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__label__cc	0.711719	0.288281	Home / Food & Drink / The Chocolate Garden of Ireland Rath, Tullow, County Carlow (Wicklow) R93 PY82 00353 (0) 59 6481999 info@chocolategarden.ie The Chocolate Garden of Ireland Food & Drink Experiences, Food & Drink Producers, Where To Eat You don’t have to win a golden ticket to indulge in a Willy Wonka style magical factory tour to experience a real life chocolate making factory – Mary and Jim Healy have created Ireland’s very own chocolate heaven! Set in the rolling countryside on the Wicklow-Carlow border in the very heart of the beautiful Garden of Ireland, is the multi award-winning Chocolate Garden of Ireland. This artisan chocolate, ice cream and sorbet maker has become a magnet for tourists and local families and of course chocolate lovers over the years. Established in 2001 by husband and wife team – Jim and Mary Healy – they make award winning handmade chocolates, confectionary, ice creams and sorbets. They started out making Dutch style waffles but have diversified considerably since the outset, making their own chocolates from 2003 and then their delicious ice-creams from 2008. The Chocolate Garden of Ireland is the country’s only chocolate and ice cream factory which opens its doors to host workshops and daily chocolate making sessions. Visitors of all ages, from schools to retired groups, flock to the centre for this unique chocolate excursion which is both fun and informative. This multi-sensory workshop experience (which requires pre-booking) offers the chance to indulge in tasting different grades of chocolate while picking up some fascinating facts from the experts on the chocolate making process. You can even make your own sweet treats. Relax afterwards and enjoy some of the fine chocolate and ice cream delights produced on site in the comfort of the ambient cafe. There is even a play area for the kids and covered seating outdoors. Operating in such a beautiful rural part of the country, the company takes a firm line on increasing its sustainability and reducing its carbon footprint. Only natural flavourings are used in the making of its handmade chocolates which contain no palm oil, GMO ingredients or artificial additives. And of course, as its many awards suggest, taste is of paramount importance. The company’s artisan chocolate products are on sale in fine food and speciality outlets across Ireland and overseas. You can SHOP ONLINE to purchase these luxury chocolate bars. There are such an array of gifts available. * The Chocolate Garden of Ireland is proud to be a member of Wicklow Naturally	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1445
__label__cc	0.580067	0.419933	Statewide Projects Transition & Youth Projects IEP Mini-Modules Archived Workshops Language Interpreter Trainings Parent Leadership Conference Endless Possibilities Conference Supporting Learning, Literacy and Behavior at Home IDEA 2004 Info Annual Fundraising Event Parent Ambassadors We are here to connect your family with resources, information and support. All of our services are free of charge. Help provide support to our mission. DONATE TODAY WI FACETS offers many services to help parents and others support and enrich the lives of children with disabilities, including information and referral, individual assistance, support groups, parent leadership development, workshops and events. We update the site often and encourage your suggestions for new links. Resources for the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency 0. Back to School Virtual IEP Meeting Prep Sheet This resource was developed for families as they and educators learn how to hold and participate in virtual Individualized Education Program (IEP) meetings, where online or hybrid instruction is possible or necessary. See PDF document here. Federal Legal Guidance1.1) Addressing the Risk of COVID-19 in Preschool, Elementary and Secondary School (Revised 3/21/2020) Official guidance from the Department of Education on how IDEA law will be followed during the Covid-19 Public Health Emergency 1.2) QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON PROVIDING SERVICES TO CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES DURING THE CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019 OUTBREAK (Revised 3.18) Frequently Asked Questions on the implementation of IDEA law during the COVID-19 crisis. 1.3) Office for Civil Rights' Webinar on Virtual Learning Accommodations for Students in Special Education This seven minute video outlines what supports and accommodations a school must offer a student to ensure online educational materials are accessible for all. 1.4 Secretary DeVos Reiterates Learning Must Continue for All Students, Declines to Seek Congressional Waivers to FAPE, LRE Requirements of IDEA Updated guidance during this time of school closures, updated on April 27th. U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos reaffirmed her long-held position that individualized education must take place for all students, including students with disabilities. State Legal Guidance2.1) Conducting Parent Friendly and Productive Virtual IEP Meetings Information guiding families and school professionals on best practices for virtual IEP meetings. 2.2) DPI's Update on School Closures (Updated 3/20/2020) Official guidance from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction to school districts regarding the continuity of learning amid the spread of COVID-19 and the closure of public and private schools. Milwaukee Public School Guidance:2.3 MPS Letter to Families (from 4.01) Includes timelines of technology distribution etc., all assignments not graded Immediate Needs3.01) Where To Find Food, Housing Help And More In Wisconsin During The COVID-19 Pandemic Are you in need of food? Do you need someone to pick up groceries? Are you looking for ways to help during the COVID-19 pandemic? Here’s a non-exhaustive list of resources across Wisconsin. If you don’t find what you’re looking for here, you can search for services online at 211 Wisconsin, dial 211 on your phone, or text your ZIP code to 898211. 3.02) Free Internet from Spectrum Spectrum internet is offering 60 days of free internet for families with children who need internet access to complete school assignments during the COVID-19 public health emergency. 3.03) Free Meal Distribution for Milwaukee Public School students From the event description: "We recognize that our schools provide healthy meals to many of our students, and we will be providing free meals beginning Monday, March 16 between 11:00 am – 1:00 pm, Monday – Friday. Each distribution location will provide enrichment resources and materials to students in hard copy and online format. " 3.04) Free meals for students of the Madison Metropolitan School District From their food & nutrition site: While schools are closed, Madison Metropolitan School District's Food & Nutrition program will be providing free meals to all children 18 and under. Families will be able to drive-thu or walk up to receive their grab & go meals. This service will begin Monday, March 16th. Children will receive a grab & go lunch plus breakfast for the next day. Meals are available to all children in our District, Monday thru Friday. 3.05) Free meal distribution for the Green Bay Area Public School District Event description: "While the Green Bay Area Public School District is closed, parents will not have to worry about feeding their children if they need help putting food on the table. District officials say meals will be served at 12 elementary schools Monday through Friday at different times, and is only for pickup. Meals are not to be consumed on site." 3.06) Utilities are assured for residents in Wisconsin during the health emergency Wisconsin's winter moratorium on gas and electric service disconnection has been extended until the crisis has passed. 3.07 Kenosha County food resources, hours and locations 3.08 Racine and Kenosha COVID19 Food Resources 3.09 USDA Rural Development COVID-19 Resources Information on receiving services and navigating poverty in rural communities during the COVID-19 pandemic Activities/At-Home Learning4.01) List of Education Companies Offering Free Subscriptions Due to School Closings A fairly comprehensive list of online educational subscriptions offering free periods during school closures. 4.02) Scholastic Learn at Home Online Subscription (Free) Scholastic is offering free access to "Learn at Home", which offers day-by-day projects and curriculum for weekly lessons for Pre-K through 9th grade. 4.03) ABC Mouse Subscription (Free) ABC Mouse is offering 30 days of free access to their "early learning academy", offering activities and games to promote learning. They offer content for Pre-K through 8th grade. 4.04) BrainPOP Subscription (Free) BrainPOP is offereing free access to schools and families impacted by school closures - with curriculum available for pre-K through 8th grade. 4.05) Physical Education Curriculum for At-Home Free resources with over 30 planned physical ed lessons that parents can use with their child at home. 4.06) Ranger Rick Offering Free Access "With schools, offices, and other public spaces closing across the country, we want to help you stay entertained and engaged in the natural world. So we are making our website free to all visitors through the end of June. " 4.07) 450 Ivy League Courses Available Online for Free A resource for older students - offereing free courses in the following areas: Computer Science, Data Science, Programming, Humanities, Business, Art & Design, Science, Social Sciences, Health & Medicine, Engineering, Mathematics, and Education & Teaching. 4.08) Twelve Virtual Museum Tours You Can Take on Your Couch Google Arts & Culture teamed up with 2500 museums and galleries around the world to bring anyone and everyone virtual tours and online exhibits of some of the most famous museums around the world. 4.09) NASA's Library is Available Free Online NASA has made their entire collection of images, sounds, and video available and publicly searchable online. It’s 140,000 photos and other resources available for you to see, or even download and use it any way you like. 4.10 TED Ed TED Talks designed for young learners and classroom instruction. More free content has been made available for children at home during school closures. 4.11 Parent's Guide to Google Classroom Easy step-by-step instructions on understanding Google Classroom. 4.12 Audible Children's books Free During School Shutdown Free audiobooks available for a variety of ages. 4.13 12 Websites for Children with Learning Disabilities A list of some of the top learning websites for children with learning disabilities, including dyslexia, dysgraphia, ADHD, and visual motor deficit. 4.14 National Center for Families Learning Out-of-School Time Resources A collection of free at-home learning resources and activities for children and families. Camp Wonderopolis and 30 Days of Families Learning Together are two specific resources in the collection that are worth your time. 4.15 Read Think Write A collection of at-home learning activities for parents and teachers, organized by age group and topic. Heavily focused on literacy. 4.16 Family Time Machine Loaded with inspiring ideas and activities to help families make the most of their time together. 4.17 Learn to Earn Toolkit The Learn to Earn toolkit is a free online resource for intermediate and advanced adult learners of english and basic skills. This website has useful information to young folks exploring their options for after high school. 4.18 At-Home Activity Packs Resources from Curriculum Associates with "at-home activity packets" for mathematics and reading for kindergarten to 8th grade. 4.19 Teacher Vision Free Subscription TeacherVision has downloadable prepared lessons and is offering a free subscription during this time of school closures. Instructions on how to make an account and access content are in the article linked. 4.20 Tar Heel Reader The Tar Heel Reader is a collection of free, easy-to-read, and accessible books on a wide range of topics. Each book can be speech enabled and accessed using multiple interfaces, including touch screens, the IntelliKeys with custom overlays, and 1 to 3 switches. 4.21 PBS Wisconsin Education A collection of activities from PBS designed for At-Home Learning. 4.22 Wide Open School A free collection of the best online learning experiences for kids curated by the editors at Common Sense. For families and Educators (like a pinterest for educational sites and ideas). 4.23 Art Activities at Home A long list of art activities organized by categories & age groups. 4.24 Bright by Text Free tips and learning games with Bright By Text, a free, localized tool for parents and caregivers of children under 8. Staying Safe during the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency5.01) Supporting Kids During the COVID-19 Crisis Tips from the Child Mind Institute’s clinicians to help calm fears, manage stress and keep the peace for you and the kids you're nuturing during the crisis. 5.02) Explaining COVID-19 in Plain Language A resource made by people with intellectual disabilities for people with intellectual disabilities to understand what COVID-19 is and how to keep yourself and others safe. 5.03) How to Talk to Kids About COVID-19 Making sense of COVID-19 can be overwhelming and stressful, not only for adults but also for children. Avoiding the difficult conversation about COVID-19 can lead to unnecessary fear and it’s important for an adult to help children process the information they are seeing or hearing. 5.04) Advice for Multigenerational Families and Older Caregivers People over the age of 60 and those with compromised immune systems are among the highest-risk populations COVID-19 is impacting. While grandparents are being advised to isolate themselves physically from grandchildren, it is nearly impossible for older caregivers to distance themselves from the children they are raising. This fact sheet offers suggestions on how to stay healthy, informed and connected. 5.05) “How I’m Navigating Coronavirus Fear with My Anxious Child” An article from additudemag.com that is relevant to anyone looking for advice on parenting an anxious child through the COVID-19 public health emergency. 5.06) Coronavirus Anxiety: 10 Expert Coping Strategies This article from additudemag.com offers coping mechanisms that could be useful for a child with ADHD or any disposition toward anxiety. 5.07) Coronavirus Social Story A social story about the coronavirus explaining to children what COVID-19 is and how to stay safe and healthy. 5.08 Childmind Daily Tips A daily newsletter with advice on weathering the COVID-19 public health emergency with your young one. 5.09 Parent/Caregiver Guide to Helping Families Cope With the Coronavirus Disease 2019 This resource provides information for parents and caregivers about infectious disease outbreaks in your community. Knowing important information about the outbreak and learning how to be prepared can reduce stress and help calm likely anxieties. This resource will help parents and caregivers think about how an infectious disease outbreak might affect their family— both physically and emotionally—and what they can do to help their family cope. 5.10 Supporting Individuals with Autism during uncertain times An extensive packet with advice on helping children with ASD cope with feelings of uncertainty during this time. 5.11 DPI and SSPW: A Focus on Mental Health and Wellness During School Closures These are mental health resources organized in these four areas: General Mental Health and Wellness; Child and Adolescent Mental Health and Wellness; Parent, Caregiver, and Educator Mental Health and Wellness; and Positive Parenting and Safe Home Environments. Early Childhood & Birth to 3 Early Development1: Developmental Milestones A webpage from the CDC detailing the usual developmental milestones. Knowing when these milestones commonly happen, and the order of which, can help a parent feel empowered in understanding their child's development. 3: Early Childhood Special Education - from DPI Introductory information from the Department of Public Instruction on the responsibilities of a school district with accomodating young children with disabilities BIRTH TO THREE: 4: Birth to 3 Wisconsin Wisconsin's Early Intervention program - offering services and resources for young children with disabilities. This page has information about program eligibility, payment for services, your rights in Birth to 3, and more. 5: Interagency Coordinating Council for Wisconsin’s Birth to 3 Program The mission of the ICC is to advise, review, analyze, and monitor the implementation of the state's early intervention system, maintain a forum for communication relative to early intervention and make recommendations to DHS regarding the effective implementation of the early intervention system. Members include parents of children with developmental disabilities or delays. 6: Well Badger Resource Center a helpline for Wisconsin First Step. This helpline has staff able to answer questions about Birth to 3. Childcare7: ADA & Child Care The U.S. Department of Justice answers Commonly Asked Questions about Child Care Centers and the Americans with Disabilities Act. Transition to Kindergarten8: Countdown to Kindergarten for the Child with Special Needs: An Info Guide for Parent & Primary Caregivers A helpful info guide from Shasta County, California, reviewing ways to communicate with teachers & kindergarten competencies 1: Overview of Special Education: Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction Information for families, students, and educators - DPI is a state agency that advances public education and libraries in Wisconsin. "Our goal is to ensure every child graduates ready for further education and the workplace." Special Education Evaluation2: Special Education Eligibility Worksheets & Guides This webpage hosts the eligibility criteria worksheets for each disability areas designed by DPI. When school districts use eligibility criteria worksheets, the IEP team documentation of eligibility criteria more likely adequately addresses all of the required elements and results in fewer cases of inappropriate identification. 3: Determining Whether a Child is Eligible for Special Education Services An article from LDA America breaking down eligibility in plain language and easy to understand action steps for parents working through special education eligibility. IEP: 4: College & Career Ready IEPs - Learning Resources IEP Mediation and Facilitation: 6: WI Statewide Parent-Educator Initiative (WSPEI) From the WSPEI website: "WSPEI is all about partnerships. Our goal is to help families and school districts find or create the resources that will help them build positive working relationships that lead to shared decision making and better outcomes for the student. We support the increased sharing of information among families, schools, projects, organizations, and agencies through networking meetings, conferences, person-to-person contact, and media." 7: The Center for Appropriate Dispute Resolution in Special Education CADRE's major emphasis is on encouraging the use of mediation, facilitation, and other collaborative processes as strategies for resolving disagreements between parents and schools about children's educational programs and support services. CADRE supports parents, educators, administrators, attorneys and advocates to benefit from the full continuum of dispute resolution options that can prevent and resolve conflict and ultimately lead to informed partnerships that focus on results for children and youth. 8: Wisconsin Special Education Mediation System WSEMS helps parents and schools work together to resolve disputes about special education through providing neutral mediators to IEP teams to facilitate helpful, productive IEP meetings. 12: FAQ with the Office of Civil Rights A document made in 2009 to clarify the requirements of Section 504 in the area of public elementary and secondary education 13: The Inclusive Classroom as the Best placement A thoughtco article detailing how inclusive classrooms can be beneficial as well as factors that seem to be very beneficial in determining that success 14: Guiding Questions to Navigate Your Journey to Inclusion An article for parents & educators listing considerations to guide conversations about inclusivity. Bullying: 15: PACER's National Bullying Prevention Center Resources from another Parent Training Center for parents and youth to better understand and address bullying. 16: StopBullying.gov An article for parents of children with special needs providing more information on what bullying looks like and what parents can do to support their child Charter/Private School: 17: Know Your Rights: Students with Disabilities in Charter Schools A document designed to help parents, students, and the charter school community better understand the rights of students with disabilities under Federal disability-related laws 18: Equitable Services Requirement: Special Education for Parentally Placed Private School Students Information on the rights of a student to receive services through IDEA in a private school Preparing for transition with the IEP team: 1: Transition Goals in the IEP A resource from the Center for Parent Information & Resources that breaks down what transition goals in the IEP look like, when they should be written, etc. 2: 10 Ways to Involve Young Adults in their IEP Meetings An article from Pathway2Success with tips on helping young adults get involved with their IEP meeting. For a youth, getting involved in their IEP meeting is a great step toward self-determination and future independence. 3: Whose Life is It Anyway? How One Teenager, Her Parents, and Her Teacher View the Transition Process for a Young Person with Disabilities A book detailing the transition process for students with disabilities and their families to get a sense of what successful transition can look like. 4: People Make It Happen A booklet describing the roles of IEP team members in a young person's transition, with suggestions for how different members of transition teams may participate in the transition process Employment: 5: Division of Vocational Rehabilitation – Wisconsin Wisconsin's Vocational Rehabilitation Agency helps persons with cognitive, sensory, physical, or emotional disabilities find employment and achieve independence. Due to waitlists, it is best to explore options with DVR before your child is 18. 6: OneStop: Access for All in the Workforce Development A site from the National Center on Workforce and Disability, under Access for All in the Workforce Development that offers information on topics for people with disabilities obtaining employment in the workforce 7: Youth Rules! From the US Department of Labor A website focused on teaching legal rules and rights for youth under 18 who are employed Post-Secondary Education & Training: 8: Think College Learn: An overview of the rights of people with intellectual disabilities in accessing college, with resources on how to make college a reality for people with intellectual disabilities. 9: Accommodations on the ACT information from ACT.com on how to request accomodations for the ACT 10: Scholarships and Financial Aid for Students with Disabilities A collection of scholarships from AffordableColleges.com, organized by diferent eligibility requirements. 11: College Prep for Students with Learning Disabilities A Collection of articles from LD Online in different topics related to having a learning disability as a college students and ways to support college students with learning disabilities. 12: Supports for Students with Intellectual Disabilities Information on college programs, funding, and other key resources to ensure success for a student with DD or ID to access college. Has an interactive map with a list of some of the programs available in Wisconsin. Getting Ready for the Age of Majority: 13: Person-centered Planning Person-centered planning is a process-oriented approach to empowering people with disabilities - developing a "toolbox" of methods & resources that enable people with disabilities to choose their own pathways. This resource provides more information on what person-centered planning is, and how it can be achieved. 14: Self Determination/Guardianship A webpage from Disability Rights Wisconsin outlining legal options after age 18 with relevant links to find more information 15: Supported Decision-making Supported decision-making is an alternative to guardianship that allows a person with disabilities to have more control and autonomy over their life 16: Guardianship Support Center Wisconsin-specific information and assistance on issues related to adult guardianship. Independent Living: 1: Wisconsin Independent Living Network The Wisconsin Independent Living Wisconsin is a statewide network that provides resources to help people with disabilities live independently. 3: Aging and Disability Resource Centers Consumer Page Links to more information on what services are provided through ADRC for adults with disabilities 5: Programs for Adults with Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities - DHS Links to more detailed information on the Family Care and IRIS programs available for adults with disabilities 6: Independence First IndependenceFirst is Metro Milwaukee's FIRST resource when people have questions regarding access and disability. "We offer over 20 Programs & Services for people with disabilities of all kinds, in all age groups and provide programs on disability awareness and access to the general community. Over 50% of our staff, managers and Board have disabilities themselves and this peer approach leads to excellent outcomes." 7: Milwaukee County Office for Persons with Disabilities: Recreation for People with Disabilities Milwaukee County sponsors recreational activities designed for people with disabilities throughout the county. Transportation: 9: Equal Access to Transportation (from Transportation.gov) Information on access to transportation policies in terms of ADA laws and regulations 11: Non-emergency Medical Transportation As the state of Wisconsin’s non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT) manager, MTM, Inc. arranges transportation for eligible Medicaid and BadgerCare Plus members throughout the state to their covered preventative and life-sustaining medical appointments. Adaptive And Accessible Living12: Disability Rights WI: Housing Information on funds and resource programs for homepurchases, owner-occupied rehabilitation and improvements from Disability Rights Wisconsin 13: Access Mainstreet The ACCESS Main Street Website presents resources, information, tools, products, examples and strategies for the universal design of communities and for the inclusion of all members of the community, gathered from a host of sources: employers and restaurants, businesses and schools, builders and service providers, media and informational technology consumers, employees and shoppers and every other member of the community interested in community accessibility. 14: ADA Resource Page Updated ADA-ABA Accessibility Guidelines Information About Specific Disabilities Autism1: Autism Society of America "The Autism Society of America has been improving the lives of all affected by autism for over 50 years and envisions a world where individuals and families living with autism are able to maximize their quality of life, are treated with the highest level of dignity, and live in a society in which their talents and skills are appreciated and valued. We provide advocacy, education, information and referral, support, and community at national, state and local levels through our strong nationwide network of Affiliates." 2: Autism Society of Wisconsin (ASW) "The Autism Society of Greater Wisconsin exists to provide a community for individuals affected by autism, their families, and professionals who serve them" ADD/ADHD4: Children with Attention Deficit Disorder (CHADD) CHADD is a national organization that prioritizes information, support, and advocacy for children and adults with ADHD 5: ADDitude An online publication focused on topics in ADHD in all ages, offering research-based information to help parents support their children with ADHD. Blindness6: National Association of Blind Students The National Association of Blind Students provides support, information, and encouragement to blind college and university students. 7: Family Connect A site for parents of children with visual impairments with resources on parenting, assistive tech, and more 8: National Library for the Blind NLS is a free braille and talking book library service for people with temporary or permanent low vision, blindness, or a physical disability that prevents them from reading or holding the printed page. Through a national network of cooperating libraries, NLS offers books the way you want them: in braille or audio, mailed to your door for free or instantly downloadable. 9: American Foundation for the Blind AFB advocates for better policies that promote accessibility, equality, and opportunity for people who are blind or visually impaired. 10: Hear Wisconsin Hear Wisconsin is a nonprofit that helps infants, children, and adults with hearing loss by eliminating communication and language barriers through personalized services, technology, and education. Learning Disability: 11: National Center for Learning Disabilities (NCLD) The mission of NCLD is to improve the lives of the 1 in 5 children and adults nationwide with learning and attention issues—by empowering parents and young adults, transforming schools and advocating for equal rights and opportunities 12: Learning Disabilities Association of America LDA visualizes a world in which learning disabilities are universally understood, so all individuals are accepted, supported and empowered to live a self-determined life. LDA’s mission is to create opportunities for success for all individuals affected by learning disabilities through support, education and advocacy. 13: Learning Disabilities Association of Wisconsin LDA-Wisconsin provides resources (online and in-person), education, and referrals to additional assistance in order to support to children and adults with learning disabilities Down Syndrome14: National Down Syndrome Society The National Down Syndrome Society is the leading human rights organization for all individuals with Down syndrome. 15: Down Syndrome Association of Wisconsin (DSAW) The Down Syndrome Association of Wisconsin's mission is to provide support to Wisconsin families and individuals with Down syndrome through awareness, education, information, programs, services, and the exchange of ideas and experiences. 16: Developmental Delay Resources DDR is dedicated to meeting the needs of children with developmental delays in sensory, motor, language, social, and emotional areas. DDR strives to integrate conventional and holistic approaches for parents and professionals who support children with special needs. 17: Wisconsin Board for People with Developmental Disabilities The Wisconsin Board for People with Developmental Disabilities was established to advocate on behalf of individuals with developmental disabilities, foster welcoming and inclusive communities, and improve the disability service system. The Board’s mission is to help people with developmental disabilities become independent, productive, and included in all facets of community life. Cerebral Palsy18: United Cerebral Palsy UCP works to enact real change—to revolutionize care, raise standards of living, and create opportunities—impacting the lives of millions living with disabilities. 19: Cerebral Palsy Group Cerebral Palsy Group is a national organization that was created so that it may serve the individuals and families who have been diagnosed with cerebral palsy. "We are here to provide information and support so that we may help provide resources and education to those affected by CP." Other: 20: Prader-Willi Syndrome Association PWSA (USA) was organized in 1975 to provide support for individuals, families, professionals and organizations and to be a resource for education and information about Prader-Willi syndrome. 21: Spina Bifida Association of America (SBAA) "Fueled by dedicated health care providers, parents, adults, caregivers, and others, we are committed to helping people live longer, healthier lives through research, advocacy, education, support" 22: Tourette Syndrome Association (TSA) "We offer resources and referrals to help people and their families cope with the problems that occur with TS. We raise public awareness and counter media stereotypes about TS. Our membership includes individuals, families, relatives, and medical and allied professionals working in the field." 23: Hydrocephalus Association The Hydrocephalus Association serves as the primary nexus for research on hydrocephalus, a condition defined by an abnormal, excessive accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) within the cavities of the brain 24: Epilepsy Foundation of America The Epilepsy Foundation, a national non-profit with over 50 local organizations throughout the United States, has led the fight against seizures since 1968. "We are an unwavering ally for individuals and families impacted by epilepsy and seizures. We work to prevent, control, and cure epilepsy through community services, public education, federal and local advocacy, and supporting research into new treatments and therapies." 25: Brain Injury Association of Wisconsin A state-wide nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of individuals affected by brain injury, offering Information & Resources, Education, Advocacy, Prevention, and Support Services 26: National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (NOFAS) NOFAS works to prevent prenatal exposure to alcohol, drugs, and other substances known to harm fetal development by raising awareness and supporting women before and during their pregnancy, and supports individuals, families, and communities living with fetal alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASDs) and other preventable intellectual/developmental disabilities. 10: Serving on Groups that Make Decisions Serving on Groups That Make Decisions: A Guide for Families is a tool developed by WI FACETS and partners in response to feedback from parents who were looking for the tools to gain more confidence in participating in IEP meetings, parent teacher organizations, and more. The result is a guide that focuses on developing specific skill sets using research-based strategies while being broadly applicable to a diverse audience for a more effective and robust decision-making group. Serving on Groups applies to all decision-making groups, not just in education or specifically to one state. Serving on Groups is a guidebook as well as a training available in online modules, webinars, and in person. 1: TASH TASH works to advance inclusive communities through advocacy, research, professional development, policy, and information and resources for parents, families and self-advocates. The inclusive practices TASH validates through research have been shown to improve outcomes for all people. 3: Family Voices of WI Family Voices is a national family-led organization of families and friends of children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN) and disabilities. "We connect a network of family organizations across the United States that provide support to families of CYSHCN. We promote partnership with families at all levels of health care–individual and policy decision-making levels—in order to improve health care services and policies for children." Parent Support Organizations: 4: Alianza Latina Aplicando Soluciones ALAS is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the independence of families of children and youth with diverse abilities in Milwaukee by providing educational workshops, parent support groups, family events, community building activities, and service referrals amongts other services and supports. 6: Wisconsin Families Ties Wisconsin Family Ties (WFT) is the only statewide, parent-run organization in Wisconsin working with families that include children with social, emotional or behavioral challenges. "We walk beside families to provide emotional support while helping to navigate the complex service and treatment systems with which they are involved." Respite7: ABCs of Respite: A consumer Guide for Family Caregivers A resource from Arch, the National Respite Network & Resource Center, providing some guidance to understanding what respite is & how to access respite services 8: Respite Care Association of Wisconsin Respite Care Association of Wisconsin manages a statewide “Caring Network” of trained respite care providers who will have the required skills to provide in-home respite care for individuals with a variety of disabilities, including highly challenging behaviors, and basic medical and personal care needs. 9: Easterseals Wisconsin Easter Seals Wisconsin provides a variety of programs for people with disabilities including vocational rehavilitation, respite services, camping & recreation, information & referral, and public education. Services are designed to help people with disabilities live independently, become self-sufficient and enjoy life more fully. 1: NAMI NAMI Wisconsin is a state organization of NAMI. The mission of NAMI Wisconsin is to improve the quality of life of people affected by mental illness and to promote recovery. NAMI Wisconsin will accomplish its mission through promoting public education and understanding of mental illnesses; advocating at all levels of government and throughout the public sector to improve mental health care in Wisconsin; supporting affiliates by providing follow-up advice and counsel; educational and training programs and materials; access to financial resources as appropriate; and by offering conferences, seminars, and presentations; and establishing and strengthen local affiliates to keep with NAMI’s principles and guidelines. 2: Child Mind Institute The Child Mind Institute is an independent, national nonprofit dedicated to transforming the lives of children and families struggling with mental health and learning disorders. "Our teams work every day to deliver the highest standards of care, advance the science of the developing brain and empower parents, professionals and policymakers to support children when and where they need it most." National1: Autcom (Autism National Committee) AUTCOM is an autism advocacy organization dedicated to "Social Justice for All Citizens with Autism" through a shared vision 2: The Arc National The Arc promotes and protects the human rights of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and actively supports their full inclusion and participation in the community throughout their lifetimes. Local: 3: The Arc Wisconsin The Arc Wisconsin works to develop programs and advocate for public policy giving people with I/DD the opportunity to learn, live, and work inclusively in their communities. 4: Disability Rights WI Disability Rights helps people across Wisconsin gain access to services and opportunity through its advocacy and legal expertise. "We regularly challenge systems and society to create positive change and improve the lives of people with disabilities." 5: Wisconsin Board for People with Developmental Disabilities (WBPDD) 6: KidsForward.net Kids Forward aspires to make Wisconsin a place where every child thrives by advocating for effective, long-lasting solutions that break down barriers to success for children and families. Using a research and a community-informed approach, Kids Forward works to help every kid, every family, and every community. Understanding Assistive Tech: 1: ADA regulations: Auxiliary aids & services Information taken from ADA Title III on what is defined as an auxiliary aid and service for public accomodation 2: National Disability Navigator: Guide to Auxiliary Aids & Services A collection of resources to help finance assistive technology in the United States. Accessing Assistive Tech: 3: International Center for Disability Resources on the Internet: Financial Aid Resources for Purchasing Assistive Technology 4: AEM Explorer The AEM Explorer is designed to be used by a reader working collaboratively with an educator, tutor, parent, or assistive technology specialist as a guide. The AEM Explorer is a free simulation that combines grade-leveled digital text with access features common to most text readers and other supported reading software. Magnification, custom text and background colors, text-to-speech (synthetic and human), text highlighting, and layout options are presented in a logical sequence to help struggling readers decide which of these supports might help them to access and understand text. 6: Microsoft Accessibility Information from Microsoft on accessibility functions on Microsoft products 7: Wisconsin Assistive Technology Initiative It is the mission of the Wisconsin Assistive Technology Initiative to serve as the collective voice of the assistive technology industry to help ensure that the best products and services are delivered to persons with disabilities. 8: LD Online: Auxiliary Aids and Services A resource page with links to additional information on finding and accessing assistive technology WI FACETS is committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of technology or ability. 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__label__wiki	0.540316	0.540316	Sideswiped (TV series) Sideswiped Carly Craig Daniel Reisinger Rosanna Arquette Chelsea Frei Mateo Messina 8 (list of episodes) Jeremy Garelick Robin Schiff George Paaswell Sam Anzel John Tanzer Cameron Duncan Shaheed Qaasim Kate Hickey Single-camera Kissing Toads Productions Original network YouTube Premium 4K (UHDTV) July 25, 2018 (2018-07-25) Sideswiped is an American comedy web television series created by Carly Craig and Daniel Reisinger that premiered on July 25, 2018 on YouTube Premium. The series stars Craig who executive produces alongside Reisinger, Robin Schiff, and Jeremy Garelick. Craig and Schiff also act as showrunners. On April 10, 2019, YouTube Premium canceled the series.[1] 1 Premise 2 Cast and characters 2.1 Main 2.2 Recurring 2.3 Guest 3 Episodes 4 Production 4.1 Development 4.2 Casting 4.3 Filming 5 Release 6 Reception 6.1 Critical response 6.2 Awards and nominations Sideswiped follows "three women. A lifetime of saying no has left Olivia single and miserable on her 35th birthday. This workaholic verging on a breakdown vows to plunge into the hellish world of Tinder by dating all 252 of her matches. She is spurred on by her sister Jayne, a young married woman experiencing a seven-year itch. The sisters are joined by their recently widowed mother, Mary, who now also is a part of the online dating scene.[2] Cast and characters Carly Craig as Olivia Maple, a life insurance broker at Wilson and Hines Insurance company. While out celebrating her 35th birthday, her sister downloads Tinder to her phone and she proceeds to swipe right on numerous men while in a drunken stupor. She awakes the next morning to discover that she now has 252 matches and makes the decision to go out with every one of them. Rosanna Arquette as Mary Maple, Olivia and Jayne's widowed mother. Her husband of 34 years died of a heart attack during a golf lesson and she now lives with Olivia. She's trying to become a more independent person going so far as to get her first job working at a clothing store. Chelsea Frei as Jayne Tyler, Olivia's married sister who just gave birth to a daughter. She struggles with figuring out her own identity separate from marriage and child and feels like her husband hasn't looked at her the same way since she gave birth. Craig Frank as Dr. Jim Tyler, Jayne's husband and a gastroenterologist. He begins to fear losing his job after failing to bring enough new patients into his practice due to some bad Yelp reviews. This causes him to become more distant towards Jayne leading to a following out between them after he discovers she was flirting with a man on her sister's Tinder account. Zaire and Zamir Salazar as Abby Tyler, Jayne and Jim's infant daughter. Alice Lee as Britney, the manager of the clothing store Rock Etiquette. She helps style Mary and takes new pictures of her for her dating app accounts. She and Mary go on to become friends and she hires her to work at the store as an employee. The pair ultimately decide to move in together after Britney kicks out her previous roommate. Miguel Pinzon as Danny, Olivia's receptionist whom she seeks advice from and gossips with. Rhys Coiro as Charlie, a history teacher that Olivia matches with on Tinder. Jayne flirts with him using Olivia's account and pretends to be her. He and Olivia eventually begin to date and she comes clean about her sister's deception. The couple breaks up after Olivia admits that she is not sure she wants kids while he is certain that he does. Jason Sudeikis as Dr. David Bennett ("Matching Up"), a gynecologist that fills in for Olivia's regular doctor. Thomas Lennon as Aaron Cunningham ("Matching Up"), the CEO of Cunningham Insurance company and a man that Olivia matches with on Tinder. Tyler Posey as Griffin ("Baby Steps"), a personal trainer and gym owner that Olivia matches with on Tinder. Christopher McDonald as Mary's One Night Stand ("Baby Steps"), a man that Mary meets while out eating dinner by herself and with whom she later has sex. Charles Michael Davis as Josh ("Deal Breakers"), a lawyer and sex addict that Olivia matches with on Tinder. Robert Pine as Ethan ("Deal Breakers"), a widowed man living on a housebout that Mary matches with on Oomph and with whom she goes on a date. Rick Springfield as himself ("The Rock Star"), a famous 80s musician that Mary matches with on an exclusive dating app that includes celebrities. Penny Johnson Jerald as Cynthia Tyler ("The Rock Star"), Jim's mother and a real estate agent that lives in San Francisco. She is often passive aggressive towards Jayne and suggests that she get a nanny when she comes to visit. Andy Gala as Dr. Bradley Navin ("The Rock Star"), a doctor that works in Jim's practice who is set up on a date with Olivia. Bryan Greenberg as Ryan ("The Ex"), Olivia's ex-boyfriend that founded a charity, Meals with Feels, that feeds homeless people on Saturdays. He went to college with Jim and plays on a soccer team with him. Michelle Hayden as Lexi ("The Ex"), Ryan's pregnant girlfriend with whom he founded his charity. Barry Livingston as Teacher ("The Ex"), an instructor teaching a course on various computer programs that Marry attends. Marc Evan Jackson as Dr. Singer ("The Party"), a doctor at PCR Fertility Clinic who Olivia consults with regarding freezing her eggs. Sarah Burns as Nicole ("The Party"), a woman that Olivia meets using the friend option on a dating app that she attends a concert with. Peter Gallagher as Andrew ("For A Nickel I Will"), a retired lawyer that comes into Rock Etiquette shopping for his granddaughter. He and Mary begin dating but decide to stop seeing each other as she is focused on her new job whereas he wants to take advantage of his retirement. Jon Ecker as Bobby Garcia ("Hard Maybe"), a guy that Jayne had a crush on in high school and whom she referred to as "Hot Jesus". She reconnects with him at a bar years later and ends up making out with him in his car. Original release date "Matching Up" Daniel Reisinger Story by : Carly Craig & Daniel Reisinger Teleplay by : Carly Craig July 25, 2018 (2018-07-25) "Baby Steps" Daniel Reisinger Carly Craig July 25, 2018 (2018-07-25) "Deal Breakers" Kat Coiro Brooke Baker July 25, 2018 (2018-07-25) "The Rock Star" Erin Ehrlich Spencer Sloan July 25, 2018 (2018-07-25) "The Ex" Kat Coiro Spencer Sloan July 25, 2018 (2018-07-25) "The Party" Daniel Reisinger Carly Craig July 25, 2018 (2018-07-25) "For A Nickel I Will" Daniel Reisinger Robin Schiff July 25, 2018 (2018-07-25) "Hard Maybe" Erin Ehrlich Story by : Stacy Harman & Carly Craig Teleplay by : Carly Craig & Robin Schiff July 25, 2018 (2018-07-25) On October 20, 2017, it was announced that YouTube had given the production, then titled Swipe Right, a series order for a first season consisting of eight episodes. The series was created by Carly Craig and Daniel Reisinger. Craig was set to write the series while Reisinger would direct. Craig was also expected to serve as showrunner along with Robin Schiff. Executive producers were to include Craig, Reisinger, Schiff, and Jeremy Garelick. Sam Anzel was set to serve as a producer.[3][4][5][6] On June 28, 2018, it was reported that the series had been retitled Sideswiped and that it would premiere on July 25, 2018.[7] Alongside the initial series order announcement, it was confirmed that Craig had been cast in the series' lead role.[3] On February 9, 2018, it was announced that Rosanna Arquette and Chelsea Frei had been cast as series regulars in the roles of Mary and Jayne, respectively. It was further reported that Jason Sudeikis, Rick Springfield, Peter Gallagher, Tyler Posey, Thomas Lennon, Bryan Greenberg, Charles Michael Davis, Christopher McDonald, Rhys Coiro, Craig Frank, Alice Lee, and Sarah Burns would appear as guest stars.[2] Principal photography for the series took place in Los Angeles, California at locations including Mar Vista, Studio City, and Arcadia. A frequent location in the series is The Parlour Room of Hollywood in Los Angeles where Craig's character Olivia frequently goes on first dates.[8] On June 28, 2018, the first trailer for the series was released.[7] Critical response The series has been met with a generally positive response from critics since its premiere. In a positive review, Indiewire's Hanh Nguyen gave the series a "B" grade and praised it saying, "There’s a core of yearning in the show that belies the raucous tone of the in-your-face comedy elements, and this gives Sideswiped a potential for something truly heartfelt."[9] In a similarly favorable critique, Decider's Joel Keller commended the series saying, "Craig, Arquette and Frei have a fantastic rapport with each other, and it makes the show worth watching as we see Olivia navigate the dating scene in the world of swiping left or right." He goes on to recommend that viewers watch the series adding, "Stream It, because Craig, Arquette and Frei make a heck of a comedy team." [10] In another approving assessment, Paste's Alexis Gunderson gave the series a rating of 8.6 out of 10 and applauded it for its authenticity evidenced through all aspects of the production saying, "That realism shines through, not just in the performances, but in the series’ whole production. The color palette is neither muted nor heightened; the musical cues subtly support only what is on the screen; the few stylized smash cuts and close-ups that exist only do so to add to Olivia's, Mary's, and Jayne's characterization by following their most lizard brain-y thoughts."[11] Nominee(s) 2019 Shorty Awards Best Web Series Sideswiped Pending [12] ^ Schneider, Michael (2019-04-10). "'Ryan Hansen,' 'Champaign ILL' Canceled as YouTube Prepares for New Originals Strategy (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved 2019-04-10. ^ a b Petski, Denise (February 9, 2018). "Rosanna Arquette & Chelsea Frei Join Carly Craig's YouTube Comedy Series 'Swipe Right'". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved February 9, 2018. ^ a b Andreeva, Nellie (October 20, 2017). "YouTube Greenlights Multi-Generational Relationship Comedy Series 'Swipe Right' Starring Carly Craig". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved February 9, 2018. ^ Rubin, Rebecca (October 20, 2017). "TV News Roundup: YouTube Greenlights Tinder-Themed Comedy 'Swipe Right'". Variety. Retrieved February 9, 2018. ^ Plaugic, Lizzie (October 20, 2017). "YouTube Red greenlights a Tinder-themed romantic comedy series called Swipe Right". The Verge. Retrieved February 9, 2018. ^ Weiss, Geoff (October 20, 2017). "Carly Craig's Online Dating Comedy, 'Swipe Right', Gets Greenlight At YouTube Red - Tubefilter". Tubefilter. Retrieved February 9, 2018. ^ a b Kinane, Ruth (June 28, 2018). "YouTube's 'Sideswiped' sees Carly Craig navigate dating in the digital era". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved June 28, 2018. ^ Stone, Ken (July 17, 2018). "San Diego Native Carly Craig, Edgy-Sexy Comic, Takes Latest Swipe at Stardom - Times of San Diego". Times of San Diego. Retrieved July 18, 2018. ^ Nguyen, Hanh (July 25, 2018). "'Sideswiped' Review: YouTube Premium's Dating App Series Loves to Laugh and Shows Potential for a Deeper Connection". IndieWire. Retrieved July 27, 2018. ^ Keller, Joel (July 25, 2018). "Stream It Or Skip It: 'Sideswiped' On YouTube Premium, About A Woman Who Goes On 252 Tinder Dates". Decider. Retrieved July 27, 2018. ^ Gunderson, Alexis (July 24, 2018). "With Carly Craig's Sweet Sideswiped, YouTube Makes a Play for the Catastrophe Set". Paste. Retrieved July 27, 2018. ^ Del Rosario, Alexandra (January 28, 2019). "Awkwafina, Michelle Obama, Jason Momoa Land 2019 Shorty Awards Nominations (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved January 29, 2019. Sideswiped on IMDb YouTube Premium original programming Kevin Hart: What The Fit (since 2018) Liza on Demand (since 2018) Lockdown (since 2020) Mind Field (since 2017) Ariana Grande: Dangerous Woman Diaries (2018) Bad Internet (2016) Best Shot (2018) Champaign ILL (2018) Cobra Kai (2018–19) Dallas & Robo (2018) Do You Want to See a Dead Body? (2017) Escape the Night (2016–19) Fight of the Living Dead (2016-17) Foursome (2016-18) Furze World Wonders (2017) Good Game (2017) Impulse (2018–19) Justin Bieber: Seasons (2020) Kings of Atlantis (2017) Lifeline (2017) MatPat's Game Lab (2016) Me and My Grandma (2017) Origin (2018) Overthinking with Kat & June (2018) Paranormal Action Squad (2016) I'm Poppy (2018) Prank Academy (2016) Rhett & Link's Buddy System (2016-17) Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes on Television (2017–19) Scare PewDiePie (2016) The Secret Life of Lele Pons (2020) The Sidemen Show (2018) Sideswiped (2018) Sing It! (2016) Single by 30 (2016) Squad Wars (2017) Step Up: High Water (2018–19) Sugar (2018) Top Management (2018) Weird City (2019) Youth & Consequences (2018) This page was last edited on 27 November 2020, at 21:38	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1449
__label__cc	0.716922	0.283078	PC Games > Hidden Object Games > Vacation Adventures: Cruise Director 5 Vacation Adventures: Cruise Director 5 Come aboard and enjoy the Cruise of a Lifetime aboard the fleet’s super luxurious flagship, USS Liberty of the Waves. As Cruise Director you will arrange fabulous excursions in the Caribbean, Europe and South America. On your travels visit amazing tourist sights and landmarks in cities such as London, Edinburgh, Barcelona, Vienna and Istanbul. Spend time relaxing in the Virgin Islands and travel across Europe on the world’s most luxurious train, the famous Orient Express. Help passengers with cabins, shopping, dining, and leisure on board and at ports of call. Vacation Adventures: Cruise Director 5 guarantees truly captivating gameplay for families and all ages to enjoy. Earn merit badges for your achievements Gorgeous graphics and gameplay Interactive cruise map for replay and rewards Stunning hidden object games and mini puzzles Superb scenery and luxurious locations OS: Windows XP/Windows Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8/Windows 10 Vacation Adventures: Cruise Director 5 is rated 4.3 out of 5 by 50. Rated 5 out of 5 by marilynb58 from Finally a game that isn't so dark! I love the Hidden Object games and have purchased a few. So many have such dark titles and graphics that I lost interest. Please give us more like the Cruise Directors or Park Rangers. So much negativity in this world, last thing we need it is in our entertainment!!! Rated 5 out of 5 by missmerrily from Another winner I've read some negative reviews about the mini-puzzles in this game, but for me they are one of the things that draws me back, time after time, whether it's Cruise Director or Park Ranger. The only puzzle I consistently skip is lining up concentric circles. Never did get that one, but it's not a feature in this game anyway. So, did it live up to expectations? Absolutely did. It's sort of like a predictable old bad habit, but the minute the new game gets released, I'm in there. And I'll replay it, as with all the others, several times. Some of the scenes were a little more challenging this time, but that's OK. I have a sort of guilty pleasure with picking up the trash. I always feel it shouldn't really be there and that it could encourage littering in real life, but I still love whanging those items into the recycling! As usual, just like a real cruise, it was all over so quickly, and now here I am waiting for the next episode to be released. Bring it on! Rated 5 out of 5 by yowzasma from I Am Now Totally Hooked On Vacation Adventures: Cruise Director series I so much enjoyed this game and the only complaint I have is what became of the gentleman who hurt his foot near the end of the game. The game-play, storyline and characters, music and plain old fashioned enjoyability are all tops ! Something that I really like are the way some hidden objects are really hidden but can be found even if they are quite small. My old eyes gripe a little but we usually find them ;) I have always had one or two Vacation Adv. in my inventory but keep putting off playing till I finish the traditional ones BUT no more. From now on I'm keeping their Icons on my desk-top and playing them regularly :) In closing, I recommend this fun game and all it's relatives This one is getting a 5 out of 5 on my personal enjoy -ability scale ! :) Rated 5 out of 5 by hogfish from Best Cruise Director yet...and request for Big Fish Love all the multiple hidden locations, scenes and music in CD 5. I'm a senior and love all the Vacation Adventure games..own all the Park Rangers, Cruise Director, Christmas Wonderlands, location HOGS, etc. Would love more of those type and if you could create a series collection of them like you have other HOGS...(which are all dark and creepy for some of us LOL). Make it easier to find what light, relaxing games are available and new without having to search the long list of all of the HOG games. Thanks for listening!! Rated 5 out of 5 by techblogger911 from Must Buy! Do you like hidden object games? Do you want to try the game as demo before purchasing it? Well Then you are headed towards the right direction. People from many age groups can enjoy this game, kids or adults. Rated 5 out of 5 by HOGeek from Sail Away on a Hidden Object Cruise! I just finished playing the fifth game in this great series, and really enjoyed it! This installment features exotic locations and a lovely, pleasant soundtrack which matches the locations the player searches for hidden objects. A true treat! Rated 5 out of 5 by Janetto from Pure Fun This game is pure fun. Beautiful cheerful colors fill the screen while soft music plays in the background. Lots of hidden objects to find (my favorite part) and puzzles in between. There's nothing depressing, evil, or morbid about this game -- it's purely lighthearted and a great way to relax. I look forward to this series as well as that of the Park Ranger and the Christmas Wonderland -- all winners!!! Rated 5 out of 5 by iou001 from On my Favorites list. Vacation Adventures: Cruise Director games are always on my Favorites list. And Vacation Adventures: Cruise Director 5 is just as great. These games I can play repeatedly and never get tired of them. I wish they had a 'SKIP' button for when I'm looking for 'Lost and Found' items. Sometimes I cant find something at the moment and would like to find the rest of the items and then come back to find that item. I recommend this game to beginners, intermediate and expert HOG players. Rated 5 out of 5 by gladysschmuck from I'm always gonna buy these games! Vacation Adventures and Park Ranger games are always fun and challenging. These games are must purchase for me. My only complaint is that they only come out a couple of times a year. I'd like to see 4 a year. That's how much I enjoy these games. Thanks developers for your work. Rated 5 out of 5 by pennmom36 from I LOOK FORWARD TO MY YEARLY CRUISE AS MUCH AS I DO MY VACATION AT THE PARK! The USS Liberty has pulled into the Big Fish port once again, a cruise you really should board. There's just something about the Vacation Adventure games that have you scrambling to hit the buy now button, and I truly look forward to them. Just like the previous Vacation Adventures, this is purely a HOG with Puzzles and Mini-Games available between each Hidden Object Scene. There are no voiceovers, so you'll have to read dialog boxes if you want to follow the storyline, which is more of a what's next then a plot. Sounds old school, and you're right, but it's a really good old school HOG! You can choose either Casual or Challenge modes (faster vs. slower hint and puzzle skip recharge) as well as which gender of cruise director you want. The best part about this game is that it's relaxing, there's no timer so you have all the time in the world, and some of the items to find are tiny and very well blended, so it's a good thing there are no time restraints! Each scene has Lost items that need to be found, the portal on the bottom left will show these items one at a time as silhouetted shapes and when all have been found the portal will close. Each scene also has recyclable items that need to be found such as paper bags, cans, and bottles, when all recyclable items have been found the lid will close. You earn coins as you play and the coins can be used to purchase 16 different Souvenirs, but this feature doesn't really float my boat. The items to find are list finds, items in red are hidden in or behind something, items in blue are tasks to complete such as finding and dragging batteries to the smoke detector. There are 18 trophies to earn and you will earn a bronze star if you find all items, a silver star if you find all lost items OR all recyclable items and a gold star when you find all lost items AND recyclable items. You will also receive an eagle eye bonus if you don't use the hint. There is a Mega Hint feature that will briefly show you the location of all available items on the list. After each HOG you will get to solve a puzzle or mini-game such as rotating puzzle tiles to complete a picture, Match 2 identical items by flipping over two cards at a time, Spot the Difference between two almost identical pictures, finding cruise related words in a word search, or putting together a jigsaw type puzzle of the ship's layout. Grab your passport, and enjoy the cruise! Vacation Adventures: Cruise Director 5 Reviews - page 2 As Cruise Director in charge, enjoy a truly sensational Cruise of a Lifetime aboard the fleet’s super luxurious flagship, USS Liberty of the Waves.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1458
__label__cc	0.748814	0.251186	Expo 2020 remains on course to open in October next year Organisers of World Expo 2020 Dubai have hosted a four-day online meeting to progress plans for the rescheduled mega-event. Participants remain “fully engaged” in the delivery of the show, officials concluded. The event, held virtually, was the fifth international participants meeting and the first to take place since the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) general assembly approved a delay to the event in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. Expo 2020, which will retain the name, will now take place for six months from October 1st next year. More than 190 countries participating in the next World Expo took part in the virtual meeting, which gave the opportunity for country representatives to engage and exchange directly with organisers, representatives from the hosts in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and officials from the BIE. The meeting notably provided the opportunity to discuss updated timelines for pavilion construction and preparation, and allowed all parties to work together in the development of the thematic, cultural and communications programming. Dimitri Kerkentzes, secretary general of the BIE, declared: “Preparations for Expo 2020 Dubai are continuing on site and in countries around the world. “While Covid-19 has affected us in many different ways, the organiser and participating countries are finding new and creative means to interpret the theme and plan their pavilions. “With bold ideas and innovations, quality content and memorable experiences, Expo 2020 Dubai will be marker of our era, and a milestone event for visitors and participants alike. “During these past months when many of us have been physically separated, we have not lost focus of the goal of Expo 2020 Dubai: to connect minds and to create a better future. “As we consider the current challenges and look towards to the opening of the next World Expo next year, we are reminded of the unlimited opportunities that are made possible when we come together as one. Preparations for Expo 2020 Dubai have continued in recent months in adherence to the precautionary measures taken by UAE authorities. All participating country pavilion construction is set to be completed by the end of 2020, with the BIE and its member states, the UAE government and the Expo organiser jointly developing guidelines to ensure a safe and Covid-free Expo site. Reem Al Hashimy, UAE minister of state for international cooperation and director general, Expo 2020 Dubai Bureau, said: “Expo 2020 Dubai’s core purpose - to bring the world together to develop solutions to challenges that affect us all - will be even more relevant when the Expo begins on October 1st, 2021. “I am proud of the continued efforts of all our participants and their unwavering commitment to delivering an exceptional World Expo in Dubai during the golden jubilee year of the United Arab Emirates.” Eurostar launches business-facing booking platform Singapore Airlines to cut thousands of jobs Rove Expo 2020 set to welcome first guests next year Expo 2020 kicks off thematic programming with virtual Space Week Dubai Expo 2020 celebrates year to go milestone AHIC 2020: Dubai Expo set to revitalise hospitality market UK seeks musical collaborators for Expo 2020 Dubai project Expo 2020 Dubai date change approved by Bureau International des Expositions Dubai Expo 2020 postponed to October 2021 Bureau International des Expositions to vote on Expo 2020 delay	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1475
__label__wiki	0.962462	0.962462	Critics of Scottsdale's Southbridge II turn in enough signatures to make ballot; petitions under review Lorraine Longhi Scottsdale residents working to stop the Southbridge II project near Fifth Avenue in Old Town say they have turned in more than enough signatures to send the project to the ballot in November. About a dozen volunteers, some using a U-Haul truck, delivered the petitions to the Scottsdale City Clerk's Office about 5 p.m. Friday, about 30 minutes before the deadline. Critics of Southbridge II mounted the campaign to send the proposed development to voters after the City Council narrowly approved the project in December. The 10-acre development plans include more than 1 million square feet of condos, retail and office space and a 150-foot hotel near the Arizona Canal in Old Town Scottsdale. The project would update aging shops along Fifth Avenue, but construction would displace more than 70 tenants. The project's critics immediately hit back after the council vote and began gathering signatures to send the project to a public vote in November through the city's referendum process. Volunteers filed 1,326 petition sheets with approximately 17,116 signatures, according to the City Clerk's Office. Resident Laurie Coe said a project of this scale shouldn't move forward only at the direction of four City Council members. "I'm not against the project," Coe said. "I'm against that kind of growth without a weigh-in from the citizens." What's next for Southbridge II? Councilman Guy Phillips, who voted against the project in December, was among the residents who turned in signatures Friday afternoon. He praised the hard work of the volunteers and the momentum that the movement had picked up. "This last week, we didn't even have to go out to people. People were coming to us," Phillips said. "This is their First Amendment rights. I love to see people getting involved." The Scottsdale City Clerk's Office verified the petition sheet count, but had not yet verified the 17,116 signatures as of Friday night, Jagger said. The Scottsdale City Clerk's Office has 20 business days to review the petitions, conduct a random sample of signatures and transmit the selected signatures to Maricopa County. The county will then have 15 business days to verify the random sample of signatures. Jagger said the signature counting would take place next week. Once counted, the review process would begin. But the referendum is likely to see a challenge before it makes it on the ballot. Challenge likely on the way Challenges seeking to disqualify the referendum can be made in Maricopa County Superior Court for such claims as duplicate signatures or signatures from unregistered voters. Carter Unger, president of Spring Creek Development, which is behind Southbridge II, could not be reached for comment Friday. Andrea Alley, a south Scottsdale resident who is a vocal supporter of the project, says a challenge should be expected. She questioned the validity of the signatures and said paid petition gatherers might not have told residents the whole truth. "It was very disappointing to me that most of their campaign was based on misinformation," Alley said. "People just want to be mad at big buildings." Challenges are not uncommon. In 2018, Alyssa Robis, a candidate for Scottsdale City Council, withdrew from the race after her signatures were challenged. Have a tip out of Scottsdale? Reach the reporter Lorraine Longhi at llonghi@gannett.com or 480-243-4086. Follow her on Twitter @lolonghi. Support local journalism.Subscribe to azcentral.com today.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1476
__label__cc	0.633833	0.366167	Thriller Thursday with W. B. dineen It's Thanksgiving here in U.S., but you can only eat so much. When you're filled to the brim, sit down and read about W.B. Dineen's book, See No More. It's guaranteed to keep you awake into the night (perfect for that second piece of pie)! ***Finalist at the International 2019 Readers Favorite Awards! "One of the year's best thrillers, See No More is a near-perfect blend of sci-fi and spy fiction. Credit author W.B. Dineen with creating a powerful novel about personal identity wrapped within a breathtaking thriller. Sure to please fans of both Douglas E. Richards and Daniel Silva " --BestThrillers.com Thirty-three-year-old music therapist, Kate Randolph, is at the top of her professional game. Her life is happily on track, until she receives a phone call announcing the death of the man who abandoned her when she was eight years old. Kate has no interest in going to her father’s funeral, but soon realizes she must confront the past to move forward. While in Oregon, Kate discovers why her scientist/father disappeared, and what she learns will set her on a path that will change her life forever. With her father’s good friend, Jake, she uncovers conspiracies beyond imagination. She learns of secret societies, cover-ups, and that the planet is in jeopardy from both terrestrial and extraterrestrial threats. With the aid of a mysterious stranger, Kate must help save the world. Can she stay alive long enough to succeed? “Dineen writes in a sharp, lively prose that is equally comfortable rendering emotional domestic moments, flashy action sequences, and humorous observations. The premise is wonderfully mysterious and immediately gripping. An expansive thriller that satisfies every absent-father fantasy.” —Kirkus Reviews I pour a cup of coffee before opening the letter. Oddly, my favorite creamer is in the refrigerator and I wonder if Jake’s a fan, too. Otherwise, how would he ever know I use sugar-free nondairy hazelnut creamer? I sit down at the old farmhouse table in the kitchen and sip my coffee. I run my hands over the envelope and even bring it to my nose to smell it. I pull out one sheet of lined paper in my dad’s handwriting. Dear Katydid, There are a million things I want to say to you. But the very first is that I love you. I never stopped. I thought of you every day and wished with all my heart things could have been different. For reasons you will learn later, I cannot easily explain why I left. I will tell you the story though, but it must be in my own way. It's important you don’t dispose of my things for a full year after I’m gone. I’ve left plenty of money to pay the taxes and keep the house up in the interim. Please trust me on this. I’m sure you’re wondering why you should trust me about anything, but I promise I won’t let you down again. If Buddy isn’t to your liking, Jake will take him. But if you wind up loving him as much as I think you will, I promise there’s never been a better friend in this world. My Whole Heart, Daddydid Dear God, how can I do this? It’s taken me twenty-five years to get the laceration left by his departure to scab over. Being here is like ripping it off without anything to numb the pain or staunch the flow of blood. I have to keep this house for a whole year? I know I don’t have to come back after this weekend, but that’s really not an option. I need to figure out the mystery of Jeffrey’s disappearance for my own sanity. I’m entitled to some answers. About the Author Whitney Dineen is a rock star in her own head. While delusional about her singing abilities, there’s been a plethora of validation that she’s a fairly decent author (AMAZING!!!). After winning many writing awards and selling nearly a kabillion books (math may not be her forte, either), she’s decided to just let the voices in her head say whatever they want (sorry, Mom). She also won a fourth-place ribbon in a fifth-grade swim meet in backstroke. So, there’s that. Whitney loves to play with her kids (a.k.a. dazzle them with her amazing flossing abilities), bake stuff, eat stuff, and write books for people who "get" her. She thinks french fries are the perfect food and Mrs. Roper is her spirit animal. Contact Whitney: And don't forget to check out my books by clicking on the image below to be taken to my book page! Thriller Thursday with Lorena Hughes I'm so happy to host author Lorena Hughes this week on the blog. Her book The Sisters of Alameda Street sounds really intriguing. I know you won't want to miss this excerpt and book! One family, four sisters, and a mystery that might unravel them all. When Malena’s tidy, carefully planned world collapses with her father’s mysterious suicide, she finds a letter, signed with an “A,” which reveals that her mother is very much alive in San Isidro—a quaint town tucked in the Andes Mountains. Intent on meeting her, Malena arrives at Alameda Street and meets four unconventional women who couldn’t be more different from one another, but who share one thing in common: all of their names begin with an A. To avoid a scandal, Malena assumes another woman’s identity and enters their home to discover the truth. Could her mother be Amanda, the iconoclastic widow who opens the first tango nightclub in a conservative town? Ana, the ideal housewife with a less-than-ideal past? Abigail, the sickly sister in love with a forbidden man? Or Alejandra, the artistic introvert scarred by her cousin’s murder? But living a lie will bring Malena additional problems, such as falling for the wrong man and loving a family she may lose when they learn of her deceit. Worse, her arrival threatens to expose long-buried secrets and a truth that may wreck her life forever. Set in 1960s Ecuador, The Sisters of Alameda Street is a sweeping story of how one woman’s search for the truth of her identity forces a family to confront their own past. Ecuador, 1962 Papá had been many things: forgetful, cryptic, melancholic. But never duplicitous. Malena had always overlooked his flaws—they seemed so minor then—but this was not something you could just ignore. She sat on the bed, light-headed. Her hands had turned clammy and cold. She couldn’t believe that her father, the mathematical genius respected by all who knew him, had lied to her all her life. The letter was curled around the edges and faded to a vanilla white. The professional letterhead made it seem like a business correspondence and so did the fact that it was typed, but its content made it personal. Judging by the stains on the sides, someone with dirty hands had once held it. Who knew how many people had read it before her or how many times, but this was the first time she’d laid eyes on it. Platas Jewelers Alameda Street #345 San Isidro, Ecuador Dear Doña Eva, Please forgive me for writing. I know I promised I would never contact you or Malena, but I’ve now realized the huge mistake I’ve made. Giving my daughter away was a deplorable, unforgivable thing, but it was my only option at the time. Please don’t think I want to take the girl from you. You are the only mother she’s ever known and pulling her from your side would be cruel. Besides, I could never give her what she needs. All I ask is that you let me see her one more time. She doesn’t have to know anything. I won’t even speak to her. I just need to see her one last time to keep my sanity, to know that she exists. We could meet anywhere you’d like. Please let me know if this is possible and if so, set a place and a time, and I’ll be there. With warm regards and utmost respect, What in the name of everything holy was this? Her mother had died in childbirth! At least that was what both her father and her grandmother had said. And as far as she knew, dead people didn’t go around writing letters! Could she still be alive now, fifteen years after this letter had been written to La Abuela Eva? Had her grandmother agreed to the request? Malena had no memory of her mother whatsoever, but she must have been five years old when this encounter took place, if it ever did. Would it have been too much to ask to include a photograph with the letter? Then again, her father had buried this correspondence in the depths of his trunk. Clearly, he hadn’t meant for Malena to find it. A metallic taste filled her mouth. First his suicide, now this. She sifted through mountains of paper in the trunk in search of her birth certificate. Her mother might still be alive and only a few hours away. Her mother, alive? Malena couldn’t grasp this concept, no matter how many times she repeated it. Lorena Hughes was born and raised in Ecuador until moving to the US at eighteen. Her first novel, The Sisters of Alameda Street (Skyhorse Publishing, 2017), was an Amazon Bestseller in Hispanic American Literature in July 2018 and April 2019. Hip Latina magazine named her one of 9 Rising Latina Authors You Don't Want to Miss. Other work has won in both regional and national competitions, including the SW Writers International Contest and an honorary mention at the Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition. In non-fiction, her interviews with Latin legends Ricky Martin and Miguel Bosé have been featured in What’s Up weekly/El Paso, Inc. She’s also the coordinator of the University of New Mexico’s Writers Conference held each spring in Albuquerque, NM. You can contact Lorena here: And don't forget to check out my books by clicking on the image below to be taken to my Books page. Thriller Thursday with Heather Redmond I'm so excited to have Heather Redmond here on Thriller Thursday! Her book sounds really good, and I just love the cover. Grave Expectations promises to be a great read that I know readers won't want to miss. In this clever reimagining of Charles Dickens’s life, he and fiancée Kate Hogarth must solve the murder of a spinster wearing a wedding gown . . . London, June 1835: In the interest of being a good neighbor, Charles checks in on Miss Haverstock, the elderly spinster who resides in the flat above his. But as the young journalist and his fiancée Kate ascend the stairs, they are assaulted by the unmistakable smell of death. Upon entering the woman’s quarters, they find her decomposing corpse propped up, adorned in a faded gown that looks like it could have been her wedding dress, had she been married. A murderer has set the stage. But to what purpose? As news of an escaped convict from Coldbath Fields reaches the couple, Charles reasonably expects the prisoner, Ned Blood, may be responsible. But Kate suspects more personal motives, given the time and effort in dressing the victim. When a local blacksmith is found with cut manacles in his shop and arrested, his distraught wife begs Charles and Kate to help. At the inquest, they are surprised to meet Miss Haverstock’s cold and haughty foster daughter, shadowed by her miserably besotted companion. Secrets shrouded by the old woman’s past may hold the answers to this web of mystery. But Charles and Kate will have to risk their lives to unveil the truth . . . Charles offered his arm with a gentlemanly flourish. “Let us go upstairs.” “When did you last visit your neighbor?” Kate asked, the pressure of her fingers almost unfelt against his coat. “I admit I am concerned, considering what Mr. Jones said. It was selfish of me not to demand we check upstairs right away.” “You are never selfish, darling. Miss Haverstock uses that stick, you know, because of her bad hip. Maybe she couldn’t rise from bed yesterday.” He and Kate stepped into the narrow hall between the sets of rooms. Opposite the front door to the building was a wooden staircase spanning the width of the hall, with extremely squeaky steps. Mrs. Haverstock was a small woman and didn’t make much noise going upstairs or moving in her rooms, which were over Charles’s. The noise she made was more like that of a mouse skittering than that of a full-grown person going about the business of their day. As they climbed the steps, Kate having let go of his arm in order to lift her skirts slightly, he realized he hadn’t heard the mouselike sounds in days. When had he last seen his upstairs neighbor? Kate glanced at him, a pinched expression around her eyes. “What is that smell, Charles?” “Meat that’s gone off?” he asked, curling his lips with distaste. He’d smelled something like this before, half a year ago, when he’d been taken to the scene of a bloody suicide. They reached the top of the stairs. The smell intensified. Kate coughed and pulled a handkerchief from her sleeve and held it to her nose. “Maybe she is ill?” Charles knew better, now that they were at the unremarkable front door of Miss Haverstock’s rooms. “It’s death, Kate. It can be nothing else.” Website Heather Redmond writes the A Dickens of a Crime series for Kensington and the brand new Journaling mysteries for Severn House. Two of the Dickens mysteries are out now and Journaled to Death, the first of the cozy mysteries, is out in the UK now and will arrive next February 4 th in the USA. Thriller Thursday with Ronnie Allen I'm so happy today to bring author Ronnie Allen to the blog with her book Libra. Just the blurb has me wanting to read more. I've always been fascinated with books about serial killers, and this one sounds super suspenseful! Forty-eight hours ago, a serial murder case that spanned nine years ended. Or did it? Four children intrude upon the scene of the suicide of Henry Slater, claiming he’s their dad. Dr. Frank Khaos and Detective Sam Wright become their temporary guardians. The goal—to find the children’s biological mothers. Or has Henry Slater added them to his dossier of kills? Through the investigation, the NYPD detectives and FBI Special Agent Brett Case uncover a kidnapping ring and do find the mothers, but are they fit—and willing to take their children back? As Sam and Frank fall in love with them over nine weeks, and the reality sets in, Libra, the Scale of Justice kicks their butts. What’s right for the children is against the law. Another case falls into Agent Case’s lap. A murder spree and drug involvement with Jarrett Miller, Vicki Trenton’s first husband. To make matters worse, Miller has ties to the biological parents of Dr. Khaos whom he has to travel to Florida to confront as a stipulation to the execution of Slater’s will. How will Frank deal with the two people who’ve been his Achilles’ heel his entire life, and will he and Sam get the family they desire so much? Detective Lex Withers blew out a breath of relief as he observed crime scene techs still putting down markers throughout the Upper West Side Manhattan apartment—over two hundred markers. Two teams of investigators were there now, all wearing Tyvek protective gear with nothing left up to chance. No telling what that Slater character would do to exterminate all of them. Withers trusted the system. Yeah, he was feeling pretty good now. Feeling good he was a cop. When his cell rang, he went out into the hall to answer it. Markers lay on the carpet, and a long table holding photography equipment hugged the wall. He nodded, acknowledging what an arduous process this would be as he leaned against the spotless bone and gold wallpaper, talking on his phone. At the other end of the hall, an elevator door slid open. With his back turned, Withers didn’t notice. The eldest child, Benjamin Slater struggled to push his sister’s stroller over the tracks, and then he started to roll it down the hall as the next oldest, Mel, held the toddler, Henry’s, hand. They didn’t get far. Squeaky wheels on the stroller caught Withers’s attention, and he turned around. Stopping his conversation mid-word, he disconnected the call without saying “goodbye,” then put up his hand for the children to stop. “Whoa. Hold on.” Smiling, he approached them. “And who might you be?” His gaze scanned the older children before settling on the infant in the stroller. The children just stared at him, then at the markers, then at the cluttered table but remained silent. Withers gave them their space. He knew damn well who they were. Frank Khaos was spot-on. There were little Henry Slaters out there. Their forensic psychiatrist did indeed have more nieces and nephews. The detective removed his badge from his pocket and showed it to them. “I’m a detective with the New York City Police Department. My name is Lex Withers.” The older boy’s eyes widened in astonishment. “A real police badge? I never saw one up close.” His gaze darted around the hall. “And why are there cops outside our house?” Mel trembled. “And where’s our dad?” “And who is your dad?” Withers asked. The question was merely for confirmation. The older boy was a miniature Henry Slater with hair, and come to think of it, a miniature Frank Khaos, too. Damn! “Henry Slater,” Mel said. Withers bit the inside of his cheek to prevent expletives from flowing out of his mouth. Some choice words certainly filled his brain. This wasn’t what he wanted to confront right now, though he already knew it. “All right. Listen to me, okay?” The children nodded. He continued. “We’re going to help you, so there’s no need to be afraid of us, understand?” The children nodded again. Withers smiled. “Good. I need you to help me out, too, and answer my questions, okay? Who else lives here with you?” B & N Ronnie Allen is a NYC woman transplanted to Central Florida almost twelve years ago. She began her writing career in the late ‘70s with her entry into film and screenwriting. Her love of the crime genre began there and continued through her novels today. She’s written feature films, TV episodics, though not produced, and her long term goal now is to get her books to a TV series. Being a School Psychologist, and teacher in NYC for thirty-three years, as well as a Board Certified Holistic Health practitioner has given her a wealth of knowledge and experiences to include in her novels. She’s an advocate for children and the themes in her novels are indicated in the dedications. If you hold children dear to your heart, you’ll love this series. You can contact Ronnie here: And don't forget to check out my books by clicking on the image below to be taken to my buy page!	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1492
__label__cc	0.694839	0.305161	U.S. Inbound & Outbound Investment Trends H1 2020 Inbound capital to the U.S. dropped 34% in H1 2020, as global lockdown measures and market uncertainty stemming from the COVID-19 crisis weighed on investment activity. EMEA, by far the leading source of inbound capital, was down by 48% year-over-year for H1. Latin America, by far the smallest source of inbound capital, was down by 84%. Canada and APAC were down by 22% and 10%, respectively. Higher inbound capital volumes in Q1 partially offset downturns in Q2 and helped limit H1 decreases, but investment from every region was down by approximately 70% year-over-year in Q2. U.S. capital outflows were essentially unchanged from H1 2019, but 80% was deployed in Q1. U.S. investment in APAC decreased by 55% from Q1 to Q2 and in EMEA and the rest of the Americas was down by roughly 100%. Total U.S. outbound capital exceeded inbound capital by $8.2 billion in H1 2020 compared with $4.6 billion in H1 2019. Get Started with CBRE Investor Services Search Properties For Sale or Request Financing Search Properties Request Financing Order an Appraisal Stay Connected with Investor Services JOIN MAILING LIST CONTACT A PROFESSIONAL U.S. Inbound & Outbound Investment Trends \| 2019 U.S. Outflows Exceed Inbound Capital for First Time since 2014 For more information on this report, please contact: Andrea Cross Director, Capital Markets Research Taylor Jacoby Associate Director, Investor Services Americas Research	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1496
__label__wiki	0.87148	0.87148	Middle school teacher sends grads off with message from former 2020 contenders By LaCrai Mitchell May 28, 2020 / 5:21 PM / CBS News Class of 2020: A graduation season like no other Class of 2020: A graduation season like no ot... 06:47 When the coronavirus pandemic spread across the country, students were faced with an abrupt shift to remote learning, and for graduating students, there was another disappointing reality: they wouldn't be able to celebrate their accomplishments in traditional ways. School districts across the country have been forced to get creative — hosting drive-in graduations and organized car parades, where students can drive by as their teachers line up outside to cheer for them. Earlier this month, televised commencement ceremonies for high school and college graduates featured guest speakers like former President Obama and a host of celebrities. Most of the attention has gone to high school and college seniors, but eighth grade social studies teacher Brian Simmons wanted to try to give his middle school "seniors" a memorable farewell, too. Simmons —who saw more than a dozen Democratic candidates in person throughout the primary cycle — had engaged with elected officials and presidential candidates on Twitter in the past. So, when the school principal asked him to reach out to see if anyone would be interested in sending a message to their students, Simmons didn't hesitate. As a result, 125 eighth graders at Deer Park Middle School will hear special pre-recorded video messages from former Democratic presidential candidates Tulsi Gabbard and Marianne Williamson during their virtual graduation on Tuesday. In her message, Gabbard tells Deer Park students that the strength and resilience they're exhibiting during this challenging time will add to the experiences in their life journeys. "I know there's a lot about the future that seems not in focus right now," said Gabbard in the video message. "But I guarantee you one thing is crystal clear: that the love you have for your families, your friends, your community, for our nation, this will provide that sense of purpose and focus as we look towards that future together…" Author Marianne Williamson congratulated the students and said that even though things are not happening as they may have expected, connections are being made that otherwise may not have been made. "The things that I learned when I was your age are the things that…you hear them deeper and they mean something to you," said Williamson in her video message. "I just want to congratulate you because I think it's just so fabulous that you are at this point in your life and really blossoming into the fullness of life as I hope you wish to live it." Simmons hopes that his students see the messages from Gabbard and Williamson and know that they, too, could be presidential candidates one day and that there are different paths to success. "Marianne is an author, Tulsi's a congresswoman…you can do all kinds of different things," said Simmons. He added that he wants his students to be resilient during these unprecedented times and to remember to think about service to something greater than themselves. "When you become an adult, there's going to be all kinds of different things that are thrown your way [and] how you deal with them will really kind of dictate your success level," said Simmons. "Keep yourself busy, keep yourself mentally healthy and just be happy because this will pass and we'll get better, we'll get stronger but for now just stay resilient." First published on May 28, 2020 / 5:21 PM Tulsi Gabbard More Teacher sends middle school grads off with message from 2020 contenders Tulsi Gabbard appeals to Trump voters. That may be an obstacle Tulsi Gabbard files $50 million defamation suit against Hillary Clinton Tulsi Gabbard says she won't seek re-election to Congress Tulsi Gabbard to report for active duty in Indonesia for 2 weeks	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1499
__label__wiki	0.973545	0.973545	November 15, 2001 News & Politics \| Our Town Here There Be Cheeseheads Will's Northwoods Tavern and Supper Club on a Sunday afternoon is no place for nonpartisans. By Ann Sterzinger On a quiet Sunday morning near Racine and Belmont, a man in chinos rolls a plush baby carriage past a block of condos. Across the street, over a row of hedges, looms a fiberglass moose. A group of guys in green-and-gold getups rounds the corner. One of them sports a football helmet. They spot someone in a number four jersey. "Hey, Favre!" they yell. They don't know this person, but they all high-five the stranger before entering Will's Northwoods Tavern and Supper Club, a Packer bar. Inside, all eyes are on the game. The steamer full of brats is about the only thing that can distract a Green Bay fan, but everyone will stop mid-gobble to shout at the TV. The air is thick with flatus. Will's looks like a working-class holdout in Lakeview, but it's owned by a wealthy lawyer, Jon Bunge, who took over the neighborhood watering hole ten years ago. Bill Kruse, who's been tending bar there since 1986, says he couldn't work for a more benign potentate: Bunge gives his employees health insurance and a 401(k) plan. "How many bars in the city will give you that?" he asks. Bunge, a La Crosse native now in his 60s, stands behind the bar and slaps hands with his cheering patrons. He's short, yet his happy roar can always be heard above the shoulder-to-shoulder melee. Why's it so crowded? Most Packer games can't be seen on regular cable, but Will's has a subscription for the entire Green Bay schedule. The games draw people in, and Kruse's Bloody Marys make for fast acquaintances. He says customers "just strike up a conversation about the game, and then I'll introduce them." The meetings aren't always friendly--some people try to steal seats and get hurt. Other people hurt themselves. One Sunday after a Packer touchdown, transplanted Wisconsinite Brendan O'Mara, half in the bag at 2 PM, jumped on his bar stool in glee and bashed his head on a hanging lamp. The swinging light threw a drunk-time strobe effect over the crowd, which howled along to the Gary Glitter song playing on the Lambeau Field PA. "Rock and Roooooll!" sang a guy with a handlebar mustache. Someone high-fived O'Mara's drinking buddy, Chris Carey, who settled back with his beer and smiled sweetly. O'Mara rubbed his head and scorned the competition: "Now's the time they're going to try and score some kind of moral victory by hanging in there. We must destroy that feeling. We must make them feel stupid for even trying." O'Mara and Carey compare Will's to the Paradise Lounge, the pit in Madison where they watched football games before they came to Chicago to seek their fortunes. O'Mara, who earned an English degree five years ago, works in a liquor store; Carey, a computer programmer, is unemployed. The Paradise offered an all-you-can-eat-and-drink Packer special, and Carey wonders whether people showed up for the football or the cheap beer. Will's serves up free food during the game--the Vienna hot dogs are boiled in beer with the Wisconsin bratwurst. "Call it culinary fusion," says Carey. O'Mara says his grunt work at the liquor store is no better than the pizza delivery job he had in Madison, but since he's found true love in Chicago he doesn't feel homesick. Watching the game at Will's "helps a lot, to be honest," he says. "It sounds corny, but I feel something like a community here--like I'm around a community of expatriates." Not everyone is from up north. Many were raised in Illinois, even in Chicago. Matt Regan, a regular from Oak Park, says his mother grew up in the city but raised him as a Packer fan "to spite my grandfather. She had a crush on Bart Starr." She bribed Regan with paraphernalia--pillowcases, hats, and shirts with green-and-gold logos that he foolishly wore to school. "I got beat up a lot as a kid." Many Illinois fans also root for the Bears, and among these ambifaithful not all favor Green Bay. Last Sunday a contingent showed up decked out in Bears regalia. Though they huddled in back under a chandelier made of deer antlers, they yelled as loud as they could. The game was at noon, but all the tables were claimed before 10:45. The hot dogs were gone by 11:30. By kickoff the crowd was so drunk that shoving matches broke out over standing room. Kruse says the fights never get out of hand--he's small, but he keeps a sawed-off baseball bat under the bar. "Somebody gets too rowdy, I just give 'em a stern look and go, 'Hey, that's enough!'" he says, waving the bat not unconvincingly. A few weeks ago he ended a tiff by ringing the bar bell and reminding everyone, "The Packers won!" One of the brawlers later apologized. "He says, 'You know, I wouldn't disrespect the bar--if it got to the point where we would come to blows, we woulda gone outside.'" During the Packers-Bears game, O'Mara and Carey are pinned in a corner with a pitcher of Leinenkugel's and O'Mara's girl, Terriann Mueller, a Bears fan from the south suburbs. For her first few drinks, she lays low. She turns down a free ticket for the halftime raffle of Packer gear. "I can't," she explains. "I'm a traitor." "There's a lot of mixed couples here," says O'Mara. He points to an obese pair on TV: the woman wears a cheese-wedge hat while the man's covered in Bears war paint. "See! That's sweet." "That's sick," says Carey. "Their child will be a mutant." By the time Brett Favre throws an interception it's too crammed to throw a punch or get to the bathroom. When Chicago dinks in a field goal off the crossbar, a round, red-eared Bears fan waves a cigarette in his fist like a middle finger. A wrinkled blond yells at him but can't be heard; she settles for glaring. The Packers pull out the win, and the sound of a couple of hundred drunks screaming "The Bears still suck!" rumbles down Racine. Once the celebration fades, a bartender announces, "Terriann Mueller, your wallet's at the bar." "Shit!" she says, as she vaults the pool table. She slithers back with the wallet and a round of bourbon shots in plastic cups. "I can't believe somebody tried to take my wallet," she says, though nothing's missing from the billfold. "I don't feel safe here! I'm in hostile territory!" "How do you think we feel out on the streets every day?" says Carey. "When I come in here, I feel like whipping off my coat and yelling, 'Sanctuary!'" "What are all you fuckers doing in Chicago?" Mueller asks. "Getting laid," says O'Mara. "You came to this city! Pack your motherfucking tepee up and go home." O'Mara is unfazed. "All of us think there's a better life down here, job opportunities. Well, I guess some of us have found it. But no matter how much money you make, it's not enough to root for the Bears." More Our Town » More by Ann Sterzinger The List: May 13-19, 2010 The List: April 22-28, 2010 The List: April 1-7, 2010	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1504
__label__wiki	0.722909	0.722909	November 02, 1989 Arts & Culture \| Performing Arts Review The Foreigner By Mary Shen Barnidge Blind Fate Productions at the Synergy Center An innocent man is inadvertently taken to be someone he is not and suddenly finds himself embroiled in a tangle of intrigue. By the end of the story he has resolved the problems, defeated the villains, won the girl, and discovered his own untapped heroism. This is the premise for Gogol's The Inspector-General, Jerzy Kosinski's Being There, and virtually every movie featuring Danny Kaye--I suspect it may go back to Plautus, if not farther. Larry Shue's The Foreigner serves to demonstrate that the formula still works, and very well too. In this version the hapless sad sack is Charlie Baker, who has been brought to a resort in Tilghman County, Georgia, by his RAF buddy "Froggy" LeSueur, who's there on a three-day training assignment at the nearby military installation. Charlie Baker is painfully shy, paralytically inarticulate, and as devoid of personality as a golf ball. The thought of having to interact socially with the resort's other guests so terrifies him that Froggy attempts to relieve him of his conversational duties by introducing him to the proprietress, Betty Meeks, as a foreigner who speaks no English. As it turns out, this ruse makes Charlie a witness to a plot, masterminded by the Reverend David Lee and county inspector Owen Musser, to seize the widow Meeks's property and turn it into a headquarters for the Ku Klux Klan. Furthermore, the Reverend Lee intends to acquire the funds to finance this project by marrying an heiress, Catherine Simms, and having her mildly retarded brother, Ellard, declared unfit to manage his part of the inheritance. The question in this kind of live-action cartoon is not what will happen. Tilghman County is presented as a pocket of provincialism only slightly more remote than a cave in the Appalachians, characters grow conveniently deaf the minute they depart the room, and there are the two all-purpose, xenophobic slimeballs. The fun in this play comes from the mechanics--the surprise when details we have forgotten are suddenly reintroduced just when they are most needed, and the delight of seeing the underdogs trounce the bullies. This is the first of Larry Shue's plays that I have seen, and it is everything that his celebrators claim. Not only is his plot as tightly and logically constructed as a Rube Goldberg invention, but The Foreigner is linguistically brilliant. As anyone can attest who has ever spent an extended length of time in another culture, nothing makes one think harder and faster about one's own language than being suddenly stripped down to a minimal working vocabulary. In the center of all these characters who talk either very fast, very loud, or very long, we have Charlie, who has only the few words "taught" to him by the equally limited Ellard. The scene in which these two establish rapport through an exercise reminiscent of the old Marx Brothers' mirror trick and the first "language lesson" in which Charlie imitates Ellard's pronunciation exactly (so that "fork" emerges as "foe-werk") are charming because we are seeing a verbal equivalent to the invention of the wheel. Also ingenious is the scene where Charlie threatens Owen with the cryptic pronouncement, "I see through your bones . . . when the bees come down." When the cowardly Owen calls for help, Charlie changes the last words to "please calm down." The Foreigner is filled with puns, double-talk, and manipulations of language that are as intellectually dazzling as the humor is emotionally satisfying. Blind Fate's production is as close to flawless as any I've seen this year. John Creighton, as Charlie, has the rubbery face and protean body of a trained mime. As Froggy, Mik Scriba projects a hearty gravity that contrasts nicely with the mercurial Charlie and the slow-witted but good-hearted Ellard, played with just the right amount of cutesiness by Alan Ball. Maureen Ann Gallagher, as Catherine Simms, manages to be ingenuous without becoming infantile, while Janet Brooks is so convincing as the feisty Ms. Meeks that it was astounding to discover how young she really is. Peter Zahradnick's spineless Reverend Lee and Craig S. Martin's menacing Owen are as hateful as one could want. Indeed, the audience shouted and cheered like children at a Saturday movie matinee when these baddies finally got what was coming to them. Credit for this enthusiasm goes to Michael Friedman, whose direction keeps the pace galloping and the suspense bowstring tight. More by Mary Shen Barnidge The Trial of One Short-Sighted Black Woman Vs. Mammy Louise and Safreeta Mae	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1505
__label__wiki	0.952973	0.952973	Once available, H-E-B will join other health systems in distributing COVID-19 vaccine News // Houston & Texas Shelby Stewart Dec. 4, 2020 Updated: Dec. 4, 2020 10:01 a.m. H-E-B joins other Texas health systems tasked in distributing the COVID-19 vaccine. Courtesy of H-E-B Since the pandemic began, H-E-B has worked to help its community and its employees, and now they're taking it one step further. H-E-B's pharmacy will be a part of Texas' COVID-19 vaccine distribution. The news comes after the company just recently gave employees a bonus for working during the pandemic, as well as increasing pay for employees long-term. AN EXTRA BOOST FOR EMPLOYEES: In light of the pandemic, H-E-B is rewarding employees with a $500 bonus The grocery store will be distributing the COVID-19 vaccine soon alongside 4,000 other health systems and pharmacies in the state. Governor Greg Abbott announced earlier this week that 4,000 could quickly turn into 6,000. The first 'mass air shipment' of Pfizer's Covid vaccine arrives as airlines prepare for more. Texas already has more than 4,000 providers signed up to distribute it. We expect to have more than 6,000 in two weeks. Will add more with the Moderna vaccinehttps://t.co/BLWhgxXM0p — Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) November 30, 2020 In a statement Thursday, H-E-B said the safety of Texas is its top priority. "As a trusted source for all routine childhood and adult immunizations, H-E-B pharmacies will partner with the federal and state government to administer the COVID-19 vaccine when it becomes available to the general public, following the CDC distribution schedule. H-E-B is proud to continue our long-term tradition of taking care of Texans." KEEPING TRACK OF VACCINES: Once distributed, Texas will keep track of who receives a COVID-19 vaccine Texas is going to receive about 1.4 million doses later this month, and healthcare workers and long-term care residents are first in line to receive the vaccine. Reach Shelby on Shelby Stewart is bringing her love for Houston to Chron.com. She's excited to cover all things Houston. Culture aside, she loves politics, DJ Screw, and food.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1510
__label__wiki	0.509926	0.509926	Home : News CANTEX PVC PIPE IN THE NEWS In the September issue of TED Magazine Vice President of Sales and Marketing Dave Milius shared insights into the current PVC pipe market. TED Magazine Excerpt: Conduit Keeps Up An industry mainstay, the demand for conduit is on the rise as the need for bandwidth and data accelerates. By Kara Bowlin Conduit is a mighty mainstay of the electrical distributor’s catalog. Simple and straightforward, both steel and PVC conduit have become an important asset during the pandemic as reliance on Internet-enabled devices has skyrocketed. In fact, according to Dave Milius, vice president of sales and marketing at CANTEX (cantexinc.com), many of the markets served by the company are soaring. “Some of it is supporting infrastructure, including roadways and wastewater treatments plants,” he explained, adding that a lot of the company’s business today is also going to new data center construction. “The need for more bandwidth and more data continues to accelerate.” Milius also noted that the construction forecast for PVC piping and fittings shows a 10% increase over the next four to five years. “So it hasn’t slowed down; if anything, it’s accelerated for us,” he said. Ramiro Rodriguez Agusti, vice president, commercial conduit, at Nucor/ Republic Conduit (nucortubular.com), noted that, in his experience, the non-residential commercial space continues to lead the charge in demand for conduit and raceway. “That market space has continued to increase its share of conduit consumed in the country. EMT conduit is usually deployed on those types of projects, where raceway performance and aesthetics are equally important,” he explained. “The steel conduit space will continue to focus on the areas in which it brings the most value: heavy conductor protection, resiliency, durability, and flexibility for building needs and EMI protection, all with the added bonus of aesthetic appeal,” continued Rodriguez Agusti. “Those features are at the core of the product value proposition and will never go out of style. And in terms of trends across all electrical products, any solution geared to saving time in the field (installation) will generate some market traction.” Rodriguez Agusti added that a major benefit of steel conduit is its flexibility. “Steel conduit is adaptable to changing building needs,” he said. “For instance, when one commercial tenant of a building leaves and a new one arrives, the changes required to serve the needs of the new tenant could potentially be deployed with the steel conduit already installed. Other raceway solutions would have to be stripped out and discarded, while steel conduit can be reused.” Trends to Watch While conduit remains in high demand, manufacturers are continuing to innovate and improve offerings. “One of the trends we see is the increased use of color conduit,” said Rodriguez Agusti. “Different applications require a wider array of colors. It’s no longer just ‘red and blue.’ For a while, this market space was niche—i.e., small and dedicated to specific uses—but is becoming more wide-spread.” Rodriguez Agusti also noted that steel conduit continues to offer value in resiliency, protection, and durability in contrast to other electrical raceways. Milius, however, has seen a movement toward PVC conduit products. “They are cost effective; they’re easy to install,” he said. “And they meet the specs necessary to protect the wires and cables needed for entire electrical infrastructures. In the past, a contractor may have used steel for certain projects, but a lot of those applications have started to move toward PVC.” Milius explained that PVC’s high-impact tensile strength and resistance to chemicals, acids, and salt make it a perfect choice for underground applications. “The biggest recent innovation in conduit is probably in the area of horizontal drilling,” he explained. “Today, we offer products like our CAN>LOC and CAN>GRIP conduit systems that are easily connected together without cement or fusion and can be installed by boring under-ground without digging a trench. You can drill a hole under concrete slabs or driveways or even highways and rivers and then pull the conduit underground through the hole without disturbing what is above it.” Milius noted that this type of under-ground boring is especially useful in a lot of urban projects and protected natural habitats as electrical utilities move from overhead to underground. “It can save time and money because it doesn’t require extra staff or time for trenching or transporting reels to and from project sites. As a result, the demand for these products is growing exponentially,” he said. Read the article in TED Magazine here: TED Magazine September Issue	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1512
__label__wiki	0.804594	0.804594	Genesis saloon Hyundai Genesis saloon gets UK launch Hyundai has announced prices and the on-sale date of its Hyundai Genesis saloon by Jamie Cullen Stuart Price Hyundai is launching the all-new Genesis executive saloon in the UK. It'll cost £47,995 and go on sale in April from selected Hyundai dealerships. The 2015 Genesis saloon will be available here in a single version that has a 3.8-litre petrol engine and an eight-speed automatic gearbox. Its closest rival is the equally pricey Volkswagen Phaeton, but it's also intended to go up against saloons such as the Audi A6 and Mercedes E-Class, both of which are substantially cheaper. As befits an executive saloon aimed at the luxury end of the market, the Genesis comes loaded with hi-tech kit. It offers what Hyundai describes as the world's first cabin carbon-dioxide sensor, which keeps an eye on CO2 levels inside the car to make sure the driver isn't getting drowsy. Other kit includes an infotainment system with an eight-inch touchscreen and a Smart Boot System that opens the boot automatically if it detects the smart key close by. A head-up display projects important information for the driver onto the windscreen. Standard safety equipment includes cruise control and automatic emergency braking. The car has four cameras to allow it to detect approaching hazards in your blind spots when you're driving, or when you're reversing into or out of parking spaces. The car's long wheelbase (the gap between the front and rear wheels) has been designed to give you and your passengers plenty of space inside and the seats are finished in fine-grain leather. Buyers get a choice of seven metallic and pearlescent paints for the exterior, plus three trim colour options inside. There are no plans to sell the coupe version of the Genesis in the UK due to a perceived lack of demand, even though a right-hand-drive version has been created for sale in some markets. 2021 Hyundai Ioniq 5 electric SUV teased 2021 Hyundai Kona N: prices, specs, release date and prototype drive 2021 Hyundai i20 N hot hatch: prices, specs and release date Hyundai i20 hatchback Hyundai Bayon coming in 2021 as i20-based crossover	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1514
__label__cc	0.602571	0.397429	Cole Hartkopp Cole Hartkopp Leukemia First post: Dec 1, 2020 Latest post: Jan 12, 2021 The journey, how did we get here? If you ask Cole, he will tell you he emphatically knew he had Leukemia, before any tests and that's where we begin. Halloween 2020, Cole went to urgent care as he had a sore throat and low fever, didn't feel well. After a negative covid test and negative strep test, they prescribed a Zpak. His signs were completely in line with any number of fall seasonal illnesses. He felt good for a handful of days but the antibiotics wore off and he was back to a low fever and overall feeling crummy. He's also a college student who sometimes sleeps for 10-12 hours and other times sleeps 4-6 hours. As parents we encouraged him to get more rest, he's not someone who gets sick often and he said he feels fine all day, just not great at night, but also not miserable. It was somewhere around early to mid November that he shared he's sweating profusely at night and either he's a 50 yr old woman in menopause or he has leukemia. Of course, we laughed and said he's neither, but Cole kept saying he just might have it, leukemia that is. Taking a Tylenol would get him through the day and subside the headache and sore throat but at night he would feel worse, have a low fever. After a weekend of what Cole described as a Migraine, we scheduled an appointment with primary care doctor Nov 24, he wasn't "kicking this bug" and it was time to see what's going on. Nov 24 Cole's symptoms meant the doctor follows Covid protocol, more nasal swabs, chest xray and blood draw. They tested again for strep too. Then sent him home to await the test results. Cole was frustrated as it's more of the wait and see and really just wanted to get to feeling better. The blood test was testing for many things and at 5:45am on Wed Nov 25 my phone starts to ring, the on-call doctor had been trying to reach Cole for about 30 minutes and now called his emergency contact. There is nothing I can say that makes it easy to hear a calm, caring doctor say this is urgent and I have his test results and it is news that you need to take immediate action on, it looks like your son has leukemia and I need you to take him to the ER immediately. The day started immediately. With Covid, only 1 could go with Cole and Blain felt he and Cole would keep each other company and be calm, cool and collected together. I think it was to see who was working the ER shift, anything eye catching - LOL. (Just noticing). I stayed at home with Morgan and was available for the calls which came, find this insurance info and other such necessary paperwork and identification. Wednesday at 1:30pm Cole was admitted to the University of Kansas Hospital (KU) and about 2pm had a room in the blood cancer patient care unit ward. By 3:30pm the doctors arrived and explained the next flurry of events, he had a bone marrow biopsy and bone fragment collected. Morgan and I were packing their overnight bags and ran those down to the guys. The race begins. Visit Cole's Site To interact with Cole’s website, sign in or register today.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1519
__label__wiki	0.534349	0.534349	Honda CR-V Facelift Launched in Thailand News, International After having made its debut in the United States, the Honda CR-V facelift has now been launched in Thailand with a new look and a number of additional features while retaining the same naturally-aspirated petrol and turbo-diesel engine options. Honda CR-V facelift The exterior changes include redesigned bumpers, new grille, new tailgate garnish along with chromic embellishments around the body, as well as new 18-inch alloy wheels. Inside there is a revised center console that now incorporates a Qi wireless Smartphone charger for higher-end variants, which also get the new driver’s seat memory function and a panoramic sunroof. The powered tailgate has also been made standard fitment and now comes with a hands-free opening function. Honda CR-V interior Engine options include 2.4 liter naturally-aspirated i-VTEC four-cylinder petrol unit that produces 173 hp and 224 Nm and comes mated to a CVT. The range-topping variant receives 1.6 liter i-DTEC four-cylinder turbodiesel that churns out 160 hp and 350 Nm paired with a 9-speed automatic gearbox with paddle shifters and a push-button gear selector. Related: Honda Updates the 2020 CR-V in India priced from INR 28.27 Lac Features in petrol trim levels which are split evenly between 5- and 7-seater variants (including AWD), are LED headlights & fog lights, 17-inch alloys, keyless entry with walk-away automatic locking, dual-zone climate control, an auto-dimming rear-view mirror, power-adjustable front seats (8-way for the driver, 4-way for the passenger), a 7-inch infotainment touchscreen with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto connectivity and 8 speakers. The higher-end trims in addition to above mentioned features get automatic headlight leveling, LED fog lights, 18-inch alloys and navigation (which can also inform the climate control of the sun’s positioning), on top of the features listed earlier. Related: 2021 Hyundai Santa Fe Facelift Unveiled The top-spec variant also gets Honda Connect, which allows users to access various vehicular functions and information through their Smartphone app. In terms of safety, Honda Sensing suite of safety features, including autonomous emergency braking, adaptive cruise control with stop and go, lane-keeping assist and auto high beam is offered along with 6 airbags, stability control and a LaneWatch blind spot camera as standard. Tags:CR-VfaceliftHondaThailand previousAll new Kia Grand Carnival Interior Revealed next2020 Hyundai Tucson Launched in India at INR 22.3 Lac	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1522
__label__wiki	0.91031	0.91031	Bajaj Allianz Life AUM grows 79% in 10 years to cross Rs 70,000 cr FSS and India Post Payments Bank join hands to promote financial inclusion MassMutual to set up Rs 1,000 crore global facility in Hyderabad As crypto gains currency in India, experts call for cautious regulation Demand for retail loans expected to continue upward journey: Experts RBI starts LEI for large value transactions in centralised payment systems Card networks to make recurring payments to PIDF, support initial corpus Data of 100 million credit, debit cardholders leaked on Dark Web MFIs may get activity-based norms soon, making them institution-agnostic Over 180 arrested for tax evasion in past 2 months: Union Finance Secretary You are here: Home » Finance » News » Others New Silk Route eyes stake in Punjabi By Nature The financial details are not yet known Reghu Balakrishnan \| Mumbai Last Updated at April 25, 2013 00:30 IST General Atlantic expands its investment team in India Credit Suisse sells private equity unit to Blackstone Coffee Day Group readies $100 mn PE fund raise Analysts cross fingers as RCom's rating hinges on stake sale PE firms in talks to buy 80% in Reliance Globalcom Private equity (PE) investors seem to be liking the taste of India's fast-growing food service industry. Take, for instance, New Silk Route (NSR) Partners, one of the leading India-focused PE funds. A year after infusing Rs 200-crore in Bangalore-based quick service restaurant (QSR) chain Adigas Fast Food, the PE fund is now exploring another investment opportunity. According to people in the know, New Silk Route (NSR) is in talks with the promoters of north Indian restaurant chain, Punjabi By Nature, to acquire a minority stake in the chain. The financial details are not yet known. Punjabi By Nature, set up by brother-sister duo Arjun and Piya Puri, had started its first restaurant in Noida in 1998. It later expanded to Vasant Vihar, Raja Garden and Gurgaon in the National Capital Region and also to Bangalore, which was in 2011. An email questionnaire sent to NSR's CEO Parag Saxena did not elicit any response, while Arjun Puri could not be contacted despite repeated attempts. NSR is in the process of expanding its food and restaurant portfolio with a $100-million investment. It plans to set up a holding company, which will acquire controlling stake in portfolio firms and nurture them. NSR's key investments in India include Coffee Day Resorts and Hotels, 9X Media, Capricorn Hospitality, KS Oils, Ascend Telecom Infrastructure, Reliance Infratel and VRL Logistics. According to a study from Technopak Advisors, the Indian food service industry is currently a $14-billion market, of which the unorganised sector has a lion's share, accounting for about $12-billion business. QSR rules the organised sector, with the largest share of 50 per cent. Last week, another PE major, CX Partners, invested Rs 110 crore in Barbeque Nation Hospitality. In December 2012, Bangalore-based QSR Mast Kalandar had raised Rs 32 crore ($6 million) from Helion Venture Partners and Footprint Ventures. With the new fund, Mast Kalandar outlets will be scaled up to 100 outlets from the current 40. Last year also witnessed more number of PE deals (12) worth $122 million in the restaurant sector in India, compared with 2011 which saw nine deals worth $159 million. US-based NSR, with $1.4-billion of assets under management, had hit the headlines when two of its co-founders, Rajat Gupta and Raj Rajaratnam, were convicted for insider trading charges in the US. Recently, Gupta filed a breach-of-contract lawsuit against Saxena. Gupta said he had transferred his voting shares in NSR to Saxena. He also alleged Saxena breached the agreement by improperly removing Gupta's designee to the board and refusing to permit NSR to acquire directors' and officers' insurance. First Published: Thu, April 25 2013. 00:30 IST	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1524
__label__wiki	0.935814	0.935814	BIZ WRAP Reliance Industries to invest Rs 1.8 lakh crore in next 3 years Addressing the 40th annual general meeting, RIL Chairman Mukesh Ambanis said the telecom arm of the company Reliance Jio Infocomm, which is the only company to have nationwide permits for 4G services, will start rolling out broadband services in the coming months. PTI \| June 18, 2014 \| Updated 13:04 IST Reliance Industries on Wednesday said it will invest Rs 1.8 lakh crore across businesses in the next three years and launch the much-awaited 4G broadband services in 2015 as it looks to break-into top 50 companies of the world. RIL Chairman Mukesh Ambani, the world's richest energy billionaire, unveiled his vision to achieve in next three years what the firm had done in 37 years of its listed history. Addressing the 40th annual general meeting of RIL, Ambani said Rs 1,80,000 crore will be invested in margin-enhancing petrochem units, expansion of energy business, opening more retail stores and roll-out of telecom business. RIL's telecom arm Reliance Jio Infocomm, which is the only company to have nationwide permits for 4G services, will start rolling out broadband services in the coming months. It will begin with field trials in August and commercial launch in 2015, he said. Ambani said the company, which last fiscal became the biggest retailer in the country by revenue, is aiming doubling revenue from its retail business every 3-4 years. While it looks to raising output from its eastern offshore gas fields, RIL will in 2015-16 begin extracting gas from coal seams (coal-bed methane or CBM) from Sohagpur blocks in Madhya Pradesh, Ambani said. His mother Kokila Ambani, wife Nita Ambani and children were also present on the occasion. RIL, which is currently ranked 135 on the Fortune 500 list of global companies, is looking at breaking into the top 50, Ambani said. Meanwhile, Nita Ambani was on Friday inducted into the company board. Tags: reliance industries \| ril \| ril shares \| mukesh amabni \| reliance industries agm Tata Steel to seek shareholders' nod for raising Rs 14,000 crore Online shopping clicks in searing heat: Survey	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1525
__label__cc	0.728229	0.271771	· Posted on Dec 6, 2020 33 Products I Don't Understand How You've Lived Your Whole Life Without Hats that won't damage natural hair, tools to minimize noise while working from home, nail polish for your pet, and so much more stuff you should add to your cart immediately. by Katy Herman We hope you love the products we recommend! All of them were independently selected by our editors. Just so you know, BuzzFeed may collect a share of sales or other compensation from the links on this page if you decide to shop from them. Oh, and FYI — prices are accurate and items in stock as of time of publication. 1. A genius visual grocery list pad so you can just circle what you need and be able to check at the store at a glance — no more struggling to read your own handwriting (I feel ya). 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Promising review: "I wanted to reduce waste with disposable pads and I was pleasantly surprised by these. This photo [on the right] was AFTER I cleaned the floor with the disposable pad! I was able to get a super clean floor, spots were easier to clean up, and it didn’t sound like it was scratching my floors. This was easy to use, didn’t use more cleaner then the disposable pads, and got my floor cleaner. Definitely gonna buy more if the two I got ever wear out." —Riley Get a pack of two from Amazon for $14.95. 3. A rotary cheese grater, because everyone knows that pasta just tastes better with cheese from one of these things, I don't make the rules. With one of your very own, you not only won't miss restaurants as much, but also won't have to deal with the awkwardness of having a waiter stand over you for an uncomfortably long time (because no, that is still not enough cheese). Ashely Homestore Catch me with one of these in my purse once it's safe to dine out again. Just kidding...unless?? Get it from Ashley Homestore for $27.99. 4. As-seen-on-TV Debbie Meyer GreenBags here to save you major waste and $$$. They can keep your produce fresher much longer and be reused eight to 10 times!!! The reviewer comparison above is what two bananas — one kept in the bag and one not — looked like after four or five days! Promising review: "I am a big warehouse shopper and in the past often couldn’t eat all those berries or all that lettuce before they went bad. So I followed the directions and made sure the produce was dry (lettuce, spinach, asparagus, and blueberries). For the lettuce and asparagus, saw a little condensation in the bag, so put a paper towel in the bag where moisture was accumulating. Two weeks later, the berries were almost as fresh as day one. Lettuce was still crisp and crunchy and only a few pieces of spinach were starting to wilt. Asparagus were crisp as well. I would definitely recommend and will continue to try with other fruits and vegetables." —BAS Get a pack of 20 (eight medium, eight large, and four extra-large) from Amazon for $9.89. 5. The Honey Pot overnight pads, which aren't regular pads, they're cool pads — literally. In addition to being plant-based and made with pesticide-free cotton, they're formulated with mint, lavender, and aloe for a cooling, soothing effect that'll keep you feeling fresh and provide a nice scent that doesn't smell like the unidentifiable chemicals of other scented pads. The Honey Pot Company is a Black woman-owned business! Promising review: "I will never go back to another brand. My periods are intense, long, and sometimes unbearable. Anything that makes it even slightly better is a miracle. These pads are super absorbent and unlike a lot of overnight pads, they aren’t stiff and don’t feel like wearing a diaper. The cooling from the mint and aloe actually feels pretty great. I'm also really prone to infection after a period and I haven’t had one since I switched." —Janelle Get 12 overnight pads from Target for $7.99, and find more pad sizes here. 6. Or a beginner-friendly, collapsible, adjustable-size, medical-grade silicone menstrual cup ready to play the role of your BFF helping you compose a devastating breakup speech when you're ready to ditch pads and tampons for good. You can use this soft, expandable cup for up to 12 hours at a time, then just wash it out! With the case, you can easily stash it in your purse or pocket. Promising review: "Relief. Freed from the drying tampons and pads! I have two young children, so this is even more of a game-changer when you haven't got a minute alone. Empty in the morning, empty before bed. Can't beat it." —Lydz Get it from Intimina for $18.71 (originally $24.95). 7. A Grace Eleyae satin-lined beanie that may look like a regular winter hat, but has a secret superpower — it'll protect, not damage, natural hair. 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It was kinda hard to coordinate everybody’s time and schedule and I've been woken by the sound in the kitchen several times in the early morning, like 3 to 4 a.m. This product is a game-changer for me. I can barely hear people talking or washing dishes outside and I can see less dust in my room since I sealed those gaps in my door. Highly highly recommend this product!!" —Yiting Cai Get two rolls (for a total of 33 feet) from Amazon for $8.97+ (available in three colors). 9. Or some versatile silicone putty earplugs that you can mold to get a perfect fit and use for everything from snoozing to swimming. The obnoxious construction next door and your S.O.'s snores are no match for these babies. Here's what BuzzFeed Shopping editor Emma Lord says about these wonders: "TBH, I swear by these so aggressively that I have them on a subscription. They're like ear glue. My apartment is on a busy street and my upstairs neighbor is a noisy human being (does this count as a subtweet??) and once I pop these babies in I can barely hear a thing. Plus, my ears never get sore with these in like they do with headphones or other earplugs." Get six pairs from Amazon for $3.96. 10. Glossier's Body Hero exfoliating bar, which will exfoliate thoroughly but gently and moisturize, so you'll end every shower with skin softer and smoother than you ever thought possible. It's vegan, cruelty free, and made with aloe leaf juice and sunflower seed oil, and the fresh scent has notes of pear, mandarin, and cypress. Promising review: "THE BEST THING I DIDN'T KNOW I NEEDED. Honestly this is the best thing I’ve ever bought for washing myself...it was like one of those sandpaper (hear me out) salt sticks rabbits use to gnaw their teeth on but in the most satisfying, pumicing way. Although it felt hard and heavy (ie: expensive) it was soft but efficient when scrubbing and fit perfectly into my dirty paw, so no dropping it! It removed all my sins and what felt like a permanent fake tan residue, and I appeared out of the bath like newborn baby Jesus." —Carley Get it from Glossier for $14. 11. Hilarious yet practical pop-up fire hydrant pee pads that'll not only look way less unsightly around your house than plain ones, but also be easier for your pup to find (and aim at). Promising review: "Best pads I've used. Hydrant is a floor-saver! The little fire hydrant pops up automatically when you unfold the pad, and it has a contrasting color that allows them to see it (while looking really cute). It's perfect size for a small dog to aim at, it's absorbent so it doesn't splash, and it's small enough that girl dogs can share the pad without it getting in the way. I have two toy poodles, one boy and one girl. They boy would never make it onto the pad (and nearly ruined my floor) because he didn't have anything to aim at. So I ended up creating my own hydrants out of cans wrapped in potty pads. They worked but it was a pain to create a new one each time I put out a new pad. This is so much better! I'm in love with these. Best of all, these are hands-down some of the best quality potty pads I've ever used. Liquid becomes a gel almost instantly so they don't track wet footprints on the floor, and they absorb the smell." —A. Platter Get a pack of 25 from Amazon for $20.20. 12. A sleek bralette made with recycled nylon that's perfectly easy and comfy enough for every day. In fact, several reviewers say it's like not wearing a bra at all — which is basically the holy grail quality we all dream of in a bra. Promising review: "The only bra I’ll wear. Donated all of my other bras. So comfortable while maintaining the support I want. Buy 10!" —Beverlane Get it from Everlane for $25 (available in women's sizes XXS-XL and in three colors). 13. A 4-in-1 hole repair product that is a squeeze bottle of spackle with a built-in primer, plus has a built-in putty knife on the top and a sanding pad on the cap, so even the least handy people ever (me) can easily keep their walls looking like new. Promising review: "Lifesaver! I recently moved from the apartment I'd been in for five years. It had faced some wear and tear. I like art so there were many holes in the walls. I was not looking forward to the daunting process of wall repair. Then I found this amazing little guy. It is so easy to use that I found myself searching for more holes to patch (it was oddly kind of fun too). Simply squeeze a little of the white primer onto the hole, flip it to the flat side, and smooth it out. I actually didn't use the sandpaper much at all. Only used it a couple times to sand down two particularly ragged holes. I was able to fill all the holes in my apartment and still have plenty left, and it helped me get my security deposit back. Well worth every penny." —Julie 14. A Tile Pro tracker if you've spent all of quarantine (and your life) losing things around the house. Just hook this little guy to your keys, purse, or wallet, and you'll be able to ring it through an app up to 400 feet away. You can also use it in reverse (if you have the Tile but can't find your phone). Just press the button on the tracker and your phone will ring, even if you've silenced it. Plus, if you lose your stuff outside the range, the app will still be able to tell you where it was last in range and you can mark it as lost so that others with the Tile app can pick up a signal from it to help you locate it. Promising review: "Can’t imagine life without it. I leave my belongings everywhere. I have a tile for my keys and all of my purses. I have saved endless hours of frustrated searches. I will never be without Tile in my life." —Robyn Get it from Tile for $34.99. 15. A genius dongle case that can clip to a keyring and that literally everyone with an iPhone needs. Because who among us has not found ourselves dongle-less when we were desperate to listen to music or watch a video? DukeofCases/Etsy It's from a Black-owned Etsy shop! Get it from DukeofCases on Etsy for $12 (originally $20). 16. A hard water stain remover you can t-rust to cut through even the toughest stains you were starting to think were just gonna have to be permanent fixtures in your home and your life. Promising review: "Okay, here is my first review in my life, as I usually can't be bothered. This product shocked me and deserves to be famous. It completely blew my mind. I have no idea what kind of magic is in this bottle but I have tried literally everything to remove the hard water drops/film/residue/whatever you call it from our glass shower door. I'm talking hard, white texture that you cannot scratch off at all! For two years. I tried harsh chemicals, industrial stuff recommended by my plumber, ammonia, soaked it in vinegar, soda etc. Then I came across this, ordered it, put some on a sponge, drew a square to test it out, couple minutes later rubbed it slightly and...ran outside screaming for hubby to come see the miracle of the glossy again, see-through shower door! No idea about other uses, but I don't even care, this is the best thing that happened in 2020 😜." —PUNIAFdesign Get it from Amazon for $19.90. 17. A silicone dishwasher bag you'll wonder how you ever did dishes without. You can roll up smaller items in it vertically or horizontally so they'll fit anywhere and won't come out filled with water like they usually do! Promising review: "This is an amazing product. It's perfect for when you want to separate pump parts from dirty flatware, etc. and don’t have a lot of room in your dishwasher. It’s nice thick silicone so it’s very sturdy, and BPA-free. It stretches, bends, and squeezes into small spaces. You can bend it to any shape and size you want. I’m getting this for all my new mom friends — why add another bulky crate to the dishwasher? It can hold plenty of bottle parts. Also, you can really use it for anything...measuring spoons, etc." —Anne Taylor Robertson 18. A memory foam gel cushion to turn your desk chair into a luxurious, not miserable, experience for your tush. Truly, how have you and your glutes been working from home for eight months without this? It's got over 8,000 positive reviews! Promising review: "Miracle for my back troubles. I have back problems and an office job that sometimes requires me to sit in the world’s most uncomfortable chair. The first day I had to sit in that chair for a meeting, I thought I’d have to quit because my back was SO mad at me long after getting out of the chair. I bought this seat cushion and now I can’t live without it. It has a little handle on the side, which makes it easy to carry even when my hands are overflowing with papers. Only downside is that it sometimes squishes down a bit more than I would like for it to, but it works so well overall that I don’t really mind. I just readjust myself on the seat cushion or take the opportunity to walk around for a minute while it re-inflates." —Amelia 19. A pair of sleek silicone mask applicator brushes with several benefits that'll make a mask day more effortless (and therefore more relaxing): it evenly spreads a thick layer of product without any getting caught or wasted in bristles, it's easy to clean, and reduces mess! Promising review: "GAME-CHANGER! I love these! I no longer dread putting on my face products. I was using my fingers to apply the product to my face, and it was so messy and got in my nails too. When I came across these silicone brushes I knew I had to have them. They are amazing and the low price is a steal. These brushes really changed my routine. I use my facial products more often because I'm no longer worried about the annoying mess. The silicone brush is very flexible and spreads the product on my face nicely. Cleaning the brush is a simple task, just rinse and pat dry. Highly recommended!" —Wells Family Get a set of two from Amazon for $3.98. 20. A neutral color-blocked tote that checks all the boxes on the criteria for the perfect everyday carryall. Room for all your crap? Chic? Ethically produced? Matches everything? Check to all the above. Nisolo It's made from leather that's a byproduct of animals killed for meat and from tanneries that care about ethical treatment. Learn more about Nisolo's practices regarding their supply chain here and ethical worker wages here. Promising review: "Besides buttery soft leather, this bag is so roomy. It's perfect for work and holds my clutch/wallet, laptop, and planner, with room for all the odds and ends! Love this beautiful bag, and I feel good about carrying responsibly-sourced leather!" —Lisa S. Get it from Nisolo for $128 (originally $170; available in six colors). 21. A nontoxic nail pawlish pen made just for puppers so you can fulfill your lifelong dream of doing a spa day together. In fact, their nails will probably be less of a pain to do than yours, since this stuff comes in an easy-to-apply pen form, dries quickly, and has very little scent! This is the way to go if you want to give your pup a mani/pedi, since regular human polish isn't safe for them! Promising review: "Got this on a whim because my girlfriend wanted to paint the dog's nails. We received it really quickly and the polish went on easily and stayed on. We were cutting the grass and the dog went out and played in the fresh cut grass, running around, and it's still on! A little scuffed but still pretty much solidly on. So far two days have gone by and it's still on. We're going to get more colors." —Diaztortillas Get it from Amazon for $7.99 (available in 13 colors). 22. A Stasher reusable silicone bag able to survive the oven, microwave, dishwasher, freezer, and sous vide that will probably make you wonder why you ever wasted time (and plastic) using disposable versions. Promising review: "Start with one or two (sandwich size is a good starter) and build your stash as you get rid of the Ziploc bags in your drawers. We've been using all sizes of Stasher bags for nearly a year and haven't had any issues with a single one. We use them to keep crackers/chips/bread from getting stale after opened, to keep leftovers in the fridge or freezer, and pack sandwiches/meds/dog food or treats and so many more things. We sous vide in them, heat up food in the microwave in them, put them in the dishwasher, and marinate in them. They don't leak, they don't smell, they're easy to close and open, and they don't take up much room compared to traditional Tupperware or other food storage. If you put squishy stuff or liquid in there, soaking with baking soda and vinegar for 30 minutes can make sure the crevices don’t mold as some reviewers mention. I do this a couple of times a month regardless of what's in them. They do cost more than regular plastic bags and require more work, because obviously you don't just use them once — make the switch and stop with the single use plastics." —Maison Leach Get it from Amazon for $9.09+ (available in four sizes and 12 colors). 23. A hypoallergenic, anti-bacterial, anti-mold, and anti-yeast panty wash formulated by an actual gynecologist — so yes, she really does understand the problem you've had your whole vagina-having life and haven't wanted to talk about. It'll be delicate on your delicates but tough on all the gunk (yes, I am talking about discharge) you need to wash out of them. Clean And Cute This Black-woman owned brand is the genius creation of Philly-based OB/GYN Dr. Tosha Rogers, and it's good for bras too! Get it from Clean & Cute for $14.99. 24. An amazing antifungal nail treatment to give you results so satisfying, you won't even miss having a reason to say "there's a fungus among us" (even though yes, that is fun to say). Promising review: "OMG. I owe this product my life. I was very embarrassed about my toenails for 16 years and always wore socks until now. My toenails were very thick and discolored; I applied this product for about a month now my toenails are completely back to normal. I can’t believe it" —Daniel 25. A freezable headache cap that can be worn on top of your head or all the way over your eyes and that may look a little silly, but the game-changing cold and compression relief it'll provide is no laughing matter. It claims to last for up to 600 uses and provide up to 35 minutes of cold per use. It even has a ponytail-friendly hole at the top, lol! Check out more life-changing headache relief products. Promising review: "I can’t adequately put into words how thankful I am to have come across this product. I suffer from chronic migraines and this has been very helpful when I’m suffering. It’s the perfect amount of pressure on my head while the soft ice packs (that are built in) help too. I wish I could hug the maker of this product. It’s outstanding! I’ll be ordering a second one soon, so that I will be able to switch out when ice is no longer cold. I cannot recommend enough. 10 STARS!!" —Jason Williamson 26. Handy silicone dish gloves with scrubby bristles on the inner palm and fingers that'll change the way you do dishes forever. Why bother reaching for sponges and brushes when you can ~hand~le all the gunk with your own digits? They'd work great for other cleaning tasks, too! Promising review: "These gloves make cleaning and washing dishes much easier and more efficient. They foam up quite well and scrub dishes just as well as any sponges. They'll save me a lot from buying sponges. The silicone is nice and thick, and the bristles are nicely compact and scrub well. Definitely worth the price." —Joseph Ho Get them from Amazon for $9.99 (available in three colors). 27. An absolutely amazing and iconic Disney logo belt that's basically a required purchase for anyone who loves fashion and Disney in equal measure (same). Forget the houses of Gucci, Feragamo, Chanel, etc. — this season it's all about the House of Mouse. Note that it's an extra-wide belt made for rocking with dresses and skirts rather than jeans! Get it from Box Lunch for $29.90 (available in sizes XS-XL). 28. The Lip Bar's Skin Serum Foundation, which'll do everything you've ever wanted your foundation to do: last all day, come in a shade that's perfect for you, and save you time in your beauty routine. How, you ask? It's made with hyaluronic acid so it's like a serum and foundation in one, and it's got an easy built-in brush pen design — just click the top to dispense product onto it! It's cruelty-free and vegan and it comes in so many shades that you're sure to find your perfect match. Plus it's from a Black woman-owned business that focuses on inclusivity in the beauty world! Promising review: "I’m very impressed. As someone who knows nothing about makeup, I found this super easy to apply. I used the shade matcher on the site and it matches me PERFECTLY. I can hardly tell I’m wearing makeup. Plus I wore it on a super hot day where I was sweating a bunch and my face was unbothered. By the time I made it home that evening it was still looking good!" —Shaquilla B. Get it from The Lip Bar for $28 (available in 26 shades). 29. A vegan pair of Dr. Martens so animal-friendly shoppers can finally get their feet into a pair of these classic and durable boots that'll take every outfit from zero to badass in seconds. Promising review: "I am currently working as a delivery driver and these have been a lifesaver. Super comfortable and help with traction. I have not had any issues breaking in so far and I’ve been wearing them at least two weeks. I receive many compliments on my outfit whenever I wear them. Love that they are vegan and waterproof." —Sara D. Get them from Dr. Martens for $150 (available in women's sizes 5-12 and men's sizes 6-14). 30. Majorly space-saving hangers to transform your tiny closet into something you can work with until the day you can afford to move into a mansion with a Cher Horowitz-type closet with room for your whole wardrobe. There are hanger hooks on both ends, so you can attach either one (like in the pics above for maximum space-saving) or both (to hang easily-wrinkled clothes a little farther apart) sides to your closet rod. Each one has five slots for more hangers, so one set can store up to 50 pieces. Promising review: "TEARS OF JOY. Okay, I know that's dramatic, but I cannot say enough about how these hangers have transformed my tiny, odd-shaped closet. I was so desperate for more space, I was considering spending big bucks to have a professional come in and redesign the space. Then I found these and it's like my hanging space quadrupled! It feels downright luxurious in my closet now. I can see all my clothes and nothing is squished together like it used to be. I can also comfortably add a substantial amount of clothing and would still have room to grow. BUY THESE IMMEDIATELY!" —milanina77 Get a pack of 10 from Amazon for $12.49+ (available in two colors). 31. A Rapid Ramen Cooker with over 2,000 5-star reviews that's a lazy cook's dream — it can cook your noodles in the microwave in three minutes and must have been designed by someone with a pretty genius ~noodle~ themselves. It's BPA-free and dishwasher-safe! Plus, since you use less water, you can also use less seasoning and therefore reduce your sodium intake. It was presented on Shark Tank, and the Black-owned company now makes rapid cookers for everything from noodles to oatmeal to desserts! Promising review: "Possibly the best thing I have ever purchased. Like legit, it cooks the ramen perfectly and it's super easy to clean. I gave the red one to my friend who is also an avid ramen lover. I don't even put the flavoring in anymore — I can just mix in kimchi with some fish and it's like using spaghetti. Seriously sweet when you don't want to clean up a million pots and pans or wait or sweat your butt off over a hot stove." —P Y Get it from Amazon for $9.94+ (available in four colors). 32. A classic Levi's denim jacket to fill the GAPING hole that surely exists in your wardrobe if you don't already have a go-to jean jacket. amazon.com, Amazon Promising review: "I’ve been looking forever for a high-quality denim jacket with just the right amount of authentic fade but at an affordable price. I should have known to check out Levi’s first! This jacket is soft yet structured. The denim has a little personality and fade but still goes with everything. The fit is right on point. Seriously, it doesn’t get much better than this!" —FitGirlInFlight Get it from Amazon for $34.54+ (available in sizes XS-4X and in 14 colors). 33. And finally, the Schitt's Creek Funko Pop! figure of your fave character you've literally been dreaming of since you first watched the pilot. Pssst...when you order the David one, you're most likely to get the classic David shown above, but you've got about a one in six chance of getting the "chase" edition of David from the Season 2 premiere in his iconic Helmut Lang mohawk hoodie. Get Alexis for $10.99 and David for $16.99, both from Amazon, and get the rest of the fam here. You seeing every item on this list: Tap to play or pause GIF Tap to play or pause GIF The reviews for this post have been edited for length and clarity. Looking for more great Amazon finds? Check out some of our favorite cheap things to buy on Amazon, some of the weirdest things on Amazon you might actually want, or read through all the rest of our incredible Amazon product recommendations.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1526
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__label__wiki	0.831143	0.831143	Best of C-VILLE C-BIZ Made In C-VILLE Senior Guide Toscano and Deeds to discuss redistricting, General Assembly victories and defeats Chiara Canzi 3/16/11 at 12:00 AM Senator Creigh Deeds and Delegate David Toscano will host a town hall meeting at the end of the month to discuss the recently concluded General Assembly session, what worked and what went wrong. In 2011, both legislators introduced bicycle-related legislation that ultimately failed to pass the House Transportation subcommittee. Deeds introduced a bill that authorizes the state tax commissioner to call for a second land appraisal to determine fair market value of donated property; that bill passed the assembly and goes before Governor Bob McDonnell. Deeds introduced the bill after a second appraisal for the 1,200-acre Biscuit Run, requested by former developers Forest Lodge LLC, valued the property at $87.7 million—$48 million greater than the tax department’s appraisal. Both Deeds and Toscano held similar gatherings in the past to offer constituents the opportunity to voice their concerns and requests. During the March 31 meeting, the pair will also discuss post-census redistricting, which the Washington Post reports could create a greater concentration of congressional districts in Northern Virginia. The way of the gun Debbie Ryan passes the ball Our comments system is designed to foster a lively debate of ideas, offer a forum for the exchange of ad hoc information, and solicit honest, respectful feedback about the work we do. We’re glad you’re participating. Here are a few simple rules to follow, which should be relatively straightforward. 1) Don’t call people names or accuse them of things you cannot support. 2) Don’t direct foul language, racial slurs, or offensive terms at other commenters or our staff. 3) Don’t use the discussion on our site for commercial (or shameless personal) promotion. 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RT @TheNolanStout: Chip Boyles, executive director of the Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission, has been selected as Charlott… https://t.co/ufgrZLdsEA RT @bluevirginia: GREAT pick by the Biden team! @DrCameronWebb named to White House COVID-19 Response Team. :) https://t.co/XEW4WuJeSW What should Biden’s first act be after his inauguration? C-VILLE’s Question of the Week. Answer bel… https://t.co/bHQTQTOOQZ PICK: Hot Cheese By C-VILLE Writers \| LEAVE A COMMENT Cheesy goodness: In the intro to her cookbook Hot Cheese: Over 50 Gooey, Oozy, Melty Recipes, Polina Chesnakova writes: “…something happens when you apply heat to curds: a setting of the stage. 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Michael Moore is never shy about voicing his opinions, while at the other end of the spectrum, Ken Burns frames his work as recording history. Some Kind of Heaven, the debut work from Lance Oppenheim, never shouts None in the chamber: Charlottesville’s search for a city manager has gotten messy By Ben Hitchcock \| LEAVE A COMMENT One of the keys to stabilizing a floundering city government is to hire a strong and competent chief executive. But in order to attract a high-quality city manager, you need a government that isn’t floundering. That’s the paradox facing the Charlottesville municipal government at this moment. Back at it: Hudson, Deeds eye pandemic relief for General Assembly session By Geremia di Maro Amid a surging number of COVID-19 cases in the state, and political turmoil at the national level, the Democrat-controlled Virginia General Assembly will convene Wednesday (remotely in the House) for the 2021 legislative session. Charlottesville’s local lawmakers have an On the rise: Police chief calls on community to take action against gun violence By Brielle Entzminger \| LEAVE A COMMENT Charlottesville Police Chief RaShall Brackney held a press conference Thursday afternoon to address what the department is calling an “unprecedented” rise in gun violence in the city. There have been eight incidents since November 5, a period that caps off a year in which police responded to In brief: Vaccines for the frontline, Wade for City Council, and more Vaccine scene Charlottesville Fire Department Captain Lance Blakey was the first to receive a coronavirus vaccine at the Blue Ridge Health District’s new vaccination facility in the Kmart parking lot last week. The city continues to move through phase 1A of vaccinations, which includes doctors, PICK: The Earlysville Bluegrass Boys By Tami Keaveny \| LEAVE A COMMENT Band of brothers: With a sound beyond their years, you’d never guess that the Heetderks brothers are all under age 17. Picking out traditional bluegrass and gospel as The Earlysville Bluegrass Boys, David (banjo, dobro), John (mandolin, fiddle), and Daniel (guitar, bass) have made a name for PICK: Wildrock’s Winter Wonderland Trail Get out together: Some of the best aspects of the season are on display during a tour of Wildrock’s Winter Wonderland Trail. Track animals and learn their survival habits, get an up-close look at snowflake patterns, and play a woodland game to match gnome mittens. Small groups can make a Now a filmmaker: Stephen Canty’s long-awaited Once a Marine makes digital debut By Shea Gibbs \| LEAVE A COMMENT Louisa native Stephen Canty’s documentary about adjusting to civilian life after Marine Corps deployment to Afghanistan was released in November. A lot’s changed since the UVA alum began working on the film, Once a Marine, more than seven years ago. For one thing, he is no longer a Louisa Looking up: Laura Wooten’s ‘View from the Ridge’ offers 99 visions of hope By Sarah Sargent \| LEAVE A COMMENT She paints the same view day after day, recording the subtle and great changes of hour, season, and weather. Her subject is both profoundly familiar to her and constantly changing. Laura Wooten’s “View from the Ridge” at Second Street Gallery features 90 small paintings (8 inches x 8 inches) ‘A waste of lives’: Charlottesville commonwealth’s attorney candidate hopes to fight mass incarceration Last month, Charlottesville public defender Ray Szwabowski announced his campaign for commonwealth’s attorney. Current Commonwealth’s Attorney Joe Platania was elected in 2017 and has not announced if he’s running for re-election. If Platania runs, the two will face off in a Democratic primary Civics minded: Local groups help citizenship applicants prepare for tougher test By Carol Diggs \| LEAVE A COMMENT U.S. immigrants have faced an amazing array of challenges during the last four years, but as of December 1, 2020, the outgoing administration left them one last present: a significantly more difficult citizenship exam. The exam, something immigrants must pass in order to become citizens, has an On a roll: Health department begins vaccinating non-hospital health care workers The local vaccine rollout process continues. About a month after the first coronavirus vaccines were shipped to hospitals across the country, Charlottesville’s frontline health care employees who work outside of hospitals are now getting vaccinated. On Monday, the Blue Ridge Health District PICK: Fast forward Bah humbug? We think not. This year, Dickens is going digital! Join Jacob Marley, the three ghosts, and Tiny Tim as Scrooge navigates his cranky journey and discovers the joy of Christmas—even in 2020. John Harrell stars in American Shakespeare Center’s annual adaptation of A Christmas Carol, PICK: Unforgettable talent Cullen “Fellowman” Wade (right) didn’t set out to create an album about loss during such a dark time in history. 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__label__wiki	0.580157	0.580157	Investors Commit Staggering $735m into Singapore Fintech Deals by Wanguba Muriuki · 3 min read The fintech industry is booming as shown by investors in Singapore who poured a record $735 million into financial-technology deals representing a 69% surge from the prior-year period that had $435 million. The financial technology industry is booming and many investors have noticed that. In that context, investment in fintech ventures in Singapore rose rapidly. The latest reports from Accenture confirm that in the first 9 months of the current year, investors in Singapore brought a record $735 million into financial-technology deals. That represents a 69% surge from the prior-year period that raked in $435 million. Accenture came up with this data after analyzing reports from CB Insights, Pitchbook, and Tracxn. So far in 2019, the $735 million (S$1 billion) invested has surpassed the $642 million raised in all of 2018. The investments came in led by fundraising with payment startups and insurtech firms. Furthermore, investors also diversified toward the more mature companies. Singapore’s fintech ecosystem has managed to gain high recognition from investors worldwide for its potential. It has also expanded and strengthened its interests in digital financial services in Singapore as well as in the wider region. These are the main ideas translated in the statement by Sopnendu Mohanty who is the chief fintech officer of the Monetary Authority of the country. Sector Grows 600% since 2015 Singapore has remained active in investing in its fintech ecosystem for the last four years. These investments together with the annual Singapore Fintech Festival seem to be paying off. The city-state has enjoyed an almost 600% increase in the investments in this sector since 2015. Mahanty said that it is quite encouraging to see several local startups finance their global growth from Singapore. Moreover, many global fintech companies that have regional headquarters in Singapore have in recent months raised considerable amounts of funds to support their Asian expansion. Number of Deals Dropped Amidst this phenomenal growth, the number of deals fell by about 29% in the first nine months of 2019. Compared to the prior-year period, deals fell from 133 in 2018 to 94 in 2019. The drop suggests that investors made larger bets into fewer deals as many startups grow their business. Divyesh Vithlani, the senior at Accenture, explained the recent findings. As evident from other corners of the world, fundraising is changing to support the scaling up of the collaborative and challenger fintech. The bulk of the fintech fundraising comprised of investments in payments startups and those in lending accounting for 34% and 20% of the total, respectively. Insurance technology deals accounted for approximately 17%. The total value of the payment deals increased by113% to $251 million which has made it the major contributor to the total gains in 2019 so far. Also, lending rose by more than 50% to stand at $145 million. next Business News, FinTech News, News Author Wanguba Muriuki Wanguba Muriuki is a content crafter passionate about putting everything into writing. He is passionate about Blockchain and Traveling. He is also an experienced creative and technical writer. Everything and everyone has a story to tell. What better way to capture the real story than in words. By Kseniia Klichova December 23rd, 2020 Press Release Startup Secret Santa Helps Blockchain and Fintech Projects To Win Over COVID Crisis Startup Secret Santa, an event of a new format, connected 19 startups and 19 mentors from Fintech and Blockchain domains on Dec 9th and 10th. By Ryan Jason December 20th, 2020 Blockchain News, Cryptocurrency news, FinTech News, News Current Trends of FinTech One Must Know in 2021 The Fintech sector will remain to expand and fine-tune in forthcoming years. To be more reliable and satisfy clients, this sector will develop at a much greater pace. By Benjamin Godfrey December 17th, 2020 Altcoin News, Blockchain News, Cryptocurrency news, FinTech News, News Fintech Startup EMTECH Launches Platform to Help CBDC Development The EMTECH Modern Central Bank Sandbox™ will provide its innovative solutions with backing from the cloud services giant Microsoft Corporation in its attempt to deploy the pilots in the coming months.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1537
__label__cc	0.694095	0.305905	Facilities Management Company News Serco Receives 2020 HIRE Vets Medallion Award from U.S. Department of Labor November 10, 2020 Karen Dowsett Serco U.S. Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia recognized Serco Inc. as one of the 675 recipients of the 2020 HIRE Vets Medallion Award during an award ceremony at the U.S. Department of Labor. Serco earned the Gold Award after applying earlier this year. The Honoring Investments in Recruiting and Employing American Military Veterans Act (HIRE Vets Act) Medallion Program is the only federal award program that recognizes job creators who successfully recruit, hire, and retain veterans. “Veteran’s make up 20% of our Serco workforce across North America, and every individual brings impressive skills, experience and values that are vital to the work we do to support our customers’ missions in all areas of the business,” said Dave Dacquino, Serco Inc.’s Chairman and CEO. “We accept the 2020 HIRE Vets Medallion Award with great pride and honor.” Serco joins 674 other companies from 49 states, plus the District of Columbia, who have shown a commitment to hiring veterans, but also ensuring that they have a long-term career and growth plan that uses the diverse skills they acquired through their military service. The HIRE Vets Medallion Award is based on a number of criteria, ranging from veteran hiring and retention to providing veteran-specific resources, leadership programming, dedicated human resources, and compensation and tuition assistance programs – with requirements varying for large, medium, and small employers. More from: Serco \| Category: Facilities Management Company News ← BD Announces Canadian Government Order of More Than 7 Million Portable, Rapid Point-of-Care Antigen Tests to Detect SARS-CoV-2 in 15 minutes My living wage journey \| Morgan Sindall → 5 Reasons User Experience Design is Revolutionising Services Around the World April 7, 2020 Karen Dowsett Churchill launches PRISM to promote back-to-work confidence – Churchill Group July 30, 2020 Karen Dowsett Back to School with Chartwells September 11, 2020 Karen Dowsett Demand for COVID-19 Vaccine Strong, Even in Mostly Rural Counties	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1545
__label__wiki	0.518073	0.518073	Top Classic Car Auctions $1 million plus cars The Most-Expensive Cars of All Time $10 Million Plus Record for Year & Marques US Auctions Amelia Island (Florida) Auctions and Concours d’Elegance Amelia Island Results Monterey Week Monterey Classic Car Week Quail Lodge Scottsdale / Arizona Scottsdale (Arizona) – The First Classic Car Auctions of the Year European Auctions Paris Rétromobile – First European Classic Car Auctions of the Year Villa Erba / Este 2019 Gooding Pebble Beach Sale (Pininfarina Masterpieces Announcement) 21 July 2019 by Henk Bekker in California, Monterey, News, Pebble Beach, Press Releases, USA A Ferrari 250 GT Series 1 Cabriolet, 400 Superamerica Aerodinamico and Sergio are top Pininfarina coachbuilt cars at the Gooding Pebble Beach 2019 sale. 1958 Ferrari 250 GT Series I Cabriolet © Gooding Four cars with connections to top Italian coachbuilder Pininfarina are amongst the lead cars on offer at the Gooding Pebble Beach 2019 classic car auctions. The 1958 Ferrari 250 GT Series I Cabriolet (Estimate: $7,000,000 – $8,000,000) is one of just forty built. The 1953 Alfa Romeo 6C 3000 CM Superflow IV (Estimate: $6,000,000 – $8,000,000) is one of approximately six competition cars built – Pinin Farina used the chassis to build a series of spectacular design studies. The 1962 Ferrari 400 Superamerica Series I Coupe Aerodinamico (Estimate: $2,800,000 – $3,400,000) was one of the last short-wheelbase Coupes. Only six 2014 Ferrari Sergios (Estimate: $2,500,000 – $3,000,000) were built to commemorate the 60 years of cooperation between Ferrari and Pininfarina. Gooding Pebble Beach Classic Car Auction 2019 Gooding and Company scheduled its 16th annual Pebble Beach classic car auction for 16 & 17 August 2019 at the Pebble Beach Equestrian Center on the Monterey Peninsula in California, USA. In 2019, Gooding earned $76,824,740 with a sell-through rate of 77% – 108 of 140 lots offered were sold. The average price was $711,340 per car with 17 cars sold for over a million dollar each. The 1935 Duesenberg SSJ, chassis J-563 sold for $22,000,000 as the most-expensive American car ever sold at public auction, the most-expensive pre-war car, the most-expensive Duesenberg and the most-expensive car ever sold by Gooding & Company. © Gooding In 2018, Gooding earned $116.5 million with an 84% sell-through rate with 123 of the 147 lots sold. The average price per car was $947,174 with 25 cars selling for above a million dollar and 23 world auction records set for models, including a new Duesenberg marque record. In 2017, Gooding earned $91.5 million with sell-through rate of 81% – 110 of the 135 lots on offer sold. 22 cars achieved a million dollar with two of these over $10 million. A new marque record of $14,080,000 was set by a 1970 Porsche 917K that was used in the filming of Steve McQueen’s Le Mans. In 2016, Gooding set a company record when $129.8 million was earned by selling 115 of 138 lots (83%). 26 cars achieved over a million dollar with four selling for over $10 million. Pininfarina Masterpieces at Gooding Pebble Beach 2019 Four top coachbuilt cars by Pininfarina – in addition to many more designed by the Italian design house – will be on offer at the Gooding Pebble Beach 2019 classic car auction. “Pininfarina is recognized as one of the world’s premiere coachbuilders,” says President and Founder of Gooding & Company, David Gooding. “Their designs have been hailed as groundbreaking, incredibly influential, and always stunningly beautiful. We are proud to be offering some of Pininfarina’s most famous work when the celebrated firm from Torino was at the pinnacle of its power.” 1958 Ferrari 250 GT Series I Cabriolet The elegant Series I Cabriolet was the most exclusive and expensive Ferrari road car of its era. One of only 40 Series I Cabs built, this 1958 Ferrari 250 GT Series I Cabriolet (Estimate: $7,000,000 – $8,000,000), chassis 0789 GT, is one of just four equipped with the most desirable combination of coachwork details – covered headlights, side vents, and bumperettes. Like all Series I Cabriolets, 0789 GT was handbuilt by Pinin Farina’s custom workshop, where it was finished to the highest standards for one of Ferrari’s VIP clients, the eccentric aristocrat, playboy, and actor, Prince Alessandro “Dado” Ruspoli of Rome. Ruspoli was the ideal buyer for such a Ferrari, both in terms of his social status and glamorous image. Dado was known as a notorious socialite, the inspiration behind Fellini’s film “La Dolce Vita,” and was often seen driving his exotic sports cars with such iconic figures as Salvador Dalí, Brigitte Bardot, Truman Capote, and Pablo Picasso. Prince Ruspoli eventually sold the Series I to continue paying for his lavish lifestyle, and the car remained in the care of devoted Italian enthusiasts throughout the 1970s and ’80s. This Series I Cabriolet then came to the US and was owned by Ron Hein, a notable restorer and collector whose cars have won multiple awards. Hein’s restoration of 0789 GT was extremely well received, with the car taking First in Class at the 1994 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance®, the 1994 Santa Barbara Concours d’Elegance®, and the 1994 Newport Beach Concours d’Elegance®. Additionally, it won Best of Show at the 1996 FCA Vintage Concours in Carmel Valley, and the Outstanding GT award at both the 1995 and 1997 Rodeo Drive Concours in Beverly Hills. Never before offered at auction, this exceptional car has a fantastic provenance, with a connection to one of the most famous playboys of the jet set era. Beautifully finished in black over a stunning green interior, and coming from one of the finest collections of coachbuilt Ferraris, this ideally specified Series I Cabriolet will be an unmatched addition to any distinguished collection. 1953 Alfa Romeo 6C 3000 CM Superflow IV © Gooding The 1953 Alfa Romeo 6C 3000 CM Superflow IV (Estimate: $6,000,000 – $8,000,000), chassis 00128, is one of approximately six competition cars built before the company suspended its factory-backed racing activities in the mid-1950s. One of the most technically advanced racing cars of its era, the 6C 3000 CM was built with a tubular spaceframe chassis, with independent front suspension, a De Dion rear axle, and inboard rear brakes. It also featured a magnificent 3.5-liter straight-six engine, with six individual Weber carburetors, twin overhead camshafts, and dry sump lubrication, producing 270 bhp. Following the 1954 racing season, this 6C 3000 CM was given to Carrozzeria Pinin Farina, who used the advanced chassis to build a series of experimental show cars. The first version of the Alfa Romeo Superflow was unveiled at the 1956 Paris Auto Show and then underwent several revisions before being finished in its final Superflow IV form. A hugely influential design study, the Superflow series previewed design cues that would later appear on many Pininfarina-bodied production cars, such as the Alfa Romeo Duetto. The Superflow IV was shown at the 1960 Geneva Motor Show and sold to an Alfa Romeo dealer in Colorado. After many years in the hands of American collectors, 00128 joined Peter’s Kaus’ Rosso Bianco Museum in Germany, which, at the time, housed the largest sports car collection in the world with over 200 vehicles. Kaus sold off his collection in 2005, and this Alfa Romeo was acquired by a preeminent collector who meticulously restored it before its showing at the 2013 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance®. The Superflow won First in Class, as well as The Vitesse – Elegance Trophy at Pebble Beach that year. It went on to show at the 2014 Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este in Italy and Salon Prive, where it received Best of Show honors. 1962 Ferrari 400 Superamerica Series I Coupe Aerodinamico The limited-production 400 Superamerica series is widely regarded as the ultimate coachbuilt Ferrari of the early 1960s. This 1962 Ferrari 400 Superamerica Series I Coupe Aerodinamico (Estimate: $2,800,000 – $3,400,000), chassis 3361 SA, was one of the last short-wheelbase Coupes, whose aerodynamic design was inspired by the famous Superfast II show car. The fairly unambitious estimate hints at an owner keen to sell. Upon completion, this Superamerica was displayed with two other Pininfarina-bodied Ferraris at the 1962 Geneva Motor Show. Chassis 3361 SA was then sold new to a loyal Ferrari client in Milan, and remained in the hands of Italian collectors through 2016. Recently, this largely unrestored car was exhibited at the 2019 Palm Beach Cavallino Classic, where it won the coveted Preservation Award. Certified by the Ferrari Classiche department and handsomely presented in its Blu Notte livery with original natural-colored leather. 2014 Ferrari Sergio by Pininfarina This 2014 Ferrari Sergio by Pininfarina (Estimate: $2,500,000 – $3,000,000) is an opportunity to purchase one of the most dynamic and exclusive cars the Prancing Horse has to offer. Commemorating the 60th anniversary of Sergio Pininfarina’s first collaboration with the marque, Ferrari produced a mere six Sergio examples. The design and build focused entirely on performance, equipped with a Ferrari 458 Spider V-8 engine that sprints from 0 to 60 in just 3 seconds. This Ferrari Sergio was delivered new to the United States and has only seen one owner since new. Ordered in Argento Nürburgring and Daytona Red livery on a ‘crema’ interior, the Ferrari Sergio is a perfect marriage of both Pininfarina’s 21st century design and engineering, and Ferrari’s storied relationship with the company. This stellar supercar will make a seamless addition to any Ferrari purist’s collection and would perfectly fit beside its Pininfarina’s masterpieces. 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__label__wiki	0.746825	0.746825	Case Profile page permalink Case Name Huff v. CoreCivic PC-KS-0007 Docket / Court 2:17-cv-2320 ( D. Kan. ) State/Territory Kansas Case Type(s) Prison Conditions On June 1, 2017, former detainees at a private detention facility in Leavenworth, Kansas filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas. The plaintiffs sued CoreCivic, Inc. (the facility's operator) and Securus Technologies, Inc. (its phone and video services provider) for ... read more > On June 1, 2017, former detainees at a private detention facility in Leavenworth, Kansas filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas. The plaintiffs sued CoreCivic, Inc. (the facility's operator) and Securus Technologies, Inc. (its phone and video services provider) for violations of the Kansas, Missouri and federal (18 U.S.C. §§ 2510, et seq.) wiretapping statutes. The plaintiffs were represented by private counsel and sought monetary relief and attorney’s fees. The plaintiffs claimed that throughout the time they were detained, defendants improperly and without authorization recorded confidential phone calls and meetings between them and their attorneys. Magistrate Judge James P. O’Hara was assigned to the case. On November 13, 2017 an individual tried to join the case as a member of the class, but this motion was denied because class certification had not been granted. CoreCivic and Securus moved to dismiss Count I (the violation of the Missouri wiretapping statute), and this motion was granted because none of the allegedly unlawful interceptions took place Missouri. Securus also moved to dismiss Counts II and III (the violations of the Kansas and federal wiretapping statutes). The court granted in part and denied in part this motion. Specifically, the court found that the plaintiffs had not adequately alleged that any of their intercepted communications had been disclosed but had adequately alleged that their communications had been unlawfully intercepted and a statutory business use exception did not apply because intercepting conversations between detainees and their lawyers was not part of the defendants' ordinary course of business. 2018 WL 1175042 (Mar. 5, 2018). The parties began settlement negotiations in August, 2018. These negotiations continued until August 23, 2019, when the plaintiffs moved to certify the class and for preliminary approval of class action settlement. The court granted this motion on September 26, 2019. Five members of the class filed objections to the settlement, but the court overruled these objections and approved the settlement on January 28, 2020. The certified class included: All detainees at Leavenworth Detention Center who, during the period of June 1, 2014 through June 19, 2017, had their attorney-client telephone calls recorded by Defendants: (a) after the detainee requested privatization of his or her attorney’s phone number (subclass A); (b) after his or her attorney requested privatization of the attorney’s phone number (subclass B); (c) after Judge Robinson’s cease and desist order on August 10, 2016, in the case styled U.S. v. Black, Case No. 2:16-CR-20032 (subclass C); or (d) after the detainee or his or her attorney otherwise notified one or more Defendants in writing of their attorney-client relationship and provided written notification of the attorney’s phone number at issue (subclass D). The settlement agreement created a Settlement Fund of $1,450,000.00, of which CoreCivic agreed to fund $1,100,000.00 and Securua agreed to fund $350,000.00. The plaintiffs' attorneys received about $500,000 of the settlement funds. The settlement did not provide for relief besides damages. As of April 5, 2020, the court has retained jurisdiction for the administration of ongoing settlement payments. Anna Brito - 10/03/2018 Alex Moody - 04/05/2020 compress summary - click to show/hide ALL - Issues and Causes of Action click to show/hide detail Defendant-type Access to lawyers or judicial system Search policies Plaintiff Type Private Plaintiff Type of Facility Non-government for profit Causes of Action State law Defendant(s) CoreCivic, Inc Securus Technologies, Inc. Plaintiff Description Former detainees at Leavenworth Detention Center (a private detention center in Kansas) whose attorney-client telephone calls had been intercepted on behalf of a class of all detainees at that facility whose attorney-client calls had been intercepted between June 1, 2014 and June 19, 2017. Class action status sought Yes Class action status granted Yes Filed Pro Se No Prevailing Party Plaintiff Public Int. Lawyer No Nature of Relief Attorneys fees Source of Relief Settlement Form of Settlement Court Approved Settlement or Consent Decree Filed 06/01/2017 Case Ongoing Yes See this case at CourtListener.com (May provide additional documents and, for active cases, real-time alerts) Court Docket(s) D. Kan. 05/01/2020 2:17-cv-02320 PC-KS-0007-9000.pdf \| Detail Source: PACER [Public Access to Court Electronic Records] Complaint [ECF# 1] Memorandum and Order [ECF# 75] (2018 WL 1175042) PC-KS-0007-0002.pdf \| WESTLAW \| Detail Unopposed Motion of Plaintiffs for Order Conditionally Certifying Settlement Class, Preliminarily Approving Class Action Settlement, Directing Distribution of Class Notice [ECF# 140] Unopposed Motion of Plaintiffs for Order Conditionally Certifying Settlement Class, Preliminarily Approving Class Action Settlement, Directing Distribution of Class Notice, Setting Hearing for Final Approval of Class Action Settlement [ECF# 140-2] Order Preliminarily Approving Class Action Settlement, Certifying the Settlement Class and Providing for Notice to the Settlement Class [ECF# 146] Order Granting Final Approval of Class Action Settlement, Granting Motion for Attorney Fees, Overruling Objections [ECF# 177] (2020 WL 430212) show all people docs Judges O'Hara, James P. (D. 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__label__cc	0.616301	0.383699	RSS and widgets Regions of France Burgundy-Franche-Comte Grand-Est (formerly Alsace, Champagne-Ardenne and Lorraine) Hauts-de-France (formerly Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardy) Nouvelle Aquitaine (formerly Aquitaine, Limousin, and Poitou-Charentes) Occitanie (formerly Languedoc-Roussillon and Midi-Pyrénées) French property Renovation & new-build Holiday rentals & renting Working in France Banking & pensions Boating in France Camping in France Walking in France Winter trips French Property News FAQ & code of conduct Top reasons to visit Ardennes in 2019 PUBLISHED: 15:41 23 April 2019 \| UPDATED: 15:40 02 May 2019 Stephen Mather Picturesque Bogny-sur-Meuse. Pic: David Truillard Music, medieval knights and magical puppetry, combined with delicious regional food and drink, means a visit to this part of north-eastern France should be on your 2019 to-do list Arden Brew Fest 26-28 April This beer festival has grown from humble beginnings since it was first staged in 2013 to celebrate the re-opening of a microbrewery at the Clos Belle Rose guesthouse in Haybes. In the ensuing years it has grown in popularity and now features over 100 beers from 16 different breweries. Almost 5,000 visitors attended in 2018 and organisers will be hoping for many more when the event returns to the grounds of the Clos Belle Rose on the banks of the River Meuse, in the heart of the Ardennes massif. Festival-goers will also be able to enjoy Ardennais cuisine prepared by local chefs and live music. Entry is free. fetedelabiere.com Food and drink lovers converge on Charleville Mezieres. Pic: David Truillard Brotherhood Festival of Gastronomy 4-5 May Food lovers unite in Charleville-Mézières, the capital of the Ardennes, to sample a wide range of delicious regional offerings. Traditional produce and dishes from the Grand Est region of France and across the border in Belgium come together with chefs and crowds all converging at the Place Ducal to share their passion for good food and good humour. Expect to see traditional parades, cooking demonstrations, regional specialities, local crafts and more. festivaldesconfreries.com A medieval festival is based around the Chateau Fort Sedan. Pic: Picasa/CRTCA Medieval Festival, Sedan If you've always wanted to be King of the castle, then head to historic Sedan to enjoy its Medieval Festival. About 40,000 people visit every year to take a pleasant trip back in time to a time of brave knights, fine feasts and elaborate pageantry. Sedan castle is the largest feudal fortress in Europe and its imposing structure and medieval past are brought to life in this event featuring cavalry tournaments, jousting, jesters, troubadours, markets, traditional crafts and more. The castle could once accommodate up to 4,000 men and they were very well protected behind sturdy walls – the thinnest of which is seven metres wide. The fortress can also be visited by torchlight on Fridays and Saturday evenings in July and August. This festival has a real community feel, with over 400 volunteers helping to organise the event. chateau-fort-sedan.fr There are scores of tasty beers to sample in Ardenne. Pic: David Truillard La Cassine Sound & Light Extravaganza 20 July – 17 August The small village of La Cassine near Vendresse is the setting for this spellbinding spectacle, based every year on a well-loved classic. Hundreds of voluntary actors perform with exceptional lighting effects, pyrotechnics and in vivid costumes to make for a deeply emotive experience. La Cassine celebrates its 35th anniversary in 2019, with an adaptation of Victor Hugo's French classic Les Misérables. Seats can be reserved via the La Cassine website and informal dining is also available at the event. Guests have a choice of a four-course dinner menu (€17) in the chapel, home-made quiches in the tavern, or brasserie-style dining featuring local produce in the marquee. la-cassine.com The World Festival of Puppet Theatre takes place in September. Pic: David Truillard Aymon Folk Festival 26-27 July This annual folk and world music festival takes place every summer on the 'Four Sons of Aymon' plateau – a natural setting offering fantastic views overlooking the magnificent panoramic view of the Meuse valley. Since it first began in 1997, the event has grown steadily, attracting new fans and maintaining its unique appeal. Visitors can expect to find a diverse line-up with music from all over the world, teamed with a strong Celtic influence. aymonfolkfestival.fr FM249 Wonderful views in Tournavaux. Pic: Laetis Green Music Festival Le Festival du Cabaret Vert is a large-scale, eco-friendly, electric rock festival which attracts audiences of nearly 100,000. It takes place every year on the last weekend of August in the Bayard Stadium in the centre of Charleville-Mézières. With the focus on respect for the environment, local food, craft beer and great names in music, the atmosphere is one of conviviality. The impressive 2019 line-up includes Twenty One Pilots, Prophets of Rage, Patti Smith, Airbourne, Ziggy Marley and Maya Jane Coles. Passes can be bought from the Cabaret Vert website and camping on-site is available. cabaretvert.com World Festival of Puppet Theatre Charleville-Mézières is known as the capital of puppetry to those in the know and this event is one of the main reasons why. Since its foundation in 1961, the festival has become the biggest gathering of puppeteers in the world. Taking place every two years, 100 puppet companies travel from almost 30 countries to be part of the event, which attracted 150,000 visitors in 2013. For the ten days of the festival, the whole of Charleville-Mézières is transformed into a colourful and lovely showcase, with performances taking place in a wide range of venues, including halls, gymnasiums, streets and courtyards. The festival embraces all forms of puppet art, from the traditional to the post-modern, from shadows to Japanese bunraku, and from the miniature creation to the giant. festival-marionnettes.com/en Onion Fair, Givet With the presence of more than 500 onion sellers from throughout France and Belgium, this cross-border fair allows the 20,000 visitors to discover the rich diversity of dishes prepared with onion. Other local specialities are also available, such as the cured Ardennes ham, the white sausage from Rethel (boudin blanc) and the 'blue stone' from Givet. valdardennetourisme.com Latest from the Complete France Win a copy of Fat Dogs and French Estates Part V by Beth Haslam Coronavirus: what is the current situation in France? Remarkable Places to Eat visits top French restaurant in the West Country Who is Arsène Lupin, gentleman thief? 9 French properties with no agency fees to pay © 2021 Archant Community Media Ltd	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1555
__label__cc	0.69717	0.30283	European Parliament easily rejects ACTA copyright treaty Experts differ Oracle's chances of appeal in Android copyright ruling Oracle v Google: Jury verdict inconclusive U.S. judge orders Motorola not to enforce Microsoft injunction in Germany EU court rules resale of used software licenses is legal -- even online In the case involving Oracle the court found that software vendors have no rights to block resale By Jennifer Baker Brussels correspondent, IDG News Service \| Europe's highest court ruled on Tuesday that the trading of "used" software licenses is legal and that the author of such software cannot oppose any resale. The exclusive right of distribution of a copy of a computer program covered by such a licence is exhausted on its first sale, said the European Court of Justice (ECJ). This applies to downloaded software as well as that bought on CD or DVD. This ruling sets a precedent for trading of used software licenses throughout the European Union and could potentially impact ebooks and computer games as well. The court also ruled that any patches or upgrades made to the software through a service agreement also form part of the used software that can be sold on. However it said that the reseller must make the copy downloaded onto his own computer "unusable" at the time of resale. The German Federal Court of Justice referred the question to the ECJ following a legal battle between Oracle and UsedSoft, a company that buys and sells used software. Oracle launched the case after UsedSoft offered "pre-used" Oracle software licenses online in October 2005. Oracle customers can download a copy of the program directly onto their computer from Oracle's website. The user right for such a program, which is granted by a license agreement, includes the right to store a copy of the program permanently on a server and to allow up to 25 users to access it by downloading it to the main memory of their workstation computers. In a small victory for Oracle, the ECJ ruling prevents resellers from breaking up a license and selling only part of it if they have purchased licenses for more users than they need. UsedSoft customers download the resold software directly from Oracle's website after acquiring a 'used' license. Oracle argued that the principle of exhaustion does not apply to user licenses for computer programs downloaded from the Internet. However the ECJ firmly rejected this argument. The German Regional Court originally ruled in favor of Oracle, but following UsedSoft's appeal, the federal court decided to refer the matter to the ECJ. The final judgement must still be made by the German federal court, but given the ECJ ruling will form a large basis of the decision, Oracle looks likely to lose the case. Follow Jennifer on Twitter at @BrusselsGeek or email tips and comments to jennifer_baker@idg.com. Jennifer Baker reports on the European Union: Commission, Parliament, technology policy, regulation, and competition.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1556
__label__wiki	0.535607	0.535607	The rise of China's smartphone makers Apple puts the big hurt on Samsung Android Upgrade Report Card: Grading the manufacturers on Pie Chinese smartphone vendors show sales gains as Apple, Samsung decline Smartphone makers are pricing themselves out of the market Makers of high-end smartphones are seeing declining sales as users who find them too expensive increasingly opt to keep their phones longer, according to a global smartphone sales report. By Lucas Mearian While demand for entry-level and mid-price smartphones has remained strong, global sales of high-end smartphones like the iPhone XS and XS Max have steadily declined over the past year, according to a new report from Gartner. Less innovation in top-of-the-line smartphones coupled with steep price increases are pushing consumers to wait longer to replace older handsets, according to Gartner. The research firm found that in 2018, global sales of smartphones grew just 1.2% compared to the year before, reaching 1.6 billion units. [ Related: Android Upgrade Report Card: Grading the manufacturers on Pie ] North America, mature Asia/Pacific and Greater China recorded the worst declines of all regions, at 6.8%, 3.4% and 3%, respectively. Those mature markets rely more on flagship smartphone sales than any others and therefore were more dramatically affected by the sales drop. In the final quarter of 2018, Apple experienced the biggest decline – down 11.8% – among the world's top five smartphone vendors, selling 64.5 million handsets; it was Apple's worst quarterly decline in smartphone sales since the first quarter of 2016. Still, Apple clung to second place among smartphone makers with 15.8% of market share. In the same quarter, Samsung led with 17.3% of the market, with Huawei third with 14.8%. But Huawei was first in growth, with sales rising 37.6% to more than 60 million smartphones, according to Gartner. Huawei's growth throughout 2018 helped it close the gap with Apple. Along with its primary markets of China and Europe, Huawei pushed further into the Asia/Pacific, Latin America and Middle East regions to drive growth, according to Anshul Gupta, senior research director at Gartner. "Huawei also exploited growth opportunities through continued expansion of the Honor series in the second half of 2018, especially in emerging markets, which helped Huawei grow its market share to 13% in 2018," Gupta said in a statement. Honor series smartphones start at $199; even the flagship Honor 10 series smartphone retails for about $468 compared with the iPhone XR, which goes for $749. Of the top five smartphone makers, OPPO and Xiami came in a distant fourth and fifth place in market share, with 7.7% and 6.8%, respectively. All other manufacturers made up the remaining 39% of the market share. "Although Samsung is strengthening its smartphone offering at the mid-tier, it continues to face growing competition from Chinese brands that are expanding into more markets. It also faces difficulty bringing significant innovation to high-end smartphones," Gupta said. "Samsung introduced new mid-tier-focused M series smartphones in the first quarter of 2019 to compete with aggressive Chinese manufacturers in emerging markets, and to expand into the online sales channel." Tuong Nguyen, a Gartner principal analyst, said Huawei is mainly competing with Samsung in in terms of product breadth, and the Chinese handset maker's industry-leading growth is being bolstered by a strong Chinese home market, where it sells 10 times as many phones as Samsung. "When you compare Samsung and Huawei on a [larger] geographical level, in most markets, Huawei is selling from 1% to 50% of what Samsung is selling," Nguyen said. Apple's challenge is that it only offers high-end smartphones, and those devices aren't delivering the same, compelling new features they once did. And some users are finding they don't use all of the features high-end smartphones have. "I think that's where we are with phones. It does everything you want and then some, and now you want to offer me even more?" Nguyen said. "That combined with these price points they continue to push up, now the consumer is not feeling like Apple is delivering on that promise the way they said would. "They may be saying, 'I'm loyal to Apple but maybe the value proposition is not what I've bought into all these years.'" Except for North America and in Asia/Pacific nations, Apple saw iPhone demand weaken in most areas, including in greater China, where its market share dropped from 14.6% in Q4 2017 to 8.8% this past quarter. For 2018 as a whole, iPhone sales were down 2.7%, to just over 209 million units. "Apple has to deal not only with buyers delaying upgrades as they wait for more innovative smartphones, but it also continues to face compelling high-price and mid-price smartphone alternatives from Chinese vendors," Gupta said. "Both these challenges limit Apple's unit sales growth prospects." While BYOD programs still remain common among enterprises, many North American companies purchase subsidized devices with two-year service agreements, which translates into a built-in two-year upgrade cycle. Because of that, enterprise purchases of smartphones have probably not been a part of the downturn of smartphone sales. "However, in other regions where the subsidized device is non-existent, it's possible if not likely the device retention period could be lengthening, as it may be in the consumer market, with similar impacts on sales," said Bill Menezes, a principal analyst at Gartner. "If the slowdown in sales is attributable to smartphone ownership behavior by consumers, this could see an increasing impact from the corporate side as this trend continues. "At the same time, I have had numerous discussions with corporate clients that are maintaining the use of devices beyond their two-year service contract," Menezes continued. "Anecdotally they appear to be in the minority. But to the extent that may mirror the trend in the consumer market, it could create a growing impact on sales over time." Gartner's smartphone market results closely match those of two other research firms, which released their 2018 reports last month. Both firms, IDC and IHS Market, blamed smartphone shipment declines on high prices and growing consumer frustration. One expert even called today's smartphone market a "mess." Anthony Scarsella, research manager with IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, said the arrival of both 5G and foldable devices later this year could bring new life to the smartphone industry – depending on how vendors and carriers market the real-life benefits of those technologies. "Apple is certainly not out of the game," IDC said in its report, "but the likelihood of not having a 5G iPhone in 2019 means it will need to tell a strong iPhone and, more importantly, ecosystem story to succeed. If anyone can do it, it is Apple. But it certainly won't be easy when faced with all the other downward market pressures." Apple has limited options in the short term, according to Gerrit Schneemann, senior analyst for IHS Markit's Mobile Handsets, Technology, Media & Telecom division. "It is clear that they are not going to move away from their premium branding and there is not a lot of room for pricing elasticity. So, they will expand on trade-in programs and financing options to bring their premium price to a manageable level for most consumers," Schneemann said. In fact, Apple is currently selling the iPhone XR for $499, the iPhone XS for $699 or an iPhone XS Max for $1,099 for buyers who are trading in an iPhone 7 Plus in good condition. Those prices are reduced from the phones' retail prices, with the final price dependent on which older phone is being traded in. Senior Reporter Lucas Mearian covers financial services IT (including blockchain), healthcare IT and enterprise mobile issues (including mobility management, security, hardware and apps).	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1557
__label__wiki	0.590415	0.590415	Tesco under attack again By Mark Wingett2005-07-01T00:00:00+01:00 Tesco has once again come under attack over its growing presence in the grocery market, but this time some of its own shareholders have joined in. Speaking at the supermarket giant’s annual meeting last week, private shareholder Donovan Winter described the growing number of Tesco Express stores in the UK, which currently stands at 550, as being “like a plague of locusts, which are sucking the lifeblood out of local enterprises”. Winter continued: “What concerns me is the spread of stores that you have, this creeping megalomania. Everywhere you go, you see an Express.” Another investor asked the Tesco board, “How would you like a Tesco juggernaut outside your bedroom at 6am with the engine running?” after claiming the company was waking neighbourhoods early on weekends with deliveries. Meanwhile, pressure group Friends of the Earth and eight other organisations launched a new website called Tescopoly, which condemns Tesco’s treatment of farmers, local stores and the environment. The website, which was launched at a briefing hosted by Andrew George MP on the growing power of superstores, calls for a block on Tesco and other big supermarkets taking over any more stores. Minister attacks Tesco over tactics A Northern Ireland Assembly minister has launched a scathing attack on Tesco after it claimed that the country’s proposed large retail levy would jeopardise the company’s investment and job creation. Tesco accused in local shopping war Buckinghamshire retailer Paul Fisher claims that a recently-opened Tesco superstore across the road is trying to squeeze him out of the market	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1560
__label__cc	0.669863	0.330137	Forex Figures FXTM Offers New Currency Indices to Traders Adam Lemon Calculating Leverage & Margin & Using them Wisely in Forex Trading Which Currency Pairs Should I Trade? Trading Forex with the Asian Range Last week FXTM, one of Daily Forex’s top-rated retail Forex / CFD brokers, announced they would be making 6 new currency indices available to their clients for trading. This offers a unique opportunity to trade in a “basket” style which is not available at most brokers. It is available through FXTM’s ECN MT4 account. Simultaneously, FXTM also announced that they have created 5 new innovative stock indices, and that they will be offering potentially spread-free trading through their ECN account, with commissions as low as 20 cents per lot. Asked for comment, Exinity Group’s Chief Dealer Charis Mountis said: “In 2020, the heightened volatility in financial markets have brought renewed interest in the retail trading space. To help our clients seize even more trading opportunities, our trading team has devised these creative currency and stock indices, combined with zero spreads on major FX pairs — enabling clients to make the most of out every trade with us”. New Currency Indices The new currency indices which are being offered by FXTM are: While a few Forex brokers already offer trading in the U.S. Dollar Index (often known as USDX), few offer indices in the other major currencies which comprise the vast majority of trading in the Forex markets. The availability of these indices means that traders will be able to profit from the fortunes of a single currency against the market as a whole, rather than being forced to pick another currency to pair it against – one of the major drawbacks, until now, in the framework of retail Forex trading. Although it is unclear whether the currency indices are equally or differentially weighted, FXTM have specified which currencies are included as counterparties within each basket. For example, the EUR index will represent the price fluctuation of the Euro against a basket comprising the U.S. Dollar, Swiss Franc, British Pound, New Zealand Dollar, and Canadian Dollar. At least from these details, it is clear that these indices are not strictly trade-weighted but are probably diverse enough to be representative of the broader Forex market movement of the currency represented. New “Theme and Industry” Stock Baskets In addition to the aforementioned currency indices, FXTM have built their own new stock indices representing the following groups: Social Media Index – includes Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, and Google Green Index – includes Tesla and Beyond Meat Vegan Index – includes Beyond Meat and Archer-Daniels Mobile Index – includes Apple and Verizon Space Wars Index – includes Boeing and Lockheed Martin The new currency indices will provide a relatively cheap way to trade Forex in a “basket” style. Traders looking to implement this less risky trading method should look into FXTM’s offering to determine whether it is the most cost-effective available solution. Adam Lemon began his role at DailyForex in 2013 when he was brought in as an in-house Chief Analyst. Adam trades Forex, stocks and other instruments in his own account. Adam believes that it is very possible for retail traders/investors to secure a positive return over time provided they limit their risks, follow trends, and persevere through short-term losing streaks – provided only reputable brokerages are used. He has previously worked within financial markets over a 12-year period, including 6 years with Merrill Lynch. Learn more from Adam in his free lessons at FX Academy	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1562
__label__wiki	0.588202	0.588202	Best of Dallas® /// Food & Drink /// 2002 Popeye's straight-from-the-can approach to spinach has nothing on Taj Express' creamed spinach, and neither does any other spinach dish we've tried. Almost always available on the buffet, this spinach creation isn't bitter or oily and is mixed with chunks of soft cheese. We prefer it slathered on Taj's warm nan. Fortunately for those who dare not like the steamed greens, the buffet is also stocked with rice and dishes such as fried potatoes, tandoor chicken, chickpeas in sauce and curried vegetables. 4436 Lemmon Ave., Dallas, 75219 tajexpressdallas.net/ It's not so much that Breadwinners has the kind of coffee that could turn a three-toed sloth into a crazed New York commuter within three sips. It isn't even so much that Breadwinners has the kind of fresh-baked muffins, sweet rolls, cakes and fresh breads that make you almost fall in love with the cellulite and spare Firestones they will turn into with just a little butter. It's the scrambles, the omelettes, the velvety pancakes and the lush interior courtyard. Plus, Breadwinners serves breakfast until 4 p.m. If you can sleep until 3 and still get a hot breakfast, why mess with an alarm clock? Brunch is a natural for a venue whose first name denotes a street bar--a natural disaster, that is. But Greenville Bar and Grill, a white-tablecloth retrofit of a once gunked and grimed watering hole that's been hovering around Greenville Avenue since 1933, beats the odds. Greenville's eggs Benedict is like no other. Slathered in a smooth, tangy hollandaise sauce, the fluffy and plump poached egg sits on a chewy sheet of Canadian bacon bedded down on a muffin so tender and pliant that it disintegrates as soon as it hits the mouth (and it isn't one of those watery, predigested muffins either). Perhaps even more amazing--and rare in the world of Benedicts--is that this version is actually hot through and through. Not cool, not warm, not piping hot hollandaise over a chilled egg with icy whites and golf ball-hard yolks, but hot, from muffin bottom to hollandaise tarp. There's no rubbery egg white or watery poach discharge either--grave hazards after a night of serious drinking or a morning of serious molten brimstone lingo. Omelettes are constructed with the same exacting care. They're fluffy and light, almost like little soufflés. Even the fruit plate--typically a thoughtless ensemble starring the mealy and the insipid--is riddled with the plump, the bright and the fresh. Greenville Bar and Grill's brunch is so good, you'll find yourself forgetting about that dog-hair remedy you're convinced you need to help the eggs and the head whir stay down. But there's plenty of that behind the handsome bar if your memory is extra sharp. https://www.facebook.com/GreenvilleBarGrilldfw%7Chttp://www.greenvillebargrill.com/ Frisco is a long way to travel for good seafood. But hell, so is the ocean, and it's much harder on pickup trucks than the asphalt and browned prairie grass of the northern most reaches of the metroplex. 9 Fish, so named because the number means good luck in much of Asia, is a fascinating clash of highly disciplined culinary craft and freewheeling protocol, all executed with some of the ugliest critters ever seen outside a Jerry Springer installment. A display case stores an assortment of fish, giant prawns, clams and live geoduck--the giant clams from the Pacific Northwest that flaunt 18-inch siphons from their measly 3-inch shells, which are held together with rubber bands. This place can be exhilaratingly exotic, serving sculpted Japanese foie gras (monk fish liver) and giant whole prawns tossed and turned on the robata grill. 9 Fish also serves sushi: cool, firm and silky without any sinewy strands to get tangled between your crowns. The flesh literally dissolves between your cheeks. Seared peppered tuna, perched on black sticky rice and "escorted by fresh field greens," arrives as two tall pink wedges rising out of the dark rice like coastal palisades. In the mouth the fish behaves like pristine slivers of ocean silk. It's hard to get seafood better than this without a snorkel and an airline ticket. If clones are going to attack, let them do it with weapons of flaccid tuna slices, gooey uni and fluffy tobiko in shades that would make a Day-Glo palette wince. That's what Sushi Kyoto II does. A replica of Sushi Kyoto I in Coppell, the Kyoto clone along this SMU pavement strip bombards you with buxom scraps of fresh raw fish: silky tuna that disintegrates in the mouth with just a little tongue pressure; smooth, delicately smoky salmon that can easily be parsed with chopsticks; sweet satiny hamachi; fluffy tobiko. Even the uni, the urchin gonad ensemble that makes infrequent successful appearances in Dallas, is firm, nutty and smoothly cool. Octopus is tender and chewy, with a gentle touch of salinity. But one of the most compelling dishes in this place isn't a fleshy aquatic critter at all. It's a snarl of seaweed pimpled with sesame seeds. The flavors in Sushi Kyoto's seaweed salad are so clean, crisp and addicting, it'll seduce all your friends and family who belt raw fish-phobic squeals whenever sushi and dinner are mentioned in the same breath. It also makes a great vegan French tickler. 6429 Hillcrest Ave., Dallas, 75205 sushikyotodallas.com How simple. How healthful. How easy to like, even for those few souls who haven't been initiated into the ways of sushi. The California roll--tuna, avocado, rice and a light coating of roe--is sort of a basic building block of American sushi dining. This is starter sushi, as much American as Japanese. Some would say it's passé, but not us. If it's over, then prime steak was out after 1966. (Actually, it was, but it hid in the mountains like a patient guerrilla fighter.) Same with the California roll. At this solid, unpretentious and thoroughly popular sushi palace, they make this old standard flawlessly. The flavors meld and blend in your little puddle of soy sauce. Start here, then work deeper and deeper into the dining ways of the Far East. sushionmckinney.com It could happen to you, and it probably has: You're shopping, you're trying on, taking off, and you haven't been successful. What's more, you are now in a state of shopping fever. Sweat has formed on your upper lip, your stomach is growling louder than you can and you haven't found anything fresh in which to clothe yourself. Take a deep breath, we have found salvation. Not only does Nikolini feature incredible originals in the way of clothing and shoes, but it is also connected to one hell of an organic Greek restaurant, Organicity. The options are now limitless...a dip in the hummus, a glance at some Mary Janes, a bite of dolma, a quick try-on for that exceedingly cool A-line skirt. The original designs are on the steep side, but the bites are reasonable. Not many places in Dallas serve goat. Only one that we know of allows you to enjoy your goat (the bovid ruminant kind, not the leering lecher type) with a mango margarita. India Palace is such a place. But India Palace is more than just a herder's handiwork laced with tequila. It's a cornucopia of mysterious Indian flavors such as Balti dishes: an Indian cooking technique that utilizes a cast-iron pot stuffed to the gills with a crush of spices--onion, garlic, ginger, coriander, cumin, fennel and mustard seeds--that collapse into a rich sauce to bathe the dish centerpiece (such as beef). Good flat breads, opulent aloo gobi (spicy potatoes and cauliflower) and delicious mulligatawny moghlai ("pepper water" soup), too. Plus India Palace makes enthusiastic use of bargain-hunter buffet tables at selected times. It's also drenched in Pepto-Bismol pink with burgundy accent points, which just might get your goat before the goat gets you. 12817 Preston Rd., Dallas, 75230 indiapalacedallas.com There can be no argument that the fish is fresh at TJ's Seafood Market--it's flown in two to three times a day from exotic ports of call. A regular United Nations of fish, you've got your Dover sole from England, your sea bass from Chile, your tilapia from Ecuador. Swimming closer to home are shrimp from the Gulf of Mexico, catfish from Mississippi, rainbow trout from Idaho and lobster from Maine. Few other fish markets go to such extremes to bring you the variety, the freshness, the quality of TJ's. The Mozzarella Company's whole-milk mozzarella gives the gunk sold in grocery stores a really bad name. The company, located in Deep Ellum, is celebrating 20 years of making cheese. Grocery store shoppers may not generally know that the cheese that's sold in plastic bags with far-off expiration dates would hardly be called mozzarella in Italy. It would probably be called spoiled. The Mozzarella Company's whole-milk mozzarella is so creamy, pliable and delicious you may want to consider a helping even if you're severely lactose intolerant. Just saying, it wouldn't be a bad way to go. Besides mozzarella, the company sells cream cheese, ricotta, goat cheese and many others. Cheeses, not goats. 2944 Elm St., Dallas, 75226 mozzco.com Dallas doesn't have a Chinatown. It has a Koreatown. And there's a Cowtown to the left. But no Chinatown, no parades with dragons and firecrackers. Perhaps that's why most Chinese cuisine in Dallas is forgettable: heavy, dry, greasy and sticky--with dumb fortunes. Chef Hsu busts that mold with a fat bronze Buddha (they have a nice collection on the bar). Chef Hsu features lithe treatments of the old standard retreads: kung pao chicken, Mongolian beef, sweet and sour pork. Then it goes on a rampage of Chinese exotica with braised sea cucumbers with pork belly, various versions of stewed and braised shark's fin and shredded jellyfish salad among others, all impeccably prepared with an eye on clarity and a palate sensitive to intrinsic flavors. Plus they have a large live lobster and crab tank for the kids, and buffet tables the size of container freighters for the value-minded. Dumb fortunes, too. 11180 Harry Hines Blvd., Dallas, 75229 Without a doubt, Kuby's has always been the best of the wurst--the best bratwurst, knockwurst, even bloodwurst, if you're gutsy enough to try it. But their vast array of meats goes beyond sausage and incorporates some of the choicest cuts of beef found this side of the Rhine. Try the tenderloin, the T-bone, the sirloin strip--all cued up and displayed with Teutonic exactitude. But if you really want to savor the saturated fat that is Kuby's, let them smoke you a large turkey for the holiday season. Artfully sliced and plentiful, you will be eating turkey sandwiches well into the new year. And you will enjoy it! 6601 Snider Plaza, Dallas, 75205 kubys.com Best Use of Spinach: Taj Express	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1564
__label__wiki	0.69317	0.69317	Crikey’s arts scoreboard The National Gallery of Australia in Canberra holds its own with NSW and NGV. Arts Schools needs to take in to account different art forms: Melbourne’s Rusden College has a good reputation compared with NIDA, both for those who don’t make the cut and for those who are interested in being outside the mainstream. Sydney […] The National Gallery of Australia in Canberra holds its own with NSW and NGV. Arts Schools needs to take in to account different art forms: Melbourne’s Rusden College has a good reputation compared with NIDA, both for those who don’t make the cut and for those who are interested in being outside the mainstream. Sydney Con and the Australian Academy of Music in Sydney are definitely the pick, with the Con’s jazz school leading that field. WAAPA and QUT are the leaders for dance, outside ballet where VCA rules by virtue of its association with the Australian Ballet. AFTRS rules film and TV, but Swinburne is the go for cutting edge work. Sydney College of the Arts and UNSW have the drop on other cities for visual arts. Music: Melbourne is streets ahead in popular music, with a vibrant live music scene that Sydney has abandoned as the pubs turn into pokie palaces, with honourable mentions for the Woodford (Qld) and National (Canberra) Folk Festivals. With symphony orchestras, Sydney and Melbourne are approaching international standard, but in terms of bang for buck Tassie deserves a mention as it has wisely chosen to specialise. Sydney also has the truly remarkable Australian Chamber Orchestra, which arguably has more critical success worldwide than Sydney or Melbourne’s Symphony Orchestras. Theatre: STC, Belvoir and The Ensemble give Sydney the edge. Visual arts other than the big galleries is well spread, but the word on the street is that the market for paintings in small galleries is much stronger in Melbourne. Another subscriber from Marrickville writes: Your Melbourne v Sydney arts item was fun. But you left out theatre and architecture. I wouldn’t want to try to judge their rival theatrical offerings: I live in Sydney and get to Melbourne (my home town) far too infrequently, but feel that Melbourne lacks anything to rival the Belvoir. But when it comes to architecture and public art, give me Melbourne any day. Sydney has made an art form out of being boring, whereas Melbourne has Federation Square, the fantastic facades at RMIT, and all kinds of fun stuff. They’ve also kept a surprising amount of their great 1880s Marvellous Melbourne buildings, and the fabulous old laneways of the city are humming. A proud Canberran writes: There are dozens of non-Sydney or Melbourne institutions which have been ignored in your bi-partisan argument. Here are some which should help Canberra get a few more runs on the board. The Australian National Gallery is clearly the best in the country. As for Arts schools, what about the School of Art and the School of Music in Canberra? And the Conservatoriums in Sydney and Melbourne. Festivals: It’s a bit of a niche market, but you can’t ignore the National Folk Festival in Canberra. Museums: Boy, was this section wrong. Canberra’s National is quite fun, but superficial once you get over the whizz-bang effects. The War Memorial, however, beats every other museum in the country hands down. The Powerhouse and Australian Museums are also very good. Then there’s the National Science and Technology Centre (aka Questacon). Libraries: Can I shove in a plug for the marvellous National Library. I think Canberra deserves a little more than a 0.5 for this lot! Finally, John Carmody writes: What a curious little commentary by your “Arts Industry Insider.” If such comparisons are to be made then the following might be germane. And a more intelligent approach to “quantification” would be essential. 1. Arts centres. Whatever its faults, both as a building and the range of venues it offers, the Sydney Opera House has a justifiably legendary status which the buried-in-Yarra-mud Arts centre cannot match (nor hope to), and the sneer about seemingly “genuine” visitors in contrast to mere tourists is as gratuitous as it is vacuous. 2. There’s no doubt that the Victorian gallery has a finer collection than Sydney’s. But if the range of galleries and venues were added, the comparison might be less straightforward. 3. There is no doubting the quality of the Wagner “Ring” in Adelaide last year – but that was at great cost to other operatic activity in Adelaide. Otherwise, there’s FAR more opera in Sydney. 4. Circus and comedy are special cases, surely. 5. NIDA does not purport to be a comprehensive arts school. Melbourne has the National music school but the Sydney Conservatorium is a very big – and flourishing under Kim Walker (helped by its recent $16 million bequest) – operation. There’s also the Australian Institute of Music. 6. The Sydney and Melbourne festivals are probably comparable – whether Adelaide is “better” is debatable and it is only every second year. Nor would I want to compare the Film Festivals adversely; and Sydney’s Writers’ Festival is a major event. It’s silly to roll country events into the state capital’s “account” – these are numerous in NSW, too. 7. I wouldn’t be terribly keen to give many medals to the National Museum in Canberra – it’s not one of our successes. 8. As to music, the MSO has had a more interesting repertoire over recent years – and better conductors – nevertheless, there’s a great deal of other orchestral activity in Sydney (more, I’d suspect, than in Melbourne). Your commentator would also need to reflect on where most of the writers, composers, film-makers, publishers, musicians (classical, jazz, popular) live and work. CRIKEY: Keep the feedback coming to [email protected].	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1572
__label__wiki	0.781159	0.781159	Tireless volunteer keeps tabs on trouble Posted by Noelle Hood Date: Monday, February 8, 2016 Doug Graves always knows what’s going on around town. (Photo by Helen’s Photography) Doug Graves, recipient of Flower Mound’s first Outstanding Citizenship Award last December, arrived in town in 1993, via a corporate transfer. His first– and only employer, until his retirement– was GTE, which went on to become Verizon. Graves is a second-generation career employee of the telecommunications giant. Originally from Georgetown, Ky., the company moved his dad and the family a number of times over the years. After leaving the parental nest to fly solo, Graves moved around the U.S. for the corporation doing tech support for its telephone switching equipment. A phone switch is the back-room computer that, among other things, receives and routes incoming and outgoing calls and controls nifty phone tricks like that button that puts callers on “hold.” Like parents; like children. Graves credits his dad and mom with setting the family standard for community volunteerism. “I waded into that world on my own in 1971, when I helped out the Los Angeles Police Department after the Sylmar earthquake,” he said. That was 45-years ago and plenty of proverbial water has gone “under the bridge of his life,” since that time. “The severe damage to the community forced a lot of people to evacuate, and though my house was harmed, I was able to stay put, so I pitched in to help community responders,” he said. “I have always considered my donated service nothing more than giving back to my community.” On that note, after many a full day at work, Graves served as a volunteer fireman in Kentucky and put in hours at a North Carolina donation center, after Hurricane Andrew ravaged the southeastern U.S. He also worked for the Red Cross assessing disaster victims’ immediate needs. As a surprise benefit, he met the lovely Pat Graves, his wife of nearly four decades, during a Red Cross project in Lexington, Ky., where she was a volunteer, too. Does he have other interests? You bet. Besides being a ham radio operator and Special Olympics helper, for the past 20-years he’s been a National Weather Service (NWS) storm spotter, which is different from a storm chaser, in Denton County. “I’m a ‘situation-aware’ individual,” he said, meaning he has a “weather eye” open most of the time. “I observe, and then report local storm movements to the NWS. ‘Chasers’ are people who jump in a vehicle, then drive head-first into the turbulence.” That’s more adrenaline buzz than Graves needs in life. In 2002, as president of the Sherwood Estates II Homeowners’ Association, he became involved with the Flower Mound Police Department, as part of Mayor Lori DeLuca’s Resident Advisory Board. He signed on with the town’s first Citizen Police Academy (CPA) and is today one of the 80-alumni serving in the very successful program. The CPA Alumni Association supports the Police Department as additional eyes and ears at community events, such as July 4th festivities, high school football games and the annual Christmas parade. “Our mantra is to observe and report needs we see,” he said. To that end, the volunteers travel in special bright red, city-owned high-visibility cars that are parked in special spaces in front of the Police Department lobby on Kirkpatrick Road, when not on-duty. As if that’s not enough, Graves is a Sergeant in Flower Mound’s Citizen Public Safety Patrol; which, to date, has donated around 10,000 hours of public service to crime prevention activities, among other projects. Although he’s never been a policeman, he works with McGruff the Crime Dog, from time to time. “If I could do a police job, it would be in the area of crime prevention and education,” he said. Has he been a crime victim? Someone once broke into his car and stole property and a drunk-driver hit him head-on. “Fortunately, I was in a big vehicle and didn’t get hurt,” he said. Community businesses, the CPA Alumni Association and the Police Department join forces for a yearly Christmas effort called Santa Cops. For the past nine years, Graves has chaired that project. In 2015, Santa’s CPA Alumni donated around 8,500 service hours doing fundraising, toy collections, purchasing and gift-wrapping for the Jolly Elf. Before the big delivery day last month, Graves personally lent 780-hours of his time in service to the job. “We call the CPA volunteers elves and the officers who distribute the gifts Santas,” he said, adding that the Santa Cops program accomplishes three important objectives. “First, the Police Department collects donations in the form of money, new non-violent toys and gift cards for children, who might otherwise have no presents under the tree on Christmas morning,” said Graves. “Second, the department and town create an opportunity for individuals and groups who wish to share their resources locally. And third, Santa Cops provides officers an opportunity for positive interaction with Flower Mound families, who might otherwise only meet them in negative situations.” It’s a win-win idea. This past holiday, Flower Mound Santa Cops provided 3-4 wrapped gifts each, for 311 school children within 113 local families. “We received 1,500 toys this year, and gave away about 40 bikes and safety helmets,” said Graves. “If we have excess funds or toys, we save them or give them away during the coming year as needed. Our busy months are November and December, but we’re open for business year round.” The Santa Cops project, with the help of Flower Mound businesses, raised $1,000 in cash in each of the last eight years. So, beside the satisfactions of giving and jobs well done, what prize might a city’s Citizen of the Year receive? Well, there’s the permanent wall plaque in Town Hall; a personal trophy; an engraved memorial brick at the entrance of the public library; a spotlight on the city website; a one-year membership at the Community Activity Center; and a VIP pass to the Independence Fest. That’s a well-deserved armload of honors about the size of a beauty queen’s long stemmed rose bouquet. Graves thought for a minute about what piece of advice would help make the world a better place. “Treat others like you would like to be treated,” he said. About Santa Cops: In-person donations may be dropped of at the police department or the Town Hall. Donation instructions are online at [email protected]. To arrange larger donations, contact the Department’s Crime Prevention Officer, Justin Buck at 972-874-3357, or email him at: [email protected]. Contact any police officer to make a family referral, or email: [email protected] or FAX a referral to 972-874-3316. Contact Noelle Hood at [email protected] Previous : Lantana Development Watch – February 2016 Next : Argyle Police Blotter Noelle Hood Noelle is our Resident Green Thumb and a Texas Agri-Life Master Gardener.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1575
__label__wiki	0.537055	0.537055	A Conservative's View Of Life After Reagan By Max Boot. Max Boot is an editor at the Wall Street Journal. DOES wisdom rub off on furniture? I hope so, because these days I'm sitting behind the same desk once occupied by David Frum. Since leaving the Wall Street Journal, he has worked for Forbes magazine and moved back to his native Toronto. Now he's produced an insightful critique of America's conservative movement. The launching point of ``Dead Right'' is what Frum regards (to borrow a chapter title) as ``The Failure of the Reagan Gambit.'' In Frum's view, Ronald Reagan swept into power by rejecting the old, skinflint GOP message (we will cut your favorite government programs), in favor of sunnier rhetoric (we will cut your hated taxes). The gamble was that ``after the tax cuts had worked their magic, there would be plenty of time to start chopping at the excesses of big government.'' The tax cuts did work as intended; government revenues shot up and the economy was off on its greatest peacetime boom. But, Frum writes, the spending cuts never materialized, a failure he blames on the ``fecklessness'' of conservatives unwilling to challenge the status quo and risk alienating voters. This part of Frum's thesis has been controversial in conservative circles. National Review, the conservatives' Bible, has written that federal spending growth under Reagan fell sharply before shooting back up under Presidents Bush and Clinton. It's a good point. But as Frum notes, it would have been nice if Reagan had managed to hold spending constant with the rate of inflation. That, he writes, would have wiped out the federal budget deficit by the end of the 1980s. Having offended quite a few conservatives by blistering Reagan, Frum proceeds to step on a few more toes with his criticism of Reagan's would-be successors. While he is on target with his criticism of Jack Kemp's failure to curb the growth of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, he's hasty in his dismissal of enterprise zones, school vouchers, and other ``empowerment'' ideas. Those free-market ideas may not be panaceas, but they're a lot better than the alternative, which is more Great Society spinoffs. Frum is more on target with his scathing criticism of the ``nationalist'' conservatives led by Pat Buchanan. This small but growing faction advocates protectionism, isolationism, and nativism - the very policies jettisoned by an earlier generation of conservatives after they were discredited in the 1940s. Frum notes that the nationalist wing is increasingly finding common ground with the far-left on such issues as opposition to the Gulf war, which gives an idea of how far Buchanan and his ilk have moved from mainstream conservatism. The author is more sympathetic to the third major group within the conservative movement, the ``moralists,'' led by former Education Secretary William Bennett. This school focuses on the moral decline of America and doubts that drug use, out-of-wedlock births, and crime can be solved through economics alone. But Frum suggests that focusing solely on cultural problems misses the real point. The ``bourgeois virtues'' - including thrift, diligence, prudence - treasured by moralist conservatives cannot exist under an ever-expanding government. For example, he asks, ``Why be thrifty any longer when your old age and health care are provided for...?'' The solution, Frum suggests, is for conservatives to refocus their energies on cutting the size of government. While he's vague on this point in ``Dead Right,'' in another forum he has suggested aiming for a 30 percent reduction. It may not seem like much to some libertarians, but in the current political climate that's probably the best we can hope for. For skeptical Americans, a debate over whether to give Trump a chance What now for Ron Paul after finishing last in South Carolina? Is it wrong for NRA to drag Obama's daughters into gun-control fight?	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1576
__label__cc	0.543657	0.456343	New programme offering FREE support to help small business owners through the pandemic The Small Business Leadership Programme provides free and timely support and expertise Richard Innes Businesses have been hit hard by the effects of Covid-19, feeling the economic strain of two lockdowns. Michelle Ovens, Chair of the Small Business Charter, explains why a new programme for SME leaders can help them to adapt and grow into 2021… What is the course and who is it aimed at? The Small Business Leadership Programme is a free 10-week online course to support business leaders to guide their businesses through survival and growth in response to Covid-19. It provides timely management training in areas including innovation, financial planning, marketing, and employee engagement. Funded by the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, the Small Business Leadership Programme is being delivered by Small Business Charter accredited business schools across England. Why will it benefit SMEs? By participating in the Small Business Leadership Programme, business leaders can learn new skills and gain valuable insights into new ways to innovate and adapt. It also brings a fantastic peer-network, allowing you to learn with other businesses who are experiencing similar challenges. Do SMEs have any advantages over larger businesses in navigating Covid-19 issues? Smaller firms are by nature agile and innovative. They are not tied down by the same red-tape processes as big businesses and tend to think creatively, bringing new ideas, or new ways to solve old problems. This dynamic approach is precisely what is needed now. Michelle Ovens, Chair of the Small Business Charter Why is the Small Business Leadership Programme important now? The pandemic has been a catalyst for change, prompting businesses to make improvements that they might not have done otherwise, from enhancing their online offering and forging partnerships to finding new markets and sales channels. The programme includes sessions from experts in subjects from marketing and branding to financial planning, so business leaders can fill in any gaps in their knowledge. What type of SMEs will gain most? From young tech companies of five people, to family run businesses and retailers, to medium-sized manufacturing firms with 249 staff, this programme will support senior managers across all sectors to address the common challenges they are facing in navigating Covid-19 and preparing for future growth. What will businesses take away from it, going forward into 2021? The ultimate aim is for small businesses to feel more confident, resilient and prepared for the next stage of their business. The next few months will undoubtedly be tough, and this programme will offer vital help to build key skills to steer your business over the hurdles of Covid-19 and to come out stronger. • Small business experts from leading business schools will facilitate a series of eight 90-minute online sessions and peer-to-peer learning over 10 weeks. • Senior managers of SMEs operating for at least one year and with 5-249 employees are eligible. • There’s no cost. The Small Business Leadership Programme (SBLP) is part of a £20million Government package to help small businesses make a strong recovery from the impacts of Covid-19 and develop their long-term potential. Online courses are starting in December and January for businesses in every region in England. For more details see: smallbusinesscharter.org BrixhamDad and daughter dentists offer a warm welcome at Brixham Dental Practice'I've always been inspired by my dad's success so it was obvious I'd follow in his footsteps' Experts from South Devon College on life after GCSEs and making the right choices EducationKey representatives from the college revealed all during a live Q&A video broadcast on the Devon Live Facebook page The Family Law Company: why a prenup makes sense Special FeaturesMore and more couples are considering them, especially when one partner is wealthier than the other New year, new motor? Save on used vehicles throughout January in Vospers Blue Cross Sale Special FeaturesThe Vospers Blue Cross Sale will run until January 31 - browse, reserve, and buy online, with free home delivery available EducationExperts from South Devon College on life after GCSEs and making the right choicesKey representatives from the college revealed all during a live Q&A video broadcast on the Devon Live Facebook page Dad and daughter dentists offer a warm welcome at Brixham Dental Practice Brixham'I've always been inspired by my dad's success so it was obvious I'd follow in his footsteps' A staycation in the English Riviera - why 2021 could be the perfect time TorquaySupporting the UK tourism industry whilst having a well-deserved break could be the perfect way to start a new year Financial support from LiveWest helps university student thrive Special FeaturesCarly, a student at university, has praised the support she has been given that allowed her to pursue her dream of gaining a university degree Covid rules at Asda, Tesco, Aldi, Lidl, Sainsbury's and Morrisons - latest shopping restrictions announced CoronavirusHere is everything you need to know about the coronavirus measures in place at stores near you	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1580
__label__wiki	0.709537	0.709537	Morgan County Court Records (Georgia) Town Halls and City Halls in Morgan County are the chief administrative offices that runs towns and cities in Morgan County, GA. They often maintain records on their jurisdiction, making them an important source for Morgan County court records. Town and City Hall court records can include case records for felonies and misdemeanors, criminal violations, bankruptcies, divorces, and other legal matters. Town and City Halls provide online access to Morgan County court records. Madison City Hall Madison GA 132 N Main St 30650 706-342-1251 Morgan County Courts maintain records on their cases and make these public records available upon request, making them an important source for Morgan County, GA court records. These records can include Morgan County criminal records for felonies and misdemeanors, criminal violations, and traffic infractions. Courts may also have records on civil court cases, including bankruptcies, divorces, adoptions, tax court records, and other legal transactions. Courts provide Morgan County court records for online requests. Madison Magistrate Court Madison GA 49 East Jefferson Street 30650 Madison Municipal Court Madison GA 118 North Main Street 30650 706-342-2058 Madison Superior Court Madison GA 149 East Jefferson Street 30650 706-342-0672 Rutledge Municipal Court Rutledge GA 112 Martha Lane 30663 706-557-2223 Morgan County Clerks file important documents and preserve municipal records in order to maintain a public archive for the municipality. The Morgan County Clerk’s Office is a valuable source for court records in Georgia. Multiple Morgan County court records can be obtained through the Clerk’s Office, including case records for felonies, misdemeanors, and traffic infractions, as well as bankruptcy filings, divorce decrees, and Tax Court records. Clerk’s Offices provide online access to Morgan County court records. Morgan County Clerk Madison GA PO Box 168 30650 706-517-1400 Morgan County District Attorneys are charged with prosecuting crimes in court. District Attorneys maintain records on their cases, making them a valuable source for court records. The District Attorney’s Office makes Morgan County criminal records available to the public, including records on current cases, recent cases, ongoing criminal cases, and upcoming court dates. District Attorney’s Offices provide online access to court records in Morgan County, Georgia. Morgan County Prosecuting Attorney Madison GA PO Box 819 30650 Court Records near Morgan County Oconee County Oglethorpe County	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1583
__label__wiki	0.529685	0.529685	Quarterly update: Central bank support soothes political pain In our Q3 investment outlook, we consider the forces that will be driving investment returns over the coming months. Vaccine breakthrough soothes market ills \| Coutts Private Bank Positive news about coronavirus vaccines boosted markets in November as investors embraced the idea of a COVID recovery Life after Brexit – Opportunity in the UK? \| Coutts Private Bank With Brexit behind us and COVID clouds clearing, we could see a revival of fortunes for UK equities. Despite a series of political shocks – in August in particular – markets turned in a broadly positive performance in the third quarter, with the MSCI AC World Index of global equities returning 1.1% in local currency terms. The travails of sterling, however, meant that this was 3.3% for sterling investors as the pound was blown off course by the political contortions of Brexit. Over the year to date, market performance remains very strong, with global equities returning 17.2% in local currency terms. Coutts Multi Asset Funds (UK) Coutts Multi Asset Funds (Global) Coutts Portfolio Services Personal Portfolio Funds DIMA Portfolio CENTRAL BANKS TAKE ACTION IN FACE OF SLOWING GROWTH While political news flow can lead to increased volatility, the global economy has a more powerful impact on long-term investment performance. With economic growth slowing, central banks have acted this quarter to reduce the impact. The Federal Reserve cut interest rates twice, by 25 basis points in July and again in September, while the European Central Bank also unveiled new stimulus measures to bolster the eurozone economy. The Bank of England kept interest rates on hold at 0.75%, and policymakers indicated that prolonged Brexit uncertainty would keep rates lower for longer. Coutts investment strategist Lilian Chovin said, “We see slowing but reasonably resilient growth, supported by central banks, continuing for the time being. Coutts client funds and portfolios are more defensively positioned than this time last year, but are broadly neutral. Equity exposure is focused more on developed markets – principally the US – and we have increased our allocation to US Treasuries at the expense of gilts while we wait for Brexit uncertainty to resolve.” “We see slowing but reasonably resilient growth, supported by central banks, continuing for the time being.” Lilian Chovin, investment strategist, Coutts Trade wars and turmoil exacerbate summer slump While it’s not unusual to see market weakness as trading volumes decline slightly in the dog days of summer, August’s poor performance was further driven by investor concerns around political unrest in Hong Kong, an increasingly fractious debate around Brexit in the UK, and rising temperatures in the US and China trade dispute. On trade, Beijing and Washington both threatened escalation in August, then backed down and agreed to resume trade talks. Meanwhile, the Hong Kong government withdrew its controversial extradition bill, reducing tensions, although protests have continued. While these both represent an ongoing political risk, we think the trade war dispute should settle down, at least temporarily, as President Trump’s re-election campaign gathers pace. Celebrations to mark the 70th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) are also under way, which may also serve as a motivation for the Chinese government to reduce pressure on Hong Kong and take a more emollient approach to trade. Both issues remain in play, but we expect a reasonably settled few months ahead. TROUBLE FOR TRUMP Just as markets were digesting the ups and downs of US-Sino trade relationships, reports surfaced alleging that President Trump asked the Ukrainian leader to find incriminating evidence against Joe Biden, front-runner for the Democrat presidential nomination. Democrats saw this as their chance to impeach the President and are seeking further evidence. As a result, investors sought safety. Having recovered most of the drawdown from August, markets went into retreat. We believe the market reaction looks over-done. Impeachment has come up before with President Trump – a vote was taken by congress in March in the wake of the Mueller Report but quashed by Nancy Pelosi. It could cause some administrative delays in the US and push the President’s legislative programme off course, but we don’t believe it is likely to result in his removal from office. But Lilian highlights how the potential impact on Joe Biden could cause problems for investors. “He is currently favourite to stand against President Trump in 2020,” he says. “Elizabeth Warren, currently second place for the Democratic nomination, is seen as negative for markets. An election where a wounded Trump stands against Warren could lead to trouble for US stocks.” Oil prices spike Markets were further shaken by drone attacks against Saudi Aramco oil processing facilities in Abqaiq and Khurais. Oil prices rose by almost 20% after two attacks on Saudi Arabian facilities cut off more than half the country’s production. Brent crude, the international benchmark used by oil traders, jumped to $70 a barrel at one point after the incident. Saudi Arabia reacted quickly to supply concerns, stating that its oil output would return to normal by the end of September. Tensions in the Middle East rose as the US and Saudi Arabia blamed Iran for the attacks. But the US has since dialled back on its initial, bellicose reaction, suggesting a conflict is unlikely, which should calm markets. The spike in prices could have an effect on inflation, but we don’t anticipate prolonged support for higher oil prices. Brexit Turmoil continues In the UK, meanwhile, there were some remarkable scenes in Westminster as the Prime Minister tried to assert his Brexit agenda. Sterling fell substantially on his appointment as investors priced in the increased possibility of a no-deal Brexit. While it recovered some composure as Parliament moved to limit the potential of a no-deal, it remains at historically depressed levels. However, as Lilian points out, sterling’s big drop isn’t necessarily all bad for investors. “Earnings for the globally focused companies in the FTSE 100 get a boost when the pound falls, which is usually good for share prices,” he says. “Also, as international investors based in the UK, we at Coutts use sterling to invest in companies all over the world on our clients’ behalf – and a lower pound makes these investments more valuable.” We have reduced our exposure to sterling-based assets in recent months, limiting the effect on portfolios. Given sterling’s attractive valuation, we recognise the potential for gains if the political climate improves. We are watching the situation closely for opportunities to buy sterling-based assets that are attractively valued. When investing, past performance should not be taken as a guide to future performance. The value of investments, and the income from them, can go down as well as up, and you may not recover the amount of your original investment. Political shocks unnerved investors in August, but markets continued to deliver a positive return in the summer overall. Looking ahead, we have positioned our client funds and portfolios more defensively than this time last year, but see resilient economic growth and supportive central banks driving market returns over the balance of 2019. ABOUT Coutts INVESTMENTS With unstinting focus on client objectives and capital preservation, Coutts Investments provide high-touch investment expertise that centres on diversified solutions and a service-led approach to portfolio management. Our investment process is as disciplined as it is creative – ensuring tailored solutions with robust results. Find Out More About Investing with Coutts 115 result(s) Get ready for the new normal The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated trends that were emerging slowly before the outbreak and the UK has begun a new relationship with Europe. We’re positioning our clients’ investments for a recovery, but anyone expecting a simplistic ‘back to normal’ in 2021 could be caught flatfooted. Vaccine breakthrough soothes market ills Life after Brexit – Opportunity in the UK? Coutts Invest Filling the funding gap for entrepreneurs Innovative new firms haven’t been immune to the impact of coronavirus, but the pandemic has created opportunities too.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1584
__label__cc	0.62376	0.37624	Draw My Thing is a fantastic drawing game. Check it out here, for free. You can play this game unblocked. Draw My Thing is built with HTML5 to run smoothly in modern browsers. The game is available as a HTML5 game and as a mobile app. You can play Draw My Thing in full-screen mode to get the full experience. This game has been played by 627,500 people and has been rated 7.7 out of 10 by 6,260 people. Did you like playing Draw My Thing? Then also play our other drawing games or Sketchful.io and Car Drawing Game. Draw My Thing Draw my Thing is an online Pictionary game originally available on OMGPOP. Players have to guess the word of whoever is drawing. Draw the best representation of the word you’re given. Do your best to figure out what others are drawing! Draw my Thing is a game many consider to be the original online Pictionary game. Playing in online game rooms filled with other people, your drawing and guessing skills are put to the test. When you’re drawing, the game will provide you with a word describing a person, place, or thing. You can skip if it’s something you don’t want to draw. If you’re guessing, you have to type out the word exactly as it is spelled to be rewarded with points. Enjoy drawing random things on the internet? There’s more. Check out newer games like Drawaria for a modern Pictionary experience. Gartic.io is also an excellent draw & doodle word guessing game. See more in our drawing games collection.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1586
__label__wiki	0.992916	0.992916	Residents' sweet win A FRAGRANCE company has withdrawn expansion plans in Runcorn after protests from residents. Ineos Fluor wanted to turn its site in the Heath Technical Park into a fully-fledged extraction plant with a raw material grinding and preparation unit. Representatives of Ineos, which makes essential oils from ingredients such as ginger, cardamon, lemon, clove and turmeric, met residents last week. After hearing their concerns that the proposal would open the door for other heavy industry projects to move into the office-based Heath park, the company agreed to with-draw the plan. It now wants to place the grinding unit at its Rock-savage site, also in Runcorn. Mike Price, a 69-year-old living in Weston Avenue, said: "We still cannot believe our objections have been listened to by an industrial company. "We explained our concerns and they reached a compromise which suits everyone. "Once a company had been granted a general industrial licence on the Heath, it would set a precedent for any other company to do the same. "We already have more than enough production at sniffing distance with the Rocksavage site. "But the company were prepared to listen to us and they have reached a decision that will suit us all." A spokeswoman for Ineos Fluor said: "Ineos Fluor International has sanctioned the withdrawal of a change of use application at the Heath Technical Park. "The company has proposed a modification to the project that removes the need for raw materials preparation at The Heath. "This move directly satisfies residents' concerns."	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1589
__label__cc	0.73199	0.26801	Greek Lent: A Fasting Tradition with Healthful Recipes and Great Flavor Greek Lent What are the Foods of Greek Orthodox Lent? Several years ago, I spent the night before «Clean Monday», as Greeks call the first day of Lent, baking the traditional Lenten flatbread lagana with a local Athenian baker. Even though he went about his business methodically and professionally, turning out more than a thousand or so loaves, he didn’t … Greek Lent What are the Foods of Greek Orthodox Lent? Lagana, the Greek lenten flatbread Several years ago, I spent the night before «Clean Monday», as Greeks call the first day of Lent, baking the traditional Lenten flatbread lagana with a local Athenian baker. Even though he went about his business methodically and professionally, turning out more than a thousand or so loaves, he didn’t fail to observe all the traditions of the fast. Indeed, he was a part of those traditions, for lagana, which traces its roots to the flat grilled batter breads of the ancient Greeks, is the lenten bread par excellence. Byzantine hymns wailed softly in the background as his assistant cut off quarter-kilo rounds of dough. The baker took each piece, slapped it onto his floured work table and proceeded to roll it into perfect ovals with a special studded rolling pin. Every half hour or so he walked over to a counter at the back of the bakery where he had his evening meal laid out: a container with taramosalata, the Greek fish roe spread, which he ate with fresh tender stalks of young garlic; small pickled green peppers; a small plate of mixed pickled vegetables and olives; a few pieces of rice-stuffed squid and some octopus preserved in vinegar brine. A wedge of halva lay on its side, waiting for the baker to sprinkle some lemon juice over it and wash it down with some retsina. In that small array of dishes, I realized, the whole philosophy of the Greek Lenten table was apparent. Taramosalata with pink peppercorns and dill Thinking of Lent as a period of culinary significance might seem ironic–after all the Fast is meant as a period of spiritual and physical cleansing. Yet, some of the best fare in all of Greek cooking are the dishes culled from the tradition of abstention, from the 40 day period before Easter when one shuns all animal products. Until just a few decades ago, the majority of Greeks abided by the dictates of the religious calendar, fasting not only before Easter but before many other major holidays, so that they actually kept off meat and dairy products for nearly half the year. As a result, a whole culinary repertory evolved that is a mirror of the ingenuity of home cooks who relied on the bounty of the season to provide filling, nutritious meals. There are several standard preparations, but the foods of the Greek Lenten table really comprise a wealth of vegetable, grain, and seafood dishes. Fish traditionally is not allowed, but all manner of shellfish are. Octopus, squid, and cuttlefish are favorites, and there is a wealth of regional preparations for each. Among them are deliciously aromatic octopus stews, seasoned with cinnamon, orange rind, allspice and tomatoes; squid or cuttlefish pilaf or risotto; octopus cooked with short pasta; fried mussels; and much more. Black Eyed Peas with Greens. Photo: Vassilis Stenos Stovetop specialties abound. Indeed, one of the greatest legacies of the Lenten table is the array of lathera—basically one-pot casseroles made with vegetables and pulses, which rely heavily on the use of olive oil (lathi is the Greek word for oil). These include preparations such as chickpeas stewed with onions, garlic and olive oil, lentil and other bean soups, white bean and giant bean casseroles, perfumed with herbs, tomatoes, and oftentimes greens. Another classic, and one that falls into the category of lathera, is spanakorizo, a stovetop medley of spinach and rice in which olive oil and lemon juice are drizzled in without restraint. Lenten Sweets Halva is by far the most popular Lenten sweet, and in Greece it comes in many versions. The store-bought variety is made with tahini (sesame paste) and sometimes studded with nuts and raisins, or marbled with chocolate (a slight but tasty aberration). It is sold in blocks or made in large pans. This halva is made with semolina and flavored with saffron and honey syrup. Another commercially made halva is a regional specialty of Thessaly. Called halva Farsalon, it is made with cornstarch or rice flour and has a chewy, gelatinous texture and an opaque amber color. It is usually has a delicious crust of caramelized sugar on top. Home cooks prepare halva, too, with semolina flour, olive oil, water, and sugar syrup. The result is more like a grainy pudding. Sometimes nuts and raisins are added to the mixture, and sometimes cinnamon is sprinkled on top. This type of halva is called Halva tis Rinas. Any sweet from which butter, eggs and dairy products are missing is allowed during lent. Another traditional category are the small pastries, commonly called skaltsounia and filled with nuts and dried fruits, which are found throughout Greece. Tahini also plays a role in Lenten sweets beyond halva. One of my personal favorites during Lent are the tahini-filled phyllo flutes and sweet tahini breads that are traditional in the north of Greece and Cyprus respectively.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1592
__label__cc	0.667082	0.332918	unobtainable / (ˌʌnəbˈteɪnəbəl) / See synonyms for unobtainable on Thesaurus.com not able to be obtained Words nearby unobtainable unnoticed, unnumbered, Uno, unobserved, unobstructed, unobtainable, unobtrusive, unoccupied, unofficial, unopened, unopposed Words related to unobtainable remote, unavailable, distant, unreachable, unattainable, impassable, elusive, impervious, unworkable, insurmountable, unimaginable, impractical, inaccessible, unreasonable, futile, useless, inconceivable, unthinkable, hopeless, faraway Example sentences from the Web for unobtainable But that just made Summer more enticing, an unobtainable Beau Ideal. Our Doomed Love Affair with Summer\|P. J. O’Rourke\|August 30, 2014\|DAILY BEAST With airbrushing and digital manipulation, fashion can be an unobtainable image that's dangerously unhealthy. Cara Delevingne and Michelle Rodriguez's PDA-Filled Holiday; Emma Watson Talks Pressures of Fashion Industry\|The Fashion Beast Team\|March 31, 2014\|DAILY BEAST Dr. Warren had seen the change wrought, and had noted evidences that money was not unobtainable. Emily Fox-Seton\|Frances Hodgson Burnett Doctors and chemists were unobtainable, and soldiers were dying every day. The Luck of Thirteen\|Jan Gordon With Hamilton and the Federals in control of the Legislature, new bank charters were unobtainable. Bank of the Manhattan Company\|Anonymous It must not be supposed, however, that because the publishers have stopped doing this, such books are unobtainable. Papers and Proceedings of the Thirty-fourth Annual Meeting of the American Library Association Held at Ottawa, Canada June 26-July 2, 1912\|Various The coast is absolutely rainless and water is unobtainable by wells. Journeys and Experiences in Argentina, Paraguay, and Chile\|Henry Stephens	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1593
__label__wiki	0.857619	0.857619	Vocalists LP Free Design Sing For Very Important People (splatter vinyl pressing) LP (Item 970622) Light In The Attic, 1970 — Condition: New Copy Light In The Attic (label) Vocalists (CD, LP) Rock (CD, LP) Sunny wonderfulness from one of the grooviest vocal groups of all time! This is Free Design's legendary album for children – referred to in the title as "very important people" – and it's a strangely hip set of tracks designed to get the kids to open up in a groovy late 60s kind of way. Given that the Free Design always sounded like a bunch of hippy kids, the setting is perfect for them – and they dreamily make their way through a great set of nearly all original tracks that sparkle with an innocent charm that's slyly deeper than you'd guess from the kid-orientation of the set! Original titles include "Love You", "Kites Are Fun", "Daniel Dolphin", "Ronda 'Go Round", "Bubbles", "Little Cowboy", and "Scarlet Tree". © 1996-2021, Dusty Groove, Inc. (Limited edition splatter vinyl pressing!) Frank Sinatra & Jobim Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim (180 gram pressing) Reprise/Capitol, 1967. New Copy (reissue) A beautiful little album that shows a whole new side of Sinatra! Frank's a bit late on the bossa game – but the record's a wonderfully gentle batch of bossa nova tunes, performed with musical and occasional vocal accompaniment by Jobim, and larger orchestral backings by Claus Ogerman. Far ... LP, Vinyl record album Sheila Jordan Portrait Of Sheila Blue Note, 1962. New Copy (reissue) One of the only two vocal jazz albums that the Blue Note label recorded back in the day – and a haunting batch of tracks from a young Sheila Jordan! The style here is quite different than that of Jordan's later, more experimental records – and this early session shows her as an ... LP, Vinyl record album Fodder On My Wings Carrere/Verve, 1982. New Copy An overlooked album from the legendary Nina Simone – recorded in Paris in the early 80s, and not circulated as much as some of her records from the 60s and 70s – but every bit as compelling in its own sort of way! Nina's working here with a greater array of global elements than on ... LP, Vinyl record album Billie Holiday/Sonhouse Allstars Billie – Original Soundtrack Verve, 1939/Late 40s/1950s. New Copy A selection of work put together for the well-done documentary on the late, great Billie Holiday – a record that includes classics from Billie's vintage recordings, plus a few new tracks recorded for the film by the Sonhouse All Stars! The Holiday vocal tracks are the main draw – as ... LP, Vinyl record album Cole Nobody Knows First Shot/Sonorama (Germany), 1976. New Copy (reissue) Freddy Cole is Nat King Cole's brother – hence The Cole That Nobody Knows – but although Freddy may not have hit the heights as Nat, he's had a wonderfully rich career that's lasted for decades – and yielded some real gems like this in the process! The album's one of Freddy's ... LP, Vinyl record album Samantha Jones Girl Named Sam (180 gram green vinyl pressing – with bonus track) (2020 Record Store Day Release) Penny Farthing/Trading Places (UK), 1969. New Copy Groovy late 60s pop from Samantha Jones – a British singer who's working here with some great arrangements and productions from UK maestro Mark Wirtz! The sound here is a great bridge between the sweeter styles of UK Brit pop in the 60s and some of the hipper ones to come in the 70s – ... LP, Vinyl record album Sweet Maya Sweet Maya (with bonus track) Sweet Maya/Luv N' Haight, 1977. New Copy LP...$13.99 19.98 (CD...$5.99) An obscure group from the Michigan scene of the 70s – but one who work with a breezy vibe that feels a lot more like some of the Bay Area material we know from the time! These guys bring together a bit of jazz, touches of folk, and even some Brazilian currents – all in a mode that's ... LP, Vinyl record album Close Your Eyes (180 gram pressing) Candid/Pure Pleasure (UK), 1997. New Copy 2LP Gatefold One of the first albums ever recorded by UK jazz singer Stacey Kent – the start of a great run of albums that would bring the vocalist great fame in the decade to come! The style here is nice and laidback – that strong commitment to reviving jazz vocal modes that made Kent such a ... LP, Vinyl record album Leon Thomas Spirits Known & Unknown (180 gram pressing) Flying Dutchman/Pure Pleasure (UK), 1969. New Copy Gatefold (reissue) Wonderful work from Leon Thomas – easily one of his greatest albums ever, and a set that was recorded at the same time he was working with Pharoah Sanders! Thomas really rose to fame on Sanders' classic "The Creator Has A Master Plan" – and this set really takes off from that ... LP, Vinyl record album Kellee Patterson Black Jazz/Real Gone, 1973. New Copy (reissue) The most righteous album ever from Kellee Patterson – her first record, and a set that's way different from her more soul-based sides of later years! The album's got Patterson working in a wonderfully soulful approach to jazz – a style that's not unlike the earliest work by Dee Dee ... LP, Vinyl record album Millions Now Living Will Never Die (silver & blue vinyl pressing) Thrill Jockey, 1996. New Copy (reissue) Essential early-ish Tortoise – and among their best records ever! The bassy, heavily rhythmic aspect of their earlier recordings is as well intact and distinctive as it was on the benchmark self-titled album and earlier singles, but the group really branches out here and incorporates many ... LP, Vinyl record album Kinks (red vinyl pressing) Pye/BMG (UK), 1964. New Copy (reissue) Early Kinks in all of their glory – showing a bit more of an R&B influence than in their later years, but still already working with all the wit and imagination that won us over many years ago! The tunes have a surprising roughness, if you're only used to the group from a few years later ... LP, Vinyl record album	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1600
__label__wiki	0.954571	0.954571	Crown Princess of Norway apologizes over Jeffrey Epstein meetings, tells Norwegian newspaper Dagens Næringsliv she should have investigated his past more thoroughly Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway met sex offender Jeffrey Epstein several times, both in the US and in Oslo, Norway, even after he admitted to sex crimes. She apologizes for not investigating his past. 2 min Publisert: 02.12.19 — 15.27 Oppdatert: ett år siden Crown Princess Mette-Marit has apologized for not investigating Epstein's past. (Foto: FRANK RUMPENHORST/AFP/NTB scanpix) Mer... Tore Gjerstad , Gard Oterholm og Jonas Solgård “I never would have associated with Mr. Epstein if I had been aware of the seriousness of the crimes he committed. I should have investigated his past more thoroughly, and I am sorry that I didn't”, says Crown Princess Mette-Marit in a statement to Dagens Næringsliv, the leading Norwegian business daily. DN has investigated the Norwegian connections with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who earlier this year committed suicide after being charged with sexual assault and human trafficking. The investigation revealed that Crown Princess Mette-Marit had a connection to Mr. Epstein. Asked for comment on November 22., the Crown Princess confirmed having been in contact with Mr. Epstein in the statement, distributed December 2. Epstein and Mette-Marit met several times between 2011 and 2013, after being introduced through mutual acquaintances. Epstein was charged and served 13 months in prison in 2008, after he admitted to having paid an underage girl for sexual services. “Through years of work with questions regarding international health issues, I have witnessed first hand the kind of damage sexual assault does to women and children. We all have a responsibility to fight sexual assault, and to support the victims. I wish to express my deepest sympathy and solidarity to the victims of Jeffrey Epstein”, says Mette-Marit in the statement to DN. Met on vacation The Royal Palace confirms that the Crown Princess and Mr. Epstein met socially, mostly in the United States. One meeting took place in the Norwegian capital Oslo. “One of the meetings took place at Mr. Epstein’s home. The Crown Princess also had a brief meeting with Mr. Epstein while he was in Oslo. There were other people present in all the meetings. When the Crown Princess and the Crown Prince were on vacation in St. Barts in 2012, they ran into Mr. Epstein on the street. Crown Prince Haakon then met Epstein for the first and only time”, says Mrs. Guri Varpe, head of communications at the Royal Palace. Epstein had several homes, both in New York, Florida and Paris. Royal Palace declined to elaborate in which of these the two met. According to Mrs. Varpe, neither Crown Princes Mette-Marit nor Crown Prince Haakon were aware of Epstein’s past. “During the time the Crown Princess had contact with Mr. Epstein, she was not aware of the scope, nor the character of the crimes he had been convicted of, and subsequently served time in jail. She was naturally not aware of the crimes that have been uncovered later”, says Varpe. Broke with Epstein in 2013 In 2013, the Crown Princess broke all contact with Mr. Epstein. “In 2013, Mette-Marit chose to conclude her association with Mr. Epstein. Partly, this was because she felt that Mr. Epstein attempted to trade on the relationship he had to the Crown Princess, and use it for his own gain in other relations”, says Mrs. Varpe of the Royal Palace. The court declined to answer several follow-up questions. Earlier this year, DN wrote that Mr. Epstein eight or nine years ago attempted to bring at least one Eastern-European woman to Norway. None of the private jets connected to Mr. Epstein are registered as visiting Norway at that time, although Mr. Epstein visited Norway at least once during the 2010s. Epstein was known for his large network from his base in New York City. Former US President Bill Clinton went on several trips with Epstein, aboard his private jet named Lolita. President Donald Trump has called Epstein his friend, something he later distanced himself from. In the United Kingdom, prince Andrew is facing scrutiny over his friendship with Epstein.(Vilkår)Copyright Dagens Næringsliv AS og/eller våre leverandører. Vi vil gjerne at du deler våre saker ved bruk av lenke, som leder direkte til våre sider. Kopiering eller annen form for bruk av hele eller deler av innholdet, kan kun skje etter skriftlig tillatelse eller som tillatt ved lov. For ytterligere vilkår se her. Jeffrey Epstein Mette-Marit Slottet Kongehuset Utenriks	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1606
__label__cc	0.725545	0.274455	Tag: greenwashing The economics of environmentalism By gjohnsit in Environment I met up with a good friend of mine this past weekend at a local dive bar. As the liquor loosened his tongue, he took a moment to complain about the wealthy elites he works for. Or as he put it, “those rich f*cks”. My friend works for a non-profit, environmental group. The major contributors, all of the board of directors, and most of his coworkers are all wealthy. His new boss wants to focus on gifts for donations, such as tote bags that you can bring to the grocery store, rather than specific environmental causes. This non-profit environmental group is a microcosm of what is wrong with the environmental movement today. Environmentalism is following down the same path to irrelevancy that labor unions traveled when they made the decision that 2% raises mattered and political movements didn’t. environmentalism, greenwashing Unexpected Environmental Alliances Amidst The Oil Spill: ‘Jesus Will Rip Your Head Off’ By PaulLoeb in Environment In the wake of the BP disaster, we’ve heard powerful stories from fishermen whose livelihoods may have been destroyed for decades or longer. However long it takes for the Gulf’s fish, oyster and shrimp harvests to recover, those who’ve made their livelihoods harvesting them will need to create a powerful common voice if they’re not going to continue to be made expendable. A powerful model comes from Seattle and Alaska salmon fisherman Pete Knutson, who has spent thirty-five years engaging his community to take environmental responsibility, creating unexpected alliances to broaden the impact of their voice, and in the process defeating massive corporate interests. “You’d have a hard time spawning, too, if you had a bulldozer in your bedroom,” Pete reminds us, explaining the destruction of once-rich salmon spawning grounds by commercial development and timber industry clearcutting. Pete could have simply accepted this degradation as inevitable, focusing on getting a maximum share of dwindling fish populations. Instead, he’s gradually built an alliance between fishermen, environmentalists, and Native American tribes, persuading them to work collectively to demand that habitat be preserved and restored and to use the example of the salmon runs to highlight larger issues like global climate change. The cooperation Pete created didn’t come easily: Washington’s fishermen were historically individualistic and politically mistrustful, more inclined, in Pete’s judgment, “to grumble or blame the Indians than to act.” But together, with their new allies, they gradually began to push for cleaner spawning streams, rigorous enforcement of the Endangered Species Act, and an increased flow of water over major regional dams to help boost salmon runs. They framed their arguments as a question of jobs, ones that could be sustained for the indefinite future. But large industrial interests, such as the aluminum companies, feared that these measures would raise their electricity costs or restrict their opportunities for development. So they bankrolled a statewide initiative to regulate fishing nets in a way that would eliminate small family fishing operations. BP, corporate greed, environmental activism, environmentalism, fishermen, greenwashing, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf Oil Spill, Oil spill, oil spill cleanup Soiling the Planet Wins a Pat on the Back By A Siegel Help me figure out the lesson that we should draw from an event this week. The Alberta Government, central to perhaps the most disastrous project in North America, is receiving an award for leadership at an Environment Forum. Consider me confused … The Aspen Institute and National Geographic are banding together to give out six awards as part of the Aspen Environment Forum. A ceremony to recognize and reward excellence for those making a real and concrete contribution to innovation, implementation, and communication of energy and environmental solutions. Amid the awardees are some heroes, but some are far from heroes. The “government” awardee: The Province of Alberta, Canada. Yes, that Alberta government which is facilitating what has been called the most destructive project on Earth: devastating Alberta in the rapacious Tar Sands projects. And, this is occurring in the same month that National Georgraphic ran The Canadian Oil Boom: Scraping Bottom. Alberta, Aspen Environment Forum, Aspen Institute, greenwashing, National Geographic, Tar Sands The Big Green Tent In the coming days, for those not actively on the Democratic National Convention (DNC) floor, The Big Tent will be one of (if not the) places to be. And, much of the Tent will be colored Green. Much of The Big Tent’s agenda will focus on Green initiatives, energy efficiency, and Global Warming. Looking at this schedule makes this blogger envious of those able to attend. And, a few tinges of off-green makes this same blogger concerned. blogging, DNC, energy, environmental, green, greenwashing, t boone pickens, the big tent, the pickens plan Greenwashing McCain’s Campaign By A Siegel in Environment Greenwashing is the unjustified appropriation of environmental virtue by a company, an industry, a government, a politician or even a non-government organization to create a pro-environmental image, sell a product or a policy, or to try and rehabilitate their standing with the public and decision makers after being embroiled in controversy. John McCain’s campaign is going GREEN … and even trying to raise some funds via this greening. As a reach out to Birkenstock wearing eco-terrorists, it seems, the McCain campaign website now had eco-friendly items” for sale. You too can have your “Bamboo Pique” “Go Green McCain Embroidered Polo Shirt with New Recycle Logo” in stone color, for just $50. A ladies bamboo T-Shirt will run your $25. An “unstructured organic cotton canvas” “Go Green McCain Visor” will run you $15. Time to raid your piggy-banks, you eco-terrorists, to help fund the “eco-friendly” McCain campaign. $15 too much? Well, there is always the $8 note book with that new recycle logo. “The lined sheets and notebook covers are colored with organic based inks.” There are some things that fall beyond satire. Who do they think they’re kidding? Rebranding McCain as Mr. Enviroment? Rebranding the Republican Party as the Eco-Friendly choice? The McCain campaign must have a real disdain for the intellect of the American voting public. greenwashing, John McCain, Republicans	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1609
__label__wiki	0.536833	0.536833	Home/Help center/All topics/Music licensing/Types of licenses/Synchronization license What is a synchronization license? An agreement that provides permission to release a copyrighted song in a video format Get a synchronization license Get permission to use a copyrighted song in a video. Get personal help from a dedicated custom licensing expert. A synchronization license is an agreement between a music user and the owner of a copyrighted composition (song), that grants permission to release the song in a video format (YouTube, DVDs, Blue-ray discs). This permission is also called synchronization rights, synch rights, and sync rights. Do I need a synchronization license? Whenever you release a recording of a song that someone else wrote in a video format, even if it's just a small portion of the song, you need a synchronization license. Synchronization licenses are most commonly used for YouTube videos, cover song videos, wedding videos, and commercial and corporate videos. For example, if you release a YouTube video of your band playing a Rolling Stones song, even if you use only a portion of the song, you need a synchronization license. If you release a DVD of yourself playing a Beach Boys song or singing Mariah Carey lyrics, you need a synchronization license. A synchronization license is required no matter how small a portion of the song you use. For medleys, each song part requires a separate synchronization license. There are some exceptions where a synchronization license is not required: You don't need a synchronization license for songs that you wrote yourself or songs that are in the public domain. Note that synchronization licenses are for video products (DVDs, YouTube videos, other web videos, and slideshows). If you are creating an audio-only product, such as CDs or vinyl records, you need a mechanical license instead. Mechanical is for audio-only; synchronization is for video. If you use an original recording belonging to someone else (for example an actual Beatles recording featuring John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and George Harrison) you will need a synchronization license to pay the composer for the right to use the composition (song), and also a master license to pay the artists for the right to use the recording. This is true even if you are sampling only a very small portion of any existing copyrighted audio recording. ClickTap here to learn more about licensing existing audio recordings. If you display lyrics or music notes in your video you will also need a print license to pay the composer for the right to display the composition (song). ClickTap here to learn more about print licensing. How do I get a synchronization license? Synchronization licenses are custom-negotiated directly with the copyright holder upfront and can be quite complex. For help with this process, check out our Custom Licensing services or contact us. Alternatively, you can attempt to locate the copyright owners yourself and request permission. Challenges of obtaining synchronization licenses Note that synchronization licensing can be challenging because, by law, synchronization rights holders maintain total control of their works when it comes to video. This means they can set any fee, take all the time they need, and reject the license outright. Many factors affect the response, including budget, use, and even the current workload of the copyright holder’s processing department. For this reason, it is important to temper expectations when requesting a synchronization license. A synchronization license pays a royalty to the copyright holder (owner) of the composition (song). This is typically the composer or their publisher. However, sometimes rights are sold. If synchronization rights are sold, a song might have a new owner, other than the original composer or publisher. For this reason, it is important to locate the current copyright holders before making a synchronization request. When you hire us for Custom Licensing, we research and discover the current copyright holders for you. When should I have my synchronization licensing in place? Synchronization licenses must be secured before distribution. However, because they are hard to get, we suggest making your request many months before your anticipated release date. It is also smart to have at least one backup plan in place, in case you are unable to get the synchronization rights you want. We offer strategic planning as part of our Custom Licensing services. Discover efficient solutions and avoid costly detours by leveraging our experience and expertise. Learn about this music license that is also required (in addition to a synchronization license) any time an existing recording is used, such as samples, karaoke tracks, background tracks, and original recordings. Print License Learn about this music license that is also required (in addition to a synchronization license) any time lyrics or music notes are displayed in a video. This is like a synchronization license, but for audio-only products. If you are creating an audio-only product, you need a mechanical license instead of a synchronization license. https://www.easysonglicensing.com/pages/help/articles/music-licensing/what-is-a-synchronization-license.aspx	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1613
__label__wiki	0.597485	0.597485	$1.00-$1.99 > “” (Order by review) Latest \| Review \| A-Z \| Top(week) \| Top(month) List View Gallery 10 of 44 pages (873 items) Welcome to the Yaoi Research Club: 2-in-1 Bonus Chapter AuthorHaruta PublisherJULIAN PUBLISHING After helping start the yaoi research club and being subjected to all kinds of bizarre experiments in the name of research, Satou continues to enjoy his friendship (?) with Kaname and Yuusuke. The year has come to a close, and in the ensuing party, Satou drinks everything that's put in front of him and ends up... in the company of two very hungry "wolves"... This is a bonus chapter accompanying the highly acclaimed manga "Welcome to the Yaoi Research Club!" The Beast, the Prince, and I - Obscene Love Triangle [Total ch. 3] Completed AuthorNemuko Takayama PublisherDAITOSHA/SHUSUISHA "He's grinding his hips into me. I can't take it anymore...! But my body says yes..." I, Yuriko, am a plain, strict office worker. After work, I dress up and transform into a gorgeous, confident woman of the night. During my nightly adventures, I met my prince, Makoto Inoue! But the day after we slept together for the first time, I find out that a cop called Mr. Yamamoto is investigating him. After I lose contact with Mr. Inoue, Mr. Yamamoto clumsily tries to console me... Before I know it, he's making his move... "Even a cop can be a beast in bed." What do I do!? The Green Knight's Love from Above -Sweet Things to Be Served After Training- [Total ch. 6] Completed AuthorFuyusora Yuki Yoshida PublisherKASAKURA PUBLISHING POP The green-eyed handsome guy suddenly says...... "I'm going to train you myself." Rune, who has issues about her childish body, is a vocational school student and loves to bake confectionary. One fateful day she puts a baking pan in the oven, when....... BOOM!! When she comes to, a handsome young man on a white horse is right in front of her! It's a sweet and stimulating adult romance! The Sweet Prison of Marriage [Total ch. 3] Completed AuthorYueko Publisherfuturecomics Hinako is in love with the handsome president of her company, Sou. He's a kind person who comforted her on the day when she lost her family... -- or so she thought. One day, her life suddenly changes! A black luxury car comes out of nowhere and kidnaps her, taking her to see an old man. The man tells Hinako that he is her real grandfather, and commands her, "I've prepared 5 men. the direct bloodline must be preserved, so it's your job to have a child"...!? Then Four men appear, and to her surprise, Sou is one of them! Thus begin this lost virgin's days of being caged and tormented by handsome men... What will become of Hinako's love as it is manipulated by cruel fate...! And who is the as-yet-unseen fifth man...!? This story of engagement in confinement and forced conception is a must-see! Loose Night: A Night of Depravity for a Downtrodden Woman and a Beautiful Beast (Current ch. 10) AuthorMai Mikimoto Publisherforcs Misato Arai, age 26, never had a physical relationship. In order to get a boyfriend, she suffers one disappointment after another... Stepping into a drag bar hoping to bolster her self-esteem, she just loses even more confidence by seeing all the beautiful drag queens and drinks away her sorrows. Getting tipsy, she goes on about how she's not satisfied getting off on her own, so the bartender offers Misato an unbelievable suggestion...! "Why don't I do it for you? Maybe it'll feel better if someone else touches you?" As Misato's body unravels under the kind of seductive touch of the bartender, her mind goes completely blank... "You just don't understand yourself yet." "Is this beautiful man the one who can change who I am...?" The Student I Thought I Knew (Current ch. 15) AuthorNamonaki PublisherKaikan Club I'm not a child anymore, says Honoka Miyama's former student... before kissing her! It's been five years since Honoka became a teacher. With the arrival of a new batch of trainee teachers and her dream of an event from five years ago, Honoka finds a wave of nostalgia coming over her. Much to her surprise, the student she dreamed about, Tougo Ashiya, is among the new trainees! After the welcome party, Tougo invites Honoka to his place, where he soon reveals that his feelings for her haven't changed. Not letting her speak, he pulls her shirt open, sucking softly on her exposed chest as his hand slips down her thigh to a sensitive spot... "Make sure you remember every detail of tonight." The student she thought she knew shows a side of him she's never seen before! Fleeting Desire -Having to Live with My Adorable Best Friend!- (Current ch. 4) AuthorTakara Kotobuki PublisherCLAP Comix Ami has been in love with her cool childhood friend Mioto for fifteen years. She's told him many times, but he doesn't say anything back. That cycle was in full swing when "unavoidable circumstances" force them to live in the same apartment! No matter the reason, now's her big chance! Unfortunately, Mioto keeps his distance, saying it's "embarrassing." In reality, he's just shy around her feminine wiles and loves her back...! Something's bound to happen with these two living under the same roof...!! Two love-struck virgins are about to embark on a journey into adulthood! No one's perfect (Current ch. 7) Authorchabasu PublisherIntelfin Inc. 38-year-old businessman Masami has the best boyfriend in the world. Tora's tall,built,and super hot! More than anything,he's incredibly kind. It's no wonder Masami relies on him so much. He even has four other boyfriends besides Tora,but Tora doesn't seem to mind. He always welcomes Masami with a warm smile and a gentle kiss. But,what if Tora has other guys on the side,too...? Is that why he's so "understanding" about Masami's other lovers? Read on to find out...!! Don't Expose My Dark Past! -An Elite Businessman and a Former Idol- (Current ch. 11) AuthorAmane Ninomae The story of a former idol (now an office worker), and a super elite businessman (with a potentially dark past). Miyu Tachibana is a former idol. Since her days of stardom, she has put on weight , cut her long, silky hair, and hidden herself behind a pair of black, thick-rimmed glasses. What's more, the screw manufacturer she now works for is struggling to stay in business. One day, Miyu encounters a new potential client representative by the name of Mr. Shiga. An elite businessman, Shiga seems calm and collected at first, but his angry stare and odd conduct seem to suggest there might be more to him. When another client representative discovers Miyu's former identity, he tries coercing her into the bedroom. His plans are dashed, however, when Shiga steps in to protect Miyu. But then, shortly after saving her, he pushes her down on the bed and says "If you can do it with a guy like that, then surely you can do it with me!" Could it be that Shiga has a hidden past of his own...!? The Mountain Bird Cries at Dawn [Total ch. 6] Completed Authoramam PublisherIproduction Co. Ltd. Yamato Edogawa is heir to a mafia family, and he harbors secret feelings for his attendant, Yoru. In all truth, he doesn't want to take over the family, but his dad and the other members won't listen to him. He's run away from home many times, and Yoru's always been the one to come get him. One day, Yamato reaches his breaking point and refuses to go home, except on one condition. "If you want me home that bad... You have to sleep with me!" While Yamato's horrified by his own outburst, Yoru doesn't seem fazed...! Could puppy love turn to something more between this future mafia boss and his beautiful tease of an attendant!? He Drank a Love Potion!? -Work Hard, Then Play Harder- [Total ch. 3] Completed AuthorRuchia Mita Melodi Hinako, a researcher in a laboratory, doesn't have much luck with men. However, she succeeds in creating something that ends up making her life a whole lot more complicated: a love potion. Although she doesn't plan to use the potion, it accidently finds its way into a cup of tea meant for one of three men she works with, and she doesn't know which one drank it. To investigate, Hinako talks to Ryo - one of the men in the meeting and someone she believes has absolutely no romantic interest in her. But, to her surprise, Ryo turns to Hinako and tells her that he loves her. At a loss for what to do, Hinako decides to take responsibility for making Ryo fall in love with her and gives him what he desires. What was supposed to be a one-off, though, happens again and again, leaving her wanting more. Then, to complicate things further, the other two men claim to love her, too. What's going to happen to Hinako now that everybody wants her for themselves!? My Sweet Empty Heart [Total ch. 6] Completed AuthorBond Mitsuya PublisherBrite Publishing Porn star Haruma is giving relationship advice to his straight "friend," Makito, who works at his other job at a restaurant. One day, Makito finds a porn video that might be starring the girl he's got a crush on...! While Makito is in despair, Haruma encourages him to watch the video together to check if she actually IS Makito's crush. The inexperienced Makito gets hard watching the video even as he struggles with some mixed emotions! A love story that shows the growth of a pure, innocent virginal boy and a gay porn star who he has inadvertently wrapped around his finger! I Would Do Anything for You, You Know? -Captured by an Obsessive Guy- [Total ch. 7] Completed AuthorTakeru Uduki Nana's fear of men started when she was a kid after being bullied by a boy. As a result, she started college full of anxiety until she met Kaoru, a beauty that captivates even women. Ever since, they've been inseparable since Kaoru protects Nana from the guys at their school. One day, Kaoru crashes at Nana's place and Nana passes out after a few drinks. Kaoru then looks at her sleeping with a satisfied expression, takes off his wig, and shows his true colors... Yes, Kaoru is a guy who's dressed up as a woman in order to get close to Nana! The Wicked Arab -Extravagant Sex with a Millionaire- [Total ch. 9] Completed AuthorYuzuru Mikumo PublisherB-comi "Help me get an erection! I'll pay you as much as you want." Locked inside a mansion in a desert country, Akira has to put up with Salim's kinky sexual activities day after day. Salim puts a weird device on Akira's you-know-what, forces him to ejaculate while riding an elephant, sets an octopus on him...... But he never tries to have sex with him, because he can't get an erection... Days of pleasure trap this Japanese businessman, who only came to the desert country for work...! That Time When I Was a Side Character in a Magical Journey (Current ch. 5) AuthorSatsuki Sheena CHLOR HADUKI Transported to a kingdom in another world with her friend,Michiru finds herself in the care of the handsome knight,Cainlotte. His demeanor is as cold as ice... But it turns out he's embarrassingly sweet to the point of being overprotective! Will there be a limit to her big-brotherly knight's fawning!? Find out in the long-awaited comicalization of this romantic comedy about an everyday girl who was just in the wrong place at the right time! This Reincarnated Cross-Dressing Princess Won't Be Looking for a Fiance (Current ch. 5) AuthorAkino Shiina Saki Tsukigami Maki Hayashi Princess Alicia doesn't want to be married off in an arranged marriage, so she agrees to an impossible wager with her mother: Enter an all-boys school as a "boy" and find real love among a number of approved candidates. What she doesn't plan on is falling in love with handsome Lucius, a non-approved guy who figures out her secret! Oh, and she realizes she's a reincarnation of a romance-novel-loving girl who is living in one of her favorite stories! Find out what happens next in this comical love fantasy! The Way Kizuki Loves Me Is Totally Wrong -He Kisses Me, Touches Me, Then Worships Me!?- [Total ch. 7] Completed AuthorSakyou Yozakura Miyuki Miyuki Momoko is a hair stylist who spends her days down and depressed because she's not good at her job. The only way she can relieve stress is by reading the stories of her favorite manga artist, Kizuki Kureha. One day, on her way to work, Momoko is nearly hit by a truck. At the last second, a dorky-looking guy saves her. However, in all the ruckus, he gets covered with paint. To repay his kindness, Momoko gives him a haircut. When she does, she finds out that he's super handsome. On top of that, he pushes her down on a couch and begins touching her all over. Surprisingly, he's very skilled when it comes to bedding a woman. Even though she knows it's wrong, she can't stop feeling pleasure. But the real surprise comes when he shows her the story draft he's carrying! You're Not Getting Away -I Love You So Much, You Take My Breath Away- [Total ch. 14] Completed AuthorSakyou Yozakura Izumi Kanchiku Sumire Sato is a regular office worker with nothing terribly interesting about her... except the fact that she's also Mayu Nanase, a successful erotica writer. One day, she happens to see her hot coworker, Ryuunosuke Shibata purchase her book. She ends up getting too excited and calls out to him, but she remembers to protect her secret at the last minute. She pretends to be a huge fan of Mayu Nanase, and that makes Ryuunosuke way too eager to get to know her... on a very personal level. Things get out of control when Ryuunosuke kisses her and decides that they're meant to be! Could her books be the reason why his perception of love is slightly unusual!? A Naughty Lunch Meeting -Let's Get Down to Business, Boss!- [Total ch. 5] Completed AuthorGondawara "If you really want to be my girlfriend, finish me off in 10 minutes." Tamaki Suto worked her butt off to get hired at the major advertising firm where the art director she idolizes, Haruto Okudera, works. She wishes to be his apprentice, but if that's not possible, she'll do anything she can to get closer to him! But, being his girlfriend!? Can she keep her promise to satisfy him, even with his busy schedule? She does not know, but she won't back down without a fight! Stay tuned for this office romance with a time limit! Your Tongue Needs Silencing -Delving into the World of Submission- [Total ch. 3] Completed AuthorKorome It's been two years since Yukino was transferred to the regional sales office of the major corporation she works for. She enjoys life, attending singles parties and going on trips abroad. But she feels like something's missing. A friend suggests she tries online dating, but she tries joining a regular chatroom first. She meets up with the mysterious and attractive Yuki, who takes her to a hotel. She ends up having a night like she's never experienced. Freaked out, she runs from the hotel the next morning and later deletes her chat account. But wait, who's the man that's been transferred to her office...!? He knows she wants to obey him. What's happening to her!? Previous 20 1 ... 6 \| 7 \| 8 \| 9 \| 10 \| 11 \| 12 \| 13 \| 14 \| 15 ... 44 Next 20	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1614
__label__wiki	0.577116	0.577116	My Favorite Celebrities Not the A List but My List Sofia Vergara Petite Solana Glasses Sofia Vergara is an Ecuadorian starlet, vocalist, tv personality, and producer. She is the highest-earning actress in American television history for 8 straight years, from 2020 to 2020. Sofia Vergara became known to Americans through her looks on different popular shows such as Modern Family, The Mind Show, Everybody Loves Raymond, and Roseanne. In each of these series she represented the mom of modern household. It is clear that given that Modern Family launched, Sofia Vergara has actually attained near cult status in the US. On the television program, Modern Family Sofia Vergara plays Mauricio. Sofia plays the mom, Corin, who cares deeply for her child while juggling a large family of her own. In the movie, Bridesmaids, Sofia Vergara played Camila. She was the 2nd highest-paid starlet on Modern Family. As Camila, she is the maid of honor to Lily (Jared Rushton), who takes place to be the wife of Mike (Coleman). As the program progresses, it ends up being apparent that Lily has actually fallen for Mike but wants to wait to get wed before jumping into the marital relationship. Meanwhile, her buddy from the show named Lauren (Annette Benning) ends up being suspicious of Lily ‘s partner. Another noteworthy role that Sofia Vergara has used Modern Family is Leighton Meester. He is the freely gay boy of a well-off household. As a kid, Leighton hid his sexuality from his moms and dads since he felt ashamed. As an adult, he went on to wed David (David Hyde Pierce) and have a kid. As suggested by the birth of his 2nd kid, Leighton handled the function of a surrogate to help save the lives of his other half and baby by getting his pals to donate sperm to assist in the process. After his other half gave birth to a healthy baby kid, he then had the chance to meet his long-time lover Lauren (Adrianne Parks), and as a result, they fell in love. An appearance back at the contemporary family series finale, one can see how Sofia Vergara played a big function in lighting up the struggles and sacrifices that the members of the modern-day family should go through in order to raise a pleased and effective household. After all, in the final scene of the episode, it was revealed that Lauren had actually passed away in childbirth, having actually been shot by a hunter while attempting to save her mother from an upcoming bullet. Lauren had actually remained real to her morals throughout her life, but her actions in conserving her mother threatened her own individual happiness. However, after discovering that she was going to pass away in childbirth, she went ahead with it, risking her own security along with that of her coming baby to do so. In terms of acting ability, Sofia Vergara does not have the kind of range that you would generally anticipate from a starlets. It is this kind of subtlety that makes Bialik different from numerous of his other co-stars on Modern Family, in that it is unusual for a star on such a mainstream program to show any range, let alone 2. Her character is merely an exceptional example of what a modern household need to be like. Overall, Modern Family has become known as one of the most politically appropriate shows on TELEVISION, which has helped it rise in popularity amongst the seeing public. Sofia Vergara delivers an excellent performance as the common suburban mother, as well as one that is entirely different than what we see on Modern Family. In general, the final episode of Modern Family is one that I would advise anybody to see. Sofia Vergara became understood to Americans through her looks on different popular programs such as Modern Family, The Mind Show, Everybody Loves Raymond, and Roseanne. On the tv show, Modern Family Sofia Vergara plays Mauricio. Another significant role that Sofia Vergara has actually played on Modern Family is Leighton Meester. An appearance back at the modern-day family series ending, one can see how Sofia Vergara played a big function in lighting up the struggles and sacrifices that the members of the modern family must go through in order to raise a delighted and successful household. Sofia Vergara provides an excellent efficiency as the typical suburban mother, as well as one that is totally various than what we see on Modern Family. Sofia Vergara Petite Solana Glasses ◀Sofia Vergara Showsoffherleopard-printunderwearinnewvideo Sofia Vergara Collection Leather Sofa Diamond▶ Sofia Vergara St Jude Reddit Family Guy – Sofia Vergara Replaced Lois Sofia Vergara Desire List Sofia Vergara Gallia White Leather Sofia Vergara And Pitbull At Grammy Copyright © 2021 My Favorite Celebrities	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1618
__label__wiki	0.948134	0.948134	Saudis and Yemenis versus jihadists A bloody border Trouble on the frontier between Saudi Arabia and Yemen is getting out of hand Middle East & AfricaNov 7th 2009 edition TWO separate incidents underline the growing shakiness of Yemen's government and the increasing fear of Saudi rulers that their own fairly successful campaign to quash Islamist terrorism may be undermined by neighbouring Yemen's feared descent into chaos. On November 3rd suspected al-Qaeda fighters ambushed a Yemeni government convoy in the remote Hadramawt region, near the border with Saudi Arabia, killing three senior security men. A day later Yemeni rebels at the other end of the country crossed the frontier into Saudi Arabia, killed a Saudi officer and claimed to have captured a strategic mountaintop inside the kingdom. The very next day, Saudi aircraft were reported to have bombed rebel positions in Yemen. In the first attack the Yemeni officers were targeted in what may be an emerging strategy by al-Qaeda's resilient local branch to hit local security forces rather than symbols of “crusader” influence, such as Western embassies. The attack on Saudi Arabia, by contrast, was a spillover from the civil war in northern Yemen between government forces and rebel tribesmen loyal to a powerful local clan, the Houthis. The government accuses Shia Iran of backing the Houthis, most of whose supporters are Zaydis, a Yemeni branch of the Shia faith, whereas the rebels say Sunni Saudi Arabia is backing the government's ferocious counter-insurgency. With its rugged topography and fiercely tribal society, Yemen has historically proven as hard to rule as, say, Afghanistan. But seldom has the government in Sana'a, Yemen's capital, faced so many troubles at once, including not just the Houthi rebellion in the north and occasional al-Qaeda attacks in the east but also a brewing independence movement in the south, which was a separate country before Yemen's two parts united in 1990. Yemen's president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, has kept his country together since taking power in 1978 by co-opting, balancing and sometimes coercing its tribes and factions. But with his government mired in corruption and oil revenue dwindling fast, his skilful juggling has become trickier to sustain. The Houthis, for instance, accuse him of recruiting fanatical Sunni supporters of al-Qaeda to join the government's jihad against them. Some al-Qaeda leaders, meanwhile, have endorsed south Yemeni calls for independence. Yemen's increasing lawlessness outside shrinking zones of state control around the main cities is one reason why, earlier this year, al-Qaeda's Saudi branch announced it was moving across the border and merging forces with its brethren in Yemen. The joint operation, calling itself “al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula”, known in intelligence circles as AQAP, has carried out sporadic attacks inside Yemen, where tacit agreements with the government appear to have broken down. But its main target still appears to be Saudi Arabia. In August Saudi officials announced the arrest of 44 suspected jihadists and the discovery of large arms caches, including one containing hundreds of bomb detonators and timing devices. Two months later Saudi police near the Yemeni border stopped a suspicious vehicle, sparking a gunfight that killed two suicide bombers, disguised as women. Earlier this month Saudi authorities said that interrogations of the jihadist suspects had led to another arms cache, in the capital, Riyadh, containing 281 AK-47 rifles and piles of ammunition. The arms, they said, came from Yemen. A fortnight after the arrest of the 44 suspects, an AQAP man nearly pulled off a coup. Claiming to have repented of past jihadism, he said he had returned from Yemen and wished to meet Prince Muhammad bin Nayef, the Saudi deputy minister of interior, who led a clampdown on terrorism that has brought relative calm. Security screening failed to detect a bomb concealed in the man's rectum, which exploded as the prince greeted him. The prince suffered minor injuries. Income per head in Yemen is barely a tenth of Saudi Arabia's. The country has long been a conduit for arms, drugs, illegal immigrants and liquor smuggled into the puritanical kingdom. But growing troubles on the border suggest that the old smuggling networks may now serve political groups as well as commercial interests. In any event, Yemen's government is struggling to defeat the Houthi rebellion, which has displaced 250,000 civilians, and is failing to squash al-Qaeda. So Saudi leaders may be poised to intervene in earnest. This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline "A bloody border" More from Middle East & Africa Sticky authoritarianism Uganda’s violent election has exposed divisions of age and class No cars, no roads, no emissions The Line in Saudi Arabia is an urbanist’s dream Move over, Superman New platforms are bringing African comics to a broader audience	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1619
__label__cc	0.738821	0.261179	Join Our Virtual Party! Snow%20family_edited Mice Couple princess gang Welcome to Enchanted Fairytale Parties South Florida and North Carolina's Elite Character Entertainment Company. Enchanted Fairytale Parties offers the highest quality in children's entertainment! We have over a decade of experience in hosting magical celebrations and would love to create everlasting memories with you! From our amazing one of a kind gowns to our incredibly talented performers who sing LIVE, we strive to provide a full fairytale experience full of magical moments. Our prestigious company is not only a favorite for children, parents and guests , but also top choice for celebrity clients and high profile event planners. Our performers are educated professionals with or pursuing degrees in musical theater, child related fields, or acting. Often told that we have the "best look- a-likes", it's no secret that we take pride in paying extra close attention to detail!In doing so, we make sure to select our performers and highly train them to look and act as close as possible to the original characters that they portray. Invite us to your next celebration and allow us to make your fairytale dreams reality, add an Enchanted Character to your guest list! "Best characters then any other place in the industry" "My daughter had just turned 5 in October, I knew this was a special birthday and she deserved the party of a princess. I asked her what her wish was for her special birthday, and it was to have her favorite princess to come to her party to wish her a happy birthday. At this point, nothing else mattered to her. I had to make this wish come true and I then decided to call Enchanted Fairytale Parties. I spoke with the owner, Lisa, who was extremely nice and helpful and explained how my daughter had to have Princess Jasmine at her party. Lisa was able to work with me and was very helpful in making my daughter's wish come true. She assured me that Jasmine will be there and she can even sing and bellydance for the party. I then knew this would be a party my daughter would never forget. Lisa arrived with Jasmine and did the best job with her party then I can ever imagine. She interacted with all the guests, stayed in character, and did an awesome bellydance with all the girls. Months later, my daughter and her friends are still talking about her party. There is nothing compared to seeing a child's face light up when they see their favorite character appear right in front of them...it is priceless! I highly recommend Enchanted Fairytale Parties and will use them for all my future needs." Robin S. "The kids had a Exceeded our expectations & was full of wonderful surprises" "I just wanted to let you know how special you made Lily’s Birthday Party. EVERYONE that was there has made a point to tell us what an amazing time they had. I am speechless & can’t express enough thanks that you included the Frozen performers. What a surprise!! It brings goose bumps to my arms & tears of happiness to our eyes just thinking about it. We haven’t stopped smiling & talking about it. As for Lily, she told us it was the best birthday party ever. When we asked her what ever favorite part was, she told us the WHOLE THING but especially when the Frozen sisters came out & surprised her. The whole night exceeded our expectations & we thank you. " Pembroke Pines, Florida 33024 Cape Coral, FL 33991 Charlotte,North Carolina 28277 (704) 931-5280 © 2018 Enchanted Fairytale Parties LLC	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1627
__label__cc	0.638598	0.361402	Apple to build manufacturing facility in Arizona, create 2,000 jobs in the process Latest in Apple Apple is temporarily closing more stores due to COVID-19 The next iPhone might have an in-screen fingerprint scanner Apple is once again extending TV+ free trials Apple is reportedly working on a major redesign for the iMac Alexis Santos It's no secret that Apple's investing in stateside manufacturing, considering its jet engine-like Mac Pro is being assembled in the great state of Texas, but it looks like Cupertino is getting even more serious about building things in the US. Arizona has just announced that Cook and friends will be opening their latest manufacturing facility in Mesa. The center is expected to create at least 700 jobs in its first year, and another 1,300 spots for construction workers. There's no peep from either camp on what exactly the plant will churn out, but a company by the name of GT Advanced Technologies is talking. The outfit's revealed that it'll help Apple produce a sapphire material in the state. Since iPhone cameras and the Touch ID sensor each use sapphire glass, its likely the factory will be providing parts for those specific components. Update: Apple's given us a statement regarding its future digs in the Copper State, and it turns out the complex will be completely powered by renewable energy from the day it opens. Head past the break for the firm's note. We are proud to expand our domestic manufacturing initiative with a new facility in Arizona, creating more than 2,000 jobs in engineering, manufacturing and construction. This new plant will make components for Apple products and it will run on 100% renewable energy from day one, as a result of the work we are doing with SRP to create green energy sources to power the facility. In this article: apple, Arizona, camera, facility, GTAdvancedTechnologies, manufacturing, sapphire, TouchID	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1631
__label__cc	0.617141	0.382859	by Edmond Rostand Annotated Text A Performance at the Hotel de Bourgogne Scene I Scene II Scene III Scene IV Scene V Scene VI Scene VII The Poet's Eating-House Scene VIII Scene IX Scene X Scene XI Act III Roxane's Kiss Scene XII Act IV The Cadets of Gascony Act V Cyrano's Gazette The hall of the Hotel de Bourgogne, in 1640. It is a sort of tennis court arranged and decorated for a theatrical performance. The hall is oblong and seen from an angle, so that one of its sides forms the back of the right foreground, and meeting the left background, makes an angle with the stage, which is partly visible. On both sides of the stage are benches. The curtain is made up of two tapestries which can be drawn aside. Above the proscenium are the royal arms. There are broad steps from the stage to the hall. On either side of these steps are the places for the violinists. The footlights consist of a row of candles. There are two rows, one over the other, of side galleries. The highest row is divided into boxes. There are no seats in the pit of the hall, which is the real stage of the theater. At the back of the pit, some benches form steps, and underneath the steps is a staircase which leads to the upper seats. There is an improvised buffet containing candles, vases, glasses, plates of tarts, cakes, bottles, etc. The entrance to the theater is in the center of the background, under the gallery of the boxes. A large door is half-open to let in the spectators. On the panels of this door, in different corners, and over the buffet, are red placards bearing the words, “La Clorise.” At the rising of the curtain, the hall is in semi-darkness, and still empty. The candle-holders are lowered in the middle of the pit, ready to be lighted. In "Cyrano de Bergerac," why does Cyrano hate Montfleury? How is Cyrano killed in Cyrano de Bergerac? Name three uses of metaphors, similies, irony, foreshadowing, or hyperbole. In Cyrano de Bergerac, what is the allusion in the line "render no share to Caesar"? How are Cyrano and Roxane related in Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac? L' Aiglon	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1634
__label__wiki	0.572727	0.572727	This Innovator Spent All of His Money to Fly to a 20-Minute Meeting and Walked Out With a $1.5 Million Investment Prezi CEO and co-founder Peter Arvai details the launch and explosive growth of the presentation platform. Image credit: Prezi Entrepreneur Staff Two things most of us can agree on: 1. Presentations are important and 2. Presentations are boring and we forget everything the moment they're over. Peter Arvai, Péter Halácsy, and Adam Somlai-Fischer saw this problem and built a solution, Prezi, a presentation platform that lets presenters put information in easy to understand and remember graphics. Since its launch in 2009, Prezi has amassed 100 million users worldwide and is used in boardroom, classrooms and everything in-between. CEO Pete Arvai shared his insights on creating a product that successfully connects with consumers, and the necessary steps you need to take to seriously scale when you've got the goods. How would you explain Prezi to someone who is unfamiliar with it? Our core product is a presentation platform that has reshaped presenting into a more intuitive, interactive audience experience – you are essentially dropped into a 3-dimensional map with different ideas serving as destinations, which creates a unique visual journey. Related: 5 Ways to Inspire Creativity and Innovation in Your Employees What led to the creation of Prezi? Was there a specific problem or challenge you saw? In terms of mission/challenge, we believe that open and clear communication is essential for reasoned and civil conversations. The noise created by our current use of technology is reducing our level of understanding and we wanted to fix that. My co-founder Adam Somlai-Fischer was a renowned media artist, in addition to being an architect. He found slide-based presentations limiting for his art, so he designed an open, zoomable canvas to showcase his work. My other co-founder Peter Halácsy is a computer scientist and revolutionized the code, and I brought the product and user experience mindset. I’d worked on the world’s first mobile phone newsreader apps (way before iPhone) and a healthcare comparison site that gave Swedish patients and doctors access to treatment outcomes. Related: 9 Ways Your Company Can Encourage Innovation How did you raise the money to build the company? I managed to get a meeting with the creator of TED Talks, Chris Anderson, and spent all the money I had to fly to New York for a 20-minute meeting, even though TED hadn’t invested in a company before. Together TED and Sunstone Capital out of Copenhagen invested $1.5 million. Since then, we have raised over $72 million in funding from a variety of partners including Spectrum Equity and Accel Partners. How important was it when TED Conferences backed Prezi, in terms of fueling its credibility? It felt like being the piano company that Beethoven invested in. This and the massive adoption by the academic community — teachers and students worldwide — have given us incredible credibility among people who have something to say. After our initial success with education, Prezi became widely adopted by business professionals. Today, we have over 100 million users. What roadblocks or failures did you encounter along the way? What did you learn from them? Probably the biggest lesson I learned was that in order to scale and grow the business, you need to surround yourself — early on — with seasoned advisors and contributors who know what “great” looks like so they can help you grow the business faster. In the first few years, I had a large learning curve in figuring out how to run the business itself. But I would have been smarter looking to find and hire those people who could do it faster than I could. Eventually, I hired a COO, CFO and a CPO who increased scale and operational effectiveness, helping us grow Prezi to over 100 million users today who have created over 360 million presentations that have been viewed over 4 billion times. Related: How Fintech Innovations Are Making Payments More Efficient Looking ahead, what is your ultimate goal? We truly believe that everything great about humanity starts with people sharing ideas. Prezi is looking to improve how information is transmitted and understood – since visual understanding is much stronger – to help solve for a world with more information but less insight. This is incredibly important for all decision-making, from elections to cutting through social media distortion. The future of our digitally-anchored world depends on dialogue and understanding. We say can’t put a woman on Mars, make peace in Syria or cure cancer, but seeing how Prezi is being used, we see that we can contribute to making all of these things happen by our users — who tell compelling, moving visual stories. Our goal is to give people tools that help them imagine things, collaborate around ideas and make better decisions. The Power of Passive Income Success is Easy Start Your Own Photography Business Start Your Own Freelance Writing Business Start Your Own Etsy Business How to Teach People to Deal With You 3 Ways to Dominate Your Market 'Undercover Billionaire': The 3 Questions You Should Ask Yourself Every Day Turn Your Employees Into Entrepreneurs Use Technology to Give Your Team Superpowers	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1635
__label__wiki	0.633275	0.633275	Oct 6, 2020 SOURCE: UVision Air Ltd UVision Air and Milrem Robotics Join Forces to Present UGV-Mounted Loitering Munition Multi-Canister Launcher October 6, 2020, UVision Air Ltd. - a global leader in Loitering Munitions Systems of all sizes for a variety of missions, and Milrem Robotics – a world renowned manufacturer of advanced unmanned ground vehicles and robotic warfare solutions, have recently joined forces. The joint solution - two of Milrem Robotics' Robotic Combat Vehicles (commonly known as Unmanned Ground Vehicles, UGV´s) which are now mounted with Loitering Munition Multi-Canister Launcher, is a new step in the deployment of combat unmanned remotely operated systems. The new operational concept, presented by the two companies, is designed to offer frontline forces with a new independent ability to locate, track and accurately eliminate heavily armored targets from large distances in challenging battlefield conditions, including GPS denied environment and communication jamming, without the need for a headquarters' support. It provides small light forces with advanced ISR capabilities combined with highly accurate long-range heavy fire power that were achieved until now only with complex cooperation between several units and echelons. The Estonian-based Milrem Robotics, which only four months ago announced the integration of the Cockerill Protected Weapons Station Generation II (CPWS II) on to its newly developed Type-X robotic combat vehicle (RCV), again shows its innovation, teaming with the Israeli company UVision, and installing a Multi Canister Launcher for UVision’s Lethal Loitering Munition Systems (LMs) on the RCV. The Launcher can be equipped with two of UVision’s already operational Loitering Munition Systems: The Hero-120, with its anti-tank warhead and up to one hour of flight time, and the Hero-400EC, capable of destroying fortified targets, with up to two operational hours. Milrem’s Type-X will also be equipped with a 40 km range communication antenna, located on a telescopic rising mast, improving the operator's control of the system. The second vehicle, Milrem robotics' UGV flagship, THeMIS, is designed for operation by dismounted infantry and Special Forces. Able to carry up to six of UVision’s Loitering Munition systems, it will provide the forces with long-range ISR and firepower combination that will now be available to them for the first time. The THeMIS recently completed a full 12-month deployment to an international military operation in Mali, and has already been delivered to a several NATO countries (including Norway, the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands, and USA). “As a leading innovative company that takes pride in advanced and in-depth military understanding, UVision has long been a provider of new operational solutions” says Major General (res) Avi Mizrachi, UVision’s CEO. “With a highly experienced team, all - with military background, and many with actual combat experience, we know first-hand the challenges that are facing operational forces in battle conditions today, and we are committed to provide advanced, yet user-friendly and affordable solutions that meet those challenges. Teaming up with Milrem Robotics, to provide new operational concepts based on the advantages of both companies' cutting-edge solutions, is another milestone in our unprecedented developments. " Kuldar Väärsi, Milrem Robotics CEO adds “bringing disruptive technologies to the battlefield and enhancing our warfighters’ safety and capabilities are the driving force for Milrem Robotics”. “Our robotic platforms are deployed by different nations and it is our duty to propose new ways on how unmanned systems can benefit to capability building." UVision’s Hero-120 and Hero-400EC: Modular, customizable loitering weapon systems that can be fitted with a range of powerful multi-purpose warheads and variety of payloads. These versatile, precision, multi-operational systems, with a unique aerodynamic structure, can carry out pinpoint lethal strikes against mid-range hard targets ‒ vehicles, tanks, concrete fortifications and personnel ‒ in populated urban areas or remote locations with minimal collateral damage. Their extended endurance of over an hour (Hero-120), and up to 2 Hours (Hero-400EC), and their loitering range of 40km (Hero-120) and up to 150km (Hero-400), allow these systems to be independently operated by frontline forces, precisely striking time-sensitive targets from a wide variety of angles. Featuring low acoustic and low visual and thermal signatures, and fully gimbaled, stabilized day/night tracking, both systems combine real-time intelligence with high-precision attack to allow a whole new range of operational possibilities. Advanced and versatile, these systems are highly affordable and cost-effective due to their recoverable option, using a parachute, while securing the warhead. The Hero-120 was recently purchased by several NATO military forces. The Hero-400EC was already operationally demonstrated and is currently in evaluation stages by several key military forces. Milrem Robotics Type-X and THeMIS: The Type-X RCV is a Robotic Combat Vehicle (RCV) with tactical characteristics of a modern Infantry Fighting Vehicle (IFV). The RCV can be equipped with a main armament of 30 up to 50 mm automatic cannon. It is a rapidly deployable and dependable unit, able to autonomously navigate the battlefield and perform tasks, keeping the operator in the loop with real-time Situational Awareness. The Type-X concept is based on open architecture that enables it to be integrated with various payloads. The vehicle is designed for operations encompassing the entire spectrum of conflict from permissive to denied environments, fighting effectively in both conventional and non-conventional conflicts. The THeMIS is the first hybrid fully modular unmanned ground vehicle in the world. The vehicle is intended to provide support for dismounted troops by serving as a transport platform, remote weapon station, IED detection and disposal unit, and much more. The vehicle’s open architecture gives it the multi-missions capability much needed on the modern battlefield. About UVision UVision designs and manufactures innovative, cost-effective, unmanned loitering munition systems for customers worldwide. With cutting-edge technology and 30 years of extensive field experience by a professional management team, UVision delivers highly unique aerodynamic platform configurations. The Hero series is comprised of advanced loitering munitions systems (Hero-20, Hero-30, Hero-70, Hero-120, Hero-250, Hero-400EC, Hero-900, Hero-1250), designed for different missions at various ranges using warheads of various types. The company’s solutions are tailored for unique ﬂight qualities, precision attack munitions, advanced airborne guidance and navigation systems integrated with C4I stations. Extensive R&D has yielded a versatile series of loitering munitions systems that are suitable for tactical and strategic targets ‒ whether for short, medium or long ranges – and with a variety of warheads to ensure maximum mission effectiveness. With units deployed and field-proven by the Israel Defense Forces and other customers – including leading NATO countries – UVision is fully committed to providing its extensive network of partners and customers located around the world with high quality and fast-response support. About Milrem Milrem Robotics is the leading developer of robotics and autonomous systems in Europe, established in 2013. The product portfolio includes light UGV´s for both military and civilian applications (THeMIS and Multiscope), the medium and heavy class Type-X RCV, intelligent functions and control systems development and complex system integrations. In June 2020 a consortium under the leadership of Milrem Robotics was awarded 30,6 MEUR from the European Commission’s European Defence Industrial Development Programme (EDIDP) for the project Integrated Modular Unmanned Ground System or iMUGS. The projects goal is to develop the European standard architecture of unmanned land vehicles and their management system and a cyber defence solution. The architecture of the system to be developed will be the European standard for the development of unmanned land systems for defence purposes on which all autonomous systems will be based in the future. For more information on UVision, please visit www.uvisionuav.com Ronit Konfidan UVision Email: ronit.k@uvisionuav.com Mobile: +972-52-3786665 For more information on Milrem Robotics please visit www.milremrobotics.com Gert D. 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__label__wiki	0.58217	0.58217	Home » ALJ Bullock rules that Hynix did not establish RAND defense based on alleged discriminatory licensing (Netlist v. Hynix 337-TA-1023) ALJ Bullock rules that Hynix did not establish RAND defense based on alleged discriminatory licensing (Netlist v. Hynix 337-TA-1023) By David Long on December 7, 2017 Posted in International Trade Commission, Litigation Chief Administrative Law Judge (“ALJ”) Bullock of the U.S. International Trade Commission (“ITC”) recently issue an Initial Determination that accused infringer Hynix (respondent) had not established that patent owner Netlist (complainant) had breached a RAND commitment to JEDEC concerning computer memory technology standards. He found that exclusionary relief would be proper and not against the public interest if the memory products infringe valid claims of the alleged standard essential patents (“SEPs”); but he found that the alleged SEPs were not infringed. A key part of the RAND defense was the accused infringer’s argument that the licensing offer it received from the patent owner showed discriminatory licensing that violated the RAND commitment because it differed from licensing terms that the patent owner entered with someone else. Specifically, the patent owner Netlist had entered a joint development agreement with Samsung that not only granted a license to the alleged SEPs, but also had other non-monetary consideration including a strategic partnership with Samsung that Netlist believed to have substantial benefits. The accused infringer Hynix, however, argued that the non-monetary strategic partnership terms were a sham meant to cover-up what was essentially a royalty-based licensing agreement, thus allowing Netlist to improperly seek different–and discriminatory–effective royalty terms with Hynix or others. ALJ Bullock rejected Hynix’s arguments, finding that the strategic partnership benefits did not have “no value” as Hynix had argued and that patent owner Netlist was not required to provide those same terms to Hynix. This decision also provides some procedural insights into litigating SEPs at the ITC. For example, ALJ Bullock ruled that the party raising a RAND defense has the burden to prove that defense. Further, parties should present their standard-setting license defense and rebuttal in the context of the law that governs the IPR policy at issue — i.e., in this case, the JEDEC Manual states that its RAND commitment is subject to interpretation under New York law. We provide a summary of the decision below. In September 2016, Netlist filed its complaint in the ITC alleging that certain memory modules of Korean-based Hynix infringed Netlist patents alleged to be essential to a standard of the Joint Electron Device Engineering Council (“JEDEC”). The JEDEC intellectual property rights (“IPR”) policy provides that participants disclose potentially essential patents and indicate if they will license the patents on RAND terms. Specifically, Section 8.2 “Patent Policy” of the JEDEC Manual of Organization and Procedure (“JEDEC Manual”) discusses an agreement or refusal to license as follows: 8.2.4 RAND Patent Licensing Commitment Subject to the terms and conditions of section 8.2.4, each Committee Member, as a condition of Participation, agrees to offer to license on RAND [“Reasonable and non-discriminatory licensing terms and conditions” per definition’s section 8.2.1] terms, to all Potential Licensees, such Committee Member’s Essential Patent Claims for the use, sale, offer for sale or other disposition of a portion of a product in order to be compliant with the required portions of a final approved JEDEC Standard issued during the period of membership in that Committee. The licensing commitment does not apply to Essential Patents of a Committee Member where notice of a Refusal to License has been given by the Committee Member in accordance with 8.2.3.1. The JEDEC Manual defines Essential Patent Claims as those “necessarily … infringed” when practicing the standard, stating: Essential Patent Claims: Those Patent claims the use of which would necessarily be infringed by the use, sale, offer for sale or other disposition of a portion of a product in order to be compliant with the required portions of a final approved JEDEC Standard. NOTE Essential Patent Claims do not include Patent claims covering aspects that are not required to comply with a JEDEC Standard, or are required only for compliance with sections that are marked “example,” “non-normative,” or otherwise indicated as not being required for compliance, or related to underlying enabling technologies or manufacturing techniques not specified in the standard. The JEDEC Manual distinguishes between an “Essential Patent” and a “Potentially Essential Patent” based on whether the patent actually has essential patent claims and not simply claims reasonably believed to be essential: Essential Patent: A Patent containing one or more Essential Patent Claims. Potentially Essential Patent: A Patent that is reasonably believed by a subject person to contain one or more Essential Patent Claims. Note that this case concerns the prior July 2015 version JM21R version of the JEDEC Manual and not the current November 2015 JM21S version of the JEDEC Manual ; Judge Bullock’s decision in this case cites to Exhibit CX-0325 that is listed on Netlist’s exhibit list as “JEDEC Manual of Organization and Procedure JM21R (July 2015).” Hynix argued that patent owner Netlist’s patent license offer to Hynix did not comply with the JEDEC RAND commitment for several reasons. Note that, given the high-level of redaction in the Initial Determination, it is not clear what those licensing terms actually were. First, Hynix argued that Netlist’s offer to Hynix was discriminatory. Hynix compared that offer to a Joint Development and Licensing Agreement (“JDLA”) that patent owner Netlist entered with Samsung, which was the only license Netlist had given under the patents. Hynix’s expert “unpacked” the different monetary and non-monetary consideration exchanged in the JDLA to determine an effective per unit royalty rate for standard-compliant products under the JDLA. Hynix argued this demonstrated discriminatory licensing given the differences in the effective royalty Samsung pays under the JDLA and the actual royalty that Netlist offered to Hynix. Second, Hynix argued that the licensing offer was unreasonable because the SEPs had minimal value given, among other things, prior art alternatives to the claim technology and the SEPs’ failure to cover key enabling technology in the JEDEC standards at issue. In response, Netlist argued that Hynix was guilty of patent holdout and refused to engage meaningfully on a license to the SEPs. Among other things, Netlist argued that Hynix failed to make any counter-offer to license the patents. Netlist also argued that Hynix failed to show that the JDLA agreement with bilateral exchange of monetary and non-monetary consideration was comparable to the one-way RAND license contemplated by the JEDEC Manual. Most of Netlist’s argument about the JDLA agreement is redacted. ALJ Bullock summarized Netlist’s argument here as “present[ing] the JDLA as a wide-reaching agreement.” (ID at 189). Netlist challenged the “unpacking” of the JDLA by Hynix’s expert. Among other things, Netlist argued that the expert erroneously relied on accounting, not economic, principles. Further, the expert failed to assign any value to certain benefits that Hynix obtained from the JDLA. ALJ Bullock summarized Netlist’s argument being that the Hynix expert “ignored, or undervalued, benefits received by [patent owner Netlist] under the JDLA.” Finally, Netlist challenged Hynix’s overall “nondiscriminatory” analysis as being erroneously akin to a “most-favored nations clause”, meaning “that a licensor would be required to offer the same effective rate to all licensees, regardless of whether market assumptions that led to one offer were no longer accurate at the time of a later offer.” (ID at 191) The bulk of ALJ Bullock’s decision concerns whether the asserted patents are valid and infringed. He ultimately ruled that the patents were valid, but not infringed. Following ITC practice, however, ALJ Bullock further considered whether an exclusion order should be entered based on the public interest in the event that the full Commission decides that the patents are infringed. RAND Defense In Public Interest Inquiry As an initial matter, ALJ Bullock notes that the parties did not address the RAND defense in the initial liability phase of the investigation. Rather, the parties addressed the RAND defense in the public interest phase. Further, ALJ Bullock observed that he was authorized by the Commission to consider “the statutory pubic interest factors set forth in 19 U.S.C. 1337(d)(1), (f)(1), (g)(1),” but none of the parties tied the RAND defense to any of those specific public interest factors. Nonetheless, he considers the RAND defense in the public interest inquiry since that is how the parties presented the defense. (ID at 181) Essentiality ALJ Bullock ruled that the JEDEC RAND commitment applies only to SEP patent claims that are actually essential to the standard, not simply claims that are “potentially” essential (i.e., claims one reasonably believes are essential), stating: Thus, the JEDEC Manual articulates a system where committee members are required to disclose “potentially essential patents” to the other JEDEC committee members, but attaches a RAND licensing obligation only to those patent claims that are actually essential to a final approved JEDEC standard. Thus, a necessary pre-requisite to any determination that Complainant has violated a RAND licensing obligation is a showing that the asserted patents in this investigation are actually standard essential. If the asserted patents are not essential to a JEDEC standard, [patent owner] Netlist does not have a RAND licensing obligation for those patent claims according to the terms of the JEDEC Manual. [ID at 182] In this case, ALJ Bullock had decided that the patent claims are not infringed. If the patents are not infringed, then they cannot be essential and any RAND obligation is “purely hypothetical”: In the absence of an infringement finding, as here, any RAND obligation on Netlist’s part is purely hypothetical, and cannot form a factual basis for foregoing or delaying an exclusion order on the basis of the public interest. But ALJ Bullock acknowledged that the Commission may disagree with his finding that the patents are not infringed, in which case the RAND obligation may be relevant. Importantly, a patent that is infringed is not necessarily essential to the standard. So there should be some showing that infringed patent claims are essential to the standard. In this case, Hynix submitted evidence that the patent owner Netlist asserted in interrogatory’s, deposition testimony and elsewhere that the patents were essential to the JEDEC standard. Further, the patent owner Netlist does not appear to dispute essentially. ALJ Bullock, therefore, ruled that the patents may be considered essential to the JEDEC standard if the Commission finds that the patents are infringed. (ID at 184). Implementer’s Burden To Prove RAND Defense ALJ Bullock ruled that “the burden to prove an affirmative defense based on a breach of RAND obligations lies with Respondents [Hynix].” He rejected Hynix’s argument that the JEDEC Manual placed the burden on the patent owner to show that its licensing was “demonstrably free of any unfair discrimination.” Hynix was referring to the example License Assurance/Disclosure Form shown in the section A.3 Annex to the JEDEC Manual, which stated in relevant part: For any Essential Patent Claims held or controlled by the entity, pending or anticipated to be filed, the entity states: __(i) A license will be offered, without compensation, under reasonable terms and conditions that are demonstrably free of any unfair discrimination to applicants desiring to utilize the license for the purpose of implementing the JEDEC Standard; or __(ii) A license will be offered, with compensation, to applicants desiring to utilize the license for the purpose of implementing the JEDEC Standard under reasonable terms and conditions that are demonstrably free of any unfair discrimination. ALJ Bullock observed, however, that there is some inconsistency in the manual whether the unfair discrimination must be “deontrabl[e].” Specifically, the Licensing Assurance/Disclosure Form “section 8.2.5, by its own terms, only refers to ‘terms and conditions that are free of any unfair discrimination” (ID at 193) — i.e., uses only the term “free” and not “demonstrably free” of any unfair discrimination. Hynix’s expert did not address that inconsistency. In any event, ALJ Bullock ruled that the JEDEC Manual did not purport to address which party bears the burden of proof in a RAND dispute. And the JEDEC Manual could not be used to set aside the ITC’s practice of “placing the burden of proof on the party advancing a RAND defense.” (ID at 193). He ruled that placing the burden on the patent owner to prove there was no unfair discrimination would be contrary to the ITC enabling statute, stating: [T]he undersigned is not persuaded that the JEDEC Manual, which does not even purport to address which party bears the burden of proof in a RAND dispute, can serve as a basis to set aside the Commission’s practice of placing the burden of proof on the party advancing a RAND defense. To find otherwise would effectively add a new element of proof to section 337 investigations for RAND encumbered patents, i.e., complainants seeking to establish a violation based on their RAND encumbered patents would necessarily have to show that they made licensing offers that were free from unfair discrimination. Such a requirement is untethered from the statutory language of section 337. See 19 U.S.C. S 1337. Of course, in the face of a prima facie showing of unfair discrimination by a respondent, a complainant would need to rebut that showing, but Respondents [Hynix] have failed to articulate a legal basis to place the initial evidentiary burden on Complainant for what is essentially their own affirmative defense. [ID at 193] Is JEDEC RAND Commitment An Enforceable Contract? ALJ Bullock raised questions whether the JEDEC RAND commitment would constitute an enforceable obligation under the New York law that governs its interpretation. Specifically, the JEDEC Manual states that “[t]he Patent Policy will be interpreted and governed under the laws of the State of New York.” (ID at 194). ALJ Bullock was concerned that the parties “ma[d]e no attempt” to analyze the RAND obligation under New York law, but instead erroneously rely on “unhelpful” economic expert testimony for a legal framework to interpret the JEDEC Manual, stating: [T]he parties make no attempt to analyze Complainant’s RAND obligations according to the New York state law. Rather, the parties have relied on the testimony of their economic experts to lay out what is essentially a legal framework for interpreting the JEDEC Manual. That approach is largely unhelpful, as both experts’ opinions appear to be based primarily on policy concerns as opposed to controlling principles of law. [ID at 194] Addressing New York contract law was important here, because “[a] court cannot enforce a contract unless it is able to determine what in fact the parties have agreed to ” and “[i]f an agreement is not reasonably certain in its material terms, there can be no legally enforceable contract.” In this case, there is “a fundamental disagreement about what is required by the ‘reasonable’ and ‘unfair discrimination’ terms of the JEDEC patent policy.” (ID at 194) ALJ Bullock found such disagreement unsurprising, because the JEDEC Manual did not define those terms and expressly leaves it to the parties to negotiate them “outside the context of JEDEC”, section 8.2.8 of the JEDEC Manual stating: JEDEC makes no representation as to the reasonableness of any terms or conditions of the license agreements offered by such patent rights holders, and all negotiations regarding such terms and conditions must take place between the individual parties outside the context of JEDEC. ALJ Bullock found that the JEDEC Patent Policy was intentionally ambiguous about what are reasonable licensing terms and the parties had not shown that a judge could “inject clarity into the RAND obligation when there is none in the JEDEC manual.” Accordingly, ALJ Bullock questioned whether the RAND commitment would be an enforceable agreement under New York law. (ID at 195). In this case, however, none of the parties–including the patent owner Netlist–have asserted that the RAND commitment is not enforceable. So ALJ Bullock would assume that it was and continue his RAND analysis. Patent Owner Did Not Breach RAND Commitment ALJ Bullock ruled that the implementer Hynix failed to show that patent owner Netlist breached its RAND commitment. First, ALJ Bullock rejected Hynix’s argument that patent owner Netlist was required, but failed, to offer the same “effective rate” to Hynix that Netlist gave to Samsung under the JDLA. (ID at 195) The JDLA agreement went beyond a mere license grant and had strategic partnership and other terms that Hynix’s expert erroneously assumed had no value: The JDLA, however, is not the same type of agreement that is required under the JEDEC Patent Policy. While the JDLA does include terms directed to a license to Samsung for Complainant’s asserted patents, it also includes a number of other terms that are directed to establishing a strategic partnership between Samsung and Complainant. Respondents [Hynix] are overly-dismissive of these terms, and their expert … was only able to determine his low effective royalty by concluding that those terms had no value to Complaint [patent owner Netlist]. Those conclusions are at odds with the testimony of record. [ID at 195] The evidence showed that, at the time the JDLA agreement was entered with Samsung, patent owner Netlist “believed it was receiving valuable consideration from having Samsung sign on as a strategic partner.” (ID at 196) The JEDEC RAND commitment “surely cannot mean” that Netlist must offer the same JDLA terms without receiving the strategic partnership benefits that Netlist contemplated when entering the JDLA: Whatever the RAND obligation means, it surely cannot mean that Complainant [patent owner Netlist] is required to offer a license to every JEDEC implementer on the same terms as the JDLA with Samsung, but without even the prospect of obtaining the strategic partnership benefits contemplated by the JDLA. ALJ Bullock thus summarized his ruling on the RAND defense as follows: In sum, Respondents have failed to tie their RAND arguments to a recognizable affirmative defense, a scenario that the Commission has previously noted with disapproval. Assuming the RAND arguments are breach of contract arguments, the undersign finds that the underlying contract–the JEDEC Manual–lacks sufficient clarity to enforce its terms against Complainant [patent owner Netlist], which the Commission has also noted as a reason a RAND argument may fail. And finally, even assuming that the RAND agreement is related to a cognizable affirmative defense, and that the terms of the JEDEC Manual are sufficiently definite to be enforceable, the undersigned finds that Respondents have failed to establish unfair discrimination based on the evidence of record. [ID at 196-197] Tags: ALJ Bullock, Hynix. Netlist, JEDEC, RAND About Essential Patent LLC David W. Long founded Essential Patent LLC (http://essentialpatent.net) to focus on patent law and related hi-tech intellectual property issues, including standard essential patents, licensing negotiations, mediation and other legal services. 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__label__wiki	0.51368	0.51368	You are at:Home»Featured»Fidelity Investments Launches New Multifactor ETF, FLRG Fidelity Investments Launches New Multifactor ETF, FLRG Aaron Neuwirth September 17, 2020 On Thursday, Fidelity Investments, a leading provider of ETFs with more than $585 billion in ETF client assets, announced the launch of the Fidelity U.S. Multifactor ETF (FLRG). This ETF expands Fidelity’s broad offering, which now includes 33 ETFs, all competitively priced, and available commission-free on Fidelity’s online retail and institutional brokerage platforms. Fidelity U.S. Multifactor ETF has a total net expense ratio of 0.29% (as of 9/17/2020). The full Fidelity lineup now includes three actively-managed equity ETFs, three actively-managed bond ETFs, 15 factor ETFs, 11 passive equity sector ETFs and Fidelity ONEQ. “The launch of our U.S. Multifactor ETF strengthens one of the industry’s already deepest suites of factor ETFs,” says Greg Friedman, Fidelity’s Head of ETF Management and Strategy. “We continue to see a growing demand for ‘smart’ beta strategies as investors look for opportunities to help drive returns or manage risk. Today’s launch further reinforces our leadership in offering investors exceptional choice and value to help meet their distinct financial goals.” Fidelity’s full lineup of ETFs, including today’s new Fidelity U.S. Multifactor ETF, is available for purchase commission-free online for individual investors, registered investment advisors, and broker-dealers on Fidelity’s ETF platform. Fidelity’s platform offers individual investors and advisors access to more than 2,000 ETFs, commission-free. For more information on Fidelity’s differentiated approach to factor investing, click here. About Fidelity U.S. Multifactor ETF Fidelity U.S. Multifactor ETF seeks to provide investment returns that correspond, before fees and expenses, generally to the performance of the Fidelity U.S. Multifactor Index. The fund will normally invest at least 80% of its assets in securities included in the Fidelity U.S. Multifactor Index. The Fidelity U.S. Multifactor Index is designed to reflect the performance of stocks of large and mid-capitalization U.S. companies with attractive valuations, high quality profiles, positive momentum signals, and lower volatility than the broader market. Innovation on the Investment Frontier Fidelity is committed to innovation in the asset management space. The firm offers a broad range of investment vehicles to meet the evolving needs of investors and continues to look for opportunities to grow its product offering. Today’s announcement comes on the heels of the recent launch of Fidelity’s first suite of innovative active equity ETFs and the expansion of Fidelity’s thematic fund lineup with time-based pricing. About Fidelity Investments Fidelity’s mission is to inspire better futures and deliver better outcomes for the customers and businesses we serve. With assets under administration of $9.0 trillion, including discretionary assets of $3.5 trillion as of August 31, 2020, we focus on meeting the unique needs of a diverse set of customers: helping more than 32 million people invest their own life savings, 22,000 businesses manage employee benefit programs, as well as providing more than 13,500 institutions with investment and technology solutions to invest their own clients’ money. Privately held for more than 70 years, Fidelity employs more than 45,000 associates who are focused on the long-term success of our customers. For more information about Fidelity Investments, visit https://www.fidelity.com/about-fidelity/our-company. For more market trends, visit ETF Trends. Fidelity ETFsFLRGmultifactor	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1638
__label__cc	0.735547	0.264453	The ETSI Seminar Latest slides The ETSI Seminar is run twice a year, to provide an intensive course on ETSI, its organization, structure, ways of working and related subjects. It is targeted at those who are new to ETSI or those who need to develop a deeper understanding of how to work effectively in ETSI. Although designed primarily for newcomers to the Institute, the fact that ETSI is constantly evolving means that even those individuals with an extensive experience of the Institute and its work find it beneficial to attend. The Seminar is free of charge to attend and is open to all, members and non-members alike. The ETSI Seminar is an important step in the orientation programme for new members. It facilitates their active participation in ETSI, 3GPP or oneM2M - a must if your organization has just joined ETSI. It is essential also for new delegates who have recently started to participate in ETSI work. In addition it also is an opportunity to meet key personnel in the ETSI Secretariat. As well as describing the structure and organization of the Institute and the partnership projects, the seminar provides a detailed look at ETSI's on-line services and other tools for electronic working, which have dramatically improved the efficiency of the standards-making process. The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPPTM) and the oneM2M Partnership Project are also covered. Half of the seminar is focused on the ETSI overview, organization, structure, governance, funding, decision making and other high-level issues, and half covers the knowledge and skills required to operate effectively as a delegate in an ETSI standards meeting. New members of ETSI Candidate (applicant) members New delegates in ETSI committees Newly appointed chairmen, vice-chairman or rapporteurs in ETSI New experts on ETSI Special Task Forces Those who are involved in managing or tracking standardization activities Staff from national standards bodies, or other standards bodies or fora In fact, anyone involved in ETSI and standards-making in any way will benefit from attending! The Seminar is online via Teams, but please register via the Register button above. For exact timetable and speakers see detailed agenda. Thursday, 10 December What is ETSI? ETSI in the World Membership and Funding Governance and decision making Technical Organization Committee Technical Working Procedures Decision Making, Approval and Maintenance Intellectual Propery Rights at ETSI including Standard Essential Patents Access the latest Seminar slides.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1639
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__label__cc	0.64517	0.35483	Laser Surgery for Menopause? It May Help With Dryness and Incontinence, Study Suggests By Jaclyn Anglis November 9, 2018 Laser surgery for menopause might sound a bit intimidating at first, especially since it’s a treatment designed for a woman’s private parts. But new research suggests that a certain type of laser treatment may be effective for relieving some of the worst menopause symptoms that women experience. The September 2018 study, published in Menopause, the journal of The North American Menopause Society (NAMS), analyzed women who underwent microablative fractional CO2 laser surgery, which involves a series of microscopic laser beams using fractionated energy to penetrate the skin and remove old, damaged skin cells. This specific treatment is designed with the intent of rebuilding the vaginal pathway. Researchers evaluated the patients’ symptoms of genitourinary syndrome of menopause (GSM) — which covers all genital and urinary problems linked to menopause — up to a year after their last surgery. Results showed that this type of laser surgery was particularly effective at reducing dryness down there, as well as painful sex and incontinence. Researchers said the study also suggested that this type of treatment may be more effective for women if they get four or five treatments, as opposed to just one or two. Of course, it’s worth keeping in mind that this surgery might not be right for everyone going through menopause. But if you find yourself experiencing trouble in the downstairs region, it’s definitely worth mentioning to your doctor as a possible option. “This study adds to the literature on vaginal laser therapy for GSM. However, more robust randomized, sham-controlled data are needed, with larger numbers of women, to evaluate long-term safety, benefits, and risks,” said JoAnn Pinkerton, MD, the executive director of NAMS, in a press release. “Until more data are available, all treatment options, including lubricants, vaginal moisturizers, and FDA-approved vaginal and systemic hormone therapies, should be discussed with women who suffer from GSM to determine the best treatment option for them.” How Long Do Menopause Symptoms Last? Longer Than You Think Your Past Pregnancies May Affect Hot Flashes During Menopause — Here’s How Early Menopause Robbed Me of Motherhood — But I’ve Learned to Celebrate What I Do Have Following This Diet Could Lead to Remission from Type 2 Diabetes Sipping This Simple Tea Can Help Boost Liver Function and Speed Weight Loss 6 Natural Ways to Sick-Proof Your Winter You Can Protect Yourself From Poor Covid Outcomes With Good Oral Hygiene A healthy mouth can prevent lung infections from the virus. 6 Best At-Home Fat-Freezing Products That Will Banish Stubborn Flab for Good Say goodbye to rolls, dimples, and bulges! Struggling to Lose Weight? Skipping This Part of Your Morning Routine Might Be Why Breakfast really is the most important meal of the day. Why You Should Take POSTbiotics Instead of Probiotics to Slim Your Waist Fast You Can Burn Twice as Many Calories By Eating More at This Time of Day, Study Claims 10 Best Elliptical Machines for Home Use 2021 Eating More of This Nutrient Can Help You Avoid Severe Covid-19 Symptoms 6 Winter Citrus Fruits That Will Burn Fat, Boost Your Mood, and More This $12 Ayurvedic Supplement Helps With Weight Loss, Anxiety, and Insomnia Covid-19 Vaccines Will Now Be Available for Everyone Over 65 3 Long Term Effects of Covid and How You Can Prevent Them	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1646
__label__wiki	0.704495	0.704495	Hershey PA - Stevie Nicks Pics... Vids... and some Hershey Kisses! STEVIE NICKS LIVE IN HERSHEY, PA THE STAR PAVILION - JULY 3, 2012 MORE VIDEOS FROM HERSHEY Rock N Roll \| Dreams \| Leather & Lace \| Rhiannon \| Landslide \| Stand Back \| Edge of Seventeen MORE PHOTOSOn Facebook... Check out Kara Gordons photos from last night, she's posted about 144 pretty great images. Gallery Thank you to vwall10411 for the great videos Posted by Nickslive at Wednesday, July 04, 2012 Labels: IN YOUR DREAMS TOUR, Stevie Nicks There's something very reminiscent about the Stand Back photo...it's VERY Rock A Little-esque. The pose, the expression on her face, and of course the REAL Stand Back shawl. It's got a very 1986 vibe to it. Great photos...thanks for sharing! Before the concert started in Long Island they played a rock-a-billy song by Stevie. Does anyone know the name and if it is available anywhere? Thanx for your help. On a trivial note ~ her hair looks a little frizzy. Humidity? Nickslive said... Anonymous #1. It was Stevie singing "Not Fade Away" a Buddy Holly cover. She took part in a tribute album released last year called "Listen To Me: Buddy Holly" http://www.amazon.com/Listen-To-Me-Buddy-Holly/dp/B005GKIL0U It was also televised on pbs late last year. Youtube vid of the performance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbndfXPU6AU&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PL315EB350A4081B58 I ADORE YOU STEVIE!!!!! Stevie sounds amazing! WOW! For What It's Worth sounds FREAKIN' AWESOME here! I like how it's transposed to a higher key. Sounds more uplifting somehow. I watched all of the videos and I am so blown away at how p-r-e-s-e-n-t Stevie was. So in the moment... enjoying every second! Singing the songs like the first time. She sounds wonderful and magical, and simply amazing! So, she cut 'Ghosts Are Gone' y'know. Ah, kind of a flatulent sounding song, anyway. No, she didn't replace it with anything. I've been a fan for 35 years, a big fan and encourage others to love attending her shows. So, take the following for the nothing that it's worth- besides, the WebKing her will delete this, likely. It's good to be King, and he's brilliant, so it's his choice. I don't matter anyway, and people like to unconditionally support Ms. Nicks, but here goes: If she doesn't do something soon with 'Italian Summer' I am so through with her. Double goes for her opening the set with 'In Your Dreams'- I can't believe, but do believe, she doesn't see the impact of singing the title song of a cd she is trying to sell. Good riddance to me, yes. Since '89 she has neglected playing the best songs on her albums, and after 23 years, I'm done. 'Long Way To Go', ' 'Doing The Best That I Can', Listen To The Rain,' 'Kick It', 'Reconsider Me' from the box set all would have been thrilling live. Then, 'Candlebright' and especially especially 'Everybody Finds Out' and 'Thrown Down'- she couldn't be bothered to attempt to sing them for her fans. We wait forever for the songs we love to come from her, then they lay as track 15 on a cd. (EFO) Instead we got 'Goodbye Baby'- ugh and the lasso on ludes 'Say you Will' pantomime. A fan since my pre-teens, I got over never hearing her sing 'Violet and Blue' or 'Nothing Ever Changes' live. Now with 'IYD' and 'IS' the two songs that still stand out most after 14 months I think she should love doing her concerts as she wants to do them, but I can't see her anymore. Love and best wishes to all of you attending this year. The soundmen CAN add reverb to the end of 'Summer' and there's Sharon who would fill it out beautifully. 'Rock and Roll' as an opener- really. 'In Your Dreams' is the ONLY acceptable opener. Sorry, guys and gals, my loss and wishes of success to Nicks, but she's not having much, because she's singing the wrong songs from the cd. Stevie takes no advice from anyone. ''Good for her'' maybe. But it's also why the label doesn't care about helping her sell the cd with any singles or easy to get late night bookings on tv for singing GOOD songs from the cd. Reprise won't lift a finger to help her get the dvd out. Ever since she said ''no'' to them, " I don't want to rush this for Christmas sales," when the label had heard the entire cd sans the oh so precious 'Soldier's Angel'-the other 11 or 12 songs were recorded, Reprise wanted to rush the mixing, mastering, artwork and promotion and have it all on the front burner for a Tuesday after Black Friday November, 2011 release. She got her way, the release in May, and the label was right- she needed the holiday sales. So, not only me, but the label is through with her...For now, anyway. At 63, she was not smart to tell the label 'no' or think she should ignore their advice, they know the business of selling cds and knew it would be a perfect stocking stuffer. You can't tell 30-something suits 'no' when one is 63. And note to Nicks: cds still sell, just not yours. Enjoy those 'Landslide' royalties from tv. The new cd was sacrificed. Not ONE late night Letterman, Fallon, Kimmel shie, none of em. 'Landslide' for prime time or 4 times. Oh, and 'Edge of 17- brilliant way to sell a new cd.- Her cd dropped off the charts, and catalog sales for music 37 years old kept rising. Not brainy, but good for the publishing royalties. Leno, Letterman, all of em, would've let her sing any new song, as she chose them. She could've showcased 4 songs in late night alone with 4 tv shows. And now she won't even sing 'In Your Dreams'. Sorry, sorry, sorry. And 'Dreams' second, snores, and 'Rhiannon' and 'Landslide' and 'GDW'- who the HELL needs to see her on tour with Mac next year! With 'StandBack' too! Continued from ^:Before it's deleted, anyone who wants to is more than welcome to copy and paste this and send it to any Chiffondra web site there is. Chiffondra is my name here, I just can't remember how to select it, The ghosts are gone. Swell. Now, show that she's truly had a solo career of complete merit, and get rid of 'Rhiannon' and every Fleetwood Mac song and she will reinvigorate herself, the crowds, and people will have them to look forward to next year/ It would be a WHOLE year of not hearing the songs- she can't handle it. The fans would love it! Oh, and get booked on every late night tv show there is, and sing 'In Your Dreams', 'Summer', 'Sargasso' and watch the cd sales double. She is still at 174,800 worldwide. When 'Italian Summer' becomes a staple on adult contemporary stations, if she and Reprise go for it, it could get airplay into early winter and make the cd become certified gold. Sheesh. Start by opening the set with 'IYD'- but, yes, yes, she takes no advice, ever. She's sabotaged her own ''little masterpiece''. FIX IT!! :) What on earth is happening here, Stevie is the Boss the Queen and always will be, Her loyal fans will always stick by her choices whether they understand them or not, As Marianne Faithfull once said "Just because you don't understand someones choices, That doesn't mean it isn't the right choices for them".. A genius quote. x You have to be tone deaf to actually believe Italian Summer is suitable for radio or even satellite radio. Same for Sargasso. Both are great songs but too complex, sophisticated and mostly too long for radio. She should have come out of the gate with IYD and followed it up with FWIW. Then and only then would the appetites have sold the non die-hards. It's great to sell CDs but almost no established artists sell CDs anymore. It's all about touring and merchandising for them. Even U2 and Madonna (lord who knows why she can sell any) are facing exponential sales decreases following releases now. Right now I'm just happy to see her looking and sounding good and most of all willing to follow her desire to continue to work. We all know she doesn't have to. FM royalties from worldwide catalogue sales and downloads can probably take care of her daily expenses without even touching her trust funds. I understand passionate fans but c'mon, aren't you being a bit dramatic? Stevies' "fan" tour was her 1998 boxed set tour. Why she doesn't pull out any of these old songs (or other "hits", how about "rooms on fire" or "talk to me"?) is a mystery, BUT, she continues to sell tickets (even selling out in certain markets), soooo...people want to see her. Yes, her set list is BORING, but I think the majority of the people seeing her show aren't die hard fans who have been to 10-20 shows already. In your Dreams is a great album, but it's done, it's not going to sell anything more significant and there will be no radio play, you just have to learn to accept it. Stevie is in the twilight of her career and she still sounds pretty good. Just accept the fact that she is not taking any chances anymore with her set list (but then again, when did she ever, really?). I am a HUGE fan but I am not going to see her live anymore for your same reasons, but I respect the fact that she chooses what she sings for a reason, even if it is only known to her. Yes, you are right! She should have come out of the gate with In Your Dreams. That song would sell, sound great on radio, and perhaps sell seats at shows. I don't understand it either and I've been a fan since I was 9 years old in 1977. IYD's is such the obvious choice as an opener and a single. WIll be interesting to see the set list for the Heart/Soul dates. I think starting the show with Rock and Roll was brilliant. The PA plays Stevie's cover of Not Fade Away and then she comes in singing Rock and Roll... firmly situates her in the rock pantheon. As far as her other choices, I think she is taking risks -- what other rocker over 40 (let alone 60) would put 6 new songs in a set and get away with it! I agree, as a deep lover of Stevie's music and someone who has seen her about a dozen times, I'd love to hear her play more old deep tracks (Reconsider Me, e.g. is one of my favorite stevie songs), but I don't think that given the average concert goer, she can get away without playing at least some of her standards. So to have room for the new songs, that fills a set. I'd love to see her do a few shows of old deep cuts, that would be amazing. I'd also love to see her work with Rick Rubin or T Bone on her next album and go for something a little grittier and bluesier, but she hasn't asked me. So until then, I love that she is committed to the new album and is back out on the road with it this summer. Saw her in Hershey this week -- great show, headed to Niagara this weekend. She's the best. Rock on all. The Title Track of the Album "IN YOUR DREAMS" is easily the most commercial and catchiest song on the CD. WHY WHY WHY? Does she IGNORE this song? Makes no sense. Also WHY opening with a COVER of a Zep song when she has so many to choose from????? IMO, "Ghosts are Gone" has a really annoying riff in the opening...I dont know just something about the way it sounds, irritates me...and the song is a Shania Twain clone. "You COuld Be The One" is best runner up. Has some soul to it. "Secret Love" is just barely Ok. A VERY WEAK debut song. I think this set the public opinion tone for the rest of the CD. Stevie may be the Queen, but she is not ruling her Kingdom very efficiently. heading down the NOSTALGIA path of used to be Rock n Rollers. Maybe, that is OK with her at this stage of her life. She has NOTHING LEFT TO PROVE to----Anyone. I love hearing some of the criticism here. I've been saying it for years. Does somebody love Stevie's work more because they say every song is perfect and everything she does is her best? I don't think so. It's lazy. It ignores the real moments or brilliance. Every great artist can be looked at critically and stand up to it. To say she has made mistakes doesn't deny those precious moments of inspired genius. The anonymous poster who says Stevie is ignoring In Your Dreams and, instead, filling her set with songs from the 1970s and early 1980s is so right. She says she loves this album, but year after year we keep seeing set lists that drop newer songs (anything from the last 25 years) for oldies. And once the tour is up and running another new song is usually dropped (Destiny Rules, Ghosts Are Gone). Who is Stevie Nicks in 2012? Is she an artist who makes music now? Or is she an oldies act who is happy to feed he beer-filled concert-goers and bloated diet of nostalgia? I believe she is an artist as vital as ever. But seeing her in concert is so often disappointing. I was fortunate enough to see her at her birthday concert at the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles last year. There, I saw a rare glimpse of a performer who is not afraid to take risks. I saw a woman who was living in the moment, proud, creative and as vital as she's ever been. She did nearly every track from the new album. Has she EVER done that before? It was thrilling to watch. This tour (along with The Enchanted tour) is certainly one of her boldest. I can appreciate that. Replacing Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You with Love Is brought some life to the set. Kicking off with six songs from the new album may be the best she's done since 1981. I love it! But leave Landslide and Stand Back home when you go on TV. Give Edge of Seventeen a rest. Show the world In Your Dreams and Moonlight. Let the new songs become the classics they deserve to be. If I was advising Ms. Nicks, I would tell her to make an album every other year. Write. Record. Sing. Share your gifts with the world. Show the world your beautiful visions through 64-year-old eyes. Then through 66-year-old eyes and 68-year-old eyes and never quit. Stop selling endless nostalgia and show the world that you are the reigning Queen of Rock-n-Roll! Well said Robert, but Stevie has to appeal to the mass audience and that is the casual fan who only knows Landslide and will go for a beer run when she starts singing a new song. What she supposed to do? I would think there are more casual fans than die hard fans but could be wrong. Anyone heard anything ABOUT MORE NEW DATES? just saw Vancouver and Portland added but no dates or venues??? Well, it's the Fleetwood Mac songs that are the most bothersome, because she doesn't seem to know that insisting to do them every tour is admitting - wrongly- that her solo career material isn't strong enough to stand alone without the Mac songs- it's boring, it's a crutch that has hurt her reputation, and she doesn't care. Her way on her highway. I WAS, truly, told it's the reason she isn't in the Rock Hall Of Fame as a solo artist- I think it is so deserved. Was shot down with: "SHE doesn't believe she can do a concert tour without the Mac songs, she hasn't done it once. Fleetwood Mac is already in. She WON'T get in as a solo act because she isn't secure enough to do her solo material for a full set. If she doesn't believe in her solo music, the Hall of Fame isn't going to induct her again for the same songs that got her in once"- that is almost verbatim. She didn't make it to the final cut if NOMINATIONS last year because of this. "But she did six songs from the new cd"- Yes, but still is relying on 'landslide' - 'rhiannon'- 'dreams' and 'gold dust woman' and sometimes 'sara' or other Fleetwood Mac tunes. "That's not a solo career that will be awarded''. Audiences who go to see Nicks solo go to see her with Fleetwood Mac. Any 15 songs from her solo career would do for a set. There's 'talk to me', 'can't wait', 'rooms on fire', 'bella donna', 'nightbird, 'wild heart', and any album cuts from her later solo career. I wanted it for her, fans want it for her, and oh, Stevie wants it badly herself but she doesn't see the bigger picture and it holds her back- sheeyitt- Madonna is in- who has never even recorded a rock song. At this time, Stevie is not held in esteem as a solo act by the panel because SHE doesn't believe she can get through a solo tour without so many Mac songs, and they're the same ones she's been sure to always, always, sing when she returns to Mac. ONE Mac song might be ok, maybe two. She doesn't get it. "At this time''- well, there's not much time left. She negates the huge solo star that she once was and could still be recognized for being, but not with her stubborn refusal to distinguish that "Stevie Nicks'' has had a career beyond Fleetwood Mac when she hits the stage as a solo artist. Disappointing. And this is all true. Happened in NYC in autumn of 2011- and the Grammy snubs were because of - well, that's another story- wrong songs submitted, and a label disappointed by her lack of cooperation. I think IYD is a horrible song. She should however, include Wide Sargasso Sea, You Could Be The One and Everybody Loves You in her set. Personally, I love Rhiannon and Gold Dust Woman. I could do without Landslide, Rock N Roll and Edge of Seventeen. I have been a fan of Stevie's for over 30 years and I think she's wonderful. I do agree that she would benefit greatly from adding different songs. First of all, I'm really glad that I'm not the only rabble-rouser here, cause I was feeling lonely for a long time. The behind-the-scenes revelations explain a lot about how and why IYD went down the way it did. And I'm going to agree with the people who say the title song and Italian Summer are the set's hits, but they're not necessarily to be sold as dull A/C fodder. Remember how Stevie ripped into FALL FROM GRACE at a live awards shows, even though it was a new song? Yes - she should've done the same with IYD. Had no idea how she pissed off Reprise, but it now makes sense. I believe the story. She wouldn't let them do their job and now it's over. Not Stevie's career, but this corporate phase of it. Funny how Stevie "rages against the machine' as phony rebels do as they're told. Stevie and FM have long been horrible judges of their own hits, with many weak songs put out in front while many stronger songs have languished in obscurity. To reiterate another commentator, OOH MY LOVE (horrible title!) should have been Stevie's biggest ever hit, to follow ROOMS ON FIRE. Instead, it was never released, and the weak Klonopin-themed TWO KINDS OF LOVE took its place. Sadly, the singles choices haven't much improved, even as Stevie;s personal clarityt has long been restored. Why were THROWN DOWN and EVERYBODY FINDS OUT dismissed? People said SAY YOU WILL had no "hits." Like hell it didn't!!! It's just that S&N would rather battle with each other than be successful. At some point, you just gotta accept that dysfunction goes along with being a SN/FM fan... I think our insightful friend meant that Reprise wanted it released in November 2010, not May 2011. No prob. Just a minor fact check. It seems incredible to me that Stevie didn't take their advice. Now she's kicking herself that she didn't have those Rod Stewart/Paul McCartney sales numbers - but what does one expect? Stevie's dad was once head of Armour Meats and Greyhound and I'm sure he encountered know-it-all battle-axes like Stevie in his career. Stevie - do your music, but let them do their job!!!! Actually, it's very sad seeing Stevie pushing IYD to little results after having told off Reprise, and lost dearly..... I'm gonna be honest. The first time I heard ITALIAN SUMMER I burst into tears and cried and cried. Why? I don't know why. But it's Stevie's most powerful song in years. Let's not fight about it - it needs to go out into the world one way or another as a hit. Because it encapsulates Stevie's hard-to-define magic. With a NEW song in the HERE and NOW. I love it!!! And so does everyone I've played it for. It goes to breathless, surprising, unimagined heights...and that final NOTE! It proves that Stevie is as great as Maria Callas!!! Regarding Italian Summer I have a theory here. A BIG theory (and given the wonderful post above, I gave it another listen). How many of you Italian Summer lovers are Age 40+? To me--a somewhat savvy 20 something--this song is a snooze fest. A BEAUTIFUL snooze fest. It's like an upbeat ballad that I can't dance to. Give me SS, BeaChild, Storms or give me nothing. Or Hey! Give me Everybody Loves You, or You May Be The One <-- those two do it for me based on subject matter more so than music..although the crescendo to "i loved you so much" in YMBT1 is killer. I don't see how I-S would resonate with anyone under the age of 35. And as we all learned in Dest-Rules, it's those 10-27 yr olds who buy records, and thus determine the market for radio, etc. You never know if the older fans will come out of the waaa...'wall' right?! I've fallen in love with IYD all over again since this spat of shows and even FWIW which I never really loved-loved is now blasted for that 'AHHHH' before the double reprise of the chorus at @3:40. The run of songs from SL down to My Heart (i bought the WB edition) is KILLER. And yeah I love that demo too and would LOVE to hear it live. I-S could go out into the world in some RomCom in a heartbeat, thought I know the thought might make some cringe. FWIW (no really), could I petition NicksLive to start a forum? There's great discussions on here that need a place of accessibility and semi permanence. We could be edgier ledge with black on black and red type. I really appreciate all the intelligent posts here as well. As far as music being age-restrictive, I beg to differ. Youth doesn't necessarily simply equate to, "I have to dance to it", or, "if it isn't about fucking and partying I'm not interested." That's very narrow-minded. How could classical music have survived for centuries? If you want to do the marketers' work for them and self-restrict to "age-appropriate" material, then you're ceding your tastes to others. I happen to love new, old, in-between, Jazz, Classical, Rock, Pop, Ambient, etc.. DON'T PUT ME IN AN AGE GHETTO, PLEASE. ITALIAN SUMMER is so appealing because stylistically it's completely different for Stevie and captures her wild, beautiful, sad romanticism. That's why I love it. Not because I'm programmed to. And I challenge you to a dance-off!!! No offense, taken - just wanted to respond. ^hmmm! That age post said nothing about "fucking and partying" but mentioned "dancing" and "subject matter," which I have to agree with. That's what I luvvvvv about her music!!! Her songs mean something to me!!!! And usually they make me want to dance. IT'S CRAZZZYYYYYYYY to think Italian Summer is Stevie's calling card for this new album! And wow calm down! That post brought up SILVER SPRINGS and BEAUTIFUL CHILD: I'm sure that person is NOT DANCING TO but loving the life behind those songs! Both really mean something more than "OMG an amazing rain storm in Italy with Capri right nearby I'll remember if forever!" Italian Summer doesn't rock my world or feel wild, beautiful, or anything of the sort. 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__label__wiki	0.656318	0.656318	MCUs or DSPs: Which is in (Motor) Control? March 17, 2005 Jim Turley Quick!name the world's most popular microprocessor chip. If you said “Pentium” you're wrong. Way wrong. Fact is, Intel's famous Pentium family makes up barely 2% of the world's microprocessors. The other 98% are all embedded processors. Since “embedded processor” covers just about everything that's not inside a PC or workstation, it's pretty hard to generalize about them. Some embedded processors are small enough to inhale. Some, like the upcoming Sony/IBM/Toshiba “Cell” processor are fire-breathing behemoths that could shame most Unix workstations. What embedded processors do have in common is a focus on cost-effectiveness and suitability to the task, whatever that task may be. Some are designed for thermostats, some for antilock brakes, some for video games, and some for the mundane task of washing your clothes. On that front, the humble motor inside a washing machine proves an unlikely battleground for chip makers. There's argument over whether traditional microprocessors (and microcontrollers) are best suited for handling motor-control tasks, or whether digital signal processors (DSPs) have the upper hand. With motors so prevalent in everyday items, the debate is no tempest in a teapot The Endless Spin Cycle Processor-controlled motors are more prevalent than the average person might think. Household appliances including “white goods” such as washing machines and dryers are prime examples. These homely devices all got automated several years ago. European appliance makers in particular jumped to processor-controlled motors more than a decade ago in order to comply with tight governmental regulations on power usage and efficiency. One by one, Europe's households were invaded by computer-controlled clothes dryers. What does motor control get you? After all, spinning an AC or DC motor couldn't be simpler; the motors themselves haven't changed much in almost a hundred years. Yet controlling their motion is tricky. Apart from just turning them on and off, controlling the motion of a spinning motor is quite tricky. It involves the science of kinematics, lots of math, and a better than average understanding of inertia, momentum, commutation, mechanical loading, velocity arcs, friction, and any number of arcane fields of study normally closed to electrical engineers and programmers. For starters, you can “soft start” a motor that's processor-controlled. Rather than just applying power to the windings, you can feed power in gradually (over a few seconds or milliseconds) to bring the motor up to speed without wasting energy or causing abrupt mechanical jolts. Once the motor's underway, a processor can also tweak its speed or torque based on need. With just a little feedback a processor-controlled motor can adapt to heavy or light loads (in the washer, for example), or even to brown-out conditions on the AC line. Processor-controlled motors can also add features that an end user might pay for, or that reduce maintenance overhead or improve safety. Over time the processor may sense that the motor requires more torque than usual, indicating a failing bearing. Diagnostic code might detect impending failure in other parts of the system or alert maintenance personnel when service is required. At the other extreme, industrial robots need a whole different level of motor control. Rather than simply spinning a shaft, assembly-line robots move in relatively small increments but with high precision. A midrange four-joint robot (shoulder, elbow, wrist, and twist) will have half a dozen motors all working in concert to bring the “end effector” (a screwdriver, welder, inspection camera, or what have you) to just the right location, attitude, and angle. It's a hardware/software dance that's scary-complicated, and for a large robot undergoing debugging, just plain scary. Surveying the Options So what processors are good at this task? For high-volume home appliances that control a single AC motor, a little 8-bit microcontroller is probably adequate. Virtually every new dishwasher, microwave oven, washer, or dryer will have one of these. At the high end, though, the choices get more complicated. Stretching the definition of “motor control,” automakers now use 32-bit microprocessors to run the car's engine. Another processor controls the automatic transmission, another runs the antilock brakes, and so on. The average new car now includes more than a dozen different microprocessors; the Mercedes S-class and BMW 7-series vehicles both include more than 100 processors apiece. In the middle we have industrial robots both large and small, consumer electronics, actuators, security systems, and innumerable other specialty products. The motors within are controlled by everything from decades-old Motorola 68000 processors to late-model RISC processors, to new chips that combine a microcontroller and a digital signal processor (DSP) to create a new kind of hybrid chip. Although most of these chips could be used in most of these applications, the best choice isn't always clear. Lately there's been a move toward DSPs and away from conventional microprocessors for motor control. The reasons for this aren't always clear, but the trend is definitely there. In some situations, DSPs are better suited to the task. But the real reason may have more to do with software than with the chips themselves. Experienced DSP programmers, and established DSP programming tools, often take a different view toward real-time performance compared to mainstream programmers. A healthy respect for predictability and determinism are two strong streaks running through the DSP talent pool. And when you're swinging a 100-pound robot arm or commanding a 5.7-liter V8, predictability is a big deal. The DSP Mystique Contrary to popular opinion, a DSP processor is not inherently better at generating analog waveforms than a conventional processor. After all, they've both got digital outputs. DSPs pass digital data over a parallel bus just like any other CPU. It's the job of some other hardware in the system to covert that data into something the motors can actually use. What DSPs are better at, though, is calculating just where that motor should go. For all their peculiarities, DSP chips are good at repetitive math. Running tight code loops is what DSPs are born to do. And the quick, repetitive closed-loop calculations of a motor-control application are right up that alley. At its heart, motor control isn't all that different from communications processing, something that DSPs traditionally excel at. Both have hard real-time demands and both require filtering and extended-precision processing. The computation itself may or may not be all that demanding, but the high bandwidth and high precision come in handy. Many of TI's DSP chips for motor control offer 32-bit precision while its mainstream DSP have just 16-bit math units. On the other hand, a DSP might be overkill. You may not need the floating-point arithmetic, extended-precision calculations, or seemingly bizarre addressing modes that many DSP processors offer. Midrange and high-end chips tailored for telecommunications infrastructure are burdened with features that most motor-control programmers won't needor understand. For plenty of motor-control systems, a low-end DSP is all that's required. Hybrid Motoring What frightens most developers away from DSP chips is their programming model. Fill a room with software engineers and the DSP programmers can't talk with the CPU coders. For the most part, they're from two different backgrounds and program in two different ways. While the basics may be the same, the specifics of DSP architecture frighten a lot of developers who remember when RISC-versus-CISC was a big debate. But times are changing. Analog Devices, Microchip, Renesas, Texas Instruments, and others have launched outreach programs for disenfranchised CPU coders. ADI's Blackfin chips and TI's MSP430 chips, to name just two, were designed to be non-threatening to conventional embedded programmers. These chip families, and others like them, have familiar register files, recognizable instruction mnemonics, and manageable addressing modes. They also maintain most of a DSP's facility with math, but leavened a bit so as not to alarm the unwary C programmer. Which highlights another issue. By their nature, DSP processors don't lend themselves to C programming. They've historically been programmed directly in assembly language, partly because DSP routines were often time-critical and partly because standard programming languages were inadequate. The C language, for example, just doesn't map well onto a typical DSP architecture. C was developed, somewhat unconsciously, with certain assumptions about how registers, memory, and execution units behave. It's a fine language for procedural, flow-oriented programsbut somewhat less so for signal-processing code. Like Klingon haiku, it's just the wrong language for the job. Here again, the hybrid CPU/DSP families come to the rescue. With their RISC-like programming models these chips host compiled C code quite comfortably. They still often require hand-written assembly routines for critical inner code loops, but the chip vendor will supply these as often as not. (After all, it's in their best interest to give away code if it means selling more chips. Ain't capitalism great.) Motor Winding Wind-Up So where does that leave the traditional microprocessor? Are yesterday's RISC and CISC processors being kicked aside by newer CPU/DSP hybrids, or do these chips still have a role in motor-control applications? The answer is yes to both. First off, most 32-bit processor families have been around for years, if not decades. Intel's x86 family tree got planted way back in 1971 and today's embedded 386, 486, and Pentium-class chips still have some remarkable (some would say appalling) similarities to those early 8008 and 8086 processors. That kind of longevity breeds programmer loyalty. You can't swing a dead cat through most engineering labs without hitting a programmer with experience using an x86, or 68000, or ARM, or MIPS processor. That kind of experience doesn't come cheap, and most programmers are loath to give up their hard-fought experience. Better to write code for an old, familiar chip than struggle with a new, unfamiliar one. Second, many motor-control applications are well served by existing RISC or CISC processors. Unless the motor's moving very rapidly and needs constant course correction a standard microprocessor will probably do just fine. Comparing current position to desired position and accounting for momentum, load, and acceleration are all within the abilities of most 32-bit microprocessors. Third, processors have speeded up faster than motors have. In other words, an old 16-MHz Motorola 68000 chip might have had a tough time keeping up with a robot arm, but a modern 100-MHz ColdFire processor would have no problem – and the two CPUs could probably run the same code. As processors have gotten faster they're able to take on more of the filtering, commutation, and encoding tasks. All without switching to an alternate architecture. But the newer hybrids chips have their advantages, too. Sometimes it has nothing to do with the internal architecture or programming model but with what's outside the chip. Hybrid devices often come with PWM (pulse-width modulation) outputs, CAN interfaces, or other useful peripherals that aren't so common on conventional microprocessors. For a low-cost system, or one that's space constrained, those peripheralsnot the processor corecan swing the deal. Sometimes it's what's on the outside that counts. Caches are different, too. DSP chips and DSP hybrids generally take a different view toward caches: they're a bad thing. Paradoxically, one of the features that almost every 32-bit microprocessor added in the past decade now works against them. Caches are the bane of real-time predictability, and DSP programmers avoid them. Caches are great for speeding up most code, most of the time. But they play havoc with determinism. Plenty of motor-control systems just can't afford to work reliably 99% of the time, but then fail unpredictably because of a cache-miss. Better to have no cache than an unpredictable one. In the end, the world's motor-control applications will be split three ways between traditional microprocessors, DSP processors, and hybrid processors. The major automakers have already selected their chips, and they're almost all conventional 32-bit RISC or CISC designs. Consumer-electronics vendors have made hybrid CPUs popular in everything from DVD players to digital cameras (which have motors for focusing). And DSPs are a big hit with industrial users and anything that requires image processing or high-speed communication. As with most things, there's no single right answer. But that doesn't mean it's not worth evaluating the alternatives and taking a good look at previously unanticipated options. Jim Turley is an acknowledged authority on microprocessor chips, embedded systems, semiconductor intellectual property, computers, and silicon technology. He is the author of seven books, Editor-in-Chief of Embedded Systems Programming magazine, publisher and principal analyst of Silicon Insider , past editor of the prestigious industry journal Microprocessor Report (a three-time winner of the Computer Press Award), and is a regular speaker at industry events. He is frequently quoted in The Wall Street Journal , New York Times , San Jose Mercury News , and appears regularly on television, radio, and Internet broadcasts. His email address is . Tags: Analog, Coprocessors, Electromechanical Previous VC advice workshop places up for grabs Next Network on chip eases IP connect	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1654
__label__wiki	0.518708	0.518708	Ethics/Guidelines FWRD AXIS U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson Announces Third Lockdown In England Nichola Sturgeon Announces Full Lockdown For Scotland Opinion: Brits Should Celebrate The Brexit Deal – But Only Because It’s Over Parents Should Send Children To School If Open, Boris Johnson Says U.K., EU Announce Brexit Deal Just Days Before Deadline Biden To Deploy FEMA And National Guard As Part Of Covid-19 Vaccination Plan Biden Announces $1.9 Trillion Covid Relief Package To ‘Rescue’ America Trump Impeached For The Second Time Following Capitol Riot Biden Taps Samantha Power To Lead U.S. Agency For International Development Pence Will Not Invoke 25th Amendment With Democrats Set To Vote On Impeachment Wonder Woman 1984: Review Borat Comes To Giuliani’s Defense After Questionable Scene Ariana Grande Announces Engagement To Boyfriend Dalton Gomez Jesy Nelson Leaves Little Mix After 9 Years Blake Shelton Announces His Engagement To Gwen Stefani Iconic Armenian Artists Set To Perform in upcoming ‘Concert For Artsakh’ Meghan Trainor To Leave “The Voice UK” Following The Conclusion Of Series 9 Unpacking “Bridgerton” On Sexism And Consent: How Far Have We Come? Jim Carrey Stepping Down From Joe Biden Role On ‘Saturday Night Live’ Sharon Osbourne Announces She’s Tested Positive For Coronavirus Ellen Degeneres Announces She’s Tested Positive For COVID-19 Alex Trebek Passes Away, Aged 80 Twitter Permanently Suspends Donald Trump’s Account Trump Downplays Russia’s Alleged Role in Cyber Hack, Puts Blame On China Pompeo Says It’s “Pretty Clear” Russia Was Behind Hack Against U.S. Government The Saga of Harry Cherry and the problem with Twitter verification FBI Says Russia and Iran Have Interfered in Presidential Election We can deconstruct “Bridgerton” into three brackets, from the way women are viewed and treated to the way men make decisions for women. Sumaiya Ahmed Warning: contains spoilers “You have no idea what it is to be a woman, what it might feel like to have one’s entire life reduced to a single moment,” Daphne Bridgerton (Phoebe Dynevor) says to her eldest brother, Anthony (Johnathon Bailey), in the first episode of Bridgerton. Set in 1800’s London high society, Netflix’s adaptation of Julia Quinn’s popular novels excels in portraying life for women during the Regency era and the overt power of men. When the show starts, it is the Season, where young women are pitted against each other to win the heart of some of the most eligible bachelors, for marriage, reputation and family honour. We can clearly deconstruct Bridgerton into three brackets, from the way women are viewed and treated to the way men make decisions for women. Bridgerton is currently adored for the eye candy on screen and the steamy sex scenes, as well as the Regency-era’s very own version of Gossip Girl, Lady Whistledown, but if we take all that away, we’re left with men controlling women, sexism and internalised misogyny. In the very first episode, Anthony tells Daphne he’s found her a suitor–Nigel Berbrooke (Jamie Beamish), a man decades older than her, with an extremely questionable personality. Naturally, Daphne is furious. She tells her brother she wanted to make that choice herself; after all, she would be the one spending her life with this person. Throughout the show, the Duke of Hastings, Simon Basset (Regé-Jean Page), the aforementioned eye candy sending Twitter into a frenzy, and Anthony continue to try to make decisions for Daphne, alluding to them believing she is not capable nor knowledgeable enough to make her own life choices. The women in the show, from Daphne to her younger sister, Eloise Bridgerton (Claudia Jessie) to Queen Charlotte (Golda Rosheuvel) and Marina Thompson (Ruby Barker) are painfully aware of their lack of options available to them in life, that they are simply to go from one man to another. This speaks volumes about the way women during this time, and even today in many societies, were viewed: as objects to be controlled. There is a significant absence of knowledge regarding sex education in Bridgerton; in one particular scene, Eloise wants to know how a woman can become pregnant if she is not married, but their mother stops her brothers from revealing anything. On Daphne’s wedding night, her mother skirts around the topic of sex, not telling her she actually needed to know as a now married woman. Even talking about sex was a taboo for the women in the 1800’s, an issue continuing even in the 21st century, limiting women from understanding the way their bodies work, the importance of setting boundaries and most importantly, consent. Early in the show, we see an attempted sexual assault, from Nigel trying to force himself on Daphne. After her brother finds out, from Simon, and asks Daphne why she never told him, she bluntly says, “Would you have believed me? Did you only change your mind about Lord Berbrooke because another man told you the truth?” Women, during this time, were treated as if they existed merely for a man’s sexual gratification: a man could have sex with whomever he wishes before marriage and get away with it, but the woman must remain a virgin, no matter what. The conduct towards women who engaged in premarital sex was largely negative, as we see in how others in Bridgerton reacted to the news of Marina Thompson’s illegitimate pregnancy. In today’s day and age, we can see the way reporting sexual assault impacts both men and women, from women being shamed and their attempts at seeking justice brushed aside in the name of false claims or wanting attention, to men being protected and absolved of guilt. Many women fear not being believed when speaking up about sexual assault, continuously being faced with objectification and dealing with misogyny constantly. This very thing is the premise of Netflix’s show, Unbelievable, based on a true story that happened in 2008, showing the inability of men believing women in cases of sexual abuse. In Bridgerton, the ever-present beliefs of women being inferior and their values placed on their virginity and behaviour as a damsel are highlighted expertly. However, Eloise is a stark contrast to the expectations of accepted womanhood, as she does not desire marriage and instead, wants to go to university. She is a depiction of modern feminism, eager to learn, with a thirst for change and to fly the nest. Whilst Daphne is eager to give into the societal expectations placed on her and dreams of being a wife and mother, she is strong and opinionated, standing up to her brother, the Duke and even bloody Nigel (she has a great right hook!)–she even calls out her mother for not preparing her for sex. True understanding of feminism is accepting Daphne’s aspirations of being a wife and motherhood, but in a society demanding that this be the only path for a woman, it must be questioned. Compared to the 1800’s, society has come a long way–from women getting married and having children later, however there is still this presupposition of women adhering to these norms and values, lest they be faced with judgement and shaming. Here, we can assume this to be a result of internalised misogyny, the result of a set of values placed on us as a society. This leads to a shift in conversation, exploring the very identity of what it means to be a woman and gender roles, or even femininity–society, it seems, tends to hate strong women. “What it is about the power of a woman free in mind and body that has been perceived as so dangerous throughout history?” Angelina Jolie writes, when talking about why the world needs more wicked women. Daphne, despite following the traditional path without complaint, is aware of her agency and her right to choose a suitor, as well as Simon’s lie where he can’t have children is, in fact, he won’t have children, and the impact of lack of sex education. Simon’s lie was one that he made, suggesting he could not have children, rather than what the truth was: he did not want to (having made a vow to his dying father and all). Coupled with Daphne’s gap in knowing what sex and exactly how babies were made, he was able to get away with it, until Daphne found out. Here is where there became an issue, where she, for the first time, took over the reigns during sex and then coerced him to ejaculate inside her, against his will. Understandingly, the Duke of Hastings was horrified, not having consented to this. “How could you?” he asks afterwards, in shock. “You took advantage. You seized an opportunity, so I did the very same,” Daphne replies. Bridgerton (Netflix), Season 1, Episode 6 ‘Swish’ From this moment, their relationship turned sour. All of this could have been avoided had she been given the proper information relating to sex. What Bridgerton shows us is how keeping the importance of sex, the sensations and the process, is a way to exert control over women and a way to hold onto power. Him not wanting children should’ve been properly spoken about, as the key for a healthy relationship is communication–something both Daphne and Simon fail at. The scene is trivialised and brushed over in the show. It draws a line of confusion whether it actually counts as rape, as Simon consented until Daphne took control of his ejaculation. This is something that shouldn’t have happened, in the book (The Duke and I) or show. The difference between them, however, is that in the book it is obviously rape, right from the very beginning as he was drunk and asleep. Once he’d removed consent, Daphne should have stopped–instead she chose to ignore his request and consciously took advantage. During the time period in which this was set, the question around consent was nonexistent, as due to being married, Simon had ownership over Daphne. Watching it unfold, or reading about it, from a 21st century lens starts a much needed conversation on the way marriage, sex and women (and in this case, men) were treated regarding consent. Now, whilst we are aware of the implications of Daphne’s actions, especially in the era of #MeToo, understanding scenes of sexual assault and raising the topic on consent is vital, to ourselves and others safe. In comparison to today, as a society we have come to understanding of what counts as consensual sex, and understanding what falls under the umbrella of rape: from coercion, to silence and intoxication, to an outright no. The fact the show failed to focus on the assault was damaging and concerning, speaking to the way it is often dealt with even in today’s day and age. Consent is the one thing that shouldn’t be considered to be morally grey, as it can be removed at any point, from either person (even if it’s in the midst of intercourse). Of course, when watching it, we must remember it is a show set in the Regency era, where values, beliefs and behaviours were vastly different. There are still a lot of similarities when it comes to the issues of sexism and misogyny, with the expectations placed on women and the way society puts a woman’s worth on her ability to be a wife and mother, as well as the shaming of single mothers, and the conversation on consent. We also definitely need to improve the foundations of sex education. The way men and society treated women back in the 1800s and even today are eerily similar, with very subtle differences. Unfortunately, patriarchy is still well and alive. Bridgerton is now streaming on Netflix. In this article:Bridgerton, Featured, Netflix, Phoebe Dynevor, Streaming TV, TV Written By Sumaiya Ahmed Sumaiya Ahmed is a Muslim, sex-positive freelance writer and a book reviewer, aiming to break down the boundaries of cultural stigma and shame attached to mental health and sexuality within the South Asian culture, and bringing marginalised topics to light. U.S. Capitol Locked Down After Breach By Pro-Trump Protesters Opinion \| What Is A Covid Christmas Going To Look Like In The UK? Biden Blasts Trump’s Handling Of Cyberattack On U.S. Government FBI Warns Of ‘Armed Protests’ Planned At All 50 State Capitols And D.C. 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__label__wiki	0.975003	0.975003	Nightly releases "summer" music video! Stream "summer" HERE. Watch the official video HERE Pre-order night, love you HERE With the announcement of night, love you, Nightly released their latest single "summer," and today, the band unveiled the official music video. "summer" brings us back to just another ordinary season - one filled with fleeting but memorable summer romances and carefree escapades. "I was channeling these feelings that I get of nostalgia and memories tied to a certain time of year," frontman Jonathan Capeci explains. With languid vocals and laid back pop melodies bringing us back to feeling “22 and reckless,” the band invites us to enjoy a season filled with sun and fun--despite what's going on in the world. The song is that distraction we need from the stress of a crazy year, with vocals reminiscent of early Aughts’ pop acts, perfect for enjoying a (socially distant) cocktail hour. "From the beginning we've wanted to be an album band. 'night, love you.' was the sentiment behind the band name, so in a way this is our semi-self titled debut. It's deeply personal, and we couldn't be more proud of this record. All of it was created in Joey's basement which feels full circle from where we started, making songs in a tiny apartment. All of the songs were written this year with the exception of the closing track which is one of the first songs we ever wrote. We always knew that we wanted to save it for our debut record, now it's finally yours." - Jonathan Capeci, Nightly night, love you track list you should probably just hang up (how it feels) not like you mess in my head so sly lose a friend i got so much to tell you	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1663
__label__cc	0.737612	0.262388	Summertime means blue crabs are on the menu! How To Cook A Proper Blue Crab Feast Marylander explains how to buy, season, steam, eat Drew Lazor July 23, 2014 “So, who serves the best crabs?” That’s one of the most frequent questions people from Maryland get from non-Marylanders, right up there with “Ray Lewis killed a guy” (not actually a question) and “Have you ever seen The Wire?” (yes, here’s my HBO Go login, please go away). And though I’ve committed the names of a few famous seafood houses to memory, my heart’s not in any of these answers. That’s because there’s no debate. I serve the best crabs, hands and claws down. I don’t mean me, specifically. Any native who fully embraces our hardshell-picking state tradition (those who don’t = weirdos) secretly wants to respond to such queries the same way. That’s because “going out” for crabs, to some pricey restaurant with ship’s wheels and nautical knots nailed to the walls, just isn’t what we want to do. Steaming and picking through big piles of Number Ones, surrounded by loved ones, an O’s game on TV and an endless stream of Natty Bohs rolling out of the cooler, is. This might be an inconvenient truth for someone headed down for a weekend in Annapolis or Baltimore or Ocean City, looking for a ready-made shell-cracking experience. But true crab lovers are homebodies, and summer is their season. There’s nothing that quite compares to the experience, especially if you’ve got your technique and timing down. If you don’t, it’s easy to grasp — just shop smart, arm yourself with the right equipment and invite the right people over to hang, and we’ll drop your Honorary Marylander Card in the mail. Callinectes sapidus are called ‘blue crabs’ due to their distinct cerulean markings. Let’s start by clarifying that which type of crab we’re talking about here: Callinectes sapidus, or blue crabs. They’re called this due to their distinct cerulean markings, unfamiliar to those who know them only by their reddish-orange post-steam glow. Marylander of distinction Kevin Durant has a sneaker inspired by these colors, which coordinate conveniently with his Oklahoma City Thunder kits. Though closely associated with Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay, blues can be found all over the world, including up and down the East Coast and in the Gulf of Mexico. Jimmies, or males, have blue-tipped claws and a phallic T-shaped abdominal hinge, while more petite Sooks, or mature females, have red-tipped claws and a belly apron that looks like the top half of a lemon. People who steam their own crabs usually go for males — more expensive, but bigger, meatier and more ecologically friendly to eat than the ladies. Seafood restaurants carrying crabs often attach the dreaded “M.P.” to their menus when it comes to pricing, but there’s simply no way around it — crabbing is a challenging and tempestuous art, with the fortunes of crabbers fluctuating by the season, day and hour. (To those who complain about the difficulty of eating them — try catching them.) You’ll pay what the market demands (this year, it’s high), whether securing a simple dozen or springing for a bushel, which can set you back several hundred bucks. That’s usually no big deal, as long as your buddies aren’t deadbeats and chip in a couple bills. Pros use their own categorical measuring systems, but retailers tend to simplify the process. “Number Ones” will be the largest, and priciest, crabs on hand that day — 6 or more inches across the shell, ideally, and roughly four to five dozen a bushel. (That’s ballpark; bushel sizes vary by seller and state.) “Number Twos” will be smaller and cheaper, in the six- to seven-dozen per bushel neighborhood. Don’t go for anything under number twos, even if the prices are enticing. You can buy your crabs pre-seasoned and pre-steamed, but that’s no fun. Channel your inner angry O’Reilly and do it live, saving money, maximizing flavor, controlling seasoning and paying homage to the serious fight these hard-pinching suckers put up till the very end. Here’s what you need. When it comes to debating seasonings for blue crabs, Old Bay reigns supreme. (Photo: Stevensnodgrass/Flickr.) Pre-Steam If you’re not taking the crabs directly from the store to your kitchen, it’s important to keep them as chilled as possible. Use a cooler stocked with ice or cold packs if needed. Keep them as cold as you can right up to the second they enter the pot. Never steam a dead crab. First: a tall, high-walled steamer or sturdy pot is imperative. Don’t bother with a shallow pasta pot or saucepan, because it’s always a mess. You’ll also need a snug-fitting rack or separator of some sort to prevent the crabs from touching your steaming liquid, which can cause unappealing sogginess. Either purchase a steam rack, or do like my friend Nico and construct an elaborate pie crust-like lattice made of tin foil. Really, anything that allows the steam to rise and prevents the crabs from dropping into the water will work. As far as steaming liquid goes — water is fine if you are in a bind, but Marylanders prefer a combination of beer and vinegar. Two-ish cans of a cheap, easy-drinking brew like Miller Lite, Natural Light or our very own National Bohemian, plus an equal pour of apple cider or distilled white vinegar, will do you nicely. I’ve seen people get fancy and throw in bay leaves, though I’ve never felt it makes much difference. You don’t need as much liquid as you think — think about two inches from the bottom of the pot. Make sure it doesn’t rise above the steam rack. On the very fun, very divisive topic of seasoning — the dominant presence in this category is Old Bay, the versatile utility seasoning Marylanders worship with reverence traditionally reserved for people with the last names Unitas and Ripken. A shake of the celery salt heavy spice mixture alone, which has inspired so-flavored beers and vodkas, will definitely do the trick. But more experimental steamers tend to riff. Blend your Old Bay with rock salt, and/or hit it with additional dry mustard, cumin, black pepper or nutmeg. Less famous, but revered by connoisseurs, is J.O. Spice Company seasonings, available online to non-locals. It’ll take a few run-thrus to nail your ideal spice combination. Remember to use tongs when it’s time to steam your blue crabs. They’ll want to fight! Crank your burner up high to get your steaming liquid rolling. Using tongs (be careful, they’ll want to fight), place your first layer of three to four crabs, belly side down, on the steam rack, covering them generously (don’t be stingy) with your spice blend. Follow suit with your next layer and repeat the seasoning process, making sure not to overpopulate each layer or overcrowd the pot in general. Once you’ve got all your guys in position, cover the lid tightly and you’re on your way. Keep in mind that this isn’t wander-off-for-a-few-hours cook job. You are not smoking a huge hunk of meat. Your attention is vital. Cooking times will vary based on the size of the pot, the size of the crabs and how many crabs you’re knocking out per batch, but a good rule of thumb is to check your results after 15 minutes. If the steam clears to reveal that gorgeous bright reddish-orange shell color throughout, they’re ready. Return the steaming liquid to a boil, replenishing as needed, before starting the process over. White vinegar and butcher’s paper go hand-in-hand with steamed blue crabs. Picking crabs is something of a choose-your-own-adventure endeavor, but there are universal techniques to familiarize yourself with. There are also several things to keep in mind once you’re ready to eat. Cover every inch of your table with brown butcher’s paper or newspaper for painless cleanup. On the table, set out a few bowls of white vinegar — I like to throw in a crushed clove of raw garlic and a sliced jalapeno or bird chili for flavor — for meat dipping. Common crab-feast accompaniments include corn on the cob, cole slaw, fried chicken, Smith Island cake for dessert and copious amounts of beer. And though shell-smashing weapons like wooden mallets and butter knives may be a mise en place fixture in restaurants, I’ve never found them necessary. If you want to eat a blue crab like a true Marylander, your hands — plus a little patience and a lot of like-minded friends — are all you need. 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__label__cc	0.697441	0.302559	Food & Drunk Forget The Box When thinking outside the box just isn't enough Maple Spring FTB Fridays (01/15/2021): 2021 Montreal Municipal Election Hope and Justice in the Face of Uncertainty: CDN-NDG Borough Mayor Sue Montgomery on the Pandemic and Her Recent Victory in Superior Court US President Donald Trump Impeached Again, This Time for Inciting Insurrection Quebec Under Curfew: Legault’s Performative Paternalistic Pandemic Management FTB Fridays 01/08/2021: Shocking But Predictable Failed But Ongoing Coup Attempt in the US Montreal Arts This Week: 100 Artists for Taboo-Free Mental Health, Black Theatre Workshop’s Sanctuary & Winter Ghost Stories FTB Fridays 01/01/2021: 2020 Year-in-Review Fun, Fascinating, and Different: Haunted Montreal Presents Montreal’s Christmas Ghost Stories: A Victorian Era Tradition FTB Fridays 12/18/20: #SupportCanadian Venues with Special Guest Jon Weisz Montreal Music and Arts This Week: image+nation’s Queer Short Film Festival, Wooden Drone & Igloofest’s Online Shop Quebec Will Be Under an 8pm to 5am Curfew As Of Saturday, Primary Schools Will Re-Open Monday Quebec to Extend the Lockdown and Possibly Impose a Province-Wide Curfew An Interview with Almost Canadian Comedian James Mullinger (Plus Ticket Giveaway) FTB Podcast 1.02: Quebec’s Religious Symbol Ban with Samantha Gold FTB Podcast 1.01: The Outremont By-Election with Niall Ricardo Julia Sánchez on Climate Change, Political Graffiti and Why She’s Running for the NDP in Outremont (AUDIO) Dear FTB: Ask Us For Advice on Anything Vids We Love FTB Fridays 11/27/20: #CDNPoli, COVID Vaccine and Jagmeet on Twitch (VIDEO) Posts by Jessica Klein Jessica Klein Jessica is the sex writer. 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__label__cc	0.526054	0.473946	Ghosts & Gravestones Why Do People Believe in Ghosts? Don't Be Afraid... Well, Maybe a Little... Just a few years ago a poll revealed that 45 percent of Americans believe in ghosts or that people’s spirits can return in certain places and situations. And that number is probably much higher once you take into consideration the people who either weren’t surveyed or didn’t want to admit they believe. The reality is, many folks have had experiences they just can’t explain or have witnessed mysterious, eerie sights, sounds and sensations that could only be a paranormal encounter. If you’re one who would answer yes when asked if ghosts are real, what’s your reason? Before you answer, take a look at what researchers have found as to why people believe in ghosts. We Seek Explanations for What’s Happening Around Us It’s just the way the human brain is wired; we have a need to know why things occur or what’s causing something. And when it comes to inexplicable, mysterious happenings, the only logical explanation is often the presence of something supernatural. We Like to Believe There’s Life After Death Many people not only believe there’s life after death, they also believe that humans have led past lives. This is actually a common belief among many cultures and religions. This belief gives many people comfort when they lose a loved one or are faced with their own mortality. So for those who believe in the afterlife (and previous ones), it only makes sense that there are spirits lingering around. It’s Thrilling In the same way people are drawn to scary movies and terrifying roller coasters, believing that there are spirits of the dead looming around is just plain thrilling. Ghost hunters will tell you that they not only believe in ghosts, but they also don’t see them as evil spirits attempting to do harm. On the contrary, hunters believe ghosts are simply lost souls, searching for closure or are trapped and are trying to cross over to the afterlife. There’s Proof What else could explain sudden cold spots, disembodied voices and footsteps, floating orbs appearing in photographs and the sensation that someone is touching your shoulder when no one is there? If ghosts weren’t real, it’s unlikely that so many ghost hunters and paranormal experts would even exist, not to mention the many TV shows, websites and attractions that are dedicated to ghosts. Not All Houses Are Homey If ghosts weren’t real, there wouldn’t be any haunted houses, right? And we’re all familiar with houses across America that experts have proven to be hotbeds of paranormal activity. In fact, according to a Gallop poll, 37 percent of people surveyed believe that houses can be haunted. And if you’ve ever watched the Travel Channel show America’s Most Haunted Places, you’re well aware of the phenomenon that takes place inside the country’s most haunted houses. If you believe in ghosts or you’re the least bit curious, you can discover the truth aboard a Ghosts & Gravestones tour. On this tour, you’ll visit some of the most haunted places in the city and hear the fascinating and frightful stories behind the people and places where many have witnessed eerie events and mysterious experiences. Join Our Cast So do you think you have what it takes to be one of the undead? Do you want to make the transition from Working Stiff into Stiffly Working? Historic Tours of America Attn: Guest Relations 108 Sea Grove Main Street, Stalk Us on Social Media Presented by Historic Tours of America® Inc. All rights reserved. . Ghosts & Gravestones is a service mark of Historic Tours of America®. Frightseeing, Old Town Trolley Tours and Transportainment are registered trademarks of Historic Tours of America®. Photography by Michael Blanchard, John W. Penney and Historic Tours of America, Inc. © Copyright. All rights reserved. Privacy Policy Terms & Conditions This website meets WCAG 2.0/2.1 AA standards set by the ADA. View our ADA Accessibility Policy. Seating aboard vehicles operated in interstate or foreign commerce is without regard to race, color, creed, or national origin in accordance with Title 49 CFR 374.103. Click here to sign up for Scary Good Offers Birthday MM/DD Traveling in the next 7 days? Receive this limited time offer! We use cookies to give you the best experience. By using our site, you agree to our cookie policy.Accept	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1681
__label__wiki	0.731826	0.731826	Photos: Safety Antoine Bethea Photos from the career of veteran safety Antoine Bethea Washington Redskins quarterback Alex Smith (11) is hit by Arizona Cardinals defensive back Antoine Bethea (41) during the first half of an NFL football game, Sunday, Sept. 9, 2018, in Glendale, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin) Ross D. Franklin/Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved Arizona Cardinals defensive back Antoine Bethea (41) breaks up a pass intended for Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Doug Baldwin (89) during the first half of an NFL football game, Sunday, Sept. 30, 2018, in Glendale, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin) (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) Detroit Lions running back Theo Riddick (25) is hit by Arizona Cardinals free safety Antoine Bethea (41) as linebacker Gerald Hodges (51) pursues during the second half of NFL football game, Sunday, Dec. 9, 2018, in Glendale, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin) Arizona Cardinalsdefensive back Antoine Bethea (41) in coverage during a game against the Denver Broncos on Thursday Oct. 18, 2018 in Glendale, Arizona. (Gene Lower via AP) Los Angeles Rams tight end Gerald Everett is hit by Arizona Cardinals free safety Antoine Bethea (41) during the first half of an NFL football game, Sunday, Dec. 23, 2018, in Glendale, Ariz. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri) Rick Scuteri/Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved Arizona Cardinals free safety Antoine Bethea, right, tackles Los Angeles Rams tight end Gerald Everett during the first half of an NFL football game, Sunday, Dec. 23, 2018, in Glendale, Ariz. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri) Arizona Cardinals defensive back Antoine Bethea (41) pleads for a safety during an NFL football game against the Washington Redskins on Sunday, Sept. 9, 2018 in Glendale, Ariz. (Greg Trott via AP) Greg Trott Arizona Cardinals free safety Antoine Bethea (41) in coverage during a week 13 NFL football game against the Green Bay Packers on Sunday, Dec. 2, 2018 in Green Bay, Wis. Arizona won 20-17. (Aaron M. Sprecher via AP) San Francisco 49ers strong safety Antoine Bethea (41) recovers a fumble by Arizona Cardinals wide receiver J.J. Nelson (14) during the first half of an NFL football game, Sunday, Nov. 13, 2016, in Glendale, Ariz. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri) Rick Scuteri San Francisco 49ers strong safety Antoine Bethea (41) deflects a pass during a game against the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday, September 7, 2014 in Dallas. The 49ers won the game 28 to 17. (AP Photo/Peter Read Miller) Dallas Cowboys tight end Jason Witten (82) runs against San Francisco 49ers strong safety Antoine Bethea (41) during the second half of an NFL football game in Santa Clara, Calif., Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016. (AP Photo/Ben Margot) Ben Margot San Francisco 49ers strong safety Antoine Bethea (41) of Team Carter is seen in action during the 2015 NFL Pro Bowl football game against Team Irvin at University of Phoenix Stadium on Sunday, January 25, 2015 in Glendale, Arizona. (AP Photo/Aaron M. Sprecher) New Orleans Saints' Jimmy Graham is tackled by San Francisco 49ers Antoine Bethea during the first half of the NFL Football Pro Bowl Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015, in Glendale, Ariz. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) Charlie Riedel San Francisco 49ers strong safety Antoine Bethea (41) is seen on stage during the Pro Bowl draft at the Arizona Biltmore on Wednesday, January 21, 2015 in Phoenix, Arizona. (AP Photo/Aaron M. Sprecher) Indianapolis Colts defensive back Antoine Bethea (41) intercepts a pass by New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady during the first quarter of their football game Sunday, Nov. 5, 2006 in Foxborough, Mass. At rear is Indianapolis Colts defensive back Jason David. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia) Indianapolis Colts Antoine Bethea (41) celebrates after the AFC Championship NFL football game, Sunday, Jan. 24, 2010, in Indianapolis. The Colts defeated the Jet 30-17 to advacne to the Super Bowl. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy) Michael Conroy Indianapolis Colts' Antoine Bethea (41) runs back an interception during the first half of an NFL football game against the Jacksonville Jaguars Sunday, Dec. 29, 2013, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy) Indianapolis Colts safety Antoine Bethea, left, picks off a pass intended for Baltimore Ravens wide receiver Demetrius Williams, right, as Indianapolis Colts safety Tim Jennings, center, closes in during the fourth quarter of the NFL divisional football playoff game, Saturday, Jan. 16, 2010 in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy) Indianapolis Colts safety Antoine Bethea (41) intercepts a ball from Randy Moss an NFL football game Sunday, Nov. 15, 2009 in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh) Nam Y. Huh Indianapolis Colts safety Antoine Bethea (41) responds to a question during a news conference in Indianapolis, Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011. The Colts will play the New York Jets in an AFC wild-card playoff game Saturday, Jan. 8. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings) Indianapolis Colts free safety Antoine Bethea, left, recovers a fumble under Cleveland Browns wide receiver Brian Robiskie in the third quarter of an NFL football game in Indianapolis, Sunday, Sept. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings) Darron Cummings Indianapolis Colts safety Antoine Bethea returns a missed field goal against the Tennessee Titans in the second quarter of an NFL football game in Indianapolis, Sunday, Jan. 2, 2011. The play was negated on a penalty (AP Photo/Michael Conroy) Indianapolis Colts safety Antoine Bethea (41) speaks to the media during media day for NFL football Super Bowl XLIV Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010, in Miami. (AP Photo/Paul Abell) Indianapolis Colts defensive back Antoine Bethea (41) fights for and eventually intercepts a pass by Cleveland Browns quarterback Ken Dorsey intended for Browns wide receiver Braylon Edwards (17) late in the fourth quarter of an NFL game in Cleveland on Sunday, Nov. 30, 2008. Also going for the ball are Colts' Freddy Keiaho (54) and Keiwan Ratliff (31). The Colts won 10-6. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta) Amy Sancetta Photos: CB James Bradberry View photos of cornerback James Bradberry in his first season with the Giants. Photos: LB Blake Martinez's first season with Giants View photos of linebacker Blake Martinez in his first season with the Giants. Rookie Roundup: Best of 2020 class in photos View some of the best photos of the Giants' rookies throughout the 2020 season as the team enters the offseason. Notable 11th overall picks in NFL Draft history The Giants hold the 11th overall pick in the 2021 NFL Draft. 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__label__cc	0.736281	0.263719	Global cosmetics players driving growth through premium brands, a strong digital platform and millennial appeal Premium beauty and cosmetics brands are growing market share and sales revenues as they increase their appeal with millennial consumers though innovation and a stronger digital platform, says GlobalData a leading data and analytics company. Estée Lauder’s recently announced fourth quarter results showed continued strong sales growth with a positive net sales increase of 14% driven by new product launches and the company’s increasing appeal amongst younger consumers through beauty brand acquisitions. Competitor L’Oreal also announced the strong performance of its luxury brands like Lancôme and Giorgio Armani, with revenue growth of 13% in Q2 and 13.5% for H1. However its consumer products division registered a modest 2.3% global growth in Q2. Aleksandrina Yotova, Consumer Analyst at GlobalData, commented, ‘‘This highlights consumers’ change in attitude towards beauty products in general, rightly anticipated by Estée Lauder, which has shifted focus exclusively towards premium brands. Travel retail has helped fuel growth at the company in 2017, as well as the successful use of video-bloggers and marketing to make-up loving millennials.’’ Targeted acquisitions that complement Estée Lauder’s and L’Oreal’s brand values, while adding novelty, will be crucial for the Western Europe and North America markets. Yotova continued, ‘‘US-based brand NYX Professional Makeup, acquired in 2014 by L’Oreal, has performed particularly well and by acquiring niche make-up brand players like Too Faced and BECCA, Estée Lauder has challenged previous perceptions of a company known for targeting an older audience and helped it to diversify the portfolio and its consumer reach.’’ Both companies’ sales have been performing particularly well in China. Growth in Asia has been aided by online retail, with L’Oreal’s e-commerce registering a 36.4% growth over H1 2018. The Chinese market’s aspirational consumer base will be a key focus for prestige beauty products, with companies targeting millennials through strong product engagement and an increased digital presence. Kingfisher’s momentum shows no sign of slowing Games Workshop’s sales boosted by engaging online presence as physical retail suffers Casualisation and affordability crucial to making M&S’ acquisition of Jaeger a success	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1686
__label__cc	0.691229	0.308771	Home » Shipping & Aviation Law » Customs treatment of goods lost in a robbery or hi-jacking Customs treatment of goods lost in a robbery or hi-jacking Provided by Shepstone Wylie Attorneys By Lunga Vilakazi Topics Shipping & Aviation Law \| Tax Law The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) has now at last settled the uncertainty in relation to the application of rebate item 412.09 of Schedule 4 (“the rebate”) to the Customs and Excise Act 91 of 1964 (“the Act”) when it handed down judgment in the case of SARS v Encarnacao N.O. on 29 May 2018. Since the enactment of rebate there was uncertainty whether goods carried in bond that are robbed or hi jacked, qualify for the rebate. In the past SARS contended that such goods lost in a robbery or hi jacking entered home consumption and called for payment of duties and VAT. In the court of first instance it was held that the requirements of the rebate were met, including that the goods were not entered for home consumption prior to the incident. The rebate provides that: “Goods, proved to have been lost, destroyed or damaged on a single occasion in circumstances of vis mayor or in such other circumstances as the Commissioner deems exceptional while the goods are – a. in any customs and excise warehouse etc.; being removed with deferment of payment; or being stored in any rebate store-room, provided – no compensation in respect of the customs duty will be paid to the owner of the goods; such loss, destruction or damage was not due to fraud or negligence and such goods did not enter home consumption.” The interpretation of the third proviso was the crux of the decision i.e. whether such goods enter home consumption. SARS argued that the concept of “home consumption” does not arise when the goods enter the market, but rather when the bill of entry is delivered to SARS. SARS based its argument on section 45(1)(b) of the Act which refers to goods removed, taken or delivered without due entry for home consumption having been made’. As result SARS argued, it does not matter the goods are entered illicitly by a robber or lawfully by the importer; either way the goods enter the market (home consumption) and thus it was argued duties are payable. The SCA found against SARS and held that: the conditions set in section 45(1)(b) are far wider than the conditions contained in the rebate; the provisions of section 76(2)(d), which allow for a refund where the goods concerned having been damaged, destroyed or irrecoverably lost by circumstances beyond his control prior to the release thereof for home consumption, do not support the interpretation suggested by SARS; Armed robbery falls within the scope of vis major and good that are lost as a result of an armed robbery fall within the meaning of the rebate since essentially they are beyond reasonable control. The incredibly good news for importers, warehouse licensees and removers of goods in bond is that there is now certainty – goods that are lost due to irresistible force may now be accounted for in terms of rebate item 412.09 and duty and VAT will not be paid. VAT rate increase: What you need to consider Budget 2018 – Key changes Customs and tariffsrebateSouth African Revenue Service (SARS)Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA)VAT Shipping & Aviation Law articles on GoLegal Red tape in tourism sector under the spotlight The requirements for a patentable invention Is parallel importation lawful in South Africa? Experts in Shipping & Aviation Law	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1689
__label__cc	0.58437	0.41563	Alicia Batista (Addicted Readers) asked: Does anyone know if this is a series or a standalone? To answer questions about Illusions of Fate, please sign up. Meetta As far as I know, it's just a standalone. Did you get it as an ARC too? 1 like · like Lila Illusions of Fate is a stand alone (so far). The Paranormalcy Trilogy is a different series, which include the titles "Paranormalcy", "Supernaturally", and "Endlessly." Her page is https://www.goodreads.com/kierstenwhite Cailyn M I am sure it's a trilogy as Victoria Bryant pointed out but perhaps not published yet...? Gergana I think it's a standalone, though the more Kiersten White-the better! Victoria Bryant found it here on goodreads it says this at the end of the blurb/summary of the book: "Kiersten White captured readers’ hearts with her New York Times bestselling Paranormalcy trilogy and its effortless mix of magic and real-world teenage humor." More questions about Illusions of Fate… Illusions of Fate by Kiersten White (Goodreads Author)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1691
__label__cc	0.648026	0.351974	VP of Engineering Hired Within 30 Days We were referred by a venture fund to help CMT Solutions quickly fill a key technical executive role. Compay Name: CMT Solutions Term: 1 Month Website: https://cmtsolutions.com/ Andrew Mignatti President & CEO, CMT Solutions I hired Hatch to search for a VP of Engineering…. They did a great job of understanding the needs of the business based on size and stage. They identified great candidates that fit the needs of the company. They understood what the candidate wanted from a compensation standpoint and delivered that message to the company, which lead to a successful hire. Customer: CMT Solutions (30 person recently funded Series A startup focused in the health-tech space) Problem: The CEO (Andrew Mignatti) came to hatch with a need to bring on board a Vice President of Engineering immediately. The company had just raised a series A round of funding and needed to transition from outsourced dev support, and build out the development team internally. The VPE was the pressing key hire to build up the engineering infrastructure. Once the VP was in place they planned to pause for a couple of months, then hire up a Senior Engineer to focus on development. Recruiting Solution: CMT was referred to hatch through a venture capital firm, which they had trusted with several other key hires for their portfolio. Given CMT came through a referral network, hatch honored a discounted rate for the initial VPE hire. Within the first 24 hours of support, hatch had identified, screened, and presented five (5) qualified VP candidates to the CEO for review. Given our specialty with product startups and past performance with executive level positions, hatch was able to quickly tap into their network of pre-qualified candidates. Within 30 days, an offer was extended and accepted by one of the first five candidates they had presented. Two months after the new VPE started with CMT, they went back to hatch to identify a Senior Engineer to work under the VP. Hatch qualified the role, and identified, screened and presented four (4) qualified engineers to the VP within one week. Within 30 days, an offer was extended and accepted by one of the first batch of engineers presented.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1694
__label__cc	0.680305	0.319695	Hawthorne cares about your health. We've implemented a number of health and safety precautions to keep our patients and staff safe. Learn more about our safety measures and low- or no-contact ways to take advantage of our services. Transfer a Prescription Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Get a PDF version of this policy PLEASE REVIEW IT CAREFULLY. Hawthorne Pharmacy will ask you to sign an Acknowledgement that you have received this Notice of Privacy Practices(Notice). This Notice describes how Hawthorne Pharmacy may use and disclose your protected health information in accordance with the HIPAA Privacy Rule. It also describes your rights and Hawthorne Pharmacy’s duties with respect to protected health information about you. Section A: Uses and Disclosures of Protected Health Information Treatment, Payment and Health Care Operations We will use your health information to provide treatment. This may involve receiving or sharing information with other health care providers such as your physician. This information may be written, verbal, electronic or via facsimile. This will include receiving prescription orders so that we may dispense prescription medications. We may also share information with other health care providers who are treating you to coordinate the different things you need, such as medications, lab work or other appointments. We may also contact you to provide treatment-related services, such as refill reminders, treatment alternatives and other health related services that may be of benefit to you. We will use your health information to obtain payment. This will include sending claims for payment to your insurance or third-party payer. It may also include providing health information to the payer to resolve issues of claim coverage. We will use your health information for our health care operations necessary to run the pharmacy. This may include monitoring the quality of care that our employees provide to you and for training purposes. Permitted or Required Uses and Disclosures Our pharmacists, using their professional judgment may disclose your protected health information to a family member, other relative, close personal friend or other person you identify as being involved in your health care. This includes allowing such persons to pick up filled prescriptions, medical supplies or medical records on your behalf. We also have contracts with entities called Business Associates that perform some services for us that require access to your protected health information. Examples may include companies that route claims to your insurance company or that reconcile the payments we receive from your insurance. We require our Business Associates to safeguard any protected health information appropriately. Under certain circumstances Hawthorne Pharmacy may be required to disclose health information as required or permitted by federal or state laws. These include, but are not limited to: To the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) relating to adverse events regarding drugs, foods, supplements and other health products or for post-marketing surveillance to enable product recalls, repairs or replacement. To public health or legal authorities charged with preventing or controlling disease, injury or disability. To law enforcement agencies as required by law or in response to a valid subpoena or other legal process. To health oversight agencies (e.g.,licensing boards) for activities authorized by law such as audits, investigations and inspections necessary for Hawthorne Pharmacy’s licensure and for monitoring of health care systems. In response to a court order, administrative order, subpoena, discovery request or other lawful process by another person involved in a dispute involving a patient, but only if efforts have been made to tell the patient about the request or to obtain an order protecting the requested health information. As authorized by and as necessary to comply with laws relating to worker’s compensation or similar programs established by the law. Whenever required to do so by law. To a Coroner or Medical Examiner when necessary. Examples include: identifying a deceased person or to determine a cause of death. To Funeral Directors to carry out their duties. To organ procurement organizations or other entities engaged in procurement, banking or transplantation of organs for the purpose of tissue donation and transplant. To notify or assist in notifying a family member, personal representative or another person responsible for the patient’s care of the patient’s location or general condition. To a correctional institution or its agents if a patient is or becomes an inmate of such an institution when necessary for the patient’s health or the health and safety of others. When necessary to prevent a serious threat to the patient’s health and safety or the health and safety of the public or another person. As required by military command authorities when the patient is a member of the armed forces and to appropriate military authority about foreign military personnel. To authorized officials for intelligence, counterintelligence and other national security activities authorized by law. To authorized federal officials so they may provide protection to the president, other authorized persons or foreign heads of state or to conduct special investigations. To a government authority, such as social service or protective services agency, if Hawthorne Pharmacy reasonably believes the patient to be a victim of abuse, neglect or domestic violence but only to the extent required by law, if the patient agrees to the disclosure or if the disclosure is allowed by law and we believe it is necessary to prevent serious harm to the patient or to someone else or the law enforcement or public official that is to receive the report represents that it is necessary and will not be used against the patient. Authorized Use and Disclosure Use or disclosure other than those previously listed or as permitted or required by law, will not be made unless we obtain your written Authorization in advance. You may revoke any such Authorization in writing at any time. Upon receipt of a revocation, we will cease using or disclosing protected health information about you unless we have already taken action based on your Authorization. More Stringent Laws Some states may have laws that are more stringent than HIPAA. Please refer to the end of the Notice for the laws that may apply. Section B: Patient’s Rights Restriction Requests You have a right to request a restriction be placed on the use and disclosure of your protected health information for purposes of carrying out treatment, payment or health care operations. Restrictions may include requests for not submitting claims to your insurance or third-party payer or limitations on which persons may be considered personal representatives. Hawthorne Pharmacy is not required to accept restrictions other than payment related uses not required by law that have been paid in full by the individual or representative other than a health plan. If we do agree to requested restrictions, they shall be binding until you request that they be terminated. Requests for restrictions or termination of restrictions must be submitted in writing to the Privacy Officer listed in Section D of this Notice. Alternative Means of Communication You have a right to receive confidential communications of protected health information by alternate methods or at alternate locations upon reasonable request. Examples of alternatives may be sending information to a phone or mailing address other than your home. Hawthorne Pharmacy shall make reasonable accommodation to honor requests. Requests must be submitted in writing to the Privacy Officer listed in Section D of this Notice. Access to Health Information You have a right to inspect and copy your protected health information. The designated record set will usually include prescription and billing records. You have the right to request the protected health information in the designated record set for as long as we maintain your records. You have the right to request that your protected health information be provided to you in an electronic format if available. Any costs or fees associated with copying, mailing or preparing the requested records will be charged prior to granting your request. Hawthorne Pharmacy may deny your request for records in limited circumstances. In case of denial, you may request a review of the denial for most reasons. Requests for review of a denial must also be submitted to the Privacy Officer listed in Section D of this Notice. Amendments to Health Information If you believe that your protected health information is incomplete or incorrect, you may request an amendment to your records. You may request amendment to any records for as long as we maintain your records. Requests must be submitted in writing to the Privacy Officer listed in Section D of this Notice Requests must include a reason that supports the amendment to your health information. Hawthorne Pharmacy may deny amendment requests in certain cases. In case of denial, you have the right to submit a Statement of Disagreement. We have the right to provide a rebuttal to your statement. Accounting of Uses and Disclosures You have the right to request an accounting of uses and disclosures that are not for treatment, payment or health care operations. This accounting may include up to the six years prior to the date of request and will not include an accounting of disclosures to yourself, your personal representatives or anything authorized by you in writing. Other restrictions may apply as required in the Privacy Rule. The first accounting in any 12-month period will be provided to you at no cost. Any additional requests within the same 12-month period will be charged a fee to cover the cost of providing the accounting. This fee amount will be provided to you prior to completing the request. You may choose to withdraw your request to avoid paying this fee. You have a right to receive a paper copy of this Notice even if you previously agreed to receive a copy electronically. Please submit a request to the Privacy Officer listed in Section D of this Notice Section C: Hawthorne Pharmacy’s Duties Hawthorne Pharmacy is required by law to maintain the privacy of protected health information, to provide individuals with notice of its legal duties and privacy practices with respect to protected health information, and to notify affected individuals following a breach of unsecured protected health information. Hawthorne Pharmacy is required to abide by the terms of this Notice. We reserve the right to change the terms of this Notice and to make the new notice provisions effective for all protected health information that we maintain. Any such revised Notice will be made available upon request. Section D: Contacting Us Additional Questions, Submitting Requests or Complaints If you have questions about this Notice or how Hawthorne Pharmacy uses and discloses your protected health information please contact our Privacy Officer below. You may obtain forms needed for request submission from our pharmacy or from our Privacy Officer. If you believe your privacy rights have been violated you may file a complaint with our Privacy Officer or with the Secretary of Health and Human Services. You will not be retaliated against for filing a complaint. Kristie Spires Cassidy Hawthorne Pharmacy 1520-A Taylor Street Columbia, SC 29201 Secretary of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights For online complaint forms and contact information for the Regional OCR offices: http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/index.html Email: OCRComplaint@hhs.gov for assistance or questions about complaint forms Version # 4203460-PAAS-2013-2.0 This Notice of Privacy Practices is effective as of 09-20-2013 Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest news, information about in-store promotions, and more. PCCA IACP Alliance for Pharmacy Compounding ACHC © 2020 Hawthorne Pharmacy. All rights reserved.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1695
__label__wiki	0.694021	0.694021	Home Office confirms delay in creation of police ICT company Department says that new company will now be established in ‘interim form’ from July The government’s implementation of a new police ICT company is now expected to happen in July, and not spring as previously announced by the Home Office. The new ICT company, known as ‘newco’, is intended to assume responsibility for a range of ICT-related functions currently performed by the soon to be abolished National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA). Plans for the new company to be created by spring 2012were announced by home secretary Theresa May in July last year. However this schedule appears to have slipped, and the company will now be created in “interim form” from July, the Home Office has confirmed. A spokesman for the Home Office told Guardian Government Computing: “The design proposition for the new company is complete. The Home Office is now discussing the proposals with potential owners and customers.” Paul Ridgewell, senior analyst at public sector market intelligence firm Kable, told Guardian Government Computing that the delay in the creation of the company was “awkward” for the Home Office given that it had placed great emphasis on having the organisation up and running by spring this year. “This makes the government’s aim of reducing police ICT spending and improving efficiency all the harder. For suppliers it means a continuation of the uncertainty surrounding ICT procurement in this sector,” he said. In December, the Association of Chief Police Officers revealed that they were keeping their options openon the possible creation of a police ICT company to take on the technology functions of the NPIA. The new company will be responsible for the procurement, implementation and management of ICT solutions and associated business change. The four aims of the company, according to the Home Office, are to: Ãƒ¢Ã¢€š¬Ã‚¢ Improve the value for money that the police receive from their spending on ICT services. Ãƒ¢Ã¢€š¬Ã‚¢ Enable greater innovation in police ICT so that officers have access to the best new technologies. Ãƒ¢Ã¢€š¬Ã‚¢ Free-up chief officers from in-depth involvement with ICT management. Ãƒ¢Ã¢€š¬Ã‚¢ Ensure services and products support forces and other customers in their drive for interoperability.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1697
__label__cc	0.615695	0.384305	GTR Ventures Forgotten your password? Password No account yet? Create one now By signing up, you agree to GTR Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. UAE export credit agency embraces Islamic finance Mena / 03-10-18 / by Sanne Wass ECI hires director of operations and international co-operation ADIB inks sharia-compliant deal to finance two oil tankers ECI: Building an export credit agency from the ground up in the UAE Japan’s ECA enters partnerships, opens Nairobi desk to drive Africa trade UAE’s export credit agency targets China for non-oil trade growth A new agreement between the UAE’s export credit agency Etihad Credit Insurance (ECI) and the Islamic Corporation for the Insurance of Investment and Export Credit (ICIEC) will seek to promote non-oil UAE trade through Islamic risk mitigation tools. The two institutions have signed a memorandum of understanding to co-operate on trade credit and political risk insurance, as well as exchange information and knowledge. The aim is to “further strengthen the facilitation of trade and investment between member countries and the world, through sharia-compliant risk mitigation tools”, says Oussama Abdel Rahman Kaissi, CEO of ICIEC. It will enable ICIEC to offer reinsurance capacity and sharia-compliant export credit insurance solutions through ECI to UAE-based SMEs, specifically focusing on the country’s non-oil exports, trade and strategic sectors development. The deal also has a larger aim of promoting the halal industry worldwide. According to Massimo Falcioni, CEO of ECI, the agreement will be “instrumental to advance and sustain UAE’s national economic non-oil diversification programmes, as well as support the export and re-export of UAE goods, services, and the foreign investments of the UAE businesses, by providing a range of export credit, financing and investment insurance products”. The ICIEC, the insurance arm of the Islamic Development Bank Group, was established in 1994 with a mandate to promote exports from its Islamic member countries by encouraging the use of sharia-compatible instruments. ECI was established in 2015 by the UAE governments to support the export and re-export of UAE goods and services. Put simply, Islamic financial products comply with sharia law and are based on the principles of risk and profit sharing. Sharia law prohibits earning interest on loans and bars funding activities involving alcohol, pork or gambling. A booming demand for such products is also being followed closely by private insurance firms and brokers, including outside of the Muslim-majority countries, such as London. Speaking at an industry event last year, Vincent Vandendael, Lloyd’s of London’s chief commercial officer, said he is seeing a “surging demand” for specialist insurance in the Middle East, including sharia-compliant insurance, an area where Lloyd’s is looking closely at how it can “support the growth of this segment”. Rapidly expanding economies, a complex regional geopolitical landscape, huge infrastructure investments and increasingly structured public-private initiatives are all driving this demand, he said. “As the Middle East develops, there is a significant requirement for innovative insurance solutions to support economic growth. We see lines such as trade credit, political risk, public-private finance initiatives, warranties and indemnities and mining as a growth opportunity as the regional economies diversify and require increasingly sophisticated risk transfer mechanisms,” he noted. Tags: Etihad Credit Insurance (ECI), Islamic Corporation for the Insurance of Investment and Export Credit (ICIEC), Islamic Finance JP Morgan appoints global head of supply chain finance Chaucer names new head of political risk and credit GTR News Brief: Episode 23 Banks and governments urged to tackle deforestation with sustainable lending overhaul GTR MENA 2021 Virtual Gulf Standard Time (GST) GTR India 2021 Virtual Indian Standard Time (IST) GTR West Africa 2021 Virtual West Africa Time (WAT) From the editor: The Export Finance Issue View recent issue's contents Get listed in GTR Directory now! 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__label__wiki	0.974349	0.974349	Terrorist stripped of Aussie citizenship Terrorist stripped of citizenship ahead of prison release by Finn McHugh A convicted terrorist has been stripped of his citizenship ahead of his release from Victorian prison. Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton confirmed Algerian-born Abdul Nacer Benbrika, spiritual leader of a Australia's largest terror network, had his Australian passport cancelled on November 20. Benbrika was sentenced to a minimum of 12 years' jail in 2008 for his role in plots targeting Sydney and Melbourne. Abdul Nacer Benbrika (aka Abu Bakr) has become the first person to have his citizenship revoked onshore for terror offences. Picture: ABC Mr Dutton said the Commonwealth deemed Benbrika posed a serious, ongoing risk to the public. "This is a very serious conviction and the penalties highlight that. We believe it is appropriate in this circumstance to take the action that we have," he said. Benbrika is the first person to have their citizenship revoked onshore under the government's terrorism-related provisions of the Australian Citizenship Act. Benbrika was one of 17 men arrested during mass anti-terror raids in 2005. He was convicted of intentionally being a member of a terrorist organisation and intentionally directing the activities of a terrorist organisation. He was due for release this month, but will remain in prison as an interim detention order is enforced. The government has sought to keep him behind bars on an continuing detention order. Mr Dutton would not confirm whether Benbrika would appeal the decision, but said the government may seek his deportation even if he had time left to serve. Abdul Naser Benbrika was sentenced to 12 years’ jail for his role in terror plots targeting Melbourne and Sydney. "If there is the ability to remove threats from Australia or to stop them coming back to Australia to commit a terrorist act here, then of course we would look at any of those options," he said. "Generally speaking, people would serve out their sentence and then be deported, or be placed into immigration detention until they can be deported from Australia. "The more we can stop these people from coming back to Australia, the quicker we can deport these people, the safer the Australian public remains." Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has cancelled Benbrika’s citizenship. Picture: Josh Woning There are concerns the move could put Benbrika out of the reach of Australian authorities if he were to reoffend, but Mr Dutton said his top priority was keeping Australians safe. "It doesn't matter who it is, if it's a person that is posing significant a significant terrorist threat to our country, we will do whatever is possible within Australian law protect Australians. That remains our priority in relation to Benbrika," he said. "We are taking action in the court that we believe will give us the best opportunity to keep Australians safe." The Home Affairs Minister said 20 dual-nationals have had their citizenship revoked due to terrorist conduct. Originally published as Terrorist stripped of Aussie citizenship Trump formally begins Biden transition Premium Content Outraged soldiers challenge medal-stripping plan Premium Content No sign of officers in Afghanistan war crimes scandal Right-wing terrorist’s sick views revealed crime editors picks terrorism terrorist	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1703
__label__cc	0.528858	0.471142	→→Genetics→Human Population History (Mark Stoneking)→Projects The Landscape Genomics of the Human Saliva Microbiome Investigating differences in modern human populations based on genetic markers is difficult since the human migration out of Africa resulted in a bottleneck that reduced the genetic diversity of modern humans outside Africa. Studying their differentiation would require genetic markers with fast evolutionary rates. While the mutation rate of eukaryotic and prokaryotic organisms doesn’t vary a lot, the advantage of applying a proxy marker in terms of prokaryotic pathogens is the smaller generation time. The most commonly applied proxy marker is the gut pathogen Helicobacter pylori, which is characterized by its high genetic variability and by the vertical transmission from mother-to-child. The downsides of using H. pylori is that as a pathogen it cannot be found in every human individual and its recovery from the human stomach requires endoscopy. An alternative source for prokaryotes as proxy markers is the saliva microbiome. It is the most diverse of all human microbiomes, available in all humans, transmitted vertically from mother-to-child and can be easily recovered by spiting in a tube. It has been shown that the inter-individual difference in the oral microbiome diversity is linked to the genetic difference of their hosts. Therefore, I hope that investigating both the inter-individual diversity of the oral microbiome and intra-species diversity of candidate strains could lead to an increased resolution for the differentiation of their host populations. Alexander Hübner alexander_huebner@[>>> Please remove the brackets! <<<]eva.mpg.de	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1706
__label__cc	0.6332	0.3668	How AI is Powering the Tradeshow of the Future By EventMB Studio Team The future is now. That’s what they say. But what exactly will AI bring to the future of trade shows and how will you apply those opportunities? Whether your view on AI is colored by the cartoon from the 60s, the Jetsons, or the movie Terminator, chances are you understand some of the incredible capabilities behind it. What you might not have a good grasp of is what artificial intelligence (AI) could mean for trade show and business expo events. AI can bring a new world to you, your attendees, your vendors, and your sponsors. What Is AI? Artificial Intelligence is a very broad subject and it means different things in different industries. However, in events it most often refers to machines or technology that can perceive their environment and respond to it using words and syntax. Most of us use AI on a daily basis with Siri, Alexa, and Ask Google. Chatbots are probably some of the most common uses for this entertaining technology. With advances in computer size and AI techniques, there’s been a widespread use of artificial intelligence. SXSW, for instance, used a chatbot to field 56,000 questions at its conference in 2016. Calculate the time saved in man hours! AI has contributed to the growth of another area of technology - autonomous things, such as drones, self-driving cars, auto-braking systems, and self-adjusting home devices. But how can we use this technology at trade shows and what will it bring to us? What Opportunities Does AI Provide at Trade Shows? Sure, we all love asking Siri and her AI friends funny questions, but AI can be used for a lot more than telling us jokes. From a trade show perspective, AI helps streamline operations and takes care of basic processing tasks. It can help with a host of other activities including: 1. Virtual Sales Assistants If your vendors have any sort of process for identifying ideal customers, they can hand that off to AI. With a simple list of things that they are looking for, an AI system could qualify people as good leads or those that should be called last, or not at all. 2. Networking AI can help match attendees who are looking to do business with vendors without wasting anyone’s time. It could also look at both sets of calendars and schedule a mutually beneficial time for their meeting. This technology could also be used for matching attendees and those looking for recommendations on services or products. 3. Chatbots While some vendors may approach this with trepidation, because of the novelty of chatbots and other forms of AI, attendees often think it’s fun to converse with them. Sometimes these conversations can be more enjoyable than talking with a salesperson. For vendors with multiple tiers or options, a chatbot could work alongside a salesperson to assess a potential customer’s needs and share best fits with them. Upsells are charming coming from a “robot.” (Just don’t let the AI hear you refer to them as a robot. I asked Alexa once if she was AI and she said she preferred to think of herself as brightly colored photons dancing through the atmosphere like the Aurora Borealis. Who wouldn’t want to converse with that over a salesperson?) 4. Crowd Draw While this may not always be the case, today people are drawn to AI exhibits and use. If attendees knew your trade show was adopting AI as part of its theme or structure, you may have crowds you’ve never imagined. Robotics Tomorrow Magazine proclaimed recently that Japan has “AI Fever” as it welcomed 40,000 people to its first AI Expo. 5. Improved Security with Image Recognition Unfortunately, security issues are essential in today’s events. In areas where it’s of top concern, image recognition can help notify security personnel of people who pose possible security threats. 6. Speech Recognition Speech recognition could ensure that only certain people could access your AI technology. This would keep anyone from garnering private information through voice commands. 7. Smarter Shopping Suggestions If you’ve ever ordered anything on the Internet, the online store probably gave you a few “you might also like” suggestions. AI has taken that idea and expanded it. Robot concierge carts that are equipped with cameras can make suggestions when you’re physically shopping based on what you’ve placed in your cart. These suggestions may include complementary items or ways you can use the item in the cart. For instance, at a home show, if the technology registered the purchase of patio furniture it might suggest that the attendee would also want an awning. AI could then instruct the attendee that there’s a vendor in the next aisle who could help. Going along with that is... 8. Relationship Building It’s conceivable that AI could continue to learn based on merely being with an attendee. Think of the images snapped within a day, the items purchased, the questions asked, and the phrases used. You can learn a lot about someone from following them around all day. Since this AI technology doesn’t even need to follow attendees around to find out what they’re most interested in, event planners can gain a lot of information from it. AI is a lot more enjoyable and intuitive than using apps. People are more likely to share with it and those shares can help you and your vendors understand your attendees in a much deeper way than previously possible. (Or at least with much easier access.) 9. Lead Follow-ups Now it would be possible to easily personalize a message to each and every lead based on interests. Sorting data could be as easy as asking the question. No difficult data queries or strings that you have to type in. Plus, the data would be available at any time to anyone who had permission. This could be established through voice recognition. Vendors could also follow up indefinitely without wasting salespeople’s time. AI can free up salespeople to sell and form relationships with attendees, not simply handle the administrative tasks behind sales. AI becomes their sales virtual assistants. 10. Assess Tire Kickers If you use AI as a greeter for the booth, one that could assess an attendees’ purpose behind the booth visitation, then AI can provide instantaneous answers to the sales team later about whether the lead was interested or just wanted a giveaway. 11. Traffic Flow AI and drones can give vendors and event planners equal access and ability to assess current traffic flow patterns. If the booth is slow, they can easily find out where the crowds are. If you rely on your mobile phone for many of your work and personal activities you know that downloading an app for each event you attend, store you shop in, and business you have dealings with, can become tiresome if there’s no added value beyond the few occasions you interact with the organization. AI and voice interfaces make getting an answer as simple as asking a question. If attendees are getting their information quickly and easily, your trade show is likely to stand out in their minds. Friction impedes the experience and AI reduces that friction to a conversation. 12. Be More Green With AI and voice interfaces likes chatbots, even people who dislike navigating technology can find their answer easily. This quick access means your paper holdouts may be more likely to adopt a paperless environment, assuming they have a smartphone or are able to clip on a wearable device. 13. Better Displays It’s difficult for some vendors to show their operations or what makes their product special without being able to bring people back to tour their operations. Unless they are lucky enough to have an operations hub in the same town as your event, this is not likely to happen. However, through cool interactive options that use a combination of AI and virtual reality, you could allow attendees to see the parts of your company that are most interesting to them. The interaction is also a lot of fun. “Show me the company cafeteria.” 14. Instant Smarts Your vendors may often wonder if they’re talking to a decision maker. With AI, this could be a quaint problem of the past. If your AI tech is connected with your attendee database, the tech could subtly tell your salespeople what job title the person in front of them had. No more time spent chasing down people who don’t have purchasing authority. For these situations, a chatbot could answer whatever questions they may have. While this sounds harsh, and would certainly not be necessary for smaller shows, in large trade shows where salespeople have a hard time speaking to everyone who comes to their booth, this would allow them to make smart decisions about their time, Which brings us to easily-mined... 15. Data The questions attendees ask chatbots can be tracked and quantified to gain some of the best insights as to what attendees really want and need. Sure, some of those attendee questions will just be asked for fun to see how the chatbot answers, but much of what they ask will provide insights into the attendee experience. This could become just as useful as exit surveys. Speaking of… 16. Painless Exit and Session Surveys A great session or trade show is often followed by a disruptive request to attendees to share their thoughts (usually on paper) about the vendors or speakers. What if an AI bot could “approach” someone as they were leaving a hall or session and ask their opinion about their experience? It would be more like a conversation with a friend and less stilted than a question which reads “circle the number that corresponds with what you think.” This may be the closest we will come to receiving honest feedback and it certainly would be a lot less painful and disruptive for the attendee. 17. Concierges Outside of the Trade Show If AI became personal with events as it is on our phones, meaning we each carried our own little helpful trade show friend, this technology could serve as a personal concierge outside of the trade show floor. It could include things like calendar reminders, reading off our schedules to us as we prepare in the morning, and even making suggestions about which entrance to go in for quicker access or closer proximity to the first item on our schedule. It’d be like each attendee having their own personal information butler. Which means… 18. Replace Search It seems only natural that people will begin to gravitate towards the convenience of speaking their request rather than typing it. As voice recognition improves, the search button/field may soon be a thing of the past. As will trade show floor maps. If GPS technology continues to improve so that it is accurate within feet, there will no longer be a reason to publish maps of the floor. Attendees will merely request a specific vendor or a service/product and will be given directions to that location. AI could help them find it even if they weren’t exactly sure what they were looking for. The Detroit Auto Show used this technology to a minor extent to ensure attendees weren't getting lost on its vast show floor. The show’s app traced their steps so they could easily know which areas they had already seen. 19. Problem Solving and Logic AI can be used for narrowing down choices of vendors through questions and data-driven suggestions. For instance, if your trade show boasted 20 vendors that sold management software, they’re likely not all the same. Some may be enterprise consumer management software designed for Fortune 500 brands while others may cater to the small-staff association. AI can be used to narrow down choices and save attendees time. As mentioned earlier, this also helps vendors by ensuring the people who come to see them are better fits and closer to their ideal customer. 20. Language Translation As the economy continues to become more global and your trade show attracts a global attendee base, voice-activated AI technology can be used to assist with language translation. These means vendors needn’t worry that they don’t speak the attendee’s language, nor do they need to stall until their salesperson who does is available. AI can do it for them. A Final Word About AI As this technology becomes more widely embraced, we need to consider all of the privacy and data security ramifications with it. As much as event planners may enjoy the idea of easier access to important data, there may be some groups who simply refuse to embrace it. You need to know if your attendees are among these groups. Figure this out before you launch a new AI push at your next event. AI technology has made tremendous leaps over the past few years with improved voice recognition and smaller and more agile processors. We can expect this to continue in the years to come. But where will the events industry take artificial intelligence? The opportunities are vast. How will we use AI for events in the future? Maybe we should ask the machines. Additional Information on Artificial Intelligence and Events The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Events (webinar) Swapcard: Matchmaking by Artificial Intelligence (review) Artificial Intelligence and Events (infographic) 3 Hotels Using Artificial Intelligence to Improve Guest Experience #eventtech event technology tradeshows technology artificial intelligence AI chatbots This post is brought to you by the EventMB Studio team. If you want to have content like this for your website, contact us.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1709
__label__wiki	0.61937	0.61937	Posts filed under 'Guerrillas' 1962: Kartosuwirio, Darul Islam leader Add comment September 5th, 2020 Headsman Javanese Islamist rebel Soekarmadji Maridjan Kartosuwiryo (alternatively, Kartosuwirjo or Kartosuwirio) was executed on this date in 1962. A onetime student of the Islamic trade unionist Tjokroaminoto, who also taught Indonesia’s first president Sukarno,* Kartosuwirio abandoned medical studies to follow a path in religion and politics. By the late 1930s he led a movement within what was then still a Dutch colony aiming for an independent Indonesia under Islamic law. Japanese occupation during World War II led him to create a resistance militia, Darul Islam, and it was this force that enabled him to establish an embryonic (so he hoped) Islamic state in West Java after the war. Allied movements in Aceh (northernmost tip of the island of Sumatra) and South Sulawesi rallied to his banner, and for some years in the 1950s these guerrillas dominated the countrysides of these territories. The aforementioned former student Sukarno was riding the tiger in these years, governing a fractious independent Indonesia that forever looked in danger of spinning apart — due not only to Islamic discontent but regional, ethnic, and ideological hostilities. Sukarno’s solution to this rolling crisis was, by 1957, to implement “Guided Democracy” in order to tamp down the dangerous centrifugal tendencies enabled by the previous, less-guided version. While this innovation did not hold long-term, it did provide Sukarno with the tools to come to grips with movements like Darul Islam, which was hunted to ground in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Kartosuwirio was captured in early 1962, and made to broadcast a stand-down order to his dwindling ranks of comrades. He was then given over to a court-martial and shot. Although Darul Islam went to the grave with him, its influence lives on. Veterans of Darul Islam later helped establish the still-extant regional militant network Jemaah Islamiyah, and founded a 1970s-1980s terrorist outfit, Komando Jihad. A regional insurgency also continued in Aceh until around 2005, again peopled by numerous folks who had once fought for Kartosuwirio. * Sukarno’s first wife was Tjokroaminoto’s daughter. They divorced after a couple of years, with the consequences you would imagine for the Sukarno-Tjokroaminoto relationship. 1917: Albin Köbis and Max Reichpietsch, Wilhelmshaven mutineers - 2019 1878: George Howell, family arbiter - 2018 1917: James Smith, Early One Morning - 2017 1553: Giovanni Mollio, Italian reformer - 2016 1789: Thomas Phipps the elder and Thomas Phipps the younger - 2015 1782: Bartolina Sisa, indigenous rebel - 2014 1981: Nasiru Bello, a little overeagerly - 2013 1937: Andrei Stepanovich Arzhilovsky, counterrevolutionary kulak - 2012 1924: Richard A. Birkes, stickup man - 2011 1942: Lodz ghetto "Children's Action" begins - 2010 2007: Duan Yihe, mistress-murderer - 2009 1930: Carl Panzram, rage personified - 2008 1927: Martyrdom of Five Christeros 1919: Felipe Angeles 1948: Amir Sjarifuddin 1967: Ernesto “Che” Guevara 1962: Gheorghe Arsenescu, Romanian partisan 1961: William Morgan, the Americano 1964: Nguyen Van Troi, Viet Cong urban guerrilla Entry Filed under: 20th Century,Capital Punishment,Death Penalty,Execution,Guerrillas,History,Indonesia,Power,Religious Figures,Revolutionaries,Shot,Soldiers Tags: 1960s, 1962, darul islam, islam, kartosuwirjo, september 5, sukarno 1956: Andreas Zakos, Charilaos Michael, and Iakovos Patatsos, Cypriots Add comment August 9th, 2020 Headsman On this date in 1956, three Greek Cypriot nationalists were hanged by the British Andreas Zakos, Charilaos Michael and Iakovos Patatsos were all members of the EOKA guerrilla movement, which fought the British for independence during the late 1950s. Nine of their ranks overall were executed in 1956-1957, including the three on August 9, 1956 and several others whom we’ve met in these grim annals. As for Zakos, Michael and Patatsos, “the first two had been convicted of taking part in an ambush in December 1955 during which a British soldier was killed, and the third was convicted of shooting a Turkish policeman in Nicosia.” (Source) All nine are entombed together with four other EOKA men who died less ceremonially at British hands, at what’s known as the “Imprisoned Graves”: the British proconsul John Harding buried them behind prison walls in Nicosia quietly, two to a grave, to avoid creating sites of nationalistic pilgrimage. But holding onto colonies long-term was not in the wind post-World War II. EOKA did not achieve its ultimate objective of unification with Greece, but its rebellion achieved independence for Cyprus in 1960. Today, that cemetery (emblazoned with the words “The brave man’s death is no death at all”) and the gallows that ushered men into it are that very patriotic monument the British once sought to pre-empt. The gallows at the Central Jail of Nicosia; on the walls behind the visitors, the leftmost photo is that of Andreas Zakos. (cc) image from Lapost. The EOKA martyrs can also be seen at various other public memorials in Cyprus, such as a bust of Andreas Zakos at the Legions Heroes Monument, or this statue of Iakovos Patatsos communing with a bird. 1909: Mir Hashim, Persian monarchist - 2019 1870: William Dickson, the last in Kansas for a lifetime - 2018 1941: Sheyna Gram and the Jews of Preili - 2017 A Day in the Death Penalty Around the Martyrology - 2016 2000: Brian Roberson, "Y'all kiss my black ass" - 2015 1849: Friedrich Neff, 1848 Revolutions radical - 2014 1786: Tom, "faithful, industrious, healthy slave" - 2013 1934: Anna Antonio, enough for a million men - 2012 1961: José Isaías Constante Laureano, the last executed in Mexico - 2011 1856: Elizabeth Martha Brown, Tess of the D'Urbervilles inspiration - 2010 Themed Set: Thomas Hardy - 2010 1943: Blessed Franz Jagerstatter, conscientious objector - 2009 1993: Mohamed Mustafa Tabet, serial rapist with a badge - 2008 1957: Evagoras Pallikarides, teenage guerrilla poet 1956: Andreas Dimitriou and Michalis Karaolis, the first EOKA men hanged 1945: Eliyahu Bet-Zuri and Eliyahu Hakim, Lord Moyne’s assassins 1957: Dedan Kimathi, Mau Mau commander 1931: Omar Mukhtar, Libyan revolutionary 1942: Tom Williams, IRA martyr 1957: Larbi Ben M’Hidi, in the Battle of Algiers Entry Filed under: 20th Century,Capital Punishment,Cyprus,Death Penalty,England,Execution,Guerrillas,Hanged,History,Murder,Occupation and Colonialism,Power,Revolutionaries,Separatists,Soldiers,Terrorists,Wartime Executions Tags: 1950s, 1956, andreas zakos, august 9, charilaos michael, eoka, iakovos patatsos, nationalism, nationalists 1838: Remexido, Liberal Wars holdout Add comment August 2nd, 2020 Headsman José Joaquim de Sousa Reis, known simply as “Remexido” or “Remechido”, was executed by firing squad at the Campo da Trindade in Faro, Portugal on this date in 1838. This fellow (English Wikipedia entry \| Portuguese) was a partisan of absolutist King Miguel during a furious civil war, the Liberal War(s), that resulted in his deposition. Remexido maintained a guerrilla resistance in the mountains of the Algarve for years after Miguel’s 1834 defeat. He’s noted for his ferocity, bequeathing the village of Albufeira the nickname of villa negra for the 74 executions he perpetrated upon its inhabitants after an 1833 assault. Liberals answered stripe for stripe on the collective punishment front, torching his house, publicly flogging his wife, and murdering his 14-year-old son. Needless to say, there would be no quarter when they finally caught him; allegedly, the Council of War even overrode the young post-Miguel queen’s attempted clemency to force his execution. Nowadays he’s a colorful figure from a bygone time, and you can catch re-enactors doing Remexido cosplay and even proper city streets named for him, as this one in Estombar. 1941: Louis Berrier, messenger pigeoner - 2019 1872: Charles Marlow, brewer - 2018 1952: Johann Burianek, East German saboteur - 2017 1415: Thomas Grey, Southampton Plotter - 2016 1834: Eliza Joyce, confessed poisoner - 2015 2005: Steven Vincent, Iraq War journalist - 2014 1996: Sergey Golovkin, the last executed in Russia - 2013 1994: Not Arthur Judah Angel, death row artist - 2012 Themed Set: Scary Escapes - 2012 2007: Majid and Hossein Kavousifar - 2011 1608: Jean Duval, for plotting against Champlain - 2010 1904: Heinrich, a Herero - 2009 1343: Olivier III de Clisson, husband of the Lioness of Brittany - 2008 1865: Mexican Republican officers, under the Black Decree 1819: Antonia Santos, Bolivarian revolutionary 1942: Partisans by the Sonderbataillon Dirlewanger 1897: The Thirteen Martyrs of Bagumbayan 1842: Charles Stoddart and Arthur Conolly, Great Game diplomats 1870: Sylvain Salnave, deposed Haitian president 1943: Lepa Radic, Yugoslav Partisan Entry Filed under: 19th Century,Capital Punishment,Death Penalty,Execution,Guerrillas,History,Portugal,Power,Public Executions,Shot,Soldiers,Torture,Wartime Executions Tags: 1830s, 1838, absolutism, august 2, civil war, faro, liberal wars, maria ii, miguel i, remechido, remexido 1942: Wenceslao Vinzons Add comment July 15th, 2020 Headsman Filipino politician/guerrilla/national hero Wenceslao Vinzons was executed by the occupying Japanese on this date in 1942. He gained prominence as a Manila university activist under U.S. administration for Malaysian-Indonesian-Philippines unification, then went on to co-found the Young Philippines party and become a delegate – at the tender age of 24 — to the 1935 Constitutional Convention that set the framework for his homeland’s independence. He’s the youngest signer of that constitution. Subsequently governor of Camarines Norte and then a legislator in the National Assembly, Vinzons found his political trajectory interrupted by Japan’s December 1941-January 1942 takeover. Vinzons wasted no time trying to work within the system: he immediately began organizing armed resistance, building a guerrilla army some 2,800 strong over the course of the next months. An informer betrayed him to the occupiers and after refusing every blandishment to collaborate, Vinzons was bayoneted to death at a Japanese garrison at Daet on July 15, 1942. Several of his family members also executed afterwards, although other surviving descendants have remained fixtures of public life down to the present day. His hometown — formerly “Indan” — is now named “Vinzons” in his honor, and he’s renowned as the “Father of Student Activism in the Philippines”. A number of buildings and institutions connected to education are named for him. 1977: Princess Misha'al bint Fahd al Saud and her lover - 2009 1941: Masha Bruskina, Kiril Trus, and Volodia Shcherbatsevich, partisans 1944: Ernst Thälmann, German Communist 1763: Gabriela Silang 1922: Four anti-Treaty Irish Republicans Entry Filed under: 20th Century,Activists,Capital Punishment,Death Penalty,Execution,Famous,Guerrillas,History,Japan,Martyrs,No Formal Charge,Occupation and Colonialism,Philippines,Politicians,Power,Put to the Sword,Soldiers,Torture,Wartime Executions Tags: 1940s, 1942, daet, july 15, wenceslao vinzons, world war ii 2015: Mohammad Qamaruzzaman, militia commander Add comment April 11th, 2020 Headsman On this date in 2015, Bangladesh hanged the former assistant secretary-general of the militant Jamaat-e-Islami party, Mohammad Qamaruzzaman. He’d been sentenced for crimes against humanity during the 1971 war of independence that separated Bangladesh — the former “East Pakistan” — from Pakistan; his was just one of several high-profile 2010s prosecutions (and the second execution) by a special tribunal to settle scores from that bloody parting. Jamaat-e-Islami’s party history traces back to the British Raj and versions of it exist in each of Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh. In the 1971 war, that Islamist party was ferociously anti-independence, collaborating with the Pakistani military’s violent attempted suppression of the rebellion; according to Al Jazeera, Qamaruzzaman was convicted of having “headed an armed group that collaborated with the Pakistani army in central Bangladesh in 1971 and was behind the killings of at least 120 unarmed farmers.” Qamaruzzaman proudly (and also realistically) declined to bend the knee in hopes of an unlikely presidential pardon and swung serene in the rightness and future triumph of his cause. 1827: Sarah Jones, firm infanticide - 2019 1775: A robber under the apartments of Joseph Jekyll - 2018 1730: A Natchez woman tortured to death at New Orleans - 2017 1947: Louise Peete, Tiger Woman - 2016 1945: Pvt. Benjamin Hopper - 2015 1859: The martyrs of Tacubaya - 2014 1944: Joseph Epstein, Polish Communist French Resistance hero - 2013 1612: Refried Edward Wightman - 2012 1705: Captain Thomas Green and two of his crew on the Worcester - 2011 1554: Thomas Wyatt the Younger, with the Queen's life in his hands - 2010 2003: Three ferry hijackers - 2009 1670: Major Thomas Weir, a Puritan with a double life - 2008 2010: Chemical Ali 2016: Mir Quasem Ali 2007: Taha Yasin Ramadan, Iraqi Vice-President 2016: 36 for ISIS’s Camp Speicher massacre 2007: Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, Saddam Hussein aides 1898: Sokong, Lavari, and Kruba of the Imperri Entry Filed under: 21st Century,Bangladesh,Capital Punishment,Crimes Against Humanity,Death Penalty,Execution,Guerrillas,Hanged,History,Occupation and Colonialism,Pakistan,Politicians,Ripped from the Headlines,Soldiers,Terrorists Tags: 2010s, 2015, april 11, jamaat-e-islami, mohammad qamaruzzaman 1916: Benjamin Argumedo Add comment March 1st, 2020 Headsman On this date in 1916, Mexican Revolution commander Benjamin Argumedo was shot at Durango. Every revolution has its opportunists and this cavalryman swerved wildly between the infighting factions — deserting the general and president overthrown by the revolution, Porfirio Diaz, in favor of Francisco Madero (president from 1911 to 1913), then switching to rebel Pascual Orozco, and then to El Usurpador Victoriano Huerta (president from 1913 to 1914 via a coup), and last a swing to the left-wing revolutionary Emiliano Zapata. This man waged a running guerrilla battle against the government until his own death in 1919 … by which time Argumedo was long done for, having been run to ground by Constitutionalist general Francisco Murguia. (Murguia extended him the courtesy of a drumhead tribunal the day before execution.) Argumedo was reportedly refused a plea to be shot in the public plaza for maximum spectacle, and died with a wish upon his lips that posterity forego noxious flourishes of rank because “we are all equal material for the grave.” (Executed Today endorses this sentiment.) The corrido “Las Mananitas de Benjamin Argumedo” — “So much fighting and fighting, / so much fighting and fighting, / with my Mauser in my hands. I came to be shot, / I came to be shot / in the cemetery of Durango.” (Full lyrics and even sheet music to be found in Hispano Folk Music of the Rio Grande Del Norte. 1771: Edmund James and Joseph Jordan, runaway slave aides - 2019 1888: Oscar Beckwith, the Austerlitz Murderer - 2018 1852: Samuel Treadway - 2017 1562: The Massacre of Vassy - 2016 1996: Antonio James, final judgment - 2015 1837: The slave Julius, property of John and Rebecca Matthews - 2014 2013: Naw Kham, Mekong drug lord - 2013 1864: Martin Robinson, treacherous guide - 2012 1951: The Mokotow Prison executions of Cursed Soldiers - 2011 1289: Ugolino della Gherardesca, ravenous - 2010 2004: Ibtisam Hussein, child-murderer - 2009 1877: Jack McCall, Wild Bill's murderer - 2008 1913: Antonio Echazarreta, defending Matamoros 1922: Robert Erskine Childers, for carrying the gun of Michael Collins Entry Filed under: 20th Century,Arts and Literature,Capital Punishment,Death Penalty,Execution,Guerrillas,History,Mexico,Public Executions,Revolutionaries,Shot,Soldiers,Treason,Wartime Executions Tags: 1910s, 1916, benjamin argumedo, civil war, durango, march 1, mexican revolution 1945: Giovanni Cerbai, partisan Italian partisan Giovanni Cerbai was shot on this date in 1945. A communist who fought in the Garibaldi Battalion during the Spanish Civil War, “Giannetto” was interred in transit through France and spent the early part of World War II confined to the Bourbon island panopticon of Ventotene* — a misery shared by many other prospective guerrillas. “While the flames of the war grew and approached all around, while in the cities and in the countryside workers, employees, professionals and intellectuals were agitating, moving, pressing for peace and freedom, in Italian prisons and confinement islands hundreds and thousands of anti-fascists pined in their forced inactivity,” wrote fellow Ventotene detainee Luigi Longo in his memoir. “The island of Ventotene was like the capital of this captive world. In the spring of 1943 it gathered about a thousand leaders and humble militants from all the currents of Italian anti-fascism … We shared our common sufferings, the same hopes and an equal love of freedom.” This prison was liberated by American forces in December 1943 but Cerbai had already escaped in August, joining the partisans. “A fighter of exceptional enthusiasm and daring,” per the hagiographic words of his posthumous military valor decoration, he had a brief but distinguished service in the field, surviving the Battle of Porta Lame. Cerbai was eventually captured, and shot at the outset of a notorious weekslong massacre of prisoners by the fascists. There’s a street named for him in his native Bologna. * Another communist political prisoner in this same fortress, name of Altiero Spinelli, drew up with fellow leftists in 1941 an illicit text titled “Manifesto for a free and united Europe” — more familiarly known as the Ventotene Manifesto. (Full text here.) Spinelli’s document called for a federation of European states to mitigate the potential for wars, a crucial precursor of the European Federalist Movement that Spinelli would co-found in 1943; Spinelli for this reason is a forefather of postwar European integration. And not just a forefather: he died in 1986 as a member of European parliament, having dedicated his postwar life to the project. 1726: Margaret Millar, infanticide - 2019 1938: Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko, Winter Palace stormer - 2018 1956: Elifasi Msomi, witch doctor - 2017 1854: John Tapner, the last hanged on Guernsey - 2016 1945: Anacleto Diaz, Philippines Supreme Court Justice - 2015 1973: Tom Masaba, Sebastino Namirundu, and 10 other Uganda Fronsana rebels - 2014 1892: Four anarchists in Jerez - 2013 1794: Jacques Roux, the Red Priest, cheats the guillotine - 2012 2011: Rashid al Rashidi, Mousa mosque murderer - 2011 1952: Liu Qingshan and Zhang Zishan, the first corruption executions in Red China - 2010 1956: Wilbert Coffin - 2009 1905: Samuel McCue, mayor of Charlottesville, Virginia - 2008 1944: A day in mass executions in Axis Europe 1944: Hannah Szenes, who gambled on what mattered most 1944: Marc Bloch, French historian 1943: Six POWs, inscribed on a ouija board 1941: Sixteen Yugoslav partisans and one German soldier 1945: Massacres of Treuenbrietzen 1944: Zinaida Portnova, Komsomol hero Entry Filed under: 20th Century,Capital Punishment,Death Penalty,Execution,Guerrillas,History,Italy,Mass Executions,No Formal Charge,Occupation and Colonialism,Shot,Soldiers,Torture,Wartime Executions Tags: 1940s, 1945, altiero spinelli, anti-fascists, bologna, communists, february 10, giovanni cerbai, ventotene, world war ii Add comment February 8th, 2020 Headsman On this date in 1943, young Yugoslav partisan Lepa Svetozara Radic went to a German gallows. A Bosnian Serb — her village today lies in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Republika Srpska, steps inside the river that forms its border with Croatia — Lepa Radic was just 15 when Europe’s Axis powers invaded Yugoslavia in April 1941. Her family’s established left-wing affiliations brought them swift arrest by the fascist Ustashe, but Lepa and her sister escaped in December and joined Tito‘s Communist partisans. In early 1943, Nazi Germany mounted a huge offensive against the partisans. On a strategic plane, the offensive failed: the partisans were able to preserve their command structure and fall back, also decisively defeating in the field their nationalist/monarchist rivals, the Chetniks, which set them up to dominate postwar Yugoslavia. But for those upon whom the blow fell, it was a winter of terrible suffering. The Germans claimed 11,915 partisans killed, 2,506 captured … and 616 executed. So it was with Lepa Radic. This Serbian Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya was captured during the engagement trying to defend a clutch of civilians and wounded. They publicly noosed her at Bosanska Krupa after she scorned the opportunity to preserve her life by informing on fellow guerrillas with the badass retort, “my comrades will give their names when they avenge my death.” (Various translations of this parting dagger are on offer online.) After the war, Yugoslavia honored her posthumously with the Order of the People’s Hero. 1723: Charles Weaver, John Levee, Richard Oakey and Matthew Flood - 2019 1804: Ann Hurle, forger - 2018 1943: The five martyrs of the lycee Buffon - 2017 1721: William Spigget, after peine forte et dure - 2016 1527: Georg Wagner - 2015 1844: Hester Foster and William Young Graham - 2014 1804: Little Harpe and Peter Alston, Mississippi pirates - 2013 1942: Icchok Malmed - 2012 1924: The first electrocutions in Texas - 2011 1910: George Reynolds and John Williams - 2010 1924: Gee Jon, debuting the gas chamber - 2009 1587: Mary, Queen of Scots - 2008 1941: Shura Chekalin, Hero of the Soviet Union 1942: Klava Nazarova, Hero of the Soviet Union Entry Filed under: 20th Century,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Capital Punishment,Children,Death Penalty,Execution,Famous Last Words,Germany,Guerrillas,Hanged,History,Martyrs,No Formal Charge,Occupation and Colonialism,Power,Public Executions,Soldiers,Torture,Wartime Executions,Women,Yugoslavia Tags: 1940s, 1943, anti-fascists, bosanska krupa, case white, communists, february 8, lepa radic, partisans, world war ii 1779: Claudius Smith, Cowboy of the Ramapos Add comment January 22nd, 2020 Headsman Claudius Smith, a feared Tory guerrilla during the American, was hanged in Goshen, N.Y., on this date in 1779. “The Cowboy of the Ramapos” for his penchant for livestock-rustling in the Ramapo Mountains, Smith headlined a gang of pro-British criminals/partisans operating out of Monroe, N.Y., near the New Jersey border — a zone of dirty irregular warfare. Quite a lot of legends apparently proliferated about this guy, including in his own time: one wanted poster described him as seven feet tall. If you were a British loyalist in his neighborhood you might have figured him along the lines of an Anglo hajduk — the Balkan freebooters who straddled the line between social bandit and hero insurgent. To a Patriot, he was little better than a brigand, and not satisfied with riding off cattle and horses ventured also to invade farm houses for plunder. After one of his band’s deadly raids, Orange County Whigs complained to New York Gov. George Clinton, “we have not thought ourselves secure for a long time. We live so scattered that they can come in the dead of night to any one family & do what they please.” So unsettled were the wartime frontiers that Gov. Clinton was notably unable to satisfy their petition for quite some time, and Smith’s raids, sometimes working in concert with the pro-British Mohawk commander Joseph Brant, continued to frighten those scattered revolutionists. A Continental Army major named Jesse Brush finally captured Smith on Long Island late in 1778, and delivered him back to authorities at Orange County who gave him a proper trial and condemned him to hang for several robberies. (Murder wasn’t on the rap sheet.) One month later, Smith’s son Richard with a band of cowboys revenged the execution by slaying a Goshen man named Richard Clark — and pinning to his corpse a warning to their persecutors. A Warning to the Rebels You are hereby warned from hanging any more friends to the government as you did Claudius Smith. You are warned likewise to use James Smith, James Flewelling, and William Cole well and ease them from their irons, for we are determined to hang six for one, for the blood of the innocent cries aloud for vengeance. Your noted friend, Capt. Williams and his crew of robbers and murders we have got in our power, and the blood of Claudius Smith shall be repaid. There are particular companies of us who belong to Col. Butler’s army, Indians as well as white men, and particularly numbers from New York that are resolved to be revenged on you for your cruelty and murders. We are to remind you that you are the beginners and aggressors, for by your cruel oppressions and bloody actions drive us to it. This is the first and we are determined to pursue it on your heads and leaders to the last till the whole of you is massacred. Dated New York February 1779. It was tall talk that the raiders couldn’t back up: rewards and informants soon broke up the band, leaving the cowboys and Claudius Smith to pass into history. Ramblers might enjoy a visit to Claudius Smith’s Den, a cave that formerly served as a refuge for Smith’s gang. Beware of ghosts! (cc) image from The Turducken. 1892: A day in the death penalty around the U.S. South - 2019 1886: Henry Jackson, religiously inclined - 2018 1725: Anne Pepper, for a petticoat - 2017 1970: Nineteen in Baghdad - 2016 205: Plautianus, purple proximity - 2015 1855: Emmanuel Barthelemy, duelist - 2014 1912: Four blacks lynched in Hamilton, Georgia - 2013 1536: The Münster Rebellion leaders - 2012 1952: Yosef Basri and Shalom Salah, Jewish bombers? - 2011 1673: Mary Carleton, "German princess" - 2010 1552: Edward Seymour, deposed Lord Protector - 2009 1963: Ralph Hudson, the last man executed in New Jersey - 2008 1778: James “Sandy Flash” Fitzpatrick 1778: Josiah Phillips, attainted by Thomas Jefferson 1741: Caesar and Prince, leaders of a plot to burn New York? 1858: Qualchan 1784: Richard Barrick, Massachusetts highwayman 1741: John Hughson, Sarah Hughson and Peggy Kerry, “so abandoned to confederate with Slaves” 1741: Juan de la Silva, Spanish Negro Entry Filed under: 18th Century,Capital Punishment,Common Criminals,Death Penalty,England,Execution,Guerrillas,Hanged,History,Murder,New York,Occupation and Colonialism,Outlaws,Public Executions,Soldiers,Terrorists,Theft,USA,Wartime Executions Tags: 1770s, 1779, american revolution, claudius smith, george clinton, goshen, january 22 1963: Tankeu Noé, Cameroon guerrilla Add comment January 3rd, 2020 Headsman On this date in 1963, Cameroon guerrilla Tankeu Noé He had been a commander of rebels in Cameroon’s Littoral Province in the 1950s — fighting what was then a nationalist war against the French, who still held the central African territory as a colony.* Cameroon attained independence in 1960 but Noé’s outlawed Marxist Union of the Peoples of Cameroon (UPC) stayed outlawed, its leadership in exile. Cameroon’s post-colonial state looked a lot to the UPC like the colonial state: working hand in glove with the French military, both parties intent on crushing the militants. The new ruler of Cameroon, Ahmadou Ahidjo,** used the continuing fight against the insurgency to consolidate power in his own hands, eventually establishing a one-party state. And the fight was exceptionally brutal, with mass forced resettlement and tens of thousands killed across the last years of French rule and the first years of “independence”. In one noteworthy incident in 1962, dozens of UPC fighters were asphyxiated after being packed together into a sealed train. When the Catholic archbishop publicized the incident and announced plans to say a requiem mass, Ahidjo promptly had him expelled. Still fighting, Tankeu Noé was captured by the new boss/old boss joint military operations in 1963. Exploiting new powers arrogated that year to suppress regime opponents, the government had him shot in public in Douala, lashed to a power pole. His movement was strangled over the ensuing years, effectively vanishing after the 1971 execution of Ernest Ouandie. It’s resurfaced as a legitimate political party in 1991 and has contested and sometimes won seats in various elections ever since. * France had taken it from Germany after World War I. ** Ahidjo finally resigned for health reasons in 1982; within months, he would take exile refuge in France, pursued by an in absentia death sentence. He never returned to Cameroon; he was officially rehabilitated after his 1989 death in Senegal. 1667: Pedro Bohorquez, Inca Hualpa - 2019 1812: George Hart, Gotham batterer - 2018 68 or 69: Locusta, infamous poisoner - 2017 Feast Day of St. Gordius - 2016 1945: An unfortunate woman, name and nationality unknown - 2015 1898: Doc Tanner, Copper River gold rusher - 2014 1661: The effigy and books of Giuseppe Francesco Borri - 2013 2011: Two leaflet-readers - 2012 Daily Double: The Path to Power in Pyongyang - 2012 1786: Elizabeth Wilson, her reprieve too late - 2011 1645: John Hotham the Elder - 2010 1946: William Joyce, Lord Haw-Haw - 2009 2002: Sani Yakubu - 2008 1968: Nguyen Van Lem 1964: Louis Drouin and Marcel Numa, Jeune Haiti Entry Filed under: 20th Century,Cameroon,Capital Punishment,Death Penalty,Execution,Guerrillas,History,Occupation and Colonialism,Power,Public Executions,Revolutionaries,Shot,Soldiers,Wartime Executions Tags: 1960s, 1963, ahmadou ahidjo, communists, douala, ernest ouandie, january 3, tankeu noe	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1711
__label__cc	0.621902	0.378098	Home Medicine New Gene-Editing Tool, “Leaper,” Could Help People With Various Conditions Better Than CRISPR New Gene-Editing Tool, “Leaper,” Could Help People With Various Conditions Better Than CRISPR July 21, 2019 ·by Jeffrey Olmsted· 0 A group of researchers from Peking University in China came up with an invention called “Leaper,” which is a new gene-editing tool. They are confident human diseases can be defeated using this new technology which, in their belief, offers better results than CRISPR gene-editing tech. How does this new gene-editing tool work? “Leaper” is an abbreviation for “leveraging endogenous ADAR for programmable editing of RNA,” and it is similar to the CRISPR-Cas13. ‘Futurism’ reported that the CRISPR-Cas13 targets RNA molecules instead of DNA ones as the CRISPR-Cas9 does. In order for the CRISPR-Cas13 to work, it needs Cas13 enzymes and a guide RNA so its RNA can get edited. Compared to it, the “Leaper,” the new technology, only needs one component called ‘arRNA’ in order to work. The arRNA turns the system into a more easily deliverable one, and the chance to get unwanted cellular immune responses decreases, according to what the team told Chinese news outlet Caixin. Further details into the new gene-editing tool revealed The DNA is not directly changed by this technology. Instead, “Leaper” uses the native proteins, so heritable changes are not caused. Aside from that, the researcher Zhou Zhuo told The Global Times that it is also safe and precise simultaneously. Some people suffering from the genetic disorder known as Hurler syndrome were part of the study in which their cells were subject to tests. Sufficient amounts of the mutated RNA of the cells could be corrected by the new Leaper system. This new gene-editing tool, according to Zhuo, can be used as a replacement for treatment. However, these are still the early stages of the research, but animal tests will also be conducted by the team. With that being said, CRISPR remains the solution until the Leaper is developed enough to replace it. Cancer Patients Treated Safely Via CRISPR In A New Experiment Filed in: Medicine, News, Science Tags: CRISPR, DNA, Gene-Editing Tool, Leaper Jeffrey Olmsted Jeffrey likes to write about health and fitness topics, being a champion fitness instructor in the past.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1713
__label__cc	0.623265	0.376735	onefs vs zfs This means that there are, sadly, two politically and technologically-incompatible branches of “ZFS” but fortunately, OpenZFS is orders of magnitude more popular thanks to its open nature. over all, and a large number of small disk transfers need to made at once. ZFS is a strong player with very high capacity storage in the edu area, at media producers, internet providers or others wth high capacity needs like processing meteorological data. ^ a b "ZFS Raidz Performance, Capacity and Integrity Comparison @ Calomel.org". All modification operations to on-disk structures are transactional and journaled. FreeBSD and ZoL can still import old Solaris 10 zpools, as long as they weren’t upgraded to a newer Oracle ZFS version post openzfs split for example. Harus didukung oleh Sistem Operasi NAS. The ZFS file system was originally developed by Sun Microsystems for the Solaris operating system. OneFS presents a specialized command set to administer the OneFS File System. I really like what they did with the 7.X branch. Side-by-side comparison of Dell EMC Isilon OneFS and GigaSpaces XAP MemoryXtend. Direct atau SAN terpasang ke perangkat NAS. I know I won't get any performance advantage out of ZFS in a VM environment, but I just want ZFS rather than UFS for the abiity to create snapshots. EMC Isilon is what I would consider a mid range NAS with scalable performance and uses the OneFS operating system. The OneFS File System is a parallel distributed networked file system designed by Isilon Systems and is the basis for the Isilon Scale-out Storage Platform. All supported Linux distributions for Amanda Enterprise server. From its inception, “ZFS” has referred to the “Zettabyte File System” developed at Sun Microsystems and published under the CDDL Open Source license in 2005 as part of the OpenSolaris operating system. HDS HCS Simulator. 5.5.3 - OS updates with rolling reboots of individual nodes. I said it! OneFS presents a specialized command set to administer the OneFS File System. I hope for the day OpenZFS has replaced all the CDDL code with a GPL-compatible and non-patent-encumbered code base. “ZoL” is a hot topic. the usual 'fopen'), and that complies with POSIX filesystem requirements: this means that it must provide several facilities like POSIX attributes, or atomic file-blocking strictly following POSIX semantics.. Side-by-side comparison of Clonezilla and Hitachi Data Systems NAS. ^ IX systems Open ZFS vs. Btrfs \| and other file systems Blog, 4 August 2017 ^ a b "19.4. zfs Administration". zsh is the default login shell of the OneFS Operating System. No worries. The two projects should be referred to as “Oracle ZFS” and “OpenZFS” to distinguish them as development efforts, but the user still types the ‘zfs’ command, which on FreeBSD relies on the ‘zfs.ko’ kernel module. Apple finally announced a modern file system. Notable exceptions are the Isilon extensions to the FreeBSD ls and chmod programs. It is an entirely different development branch, however, they try to remain comparable with freeBSD’s openzfs. ZFS root in a VM? Everything else can be found from that starting point, following the generalized 64-bit pointers. What you need is going to depend on MBR vs. GPT, UFS vs. ZFS, CSM vs UEFI. parallel distributed networked file system, "Isilon OneFS and IsilonSD Edge: Technical Specifications Guide", "Dell EMC Launches All-Flash Isilon F810", "DELL EMC ISILON ONEFS OPERATING SYSTEM - Powering the Isilon Scale-out Storage Platform", "Isilon OneFS Authentication, Identity Management, & Authorization - Multiprotocol Data Access with a Unified Security Model", "EMC Isilon OneFS 7.0: Converging Big Data and The Enterprise", "Isilon OneFS 7.1 Big Data Scale Out Storage Is Finally Here! Direct or SAN attached to the NAS device. vfs.zfs.l2arc_feed_min_ms 200 sysctl vfs.zfs.l2arc_feed_secs 0 sysctl vfs.zfs.l2arc_noprefetch 0 sysctl vfs.zfs.l2arc_norw 0 sysctl vfs.zfs.l2arc_write_boost 50000000 sysctl vfs.zfs.l2arc_write_max 10000000 sysctl Block addresses are generalized 64-bit pointers that reference (node, drive, blknum) tuples. 20 verified user reviews and ratings of features, pros, cons, pricing, support and more. OpenZFS has been experiencing rapid development on Illumos, FreeBSD, and GNU/Linux in recent years which has led to feature inconsistency and potential feature incompatibility. The native block size is 8192 bytes; inodes are 512 bytes on disk (for disks with 512 byte sectors) or 8KB (for disks with 4KB sectors). ZFS has a capacity that is so large that any limitations set on it are never reached; UFS contains a collection of cylinder groups. in the end (i.e. Resilient File System (ReFS), codenamed "Protogon", is a Microsoft proprietary file system introduced with Windows Server 2012 with the intent of becoming the "next generation" file system after NTFS. But at a cost. Please help test the new OpenZFS kernel module and userland tools on FreeBSD to accelerate this unification! This indicates some environment of the SSH server has changed since last time you connected to it, especially the public key and the private key of this SSH server on the host. Both FreeBSD and Linux ZFS implementations originate from and share majority code of OpenZFS which is part of illumos. When using the highest-capacity drives supported, the EMC Isilon S200 has a maximum raw capacity of 33.6 TB per single node. I would rather it NOT become GPL as the GPL is a restrictive license. Stop stealing other’s work, create your own file system. It seems like most people using a ZFS-based SAN for VM workloads have a pretty narrow scope and can make informed decisions regarding the ideal zfs configuration. Learn more about how we use cookies and how you can control them by reading our, As readers have correctly pointed out, the role of ZFS on Linux a.k.a. All data structures in the OneFS file system maintain their own protection information. I'd like to see the minimum block size to be smaller or initially adjustable depending on user data type. Scribd is the world's largest social reading and publishing site. Finally, in April 2016, ZFS on Linux was considered stable enough that it began to be included in default installations of Ubuntu. in the end (i.e. The protection levels available are based on the number of nodes in the cluster and follow the Reed Solomon Algorithm. The OneFS File System is a parallel distributed networked file system designed by Isilon Systems and is the basis for the Isilon Scale-out Storage Platform. Oracle ZFS Storage Simulator. It is capable of interfacing with external backup devices and applications that use NDMP protocol. But as I understand it any incompatibility has to do with available versions. Dear @ll, I guess I have not yet understood how ZFS and NFS interact with each other. FreeNAS doesn’t do any ZFS development. Required fields are marked , ©Copyright 2020 iXsystems, Inc.\| All Rights Reserved \| Privacy Policy \| All trademarks appearing herein are subject to the terms of the iXsystems, Inc. ZFS was revolutionary for completely decoupling the file system from specialized storage hardware and even a specific computer platform. ZFS is a strong player with very high capacity storage in the edu area, at media producers, internet providers or others wth high capacity needs like processing meteorological data. over all, and a … ZFS pools aren't upgraded or changed by an upgrade. They can also be mounted into the z/OS® UNIX hierarchy along with other local or remote file systems types such as HFS, TFS, and NFS. FreeNAS is the simplest way to create a centralized and easily accessible place for your data. There are a lot of combinations possible and they all need to be configured differently. ZFS Day has grown into the two-day OpenZFS Developer Summit and is stronger than ever, a testament to the passion and dedication of the OpenZFS community. The nodes that comprise a OneFS System must be connected by a high performance, low-latency back-end network for optimal performance. While most if not all users of Illumos and its derivatives are ZFS users, the majority of ZFS users are not Illumos users, thanks significantly in part to FreeNAS which uses the FreeBSD operating system. The OneFS File System is a proprietary file system that can only be managed and controlled by the FreeBSD-derived OneFS Operating System. Notable exceptions are the Isilon extensions to the FreeBSD ls and chmod programs.[7]. See how many websites are using Clonezilla vs Hitachi Data Systems NAS and view adoption trends over time. checksumming at this … Both commands employ a user-friendly syntax such as‘zfs create mypool/mydataset’ and I welcome you to watch the appropriately-titled webinar “Why we love ZFS & you should too” or try a completely-graphical ZFS experience with FreeNAS. From about 2007 until mid-2018, all nodes sold utilized an InfiniBand back-end. So its common competitors would be GlusterFS, Hadoop and Luster. It sounds to me like ZFS isn't the problem, but that the .eli devices aren't showing up for ZFS to see. However when it is full and it is time to. NetApp Storage Systems, Sun ZFS Storage Appliances, EMC Celerra NS Series, Isilon OneFS, BlueArc Mercury & Titan (NDMP v.4 support is required). Enabling the write caches is then a performance consideration, and can offer performance gains for some workloads. Maybe someone here can help me. Must be supported by the NAS Operating System. to coalesce many small writes into fewer and larger. ZFS is a combined file system and logical volume manager designed by Sun Microsystems (now owned by Oracle).It is one of the few "proven [...] data-validating enterprise file system[s]", and the only one to be available as open source. 7.0 "Mavericks" - released November 2012; 8.0 "Riptide" (based on FreeBSD 10) - released February 2016, 8.1 "Freight Trains" - released June 2017, 8.2.0 "Pipeline" (based on FreeBSD 11) - Released May 2019, 8.2.2 "Beachcomber" - Released January 2020, This page was last edited on 16 November 2020, at 13:17. “ZoL” is a hot topic. ZFS is designed to work correctly whether or not the disk write caches are enabled. What do the fine folks in r/zfs have to say about it. Starting with OneFS 8.1.0 and Gen6 models, Isilon again offers Ethernet back-end network (10 Gigabit or 40 Gigabit).[5]. calomel.org. I have been studying both similar Copy-on-Write (COW) file systems at the data structure level for a while now and I strongly believe ZFS is a better implementation of the COW file systems (also known as “shadow-paging” file system) than WAFL. I'm also running 6.5.X and 7.X branch of onefs. So on freebsd and linux, both are use the same openzfs? to coalesce many small writes into fewer and larger. ZFS is scalable, and includes extensive protection against data corruption, support for high storage capacities, efficient data compression, integration of the concepts of filesystem and volume management, snapshots and copy-on-write clones, continuous integrity checking and automatic repair, RAID-Z, … ^ zfs-discuss list post by Jeff Bonwick, 2008-10-10 FreeBSD might have some feature flags that aren’t yet upstream. The only thing in life that is unlimited is your mother’s love for you. This caused extra capacity to be needed. ZFS was designed to be a next generation file system for Sun Microsystems’ OpenSolaris. Initial setup: ZFS vs mdraid/ext4 I'm also running 6.5.X and 7.X branch of onefs. write the data to the disks, and the write chunks are too fragmented. In parallel, iXsystems is, upstreaming native FreeBSD support into the ZoL code base, to make the ZoL code base truly platform-agnostic. Code base has changed enough (over 50%) that I’m pretty sure they could have their own patent now. So multiple encodings may be used in a single volume. Note that when BPXWH2Z creates new zFS aggregates, you can control whether it creates version 1.4 aggregates or version 1.5 aggregates. FreeBSD tends to use a more recent version of ZFS which can have features that are incompatible with the Linux version. The project won’t switch licenses. Many (UTF-8, EUC-JP, CP932, CP1252, ISO-8859-, EUC-KR, CP949). THE SYSTEM UNDER TEST Both FeeeBSD and ZoL submit code upstream to OpenZFS. ZFS on Linux and ZFS on Freenas both support feature flags, the problem has been that various new flags have rolled out from different vendors at different times and it’s taken a long time to reach parity between ZoL, Illumos and FreeBSD and it’s vary easy to create a pool on one system that can’t be imported on a system that doesn’t yet support the flags used by the pool. Isilon OneFS 8.2 provides several new enhancements including a massive boost to scalability, a jump of 75% to 58PB within a single file system and support for clusters as large as 252 nodes, up from 144 previously. My impression is that the terms of the CDDL license under which the OpenZFS branch of ZFS is published protects its users from any patent and trademark risks. I’m no ZFS expert. If I remember correctly, ZFS sits on top of the encryption. The maximum HDD storage is 28.8 TB, while the maximum SSD storage is 4.8 TB. However when it is full and it is time to. Storage Spaces background This caused extra capacity to be needed. I admit that we geeks tend to get caught up in the nuts and bolts of enterprise storage and overlook the more obvious questions that users might have. How To Live Alone And Be Happy, Professional Appearance In The Workplace, White-eared Bulbul Lifespan, Museo Tamayo Architect, Yellow Fatalii Seeds, Kayaking In Boerne, Tx, West Palm Beach Crime Map, What Main Dish Goes Well With Scalloped Potatoes, What Kind Of Training Did Knights Undergo, Bicycle Seat With Backrest, Anti-inflammation Diet For Dummies Pdf, 2020 onefs vs zfs	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1719
__label__wiki	0.648103	0.648103	Haridwar Packages Places in Haridwar 1. Ganga Aarti in Haridwar 2. Har Ki Pauri 3. Chandi Devi Temple 4. Chilla Wildlife Sanctuary 5. Mansa Devi Temple, Haridwar 6. Bharat Mata Mandir Haridwar All Tourist Places Haridwar Tourism Kumbh Mela, Haridwar Haridwar Uttarakhand India #17 Among Things To Do in Haridwar Kumbh Mela, Haridwar Overview Haridwar in Uttarakhand is an important pilgrimage town for the Hindus. The place is a perfect escape from the cacophony of urban life and a beautiful amalgamation of old and new, replete with beauty, culture, history and spirituality. Haridwar is known as the ‘Abode of God’ because of its serenity and scenic beauty by the River Ganga. The most famous fair in the world - Kumbh Mela is celebrated here once in twelve years. It’s a sight that should never be missed. Haridwar Kumbha Mela has gained International fame as "the world's most massive act of faith". The unflinching trust of millions of devotees is mind-boggling. This spectacle of faith has attracted the curiosity of foreigners as well. The pilgrims come from all walks of life, travelling long distances and tolerating many physical discomforts, just for one dip in the holy river. While some arrive on overcrowded trains, others come by helicopters and planes. But, what remains common is their tremendous faith. Nothing deters the faith of the pilgrims, who celebrate the Kumbh Mela at Haridwar in all pomp and glory. Fathoming the atmosphere of the celebration is difficult. It’s surreal. It’s magical! Photos of Kumbh Mela Book Haridwar Activities Sightseeing in Haridwar - Full Day Pickup and Drop from Rishikesh Deals start $5 3D2N Tungnath Chandrashila Peak Trek from Haridwar 3 Day(s) Duration Deals start $108 5D4N Kuari Pass Trek from Haridwar Read More on Kumbh Mela Haridwar Kumbh Mela Dates 2022 The next Maha Kumbha at Haridwar will be hosted in 2022 during March - April while the exact dates shall be worked out by the astrologers. Kumbh Mela is celebrated on the dates when the water of the sacred rivers turns into nectar. The exact dates are determined according to a combination of zodiac positions of the Jupiter, the Sun and the Moon. The Kumbh Mela is held once in every three years and returns to each of the four locations (Allahabad, Ujjain, Haridwar and Nasik) after twelve years which is considered as Purna Kumbha. It is believed to be the most auspicious fair and a mass pilgrimage for the Hindu community of India. Every sixth year after a Purna Kumbh Mela, an Ardh Kumbh Mela takes place, which is celebrated only at Haridwar and Allahabad. The Purna Kumbha Mela, one of the grandest religious fairs in the last few years, is a less boisterous and glamorous affair than its big brother, the Maha Kumbh Mela held at Prayag after 144 years. Kumbh Mela at Haridwar Things To Do at Kumbh Mela in Haridwar Kumbh Mela in Haridwar extends for one and a half month on the banks of the holy river Ganga. The festival sees sadhus, swamis and devotees from all parts of India and across the globe. The divine celebration offers excellent tranquillity and contentment to all devotees. The festival is celebrated with great passion and enthusiasm and a holy dip in the river Ganga is considered a way of attaining salvation. Peshwai Procession: One of the major rituals of the festival is the ‘Peshwai Procession’ which is a royal procession of the Naga sadhus. The procession is a breathtaking display of acrobatic and martial skills of the sadhus. Darshan: Another important event of Haridwar Kumbh Mela is the Darshan, which allows members of the Hindu public to interact with the Sadhus visually. In the surreal environment, one can hear devotional songs, Veda mantras and prayers and preaches of saints and sages. Ganga Aarti: The celebration is incomplete without the famous Ganga Aarti. Every evening, as the dusk descends, it’s time for the “aarti” to be performed at the Har Ki Pauri Ghat. The aarti is a powerful spiritual ritual of light and sound that uses fire as an offering. The magnificent event witnesses chanting of the mantras and prayers with the brass lamps of fire. It’s a spiritual circus of clanging bells, pandits, devotees and flowers and flames! The crowd at Har ki Pauri during Haridwar Kumbh Mela Last Purna Kumbh and Ardh Kumbha in Haridwar: Haridwar hosted the previous Purna Kumbh Mela in 2010. Millions of Hindu pilgrims were in attendance. Many of them participated in the Chaitra Purnima Snan (holy bath) at the Har ki Pauri. ISRO took satellite pictures of the fair so that they could improve the conduct of the festival while the BBC reported an audio and video report on titled "Kumbh Mela: The Greatest Show on Earth" which explored the philosophies, beliefs and traditions of Hinduism. A popular American morning show "CBS News Sunday Morning" gave extensive coverage to Haridwar's Kumbh Mela. The last Ardh Kumbh Mela was celebrated from January 2016 to April 2016. It witnessed a rush of pilgrims from across the country, with devotees immersing themselves into the icy waters of the Ganga to absolve their sins. Air-borne drones were put in place to oversee security at the Ardh Kumbh Mela. Significance and History of Haridwar Kumbh Mela Kumbh Mela is the most significant religious carnival and congregation of pilgrims in the world. It is celebrated at four places – Haridwar, Allahabad, Nashik and Ujjain. Legend tells a tale from the bygone days when the demigods (devas) used to reside on earth. Sage Durvasa’s curse had weakened them, and the demons (asuras) caused havoc in the world. It was only then that Lord Brahma asked the devas to churn out the nectar of immortality with the help of asuras. The demons, after learning that the nectar will not be shared with them, went after the demigods for 12 days and 12 nights. During the chase, some of the nectar fell at the four places mentioned above which ultimately came to be revered as holy places in the power of which millions of Hindus repose their faith. 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__label__cc	0.691012	0.308988	BOOK YOUR STAY Reservations:415-394-1111 Minus Guest Plus Guest Guests I Prefer members, book here AMOMA Starting at $503 Our Price Starting at $503 Our Clean Commitment Restaurant ANZU 49DOGS The Best Time to Visit San Francisco Is September San Francisco is a beautiful city with a culture and spirit that energizes your soul. From the orange glow of the Golden Gate Bridge to the playful waterfront of Fisherman's Wharf to the colorful streets of Chinatown, San Francisco is a destination where discovery never ends. The locals say the best time to visit San Francisco is from September to November when the temperatures are warmest, days are sunny, and skies are blue. And with fewer crowds than summer, sightseeing is a blast. The Best Things to Do Outside in SF Sunshine and 70-degree days make San Francisco an epic destination for outdoor adventure in the Fall. Whether running through The Presidio along the bay, biking across the Golden Gate Bridge, or exploring SF's eclectic neighborhoods on foot, you'll find amazing things to do in San Francisco this month. Here are insider tips from the Hotel Nikko Concierge, Theresa: Explore Golden Gate Park Walk, run, and bike through Golden Gate Park and see attractions like the Japanese Tea Garden, Stowe Lake, and Strawberry Hill, as well as museums, beaches, and postcard views of the Golden Gate Bridge. Join a narrated Segway Tour and take in the best views and hidden jewels of this beautiful urban park on San Francisco Bay. Tour Chinatown Take a walking tour through the colorful streets of the oldest Chinatown in the US. Chinatown offers a maze of historic buildings and churches, markets, shops, bakeries, and restaurants. Walk through Dragon's Gate to see attractions like Portsmouth Square and the Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory. Try the dim sum at Hang Ah Dim Sum Tea House Ride the Ferry to Angel Island Take a ferry from San Francisco to rocky Angel Island and soak up amazing views of the city, Marin County, and Mt. Tamalpais. The island has acres of natural beauty, hiking and biking trails, historic landmarks. Take the tram tour for breathtaking vistas of the San Francisco Bay. Sea Kayaking on San Francisco Bay Paddle a sea kayak on San Francisco Bay and explore the city's shoreline. Kayaking on the Bay is an exciting and beautiful way to really get up close with the waters around San Francisco. See SF attractions like Fisherman's Wharf, Golden Gate Park and AT&T Stadium. You can rent a kayak around San Francisco, Angel Island, Sausalito, and Tomales Bay. Reach the Beach While the city has a funky urban culture, San Francisco also has a cool beach vibe. SF boasts several beautiful beaches for walks, sightseeing, and fresh air. It's worth checking out Ocean Beach, Land's End and Baker Beach, which offer views of Golden gate Bridge and a breather from city life. The ANZU Food Truck at Spark Social SF Head over to the ANZU To You Food Truck serving a Japanese street food with a SF twist. Swing by the green food truck parked around town, in front of Hotel Nikko on Fridays, and at Spark Social, the city's eclectic food, drink and gathering place. Chow down on soba noddle bowls, sushi rolls, and slow-cooked short ribs. Check out their schedule and menu and call ahead for the best Asian take out in San Francisco. Explore San Francisco With Hotel Nikko Located two blocks from Union Square, Hotel Nikko San Francisco is a Japanese inspired hotel the blends the art of Zen hospitality with urban luxury. This cosmopolitan boutique hotel puts you in the heart of the city, steps from shopping, dining, historic neighborhoods, and attractions. We're steps from the Cable Cars and Union Square and a five-minute ride to Chinatown, Castro District, Fisherman's Wharf, the Ferry Building and Golden Gate Park. Hotel Nikko offers refined rooms and suites designed with Japanese influenced decor and dreamy pillowtop beds. This Union Square area hotel also offers ANZU Restaurant and To Go, Starbucks, a business center, meeting space, a health club, glass-enclosed pool, and secure garage parking. There's a Pet Terrace with a dog run so you can bring the pups here for a San Francisco adventure. For anything else, the Hotel Nikko concierge team has local insight on what to do and where to eat. And we're happy to make reservations and recommend local tours. Book our Stay Safe Special and get free parking, a grab-and-go breakfast, and amenity fees waived. Sign Up to Get Special Offers & News 222 Mason St, San Francisco, California 94102 View Hotel Nikko San Francisco on Google Map Phone: 415-394-1111 Hotel Nikko San Francisco phone number More About Hotel Nikko San Francisco © Hotel Nikko San Francisco 2019	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1724
__label__wiki	0.810331	0.810331	Drive-by Rockers Local Band Flower Graves Talks Performing at Axelrad's Rooftop Concert This Saturday The drive-in-style show, which also features opening act El Lago, is a test run for future events. By Carlos Brandon 5/21/2020 at 12:49pm Image: Band: Daniel Jackson; Building: Monte Large; Cars: Shutterstock/Four Oaks; Radio tower: Shutterstock/underverse Of all the industries struggling this year due to COVID-19, perhaps none has been brought to such a grinding halt in quite as painful a manner as live events. There's no work-around, no takeout option, no curbside pick-up for that concert you had tickets for last month, and let's be honest, watching a livestream just isn't the same. This Saturday, however, the folks at Axelrad aim to bring some semblance of normal back with a drive-in-style rooftop concert featuring local bands Flower Graves and El Lago. According to a press release, the show will also be a test run, as Axelrad, the beating heart of Midtown’s live music scene, hopes to continue creating live drive-in events for as long as necessary. If that's not already enough of a reason to rock out (the venue does ask patrons to get their groove on from the inside of their vehicles, wear face coverings, and follow social distancing recommendations), a portion of the profits from the pay-what-you-can show will benefit the Houston Arts Alliance and the Houston Music Foundation, a new nonprofit supporting musicians during the pandemic. We spoke with Mikey Drag, lead singer of headliner Flower Graves, about what it’s like preparing for a drive-in show and how the pandemic has affected the group's music career. After what was arguably your biggest year to date in 2019, how has COVID-19 impacted your progression as a band in 2020? COVID-19's impact affected us early on with the cancellation of SXSW 2020. We had a busy schedule lined up for SXSW, along with plans with a West Coast tour and multiple festivals we had been talking to. If these were normal circumstances, how would you describe the energy at a typical Flower Graves show? I like to think the energy at shows is intriguing, upbeat, and mystic. Speaking of mystic, you described your music as psych-rock with added elements of mysticism and space. Can you explain that a little further? "Psych-Rock" is the best we could possibly label our music; mysticism and space could describe the other influences that you might be able to hear in our music. We definitely started off with the intention of being a straight forward psych-rock band, but our sound has evolved and continues to morph. What is your approach when preparing for this type of show in comparison to a traditional venue? For this show at Axelrad, we definitely went through an array of different emotions, but were ultimately excited. We've been practicing social distancing at our rehearsals, along with wearing our face masks, so preparing has been a different approach compared to shows in the past. How do you see coronavirus affecting the live music experience in both the near and long term? It's so hard to make a prediction on the future of live music, especially with how news and protocols about COVID-19 keep changing and evolving practically every day, but this industry is always willing to adapt. Drive-in concerts and live-streams are such a great concept, and [we're] glad to see them happening. Beyond the upcoming drive-in show at Axelrad, what can fans expect from Flower Graves this year? We will be releasing a new single and music video before the end of June, along with another single later this summer. We’re hoping to plan a tour for the end of this year, depending on developments of COVID-19; fingers crossed. May 23. Pay-what-you-can. Axelrad, 1517 Alabama St. More info and tickets at axelradbeergarden.com. music, Social Distancing, Axelrad Beer Garden, Concert, Coronavirus They Will Rock You Concerts Are Returning to Houston, Thank the Music Gods 10/06/2020 By Emma Schkloven (Bird) Call of the Wild HGO Isn't "Fowltering" with Its Mockumentary Staging of Vinkensport 10/21/2020 By Olivia Flores Alvarez Houston's "Love, Teach" Blogger Talks Back-to-School Challenges Amid the Coronavirus 09/03/2020 By Raven Wuebker Go See Christopher Nolan's New Thriller, Tenet, at This Fifth Ward Drive-In 09/03/2020 By Brittany Cristiano	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1728
__label__wiki	0.789429	0.789429	Climate change is 'bigger issue' than Vietnam War: Woodstock co-creator By Angelica StabileFOXBusiness Why Woodstock's 50th anniversary event fell to pieces Woodstock festival co-creator Michael Lang argues climate change is a larger issue than the Vietnam War. The historical Woodstock music festival celebrated its 50th birthday this year, but plans for an anniversary event wound up falling to pieces. “We had everything kind of lined up really well,” Woodstock co-creator Michael Lang said on FOX Business’ "Varney & Co." “We got an amazing lineup. [But] I put that up to the wrong partner.” The recreation of Woodstock wouldn’t have had the original war-related incentives behind spreading peace. Instead, the focus would've been on climate change. Elliott Landy's photograph of the crowd at the original 1969 Woodstock festival. (PRNewsFoto) The whole purpose behind it was to engage people in climate change and getting out the vote for the next election. It's one of the major problems I've seen facing the world today and one that has dire consequences. - Woodstock co-creator Michael Lang Lang said he believes that climate change is an even bigger issue than the Vietnam War. GET FOX BUSINESS ON THE GO BY CLICKING HERE Climate change "affects everybody on the planet,” Lang said. “The catastrophic change that it will bring to every person on the planet is huge, and I think 97 percent of the scientists out there in the world believe it as well.” “Every business will be affected by “[climate change].” - Michael Lang, Woodstock co-creator From an economic standpoint, Lang believes developing sustainability and renewable resources will boost the economy. In place of the 50th-anniversary event, he plans to continue promoting climate change politics. “We are doing things to promote the election and getting out the vote and people's engagement in the climate issue,” Lang said. CLICK HERE FOR THE ALL-NEW FOXBUSINESS.COM	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1730
__label__wiki	0.637515	0.637515	Grand Opening: We're talking motivated, people! By: Eddy Goldberg and Kerry Pipes \| 2,268 Reads \| 40 Shares When she was just 16, Mandy Bryant (now Mandy Bryant Verges) got a job at a Gold's Gym in her home city of New Orleans. She worked a couple of years in sales and did well. In April 1995, owner Steve Smith opened a tanning salon called Electric Beach in the city's Uptown district. When Smith bought out his business partner, he needed a manager for the salon. Bryant asked, he said yes, and transferred the 18-year-old to the salon as its new manager. "After a few months, he spoke with me about wanting to start his own franchise," she says. Using the Electric Beach salon as a model for creating a new brand, in February 1996 he changed the name to Planet Beach. By April he was franchising. "Helping him with the policies and procedures of his first Planet Beach location, I just basically grew with the franchise," she says. Over the years, that would mean a little bit of everythingâ€"overseeing openings, doing grand opening training, and traveling throughout the U.S., Canada, and Australia to help open salons and conduct classes in training, management, sales, and marketing. Smith had put together an operations manual, which she tested at the first Planet Beach, seeing what worked and what didn't. "I tried different things at the salon," she says, working with Smith and rewriting where needed. The early times were not only educational, but heady. She recalls her excitement while managing the flagship salon, where she stayed three years, when the fifth store opened. Now, she says laughing, there are 700 licenses awarded and 330 salons open. (The gap, she says, is because multiple-unit owners are still building out their territories.) New locations are opening at about 10 per month. Over the ensuing years, Smith would serve as a mentor to the teen he had hired, teaching her sales and marketing, operations, management, and more. He also invested in her education, including sending her through the IFA's CFE (Certified Franchise Executive) training program. In 1999, at 22, she became a franchisee, opening her own Planet Beach salon in New Orleans. She remained a franchisee and working for corporate for eight years wearing many hats (with IT and CEO perhaps the only exceptions) until moving to Tampa a couple of years ago. When Katrina hit in August 2005, her salon was flooded. She'd been in Tampa about 8 months and had planned to sell the New Orleans store, but after Katrina, she closed it instead. (The first Planet Beach salon, by the way, did survive the storm.) She's realistic about the salon she'd had since 1999. "It's done well for me. It's just not going to be beneficial for me to reopen it. I just have too much going on here in Tampa. This is where I want to focus my efforts." There's a lot to focus on: as a Planet Beach area representative, her territory spans three counties: Hillsborough, Pinellas, and Polk (which includes the Tampa Bay area). During the interview in late 2006, Bryant Verges, recently turned 30, said she was expecting her first child within weeks. In Tampa, where she'd opened her first salon a couple of years ago, she was still on the go, busy overseeing the details of another salon opening. As she prepares for her initial foray into motherhood, she is putting her education and experience to good use, training her manager to be a grand opening specialist and step in where needed in the coming months. She's also passed on her recruitment and hiring philosophy to her salon owners. "I train my franchisees as well as myself, that if you meet someone who you think is going to be a great hire, hire them, even if we have a full staff." For example, if she meets a salesperson at a clothing store or an auto body shop doing a great job or trying to upsell her, that person is an instant candidate. And since Planet Beach sets schedules based on performance (high performers get more hours, low performers see their hours cut), there's always room in her organizationâ€"or her familyâ€"for a great new performer. Name: Mandy Bryant Verges Title: Area representative Company: Planet Beach Franchising Corp. No. of units: 33 licenses awarded, 8 opened Years in current position: 2 Years in franchising: 11 Key accomplishment: Business franchise owner at 22 years old; created core policies and procedures for Planet Beach Franchising Corp. Biggest mistake: Missing my high school prom Smartest mistake: Buying a house at 21 years old, instead of a fancy car How do you spend a day, typically?: Consulting with franchisees, speaking with new candidates, formulating development plans, reviewing real estate selections, training managers and employees Work week: 50-plus hours doing the above (yes, even weekends) Family life: Age 30, married in 2005, baby due by the time you read this Reading: The Power of Focus, Jack Canfield, one of my favorites; Good to Great, Jim Collins. For pleasure, books about motherhood Employees: 1 manager, 1 assistant manager, 4 part-timers Favorite activity: Playing with my Maltese (Diva) and my shih tzu (Angel); names say a lot Exercise: Bike riding, kickboxing What do you do for fun? Head back home to New Orleans for good times with friends and family (the food isn't bad either) Management method: Behavior based, with a focus on the key strengths of each individual How do you do it? Intense one-on-one feedback sessions and tons of training sessions with role-plays How will you continue to do it? Stay focused on the positive results obtained and encourage franchisees to enjoy their entrepreneurial ventures Greatest challenge: Having franchisees understand the importance of following a proven system, when they come from a diverse background of business and service acumen Management style: Strategic, achiever, maximizer Personality: Outgoing, compassionate, and driven How do you hire and fire? I once heard that you should hire eagles as they soar and fire turkeys who will never fly. Find good people? Eyes wide open in everyday life and locations, and constantly recruit talent (even when fully staffed) Train them? Three levels of training to capture all styles of learning: online university, classroom, and hands-on detailed face-to-face interaction Retain them? This is a feel good, look good business that is based on "having fun." "Growth meter" (how do you measure your growth?): Look for comp growth in year-over sales, and look to consolidate every market with our franchise concept. 2007 goals: Open our 20th location in the market and award 5 additional franchise licenses Published: March 27th, 2007 Ain't Openings Grand! Tips From 6 Franchisees on Making Them Sing Meet Your Growth Goals by Structuring Deals Realistically Liberty Tax Paves a Winning Path to Franchise Ownership for First... Growth Strategy: Base Your Opening Schedules on Your System Goals Make Openings Grand: Tips, Tools, and Tactics to Grow By Franchise Partners Open Unique Multi-Branded Automotive Store Amazing Lash Studio We are looking for qualified, committed business owners interested in a franchise opportunity with a market leader. Wayback Burgers With 500+ restaurants in development worldwide, Wayback Burgers is America's favorite hometown burger joint and one of the world's fastest-growing...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1733
__label__wiki	0.708556	0.708556	Emergency call source locator on an A/V telecommunication system A method of locating a source location in an A/V telecommunication system having a server and a telecommunication device including a network connection, a telecommunications processor connected to the network connection, and a video processor connected to the network connection may be performed by initiating an emergency call at an A/V telecommunication device. A server recognizes the emergency call and correlates the A/V telecommunication device with a physical address. The physical address may be sent to an emergency recipient. Pulitzer, Hutton J. 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TAYLOR, JOSHUA D J. HUTTON PULITZER (FRISCO, TX, US) 1. A method of locating a source location in an A/V telecommunication system having a server and a telecommunication device including a network connection, a telecommunications processor connected to the network connection, and a video processor connected to the network connection, comprising the steps of: initiating an emergency call at an A/V telecommunication device; recognizing the emergency call at a server; correlating the A/V telecommunication device with a physical address; sending said physical address to an emergency recipient. TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION The invention relates to the field of video telephony, in particular to an integrated multi-network video telephones. The combination of video and audio channels provide a unique platform for interpersonal communication. With the availability of broadband Internet network connections in the home, there is an opportunity to provide further methods of interaction between content providers and consumers. What is needed, therefore, is a system and method of providing a broadband information appliance. For a more complete understanding of the present invention and the advantages thereof, reference is now made to the following description taken in conjunction with the accompanying Drawings in which: FIG. 1 illustrates a household broadband information appliance; FIG. 1A illustrates a handset for a household broadband information appliance; FIG. 2 illustrates a block diagram of a household broadband information appliance; FIG. 3 illustrates a block diagram of a household broadband information appliance; and FIG. 4 illustrates an A/V telecommunication system for locating emergency callers. Referring now to the drawings, wherein like reference numbers are used to designate like elements throughout the various views, several embodiments of the present invention are further described. The figures are not necessarily drawn to scale, and in some instances the drawings have been exaggerated or simplified for illustrative purposes only. One of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate the many possible applications and variations of the present invention based on the following examples of possible embodiments of the present invention. With reference to FIG. 1, a functional depiction of a broadband information appliance 100 is shown. The broadband information appliance 100 includes a base unit 101. The base unit 101 typically houses the processing circuits, memory storage, interfaces 105, manual inputs 102 and power connections. The base unit 101 may be attached to a display 103. The display 103 may be integral with the base unit 101. The display 103 may be an independent unit fixedly attached to the base unit 101. The display 103 may be interchangeably attached to the base unit 101 such that the display 103 may be easily exchanged for a different display 103. Base unit 101 may include manual inputs 102. Typically the manual inputs 102 may include a standard telephone keypad with ten numeric buttons plus “#” and “*” buttons. The manual inputs 102 may further include any number of other buttons, switches, thumbwheels or other appropriate manual input devices. A wide variety of functions and features may be controlled using the manual inputs 102. Manual inputs 102 may include navigation keys or a joystick for up, down, right and left selections, programmable soft keys. Power and status LEDs may also be provided. Base unit 101 may be connected to a handset 104. Handset 104 may be substantially a standard telephone handset including a microphone and speaker. Handset 104 may be directly connected to the base unit 101. A handset 104 directly connected to the base unit 101 may be called a “tethered” or “wired” handset. Handset 104 may also include a wireless transceiver for wireless connection to a base unit including (or connected to) a wireless transceiver. The wireless transceivers may be a 2.4 gigahertz transceivers or may use any other suitable wireless transceiver frequency. The wireless transceivers may be spread spectrum transceivers. A handset 104 wirelessly connected to the base unit may be called a “wireless” handset. Base unit 101 may be connected to an interface 105. Typically, interface 105 will be integral with base unit 101. Interface 105 includes an interface for connection to network 106. Network 106 may be an open network such as the Internet. Interface 105 includes interface connections 107 for connecting the base unit 101 to a variety of peripherals or networks. Typically, the interface 105 will provide Ethernet ports, telephone handset and keypad support, video capture and display ports including NTSC composite input and output ports, S-video ports, NTSC camera ports and LCD display ports. The interface 105 may include audio capture and reproduction ports, an external microphone port, an external speaker port, two audio line level inputs, a handsfree speakerphone, A digital video camera 115 may be connected to base unit 101. Typically digital video camera 1105 is a CCD camera device. The digital video camera 115 may be integral with the base unit 101 or the display 103. An additional digital video camera 137 may be integral with the handset 104. A privacy shield 141 may be a cover provided to disable the digital video camera 137 by covering the lens of the digital video camera 137. With reference to FIG. 1A, a more detailed depiction of the features that may be incorporated into handset 104 is shown. The handset 104 typically includes a speaker 135 and a microphone 136 to provide standard audio communication. Handset 104 may include a digital video camera 137, typically at one end of the handset 104. A scanner 138 may be provided on the handset 104 to read machine readable codes or to scan image data. An LCD display 139 may be provided on the handset 104 to allow the user to see the input from digital video camera 137, show video data being shown on display 103 when the handset 104 is being used remotely from the base 101. The handset display 139 may also show alternate visual data. The handset 104 may include further manual inputs 140 to control the video camera 137, handset display 139, scanner 138. With reference to FIG. 2, a functional block diagram of a basic broadband information appliance 100 is shown. A gateway 110 provides an interface to network 106. The gateway communicates with voice-over-internet-protocol (VOIP) hardware 111 and video hardware 114. The VOIP hardware 114 may be directly connected to wired handset 104 or may be connected to a cordless base unit 112 which provides wireless communication with a cordless handset 113. The video hardware 114 may be connected to a video camera 115 and a display 103. With reference to FIG. 3, a more detailed functional block diagram of a broadband information appliance 100 is shown. A gateway 110 provides communication with one or more networks 106. Gateway 110 may be a Micrel KS8695P processor. The gateway 110 typically acts as the master boot processor for the broadband information appliance 100. The gateway 110 is typically an integrated, multi-port PCI bridge system on a chip. The KS8695P integrates an ARM922T CPU, a PCI bridge that can support up to 3 external PCI masters and a 5-port switch with integrated media access controllers and low power Ethernet PHYs. The PCI interface can be connected gluelessly to miniPCI or cardbus wireless LAN cards that support 802.11a/g/b. Those skilled in the art will recognize that other processors, chips or configurations could be used for the gateway 110. The KS8695P gateway processor includes five Ethernet MAC and PHY, 10/100 Base-Transceivers. It includes a PCI bridge and Master arbiter of up to 3 external PCI 2.1 compliant controllers, supporting a 32 bit data bus as 33 MHz clock speed. The processor includes a memory controller for glueless synchronous DRAM support at 133 MHz access of up to 32 MB. The processor has a standard memory bus for SRAM and flash ROM, 32 bit address, 32 bit data up to 32 MB, with general purpose I/O pins and a JTAG port. Gateway 110 provides one or more external Ethernet ports. Gateway 110 includes Ethernet ports for both uplink 116 and downlink 117 connections. Typically, uplink 116 and downlink 117 are integrated, however according to some embodiments, separate communication links may be provided for the uplink 116 and downlink 117, particularly where bandwidth limitations make it advisable to provide greater bandwidth for the downlink 117 than the uplink 116. Gateway 119 nay be connected to a link controller 119, a USB host controller 120, a mini-PCI slot 121 or other interfaces. Gateway 119 may be connected to gateway memory 118. Gateway memory 118 may be flash memory, SDRAM or other suitable memory device. Gateway 119 may be connected to a VOIP processor 111. A VOIP processor 111 is a communication processor for audio codec and telephone management. The VOIP processor 11 may be a Telogy TNETV1050 DSP. The VOIP processor may include a MIPS32 reduced instruction set computer processor and a C55 DSP. The RISC processor software supplies overall system services and performs user interface, network management, protocol stack management, call processing and task scheduling functions. The DSP software provides real-time voice processing functions such as echo cancellation, compression, pulse-code modulation data processing and tone generation and detection. Two 10/100 Base-T Ethernet MAC and PHY are included with integrated layer-2 three-port Ethernet switches. On-chip peripherals include an 8×8 keypad interface, USB controller host, universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter serial interface, a programmable serial port, several general-purpose input/outputs and integrated voltage regulator. The integrated dual channel 16-bit voice coder/decoder integrates the critical functions needed for IP phone applications, including two analog-to-digital converters and two digital to analog converters. Other features include analog and digital sidetone control, filter, programmable gain options, a programmable sampling rate, 8-speaker driver, microphone, handset and headset interfaces. The VOIP processor 111 may include dual Ethernet MAC and PHY, 10/100 base transceivers. The VOIP processor 111 may include a speaker and microphone for handset, headset, and optional input and output sources. The VOIP processor 111 may include a PC and Palm compatible IrDA transceiver, a RS-232 serial port, a USB host port, general purpose I/O pins for LED and configuration options. The VOIP processor 111 may include synchronous DRAM, 133 MHz up to 128 MB, a standard memory bus, a JTAG port and HP Logic analyzer connectors. Those skilled in the art will recognize that other VOIP processors may be used as suitable. VOIP processor 111 may be connected to a VOIP memory 112. VOIP memory 112 may be a flash memory, SDRAM or other suitable memory devices. The VOIP hardware 111 may be connected to a handset 104 or a cordless base 112 which provides wireless communication with a cordless handset 113. The VOIP hardware 111 may be connected to manual input devices 102, a microphone 124, a speaker 123. VOIP hardware 111 may be connected to an alpha-numeric keyboard 125. Gateway 110 may be connected to video processor 114. The video processor 114 is a video codec and LCD panel controller. The VOIP processor 111 may be a TI TMS320DM642 digital signal processor. The digital signal processor may be based on the second-generation high-performance advanced VelociTI very-long-word-instruction (VLIW) architecture. The digital signal processor may provide 4800 million instructions per second at a clock rate of 600 MHz. The DSP offers operational flexibility of high speed controllers and the numerical capability of array processors. A DSP core processor has 64 general purpose registers of 32-bit word length and eight independent functional units including two multipliers for 32 bit word length and six arithmetic logic units. The DSP provides extensions in the eight functional units including new instructions to accelerate performance in video and imaging applications to extend parallelism. The DSP can produce four 32-bit multiply accumulates per cycle for a total of 2400 million MACs per second or eight 8-bit MACs per cycle for a total of 4800 million MACs. The DSP may have application specific hardware logic, on-chip memory and additional on-chip peripherals. The DSP typically uses a two-level cache-based architecture. A Level 1 program cache is a 128-Kbit direct mapped cache and a Level 1 data cache is a 128-Kbit 2-way set-associative cache. A Level 2 memory cache consists of a 2-Mbit-memory space that is shared between program and data space. Level 2 memory can be configured as mapped memory. The peripheral set may include configurable video ports; a 10/100 Mb/s Ethernet MAC; a management data input/output; a VCXO interpolated control port; a multichannel buffered audio serial port; an inter-integrated circuit bus module; two multichannel buffered serial ports; three 32-bit general purpose timers; a user-configurable 16-bit or 32-bit host port interface; a peripheral component interconnect; a 16-ping general-purpose input/output port with programmable interrupt/even generation modes; and a 64-bit glueless external memory interface which is capable of interfacing to synchronous and asynchronous memories and peripherals. The DSP may have three configurable video port peripherals. These video port peripherals provide a glueless interface to common video decoder and encoder devices. The DSP video port peripherals support multiple resolutions and video standards. The video ports peripherals are configurable and can support video capture and video display modes. Each video port may include two channels with a 5120 byte capture/display buffer that is split-able between the two channels. The DSP may include three video ports including a capture port interfaced with a Philips SAA7115 decoder with integrated multiplexer for NTSC, S-video sources; display port interfaced with Philips SAA7105 NTSC and S-video encoder and a third port dedicated to an LCD panel. The DSP may include Ethernet MAC 10/100 Base-Transceivers. The DSP may include genera purpose I/O pins and a JTAG port. The DSP may be a synchronous DRAM 64-bit wide, 133 MHz up to 1 GB support. The DSP may include a standard asynchronous memory bus 32 bit. The DSP may include HP logic analyzer connectors for memory bus address, data and control signals. Those skilled in the art will recognize that other DSP processors may be implemented. The video processor 114 may be connected to a video memory 128. Video memory 128 may be a flash memory, SDRAM or other suitable memory device. The video processor 114 may be connected to an video decoder 126. Video decoder 126 may be a NTSC decoder. Video decoder 126 may receive video signals from an external source 127 or a video camera 115. The video processor 114 may be connected to a video encoder 129. The video encoder 129 may be an NTSC encoder. The video encoder 129 may be integral with a CSC 133 to provide video signals to an RGB/LCD panel 132. The video encoder 129 may provide video signals to an LCD panel 130 and a CV/S/RGB output. The gateway 110, VOIP processor 111 and video processor 114 may be mutually connected to a CPLD decoder 134. The broadband information appliance 100 may include smart media access, an infrared transceiver, an unpowered firewire port, fast peripheral ports, a wireless interface, Bluetooth support and a HomePlug interface. The broadband information appliance 100 may be an AC powered device, using residential power distribution of 120 VAC at 60 Hz or 230 VAC at 50 Hz. A power adapter may conver the AC power to 12 volts DC. The broadband information appliance typically includes three memory module, particularly the gateway memory 118, the VOIP memory 122 and the video memory 128. SDRAM memory may be connected through each of the direct SDRAM interfaces in the DSP and gateway processors. SDRAM may be rated to operate at 133 MHz and terminated with discrete components. Dedicated SDRAM for each processor may be used. With reference to FIG. 4, an A/V telecommunication system with emergency locator capability is shown. Using a VOIP MTA at A/V telecommunication device 100, a telephone call to an emergency center 170, typically by dialing 911, can be placed to any telephone device. However, VOIP communications do not inherently locate themselves. When an A/V telecommunication device 100 makes a telecommunication connection, the request is sent to host server 202. When an emergency call has been made, host server 202 correlates the device identification information with a physical address using relational data stored in memory 221. The physical address information can be sent to the emergency services 170 when the telecommunication link is established. It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art having the benefit of this disclosure that this invention provides a broadband information appliance. It should be understood that the drawings and detailed description herein are to be regarded in an illustrative rather than a restrictive manner, and are not intended to limit the invention to the particular forms and examples disclosed. On the contrary, the invention includes any further modifications, changes, rearrangements, substitutions, alternatives, design choices, and embodiments apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art, without departing from the spirit and scope of this invention, as defined by the following claims. Thus, it is intended that the following claims be interpreted to embrace all such further modifications, changes, rearrangements, substitutions, alternatives, design choices, and embodiments. Previous Patent: Integrated internet camera Next Patent: Methods and computer-readable media for managing and configuring options for the real-time notificat...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1739
__label__wiki	0.681097	0.681097	Method for implanting cervical intervertebral disk prosthesis A cervical intervertebral disk prosthesis has two cover plates, at least one of which is provided with a wedge-shaped connection surface for connection to a vertebral body and which is wider than it is deep. The dorsal edge of the connection surface may be set back from the dorsolateral edge of the cover plate having the connection surface and be connected to the dorsal edge protruding above it via a rounding or bevel. Link, Helmut D. (Hamburg, DE) Keller, Arnold (Kayhude, DE) Mcafee, Paul C. (Baltimore, MD, US) Cervitech, Inc. 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STEWART, ALVIN J NuVasive, Inc. (San Diego, CA, US) 1. 1-10. (canceled) 11. A method of implanting a cervical intervertebral disk prosthesis comprising two cover plates each having a dorsal edge and a ventral edge relative to an implanted position of the prosthesis, at least one of the cover plates having a connection surface formed thereon having an area smaller than its full surface area and configured so that the connection surface is capable of connecting to a vertebral body, the connection surface being defined by substantially straight side edges, a dorsolateral edge oriented near the dorsal edge of the cover plate and an anteriolateral anterolateral edge oriented near the ventral edge of the cover plate, the side edges inclining in a plane of the connection surface toward an imaginary mid-line of the cover plate extending from the ventral edge to the dorsal edge of the cover plate, the side edges having a distance from corresponding adjacent dorsal corners of an imaginary rectangle circumscribing a circumferential contour of the cover plate that is greater than a distance of the anteriolateral anterolateral edge from corresponding adjacent ventral corners of the imaginary rectangle, the method comprising: assembling the cervical intervertebral disk prosthesis for implantation into a subject; and implanting the assembled cervical intervertebral disk prosthesis between adjacent vertebral bodies so the dorsal and ventral edges of the cover plates as implanted are on dorsal and ventral aspects of the subject and so that the connection surface is in position to connect to one of the vertebral bodies. 12. The method of implanting the intervertebral disk prosthesis according to claim 11, wherein the distance of the side edges of the connection surface from the dorsal corners is at least 1.3 times as great as the distance of the anteriolateral anterolateral edge from the ventral corners. 13. The method of implanting the intervertebral disk prosthesis according to claim 11, wherein the cover plate having the connection surface formed thereon has a ratio of width to depth of between 1:1 and 1:6. 14. The method of implanting the intervertebral disk prosthesis according to claim 13, wherein the dorsal edge of the cover plate having the connection surface formed thereon is set back from at least a portion of the dorsolateral edge of the connection surface. 15. The method of implanting the intervertebral disk prosthesis according to claim 14, wherein the portion of the dorsolateral edge of the connection surface that is set back relative to the dorsal edge of the cover plate is connected to the dorsal edge of the cover plate via an inclined transition surface. 16. The method of implanting the intervertebral disk prosthesis according to claim 14 or 15, wherein the portion of the dorsolateral edge of the connection surface which is set back relative to the dorsal edge of the cover plate extends over at least one third of the extent of the dorsolateral edge of the cover plate. 17. The method of implanting the intervertebral disk prosthesis according to claim 14 or 15, wherein the portion of the dorsolateral edge of the connection surface that is set back relative to the dorsal edge of the cover plate is approximately rectilinear in shape. 18. The method of implanting the intervertebral disk prosthesis according to claim 14 or 15, wherein the portion of the dorsolateral edge of the connection surface that is set back from the dorsal edge of the cover plate has a difference in height of at least 1 mm from the dorsal edge of the cover plate. 19. A method of implanting a cervical intervertebral disk prosthesis comprising a cover plate having dorsal and ventral edges relative to an implanted position of the prosthesis and having at least one connection surface formed thereon for connection to a vertebral body, the connection surface being having dorsolateral and anteriolateral anterolateral edges configured such that the dorsolateral edges have a minimum distance from corresponding adjacent dorsal corners of an imaginary rectangle circumscribing a circumferential contour of the cover plate that is greater than a minimum distance of the anteriolateral anterolateral edge from corresponding adjacent ventral corners of the imaginary rectangle. 20. The method of implanting the intervertebral disk prosthesis according to claim 19, wherein the distance of the side edges of the connection surface from the dorsal corners is at least 1.3 times as great as the distance of the anterolateral edge from the ventral corners. 24. The method of implanting the intervertebral disk prosthesis according to claim 22 or 23, wherein the portion of the dorsolateral edge of the connection surface which is set back relative to the dorsal edge of the cover plate extends over at least one third of the extent of the dosolateral edge of the cover plate. REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION This application is a continuation of Ser. No. 10/407,946, filed Apr. 7, 2003. Endoprostheses for replacement of an intervertebral disk of the cervical spine are known (FR-A-2 718 635, EP-B-699 426) which consist of two cover plates and a joint core. The cover plates, which are arranged approximately parallel on both sides of the core, have connection surfaces which are intended for connection to the adjacent vertebral bodies. The cranial vertebral body cover plates, which are to be connected to a lower prosthesis cover plate, have a roughly rectangular shape. They are approximately flat and are delimited at the sides by edge serrations. The caudal vertebral body cover plates have extensive edge serrations at the ventral edge. These have to be removed before the prosthesis is fitted. It is also expedient for the vertebral body surfaces which are intended to bear on the prosthesis to be worked in order to adapt them to the connection surfaces of the prosthesis. The connection surfaces of the known prostheses mentioned are circularly delimited. Since the end plates of the vertebral bodies have approximately the shape of a rectangle whose width is substantially greater than its dimension in the anteroposterior direction, they do not exploit the size of the naturally occurring surfaces for force transmission. Accordingly, between the connection surfaces of the prosthesis and the bearing surfaces on the vertebral bodies, greater forces occur than would be the case if the surfaces were better utilized. In the case of intervertebral disk endoprostheses intended for the lumbar spine, the best utilization of space is achieved by using an oval prosthesis contour (WO 0 101 893, EP-B-471 821, EP-A-747 025) or a kidney-shaped configuration (EP-A-747 025), because the cover plates of the vertebral bodies have an oval to kidney-shaped configuration. Rectangular prosthesis shapes are also known (U.S. Pat. No. 5,425,773). The object of the invention is to make available an endoprosthesis for replacement of the intervertebral disk in the cervical region of the spine which permits the best possible utilization of space. Since the vertebral body attachment surfaces are approximately rectangular, a similarly approximately rectangular or oval configuration of the connection surfaces of the prosthesis would at first sight seem most appropriate. However, the invention has recognized that better and more reliable results are achieved by using a prosthesis in which at least one of the two connection surfaces, but preferably both connection surfaces, has a configuration in which the connection surface has side edges, a dorsolateral edge and an anteriolateral edge, the side edges inclining toward an imaginary mid-line extending from the ventral edge to the dorsal edge of the cover plate so as to form a wedge shape. The distance from the side edges to their corresponding adjacent dorsal corners of an imaginary rectangle circumscribing a circumferential contour of the cover plate is greater than the distance of the anteriolateral edge from corresponding adjacent ventral corners of the imaginary rectangle. When shaping the vertebral body bearing surfaces for the prosthesis from the ventral direction, the operating surgeon must keep a safe distance from the spinal canal. This applies in particular when shaping the dorsolateral corners of the bearing surfaces, where visual control is more difficult than in the central dorsal region. This means that in the dorsolateral corners of the vertebral body cover plates bone material may be left which protrudes beyond the worked bearing surface of the vertebral body. If one were to use a rectangular prosthesis, this would not be able to be inserted fully into the intervertebral space because its dorsal corners would strike against the bone material which has been left. If the prosthesis corners are rounded, the circumstances are not much more favorable. The prosthesis then protrudes ventrally beyond the vertebral bodies and may cause irritation of the esophagus or the large blood vessels located there. The set-back, according to the invention, of the prosthesis connection surfaces spares the dorsolateral corners and thereby avoids this disadvantage. By contrast, the surface area of the connection surfaces in their anterolateral regions remains unchanged. The measure according to the invention can be best described by reference to the distance of the limit of the connection surface from the corner points of an imaginary rectangle which circumscribes the cover plate. It is assumed here that the sides of the rectangle which are tangential to the circumferential contour of the cover plate extend parallel to the sagittal plane or perpendicular thereto. In this context, only those parts intended for accommodation in the intervertebral space are considered as the cover plate. If, for example, a ventral flange is connected to the cover plates and, in the implanted state, lies in front of the ventral end face of the vertebral body, this is not counted as part of the cover plate in the construction of the imaginary rectangle. The minimum distance of the limit of the connection surface from the dorsal corners of the imaginary rectangle is preferably at least 1.3 times as great, more preferably at least 1.5 times as great, still more preferably at least twice as great as the minimum distance from the ventral corners. It is preferably assumed here that the width of the cover plate is greater than its anteroposterior dimension, generally by a factor of 1:1 to 1:6, preferably by a factor of 1:2 to 1:4. In general, the connection surfaces of both prosthesis cover plates are configured in accordance with the invention. There are cases, however, where it is sufficient to do this on one of the two connection surfaces, specifically in particular the lower one. In a particularly preferred embodiment of the invention, the edge of the prosthesis cover plate extends beyond the dorsolateral limit of the associated connection surface. In this way, the cover plate, the prosthesis core and the connection or slide surfaces interacting on the cover plates and the prosthesis core can have an optimum size despite the set-back nature of the connection surface. These parts can therefore be designed, for example, roughly as a rectangular shape with rounded corners. The transition between the dorsolateral set-back limit of the connection surface to the farther extended edge takes place in the form of an inclined transition surface. This can directly adjoin the connection surface. The advantage of this is that the transition surface too can if appropriate participate in the transmission of forces, namely in contact with the bone parts which have been left in the dorsolateral region and protrude beyond the worked bearing surface of the vertebral body. The cross section of the transition surface can be straight, convexly rounded or even stepped. The term dorsolateral designates the transition region from the lateral aspect to the dorsal aspect of the cover plate. The set-back, according to the invention, of the connection surface is accordingly not restricted only to a dorsal region or a lateral region but instead includes portions of both regions. The term set-back relates to a standard contour of the cover plate which to the front and rear is approximately symmetrical to the middle transverse axis. The limit of the connection surface is set back relative to this standard contour. In case of doubt, the standard contour is the anterolateral contour of the cover plate mirrored about the middle transverse axis. If the cover plate has an edge protruding beyond the limit of the connection surface, which edge does not protrude farther than the standard contour, the set-back of the limit of the connection surface can also be related to the contour of this edge. Viewed from the lateral direction, the portion in which the limit of the connection surface is set back extends generally over at least one third of the antero-posterior dimension of the connection surface. Viewed from the dorsal direction, this portion generally extends over at least approximately one quarter of the width of the connection surface respectively on both sides. It may be expedient if the connection surface, in a central portion of the dorsal plate edge, is not set back in relation to the latter or is set back less than in the dorsolateral region. This middle portion expediently extends over at least one quarter of the width of the connection surface. In the ventral third of the lateral sides of the cover plate, the limit of the connection surface is preferably not set back. Slight roundings of the edges of the connection surface are not taken into account here. The set-back of the connection surface limit is preferably at its greatest where it is nearest to the dorsal corner of the imaginary circumscribing rectangle. The set-back limit of the connection surface then has an approximately rectilinear course. At the place where the difference in height between the set-back limit of the connection surface and the edge protruding above it is at its greatest, the difference in height should be at least approximately 1 mm. The invention is explained in greater detail below with reference to the drawing which depicts an advantageous illustrative embodiment, and in which: FIGS. 1 and 2 show perspective views of the whole prosthesis, FIGS. 3 to 4 show views of the prosthesis from the dorsal, lateral and caudal directions, FIGS. 6 to 8 show different profiles of the transition surface, FIG. 9 shows a plan view of an alternative embodiment, and FIG. 10 shows an enlarged representation of the connection surface and the edge contour. The prosthesis shown in FIGS. 1 to 8 consists of two cover plates 1 and of a prosthesis core 2. The inner face of one of the two cover plates can be provided as a mounting for the prosthesis core 2, while the other cover plate forms, with the prosthesis core, a spherical slide surface 3, for example. At the ventral edge of each cover plate there is a flange 4 whose dorsal face 5 is intended to bear on the ventral face of a vertebral body. The flange can have securing means, for example screw holes 6. Each prosthesis cover plate has a connection surface 10 for bearing on the associated vertebral body cover plate and on the bearing surface created by shaping the vertebral body, said connection surface 10 extending approximately parallel to the main plane of the cover plate. It is substantially flat, but can also have a slight curvature. It is equipped with teeth 13 and/or other means for connecting it securely in position to the bone, for example with a biologically active coating. Each cover plate is surrounded by a circumferential surface 14 which is approximately perpendicular to the connection surface 10 and which in the present context is designated as an edge. The edge 14 defines the circumferential contour of the cover plate, which has an oblong shape, which can be designated as oval or as rectangular with rounded corners. It is also designated by reference number 14 in FIG. 10. The prosthesis core 2 has the same circumferential contour. The anteroposterior depth dimension 11 of the cover plates 1 is smaller than their width dimension 12, specifically for example in the ratio of three to four. An example which has proven useful has a depth of 15 mm and a width of 20 mm. Its extent is adapted to the vertebral body cover plates and is slightly smaller than these, so that the prosthesis fits into the intervertebral space which is available and has been shaped between the vertebral bodies. If appropriate, it is possible to provide different size categories of prostheses. The cover plates 1 are preferably made of metal, and the core 2 of polyethylene. The cover plate 1 or the contour of the edge 14 has a ventral face 15, a dorsal face 16 and lateral faces 17 and 18. Between these there extend the anteroposterior depth dimension 11 and the width dimension 12, which in FIG. 10 are indicated as sides of an imaginary rectangle 21 circumscribing and touching the cover plate or the contour 14 of the edge. Only the part of the cover plate 1 lying behind the flange face 5 is taken into consideration here, since it is only the dimension of the part which will lie in the intervertebral space which is relevant here. On the ventral face 15 and in the ventral half of the lateral faces 17, 18, the limit of the connection surface 10 follows the contour of the edge 14. They do not need to correspond exactly, because slight deviations in the form of roundings or bevels can be present. The width of these is generally less than 3% of the width dimension 12. In the transition region from the lateral faces 17, 18 to the dorsal face 16 of the edge, which in the present context is designated as the dorsolateral region, a portion 23 of the limit 24 of the connection surface 10 does not follow the contour 14 but is instead set back relative to the latter. The greatest extent of the set-back, in a plan view, lies between approximately 2 and 5 mm, generally of the order of 2.5 to 3.5 mm. The minimum distance 28 from the corner 29 of the circumscribing rectangle 21 is greater than 13% and preferably greater than 15% and preferably greater than 18% of the width dimension 12. In an illustrative embodiment which has proven useful, it is slightly more than 20% of this width. The set-back of the limit 24 relative to the contour 14 is obtained by providing an oblique transition surface 25 between the limit 24 and the edge. Since the transition surface is raised in relation to the plane of the connection surface, a space is obtained below it for receiving the bone parts which have been left in the dorsolateral region upon shaping of the vertebral body surface. It will be appreciated that this space must have an adequate height for this purpose. It should be at least 1 mm at the place of the maximum height difference between the connection surface and the edge 14. The transition surface 25 can, for example, be convexly rounded (FIG. 6) or have a straight profile (FIG. 7). It can also be cut with a step (FIG. 8). In a side view of the example illustrated, the portion 23 in which the limit 24 is set back relative to the contour 25 of the edge 14 takes up approximately two thirds of the depth dimension 11 and is preferably not less than one third thereof. In the front third, the contour of the cover plate does not deviate from the limit of the connection surface. Slight roundings of the edges are not taken into consideration here. Viewed from the dorsal direction (FIG. 3), the set-back of the limit 24 of the connection surface decreases toward the center. In a central portion 22 of the dorsal face 16, the edge 14 in practice does not protrude beyond the limit 24. The length of this central portion is preferably between one tenth and one third of the width dimension 12. The set-back portion 23 of the limit 24 of the connection surface 10 in the dorsolateral region has an approximately rectilinear extent. If one compares it to a rectilinear course connecting the end points of this portion to one another, it scarcely deviates from this course. Any deviation is well below 10% of the length of this course. The end points of said course lie at those points where the deviation of the limit 24 of the connection surface from the circumferential contour 14 goes beyond the extent of the edge roundings otherwise provided. The deviation of the limit 24 from the circumferential contour 14 in the dorsolateral region is approximately 10% of the cover plate width 12 and should be not less than 5%. A set-back of the limit of the connection surface in the dorsolateral region—corresponding to the explanations given above—is also shown in the embodiment according to FIG. 9, which differs from that of FIGS. 1 to 8 in that the edge 14 does not extend beyond the limit of the connection surface. The description of the illustrative embodiment in FIGS. 1 to 8 and FIG. 10 correspondingly applies to this illustrative embodiment, except that the course of the limit of the connection surface in the dorsolateral region is not compared to the circumferential contour 14 but instead to the course 14′, mirrored about the central transverse axis 21, of the anterolateral circumferential contour 14 of the cover plate. FIG. 10 illustrates the different course of the limit of the connection surface in the anterolateral region and dorsolateral region, by reference to the corners of the imaginary rectangle 21. It will be noted that the minimum distance 28 of the dorsal corner point 29 from the limit line 24 is almost three times as great as the corresponding minimum distance 26 of the front corner point 27. It should normally be at least 1.5 times as great. Previous Patent: PROSTHESES, TOOLS AND METHODS FOR REPLACEMENT OF NATURAL FACET JOINTS WITH ARTIFICIAL FACET JOINT SU... Next Patent: FACET ARTHROPLASTY DEVICES AND METHODS	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1740
__label__wiki	0.780893	0.780893	The present invention provides a silicone adhesive not reducing wire bondability and not reducing the adhesion of the surface of a semiconductor pellet and a lead frame to sealing resin. Specifically, it provides a silicone adhesive for bonding a semiconductor pellet to a member for mounting the pellet, which comprises an addition reaction curing silicone rubber composition contaminating, upon curing by heating, a glass plate therewith at a contact angle of 70° C. or less to the glass plate. 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ZIMMER, MARC S FLYNN THIEL, P.C. (KALAMAZOO, MI, US) 1. A silicone adhesive for bonding a semiconductor pellet to a member for mounting the pellet, which comprises an addition reaction curing silicone rubber composition contaminating, upon curing by heating, a glass plate therewith at a contact angle of 70° C. or less to the glass plate. 2. The silicone adhesive according to claim 1, wherein the addition reaction curing silicone rubber composition comprises: (A) organopolysiloxane having, in one molecule, two or more silicon atom-bound alkenyl groups; 100 parts by weight, (B) organopolysiloxane having, in one molecule, two or more silicon atom-bound hydrogen atoms, which shows 5 wt % or less loss in weight upon heating at 100° C. for 1 hour; an amount enough to supply 0.5 to 3 silicon atom-bound hydrogen atoms in component (B) per alkenyl group in component (A), (C) a tackifier having silicon atom-bound alkoxy groups and not having silicon atom-bound hydrogen atoms; 0.1 to 10 parts by weight, and (D) a platinum-based catalyst; a catalytic amount. 3. The silicone adhesive according to claim 1, wherein the addition reaction curing silicone rubber composition comprises: (A) organopolysiloxane having, in one molecule, two or more silicon atom-bound alkenyl groups; 100 parts by weight, (B) organopolysiloxane having, in one molecule, two or more silicon atom-bound hydrogen atoms, which shows 5 wt % or less loss in weight upon heating at 100° C. for 1 hour; an amount enough to supply 0.5 to 3 silicon atom-bound hydrogen atoms in component (B) per alkenyl group in component (A), (D) a platinum-based catalyst; a catalytic amount, (E) a tackifier; 0.1 to 10 parts by weight, and (F) an Al or Ti compound; 0.05 to 10 parts by weight. 4. A method of bonding a semiconductor pellet to a member for mounting the pellet by a silicone adhesive comprising an addition reaction curing silicone rubber composition contaminating, upon curing by heating, a glass plate therewith at a contact angle of 70° C. or less to the glass plate. 5. Use of an addition reaction curing silicone rubber composition contaminating, upon curing by heating, a glass plate therewith at a contact angle of 70° C. or less to the glass plate as a silicone adhesive for bonding a semiconductor pellet to a member for mounting the pellet. The present invention relates to a silicone adhesive (die bonding agent) for bonding a semiconductor pellet to a semiconductor pellet-mounting member such as a tub. A semiconductor device is a structure produced for example by bonding a semiconductor pellet made of silicon to its support i.e. a semiconductor pellet-mounting member (e.g. a tub) via an adhesive (die bonding agent) such as epoxy resin, polyimide resin etc., then bonding the semiconductor pellet electrically to a metallic lead frame to form an integrally formed product, and sealing the product with sealing resin such as epoxy resin, and in consideration of problems such as cracking in the conventional die bonding agent, a semiconductor device having a semiconductor pellet bound via a silicone adhesive to a tub has been proposed (JP-A 61-55300). The elastic silicone rubber in this proposed semiconductor device is intended to relax internal strain resulting from a difference in thermal coefficient of expansion between the semiconductor pellet and the tub. In the technique in the above-mentioned JP-A 61-55300, however, there is a problem that after a semiconductor pellet is bound via silicone rubber to a tub, the reliability of a semiconductor device is deteriorated due to deterioration in the bondability (wire bondability) between the semiconductor pellet and a bonding wire (e.g. a metallic wire) or between a lead frame and a bonding wire upon connecting the semiconductor pellet to the lead frame via the bonding wire. To solve the problem, JP-A 61-55300 proposes use of an addition reaction curing silicone rubber composition wherein the content of low-molecular siloxane having a vapor pressure of 10 mmHg or more at 200° C. is 500 ppm or less, and JP-A 2002-60719 proposes use of an adhesive silicone rubber wherein the content of cyclic and linear low-molecular non-functional siloxanes having 11 to 50 silicon atoms is 3 wt % or less. DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION However, the present inventors' investigation revealed that even by the techniques in the above-mentioned JP-A 61-55300 and JP-A 2002-60719, there remains room for improving the reliability of bonding properties. To solve the problem in the conventional techniques, the object of the present invention is to provide a silicone adhesive not reducing wire bondability and not reducing the adhesion of the surface of a semiconductor pellet and a lead frame to sealing resin. The present inventors made extensive study for achieving the above-mentioned object, and as a result, they found that a silicone adhesive comprising a specific addition reaction curing silicone rubber composition can be used very effectively as an adhesive for bonding a semiconductor pellet to a member for mounting the pellet, and the present invention was thereby completed. That is, the present invention relates to a silicone adhesive for bonding a semiconductor pellet to a member for mounting the pellet, which comprises an addition reaction curing silicone rubber composition contaminating, upon curing by heating, a glass plate therewith at a contact angle of 70° C. or less to the glass plate. Further, the present invention relates to a method of bonding a semiconductor pellet to a member for mounting the pellet by a silicone adhesive comprising an addition reaction curing silicone rubber composition contaminating, upon curing by heating, a glass plate therewith at a contact angle of 70° C. or less to the glass plate. Furthermore, the present invention relates to use of an addition reaction curing silicone rubber composition contaminating, upon curing by heating, a glass plate therewith at a contact angle of 70° C. or less to the glass plate as a silicone adhesive for bonding a semiconductor pellet to a member for mounting the pellet. Hereinafter, the present invention is described in more detail. The present invention relates to a silicone adhesive for bonding a semiconductor pellet to a member for mounting the pellet, which comprises an addition reaction curing silicone rubber composition contaminating, upon curing by heating, a glass plate therewith at a contact angle of 70° C. or less to the glass plate. Such an addition-reaction curing silicone rubber composition includes: an addition reaction curing silicone rubber composition (referred to hereinafter as the present composition 1) comprising: (A) organopolysiloxane having, in one molecule, two or more silicon atom-bound alkenyl groups; 100 parts by weight, (B) organopolysiloxane having, in one molecule, two or more silicon atom-bound hydrogen atoms, which shows 5 wt % or less loss in weight upon heating at 100° C. for 1 hour; an amount enough to supply 0.5 to 3 silicon atom-bound hydrogen atoms in component (B) per alkenyl group in component (A), (C) a tackifier having silicon atom-bound alkoxy groups and not having silicon atom-bound hydrogen atoms; 0.1 to 10 parts by weight, and (D) a platinum-based catalyst; a catalytic amount, and (D) a platinum-based catalyst; a catalytic amount, (E) a tackifier; 0.1 to 10 parts by weight and (F) an Al or Ti compound; 0.05 to 10 parts by weight. First, the present composition 1 is described. The component (A) in the present invention, that is, the organopolysiloxane having, in one molecule, two or more silicon atom-bound alkenyl groups, is a base polymer in the composition of the present invention and is represented by the following average formula (1): R1aSiO(4-a)/2 (1) wherein R1s are the same as or different from each other and each represents a C1 to C10 unsubstituted or substituted monovalent hydrocarbon group; and a is a positive number of 1 to 3. The unsubstituted or substituted monovalent hydrocarbon group represented by R1, which is bound to the silicon atom, includes for example alkyl groups such as a methyl group, ethyl group, propyl group, isopropyl group, butyl group, isobutyl group, tert-butyl group, pentyl group, neopentyl group, hexyl group, cyclohexyl group, octyl group, nonyl group or decyl group, aryl groups such asaphenyl group, tolyl group, xylylgroupornaphthyl group, aralkyl groups such as a benzyl group, phenylethyl group or phenylpropyl group, alkenyl groups such as a vinyl group, allyl group, propenyl group, isopropenyl group, butenyl group, hexenyl group, cyclohexenyl group or octenyl group, and groups wherein in the above-mentioned groups, hydrogen atoms are replaced partially or wholly by halogen atoms such as fluorine, bromine and chlorine or by cyano groups, for example a chloromethyl group, chloropropyl group, bromoethyl group, 3,3,3-trifluoropropyl group, 2-cyanoethyl group etc. In this case, at least two of R1s should be alkenyl groups (particularly those having preferably 2 to 8 carbon atoms, more preferably 2 to 6 carbon atoms). The content of alkenyl groups is preferably 0.01 to 20 mol %, particularly preferably 0.1 to 10 mol %, in the total silicon atom-bound organic groups, that is, in the monovalent unsubstituted or substituted hydrocarbon groups R1 in the average formula (1). The alkenyl group may be bound to a silicon atom at the terminus of the molecular chain and/or a silicon atom in the molecular chain. From the viewpoint of the curing rate of the composition, physical properties of a cured product, etc., the organopolysiloxane used in the present invention is preferably the one having at least an alkenyl group bound to a silicon atom at the terminus of the molecular chain. R1 other than the alkenyl group is preferably a methyl group, phenyl group or 3,3,3-trifluoropropyl group. The organopolysiloxane has a structure having a main chain composed usually of diorganosiloxane repeating units with both terminuses each consisting of diorganopolysiloxane having an essentially linear structure (which may be partially branched or cyclic) blocked with a triorganosiloxy group such as trimethylsiloxy group, dimethylphenylsiloxy group, dimethylhydroxysiloxy group, dimethylvinylsiloxy group or trivinylsiloxy group. The average polymerization degree (weight-average polymerization degree) is preferably 100 to 100,000, particularly 200 to 10,000, and the viscosity at 25° C. is preferably 100 to 100,000,000 cSt (centistokes), particularly 1,000 to 1,000,000 cSt. The organopolysiloxane as the component (B) is for example an organopolysiloxane showing 5 wt % or less loss in weight upon heating at 100° C. for 1 hour after stripping under the heating condition of 100 to 140° C. under reduced pressure at 10 mmHg or less. This component acts as a crosslinking agent for the component (A) and has two or more silicon atom-bound hydrogen atoms in one molecule, and its molecular structure may be a linear, branched or cyclic structure. The organopolysiloxane is blended in an amount enough to supply 0.5 to 3 silicon atom-bound hydrogen atoms in the component per one alkenyl group in component (A). The component (B) includes a methyl hydrogen cyclopolysiloxane, a methyl hydrogen siloxane/dimethyl siloxane cyclic copolymer, methyl hydrogen polysiloxane blocked at both terminuses thereof with a trimethylsiloxy group, a dimethyl siloxane/methyl hydrogen siloxane copolymer blocked at both terminus thereof with a trimethylsiloxy group, dimethyl polysiloxane blocked at both terminus thereof with a dimethyl hydrogen siloxy group, a dimethyl siloxane/methyl hydrogen siloxane copolymer blocked at both terminus thereof with a dimethyl hydrogen siloxy group, a methyl hydrogen siloxane/diphenyl siloxane copolymer blocked at both terminus thereof with a trimethylsiloxy group, a methyl hydrogen siloxane/diphenyl siloxane/dimethyl siloxane copolymer blocked at both terminus thereof with a trimethylsiloxy group, a methyl hydrogen siloxane/dimethyl siloxane/diphenyl siloxane copolymer blocked at both terminus thereof with a dimethyl hydrogen siloxy group, a copolymer consisting of (CH3)2HSiO1/2 unit, (CH3)3SiO1/2 unit and SiO4/2 unit, a copolymer consisting of (CH3)2HSiO1/2 unit and SiO4/2 unit, and a copolymer consisting of (CH3)2HSiO1/2 unit, SiO4/2 unit and (C6H5)3SiO1/2 unit. The component (C) in the present invention is a tackifier having a silicon atom-bound alkoxy group and not having a silicon atom-bound hydrogen atom. As the third component tackifier, it is preferable to use an organic silicon compound such as organosilane or an organosiloxane oligomer having about 2 to 50 silicon atoms, preferably4 to20 silicon atoms, which contains, in the molecule, at least one silicon atom-bound alkoxy group and at least one reactive functional group selected from an alkenyl group, acryl group, methacryl group and epoxy group. This organic silicon compound is used to endow the silicone rubber composition with adhesiveness to a semiconductor chip, an mounting part, a lead frame etc., and a known one may be used insofar as it does not inhibit addition and vulcanization of the silicone rubber composition. Such organic silicon compound includes alkoxysilane, for example, epoxy functional group-containing alkoxysilane such as γ-glycidoxy propyl trimethoxysilane or β-(3,4-epoxycyclohexyl)ethyl trimethoxysilane, alkenyl group-containing alkoxysilane such as vinyl trimethoxysilane, vinyl triethoxysilane or vinyltri(methoxyethoxy)silane, and acryl group- or methacryl group-containing alkoxy silane such as γ-methacryloxy propyl trimethoxysilane or γ-acryloxy propyl trimethoxysilane. The component (C) is used in an amount of 0.1 to 10 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the component (A). As the component (D), the platinum-based catalyst is a catalyst for curing the adhesive in the present invention, and a general known catalyst for addition reaction can be used, and such catalyst can be exemplified by platinum black, solid platinum carried on a carrier such as alumina or silica, chloroplatinic acid, alcohol-modified chloroplatinic acid, chloroplatinic acid/olefin complexes, and platinum/vinyl siloxane complexes. When these catalysts are solid catalysts, it is preferable that before use, they are finely pulverized for improving dispersibility or the particle diameter of the carrier is decreased to increase specific surface area, and chloroplatinic acid or chloroplatinic acid/olefin complexes are used desirably after dissolving them in a solvent such as alcohol, ketone, ether or a hydrocarbon. The amount of the catalyst added may be suitably regulated so as to attain a desired curing rate, and for obtaining an excellent cured product, the amount (in terms of the amount of platinum) of a siloxane-compatible catalyst such as chloroplatinic acid is regulated desirably in the range of 1 to 100 ppm relative to the total amount of the above-mentioned components (A) and (B). Now, embodiments of the present composition 2 are described. The components (A), (B) and (D) in the present composition 2 are the same as in the present composition 1. The present composition 2 uses the tackifier (E) and the Al or Ti compound (F) in place of the component (C) in the present composition 1. The tackifier as the component (E), unlike the component (C) subject to the limitation “having silicon atom-bound alkoxy groups and not having silicon atom-bound hydrogen atoms”, is not limited and can use a wide variety of known tackifiers including the component (C). However, when the tackifier other than the component (C) is used, combined use of the Al or Ti compound (F) is essential. The Al compound as the component (F) is obtained by reacting an aluminum alcoholate such as (MeO)3Al, (EtO)3Al or (a-PrO)3Al, an aluminum salt of naphthenic acid, stearic acid, octylic acid or benzoic acid, an aluminum alcoholate and acetoacetates or dialkyl malonates. The Al compound is exemplified by aluminum chelates such as: organic acid salts of aluminum oxides, and aluminum acetyl acetonate, among which aluminum chelates and aluminum alcoholates are preferable from the viewpoint of hydrolyzability. Further, bis-ethyl acetoacetate aluminum monoacetyl acetonate and acetoalkoxy aluminum diisopropylate are preferable because they are easily handled liquid. Examples of the Ti compound as the component (F) include tetraalkoxy titanium compounds such as tetra (n-butoxy) titanium, tetra(i-propoxy) titanium, tetrakis (2-ethylhexoxy) titaniumor tetra(stearoxy) titanium, titanium chelate compounds such as di-i-propoxy-bis(acetyl acetonate) titanium, i-propoxy(2-ethylhexane diolate) titanium, di-i-propoxy-diethyl acetoacetate titanium or hydroxy-bis(lacteto) titanium, i-propyl triisostearoyl titanate, i-propyl-tris(dioctyl pyrophosphate) titanate, tetra-i-propyl-bis(dioctyl phosphite) titanate, tetraoctyl-bis(ditridecyl phosphite) titanate, tetra(2,2-diallyloxymethyl-1-butyl)-bis(ditridecyl) phosphite titanate, bis(dioctyl pyrophosphate) oxyacetate titanate, bis(dioctyl pyrophosphate) ethylene titanate, i-propyl trioctanoyl titanate, and i-propyl dimethacryl-i-stearoyl titanate, among which tetra(n-butoxy) titanate is preferable because the resulting curing organopolysiloxane composition is excellent in storage stability. The amount of the component (F) blended is 0.05 to 10 parts by weight, preferably 0.1 to 5 parts by weight, relative to 100 parts by weight of the component (A). A filler may be further blended in the present invention. The filler is used not only for reinforcing the silicone rubber composition to confer necessary rubber strength thereon but also for mainlining necessary viscosity for the bonding operation, and the filler is preferably a reinforcing silica-based filler. The reinforcing silica-based filler includes fumed silica, hydrophobated silica, calcined silica, precipitated silica etc. The composition of the present invention may be blended, as far as the purpose is not lost, with addition/vulcanization regulators such as acetylene alcohol etc., titanium dioxide, alumina and carbon black. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWING FIG. 1 is a schematic sectional view of a semiconductor device used in evaluation of wire bondability in the Examples. Hereinafter, Examples of the present invention are described. In the following Examples and Comparative Examples, the term “parts” refers to parts by weight. Examples 1 to 5 and Comparative Examples 1 to 3 Component (A) 760 parts of trimethyl chlorosilane, 141 parts of methyl vinyl dichlorosilane and 146 parts of ethyl o-silicate were co-hydrolyzed in toluene and subjected in a usual manner to acid removal, neutralization and washing with water, then treated with an aqueous potassium hydroxide solution, neutralized with acetic acid, washed with water and dehydrated to give resin having silicon atom-bound vinyl groups and substantially not having silicon atom-bound hydroxyl groups. Organosiloxane having 10 parts of this vinyl group-containing resin incorporated into 90 parts of α,ω-divinylpolydimethyl siloxane having a viscosity of 3,000 cP at 23° C. was used as the component (A). Component (B) Disiloxane represented by MM, cyclic siloxane represented by D4 and cyclic siloxane represented by D′4 were polymerized in the presence of a sulfuric acid catalyst and then neutralized to give organosiloxane having silicon atom-bound hydrogen atoms represented by the average formula MD′23D16M. This siloxane was subjected to stripping treatment for 2 to 4 hours under the heating condition of a temperature of 120° C. under reduced pressure at 2 mmHg to give organosiloxane showing the following loss in weight upon heating at 100° C. for 1 hour. 4-hour treatment (B)-1 (1.3wt % loss in weight upon heating) Untreatment (B)-4 (10 wt % loss in weight upon heating) M, D and D′ each represent the following structures: Component (C) (which in this Example, includes the component (E)) (C)-1 A silane compound represented by the following formula: (C) -3 A silane compound represented by the following formula: A reaction product of Component (D) Lamorrow's catalyst containing 3.8% platinum Component (F) (F)-1 An aluminum chelate represented by the following formula: The organosiloxanes and additives shown above were uniformly mixed in the amounts shown in Table 1 to give Compositions 1 to 8. Compositions 6 to 8 are comparative compositions. In Examples, measurement of contact angle on a glass plate and characteristics of the adhesive was conducted according to the following methods. (Measurement of Contact Angle on a Glass Plate) A composition was applied in an amount of 0.0100 to 0.0130 g onto a glass plate of 50×50×1 mm, and a cover glass of 8×18×0.16 mm was placed thereon, and the composition was sandwiched so as to spread over the cover glass. The specimen was placed in a petri dish (inner diameter 70 mm, depth 19 mm), then a lid was put on the dish, and the composition was cured by heating at 150° C. for 1 hour. After returning to room temperature, the contact angle thereof to water on five sites, that is, four corners and one central part of the cover glass, and the average contact angle was determined. (Evaluation of Adhesiveness) Two copper plates of 80×25×2 mm were arranged so as to be parallel to each other with their long side stacked with each other by 10 mm, and a composition was formed as a layer of 1 mm in thickness between the two copper plates such that the layer was contacted with the 2 opposing stacked faces, then heated at 150° C. for 1 hour, and cooled as it was to prepare a specimen. Separately, a specimen was prepared in an analogous manner by using a ceramic (alumina) plate. The specimen thus prepared was fitted into a tensile testing machine and examined for its adhesiveness at a stress rate of 10 mm/min. thereby confirming whether the rupture section was due to cohesive failure or interface peeling. (Evaluation of Wire Bondability) In the semiconductor for evaluation shown in FIG. 1, adhesive 8 was sandwiched between semiconductor pellet 2 and tub 1, and then heated at 150° C. for 1 hour. Aluminum pad 3 and lead frame 4 made of copper were bonded to each other via metallic wire 5 (wire bonding) to prepare an integrally formed specimen. Bonding via metallic wire 4 was carried out using thermosonic contact-bonding. Then, the integrally formed specimen was evaluated by observing the point where the metallic wire 5 and the aluminum pad 3 or the metallic wire 5 and lead frame 4 were connected to each other, and when the metallic wire 5 was raised upon pulling the metallic wire 5, the specimen was evaluated as being inferior in bonding. Ten specimens each having 64 lead frames were prepared, and the number of defects in total 640 pins was counted. In FIG. 1, 6 is an epoxy resin, and 7 is an external lead frame made of copper. The results are shown in Table 1. Composition No. 1 2 3 4 5 Comparative Comparative Comparative Example 1 Example 2 Example 3 Example 4 Example 5 Example 1 Example 2 Example 3 (A) 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 (B)-1 5.4 5.4 5.4 5.4 5.4 (B)-2 5.4 (D) 0.05 0.05 0.05 0.05 0.05 0.05 0.05 0.05 (C)-1 2 2 2 2 2 (C)-2 2 (C)-3 2 2 (F) 0.2 0.2 Contact angle 66 65 68 66 64 72 74 76 (150° C. × 1 h)° Copper plate Cohesive Cohesive Cohesive Cohesive Cohesive Cohesive Cohesive Cohesive failure failure failure failure failure failure failure failure Ceramic (alumina) plate Cohesive Cohesive Cohesive Cohesive Cohesive Cohesive Cohesive Cohesive Number of wire 0 0 0 0 0 28 43 51 bonding defects Previous Patent: Multi-layer device Next Patent: METHOD AND DEVICE INCLUDING REWORKABLE ALPHA PARTICLE BARRIER AND CORROSION BARRIER	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1741
__label__wiki	0.570181	0.570181	Energy saving integrated lighting and HVAC system This invention integrates energy saving lighting with energy saving HVAC (Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning). This system is termed by the inventor “ILAC” (Integrated Lighting and Air Conditioning). An ILAC system includes light fixtures mounted in a ceiling and, emitting lamp heat into a plenum and visible light into a room. A central computer controls both lighting and HVAC systems. In a COOL mode an HVAC unit cools the room through a supply air duct and return air duct and the lamp heat exits the plenum through an exhaust duct. In a HEAT mode the HVAC heats the room through the same supply air duct, a ceiling-to-plenum duct carries the heated room air into the plenum, and an HVAC return air duct carries room and plenum heat back into the HVAC unit that uses less power to heat the lamp-warmed return air. In a thermostat-controlled OFF mode, warm room air convects through the ceiling duct into the plenum and exhausts through a plenum exhaust duct along with lamp-heated plenum air. Optionally, plenum exhaust duct may include a radiator to transfer plenum heat to pre-heat water entering a remote hot water heater. Miller, Jack V. (Seaford, DE, US) G05D23/19; G05B15/00 20090247063 Solar powered vehicle ventilation system October, 2009 Vollertsen 20090032236 FAN COIL THERMOSTAT WITH AUTOMATIC FAN RESET February, 2009 Geadelmann et al. 20060192022 HVAC controller with removable instruction card August, 2006 Barton et al. 20050173545 Faucet with internal thermostatic tempering device August, 2005 Strader et al. 20100084482 THERMOSTAT April, 2010 Kennedy et al. 20090126382 Electronic Indoor Air Quality Board For Air Conditoner Controller May, 2009 Rubino et al. 20090266904 HVAC SYSTEM WITH ENERGY SAVING MODES SET USING A SECURITY SYSTEM CONTROL PANEL October, 2009 Cohen 20060273183 Method of dehumidifying an indoor space using outdoor air December, 2006 Cavanagh et al. 20060278629 Electronically controlled outdoor warmer December, 2006 Gagas et al. 20090206168 THERMOSTATIC CONTROL DEVICE August, 2009 Schwartzman et al. 20060117769 Ventilation controller June, 2006 Helt et al. ABDUR RAHIM, AZIM Jack V. Miller (Seaford, DE, US) 1. An integrated lighting and HVAC (Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning) system for one or more rooms, each room (21) having a heat-insulating ceiling (20) separating each respective room from a plenum (19); at least one lamp (18) mounted in or above each ceiling, said lamps emitting lamp IR (17) into the plenum above the room and emitting only visible light (23), substantially without heat, through one or more thermal barriers (22), into the room; a number of ventilation ducts (24, 27, 30), connecting the rooms and one or more plenums to one or more HVAC units (15, 41), said ducts optionally having remotely operated dampers (25, 26, 29); and a central computer (40) operating said HVAC units (15, 41) and dampers (25, 26, 29) to control energy use (41, 43) based on environmental sensor inputs (42) and HVAC feedback (41). 2. An integrated lighting and HVAC system according to claim 1 in which the environmental sensor inputs (42) are selected from the group including: room occupancy, room temperature, room humidity, plenum temperature, light status, outside air temperature; and the HVAC (41) performance feedback data is selected from the group including input air temperature, supply air outlet temperature, heater temperature, chiller temperature, air outlet humidity, air velocity and HVAC line voltage. 3. An integrated lighting and HVAC system according to claim 1 in which the lamps (18) may be individually or collectively switched on, off or dimmed by the central computer (40) using occupancy sensor data or occupant function data. 4. An integrated lighting and air conditioning system including: at least one light source (18) above a thermally insulative ceiling (20) separating a room (21) from a plenum (19), each said light source emitting heat (17) into the plenum above the room and emitting visible light (23) into the room; an HVAC (15) unit heating or cooling ventilation air; a supply air outlet (24) connecting the outlet of the HVAC unit to the room; a room air return damper (26) connecting said room to the a return inlet (27) of the HVAC unit; a plenum exhaust air duct (30) connecting said plenum (19) to external air the a ceiling air damper (25) connecting said room (20) to said plenum (19); a plenum exhaust/return air damper (29) connecting said plenum (19) to the a HVAC unit inlet (27); a thermostatic control (16) having at least three-positions including COOL, OFF, and HEAT, and an optional FAN switch; and a system of controllable dampers (25, 26, 29) controlling and circulating air from the HVAC unit through the room and plenum. 6. An integrated lighting and air conditioning system according to claim 4, operating in a COOL mode in which: while the thermostat (16) is in the COOL mode wherein a central computer (40) closes a ceiling air damper (25), and opens a room air return damper (26); whereby a blower (28) of the HVAC unit (15) circulates cool air through the supply air outlet (24) into the room (21) and back through the return air damper (26) into the HVAC unit return air inlet (27); and wherein the ceiling air damper (25) is closed and a plenum air inlet (31) is opened, permitting lamp heat (17) in plenum (19) to convect in through the plenum (19) and through an exhaust/return air damper (29) to be exhausted through the plenum exhaust duct (30); and alternatively, a FAN ONLY mode may be used to assist convention with minimum power consumption. 7. An integrated lighting and air conditioning system according to claim 4, operating in an OFF mode in cool weather in which: while the thermostat (16) is in the OFF mode a central computer (40) closes a ceiling air damper (25), opens a plenum air inlet (31) and opens a room air return damper (26); wherein a blower (28) of the HVAC unit (15) is OFF, permitting air from the supply air outlet (24) to convect upwards into said room (21) and enter said return air inlet (27), to cool and subside back through the HVAC unit (15), down and through the supply air outlet (24) and into the room (21); and wherein said ceiling air damper (25) remains closed and plenum air inlet (31) is opened, permitting the lamp heat (17) in the plenum (19) to convect through said the plenum (19), through an exhaust/return air damper (29) to block plenum air from entering the HVAC return air inlet (27) and be exhausted through the plenum exhaust duct (30); and alternatively, a FAN-ONLY mode may be used to operate the fan at a low flow rate to assist convection with minimum power consumption. 8. An integrated lighting and air conditioning system according to claim 4, operating in a HEAT mode in which: while a the thermostat (16) is in the HEAT mode, a central computer (40) opens a ceiling air damper (25), closes a room air return damper (26), opens an exhaust/return air damper (29) to the return air inlet (27), and closes an exhaust/return air damper (29), to the return air inlet (2), precluding flow through a plenum exhaust duct (30); whereby a blower (28) of the HVAC unit (15) circulates warm air through the return air inlet (27) and further heats and circulates heated air through the supply air outlet (24) into the room (21) and back through the open ceiling air damper (25) with plenum air inlet (31) closed, whereby warm room (21) air receives lamp IR heat (17) in plenum (19) and passes through exhaust/return air damper (29), which is closed to plenum exhaust duct (30), and open to return air inlet (27), whereby warm room air is re-heated by the lamp IR heat and re-circulated by the blower (28) into the room (21). 9. An integrated lighting and air conditioning system according to claim 4, operating in an OFF mode in warm weather in which: while the thermostat (16) is in the OFF mode, a central computer (40) opens a ceiling air damper (25), with a plenum air inlet (31) closed, and opens a room air return damper (26); wherein a blower (28) of the HVAC unit (15) is OFF, permitting air from the supply air outlet (24) to convect upwards into the room (21) and back through the return air damper (26) into the HVAC unit return air inlet (27), and to subside from the return air inlet (27) down and through the supply air outlet (24); or alternatively, a FAN-ONLY mode may be used to operate the HVAC fan at a low flow rate to assist convection with minimum power consumption; and the ceiling air damper (25) is opened and the plenum air inlet (31) closed, permitting lamp heat (17) in the plenum (19) to convect through the plenum (19), through an exhaust/return air damper (29) to be exhausted through the plenum exhaust duct (30). 10. An integrated lighting and HVAC system for one or more rooms, each room (21) being connected to at least one HVAC unit (15) through one or more supply air outlets (24) and return air inlets (27); a heat-insulating divider (20a) separating each respective room from a non-air-conditioned space (19a); at least one lamp (18) in a fiber optic projector (1) mounted in said non-air-conditioned space, said lamp emitting lamp heat (17) into the non-air-conditioned space, wherein said heat may be vented out of said non-air-conditioned space through at least one exhaust duct (30); said lamps (18) emitting only visible light without heat (23), through integral thermal barriers (22) in the form of thermal filters and optical fibers (2) emitting light into room (21) through fiber optic luminaires (3); and a thermostat controlling the temperature of heated or cooled air passing through supply air outlet (24). 11. An integrated lighting and HVAC system according to claim 10 in which the environmental sensor inputs (42) are selected from the group including: room occupancy, room temperature, room humidity, plenum temperature, light status, outside air temperature; and HVAC (41) performance feedback data is selected from the group including input air temperature, supply air outlet temperature, heater temperature, chiller temperature, air outlet humidity, air velocity and HVAC line voltage. 12. An integrated lighting and air conditioning system according to claim 10 in which the thermostat (16) is one of a number of inputs to a central computer that controls the HVAC (15) unit and remotely-operated air duct dampers. 13. An integrated lighting and air conditioning system according to claim 10 in which the lamp thermal barrier (22) of each fiber optic projector is disposed between the lamp (18 and ther optical fibers (2). 14. An integrated lighting and air conditioning system according to claim 10 in which the lamps (18) are fiber optic projectors (1) in the non air-conditioned space (19a), wherein the heat-insulating divider (20a) is a side wall of the room (21), the non air-conditioned space is a utility area or closet adjacent to the room, and optical fibers (2) transmit light from projector (1) to fiber optic luminaires (3) in optional locations. 15. An integrated lighting and air conditioning system according to claim 10 in which the lamps (18) are fiber optic projectors (1) in the non air-conditioned space (19a) comprising a utility area or equipment closet adjacent to the room, and also housing one or more HVAC units (15). 16. An integrated lighting and air conditioning system according to claim 1 or claim 4 in which the lamps are attached to a generally horizontal surface supported from a pair of parallel suspended-ceiling T-bar runners that also support a dual-surface light-transmitting lens assembly beneath said lamps. 17. An integrated lighting and air conditioning system according to claim 1 or claim 4 in which the lamps are attached to a generally horizontal surface supported from a pair of parallel suspended-ceiling T-bar runners that also support a dual-surface light-transmitting lens assembly beneath said lamps, said dual-surface lens having an air space between the two lens surfaces. US PATENT REFERENCES CITED 7,223,002 - Miller, et al 5,384,881 - Miller, et al. 7,209,870 - Simmons, et al 5,303,125 - Miller, et al. 7,188,481 - DEYoe, et al 5,268,977 - Miller, et al. 7,177,534 - Jones, et al 5,099,399 - Miller, et al. 4,105,276 - Miller 5,486,984 - Miller, et al. 5,099,399 - Miller, et al. Des.267,978 - Miller 7,172,132 - Proffitt, et al 4,178,525 - Miller 6,402,349 - Miller, et al NP (NON-PATENT) REFERENCES NP-1 New Technology, Power Systems News, L.A. Dept of Water & Power, July 1993 NP-2 Museum Lighting the Next Generation, Exhibit Builder magazine, August 1993 NP-3 New lamp Halves Energy, Progress, Pacific Gas & Electric, L.A., CA, March 1977 NP-4 The Energy Conservation Collection, Johnson Industries 1992 NP-5 Tri-Mizer 3-way Energy-Saving Bulb, Ad, Creators, Inc. 1993 NP-6 Tomorrow's Lighting Today (circline lamps), Montgomery Ward Ad. 1992 NP-7 Field Demonstration, Lighting &HVAC Cost Savings, Energy Ctr, WI, January 2005 NP-8 Daylighting and Architetecture, Waldron Lighting Design, PA, March 2007 NP-9 Commercial Rebates &Financial Assistance, Alameda Power, CA July 2007 NP-10 Building Efficiency (thru HVAC efficiency) Johnson Controls, Inc WI. May 2007 FIELDS OF THE INVENTION This invention relates to the fields of lighting and air conditioning, and to the field of energy conservation in public, commercial and residential buildings. Historically, lighting has been specified by engineers in the IESNA (Illuminating Engineering Society of North America) and air conditioning has been specified by ASHREA (American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning) engineers. These diverse practitioners have independently tried to design their respective systems within buildings being designed or already designed (or worse yet already built) to the drawings and specifications of architects of the AIA (American Institute of Architects). A popular architectural trend is the attempt to save lighting energy through “daylighting” (big windows and skylights). The result is poorly controlled daylight that requires energy for separate day-time supplementary use, as well as a complete night-time lighting system. However, double-pane windows and skylights transmit eight times more heat (in or out, depending on the season and weather) than insulated walls or ceilings. Thus savings in lighting energy is often overwhelmed by increased HVAC energy use. Even in well-insulated buildings with few windows and no skylights, the cost of energy use continues to rise. Both Residential and commercial customers are experiencing dramatically increasing lighting and HVAC costs. Lighting itself averages about 32% of a typical commercial building's energy use, and lighting-plus-air conditioning power (to remove heat generated by the lighting) comprise more than half of most building's total energy load. Thus lighting and HVAC designers (who usually work at different companies in different cities) need to work together to specify energy-saving, effective, integrated lighting and HVAC systems within the architectural designs of proposed, new and old buildings. It is a well-known fact that all light sources emit many times more IR (infrared) and UV (ultraviolet) watts energy than visible light watts. It is also a well-known fact that it takes about 3.5 watts of air conditioning to remove a watt of lighting heat. Further, in a heating mode it takes 3.4 watts of HVAC heat to emit one watt of heat into a room. INCANDESCENT LAMPS: Incandescent lamps have changed very little since the carbon-filament, vacuum-filled light bulb was invented 100 years ago by Thomas Edison. It is said that Edison invented a very efficient electric heater that produced 96% infrared heat and emitted only about 4% visible light. Modern tungsten/halogen versions of Edison's lamp still produce only about 6% of their energy as visible light, with the balance almost entirely invisible IR and about 1% UV (ultraviolet). That means a lamp consuming 100 watts, produces 94 watts of UV and IR that contribute nothing to vision, but contribute only to whatever (and whomever) they encounter. Using the average of 3.5 watts of air conditioning to remove each watt of heat, it takes 3.5 (100)=350 air conditioning watts to maintain room heat balance for each 100 watt lamp, plus the 100 watt lamp load, means a 100 watt lamp with HVAC uses 450 watts. Although incandescent lamps are inefficient in terms of lumens-per-watt, they remain popular because of their light quality. They have a continuous, uninterrupted visual spectrum, or CRI (Color Rendition Index) providing light that the human eye can most efficiently see. FLUORESCENT LAMPS: Considering integral ballast losses, fluorescent lamps (including compact fluorescent screw-based lamps) are about 3 times more efficient in lumens-per-watt than incandescent lamps, so the light output becomes 6%×3, or about 18% of total lamp energy (instead of 6% for incandescent lamps). Thus they emit 82% heat, and it still takes that 3.5 watts of HVAC to remove a watt of fluorescent (even compact fluorescent) lamp heat. Non-Patent referenced NP-1 through NP-6 show the applicant's familiarity with the properties of florescent lamps. METAL HALIDE H.I.D. LAMPS: HID (High-Intensity Discharge) lamps, such as metal halide lamps, have replaced many incandescent lamps, because they are more efficient in commercial buildings. However, like fluorescent lamps, they emit 5 times more IR than visible light, and it still takes about 3.5 watts of air conditioning to remove a watt of lamp heat. LIGHT EMITTING DIODES: Popular, promised solutions to lamp heat have been the more recent introduction of LED's (Light Emitting Diodes) that are more compact than even the “compact” fluorescent lamps. The tiny LED itself runs cooler, but the LED power supplies still emit that same 5 times more IR than visible light. Also, LED solid-state lamps have the same problem as gas-discharge lamps. They have low CRI (Color Rendition Index). When colors seen by the human eye are distorted by poor light quality, more light is required for vision. In simplest terms, if you turn off the lights, you see nothing; and if you turn on ugly, distorted light colors, you see ugly-colored objects that human eye retinas have trouble imaging. That's why many residential and commercial customers continue to use incandescent light bulbs. LIGHT SOURCE SUMMARY: It is a basic fact that all light sources, including incandescent, fluorescent, HID and LED lamps, emit from 5 times to 20 times more IR (infrared) watts than visible light watts. The UV and IR are the primary cause of skin discomfort, eye strain and eye damage, as well as photochemical damage to everything from carpets and textiles to food displays. The current I.E.S.N.A Handbook published in 2000, states: “UV and IR do not contribute vision, but only contribute to damage, and thus should be avoided.” The publication of that information resulted from the applicant's development of NoUVIR® (NO UV or IR) light fixtures in 1992, the filing date of applicant's U.S. Pat. No. 5,099,399 for a fiber optic light projector. Thus “NoUVIR” became the registered trademark of NoUVIR Research Company, founded by co-inventors of the U.S. Pat. No. 5,099,399 patent, Jack V. Miller and his daughter, Ruth Ellen Miller. The recent 2007 issue of U.S. Pat. No. 7,223,002 for hybrid light fixtures makes it now possible to integrate NoUVIR general illumination lighting with HVAC, the subject of the present invention. FIG. 1 is the Relative Spectral Sensitivity of the human eye. FIG. 2 is the total SPD (Spectral Power Distribution) of an incandescent lamp, including the UV and IR bands. FIG. 3 is an applicant's prior art fiber optics projector of patent U.S. Pat. No. 5,099,399 that emits no UV or IR energy in the projected light. FIG. 4 is the fiber optics projector of '399 patent using several types of fiber optic luminaires in a ceiling. FIG. 5 is a drawing of the visible SPD (Spectral Power Distribution) of the fiber optic projector of FIG. 3, showing visible light, with no UV or IR. FIG. 6 shows light fixtures of patent U.S. Pat. No. 7,223,002 mounted in a ceiling. FIG. 7 shows a fluorescent fixture above a luminous ceiling including patent U.S. Pat. No. 6,402,349, mounted on suspended ceiling T-bars. FIG. 8 is the total SPD (Spectral Power Distribution) of a fluorescent lamp, showing visible light, as well as UV and IR. FIG. 9 is the total Spectral Power Distribution of a metal halide lamp, showing visible light, as well as UV and IR. FIG. 10 is the total Spectral Power Distribution of an LED (light emitting diode), showing its visible light, as well as UV and IR. FIG. 11 is an illustration of a lamp showing its visible light, as well as UV and IR, irradiating a thermostat mounted on a wall. FIG. 12 is a drawing of the energy-conserving ILAC (Integrated Lighting and Air Conditioning) system according to the present invention with the HVAC unit in the “COOL” mode wherein a number of controllable dampers direct flow through selected air ducts. FIG. 13 is a drawing of the energy-conserving ILAC system according to the present invention with the air HVAC unit in the “HEAT” mode. FIG. 14 is a drawing of the energy-conserving ILAC system according to the present invention with the HVAC unit in the “OFF” mode during warm weather. FIG. 15 is a drawing of the energy-conserving ILAC system according to the present invention with the HVAC unit in the “OFF” mode during cool weather. FIG. 16 is a drawing of the energy-conserving ILAC system according to the present invention, showing a detail of the utilization of a waste heat in a plenum exhaust air duct. FIG. 17 is a block diagram of the energy-conserving ILAC system according to the present invention. DETAILED DESCRIPTIONS OF THE DRAWINGS In FIG. 1 the Relative Spectral Sensitivity of the human eye is shown as the C.I.E. (Commission International de'l Eclairage) curve represented by the broken line. Since a light meter is intended to indicate the light level that a human can see, the light meter sensitivity is shown as a solid line. The visible spectrum of the eye extends from the UV (ultraviolet) threshold at 380 nm (nanometers wavelength) to the IR (infrared) threshold at 770 nm. Thus the human eye (and the light meter) are both designed to indicate visible light intensity as the area under the C.I.E. curve, wherein light of wavelengths shorter that 380 nm or longer than 770 nm do not produce a visible retinal image in the eye, and are not measurable with a light meter. In FIG. 2 the full spectrum of an incandescent quartz/halogen lamp is shown including UV down to 100 nm and IR extending to 4500 nm. It may be seen that the area (energy) under the C.I.E. (visible light sensitivity) curve is only about 8% of the energy under the curve of the total energy emitted by the lamp. This shows that except for a few percent of UV energy, about 90% of the lamp energy is IR (invisible heat) that does not contribute anything to vision, but does contribute to the air conditioning load. In order to illustrate the extent of the IR energy, FIG. 2 also includes the SPD (Spectral Power Distribution) of an electric frying pan operating at 350° F. Human vision is produced in the eye by light passing through the lens and iris (the pupil) and projecting an image onto the retina. As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the retina can see only the light with wavelengths between 380 and 770 nm. However, the pupil responds to both UV and IR energy by reducing the iris diameter to protect the retina from damage. Since visible light on the retina is proportional to the area of the iris, removal of UV and IR opens the iris like the f-stop of a camera to produce a brighter retinal image. Thus light without UV or IR provides better vision with less light energy. This was demonstrated in 1993 by a conservator in the Gene Autry Museum in Los Angeles, Calif., where two similar water-color paintings were illuminated side-by-side. One painting was illuminated with a tungsten/halogen museum track light, and the other with light from a NOU(VIR® fiber optic system. The lights in this demonstration were first adjusted to equal intensity in footcandles, measured with a light meter. The painting illuminated without UV or IR appeared substantially brighter, so it was optically dimmed (without lowering the color temperature) so both paintings appeared equally bright to the observers. Then the respective light levels were measured again, wherein the NoUVIR footcandle level was approximately half the measured footcandle intensity of the tungsten-halogen tracklight. The elimination of UV and IR allowed the observers' irises to enlarge and admit more light. A test gallery installation was sponsored by the local electrical utility, and was certified by their engineers as saving 70% of the power used for illumination. In an article in Exhibit Builder Magazine, non-patent reference NP-2, the museum design specialist responsible for a full-gallery demonstration states: “The . . . gallery . . . is perceptibly cooler than other areas of the museum.” FIG. 3 shows the above NoUVIR fiber optic projector of the Miller, et al (Jack V. Miller and Ruth Ellen Miller) patent U.S. Pat. No. 5,0900,399 that emits zero UV or IR energy. It has been marketed under the trade name “Cold-Nose®” fiber optic projector, used in many museums to protect artifacts from photochemical damage for over 10 years. In FIG. 4 a fiber optics illumination system is shown including the light projector (1) of Miller, et al '399 patent in the ceiling of a room-size museum exhibit case. The projector is mounted above the ceiling and transmits its visible light into the room through optical fibers (2) and fiber optic luminaires (3), as described in Miller, et al U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,486,984; 5,268,977; 5,303,125; 5,384,881 and 5,907,648. Thus all lamp heat is emitted above the ceiling and only cold light (6% of the lamp energy) without UV or IR is emitted into the room. Thus 94% of the lamp energy is emitted outside the exhibit case. In FIG. 5 a drawing of the visible SPD (Spectral Power Distribution) of the fiber optic projector of FIG. 3, shown without UV or IR. A series of successive filters remove all UV and IR, leaving only the visible light between 380 to 770 nm. Since the highly-transmissive Pmma (Polymethyl methacrylate) plastic fibers are subject to melting under intense, focussed IR, removal of the heat from the fiber optic projector light source prevents fiber damage, whereby fibers may be warranted for 10 years without yellowing or losing transmissivity. This NoUVIR SPD has also been shown to extend the lives of photosensitive articles, like documents and textiles, three to eight times longer than conventional light sources. It should be noted that FIG. 5 includes the SPD of direct sunlight, showing the continuous, uninterrupted spectrum producing ideal CRI (color vision). The solar SPD peaks at 560 nm, the green (most easily seen) shown in FIG. 1. It is not important whether one believes humans were evolved or designed with vision perfectly suited for efficient hunting and foraging in green fields and forests. However, it is very important the most efficient lighting should replicate the spectrum of sunlight. FIG. 6 is the light fixture of U.S. Pat. No. 7,223,002, shown in several mounting configurations in a ceiling. The thermal properties are similar to those of applicant's '399 patent, but conventional optical fibers (2) extending from fiber optic projector (1) of FIG. 4 of the '399 patent are not used. Instead, the same heat-removing optical element (a thick, fiber-like rod) used in fiber optic projector (1) is used to absorb heat from the intense focussed light and dissipate it into the plenum above a ceiling. Thus the invention of the '002 patent is entitled “hybrid” fiber optic luminaire. FIG. 7 shows a fluorescent light fixture (4) in a luminous (light-transmitting) ceiling on which an upper transparent acrylic lens (5) of U.S. Pat. No. 6,402,394 is spaced above a lower diffusing lens (6). The pair of lenses with an airspace (7) therebetween rests on the horizontal portions of suspended-ceiling T-bar beams (8). A horizontal reflector (9) is mounted on ceiling T-bar runners (8) spaced above the lenses. A light source emitting visible light, plus UV and IR, is mounted under the reflector. The light source shown in the '394 patent is a pair of straight-tube fluorescent lamps, but FIG. 7 shows a spiral compact fluorescent lamp (10). However other lamps; metal halide, incandescent or even LED's may be used, providing they do not emit high IR that could melt the plastic lenses. Then visible lamp light passes through the lenses, but IR and UV are blocked. In FIG. 8 the full spectrum of a fluorescent lamp is shown, including about 18% visible light (shown in the form of narrow spikes) in the band between 380 and 770 nm wavelength, 6% UV and approximately 76% (depending on configuration and manufacturer) IR (including ballast losses shown in typical black body distribution). It is well known by lighting scientists that the retina of the human eye has three types of color sensing cones, each respectively sensing “RGB” (Red, Green and Blue) light. This “tri-stimulus” lamp priciple, uses eye-sensitivity peaks at the respective RGB wavelengths of red light at 650 nm; green light at 550 nm and blue light at 450 nm to match the color sensitivity of the cones of the human eye. The RGB principle is also used for phosphors in color TV screens, computer monitors and cell phones. However, in addition to the visible RGB light, the full spectrum of the fluorescent lamp also includes the UV energy, having wavelengths as short as 150 nm, and the IR heat having wavelengths longer than 770 nm, extending past 6000 nm. Those invisible are acknowledged by the I.E.S.N.A. as contributing to damage to museums artifacts, retail merchandise, and even foods. In FIG. 9 the SPD of a metal halide High-Intensity Discharge (HID) lamp is shown having approximately 76% IR output. Thus a standard 40 watt lamp emits 30 watts of IR heat, and each watt must be removed with 3.5 watts of air conditioning. Also it can be seen that (as in fluorescent lamps) there are high UV emissions from such lamps. Damage caused when a UV photon is absorbed by an atom of a molecule. The entering photon changes the valence electron ring of an atom and thereby alters the chemical structure of the molecule. This transition produces heat as well as chemical changes, as anyone knows who has experienced a painful case of sunburn. In FIG. 10 the SPD of a Light-Emitting Diode (LED) lamp is shown having approximately 76% IR output that must be removed with 3.5 watts of air conditioning power. Also, it can be seen that SPDs (as in fluorescent lamps and HID lamps) show high UV. Although the UV spikes are narrow, they comprise very energetic, deep radiation that can cause severe fading and structural damage when absorbed by photosensitive objects. FIG. 11 is an illustration of a lamp within a room and showing its visible light, as well as UV and IR, irradiating a thermostat mounted on a wall. In this illustration a “PAR lamp” (Parabolic Reflector lamp) (11) is shown in a “top hat” recessed fixture (12). This is a widely-used combination in both residential and commercial buildings. A portion of the lamp IR is absorbed into a thermostat (13) and all the wall and floor surfaces (14) to cause the thermostat to sense the radiant IR heat instead of the room air temperature. Thus the room may easily be an ideal 68° F., but the thermostat “thinks” the room is 72° F., several degrees warmer than it really is. That initiates HVAC cooling when the room air is already at a comfortable temperature. Then the HVAC cooling continues over a time lag period until the thermostat and room surfaces cool to the set air temperature. In addition to the thermostat, human skin is also sensitive to IR radiation. Thus the girl in the summer dress in FIG. 11 doesn't really care what the thermostat says. She feels the IR on her skin and responds by turning down the temperature setting of the thermostat. She and the thermostat both agree that the room is “too hot”. Therefore, in order to have accurate room air temperature to control an HVAC unit, all IR should be excluded from the room lighting. The girl in FIG. 11 also calls attention to the fact the ILAC term includes “Integrated Lighting” as well as HVAC. That includes the need for occupancy data as described below and shown in FIG. 17, to reduce the lighting to an OSHA minimum of 1.5 fc in unoccupied spaces. These effects may not appear as major factors, but every improvement in ILAC efficiency results in an incremental power saving. In FIG. 12 the energy-conserving ILAC system according to the present invention is shown with the HVAC (15) unit in the “COOL” mode. In this mode the thermostat (16) is set to cool the room to a desired room temperature. The optimum HVAC energy efficiency is obtained by isolating the IR heat (17) from lamps (18) in the plenum (19) above the ceiling (20) of a room (21). Each lamp (18) is provided with a thermal barrier (22) so only cool visible light (23) enters the room. The HVAC unit (15) cools the room air by blowing cool air into the room through a supply air outlet (24). Blower-driven air flow is designated by several parallel arrows. Ceiling air damper (25) is closed, so warm room air returns to the HVAC unit through an open return air damper (26) from near the ceiling and on through return air inlet (27). The HVAC unit cools the air and its blower (28) blows the cool air back into the room through supply air outlet (24). However, the lamp heat in the plenum is vented by convection (designated by a single arrow having a “C”) from the plenum through open damper (29) of a plenum exhaust duct (30). In FIG. 13 the ILAC system according to the present invention is shown with the HVAC (15) unit in the “HEAT” mode with thermostat (16) is set to HEAT. Optimum HVAC efficiency conserves the IR heat (17) from lamps (18) in plenum (19) above ceiling (20) of room (21). Ceiling air damper (25) is open, so warm room air enters plenum (19), mixes with and receives the heat of light (17) and returns to the HVAC unit through open exhaust/return air damper (29) into return air inlet (27) of HVAC unit (15). The HVAC unit further heats the warm plenum air, and blower (28) blows warm air into the room through supply air outlet (24). The lamp heat in the plenum is precluded from being exhausted by exhaust/return air damper (29), closing off plenum exhaust duct (30) and causing the warm plenum air to enter the HVAC unit through the return air inlet (27). FIG. 14 shows the ILAC system according to the present invention with the air conditioner unit (15) in the “OFF” mode during warm weather. This may be a manual setting of thermostat (16) or may be an HVAC quiescent time in which the thermostat is at the set temperature wherein there is no command to either heat or cool the room. In this mode the optimum energy efficiency can be obtained by allowing warm room air to convect into the plenum through the open ceiling air damper (25) to mix with the lamp heated air in the plenum and convect out through the open exhaust/return air damper (29) into and through plenum exhaust duct (30). The convection may be facilitated by an exhaust turbine (31). Some convection make-up air may be allowed into the room through an open door, window or outside air inlet vent (not shown), or ceiling air damper may be set slightly open to external air as as shown to facilitate convection. In an optional mode, the HVAC unit (15) does not heat or cool, but the fan (27) may be turned on to circulate room air through room air return damper (26) and HVAC unit (15). FIG. 15 shows ILAC system according to the present invention with the air conditioner unit (15) in the “OFF” mode during cool weather. This may be a manual setting of thermostat (16) or may be an HVAC quiescent time in which there is no thermostat command to either heat or cool the room. In a first HVAC system-off mode, heat energy in the room can be conserved by preventing the warm room air from convecting into the plenum by closing ceiling air damper (25). Room air warmed by occupants (who radiate approximately 300 watts each) is convected upwards and through room air return damper (26). The warm room air can then subside down through the HVAC unit (15) to re-circulate into the room through the HVAC supply air outlet (24). In this first system-off mode, lamp heat is simply allowed to convect out through plenum exhaust duct (30). Greater utilization of a waste lamp heat may be obtained using a heat-exchange radiator (32) in plenum exhaust duct (30). The radiator water inlet (33) is supplied with cold (unheated) water. The cold water is heated by plenum exhaust air and is routed as warm water (34) heated by lamp heat to the water supply of an appliance, such as a hot water heater (35). Thus the hot water heater starts its heating with already warmed water, requiring less energy from heating element (37) to heat to the desired hot water temperature and route it through pipes (38) to one or more hot water uses (39). In a second HVAC unit off mode, lamp heat is utilized by closing the fan switch to operate in a fan-only mode. Then the ceiling air damper (25) is opened, allowing the fan do draw warm room air into and through plenum (19) and through exhaust/return air damper (29) which is moved to close off plenum exhaust duct (30) and open warm air flow to the HVAC return air inlet (27), whereby the fan, using very little power to slowly drive blower 28, re-circulates the warm room air, further warmed by the lamp heat, back through the room without energizing the HVAC heating element. FIG. 16 is a drawing of the energy-conserving ILAC system according to the present invention, using the fiber optic lighting system as shown in FIG. 4. In the COOL mode shown in FIG. 16, thermostat (16) is set to cool the room to a desired room temperature. The optimum HVAC energy efficiency is obtained by isolating the IR heat (17) from lamps of one or more fiber optic projectors (1) in a non-air-conditioned space (designated 19a as a plenum equivalent) separated from room 21 by an insulating divider (20a). Optical fibers (2) conduct light from projector (1), which includes a lamp (18) and a thermal barrier (22) as seen in FIG. 3. Each optical fiber (2) extends to one of a number of fiber optic luminaires (3) mounted in and from ceiling (20) of room (21). Since projector (1) emits no heat, fiber optic luminaires (3) emit only cool, visible light (23) into the room. This is a practical arrangement, since fiber optic luminaires are optically efficient because they can be individually aimed with beams that can be zoomed from narrow to wide beams, as shown in applicants's U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,486,984 and 5,268,977. They also can be mounted above, within or below ceiling (20) in any desired aesthetic design. The arrangement shown in FIG. 16 is also easily maintained. A single projector lamp can illuminate a variety of luminaire types and styles, simplifying lamp inventories. The lamp can be quickly changed at eye level, without a ladder, and from outside the occupied room. The HVAC unit (15) cools the room air by blowing cool air into the room through a supply air outlet (24). Warm room air returns to the HVAC unit past closed room air return damper (26) and on through return air inlet (27). However, the lamp heat in the non-air-conditioned space (19a) is vented by convection through open damper (29) of a plenum exhaust duct (30). In an alternative mode with the HVAC unit OFF, the room air return damper (26) may be opened to convectively vent lamp IR heat (17) out through plenum exhaust duct (30). FIG. 17 is a system block diagram of the ILAC (Integrated Lighting and Air Conditioning system) according to the present invention. A central computer (40) has command and feedback connections to at least one HVAC unit (41, 15-1 through 15-N). The central computer also receives input (42) from various sensor data, and produces output control commands to (43), operating system components. Central computer (40) provides commands for controlling lighting, as well as air conditioning. Optimum energy use should consider both occupancy and visual needs of the occupants. Thus individual lights may turned off or on by the central computer. or dimmed, as seen in applicant's U.S. Pat. No. 4,178,535 and non-patent reference NP-5. BASE LINE EXAMPLE CALCULATION To establish a simplified base-line cost example for conventional in-room lighting, a theoretical, small retail space (office, home or factory) is selected to be 48 feet wide×96 feet deep (multiples of 4×8 ft modules), was assumed to achieve average light levels with 100-watt lamps on 8 ft×8 ft centers (including perimeter rows). This is 7 rows of 13 lamps, or 91 light fixtures, consuming 9,100 watts of electrical power with downlights or tracklights. These calculations relate only to energy conservation through integrating lighting with HVAC units. Other heat transfer (in or out) through walls, windows and roofs, as well as as heat generated by occupants (who radiate 600 watts each) and other miscellaneous sources, such as computers, appliances, copiers, printers, TVs, etc. are ignored. Cooling Energy Efficiency Since it normally requires 3.5 watts of air-conditioner energy to remove 1 watt of heat from the room, the HVAC unit uses 3.5×9100 watts=31,850 cooling watts to maintain room temperature. Then, 31,850 watts×8 hours/day=254,000 (254 KWH) per day×30 days a month=7,620 KWH/month×$0.15/KWH=$1,143 a month to remove the heat of lighting from the room. However, if lamp heat is isolated above the ceiling per the invention, the $1,143 power cost is saved, so the heat removal cost of $1,143×12 months=$13,716 is saved a year. Many buildings are insulated and/or have shared interior walls. Thus heat from occupants (300 watts each), plus heat from computers, printers, monitors, TV sets, copy machines, stoves, microwave ovens, refrigerators, etc., often requires year-round cooling. Heating Energy Efficiency The laws of thermodynamics are quite consistent, so it also takes about 3.5 watts of HVAC gas or electric heat to generate each watt needed to warm a room. In cold weather, the present invention functions as if the lights (and their heat) are inside the room. They simply become part of the heating system. As the energy costs in buildings continue to escalate, the present invention dramatically reduces those costs of through ILAC (Integrated Lighting and Air Conditioning) by: 1. Reducing HVAC cooling load by excluding lamp heat from a room; 2. Lowering the HVAC heating load by recycling the lamp heat; 3. Improving occupant comfort without using additional power; 4. Utilizing lamp heat in other heating applications in the building; 5. Shortening HVAC cycles by managing light and heat; and 6. Reducing installed size, cost, ducting and power of HVAC units. Previous Patent: IC CARD AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME Next Patent: FAN COIL THERMOSTAT WITH ACTIVITY SENSING	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1742
__label__cc	0.678034	0.321966	ANALYSIS OF MARKETING AND ENTERTAINMENT EFFECTIVENESS USING MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY Central nervous system, autonomic nervous system, and effector data is measured and analyzed to determine the effectiveness of marketing and entertainment stimuli. A data collection mechanism including multiple modalities such as Magnetoencephalography (MEG), Electrooculography (EOG), Galvanic Skin Response (GSR), etc., collects response data from subjects exposed to marketing and entertainment stimuli. A data cleanser mechanism filters the response data. The response data is enhanced using intra-modality response synthesis and/or a cross-modality response synthesis. Pradeep, Anantha (Berkeley, CA, US) Knight, Robert T. (Berkeley, CA, US) Gurumoorthy, Ramachandran (Berkeley, CA, US) NeuroFocus, Inc. 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A system, comprising: a data collection mechanism operable to obtain response data from a subject exposed to marketing stimuli, the response data obtained using a plurality of modalities including magnetoencephalography (MEG); a data cleanser mechanism operable to filter the response data; an intra-modality response synthesizer operable to enhance response data associated with each of the plurality of modalities, wherein enhancing MEG response data comprises performing dipole localization measurements; a cross-modality response synthesizer operable to combine response data associated with each of the plurality of modalities to validate response data in each of the plurality of modalities; a composite enhanced effectiveness estimator operable to generate a composite enhanced effectiveness measure of the marketing stimuli. 2. The system of claim 1, wherein the plurality of modalities further comprises Galvanic Skin Response (GSR). 3. The system of claim 1, wherein the plurality of modalities further comprises Electrocardiograms (EKG). 4. The system of claim 1, wherein the intra-modality response synthesizer enhances response data associated with MEG by analyzing data in subbands within the different frequency ranges including delta, theta, alpha, beta, low gamma, and high gamma (kappa) bands. 5. The system of claim 1, wherein the cross-modality response synthesizer combines response data to validate and enhance response data from one modality using response data from another modality. 6. The system of claim 5, wherein the response data from one modality is time shifted prior to combination with response data from another modality. 7. The system of claim 1, wherein mechanisms such as time and phase shifting, correlating, and validating intra-modality and cross-modality determinations allow generation of a composite output characterizing the effectiveness of various stimuli. 8. The system of claim 1, wherein brain activity is measured to determine temporal and spatial locations of brain activity. 9. The system of claim 8, wherein brain activity is measured to determine interactions and types of interactions between various brain regions. 10. The system of claim 1, wherein different frequency bands and subbands used for multi-regional communication in the brain are measured to determine effectiveness of stimuli. 11. The system of claim 1, wherein inter-frequency coupling in the signals, including signals modulated on a carrier wave, is measured to determine effectiveness of stimuli. 12. The system of claim 1, wherein inter-hemispheric time-frequency measurements, including specific band and/or sub-band powers, asymmetries in inter-regional intra-hemispheric coherences, and asymmetries in inter-regional intra-hemisphere inter-frequency coupling are analyzed to determine effectiveness of stimuli. 13. The system of claim 1, wherein combined time-frequency responses of ongoing MEG are determined to extract single trial evoked information 14. The system of claim 1, wherein individual specific facial emotion encoding templates are matched with individual responses to enhance the identification of subject emotional response. 15. A method, comprising: providing marketing and/or entertainment stimuli to a subject; obtaining response data using a plurality of modalities, the plurality of modalities including magnetoencephalography (MEG) and electrooculography (EOG); filtering the response data; enhancing response data associated with each of the plurality of modalities, wherein enhancing MEG data comprises performing dipole localization measurements; combining response data associated with each of the plurality of modalities to validate response data in each of the plurality of modalities; generating a composite enhanced effectiveness measure of the marketing and/or entertainment stimuli. 16. The method of claim 15, wherein the plurality of modalities further comprises Galvanic Skin Response (GSR). 17. The method of claim 15, wherein the plurality of modalities further comprises Electrocardiograms (EKG). 18. The method of claim 15, wherein the plurality of modalities further comprises pupillary dilation. 19. The method of claim 15, wherein the plurality of modalities further comprises eye tracking, 20. The method of claim 15, wherein inter-hemispheric time-frequency measurements, including specific band and/or sub-band powers, asymmetries in inter-regional intra-hemispheric coherences, and asymmetries in inter-regional intra-hemisphere inter-frequency coupling are analyzed to determine effectiveness of stimuli. 21. The method of claim 15, wherein combined time-frequency responses of ongoing MEG are determined to extract single trial evoked information 22. The method of claim 15, wherein individual specific facial emotion encoding templates are matched with individual responses to enhance the identification of subject emotional response. 23. An apparatus, comprising: means for obtaining response data using a plurality of modalities, the plurality of modalities including magnetoencephalography (MEG) and electrooculography (EOG); means for filtering the response data; means for enhancing response data associated with each of the plurality of modalities, wherein enhancing MEG data comprises performing dipole localization measurements; means for combining response data associated with each of the plurality of modalities to validate response data in each of the plurality of modalities; means for generating a composite enhanced effectiveness measure of the entertainment stimuli. This application claims priority to Provisional Patent Application 60/973,917 (Docket No. 2007NF2) titled Advertising, Marketing, Entertainment And Brand Effectiveness Analyzer Utilizing MEG Included Central Nervous System, Autonomous Nervous System And Effector System Measurements by Anantha Pradeep, Robert T. Knight, and Ramachandran Gurumoorthy, and filed on Sep. 20, 2007. The present disclosure relates to the analysis of the effectiveness of marketing and entertainment using Magnetoencephalography (MEG) and other central nervous system, autonomic nervous system, and effector measurement mechanisms. DESCRIPTION OF RELATED ART Conventional systems for measuring the effectiveness of entertainment and marketing including advertising, brand messages, and product placement rely on either survey based evaluations or limited neurophysiological measurements used in isolation. These conventional systems provide some useful data but are highly inefficient and inaccurate due to a variety of semantic, syntactic, metaphorical, cultural, social, and interpretative errors and biases. The systems and techniques themselves used to obtain neurophysiological measurements are also highly limited. Consequently, it is desirable to provide improved methods and apparatus for measuring and analyzing neurological and neurophysiological data, such as central nervous system, autonomic nervous system, and effector data obtained during evaluation of the effectiveness of entertainment and marketing materials. The disclosure may best be understood by reference to the following description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, which illustrate particular example embodiments. FIG. 1 illustrates one example of a system for determining the effectiveness of marketing and entertainment by using central nervous system, autonomic nervous system, and effector measures. FIG. 2 illustrates a particular example of a system having an intelligent protocol generator and presenter device and individual mechanisms for intra-modality response synthesis. FIG. 3 illustrates a particular example of an intra-modality synthesis mechanism for Magnetoencephalography (MEG). FIG. 4 illustrates another particular example of synthesis for Magnetoencephalography (MEG). FIG. 5 illustrates a particular example of a cross-modality synthesis mechanism. FIG. 6 is one example of a sample flow process diagram showing a technique for obtaining neurological and neurophysiological data. FIG. 7 provides one example of a system that can be used to implement one or more mechanisms. DESCRIPTION OF PARTICULAR EMBODIMENTS Reference will now be made in detail to some specific examples of the invention including the best modes contemplated by the inventors for carrying out the invention. Examples of these specific embodiments are illustrated in the accompanying drawings. While the invention is described in conjunction with these specific embodiments, it will be understood that it is not intended to limit the invention to the described embodiments. On the contrary, it is intended to cover alternatives, modifications, and equivalents as may be included within the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims. For example, the techniques and mechanisms of the present invention will be described in the context of evaluating entertainment and marketing effectiveness. However, it should be noted that the techniques and mechanisms of the present invention apply to a variety of different types of entertainment and marketing such as video and audio streams, media advertising, product placement, brand effectiveness, printed advertisements, etc. It should be noted that various mechanisms and techniques can be applied to any type of stimuli. In the following description, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the present invention. Particular example embodiments of the present invention may be implemented without some or all of these specific details. In other instances, well known process operations have not been described in detail in order not to unnecessarily obscure the present invention. Various techniques and mechanisms of the present invention will sometimes be described in singular form for clarity. However, it should be noted that some embodiments include multiple iterations of a technique or multiple instantiations of a mechanism unless noted otherwise. For example, a system uses a processor in a variety of contexts. However, it will be appreciated that a system can use multiple processors while remaining within the scope of the present invention unless otherwise noted. Furthermore, the techniques and mechanisms of the present invention will sometimes describe a connection between two entities. It should be noted that a connection between two entities does not necessarily mean a direct, unimpeded connection, as a variety of other entities may reside between the two entities. For example, a processor may be connected to memory, but it will be appreciated that a variety of bridges and controllers may reside between the processor and memory. Consequently, a connection does not necessarily mean a direct, unimpeded connection unless otherwise noted. Example Embodiments Conventional mechanisms for obtaining information about the effectiveness of various types of stimuli such as marketing and entertainment materials have generally relied on focus groups and surveys. Subjects are provided with oral and written mechanisms for conveying their thoughts and feelings elicited in response to a particular advertisement, brand, media clip, etc. These oral and written mechanisms provide some limited information on the effectiveness of the marketing and entertainment materials, but have a variety of limitations. For example, subjects may be unable or unwilling to express their true thoughts and feelings about a topic, or questions may be phrased with built in bias. Articulate subjects may be given more weight than nonexpressive ones. A variety of semantic, syntactic, metaphorical, cultural, social and interpretive biases and errors prevent accurate and repeatable evaluation. Some efforts have been made to use isolated neurological and neurophysiological measurements to gauge subject responses. Some examples of central nervous system measurement mechanisms include Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) and Magnetoencephalography (MEG). fMRI measures blood oxygenation in the brain that correlates with increased neural activity. However, current implementations of fMRI have poor temporal resolution of few seconds. MEG measures electrical activity associated with post synaptic currents occurring in the milliseconds range. MEG provides an electromagnetic measurement of neural activity generated by coherent ensembles of neurons. Similar to Electroencephalography (EEG), MEG provides precise temporal measures of neural activity. MEG, however, has further benefits such as providing enhanced dipole localization relative to EEG. Thus MEG provides an electromagnetic measurement technique that provides both temporally and spatially localized measures of neural activity. In addition to localizing regional activations, the MEG activity can be divided into time-frequency analyses of on-going MEG and extraction of stimulus or response locked Event-Related-Potential or Event Related Power Spectrum Perturbations.Subcranial MEG can measure electrical activity with the most accuracy, as the bone and dermal layers weaken transmission of a wide range of frequencies. Nonetheless, surface MEG provides a wealth of electrophysiological information if analyzed properly. Autonomic nervous system measurement mechanisms include Galvanic Skin Response (GSR), Electrocardiograms (EKG), pupillary dilation, etc. Effector measurement mechanisms include Electrooculography (EOG), eye tracking, facial emotion encoding, reaction time, etc. Some conventional mechanisms cite a particular neurological or neurophysiological measurement characteristic as indicating a particular thought, feeling, mental state, or ability. For example, one mechanism purports that the contraction of a particular facial muscle indicates the presence of a particular emotion. Others measure general activity in particular areas of the brain and suggest that activity in one portion may suggest lying while activity in another portion may suggest truthfulness. However, these mechanisms are severely limited in their ability to accurately reflect a subject's actual thoughts. It is recognized that a particular region of the brain can not be mapped to a particular thought. Similarly, a particular eye movement can not be mapped to a particular emotion. Even when there is a strong correlation between a particular measured characteristic and a thought, feeling, or mental state, the correlations are not perfect, leading to a large number of false positives and false negatives. Consequently, the techniques and mechanisms of the present invention intelligently blend multiple modes and manifestations of precognitive neural signatures with cognitive neural signatures and post cognitive neurophysiological manifestations to more accurately access the effectiveness of marketing and entertainment materials. In some examples, autonomic nervous system measures are themselves used to validate central nervous system measures. Effector and behavior responses are blended and combined with other measures. Intra-modality measurement enhancements are made in addition to the cross-modality measurement mechanism enhancements. According to various embodiments, brain activity is measured not just to determine the regions of activity, but to determine interactions and types of interactions between various regions. The techniques and mechanisms of the present invention recognize that interactions between neural regions support orchestrated and organized behavior. Thoughts and abilities are not merely based on one part of the brain but instead rely on network interactions between brain regions. The techniques and mechanisms of the present invention further recognize that different frequency bands used for multi-regional communication can be indicative of the effectiveness of stimuli. For example, associating a name to a particular face may entail activity in communication pathways tuned to particular frequencies. According to various embodiments, select frequency bands are analyzed after filtering. The techniques and mechanisms of the present invention also recognize that high gamma band frequencies have significance. Inter-frequency coupling in the signals have also been determined to indicate effectiveness. Signals modulated on a carrier wave have also been determined to be important in evaluating thoughts and actions. In particular embodiments, the types of frequencies measured are subject and/or task specific. For example, particular types of frequencies in specific pathways are measured if a subject is being exposed to a new product. In particular embodiments, evaluations are calibrated to each subject and synchronized across subjects. In particular embodiments, templates are created for subjects to create a baseline for measuring pre and post stimulus differentials. According to various embodiments, stimulus generators are intelligent, and adaptively modify specific parameters such as exposure length and duration for each subject being analyzed. Consequently, the techniques and mechanisms of the present invention provide a central nervous system, autonomic nervous system, and effector measurement and analysis system that can be applied to evaluate the effectiveness of materials such as marketing and entertainment materials. Marketing materials may include advertisements, commercials, media clips, brand messages, product brochures, company logos, etc. An intelligent stimulus generation mechanism intelligently adapts output for particular users and purposes. A variety of modalities can be used including MEG, GSR, EKG, pupillary dilation, EOG, eye tracking, facial emotion encoding, reaction time, etc. Individual modalities such as MEG are enhanced by intelligently recognizing neural region communication pathways. Cross modality analysis is enhanced using a synthesis and analytical blending of central nervous system, autonomic nervous system, and effector signatures. Synthesis and analysis by mechanisms such as time and phase shifting, correlating, and validating intra-modal determinations allow generation of a composite output characterizing the effectiveness of various stimuli. FIG. 1 illustrates one example of a system for determining the effectiveness of marketing and entertainment by using central nervous system, autonomic nervous system, and effector measures. According to various embodiments, the neuroanalysis system includes a protocol generator and presenter device 101. In particular embodiments, the protocol generator and presenter device 101 is merely a presenter device and merely presents stimuli to a user. The stimuli may be a media clip, a commercial, a brand image, a magazine advertisement, a movie, an audio presentation, particular tastes, smells, textures and/or sounds. The stimuli can involve a variety of senses and occur with or without human supervision. Continuous and discrete modes are supported. According to various embodiments, the protocol generator and presenter device 101 also has protocol generation capability to allow intelligent customization of stimuli provided to a subject. According to various embodiments, the subjects 103 are connected to data collection devices 105. The data collection devices 105 may include a variety of neurological and neurophysiological measurement mechanisms such as MEG, EOG, GSR, EKG, pupillary dilation, eye tracking, facial emotion encoding, and reaction time devices, etc. In particular embodiments, the data collection devices 105 include MEG 111, EOG 113, and GSR 115. In some instances, only a single data collection device is used. Data collection may proceed with or without human supervision. The data collection device 105 collects neuro-physiological data from multiple sources. This includes a combination of devices such as central nervous system sources (MEG), autonomic nervous system sources (GSR, EKG, pupillary dilation), and effector sources (EOG, eye tracking, facial emotion encoding, reaction time). In particular embodiments, data collected is digitally sampled and stored for later analysis. In particular embodiments, the data collected could be analyzed in real-time. According to particular embodiments, the digital sampling rates are adaptively chosen based on the neurophysiological and neurological data being measured. In one particular embodiment, the neurological and neurophysiological analysis system includes MEG 111 measurements made using scalp level electrodes, EOG 113 measurements made using shielded electrodes to track eye data, GSR 115 measurements performed using a differential measurement system, a facial muscular measurement through shielded electrodes placed at specific locations on the face, and a facial affect graphic and video analyzer adaptively derived for each individual. In particular embodiments, the data collection devices are clock synchronized with a protocol generator and presenter device 101. The data collection system 105 can collect data from a single individual (1 system), or can be modified to collect synchronized data from multiple individuals (N+1 system). The N+1 system may include multiple individuals synchronously tested in isolation or in a group setting. In particular embodiments, the data collection devices also include a condition evaluation subsystem that provides auto triggers, alerts and status monitoring and visualization components that continuously monitor the status of the subject, data being collected, and the data collection instruments. The condition evaluation subsystem may also present visual alerts and automatically trigger remedial actions. According to various embodiments, the neurological and neurophysiological analysis system also includes a data cleanser device 121. In particular embodiments, the data cleanser device 121 filters the collected data to remove noise, artifacts, and other irrelevant data using fixed and adaptive filtering, weighted averaging, advanced component extraction (like PCA, ICA), vector and component separation methods, etc. This device cleanses the data by removing both exogenous noise (where the source is outside the physiology of the subject) and endogenous artifacts (where the source could be neurophysiological like muscle movement, eye blinks, etc.). The artifact removal subsystem includes mechanisms to selectively isolate and review the response data and identify epochs with time domain and/or frequency domain attributes that correspond to artifacts such as line frequency, eye blinks, and muscle movements. The artifact removal subsystem then cleanses the artifacts by either omitting these epochs, or by replacing these epoch data with an estimate based on the other clean data (for example, an MEG nearest neighbor weighted averaging approach). According to various embodiments, the data cleanser device 121 is implemented using hardware, firmware, and/or software. It should be noted that although a data cleanser device 121 is shown located after a data collection device 105 and before synthesis devices 131 and 141, the data cleanser device 121 like other components may have a location and functionality that varies based on system implementation. For example, some systems may not use any automated data cleanser device whatsoever. In other systems, data cleanser devices may be integrated into individual data collection devices. The data cleanser device 121 passes data to the intra-modality response synthesizer 131. The intra-modality response synthesizer 131 is configured to customize and extract the independent neurological and neurophysiological parameters for each individual in each modality and blend the estimates within a modality analytically to elicit an enhanced response to the presented stimuli. In particular embodiments, the intra-modality response synthesizer also aggregates data from different subjects in a dataset. According to various embodiments, the cross-modality response synthesis or fusion device 141 blends different intra-modality responses, including raw signals and signals output from synthesizer 131. The combination of signals enhances the measures of effectiveness within a modality. The cross-modality response fusion device 141 can also aggregate data from different subjects in a dataset. According to various embodiments, the system also includes a composite enhanced effectiveness estimator (CEEE) 153 that combines the enhanced responses and estimates from each modality to provide a blended estimate of the effectiveness of the marketing and entertainment stimuli for various purposes. Stimulus effectiveness measures are output at 161. FIG. 2 illustrates a particular example of a system having an intelligent protocol generator and presenter device (where the intelligence could include a feedback based on prior responses) and individual mechanisms for intra-modality response synthesis. According to various embodiments, the system includes a protocol generator and presenter device 201. In particular embodiments, the protocol generator and presenter device 201 is merely a presenter device and merely presents preconfigured stimuli to a user. The stimuli may be media clips, commercials, brand images, magazine advertisements, movies, audio presentations, particular tastes, textures, smells, and/or sounds. The stimuli can involve a variety of senses and occur with or without human supervision. Continuous and discrete modes are supported. According to various embodiments, the protocol generator and presenter device 201 also has protocol generation capability to allow intelligent modification of the types of stimuli provided to a subject. In particular embodiments, the protocol generator and presenter device 201 receives information about stimulus effectiveness measures from component 261. The protocol generator and presenter device 201 dynamical adapts stimuli presentation by using information from the analysis of attention, analysis of emotional engagement, analysis of memory retention, analysis of overall visual, audio, other sensory effectiveness, and ad, show, or content effectiveness, implicit analysis of brand impact, implicit analysis of brand meaning, implicit analysis of brand archetype, implicit analysis of brand imagery, implicit analysis of brand words, explicit analysis of brand impact, explicit analysis of brand meaning, explicit analysis of brand archetype, explicit analysis of brand imagery, explicit analysis of brand words; analysis of characters in the ad, analysis of emotive response to characters in the ad/show/content, analysis of character interaction in the ad/show/content; elicitation of core components of the ad/show/content for print purposes, elicitation of core components of the ad/show/content for billboard purposes; elicitation of the ocular metrics like hot-zones in the ad/show/content by eye dwell time, micro and macro saccade separation, saccadic returns to points of interest; elicitation of points for product placement, elicitation of points for logo and brand placement; analysis of game effectiveness, analysis of product placement in games; analysis of website effectiveness, webpage dropoff in a site. According to various embodiments, the information is provided by component 261. In particular embodiments, the protocol generator and presenter device 201 can itself obtain some of this information The protocol generator and presenter device 201 uses a data model along with linguistic and image tools like valence, arousal, meaning matched word/phrase generators, valence and arousal matched image/video selectors to generate parameters regarding the experiment. In particular examples, the protocol generator and presenter device 201 may vary individual presentation parameters like time and duration of the experiment, the number of repetitions of the stimuli based on signal to noise requirements, and the number and repetitions of the stimuli for habituation and wear-out studies, the type and number of neuro-physiological baselines, and the self reporting surveys to include. In particular examples, the protocol generator and presenter device 201 customizes presentations to a group of subjects or to individual subjects. According to various embodiments, the subjects are connected to data collection devices 205. The data collection devices 205 may involve any type of neurological and neurophysiological mechanism such as MEG, EOG, GSR, EKG, pupillary dilation, eye tracking, facial emotion encoding, reaction rime, etc. In particular embodiments, the data collection devices 205 include MEG 211, EOG 213, and GSR 215. In some instances, only a single modality is used. In other instances, multiple modalities are used and may vary depending on the type of effectiveness evaluation. Data collection may proceed without or without human supervision. The data collection device 205 automatically collects neuro-physiological data from multiple sources. This includes a combination of devices such as central nervous system sources (MEG), autonomic nervous system sources (GSR, EKG, pupillary dilation), and effector sources (EOG, eye tracking, facial emotion encoding, reaction time). In particular embodiments, data collected is digitally sampled and stored for later analysis. The digital sampling rates are adaptively chosen based on the type of neurophysiological and neurological data being measured. In particular embodiments, the system includes MEG 211 measurements made using scalp level electrodes, EOG 213 measurements made using shielded electrodes to track eye data, GSR 215 measurements performed using a differential measurement system, and a facial affect graphic and video analyzer adaptively derived for each individual. According to various embodiments, the data collection devices are clock synchronized with a protocol generator and presenter device 201. The data collection system 205 can collect data from a single individual (1 system), or can be modified to collect synchronized data from multiple individuals (N+1 system). The N+1 system could include multiple individuals synchronously recorded in a group setting or in isolation. In particular embodiments, the data collection devices also include a condition evaluation subsystem that provides auto triggers, alerts and status monitoring and visualization components that continuously monitor the status of the data being collected as well as the status of the data collection instruments themselves. The condition evaluation subsystem may also present visual alerts and automatically trigger remedial actions. According to various embodiments, the system also includes a data cleanser device 221. In particular embodiments, the data cleanser device 221 filters the collected data to remove noise, artifacts, and other irrelevant data using fixed and adaptive filtering, weighted averaging, advanced component extraction (like PCA, ICA), vector and component separation methods, etc. This device cleanses the data by removing both exogenous noise (where the source is outside the physiology of the subject) and endogenous artifacts (where the source could be neurophysiological like muscle movement, eye blinks). The artifact removal subsystem includes mechanisms to selectively isolate and review the output of each of the data and identify epochs with time domain and/or frequency domain attributes that correspond to artifacts such as line frequency, eye blinks, and muscle movements. The artifact removal subsystem then cleanses the artifacts by either omitting these epochs, or by replacing these epoch data with an estimate based on the other clean data (for example, an MEG nearest neighbor weighted averaging approach), or removes these components from the signal. The data cleanser device 221 passes data to the intra-modality response synthesizer 231. The intra-modality response synthesizer is configured to customize and extract the independent neurological and neurophysiological parameters for each individual in each modality and blend the estimates within a modality analytically to elicit an enhanced response to the presented stimuli. In particular embodiments, the intra-modality response synthesizer also aggregates data from different subjects in a dataset. According to various embodiments, various modules perform synthesis in parallel or in series, and can operate on data directly output from a data cleanser device 221 or operate on data output from other modules. For example, MEG synthesis module 233 can operate on the output of EOG synthesis module 235. GSR module 237 can operate on data output from MEG module 233. According to various embodiments, the cross-modality response synthesis or fusion device 241 blends different intra-modality responses, including raw signals as well as signals output from synthesizer 231. The combination of signals enhances the measures of effectiveness within a modality. The cross-modality response fusion device 241 can also aggregate data from different subjects in a dataset. According to various embodiments, the neuro analysis system also includes a composite enhanced effectiveness estimator (CEEE) 251 that combines the enhanced responses and estimates from each modality to provide a blended estimate of the effectiveness of the marketing and advertising stimuli for various purposes. Stimulus effectiveness measures are output at 261. A portion or all of the effectiveness measures (intra-modality synthesizer, cross modality fusion device, and/or the CEEE) can be provided as feedback to a protocol generator and presenter device 201 to further customize stimuli presented to users 203. FIG. 3 illustrates a particular example of an intra-modality synthesis mechanism. In particular embodiments, MEG response data is synthesized to provide an enhanced assessment of marketing and entertainment effectiveness. According to various embodiments, MEG measures electrical activity resulting from thousands of simultaneous neural processes associated with different portions of the brain. MEG data can be classified in various bands. According to various embodiments, brainwave frequencies includes delta, theta, alpha, beta, and gamma frequency ranges. Delta waves are classified as those less than 4 Hz and are prominent during deep sleep. Theta waves have frequencies between 3.5 to 7.5 Hz and are associated with memories, attention, emotions, and sensations. Theta waves are typically prominent during states of internal focus. Alpha frequencies reside between 7.5 and 13 Hz and typically peak around 10 Hz. Alpha waves are prominent during states of relaxation. Beta waves have a frequency range between 14 and 30 Hz. Beta waves are prominent during states of motor control, long range synchronization between brain areas, analytical problem solving, judgment, and decision making. Gamma waves occur between 30 and 60 Hz and are involved in binding of different populations of neurons together into a network for the purpose of carrying out a certain cognitive or motor function, as well as in attention and memory. Because the skull and dermal layers attenuate waves in this frequency range, brain waves above 75-80 Hz are difficult to detect and are often not used for stimuli response assessment. However, the techniques and mechanisms of the present invention recognize that analyzing high gamma band (kappa-band: Above 60 Hz) measurements, in addition to theta, alpha, beta, and low gamma band measurements, enhances neurological attention, emotional engagement and retention component estimates. In particular embodiments, MEG measurements including difficult to detect high gamma or kappa band measurements are obtained, enhanced, and evaluated at 301. At 303, subject and task specific signature sub-bands in the theta, alpha, beta, gamma and kappa bands are identified to provide enhanced response estimates. According to various embodiments, high gamma waves (kappa-band) above 80 Hz (typically detectable with sub-cranial MEG and magnetoencephalograophy) can be used in inverse model-based enhancement of the frequency responses to the stimuli. Various embodiments of the present invention recognize that particular sub-bands within each frequency range have particular prominence during certain activities. A subset of the frequencies in a particular band is referred to herein as a sub-band. For example, a sub-band may include the 40-45 Hz range within the gamma band. In particular embodiments, multiple sub-bands within the different bands are selected while remaining frequencies are band pass filtered. In particular embodiments, multiple sub-band responses may be enhanced, while the remaining frequency responses may be attenuated. At 305, inter-regional coherencies of the sub-band measurements are determined. According to various embodiments, inter-regional coherencies are determined using gain and phase coherences, Bayesian references, mutual information theoretic measures of independence and directionality, and Granger causality techniques of the MEG response in the different bands. In particular embodiments, inter-regional coherencies are determined using fuzzy logic to estimate effectiveness of the stimulus in evoking specific type of responses in individual subjects. At 307, inter-hemispheric time-frequency measurements are evaluated. In particular embodiments, asymmetries in specific band powers, asymmetries in inter-regional intra-hemispheric coherences, and asymmetries in inter-regional intra-hemisphere inter-frequency coupling are analyzed to provide measures of emotional engagement. At 309, inter-frequency coupling assessments of the response are determined. In particular embodiments, a coupling index corresponding to the measure of specific band activity in synchrony with the phase of other band activity is determined to ascertain the significance of the marketing and advertising stimulus or sub-sections thereof. At 313, a reference scalp power frequency curve is determined using a baseline electrocorticogram (ECoG) power by frequency function driven model. The reference scale power frequency curve is compared to an individual scalp record power by frequency curve to derive scaled estimates of marketing and entertainment effectiveness. According to various embodiments, scaled estimates are derived used fuzzy scaling. At 315, an information theory based band-weighting model is used for adaptive extraction of selective dataset specific, subject specific, task specific bands to enhance the effectiveness measure. Adaptive extraction may be performed using fuzzy scaling. At 321, stimuli can be presented and enhanced measurements determined multiple times to determine the variation or habituation profiles across multiple presentations. Determining the variation and/or habituation profiles provides an enhanced assessment of the primary responses as well as the longevity (wear-out) of the marketing and entertainment stimuli. At 323, the synchronous response of multiple individuals to stimuli presented in concert is measured to determine an enhanced across subject synchrony measure of effectiveness. According to various embodiments, the synchronous response may be determined for multiple subjects residing in separate locations or for multiple subjects residing in the same location. Although a variety of synthesis mechanisms are described, it should be recognized that any number of mechanisms can be applied in sequence or in parallel with or without interaction between the mechanisms. In some examples, processes 321 and 323 can be applied to any modality. FIG. 4 illustrates a particular example of synthesis for Magnetoencephalography (MEG) data, including ERP and continuous MEG. ERPs can be reliably measured using magnetoencephalography (MEG), a procedure that measures electrical activity of the brain. Although an MEG reflects thousands of simultaneously ongoing brain processes, the brain response to a certain stimulus may not be visible using MEG. ERP data includes cognitive neurophysiological responses that manifests after the stimulus is presented. In many instances, it is difficult to see an ERP after the presentation of a single stimulus. The most robust ERPs are seen after tens or hundreds of individual presentations are combined. This combination removes noise in the data and allows the voltage response to the stimulus to stand out more clearly. In addition to averaging the embodiment includes techniques to extract single trial evoked information from the ongoing MEG. While evoked potentials reflect the processing of the physical stimulus, event-related potentials are caused by the “higher” processes, that might involve memory, expectation, attention, or changes in the mental state, among others. According to various embodiments, evidence of the occurrence or non-occurrence of specific time domain components in specific regions of the brain are used to measure subject responsiveness to specific stimulus. According to various embodiments, ERP data can be enhanced using a variety of mechanisms. At 401, event related time-frequency analysis of stimulus response—event related power spectral perturbations (ERPSPs)—is performed across multiple frequency bands such as theta, delta, alpha, beta, gamma and high gamma (kappa). According to various embodiments, a baseline ERP is determined. At 403, a differential event related potential (DERP) is evaluated to assess stimulus attributable differential responses. At 405, a variety of analysis techniques including principal component analysis (PCA), independent component analysis (ICA), and Monte Carlos analysis can be applied to evaluate an ordered ranking of the effectiveness across multiple stimuli. In particular embodiments, PCA is used to reduce multidimensional data sets to lower dimensions for analysis. ICA is typically used to separate multiple components in a signal. Monte Carlo relies on repeated random sampling to compute results. According to various embodiments, an ERP scenario is developed at 407 to determine a subject, session and task specific response baseline. The baseline can then be used to enhance the sensitivity of other ERP responses to the tested stimuli. At 421, stimuli can be presented and enhanced measurements determined multiple times to determine the variation or habituation profiles across multiple presentations. Determining the variation and/or habituation profiles provides an enhanced assessment of the primary responses as well as the longevity (wear-out) of the marketing and entertainment stimuli. At 423, the synchronous response of multiple individuals to stimuli presented in concert is measured to determine an enhanced across subject synchrony measure of effectiveness. According to various embodiments, the synchronous response may be determined for multiple subjects residing in separate locations or for multiple subjects residing in the same location. A variety of processes such as processes 421, and 423 can be applied to a number of modalities, including EOG, eye tracking, GSR, facial emotion encoding, etc. In addition, synthesis of data from mechanisms such as EOG and eye tracking can also benefit from the grouping objects of interest into temporally and spatially defined entities using micro and macro saccade patterns. Gaze, dwell, return of eye movements to primarily center around the defined entities of interest and inhibition of return to novel regions of the material being evaluated are measured to determine the degree of engagement and attention evoked by the stimulus. Although intra-modality synthesis mechanisms provide enhanced effectiveness data, additional cross-modality synthesis mechanisms can also be applied. FIG. 5 illustrates a particular example of a cross-modality synthesis mechanism 521. A variety of mechanisms such as MEG 501, Eye Tracking 503, GSR 505, EOG 507, and facial emotion encoding 509 are connected to a cross-modality synthesis mechanism. Other mechanisms as well as variations and enhancements on existing mechanisms may also be included. According to various embodiments, data from a specific modality can be enhanced using data from one or more other modalities. In particular embodiments, MEG typically makes frequency measurements in different bands like alpha, beta and gamma to provide estimates of effectiveness. However, the techniques of the present invention recognize that effectiveness measures can be enhanced further using information from other modalities. For example, facial emotion encoding measures can be used to enhance the valence of the MEG emotional engagement measure. EOG and eye tracking saccadic measures of object entities can be used to enhance the MEG estimates of effectiveness including but not limited to attention, emotional engagement, and memory retention. According to various embodiments, a cross-modality synthesis mechanism performs time and phase shifting of data to allow data from different modalities to align. In some examples, it is recognized that an MEG response will often occur hundreds of milliseconds before a facial emotion measurement changes. Correlations can be drawn and time and phase shifts made on an individual as well as a group basis. In other examples, saccadic eye movements may be determined as occurring before and after particular MEG responses. According to various embodiments, time corrected GSR measures are used to scale and enhance the MEG estimates of effectiveness including attention, emotional engagement and memory retention measures. Evidence of the occurrence or non-occurrence of specific time domain difference event-related potential components (like the DERP) in specific regions correlates with subject responsiveness to specific stimulus. According to various embodiments, ERP measures are enhanced using MEG time-frequency measures (ERPSP) in response to the presentation of the marketing and entertainment stimuli. Specific portions are extracted and isolated to identify ERP, DERP and ERPSP analyses to perform. In particular embodiments, an MEG frequency estimation of attention, emotion and memory retention (ERPSP) is used as a co-factor in enhancing the ERP, DERP and time-domain response analysis. EOG measures saccades to determine the presence of attention to specific objects of stimulus. Eye tracking measures the subject's gaze path, location and dwell on specific objects of stimulus. According to various embodiments, EOG and eye tracking is enhanced by measuring the presence of lambda waves (a neurophysiological index of saccade effectiveness) in the ongoing MEG in the occipital and extra striate regions, triggered by the slope of saccade-onset to estimate the effectiveness of the EOG and eye tracking measures. In particular embodiments, specific MEG signatures of activity such as slow potential shifts and measures of coherence in time-frequency responses at the Frontal Eye Field (FEF) regions that preceded saccade-onset are measured to enhance the effectiveness of the saccadic activity data. GSR typically measures the change in general arousal in response to stimulus presented. According to various embodiments, GSR is enhanced by correlating MEG/ERP responses and the GSR measurement to get an enhanced estimate of subject engagement. The GSR latency baselines are used in constructing a time-corrected GSR response to the stimulus. The time-corrected GSR response is co-factored with the MEG measures to enhance GSR effectiveness measures. According to various embodiments, facial emotion encoding uses templates generated by measuring facial muscle positions and movements of individuals expressing various emotions prior to the testing session. These individual specific facial emotion encoding templates are matched with the individual responses to identify subject emotional response. In particular embodiments, these facial emotion encoding measurements are enhanced by evaluating inter-hemispherical asymmetries in MEG responses in specific frequency bands and measuring frequency band interactions. The techniques of the present invention recognize that not only are particular frequency bands significant in MEG responses, but particular frequency bands used for communication between particular areas of the brain are significant. Consequently, these MEG responses enhance the EMG, graphic and video based facial emotion identification. FIG. 6 is a flow process diagram showing a technique for obtaining neurological and neurophysiological data. At 601, a protocol is generated and stimulus is provided to one or more subjects. According to various embodiments, stimulus includes streaming video, media clips, printed materials, individual products, etc. The protocol determines the parameters surrounding the presentation of stimulus, such as the number of times shown, the duration of the exposure, sequence of exposure, segments of the stimulus to be shown, etc. Subjects may be isolated during exposure or may be presented materials in a group environment with or without supervision. At 603, subject responses are collected using a variety of modalities, such as MEG, ERP, EOG, GSR, etc. In some examples, verbal and written responses can also be collected and correlated with neurological and neurophysiological responses. At 605, data is passed through a data cleanser to remove noise and artifacts that may make data more difficult to interpret. According to various embodiments, the data cleanser removes MEG electrical activity associated with blinking and other endogenous/exogenous artifacts. At 611, intra-modality response synthesis is performed to enhance effectiveness measures. According to various embodiments, dipole localization measurements are performed to allow improved spatial resolution of brain activity. In particular embodiments, MEG provides enhanced dipole localization and allows determination of temporal and spatial locations of neural activity. At 613, cross-modality response synthesis is performed to further enhance effectiveness measures. It should be noted that in some particular instances, one type of synthesis may be performed without performing the other type of synthesis. For example, cross-modality response synthesis may be performed with or without intra-modality synthesis. At 615, a composite enhanced effectiveness estimate is provided. At 621, feedback is provided to the protocol generator and presenter device for additional evaluations. This feedback could be provided by the cross-modality response synthesizer or other mechanisms. According to various embodiments, various mechanisms such as the data collection mechanisms, the intra-modality synthesis mechanisms, cross-modality synthesis mechanisms, etc. are implemented on multiple devices. However, it is also possible that the various mechanisms be implemented in hardware, firmware, and/or software in a single system. FIG. 7 provides one example of a system that can be used to implement one or more mechanisms. For example, the system shown in FIG. 7 may be used to implement a data cleanser device or a cross-modality responses synthesis device. According to particular example embodiments, a system 700 suitable for implementing particular embodiments of the present invention includes a processor 701, a memory 703, an interface 711, and a bus 715 (e.g., a PCI bus). When acting under the control of appropriate software or firmware, the processor 701 is responsible for such tasks such as pattern generation. Various specially configured devices can also be used in place of a processor 701 or in addition to processor 701. The complete implementation can also be done in custom hardware. The interface 711 is typically configured to send and receive data packets or data segments over a network. Particular examples of interfaces the device supports include host bus adapter (HBA) interfaces, Ethernet interfaces, frame relay interfaces, cable interfaces, DSL interfaces, token ring interfaces, and the like. In addition, various very high-speed interfaces may be provided such as fast Ethernet interfaces, Gigabit Ethernet interfaces, ATM interfaces, HSSI interfaces, POS interfaces, FDDI interfaces and the like. Generally, these interfaces may include ports appropriate for communication with the appropriate media. In some cases, they may also include an independent processor and, in some instances, volatile RAM. The independent processors may control such communications intensive tasks as data synthesis. According to particular example embodiments, the system 700 uses memory 703 to store data, algorithms and program instructions. The program instructions may control the operation of an operating system and/or one or more applications, for example. The memory or memories may also be configured to store received data and process received data. Because such information and program instructions may be employed to implement the systems/methods described herein, the present invention relates to tangible, machine readable media that include program instructions, state information, etc. for performing various operations described herein. Examples of machine-readable media include, but are not limited to, magnetic media such as hard disks, floppy disks, and magnetic tape; optical media such as CD-ROM disks and DVDs; magneto-optical media such as optical disks; and hardware devices that are specially configured to store and perform program instructions, such as read-only memory devices (ROM) and random access memory (RAM). Examples of program instructions include both machine code, such as produced by a compiler, and files containing higher level code that may be executed by the computer using an interpreter. Although the foregoing invention has been described in some detail for purposes of clarity of understanding, it will be apparent that certain changes and modifications may be practiced within the scope of the appended claims. Therefore, the present embodiments are to be considered as illustrative and not restrictive and the invention is not to be limited to the details given herein, but may be modified within the scope and equivalents of the appended claims. Previous Patent: SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MEASUREMENT OF BIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS OF A SUBJECT Next Patent: Devices, Systems, Kits and Methods for Treatment of Obesity	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1743
__label__wiki	0.988705	0.988705	Bodies of man, woman found hanging; suicide suspected Palghar (Maha), Jun 28 (PTI) A 28-year-old man and a 19-year-old woman allegedly committed suicide today apparently over their failed love affair, the police said today. Palghar (Maha), Jun 28 (PTI) A 28-year-old man and a 19-year-old woman allegedly committed suicide today apparently over their failed love affair, the police said today. Also Read - Driver held for raping woman; accomplice for filming act The deceased, both separately married, were residents of the Hanuman Nagar area in Boisar, they said. Some locals spotted bodies of the duo hanging from a tree at a forest in Vangaon village today, an official at the Boisar police station said. No suicide note was found near the bodies, he said. The man worked at a private company in Boisar since the last six months and the woman joined the firm around 20 days back, the official said, adding that further details about their nature of work were not yet known. Both of them got acquainted while working together and apparently had an affair, he said. On Tuesday, the man borrowed a scooter from a friend to go somewhere but did not return home. The two-wheeler was found today at some distance from the spot where the bodies were spotted, the official said. The woman was also missing since Tuesday. Her family members, who were aware of her relations with the man, went to his house last night to get some information about her whereabouts, he said. Later, families of both of them filed missing person complaints with the police, the official said. The Boisar police today registered a case under relevant sections after the recovery of bodies and sent them for postmortem to a government hospital. Boisar policeBoisar police station	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1754
__label__wiki	0.895407	0.895407	Early Lok Sabha polls possible as BJP likely to lose polls in 3 states: Jaipal Reddy Hyderabad, Jun 29 (PTI) Senior Congress leader S Jaipal Reddy claimed that early Lok Sabha polls were possible as the BJP was likely to lose Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh Assembly electio Hyderabad, Jun 29 (PTI) Senior Congress leader S Jaipal Reddy claimed that early Lok Sabha polls were possible as the BJP was likely to lose Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh Assembly elections, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not want to face the electorate with a “handicapped image”. Also Read - Shatabdi Roy Meets Mamata's Nephew Abhishek Banerjee, Says She Is Not Leaving TMC The former Union Minister claimed that the BJP would receive “huge reverses” in the three states, where elections were due later this year. Also Read - Subhra Kundu, Wife of Rose Valley Group Chief Gautam Kundu, Arrested By CBI “The reason is simple. In Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, BJP is likely to lose heavily. After that, Modi will not be able to face the country,” Reddy told PTI. Also Read - Karnataka: Is BJP Planning to End Taluk Panchayat? Congress Questions State's Intention “Therefore, he (Modi) does not want take the responsibility for the defeat there (in the three states)”, Reddy said, adding, “after that, BJP as a losing party will be emphasised”. “In view of the bleak prospects for the BJP in the three states, Mr. Modi may prefer to advance the polls so that he does not have to go with a handicapped image. It is likely,” he said, but hastened to add, “Who can say for sure in politics?” On the electoral strategy of the opposition to be taken on the BJP in the Lok Sabha elections, Reddy said all the anti-BJP forces must try to come together before the polls. “They (anti-BJP forces) will surely come together after the polls. But they should come together before the polls, because unity before the polls will get larger number of seats,” he said. In the states where the Congress and anti-BJP regional parties could not reach an agreement, they would fight it out but “reach a unity” after the polls. But there are very few such states, Reddy added. #RajasthanCongressPTI	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1755
__label__wiki	0.941439	0.941439	George Fernandes a political colossus, says Jaitley New Delhi, Jan 30 (PTI) Paying glowing tributes to veteran socialist leader George Fernandes, Union Minister Arun Jaitley Wednesday said he was a politician with a difference and with his death India Published: January 30, 2019 3:48 PM IST New Delhi, Jan 30 (PTI) Paying glowing tributes to veteran socialist leader George Fernandes, Union Minister Arun Jaitley Wednesday said he was a politician with a difference and with his death India has lost a political colossus. Also Read - Wait Over! Tesla Finally Enters India as it Registers Office in Bengaluru; Karnataka CM Tweets Welcome to Elon Musk Fernandes, who served as defence minister between 1998 and 2004, died Tuesday morning after a prolonged illness. He was 88. Also Read - List of States That Announced Reopening of Schools, Colleges This Month “With the passing away of veteran socialist leader George Fernandes, India has lost a political colossus. George was a politician with a difference. He had the ability to stand alone, take a position, however extreme, and sustain that position. Also Read - 'Want to Address Some Rumours': WhatsApp Issues Clarification on Privacy Policy “He was a political worker, an extraordinary leader, a powerful trade unionist, a parliamentarian that many would dread to face and above all a dissenter,” Jaitley wrote in a Facebook post. In the post titled ‘George Saheb as I knew him’, Jaitley said he was one of the most charismatic speakers and the last of the veteran Lohiaites. Ram Manohar Lohia, the mentor of Fernandes, represented the anti-Nehru, anti-Congress face of Indian politics and gave the famous slogan ‘Congress hatao desh bachao’. “In the post-Dr Lohia era, with the emergence of BJP as the principal pole of Indian politics, many Lohiaites shed their inhibition and started doing political business with the Congress. The Left was not far behind. They called it re-polarisation. One honourable exception was George Fernandes. He was a born Lohiaite and he died as one. His anti-Congress moorings were never compromised,” Jaitley said. Fernandes, who was born to a Christian family in Mangalore, Karnataka, burst into national limelight when as a firebrand trade unionist in Mumbai he organised a Railways strike in 1974 that brought the country to a standstill. Ironically, he became the Railways minister in 1989 under V P Singh’s National Front coalition government, comprising mostly Left leaning parties. Despite being a staunch critic of the RSS, Fernandes joined the BJP-led NDA government under Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in 1998 and 1999, in which he was appointed the defence minister. Under his stewardship, India fought the Kargil war in 1999. It was also during his tenure that India conducted nuclear test at Pokhran in 1998. He was also the industries minister under the Janata Party government after the defeat of Indira Gandhi-led Congress in 1977. Soon he was at loggerheads with industrialists and demanded that Coca-Cola and IBM comply with foreign ownership regulations, which forced them to shut their operations and quit India. #IndiaFacebookKarnatakaMangaloreThe Left Published Date: January 30, 2019 3:48 PM IST	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1756
__label__wiki	0.503064	0.503064	HC flags graft in RTOs, asks property info of officials Chennai, Jun 29 (PTI) Flagging corruption, the Madras High Court has directed the Tamil Nadu government to get the data on properties of Regional Transport Officers (RTOs) and install CCTV cameras i Published: June 29, 2018 11:11 PM IST Chennai, Jun 29 (PTI) Flagging corruption, the Madras High Court has directed the Tamil Nadu government to get the data on properties of Regional Transport Officers (RTOs) and install CCTV cameras in their offices within three months. Also Read - Brisbane Weather Forecast For 4th Test Day 3: Will Rain Play Spoilsport During India-Australia at Gabba, Starting Time The direction by Justice S M Subramaniam came on a petition seeking to forbear the transport authorities from implementing a new automated test module to get driving licences for cars (Light Motor Vehicles) and two-wheelers. Also Read - Live Cricket Score Ind vs Aus 4th Test Day 3 Today's Match Live Updates Gabba, Brisbane: Rahane-Pujara Eye Solid Start The judge said details of both movable and immovable assets of RTOs and all other higher officials of the transport department should be obtained and verified with the information provided by them in their service records. Also Read - Vaccination Drive Suspended in Maharashtra Till Monday Due to CoWin App Glitches Rejecting the plea by a federation of driving schools, the court said the petitioner cannot challenge the government policy. Highlighting collusion among the driving schools and RTO authorities and corruption in providing driving licences, Justice Subramaniam said the government’s new automated test to secure driving licence is necessary to “slow down the corrupt activities of the public officials.” The general public is of the opinion that they could get driving licences by paying exorbitant amounts to driving schools for bribing transport authorities. Nationwide, the government has come up with an automated, computer-aided test and it includes driving on ‘H Track,’ to get driving licence. The new test, which envisages very little human intervention, is considered rigid when compared to traditional test methods and is aimed at ensuring that only those with requisite driving skills get the licences. Opposing the new system, and seeking the old “physical driving test,” the driving school body had moved the court. Citing a spike in number of accidents due to persons without adequate driving skills easily getting licences, the judge said the corrupt activities in the transport department for grant of driving licences to unskilled persons are to be “stopped at once.” Under these circumstances, the introduction of electronic Driving Test in “H” Track was absolutely necessary and “this Court finds no infirmity in respect of introducing it,” he noted. The court said it was imperative to cripple corruption in departments like registration and commercial taxes, besides transport. Directing Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Department to ensure frequent inspections to root out graft, the judge said there “is genuine doubt,” that the department was not functioning efficiently. The judge, who directed installation of CCTV cameras in all the RTO offices within three months, further said that if the gadgets did not function continuously for a week, action should be taken against the errant officials by higher authorities. The matter was posted for compliance after four weeks. Published Date: June 29, 2018 11:11 PM IST	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1757
__label__cc	0.689028	0.310972	NTPC committed to be India’s great place to work NTPC, India's largest power generating company, has been ranked 25th in India's Great Place to Work for 2018. By ANI Feeds Email New Delhi [India], June 29 (ANI-NewsVoir): NTPC, India’s largest power generating company, has been ranked 25th in India’s Great Place to Work for 2018. Also Read - Live Cricket Score Ind vs Aus 4th Test Day 3 Today's Match Live Updates Gabba, Brisbane: Rahane-Pujara Eye Solid Start NTPC is the only PSU among top 25 and has made a quantum leap from 38th position last year. NTPC has also been recognized as the Laureates for consistently getting featured in the list for 10 years in a row. Also Read - Vaccination Drive Suspended in Maharashtra Till Monday Due to CoWin App Glitches Amongst the top 100 companies in the country, NTPC has appeared in this coveted list of winners for successfully building and sustaining high trust-high performance culture with only 5 companies given this recognition. Also Read - Day 1 of Largest Vaccination Drive Ends as Over 1.9 Frontline Workers Get First Jabs \| 10 Points The award was received by Rajesh Kumar, RED, West-I, NTPC in an glittering award ceremony held on June 28th in Mumbai. This achievement showcases NTPC’s commitment to enhance professional growth of its employees by setting new standards in the company’s work culture. The annual Best Workplaces List of the Great Place to Work institute is considered the gold standard certification for defining, assessing and recognizing great workplaces based on their people management practices. This achievement cements NTPC’s commitment towards curating and nurturing the culture for building and sustaining its philosophy of high-trust and high-performance. Learning and development has been the major plank to bring the transformation with experiential learning, custom-made management development programs. As an organization, NTPC has always been at the forefront in making efforts towards employee-friendly HR policies and high engagement initiatives to enhance productivity and cultivate a harmonious and progressive work environment. NTPC has always nurtured and helped talented individuals with knowledge, skillsets, and competencies and aligned its human resource function with the fast-changing business environment. (ANI-NewsVoir) This is published unedited from the ANI feed.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1758
__label__wiki	0.906743	0.906743	Rs 50,000 award for info on abducted constables: J’khand govt Khunti (Jharkhand), Jun 28 (PTI) The Khunti district administration today announced a reward of Rs 50,000 for those giving information about the whereabouts of three policemen, who were abducted fro Khunti (Jharkhand), Jun 28 (PTI) The Khunti district administration today announced a reward of Rs 50,000 for those giving information about the whereabouts of three policemen, who were abducted from BJP MP Karia Munda’s residence at Anigada-Chandihdih in the district recently. Also Read - Live Cricket Score Ind vs Aus 4th Test Day 3 Today's Match Live Updates Gabba, Brisbane: Rahane-Pujara Eye Solid Start We are continuing with the search operation, Aswini Kumar Sinha, Superintendent of Police (SP) of Khunti district, said. Also Read - Vaccination Drive Suspended in Maharashtra Till Monday Due to CoWin App Glitches He said Rs 50,000 would be given to those who inform the police about the whereabouts of constables – Vinod Kerketta, Sion Surin and Subodh Kujur, adding that the details of the informers would be kept secret. Also Read - Day 1 of Largest Vaccination Drive Ends as Over 1.9 Frontline Workers Get First Jabs \| 10 Points The constables, who were deployed at the BJP leader and Lok Sabha member Karia Munda’s house, were abducted by the supporters of ‘Pathalgarhi’ on June 26. Pathalgarhi is reportedly a practice in which villagers inscribe various tenets on huge stone slabs and ban outsiders in the area. The police had said that the accused took out a procession and barged into the house of Munda, and took away the policemen. They also snatched the weapons of the constables. Munda was not in the house when the incident took place. The police on Tuesday had taken action against some Pathalgarhi leaders in Khunti district by attaching their properties. Yesterday, the police had fired tear gas shells and used batons to disperse a mob obstructing their search operation to rescue the three policemen.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1759
__label__wiki	0.843627	0.843627	Fast Food Dessert Category Heats Up After Years Of Neglect By Joe Satran Katherine Bauer, a professor of public health at Temple University, was recently poring through the University of Minnesota's comprehensive data set of American menu items, in an effort to find nutritional trends that had cropped up on fast food menus since she co-wrote a study of them in 1998. She noticed something weird. Most sections of the menus at the eight chains she was investigating had come to encompass far more items than they had 12 years earlier, without getting appreciably more caloric. The dessert section, on the other hand, hadn't gotten much bigger -- but the calorie counts of the items on them had risen dramatically. Fast food desserts had contained an average of 390 calories in 1998; by 2010, that number had grown to 502. "It's really the only category where we saw over a 50 calorie increase," Bauer told The Huffington Post. "The amount of calorie increase is double what we saw in any other category." Since 2010, when Bauer's data ends, the movement toward more decadent desserts at quick service chains has only accelerated. Fast food chains, motivated by the desire to keep crucial same-store sales figures growing, have started to attack the dessert category with unprecedented vigor in the past several years, releasing a flurry of new options after avoiding introductions. And consumers seem to be embracing the new offerings enthusiastically, challenging the long-held belief that no one was interested in buying dessert at any fast food chain but Dairy Queen. The prime mover in this fast food dessert renaissance was arguably McDonald's. The world's largest fast food chain was already the great exception to the Dairy Queen maxim, with two best-selling desserts in the McFlurry and a deep-fried apple pie, but it hadn't changed things up in years. Then, in November 2011, the chain added several new pies, sundaes and varieties of McFlurries to its menu, in response to the observation that customers were willing to eat dessert at all hours of the day. Burger King followed suit over the past several months, introducing a line of gingerbread-themed desserts for the holiday and, notoriously a bacon sundae topped with real bacon. But no chain has pivoted toward dessert as sharply as Taco Bell. After eschewing dessert almost completely for the first 50 years of its existence, the company debuted a line of three desserts in early November. Melissa Friebe, a senior director at Taco Bell, told The Huffington Post that the company had been testing possible dessert options for several years. It seemed like a logical extension of the company's years-long big to bring customers into Taco Bell outside traditional mealtimes, through branding campaigns like "Fourth Meal." After a failed experiment with classic American desserts like cupcakes, brownies and cookies, the company decided to focus its efforts on Mexican-style treats that were inexpensive and small enough to appeal to customers throughout the day. "For a few years now, we've been listening to our consumers talk about how much more they're on the go, and how much more interested they are in clockless eating, eating in between meals," Friebe said. "And one of the many things that they like to get for a snack is something sweet." And indeed, the desserts have been selling best in the afternoon, with churros leading the pack. But Friebe also said that the average check size is somewhat higher for customers who order dessert than those that do not, indicating that most consumers see the Taco Bell desserts as supplements to, rather than substitutes for, savory dishes like tacos or gorditas. For that reason, Taco Bell is considering introducing a more expensive, less "snacky" dessert to its menu at some point in the near future. Taco Bell's corporate cousins at KFC recently started selling new fresh-baked cookies in addition to the chocolate chip chocolate cake it has offered for several years, and it too has found that checks that include dessert tend to be larger than those that do not. That's partially because KFC has been promoting a holiday-themed meal bundle that includes a dozen cookies in addition to eight pieces of chicken. But the smell of the cookies baking in the restaurant's oven has been known to sway customers who arrive intending stick to chicken. "I've talked to many franchise owners about their experience with the cookies so far," said Shindy Hodack, director of marketing at KFC, "And one thing many of them have said is that the smell of the cookies baking has been a great way to get customers to order them. Who doesn't like the smell of cookies?" That said, not every chain is convinced of the merits of offering dessert in a quick-service environment. Taco Bell rival Chipotle, for example, has never offered a dessert in any of its stores, and has no plans to start doing so in the future. "We've always preferred to keep our menu focused on just a few things so we can do them better than anyone else," said Chipotle spokesman Chris Arnold. High Calorie Chain Meals Joe Satran Fast Food Dessert Fast Food Burger King Dessert Dessert Desserts The Cheesecake Factory's Ultimate Red Velvet Cake Cheesecake 1,540 calories 59 grams of saturated fat	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1761
__label__wiki	0.748137	0.748137	HUFFPOST HILL - GOP Primary Field Now Literally Field-Sized Rick Perry is running for president again, because if at first you don't succeed, try, try... um, what’s the third one there? Let’s see...um, um. I can't name the third one. I can't. Sorry, oops. Lincoln Chafee thinks the U.S. should adopt the metric system -- FINALLY, someone is discussing the 226.786 kilogram elephant in the room. And Hillary Clinton will unveil a proposal that all Americans be automatically registered to vote at 18 unless they opt not to. Plus the the proposal will create jobs by employing thousands of New Black Panther members to intimidate young Republicans from registering. This is HUFFPOST HILL for Thursday, June 4th, 2015: NEW SNOWDEN DOCUMENTS DISCLOSED - Nice little USA Freedom Act palate-cleanser for ya. Pro Publica & Times: "Without public notice or debate, the Obama administration has expanded the National Security Agency's warrantless surveillance of Americans' international Internet traffic to search for evidence of malicious computer hacking, according to classified NSA documents. In mid-2012, Justice Department lawyers wrote two secret memos permitting the spy agency to begin hunting on Internet cables, without a warrant and on American soil, for data linked to computer intrusions originating abroad -- including traffic that flows to suspicious Internet addresses or contains malware, the documents show. The Justice Department allowed the agency to monitor only addresses and 'cybersignatures' -- patterns associated with computer intrusions -- that it could tie to foreign governments. But the documents also note that the NSA sought to target hackers even when it could not establish any links to foreign powers. The disclosures, based on documents provided by Edward J. Snowden, the former NSA contractor, and shared with the New York Times and ProPublica, come at a time of unprecedented cyberattacks on American financial institutions, businesses and government agencies, but also of greater scrutiny of secret legal justifications for broader government surveillance." [NYT & ProPublica] CLINTON TO PUSH FOR UNIVERSAL & AUTOMATIC VOTER REGISTRATION - Hopefully she'll pose herself probing questions about this during her self-interview. Jennifer Epstein: "Hillary Clinton wants all Americans to be automatically registered to vote upon turning 18 unless they take active steps not to register, she will say Thursday in a speech on voting rights in Houston. Clinton will also call for broader modernization of the voter registration system aimed at making it easier for Americans to register and stay on the rolls as they move or make other life changes. Those proposals, and others she will put forward Thursday at Texas Southern University—including a pitch to encourage all 50 states to allow at least 20 days of early voting—are squarely aimed at helping secure the franchise for the people most likely to encounter obstacles at the polls: the young, minorities and senior citizens." [Bloomberg] John McCain is tired of the NFL draping itself in the flag for money. TODAY IN 2016 TEDIUM: "Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush will run for president in 2016, according to several senior aides, who confirmed Thursday that the Republican would formally announce his widely expected decision in Miami later this month." [Associated Press] Haircut: Dave Jamieson (h/t Elise Foley: "It looks the same but shorter.") DAILY DELANEY DOWNER - From my food stamps inbox: "I am 72 years old and receive $93 worth of food stamps. My earnings are $763 a month. I have worked all of my life, raised three boys with no welfare or child support. I have always had a good job that paid half what a man made. No retirement, no health insurance, So, when I finally retired, my social security is half what a man gets. I do get hungry a lot. I never buy lobster, shrimp, beer or go on Caribbean cruises." Does somebody keep forwarding you this newsletter? Get your own copy. It's free! Sign up here. Send tips/stories/photos/events/fundraisers/job movement/juicy miscellanea to huffposthill@huffingtonpost.com. Follow us on Twitter - @HuffPostHill RICK PERRY JUMPS IN PRESIDENTIAL RACE… AGAIN - Rick Jervis and Catalina Camia: "Former governor Rick Perry officially kicked off his second bid for the White House on Thursday with a blistering critique of the Obama years and a campaign pitch that touted his record in Texas. 'We have the power to make things new again, to project America's strength again, and to get our economy going again. And that is exactly why today I am running for the presidency of the United States of America,' Perry told supporters at the kickoff of his campaign. Perry announced his candidacy in front of a C-130 prop plane in an oversized hanger at the Addison Airport in this Dallas suburb. The aircraft, emblazoned with the "Perry for President" logo, is similar to those he flew while serving as a captain in the U.S. Air Force. Guests at the announcement included American Sniper widow Taya Kyle and retired U.S. Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell, author of Lone Survivor." [USA Today] Rick Perry took the stage at his presidential announcement to a rap song, further evidence of the depraved culture of presidential candidates. My God they pay you so much LINCOLN CHAFEE READY TO TAKE DOWN GEORGE PATAKI - A Lincoln Chafee / Bernie Sanders-only debate where both are asked to program a multi-purpose remote on stage. Ben Kamisar: "Former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee officially jumped into the race for the Democratic presidential nomination on Wednesday, launching an uphill battle against Hillary Clinton and better-known Democratic rivals. 'I enjoy challenges, and certainly we have many facing America,' Chafee said at a speech at George Mason University in Arlington, Va...Chafee's broad announcement speech ticked through a number of positions, including ending "extra-judicial assassinations" by drones, halting the death penalty, and changing America over to the metric system. 'Earlier I said, 'Let’s be bold,'' Chafee said. 'Here’s a bold embrace of internationalism: let’s join the rest of the world and go metric.' 'I happened to live in Canada as they completed the process. Believe me it is easy,' Chafee said. 'It doesn’t take long before 34 degrees is hot. Only Myanmar, Liberia and the United States aren’t metric and it will help our economy.' " [The Hill] LAWMAKER LUVS TRANSFATZ - You literally couldn't come up with a better name for a person who flagrantly defends America's nutritional status quo than "John Shimkus." Mike McAuliff: "More than two-thirds of American adults may be obese or overweight, but one of those adults, a congressman from Illinois, still decided Thursday to mock new federal standards that will require fast-food chains to list calorie counts. 'I don't think I've ever in my life read a menu label,' said Rep. John Shimkus (R-Ill.) at an Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on a bill that would roll back some of those labeling requirements for pizza chains, supermarkets and convenience stores. 'I don't think I've ever looked for calorie numbers on anything I've consumed. And I betcha I'm in the majority of Americans,' Shimkus said. 'This is the perfect example of nanny state, of a national government telling individual citizens and saying what is best for them.'" [HuffPost] Mike Elk is the millennial Tammy Haddad: "Gawker’s unionization has reinvigorated Politico Pro labor reporter Mike Elk’s effort to organize his workplace. He sent an email to the entire staff Thursday morning commemorating the 'historic victory.' ... Elk’s plea for solidarity came a day after he emailed the staff listserv about his birthday party and its importance in the fight against gentrification and 'booty' liberation... 'This party is about finally getting that hot tinder date & blowing them off because you suspect they might be a yuppie … This party is about nobody going home alone because this is my birthday party and everybody gets laid!'" [Free Beacon] CHRIS HUGHES IS NOT THE WORST! - The Facebook co-founder and New Republic owner is doing some PR repair: "Even before [Yahoo's Guy Vidra replaced Frank Foer], word was circulating in media circles that Hughes was looking to hire a new C.E.O. who would shake things up, specifically by hiring a new editor to replace Foer. 'In bringing Guy in, we were making a pivot … to new kinds of digital storytelling,' Hughes told me. 'And that was not Frank’s strong suit. And he specifically said that to me.' When I told him that the departed staffers I spoke to told me they were not afraid of change and were willing to write for the Web, he cut me off. 'Stop right there--that’s the problem…. Anyone who said that, that really means: I really want to write for print, but if the Web editor is annoying enough, then I’ll fire off a blog post once a week. That can’t be our starting point.'" [Vanity Fair] Wait, maybe Chris Hughes is the worst! "Chris Hughes, the publisher of The New Republic, and his husband, Sean Eldridge, will hold a fund-raiser for Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign, two people briefed on the invitation said. The event will be held on June 30 at the couple’s Lower Manhattan home, the people said." [NYT] Hiccup: Yesterday we attributed an item on a Hillary Clinton speech to Politico's Dylan Byers when it was actually Politico's Hadas Gold on the byline. Apologies. BECAUSE YOU'VE READ THIS FAR - Here are some baby ferrets. GOP BELTWAY TYPES GET DRUNK, CELEBRITY-SHAME HASBEENS - Pretty sure this is as close to "Eyes Wide Shut" that a Republican gets in Northern Virginia. Kate Glassman Bennett: "Who knew a chance meeting at a local holiday party would lead to the acquittal of a felony charge for a beloved, C-list, sitcom nerd? Evidently, that's just what happened the night Dustin Diamond, better known as Screech from 'Saved by the Bell,' attended the annual bash thrown by former Hill GOP spokesman Ron Bonjean and his wife, Sara, a Republican fundraiser and founder of Rose Strategies. Some back story first: At raucous Christmas parties hosted in their Alexandria, Virginia, home, the Bonjeans have delighted friends for the past five years with a surprise has-been celebrity guest such as Gary Busey, Erik Estrada, George Wendt and Dennis Haskins (aka Mr. Belding, also of SBTB fame). The guest is always picked up at the airport and driven to the Bonjean house by Doug Heye, a communications guru and frequent television talking head, who happily accepts the role of chauffeur each year." [Politico] - A supercut ofanalog control panels in movies. Props to the Death Star for being able to destroy planets but having the interface of a 1950s AM radio studio. - A history of the disco ball. - Why Starbucks is taking the cappuccino off its menu. TWITTERAMA @rainnwilson: Yeeeaah, who's on Google Plus, y'all!? Time to haaang! Time to Plus it up, homies! G+++ (*paid tweet) @SimonMaloy: ACORN, I'm told RT @elisefoley Is there any compelling reason not to have automatic voter registration? @connorobrienNH: At the Senate carriage entrance, Tom Carper tells Capitol Police who he's escorting. "This is the Postmaster General...I can vouch for her." Got something to add? Send tips/quotes/stories/photos/events/fundraisers/job movement/juicy miscellanea to Eliot Nelson (eliot@huffingtonpost.com) or Arthur Delaney (arthur@huffingtonpost.com). Follow us on Twitter @HuffPostHill (twitter.com/HuffPostHill). Sign up here: http://huff.to/an2k2e Politics HuffPost Hill	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1762
__label__wiki	0.832008	0.832008	Nick Gordon Shares Details Of Bobbi Kristina’s Death For The First Time 04/26/2016 11:37 am ET Updated Apr 26, 2016 Dr. Phil Show For the first time since Bobbi Kristina Brown’s tragic death in 2015, Nick Gordon, her former boyfriend, reveals details about his private life with her and her mother, Whitney Houston, including claims that Bobbi Kristina had a drug problem. “Photos surfaced of Krissy smoking out of a bong and snorting cocaine on the Internet in 2011. Did she have a drug problem?” Dr. Phil asks Gordon in an exclusive two-part interview airing Thursday and Friday. “Yeah,” Gordon replies, adding that he saw Bobbi Kristina do drugs in social settings while her mother was alive, and that he smoked with her, but claims that Bobbi Kristina’s drug use worsened after her mother’s death. “It’s unfortunate, but at the time, that’s kind of the only way we knew how to deal with what had happened.” Gordon, who Bobbi Kristina often referred to as her husband even though they were not legally married, was one of the last people with her the night before she was found clinging to life in her bathtub in January 2015. “How does that happen to one person and then happen the second time? It was just so similar. All the sirens and all that stuff. It was horrible,” Gordon says, of seeing Bobbi Kristina unresponsive in her bathtub just like he saw her mother a few years earlier. A few months after the traumatic event, Gordon sat down with Dr. Phil in what turned into an emotional, unpredictable intervention that made national headlines and ended with Gordon going to rehab. “Rehab was something I needed and I’m thankful that I got that opportunity,” Gordon tells Dr. Phil in his latest interview. The 25-year-old admits he was drinking and taking Xanax to cope, at the time of their first interview. “I was drinking so much at the time because I could not deal with what was happening to Krissy. It mentally broke me. That’s the lowest point in my life right there.” Bobbi Kristina died on July 26, 2015 at the age of 22, and her conservator has filed a $10 million dollar civil lawsuit against Gordon, claiming he is responsible for her death. Now, Dr. Phil gives Gordon a chance to set the record straight about his former life with Whitney and Bobbi Kristina. “Regardless of what everybody thinks, I made Krissy and Whitney’s last few years on earth as happy as they would be,” Gordon tells Dr. Phil. “I gave them somebody to trust, to talk to, to be there, someone genuine.” On Thursday’s episode of Dr. Phil, Gordon tells his story about the night Whitney died and how Bobbi Kristina reacted when he told her that her mother was dead. And, on Friday, he answers questions about Bobbi Kristina’s final moments the night before she went into a coma, and addresses accusations that he murdered her. Check here to see where you can watch. Need Dr. Phil's help in your life? Share your story here. Like Dr. Phil on Facebook \| Follow Dr. Phil on Twitter\| Be on the Show Donald Trump’s ‘Cartoonishly Evil’ Allies Mocked In Jim Carrey’s New Rudy Giuliani Art Stephen Colbert Comes Up With A Way To Give Donald Trump The 'Major Send-Off' He Wants Jimmy Fallon Imagines The Letters The Trumps Could Leave For The Bidens New Documentary Series Zooms Into Transgender Lives In The Trump Era In Pictures: Whitney Houston's Daughter Bobbi Kristina Whitney Houston Dr. Phil Dr. Phil Show Dr. Phil In The News Crime News In Pictures: Whitney Houston's Daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0011.json.gz/line1763
__label__cc	0.502266	0.497734	Home > Store Share on twitter Share on facebook Share on email✉ QoS Lesson 8: Low Latency Queuing (LLQ), Downloadable Version By Kevin Wallace Published Feb 17, 2012 by Pearson IT Certification. Accessible from your Account page after purchase. Requires the free QuickTime Player software. Videos can be viewed on: Windows 8, Windows XP, Vista, 7, and all versions of Macintosh OS X including the iPad, and other platforms that support the industry standard h.264 video codec. Add to cart Additional sample videos, individual lessons and other formats are available here. Register your product to gain access to bonus material or receive a coupon. ISBN-10: 0-13-306909-5 ISBN-13: 978-0-13-306909-9 Low Latency Queuing (LLQ) is a queuing mechanisms and is an extension of CB-WFQ. 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