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__label__wiki	0.850538	0.850538	FTT Wonders: Who Really Aired the First Asianovela in the Philippines? Tag Archives: CESAFI basketball tournament entertainment, Latin America, Philippines, Sports Rio Olympics on TV5: A Review August 23, 2016 ralphierce2016 PBA Governors' Cup, 2016 Rio Olympics, 2016 Rio Olympics Sports5, 2016 Rio Olympics TV5, 2016 Summer Olympics, 2016 Summer Olympics Sports5, 2016 Summer Olympics TV5, 2020 Summer Olympics, 2020 Tokyo Olympics, AksyonTV, AksyonTV concerns, AksyonTV criticisms, AksyonTV home shopping programs, AksyonTV issues, AksyonTV problems, AksyonTV programs, AksyonTV sports coverage, AksyonTV sports events, CESAFI basketball tournament, CESAFI on AksyonTV, Cignal, Cignal Digital TV, Cignal HD, Cignal TV, Olympics on Sports5, Olympics on TV5, Olympics TV rights in the Philippines, PBA D-League, PBA D-League on AksyonTV, PBA D-League playoffs, PBA on Sports5, PBA on TV5, Philippine Olympic Committee, Philippine Olympic TV rights, Philippine Super Liga, PLDT, PSL finals, PSL on AksyonTV, PSL on Sports5, PSL on TV5, Relasyon, Relasyon AksyonTV, Rio Olympics Sports5, Rio Olympics TV5, Smart Telecommunications, Sports5, Sports5 concerns, Sports5 issues, Sports5 problems, Summer Olympics, TV5, TV5 concerns, TV5 criticisms, TV5 home shopping programs, TV5 issues, TV5 problems, TV5 programming changes, TV5 programming issues, TV5 programming lineup changes, TV5 programming lineup issues, TV5 programming problems, TV5 programs, Wanted sa Radyo, Wanted sa Radyo AksyonTV 35 Comments TV5’s coverage of the Rio Olympics was not a good one, as their free TV outlets failed to commit themselves to full-blown coverage. (Logos courtesy of the MVP Group and the International Olympic Committee) The Olympic season has come to an end. The 2016 Rio Summer Olympics officially concluded yesterday with a colorful closing ceremony, followed by the turn-over of hosting rights to Tokyo, Japan. The close of the event capped off two weeks of unforgettable moments and problematic issues that tested Rio’s resolve and courage. This year’s broadcast of the Rio Olympics was solely handled by TV5, and much like the games itself, it endured a lot of difficulties. Many expected TV5 to fill in most of their hours with Olympic coverage, yet they failed to do so. Much of the blame is centered around their continued airing of TV shopping blocks, Tagalized movies and other entertainment programming during the two-week Olympic period (this does not include the PBA Governors’ Cup). TV5 should have preempted them just for the Olympics, but it never happened despite their best efforts. Even sister station AksyonTV had its own share of issues, but to a lesser extent. While the Olympics were ongoing, they still showed the Philippine Super Liga finals, the PBA D-League playoffs, and the opening of the CESAFI basketball tournament, all of which were the network’s priorities. However, during vacant hours, AksyonTV still showed a TV shopping block, ‘Relasyon’ and ‘Wanted sa Radyo’. They should have preempted them for Olympic highlights. One thing in common about TV5’s free TV Olympic coverage was their inability to re-air events that were aired live in the wee hours of the morning. Rio’s time is similar to that of New York, and TV5’s failure to take account of the time difference and the lack of TV audience during that period proved to be their doom. There were some positives in the network’s Olympic coverage, however. TV5, along with sister companies Cignal, PLDT and Smart, collaborated for a multi-platform broadcast that involved satellite and internet subscription. Despite that, the free TV coverage of the Olympics remains important. Considering that not all people subscribe to Cignal, PLDT and Smart, TV5 should have prioritized their free TV platforms to benefit their competitors. Overall, it was an F grade for TV5’s Olympic coverage this year. Their coverage was doomed from the start, and their poor planning effort was not what the viewers wanted to see from the so-called ‘Olympic Network’. So where will the Olympic coverage in the Philippines go from here? The lack of suitable options will be biggest issue for the Philippine Olympic Committee, since a variety of issues hound all of the country’s free TV networks. Regardless, the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics is still four years away. That said, the POC will need to think about their options very well, and for the networks, good luck in trying to snatch the rights to the 2020 Games. As for TV5, it was an opportunity that blew right before their very eyes. Now they should look forward for the long-awaited rebuilding process, one that should put them back on track.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line808
__label__cc	0.596716	0.403284	AVOCADO & MANGO ‘Premium Excellence’ juices and hummus At Fruit Attraction, Frutas Los Cursos is introducing three new products and a new top-range brand Frutas Los Cursos has leaped in feet first to the world of pre-prepared and pre-cooked ranges with a new production factory that has just started operating this month and in which it has invested a million euros. It took its first commercial steps just a year ago, with the first 100% custard apple juice, mango juice and pulp and diced fruit, and now it is extending its offer with three new launches: custard apple juice with green tea and mint; mango with red tea and ginger and avocado hummus. All of them exclusively prepared using 100% natural produce, nationally grown and without using pasteurisation. At the moment, they can be found in national and international supermarkets and in the Horeca channel and they will be on display on the company’s stand at Fruit Attraction (9C04C). But this is not the only new development on show in Madrid. “We are going to introduce a new brand, Premium Excellence Fresh Quality, which is added to the ones we already have: Frutas Los Cursos, Soan, Exquissita, and the most recent one, Premium,” advances the company’s Sales Manager, Victor Rodríguez. The new brand arises from a need for differentiation. “There already are many companies in the sector that offer tropical fruit and we are looking to stand out from the crowd in terms of quality.” Another of the lines that they are also developing, in this case in fresh produce, is that of ecological tropical fruit. This year its volume will shoot up by 40% due to the fact that farms that were being converted are now producing. Therefore, they are strengthening their services with their clients, with mangos and avocados available 12 months of the year and custard apple for 11 months. “When the national campaign comes to a close, we bring in ‘atemoya’ from Brazil, ‘Cumber’ from Peru and ‘Cherimóia’ from Brazil,” Rodríguez states. Looking towards the more immediate future, they are carrying out trials with several different exotic fruits. They have already introduced papayas; in 2019, they will add guavas and they will then continue with other references. At Frutas Los Cursos they are clear on this point. “Consumers want to try other flavours and we are going to provide them.”	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line809
__label__wiki	0.750411	0.750411	Michigan Wolverine Football History Facts, Figures & Stories BigBlueToday contact@gobluefootballhistory.com Copyright 2018. GoBlue Football History Go Blue Michigan Football \| Go Blue Michigan Football History \| M Go Blue Football \| M Go Blue Football History \| Michigan Wolverine Football History September 22, 2020 Happy Birthday Denard Robinson Posted on September 21, 2020 by Barry Gallagher Today’s post celebrates the thirty-first birthday of #16 Denard Robinson − one of the most exciting players to ever wear the winged helmet. Michigan fans were not happy with the coaching tenure of Rich Rodriguez, but he did recruit “Mr. Robinson” to play football in Ann Arbor. So give the man a little bit of credit! Most schools recruited Denard to play defensive back, but Rodriguez recruited him to play quarterback and It turned out to be a very good thing for Wolverine football history! (Note-Denard Robinson (#16) is shown above with the 2011 Michigan Football team. He is seated in the middle of the third row. Photo courtesy of the Bentley Historical Library at The University of Michigan.) Part I. Wolverine of the Day: Denard Robinson An Impact Player – From the Very First Time He Touched the Football vs Western Michigan in 2009 Denard brought his big smile, a great nickname (Shoelace) and a ton of talent from Deerfield Beach, Florida to Ann Arbor. Like many Floridians before him, the mystique of playing for Michigan in the Big House was a big attraction, even though it gets cold in Ann Arbor in November. Shoelace started bringing Wolverine fans to their feet on his first play when he turned a fumbled snap into a touchdown against Western Michigan in 2009. He saw a lot of playing time that season as he backed up Tate Forcier. A Record Setting Season in 2010 By the time the 2010 season rolled around, Denard was Michigan’s starting quarterback. Mr. Robinson had a ton of “Heisman” moments that season. Unfortunately, the defense had trouble defending their opponents so every game demanded that Denard and the offense put up some big numbers. The offense was also pretty predictable so Denard was a marked man on almost every play. Despite it all, he was able to put up some stunning numbers and led his team to the only winning season (7-6) in the Rich Rodriguez Era. Of course, it wasn’t enough and Rodriguez was fired after a blowout loss to Mississippi State in the 2011 Gator Bowl. Shoelace earned a ton of awards in 2010 for his stellar play: All-Big Ten, All-American, UM team MVP and Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year. Injuries and the Al Borgess Offense Slowed Down Denard in 2011 and 2012 Denard Robinson’s last two seasons were the first two years of the Brady Hoke Era. Shoelace continued to play his heart out for Michigan, but he didn’t quite fit into Brady’s Pro-Style Offense. He did lead his team to an outstanding record of 11 wins and 2 losses in 2011 and helped make Brady Hoke look like a turnaround genius in his first year. After getting routed by Alabama in the season opener in 2012, Denard had mostly good games winning five of the next six. The beginning of the end for Denard came in the first half of the Nebraska game when he was injured on a short run. Unfortunately, he was never the same and could not return to his “jaw dropping” play that marked most of his career. A Closer Look at Denard’s Numbers As always, Michigan Quarterbacks are judged by two things: 1) How many Big Ten Titles did you win? 2) How many games did you help Michigan win on your watch? With those two questions in mind, here is a quick look at Denard “Shoelace” Robinson’s “important numbers.” Year Starts Overall Conference Big Ten Finish Remarks 2010 13 7-6 3-5 7th (Tie) All-Big Ten, All-American, Team/BIG MVP 2011 13 11-2 6-2 2nd (Legends) Team MVP 2012 8 5-3 3-1 2nd (Legends) Team Co-Captain w/Jordan Kovacs Totals 34 23-11 12-8 0 Big Ten Titles Denard’s “team” numbers were not as good as he would have liked. But, think how bad things would have been if not for Denard? His individual numbers were stunning and he still holds many, many Michigan football records. The good news is that he did everything his coaches asked him to do and played as hard as he could when he was on the field. There are a ton of Denard Robinson highlight videos on You Tube. You could spend hours watching Denard do his amazing Michigan football “thing.” I only included one link to what is my “favorite” Denard Robinson moment. This is the eighty-seven-yard run – the longest run in the history of Notre Dame Stadium – that Denard made to seal the deal on September 11, 2010. The coolest thing about this run is that the yardage on this run was the same as the number that Michigan Legend Ron Kramer wore. It was also the day that Ron Kramer died. This play links two great Michigan players forever! Go Blue! Happy Birthday Denard “Shoelace” Robinson! Thanks for all the great memories and the wonderful way you played the game! Thanks to the Michigan Athletic Department for this great video. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denard_Robinson Part II. September 22, 2020 National Day Calendar Update: National Online Recovery Day * American Business Women’s Day Dear Diary Day National Centenarian’s Day National Girls’ Night National Ice Cream Cone Day National Legwear Day National White Chocolate Day National Voter Registration Day – Fourth Tuesday in September Autumnal Equinox – Changes Annually September 22, 2020 The Legend of Bo Schembechler The Legend of Bo Schembechler is a football love story. Millions of Michigan football fans loved Bo Schembechler almost as much as he loved The University of Michigan. This insightful book details how “Bo Who” simply became “Bo” to Wolverine Nation and to college football fans across the country and around the world. It details Bo’s twenty-one-year journey to bring Michigan Football back to national prominence and how he kept it there! Click below to order your copy! Follow @GoBlue365 Site Protocols Copyright 2018. 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__label__wiki	0.716223	0.716223	Revealed: Winners of the ‘Oscars of watches’ WhatsApp extends ‘confusing’ update deadline Facebook, Twitter and YouTube take action on Trump’s posts amid riots at the US Capitol Written by Georgia McCafferty, CNN The winners of this year's "Oscars of watchmaking" have been chosen, with a wide range of time pieces recognized for their engineering perfection and eye-catching design. An industry jury chose the world's best watches in fifteen different categories including sports, jewellery and travel time watch, with the awards presented by the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève (GPHG) in Geneva earlier this month. The grand prize for the world's best watch, the Aiguille d'Or Grand Prix, was awarded to the Chronomètre Ferdinand Berthoud FB 1 from Ferdinand Berthoud. This limited-edition white gold and titanium time piece, which retails for more than $200,000, has a leather strap and is powered by a hand-wound movement comprised of more than 1,120 components. The Public Prize, chosen by votes submitted internationally online and at select international watch exhibitions, was awarded to the 33 bis Quai des Bergues by Czapek Genève. The winning watches were shown in Seoul, Rome and Geneva before they arrived in Dubai on November 15 for their final hurrah at Dubai Watch Week. Watches from Audemars Piguet, Montblanc, MB&F, Piaget, TAG Heuer and Tudor brands, along with Chanel, Eberhard & Co, Fabergé and Grönefeld, were also honored by this year's 27-person international jury. Check out the gallery above to see the full list of this years winners. Driverless ‘Roborace’ car makes street track debut Gamers refuse to buy EA’s Battlefront II on Black Friday out of protest ECDC recommends countries reinstate some restrictions to deal with new coronavirus spike How Marie Newman toppled one of the last anti-abortion Democrats in the House Man awarded £80m over cancer-causing weed killer Wife of tragic boxer Dadashev reveals her ‘warrior’ husband ‘suffered stroke’ during fatal fight	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line820
__label__cc	0.665419	0.334581	Posts Tagged ‘ecofeminism’ Christmas Eve Eve Links Links * There’s a lovely review of my Butler book by Nisi Shawl in the new Women’s Review of Books. It’s not available online so you’ll have to take my word for it, unless your library subscribes… * And I’m so happy to report that Extrapolation 58.2-3 is finally out, the special issue on “Guilty Pleasures: Late Capitalism and Mere Genre” I edited with Benjamin Robertson. Check out the intro to see what it’s all about, and then check out articles on Dragonlance, the Star Wars and Star Trek expanded universes, Sweet Valley High, Blondie, The Hunger Games, and Game of Thrones and fantasy roleplaying games… * CFP: Academic Track at the 76th World Science Fiction Convention, San José, California. CFP: Punking Speculative Fiction. CFP: Histories of the Future: Proto-Science Fiction from the Victorian Era to the Radium Age. CFP: Chapter Proposals for “Ecofeminist Science Fiction.” CFP: Neukom Institute Literary Arts Awards. * An Incomplete Timeline of What We Tried. * I thought this was great. I wrote a very short story pic.twitter.com/hSO2nPtxq1 — Jason Ritter (@JasonRitter) December 23, 2017 * Consider: Who pursues their goals with monomaniacal focus, oblivious to the possibility of negative consequences? Who adopts a scorched-earth approach to increasing market share? This hypothetical strawberry-picking AI does what every tech startup wishes it could do — grows at an exponential rate and destroys its competitors until it’s achieved an absolute monopoly. The idea of superintelligence is such a poorly defined notion that one could envision it taking almost any form with equal justification: a benevolent genie that solves all the world’s problems, or a mathematician that spends all its time proving theorems so abstract that humans can’t even understand them. But when Silicon Valley tries to imagine superintelligence, what it comes up with is no-holds-barred capitalism. Ladies and gentlemen, the great Ted Chiang. * Science fiction when the future is now. With appearances from Kim Stanley Robinson, Ken Liu, and Lauren Beukes. * The best anti-Last-Jedi piece I’ve seen is Alyssa Rosenberg’s at the Washington Post. And the best pro-Last-Jedi piece from Dan Hassler-Forest at LARB. Somewhere in the middle is Abigail Nussbuam’s excellent piece at Asking the Wrong Questions. * Lightsabers, by the numbers. Secret history of the porgs. Star Wars from below. Thank goodness somebody realized how terrible this would be. The Last Jedi and the necessary disappointment of epilogues. The films that inspired The Last Jedi. Behind the scenes. In defense of Canto Blight. Anti-nostalgia and anti-salvation. Star Wars without the Empire. How to Read Star Wars. * Winter Is Coming: Climate Change in Westeros. * How the Sesame Street Puppeteers Play Their Characters. It was only a year or three ago that I realized that on a basic level I’d still believed Big Bird was real; I had never thought or processed the fact that his lips were being moved by a puppeteer’s hands. * So old I can remember when Sweet Briar was an inspiring story about a college being saved. * On faculty and mental illness. * Study finds humanities and social science Ph.D.s working outside academe are happier than their tenure-track peers. * Podcast alert: how does Samuel R. Delany work? * Bang. Pow. To the Moon. * Comedy writers name their most influential episodes: 1, 2. * SHOCK REPORT: The tax bill is bad. * This Congress’s clear priorities: corporations, not children. * It’ll also tax large endowments. Meanwhile in the academy: We Will Not Be Your Disposable Labor: Graduate Student Workers’ Fight Goes Beyond the GOP Assault. ‘A Complete Culture of Sexualization’: 1,600 Stories of Harassment in Higher Ed. * Defund every agency that had any part in this. Murder Convictions Overturned, Two Men Are Immediately Seized By ICE. What happens to children whose parents are deported? 92 Somali immigrants deported in “slave-ship” conditions. ICE is abusing immigrant detainees with strip searches and threats. Shock of shocks, it turns out legal immigration is bad too. * The majority of US workers live in “employment monopsonies” where there is little or no competition for workers. * Why Doug Jones’s narrow win is not enough to make me confident about American democracy. Unofficial results, but #ALSen by Congressional District. Left is 2016, right is 2017. Doug Jones turned HRC's 28% loss into a 1.5% win while only carrying #AL07. Suburban #AL06 has the biggest swing to Jones (he improved 40% from Clinton). pic.twitter.com/ZUi550C4XN — J. Miles Coleman (@JMilesColeman) December 13, 2017 * Ghosts of 2012. * First #J20 defendants found not guilty. * The media wealth of African Americans in Boston is $8. * People are using Uber instead of ambulances. * The New York Times oddly reports on a Harry Reid boondoggle in a way that makes it sounds like aliens might be real. * The Fred Moten century. * The Adult Bodies Playing Teens on TV. * Monopolies are bad, no matter how much you like the brands involved. Avengers vs. monopoly. * “Neoliberalism” isn’t an empty epithet. It’s a real, powerful set of ideas. * The madness of prison gerrymanders. * Desegregation never happened. * Climate refugees in Louisiana. Disability and disaster response in the age of climate change. Losing the wilderness. * The FoxConn boondoggle gets worse and worse. * The Next Crisis for Puerto Rico: Foreclosures. * Revising agricultural revisionism. * Against optimism. * Against being born. * On the sadcom. * Your Favorite Superhero Is Probably Killing the Planet. * Professor X Is a Jerk! * The Daily Stormer’s style guide. * Opoids and homelessness. 3,000,000 pills to 3,000 patients in two years. The Opioid Crisis Is Getting Worse, Particularly for Black Americans. What happens after an American city gives a homeless person a one-way ticket out of town. * The US gymnastics scandal somehow gets worse and worse. * ‘The World’s Biggest Terrorist Has a Pikachu Bedspread.’ * The Forgotten Life of Einstein’s First Wife. * The Ghost Economy. * WHAT YEAR IS IT: How to prepare for a nuclear attack. * Lumberjanes’ Noelle Stevenson is Rebooting She-Ra for Netflix. Sir Ian McKellen Would Totally Play Gandalf In Amazon’s TV Tolkien Adaptations. The Next Bechdel Test. * “Paradox,” by Naomi Kritzer. * The Journal of Prince Studies. * 80% of workers think managers are unnecessary. The other 20% mistakingly think they are managers. * It’s not a perfect system, but it’s the one our Founders built: The Donald Trump droid is live at Disney World’s Hall of Presidents. * ‘Trump, Trump, Trump!’ How a President’s Name Became a Racial Jeer. 55 Ways Donald Trump Structurally Changed America in 2017. Fascism has already come to America. Life expectancy declines for the second straight year. On brand. * Heartbreaking interview with Heather Heyer’s mother. * Jordan Peele, auteur. * Dilbert: A Reckoning. * Still, it does make you ponder all the ways this industry works in service of power, and by extension those who abuse it. So many of comedy’s institutions are, at their core, PR machines. Branded content is Funny Or Die’s bread and butter. Every week SNL promotes someone’s new movie or TV show or album. Late night talk shows, with few exceptions, use jokes to bookend celebrity press tours. Comedians host awards shows because otherwise we might see them for the rituals they are—the wealthy and famous celebrating their own wealth and fame. Comedy normalizes power; it’s so successful at normalizing power that it feels weird to even write that as a criticism. Well, what’s wrong with normalizing power? Lots of things, but to start it lets monsters play the straight man in comedy sketches. It makes them relatable, which makes them less threatening. But power is always a threat, even more so when it seems innocuous, even more so when it seems… funny. * 2018 is already terrible: there’ll be no more Zelda DLC. * And remembering the reason for the season: Behold the official policy for destroying the head of Chuck E Cheese. 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__label__wiki	0.509519	0.509519	Amazon Publishing promises authors faster royalty payments Laura Owen Mar 18, 2013 - 7:28 PM CDT Amazon Publishing said in a letter to literary agents Monday that it will start paying its authors royalties on a monthly basis, up from every three months. “In this digital age, we don’t see why authors should have to wait six months to be paid,” Amazon’s VP of publishing Jeff Belle wrote in the letter. “Beginning with our March payment cycle, we will move to paying our authors on a monthly basis. More specifically: each month’s royalties will be released within 60 days of the end of that month, every month. For example, royalties for sales in January will be released by March 31, royalties for sales in February will be released by April 30, etc.” Most publishing houses pay royalties twice a year. Authors who self-publish through Amazon’s KDP and Createspace lready receive monthly royalties. Belle also wrote that “Based on sales in February, Amazon Publishing now ranks as the 5th largest publisher on the U.S. Kindle platform (excluding free downloads but including KOLL loans, for which we pay authors).” Full letter: The team at Amazon Publishing has been working to continually improve our business, with the goal of turning efficiencies into higher author royalties, faster payments and even more support for the books we publish. Building a new business can take time and patience, and the feedback and encouragement we’ve received along the way from you has been invaluable in making us better. We’re particularly excited to tell you about upcoming changes to the way we pay royalties. In this digital age, we don’t see why authors should have to wait six months to be paid. Beginning with our March payment cycle, we will move to paying our authors on a monthly basis. More specifically: each month’s royalties will be released within 60 days of the end of that month, every month. For example, royalties for sales in January will be released by March 31, royalties for sales in February will be released by April 30, etc. We recognize this may create a little extra paperwork in some cases, but we feel this change is in the best interests of authors — we hope you’ll agree. As with any such change in our business, our tireless Author Relations team is standing by to answer any questions you may have on this topic. In other news, 2013 is off to a strong start. Based on sales in February, Amazon Publishing now ranks as the 5th largest publisher on the US Kindle platform (excluding free downloads but including KOLL loans, for which we pay authors). The latest book to reach the 100,000 copy threshold is 47North’s THE MONGOLIAD: BOOK ONE, the first installment in the epic Foreworld saga, written by Neal Stephenson, Greg Bear, Erik Bear, Joseph Brassey, Mark Teppo, Nicole Galland and Cooper Moo, which surpassed 100,000 copies in February. Similarly, CRAZY LITTLE THING by Montlake author Tracy Brogan continues up the Kindle charts, also surpassing 100,000 copies in the last week of February. Another Montlake bestseller, NOT QUITE DATING by Catherine Bybee exceeded the 100,000 copy milestone just last week as well. Also of note is Christina McKenna’s “wittily and winningly-detailed” debut novel THE MISREMEMBERED MAN, which we acquired from Toby Press and re-published under AmazonEncore in 2010, re-entered the Kindle Top 10 in February on the strength of our backlist promotion, and is now on the verge of the 100,000 copy mark as a result. Our AmazonCrossing imprint has also been on a roll lately. In January, THE BEGGAR KING by Oliver Pötzsch, the third installment in the bestselling Hangman’s Daughter series, debuted in the Kindle Top 10 to outstanding reviews, and just today surpassed 100,000 copies. Translated from German by Lee Chadeayne, the Hangman’s Daughter series has been a breakout success, with over 800,000 copies sold to date (and occupying the top 4 slots in the US Kindle store, as of this writing). In February, we launched the latest in our series of translations from Icelandic with REPLY TO A LETTER FROM HELGA by Bergsveinn Birgisson, which garnered immediate praise as “a stunning work of art — resonant, earthy, heartbreaking”. Meanwhile, in the other direction, our translations from English into German continue to surpass our expectations as well. ABDUCTED by T.R. Ragan, itself a Kindle bestseller in the US and UK, was translated into German by AmazonCrossing as IM NETZ DES SPINNENMANNS in November, where it quickly reached #1 in our German Kindle store (combined English and German copies have already surpassed 100,000). In all, for the month of February, six AmazonCrossing titles reached the Kindle Top 10 in Germany. Meanwhile, Kindle Serials also continues to outperform our expectations. Since the release of the first episode in its serialization, OPTION TO KILL by Andrew Peterson has sold over 70,000 copies and is now available as a complete book in both Kindle and trade paperback. And we are excited to see PINES, Blake Crouch’s Kindle bestseller, which has been called a “genre-bending, completely riveting thrill ride” of a novel, going into development at Fox and FX, with the pilot to be directed by M. Night Shamalyan. We’re pleased with this strong growth overall, and in particular the results of our US and German translation publishing businesses, as well as Kindle Serials. And yet we are also quite aware of the many improvements and inventions that lie ahead —as always your feedback is welcome and appreciated. If you have any suggestions or questions about the new royalties process, or anything else about Amazon Publishing, please feel free to reach out to me directly. –Jeff Jeff Belle 10 Responses to “Amazon Publishing promises authors faster royalty payments” Rhonda May 17, 2013 But what will this cost me? I have a book on your site by Publish American Book Company and I will not be receiving any cash because sells are not profit enough. Thank you. Rhonda Gay Fox-Eads. My book is called…Little Abraham’s Fun Hanukkah. Larry Spates May 9, 2013 Thanks, I appreciate being able to read infomation on what is going on with Publishers, and what I can expect as and author. lornasaxbee May 7, 2013 I am currently in the process of publishing with Amazon but have discovered they don’t have facilities to PAY Australian Authors. Still trying to decipher the web of instructions from all and sundry I am lost but shocked that Amazon make it so hard to receive payment from them. Is this a global village? Is this 2013? The modern technical age? Sorry I am very disappointed to have to unravel this mess as are many others going by the forums I have stumbled across. Could you enlighten us Australians as to how we too could be paid so promptly? Beverly Swerling March 20, 2013 Careful folks. I’ve been trad published for years and I vehemently object to this 6 month wait while someone holds onto my money. BUT if Amazon is the only publisher… You do not need to have that disaster scenario spelled out. Publishers, and incidentally agents, are banding together so big can confront big. Speaking as one author, I think we have to support them. DrewJack March 22, 2013 A handful of publishers enjoyed something close to a monopoly since the success of Barnes and Noble. Instead of supporting ”big” vs. ”big” I’d much rather support up and coming publishers/content providers that are thinking about initiatives or fresh ideas that are on the forefront of discovering new talent and news to deliver talent to consumers. If I was to attach these qualities to which of these two ”bigs” closer represent this thinking and movement, I would say it’s Amazon. Certainly, Amazon has issues too, however, the big traditional publishers, Barnes and Noble, and the group of literary agents connected to this model have made a very good living from working with a relatively small number of authors that sell a lot of books. The fact that most traditional publishers weren’t the first to try to change this way of conducting business with authors, tells me they continue to have nothing fresh to offer and could care less about authors whose last names aren’t Grisham, King, Tan. or Rowling. Peter Turner March 19, 2013 This is definitely a bitch slap that publishers invited on themselves. Their payments to authors are notoriously slow and suspect, lacking clarity and transparency. Royalty payments should be as immediate as possible and accompanied by a statement that anyone can understand. If you want to be in partnership with authors, publishers need to treat them that way. Vincent March 19, 2013 Yet another reason why Amazon Publishing is the best publisher in the world right now. Paul Nelson March 19, 2013 The traditional publishers have traditionally taken — and continue to take — the lion’s share of a book’s royalties, effectively short-changing the person who did the lion’s share of the work: the author. To add insult to injury, the publisher delayed 6 months to a year before passing the hard-earned royalty on to the author. Meaning that the publisher was enjoying the interest accruing on money earned by another. Nice, eh? Now Amazon is changing all that, god bless ’em. Will the bricks-‘n’-mortar houses follow suit? I’m not holding my breath. David April 29, 2013 Yes it’s about time that authors start getting paid their royalties in a timely manner. Print on Demand will also herald an evolution in the business. Hopefully it will see more talented writers producing better books and cutting out the publishers who have been taking a huge slice for very little work or risk. ctfranklin28 March 18, 2013 Reblogged this on This College Dropout and commented: More Amazon news…. Going for the split 5 questions for… Auddly, targeting the source of music creation Jon Collins May 4, 2018 - 8:48 AM CDT Expertise and provenance Trust in media is collapsing. Is that such a bad thing? Jon Collins Jan 26, 2018 - 4:02 AM CST The Rise of Ad Fraud Will 2017 be the Armageddon for Online Ads? Frank J. 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__label__cc	0.744371	0.255629	Poker playbook May 24, 2007 in Footballguys Free For All I'd be interested in hearing about various plays people make that were +EV at the time. If you can think of something that gets you a caller, gets you a free card, gets your opponent to fold, loosens up the table, or otherwise accomplishes the goal you're hoping for, this is the thread. I'll start by posting a couple I've seen recently, or seen on this board, but please add in any if you can think of them. 1) The non isolation play. I think everyone knows about the isolation play. A short stack enters the pot. You want to play against him, but not against anyone else. You think you have him beat, but you don't have a monster hand. Instead of calling his bet, you raise big to isolate against him. But sometimes, you don't want to isolate. Sometimes your hand is strong enough that you're afraid the short stack will kill your action from other players. In those cases, you might want to invite a downstream player to try to knock you off the pot. For example, recently in a live tournament, a player to my right loses most of his chips. He shoves a couple hands later with junk, and doubles up, but is still short. A few plays later, he shoves again. I have pocket kings. I look around the table, notice a decent player in MP looking at his cards and then intently watching the action, and figure I can hook him. It's a talkative table, so I look at my cards, then look at the UTG player and say, did you have to push this hand? Then I go in the tank for a couple seconds, and reluctantly call. The player to my left sees this, and shoves, thinking I'm weak, and UTG could easily be on tilt. He had eights. If I had raised, I don't stack him. If I hadn't looked weak, he might just have called and folded when an overcard appeared. A loose player sat down at a NL ring game a few days ago. He's playing up his loose/dumb image to a T. He raises the pot to 5 BB from EP, and gets a caller from MP. A player in LP, who had just gotten bad beated on the previous hand, shoves his last 8 BB in the pot. Both blinds call the 8 BB. The loose player announces a raise. Everyone quickly informs him that he can't raise, because the 8 BB wasn't a full bet. The dealer confirms it. He asks for the floor. The floorman comes over, and quickly confirms it as well. So he calls. The middle position player tosses his hand, figuring he's up against a monster. Flop comes down rags. Everyone checks to him, and he checks behind. Turn is a 9. Check, check, bet, fold, fold. He flips over K9s. Everyone asked him why he wanted to raise so badly preflop. He said, I didn't. I just wanted y'all to think I did. He then scooped the pot and left the table. culdeus 7,215 culdeus Have good Interests:Bottom Explain this to me like I'm a donk. Nathan R. Jessep 5,675 Nathan R. Jessep That Hug Life Location:Louisiana - Bayou Country Interests:You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on that wall, you need me on that wall. you acted weak, and they still thought you were weak? I thought weak = strong and vice-versa...or is this just common knowledge for FBG only? DoubleG 78 DoubleG Location:Chicaco If someone shoves, but what they shove is not a valid bet (or in this case, a valid raise - i.e. 2x the last bet) it is not considered a raisable bet (it's like a call) PatsWillWin 669 PatsWillWin Location:Boston the fake-bet thing is pretty funny, but whoever mucked his hand for free because of it was an idiot. The fake string stopngo. This isn't the most ethical play, but it's powerful. I think most people know about the stopngo, which is a tournament move where you bet a little less than half your chips preflop, then shove the rest in on any flop. It's risky, but pretty effective at picking up a big pot, and is often preferable to a straight shove if you're at the point in the tournament where people are calling all-in raises with middling aces because they know that people are shoving with anything. Here's the twist: Late in a tournament, a player wants to steal the blinds. There's been a lot of stealing and restealing going on. The player has about 10 BB. He takes out 3 BB, puts them in front of the line, and then reaches back and grabs the rest and puts them in front of the line, too. Everyone instantly calls a string bet on him. He's forced to keep the raise out there. If anyone calls, he shoves on the flop. This is a pretty standard stopngo play - but what's powerful about it is that it gives the impression that you really wanted more chips in the pot preflop. It's very difficult to raise him without a powerhouse hand, because it seems like he wanted to get all in anyways. But at the same time, it invites a caller who thinks they're getting a cheap shot at stacking him. When he shoves the flop, though, it's hard to call unless you crush the flop. That's correct. I did act weak, and a top player would not have been fooled. The reason people act weak when strong and strong when weak, though, is because it sometimes works. He folded instead of calling the extra 3 BB. I agree that he's an idiot, but I'm guessing he had ace junk or something and just wanted to beat the lag. munga30 518 munga30 Checkin' my email Location:The Hub of the Universe Homegame. Playing 6 card stud hi-low with no qualifiers, a wild (probably nines or tens) and a twist, meaning you can pay to discard and draw one more card (down for down and up for up) after all the cards have been dealt. We're four handed on the river ( ) and it's pretty clear from the boards and prior betting that it's me and one other guy, to my left, vying for low. I don't remember the exact hands but his board has been better than mine for at least two streets and I think he recognizes this, too. We both twist and I pair my ace. The two high hands bet and raise into me and I tank. I know I'm beat but decide to try anyway. I lean forward and stare for about 20 seconds at his board like I'm slowly figuring out what he has and then give a tiny little jump - an aha. I three-bet and he gets a big houndog look and reluctantly folds. FWIW, it was the same opponent from this recent hand. Nice munga. I think that only works because people know you're a smart, analytical player. If I were to try the same thing, people would call me down more often than not. It's all about your table image. This is one that the Grinder pulled on me in a tournament I played against him last year. I was relatively shortstacked at the final table, and there was a lot on the line. He bets into me, and I call. The flop comes down three spades. I'm first to act, but before I can, he says I call. Then he stops himself and says, sorry I thought you said all in. I called the floor, who warned him, but there was nothing I could do - I couldn't shove into him, because he was clearly planning on calling (the guy is a LAG, too). So I check/folded the flop with my unmade hand, instead of shoving like I had originally intended. That's a good (but unethical) move for taking the out-of-position advantage away from a player who seems likely to stopngo. It's kind of like the opposite of someone checking in the dark. Giant Wooden Badger 12 Giant Wooden Badger the Beav Location:Camelot I swear I saw him do something similar on TV recently. Can't remember what event it was though. Maybe I'm just imaging it. He swore up and down it was an accident, too. It was a really effective move by him because I was steaming after it. I called the floor over because I knew it wasn't an accident and I wanted to get everyone else riled up while giving me a minute to cool down. TxBuckeye 151 TxBuckeye Location:San Antonio, TX (SA area) Good move to delay the hand and allow yourself time to recup and settle down. Morton Muffley 1,480 Morton Muffley I play low limit NL online, so perhaps this is below the level of most here, but I'll try to add to the discussion anyway. Following the strong=weak philosophy I've noticed that in the online environment fast=strong and since we know that strong=weak we can therefore assume fast=weak. I know, nothing new here, but I've also noticed that occasionally there are a few players who also know that fast=weak. When I see an otherwise good player with a marginal hand call down a fast bettor I immediately know that he is on the lookout for fast betting. I will then play alot (especially pairs) against this good opponent and when I hit the flop will fast bet it. Invariably he will call. On the turn I again will fastbet, but leave plenty of room for him to come over the top. When he does I'll fastbet him all-in and collect the chips. Tangling with the big stack I know that the conventional wisdom says not to tangle with the big stack. But when you're on the bubble, ITM, or at the final table (or deep in a very large or online tourney), it can actually be a very good idea. Let's say you're at the final table, and you have one of the two biggest stacks. The other big stack raises while you're still left to act. The little stacks fold. Now you resteal from him. It's high risk, high reward, but it's much more likely to result in you taking the pot right there than tangling with one of the small stacks. An even remotely competent player will know that they should avoid tangling with the big stacks. They'll also know that you shoudl want to avoid tangling with them. So they have to be afraid that you have bullets. On the other hand, they'll also know that you might be stealing. But if you're putting them to a decision for all or even most of their chips, they'll have to fold a lot of big hands, especially if the other players at the table are close to elimination and will move them way up the ladder. I laid down AK to this move recently at a final table, and the guy flipped over 22. I'd actually rather make this move with air than with a big hand, because if he calls, he probably has jacks or better or maybe AK/AQ. The beauty of this is it knocks his stack down, while increasing yours. That's a huge move. It also works without a confrontation, which should be your goal at the final table. In fact, for big stacks, you should probably avoid taking a flop against a small stack at the final table. The small stack is going to get pot committed way too easily and play looser postflop than they should. You should only play against them with hands that are good, as Sklansky said, "hot and cold". On the other hand, big stacks can easily be stolen from postflop because they will play too tight. It's higher risk, but against competent players who follow the conventional wisdom, you can usually profit by following unconventional wisdom. I play low limit NL online, so perhaps this is below the level of most here, but I'll try to add to the discussion anyway.Following the strong=weak philosophy I've noticed that in the online environment fast=strong and since we know that strong=weak we can therefore assume fast=weak. I know, nothing new here, but I've also noticed that occasionally there are a few players who also know that fast=weak. When I see an otherwise good player with a marginal hand call down a fast bettor I immediately know that he is on the lookout for fast betting. I will then play alot (especially pairs) against this good opponent and when I hit the flop will fast bet it. Invariably he will call. On the turn I again will fastbet, but leave plenty of room for him to come over the top. When he does I'll fastbet him all-in and collect the chips. Awesome. This is probably way more useful way more often than some of the ones I said. Please don't worry about what works at what level, either. Even if you think it's common knowledge, let's get a bunch of them written down. Worst case, everyone's seen that move before and knows how to handle it. Best case, it starts a conversation about the move you discussed and how to counteract it, and we all learn. Txns8 213 Txns8 I like to watch for players who routinely fold to the mostly donk-ish min re-raise or call the min re-raise and check/fold the next street. Usually they are the same players who use the min re-raise when they have a monster. It is easy to steal pots from these players even when you have air. This seems to work well for me at $25NL and $50NL. Voice Of Reason 2 Voice Of Reason Grabbing a handful of chips reaching forward and pounding your fist on the table on the table to check is pretty dirty and can often get him to react as if you were making a big raise. Another good piece of information you can get from people in a live game is their reads on other players. If you're in seat eight talking to the player in seat nine, who just played a hand against seat two, ask him about his read on that player. A lot of times they'll tell you something that you hadn't even noticed. I've had someone explain why they called, and it was something like "I asked him if his ace had me outkicked, and his face dropped as he said probably. So I called, because I knew he didn't have an ace". Or "Did you see the way he was shuffling his cards when he saw the flop? He was planning on folding the whole way until it checked around to him". Usually when someone talks to you about how to play, they're trying to set you up for some later play. That's a given. But there are two times that's not true - when they just made a questionable play, and when they just watched someone else make one. When they just made the questionable play, their ego is going to be fragile. If you ask them what they folded, or ask them why they called a big bet with top pair weak kicker, they'll give you way more information than they should. When someone else made the questionable play, their ego is going to be in full force. A lot of times, they'll try to explain why the other guy was an idiot, and that tells you a lot about their thought process. Speaking of which, if someone asks you about your kicker on an ace high board, it means one of two things. If they're deciding to call on the turn or river, they legitimately have a weak kicker. If it's your turn to act, they have a set. If someone keeps talking to you while you're in a hand, say, "Check out Jamie Gould over here". People will laugh, and it'll throw him off a little. Any chat tips for online play? I've found it is sometimes easy to goad a player into showing his hand if you intend to fold. Usually by demeaning his play as he will feel like his ego is hurt and want to show he plays well or that you suck. Additionally usually the guy chatting while you are taking has the goods and wants you to call. Another cheap/questionable move - if you're a low to middle stack in a tournament, shuffle your chips. You're not supposed to keep a dirty stack, but lots of people shuffle their chips, and it's kind of an irritating habit, so nobody will really pay attention. If you are a chip shuffler, by the way, stop it or learn to control the speed with which you do it. If you shuffle your chips quickly, I know you're in an intense mood right now. If you shuffle them slowly, you're a lot more laid back. Chances are good that the fast chip shuffler is feeling more pressured and is looking for reasons to play, while the slow shuffler is looking for reasons to fold. A good rule of thumb: don't call with little pairs in an all in situation. Obviously if there is a lot of dead money in the pot, it's different, but, for example, if someone shoves in to your BB and you hold 22, he's always going to have two overcards unless he spefically holds a deuce. And if he holds any pocket pair, you're about as far behind as if he held aces. In fact, you should only call an all in bet in a tournament if it gives you better odds than you'd get on a later bet. That means it has to be better than your chances of stealing a blind, better than your chances of winning with 97o or some other junky hand, and better than your chances of lasting long enough to pick up aces. You're giving up all of that when you make this call. You don't have any fold equity whatsoever. I feel like a lot of players forget the gap concept and/or the high end of their opponent's range when they call all in bets in tournaments. They realize that if you need Kx to raise, you need Ax to call, so you see people calling big bets with ace anything but looking surprised when their opponent flips over a bigger ace or a pair higher than their kicker. When you call an all in, you really need to have something good. It's much better to shove your chips in on your own terms. I think the reason people forget this is that they got confused by Harrington. He told people they had to push with junk when they got to an m of 5 or lower, but a lot of people started calling with junk instead. Which is odd, because in the same book, he talked about your calling requirements still need to be ridiculously tight to be +EV against even a super loose range. I'm seeing a lot of tournaments where the later levels are going way too fast because people start getting nutso. This isn't true of all tournaments, but if you're in one of these, your strategy adjustment should be to get more aggressive a couple rounds before the bubble. If 100 spots pay, you should be getting more aggressive when there are 200 spots left - start playing aggressive pre bubble poker before they do. You want to build up enough of a stack that when people lose their minds, you can tighten way up and wait for a chance to pick them off. That's hard to do as the blinds raise, so you'll need to be pretty aggressive. In general, if you've played in a particular tournament before, and a lot of the same players will be there again this week, you can expect it to run similarly this time. Develop a strategy for the tournament and stick to it - in addition to changing gears to adjust to changes in your image or your table, which is very reactive and thus predictable by good players, you should also be changing gears based on changes you expect in the different stagest of the tournament. For example, a lot of pros are super tight in the first hour of a tournament. If the chip stacks are deep, though, and your competition is weak, I'm willing to loosen up for cheap money in an attempt to double through someone who overplays TPTK or two pair on a flushed board. There are great opportunities early, and a lot of the top players eschew them altogether, which gives you a better than normal chance to win against weaker than normal opposition. When you do play, though, you should only be building the pot with two pair or better. Dump your straight and flush draws in the face of serious resistance, even if the pot odds are right - you'll find another spot later. Assume there are very little implied odds to your flush, but good implied odds for even barely concealed straights and great implied odds for your sets and boats. As the blinds go up, but before the antes kick in, there's usually a time when even the loose players tighten up. Limping when the blinds are 25/50 is one thing, but when the blinds are 100/200, people don't play their truly junky cards anymore. If they're tightening up, you have two choices - loosen up, or play even tighter than they do. I lean towards playing even tighter than they do, because you want to rehabilitate your image after playing more hands early than the top players. Once the antes kick in, the standard thought is that you should start stealing more often. I completely disagree. The reason you shouldn't do this is that EVERYONE is doing this. Your raises will get no respect, so you'll get callers and reraises that you don't want. You could choose to become a reraiser here, but in the grand scheme of things, the pots aren't big enough. Given the choice, I tighten way up here and avoid the feeding frenzy. The second and third post-ante blind levels are when you should loosen up. By now, people will have noticed you've been playing tight while everyone else loosened up, so they're going to fear your raises more. And now is the time to make them pay for this by attacking blinds that are twice as valuable as the ones you ignored earlier. As you get close to the bubble, conventional wisdom is to tighten up. You should also be paying attention to the moment that people at YOUR table seem to think the bubble has started. The first time someone starts making crazy bubble moves (either crazy tight or crazy loose) it's like a switch flips at most tables. Good tournament players will loosen up and steal from the players who tighten up. What usually ends up happening is that half of the table plays too tight, and the other half plays too loose. If that's how my table is, I'd rather err on the side of being too tight in terms of my opening hand requirements. I don't want to tangle for a lot of chips against people who will reraise with A8o. I don't want to raise with a hand I can't feel confident calling a reraise with. Pay attention, and tighten up your raising requirements. Pay attention to who's loose, though, and loosen your reraising requirements against them. Now is the time to resteal, because the players who are trying to take advantage of people's fear of going out on the bubble are still afraid of going out on the bubble themselves. If you can't afford to resteal without going all in, though, then the opposite applies - you should be looking to steal blinds with all in bets. Once you're through the bubble, everyone who tightened way up goes nuts. They figure that they've made the money, but they let their chipstack erode too much so now's the time to go all in or fold. This is a very profitable time to pick up a premium hand, but otherwise, sit back and watch. You should be able to move up a full prize level just by waiting. This is what I call the consolidation. If the average stack before the bubble is 20,000, the average stack will be about 25,000 to 30,000 within twenty minutes. It doesn't really matter who wins these all in confrontations if it's not you - the reality is that some people are going to win, and some are going to lose, until most of the short stacks are gone. Then things settle back down again until either a big jump in prizes or the final table gets in sight. You have a green light to steal during this time. This isn't true of every tournament, but it's generally been true of tournaments I've played in. Players adjust over time, though, and different tournaments run differently. The point is to pay attention to how things seem to flow, and have a plan before you sit down. If you get knocked off that plan because you got caught bluffing, so be it. If you don't follow that plan perfectly, but still play good poker, you'll be fine. But it'll remind you when to change gears and why, in a way that's different from everyone else. And that's a very valuable thing. Another move: When you go all in, put your headphones in your ears and close your eyes. There's nothing they can say or do to elicit a reaction from you if you can't even sense them. You'll look like a knob, but that's OK. Then, when the blinds are folding around to the button, sneak a peak at your cards and reach for your iPod. A good opponent will notice and won't steal with anything short of an all in bet. rabidfireweasel 141 rabidfireweasel Location:Maine Which is odd, because in the same book, he talked about your calling requirements still need to be ridiculously tight to be +EV against even a super loose range. I'm seeing a lot of tournaments where the later levels are going way too fast because people start getting nutso. This isn't true of all tournaments, but if you're in one of these, your strategy adjustment should be to get more aggressive a couple rounds before the bubble. Actually it is not odd at all. It is hard to play good poker. Most people lack the discipline to play with strong underlying concepts. So they go buffet style will pokers - take a little for here, and less from there. People that are typically more loose and aggressive, focus on the parts of books that tell them to be aggressive. They say "I already do that, and now I have validation from a champ." But then they have gaps. They semi-bluff when they have zero chance of winning the pot. They ignore how tight they should be in other places. Timid players often simply can often cite Sklansky or Harrington at length, but simply don't raise enough. These players almost never bluff enough. When I was a strong player, I read all the books and then tried to figure out who had read what, what parts they understood, and where they had the gap. You can put people on a hand with much greater specificity if you can get at their underlying thought process and motivation for being at the table.My favorite move, is to gamble on anything for low stakes (compared to the stakes at the table) at the table. I will bet on the suit of the last card on the flop, if the next pitch on the screen will be a ball or a strike, about who will win the next pot- anything. This creates an atmosphere of fun and gambling and no one takes me as seriously - because they am sure I am just an action junkie. Assani Fisher 20 Assani Fisher Location:Vegas Don't have time now, but will come back later to read and discuss guru_007 753 guru_007 Any chat tips for online play?I've found it is sometimes easy to goad a player into showing his hand if you intend to fold. Usually by demeaning his play as he will feel like his ego is hurt and want to show he plays well or that you suck.Additionally usually the guy chatting while you are taking has the goods and wants you to call. When I play, I don't even have the chat box open...so I don't think any chat tips will work. The only time I ever look at the chat box is if someone was dealt a ridiculously bad beat, I'll look to see if anyone is typing in which case I know that they are a bit unriled.I've read most of this thread, and the only part I didn't necessarily agree with is BF's move to tangle with the big stack. I make it a rule of thumb to NEVER F with the big stack, unless I have a huge hand. Conversely, if I'm the big stack, I will push around the table as much as possible. Usually I will reraise any raiser when I have position and a decent hand, I'll enter/raise most unopened pots with any two playable cards. I pay particular attention to the small stacks however, as they will raise/call with most any two cards. flapgreen 5,910 Location:St. Augustine, Fl Interests:Looking at my package Nice Work. This will go onto my favorites list. The Iguana 3,099 The Iguana I like to use a similar line of thinking but in the opposite direction. When I flop a monster and am in a pot with someone I know to be aggressive, I have found it very profitable to use the time clock to my advantage. If I can get them to bet into me, then I will take my time responding, often hitting the "time" button when the warning is delivered. My goal is to make them think I am calculating my pot odds. Often their next move is to make an overly aggressive play to get you out of the pot at which time you can collect a huge amount of chips from them. I think the real answer lies inside both posts. There is no specific "time" tell. You simply identify people's betting patterns in regards to time taken (either by them or their opponent) and exploit them. I'll look to see if anyone is typing in which case I know that they are a bit unriled. Unriled? Is that a combination of riled and unraveled? Exactly! Hey, it's early, I haven't even finished a cup of coffee yet Interesting. I was told (and have generally found to be true) that you should beware the player who thinks for a long time and calls. That's usually a sign of a monster. I've read most of this thread, and the only part I didn't necessarily agree with is BF's move to tangle with the big stack. I make it a rule of thumb to NEVER F with the big stack, unless I have a huge hand. Conversely, if I'm the big stack, I will push around the table as much as possible. Usually I will reraise any raiser when I have position and a decent hand, I'll enter/raise most unopened pots with any two playable cards. I pay particular attention to the small stacks however, as they will raise/call with most any two cards. I totally agree and would have given the same advice at one time. I definitely agree that you should exercise caution if the big stack is loose/bad/lucky. But you're exactly the type of player I'm hoping for when I have a big stack at the final table. Let's say you have 700k, I have 700k, and there are three or four other players with 100-200k. The blinds are 15/30k with a 3k ante. With antes, the preflop pot is 60k. You raise to 90k preflop. I reraise to 200 from the SB/BB. Unless you have a monster, you're folding. I will almost always pick up a pot with 150k in it, while you will almost always lose 90k. Now our stacks are 850k vs. 600k - that's a huge leap I just made towards first place. The dangers for me are that you have a monster, or that a player who acts after me will call the all in bet. So I have to use some caution. But it's a hugely +EV bet most of the time, especially if the players to my left have a decent stack. The other thing that makes this super valuable is that it changes your style. You can't steal when I'm still in the pot. Now your stack is dwindling. Meanwhile, I can steal mercilessly from the small stacks. That's a huge advantage for me. I only need to make this move once (or maybe twice) at a final table to make myself a big favorite to win it all. Another move I like: There are twelve people left in the tourney, and there are two very loose players at my table, both to my left. When I get the button, I will fold around more often than not, with the hope that those two battle. Then I'll steal from the cutoff or even UTG/UTG+1 with anything. The thought process is that it lets them get their action fix, it makes my actual steal look a lot more realistic when I pass on the obvious button steal opportunity, and it gives me a much better chance of making the final table when those two tangle incessantly. There are a lot of guys who will get into ridiculous all in confrontations with ace junk vs. QJ or a small pp just because they're defending their blinds, vs. someone who knows that they know that he knows that I know that they're probably just defending their blinds. I understand your point...but you can only make this play if a) you have position and b) I am trying to steal. If there is a big stack after me, even if I also have a big stack, RARELY am I raising preflop with a marginal holding. I may even try occasional limp with AK or something trying to catch a small stack going all-in. But if I'm raising preflop out of position, a lot of the time, it's with a hand I'm willing to go to the end with.And definitely, if you're able to come over the top of me and win a pot uncontested giving you a nice chip lead, that's a great move. Another move I like: There are twelve people left in the tourney, and there are two very loose players at my table, both to my left. When I get the button, I will fold around more often than not, with the hope that those two battle. Then I'll steal from the cutoff or even UTG/UTG+1 with anything. The thought process is that it lets them get their action fix, it makes my actual steal look a lot more realistic when I pass on the obvious button steal opportunity, and it gives me a much better chance of making the final table when those two tangle incessantly. There are a lot of guys who will get into ridiculous all in confrontations with ace junk vs. QJ or a small pp just because they're defending their blinds, vs. someone who knows that they know that he knows that I know that they're probably just defending their blinds. Examples, please? What's your "standard" steal range and what of that are you tossing to let these two (hopefully) battle it out? I laid down AK to this move recently. I think I'd lay down anything but jacks or better against a fellow big stack. Wouldn't you, when you know that you're still a huge favorite for top two if you just fold and wait out the little guys? And again, the whole point of this is take advantage of your opponent's likely tendency to be loose/aggressive/weak at the final table. Which most people are when they get a big stack at the end. Ned 10,541 on stars when it's your turn your name box blinks. i always try and make my move (no matter what it is) on the 3rd blink. I think it is often very true but much like you said: The reason people act weak when strong and strong when weak, though, is because it sometimes works. Also, I have found the key is to delay some but not so much that the timer actually starts. What I generally do is wait for the the warning noise that comes with the "iguana has x seconds to act" message in the chat window. I click the "time" button but then act before the timer actually starts. It give just enough time to imply I am calculating the odds but not so much that it screams "LOOK AT ME, I HAVE A MONSTER". Cool. Back when I played online, I used to do the same thing. I think it works in some cases, and doesn't work in others. Like all of the things in this thread, it depends on the situation. Depends on the table. I played in a live WSOP sat recently. Final table structure was something like12 (package)5321.5111So the emphasis was clearly on the top three spots. The little stacks started getting nutty when it got to 8 players because 6-8 were the same, but then cooled way off when it got to 6 because they all wanted the extra .5. The small stacks were tanking and folding a lot, so I knew they were tossing A8 and KJ a lot. I was stealing with suited connectors, ace anything, k9+, and might have stolen with less once or twice. But I also believe you should never go more than three times in two orbits unless that fourth hand is a little stronger (maybe AJ+, KQ, or 77+ if nobody's playing back, or tighter if they are). My standard raise was a little bigger than the pot, which was more than a third of the smaller stacks, and maybe a tenth of mine. So if those two hand ranges are "very loose" and "loose", I was probably "loose" to "fairly tight" when I was on the button with those two loose players ahead of me. I don't know if that's correct play - it seemed correct to me at that table and in that situation. But that's about where it was. Note that my calling requirements were much higher than my raising requirements - I'd drop 55 or AT to a shove by a loose small stack (or a pot committed pfr) in a heartbeat. Clayton Gray 2,112 Clayton Gray Just call me Carlton Location:Austin, AR I like this for inducing a river bluff. If I'm out of position and have been leading on prior streets with a draw-heavy board, I have no problem checking even top pair after a blank on the river. The reason being that my opponent will rarely pay off with a worse hand but will often try to bluff with his busted draw. Another reason to check the river is to guard against getting raised. If my opponent has been slow-playing a set (which would be kind of stupid on a draw-heavy board, but it happens), I'll be facing a tough river raise. If I check/call to his set, I'll lose fewer chips. In the long run this is profitable move against not-so-skilled on-line players. They generally call down hoping to hit their draw. They will not call the river after missing, so you are not missing a value bet. They will think your check is weakness, so they will often try to bluff after missing. Also, if this type of player has a strong hand, they'll often bet smaller with the hopes that you'll call, so you don't lose as much as you gain picking off the bluffs. I like this for inducing a river bluff.If I'm out of position and have been leading on prior streets with a draw-heavy board, I have no problem checking even top pair after a blank on the river. The reason being that my opponent will rarely pay off with a worse hand but will often try to bluff with his busted draw.Another reason to check the river is to guard against getting raised. If my opponent has been slow-playing a set (which would be kind of stupid on a draw-heavy board, but it happens), I'll be facing a tough river raise. If I check/call to his set, I'll lose fewer chips.In the long run this is profitable move against not-so-skilled on-line players. They generally call down hoping to hit their draw. They will not call the river after missing, so you are not missing a value bet. They will think your check is weakness, so they will often try to bluff after missing. Also, if this type of player has a strong hand, they'll often bet smaller with the hopes that you'll call, so you don't lose as much as you gain picking off the bluffs. Do you lay down if he shoves the river? I agree about check/calling your medium strength hands. But while I like this move, if you never check raise the river, you'll be too easy to read. I love the river checkraise when I have a monster, unless the monster came on the river with an obvious scare card like a third or fourth flush card, in which case it's better to just bet out again. hburgers11 alias saw this last night and it worked brilliantly. It is similar to something BF mentioned already I believe. 3-NL No raise preflop. 5-6 people in. Flop comes 10 J 2 rainbow. SB bets 25 on the flop. UTG raises to 60. fold, fold, button calls. SB reraises to 220. UTG raises to 320 all day. Button asks if he calls can the small blind reraise because UTG didnt make a full raise. The SB argues that yes he can because the raise was more than half. I pipe up and say that isnt the rule here and he cant reraise, dealer agrees, Button says he wants to talk to the floor so he can make sure. Floor comes over and says he cant reraise, so the guy says OK I call. Turn comes and its a 4. SB pushes all in for about 800. Button beats him into the pot and flips over 10,10 with a big smile on his face and SB quickly throws his cards in the muck when the river comes another 4. UTG folded too and left also. I am pretty sure SB thought he could easily push the button out of the pot.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line823
__label__wiki	0.582785	0.582785	Content specific to the COVID-19 pandemic is indexed and accessible here: https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/covid-19-wuhan-coronavirus-index-hub-portal.67106/ Fortean Overview Medical Forteana Man Infects His Bloodstream With 'Magic Mushrooms' (Psylocibe cubensis) Thread starter EnolaGaia Start date Wednesday at 8:32 PM hallucinogens magic mushrooms psylocibin EnolaGaia I knew the job was dangerous when I took it ... We have a thread on Auto Brewery Syndrome, in which one's own body generates alcohol for an endemic drunkenness. This guy attempted to inject himself with a Psylocibe cubensis infusion which established a population of 'magic mushroom' fungi in his bloodstream. The outcome was a brush with a permanent death rather than a permanent high. Kids - don't try this at home ... A man brewed a tea from "magic mushrooms" and injected the concoction into his veins; several days later, he ended up at the emergency department with the fungus growing in his blood. The man spent 22 days in the hospital, with eight of those days in the intensive care unit (ICU), where he received treatment for multisystem organ failure. Now released, he is still being treated with a long-term regimen of antibiotic and antifungal drugs, according to a description of the case published Jan. 11 in the Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry. The case didn't reveal whether injecting shroom tea can cause persistent psychoactive effects, as sometimes seen when people ingest the fungus orally, the doctors wrote in the report. For example, in rare cases, people can develop a condition called hallucinogen-induced persisting perception disorder (HPPD), where they experience vivid flashbacks of their trip long after the fact, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. The case "underscores the need for ongoing public education regarding the dangers attendant to the use of this, and other drugs, in ways other than they are prescribed," the doctors wrote. ... By injecting shrooms into his bloodstream, the 30-year-old patient had hoped to relieve symptoms of bipolar disorder and opioid dependence, according to the report. His family members noted that he had recently stopped adhering to his prescribed bipolar medications and was "cycling between depressive and manic states." The man found online reports that described the potential therapeutic effects of hallucinogens, such as LSD and psilocybin mushrooms, which prompted him to boil down shrooms into a "mushroom tea." He filtered the tea by drawing it through a "cotton swab" before injecting it into his body. In the following days, he became lethargic and nauseated, and his skin began to yellow. He soon developed diarrhea and began vomiting blood. His family found him and took him to the emergency room, noting concern that he also seemed very confused. The doctors noted that he could not participate in a meaningful interview, due to his altered mental state. Multiple organs, including the liver and kidneys, began to fail and the man was transferred to the ICU. His blood tested positive for a bacterial infection with the microbe Brevibacillus and a fungal infection from Psilocybe cubensis — meaning the magic mushroom he injected was now growing in his blood. In addition to antibiotic and antifungal drugs, the man needed to be placed on a ventilator after he experienced acute respiratory failure, where fluid builds up in the air sacs of the lungs. Thankfully, the patient survived this ordeal and was later discharged from the hospital. ... FULL STORY: https://www.livescience.com/magic-mushroom-injection-case-report.html Reactions: Frideswide, ramonmercado, brownmane and 2 others Here are the bibliographic specifics on the published report, which is still in the pre-proof stage. Nicholas B. Giancola, Clayton J. Korson, Jason P. Caplan, Curtis A. McKnight, A “trip” to the ICU: intravenous injection of psilocybin Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaclp.2020.12.012. SOURCE: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266729602030015X brownmane EnolaGaia said: That is a true horror story. The thought that the fungi were growing in his bloodstream just gives me the creeps. Reactions: Ger and Frideswide bugmum Ephemeral Spectre brownmane said: Body temperature and all the nutrients a fungus could want? Why wouldn't they? Reactions: Ger, Naughty_Felid, Frideswide and 1 other person Naughty_Felid kneesy earsy nosey What a cock. Reactions: Tempest63 Eponastill Abominable Snowman generally on the fringes Naughty_Felid said: A fair comment. But the poor chap did have some Issues didn't he, and may not have been thinking quite straight. (By injecting shrooms into his bloodstream, the 30-year-old patient had hoped to relieve symptoms of bipolar disorder and opioid dependence, according to the report. His family members noted that he had recently stopped adhering to his prescribed bipolar medications and was "cycling between depressive and manic states.") Reactions: brownmane, Ger and TangletwigsDeux Forteana Forum	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line824
__label__wiki	0.693013	0.693013	+234-(803)-000000 [email protected] AgriBus Directory GES Login FMARD Organogram Regional and State Offices Research and Educational Institutes Agricultural Value Chains Minister of Agriculture & Rural Development Minister of State for Agriculture & Rural Development Finance and Account Planning & Policy Coordination Reform Coordination & Services Improvement TECHNICAL DEPARTMENTS AgriBusiness & Marketing Agricultural Land & Climate Change Federal Department of Agriculture Farm Input Support Services Fisheries and Aqualculture Animal Husbandary Services Rural Department Agriculture Extention Services Food and Strategic Reserve Veterinary & Pest Control Services The APPEALS Project The LIFE Programme The “Zero Reject” Initiative GES Dashboard NCARD Licences/Permits The Green Alternative Event, News, Top FOOD SUFFICIENCY: FG Set to Revitalize Rice Farms in Anambra State The Minister of State, Agriculture and Rural Development, Hon. Mustapha Baba Shehuri has stated that the Federal Government Rice Farms in Anambra State will be revitalized to boost rice production, create jobs and also improve the living standard of the people in the State and the region. Speaking during his on the spot assessment of Federal Government Rice Farms/ Mills in Omor and Umerum, located at Ayamelum Local Government Area of the State under Agricultural Transformation Agenda Support Programme 1(ATASP-1), today, 28th September 2020, the Minister stated that’’ the Federal Government is vigorously pursuing and implementing programmes to achieve self-sufficiency in rice production because of its strategic importance as a major staple food crop in achieving food and nutrition security, import substitution and promotion of inclusive economic growth’’. Shehuri noted that “ the present administration has provided various interventions to promote investment in the rice sector. As a result of these interventions, the country has increased its production from 4.8 million metric tons of milled rice in 2015 to over 6 million metric tons by 2019 with a huge reduction in the nation’s deficit’’. The Minister further stated that ‘’ Some of the activities undertaken by the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to develop the rice sector include the following: Provision of farm inputs such as agrochemicals, organic fertilizers, knapsack sprayers, planting & harvesting equipment such as reapers, mini combine harvesters, threshers at a subsidized rate in order to increase productivity. He added that ‘’the Provision of modern rice milling machines of various capacities per day (10tons, 20tons and 50tons) with their accessories such as destoners, parboilers, dryers, colour sorters to small/medium scale processors who currently produce the bulk of Nigeria rice to improve the quality of their output, facilitated the establishment of 25 Nos. integrated rice mills by private investors nationwide so as to improve the quality of Nigeria milled rice to international standard and currently produce over one million metric tons of rice annually”. Shehuri further said that ” the Ministry has established 23 Paddy Aggregation Centers nationwide to aggregate and store paddy. The centres were given to members of the Paddy Dealers Association of Nigeria (PRIDAN) under the public-private partnership arrangement”. He stated that ‘’ there will be Dissemination of modern rice production and processing technologies through capacity building of farmers and processors directly and also in conjunction with the international donor agencies such as Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), German International Cooperation (GIZ), International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Competitive Africa Rice Initiative (CARI), AfricaRice’’. He reiterated that ‘’ the Ministry is currently responding to the challenges of food availability posed by the COVID-19 pandemic by supporting smallholder farmers nationwide with various inputs including certified seeds of improved varieties of food crops such as rice, maize, sorghum, wheat, orange-flesh sweet potato, groundnut cowpea, soybean, yam, as well as cash crops like cashew, cocoa, sesame, oil palm, gum Arabic. Others include herbicides, pesticides and agricultural machinery such as rice reapers, transplanters, power tillers motorized sprayers and processing equipment. According to him, ‘’these are expected to alleviate the effect of the pandemic on farmers and ensure that they keep producing food for the country’’.The Minister informed that ‘’ this rice farm is sited here because of the recognition of Anambra State as one of the major rice-producing States in the South-East zone’’. He thanked the Government of Anambra State for keying into the policies and programmes of the administration by promoting agriculture especially rice production and processing. He also appreciated Hon (Barr.) Vincent Ofumelu, for his passion and determination to improve the livelihood of his people. In his remark, the House of Representative member of Oyi /Ayamelum Constituency of the National Assembly, Hon. (Barr) Vicent Ofumelu Stated appealed to the Minister to use his good office to intervene in reviving the pumping Stations located in Ifite Ogwari and Umueje communities to boost rice production and increase the locally generated revenue of the people. Hon. Ofumelu stated that the people are basically farmers and are desirous of Agriculture intervention policies of the Federal Government under the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari. He also solicited for Agricultural Inputs, Quality Seeds and Financial grant to assist farmers in the communities. The Minister also visited the Omor/ Umeum rice Farms, Giant rice Mill in Umumbo communities and commissioned a Blocks of Class Rooms sponsored by Hon. Vicent Ofumelu. yommigold News, Press Release Agric Minister Pledges Support for OGP Initiative. The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Alhaji Muhammad Sabo Nanono has pledged the Ministry’s support for the Open Government Partnership (OGP) Initiative by the Federal Government, stating that the initiative would make governance more transparent, accountable and participatory. The Minister, disclosed this when the National Coordinator, SERVICOM, Mrs Nnenna Akajemeli and her team paid an advocacy visit to his office in Abuja, today and dressed as a SERVICOM Champion.Alhaji Sabo Nanono said the Ministry will synergize with SERVICOM to drive the process to promote the good governance initiative of Mr President as also enshrined in the Executive Order 001. In her presentation, Mrs Nnnenna Akajemeli stated that the initiative has presented a platform for co-operation, partnership and collaboration between the Government (State Actors), Civil Society and the Private sector (Non-State Actors) that will bring immense developmental benefits to the Nation. Mrs Akajemeli further stated that with the full commitment by key public sector bureaucrats; there will be development, reviews and implementation of service standards at service windows that would help the initiative to fall in line with our national guidelines. According to the National Coordinator, SERVICOM has strategized to working closely with Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDA’s) through their Service Charters to drive continuous citizen-focused service improvements in Nigeria. Akajemeli pointed out that the Federal government’s commitment to the initiative would foster openness, transparency, accountability, inclusiveness and co-operation in service delivered by the MDA’s, adding that the process will translate to good governance. FG Establishes Portal for Online Registration of Fertilizer Dealers for Quality Control – NANONO The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Alhaji Muhammad Sabo Nanono has revealed that the Ministry through the Department of Farm Inputs Support Services (FISS) has established an online portal called the National Fertilizer Management Platform for the registration of Fertilizer dealers in Nigeria. He stated that the Initiative would ensure accessibility, transparency, accountability among fertilizer value chain players in order to create sanity in the fertilizer space. Speaking during the Meeting /Workshop on Operationalization of the National Fertilizer Quality Control (NFQC) Act and Regulations held at the Debbie’s Upper Class & Recreation Limited, Nyanya- Karshi Expressway, Orozo in Abuja, on Monday 22nd September 2020, Alhaji Muhammad Sabo Nanono stated that the portal would strategically guarantee that all relevant stakeholders are properly and adequately guided on the use of fertilizers. Alhaji Sabo Nanono noted that the training of stakeholders on fertilizer code of practice, product handling, use and management practices, said, ‘’this is with a view to equipping you for advisory services to farmers as they come to buy fertilizers from you’’. The Minister stressed that there is a need for a robust public awareness campaign and continuous sensitization of the general public on the fertilizer regulatory system.Nanono charged, ‘’all the fertilizer players to re-double their efforts and carry on with your businesses in line with the provisions of the National Fertilizer Quality Control (NFQC) Act and the fertilizer Regulations’’, assuring that the Ministry will provide all the necessary support and assistance needed for the stakeholders to carry on their legitimate business unhindered. He noted that‘’ Mr President has created ample opportunities for you the fertilizer players to reposition yourself to take advantage of the good and clear policy environment to grow your businesses’’.The Minister informed that ‘’ the Ministry officials will be engaging the relevant stakeholders during the 3-day workshop in three separate orders; – Day 1 for inorganic fertilizer Suppliers (Manufacturers/Blenders and Importers), Day 2 for organic fertilizer suppliers and Day 3 which is the last day for agro-dealers (distributors)’’. He added that the workshop is to ensure participation of all stakeholders in the implementation process.In his welcome address, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, Dr. Abdulkadir Mu’azu, represented by Director in the Permanent Secretary‘s office, Engr. Mohammed Bello said that ‘’the purpose of this workshop is to discuss the critical areas of the fertilizer Act in order to enhance our understanding of the operations of the fertilizer regulatory system’’. Dr Mu’azu further said that ‘’ the interest of the Ministry is not to watch individuals violate the law and pay penalties but to ensure maximum compliance in order to grow the local fertilizer industry and the agricultural sector’’.In his goodwill message, the Chairman, House Committee on Agricultural Production and Services, Hon. Dandutse Muntari Mohammed, pointed out that ‘’the Act was enacted to protect the interests of the farmers against nutrient deficiencies, adulteration as well as the investments of fertilizer industry players’’. He assured of the National Assembly’s support on the implementation of the Act.While giving a vote of thanks, Director, Farms Inputs Support Services Department in the Ministry, Engr. Tunde Bello thanked the stakeholders for their commitment and technical support towards the actualization of the NFQC Act and Regulations. FG Pumps over N600 Billion to Ensure Food Security And Sustainability. The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Alhaji Muhammad Sabo Nanono has revealed that the Federal Government has resolved to inject over N600 billion as stimulus-response into the agriculture sector, targetting small scale farmers, to ensure food security and sustainability. The Minister stated this while on a weekend tour of Dangote Fertilizer Plant, and a crucial meeting with other Fertilizer companies in Lagos State, to galvanize their cooperation for input production. Nanono had explained that the well over N600 billion stimulus-response which targets farmers nationwide will take off with an initial 2.4 million farmers in the first instance. He also noted that to avoid the abuse of government funds and good intentions, the support will be in kind in the form of inputs and not cash as was the practice in the past. The Minister added that the forceful closure of all International borders, necessitated by the COVID-19 Pandemic, has made it evident that Nigeria can conveniently and sustainably feed itself. The Minister had commenced his tour with a courtesy call on the Executive Governor of Lagos State, His Excellency Babajide Sanwo-Olu where he pledged to support the state farming communities with rural roads, solar lighting, and water holes so as to encourage and empower them to increase productivity. He also promised to collaborate with Lagos State Government in the fishing sector in order to tap the potentials of its marine endowments and drastically reduce the importation of fish in Nigeria. In his response, Babajide Sanwo – Olu who had received the Minister in the company of his Deputy, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat and other State officials, promised to collaborate with the Federal Government not only in the fishing sector but also to join forces in the Federal government’s effort to embark on mechanized farming. Sanwo-Olu while recognizing agriculture as a critical component of development stated that he will complement the Federal Governments effort when he completes his project, the largest rice mill in Nigeria with a capacity to mill approximately 30 Million Metric Tons of rice per annum. This he said will help Nigeria focus more on the exportation of rice and downward review of prices at the retail market. The Governor said that Lagos State is presumably the largest retail market for agricultural products as well as the largest enabler in the industry with Dangote Fertilizer Plant cited in its domain. In another engagement over dinner, the Minister and Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, Dr. Abdulkadir Mu’azu, had interacted with Agro -Input Dealers in Lagos to discuss the quality, affordability, and availability of fertilizer in the country. The big player, Dangote Group and other fertilizer blending companies, Premium Agro Limited, Elephant Group and Kewalram Group stated that raw materials for fertilizer blending, most especially Ammonium phosphate, is the major challenge they face. However, the cherry news is that Dangote Group is considering the exploration of local sources for the raw materials which they are hopeful and confident that once the domestic source is remedied, the problem of fertilizer shortfall will become history in the country. The Minister was overwhelmed with this revelation and is of the opinion that with the impressive strategies initiated by the Dangote Group, the outcome will change the narrative of agriculture, food production/ Fertilizer availability and the nation’s economy for good before the close of 2020. News, Press Release, Top President Buhari Appoints Bashir Babajo, Executive Director, Operations (NAIC), Reappoints Philip I. Ashinze Executive Director, Finance And Administration (NAIC) President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Bashir Tijjani Babajo as Executive Director Operations, Nigerian Agricultural Insurance Corporation (NAIC), for a period of four (4) year term in the first instance with effect from 1st August 2020 and has also renewed the appointment of Philip Ashinze as Executive Director, Finance and Administration for a second and final four (4) year term with effect from 1st August 2020. Mr. President’s approval was conveyed to the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Alhaji Muhammad Sabo Nanono in a letter with reference number, SH/COS/42/3/A/988, singed by the Chief of Staff to the President, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari. Congratulating the Executive Directors on their appointments, the Honourable Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Alhaji Muhammad Sabo Nanno called on the Executive Directors to bring their wealth of experience to bear and ensure the continuous implementation of NAIC’s mandate in accordance with extant laws and other subsisting rules and regulations. Nanono further advised the EDs to justify the confidence reposed in them by working with all stakeholders to ensure harmony in the Agricultural sector and in support of Mr President’s Next Level Agenda. The Nigerian Agricultural Insurance Corporation is wholly – owned by the Federal Government of Nigeria, an insurance corporation company set up to specially provide agricultural risks insurance cover to Nigerian farmers. FG Reaffirms Commitment towards Implementing the National Fertilizer Quality Control (NFQC) Act 2019 The Permanent Secretary, Federal of Agricultural and Rural Development, Dr. Abdulkadir Mu’azu has reaffirmed the Federal Government’s commitment towards implementing the National Fertilizer Quality Control (NFQC) Act 2019 by ensuring that fertilizer regulatory system is in place. The initiative would increase agricultural productivity for national food security. Speaking during the Operationalization of the National Fertilizer Quality Control (NFQC) Act, 2019 meeting held at Reiz Continental Hotel, Abuja on Tuesday evening, Dr. Abdulkadir Mu’azu stated that the policy would safeguard the interest of the farmers against nutrient deficiencies, adulteration, misleading claims, short weight. Dr. Mu’azu noted that ‘’it will also safeguard interests of fertilizers enterprises , thereby creating part of the enabling environment for private sector investment in the fertilizer industry and protect the environment against potential dangers that may result from the use of harmful substances in fertilizer’. He informed that ‘’ the ministry has however been unrelenting in the bid to set in motion the enforcement of the Fertilizer Act and accordingly develop regulations for its implementation which has been forwarded to the Federal Ministry of Justice for review by legal draftsmen and subsequent gazetting’’. The Permanent Secretary added that ‘’ in the implementing regulations are the steps, processes, procedures and guideline for effective enforcement of the NFQC Act’’. He stated that ‘’ the ministry has listed the services /activities necessary for the enforcement of the Act and is, therefore, proposing fees, tariffs and charges that will be prescribed for the various services to be rendered for consideration and adoption’’. He further said that ‘’ this meeting is being convened to enable us holistically examine the proposed charges /fees. In our deliberations, the above key objectives must be put into utmost consideration and none of it should be compromised’’. In his presentation on key areas of the NFQC Act and the regulations, Prof. Yemi Akinseye – George (SAN), said that ‘’ the Federal Government and relevant stakeholders of the fertilizers industry have taken the bull by the horn by enacting a robust legal framework for quality control in the country’’. Prof. Akinseye – George urged that ‘’ all hands must be on deck to ensure full implementation of the National Fertilizer Quality Control Act 2019’’. In his introductory remark, Director, Department of Farm Inputs Support Services in the Ministry, Engr. Tunde Bello stated that ‘’ the meeting will address the critical issues relating to the operationalization of the NFQC Act 2019 , particularly issue of charges and the regulation of the manufacture, importation, distribution, sales and quality of fertilizers in Nigeria’’ IN OWERRI: Imo Smallholder Farmers Benefit from Improved Seeds, As FG Distributes Free Inputs In the South East. The Federal Government has reaffirmed its commitment towards ensuring that Smallholder farmers across the country have access to quality seeds, stating that it is a foundation for attaining food and nutrition security and industrialization of the agricultural sector. The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Alhaji Muhammad Sabo Nanono disclosed this during the flag-off /roll-out ceremony of the distribution of free agricultural inputs to farmers at Hero Square, New Owerri, Owerri, Imo State over the weekend having performed similar task earlier in the South-South. Alhaji Sabo Nanono explained that ‘’through this effort and other complementary interventions by different stakeholders, the government hopes to increase quality seeds, the resilience of farmers, accessibility and the national food systems in general’’. The Minister noted that ‘’the Ministry is supporting breeder and foundation seeds production and linking up with the private seed companies to make certified seeds available to farmers’’. Alhaji Nanono also stressed that ‘’ this coupled with our efforts to improve rural infrastructure and other value-chains supports would invariably contribute to the attainment of Mr. President’s desire to ensure easy access to quality food and nutrition by Nigerians. The minister informed that ‘’ the distribution of agricultural inputs to smallholder farmers which include different categories of seeds, seedlings of cocoa, sprouted nuts of oil palm, vines of orange flesh, sweet potatoes, one node vine cuttings of yam and its seeds and groundnut seeds as part of the Ministry’s interventions to reduce the effect of COVID-19 pandemic on agricultural production in Nigeria and prevent food scarcity in 2021. He further said that ‘’ the Ministry is distributing 20,000 cocoa seedlings over 5,000 oil palm sprouted nuts and 1,500 kg cashew seeds to farmers in Imo state. In addition, yam farmers through their national association and other cooperative groups will be supported with 20,000 nos one node vine cuttings and 10,000 nos foundation seeds of yam as well as 200 litres of pathway organic growth enhancer. Potatoes farmers will benefit from 1,500 bundles of orange-fleshed sweet potatoes that were distributed at the occasion, and 200 litres of pathway organic solution for the yam farmers’’. Nanono said the Ministry “is also supporting groundnut farmers through the Groundnut Producers, Processors and Marketers Association (GPPMAN) with improved 3 mt groundnut seeds. These seeds, seedlings, nuts, vines and other inputs are being given to farmers free’’. He disclosed that in the roll out distribution exercise, “at least 35% of the agricultural inputs are targeted at women farmers in line with the targets set in our National Gender Plan and Policies aimed at ensuring increased opportunities for women. This has been communicated to the Farmer Associations accordingly’’. The Minister informed that ‘’the next major roll-out of support to farmers will take place in Borno State, where improved wheat, groundnut and rice seeds, as well as gum Arabic seedlings, will be distributed to farmers nationwide along with their inputs’’.In his remark, the Executive of Imo State, Senator Hope Uzodimma lauded the Agricultural policies and visionary leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari’s in the sector geared towards job creation, food sufficiency and economic growth. He said, ” Imo State will buy into the Agriculture policy because the state has Agricultural potentials which will create jobs for its teeming youth population and boost the Internally Generated Revenue of the state and Nigeria in general “. Earlier in his welcome remarks, the Commissioner of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Imo State Dr. Lambert Orisakwe noted that “Imo State is predominantly an agrarian society where every family is engaged in one form of agricultural practice or the other”. He said the coming of the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development to distribute agro palliative to farmers in the state is a welcome development. This August and memorable occasion is very refreshing and calls for a celebration “. In her Goodwill message the Commissioner of Livestock Development, Imo state , Hon. Obiageri Ajoku called for a robust synergy relationship with the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development towards achieving food and nutrition in Nigeria. While giving a vote of thanks, Director, Federal Department of Agriculture in the Ministry, Mrs. Karima Babangida thanked the governor, Senator Hope Uzodimma for gracing the occasion and flagging off the seed distribution exercise of oil palm, cashew, rice, yam, potatoes, groundnut, and cocoa to farmers; and the organic growth enhancer for higher yield of the crops especially yam and orange flesh potatoes. IN CALABAR: FG Flags-Off Distribution of Agricultural Inputs in Cross Rivers. In the on – going efforts to mitigate the impact of covid-19 in the agricultural sector across the country, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Alhaji Muhammad Sabo Nanono on 6th August 2020, flagged off the distribution of the Ministry’s palliative incentive to Nigerian farmers in Calabar, Cross River State, the South-South Geopolitical zone of Nigeria. The Minister said that the effort is to increase the resilience of farmers and the national food systems in general. The Minister at the event which held at the Murtala Mohammed Highway, Ikot Effanga, Mkpa, Calabar, said that ‘’ with COVID-19, the priority of every country in the world is to ensure limited disruption to its food supply chains , noting that a number of countries have banned or drastically reduced food exports to avoid scarcity of food’’. Alhaji Nanono stressed that ‘’since smallholder farmers are the most vulnerable, it become imperative for the government to support them with the much-needed inputs especially seeds, which is the most important factor that influences farmers’ yield in order to enable them to recover quickly from the set back of the Pandemic’’. Nanono stated that ‘’the distribution of agricultural inputs to smallholder farmers which include different categories of cocoa seedlings, improved oil palm sprouted nuts and cashew seeds as part of the Ministry’s interventions to reduce the effect of COVID-19 pandemic on agricultural production in Nigeria and avert food scarcity in 2021’’. He pointed that the Ministry and its research institutions are working towards making Nigeria self-sufficient in good quality seed and its availability to farmers as a foundation for attaining food and nutrition security as well as industrialization. Nanono further said that ‘’ the Ministry is supporting breeder and foundation seeds production and linking up with the private seed companies to make certified seeds available to farmers. This coupled with our efforts to improve rural infrastructure and other value-chains supports would invariably contribute to the attainment of Mr. President’s desire to ensure easy access to quality food and nutrition by Nigerians’’. He said that ‘’ the Ministry will support the oil palm farmers, with 5,000 improved oil palm sprouted nuts and 1,500kg improved cashew seed, the cocoa farmers will also be supported with 20,000 cocoa seedlings and agrochemicals. In addition, Rice farmers will be supported with 1,000 kg of rice seeds’’. The Minister informed that ‘’ this is the fifth in the series of the distribution of the Ministry’s palliative incentive to farmers nationwide. The most recent being in Lokoja, Kogi State where the ministry collaborated with the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development (HADM&SD) to flag-off the distribution of Soybean, sesame, cashew and potatoes as well as fertilizers’’. He explained that ‘’ at least 35% of the inputs are targeted at women farmers in line with the targets set in our National Gender Action Plan and Policies aimed at ensuring increased opportunities for women. This has been communicated to the Farmer Associations accordingly”. The minister urged the beneficiaries to make judicious use of these inputs to produce food for the nation ,adding that the State Governments and other stakeholders should provide similar support to farmers ‘’so that together we can defeat COVID-19 Pandemic and become self-sufficient in food production’’. He acknowledged the cooperation and support received from Development Partners like OCP Africa Limited and International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), in the fight against the effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on our food security. In his remark, the Executive Governor of Cross Rivers State, Prof. Ben Ayade informed that the State government has laid a foundation for Agricultural empowerment, which would lead to job creation and economic development. “this policies will enrich our farmers especially women and Youth”. While giving her goodwill message, the Director – General, National Centre for Woman Development, Barr. Mary Ekpere-Eta stated that the Centre would commence ICT training for 100 Women farmers, adding that the policy will ensure that the women acquire basic technology based for their farming business. In separate goodwill messages delivered at the event, speakers including the Cocoa Farmers Association, National Palm Produce Association of Nigeria, Cashew Farmers Association, AFAN and the Dean, Faculty of Agriculture , Forestry and Wildfire Resources Management, University of Calabar, Prof Ausaji Ayuk commended the leadership of the Ministry for its proactive steps to reach out to the Smallholder farmers in this critical times of the Covid-19 pandemic. In her vote of thanks, Director, Federal Department of Agriculture of the Ministry, Mrs. Karima Babangida, noted that the choice of Cross River State is not out of place as it has contributed significantly to the production of oil palm, cashew cocoa among others to the national economy, ‘is why we want to ensure that they get good quality seeds that will help Nigeria to be self-sufficient in staple food production’’. COVID-19 INTERVENTION: Agric for Food and Job Plan Kicks-Off in Katsina as FG Flags-Off Economic Sustainability Plan The Federal Government has launched the Agriculture for food and job plan AFJP), a major take-off for the agriculture component of the Nigeria Economic and Sustainability Plan (NESP) targeting smallholder farmers. The project would mitigate the negative impact of COVID-19 on the economy and livelihoods of farmers by creating more access to food for and the rapid emergence of competitive food production, processing and distribution in Nigeria. The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Alhaji Muhammad Sabo Nanono stated this during the official launch of the Agriculture for food and job plan(AFJP) in Funtua, Katsina State, today, Thursday 23rd July 2020. Alhaji Sabo Nanono informed that Mr President set up an Economic Sustainability Committee (ESC) chaired by the Vice President, Prof Yemi Osibanjo to fashion out a plan on COVID -19 intervention. Alhaji Nanono said ‘’one of the strategies adopted by the Committee is the Agriculture for Food and Job Plan (AFJP), stating that the Programme will aid the transformation of the Nigerian agriculture from its largely low yielding and subsistent state to a high yielding technology-based farming system’’.Speaking further, he said that the strategies would generate appropriate welfare gains consistent with the Federal Government’s Economic Growth and Recovery Plan (EGRP) and Green Alternative strategies. The Minister said that the plan, “is also in tandem with the three-pronged action plan of the Ministry to deal with the impact of the pandemic on Nigerian agriculture and farmers’’. Nanono explained that ‘’these measures include among others, the life-saving humanitarian assistance to vulnerable households to buffer the impact of COVID-19, such as the release of about 100,000 metric tons of assorted food commodities from the National Food Reserve to several groups and communities”. The Minister highlighted the deliverables of the AFJP as contained in the NESP in 12 months: ” creation of between 5- 10 million jobs in the agric sector, produce about 10,000,000 MT of food, cultivate between 20,000 – 100,000 hectares of land per State based on land availability to an aggregate of 2.4 million farmers tied to farmlands, input financing loan to farmers will be zero interest, land clearing and preparation support, among others “.Accordingly, the Minister, ” this symbolic launch represents over 1,100,000 smallholder farmer-beneficiaries in 36 states and the FCT on the Batch A list under 6 partners namely AFEX, BabanGona, Value Seeds, Universal, Thrive Agric and Oxfam. We will soon be announcing Batch B beneficiaries”, he averred. He lauded the continuous support of OCP AFRICA Fertilizer Limited for its initiative “”in the provision of soil testing equipment and supply of 20 units of OCP branded Motorcycles, Android Tablets and safety of kits to support the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development meant to support Extension Services”.In his Goodwill Message, the Chairman, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, stressed that the Agric sector is the bedrock of the economy and appreciated the efforts of the Federal Government under the Leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari for his visionary policies in the Agric sector. The Chairman, House Committee on Agric. Production Services, Hon. Muntari Danduste, during his Goodwill message, thanked Mr President for providing COVID – 19 Agricultural intervention palliative to the farmers in Katsina State which he said would cushion the effects of the Pandemic on 2020 farming season in the state and the nation at large.In his welcome address, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, Dr. Abdulkadir Mua’zu, represented by the Director, Department of Agriculture Extension, Engr. Frank Kudla said that ‘’ your presence here is an indication of our recognition intervention of the Federal Government of Nigeria and the efforts of the Ministry to reposition Nigerian agricultural system and increase farmers’ resilience to the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated negative impacts. Your continuous support will go a long way in ensuring that the objective of the Agriculture for Food and Job Plan is achieved’’. Dr Mua’zu noted that ‘’our coming together is because we are determined to join forces for action against COVID-19 pandemic, hunger and poverty. I, therefore, implore you all, especially our partners, to work hard to ensure that the core activities of these Project are carried out to a logical conclusion in the coming months’ IN KANO: Agric Minister, Alh. Mohammad Sabo Nanono, earlier in Kano State flags-off 2020 Wet Season Farming for APPEALS Rice Farmers. The Honourable Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development – Alh. Mohammad Sabo Nanono has flagged off the distribution of wet season farming support for improved rice production technologies among rice farmers at Tofai community in Gabasawa Local Government Area of Kano State. The programme is part of the interventions being implemented under the Agro Processing Productivity Enhancement and Livelihood Improvement Support Project (APPEALS) project. Speaking at the event, the Minister – Alh. Nanono said the initiative would support farmers to achieve improved productivity, enhance self-sufficiency and food security in the country. He said: “We have commenced farmer registration exercise to capture their information, number of farmlands and locations. Also, the beneficiaries will be monitored to ensure effective utilisation of the facility, and mobilise participation in subsequent programmes.” Alh. Nanono commended the APPEALS Project for supporting rice farmers in the state, noting that the gesture would go a long way to encourage agricultural activities in the country. The minister urged the beneficiaries to make good use of the of fertiliser, seeds and inputs given to them to boost their production capacity. “If you make proper use of the inputs, you could employ other people and it will enable you to participate in subsequent programmes.” Also speaking, the State Project Coordinator, APPEALS Project in the state, Mr. Hassan Ibrahim, said the project was being executed in a joint collaboration between the World Bank, Federal Government and the six participating states of Kano, Kaduna, Cross River, Enugu, Lagos and Kogi. About 100 farmers drawn from six rice farmer groups participated in the programme in Gabasawa. It is expected that 480 tons of rice would be produced by the selected farmers in Kano State. The State Project Coordinator noted that the gesture was to augment the Federal Government’s policy on agriculture, designed to encourage productivity, enhance farmer enterprising skills, food security and value addition as well as export promotion. FMARD has the mandate to ensure food security in crop, livestock and fisheries, stimulate agricultural employment and services, promote the production and supply of raw materials to agro industries, provide markets for the products of the industrial sector, generate foreign exchange and aid rural socio-economic development” Ernest Umakhihe Assumes Duty as Permanent Secretary Agric. December 31,2020 FG Pledges to Revive Development of Cocoa and Continuous Support to Horticulture Industries in Niger. . . December 15,2020 Kapital Road,Area 11, Abuja, Nigeria	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line829
__label__cc	0.695872	0.304128	Food directory The best picnic spots in Angus, Scotland Hannah Ewan Discover Reekie Linn Falls, the Rocks of Solitude, Edzell Castle and more A carefully prepared picnic deserves a great view to wash it down. In a region crammed with spectacular landscapes, our list of the finest alfresco dining spots will give you a place to start for truly memorable outdoor meals Corrie Fee, Glen Clova OS grid NO284760 Corrie Fee National Nature Reserve is a dramatic amphitheatre cut from the earth by a glacier. A good path leads from the Glen Doll car park (a small charge applies) on a gentle walk to a viewpoint of the corrie. Picnic here, then you can take lighter bags on the steeper route to the waterfall at the back, possibly seeing golden eagles on the way. Loch of Kinnordy OS grid NO3554 One for twitchers, ospreys are a regular summer visitor – look out for them from the three hides. The loch is a nature reserve run by the RSPB, open daily from dawn to dusk. A car park and bike rack are available, or a footpath connects the Loch to Kirriemuir, 1.25 miles away. Reekie Linn Falls One of Scotland’s finest waterfalls (the name means ‘smoking pool’), surrounded by woodland. A car park and picnic site are about 200m away from the falls, next to the River Isla on the B954, then the path to the waterfall follows the rim of a deep gorge with an unprotected 150ft/45m drop – it’s unfenced, so take care with children. Three miles of strawberry blonde sand backed by large dunes, Lunan Bay is on any list of best Scottish beaches. It’s overlooked by the ruins of Red Castle, and reputed for agate and other gemstones turning up amongst the pebbles. There’s car parking behind the dunes, and the beach is popular with horse riders and surfers. St Cyrus Nature Reserve beach Picnickers might be treated to porpoise sightings, as well as a host of seabirds nesting in the cliffs that shelter humans, flora and fauna alike. A visitor centre provides access to the beach, which comes alive with a burst of colour in summer with purple clustered bell-flowers and multitudes of butterflies. Look out for peregrine falcons. The Rocks of Solitude Right on the Highland Boundary Fault, the romantically named Rocks of Solitude is a narrow gorge, through which the North Esk river plunges, occasionally in impressive waterfalls. Most visitors park in picturesque Edzell then take a path from there that follows the river upstream. At the right time of year salmon can be seen leaping up their ladder. Edzell Castle, now ruined, dates from the early 16th century. Once owned by the Lindsays, now by Historic Scotland, the finest feature is the wonderful walled garden, added in 1604 and recreated in the 1930s. Unique in Europe, the original, most intriguing feature, remains intact: four walls carved with intricate allegorical panels. Admission prices apply, and there’s a picnic area. Enter email and password: Best recipe boxes to try Each service offers its own twist on the subscribe, select, receive and cook format. Wild Deodorant Discount Code Get 10% off this natural deodorant – vegan, refillable and aluminium-free HelloFresh - Hello Dinner! Enjoy 40% off your first four recipe boxes – cook fresh, eat well. Recipe Box deals Delicious ingredients delivered to your door — latest discounts	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line831
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__label__cc	0.552181	0.447819	News Research integrity University Affairs Manchester: “research misconduct concerned only one member of the research group” The University of Manchester found out that someone has secretly manipulated data in the papers of their star cancer researcher, Richard Marais. Who might that be? On 16 April 2019, the University of Manchester in UK issued this public announcement: Research misconduct statement The University convened a panel in accordance with the procedures contained within our Code of Practice for Investigating Concerns about the Conduct of Research to investigate an allegation of potential research misconduct. The complaint, which was raised by the Director of the Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute, Professor Richard Marais, concerned discrepancies discovered by the Director relating to data from work conducted in his own research group. [Photo source: CRUK] “The Panel upheld the complaint and determined that it constituted research misconduct under 4.3 (h) of the Code of Practice “Fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, or deception in proposing, carrying out or reporting the results of research.”, specifically fabrication and falsification. Following a review, requested by the individual being investigated, the conclusions of the Panel of Investigation were upheld.“The research misconduct concerned only one member of the research group who left the University in September 2016. The Panel found no evidence during the investigation to suggest any research misconduct by the other members of the research group. In accordance with our procedures, the affected funders, co-authors and journals will be notified and the record of research will be corrected.“The University of Manchester is committed to fostering the highest standards of research integrity and we expect the highest standards of research integrity from the researchers we support. These standards are set out in our Code of Good Research Conduct. Update 28.06.2019: the press release was deleted this week, here a backup from Google cache and a screenshot. A source informed me that the accused scientist might be the Argentinian melanoma cancer researcher Maria Romina Girotti, who used to work in Richard Marais‘s lab between 2011 and 2016, first at the huge cancer research institute ICR London, and then in Manchester. During that time the young shooting star of melanoma research coauthored 20 papers with Marais, including two in Cancer Cell which according to my source might be now up for retraction. Or maybe not, knowing how Cell Press works. Also, a melanoma clinical trial started in Manchester in 2015 based on Girotti’s possibly flawed research, which was celebrated with a Young Investigator award from European Cancer Organisation in 2015. That phase 1 clinical trial is now completed according to update from 12 June 2019, according to ClinicalTrials website, but no results have been posted yet. Maybe Girotti’s discoveries never led anywhere, since since the update in 2016 its “recruiting” status was dropped. As aside, the University of Manchester is a special place where research integrity seems to be applied on a case-by-case basis. Almost exactly 10 years ago, a huge fraud affair shook Germany, when the pseudonymous image integrity sleuth Clare Francis blew the whistle on the immunologist Silvia Bulfone-Paus. At the end of the affair, two Russian postdocs got the blame, while Bulfone-Paus resigned from her tenured position as director of Research Centre Borstel and retracted 12 papers. Also her husband Ralf Paus was investigated, which proved tricky because the guilty Russians were not among coauthors of manipulated papers. You know where this is going, right? Bulfone Paus (just like her husband) is professor at University of Manchester, she is even funded by Cancer Research UK (if you recall, Marais is director of the local CRUK institute). But now back to the Manchester’s most photogenic former researcher Girotti, who never replied to my email. There was also a British Association of Cancer Research Translational Award for her in 2015, and an award from Society for Melanoma Research, and another Early Career Research Award from the Biochemical Society, which followed in 2016. Girotti was quoted: “I am absolutely thrilled to receive this award. I would like to thank my supervisor Prof Richard Marais for nominating me and for being such an amazing mentor. To work in his team is a privilege one and certainly one of the most important steps in my scientific career”. Found in Google cache, but the source, Girotti’s Twitter profile, is gone. Girotti is presently named as professor at the Argentinean Enterprise University (UADE) and is employed at a CONICET research institute in Buenos Aires in her home country Argentina, where she is listed as member of the team of the immunologist and cancer researcher Gabriel Rabinovich. Less than 3 weeks ago Rabinovich posed with Girotti for a photo-op on the occasion of their recent common paper in Cancer Cell, Segovia et al 2019. Interestingly, as soon as I wrote to Rabinovich, the lab’s website went completely offline and came back after I tweeted at Rabinovich with an archived copy. Girotti’s personal Twitter profile (which had no new tweets for some time) was deleted permanently. Her company G4h (Genes for Health), which she runs together with her husband, another UADE professor, is still online. ¡Feliz día #Biotecnólogos de @UADEoficial y todo el mundo! Flor Veigas y Yamil Mahmoud son excelentes ejemplos del perfil que puede adoptar este profesional en el área de la salud. Felicitaciones por este gran logro junto al Dr Rabinovich y la Dra Girotti https://t.co/Id82IzvGee pic.twitter.com/wRWRRhfaB0 — Federico Prada (@FedePrada) June 16, 2019 My source informed me that two big papers are set for retraction due to fabricated mouse data. Which suggests it might be these papers: Girotti MR, Lopes F, Preece N, Niculescu-Duvaz D, Zambon A, Davies L, Whittaker S, Saturno G, Viros A, Pedersen M, Suijkerbuijk BMJM, Menard D, McLeary R, Johnson L, Fish L, Ejiama S, Sanchez-Laorden B, Hohloch J, Carragher N, Macleod K, Ashton G, Marusiak AA, Fusi A, Brognard J, Frame M, Lorigan P, Marais R, Springer C. Paradox-Breaking RAF Inhibitors that Also Target SRC Are Effective in Drug-Resistant BRAF Mutant Melanoma. Cancer Cell. 2017 Mar 13;31(3):466. doi: 10.1016/j.ccell.2017.02.007. Girotti MR, Lopes F, Preece N, Niculescu-Duvaz D, Zambon A, Davies L, Whittaker S, Saturno G, Viros A, Pedersen M, Suijkerbuijk BM, Menard D, McLeary R, Johnson L, Fish L, Ejiama S, Sanchez-Laorden B, Hohloch J, Carragher N, Macleod K, Ashton G, Marusiak AA, Fusi A, Brognard J, Frame M, Lorigan P, Marais R, Springer C. Cancer Cell. 2015 Jan 12;27(1):85-96. doi: 10.1016/j.ccell.2014.11.006. The last author Caroline Springer, who also moved to Manchester from ICR London, did not reply to my emails (admittedly those were short notices). Her latter paper with Girotti was already corrected in 2016 for image duplication: “The authors have noted an error in Figure 6A of the originally published version of this article. The image for pERK (top right panel) was incorrectly duplicated from Figure 4E (top right panel). The corrected Figure 6 is shown here. This error does not alter the original conclusions of the study, but the authors wish to apologize for this oversight and any confusion that may have resulted.” Maybe the conclusions are affected after all, in view of the recent misconduct findings? A paper in Nature from Marais lab, Viros et al 2014, coauthored by Girotti, was corrected in 2015 for an error in the transcribed sequence of a mutated allele. Marais himself was exonerated from all suspicion according to the press release of his university. Which is just as well, since the director of the Cancer Research UK (CRUK) Manchester Institute was recently put forward as President of American Association for cancer Research (AACR), an enormous status achievement which cannot be tainted by any misconduct association. Marais was not elected in any case. The only communication I received from him was this, 3 weeks after I originally wrote to him asking about Girotti’s role: “As the complainant in this case I have handed the matter to the University of Manchester Research Governance, Ethics and Integrity Team and it would therefore be inappropriate for me to comment”. Marais never replied since. Incidentally, many of Marais’ common papers with Girotti appeared in AACR journals, most often in Cancer Discovery. Shall we assume these are perfectly reliable then, like this paper: Maria R. Girotti, Malin Pedersen, Berta Sanchez-Laorden, Amaya Viros, Samra Turajlic, Dan Niculescu-Duvaz, Alfonso Zambon, John Sinclair, Andrew Hayes, Martin Gore, Paul Lorigan, Caroline Springer, James Larkin, Claus Jorgensen, Richard Marais Inhibiting EGF Receptor or SRC Family Kinase Signaling Overcomes BRAF Inhibitor Resistance in Melanoma Cancer Discovery (2013) doi: 10.1158/2159-8290.cd-12-0386 But what about Marais’ other papers where Girotti was not a coauthor, in fact even from the times before she joined his lab? There is an interesting PubPeer record, it is a pity University of Manchester decided not to look that way. Two collaborative papers are very problematic (here and here), but also those straight from Marais lab are not always paradigms of exemplary figure assembly practice. Mostly there is a lot of gel splicing, not always acceptable even by the standards of the time. But this paper (discussed on PubPeer), published in an AACR journal by AACR’s presidential candidate, needs particular attention: Victoria Emuss , Mathew Garnett , Clive Mason , Richard Marais Mutations of C-RAF are rare in human cancer because C-RAF has a low basal kinase activity compared with B-RAF Cancer Research (2005) doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-05-1683 What we are expected to believe is that we see the same western blot, probed for total C-RAF protein (top, also serves as its own loading control) and for phosphorylated C-RAF (bottom). That is obviously not true, because the bottom image is spliced, meaning it shows a different gel (or maybe even two gels) spliced. Worse, someone chose to remove or “adjust” the signal in the last lane (RAS) of the total C-RAF blot using a rectangular patch in Photoshop. This is blatant data manipulation. But then again, in that paper the authors apparently committed it willy-nilly, for no other reason than to pretend that an experiment was done more than once: Another non-Girotti paper from Marais lab, Tang et al Nature Communications 2017, was criticised on PubPeer because the published figures did not match the raw data (the Nature family journal require deposition of full-size original gel images, a very useful feature): “Figure 4j: the pY1068EGFR blot does not correspond with the other blots. Figure 1c: the LOX blots seem to be retrieved from a different gel when comparing with the corresponding blots, please see the raw data supplied. Supplementary figure 1c: raw data indicates that different parts of the blots have been used. E.g. lanes 2-4 are used for the py1068EGFR blot, but lanes 4-6 are used for the other corresponding blots. Supplementary figure 3f: similar issue as suppl figure 1c. Raw data shows that different parts of the blots have been used, and the blots have different number of lanes. Therefore LOX, MATN2 and GAPDH cannot have been run on the same gel.” Basically, total and phospho-proteins were analysed on different gels and the loading control was run on yet another gel, instead of probing each gel for equal loading as in fact Nature journals expect from their authors. A questionable research practice which not only does not account for technicalities of western blot, but also demands enormous trust in the authors’ personal scientific integrity. It is rather obvious that this unorthodox approach to western blot analysis did not happen behind Morais back. One can reasonably expect him to read at least those papers from his lab submitted to elite journals like Cancer Cell and Nature Communications. Maybe this relaxed attitude to controls is what makes for such breakthrough discoveries and such a stellar career in cancer research? This is @rominagirotti, a @CR_UK scientist in Manchester. She's helping us to beat skin cancer #Makeithappen #IWD2015 pic.twitter.com/o4NR70KhUV — CRUK Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds (@CRUKManchester) March 8, 2015 Marais arrived to the University of Manchester from ICR London, where he once coauthored a manipulated paper Sharp et al 2007, in AACR journal Cancer Research. Last author was ICR London President Paul Workman, while one co-investigator on the aforementioned melanoma clinical trial in London is Udai Banerji, another ICR professor and close collaborator of Workman. After my reporting nudged ICR to at least correct some of Workman’s papers, Banerji and Workman acted as unofficial internal investigators of their own papers and quickly flushed out the real perpetrators, namely their female colleagues. Banerji even went so far as boldly to explain on PubPeer how cancer research is done properly: “parallel gels were run and blotted with the […] antibodies. This is a common, reliable and widely accepted approach when the proteins being analysed are close in molecular weight” Common and widely accepted at ICR London maybe. Now you know why these scientists are swamped in grant and charity money, while you pathetic loser toil with your ridiculous loading controls. Correction: in the earlier article version, Marais was named as AACR president-elect. He was only put forward as candidate. Because I received no further emails and no requests to keep the communications confidential, I am quoting those first hand sources messages from 18.06.2019, which replace the earlier update. Romina Girotti wrote to me this: “I am innocent of the findings the University has reported and I am a victim of the procedure started by the Director of the Institute. I would be grateful if you refrain to keep this post online, which is an attack on my reputation, until my further contact as I want to be able to tell my side of the story. I am not able to share with you at this stage the grounds for my appeal but the investigation process has been biased, unfair and based on a factual error. The University says I have to wait for the outcome of this appeal and, either result, I would be happy to talk to you at a later stage. I would like to mention that Professor Gabriel Rabinovich is not involved in any way in this case.” Gabriel Rabinovich wrote this: “I was certainly shocked with the news. As you mentioned in your article, this affair took place when Dr. Girotti was performing her postdoctoral training in Manchenster. When she contacted us after her postdoc, we got excellent recommendations and based on her outstanding CV she applied to the Scientific Carreer and was promoted directly as Adjunct Researcher. Unfortunately, I can´t give you an opinion on this affair at this time as I am not aware of the details that led to this situation when Romina was doing her postdoc in the UK. We will of course keep an eye on this.” There have been no other communications from the persons mentioned in this article (Girotti later retrospectively declared her email confidential though). Update 12.07.2019. I informed CRUK leadership about the accusations of bullying and data manipulations in the many comments below. I eventually received this reply from Iain Foulkes, Executive Director Research & Innovation, CRUK: “Thank you for your email and for making us aware of the anonymous posts on your blog relating to the CRUK Manchester Institute. CRUK expects all people involved in our research to treat each other with dignity and respect, and we consider bullying and harassment of any kind, in any context, unacceptable. We have a clear policy on bullying within the research environment (Dignity at Work in Research) and expect Host Institutions to investigate any allegations that are made to them. Anyone working under a CRUK grant who has a complaint should report it to their employer, who, under the terms of our policy are obliged to investigate. Given the nature of the allegations raised in your email, we intend to pass your email to the University of Manchester.” Don’t hold your breath though. Marais and his colleagues just received £25m in Government funding to build a new cancer research centre: “The new research facility, currently known as the Paterson Redevelopment Project (PRP), will be built at The Christie on the site of the old Paterson building, which suffered fire damage in April 2017″ Now we know why University of Manchester deleted ‘that’ press release, because they have a better one now. It also turns out, Marais (who is busy censoring his Wikipedia entry) is very well capable of doing public statements, he is quoted with: “I am absolutely thrilled. This significant funding announcement is an exciting step towards creating a world class facility and a vibrant environment for researchers, clinicians and external partners to work together. “I am extremely proud of the work we are doing in Manchester, which is creating a strong legacy in cancer research. The new facility will attract scientists from around the world and make a huge difference in the way cancer is diagnosed and treated.” Update 1.08.2019. Now we know why University of Manchester deleted the press release: Girotti’s lawyers succeeded. This message was circulated by CRUK MI chief operating officer, Caroline Wilkinson, highlight mine: “The University has received a challenge to the research misconduct process from solicitors instructed by the former member of staff who was the subject of that [misconduct] case. Whilst the University disputes the grounds of the challenge advanced by the solicitors, it recognises the impact of the issues to all concerned. The University has therefore taken the decision to quash (i.e. cancel) the findings of the research misconduct reached in the recent process to enable the University to consider afresh the allegations of research misconduct under the University’s Code of Practice for Investigating Concerns about the Conduct of Research. In accordance with the Code of Practice, the process will be conducted under the presumption of innocence. In the meantime, the University has requested that the relevant journals take no action in relation to the published papers until the resolution of the University’s processes.” TagsArgentina • cancer research • Cell • Cell Press • clinical trial • data manipulation • Maria Romina Girotti • misconduct • Richard Marais • United Kingdom 201 comments on “Manchester: “research misconduct concerned only one member of the research group”” “At the end of the affair, two Russian postdocs got the blame, while Bulfone-Paus resigned from her tenured position as director of Research Centre Borstel and retracted 12 papers.” 13 retractions. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=bulfone-paus%20retracted https://retractionwatch.com/2011/12/13/bulfone-paus-retraction-count-grows-to-13-with-one-in-transplantation/ https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/new-retraction-of-paper-by-husband-and-wife-research-team/418431.article https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/researchers/nancy-rothwell(23ace82e-99f1-4bd6-b54a-d7f66854ac0c).html Dame Nancy Rothwell, vice-chancellor of Manchester Univeristy was a useful hook. Correction here: https://pubpeer.com/publications/CE88BF78111665434427069CBF8CD0 First author, Sinead Miggin, now on three retractions, and her Ph D supervisor, B Therese Kinsella on six retractions. https://pubpeer.com/search?q=sinead+miggin https://pubpeer.com/search?q=therese+kinsella https://retractionwatch.com/2018/08/10/researcher-and-biotech-founder-in-ireland-issues-four-retractions/ Btw, one Ph D retracted. https://retractionwatch.com/2015/11/20/irish-university-strips-student-of-phd-following-investigation/ Hats off to Nancy Rothwell !!! Homing (metastasizing) to the University of Manchester. Somebody could do a study on the genetics of that. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/paul.townsend.html “I am a fully tenured Principal Investigator, Associate Dean of Business Engagement, co-Director of Manchester Centre for Cellular Metabolism, I am Professor of Molecular Cell Biology, Division of Cancer Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre, University of Manchester. I act as one of the key university conduits for the CRUK Manchester Institute, Medicines Discovery Catapult and I am the Industry Lead for thr Manchester BRC and Manchester academic lead for Singapore. I am also a PI in the Manchester Cancer Research Centre and hold adjunct professorships in Athens and Singapore.” Also very impressive. STAT-1 facilitates the ATM activated checkpoint pathway following DNA damage. Townsend PA, Cragg MS, Davidson SM, McCormick J, Barry S, Lawrence KM, Knight RA, Hubank M, Chen PL, Latchman DS, Stephanou A. J Cell Sci. 2005 Apr 15;118(Pt 8):1629-39. Epub 2005 Mar 22. Retraction in: J Cell Sci. 2015 Mar 1;128(5):1064. ERK and the F-box protein betaTRCP target STAT1 for degradation. Soond SM, Townsend PA, Barry SP, Knight RA, Latchman DS, Stephanou A. J Biol Chem. 2008 Jun 6;283(23):16077-83. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M800384200. Epub 2008 Mar 31. Retraction in: J Biol Chem. 2018 Mar 30;293(13):4954. Cardiac release of urocortin precedes the occurrence of irreversible myocardial damage in the rat heart exposed to ischemia/reperfusion injury. Knight RA, Chen-Scarabelli C, Yuan Z, McCauley RB, Di Rezze J, Scarabelli GM, Townsend PA, Latchman D, Saravolatz L, Faggian G, Mazzucco A, Chowdrey HS, Stephanou A, Scarabelli TM. FEBS Lett. 2008 Mar 19;582(6):984-90. doi: 10.1016/j.febslet.2008.02.035. Epub 2008 Feb 22. Retraction in: FEBS Lett. 2018 Feb;592(4):657. The carboxyl-terminal activation domain of the STAT-1 transcription factor enhances ischemia/reperfusion-induced apoptosis in cardiac myocytes. Stephanou A, Scarabelli TM, Townsend PA, Bell R, Yellon D, Knight RA, Latchman DS. FASEB J. 2002 Nov;16(13):1841-3. Epub 2002 Sep 5. Retraction in: FASEB J. 2018 Apr;32(4):2315. It is good to see (at least) that even after 10 years of publication, the issue was taken serious. REX RICTOR QUOTING https://d1ijoxngr27nfi.cloudfront.net/enterprise/23255.pdf : “The LOX drug discovery programme is led by Professor Caroline Springer (Institute of Cancer Research, ICR) and Professor Richard Marais (Paterson Institute). The ICR, together with its partner institution, the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, forms the largest comprehensive cancer centre in Europe and one of the largest in the world. The ICR and the Marsden together conduct research across the whole spectrum of cancer studies from basic biology to clinical trials. Professor Springer is part of the Cancer Research UK Centre for Cancer Therapeutics at the ICR, a renowned drug discovery unit that has developed many novel anticancer drugs. Professor Marais is director of the Paterson Institute in Manchester.” Was this 10-20 million pounds? In 2007 Marais recruited Dr. Erler to The ICR as a LOX expert. It seems there was some issues with the LOX research he based his drug discovery work on, see: https://retractionwatch.com/2018/03/22/figures-in-cancer-paper-at-root-of-newly-failed-compound-called-into-question/ and https://forbetterscience.com/2018/08/13/janine-erler-dossiers-which-erc-doesnt-want/ There seems to be more problems at Manchester….from Caroline Dive https://pubpeer.com/publications/B48D7E0BE55D41581E33E20CC84BEC AACR board has been informed about this post. Alison Backen Hello Milly, I am really surprised to hear this. What results of mine have you not been able to replicate? I take it you are based in Caroline Dive’s lab? I would be delighted to help you, please don’t hesitate to contact me. I am now based next door at The Christie, I am easy to find. This blog is an interesting read, but it is worth nothing that the vast majority of scientists work exhaustingly long hours to make sure data is produced and interpreted correctly. In a cancer research institute, the most important thing at the end of the day is improving outcomes for patients. I urge every single scientist to spend some time in a clinic seeing first-hand what our Christie patients face and how we can help them. It is a great privilege to be able to do this, but hugely inspiring. Remember a “failed” post-doc is almost always an honest one… You might want to examine articles with Michela Garofalo (CRUK Manchester) as an author (Pubpeer, retractions/corrections in PubMed, etc.). https://www.cruk.manchester.ac.uk/Our-Research/Transcriptional-Networks-in-Lung-Cancer “Michela completed her undergraduate degree in Biology at the University Federico II of Naples in Italy. She obtained her PhD in 2008 from the same University, in Professor G. Condorelli’s laboratory, elucidating the molecular mechanisms involved in the resistance to apoptotic cell death induction in different types of tumours. From 2008 to 2011, she trained as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Professor Carlo Croce’s laboratory at the Ohio State University, advancing the understanding of the role of non-coding RNAs in cancer progression and development. ” The offical bio and the publications here seem to match (Naples with G Condorelli, and Ohio with Carlo Croce) the publications in this list: https://pubpeer.com/search?q=michela+garofalo First one on the list received a 2019 “Expression of Concern” from PLoS One.. https://pubpeer.com/publications/0DD8F65D7A38CF77B5F3EF3D47AC73 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0213701 This is much less than Paul “4 retractions” Townsend, or Silvia “13 retractions” Bulfone-Paus. Correction. Also one retraction for M Garofalo (with G Condorelli, Naples, and CM Croce, Ohio). Cell Death Differ. 2010 Dec;17(12):1908-16. doi: 10.1038/cdd.2010.65. Epub 2010 May 28. c-FLIPL enhances anti-apoptotic Akt functions by modulation of Gsk3β activity. Quintavalle C1, Incoronato M, Puca L, Acunzo M, Zanca C, Romano G, Garofalo M, Iaboni M, Croce CM, Condorelli G. PMID: 20508645 DOI: 10.1038/cdd.2010.65 https://pubpeer.com/publications/3509E071846676BD6154FE04D29234 2017 retraction notice. https://www.nature.com/articles/cdd20177 “The Editors have agreed to retract the above article in Cell Death and Differentiation (2010) 17, 1908–1916, due to the use of a mismatched image in control lanes of Figure 2c However, the authors wish to note that the results reported in Figure 2c have been reported and confirmed in Figure 2f of the same manuscript. The authors are convinced of the reproducibility of the data presented, which will be resubmitted for publication using the correct panel for Figure 2c. The authors apologize to the scientific community for any inconveniences caused.” http://retractionwatch.com/2017/01/24/journal-retracts-paper-due-image-mismatch-one-co-author-alleges-fraud/ “The second to last author — Carlo Croce, chair of the department of cancer biology and genetics at The Ohio State University — told us he believes there’s more to the retraction than what the notice says. Specifically, he said that the paper includes an image from a previous paper by the same authors, which he called “fraud.”” University of Manchester selects for sharp practices, or is it all by accident? https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/giulio.cossu.html Retraction. https://pubpeer.com/publications/AB80E71643927DEBA9F13E4205B68C http://retractionwatch.com/2013/01/22/clare-francis-scores-a-bullseye-journal-of-cell-biology-paper-retracted-for-image-manipulation/ Problematic data:- https://pubpeer.com/publications/392265D7535DE6DB3EED0F72D4A6F8#1 https://pubpeer.com/publications/A4168ADB87553539116CF3AB4BD133#2 https://pubpeer.com/publications/E9786163A9AD093A66D7DE157CD04A https://pubpeer.com/publications/B6E202C1F7161D75E9CFF8361E2207 https://pubpeer.com/publications/C53B6A55BE851E5D737309DB770E56 https://pubpeer.com/publications/590A8E9E9CF113C8F466BEFFF95A91 https://pubpeer.com/publications/AE05FF735AEC11C696D4F7223E0EB0 https://pubpeer.com/publications/26897D3641934C5544D0D53C689560 https://pubpeer.com/publications/FE89EEF497B7B07DABCBDEFA63EF2C https://pubpeer.com/publications/3ED214C9172D59B0CF554CE49038F4 Deeply concerned OK. So you find some anomalies for a few scientists now at Manchester. Do you have any idea of the tens of thousands of studies the have been published by the rest and the high international esteem of its staff. Get some perspective why don’t you. And does anything change? Do they ever hand back their gongs, their accolades, their prizes, their fellowships or appointments? Or do they just keep claiming their six-figure salaries while enjoying all the plaudits, power and esteem. Perhaps it doesn’t matter the odd retracted paper among so many others. But do their big achievements really offset the damage they do to public trust in science? Does it matter that they suck up all the funding and create unrealistic expectations of what can be achieved in a few years, through fabricating, hyping and spinning findings? So much work unfunded while millions go to a few people who seem incapable of following what’s going on closely anymore in their labs. What inspires them finally: money, esteem, power or the pursuit of truth and the desire to lift mankind? Does it matter the millions of charity donations, taxpayers contributions and shareholders profit wasted on snake oil? The false hope and hazard for patients entering trials based on quackery? Is this the portrait of a successful scientist for CRUK and University of Manchester? A role model for future scientists? 6 figure salary in the USA not in UK research institutes where science is badly paid. CRUK Institute directors earn in excess of £200k ferniglab Not that badly paid – well over £100 k for such people, likely by a multiple. It appears that analyses on different gels and the loading control was run on yet another gel, instead of probing each gel for equal loading seems to be a common practice… https://pubpeer.com/publications/0FC6F73BD768E84781B33A523DACE4 oh well, loading control library is not a problem for Diabetes and Cell Death and Disease, and a handful of other journals. See the earlier post by Leonid. Actually I don’t know of a single case where a paper was corrected because loading controls were from a different gel (duplicated loading controls are different issue) It appears that blot mis-match is not restricted to loading controls but also for phospho-protein and total protein for several blots in several figures in this paper. this article would be better if written with less arrogance and sensationalism So you’re an apologist for malpractice and fraud Anything to please my paymasters, dear London friend. Working at ICR, perchance? How much public money went into those Cancer Cell papers now found fraudulent? Anyway, here you have an example of scicomm without arrogance or sensationalism: http://www.cruk.manchester.ac.uk/news?newsId=94 Marais receives 100.000s-millions of Pounds annually from Private Donors, CRUK and Government programmes. Wellcome Trust has invested heavily in his drug development projects. As part of that there are fundraising events where one can only assume people are being misled and lied to, same with patients. Perhaps some of this should be referred to a public prosecutor ? Marais is a bully and mistreats his team members on a regular basis. He creates a environment of fear and high pressure to produce data. Recently, he has introduced gagging orders for his team members to protect himself legally. Is this what CRUK stands for? Reply to BC To paraphrase somebody you may have heard of in the U.K. : being “tough on sensationalism” is not enough, you need to be “tough on the causes of sensationalism”. Leonid has used material which is readily observable, and produced by CRUK. Are the CRUK, or the University of Manchester, going to criticise journalists for not towing the party line? If so it would not be new. It happened in Liverpool. The BBSRC, a branch the the U.K. civil service, i.e. government, criticises a press report by the Times Higher Education: http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/news/policy/2011/111110-n-janet-allen-resignation.aspx “Statement on media coverage of Janet Allen’s resignation from BBSRC BBSRC would like to make clear that it informed the Times Higher Education prior to its story of 10 November 2011, that the circumstances of Janet Allen’s resignation as Director of Research are categorically in no way related to allegations being made against Alirio Melendez. Janet has left BBSRC for personal reasons. It is invidious to suggest that this should bring into question her integrity. During Janet Allen’s time as Director of Research for BBSRC her achievements were many and covered every aspect of the Council’s Strategic Plan – Basic Bioscience Underpinning Health, Bioenergy and Industrial Biotechnology, Exploiting New Ways of Working and Global Food Security.” The Times Higher Education report http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=418084&c=1 Just because the BBSRC “informed the Times Higher Education prior to its story of the 10 November 2001” does not mean that the Times Higher Education has to believe the BBSRC. The questions surrounding the 12 papers co-authored by AJ Melendez and JM Allen still need to be answered. If the BBSRC reads it own press release is simply says “Statement “, there is nothing about veracity, just authority. FYI, AJ Melendez ended up as a professor at the University of Liverpool, 35 miles west of Manchester. It does happen in a neighbourhood near you. https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/liverpool-university-academic-professor-alirio-3362448 https://retractionwatch.com/2013/12/03/melendez-notches-retraction-14-lemus-now-stands-at-12/ Indeed Melendez was recruited here in Liverpool. I did post something at the time his fraud came to light https://ferniglab.wordpress.com/2012/02/29/research-integrity-ii/ What is interesting is that his papers were read by a now retired senior colleague of mine who was eagle eyed for this sort of thing, and he was quite shocked when the initial fraud was reported in the now defunct (and lamented!) ‘Science Fraud” site, because he missed seeing it. So even if you do perform due diligence, you may not notice fraud. Hence these issues coming to light after some years, when a better pair of eyes is on the case. There are lessons from the Melendez saga, which include: 1. There are well documented papers he was to associated with at NUS where nothing has happened, so his claims to be a scapegoat have some merit, at least in the sense it wasn’t only him. The secrecy surrounding investigations and their outcome is irksome and causes problems. This may relate to the possibility of legal challenge and the worry institutions have regarding the effect this may have on their reputation or finances and this is something that need remedying. It is too common for the junior and/or person born overseas to carry all the blame. While in an isolated instance raid is likely to be the work of a single person, in the more pervasive cases, such as those catalogued above, it cannot be the work of one person. Leonid has documented a number of such instances and it might be interesting to analyse the data in this light. Eileen Dover Twenty publications in five years! If it looks to good to be true, it probably is to good to be true. Wonder what kind of lab culture it takes to lead to serial data manipulators? 20 papers in 5 years may not be unrealistic, if you are an active PI with many parallel projects and collaborations: in many of them you are a contributing author. If all these 20 papers are high IF research articles and you are the senior author in all of them: now that seems unrealistic. I think Donnas description above is 100% correct. I have heard this from several people from his lab and know he also treat some PIs like this. In addition he has threatened other people including students with the police. Reply to ferniglab “It is too common for the junior and/or person born overseas to carry all the blame” https://forbetterscience.com/2019/05/14/edinburgh-saves-bird-men-from-clutches-of-bulgarian-jezebel/ If it’s not and old boys’ club what is it? Well done Donna and Benjamin for speaking out. It’s frightening talking truth to power. No point complaining to HR; they’re all scared witless too. And thanks Leonid for providing this forum. Science needs a #MeToo moment to get its house in order. I only hope that the mainstream media pick up on this so we can start a wider debate. BULLYING, HECTORING, BELITTLING, PATRONISING, CONTROLLING ARE WRONG. But how did we get here? Scientists like Marais are feted like rock stars. There’s also a growing winner take all mentality with a few individuals receiving multiple multi-million pound awards. All of which has been mandated by Paul Nurse and encouraged by funders like CRUK as it gives good press and supposedly empowers the most talented individuals. But they’ve created a powder keg in which investigators are retained on rolling tenure, having to attain ridiculous levels of funding and publications to keep their jobs. But at what cost? We see it here and elsewhere: https://retractionwatch.com/2015/06/12/nature-retraction-resignation-result-after-lung-cancer-cell-lines-cannot-be-those-specified/ https://retractionwatch.com/2012/09/05/glasgows-beatson-institute-investigating-circumstances-of-cell-retraction-for-inappropriate-images/ https://retractionwatch.com/2019/04/11/authors-have-papers-in-nature-and-science-retracted-on-the-same-day/ Time for CRUK to embrace DORA https://sfdora.org and not just pay it lip service. Time too for it to condemn bullying and stamp it out. Let’s see if https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/funding-for-researchers/research-features/2018-10-18-dignity-at-work-in-research applies to Institute directors. Science is a serious business for grown ups and gentlefolk. Funny pseudonyms you have, Dover! But shame on you for referencing Retraction Watch for Abderrahmane Kaidi story which was originally plagiarised (by BBC!) from my site. https://forbetterscience.com/2018/09/17/abder-kaidi-fraud-and-bullying-scandal-unravelling/ Sometimes, when I read your posts, I think: really you guys do all of these things to keep scientific literature pure and correct? I mean: really the advancement of “true” science is your ultimate goal?! I don’t want to judge you guys, but sometimes it looks like you enjoy to see someone else is humiliated, regardless of if he or she is guilty of research misconduct or not… Even in criminal courts, when the jurists are 100% sure that someone is guilty of a crime, they give the accused a chance to defend himself/herself and his/her talks to be heard, but here, correct or not, you guys judge other people and ruin their life. I mean: OK, some fucking blots are duplicated maybe, but who cares?! society at the general level?! I’m pretty sure society doesn’t give a shit to your thoughts… I talked to several researchers about the general concept of this blog and they were like: WTF?! It might interest you that I stood trial in court in Macchiarini affair, several times. I was NEVER allowed to defend myself before I was sentenced as a criminal. These are active doctors. Courts wanted to make sure patients never hear of what these doctors did. Quiet frankly, nobody might care about a western blot or two. But if whole clinical trials and further approaches to cancer treatments are obscured by these western blots and manipulated mouse data, then yes, it does matter!!! You are saying that the comments on this blog are humiliating the accused. Do you know how many PhD students and PostDocs and have been humiliated and intimidated to tears in front of their lab mates during meetings by Marais? Both Marais and Girotti were asked by Leonid by email to share their view, but they did not take the opportunity. Unfortunately, in academia people like him are not forced out easily. Even in cases of formal complaints, the perpetrators don’t really face any consequences. That’s it’s important that these cases of miscount and violations of basic employment laws are made public!! I know what you mean Donna, but right or wrong these people have reputation, connection, money, support, etc. that make them invincible. For you Leonid: Do you think it is a sane thing to do to engage with these powerful jerks like Macchiarini and be sentenced to criminal for basically something that nobody will care? Particularly, for Macchiarini case, if he killed some patients, why you should stand in the court and not the family of deceased patients to accuse Macchiarini? I was sentenced in court because everyone else wrote and said only good things about Philipp Jungebluth, and Heike & Thorsten Walles. Check German media. This is how their patients find them. Lucy Lastic I totally agree Mike. Marais has been exonerated. Besides, with so many great achievements under his belt, he should be allowed the odd mistake. It’s the price for greatness. And besides, some people you just have to degrade to bring the best out of them. These guys are all losers thinking they might change the system. @Mike look at the data presented then judge yourself. If you don’t see fraud you are not a scientist. I’m not saying I don’t see any fraud but I’m saying, OK, who cares?! Even other scientists don’t care… Hey Mikey. You’re awful quiet. I miss your pearls of wisdom. Are you too busy making up western imaging blots to come out to play. For a guy who supposedly doesn’t care about this stuff, wonder what brought you to this site? Guilty conscience? Maybe the guys at PubPeer can give you a clean bill of health? Fraud matters and most of us, scientists or not care. Science has to be ethical otherwise we end up with ‘MMR causes autism’ and ‘CRISPR’d babies’. Grow a pair Mikey. Morty That is exacly the problem of today’s research. Too many people like Mike simply don’t care. Why then do you read Leonid’s blog? Too many “researchers” are not scientist but loosers searching for prestige and acceptance in the society. Walking proud around in the lab with a lab coat and pretend to do something meaningful. So damn pathetic. I read this blog because personally I care about these stuffs but when I talk about these topics to my colleagues, they just laugh and say you are just wasting your time by reading these geeky blogs… My main purpose is that: when the mainstream of research society see the people of this blog as some kind of crazy people, how could we be optimistic toward changing the research society behavior and reduce the number of fraudsters? Marais has in 2007 falsely accused two PhD students at ICR of stealing laptops and threatened with police and to send CCTV records. Later it turned out the students had been to the nearby gym. No wonder if his people are bullied. False accusation can happen at any workplace, and anyway, anybody can make mistakes. It is not bullying. It is when he knew it was a false allegation meant to intimidate. The fellows should go to HR if they feel intimidated, and if it is not enough, still can ask for legal help. Today such things are taken serious, although workplace is still not a soul & spa service. Maybe in a few years 🙂 But if they were in the gym, probably they also got the balls to live with such a horrible intimidation. HR are useless in this regard. Their only apparent function is to ensure the smooth running of the staus quo for this in Senior Management. Complaints magically disappear and there is a continual of denial of facts and evidence. Everyone is too terrified to speak out loud here. Marais has bullied and harassed every single person who has crossed the doors of his lab and his Institute where people are secretly whispering that he sacrificed a person to save himself – ie he needed a scapegoat and much handier if the scapegoat had left his lab some years back. Dig out the complaints against him at the ICR and get your information together Leonid!!. You might not find much in Manchester, the gagging and fear policy applies to all who work there. Going to HR and/or legal aid = end of your job. Maybe CRUK should be reminded of their own policy: https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/funding-for-researchers/applying-for-funding/policies-that-affect-your-grant/policy-on-dignity-at-work-in-research At CRUK, we expect all people involved in our research to treat each other with dignity and respect, and we consider bullying and harassment of any kind, in any context, unacceptable. @Donna – breaking into tears was the minimum toll. I have known Caroline Springer for over two decades now. She is the most sinister and awful person I’ve ever met. She mistreats her team in an even more disgusting way than Marais does. Maybe, as Leonid said, something went wrong in the trial and they are trying to save their asses?? Her ex hubby, Richard Marais (married for over a decade with Caroline), would do anything for her. He even asked the former Drug Discovery Head at CRUK MI to quit so he could make space for his dearest Caroline to lead the Drug Discovery Unit in Manchester!!. It’s sickening but we, of course, understand that he has to pay her back the 52 papers they coauthored as senior authors together. But hey! kudos to Richard for making Caroline leave the ICR after a lifetime there. Someone should take action now to stop these people before is too late. She has forced her postdocs to delete entire datasets. Her LOX inhibitors program is a total farce. She would sacrificed her mother before admitting an error in her shitty compounds. Please investigate what happened with the former Marais/Springer postdoc HaoRan Tang (first author in a Nature Comms paper). Also investigate Caroline Dive and all of Caroline Springer publications, they are full of crap. Sue Thsayer If they can just get it licensed, they’ll be laughing all the way to the bank. Thereafter it can fail in trials. Nature Communications volume 8, Article number: 14909 (2017) Competing interests: H.T., L.L., D.N.-D., C.S. and R.M. have filed a patent application which includes the therapeutic use of CCT365623. All authors H.T., L.L., G.S., A.V., D.S., G.D.L., E.M., D.N.-D., F.L., L.J., N.D., C.S. and R.M. could benefit financially if CCT365623 is licenced, as part of a reward scheme for employees at ICR and CRUK MI. WonderWoman (WW) And this guy is a Royal Fellow !!!?!?!? https://royalsociety.org/people/richard-marais-13828/ Perhaps fighting this monster is only a job for Dames and OBEs? Perhaps they are the only ones who can help to make the voices of those silenced to be heard? C’mon Dame Nancy Rothwell!! you should intervene here !! https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/nancy.rothwell.html You should also get involved Michelle Mitchell OBE !!! https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-us/how-we-are-run/chief-executive-and-executive-board It is starting to feel like a #MeToo movement here…These guys are fully protected by politics, power and money and they can destroy as they please. Probably NOTHING will happen. Robert Bleegd Supervisor and “supervised” are both guilty. Say no more. owlbert Clearly there is no effective oversight within the institutions or national bodies involved in this and most other cases discussed in this forum. The time is long past when these ethically-challenged chickens can be left in charge of their fraud-ridden henhouses, and they need a major reminder that they have not been given piles of cash to do with as they damn well please. The first step towards draining this swamp would be for due diligence to be exercised by the agencies that fund research and researchers. Key questions to be addressed include: How do those responsible for disbursing research grants, fellowships, infrastructural support, etc. keep track of the work and people they support, and take action when research/researchers are questioned or sanctioned? When this oversight is clearly defective – such as when known frauds are hired or funded, or multiple papers generated with research funds are retracted or mega-corrected – how are funding agencies and institutions called to account? How can those who contribute resources to agencies, institutions and researchers – right down to the level of individual donors/taxpayers – seek redress when funds are used to generate fraudulent outputs? If these issues are not addressed, science will continue, like the Roman Catholic church, to enable, protect, conceal, promote and relocate its abusers while snaffling great hordes of treasure that could be better used for …. just about anything, really. I think effective oversight in any lab is rare. Most advisors treat “trainees” (I put that in quotes, because trainee implies you are actually learning something from your advisor) with benign neglect. As my graduate advisor once said, the best you can hope for is to have an advisor who will not stand in your way when things are working. As I am a permanent post-doc who has now had 5 advisors, I have found that statement to be correct. The problem is the incentive structure is wrong, and a lot of that has to do with tenure. I could not advise anybody to get a PhD in the west. Perhaps time to get the 4th estate involved. Much of this in the UK is corrupt too, but then should have have a score to settle, they will push hard… “Perhaps time to get the 4th estate involved.” https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2018/05/16/one-britains-leading-universities-embroiled-majorresearch-scandal/ Didn’t have much effecteven though there is much evidence. https://forbetterscience.com/2018/06/05/david-latchman-the-reckless-master-of-birkbeck/ https://retractionwatch.com/2018/03/19/clear-signs-of-manipulation-in-paper-co-authored-by-prominent-geneticist/ This is relevant to University of Manchster as it harbours David vs Goliath Has anyone seen the evidence here? Are we really sure this Institute Director has not set-up his former postdoc to save his ass? These stellar cancer researchers that share the “White Men – Professional Bullies – Institute Directors” pattern (Paul Workman, Jose Baselga and Mike Stratton joined the list quite some time ago) are always exonerated. They hide behind their masks of serious researchers to do whatever they want. Serena Nik-Zeinnal case is the poster child of harassment against women and Mike Stratton has been armored by The Sanger. The rumours I’ve heard from his own close circle is that this IS a set-up of an innocent person and not a legitimate case. We have not heard the two sides of the story and it smells like there is a bomb about to explode if Girotti speaks out. I guess her chances to bring the truth to the surface are almost null: too much power, money and big fishes involved. Manchester University, CRUK and the Wellcome Trust will undoubtedly protect him. please see the update at the end of the article which I added just now. Deckname The altered data could not have been did by Richard without lots of people seeing. Romina would have have done it or known about it Whom to believe? German Research Foundation, or University of Manchester? Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft’s (DFG, German Research Foundation) view. https://www.dfg.de/en/service/press/press_releases/2012/press_release_no_62/index.html “The DFG Committee concluded that Bulfone-Paus had committed “gross negligence of her supervisory duty” in her function as the leader of the working group and was therefore guilty of scientific misconduct as stipulated in the DFG procedures. On the basis of this result, the Joint Committee of the DFG decided to issue Bulfone-Paus with a written reprimand, to prohibit her from submitting proposals for three years, and to exclude her from statutory bodies at the DFG and not to appoint her as a reviewer for three years. However, since Bulfone-Paus had voluntarily suggested at the start of the proceedings that she withdraw from her appointments, not be appointed as a reviewer, nor be included in statutory bodies, the Joint Committee decided that this period should count towards the measures taken, leaving only the issue of the written reprimand to continue in effect. “These measures represent a suitable and appropriate means of reprimanding Ms. Bulfone-Paus for the sustained neglect of her supervisory responsibility towards the early career researchers. As an experienced researcher, Ms. Bulfone-Paus did not fulfil the essential function of providing a good role model for her colleagues,” said the DFG Secretary General, Dorothee Dzwonnek.” University of Manchester’s view. https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/manchester-pronounces-husband-and-wife-innocent-of-misconduct/416741.article “Manchester pronounces husband and wife innocent of misconduct Institution rejects ‘malicious’ allegations, but accuser is puzzled. Paul Jump reports” With all due respect Zebedee, let’s deal with one scandal first before circling back to this old chestnut. She’s not up to so much anymore anyway. Pretty much well side-lined at Manchester. Big waste of University money the pair. Probably be pensioned off early. Loving the zeal though. Only fair, without Zebedee aka Clare Francis Prof Bulfone-Paus would be still director at Borstel and maybe even DFG senator now! “She’s not up to so much anymore anyway.” That assumes she once was. I have been eyewitness to the unprofessional looks Marais has had towards her. No wonder: she is gorgeous, very talented, a good soul and hard worker and she always rejected him and all his offers to stay in Manchester. Not less relevant is the fact that left because she had enough of the bullying and harassment in which she worked through years. Everybody knew and looked away. She now works for a ridiculously low salary in her home country where she doesn’t have a company (you’ve got that wrong Leonid) but a website where she teaches for free at Universities. This whole thing has a clear mischievous revenge component – that’s my thinking. I also think that you would get much more out of your posts if you control your anger Leonid. Kay Freds …”She now works for a ridiculously low salary in her home country…” So…should we consider she Is innocent just for this? Come on…. that’s not the point. O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; it is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on. These sorts of comments are clearly designed to shift the focus of the story away from Dr. Girotti, who knowingly and deliberately committed large scale data fraud in order to “succeed” in her career (the alterations made were so significant it couldn’t be done without her knowing or noticing, making her claims of innocence extremely doubtful). Whats more these comments attempt to paint a completely false picture of Dr. Girotti, who was known throughout CRUK Manchester to be a self centered bully and was also reprimanded for questionable laboratory practices during her time at the institute. It also seems oddly convenient that all these supportive comments seem to be appearing right after her statement to Leonid. I notice you don’t rush to dismiss the multiple accusations of bullying against Marais and Springer. This is total bullshit – #METOO deckna3e Her soul not good from others thoughts. She is a bully. She stole data and projects Dear Jojo, I get so much out of my posts that people like you use email addresses of clueless academics to create a false identity. Why did you try to frame LJ at City U? BTW, I think the other paper is: Application of Sequencing, Liquid Biopsies, and Patient-Derived Xenografts for Personalized Medicine in Melanoma. Girotti MR, Gremel G, Lee R, Galvani E, Rothwell D, Viros A, Mandal AK, Lim KH, Saturno G, Furney SJ, Baenke F, Pedersen M, Rogan J, Swan J, Smith M, Fusi A, Oudit D, Dhomen N, Brady G, Lorigan P, Dive C, Marais R. Cancer Discov. 2016 Mar;6(3):286-99. doi: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-15-1336. Epub 2015 Dec 29. John Hayle “…the investigation process has been biased, unfair and based on a factual error…” If so, she shouldn’t worry about her “reputation”….because (at last) things will be elucitated. But…those actions must elucitated accordingly. If Girotti is innocent, she’d be wise to engage with this forum. She’ll never get a fair hearing from the establishment, but sounds like she has some allies here and that a stitch up might be underway. If she can galvanise her allies and they go on the record, sufficient momentum might force an independent examination of the intrigue by investigative journalists with resources (no offence Leonid) No offense taken, but did you notice how main media prefer not to pick up on that, well, press release from Manchester? That “press release” was buried so deep, practically no one at University saw it. They look after their own. Let’s just be clear on a couple of things – Romina was not a good soul or a hard worker. She is not an escape goat because she’s female or foreign. Romina bullied everyone she deemed ‘below her’ which was everyone who was not a PI or above. She used everyone to get her way and none of it was due to bullying or harassment… she was the bully with the biggest ego. She was found guilty because she manipulated data, and she manipulated the data because she was cocky and thought she was untouchable! Birds of a feather flock together Richard, I take it is you behind this post, I worked with her for years and I could see how miserable it was for her to work in your lab, to endure the jealousy of other people while being constantly harassed. This kind of posts only speak about how wrong and deficient your management is/was. I don’t think she has allies here but simply a crowd of people who know you very well. Don’t be silly. He has his minions to do this. He’ll be enjoying himself somewhere on holiday. Can I please buy the TV rights to this. Beats Corrie any day. The University of Manchester is a place where a lot of shameful practices are taking place. Bullying, harassment and other forms of mistreatment is the norm for institute directors (institute of biotechnology is another example) and this is legitimised by the top university management. They will cover up any dirt and crime as long as those directors bring in megagrants and push the university’s ranking up. Aims justify means. Everyone knows but looks away as it has been noted here already. HR and the likes are disgraceful means to crush those who dare to raise any complaint against “white men-professional bullies-institute directors” who rule and distribute funds and other very visible signes of favour only within their packs. Those few who disagree are dealt with ruthlessely and promptly: people are afraid to say anything even after they were forced to leave because of gagging clauses. So I do believe that Romina might have been framed up. As one of the commentators has said, the 4th party is needed to blow these horrendous practices up. Nothing will change until a similar story is published in the Manchester Evening News and public find out what is happening behind the closed doors of what is striving to be one of the top 20 universities in the world. I can said Romina is the most aggressive and hostile person I’ve ever met. She and her friend would intimidate and bully the group to stay in control. Richard had complete trust in her. Clearly a mistake! She is not some poor postdoc, she is ruthless. Hearing from people in the announcement, surprise wasn’t that she made up the data. Suprise was that Richard finally didn’t protect her anymore. Everyone can believe she cheated I don’t believe Romina after I met her Nonsense Nonsense It seems that the gagging order no longer applies and Marais is trying to shift the focus towards the victim. This is why these people get away whit their wrongdoing, if you have an army to post shit online …. you can expect anything. I will not keep on reading this post. Knowing Marais he is preparing more untruthful posts to characterize the victim as a bully and serial data manipulator. We all know she is his scapegoat. SAY NO MORE Richard is intimidating and puts pressure on his group to get big papers. But Romina is also a bully. She did so well because she didn’t care who she hurt. That is why so many papers and awards. Seems an awful lot of people have a great deal to say on this matter after the fact. Consciences need to be searched. Why haven’t more people intervened a long the way to call out this shocking lack of professionalism on all sides before so much repetitional harm has been done to the Institution and organisation. We’ll all be tarred by this brush. The only thing necessary for the triumph of scientific fraud is for good people to do nothing. And all we need for the rumour mills to destroy people’s reputations is for the silent majority to stay silent. Maybe time to hear some more support for CRUK_MI and UoM if you’re proud like me to work there Leonid, you stated that ‘a melanoma clinical trial started in Manchester in 2015 based on Girotti’s possibly flawed research’. Some relevant comments ….. If you want to see the results of this trial, see these links: https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2019/01/04/1680464/0/en/Basilea-presenting-at-the-37th-Annual-J-P-Morgan-Healthcare-Conference-delivering-on-its-strategy.html Click to access vL%20Basilea%20Valuation%20Report%2015MAY18.pdf There seems to be no problem with confirming the findings in the Cancer Cell paper (‘BAL3833 continues to show very encouraging anticancer activity in preclinical models …’). However, “A maximum tolerated dose was not defined” in the trial, suggesting a problem with the half-life of the drug: ‘Following the detailed analysis of available data, Basilea concluded that an alternative formulation of the drug candidate would be required to achieve appropriately high and consistent drug levels in patients.’ So, Springer and Marais are in trouble after having partnered with Basilea and now they are not able to deliver…. It can’t be that in a huge drug development team like Caroline Springer’s, the decision to go ahead with a clinical candidate is based exclusively on a set of experiments performed by one postdoc (as claimed?). Such a big team will do a whole battery of tests involving several scientists and then the managing team, here Springer and Marais, will decide. So, what to do if this clinical candidate then doesn’t show any effect in patients….. the whole story reeks of ‘scapegoat’…. Laura H Thank you Andrea for bringing up this information. A lot of money seems to be involved in the agreement. Manchester University has made a big announcement about it https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/article/?id=14217 I think people have lost the point on this discussion and focused too much on irrelevant information. Decisions on drug selection should be made by senior people and the responsible person for the data in a laboratory is again the principal investigator. If something went wrong and they found a scapegoat, then highest senior management should be involved and take action. Too many people’s careers are affected. You will be surprised, Andrea. How about several clinical trials with thousands of patients based on one slightly photoshopped paper by one single PhD student? Admittedly a very ambitious and determined one, namely Kathrin Maedler? https://forbetterscience.com/2018/04/24/the-kathrin-maedler-dynasty/ This German company runs clinical trials in Germany based on NO PAPERS WHATSOEVER. https://forbetterscience.com/2015/12/08/stem-cell-cures-for-everything-made-in-germany-by-ticeba/ You think UK is safer? Guess what these clinical trials in Greece and UK were based on? Nothing, literally. https://forbetterscience.com/2019/04/04/sir-martin-and-ajan-the-stem-cell-gold-diggers/ Have I put your mind to rest how clinical trials happen? It is widely known between alumni from ICR and Marais group that he and Caroline Springer were bullying people. The rumors about sexual misconduct and harrashment were coming mainly from Chris Lord & Alan Ashworths department. However, misconduct and abuse of power were plentiful within the HR department. They ran their HR department as the Spanish Inquisition e.g. when it was headed by John Kempton who got rid of most of the research groups in Chris Marshalls center. Making false accusations and illegal procedures were the norm, probably still is. ICR is a disgusting place that should be terminated. It has avoided major oversight by sucking up to UCL and by preventing full integration with the Royal Marsden which is running a more clean shop. Marais most likely knew about all the fraud that took place in his lab. He never stopped short of demanding a slide to ‘prove a point’ being happy as long as some ‘bands could explain the control’. His own boss Richard Treisman was/is a famous bully. Marais is as exonerated as Donald Trump is by Robert Muellers report…..i.e. NOT exonerated. Marias likes the name ‘Lucy’. The chickens are coming home to roost. Former CS trainee Caroline Springer has done horrible things to her staff. Everybody knew it at ICR. I think she left the ICR to be protected in Manchester to continue running her lab like she wants, selecting the data she likes and burying the data she does not want to see. Her ex husband has always protected her. Half of Caroline’s team moved with her from ICR to Manchester. This doesn’t quite match the description of someone who was mistreating her staff, isn’t it? And before you ask, I’m not Caroline or Richard. To JS: Never heard of PhD students that need to complete their thesis or postdocs that have to publish before leaving a lab to get a decent job later ? What option do they have if not to follow “lady wonder” in Manchester ? Sadly, PhD students and postdocs always will have “to much to lose” to really be free to decide…. Ian Carpenter This post has nothing to do with the academic misconduct issue of Dr. Girotti. I agree with every post describing Richard Marais as a bully. This was specially true with female scientists and evenmore with Md/PhD students. His way of establishing authority was through fear and by exploting people´s weaknesses. Chris Marshall must be rolling in his grave. What a difference between mentor and disciple… I hope one day CRUK does something about it but it looks like a “too big to fall” situation. Former ICR PI As a former PI working under Marais I can state it was not just students/postdocs but also PI’s that were systematically bullied and threatened. Marais instrumentalized the HR, Legal and senior management in campaigns against PI’s that he did not like or needed to get rid of for his own benefit. Anybody who questioned his style/management and science would be hunted down. Its disgusting to see that his lab has produced fraud. It is HIS LAB and he is the PI so it is HIS responsibility. Whistleblowing has its place, but there are proper channels and processes to be followed if they are to be effective and respected Right, so no ad hominem after all, why did you bring up the accusation then? Anyway, proper channels for whistleblowing, like this? https://forbetterscience.com/2019/05/10/ucla-hunts-whistleblowers-as-student-accuses-dentistry-dean-of-sexual-harassment/ I’m deeply concerned about the impact of this blog on the reputation of the organisations being maligned. The vast majority of those working for UoM and cruk are decent and honest. We should also presume the innocence of those being accused of bullying and cheating until proven otherwise. Perhaps if UoM and/or Cruk would commit to an independent investigation of all the allegations here, in which confidential testimonies are sought from peers and team members past and present, and the findings shared with Leonid, then this post could be taken down? What do you want me to take down? The Manchester press release? The PubPeer comments? Or would you like me to delete the accusatory witness comments? Your rules say no ad hominem attacks Can you point to specific ad hominem comments? Or is reporting bullying and other unprofessional behavior an ad hominem accusation these days? All organisations have bad apples and mud slingers. People are distrustful of complaint procedures and it can be difficult for individuals to feel empowered to complain. Perhaps an anonymous questionnaire could be created on line like with survey monkey where people can upload personal testimonials giving an account of event(s), over what period, whether it was witnessed or reported to HR and whether people might be willing to go on the record. This could then be presented to UoM/Cruk. If there’s any substance then they’d be morally obliged to look into it. I appreciate I cannot have the full picture of your information, but the only person nominated as being forced to leave in this thread is the ex ddu PI… Whom I wish is enjoying his well earned retirement, having retired after a life of honorable service before the current one was chosen. As consequence, apologies for doubting the reliability of the other examples you were given. With no source verification anybody can accuse anybody, this has created real monster in the past and is scary. And well yes, thinking that if I cause somebody envy and I happen to make mistakes because I am not a cyborg, these mistakes will be used to spin social media humiliation and probably the end of a not-yet-started career for the benefit of whose envy I attracted, is causing me some problems to carry on serenely with my possibly already delusional job of being a cancer researcher. I think there’s a difference between reporting bullying and/or unprofessional behavior (as far as my understanding, there are no complaints standing against the nominated persons and the issues flagged up by PubPeer have prompted verifications and corrections) and taking advantage of this blog to settle old scores or grudges. With little source verification and no responsibility for the anonymous allegations which can be so easily manipulated for whichever purpose, this sort of web trial can only cause harm to all the persons who choose to work for UoM/cruk driven by ideals. I am not denying that there’s space for improvement, or that it’s in the human nature to make mistakes, but please consider that a better society cannot be built on the rule that who shouts louder or makes more noise/scandal wins. This page has caused stress and anxiety to many persons not involved in the case who only want to carry on trying to improve cancer treatments, some accusations refer to false facts, others cannot be verified… and you have allowed this to spread and cause harm, are you not concerned? Is this journalism? That’s peculiar, I was given a list of very good cancer researchers who had to leave the institute under pressure. But you say it is my reporting which prevents you from curing cancer? The thing is, if someone did not highlight these problems, the abuse would continue unabatted. This presence of this report is the best chance for things to actually change in a toxic environment. Nothing ever changes unless you piss the right people off–that’s my experience. I work at CRUK MI, and I don’t even dare to say in which position. I can confirm all the comments that define the director of our Institute as a bully, a dictator, who will do anything to satisfy his ego and his own interests. Going on record is signing my own ‘execution’ – I will be out of my job the next day, or maybe worse, I’d keep my job but with no support from the superior management. This Institute is run entirely for the director’s benefit, it is a mafia. He pushes junior PIs to not do research projects that might have competing interests with his lab. A former CRUK MI PI was asked to change his research focus to lung cancer and stop any melanoma work because it was competing with him. I repeat, I can’t go on record or make formal complaints against the Director of the Institute. HR staff are also under the director supervision, nobody here is free to do anything without putting in jeopardy their job. I hope the general audience can understand this situation and help us. I don’t expect The University taking formal actions because I could see from previous posts that they are run corruptly as we are run here. I also agree that this is a too big to fall situation. Thank you Leonid for this blog, finally we are speaking about this, at least we can do it anonymously. I cannot agree more with the comments on Marais being a total bully which let his postdocs to fight like gladiators to publish first (likely at the cost of quality). Not surprised at all that shortcuts were taken to succeed in his lab. Romina ain’t better. She is probably the worst bully I met. Essentially a smaller version of Marais who exploited and back stabbed everybody below her to boost her career. Seriously, what do you expect from people like these ? They will do whatever it takes to get to the top. Unfortunately, science does not drop sensational outcomes to publish in Nature, science etc every year…. but photoshop is always there to help ! Everybody knew this for years and is shamefull that real actions are not taken to limit this despicable attitude in CRUK. I don’t agree with your characterization of her at all…I worked with her, she was surrounded by jealousy and envy. I do agree with your characterization of Marais who make his lab a horrible place to work. sure…ask the animal facility guys for further comments on how the drug treatment dosage on animals there was handled…. and what these guys were forced to do…. @PTSD it seems you got the wrong end of the stick. Whilst one can disagree with the tone, style and sarcasm and the odd misunderstanding/error in Schneider’s blog overall he puts the ugly truth on the table. It’s not for you to like. Its for you to take action and push things into the right formal channels…if you fail this you are as bad as the perpetrator of the despicable acts discussed here. Obviously anybody should have a fair trial and due process and is only guilty when found guilty. But a major issue is that here the institution is playing both investigators, judge and police. This is absurd and untrustworthy, in particular when the verdict is ‘he is innocent’. What EVIDENCE have UoM presented that Marais did not know? As a PI you are ALWAYS responsible for the research in your lab and publications. This is indeed what ‘PI’ means. So in such a case you need to prove you had absolutely no way of knowing what was going on. Here this seems highly unlikely, Marais likes to present himself as somebody who always get deeply involved in each project and experiment in his lab….so really he did not see this? It’s possible but implausible. In lack of clear evidence he did not have a clue one should at least demand a full investigation into whether he indeed DID KNOW and whether he even ENCOURAGED this conduct. The systematics here are another pointer….are their earlier works from Marais or his lab that has fraud on them? In terms of bullying. Marais have been involved in numerous departures from ICR and indeed his own departure was nasty as well so trying to defend his track record here will just make things worse for himself. The same can be said about stalking Schneider on LinkedIN: Caroline Springer you are walking down the wrong path. Reflect over your own conduct, you have harassed and bullied numerous people in your group and colleagues. It is well known you lie about your data to Wellcome Trust and others. It is disgusting that you mislead cancer patients and donors during fundraising events. Shame on you frankly. But again whilst I can understand you and Marais is angry about this coming out…the more you fight it the worse it will get. Leonid is always sarcastic about him being found guilty for libel in a german court. The fact is that Leonid is NOT a criminal and he is NOT guilty. This is simply a matter of not having enough resources to pay the right lawyers and Jungebluth and Macchiarini being absolute lunatics (socio/psychopaths) which is why the Swedish Public PROSECUTOR is running a manslaughter investigation against Macchiarini. That speaks for itself. So people should frankly support LS more monetarily so he can get cleared for these absurd charges. At the same time it would make sense for people to also organise and group up to protect journalists and whistleblowers against arselocks like fraudsters and bullies. Thanks for your support, yes, I had to accept the court verdicts because I ran out of money and only managed to pay off the bills and fines thanks to donations. Judge also said she is sentencing me because otherwise Jungebluth’s legal insurance will make him pay from his own pocket, and she cannot allow that. Maybe I looked too Jewish, judge namely asked which country I came from. But what is Caroline Springer saying about me on LinkedIn? Calling CRUK CRUK is the world’s largest charity dedicated to cancers research. They surely have the resources to investigate into this. If people are asking for help sending SOS messages is because something must be going on in this Institute. If going on record is not possible because of fear and possible retaliation then, they should find the way to protect their scientific staff and provide them with a safe environment to speak out. The only person nominated as being forced to leave in this thread is the ex DDU PI who was an stellar scientist and an honorable man. We love him and we miss him. These anonymous comments are only degrading and humiliating people. They should stop, this is not the place to settle problems. Our Institutions and the people who work there are being affected by this storm. Please, think before you post. Nick we are not here to make you happy. We are here to clean the shop up. UM and CRUK-Manchester needs to clean up its shit or it will collapse. Is really ruining people’s life, regardless of the fact that if they are guilty of research misconduct or not, necessary to clean up University of Manchester and CRUK-Manchester shit? I mean: let’s say Marais and Girotti, both of them are really in charge of research misconduct and at the best situation, which I doubt it, University of Manchester will fire Marais and also Girotti will be fired from her current position in Argentina. OK, should they die after they left academia shit hole? These posts would prevent anybody to find a job in the future, even non-academic jobs… Gregferguson Amaya ??? Padmanee This post is making clear that neither CRUK MI nor University of Manchester are safe places to work. It transpires a toxic environment where people work under stress and can’t speak their minds because they fear to lose their jobs. I wonder why the Unions are not taking a more prominent role in this disgrace. Someone should take action. The research integrity/misconduct issue seems minimum compared to what people are commenting here. Scientists, like every person basically, should be guaranteed a safe and bullying-free working environment. If senior management can’t secure this basic requirement then they should resign. “senior management ” = bullies in the playground. Where do you think they went? The University of Manchester has harnessed for decades the fear/silence policy. This University and their management cannot be trusted. Political interests and money rule this place. I wish somebody warned me before I made my family move country pursuing my “dreamed” job as a Professor. Agree with every word you’ve said except decades. The university was a much happier place under Alan Gilbert which was not that long ago although seems ages now. No. I posted that some perspective was badly needed. That in a recent staff survey run by UoM which included CRUK MI and was also conducted anonymously by a 3rd party, the majority of respondents claimed they were proud to work in Manchester and felt safe at work. A tiny minority said they were bullied. So even if these unevidenced accusations of bullying were true, clearly this is isolated. [This post appeared briefly then disappeared] You are right, I accidentally deleted that one when approving other comments on my phone: “I think some perspective is needed. In the recent staff survey which is also entirely anonymous, the vast majority of staff including at CRUK MI reported being proud to work here and only a minority mentioned bullying. Even if the allegations contained here are true, then it is isolated.” adamselwith Bullying is always isolated in a civilised culture. Look in gang culture if you want to find it more widespread. You imply it can be safely ignored. Also you say “unevidenced”, perhaps you mean “hearsay”? True, this is often given low credibility, but, in a survey? The hearsay is the evidence in a survey. You say “tiny minority”. So, it could be as little as 1 then? Maybe an outlier then, sure, “disgruntled”, and all that. Fine, but then statements like “bullying has no place in our organisation” cannot be made, because it is not zero. Like a small crack in an aeroplane’s wing, bullying, no matter how small, should not be tolerated. What perspective have you added? Reality Czech Leonid, you, these other whiners and your devotees on twitter are deluded. Google Marais and this blog doesn’t appear nowhere. You should get out more and pick a more righteous crusade. Thanks for the heads-up. Someone might want to fix this at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Marais @RealityCzech Google Page 3 and moving up fast. I predict this page is hitting Marais Google page 1 within a few days/weeks. That is how it always go. @Mike are you out of your mind, Marais+Spring+ICR has destroyed numerous careers. Now we should feel sorry for him? I dont think so. ID protected I’ve sat at their joint Springer/Marais lab meetings thinking they are the worst scientists I’ve ever met. Not only they cherry pick the data they want, they force their staff to “decrease” the IC50 of a shitty LOX compounds orders of magnitude within a week time so they can reach their ‘milestones’ for Wellcome Trust. As if you could do magic. No research integrity at all. Of course, if something goes wrong they have postdocs, technicians and students to blame. They should be banned from applying for funding; charity money is used to pay the expensive air tickets Marais “needs” to travel first class. Some comments have been deleted. Why? Protecting whistleblower identities. Marais has made a career out of bullying his trainees, establishing fear as a policy in his lab, making students and postdocs cry and humiliating them. He used to brag about it and nobody dared to stop him. Human resources staff were accomplices of it. He also bragged about his expensive life and frequent first class flights and felt good by asking British Airways staff “do you know who I am?”. Truly pathetic. He enjoyed having tearful students presenting 2h-straight presentations at lab retreats with their voice broken. As a ‘good bye’ from his lab people were given the last instruction: you cannot work in melanoma and your ideas belong to me. His partnership with Caroline Springer is beyond corrupt. He should be banned from having a lab or directing an Institute. Someone MUST act urgently. 100% precise description of facts. the truth and nothing but the truth.....calling CRUK CRUK should be concerned to have someone like Richard Marais directing an Institute and being in charge of young scientists in training. It is not only that he considers CRUK-MI ‘his realm’, in which he can rule as he pleases and in which he considers the (junior) PIs as his ‘property’ and extension to his lab. We have already heard so much about how he treats members of his team while they endure their training with him (frequent statement: ‘your brain belongs to me’). But what should be really a concern is that with all the effort that CRUK has put into means of mentorship for young scientists, they have someone like Richard Marais running an Institute. With Richard Marais, there are major concerns as to how he treats the next generation of scientists trying to establish themselves when they are leaving his lab. Clinical oncologists successfully training at the Royal Marsden and becoming clinical experts in melanoma are told ‘you cannot work in melanoma’ when they want to apply for the next steps in their career. Similarly, postdoctoral scientist having gained a track record in the RAS-RAF field during the time in his lab are told ‘you cannot work in RAS signaling’ or ‘you are not allowed to work on the MAP-kinase pathway’ when they want to establish their own labs. And these statements should not be underestimated, because they are communicated with a thread. Basically, otherwise there will be no (positive) reference, and the chances of obtaining funding or a position in the UK, being invited to future conferences or considered for anything that furthers a career in science, vanish. After all Richard Marais is a man with power, always keen on acting on any committee that wants him. The irony is that Richard Marais feels threatened by these young scientists (particularly when they are women); deep inside he is so insecure that he is worried this next generation could become his competitors – go figure. If CRUK decides that it is a good thing to hold onto Richard Marais as the director of CRUK-MI, they should at least bring in some mechanisms, which allow monitoring the mentorship activities of Marais. Just compare Richard Marais with Chris Marshall, an amazing mentor (the greatest irony being that Marais wouldn’t be where he is without Chris’s generous mentorship). How many Marshall alumni have obtained leading and successful roles in the UK and how many ex-Marais’…. and the latter have succeeded despite Marais. Hear hear. Another 100% precise description. CRUK are you reading? get real and make a decision. Most likely this entire thread of comments will explode into several formal cases/lawsuits against CRUK for inaction/failure-to-protect claims if you do not act. Marc York Establishing fear ? He is an old man. Doesn’t look that scary at all outside his little bubble. The problem is academia. Why bullies like him are allowed to swap around names on publications ? Remove first names, add others that did not contribute or simply denying you to publish if he doesn’t like you. Why postdocs have virtually no rights on publications ? Even air B&B requires you to sign papers upfront to guarantee basic rights for those renting rooms even for a single day and postdocs are requested to work for years and without any assurance to be not screwed at the end ? A system like academia that allow bullies to decide on a daily basis if a postdoc will publish or not (meaning your career might be over any time), is wrong. Academia should work like McDonald’s : postdocs put money, PIs put the food and deal is nice and easy. The reality : postdocs pay upfront and PIs maybe will give the food in three/five years if you please him/her enough during the time. Then there you go butt-licking, backstabbing, everything to please the pharaoh ! Lack of rights enable all toxic behaviours seen in academia. PS: Wondering how scary Richard and Romina are when they walk into McDonald’s ? Graham MD These posts are revealing a secret that has been known by the community for years. The TRUTH has come to light: Richard Marais is a dishonest, corrupt, misogynist bully – a man with no integrity. Richard Marais is capable of anything to save his ass. Richard Marais can push his lab members to suffer whatever is necessary to make his own way. Richard Marais can ask his postdocs to sit on his chair “to feel the power”. Richard Marais can call his postdocs “bodies” (on their back) because they are only occupying space in his lab and “not producing”. Richard Marais can trick or threaten his collaborators to get a prominent position on a paper or sacrifice a well-deserved first authorship of one of his mentees in order to get a last author position “while being only a PhD”. Richard Marais’ hate towards clinicians is ridiculous and he enjoys making their life miserable in his lab. He should resign immediately, he cannot run an institute neither a lab. I wonder why CRUK protects him so badly. Charity money is being given to corrupt hands!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harpal_Kumar “Sir Harpal Singh Kumar (born 1965) is a British medical researcher who was the chief executive officer of Cancer Research UK[1][2][3] until June 2018,[4] when he left the charity to become Head of Johnson & Johnson Innovation EMEA.[5]” It says medical researcher, but I do not believe that is the case. A manager/head of charities. https://www.uicc.org/news/knighthood-harpal-kumar “The CEO of Cancer Research UK and UICC Board member was knighted for his “hugely influential” work on prevention and treatment of cancer” “hugley influential” is a euphemism, for manager. “After training as a chemical engineer, Kumar worked as a research scientist with the UK Atomic Energy Authority, before joining McKinsey as a healthcare consultant in 1992. He then went on to hold senior positions in the medical field, before joining Cancer Research UK in 2002.” Where is the medical research? Pre-1992. Even that is not obvious. https://www.icr.ac.uk/news-archive/broadcaster-victoria-derbyshire-and-former-cancer-research-uk-ceo-sir-harpal-kumar-awarded-honorary-doctorates “10 JUL 2018 Broadcaster Victoria Derbyshire and former Cancer Research UK CEO Sir Harpal Kumar awarded honorary doctorates” After Leonid’s first article about Paul Workman, https://forbetterscience.com/2018/01/30/collages-by-paul-workman-from-the-golden-age-of-biological-imaging/ ICR, London awarded Harpal Kumar an honorary doctorate for “Sir Harpal has a long list of achievements spanning his career in cancer research institutes” that is a euphemism for manager. Where is the medical research? Yes, he was in cancer institutes, but not as a scientist. Why be a scientist if you can be a manager of scientists? Harpal Kumar is one massive Acteur. He does not give a shit about research. When CRUK went bust back in 2008 he wanted to turn CRUK into an information campaign office only ie. no research. maggiemay00 140 posts, a handful of them are positive and supportive…the remaining are utterly disgraceful. Total shambles, not even related to the article itself. All I read is based on envy and jealousy. I’m rather perplexed to read the website’s name “for better science” and see 90% of the comments are pure personal attack, slander, defamation, insults and untruth. Why is Caroline Springer being under this outbreak of false accusations? She left the ICR with most of her team (they left voluntarily, not forced). The rest of her team that stayed behind, were a small number of people with 1 person retiring and another was made redundant. Why would most of her team follow her? I know some of them have been with her for decades. PI’s are PI’s because they fought their way up working hard, with determination, ambition, motivation, that means…if someone is not able the pressure to work with this kind of personality, my advice is…leave the team. Don’t stay and whine, whinge, complaint afterwards. It’s their job! If they were soft, gentle, laid back… they would not be PI’s for long. Seems like a lot of snowflake generation comments. For crying out loud…focus on science, that’s what this should be about! See this: That's where comment came from.@OfficialUoM. pic.twitter.com/k9fzTr4IkB — Leonid Schneider (@schneiderleonid) July 4, 2019 PICR == Patterson Institute for Cancer Research — Hamlet Global Dist (@DistHamlet) July 4, 2019 @maggiemay00 is this Deputy Director Dive ? who seems to have a pubpeer entry lagging a response… https://pubpeer.com/publications/B48D7E0BE55D41581E33E20CC84BEC is that science enough for ya? Also you provide no evidence for your claims above. To Benjamins: Get your accusations towards people names checked before saying anything. Evidence … no one has proved any of the accusations before or have they??? Not feed more trolls… 虎仔 (@TigerBB8) Shame on you dare to call out to “focus on science”! How come a biomedical scientist not knowing fighting to kill germs is for better health? Next time please make a student or poor postdoc to post such stupid comment from their home IP, as you guys always do when caught faking data. My observation is that in any lab there is usually only one project that is working well enough to publish in a high profile journal, and only one person will be credited as first author, although the others in the publication list are expected to contribute and, often for this, sacrifice their careers for the success of “the chosen one”. Being the one who is “chosen”, or isn’t, says nothing about the personality of the individual. In fact, I have seen too many of “the chosen” develop bloated egos and attitudes (like yours) where they cherry-pick what they think made them special in hindsight, which is utterly laughable. “Oh maggie, I wish I’d, never seen your face…..” “determination, ambition, motivation” do not equal science. “if someone is not able the pressure to work with this kind of personality, my advice is…leave the team”. Science should not belong to anybody. It is not for anybody to make others leave science. A good scientist does not drive others away. In the past people used to argue that behaviour of scientist did not matter, but if it drives others away it diminshes science. There is a growing realisation that the “businessification” of science/hierarchy of institutes and univerisities (very political things) have diminshed science. Precise and very wise words from Zebedee indeed. Long live science. The chickens are coming home to roost. Former CRUK fundraiser Cannot believe I read that last comment. So it’s all the post-doc’s fault for being bullied, intimidated and harassed? And the PI is blame free? Appalling. Utterly appalling attitude. Perhaps there’s a reason why most posts are negative and perhaps it is not envy or jealousy. Maybe it’s because they’re narcissistic, evil and egotistical bullies who deserve to burn in a special kind of hell for an eternity for the scandalous mistreatment of staff and the disgusting waste of other people’s hard earned money. CRUK – I’d like the £10k raised in the past for the Institute back. I’ll give it to somewhere deserving. I am sorry to say that CRUK is not answering my emails, they are busy fundraising or publishing in high-impact journals I presume. None of the recipients replied when I shared some of the comments with them and offered to put them in touch with the bullying victims. Karen Vousden (known from PubPeer) Michelle Mitchell Iain Foulkes Rita Akushie Reply to former CRUK fundraiser Did they get you running around in pink wigs? ttps://shop.cancerresearchuk.org/product/race-life-pink-wig Highly emotive diseases such as breast cancer, and the CRUK portraying itself as Mother Theresa, do have the effect of supressing criticism. Now people talk about “virtue-signalling”, before that people used the word self-righteousness. Why someone should risk their mental health or accept to be constantly bullied by these people for a good chunk of their life ? Let’s say that to achieve a meaningful goal you need to sacrifice a lot in life (even dealing with “pressure to work with this kind of personality”). Is not clear to me what they offer in exchange of this sacrifice ? The prestige of working for Richard Marais ? Do you think that doors magically open just mentioning his name ? I worked in cancer research for years an in different countries and there are thousands of scientists like or bigger than him. I am sorry but many don’t even know who this guy is. The world is a big place. I mean is not like you are working for a Nobel price winner. The high chance of publishing in a major journal ? Unlikely. Only few postdocs of the many in his lab ended up with a first name in an high impact factor journal (and some are now under investigation for scientific fraud). Oh wait, maybe they should get humiliated or risk post-traumatic stress disorder for the competitive salary offered to post-docs in his lab. I remember to be quite jealous of the Ferrari and Lamborghini parked in front of CRUK Manchester. Wouldn’t be better to simply work in industry where misbehaviour like this is taken more seriously , colleagues are generally less stressed and salary is considerably higher instead of going through all this pain for little reward ? let’s focus on science. Science was falsified here and that the focus indeed Abifail You forgot to mention the regular zero gravity parties on the international space station, all paid for using cruk money! This has become a strange game of seeing what absurd thing Leonid will quote on Twitter – cruk manchester was surrounded by public roads including an extremely busy dropoff point for the hospital there was literally no option to park in front of it/behind it/next to it, pretty much everyone lived locally so they walked to work, and for all his faults Marais always cycled to work and encouraged others to do the same. It’s a safe bet that any fancy cars seen anywhere near cruk manchester (not that I remember seeing any) belonged to either a local resident, or a senior consultant at the hospital. So yes, lets focus on science and data fraud, and also lets try to not make up random crap about ferraris and lamborghinis. To Abifail: Thanks for clarifying that the owners of Ferraris and Lamborghinis aren’t from CRUK. I mean is important to make clear that employees with an average salary below 39000 GBP aren’t the owners of cars that cost 200000 quid or more. Of course there aren’t Ferraris parked in front of CRUK. Its a joke. Are you familiar with the concept of irony ? I’ve learned that irony is a concept to subtle for most faculty and administrators at universities. Niccolo Machiavelli Right, focussing on the “science”. You mean the fake data used to gain grants, accolades and position while bullying junior scientists, encouraging bullying and treating people like trash? If that is tough and ambitious, better being a “snowflake”. That is why people are stopping to support cancer research. This is corrupt politics, not Science. If the “science” is so good at CRUK-MI, then why nothing can be reproduced? Stop with the distractions. Yes, let’s see the science and how it works out for you. Anybody justifying this type of behaviour is not a Scientist, but a snake oil sales(person), a fraudster. That is disgusting! Less ambition, more creativity and real search for truth, not useless spin. Once a faker, always a faker. Or else … the whole thing will get defunded. How many times you have cured cancer in a paper? Exactly. Thank you Leonid! A victim CRUK should consider this case with no delay. As an ex-member of the Marais Lab (aka hell) I can only confirm all the allegations made here. I have witnessed terrible scenes: women crying because of their public humiliation in front of their lab mates, Richard Marais enjoying seeing them crying while thinking they are weak. Those were tears of frustration and impotence. We are not weak, we were not weak, nobody weak could survive in that laboratory. It was a Darwinian selection: only resilient scientists could work in that lab. While Lab meetings were bad, private meetings could be worse because there were no witnesses. I am glad there is a wall to write our complaints which have been silenced for years. Fear has fueled our silence. Fear to lose our jobs, to be excluded from conferences, to not publish again, to not get funding for our research. I am worried to say my name, worried to be discovered by Richard Marais, I am worried about his power and his heavy hand. I just wish CRUK investigates this, they should contact Marais alumni (not the current hostages) and ask them for their testimony. As someone has commented here, some of us have succeeded despite Richard Marais. I was in the “you cannot work in melanoma” group. I also wish young scientists read this and do not ever apply to Richard Marais Lab. #MeToo #StopwomencryinginSTEM Note: Take this description and multiply by 3, that is the accurate description of Caroline Springer. Just to let you know, if you google Richard Marais this story is first page, position 8 ! I am writing as someone who has raised over £5,000 for Cancer Research UK in sponsored runs in the last 10 years. I lost my wife to breast cancer in 2014. Another fundraiser passed on the link to your blog to me. I am deeply upset about these accusations against the professors in Manchester. If any of them are true I feel very betrayed. Has Cancer Research UK made any response to these awful things? Would you be so kind as to post a link to it. Many thanks. Dear John, CRUK is silent, just as they chose not to say anything about the massive research misconduct at ICR London: https://forbetterscience.com/2018/09/06/fake-data-untouchable-men-and-guilty-women-at-icr-london/ Sir, I totally agree with your concerns but, as someone that worked for years in cancer research thanks to CRUK funding, I would like to emphasize the vast majority of scientists believe in this work, are proffesionals, work our ass..s off to better understand cancer. Like many foreigners moving to UK I had to make quite a sacrifice to grow as scientist and we are well aware of the origin of the funding which we hugely respect. Please continue demanding these cases be clarified but do not stop believing in the vocational work we develop. Thanks for your fundarising efforts. Dear John. I am sorry to hear about your wife. As someone who has worked with Marais/ICR and who indeed myself conducted research for and with money from people like yourself, which I consider an honor and privilege. I can only state that this as horrible from the researcher point of view. Its despicable and a violation of not only the very foundation of science which is truth and trust but also a betrayal of patients and donors. Unfortunately most of what you can read above is correct. CRUK needs to cut out its own tumor. Marais is not alone though. There are also groups at ICR in London and indeed elsewhere. Its not just a UK problem but the UK is somewhat special in that a lot of cancer research is funded through charity. We need to fix this, including the abuse of trainees and other/junior PIs. Lena PI I wonder how the PI of an alleged scientific “misconduct” case is innocent and not responsible for the data he published where he signed as senior author. As a PI, I AM responsible for ALL the data generated in my lab. If the PI is suddenly in the “complainant” position he most likely lied before or he is lying now. My verdict, which is also my thought from the beginning, is that this story reeks of scapegoat and Richard Marais is a deceitful man who tried to frame one of his former postdocs to save himself. Much better if the former postdoc is a talented woman who can become a competitor. Marais’ alumni have revealed here terrible situations which should be investigated. My guess is that the victims toll from his lab is much higher of what we could imagine. The scientific community has the responsibility to stop this man from damaging more young scientists. As a female scientist I want to express my sympathy and support to the female victim. #MeToo Many people working with Marais, men and women have been harassed, bullied and falsely acccused. There is clearly a narcissist at large here. The science from his lab stinks, it is untrustworthy and damaging to an entire field of research. This mess will take a long time to clean up. Long live quantitative data and death and destruction to western blot based junk science and fraud. I am very surprised that The Guardian did not pickup this story yet. They seem quite good on serious matters like this : https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/sep/28/academics-uk-universities-accused-bullying-students-colleagues What is the best way to share this story with them Leonid ? hamletglobaldistro Yes it is very strange the Guardian is sitting there quietly…. Pingback: Disonestà scientifica all'estero e in Italia - Ocasapiens - Blog - Repubblica.it He was obsessed with her. He worshipped her. This false accusation could be retaliation because she rejected his offers and is successfully working in melanoma. Regrettably, this is the story of many women at the workplace. CRUK will protect him as Sanger protected Stratton of bullying allegations. ‘Too big to fall’ men are always protected. It’s a shame that women CEOs (Michelle and Nancy) allow this. PS It is beyond pathetic that he paid someone to clean his Wikipedia today. Robert MacKenzie Marais keeps on cleaning his Wikipedia entry, I wonder how much he is paying to keep it “clean”. Manchester University is an awful, dreadful place to work, corrupt and ruled by money and power. Marais fits right in. Yoosuk I do not work directly under Richard Marais but as anyone who works in CRUK MI, I have seen many things first hand. I will not comment on his “science” as the retraction is already explaining most of it. I simply do not understand how such a horrible human being can be appointed to direct the next generation of scientists? His post docs get yelled at routinely, they cry in the bathroom, they are afraid to speak of truth and live in fear of Richard’s fury. The fact is, CRUK MI has lost too many good staff since Richard took the directorship. I have had conversations with the leavers where they confessed that they can not work for such a director anymore without self loathing. At the end of the day, we all started here with a passion for science. Occasionally, people were brave enough to make official complains regarding Richard’s bullying after resignation, but HR (directly managed by Richard) never responded. Richard always has his speech of “I support female scientists” ready because the only thing he really cares about is a better Athena SWAN status in the subject of women in science. For those who doesn’t get the Athena SWAN, it stands for Scientific Women’s Academic Network. Better status opens up more funding opportunities. Every time Richard give his speech, all the female scientists that I know rolls their eyes in pure disgust and resentment. Maybe that was a speed dedicated to THE female scientist Romina and her only? oh wait, he threw her under the bus for his own “integrity” so maybe not that either. Who am I to contemplate the great mind of the director who is rightfully arrogant for his contribution to the mankind by curing cancer! he didn’t? ? ? does he know that?? I know a lot of people live in fear of Richard because he is the director, but think about it, even those who filed a complain before leaving CRUK MI have found new jobs in science. The silence of Uni and CRUK is a reflection of the dark time that we are living in academia. I do wonder if some of these academic leaders have chosen the wrong career, as their talent should be better realized in political arena. Shinzō I can’t agree more with your description. It is truly disappointing yet not unexpected the email from Iain Foulkes to Schneider revealing CRUK’ stance on this affair. We all feel hopeless. CRUK donors should STOP fundraising for CRUK Manchester. The University of Manchester will not investigate his golden boy who just received 25M to rebuild his Institute. The University of Manchester is as dishonorable and unscrupulous as Marais is. Only wide media coverage would persuade these institutions to do something about this disgrace affecting so many good scientists. R Marais must be stopped. All people should sign a petition or open letter and submit to the Ministry to demand an investigation. This could be setup with the people contributing comments here… UoM and CRUK should establish an effective complaints mechanism to allow former ICR and current/former CRUK MI staff to report suspicion of misconduct as an important element of an integrity management system, providing a fair and transparent process to investigate and sanction misconduct. This must extend beyond current workers of CRUK MI considering the very specific allegations made on this blog. This must not be organised by current HR. This will identify vulnerability areas as well as may contribute to raising awareness of expected behaviour standards for CRUK leadership. Adequate whistle-blowing protection also needs to be in place to ensure that current and former employees can report allegations of leadership misconduct without fear of retaliation. If Prof Richard Marais’ conduct is unimpeachable he should use this opportunity to open an independent, thorough investigation to reassure editors, grant bodies, employers, employees and donors. Or he can resign. The current U.K. system. Whistleblowers: ‘We spoke out and lost our jobs’ By Rianna Croxford Caroline Springer selectively deletes data she does not like at lab meetings. Richard Marais approves this. Staff members can’t argue against her decisions. No drug discovery program should be run by her without close supervision. The lack of a safe environment to file complaints perpetuates this behavior from both Richard and Caroline. Filing a complaint puts our job in jeopardy. Caroline also runs her lab in a suspicious manner, hiding information for a part of her group and viceversa. She selects the experiments she wants to present in papers and meetings at Wellcome Trust and hides how many negatives there were. This has been ongoing for several years. Ex abused postdoc They fund a relatively small number of people extremely well. They have systematically reduced the funding to non-core centres to basically nothing (Leeds went from many millions to tens of thousands overnight). They offer massive startups to successful Postdocs go start groups with little or no external peer review. There are very senior professors who have never written a proper grant who sit on other review panels because they are ‘successful’. This whole debacle shows if you throw enough money at an arrogant bully you’ll get a big paper, and then largely cover up the inevitable fallout. For a time the same cohort from chris Marshall’s lab we’re heading CRUK centres in Glasgow, Manchester and LRI- all essentially continuing his work (and dictating the direction of CRUK funding). Chris was a difficult character but a million miles better than the arseholes he produced. I had the misfortune of working for the one member of his group (who was a postdoc with all the aforementioned at the same time) who was a twisted, bitter witch. She couldn’t get funded for toffee, and couldn’t publish independently either. She had several bullying and harassment claims, including one that was successful. Urgent action required I wonder why the University of Manchester and Cancer Research UK had not yet arranged proper channels to file our complaints in a safe manner, protecting us from negative consequences while we safely give our testimony on the bullying we suffer from the Director. No authority from CRUK or UoM has visited our Institute to ask us how we feel and what we have to say. The senior management act like nothing has happened. A thorough investigation should be conducted without any further delay. I confirm the comments against the director. Worryingly, our institute posts on Twitter ‘how proud’ they are for having Caroline Springer presenting in the Women of Influence conference along with Michelle Mitchel – CRUK MI Tweet from 4 July 2019: “Seeing Prof Caroline Springer, from our @ddu_crukmi, at the #CRUKWoI event made us feel very proud! The Women of Influence initiative is a great way to encourage more #WomenInSTEM. Thanks to all these amazing #WomeninScience for being part of it! We want to see more of this!” Neither Richard Marais nor Caroline Springer have truly supported women in science. Quite the opposite, they have both banned them from working in similar research fields. It is ironic that Richard is an invited speaker of Women in Science Conferences. Hypocrisy knows no boundaries. Richard Marais should be investigated immediately or he should resign. Richard Marais should resign! Leonid reports that the ‘finding of research misconduct’ reached by the University of Manchester in the investigation of Dr Girotti has been retracted, suggesting that many of the accusations stated in this blog contain some truth. Whatever his motivation was, it appears that with his witch-hunt Professor Marais has tried to serve his own personal interest. What is despicable about the whole situation is that through his actions Richard Marais has caused major damage to all scientists and particularly to cancer research in Manchester. Clearly the success of cancer research in Manchester is not simply down to Richard Marais (as he might prefer to think). The success of cancer research in Manchester has been initiated by people who have helped to bring together the University, the Christie Hospital and CRUK, and the continuation of this success is dependent on the people who are still involved in running this alliance; the success is down to all the scientists who work extremely hard (and honest, not every scientist is bad by default!) at CRUK-MI and the University of Manchester, and of course it is down to the clinicians who translate and oversee the development of new therapies at the Christie. The Christie is a world-leading cancer hospital in its own right and lives are saved here every day (often based on improvements initiated by the scientists). It would be the worst outcome from all the discussions and comments posted here, if Richard Marais had managed to create such a negative impact that people will stop supporting cancer research in Manchester. If you don’t want to donate to CRUK anymore, then give to the Christie! People are serious about cancer research in Manchester, and as for Richard Marais, he should be ashamed of himself and he should do the honest thing and resign! There is abundant reason for hypervigilance in CRUK-Manchester. Richard Marais is responsible of serious recurrent bullying and harassment and has created an intimidating and humiliating working environment. I won’t go so far as others have here to suggest that he should resign. I think Richard Marais behavior and actions should be investigated by an expert committee. The testimonies presented here, even though anonymous, are red-flagging a problem known by the scientific community. Sadly, I have witnessed at the ICR subtle sexual harassment from Richard Marais to his female postdocs which is criminally and morally reprehensible. It would not be surprising if this behavior persisted in Manchester. Alan Ashworth? I thought you were banging all your students and postdocs too, together with Chris Lord? Oliver M Richard Marais has systematically disadvantaged and discouraged anyone who he considered a future competitor. Undoubtedly, he tried to incriminate a postdoc to serve his interests. It is sinister that he did this to the female postdoc he formerly sexually intimidated. Academia is plagued and demeaned by abuse of power, bullying and sexual harassment. This has to stop and exemplary disciplinary sanctions against the perpetrators must be taken. The ICR and UM should join forces. And yes, Richard Marais should resign. Richard Marais was a determined scientist, a strong man, a risk taker, a patron of power in science and a monster. He is and has been a monster to the women scientists he mentored. Countless episodes in his lab we silenced and decided to not disclose publicly, and, although painful, many of us thought had made peace with. We brainwashed ourselves into thinking that it was the price to pay for having access to funding and technology; we hid from the responsibility to speak out with the excuse that enough people were already warned about what working in his lab was. None of us considered our voices important, nor did we think it would make a difference. In reality, we were trying to save ourselves the challenge of explaining several painful details to our colleagues and to the scientific community. And why, for so many years, we have been cordial to a man who used every chance to humiliate us in public and to block our careers. We are and we were ashamed to describe the details of what we witnessed and tried hard to forget. When so many former Marais alumni posted in this blog what Richard Marais has done to them, we had to confront our cowardice. As others, we felt that nobody would care about our pain and suffer, likely as an effect of the many times we were told, especially by Richard, that we were nobody. We are inspired by those who had the courage to speak out, especially in a scientific community that has this man as Director of a prestigious institute and who was, unashamedly, a candidate for the presidency of the AACR, one of the most respected associations in cancer in the world. Richard Marais has been accused of serial bullying and harassment. This is all true. He is a misogynistic bully with power. And there is so much more to say. The stories described here show clearly how a man in power can do anything he wants to women. Well, we hope, not anymore. Richard Marais resignation is what we are all waiting for. It is not about a man or a woman. It is about a malignant damaged personality. A personality disorder. RM is a narcissist and an abuser. His actions have damaged and hurt men and women in his lab and beyond – from trainees to other PI’s. He is a monster and he shall be prosecuted on the alter of truth, in a Court of Law. JasonBJason Scientists who recently left the Drug Discovery Unit at CRUK-MI (they could not bear working for unscrupulous Caroline Springer) inform that there are SERIOUS problems in two recent papers from the Marais/Springer toxic duet: 2-Aminomethylene-5-Sulfonylthiazole Inhibitors of Lysyl Oxidase (LOX) and LOXL2 Show Significant Efficacy in Delaying Tumor Growth. Smithen DA, …… Marais R, Springer C. J Med Chem. 2019 Aug 20 Anti-metastatic Inhibitors of Lysyl Oxidase (LOX): Design and Structure-Activity Relationships. Leung L, …..Tang H, Marais R, Springer C. J Med Chem. 2019 Jun 27;62(12):5863-5884. Also, Marais has 3 recent corrections in Pubmed: Author Correction: Lysyl oxidase drives tumour progression by trapping EGF receptors at the cell surface. Tang H, …. Springer C, Marais R. Nat Commun. 2019 Jul 18;10(1):3151. Correction: In vitro Biological Characterization of a Novel, Synthetic Diaryl Pyrazole Resorcinol Class of Heat Shock Protein 90 Inhibitors. Sharp SY, …..Marais R, Pearl L, Eccles S, Aherne W, McDonald E, Workman P. Cancer Res. 2019 Jan 1;79(1):287. Publisher Correction: Ultraviolet radiation-induced DNA damage is prognostic for outcome in melanoma. Trucco LD, …..Dhomen N, Marais R. Nat Med. 2019 Feb;25(2):350. Food for thought…. the “melanoma super star” real face has been unmasked at last. I would suggest someone posts the results of the 2019 survey at CRUK-MI. People have expressed their minds about Marais and the results speak for themselves… Can I suggest the best way to uncover all this is for members of his team to use their phones or other small devices to video or just put it under the desk on record during lab meetings etc. I think you’ll find that videos with direct evidence are extremely powerful. Wish I was there to do it myself, but that is of course easy for me to say as it is no longer my career to care about. I understand completely these nasty pieces of work. I know several of them first hand and cannot agree more with what people have written. I have seen people leave science (something they dreamt of doing as a kid) because of these people. Heartbreaking to see, but they are now much happier funnily enough. Get everyone on board in the lab recording everything. Start a youtube channel and get it on there. Yeh ok you will probably get lawsuits etc threatened, but if you stand together it will be hard for them to prove who actually did the recording. But I do fully understand the problems and that it risks damaging your careers. It is so easy for me to write that now I am out of it. However, if the likes of Richard are reading this then you can rest assured all those patients made to suffer a clinical trial because of falsified data will be made aware and I will help to raise a lawsuit against you and the CRUK. The benefits of me switching to a job in law. There are very senior lawyers here rubbing there hands for something like this. I have been passed information in relation to Richard’s inhibitors that they are believed to be.. what is the scientific word? Yes ,’bollocks’. This is well known internally and his ex wife has been put in place to close the doors. You think you are untouchable richard? Think again. You will be held accountable. @YouTuber is there something that could be done as a group. RM should be prosecuted but so should CRUK and Wellcome for protecting him. Former RM postdoc I never thought bullying would happen to me. I thought I was almost immune, having made it through school and college unscathed. But I had the misfortune to work with Richard Marais who has literally made my life hell. He was insecure in the extreme, to the point that anyone who managed to do their job well, who had friends in work or generally just got on with people, became the subject of his vitriol. I worked in Richard Marais lab for three years. I held a postdoctoral position in a very competitive project. I was really good at it and I had great ideas. I was much better than my boss and that made him really angry. I was denigrated and humiliated constantly, when eventually, I made a bullying/harassment case to HR. My story was swept under the carpet because he was the director of the Institute. HR are useless in this regard. Their only apparent function is to ensure the smooth running of the status quo for this in Senior Management. Complaints magically disappear and there is a continual of denial of facts and evidence. If you are getting bullied by Richard speak up quickly, don’t let it fester into ruining your life. Go to the University or to CRUK. Go to the media. Film him, record him. This bully / power-abuser must pay the years of misery he infringed to us. Rotten from the top Enter Caroline Wilkinson into the CRUK MI cluster f. Her sole purpose is to lie, falsify, cover up, basically do everything possible to protect her senior management cronies at CRUK MI. Chief Obfuscation Officer. It seems her nose couldn’t bend any further with all the lies spewed. I tell you what from my interactions with Marais, Dive, Springer, Wilkinson..they are like children who never had a proper job. No understanding of how to be a leader; Just lied their way up the Academia pyramid. Now they’re at the top(ish), got to keep their place somehow. They are afraid. If they lose their job, what else will they do, where will they go? They don’t know how to work and behave professionally with peers let alone produce an honest piece of work which hasn’t been plucked from the tree of bllsht. They can only survive in this toxic bullying swamps of academia. Its a systemic issue which works for them. They should consider to dissolve CRUK MI for a start, it’s not a charity, its a playground for said bullies and thieving b**tards. If only we could let the public peer behind the curtain. Anyone fancy making a FOI request or tipping off the Guardian? Completely agree, they should all be fired and prosecuted for their fraud and abuse – and here is more rotten science from Dive: https://pubpeer.com/publications/B48D7E0BE55D41581E33E20CC84BEC Pingback: The Crooks of CRUK – For Better Science I had the displeasure of experiencing the arrogance of Marais and his minion Girotti during my staying at the CRUKMI and it is a true shame to discover that their efforts to cover up this scandal have been successful. 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__label__cc	0.678948	0.321052	About HACSU Member MyPage Home > News > What is Unfair Dismissal? What is Unfair Dismissal? This article will set out: What makes it “Unfair”? Are there any other factors that might mean I’m not eligible to make an unfair dismissal application? What do I do if I suspect I’ve been unfairly dismissed? In most instances, whenever we start a new job, we will enter into an agreement with our new employer to undertake certain tasks and activities to satisfy the requirements of a particular role, based on the suitability of our skills, experience and qualifications to the employer’s needs. This agreement may be written or verbal and in addition to this agreement, many employees’ terms and conditions of employment are governed by an Enterprise Agreement (EBA), an industry-based Award or the National Employment Standards. These are known as Industrial Instruments. The terms and conditions of your employment include the wages you receive in return for the tasks you perform as well as any special allowances, penalty rates, annual leave, and personal leave. In Australia, these Industrial Instruments are regulated by the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) (“ the FW Act” ). The FW Act is Federal legislation that underpins the rules by which Industrial Instruments can be created, varied, or terminated – and also sets out the laws about unfair dismissal. When a person’s employment is terminated and their position with the employer comes to an end, they may be entitled to bring a claim of unfair dismissal against their employer. If eligible, an unfair dismissal application is made to the Fair Work Commission, who will assist the parties to try and resolve the dispute through an informal conciliation conference, and if agreement cannot be reached will consider the merits of the application at a formal hearing (like a trial) called arbitration. Under section 385 of the FW Act, a person is taken to have been unfairly dismissed if they can demonstrate that: They have been dismissed by the employer (if you resign voluntarily, these laws may not apply to you); The dismissal was harsh, unjust or unreasonable; The dismissal was not consistent with the Small Business Fair Dismissal Code; and The dismissal was not a case of a genuine redundancy. The FW Act sets out a list of factors at section 387 that are relevant to deciding whether a dismissal is considered to be “harsh, unjust or unreasonable”. The types of circumstances that might make a dismissal unfair can include: If you have been dismissed from your employment based on allegations about your conduct which were false or incorrect; If you have been dismissed for poor performance, but were not given clear warnings or opportunities to improve your performance; If you were dismissed for breaching a workplace policy, but others in the same situation were not sacked, or you were never provided with or trained in relation to the policy; If you were dismissed to due an injury or illness which you were still recovering from; If you were forced to resign by the conduct of your employer; If your employment was terminated for redundancy but your position has been given to another person; If you have been dismissed without being given a clear reason, or without being given a fair chance to respond to the reasons for dismissal. If you believe that you have been dismissed because you possess a particular attribute (such as being terminated because of your race, gender, sexual orientation or age) or because you have asked a question about or exercised your workplace rights, then there may be additional grounds on which to bring a claim under the General Protections provisions of the FW Act or under discrimination law. Most union members will be able to make an application to have their unfair dismissal considered. However, you may not be eligible to make an application if: You were employed by your employer for fewer than six months prior to dismissal; You were on probation at the time of dismissal; You were on a contract for a fixed amount of time or a season and the contract came to an end after the specified time period; You were employed directly by a State Government in certain Australian states; You were a contractor or labour hire employee (although you may still have a claim against the labour hire agency); Your employment was not covered by an award or enterprise agreement, and you earned more than the “Unfair Dismissal High Income Threshold” – the high income threshold from 1 July 2020 is $153,600 The termination is a case of genuine redundancy and your employer complied with any consultation requirements in an applicable Industrial Instrument; Your employer was a business with fewer than 15 employees and it complied with the Small Business Fair Dismissal Code (which has less stringent requirements for employers before terminating employment). Your Union, HACSU, should be your first contact point. This might mean reaching out to your site delegate, or your local area organiser. The Union will assist you in working out whether there are grounds for making an unfair dismissal claim or some alternative legal claim. Any Unfair Dismissal Application made to the Fair Work Commission must be made within 21 days of a termination taking effect . If you miss this deadline, you are likely to become ineligible to pursue a claim and obtain compensation. If you believe you have been unfairly dismissed, we recommend you seek advice from the team at HACSU as quickly as possible. Further information about dismissals can be found on the Fair Work Commission website here: https://www.fwc.gov.au/unfair-dismissals-benchbook/overview-unfair-dismissal . About the Author: Carita Kazakoff is a Principal Lawyer of the Industrial and Employment Law team at Slater and Gordon Lawyers. Carita has extensive experience in the Industrial and Employment Law fields, having represented unions involved in industrial and bargaining disputes, as well as individual employment matters for a range of issues. More recently, Carita returned to Slater and Gordon after a two year secondment at Victorian Trades Hall’s Young Workers Centre as the YWC’s Principal Lawyer. Carita passionately advocated for vulnerable young Australian workers during her time, and was instrumental in ensuring big bosses were put to task over poor treatment of their workforce – a task she is still just as passionate about today. Slater and Gordon Lawyers, who has proudly served HACSU and its members for many years. 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__label__wiki	0.89802	0.89802	Kensal Town, Kensington & Chelsea An infrequently used name for a heavily redeveloped part of north-east North Kensington, located between the Grand Union Canal and the main railway line into Paddington Kensal New Town – as it was originally called (and occasionally still is) – was laid out in the 1840s following Kensal Green’s successful development. From the start, however, it was a poorer and less fashionable sister and it deteriorated into a notorious slum. This was a detached part of the parish of St Luke’s, Chelsea, covering about 140 acres and nicknamed Chelsea-in-the-Wilderness. In 1899 it was incorporated within Kensington despite the Royal Borough’s objections – the real reason for which seems to have been the abject condition of the inhabitants. In 1902 social reformer and statistician Charles Booth described Kensal New Town as an “isolated district, shaped like a shoe and just as full of children and poverty as was the old woman’s dwelling in the nursery rhyme.”† The main improvement before the First World War was the creation of the Emslie Horniman Pleasance, a little park on Bosworth Road with features by the eminent architect CFA Voysey that have since been restored. From the 1930s the council began a programme of slum clearance and estate building. The work was interrupted by the Second World War and was slow to resume afterwards, with the result that rapacious landlords continued to prey on the locality’s inhabitants until the early 1960s. The redevelopment programme eventually erased much of the original street pattern and culminated on the east side with Ernő Goldfinger’s Trellick Tower, which was completed in 1972. This is a love-it-or-hate-it 30-storey concrete block with a distinctive separate lift and stair tower, designed as a unité d’habitation in the style of Le Corbusier. Built to high standards and visible for miles, Trellick Tower is now grade II listed as a relic of a bygone age of monumental municipal building. Like much of North Kensington, Kensal Town is now a very multicultural community, including residents of Afro-Caribbean, Portuguese and Moroccan birth or descent. Former home secretary Alan Johnson’s bestselling memoir This Boy (2013) tells of terrible hardship in his childhood home – a condemned house in (now truncated and rebuilt) Southam Street. The book’s publicity suggests this was in “pre-gentrified Notting Hill” – but much of this end of the district remains deprived today, though conditions are immeasurably better than they were in the 1950s. Postal district: W10 Further reading: Jerome Borkwood, From Kensal Village to Golborne Road: Tales of the Inner City, Kensington and Chelsea Community History Group, 2002 † “We have already traced the line of poverty which follows the Grand Junction Canal from Paddington Basin to the Lock Hospital, and as its track winds once more to the North, before passing out of London at Kensal Green, it leaves between itself and the railway another isolated district, shaped like a shoe and just as full of children and poverty as was the old woman’s dwelling in the nursery rhyme.” Charles Booth, Life and Labour of the People in London (1902), Chapter III, The Outer West * The picture of Canalside properties at Kensal Town at the top of this page is adapted from an original photograph, copyright John Slater, at Geograph Britain and Ireland, made available under the Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic Licence. Any subsequent reuse is hereby freely permitted under the terms of that licence.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line843
__label__wiki	0.743654	0.743654	{{Infobox\|Box title = Flamboyant Entertainment\|image = File:Flamboyant Entertainment.png\|imagewidth = 150\|Row 1 title = Founded\|Row 1 info = 1998 by [[Big L]]\|Row 2 title = Status\|Row 2 info = Defunct\|Row 3 title = Genre\|Row 3 info = [[Hip hop music\|Hip hop]]\|Row 4 title = Location\|Row 4 info = New York City, New York, United States}}'''Flamboyant Entertainment''' was an American [[Hip hop music\|hip hop]] record label based in New York City, New York. The label was established by rapper [[Big L]] in 1998, who elected to pursue a career as an independent artist after being dropped from Columbia Records in 1995. The label's first release was Big L's 1998 single "[[Ebonics]]", but it would turn out to be the only release on the label during Big L's lifetime due to his 1999 murder. Flamboyant Entertainment posthumously released Big L's 2000 album ''[[The Big Picture (Big L album)\|The Big Picture]]'' with [[Rawkus Records]] and PIAS. In 2010, the label released the Big L compilation album ''[[139 & Lenox]]''. ==Roster== ===Former artists=== [[Big L]] (1998-1999) ==Discography== 2000: ''[[The Big Picture (Big L album)\|The Big Picture]]'' - [[Big L]] *2010: ''[[139 & Lenox]]'' [[Category:Hip hop record labels]] [[Category:Record labels based in New York City]] [[Category:Record labels established in 1998]] [[Category:Article stubs]] Retrieved from "https://hip-hop-music.fandom.com/wiki/Flamboyant_Entertainment"	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line847
__label__cc	0.694654	0.305346	Home / Historical / 2012 October 4-5 Rare Books Signature Auction - Beverly Hills Auction #6091 / Lot #36101 Andreas Vesalius. De humani corporis libri septem. [Basile: Johannes Oporinus, June, 1543]. First edition of what... The Most Important Book in the History of Anatomy Andreas Vesalius. De humani corporis libri septem. [Basile: Johannes Oporinus, June, 1543]. First edition of what is possibly the most famous medical book and certainly the most important anatomical work; it is also considered to be the most beautiful anatomical book of all time. Folio in sixes. Approximately 17 x 11 inches. [viii], 659, (actually 663), [1, errata], [36] pp., with the woodcut title in first state (possibly supplied from another copy and mounted onto another leaf with no loss of image), woodcut portrait of the author (supplied in later facsimile), two double page-size woodcuts (within pagination and folded; the first (folding m3) printed on both sides and possibly supplied from a different copy). Also, this copy has the "Charta parvas" leaf (possibly supplied) which was comprised of eight anatomical woodcut figures that were meant to be cut out and pasted on the human figure on folding m3, which most copies lack; this copy has the leaf with all eight figures intact. Both m3 leaves (the folding plate mentioned above as well as the "Charta parvas" leaf) have repairs and restoration, with minimal loss. The first skeletal leaf (page 163/164) and page 201/202 both have repairs which do not affect imagery or text (there is some dampstaining to page 163/164). There is a small pencil sketch of a fetal skull at the bottom of page 312. Occasional dampstaining to lower corner of text, not affecting text or imagery. Bound in near contemporary vellum over mottled paper boards, skilfully rebacked at a later date in vellum, smooth spine ruled and lettered in black, manuscript title on lower edge of textblock. Bookplates of Harvard Medical Library on both pastedowns, bookplate of Dr. William P. Grier on front pastedown, inkstamps of the Massachusetts Medical College. Front joint repaired. A very good copy; very clean and handsome. Housed in custom-build quarter morocco clamshell case. "The Fabrica, a handsomely printed folio, is remarkable for its series of magnificent plates, which set new technical standards of anatomical illustration, and indeed of book illustration in general. They have generally been ascribed to an artist of Titan's school... No other work of the sixteenth century equals it... It was translated, reissued, copied and plagiarized over and over again and its illustrations were used or copied in other medical works until the end of the eighteenth century" (PMM). "Published when the author was only 29 years old, the Fabrica revolutionized not only the science of anatomy but how it was taught. Throughout his encyclopedic work on the structure and workings of the human body, Vesalius provided a fuller and more detailed description of the human body than any of his predecessors, correcting errors in the traditional anatomical teachings of Galen. Even more epochal than his criticism of Galen and other medieval authorities was Vesalius' assertion that the dissection of cadavers must be performed by the physician himself" (Garrison-Morton). This copy corresponds quite favorably to the points and faults of the Cushing copy. This includes the famous dissection theatre title-page in the correct first state with the image of the dog in the lower right corner (the second state shows a dog and a goat). Also this first state page has superior engraving to that of the second state. Adams V603 (without the Charta parvas). Barchas Collection 2081 (without the Charta parvas). Durling 4577. Cushing, A Bio-Bibliography VI.A.-1 (pp. 79-88, Cushing's own copy without the Charta parvas). Dibner 122; Garrison-Morton 375. Heirs of Hippocrates 281 (lacking the portrait). Horblit 98. PMM 71. Roberts and Tomlinson pp. 125-165 (the eight woodcuts cut out and pasted onto the folded sheet). Sparrow, Milestones of Science 192. Stillwell, The Awakening Interest in Science 710. Wellcome 6560. 4th-5th Thursday-Friday 25% on the first $50,000 (minimum $14), plus 20% of any amount between $50,000 and $1,000,000, plus 12% of any amount over $1,000,000 per lot. Consign to the 2021 June 6 Arms & Armor, Civil War & Militaria Signature Auction - Dallas. The resulting auction of my property overwhelmed me. I want to thank Tom Slater and the Heritage team for a very satisfactory experience and profitable result with my historical consignment. Henry L.,	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line848
__label__wiki	0.6938	0.6938	We Recommend These Resources: Bach Steel - Experts at historic truss bridge restoration. Beechwood Boulevard Bridge Greenfield Bridge Primary Photographer(s): Nathan Holth Bridge Documented: June 2010 and July 17, 2011 Facility Carried / Feature Intersected Greenfield Road (Beechwood Boulevard) Over I-376, US-22, US-30 (Penn Lincoln Parkway / Parkway East) Pittsburgh: Allegheny County, Pennsylvania: United States Concrete Open Spandrel Deck Arch, Fixed and Approach Spans: Metal Stringer (Multi-Beam), Fixed Construction Date and Builder / Engineer 1922 By Builder/Contractor: E. M. Wichert Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Engineer/Design: Pittsburgh Department of Public Works Rehabilitation Date Main Span Length 274 Feet (84 Meters) 466 Feet (142 Meters) Roadway Width 30 Feet (9.14 Meters) 1 Main Span(s) and 12 Approach Span(s) NBI Number View Information About HSR Ratings Bridge Documentation This bridge no longer exists! Bridge Status: Demolished and replaced. View Archived National Bridge Inventory Report - Has Additional Details and Evaluation View Historical Articles Discussing Construction of Bridge This bridge was apparently officially named the Beechwood Boulevard Bridge, but is today listed as being on Greenfield Road and is commonly called the Greenfield Bridge. It is simply an indication of how roads and road names are sometimes reconfigured over the life of a bridge. Countless historic bridges have been neglected and/or demolished and replaced for no other reason than that the system for funding bridge projects in the United States is severely flawed and encourages agencies to defer maintenance and rehabilitation until the bridge deteriorates to a serious condition, at which point those agencies are rewarded with demolition and full replacement funds from the federal government. This system has destroyed history, wasted tax dollars, and probably reduced safety as well. The system need considerable reform, so that greater quantities of funding are provided from the federal government to state and local agencies for the purpose of bridge maintenance and rehabilitation, thus reducing the need for costly, destructive, and inconvenient replacement projects. At the same time, state and local agencies should have to pay a larger percentage of the cost for replacing a bridge, which would decrease the incentive for deferring maintenance and letting a bridge deteriorate. There is perhaps no better example of the flawed funding system than the Beachwood Boulevard Bridge, commonly known as the Greenfield Bridge. Rather than spend money on repairing and rehabilitating the bridge, the bridge's maintenance was deferred to the point that the bridge started dropping concrete onto the freeway below posing a serious safety hazard. One driver was hit in the face with a piece that dropped right through the car windshield. Such an incident would have been prevented if greater amount of funding was available to maintain and rehabilitate old and historic bridges. However, the story gets worse. Because funding to execute a comprehensive rehabilitation of the bridge was unavailable to Pittsburgh, they spent $700,000 to build a bridge under a bridge... a structure that is located underneath part of the historic bridge to catch any concrete debris that might fall from the bridge. The eastbound freeway traffic passes underneath this structure. Essentially, because of our nation's flawed funding system, $700,000 was spent because of this bridge, yet not a single dollar went to improving the bridge itself. This all because rehabilitation funds were not available. Netting was also wrapped around the part of the arch ring which was most deteriorated. The netting is black in color and has reduced the aesthetic quality of the bridge. HistoricBridges.org does want to make it very clear that despite the falling concrete and all the measures taken in response to it, that the overall structural condition and stability of the bridge is decent. Many bridges in much poorer structural condition remain open to traffic. The falling concrete, while it was dangerous to anyone under it, has not severely reduced the strength of the bridge, although it may increase the rate at which the reinforcing deteriorates in the years to come, now that it is likely exposed in several areas. Now, the future of the bridge is to be reduced to rubble, since the city plans to demolish this historic bridge. Although the bridge has been severely altered, and as such as relatively poor historic integrity, several historic elements do remain on the bridge, and it contributes to the vast bridge heritage present in Pittsburgh by offering a structure that is readily visible to the large number of people traveling on I-376. It also adds to the aesthetic value of the adjacent historic Schenley Park. The bridge is slated to be replaced with a steel deck arch bridge. It appears that this replacement bridge will have railings designed to be similar to those that were originally on the historic bridge. Information and Findings From Pennsylvania's Historic Bridge Inventory Discussion of Bridge The 13-span, 466'-long bridge built in 1922 consists of a 270'-long ribbed open spandrel arch span and 12 steel stringer approach spans supported on concrete abutments and piers. The bridge underwent significant alterations in 1980 including removal of all of the original fabric of the arch span from the ribs up including the spandrel columns, floorbeams, deck, and the Classical-style concrete balustrades with urn balusters. The spandrel columns were replaced in kind, but steel stringers and a stay-in-place steel deck were used in place of reinforced concrete for the flooring system. The balustrades were replaced by safety shape parapets and chain link fences. The approach spans were also replaced as part of the project with steel stringer spans used in place of concrete slab spans. Allegheny County has one of the state's most impressive collections of open spandrel arch bridges with 13 identified examples dating from 1912 to 1950. This 1922 example has lost integrity of original design. Other more complete examples represent the significance of the bridge type in the county and regional contexts. Discussion of Surrounding Area The bridge carries a 3 lane street over a 6 lane, limited access highway. The north end of the bridge is adjacent to Schenley Park (NR-listed 11/13/1985). The historic district's boundaries coincide with the park's boundaries, and bridge is contiguous to but not within the district. Although several bridges were listed as contributing to the district, this one was not included. At the bridge's southern quadrants is a late-20th-century commercial strip. Bridge Considered Historic By Survey: No Photo Galleries and Videos: Beechwood Boulevard Bridge Bridge Photo-Documentation Original / Full Size Photos A collection of overview and detail photos. This gallery offers photos in the highest available resolution and file size in a touch-friendly popup viewer. Alternatively, Browse Without Using Viewer Mobile Optimized Photos A collection of overview and detail photos. This gallery features data-friendly, fast-loading photos in a touch-friendly popup viewer. Alternatively, Browse Without Using Viewer Maps and Links: Beechwood Boulevard Bridge This historic bridge has been demolished. This map is shown for reference purposes only. Coordinates (Latitude, Longitude): Copy Coordinates View Bridge Location In: Bridgehunter.com: View listed bridges within a half mile of this bridge. Bridgehunter.com: View listed bridges within 10 miles of this bridge. 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__label__wiki	0.652318	0.652318	Moral Majority report Most states still outlawed same-gender sex in the 1980s. Many Americans, deeply offended by homosexuality, objected to any acceptance of it. Some of them considered it a sin, and believed AIDS was a suitable punishment. 1989 candlelight vigil on the Mall in Washington, D.C. "Questions and Answers" pamphlet, Philadelphia Task Force, 1982 Initially ignored by mainstream America, gay people in every major city created a parallel system of volunteer-run service organizations to supply care, information, and referrals to those with AIDS. "AIDS AIDS AIDS????" pamphlet, Gay Men's Health Crisis, 1982 Surgeon General’s report, 1986 Surgeon General C. Everett Koop presented the government’s position on the epidemic in 1986 with straightforward and frank medical information. Healthy Sex is Great Sex The Gay Men’s Health Crisis distributed explicit material such as this 1982 brochure. AIDS: A Guide to Protective Measures for Hospital Personnel Health care workers needed specific information about ways to protect themselves from infection. Teaching AIDS, 1986 Sex education has always been a contentious topic in families, schools, and religious organizations. This 1986 textbook, published in San Francisco, was one of the first to tackle how to inform K–12 students about AIDS. Women do get AIDS, 1986 Women with AIDS were predominantly poor and African American or Latina. They were excluded from clinical trials, and the official AIDS definition did not include diseases specific to women until 1993. Sabado Loco Public health fotonovelas such as this 1989 booklet were adapted from a publication format already popular among Latinos. Terms of Use \| Privacy \| Press \| Giving \| Contact \| Email Signup	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line850
__label__cc	0.561261	0.438739	Orlando Ruben Perez-Nieto ****@hotmail.com Department of Critical Care - Hospital San Juan del Río San Juan del Río, Queretaro @OrlandoRPN Eder Ivan Zamarron-Lopez ***@*gmail.com Cemain Tampico - Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos @dreder_zamarron Manuel Alberto Guerrero-Gutierrez Department of Critical Care - Instituto Nacional de Cancerología @cc_yoda Jorge Lopez-Fermin @MD_FERMIN Ernesto Deloya-Tomas San Juan del Río, Queretaro. @e_deloyaMD Silvio A. Ñamendys-Silva Department of Critical Care Medicine - Instituto Nacional de Cancerologia Department of Critical Care Medicine - Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion Salvador Zubiran @Snamendys ICU MENU ICU Management & Practice, Volume 20 - Issue 3, 2020 Challenges in the Management of Severe SARS-CoV2 Infection in Elderly Patients Download Article Back Elderly patients have damaging and serious complications when they acquire SARS-CoV2 infection. It is thus important to consider this particular age group for better management of COVID-19. The gradual reversal of the population pyramid that has developed in recent decades has resulted in older adults being mostly affected in a pandemic situation. Senior people are the defenceless group, and the ones who have experienced the severest form of this disease. A patient who is positive for SARS-CoV2, and is over the age of 70 years old is compromised because of age. Since the beginning of this pandemic, 50% of those infected are elderly patients. The elderly also represent 33% of the total admissions in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and account for 22% up to 48% of the daily deceased (Bonanad 2020). This could be due to pre-existing comorbidities, geriatric syndromes, disability, dependence or frailty making them more vulnerable to this infection and poor outcomes. Complications and Comorbidities of Ageing Adults with COVID-19 Up to 60% of senior patients with COVID-19 have at least one of the following comorbidities: hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cerebrovascular disease, dementia, cancer, chronic kidney disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The most frequent complications of the elderly with severe COVID-19 are acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), shock, delirium, acute kidney injury (AKI), myocarditis, acute myocardial infarction, heart failure (including Takotsubo disease), arrhythmias and venous thrombosis (Li 2020; Wang 2020). This link between elderly patients and complications should put us on an awareness mode to detect and evaluate this patient population early. Along with the clinical worsening triggered by the natural progression of the disease, medical management may also contribute to complications through the use of strategies that may not be entirely suitable for this age group. A proposed approach for the detection and diagnosis of complications of SARS-Cov2 infection for elderly patients is shown in Table 1. Special Considerations in the Management of the Critically Ill Elderly Patient Due to COVID-19 Oxygen support, intubation and invasive mechanical ventilation Oxygen therapy should be initiated when a patient presents hypoxaemia manifested by clinical signs of respiratory failure and a peripheral oxygen saturation ≤92%; in case conventional oxygen delivery devices (low-flow nasal cannulas, facial mask or oxygen reservoir bag) do not provide adequate oxygenation, another advanced type of ventilator support should be considered. Determining the appropriate time to perform intubation is a challenge in elderly patients with previous pulmonary pathologies like COPD or chronic cardiac failure and could excessively increase the breathing effort and generate fatigue of the inspiratory muscles rapidly compared to young adult patients. The Work of Breathing Scale (Apigo 2020) can be a useful tool. High flow nasal cannula (HFNC) or non-invasive mechanical ventilation (NVMI), can be chosen alone or combined with a prone position in non-intubated patients, however, intubation should not be delayed if necessary; ROX index (Roca 2019) is useful to make the decision in these cases. Protective mechanical ventilation is a cornerstone in the treatment of ARDS. It is recommended to start with a tidal volume of 6 ml/kg of predicted weight and maintain a plateau pressure <30 cm H2O. An acceptable goal of oxygenation in patients with ARDS is 88 to 94% arterial peripheral oxygen saturation (SaO2). However, in patients with ischaemic heart disease, it may be more advisable to maintain oxygenation values above 90%. Analgesia and sedation In patients with invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV), a target of sedation and analgesia should be established using the RASS scale CPOT scale. Propofol and dexmedetomidine are recommended over the use of benzodiazepines. The use of opioids such as fentanyl as adjuvant treatment with paracetamol is recommended in order to reduce the total dose of morphine derivatives. Long-term use of benzodiazepines and opioids can trigger delirium. It is recommended to remove sedatives as soon as possible and implement daily sedation withdrawal strategies in patients who present clinical improvement. The use of tramadol and antineuritic medications such as gabapentin may be considered. We suggest avoiding routinary use of NSAIDs due to the high risk of complications such as AKI and gastrointestinal bleeding. Specific therapies Dexamethasone is recommended for COVID-19 patients who are hypoxaemic or under IMV. Special care must be taken with increases in blood glucose and weakness in the critically ill patients. Lopinavir-ritonavir, hydroxychloroquine with or without azithromycin are not recommended (RECOVERY 2020) due to greater predisposition to QT prolongation and arrhythmias in this group of patients. Tocilizumab is not recommended either (CONVACTA 2020). Remdesivir and other antiviral drugs are still being tested in clinical trials. Prophylaxis for venous thrombosis and anticoagulation It is recommended to use low molecular weight heparin, such as enoxaparin for thromboprophylaxis in all hospitalised patients and to facilitate early mobilisation to avoid venous thrombosis, especially because older adults present comorbidities that generate a higher prothrombotic risk such as immobility, disabling cerebrovascular disease, hip or pelvic limb fracture, malignancy, etc. In case of clinical data of deep vein thrombosis, it is recommended to perform Doppler ultrasound for diagnosis. If venous thrombotic episode is confirmed, the anticoagulant dose should be increased. The dose should be adjusted based on renal function. Patients receiving oral anticoagulants should be switched to enoxaparin during their hospitalisation and their usual treatment should be restored upon admission. Fluid therapy Intravenous fluid therapy has traditionally been considered a standard of treatment in patients with sepsis. However, large volumes of intravenous fluids (as initially recommended by the Guidelines of Surviving Sepsis Campaign) in elderly patients, can lead to fluid overload, increase hypoxaemia, contribute to AKI and other adverse effects. Therefore, fluid restrictive therapy is recommended in patients with ARDS from COVID-19. In case of hypotension and shock, dynamic fluid response manoeuvres are suggested to make the decision to indicate crystalloid infusion, over static manoeuvres, or liberal fluid therapy. Hydroxyethyl starches are not recommended due to the risk of AKI. Vasopressors, inotropes and adjuvants In the management of elderly patients in shock, it is recommended to start norepinephrine early to rapidly improve organ perfusion and avoid unnecessary infusions of intravenous crystalloids with a target of mean arterial pressure (MAP) close to 65 mm Hg, monitoring capillary refilling and other perfusion data obtained by the clinic. Pursuing a target of MAP close to 80 mm Hg can lead to atrial fibrillation in elderly patients and is therefore, not recommended. The use of hydrocortisone and a second vasopressor with a different mechanism of action as vasopressin is also justified given the suspicion of refractory vasodilation. The use of inotropic drugs like dobutamine should be considered when considering cardiogenic shock due to complications such as acute myocardial infarction or septic cardiomyopathy, which are relatively frequent in this group of patients. An echocardiogram is useful for making decisions. Esmolol or ivabradine could be used as adjuvant therapy for refractory shock in the event of suspected diastolic dysfunction due to sepsis, since elderly patients may initially present difficulty in myocardial relaxation due to their age or due to hypertensive heart disease. Renal replacement therapy Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is most associated with mortality in patients with COVID-19. When faced with a patient who previously required renal replacement therapy (RRT) (dialysis or haemodialysis) or generates AKI refractory to medical treatment, a renal replacement strategy should be considered. An appropriate option for haemodynamically unstable patients is the use of continuous or intermittent slow therapies. However, adverse events such as thrombocytopaenia, hypocalcaemia (in case of use of citrate) or rapid intravascular volume removal should be anticipated to avoid complications. The use of sodium bicarbonate could decrease the need for RRT in selected cases (Jaber 2018). Prevention and treatment of delirium It is important to use an adapted room without conditions that predispose to delirium: adequate lighting during the day and darkness at night, a visible clock, television, ambient sounds or music, communication tools for visual and digital communication with health personnel, mobile phone to have contact with family and physical therapy and occupational therapy. Avoid unnecessary invasive devices and remove those already used as soon as possible, including catheters, urinary catheters and restrictions. Special caution should be exercised in the prescription of drugs associated with delirium (H2 antagonists, prokinetics such as metoclopramide, some antibiotics, sedatives, analgesics, etc.) Drugs such as olanzapine, quetiapine or risperidone are indicated as specific treatment but lack clinical evidence. Special caution should be exercised with the use of haloperidol in this group of patients. It is recommended to start at low doses with close monitoring of cardiac rhythm. Being aware of the high lethality of elderly patients with COVID-19, patients with poor prognosis, multiorgan failure, severity scales such as the acute physiology and chronic health disease classification system II (APACHEII) and sequential organic failure assessment (SOFA) elevated and that do not respond adequately to treatment, the possibility of limiting the therapeutic effort should be considered in order to avoid cruelty. Communication with family members should be established to make the decision properly. Elderly patients with severe SARS-CoV2 virus infection have higher mortality than other age groups. This is primarily due to their comorbidities. The individualisation of management in this patient population plays an important role and should always be done based on the best available evidence adapted to the clinical setting. Senior people are the defenceless group and the ones who have experienced the severest form of COVID-19 disease. Senior patients with COVID-19 have at least one of the following comorbidities: hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cerebrovascular disease, dementia, cancer, chronic kidney disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Frequent complications of the elderly with severe COVID-19 are acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), shock, delirium, acute kidney injury (AKI), myocarditis, acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, arrhythmias and venous thrombosis. The individualisation of management in this patient population plays an important role and should always be done based on the best available evidence adapted to the clinical setting. «« Corticosteroids and Mortality in COVID-19 Patients COVID-19: Readjusting Clinical Trials »» Apigo M et al. (2020) Development of a work of breathing scale and monitoring need of intubation in COVID-19 pneumonia. 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__label__cc	0.650767	0.349233	H. M. Snow, Fantasy Novelist Epic, Contemporary, and Comedic Fantasy About H. M. Snow 10 – Father’s Students At precisely 0700 hours, Everard Locke was on the parade grounds behind the military depot. Arrayed before him were eight young men and women. Seven were trainees at varying stages of their obligatory four years. One was a full cadet. From memory, Everard called out their names. “Lillias Allen!” “Yes, sir!” The answer came from a slender, vivacious girl with dark brunette hair and black eyes that showed her as originally from South Territory. She was the youngest of the group, just a month short of turning sixteen. “Anion Cooper!” “Yes, sir!” This answer came from a wiry young man of eighteen, sandy blond with sun-bleached streaks along both sides of his head. He had come as a recommendation from both elders of the capital’s Lightning District. “Maccani Moor!” “Sir!” Moor was the oldest of this group at twenty-two years old. He was a familiar face, being left over from the previous cohort where he had been one of the youngest and latest arrivals. “Sanna Taivas!” “Yes, sir!” The only full cadet among them, Sanna stood slightly apart from the rest of the group. She also stood out figuratively as the only one in cold-weather gear despite the intense heat of summer. “Elfric Tarbengar!” “Yes, sir!” Another visual stand-out in the group, Tarbengar had thick dark hair, sloping shoulders, and a shuffling gait like a bear. Such was the resemblance that none of the others had remarked on the presence of the four-month-old brown bear cub that leaned against Tarbengar’s leg. “Rusza Tate!” “Morning, sir!” Rusza was his energetic, effervescent self as always. “‘Yes’ will suffice,” Everard said. “Sora Waeber!” “….Yes, sir.” The slow response time matched the young man’s dreamy expression. Sora Waeber came from Earth District less with a recommendation than with a plea for help. Charles Wingate had phrased it well: “He remembers almost nothing outside his lessons on the Divine will; he desperately needs someone to drive into him some practical application of what he knows.” “Gretta Warhite!” “Yes, sir!” The third woman in the group was, like Maccani Moor, a familiar face from the previous cohort. She had cast an eye toward the other two girls already, and not as prospective friends, from the looks of it. Everard looked over the group once more. “I have taken on each of you for specialized training. You will stay with me for as long as your training lasts, or until I hand you off to someone more qualified for your specialty. As you might have guessed already, each of you is here for different reasons. Parts of your training will involve the group; other parts will be individualized. We start with a group run. Five times around the perimeter of the grounds. Moor, Warhite, you know the routine, so you will lead off this time. The rest of you will follow their pace.” He jerked his head to direct Mica to leave his side and run with the group. When they had started, Everard ran behind them to observe their form. Almost immediately, Everard had to call out, “Tate, fall back into formation. No chatter.” He watched the boy drop back into his place in the single line of runners. Lillias Allen, the runner ahead of Rusza, was keeping the pace well. “Locke, move up. No lagging.” He watched his son struggling with this easy pace and tightened his lips. “Cooper, this isn’t a race. Maintain adequate following distance.” They reached the first turn, and the leaders raised the pace slightly. “Tate, no chatter. Don’t make me repeat myself. Taivas, move up three places.” He noted how the girl from North Territory ran smoothly and easily as she moved up the outside to take her place in line between Allen and Tate. “Tarbengar, move up one place. Can your cub keep up?” “Yes, sir.” The West Territory boy loped forward to take the place between Taivas and Tate. His bear cub companion loped at his heels, forcing even more space between Rusza and the girls. At the end of the first lap, Everard called out, “Change leaders.” Maccani Moor moved up on the inside to overtake Gretta Warhite. The pace quickened to just short of a sprint. The effects were soon visible. “Allen, breathe through your mouth in rhythm with your strides,” Everard called out. “Inhale for two, exhale for two. Cooper, mind your distance; this isn’t a race. Don’t make me repeat myself.” Rusza yelled, “Sir, the bear just passed Taivas.” “The bear isn’t here for training. Ignore the bear,” Everard retorted. He gauged the runners again. Then he moved up on the outside to run alongside Mica. “Elbows in,” he said. “Breathe in rhythm. Don’t try to place your feet; just let them fall. Lean back a little. You should remember this,” he added. Mica gave a short nod, unable to speak. At the second turn of the second lap, the leaders changed again and the pace slowed to its original speed. Everard fell back to the end of the line again. “Tate, fall back. Control your energy. Leaders, hold this pace for the third lap.” At the end of the fourth lap, Everard decided to change plans. “Fifth lap, choose your own pace, as long as you finish the lap.” He watched as Anion Cooper, thus freed, sprinted forward to overtake the leaders. Rusza kept pace with Cooper, while Mica slowed to a limping jog. Lillias Allen slowed as well, while Elfric Tarbengar held to the original pace with his bear cub companion. Sanna Taivas increased her pace to catch up with the leaders, and then matched them. Sora Waeber followed heedlessly behind Tarbengar’s broad back. Rusza finished first, having consistently outpaced Anion Cooper, but at the end he didn’t stop. “Problem, sir!” he yelled. Everard saw the boy still accelerating and shouted, “Doc!” But Dr. Rao was at the wrong end of the parade grounds to get near Rusza. “Taivas,” Everard shouted, “bring him down.” The cadet turned back along the path. She whipped past Elfric and Sora, Lillias, Mica and Everard at a full sprint. Cold air washed over them. She had pulled off her gloves and was bearing down on a point that Rusza would soon cross. The temperature in the parade grounds continued to drop. The humid air turned to fog at Sanna’s heels. None of the group was near enough to see exactly what happened, but they all heard the impact. Then, after a few seconds, a long and ragged indrawn breath resounded through the fog. Rusza groaned and said, “Thanks…” and groaned again. Dr. Rao spoke from that direction. “Both of you, just concentrate on your energy. Rusza Tate, don’t move.” The morning sun broke through the fog, which began to dwindle. Soon all could see the trio at the other side of the parade grounds. Everard called out, “The rest of you, finish your lap and stay at the far end of the grounds.” He jogged to the trio. “Doc?” Dr. Rao glanced at him. “We’re all right so far.” She held her hands outstretched, not toward Rusza but toward Sanna. “Don’t,” Sanna warned, “don’t touch.” Fog rose from her skin wherever the air touched her. “I won’t touch you,” Dr. Rao reassured her. “I’m only monitoring right now. You need to deplete, Sanna. Countering with heat isn’t enough.” “Doc, may I move yet?” Rusza asked from where he lay sprawled on his back. “I don’t want you to move until I can check your levels, but I need to focus on Sanna right now.” “I can help. I won’t move, but here, see if this helps.” The fog thickened as heat waves started radiating from Rusza. “I see what you meant by ‘Nothing burns me,’ Sanna Taivas. I’m the same, but with cold. I never feel cold. So I’m guessing we can both deplete energies and balance each other out.” “It could work,” said Dr. Rao. “Father, if you would take some more distance…” Everard backed away until he stood outside the fog. He listened as the doctor said, “From what I can tell at this distance, Rusza, you’re safe to stand up, but don’t walk around or fidget or make any superfluous motions. Each of you should be able to sense the other’s thermal energy, since you share that sympathy. Gauge your output accordingly. Sanna, you can do more. It’s still at a safe level. Don’t be afraid. Rusza, how is it?” “Feels nice,” he said with a grin in his voice. “I can take more than this, lots more.” “You hear that, Sanna? Don’t worry about harming me. Sympathies can’t hurt me. That’s how human sympathy sympathy works: my sympathy stops yours as soon as yours touches me. That’s good. Trust me; trust Rusza too, he’s strong enough.” Eventually the atmosphere stabilized and the fog subsided enough to reveal the two young soldiers and Dr. Rao standing midway between them. Rusza’s skin glowed ruddy with the heat he generated, while Sanna was chalk-white with anxiety. “Sanna, let’s take advantage of the opportunity and have you deplete enough to take off your jacket,” suggested Dr. Rao. “Once we get your sympathy that far under control, I’ll give you an adjustment massage, and you won’t need to worry about it for a while.” Sanna was clearly hesitant. “Don’t worry,” Rusza said cheerfully, “I’ve got you.” Sanna squared her shoulders. She lifted one hand to the snaps that fastened the uniform jacket at her left shoulder. Slowly, she unsnapped all four snaps. Then, after a deep breath, she shrugged out of the jacket and let it drop to the ground. “Wow,” Rusza said. Everard saw where the boy’s gaze was focused and said warningly, “Rusza…” “Sorry, but…” “Just stop right there. Focus on what you need to do.” Sanna had not missed a nuance of this exchange. Her anxiety had quickly turned to embarrassment that verged on annoyance. She folded her arms across her full bosom. Frost whitened the black long-sleeved t-shirt she wore under her jacket. Rusza said in awe, “I get hot just looking at you.” “Rusza…” said Everard. “I didn’t mean… yes, that sounded really wrong, but I just meant, it’s so hot out already, and you’ve been running all this time in all those heavy clothes! Do you never break a sweat?” “Not often,” Sanna replied. “I am now, though.” She rubbed the back of her hand against her forehead. Dr. Rao said, “That’s an encouraging sign. Let’s try this.” She closed the distance and touched her fingertips to the back of Sanna’s neck. Sanna shivered. Then she smiled. “That tickles. I had forgotten how ticklish the back of my neck is.” “I’m not surprised,” Dr. Rao said, “considering how long it has been since you let anyone touch you. Humans need human contact, you know.” She began to rub Sanna’s shoulders vigorously. Sanna exhaled. “I know. It just brings back… I never like to risk it,” she amended. “You need to change the way you deal with your sympathy,” Everard declared as he approached again. “No more depending on your equipment to keep your sympathy in check. I want a report twice daily as to your levels, more often when you’re unstable. You’ll meet with Dr. Rao every evening before curfew to have a checkup. We are here to help you with this,” he reminded Sanna, “and we know how to help you with it. Understood?” “Yes, sir. And thank you, Dr. Rao. Thank you, Rusza Tate.” “My pleasure, Sanna Taivas!” Rusza replied. “As for you, Rusza,” said Everard, “what happened?” “That guy never slows down,” Rusza answered, “and the faster he moved, the more mechanical energy I was getting from him, until I couldn’t pull it back anymore. That was a great tackle, I have to say.” He grinned at Sanna. “I only wish I could have seen it. It sounded impressive,” Everard noted. “You learned quite a lot from Suvi Guslin. Poor man,” he added. “Doc never minded being overshadowed by his wife,” Sanna said. “He was proud of her and her accomplishments. She was proud of him too. It was Nilma who had him teach me.” Everard nodded, but his next words were for Rusza. “From now on, when we do physical training, you will start half an hour earlier than the rest. While the rest are doing their exercises, you will do a separate course of exercises designed for mechanical energy sympathy.” “I have to be by myself?” Rusza’s forlorn face made no impression on Everard. “It might help you maintain your focus. Today I had to tell you twice not to let Trainee Allen distract you. If you had been paying attention to your levels instead of to girls, all of this might not have happened. Doc, I leave Private Taivas in your care. Rusza, with me.” Everard led the boy back to the starting point, where the rest of the group still waited in obedience. “Sir,” said Lillias Allen as soon as he was near enough, “will Private Taivas be all right?” “She will,” Everard answered. “She was so anxious around us,” the girl continued, “and there’s the armband, so I just wondered…” “Dr. Rao is one of the best, if not the best adjuster in Haazak. She is confident that everything is under control, which means everything is under control.”	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line857
__label__wiki	0.689983	0.689983	UNSW Communications & Journalism Program Media Content Creation MDIA2003_18 MDIA2003Profile MDIA2003Wed2.30 Weaving Her Own Story March 31, 2018 Cheryl Till Comments Off on Weaving Her Own Story By Pema Bakshi and Cheryl Till In a world where fashion moves at the speed of light, Jaslyn Swavley sits peacefully with her worn knitting needles in a handmade getup. Raised on the North Shore, she is the calmest 19-year-old and it is infectious. Donning a breezy floral dress and makeup-free skin, the UNSW student does not stress herself with keeping up with the latest in fashion trends, preferring to create her own pieces. A passionate knitter since her early years, she attributes the practice to helping her relax. “Sometimes I’ll be really antsy and if I can do something my hands that helps,” she says. “I use it to concentrate a lot of the time.” With winter fast approaching in Sydney and Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week right around the corner, knitwear is certainly on everyone’s mind. Though, not everyone is up for the task of endeavoring their own projects. Having learnt to knit from her grandmother who taught the skill to veterans as a form of therapy after the war, Jaslyn asserts: “Knitting has been cool for a long time.” With winter fast approaching in Sydney and Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week right around the corner, knitwear is certainly on everyone’s mind. Though, not everyone is up for the task of endeavoring their own projects. Jaslyn herself is careful to steer clear of mimicking passing trends. Her strive for uniqueness is practical at heart. To avoid getting swept up with fast fashion’s ‘in and out’ rapid cycle and piling on the waste, Jaslyn suggests to ditch what everyone else is doing, admitting: “I’m trying to do things that aren’t like things that are in the shops so they don’t become old trends that I’ll stop wearing…to see all clothing as ‘wear it for a season’ and throw it out and buy a new thing, it’s just such a waste.” It’s certainly easy to fall into fast fashion’s trap. With low prices and straight-off-the-runway designs, it is extremely convenient and very accessible. However, as Jaslyn tells, the convenience is fleeting. “It’s not the same calibre of clothing,” she says, “so why imitate fast fashion instead of imitating things I can wear for a long time, without feeling weird or bad about it?” https://holdthefrontpage.info/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Jaslyn-Swavley-Audio-Package.mp3 As a volunteer at the local primary school and youth leader who runs Bible study groups and Sunday school programs at her church in East Lindfield, Jaslyn hopes to help more young people like herself find enjoyment in the age-old craft of knitting. “I mostly do kid-related things because that’s where I can help most,” she says. “If there are things that help them focus, de-stress, think about things in a different way it will help them develop.” Aside from the relaxing and cathartic benefits of knitting has, according to a 2014 study by the University of Texas, Jaslyn says that the skill is also a creative artistic outlet. “It’s less using knitting in art and more seeing knitting as art,” she says. “They both take skills but craft is seen as less of a skill, more of just women’s work than art.” “They both deserve the same sort of recognition. Bring art into knitting, show that craft is just as highly valued as art. But you’re never going to sell a jumper for the millions that art will sell for.” While Jaslyn enjoys knitting for herself and others, she says she has no aspirations to make her works profitable. “It is often more expensive to make it than to buy it,” she says. “I don’t think many people make money from knitting.” Often influenced by her love of the local bushland environment, Jaslyn believes that finding sustainability in fashion is particularly important – something that she tries to reflect in her own choices of materials. Having chain stores on every corner and limited time in a busy schedule often leads us to give in to this epidemic. Jaslyn sheds light on how shopping sustainable could actually save us time and money in the long run. “Right now, I’m wearing a jean jacket from the early 70s it was my aunt’s and it’s perfect,” she says. “I haven’t repaired it at all but all the new things that I see friends wear, break down so quickly… The quality isn’t there and it becomes so much easier to dispose of.” “Knitting can be really sustainable or it can be really unsustainable and it depends how you approach it,” she says, “because a lot of wool is not actually produced in Australia – Italian wool is really popular, and New Zealand wool. But also, a lot of it, especially the cheaper stuff, is just plastic from China…all these air miles, it’s not going to be sustainable.” While she petitions for a more sustainable approach to fashion, she argues that it doesn’t mean you have to break the bank or spend weeks knitting your own sweater. It can be as simple as being selective with the fabrics we choose. “Polyester – it’s a horrific fabric,” she says. “It’s not breathable, it’s uncomfortable. It’s not good for the environment, you can’t recycle it. It’s nasty stuff.” “I prefer cotton or wool.” On the local produce, Jaslyn believes that there are some of the best woolen mills in Australia. She chooses to stick locally. “It is cheaper and the quality is better and I like the colours more,” she says. With 75% of Australians putting clothing in landfills, according to the Sydney Morning Herald, the love of cheap clothing is taking a severe toll on our environment. “I do think environmental sustainability is important,” she says. “It is the one thing we can’t fix. “The thing that really worries me is that it’s infinitely more difficult to fix an ecosystem than a law. The damages are going to show themselves in different ways. “It’s got such a high cost to it even though it is cheap. That’s a human cost, that’s an environmental cost. You’re just not the one paying it.” Cheryl Till Culture Education JaneWed2.30_2003_18 Lifestyle MDIA2003_18 MDIA2003_IssuesTrendFeature_18 MDIA2003Wed2.30 Society The ‘Underbelly’ of the Au Pair Life May 12, 2018 Emily The ‘Underbelly’ of the Au Pair Life By Emily Cook Imagine a job where you can travel the world, be introduced to new cultures, meet new families, and get paid for doing so. Sounds like the dream, right? Photograph supplied by Sorcha Kuhlman, an Australian au pair Being an au pair seems like […] MDIA2003_18 MDIA2003Profile MDIA2003Thur10.30 Technology Uncategorized March 29, 2018 March 29, 2018 Madi Howarth Madi test post MDIA2003_18 MDIA2003_VoxPop_18 MDIA2003Wed1.00 Media PeterWed1.00_2003_18 The New 2018 Federal Budget May 13, 2018 OliviaSellerZ5115661 Just last week the Australian Government introduced the new Federal budget. 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__label__cc	0.676511	0.323489	Christina Aguilera Is Returning To The Voice Christina AguileraThe Voice When Christina Aguilera left her judging spot on The Voice, she was promptly replaced by Shakira. Now, we’re hearing that Christina will be taking back her swivel chair for the fall’s season of the show! She only left for this season so that she could do promotion for her album Lotus, and we’ve heard that she was offered a hefty sum to return for the upcoming fall season. There are also rumors floating around that Cee Lo Green might be making a return to the show, as well. The show’s producer, Mark Burnett, said, “Everybody can’t coach for life because when you have people with current recording in the game, this is not their job. Their job is their fans and making music and being live, and so we knew from the beginning that this would happen, and we’ve had six coaches. They all have another life and their schedules.” Are you excited for Christina to return to the show? Hit the comments and let us know your thoughts! Photo Credit: Fame/Flynet The Voice Feud: Gwen Stefani And Christina Aguilera Fighting – Christina Thinks Gwen… The Voice Spoilers: Christina Aguilera Returns To Coach Season 10 – But Insiders Sick… The Voice Spoilers: Christina Aguilera Returning To NBC Show, Gwen Stefani OUT Christina Aguilera And Matt Rutler Wedding On Hold – The Voice Coach And Fiance…	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line859
__label__cc	0.657084	0.342916	Horror History .net Posted on November 9, 2018 by Sarah Michael Lawyer invades home of wife’s former boss, stabs occupants, is arrested wearing only adult diaper Lawyer Andrew Schmuhl (31) invaded the home of Leo Fisher (61) and his wife Susan Duncan (61), stabs each, and leaves them to die for firing Schmuhl’s wife two weeks before Andrew’s wife Alecia Schmuhl (30), also an attorney, had worked for Fisher until her employment was terminated due to poor performance. The couple contemplated bringing a wrongful termination lawsuit against Fisher and his law firm but changed their minds, instead constructing an “abduction kit” which included rope, gloves, a knife, a taser, and a disposable cell phone. Adult diapers were also purchased for Andrew to wear during the lengthy interrogation he planned. On November 9, Andrew visited the home of Fisher and Duncan, pushing his way inside once the door was opened. He then restrained Fisher and Duncan and interrogated them for three hours about Alecia’s termination. He eventually attacked the couple, stabbing Fisher in the face and upper body before slicing his throat. Duncan was stabbed repeatedly as well. Alecia waited outside in the Schmuhl’s car during the entire attack. Andrew left the couple for dead though Duncan managed to trigger her home’s alarm system; both Duncan and Fisher survived the ordeal. The victims were able to provide police with a description of their attacker and his vehicle, leading to Andrew’s arrest following a car chase. At the time of his arrest, Andrew was only wearing an adult diaper; his bloodied clothing was found in a pile in the car. Andrew attempted an insanity plea during trial, claiming he was “involuntarily intoxicated” by side effects from his pain medication. The plea was unsuccessful. Andrew was convicted and sentenced to two life sentences plus 98 years in prison. Alecia claimed she was unaware of her husband’s plot but video evidence presented showed she had been the one to purchase the taser Andrew brought with him during the home invasion. She accepted a plea deal and was given the maximum sentence allowed with a plea agreement: 45 years in prison. Alecia and Andrew Schmuhl Teller, Sara E. “Alecia Schmuhl Sentenced To 45 Years.” Legal Reader. January 23, 2017. Accessed: November 9, 2018. https://www.legalreader.com/15444-2/ Jouvenal, Justin. “Fired lawyer pleads guilty to role in brutal attack on law firm partner, wife.” Washington Post. September 19, 2016. Accessed: November 9, 2018. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/former-attorney-pleads-guilty-to-role-in-brutal-attack-on-law-firm-partner-wife/2016/09/19/677b1a06-7e96-11e6-8d0c-fb6c00c90481_story.html?utm_term=.17964ab160d0 “Compelling explanations.” Tampa Bay Times [St. Petersburg, Florida]. August 14, 2016 Smith, LaVendrick and Jouvenal, Justin. “Attorney sentenced to life in revenge plot against law firm partner, wife.” Washington Post. June 16, 2016. Accessed November 9, 2018. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/attorney-to-be-sentenced-in-revenge-plot-against-law-firm-partner-wife/2016/06/15/6befaf6a-3324-11e6-8758-d58e76e11b12_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.213b587fd259 “Lawyer arrested in Virginia attack has ties to FDL.” Fond Du Lac Commonwealth Reporter [Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin]. November 18, 2014 Kasarda, Bob. “Virginia stabbing has link to Valpo.” The Times [Munster, Indiana]. 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__label__wiki	0.938358	0.938358	IFEX Articles UAE: Activist Ahmed Mansoor continues a five-month hunger strike UAE: Activist Ahmed Mansoor continues a five-month hunger strike United Arab Emirates\|Free Expression & the Law Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) Friends of Ahmed Mansoor/Facebook GCHR issues an urgent call on international bodies to visit prominent Emirati human rights defender, Ahmed Mansoor, who has been on a liquid-only hunger strike since September 2019, in protest of his dehumanizing prison conditions. This statement was originally published on gc4hr.org on 8 February 2020. Prominent human rights defender Ahmed Mansoor, a member of the Advisory Board of the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR), remains on a liquids-only hunger strike that he began in September 2019 to protest his abysmal conditions in Al-Sadr prison in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates (UAE). GCHR issues this urgent appeal to the United Nations, European Union and Embassies in the UAE to seek a visit with Mansoor in prison, and to help improve his condition. As the anniversary of Mansoor’s arrest on 20 March 2017 approaches, his health is suffering and his life is at risk. He has been held continuously in an isolation cell, which he is not allowed to leave apart from occasional family visits. A local source told GCHR recently that he has been psychologically abused to put pressure on him, and could no longer walk, since he continues the liquids-only hunger strike that he started five months ago. He also still has no mattress, no access to sunshine, and no books or television. Mansoor first went on hunger strike for four weeks on 17 March 2019, but after the authorities permitted him to phone his sick mother and to go outside in the sun for the first time, he ended his hunger strike. He was also promised a bed. According to another source, Mansoor began his second hunger strike on 7 September 2019 after a severe beating, and broken promises by prison officials. According to a source who contacted GCHR on 10 December 2019, after Mansoor began his hunger strike in September, he was forced to eat every few days by the guards, but they stopped force-feeding him and he was on continuous hunger strike from 14 September onwards, taking only juice and mineral water. As of mid-January, Mansoor was still on hunger strike and we have no news since then. UAE authorities have refused to allow independent experts or monitors to visit him in prison to confirm the conditions in which he is being held. GCHR requests an independent expert such as a UN Special Rapporteur working on the thematic issues of human rights defenders, torture, arbitrary detention or freedom of expression to urgently visit Mansoor. Furthermore, GCHR reiterates calls for the authorities to release Mansoor immediately, and while he remains in prison, to ensure he receives any medical care needed, and to provide him with the basic necessities, such as a bed with a mattress, exercise and sunshine, as well as reading materials. Keeping him in prolonged isolation amounts to torture, and violates the UN Standard Minimum Rules on the Treatment of Prisoners, also known as the “Mandela Rules”. The UAE continues to hold events in the country organised or supported by the Ministry of Tolerance, such as the upcoming Hay Festival Abu Dhabi on 25-28 February 2020, or the Dubai Expo, which runs from October 2020 to April 2021. Please watch for upcoming campaigns from GCHR and its partners. You can also find more news about Mansoor and the human rights situation in the UAE at the Friends of Ahmed Mansoor Facebook page or Twitter, which were created after his first hunger strike in March by friends and supporters, including from GCHR. Please circulate news about Ahmed Mansoor’s condition widely and tweet tagging the UN Special Procedures, asking for their help to #FreeAhmed and #GiveAhmedaBed. UN Special Procedures @UN_SPExperts Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, UAE’s Vice President and Prime Minister @HHShkMohd Please also contact the Foreign Affairs Ministry in your country, or the Embassy or Consulate from your country in the UAE. Check the list here and then find them on twitter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_diplomatic_missions_in_the_United_Arab_Emirates Recent articles in United Arab Emirates Blocked voices: The COVID-19 outbreak mobilizes demands to unblock Voice Over IP in the Gulf Oman \| Access to Information With the need to communicate and access information during the COVID-19 pandemic, rights organizations call on governments in the Gulf region to lift their ban on Voice Over IP platforms that facilitate voice and video internet calls. UAE: Freedom of expression must be upheld at all times, not only tolerated during Hay Festival Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates \| Attacks Over 60 rights groups and activists urge the UAE to release all imprisoned human rights defenders and, in the interim, to comply with international standards by allowing prisoners of conscience to receive books and reading materials. UAE activist Ahmed Mansoor has been in jail for over 1000 days GCHR reiterates calls on Emirati authorities to release human rights defender, Ahmed Mansoor, whose health has deteriorated from repeated hunger strikes protesting his appalling prison conditions.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line878
__label__wiki	0.658813	0.658813	lamogord ALAMOGORDO NEW MEXICO ALAMEDA PARK ZOO MCGINN’S PISTACHIO LAND TULAROSA PECAN COMPANY New Mexico has a long history of wine production, starting with the mission grape brought here by the Spanish Colonists. The fertile soil, high altitude and dry moderate weather make the Tularosa Basin a perfect place to grow not only grapes but pistachios and pecans as well. You can explore numerous vineyards and nut farms, minutes from Alamogordo. Many of these locations offer unique gift shops, gorgeous views, wine or nut tastings, special events and daily tours. HEART OF THE DESERT PISTACHIOS & WINE Visit these amazing places to learn more about the rich history of farming in New Mexico, and don’t forget a bottle of wine and a burlap bag of nuts to take home. Home to nearly 300 animals representing 90 species, the 12-acre Alameda Park Zoo offers an education center, picnic area, playground, and gift shop thatâ€™s perfect for families and visitors of all ages. With a mission to promote education in the environmental fields of study, conservation, recreation and biological research, the zoo connects humans with animals through audio, visual and tactical experiences. Visit a Species Survival Plan Captive Facility for the Mexican Gray Wolf, take a guided tour, enroll in a docent program, or attend a lecture. Check the calendar for the annual Earth Day celebration, concerts, and other events. Open Daily 9a to 5p Closed Christmas & New Yearâ€™s Day 1321 N. White Sands Blvd. Alamogordo, NM (575) 439-4290 or (877) 333-6589 GRAPES, NUTS & VIVA VINO ADVENTURES FOR LIFE AlamogordoNMTrue.com New Horizons Giant Screen Dome Theater & Planetarium Let your imagination soar to new heights at this dazzling planetarium, named for the NASA spacecraft that recently flew past Pluto. Take in the vast beauty of the universe in the worldâ€™s first Spitz Scidome 4k Laser full-dome planetarium projection system, offering two digital planetarium shows daily as well as a live star show and giant screen films. Explore the solar system, stars and the universe with museum educators and learn the stories behind the constellations, the causes of the seasons and why planets appear to move backwards in the night sky. Located just down the hill from the New Mexico Museum of Space History. (575) 437-2840 or (877) 333-6589 NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF SPACE HISTORY Did you know that New Mexico’s Tularosa Basin was the cradle of America’s space program? Or that Alamogordo hosts a worldclass museum devoted to the history, science, and technology of space travel? A visit to the New Mexico Museum of Space History rewards you with the sight of an authentic Moon Rock, as well as rare examples of the first man-made satellites, Sputnik and Explorer. Permanent exhibits highlight the history of rocketry and its pioneers. The International Space Hall of Fame, an integral part of the museum, recognizes the accomplishments of over 150 people around the world who have contributed to the quest for space. Established in 1976, past inductees include two of the twelve men who walked on the moon, New Mexican astronauts Harrison Schmitt from Silver City and Edgar Mitchell from Artesia. 10a to 5p – M, W, Th, F, & Sat Noon to 5p – Sun, Closed Tues Closed Christmas & Thanksgiving 3198 State Rte 2001 Alamogordo NM (575) 437-2840 or (877) 333-6589 ADVENTURES FOR LIFE TOY TRAIN DEPOT Flickinger Center for Performing Arts The Flickinger Center for Performing Arts is a 612-seat theater in historic downtown Alamogordo. The auditorium is host to a wide variety of events. During the Premier Series Season, Fall to Spring, the Flickinger Center presents eight to nine professional productions. The premier shows are unique, diverse, and represent a vast array of performance genres from all over the world. After the dynamic Premier Season, the Flickinger Center takes things outdoors, to enjoy our beautiful weather with the “Tailgate Summer Concert Series,” in the parking lot of the New Mexico Museum of Space History. “Flickinger Films” is an exciting new program being introduced at the theater. The theater has a digital projector, state of the art sound system, and 13’ x 30’ movie screen. “Flickinger Films” strives to bring the community and families together with opportunities to see favorite movies on the big screen again, or even for the first time! 1110 N. New York Ave. Alamogordo, NM (575) 437-2202 If you miss the train at the Toy Train Depot, there’s another one just down the line. The small-scale train ride departs every 30 minutes and circles Alameda Park. Inside the century-old depot you’ll find hundreds of scale models of train locomotives as well as passenger and freight cars, along with the world’s smallest scaled working train. A 1,000-square-foot HO layout depicts 1940s-era Alamogordo. Open 10a to 4p Friday through Monday 1991 N. White Sands Blvd. Alamogordo NM (575) 437-2855 Tularosa Basin Museum of History With exhibits that focus on the history of the Tularosa Basin, the Tularosa Basin Museum of History preserves and promotes the local history of Alamogordo, Tularosa, La Luz, Cloudcroft, and other Sacramento communities. Learn about the early Native Americans who lived in the area, White Sands National Monument, the local railroad, La Luz pottery, ranching, Scouting and more. View artifacts and stories from the days of early man to Alamogordo’s role in the atomic and space ages. Open 10a to 4p Monday through Saturday. Closed Sundays. 1004 N. White Sands Blvd. Alamogordo, NM (575) 434-4438 WHITE SANDS NATIONAL MONUMENT Rising from the heart of the Tularosa Basin is one of the world’s great natural wonders – the glistening white sands of New Mexico. At White Sands National Monument, oceans of white gypsum sands and magnificent wave-like dunes, cover 275 square miles of desert, only 15 minutes west of Alamogordo. Today the panoramic sky & mountain views, beautiful sunsets and full moon walks attract people from all over the world, but for thousands of years, people have called White Sands home, from early Native Americans to Spanish settlers, ranchers, and the U.S. Military. The world’s largest gypsum field, White Sands has unique weather conditions and it shelters some 800 species of animals, including badgers, foxes, coyotes and roadrunners. Learn more during one of our nature and education programs. Trails through the dunes include the raised Interdune Boardwalk and the Dune Life Nature Trail, dotted with interpretive exhibits on wildlife and other features. Stop by the visitors center and gift shop to plan your visit to hike, bike, camp, drive, picnic and sled your way through an incredible natural wonder. Open year-round, except for Christmas Day. 19955 Highway 70 West, Alamogordo, NM (575) 479-6124 OLIVER LEE STATE PARK Three Rivers Petroglyph Site offers direct access to more than 21,000 glyphs of birds, animals, fish, insects, plants, and humans as well as geometric and abstract designs, all scattered across 50 acres of the northern Chihuahuan Desert. The petroglyphs date to between 900 and 1400 AD and were created by the Jornada Mogollon people, who used stone tools to remove the dark patina on the exterior of the rocks. Pick up a petroglyph guide at Three Rivers Petroglyph Site, which also offers hiking and backpacking trails as well as picnic and camping areas. Open year-round 3 Rivers Rd. Tularosa, NM (575) 525-4300 Visit the restored 19th-century ranch house of Oliver Lee, an influential settler in the New Mexican territory and the namesake of the Oliver Lee State Park. Situated south of Alamogordo in the Sacramento Mountains, the park lies at the mouth of Dog Canyon, where a trail takes you to a perennial stream and a retreat beneath shady cottonwoods. The Dog Canyon Recreational Trail offers striking views of the Tularosa Basin to the west and the Organ Mountains to the south. The park offers plenty of opportunities for hiking, camping, picnics, and wildlife sightings. Park Open year-round Visitor Center Open daily 9a to 4p 409 Dog Canyon Rd. Alamogordo, NM (575) 437-8284 THREE RIVERS PETROGLYPH SITE Trinity Site The world was forever changed on July 16th, 1945 at the Trinity Test Site. It was here at the White Sands Missile Range that the first atomic bomb was detonated and brought a quick end to the Second World War in the Pacific. Today it is a national historical site that is open to visitors just 2 days per year, the first Saturdays in April and October. Visitors can see ground zero, the ranch house where the bomb was assembled and one of the instrument bunkers. White Sands Missile Range Museum (575) 678-8824 Lincoln National Forest The Lincoln National Forest offers about 1.1 million acres in southcentral New Mexico for hunting, camping, biking, hiking, ATVing, winter sports and much more. Stretching north from Texas to the Capitan Mountains, with a landscape that varies from rugged canyons to gently sloping foothills. Elevations range from 4,200 feet to 11,500 feet. The Lincoln was first set aside as a forest reserve in 1902 to protect and conserve recreation values and water. Today, the Lincoln National Forest is one of 154 forests (and grasslands) that are managed for sustaining health, diversity, and productivity to meet the needs of present and future generations. The Lincolnâ€™s headquarters is in Alamogordo, and its District Offices are located in Ruidoso, Cloudcroft and Carlsbad. Come out and enjoy the great outdoors! Open year-round (575) 434-7200 ADVENTURES FOR LIFE Calendar Events FEBRUARY • Flickinger Valentine Chocolate Buffet & Concert • Mardi Gras in the Clouds • Art & Wine in the Cool Pines • Fourth Fridays/Movies Under the Stars, Alameda Park Zoo • Full Moon Night Events at White Sands National Monument MARCH • Keep Alamogordo Beautiful’s “Great American Spring Cleanup Day” APRIL • Community Earth Day Fair • Desert Light Film Festival • Easter in the Park • Trinity Site Tour MAY • Atomic City Cosplay • Fourth Fridays/Movies Under the Stars, Alameda Park Zoo • Memorial Day Hang Gliding Fly-in • Military Appreciation Day • White Sands Pupfish Baseball, Griggs Field • Full Moon Night Events at White Sands National Monument JUNE • Fourth Fridays/Movies Under the Stars, Alameda Park Zoo • High Rolls Cherry Festival • White Sands Pupfish Baseball, Griggs Field • Full Moon Night Events at White Sands National Monument JULY • Fireworks Extravaganza • Fourth Fridays/Movies Under the Stars, Alameda Park Zoo • Independence Day Parade • Red White & Blue Brew And Music Fest • White Sands Burgers and Brews • White Sands Pupfish Baseball, Griggs Field • Full Moon Night Events at White Sands National Monument SEPTEMBER • 9/11 Memorial Event, United We Stand • Keep Alamogordo Beautiful’s “Great American Fall Cleanup” • White Sands Hot Air Balloon Invitational • Otero County Fair & Rodeo • Full Moon Night Events at White Sands National Monument OCTOBER • Columbus Day Hang Gliding Fly-In • High Rolls Apple Festival • Tularosa Wine & Art Festival • Turquoise & Silver TeaFlickinger Guild • Trinity Site Tour • Zoo Boo & Zoo Broo, Halloween at Alameda Park Zoo • Dia De Los Muertos Event & Burning of the Bull • Full Moon Night Events at White Sands National Monument NOVEMBER • Antiques & Collectibles Show • HESO Holidays in the Desert Holiday Bazar • Holiday Craft and Variety Show • Veterans Day Parade • Great Bowls of Fire Chili Cook-off DECEMBER • Christmas Parade of Lights • Christmas Tree Lighting • Lady of The Mountain Run • Olde Fashioned Downtown Christmas Alamogordo City Map To Cloudcr oft To Tularos a SCENIC DR. 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__label__wiki	0.824573	0.824573	Ratan Tata Invests In Auto Portal CarDekho, Fourth Investment In Indian Digital Space Team Inc42 09 Feb'15 2 min read Ratan Tata, 73, chairman emeritus of Tata Sons, the holding company of the $103 Bn-in-revenues Tata conglomerate has made his fourth investment in Indian digital space by investing in online auto portal CarDekho. For CarDekho, this round comes in just a few weeks after it had raised INR 307 Cr., in a round of funding led by Chinese funds Hillhouse Capitaland Tybourne Capital; the company was then valued at over $300 Mn. Last year, Ratan Tata had invested in three companies including Snapdeal, UrbanLadder and Bluestone. Related: 6 Ecommerce Startups That Ratan Tata Should Look To Invest In The amount Ratan Tata has invested in Jaipur-based GirnarSoft which owns and operates BikeDekho.com and PriceDekho.com as well could not be asserted at the moment. Amit Jain, CEO and co-founder of CarDekho, who founded the company in 2007 with Anurag Jain said, “We are extremely excited to partner with him (Tata) considering his contribution to the growth and development of the Indian automobile industry. Following our humble beginning as a small venture in Jaipur, CarDekho has had a very exciting journey to reach this point of recognition and we now have a very aggressive plan for developing our business and boosting revenues in the future.” The company will be looking to double its workforce by hiring 1000 more people. As per the company, it witnessed more than 10 million unique visitors on its site. Earlier in last year, CarDekho had acquired Ibibo Group-owned Gaadi.com for an undisclosed amount which was said to be around $11 Mn deal. Players such as Tiger Global and Warburg Pincus-backed CarTrade.com and Carwale.com, also operate in this space. CarDekho also competes with companies like Quikr and OLX, as the auto portal also deals in selling used cars. Auto CarDekho Ecommerce Funding Ratan Tata	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line886
__label__wiki	0.783958	0.783958	Aprilia confirms sub-400cc bikes under consideration for India Utkarsh \| 02/09/2020 - 14:00 When Aprilia showcased the RS 150 and Tuono 150 at the Auto Expo 2018, enthusiasts rejoiced hoping to see the much more affordable Italian machines in the Indian market very soon. However, that did.. Piaggio to launch two new products at Auto Expo 2020 - Report Neelanjan Chakraborty \| 26/11/2019 - 14:10 Piaggio India is gearing up to launch two new products in India at Auto Expo 2020. A new report from BikeWale says that one of the these will be a motorcycle and the other will be an automatic.. 150 cc Aprilia motorcycle to be launched at Auto Expo 2020 - Report Suvil Susvirkar \| 16/09/2019 - 13:10 A 150 cc Aprilia motorcycle will be launched at Auto Expo 2020 in Delhi, reports motoring portal BikeWale. The source report adds that the motorcycle will be joined by the brand’s new family.. 5 motorcycles from Auto Expo 2018 we want to be launched in India The Auto Expo 2018 saw several major manufacturers skip the bus. In fact, a certain bike maker even said that participating at the Expo was a huge waste of money and organising a press meet is a lot.. Five interesting 150 cc motorcycle we wish were sold in India India loves its 150 cc motorcycles. The segment has taken some beating over the past few months, due to the slowdown in the economy, but it still shows a lot of promise. The success story of the new.. Diego Graffi: No fixed plans for India launch of Aprilia RS 150 & Tuono 150 Last month, a report claimed that Piaggio may launch the 150 cc Aprilia motorcycles in India by late-2020. However, Moneycontrol reports that the 150 cc motorcycles from Aprilia have been put on the b.. Piaggio may launch a 150 cc Aprilia motorcycle in India by late-2020 - Report In a recent interview, Diego Graffi, Managing Director and CEO of Piaggio Vehicles, confirmed that the company is working on an India-specific Aprilia scooter that will fal in the 150-200 cc segment... Aprilia RS 150 & Tuono 150 to be launched in India in H1 2020 - Report Ajinkya Lad \| 20/02/2019 - 09:37 Piaggio Group-owned Aprilia is set to introduce its range of 150cc motorcycles in India in the next 12-15 months (February-May 2020), reports Economic Times. These will be the Aprilia RS 150 and the.. Revolt Motors	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line889
__label__cc	0.538353	0.461647	Kia Sonet Official Images Revealed Ahead Of Global Premiere On August 7 30/07/2020 - 14:15 \| Kia, Kia India, Kia Sonet, Kia, Car news \| Mohit Kia currently sells Seltos and Carnival in the Indian market. However, the South-Korean carmaker is all set to enter the hotly contested sub-4m compact-SUV segment by taking the veils off the Sonet on August 7. The Sonet is going to be the brand’s move against the likes of Hyundai Venue, Tata Nexon and more. However, right before the launch, Kia has revealed the official design sketches of the Sonet that shed a lot of details of the upcoming compact-SUV. The sketches suggest that production-spec Sonet will continue to look like the concept form that was showcased at the 2020 Auto Expo. Kia Sonet continues to look like the concept showcased at 2020 Auto Expo. It can be seen in the images that the Sonet gets a high-set bonnet, Kia-signature Tiger Nose grille, and sleek LED headlamps with toothed LED DRLs. Also, the front bumper design replicates of the one sported by the Sonet's concept form. Moving over to the sides, it gets a set of flashy alloy wheels and the reverse-inclined C-pillar. These design elements have been incorporated straight from the concept version as well. The rear fascia looks bold, thanks to the busy design of the bumper. To upkeep the SUV-quotient, use of elements like chunky dual-tone roof rails, wraparound rear windscreen, and black cladding can also be seen. Overall the exterior profile of the Sonet looks muscular and dynamic from every angle. The Sonet will get the largest-in-segment 10.25-inch display for the infotainment system. Kia has also revealed the interior design of the Sonet and it continues to carry the cohesion with the bold-looking exterior. It gets unibody housing for the all-digital instrument cluster and the infotainment unit, which is inspired by the Seltos like the multi-function steering wheel. Kia has confirmed that Sonet will come with a massive 10.25-inch touchscreen display for the infotainment system, making it the biggest display in its segment. Along with the display, it will also get sound mood lighting. Kia Sonet will come equipped with different traction control and driving modes. As seen in the spy shots, the dashboard of the Sonet is upright and gets rectangular AC vents with filleted edges. They for sure look bulky and impart a sense of boldness to the overall design. The Sonet will also offer the convenience of different drive and traction control modes. However, it will be offered in an FWD layout only. Also Read - Kia Sonet Interior Spied, Reveals More Detail Of The Inside Talking of the powertrain, the Sonet is expected to come with 3 engine options – 1.2L petrol, 1.0L turbo-petrol, and 1.5L turbo-diesel. These motors will put out a peak power output of 83 PS, 120 PS, and 100 PS, respectively. The transmission options on the Sonet will comprise of a 5-speed MT, 6-speed MT, 6-speed iMT, and 7-speed DCT. The Sonet is expected to carry a starting price of Rs. 8.00 lakh as Kia is planning to launch it as a premium offering in comparison to the Hyundai Venue, which it borrows its underpinnings from. Stay tuned to IndianAutosBlog.com for more Kia updates and other four-wheeler news. Kia Sonet - Image Gallery Kia Lays Out New Strategy For EVs Along With More Sustainable Mobility Solutions Kia Unveils New Logo And Sets A New Guinness World Record Doing It! DeadLine For FASTags Extended From January 1, 2021 to February 15, 2021 HSRP and Colour Coded Stickers for Cars: Everything You Need to Know Apple Electric Autonomous Car Likely to Arrive by 2024 With Radical Battery Tech Passenger-Side Airbags Could Soon Become Mandatory For All Cars!	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line890
__label__cc	0.629123	0.370877	Episode 14 With Felicia Ford April 3, 2017 March 30, 2017 InspiredWomen https://media.blubrry.com/inspiredwomen/p/content.blubrry.com/inspiredwomen/Felicia_Ford.mp3 Welcome to Episode Eighteen of The Inspired Women Podcast. In this episode your hosts interview Felicia Ford, founder and CEO of Gifted Group, and founder of Getting Involved for the Elimination of Domestic Violence (GIFTED), Inc. Felicia earned a Bachelor of Science in Occupational & Technical Studies from Old Dominion University and a Master of Science in Management from Colorado Technical University. She holds Graduate Certifications in Change Management, IT and Business Information Systems, Project Management and Holistic Nutritional Advising. Felicia is currently pursuing doctoral studies in Industrial & Organizational Psychology with a specialization in Coaching & Leadership at Walden University. Felicia completed residency in Barcelona, Spain and will continue studies abroad to deepen her creative perspective. She is the founder and CEO of Gifted Group, and founder of Getting Involved for the Elimination of Domestic Violence (GIFTED), Inc. Felicia connects small business owners and nonprofits with their target audience through an intimate, luxurious experience that yields profits and long lasting relationships. Felicia often contributes to philanthropic efforts in the community where she serves on various boards, coalitions, and commissions for youth and families. Felicia enjoys singing, hosting friends and family, and traveling. Topics Mentioned In This Episode National Coalition For Domestic Violence Samaritan House Types of Domestic Abuse Connect With Felicia: Jules & Megan Podcast Domestic Abuse, Domestic Violence, Felicia Ford, The Inspired Women Podcast, Women Episode 13 Body Shame With Jules Clyde & Megan Hall Episode 15 The Inspired Women Community	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line896
__label__cc	0.661741	0.338259	Home / Trading / Trading Advice / 3 Big Stock Charts for Monday: Wells Fargo, Philip Morris and Gilead Sciences 3 Big Stock Charts for Monday: Wells Fargo, Philip Morris and Gilead Sciences The new trading week looks like it's going to get started with some fireworks By James Brumley, InvestorPlace Feature Writer Jul 23, 2018, 7:05 am EST July 23, 2018 What an end to the week! Although the overall market only lost a tiny amount of ground on Friday, the day’s big winners were huge, as were its losers. Skechers (NYSE:SKX) tumbled to the tune of 21% after it missed last quarter’s earnings estimates and suffered a string of downgrades. Meanwhile, Cleveland-Cliffs (NYSE:CLF) shares jumped more than 12% on its blowout second-quarter numbers. Such wild swings don’t always make for the best trading setups though; big moves invite big reversals, even if those reversals don’t materialize right away. The top “new” prospects are still stocks that have been working on well-founded moves that materialize over at least a few days. To that end, Wells Fargo (NYSE:WFC), Philip Morris (NYSE:PM) and Gilead Sciences (NASDAQ:GILD) are taking shape as the most viable trading prospects as the new trading week begins. Wells Fargo (WFC) Source: ThinkorSwim Most bank stocks have found new life of late, perking up in response to a wave of encouraging quarter reports. Wells Fargo, though, is one of the few that appears to have more bullishness ahead of it than most other names in the business… warts and all. One or two more good days could do the trick. • Though the monthly chart is taking two steps forward and two steps back, it’s doing so reliably. The rising Chaikin line and accumulation-distribution lines say there’s quite a bit of obscured buying interest that’s waiting to fully be unleashed. • WFC shares will need to move above their recent ceiling around $51.13 to put the finishing touches on the budding uptrend. Philip Morris (PM) Philip Morris, like its cigarette-making peers, faces a grim future even if their end is well beyond the horizon. Eventually, the global smoking-cessation effort will catch up with the industry. That doesn’t mean we’re not going to see these stocks dish out the occasional bullish swing though. It looks like one was just started, ironically kick-started by a post-earnings plunge that ended up being a capitulation. • Although the bears may push back a little in the near-term, the long-term undertow has already taken a bullish turn, with April’s stumble leaving behind plenty of room to rebound. • Altria Group (NYSE:MO) shares more or less made the same move, confirming the tailwind behind the new rally. PM shares, however, suggest they’ve got a better technical foundation. Gilead Sciences (GILD) Last but not least, Gilead Sciences has been a tough name to handicap for a while now. It’s not always fighting the portfolio and patent headwind it sometimes seems like it is, but sometimes, it is. The end result is an erratic chart. If you can figure out where the sentiment ebbs and flows are though, you can make some good money on a swing trade. It’s worth watching closely right now mostly because there’s a clear ceiling in place that, if crossed, could spark another trade-worthy wave of bullishness. • On both the monthly chart and the daily chart, we can see there’s volume behind the budding bullish effort so far. On the former, the Chaikin line is edging higher again, and on the latter the accumulation-distribution line has renewed its uptrend. • The big line in the sand is $77.79, where shares have peaked for the past several trading days. If GILD can move past that hurdle after picking up steam as it has for the past few days, it could be like releasing a catapult. As of this writing, James Brumley did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned securities. You can follow him on Twitter, at @jbrumley. Legendary Investor Louis Navellier’s #1 Stock to Buy NOW Louis Navellier — the investor the New York Times called an “icon” — just helped investors make 487% in the booming Chinese stock market … 408% in the medical device sector … 150% in Netflix … all in less than 2 years! Now, Louis is urging investors to get in on what may be the opportunity of a lifetime. By using a unique investment strategy called “The Master Key,” you could make hundreds of percent returns over the next few years. Click here to learn about the #1 stock recommendation from one of America’s top investors. Article printed from InvestorPlace Media, https://investorplace.com/2018/07/3-big-stock-charts-for-monday-wells-fargo-philip-morris-and-gilead-sciences/.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line903
__label__wiki	0.608879	0.608879	home PC Components Processors by Paul Lilly — Tuesday, August 18, 2015, 11:08 AM EDT Intel Skylake Gen9 Series Graphics Architecture Unveiled If you were planning a new PC build within the past several months, the phrase you might have heard over and over again was "wait for Skylake." Well, Skylake is here, and the new architecture comprises Intel's 6th generation Core line of CPUs. If you haven't done so already, be sure to check out our review of Intel's Core i7-6700K processor and Z170 chipset. Straight to the point, the Core i7-6700K is Intel's fastest quad-core desktop processor to date. However, one thing we didn't go too in-depth with is the integrated graphics, and that's because Intel kept a tight lid on the underlying technology. That is, until now. Lo and behold, there's a whitepaper on Intel's website detailing the compute architecture of Intel's "Gen9" graphics. It's an update to the Gen8 whitepaper, though specific architecture changes to Gen9 are noted throughout. As with previous Core processors, Skylake uses a System-on-Chip (SoC) architecture, a term you hear fairly often in the mobile world with regards to chips like Qualcomm's Snapdragon series and Apple's custom A-series. Specific to the 6700K are four CPU cores, Intel HD Graphics 530, shared LLC, memory and I/O interfaces, and various controllers, as shown above. "Intel 6th generation Core processors are complex SoCs integrating multiple CPU cores, Intel processor graphics, and potentially other fixed functions all on a single shared silicon die," Intel explains. "The architecture implements multiple unique clock domains, which have been partitioned as a per-CPU core clock domain, a processor graphics clock domain, and a ring interconnect clock domain. The SoC architecture is designed to be extensible for a range of products, and yet still enable efficient wire routing between components within the SoC." The ring topology Intel references is an on-die bus between CPU cores, caches, and graphics. It's bi-directional and 32-bytes wide with separate lines for different tasks. All off-chip system memory transactions going to and from the CPU cores and to and from the graphics portion, are facilitated by the ring interconnect. None of this is really new, so what makes Gen9 special? Here's an overview of the changes Intel made specific to Gen9. Gen9 Memory Hierarchy Refinements Coherent SVM write performance is significantly improved via new LLC cache management policies. The available L3 cache capacity has been increased to 768 Kbytes per slice (512 Kbytes for application data). The sizes of both L3 and LLC request queues have been increased. This improves latency hiding to achieve better effective bandwidth against the architecture peak theoretical. In Gen9 eDRAM now acts as a memory-side cache between LLC and DRAM. Also, the EDRAM memory controller has moved into the system agent, adjacent to the display controller, to support power efficient and low latency display refresh. Texture samplers now natively support an NV12 YUV format for improved surface sharing between compute APIs and media fixed function units. Gen9 Compute Capability Refinements Preemption of compute applications is now supported at a thread level, meaning that compute threads can be preempted (and later resumed) midway through their execution. Round robin scheduling of threads within an execution unit. Gen9 adds new native support for the 32-bit float atomics operations of min, max, and compare/exchange. Also the performance of all 32-bit atomics is improved for kernel scenarios that issued multiple atomics back to back. 16-bit floating point capability is improved with native support for denormals and gradual underflow. Gen9 Product Configuration Flexibility Refinements Gen9 has been designed to enable products with 1, 2, or 3 slices. Gen9 adds new power gating and clock domains for more efficient dynamic power management. This can particularly improve low power media playback modes. The Execution Unit (EU) in Skylake's integrated graphics is similar to the Gen8 design. In this case, each Gen9 EU has seven threads to work with, each of which features 128 general purpose registers. Each of those registers can store 32 bytes accessible as a SIMD 8-element vector of 32-bit data elements. In each EU, a pair of SIMD floating-point units (FPUs) handle computation chores. Though Intel refers to them as FPUs, they support both floating-point and integer computation -- up to four 32-bit floating-point or integer operations, or up to eight 16-bit integer or 16-bit floating-point operations. The integration of 16-bit floating-point is also new to Skylake/Gen9. Diving in a little deeper, we can see Intel's subslice architecture in Gen9. Arrays of EUs are grouped into a subslice, each of which contains its own local thread dispatcher unit and its own supporting instruction caches. Most Gen9 products contain eight EUs per subslice, though product architects can implement with any number of EUs in multiples of the subslice above. With eight EUs and seven threads, a single subslice has dedicated hardware resources and register files for a total of 56 simultaneous threads, along with a sampler unit and a data port memory management unit. The data port supports efficient read/write operations for a variety of general purpose buffer accesses, SIMD operations, and shared local memory access. Intel created a scalable graphics architecture with multiple different potential product designs. For Intel's Core i7-6700K with Intel HD Graphics 530, the product design consists of a single slice with three subslices for a total of 24 EUs. That's not going to be the most powerful implementation of Skylake's integrated graphics. As we saw in our 6700K evaluation, the HD 530 graphics isn't quite as fast as Intel's Iris Pro 6200 in gaming benchmarks and tests like Cinebench. However, it's a decent starting point. In the image shown above, you can see another potential design, this one sporting three slices, each of which has three subslices for a total of 72 EUs. It's this implementation that we're most excited about. While the 6700K's graphics performance proved serviceable, it provided a modest bump in performance over the previous generation product. The above layout will manifest in GT4/e and it will be Intel's fastest integrated Intel HD graphics solutions to date. We don't expect GT4/e to kill the market for discrete graphics cards, but it does have a chance of competing with lower end graphics cards. Tags: Intel, graphics, Skylake, (NASDAQ:INTC), idf2015 MORE HOT HEADLINES IN PC COMPONENTS NVIDIA $40B Arm Acquisition Creates Chip... Intel Unveils Entire Tiger Lake 11th Gen... AMD Quietly Outs Radeon RX 5300 Navi 14... NVIDIA Confirms Leaks, Highlights... GeForce RTX 3080 Ampere Leak Alleges... More GeForce RTX 3090 Ampere Details... LG's 27-Inch UltraGear 4K IPS Gaming...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line905
__label__cc	0.646307	0.353693	Libertarian Party on Welfare & Poverty Help poor via voluntary charitable efforts Retirement planning is the responsibility of the individual, not the government. Libertarians would phase out the current government-sponsored Social Security system and transition to a private voluntary system. The proper and most effective source of help for the poor is the voluntary efforts of private groups and individuals. We believe members of society will become even more charitable and civil society will be strengthened as government reduces its activity in this realm. Source: 2016 Libertarian platform adopted in Convention, Orlando FL , May 30, 2016 Non-profits more effective than government at “safety net” Not-for-profit organizations have a critical role to play in the re-establishment of a true “safety net.” America’s safety net is supposed to be a web of programs and agencies that makes sure no one “falls through the cracks” into total destitution. Many worry that devolution will unravel our society’s safety net. But what is needed is a revitalization of those agencies that have shown time and time again that they truly can help the destitute: Not-for-profit organizations, specifically, private charities. Non-profits do many of the things we have come to think of as government service activities, but they typically do it far more effectively. For example, Sister Connie’s House of Hope shelter for women in Chicago has a 95% success rate -- a record that towers over that of any of the city’s shelters. This is because Sister Connie can practice a “tough love” approach. She has random drug testing, curfews, and requires her “clients” to find solid employment. Source: Louis James, LP News , Apr 1, 1999 Repeal all welfare programs; make Social Security voluntary We favor the repeal of the fraudulent, virtually bankrupt, and increasingly oppressive Social Security system. Pending that repeal, participation in Social Security should be made voluntary. We oppose all government welfare, relief projects, and 'aid to the poor' programs. All these government programs are privacy-invading, paternalistic, demeaning, and inefficient. The proper source of help for such persons is the voluntary efforts of private groups and individuals. Source: Excerpts from 1980 Clark/Koch Libertarian Party platform , Nov 1, 1980 Click here for definitions & background information for the Welfare & Poverty. Click here for VoteMatch responses for the Libertarian Party. Other political parties on Welfare & Poverty: Libertarian Party on other issues: Former Presidents: Barack Obama(D,2009-2017) George W. Bush(R,2001-2009) Bill Clinton(D,1993-2001) George Bush Sr.(R,1989-1993) Ronald Reagan(R,1981-1989) Jimmy Carter(D,1977-1981) Gerald Ford(R,1974-1977) Richard Nixon(R,1969-1974) Lyndon Johnson(D,1963-1969) John F. Kennedy(D,1961-1963) Dwight Eisenhower(R,1953-1961) Harry S Truman(D,1945-1953) Sierra Club Abortion	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line906
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Evidence of war crimes, torture, surveillance and assassination plots: Assange hearing nears final day. wsws.org The CIA's surveillance was targeted against Assange's communication with his legal representatives, considered "priority targets." sputniknews (2020-10-01). Two Iranian-Flagged Tankers Reportedly Arrive in Venezuela as Maduro Vows to Improve Gasoline Output. sputniknews.com In May, five Iranian tankers delivered more than a million barrels of oil to Venezuela, hit by a serious fuel shortage caused by US sanctions. WSWS (2020-10-01). Trump administration prepares anti-immigrant raids in Democratic Party-led "sanctuary cities" ahead of November election. wsws.org The latest maneuver in Trump's war on immigrants cannot be separated from his effort to carry out a coup d'état and establish a presidential dictatorship. _____ (2020-10-01). What The A-Level Results Fiasco Revealed About This Government. truepublica.org.uk The short article below is by one of our media partners — Open Rights Group. It makes an extremely important point. It highlights the fact that the A-level fiasco was not just the fault of the government, it was the fault of an algorithm that the government decided it was not going to fix. It … DCFPTN (2020-10-01). Palantir Protests Make Business News. indybay.org Palantir's public offering is founded on the company's sales pitch that its software represents the ultimate tool of surveillance. The secretive company's history of working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and countries with questionable human rights records makes it a bad investment, say activists. Protests at the company's new and old headquarters are the subject of major media attention as the company makes its first public trades today. sputniknews (2020-10-01). UK's Huawei 5G Ban To Cost Over £41bn, Gov't Urged To Reform Plans Amid COVID-19 Crisis – CPS Report. sputniknews.com The UK announced reversal of its decision on the Chinese telecoms giant in July, forcing British telecos to remove kit from existing networks over potential threats to network supply lines due to US sanctions. But the delays are set to cost billions in GDP and cause Britain to lose its place as Europe's 5G capital, numerous reports have shown. Andrea Germanos, staff writer (2020-09-30). Human Rights Groups Applaud London Mayor for Boycotting Saudi Summit. commondreams.org "No mayors in good conscience should agree to attend the U20 Summit until Loujain and the other imprisoned Saudi human rights defenders are freed and the bombing and blockading of Yemen ceases." \| www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… … Staff (2020-09-30). "Vigilantism at the Polls": Trump Attacks Election Integrity, Ballots & Backs Illegal Poll Watching. democracynow.org "It's a rigged election," claimed President Trump when he and his Democratic challenger Joe Biden were asked about election integrity during last night's debate as the two men sparred over mail-in voting. Trump ended the debate by calling for poll watchers. We speak with Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, who says Trump is promoting unlawful intimidation and voter suppression, and has vowed to go to court to block any attempt to discourage or block people from freely casting their ballots. Staff (2020-09-30). Headlines for September 30, 2020. democracynow.org Trump Refuses to Condemn White Supremacists or Rule Out Post-Election Violence, New York City Coronavirus Infections Surge for First Time in Months, Indian Health Officials Claim 60 Million Coronavirus Infections Nationwide, House Democrats Unveil Pared-Down $2.2 Trillion Coronavirus Relief Bill, Texas Sheriff and Prosecutor Indicted for Evidence Tampering in Javier Ambler Police Killing, Kentucky AG Didn't Recommend Murder Charges for Breonna Taylor's Killers, Trump Plans Pre-Election ICE Raids in U.S. Sanctuary Cities, More Women Detail Forced Sterilizations, Unnecessary Surgeries at Georgia ICE Jail, World Hea… Staff (2020-09-30). 'Notorious RBG' had a mixed climate justice record. therealnews.com Ruth Bader Ginsburg voted on behalf of environmental protections in many Supreme Court cases. But her track record was mixed on climate justice issues, particularly on Indigenous rights and corporate land expropriation. Lucas Leiroz de Almeida (2020-09-30). 5G Technology Cooperation Between Germany and China Is a Major Blow Against American Interests. globalresearch.ca In Germany, a major blow is being delivered against the United States in the trade war between Washington and Beijing. Despite pressures, Berlin is opting for cooperation with China on 5G technology, refusing to impose any sanctions against Huawei, ignoring … Shaw Drake (2020-09-30). CBP Wants to Destroy Records of Misconduct. We Can't Let Them. aclu.org Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the nation's largest federal law enforcement agency, operates with MEE staff (2020-09-30). Lawmakers urge Trump to 'personally' intervene in trial of US-Saudi national. middleeasteye.net Lawmakers urge Trump to 'personally' intervene in trial of US-Saudi national \| Salah al-Haidar faces as long as 33 years in prison as he goes before court that has imprisoned rights activists, journalists, clerics and minority Shia Muslims \| Wed, 09/30/2020 – 17: 43 \| Lawmakers have also urged president to intervene in case of Salah al-Haidar's mother, prominent Saudi women's rights activist Aziza al-Yousef (A… MEE staff (2020-09-30). US imposes sanctions on 'key enablers' of Syria's Assad government. middleeasteye.net US imposes sanctions on 'key enablers' of Syria's Assad government \| Washington blacklists head of Syrian General Intelligence Directorate and governor of Central Bank of Syria \| Wed, 09/30/2020 – 15: 56 \| US says its main goal is not regime change, but to force Assad government to adhere to international standards (AFP/File photo) \| The United States slapped sanctions on several "key enablers" of President Ba… Mark Gruenberg (2020-09-30). Barrett on the bench: Bad news for workers. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—In her three years as a federal appellate court judge, Amy Coney Barrett, whom GOP Oval Office occupant Donald Trump has nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court, has shown herself to be bad news for workers' rights, legal analysts report. But what may be scarier about the former Notre Dame University law professor is her … Peoples Dispatch (2020-09-30). War crimes are being committed in Yemen, says report. peoplesdispatch.org A group of eminent experts has demanded that the UN security council refer the situation in Yemen to the International Criminal Court and expand the list of persons sanctioned… news.un (2020-09-30). Listen to older people's 'suggestions and ideas' for more inclusive societies, urges UN chief. news.un.org Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, the world is reckoning with the disproportionate and severe impact that the virus has wrought on the "health…rights and well being" of older persons, the UN chief has said, marking the international day highlighting their issues. Pepe Escobar (2020-09-30). The Global Semiconductor Market: China Deploys Sun Tzu to Prevail in the Chip War. globalresearch.ca This article was originally published on Let's cut to the chase: with or without a sanction juggernaut, China simply won't be expelled from the global semiconductor market. \| The real amount of yenisafak (2020-09-30). Outrage over Indian rape victims' cremation by police. yenisafak.com The covert cremation by police of the body of a 19-year-old gang-rape victim early Wednesday triggered protests and condemnations by citizens and activists in India.The Dalit (lower caste) woman was tortured and gang-raped by four men from an upper caste at her village in Hathras in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh on Sept. 14. She battled for her life for two weeks before succumbing to her injuries on Tuesday.In a video going viral on social media, the victim's mother is seen pleading with police to allow her to see her daughter one last time, and bring her body home, as the police cremated the body amid tigh… commondreams (2020-09-30). UN Human Rights Expert Calls for Immediate End to Military Assaults on Rakhine Villages, Decries Mounting Death Toll of Children. commondreams.org ______________________________… Jon Queally, staff writer (2020-09-30). 'Fascism at Our Door': Asked to Condemn White Supremacist Groups, Trump Tells Them to 'Stand By' Instead. commondreams.org "Trump fans the flames of racism, embraces white supremacy, and employs state violence against Americans exercising their rights," said Sen. Elizabeth Warren. "That's Donald Trump's America." \| www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… … _____ (2020-09-29). Assange Faces 'Torturous' Months In Tiny Cell If Extradited. popularresistance.org The 49-year-old is fighting extradition to the US on charges related to leaks of classified documents allegedly exposing war crimes. \| Assange's defence have claimed he is a "high" suicide risk, having already spent 16 months in top security Belmarsh jail in south London. \| On Monday, the Old Bailey heard from witnesses with experience of the Alexandria Detention Centre in Virginia, Assange's likely pre-trial destination if he was extradited. \| The court heard that due to his high profile and his perceived national security risk, he could be placed in an administrative segregation (ad seg) unit. _____ (2020-09-29). Unfounded UN Report On Venezuela Used As Regime Change Tool. popularresistance.org The United Nations Human Rights Council issued a report by the Independent Mission to Determine the Facts in Venezuela (Independent Mission), which accuses Venezuela of "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment committed since 2014." The veracity, timing, and political intent of this report is best understood in the context of a campaign led by the U.S. to overthrow Venezuela's democratically elected government of President Nicolás Maduro and before him of Hugo Chávez. \| Venezuela is a historically petroleum exporting nation and has consequently suffered from the crash in the international oil prices starting in 20… Maya Manian (2020-09-29). Immigration Detention and Coerced Sterilization: History Tragically Repeats Itself. aclu.org The recent news of a yenisafak (2020-09-29). Greek Cyprus pushing back migrants, refugees: HRW. yenisafak.com The Greek Cypriot coast guard "summarily pushed back, abandoned, expelled, or returned more than 200 migrants, refugees and asylum seekers," an international rights group said on Tuesday.The US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) said the group came from Lebanon in seven boats between Aug. 29 and Sept. 7 and was not given "the opportunity to lodge asylum claims."Some migrants were beaten and threatened by the Greek Cypriot administration's marine police, the report said.According to the HRW, Greek Cypriot coast guard vessels circled the migrants at high speeds, swamping their boats, and, in at least one case, abandoni… Rayhan Uddin (2020-09-29). Sadiq Khan to send official to Saudi summit as three major cities lead boycott. middleeasteye.net Sadiq Khan to send official to Saudi summit as three major cities lead boycott \| London will send a representative to the 'Urban 20' meeting in Riyadh despite New York, LA and Paris withdrawing from G20 mayor's summit over rights concerns \| Tue, 09/29/2020 – 16: 32 \| Sadiq Khan, the first Muslim mayor of London, has led the city since May 2016 (AFP/File photo) \| A representative from London will atten… Peoples Dispatch (2020-09-29). Feminists march in Mexico City to demand legal right to abortion. peoplesdispatch.org Hundreds of women marched on the streets of Mexico City demanding legal rights to abortion all across the country on the occasion of International Safe Abortion Day, on Monday, September 28. Protests were called by a number of feminist groups in the country such as Ciudad Feminista and others. Some of the protesters clashed with the police personnel who were trying to stop the protesters from marching. \| The women, dressed in black and carrying green bandanas raised slogans demanding safe and legal right of abortion. They marched from the city's Monument to the Revolution towards Juarez to meet another group of p… Rayhan Uddin (2020-09-29). Sadiq Khan refuses to denounce Saudi summit despite boycott by three mayors. middleeasteye.net Sadiq Khan refuses to denounce Saudi summit despite boycott by three mayors \| London will send a representative to the 'Urban 20' meeting in Riyadh despite New York, LA and Paris withdrawing from G20 mayor's summit over human rights concerns \| Tue, 09/29/2020 – 16: 32 \| Sadiq Khan, the first Muslim mayor of London, has led the city since May 2016 (AFP/File photo) \| A representative from London will at… RT (2020-09-29). In unprecedented step, UK & Canada impose sanctions on Lukashenko & other Belarus big wigs over 'rigged elections' & 'repression'. rt.com The British and Canadian governments imposed sanctions, on Tuesday, against long-time Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko, along with his eldest son Viktor, and six other high-ranking officials in the state apparatus. \| The sanctions mean that those on the list are banned from traveling to the UK and Canada, and any assets they hold in those countries will be immediately frozen. Lukashenko is the first world leader to be targeted by the new UK Global Human Rights sanctions regime. \| "Alexander Lukashenko's regime is responsible for a string of human rights violations against opposition figures, media, an… Elijah Magnier (2020-09-29). Les USA menacent l'Irak : Les attaques doivent cesser, sinon… thealtworld.com L'administration américaine a menacé officiellement le gouvernement irakien en le sommant d'empêcher toute attaque d'insurgés contre ses forces, en particulier contre l'ambassade des USA à Bagdad. Sans quoi il s'expose à des conséquences désastreuses, y compris le recours à la force militaire, l'imposition de sanctions économiques et un boycottage politique de l'Irak. \| Selon des responsables à Bagdad, ´ le secrétaire d'État des USA Mike Pompeo a informé le président de la République Barham Salih, le premier ministre Mustafa Al-Kazemi et le président du Parlement Muhammad al-Halbousi de la nécessité de stop… Elijah Magnier (2020-09-29). The USA threatens Iraq: stop the attacks, or else. thealtworld.com The US administration sent an official threat to the Iraqi government requesting it to prevent all insurgency attacks against its forces, especially against the US embassy in Baghdad. Otherwise, the US threatens dire consequences, including the use of military power, economic sanctions and political boycott against Iraq. \| According to officials in Baghdad, "US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo informed the President of the Republic, Barham Salih, Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi, and Speaker Muhammad al-Halbousi of the need to stop all attacks immediately, particularly against the US embassy in Baghdad; otherwise,… Peoples Dispatch (2020-09-29). Public healthcare strikes continue in Kenya as workers demand their rights. peoplesdispatch.org Doctors and nurses at Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi have downed tools. Meanwhile, the strike by medics in Embu county's government hospitals was called off after the government committed to a timeline to address their grievances… Peoples Dispatch (2020-09-29). Collective of Sahrawi Human Rights Defenders holds founding congress. peoplesdispatch.org The Collective of Sahrawi Human Rights Defenders or CODESA was first formed in 2007, but could not take formal shape until now due to interference by the occupying Moroccan authorities… Mehr News Agency (2020-09-29). Rouhani urges Europe to maintain economic relations with Iran. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 29 (MNA) — Iranian President Hassan Rouhani urged Europe not to allow US illegal and unilateral sanctions to affect its economic relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran. Fight Back (2020-09-29). Philippines: Human rights are weapons against Duterte's state terrorism. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following Sept. 26 statement from Marco L. Valbuena, Information Officer, Communist Party of the Philippines. \| Before the entire world, Duterte revealed himself a remorseless fascist when speaking before the United Nations General Assembly a few days ago, he denounced how human rights have been "weaponized" against his regime. Duterte used the term "weaponize" to denigrate human rights as if it were some malevolent tool used for underhanded aims and to denounce the advocates of human rights as subversives. \| In fact, human rights are weapons of the people to defend them… yenisafak (2020-09-29). UK sanctions Belarus leader Lukashenko. yenisafak.com Britain has imposed sanctions on Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, his son and senior members of the government, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said on Tuesday.The new sanctions include a travel ban and asset freeze on eight individuals.Those sanctioned are Lukashenko, his son Viktor, Presidential Chief of Staff Igor Sergeenko, Interior Minister Yuri Karayev, Deputy Interior Ministers Alexander Barsukov and Yuri Nazarenko, Deputy Internal Troop Commander Khazalbek Atabekov and Minsk Riot Police chief Dmitry Balaba."Today the UK and Canada have sent a clear message by imposing sanctions against Alexander… commondreams (2020-09-29). Appeals Court Rules GTMO Torture Victim Should Be Seen by Independent Medical Experts. commondreams.org ______________________________… Scott Michelman (2020-09-29). Punished for Reporting Sexual Harassment: How One Law School Almost Got a Student Survivor Banned From the Bar. aclu.org George Washington University law student Dorea K. Batté saw the texts, missed calls, and voicemails pour into her phone by the hundreds. When she blocked the number they were coming from, her stalker found a way to use different numbers to contact her. She kept blocking the numbers; he kept reaching her using new ones. Feeling helpless and overwhelmed and after warning her stalker twice to stop contacting her — to no avail — Batté finally went to her law school's Title IX office to get help. As a reminder, Title IX is the federal law that prohibits sex discrimination — including sexual harass… Staff (2020-09-28). Planned Parenthood CEO: Trump's SCOTUS Pick Could Overturn Roe v. Wade & Kill Obamacare. democracynow.org President Trump's nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court could threaten reproductive rights across the U.S., according to Planned Parenthood president and CEO Alexis McGill Johnson. Barrett, who once called abortion "always immoral," would give conservatives a decisive 6-3 advantage on the top court if she is confirmed by the Senate, and President Trump has openly promoted her nomination by suggesting she would help overturn the landmark 1973 ruling in Roe v. Wade that legalized abortion in the U.S. Barrett "would be a huge threat to reproductive rights" on the Supreme Court, says McGill Johnson. "R… Peoples Dispatch (2020-09-28). Progressives demonstrate in Luxembourg demanding housing rights. peoplesdispatch.org The protest was organized by housing rights groups and leftist parties in response to a controversial directive by the Esch City Council to regulate the procedures for renting apartments… teleSUR (2020-09-28). Venezuela: President Maduro To Present Anti-Blockade Bill. telesurenglish.net Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro Sunday announced that he will present an Anti-Blockade Constitutional Bill to the National Constituent Assembly (ANC). \| RELATED: \| During his intervention in the meeting of the Presidential Commission for the Control and Prevention of COVID-19, he informed about this initiative to fight the U.S. arbitrary sanctions. \| "It is an Anti-Blockade Bill that has been created and studied… PWCANDH (2020-09-28). Good Riddance Palantir Party at Company's Palo Alto Headquarters. indybay.org CIA-backed data mining company Palantir says its involvement with ICE is in the interest of American citizens. San Francisco Bay Area immigrant rights activists counter that the company's development of technologies to surveil immigrants is immoral; they have protested frequently in front of the Palo Alto HQ. On September 21, demonstrators celebrated Palantir's exit from Silicon Valley with a colorful goodbye party. Eds. (2020-09-28). Moria tragedy: Chronicle of an imperialist crime. mronline.org Progressive political sections and human rights groups across Europe had issued repeated warnings to the authorities of an imminent human tragedy at the overcrowded Moria camp on the Greek island of Lesbos. Peter Koenig (2020-09-28). Is a New Wave of Covid-Fascism Invading Europe? globalresearch.ca He spoke Truth to Power, about the covid-lie and what it did to humanity and to the global economy. And then he was suddenly arrested by police, handcuffed, pushed into a police car and driven to Wandsworth Custody Center, were he was detained for 22 hours, simply for telling the truth about covid-19. news.un (2020-09-28). 'Eyes and ears' of Human Rights Council facing funding crisis. news.un.org The work of UN-appointed independent rights experts is at risk from a critical lack of funding, they warned on Monday. news.un (2020-09-28). 'Eyes and ears' of UN Human Rights Council facing funding crisis. news.un.org The work of UN-appointed independent rights experts is at risk from a critical lack of funding, they warned on Monday. teleSUR (2020-09-28). US Further Restricts Remittances to Cuba By Sanctioning AIS. telesurenglish.net Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tweeted Monday that the sanction against the Cuban remittance company American International Services (AIS) will be effective as of Tuesday, September 29. \| The action adds to Washington's unilateral siege against the Antillean nation, rejected by the international community. \| RELATED: \| Pompeo justified the inclusion of AIS in the List of Restricted Cuban Entities under the pretext that it is a compa… Andrew Emett (2020-09-28). Former corrections officer sentenced to federal prison for assaulting inmate. nationofchange.org "The abuse of authority by this law enforcement officer and the violation of the inmate's civil rights will not be tolerated." Mukund Rathi (2020-09-28). The Fate of Our Rights Won't Be Determined by Amy Coney Barrett, But by Popular Struggle. zcomm.org Shaping the law of the land is within the grasp of ordinary people, and it's time for us to close that hand into a fist… _____ (2020-09-28). US Sanctions Opposition Parties In Venezuela Ahead Of Elections. popularresistance.org Elections for Venezuela's National Assembly are fast approaching. But the United States does not want them to go ahead at all. Sanctions on Venezuela are nothing new. 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__label__wiki	0.719371	0.719371	Mark Kausler’s CatBlog animated cartoons, fine arts, film collecting and other stuff I Love Cartoons! Show on May 19th at TAG Hulett Hall!! Personal, Uncategorized Come to the first of a series (?) of screenings at the Hulett Hall at the Animation Guild’s building at 1105 N. Hollywood Way in Burbank, CA 91505. The program is called “I Love Cartoons” and features cartoon 16mm films that are especially beloved by me and hopefully, all of you. I’m presenting two stills from some of the cartoons we’re running, I’m sure you can guess the first one, the second one is from a Cigar TV commercial, animated by a great animator who should be more famous than he is. The show will be about two hours in length and starts at 6:30 PM, ends about 9:30 PM or so. It’s in four half-hour installments, “Newsreel Theatre, or Cartoons At Random”, four cartoons picked off the shelf that I love, “Eastern and Western European Favorites”, these include such cartoons as the Soyuzmultfilm production: “The Four Friends”, “Tup-Tup” Nedeljko Dragic’s Zagreb masterpiece and a Halas and Batchelor “Barnaby” cartoon, adapted from the Crockett Johnson comic strip. The third half-hour is devoted to 1950s Television cartooning, featuring a whole reel of our mystery animator’s work, a Tom Terrific serial called “Snowy Picture”, with animation by Jim Tyer and directed by Gene Deitch, plus a reel devoted to the Ford Dog campaign of the late 1950s, animated principally by Bill Littlejohn for Playhouse Pictures. The fourth and last half-hour is devoted to the “Cartoon Western”, animated versions of the typical B-Western plots. These may have been shown at “The Hitching Post”, a legendary Hollywood theater devoted to Westerns back in the 1940s and 1950s. This program promises to be fun and as lecture-free as possible. Come and enjoy beloved cartoons with an audience! Krazy this time is from 4-19 to 4-24-1943, the 4-23 strip is courtesy of Gerd Heinlein, the man with 20,000 comic strips in his collection. Thanks for this one, Gerd! Herriman spins three days of comedy out of a play on words involving “Abalone” and “A Baloney”, and also features a piece of “Mekka Roni” and “Spigetty” passing through each other on a Coconino highway. Myrtle is from 1-10 to 1-16-1949. I want to point out the 1-11 as Myrtle and Sampson have a spat, and wind up with free ice cream cones; it pays to fight? I also love the little pose in the 1-12 as Myrtle grabs the sides of her hat and pulls them down over her head. The Sunday page is great fun as Myrtle’s family is visited by the FBI, no, not Jim Comey. Felix is from 4-9 to 4-15-1933. In the 4-9 Sunday page, Felix starts a dream journey to prehistoric times, in the dailies, Felix is still a little jealous of Danny Dooit’s fame and all the fan letters and press he seems to be getting. I like the 4-15 as Felix hides in a box to escape a bulldog and Danny thinks Felix is a gift! Thanks for reading my blog, if you want to write to me, my address is kausler@att.net. I’m sorry the comments continue to be disabled, I can’t figure out how to restore the blog to full capacity, so have to settle for what I have. Maybe I’ll see you at the “I Love Cartoons” show at 6:30 PM, Friday, May 19th, at the Animation Guild’s Hulett Hall, 1105 N. Hollywood Way, Burbank Ca 91505. George Herriman Returns! Krazy Kat Bob Naylor Special The Lady and the Tiger Return! The Lady and the Tiger Your Comics Page 5-17-2020 Moving the Island Dino Tears Close Up On The Eggs Racketty Ann's Mystery Flight! Copyright © Mark Kausler’s CatBlog 2021	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line911
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We will write a custom Essay on Marriage: The Good, the Bad, and the Greedy specifically for you for only $16.05 $11/page 301 certified writers online The central points of the article are based on the idea that marriage can guarantee definite benefits for the married people, and marriage can also be the cause for different kinds of oppression and discrimination within the family. To defend the role of marriage for people, the authors refer to the opinions of such researchers as David Popenoe and Linda Waite who perform as advocates of the marriage idea because it provides people with the feeling of stability and contributes to their material and social status and physical and emotional health. However, the authors also state that the opinions on the role of marriage are different, and there are many opponents to the idea who state that marriage expands the women’s duties, thus, it can be discussed as oppressive for women but beneficial for men. Despite the variety of opinions, the researchers agree with references to the national surveys’ results that marriage is ‘greedy’ because it is based on the companionship between partners, but social ties become loose. To refer to the idea of the family more broadly, it is possible to use the authors’ discussion on the problem of division of roles in a married couple and the issue of relations between a family and a community. Thus, if the division of duties within the family is unequal, persons can feel the oppressive character of marriage. Furthermore, the specifics of relations between a family and a community depend on diminishing all the social ties and connections with friends and relatives, although the status of a married man contributes to establishing social contacts. Thus, the significant emotional involvement within the family influences the social life of a pair and the level of dependence on social ties. 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__label__wiki	0.686775	0.686775	Research Article\| September 01 2010 Historical, biological and morphological aspects of the Roccarainola qanat in the district of Naples, Italy G. De Feo; G. De Feo 1Department of Civil Engineering, University of Salerno, via Ponte don Melillo, 1 - 84084, Fisciano SA, Italy E-mail: g.defeo@unisa.it S. De Gisi; S. De Gisi C. Malvano; C. Malvano D. Capolongo; D. Capolongo 2Circolo Culturale B.G. Duns Scoto di Roccarainola, Roccarainola NA, Italy S. Del Prete; S. Del Prete 3Federazione Speleologica Campana, via G. Papini, 3 - 80046 San Giorgio a, Cremano NA, Italy 4Gruppo Speleologico Natura Esplora, via Reanni 3 - 83010 Summonte AV, Italy M. Manco; M. Manco F. Maurano; F. Maurano E. Tropeano Water Supply (2010) 10 (4): 647–655. G. De Feo, S. De Gisi, C. Malvano, D. Capolongo, S. Del Prete, M. Manco, F. Maurano, E. Tropeano; Historical, biological and morphological aspects of the Roccarainola qanat in the district of Naples, Italy. Water Supply 1 September 2010; 10 (4): 647–655. doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/ws.2010.115 A qanat is an underground channel consisting of verticals shafts connected at their bottom with a sub-horizontal tunnel bringing water from an aquiferous stratum, with a slight downward slope useful for the water tapped to run down it and into the open air by gravity. Qanats were first developed in Kurdistan as a side result of mining activity by the early millennium B.C. at the latest. Qanats exist in more than 34 countries all over the world, but most are concentrated in present day Iran. In Italy, Sicily is usually cited for its “Ingruttati”, but also in the Campania Region, there are some qanats (“Qanate”). As a matter of fact, this paper describes the historical, biological and morphological aspects of the Roccarainola qanat located in the district of Naples, in Southern Italy. It dates back to the Roman Ages, but currently the hypogean environmental condition misrepresents its ancient state. The animal species discovered forty years ago in the Roccarainola qanat were substantially small sized arthropods, a planaria and some species of bats. The Roccarainola qanat is composed of three branches for a total length of 786 m, with a drop of 9 m. The tunnel slope varies from around 1.70 cm/m to 5.20 cm/m. However, original slopes have been modified due to accumulation of debris and waste. Seventeen vertical shafts (not internally covered) with a circular section were found along the hypogeum. On the average, the shafts are spaced 36.5 m apart. biological, drainage tunnel, historical, morphological, qanat, Roccarainola	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line914
__label__wiki	0.790498	0.790498	Hip-Hop Q & A JayeL Audio Q & A with Kyle Lucas: Part 2 No Comments on JayeL Audio Q & A with Kyle Lucas: Part 2 As promised, below is the 2nd half of the Kyle Lucas interview. Be sure to check out all of the mixtapes mentioned. They are all free and worth multiple listens. Also, pick up Vonnegutt‘s The Vice Nine EP. Its not exactly new, but it is great (especially “Bright Eyes” and “On My Side”) and should tide you over until the debut album drops. The soon-to-be released first single, “Here We Go Again” will be ringing in your ears long after your first listen. I heard it live (amazing!), without Big Boi, so it can’t wait for the final version. 8. You were just featured on the New Classics mixtape, how did that appearance come about? That’s actually a funny story. I was hoping I got the invite but that never happened, which is understandable, I got a lot to prove and I’m a new cat in the game as far as notoriety. I just entered the contest like every other emcee. I had a conversation with Billy Hume about it the other day. I could have been stubborn and said “shit, I have a record deal, they should have asked me to be on it or I don’t’ want to be a part of it.” But that’s not how I am. I’m hungry, so I kind of had to bully my way on to the tape and enter the contest like every other emcee. I’m just happy to be included in any way, shape or form. There are no rules in this game and no room for being stuck up on any note. You have to be humble and grateful for every chance you get, work hard and take advantage of any opportunity that comes your way. Shouts to Cook Classics, Tunji and Mario over at Vimby.com as well, they have showed me a lot of love! And Cook killed the production on that tape, it’s incredible! 9. What was the process like getting signed to Purple Ribbon? Where did that relationship start? Getting signed to Purple Ribbon was a dream come true. A lot of people don’t’ know this, but we had the contract on the table before we ever did a show. Even before we had a full band, it was just me and Neil. And just the fact that Big Boi wanted to sign us off the strength alone, no buzz or cd sales or touring or anything, he just really, really believed in the music. That means a lot to us, there are no gimmicks involved here, just good music. The relationship started way before me and Neil had a band, just when Neil was doing studio work up there at Stankonia, Ga (Big Boi’s studio) and working with various producers up there. Then we started demoing out material with the producers Royal Flush (producers of Big Boi’s Grammy nominated single “Royal Flush”) and it just snowballed after that. I’m just happy to be here man. It kinda blows my mind when you think about the amount of bands and rappers in my city alone and Big Boi believed enough in us to give us a deal. It’s an amazing feeling. 10. What is the best advice you’ve been given by Big Boi or anyone you’ve encountered in the industry? Big Boi told me to never dumb shit down. I have a line on my new mixtape called “They think I’ve gone soft with this pop shit/but Big Boi told me not to dumb it down, still pop shit.” Which is basically me just saying “yea, the band and I make catchy ass music, pop music if you will, but I’ve never dumb shit down.” I’m going to always come hard lyrically or at least to the best of my abilities. I do pride myself in my lyrics and my flow and I’m always going to be progressing that aspect of my music. Which is, when you think about it, is the same genius in Outkast. They make pop music come to them. They do such original, off the wall music and the mainstream shifts to them. Like “Hey Ya” or Bombs Over Bagdad”. Some other good advice I got is from producer Billy Hume who told to do as much as possible. So I’ve have been doing a lot of writing, a lot of guest features, working on Vonnegutt songs and cranking out these mixtapes songs as well. I’m just really trying to do as much as possible and build the biggest buzz I possibly can. 11. Who are 5 artists/producers you’d like to work with? I would love to do a song with Claudio from Coheed and Cambria. I think his lyrics and melodies are insane. They are one of, if not, my favorite band(s) and I’m always blown away by his song writing. I think that would be very dope to do a song with him. Patrick from Fall Out Boy is an incredible singer and working with him would be ill. The production work he’s done on The Cab’s album, Lupe’s album and Gym Class Heroes albums has been phenomenal. Umm…other then that I want to do a song with Joe Budden. Producer wise I’d like to work with 9th Wonder and Timbaland. I think that would be incredible. Oh, and I want to rap on a remix of one of Panic! At The Disco’s songs. Is that still 5? Ha-ha I think it’s 6. Fuck it! Ha-ha. 12. What should fans know about your self-run label, Bayside High? Bayside High is just a mini imprint I’ve started to put out music by people I’ve worked with forever, people that I believe in and music I believe it. We are taking baby steps as of now, with the first step being releasing my boy Syd Vicious ep. I just wanted to plant the seed now, so when I’m in my 30’s or so I can focus fully on running a label. I feel that I would be a very good label rep and I just wanted to start working on that now. Why wait till I’m older? So definitely look out for Syd Vicious, he is, by far, the illest unsigned emcee in Atlanta. It’s amazing how dope he is and I just kind of wanted people to hear him. It’s going to be produced by Simon Illa. 13. You have a great stage presence and bring a lot of energy when performing, what’s the best way to get ready for a show? What are the next tour plans? Well I’m super stoked you dig the show! And I’m glad you think we are dope live. That is one of the aspects that we have been working really hard at, as far as what we are trying to improve. When I get ready for a show, it usually consists of me pacing around a lot and trying not to throw up. Ha-ha. I’m always super nervous. But every show we’ve done has been ten folds better the last so I think that’s a positive thing. Vonnegutt is really working on our debut album and securing a major label. That’s the immediate goal for 2009. We really want to tour, so we are planning on doing some touring this year as well. We have some things lined up, some big things, but I don’t’ want to say it cause if it doesn’t happen I will look like an asshole. Ha-ha. But definitely plan on seeing us do a promo run with Big Boi for sure when his album drops. But we have some other things in the works right now. 14. The mixtapes have been obvious hits, when can we expect a proper solo debut and/or a Vonnegutt album? A solo debut will probably come later. Right now the focus is the Vonnegutt debut album and my next mixtape; It’s Always Sunny In Marietta. With Vonnegutt, it’s a lot of collaborating, writing, re-writing, etc. It’s a band so there are more people involved. The mixtapes are normally just me as far as writing goes. I’m very pleased, almost shocked with the amount of exposure/press my last mixtape got. But its dope because it’s another avenue to be able to give the fans free music and at the same time promote Vonnegutt. Mixtapes are also extremely fun to make. There are no rules. And that’s kind of the mindset me and producer Simon illa (who heads up the majority of producing/mixing/recording) go into each one with. It’s Always Sunny in Marietta coming soon!!! 15. Is there anything people who aren’t familiar with your work should know? Why should they be checking for Kyle Lucas? I would tell them to definitely download my two mixtapes Kyle Lucas is My Favorite and Kyle Lucas is Still My Favorite on my MySpace. They’re Free! Also look out for my band, Vonnegutt. I also, have a new mixtape, It’s Always Sunny in Marietta dropping soon. Ive got production work from Simon Illa, MW, Captain Midnite, and Keeynote. Features consist of Keiry Valdez, Sean Falyon, Donny Goines, Jon Hope, A Hott Mess and more. I’m also going to be going up to Seattle to collaborate with Captain Midnite on a joint EP in early June. That should be fun. Neil from Vonnegutt has a free ep out as well the A Tone Ep, as well as another mixtape/ep dropping very soon. So definitely a lot of free music coming out! Vonnegutt should be dropping our first single “Here We Go Again (Repeat Offender)” ft. Big Boi on iTunes very very very soon! Kyle Lucas – Doin’ Time 2008 Kyle Lucas – Always Be There ft Ben Grant Vonnegutt – Shaky Love Kyle Lucas – The Adventures of Kyle Lucas & Capt. Midnite ft Capt. Midnite Thanks again Kyle for taking the time. I certainly appreciate all the new readers who stopped by (and hopefully will come back!). Tags Big Boi, Hip-Hop, Kyle Lucas, OutKast, Purple Ribbon, Q & A, Vonnegutt By jayelaudio http://twitter.com/#!/jayelaudio ← New Mixtape: JayeL Audio 3-3-09 → Mike Posner: Mixtape "Time"	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line920
__label__wiki	0.626142	0.626142	Art & Auction Food, Wine, & Spirits Investment & Real Estate Was Gucci’s New Year Collab With Doraemon A Misstep? Over-Charged In China? Why Beauty Products Cost So Much In The Mainland Four Strategies for Selling Pearls to Chinese Millennials The Future Of China’s Virtual Fashion Shows The ‘He Economy’ Is Luxury’s Next Big Thing The Luxury Brand Playbook for 2021: Copying What Works in China Meet China’s New, Young Luxury Heroes For 2021 Happy New Year: Luxury Flocks to the Year of the Ox Has Luxury Found A Savior In China’s New Pet Craze? Behind Perfect Diary’s Winning Cultural Collaboration Strategy China’s Most Controversial Fashion Incidents in 2020 Jing Travel Could Your Next Job In Luxury Be In Circularity? Could Alibaba Try to Acquire Farfetch? How Brands Should Navigate Douyin’s 600M Daily Users Why Is Luxury E-tailer Secoo Seeking to Go Private in 2021? How Art Saves the Malls — Lessons from China Tanguy Laurent China in the 2010s was the perfect playground for luxury brands to experiment with touring exhibitions which mixed art and high-end fashion. There’s a unique bond that exists between art and luxury brands that a lot of marketers have exploited lately. The Cartier Foundation, The Louis Vuitton Foundation, and The Prada Foundation are just a few examples of how brands already have a deep relationship with art through public exhibitions. This practice has led to a new type of innovative retail-exhibition that’s giving Chinese consumers luxury brands in the form of art. China in the 2010s was the perfect playground for luxury brands to experiment with touring exhibitions which mixed art and high-end fashion. Among others, Dior’s exhibition The Art of Color — where the hottest contemporary Chinese artists created artworks from Dior’s universe of style — opened in Beijing in 2008 and Chanel’s Mademoiselle Privé exhibition in Shanghai, which opened in April 2019, showcases work by Chinese artists who reinterpret the inspirations of Coco Chanel. Dior’s exhibition The Art of Color Today, after massive growth in China’s luxury market, two influential art strategies have emerged from these initiatives — art malls and museum licensing — proving that art is now a surprisingly useful muse for luxury marketing in China. The K11 art mall, which opened in Hong Kong in 2010, was the first shopping center with the vision to bring culture to younger Chinese generations where they go the most. As Adrian Chang, the founder of K11 explains in a recent article, the mall was a quest to “democratize art by creating a habit for millennials to appreciate and understand all forms of beauty.” After opening K11 art malls in Shanghai, Wuhan, Shenyang, and Guangzhou, K11 now has a total of 29 projects set to be completed in China by 2024. James Shen’s 17.5 meter-high installation spreads out across multiple levels of the K11 art mall. Interestingly, K11 is now pushing the boundaries even more by partnering with ‘cultural brands’ like le Centre Pompidou, The Armory Show in NYC, and the Royal Academy of Arts for a series of Master Exhibitions that will feature works by artists like Salvador Dali or Claude Monet. Recommended ReadingCartier, Culture, and the Art of Inheritance in ChinaBy Yiling Pan K11 also offers artist residencies that gather artists around a common theme relating to consumerism. For instance, “Bagism,” the satirical art movement created by John Lennon and Yoko Ono in the 1960s, became a theme for artists to make work with luxury brands’ handbags. A good example is Shanghai-based contemporary artist Zhang Enli’s painted Birkin bag, which will be auctioned off for charity. Bagism exhibition at K11 in 2016, courtesy of K11 This art-and-retail concept is a new type of immersive luxury shopping experience that American malls still haven’t tried on a serious scale. In contrast, Showfields opened last year in New York City with the vision of creating temporary retail spaces that merge digitally-native brands with contemporary art and stands as one of the few examples of art-retail malls in the States. Tal Nathanel, the founder of Showfields, explains that the goal of the concept mall was to provide “visitors a transmuting retail experience, combining two floors of experiential shopping with two floors [of] shifting art exhibitions and a coworking and event venue.” While it is too early to say how successful the Showfield’s formula is, it remains one of the very few examples of shopping experiences merging with contemporary art in the U.S. Inside NYC’s newest “art mall” concept, Showfields. In China, art malls have been the place for teens to hang out for over a decade because they’ve made rotating content a habit that facilitates social media and e-commerce — something U.S. malls have yet to understand and implement. One reason why art works so well in Chinese malls has to do with the idea of cultural capital, the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu’s theory behind why art and luxury brands are psychologically linked. His cultural capital model, simply put, demonstrates that culture becomes a currency once the middle class becomes the socially dominant class. Therefore, taste, manners, and credentials become more valuable than levels of wealth. The generations of Chinese consumers born into a quest for economic growth have become a massive middle class now searching for this cultural capital. Recommended ReadingVivienne Westwood, K11 Team Up With Chinese Contemporary Artists for Climate ChangeBy Jessica Rapp In contrast to K11’s contemporary art exhibition strategy, a new player is now bringing innovative cultural capital to China’s middle class by relying on the intellectual property assets of cultural brands. One of China’s most innovative retail entrepreneurs and the founder of Alfilo group, Yizan He, understood the power of cultural capital and took it to a new level. “The difference between contemporary art and artists versus working with museum brands is that museums have a huge fan base thanks to their heritage art pieces,” Yizan said about his client base. Yizan tapped into the massive amount of art lovers in China and worldwide that follow museums and founded Alfilo group to help merchandise the IPs of different museums to China. As Yizan explained, “We quickly realized that Alibaba was ready to offer us more than the museum brands could ever desire, free front page banners, etc., and that is because these museum IPs had immense depth and width. Yet, we realized that one thing Alibaba could not provide us with was the physical experience.” Yizan opened its first British Museum pop-up store in 2018 in Shanghai, and it became the LCM mall’s most visited store with 90 thousand visitors for the month. British Museum Pop up store experience at Shanghai LCM mall, courtesy of Alfilo group. The experience-based store was conceived in three parts. Part one was a store section consisting of VR/AR content, touch panels, and replicas of precious objects. Part two consisted of merchandise that was available for purchase, and part three was a children’s playground. Pre-launch campaigns featured the Chinese model and actress Angelababy carrying a well-known British Museum artifact, the Anderson Cat, on social media. The British Museum’s name recognition was, in fact, so influential that Alibaba and other top influencers offered advertising support for free. Alfilo now partners with consulting agencies to define what upcoming cultural trends will best serve their museums clients and the different assets they have. Every museum merchandising venture comes with a specific story that buyers can tap into. By licensing all of the British Museum’s assets, Alfilo created a retail partnership with unique merchandising, like a scarf featuring an 18th-century chess game board, the “Noble Game of Swan.” The Belle group, China’s leading women shoe retailer, partnered with the museum to produce handbags and footwear featuring British Museum IP that was both interesting and stylish. During the pop-up dates, Alibaba’s landing page and mobile banners were offered to the British Museum and linked to a museum shopping page. Alfilo asked users to make videos to show how they would dress if they were invited to the gala, with one video receiving 255 thousand likes and 86 million views. That video features a lady wearing a scarf, complete with a call to action link so one can buy the scarf right away. “Generating 184 million viewers in 48 hours from coastal areas of China, the campaign proved that such a thing could be very well adapted for U.S. markets in areas where malls are still a gathering destination,” Yizan said. These made-in-China marketing practices are working tremendously well and offer an untapped world for U.S. retailers to try and leverage inside malls across America. Tanguy Laurent is Managing Partner of Creative Capital, Altavia Group Leading US Chinese retail branding agency. Follow him for more insights on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/creative-capital-hk Creative, Culture, Retail Alfilo, Armory Show, art retail, art-retail malls, bagism, british museum, cartier foundation, ip, k11, k11 art mall, Louis Vuitton foundation, Prada foundation, Showfields, Zheng Enli Why Jo Malone’s “London Gent” Advertisement Backfired Uma Wang: The Pioneer Designer Showcasing the Power of Chinese Oriental Aesthetics Anna Sui Thinks China is Ready to Inspire Asia Could Opening Ceremony’s Second Coming Be in China? Start your day with The Brief Our daily newsletter delivers insights, analysis, and breaking news from our on-the-ground reporters. Mark It Down Your source for webinars to podcasts to global industry events. Our Event Calendar has you covered. 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__label__wiki	0.561359	0.561359	Advisor Baseer Khan chairs review meeting of Handicrafts, Handloom department, JKI Pitches for strengthening of base level of deptts JK News Today Jammu, December 01: Advisor to Lieutenant Governor, Baseer Ahmad Khan, today chaired a meeting of Handicrafts and Handloom department besides Jammu Kashmir Industries to get first hand feedback about functioning of the departments. Regarding Handicrafts and Handloom department, Advisor directed the officers to strengthen the base level of the department and take measures for uplifting the economic conditions of artisans. He said that endeavour of the department should be to initiate adequate steps for helping artisans in increasing their production and showcasing their products. Advisor directed the officers to explore possibilities for virtual opportunities for the artisans for showcasing their products in view of the pandemic. He further asked them to explore possibilities for convergence with the National Rural Livelihood Mission for providing an immediate platform to artisans. He asked for working out strategies to give a fillip to economic activities of the artisans and look for avenues which liberates them from economic distress. While emphasising on the need for redressal of grievances of the artisans, Advisor directed the district officers to resolve the issues at the district level and pendency of the grievances should be brought down to zero. To increase marketing of the handicraft and handloom products, Advisor directed the officers to increase the frequency of fairs and identify locations along Srinagar-Jammu highway for marketing of the products. He said that imparting training should be coupled with constitution of groups so that they become viable units and hone the skills of the artisans. Advisor further asked the department to compile the number of artisans working in a district so that the department comes to know about the number of artisans associated with a particular craft. He said that each district has a particular craft and we need to pump in our resources accordingly so as to get better dividends. Commissioner Secretary Industries & Commerce Department, Manoj Kumar Dwivedi, while speaking on the occasion, asked the concerned to strictly follow the guidelines and directions issued in the meeting. He informed that promotional activities are being organised as exhibitions, expos to provide a platform to the craftsmen for marketing of their products as well as educate them about the market demand. It was informed that the department has entered into an agreement with the online portals for sale of handicraft products of the artisans of Jammu and Kashmir. A detailed presentation was also given listing the health and function of the department in both the divisions and other concerning issues also came up for discussion. Regarding the functioning of JKI, Advisor was informed that the department has identified several units for revival/establishment so as to have an end to end solution right from raw material to finished product. Advisor Baseer Khan reviews PMAY (G), MGNREGA, Panchayat Ghars Govt withdraws 30% fare hike on Public Transport Advisor Baseer Khan attends Grand Plenary of Startup India International Summit 133 Sub-Inspectors of J&K Police promoted JKNT Special World When Pakistan made its citizens hostage in Malaysia US retains terrorist designation of Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Tayyiba To get latest news updates on WhatsApp send WhatsApp message to +91 9419167744 Copyright © 2016 JK News Today. All rights reserved.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line925
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Marks, Kent State University, Kent, OH, U.S.A. THE IMPACT OF CONSUMER PURCHASING POWER FLUCTUATIONS ON DECISION MAKING AS IT RELATES TO LOW INVOLVEMENT PRODUCTS, INCREASE IN INCOME AND CONSUMER SATISFACTION Onuralp Demirer, New York Institute of Technology, New York, New York, U.S.A. Ali Alshareef, New York Institute of Technology, New York, New York, U.S.A. John T. LaPerla, New York Institute of Technology, New York, New York, U.S.A. Eleanor Schwartz, New York Institute of Technology, New York, New York, U.S.A. Cristina Seaman, New York Institute of Technology, New York, New York, U.S.A. Jennifer Kalla, Independent Scholar, Massillon, Ohio, U.S.A. Stacey Baez, New York Institute of Technology, New York, New York, U.S.A. Ute Broedje, New York Institute of Technology, New York, New York, U.S.A. Joshua E. Bienstock, New York Institute of Technology, New York, New York, U.S.A. ATTRACTIVENESS OF UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Tirupathi Anand, SP Jain School of Global Management, U.A.E. Arindam Banerjee, SP Jain School of Global Management, U.A.E. Sadia Riaz, SP Jain School of Global Management, U.A.E. THE KNOCK-ON EFFECT OF INTRODUCING AI AS A SUPPLY RISK OPTIMISER - HOW IMPLEMENTING AI CAN ASSIST COMPANIES TO ENDURE A CRISIS Christina F. Edye, Zeppelin University, Germany Wolfgang H. Schulz, Zeppelin University, Germany The full text of this article can be purchased on the article's DOI Webpage &nbspDOI Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.18374/ Beginning in 2013, all IJBS articles have been assigned a DOI link through Crossref and given a dedicated webpage where they can be purchased in digital and print formats. &nbspTo browse the articles in those issues, simply click the links below. &nbspThe abstracts for IJBS articles published before 2013 are available for download below. &nbspTo purchase printed copies of issues published before 2013, email your order to 2020&nbspIssues 2012&nbspIssues - Download Abstracts Scroll down to find links to and information about each organization that IJBS is indexed with. The Australian Research Council (ARC) is responsible for administering Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA), Australia’s national research evaluation framework. 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IJBS is indexed with and included in Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA), Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory, Index Copernicus, VHB, Research Bible, OCLC, NSD, and CNKI. Is this journal a refereed journal? Yes, IJBS is a refereed journal. It uses a double blind review process. Is this journal published both in print and online versions? Yes, IJBS is published both in print (ISSN: &nbsp1553-9563) and online (e-ISSN: &nbsp2378-8585) versions. Is IJBS an open-access journal? No, IJBS is a subscription journal. Each article published in IJBS is assigned a DOI link through CrossRef. Anyone can follow the link to a page that has the title, author information, abstract and an option to purchase electronic or printed copies of the article or the journal issue containing the article. What type of paper does IJBS publish? IJBS publishes original papers, review papers, conceptual framework, analytical and simulation models, case studies, empirical research, technical notes, and book reviews. Does IJBS publish special issue? Yes, special issues devoted to important topics in business and economics will occasionally be published. Who is the publisher of IJBS? IJBS is published by International Academy of Business and Economics (IABE), USA. I want to submit my paper to IJBS. How should I submit it? Yes, click to navigate to the Paper Submission Page. Does IJBS have ‘manuscript submission guidelines’? to access the Submission Guidlines. Is there any page limit of the paper? There is no word/page limit in a paper, but the paper should not exceed 30 pages (double space, 12 fonts). How long is the review process? The editorial board is highly committed to a quick review process of the paper, but not at the expense of the quality of the journal. The review process usually takes between 4 and 8 weeks. Does IJBS require any publication fee? If the paper is accepted for publication, author(s) will be asked to pay $75 USD plus $35 USD per page. Author(s) will receive one copy of the printed journal (one printed copy is provided regardless of the number of the authors). Authors can also get additional copies of the printed journal by paying 60 USD for each additional copy. What is the acceptance rate of papers? Can I submit more than one paper for the same issue? Yes, you can submit more than one paper at a time. My paper has been accepted for publication. How can I pay the publication fee? Contact the editor at I want to know about the copyright policy of IJBS. to access the copyright policy. I want to subscribe to IJBS. How can I place an order? Please e-mail your subscription order to the editor at What is the frequency of publication of IJBS? There is 1 issue of IJBS published each year. &nbspIt is published in October. 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Email: editor@ijbs-journal.org Address: 10940 Trinity Parkway STE C-185 Stockton, Ca, 95219 Title: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BUSINESS STRATEGY Acceptance: 23% of submitted papers Editor's E-mail: Title: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH editor@ejbr-journal.org Title: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT Frequency: 1 to 2 Issues Per Year editor@ejm-journal.org Title: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH editor@ijbr-journal.org Title: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT editor@ijsm-journal.org Title: JOURNAL OF ACADEMY OF BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS editor@jabe-journal.org Title: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS editor@jibe-journal.org Title: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL FINANCE AND ECONOMICS Frequency: 3 - 4 Issues Per Year editor@jife-journal.org Title: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL FINANCE STUDIES editor@jifs-journal.org Title: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT STUDIES editor@jims-journal.org Title: REVIEW OF BUSINESS RESEARCH editor@rbr-journal.org The iThenticate software checks papers against millions of published scholarly works, and billions of web content. Authors, researchers and freelancers can also use the iThenticate system to screen their work before submission by visiting ithenticate.com. All articles pulbished in IJBS are archived with Portico. Portico is among the largest community-supported digital archives in the world. Working with libraries and publishers, Portico preserves e-journals, e-books, and other electronic scholarly content to ensure researchers and students will have access to it in the future. © 2021 IJBS-JOURNAL.ORG. All Rights Reserved.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line931
__label__cc	0.733325	0.266675	1525 Harvey Road, Oswego IL 60543 \| Phone: (630) 636-2222 \| Fax: (630) 636-2458 Sport Parent MATHLETES ROCKET TEAM Low Risk Winter Athletics May Begin Jan. 19th Low-risk winter sports (badminton, cheerleading, dance, boys swim/dive, bowling, and gymnastics (hosted at OH)) may begin practice as early as Tuesday January 19th. Coaches of those teams will be reaching athletes who have shown interest or participated for those sports when they began in November. Those sports that didn't have tryouts in November will have a schedule posted as soon as it is created. Here are a few additional items to be aware of: Registration/Physical - All athletes must be registered on 8to18 and have a current physical on file. COVID Mitigations - Masks must be worn at all times, social distancing will be observed, and no sharing of items. Bring your own water bottle as drinking fountains are turned off. Locker Rooms - Locker rooms are still off-limits under our current mitigations. Athletic Shuttles - Athletic shuttles will start running on Wednesday for students who are learning remotely. These shuttles should get athletes to OEHS by about 3:10 for practices. Please see this link https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vhBGy1X5qDPsea9JZ2kKOgVnggNJepKc/view?usp=sharing for routes. Some out-of-season sports will begin "contact days" in the immediate future as well. Coaches of those sports will be reaching out and posting their plans on social media and/or school announcements. The same COVID mitigations listed above will be in effect for contact days. SD308 and IHSA Update January 15th The IHSA Board of Directors met for their regularly scheduled Board meeting on January 13th. Here is a quick recap on the information from that meeting. * IHSA sports remain in a pause until IDPH determines otherwise. We could see potential rollbacks by region as early as today, Jan. 15, but a chance exists that the status of sports may not change even if rollbacks occur. * The Board approved the resumption of “contact days” in all IHSA sports that are not in a season as soon as IDPH allows. * Given our current pause, the IHSA Board plans to meet again on January 27 to set a schedule for the remainder of the year, although they realize time is drawing short. See their full statement in the release below. The Illinois High School Association (IHSA) Board of Directors met for its regularly scheduled meeting on Wednesday, January 13, 2021, where the Board announced that all IHSA sports not operating under an official IHSA season calendar may begin to conduct contact days as soon as they are allowable per Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) mitigations and local school guidance. Contact days normally exist within the IHSA as informal voluntary offseason workouts. "The IHSA acknowledges the immense mental, emotional, and physical strain that a lack of contact with school programs is causing Illinois high school student-athletes,” said IHSA Executive Director Craig Anderson. “It is our intention that these contact days provide sport-specific training under the leadership of high school coaches. This is an effort to provide a viable sports option to high school athletes given the growing number of student-athletes opting for higher risk opportunities within the state and across state lines." Additionally, the Board reviewed several options outlining a sports schedule framework for the remainder of the school year. The Board directed the IHSA staff to take feedback from today’s meeting, as well as any insight gained in the coming weeks, and bring forward viable scheduling options for a special Board meeting on January 27, 2021. The Board will provide an update following that meeting. Once state leadership allows for low-risk winter sports (Boys & Girls Bowling, Cheerleading, Dance, Girls Gymnastics, Boys Swimming & Diving, and Badminton) to begin participation, those teams will be allowed to begin practice immediately and then continue their season through the season calendar established by the Board later this month. Oswego and Oswego East High School continue to work with the IHSA to promote a safe return to play as soon as it is possible in conjunction with IDPH and IHSA mitigations and guidelines. 2020-2021 Sophomore Roster Home of the Wolves	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line933
__label__wiki	0.691666	0.691666	Detective, Horror, Imaginary British Cinema, Imaginary Italian Cinema #165 – Beast In London’s Fog, The (1971, It/GB, 90 min) Dir Sergio Patrino. Cast William Berger, Catherine Bess, Helmut Messerschmitt. Here comes Sergio Patrino, getting his Victorian London gore on like an Italian Hammer Horror. The fog-thick streets of the city are being stalked by once more by a knife wielding killer, bringing up uncomfortable memories for Detective Alan Brindling (Berger) who was hot on the trail of the Ripper a mere five years previously. On the prowl for the murderer he sees, through the fog, no man but a green-skinned, knife fingered beast. He passes out and when revived is believed by none. So be it – he’s on his own, one man against a foul creature that lurks beneath the streets themselves, the labyrinthine sewers it’s home. Logic? Plausibility? Forget about it – The Beast in London’s Fog has atmosphere to spare, hysterical acting without equal and an ending that’ll make you soil yourself one way or the other. Crime, Imaginary British Cinema #164 – Ice Pick Phillips (2000, GB, 108 min) Dir Harry Denton. Cast Alan Barking, Jason Flemyng, Vera Day, Keith Chegwin. On the back of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels there came a slew of gangster films from the British film industry and, as with any opportunistic glut, there were the occasional examples where advantage was taken of the gold rush and quality work was produced – Sexy Beast for one, Croupier for another. These few films however, represented a very small amount of the overall whole, the remaining dreck best typified by Ice Pick Phillips. We’ve got a minor actor acting the hard man (Alan Barking, best known as Ian Bleat in TV soap Waterhigh), a Lock, Stock alum (Jason Flemyng) and an egregious example of stunt casting (Keith Chegwin getting tortured to death for an unpaid debt) – all the ingredients for a paper-thin nth generation copy of something that was barely liked in the first place. It’s the true story of the titular man, a mob enforcer for the Dubbin’s gang in the Seventies who earned his name for the expected reason. The film is firmly on Phillip’s side, taking a gleeful relish in the objects of his tortures and making sad face at his eventual downfall and incarceration like it was some kind of injustice. Mandela he ain’t, needless to say. I would have been bored if my blood hadn’t been boiling at this vile little flick. Comedy, Drama, Imaginary British Cinema #163 – Dent (1987, GB, 105 min) Dir Malcolm Mowbray. Cast Michael Palin, Shirley Stelfox, Michael Elphick. Simon Dent had always been an accountant, taking the same bus to the same firm for thirty years until the day he was called into the Managing Director’s office. “We’re downsizing, as the Americans call it,” the MD says and with that Simon’s life to that point is changed. On the way home, distracted by his grief, he hits a car that has pulled out in front of him, hitting his head on the steering wheel. Now everything’s different, suddenly losing his job is the best thing that’s happened to him – now he can grab life by the horns and ride it off a cliff no matter what his wife Doris says! Dent is a bit like if you crossed Falling Down with Reggie Perrin, the suppressed rage at the indignities of the modern world subsumed by a more childlike joie de vivre. The most important part of the film is that by the end, no matter what he tries to plug the absence in his life with, he remains unhappy, missing something. “I didn’t just have a job and a routine,” he says, “What I had was dignity.” A forced and pretty twee film but one featuring a fine, heartbreaking performance from Palin. Art Film, Drama, Imaginary French Cinema #162 – Chaînes Invisibles, Les (Invisible Chains, The) 25/02/2015 imaginaryfilmguide 1 Comment (1978, Fr, 102 min) Dir Alain Andere. Cast Raymond Polac, Jean Rochefort, Catherine du Mai. Anton Phillipe St. Jude Dominique La Tasse wakes in an exquisite room in a gold-leafed Baroque style that is unfamiliar to him. From the window he can see that the house it is part of is sited in a vast estate in the countryside. Curious, he rings the room’s bell and soon enough a valet appears. “What am I doing here?” he asks, scaring the valet off to summon the master of the house, one M. Vilper. “What do you last remember?” this man asks, puffing sanguinely on his pipe and studying the clouds that drift from it. Anton thinks. “It was night. A masked tribunal by candlelight. I was to be sentenced.” M. Vilper nods. “But this is no prison,” protests Anton. M. Vilper laughs and excuses himself. Anton investigates, meets his few fellow inmates and walks to what he thinks might be the extent of the grounds… but goes no further. The resulting ‘action’ are a series of philosophical debates between Anton, M. Vilper and the rest of the inmates about the nature of imprisonment, about freedom, about liberty. At the end of the film Anton’s time has been served and he returns to Paris and his life as it once was. Despite this, as his goes about his day-to-day life, he is never sure whether this is not simply a larger prison and whether he can still feel the weight about him of the invisible chains of freedom. Action/Adventure, Imaginary US Cinema #161 – Operation Oracle (1989, US, 105 min) Dir Hector Malevich. Cast Roddy Piper, Malcolm McDowell, Rae Dawn Chong. In a part of Iran that looks suspiciously like Arizona a Navy SEAL team headed by “crack infiltrator” Cole Baskins (Piper) lands under cover of night. Their target – the top secret lab where Dr Rodney Deems (McDowell) is believed to be working on a super weapon for the Ayatollah that could wipe out the United States. The nature of the weapon is unknown but the threat is very real. The raid goes awry, an Iranian Army brigade waiting for them – obviously a tip-off. Baskins makes it out and recuperates thanks to the kindness of some passing Bedouin, falling for one of their kind in the shape of Fallah (Chong). Once he’s fit enough he can return, defeat his enemy and root out the mole that has infiltrated his team and it will be a battle to remember. Only then will the nature of the super weapon be revealed… Knuckleheaded doesn’t really cut it – the script is beyond laughable, the cast uniformly bored and the casting of obviously not Middle Eastern Rae Dawn Chong is questionable at best. The whole thing plays out like a child’s retelling of a Rambo marathon without the enthusiasm or geopolitical nuance. How Malevich, once one of the titans of Soviet cinema, came to this is beyond me. ActionArtCinemaCultureFilmFilmsMovieMovies Comedy, Drama, Imaginary Turkish Cinema, Science Fiction #160 – Kuyruk, Bir (Tail, A) (2011, Tur, 99 min) Dir Ahmet Şen. Cast Nuri Kesal, Yılmaz Erdoğan, Cansu Demirci. A whimsical, surreal little film in which everyone in the world wakes up one morning to find that overnight they have grown the tails of animals – some have big green lizard’s tails, some have brightly feathered birds tails, some have twitching cat tails and some have a prehensile primate tail (which seems to be the least problematic and most useful of them all). The problem is that this kicks off a vast restructuring of the existing social norms – for example the President, who woke that day with a giant squirrel’s tail, is ousted from government by a cadre of monkey tails within his own party. All of this is seen from the perspective of young Nuri whose mother, a seamstress, is making a lot of money in the crisis from altering trousers. Previously a small fish in his school he has found his stock rising mightily now that he is in possession of a ferocious looking and potentially deadly scorpion’s tail. Of course if we learned anything from Spider-Man it’s the whole great power/greater responsibility thing and it’s the relationship between these two that guides Nuri’s story. A well-played, beautifully shot little film with surprisingly good practical effects for the tails, it’s only downfall is that it’s a little obvious in its allegorical intent. It was well received when it premiered in Sundance a couple of years ago but a wide release seems sadly unlikely by now. Worth tracking down. ArtCinemaCultureFilmFilmsMovieMoviesSci-FiScience Fiction Comedy, Horror, Imaginary British Cinema #159 – Back Again To Be Bad (2012, GB, 100 min) Dir Christopher Smith. Cast Reece Shearsmith, Peter Serafinowicz, Alexi Sayle, Julie Andrews. Supernatural comedy. The Grand Order of the Everlasting Night had a foul plan – they were going to raise from the dead the most nefarious, bloodthirsty tyrants that history has to offer to wreck the most profound and unimaginable havoc on earth. From the four corners of the earth they summon Hitler, Stalin, Genghis Khan, Elizabeth Báthory and, by accident, Jim Morrison. The trouble is they have no idea what to do with them now that they have them, all five seemingly unable to raise dread armies at the drop of a hat and also a bit depressed at being reanimated. The solution? Bung them all in a remote Scottish cottage for the time being while a Plan B is hashed out. So Stalin and Hitler are continually fighting over the bedrooms, Genghis is making all sorts of odd smells in the kitchen, Báthory’s taking forever in the bathroom and Morrison refuses to tidy up. An equilibrium has yet to be reached when there is a knock at the door. It’s only Churchill, Gandhi, Mother Theresa, a not dead Julie Andrews and, by accident, the Big Bopper and they’re there to sort out the tyrants once and for all. Cheap, slapdash and hilarious with a very unexpected good sport cameo from Andrews. ArtCinemaComedyCultureFilmFilmsHorrorMovieMovies Drama, Imaginary Canadian Cinema #158 – Jellyfish (2007, Can, 105 min) Dir Ben Roy. Cast Anton Yelchin, Mark Rendall, Susan Sarandon. True life inspired tale. Todd Waugh wants to get out of his family’s house while his parents argue their way through their divorce so he replies to an ad for a maths tutor. When he turns up at the house he finds that the local boy confined to his upstairs bedroom is Eric Battersby, who made worldwide news when he was born due to his inability to form bones and thus a skeleton. “He should have died when he was a baby,” Eric’s mother tells Todd, “But he just kept living.” Initially Todd is freaked out but when he tells his parents about not wanting to go back they manage to agree on something for the first time in years – that Todd should go back and help him. So he does and over time he becomes friends with the kid who calls himself ‘The Jellyfish’, inspired to help him make the most of his life rather than being stuck in his bedroom learning maths… Probably the most positive aspect of the film is the irreverent characterisation of Eric who is no saint alternating between his enjoyment of gross out humour and tantrums of petty peevishness, all guided by a fine performance from Yelchin. Comedy, Imaginary Norwegian Cinema #157 – Djevlene! (Devils!) (2000, Nor, 98 min) Dir Tomas Dakk. Cast Olaf Minger, Ballhammer, Alan Danielsson, Alvus Binghauser, Totes Felching. Norwegian mock-doc about the black metal group Djevlene decamping from the city to record their new album among the trees and mountains of the north. The film opens with a typical Djevlene performance – pounding, down tuned and fronted by agonised screaming – intercut with the quartet being interviewed, pledging their allegiance to Satan and intimating the dark deeds that they’ve done unknown by the media. Cut to their minivan opening in the dark, in the woods, in the snow, to much complaining about the cold and the cramped, dilapidated accommodation they have to stay in. Before you know it they’re fighting over the top bunk and the last sausage and jumping at the wind outside. In the night, following a strange creaking, their drummer Vic finds a hidden door that leads to the basement and in the basement is a grave, its headstone reading: Satan. Then, from under the ground, a blood curdling howling begins. The rare horror comedy that manages both with fine performances from the titular band as played, with admirable good humour, by real life band Snørr. Drama, Imaginary US Cinema, Thriller #156 – This Burning Rock (1978, US, 120 min) Dir Arthur Penn. Cast John Travolta, Jeff Bridges, Timothy Bottoms. Appalachian set eco-thriller based on mountaintop removal mining and the opposition thereof. Frank (Bridges) and Joe (Travolta) are buddies that went their own ways after high school – Frank to University and Joe to work. It’s been a few years but Frank’s back in town on unknown business. He and Joe go out for a few drinks to catch up on old times. Now Joe hasn’t told Frank but he’s working with the crew that are going to blow the top off Eagle Rock Mountain to mine it for coal but that’s okay – Frank hasn’t told Joe that he’s there to monkeywrench the operation. Of course we know what’s going on and we know at some point that the two of them are sure to collide. In the meantime the film winds itself ever tighter with the mechanics of the mountaintop removal as nail-biting as Frank’s nocturnal recces and basement bomb building. A fine example of that Seventies brand of gritty thriller, like a French Connection in the wild with plenty of time to lay out its characters along with the action. Produced after the megaflop of The Missouri Breaks, this taut, economical thriller didn’t do much better despite also having a stellar cast but it’s reputation has improved with age.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line934
__label__wiki	0.635584	0.635584	imPaneled Everything you need to know about the jockeying for lead counsel in MDL proceedings and other complex litigation. The blog may be silent for now . . . . . . but I still have a phone and a pen. I’ll keep my opinions to myself when you take them from my cold, dead hands. Or something like that. See here for details. by Bart Cohen on 07/07/2014 • Permalink Posted in Lead counsel motions Posted by Bart Cohen on 07/07/2014 https://impaneled.com/2014/07/07/the-blog-may-be-silent-for-now/ Silence is golden Everyone at imPaneled apologizes to the many of you who have been lying awake at night wondering when you might see another post here. We feel your pain, as reporting the ups, downs and wacky antics of the world of class actions and complex litigation is always more fun than anything for which we might actually get paid. But that pesky need to get paid is perpetually the bane of imPaneled’s existence. As to that, the boss here is now getting paid directly by clients (details on the right), rather than by other lawyers. That’s generally a good thing. But it required time to put in place–which explains the recent silence–and will require that imPaneled stay friendly with the rest of the world if it is to succeed. We at imPaneled have been known to be a mite opinionated, online and offline, and will not have it any other way. That, however, is not conducive to staying friendly with the rest of the world. So imPaneled will be lying low for a bit longer. If all goes well, it won’t be long until we’re swimming in so much cash that we can afford to offend anyone and everyone who deserves it. On that note, here’s one for the road: A curse on anyone who files a frivolous lawsuit. As we have said elsewhere, they waste our courts’ resources, discredit the plaintiffs’ bar, and provoke further restrictions on legitimate cases. That’s it for now. If you want more of the same sooner rather than later, follow the advice of the legendary Soupy Sales: Put those “funny green pieces of paper with pictures of U.S. Presidents . . . in an envelope and mail them to me.” Barring that, we’ll be content with just your good wishes. https://impaneled.com/2014/05/08/silence-is-golden/ What’s Centralized in Vegas Stays in Vegas imPaneled is in unseasonably cool Sin City, and hoped to post a comprehensive preview of tomorrow’s first-ever (?) Vegas Panel hearing.* But technical difficulties have interfered with those plans. Suffice it to say for now that aluminum warehousing, concussed college football players, and ramen noodles will be prominent on the agenda. Fortunately, our good friends at the American Antitrust Institute provided us with ample material yesterday, at their annual Private Antitrust Enforcement Conference–which for the first time included an awards ceremony. Unfortunately, the award categories did not include “Most Irreverent Blog Covering Procedural Issues.” Maybe next year. But the event did include an entertaining and informative discussion of Panel issues. The entertainment was primarily courtesy of Susman & Godfrey patriarch Steve Susman, who was refreshingly frank–and by “refreshingly frank,” we mean “scathingly critical”–of Panel hearings and many of the decisions that result from them. He started the discussion by observing that Panel hearings appear to be little more than parties for plaintiffs’ attorneys. imPaneled takes umbrage with that remark, and hopes to address it in another post after we return from the Strip some time after midnight. Playing able defense was Duke Law School Professor Francis McGovern, who is perhaps the only outsider who has spent more time studying the Panel than has the imPaneled staff. He admitted that two-minute oral arguments add little to most cases. But since Their Honors cannot always be certain of having mastered the facts based on briefs alone, there have been repeated instances in which oral arguments have proven invaluable. That by itself surely justifies unlimited parties for plaintiffs’ attorneys. Mr. Susman suggested that cases are too frequently transferred to judges who are unable to properly handle them. As to that, Professor McGovern substantially agreed, and revealed having pressed Their Honors to establish a certification program for transferee judges. But those efforts have been stymied by a strong sentiment among district court judges that they should be treated as equal in all ways, and pressure on Their Honors to spread the MDL wealth to the judicial hinterlands, rather than concentrating it in major metropolitan areas. The discussion was chock full of anecdotes relating absurd arguments raised at hearings past by audacious counsel. But the excitement for which imPaneled was hoping the most was not meant to be. There was some discussion of instances in which potential transferee judges’ preferences might weigh on Their Honors’ deliberations. So we closed the program by asking Professor McGovern directly whether those preferences in fact carry more weight than Their Honors disclose publicly (which we have long believed to the case). Alas, he said only that they have accounted for more weight only recently, but only in instances in which the Panel has needed to assess whether it would be feasible for parties to proceed efficiently absent centralization.** imPaneled has been assured that the technical difficulties that derailed our preview will not derail our post-game report. Don’t change that dial in the interim. * – Their Honors apparently do not maintain on their web site a list of their prior hearing locations. If anyone among our legions of readers happens to know whether the hearing has been here before, speak up–unless everyone who attended was sworn to secrecy. ** – We cannot close this post without crediting Craig Corbitt and retired Judge Vaughn Walker for their ample contributions to yesterday’s discussion. https://impaneled.com/2013/12/04/whats-centralized-in-vegas-stays-in-vegas/ “Wait ’til next year!” revisited imPaneled is pleased to be back, and pleased to be back on the lead counsel beat in particular, as imPaneled’s recent coverage has been decidedly Panel-centric. But our reaction to recent lead counsel news is less pleasure than disappointment, as a court that raised our hopes by venturing well outside the box has lowered them by putting at least one foot back in the box. imPaneled takes you back to yesteryear to explain that metaphor. The many readers who view imPaneled as something akin to scripture surely recall a post from around this time last year, in which we lauded Chief Judge David Herndon (S.D. Ill.) for appointing truly interim lead counsel in MDL 2385, In re Pradaxa Products Liability Litigation. As we reported at the time: “His Chief Honor appointed five (that’s 5, or in Roman, V) co-lead counsel, and added 22 other ‘leadership’ positions for good measure. That’s the bad news.” B. Cohen, Lead Counsel Shall Make Money the Old-fashioned Way–They Shall Earrrrrrrrrn It, imPaneled, Oct 5. 2012 (available at . . . right here). We’ll quote His Honor for what appeared at the time to be good news: “The Court has serious concerns about the large size of this leadership group. . . . Because of the Court’s concerns with the size, the appointments above are for the period to expire October 31, 2013. The Court will accept new applications no later than October 1, 2013.” Those dates have passed, and His Honor did in fact issue an order accordingly. But his concerns about the size of the group are apparently not what they were a year ago. The “new” leadership group is identical in size to the old one and, with the exception of one position on the low-ranking “steering committee,” identical in composition.* The recent order does not explain His Honor’s reasoning, and the re-bidding process transpired off the record, so we will not be further enlightened absent inside information from the counsel involved (who are more than welcome to further enlighten us). We had high hopes for massive cuts and perhaps some reshuffling this year when His Honor issued his order last year. That was not to be. But the order in all likelihood induced everyone named on it to be at least marginally more productive and cooperative than they otherwise would have been. So our kudos to His Honor remain intact. We encourage him and his colleagues to continue to venture outside the box in the future. * – imPaneled leaves it to diligent readers to identify the sole soul–and an unlucky soul at that–who missed the cut. Tagged MDL 2385 https://impaneled.com/2013/11/15/409/ It’s Always Testy in Philadelphia Last week’s Panel showdown ran a mere three hours, but included a full day’s worth of pointed questioning from Their Honors, high-quality argument by counsel of all stripes, and a closing act that threatened to devolve to fisticuffs. And imPaneled captured copious notes of all of the action, thanks in part to the electronics-friendly management of the E.D. Pa. courthouse. All of the above was preceded by mass Philly-style socializing at over a half-dozen venues (including this local institution) on Panel Hearing Eve. Thanks to the sponsors of that gastronomic decadence. The hearing was immediately preceded by a brief tribute to the departing Judge Vratil (to be replaced by Judge Ellen Huvelle of the D.D.C.). Her Honor lauded the Panel bar for having inspired her with “what [they] can do in one minute of argument.” And there ended the 16-hour era of good feelings. Unfortunately, the courtroom was substantially empty for the foremost nastiness, which transpired during the day’s final argument, over the fate of MDL 2477, In re Electrolux Dryer Products Liability Litigation. Insurance company plaintiffs (including State Farm) are pressing for centralization, based in large part on their claim that defendant Electrolux has avoided discovery of key facts via assorted procedural shenanigans, even in cases that have gone to trial. In their view, only the strict supervision of a single judge can remedy that. Electrolux counsel was predictably (and visibly) offended by that contention, and spewed vitriol at State Farm in particular for its own alleged malfeasance. The most substantive exchanges were those between Their Honors and counsel in MDL 2472, In re Loestrin 24 FE Antitrust Litigation. Defendants pressed the D.N.J., based on Judge Pisano’s familiarity with the patent issues underlying that proceeding, which resulted in extended argument as to whether His Honor’s judgment might be affected by his previous rulings. Plaintiffs claimed those patent issues are substantially irrelevant by virtue of FTC v. Actavis, 133 S.Ct. 2223 (2013), which resulted in uncommon (by Panel standards) discussion of merits issues. Plaintiffs who favor Judge Rufe (of the E.D. Pa.) arranged for one of their number to press a strictly defensive argument, comprised entirely of a report on the three MDLs currently on Judge Rufe’s docket–which defendants claim cannot accommodate another MDL. Only the D.R.I.–favored by a minority of plaintiffs–is apparently complication- and MDL-free. Their Honors indicated a preference for that district. Plaintiffs substantially agree as to MDL 2474, In re H&R Block IRS Form 8863 Litigation, which they want moved to the C.D. Cal. But Their Honors subjected plaintiffs’ spokesman to a veritable verbal assault for his inability to explain to their satisfaction how the case is connected to that district. Expect that to land in defendants’ preferred court, the W.D. Mo. The dissenting plaintiffs’ oral argument in MDL 2475, In re North Sea Brent Crude Oil Futures Litigation, was as skillful and well-developed as their written submission was curiously short (more on that here). But Their Honors did not appear to be moved. According to Carnac the Magnificent, the answer as to that proceeding is “Southern District of New York,” favored by defendants and the majority of plaintiffs. Stay tuned for reports on the orders that result from all the Philly phun, as well as updates on cases that were the subject of now ancient imPaneled posts. – The post linked above also questioned defendants’ neutrality in MDL 2476, In re Credit Default Swaps Antitrust Litigation. imPaneled’s exhaustive investigative work resulted in an informed and reliable explanation as to that. However, the work product doctrine precludes us from disclosing it here. Posted in Judicial Panel Tagged MDL 2472, MDL 2474, MDL 2475, MDL 2476, MDL 2477 https://impaneled.com/2013/10/02/its-always-testy-in-philadelphia/ Did you say “yutes”? The legal minds at imPaneled have recently been wrestling with weighty issues going to the Panel’s administration of justice. But it’s a Friday afternoon in August, so those issues will have to await another post. The spotlight today falls on the comedy highlights from the Portland Panel courtroom–none of which are quite on a par with the highlights from the above-quoted proceedings in a fictional Alabama courtroom. But Their Honors and the Panel bar still get an “A” for effort. Blair Hahn of Richardson Patrick scored comedy points in Portland, when he suggested that the cases comprising MDL 2459, In re Lipitor Marketing, Sales Practices and Products Liability Litigation, should be centralized in a southern court because the South is “the Diabetes Belt.” Their Honors, however, were more impressed with the fact that relatively few cases are pending in light of Lipitor’s long-time and wide-spread use, and denied the motion accordingly. In MDL 2454, In re Franck’s Lab, Inc., Products Liability Litigation, Their Honors had much to say about defense counsel’s efforts to compress ten minutes worth of argument into two minutes, repeatedly chiding him for speaking too quickly. Judge Breyer (“You must be compensated by the page.”) and Chief Judge Heyburn (“You should do disclaimers on TV ads.”) were most creative to that end. But Franck’s Lab had the last laugh, as the Panel granted its motion. MDL 2460, In re Niaspan Antitrust Litigation, for now falls in the “mystery” rather than “comedy” category, as Their Honors still have not issued an order in that proceeding, a week after otherwise completing their Portland clean-up. Perhaps certain candidates for the MDL prize have temporarily vacated their chambers for cooler climes in the August heat, and haven’t been taking Their Honors calls. Finally, imPaneled cannot help but take a bow for nailing our prediction as to MDL 2457, In re Oil Spill by the Oil Rig “Deepwater Horizon” in the Gulf of Mexico, on April 20, 2010 (No. II). After allowing the red light in the courtroom to glow longer than any outside of Amsterdam during Dan Becnel’s Panel-record length oral argument, Their Honors rebuffed his novel effort to create a new MDL from opt-outs and assorted scraps of MDL 2179, In re Oil Spill (blah blah blah) . . . . And–just like imPaneled–they gave a shout-out* to Elizabeth Cabraser for her able defense of the existing MDL. Is that “comedy”? Perhaps not to you. But we had a nice chuckle in a “great minds think alike” kind of way. More to come next week, when imPaneled will finally shed its Portland-centric posture. * – The above should not be construed as a blanket endorsement of 21st century colloquialism in scholarly legal writing such as imPaneled. Tagged Becnel Law Firm, Lieff Cabraser, MDL 2454, MDL 2457, MDL 2459, MDL 2460, Richardson Patrick https://impaneled.com/2013/08/16/did-you-say-yutes/ Section Fourteen-NO!-Seven Their Honors have had a productive week, issuing orders in all but a handful of the proceedings that last proceeded in Portland. And one particular word is common to most of those orders, a word other than the usual suspects (e.g., “re”, “Heyburn”, “litigation”, “schedule”, “centralization”, “isosceles”). That word is “denied.” Their Honors have slugged 11 out of 14 proceedings off their dockets this week, for a Ruthian .786 slugging average. Much to the delight of the defendants on its dozens of complaints, the sluggees include the movant in MDL 2462, Brandywine Communications, whom defendants accused of appalling procedural misconduct in their Panel submissions. imPaneled is most pleased that Their Honors noted that in denying the motion, and that they rewarded the defense attorney who informed them at the hearing that “the term of art [for Brandywine] is ‘patent troll.’” Practice note: Name-calling is an effective tool when arguing before the Panel, so long as said names are terms of art. imPaneled is less pleased with the Panel’s denial of defendants’ motion in MDL 2463, In re Fresh Dairy Products Antitrust Litigation (No. II), in which plaintiffs’ counsel voluntarily dismissed an earlier action after its § 1404 transfer to defendants’ preferred court, only to refile with new plaintiffs in yet another court. Defendants’ scorched-earth attack on that and other procedural maneuvers perhaps incorporated excessive substantive argument, which induced Their Honors to reach far into the past: “‘[[T]]he framers of Section 1407 did not contemplate that the Panel would decide the merits of the actions before it and neither the statute nor the implementing Rules of the Panel are drafted to allow for such determinations.’ In re Kauffman Mut. Fund Actions, 337 F. Supp. 1337, 1339-40 (J.P.M.L. 1972).” The Panel did not rely on that reasoning in denying the non-settling plaintiffs’ motion in MDL 2468, In re Pilot Flying J Fuel Rebate Contract Litigation.* But it was clearly lurking in the background, as Their Honors held that the parties and various presiding judges should resolve issues arising from the pending settlement before the Panel weighs in. imPaneled is most distressed with the Panel’s denial of plaintiffs’ motion in MDL 2453, In re Adderall XR Marketing, Sales Practices and Antitrust Litigation–but not for reasons that have anything to do with nonsense like convenience, justice and efficiency. MDL 2453 was the first proceeding in which imPaneled speculated publicly as to the result based on the hearing–and we got it wrong. Perhaps we should have been less taken with Judge Barbadoro’s skewering of defense counsel, and more taken with the fact that plaintiffs in the various actions all assert indirect claims based on the statutes of different states. Their Honors were more taken with the latter. Finally, we kind of got one right, when we lauded Judge Barbadoro for chiding plaintiffs’ counsel in MDL 2454, In re Franck’s Lab, Inc., Products Liability Litigation. Their Honors granted defendants’ motion to centralize those cases in the E.D. La. More Portland Panel postmortem to come after the last few orders hit the dockets. Then perhaps imPaneled can turn back to some good lead counsel fights. In the meantime, if you’re not aware of any such fights, feel free to start one. * – Not really. imPaneled just wanted to make sure you were reading carefully. ** – Background as to that ugliness is here. https://impaneled.com/2013/08/08/section-fourteen-no-seven/ Portland Panel Post-Game Prognostications Portland Panel ‘13 is now just a great memory. Our Panel Tour t-shirts and other Panel swag are packed and headed home. The lawyer turnout was small by Panel standards, but the city and the assorted legal services vendors in attendance were good to those who made it. But you’re not here for that fluff. You want to know what happened in the courtroom, and what may happen going forward as a result. And imPaneled will not disappoint. Despite a preternaturally bad record of prognosticating in all other contexts, imPaneled is going to hazard a guess as to some of what is forthcoming as a result of yesterday’s hearing, based strictly on what transpired on the record. Of course, imPaneled is not privy to all of what transpires behind the scenes among the counsel involved, or–more importantly–between Their Honors and the transferee judge candidates involved.* In other words, the forecasts below are not legal advice, and by reading this post, you hereby release imPaneled from liability for your acting in reliance on any or all of them. Enough with the disclaimers. Chief Judge Heyburn opened yesterday’s festivities by welcoming to the Panel bench Judge Sarah Vance of the E.D. La., as does imPaneled. She replaces Judge Furgeson–he of the oft-misspelled last name–whose inquisitive nature will be missed. Fortunately, Judge Barbadoro was more than inquisitive, as he repeatedly interrogated counsel as to strategic issues underlying their arguments. His Honor was most forceful in the contentious MDL 2462, In re Brandywine Communications Technologies, LLC, Patent Litigation (which has been the subject of previous imPaneled coverage) wherein the sole plaintiff, alleged “patent troll” Brandywine, filed and prosecuted cases all over the nation for some time before moving to centralize them in the first court to issue a substantive ruling in its favor (the M.D. Fla.). Judge Barbadoro asked Brandywine’s counsel whether his motion was filed to seek a substantive advantage, and after counsel denied that, asked incredulously whether the sequence of events was a coincidence (which prompted lawyerly evasion). Good stuff. Counsel for the many small-business defendants had the good sense to promptly admit his clients’ strategic motivations when His Honor confronted him. Their Honors did not tip their hands as to what will happen going forward, but did raise one interesting possibility–they might centralize all of the cases except the M.D. Fla. case in some other court. In MDL 2453, In re Adderall XR Marketing, Sales Practices and Antitrust Litigation, Judge Barbadoro all but accused defense counsel of resisting centralization solely to inconvenience plaintiffs. Expect those cases to land in front of Judge Ludwig of the E.D. Pa., who (according to plaintiffs’ counsel) has taken the unusual step of having written to the Panel that he will accept the cases. His Honor hit the mark again in MDL 2454, In re Franck’s Lab, Inc., Products Liability Litigation, when he scolded plaintiffs’ counsel for citing his clients’ locations, on the premise that they would not have to travel to the transferee court unless and until the cases went to trial there. Virtually all Their Honors dropped their verbal gavels on Dan Becnel in MDL 2457, In re Oil Spill by the Oil Rig “Deepwater Horizon” in the Gulf of Mexico, on April 20, 2010 (No. II), in which he seeks to create an MDL proceeding separate from the existing one for the benefit of certain plaintiffs whose claims he says are being unfairly delayed. Elizabeth Cabraser responded with a stirring defense of Judge Barbier’s handling of the existing proceeding in the E.D. La. Expect her to prevail. Judge Rendell was most skeptical in MDL 2460, In re Niaspan Antitrust Litigation, questioning defendants’ claims that Judge Marrero (S.D.N.Y.) is the ideal transferee judge candidate, for having overseen related patent litigation. Pennsylvania’s First Lady Emeritus noted that: (1) the patent case closed eight years ago; (2) Judge Marrero has three other MDLs on his docket; (3) he has none of the pending Niaspan cases; and (4) he has shown no apparent inclination to take the case. Give plaintiffs touting the E.D. Pa. an edge going forward. Those are most of yesterday’s substantive highlights. On some date that begins with an “8,” imPaneled will hopefully fill in some blanks, including the comedy highlights, which were many by Panel standards. Kudos to Judge Breyer in particular for bringing his A game as to that. * – imPaneled has long suspected that judicial politics play more of a role in the Panel’s activities than is made known to the Panel fan base. https://impaneled.com/2013/07/26/portland-panel-post-game-prognostications/ If they want to settle the case, don’t hassle ’em! In keeping with the football theme of the ongoing Portland Panel Preview, imPaneled shines the spotlight today on MDL 2468, In re Pilot Flying J Fuel Rebate Contract Litigation. imPaneled’s many readers in Cleveland and Tennessee are likely aware of the underlying claims, as Pilot Flying J is the family business of Cleveland Browns owner (and PFJ CEO) Jimmy Haslam and his brother, Tennessee governor Bill Haslam. In those parts of the country, press coverage of the allegations has been so intense that controversy surrounding Thursday’s Panel hearing in the case was actually covered in a mainstream newspaper. But laypeople, try as they may, can’t convey the Panel-centric nuances of the proceeding like imPaneled can. It began like so many before it, with the public disclosure of a federal investigation, followed by a flood of class actions and a Panel motion. That in turn was followed by a slew of responses, with most plaintiffs favoring centralization in the S.D. Miss. and PFJ touting its home turf in the E.D. Tenn. The proceeding became interesting less than a week ago when some (but not all) of the plaintiffs filed in the E.D. Ark.–a district to which no one seeks transfer–a motion seeking the preliminary approval of a class-wide settlement they had reached with PFJ the previous day. Judge James M. Moody preliminarily approved the settlement the day the motion was filed. Two days later, the settling parties (including PFJ) asked to stay the Panel proceeding. The non-settling plaintiffs predictably resisted (and predictably questioned the terms of the settlement) the following day. And after no doubt spending the weekend engrossed in internal debate, the Panel today entered the minute order imPaneled was hoping to see: “Oral Argument will proceed in this docket as planned.” Oral Argument indeed. Settling plaintiffs’ counsel include Lieff Cabraser, the Becnel Law Firm and Zimmerman Reed. Non-settling plaintiffs’ counsel include Heins Mills and Goldman Scarlato Karon & Penny. Meanwhile, imPaneled was disappointed to be reminded that when the N.D. Cal. publicly solicited lead counsel applications in the Wells Fargo force-placed insurance cases pending there (see imPaneled’s previous coverage here), it required that they be filed by hand under seal–which means that we will learn nothing about them for the time being. But there will be wide-ranging lead counsel drama forthcoming in that and vaguely related proceedings nevertheless, which will come to a head before the Panel on Thursday. The N.D. Cal. Wells Fargo cases are but some of several that comprise MDL 2466, In re Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Mortgage Corporation Force-Placed Hazard Insurance Litigation. The plaintiffs’ counsel who forced the public solicitation in the N.D. Cal.–Berger & Montague and Nichols Kaster–have joined forces with Kessler Topaz and Lowey Dannenberg before the Panel, seeking centralization in either the N.D. Cal. or the S.D. Ill. The Arkansas plaintiffs who were effectively deposed in the N.D. Cal. are resisting centralization anywhere, and aligned with Kozyak Tropin and Podhurst Orseck. And that is worthy of imPaneled’s attention because . . . .? Because substantially the same groups of counsel are bickering over venue in three other force-placed insurance proceedings that will be before the Panel on Thursday: MDLs 2464 (v. HSBC), 2465 (v. JPMorgan Chase) and 2467 (v. Bank of America). The possibilities that would spell victory for one group and defeat for the other are limitless. The arguments will proceed seriatim immediately after everyone enjoys a lobster lunch. The plaintiffs’ counsel involved may get eight (rather than the usual two) minutes to speak to the Panel as a result–which is well worth a July trip to beautiful Maine from any district in the nation. Tagged Becnel Law Firm, Berger & Montague, Goldman Scarlato Karon & Penny, Heins Mills, Kessler Topaz, Kozyak Tropin, Lieff Cabraser, Lowey Dannenberg, MDL 2464, MDL 2465, MDL 2466, MDL 2467, MDL 2468, Nichols Kaster, Podhurst Orseck, Zimmerman Reed https://impaneled.com/2013/07/22/if-they-want-to-settle-the-case-dont-hassle-em/ Panel Hearing CCLXXIV . . . . . . give or take a few I’s, will proceed in 130-odd hours in the Land of Lobster. Why the Roman numerals? Because to imPaneled, Panel hearings are like the Super Bowl. And if imPaneled had more to say about it, they (like the Super Bowl) would be quasi-national holidays. Accordingly, imPaneled is starting the pre-game analysis far in advance of the event. The argument of MDL 2462, In re Brandywine Communications Technologies, LLC, Patent Litigation, will surely be among Thursday morning’s highlights. imPaneled previously covered that proceeding, wherein the eponymous movant had been deemed a “patent troll” by certain outsiders. We suggested mayhem might ensue as the proceeding moved forward, and we were not disappointed. Fortunately for those of us with an appetite for verbal violence, Brandywine has sued dozens of small companies. Small companies tend to retain small firms that do not frequently appear before the Panel. And such firms are more prone to fighting words than are Panel veterans–which is a good thing. So one submission opposing Brandywine’s motion starts thusly: “This is a troll case. The troll plaintiff, Brandywine Communications . . .”. Another deemed Brandywine’s parent company “widely recognized as one of the largest patent trolls in the world.” Yet another said Brandywine “indiscriminately filed suit against thirty-nine entities”. . . “without inquiring into the factual basis for its claims.” As to that, another added “[t]his is not appropriate jurisprudence, this is abuse of process.” And finally: “Brandywine has made 41 beds, and now it must lie in each one.” Predictably, the only big business defendant, AT & T, made its points more blandly, as did Brandywine in its reply. MDL 2463, In re Fresh Dairy Products Antitrust Litigation (No. II), has proceeded without verbal fisticuffs, but with procedural fisticuffs uncommon in antitrust circles. Defendants–who are represented by the cream of the antitrust defense boutiques, among others–made much of plaintiffs’ counsel having dismissed a case upon its § 1404 transfer, only to refile with a new plaintiff in a new district, and of their deeming an alleged indirect purchaser “direct,” in violation of the sacred Rule of Illinois Brick. And plaintiffs scolded defendants for claiming their case was moot immediately upon making an offer of judgment to the named plaintiff, and for petitioning for mandamus when the district court refused to transfer the case to defendants’ preferred district. It’s not just venue–it’s personal. Meanwhile, Hagens Berman, which admits to representing indirect purchaser plaintiffs, is on defendants’ side. More pre-game insights coming next week. In the meantime, stock up on your beer and munchies, and tell your boss you’ll be sick on Thursday so can you can enjoy the festivities. Tagged Hagens Berman, MDL 2462, MDL 2463 https://impaneled.com/2013/07/19/panel-hearing-cclxxiv/ Sometimes we’re good . . . . . . and sometimes we’re lucky. Count today’s post in the “lucky” category. By way of background, a typical imPaneled post is preceded by hours of painstaking research, dedicated to divining the most intriguing Panel proceeding and/or lead counsel dispute on the nation’s dockets. That has not been necessary recently, because immediately after imPaneled’s last post, we received an unsolicited e-mail (the text of which is reproduced here) from the N.D. Cal. with the exceptional–no, shocking— subject line “Court Invites Attorneys/Law Firms to Submit Proposals to Serve as Class Counsel in Guerrero v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.” As the court likely sent the e-mail to legions of attorneys on its ECF list, many of imPaneled’s readers likely received it as well. But only imPaneled promptly vowed to dig deeper. And upon digging, imPaneled unearthed a veritable iron cage match of a lead counsel dispute, rife with fighting words not only from the combatants, but from the defendant and (at least by judicial standards) the court as well. And it all transpired in part under imPaneled’s own roof. Now an aside as to that last thought. imPaneled spends most of its waking hours laboring under an alternate identity, among some of the finest attorneys anywhere. But upon donning our reporter hat, imPaneled religiously strives for objectivity and neutrality, each of which will permeate the remainder of this post. Back to the iron cage match. Plaintiffs’ counsel primarily from Arkansas litigated the above-referenced Guerrero case–in which plaintiffs charge Wells Fargo with various offenses relating to the forced placement of insurance–with nothing out of the ordinary appearing on the docket. The relative peace crashed to an end in late May, when plaintiffs–represented by Nichols Kaster and Berger & Montague–asserting similar claims in other courts moved to intervene. That submission accused Arkansas counsel of an “attempt to leapfrog” the other actions, in part by taking inadequate discovery before having recently moved for class certification, making multiple misrepresentations regarding the other actions in support of that motion, and generally having represented the proposed class inadequately. Gauntlet thrown down. Over the next several weeks, an escalating flurry of scurrilous language filled the docket. Arkansas counsel took issue with the Intervenors’ “fixat[ion] on arguments ad hominem against Plaintiffs’ attorneys”, then scolded the Intevenors for their “consistent lack of diligence” in prosecuting their own cases. Then Wells Fargo–unlike most defendants who, in imPaneled’s experience, prefer to stay above such trial lawyer ugliness–deemed the Intervenor’s proposal “‘half baked’ [sic] at best”, and charged them with “unfairly” accusing Plaintiffs’ counsel of underhanded conduct in which they themselves had engaged. Harrumph! Intervenors raised the ante in their reply, accusing Arkansas counsel of “hav[ing] engaged in a pattern and practice of filing ‘me-too’ actions on top of many . . . existing [force-placed insurance] cases”–replete with a chart detailing not just the pattern, but the practice as well. And Arkansas counsel filed a sur-reply directed strictly at the chart, which they claimed “falsely paint[ed] Plaintiffs’ Counsel as ‘copycats’ so that [they] could undertake a hostile takeover of this case.” Inadequacy of counsel? “Consistent lack of diligence”? “[H]alf baked”? “[P]attern and practice” of dubious conduct? “[H]ostile takeover”? What is this? The comments to a TMZ article? Surely His Honor (Alsup, J.) would exercise some decorum. Or maybe not. In a holding for which the Court did not cite any precedent–which by no means diminishes it–the Court certified a class, but “only conditionally upon selection of adequate counsel.” His Honor deemed Arkansas counsel inadequate based on: its “misrepresentations to the Court,” one of which it found “baffling”; its “lackluster performance in discovery”, during which it “should have moved to compel but did not”; and the Court’s “prior and disappointing experience with several of the applicant firms and attorneys”, which included “a hold-up maneuver unworthy of Rule 23 practice.” Rather than hand the prize to Intervenors’ counsel, the Court opened the process to the whole world, first via the above-linked notice on the district web site, then via the mass e-mail. Perhaps a full-page ad in the New York Times is forthcoming, as a week remains until responses are due. imPaneled cannot complete such a harrowing saga of plaintiffs’ bar infighting without a serious note, in the form of the type of incisive insight for which imPaneled is renowned. imPaneled often makes light of such frank discussion of the issues raised in this context. But Judge Alsup’s reaction tends to suggest that in this instance, it was well-justified. imPaneled thanks His Honor for his bluntness, and for exercising some creativity, and encourages other judges to do likewise. Litigants and justice will be better served when counsel on both sides of all cases are held accountable for misconduct in no uncertain terms. Tagged Berger & Montague, Nichols Kaster https://impaneled.com/2013/07/12/sometimes-were-good/ Magnum Hunting Hunting for fees, that is, in securities litigation against alleged fraudster Magnum Hunter Resources, wherein hyper-contested lead counsel motions were filed earlier this week. Unfortunately, those motions are hyper-contested only by virtue of their number rather than their substance. No fewer than eight (8; VIII; שםונח) counsel groups filed motions in each of two districts–all eight in the S.D.N.Y., three of whom filed in the S.D. Tex. as well. Pomerantz Haudek was the busiest of the eight, filing a complaint by itself in Texas, which Saxena White followed with another complaint–filed by the same local counsel. Pomerantz subsequently dismissed its Texas case, which evidently got Magnum’s attention. Seeking to litigate on its own turf, and perhaps fearful that Saxena White might follow Pomerantz out of town, Magnum filed a 1404 motion in New York, seeking to consolidate cases pending there with the one remaining in Texas. The dockets were then relatively quiet until this past Monday, when all heck* broke loose. Pomerantz–armed with new clients and now aligned with Chimicles & Tikellis–filed lead counsel motions for those clients in both Houston and New York. A Robbins Geller/Labaton tag team did the same, as did Morgan & Morgan. The other contestants–Cohen Milstein, Kessler Topaz, Squitieri & Fearon, Finkelstein & Krinsk and Bernstein Liebhard–limited themselves to the blue state court. And all parties limited themselves to submissions that are so bland that to call them “boilerplate” would be insulting to boilerplates. So who’s likely to emerge from this with all the spoils? As is often the case, Robbins Geller and Labaton claim the greatest losses–somewhere in the high six figures. Cohen Milstein and Morgan are both in the low six figures. The others all claim five-figure losses, which is a shame–not for those firms, but for imPaneled, as we would like to see nothing more than knockdown, smash-mouth, eight-way verbal sparring. That is likely not forthcoming. But there will hopefully be drama sufficient to justify a future post. Stay tuned. * – imPaneled is a family blog. Tagged Bernstein Liebhard, Chimicles & Tikellis, Cohen Milstein, Finkelstein & Krinsk, Kessler Topaz, Labaton Sucharow, Magnum Hunter, Morgan & Morgan, Pomerantz Haudek, Robbins Geller, Saxena White, Squitieri & Fearon https://impaneled.com/2013/06/26/magnum-hunting/ A truly modest proposal Consistent with our moniker, imPaneled’s last several posts have addressed Panel issues. But imPaneled’s mission statement requires us to report “[e]verything you need to know about the jockeying for lead counsel positions in MDL proceedings and other complex litigation” (emphasis added). Hence this post. imPaneled previously pressed for reform of the means by which courts select lead counsel in a post entitled “A modest proposal.” The spirit in which imPaneled made the proposal was in fact “modest” (as imPaneled bows to no one where modesty is concerned), but the scope of the proposal was anything but. And imPaneled undertook to incite outright revolution in the Panel’s transferee court selection process in its most recent post. Having failed to effect change–yet–in either instance, imPaneled now aims substantially lower. Today’s proposal arises from the recent news that Judge Castel (S.D.N.Y.) denied Lowey Dannenberg’s and Lovell Stewart’s motion for appointment as interim lead counsel in what will hopefully be epic antitrust litigation regarding the manipulation of the European bank lending rate known as Euribor. Hizzoner reasoned that the appointment was unnecessary in that “[t]here currently appear to be no overlapping, duplicative or competing suits that might be consolidated with this action. There appear to be no competing counsel whose roles might complicate the efficient management of this case or result in duplicative attorney work.” “Kudos to him!,” thought imPaneled, on the premise that Lowey and Lovell were merely seeking to preclude any submissions by potential rivals for the positions, which, as the Court recognized, benefits neither the class nor anyone else. But then imPaneled noted that it has been a four-month period during which no one else has filed a related case. Cf. Adv. Comm. Note, Fed. R. Civ. P. 23(g) (“The primary ground for deferring appointment would be that there is reason to anticipate competing applications to serve as class counsel.”). And imPaneled recalled having itself filed at least one similar motion relatively early in an MDL proceeding (albeit after a large number of firms had reached agreement). And imPaneled further recalled having repeatedly seen unscrupulous outsiders (e.g., claims processors, counsel soliciting opt-outs) compromising the rights of absent class members before class certification. A stern warning letter to such miscreants from “interim class counsel” carries more weight than does such a letter from counsel for the “named plaintiffs” or the “proposed class.” And when it is defendants who are tampering with absent class members (as they are wont to do in cases involving defendants’ employees), even a court is more likely to give weight to the objections of “interim class counsel.” So what might Judge Castel and others in his position do instead of denying interim lead counsel motions as “premature” for a lack of competition? How about appointing the Loweys and Lovells of the world as interim class counsel, explicitly without prejudice to the rights of unnamed others to ask the Court to revisit the issue if circumstances so dictate? In most cases, circumstances will not so dictate, and everyone involved will live happily ever after. To that end, it is hereby ORDERED that Lowey and Lovell shall move for reconsideration of Judge Castel’s Order of June 11, 2013 (Dkt. No. 72), citing imPaneled as supplemental and decisive authority. Tagged Lovell Stewart, Lowey Dannenberg https://impaneled.com/2013/06/19/a-truly-modest-proposal/ We say we want a revolution It’s always a treat when the Panel allows us commoners a peek behind the scenes by discussing how it goes about its centralizing and transferring business. Their spokesperson is invariably His High and Exalted Honor, Chairman Heyburn, who has gone on the record at least three times in recent–or at least recentish–months. The publicity blitz was evidently preceded by Judge Heyburn’s “personal interviews” with dozens of attorneys “who practice before the Panel and in MDL dockets.” That is news to imPaneled, as imPaneled was not among those dozens. Perhaps the Panel has heard that imPaneled is a mite opinionated and something other than shy about sharing those opinions publicly. Well, if that’s how they feel, the remainder of this post will not disappoint them. The Panel has evidently observed that “it seems like there are more plaintiffs who see under certain circumstances that they can benefit from the centralization if they can be named to the lead counsel.” Do tell! And “counsels’ own stated reasons for favoring a particular location were sometimes surrogates for their desire for a favored judge or circuit.” imPaneled commends Judge Heyburn for avoiding words like “all” and “always,” which might have been appropriate. Counsels’ other beefs were in large part the result of having been saddled with unmotivated transferee judges. As always, His Honor has recently insisted that a number of sensible factors dictate the Panel’s choice of a transferee judge. But imPaneled has always suspected that judiciary politics play something of a role–and perhaps a major role–in this context, i.e., senior and well-connected judges have more to say about where cases go than do junior and poorly-connected judges. Not that there’s anything wrong with that–so long as the transferee judge is willing and able to do justice relatively promptly and efficiently. But too often–perhaps in cases that are generally unattractive to the judiciary–MDL proceedings land in front of judges who come up short as to justice, promptness and/or efficiency. One would think that is a problem only for the litigants in those cases, which is a substantial problem in itself. But as early as December of 2015, it may result in problems for plaintiffs in all cases. imPaneled hears the clicks of browsers moving to other pages, on the premise that imPaneled has taken leave of its senses. Bear with us. imPaneled recently had the pleasure of participating in a public discussion of proposed amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, which might substantially narrow the scope of discovery. See, e.g., Proposed Rule 26 Committee Note (“The scope of discovery is changed in several ways.”). That change was prompted by the well-organized campaign of those who produce the most discovery–defendants in complex litigation. In fact, the moderator of the event cited a study reflecting that discovery becomes unmanageable only in a small minority of the most complex cases. That revelation prompted imPaneled to query Judge Gene Pratter (E.D. Pa.)–who generally favors the changes–to the following effect: In light of that study, and in light of the fact (based on imPaneled’s own experience) that diligent judges can readily control discovery even in the most complex cases, why is it necessary to rewrite the rules for all cases? Judge Pratter’s response was most telling. She said in essence that most judges and lawyers are not willing and able to control discovery in complex cases, and the rules have to be amended for everyone to account for those relative slackers. Here’s a better idea. The Panel should transfer cases only to judges who have proven their ability as to both the relevant substantive law and case management, or to unproven judges who have made a credible commitment to prove themselves capable of managing complex litigation. If no such judge has a related case pending on their docket, the Panel should select someone new to the proceeding. And if he or she has to move smaller cases to other judges’ dockets to accommodate a complex MDL case, so be it. But no one should be denied prompt and efficient justice just because the Panel is set in its ways. And plaintiffs of the world should not be denied discovery just because–as Judge Pratter substantially admits–certain judges and lawyers are not up to doing their jobs properly. Update: imPaneled erroneously suggested in this post that amendments to the FRCP are coming in December of this year, which is not in fact the case. But there is a public comment period forthcoming this year. imPaneled encourages all of its readers to comment publicly. https://impaneled.com/2013/06/04/we-say-we-want-a-revolution/ Trolling for Dollars* This week’s spin of the Panel wheel landed imPaneled on a new proceeding that raises subject matter new to imPaneled. Despite having been raised among the world’s foremost patent litigators (which they would happily tell you themselves), imPaneled has neglected the many patent cases on the Panel dockets–until now. Some people would call Brandywine Communications Technologies, movant in the eponymous MDL 2462, In re Brandywine Communications Technologies, LLC, Patent Litigation, a “patent troll.” Brandywine precipitated MDL 2462 by filing 41 cases in 22 districts against DSL providers, alleging the infringement of six patents. Now, imPaneled would never disparage anyone with an epithet as vile as “troll” (though we might use viler ones). But it does bear mentioning that Brandywine is decidedly not in the DSL business. imPaneled’s competitors (in a sense) at Thomson Reuters recently harkened back to 2011, when “conventional wisdom” was that the America Invents Act of 2011 would force patent trolls to the Panel in droves, which has not necessarily happened yet. The good news is that the long-standing and ongoing battle between patent trolls and their alleged victims over joinder and venue issues raises the possibility that MDL 2462 could be particularly venomous by Panel standards. imPaneled will be rooting for that. * – imPaneled composed the title of this post with assistance only from this invaluable site–really–only to discover afterwards that everyone who has written about this subject has used the same title. Sorry, imPaneled fans–sometimes you get what you pay for. https://impaneled.com/2013/05/17/trolling-for-dollars/ The bar’s best friend . . . . . . is surely Abbott Laboratories, which has, by imPaneled’s estimation, entangled itself in more complex litigation and government investigations than any other titan of corporate America over the last 20 years. What would motivate such a scurrilous assertion, you say? Well, imPaneled decided to end its most recent hiatus by reporting on the most recent Panel proceeding to hit the dockets, whatever that might have been. And, lo and behold, it was filed by imPaneled’s old friend Abbott, the primary offender–make that alleged offender–in MDL 2460, In re Niaspan Antitrust Litigation, a pay-for-delay proceeding now pending in the East Coast district court nearest you. Abbott first appeared on imPaneled’s radar long before “blog” was a word, as the primary offender in In re Infant Formula Antitrust Litig. (N.D. Fla. circa 1993). Abbott has since kept the wheels of justice turning with multiple violations. imPaneled’s hurried Lexis search turned up only four, but memories of having seen others are seared–seared!–in imPaneled’s mind. But the four alone make for quite a record. The quotes below are unattributed, but imPaneled is so trustworthy as to not require citations: 2012: “Abbott signed the $1.6-billion settlement agreement in May 2012 to resolve all outstanding issues regarding the investigation of past sales and marketing practices relating to Depakote in the US.” 2008: “Abbott Laboratories To Pay $184 Million To Settle Fenofibrate Lawsuits.” 2003: “This settlement resolves all outstanding issues arising from the previously disclosed government investigation of the Ross Products Division for which Abbott took a charge of $622 million in the second quarter and announced on June 26.” 2001: “Abbott Laboratories announced that its reserves are adequate to cover its half of the costs related to the $875 million settlement announced between the U.S. Department of Justice and TAP Pharmaceutical Products Inc., a joint venture of Abbott and Takeda Chemical Industries, Ltd. of Osaka, Japan.” Rumors that Abbott has a Malfeasance Management Division are unfounded. imPaneled thanks Abbott in advance for whatever further contributions to attorneys’ retirement funds will be forthcoming as a result of MDL 2460. https://impaneled.com/2013/05/07/the-bars-best-friend/ All the news that’s fit to post Or at least all the news that arose from last Thursday’s hearing that’s fit to post. The Plavix–excuse us, Plavix®–argument that opened the hearing was something of a marathon by Panel standards. But the remainder of the hearing was a sprint that ended less than two hours after Plavix® began. The Panel initially scheduled only ten proceedings for argument, and five of those fell by the wayside for various reasons. Of the remaining four, only the first two were entertaining. Their Honors’ relative feistiness in the Plavix® argument carried over to that in MDL 2419, In re New England Compounding Pharmacy, Inc., Products Liability Litigation, as they scored movants’ counsel–at least by Panel standards–for seeking to move the proceeding to the D. Minn. rather than the D. Mass., where the alleged atrocities occurred, the defendant’s bankruptcy is pending, and all others involved want the actions centralized. Judge Furgeson tried to help movants’ counsel by suggesting “you can see where this is going” as she took the podium for her rebuttal. She apparently did not see where this is going, and dug herself deeper before the red light mercifully ended the argument. The argument in MDL 2420, In re Lithium Ion Batteries Antitrust Litigation, was less contentious, but entertaining nonetheless. When Judge Rendell raised the grand jury convened in the N.D. Cal., movant’s counsel Jim Cecchi* (pressing for the D.N.J.) demurred on the premise that New Jersey bows to no one where dealing with crime is concerned–which drew by a substantial margin the most laughs of the day. imPaneled encourages the Panel to award points for humor, which would surely enliven its proceedings. But unless and until it does, MDL 2420 will more likely end up in the N.D. Cal., which otherwise got the best of the argument. * – Mr. Cecchi presumably pronounced his name correctly (CHECK-ee)–which is notable only because every attorney who followed him pronounced it otherwise. Tagged MDL 2300, MDL 2418, MDL 2419, MDL 2420 https://impaneled.com/2013/02/05/all-the-news-thats-fit-to-post/ imPaneled should have known why certain defendants’ counsel include an “®” next to their every reference to their clients’ products in their briefing–to prevent those trademarked names from losing their value by becoming genericized. Thanks to Manny Pokotilow and Dan Simons for their insights as to that, and shame on imPaneled for not having recalled that earlier. That said, if imPaneled were faced with the issue, we would at least try to convince our clients that limiting the ®’s would please most judges, whose relatively aged eyes would prefer as little clutter as possible in their reading material. Tagged MDL 2300, MDL 2418 https://impaneled.com/2013/02/04/mea-culpa/ In re “Groundhog Day” Panel Proceeding – Part II When we last visited MDL 2418, In re Plavix Marketing, Sales Practices and Products Liability Litigation (No. II), imPaneled was making light of plaintiffs’ counsels’ excessive respect for one another’s written work product, which resulted in their submitting to Their Honors several largely repetitive briefs. Unfortunately, the straight arrows at Arnold & Porter chose not to reference that in their reply brief. They did, however, affix an “®” to their every use of the word “Plavix.” Never having had reason to consider doing that, imPaneled is at a loss as to its purpose. Is it so important to remind the world that “Plavix” is a registered trademark that a footnote at the beginning of the brief would not suffice? More importantly, is there an associate or paralegal specifically charged with proofing briefs to make sure every “Plavix” is accounted for? Someone missed a few in defendants’ opening brief. Is that person still with A & P? Have they been excommunicated from the defense bar? Anyone who can offer imPaneled any insight will get a free plug in a subsequent post. Anyhow, Their Honors spared little effort in tipping their hands at Thursday’s hearing (more on that soon), as Judges Breyer and Furgeson subjected plaintiffs’ counsel to focused–nay, withering–questioning as to why the pending actions should not be centralized. They responded in part to Judge Furgeson by claiming that the “major” plaintiffs’ firms are coordinating their discovery efforts, and that common facts “do not predominate.” Oy vey. imPaneled humbly suggests that certain judges should anticipate making room in their dockets for an MDL proceeding. https://impaneled.com/2013/02/04/in-re-groundhog-day-panel-proceeding-part-ii/ The plot deepens The new year has brought imPaneled a respite from those pesky billable matters and an opportunity to update old news. Let’s start with the subject of previous posts, MDL 2406, In re Blue Cross Blue Shield Antitrust Litigation. When we last posted, the Boies Schiller/Hausfeld syndicate had recently filed a case in the M.D. La., where Ball & Scott (one of the “Davids” in this “David and Goliath” saga) had previously filed a case. imPaneled had previously reported that counsel associated with Ball & Scott had filed in the M.D. La., but asked the Panel to centralize proceedings in the E.D. La. imPaneled had not previously reported that Ball & Scott has had (and may continue to have) a wide-ranging and apparently prosperous relationship with Cohen Milstein, the other “Goliath” in this story. Within days after the BSF/Hausfeld filing, the E.D. La. movants suddenly realized the error of their previous submission, and determined that the N.D. Ala.–where Cohen Milstein stands a better chance of landing a lead counsel position–is the superior forum. Meanwhile, a flurry of related actions from other districts were brought into the mix. That may ultimately recast the “David v. Goliath” nature of the lead counsel fight, but for now has resulted only in the development of something of a sideshow. LifeWatch, the plaintiff in a case pending against the Blues in the E.D. Pa., objected to the Blues designating its case as a “related action,” which precipitated additional pre-hearing submissions by the Blues. The Panel somewhat predictably centralized all of the relatively early-filed cases in the N.D. Ala., where there has been no further docket activity directed to the lead counsel issue. The Panel subsequently issued a conditional transfer order sending the LifeWatch case there as well, which LifeWatch has opposed. There is surely more to come on all fronts. imPaneled will be all over it when it does. – Counsel who are in a position to know confirmed imPaneled’s sense that the Panel proceeding was initiated by “David” small plaintiffs’ firms seeking to take a piece of the action from the “Goliath” big firms (as if there were ever any doubt as to imPaneled’s instincts in this context). Posted in Judicial Panel, Lead counsel motions Tagged Ball & Scott, Boies Schiller, Hausfeld LLP, MDL 2406 https://impaneled.com/2013/01/14/the-plot-deepens/ About the blogmaster Bart Cohen is the principal of the Law Office of Bart D. Cohen, where he represents his clients in class actions and other complex litigation, and Winning Briefs, where he polishes, edits and drafts written work product for overextended lawyers. His unnatural appetites for rules and research of all kinds have made him an expert on proceedings before the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation. 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__label__wiki	0.591992	0.591992	Compton kids learn to fly after school By Sonya Hamasaki, CNN Compton, California (CNN) – On a sunny afternoon at Compton Airport, 9-year-old Jose Pineda runs across the tarmac and makes a bee-line for a single-engine Cessna. He's completely at ease –- clearly in his element –- laughing and joking about a special celebration coming up. A birthday. He runs his hand along the side of the plane, and walks underneath the wing, clearing it with one foot of headroom to spare. He swings open the door and climbs into his seat on the left side of the plane - the pilot’s seat. Pineda carefully checks the instruments on the console. He picks up a two-way radio to talk to some "grown-ups" who run air traffic control. His seat belt clicks and he's ready for take-off. That's right, Pineda is a pilot; a "veteran," he tells us. He’s been studying aviation since he was six. Inside the hangar, Pineda's friend, Tasneem Khatib, is also preparing to hit the skies. At 11 years old, she got a bit of a "late" start. And then there’s 16-year-old Keilyn Hubbard, dressed to the nines in a navy blue pilot's suit. Sure, he’s at least old enough to drive. But he's also training for his first SOLO flight. Just who are these kids? They're not child actors filming a movie about kids who fly. Nor are they privileged child prodigies who set aviation records. Jose, Tasneem and Keilyn are part of a unique afterschool program for inner city youth offered by Tomorrow's Aeronautical Museum in Compton, California. Here, hundreds of children - as young as 5 - are learning how to fly. Read the full post on CNN's Schools of Thought blog Posted by Sonya Hamasaki -- CNN Filed under: Age • Black in America • Education • Who we are Latino soldier to fellow troops: 'Take the warrior mask off...get help' Editor's note: Overseas, they fight for freedom. In America, they fight for jobs. “Voters In America: Vets Wanted?” is the first part of CNN In America's documentary series on American voters. J.R. Martinez narrates the documentary re-airing May 19th at 8 p.m. ET on CNN. Los Angeles (CNN) - When Army Master Sergeant Mike Martinez arrived in Saudi Arabia for his first assignment 22 years ago, he knew his experience in the infantry would make him “real tough, tough like nails.” But little did he know back then just how much those words would resonate now, in his new role as a voice for the invisible wounds of war. Martinez, 42, shared his story in the USO’s first Invisible Wounds public service announcement to address post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injuries - the masked wounds encountered by many of the 300,000 troops returning home. He’s on a mission to educate Latino troops, in particular, whom he says are likely to feel a cultural stigma surrounding mental health treatment. “I tell my Hispanic brothers that are still serving, don’t let pride get in the way," Martinez said. "Pride’s going to kill you. Take that warrior mask off and if you need to, get help. Get it in the beginning stages, and not later.” Even veterans seeking help might not be getting a quick response from those who would care for them, according to an report released by the U.S. Office of Veterans Affairs this week. While the number of former service members seeking mental health care increased by 39% from 2005 to 2010, according to the Veterans Health Administration, the agency hasn't been meetings its goals to evaluate them within 24 hours and begin treatment within two weeks. 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__label__cc	0.537607	0.462393	After a storm, microplastics in Sydney’s Cooks River increased 40 fold A litter trap in Cook’s River. James HItchcock, Author provided James Hitchcock, University of Canberra Each year the ocean is inundated with 4.8 to 12.7 million tonnes of plastic washed in from land. A big proportion of this plastic is between 0.001 to 5 millimetres, and called “microplastic”. But what happens during a storm, when lashings of rain funnel even more water from urban land into waterways? To date, no one has studied just how important storm events may be in polluting waterways with microplastics. Microplastic pollution is everywhere, but scientists are still learning how it harms wildlife So to find out, I studied my local waterway in Sydney, the Cooks River estuary. I headed out daily to measure how many microplastics were in the water, before, during, and after a major storm event in October, 2018. The results, published on Wednesday, were startling. Microplastic particles in the river had increased more than 40 fold from the storm. Particles of plastic found in rivers. They may be tiny, but they’re devastating to wildlife in waterways. Author provided To inner west Sydneysiders, the Cooks River is known to be particularly polluted. But it’s largely similar to many urban catchments around the world. If the relationship between storm events and microplastic I found in the Cooks River holds for other urban rivers, then the concentrations of microplastics we’re exposing aquatic animals to is far higher than previously thought. 14 million plastic particles They may be tiny, but microplastics are a major concern for aquatic life and food webs. Animals such as small fish and zooplankton directly consume the particles, and ingesting microplastics has the potential to slow growth, interfere with reproduction, and cause death. Determining exactly how much microplastic enters rivers during storms required the rather unglamorous task of standing in the rain to collect water samples, while watching streams of unwanted debris float by (highlights included a fire extinguisher, a two-piece suit, and a litany of tennis balls). Back in the laboratory, a multi-stage process is used to separate microplastics. This includes floating, filtering, and using strong chemical solutions to dissolve non-plastic items, before identification and counting with specialised microscopes. Litter caught in a trap in Cooks River. These traps aren’t effective at catching microplastic. In the days before the October 2018 storm, there were 0.4 particles of microplastic per litre of water in the Cooks River. That jumped to 17.4 microplastics per litre after the storm. Overall, that number averages to a total of 13.8 million microplastic particles floating around in the Cooks River estuary in the days after the storm. Seafloor currents sweep microplastics into deep-sea hotspots of ocean life In other urban waterways around the world scientists have found similarly high numbers of microplastic. For example in China’s Pearl River, microplastic averages 19.9 particles per litre. In the Mississippi River in the US, microplastic ranges from 28 to 60 particles per litre. Where do microplastics come from? We know runoff during storms is one of the main ways pollutants such as sediments and heavy metals end up in waterways. But not much is known about how microplastic gets there. However think about your street. Wherever you see litter, there are also probably microplastics you cannot see that will eventually work their way into waterways when it rains. Sustainable shopping: how to stop your bathers flooding the oceans with plastic Many other sources of microplastics are less obvious. Car tyres, for example, which typically contain more plastic than rubber, are a major source of microplastics in our waterways. When your tyres lose tread over time, microscopic tyre fragments are left on roads. Did you know your car tyres can be a major source of microplastic pollution? Microplastics may even build up on roads and rooftops from atmospheric deposition. Everyday, lightweight microplastics such as microfibres from synthetic clothing are carried in the wind, settling and accumulating before they’re washed into rivers and streams. What’s more, during storms wastewater systems may overflow, contaminating waterways. Along with sewage, this can include high concentrations of synthetic microfibers from household washing machines. And in regional areas, microplastics may be washing in from agricultural soils. Sewage sludge is often applied to soils as it is rich in nutrients, but the same sludge is also rich in microplastics. There are many ways to mitigate the negative effects of stormwater on waterways. Screens, traps, and booms can be fitted to outlets and rivers and catch large pieces of litter such as bottles and packaging. But how useful these approaches are for microplastics is unknown. Raingardens and retention ponds are used to catch and slow stormwater down, allowing pollutants to drop to bottom rather than being transported into rivers. Artificial wetlands work in similar ways, diverting stormwater to allow natural processes to remove toxins from the water. Almost 14 million plastic particles were floating in Cooks River after a storm two years ago. But while mitigating the effects of stormwater carrying microplastics is important, the only way we’ll truly stop this pollution is to reduce our reliance on plastic. We must develop policies to reduce and regulate how much plastic material is produced and sold. Plastic is ubiquitous, and its production around the world hasn’t slowed, reaching 359 million tonnes each year. Many countries now have or plan to introduce laws regulating the sale or production of some items such as plastic bags, single-use plastics and microbeads in cleaning products. We have no idea how much microplastic is in Australia’s soil (but it could be a lot) In Australia, most state governments have committed to banning plastic bags, but there are still no laws banning the use of microplastics in cleaning or cosmetic products, or single-use plastics. We’ve made a good start, but we’ll need deeper changes to what we produce and consume to stem the tide of microplastics in our waterways. James Hitchcock, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, University of Canberra May 30, 2020 by particularkev Categories: Australia, New South Wales, Plastic Bags & Plastic, Pollution, Sydney, Water Pollution \| Tags: article, Australia, Cooks River, microplastics, New South Wales, NSW, plastic, pollution, rubbish, storm, Sydney, waste, Water Pollution, weather \| Leave a comment ← Australia, you have unfinished business. It’s time to let our ‘fire people’ care for this land Really Australia, it’s not that hard: 10 reasons why renewable energy is the future →	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line939
__label__wiki	0.616533	0.616533	Dons 1-1 Killie Premiership Match 6, Pittodrie, Sept 16th 2017 Goals May 10 Jones 48 MacDonald; O'Donnell, Greer , Findlay, Taylor; Wilson , (Hawkshaw 23). Frizzell, McKenzie , Waters, Jones; (Burke 90+5), Erwin Subs Not Used: Bell; Broadfoot, Thomas, Samizadeh, K.Boyd Killie picked up their first point against the Dons in FOUR years. Derek McInnes held a 100 per cent record against the Rugby Park side but that has finally been brought to an end. Jordan Jones was the Kilmarnock hero as they earned a first point against Aberdeen in four years. The Rugby Park winger netted on 48 minutes to claim a morale-boosting point for Lee McCulloch and his side after Stevie May had fired the Dons ahead in the first half. Lee McCulloch: "The players were unbelievable to a man and they showed what they can do, which is great because we let the travelling fans down at Motherwell last week and that was a big improvement. We were forced into an early change in formation and we started to pass the ball more effectively and we certainly deserved a point by the end of the game. That ends the run of 13 straight defeats against Aberdeen, which has been a long time against a bogey team, but when you see the manager they have, the squad they have and the way they play, you know it's going to be hard. That makes it a massive point for us and hopefully that will be the turning point of the season because the boys have been under a lot of pressure lately and now we can look forward to showing some people we do have good players." All images © Sandy Ferguson and should not be reproduced without his permission	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line940
__label__cc	0.548088	0.451912	Our Corsica Overview By Kipling Clark Corsica, France (population 326,898) Oblivious to many tourists, Corsicans go about their daily lives fully unaware they live in one of the most beautiful and untouched islands in the Mediterranean. In addition to some of the best beaches in the Mediterranean, the contrasts in physical beauty here are impressive: alpine forests in the backdrop of the Alta Rocca Mountain Range (great walking trails crossing deep gorges and glacial lakes reaching 3,840 feet), countless quaint, ageless villages, and charming harbor towns, and a uniquely Corsican culture/food. We are grateful for the small number of high-quality Corsican guides that serve our clients in this endearing land. With its first inhabitants dating back to 3000 BC, Greeks first colonized the island in 540 BC. The Greeks were succeeded by the Romans and subsequent waves of various invaders and raiders that made their mark on Corsica. Following successive harsh rule by several Mediterranean kingdoms, the city-state of Genoa gained undisputed control of Corsica around 1500. In 1768, France acquired Corsica (the year before Napoleon’s birth in Ajaccio) and is officially designated as a Special Constitutional State region of France. Very proud of their heritage, Corsicans refer to France as “Le Continent.” Nationalist sentiment is rooted in a deep, personal love for Corsica and is expressed through the teaching of the Corsican language (Corsu) in schools, or even through FLNC (Front de la Liberation Nationale de la Corse) slogans on public signs and buildings. FLNC was a former military group advocating succession from France and the establishment of the independent state of Corsica. Corsica’s Moors Head The Moors Head has become the emblem of Corsica and can be seen on flags throughout the island. Any locally produced goods, official buildings, Corsican owned boats, properties, and aircraft carry this symbol. All Corsican political parties (whatever the strength of their Nationalist tendencies) also use the emblem. In some specific cases, it may represent a stronger Nationalist/Autonomist leaning, but is generally a simple statement of pride in their country. The symbol dates back to the 13th century when the Aragonese were given rights over Corsica by the Pope after their victory over the Saracens. They portrayed their acquisition by the Moor’s Head. It was, however, forgotten in Corsica during the subsequent Genoese occupation when the Virgin Mary (the patron Saint of Corsica) was used to symbolism Corsica. In the 18th century the German adventurer, Theodor Von Neuhof (who became king of Corsica for 6 months in 1736) chose the forgotten Moor’s Head as the National flag. Twenty years later it was re-established as the official Corsican flag by the great Corsican patriot, Pascal Paoli who insisted that the bandanna was moved from its original position covering the eyes (to the forehead) in order to symbolize the liberation of Corsica. Our Favorite Luxury Hotels and Estates Domaine de Murtoli This is an exclusive, picturesque 4,900-acre private estate and working farm, set on the southern tip of Corsica. The closest towns are Sartene and Figari (location of Figari-Sud Corse Airport). The sixteen 17th century style shepherd cottages have been meticulously restored to rustic luxury villas (sleeping 2-13). All have large, wood-burning fireplaces, timbered ceilings, fully-equipped kitchens, and even wine cellars. Add to that private swimming pools and amazing views, and you have a unique, Corsican luxury getaway. Dining includes two very nice restaurants, including La Plage, a terraced seaside restaurant. Many outdoor activities including hiking, horseback riding, golf, fishing, and a nice, though understated, seaside spa for blissful relaxation. A recent family client very much enjoyed picking their own fruits and vegetables from the estate garden. Please note a 4×4 vehicle is required to access each villa and the estate, based on the rough, dirt roads. La Villa Calvi Set atop a hillside among lush gardens overlooking Calvi harbor, we feel La Villa to be the only real 5-star luxury hotel in Calvi. Most of the property’s 52 rooms/suites offer panoramic views of the striking 15th century built Genoese citadel, harbor, and beaches. All rooms are designed in a minimalist-inspired aesthetic, including whitewashed walls and polished wood floors. Amenities include 5 swimming pools (!), clay tennis courts, a full-service spa, and a fitness center. The hotel’s Michelin Star “La Table by La Villa” restaurant is among the best in Calvi. Our Corsica Villages Snapshot Sant’Antonino The oldest inhabited village in Corsica and considered one of the most beautiful villages in all of France with a history dating back to the 9th century. The village offers 360 views of the surrounding countryside and coast, earning it the nickname ‘Eagle’s Nest’. Sartene Prosper Merimee, the French novelist, once dubbed this village, “the most Corsican of Corsican towns.” Set off from the coast, the Place Porta de la Liberation or town square draws tourists and locals alike, along with the Governor’s Palace and Sainte Marie church with its imposing Corsican belltower. Levie A colorful village made up of reddish-orange roofed stone houses, set high in the Alta Rocca, Levie has a rich history presented within the Museum of Archaeology. Sainte Lucie de Tallano This mountain village with a small, quaint main square and handful of great restaurants is seated high above the Rizzanese Valley. Famous for its olive oil, the Moulin a Huile mill provides a unique tour, showing you how their noteworthy oil is made. Our Favorite Corsica Hikes Vallee du Tavignano (Corte area) Located in Corsica’s deepest gorge, the car-free area of Vallee du Tavignano is only accessible by foot and remains off the beaten path. From Corte, the signposted track leads to the Passerelle de Rossolino footbridge reached after an approx 2.5-hour hike. This is a blissful place for a picnic with plentiful green and natural pools for wading! Les Calanques De Piana (Between Ajaccio and Cali in the Gulf of Porto) This amazingly beautiful area adjoining the sea is made up of strangely-shaped pink and ginger-colored boulders, sculpted cliffs, and awe-inspiring vistas. The rock-riddled 10k (6 mile) hike stretches between Porto and the pretty/quaint Village of Piana (population 500). Many picturesque switchbacks and otherworldly terrain to enjoy! L’Alta Rocca and Les Aiguilles de Bavella Set at an altitude of 1600 m/5250 ft, the jagged red peaks of Aiguilles offer one of Corsica’s most noteworthy landscapes. Various trails leave from Col de Bavella (Bavella Pass – 1218 m/3996 ft) This is a quality hiking area, featuring trails that follow the mountain’s lower slopes, covered with thick, green forest. Alta Rocca Bonaficio Corsica Corsu FLNC France French gulf of porto Luxury luxury travel Mediterranean Moor's Head private tour private travel Scandola touring travel villages Our Corsica Overview2016-08-032020-06-01http://kiplingandclark.com/wp-content/uploads/kclogo.pngKipling & Clarkhttps://kiplingandclark.com/wp-content/uploads/la-ballagne-7.jpg200px200px	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line943
__label__cc	0.576756	0.423244	Moorland Work and Play Bolton Life Manchester Life West Pennine Moors Edgelandia Live from Worktown A bit about me . . . Sandstone, Scaling and Shooting If you follow me on Instagram, you’ll know I have a particular fondness for the bleak, bleached beauty of the West Pennine Moors that I that I live close to. I’m no stranger to solo walking, and now we’re in lockdown, it’s these moors that I head out to, on foot from my front door, navigating a network of ginnels and alleyways through the suburban edges of north Bolton to start my treks along quiet paths across the Rivington “massif”. Maybe, at a first glance, the moors don’t look to offer much in terms of interest, but if you start looking a bit more closely, evidence of how the moors have played an important part in life will become more apparent, even since prehistoric times and through to the industrial revolution. When I’m treading familiar paths and getting into that rhythm and pace where you can just let your mind wander, I often mull over how history has changed the way we use the moors and how we’ve adapted them to fit our lives today. Access to Wilton 1 quarry from the Belmont Road One area that I’ve just discovered (as it’s pretty much hidden from view from nearby roads), is Wilton Quarry. It comprises four separate quarries covering a huge area immediately to the west of the Belmont Road and stretching over to Smithills Moor. As it’s classed as open access land, this gives the start of my walk up to Winter Hill some spectacularly dramatic man-made views of steep, sheer cliffs with almost geometrically perfect straight and sharp angles. Quarried rock face The quarry has a fascinating history. A local entrepreneur, John Horrocks, founded the quarry in the 1700s, providing stone for buildings, roads and even for use in the cotton printing industry. His son, born in 1768 and also called John, followed his father’s business-savvy example, starting cotton production from a building in a corner of the quarry, before moving his growing enterprise to successively larger premises in Preston and, through his influence in business, becoming MP for the town. As I wander through Wilton 1, I can’t stop myself from imagining the arduous working conditions faced by the quarry men with this highly manual job carrying significant risk of serious injury. But I guess that level of job-related danger was regrettably typical of the employment for everyday folk in this and many other industries at the time. Round Barn Quarry “The trouble with fossils” said Sam, “Is that they just look like rocks”. The past and present fused In this disused quarry, high above the reservoir. Towering faces Weathered slow by nature, Ripped apart for civic progress Now lie neatly stacked, like toy blocks. Those steam hammer generals With their masonic secrets Knew their geology well enough To keep the cities proud and solid. Now swallows wheel above The heather rich in honey bee, And all is silent, save the subliminal morse Of fossils singing from within the stone. Dave Morgan, Published ‘Earth Love’ November 2006 Wilton 1 BMC Memorial Wall With an almost uncanny coincidence, the quarry is used nowadays for a sport also not unknown for its accepted danger and risks as, partly due to the unique quarrying methods employed by the Horrockses, it’s ideal for rock climbing. Wilton 1 was bought by the British Mountaineering Council (BMC) in 2009 and boasts nearly 500 climbing routes in total across all of the quarries, some with precipitous sounding names such as The Prow and Shivers Arete. Even before becoming aware of its name, I was fascinated by The Prow. It’s a pretty magnificent and imposing sliver of quarried rock that stands 60 feet high, and as far as I can see from internet searches, there doesn’t seem to be a reason why it was left there in quite that way, but it is certainly one of the most impressive features in any of the quarries. The Prow in close-up The Prow in Wilton 1 There are paths all along the tops of the cliffs, which, as you’d expect, are clearly marked with warnings of the eye-wateringly sheer drops, but sticking to the paths you avoid putting yourself in danger and, provided you’ve a reasonable head for heights, you can get some fantastic views down into the quarries. The BMC co-habits the quarries with both the Bolton Rifle and Pistol Club and also the Bolton Gun Club, and while you may or may not be into that sort of thing (actually, I’m not), there is nevertheless a pleasing ordered aesthetic that these clubs bring to Wilton 3 especailly, with its neatly marked-out firing ranges. These ranges have been continually developed since 1912, when the quarries were first used by the military for training purposes. In contrast, some of the other quarries look as though they are still under construction, although I’m pretty sure they’re still used and enjoyed by climbers and shooters alike. What I like about all the quarries though, is the way these new activities still let nature take its course and mostly don’t look too manicured. So, unobtrusively and somewhat secretly sitting at the edge of the moor and serving today’s leisure and sporting pastimes, it’s good to see how the imprint of a former industry lives on and continues to serve a purpose in today’s world. I’m pleased the lockdown forced me into finding walking routes from home as I’ll certainly continue to use the paths through and around the quarries to head up to the moors – on the days that the gun clubs aren’t using them, of course! Edgelandia - Emily OldfieldMay 1, 2020 36 Shots - Winter Hill May 1, 2020 Dave Morgan says: So important in the building of the North West’s towns Julia yet so hidden. Well done in bringing it all to a wider audience. That’s so true Dave, and from what I’ve read, its provided high quality crafted stone for some important buldings too. I think your wonderful poem works so well, so thank you again for that! Excellent blog Julia… steeped in history so may things I’ve learnt; thank you for providing valuable information in such an eloquent way. I’ve spent countless hours of aimless wandering across this region and after this I’ve realised there is so much more to explore and learn. Best wishes Mustafa Thanks so much for your kind words Mustafa. I agree, this area is so rich in history and interest, there’s always something new to discover! Roger Grimshaw says: Great to see a non climbers take on these quarries. I was introduced to them as a teenager many years ago and just as there is no bad wine in youth, there is no bad climbing. I learned the climbing trade there and though I have not been back in many a year I still retain an affection for the place. Thank you – I’m glad you enjoyed the read. I love the quarries, they’re so striking and impactful from a photographic perspective. I’ve been told this area was where climbing started in the UK, so it feels as though I’m walking through something quite historic whenever I head up through the quarries on my way to the masts on Winter Hill. I definitely get the impression these quarries are regarded affectionally by many people! Juttley	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line950
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__label__cc	0.736286	0.263714	The Streets of Lichfield Posted on April 28, 2012 by ladyethelfledasgirdle It’s quite well known that Bishop Roger de Clinton laid out the main streets of Lichfield in a grid pattern, still in evidence over 800 years later. Lichfield 2011-ish What about those in between though? An email from Pat and a chance conversation about a book ‘A Walk Around the Snickelways of York’ by Mark W Jones (1) got me thinking about the alleys, the passageways, the shortcuts and the entries, winding themselves around buildings and connecting one Lichfield street with another. Pat’s email asked if I knew anything about The Tanneries, running from Tamworth St, along the left handside of what was the old Kwiksave building, (and the Regal Cinema before that) to Cross Keys carpark. The Tanneries The Tanneries is blocked off at present I don’t, but I’m interested how long this pathway and the others around the city have been around for. Some are documented better than others. Friar’s Alley running alongside the edge of the site of the old Friary and onto Bird St appears as Friers Lane on John Speed’s 1610 map (no 29). 1610 map of Lichfield Later it shows up on John Snape’s map as Friers Alley in 1781. On later maps, the narrow part leading to (or from depending which way you are going!) Bird St was known as Moss’s Entry. Moss's Entry/Friars Alley onto Bird St One of my favourites is the old carriageway leading to the courtyard of the George Hotel. It takes you past doors and bricked up windows, but it’s the floor with its Rowley Ragstone Setts (2) that I really like, as this small side passage gives an idea how Lichfield’s main streets would have been paved in the late 18th century. George Hotel from Market St I’ve taken some photos of others I came across. Most are found in the city centre though I’m sure there are loads more to be found throughout Lichfield. Of course, if anyone wants to share one they know of, or has any more information about any of the above or below, that’d be fantastic! Bolt Court - a really busy little street Inside Bolt Court Alongside butcher shop on Market St From Market St... The Close to Erasmus Darwin House Lloyds Walk Tudor Row out onto Bore St You see buildings differently walking these paths, maybe I’ll explore the backside of Lichfield a little more…… (1)Snickelway is a great word created by Mark W Jones. It’s a portmanteau (which is in itself a great word!) of Snicket, Ginnel and Alleyway and Mr Jones explains, ‘A Snickelway is a narrow place to walk along, leading from somewhere to somewhere else, usually in a town or city, especially in the city of York’. (2) Information taken from Staffordshire Pastrack website. Map information from: ‘Lichfield: The place and street names, population and boundaries ‘, A History of the County of Stafford: Volume 14: Lichfield (1990), pp. 37-42. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42340 This entry was posted in architecture, bricks, butcher, Friary, George Hotel, Lichfield, maps, market st, shops, Streets, The Close and tagged alleys, entry, Friar's Alley, Lichfield, maps, Moss's Entry. Tamworth St, passages, streets, The George Hotel by ladyethelfledasgirdle. Bookmark the permalink. 19 thoughts on “The Streets of Lichfield” Mike Berry on April 29, 2012 at 11:42 am said: Great article and very informative about the city I love. Kate on April 30, 2012 at 9:50 am said: Thanks Mike 🙂 Lucy Corrander on April 29, 2012 at 7:44 pm said: ‘Snickelway’ is a fantastic word. (Agree about portmanteau too.) Are there may ‘snickelways’ in your part of the world Lucy? Ian on April 29, 2012 at 8:41 pm said: Smashing article, thank you! Cheers Ian Born a Lichfeldian on April 30, 2012 at 4:38 am said: Kate, you may want to look into the alley ways that were around where the precint was built in the late 1960’s and probably still is today. There were a few little alley ways around this area too. Great article well done. I will! Thank you very much 🙂 Diane McIlmoyle on May 2, 2012 at 12:14 pm said: I know York’s ginnels well, but had no idea that Lichfield was another ginnel-y place. I’ve always assumed it was a sign of medieval development. Excellent pictures, as ever 🙂 Kate on May 7, 2012 at 10:17 am said: Thanks Diane. Some of them are clearly recent but I’d be interested to know just how old some of them are. Ian on May 2, 2012 at 8:51 pm said: I learned today that The Tanneries is not an adopted public right of way – yet! Pat on May 3, 2012 at 7:18 am said: Looking on a map from the early 1960s when the cinema was open there seems to be a passage way also the signage saying “Leads to Tamworth street” implies it is open to the public ,When it closed the notice on the gate stated closed due to demolition and building work. Thanks for the comments. When I get a moment I’m going to have a look at the old maps, as I’d like to know how far back these old passages go back i.e. contemporary with the buildings or earlier? Lorna Bushell on May 8, 2012 at 4:47 pm said: The Civic society is hoping to have the Tanneries as a PROW. But Country Style is losing custom because of the barriers, put up by Baxter and Shipley,Tamworth for their development of the old Matthews Print site, behind the shop. The hotel is not going ahead any day soon, but B and S are not going to take them down,as they say the Tanneries are not their property, but the the owners of the Kwik Save site!!Write to the Mercury if you want to help get it opened. The Chamber of Trade and Commerce are being involved and the Mercury have been told and may run a feature, with a view to starting a campaign. Watch this space!! Kate on May 10, 2012 at 8:13 am said: Thanks for the comment. I spoke to one of the archaeologists yesterday, and he said they were going to have a look below this victorian level to see if anything earlier remained. According to him, the obvious remains are thought to be either a victorian house or shop at present. Dave Gallagher, over on the Facebook group said they’ve found some pottery. There’s clearly been activity in this are for a long, long time, I guess it’s just whether any of it have managed to survive having houses and carparks built on top of it!! Let’s hope it has!! Pingback: Ferry Cross the Minster \| Lichfield Lore Clive on July 22, 2014 at 7:46 pm said: Hi Kate. I have been intrested in Lichfield ever since i went on a school trip to this lovely city back in the 60s. Many years later i was researching my family tree, only to find out the Chapman side of my tree lived in Frog Lane back in the 1800s, funny how thing work sometimes! Great blog Kate always enjoy reading it. Vick Haviland on March 5, 2015 at 2:21 pm said: Castle Dyke in front of the Garrick – there is a suggestion that this name arose because there used to be a castle on the site of the Garrick and shopping precinct. When foundations for the precinct were being dug in the early 60’s there was a lot of rubble unearthed of the type that one would expect from a castle. Also, there’s an old woodcut in existance showing Lichfield from a distance and there are more towers/spires than can be accounted for by the churches – the suggestion being that the extra belonged to a castle. Vick (former Lichfield resident and still fond of the place). Kate Gomez on March 8, 2015 at 9:02 pm said: That’s interesting. I think most people think the castle related to the fortifications around Cathedral. But there are some quirks that don’t seem to fit in with this, as you’ve mentioned. Maybe one day we’ll find some more evidence!	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line956
__label__wiki	0.549208	0.549208	Horrid Murders and Hidden Meanings On June 5, 2014 June 9, 2014 By paddyxavier The last dying speech, and confession of Elizabeth Miller, 1826. Courtesy of the Bodleian Library’s John Johnson Collection. There are many undoubtedly shocking details in this report of a truly ‘horrid-murder,’ but perhaps the most shocking of all is that it never happened. To be more precise, it did happen, but not in Durham, was not committed by Elizabeth Miller and was not inflicted on John Miller. I came across this broadside (traditionally a single sheet that carried public notices, news, speeches and songs or in the case of my study – execution reports) while searching the Bodleian library’s collection of ephemera. It threw me, because after the best part of a month cataloging every execution in my period and any press reports of the events I can find, I couldn’t believe there was one I had missed. I spent about 5 minutes in a cold sweat thinking about how many more I could’ve missed and started to doubt my ability to do GCSE level history research, let alone PhD (luckily my neuroses soon subsided). In a bid to prove I could do decent independent research I went on a three hour diversion to track down how this could’ve arisen and what I found was really interesting. On Saturday the 27th October, 1821, 5 years prior to the printing of this broadside, a woman was hung in the City of Lincoln for the murder of her stepson. Her name was Elizabeth Warriner and her step son was a Mr J. Warriner. Shortly after there was a broadside printed of her Last Dying Words, Speech and Confession (a document that bares a remarkable likeness to that of Elizabeth Millers). Broadside regarding the last dying words of Elizabeth Warriner courtesy of http://www.digital.nls.uk What is so remarkable is how little of the details were changed. Even the sentencing Judge’s name remains the same in the two reports, which shows how little effort went in to creating this new version. There are many interesting questions that arise from this copy. The most important for myself being how reliable are these sources. The broadsides themselves were undoubtedly a cheap, affordable medium targeted at a much wider public than traditional print media. They could be turned round very quickly and disseminated for a good profit, often running to many sheets per murder (covering anything from the trial itself to the last dying words of the executed person). What is most interesting about Elizabeth Warriner’s Last Dying Words, is that the copy that has survived was printed in Glasgow, despite the execution being in Lincoln. This goes a little way to indicating how voracious the appetite often was for criminal and salacious literature of this type. The audience for it spread far and wide. Michel Foucault in his seminal study of punishment and the birth of the prison, takes the proliferation of reported and printed ‘gallows speeches’ with a hefty pinch of salt. While he accepts that ‘in a number of cases, certainly’ the speeches were delivered as reported, he states that he has ‘no doubt’ that it was ‘more often the case’ that they were a fiction.¹ From my early research I have been using newspaper reports to cross reference the last dying speeches I have found and for the most part they tend to corroborate each other, while providing a different style and tone of reporting, but this incident has been a very good lesson in one of the basic tenets of good historical study – interrogate your sources. So, having felt like a good bit of research has been done, I should smugly sign off this post, but when I re looked at the original Bodleian source, I searched further down the page and saw they had provided a connecting link to Elizabeth Warriner’s broadside already. Oh well, for a brief moment I was a good researcher. At least I have 35 months left to improve. 1). Foucault, Michel., Discipline and Punish, Vintage Books 1977, p.67 Special Thanks: In my first month, I have met with several fascinating people already. This week I had the pleasure of going to Sunderland Antiquarian Society after I stumbled upon an article about them, linking to an execution I was investigating. Set in a beautiful old building on Douro Terrace, just behind the fantastic Mowbray Park, the two hours I spent there was immensely useful. All the volunteers and attendees were fantastic. and immensely friendly and willing to help with my inquiry and quick to offer other suggested avenues of interest. Special thanks must go to Norman Kirtlan, Phil Curtis, Doug Smith and Ms L.King (I will sign up I promise). Distraction 1: I heard a tune, chosen by Biddy Baxter (of former Blue Peter fame) on Desert Island Discs and I couldn’t place where I knew it from. The tune was Quasi Lento e Cantabile from Carol Symphony performed by the Pro Arte Orchestra. It suddenly clicked where I knew it from and it sent me off on a trip down memory lane. A variation of it was used as the opening title music for the classic Box of Delights series on BBC. An amazing series that, in a nice coincidence, started the year I was born. Here’s the opening music for anyone who was similarly spellbound by the series. I’m off to go flying with Cole Hawlings. Distraction 2: There is a fantastic documentary about musician Bill Withers on the BBC iplayer. A really remarkable character and a very simply and brilliantly executed piece of storytelling. If it interests you, there is a related Bill Withers in concert piece on BBC Four which is well worth a watch too. broadsidefalse reportsfoucaulthorrid murder Privacy, Punishment and the Press Supervisors, Secret Executions and Ziggurats One thought on “Horrid Murders and Hidden Meanings” Pingback: Supervisors, Secret Executions and Ziggurats \| lastdyingwords	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line962
__label__cc	0.561736	0.438264	Archives For Social Media Marketing What I learned from Kara Breadmore (Founder at Ka’llure Jewellery) and Mini Latif (Founder at Ottoman3) Camille Monce — July 31, 2020 — Leave a comment “Making business decisions might be scary, but it is empowering to know that when I make those choices, I stand by me and I back myself.” — Kara Breadmore “Everything starts at the top. If you are not looking after you, as number 1, then you will never be able to operate a business the best that you possibly can. I make a conscious effort now to always make time for myself every day. I don’t nail it every day, but I am so much better now than I used to be. Going for a walk and taking 15 minutes to myself is an investment back in my business.” — Kara Breadmore “Do more. I’m not slowing down; I’m quadrupling everything we are doing.” — Mini Latif “There is nothing more powerful than being a single woman without a kid. You are the most powerful person in the room because that is someone who has a lot of energy.” — Mini Latif “We have invested tens of thousands of dollars in social media and we’re dumbfounded by it. We decided not to be distracted by it.” — Mini Latif “Social media is not what made the brand last the last 10 years. Our social media is there, we work on it, but we try not to be distracted by it.” — Mini Latif “We are so lucky to live in a country where as woman we have a choice where we can wake up and say, “I want to start a business today,” and, “I want to own a business today.” That choice, that freedom, to make that decision is so incredibly powerful and we are so lucky.” — Kara Breadmore “For me “making it” is freedom. The freedom in my future to know that I can go left or I can go right and there is nothing stopping me and that there are no blocks. It’s financial in a sense, I’ve got enough money, if I decide to go to Zimbabwe tomorrow, I’m going. No one can tell me otherwise. The reality is you do lose your freedom to a huge extent when you become an entrepreneur but you also gain freedom in other aspects.” — Mini Latif Mini Latif is the Founder of Ottoman3. In this podcast, she reveals that as a 7‑year-old she thought everybody grew up to run a business. At that age, she also came up with the original concept for Ottoman3. Kara Breadmore is the Founder of Ka’llure Jewellery. It was Jewellery that found Kara and became her passion. Kara explains how her business is not about making shiny things, but telling the stories of her clients. In Empowerment, Self-Care, Social Media Marketing, Success, What I Learned From.., Women in Business What I learned from Nathan Chan (Founder at Foundr) and Stephen Esketzis (Marketing Funnel Mastermind and Founder at Digital Marketers Australia) “Make that investment in yourself. The more you level up and invest in your knowledge and mindset, the faster you can grow your company. The growth of your company is a reflection of you as a founder; of how much you know and of how much you’re learning.” — Nathan Chan “Be consistent with your content [in one channel]. Then move on to the next [channel]. One at a time. Be relentless on mastering one channel [at a time].” — Nathan Chan “Data comes first. When looking at your data, numbers don’t lie. Test based on your gut instinct but data at the end of the day is critical.” — Stephen Esketzis “Digital marketing comes down to 3 things: (1) Having the right offer. It’s got to be a high converting offer that resonates with your audience. Make it an irresistible offer; (2) Target customers. Be crystal clear on are your target customers are and how you will be reaching them. Because if you have the best offer but the wrong target market, they will not respond; and (3) The messaging of your copy. If you have the right offer and the right target customer but your copy misses, then they will not take action. It will be a dead campaign.” — Stephen Esketzis “Your network is your net-worth. If everything went to shit and you lose your business, your network is what will to stay with you. Having a strong reputation and nailing the relationships game is more powerful than anything else. Marketing platforms will change. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram might be gone tomorrow; this stuff comes and goes like the wind. The network is what’s going to stay.” — Stephen Esketzis “At the start of every year, I say to myself, “I am going to have a good stab at these goals. I’m gonna give it a good, hard crack for the next 12 months and see what happens.” — Nathan Chan “I remind myself, “I could be this close but if I give up now, that’s it. It is definitely over.” Keep mentally reminding yourself. You could be one campaign away in making something work. Same with business. You could be one opportunity away, or one person away, in turning your business around.” — Stephen Esketzis Nathan Chan is the Founder of Foundr, the magazine that profiles entrepreneurs. Nathan started Foundr at the top by interviewing Sir Richard Branson — he then gave away that copy of the magazine to supercharge the Foundr brand. Since then he’s interviewed Arianna Huffington, Mark Cuban, Seth Godin, Tim Ferriss and he shares their insights and his own in this brand building masterclass. Stephen Esketzis is the marketing funnel mastermind and Founder of Digital Marketers Australia. He launched his first business straight out of high school with the Meggle App which hooked people up with their nearest bar or nightclub. Building a 10,000 strong network for the app took Stephen deep into the world of digital marketing. Today he builds marketing funnels for businesses of all shapes and sizes. In Goal Setting, Learning, Metrics, Network, Resilience, Social Media Marketing, What I Learned From.. Building a powerhouse brand There comes a moment in every startup when the brand develops its own personality and characteristics, separate from those of the founder. The next challenge is to build it into a powerhouse brand. In this podcast you’ll hear from a brand builder and a brand whisperer. In Branding, Online Marketing, Podcast Episodes, Social Media Marketing Nathan Chan & Stephen Esketzis: Building a powerhouse brand Q&A In Branding, Online Marketing, Show Episodes, Social Media Marketing Nathan Chan (Founder at Foundr): Building a powerhouse brand	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line969
__label__cc	0.677047	0.322953	Bizarre, Criminal law, Society July 14, 2009 July 14, 2009 The Dangers of Hitchhiking: Bank Robber Hitches Ride With Undercover Officer Everyone is told about the dangers of hitchhiking: you simply do not know who the driver might be. The lesson was learned by Mark E. White, 50, who decided to rob a bank just three weeks after being paroled from prison. He then flagged down a car for a ride — driven by a cop. White reportedly robbed a bank while threatening to detonate a bomb. He was only two blocks away in Saginaw when he decided to hitch a ride. He had just served a sentence for drunk driving and has a prior bank robbery conviction. He is now charged with bank robbery, making a false bomb threat, attempted carjacking, assault with intent to commit a felony, assault and resisting arrest. For the story, click here. Seventh Circuit Suggests “Wisconsin Rule” Exempting Graduates From Bar May Be Unconstitutional Loaded in Arizona: New Law Allows Guns in Bars 11 thoughts on “The Dangers of Hitchhiking: Bank Robber Hitches Ride With Undercover Officer” mplo says: Regarding hitchhiking–by the time the mid to late 1960’s rolled around, the situation had already started to get bad. It got worse in the 1970’s, especially because there were a number of young women who disappeared and never seen again, here in the Boston area, and their bodies turned up in a number of weird places. Boston was in the national spotlight for a number of weeks, at least in part because of all those young women who were killed while hitchhiking, and there were a couple of young guys who hitched a ride home with a couple of white toughs from South Boston, MA not long after that, and were murdered. I would not hitchhike nowadays (I haven’t for years), although I did occasionally hitchhike in the early to mid 1970’s. Somewhat weird experiences, plus hearing about the news of all those young women whose bodies were dumped along the roadside after hitchhiking permanently determined. There are lots of crazy mofos out there, and, while they’re not in the majority, one never knows if or s/he may come across one. I also might add, that, regarding meeting strangers, it’s one thing if you meet someone at a dance, a party, or even a bar or nightclub. There’s always the opportunity to duck out quickly if the situation starts to get dicey. However, when one gets into a car with a total stranger, whether its as a hitchhiker, or who picks up a hitchhiker, they’re putting themselves totally at the mercy of a strange person, and s/he has little or no control over what may happen, if one gets the drift. chael777 says: Ha, I guess not all folks are made for hitchhiking. Pingback: Hitchhiking dangers \| Afeservicesint Imo, anybody who either gets into a car with a total stranger, or picks up a total stranger, no matter where it is, or what time of day or night, etc., is definitely playing Russian Roulette! That’s one big reason why most people no longer hitchhike or pick up hitchhikers. Ya know some people just have a bad day all the time. Now he has time on his side, yes he does. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjiaHB-zdVU “Gimme a Ride To Heaven Boy” by (the great!) Terry Allen Well I was caught up with myself On the highway at night Drivin like a bat outta hell When I beheld an amazing sight It was a lonely apparition By the roadside standing there With his thumb out in the wilderness And a halo in his hair He said “Gimme a ride to heaven boy I’ll Show you paradise Yeah gimme a ride to heaven boy My name is Jesus Christ” So I come screeching to a halt I said “Hop on in” He sais “thanks a lot for the lift I forgive you of your sins Yeah I just come from Jerusalem Where things are going bad Ahhh gimme a ride to heaven boy I need to talk to my dad” Well I didn’t know what to do So I jammed her down in gear Kind a kicked my feet beneath the seat I was trying to hide the beer Ahhh but he just grinned and said “My friend, I know you must think it’s odd But you got nothin to fear about drinkin a beer If you share it with the son of God” Well I saw good news in his baby blues So I stomped it on the floor I said you have to show me how to get there I ain’t been before “Well it’s a hard place to find” he said “But I’ll give you a little clue It ain’t somewhere up in the air Its sittin right here inside with you” Then right in the middle of that perfect smile From his robes he pulled a gun An stuck it up beside my head and said “How’s this for Kingdom Come?” Well I pulled off scared but I heard him say As he left me beneath the stars “The Lord moves in mysterious ways and tonight, my son … He’s gonna use your car” Chorus repeats (www.cowboylyrics.com) Queen of Sheba says: It’s not just the police, the prosecutors, judges, prison guards, et al with a “revenge” and “punishment” mindset. A large majority of the public thinks prisoners don’t deserve rehabilitation since they’re criminals. Very shortsighted, but this country is shortsighted about many things. Pingback: Links of the Day ~7/14/09~ « The Giant Fucking Robot I wish more attention was paid to the fact that the American penal system has almost 0 (zero) reformative value. That’s because the legal system views (and treats) those accused of, and convicted of, crimes as scum. From the police who arrest them, to the guards at the jails and prisons where they’re housed, to the prosecutors and judges who try them, they are viewed as less than human and deserving of “punishment” for being “bad.” The problem is, when you view your fellow man in this light, with little or no redeeming qualities, deserving punishment (often severe), it is nearly impossible to foster a culture of rehabilitation within our penal system and, thus, effect any real change in our society. If the focus were taken off of penalizing people (and if we didn’t quite enjoy seeing others punished as much as we do), and the emphasis was put on rehabilitation, then I think you would see big changes. There has to be hope (read – a positive spark)in the sentencing of convicted criminals, whereby the judge’s comments are focused on betterment instead of punishment. A sentencing hearing — talk about a “framing” speech. What if we framed the whole thing differently? I’m not saying you don’t get 10 years (or whatever the sentence is) for your crime, you do. I’m just saying, why not let THAT be the punishment, and use the intent of the state – in words, actions and deeds – to rehabilitate? MASkeptic says:	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line978
__label__cc	0.667431	0.332569	Foreclosure Defense Forms Livinglies's Weblog Please Donate to Support Neil Garfield’s Efforts to stop Foreclosure Fraud. 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The state of our economy is bad and our prospects are getting worse no matter what anyone tells you. Take a look at Japan for a sneak preview of where we could end up if you think this election isn’t important enough for you to cast your vote. So consider it a life priority for you, your family and generations to come that you get out there and vote no matter what your political ideology might be. The jobs prospects couldn’t look worse than right now because we have an ever widening gap between the shrinking number of high income people and then the rest of the people whose income is shrinking before their eyes. At the end of each month, the vast majority of American families are in worse shape than they were the month before, whether they are working or not. The easy answer is to blame Obama or Bush or Democrats or the Republicans and then just vote the other way. That isn’t going to change anything. If you are going to vote then force a change. Here are some of my guidelines in how I am voting in November: FACTS: Any candidates who does not know the facts or who refuses to answer factual questions that are relevant should not get a vote from anyone and certainly won’t get mine. BANKS AND FORECLOSURES: Anyone who refers to borrowers that bought homes they couldn’t afford does not get my vote. That isn’t what happened. When the Democrats controlled congress they lacked the courage to actually do anything that would correct the systemic societal and economic problems in our economy. When the Republicans were in control they had courage, but they used it to promote the interests of individuals and companies whose outsourcing of jobs and massive manipulation of money in our country hastened our own demise. So an automatic vote for a candidate based upon party affiliation is probably a vote for status quo. I won’t do it. When a candidate is backed by anonymous donations, you can bet they are anonymous because the agenda is horrendous. A little research on any candidates or action groups that are backed by anonymous donors will help you to avoid horrendous agendas and add-ons to bills that nobody reads and everyone votes on in congress. I won’t vote for these candidates. The Tea Party concept is good but it contains a defect that should make anyone wary. The good part is that they want to throw the bums out and they want to change the spending habits in Washington or so they say. The bad thing is that they backed by anonymous donors or when confronted with their massive support of the Tea Party deny it as well as the “leaders” of the Tea Party. That’s a lie and I don’t like it. But that said, there are a number of candidates that deserve closer scrutiny despite their association with the Tea Party. The biggest problem is that nearly all candidates who identity themselves with the Tea Party are in fact registered Republicans. So to me that looks like a stalking horse for Republicans. They capture the anger of voters and then send people to congress who will caucus exclusively with the Republicans. For me the tipping point is I like that the Tea Party exists but I wouldn’t vote for anyone just because they Say they are associated. I know, so far it seems like there is no reason to vote and no candidates to vote for. Incumbency: Somebody who is already in office has already failed us, for the most part. So I’m voting for people who are long shots, because those are the people NOT getting big money from the groups of big business anonymous interests. In some cases that could mean voting for an incumbent like Blanche Lincoln, whose politics I mostly disagree with, but her party and the Washington establishment don’t like her. That makes me like her but I can’t vote in Arkansas. Women: Just because a candidate is a woman doesn’t mean she won’t vote like a man, so they is no automatic button here. But that said, since women are in the majority of those graduating with degrees in higher education, it is inevitable that they will evolve into he controlling force in American politics. I figure it will take a while before the women get as corrupt as the male dominated government we have had since the revolution. So I’m voting for the female candidate if she is palatable or tolerable. Age: This is a tricky one. By and large the white haired people have a very closed agenda, but they have their good and bad points. The younger candidates are not saddled with many of the biases and prejudices the older people have on race, religion and politics, but they are more susceptible to some “mentor” or who will bankroll their ambitions. On balance I think the tipping point is with the younger ones but I am being careful about that. Race: I don’t have any problem with this. I think racial bias has deprived us of what could have been the finest minds and contributions of the century in the last 100 years and is a continuing impediment to the growth and innovation in our country. Besides we now have more minority babies being born that white babies anyway so, like the women, the outcome is already predetermined. Voting against it is like voting against water when it’s raining. That said, the deprivation of education in minority districts has produced some very poorly educated candidates. So just because they are black or Latino doesn’t mean that we owe them a vote. But experience tells me that racial minorities are more likely to address income inequality than the usual white candidate. So unless they are spouting the white agenda of big business and continuing taxpayer subsidies for big business, they MIGHT be someone to watch. Ideology: Anyone who clings to an ideology as a substitute for rational thought should be banned from public office. They are dangerous, two-faced, and will lie about anything in order to pander to people who are too lazy to think and just want an easy pick. Humor: Any candidate with a good sense of humor has an inquiring mind and a way of looking at the world from different angles. I like these people and especially when their humor is self-deprecating — showing they don’t take themselves too seriously. So in the rare instances when I see good humor, I’ll vote for them even if I disagree with with them on some issues. Filed under: foreclosure \| « Avoid Foreclosure Market Until the Dust Settles Loans Actually Allocated to Many Mortgage Bonds » Sipinfall, on October 18, 2010 at 1:31 pm said: Mostly good points regardless of Affiliation. CEA, on October 18, 2010 at 9:06 am said: Can someone please publish a list of those who voted for TARP? Mara, on October 18, 2010 at 8:17 am said: Neil, I am an independent and I couldn’t agree more with your point # 3. I was disgusted that the Notarization Act passed through the US House of Congress in April and with NO RECORD of the votes… and then just after this whole fiasco with foreclosure really went viral in September in the nation’s media, the Senate voted in late September in favor of this act again WITHOUT RECORD. That’s enough to tell me, it doesn’t matter, Republican or Democrat, politicians are doing what they need to do to look out for number 1–themselves. DO NOT VOTE on party lines… it is harder, it takes research but vote for the candidate, that is the only way. The American people are being left out… I was relieved the president vetoed the bill but angered when I saw the blatant NO RECORD next to votes in both houses… it is sad when I am grateful just to be back on fair ground. Deb wynn, on October 18, 2010 at 5:40 am said: Excellent stuff Neil. We know we are screwed for a long time qe2 is a dead certainty Zoe, on October 17, 2010 at 11:30 pm said: That was my point, Collene. We have no idea just what and how much they can get as career politicians. Has to be much more than we know about or they wouldn’t spend millions out of their own pocket to get the job. frankielee, on October 17, 2010 at 6:57 pm said: Fight organized crime. Re-elect no one. JOSE, on October 17, 2010 at 3:21 pm said: At least you guys can say something about your senators and congress people. every time we raise the issue of foreclosures, the Virginia and MD people running for election look at you as if you have some highly infectious incurable disease. I have tried to get them to talk about but they dodge the ball, they are really good at that. So sad, the land of the free? zurenarrh, on October 17, 2010 at 1:41 pm said: My rule is no incumbents and no Dems or Reps. Kenneth, on October 17, 2010 at 1:24 pm said: Any candidate, that supports the Federal Reserve counterfeit money-creation system, which resulted in the counterfeit mortgages, needs to go. Ask them if they do! We cannot live free in a society that permits politicians to counterfeit and spend money, then make the rest of us make those ‘notes good’ with the endless taxes and interest on this phony debt. ‘None of the above’ on every ballot would have saved us many lesser of evils during the history of this falling country… …. and quit believing these people have the right to make any law they want to control your life. They constitutionally do not have this power. We mentally give into this obedience fraud year after year, taught by the phony media and the government ‘schools’. 95% of all laws today are special interest; and the country doesn’t work anymore, from the favoritism and moral hazards, which comes from trying to ‘obey them, which favors arbitrary government-picked ‘winners’ and ‘losers’. Banish the Federal Reserve fake money system. Let 95% of all the so-called ‘laws’ sunset. We can do this by voting out almost all incumbents – that means voting for independents and libertarians – whether they can ‘win’ or not. We need to be a 5+ party nation. We will never get there by voting for more of the same. “Throwing away your vote’ fears perpetually came from the two incumbent parties, the Reps & Dems, to stay permanently in power. It’s probably time to just start over. Freedom for individuals in the bill of rights works. Counterfeit money and the corporations it supports, does not. Vote Independent! Vote Freedom. Live Freedom. Bart, on October 17, 2010 at 12:35 pm said: I would like to look at Libertarians but thus far the vote is considered a “throw away” To bad maybe it’s time for real change. Neva, on October 17, 2010 at 12:34 pm said: The big question here is: are there any candidates to vote for? This election cycle is one of the most troubling I have ever seen. Candidates who want to repeal civil rights laws. How can someone even stand up and say that? Candidates that are trying to put women back to the stone age. Candidates that are sending pornographic E-mails to (lots of) people. Candidates that are receiving aid from the government who want to get rid of Social Security? Right now, 58 million people (or there abouts) receive some kind of assistance from Social Security. Wars w/o evidence of WMD’s–when did it happen that the US attacks countries that did not attack it? These are some of my issues about voting. I agree with Neil that candidates that can’t or won’t answer questions should not even be running in the race. A political platform is necessary to voting. If you can’t or won’t answer any questions, you’re a waste of time! Another pet peeve are the candidates trying to impose religion into our government. What about separation of church and state does anybody not get? Now I am ranting. Love this blog! lucy, on October 17, 2010 at 12:23 pm said: http://4closurefraud.org/2010/10/17/michigan-lose-your-house-lose-your-vote/ THE A MAN, on October 17, 2010 at 12:20 pm said: More important loose their jobs. Enron was defeated once Gray Davis a democrat was recalled and Arnold the Republican was put into power. The politicians on both sides got rid of Enron. Vote the incumbents out. Does not matter republican or democrats. That will piss the politicians off and they will finally get rid of the banksters for making them look bad. Collene Collins, on October 17, 2010 at 12:03 pm said: Trust me they make more than $200,000 when you consider the percs they get. Imagine having a job that you can get all your friends a high paying job and then they are all indebted to you. Don’t be fooled politicians are the most corrupt people in America. Zoe, on October 17, 2010 at 11:53 am said: Well, I don’t agree with all of this, but I do take notice of candidates who spend millions of their own dollars trying to get a job that pays less than $200K per year. Hmmm….makes me wonder who is behind their candidacy. lucy, on October 17, 2010 at 11:25 am said: collene collins, “don’t trust, verify, verify, verify” Please take the time to read this article, then re- read what Neil has posted. http://4closurefraud.org/2009/11/27/advice-from-a-fraudster-white-collar-crime-and-criminals/ Collene Collins, on October 17, 2010 at 11:15 am said: I am an independant and I agree that the choices are not that great but you still have to vote for the best of the worst. If I had my way Hillary Clinton would be Pres leapfrog, on October 17, 2010 at 11:11 am said: I’m voting for anything BUT repukes or dumbocrats – both of these malignant entities have thrown us all under the bus. I know that means I have “thrown away” my vote as normally I would lean more toward the Dems, but I don’t give a damn! I’m fed up and disgusted with both & the I have nothing but abject scorn for tea-baggers. I wonder how many others will vote for an underdog? Lucy Bush wasn’t my favorite! Think back to Clintons term how great the economy was that wasn’t because of him it was because we had a republican senate. My son just returned from 2 tours in Iraq and it is disguisting how the veterans get treated. We will be like Japan if Obama thinks it is right fro the government to control everything. Great job on the bailout plan! What the hell was he thinking. He is no longer cleaning up after Bush it is time he takes responsibility for the trillions he spent that did nothing except increase unemployment and foreclosures. All those CEO’s are still making millions. If you get a bailout there should be rules and stipulations. Ever here the proof of future behavior is based on past behavior. These co’s got bailed out and nothing has changed. Senator Brown from MA is proof that we are in for a big change which is needed and welcomed. The people voted for change and look where it got us deeper in debt Would you mind listing all the grat things that the Repulicans have done? You can start with Bush and go down the list. I do not agree with Neils Post at all! It sounds like something that would come out of Joy Behars mouth! Lucy pres Obama inherited a defecit but he has spent over a trillion dollars and the economy is worse. Great leader. Deval Patrick has done the same in MA everyone of his cronies is on his payroll and Cahill is a plant. He is running to split the votes in MA and might caubut never follow thruse Devall to win. I guarentee he was promised a position and I believe that Obama is behind it. Republicans are taken over in Nov What a rubbish !!! I can’t believe you are asking people to vote for Republicans. You are out of your mind !! Re-read Neil’s post again. and again and again…. Will you ever learn? Collene Collins, on October 17, 2010 at 9:44 am said: Things were great when Clinton was in office because we had a Republican Senate. Vote republican in November. MA has had the worst Governor in years and he is great pals with Obama. Deval Patrick ruined our state. No matter who you vote for please just get out and vote. You should not complain if you don’t take the time to cast a vote! lucy, on October 17, 2010 at 9:34 am said: http://4closurefraud.org/2010/10/17/foreclosuregate-an-open-letter-to-president-obama/ John, on October 17, 2010 at 9:29 am said: Neil said: Blanche Lincoln, whose politics I mostly disagree with, but her party and the Washington establishment don’t like her. That makes me like her but I can’t vote in Arkansas. Neil, you must have been out of your mind and in a state of insanity when you made the above statement. You surely did not do your research on this person. I live in Arkansas and I will state for the record that she is not what Arkansas is all about. She votes entirely for the Party and supports every spending bill and does not know her Constitutions (U.S and Arkansas). If you continue to make assertions based on idiocy I will have to drop out of your group. Come on give me a break Neil …. You like someone because the Party doesn’t like her…foot…they love her…. VOTE BLANCHE OUT!!!!!!!!! ARKANSAS!!!! VOTE BLANCHE OUT Brought to you by Common Folks for a Better Arkansas Mortgage Audits oliver@ipa.net Katherine, on October 17, 2010 at 9:02 am said: …and Libertarians? Living Lies Services Case Interview Form Schedule A Consult Now! Follow LivingLies Blog Follow LivingLies by Email Another Dubin Victory for Homeowners In Hawaii. How crazy is it that he is under fire? Crazy! Banks announcement drop in foreclosure filings due to moratoriums as if there is no problem! Servicers relent one case at a time: The Great Escrow Balance Game. 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__label__cc	0.737753	0.262247	Federal Appeals Court Ruled Texas, Louisiana Can Cut Medicaid Funding for Planned Parenthood Posted by Mary Chastain Tuesday, November 24, 2020 at 1:00pm \| 11/24/2020 - 1:00pm The argument stemmed from videos showing PP people trying to buy baby parts. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans ruled that Texas and Louisiana can cut off Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood. The decision affects Mississippi as well since the state “is under 5th Circuit jurisdiction.” From Fox News: The decision by the full 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans reverses an earlier ruling by a three-judge appellate panel that blocked Texas from enforcing its ban on Medicaid funding of Planned Parenthood. It also expressly reversed a ruling in a separate case blocking Louisiana from banning Planned Parenthood funding. A three-judge panel in 2015 had ruled against the ban, and that decision stood when the full court deadlocked 7-7 in 2017 when there were only 14 active judges on the court. The court’s personnel has changed since then. Six nominees of Republican President Trump now sit on the court. Four of them participated in Monday’s case (one was recused and another joined the court too late to take part) and all four joined Judge Priscilla Owen’s opinion for an 11-member majority. Owen entered the opinion, which concluded that Planned Parenthood affiliates weren’t able to contest the state’s determination that it is not qualified to receive Medicaid funds. The opinion noted that participants in the Texas Medicaid program agreed to comply with the “policies and applicable state and federal regulations.” Texas state law allows the Office of Inspector General (OIG) to investigate providers and “terminate Medicaid provider agreements for noncompliance.” The OIG sent letters of termination in 2015 after the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) taped “two individuals posing as representatives from a fetal tissue procurement company discussing the possibility of a research partnership with PP Gulf Coast.” The videos also caused Senate and House investigations. The providers received “a Notice of Termination of its respective Medicaid provider agreement, stating that each was ‘no longer capable of performing medical services in a professionally competent, safe, legal, and ethical manner.'” The OIG argued the CMP videos proved “PP Gulf Coast violated federal regulations relating to fetal tissue research by altering abortion procedures for research purposes or allowing researchers themselves to be involved in performing abortions.” 11 11 Comments Abortion, Louisiana, Planned Parenthood, Texas The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans ruled that Texas and Louisiana can cut off Medicaid funding fo… https://t.co/qDM5PzSrlT @DottieTheGratefulDreg (same on Parler) RT @mathewsjw: Federal Appeals Court Rules Texas, Louisiana Can Cut Medicaid Funding for Planned Parenthood, HINT Abortion Mill Is Buying,… @mathewsjw Federal Appeals Court Rules Texas, Louisiana Can Cut Medicaid Funding for Planned Parenthood, HINT Abortion Mill Is… https://t.co/aNdo7O3ACp RT @irishspy: Federal Appeals Court Ruled Texas, Louisiana Can Cut Medicaid Funding for Planned Parenthood https://t.co/iAP0DaxpDb @TrollColors Federal Appeals Court Ruled Texas, Louisiana Can Cut Medicaid Funding for Planned Parenthood https://t.co/iAP0DaxpDb @Phineas Fahrquar So get Sorso and the Hollyw3eirdos to pay for it. Oh, that’s the rub, isn’t it? n.n \| November 24, 2020 at 1:35 pm Nearly half of Codid-19 attributed deaths happened in Planned Parent facilities. Oh, wait, this story is about their sister operation, Planned Parenthood, where there are nearly a million excess deaths in America alone. That said, denying public funds to the neo-Nazis, the Dezis, is a baby step to aborting the Progressive Church’s wicked solution, a minority choice, a social contagion. Close the abortion chambers, the Mengele/Cecile clinics, too. #HateLovesAbortion Selling Baby Parts after they Murder the Babies…. How Un-Educated and Barbaric…… Btw….. Don Trump Jr Tells Voters In Georgia To Ignore Activists Trying To Trick Them Into Not Voting… https://www.weaselzippers.us/459638-don-trump-jr-tells-voters-in-georgia-to-ignore-activists-trying-to-trick-them-into-not-voting/ Demos (“common people”) literally die in darkness. #WickedSolution #InStorkWeTrust Dantzig93101 \| November 24, 2020 at 1:35 pm Isn’t Planned Parenthood in the business of selling baby parts rather than buying them? Carbon sequestration and redistributive change/parts, yes. re: sequestration and redistribution. A semantic play on Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. Trump is all-American: Pro-Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness, without indulging diversity (e.g. racism), political congruence (“=”), sexism (e.g. feminism), genderism (e.g. trans/homophilia), and Pro-Choice quasi-religion (e.g. “ethics”), for all. I’ll state one caveat to this positive development. Unlike one-child, selective-child, while legalized under the Twilight Amendment, was normalized by the Progressive Church, and is an insidious, pervasive social contagion spread under the quasi-moral (“ethical”) guidance of the Church. Dr P \| November 24, 2020 at 3:11 pm let them appeal and go national with the defunding with a Supreme Court ruling	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line989
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Stand by to be amazed! You might think that we’re doing well in regards to our clean air commitments, after all, there are more electric cars (EV’s) replacing internal combustion engine cars (ICE) and coal power plants in many countries are being shuttered and replaced with natural gas-fired power generation (much, much, cleaner!) and that renewable energy (RE) represents almost all of the new power plants built over the past 5-years. (True, by the way) Not bad. But far from good, as you’ll soon see. So, let’s take a look at how far we are from meeting our 2015 Paris Agreement COP21 clean air goals. Remember, I said to ‘Buckle-up’! What’s it Going to Take? The short answer, of course, is more than you’ve got, more than your city has got, more than your country has got, and (so far!) more than our world has got. For example… Let’s say that global aviation (all aviation, all the time — whether commercial airlines or private aircraft, helicopters, drones, etc.) represent about 2.1% of global CO2 emissions (even the airlines agree with this metric) and that starting tomorrow, all airlines and private aircraft in the world would suddenly stop flying. Forever. Would THAT be enough for us to meet our COP 21 carbon emission standards? No it would not. OK, so, that wouldn’t do it, so let’s add all global shipping in the world (all ships at sea and on lakes that deliver cargo to various ports around the world) which combined add about 2.2% of the annual global carbon dioxide additions to our atmosphere. (Nobody disputes this number either) Wait a minute. If we ended all annual global aviation and all annual global shipping tomorrow and forever! — doesn’t that represent a total of 4.3% of all annual global CO2 emissions? Why, yes it does. But even that won’t allow us to meet our COP21 CO2 commitments? Shouldn’t that amount of CO2 reduction be enough to meet those targets? Nope. Not even close. No, the scale of the global warming problem is much worse than we are able to correct via a simple 4.3% reduction in the annual global CO2 output. I Need to Get to The End of This! What’s it Going to Take to Meet Our COP21 Targets? Let’s get a look at some other, larger numbers. Global transportation (all kinds of transportation, everywhere, on land, sea, and in the air) account for 29% of all global CO2 emissions. What if we cut all of it, beginning tomorrow and forswear all kinds of motorized vehicles forever; Would that do it? Yes, it would. But, we’d be forced to give up all cars, trucks, trains, ships, aircraft of all kinds, and any other kind of motorized vehicle, and we’d need to shop locally and travel on foot, bicycle or horseback. Forever. OK, we can’t do that. Give me another option. So, primary power production (creating electricity from a combination of hydroelectric dams, thermal power plants that are coal, oil, or natural gas-fired, and nuclear power plants) that is consumed by residential users account for about 30% of annual global CO2 emissions. Ready to cut the cord and live without electricity forever? But, just for the sake of argument; If every residential user of electricity on Earth stopped using electricity tomorrow, would we meet our COP21 clean air commitments? Yes, we would. Righto! Industry (all industry, including all agriculture, everywhere on the Earth) create about 41% of annual global CO2 emissions — that’s everything from building ships, cars, aircraft, military equipment, paint, oil, diesel fuel and petrol production, beauty products, furniture, carpets, clothing, tires, shopping carts, all kinds of food and drink packaging, all food production, and farmers burning their fields to clear their fields for the next years’ crop. Ready to give up on all that? I didn’t think so. But, just for the sake of argument; If every company and farm stopped producing tomorrow, would we meet our COP21 clean air commitments? What If We Shaved a Few Percentage Points From Each of Those CO2 Producers? Would that work? Maybe. But it would depend upon our level of commitment. It depends if we care about future generations of humans, of animals, and of the plant life on this planet enough to stick with it. But it wouldn’t be easy. In fact, life on Earth would change dramatically, in ways we can’t begin to imagine. I can’t, because there aren’t any. It looks like we’re all out of options. Throw Me A Bone, Here! OK, there’s one chance in Hell (IMHO) for us to avoid a future global rapid warming scenario where the planet’s air temperature would become too hot to allow life to continue on the surface of our world. And that is? The BMW i3. The BMW i3 is a smallish SUV crossover that runs on battery power — not a large battery — that has a tiny one-cylinder onboard petrol engine to charge the battery when the vehicle is underway. The BMW i3 always travels on battery power (the petrol engine isn’t connected to the driveline, it exists only to keep the battery charged) and it has an onboard five-gallon petrol tank. All of which means that the i3 takes you everywhere you want to go on battery power, and if the battery gets low, the tiny petrol engine automatically starts up to recharge the battery. You wouldn’t even notice it unless I told you it was on and charging the battery pack. It can even charge the battery when you park the car while you’re shopping if you choose that option setting via the onboard software. How many cars and light trucks would need to be powered by such a system in order to meet our COP21 Paris Agreement clean air targets? All new cars and light trucks would need to be powered by such a system for the world to meet its CO2 commitments, and we’d need to begin no later than 2022. Could it be done? Some larger trucks might need a tiny two-cylinder diesel engine to charge up their batteries (much larger batteries than the i3 uses) but that upgrade would prevent gazillions of gallons of diesel fuel being added to the Earth’s atmosphere annually. The essence of this approach means that for millions of drivers, they’ll buy about five-gallons of petrol per month — instead of buying five-gallons of petrol per day for the average driver. And when billions of people start using five gallons of petrol per month instead of five-gallons per day, that’s when annual global CO2 emissions will fall by approximately 14% — which is enough (barely) to meet our COP21 clean air commitments. See the scale of the problem now? Want to See the BMW i3 — and it’s Brother, the Mighty BMW i8 Supercar that Employs a Slightly Different Propulsion System? Keep in mind, that in every way, the only difference between the BMW i3 and normal cars is the propulsion system. And similar applies to the BMW i8 supercar — although in that car, the system is geared to blazing acceleration and high speed performance. Here are a couple of pictures of the future for you… BMW i3 electric vehicle (EV) with one-cylinder petrol engine range extender option BMW i8 electric vehicle (EV Hybrid) supercar Written by John Brian Shannon kleef&co Letter to Norway This Is Eisenhower	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line993
__label__wiki	0.968112	0.968112	Christopher Steele’s ‘primary sub-source’ for 2016 dossier has been identified By Daily Caller News Foundation July 26, 2020 Christopher Steele. (Image: Screen grab of CBS video) By Chuck Ross The mystery of the primary source for dossier author Christopher Steele has finally been solved. Igor Danchenko, a Russia analyst living in the U.S., has been identified as Steele’s primary source of information in the dossier. Danchenko, who previously worked at the Brookings Institution, told the FBI in January 2017 that he was Steele’s source. He undermined several of Steele’s core allegations regarding Donald Trump and members of his campaign. A Russian-born analyst living in the United States has been identified as the primary source for Christopher Steele, the author of a now-debunked dossier regarding Donald Trump and members of his campaign. Igor Danchenko, 42, was identified as the dossier source through a series of events that began with the July 17 release of an FBI memo of interviews conducted with Steele’s primary source in January 2017. The FBI redacted all information in the memo that might identify Danchenko and six of his sub-sources, but a Twitter user pieced together clues from the memo — such that Danchenko worked as a “facilitator” and had studied in the United States — to identify him as the likely source. The Twitter sleuth created a blog laying out information about Danchenko. On Saturday, The New York Times confirmed that Danchenko was the source. “Mr. Danchenko is a highly respected senior research analyst; he is neither an author nor editor for any of the final reports produced by Orbis,” Danchenko’s lawyer, Mark Schamel, told the Times. “Mr. Danchenko stands by his data analysis and research and will leave it to others to evaluate and interpret any broader story with regard to Orbis’s final report,” said Schamel, referring to Orbis Business Intelligence, the London-based firm owned by Steele. Danchenko, a former analyst at the Brookings Institution, a liberal foreign policy think tank, undercut some of the dossier’s most explosive allegations about Trump and members of his campaign. His statements to the FBI also suggested that he has far fewer connections to Kremlin insiders than Steele’s allies and the media have suggested. (RELATED: FBI Memo Raises Doubts About Sources Behind Dossier, Ex-CIA Station Chief Says) Danchenko told the FBI that he shared “rumor and speculation” with Steele that he received from his sources, but that Steele suggested in the dossier that the information was confirmed. He said that he heard rumors that Trump had used prostitutes in a Moscow hotel room in 2013 and that the Kremlin had video tape of it. Danchenko said that one of his sources inquired at the hotel about the alleged incident but was unable to confirm that it happened. The dossier’s other major allegations involve Carter Page and Michael Cohen, the former Trump lawyer. Steele alleged that Page, a member of the campaign’s national security team, was a central figure in the “well-developed conspiracy of coordination” between the Trump campaign and Kremlin. Steele wrote that it was Page’s idea to use WikiLeaks to release Democrats’ emails during the campaign. He also alleged that Page met secretly with Kremlin insiders in July 2016 to discuss relaxing sanctions against Russia in exchange for election help. Regarding Cohen, Steele wrote that the former Trump acolyte flew to Prague in August 2016 to meet with Kremlin officials regarding the election. The special counsel’s report debunked the claim about Cohen, saying that he did not visit Prague. It also said that no Trump associates conspired with Russia or helped release emails through WikiLeaks. Danchenko relied on at least one source — “Source 3” in the FBI memo — for the information about Cohen as well as some of the information about Page. A Justice Department inspector general’s report of the FBI’s investigation said that the bureau received evidence on Jan. 12, 2017, two days after BuzzFeed published the dossier, that the Cohen allegation may have been the product of Russian disinformation. The FBI and Justice Department identified Danchenko as Steele’s source the following day, according to The Times. The IG report said that the FBI received other evidence that Russian intelligence operatives knew that Steele was investigating the Trump campaign as early as July 2016. Danchenko describes six sources in all that he used for information in the dossier. One of those is purported to be Sergei Millian, a Belarusian-American businessman referred to as “Source 6” in the FBI. News outlets with close ties to Fusion GPS fingered Millian on Jan. 24, 2017, as the main source behind the Trump sex tape claim. But Danchenko’s statements, if true, are inconsistent with the narrative that Millian is a source for the salacious Trump allegation. Danchenko told the FBI that he never met Millian and believes he spoke to him by phone only once in late July 2016. Steele’s memo regarding the sex tape allegation is dated June 20, 2016. According to information he put online, Danchenko attended high schools in the United States in the 1990s as part of an exchange student program. He graduated from Perm State University in Russia and received a master’s degree from the University of Louisville in 2005. He worked for five years at the Brookings Institution as a Russia analyst. While there, he wrote a paper with Fiona Hill, who joined the Trump White House in 2017 as its top Russia expert. Danchenko went on to work for Sidar Global Advisory, a Washington, D.C.-based consulting group. Danchenko was charged in federal court in March 2013 with disorderly conduct, drunk in public and failure to restrain a child in a safety seat, court documents show. Fiona Hill. EU Reporter video, YouTube The court filings, first reported by Real Clear Investigations, also show that Danchenko was a Russian national who has a visa to work in the United States. Brookings has played an larger role in the dossier saga. In 2016, it’s then-president, Strobe Talbott, contacted Steele seeking a copy of the dossier. Hill told Congress last year that Talbott shared a copy of the dossier with her on Jan. 9, 2017, a day before BuzzFeed published the document online. Hill said that she was floored when she learned that Steele was behind the document. Hill, who had worked with Steele while he was with MI6, said that she believed the dossier contained Russian disinformation. Rep. Devin Nunes said this week that he is looking into the role that Brookings played in spreading the dossier. Danchenko appears to have left Brookings years before he began working on the dossier project. Danchenko told the FBI that he met Steele several years before the start of the Trump investigation. Steele testified in a British court case in March that he paid the source up to $5,000 a month on retainer. (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Steele Told British Court His Emails Were ‘Wiped,’ Had No Information From Dossier Source) Danchenko told the FBI that in March 2016, Steele asked him to look into Paul Manafort, a Republican political operative who joined the Trump campaign a month later. Steele worked for a law firm that represented Oleg Deripaska, a Russian oligarch who had a business dispute with Manafort. Danchenko told the FBI he was perplexed by Steele’s tasking because he knew little about Manafort. He said that Steele tasked him with working on the Trump project several months later. Steele had been hired in June 2016 by Fusion GPS, an opposition research firm employed by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee to investigate Trump’s possible ties to Russia. The FBI identified Danchenko as Steele’s source on Jan. 13, 2017, and conducted interviews with him from Jan. 24-26, 2017. The FBI’s memo says that Danchenko spoke to the FBI and prosecutors under a proffer agreement, meaning that he had immunity for anything he might say in the interview. The IG criticized the FBI for withholding information it received from Danchenko that undermined the dossier. The report said that the FBI characterized Danchenko as appearing to be reliable and truthful, but failed to disclose that his information raised doubts about the dossier. According to The Times, Danchenko has cooperated with the Senate Intelligence Committee as part of its investigation into the dossier. John Durham, a U.S. attorney investigating the origins of the FBI’s Trump-Russia probe, has also inquired about Danchenko, according to The Times. The Daily Caller News Foundation called a phone number associated with Danchenko earlier this week. A man who answered said that Danchenko was not available and that he would pass along a message. Danchenko did not respond to phone calls on Saturday. His attorney did not respond to an email seeking comment. Posted in: Foreign Affairs, PoliticsTagged: Christopher Steele, Igor Danchenko, Obama Administration, Russia, Russiagate, Spygate, Steele dossier Daily Caller News Foundation Democrats’ next target over ‘racism’: the U.S. military Beyoncé’s new film ‘Black Is King’ is stirring up controversy	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line996
__label__wiki	0.62045	0.62045	Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion: General Resources Resources on diversity, different abilities, and inclusion. Vince Mussehl CVTC Library & Technology Services Chippewa Valley Technical College Social: Facebook Page LinkedIn Page Subjects:Customer Service, Digital Videos & Films, Diversity & Ethnic Studies, Leadership & Management, Library Science, Open Educational Resources Closed during College-observed holidays. Selected Print Titles (Available in the Library) Driven by Difference by David Livermore Today's workforce is more diverse than ever before. But despite new perspectives and talents, the promise of increased innovation rarely materializes. Why are so few businesses seeing results? Studies show that diverse teams are more creative than homogenous ones—but only when they are managed effectively. The secret is to minimize conflict while maximizing the informational diversity found in varied values and experiences. To do this, both leaders and team members need a high level of cultural intelligence, or CQ. Drawing on success stories from Google, Alibaba, Novartis, and other groundbreaking companies, Driven by Difference identifies the management practices necessary to guide multicultural teams to innovation, including how to: Create an optimal environment • Build trust • Fuse differing perspectives • Align goals and expectations • Generate fresh ideas • Consider the various audiences when selecting and selling an idea • Design and test for different users Cultural differences can lead to gridlock, or they can catalyze innovation and growth. This research-based plan turns diversity's potential into economic reality. Call Number: HF5549.5 .M5 L583 2016 The Diversity Bargain by Natasha K. Warikoo We've heard plenty from politicians and experts on affirmative action and higher education, about how universities should intervene--if at all--to ensure a diverse but deserving student population. But what about those for whom these issues matter the most? In this book, Natasha K. Warikoo deeply explores how students themselves think about merit and race at a uniquely pivotal moment: after they have just won the most competitive game of their lives and gained admittance to one of the world's top universities. What Warikoo uncovers--talking with both white students and students of color at Harvard, Brown, and Oxford--is absolutely illuminating; and some of it is positively shocking. As she shows, many elite white students understand the value of diversity abstractly, but they ignore the real problems that racial inequality causes and that diversity programs are meant to solve. They stand in fear of being labeled a racist, but they are quick to call foul should a diversity program appear at all to hamper their own chances for advancement. The most troubling result of this ambivalence is what she calls the "diversity bargain," in which white students reluctantly agree with affirmative action as long as it benefits them by providing a diverse learning environment--racial diversity, in this way, is a commodity, a selling point on a brochure. And as Warikoo shows, universities play a big part in creating these situations. The way they talk about race on campus and the kinds of diversity programs they offer have a huge impact on student attitudes, shaping them either toward ambivalence or, in better cases, toward more productive and considerate understandings of racial difference. Ultimately, this book demonstrates just how slippery the notions of race, merit, and privilege can be. In doing so, it asks important questions not just about college admissions but what the elite students who have succeeded at it--who will be the world's future leaders--will do with the social inequalities of the wider world. Call Number: LA229 .W37 2016 Lively Paradox by Nicole Price Does the word "diversity" conjure up any feeling for you? Have you been on the receiving or giving end of the persistent lying, crying and denying associated with traditional diversity and inclusion efforts? If so, then Lively Paradox is the book for you. This book provides practical advice and tools for improving your personal and professional relationships with all the "different" people in your life. Call Number: HF5549.5 .M5 P753 2016 Inclusion by Jennifer Brown Embrace Diversity andThrive As An OrganizationIn the rapidly changing business landscape, harnessing thepower of diversity and inclusion is essential for the very viabilityand sustainability of every organization. Talent who feel fullywelcomed, valued, respected, and heard by their colleaguesand their organizations will fuel this growth. We will only succeedin this transformation if those in leadership pivot from commandand-control management styles to reinvent how we look atpeople, every organization's greatest asset. It's also critical thatwe build systems that embrace diversity in all its forms, fromidentity and background to diversity of thought, style, approach,and experience, tying it directly to the bottom line.Inclusion: Diversity, the New Workplace & the Will to Changestands up and embraces what true diversity and inclusionrepresent to any organization in any industry--an opportunity.Open your heart and prepare to be inspired as award-winningentrepreneur, dynamic speaker, and respected diversity andinclusion expert Jennifer Brown shares proven strategies toempower members of your entire organization to utilize allof their talents and potential to drive positive organizationalchange and the future of work. Call Number: HF5549.5 .M5 I54 2016 White Privilege by Rothenberg Vital, eye-opening, and powerful, this unique anthology expertly presents the significance and complexity of whiteness today and illuminates the nature of privilege and power in our society. White Privilege leads students through the ubiquity and corresponding invisibility of whiteness; the historical development of whiteness and its role in race relations over time; the real everyday effects of privilege and its opposite, oppression; and finally, how our system of privilege can be changed. The thoroughly updated fifth edition explores: color-blind racism virtual probation socioeconomic privilege versus. racial privilege racial profiling, how immigration and questions of citizenship are historically tied to understandings of race the racial positioning of groups that are neither white nor black the commonalities and diverse experiences of people of color, "flying while brown" the politics of respectability in the age of Obama, and more. Call Number: E184 .A1 W394 2016 Diversity Explosion by William H. Frey At its optimistic best, America has embraced its identity as the world's melting pot. Today it is on the cusp of becoming a country with no racial majority, and new minorities are poised to exert a profound impact on U.S. society, economy, and politics. The concept of a "minority white" may instill fear among some Americans, but William H. Frey, the man behind the demographic research, points out that demography is destiny, and the fear of a more racially diverse nation will almost certainly dissipate over time. Through a compelling narrative and eye-catching charts and maps, eminent demographer Frey interprets and expounds on the dramatic growth of minority populations in the United States. He finds that without these expanding groups, America could face a bleak future: this new generation of young minorities, who are having children at a faster rate than whites, is infusing our aging labor force with vitality and innovation. In contrast with the labor force-age population of Japan, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom, the U.S. labor force-age population is set to grow 5 percent by 2030. Diversity Explosion shares the good news about diversity in the coming decades, and the more globalized, multiracial country that the U.S. is becoming. Contents A Pivotal Period for Race in America Old versus Young: Cultural Generation Gaps America's New Racial Map Hispanics Fan Out: Who Goes Where? Asians in America: The Newest Minority Surge The Great Migration of Blacks—In Reverse White Population Shifts—A Zero-Sum Melting Pot Cities and Suburbs Neighborhood Segregation: Toward a New Racial Paradigm Multiracial Marriages and Multiracial America Race and Politics: Expanding the Battleground America on the Cusp Call Number: E184 .A1 F739 2015 Blindspot by Mahzarin R. Banaji I know my own mind. I am able to assess others in a fair and accurate way. These self-perceptions are challenged by leading psychologists Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald as they explore the hidden biases we all carry from a lifetime of exposure to cultural attitudes about age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, social class, sexuality, disability status, and nationality. "Blindspot" is the authors' metaphor for the portion of the mind that houses hidden biases. Writing with simplicity and verve, Banaji and Greenwald question the extent to which our perceptions of social groups--without our awareness or conscious control--shape our likes and dislikes and our judgments about people's character, abilities, and potential. In Blindspot, the authors reveal hidden biases based on their experience with the Implicit Association Test, a method that has revolutionized the way scientists learn about the human mind and that gives us a glimpse into what lies within the metaphoric blindspot. The title's "good people" are those of us who strive to align our behavior with our intentions. The aim of Blindspot is to explain the science in plain enough language to help well-intentioned people achieve that alignment. By gaining awareness, we can adapt beliefs and behavior and "outsmart the machine" in our heads so we can be fairer to those around us. Venturing into this book is an invitation to understand our own minds. Brilliant, authoritative, and utterly accessible, Blindspot is a book that will challenge and change readers for years to come. Praise for Blindspot nbsp; "Conversational . . . easy to read, and best of all, it has the potential, at least, to change the way you think about yourself."--Leonard Mlodinow, The New York Review of Books nbsp; "Accessible and authoritative . . . While we may not have much power to eradicate our own prejudices, we can counteract them. The first step is to turn a hidden bias into a visible one. . . . What if we're not the magnanimous people we think we are?"--The Washington Post nbsp; "Banaji and Greenwald deserve a major award for writing such a lively and engaging book that conveys an important message: Mental processes that we are not aware of can affect what we think and what we do. Blindspot is one of the most illuminating books ever written on this topic."--Elizabeth F. Loftus, Ph.D., distinguished professor, University of California, Irvine; past president, Association for Psychological Science; author of Eyewitness Testimony nbsp; "A wonderfully cogent, socially relevant, and engaging book that helps us think smarter and more humanely. This is psychological science at its best, by two of its shining stars."--David G. Myers, professor, Hope College, and author of Intuition: Its Powers and Perils nbsp; "[The authors'] work has revolutionized social psychology, proving that--unconsciously--people are affected by dangerous stereotypes."--Psychology Today "An accessible and persuasive account of the causes of stereotyping and discrimination . . . Banaji and Greenwald will keep even nonpsychology students engaged with plenty of self-examinations and compelling elucidations of case studies and experiments."--Publishers Weekly nbsp; "A stimulating treatment that should help readers deal with irrational biases that they would otherwise consciously reject."--Kirkus Reviews Call Number: BF575 .P9 B25 2013 Selected Films (Available Online) Selected E-Books (Available Online) Leading Diversity in the 21st Century by Terri A. Scandura; Edwin Mouriño Human Diversity by Bernard Charles Lamb Human diversity, with its myriad of different conditions involving biology, psychology, and social structures, remains one of the biggest challenges -- and opportunities -- facing the species. With many government and private firms now having diversity or equality officers, programmes or committees, it is clear that human diversity is a cornerstone of policy-making at the very highest echelons. All this points to a need for proper scientific and medical information on this topic -- not soft 'politically correct' sociology. This book provides the hard facts on human similarities and differences, their causes and effects on people. It covers the whole range from normal to extreme human types, and presents -- for the first time -- much of the author's 25 years of original research on the subject. It can also act as a family medical guide to aspects of human function, structure and disease. It covers many human topics in a humane and understandable fashion, providing much material for information and discussion. It can be used as a handbook or textbook on human diversity, but is mainly popular science for the general public. A special feature of this book is the 140 colour photos that illustrate the diversity of human life, nearly all taken by the author himself. Given the vast nature of the subject, the book seamlessly integrates relevant data from multiple disciplines including medicine, biology, anthropology, genetics, psychology, evolution, languages, sociology, history and geography. Even controversial subjects such as race, class and culture are tackled head-on with no-nonsense scientific rigour. The Inclusion Imperative by Stephen Frost The Inclusion Imperative showcases the inspiring commitment to inclusion the London Olympic and Paralympic Games' organizing committee espoused, and details the techniques and frameworks that enabled it to truly deliver a 'Games for everyone' at London 2012. Diversity and inclusion expert, Stephen Frost, challenges preconceived ideas and strives to inspire professionals to tackle inclusion in their organizations with courage, creativity and talent. With highly relatable examples, The Inclusion Imperative constitutes the best argument to convince sceptics that real diversity and inclusion can deliver more engaged employees and customers, improved employee recruitment and retention, increase productivity and better group decision-making processes. Real inclusion saves money and improves efficiency in the systems of an organisation, making the world a better place as a by-product. Building on concepts that include Diversity 3.0, detailed process journeys, and procurement governance, this is a must-read for HR and diversity officers frustrated with the guidance currently available, as well as for anyone who recognizes the legacy of the 2012 Games in fostering a tolerant and diverse society. When Diversity Drops by Julie J. Park Julie J. Park examines how losing racial diversity in a university affects the everyday lives of its students. She uses a student organization, the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship (IVCF) at "California University," as a case study to show how reductions in racial diversity impact the ability of students to sustain multiethnic communities. The story documents IVCF's evolution from a predominantly white group that rarely addressed race to the most racially diverse campus fellowship at the university. However, its ability to maintain its multiethnic membership was severely hampered by the drop in black enrollment at California University following the passage of Proposition 209, a statewide affirmative action ban. Park demonstrates how the friendships that students have - or do not have - across racial lines are not just a matter of personal preference or choice; they take place in the contexts that are inevitably shaped by the demographic conditions of the university. She contends that a strong organizational commitment to diversity, while essential, cannot sustain racially diverse student subcultures. Her work makes a critical contribution to our understanding of race and inequality in collegiate life and is a valuable resource for educators and researchers interested in the influence of racial politics on students' lives. URL: https://libguides.cvtc.edu/diverse Subjects: Diversity & Ethnic Studies, Leadership & Management, Sociology Tags: bias, disability, diversity, inclusion, race	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line997
__label__wiki	0.958952	0.958952	Neetu proud of her work in Tamil cinema by Anita Agarwal RealBollywood Chennai, Jan 26: Actress Neetu Chandra, known for her work in Hindi films such as "13B", "Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!" and "Rann", is satisfied with her work in Tamil cinema. "Tamil cinema has given me better opportunities and I am proud of it. All my three films in Tamil gave me immense satisfaction," tweeted Neetu. Her Tamil films include horror-thriller "Yavarum Nalam", "Theeradha Vilaiyattu Pillai" and "Yuddham Sei". "Aadhi Bhagavan" is her fourth Tamil film, which is currently in its post-production stage. Neetu calls genuine critics her biggest inspiration. "I will always remember every genuine critic. See full article on RealBollywood Battle (2010) Theeradha Vilaiyattu Pillai (2010) Aadhi Bhagavan (2013)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line1000
__label__cc	0.70364	0.29636	zachary-10857 IMDb member since April 2016 IMDb Member Atmospheric horror similar to Heriditary. This is the opposite of a jump scare movie. Like Annabelle or paranormal activity. It's a slow burn tense, atmospheric horror like Heriditary and Relic (or even babadook). All movies I absolutely loved. Great acting too and just like in Heriditary the actress carries the film. Great super scary horror about the devil trying to steal souls by using sight and sound to tempt you to darkness. I am giving it a 9 instead of an 8 like I should be. However if I don't give it one higher than I want to rate it, it will likely place lower than it should do the extreme reviewers that give 1's if they don't like a movie. And this movie is that good of a horror that it deserves to be in the 7-10 range. Sjws and feminists unite to make a movie. Omg what did they do. I love the first couple terminator movies but this is just embarrassing and a disservice to the originals. This is worse than T3 and 4. Without spoiling to much, they ruined the story. They just crapped all over it. But the worst part is the feminist culture thrown in your face. It would be a complete evil man vs powerful women movie all the way through except the last minute they saved that by throwing a guy in the mix. Just more sjw crap outta Hollywood lately. Women can be strong without always having to be physically tough hand to hand and gun combat training. Jeeees Hollywood. The preview looked boring. But. I Couldn't have been more wrong. This is the first review I have written in a while. I just had to write one in case someone out there was on the fence about whether they should invest some time to watch this. Omg I'm so glad I did. Yes at times it can move a little slow. But boy did I get sucked in. I had to keep watching to find out what was going to happen. It is well written and very well acted especially by the Messiah. It kept me guessing the whole time. Excellent. I'm dying for season 2. Omg. It can't come soon enough. I RARELY EVER give higher than a 9. 10's should be extremely rare. And this show deserves the rare award of a 10 from me. I mean, this show is everything I want in a show. Forget that its Marvel or superhero based. It feels nothing like a regular super hero show we know. It throws that formula out of the water. Off a bridge. Hell it is so different than any show for that matter. Where do I start with the compliments? The visuals, cinematography - 10/10 - Some of the most impressive visuals in any tv show ever. Real eye candy. Sound- 10/10 - Sound you mean soundtrack right? No, and yes, the soundtrack is outstanding. But literally the sound itself is meant to be trippy and just like the visuals, it is outstanding. For anyone lucky enough to have surround sound, this is a show you want it for. Especially in season 3. Story - 10/10 - The take on madness, and just the wierd originality of this show is completely unique and stands alone. Acting - 8.5/10 - I didnt give this a 10, not because anyone is bad, but just because there is no stellar oscar worthy acting, not enough to give it a 10. Like i said 10's are rare for me. But David and Farouk are excellent. So is Aubrey Plaza actually. Just pure joy and entertainment, and you never know what to expect. Last episode he was fighting demons that ate time itself. Before he turned into shiva, before a guy pulled a scimitar out of his throat, before a android woman with a moustache talked like a robot. I mean what? This show is a trip. 10/10/ What walking dead used to be. I stumbled upon this knowing little about it. And boy am I happy I did. There are few zombie movies or shows that actually are tense and make me feel like the show was really well thought out. Walking dead used to have the same level of drama and suspense. Great show. If you like end of world or zombie shows you should like this. The perfect horror film. If you like horror at all. Just watch it This is the best horror film I would say in past few years but I really enjoyed the ritual on Netflix and if you count a quiet place I loved that too. But this movie is really perfectly paced. Some may complain it's slow in the first half but if the first half didn't set the eerie tone and give the characters depth you would not feel the emotion for them as strongly. The mothers performance is Oscar worthy. I mean she's incredibly talented in this movie. Charlie is the perfect creepy kid. I hope this movie blows up and gets shared for everyone to see as me finding it was a freak accident. I had never even heard of it or seen previews. Don't even watch previews. Go in knowing nothing but it's a supernatural horror not unlike the witch or the ritual on Netflix. Don't think about it. Watch it. best show and NETFLIX is killing it lately Between this and star get things and peaky blinders netflix is rearranging my top 10 list of fav shows ever. this show is so good. you have to read subtitles. i know a little german so it helped but i do t mind subtitles. watch with volume up on a big screen. bueatiful show. it's in 4k too for people with good tvs. super dark great cinematography. awesome plot all intertwined. amazing. don't give up after first episode. it's so worth it. Was NOT excited expecting a great movie. Was very wrong, excellent film A 9 feels more appropriate but i give 9's so rarely and only maybe 10 movies have earned a 10 from me, and 9,s to movies that are the very best. So this isn't quite the very very best of all movies ever but it def is one of the best action movies i've seen all year and it's december. only Thor did i enjoy this much for action this year. Pierce and chan are sooooo good in this. it's very serious. pacing, story, acting all great. super worth watching over dumb movies like kings man sequels , which is all hollywood fluff. Comic Fan says so much potential being wasted, he blames writers Look, I don't care if it sticks with the comics or not, im not the type of person to say, OMG it doesn't follow the source material perfectly. But what i do care about, is a show with a great foundation, and premise, being squandered. WWHHHHYYYYYYY DOOOOOOEEEEESSSS lucifer, the son of god, the father of evil, the taker or souls, the omnipotent all seeing eye second to none but GOD himself, have absolutely no abilities? Oh wait, he can politely ask people what they desire? Oh lord watch out. I have watched every episode, and its currently in the second season. Somehow i keep watching because I want them to start improving so badly. If he had some power and commanded at least a sliver of respect, from anyone, and did anything besides being attractive to women, i would be all in. Another HUUUUUUUUUGGGGEEEE gripe, is WHOSE IDEA was it to turn EVERY single lucifer episode into a episode of CSI / every other murder per episode show? The only parts i enjoy is when he talk or acts within the paranormal aspect of the show. Last thing, as far as acting goes, no real talent here. Save lucifers character. But although the actor does a good job, the character they write for him is predictable and pathetic. The actress who plays his demon bodyguard Mazakien? overacts the hell out of her part. I hate overacting. I really enjoyed in, Not quite as great as breaking bad, but still really good. Only a couple shows hold a 10 for me. Thrones and breaking are the only 10's. I have a decent amount of 9's. This show gets a 8.5 from me. Almost a 9. I brought that up because this is very similar to breaking bad. I think the show has even more potential if another season happens. I mean this was just starting up with only one season. I like bateman in this role. I hope he can become a little more bad ass as the show goes on. I know they want him to be the "nice guy", and i don't want him to be as "kingpin" as walt was, but still a little more badass-ness. But with all that sad, i still really enjoyed this show, it was done well. You wont regret watching this. Why are people giving this one star????? Its rated R people, stop complaining of violence. This was a great movie in general, and was definitely the best xmen movie yet. This movie was the ONLY xmen movie that actually had deep emotion and character development, and actually invoked emotion in me as a viewer. It was what i always wanted from an xmen movie. To be done right, and taken seriously. People are being too hard on this good movie, better than ANABELLE to me. OK, OK, i understand most peoples problems with this flick. It has some gaps, and some missing story elements. I read a couple of reviews, and people complained about things not being explained and impossible scenarios. But this move was super entertaining. I did not want to turn away, it kept me glued, and was fun. What else do you really want from a horror or mystery movie? It was original, and inventive, and the acting was good. Was it a perfect movie, no... but it was definitely worth watching, and if your on the fence about it, don't be, watch it. And i am picky.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line1001
__label__cc	0.724556	0.275444	A Kotlin long-term update: calm, peaceful, and productive Dan Kim / posted on November 1, 2017 It’s kind of hard to believe, but we’ve been writing Kotlin at Basecamp for 20 months now! And with the first ever KotlinConf starting tomorrow, it felt like a good time to reflect on my time with Kotlin. When I first started off with Kotlin, I was a bit…excitable. I was blown away by all the incredible things it could do. Compared to Java, it made my life so much easier and I was just much happier working with it. I was so excited to be learning this shiny new tech that I would tell anyone that would listen about all its wonders. Now, almost two years in, things are different — in a good way. The big thing is that I’m (mostly) past the initial “holy shit this is awesome” moments of discovery when you first come over from Java — finding out about all those crazy things you can’t do in Java, all the fantastic niceties that become your favorites, and all the little things that save you tons of time. Of course I’m still learning new stuff regularly, but for the most part I’m not running into any huge surprises day to day. And so from that perspective Kotlin has become, well…uneventful. Wonderfully, lovably uneventful! At its best Kotlin is extraordinarily reliable, unfussy, and pragmatic. And while those words might not generate feelings of uncontainable excitement like I experienced at first, they paint an important picture of how awesome Kotlin is, deep down. They’re the things that really matter in a calm (and consequently a productive) work environment. It’s awesome that the language is rock solid stable after upgrades. It’s awesome that every feature has been thoughtfully considered and prioritized against practical, real-world uses. It’s awesome that JetBrains dedicated 5+ years to get to a incredibly stable 1.0. And it’s awesome that once you get the hang of it, Kotlin simply gets out of your way so you can get shit done, fast. At this point in my Kotlin journey, my daily workflow is calm, peaceful, and productive because it’s uneventful. I may not be shout-from-the-rooftops excited about every little Kotlin feature anymore, but that’s OK. What really matters most to me is that Kotlin is a rock solid, stable foundation for my work now and in the future. And that’s worth a lot when shipping good work is the one true reliable measure of success. Past and present aside, the future is bright too. The language is progressing at a fast clip (coroutines!), and the tooling around it is getting better every day. And perhaps most importantly, community involvement — blog posts, conference talks, Stack Overflow answers, and libraries — continues to expand rapidly too. These are exciting times! I’ve had so much fun over the past couple of years building Android apps, and Kotlin’s been a big part of that. The progression from initial excitement to calm productivity to looking ahead at its bright future has been an absolute blast. I cannot wait to see what’s in store for us at KotlinConf and beyond! If you enjoyed this post, please do hit the 👏 button below. Thanks! We’re hard at work making the Basecamp 3 Android app better every day (in Kotlin, of course). Check it out!	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line1002
__label__cc	0.541679	0.458321	TEST ACCOMODATIONS MESSAGE TO PARENTS FL SCHOOL CHOICES Some High-Performing Charters are Innovating in Special Ed – Leaving School Districts Behind Charter schools often have an awkward, if not contentious, relationship with their local districts. That makes sense, as the public charter school movement is essentially a reaction to what can be a cookie cutter way of educating kids in neighborhood schools. Yet charter schools are part of the very same district (or state) that funds the neighborhood schools. It’s as if they’re siblings – they have the same parents but are often rivals – vying for funding, control, students, and political power among other things. Some district/charter relationships are cooperative, but others are rancorous, as illustrated by recent disputes in New York City and Pennsylvania. Not surprisingly, both those disputes involved special education to some extent – probably the most complex, expensive and controversial area of teaching. In most states, charter schools have the option of freeing themselves from these and other disputes by essentially becoming their own districts (legally termed Local Education Agencies or “LEAs”). But the vast majority of charters, even in states like California, where they have the option of becoming their own LEAs, have not taken on the responsibility of fully controlling their own special education programs – possibly out of fear, ignorance or politics. Fortunately, many of the more competent and high-achieving California charters – like KIPP, Aspire, and Rocketship – have chosen the path of autonomy and accountability and are leaving behind special education disputes with districts. Where I work in Florida, where essentially charter schools don’t have the option of becoming their own LEAs (as is also the case in places like Virginia, Maryland and Kansas, and in New York for special education purposes), these special education disputes are problematic for many reasons. They’re terribly inefficient; they come at the expense of children; and they fly in the face of the charter school movement’s supposed commitment to autonomy and accountability. To illustrate why it makes sense that some of the most competent charters are choosing to become their own LEAs and take full responsibility for special education, I’m going to use a business analogy that doesn’t carry the emotional baggage of disabled children. Imagine a young entrepreneur who runs a new and successful Italian restaurant called “Vagare.” Vagare (i.e., the charter school in this story) has grown to serve roughly 300 customers a day. But in this city there’s a local corporate giant: “The Italian Restaurant Company” (i.e., the district). Founded in the late 1800’s, the IRC has virtually cornered the market on Italian restaurants. It serves thousands of customers daily, owns hundreds of locations, and controls restaurant supply firms and food supply chains. You get the picture. The IRC has contracted out some of its locations and provides certain supplies to Vagare and other smaller restaurants. Vagare locally sources most of its ingredients except for Parmigiano Reggiano cheese, which, by contract, it is required to obtain from the IRC, which buys it in bulk from Italy. Authentic Parmesan (i.e., special education services) is difficult and expensive to produce. It’s only exported from three Italian provinces following a government-mandated process which includes feeding cows with dehydrated summer grass during the winter months. Vagare’s owner has become increasingly frustrated with relying on the IRC to get Parmesan that is of variable quality and not always delivered on time. Some customers have even filed claims that the cheese made them ill. Even though technically the IRC and not Vagare is liable for those claims, Vagare wants out of its contract to buy Parmesan via the IRC. Vagare wants to deal with the Italian suppliers directly, despite the need to hire someone who speaks Italian and other complexities. The IRC doesn’t benefit from this relationship either. Why would it want or need the added burden and liability of providing Parmesan to Vagare, a competitor? Rational business people would easily cut the cord, right? Right. While it’s not as simple (nor as rational) for a charter school to become the LEA taking full responsibility for special education services as it is for Vagare to end its contract with the IRC, there are plenty of charters around the country that want that kind of autonomy and accountability. There are also districts willing to give up the control and the funds associated with providing special ed services to charters. The high-achieving California charter schools I mentioned are perhaps the most successful to date because they have banded together. They use the existing state organizational structure to create a consortia of charter LEAs. Together, they are jointly responsible for the development of special education policies and procedures, distribution of federal and state special education funds, and provision of a range of special-ed-related professional development options. Following legal action, other similar consortia have developed, allowing charters to become their own LEAs in D.C.,Colorado and New Orleans, for example, so they can approach the economies of scale that large districts have. In 2011, the Los Angeles Unified School District, the second largest district in the nation, reorganized to provide charter schools a new level of autonomy and flexibility while providing them support and resources to ensure they can effectively serve a wide range of students – even the severely disabled. The aim of some of these charter schools is bold and admirable. They’re not breaking away from districts simply to replicate the existing broken system of special education. They’re trying to create communities of charters that truly provide innovative, high-quality educational options for students with disabilities. This article is re-posted from RedefinEd and EducationNext blogs. 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__label__wiki	0.685125	0.685125	Ads: ► Cloud services ► SEO agency in London ► Tantric massage Central London CipherCloud Honored as Best Cloud Computing Security Solution at SC Awards Europe 2016 LONDON, June 9, 2016 CipherCloud, the leader in cloud visibility and data protection, today announced that its Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) platform has been honored as the Best Cloud Computing Security Solution at the 2016 SC Awards gala on June 7 hosted in conjunction with InfoSecurity Europe 2016. As the IT security industry’s leading global awards program, SC Awards Europe honors the professionals, companies and products that help fend off the myriad security threats facing today’s corporate world. SC Awards Europe celebrates the achievements of the talented IT security players in the trenches, the innovations happening in the vendor and service provider communities, and the passionate work of government, commercial and nonprofits working to help the industry. “We are honored to be recognized as the best cloud computing security solution by SC Magazine,” said Pravin Kothari, founder and CEO of CipherCloud. “As companies wrestle with the ever-growing challenge of cloud security, CipherCloud’s CASB platform enables them to leverage the cloud, avoid risk and maintain visibility and control over sensitive data wherever it resides.” The CipherCloud CASB platform is the industry’s first cloud security solution designed to help companies prepare for the European General Data Protection Requirement (GDPR). Built-in GDPR-readiness capabilities include the ability to detect sensitive personal data across multiple cloud applications, proactively remediate problems, encrypt or tokenize sensitive data to prevent unintended leaks, monitor user activity and detect geographic anomalies. CipherCloud is demonstrating its CASB platform at Stand G60 at InfoSecurity Europe 2016 this week. About CipherCloud CipherCloud, a leader in cloud security and visibility, enables companies to adopt the cloud while delivering data protection, compliance and control. CipherCloud delivers a comprehensive multi-cloud security platform that integrates advanced data protection, content control, monitoring, cloud discovery and risk analysis. The largest financial services, insurance, healthcare, telecommunication, and government companies across more than 25 countries have put their trust in CipherCloud. CipherCloud, named as SC Magazine’s Best Product of the Year, technology is FIPS 140-2 validated and has received investments from premier venture capital firms Andreessen Horowitz, Transamerica Ventures, Delta Partners and T-Venture, the venture capital arm of Deutsche Telekom. Restaurants in London Pubs in London Handyman London Italian Restaurants in London Indian Restaurants in London Removals London Bars in London Nightclubs in London Food Delivery London We are a local marketing solutions provider in London dedicated to helping local businesses and communities grow. Our aim is to connect consumers with businesses, to help people find the professionals they need, when they need them. Don’t worry if you’re a self-employed, a small business or a corporation, we promote businesses of all types and sizes. London Business Directory 12 Aldrick House, Carnegie St London N1 0UE -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Designed by Mike Myers \| Powered by Upvertising Recommending Life Is An Episode, Broccas & Corporate Spotlight	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line1011
__label__wiki	0.5967	0.5967	Newcastle v Longton 1st XV Midlands 2 West (N) 21st December 2019, 2:15 pm Newcastle Rugby Club Longton were visiting the Lilleshall Road home of Newcastle for the first time in many years and came away with a thumping 38-0pts. victory in a game that could easily have topped the 50 point mark had Longton not squandered several clear-cut scoring opportunities. As it was they scored 6 unanswered tries in front of a large and enthusiastic pre-Christmas crowd. Longton were without regular half-backs Nicolas Gomtard, who has returned to his home in France for Christmas, and Sam Bedworth who was on an overseas holiday. Nevertheless, Charlie Rushton and Paul Green deputised superbly at scrum-half and fly-half respectively. The former and centre, Joe Hall, vied for the Man-of-the-Match award with No.8, Pete Wilshaw, as ever, being a forthright ball-carrier. Longton began strongly and totally dominated the early exchanges. The pack won quick ball out to Paul Green who fed the supporting George Glenn who executed a perfect dummy to glide through the defence and touch down under the posts for the opening try after just 5 minutes. Joe Hall converted to make it 7-0pts. The match followed a similar pattern with the Longton pack exerting great pressure on the Newcastle forwards at the scrum and challenged their lineout throws with Rich Thompson, Pete Wilshaw and Gareth Rawlings prominent. Despite 3 or 4 near misses by Longton the next score did not come until the 39th. minute with Newcastle trying their hardest to make good use of the scant possession they won through their lively backs. Paul Green kicked a penalty deep into the home “22” and when the ball was passed quickly from the top of the lineout it was Joe Hall who burst through the middle to score Longton’s second try. He converted his own score to make the half-time score 14 -0pts. The second half began with Newcastle showing more urgency as they ran the ball wide at pace but the Longton defence stood firm. The home side’s prospects were dimmed when their tight-head prop was yellow carded for an offence at the breakdown. With 13mins. of the half gone Longton scored their third try when the forwards executed a perfect catch-and-drive at the lineout and the marched the Newcastle pack backwards for No.8, Pete Wilshaw, to touch down. Joe Hall converted with a fine kick to make it 21-0pts. and there now seemed no way back for the home team. Longton continued to exert pressure on the Newcastle defence and in the 23rd. minute scored their 4th. and bonus point try. From a 5m. scrum the pack marched forward when replacement back row, Eroni Lequai, picked up and dived over. The conversion just went wide but it was now 26-0pts. Just 4mins. later and Longton scored their 5th. try. This time it was more of a well-fashioned team try. The ball was moved quickly left through several pairs of hands before being switched back right from which centre, Joe Hall, burst powerfully through for a superb try. He could not convert his own try though but it was now 31-0pts. Longton continued their domination of territory and possession and it was no surprise when they scored their 6th. and final try. The ball was flashed out right before being switched back to the middle where a strong running Rich Thompson was in support and he had an easy run in under the posts. Joe Hall converted to make the final score 38-0pts. with Longton picking up 5 valuable points away from home. This was a satisfying way for Longton to go into the Christmas break with their next game being at home to Stafford in the New Year. M. Wheat.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line1012
__label__cc	0.547032	0.452968	Louisa May Alcott is My Passion Begun in 2010, this blog offers analysis and reflection by Susan Bailey on the life, works and legacy of Louisa May Alcott and her family. Susan is an active member and supporter of the Louisa May Alcott Society, the Fruitlands Museum and Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House. Adult Biographies Juvenile Biographies Books by friends of the Alcotts Journals & Letters As an actress Ideas on feminism 19th century medicine Little Women Posts Little Men Posts Jo’s Boys posts An Old-Fashioned Girl posts Eight Cousins posts Rose in Bloom posts Aunt Jo’s Scrap-Bag Moods Posts Work A Story of Experience posts A Long Fatal Love-Chase “Blood & Thunder” tales Alcott Scholars Literary Critique Adult Fan Fiction Juvenile Fan Fiction Alcott Family Letters Bronson Alcott Abba Alcott Anna Alcott Pratt Elizabeth Sewall Alcott Lizzie Alcott’s Hillside Diary May Alcott Nieriker Concord Homes Orchard House Virtual Tour May Alcott in Paris Susan’s writing ESSAYS and PRESENTATIONS “From Metaphysics and Christian Science to ‘Little Women:’ The Alcott Family’s Connections to Swampscott and Lynn” “Housekeeping ain’t no joke …” Victorian huswifery with the Alcotts (presentation with audio) Discovery of Anna Alcott/John Pratt photos The True Origins of the P.C. and the P.O. Fact, fiction and in-between: Reading Louisa May Alcott with discernment BookTrib Reviews and Articles From My Garret–Ruminating on Writing Susan’s Public Appearances Other Events and Get-togethers Little Women Sesquicentennial Using this blog to work for you Alcott scholar videos/presentations Tribute to Louisa & Lizzie Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House Fruitlands Museum Little Women 150 Little Women Blog by Trix Wilkens My Growing Library 2019-2020 Louisa May Alcott Readalong on Youtube Students: Online research resources Come Visit Concord Concord Dramatic Union 19th century womanhood Writing for Magazines and Websites Posted on July 31, 2018 August 9, 2018 by susanwbailey Summer Conversational Series 2018: Cathlin Davis “Learning to Be Herself: Alcott’s Lessons in Peer Pressure” Note: This is a long post of over 3000 words. It’s also a core topic of Little Women’s relevancy for teenagers especially when it comes to conformity versus non-conformity, and peer pressure. It’s well worth the read for those of us who wish to pass down Little Women to our daughters and sons, nieces and nephews. Cathlin began by relaying her own “origin story,” having read an abridged version of Little Women at age 11. She had a hard time getting through it finding the rhythm of the language ‘off’ because of the abridgement. By the time she finally finished it a year later she loved it. Her mother then gave her Louisa’s books – WWII volumes with cheap war paper; she also gave her The Best of Louisa May Alcott. Cathin became hooked on Louisa’s books, especially her juvenile works, some of which are hard to find. She began to collect Little Women volumes and possesses 120 copies. Is Little Women dated? Cathlin opened her presentation with a quote from New York Times critic Elizabeth Janeway in 1968, the centennial year of Little Women; Janeway called it “dated and sentimental and full of preaching and moralizing.”. Fifty years later, how much more dated is Little Women? Or is it? Cathlin then gave an example of its relevance by describing a “cat fishing” episode. “Cat fishing” in Little Women Cathlin described “Cat fishing” as when one person goes online and pretends to be someone else and tries to involve a third person in a romantic relationship – they are pretending in order to bring embarrassment to that person. It is a form of cyber bullying popular in high schools. It happened in Little Women where Laurie, posing as John Brooke, writes a letter to Meg professing his undying love as a way of getting back at Jo. Meg responds to the letter but then hides it; she is exposed with when the second letter arrives with Marmee and Jo in the room and is subsequently humiliated. Cathlin likened the scene to today’s cyber bullying explaining how, like Meg, teens are embarrassed because they were tricked but don’t seek help when they should. Little Women is firmly planted in the world of the teenage girl. The world may have changed but teenagers act pretty much the same as they did 150 years ago. The methods may have changed but the underlying human emotions have not. Still reaching her target audience Louisa depicts the 4 teenage March girls with realism, humor and understanding. Cathlin’s witness of a teenage girl doing a happy dance after she got her ticket for the tour at Orchard House beautifully demonstrates how Louisa’s targeted audience still reacts today. Peer pressure and conformity In determining why Little Women still resonates with readers today, Cathlin turned to the topics of peer pressure and conformity: how it is possible to fight the pressure to conform, to be oneself, and still be accepted. Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy all struggle with pressure from peers to conform to societal expectations. Jo fights those expectations while Amy works hard to meet them. In the end the three surviving sisters find a way to live in society while being true to themselves. Little Women thus becomes a story of non-conformity for all of the girls. What keeps Little Women relevant is that many of those expectations have not changed. Teens still worry about what they will wear and how they will fit in at school. Teenage girls can still be very mean. Little Women thus becomes a guidebook on how to navigate within their own peer groups. Beth is shy, too bashful to go to school. Her shyness is described as an “infirmity.” What does it mean to be shy? It does not mean equating it with social anxiety or loneliness. It is a trait rather than a debilitating psychological issue like social anxiety. Cathlin provided examples showing the difference in degrees between shyness and social anxiety, concluding that Beth was merely shy. Beth does go by herself to the market and has developed relationships with the delivery people who come to the house. She takes small parts in the theatricals and does not appear to be lonely. The classroom experience Shyness however is still a problem as our society both then and today expects a certain amount of outgoing behavior; shyness creates problems for peer acceptance. According to current studies, shy teenagers are fearful of being laughed at or not being accepted which makes them more susceptible to bullying, especially in a school setting. Thus it was fortunate that Beth’s parents took her out of public school before she was scarred forever by the experience. Cathlin asked us to consider the classroom setting in Amy’s case . Amy’s teacher, Mr. Davis, was a learned man but he was not trained in considering the emotional and social needs of his students. There were 50 girls in the room whom he had to manage. He would expect all of his students to stand up in front of the other 49 and recite and if she doesn’t talk loudly enough, she would be reprimanded. So imagine Beth in that environment – her parents did her a favor. The Palace Beautiful The piano loaned to the Alcotts and played by Lizzie. Photo by Kristi Martin. Cathlin cited more studies suggesting that the way for a shy person to move past their shyness was to give them motivation – offering to them something they loved and thus, would strive for. Here Alcott writes the chapter “Beth Finds the Palace Beautiful” where Mr. Laurence successfully coaxes Beth out of her shell with offers to play his fine piano. Her love of the music would triumph over her shyness (and Laurie would facilitate by making sure the servants did not listen nor disturb her.). In the end she succeeds and is gifted with her own piano from Mr. Laurence who has grown fond of her. She does not hesitate to go over and thank him, even sitting in his lap and giving him a hug. Gruff old Mr. Laurence had provided Beth with a safe space and thus was rewarded with her friendship. Talking to a “dreadful boy” In “Camp Laurence,” Laurie and Jo both continue to provide safety for Beth despite the social situation; Beth does not want to be the focus of any attention. In the end she talked to the invalid Frank who was feeble and kind. The sisters are wise enough not to call attention to the fact that Beth is talking to one of “those dreadful boys” but they amazed, nonetheless. Many friends Later on when Beth is ill we begin to see just how many people she had actually interacted with, from the baker to the grocer to the butcher who all inquired after her. Beth remains shy but she is never totally disconnected from the world; even while she was dying she made little gifts and dropped them out the window to the school children passing by. Thus through Beth, Alcott illustrates how each sister is supported by the family in every circumstance even if the wider world does not provide such support. Cathlin cited a study that shows that teenagers are morbidly obsessed with how they appear to others; we see this in Beth who does not want to be an imposition on anyone. Jo, however, does not care, she being the most non-conforming of all the characters. She called her greatest afflictions that she could not read, run and write as much as she liked. Jo and Amy, as previously mentioned, have an argument in Chapter One involving conformity (Jo shouldn’t use slang or whistle, etc.). Meg points out Jo that she is now wearing her hair up and Jo promptly takes it down and swears she will wear it as two pigtails. I won’t grow up What doesn’t Jo want to grow up? She complains about the restrictive clothing of women (long gowns) because she prefers the games, manners and ways of boys. Jo surprisingly does not look to her mother as the example of womanhood but rather, looks outside at her peers. She dislikes what she sees and has to find her own way of being true to herself while still finding acceptance. Cathlin admitted that she could not find a modern equivalent to Jo as a teen refusing to conform to her gender; her behavior was not as extreme as the boy who decides to wear eyeliner or the girl who gives herself a buzz cut. Jo did not do what she did on purpose to prove something but rather simply wanted the freedom to ice skate or play cricket or whatever else she desired. Cathlin cited studies which suggest that social acceptance by peers, even if one is atypical, is more important to teenagers than conformity. If a teen can find a support network of friends who accept her as she is, her self worth will be affirmed and she will not feel pressured to conform. Jo, in the 19th century, is non-conforming but is also accepted by her main peer group: her sisters. They call her “Jo” rather than Josephine; they allow her to play all the male roles in the plays; Beth in particular calls Jo funny and dear as she is. Meg and Amy complain the most about Jo but this is because they feel the most peer pressure from their friends. Finding a friend Cathlin provided an example where Jo chose to be non-conforming in a social setting by calling to mind the New Year’s party she attended with Meg where she meets up with Laurie. Although she loves to dance and to watch people, she is forced to stand with her back against the wall because her dress is scorched; she is feeling alone and left out. Laurie sees her and engages her in conversation and they hit it off such that they dance together behind the scenes. They helped each other forget what everyone else might think. Both Laurie and Jo were non-conforming and that understanding cemented their friendship. In “Camp Laurence,” Jo and Laurie continue to feel comfortable being themselves when they are with each other. Jo understands propriety and reminds Laurie of his obligations to his guests. They are both trying to find their way through society’s rules. Alcott gives Jo a male friend who allows Jo to be herself even as Meg keeps reminding Jo of her obligation to conform and be a lady. In “Calls,” we see how Amy desires to fulfill every expectation of conformity while Jo rebels. She will go with Amy but will not change her clothes because she is comfortable in them. In her mind, why should she change into uncomfortable clothes on a hot day to see people she doesn’t like? Amy tells Jo that she will instruct her on how to behave so that she can make a good impression. Amy does not want Jo to be herself but when Jo is not, she gets into trouble. Amy finally relents and when Jo is herself, the visit is successful. But Amy is still horrified at Jo’s behavior. Amy is Jo’s opposite — she wishes to conform so that she can be part of the inner circle — this is a top priority in her life. She aspires to be a true gentlewoman and hide their poverty and is appalled that Jo keeps revealing it. Cathlin illustrated with two examples, the first being about the limes. In jockeying for position, Amy’s classmate Jenny becomes jealous and tells Mr. Davis (their teacher) that Amy has the limes which he had previously forbidden. Amy’s desire to compete with Jenny for the spot in the inner circle (because she resorts to being mean like Jenny) is what gets her into trouble. Girls are aggressive but usually in more indirect ways, such as using cutting remarks about one’s appearance, etc. (Jenny making fun of Amy’s nose, for example). Amy is more open to this kind of bullying because she so desperately wants to be a part of the group; this makes her a perfect target. We see this at the art fair in “Consequences” where some of the girls want to bring Amy down a peg or two. May Chester is jealous because Amy is getting more attention; she also wants to get back at Jo for making fun of her. May arranges it so that at the art fair, Amy is not allowed to have the favorite table, removing her from the inner circle physically and banning her to the back corner. Amy shows her maturity by rising above it all and making the most of it, rather than being petulant as with the limes. Cathlin likened it to a game, with Amy conquering her nemesis with kindness. Knowing the rules of the game, she is determined to win and knows she can. Show of support Jo and Laurie rally for Amy, telling their friends to patronize Amy’s table. As current research about bullying and teens show, people who support the person being bullied help a great deal, even more than if the person doing the bullying (May Chester) is directly confronted. This Alcott shows with Jo and Laurie supporting Amy. They made her table the most successful, thus getting back at May Chester with their success. Amy may not be a part of May’s inner circle, but she succeeds nonetheless. Amy’s graciousness with the situation wins praise from her family. She wants to be a noble gentlewoman and is well on her way. The “right match” To continue making headway into that inner circle, Amy attracts the affections of the wealthy Fred Vaughn who is her ticket out of poverty. She rationalizes her decision with her family, insisting that the “right match” is the correct choice. Laurie sees that by conforming in this way, Amy is betraying her core values (while Aunt March would have approved). In the end, Amy can’t accept Fred’s proposal, coming back to herself and the values she learned from her parents. Cathlin noted that Alcott had already set in motion the romance between Amy and Laurie which gave Amy the way out with Fred; she was able to contrast Laurie with Fred in her mind and make the right choice, even if she did not know yet that she would become Laurie’s wife. It became more important for her to become a “loveable woman,” and in the end she is rewarded with everything she wanted: status and position; more importantly, she is true to herself. Amy dreaded being laughed at while Meg feared being pitied. Meg thinks that wealth and position will make her happy but instead, it makes her susceptible to peer pressure. Peers can encourage risky behavior as in the case of Sally Moffat. For the party at the Moffats, Meg is “dressed up” and she acts out by flirting and drinking champagne, all for which she pays a price: Laurie’s disapproval, guilt, and waking up with with a hangover the next morning. She gave in because of her need to avoid being pitied for her shabby dress and lack of prospects. Amy’s pressure came from the inside but for Meg, it came from the outside — from her friends. Meg’s friends want her to be a part of their group; while they are not bullying her, they require that she conform. The next day, feeling the effects of the night before plus remorse, she confesses to her mother explaining that she let the girls flatter her and “make a fool of me.” She did admit however to the enjoyment of being praised and admired even if bowing to peer pressure was not good. Overcoming the envy John tells Meg how he feels about her. Once married to John, Meg is still dissatisfied comparing Sally Moffat’s married life of wealth and position to hers of genteel poverty. Upon closer examination however, Sally (married to Ned) is bored and feeling neglected by her husband while Meg is happy with John. Sally and Meg spend time together which is a bad influence on Meg, creating further dissatisfaction with her lot in life. Made to feel pitied and poor Meg purchases silk for a new dress with the money that had been set aside for her husband’s much-needed coat. She confesses her weakness to John and returns the silk, buying the coat instead. She stops spending time with Sally and soon her days are full with the twins, Demi and Daisy. Cathlin maintains that Alcott is making the point that young women need purpose: they need something to do. Eventually Meg becomes the one who is envied by Sally because Meg has a loving husband and children to raise while Sally only has her wealth which is empty and lonely. Meg then becomes the positive influence on Sally. Writing on the struggles of growing up Louisa did not want to write Little Women and had great doubts about her ability to do so. How she managed to write the quintessential coming-of-age book is a “mystery” but Cathlin believes that the longer format allowed Alcott to fully explore the struggles of growing up: how to face difficulties; how to respond to bullies with grace; and how to reject conformity and yet belong, moving beyond peer pressure. Overcoming faults Cathlin came to an interesting conclusion: in Book One, all the girls fail to overcome their faults with the exception of Beth: she did not allow her shyness to keep her from Mr. Laurence and his piano. She overcame her ‘debility’ in order to be kind to a teenage boy who needed a friend: Frank Vaughn. Timeless characters Girls today have the same struggles as Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy with peer pressure, bullying and expectations of conforming. Reading Little Women gives them characters who work through these struggles. They are real girls with real problems, faults and failings, and they find ways to overcome them and lead happy and fulfilled lives. They have learned to be themselves. Alcott captures the truth of adolescent life that is not restricted to the 19th century. And this is why you will encounter girls and women today at the gift shop at Orchard House who can’t wait to take the house tour and thus, the pilgrimage, through their most beloved book. Cathlin is a Full Professor in the College of Education at California State University-Stanislaus who started reading Louisa May Alcott’s books at the age of 11, and never stopped. Cathlin has presented at the Conversational Series for over a decade, and published an article based on a Series presentation, with several others in the works. She specializes in Alcott’s juvenile fiction, particularly in its connection to education and the depiction of the lives of children. Are you passionate about Louisa May Alcott too? Subscribe to the email list and Keep up with news and free giveaways on Susan’s books, Louisa May Alcott: Illuminated by The Message, and River of Grace! 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Louisa May Alcott: Illuminated by The Message: “Susan Bailey's new book is part of a series called Literary Portals to Prayer, which is meant to encourage a kind of literary lectio divina, a form of contemplative reading that is a pathway to prayer. An intriguing idea for a book, no? And there’s no better person to write it than Susan Bailey.” Lori Erickson, The Holy Rover on Patheos “I never fully realized how much spiritual content is integrated into her body of work. Ms. Bailey extracts beautiful and uplifting passages and pairs them with Biblical ones that make similar points. It includes some of Alcott’s less well known works which makes me want to read those that I have missed.” Diane Brandi Susan Bailey has compiled a remarkable edition of side by side texts, demonstrating a deep understanding of the life, world, and spirituality of Alcott. The matches [with the Bible} are spot on and insightful. Eileen Charbonneau. award-winning author River of Grace: Susan Bailey’s powerful and beautifully-written book is much more than an insightful spiritual memoir. River of Grace is also a brilliant reflection on the connections between creativity and grace. A book one to cherish. Amy Belding Brown, author of Mr. Emerson’s Wife and Flight of the Sparrow Susan Bailey is an accomplished researcher of all things pertaining to Louisa May Alcott. I found joy in the way that [she] shares about her favorite authoress. Miss Alcott's books wedged themselves into Susan's soul and allowed her to identify parallels and discover herself again. This is not a story of how to get over grief fast -- but how to deal with it and give your afflictions to the Almighty. Tarissa, In the Bookcase blog Archives Select Month December 2020 November 2020 October 2020 September 2020 July 2020 April 2020 March 2020 February 2020 January 2020 December 2019 November 2019 October 2019 September 2019 August 2019 July 2019 June 2019 May 2019 April 2019 March 2019 February 2019 January 2019 December 2018 November 2018 October 2018 September 2018 August 2018 July 2018 June 2018 May 2018 April 2018 March 2018 February 2018 January 2018 December 2017 November 2017 October 2017 September 2017 August 2017 July 2017 June 2017 May 2017 April 2017 March 2017 January 2017 December 2016 November 2016 October 2016 August 2016 July 2016 June 2016 May 2016 April 2016 March 2016 February 2016 January 2016 December 2015 November 2015 October 2015 September 2015 August 2015 July 2015 June 2015 May 2015 April 2015 March 2015 February 2015 January 2015 December 2014 November 2014 October 2014 September 2014 August 2014 July 2014 June 2014 May 2014 April 2014 March 2014 February 2014 January 2014 December 2013 November 2013 October 2013 September 2013 August 2013 July 2013 June 2013 May 2013 April 2013 March 2013 February 2013 January 2013 December 2012 November 2012 October 2012 September 2012 August 2012 July 2012 June 2012 May 2012 April 2012 March 2012 February 2012 January 2012 December 2011 November 2011 October 2011 September 2011 August 2011 July 2011 June 2011 May 2011 April 2011 March 2011 February 2011 January 2011 December 2010 November 2010 October 2010 September 2010 August 2010 "A very strange and solemn feeling came over me as I stood there, with no sound but the rustle of the pines, no one near me, and the sun so glorious, as for me alone. 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__label__wiki	0.522097	0.522097	MERIAN'S DECORATIVE MAP OF AFRICA NOVA DESCRIPTIO AFRICAE A highly decorative 17th Century map closely copied from Blaeu. The Nile is shown according to Ptolemy, with its sources arising in the lakes Zaire and Zaflan, as well as many other fictitious details. It is embellished with numerous ships, sea monsters (including a great sea-horse), a compass rose and exotic animals wandering all over the continent. Attractive typical Merian script for the place names. Good hand colour References: Norwich, O.I. 33; Tooley, R.V. (Africa) p.63. Cartographer : MERIAN Matthaus MERIAN Date : 1640c Frankfurt About MERIAN Matthaus MERIAN Matthäus Merian der Ältere (or "Matthew", "the Elder", or "Sr."; 22 September 1593 - 19 June 1650) was a Swiss-born engraver who worked in Frankfurt for most of his career, where he also ran a publishing house. Born in Basel, Merian learned the art of copperplate engraving in Zürich. He next worked and studied in Strasbourg, Nancy, and Paris, before returning to Basel in 1615. The following year he moved to Frankfurt, Germany where he worked for the publisher Johann Theodor de Bry, who was the son of renowned engraver and traveler Theodor de Bry. In 1623 Merian took over the publishing house of his father-in-law after de Bry's death. In 1626 he became a citizen of Frankfurt and could henceforth work as an independent publisher. He spent most of his working life in Frankfurt. He produced the 21-volume set was collectively known as the Topographia Germaniae. It includes numerous town plans and views, as well as maps of most countries and a World Map-it was such a popular work that it was re-issued in many editions. He also took over and completed the later parts and editions of the Grand Voyages and Petits Voyages, originally started by de Bry in 1590. After his death, his sons Matthäus Jr. and Caspar took over the publishing house. They continued publishing the Topographia Germaniae and the Theatrum Europaeum under the name Merian Erben (i.e. Merian Heirs). Other Items By MERIAN Matthaus MERIAN PIEDMONT GENOA PEDEMONTANA REGIO CUM GENUENSIUM (AVIGNON) CIVITATUS AVENIONIS FRANCE GAALLIA LE ROYAUME DE FRANCE HOLLAND AMSTERDAM HOLLANDIA COMITATUS HOLLAND BELGII SIVE GERMANIA INFERIORIS LOMBARDY NOVA ET ACCURATA DUCATUS VENETIANI MEDIOLANI GENUA RUSSIA TABULA RUSSIAE GENEVA GENEVE GENFF GENEVA GENEVE MERIAN'S MAP VIEW OF LAUSANNE MERIAN'S SEVENTEENTH CENTURY VIEW OF FLORENCE MERIAN'S MAP OF PERSIA MERIAN'S WORLD MAP IN PLANISPHERE RARE MAP OF THE ENGLISH CHANNEL 1641 MERIAN'S SUPERB MAP OF PARIS MERIAN'S LARGE PANORAMA OF PARIS MERIAN PANORAMA OF BORDEAUX MERIAN SUPERB PANORAMA OF CONSTANTINOPLE ISTANBUL MERIAN MAP OF CHINA 1640 EAST INDIES PAPUA AUSTRALIA BY MERIAN 1640 MERIAN WORLD IN HEMISPHERES MERIAN RARE PLAN VIEW OF ZURICH MERIAN'S STUNNING PLAN VIEW OF LISBON MERIAN VIEW OF EDINBURGH 1640 MERIAN'S MAP OF SOUTHERN AFRICA AFTER BLAEU 1640 MERIAN'S VERSION OF BLAEU'S IMPORTANT MAP	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line1020
__label__wiki	0.582284	0.582284	Asgard 20 ℃ Popular with the WeChoice Awards 2020, NoWay shared: “My desire is to be an inspirational person” Putting away the Spider-Man suit, Tom Holland transformed into a notorious bank robber in the new movie trailer of the Russo brothers. The stars struggled to find their peak in the 2021 League of Legends season Daredevil vs She-Hulk: Who is the better lawyer? Series of stubborn characters that players have ever accompanied in shooting games Ways for Iron Man to beat Superman ‘Remove’ all the shocking details in WandaVision: Who is the little image of the traumatic Iron Man, the horror silhouette at the end of the movie? Admiring Christian Bale’s transforming ability when filming: Whether the character is muscular or thin, he can ‘weigh’ all 3 console exclusive titles that are being ‘craved’ by the PC gaming community ‘I’ve been working for Apple for 22 years. Here’s what Jobs taught me about selling eroticism. ‘ [Donate] PayPal Marvel - NameCheap \| Domain, Hosting, VPS, SSL from Marvel-IT.icu multiverse Home>_Live>_80,000 years old, 5.9 million kg, the largest and oldest creature in the world is dying 80,000 years old, 5.9 million kg, the largest and oldest creature in the world is dying Poplars reproduce through a special process, unlike many other plants that often reproduce asexually. Accordingly, young plants will germinate right on the sub-branch of the root system. When a poplar wishes to die, a new tree will soon form nearby. Just like that, congratulations have created a crowded and identical population. Seen from above, they look like independent individuals, but the cluster uses the same root system. Due to growing from a common root, scientists consider Pando to be a unique living organism. These poplars are called “trembling” poplars, otherwise known as American poplars, yellow poplars or “trembling giants”. The most amazing thing is that a total of more than 47,000 “shaky” poplar trees, covering an area of 0.42 km2 and weighing 5.9 million kg, all come from the same root and they all use the same gene and create one. an asexual forest more than 80,000 years old. In addition, it is known as the largest and oldest creature in the world. But there is the fact that the world’s oldest living organism lacks genetic diversity and is consequently dying. After studying trembling poplars, a team led by Paul Rogers, an associate professor at Utah State University, discovered that 80% of poplar trees were and were in danger. The culprits are still the influences from the development and expansion of human activities. The researchers measured the health of each part of Pando by calculating the number of live and dead trees, the number of newly born branches and stems, and the faeces of the animals in the area. Results showed that the deer had the greatest impact on the health of the forest. They often have the habit of eating new shoots and new poplars and making the forest grow old because young trees cannot grow and develop, which means that old poplar trees will gradually grow. die and cannot produce any more new plants. Why has this happened until now? The answer is still influenced by people. In the early 20th century, humans killed large numbers of deer predators such as wolves and grizzly in this area and turned it into a camping area and turned it into a deer paradise. That has contributed to the continuous increase in the number of deer deer, the young rhizomes of the poplar trees trembling with which they are destroyed, so most of the forest now has no young trees or poplars of the age group “. middle-aged “, all that’s left are old poplars. Comparing aerial photos in this area over the past 72 years also confirms this is entirely true. As a result, the growing Pando areas have been shrinking over the past decades. More precisely, in the last 30 – 40 years, Pando’s fertility was no longer fast enough to replace large dead trees, and not enough to resist the devastating speed of herbivores. And finally the rescue for the oldest and oldest creature has begun. People erected a fence around a part of the land in 2013 and did not allow deer to come near to destroy the young trees. In just a few years, thousands of new stems have grown to a height of 3.6 to 4.5 meters. But in half of the places where there are no fences, the bad situation continues. Some time later, the situation did not get better as fenced areas were gradually destroyed, estimating that about 30% of the fenced area was destroyed by deer. through an umbrella at an altitude of 2.4 meters. Scientists have come up with a number of solutions to protect poplar trees, such as using hunters to reduce the number of herbivores, using natural enemies but it does not seem to be approved by the community because there will be many problems. balance the native fauna. Currently, scientists are looking for another option that is … fencing. However, this is not the best solution because many herbivores can still jump very high over the fence. It seems that human activities have a great impact on nature. A seemingly common behavior like hunting, killing wolves and grizzly, almost killed the world’s oldest creature. What about deforestation and destroying wildlife? How many lives will die of human expansion? Scientists are currently unable to find the optimal way to save this “creature” as it gets older. asexual reproduction Conservation area herbivores National Forest Game of Thrones: Why do the wild children of the North all carry the surname Snow? 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__label__wiki	0.610551	0.610551	Home/Business/Nigeria : Relishing Triumphant Entry of OPay, ORide BusinessFeaturedGlobal BrandsNigeriaWorld Nigeria : Relishing Triumphant Entry of OPay, ORide Towards the end of June 2019, lemon green helmets bobbed atop 200cc motorcycles swerving through traffic in Nigeria’s economic capital, Lagos State. Even though this spectacle is not exactly new as motorcycle-on-demand companies have become quite popular in the metropolis, the new colours signalled the presence of a new player in town. An ORide rider waits for a passenger On the 1st of July, ORide was officially announced and came to join existing contenders MAX Okada and Gokada. Payments company, OPay, founded the motorcycle-on-demand platform, and both are under parent company Opera Software AS. O Rides swept into the market bullishly with an aggressive customer acquisition strategy. As long as riders used O Pay, they were allowed to pay a ₦100 ($0.27) flat rate for trips costing less than ₦2000 ($5.5). This amount later increased to ₦200 ($0.55). At some point, it became clear that O Ride was not just playing in the motorcycle-hailing space, as it seemed. However, mobility was not the only tool in its arsenal. In June, O Pay raised ₦18 billion ($50 million), which is now being used to bulldoze its way through barriers and get users on its platform by any means. In the last month, O Ride launched in Kano, Oyo, and Abia States as tricycles while O Bus launched in Lagos State. Since June, students in higher institutions have been able to buy meals for less than one-tenth of their original prices because they paid with O Pay. A look at these strategies and offerings on the O Pay app shows that it is gearing up to be the ultimate super app, the WeChat of Nigeria, and potentially, Africa. WeChat is the Chinese company famous for a platform where users can chat, pay, and do all basic (and even complex) internet transactions in one place. Apart from O Ride and payments, the O Pay app has O Bus, O Wealth, O Kash, O Food, and physical agents scattered across Lagos and spreading through Nigeria. These multiple options allow users borrow, transfer and receive money, invest, order food, and move around. It is truly the making of a super app. But if this is the plan, O Pay will not be the first. Treading charted waters Over the years, in one way or the other, many Nigerian companies have tried to build super apps and arguably failed. These super apps are applications that combine a bunch of usually stand-alone services in one place so that users can do everything without switching between apps. China’s WeChat is a great example of a super app and Gojek in Indonesia is another. In Nigeria where O Pay is building out its suite of services from, the struggle to build a ‘Nigerian WeChat’ has been a long and painful one. Most of the companies trying to build these ‘everything apps’ are financial institutions and telcos, with the sole purpose being to keep users on one platform. Nearly every Nigerian bank has an app that is trying to do everything. Notable Nigerian examples are GTBank’s Habari, Jumia One, NowNow, Quickteller and a host of others. Even WeChat did not succeed in being the WeChat of Nigeria. In 2016, the company did a massive campaign in Nigeria to gain users, but two years later, WhatsApp is still the preferred chat platform while the WeChat buzz has died down considerably; and even though they denied it, the company most likely exited Nigeria. Now to the most important question, will a ₦18 billion financial arsenal make the difference on OPay’s quest? The Nigerian consumer is disloyal and generally brand agnostic. This is nothing personal, just a dictate of harsh economic realities; many Nigerians are poor on paper and in real life. This means the cheapest services are the most likely preferred. But all this call up the second and most important question. How long can OPay afford to be the cheapest option on its offerings? At this rate, for OPay, the cost of customer acquisition is already astronomical and will continue to climb. After acquisition, retention becomes another issue. Nevertheless, for OPay, churn rate may not matter if ride-hailing and logistics are not the endgame. An alternative reality All of OPay’s services are aimed at making people use the payments platform and financial technology services; payments may be a likely endgame. If the current trends turn out to be just customer acquisition strategies, then the current churn rate on other services might be unimportant and customer acquisition costs (CAC) will be justified. From OPay’s perspective, CAC in Nigeria is most likely around ₦500 ($1.4) – ₦2,000 ($5.5); the cost of a free ride or meal on the platform. An anonymous source said one of Nigeria’s top ecommerce startups spent as much as $100 on acquiring one customer. So for OPay, CAC is low. Effects on the market and Nigerian tech ecosystem According to Eghosa Omoigui, an early-stage emerging markets investor, OPay is good. “I think the market has always needed a strategic investor that understood it and took it seriously enough to deploy a meaningful amount of capital,” Omoigui said of OPay’s commitment into the Nigerian market. For years, Opera Software has played in Africa, first as an optimised browser, then in the news business as Opera News, and now as OPay. So, it certainly has an in-depth understanding of the African market. Moreover, the ripple effects of its $50 million direct investment into the Nigerian tech ecosystem will spread across talent development and job creation. Technology in Nigeria has also struggled for a while to improve financial inclusion in the country. In addition, OPay’s targeting of the unbanked will help improve the situation in the country. On the other hand, OPay bulldozing the china shop of offerings in Nigeria makes for stiff competition on all fronts. Logistics and ride-hailing companies are presently on their toes judging from reactive measures taken by these players. Motorcycle-on-demand companies MAX Okada and Gokada are most likely feeling the brunt of ORide’s aggressive customer acquisition strategy. The latter recently announced a break (that ended yesterday), to restrategise, and most observers surmise this was a duck for a breather. According to a representative of a leading mobility player in Nigerian, OPay’s competition is good for the logistics and ride-hailing industry, but the company needs to re-strategise. “The sky is big enough for every player in this industry to thrive and Nigeria is a very dynamic market especially in the mobility, logistics, and transportation sector. But the sector is also fraught with a lot of challenges that simply layering with technology will not solve. I am worried about the rate they are launching as they don’t seem to be solving any problems with these cities they are expanding into and that’s bad,” the source said requesting anonymity. “In the end, the customers win because every player will up their game and better service offerings.” And considering that these industries are most likely not the endgame, fintech startups will soon get strong competition too. Time will tell if these competitions are healthy for the Nigerian market or not. 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__label__wiki	0.533926	0.533926	Disney Accused Of Inflating Revenue Posted by Toi Williams on Aug 21st, 2019 A former senior financial analyst for Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) has accused the company of repeatedly and systematically overstating its revenue for years. Sandra Kuba, who worked for Disney’s revenue operations unit for 18 years, filed a series of whistleblower tips with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission detailing the allegations. She claims that the entertainment conglomerate overstated revenue by as much as $6 billion in a single year by exploiting weaknesses in the company’s accounting software. All of the allegations involve the company’s parks and resort segment. The complaints allege that Disney inflated sales numbers by assigning revenue to free rounds of golf and free guest promotions. It is also claimed that Disney reclassified some high-sales-tax items, like hotel rooms, to lower-taxed items, such as food and beverages, to reduce its sales tax liabilities in Florida, California and Hawaii. Several allegations were made regarding the company’s gift card practices. Kuba accused theme park employees of accounting for $500 gift cards at face value while charging $395 for them in order to artificially boost revenue. In some cases, revenue was recorded even though a gift card was given to a guest for free following a customer complaint. Sometimes, gift card revenue was recorded twice, both when guests bought the gift card and when it was used at a resort. Kuba claims that she first reported the issues to management in 2013, but she received no response from the company. The issues were escalated to a more senior executive in 2016, after which Disney’s corporate audit group contacted her once. Kuba sent the complaints to the SEC in August 2017 and was reportedly fired from her position a month later. She then filed a whistleblower-retaliation complaint with the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Disney has denied the claims. A Disney spokesperson said that “This former employee, who was fired for cause, has persistently made patently false claims for over two years. The claims she made to the company were thoroughly investigated and found to be utterly baseless.” Disney’s response to an investigator’s inquiry said that Kuba’s employment was terminated because “she displayed a pattern of workplace complaints against co-workers without a reasonable basis for doing so, in a manner that was inappropriate, disruptive and in bad faith.” Brain Changes Seen With Common ADHD Medication European Fund Floated To Invest In Tech Companies Coronavirus Outbreak May Cause U.S. Drug Shortages Quarantine Patients’ Move To Cosa Mesa Temporarily Halted Deere Reports Unexpected Profit General Mills Has New Plan To Increase Profitability High-fat, High-sugar Diet Can Change Your Brain Dairy Farmers of America Acquiring Part Of Dean Foods Medtronic Insulin Pumps Recalled Over Incorrect Dosing Merger Of T-Mobile And Sprint Approved By Judge NASA Team Fixed Voyager 2 In Interstellar Space Facebook Fighting Coronavirus Misinformation Ukraine Angered By Iran’s Denials In Jet Crash Forever 21 To Sell Retail Business FCC Going After Wireless Carriers For Selling Location Data Airbus To Pay Record $4 Billion Fine Ring Under Fire For Sharing Customers’ Data U.S. Ramps Up Fight Against Counterfeit Goods Huawei And TomTom Partner On New Map App Bose Closing Every Store In North America European Union Wants To Standardize Smartphone Charging Target Misses Expectations For Holiday Season © 2018-2021 Mayfield Recorder	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line1036
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__label__wiki	0.570895	0.570895	"All Along the Watchtower" Inside The Track 49 - Part 4 Subtitled in hoosing takes, maintaining vision, Jimi’s writing process, demo recordings, focus on vocals about EDDIE KRAMER Eddie Kramer has such an astonishing pedigree that his career description reads almost like the history of rock‘n’roll itself During the sixties and early seventies he was at the heart of the birth of rock, when he worked with the likes of The Kinks, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Traffic, John Mayall, The Small Faces, and most of all, Jimi Hendrix — Kramer engineered all four albums released during the guitarist’s life, as well as five Led Zeppelin studio albums. EDDIE KRAMER profile discover all the masters EDDIE KRAMER profile discover all the masters There are no comments - Login and leave a comment Grace Potter "The wind cries mary" Deconstructing a Mix #28 Series \| 1h30 Jimi Hendrix "All Along the Watchtower" Inside The Track #49 Sessions In The Sixties Video \| 00:07:15 How Do You Keep Inspired Along Your Career How to Know When the Mix is Finished Mixing Your Own Productions The Rough Mix Syndrome The Biggest Mistakes in Modern Recording The Right Attitude to Produce a Record Inside the track 5 - Part 3	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line1042
__label__wiki	0.511907	0.511907	Brock Lesnar’s intestinal infection reemerges November 27, 2019 by Staff Former UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar has been forced to pull out of his number one contender matchup against Junior dos Santos, due to a reoccurrence of the intestinal infection that almost ended his life a few years ago. Apparently, Lesnar started noticing symptoms a few months ago. The MMA fighter underwent a series of tests on May 12 and the results confirmed his fears. Given the seriousness of Lesnar’s medical issues, the obvious choice was pull out of his scheduled UFC 131 encounter with Junior dos Santos. Heavy-handed MMA fighter Shane Carwin will be Lesnar’s replacement at UFC 131. Carwin dominated Lesnar in his last MMA fight, handing the then UFC heavyweight champion a thorough beating in the first round. Unfortunately for Carwin, Lesnar was able to reverse his fortune and finish the fight with an arm-triangle in the second round. Now, Carwin has another opportunity to earn a title shot when he faces Junior dos Santos at UFC 131. The fight should be really interesting since both MMA fighters have similar styles. Both MMA fighters have serious knock power coupled with solid wrestling skills. Hopefully, Lesnar will be able to fight off his infection once again and get back in the Octagon sooner rather than later. While some of his actions might have rubbed a number of MMA fans the wrong way, Lesnar’s accomplishments inside the Octagon should earn him some respect from any true fan of the sport. One thing’s for sure, Lesnar’s morale has not been broken by the ordeal. While discussing his condition, the MMA fighter seemed confident as ever. Lesnar said: “It’s a matter of removing some of my colon and reattaching it, and I can’t foresee that being a career-threatening ordeal. At least, I hope not, I’ll tell you one thing: I’m not retiring. This isn’t the end of my fighting career. I believe there’s a solution to every problem. I just gotta find the right solution to fix this problem. This isn’t the end of Brock Lesnar. This is a speed bump in the road. I’ve hit a lot of speed bumps in my career and this is one of them.” More content: Amir Khan Talks About OSDT UFC On Fuel TV 4 Predictions Andre Ward And Chad Dawson Talk About Upcoming Fight Categories MMA, UFC Post navigation Dan Hardy, Chris Lytle set for UFC Live 5 Jeff Monson to replace Del Rosario at Strikeforce June 18 event:	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line1043
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__label__wiki	0.922776	0.922776	HomeRegional Baahubali Trivia: War Sequences Were Shot For 120 Days, Non-Stop "For the war sequences in the film, we shot continually for 120 days with just breaks of one or two days in between," says Senthil Kumar Rinku Gupta, iFlickz.com \| April 09, 2017 15:47 IST (Chennai) Baahubali: A still from the movie "We have even shot for 24 hours," said Senthil Kumar "I would have to wake up at 4.30am every day,'" he added "I hardly saw my children grow up," said Senthil Kumar Team Baahubali: The Conclusion has every reason to cheer and take a well-needed break, once the film releases on April 28. The much-awaited film has taken over a large chunk of over four years of its cast and crew. All through the exhaustive schedules, what was it that kept the team motivated to give it their best shot? How much of their personal lives did the crew put on hold so that one of the most mammoth productions in India could take shape? In an exclusive chat with KK Senthil Kumar, the cinematographer of Baahubali, we get a sneak peek into some of the behind-the-scenes moments of this historical epic. Senthil Kumar, who has worked with director S S Rajamouli in several films prior to Baahubali, like Maghadheera and Eega, says "Baahubali is my eighth film with S S Rajamouli. He is a visionary director. He has a head brimming over with lots of great ideas. Everything is done by him by meticulously planning in advance." For over four years now, Senthil Kumar admits he has had no such thing as a social life. "A film of such magnitude required a detailed pre-production planning process of which I was a part. Then began the actual shoot. It was shot majorly in Hyderabad but at a distance from my home, at Ramoji Film City. So I would have to wake up at 4.30am every day to reach the studio at 6.30am, in order to begin shoot at 7am. At 6pm, we could hit pack up but I would have to stay back and discuss the next day's shoot till 7pm on most days. By the time I would get home through the traffic it would be 9.30 pm. This was my daily routine for nearly five years. Usually in other films, one would shoot for 15 days and then take a break for a few days. But for Baahubali, it was entirely different. For instance, for the war sequences in the film, we shot continually for 120 days with just breaks of one or two days in between. Whenever we shot outdoors in the Film City premises, we could pack up at 6pm because light would fade after that. But the days we had to shoot indoors on floor sets in the Film City, the shooting would extend until late in the night if needed because the lighting was artificial and therefore under our control. So, if there was some delay or some improvisation needed, we would continue shooting till late at night. Our main priority would be to complete the scenes and on certain occasions, we have even shot for 24 hours to complete the scenes." "Nothing would stop us" Baahubali: Senthil Kumar on the sets of the film (courtesy iflickz.com) Senthil Kumar also was on his toes, improvising on location. He recalls, "During one schedule planned in Mahabaleshwar, our work was impaired due to the continuous rains. We had reached the location with our cast and crew based on the weather report that skies would be clear. But the unexpected rains continued to play spoilsport. With the entire crew waiting, I told Rajamouli that we could improvise. So I took a call and changed the shoot plan, which was then shot in low light with a cloudy backdrop. So we shot all the scenes with a different mood and tone, so that time and resources were not wasted." Senthil Kumar gives credit to his family for being a pillar of strength thereby helping him concentrate on his work, "With the long and erratic hours of work involved, you could say that my social life was dead. My two sons were four-and-half and three and-a-half years old when Baahubali began. I hardly saw them grow up. The only way I managed it all was with the help of my wife Ruhee, my mother and my sister who have all been a huge support. With them holding the fort at home, I was able to focus entirely on Baahubali." Senthil Kumar, who lost his father some time back, said: "When my father expired, I was shooting for Baahubali part one, in Kerala. He had a heart attack in Hyderabad. I rushed back for the funeral ceremonies but could stay only for two days since I had to get back to work in Kerala. I didn't have time to grieve for him properly. Through all these trying and exhausting times, it was director Rajamouli's vision and our collective belief in this film that kept us all motivated. Later, once Baahubali part one got such a rousing reception that motivated us to keep going for the second part as well." Actors Prabhas, Rana Daggubati, Anushka Shetty, Tamannaah Bhatia, Sathyaraj and Ramya Krishnan reprise their roles in Baahubali: The Conclusion, which is scheduled for April 28. Prabhas' Baahubali Series To Re-Release In Cinemas. 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__label__cc	0.740964	0.259036	The Warrior Queen of Jhansi (2019) [Movie] The Warrior Queen of Jhansi tells the story of Lakshmibai, the historic Queen of Jhansi who fiercely led her army against the British East India Company in the infamous mutiny of 1857. From Queen Elizabeth to Queen Victoria, two-and-a half-centuries of East India Company rule will be reversed by its attempt to crush India’s Warrior Queen. Lakshmibai is known as one of the most prominent figures within the independence movement of India. The passion to free her province from colonial rule led this young woman to become one of the greatest generals of the Indian army and to go down in history for her bravery, strategic acumen, and as a force to reckon with by the East India Company and the British Raj. The Warrior Queen of Jhansi is the story of the woman who lived, fought and died for the freedom of her people. Genres: Action \| Adventure \| Drama \| Fantasy \| War Director(s): Swati Bhise Stars: Jodhi May , Derek Jacobi , Rupert Everett Release Date: 15 November 2019 (USA) Source: 1080pweb-dlh264ac3-evo The Warrior Queen of Jhansi (2019) ActionAdventureFantasyWar2019 The Babysitter: Killer Queen (2020) Queen & Slim (2019) Queen Marie of Romania (2019) Reality Queen (2019)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line1050
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__label__wiki	0.594071	0.594071	Impeachment process begins in the Senate Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Chris Davis, Lode Writer As the House’s December Articles of Impeachment reach the U.S. Senate after the holiday, Senators and presiding Chief Justice Roberts strap in for a trail on the matter. The last time an impeachment matter was tried in American history was against former President Bill Clinton on the grounds of perjury, obstruction of justice and abuse of power claims. Ending in acquittal, that trial lasted nearly two months and the timeline of this one is surely on the minds of two Democratic election frontrunners. Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are compelled to be in Washington per their Senate duties, while other nominees are free to campaign. Not to mention, other Senators, too, are looking to get back out there to campaign as incumbents, including Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. This time around, President Trump is accused by the House similarly for abuse of power, but also for “obstruction of congress.” The Articles Impeachment outline the House’s reasoning for both charges. They include mention of the President withholding aid money from the Ukrainian government in exchange for their announcing an investigation into political opponent Joe Biden, another election frontrunner, and for ordering government agencies to resist House subpoenas for the purposes of discovering the selfsame aid-withholding. According to nine-page document, “In the history of the Republic, no President has ever ordered the complete defiance of an impeachment inquiry or sought to obstruct and impede so comprehensively the ability of the House of Representatives to investigate ‘‘high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”” There exist many Senate procedures that complicate the process; complexity being a staple of The Senate. For example, the Senate began by debating a proposed a limited two-day timeline for opening arguments by Senator McConnell, a proposal that has since been withdrawn. Another being that, at any time, the Senate can move to deliberate privately. To the exclusion of TV cameras and all non-Senators, a mere majority is necessary. When it comes time to reach a verdict, a Constitutional two-thirds must vote in the affirmative to remove the president. In the case that all Senators vote, 67 must vote to convict. Currently, Republicans hold a 53-seat majority in the Senate, meaning that the magic two-thirds consensus is unlikely to be reached, resulting in the President’s acquittal. Former Vice President Biden, currently busy canvassing in Iowa, has since commented limitedly on his involvement in the case. He claimed that there would be “no legal basis” for a subpoena to reach his desk and followed-up the next day on Twitter where he walked back the comment. He stated that he “has always complied with a lawful order in my eight years as VP…” In another turn, also on Twitter, Biden clarified that he isn’t “going to pretend that there is any legal basis for Republican subpoenas for my testimony.” During the House’s initial inquiry into impeachment, he scathed the President for “shooting holes in the constitution.” The President’s defense includes renowned Harvard Law emeritus professor Alan Dershowitz, the same counsel who appeared on the national stage with legal analysis of Clinton’s impeachment. The trial is set to proceed under a similar ruleset to that of Clinton, meaning that arguments about witnesses and subpoenas are not to be up until opening arguments conclude. Such subpoenas and witnesses would newly come to exist, and potentially bring cabinet members and those close to the President before the Senate. Each side will take three days for opening arguments. Chris Davis, News Editor Chris is a Junior of MTU majoring in Electrical Engineering. He is a weekly news writer and editor, covering campus, local and international news. The unnecessary and unrealistic dichotomy of sleeping schedules Welcome back: a roundup of campus events MTU to host spring semester involvement fair Guest Blog: Learning from the Pandemic Asynchronous online classes are the best thing to happen to the Upper Peninsula Corona Cure has been found Donald Trump steps down for Kanye • 32 Views Corona Cure has been found • 29 Views Why Skittles are better than M&M’s • 22 Views Broomball: a lasting legacy at Michigan Tech • 20 Views Young Yeezys of America bring president’s swag to campus • 14 Views	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line1054
__label__cc	0.526723	0.473277	2021’s Saturn/Uranus square: the Shattered Mirror True to the volatile and chaotic nature of Saturn/Uranus periods, the choices that confront us today are both exhilarating, scary, …Read More » Capricorn New Moon: Rise to the Challenge As much as we all long to march forward at this first New Moon of the New Year, we still …Read More » Capricorn Meditation: Think like a Mountain Successful, striving Capricorn holds the wisdom that comes with patiently abiding the ever-moving, ever-changing cycles of time. At this New …Read More » Free Moon Phase Report Dana’s Moon The Astrology of Bliss with Dana Astrology Readings With Dana I believe in life, in the archetypes, and the capacity of people to write better and better stories for themselves. …Read More » Astrology Mentoring Are you an astrology student who’d like to turn pro? Hoping to read charts with greater insight and accuracy? Desiring a boost in confidence? …Read More » Boundaries & Emotional Mastery Sessions From the beginning, my 12th House Moon has attracted plenty of likeminded spirits I call “energy sensitives,” whose intuitively gifted natures benefit …Read More » Dana's eBooks Dana’s writing… brings the meaning of the planets to life like no other writer in this field. She’s the Meryl Streep of astrological writers: …” Jeff Jawer, The Mountain Astrologer …Read More » “It took me years to learn each of these simple principles, and with each one, my Moon practice deepened. May they do the same for you!” …Read More » Looking for a good read? Mooncircles authors share a few of the great books on their shelves. Read More » Mooncircles Moon Astrology Chart Play Current Moon Ritual Blue Moons aren’t a Real Thing By Dana Gerhardt A Full Moon is supposedly “blue” when it’s the second Full Moon in a calendar month. This happened in January, and typically happens once every two to three years, all of which may or may not be rare enough to deserve the cliche, “once in a blue Moon.” Yet you won’t find much about Blue Moons in spiritual or ceremonial histories. That’s because they’re man-made, not Moon made. The first to use this term for the second Full Moon in a month was James Hugh Pruett in a 1946 issue of Sky & Telescope. Unfortunately he got it wrong — among the Maine farmers whose tradition he was sharing, the fourth Full Moon in a season was considered blue. Pruett invented something with neither history nor lineage. Either way–as the second Full Moon in a month or fourth in a season–these aren’t unusual moments in nature. Luna has never culminated twice in a single Moon cycle, nor will she do so in the future. Blue Moons are simply a gift (or curse) of the Western calendar, whose days and weeks were originally authored by the Sun and Moon, but is now disconnected from natural cycles. Honestly, the only reason I think Blue Moons became a thing is that hauntingly beautiful Elvis song. If there’s a sacred ceremony that’s appropriate for this lunar holiday, it should definitely include sitting in moonlight, while playing that Elvis song. And now, with so many digital resources, you have no reason not to. Keep calm and enjoy the show. Step beyond the Moon hype and create an authentically soulful relationship with the natural cycles of Sun and Moon. Try my monthly Moon Workshop — enroll here. Find your current progressed Moon phase in my Moonprints report — this Moon is so important it’s the first thing I look at in my clients’ charts. Filed under: Blog, Full Moon About Dana Gerhardt A popular columnist with The Mountain Astrologer since 1991, Dana Gerhardt is an internationally respected astrologer. She has lectured extensively and written for astrology publications on several continents. Her ongoing passions are the moon and living the intuitive life. Dana worked for many years in the corporate sector, where she observed the undeniable influence of natural cycles. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude from Occidental College in Los Angeles and did graduate work in literature at Columbia University and CSULA. Dana can be contacted by email. Dana’s writing… brings the meaning of the planets to life like no other writer in this field. She’s the Meryl Streep of astrological writers: smart, sane, and insightful...” Jeff Jawer, The Mountain Astrologer Lessons in Astrology as Magic Naked Astrology Elements/Modes and Planetary Playbook MoonWatching In Wonderland: The Houses of Your Chart The Living Planets Goldilocks is an Aries © 2000 - 2021 Mooncircles.com	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line1055
__label__cc	0.627205	0.372795	Review Post: Unforgettable (Family Justice #5) by Suzanne Halliday Amazon US Amazon UK Amazon CA Amazon AU There’s a baby explosion happening for Family Justice and people are starting to joke that there must be something in the water! First came the surprise of a lifetime for Stephanie and Calder. Then came Lacey’s shocking reveal of a second pregnancy during a harrowing ordeal for Cameron. The big news that Alex and Meghan were starting a family was greeted with joyous enthusiasm but a second shocking reveal hovering in the wings rocks everyone’s world and shakes things up at the Villa. Victoria and Draegyn along with the rest of Family Justice bring plenty of surprises and some interesting announcements along the way as we catch up with the whole Bendover crew. Get ready for a bit of drama and plenty of Family Justice fun! Find out how Finn is faring as the new co-owner of Whiskey Pete’s Does Carmen have a new and very surprising love interest? Is Remington Bissett coming out of her self-imposed shell or has she decided that a certain arrogant transplanted from Boston saloon owner, isn’t worth the aggravation? What about Brody, Heather and Bella Mia? Parker and Angie ~ are those two ever going to get married? As if that’s not enough, hold on a minute! Is that Paddy O’Brien in the desert and did someone say Alex’s parents decided to retire and return to Arizona? It’s another heart-warming, sexy and full of laughter chapter in the lives of the Justice Brothers and the family they’re creating in the desert southwest. Come along once again as we journey to Bendover, Arizona and see if happily ever after is still the order of the day. ***5 Unforgettable Stars*** Let me start this review by saying that I will literally NEVER get enough of this series. I will never get enough of Family Justice, or the crazy, wonderful, and completely heart melting antics that lovable crew gets into. I will never get enough of all of the love those characters share for each other, and how that bond, loyalty, and steadfast love they all share for one another sears them together so fiercely, just as much as it sears each of them to me. I will never get enough of Suzanne Halliday’s all-consuming writing that continues to wholly invest me in these characters, their stories and lives, and their world all the more with what she so exceptionally gives me with them all. I will never get enough of the full on love I feel for these characters, their intertwining journeys together, and how I continue to feel as if I am more and more part of the Justice family and crew with every turn of that page. I will never get enough of it all because this series is just that damn good, that damn well written, and that damn perfect. I would read about these characters making waves and taking names in their nursing home because that is how much I LOVE them, and how much I need them all in my life. Suzanne Halliday has completely created that need for more of them all. The individual and strong connections I feel to each of her dynamic characters is something that I treasure, and it has me feeling, experiencing, loving, and practically basking in every second I get with this crew. The way that I have fallen in love with Alex and Meghan, Tori and Drae, Lacey and Cameron, Parker and Angie, Brody and Heather, Calder and Stephanie, Remy and Finn, Carmen, Ben, Duke, and every single other unforgettable character of this series is something that I will truly never get enough of. Each new book of them strengthens that fierce love and adoration I feel for all of their characters, and it has me simultaneously loving what I’m reading, while also knowing that I will need more of them all, because that’s how much I love them. That’s how much I feel for them. That’s how much I’m invested in them all. Every single chapter of the Family Justice Saga has been one that I have loved, but I have to say that there was something particularly special about Unforgettable, the fifth installment in this series. Not only did I have the chance to get back with some of my all-time favorite characters, I got to experience once again how their lives were progressing, and experience all of the ups, downs, and unexpected twists and turns that just seared my heart to them all the more. Getting to be there with every single one of them as they faced shocks, challenges, the best of the best, moments that stopped them in their tracks, and everything in between was nothing short of spectacular. It was everything, and then some. And then some more after that because this is the Family Justice crew after all, and that wonderful bunch never fails to give anything but their all when it comes to their friendships, their loyalty, their heat and sparks, and of course, their completely enrapturing love. The events of Unforgettable finds a bit of baby fever sweeping the Justice Family, and I for one couldn’t have been more ready to see where that would bring all of these couples and characters. And let me tell you something right now… that baby fever will sweep you up right into its magical, all-feeling, and heart melting spell, and you will love every single second of experiencing that in this story. This chapter of the saga was practically a baby explosion, which pretty much melted my heart on every single page of this book. Not only were my favorite fictional characters creating something so amazing with the literal new life bursting from the pages of this book, they were giving me more of them, their unyielding love, and their unforgettable journeys that were beyond perfect, and I truly can’t say enough how much I loved that. Unforgettable is the next chapter that continues each and every one of the incredible and interwoven stories that makes this series the phenomenal thing that it is. This next chapter gives you it all with these characters in a way that pulls you in even more to each and every one of them as they face what comes next. What I loved about this book, and all of the others books before it, is that with each book I got to see where these characters were headed, how they had changed and grown since I last left them, and I got to experience what the next chapter of their lives was like. Suzanne Halliday does an exceptional job of making what comes next for all of these characters feel so real, so authentic, and so damn right for their individual stories. Each new chapter with them all pushes these characters just enough, makes them think and feel and live with all that they have, while simultaneously strengthening the bond they all share as they all keep living the lives they were meant to have. Unforgettable, and everything Suzanne Halliday gave me within its pages, did an extraordinary job of making what came next feel like the most magical thing on the planet. The love, the friendship, the bond, and the level of family that burst from the pages of this book was beautiful, emotional, and simply put, unforgettable. Getting to be there every single step of the way as these characters have fallen, and fought, and just felt all that they has been nothing short of everything. And let me tell you, I look forward to many more chapters to come with them all because I have to know what happens next. I need more of them all, and I can’t wait to be back within their wonderful world as soon as humanly possible. I don’t think I will ever be ready to say goodbye to them, so I’m really hoping that goodbye doesn’t come anytime soon because I love these characters too much to not have them in my life. This book brought about a lot of change for so many of these characters, and getting to be in their heads and experience it all with them was magnificent because it not only let me understand them on a deeper level, it connected me even more to what they were going through because I got it. I got how it affected them, how it pushed them, how it changed them, how it blew their minds and their hearts, how it made them want more, cherish more, and feel everything in between. I got it all because of the phenomenal level of understanding I had with their characters, and I got it because of how fantastically Suzanne Halliday crafted each and every one of their stories. Feeling all that I do for these characters had me loving every single word of this book, the memorable and distinctive time I got with each of them, and all of that speaks to what Suzanne Halliday has really created in this series. That tangible magic, investment, connection, fire, and sense of family has put this series and these characters in a league of their own. I have to say one of my favorite aspects of this book was getting more of Remy, Finn, Carmen, Duke, and many of the other characters that make up the extended Family Justice. Getting to experience more of them, their specific charm and vibrancy, and seeing where this next chapter brought them all made me NEED more of them something fierce. It also had me knowing that some very big and interesting things are coming these characters way (here’s looking at you Remy and Finn!), and I for one can’t wait to get all of that and more with them. I especially can’t wait to learn more about Remy and some other characters who make appearances in this book, and I am beyond sure that their stories will blow me away with all that they have. I have no doubt that whatever the next chapter in this saga brings for all these characters, Suzanne Halliday will find a way to make it distinctly Justice, completely unforgettable, and even more wonderful because she does that every single time she writes a book. Suzanne Halliday balances the time you get with all of her characters so perfectly that every turn of that page brings your heart to them all, while letting you get so much with them that has you craving the next dose of them you’ll get. Unforgettable proved again and again the extraordinary talent of this author, and on every page I was reminded why this series is so good. The level of heart, heat, and feels on every single page of Unforgettable had me relishing in what this book and its characters gave me. If you have loved this series, then I am telling you that you will LOVE this book. It will burst your heart into a million wonderful pieces, while simultaneously melting you, sending your love to these characters, all while bringing the best kind of blush to your cheeks and one big old smile to your face. And if you haven’t started this series yet, then I am telling you, you NEED it in your life like you need your next breath. With the perfect level of family, friendship, love, connection, and romance, Unforgettable gives you the whole Justice gang in a way that just has you knowing that everything you’re reading is so right, so perfect, and so Justice, and it honestly doesn’t get better than that. It truly doesn’t get better than this series, these characters, or their world, and Unforgettable will give you it all as you experience the true literary magic that is Family Justice. And just you wait, because what this book and Suzanne Halliday so phenomenally gives you will have you in full on love with it all, all while counting the days until you can get back into this world once again. “Am I interrupting anything?” A deep voice drawled from the doorway. Cam looked up and saw Alex lurking in the doorway. “Hey! Great timing and no, not interrupting. Our old buddy Roman, here,” he said with a powerful thwack on the man’s back, “was just picking my ball hairs out of his teeth.” Roman jerked to attention when he realized who stepped into the room and threw up a smart salute. “Major,” he said with a deferential nod. Alex saluted back and immediately stuck out his hand in welcome. “Who moved the fucking rock and let you crawl out?” the big man said with his usual sardonic bite. Then he took control of their clasped hands and drew Roman in with a laugh. The handshaking, backslapping, bro hugging fist bump routine played out again with Alex giving the guy ten tons of grief. “Jesus, don’t let his wife see you saluting,” Cam chortled. Roman smirked. “Why?” “Because she’d fall down laughing and then I’d have to beat the snot out of you to restore my manhood. That’s why,” Alex quipped. “Sounds like my kind of lady.” A thousand dirty references hung in the air unspoken. Cam almost crapped his pants when Big Daddy reacted like a fifty thousand volt Taser hit his nuts. “She’s pregnant and if the hairless balls of a man-pussy are what she wants for lunch, I’ll come looking for yours.” That my friends, Cam thought with laughter, is what we call a home run. Alex had the best putdowns. Roman went from stunned to cracking up and gave Cam a knowing look. “Oh,” he chuckled. “I see how it is.” Cam nodded and returned the look, “I just bet you do.” Alex and Roman were a lot alike when it came to control issues. Probably explained why Roman went off on his own to do private security rather than stay with Justice. He didn’t take orders well and had a terrible time playing nice if he wasn’t in the mood. All traits which only became more pronounced after the guy’s wife and kid died. “Look at you guys,” Roman joked. “Wedding rings and private planes. If I ever feel like getting old and settling down, I’ll set up camp in Bendover. Great name by the way. Very apropos.” His amused snicker was directed at Alex who flipped him off with great flair. “I hate to break this knitting circle up but we have a meeting waiting on us.” Alex’s meaningful look reminded Cam it was a workday. “Roman,” Alex said with another hearty handshake. “It was good to see you. Good luck with your search mission and all joking aside, you know we’d welcome you here any time.” “Thanks Alex. That means alot coming from you. And I was just being a dick about you being married. I’m glad you found someone to put up with your shit.” After a handshake and some muttered goodbyes, Roman left with a nod at Alex. Cam hoped the guy found what he was looking for. In more ways than one. Suzanne Halliday writes what she knows and what she loves – sexy adult contemporary romance with strong men and spirited women. Her love for creating short stories for friends and family has developed into a passion for writing romantic fiction with a sensual edge. She finds the world of digital, self-publishing to be the perfect platform for sharing her stories and also for what she enjoys most of all – reading. When she’s not on a deadline you’ll find her loading up on books to devour. Currently a wanderer, she and her family divide their time between the east and west coast, somehow always managing to get the seasons mixed up. When not digging out from snow or trying to stay cool in the desert, you can find her in the kitchen, 80’s hair band music playing in the background, kids running in and out, laptop on with way too many screens open, something awesome in the oven, and a mug of hot tea clutched in one hand. Twitter Facebook Web Goodreads Amazon Instagram favorite author, favorite series, Great Books, Love Story, must read, releasing now, review post 1 Comment « Releasing Now: Keep Us by Faith Andrews Releasing Now: Edge of Bliss by Molly E. Lee » One thought on “Review Post: Unforgettable (Family Justice #5) by Suzanne Halliday” Love Suzanne and I know anything she writes I will fall in love with. Amazing storyteller, what she has created with these books is like nothing I have read before.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line1067
__label__cc	0.685776	0.314224	Tag Archives: Urbane Publications Book Review: A Killing Sin Jul1 by Jackie Law A Killing Sin, by K.H. Irvine, is a tense and engaging psychological thriller, although it does take a little while to get into. The fragmented structure – short chapters that jump around in time and point of view – lead to early confusion as to who is who. The core characters are three friends who met while at university, two decades previously. Also important are their partners, both business and personal. Adding to the mix are family members – how much can those we love and believe we know, truly be trusted? Once character names are remembered and relationships understood enjoyment of the tense and timely plot becomes the key reading experience. The story is set a few years in the future, in a post-Brexit London. Amala and Neil are tech entrepreneurs who made their fortune developing tracking software that the government now embeds in personal ID cards and payment systems. Amala is also an irreverent stand-up comic, harnessing the tropes of Islam for edgy if uncomfortable laughs. Neil advises politicians and has the ear of the Prime Minister – they went through the same public school education system. Amala befriended Ella and Millie when they all attended Edinburgh University. Ella is a freelance journalist, currently working on what she believes will be two huge stories that should finally establish her professional credentials. Millie is a psychologist specialising in radicalisation and increasingly asked to work with government departments to profile potential terrorists and their recruitment methods. These intelligent and wealthy friends are about to have their privileged worlds turned upside down. While Neil and Millie are in a meeting with the Prime Minister and other officials, they are informed that Neil’s partner has been taken hostage by Muslim extremists. An horrific video of her being tortured and maimed is played. Money is demanded along with the closure of controversial Prevent and Protect Centres whose staff routinely harass young men whose appearance is considered suspicious. The Prime Minister insists that his government will not negotiate with terrorists. Neil is determined to do whatever it takes to save his partner. He harnesses the considerable talents and power of his tech company in an attempt to find where the hostage is being held. GCHQ, MI5, the police and military are called in to assist. The focus is on Tower Hamlets where radical extremists have imposed Sharia Law and where what appears to be diversionary rioting is now taking place. Then a suicide bomber walks into a building in Central London and detonates. Complex issues are touched upon without detracting from the suspense and action: Mass surveillance or civil liberties? Freedom of speech or a crack down on offensive language when dealing with sensitive topics? The right to choose how to dress or a tool of suppression? How much leeway should venal governments be granted in order to supposedly protect citizens? Extremes on both sides are portrayed. The author is unafraid to confront the existence of radical Muslims and their desire to force prescribed behaviour on more tolerant believers. By involving westerners whose personal wealth and professional position provides distance from the wider effects of their work, the story brings home how much it is possible to switch off from worrying actions happening elsewhere in the world. The hostage taker points out that in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan innocent lives have been lost for a cause western governments claim is worth such ‘collateral damage’. In bringing their battle to London the terrorists are unapologetic when bystanders – infidels – die. The background to the plot may be religious and political but this remains a tense thriller with a roller coaster of events playing out as the reader tries to guess what could happen next. The writing is fluid and the structure well paced for maximum engagement after the slower beginning. It is a timely reminder of cause and effect, of the complexity of military action and resulting carnage – that we cannot predict how even those close to us will react to losses inflicted. A thought provoking and compelling read. My copy of this book was provided gratis by the publisher, Urbane. Leave a comment Posted in Book Review Tagged A Killing Sin, fiction, K.H. Irvine, psychological thriller, Urbane Publications Book Review: Night Driver Aug2 by Jackie Law From Wikipedia: Fritz Haarmann (1879 – 1925) was a German serial killer known as the Butcher of Hanover, the Vampire of Hanover and the Wolf-Man, who committed the sexual assault, murder, mutilation and dismemberment of a minimum of 24 boys and young men. Described by the judge at his trial as being “forever degraded as a citizen”, Haarmann was found guilty of 24 of the 27 murders for which he was tried and sentenced to death. A known homosexual and police informant, his preferred murder method was biting into or through his victims’ throats. Marcelle Perks has taken Haarmann’s story and reimagined it in a contemporary setting. Her serial killer is called Lars, a lorry driver who seeks the intense sexual thrill he gains from murdering young men picked up on his travels. Lars and his lover, Hans, co-own a nightclub that offers clients drugs and the services of prostitutes. Hans cleans up after Lars, making money from the bodies disposed of. Hans also enjoys the services of the women they employ, his handsome good looks and attentions leading each to believe he cares for them. Into this murky environment enters Fran, an English woman living in Hanover who is eight months pregnant. She met her husband, Kurt, on a business trip to the Cayman Islands where he was working as an engineer. At the time Fran had a well paid job and a house in London. She was drawn to Kurt by his old-fashioned, movie star good looks, his charm, attentiveness and dry humour. When Fran lost her job she sold her house and moved to be with Kurt. They married and returned to his native Germany, to a suburb where he expected Fran to keep house. Since she fell pregnant Kurt has lost interest in his wife. Alone and frustrated by the limits on integration imposed by the language barrier, Fran is determined to learn to drive that she may regain a little independence. Despite daily lessons she is struggling to master the skills required. Lars in his lorry comes across Fran on one of her lessons, hassling her slow progress until she loses control. Fran’s instructor reports him to the police but they take no action. In her current state there is a risk to the unborn child leading to leniency from the examiner on her driving test. Shaken by events, Fran has no confidence behind the wheel. Determined to overcome her fear she decides to take Kurt’s car without telling him and practice while he sleeps and the roads are quiet. On her first night drive Fran meets a young Polish man, Tomek, who is trying to track down his sister, Anna. He is kind to the lonely woman and she is attracted to him. She decides to help in his quest as a reason for them to meet again. Fran and Tomek visit Dorcas, a prostitute and friend of Anna’s. Both women work for Hans. When Tomek goes missing Fran grows concerned and asks for Dorcas’s help. Neither women are yet aware that the focus of the nightclub’s criminal activity has moved to a more lucrative use of the bodies they dispose of. Their dogged interest in the missing siblings makes them a liability that Hans and Lars come to realise they must deal with. The structure of the story is episodic as in TV dramas with short chapters divided into scenes shown from key characters’ points of view. The narration is clipped in style which suits the typically British portrayal of the German language and efficient attitude. This idiosyncratic presentation was easier to read in short spurts than one sitting. Descriptions are vivid and often bloody. Sex is perfunctory. I found Fran’s limited concern for her unborn child difficult to empathise with but her isolation in the face of Kurt’s lack of interest for her well-being was well portrayed. The men at the nightclub are chillingly authentic, their treatment of women as property to be used and then discarded believable. The sociopathic tendencies of the killers was unsettling but fitted well in explaining their warped reasoning. This is a disturbing tale but one that maintained engagement. That it is inspired by true events gives it an added edge. Leave a comment Posted in Book Review Tagged crime fiction, fiction, Fritz Haarmann, Horror, Marcelle Perks, Night Driver, Urbane Publications Book Review: Spanish Crossings Mar22 by Jackie Law Spanish Crossings, by John Simmons, is set mainly in London in the years around the Second World War. Its protagonist is an unassuming young woman, Lorna Starling, who has left behind her quiet upbringing in Kent to live independently in the city. She is well respected by her colleagues at the lawyers office where she works. In her free time she is an active supporter of socialist causes. After a short prologue the story opens in the spring of 1937 when Lorna attends a meeting at the home of Diana Seymour. Diana’s wealth and connections intimidate the young secretary but she soon finds herself trying to emulate the older woman’s confidence and style. At the meeting Lorna encounters Harry James who is recently returned from Spain where he had fought Franco’s forces with the International Brigade. After a night of passion he returns to this battlefield leaving Lorna bereft at the loss of her first, brief love. Wishing to do her bit for the cause, Lorna has signed up to ‘adopt’ a child refugee, one of four thousand shipped from Spain by the Basque Children’s Committee. At Diana’s behest, the firm Lorna works for are to provide the committee with legal services pro bono and Lorna will be their representative at meetings. Diana and Lorna visit the camp where the children are being processed before being dispersed to colonies around the country. Lorna is introduced to the child she will ‘adopt’, a fifteen year old boy named Pepe whose age and grasp of the English language has made him something of a leader amongst the children. Pepe is moved to a house in London where Lorna visits him regularly. With Franco gaining control in Spain, and the prospect of war with Germany increasing, the boy grows restless. Lorna understands Pepe’s discontent but cautions him to remain within the law that he may avoid being sent back to a Spain that is now killing its dissidents with impunity. The timeline moves to 1943. Lorna has taken an active role during the war years, volunteering as a watcher for the ARP. She lives behind boarded up windows but appears largely content with her solitary existence. Her chief regret is that the life she had dreamed she could have had with Harry was taken from her. All this changes when Pepe reappears, declaring his love. Despite recognising their significant differences in core values, Lorna is tempted by the prospects this offers. She encourages Pepe to sign up to fight, thereby gaining his British citizenship. By 1947 Lorna is settled in a comfortable council flat, raising a child but feeling frustrated at the limitations this has placed on her developing career. Although pleased by the social progress being made by the Labour Party she no longer feels that she is contributing as she once did. Her fear is that she will become like her parents who she has long regarded as insipid in their desire for quiet compliance with societal expectations. She contacts an old lover, risking the life she has built for reasons hard to justify. The guilt this elicits drives her to comply with a plan that she appears blind to. Much of the book is written in measured yet evocative prose. It offers a picture of the difficulties faced by a young woman raised to be reticent yet determined to break away from such restrictions and stand up for herself. As she ages she changes, and she resents that this is happening. Her desire to be more like the self she aspires to plays out in the final section of the book where the pace changes to one of increasing tension. I wondered at the continued obsession with Harry James who Lorna was with for just one night. Perhaps it is another case of curated memory, a comfort blanket she carried. Later in the book Lorna makes a return visit to Highgate where “She had enjoyed living […] ten years earlier”. She nurtures this thought, apparently forgetting that she had left because the flat she now views with nostalgia had become tarnished. It was earlier described as “not home, it was simply where she lived”. There are a great many subjects explored within the pages of this book, many only briefly touched upon but nevertheless impacting Lorna’s life and those who influenced her. The Spanish Civil War is not a conflict I know much about so this added interest. The reactions within government to the child refugees is depressingly familiar. I enjoyed the understated strength of the author’s writing which I first came across in his previous novel, Leaves. His characters are rounded, relatable yet never sepia tinted. Their imperfections enable a greater understanding of the scars created when life is lived. My copy of this book was provided gratis by the publisher, Urbane Publications. 2 Comments Posted in Book Review Tagged fiction, John Simmons, London, Spanish Civil War, Spanish Crossings, Urbane Publications Book Review: The Future Can’t Wait The Future Can’t Wait, by Angelena Boden, is a story about a mother who cannot bring herself to grant her grown-up daughter independence. When the young woman, having completed her university finals, decides to cut contact with her family and move away, the mother falls apart. Her life, it seems, had been entirely predicated on ensuring her child developed into the person the mother desired as a friend and companion. The story opens a few weeks before the daughter’s final exams. Rani is an intelligent young woman studying astro-physics and expected to achieve a first. Against her much older brother’s advice – Adam is now a doctor practicing in America – she attended her local university and continued to live in the family home under her mother’s watchful eye. Rani is of mixed race, her Iranian father having left to return to his homeland when she was young. Her British mother, Kendra, remarried David who was a highly regarded if somewhat eccentric professor. David is now retired, pursuing hobbies in his garden workshops. He has always appeared to get on well with his step-children. When Rani starts to rebel against the many restrictions her mother has imposed, Kendra puts it down to the pressure of upcoming exams. Having been berated by her mother in the past for wearing dresses deemed unsuitable as too revealing, Rani decides to purchase loose fitting clothes and wear a headscarf. Unbeknown to her mother she is a member of the Persian Society at university where she is learning more about her heritage and has made new friends. Her mother firmly believes Rani has no interest in religion or politics and struggles to accept a side to her daughter she has not approved. Kendra teaches GCSE psychology and has a particular interest in the development of the teenage brain. She offers her friend, Sheila, sensible advice in dealing with her children but cannot seem to accept such wisdom herself. When Rani moves to London to take up an internship the young woman ensures that her family do not have her new address. A few weeks later she deletes her email account. Unable to contact her daughter, Kendra descends into a state similar to grief. When Rani sends a letter informing her family that she is fine, doing what she wants with her life but will no longer keep in touch, Kendra becomes further unhinged. David and Adam advise Kendra to grant Rani the time and space she needs, assuring the frantic mother that her daughter will return when she is ready. Kendra cannot accept this. She reads horoscopes, contacts psychics, purchases tarot cards, and phones premium phone lines that promise help in finding missing persons. She runs up debts in her quest to find a reason for her daughter’s defection other than her own dominating behaviour. David bears the brunt of his wife’s spiral into cognitive dissonance and addiction. In losing control of her daughter she also loses control of herself. She has the support of David, Sheila and Adam but resents the truths they tell her. Sheila cannot understand why the previously sensible Kendra has become so obsessed by charlatans and woo woo practitioners: “What do you want them to do? Tell you where Rani is so you can drag her home by the hair?” David is upset at the large amounts of money Kendra is wasting, unable to comprehend how she can believe these people can help when it is her behaviour that drove Rani away: “I’ve watched how you’ve over involved yourself in her life. Telling her what to wear, organising her study times even at university, vetting her friends.” The loving mother who coddled and smothered her daughter now starts to neglect her other child. Adam is making his own enquiries into his sister’s possible whereabouts but questions how much he can share with his mother who has become increasingly unstable. Kendra risks her job with her behaviour and turns to a stranger for comfort (why does she comply when a restaurant he takes her to demands that she hand over her phone?). Even when David becomes ill she berates him for not doing more to act in a way he has never done because now this would suit her. In a country-wide climate of growing fear over terrorism Kendra is concerned that her daughter may have become radicalised. When the police suggest the same she rages against the accusation. Despite being desperate to find her daughter she ignores a photograph that could be of Rani and therefore offer a potential lead – she is concerned that the police are making racist assumptions. When Sheila suggests that she turn to social media to see if Rani’s friend network can help, Kendra rejects this sensible suggestion as she does not consider it to be her thing. When a couple of Rani’s friends approach Kendra in town she frightens them away with her erratic behaviour. I read this book wanting to shake some sense into Kendra. We do not own our children and a mother’s job is to prepare their offspring for survival away from the nest. Kendra’s idea of love appeared to be focused on being loved herself. The study of addiction, grief and denial were interesting facets in what is an intense and emotional tale. The synopsis of the book describes it as a ‘gripping story of a mother’s love for her daughter’ and in reviewing it I recognise how harsh I have been. As a mother I cannot imagine the pain of having one of my children sever all contact. Kendra’s story may well resonate with those whose children are more like rebellious Rani than the ever supportive Adam. I did wonder at the ongoing relationship Kendra would have with Adam’s partner given her apparent need to influence offspring’s behaviour. My lack of sympathy doubtless stems from my own parental relationships – we bring to each book we read our personal experiences. This is a powerfully written and engaging story that could feed much interesting discussion. I applaud the author’s ability to generate strong feelings in her readers. Leave a comment Posted in Book Review Tagged Angelena Boden, Birmingham, fiction, The Future Can't Wait, Urbane Publications Book Review: Seeking Eden Seeking Eden, by Beverley Harvey, is not the sort of book I would normally read. I suspect it may fall under the genre of women’s fiction – although I consider the descriptor soap opera fiction to be more fitting, women liking a broader range of books than some seem to believe. The story centres around a middle aged married couple, Kate and Neil, who move out of London to a new build housing estate in suburban Kent. Kate is a copy-writer and Neil works in advertising. Naturally they are both beautiful people. After the move Kate works from home, although she has plenty of time for other pursuits. Neil finds the lengthy commute to the city exhausting so takes a room in a friend’s flat, coming back to their new home for weekends. Kate is lonely without him and misses the bustle of their previous life, her old friends showing little interest now that she is less readily available. She gets a dog for company and joins a gym. Slowly she starts to make new friends. Ben is a one hit musician and an old flame of Kate’s. When he gets in touch after many years, in an attempt to win her back despite her marriage, she is tempted. With Neil away during the week it is easy for her to meet up with Ben, something she comes to regret. Kate befriends Lisa, another siren, and ex-wife of a successful footballer. Lisa is scornful when she becomes the object of a local shopkeeper’s mid-life fantasies. His wife suffers from depression and he is struggling to cope with her moods. Their daughter has recently moved out of the family home leaving it bereft. Alongside this cast of characters are Kate’s sister and confidant, Alice, and a bevy of well groomed acquaintances. Over the course of a couple of years there are affairs, misunderstandings and a death. Jobs evolve effortlessly, although behaviours ensure personal lives do not run smooth. The action is played out against the backdrop of a quietly affluent housing estate that the cool London crowd regard with disdain – I found this particular prejudice illuminating. The writing is polished and the plot as tangled as people have a tendency to be. Much is made of personal presentation, including of partners, regarded as desirable accessories. For those who enjoy gossip, about acquaintances and others, this was like a catch-up with a distant friend. It is effortless entertainment, and there is nothing wrong with that. Leave a comment Posted in Book Review Tagged Beverley Harvey, fiction, Seeking Eden, Urbane Publications Book Review: Nemesister Nemesister, by Sophie Jonas-Hill, is the first book in a proposed series of American Gothic thrillers. The story opens in a remote and run-down lodge hidden within the swamps of Louisiana. The protagonist is a young woman who arrives at this place badly injured, with no recollection of who she is or why she is here. In her hand is a gun, in her pocket a leaflet. She can find no other clues to her identity. As she stumbles into the damp-ridden shack a man appears who introduces himself to her as Red. She is terrified of him but has no idea why. Red offers her water and then a bed on the couch. When she wakes from exhausted sleep he has tended to her wounds. Despite these efforts the woman remains wary. With injured feet and no means of transport she has little choice but to stay. Red tells her that his truck requires attention, that once mended he will take her to the nearest town as she has requested. Over the course of the following twenty-four hours Red tells the woman about himself. He was a soldier, had a wife, and is at the shack to meet his brother for a spot of fishing. He is not always consistent in what he says. The woman feels a strong urge to escape but when unknown assailants fire shots at the house, the doors are locked and the key pocketed by Red. The woman’s memory returns gradually with brief flashbacks to scenes that as yet make little sense. It is unclear if she is remembering what happened to her or to others, and who those others are to her. Within the shack are clues, but the more she uncovers the less she understands. Then what happened to her sister returns. From the first page the tale unsettles. Despite the unremitting tension it takes some time before the flashbacks coalesce and characters gain form and context, enabling greater reader engagement. From here the pace picks up as backstories are presented and woven together. The drip-fed details now make disturbing sense. The writing is taut and polished. Each of the cast’s true motives keep the reader guessing to the end. Dark and disquieting throughout, this is an intense, compelling read. Leave a comment Posted in Book Review Tagged American Gothic, Crooked Little Sisters series, fiction, Nemesister, psychological thriller, Sophie Jonas-Hill, Urbane Publications Book Review: The Lighterman Jun12 by Jackie Law The Lighterman, by Simon Michael, is the third book in the author’s Charles Holborne series of crime thrillers (I review the first two here and here). Set in 1960s London, in and around the historic law courts at the Old Bailey, Holborne is once again working as a barrister from chambers where his Jewish heritage is disdained. Family background is an important backdrop to the story. The key case being dealt with involves Holborne’s cousin, Izzy, with whom he worked on the Thames during the Second World War. Following events from the previous intalments in the series, Holborne is on the Kray twins death list. The metropolitan police are unwilling to help as they still believe Holborne was complicit in the murder of his wife and therefore deserves whatever comes his way. With blackmail and bribery rife on both sides of the law he must risk all to save Izzy and himself. Holborne is in a relationship with Sally who is unhappy with being sidelined when work continually demands her lover’s time and attention. Despite a tentative reconciliation with his family, his harpy mother’s continuing complaints about his life choices remain a thorn in Holborne’s side. I began to understand some of the bad feeling harboured against Jews, that it is their rejection of assimilation, a refusal to accept a different way of living for the next generation, just as is the case for many other orthodox religions. Holborne chose to break away but cannot shake the feelings of guilt this has caused, stoked by his mother’s criticism. These personal conflicts are well presented within the context of a fast moving plot. With Ronnie Kray determined to punish Holborne and a judge eager to support the river police, one of whom Izzy is accused of murdering, Holborne is forced to take matters into his own hands. He puts his career in danger to gather his evidence and must then go to court and give the performance of his life. This representation of a barrister’s role and thought processes remains a highlight as in the previous books. The writing throughout is slick and engaging, the plot well developed with a strong sense of time and place. The ending sets up an interesting dilemma for subsequent intalments in the series to explore. On a personal level I struggled to warm to the protagonist. Holborne is described as strong and muscular, able to hold his own in a fight. He works out by running and boxing. He has a high sex drive. Although portrayed as a tough, east end lad made good, with a moral compass that isn’t as strong as he would like where justice, as he sees it, is involved, his exploits reminded me too much of the typical male, all action hero. I had to remind myself that this was 1960s Britain and women were even more objectified than today. Sally is no shrinking violet but Holborne’s interest in her appears largely sexual and selfish. An enjoyable read for those who like their heroes physically strong, their justice warriors slightly flawed. It is a well written page turner strengthened by its setting within the rarefied world of the courts of law. This post is a stop on The Lighterman Blog Tour. Do check out the other blogs taking part, detailed below. Leave a comment Posted in Book Review Tagged BritCrime, Charles Holborne Series, crime thriller, London, Simon Michael, The Lighterman, Urbane Publications Book Review: The Speech Apr21 by Jackie Law The Speech, by Andrew Smith, is set over a ten day period in April 1968 during which Enoch Powell, as local MP, gave his infamous Rivers of Blood speech. It is written from a variety of points of view thereby enabling the reader to gain a better understand of each of the protagonists. The era is evoked with a perceptive wit, whilst the story told – the machinations surrounding a Jamaican immigrant’s wrongful arrest for GBH – reminds how little certain people have progressed. “He moved on to the effects on the “native population” of the granting of rights to so many immigrants – people were confronted by crowded maternity wards and their children forced to study in overflowing classrooms. Their neighbourhoods were being transformed against their will. He applied words to the British public such as “defeated” and attributed to them the feeling that they were “unwanted”. Powerful words […] painted a scene of utter degredation of ordinary native citizens as a result of immigration” The tale opens with some background to Powell’s ancestry and upbringing, wryly salient given the opinions he developed. By 1968 he had been Wolverhampton South West’s MP for eighteen years and was serving in a shadow cabinet led by Ted Heath, who he wished to usurp. Powell’s constituency home is in a neighbourhood becoming popular with an increasing immigrant population and he is concerned about the effect this will have on property value. Powell is supported in his local Tory party office by the intelligent and loyal Mrs Georgina Verington-Delaunay, known as Georgy. Whilst she acknowledges the strengths of Powell’s work ethic and values, she is increasingly disquieted by his beligerance. His regard for the days of Empire and conviction that England should not change frustrate her efforts to demonstrate the benefits of enabling recent arrivals to integrate. Meanwhile, Wolverhampton art student, Frank McCann, is in his favourite bar examining a set of photographic prints taken at the previous day’s student demonstration in support of racial equality. The bartender points out that every face in his photos is white, suggesting that the images would be more powerful if a darker skinned person were portrayed. Frank accepts a wager from a couple of fellow students, disparaging his talents, that he will successfully doctor a print to replace one of the marchers with the image of a Jamaican friend, Nelson Clark, in a manner that makes the change undetectable. This challenge sets in motion a series of events that result in Nelson’s incarceration. Frank, with the help of his strong minded girlfriend, Christine, must then try to find a way to persuade the police, who are all too eager to prove Nelson guilty, that the photo they are using as evidence is a fake. Racism, intolerance and hatred are never going to be comfortable subjects to read about but the warmth and humour of the narrative, and the breadth of characters populating each page, make this an engaging tale. Even Powell comes across with a degree of poignancy, notwithstanding his damaging rhetoric. It is sad that, despite improvements in many other areas, his ilk are still being listened to today. The author uses dialogue to expand on arguments which, although succinct and well constructed, did not always segue with plot progression. The denouement relied on a stroke of luck, admittedly a familiar device. These were minor niggles in a work that offers an entertaining story as well as an evocative history of a period this country should by now have learned from. This is an intelligent and recommended read. Leave a comment Posted in Book Review Tagged Andrew Smith, Enoch Powell, fiction, racism, The Speech, Urbane Publications, Wolverhampton Book Review: Electric Souk Electric Souk, by Rose McGinty, tells the story of a young, single, Irish woman’s experiences working in Arabia during the period of regional uprisings known as the Arab Spring. It is a story of expatriates, culture clashes, clandestine friendships and betrayals. In the simmering heat of a desert city, nothing is quite as it first appears. Aisling Finn leaves the grey and damp of Ireland following the breakdown of a lengthy love affair. Drawn by the lure of sunshine and a lucrative contract she ignores her mother’s warnings of the potential dangers in a fiercely segregated, veiled land. Her Grandaddy understands Aisling’s need for adventure. ‘Woman, let her go will you.’ Grandaddy roared from his chair by the stove, ‘I remember when I was a young’ un my mother, and her mother before her, were always covered from head to toe in black. My mother was a clever woman, but she was dead behind the eyes from peeling spuds all day. We had our own Taliban, those fecking Christian Brothers.’ Aisling takes some time to acclimatise to expatriate life with its raucous parties, illicit activities and conspicuous wealth. Many of the woman look on her with disdain while the men veer between charm and sleaze. Although her work at the National Health Board is well regarded by colleagues, she discovers that powerful rivalries are ubiquitous and vicious. With everyone there to make money, trust is a rare commodity. Aisling wishes to experience life outside the gilded city but requires male escorts and female chaperones if she is to stay within the law. Those who offer to accompany her invariably have ulterior motives and she finds herself enmeshed in schemes she does not fully understand. When she declines advances, the spurned warn of dangerous consequences. News filters in of protests and uprisings in the region leading to a clamp down on previously overlooked activities. Foreign workers are blamed for sewing the seeds of discontent amongst the locals. With their privileged way of life under threat, governments are eager for scapegoats to punish as a warning to others. Aisling finds herself caught between her new western and eastern friends with little idea who, if any, she can rely on. The plot is fast moving with a taut, hungry prose that evokes the precarious simulation of high-class living conjured out of a hostile desert. The Arabian family Aisling becomes involved with are discomfited when she acts like a western woman yet many of their compatriots yearn to enjoy the freedoms she takes for granted. Men from both cultures regard her as a pawn to be subjugated, by whatever means, to further their own dangerous games. This was a fascinating look at an area known to offer luxurious conditions for visitors willing to look only at the glittering facade, possible because of a hidden army of mistreated workers. The arms and oil trades are considered too important for other nations to attempt interventions, whatever the human cost. If foreign worker contracts are truly as tightly controlled as portrayed here I wonder why anyone would choose to go, whatever the reward. Nonetheless, this provides a searing backdrop for a compelling tale. 1 Comment Posted in Book Review Tagged Arab Spring, Arabia, Electric Souk, expatriate, fiction, Rose McGinty, Urbane Publications Rounding off the Urbane Book Blast with a Giveaway Dec19 by Jackie Law I hope that you have enjoyed reading the reviews, interviews and guest posts from Urbane Publications and their authors over the past couple of weeks. You now have a chance to win one of the books featured, and you may choose which one you would like to receive. If you would like a reminder about my thoughts on each, click on the titles below. Lost in Static by Christina Philippou An Honest Deceit by Guy Mankowski The Cruelty of Lambs by Angelena Boden The Brief by Simon Michael An Honest Man by Simon Michael The Life Assistance Agency by Thomas Hocknell Serial Damage by Liz Cowley and Donough O’Brien Once you have decided on your choice of book, this is what you have to do to enter the giveaway: Follow me on Twitter: Jackie Law (@followthehens) Tweet me the title of the Urbane book you would most like to receive from those reviewed this month (pictured above) using the hashtag #UrbaneBlast Do this before 8am GMT on Wednesday 21st December 2016, after which I will randomly draw a winner. The giveaway is open internationally. Thank you to Matthew at Urbane for providing the prize. You may wish to consider joining the Urbane Book Club. For £99.99 you’ll receive a print and ebook edition of every new Urbane title published from the date you join for an entire year – Urbane currently publishes around 5 books a month. You’ll receive a 75% discount on any further purchases of Urbane titles through the Urbane website, including the entire backlist – all with free p&p in the UK. There are other benefits to joining, including opportunities to meet the authors. Check out the details by clicking here. Ordinary words made extraordinary Leave a comment Posted in books Tagged book giveaway, Urbane Publications	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line1068
__label__wiki	0.756898	0.756898	QinetiQ awarded contract for Watchkeeper UAV evaluation By Kyle Sherer QinetiQ awarded contract for W... ParcAberporth in West Wales December 12, 2007 QinetiQ has been awarded a five million pound contract by the UK Ministry of Defense to conduct a series of airborne tests and evaluations for the 800 million pound Watchkeeper UAV programme. The tests will be held over the next 18 months at ParcAberporth and the adjoining MOD Aberporth air range, and pre-flight activity environmental and electromagnetic compatibility testing will be held at QinetiQ operated facilities at MOD Boscombe Down. The Watchkeeper WK40 contract was awarded to the Thales Group in 2005, and is designed to provide the UK armed forces with a specialized surveillance and reconnaissance UAV for weather, intelligence, and target acquisition. It will be evaluated by QinetiQ in the unique environment of West Wales. The announcement of the evaluation contract follows 15 months of promotion and planning by a team comprising QinetiQ, West Wales Airport and the Welsh Assembly Government, and culminated in detailed negotiations with the MOD’s Tactical UAV Integrated Project Team. "Selecting a commercial airport as the ‘home’ of the program means we can deliver and extend our UAV knowledge and further develop both our and Industry’s understanding of concurrent manned and unmanned aircraft operations – a topic crucial to the future development of UAV’s in the world today," explained Peter Tanner, MD for QinetiQ’s Systems Evaluation Services business. MilitaryUAVQinetiQ Kyle Sherer Loyal Wingman combat drone completes first high-speed taxi tests Aerojet Rocketdyne hypersonic scramjet engine sets new thrust record Artificial intelligence co-pilots military jet for the first time LiquidPiston's "inside-out" rotary X-Engine wins Army research contract	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line1069
__label__wiki	0.67809	0.67809	Home / 2017 / February / Economics Diversity, inclusivity key to a growing economy Diversity and inclusion are economic imperatives, not just moral goals, UC Santa Cruz Professor Chris Benner tells business leaders By Melissa De Witte The report suggests that chambers must play a civic role as well as an economic one if they want to remain relevant to a changing entrepreneurial landscape Professor Chris Benner For the American economy to prosper, it must be diverse and inclusive, UC Santa Cruz Professor Chris Benner tells business leaders in a new report written in collaboration with the University of Southern California and the Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives. “America is changing,” opens Benner in “Diversity and Inclusion for the 21st Century Economy: An Imperative for Chambers of Commerce,” a paper co-authored with longterm collaborator Manuel Pastor, a UCSC alumnus and former UCSC professor now with the University of Southern California. The face of small business is shifting. From 2007–2012, Latino-owned businesses in the U.S. grew by 34.5 percent and African American-owned enterprises grew by 46.3 percent. A quarter of all new businesses were started by immigrants. What is now a trend will soon become the norm. As soon as 2040, 49 percent of the U.S. workers will be African American, Latino, Asian Pacific Islander, Native American, and self-identified multiracial. By 2050, America is expected to become majority-minority, a demographic shift driven by natural growth, not immigration. For business leaders and metropolitan chambers of commerce, a “business as usual” approach is no longer enough, Benner and Pastor say. Meanwhile, lagging behind demographic change is stark income equality and exclusion. Job growth is sluggish. Wages are stagnant. Education is fragmenting. The nation’s poor are geographically concentrating. As Benner and Pastor show, it’s hurting business. “Chambers can no longer think of inclusion as an afterthought,” Benner says, pointing to his previous research that shows cities that foster education and economic equity fare better fiscally. “They should instead recognize that regions that are more equal and more integrated—across income, race, gender, and place—have better economic performance, on average, than those regions that are more unequal and more divided,” adds Benner, the Dorothy E. Everett Global Information and Social Entrepreneurship Chair and executive director of the Everett Program. But this is increasingly difficult for business leaders and chambers. As America grows more diverse, people are increasingly sorting themselves by ideological and political beliefs. For example, in 1992, only 20 percent of American voters lived in a county where a presidential candidate won by a landslide. In 2016, it was a staggering 57 percent. This homogenous sorting is also reflected in the media where information is filtered algorithmically along partisan lines. Communication is now so customized that “unwanted” news gets filtered out without audiences knowing. Facts—which Benner notes are vital to policy-making—are no longer basic and generally agreed upon. “Unchallenged by opposing perspectives, we are increasingly drifting apart at exactly the moment in which we need to know and grow together,” Benner says. But these difficulties also provide opportunities for chambers. As business leaders, chambers are uniquely positioned to connect community and cultivate collaboration. They are also seasoned at relationship building and have a strong sense of roots in the region. For example, Benner and Pastor point to Great Reading, PA, where the county chamber created a new initiative where women from diverse backgrounds can network with each other through a leadership series, in a mentorship program, and in regular roundtables that address the challenges faced by female business owners. They also offer a Latina focused meeting as well. Another example Benner and Pastor offer is in South Carolina where the Greenville Chamber launched the Minority Business Resource Collaborative to support minority businesses upstate. The group’s goal is to leverage the power as a collective by sharing knowledge and skills with the aspiration for economic development, business growth, job creation, and wealth creation. In sum, chambers must play a civic role as well as an economic one if they are to remain relevant to a changing entrepreneurial landscape. But diversity work is hard, Benner and Pastor warn. “This work is not for the faint-of-heart. A bumpy process is to be expected as making changes to accommodate our inevitable demographic and economic shifts is not easy and can involve substantial conflict,” they say. Last modified: February 15, 2017 128.114.113.73	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line1072
__label__wiki	0.78315	0.78315	UNM Newsroom / News / UNM professor awarded NSF funding to study human lung response to COVID-19 UNM professor awarded NSF funding to study human lung response to COVID-19 By Felina Martinez, Advance communication intern May 28, 2020 Categories: Front Page Faculty News College of Arts & Sciences Biology Computer Science Chemical & Biological Engineering Research Advance at UNM Melanie Moses, a professor of computer science and biology at The University of New Mexico, has been awarded National Science Foundation funding to understand how human lungs respond to viral pathogens like COVID-19. With the help of research assistant Vanessa Surjadidjaja, Moses hopes to answer how within-host infection dynamics affect between-host transmission. More specifically, how the spatial interactions of virus and immune response within hosts affects transmission between hosts, Moses said. To do this, they are developing a Spatial Immunological Model of Coronavirus (SIM-Cov) that uses computer simulations and laboratory data to visualize interactions between immune cells and the virus within the lungs. The goal is to also examine variability in viral load, a correlate of how infectious the patient is, across infected individuals and through time, Moses said. “An important goal for disease modeling within hosts and between hosts is to account for how different kinds of cells, or people with different jobs or risk factors, interact in space to facilitate or impede disease spread,” Moses said. SIM-Cov uses the movement patterns of T cells, a type of white blood cell that dictates the body’s immune response to pathogens, and CT scans to show the distribution of infected cells in the lungs of COVID-19 patients. SIM-Cov then produces as output a predicted time course of infection, including the number of infected and dead cells in the lung, and an estimate of viral load over time. “These variables are correlated with disease severity and the probability of transmission to other people,” Moses said. While the research will not officially begin until June 1, 2020, when NSF funding will be in place, Moses has been building models of influenza spread in the lungs for six years and has learned that the spatial distribution of virus and immune cells is very important. “Most models of disease spread make the simplifying assumption that any cell has an equal chance of infecting any other cell. But in reality, cells are far more likely to infect nearby cells. Accounting for this reality changes our understanding of the disease dynamics,” Moses said. Moses says the Women In STEM Award that funded preliminary research to herself, associate professor of Pathology Judy Cannon, and Surjadidjaja has been crucial in moving forward with this project. “Without it we would not have been able to successfully submit for NSF funding,” Moses said. Tags: Advance at UNM Melanie Moses UNM Department of Pathology UNM School of Engineering part of Department of Energy consortium UNM President to deliver State of the University address Professor receives prestigious NSF CAREER award Teton Saltes named winner of Wuerffel Trophy	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line1073
__label__wiki	0.595969	0.595969	NewsCream Home Entertainment Pachauri’s Green Torch Bearers Pachauri’s Green Torch Bearers Donna Laframboise We’re told the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is a scientific body that conducts objective scientific assessments. But if that were the case there’s no way Rajendra Pachauri would be its chairman. Pachauri, who has filled those shoes since 2002, is far from circumspect. If it was suddenly discovered, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that global climate change is 99.9% due to natural factors, nothing about his demeanor suggests Pachauri would a) believe such a finding or b) take pleasure in announcing it. In other words, nothing about this man suggests genuine scientific impartiality. The latest exhibit is a press release issued three days ago by India’s TERI University (backup link here). Pachauri is both the Director-General and the Chancellor of that institution. The press release tells us TERI University has just held a gathering for its MBA students. In a country that suffers from widespread corruption and extensive poverty, this university is producing business leaders concerned about “a green and sustainable tomorrow.” According to the person in charge of the MBA program, businesses will be required in the future “to pursue a much more sustainable process than at present” because various stakeholders will demand it. Four of those stakeholders are listed. The first is customers. But since most consumers in the affluent world aren’t prepared to pay significantly more just because a product is green, it’s difficult to believe that in a nation in which so many live so close to the margins this will be a major consumer concern. The next stakeholder mentioned is, get this, NGOs (followed by the judiciary and governments). It is surely an upside down world in which MBAs are told they should reinvent the way they do business because self-appointed activists employed by well-funded NGOs would like them to do so. According to this same gentleman, “We have played havoc with mother earth.” In other words, this event had much in common with a Greenpeace gathering or a religious revival meeting. But here’s the part in the press release that makes my main point: Dr. RK Pachauri, Chancellor, TERI University had a special video-recorded message for the participants encouraging them to be the torch bearers of the green campaign. [bold in the original, italics added] This isn’t a matter of putting words into anyone’s mouth. It isn’t a matter of interpretation. This press release was issued by an educational institution that Pachauri heads. It reveals that, during his day job, Pachauri encourages people to be green torch bearers. Since this man also chairs the IPCC – a body that is supposed to be impartial with respect to environmental questions – this is totally improper. The IPCC, therefore, is not a scientific organization. It is not committed to keeping an open mind. Rather, for the past decade it has been led by someone who is busily raising the next generation of green torch bearers. Previous articleMy Own Josh Cartoon Next articleWhen Your Paycheque Depends on a Climate Crisis The Sultan in an interview about “Monsters”, his love for Halloween and integration through music “Greatest responsibility to her children is to teach them Dignity”Mabelle Prior Britney Spears Caught Lip-Synching – Again Exclusive: The Start of Media Manipulation Andrew Koski, more than four years ago helped discover the fake news culture we have today. In our article dated August of 2015, he proves one of the first media manipulation vulnerabilities of our time. Tai on Former Asset Management Owner Charged for financial issues Zona on Former Asset Management Owner Charged for financial issues Visita el sitio on Former Asset Management Owner Charged for financial issues In the face of a global pandemic, Soren Dawody’s CBI initiative helps small island economies get back on track Chef Adam Schihab and his team at Vanille Restaurant launch Giant burger Vanilla Catering Saudi Arabia backed by renowned chef Adam Schihab Interview with the CEO of Lindela travel and tours! Entrepreneurship … A Leap of Faith and how Abdullah Almanna wants to take your 1st leap Latest News4 © 2020 NewsCream Media, All Rights Reserved. In the face of a global pandemic, Soren Dawody’s CBI initiative... adley93 - Modified date: December 17, 2020 0	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line1074
__label__wiki	0.621848	0.621848	Three women reflect on how dealing with breast cancer affected their sense of self as women, and how they've come to re-establish their confidence since having mastectomies. Breast cancer boudoir: Three women did boudoir photoshoots with Saskatoon photographer Pam Brace as a show of regained confidence after surviving breast cancer, mastectomies and countless other surgeries. Breast cancer boudoir Sultry shoots empower women to regain their sense of sexuality after mastectomies Photographs by Pam Brace Text by Natascia Lypny Pam Brace has photographed weddings, graduations — even roller derby — but she eventually settled on boudoir shots as where her passion lies. “Boudoir is … all about making women feel good about themselves and showing them a part of themselves that they don’t necessarily love already,” said the owner of the Saskatoon-based Roses and Scars Photography. Brace said she’s tried to make her business inclusive to all body types. Its name alludes to finding beauty in your scars as an ode to your journey, something Brace knows well having broken both of her legs. When October — breast cancer awareness month — was approaching, she began to ruminate on how women who have undergone mastectomies must feel post-surgery. Stronger for their scars: People proudly put their scars on display “I want to show them that part of them still exists — they are still sexual; that they are still attractive and I want to empower these women that just because they’ve gone through this doesn’t make them any less of a woman,” Brace said. She set up boudoir shoots with three women who have had trying breast cancer and breast reconstructive experiences, and has since used those photos to promote fundraising for the Pink Wig Foundation, which supports women undergoing treatment. Brace said she got just as much out of the experience as her subjects did. “If that were me in that position I don’t know if I could have handled it and come out the other side of it as strongly as they have. It really takes somebody really incredible to go through what these women have been through and still want to put themselves out there in the way they have with me.” Here’s how dealing with breast cancer affected their sense of self as women, and how they've come to re-establish their confidence since having mastectomies and follow-up procedures, as told to Brace and the CBC’s Natascia Lypny. Vicki Cassidy Vicki Cassidy was a 44-year-old mother of two going through a divorce when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. The Saskatoon woman had a mastectomy on her left side in 2017, then a preventative one on her right side two years later. Between those procedures, her ovaries were removed. After those procedures, along with a preventative hysterectomy she had in 2014 after getting cervical cancer, she “no longer felt like a whole person.” She had expanders placed in her chest to prepare for breast reconstruction surgery, but experienced complications on one side and had to have them removed on March 12 — the day of the first COVID-19 case in Saskatchewan. She is now “in limbo” with no sense of when she’ll be able to get her surgeries. ‘I always tried to hide my breasts and always tried to hide my body because I think even back then I didn’t want to be defined by how I looked. I would rather people define me by who I present myself as instead of my body.’ (Pam Brace) “It had a huge impact but I didn’t quite realize how much more feminine I felt with breasts even though I tried to hide them. For me losing the first one was probably the most traumatic thing I think I’ve ever had to go through. “I didn’t realize how much I based myself on my actual chest and how much other people seemed to base who you are on the size of your chest. It’s probably the thing I noticed the most — that people all of a sudden were uncomfortable with how you look and were uncomfortable talking to you about the fact that you now had a breast removed.” ‘I’m pretty shy about my body as it is — always have been. You know, the way I was raised and these weird little beliefs that popped into my head. [The photoshoot] was pretty nerve-racking, but it was exciting at the same time to be able to step out of the mindset that I've always had and relax and just enjoy it.’ (Pam Brace) “I love the fact that I look sexy, I look confident, I look comfortable in my body. I really didn’t know I could look that way until I saw those pictures.” ‘I kind of realized that I needed to learn to accept what I look like now, because we don’t know when anything’s going to change.’ (Pam Brace) “I’m learning to be able to not feel quite ashamed like I used to when I looked in the mirror. Now I accept myself for exactly who I am. I’m missing so many parts of me that make me technically a woman that you get lost in the fact that there’s been so much taken, and the photoshoot actually helped me realize that even though I’m missing so many parts that make me a woman, it’s not what defines me; it’s who I am, it’s who I perceive myself to be and who I put out into the world.” Kelly Lindberg Kelly Lindberg from Saskatoon found out she had breast cancer after going for first mammogram at age 46. “I was recently separated, adapting to being a single mom to four kids, working, volunteering and rediscovering myself after putting myself last on my list for way too many years. “Getting that diagnosis — ‘you have breast cancer’ — was the last thing I expected or needed to be dealing with.” ‘I would say [before my diagnosis] my body played into my sense of womanhood a lot, but often in a negative way: poor body image, being too hard on myself for my physical appearance.’ (Pam Brace) “The scars, my changed physical appearance, the mental and emotional after effects of cancer — I resented my body and how it betrayed me. But after a while, I had to accept my body and learn to love it. I would say ‘again,’ but realistically it might have been for the first time ever.” ‘The connection between the physical, mental, and emotional aspects of who I am — I had to learn to respect that more.’ (Pam Brace) “[My] sense of sexuality now is way more of a mental thing. Body parts don't you define you. … In a lot of ways it is very freeing — less self-judgement; less negative self talk.” ‘[I] see my scars as a sign of strength.’ (Pam Brace) “The photoshoot reminded me that who I am is not defined by the fact that I have had cancer, that I have a reconstructed breast, that I am way more than what body parts I may or may not have. When I look at the photos, I see myself reflected back to me, personality-wise. I see a woman who has overcome a lot, who can still smile and laugh and enjoy life.” Sharon Ellerington Sharon Ellerington was diagnosed with cancer in 2001 after she discovered a lump in her breast. She ended up having a double mastectomy, and having her nipples and areolas removed. She then chose to have expanders inserted, and started getting injections to rebuild her breasts, but the procedures resulted in severe complications including a pulmonary embolism. She would spend the next 17 years wrestling with self-consciousness over botched implant surgeries. Moving from Saskatoon to Manitoba to be closer to her grandchild, she found a surgeon to reattempt her reconstructive surgery — a process that began in 2018 and would take two years. ‘I know most women would probably say what defines them partially is their breasts and being that young when I lost them at 28, that was hard in itself, and then to not have a good outcome when I had my mastectomies redone and reconstructed.’ (Pam Brace) “You couldn’t wear anything that would show anything even close to your breasts because they were very bad and it took away from feeling confident in anything. You always felt people were going to notice, or people were staring at you, and they may or may not have been but you were always consciously thinking that somebody’s going to notice that I look weird, and it’s a really hard feeling as a woman.” ‘They’re scars. They’re things that you’ve gone through that make you a stronger person.’ (Pam Brace) “I felt good about [the photoshoot]. My curves, my scars — they all define me as what I’ve been through and I was a fighter and conqueror and I guess I consider myself a kind of warrior, too.” ‘Finding acceptance in not being perfect. ... I’m just so happy to feel like I have my life back.’ (Pam Brace)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line1075
__label__cc	0.712315	0.287685	Home/News/Iraqi Prime Minister orders lifting of curfew from 5 am Iraqi Prime Minister orders lifting of curfew from 5 am Observatory StaffOctober 4, 2019 UNITED STATES, WASHINGTON (OBSERVATORY) — Iraqi Prime Minister and Commander-in-Chief of the Iraqi Armed Forces, Adel Abdul Mahdi, on Friday ordered the lifting of the curfew from 5 am on Saturday (October 5th). Security authorities have imposed a total curfew in Baghdad since Thursday morning, choosing conservatives to take the decision to declare a curfew in their provinces. The imposition of a curfew in the capital Baghdad after the outbreak of protests and demonstrations accompanied by clashes between demonstrators and security forces, resulting in dozens of deaths and thousands of wounded. The capital Baghdad and other provinces have been demonstrating since last Tuesday, during which demonstrators suffered injuries as a result of the use of “excessive force” by the security forces to disperse them, while the High Commission for Human Rights, the killing of more than 48 demonstrators and wounding 2029, including security forces since the start Demonstrations in Iraq. Coalition military base in Iraq was subjected to repeated shelling Iraqi army says five soldiers and a civilian killed in US strikes Iraq will file a complaint to the UN due to US airstrikes US general warns Iran against retaliation US explains self-defense attacks in Iraq US began to deploy Patriot air defense systems to Iraq	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line1076
__label__cc	0.515178	0.484822	What is the Commonwealth Contracting Suite (CCS)? The CCS is an interactive suite of smart forms designed to assist Commonwealth Government procurement officials prepare procurement documentation. The CCS reflects Government policy to streamline business between the public and private sector. Standard terms and consistency of procurement documentation make it easier for Suppliers to do business with the Commonwealth. How do I gain access the CCS? Commonwealth Government procurement officials can gain access the CCS by following the links on ccs.finance.gov.au. Suppliers (including potential suppliers) do not need access the CCS to respond to an approach to market (request for tender). All documentation required to prepare a response will be included in the approach to market. Does the CCS meet the Unfair Contract Terms Legislation? Although the Commonwealth Government does not have to comply with the Unfair Contract Terms Legislation, the CCS was developed in close consultation with the Office of the Australian Small Business Commissioner and with a wide range of Industry peak bodies. It was designed to be consistent with the Treasury Legislation Amendment (Small Business and Unfair Contract Terms) Act 2015 (Cth) and to be equitable to both parties. What is the benefit for suppliers? Suppliers tell us that receiving ATM documents in the same format regardless of the agency involved and being able to respond using a consistent Response document saves them considerable time and effort. Suppliers also tell us that having the Terms written in plain and simple language makes it easy for them to understand their legal rights and responsibilities. Static terms reduces Supplier's overall legal costs as they don't need to seek legal advice for every procurement. Are the terms negotiable? The Commonwealth ATM Terms and the Commonwealth Contract Terms are non-negotiable. By submitting a response, potential suppliers agree to form a contract under the Commonwealth Contract Terms if successful. Why doesn't the CCS have insurance as a standard? The CCS requires Suppliers to maintain adequate insurances for the Contract and to provide the Customer with proof when reasonably requested. Suppliers should determine the level of insurance which adequately covers their risk exposure. If a Customer (Commonwealth) identifies a specific risk, which they have identified can only be mitigated by insurance, this should be advised in the Approach to Market. Who must use the CCS? The CCS is mandatory for use by non-corporate Commonwealth entities (NCE) for procurement under $200,000 except for specific circumstances as detailed in Resource Management Guide 420. Corporate Commonwealth entities (CCE) are encouraged to use the CCS as appropriate. What should I do if I registered as a new user but didn't receive an email? Check for the email in your spam filter and/or junk mail then contact CCSdesk@finance.gov.au and request a password reset. What should I do if I have registered and received an email, but now I can't login? Try copying and pasting the password you received by email. You can also try resetting your password by following the link on the CCS login screen. If you continue to have trouble contact CCSdesk@finance.gov.au. I have forgotten my password, what can I do? You can reset your password from the CCS login screen. CCSdesk@finance.gov.au Mandatory use of the Commonwealth Contracting Suite for procurement under $200,… Treasury Legislation Amendment (Small Business and Unfair Contract Terms) Act 2…	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line1079
__label__wiki	0.740381	0.740381	What is next for Islanders’ offseason after Boychuk news? By Adam GretzNov 25, 2020, 6:39 PM EST The New York Islanders found out on Wednesday that defenseman Johnny Boychuk‘s career is coming to an end due to an eye injury he suffered in March. Combined with the earlier trade of Devon Toews to the Colorado Avalanche, that means the Islanders have now lost two of their top-six defensemen from this past season. Given the team’s salary cap situation there was always the possibility they were going to have to find a way to jettison Boychuk’s contract, but now that he is officially not returning it still leaves another pretty big hole on their defense and creates some intriguing questions for the next few weeks. It also helps clear the way for their most important offseason move. The Salary Cap Impact And Getting Barzal Re-Signed Trading Toews and Boychuk going to LTIR is going to have a significant impact on their salary cap situation. Before Wednesday’s news the Islanders were just a little more than $3 million under the salary cap for this upcoming season with several moves to make. Not only do they need to find the room to re-sign their franchise player — restricted free agent Mathew Barzal — but they are also rumored to have pending deals UFA deals with Matt Martin, Andy Greene, and Cory Schneider in place. The Boychuk news gives them an additional $6 million to work with. Barzal figures to take up a significant portion of that that space, and depending on the team it could be range anywhere from $7 million, to perhaps even $9 or $10 million on the high end. Getting him signed is the most important move for the Islanders, and something had to give with the salary cap before they could. Now they can. Do they need to add another defenseman? While Boychuk may not be the player he was when he first arrived in New York, losing him and Toews in one offseason is a significant blow to their defense. The Islanders are still bringing back a solid group with Adam Pelech, Ryan Pulock, and Nick Leddy at the top. Noah Dobson is also still waiting in the wings for his opportunity. There is also the possibility of Greene re-signing. The Islanders acquired him at the trade deadline this past season to add some depth, and his performance over the past couple of years has been virtually identical to Boychuk’s. He should be a good replacement over a full season. Still, it does make you wonder if the Islanders would have reconsidered the Toews trade had they known what was going to happen with Boychuk just a few weeks later. Even with a Greene re-signing that still leaves the Islanders with only seven NHL defenders under contract for this season, and Toews would be an upgrade over several of them. The salary cap space would still be an issue (Toews signed for $4 million per year in Colorado), but it would have been manageable. Especially if they end up using LTIR with Andrew Ladd‘s contract. The free agent market is slim at this point, but Zdeno Chara, Sami Vatanen, Ben Hutton, and Slater Koekkoek would probably be the best available options. More NHL Offseason Sabres lose in Taylor Hall’s first game; Painful debut for Eric Staal Tortorella feels Dubois ‘needs to speak’ on desire to leave Blue... Pietrangelo set for Vegas debut, carries high expectations Adam Gretz is a writer for Pro Hockey Talk on NBC Sports. Drop him a line at phtblog@nbcsports.com or follow him on Twitter @AGretz.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line1080
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__label__wiki	0.906387	0.906387	Home » Car Reviews » Sony Japan Discontinues All But One PlayStation 4 Model Sony Japan Discontinues All But One PlayStation 4 Model After breaking sales records across over the last seven years, it looks like Sony’s PlayStation 4 could be reaching the end of its life soon. Sony appears to have ended production of almost every model of PS4, leaving just the basic 500GB slim console to carry on the name. Rumors of the PS4’s end-of-life status started at the weekend, when a Twitter user in Japan shared an image from an electronics store. The image showed a shelf full of PlayStation hardware products with an important announcement to the customers displayed prominently at the top left: “Dear customers: due to the manufacturer ending production, the following products will not be restocked.” ・PS4 500GB Glacier White ・PS4 1TB Jet Black ・PS4 1TB Glacier White ・PS4 Pro 1TB Glacier White pic.twitter.com/nub3lxcJGX — Cheesemeister (@Cheesemeister3k) January 3, 2021 As translated in part by “Cheesemeister”, the announcement states: “Dear customers: Due to the manufacturer ending production, the following products will not be restocked. Please be aware in advance.” The note then lists five different types of PS4 available in the Japanese market, including the Japan-only 2TB console. That accounts for all but one of the console forms you can buy in the country, with the exception being the 500GB Slim in black — which you’ll see is on sale for roughly $240. Following this, Sony updated the Japan version of the PlayStation website. If you click through the PS4 products on the website, the only listed product now is the same 500GB Slim, with all other PS4 and PS4 Pro models removed. At the moment this only applies to Japan, but if Sony has ended production of these consoles, as suggested, it’s only a matter of time before this extends to other territories. Sony no doubt requires further production capacity for the PlayStation 5, for which demand is far outstripping supply, and discontinuing older consoles — especially the PS4 Pro, which sits at the same $399 price point as the Digital Edition PS5 — will facilitate this. It’s a similar situation that Microsoft encountered last year. Then Microsoft ended production of all but the Xbox One S ahead of the Xbox Series S/X launch, calling time on the Xbox One X after just 30 months. Sony’s PS4 Pro, it seems, has endured a similar fate after four years on sale. Of course the 500GB PS4 could persist for years yet. The previous generations of PlayStation all survived for over 10 years, and the PS4 has only just passed seven. Even so, with 114m units sold, it probably won’t pass the PS2’s 155m lifetime sales. GT Sport Time Trials: Generation X Didi Chuxing, WhatsApp Partner for Ride-Hailing in Brazil This Is How The VW ID.3 Avoids 12V Battery Issues With The 0783 Update Volkswagen Gets 20,000 Orders For e-up! Within Three Months casinos in this area santa ana star casino hotel america star casino 18 casinos in california casino near galena il	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line1091
__label__wiki	0.695673	0.695673	Home » Car Reviews » Xpeng G3 Deliveries Begin In Norway; Fully Charged Checks It Out Xpeng G3 Deliveries Begin In Norway; Fully Charged Checks It Out Is this the beginning of the Asian EV invasion? Xpeng Motors has begun customer deliveries of its G3 compact electric SUV in Norway. Back in September, we reported that the automaker sent its first 100 G3s to the Scandinavian country Well, the G3s have arrived, and customers are now driving them home. All 100 Xpeng G3s are sold and are now being handed over to their new owners this week across 28 cities and towns in Norway. Xpeng tells us that the northernmost G3 delivery will be in Bodø (67°N), just north of the Arctic Circle. In the video above, which happens to be the first episode of Fully Charged Premiere, Bjorn Nyland was tapped to take the G3 out for a spin and offer his thoughts on the vehicle. It’s a nice overview, but it is important to note that the new series, Fully Charged Premiere, is not a regular Fully Charged show. The Premiere series on Fully Charged is a paid promotion, so that needs to be taken into consideration. “This week’s customer deliveries in Norway represent a key milestone in Xpeng’s aspirations to become a truly international smart EV brand. Our launch in Europe comes just as consumers are shifting in increasingly large numbers to more sustainable personal transport, and at a tipping point where governments around the world are stepping up their zero-emission efforts. We look forward to being a significant driver in accelerating that transition.” – He Xiaopeng, CEO & Chairman of Xpeng Nyland goes over the car’s features including the user interface, voice control, charging, interior noise, and does a demonstration of the G3’s self-parking feature. I had the opportunity to see a G3 do a self-parking demonstration last year when I visited Xpeng’s headquarters in Guangzhou, and I can confirm it works very well. In fact, it’s actually the best self-parking system that I’ve ever used. Bjorn also activates the G3’s Xpilot driver-assist system and explains that, like Tesla’s autopilot system, XPilot continues to learn and improve. Xpeng recently announced that beginning in early 2021, Xpilot will greatly improve, because its next-generation autonomous driving architecture will include lidar technology, making Xpeng the first OEM to include lidar on a production EV. You can tell Bjorn is genuinely impressed with the G3, as he was a few months ago when he first had the opportunity to drive a G3 in Norway. Unlike the vehicle he drives in this video, that G3 still had the user interface in the Chinese language. The list price for the G3 in Norway starts at 358,000 NKr (EUR 33,700 – $41,000 US ) and has a WLTP range rating of 451 km (280 miles). That would translate to roughly 240-250 miles on the EPA range rating and the G3 is a direct competitor for the RAV4 Prime PHEV and the Volkswagen ID.4. Gallery: Xpeng G3 Customer deliveries begin in Norway In case anyone was wondering if Xpeng has its sights set on more than just China and Norway, Dr. Brian Gu, Vice Chairman & President of Xpeng clearly laid that question to rest: “We believe smart EVs are global products, and Xpeng aims to be a global leader in smart EVs. That’s why, while we focus on (the) Chinese market currently, we have aspirations to explore international markets” Dr. Brian Gu, Vice Chairman & President of Xpeng The P7 is on the way Xpeng is “exploring opportunities” in other EV-mature markets with supportive government policies, advanced charging infrastructure, and high EV awareness. Xpeng is also planning to launch its second production model, the P7 electric sports sedan, in Europe within the next 12 months. Xpeng hasn’t announced any plans to export its vehicles to the US, but they did bring a P7 here in September when the company entered the New York stock exchange. InsideEVs was the first of only three news outlets that were allowed to test drive the P7 while it was here. Check out the video and let us know what you think. Would you be interested in the XPeng G3 if it were available in your market (it may soon be)? As always, let us know your thoughts in the comment section below. Source:fullychargedshow How Do Car Seats Fit in a 2020 Audi A7? Karma Automotive Files Lawsuit Against Lordstown Motors 2021 Audi E-Tron SUV starts for $8,800 less, gets more range The Chinese Equivalent Of Google Is Looking To Build Its Own EVs gambling casinos near me online casino free money no deposit casino birthday promotions near me pc casino games casinos in jamaica	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line1092
__label__wiki	0.916018	0.916018	The Wire: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review “We’re building something here… and all the pieces matter.” Detective Lester Freamon The Wire, a show revered by genre fanatics the world over, has numerous wonderful quotes, but this one sums up the show itself from both a creative standpoint as much as a summary of the show itself. What creator David Simon pulled off during the five seasons of The Wire is a template for the way television SHOULD be made for years to come – a high concept, superbly cast and even more superbly written episodic exploration into the mechanics of American society told through the city of Baltimore and the factions of people that live within its confines. The Wire never achieved a particularly high viewership during its five season run on HBO. Shows like The Sopranos, Sex In The City, and Six Feet Under continuously overshadowed The Wire in viewership and popularity. But NEVER in ratings. The Wire always got props from entertainment critics taking the time to watch it, and from fans who took the time to tune in during its original broadcast. This Blu-ray release of The Wire marks the first time the show has been made commercially available in a 1.78:1 widescreen remaster format. With HD television now the industry standard, the Wire’s original 1.33:1 pan and scan broadcast format has often been the thing that new viewers seem to get hung up on (“how come the show LOOKS so shitty compared to other HBO shows out there?”). The Wire was originally shot in 35mm. In between seasons two and three, the show was given the option of flipping to HD and showing in 16:9 aspect ratio. However, the creators felt that the style established in the first two seasons should be the way the final three seasons should look, and they stuck with their 1.33:1 pan and scan composition. If you’d like to know a bit more, check out this online article by David Simon here. It’s a genuinely informative and entertaining read: http://davidsimon.com/the-wire-hd-with-videos/ So what does The Wire Blu-ray REALLY mean for new and old viewers alike? If nothing else, the show LOOKS and SOUNDS so much better than the original commercially available HBO DVD’s. Those DVDs have been watched (numerous times by myself) and I can honestly say that getting to look at the Wire in this new 1080p presentation took my breath way during a few episodes. The city of Baltimore seems bigger and more open in this presentation. The composition and power of some of the scenes during the five seasons of the show achieve more impact because of this presentation. In layman terms; The Wire Blu-ray is where it’s at. All of the features from the previously released DVD’s are included in this Blu-ray edition. The only new feature that has been done on The Wire recently was the cast reunion filmed at the PaleyFest in October of 2014. This footage resides online, but is presented here in high definition for your viewing pleasure. In attendance are John Doman (William Rawls), Larry Gilliard, Jr. (D’Angelo Barksdale), Seth Gilliam (Ellis Carver), Jim True-Frost (Roland “Prez” Pryzbylewski), Jamie Hector (Marlo Stanfield), Michael Kenneth Williams (Omar), Sonja Sohn (Shakima Greggs), Wendell Pierce (Bunk Moreland), J.D. Williams (Bodie Broadus), Michael Lee (Tristan Wilds), Bob Wisdom (Bunny Colvin), producer Nina K. Noble, and creator/executive producer David Simon. Dominic West (Jimmy McNulty) and Idris Elba (Stringer Bell) aren’t present but do send video messages during the broadcast. I am one of the zealots who deems The Wire amongst the best that television has to offer. Without going into essay-length hyperbole on the mechanics of the show’s many wonders, I will say this: I’ve never seen a television show that has been able to convey a feeling of winning-a-war-while-losing-the-overall-battle like The Wire. The show isn’t for everyone. It’s often dark and things don’t work out for every character. It’s an honest show. You really do feel like you are looking into the mechanics of police work, organized crime, the school system, politics and the media. The ensemble cast, many of whom were unproven at the time of The Wire have gone onto great things in the years since the original broadcast. It’s a rare show that gets better with each passing year and, now on Blu-ray it will continue to do so in a presentation format that truly services the merits of the show in the best way possible. A must-have Blu-ray set for anyone’s bookshelf. www.hbo.com/the-wire www.hbo.com www.hbocanada.com https://twitter.com/hbocanada https://twitter.com/thewire https://www.facebook.com/TheWire #Baltimore#Bob Wisdom#Bodie Broadus#Bunk Moreland#Bunny Colvin#D'Angelo Barksdale#David Simon#Detective Lester Freamon#Dominic West#Ellis Carver#HBO#Home Box Office#Idris Elba#J.D. 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__label__wiki	0.591072	0.591072	Leadership, Philanthropy, US Government The Don’ts and Do’s of Pay for Success/Social Impact Bonds Jon Pratt and Ruth McCambridge “A Guide to Evaluating Pay for Success Programs and Social Impact Bonds” might well have borne the subtitle, “Reasons why you might not want to mess with these schemes and questions to make you think more critically before you go leaping in with all four feet.” Released on December 4th by a coalition of groups, including the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the Center for Effective Government, In the Public Interest, the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits, and the Oregon Center for Public Policy, the 10-page guide quickly runs through the problems these financing methods cause and then poses questions to be considered. Social impact bonds depend upon private investors to take on the risk of social programs, with the government paying off those investments if and when outcome goals are met. Somehow, this is meant to improve the program’s outcomes—because, after all, the free market has its own ineffable magic to bring to bear to whip us all into shape around social programs. To make this complex setup work as conceived, independent evaluators are contracted, as are lawyers all around. Naturally, there are also costs associated with the loans. Everyone gets a little piece of the pie. McKinsey & Company, in some of its early advocacy, wrote, “SIBs are a more expensive way to finance the scaling up for preventive programs than if the government simply went to service providers and paid them to expand an intervention to more constituents.” And, indeed, if there were any indication that Pay for Success programs consistently worked to ensure success, we could argue about whether or not that success was worth the increased cost. But the outcomes of the experiments with pay for success/SIBs are not showing well. Early transactions have had sketchy results (Peterborough prison, Rikers Island, Utah early childhood), and that has left us with no true success stories. Additionally, the guide suggests that the PFS interventions don’t recognize that “fixing complex social problems typically requires investments and policy changes on multiple levels.” It quotes Donald Cohen and Dr. Jennifer Zelnick from their NPQ article, saying, “A bias toward programs that produce quick, measurable results narrows the public dialogue and waters down findings.” A good example of this dynamic can be found in the Rikers Island experiment. For example, the Rikers Island PFS funded moral cognation therapy to reduce recidivism. Options with a potentially larger impact on recidivism reduction, such as decreasing the number of questionable misdemeanor arrests or making access to bail easier, were not considered because they are not amenable to measurement. States have reduced recidivism through other means, including increasing public investment in community-based treatment, re-entry planning and intensive supervision, and providing continuity of care to people with mental health problems. Because these interventions are difficult, if not impossible to measure, these interventions would not be considered in PFS deals. What drives the PFS solutions conversation is, “What can be funded by a PFS deal?” rather than “What structural changes and services can best address the problem we are seeing?” But the SIB notion—and we use that word with great purpose, as in “an impulse or desire, especially one of a whimsical kind”—got a lot of traction early on. The promotion stage assumed it would be successful and had a broad and influential group of supporters (Rockefeller Foundation, McKinsey, Kennedy School, Bloomberg, Goldman Sachs, and Urban Institute) plus a gaggle of professional consultants smelling a ripe financial opportunity. The promotion stage also had major funding from Rockefeller and the Obama administration and ready investors for the transactions as they occurred. Still, the experimentation goes on, with advocates suggesting that detractors are merely sour “social progress spoilers” of a sort. In the United States, there are eight established PFS contracts, including a program to reduce recidivism among youth detained at Rikers Island that was terminated when projected outcomes were not achieved. As a result of aggressive promotion by intermediaries, boutique firms and consulting agencies, plus pro-PFS policies and funding from the federal government, many more PFS contracts are in the pipeline. Indeed, in 2014, the Corporation for National and Community Service’s Social Innovation Fund launched its Pay for Success program. Through its eight inaugural grantees, 43 programs across the country are receiving PFS technical assistance. Federal legislation has also been introduced to foster the creation of PFS deals. Six states, Colorado, Idaho, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, Texas, and Utah have passed PFS enabling legislation and more states are expected to follow. Federal legislation has also been introduced to foster the creation of PFS deals. The story here is about playing catch-up. The promotion of Pay for Success and Social Impact Bonds ran way ahead of any impartial or detailed scrutiny of how this would actually work. The excitement over the transactions and the disproportionate attention paid to the novelty and financing aspects resulted in little attention being paid to the underlying services that were supposed to produce these results. This guide is an organized inquiry, response, and opposition to a popular but dubious fad. Now, it is time for the long-overdue re-evaluation stage. Was this such a good idea? What questions should have been asked in the first place? Based on its huge stumbles, this whole field should be under a very intense microscope, and the questions identified by this guide are an attempt to catch up to a runaway field. Was it all too good to be true? Why did so many institutions jump in with both feet? Why do people keep falling for Ponzi schemes? The answers are partly related to public policy and partly related to human psychology. When all is said and done, this report contains a set of excellent questions for anyone considering a pay for success arrangement. About Jon Pratt Jon Pratt Jon Pratt is the executive director of the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits, codirector of GrantAdvisor.org, and a contributing editor to the Nonprofit Quarterly. 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__label__cc	0.524934	0.475066	Christian Clansky Real Reel News: 2.20.20 https://nothinortriple.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Station.jpg 1920 1080 Christian Clansky Christian Clansky https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/267d7fefb2925da747e3719c35e07288?s=96&d=mm&r=g February 20, 2020 February 20, 2020 Some weeks, it feels like the “huge news” floodgates have been flung open. Other weeks, you try to keep busy strumming the air guitar to Wyld Stallyns songs while hoping for a big story to drop. This, friends, is one of those weeks. Here are a few things to know about though… Station! Planet of the Idiots As part of Disney’s booty plundering of Fox, the House of Mouse picked up the rights to Planet of the Apes. Earlier this week, reports circulated that a new movie was in the works and that it would be a “reboot.” With predictable simian rage and absolutely no confirmed details to fuel that rage, some people erupted over the assumption that Disney was wiping the slate clean and moving on from the recent Rupert Wyatt/Matt Reeves trilogy. But as we all know, reboot is one of Satan’s personal additions to the English lexicon. It means nothing more than “something is happening with this property.” It’s an utterly useless word that shouldn’t be covered under the protections of free speech. According to the new film’s director, Wes Ball, people should have checked with him first because the project will be some sort of continuation — which, to clarify, could mean prequel, sequel, or spin-off! America would be far less polarized if we simply avoided vague language when talking about movies. And can I just keep venting, since this is my post and I can do whatever I want? It drives me nuts that “journalists” cite random Twitter users as evidence of anything substantive. One of the angry people that Movieweb quoted — who so eloquently said, “Oh wow so orginal and creative NOT” — only has 16 Twitter followers. So orginal and creative NOT, Movieweb. Let’s kick the tires and light the fires, big daddy! I’ve seen Independence Day more times than I can count (because I only have ten fingers). It’s one of those movies that doesn’t lose an ounce of swagger, no matter how many times you see it. The effects hold up, the characters are always a joy to revisit, and the sheer scale of the story remains terrifyingly awesome. So, the sequel was perhaps one of my most anticipated movies ever. And, wouldn’t you know it, they somehow packed every wrong decision they possibly could into a two-hour snoozefest. Was it atrocious? Yes. Do I care for any of the ID4: The Next Generation characters? No, they are all annoying and ugly. Do I still have a soft spot for the movie? Obviously. Would I like another sequel? In a Randy Quaid minute! Which I guess is either super fast or super slow, depending on which drug he’s taking. There’s still potential in the franchise, as long as Roland Emmerich resists the urge to simply repeat plot points with lazier-yet-bigger spectacle. And Emmerich is hoping that Disney will make another one, because he’s got ideas! My idea? Lock in Jeff Goldblum and Brent Spiner, then send them into a space for a Disney+ event series. Maybe throw in some time travel so that we can get Will “Career Suicide Squad” Smith back to where it all started. Teeny Tiny Tidbits Awesome News Speaking of apocalyptic movies, Adam McKay is set to direct Jennifer Lawrence in a movie about two minor astronomers who have to go on a PR tour revealing the end of the world when they discover an asteroid heading towards us. Omar Sy and Jake Johnson, who played two of the three best characters in Jurassic World, are returning for the final (yeah right) outing after being so rudely omitted from Fallen Kingdom. The third best character, if you absolutely must know, was Irrfan Khan’s Masrani, the John Hammond heir who jumped into a helicopter like a total bad ass to save the day. And then crashed and died immediately. So, he’s not coming back. Spoiler alert. Trey Parker and Matt Stone, who have the distinction of being two of the funniest humans alive, are making a new non-South Park movie! While I might have hoped for Baseketball 2, the movie apparently will be called Alma Junction (perhaps a secret Cloverfield 4). Fun fact: Baseketball was directed by David Zucker, creator of the Airplane and Naked Gun. In a television interview, with two shirt buttons undone, once-and-future heartthrob Harrison Ford gave me butterflies when he said that Indy 5 starts filming in just two months! Closer and closer, my friends. Three Billboards director Martin McDonagh is about to start production on his latest movie, The Banshees Of Inisheer, which is mostly likely a dramatization of the noises I made the first time I saw Harrison Ford in public (filming Random Hearts in my neighborhood a long time ago). The film will star Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleason. I guess that means Farrell is playing Ford and Gleason is playing me? Weird casting. Dumb News We have our first look at the new Batman costume, courtesy of director Matt Reeves. Look, that guy made one of my favorite movies and has been nothing short of excellent in everything else he’s done. So, of all the DCEU movies I’m not excited about, I’m the least not-excited about this one. But this quick tease looks suspiciously like Daredevil, even down to the red lighting. I’ll reserve judgement until I see more. Just kidding, I reserve nothing. I’m not sure why I’m spending any time thinking about this, but Vin Diesel’s new movie Bloodshot tanks at the box office on March 13. It’s about a soldier who keeps getting resurrected by nanobots or something. Anyway, the tagline is apparently, You don’t need a past to have a future. And to demonstrate that this is an exceptionally special trait for Diesel’s character, I’ll just say that it’s only also been true for 7,794,798,739 living humans who didn’t have a past before they were born. Alma Junction Wes Ball Wyld Stallyns Ridley’s Believe It or Not	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line1107
__label__cc	0.736489	0.263511	When Will Tommy Robinson Fuck Off Tommy Robinson is a racist, a fraud, and an absolute wasteman. Join us on the 9th of December to oppose his toxic politics and inability to dress himself properly. London Into Tier 3 Lockdown Opinion: This Was Always Going to Happen This week's storming of the Capitol by the far-right should not come as a shock, writes Kim Kelly—and if anything, it will happen again. Opinion: In Negotiating Trade After Brexit, the Tories Missed a Key Opportunity to Accelerate Climate Goals If the British government really wants to become a global leader in tackling climate change, environmental justice must become a priority in negotiating new trade deals, write Miriam Brett and Katie Gallogly-Swan. Boris Johnson and Ursula Von Der Leyen have agreed to a UK-EU Trade Deal. Reaching a deal on Christmas eve is a short-term win for Johnson, after a disastrous few days in which he’s overseen a huge spike in Covid deaths and last minute changes to holiday plans. But what will the deal mean for […]	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line1109
__label__cc	0.705957	0.294043	This Fucking Year. I really meant to close on something positive this year. In spite of everything that happened, I was gonna be hopeful, and upbeat, and, you know, optimistic, and shit. But goddamn you, 2016, you’re not making it easy. None of us suspected the horrors you were gonna visit upon us when David Bowie died. It was tragic. The world did not know he had cancer, his loss was unexpected and severe. There are not a lot of legends left, and he was one. Personally, his death sent me back into that sense of loss I had when Freddie Mercury died, 25 years ago. They were of a generation, and Freddie was deprived of decades of greatness. Greatness that David Bowie delivered, and now he was gone. Little did I know that 2016 was only just gearing up. Just a few days later, Alan Rickman died. My beloved Colonel Brandon, gone. „Sense and Sensibility“ is my favourite movie of all times, not in small part due to Rickman. Also, everybody who ever looked into his face knew the truth about Snape, right then and there, no explanations needed. Always. The worst was yet to come, of course. People ask why we mourn celebrities we do not not know personally, why they even matter to us. The people who must ask will never know, as the story goes. Because their hearts have never been touched by a song, or a poem, or a movie, or a novel, touched so profoundly that they were transformed. We do not mourn them because we knew them, someone wrote, but because they allowed us to know ourselves more fully. I cannot describe the hole that was ripped into me when Prince died. I cannot, and I will not try. But good Lord, was I done with this year at that point. But the year was not done with us; it kept on taking people: Muhammad Ali, Anton Yeltsin, Leonard Cohen, Florence Henderson. Memes were starting to crop up. Seems legit. By the end of October, this fucking year decided to cause me grief up close and personally, by claiming the life of my beloved Invisible Cat. The shit show that is this year then culminated in the election of one Donald Trump as president of the United States of America. Yes, that was that election when the most qualified person who’d ever applied for the job lost on account of being a woman, and lost to what is basically an orange baboon. Said orange baboon, whose campaign staff took away his access to Twitter because he cannot be trusted to behave like a sane person, will now receive the codes to the largest nuclear arsenal on the planet. Goddamn you, 2016. And while we’re at it, fuck you very much, white America. All this, of course, over the constant backdrop of the war in Syria, hundreds of thousands displaced and dead, and our collective governments moving ever more to the political right. It is now apparently okay again to be openly racist, sexist, and xenophobic. Everybody who wonders how Nazi Germany could’ve possibly have happened only has to take a look around now to see how it begins. This is how it begins. If we do not stem the tide, history will repeat itself. Nonetheless, I have things to be grateful for. I found a job in a company full of really nice people. I started school. One of the people I’m closest to came to visit me from halfway across the world. I’m with a bunch of kick-ass activists, striking fear into the heart of Patriarchy. Right now, I’m still flush with the joy of celebrating Christmas with my family and friends. There are pockets of good things in this world. I was prepared to write something positive, hopeful, upbeat. I was. And then George Michael died. Fuck you, 2016. English, Persönliches / Personal 2016, celebrities, fuck you, Politics / Politik, this fucking year, World Rezept: Gefüllte Wirzblätter Recipe: Swiss-Style Mac & Cheese	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line1110
__label__wiki	0.697966	0.697966	It’s a great song. Lady Antebellum‘s “Need you now” speaks of heartbreak, of remembering someone special, fondly missing them, and eventually asking and begging for that person to come back. Oh and they’re called Lady A now. Forlorn men and women have listened to this song, singing their hearts out in cars and showers. Probably with tears in their eyes too. YouTube Screenshot Source: YouTube Screenshot Listen to it if you haven’t. The mood is obvious for that song. It goes really well with liquor too. Plus, it’s a great track for would be singers who want to duet with someone. It takes a serious amount of talent to carry a tune. So how would you feel if you were giving it your all, singing along to the song only to have your younger sibling make a fool of himself behind you? Here’s Johnny! Kate and Liam Bryan are about to sing the song. Who knows? They may have the talent. They look really serious about it too. That’s the way to feel the music! There’s another sibling lying down behind them. She doesn’t care… Kate’s got a nice voice for her age. She takes care of the first verse with ease, matching Hillary Scott’s voice word for word. It was all fine up until the chorus. That’s when little Johnny went nuts. The little guy jumps up from behind the bed, lip syncing along all while he started doing a little dance. If he’s trying to convey his emotions, well… Gotta’ work harder, kid. A bit more finesse. Little sister in bed is watching Johnny with a look that says it all. “What a weirdo“. Liam’s joined now. He tries his best to accompany Kate’s singing. And he’s not so bad either! It’s just really hard to concentrate on these two when there’s a kid in the back who looks like he took the wrong medication. He’s got that Magic Mike vibe though. Liam takes over the second verse. Charles Kelley would be proud of this kid. He even turns around and points at the door during the part that goes, “can’t stop looking at the door“. He’s got the feels! This song is so relatable. Ever wanted to call someone who broke your heart? Cried over pictures and memories? This is the song for you. Except for Johnny. Get this kid a sedative. Kate and Liam are in full duet mode now. They sound great, they really do. But once again, during the chorus, Johnny jumps out from behind the bed doing his silly lip sync and dance. He’s got way too much sugar in his diet. Johnny grabs a water bottle, using it as his microphone as he belts out the song with all his might. That’s a ton of emotions, little man. But he may have talent. Just needs polishing. Lots of it. And less sugar. He takes it up a notch. Johnny gets on the bed and jumps off, rocking out to the song. Mom can’t help it. you can hear her giggle behind the camera. Why Johnny did the Gangnam Style dance, we’ll never know. This kid is going places! Who needs little Johnny? Watch this kid’s energetic dance in the video below! Source: YouTube, Lady A, Rolling Stone Eduardo Gaskell Eduardo Gaskell is a contributor at Parenting Isn't Easy. Teacher’s Zoom Call Drops And Students Hilariously Try To Behave	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line1122
__label__cc	0.647121	0.352879	»08. Working Papers »Social Protection and Jobs Discussion Papers Unbundled : A Framework for Connecting Safety Nets and Humanitarian Assistance in Refugee Settings Seyfert, Karin Barca, Valentina Gentilini, Ugo Luthria, Manjula Abbady, Shereen The debate on if and how to connect humanitarian assistance for refugees with national social protection systems can elicit polarizing views. Hence, it is not unusual to observe country-level approaches getting somewhat ‘stuck’ – especially where refugees represent a sizable share of the population: from a donor perspective, the question is how can governments be persuaded to be more inclusive; from a government standpoint, it faces disproportionate political and economic risks from “being left with the bill”; and from the international humanitarian agencies viewpoint, there might be quandaries on how to reconcile commitments to neutrality and independence with those to respecting the primary responsibility of governments. These stylized views are legitimate, but their combined effect may generate competing narratives and little negotiating space among the multiple actors involved. The net result might be the endurance of a sub-optimal dual systems operating in parallel – one for refugees, one for citizens. The framework laid out in this paper attempts to facilitate the identification of workable pathways for progress among actors. Instead of framing the humanitarian-social protection links as an ‘either-or’ choice, the framework includes a more granular analysis of how collaborations may emerge around select programmatic ‘functions’, as well as the ‘degrees’ of possible connection between national and international support within a given function. “Seyfert, Karin; Barca, Valentina; Gentilini, Ugo; Luthria, Manjula; Abbady, Shereen. 2019. Unbundled : A Framework for Connecting Safety Nets and Humanitarian Assistance in Refugee Settings. Social Protection and Jobs Discussion Paper,no. 1935;. World Bank, Washington, DC. © World Bank. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/32467 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.” Adaptive Social Protection : Building Resilience to Shocks Bowen, Thomas; del Ninno, Carlo; Andrews, Colin; Coll-Black, Sarah; Gentilini, Ugo; Johnson, Kelly; Kawasoe, Yasuhiro; Kryeziu, Adea; Maher, Barry; Williams, Asha (2020-05-20) Adaptive social protection (ASP) helps to build the resilience of poor and vulnerable households to the impacts of large, covariate shocks, such as natural disasters, economic crises, pandemics, conflict, and forced displacement. Through the provision of transfers and services directly to these households, ASP supports their capacity to prepare for, cope with, and adapt to the shocks they face—before, during, and after these shocks occur. Over the long term, by supporting these three capacities, ASP can provide a pathway to a more resilient state for households that may otherwise lack the resources to move out of chronically vulnerable situations. Adaptive Social Protection: Building Resilience to Shocks outlines an organizing framework for the design and implementation of ASP, providing insights into the ways in which social protection systems can be made more capable of building household resilience. By way of its four building blocks—programs, information, finance, and institutional arrangements and partnerships—the framework highlights both the elements of existing social protection ... Adaptive social protection (ASP) helps to build the resilience of poor and vulnerable households to the impacts of large, covariate shocks, such as natural disasters, economic crises, pandemics, conflict, and forced displacement. Through the provision of transfers and services directly to these households, ASP supports their capacity to prepare for, cope with, and adapt to the shocks they face—before, during, and after these shocks occur. Over the long term, by supporting these three capacities, ASP can provide a pathway to a more resilient state ... Adaptive social protection (ASP) helps to build the resilience of poor and vulnerable households to the impacts of large, covariate shocks, such as natural disasters, economic crises, pandemics, conflict, and forced displacement. Through the provision of transfers and services directly to these households, ASP supports their capacity to prepare for, cope with, and adapt to the shocks they face—before, during, ... Women, Business and the Law 2020, the sixth edition in a series, analyzes laws and regulations affecting women’s economic inclusion in 190 economies. The Women, Business and the Law Index, composed by eight indicators structured around women’s interactions with the law as they begin, progress through and end their careers, aligns different areas of the law with the economic decisions women make at various stages of their lives. The indicators are: Mobility, Workplace, Pay, Marriage, Parenthood, Entrepreneurship, Assets, and Pension. The report updates all indicators as of September 1, 2019, and builds evidence around the linkages between legal gender equality and women’s economic inclusion. By examining the economic decisions women make as they go through different stages of their working lives and the pace of reforms over the past 2 years, Women, Business and the Law makes an important contribution to research and policy discussions about the state of women’s economic opportunities and empowerment. While celebrating the progress made, the data and analysis emphasize the work still ... Women, Business and the Law 2020, the sixth edition in a series, analyzes laws and regulations affecting women’s economic inclusion in 190 economies. The Women, Business and the Law Index, composed by eight indicators structured around women’s interactions with the law as they begin, progress through and end their careers, aligns different areas of the law with the economic decisions women make at various stages of their lives. The indicators are: Mobility, Workplace, Pay, Marriage, Parenthood, Entrepreneurship, Assets, and Pension. The report ... Women, Business and the Law 2020, the sixth edition in a series, analyzes laws and regulations affecting women’s economic inclusion in 190 economies. The Women, Business and the Law Index, composed by eight indicators structured around women’s interactions with the law as they begin, progress through and end their careers, aligns different areas of the law with the economic decisions women make at various ... Lifelines : The Resilient Infrastructure Opportunity Hallegatte, Stephane; Rentschler, Jun; Rozenberg, Julie (2019-06-19) From serving our most basic needs to enabling our most ambitious ventures in trade and technology, infrastructure services are essential for raising and maintaining people’s quality of life. Yet millions of people, especially in low- and middle-income countries, are facing the consequences of unreliable electricity grids, inadequate water and sanitation systems, and overstrained transport networks. Natural hazards magnify the challenges faced by these fragile systems. Building on a wide range of case studies, global empirical analyses, and modeling exercises, Lifelines lays out a framework for understanding infrastructure resilience—the ability of infrastructure systems to function and meet users’ needs during and after a natural shock—and it makes an economic case for building more resilient infrastructure. Lifelines concludes by identifying five obstacles to resilient infrastructure and offering concrete recommendations and specific actions that can be taken by governments, stakeholders, and the international community to improve the quality and resilience of these essential services, ... From serving our most basic needs to enabling our most ambitious ventures in trade and technology, infrastructure services are essential for raising and maintaining people’s quality of life. Yet millions of people, especially in low- and middle-income countries, are facing the consequences of unreliable electricity grids, inadequate water and sanitation systems, and overstrained transport networks. Natural hazards magnify the challenges faced by these fragile systems. Building on a wide range of case studies, global empirical analyses, and modeling ... From serving our most basic needs to enabling our most ambitious ventures in trade and technology, infrastructure services are essential for raising and maintaining people’s quality of life. Yet millions of people, especially in low- and middle-income countries, are facing the consequences of unreliable electricity grids, inadequate water and sanitation systems, and overstrained transport networks. Natural ... Our Daily Bread : What is the Evidence on Comparing Cash versus Food Transfers? Gentilini, Ugo (2014-07) This paper reviews key issues in the 'cash versus food' debate, including as they relate to political economy, theory, evidence, and practice. In doing so, it benefited from a new generation of 12 impact evaluations deliberately comparing alternative transfer modalities. Findings show that differences in effectiveness vary by indicator, although they tend to be moderate on average. In some cases differences are more marked (i.e., food consumption and calorie availability), but in most instances they are not statistically significant. In general, transfers' performance and their difference seem a function of the organic and fluid interactions among factors like the profile and 'initial conditions' of beneficiaries, the capacity of local markets, and program objectives and design. Costs associated with cash transfers and vouchers tend to be substantially lower relative to food. Yet ... This paper reviews key issues in the 'cash versus food' debate, including as they relate to political economy, theory, evidence, and practice. In doing so, it benefited from a new generation of 12 impact evaluations deliberately comparing alternative transfer modalities. Findings show that differences in effectiveness vary by indicator, although they tend to be moderate on average. In some cases differences are more marked (i.e., food consumption ... This paper reviews key issues in the 'cash versus food' debate, including as they relate to political economy, theory, evidence, and practice. In doing so, it benefited from a new generation of 12 impact evaluations deliberately comparing alternative transfer modalities. Findings show that differences in effectiveness vary by ... Human(itarian) Capital? : Lessons on Better Connecting Humanitarian Assistance and Social Protection Gentilini, Ugo; Laughton, Sarah; O’Brien, Clare (2018-11) Governments in low and middle-income countries are increasingly investing in social protection, and also address many of their own people’s ‘humanitarian’ needs themselves. For their international partners, who may have an important role in filling gaps when household needs exceed national capacity to meet them, support for the strengthening of national systems, combined with a shift from short-run to more durable approaches, is becoming a unifying framework for assistance. Some aspects of social protection and humanitarian assistance therefore seem to be on a converging trajectory. ‘Human(itarian) Capital?’ discusses findings from twelve country case studies exploring the linkages between humanitarian assistance, in its various interpretations, and national social protection systems. Specifically, the paper distills lessons on how humanitarian assistance and social protection systems might ... Governments in low and middle-income countries are increasingly investing in social protection, and also address many of their own people’s ‘humanitarian’ needs themselves. For their international partners, who may have an important role in filling gaps when household needs exceed national capacity to meet them, support for the strengthening of national systems, combined with a shift from short-run to more durable approaches, is becoming a ... Governments in low and middle-income countries are increasingly investing in social protection, and also address many of their own people’s ‘humanitarian’ needs themselves. For their international partners, who may have an important role in filling gaps when household needs exceed national capacity to meet them, support for the ... Cash in the City : Emerging Lessons from Implementing Cash Transfers in Urban Africa Gentilini, Ugo; Khosla, Saksham; Almenfi, Mohamed (2021-01) Poverty and crises are rapidly â€œurbanizingâ€ . Yet experience with operationalizing cash transfers in urban areas is limited. This paper captures early lessons from a new generation of urban cash transfer responses to Covid-19 in eleven African countries. The analysis contextualizes such initiatives within a longer-term trajectory of urban social protection programs from the early 2000s. A range of lessons emerge around design and implementation, partnerships, institutions and political economy, strategic issues, and evidence and learning. Poverty and crises are rapidly â€œurbanizingâ€ . Yet experience with operationalizing cash transfers in urban areas is limited. This paper captures early lessons from a new generation of urban cash transfer responses to Covid-19 in eleven African countries. The analysis contextualizes such initiatives within a longer-term trajectory of urban social protection programs from the early 2000s. A range of lessons emerge around design and implement ... Poverty and crises are rapidly â€œurbanizingâ€ . Yet experience with operationalizing cash transfers in urban areas is limited. This paper captures early lessons from a new generation of urban cash transfer responses to Covid-19 in eleven African countries. The analysis contextualizes such initiatives within a longer-term trajectory ...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0012.json.gz/line1126

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