloth], a currency note, a wooden cross, and a wooden hammer lay scattered all over,” it reported. The daily said the graveyard apparently belonged to the Christian community in Thimphu and nearby areas. “Christians in the country say that there should be an official recognition that there are Christians in the country, and other things like burial rights will naturally follow,” the report noted. A local pastor told Compass that since Christians did not have a burial ground, they buried their dead in forests. “More than 100 bodies have been dug up, even though we have changed several locations for burial,” he said. “I wonder how the traders in human bones discover these locations. Where do we go now?” Some local residents reportedly believe that a Christian grave brings bad luck. Damcho Wangchu, a resident of Thinleygang area, told the daily that the area surrounding the graveyard was holy. He attributed all misfortune in the area – including storms, the death of three students and of four others – to the Christian cemetery. “We never experienced such misfortunes in our gewog [cluster of villages] before,” he said. The daily explained that the tradition of use of human skulls and thigh bones in Buddhist rituals was as old as Tantric Buddhism itself. “Thoepai Dagpa is a generic name for the text that illustrates the use and study of quality of skulls,” it reported. Tantric Buddhism, widespread in Bhutan, involves rituals as a substitute or alternative for the earlier abstract meditations. 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__label__cc	0.687154	0.312846	How Common Is Human Metapneumovirus? Posted on April 9, 2012 by Pediatric Education A 15-year-old male came to the emergency room with cough, runny nose and fever to 101.5° F for 2 days. The cough was increasing in intensity overall and occurred day and night. There was no paroxysmal quality and the patient said he felt breathless. The past medical history was positive for mild intermittent asthma with the last episode occurring more than 5 years ago. He denied chest pain, myalgia, arthralgia, sore throat, emesis, nausea or diarrhea. The pertinent physical exam showed a tired appearing male whose oxygen saturation was 93%, respiratory rate of 40, with a normal pulse, blood pressure and growth parameters. He had very mild intercostal retractions, but no tracheal tugging or nasal flaring. He had no cyanosis or stridor. HEENT showed mild clear rhinorrhea. Lungs revealed very mild intermittent wheezes at the bases. The rest of the examination was normal. The radiologic evaluation demonstrated some mild perihilar streaking without focal abnormalities consistent with viral pneumonia. The diagnosis of viral pneumonia was made. The patient was given an albuterol nebulizer treatment and had some moderate improvement. He was discharged home with followup in 2 days with his regular physician. At followup he reported some moderate improvement with albuterol treatments and his fever had subsided 1 day previously. He was not tachypneic and had no signs of respiratory distress. The laboratory evaluation of a nasal wash specimen done in the emergency room was positive for human metapneumovirus. Acute respiratory infections particularly clinical pneumonia are one of the most common causes of death world-wide. Clinical pneumonia in children less than 5 years old in developing countries is approximately 0.29 episodes per child-year or about 151.8 million cases per year of which 8.7% require hospitalization. An additional 4 million children are hospitalized in developed countries per year. There are great differences across the world with the distribution of pneumonia cases. The 5 countries with the highest incidence of clinical pneumonia are India, China, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nigeria. Even within these countries there are differences, for example rural areas often have higher incidences. Estimates of pneumonia mortality in children less than 5 years of age is about 2 million per year. This is probably an underestimate especially in the neonatal age group. Again there are differences in the distribution of the deaths ranging from 45% in Africa to 2-3% in Europe and the Americas. About 2/3rds of deaths occur in 10 countries: India, Nigeria, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, China, Bangladesh, Angola and Niger. Definite risk factors affecting the incidence of childhood pneumonia include low birth weight, malnutrition, non-exclusive breastfeeding during the first 4 months of life, lack of measles vaccination in first 12 months of life, crowding and indoor air pollution. Other likely risk factors include maternal caregiving experience, parental smoking, concomitant diseases and zinc deficiency. Common bacterial organisms causing pneumonia worldwide include Streptococcus pneumonia (leading bacterial cause when isolated), H. influenza type b and non-typeable, Staphlococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumonia, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and non-typhoid Salmonella. Other important organisms causing pneumonia including Mycoplasma pneumoniae, Chlamydia species, Pseudomonas, Escherichia coli, and Pneumocystis. Common viral causes of pneumonia include Respiratory Syncytial virus, Influenza and B, Parainfluenza, Human metapneumovirus and Adenovirus. Measles and varicella are two other important causes. RSV is the most common viral cause when isolated in many studies. There can be difficulties in detecting respiratory viruses including not actually testing for a particular organism or differences in detection methods. One study in Finland found ~15% (5% for each group) of rapid virus detection specimens had adenovirus, human metapneumovirus and human bocavirus (a Parvoviridae virus causing respiratory infections identified in 2005). Co-infection rates between the viruses ranged from 1% (hMPV and Adenovirus) to 12% (hMPV and Human Bocavirus). hMPV and RSV was 4%. In another study in China found co-infection rate of hMPV and RSV of 25%. Human metapneumovirus (hMPV) is a single-stranded RNA virus in the Paramyxoviridae family that is closely related to avian metapneumovirus. It was identified in 2001 in the Netherlands. It can cause illnesses that range from asymptomatic to severe respiratory distress and possibly death. Young children under age 2 are particularly susceptible. Twenty-five percent of children 6-12 months were seropositive for past infection and this increased to 100% by age 5. hMPV can occur in all ages. It occurs in all areas of the world and is seasonal in nature. 1. What are indications for hospitalization for pneumonia? 2. What treatment is available for patient hospitalized with pneumonia? Disease: Human Metapneumovirus \| Pneumonia Symptom/Presentation: Cough \| Fever and Fever of Unknown Origin \| Infections \| Respiratory Distress Allergy / Pulmonary Diseases \| Emergency Medicine \| General Pediatrics Information prescriptions for patients can be found at MedlinePlus for this topic: Pneumonia</a Arnold JC, Singh KK, Spector SA, Sawyer MH. Undiagnosed Respiratory Viruses in Children. Pediatrics. 2008;121;e631. Rudan I, Boschi-Pinto C, Biloglav Z, Mulholland K, Campbell H. Epidemiology and etiology childhood pneumonia. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 2008;321-416. Domachowske J, and Steele RW. Pediatric Human Metapneumovirus. Medscape. Available from the Internet at http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/972492-overview (rev. 10/24/11, cited 2/19/12). Zhao X, Chen X, Zhang Z. Outbreak of Human Metapneumovirus Infection in Children in Chongqing, China. Pediatrics. 2008;s135. ACGME Competencies Highlighted by Case 1. When interacting with patients and their families, the health care professional communicates effectively and demonstrates caring and respectful behaviors. 2. Essential and accurate information about the patients’ is gathered. 3. Informed decisions about diagnostic and therapeutic interventions based on patient information and preferences, up-to-date scientific evidence, and clinical judgment is made. 4. Patient management plans are developed and carried out. 5. Patients and their families are counseled and educated. 7. All medical and invasive procedures considered essential for the area of practice are competently performed. 10. An investigatory and analytic thinking approach to the clinical situation is demonstrated. 11. Basic and clinically supportive sciences appropriate to their discipline are known and applied. Practice Based Learning and Improvement 13. Information about other populations of patients, especially the larger population from which this patient is drawn, is obtained and used.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line1145
__label__wiki	0.673252	0.673252	NATIONAL PRO FASTPITCH ANNOUNCES OLYMPIC CHANNEL TO CONTINUE COVERAGE FOR SECOND CONSECUTIVE SEASON Broadcasts, Featured, League News NASHVILLE, Tenn. (June 19, 2018) – National Pro Fastpitch announced an agreement with the global Olympic Channel for regular season and championship action from the 2018 NPF season. The agreement includes more than twenty games and will… https://profastpitch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/NPF-Olympic-Channel-for-website.jpg 658 1282 Bailey https://profastpitch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/national-pro-fastpitch-logo.png Bailey2018-06-20 10:19:402018-06-21 13:39:26NATIONAL PRO FASTPITCH ANNOUNCES OLYMPIC CHANNEL TO CONTINUE COVERAGE FOR SECOND CONSECUTIVE SEASON ESPN+ and NPF Announce Exclusive Broadcast Partnership Broadcasts, Featured, Home Page Top, League News Summer-Long Schedule Features Multiple Appearances from Every Team in the League Addition of NPF Grows ESPN’s Softball Portfolio, Continues Long-Standing Commitment to the Sport Per ESPN (May 24, 2018) ESPN+ has added more exclusive… https://profastpitch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/NPF-espnp-news.jpg 321 845 Michael Newman https://profastpitch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/national-pro-fastpitch-logo.png Michael Newman2018-06-11 14:35:362018-11-06 10:30:35ESPN+ and NPF Announce Exclusive Broadcast Partnership Outfielder Janie Reed Signs with Chicago Bandits Chicago Bandits, Featured ROSEMONT, IL (May 5, 2020) – The Chicago Bandits have agreed to terms on a one-year contract with outfielder Janie Reed for the 2020 NPF season, team officials announced Tuesday afternoon. An alum of the Oregon Softball program, Reed (formerly… https://profastpitch.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Just-Signed-Janie-Reed-Facebook.png 788 940 Julie Walton https://profastpitch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/national-pro-fastpitch-logo.png Julie Walton2020-05-05 13:43:252020-05-05 13:43:25Outfielder Janie Reed Signs with Chicago Bandits	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line1155
__label__cc	0.73851	0.26149	"Performance Anxiety" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity. Anxiety related to the execution of a task. (Campbell's Psychiatric Dictionary, 9th ed.) F01.470.132.650 Anxieties, Performance Anxiety, Performance Performance Anxieties Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Performance Anxiety". Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms [F01] Emotions [F01.470] Anxiety [F01.470.132] Performance Anxiety [F01.470.132.650] Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is related to "Performance Anxiety". Anxiety, Castration Catastrophization Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Performance Anxiety". This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Performance Anxiety" by people in this website by year, and whether "Performance Anxiety" was a major or minor topic of these publications. Below are the most recent publications written about "Performance Anxiety" by people in Profiles.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line1157
__label__cc	0.736672	0.263328	Apple Enhances Photo Organization, Camera with iOS 10 Bryan Esler While Wednesday’s announcement of the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus was deeply catered to photographers, you don’t need to upgrade your device to get all the new features Apple is offering. iOS 10, which will be released Sept. 13, introduces a new reign of organizational capabilities for your photos and videos, along with some long-desired features. RAW! That’s right — iOS 10 introduces RAW image capture, which means your workflow can be streamlined more than ever before. Third party apps can take advantage of shooting in RAW once implemented, meaning you can both edit and take RAW photographs with a tool like Adobe Lightroom Mobile. It also means you can bring over RAW photos from your phone to your desktop tools, and have better control over the editing process. RAW image capture will be supported on the iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone SE, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus and all iPad Pro devices. Apple’s stock Photos app has always allowed you to view your photos by location. But now, you can view these photos on a map through the “Places” album, allowing you to easily locate where a particular photo or group of photos was taken. For me, I go to a great deal of Michigan State games (Go Green!), and I use my iPhone to take pictures. While I put them into albums organized by game, I might want to see all of the photos I’ve taken on East Lansing’s campus. And now I can easily do that. Never Forget Your Best Friend’s Face Apple’s desktop Photos app has long allowed you to add facial recognition to your photos. For instance, you might want to find all the photos of your sister, to embarrass her for her upcoming birthday. Now you can do that easier than ever before — just go into the “Peoples” album in the iOS Photos app, and you’ll see all of the faces that have been found in your photos. “People” are automatically scanned when your iPhone or iPad is locked and connected to power, so there’s no extra work from your end. It also will sync with Photos on your Mac, so what you see on your iPhone, you’ll also see on your Mac. “Reading Your Mind” Search and Memories One of the coolest organizational features in iOS 10’s Photos app is Search. Now you’re allowed to search both your photo’s EXIF data and what the Photos app captures on its own. Your device automatically scans your photos — similar to how it does facial recognition — and categorizes your photos. So if I have a photograph of a building, I don’t have to manually enter a keyword in the EXIF data. Instead, Photos will look at the photo and know it’s a picture of a building. This is super handy for those of us who use our devices to show potential clients photos. You might get asked if you have any building photos from your local city. You can search for building, and they’ll instantly appear. It’s like assigning keywords in Lightroom on your computer, but instead it does it for you. iOS 10 also uses this information to populate the “Memories” tab, which are slideshows of your photos it generates automatically. It can do this based on location, faces and with any of the other data it scans. Photo Editing and Markup Enhancements Additionally, iOS 10 now brings its editing tools to Live Photos, meaning you can optimize your Live Photos before sharing them. You can also markup your photos, writing text and scribbling on them before posting them to social media. Minor Camera App Updates The Camera app didn’t see as many updates as the Photos app, but there are still some noteworthy features. You can now add filters to your Live Photos, which have been enhanced to take advantage of better image stabilization. Gone are the jagged edges that often plagued Live Photos. You can also now listen to music without it stopping while using your camera. Finally, if you swipe left on your lock screen, the Camera app will now immediately appear. This is a small change from previous versions in iOS — you used to be able to swipe up from the bottom right corner. Regardless of what device you have, iOS 10 is an exciting update for photographers of any medium. The advantages around shooting in RAW, coupled with the new organizational tools, make this a valuable update. Bryan Esler( Managing Editor ) Bryan is a photographer specializing in capturing corporate events, food/drink and advertising imagery. Based in Grand Rapids, MI, he has worked with clients such as CNBC, Michigan State University, ArtPrize, Grand Rapids Magazine and more. His work has also been featured by Delta Airlines, NBC, Microsoft and Pure Michigan. bryanesler.com AppleiPhoneiPadiOS 10 Mobile Mondays: How to enable screen recording on your iPhone Mark Morrow Whether recording detailed in-app tutorials or processing videos for co-workers, friends and family, one of the most effective ways to learn — for myself, at macOS Big Sur is almost here; is it safe to upgrade? With macOS Big Sur set to be released later today, we wanted to take a look at some of the most popular photo editing applications Exporting a Live Photo from an iPhone as GIF in Photos for Mac Mykii Liu With Apple’s Live Photos built into iPhones 6S and above, millions of people have been sharing animated images to each other across the Messages app. Why switch from Apple Photos to Adobe Lightroom? If I didn’t know much about photography and just wanted photos to easily sync up with my Mac and all my iOS devices all while being able Final Cut Pro X Basics: Editing using musical peaks and beats to add emphasis Chris Anson In this video article, using Final Cut Pro X, I’m going to show you how to take a piece of music and using markers, to Is your workflow compatible with MacOS Mojave? Apple has officially released its latest MacOS — Mojave, version 10.14. This new version highlights features such as a system-wide Dark Mode, Stacks, Dynamic Desktop As much as, at first, I thought to myself, “Yippee! RAW!,” I have to say that this is going to be a huge blow to the event photographer, possibly he landscape photographer, actually just about ay category or subject. Where it was advantageous at one time long ago for the photographer with the DSLR to get those all important shots in RAW instead of jpeg, on September 13, ANYONE with ANY iPhone that can take the iOS upgrade will have the same advantage as the professional. That means weddings, parties, landscapes, cityscapes. I don’t know, Call me a paranoid conspiracy… Read more » Reply to HH I only think it narrows the distance slightly. Being a professional photographer isn’t all about shooting in RAW, or even having the right gear for the job. It’s about having an eye, knowing how to go about covering an event or shooting a landscape. It’s about lighting, and focus, and everything else we, as photographers, have learned over the years. Sure, there will be some people who think an iPhone offering RAW image capture means that it’s professional quality. But it’s our job as professionals to educate our clients, and show them the advantages of a professional photographer. You can… Read more » Reply to Bryan Esler Bryan, you’re right. It’ll be “crazy fantastic”, especially if you “forgot” or intentionally left the “heavy” gear home, to e able to “whip out” the phone and snap that shot. Though, I have ought with how easily I can adjust exposure and maintain focus simultaneously (i.e.: when I tap the screen for focus on subject, then tap to increase or decrease exposure in that area, I lose the focus on object, and a lot of time is wasted trying to swipe that slider which isn’t so easy to “grab”.) On top of that, unless I am missing something, as I… Read more »	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line1159
__label__cc	0.506789	0.493211	The Insider Authority on Gator Sports Visit GatorCountry.Com Photo Gallery: 2010 Commitment Trey Burton, Venice High School, 5/1/09 Venice -- May 1st signals not just the coming of summer, but the first day high schools around the state of Florida can start spring practice. At Venice High School, hopes are high after an 11-1 season which fizzled in the second round of the playoffs against rival Punta Gorda Charlotte. The Indians have a deep and talented roster which includes Florida QB commitment Trey Burton (6-3, 215), and his younger brother Clay Burton (6-4, 225), a rising junior TE/DE prospect who already is receiving attention from the Gators. 2010 TE prospect Brandon Wilkinson (6-4, 215), recently received an offer from the University of Minnesota, which gives him his first offer from a BCS program. Fellow TE/DE prospect Beckett Wales (6-3, 210), is also a highly regarded prospect, and receiving attention from a number of schools. Florida assistant coach Scot Loeffler was expected to be at practice on Saturday to observe his top QB commitment for the Class of 2010 (Burton) in action for the first time since he took over as quarterbacks coach back in January. Class of 2010 University of Florida prospect Beckett Whales (TE/DE) of Venice High School works out on the first day of Spring practice on Friday, May 1, 2009 in Venice, Fla. / Gator Country photo by Casey Brooke Lawson	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line1161
__label__cc	0.514169	0.485831	New Stroke Division Chief Leads Research on Motor Recovery Therapy Multicenter study offers significant potential for non-invasive treatment option Lindsay Kenton Non-invasive transcranial direct current stimulation has significant potential to contribute to the otherwise sparse landscape of stroke recovery therapies for post-stroke limb weakness, according to Wuwei “Wayne” Feng, MD, MS, the new chief of the Stroke and Vascular Neurology Division in the Department of Neurology. “Treatment for stroke rehabilitation and recovery is quite lacking, as there is not much well-established evidence in the field,” says Feng, who also serves as medical director of Duke’s Comprehensive Stroke Center. “We want to particularly focus on brain modulation techniques and hope to bring more research to this much-needed area to come up with new ways to zap the brain and develop new therapies for patients.” To further these efforts, Duke soon will become the 13th stroke center in the United States to participate in a four-year phase II multicenter transcranial direct current stimulation study funded by an $8.1 million grant from StrokeNet, a National Institutes for Health program. The TRANScranial Direct Current Stimulation for POst-stroke Motor Recovery: A phase II sTudy (TRANSPORT 2) will evaluate three dosing selection based on the preliminary efficacy, safety, tolerability, and feasibility for participants who have experienced a first-ever ischemic stroke within one to six months of enrolling in the study. During the study, patients will receive direct current to the scalp through two electrode pads for 30 minutes per day while simultaneously receiving modified constraint-induced movement therapy for two hours per day. The three dosing groups are sham, 2 milliamps, and 4 milliamps, and patients will return to Duke for 10 total intervention sessions over a two-week period. “If we can select the optimal dose group from this study and confirm the effectiveness in the phase III study, this will become a new rehabilitation therapy for stroke patients with motor deficits—the most common complication after stroke,” he says. Feng explains the benefit of this combination of therapies: On the central nervous system/brain level, patients receive positive current on the affected side to boost brain activity and negative current on the unaffected side to suppress brain activity. On the peripheral nervous system/limb level, patients suppress the movement of the unaffected hand by wearing a large mitten while receiving high-intensity therapy to force the use of the hand affected by stroke. “In this way, patients get double stimulation to trigger the brain to rewire itself to function better,” Feng adds. If we can select the optimal dose group from this study and confirm the effectiveness in the phase III study, this will become a new rehabilitation therapy for stroke patients with motor deficits—the most common complication after stroke. Wuwei “Wayne” Feng, MD, MS, chief of the Stroke and Vascular Neurology Division As part of the TRANSPORT 2 study, Feng has developed an imaging biomarker that helps determine the exact location and severity of damage to the corticospinal tract—the pathway that connects the brain to the limb—in patients who have experienced ischemic stroke. “We use a combination of imaging biomarkers developed by my lab, a neurophysiology tool, and clinical assessment to carefully calculate the exact brain damage from the stroke,” Feng says. “This approach will help identify what kind of patients will best respond to this type of brain stimulation intervention.” In addition to leading this national study, Feng and his team in the brain modulation and stroke recovery lab will focus on the study of other non-invasive neuromodulation tools in stroke recovery, including transcranial magnetic stimulation, low-intensity focused ultrasound, and a remote-ischemic preconditioning tool that Duke researchers will study patients to develop future innovative techniques for stroke recovery. Patients can enroll in the TRANSPORT 2 study or the various other stroke rehabilitation studies at Duke’s brain modulation and stroke recovery lab by contacting Kristina Balderson at kristina.balderson@duke.edu or 919-684-0071. Neurology & Neurosurgery CMEs Wuwei Feng, MD, FAHA Vascular Neurologist	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line1163
__label__cc	0.569336	0.430664	The scene at CNN when Charlie Sheen arrived for his "Piers Morgan Tonight" interview With less than 10 minutes to go before "Piers Morgan Tonight" went live on the air, Charlie Sheen still had not arrived at the CNN LA bureau last night (here's some backstory). But his car pulled up, out came his friend Tony Todd and assistants Rick Calamaro and Stacey, and just a few minutes later he was on the air talking to Piers Morgan. Check out the scene when Sheen arrived, including Piers coming to say hi before the interview. More below: "Well the whole world's going to watch this," he said, to which Sheen responded, "I hope so." (Another behind-the-scenes nugget – CNN correspondent Nic Robertson was slated to contribute his excellent uprising reporting on last night's program if Sheen wasn't on, but instead, after Sheen had arrived, he asked if he could keep the line open to listen to the show. A little levity in a tense situation...) Post by: Steve Krakauer Filed under: Behind The Scenes Second comment: I am extremely disappointed that Piers had Charlie Sheen as a guest last night. It was beyond poor judgment. I honestly thought CNN would show respect for a fellow human being with behavior problems. If it was a CNN employee, would you have spent an hour bantering with someone who lost control of reality? I think not. Piers, shame on you and the network. My heart aches for the Sheen family. Please, please give them privacy. March 1, 2011 at 4:44 pm \| Report abuse \| Reply CNN does not give two doo-doo piles about its' employees, their off duty activities or for that matter, their on duty activities as evidenced by the shocking lack of talent currently on the air. It's a lotta coin to pay these scoundrels, rock stars and Twitsters and they all collectively sound moronic in their demeanor, their lack of journalistic skill and quite frankly, in everything CNN does. "Why did she show up in to an awards show in a bikini in the first place?" C'mon, even their promos are dusty. CNN, wake up and rehire some talent. It's in the dictionary and you're getting warm when you are near the word "tacky." They really are ANN and you can guess what the "A" stands for. Hint: Not accuracy. booneeblue It's the Esteves family, just to let you know. Mr. Sheen said that Chuck Lorre's real name was Chaim Levine, as if that was a bad thing. Charlie Sheen's real name is Carlos IRWIN Estévez. Is that why he feels he is a irWINner? No offense but...Irwin? Gosh, if that was my real name, I would never bring up the subject of real names. March 2, 2011 at 2:52 pm \| Report abuse \| This was one of the more sane interviews that Charlie Sheen has given. I think that Mr.Morgan asked him excellent questions. Charlie Sheen is living in his own reality right now....2 years from now he may be in a a different reality. The saddest part of rme are his children. Every child deserves to have a parent whose main concern is them. I think Charlie Sheen can turn it off and on...the only thing now... it's mostly on the off switch. Charlie Sheen is no dumbie.....but I think he may be playing a losing game. Sometimes people go to far and it doesn't matter who you are...I'm hoping hehasn't done that. By the way Mr. Morgan...love your show and watch it every night. March 2, 2011 at 12:27 am \| Report abuse \| Reply My heart is sick over Charlie Sheen.I am not unfamiliar with drug addiction, and if Charlie is clean than he is very very sick and needs help desperately.I am fearful that his days are numbered and not because of using cocaine! Wow. CNN please continue to grace us with interviews of this caliber and please keep the conversation rolling. Many of your viewers most likely have done drugs, smoked cigarettes and have even partied and now have reached an age that they seem to think they can judge others for what they do. This is ridiculous. They should stay in bed. And to think that someone who they think has problems shouldn't be interviewed. Quite puritanical thinking. Join a religious group Piers Morgan gave Charlie Sheen plenty of opportunity to talk about addiction, which Sheen certainly is no newby at. Instead, Sheen argued that traditional addiction models leave no room for "individuality and creativity." March 7, 2011 at 9:27 am \| Report abuse \| Reply Penny Harris I am so completely in agreement with you. I was appalled when I saw this interview. Having worked as a therapist, I do know that although he was found to be not on any drugs during this interview, it was so obvious that he was grandiose, delusional and some what paranoid. I was so so sad to see CNN use this man's illness as a means to garner an audience. It is not uncommon for people in psychic pain to use a drug to choice to camouflage the source of pain. I can imagine the pain the family had for this man, a son and a father. He became an object of ridicule, absolutely used by the network and interviewed by someone inept for a situation such as this. A pity. Charlie is not close to realizing he has lost touch with reality and he is making a fool of himself 24/7 anyway. He is desperately hoping people keep wathcing. ryan labine Why would your heart ache towards the sheen family, you dont even know them there just peole you saw on television. Why would you even let your heart ache towards something irrelevant as that, when you could be focusing your time and energy towards something that actually matters in your life instead of wasting it on pointles things like loathng towards media figures. You Americans make me laugh. May 11, 2011 at 6:48 pm \| Report abuse \| Reply AngelAnnie I agree with Mary Ann. Why oh why does all the media have to give ANY coverage to this man in so much pain, and his family. Well, it's all about ratings and money and the people like to see a person get beaten up...they also liked to see hangingd in France during the 18th C.... Ceecee to AngelAnnie: I hear you, you are trying to make a point on public lynching. But what does it have to do with France in the 18th century? In France people were "guillotined", not hanged... And certainly not left "hanging there" for the crowd to see ad the crows to feed on. That's more the "pirates of the Carribeans" way in the British colonies. May 23, 2011 at 12:58 pm \| Report abuse \| ranger1rg sheen told you he quit smoking and had the lungs of a 25 yr. old - just one of the dozens of things he lied about. Actually he didn't say he quit smoking.. you must have misheard him. Emjolina He not only did not say he quit smoking he said he has smoked 2 packs a day for 25yrs and has the lungs of a non-smoker based on a ct scan I personally find that impossible to believe but in his own words whatever dude lol While I do think the media has overplayed many of these celebrity stories, I thought Piers interview with Charlie well done. He did not appear to have an agenda or be judgmental (one of the mistakes many interviews make) but he listened well and directed the conversation in a respectful way. Hats off to you Piers–you have a loyal follower. I agree! It was tasteful and tactful. He didn't try to get a rise out of him to get numbers, and I greatly appreciate that. I think these Fox loyalists need to go to Fox's cite to diss on CNN. What an egotistical banker Jack Albert I watched the interview. Sheen is in a sad state. Not sure if he is ADD or on something but he behaved like a total juvenille. I used to love 2 and 1/2 men. Sheen is the hald man now. Pathetic, won't ever watch it again. I find it hard to believe that a Two and a half man follower would stop watching the show. The show is wonderfully funny, and if it were they were to finish it somehow, I think you would watching in a heart beat. Perhaps you don't quite understand the gravity of the situation.. whether or not he's clean now and for how long that will remain the fact is that he's been abusing drugs and alcohol for several decades now and that takes a toll on a man. He's lived a rockstar life and he's going to be pretty far out there, that is a given. Even if he remains clean and sober for the rest of his life he will continue to appear "off" for a long time to come. Yet if you can put his endless metaphors and odd behaviors aside and just listen to the man you might find he deserves more respect than you give him. sharon depp Charlie Sheen we all love you & are routing for your continued success!!! Make us Proud & take care of yourself. The public has spoken and the interview was done not sure if it was innapropriate. THank you Pierce and a job well done. The public is worried & you should be too. God Bless you, Get well Sharon Sorry Piers Morgan . You did a great job.... mo Rooney piers Morgan is in love with himself and the cult of celebrity. He never asks tough questions. worst interviewer on TV. Please bring back Larry King! I think that would only entice him to make an ass of himself, yet again. I think Piers took the right track, and he gave Carlos Esteves, aka Charlie Sheen, a chance to share his side of the story without going into a crazed ramble about how he's better than everyone and AA. It was actually insightful. Whether or not it was all truthful, that's neither here nor there, but at least he didn't act maniacal, nor did Piers feed the fire for the rise. It was handled with the proper care, and it was civil. I think that's enough to ask of this interview. Good job, Piers. I don't think CNN or any other news outlet should give the dillusional Charlie Sheen any airtime. Instead, someone should intervene and get him the help he clearly needs. He's obviously a very sick man. I, too, feel for the Sheen family. (I've always been a fan of Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez, who doesn't use his father's name to get by and doesn't shame it either!) As for Piers Morgan...please make him stop gushing all over his interview subjects. It's sickening the way he tries to ingratiate himself to them. I MUCH preferred good ol' Larry King! Martin Sheen's last name is also Estevez.. Sheen was a stage name. Anyways.. Emilio, no disrespect, isn't making 2 million an episode. Charlie is winning.. and if he ends up dead tomorrow because of all his winning I think he'd be fine with that. The real concern of course is his children.. especially the twins who have two unstable parents and spend most of their time in the care of a couple of groupies who are most likely plotting to kill Charlie with drugs and alcohol so they can take his money. Charlie has lived life by his own rules, his only failings is that he hasn't been the best father he could be... let's all hope he turns that part around. March 2, 2011 at 1:42 am \| Report abuse \| Beelie Unfortunately Charlie has gone off the deep end. The drugs are not the cause, he has a serious psychological problem . It will not be enough for him to get clean and sober, he needs long term help. I too feel sorry for his family and everyone else whose life he has messed up. I used to like 3 and a Half Men, knowing it was just Charlie acting as himself. But now I see it is so wrong to watch it as we are just giving support of his delusional disorders. He's a very sick puppy and those with any control over him need to exert some "tough love" and get him off the TV and into Betty Ford. Obviously the leeches he surrounds himself with will not do anything to help him as that would destroy their ticket to drugs and debauchery. I don't think it is fair for you to diagnose the man based on a few interviews and headlines. The media is not a reliable source for a true character reference.. as evidenced by the fact that everyone though Michael Jackson was a complete nutball despite having friends who reportedly had a very normal relationship with the man. Virna-Lisi Blessings to all, #Charlie Sheen to Piers Morgan: "I didn't take cocaine,I paid for it"! That was a pricele$$ moment in journalism/comedy/drama/life!;)PEACE V-L I appreciate Piers compassion for Charlie Sheen. The problem is no one is helping him. He is ill and his performances on all these shows underscores that . He has the eyes of a mad man, inappropriate outbursts, bizarre movements. We are watching someone self destruct on national TV. It is pretty sad when Charlie is crying out for help and none of you are listening to him . Remember how it was when you had a break-up with somebody when you were single, and part of you used to secretly wish that your ex would wind up feeling like nobody measures up to you and that you were irreplaceable? And six months down the road you start to hear rumors of your ex' new s/o and you catch site of them, and you just get pea green with envy and turn into the biggest catty girl in your mind. That's how Larry's acting – and I feel bad for him that after 25 years and 7000 shows that he maybe feels like CNN didn't do right by him. I just don't think Okay my comments aren't working – why did it post an old one of mine, but not the new one??? 🙁 Arrrgh 🙁 Please ignore above ^^^^^^ Piers Morgan, who appears not to understand the seriousness of Mr. Sheen's problem, should invite Dr. Drew Pinski to do a follow-up on the Charlie Sheen interview. I was unimpressed with Piers as he interviewed Charlie. He seemed enamoured with Mr. Sheen, complimenting his rather "normal" behavior. Piers obviously has limited knowledge about addiction, the personality disorder, and how they can win a crowded room over. He should just ask the questions, not interject his oppinions about his guest. Addicts fool many....looks like you were fooled, Piers. The "specialist" just said that the only way to deal with addiction to be recovering "by the grace of God." This is stupid, and completely unscientific, non-medical nonsense. "God" has nothing to do with it and he couldn't prove that with one iota of research or evidence, Charlie Sheen makes more sense than that "expert". Irresponsible and disturbing comment to be aired on CNN. MJane I thought Charlie Sheen looked like an addict, what type I can not say. I do know that I know people who are addicted to alcohol and drugs and they have the very same look, grey looking skin and can not sit still, almost like someone who has Parkinson's disease. I thought Piers did a terrible interview. It was like he was trying to be Charlie's buddy instead of doing an interview. I had higher hopes of the show than this, but am very disappointed. He laughed like they were in high school talking about what they did Saturday night. Another enabler? Why didn't he ask the hard questions and maybe show Charlie that no one thinks he is ok. No wonder he feels he does not need help when it is all a joke. I don't think his five children will see it this way, or his family when they attend his funeral. Isn't there anyone who can take this seriously and try to help this man? Not as some one famous but as a son, father and human who really needs help. Christian Montone While this makes for intriguing TV with a very watchabke subject, I wonder... Are we as a nation collectively giving him an even bigger platform for him to exhibit his crazed behavior? Are we all (and that includes me by typing this) just feeding his ego with our attention? I admit that I'm slackjawed, but at the root of this is the knowledge that with every word, Mr. Sheen is just digging himself deeper (and not doing himself ANY good). If Charlie Sheen has been trying traditional rehab for the past 20 years, and nobody's diagnosed him as having manic-depression ... did the drugs possibly mask the underlying issue or something like that? But I remember seeing a Charlie Sheen interview back when he was sober and he didn't seem manic or depressive at all ... and he was like that for 3 or 4 years, wasn't he? So could manic depression really be the problem? The narcissism that everybody talks about – it seemed 'normal' to me for somebody smart, driven, talented, charismatic, etc, etc in the sense that ... for every criticism or judgment people would have of him, there DO exist reasonable counterarguments. For example, Charlie Sheen's got two girlfriends – but hasn't Hugh Hefner had that many or more in the recent past and nobody criticizes him. His loopy talk – doesn't sound all that different from Paula Abdul or Steven Tyler and people used say they were/are a large part of what's made Idol so entertaining. On being a dad – shoot, Ozzy Osbourne was in WAY worse shape and his reality show was a runaway hit because of it. And it's also pretty 'normal' for overachievers like that, at the head of the pack, the top of the heap, to not want to listen to just anybody. It may be arrogant, but it's still pretty normal behavior for somebody super successful, don't people find? Okay, my comments totally aren't posting 🙁 I tried breaking it up into portions, but it still won't post all of them ... I don't know what's the problem? Just wanted to add that what struck me the most from last night was the change in perspective between Charlie Sheen when he was sober and how he is now. It just doesn't seem like it's possible to be as in control of drug usage as he believes it to be, given how addictive they are ... When he was sober, he talked about how feeling unworthy of the fame and fortune that had come his way had perhaps led him to engage in self-destructive behavior. Whereas in the state he was in last night, he couldn't stop talking about how he was a winnnerrrrrrr! Even though he looked like Nicolas Cage from Leaving Las Vegas. It just felt like denial ... (Okay that's all!) I was skeptical of Piers pre-show, but his first interview, he showed qualities, experience, and mentality that almost turned a very skeptical man on the first show. And I have been watching ever since, watching just how good this man is at this particular job. But when he got on CNN after his interview with Charlie, and he told the world that he thinks this is all a bit overblown, and pointed to Charlies good points and to societies bad ones without really saying either of them, he did two things that made me say I am SOLD on Piers Morgan. He showed that he has a soul, or a conscience, and that he isn't afraid to defy our cultures lack of both and express his own. He said he just doesn't see it, on CNN no less, and THAT made HIM the man to watch in my opinion................. Bob King Charlie, get into rehab ASAP. i like the show i think funny and because problams id otn think the show should go Hi there 5TFI think your ideas look great and will really help your crevitae writing. I thought the use of the wavey river (more 3d looking) was really effective, as were the purple sweeets. Just imagine the smells in this sweet room?!?! June 30, 2012 at 5:03 am \| Report abuse \| Reply tbaxter Piers! you thought he sounded normal? I am losing respect for you. Billy Foster I fully understand Charlie Sheen's deep anger and contempt for AA. It's actually a good thing their success rate is only 5% because that's 5 out of 100 whose souls have been murdered by the strangulation of indoctrination, numbers, religious manipulation, and a culture of self-loathing. He is the only other person I have heard express the same feelings I came away with from AA. Charlie Sheen also seems to truly understand that pain is the natural condition of Man. We're at our best when we try to ease the pain of others and at our worst when trying to inflict it. I respect his demand for freedom. Interesting to hear your insights and experiences. One aspect of this whole Charlie Sheen thing seems to be the disconnect between what a large portion of the public believes is 'best' or 'right' and what Charlie Sheen believes is 'best' or 'right' – and I too sensed in him a strong wish for freedom from judgment. And I can understand his belief that to a certain extent, societal 'norms' can be fairly arbitrary and therefore absurd, almost hypocritical. For example, pot and cocaine are illegal, but tobacco and alcohol are legal. Mere possession of cocaine is a criminal offence, but addiction to caffeine exists in just about everybody. And life sure feels better with a stimulant (for me it's coffee). And I wouldn't want to live life without it – it does help me to function better I feel. One area where the analogy breaks down for me though is when anybody asks him if he would want this lifestyle for his children. His answer in another interview to whether he'd be alright with his daughters experimenting with cocaine was that he was different because he had "tiger blood". So if even he wouldn't wish his lifestyle on his kids, then isn't that tantamount to him acknowledging that perhaps drugs might be a little different? Granted, cutting back on something you love must be really hard – so I can appreciate how somebody would wish for the freedom to deal with issues in private, free from judgment or condemnation. I think the public just wants to help because we see somebody in pain, and we want to help, so it's hard ... Hopefully Charlie will have a chance to talk to his Dad soon – it sounds like he's got a tremendous amount of love and respect for him ... I certainly agree with your point on CS being disconnected and, held up to parenting standards, things change completely. In the midst of screeching about being free to pursue his own lifestyle, a car load of folks show up and take his children away. Frightening and certainly sobering. All things considered, about the best any parent can do is guide their children toward being thoughtful, compassionate, reasonable, and productive people. I'm lucky– I'm 3 for 3. I think the powers of state went WAY too far in this, but it illustrates another point I drilled into my kids; Every choice has a price and the freedom to make a choice carries a huge weight of responsibility. 🙂 Well said Billy. Dads have a lot of love and caring and guidance to share with their kids, and while the courts may have felt like they were acting in the best interests of the child, I don't think anything we've seen from Charlie Sheen rises to the level of posing an immediate threat to the welfare of his kids. So it's puzzling that they would have taken such a drastic step to remove the kids like that from their Dad, without notice and an opportunity to be heard. Hopefully he'll get to see his kids soon 🙂 Charlie Sheen no doubt has a problem...it wasn't Pier's job to tell him that...or accuse him of behaving badly....Questions were answered about the sitcom...and Charlie answered them. Yes he is a recovering addict, he looks awful as a result of self confessed nights of no sleep...he was shaky, probably a result of withdrawal of his excesses.....but he coherently answered all the questions and was quite witty, informative and spoke in what I found to be an eloquent, articulate style. His comment on John Stamos was amusing.....I find Charlie to be a very intelligent person, who has lived a wild private life...He admitted to women, drink, drugs...but he also quite correctly stated, that that's why they hired him for a role, who only suits...He also admitted to never missing a 'money day' on set...he seems very loyal to the cast and crew, but not too impressed with how the management is vilifying him... Well said. I agree. Its a pity that Piers Morgan chose to give predominant air time to Charlie Sheen rather than covering in detail and expert views on Middle East turmoil. I sincerely believe that a journalist of Piers' caliber should rise above the tabloid celebrity news. i forgot to mention...well done Piers...you lent a non evasive, compassionate, non judgemental ear to Charlie...an excellent interview....and Charlie, (though obviously affected by abusing himself mentally, and physically), came across as a guy who is very intelligent, smart, informed, and committed to standing up for the contractual promises made to his co-workers. Sychophant Deluxe Piers Morgan's interview technique seems to consist of planting his lips squarely on the ass checks of whoever he is interviewing and sucking as hard as he can. His Charlie Sheen interview was no exception. Puh-leeze! Totally agree – Piers must soak his nose in bleach every night to keep the brown off Piers, I did not have high expectations for your show replacing the legandary Larry King. However in a very short time I have become a loyal viewer from Bangkok, where you appear live 9:00 in the morning. Why? You show respect for all guests, no matter their politics, problems or issues. You ask probing and interesting questions, but also lend your own thoughts which I find reasonable and well said. And you get the most interesting guests to interview. Also, you don't overdo whatever the world's latest crisis, as CNN is wont to do in its news coverage and with Anderson Cooper (who we also get live here in Bangkok). March 1, 2011 at 10:29 pm \| Report abuse \| Reply It's almost funny to see the masses cominbg down on Charlie. One has to wonder if his ability to do his job (and do it very well) regardless of what he's doing on "his own" off time, is creating a few insecurities? He's hugely successful, undeniably talented and smart. Those chasing him around throwing mud are just advertising their own pathetic insecurities. Tell 'em to go to hell Charlie...let's go for drinks. My email address is here....Cheers...Neil LARRY SAVOIE (CANADA) Just wanted to say your doing a great job.I watch every night.Keep up the good work Piers. Louise Hofmeyr Piers talks too much and seems to enjoy giving his own opinions with little interest for the those he is interviewing. In this interview I thought it pathetic how he stroked Charlie's ego. I miss Larry King. Charlie Fan Hi there , I'd like to see the entire interview from start till finish ..... where is it ? I thought Piers did an excellent job. I found Charlie to be relaxed and calm. I was for the first time able to see past all the crap and understand what the fight is all about. He was not ranting and his ego seemed to be roped in a bit. This interview explained the issues in clear language and I got it. I can only assume that the chemistry between these two men allowed for an interview that addressed the issues Charlie has with his show. I don't care what he smokes,drinks or who he sleeps with. It is not my business. To be honest I thought he was a raving lunatic until I saw this and have changed my mind for the most part. Good job Piers keep up the good work I completely agree. I was turned around by one of the most riviting and revealing interviews. I also thought Piers was amazing. I rarely pay attention to these shows but this caught me and showed me what was up. He can't smoke in the CNN building and waits outside. Some bad boy he is. To parade a person w/ mental health problems on TV as a ratings freak show is not really about informing or enlightening viewers. It's just sensational junk food for the eyes. It insults the intelligence of the audience and reduces this person who has serious problems into a caricature of addiction and mental illness, perpetuating stigma and misinformation. Piers was not genuine at all but simply prodding and poking this circus animal to do more TV tricks, basically to boost his own career. It's sad that CNN keeps lowering the bar and Piers is an example of how desperate it is to keep its viewers. Chris Delaney Mr. Morgan, That was an incredibly awful interview. Pretty obvious to me that you have never been around an addict. If you had, you would have seen the classic signs and the desperation underneath Sheen's demeanor. He was lying to you when he said he had never hit a woman, and also when he said he has never had drugs in the house when his children were home. It was written all over his answers and behavior. Why do you think he is on this media blitz, because he wants to get the truth out, or because he is attempting to save his career? Your blubbering and gushing handling of Sheen was terrible. You had the chance to call him out and instead you acted like his mother or some groupie. Charlie Sheen has lost it, he should be getting help professionally, he is an addict, and in my experience addicts will tell you whatever it is you want and need to hear so they can continue their lifestyle. My guess is that he overdoses very soon, or he does something very stupid and dramatic. Either way this story will not end well, and your enabling interview just keeps him on the path of a guy out of control. ...what do you mean...'call him out' ?....Piers is not saying that Charlie is or wasn't an addict....we all KNOW that Charlie has problems....Charlie wasn't coming to the doctor's surgery for help......he came on the show to say whats happening with CBS....He admits his lifestyle isn't affecting the sitcom....so the show was unfairly dismissed, that's it, period. He says he never missed a shoot....the show was no. 1....so there's no problem on the professional front.....Charlie wanted to point out, the unfairness of the producers to himself and crew....And tell me, who wouldn't want to save his career or that of his fellow crew more like. He doesn't really need the money, his intention is for fairness to his colleagues......Very coherent, caring and loyal to me.......! Well I have to say that the interview conducted by Piers Morgan was extremely disappointing. In order for Mr. Morgan to increase his ratings he's become an enabler. What bothered me the most is when Mr. Morgan tells Charlie Sheen towards the end of the interview that he is seemingly normal. Charlie Sheen was crawling out of his skin throughout the entire interview, any half wit could tell that Charlie Sheen is tweaked and has issues. I have no respect for interviewers that instead of helping their fellow human beings end up enabling them by telling them what they want to hear. Charlie Sheen is digging his own grave if he continues down this path. It's not him that will suffer in the long run but his children. Piers Morgan should have used Robert Downy Jr. as an example, the only thing that saved Robert Downey Jr. was prison time and look at his life & career now. Show Charlie and give him examples of similar cases of famous stars (Sean Penn) that have walked the same path Charlie is walking now, but that wouldn’t have brought in the ratings, a Piers? I have lost complete respect for Piers Morgan and will no longer watch his show. I so disagree with you about this. And if you don't want to watch the show, I'm sure no one will mind too much. It seems we all revel in judging others peoples behavior. I didn't find anything wrong with Charlie's behavior in the interview. In fact, I liked it. And without having too much "People" and "Us" magazine info about Charlie, he did seem rather normal to me too. I would love to see any of us up there under such scruity and perform any better. Watch Fox TV. That may suit you better. Enough about Charlie Sheen. Nobody really cares. I care about Charlie Sheen. I agree with Piers about him. If he were a rock star no one would be so critical. He does deserve to live his life. Unfortunately, everyone seems to want to be a part of it. Like Slime Never have I seen a moreobseqious interviewer than Piers. Always with the back patting (tohimself). Larry at times would go there but this intervieew. Why would one pull up an interviewee like Chrarlie Sheen and then help him put his particular form of mania out there without the real, true grit, questions. If Piers had gone any frther up Charlie's you know what, he might have met that 7.5 gram ball of crack coming down, gone boom and done us all a favour. Charlie is not just partying. He is ILL. Why doesn't the media get him and leave him alone. If you don't give him air time then he won't say much will he? In any case, the rate he's going, he'll be 'done' soon enough. The only thing that is up for question is will he die or just lose his mind and end up in an asylum drooling for the rrest of his life. Oh look mommy, there's daddy, they tied his wheelchair to a rail in the hall so he could see more!... I guess that's why Charlie has managed to have the Number 1 show. I think Piers was noble, engaging and neutral. Unlike many of Charlie's popularity club. Watching Charly Sheen was like watching Charles Manson when he was interviwed awhile back. He really needs help before he hurts himself and those around him... Obviously, you don't know anything about Charles Manson. The one thing that always shows in discussions like this is the total stupidity of people to place nice people in the same arena as murders. Thelma how can you compare someone who is a bit of a cad to a psychopathic mass murderer? Surely thats going too far? i think you're the one who is delusional now....Charlie was excellent....his personal life maybe not....but it's his PERSONAL life, so long has he goes to work, loves his kids....which he obviously does...... I'll bet if Charlie begins reading the Torah and says a few anti Muslim remarks he'll be forgiven and probably get three shows... I agree with nkk that Piers conducted a compassionate and non-judgemental interview, and really seems to get Charlie more than most. Charlie is fighting for his right to work and take care of his children and his cast and crew (you don't hear them complaining) while at the same time providing the rest of us with some extraordinarily good entertainment with the hit show "Two and a half men". No one can replace Charlie Sheen. This interview was beyond disgusting. As a fellow Brit I was ashamed of Piers Morgan's defense of this sick individual. Had Sheen not been a celebrity, he would have been incarcerated several times over for his behaviour. How can he talk in front of millions of people about crimes that send poorer folk to jail (sometimes for 25 years under the Rockefeller drug laws) – and consistently get away with it? ....as a fellow brit too.....i thought Charlie was amusing, took a dig at the producers who knew who they were signing up for the sitcom in the first place....he even said he is the one that gave 'them the fodder'........if he had committed a crime, by law he would go to jail,....if there is evidence......look at Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan.....celebrities are not above the law.... his drug tests were negative....he might be staying just under the radar for now.....but he's not been charged with anything yet....Well done Piers, for interviewing the man, and not just bringing him on the show, to say 'what a bad boy you are Charlie' and hitting him on the knuckles....! ....Brits don't need to bring an air of superiority to everything.......Didnt a famous person in history say something along the lines of....' LET THE PERSON WHO HASN'T SINNED , CAST THE FIRST STONE' Brilliant interview- and thank God for an interviewer coming from an unbiased stance. The other Charlie Sheen interviews where so judgemental- border line puritanistic. And this coming from the very same people that relish tuning into '2 and a half men' to be entertained by the same man and his antics! Good on Piers and Charlie! PS Piers – Loved your proposition to Charlie to co-host for a bit! You should seriously follow that up! Shame on you all...sheen needs help not a sounding board. If he's truly mentally, which I think plays a huge part of his self medicating, then his REAL friends need to tell him GET HELP! You should have the money and if NOT, WHY? Get a grip! why are we entertaining this man and his weaknesses when he has had more chances than anyone I know. Besides Lohan who isn't being paid the big bucks like he is and really, he is old enough to know better. His jibberish makes NO sense at all. He thinks it's funny but in reality it is a deadly game he plays and his kids have to live with it. He should appreciate his heritage and try to allow his family some peace of mind....that's all folkd! bill davis You fools! He's an actor isn't he? This is one of the greatest hoaxes of all time. Andy Kaufman would be proud! I'm watching Piers Morgan interview Charlie Sheen now, and I can't believe what a SUPER LOSER Charlie Sheen is... His father is such a great talent and icon. Charlie doesn't deserve to use the name, "Sheen". The words spewing from his mouth...He's a pathetic loser who's living in denial ! The words spewing from his mouth...He's pathetic, and living in denial ! Mystic Hill Loved the interview,caught it on Friday night. Kudos to Piers and CNN for not being judgmental. My husband and I watch CNN all afternoon daily, then kick back for two and half men every night, its our ritual. We have nothing but good thoughts and wishes for Charlie. Its his life, leave him to it. Hoping they start the new seasons back up for two and half men, while I watch the reruns a lot! I would love to see some new stuff. If they don't, well we will keep our eyes open for the next project Charlie does, and we will be there to watch it! Keep your chin up Charlie, while there are judgmental busy body's in the world, there are many of us who just want you to be free to live your own life, express your right to "freedom of speech", and be yourself. I really don't think its fair for society to say he has a problem, I think the only problem Charlie has is, everyone is up in his personal business. Hes happy with his life style, and pursuit of happiness is also his right. Lets worry more about the other problems this world is facing, and let Charlie live his life! aalbert (The Netherlands) I was shocked by the interview and behaviour, not too mention the wierd answers, off Charlie Sheen. The man was under influence of drugs, no doubt. It is good that his hit series was cancelled. You can not accept this kind of behaviour. The very spoiled man is lost and need rehab. He should quit all contacts with the peolple surrounding him, quit a bad company he has... . If not so, they will deliver his crack and pron stars. Piers, I think you're a class act !! Thanks for bringing a much needed freshness to the time slot. Frankly speaking, I was a bit, more than, when Larry King was leaving, felt I would be lost for info and I admit to not trusting some of the (what I perceived to be) hype about you. BUT, I was wrong, you are GREAT! Yes, you're different from him alright and...that in itself is alright ! I'm a Brit, from Dover, Kent, you bring a little bit of home to me. Thanks and pulleeze stay on and keep this much needed "very different" show on the air. You know, there are several pretty good news/politics shows on CNN, I really wasn't looking for another one. I love Elliot Spitzer and Anderson of course and you fit very nicely in the middle. BRAVO and welcome !! I do not think Piers Morgan did a good job interviewing Sheen. He seemed to agree with what Sheen was saying half the time. Sheen was like a car wreck-every one just seemed to want to rubber-neck. Sort of reminded me of watching a caged animal–gyrating and jerking all over the place. I just do not think he should be put on public display like that. If that was a member of your family, would you want that person put on CNN? Mental illness is a sad story. I'll admit, I was curious as to what Sheen would do and say. I am ashamed of myself for watching. Al Leong, Toronto his jerking is due to excessive drug use, probably crack, cocaine and ecstasy or crystal meth. I do not think King would have done any better. They are both horrible. They are only on for ratings. You all should know that by now. This is the excited states. Dear Mystic Hill, You are obviously a very shallow person. If all i had to do was watch reruns of "men"-need i say more? i think charlie is going to regret his interviews... and after his own webcast, on the internet it may be hard for him and others to forget. it will take probably 10 – 15 years for this thing to go away for him. drug abuse, addiciton and mental disorders. he might find god. and he'll do a lot of crying. Vaai ser um lixo ! O charlie sheen e9 o corae7e3o do two and half men ! acac* Beem com minha serie ftvarioa That was very kind of Charlie to pat Piers on the arm or back to get his attention and to acknowledge the woman in the white top. Piers then turned around and shook hands with the woman. See, Charlie Haters out there...Charlie is a good guy. Kelly Preston and Holland Taylor have kind words to say about Charlie Sheen. i love piers morgan and i love charlie sheen too,u can totally condemn a guy cos he is on drugs,he needs love right now am a true fan of sheen and i love him alot,God will see him through this period safely and make him a beta man.Good work Pires,best interview i have ever watched,keep it coming,am also a great fan of urs,God bless u!!!!!!! What is it with all of you? Who cares. You couldn't pay me to live close or even work around actors. Your the reason they make all those millions, and could care less about you. It's all about the money, and to keep you paying to watch them act! It's really sad to think that people really care what these fu-ked up actors do! Marguerite Erickson About PIER MORGAN that has takin LARRY KING'S place. I always enjoyed this program but with Pier Morgan we do not understand half of what he is saying. Hope it can be remedy. Thank you. 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Second fact: Charlie Sheen cannot act. He has NEVER been even a mediocre skill level actor and, imo, his self-awareness about that cannot be denied and so he has spent years masking that nagging fact with booze and drugs. Third fact: Charlie grew up the spoiled son of a Hollywood success, his father. Never in his entire existence has he had to want for anything. The world that the kids of successful celebrities grow up in is about as far from 'real' as one can get. It's a make believe world full of massive and fragile ego's where which part of LaLa Land you live in really matters. I mean, GET REAL people. Charlie's not a 'good guy', he's a self-indulgent, spoiled brat having big, public temper tantrums and he knows full well that he's a bit player in a grander circus act. Every appearance he makes to blabber about himself HE GETS PAID. These people don't do these things for free or because they actually care what their empty headed fans think. Charlie's desperate to hang on to what's left of his fan base because he's trying to pull a Robert Downey Jr on everyone watching. "Look at me and my epic problems mannnn...I am like, sooooo talented...I'm a tortured genius baby, now gimme a role to play." The very important difference between he and Downey is that Robert is an incredibly gifted actor. He's ACTUALLY talented, where Charlie is just a wooden figurine fit for second rate productions. And he knows it better than anybody. Also, while he may only be in his 40's and that's not such a big deal to most people, in Hollywood these days that's like being elderly and decrepit. He's got the haggard, hollow look of a dried up prune and he did it to himself with years of childish, not manish, behaviors. Is he bent mentally? Maybe. But that doesn't, by default, make him any kind of artistic genius. A dude like him can only ever HOPE to be a thousand miles below the talent of someone like Brando or Hopkins. Brando had a lot of pain. A helluva lot of pain and he used it best he could to make a living at something like acting, but it cost him over time and he was smart enough to distance himself from Tinseltown's madness and seedy underbelly built for insecure, self-destructive little brats. Hopkins, too, to protect his immense talent distanced himself after a time. Sheen doesn't even come close to talent such as those two and never, ever will. He practically sleep walks through his roles and is more of a talking prop than anything. Hollywood's spoiled children don't impress me at all. There are way, way too many talents in the acting profession who deserve to be heard and find their audience and practice their craft, who would appreciate the gigs they land without taking their luck out on themselves and everyone else around them, than to have someone like Sheen trying to fill roles. With thousands of young heros, REAL heros, such as the men and women who have experienced the rigors and terrors of war to serve their country; whose self-discipline in the face of violent, unimaginable violence, are virtually ignored in favor of attention being paid to posturing, swaggering, useless braggart's like Charlie Sheen – whose never done a single day in serving anyone's needs except his own – it's a sad testament to the misguided curiosity of citizens today. Charlie, go to a doctor; go apologize to your family for embarassing them and taking them for granted; apologize to your feeble fans for creating a disgusting display of manipulating ego on your part; and god have mercy on the hearts and minds of your poor children who now have to grow up knowing that daddy has no self-composure and no self-respect of any real value. 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__label__cc	0.603234	0.396766	"Piers Morgan Live, Rewind" – Michael Moore on Harry Reid as a "weenie," Yoko's tweet for peace, and Donald Rumsfeld a "war criminal" Whether you fell asleep early, stayed out too late, or simply want to watch it again, we realize it's not always possible to get your entire "Piers Morgan Live" fix from television. As an answer to this, we offer the below labor of love – "Piers Morgan Live, Rewind" – dedicated and designed to getting you caught up and connected to the conversation. Moore on Dems.: "Weenies" On Tuesday evening, Piers Morgan welcomed filmmaker Michael Moore for a live, hour-long, exclusive interview. In response to the day's news that Sen. Harry Reid feels an assault weapons ban can't pass the Senate, the man behind "Bowling for Columbine" called upon an interesting adjective in describing the Senate Majority Leader: "Harry Reid and these Democrats, this is not something that's unusual. Democrats have a history of backing away, backing down," explained Moore. "They're the ones that accepted the new math that majority meant 60 instead of 51. This attitude of, 'Well, we're not gonna be able to ... we're not going to get' ... We have these weenies on our side." Imagine: Gun Legislation Staying on the topic of gun violence, and a potential assault weapons ban, Piers Morgan took the show to a second screen, pulling up a tweet from one of certain peace-loving celebrity: Over 1,057,000 people have been killed by guns in the USA since John Lennon was shot and killed on 8 Dec 1980 @piersmorgan @mmflint — Yoko Ono (@yokoono) March 20, 2013 In discussing the social media shared by the widow of the late Beatles legend, Moore continued to express his disdain for the politics standing in the way of gun legislation: "A vast majority of Americans want the assault weapons ban. He [Reid] knows this," exclaimed the 58-year-old Michigan native. "What kind of balls does that take really, to stand in front of a microphone knowing that 55, 60, 65 percent and higher percentages on the other parts of the bill want this. Vast majority of Americans want this." Rumsfeld: A "War Criminal" Walking the Streets Meanwhile, as part of a program that marked the precise 10 year anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq, Moore took aim at former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, referencing a tweet from earlier in the day: 10 yrs ago began the long, difficult work of liberating 25 mil Iraqis. All who played a role in history deserve our respect & appreciation. — Donald Rumsfeld (@RumsfeldOffice) March 19, 2013 "He's [Rumsfeld] a war criminal, as far as I'm concerned. I don't understand why he, [George W.] Bush, [Dick] Cheney, [Paul] Wolfowitz are walking the streets. The way they're trying to revise history, and all this, by saying 'Well, it was a mistake' or 'We were given bad information,'" detailed the frustrated guest. "I'd be arrested if I produced false information. To say it's a mistake, you know, if somebody ran over your 4-year-old, they get out of the car and go, 'I'm sorry. Mistake.'" For the next edition of "Piers Morgan Live," watch CNN every night at 9. » Follow "Piers Morgan Live" on Twitter » Follow "Piers Morgan Live" on Instagram Post by: Jason Kurtz Filed under: Guns in America • Piers Morgan Live, Rewind Howard Peck At this link: http://www.ijreview.com/2013/01/30208-nbc-admits-no-assault-rifle-used-in-newtown-shooting/ NBC News ammends it's coverage to say four handguns and NO long guns were in the school. The current desire to ban AR-15 style rifles is based on the premis that one was used to kill the children in the school. Mr. Moore even talked about showing pictures of the children's bodies riddled by rifle bullets. If an assult rifle was not used why is the falsehood still being projected. AS often as Mr. Morgan has bashed people for false statements I would have thought he had done his homework. The killings were a tragedy but the assult rifle was not the cause. A person aimed and fired all of the rounds. That person is to blame. His Mom, the gun owner, is also to blame as she made the guns accessable to her sow whom she knew was troubled. Respponsible gun ownership would have prevented this tragedy. March 20, 2013 at 2:34 pm \| Report abuse \| Reply anonyous "reasonable gun ownership" is a contradiction. There is no such thing as "reasonable gun ownership". If you own a gun, you are full of fear, and you are therefore, by defintion, a violent person, not a "reasonable' person. If you were reasonable, you would not need a gun, for any reason, and you woudl clearly see that owning a weapon, regardless for the reason, is an unreasonable premise. FEAR OWNS GUNS. Daily Llama You, little girl, are delusional. March 23, 2013 at 11:17 pm \| Report abuse \| Oh what a bunch of crap! Millions of people own guns put them in a case and never use them. My wife owns one that has been in the basement for 5 years in a locked case. We're sure not out playing quick draw McGraw with it. Fear doesn't own guns, many times really stupid people own guns. Then other stupid people advocate hysterical get rid of every gun crap. If you want to make this society safe, then put bullet proof windows in schools with metal detectors. Metal detectors in malls and other public places. And we have to work for justice too. We can't just antagonize the hell out of everyone with our government and the way our society is run and expect no one to snap. And we have to beleive in God, our society isn't interested I that it seems now, and the less we are the crazier it gets. What I say may not motivate your though, it seems these days if your really want to get someone's attention you have to start shooting at them. March 24, 2013 at 2:19 am \| Report abuse \| When somone holds a gun to your face, my dear sweet little sheltered one (who probably prays to the almighty obummer), reason no longer exsists. Im not violent because i carry a gun, i carry a gun because other people are. Maybe you should leave your gated community and college philosophy classes and step into the real world with the rest of us where people get stabbed for $23. idiot. Your show is the biggest piece of crap I have ever seen in years. How the folks over at the station let you put this on the air is amazing to me. Tabloid journalism. You make the UK embarrassed of itself watching you on the air. rhonda lobrutto I tried sending an email to Harry Reid, at the address Michael Moore suggeested. The email came back unopened. Please clarify the correct address on tonight's broadcast. I was using harry_reid@reid.senate.gov. Robin Parker Copy and paste below. This is Reid's site with a contact form to submit a letter which I just did! http://www.reid.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm Good luck and pass it on:) thomas b Concerning Reid's remarks: Why are you complaining about the " Majority " of Americans didn't want....blah blah ....,You, Reid, Obama and the rest didn't care that Obamacare was shoved through and the majority had no choice...what's the difference ???? deathrace2000 ...the point is that you don't have a clue what you're talking about. The vast majority of Americans supported the Affordable Healthcare Act. Republican lies to the contrary will do no more good than your previous lies have done. "Vast majority"...um no. According to a CBS News, support for the Affordable Car Act has NEVER reached 50 percent in any of its polls. And even at 50 percent, that hardly comes close to qualifying as a vast majority. You sir have no clue what you are posting. March 24, 2013 at 10:48 am \| Report abuse \| whether it is "vast" or not is a mute point. Obama ran on a platform that promised to address our broken health care system. Maybe the "affordable health care act" still needs tweaking, but there is no doubt that out health care system is broken. CEO's from the major insurance carriers make between 20,000 and 65,000 a DAY...and then they cry poor when it comes to paying claims. No human being is worth that kind of "salary", that is money stolen. These are the people that are lobbying against health care reform. If everyone had health insurance, it will bring down the cost of health care because the few will no longer be subsidizing the many who use hospitals without a prayer of making any payment. Peter Conroy Most Americans are woefully ignorant. What’s going on here? How can the public oppose the health care law while favoring almost everything about it? The short answer is ignorance. The new poll finds that our knowledge of the Affordable Care Act has atrophied selectively over the past three years. We’re slightly more aware of the individual mandate than we were in 2010, but less knowledgeable about the act’s more popular provisions. In April 2010, 64% of respondents knew the law would keep insurers from turning away people with pre-existing conditions. Today only 53% understand that. Likewise, 75% of Americans once knew that Obamacare included tax breaks to help people with moderate incomes pay for coverage. Today the figure is 62%. No wonder so many people expect to suffer. You are right. America has been dumbing down. Politics are such a headache people can only take so much. The presidential elections are like one ring in a 3 ring circus where the spot light is, and the other 2 rings are in darkness where all kinds of shenanigans go on in Congress, buried in a Grand Canyon of paper and legal jargon, slight of hand. It is a mess. This is why people like Michael Moore and Piers Morgan are so valuable. But they should not be ignoring the "Occupy" movement. vast majority did NOT want it. some people "settled" because of promises to fix it. RIGHT.. no more believing lies and fairy tales from the O administration. petsineed I sent sen Reid an email as requested I wonder how many others did the same can you give us an update I certainly hope it makes a difference thank you for your continued support on this vital issue Kind regards Richard Parnes Piers, I will follow where ever you lead me my good man The brave guy Mr Morgan had a brillant idea & I hope he follows through. He wants to get the pictures of the dead children & show everybody. That would be terrific. There would be a ton of blood & brain matter splattered everywhere! How awesome would it be if he would show us all how those little children look with their faces & heads blown off?!?! I'm getting excited just thinking about it! All those dead kids shot to death like sitting ducksbecause they were in a state that bans AR15s & in a school that bans guns on the schoolgrounds. Piers is such a brave & honorable man! Very smart too to think of such a fantastic thing like showing everyone that a bullet is dangerous if a criminal shoots helpless little kids. I mean, yea Ive seen tons of horrible things like on banned from tv. A girl woman got hit by a train, a guy was tied to a tree & set on fire, some people had their throats slit & were brutally stabbed to death. Some people were even shot in the head & half of their heads were blown offlike JFK! But to show a bunch of dead helpless murder victims that were children is one of the best ideas I've ever heard! I'm going to tell everyone I know to tune in! They do not want to miss that! Piers is on track to become the next Jerry Springer ! You might consider stop watching televison, grow up and go see a therapist about your issues. March 23, 2013 at 9:53 pm \| Report abuse \| I too sent an email and hope that many others did also. Mr. Peck is wrong. A Bushmaster AR-15 rifle was used in the school. Early reports were confusing, even for the networks, but it was later determined which guns were used. I also sent Reid an e-mail. I hope more people than us did the same. Mr. Winkelmann Susan, it is actually you that is wrong, it was in fact announced that the AR-15 was not used to kill any of the children. The only death that was caused was the death of his mother. The rest were caused by pistol and shotgun rounds, which was confirmed by the coroner. In fact if you would take the time to go back and review the live coverage at the scene you will actually see one of the officers reach into the trunk of the car that Adam was driving and pull out the AR-15, so if it was in the trunk how did he kill children with it? Dear ldiot: we're on the internet. Google it. Do Republicans ever do anything BUT lie? The only people claiming that an AR-15 wasn't used are Republicans. Ever reporter, police offers, and witness at the scene has reported the same thing- an AR-15 was used. So why do you continue to lie about it? Thank God for people like you who believe everything he reads and is fed from the media..... Thank you Michael Moore for your personal and professional courage. You are a patriotic citizen of the USA who contiues to challenge us to carry some of the responsibility for the future of our Country. Thank you. Thank you. Tom Jackson Seriously Sharon? I hope that was sarcasm. Moore is a self important, lying blowhard. Tom ngiotta Aside from Mr. Moore's repulsive face (which looks like abused female genitalia), his anti-gun slant has been apparent to everyone since the beginning of time. We get it. You don't like guns. Guess what? We don't like you. I would be more upset if my firearms were lost in a house fire, than if you were. Oh, and one more thing... your movies are horrible. To Piers Morgan: Your scheme of bringing on a ton of anti-gunners and a couple of crazy 9/11 conspiracy guys who are pro-gun is about as transparent as a lead wall. Your opinions are not backed up by facts, thus, you must always bring out the same, dusty statistics from the U.K. out during every debate. Funny how you cite statistics from a country you had to flee because of criminal hacking charges. You have zero credibility. Scratch that, you have less credibility than Sean Hannity. Full disclosure: I'm NOT a Republican. YOUR firearms....yes, YOUR FIREARMS....defend yourself, sir, you need YOUR FIREARMS.....God forbid if anyone tries to take YOUR firearms. You are worse than a child who is whines when his bottle of milk is taken from him. Grow up, and go see a therapist about your fear that needs a FIREARM to "protect" yourself. FEAR OWNS GUNS. Jennifer Hansen How do we organize a massive march on Washinton DC?? I want to organize one. I want millions of people to go to DC and sit in or whatever and have a civil march. This is unacceptable. I sent Reid an email – big deal. We need to have a march against assault weapons. This is unacceptable and has to be changed. What is required is serious action, if the murder of twenty innocent children and six adults inside a school is not enough to shake the conscience of a nation its a shame. Its a shame that America should even calls itself a "civilised nation". There are many among who want a complete ban on assault weapons and ammunition. Snetaor Harry Reid and all the spineless politicians are just playing the tunes of the lobbyists.THIS HAS TO STOP Please don't compare what that evil monster Hitler did to this present day situation we are just asking for a little common sense with regards to banning semi automatic weapons and at least try somewhat to prevent more senseless tragedies from happening in the future for goodness sake is that really asking to much? thaNorthStar.com Its not common sense to ban a rifle that millions of people use for protection just because 1 person used it to assault people with. Its also illegal to infringe on people's right to protect themselves. Itd be common sense for everyone who doesnt like guns just minds their own business & stops bothering people who like guns. Everywhere I go, everyone I know, I wondering whats the problem? What are we suppose to do? Then I remember something like this isnt new. Its a criminal who murdered innocent helpless people & all we can do is be prepared in case it happens around us. You are blowing it out of porportion. brasstacs .Jennifer... Answer me one question...how would bans on these semi automatic rifles which are incorrectly called "assault rifles" prevent any future mass shootings or how would these bans would have prevented any of the mass shootings like Sandy Hook and the others...It's a fair question and deserves a answer. So, while you are at it, please include demanding stricter traffic laws in your march also, since this is about saving lives, right? Do you know cars kill 3-4 times more than guns do? Why don’t we fix that problem first...?? wade niles Amen! been my arguement for awhile. Oh, let's put Pierce in front of a car, one that says dodge on the front and ram on the side, chuckles. and abortion too... you know how many children that kills ? I'd like to organize a march to limit your 1st amendment rights– so you can't post your gun-grabbing nonsensical arguments here anymore. You, and others on your side know nothing about firearms or the people that use them for sporting, target practice, etc. When your personal opinion boils over into malarkey laws that restrict the liberties of regular citizens in this country, you should take time to reflect on your actions. bill a67 your right we should have march on washington and everyone should bring their assault rifles! to kick out the lying politicians out of that corrupt town! This is why our country is protected against tyranny. If power-hungry politicians try to do something that outrageously goes against our freedom and liberty, we CAN and WILL defend our rights with 300 million guns as the last resort. I applaud you and anyone else who are actively contacting congressmen and other leaders about their views. It is my hope that citizen's views WILL make a difference. However, I am afraid that the lobbyists are now in control. Out Congress has been corrupted and out congressmen BOUGHT by lobbyists. Some congressmen even brag about thier A+ rating with the NRA! The only way to fix this is to actively campaign and VOTE THESE CONGRESSMEN OUT OF OFFICE! To faciliate this write the Editor of newspapers, write the ethics committees of the Senate and House. Continue to contact News Shows, etc. Good citizens CAN make a difference. Bad citizens do nothing. With regards to the gun control in this country. We need a MAARS Group– Mothers Against Assault Rifles!!! Great idea! Sign me up! The reason my kids are protected is because we do not have assault weapons in our house. I will never be convinced that I need a gun to feel protected. When I was little, I used to have a superman costume & boy did I feel safe! That I got out of the fantasy world & realized that the sad truth is theres bad people who like to harm others & feeling safe doesnt mean jack squat if you are attacked by a violent criminal or group of criminals. YES INDEED !!!!!! Also support MAYORS AGAINST ILLEGAL GUNS and other groups that have just formed for Gun Control measures. If WOMEN and mothers especially were in control we would NOT be sending our children off to unnecessary wars and supporting the ownership of assult guns and high capacity clips. Hay Jennifer good idea I'm in ! Let's get Michael and Piers to lead it marilyn S My letter to Senator Harry Reid after watching the show last night: Dear Senator Reid: I am appalled at your decision to not go forward on this important vote. Shame on Congress! We look irresponsible to the rest of the sane World. Maybe Kim Jung Un, and his merry band of crazies in North Korea would not vote for this Bill. However, it is difficult for me to believe that our United States Congress would bow down to the NRA and not vote for this Bill. I am an American citizen, who voted to put many Democrats in office. Don't forget that American citizens pay your salaries & health care benefits! Maybe Congress should use their health care benefits to get their heads examined!! Diane Feinstein put an intelligent, relevant Bill forward. Do the right thing or many of you in Congress will lose your seats. Please NOTE: Most Americans do not have membership in the NRA so we are the majority, and we are speaking out loud & clear......Our Congress has become impotent! its against the law to vote for gun control so why are you mad at mr reed? just learn how to use a gun & you wont have any worries I dont see whats the problem? these 2 sickos said itd be good to show the dead bodies of the children who died in this event & that is disgusting & uphauling. People who follow the Const#tution dont go around trying to make people relive all the kids who were burned alive, gased, experimented on , & worse, in Nazi Germany after they thought they didnt need guns & gave them up.....& btw it was a lot more than 20 kids & a lot more horrifying then what 1 maniac in newtown did. Marilyn, thanks for the letter my sentiments exactly. Too bad there are so many ignorant hateful people posting here. Why don't they just watch Fox and believe everything they say.If Wayne LaPierre's own 6 year old or one of these hateful people posting on here was blasted into mincemeat by one of these weapons would he still be spouting the same old hyperbole. Even if one of my children becomes a victim of gunfire – God forbid -, I still wouldn't blame guns. Would you blame cars and stop driving and advocate banning cars if your own 6-year-old was run over by a car and got his little skull smashed? The pompous Piers Morgan and the "Jabba the Hutt" look alike Michael Moore,were both foaming,and spewing their deceitful BS about gun control....They keep saying that bans on these semi automatic rifles would prevent further mass shootings and this is a total lie...The proposed bans would have not prevented any of those evil mass shootings like Sandy Hook or any of the others, and would not not prevent any future shootings... period. The bans that ended in 2004 proved without a doubt that these bans don't work,and were a dismal failure...If Morgan and Moore really wants to do some good and not just binge on liberal ideology then they should support cracking down on thugs and the straw gun buyers who sell these criminals these guns....by far the most shooting are done in this country by thugs shooting other thugs with illegal handguns...And according to the FBI more people are kill each year with hammers then with rifles...including the AR style rifles. And for Moore to want to exploit the victims and the victim families possible even for profit by publishing the bullet riddled bodies of the innocent is reprehensible and disgusting beyond words...any kind of gun would cause horrific wounds,and not just the Ar types..and the revolting Moore knows this...this "blob" has no shame. Your'e right, more gun control will not be effective. It's too late, the guns are already out there and anyone can obtain them legally or illeagally. The problem is that this country is saturated with guns and the NRA's goal is to put more guns out there. The end result will be more daily killings and more mass killings Sad but simple logic. Well you're forgetting one very important thing. The reason why almost all the people who own guns use them to stop killings. That's what George Washington meant when he talked about the only way to stop evil is if every good person is armed. Of corse once in a while a terrorist will go into a city or state, like Newtown,where a certain weapon, like an AR15, is banned & go into a gun free zone, like Sandy Hook, where he knows he will unstoppable. But really, whose fault is it that illegal gun legislature was passed to create an environment like that? timelord7202 Yup. Regulations don't work. Let's make an anarchy and let the unethical get away with everything. Corporations already have that, complete with taxpayer-funded (demand-side) bailouts, while they tell us to be responsible (as they set things up to make it impossible, right down to offshoring and wage devaluation...). naksuthin Yes. You can kill a person with a hammer. You can kill him with a knife, or even a bow and arrow. But can you imagine a headline that reads: "Man with hammer massacres 32 people and injures 17 others at Virginia Tech"? "2 Teenagers with knives kill 13 and injure 21 at Columbine"? "Man with bow and arrows attacks theater. 12 dead. 58 injured"? Sure. You can use a brick, a shovel, an axe or a baseball bat to kill people. But many guns are in a totally different class than bricks, shoves, axes and baseball bats. They are designed specifically to be "weapons of mass destruction". These guns are in the same class as machine guns, bombs, and hand grenades. ...and need to be treated exactly like machine guns, bombs, grenades, stinger missiles, mortars, and RPG's Ainsley Is your concern mainly for the mass-killings that happen in a very short period of time? FBI Uniform Crime Reports show that “Knives or cutting instruments” have been used in about 1,800 homicides per year. (That’s more than 20 times as many as the assault weapon homicides.) I guess 2-digit figures of stabbing casualty rarely happens at once at the same place, but is that the real issue here? Isn’t it the total number of the casualties throughout the year that we need to worry about and not so much the concentration of casualties...?? I agree the discussion should be more broad and ask the questions about why we are such a violent culture and why people are snapping. I think there are a kaleidoscope of reasons. It is insane to think children playing violent videos doesn't affect their mentality. There is too much stigma on mental health issues, people are afraid to get help for themselves or their children. The gap between the middle class and the super rich has widened probably 800% since the 50's. People are under a lot of pressure just to make ends meet. Public schools are inadequate in teaching life skills or keeping children's imaginations alive. Ignorance and poverty breeds more ignorance and poverty...the list goes on and on....people born into poverty should get intervention and education. Just wanted to let you know I emailed Senator Reid. I didn't waste my time with Mitch McConnell or Rand Paul, since they never vote the way I ask them to. So much for them working for me. Thanks to the Const🔫tution and the Bill of Rights, gun control is illegal in America. It violates the Bill of Rights and violates the very foundation of America, which is that the People grant certain specific, limited powers to government, and that all government power comes from the People and can be revoked by the People. Accordingly, any lawmaker engaged in the act of introducing gun control bills or voting for gun control is engaged in a criminal act that violates the highest laws of the land. As such, they should be arrested and prosecuted for acts of sedition — for attempting to “overthrow the People,” as it were. To be clear, yes, every U.S. Senator or member of the House who votes for gun control restrictions that take away the rights of the People is, by definition, a criminal. Under U.S. law, they must be arrested and tried in a court of their peers. Every police officer, soldier and even U.S. Senator takes an oath of office in which they swear to “protect America from enemies foreign and domestic.” That language is written into the oaths precisely because it is well known that a nation’s most dangerous enemies may rise from within. George Washington: "The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference – they deserve a place of honor with all that’s good." "Firearms are second only to the Const🔫tution in importance; they are the peoples’ liberty’s teeth." The people in Sandy Hook learned that the hard way. Too bad they didnt listen to advice of people who dont live in a fantasy world. RickintheCity Oy! This guy is so nuts it's scary!! By your logic we should all carry suitcase bombs. GUNINTRUNK So everyone has forgotten that the Bushmaster AR 15 was actually found in the trunk and not used in the shootings at all... Griff. "Your last look at Love! Who could really love this face??" No ar-15 used in Newtown shooting. http://www.ijreview.com/2013/01/30208-nbc-admits-no-assault-rifle-used-in-newtown-shooting/ That shouldnt be any suprise. Hardly anyone every uses them to assault people. I was assaulted once with an AR15. I was carrying my small 9mm pistol legally in holster & a cop saw it & he went crazy. He called back up & 6 pistols & 1 AR15 was pointed at my head about 3 feet away & the cop with the AR15 told me he was going to shoot me if I moved. Then they found out I have a valid permit to carry & I wasnt doing anything illegal. My point in mentioning that is because all these people who say no ones needs an AR15 are wrong. Those cops who see someone with a little 7 shot 9mm pistol feel like its critical they have an AR15. Mr. Morgan, thank you for being a constant voice for gun control! But one major topic not mentioned or addressing are online amo purchases, how can any business or human (?) allow a purchase of 100 rounds of amo or more? With out conscience or minimal gray matter of the simple question "what is this buyer doing?" When will this be addressed? Thank you! Great point, thanks! Molon labe! Wow, are you serious? There really is an ignorant cultural divide in the country. 100 rds is nothing, just plinking on a Saturday. You urban elitist live in a bubble where you want to demonize and oppress anyone different from you. Gregory Lippold I am looking forward to female leadership in the USA. It seems that men are just becoming more and more ignorant as the years go by. Just reading these posts of people about their guns. I do not own one nor would I ever have a gun in my home. But when women become the leaders, having had children, maybe then we will see a shift in legal consciousness towards the peace corp and acts of kindness and mercy around the globe, rather than a gluttonous military that is ruining America and the world. America has bottomed out and it is time for the recovery process to begin. God Bless America ArcticDC5 What do these liberals not understand that criminals will not follow laws in the first place? Brilliant! So lets stick it to the law abiding citizens instead. Why didn't the school stabbings in China that happened the same week of Sandy Hook dget any publicity? Simply because the liberal agenda of gun grabbing could be exploited easier. Hide your wallets and put your guns away – the democrats are quickly approaching! p arterburn Using your logic, since criminals do not follow laws, let's just get rid of ALL LAWS. This makes no sense! Guns kill, period, and in countries where gun use is restricted, only a handful of people are killed with guns. In America, enough people die each year from gunshots to populate an entire town! Michael Moore is on the correct side of this debate! typeblackno1 People kill. Not guns. Guns don't get up and kill people. It's time to wake up. Mentally ill and deranged people kill people Carl N. Brown I read and fiuled the transcript. MORGAN: I just find it completely offensive. The idea that you would want to have a continued loophole where 40 percent, minimum, of all guns sold in America are sold at gun shows where nobody can check anything. You can buy an AR-15 tomorrow at a gun show. Nobody knows. This is the stuff of madness. MOORE: Yeah. And - well, Sarah Palin and the Republicans, they are so far on the wrong side of this issue, it's actually, in a way, pleasant to hear them continue to dig their own graves. MORGAN: But it's dangerous because they are winning. They're winning. MOORE: They're only winning because our side are a bunch of wimps./quote] No, Morgan and Moore, my side is winning because your side pushes emotion with lies, and people are wising up to the fact that is not the way to formulate good policy. The survey being cited by the Obama Administration for the "40%" figure is the 1994 National Survey on the Private Ownership and Use of Firearms, which was conducted by the survey firm of Chilton for the Police Foundation on a grant from the US Department of Justice. 251 people in the survey sample reported "acquiring" guns during 1993-1994. This is "firearms acquisitions" not "gun sales". In fact, when the NSPOF asked the 251 sample What Best Describes [b]HOW[/b] You Obtained Your Gun? 73% Bought it 19% Received it as a gift 3% Traded something for it 5% Inherited it Where did these folks "acquire" their guns? 60% from stores (gun shops, pawnshops, sportings goods counter at a department store, etc.), which after 1968 would have to hold a Federal Firearms License and from Nov 1998 were required to run a background check on buyers. From What Source Did You Obtain This Gun? 43% Gun store 6% Pawnshop 11% Other store "Stores" 60% 4% Gun show or flea market 3% Through the mail (antiques and muzzleloaders) 17% Member of the family 12% Friend or acquaintance 4% Other "Not stores" 40% 73% acquired a gun by purchase ("bought"). 60% cited the source as "stores". Which implies 13% bought guns from private individuals at gunshows, flea markets, friends, acquantainces, family or "Other" implying either stranger or source not given. 27% were not a gun buyer acquiring a gun from a gun seller: Gun shows and flea markets were 4% of gun acquisitions. At the local gun shows, most vendors are licensed dealers and they do background checks. Morgan: "...a continued loophole where 40 percent, minimum, of all guns sold in America are sold at gun shows where nobody can check anything...." This is not factual and Morgan knows what he is doing, since he is so much smarter and better than us. His supremacy knows what he is doing with that 40% statistic. 99.9 percent of gun sales at gun shows go thru background checks. This is an example of democrat misleading lies. I suggest that Feinstein buy Alcotraz and have her armed body guards do patrol duty. nuclear mike The Media intentionally mis-represented the facts of the murder of those poor innocent children & teachers in Newtown? The Media never lies, do they? So why should we believe anything from NBC as NBC's financial problems are pointing to their bankruptcy if their viewership continues to steadily deline as it has been? Wonder why the Public is turning off NBC & MSNBC? NBC has no truth in facts and just an agenda of creating lies for controversy to grab viewers ad dollars! Goodbye NBC from our cable!!! NBC has done are great injustice to those poor children & teachers whose lives were taken by a madman. Arm Up America!!!... as we can see where the "elite" want to become our ruling royalty again!!! ...and why is the damn british spy still among us on our soil when this Little King George needs to be sent packing to stand trial in England for his crimes there? P. Morganl eave!!! If Wayne LaPierre's own 6 year old was blasted into mincemeat by one of these weapons would he still be spouting the same old hyperbole wadeniles yes he would, as would I. Common Sense Blogger I can't express the depth of satisfaction responsible Americans like myself felt watching these two whine and cry about the inevitable dismissal of the 'assault' weapons ban. Sure, they'll try the backdoor approach via amendments but it will all be for show. Sometimes history, facts and common sense are too obvious to mask from the great people of the United States. Michael Moore and Piers Morgan are sad examples of the responsible left. Moore is a breathing (albeit laboriously) contradiction – he sucks from the teat of under-involved and under-informed liberals and inflates his waistline with their government-provided $$. As for Piers, aren't you still wanted in your homeland for tapping phones for your former boss, (ironically), Rupert Murdoch? Go home, Redcoat! right on! down with cnn! StevenpWeber Both your impassioned appeal, “Where is the moral leadership?!”, and Mr. Moore’s “We should be ashamed of ourselves,” exposed the very problem in America. She is desperate for moral leadership. You both want to have moral leadership. Everything works when a moral code is above us all. No one can be ashamed unless that code tells us what’s right and wrong. But who is to say what’s moral? If the moral law is based on democracy, i.e. whatever the majority of the people want at any particular time, man makes his own rules. Moral leadership requires a moral code that’s higher and superior to man and to which we consent to submit. Gun ownership and gun violence is missing the point. We are living out our philosophy and these horrific acts of violence are the logical results. We’ve propagated the survival of the fittest but when we see that philosophy in action, we hate it. It goes against everything inside our being. We weren’t made that way. I’m afraid that it has to get worse before America will wake up. Don’t forget what Lenin said, There’s nothing more powerful and revolutionary than a group of young people with no morals. Fight that battle please! How is an average of almost 75000 lives lost due to alcohol abuse in this country less important that the average 31000 or so due to gun violence. Why? because it isn't front page news. What about alcohol abuse relationship to violence in the home, drunk driving injuries, lost work hours or the negative impact on the economy in general? Alcohol remains a relatively non issue? Let's bring that issue to the forefront where it belongs I am so sick of people who give anyone from hollywood any credibility. Moore and others like Martin Sheen are useless. Piers if you want credibility interview someone who has an opinion based on fact. Otherwise you're just another late night comedy The fact is the majority of folks in this country that own firearms are law abiding citizens. We refuse to let you tread on our rights. M Moore is one of the most disgusting non humans around. Almost as rotten a P Morgan Obviously, the marines should not be allowed to have assault weapons alpeaston Rumsfeld, Bush, Cheney, and Wolfowitz ARE war criminals and should be rotting in jail for the lies they told to the American people! These monsters destroy our economy, our standing in the world and killed tens of thousands of innocent soldier and Iraq citizens based on lies! Traitors, each and every one of them! Damn them all to hell for the damage then have done! Hey MM, Tell your staff to stop carrying guns. Body guards with guns are not police officers. Lead by example if you want us to melt our guns down. The interview with the Connecticut law enforcement officers was excellent and I found the closing comment made by one officer that they do not write the laws, their duty is to uphold the law, encouraging – especially given that he is opposed to a ban on assault weapons. This was is response to a Colorado sheriff who refused to uphold a new Colorado law. Meanwhile, here in the lovely State of Idaho, there was a bill – passed by the Idaho House and shelved (temporarily?) by the Senate, that would impose a $1,000 fine and jail time for law enforcement officers within the state who enforce any federal gun control laws. Perhaps our elected officials have forgotten that Idaho is one of "these United States" and believe they are above the laws that govern the land. http://newsradio1310.com/idaho-law-enforcement-could-be-punished-for-upholding-federal-gun-laws/ http://newsradio1310.com/bill-shelved-preventing-idaho-law-enforcement-from-enforcing-federal-gun-laws/ moore is a disgusting turd,although it looks like he has finally taken a shower.morgan needs to go back to Great Britain,maybe he can get a job keeping the queen's dress from touching the ground. I normally am in agreement w/Michael Moore. My question as far as gun control is: will a ban on assault weapons actually reduce them or just create a thriving Black Market? Since when did the war on drugs ever reduce their presence on the street? Our jails are over-flowing with drug dealers. How many more jails will we have to build to house the people busted for trafficking assault weapons? I think universal back ground checks are essential. And, gun safety. People who have their weapon stolen, and that weapon discharges in a crime, then that person should be liable for murder, or robbery, that might deter people from purchasing such weapons. That's ridiulous! So, if somebody steals your car and kills somebody with it.. you should be held accountable for their actions?? Get real. Maybe you should look up the word "discussion" and "dialogue"." What is ridiculous is people seem incapable of having a civil dialogue in the interest of problem solving. Gun safety is the issue. They have gun safe's that can only be opened with a scan of a person's finger prints. If background checks and waiting periods were enforced, then crazy people in the throws of a psychotic break or emotionally charged domestic dispute would not be able to walk to the corner pawn shop and purchase a gun. Most of these horrific events are because mentally ill people can readily steal a gun that is not properly stored or walk into a store without a background check or a waiting period. I stand by what I said, if you can't store your gun safely, then you should be liable if a maniac steals it from your bedroom night stand. Eric Sotelo Peirce Morgan is the top political dogma spewer for CNN. There's no wonder we have so many mindless zombie bots in our nation who, like MOrgan, have drank and swallowed the idiot liberal koolaid. Here is why America is falling apart at the seems. Pierce represents what's bad about the U.S. Nazi communism and fascism all wrapped into a single burrito of dysfunction and lies.. Pierce Morgan is the Pope of Idiot... 🙂 Chew on that Pope Pierce.. B. Cookson Piers and Michael, Bravo for your..." Voices of Reason " with these Insane excuses for wanting more Guns and the NRA is so Unbelievably Wrong in their logic..As a Canadian ( with well placed Gun Control Laws ) We Love Traveling in the U.S but it is getting pretty Frightening.. So Keep up this Grass-Roots Effort to Inform the Americans that to Save their Country from More Senseless Slaughter..They have to get Better Gun Control Laws.. Irene Todd Love your program Pierce, and the stand you are taking on gun control. With so many Americans owning, and more recently purchasing assault weapons because of their first amendment rights, as a tourist I no longer feel safe vacationing in the U.S. How do tourists protect ourselves when so many are armed with these killing machines? Keep up the good work. Stay away from our country then, we don't need you here. If your country is so peaceful don't leave it. You are listening to propaganda making the USA sound like the wild west and it is NOT. The vast majority of the 80 million legal gun owners in America cause NO harm. Stay away with your insults of our great country. hang3xc This guy is STILL on tv?!?!?! AND still talking about the SAME thing! How LOW do his ratings have to sink before they pull the plug????? SEND HIM HOME (oh yeah, they don't want him either!) 'weenies'...that about describes it...also, with all of these testesrone seeking morons who, shortchanged in physical attributes have to compensate with high capacity assault weapons–and, in the final analysis..THAT IS the reason they desire powerful weapons–Repubs an democrats are equally inept. Obama has been given a free ride by the press for the past 4 years, to wit: during eight years of the moron's regime, 630 americans lost their lives in war on afghanistan, and there was a protest of wome kind in washington against the war every weekend. Under the Obama fiasco,after he ESCALATED that very war shortly after he accepted (still can't figure this one out) a Nobel Peace Prize, 1561 americans have been senselessly killed..AND continue to be killed in that war.....but, where is anything covered ANYWHERE by the media..and there are NO marches condemning this war of aggression against afghanistan....the senseless killing continues in afghanistan..is it any wonder it continues in U.S. As much as Michael Moore wants to believe he is influential and is destined to rule, his past reveals that he is indecisive and outright wrong in his views. Some would say that Moore's grandstanding for Ralph Nader ruined the Dems in 2004. Others believe his crass grandstanding ruined America's perception of liberals forever. And how many times has Moore been caught declaring there are places where healthcare is free when anyone can you it is not and never has been? (Even in places where there is universal healthcare.) He is a charlatan and a liar whose 15 mins ended a long time ago. It's just that Moore doesn't know when to shut up. I have said it about Rush Limbaugh, now I'll readdress it again Micheal Moore is just as bad as Coulter and Palin; egotistical extremists, none of them are good for this country and the sooner media stops inviting on their shows, the better off this country will be! P. O. Carl Typical left wing extremist, name calling when someone has a different opinion than you. Michael Moore is the most pathetic, obese form of socialist propaganda to ever besmirtch the news airwaves with his nasty, greasy self. He's a die hard ideological mouth piece for cold-war style top-heavy guv'ment collectivism that has failed on every level since the 80's, when the USSR collapsed and the wall in berlin was torn down. Anyone that listens to this opportunistic windbag of a cardiac arrest in gestation has to say simply deserve the low information guidance that they get from him. Michael, just die of flacid useleness already and let the rest of us get on with meaningful political and economic dialogue free of your juvenile ignorance. babooph Clearance at "GUN SHOWS" may not be a flip flop,new attempts are clearance investigations for ALL...bad reporting... Moore is a fat cow who should be more concerned about the #1 killer in America.....HEART DISEASE than a weapon that killed less than 300 people in 2012. He and all of you liberals are morons. Piers can take his sorry @$$ back to where he came from. Name*marilyn S Pierce Morgan is a bright light in a sea of darkness. I am so tired of hatred in our Country. Pierce Morgan has it correct. We need assault weapons out of the hands of crazies. Good job Pierce for not giving up the good fight! As I stated b4, our Congress is currently impotent & bought by the lobbyists RightArmOfFreedom Why doesn't Pierce Morgan be a man and stop being a fugitive and running like the coward he is. Leave a Reply to petsineed	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line1165
__label__wiki	0.500373	0.500373	Tag: evangelicalism What Good is “Religion”? By Méadhbh McIvor Regardless of our interrogation of it, the terminology of “religion” is operative in the world—not only among the scholars who frame it as a second-order category, but among our interlocutors and kinship networks. Given the baggage that often accompanies it, perhaps it is unsurprising that so many of us are hesitant to apply this label to the people, places, and practices to which we attach meaning. Two Ways to Read Political Power in the Enthronement of God By Timothy McNinch When we read of God enthroned as the great king, perhaps we can imagine a system of governance where our political rivals are not beaten into submission, but are disarmed by love; where those who are different from us are respected, listened to, learned from; where brute force is neutralized by a refusal to retaliate and is resisted through active non-violence. Toward this end, God is indeed the great leader, the one who models “power under” for all of us. The Entanglement of Guns and Christianity in U.S. American Life By Michael Grigoni Born out of the recognition that the place of guns in the United States cannot be adequately explained via statistical data—that qualitative accounts are urgently needed—these approaches aim to understand the logics of self-defense and self-preservation at play in forms of life in which guns have been incorporated. Naturalized: White Settler Christianity and the Silence of Earth in Political Theology By Willis Jenkins The white US Evangelical denialists see something that many other political theologians do not: that taking seriously our ecological relations requires a kind of paganism. Christianity and Democracy after Trump By Philip Gorski Many white evangelicals seem not to realize that American democracy has also been good for American Christianity and that too close an association between worldly and spiritual power will ultimately diminish both. Around the Network, The Politics of Scripture DACA, Child Sacrifice, and Neoliberal Idolatry (Roger Green) By Commentary in Political Theology “Thank You Lord Jesus For President Trump” – Apostolic Theology And The Evangelical Vote (Jonathan Cole) By Jonathan Cole Why Do So Many Evangelicals Support Donald Trump? (Ludger Viefhues-Bailey) By Current Events Donald Trump and the “Evangelical Vote”- So What? (D. Mark Davis) North Carolina’s Bathroom Bill Is Not So Much About “Common Sense” As Religious Identity (Hollis Phelps) Same-Sex Marriage: Game Over? (Ludger Viefhues-Bailey) By Guest Post American Evangelicals and their rumblings on marriage equality will stay with us. This resilience is not simply because of the impact of their networks and numbers but because their resistance reflects a general uneasiness with the value of equality, one that is profoundly embedded in American political culture. ‘To welcome the stranger’ : Evangelicals and the Republican quandary over Comprehensive Immigration Reform By Kit Kirkland . . . Pastors and church-leaders for the past two years have been very vocal in their efforts to ‘welcome the stranger’ through immigration reform and in so doing are reframing evangelical Christian concerns beyond the rote of life-issues. . . . Though evangelical leaders have pushed for reform, this hasn’t yet filtered down to evangelical congregations who are amongst the most skeptical of CIR. The Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) noted in 2013 that white evangelical Protestants were the least likely of all religious groups to support a path to citizenship for illegal migrants.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line1167
__label__wiki	0.842152	0.842152	Press and Testimonials Find Posts About #Academia #Accessibility #Adolescence #African #America #Anthropology #Art #Black #British #Canada #Class #Colonialism #Contemporary #Cultural Studies #Decolonisation #Diaspora #Family #Feminism #Film #Gender #Gender Studies #Global South #History #Identity #Interdisciplinary #Language #LGBTQ #Literature #Masculinity #Motherhood #Music #Poetry #Politics #Post-colonial #Prose #Queerness #Race #Science Fiction #Sexuality #Short Stories #South Asia #Transatlantic #Visual Art #Westernisation #Womanhood Posts tagged:#Queerness Rift – a film by Erlingur Thoroddsen Queering the void: how Erlingur Thoroddsen’s Rift transforms horror cinema Miranda Wilkie Edited by Abigail Eardley Art by Raj Dhunna http://rajdhunna.co.uk/ TW: Sexual Violence Horror cinema is a genre that, with its subversive and confrontational intentions, is arguably ripe for queer filmmaking: yet as a queer horror fan it is rare I find myself represented on screen. In many horror films, academic readings of character’s queerness are often reduced to subtext. While queer characters are admittedly not totally absent from horror cinema, their sexuality often forms the basis of the horror itself. Depictions of canonically queer characters tend to form two extremes: ironically mannered villainy or predatory perversity. A Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge (1985) became a cult film with queer audiences due to its fairly explicit homoeroticism, including a high-camp portrayal of leather-clad ‘daddies’ in a gay bar. More recently, however, queer representation has shifted markedly. While visibility of queer communities within mass media increased at the turn of the century, the subsequent backlash from religious and conservative groups reignited the spectre of the sex-crazed, corrupting queer figure that first originated during the AIDS epidemic (Bronski, 99). Several New French Extremist horror films, such as Haute Tension (2003) and Irreversible (2002) exploited this undercurrent of fear, featuring characters whose same-sex desire is voracious and violent to the point of explicit homophobia. Published: February 19, 2018 (updated: February 7, 2019) Carnival: The Upside Down of George by Alex Gino Josh Simpson Edited by Toby Sharpe Art by Priyanka Meenakshi https://www.priyankameenakshi.com/ Recently, I turned in a fiction portfolio for a creative writing course: a queer retelling of a young adult novel. My professor said that, when she heard about my topic, she’d immediately envisioned a story about AIDS. How relieved she was, she said, that it was not, in fact, about that epidemic. Then I turned in an excerpt of a queer-themed* children’s book to a writers’ group. My feedback questioned the very need for diverse books, implying that queer themes are too mature for children to understand. I was unsure how to respond in either situation, never having encountered someone who so blatantly dismissed the value of inclusive literature or expected a queer story to centre on AIDS. Why did they have those views or expectations? Perhaps the answer has to do with misunderstanding queer themes in children’s literature. Published: January 15, 2018 (updated: February 7, 2019) The End of Eddy by Édouard Louis Toby Sharpe Edited by Veronica Vivi Art by Arta Ajeti https://www.instagram.com/artawork/ The End of Eddy by Édouard Louis, first published in French in 2014, is one of the most successful pieces of Francophone writing in modern times: translated into twenty languages, it has taken the European literary establishment by storm. The novel details the life of a child in Northern France, a boy whose story echoes his author’s, with all his hints of wit, his budding charms – and, crushingly, his overwhelming suffering. This is a text about a young man’s pain, as an effeminate homosexual in a social world that reviles him. Published: December 18, 2017 (updated: February 7, 2019) Launch Night Excerpts We celebrated Project Myopia with a beautiful launch event towards the end of semester 2. It was a night of music and poetry, as well as an opportunity for some of our contributors to elaborate on their essays and ideas. Our performers touched on a wide range of serious issues: from the exclusion of racial minorities’ contribution to the canon of literature, to the oppressive nature of zero-hour contracts that prevent tutors from being able to fully engage in helping all students get ahead, let alone those from a minority background who need assistance most. We’re incredibly grateful to everyone who performed and shared their experiences, and we also have to thank everyone who attended and helped us drink the wine we provided! Project Myopia aims to bring marginalized people together and amplify their voices, and our launch felt like a perfect culmination of our semester’s work: people came together and shared their experiences of an academic world we need to change. Published: October 5, 2017 (updated: October 5, 2017) Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg Ronan Karas Edited by Karli Wessale “Strange to be exiled from your own sex to borders that will never be home” (Feinberg, 19XX, pg. 11). Leslie Feinberg’s words echo in my head. I think about how strange yet familiar the feeling is of finding a work of fiction that you relate to on such a deep and personal level. I’m a trans man and I first started transitioning two years ago, in which time I’ve searched libraries, websites, lists upon lists of queer authors and gender theorists, all in the search for an answer to a question I can’t quite put into words. I wanted to find an account of someone who felt like I did. When you’re straight and cisgender, your sexuality and gender are never called into question by the literature surrounding you, but when you’re trans or queer, your identity becomes academic. Something to be debated around a table of people who don’t identify as you do. As a friend put it: “Cis people have gender, trans people have gender identities.” Published: August 4, 2017 (updated: February 7, 2019) The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination by Sarah Schulman Corné Rijneveld Art by Holly Summerson http://hollysummerson.wixsite.com/arts I was gifted Sarah Schulman’s The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination (2012) for my 24th birthday. Schulman was 24 when her friends started dying. The year was 1981, and an unknown disease – ‘something to do with white blood cells’ (Schulman 59) – had begun ravaging communities of sexual outcasts in New York and San Francisco. Although we meet some of the virus’s victims, Gentrification is not a cataloguing of the dead, nor a mere homage to their wasted creative potential. Instead, the memoirs read as a lyrical, historical, and sociological thesis, albeit inspired by grief for the un-mourned, and a profound sense of injustice. Schulman argues that when tens of thousands of gay, lesbian, and bisexual New Yorkers died of Aids as a result of governmental and societal neglect, diverse neighbourhoods, and a genuinely counter-cultural art movement died with them. Published: June 21, 2017 (updated: February 7, 2019) Izzy Bravo Edited by Carolina Palacios Art by Laila Borrie https://www.facebook.com/underthepeacocktree/ Each year in March I see a wave of young Latinas on social media expressing their love for Selena, as they share images of their Selena-inspired make-up, Selena outfits for the Selena club parties, and plans to watch Selena, the 1997 film that chronicles the short life of Selena Quintanilla. Why March? March 31 is the anniversary of Selena’s death, which occurred in 1995. And for any young Latina who grew up dancing to Selena’s “Como la Flor” in their living room, March is an important month to remember those days and the unhinged hope for a music idol. I grew up listening to Selena and have memories of my sister singing along to “Como la Flor” when it played in the radio. I can also recall trying to hide this fandom in a poor attempt to assimilate to the American culture I was learning in grade school. It was not until my first year of undergrad that I noticed it was suddenly okay to be Latino. Published: June 12, 2017 (updated: June 12, 2017) Arekti Premer Golpo (Just Another Love Story) – a film by Kaushik Ganguly Ibtisam Ahmed Edited by Avani Udgaonkar Art: ‘377’ by Laila Borrie https://www.facebook.com/underthepeacocktree/ Film image at https://bppostscript.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/dsc_007872.jpg In 2009, the Delhi High Court ruled that the colonial-era anti-homosexuality law, Section 377, was unconstitutional and, therefore, void. In 2013, the Indian Supreme Court ruled that the High Court does not have constitutional jurisdiction and reinstated the law. The four-year period between these judicial decisions remains the only time in the history of the former British Raj (India, Bangladesh and Pakistan, as well as Sri Lanka under British Ceylonese jurisdiction) that openly queer sexuality was not punishable by law. The 2010 release of the Bengali film, Arekti Premer Golpo (Just another Love Story), the first ever post-377 film that explores these identities, provides an interesting examination of queerness from an Indian perspective that is not palatable apologia, misconceived and prejudicial humour, or radical subversion. Rather, it explores the various ways in which queerness can be experienced in the region in an organic and personal way – and I specifically say queerness instead of LGBTQIA because the acronym does not speak to the spirit of different sexualities and genders that make the community in India so vibrant, even in its oppression. Published: June 7, 2017 (updated: February 7, 2019) J’ai tué ma mère (I Killed My Mother) – a film by Xavier Dolan Ananya Sen Art by Edith Pritchett https://www.instagram.com/edithpritchett_art/ French-Canadian actor and director Xavier Dolan’s debut film, J’ai tué Ma mère (I Killed My Mother) released in 2009, when he was twenty years old. Dolan is a self-proclaimed gay actor, director, writer and costume designer. J’ai tué ma mère has won the hearts of many critics as it depicts, in a highly Bildungsroman fashion, a love-hate relationship between a teenage son and his mother. Recently, he has made a name for himself with his 2016 movie Juste la fin du monde (It’s only the End of the World). The movie won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival and several other awards. While he is best known for Mommy, released in 2014, in this article, I will focus on J’ai tué ma mère and attempt to justify the need for this movie to be a part of the university syllabi. Published: May 7, 2017 (updated: February 7, 2019) Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson Edited by Vicki Madden Art: Ottelien Huckin http://www.ottelienhuckin.co.uk/ ‘Are there many little boys who think they are a Monster? But in my case I am right…’ (Carson 12) It is an onerous task to write about a book that you love. Harder still to write about one that so vigorously resists definition – and which seems to attack the idea that anything can have a single meaning. Anne Carson, a Macarthur ‘Genius’ who taught Greek at McGill University in Montréal, has adapted the Classical poet Stesichoros’s fragments into her own epic poem. This is perhaps the simplest way to describe a book which, in less than two-hundred pages, covers an almost absurd amount of ground –a text which offers me new interpretations each time I come back to it, and which manages to rock me, as a queer man, to my very core. Published: April 3, 2017 (updated: February 7, 2019)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line1169
__label__cc	0.742607	0.257393	Analyze your Singer and Google Ads data together Integrating Singer and Google Ads has never been easier. Try Panoply for Free Panoply is a cloud data platform built for analysts Store and sync your data from over 80 sources so it's always ready for action Watch how easy it is to connect to your data. It only takes a few minutes to sync your data into Panoply so that it’s available to all your teammates and all your tools. With over 80 data source connections, you can gather all your business data in one place in minutes. You’ll never have to worry about silos separating your CRM, database, advertising, analytics, or other business data. Automated data pipeline Seamlessly scale from gigabytes to terabytes without worrying about performance or maintenance. Panoply combines a data-warehouse-as-a-service with integrated ETL pipelines in a simple management console that requires no engineering experience. Analytics in action With Panoply, your data has the power to transform your business. Panoply prepares your data into easy-to-analyze tables and connects to all popular BI tools and analytical notebooks. From the executives to the analysts, everyone will have the most up-to-date data and the insights they need to drive your business forward. Browse BI Tool Integrations Integrations ETL Singer Integrate with Singer in minutes Singer is an open source tool that helps bring order to the messy world of custom ETL scripts. Singer allows users to mix and match inputs and outputs, making their ETL processes much more modular–and therefore easier to run and maintain. Singer uses JSON to move all data between sources and destinations, so you won’t have to worry about incompatible formats once you’ve set your ETL tasks up to run. Panoply’s integration with Singer makes it easy to move data from anywhere with a supported tap–Singer’s term for a data collection script–into an automated cloud warehouse. And since Singer is open source and supported by a broad community of developers, if you can’t find the tap you need, you can just write your own, without having to worry about building loading functions for Panoply. Other integrations with Singer Singer + Integrations Ads Google Ads Integrate with Google Ads in minutes PPC relies on data. Panoply seamlessly integrates with all of your Google Ads (formerly Google Adwords) data, allowing you to thoroughly analyze your clicks and drive actionable changes to your campaigns. Google Ads is the pay per click online advertising tool used by Google search engines, their apps, and their Adsense partners. The data from these campaigns is a critical tool in marketing optimization. With Panoply, you can easily import and analyze all of your Ads data, cross reference it to other data sources within your warehouse, and determine where to put your budget to maximize your ROI, all with Panoply’s enhanced features and desirable user interface. Panoply’s end-to-end data management system makes it much easier to successfully utilize all of your Google Ads data. Google Ads Data Warehousing Google Ads Business Intelligence Other integrations with Google Ads Google Ads +	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line1171
__label__cc	0.514369	0.485631	The drowned karst landscape of Halong Bay is one of the best examples of this type of geological formation in the world. This 1,553 km2 UNESCO inscribed site is home to 1,969 limestone islands and islets, most with cave systems begging to be explored, and pristine beaches perfect for swimming and sunbathing. Cruising the serene, emerald waters of Halong Bay and sailing past islands and islets, travellers can observe first-hand the diversity of the terrain: floating fishing villages, as well as karst towers and pillars that support diverse animal and plant life. While there are larger islands — Cat Ba, for example — that are often on a tourist’s itinerary, the less well known islets are worth exploring for a unique experience and an insight into Vietnamese culture. Cho Da Islet The names for the many islets and islands in Halong Bay are taken from easily identified shapes. Cho Da Islet (Stone Dog Islet) is one such example. A “dog” sits on the islet, around 8 metres above sea level. According to local tradition, stone dogs are guardians, and in ancient times, they could be seen at the gate of every village, temple or pagoda. According to local legend, this particular stone dog has been protecting Halong Bay for millions of years. Location: Cho Da Islet is located in the west of Halong Bay, about 4 kilometres south-east of Tuan Chau Marina, near Thien Cung and Dau Go Caves. Trong Mai Islet Trong Mai Islet (Chicken Mate, Kissing Rocks or Fighting Cocks islet) is a jagged rock formation and one of Halong Bay’s most iconic landmarks. At just 12 metres tall, the islet resembles two chickens standing in the midst of the Bay, loving and protecting each other — as they have done for thousand years. Some say that the rocks are similar to the image of two angry roosters engaged in a traditional cockfighting match. Location: Trong Mai Islet is located in the west of Halong Bay, about 6 kilometres south-east of Tuan Chau Marina, near Thien Long and Hoa Cuong Caves. Oan Islet Oan Islet, which is 22 metres high, is said to be shaped like a sticky rice offering to Buddha. The island’s main claim to fame is for being one of the locations for the 1992 movie Indochine, starring French actress, Catherine Deneuve, who filmed several scenes there. Props that were purpose-built for the film — a stone-paved road to the beach and the prisons — remain intact. Indochine won the Oscar for Foreign Language Film in 1993. Location: Oan Islet is located in the north of Halong Bay, about 9km to the east of Tuan Chau Marina, near Bai Tho Mountain. Con Coc Islet Con Coc Islet (Toad Islet) looks remarkably like an amphibian. Toads and frogs, while considered ugly by the Vietnamese, do have utility because in the dry season, farmers rely on toads to indicate rainfall. It is said that the 8 metre high toad — carved by nature — waits patiently in the ocean for rain, watching travellers as they sail by. Location: Con Coc Islet is located in the south of Halong Bay, about 19 kilometres south east of Tuan Chau Marina, near Cua Van floating village. Ngon Cai Islet Ngon Cai Islet (Thumb Islet) resembles an enormous thumb rising up from the sea. This karst limestone pillar is approximately 6,000 years old and formed as a result of sea-level changes. According to Halong Bay locals, a thumbs-up symbolises good-luck — a common symbol in many cultures across the globe. Travellers say that Mother Nature created this islet to remind everyone that Halong Bay is amazing and should be preserved for future generations. Location: Ngon Cai Islet is located west of Halong Bay, about 6 kilometres to the south-east of Tuan Chau Marina and 1 kilometre north of Trong Mai Islet. >> Visit and find out all about Halong Bay	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line1172
__label__wiki	0.534365	0.534365	Pending Cases at the Supreme Court October 12, 2015 PatentAIA Trials, Claim Construction, IPR, obviousness, Supreme CourtDennis Crouch As we sit here today, there are no pending patent cases before the Supreme Court where the court has granted certiorari. That said, there are a large number of pending petitions. These include Cuozzo & Pulse that I have previously discussed. WilmerHale has been covering these, but is a few months behind. The following are a few recently filed petitions: Teva Follow-On: FiveTech v. SouthCo: (1) Can the Federal Circuit limit the role of the intrinsic evidence in construing patent claims under the exacting “lexicography and disavowal” standard; (2) Does the “lexicography and disavowal” standard improperly circumscribe the objective standard of the person of ordinary skill in the art in construing claim terms. Teva Follow-On: Chunghwa Picture Tubes v. Eidos: Whether a district court’s factual finding(s) underlying its construction of a patent claim term must be reviewed for clear error under Rule 52(a)(6) as this Court held in Teva, or is an exception created to clear error review where the appellate court finds the intrinsic record clear after a de novo review of that record, as the Federal Circuit held in this case. Attorney Fees in Copyright: Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley (Kirtsaeng II): What is the appropriate standard for awarding attorneys’ fees to a prevailing party under § 505 of the Copyright Act? Omega v. Costco (Costco II): (1) Can Copyright attorney fees be based on a finding that petitioner engaged in copyright misuse when the issue of misuse was appealed but left undecided on appeal? (2) Can the pursuit of a claim of copyright infringement constitute “copyright misuse” when the allegedly infringing copy is a “pictorial, graphic, or sculptural work” that is reproduced in a “useful” article. Inter Partes Review Challenges: Automated Merchandising v. Michelle Lee: (1) Must the federal judiciary await the substantive conclusion of an agency proceeding before it can evaluate whether an express statutory limitation on that agency’s jurisdiction requires that agency to terminate its proceeding? (2) Did the Federal Circuit err in refusing to order the USPTO to terminate the subject inter partes reexaminations under 35 U.S.C. § 317(b)? Luv N’ Care v. Munchkin: Did the Federal Circuit err by affirming a PTAB administrative judgment based on new issues raised sua sponte by the PTAB at the Final Hearing, thus depriving the patent owner of notice and a meaningful opportunity to respond? ANDA Loophole Cases: Mylan v. Apotex: (1) Whether Article III’s case or controversy requirement can be satisfied by a suit which seeks a judgment of non-infringement of a disclaimed patent. (2) Whether Congress can create Article III jurisdiction by imposing statutory consequences that turn on obtaining a judgment of non-infringement of a disclaimed patent. Daiichi Sankyo v. Apotex: Whether an action seeking a declaration judgment of non-infringement presents a justiciable case or controversy under Article III of the Constitution where the patent at issue was previously disclaimed and thus cannot be enforced. Design Patent Summary Judgment: Butler v. Balkamp: Is summary judgement proper in a District Court when a factual dispute exists in a Design Patent action and the District Court substitutes its own opinion for that of the ordinary observer? Reasons to Combine and Obviousness: Arthrex v. KFX Medical: (1) Is the “reason to combine” inquiry a subsidiary question of fact, subject to deferential review on appeal, or a legal question for the court, and reviewed de novo. (2) Should the ultimate legal issue of obviousness be resolved by the court rather than submitted to the jury for resolution. ← Trans Pacific Partnership IP Chapter Federal Circuit Summarily Affirms Apple v. Samsung judgment without Merits Briefing → 36 thoughts on “Pending Cases at the Supreme Court” Ned: the PTO has declared a war on patents. Really? You could have fooled me: link to patentlyo.com “FY2015’s numbers … represent the second-highest number of patents granted in the PTO’s 200+ year history”. And the lovely chum – straight numbers without context – are of course used for propaganda effect. What was that phrase…? Who saw that coming? This morning the CAFC affirmed (Rule 36) the ineligibility of JOAO Bock Transaction’s incredibly junky banking transaction method claims. Another notorious troll hits the wall. SPLAT Hooray! Congrats to Polsinelli PC and their client Jack Henry for fighting the good fight. There’s much, much more work to be done before the mess is cleaned up. … the objective standard of the person of ordinary skill in the art in construing claim terms. When I read that I both laughed and cried. It is a fricking myth that anything can be objective when it involves the opinion of the PHOSITA. What we get in court his endless blather from experts about what they believe the person of ordinary skill in the art would “think.” No, MM, the statute requires termination. “Once a final decision has been entered against a party in a civil action arising in whole or in part under section 1338 of title 28, that the party has not sustained its burden of proving the invalidity of any patent claim in suit . . . , then neither that party nor its privies may thereafter request an inter partes reexamination of any such patent claim on the basis of issues which that party or its privies raised or could have raised in such civil action . . . , and an inter partes reexamination requested by that party or its privies on the basis of such issues may not thereafter be maintained by the Office . . . .” Now the way the PTO construes this, consent judgments, with prejudice, do not count. The same infringer can bring further IPE (IPR’s) even thought the whole point of the settlement by consent and the dismissal with prejudice was to end the controversy between the parties. Permanently. The new IPR’s section 317 is similar, only that a settlement requires dismissal of the IPR. Clearly, the point of a final judgment on validity, with prejudice, is to stop all litigation between the parties and to bind them so that they cannot renew the litigation in the future. If the losing infringer could subsequently file further IPEs and IPRs, that policy would be frustrated. On the whole, the Federal Circuit needs to decide this issue – but they hold that the decision must await the whole, now ex parte reexamination, the appeal to the PTAB and then an appeal to the Federal Circuit? That is simply bat sh!t cr@zy. I don’t even understand your point about lying. Whose lying about what? Ned: he way the PTO construes this, consent judgments, with prejudice, do not count. The same infringer can bring further IPE (IPR’s) even thought the whole point of the settlement by consent and the dismissal with prejudice was to end the controversy between the parties. The facts here, however, are that the IPR was requested — and granted — before the settlement. The PTO had determined that the validity of the patent was questionable before the settlement. At that point it’s the public’s problem and the PTO’s problem. Either kill the patent (and everybody wins) or determine that it’s valid over the cited art. Is there another case you’re aware of where the parties had settled litigation with a consent decree of validity and THEN the defendant in that settled case filed an IPR challenging the patent? I’m pretty sure that’s a different situation than the situation here. I agree with Macolm and presented this point on the threads a little while back, showcasing the possibility of the Office continuing its examination on the merits once the post grant review has materially started. I also received a similar “deer in the headlights” post by Ned. Still, so what, MM. The statute requires a dismissal of the IPE if the conditions are met. The only issue here is whether that issue is decided now, or after the exam is complete with the cancellation of at least one claim, with a lost appeal to the Board, and then finally with an appeal to the Federal Circuit where, if it is determined that the Director was wrong, in her initial decision, the whole IPE must be erased – vacated. There is no way in bloody Hades that this can be right. The Federal Circuit pretends that there was no right involved here, and that the patent owner suffers no legal injury by having to undergo the entire examination process, an appeal to the Board, and then an appeal to the Federal Circuit before he can have the decision of the Director reversed. This is Wong! The whole point of the statute is to conserve resources and to provide a right of the patent owner to have the proceedings in the patent office terminated. This is a statutory right that effectively is being denied the patent owner by this decision by an out-of-control and bat-sheet cr@zy Federal Circuit. dcl says: This is fairly up to date and includes some of the petitions on Dennis’s list and some mentioned in comments. link to scotusblog.com Most of the petitions on the linked Wilmer list were denied on October 5 (the long list of denials when the Justices come back from the summer recess) Any recent denials of cert in the patent context? There was also a call for the SG’s views last week in Promega v. Life, about the proper interpretation of 271(f). Right – That case offers the following question: 35 U.S.C. § 271(f)(1) provides that it is an act of patent infringement to “suppl[y] . . . in or from the United States all or a substantial portion of the components of a patented invention, . . . in such manner as to actively induce the combination of such components outside the United States.” Despite this Court’s clear dictate that section 271(f) should be construed narrowly, Microsoft Corp. v. AT&T Corp., 550 U.S. 437 (2007), the Federal Circuit held that Life Technologies is liable for patent infringement for worldwide sales of a multi-component kit made abroad because just a single, commodity component of the kit was shipped from its U.S. facility to its own foreign facility. The questions presented are: Whether the Federal Circuit erred in holding that a single entity can “actively induce” itself to infringe a patent under 35 U.S.C. § 271(f)(1). Whether the Federal Circuit erred in holding that supplying a single, commodity component of a multi-component invention from the United States is an infringing act under 35 U.S.C. § 271(f)(1), exposing the manufacturer to liability for all worldwide sales. Andrew Dhuey says: Note also: Halo Electronics, Inc. v. Pulse Electronics, Inc. (whether Federal Circuit jurisprudence on enhanced damages is unsound in light of Octane Fitness). The case was relisted after the September 28 conference. There’s a good chance we’ll see a grant this Friday (10/16) afternoon, or maybe a call for the views of the Solicitor General. Fyi, I linked to this before (and you probably saw it prior to that, Andrew) but I thought this recent analysis was interesting: [A]n analysis of the data on the outcome of relisted petitions and the relist history of granted cases suggests that the Court has changed – and is changing – how it treats petitions for certiorari. It is now nearly a prerequisite for a grant of plenary review for a petition to be relisted (except for petitions granted at the Long Conference), a divergence from the historical practice of granting many petitions without a relist. Automated Merchandising v. Michelle Lee, can you give a link? 317(b) relates to settlements. I think you might have meant 315(b). No, this is a case about what happens when the parties settle the case but the USPTO refuses to settle. Link: link to patentlyo.com Dennis, Egads! Thus is an important question, albeit in the context of an inter partes reexamination. Pay attention folks — the PTO’s new position is that a denial of a petition to the Director regarding a statutory requirement to terminate proceedings in an examination, labelled final by the Director, is not final at all. The examination must still take place, and the issue of whether the Director’s decision was correct can be considered only on appeal. This effectively allows the PTO to operate ulta vires. This effectively removes collateral district court challenges under the APA. It is also directly contrary to controlling Supreme Court authority. But one can see the PTO’s plan that decisions under 315 and other provisions of the new IPR and PGR that are ultra vires cannot be considered until after proceedings are complete, and then, only by mandamus. The PTO is far, far out of control, beyond the pale, and they are being aided and abetted by the Federal Circuit here, again, by completely ignoring controlling Supreme Court precedent. One of our new posters here commented that Congress can do anything it wants until stopped by the judiciary. Well, that seems to apply as well to the PTO/Federal Circuit, who seem to be operating in lock step. They can be stopped only by the Supreme Court or by Congress. This is getting ugly. getting…??? Ned, if you had any sense of objectivity – and not just your pursuits as some sense of “Einstein-inducing-exceptionalism,” you would have realized that things have been going amiss for some time. And you would have had to recognize the Royal Nine wax nose mashing as well. anon, you know, as well as I, that I think the Supreme screwed up in Bilski, in eBay and in Medimmune, just to name a few recent decisions off the top of my head. But I do not see in the Supreme Court a systematic bias in favor of federal agencies so that they will allow them free reign to trample all over the rights of people like the aristocracy of old Europe trampled the rights (and the people themselves, viz the Tale of Two Cities by Dickens) and get away with it. But that is the new PTO/Federal Circuit. Both the PTO and your version of the “new” Fed are directly taking their cues from the Supremes. This is merely reaping what has been sown. From the Supreme Court? Anon, not really. They are doing the bidding of the PTO, nearly rubber stamping everything they want in construing the statutes. When it comes time to construe the AIA first to file provisions, they will listen only to the PTO. This is not a good thing, especially since the PTO has declared a war on patents. Ned – you are – and remain – unwilling to see that the Emperor is buck n@ked. Clearly, the Supremes have brow-beaten the CAFC to enforce the philosophical viewpoints that the Supremes want written – both implicitly and explicitly – into the law. You continue to turn a blind eye to the judicial attack on patents from the highest level, and you continue to lose credibility for such a lack of objectivity. You do this – because you too want to violate the very thing your own reference to Judge O’Malley’s warning was about: the use of the judiciary to usurp the role of the legislature in writing patent law. things have been going amiss for some time. Right. Since about 1990, taking an especially deep dive with State Street Bank leading to a complete clustercluck as documented here: link to patentlyo.com Now we’re cleaning up that incredible mess. It’s going to take years and we can expect that the same whiners who cheerleaded the earlier catastrophe are going to do everything in their power to prevent the necessary repairs. And it was all predicted. Thanks for playing, “anon.” By “playing,” you mean deliberately mischaracterizing the posts of others like you are doing directly here? Great “ec(h)0system Prof Topce says: Ugly for who? Where are the harms? Also the congress and the court being on the same page ship sailed a long time ago when FDR packed the court. You do realize that the Court-packing situation has nothing to do with the present topic, right? Try to at least get into the ballpark. Get this: Oct 9 2015 Waiver of right of respondent Michelle K. Lee, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office to respond filed. link to supremecourt.gov Odd play. Thoughts? Perhaps Justice knows it can say anything it wants to the Federal Circuit about the law, but no one want to look like a complete f00l to the Supreme Court, which is what is required here to defend this Federal Circuit decision. This is pretty common at the cert stage. The idea is you’re not giving the petition more attention than it deserves. Not odd at all. Take a look at a few more cert petitions, you’ll see this is not out of the ordinary. You might be right Jane. When something is completely indefensible, simply try to ignore it — the implication being that there is really nothing to see here. “When something is completely indefensible, simply try to ignore it ” The irony of how that phrase fits those who advocate on this forum in a drive-by monologue manner is stunning. You gotta love it when the patentee doesn’t have the guts to present its patent claims front and center in their petition. This is a case where a party filed a petition for inter partes review arguing invalidity of an asserted patent. The PTO granted the request for review. Subsequently, as part of a settlement, the same party stipulated in court — without any finding by the judge — that the patent was valid. So … it would appear that this party is lying (or has lied) to either the district court or the PTO. Which is it, I wonder? The question can be looked at this way: if the PTO has accepted a petition for review of a patent and the patent is complete absolute junk, can the inevitable invalidation be taken out of the PTO’s hands merely because the party who originally initiated the review has been paid off and “changed its mind”? MM, the statute requires the IPE be terminated in view of a court judgment between the parties deciding validity. When the PTO refuses to do that, the issue of whether it was right or not now has to await final disposition of the IPE, an appeal on the merits to the PTAB, and then an appeal to the Federal Circuit, who then may vacate all this effort by the PTO and the patent owner if the decision by the Director was wrong. Now think about that for a moment. the statute requires the IPE be terminated in view of a court judgment between the parties deciding validity. When the PTO refuses to do that, There’s no “refusal.” The PTO can’t force the court to determine validity after the parties settle without a validity determination. The validity determination is now in the PTO’s hands. Again I ask the question: to whom is the defendant in this case lying? The court or the PTO? It’s telling the court one thing and it’s told the agency another thing. Can it simply change its mind without a reasonable explanation?	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0010.json.gz/line1176

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