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Article layout guideline Content organization guideline Editing guideline Reference formatting guideline User conduct guideline Fallout 76 Wiki Merge Project BTS speculation removal project Bug verification project Fallout 76 creatures project Logical history project Military conflicts project Navigation beautification project Notable quotes audio project Stub Removal project Discord Library Fallout / Fallout 2 / Fallout 3 / Fallout: New Vegas / Fallout 4 / Fallout 76 / Fallout Tactics / Van Buren faction Seal of the United States Department of the Army[1] (above) and United States Army (below) founded by Founding Fathers of the United States of America leader(s) Anchorage Reclamation - General Constantine Chase Forces in Canada - General Buzz Babcock Hopeville Missile Base - General Martin Retslaf Sierra Army Depot - General Thomas McAllen - General Clifton Big MT Research Facility - General Wellesley West Tek Research Facility (formerly) Mariposa Military Base - Colonel Robert Spindel Command forward depot - General Victor Breckenridge Cpt. Roger Maxson Lt. Thomas Morgan Pvt. Elliott Tercorien Dr. Adrienn Adami Pentagon (pre-War) Materiel and installations: Lost Hills security bunker Fort Bannister Fort Constantine Fort Independence Raven Rock Wheaton armory U.S. Army field headquarters Artillery Overlook Facility RB-2851 Camp McClintock Hawthorne Army Depot Military Police Corps United States Army Reserve United States Army Special Forces Army Research Laboratory United States Army Robotics Division Chemical Weapons Division[2] Industrial Operations Command[3] Distinct units 121st Infantry Platoon 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment 101st Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Batallion 108th Infantry Battalion 708th Infantry Division 5th Infantry Regiment 104th Infantry Regiment, Echo Company 12th Mountain Division 8063rd 75th Ranger Regiment (Taggerdy's Thunder) Brotherhood of Steel Department of the Army The United States Army was the largest armed force of the United States of America. It is organized under the Department of the Army, responsible for conducting its affairs and regulating its operations. Though the civilian government formerly exercised control over the military, the Resource Wars combined with the deteriorating economic situation led to the erosion of civilian authority and gradual transition of a federal republic into a military junta, with the president of the United States exercising dictatorial control over the state.[4] 1.4 Collapse of America 1.5 Legacy 2 Organization 3.1 Personal 3.2 Robotics and vehicles 3.3 Combat drugs 4.1 Insignia 4.2 Art and propaganda 4.3 United States mainland 4.4 Anchorage Reclamation The United States Army was a direct descendant of the Continental Army created to defend the fledgling nation, although its 21st-century history would put it far from its roots. By mid-century, it was an incredibly powerful tool of an imperialist state, used when economic pressure could not achieve its political goals. 2050-2059[edit \| edit source] The first known example of the Army acting in this capacity came in 2051, when the United States began exerting pressure on Mexico to protect their economic interests there, primarily the crude oil supply. The U.S. deliberately destabilized the country through economic pressure, paving the way for a military invasion. American units seized oil refineries and infrastructure to ensure the flow of crude oil did not cease.[Non-game 1] Not long afterward, rising oil prices worldwide bankrupted smaller nations and led to the European Commonwealth declaring war on the Middle East; the United States was severely affected by the skyrocketing prices of oil. In subsequent years, this would become known as the beginning of the so-called Resource Wars,[Non-game 2] exacerbated by the dissolution of the United Nations in July that ensured no international body would exist to mediate between nations or enforce international treaties, allowing for unrestricted use of military force.[5][6] Against the backdrop of an increasingly worsening international situation, including nuclear exchanges in the Middle East and the Euro-Middle Eastern War, the United States stepped up its efforts to militarize. One of the first major projects emerged in 2059, as the Anchorage Front Line was established in Alaska to protect the state's natural resources. A side effect of this decision was the escalation of tensions with Canada, as the United States Army demanded the ability to station troops on Canadian soil, in an effort to protect the Alaskan pipeline.[Non-game 3] A year later, in 2060, available fuel reserves were on the brink of depletion worldwide.[Non-game 4] The problem was further emphasized by the collapse of the European Commonwealth and the Middle East oil powers, as the oil fields were exhausted.[Non-game 5] Together with a deteriorating economy and worsening social climate, the United States began to crack.[Non-game 6] The Third Red Scare was a response to the increased hostility of the People's Republic of China, primarily its intelligence operations on American soil, and pervasive propaganda that blamed the nation's problems on Communist foes.[7] The Army was particularly affected by the fuel shortages, as its vehicle fleets became crippled by fuel shortages, although it did not stop them from deploying cargobots in Appalachia in late 2060 for providing reconnaissance and delivering supplies. In response to the shortages, the United States Army initiated a research program to develop power armor in 2065.[Non-game 7] Although no prototype proves itself to be workable in the field, intense research, development, and prototyping paved the way for future advances in military, construction, and most importantly, cold fusion technology.[Non-game 8] The military continued research in other areas continues as well, including more powerful nuclear weapons.[8] These advances would prove crucial for the Army in the near future. Spring of 2066 was the turning point in history, as oil resources dried up across the globe causing an energy crisis in China. Bordering on collapse, the Communist state aggressively pursued a trade agreement with the United States to export crude oil to the Asian superpower. The talks eventually broke down,[Non-game 9] culminating in the July 24 declaration by the U.S. president that the last known supply of petroleum would be used exclusively by the U.S. and they would not sell or trade any oil to outside parties.[9] Adding further insult was the public announcement of the development of the first crude fusion cell, an offshoot of the power armor project, in the summer.[Non-game 10] In the winter of 2066, China launched an invasion of Alaska to seize its natural resources and stave off collapse. This daring, trans-Pacific military operation began the Sino-American War, the last war the United States would ever fight.[10][Non-game 11] The initial invasion overwhelmed American defenders. Military units of the Army and other branches of the military found themselves reeling from the initial attack, retreating on all fronts well into 2067, despite the Canadian government backing down and acquiescing to American demands for transfer rights through Canadian territory at the end of 2066.[Non-game 12] It was not until the first suits of T-45 power armor were pressed into production that the Chinese thrust into the nether regions of America was slowed and halted. The first units proved to be incredibly effective in defense, but somewhat lacking in offensive capabilities. As the Chinese military lost the initiative, the situation rapidly deteriorated into trench warfare as neither side was capable of breaking the stalemate and forcing peace terms on the enemy.[Non-game 13] The war continued, with the Army and other branches liberally drawing on Canadian natural resources to support its war effort. Protests from Ottawa were routinely ignored as Canada became Little America: A colony of the last superpower on the continent.[Non-game 14] The Army outright occupied Canada in 2072, as rioting and protests in Canadian cities culminated in a sabotage attempt of the Alaskan pipeline. Army troops marched north, opening a second front: Fighting against Canadians.[10][Non-game 15] On the domestic front, the Army deepened its ties with the corporate world, as its robotics program developed. The Army commissions RobCo Industries and General Atomics International, long-time suppliers of combat robots to the military, to create the most powerful combat robot in the history of warfare. Its mission? To liberate Anchorage, Alaska from Chinese occupation. The project was meant to serve both military and propaganda needs. The former dictated the capacity, the latter the design: In the words of General Constantine Chase, initiator of the project, Liberty Prime was to embody the American military: A walking, talking, nuke-tossing hero reminding enemies of the U.S. that they picked a fight with a global superpower.[11] Confident that the project would soon yield result, General Chase publicly confirmed in June 2072 that the U.S. Army was working with General Atomics and RobCo to create a superweapon meant to establish dominance of the United States on the Alaskan front.[12] Not all companies were lucky enough to be commissioned. For example, in 2071, the West Tek Research Facility was put under Army command,[13] which would oversee the development of a Pan-Immunity Virion from 2073. The research would eventually evolve into the Forced Evolutionary Virus project.[14][Non-game 16] One of the turning points of the War came in 2074, as, despite claims of fighting a defensive war, American infantry and mechanized divisions landed in Asia, in a counter-invasion of Chinese mainland. The American economy strained as American soldiers, Marines, sailors, and airmen fought a war on three fronts: Canada, Alaska, and mainland China. Neither side was willing to yield, despite eight years of constant warfare. The situation rapidly deteriorated into a stalemate, just like in Alaska.[Non-game 17] Ambitious flanking maneuvers such as the Gobi Campaign,[15] and the Yangtze Campaign, where U.S. Marines rapidly overran Shanghai and Nanjing, did little to tip the scales in favor of American forces.[16] As late as 2077, American troops would struggle to control supply routes, forcing permanent garrisons, such as the 5th Infantry Regiment in remote locales such as Mambajao in the Bohol Sea region of the Philippines.[17] By 2076, the war had raged for a decade. Both China and the United States were nearing exhaustion. In January, the Army stationed a permanent garrison at West Tek's research facility in California to ensure that the Forced Evolutionary Virus project (a super-soldier program that emerged from PVP development) remained safe from international espionage. Dogs and chimpanzees are the first test subjects, paving the way for future development.[Non-game 18] Outside the nation's borders, the annexation of Canada completed later in the month. Its provinces remained under martial law - all protesters and rioters were shot on sight. Atrocities committed by the Army quickly made their way stateside, fermenting anti-governmental sentiment.[10][Non-game 19] Later that year, the Army gained a decisive advantage. The T-51 power armor finally completed testing with the Corps of Engineers in June, giving the American soldier the tool they needed to confront the Chinese. Next-generation power armor was rapidly manufactured and provided to mechanized cavalry units. Sent to the Alaskan and Chinese fronts, they carved a swath through Communist forces. The Chinese economy crumbled under the onslaught and supply lines from nations annexed by the Beijing regime started falling apart.[Non-game 20] However, the Washington regime did not fare any better. In August, food and energy riots started in urban centers across the United States. A state of emergency and eventually martial law was declared, with Army deployed on the domestic front to fight their own countrymen.[Non-game 21] Demoralized troops behaved like thugs towards their own countrymen.[18] Collapse of America[edit \| edit source] The counterpoint to this disastrous turn of events came in early 2077, as the Anchorage Reclamation ended with a decisive American victory on January 10, after a final offensive spearheaded by T-51 power armor units adapted to the cold environment penetrated Chinese defenses around Anchorage. Despite the embarrassment of the Liberty Prime project, which failed to produce a working weapon for use in Anchorage,[19] General Constantine Chase was credited with the victory.[Non-game 22][20][21] The Anchorage War Memorial was hastily erected on FDR Island to commemorate the efforts and sacrifices of American soldiers on the Alaskan front, basing on an iconic photograph taken in Anchorage.[22][23] The victory in Alaska heralded bad news for American and Canadian citizens, as the military junta in control of the United States deployed mechanized cavalry units to Canada and the United States. Veterans of the Chinese and Alaskan fronts found themselves fighting their own countrymen, quelling riots, and enforcing the national quarantine. Mounting civilian casualties tested the loyalty of soldiers and desertions started to occur. Captured deserters were imprisoned or sent to feed the Army's newest Robobrain development program.[Non-game 23][24] The campaign in mainland China was reinvigorated by the victory in Alaska and the deployment of T-51 units. Army troops clad in T-51 regularly witnessed Chinese troops surrendering upon sighting them and their miniguns.[25][26] However, the effect did not last. As American troops pushed deeper into the mainland, Chinese resistance increased. By October, the situation transitioned from a rout into a stalemate.[27] After a decade of war, there was no end in sight. Billions of dollars and thousands of casualties were spent in vain.[28] To bolster the offensive, bases across the United States were sealed and troops redeployed to provide more men for the meat grinder.[29] The situation was made worse by the fact that the oligarchs ruling the United States retreated to remote locations around the globe, expecting a last-ditch nuclear strike from China at any moment. The oil rig was claimed by the president and key members of the junta, becoming the foundation of the future Enclave.[Non-game 24] The United States was leaderless, continuing on simply due through inertia. When the U.S. Army security detail at Mariposa discovered the FEV experiments conducted on their comrades in arms – the very men arrested for refusing to fight their own countrymen – they rebel. However, even as Captain John Maxson declared them in full desertion from the Army and broke all ties with the United States, there was no response – the chain of command ceased to exist.[30][Non-game 25] Nuclear weapons were launched on October 23, 2077. Within two hours, the United States ceased to exist as a nation, its cities vaporized in nuclear fireballs.[30] The former leaders of the country having already retreated to their save havens. Abandoned by their leaders, the survivors began rebuilding on their own.[Non-game 26] Legacy[edit \| edit source] Although the United States Army ceased to exist alongside the nation it formally served (and actually controlled), it would continue to influence its history directly and indirectly. The most obvious examples are military hardware present in the wasteland, ranging from humble infantry equipment to the high tech T-51 power armor and military robots. More subtle examples include: The Brotherhood of Steel formed by Roger Maxson, which became an important player in wasteland politics. The Appalachian Brotherhood of Steel was based on another Army unit, the Rangers (specifically, Taggerdy's Thunder). Pre-War veterans and other survivors who came to Appalachia in 2103 and tried to continue their Army duties. One example is Joe Creigh, who took advantage of the automated training regimen at Camp McClintock to join the Army and continue his family tradition. An example of pre-War U.S. Army soldiers that lived in Appalachia are Captain Fields, Sergeant Radcliff and Sergeant Thompson. The Enclave, formed by the descendants of the military-industrial complex that ruled America, which almost managed to commit total global genocide. Junktown, founded by a former U.S. Army serviceman. The Unity, which came into existence as an unintended result of the FEV research project. Organization[edit \| edit source] The United States Army was structured much like it was in the 20th century. Theater commands, like the Pacific Command (USPACOM),[31] encompassed Armies, divisions, and their constituent battalions, regiments, and so on and so forth. Known units include the 708th Infantry Division, 104th and 184th Infantry Regiments, the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, or the 108th Infantry Battalion. The Army also included a number of additional divisions responsible for specialized fields of expertise, including: United States Army Rangers. A distinguished Ranger unit was the Taggerdy's Thunder.[32] Army Special Forces: The famous Green Berets.[33] Robotics Division: Research, development, maintenance, and operation of military robotics. Operates under a special Congressional Military Robotics Oversight Committee. Chemical Weapons Division: Responsible for research, development, and operation of chemical weapons. Military Police Corps: Law enforcement. Army Research Laboratory: Military research in conjunction with civilian companies and experts. Intelligence Corps: Intelligence. Corps of Engineers: Military engineering, design, and construction experts. Reserve: Trained units and qualified personnel called upon in times of war. Commonwealth Defense Administration, responsible for the nuclear forces that would carry out nuclear counter-attacks. Personal[edit \| edit source] By 2077 and the Great War, the United States Armed Forces was the most powerful military in the world, thanks to its overwhelming technological superiority. T-60 power armor, T-51 and the older T-45 model, guaranteed a qualitative advantage over any foe, thanks to their superb protection and ability to carry heavy weapons into combat, including rotary cannons usually mounted on gunships or fighters, and crew-served weapons like anti-tank missile launchers. They were essentially mobile firing positions, filling a similar (but not identical) niche as tanks. Power armor units were usually issued to mechanized cavalry formations operating on critical fronts, although significant numbers were issued to special purpose units assigned to domestic security, such as at the Mariposa Military Base. Energy weapons were another example of the United States enjoying technological superiority over any potential foe. While Germany has developed infantry fielded railguns in the form of the M72 Gauss rifle and the PPK-12 Gauss pistol (which the United States fielded as well[34]), the United States Armed Forces were entering a stage where laser and plasma weapons were issued to soldiers in the field, slowly replacing conventional firearms. While many continued to be developed and tested,[35] production models like the Wattz 2000 laser rifle or the modular General Atomics AER-9 were issued to frontline troops in China and Alaska.[36][37] The weapons have not yet managed to eclipse conventional armaments, but provided a significant edge to United States forces, thanks to the versatility of power cells: A micro-fusion cell could power anything from a close-range scattergun to a high-precision long-range laser marksman's rifle.[Non-game 27] Outside power armor and energy weapons, the Armed Forces deployed advanced, reliable technologies. The standard combat uniform of the military was combat armor, manufactured from advanced defensive polymers, providing excellent protection. Even the first generation, where the armor was manufactured as individual plates affixed to a uniform, was a great combat uniform and was used by light infantry formation well into 2077, with more advanced suits reserved for frontline use in China[38] or sensitive areas on the domestic front.[39] Weapons tended to be more reliable than advanced, with the rugged, reliable M199, and R91 assault rifles, the humble service rifle and/or the MP9 10mm submachine gun being the perfect examples of the philosophy. Although advanced conventional designs (such as bullpup designs and caseless ammunition) were certainly deployed and in number.[40] Robotics and vehicles[edit \| edit source] A tank used by the US Army at Camp McClintock for training purposes. Many more were used in direct combat operations. Robotics played an important role in Army operations. Apart from sentry bots, designed originally for guard duties – used to carry heavy weapons into combat on a semi-autonomous unit,[41] the Army also employed a variety of other robotic materiel. Among the materiel were cargobots, protectrons, the more advanced Mister Gutsy robots (militarized versions of the popular Mister Handy utility robot), which entered service in 2077,[42] and the assaultron. This RobCo design was built as a frontline wartime combatant. Fast and deadly at close range, and employs a devastating laser at a distance. Some units can even employ stealth technology.[43] With the progression of the War and subsequent straining of personnel, the military began a process to automate facilities wherever possible, effectively replacing the staff with machines.[44] With the advancement of cyber-robotics came the development of the robobrain. Developed shortly before the war by GAI, the robobrain was uniquely designed to accept brains as its central processor. They were intended to be a multipurpose platform, with such duties as to command units of robots, interrogation, and to fill tactically proficient combat roles.[45] Despite the continuing resource crisis, the Army continued to field its extensive vehicle fleet. Infantry fighting vehicles were commonly used on the domestic front, to contain riots and secure evacuations,[46] while heavy tanks provided the firepower necessary on the frontlines. Many of these vehicles would later be used for emergency relief operations until they inevitably broke down or were abandoned by deserting soldiers.[47] The biggest asset of the Army was the Vertibird transport VTOL, enhancing the mobility of power armor units.[48] A new and improved prototype XVB02 Vertibird tiltrotor gunship was in development by 2077, with full-scale adoption planned for 2083.[49] Lastly, though they can hardly be considered aircraft, hundreds of orbital micronuclear platforms were also placed in orbit around Earth, to provide tactical fire support for military forces or defend the home front if need be.[50] Combat drugs[edit \| edit source] Combat drug use was sanctioned by commanders. In fact, one of the most popular drugs, Psycho, was developed by an R&D company part-owned by General Chase,[51] and to prevent addiction many bases stockpiled endorphin blockers, allowing soldiers to use these drugs freely.[52] Insignia[edit \| edit source] Flag with insignia Variant flag Simple flag Art and propaganda[edit \| edit source] Recruitment poster Red Menace! Hopeville missile base propaganda posters A mural installed in the Museum of Freedom in Concord United States mainland[edit \| edit source] A propaganda picture of the T-51b Keeping the peace in Canada A riot control trooper from the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment General Martin Retslaf Hopeville soldier (private) Anchorage Reclamation[edit \| edit source] Inferno Unit T-51b Unit General Constantine Chase Enclave facilities Strike team Military ranks ↑ Covert Operations Manual collage.png ↑ Dyer Chemical terminal entries; Supervisor's terminal ↑ Sierra mission statement ↑ United States of America government and politics ↑ Capitol Post terminal entries; Capital Post Top Stories -- July 27, 2052, United Nations Disbanded! ↑ Capitol Post newspaper Saturday, July 27, 2052 ↑ Turtledove Detention Camp terminal entries; Terminal, Intelligence Report, Yang, Wan (alias) ↑ Fallout 3 E3 trailer Capitol Post newspaper Wednesday, January 13, 2066 Newspaper Trailer.png, Teaser Newspaper.jpg ↑ Sierra Depot GNN transcript ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Briefly mentioned in the Fallout intro ↑ Citadel terminal entries; Liberty Prime Operation, Project Summary ↑ Citadel terminal entries; Liberty Prime Operation, Capital Post Article -- June 3, 2072 ↑ The Vault Dweller: "{112}{}{Tell me about this installation.}" ZAX 1.2: "{117}{}{This installation was established in 2055 as a biological research facility for experimental cures of the New Plague. However, in 2071, this facility was placed under United States military command.}" (ZAX.MSG) ↑ FEV research ↑ Gobi Campaign scout rifle indicates warfare in the Gobi Desert ↑ Future Weapons Today mentions a Marine's memoirs as a sniper in Nanjing. ↑ Newscaster: "It would also appear our troops stationed overseas are experiencing some unusual weather, as well. On the Island of Mambajao the nights are cold. Unseasonably so for Southeast Asia. But for the 5th Infantry, that's as comfortable as an Autumn jamboree. All the easier for our mechanized hellcats to drive any screaming Commie meamies right into the Bohol Sea." (Newscaster's dialogue) ↑ Boston Bugle terminal entries; Boston Bugle article terminal, Article 3 ↑ Citadel terminal entries; Liberty Prime Operation, Letter: Dr. Bloomfeld to Gen. Chase ↑ Capitol Post terminal entries; Capital Post Top Stories -- January 11, 2077, Commies Crushed - Alaska Liberated! ↑ Capitol Post newspaper Monday, January 11, 2077. ↑ Anchorage War Memorial ↑ Operation: Anchorage ↑ Capitol Post terminal entries; Capital Post Top Stories -- January 11, 2077, Food Riots Rile Feds ↑ Fort Strong terminal entries; General Brock's Terminal, General Brock's Report - June 2076 ↑ Fallout 3 Official Game Guide Game of the Year Edition p.43: "Chinese Army (Simulated) U.S. Army (Simulated) With conditions deteriorating between the United States and China, a military presence in Alaska was established to prevent a possible invasion across the Bering Strait. With increasingly scarce oil reserves, a last deep-sea deposit below the Pacific Ocean was claimed by China before allegedly being sabotaged by American special operatives. Strained relationships spiraled downward into conflict as China marched on Alaska, and the Sino-American War of 2066—2077 erupted. Under the command of General Jingwei, the Chinese Army usurped control of Alaska's oil pipeline and reserves. In response, the Americans began what came to be called "The Alaskan Reclamation Operation" (2067—2077). Under the leadership of General Constantine Chase, the U.S. Army battled fiercely to the front lines of the conflict before Chase began deploying specialized Power Armor units that began pushing the Chinese back. Future Power Armor suits were further refined as the conflict dragged on, and the Trans-Alaska Pipeline was reclaimed. With resources flowing through Canada, strained diplomatic tensions between Canada and the United States becoming problematic, and Canadian forces attacking the pipeline, the country was annexed. A combination of inclement weather, constant American bombardment and trench warfare, and U.S. Powered Armor unit attacks sweeping through mainline China, the Chinese supply lines weakened and finally broke down completely. By the beginning of 2077, the city of Anchorage was finally liberated, the Chinese eradicated, and the operation deemed a success. A commemorative memorial was erected in Washington, D.C., in honor of the soldiers who fought and perished for the greater American good. Violence between America and pockets of Canadian freedom fighters continued throughout 2077, until the Great War obliterated almost all infrastructure, commerce, and human life." (Fallout 3 Official Game Guide faction profiles) ↑ Newscaster: "And now, our exclusive coverage of the continuing volatile situation with Communist China. Chinese forces may have finally been driven from Anchorage, but the conflict has transitioned into a frighteningly tense stalemate. With diplomacy all but suspended, and conventional warfare taking a historic toll on both sides, many have wondered if the good old U-S-of-A hasn't finally entered into a fight it just can't win." ↑ Boston Bugle building terminal entries; Boston Bugle article terminal, Article 2 ↑ 30.0 30.1 Captain Maxson's diary ↑ The Switchboard terminal entries; Research Terminal, > Section 1091/1092 Report ↑ War game orders ↑ Scorched officer camouflage uniforms include the shoulder sleeve insignia of the Army Special Forces. ↑ The prevalence of the M72 Gauss rifle and PPK12 Gauss pistol throughout Fallout 2. ↑ Fort Independence terminal entries; Research terminal, Analysis ↑ Future Weapons Today cover shows Desert Ranger combat armor utilized in Alaska and Wattz 2000 laser rifle seeing use in Nanjing ↑ Fallout 4 intro ↑ Desert Ranger combat armor markings. ↑ See combat armor for details and sources. ↑ The prevalence of the H&K G11 and G11E, the light support weapon, the P90c, marksman and assault carbines. ↑ How the Strike team sentry bot was utilized in the Anchorage Reclamation simulation. ↑ Fallout 3 loading screens: "The Mister Gutsy model of robot was commissioned by the U.S. Army just before the atomic apocalypse of 2077." ↑ Fallout 4 loading screens: "The Assaultron robot was constructed by RobCo and sold to the U.S. military as a frontline wartime combatant. It is fast and deadly at close range, and employs a devastating laser at a distance. Some units can even employ stealth technology." ↑ This occurred with Sierra Army Depot VI, a major research facility and Camp McClintock, a major infantry training center. ↑ See Robobrain for references and sources. ↑ Infantry fighting vehicle appearances in Fallout 4. ↑ Tanks and IFVs in Fallout 4. Evidence of cleanup operations is present for example in the swamp right outside Sanctuary Hills. ↑ See the Vertibird (Fallout 4) article for details. ↑ Museum of Technology placard: "This is a scaled model of a prototype military transport vehicle being developed by the U.S. Military. The XVB02 "Vertibird" is a VTOL ("Vertical Take Off and Landing") craft with an extremely durable armored fuselage and can be armored with a variety of offensive weapons and defensive countermeasures. This is the most advanced aircraft of its kind ever developed, and the military hopes to press them into service by 2085." ↑ SatCom array NW-05a terminal entries; Terminal, Log Entry #003 ↑ Coast Guard Pier terminal entries; Coast Guard lockup terminal, CASE 578-Tf: Doe Trafficking Logs ↑ The Chosen One: "{921}{}{What about using some kind of endorphin blocker? That would repress the chemical and psychological addition, wouldn't it?}" Myron: "{930}{myn132}{Kee-rist. That has got to be the dumbest...hmmmm...}" The Chosen One: "{931}{}{Well?}" Myron: "{940}{myn133}{Well...maybe it would work, but I'm pretty sure Jet would just chew right through that shit. Now wh-wh-why the hell are we even talking about this?! Wh-where would you get your hands on endorphine blockers anyway?}" The Chosen One: "{941}{}{You tell me, Myron. You're a bright guy.}" Myron: "{950}{myn134}{Maybe Vault City. They have a pretty good medical warehouse. A lot of old pre-holocaust bases also used to stock them to prevent combat drug addiction.}" (Myron's dialogue) ↑ Fallout Bible 0: "2051 Seeking to protect business interests and their oil supply, the United States begins to exert increasing pressure on Mexico, citing the political instability and pollution stemming from Mexico as a threat to the United States. Various economic sanctions serve to destabilize Mexico, and the United States military enters Mexico to keep the oil refineries running and making sure oil and fuel continue to make their way north across the border... at Mexico's expense." ↑ Fallout Bible 0: "2052 April The Resource Wars begin. Many smaller nations go bankrupt, and Europe, dependent on oil imports from the Middle East, responds to the Middle East's rising oil prices with military action. The long drawn-out war between the European Commonwealth and the Middle East begins." ↑ Fallout Bible 0: "2059 The Anchorage Front Line is established, as the United States increases its military presence in Alaska to protect its oil interests. The Anchorage Front Line causes tensions in the United States and Canada, as the United States attempts to pressure Canada into allowing American military units to guard the Alaskan pipeline." ↑ Fallout Bible 0: "2060 Traffic on the streets of the world stops moving. Fuel becomes too precious to waste on automobiles, so alternatives are explored - electric and fusion cars begin to be manufactured, but factories can only make limited amounts. Pressure on fusion research increases." ↑ Fallout Bible 0: "2060 The Euro-Middle Eastern War ends as the oil fields in the Middle East run dry... there is no longer a goal in the conflict, and both sides are reduced almost to ruin." ↑ Fallout Bible 0: "2062 Despite quarantine measures, the New Plague continues to spread, fueling national paranoia." ↑ Fallout Bible 0: "2065 August Increasing need for mobility in the United States mechanized cavalry leads the military to focus the efforts on creating a man-based tank - essentially, a two-legged walking armored unit: Power Armor." ↑ Fallout Bible 0: "2065-2067 Power Armor research grows and several prototypes are developed, many of which prove to be unworkable in the field. These prototypes pave the way for future advances in military, construction, and fusion technology." ↑ Fallout Bible 0: "2066 Spring As the oil resources dry up across the globe, China's fossil fuel dependency causes an energy crisis in the nation. China, bordering on collapse, becomes more aggressive in its trade talks with the United States. Unwilling to export oil to China, talks between the United States and China break down." ↑ Fallout Bible 0: "2066 Summer Adding further insult to the Chinese-American relations, the first crude fusion cell is unveiled, one of the results of the Power Armor project. Devices designed for the fusion cell begin to be manufactured. Incorporating fusion power into the general US infrastructure begins, but the process is too slow to supply power to the regions that need it. Nearly thirteen years later, few sections of the United States were supplied with fusion power." ↑ Fallout Bible 0: "2066 Winter In the winter of 2066, China invades Alaska. The Anchorage Front Line becomes a true battleground." ↑ Fallout Bible 0: "2066 Winter As a sign of increasing tension between the two countries, Canada proves reluctant to allow American troops on Canadian soil or allow American planes to fly over Canadian airspace. The United States and Canadian tensions rise, but Canada eventually backs down, and US troops pass through Canada. This sets the stage for the Canadian annexation in 2076." ↑ Fallout Bible 0: "2067 The first suit of Power Armor is deployed in Alaska. While lacking the full mobility of future versions, this Power Armor is incredibly effective against Chinese tanks and infantry. Its ability to carry heavy ordinance becomes key in various localized conflicts, and it has the power to destroy entire towns without endangering the wearer. China rushes to create its own versions, but they are many years behind the United States." ↑ Fallout Bible 0: "2069 Canada begins to feel the pressure from the United States military as the US draws upon Canadian resources for the war effort. Vast stretches of timberland are destroyed, and other resources in Canada are stretched to the breaking point. Many Americans refer to Canada as Little America, and Canadian protests are unheard." ↑ Fallout Bible 0: "2072 The United States' increasing demand for Canadian resources causes protests and riots in several Canadian cities. An attempted sabotage attempt of the Alaskan pipeline is all the military needs as an excuse to begin its annexation of Canada... which in fact, had already begun in 2067." ↑ Fallout Bible 0: "2073 Sept 15 As China becomes increasingly aggressive with their use of biological weapons, the United States government felt that a countermeasure was needed. The Pan-Immunity Virion Project (PVP) is officially formed and plans are made to begin experiments at the West Tek research facility in Southern California." ↑ Fallout Bible 0: "2074 Contrary to their claims of seeking only to retake Alaska from the Reds, American Power Armor units, infantry, and mechanized divisions are deployed to China, but they become bogged down on the mainland, putting a further drain on American resources and supply lines." ↑ Fallout Bible 0: "2076 January 3 A military team under the command of Colonel Spindel is sent to the West Tek research facility to monitor the experiments in the interest of national security. Captain Roger Maxson (the grandfather of John Maxson, the High Elder of the Brotherhood of Steel in F1) is among the team personnel." ↑ Fallout Bible 0: "2076 January The United States annexation of Canada is complete. Canadian protestors and rioters are shot on sight, and the Alaskan Pipeline swarms with American military units. Pictures of atrocities make their way to the United States, causing further unrest and protests." ↑ Fallout Bible 0: "2076 June Power Armor prototype completed, resulting in the Power Armor players find in Fallout 1. This is the pinnacle of Power Armor technology before the Great War. Many of these units are sent to China, and they begin to carve a swath through the Chinese forces. The Chinese resources are strained to the breaking point, and the supply lines from the nations China has annexed begin to break down." ↑ Fallout Bible 0: "2076 August Food and energy riots begin in major cities throughout the United States. Military units begin to be deployed in cities within the United States to contain rioters, and many temporary jails are constructed. A state of emergency is declared, and martial law soon follows." ↑ Fallout Bible 0: "2077 January 10 Alaska is reclaimed, and the Anchorage Front Line is again held by the Americans." ↑ Fallout Bible 0: "2077 January 22 The first domestic use of Power Armor within the United States for crowd and quarantine control. Units originally serving in China and the Anchorage Front Line find themselves fighting Americans at home. Food riots increase, and many civilians are killed. Several soldiers defect from the military both in Canada and the United States. They are captured, and are sent to military prisons." ↑ Fallout Bible 0: "2077 March Prepared for a nuclear or biological attack from China, the president and the Enclave retreats to remote sections around the globe and make contingency plans for continuing the war." ↑ Fallout Bible 0: "2077 October Captain Roger Maxson and his men discover that the scientists at Mariposa have been using "military volunteers" (military prisoners who didn't have their brains scooped for use in Brain Bots) as test subjects in their experiments. Morale in the base breaks down, and Maxson executes Anderson, the chief scientist. Not long after this (and in light of the breakdown of the mental breakdown of Colonel Spindel stationed at the base), Maxson's men turn to him for leadership. He shrugs and says 'we should quit.'" ↑ J.E. Sawyer: "We often develop technology not because it's great immediately, but because developing that technology helps us move toward its potential. We've had various forms of hybrid vehicles (gasoline combustion engine + ???) around for a long time. Most of them were pretty bad and impractical. We've had biofuels around for a while, but most of those are STILL bad and/or impractical. We saw tanks developed in WW1 that were absolute garbage. All of those things were kind of crummy for a while, but if we hadn't gone through the stage of "Yeah... this is... okay, I guess," we would never have reached the subsequent stages. Coil/rail gun technology used to be completely impractical. Now it's reached the stage where maybe/sorta we could mount an enormous one on a destroyer and blast through a bunker with a huge slug from miles away. We're probably not going to have Eraser- or Fallout-style Gauss rifles for a while, but we see the potential. In the Fallout universe, I think that the military appeal of weaponry that uses a small number of more-or-less universal ammunition types would be great. Today, we have NATO standards so that allies armies can share ammunition. But what if you could use the same ammunition type for powering a sniper rifle that you'd use for a devastating close-range weapon (e.g. a Microfusion Cell powering a Laser Rifle or a Plasma Rifle)? For a military force in the field, the flexibility of that would be immense. Anyway, I considered the EWs in F:NV to have reached the point where they were starting to replace conventional weapons, but had not yet completely eclipsed them -- sort of like the early days of firearms, when they were still being used concurrently with bows." 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__label__cc	0.735187	0.264813	HANUMAN SECTION (special feature) Interesting & informative websites Shri Bagalamukhi Devi Sections/Categories Culture, spirituality & lifestyle History / roots The Hindu perspective Current affairs, spirituality, heritage & lifestyle. When Mahatma Gandhi followed Dhritarashtra November 24, 2013 by Mr 108 3 Comments The great Pandurang Shastri once said that that the most adharmic thing that anyone did in the entire Mahabharata was a message sent by King Dhritirashtra to Yudhisthir prior to the outbreak of the Great War. The message was along the lines of: “Dear Yudhisthir. You are righteous, but my sons are foolish and stubborn. You should know better than to fight a destructive war for a mere kingdom, when you know that everything in the world is fleeting and unreal. It is better for someone as righteous as you to live a simple religious life, or even live as a beggar, than to involve yourself in a struggle for a kingdom that is going to result in huge slaughter. If you avoid fighting this war, even if Duryodhan refuses to give you any land at all, you will have acted righteously and your name will be respected in this world and the next”. This drew a sharp rebuke, most of all from Krishna. The reason why this message of Dhritarashtra to Yudhisthir was considered to be the pinnacle of adharma and confusion is that it comes cloaked as righteousness and provides a metaphysical and spiritual argument to allow unrighteousness to rule society. It is quite a seductive argument at first glance and is capable on wreaking great havoc in the minds of the righteously inclined. Although Dhritarashtra’s message is cloaked in the veil of righteousness, it actually amounts to handing the world to oppressors on a platter, giving them a free reign to do what they like. In reality, there is nothing righteous about giving up society to the forces of evil, or in allowing others to trample over your rights and dignity. I am currently reading the Mahabharata myself, and just recently came across this incident which Pandurang Shastri was referring to. It occurs in the “Udyoga Parva” of the Mahabharata. Dhritarashtra sends Sanjay for conveying this message to the Pandavas, prompting Krishna to visit Hastinapur on behalf of the Pandavas. Although Mahatma Gandhi wasn’t speaking out of materially selfish considerations (unlike Dhritarashtra), in the prelude to the Partition of India, I was always struck by how his advice to normal Hindus was very much like that of Dhritarashtra. He told Hindus that it was morally and spiritually superior to give up life and country meekly to a violent aggressor rather than put up a struggle. “Even if Muslims decide to wipe out the Hindu race, there is no point in Hindus getting angry on Muslims. Even if they slit our throats, we should be patient and accept death. Let them rule the world, we will pervade the world and merge with it. At least we should not be afraid of death. The providence is made of life and death. Why feel unhappy about it? We will enter a new life if we face death with a smile. We will create a new Hindustan.” (April 6 1947, source: http://orissa.gov.in/e-magazine/Orissareview/2011/aug/engpdf/41-44.pdf) There are many quotes like this from the Mahatma – this is not a one-off occurrence in the statements that Gandhiji was making around that time. This was strikingly different to the advice he gave in regards to the freedom struggle against the British. I am not a Gandhi-hater; I have enormous respect and admiration for his role in our country’s freedom struggle, his love of all humanity and creatures, as well as his important work in defending Hinduism and Hindu society against disintegration such as his work for uplifting the Harijans and preventing the British from classifying them as non-Hindus, as well as his stance against missionaries and conversions. However his preaching to Hindus as per the quotation above is the epitome of adharma, and is more dangerous because it takes the veneer of righteousness. Mahatma Gandhi was telling the Hindus of the time that it is better to allow the society, country and even the entire world to be taken over by aggressors that to put up any kind of struggle. And before anyone misunderstands me, I am not suggesting that the correct struggle in the circumstances was “retaliatory riots”; there are many types of struggle that could have been resorted to minimise loss of life rather than suggest it is best to die defenseless and even give up your home and nation. Why did the Mahatma give such advice? What was he trying to achieve? Clearly, a strategy of non-violent resistance which had worked quite well against the British (who at least had some sense of sensitivity and refinement) was not working too well in preventing huge murderous riots, and eventually failed to prevent Partition. In my opinion, rather than just facing up to the fact that the approach he had been trying wasn’t working and modify it accordingly, Mahatma Gandhi was too attached to his experiment. He therefore kept trying along the same lines harder and harder, without actually examining exactly what he was beginning to say with a cool and detached head. He may not have even realised that he was beginning to preach Dhritarashtra’s teachings, not Krishna’s. The correct attitude to deal with injustice and atrocities The world is crying out for a proper dharmic approach to deal with injustices and atrocities. This involves taking a proactive and well thought out approach in ensuring the protection of basic human rights and dignity, such as freedom to live without fear of violence. The two extremes which must be avoided are passively allowing ourselves and others to become victims of asuric forces, yet at the same time never resorting to indiscriminate violence against entire communities or nations. The following is an article which gives a clear and balanced view on the subject, with great relevance for shaping and informing the approach that we need to take in dealing with the myriad of challenges that we face today: Non-violence & non-appeasement: the two wings of Dharma – by Vamadeva Shastri (David Frawley) Filed Under: Analysis, History / roots Tagged With: Arjuna, Bhagavad Gita, Hinduism, Krishna, Mahabharata, Mahatma Gandhi, religion, spirituality, Yudhisthir « Sardar Patel’s legacy: who is the rightful claimant? A Search for the historical Krishna – N S Rajaram » A patriot says: Thats why Mahatma Gandhi wasshot at just before he was to pray – it was rather saying, stop your non sense – enough is enugh.Else he could been shot after the prayer – but unholy prayers should not be allowed! rajesh108 says: A patriot – You should note, that killing Gandhi simultaneously decimated the Hindu movement and strengthened Nehruism by 10000%. It was the WRONG solution. 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__label__cc	0.740039	0.259961	Neelu’s day in court, translated (sort of) As we noted yesterday, Neelu Berry’s pre-trial and preparation hearing took place yesterday. While she did put up a Facebook video reporting on what happened, we’ve squinted and looked at it sideways, turned it upside down and shook it, tapped it several times, and still weren’t able to make much of it. Here it is, in case you’re feeling lucky: https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fvictor.pc.589%2Fvideos%2F10209733341768924%2F&show_text=0&width=267 Here is what we were able to discern: Neelu made it to the Crown Court at Snaresbrook at about 9:30 a.m. (Given some of her past performances, this counts as a small victory in itself.) She and unspecified others “uncovered a lot of frauds”. Ooh, we can hardly wait. Listing fraud The first was a “listing fraud”, as the Court was under the illusion that at her plea and case management hearing, Neelu would be entering a plea. Silly Court. Neelu had already answered the tricky question of plea, you see, by claiming at her last hearing that it was a “no jurisdiction plea”. She helpfully explains that this is a “no plea”—”not a guilty, not a not guilty, it’s a nothing”. On Planet Neelu, this means that the judge cannot sit, because there is corruption. “Until the state sorts its corruption out, it can’t sit in judgment of the people”. Riiiiiiiight. Neelu further claims that although the judge was “given information” at 10:06 a.m., she’d already made a decision. According to Neelu, the judge told the CPS barrister that he’d only loaded the Crown case, but hadn’t loaded Neelu’s case onto the court computer system. Neelu seems to think that this constituted a failing of the prosecution, but according to ‘Notorial Dissent’ on Quatloos, that’s not quite correct: The CPS lodge their documents on Digital Case System. This normally works because barristers are registered on DCS. Evidence uploaded to DCS is classed as served. If you are representing yourself, then you don’t usually have access to DCS. It speaks more to Neelu’s failure to co-operate with the court system than a CPS failing. It is not down to CPS to sit by a printer and provide them. If paper copies were not available, she probably hasn’t spoken to the clerk since the last hearing. (Thank you, Notorial Dissent, that actually made sense.) FOTL Frauds While-U-Wait Back to you, Neelu: So they’ve been routinely doing this fraud which is, um, ‘electronic case half-sided story fraud’ on everybody to get a prosecution and the judges don’t get to see the other side of it. Extra points to Neelu for making up imaginary FOT ‘fraud’ woo on the fly! Well played, ma’am! Apparently Neelu believes that if the Court refuses a “No Jurisdiction” plea, then the defendant can ask for a trial to determine about the jurisdiction. The fact that this would ensure the courts were tangled up in a never-ending morass of pretend trials about nonsensical non-existent legal terms doesn’t seem to have occurred to her. Now watch, as Neelu plays the old “Court of Appeal” card to get out of this trial: So Crown or Magistrates Court can’t sit whilst you’ve got an appeal. I’ve got an appeal in the Court of Appeal I’m a protected witness. It’s a corruption claim—I’ve got so many corruption claims! Yes, we’ll just bet she does. So when the court clerk came out at 10:06, she said this case was meant to be before the Resident Judge. He got called to the Court of Appeal and we’ve got to adjourn it. If we didn’t kick up a fuss, they would have turned a no-jurisdiction trial into another plea and trial Preparation. … …[B]ut yeah, so we adjourned to another date on the 24th of July when Mr Attenborough is available. So I was in the Snaresbrook Crown Court this morning; it’s been adjourned to the 24th July 2018 before the Resident Judge. Whoa. Talk about a buried lede—she couldn’t have just come out and said that at the start? Neelu and friend demonstrate how to use a tripod 11/07/2018 in Neelu Berry. Tags: Court of Appeal, fraud, Freeman on the land Neelu’s day in court, translated Neelu to face charges of benefits fraud today Neelu’s never-ending eviction saga continues ← Neelu to face charges of benefits fraud today No change in Sabine’s trial date: Belinda → 56 thoughts on “Neelu’s day in court, translated (sort of)” I’m so glad you explained it all. I couldn’t figure out what she was on about. Between the fact she hasn’t figured out live streaming doesn’t work that well from mobiles (why not record it as a video file, then upload it? Then we could actually hear what she said instead of ‘na…stic…fra…corrup….’) and her usual total misinterpretation of what actually happened… (No Neelu, you can’t plead no jurisdiction, you can plead guilty or not guilty, if you refuse to enter a plea, a plea of not guilty is entered for you- note this usually means a harder sentence if found guilty in the end, so is a bad choice if you are likely to be found guilty) Wish we had had an actual sane person who attended that could have relayed the facts as well as Neelus wild misinterpretations!!! It took a while, I admit! Emerald Sunset says: Oh well done EC, I couldn’t make head nor tail of it. Neelu certainly knows how to play the system, I can’t understand how she has been getting away with it for so long though. Surely there must be something the courts can do to stop all this carry on from her. The Blunderful World of Disney says: Neelu can spout all the rancid ocelot shite about “no jurisdiction pleas” she likes but rest assured that no one’s stupid/gullible/unhinged enough to believe her. A Berry British Coup says: She doesn’t give up, does she? LOL Is that translation team still around? The Crying Scotsman says: Yawwwn – not heard this one for at least 10 minutes. Seriously, can’t these psychotic pricks at least try to be original with their death threats? Not only have they posted that same quote every 10 seconds for the last three and a half years but they’ve even put the same picture with it every time 😂 Here’s Aug Tellez speaking on the Hampstead case in 2015, for instance: Tinribs says: Funny how they never mention these: “Thou shalt not kill.” ~ Exodus 20:13 “Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.” ~ Leviticus 19:18 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.’ But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also.” ~ Matthew 5:38-40 It may well be the majority of real pedophiles (as opposed to opportunists who may have sex with an underaged person but are not necessarily obsessed with children) do not offend at all. There are many cases where a person has an affair with a legally underaged person and both are happy with the arrangement. And let’s not even get into the fact the age of consent varies wildly around the world including in US states where it can be 14 years old. It’s also why so many are afraid to seek help or counseling. Afterall it isn’t a crime to be a pedophile but it is a crime to abuse. I’ve always wondered how these fanatics think : does a person who has sex with a 14 year old in Italy – legal – become a pedophile when they visit the UK?. Human relationships can be complicated and there isn’t a “one size fit’s all” scenario. Of course people should obey the law but This Mob (™) are absolutely obsessed with the sexual side and it’s increasingly becoming obvious, I think, there is some other factor here (along the lines of “gay bashers”). Afterall..possibly 11,000,000 children in the Third World countries will die this year from preventable causes. I never hear a whimper about it out of these fanatics. No sex inviolved I guess. satanicviews says: Re: Neelu Berry… plea hearing first, then the trial many months later. Neelu is talented at playing the system, and seems to be getting away with things. Re: Becky Percy… excitement that she states she is 3-5 days away. Could this be because of her appeal court hearing? Re: trapped children in Thailand. Glad to see they were rescued. I feel contempt for those Satan Hunters who parasite on the suffering of the trapped children, making up and enjoying sadistic fantasies they will be sacrificed. An experienced diver died in the rescue in dangerous conditions where the water pumps failed a few hours after the last child was rescued. The event brought together an international rescue effort. Muslim and Buddhist came together, as did an entire nation. This success of rescuing the Wild Boars football team gives World Cup special meaning. What Neelu said about the adjournment made sense (believe it or not) – the case has been referred to the resident judge, i.e. the leadership judge, and this does generally happen with cases like hers, she is clearly not a defendant for an inexperienced judge. Then the resident judge has been called to the Court of Appeal to deal with cases there (Crown Court judges can be authorised to sit in the Court of Appeal). This also happens quite often, there is a shortage of judges at every level (and when you see cases like this you can see why), so judges may be pulled in to fill a void in the CA. So there’s really nothing to see, the RJ and listing officer (probably) have agreed this given what happened at the first hearing, this needs the top man or woman, and they weren’t free. You might think, how hard is it to take a plea, enter a NG plea and list for trial, but the trial preparation hearing is intended to get the case into trial readiness, including identifying what evidence would be called and identifying and sorting out preliminary issues and this is a case in which that will obviously be particularly challenging and necessary. People like Neelu sometimes have a defence but do everything they can to conceal the fact with other spurious points such as no jurisdiction corruption contrail fraud pleas etc. So it takes skill and determination to prise out the real issues. The other thing, the DCS system, was well explained on Quatloos – it’s a repository into which everyone puts their case documents and everyone else (other side, court, probation service, police) can access them. You obviously have to be a trusted person governed by either a professional code of conduct or an employers’ disciplinary code to access it, so It breaks down with litigants in person, but almost everyone is represented in the Crown Court so it isn’t a serious defect. When a LiP appears you have to revert to paper, or possibly emailing documents (as they are all in digital format) but obviously no-one would want to email in these circumstances as everything would be over Facebook before you could say ‘contempt of court’. naqsej Thank you for making everything clearer. I get what you’re saying, though I feel I should point out that the ages of consent cited there are a little out of date. In the US they range from 16 to 18: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_the_United_States And whilst you are half-right about the age in Italy, there are a range of criteria and exceptions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_Europe#Italy Moosnight says: “So to help you along, myself and my friends have recently registered a new political party in Britain – the UK Children’s Party.” https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_46vRQrhFi5W8WZxMKfOyJbAXdXoG5pV/view Er…no you haven’t, Debs: http://search.electoralcommission.org.uk/Search/Registrations?currentPage=11&rows=30&sort=RegulatedEntityName&order=asc&open=filter&et=pp&et=ppm&register=gb&regStatus=registered&optCols=EntityStatusName Never a dull moment chez Clan Neelu: Jumpin' Jack Harrison says: OK, guys – I hereby challenge you all to a race. You search for Cat’s proof that the David Bowie was a “child raping twat” and I’ll search for the Loch Ness monster and we’ll see who comes up trumps first… Elisabeth Nolson might be worth keeping an eye on, she’s another one who has drunk deep of the FOTL koolaid…. along with every other conspiracy out there, the freemasons, 9/11, antivaxer, illuminati, she has em all… besides the whole phoning up bailiffs thing LOL at she is going to ‘stand him down’… and she’s phoned him… And arfurs at it again posted this… where the first post is this… Arthur Charbel Kaoutal is with Chrissy Carter and 65 others. 14 January 2017 · Please Listen to This Extremely Light Hearted Experience From A ~ ( The HAMPSTEAD Satanic Ritual Abuse Whistleblower Child ) Compared to The Rest Of The Case. My GOD, what a putrid Insult of my intuition & knowledge, intelligence & wisdom when A & G are called liars. #GLOBALBREAKTHELAWDAY #HAMPSTEAD >>>>>>>>>>❤🙏🏽✊🏽🇱🇧<<<<<<<<>>>>> Ahh’”meen <<<<<<>>>> ❤️🙏🏽✊🏽🇱🇧 <<<<>>>> Ahh’”meen <<<<<<<>>>> ❤️🙏🏽✊🏽🇱🇧 <<<>>>> ❤️🙏🏽✊🏽🇱🇧<<<<< Tag Time ~ RANDOM SWIPES Time ~ (I edited out the kids names) It also has a rather bad copy of one of the police ABE interviews, taken by a phone videoing a computer screen…. Grobnob the Troll says: Because she suffered a complete mental breakdown following the death of her sister’s baby and never recovered the courts try to treat her sympathetically. They know they’re dealing with a fragile and damaged person. I am so glad that you managed to decipher Neelu’s words EC as otherwise i would have no idea what the hell she is talking about. Surely though the court’s patience with Neelu can only stretch so far before action is taken against her. Why do they all insist on using Biblical quotes as I certainly wouldn’t class any of them as practising Christians? The last time they were near a church was probably to bury some crystals in the gardens. How on earth does Neelu keep getting away with this? She could do with a spell in prison just so that she can’t run up any new debts. I thought that Cat only posted info that was true to her knowledge. So where on earth does she get the gall to accuse Bowie of being a child rapist? A children’s party you say? It’s appropriate then that they have a bunch of clowns in charge! “The most dangerous sicknesses are those that make us believe we are well.” – Proverb 42. The Book of Shhh – Lauren Oliver She is one nasty person! I’m pretty sure I know exactly where Cat and crew have got that information from, and it’s a link contained in this Vice article https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/kwn5m9/hollie-greig-freemasons-scotland-paedophile-ring Link within the article. http://www.stryder.de/rest/Groupie_Central_Lori_%20Maddox.html “Lori Maddox was part of the wild Hollywood teenage groupie scene in the early 1970s. She reportedly lost her virginity at age 13 to David Bowie and Angie Bowie” Cat is probably reacting to the allegations made about her hero Trump is this Vice article. https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/a3qz3j/trump-was-like-a-predator-toward-teens-at-parties-in-80s-and-90s-says-bbc-report? More info in comments here Trump was like a "predator" toward teens at parties in ‘80s and ‘90s, says BBC report from politics Kudos to John Westcott. At least he tried. So she’s convinced her sister that she is also entitled to take fraudulent benefit and not pay her bills? Perhaps she wants to be impoverished in company. This is, I guess, the sister whom she convinced to avoid cancer treatment until it was too late. Thanks so much, naqsej. This really clarifies matters. 🙂 If it wasn’t for the pack of austerity crazed vampires we call a government she might have received the treatment she needs. What really offends me is how she’s played as a pawn by the cynical element overseeing the hoax. Nothing shouts out “competence in legal issues” like misspelling “retired”, “chattels” and “lieu”. I looked up “ULC Trust” and of course the trail led to Quatloos: http://www.quatloos.com/Q-Forum/viewtopic.php?t=10855&start=2140 Another set of magic words for supposedly exempting anyone from paying bills when they prefer to take stuff for free. Nolson seems determined to win Crank-Magnetism Bingo… in addition to the FOTL scams, climate-change denial, chemtrails and antivax, she has the whole Mystical Etymology thing going on. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=741501390 Bubonic plague’s no picnic either. …and a balloon full of hot air. I guess so. 😊 Unlawfully prosecuted ??? Well if anyone is called to common law grand jury just tell judge Skippy you’re pleading non jurisdiction. How are the full’o shite foundation doing with their attempted lynchings, er I mean common law grand jury courts ? Last I saw they couldn’t even manage to sit in a pub talking bollocks amongst themselves without it all going pear shaped. Amazed that The Mob (™) and all the Hoaxtead Loonies (yes you too APD & Neelu) have completely missed that the The Baby Eating Rothschild Cult used the 100th RAF Anniversery to Chem Trail the whole of London. Wonder which one will be the first to twig? Yes indeed various (sane members) of our leaders around the world have over the years realised that human sexuality isn’t just black & white and have attempted to ensure those “grey areas” are also included within the law. Not always perfectly. But this just shows up these fanatics even more. Every instance is included into their hideous repressed sexual obsession & the “one size fits all” notion that comes into the open by accepting that a false case like Hoaxtead is proof of a secret baby murdering cult. Malcolm Oglivy demands “pedophiles” (he includes 1000s of innocent people, dead polticians and so on) -those accused as in innocent Hampstead / Highgate parents, teachers, police, social workers and so on should be subject to his Biblical quote punishment. But shouldn’t he be the first to offer himself up for being slung into the deep with a millstone around his neck?. He has a history of child abuse just by accusing the 2 children in question (and all the other Hampstead kids) of being guilty of the alleged crimes in this hoax: baby murder etc (and let’s not mention his own family history). He’s a perfect example of a modern day Mob Pitchforker who uses the internet to try and stir up an angry rampaging mob. Gaming the system..yes what if Neelu is not as barking as we think and is an extremely clever manipulater who is successfully giving the impression she’s a nutter so the court make take mercy on her? Note for all her cases where cars are dragged away by councils etc etc within her family- somehow they always manage to come up with the cash eventually to retrieve their possesions. YdychyncachuTracey says: To be fair to Neelu, I think any bailiffs or collection agency should be told, with a Dr note, exactly how ill Neelu’s sister is. They may have in their guidelines things that tell them not to bother a very sick person. I think that’s not a bad thing. Especially if Neelu’s sister is terminally ill. That requires Neelu (or her sister) to accept the bailiff’s jurisdiction, and to accept the competence of the medical staff long enough to ask them for a note. She’s having too much fun being victimised. And this sort of thing won’t help her case either: Pingback: No change in Sabine’s trial date: Belinda \| HOAXTEAD RESEARCH Jesus: “It’s not good to lie and trick children. People who do that, eventually they’ll wish they’d never been born.” Sadistic moron who cannot be left unsupervised with children: “Yay! Jesus says to drown people at sea if they laugh at me!” Pro-Tip: Cancer doesn’t care if you refuse to accept its legitimacy or its jurisdiction. Or if you claim it’s just an infection. And advocate putting maggots onto it, and then put a picture of that on Facebook. Which I am most definitely not putting up here. You’re welcome. The Shampoo Liberation Front says: Sorry but Cat’s arselicker-in-chief disagrees with you. Still, at least he’s expressed that in a mature, level-headed fashion. He’s a Christian, you know… Malcom? Licking Cat’s arse? Never! Neelu’s ability to unfailingly shoot herself in the foot is quite uncanny. If she’d sanely contacted them (or got a sane friend to do it, as no doubt she is well known in the enforcement community now) to explain that her sister is very ill, they would probably do the decent thing and hold off. Accusing them of corruption frauds, or getting a friend to call them arseholes is exactly the wrong way to do it. What can I say about Neelu? It’s a gift. Yes, I get the distinct impression that she hadn’t informed them and was expecting them to use their psychic abilities to realise that her sister is ill. They miss out all the biblical quotes relating to gossip and bearing false witness though. And I doubt they know that they constantly post graven images. 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__label__cc	0.688858	0.311142	Australia's trade and investment: Diversification and opportunity An analysis of the opportunities to diversify and supplement Australia's international trade and investment. Opportunities to diversify and supplement Australia’s international trade and investment. › Australia's trade and investment: Diversification and opportunity Global geopolitical uncertainty has become the truism of our times. Australia’s intrinsic connection to global trade and investment flows means that the future economic prosperity of the country depends on sustained international engagement. Australian business must continue to build resilience not only to the known unknowns, but increasingly more agility and speed to address the unknown unknowns as well. In this unpredictable global context, over-exposure to any single market represents significant risk. Diversification is one key way businesses can mitigate geopolitical risk whilst also accessing new opportunities in emerging markets. Australia is an exporting nation with a continuing need for foreign investment. Australia’s experiences in the global trade and investment sphere since the turn of the century largely point to consistent growth, with isolated disruptions along the way. Since 2000, Australian exports have trebled in value from $145 billion to $438 billion in 2018 , and inward investment from foreign sources has grown by 4.3 percent over the past 5 years to reach $3.8 trillion at the end of 2019 . The reality is Australian exporters are facing into a very difficult near term future. IMF expects our economy to contract 6.7 percent in 2020 – this worse than the US and EU at 5.9 percent. Foreign investment into Australia is also falling. According to United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) figures, Australia’s global intake of foreign direct investment in 2019 dropped by 42 percent to USD 39 billion1. Currently, 55.5 percent of Australian trade is concentrated in 4 key markets – China, Japan, the USA and South Korea, with the former two alone representing 42.2 percent and China itself [33 percent]. However, there are new opportunities in growing regions that complement Australian goods, services and expertise, which offer significant potential to diversify. The rise around the world of political rather than economic logic in policymaking means that market diversity is essential for Australian businesses to minimise the risk of losing strategic ground. There are key steps that Australian businesses in global markets should take to help successfully navigate the risks and opportunities of diversification: supplement existing markets with identified new opportunities access the upside whilst managing the downside look to Asia and beyond follow a strategic process. This paper examines in some detail four geographies which Australian businesses are well-placed to explore: India, Indonesia, Vietnam, and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region. For further details please download the PDF. Accessing new opportunities Opportunities to diversify and supplement Australia’s international trade and investment https://unctad.org/en/Publicationslibrary/diaeiainf2020d1_en.pdf#page=1&zoom=180,-4,846 Merriden Varrall Director, Australia Geopolitics Hub Daniel Ginger Manager, Access Asia and AgriFood, Operations Advisory NSW Chairman and Head of Asia & International Markets The Future of Supply Chain Supply chains must become customer-centric, demand-driven and automated networks. KPMG Australia Geopolitics Hub Tailored insights to help you navigate a complex geopolitical world. Trade & Customs KPMG's Trade & Customs professionals address intricate cross-border issues. Asia & International Markets KPMG supports all inbound and outbound investment transactions globally.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line853
__label__cc	0.736691	0.263309	When Are Bell Peppers Ready to Harvest? Grow Vegetables By Lisa Jensen Updated December 14, 2018 Can You Plant Sweet and Hot Peppers Close Together? Why Are My Habaneros So Small? When Is a Habanero Pepper Ready to Pick? How to Pick Bell Peppers From Vines How to Grow Cayenne Pepper From a Seedling Bell peppers grow in a range of colors, including green, red, dark purple, yellow and orange. In general, they are ready to harvest when they are the full color of the variety planted. The seed packet or catalog should indicate approximate growing time to maturity, and whether the peppers will deepen in color or change color at different stages. Depending on the variety, bell peppers grow to about three inches in diameter and four inches in height, with a round to blocky shape. Most are ready to harvest within 60 to 80 days of planting. Harvesting Ripe Bell Peppers You can harvest bell peppers when they are green. If left on the vine to ripen further, green peppers may turn red, then orange to yellow. Purple varieties will turn from green to dark purple or nearly black. Bell peppers can be eaten at any stage during this ripening process, and they will become sweeter in taste the longer they are left on the vine. Cut peppers from the vine, leaving the stem attached to the fruit. Ripe peppers may detach easily from the plant stem with a gentle twist. Harvesting Immature Bell Peppers Picking peppers before they are fully mature will encourage the plant to produce more flowers and, thus, more peppers. These slightly immature peppers may not taste as sweet as they would if allowed to ripen further, but they are safe to eat. The seeds of immature peppers are not fully developed and should not be saved for re-planting. You can leave the first peppers to ripen fully and harvest subsequent ones, allowing the plant’s energy to go toward the fruits you leave on the vine. Bell peppers have a mild or sweet flavor, unlike the hot chile pepper varieties. While hot peppers, such as cayenne, will become hotter in taste the longer they ripen, bell peppers always will taste sweet. All peppers can cross-pollinate, so if you are planning to save seed to plant next season, be sure to isolate the pepper varieties you are growing. Peppers will not set fruit if the temperature drops below 55 degrees. Harvest bell peppers if temperatures are predicted to drop to freezing, or if they are infested with pests. Removing fruit or leaves that are infested with a few insects can prevent these pests from spreading to other plants. Peppers are members of the nightshade family, which includes tomatoes, eggplant and potatoes. All members of the nightshade family may host the same pests, so don’t grow peppers in the same soil or near other infested nightshade plants. UC Davis, Vegetable Research and Information Center: Pepper (Capsicum annuum) Organic Gardening: Peppers -- A Growing Guide Lisa Jensen grows organic food and lives in an adobe house that she built. She teaches aikido, is an experienced back-country skier and backpacker and is active in her community. A graduate of the University of Calgary, Jensen writes about gardening, home projects, social sciences and sports and recreation. Can You Plant Bell Peppers & Jalapenos Next to Each Other? Why Won't the Red Bell Peppers I'm Growing Turn From Green to Red? How to Pick Italian Roasting Peppers How to Propagate Zucchini Is it Possible to Cross-Pollinate a Jalapeno With a Green Bell Pepper? Will Tomatoes Die at 35 Degrees? At What Temperature Will Jalapeno Plants Die? Care of a Red Habanero Pepper Plant 1 Can You Plant Bell Peppers & Jalapenos Next to Each Other? 2 Why Won't the Red Bell Peppers I'm Growing Turn From Green to Red? 3 How to Pick Italian Roasting Peppers 4 How to Propagate Zucchini	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line855
__label__wiki	0.730494	0.730494	How Often Should I Water Cabbage? By Ruth de Jauregui How to Grow Cabbage in a Square Foot Garden How to Harvest Broccoli Plants How to Plant Cabbages Growing Napa Cabbage How to Grow Artichoke Flowers Cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) thrives in early spring and late fall. It's a cool-weather vegetable that prefers temperatures between 60 and 65 degrees Fahrenheit, but tolerates freezing temperatures as low as 24 degrees. Cabbage and its close relative, Chinese cabbage (Brassica rapa) are heavy feeders, requiring a well-drained soil, and regular watering and fertilizing to produce a good crop of the heavy green or red heads. Water Needs of Cabbage Cabbage requires a consistently moist soil. While it won't tolerate sitting in wet, soggy soil, it needs regular watering to produce its leafy heads. Water your cabbage once a week, applying 1 1/2 inches of water to the soil. If the soil is dry to a depth of 3 inches, water more frequently. Water in the morning to avoid water sitting on the plant's leaves, which encourages pests and diseases. A Consistent Level of Moisture To help maintain a consistent level of moisture in the soil, add 4 inches of mulch to the garden bed, pulling it back 4 inches from the cabbage plant's stem. Mulch slows evaporation from the soil, keeping it cool and moist when the weather warms. Plastic mulch also may be used in the cabbage bed. Simply cut a hole in the plastic and plant seeds or transplant seedlings into the moist soil. Providing the Extra Nutrients Cabbage is a heavy feeder, requiring regular applications of fertilizer. Mix a liquid 10-10-10 fertilizer solution at a rate of one tablespoon per gallon. Apply 1 cup of solution per plant every seven to 14 days. If you prefer a slow release fertilizer, apply 1 tablespoon per square foot every three months, scratching the prills into the soil. Water thoroughly before and after applying fertilizer. Prevent Splitting Before the Harvest Once the cabbage heads are solid, they're ready to harvest. Delaying the harvest may lead to some of the cabbage heads cracking or splitting, due to the heavy water intake of the plant. If you don't have room to store all the mature heads, use a spade to cut part of the cabbage plant's roots. This will slow the absorption of water and reduce the chance of the cabbage splitting. However, if freezing weather is in the forecast, harvest your cabbage and store it at 34 degrees for up to five months. Clemson Cooperative Extension: Cabbage & Chinese Cabbage Cornell University: Growing Guide -- Cabbage With degrees in fine and commercial art and Spanish, Ruth de Jauregui is an old-school graphic artist, book designer and published author. De Jauregui authored 50 Fabulous Tomatoes for Your Garden, available as an ebook. She enthusiastically pursues creative and community interests, including gardening, home improvement and social issues. How to Raise Cabbage Optimum Temperature for Growing Cabbage Causes of Cabbage Wilting How Long Does It Take Cabbage to Germinate? How to Take Care of Cabbage Plants How to Transplant Cauliflower How to Grow OS Cross Cabbage How to Harvest a Cabbage Head How to Grow Joi Choi 1 How to Raise Cabbage 2 Optimum Temperature for Growing Cabbage 3 Causes of Cabbage Wilting 4 How Long Does It Take Cabbage to Germinate?	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line856
__label__cc	0.725937	0.274063	Home Microlight3D wins Best French Startup award for Altraspin Lab EU rules Intelligent Speed Assistance in all new cars by 2022 Recycling PET from household plastics Microlight3D wins Best French Startup award for Altraspin Lab Forum Labo Paris 2019 awards winner’s trophy to first French firm to design 3D printers that create polymer-based objects smaller than living cells Microlight3D Best French Startup Microlight3D, a specialty manufacturer of ultra hi-resolution 3D-microprinting systems for industrial and scientific applications, has won the award for Best French Startup from Forum Labo Paris 2019. Microlight3D is one of only two companies in the world to commercialise 3D printing systems based on two-photon polymerisation, enabling researchers and industry developers to create objects at the submicron level in any geometric or organic shape. The jury of experts at the Forum Labo Paris, a major biennial technical and scientific event attended by over 350 exhibitors and 8,500 visitors that brings together researchers and industry professionals working in public and private laboratories, selected Microlight3D in recognition of its new 3D printer Altraspin Lab. Altraspin Lab prints ultra-high-resolution micro-scaffolds and cell support structures onto multiwell plates. Altraspin produces micro-parts with a resolution 100x smaller than a strand of hair for applications requiring exact precision and a flawless ultra-high-resolution finish. These include creating micro-optics and micro-sensors and printing shapes that fit inside microfluidic devices. It is also suited to metamaterials, cell culture, tissue engineering, microrobotics, micromechanics and surface structuration. “It is an immense honour for Microlight3D to receive the French Startup award from Forum Labo Paris 2019 and to have been a finalist in the Instruments category. We thank the jury for our selection; we also congratulate the other winners and nominees,” said Denis Barbier, CEO of Microlight3D. “In offering 3D printing capabilities at the submicron level, we have focused on providing compatibility with the widest range of polymers - from plastics to biomaterial – and giving more freedom to designers when creating complex micro-parts. We are excited by the performance of our technology, its potential to bring future advantages to industry and the scientific community and the affordability it offers them.” The awards ceremony, the 4th edition of which took place on Tuesday, March 26, honoured companies with Innovation Awards in five distinct categories: Instruments, Equipment, Consumable/reagents/kits, Informatics and Services, plus the French Startup award. Microlight3D was among 17 finalists. The submicron-resolution Altraspin achieves, as low as 0.2µm, is based on a two-photon polymerisation direct laser writing method plus its proprietary ‘continuous print flow’ technique. This technique is not constrained by the conventional additive layer-by-layer approach that limits standard 3D printing resolution to 25µm. As a result of Microlight3D’s submicron resolution, it can print micro-parts so flawless that they do not require post-processing. Elimination of this step brings manufacturers advantages in both time and cost. Since its founding in 2016 following 15 years’ research, Microlight3D has received other industry awards in recognition of its developments and the application of its technology: the Medinov 2017 award, grand prize ILAB 2018 winner, and its selection in 3D Oncochip (2017), a French government funded FUI (Fonds Unique Interminsteriel) project aimed at personalised cancer treatments. Microlight3D Technology & Innovation Awards 3D printing Additive Manufacturing France Polymers	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line859
__label__cc	0.570256	0.429744	hyperstated In Case You Missed It: The ‘Iggles’ Swooped in to Dethrone the Patriots SportsJeeah Lee February 6, 2018 0 For those who missed out on Super Bowl Sunday — either in protest of the NFL or just from pure disinterest — let me just say that the game was pretty epic, hands down one of the best Super Bowl games in the past few years. But I understand the sentiment, since I, too, struggled internally if I should watch this year’s Super Bowl, considering all the controversial news surrounding the NFL in the recent year or so. In the end, I think my personal feelings toward the Patriots overruled the more rational side of me (I know, it’s bad). Although I’m not a huge fan of the Eagles (I must say showing solidarity with Meek Mill by playing “Dreams and Nightmares” was a nice touch), I was delighted to see the stunned look on Tom Brady’s face after he got sacked and fumbled, which led to a turnover with less than three minutes to go in the fourth quarter. I just couldn’t help it. The Patriots are a great team, however smug and obnoxious they can be, but it was time for them to relinquish the throne (for god’s sake). Don’t feel too bad for them though — they still have five championships under their belt despite this year’s loss. We all know that people don’t just tune it to watch the game. It’s much more than that. It’s an experience, with the half-time show and all the commercials that cause brouhaha, not to mention spotting celebrities who show up in support of their respective teams. So that said, here are some highs and lows from the Super Bowl LII (that’s 52) from the entertainment side of things. Chronicling Bradley Cooper’s many facial expressions throughout the game. If you are a fan of Bradley Cooper, you know that he is an ultimate Eagles fan, which makes sense since he hails from Philly. Watching his many facial expressions throughout the game was entertaining on so many levels because you could relate to him as a fellow spectator (unless you were rooting for the other team). Kevin Hart’s getting denied in his attempt to join the Eagles championship stage and being censored on national TV. Security guard playing better defense on Kevin Hart than either team did in the game: pic.twitter.com/Stj85U87co — Deadspin (@Deadspin) February 5, 2018 Poor Kevin Hart. Being a celebrity didn’t cut it for the security guards. Yes, he was treated like the rest of us plebeians for the night and was denied by the security guards when he tried to get on the championship stage. On top of that, he totally crashed a post-game interview, where, being who he is, dropped an F-bomb. All in all, he was having a good time so let’s give him a pass. The unveiling of Donald Glover as young Lando Calrissian. A Han Solo spin-off??? I completely forgot that this was going to happen, so I was excited to see this trailer, not to mention Donald Glover as young Lando Calrissian. I mean look at that mustache! NFL’s Dirty Dancing Spoof ad. Don’t put Odell Beckham Jr. in the corner. Oh NFL, I want to loathe you, but then you come out with this sort of ad where it’s all cute and fun. It seems like both Eli Manning and Odell Beckham Jr. had tons of fun shooting this video. They certainly got moves! Tide ad featuring David Harbour aka Jim Hopper from Stranger Things. To be honest, I was kinda confused by this ad; it was too meta for me. I think I’m just biased since I just like David Harbour, so Tide should stick with him from now on. Oh yeah, in case you’ve forgotten, make sure your kids are not eating tide pods. ‘Alexa Loses Her Voice’ ad by Amazon. It’s official. Amazon is becoming our overlord, with Alexa as its loyal servant. Jeff Bezos even makes an appearance. It’s corny, but good corny with appropriate use of celebrities. I just hope that we don’t get overrun by Alexa at any point soon. Robots are taking over! The 20-second blackout. From NBC Sports spokesperson: “We had a brief equipment failure that we quickly resolved. No game action or commercial time were missed.” — NBC Sports PR (@NBCSportsPR) February 5, 2018 I was glad that I wasn’t the only one who was freaking out when my TV blacked out. Not sure how much money NBC ended up losing (though they claim they really didn’t lose that much), but you would think a technical glitch would be a thing of the past by now, but nope, that’s not the case. At least, it only lasted for half a minute at best, and let’s hope it doesn’t happen again with the upcoming NBC coverage of the Winter Olympics. Justin Timberlake’s Prince Tribute. So I thought it was a done deal when Sheila E. tweeted that Justin Timberlake wouldn’t be using a Prince hologram during his halftime show. Well, Justin kept his words alright by not using a hologram but a video projection. It was a nice gesture to pay tribute to Prince in his hometown, but something about it didn’t seem right. Plus, his overall halftime show was not very memorable. We should have had Janet Jackson instead. Ram Truck ad (featuring Martin Luther King Jr.’s sermon). Who thought this was a great idea? Seriously, someone should get fired over this. I’m surprised that the MLK family even approved this. Where is the connection? Built to serve? The inclusion of MLK’s sermon did not add anything to the overall narrative. Keanu Reeves’ Squarespace ad. I’m not sure what was going on here…how was this relevant to anything except for it’s Keanu Reeves. What his job nowadays? And I used to like Keanu Reeves and still do to some extent. He seems lost. Please, someone, resurrect his movie career, so he doesn’t have to pay bills by making useless commercials. T-Mobile ad featuring lots of babies. What do babies and buying a cellphone have anything to with attaining equality? So buying a cellphone in an inalienable right now? I was left scratching my head on this one. Good try T-Mobile, but I’m sorry to say you failed. You should expand your service area first. Hyundai ad: Help cancer patients by buying our cars. Ah, another car ad that didn’t make sense. If you want to help people who have cancer, buy a Hyundai. Great message indeed. I’m not going to say anything more than that. So what were your favorite/least favorite moments? Posted in SportsTagged Bradley Cooper, Eagles, ICYMI, Justin Timberlake, Kevin Hart, Patriots, Prince, recap, Stranger Things, Super Bowl, Super Bowl commercials, Tom Brady Review: ‘Life of the Party’ Match-up of the Matcha! Starbucks vs. Peet’s Whatever Happened to Female Rockers? 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Board Committees and Terms of Reference B.S.D C Terms of Reference for Committees of the Board. TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR A DIRECTOR 1. GOALS AND OBJECTIVES As a member of the Board, each director will: 1.1 fulfill the legal requirements and obligations of a director, which includes a comprehensive understanding of the statutory and fiduciary roles; 1.2 consider the interests of the communities the Chamber serves, ensuring that the best, 1 of 3 Version: 2 Approved: Board 04.11.10 The Woodland Trust Board Affairs Committee (BAC) Terms of Reference PURPOSE AND SCOPE 1. Good governance of вЂ¦. Sound corporate governance is implicit in InvestecвЂ™s values, culture, processes, functions and organisational structure. Board committees Committees of the Board deal with certain specific aspects of the GroupвЂ™s affairs. These Committees are the Remuneration Committee, the Audit Committee and the Nomination Committee. The roles and responsibilities of the Committees are set out in their terms of reference. The terms of reference for each Committee are available In collaboration with the International Affairs Committee of Senate (SIAC), consult with the lntercultural Understanding Committee, a sub-committee of both FNAAC and SIAC, and advise the Accreditation Steering Committee and report on mission fulfilment in relation to the core theme lntercultural Understanding; Other duties as assigned by Senate Corporate Responsibility Committee вЂ“ Terms of Reference CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY COMMITTEE. T. ERMS OF . R. EFERENCE (Approved by the Board on 3 February 2005 . Last updated on 1 April 2017) Role The Committee provides a Board level forum for the regular review of external issues that have the Governance), 64B (DirectorsвЂ™ Affairs Committee) and Regulations 39 and 49 of the Banks Act and any corporate governance requirements of its holding company. TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR A DIRECTOR 1. GOALS AND OBJECTIVES As a member of the Board, each director will: 1.1 fulfill the legal requirements and obligations of a director, which includes a comprehensive understanding of the statutory and fiduciary roles; 1.2 consider the interests of the communities the Chamber serves, ensuring that the best To review and approve amendments to the terms of reference for Corporate Affairs and Audit Committee, Building and Investment Committee, and the Investment and Advisory Committee as recommended by their respective Committee members. RECOMMENDATIONS: It is recommended that the Board of Directors approve: 1. amendments to the Corporate Affairs and Audit Committee вЂ¦ 1. Membership 1.1 The Corporate Responsibility Committee (the вЂњCommitteeвЂќ) shall comprise a minimum of two non-executive directors, the Chief Executive, the Chief Financial Officer and the Executive Director, Commercial & Corporate Affairs. 1.2 The Chairman of the Committee shall be a Non-Executive Director (or in his/her absence, any other i The Committee reviews its Terms of Reference at least annually and reports to the Board in August each year on compliance with the Terms of Reference and details of any changes required ii The Board may review its delegation to the Committee at any time. iii The Terms of Reference were last approved by the Board on 18 October 2019. Terms of Reference Responsibilities of the International Affairs Committee Advise Senate on measures to achieve the goals set out in the UniversityвЂ™s Strategic Plan and Academic Plan with regard to international opportunities with a focus on internationalization and increasing the number of international opportunities for TRU students and faculty; The Audit Committee facilitates the external and internal audit of the organisation for the Board to obtain independent information about the organisation's activities. Oversight Committee, each comprising on-executive directors and a n Chairman's Committee to which the powers of the Board willbe Group devolved, as appropriate from time to time. All matters set out in those Board Committee terms of reference are matters which the Board has Group specifically delegated to those Board Committees. Terms of Reference of the Human Resources Committee Page 4 of 5 Approved at the Board of DirectorsвЂ™ Meeting on February 7, 2018 3.5.4. in consultation with the BRC, review and recommend to the Board the annual and terms of reference as approved by the Board from time to time. Currently the Board has Currently the Board has approved one committees being the Audit Committee. COMMITTEES OF THE BOARD The broad terms of reference of the committees are as under: I) AUDIT COMMITTEE i. The Audit Committee of the Company is constituted in line with the provisions of Regulation 18 of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Listing Obligations and Sound corporate governance is implicit in InvestecвЂ™s values, culture, processes, functions and organisational structure. Board Committees and Terms of Reference The Board has established Audit, Remuneration and Nomination Committees. 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To review and approve amendments to the terms of reference for Corporate Affairs and Audit Committee, Building and Investment Committee, and the Investment and Advisory Committee as recommended by their respective Committee members. RECOMMENDATIONS: It is recommended that the Board of Directors approve: 1. amendments to the Corporate Affairs and Audit Committee вЂ¦ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_People%27s_Congress_Foreign_Affairs_Committee Terms of Reference of the Human Resources Committee Page 4 of 5 Approved at the Board of DirectorsвЂ™ Meeting on February 7, 2018 3.5.4. in consultation with the BRC, review and recommend to the Board the annual. Board Affairs Committee Charter ExxonMobil Directors Affairs Committee (DAC) Charter Addendum C i The Committee reviews its Terms of Reference at least annually and reports to the Board in August each year on compliance with the Terms of Reference and details of any changes required ii The Board may review its delegation to the Committee at any time. iii The Terms of Reference were last approved by the Board on 18 October 2019. Corporate Responsibility Committee вЂ“ Terms of Reference CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY COMMITTEE. T. ERMS OF . R. EFERENCE (Approved by the Board on 3 February 2005 . Last updated on 1 April 2017) Role The Committee provides a Board level forum for the regular review of external issues that have the GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE TERMS OF REFERENCE NAME & TYPE Governance and committee terms of reference, making recommendations for change, as appropriate, to the Board of Directors; - Annual review of the size, composition, diversity, and structure of the Board of Directors and its committees with regard to competencies and skills of its members as related вЂ¦ GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE TERMS OF REFERENCE NAME & TYPE Governance and committee terms of reference, making recommendations for change, as appropriate, to the Board of Directors; - Annual review of the size, composition, diversity, and structure of the Board of Directors and its committees with regard to competencies and skills of its members as related вЂ¦ TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Corporate Governance Committee Approval Date: November 5, 2018 page 1 Board of Directors Approval Date: November 7, 2017 I. INTRODUCTION A. The primary responsibility of the Board is to foster the long-term success of the Corporation to maximize shareholder value and provide strategic 1. Membership 1.1 The Corporate Responsibility Committee (the вЂњCommitteeвЂќ) shall comprise a minimum of two non-executive directors, the Chief Executive, the Chief Financial Officer and the Executive Director, Commercial & Corporate Affairs. 1.2 The Chairman of the Committee shall be a Non-Executive Director (or in his/her absence, any other The Board of Directors of Energy Safety Canada is responsible for the stewardship of the organization and for overseeing the affairs of Enform and the activities of management set out in this Terms of Reference. Management is responsible for вЂ¦ Barclays board committees assist the board in carrying out its functions and ensure that there is independent oversight. Find out more here. TERMS OF REFERENCE DLC Nominations and DirectorsвЂ™ Affairs Committee (вЂњNOMDACвЂќ) Overview Investec Limited and Investec plc are managed as a single economic enterprise as a result of the dual listed companies structure (вЂњthe groupвЂќ) The board of directors of Investec Limited and Investec plc (вЂњthe boardsвЂќ) had, prior to terms of reference nedbank limited and nedbank group limited board of directors & board committees table of contents board charter 1 - 11 group audit committee addendum a group risk and capital management committee addendum b group directors affairs committee addendum c group remuneration committee (remco) addendum d group finance and oversight committee addendum e group credit committee вЂ¦ Sound corporate governance is implicit in InvestecвЂ™s values, culture, processes, functions and organisational structure. 1. Membership 1.1 The Corporate Responsibility Committee (the вЂњCommitteeвЂќ) shall comprise a minimum of two non-executive directors, the Chief Executive, the Chief Financial Officer and the Executive Director, Commercial & Corporate Affairs. 1.2 The Chairman of the Committee shall be a Non-Executive Director (or in his/her absence, any other GOV 1 283 WomenвЂ™s Committee Terms of Reference \ Approved June 21, 2012 - Version 1 Page 1 of 4 WomenвЂ™s Committee Terms of Reference Purpose Statement 1.0 This is a Committee of the Board of Directors that has a mandate to: 1.1 Advocate for womenвЂ™s leadership at all levels in HSA, within the labour TERMS OF REFERENCE DLC Nominations and DirectorsвЂ™ Affairs Committee (вЂњNOMDACвЂќ) Overview Investec Limited and Investec plc are managed as a single economic enterprise as a result of the dual listed companies structure (вЂњthe groupвЂќ) The board of directors of Investec Limited and Investec plc (вЂњthe boardsвЂќ) had, prior to COMMITTEES OF THE BOARD The broad terms of reference of the committees are as under: I) AUDIT COMMITTEE i. The Audit Committee of the Company is constituted in line with the provisions of Regulation 18 of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Listing Obligations and Executive Committee Terms of Reference Approved September 24, 2013 1. Accountability 1.1. The Executive Committee is accountable to the Board of Directors of the Institute on Governance. 2. Composition 2.1. The Executive Committee: 2.2. Will be comprised of the Officers of the Corporation and other members of the board, at the boardвЂ™s and terms of reference as approved by the Board from time to time. Currently the Board has Currently the Board has approved one committees being the Audit Committee. Please see related document Audit Committee Terms of Reference 2.6.3 At a time when it is deemed appropriate by the Board in consultation with management, the Board will constitute a Governance Committee whose responsibilities will include вЂ¦ Board Committees Company Information Sage UK Terms of Reference First Nations and Aboriginal Affairs. Committee members may participate in the process of drafting the terms but the final approval of the terms of reference should remain with the board. Below we offer some suggestions on the key elements of the committee terms of reference followed by an example. It is probably not a good idea to let a committee determine its own terms of, COMMITTEES OF THE BOARD The broad terms of reference of the committees are as under: I) AUDIT COMMITTEE i. The Audit Committee of the Company is constituted in line with the provisions of Regulation 18 of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Listing Obligations and. Terms of Reference BOARD OF DIRECTORS Board Committees and Sample Terms of Reference. Corporate Responsibility Committee вЂ“ Terms of Reference CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY COMMITTEE. T. ERMS OF . R. EFERENCE (Approved by the Board on 3 February 2005 . Last updated on 1 April 2017) Role The Committee provides a Board level forum for the regular review of external issues that have the, Governance), 64B (DirectorsвЂ™ Affairs Committee) and Regulations 39 and 49 of the Banks Act and any corporate governance requirements of its holding company.. TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS MARCH 5, 2015 Page 2 of 6 of those Committees will be as set forth in their terms of reference, as amended from time to time. D. The Board retains the responsibility for managing its own affairs including the responsibility to: i) annually review, in conjunction with the CEO, the skills and experience Sound corporate governance is implicit in InvestecвЂ™s values, culture, processes, functions and organisational structure. The Audit Committee facilitates the external and internal audit of the organisation for the Board to obtain independent information about the organisation's activities. TERMS OF REFERENCE OF THE HUMAN RESOURCES COMMITTEE OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS 1. The Human Resources Committee will be a means by which the Board can provide guidance on the human resources management of the Asian Development Bank. Its primary responsibility will include reviewing, monitoring and making recommendations to the Board of COMMITTEES OF THE BOARD The broad terms of reference of the committees are as under: I) AUDIT COMMITTEE i. The Audit Committee of the Company is constituted in line with the provisions of Regulation 18 of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Listing Obligations and Terms of Reference of the Human Resources Committee Page 4 of 5 Approved at the Board of DirectorsвЂ™ Meeting on February 7, 2018 3.5.4. in consultation with the BRC, review and recommend to the Board the annual and terms of reference as approved by the Board from time to time. Currently the Board has Currently the Board has approved one committees being the Audit Committee. TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Corporate Governance Committee Approval Date: November 5, 2018 page 1 Board of Directors Approval Date: November 7, 2017 I. INTRODUCTION A. 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In addition, the chairman of the Board Risk Committee will call a meeting of the Board Risk Committee if so requested by any member of the Board Risk Committee, the chairman of the Audit Committee or the Chairman of the Board. 1. Membership 1.1 The Corporate Responsibility Committee (the вЂњCommitteeвЂќ) shall comprise a minimum of two non-executive directors, the Chief Executive, the Chief Financial Officer and the Executive Director, Commercial & Corporate Affairs. 1.2 The Chairman of the Committee shall be a Non-Executive Director (or in his/her absence, any other To review and approve amendments to the terms of reference for Corporate Affairs and Audit Committee, Building and Investment Committee, and the Investment and Advisory Committee as recommended by their respective Committee members. RECOMMENDATIONS: It is recommended that the Board of Directors approve: 1. amendments to the Corporate Affairs and Audit Committee вЂ¦ The Board of Directors of Energy Safety Canada is responsible for the stewardship of the organization and for overseeing the affairs of Enform and the activities of management set out in this Terms of Reference. Management is responsible for вЂ¦ 1 of 3 Version: 2 Approved: Board 04.11.10 The Woodland Trust Board Affairs Committee (BAC) Terms of Reference PURPOSE AND SCOPE 1. Good governance of вЂ¦ in collaboration with the CEO, ensure information requested by directors or committees of the Board is provided and meets their needs; xii) review and assess director attendance and performance and the size and composition of the Board and make recommendations to the entities responsible for appointing directors as required. 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Constitution The Executive Committee (the вЂњCommitteeвЂќ), established by resolutions of the Board of Directors of the Bank (the вЂњBoardвЂќ) on 28 May 2014, is responsible for the overall management, including day-to-day operations and administration in collaboration with the CEO, ensure information requested by directors or committees of the Board is provided and meets their needs; xii) review and assess director attendance and performance and the size and composition of the Board and make recommendations to the entities responsible for appointing directors as required. TERMS OF REFERENCE DLC Nominations and DirectorsвЂ™ Affairs Committee (вЂњNOMDACвЂќ) Overview Investec Limited and Investec plc are managed as a single economic enterprise as a result of the dual listed companies structure (вЂњthe groupвЂќ) The board of directors of Investec Limited and Investec plc (вЂњthe boardsвЂќ) had, prior to TERMS OF REFERENCE OF THE HUMAN RESOURCES COMMITTEE OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS 1. The Human Resources Committee will be a means by which the Board can provide guidance on the human resources management of the Asian Development Bank. Its primary responsibility will include reviewing, monitoring and making recommendations to the Board of terms of reference nedbank limited and nedbank group limited board of directors & board committees table of contents board charter 1 - 11 group audit committee addendum a group risk and capital management committee addendum b group directors affairs committee addendum c group remuneration committee (remco) addendum d group finance and oversight committee addendum e group credit committee вЂ¦ GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE TERMS OF REFERENCE NAME & TYPE Governance and committee terms of reference, making recommendations for change, as appropriate, to the Board of Directors; - Annual review of the size, composition, diversity, and structure of the Board of Directors and its committees with regard to competencies and skills of its members as related вЂ¦ in collaboration with the CEO, ensure information requested by directors or committees of the Board is provided and meets their needs; xii) review and assess director attendance and performance and the size and composition of the Board and make recommendations to the entities responsible for appointing directors as required. COMMITTEES OF THE BOARD The broad terms of reference of the committees are as under: I) AUDIT COMMITTEE i. The Audit Committee of the Company is constituted in line with the provisions of Regulation 18 of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Listing Obligations and TERMS OF REFERENCE OF THE HUMAN RESOURCES COMMITTEE OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS 1. The Human Resources Committee will be a means by which the Board can provide guidance on the human resources management of the Asian Development Bank. Its primary responsibility will include reviewing, monitoring and making recommendations to the Board of in collaboration with the CEO, ensure information requested by directors or committees of the Board is provided and meets their needs; xii) review and assess director attendance and performance and the size and composition of the Board and make recommendations to the entities responsible for appointing directors as required. Terms of Reference of the Human Resources Committee Page 4 of 5 Approved at the Board of DirectorsвЂ™ Meeting on February 7, 2018 3.5.4. in consultation with the BRC, review and recommend to the Board the annual 2.0 Board Terms of Reference Early Stage Tech Boards Directors Affairs Committee (DAC) Charter Addendum C. Committee members may participate in the process of drafting the terms but the final approval of the terms of reference should remain with the board. Below we offer some suggestions on the key elements of the committee terms of reference followed by an example. It is probably not a good idea to let a committee determine its own terms of, these terms of reference and the BankвЂ™s articles of association or any law or regulation, the relevant provisions of the BankвЂ™s articles of association, law or regulation, shall prevail.. COMMITTEES OF THE BOARD. Sound corporate governance is implicit in InvestecвЂ™s values, culture, processes, functions and organisational structure., The Audit Committee facilitates the external and internal audit of the organisation for the Board to obtain independent information about the organisation's activities.. Creating Terms of Reference for Not-forProfit Board. Terms of Reference of Committees and Consultative Panels of HKEX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_People%27s_Congress_Ethnic_Affairs_Committee BOARD OF STANDARD CHARTERED BANK (MAURITIUS) LIMITED (the вЂњBankвЂќ) TERMS OF REFERENCE MEMBERS: All Directors of the Board. QUORUM: At least 4 Directors, of whom at least 2 must be Non-Executive Directors Responsibilities The Board of the Bank is responsible for the overall management and affairs of the Bank and is. TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR A DIRECTOR 1. GOALS AND OBJECTIVES As a member of the Board, each director will: 1.1 fulfill the legal requirements and obligations of a director, which includes a comprehensive understanding of the statutory and fiduciary roles; 1.2 consider the interests of the communities the Chamber serves, ensuring that the best TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Corporate Governance Committee Approval Date: November 5, 2018 page 1 Board of Directors Approval Date: November 7, 2017 I. INTRODUCTION A. The primary responsibility of the Board is to foster the long-term success of the Corporation to maximize shareholder value and provide strategic 1. Membership 1.1 The Corporate Responsibility Committee (the вЂњCommitteeвЂќ) shall comprise a minimum of two non-executive directors, the Chief Executive, the Chief Financial Officer and the Executive Director, Commercial & Corporate Affairs. 1.2 The Chairman of the Committee shall be a Non-Executive Director (or in his/her absence, any other terms of reference nedbank limited and nedbank group limited board of directors & board committees table of contents board charter 1 - 11 group audit committee addendum a group risk and capital management committee addendum b group directors affairs committee addendum c group remuneration committee (remco) addendum d group finance and oversight committee addendum e group credit committee вЂ¦ Terms of Reference of Committees and Consultative Panels of HKEX Committee members may participate in the process of drafting the terms but the final approval of the terms of reference should remain with the board. Below we offer some suggestions on the key elements of the committee terms of reference followed by an example. It is probably not a good idea to let a committee determine its own terms of Terms of Reference Responsibilities of the International Affairs Committee Advise Senate on measures to achieve the goals set out in the UniversityвЂ™s Strategic Plan and Academic Plan with regard to international opportunities with a focus on internationalization and increasing the number of international opportunities for TRU students and faculty; The Audit Committee facilitates the external and internal audit of the organisation for the Board to obtain independent information about the organisation's activities. Committed to the highest standards. As a company, we remain committed to maintaining the highest standards of corporate governance. We strongly believe that good governance is at the heart of, and is fundamental to, the effective management of the business, its long term sustainability and continued success. Barclays board committees assist the board in carrying out its functions and ensure that there is independent oversight. Find out more here. Board and Board Committees Policy and Terms of Reference 11 duplicating the ommittee to ensure the timely acquittal of the ommittees responsibilities. Should a second Committee be required, the Chair or Deputy Chair of the first Committee should preside over the second Committee to maintain consistency of outcome. The Committee has delegated authority from the Board in respect of the functions and powers set out in these Terms of Reference. 2.3 Committee has authority to investigate any matter within its Terms of Reference and to obtain such information as it may require from any Partner, officer or employee. Constitution . 3.1 Please see related document Audit Committee Terms of Reference 2.6.3 At a time when it is deemed appropriate by the Board in consultation with management, the Board will constitute a Governance Committee whose responsibilities will include вЂ¦ Chong Hing Bank Limited (the вЂњBankвЂќ) Terms of Reference of the Executive Committee 1. Constitution The Executive Committee (the вЂњCommitteeвЂќ), established by resolutions of the Board of Directors of the Bank (the вЂњBoardвЂќ) on 28 May 2014, is responsible for the overall management, including day-to-day operations and administration terms of reference nedbank limited and nedbank group limited board of directors & board committees table of contents board charter 1 - 11 group audit committee addendum a group risk and capital management committee addendum b group directors affairs committee addendum c group remuneration committee (remco) addendum d group finance and oversight committee addendum e group credit committee вЂ¦ and terms of reference as approved by the Board from time to time. Currently the Board has Currently the Board has approved one committees being the Audit Committee. Corporate Responsibility Committee вЂ“ Terms of Reference CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY COMMITTEE. T. ERMS OF . R. EFERENCE (Approved by the Board on 3 February 2005 . Last updated on 1 April 2017) Role The Committee provides a Board level forum for the regular review of external issues that have the 1 of 3 Version: 2 Approved: Board 04.11.10 The Woodland Trust Board Affairs Committee (BAC) Terms of Reference PURPOSE AND SCOPE 1. Good governance of вЂ¦ terms of reference nedbank limited and nedbank group limited board of directors & board committees table of contents board charter 1 - 11 group audit committee addendum a group risk and capital management committee addendum b group directors affairs committee addendum c group remuneration committee (remco) addendum d group finance and oversight committee addendum e group credit committee вЂ¦ Terms of Reference for the Board Risk Committee Page 3 and schedule to meet not less than four times a year. 7. In addition, the chairman of the Board Risk Committee will call a meeting of the Board Risk Committee if so requested by any member of the Board Risk Committee, the chairman of the Audit Committee or the Chairman of the Board. Committee members may participate in the process of drafting the terms but the final approval of the terms of reference should remain with the board. Below we offer some suggestions on the key elements of the committee terms of reference followed by an example. It is probably not a good idea to let a committee determine its own terms of Terms of Reference for the Board Risk Committee Page 3 and schedule to meet not less than four times a year. 7. In addition, the chairman of the Board Risk Committee will call a meeting of the Board Risk Committee if so requested by any member of the Board Risk Committee, the chairman of the Audit Committee or the Chairman of the Board. terms of reference nedbank limited and nedbank group limited board of directors & board committees table of contents board charter 1 - 11 group audit committee addendum a group risk and capital management committee addendum b group directors affairs committee addendum c group remuneration committee (remco) addendum d group finance and oversight committee addendum e group credit committee вЂ¦ Board Committees and Terms of Reference The Board has established Audit, Remuneration and Nomination Committees. The duties of these committees are set out in formal terms of reference, which are available for inspection below: The Committee has delegated authority from the Board in respect of the functions and powers set out in these Terms of Reference. 2.3 Committee has authority to investigate any matter within its Terms of Reference and to obtain such information as it may require from any Partner, officer or employee. Constitution . 3.1 TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR A DIRECTOR 1. GOALS AND OBJECTIVES As a member of the Board, each director will: 1.1 fulfill the legal requirements and obligations of a director, which includes a comprehensive understanding of the statutory and fiduciary roles; 1.2 consider the interests of the communities the Chamber serves, ensuring that the best Each member of the Committee must satisfy such criteria of independence as the Board may establish and such additional regulatory or listing requirements as the Board may determine to be applicable or appropriate. Members of the Committee should be suitably knowledgeable in matters pertaining to corporate governance. The actual number of members shall be вЂ¦ The Committee is also responsible for overseeing our worldwide charitable donations and community support. The Committee consists entirely of Independent Non-Executive Directors. The Corporate Responsibility Committee's latest report is included in our 2018 Annual Report. Download the Corporate Responsibility Committee's terms of reference (PDF) To review and approve amendments to the terms of reference for Corporate Affairs and Audit Committee, Building and Investment Committee, and the Investment and Advisory Committee as recommended by their respective Committee members. RECOMMENDATIONS: It is recommended that the Board of Directors approve: 1. amendments to the Corporate Affairs and Audit Committee вЂ¦ TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS MARCH 5, 2015 Page 2 of 6 of those Committees will be as set forth in their terms of reference, as amended from time to time. D. The Board retains the responsibility for managing its own affairs including the responsibility to: i) annually review, in conjunction with the CEO, the skills and experience terms of reference nedbank limited and nedbank group limited board of directors & board committees table of contents board charter 1 - 11 group audit committee addendum a group risk and capital management committee addendum b group directors affairs committee addendum c group remuneration committee (remco) addendum d group finance and oversight committee addendum e group credit committee вЂ¦ The Committee is also responsible for overseeing our worldwide charitable donations and community support. The Committee consists entirely of Independent Non-Executive Directors. The Corporate Responsibility Committee's latest report is included in our 2018 Annual Report. Download the Corporate Responsibility Committee's terms of reference (PDF) The Board of Directors of Energy Safety Canada is responsible for the stewardship of the organization and for overseeing the affairs of Enform and the activities of management set out in this Terms of Reference. Management is responsible for вЂ¦ in collaboration with the CEO, ensure information requested by directors or committees of the Board is provided and meets their needs; xii) review and assess director attendance and performance and the size and composition of the Board and make recommendations to the entities responsible for appointing directors as required. 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__label__wiki	0.560867	0.560867	Dana White for Habib Nurmagomedov vs. Georges Saint Pierre: “It’s over” Traders say the price of bitcoin is “necessary to withdraw” to maintain the bullish momentum Zack Ryder makes a surprise Impact debut in Hard to Kill PPV “Noise” causes some appointments to be rejected by the Mega Maid Park megasite Countries are preparing for the impact of more contagious variants of viruses. The Nintendo switch counts almost all consoles sold in Japan last year Tony Evers targets Trump administration over COVID-19 vaccines, mobile vaccination team says – Madison.com Daryl Johnson tops Buffalo’s inactive list 29 dead in Norway after vaccination: What we know so far Dr. Dre at home after allegedly suffering from a cerebral aneurysm Home https://server7.kproxy.com/servlet/redirect.srv/sruj/smyrwpoii/p2/ Business https://server7.kproxy.com/servlet/redirect.srv/sruj/smyrwpoii/p2/ Where we stand, November ends Where we stand, November ends US Representative Tim Ryan talks about receiving an incentive bill passed in September in the video above WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – If you bet that the political stalemate centered around the November election will end once the Americans go to the polls, you have lost that bet. Second Incentive Check: Economists are pushing for a new round of $ 1,200 payments to Americans Nearly a month after voters decided the next president, Congress is no closer to finding a common language for coronavirus relief or receiving new direct payments to Americans. Ahead of Thanksgiving, Parliament Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who is the lead negotiator for Democrat incentives, said the holiday season was marked by “great pain, great pain, that 250,000 Americans have lost their lives in our country this year.” ; lives next to the coronavirus. “ Pelosi noted that Congress has not yet adopted additional aid to alleviate the coronavirus and blamed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for inaction. “More than six months ago, when we passed the Heroes Act, leader McConnell said we needed a break. We need a break. Well, I hope the break is over for him. “Nearly 200,000 people died during this break, so we ask him to return to the table,” Pelosi said. Congressional Democrats and Republicans usually say a new stimulus bill is needed, but they disagree on its scope. Some Republicans oppose a new round of inspections directly against most taxpayers, and some do not want Washington to “rescue” state and local governments that had financial difficulties before the pandemic. As of November, Pelosi continues to monitor an account of more than $ 2 trillion, while McConnell is looking for a much smaller package close to $ 500 billion. Second incentive test: President-elect Biden’s thoughts on $ 1,200 payments The New York Times reports that President-elect Joe Biden’s team is urging Democrats to reach a quick stimulus deal – even if it doesn’t include everything they’re looking for. The Times notes that Biden’s advisers fear that economic conditions could worsen as he approaches in January. They are eager to get more relief for Americans before the end of the year. The issue is a huge bill to alleviate the virus, which will send a new direct payment, restart bonus unemployment benefits, fund additional tests and vaccines, provide assistance to schools and provide money to state and local governments, which is a democratic priority. A $ 1.8 trillion bailout plan went unanimously in March. The larger package passed by Pelosi met with strong opposition from Republicans. Taking care of the issue will free the decks for a fresh start on the congressional agenda next year. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome H. Powell went on to call for a new relief earlier this month, saying: “I think we will have a stronger recovery if we can just get at least a little more fiscal support.” If no agreement can be reached in the next few months, Biden’s new administration will fall for a deal. Economic recovery is listed as one of its “first day priorities” on the Biden-Harris transition website. There is no direct mention of incentives to review the outlined economic recovery plan. However, the president-elect said that “we need to spend everything we need immediately to meet public health needs and deal with the growing economic consequences”, but did not specify an incentive to pay. The IRS is urging those who have not received an incentive check to declare theirs Along with expanding free testing of COVID-19, conducting national emergency efforts, and funding state and local governments, part of its plan calls for emergency paid leave to cover 100% of weekly wages or average weekly incomes limited to $ 1,400. per week. Eligible recipients include sick workers, workers caring for family or loved ones, those at increased risk of health complications from COVID-19, domestic workers, carers, concert economics workers and independent performers. Parents involved in school closure will be entitled to paid leave as well as childcare allowance. 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__label__wiki	0.980785	0.980785	Home»Technology»Pakistan Bans TikTok, Citing Morals. Others Cite Politics. Pakistan Bans TikTok, Citing Morals. Others Cite Politics. 11 October 2020 Technology 3 Views ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan has become the latest country to ban TikTok, the Chinese-owned social media platform, in a move that government critics said stemmed as much from politics as from allegations of immoral content. The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority said in a statement on Friday that it was banning TikTok “in view of number of complaints from different segments of the society against immoral/indecent content.” It said it had already informed the company about complaints about its content, but TikTok’s administrators did not address their concerns. The regulator said it was open to talks with the company “subject to a satisfactory mechanism by TikTok to moderate unlawful content.” ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, said that it was committed to following the law and that it was in regular contact with Pakistani regulators. “We are hopeful to reach a conclusion that helps us serve the country’s vibrant and creative community online,” it said in a statement. TikTok, with its lip-syncing teenagers and meme-heavy videos, has drawn criticism from governments around the world, for varying reasons. The Trump administration has attempted to block the app, so far unsuccessfully, citing privacy concerns and the app’s Chinese ownership, allegations that ByteDance has disputed. India has banned the service along with other Chinese-owned apps amid rising tensions between New Delhi and Beijing. TikTok has also faced occasional bans in places like Indonesia and Bangladesh over issues of public decency, as well as pressure in the United States and elsewhere over privacy and content given its base of young users. On its face, Pakistan’s objections to TikTok center on the potential impact to society. Like users elsewhere, TikTok fans in Pakistan — about 20 million active monthly users, according to the government, citing the company’s figures — make videos ranging from do-it-yourself dance numbers to monologues about society, politics and daily life. Influencers also make money on the side. TikTok’s most popular star in Pakistan, Jannat Mirza, has accumulated 10 million followers with often soapy videos mostly about young romance. But conservative Muslims in Pakistan have increasingly accused TikTok of testing acceptable social norms. They deemed memes and song adaptations as too suggestive and too risqué. Many people saw the content as lowbrow and vulgar. There were also growing complaints of underage delinquent behavior and display of illegal weapons. Prime Minister Imran Khan — a former cricket star once famous for his flamboyant lifestyle who has become increasingly conservative since entering politics — criticized TikTok as promoting “obscenity and vulgarity.” Ms. Mirza herself has called for regulating TikTok content and initially expressed support for a ban, though a local media report said she believed the ban should be lifted. She did not respond to a request for comment. “Vulgar content exists on all platforms, but I would argue that the ratio might be slightly higher on TikTok,” said Saif Ali, digital account director at Empact Middle East, a marketing firm. “The whole platform is song and dance, so it was always going to ruffle feathers with conservatives.” At the same time, critics see politics at work. Political content has mushroomed on TikTok in recent months as the coronavirus has spread and the national and global economy have taken a hit. Political observers said that must rankle Mr. Khan and his party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, or P.T.I. The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority “has blocked TikTok not because of immoral content but because TikTokers are poking fun of the Great Leader,” Najam Sethi, one of the country’s most prominent journalists, said in a Twitter post, making an indirect reference to Mr. Khan. Many analysts and journalists say that the ban served a dual purpose: mollifying conservatives and curbing criticism of Mr. Khan’s handling of the economy, rising inflation and tough stance toward political rivals. “After the Covid-19 lockdown, Pakistanis going on TikTok doubled to over 20 million active users while economic hardship related to livelihood loss and inflation hit the lower-middle and working class hard,” said Habibullah Khan, the founder of Penumbra, a digital marketing agency based in Karachi. “These trends seem to have combined to cause a tipping point in public opinion that got picked up by TikTok algorithms.” Since May, videos critical of the government started showing up on TikTok’s main feed, Habibullah Khan said. The prime minister has blamed past leaders for Pakistan’s economic troubles and has implored the public to endure the tough times and wait for a better future. “You don’t have to panic,” Mr. Khan said during one speech. In one TikTok video that was shared widely a few months ago, two users mocked Mr. Khan by saying that the time to panic had finally arrived. Supporters of the opposition political party Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz also started using the app to criticize the government. One such user, Saud Butt, a supporter of the ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif, 1.2 million followers in a short time. Government officials said the real issue was videos that they said sexualized underage girls. “Had there been any political relevance of TikTok in Pakistan, there would have been a number of serious political commentators on the platform, influencing political discussions,” said Arslan Khalid, the prime minister’s point person on digital media. “The claim that TikTok was banned due to political criticism is just frivolous,” he added. Habibullah Khan said that TikTok videos had nevertheless undermined the majority party’s standing in Punjab, the country’s most populous and prosperous province, which determines the political fortunes of any political party in Pakistan. “It’s hard to not conclude that the explosive growth,” he said, “and virality of such videos were at least one reason behind the ban.” Tags bans Cite citing morals Pakistan politics TikTok Previous 11 Exercises For Better Sleep Next QAnon Is Thriving in Germany. The Extreme Right Is Delighted. Snapchat Wants You to Post. They’re Willing to Pay Millions. 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__label__wiki	0.793366	0.793366	Get Your Stuff Reviewed! The Doctor Who Archive Who Are the Writers? The Batman Archive The Archive of Things Funk's House of Geekery Movies, Comics, Books, Games and Other Things Geeks Love Top 10 Joss Whedon Characters 07/31/2012 by gfunk101 JUST ADDED: CLICK HERE FOR THE TOP 10 JOSS WHEDON VILLAINS! For those new to Geekiness, here’s the first thing you need to know. Joss Whedon is a god among pop-culture writers. From redefining how television dramas are written with an over-arching story to creating a cult phenomenon unlike any others to experimenting with the internet as a distribution method, he’s a leader in his field. With the stupidly huge success of The Avengers he’s well and truly made a mark on cinema and television as a writer and a director. If there’s one thing he does best it’s creating memorable, complex and downright awesome characters. So today we’re going to whittle that army of great characters he’s created down the ten best. To make the list they had to fit two simple criteria. 1. They have to be a Joss Whedon original – so don’t expect Iron Man to make the cut. 2. They had to have been included in the opening credits of their respective shows. This was the first step towards trimming down the list (sorry Faith fans), but it also means losing a lot of the great villains. I guess we’ll just have to do a Top 10 Whedonverse villains at some point… 10. Jayne Cobb Played by Adam Baldwin. Jayne is, on the surface, a very simple man. But when you look past that…well, he’s still just a simple man, but damn if he isn’t fun to watch. Working purely as muscle on board the smuggler ship Serenity he provides little more to their heists than brute force. Heavily armed with a collection of guns and knives – to which he shows an almost delicate care – he’s always the first into the fray and never plans further ahead than just delivering pain. Anything that causes him trouble is treated as something to be destroyed, included Simon and River whom he sees as an invitation for the Alliance to chase them down. As evidenced in the flashback that shows how Mal came to recruit Jayne, the mercenary’s loyalty is only to the biggest paycheck. While Jayne has developed a grudging respect for Mal the two both wear this simple truth on their sleeves. When Jayne has the opportunity to betray Mal for a reward in the pilot episode he simple responds that he turned it down because he wasn’t offered enough. Mal asks what will happen the day the pay is enough and Jayne, without missing a beat, tells him that’ll be an “interesting” day. And interesting it was. There are unlimited amounts of people wearing this on the internet. On the few occasions when Jayne is shown to perhaps be something more complex, such as in Jaynestown, it always boils down to him being a purely primal character. Still gets care packages from his mother though… Memorable Quote: “She is startin’ to damage my calm.” 9. Angel/Angelus Played by David Boreanaz. Although not initially making the opening credits in Buffy the Vampire slayer, Angel did become one of the most important characters in the series as a love interest, a hero, a villain and finally as the star of his own spin-off that ran for five years. Appearing as a dark and mysterious love interest for the titular vampire slayer, the biggest and most surprising reveal of the series occurred seven episodes in when Angel and Buffy come together – just before it’s revealed that he’s a vampire. Buffy learns that Angel was Angelus, one of the most dangerous and evil vampires in history, who was cursed with the return of his soul to ensure he would be tormented for his crimes. After decades of repentance Angel turns to the side of good and joins Buffy in her fight against evil. The second season of BTVS saw him in an entirely new light when, after sharing a moment of perfect happiness with Buffy, he returns to his demonic counterpart Angelus and brings death and pain upon the Scoobies. His soul later restored he again battles the apocalypse with Buffy before choosing to leave town. In his own series Angel continues on the path of good, forming his own detective agency in L.A. With more time dedicated to the character, and a darker tone, the spin-off saw the complexities of the character developed further. Searches for self, falls into darkness and moments of clarity all occur as he builds a family and group of friends who he leads in the battle against the forces of hell (and a law firm). We also got more moments of comedy, which the brooding David Boreanaz was surprising good at. Memorable Quote: “I fought for so long, for redemption, for a reward, and finally just to beat the other guy, but I never got it.” 8. Fred/Illyria Played by Amy Acker. Winifred Burkle was the character who started as a McGuffin and somehow turned into the quirky character in a show with a green skinned karaoke demon who then was the focus of one of the most gut-wrenching scenes in a Whedon show before being reborn as a blue haired elder god. Wait what? While investigating the disappearance of a librarian the gang at Angel Investigations find themselves trapped in another dimension. Upon rescuing the librarian (Fred) they bring her back to Earth where she becomes a fixture at the old hotel they call home. Nervous and eccentric she does eventually find a niche and the attentions of Wesley and Gunn, and her scientific mind proves to be invaluable as a resource. Fred became an audience favourite in the same mold as Willow and Kaylee in other Whedon programmes, which made the events of season 5 so shocking. After striking a deal with the devil, Wolfram and Hart, the gang find themselves working for the evil law firm. Fred is proving successful in the science department until a mysterious sarcophagus arrives and infects her. While the writers dangled potential last minute solutions in front of us, they forced us to watch a beloved character suffer a long, painful death while her heroes, Angel and Spike, were forced to make a decision to let her die. She’s then reborn as Illyria, a god from before time, who is a fascinating character in her own right. Illyria was a deity out of time and out of place. No longer a mighty ruler she’s in a world that has long since forgotten her and her gargantuan powers vastly reduced and trapped in the body that used to belong to Fred. Unable to completely control her abilities, but still the most powerful entity in the world, she’s a risk to herself and the global population. Although she remained at Wolfram and Hart, her loyalties were always in question. Memorable Quote: “Can I say somethin’ about destiny? Screw destiny! If this evil thing comes, we’ll fight it and we’ll keep fightin’ it until we whup it. ‘Cause destiny is just another word for inevitable, and nothing’s inevitable as long as you stand up, look it in the eye, and say, “You’re evitable!”” Played by Sarah Michelle Gellar There’s no doubt that Buffy ‘Vampire Slayer’ Summers is Joss Whedon’s most famous character, and based on that achievement many may assume that that’s enough to earn here the top spot on the list. As cool as Buffy is, she was never as well developed as some other characters on that, or other, Whedon shows and can sometimes get on ones nerves. The character was conceived by Whedon when he noted that the poor blonde girl featured at the beginning of every horror winds up getting killed without being able to fight back. He wanted to see a blonde girl who turns the tables on the monster and puts the hurt on them. The Slayer Mythos dictates that into every generation will be born a Slayer, a girl imbued with supernatural abilities who is tasked with fighting back the hordes. Each is fated to die a violent death to make way for the next. Buffy, having not been identified as a potential Slayer early in life, only came into her powers late in her teenage life as very much the Californian teen, making her quite a handful for her Watchers. Over time she came to understand and accept her responsibility. Buffy’s journey as seen on television saw her try to reconcile her destiny with a normal life, form and break friendships, delve deeper into the underworld of Sunnydale, battle personal and global catastrophes and lose loved ones. Being the protagonist of a long running genre show means that her story gets taken to the extremes meaning that it can be hard to take her seriously at times. Although grounded by events such as her mother’s sudden death, the fact that Buffy died twice and came back stretches things a bit. Memorable Quote: “I’m cookie dough. I’m not done baking. I’m not finished becoming who ever the hell it is I’m gonna turn out to be. I make it through this, and the next thing, and the next thing, and maybe one day, I turn around and realize I’m ready. I’m cookies. And then, you know, if I want someone to eat m- or enjoy warm, delicious, cookie me, then that’s fine. That’ll be then. When I’m done.” 6. Wash Played by Alan Tudyk. Joss Whedon has established a core group of character types that feature across his shows, and one of those is the character who is the heart of the group. Buffy had Xander, Angel had Fred, The Dollhouse had Topher, the Serenity crew had Kaylee and the Serenity crew…also had Wash, who barely managed to squeeze Kaylee off this list (I’m sorry! I didn’t want to choose!). Hoban ‘Wash’ Washburne was born on a planet so thick with pollution that he never saw the stars. Wanting to spend everyday among the stars he trained to become a pilot and although he was offered the controls of many more reputable ships his spirit of adventure saw him on board the Serenity. On board the Serenity he met his future wife, second in command Zoe who fought with Mal in the wars and provides a strange juxtaposition to the laid back, goofy Wash. You’re saying the lines now. Wash is possibly the most laid back person in the ‘verse. He often manages to diffuse tense situations with his light-hearted humour, and even when in a perilous situation he still looks as though he’s having fun. He has a childish spirit, filling quiet time on the bridge playing with plastic dinosaurs. He’s a peaceful character who avoids confrontation, except when it comes to his wife Zoe, over whom he will even threaten Mal whom he shows great respect. Memorable Quote: “I am a leaf on the wind.” 5. Rupert Giles Played by Anthony Stewart Head. Rupert Giles began life as the most British of stereotypes. Almost a fuddy-duddy, he was tasked with training and preparing Buffy for her life as a Slayer. The drastic clash of cultures and personalities became one of the shows earliest sources of comedy, and threw into sharp contrast how different Buffy is from the life that’s been prescribed to her. Giles later showed a very different set of stripes when his past as a rebellious youth who dabbled in dark magics came back to haunt him. Showing that he’s more than a tweed suit but a complex personality who does the right thing not out of obligation but because he’s genuinely on the side of good, and he’s more than capable of throwing a punch when needed. What really cements Giles in viewers hearts is his role as a teacher and mentor. Like Gandalf, Dumbledore, Obi-Wan and other great mentors of geekery he became a fan favourite because he represented the role model that many wished we had in our own lives (also, they’re all British). He’s caring, he’s firm, he’s wise and he’s also flawed. The more we saw into Giles’ personal life in later seasons the more interesting he became. Scenes where Xander finds a television in his apartment, and the Scoobies find him performing ‘Behind Blue Eyes’ at an open mic night hinted at layers that the controlled facade of the Watcher could never show on the surface. Memorable Quote: “Yes. It’s terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true. The bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies and… everybody lives happily ever after.” 4. Spike Played by James Marsters. Spike is the perfect example of a character who isn’t designed to fit a need within the show or marketing, but instead arrived almost incidentally and grew and developed in a very natural fashion. Spike the vampire arrived in the Buffy universe early in the second series with his demented girlfriend Drusilla to declare themselves as the new tough guys in town. Having already killed two slayers, Spike was cocky, stylish, impulsive and extremely deadly. He taunted and pursued Buffy up until Buffy had a showdown with him mid-season that saw Spike killed. Or so it was intended. The writers were having such a good time writing Spike, James Marsters was so completely nailing the part and the audience loved him, so Spike was simply smashed to a pulp and confined to a wheelchair while Angelus and Drusilla tear shit up. Spike developed through the rest of the season to show that he’s also subject to bouts of jealousy and is more than happy to betrayal his colleagues when their attempts at the apocalypse don’t suit him. Spike returned in subsequent years, often driven by love. The characters defining quality was now his romantic spirit, and he was given a suitable backstory. William the Bloody was a gentle poet who earned his nickname because of his “bloody awful” poetry, which he would unsuccessfully use to woo women. Whilst nursing a broken heart he was approached by the vampire Drusilla who could see the romance in his heart. Turning him into a vampire the name ‘William the Bloody’ took on a different meaning, eventually taking the name ‘Spike’ after impaling people on railway spikes, and changing his image to reflect a working class attitude. After meeting Buffy and Angel, Spike started on the fight for good. At first it was not a matter of free will but due to a behaviour modification chip implanted by a military operation. Later he faced a series of trials in order to earn his soul. Sacrificing himself during the Slayer’s final battle in the Hellmouth he was returned to Earth (initially as a ghost) in L.A. to fight alongside Angel. Spike went from a disposable villain to one of the most complex and realistic characters in the Buffyverse. Being a monster with a romantic heart made him one of the more interesting characters in the series and he became the first of many vampire sex symbols in modern culture. Memorable Quote: “I may be love’s bitch, but at least I’m man enough to admit it.” 3. Billy aka Dr. Horrible Played by Neil Patrick Harris Possibly the least known on the list, but once you’ve seen Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along-Blog you aren’t likely to forget this charming and damaged wannabe supervillian. Not much is said about Billy’s background on the three-part series, but the comic spin-off has filled in the blanks. As a child Billy was bullied by bigger, stronger and stupid jocks because he enjoyed reading and science. Upon seeing a mad scientist defeat the city’s favourite superhero the young child felt that he had found his path. As an adult Billy created the persona of Dr. Horrible, a science based super-villain who seeks to prove his superiority to the world by defeating hero Captain Hammer and being accepted into the Evil League of Evil. The story of how Dr. Horrible tries to earn his way onto the ELE only plays out secondary to another more heartfelt story. While a threat to bank vaults in his guise of Dr. Horrible, poor Billy can barely manage the courage to talk to his crush, Penny. Instead he’s left pining from the other side of the laundromat. Fate eventually lends a hand by throwing the two together – unfortunately it’s just when Capt. Hammer is foiling Dr. Horrible’s attempts to steal an armoured van. Ironically Penny winds up catching the eye of Capt. Hammer and begins dating him while Billy finally breaks the ice and the two become friends. When Hammer finds out that he’s stolen Dr. Horrible’s crush he taunts Billy, driving him to plot Capt. Hammer’s murder to earn his way into the ELE and work alongside the notorious Bad Horse. Dr. Horrible is a character of many parts. On his own he represents the put-upon nerd that so many of Joss Whedon’s base audience may feel like from time to time. From the way he gets pushed around by a hero, gets ignored by the cool group and can’t manage to introduce himself to the girl next door there’s plenty to make Billy feel familiar. While the arc the character follows may seem more extreme, the kind of revenge fantasies he begins indulging are also very much a human response, especially as the jock character keeps pushing him. Billy ultimately isolates himself from his friends and finds way to justify his actions, when in reality he’s been left angry and lonely by a world that he can’t accept just as much as they can’t accept him. This scene – chills. Like many of Joss Whedon’s characters part of the genius is in the casting. Neil Patrick Harris plays against his current popular role as the narcissistic ladies man to portray a shy and geeky type. His comedic timing and physical performance remain intact and his vocal skills are on top form – NPH plays a large part in making this a memorable role. Memorable Quote: “I cannot believe my eyes/How the world’s filled with filth and lies/But it’s plain to see/Evil inside of me is on the rise.” 2. Willow Rosenberg Played by Allyson Hannigan. Out of all the cast members on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, few could deny that Willow was the one most fans felt attached to. Beginning as the underdog of Sunnydale High School while even Xander had a goofy charm, the scene where Buffy first meets Willow (along with Cordelia) sets her up as one of the most sympathetic characters on the show, and Buffy is set up to be a kindly person by being kind to Willow. Throughout the series the most interesting character developments don’t involve the titular Slayer but the sidekick who grows and develops much more naturally, and reflects her growth through actions and not monologues. Willow begins life in the series as almost a stereotypical nerd. She stammers, lacks confidence and is a wiz at computers. As time progresses and she finds herself researching the occult she starts to build a new skill set in witchcraft that sees her confidence begin to develop. While originally enamored with Xander she finds her first real love with Oz, the guitarist for a rock band. The deathly stoic rocker (also werewolf) may not have seemed like the perfect coupling for Willow, but it gave rise to more opportunities for the new born wiccan to show other facets of her personality. Moving into the college years Willow forms a relationship with Tara, with whom Willow becomes a fully fledged witch. This relationship becomes the driving force behind Willow’s development and eventual downturn into evil when anger over Tara’s death causes Willow to lose control and wreak havoc. During the final episodes of the series Willow, still recovering from her brief period as a dark witch, plays a role in channeling the positive power of the Slayer through to the Potentials. In many ways the development of the character of Willow formed the backbone to the show. Beginning as mostly a stereotypical character in the first season, she started to express herself with more confidence in the second season before experimenting with new ideas in the third. During the fourth and fifth seasons Willow represents the maturing aspects of the show, dealing with adult responsibilities and sexual relationships before tackling addiction, depression and loss in the sixth. In the final season she came to represent redemption, completing the writing cycle for the show and for the character. Brought to life by Alysson Hannigan, Willow is one of the three characters who stayed central to Buffy the Vampire Slayer over the seven seasons, and developed a strong following. Seen as a positive role model for young girls, smart girls, lesbians, wiccans and more, Willow has resonated stronger with the audience than any other character in the show. Memorable Quote: “The other night, y’know being captured and all, facing off with Faith… Things just – kinda got clear. I mean, you’ve been fighting evil here for three years and I’ve helped some. And now we’re supposed to decide what we want to do with our lives. And I just realized that’s what I want to do. Fight evil, help people. I mean, I-I think it’s worth doing. And I don’t think you do it because you have to. It’s a good fight, Buffy, and I want in.” 1. Capt. Mal Reynolds Played by Nathan Fillion. Appearing in only 11 television episodes, a movie and a smattering of comics, the Captain of Firefly class ship ‘Serenity’ is the best character created and written by Joss Whedon. Perhaps it’s because of his short time with us that prevented the character from over-staying his welcome, but more likely he’s that it’s that perfect combination of writing, acting, design and personality that made something awesome. Originally written for Nicholas ‘Xander’ Brendon, but his Buffy schedule prevented it. Nathan Fillion campaigned heavily for the part, phoning in on a daily basis, leading to his casting in his first lead. He could’ve been genetically engineered for the part it’s such a perfect marriage of performer and part. Garbed in a brown duster and sporting a steampunk style six-shooter, he’s an immensely cool character. Mal is very much a soldier. Having fought in the Unification War against the Alliance of Planets on the side of the rebellion, Reynolds was a fervent believer in the rebel’s cause. His spirit is crushed when the Browncoat’s surrender after the heavy losses of their forces. Along with his former second in command Zoe he purchases the run down ship that he names Serenity and sets out to undermine the Alliance rule by working as a smuggler. After the war Mal loses his faith in God, but retains a faith in humankind to do the right thing. During flashbacks to the war at the beginning of the series Mal is seen as a larger than life, fun-loving character and like his faith he seems to have lost this trait following the war. While working as a smuggler Mal is often arrogant and headstrong, more than once pulling his gun first. The characters that he feels closest to, like Inara, he often winds up driving away as his stubbornness gets the better of him. Although arrogant, violent and downright mean Mal Reynold’s is highly respected by his crew and the viewers. He lives in a dirty world but he sticks by a strong set of morals. He protects those who can’t fight for themselves, doesn’t leave any man behind and can’t help but form a close bond with his crew. In interviews Fillion has suggested that each member of his crew represents a part of the character that has been lost, hinting at depths and backstory that the terribly short life of Firefly could’ve gone into. Cool, funny, unpredictable, exciting and downright interesting to watch, Mal Reynold’s is Joss Whedon’s masterpiece. Memorable Quote: “The next time you decide to stab me in the back, have the guts to do it to my face. “ Postscript Edit So in the number of comments here and on Whedonesque (thanks for the feedback!) it seems that there’s one particular omission that has gotten people bothered – Wesley. He was a very well written character, particular his interactions with Faith and the sequence when he kidnaps Connor and the performance by Alexis Denisof is among the best in both Buffy and Angel, especially as he plays such different aspects of the character. So why not make the list? Inconsistency. Wesley had some brilliantly written moments, but they always felt like moments and he became little more than a placeholder in between. Sometimes it felt as though the writers didn’t know what to do with him, especially as during Season 5 when he felt like he was just there to be sympathetic by having shitty things happen to him. During season 4 of Angel he went through a very dark character arc, but it happened when pretty much everyone else in the extended universe was going through a dark patch and consequently never had the same impact. Episodes when Wesley gets the spotlight, such as when he has to pass for Angel, stand out as some of the best of the series, but they’re to few and far between for this list. Remember that this is just one viewpoint, and the awesomeness of the Whedonverse is that it is so jammed pack with brilliant characters that two people could have dramatically different and well justified lists. Drop into the comments below to share your Top 10 Whedon characters! Category : Channel Geek, List ALL the Things! Tags : joss whedon, television, top 10 ← The Sick, the Strange and the Awful – Paint Your Wagon Top 10 Replacements for David Slade as Daredevil Director → 124 thoughts on “Top 10 Joss Whedon Characters” drewpan on 07/31/2012 at 5:34 pm said: I would’ve liked to have seen Kaylee make the list. I’m not sure why… but I always liked her character a lot and she definitely gave a lot of heart to that show. Also, I know everyone really loves Spike and all, but Angel really should be higher on that list because he fully embodies the spirit of the self-sacrificing hero. I know that sounds boring and all, but sometimes the whole idea of giving hope to the hopeless really means a lot to people, and the world in general. gfunk101 on 07/31/2012 at 5:40 pm said: Trust me, I wanted to include Kaylee! She’s a great character and Jewel Staite plays her perfectly but she lacks the character development that other people on the list had (except for Jayne, but he cracks me up). As to Spike vs Angel, we got to see Spike go through more changes throughout the show, and the fact that he was so successful without being planned makes him more interesting. Also – Spike was the one who volunteered to get his soul back! That is true… but didn’t he do that for a girl? Angel’s sacrificed love many a time for the greater good. The greater good, I tell you! gfunk101 on 08/01/2012 at 10:43 am said: I can’t think of a better reason to do it – and Angel had his soul forced on him! LB on 08/02/2012 at 10:44 pm said: Angel is actually another example of a successful unplanned character. He was only supposed to be on the show for an episode or two, but the writers liked him, DB, and the chemistry between DB and SMG so much, they expanded the character. Angel wasn’t supposed to come back after season 2 either, but he ended up getting a spin-off. As for Spike vs Angel, well, it’s definitely easier to like Spike. Spike was ‘funny’ and ‘cool’ and a ‘badass’ and the writers almost always gave him an easy out when he did something wrong. Angel never had things easy. He’s also way more complex than people give him credit for. It’s sad that he’s such an underrated, and often times downright hated, character. BTW, Angel might not have ‘volunteered’ to get his soul back, but he’s fought long and hard to keep it. It’s was one of the main reasons he sacrificed his relationship with Buffy. Anakalian Whims on 08/08/2012 at 1:16 am said: Spike is my all time favorite Buffy/Angel character. He’s simply brilliantly written and brilliantly played. The fact that he can go through so much, be put through so many scenarios, and still be believable is a testament to both the character and the actor. Jamie Z. on 08/01/2012 at 12:56 am said: Great list! I would have had Willow more towards the bottom but it is very difficult to choose just 10 of the best characters ever. Giles FTW Willow was the show for me. Paul C. on 08/01/2012 at 10:12 am said: couldn’t agree more with #1 Diana on 08/01/2012 at 9:31 pm said: We would have the following listin order: 3. Xander 6. Faith 8. Wesley Wyndham Price 9. Cordelia Chase 10. Ethan Rayne They all are from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Pesky J. Nixon on 08/02/2012 at 9:42 am said: Wouldn’t that make you a Buffy fangirl, not a Joss fangirl? Personally I was surprised Woody from Toy Story didn’t make the list. I get why Buffy makes the top of the list for so many people, but frankly, she is my least favorite Joss character of all time. Love the show, hate the lead. It’s not even a Sarah Michelle Gellar issue, as I was raised on the original movie before I got hooked on the show, I just don’t like Buffy Summers. She needs to exist to have a show, obviously, but the Angel spin off made was welcomed by my household, and there was actual cheering involved when Spike joined the cast. Tippi on 08/08/2012 at 1:25 am said: I love Buffy and I think SMG did a fantastic job with the role, but the Angel spin-off really highlighted how angry and humorless she can be. Every time she showed up in L.A. she was rude to Cordy and talked down to Angel, and you generally couldn’t wait for her to leave. I was surprised they would depict her in such a negative light but I guess they were trying to go in a very different direction for the new show. I agree, most of her surliness got advertised on Angel. That wasn’t why I disliked her, though, I found her whiny and exceptionally annoying. As for SMG, I can’t stand watching her throw a punch; it kills me inside every time. I’m surprised no one corrected her floppy wrists. Other than that, I thought she did a fine job with the role. Niall on 08/01/2012 at 9:34 pm said: Im happy with that list. All these characters were/are great ones and brought something brilliant to the series and the actor brought something great to the character also. Emmett on 08/01/2012 at 9:37 pm said: Wash ahead of Angel and Buffy? And NO RIVER TAM? Fail. theinvisiblereviewer on 09/03/2014 at 9:46 pm said: No Simon Tam! Simon was much more developed than River who spent most of the time incoherent to the viewer. It was SImon’s devotion to her than made her interesting. Simon is complex, arrogant in some ways, humble in others (lying about how he got River out to the crew, ignoring his role in getting in and out of a top secret facility, we began to see this tactical side in Ariel). He is completely dedicated to his sister, willing to sacrifice everything he loves and his life for her. Simon Tam is a BIG DAMN HERO. (and he gets the girl in the end, yay!) K C (@Kcat10) on 08/01/2012 at 10:08 pm said: Yes, you got it exactly right: Captain Mal Reynolds is indeed Joss Whedon’s masterpiece. Just as he is Nathan Fillion’s masterpiece. Mal is truly the greatest hero of them all. Katie Hart (@waterfallbooks) on 08/01/2012 at 10:35 pm said: Um, Angel WAS part of the Buffy credits, on both season 2 and 3. He was only a reoccurring character on season 1. gfunk101 on 08/02/2012 at 7:21 am said: Hence why we said “initially not part of the credits”. btvsfan96 on 08/02/2012 at 1:16 pm said: You never said ‘initially’. Exact quote, “Although not making the opening credits in Buffy the Vampire slayer, Angel did become one of the most important characters in the series…..etc” That was an error that was picked up on and corrected shortly after publication. You must’ve read it before then. wanderernotlost on 08/02/2012 at 10:00 pm said: It still doesn’t say “initially,” unless there is somehow another URL to the updated version… earupert on 08/01/2012 at 11:06 pm said: Couldn’t decide if #1 was going to be Captain Mal Reynolds or Topher Brink…Mal was the better choice (seriously, could there ever be a character better than him? no.), but I’m disappointed that Topher is missing from the list — no one from Dollhouse is listed, actually! Also I’m missing Wesley (although I could go on forever…also I’m missing River, also I’m missing the Shepherd, also I’m missing Anya…oh no, what about Anya?!), although I’m not sure who I would take off the list…probably we need a top 40. Jack Dow on 08/02/2012 at 12:13 am said: I really can’t believe you excluded Wesley Wyndham Price… I had him pegged for number one, and still do, but to be omitted completely? i think you just forgot… Angelus5150 on 08/02/2012 at 12:18 am said: Replace Fred with Wesley (and move him up) and you have a list here. Tommi on 08/02/2012 at 12:21 am said: No Wesley? This list makes me sad, even Whedon himself said that he loves all his characters, but if he has to choose one, it would be Wesley, I can’t agree more. As a character in 6 years he changed and goes through way more than any other. I guess I just find interesting character going though interesting things more important than just having a cool character for half season (mal would be on my list too though.. :D) Billy on 08/02/2012 at 1:01 am said: Adele DeWitt or Topher would have been great additions. Sorry you neglected Dollhouse. gray57 on 08/02/2012 at 1:35 am said: Wonerful list, agree with everything EXCEPT I would argue that Wesley had perhaps the most intriging and dramatic character arc in the Jossverse – from comic relief to hard ass to angstridden tragic hero he embodied it all. electricspacegirl (@electrcspacegrl) on 08/02/2012 at 2:57 am said: No Wesley? Talk about character development. I think he and Willow have the most dramatic characters arcs in the Whedonverse. Really? I love River and all but I wouldn’t necessary call her character arc dramatic she was a broken ass kicking genius –> she’s a quirky ass kicking genius. Your points about Weley are fully valid though. Reblogged this on Anakalian Whims and commented: Blogger after my own heart, clearly… Rebecca on 08/02/2012 at 3:52 am said: I’m actually in a state of shock that Wesley didn’t make the list. His transformation as a character was incredible and very well played. timetravellingbunny on 08/02/2012 at 3:56 am said: “As cool as Buffy is, she was never as well developed as some other characters on that, or other, Whedon shows and can sometimes get on ones nerves.” Wait, what? Buffy is one of the most developed and most complex characters Whedon has created. This text makes me doubt that you’ve actually watched the entire show. And she’s most certainly more developed than the majority of Firefly characters, including Mal and Wash. (Who could’ve been more developed if the show had gone on. But it didn’t.) As for “getting on one’s nerves”, that’s a personal preference. Many of those other characters I also getting on people’s nerves. You’d be hard pressed to find a character that doesn’t get on anyone’s nerves. Buffy does get on my nerves sometimes in the sense that she’s flawed and therefore interesting… and the same goes for Spike, Angel, Willow, Xander, Faith, etc. – they all get on your nerves sometimes, because they’re flawed and feel like real people who do stupid things sometimes. But, personally, Buffy is the character I relate to the most and can always see where she’s coming from, and the character I love the most (or one of the two characters I love the most). As noted above, Angel WAS in the opening credits in seasons 2 and 3. “After meeting Buffy and Angel, Spike started on the fight for good.” Err, not really. After meeting Buffy, Spike tried to kill her repeatedly, and later allied with her to get Drusilla back. But you’re right that Buffy eventually had the crucial influence on Spike to turn to the side of good. But Angel? That part of the sentence is a mystery to me. It would be more accurate to say, “After meeting Drusilla and Angel,. Spike started on the fight for evil.” “Out of all the cast members on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, few could deny that Willow was the one most fans felt attached to.” Actually, many can deny it. Including me. I know many more fans who are attached to Buffy and/or Spike, and about as many who are attached to Faith or Angel or Xander. “Throughout the series the most interesting character developments don’t involve the titular Slayer but the sidekick who grows and develops much more naturally, and reflects her growth through actions and not monologues.” Your mileage may vary. Willow’s development and arc is very interesting, but so is Buffy’s (and to me personally, it’s more interesting) – and if anything, it’s more natural, not involving a radical shift in sexual orientation. I don’t know what the monologue part is about. if you’re referring to Buffy, her changes were shown through action, always. She’s not a woman of words, but action. “During the fourth and fifth seasons Willow represents the maturing aspects of the show, dealing with adult responsibilities and sexual relationships before tackling addiction, depression and loss in the sixth.” Uh, depression was Buffy’s storyline, not Willow’s. As for tackling loss – it’s not like Buffy as a character dealt with it, is it? Like, um, was there this storyline in season 5, and a certain episode called “The Body”…? “Willow has resonated stronger with the audience than any other character in the show.” Debatable. Why do you keep writing things like “um” and “er”? It makes you sound slow-witted. balover214 on 08/02/2012 at 8:32 am said: I think she was going for sarcasm… I actually got that, thanks. It doesn’t stop it from making her sound dim. That’s the only thing you have to comment on? It really makes you seem slow-witted, not to mention trollish. ally on 08/02/2012 at 10:48 pm said: If you’re going to get god damn list!! upset make your own Jens on 08/02/2012 at 4:24 am said: I miss Echo in that list. 😦 dharmakirti on 08/02/2012 at 4:27 am said: I like the list, but for me, I would remove Wash (sorry) and add Adelle DeWitt (but she would be further up the scale). I think she’s one of the most complicated and fully realized characers Mr. Whedon has created. And then there’s Olivia Williams performance as Adelle DeWitt. She should’ve won and Emmy for it. Edea Baldwin on 08/02/2012 at 4:29 am said: What, no River Tamm? She’s incredibly complex and fascinating and unpredictable. Rachael on 08/02/2012 at 4:31 am said: Surely Jayne’s memorable quote should be “I’ll be in my bunk” Haha! Also a classic! Brian Rewis on 08/02/2012 at 4:34 am said: What about Darla? She effing staked herself and gave birth at the same time! Read the effing criteria. Beth F. on 08/02/2012 at 4:50 am said: Where’s Xander? The one character Joss based on himself and he didn’t even make the list. And Fred made the list? She’s the single most annoying character ever other than Dawn! Xander was in the first draft – he would’ve been #11. I agree with you here! Xander was definitely one of the most changed characters by the end of the show. Besides the fact that he was based on Joss, he grew and became a solid, go-to guy in Buffyverse. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprise if people said he carried a lot of the final season. While Buffy was off whining everyone to death (and I love Buffy, don’t get me wrong…but she did have some major drama moments near the end), Xander kept the Potentials together. He became a mentor of sorts, and was always the rock behind Buffy. Plus, Nicholas Brendan did a fantastic job in that role! Oh, and Dawn was definitely the WORST EVER!!! I hated that entire story arc!!! Shawna Rudersmith on 08/02/2012 at 4:51 am said: title under Alan Tudyk* You’re gorram right I am. Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!!! What about YoSaffBridge? I know she wasn’t a recurring character but IDK if he ever made a better villain! YoSaffBridge didn’t fit the criteria for the list (being in the opening credits) BUT I am looking at doing a Top 10 Joss Whedon villains list. Lorien Hanson on 08/02/2012 at 4:59 am said: I loved your list! The only one I would’ve loved to have seen on there Is Wesley Wyndham Price. I know he wasn’t listed in credits, but to my mind, his story arc was simply amazing and gut wrenching. When you compare his humble, bumbling and arrogant beginnings to the twisted, bitter and hopefully redemptive man he became before he died, there is no other character, in my mind that Joss and company ever wrote better. He was in the Angel credits, so he met the criteria. I may have to address this in the article… deborah a voss on 08/02/2012 at 5:12 am said: more Serenity please Megan on 08/02/2012 at 5:15 am said: Not cool using Wash’s last words as his memorable quote. He has so many gems, and you chose that? I say, not cool. Ashleigh Brady on 08/02/2012 at 5:22 am said: While I understand why you did what you did to make your list manageable, I still would have liked to see Faith up there.. and Topher.. Topher Brink is one of my ALL TIME favorite Joss Characters. I’m not 100% sure why, but he just got to me. Gigi on 08/02/2012 at 5:29 am said: Not agreeing with Fred …but hey…..HEY!! Where is Drusilla, Kaylee, Faith ……….XANDER??? Drusilla and Faith didn’t fit the criteria. Kaylee…yeah, she’s awesome. Have to agree with Capt Reynolds though……#1, agreed. Lisa on 08/02/2012 at 5:51 am said: That list was basically perfection. Mal was one of the best, most complex characters on television ever, not just in the Whedonverse. I am very glad NF made himself a pest and got the part, because outside of 1980 Harrison Ford I can’t imagine anyone else playing our Captain. Kothlim on 08/02/2012 at 5:54 am said: Wait, Buffy isnt original. There was a movie about Buffy the Vampire Slayer before the show wasnt there? 80’s flick I believe. ChezaOtsr on 08/02/2012 at 9:16 am said: The film was also written by Joss Whedon. singleinacollegetown on 08/02/2012 at 6:01 am said: Reblogged this on singleinacollegetown and commented: Ok I highly approve of this list (nerd alert!), but soon would have chosen different quotes, because you know, I know them by heart! Andy on 08/02/2012 at 6:07 am said: Echo? No Echo? Where did Doll House go in this list??? paperballpotluck on 08/02/2012 at 6:13 am said: I would have loved to include kaylee as well!! And Topher from Dollhouse… I’m sad that no one from Dollhouse made the cut especially Topher Brink. Three-nineteen on 08/02/2012 at 6:19 am said: Leaving off Wesley Wyndham-Pryce is an, um, interesting choice. His character arc is one of the best I’ve seen in television, not just in the Whedonverse. When we first see him, he’s a priggish, by-the-book Watcher for Buffy. After making a huge mistake when he tries to abduct Faith, he realizes the error of his ways, joins forces with Buffy (ineffectively) and gets fired. He then moves over to Angel, becoming the comic relief. Over 2 1/2 seasons, he matures into a trusted leader before he makes the well-intentioned but horrible choice to take Connor away from Angel. Shunned by his former friends and consumed by self-loathing, he still does everything he can to help them and LA against various Big Bads until the “reboot” for season 5. There he finally wins Fred’s affections, even shooting his own father to save her, only to have to watch her die in front of his eyes. He spends the rest of the series looking out for the god that killed Fred and took over her body, his heart breaking every time he looks at her, until he finally is mortally wounded in the series finale. There, he accepts Illyria’s suggestion “should I lie to you now?” and dies looking at the face of his dead love. Of course, this leaves out numerous other nuances and character notes I don’t have time to list (sorry, Lilah!) I’m not sure what else Wesley needed to do to get your attention. Ciara on 08/02/2012 at 6:25 am said: Where the hell is RIVER TAM?!! Cindy on 08/02/2012 at 6:30 am said: More Firefly/Serenity, less BTVS -without question!!! Melinda on 08/02/2012 at 6:32 am said: I thought Shepherd was probably the most intriguing character. We never really did find out about his story and I would love a series on that! There is a comic called ‘The Shepherd’s Tale’ that reveals the intended back story. It’s well worth the read, even if it does kill the mystique a little. Taylor Brogan (@thbrogan) on 08/02/2012 at 6:46 am said: I find your ranking of Buffyverse characters extremely problematic, although I realize that there is a great divide within Whedonverse fandom when it comes to certain characters (namely Willow and Buffy). My list, ranked according to the overall complexity and growth of the characters: 1. Wesley Wyndam-Pryce 4. Angel / Angelus 7. Simon Tam 8. Fred Burkle / Illyria 9. Topher Brink 10. Billy / Dr. Horrible Snowspell on 08/02/2012 at 6:46 am said: I would have liked to see Kaylee. I love that she is the quintescential sweet and innocent girl but has the juxtaposition of being the mechanic (a more masculine occupation) and being open and unashamed of her sexuality. This open and fee spirit mixes wonderfully with her wholesomeness and sunny disposition to make someone that is heartwarming and fun to watch. Aimee on 08/02/2012 at 6:50 am said: My list would be incredibly different (main differences: Willow would be number 1 and it would include Kaylee, Topher, and Anya), but this was still really great and interesting to read. Thanks! That’s what’s great about the Whedonverse – there’s enough great characters for everyone to have a different list! d3bbers on 08/02/2012 at 7:09 am said: For sure, Anya and River should be on this list. Especially River! My top 3 would be: 3. River 1. Mal River I went back and forth over for a while – ultimately I just didn’t get to see enough of her. Damn you Fox! Tav-El on 08/02/2012 at 7:50 am said: I liked this article but could you please google the word “comma” and try again? Thanks. Being a member of the grammar police must earn you so much respect. Fin Alyn on 08/02/2012 at 8:05 am said: My favorite part of the list is the incredible amount of people who can’t even read the criteria. They are so busy being “upset” about why their particular favorite isn’t on the list that they can’t even read how the list was constructed. It is a bit frustrating, but we’re all guilty of skimming lists at some point I guess. If you’re going to comment you really should read the whole thing. slamadams on 08/02/2012 at 8:25 am said: All great characters in their own right. I was always very partial though to Wesley from Buffy/Angel. Loved his character arc. Very well timed and balanced from doofus, to capable hunter, to brooding hero. Jbird_06410 on 08/02/2012 at 8:58 am said: Zoe was awesome! I would replace Fred with Zoe. I agree with the top two. Logan on 08/02/2012 at 8:58 am said: And now I’m sad all over again at the loss of Firefly. Oh, to have more than one season to re-watch! Meredith Robbins on 08/02/2012 at 9:47 am said: Love your list and basically agree with your reasoning. Miss kaylee but only so much room! Personally Xander annoyed the hell out of me and I found Angel a little weak til he moved shows. Did someone say that Willow didn’t suffer from depression?? Spike – always entertaining. But Cpt Mal, #1 for sure. Interesting to wonder how the list would have changed if Fox hadn’t dumped Firefly. Damn I miss that show! Thanks for an interesting, well thought out list! Yes, I pointed out the fact that Willow didn’t suffer from depression – Buffy did, contrary to what is written in this article. Valerie on 08/02/2012 at 10:07 am said: Spike, Anya, Fred, Wesley, Topher and everyone on the wonderful ship Serenity (Mal, Wash, Kaylee and Jayne in particular) will forever be in my heart as the best of the Whedonverse. I also want to give special props, although he very much does not qualify by these terms, to Loki as he was AMAZING in the Avengers. Have to say as well that I appreciate recognizing Buffy’s, um, ability to get on ones nerves. I think sometimes I am the only one that sees that. I acknowledge her importance however so don’t think I am being a hater, as I very much am not. She just would never be one of my favorites because of that very issue. Fantastic list though. Thanks for sharing! Think I will go restart Firefly now… Dk on 08/02/2012 at 10:27 am said: I would have chosen a different line for Billy/Dr H. Like “what a crazy random happenstance” or something. I also would have liked to see someone from Dollhouse-probably Topher. And Anya did become one of my favorites….man this is hard!! Someone above also asked about Buffy not being original because there was a movie. I didn’t see it addressed yet, but that movie with Kristy Swamson was written by Joss. lynney on 08/02/2012 at 11:18 am said: Nice list, really enjoyable! My list based on character development and overall awesomeness: (Whedon originals, in opening credits) 10. Capt. Mal Reynolds 8. Winifred Burkle 3. Cordelia Chase (Would have been number 1 if it wasn’t for what was done to her character in season 4 of Angel) Honorable mentions: Adelle Dewitt, River Tam As much as the fangirl in me loves me some William the Bloody, Wesley is the best written character in the Whedonverse. In a recurring character list Darla would be number 1, hands down. Anthony DCzar on 08/02/2012 at 12:09 pm said: Perhaps it should have been TOP 20; Xander Harris represented the everyman. Inara and Book had great presence and were both really well written. You’re missing ex-vengeance demons and werewolf ex-boyfriends. Even the Badger, Niska and Saffron as well as other bad guys were so memorable in their small roles – they deserve props. It is to the credit of Whedon and his crew that everyone was used well…even Tara was more interesting than most characters on other series’. And I realize some weren’t in opening credits, but that’s way to narrow a list for this verse. Just sayin’. Taylor Brogan (@thbrogan) on 08/02/2012 at 1:18 pm said: I still think you’re miss the point with Wesley, but it’s your own opinion. missing, doh! aerialla on 08/02/2012 at 2:45 pm said: The two biggest missing pieces are Cordelia and Wesley. Cordelia’s arch spanned not only Buffy, but Angel. She went from bitchy mean girl to an angel. Take away season 4 (which was horrible) and you have one of the biggest character changes in the Whedonverse. Angel would not have lasted without her, he needed her and in the end she meant more to him than Buffy because she gave him the strength he needed to finish his mission. Wesley’s arch was just as poignant because he is the one main human character that is incredibly flawed, but still always tries to do what was right. Unlike Xander, Wesley was more than capable of executing a plan on his own and had the smarts to go along with it. Xander was comic canon fodder. My list in a perfect Joss world. 1. Captain Mal 3. Cordelia 4. Wesley 5. Giles 9. Topher 10. Billy Philippa (@Xenaclone) on 08/02/2012 at 3:33 pm said: Re: Jayne Cobb. First of all, thank-you for putting him in the list! Secondly, the big, sexy lug did learn. He gets one of the best lines in the movie. “If you can’t do something smart, do something right”. apckrfan on 08/02/2012 at 5:49 pm said: The writer needs an editor. Holy smokes, some of the narrative was difficult to read. I almost gave up after thethe opening sentences “think” instead of thing – to the “wgen” and “it’s” instead of “its”. Yikes! I would replace Fred with River, as I never cared much for Fred and found her kind of a waste of space. Buffy would be #2, but overall, though, other than immense amount of typos, well done. Yeah, the time honoured technique of slapping my open palms against the keyboard does let me down from time to time. You’ll be happy to know that we’ve just recruited an editor to check for such errors. Draya on 08/02/2012 at 8:21 pm said: Um, hello? Are you forgetting a show? Echo could have filled the to ten all by herself! andichurch on 08/03/2012 at 2:28 am said: Not one character from Dollhouse? Uh, Paul Ballard and Echo are two amazing characters! PGC on 08/03/2012 at 6:16 am said: A list of best characters in the whedonverse without Wesley is simply invalid. There is no merit to that list whatsoever (and I am not the only one who has that opinion). I usually respect everyone´s opinion, but in this case you don´t just have a different point of view. You are actually blind. And your excuses for not including the best written and best acted character in a Joss Whedon show are ridiculous. His arc is extraordinary and there weren´ just a few moments here and there but I see you have an inclination for one dimensional bad boys ( btw, you really shouldn´t be talking about consistency) .Yes, Wesley was horribly written and underused in season 5, but that was the season they tried to impose us with Spike and his hyped relationship with Angel. A simply apology would have been enough instead of making petty excuses. When everyone thinks your are full of BS for excluding the ONE character that could not be excluded, you need to analize what is your criteria for a list of best characters, because it´s clearly not based on logic, quality oi writing, quality of acting or well, simple good common sense. Sorry if the post seems rude, but I am tired of seeing the character and actor being underappreciated. Luckily, a lot of readers agree that he´s earned a place on such list. When are you going to realize it? I am usually much more respectful and nice to other´s opinions. But what can I say? No one puts Wesley on a corner. amack on 09/16/2012 at 4:04 pm said: Wow. I never was a fan of Wesley, but if someone made a list and put him on top 10 i wouldn’t be trashing it and calling it “invalid” and the author blind. Just because someone has a different opinion than you do or interprets what they see differently does not mean it is any more or less valid than yours. I loved the list and I hope there is one for villains soon! There already is! Have a search around the site and it’ll ten up. turn Pingback: Geek Media Round-Up: August 2, 2012 – Grasping for the Wind sassysavyfilm on 08/03/2012 at 10:57 pm said: Kind of astonished to see that 7 out of 10 picks are male characters. Where the hell is River Tam? Or Echo? Inara? Cordelia Chase? Zoe? I think all of those ladies rate higher than Giles. Ariel on 08/04/2012 at 12:17 am said: Can we just make this the top 200 Whedon characters? Cuz dammit, what about Anya? And Alpha? And Topher? And Echo? And Cordie? And Nathan Fillion as the big bad guy who’s name I can’t remember? There are too many awesome characters to limit it to 10. This list is no good. It’s too short. Tawrens on 08/04/2012 at 1:56 am said: TA Giles and Mal and I agree they played Wesley for laughs but he was leading man material not comedy relief. Fred was a joke from begining to end, annoying and pointless. You should of put Kaylee on the list or Gina Torres Zoey would of been much better then Fred the characterc that destroyed Angel with her stupidity. Too many to narrow it down! I would like to see some characters outside the “big 3” (Buffy, Angel, Firefly) on there though. I’m a big fan of Marty in Cabin in the Woods 🙂 Pingback: GLG Weekly Round-Up « girls like giants eustressor on 08/06/2012 at 12:02 am said: Pleased to see Jayne make the list against such scans comments above fierce competition. Anyone who has seen the Jaynestown episode … Priceless. Special shout out to Tick creator and Whedonverse newcomer writer Ben Edlund for that one. cil_domney on 08/07/2012 at 1:30 am said: One complaint – I think you should have placed this line in your opening for your article and list – especially with your description of Mal Reynolds as Joss Whedon’s “masterpiece” – Your list, as any listing of this sort, reflects your perspective of the characters. It’s a very good list of “top characters” but it does come across with a bit too much of “my favorites” – “Remember that this is just one viewpoint, and the awesomeness of the Whedonverse is that it is so jammed pack with brilliant characters that two people could have dramatically different and well justified lists.” Cielle on 08/07/2012 at 7:32 am said: XANDER? TOPHER?? RIVER??? Pingback: WWW: August 8, 2012 \| Fantasy Literature: Fantasy and Science Fiction Book and Audiobook Reviews Pingback: Top 10 Joss Whedon Characters: Revisited « Taylor Brogan Kaywinnet on 08/10/2012 at 3:18 pm said: I like how this list came out. Although I must agree with another comment I saw. It was slightly disappointing not to see River Tam on the list. Although- there isn’t as much backstory or depth with her as with the other characters. Maybe if the Browncoat ‘verse was given enough time…that could’ve been different. Also, as an avid Kaylee fan, it was sad not to see her on the list, but Wash is an excellent choice. I’ve always had a soft spot for him. ❤ fantasticfalcon on 08/13/2012 at 1:22 am said: Someone erased my comment? Why? Somehow, my comments never make it to the comment section and I had something witty to say too… Oh well. My list is a tad bias, I’ll admit it, but I think it’s way better than the above list and reflects better character candidates. 1) Wesley 2) Willow 3) Angel 4) Mal 5) Fred 6) Wash 7) Lindsey McDonald 8) Spike 9) River Tam 10) Faith Now, I based these off of what I think of his top ten but also most dynamic characters (whether tv/movie/comic). Lindsey may not be so dynamic but he does have a lot of character development and he was a very interesting character for the show. I’ve had a look into why your comments haven’t come through to the main page and there’s no sign of any but the two submitted today. Email us if it happens again. Keep in mind that people who don’t ‘follow’ the blog have their comments moderated before they appear on the main page. tay on 08/13/2012 at 1:43 pm said: what, no shark demon? i disagree with this list. buffy is iconic, and should be #1. mal, at most is #2. faith should’ve made the list. 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__label__cc	0.55217	0.44783	Dragon’s Peak Knight’s Forum 0 December 16, 2019 The Village Square: December 16, 2019 1 December 2, 2019 The Village Square: December 2, 2019 0 November 18, 2019 The Village Square: November 18, 2019 Complete Listing (temporarily unavailable) Shelf Wear 0 Reviews January 6, 2021 8/10 Review: Illumination January 6, 2021 8/10 8/10 Review: Illumination September 17, 2020 6.5/10 6.5/10 Review: The Liberation of Rietburg August 19, 2020 9/10 9/10 Review: Pictures Name on the Box Top Designer Diaries Dragon TV Why Why Why Review: Airlines Europe By FarmerLenny on July 17, 2013 Reviews The golden age of commercial flying. Ten companies vie for control of the European airways, claiming licenses to fly between the metropolises of the continent. And behind it all is the ubiquitous Air Abacus, a company that flies everywhere and rewards its investors handsomely. You? It doesn’t matter much to you who comes out on top, as long as you have piles of shares in your portfolio. Enter the world of Airlines: Europe, the tense game of stock manipulation and route building in the skies. Airlines: Europe is a route-building and stocks game for two to five players. Players invest in and expand various airline companies on the board and collect stocks in those airlines to receive points during the three scoring rounds. The player with the most points at the end of the game is the winner. At the start of the game, each player receives a hand of eight random shares of stock, choosing two that will be played face up in the player’s portfolio. Three scoring cards are placed in the share deck, five shares are laid out next to the share deck, and company markers are placed on the board and score track. Each player receives points based on their starting position and play begins. A player must perform one of four actions each turn: Expand airline(s) and draw a share of stock Play shares of stock from hand to portfolio, receiving money for each share played Discard 1 or 3 shares of stock to add 1 or 2 shares of Air Abacus to hand Take $8m Players may expand any airlines (regardless of whether they have that company’s stock in their portfolios), and expanded airlines increase in value along the score track. The drawn share may come from the five face-up cards or the face-down share deck (similar to Ticket to Ride). Playing shares into the portfolio ensures that players have a chance of scoring points in the scoring round and also supplies a player with money. Air Abacus isn’t represented on the board, but it is guaranteed a good payout in each of the three scoring rounds (it flies everywhere). Taking the $8m ensures that players will have the money necessary to expand airlines. The game set up for five players. Each airline is represented in the share deck with a number of shares ranging from 7 to 16. That number also determines the number of times a company can expand. For the smaller companies, a bonus is available if that airline can connect to a city on the other side of the board, immediately sending the stock prices soaring. When a scoring card is revealed from the share deck, each player takes a free share of stock into their hand from the face-up line, and points are awarded to whoever has the most (and second most and so on) shares of stock in their portfolio for each company, including Air Abacus. The game ends after the third scoring round, and the player with the most points is the winner. Up in the Air or Still on the Tarmac? Airlines: Europe is a reworking of two of Alan Moon’s earlier games, Airlines and Union Pacific. But more than this, it blends aspects of two of my favorite games–the fast-paced route-building of Ticket to Ride and the high-tension stocks game of Acquire–into a streamlined package that brings a great gameplay experience to casual and hobby gamers alike. The insert. No joke, I turned the box over right before I took this picture, and everything stayed where it was. Airlines: Europe, first of all, is a gorgeous game in one of the best packages I’ve seen. The individual airplanes used to claim routes are molded plastic and look great on the board, the cards are on great stock and easy to shuffle, and the player aids are sturdy cardboard and very helpful. The rulebook is laid out well and well written; I was able to understand and explain the game very quickly. But the game’s insert is where Airlines: Europe really shines. This game could be a bear to set up, with little piles of planes for each company and digging out point chits during the scoring rounds, but the insert makes the setup time almost zero, and the box/insert is designed to remain on the table with the game. There are only three things in the game that need to be set up: the bonus route cards for the small airlines, the scoring markers, and the share deck. What’s also great about the insert is that even if the game is jostled or turned upside down, all of the parts remain in their containers. The only downsides in the components are the paper money and the cheaper plastic company markers. But these two things are easily overlooked given how good the rest of the game looks. Airlines: Europe strikes a good balance between casual and meatier games. The rules are very easy to explain–players can do only one thing on their turns from among four options, two of which give stock and two of which give money–but the possibilities that these four choices open up offer lots of room for clever play. The rules of the game are no more complex than Ticket to Ride (by the same designer), but the information that players must judge and sift puts this game just a bit further down the path from the casual gamer. Which is no matter to me: I think the game has a longer shelf life and is more interesting because of it. And even though the game is harder to grasp, all the groups I’ve introduced it to have enjoyed it. (They are also groups that enjoy Ticket to Ride.) The player aids and bonus markers. One of the things that keeps Airlines: Europe manageable and exciting is its pacing. Similar to Ticket to Ride, players may do only one thing on their turns, and usually that one thing is done quickly. Thus the game shouldn’t bog down too much, though with the frequent changes in game state, players may need a moment to reanalyze the board before they take their turns. Perhaps my favorite part of Airlines: Europe is the subtlety of it. Players are rewarded for holding majorities in various companies, but their stock only counts if it’s in their portfolios (not their hands). However, if players put stock into their portfolios too soon, they will likely have to expand the airline (and increase its value) themselves; if players wait to put stock in their portfolios, there’s a chance they will miss the scoring rounds, which are the only times when players score points. The tension of this one decision makes the game tense each play, but there’s even more to it. Each company has a number on its stock, representing the number of shares in the deck and the number of planes the company has to expand. Players can see at a glance how many shares of the stock are on the table (in their own and other players’ portfolios), but they must guess how many shares are in the deck, other players’ hands, and the discard pile. When players take shares of Air Abacus, they may discard shares from their hands or their portfolios, but discards are turned in face-down. Aside from shares discarded from portfolios, players must guess which shares other players are tossing away. The ten stock companies, with Air Abacus in the center. And this Air Abacus decision presents another point of tension in an already tense game. Air Abacus scores as a top-tier airline the whole game through. Gaining stock in Air Abacus is clearly a good thing, but players have to judge if getting stock is worth it. After all, Air Abacus is costly–not only does it cost shares from other companies, but it also costs a turn to convert stock, which is precious indeed. Furthermore, because Air Abacus is so valuable, it’s something that all players will want to cash in on. As soon as one player gets shares, the race is on for other players to catch up or at least get in. Air Abacus provides another way to score points, and I liken it to the military strategy in 7 Wonders: it’s best if you can own just enough shares to maintain a lead…but wars escalate quickly. In both playing stock and acquiring Air Abacus (and, really, every other facet of this game), players are faced with tough decisions that require sacrifices. The best way to get money is to play shares of stock into your portfolio (then you accomplish something and get money), but you must be careful in how you play shares: you can play either two shares total or as many shares as you want of one company, each share played netting $2m. Players will want to play both broad and deep–and will want to beat the scoring round card–so they must carefully weigh which shares to play. Similarly, it’s often better to expand airlines twice on a turn if you can, but you draw only one share of stock whether you expand once or twice. Where are your resources best used? You can trade for Air Abacus one share for one or three shares for two: either way it costs you a turn, but how much stock are you willing or able to burn? These efficiency decisions are not always clear-cut, and the looming opportunity of scoring rounds is always present. Scoring rounds are always looming, keeping the game TENSE. Airlines: Europe is also very interactive. Players have to watch what the other players are doing to gauge which shares they should acquire, which airlines they should expand, and how many shares of Air Abacus they need to beat out their competitors. One of the cool aspects of this game is that any player can pay to expand any airline, regardless of their stock ownership. Why would you want to invest in an airline you won’t get a payout from? Each airline has a limited number of planes to work with. Some of the smaller airlines achieve a bonus if they reach a target city. By wasting airplanes on the periphery, you can limit the number of points paid to an opponent. Of course, on the other hand, one of the effective strategies in the game is to piggyback on others’ big investments and ride their coattails to achieving points. It’s best, obviously, to have a majority in an airline. But having several easily gained minorities can be a lucrative proposition. I love the molded-plastic airplane pieces. These are used to claim routes. In the introduction I likened this game both to Ticket to Ride and to Acquire. The Ticket to Ride parts are easy to see: having a five-card stock draw option, claiming routes, one action per turn. The Acquire parts are also easy to see: a gatewayish stock game with publicly traded companies where any player can impact the outcome regardless of shares owned. What Airlines: Europe does is brilliantly meld these games together into a coherent and compelling whole. One of the most persistent gripes I hear about Acquire is that it is so unforgiving. This gripe is not unfounded, as I’ve played many games with new players who had zero money for most of the game. (Heck, I’ve been that new player more than once.) Airlines always gives the option to take money from the bank when stores are low. Even though it’s a huge bummer to do this, new and old players must resort to the easy money option every once in a while. I don’t hear many gripes about Ticket to Ride in my groups, but the main one I hear elsewhere is that it either is too simple or can be too non-interactive, depending on the group. Airlines: Europe cannot be played in “multiplayer solitaire” mode, as Ticket to Ride can be. And while it retains the rules simplicity of Ticket to Ride, there is much more opportunity for clever play because of the depth and interconnected nature of choices. These are the worst components in the game, but they’re not that bad. I’ve said a good deal in favor of Airlines: Europe, and for good reason: I love the game. But I’m sure not everyone will. Those who don’t like stock games may not like this one either (though, as I mentioned, it is more forgiving than Acquire). The game’s theme works well (and gives nods to the game companies that have published Alan Moon’s games), but it’s not a theme likely to excite those who like typical American-style fare. The game clocks in at just over 60 minutes, meaning it won’t work as a typical lunch game (though I suspect that with the right players, you could get this below an hour). And some players may succumb to analysis paralysis given the number of possibilities on the board; there really aren’t any easy decisions in this game because every decision is a sacrifice. But I had to struggle to come up with negatives here, the game is that good (if you enjoy this sort of thing). Alan Moon has created another masterpiece, one that combines simplicity and elegance with depth and tension. If you like stock games at all, and maybe even if you don’t, you need to check out Airlines: Europe. Your Rating: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 Simple rules and options keep players' focus on their decisions Game flows well High interactivity and tension combined with great depth Components knock it out of the park Wealth of possibilities can cause analysis paralysis While rules are simple, strategy can be hard to comprehend in first play Tags: acquireAirlines EuropeairplanesAlan MoonRio Grande Gamesroute buildingstock marketstocksticket to rideTrains FarmerLenny I'll try anything once, but my favorite games are generally middleweight Euros. Previous ArticleInterview: Kevin Kulp Next Article Review: Scripts and Scribes: The Dice Game Review: The Way of the Bear Review: Butterfly The Village Square: October 14, 2019 Discussion1 Comment Anonymous July 17, 2013 2:53 pm Great review! Couldn’t agree more. I love Ticket to Ride and hate Acquire, but this one strikes a great balance that I really enjoy. My only beef with the game is that the orange and red planes are sometimes hard to distinguish. Accessible to a wide range of ages and experience levels 70-70m (box says 60-90m) 2 to 1 (best with 3-5) Designer(s) Alan Moon See your ad here: Contact Us for pricing! islaythedragon A Game of Thrones: Mother of Dragons #UpliftAndrew The Mind #Bitspread #UpliftAndrew Transparent dice are fun #UpliftAndrew Some more dice #UpliftAndrew White cubes #UpliftAndrew Black cubes #UpliftAndrew Yellow cubes #UpliftAndrew Red cubes #UpliftAndrew Purple cubes #UpliftAndrew Orange Cubes #UpliftAndrew Green cubes #UpliftAndrew Blue cubes #UpliftAndrew Load More... 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__label__wiki	0.564324	0.564324	DOWNLOAD THE FULL E-BOOK VERSION HERE: Title: Handbook of Brand Semiotics Publishing house: Kassel University Press ISBN (print): 978-3-7376-0042-2 ISBN (e-book): 978-3-7376-0043-9 Editor: George Rossolatos Semiotics has been making progressively inroads into marketing research over the past thirty years. Despite the amply demonstrated conceptual appeal and empirical pertinence of semiotic perspectives in various marketing research streams, spanning consumer research, brand communications, branding and consumer cultural studies, there has been a marked deficit in terms of consolidating semiotic brand-related research under a coherent disciplinary umbrella with identifiable boundaries and research agenda. The Handbook of Brand Semiotics furnishes a compass for the perplexed, a set of anchors for the inquisitive and a solid corpus for scholars, while highlighting the conceptual richness and methodological diversity of semiotic perspectives. Written by a team of expert scholars in various semiotics and branding related fields, such as John A. Bateman, David Machin, Xavier Ruiz Collantes, Kay L. O’Halloran, Dario Mangano, George Rossolatos, Merce Oliva, Per Ledin, Gianfranco Marrone, Francesco Mangiapane, Jennie Mazur, Carlos Scolari, Ilaria Ventura, and edited by George Rossolatos, Chief Editor of the International Journal of Marketing Semiotics, the Handbook is intended as a point of reference for researchers who wish to enter the ‘House of Brand Semiotics’ and explore its marvels. The Handbook of Brand Semiotics, actively geared towards an inter-disciplinary dialogue between perspectives from marketing and semiotics, features the state-of-the-art, but also offers directions for future research in key streams, such as: Analyzing and designing brand language across media Brand image, brand symbols, brand icons v iconicity The contribution of semiotics to transmedia storytelling Narrativity and rhetorical approaches to branding Semiotic roadmap for designing brand identity Semiotic roadmap for designing logos and packaging Comparative readings of structuralist, Peircean and sociosemiotic approaches to brandcomms Sociosemiotic accounts of building brand identity online Multimodality and Multimodal critical discourse analysis Challenging the omnipotence of cognitivism in brand- related research Semiotics and (inter)cultural branding Brand equity semiotics You may read the Introduction and the Table of contents @ http://www.uni-kassel.de/upress/publik/Extract_Handbook_of_Brand_Semiotics.pdf	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line877
__label__cc	0.746129	0.253871	Customer Support (03) 9490 88888 Growth & Cashflow Secrets of Real Estate Millionaires Ultimate Real Estate Success Coaching Program Quantum Shift Coaching & Training Platinum Accelerator Dymphna Boholt Jon Giaan Mentors & Coaches February 16, 2015 by Dymphna 12 Comments Getting your news from a drug-dealer I once knew a bloke in Sydney who was addicted to the news. He’d read The Australian and the local daily – and pretty much whatever else he could find. He also had News Radio on pretty much 24/7. He even left it on in his bedroom overnight! I don’t know how his wife put up with it. And then one year, his family got him a shower radio so he could keep listening in the bathroom! Classic enabling behaviour. But turns out ‘news addiction’ is a thing. Turns out the news is a drug like any other – in the sense that it’s addictive, and prolonged use changes the way your brain functions. Putting on my amateur psychologist hat, I’d say people are drawn to drugs for a reason. They serve the user some sort of purpose – whether it’s a bit of fun, or release or escape from their situation, whatever. And so the news has a few claws that hook into these funny ol monkey brains of ours. The first thing to remember is that we’re hardwired to be fascinated by dangers and threats. This makes sense when you’re tripping about the forest. If you miss a berry or two here and there, no dramas. Miss one sabre-tooth tiger though and it’s game over. So our minds are constantly on the look out for the things that scare us. And this is where the news comes in. The news is effectively an open channel for fear. Terrorists, plane crashes, and disease outbreaks. Car crashes and missing models. Horror, sorrow and dangerous things! There’s a place for them all in the pages of a newspaper. And we find them all fascinating. Even if they’re repulsive at one level, we still feel drawn to them. And the papers know this. They know what sells. As they say in the business: “If it bleeds, it leads.” So that’s the first point. Newspapers are selling fear. They’re fear-mongers. I don’t think there’s any evil intent here. They package up fear for us because we ask them to. But why would we want to buy fear? Well as I said, it’s instinctively fascinating, but it’s also just fun. In the same way that horror movies are ‘fun’. And in the same way that all drugs are fun. It’s exhilarating to feel the rush of adrenalin that comes when you’re scared. The little tweak of anxiety and energy in your cup of coffee. The sedative hit to your inhibitions with a glass of wine. Newspapers are a safe, arms-length way to get off on the rush of energy that comes with contemplating something horrific. That’s part of the story. The other part is that we buy parcels of fear because it gives us the illusion of control. It’s comforting to think that we’re ‘up-to-date’ – that we know everything that’s going on. The world is a horrible, scary place, but we’re on top of it. We’ve got the upper hand because we know what’s going on. It’s a comforting illusion. But it’s just an illusion. Say you know about a plane that crashed somewhere in Eastern Europe… what real use is that information to you? Are you going to change the way you relate to air-travel, or visiting Europe? (If you do, chances are you’ll get it wrong. People wildly over-estimate the likelihood that they’ll die in a plane-crash…) And every time I say this, someone always says, “but knowledge is power.” Knowledge is a tool. It’s only powerful when it’s ‘applied’ to something. And sure, a newspaper is a Bunnings Warehouse full of tools, but how many of them do you actually plan on using? People who say they read the news to keep informed sound a little to me like alcoholics who say they only drink because like the taste. Now I’m not saying there’s nothing useful in a paper. And definitely not saying we want to go sticking our heads in the sand. It’s just everything in moderation. And we just need to be mindful of the addictive quality of ‘news’. Because if we spend too long dwelling on fear, we can get stuck there. It’s starts shaping the way we think and the way we see the world. The world is an abundant place and full of opportunities. There are many beautiful things and examples of people being loving and generous towards each other. But you can miss all this is if you’re only looking for the dangerous and horrible. And if you’re locked in fear, you become overly-cautious. You become less willing to take risks. In my experience, scaredy-cat investors never do well. They always end up behind the market, and miss those gems that spontaneously jump out at you from time to time. (Maybe they miss them because they just don’t believe they exist?) And so if you want information, go to sources of information. (Blogs like this, for example!) Find experts and read what they’re on about. I’ve got about 5 or 6 property experts who I follow. I definitely don’t go to the newspapers for property analysis. Because the news is not a source of information. It’s a source of fear. And you don’t go to your drug dealer for nutritional advice. Join over 217,477 wealth-seekers and investors who get No B.S. timely and valuable education on the latest trends and opportunities today. T-Bomb: So much for normal… Am I crazy? You tell me. T-Bomb: 2021 – from Resiliency to Vision The Roaring 20s will be thanks to this Rooming and Boarding: The Million Dollar Concept Revealed: the boom is already here! 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__label__cc	0.695921	0.304079	News · Science Plants appear to lose consciousness when sedated Environment Science Are plants conscious? A new study found that anesthetics work on flora – but what exactly is happening here? University of Bonn plant cell biologist Frantisek Baluska told The New York Times, “Plants are not just robotic, stimulus-response devices. They’re living organisms which have their own problems, maybe something like humans feeling pain or joy. In order to navigate this complex life, they must have some compass.” Plants can be frozen with anesthetics, researchers discovered, including the medicines used on humans during surgery. The researchers’ findings could help us learn more about anesthesia – and plants. A team of scientists from institutions in Germany, Japan, the Czech Republic, and Italy exposed several different plants to substances like ether and lidocaine. They found, for example, that pea plants exposed to diethyl ether vapor stop moving and their tendrils curl. A Venus flytrap didn’t respond to stimulus similar to an insect that moved across it – its cells actually stopped firing, according to The New York Times. Related: German forester says trees are social beings with friends and personalities The plants seemed to return to life when the anesthesia wore off – almost as if they had regained consciousness. Baluska told The New York Times, “How organisms are perceiving the environment or responding or adapting are based on some very similar principles.” Cell membranes change under anesthesia, growing more flexible. Membranes of some of the plant root cells under anesthesia had difficulty performing tasks they normally would. Membranes are also key for transferring messages from one cell to another via electricity, and some scientists think electrical activity across neurons contributes to consciousness in humans. But when asked if plants are indeed conscious or not, Baluska said, “No one can answer this because you cannot ask them.” The journal Annals of Botany published the research in December. Via The New York Times Images via Sushobhan Badhai on Unsplash and Jeffery Wong on Unsplash One thought on “Plants appear to lose consciousness when sedated” MethoNatu February 16, 2018 at 5:48 am This article is a great example on how our "magical thinking" can distort the actual conclusions of a scientific article. The original study examines the the impact of anaesthetics on plant cells. Not once in the paper the words "consciousness" or "sedation" are mentioned. This is bad language mode which inevitably derails the reader from the actual conclusion of the paper. (comparative discussion on the similar effects of anaesthetics on plant and animal cells). We don't observe mind properties in plants and we don't find biological structures inside plants that are known for their ability to produce them. These articles makes irrational claims. Plants Conscious The plants seemed like they were losing and regaining consciousness. Plants Venus Flytrap Human anesthetics do work on plants. Plants Conscious Full Width Tall Plants were exposed to anesthesia in a recent study.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line880
__label__cc	0.653868	0.346132	Boston Dailies Play Wedding Bell Walsh Now that Marty Walsh is mayor-elect of Boston, what does that make his longtime girlfriend Lorrie Higgins? Galpal-in-waiting? Whatever the label, both local dailies popped the question today: Is there a Boston City Hall wedding in our future? First, Stephanie Ebbert’s Page One Boston Globe piece. Eyes turn anew to woman who has long been at his side The newly elected mayor of Boston had just shouted out his thanks, calling Lorrie Higgins “the love of my life and my best friend” in his victory speech. She was right beside him onstage — as she has been for the past eight years, and is expected to be when he takes over City Hall. “Eight years, she’s been at Thanksgiving, at Christmas,” said Martin J. Walsh’s first cousin, Joe O’Malley. “When [Marty’s father] passed away, she was the rock. She might as well be the next first lady.” But will she be? Ebbert got the brush-off when she tried to interview Higgins. “[A] campaign spokeswoman took offense at the Globe’s efforts to interview friends and coworkers for a profile about Higgins. ‘Stop harassing Lorrie,’ Kate Norton, spokeswoman for the campaign, demanded of the Globe. The request, she said, was coming directly from the mayor-elect. ‘His family is off limits,’ she said.” Uh-huh. Until it’s not. Margery Eagan had a slightly different take in her Boston Herald column. Marty Walsh can get to ‘yes,’ but what about ‘I do’? We heard Marty Walsh say it over and over. When it comes to tough union negotiations, “I know how to get to yes.” My question: When is the man who gets everyone else to “yes” going to get his longtime girlfriend there? Can he really “get to yes” with cops and firefighters when he can’t “get to yes” with the lovely Lorrie Higgins? I hear he’s asked her to marry him maybe a half-dozen times. She’s still not at the bargaining table. She remains: Ms. Not Just Yet. Should city taxpayers be concerned? Not surprisingly, the Herald commentariat had a few questions of its own. margie the “progressive” that wants lesbian priests and dogs marrying cats is hung up on a heterosexual monogamous relationship without marraige. Now that’s wierd! When did margie turn into an ultra-social-conservative? Marge, “What difference does it make now?” Is this the inside Track? Comments in the Boston Globe were, for the most part, slightly more measured. Note to Ms. Ebbert: Next time your editor assigns you to write a story like this (I’m giving you the benefit of the doubt and assuming you were told to write it) either: a) refuse; b) find a less demeaning angle (demeaning to you I mean). Two 40 something adults are entitled to their private lives, and I, for one, admire their desire to keep theirs private. I suggest the press respect their wishes. It’s hardly unusual for a newspaper to profile the spouse/partner of a politician newly elected to a major position. The people want to know — so, who’s that lady? I would hardly call it “harrassment”; I mean, this is just a background profile. Wait’ll the spotlight gets really, really intense. These Mahty folks are awfully touchy. Let the wild rumpus begin. This entry was posted on Thursday, November 7th, 2013 at 8:26 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line885
__label__cc	0.705056	0.294944	973-762-2200 (The Jacob A. Holle Funeral Home) \| 973-762-1133 (Preston Funeral Home) jacob@jacobhollefuneralhome.com Eturnal Memorials Burial & Entombment Veterans Honors Joan L. Brubaker Recommend Joan's obituary to your friends Send Flowers for Joan Obituary of Joan L. Brubaker Joan Litzebauer Brubaker passed away, surrounded by loving family on July 23, 2019, just 11 days after her 88th birthday. Joan was a resident of Maplewood for all but the last few years of her life when she became dependent on her children’s care. She attended Tuscan school, Maplewood Junior High and graduated from Columbia High School in 1949. As a teenager she was active in The Mariners Girl Scout organization and sailed on the Clipper Ship “The Yankee”. This was one of her fondest memories. She attended and became a lifetime supporter of Eagle Island Girl Scout Camp in Upstate New York. Joan graduated form Colby Junior College (now Colby-Sawyer) in New London, New Hampshire with a medical secretarial degree. She was married to Dick “Bru” Brubaker, for twenty-one years, they had five children together. Joan was a loving and nurturing mother, always hard working, supportive and positive. She embraced many unique adventures and ideas including family camping vacations and raising a farm animal each year from Easter until the start of the school year. What started as chicks, ducks and rabbits, ended with 2 goats and finally “Pansy” the pig. She was an avid supporter of her children’s sporting events attending hundreds of softball, lacrosse, field hockey and basketball games, as well as gymnastic meets. She was herself an enthusiastic swimmer, tennis player and bowler. A long time member of Morrow Memorial Methodist Church, Joan was active in the choir and the annual turnover sale. She believed in the fundamental goodness of all people. Joan worked as a bookkeeper with The Marine Insurance Agency in Maplewood. In her retirement she cared selflessly for her aging stepmother, Mildred Litzebauer, but also found time to travel and visit family. Joan was always friendly and inquisitive, strong and resourceful. A sense of adventure permeated her life. She went on several sailing adventures with her daughter Jessie and family to Mexico, through the Panama Canal, and the Caribbean. Joan will be remembered and honored by her surviving daughters and their spouses, Laurie and Rick Schweikert, Robin and Rodger Wolf, Jessie and Mike Fleming, Amy Brubaker and Larry Lefkowitz and Nancy Brubaker. She was pre-deceased by her son Tom Brubaker in 2015. She leaves behind 17 grandchildren, 7 great grandchildren and many nieces and nephews, all who will strive to carry on her wonderful qualities of positivity and perseverance. A celebration of Joan’s life will be held Saturday, September 28th, 11:00 AM at Morrow Memorial United Methodist Church, 600 Ridgewood Rd. in Maplewood. Those wishing to donate in Joan’s name can contribute to Eagle Island Camp eagleisland.org, or Morrow Memorial United Methodist Church morrowchurch.org To send flowers to the family or plant a tree in memory of Joan Brubaker, please visit Tribute Store Morrow Memorial Methodist Church (Ivy Chapel) 600 Ridgewood Road Maplewood, New Jersey, United States 973-762-2200 (Jacob A. Holle Funeral Home) 973-762-1133 (Preston Funeral Home) 2122 Millburn Ave \| Maplewood, NJ \| 07040 153 South Orange Ave. \| South Orange NJ \| 07079 Looking for something you can't find? We make it easy to get the answers you need. Please feel free to contact us at anytime.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line886
__label__cc	0.571092	0.428908	Stripes (1981) Action, Comedy, USA 25 Jun 1981 Ivan Reitman Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Action, Adventure, USA 12 Jun 1981 Steven Spielberg Porky’s (1981) Comedy, Canada, USA 13 Nov 1981 Bob Clark History of the World: Part I (1981) Comedy, USA 12 Jun 1981 Mel Brooks Bustin’ Loose (1981) Adventure, Comedy, USA 22 May 1981 Oz Scott Quest for Fire (1981) Adventure, Drama, Canada, France, USA 15 Dec 1981 Jean-Jacques Annaud Modern Problems (1981) Comedy, Romance, Science Fiction, USA 25 Dec 1981 Ken Shapiro Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Thriller, Australia 24 Dec 1981 George Miller Omen III: The Final Conflict (1981) Horror, United Kingdom, USA 20 Mar 1981 Graham Baker The Fox and the Hound (1981) Adventure, Animation, Drama, Family, USA 10 Jul 1981 Art Stevens, Richard Rich, Ted Berman Excalibur (1981) Adventure, Fantasy, United Kingdom, USA 10 Apr 1981 John Boorman Cannibal Ferox (1981) Adventure, Horror, Italy 24 Apr 1981 Umberto Lenzi Halloween II (1981) 30 Oct 1981 Rick Rosenthal Thief (1981) Action, Crime, Thriller, USA 27 Mar 1981 Michael Mann An American Werewolf in London (1981) Comedy, Horror, United Kingdom, USA 21 Aug 1981 John Landis Action, Adventure, Thriller, United Kingdom, USA 23 Jun 1981 John Glen S.O.B. (1981) 01 Jul 1981 Blake Edwards Christiane F. (1981) Drama, Germany 01 Apr 1981 Uli Edel Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller, USA 28 Aug 1981 Lawrence Kasdan Outland (1981) Mystery, Science Fiction, United Kingdom 22 May 1981 Peter Hyams The Howling (1981) Horror, USA 13 Mar 1981 Joe Dante Pennies from Heaven (1981) Drama, Music, Romance, USA 11 Dec 1981 Herbert Ross Happy Birthday to Me (1981) Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller, Canada 15 May 1981 J. Lee Thompson The Boogens (1981) 25 Sep 1981 James L. Conway Chariots of Fire (1981) Drama, History, United Kingdom 15 May 1981 Hugh Hudson Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981) 01 May 1981 Steve Miner Escape from New York (1981) Action, Science Fiction, United Kingdom, USA 22 May 1981 John Carpenter The Funhouse (1981) 13 Mar 1981 Tobe Hooper Clash of the Titans (1981) Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Science Fiction, USA 15 Mar 1981 Desmond Davis Final Exam (1981) 05 Jun 1981 Jimmy Huston Uncategorized,	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line887
__label__cc	0.749006	0.250994	Go, Ottawa, Go! Remember - you're not in Toronto! Hockey is a tough game. - Bobby Orr Hockey's my favorite sport. - Denis Leary Every day is a great day for hockey. - Mario Lemieux Hockey is the original extreme sport. - Tom Ward Outdoor hockey is what it is all about. - Paul Coffey Hockey is figure skating in a war zone. - Unknown People on the streets are ready for hockey. - Eric Lindros Figure skaters have awful perceptions of hockey players. - Kristi Yamaguchi I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out. - Rodney Dangerfield Ninety percent of hockey is mental and the other half is physical. - Wayne Gretzky All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity. - Gordie Howe Hockey seems completely lawless and, therefore, inexplicably sexy. - Rachel Nichols For me, baseball is more comparable to chess than it is to hockey. - Jeff Garlin The greatest hockey player who ever lived: Bobby Orr, and I love him. - Donald S. Cherry I love hockey because of the respect for history and for the game itself. - George Vecsey People know me from a hockey game, from an earthquake, from the O.J case. - Al Michaels Sometimes it just feels like the only thing you do is play hockey and eat. - Henrik Lundqvist You can't play hockey with a bald spot, so I'm hanging up the skates. - Joe Sakic When you think of hockey, when you think of Canada, you think of Wayne Gretzky. - Joe Sakic I still have my teeth. I don't want to lose them at age 61 in some hockey game. - Jim Flaherty I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey. - Jeremy London I'm not a hockey fan, which is probably why I had to leave Canada in the first place. - Ryan Reynolds I never looked at hockey as work. Now that I'd finished playing, I had to go to work. - Bobby Orr Our team lives hockey, it dreams hockey, it eats hockey. Now if it could only play hockey. - Milton Berle Canadian hockey fans... They boo me every time I go anywhere. Because I play for Team USA. - Brett Hull I like ice hockey. No one is ever going to ask me to write about that as a metaphor for life. - Steven Pinker Hockey players wear numbers because you can't always identify the body with dental records. - Unknown I think the thing you always got to keep in mind, you know, hockey is a game of one-on-one battles. - Mark Messier Field hockey is my strongest sport, and if I lose a game, I take a long, hot bath and moan about it. - Emma Watson We can make fun of hockey fans, but someone who enjoys Homer is indulging the same kind of vicarious bloodlust. - Steven Pinker I played basketball in high school, and I love watching sports - I'll watch everything except maybe hockey. - Andy Roddick I love those hockey moms. You know what they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is? Lipstick. - Sarah Palin I have a huge interest in hockey because I grew up in Canada, where it's kind of the law that you love hockey. - Matthew Perry Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps. - Tiger Woods I still play hockey every now and then, and I still golf. But my biggest exercise is walking my big dog in the park every day. - Michael J. Fox Hockey on roller skates is like MMA in a bounce house: the elements are there, but the medium makes the whole thing ridiculous. - David Walton When it comes to hockey, it's been in my blood since I was 3 or 4 years old. I love coaching the kids, especially at that level. - Mario Lemieux Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. - John Leonard When I walk down the street in New York, the building constructor, the guy pounding cement and what not, will yell, "Hey, you hockey puck!" - Don Rickles Playoff hockey is the best way to market your team. It's the best way to grow your fan base and give hope to your players and for them to develop. - Steve Yzerman	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line890
__label__cc	0.534871	0.465129	Weekend Bloggers Civility Rule Res ipsa loquitur – The thing itself speaks International, Religion July 22, 2011 Saudi Anti-Witchcraft Unit Is Busy -Submitted by David Drumm (Nal), Guest Blogger When the severed head of a wolf, wrapped in women’s lingerie, turned up near the northern Saudi Arabian city of Tabouk, the Anti-Witchcraft Unit swung into action to break the spell that used the wolf’s head. Superstitious belief in magic and witchcraft is widespread in the kingdom. The Saudis have banned the Harry Potter series of books because of its tales of magic and sorcery. The superstition that is Islam can provide no logical relief from belief in other superstitions. The Anti-Witchcraft Unit was set up in May 2009 and placed under the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (CPV), Saudi Arabia’s religious police. The unit is tasked with apprehending sorcerers and reversing the detrimental effects of their spells. Those effected by spells can be subjected to ruqiyah, or ruqyah, a treatment for the evil eye, black magic, and jinn (supernatural creatures) possession. It involves incantations from the Qur’an. We have previously discussed the arrest of a Saudi woman, Fawza Falih, for witchcraft. Her death sentence was postponed, but Falih died in prison of ill health. These superstitious beliefs are not limited to Saudi Arabia as we have previously discussed the arrest of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s aides for working with jinns or spirits. Often foreign female domestic workers are accused of witchcraft in order to counter their charges of sexual harassment from the male head of a Saudi household. The male head of the household claims that the female bewitched them into falling in love her. Wahhabism, a sect of Islam, is the national superstition of Saudi Arabia and does not tolerate competing superstitions. They must maintain the illusion that their magic is stronger than the magic of other superstitions. Recall the scene from the Ten Commandments where Moses turns Aaron’s staff into a serpent that devours Pharaoh’s staffs-turned-into-serpents. I am so thankful that I live in a secular society, and at a time, that values scientific evidence and rational thought. Those who promulgate ignorance-based beliefs wage a constant battle against knowledge and its delivery vehicle: education. H/T: The Media Line. Widener Law Disciplinary Committee Exonerates Criminal Law Prof Gay Barbarians at the Gate! 12 thoughts on “Saudi Anti-Witchcraft Unit Is Busy” Hmm… How do they actually know it was a jinn? It could have been Mohammed himself!… Lol! I need a Gin and Tonic now! Difficult to believe stuff like that is still happening in this day and age. Witchcraft? Honestly, I thought the Saudi’s were relatively progressive. rafflaw says: I am guessing it is designed as a warning of some sort. Sort of like the horse head in the Godfather. what is a wolfs head, wrapped in ladies lingerie, supposed to do? Indie says: Interesting topic. I suppose the writer is attempting to present a “Bill Maherian” view of religion; at least I am giving the writer the benefit of the doubt. i am no fan of Saudi society, and wanted to read the post, but I found the writer’s barbs and assumptions a real drag–a waste of my time, even. Otteray Scribe says: BillHardin76, I think the reference is a paraphrase of a famous quotation by Robert Heinlein, speaking in the voice of the fictional character Lazarus Long. (This is a paraphrase): “One man’s religion is another man’s superstition.” What Heinlein wrote was actually, “One man’s religion is another man’s belly laugh,” but you can insert “superstition” for “belly laugh” and not change the thought at all. BillHardin76 says: I’m not sure why the article calls Islam a “superstition,” unless the author thinks all religions are superstitions, which also seems to me to be wrong. (Disclaimer: I am not a religious person). Webster’s defines “superstition” as “a belief or practice resulting from ignorance, fear of the unknown, trust in magic or chance, or a false conception of causation.” All religions have elements of superstition, but superstition is not usually their main teaching. Instead they mainly focus on love, reverence for a divine reality, compassion, self-actualization, freedom from egoism, the prospect of heavenly reward, etc. Wahhabi Islam–the Al Qaida & Saudi religious sect–with its extreme opposition to idolatry, is among the least superstitious of all religious tendencies, though, in my opinion, it is one of the most dangerous. Not because of “superstition,” but because of its open advocacy of violence against those who do not follow its teachings. Mike S., I think you are correct. This “secular” society is attempting to rewrite laws based on biblical text and teachings. Mike Spindell says: “I am so thankful that I live in a secular society, and at a time, that values scientific evidence and rational thought.” Are you being…..dare I say it……..ironic? Funny, in this secular society we have many who would ban ‘Potter’ for exactly the same reason. I have a brother & sister-in-law that fall into that group. For them Halloween is a religious holiday that must be banned. Things like devil or witch costumes are evil invitations to procession. Yet they believe their Gawd is all powerful and can never be defeated; that he sees all, knows all and can conquer all. It takes an amazing mind to hold those two thoughts at the same time. Dredd says: They are becoming westernized. We got rid of Fukushima by ignoring it. Magic. Even though it it much worse now. Anonymously Yours says: I wonder where Aladdin and the Magic Carpet came from…was it really a tale….. 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__label__wiki	0.568015	0.568015	The Lemonade Chronicles A quixotic quest for the bright side. The San Francisco Groints Opening Day (a/k/a Wait ‘Til Next Year) April 13, 2015 Parenting Tipskjbeadling It’s over before it even began. Today the reigning World Champion San Francisco Giants will hold a presumably lavish pregame ceremony befitting the, um, reigning World Champions. There will be flag-hoisting, tear-jerking speeches, doling out of heavy and bejeweled rings, and lots of palm-stinging clapping at AT&T park this afternoon. I’d like to get excited about that. I really would. But I just can’t. First, the Giants won the World Series back in October, like 6 months ago. We already had a big parade all over the place with podium-pounding pronouncements from elected and appointed officials after a conga line of cable cars. At least I think it was cable cars. The ticker tape parades have all begun to blend together. I may be conflating one with the others. (See what I did there?). Second, the Giants are off to a pretty unimpressive start this year. And by the way, yes, the season has already begun. We are two uninspiring road trips deep. And before that there was the spring training season. All of which was dutifully covered ad nauseum. I have the MLB 2015 “At Bat” iPhone app alerts to prove it. At this point, 7 games into the season, our beloved home team has lost more games than it has won. We sit alone at the bottom of our division. Third, we are a motley crew. One of our best players has a busted arm and is on the DL. A replacement for one of our former best players (now with the Red Sox) has kicked the ball around the infield like a Little Leaguer. I cringe when the ball is hit in his direction, grinding my molars at how far up into the stands he will chuck the baseball. But at least I can avoid having to cringe for a couple games, since he too is on the DL. Groin, knee, hammy, whatever. He took an unproductive and seemingly innocuous swing, and next thing you know he is genuflecting or Tebowing maybe three feet up the first base line. Not impressive. Our presumptive starting first baseman — he of the sweet swing — has already been on the DL with a groin. I mean with a pulled groin. I suppose all of our players have groins. But our first baseman is the only player thusfar who has managed to pull his and miss a couple games. No doubt there will be many pulled groins this season. We should check with the people at Guiness (the book, not the beer) to ascertain the modern day record regarding pulled groins in a single season. I feel really really good about our chances in this category. Maybe I’ll even commission a new screen-printed tee shirt in anticipation of our new world record. I think the “San Francisco Groints,” in the proper font and color scheme, would be a big hit on the sidewalks outside the ballpark. Our starting pitcher of Ruthian proportions (both throwing the ball and hitting the ball) threw batting practice the other day. Only it was during a real game. The Comcast Sports Net people must have breathed a sigh of relief that they ultimately didn’t need to figure out a way to add a third column in their graphics package as the Padres seemingly approached 100 hits in said game. Another pitcher of ours who once threw a perfect game my family and I witnessed first-hand — his is now a creaky arm. Bone chips removed in the off season from his elbow. Don’t think he’ll be chucking baseballs through a pizza box on Youtube anytime soon, let alone pitching perfect games. Another of our pitchers has suffered of late with a “dead arm,” then a “dead back.” He gave up a gut-punching grand slam the other day. To a player who hit his first career grand slam. At 37 years old. With something like 300,000 previous at-bats without hitting a home run. I’m exaggerating slightly here. But only slightly. Our backup catcher nearly had his arm Barbie-Dolled right out of his shoulder socket during a play at the plate a game or two ago. A little while later, an opposing player dropped his bat head on the catcher’s skull whilst our catcher was not wearing his helmet. Inadvertent, mind you, but something that just never happens. At least I’ve never seen a Barbie Doll-Arm Wrench-Followed-by-Bat-to-Skull sequence before. None of this stuff bodes well. It’s simply bad juju. No bueno. So at this point in the season — 4% of the way through — I’m officially throwing in the towel. ← iWant the iWatch. The ChapStick Conspiracy. → Joan Hickey says: Good one. I’ve missed the Chronicle. Love you. Follow The Lemonade Chronicles on WordPress.com	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line908
__label__cc	0.616163	0.383837	Fifteenth Annual JAT Contest for New and Aspiring Translators: Commentaries from the Judges Commentaries from the Judges （Japanese-to-English Division） Ruth McCreery Ken Wagner Suggestions for All Contestants Producing a good translation requires much more than language skill. The translator’s goal is to convey to the target-language reader the same meaning that the original writer conveys to the source-language reader. In order to produce a meaning-based translation the translator should look beyond individual words and focus on units of meaning. A unit of meaning may be a word, but it may also be a clause, a phrase, or a figure of speech. It may require fewer words or more words to express the same unit of meaning in the target language than it does in the source language. When working from Japanese into English it is quite common for the translator to add words that do not appear in the Japanese document, because Japanese writers often assume or imply information that English writers are expected to state explicitly. Deciding exactly how much information to include in a translation may be difficult, but this is an important skill to develop. The units of meaning may appear in a different order in the target language than they do in the source language. In many cases the translator will rearrange clauses or other units of meaning to present the information in a way that seems natural to the target-language reader. These are some of the challenges that confront the translator as (s)he works to produce a translation that is complete, accurate, and natural. Another important element in translation is the concept of the “mirror image.” To the casual observer the translation should look as much like the source document as possible. Ensuring that the translation has the same paragraph structure as the source text is essential in order to produce a “mirror image.” Some contestants combined the first two paragraphs on page 6 of the source text into a single paragraph, and several contestants—including three finalists—combined the last two paragraphs on the same page into a single paragraph, and. Counting the number of paragraphs under each heading or sub-heading within a document is a convenient way to avoid this type of error. Another aspect of the “mirror image” is the treatment of headings and lists. If the source document includes numbers (such as “1” or “(1)” or “①”), the translation should include the same type of number that appears in the source document. The contest passage contains several sections, which are identified by different types of numbers. Some contestants used letters (“a” and “b”) or Roman numerals (“i” and “ii”) instead of “①” and “②.” The instructions for this contest indicated that it was not necessary to duplicate the exact formatting of the Japanese text, but making it a habit to duplicate the source-text formatting as closely as possible will be helpful in the world of commercial translation. It is not uncommon for a translator to confront a portion of a document that could be understood in multiple ways. In such situations it is important to make use of all available information, including information that appears in other parts of the same document. It is tempting to focus like a laser on the words or the sentence at hand, but many ambiguities in a Japanese text can be resolved by remembering what content appeared in previous sentences or previous paragraphs. In some instances a sentence or paragraph that appears later in the document may help to confirm or reject a possible meaning for the portion in question. Content that appears in figures or tables may also provide a basis for deciding which among several possible meanings is intended by the writer for the current portion of the document. These are excellent reasons for reading--or at least skimming--the entire document before beginning a translation. General Comments for All Finalists This year’s passage dealt with autonomous driving, which lies on the technical horizon for the near future. All five finalists developed a good sense of the overall structure and purpose of this document, and all five translations are well done. Consequently, these comments focus primarily on specific words and phrases. In many instances a translator needs to produce names for multiple categories of objects or actions. This document includes the names of several types of roads. Regardless of what a dictionary or glossary might suggest, the translator should employ names that when taken separately make clear the distinctions among the different categories but when taken together represent a coherent, logical, and natural-sounding set of terms within the given context. Here are the types of roads mentioned in the contest passage and the translations adopted by the finalists: 高速道路 expressway (E24/E34/E37/E40), highway (E35) 一般道路 general roads (E24/E35), local roads (E34), public roads (E37/E40) 主要幹線道路 main arterial roads (E24), major arterial roads (E34) main roads (E35), major highways (E37), major roads (E40) 国道 national roads (E24), national highways (E34/E35/E37/E40) 地方道 local roads (E24/E34/E37), regional roads (E35/E40) In the U.S. the term “expressway” often refers to a limited-access road that is found in or around an urban area. A limited-access road that connects one urban area with another could be a “highway” but may not necessarily be an “expressway.” For this document we need a general term that covers both a road within a single urban area and a road that runs between urban areas, so “highway” is probably the better choice for 高速道路. In this document an 一般道路 is not a 高速道路 but it encompasses 主要幹線道路, 国道, and 地方道. Keeping in mind these three sub-categories, a good option for 一般道路 would be “ordinary roads.” (These roads are “ordinary” in the sense that they are not “limited-access” and there are numerous intersections.) It is clear from the text that 主要幹線道路 includes both 国道 and 地方道. Thus, 主要幹線道路 could be “main thoroughfares” or “main roads,” 国道 could be “national roads,” and 地方道 could be “local roads.” (None of the last three categories could be “highways,” because “highways” are 高速道路, which is a separate category.) When selecting translations for any set of categories, the translator should keep in mind all of the categories that are mentioned in the document, so each individual term will provide the proper scope within the overall hierarchy—in this case, a hierarchy of roads. Many translators struggle with the concept of 整備. The term 整備 is often associated with maintenance or repair—keeping a piece of equipment or a system in its original condition and avoiding deterioration. However, 整備 can also be associated with improvement or the provision of additional capabilities beyond the original condition of that same piece of equipment or system. The specific translation depends on the context. The word 整備 appears three times in the contest passage. In the second paragraph under the heading “一般道路における自動走行” we encounter the phrase “一部の整備された主要幹線道路” in the context of autonomous driving at Level 3. In this context this phrase refers to “certain main roads/thoroughfares that have been suitably modified.” “Specially equipped sections of main roads” (E35) is another good choice. Either option makes clear that these roads have been improved (in some way) beyond their original condition in order to make autonomous driving at Level 3 possible, and that is the intent of the Japanese writer. Translations such as “(roads) eligible for (autonomous driving),” “well-maintained (roads),” or even “well-developed (roads)” lack the sense of specialized “improvement” that accompanies 整備された in this context. The word 整備 appears twice in the final paragraph of the passage. In those instances 整備 refers to “improvements (in infrastructure)” (インフラ整備) or “enhancements/modifications (to the legal framework)” (法的な制度の整備), respectively. The single sentence that constitutes the final paragraph of the contest passage presented the greatest challenge for all five finalists. When confronted with such a long sentence, the first task for the translator is to analyze the structure of the sentence. Once we have identified the main clause or clauses and we understand the relationships among the various clauses, we can decide how to arrange the clauses in English and we can determine whether it is better to present all of the information in a single sentence or to divide up the information between or among multiple sentences. The most important segment (i.e., the main clause) in the first portion of this sentence is “2020 年頃、社会ニーズが強い地域や経済性の成立し易い地域において、レベル4、レベル4の実現が見込まれ.” The phrase “その地域に必要なインフラ整備を行うことで、” and the phrase “法的な制度の整備に合わせて、” provide information that supports the main clause. These phrases explain how the 実現 of レベル4 will occur. There seem to be two different “forms” of Level 4: “実現が技術的に比較的容易な低速走行の移動サービスや無人宅配等のレベル4” and “事業成立性に鑑みた都市部の他の車両との混合交通下でも走行が可能な速度での移動サービスや無人宅配等のレベル4,” respectively. The final clause of this sentence (順次、レベル4 が可能な地域のエリアの広さや数を増やすことで導入地域が拡大していく見通しである) indicates that the total area in which service at Level 4 is provided is expected to increase gradually over time. In this clause it is important to recognize that the phrase “地域のエリアの広さ” refers to a single location where autonomous driving has been introduced, while the word 数 refers to the number of such locations. Now that we have identified the major “pieces” of this sentence and we understand the relationships among the various pieces, we are in a position to put those pieces together. The translation of the sentence could read as follows: “Around 2020 it is expected that level 4 will be implemented in those regions/locales with a strong/pressing social need for autonomous driving and in those regions/locales in which the economic value of autonomous driving is easily established/verified. This (implementation) will be accomplished through necessary improvements in infrastructure in those regions/locales and in accordance with enhancements/modifications to the legal framework. Level 4 will provide transportation/mobility services and driverless delivery services at a low speed; this is relatively easy to implement from a technical standpoint. Level 4 will also provide transportation/mobility services and driverless delivery services at a speed that will permit driving in traffic with other vehicles in urban areas, in recognition of the commercial viability of such services. It is expected that the total area in which such services will be introduced will gradually expand as both the number of regions/locales that are capable of implementing Level 4 and the size/area of each region/locale increase.” In this translation the main clause (of the Japanese sentence) appears in a sentence by itself. This sentence is followed by a separate sentence that includes the two phrases that were thought to contain “supporting” information. The next two sentences describe the two different forms of Level 4, and the final sentence contains the discussion of future growth. In this translation we consciously present the most important information first, so the reader will understand the context for the information that follows. By introducing the “big picture” first and then gradually presenting more detailed information, we ensure that the reader will not become lost in the details. This approach not only yields a translation that is more accessible to the English-language reader, it also allows the translator to confirm his/her understanding of the source text at key steps during the translation process. Specific Comments on Individual Translations E24 captured the intended meaning in most instances. However, there were a few awkward phrases. The second paragraph under the heading “一般道路にける自動走行” includes the following text with reference to autonomous driving at Level 3 on suitable roads without turning: “システムによる作動継続が可能な限り、システムが安全運転に係る監視、運転操作を行い、運転者の一部のセカンダリーアクティビティを許容する.” It is clear that there is a constraint (システムによる作動継続が可能な限り), it is clear that the system will handle certain tasks (システムが安全運転に係る監視、運転操作を行い), and it is clear that the driver will be “permitted” or “allowed” to do certain things (運転者の一部のセカンダリーアクティビティを許容する). In the translation it is important to separate the constraint on the system from the actions of the system and the actions of the driver. Keeping this goal in mind, this portion of the text could read, “so long as continued operation of the vehicle by the system is possible, the system will monitor the driving to ensure safety and will operate the vehicle, thereby permitting the driver to engage in certain secondary activities.” Strictly speaking, the words in italics do not appear in the source text but have been included to improve the readability of the translation. The following paragraph reads “その後、全道路におけるレベル2 の実現や一部のセカンダリーアクティビティを可能とするレベル3 の対象道路、対象車両の拡大が見込まれる。” In this sentence a distinction is made between expectations related to Level 2 (全道路におけるレベル2 の実現) and expectations related to Level 3 (一部のセカンダリーアクティビティを可能とするレベル3 の対象道路、対象車両の拡大). However, E24 shifted some information from Level 3 to Level 2. A more accurate translation would be the following: “In subsequent years it is anticipated that level 2 will be implemented on all roads and that the range of roads and vehicles suitable for the implementation of level 3, which will permit the driver to engage in certain secondary activities, will expand.” E34’s translation was generally smooth, but E34 had difficulty with some specific words and phrases. In the final sentence of the second paragraph of the passage (そのためには、走行環境の複雑性を車両側の性能により如何に上回るかが重要であることから、走行環境の複雑性とハード・ソフトの性能を類型化・指標化した上で、その組合せから、地域の抽出、必要な性能を定めて実現していく。) the word 性能 appears three times, the word 重要 appears once, and the word 必要 appears once. E34 correctly translated 必要 as “necessary,” but rendered 重要 as “essential”, rather than “important.” The phrase ハード・ソフトの性能 became “performance from both hardware and software sides.” The translation of 性能 is fine, but the inclusion of the word “sides” is unnatural. On the other hand, 車両側の性能 was translated as “vehicle efficiency,” rather than “vehicle performance,” and 必要な性能 became “necessary efficiency,” rather than “necessary performance.” In some situations the “performance” of a piece of equipment or a system may be closely tied to “efficiency,” but in this context 性能 is clearly “performance.” The following paragraph (なお、レベル3 以上の実現性、時期については、更なる法的、技術的な議論が必要なため、記載は目安である。) is a bit tricky. E34’s translation reads, “The feasibility and the time schedule of Level 3 and higher autonomous driving is subject to change, as more legal and technological discussions are required.” Although this statement is probably true, that is not the intended meaning of the sentence. In this instance the word 記載 refers to the text and figures that constitute the remainder of the passage, and the word 目安 indicates to the reader that the content of the following text and figures is merely a rough estimate or a crude forecast of future events, rather than a detailed plan. Based on this understanding of these key words, a translation of this sentence could read, “With regard to the implementation and timing of autonomous driving at level 3 or higher, further discussion of legal and technical matters is necessary. Thus, the following represents (merely) one possibility/scenario.” E35’s translation includes several well-crafted phrases. However, E35 stumbled over several patterns. The first paragraph of the passage includes a description of 事業用車. E35 recognized that the “driving area and conditions can be controlled,” but omitted the phrase 企業側で (“by companies”). The fact that companies, rather than individual drivers, exercise such control with respect to 事業用車 is an important element in the distinction between 自家用車 and 事業用車. The second paragraph of the passage includes the phrase “技術を制度やインフラで補いつつ.” This phrase appears in the translation as “through ongoing improvements of technology systems and infrastructure.” The verb 補う often means “to supplement (something) (with something else).” The particle を indicates that in this instance 技術 is the “something,” while the particles や and で indicate that 制度 and インフラ represent two kinds of the “something else.” (The 制度 could be the 法的な制度 that is mentioned in the phrase “法的な制度の整備,” which appears in the second line of the final paragraph of the passage.) Based on this understanding of the grammar, this phrase could be translated as “by supplementing/supporting technology with a (suitable) system and (suitable) infrastructure, ...” The third paragraph of the passage (なお、レベル3 以上の実現性、時期については、更なる法的、技術的な議論が必要なため、記載は目安である。) contains the linking word ため. The word ため usually indicates that the preceding clause represents a cause, a reason, or an explanation for an action or statement that appears in the following clause, but in certain instances it can indicate a goal or a purpose. E35 rendered the sentence as “Furthermore, rough milestones are given here for the feasibility and timing of realizing level 3 and above in order to facilitate further discussions about the legal and technological aspects.” The presence of 必要な immediately before ため is a hint that the first clause represents an explanation—not a goal or a purpose. One possible translation would be this: “With regard to the implementation and timing of autonomous driving at level 3 or higher, further discussion of legal and technical matters is necessary. Thus, the following represents (merely) one possibility/scenario.” E37 produced a very solid translation. Comments here are limited to particular words and phrases. In the first paragraph of the passage E37 rendered 限定区画 as “restricted areas.” This translation may be too severe for the context. An alternative such as “defined areas” (E24), “limited areas” (E34), “a limited area” (E40) or “a limited domain” would be a better choice. The first sentence in the second paragraph of the passage ends with the phrase “世界最先端を目指すことが求められる. This phrase appeared as “it is required to aim to be at the forefront.” This translation is very literal, but it is awkward. One way to avoid an awkward translation in English would be to insert a subject for the verb 目指す. If we adopt this approach, this phrase could read, “we must aim to be at the forefront” or “Japan must aim to be at the forefront.” Many translators and technical writers are reluctant to insert the word “we” into a technical document. However, this document was produced by a panel commissioned by the Japanese government, and it consists of a collection of forecasts and policy recommendations. The insertion of either “we” or “Japan” eliminates the need for a passive verb, thus making the sentence much smoother, but it does not detract from the impact of the sentence in the overall document. E40 grasped most aspects of the passage very well but missed a few points. The second paragraph of the passage includes the phrase “技術を制度やインフラで補いつつ.” This phrase appears in the translation as “supplementing technology and systems as things progress.” E40 handled the verb 補う correctly, but overlooked the word インフラ and lumped 制度 together with 技術, rather than treating 制度 as something to be considered separately from 技術. This phrase could be translated as “..., while supplementing/supporting technology with a (suitable) system and (suitable) infrastructure.” (The 制度 could be the 法的な制度 that is mentioned in the phrase “法的な制度の整備,” which appears in the second line of the final paragraph of the passage.) A description of autonomous driving at Level 3 in the third paragraph under the heading “一般道路における自動走行” includes the clause “一部のセカンダリーアクティビティを可能とする.” E40 expressed this phrase as “allowing for some secondary activities.” In this translation it is not clear who or what will perform the secondary activities. However, in the previous paragraph the writer stated that these activities can—under certain conditions—be carried out by the driver. A translation such as “which will permit the driver to engage in certain secondary activities” more closely matches the intended meaning, even though the driver is not mentioned explicitly in this sentence. All the finalists did a reasonably good job of making sense of a gnarl of bureaucratese. Among them, E40’s translation stands out for accuracy and readability, although the choice of “household vehicles” instead of the usual “private vehicles” to contrast with “commercial vehicles” was puzzling. I was also surprised that E40 (and E24, E34, E37) translated 法的な制度 as “legal system.” The English term “legal system” refers to an overarching system for establishing, interpreting, and enforcing the law: civil law, statutory law, common law, or religious law, for example. My thought for 法的な制度 was something like “set of pertinent laws and regulations” until I read E35’s “framing legislation,” which is brilliant. The use of “legal system” also made me realize that there are at least two types of regrettably literal translations. The ones that make no sense in the target language are painfully obvious. Here, however, we have an example that sounds like English and fits with the general tone of the text but fundamentally does not work: the silent but deadly literal translation. Two of the finalists (E37 and E24) stuck with “car” instead of “vehicle,” even when it became obvious that the means of transport in question was not necessarily a passenger vehicle. Both also used “cars” in their titles. I found myself wondering if E37 and E24 had waded their way through the complexities of the second paragraph and on to the end without pausing to reconsider their earlier translation choices. It is easy for us translators to fixate on the details; we also need to learn to consider whether the solutions we have painfully worked out are effective at the paragraph and larger level. Titles can be a key indicator here: a title applied first thing, before developing a deeper understanding of the text, is often clumsy, lacking in nuance, or just plain wrong. Japanese-to-English translation contestants once again faced an impenetrable morass of bureaucratic writing in the form of an excerpt from a report on government plans to implement automated driving. The difficulty was further compounded by the fact that the original contest passage was replaced when an English translation was found online in the middle of the contest period and a second contest passage was selected. But, alas, the replacement passage was also found to have an English translation after the contest deadline. However, the terminology and language usage in the “official” Ministry translation was so bad that contestants improved their translations by using other terminology and manners of expression. Unlike some other countries, Japanese copyright laws require the author’s permission for educational and other non-profit uses of copyrighted materials. The JAT Translation Contest therefore tends to use government publications. However, the Japanese government is providing English translations for an increasing number of websites these days. I would therefore like to express my admiration for all who tackled this obtuse piece of bureaucratic writing and perhaps even had to start their translations over. All writing – original and translation – consists of brick and mortar. Obviously, the brick is the essential information that must be conveyed and the mortar includes the organization, transition elements, and vocabulary that make the information easy to understand and palatable (memorable?) to the reader. This year’s first and second place winners (E40 and E37) distinguished themselves by their use of mortar. E40 and E37 usually divided up long sentences and added subjects or direct objects to make the information readily understandable and pleasant-sounding in English. E40 transferred the meaning of the original text at an extremely high level of accuracy and E37 offered a tour de force in the use of English writing conventions. Here are some considerations about the translations in general. Some of the questionable vocabulary and English usage in the online English version of the contest passage highlight the need to carefully evaluate net resources. Online dictionaries are full of machine translations and English examples produced by native Japanese speakers. The English on Japanese websites is often written to be comprehensible to the Japanese website owner, but not the native English reader. These resources should be used with caution. There was some general confusion about including footnote numbers, and the contest instructions probably should have been clear about that. Disembodied footnote numbers with no attached notes are not that useful. In a case like this with no communication with the “client,” it is generally good to provide everything in the text and let the client decide what to do with it. Also, there is a definite automobile culture, science, and art in car-driving countries, and they have their own conventions and a definite terminology. For example, with so many SUVs and vans on the roads these days, the term “(private) passenger vehicle” is probably preferable to any type of “car,” private, general, or otherwise. Also, in the United States, at least, there are limited access expressways and freeways that are contrasted with unrestricted-access “surface streets.” On a surface street, there are intersecting streets and opposing traffic, and vehicles can collide with you from any direction. On a limited-access expressway, everyone is ideally going the same direction and there is no intersecting traffic. Terms like “general roads” and “public roads” do not sharply distinguish surface streets from expressways. Here are some comments about the individual translations. E40 was this year’s winner. E40’s translation was the most accurate and well written translation overall with 25% fewer errors in meaning transfer and English usage than the other closest finalists. E40 did a masterful job on Paragraph 2. The contestant chose to infer a subject (developers) for the verbs and flushed out the paragraph fully with transition words and phrases. E40’s editorial stylings were at times a bit too ambitious, when the contestant moved “at an early stage” too far away from “simple scenarios” in the course of rewriting. In Paragraph 2, E40 clearly said “the extent to which” performance exceeds complexity while several finalists said “how” rather than “how much” performance exceeds complexity. E40 used the favored term “driving task.” Unfortunately, E40 chose to use “well-developed roads,” the wording from the online English version, for “整備された,” which would be better translated as “equipped with [an autonomous driving system, etc.]. E40 also called surface streets “public roads” and used the somewhat absurd term “household cars.” This term is used to indicate the number of cars per household, but not a type of vehicle. There were also a few omissions. Most readers would probably have knowledge of the subject, so things were perhaps spelled out more clearly than necessary. E40 added “autonomous driving” to the numbered levels (Level 2 autonomous driving); although probably not necessary for the intended readership, it’s a nice touch. Admirably, E40 also did not feel the need to account for 対象 literally (targeted, intended, etc.) every time it occurred (e.g., 対象環境). Articles and verbs usually perform the function of 対象 in English. However, E40 may have over-edited this sentence, replacing the word “environment” with something else. The Japanese authors apparently added the term “作動継続” to the SAE levels of autonomous driving, so an official term for this was not available in the original table of SAE levels. However, E40 deftly translated this as “uninterrupted system operation.” The entire last paragraph of the contest passage was a single enormous sentence, but E40 nicely divided it into four sentences. E37 was this year’s second-place finisher. E37’s translation was not as accurate as E40, but E37 went to great lengths to write readable English, especially in Paragraph 2. However, E37 may have provided a little too much mortar as there was some unnecessary repetition in this paragraph. E37 aptly translated “類型化・指標化し” as “categorized to serve as metrics.” The contestant translated “レベル2 の対象環境” as “range of circumstances subject to Level 2.” However, implementing autonomous driving is considered a positive thing that governments choose to do and “subject to” is defined as “likely or prone to be affected by (a particular condition or occurrence, typically an unwelcome or unpleasant one). After exerting so much effort to write readable English, E37 chose to break the unwieldy last paragraph into only two sentences. Reading the translation independent of the Japanese text, E35 sounded like professional writing. E35 used the term “commercial vehicles.” “Commercial” is almost always preferable to “business” or “business-use.” And E35 had the best-sounding translation of “法的な制度の整備” with “framing legislation.” Once again, considering how confusing and difficult this passage was to decipher and get everything straight, all finalists, E24 and E34 included, did an admirable job trying to place things in sensible and pleasant-sounding English order. 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__label__cc	0.68485	0.31515	Flexible Tours Fixed Tours Travel Tip Tuesday Trivia Thursday 1-877 FLY JAYA (359-5292) Trivia Thursday: These Hills Sound Tasty By estherAugust 1, 2019Travel, Trivia Thursday Ready to test your worldly knowledge? Today’s #TriviaThursday is asking you to name the famous hills in the Philippines’ Bohol province. Read the clues below and, when you think you have the answer, scroll down to see if you’re right! Clue no. 1 They received their name because of the rich brown color they turn during the dry season (November through May). They are depicted in the Bohol province’s flag and seal. Despite their sweet-sounding name, these hills are not edible : ( . And the answer is… The Chocolate Hills in the Philippines Located on the Bohol province in the Philippines, the Chocolate Hills are a beautifully (yet deceivingly) named series of mounds protruding up out of the jungle. Like the clues mentioned, they received their name because of the brown color they turn during Bohol’s dry season (November – May). Although the dry season is responsible for their namesake, you can visit the Chocolate Hills year-round and be just as impressed. The Legends of the Chocolate Hills The Filipinos have three legends to explain how the Chocolate Hills were formed. Whichever you believe is entirely up to you. Feuding Giants The most popular says the 1,700 individual hills are remnants of a battle between two giants. They spent days throwing boulders at one another, littering the battlefield with scads of colossal rubble. Exhaustion came before any resolve, and the two ceased fighting in favor of becoming friends and running off together. The mess they left behind became what we know as the Chocolate Hills. Crying Giants The hills’ scattered positioning over the vast landscape lends evidence to such an occurrence, but not enough to sway who believe they are actually dried giant’s tears. The second legend is of the romantic genre and tells the story of Arogo the giant and his mortal crush, Aloya. Arogo fell hopelessly in love with Aloya and was devastated when her human life came to an end. He wept for eternity and the teardrops dried into the Chocolate Hills. A Giant Water Buffalo The third is less tragic, but arguably more disturbing as it suggests the hills are the dried feces of a monstrous water buffalo. The animal ate all the surrounding towns’ crops, causing severe famine. The townspeople developed a plan to place rotten food in the buffalo’s path. The gluttonous monster ate it and suffered horrendous side-effects that he unleashed all over Bohol. The “side-effects” dried and became the Chocolate Hills. The infinite bumps cover an area of 50 square kilometers and continue into the horizon. The spectacle has many advocating for it to be the “Eighth Wonder of the World.” This isn’t the first time the Philippines’ natural wonders have earned this nomination. The Mayon Volcano in the Bicol Region and the Banaue Rice Terraces in Luzon have also been referred to as Eighth Wonder(s) of the World. If you’re interested in seeing the Chocolate Hills or hopping from one Wonder of the World to another, call Jaya Travel! Our savvy agents know the best of the Philippines and will make sure you get the trip you crave at a price you can afford. Now, share this blog on Facebook and Twitter to see if your friends can guess the name of these hills. Before you travel the world, call Jaya Travel! 1-877-359-5292 Jaya Travel is a full service leisure travel agency offering airline tickets, hotels, car rentals, and customized tour packages to our valued customers. Get low fares 24/7 Just leave your phone number, our representative will call you back! © 2021 Jaya Travel & Tours. All Rights Reserved.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line917
__label__cc	0.593702	0.406298	Swingin' – Clifford Brown A bluesy tune at a breakneck speed. Clifford Brown transcribed trumpet solo available in B-flat and C editions. Solos $3.99/ea Brown Trumpet Solo B-flat In Basket Brown Trumpet Solo C In Basket Recording: Clifford Brown and Max Roach - Study In Brown Recorded on: February 23, 1955 Label: EmArcy (MG 36037) Concert Key: A-flat Style: Swing (uptempo) Trumpet - Clifford Brown Tenor Sax - Harold Land Piano - Richie Powell Bass - George Morrow Drums - Max Roach Purchase Swingin' - Clifford Brown Clifford Brown - Swingin' Wess Anderson with a combo from Michigan State University. Wess Anderson; alto sax; Tony Lustig, baritone sax; Hassan Malouf, piano; Nathan Brown, bass; Ryan Ptasnik, drums. Our audio excerpt starts with Clifford's clever intro (which is also the coda). Both the intro and the coda are notated in all the lead sheets. The melody flies by and is a great etude-like line for building both technique and tongue-and-slur agility. This is an AABA form: the A sections are major workouts, the bridge is a minor workout. Based on the changes of I Never Knew (I Could Love Anybody Like I'm Loving You). Unfortunately Clifford wasn't in the recording studio much in 1955. Although he started out the year by recording his "Clifford Brown and Strings" project on January 18, 19, and 20, his only other official recording sessions were in the following month when the quintet went into the studio in NYC for three days (February 23, 24 and 25). The entire LP "Study In Brown" comes from these three February dates. However, before "Study In Brown" could be released, two of the tracks from the 1955 NYC sessions were used to complete the LP "Clifford Brown And Max Roach" (EmArcy MG 36036), with the rest of the tracks coming from the August 1954 LA sessions. Transcribed Tumpet Solo: As you can tell from our audio clip teaser trumpet, Clifford and everyone else on the session were swingin' hard and completely focused. A great take, and obviously no need for them to do a second one! Email Send Swingin' to a friend Your Name Recipient's Email Address Clifford Brown October 30, 1930 – June 27, 1956 Clifford Brown was a legendary and influential trumpet player who had everything going for him: an incredible sound, dazzling technique and ideas, and a great compositional gift. Brown was in the limelight for just five years (he died in a car accident at age 25) yet his mark on jazz is indelible. Early performances at jam sessions with Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker and Fats Navarro (his major influences) led to work with R&B bandleader Chris Powell, which included his first commercial recording (March 21, 1952). His second commercial recording was with Lou Donaldson for Blue Note Records (June 9, 1953), a session that also included Philly Joe Jones and Elmo Hope (Carvin' The Rock, De-Dah and Bellarosa). On this session, Clifford also got to record one of his own compositions (Brownie Speaks), which became his first recorded composition. Read more... 7 songs available.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line919
__label__cc	0.59451	0.40549	Sisyphus Wins About Sisyphus Wins Read a Chapter in Sisyphus Wins Jerry Talks About the Work Buy Signed-Copy Higher Living Reflections Earthwise: Articles & Blog Mythic Realm Writers Talk Thinking Liberally 16 September 2015: Lessons to be learned from the Gold King spill Lessons to be learned from the Gold King spill There’s nothing like a mountain stream of yellow to draw one’s attention. The Gold King mine disaster certainly did that. As the incongruent mustard color disappeared from the river, so has the disaster’s intensity from the consciousness of the average person. Maybe. I’d like to think that the visual imagery has left a permanent etch on the mind and consciousness of people. Time will tell. In the political world it has not been a lost opportunity. Acrimonious debate, finger-pointing, and demagoguery, especially in the Republican congress, have held sway alongside legitimate concerns about the river’s safety given the release of heavy metals, carcinogenic materials such as cadmium, copper, lead, arsenic, manganese, zinc and other contaminants that we live in proximity with each day. My computer is loaded with them. So is yours. So is theirs. Did the EPA blow it by triggering the blowout by not taking necessary precautions? Or was it inevitable? With regard to culpability who, at the end of the day, is responsible? After all, the material discharged by the Gold King mine is in reality but a percent of the discharge that leaks, seeps, and spews the equivalent of the one-time Gold King event every two days. Those are a lot of holes in the ground contributing to that. Across Colorado alone, 23,000 abandoned mines exist, 1,600 in the Clear Creek/Central City region alone. Across the western U.S., at least 5000,000. Of the 23,000 abandoned Colorado mines, less than half, only 9000, have had work done to them by the state to reduce their flows of hazardous materials. Each day, that same amount is discharged from mines across the state, primarily from 230 of them, equivalent to the Gold King: 3,000,000 gallons. That’s the bad news. The really bad news is the ones who precipitated the poisonous flows are not around, or even if they are, they will not likely be held accountable. What can be done about it/them, though? Taxpayers can spend $20,000,000 dollars to build a water treatment plant, such as has been done with great success at the Argo mine in Idaho Springs, and $1,000,000 annually to operate it as long as it is leaking, or as a Denver Post reporter succinctly put it, “forever.” Here in Clear Creek, the situation is much more manageable and is being managed. Efforts over the past 20 years at the Argo Mine, including the recently installed concrete wall reported on by the Courant last week, and on the ongoing treatment ops at the Henderson Mine have been praiseworthy to say the least. Dave Holm of the Clear Creek Watershed Foundation explained how, despite the existence of many more mines here compared to the Silverton area, mine cleanup is not as challenging as it is elsewhere. Much has to do with the elevation but also annual precipitation. In addition, pro-active, preventative work by Climax Molybdenum has helped keep West Clear Creek quite clean. To become more educated about the complications of mines and cleanup efforts, take time to listen to my interview with Holm and Chris Crouse, also of the Watershed, on the KYGT website’s News & Talk Page: http://www.kygt.org. There are two big lessons from the Gold King spill. One regards the universe of problems with which we are confronted due to our mining history. The other is more global: What have we wrought and are still “wroughting”? The Gold King incident ought to give us pause about the havoc we’re wreaking and sowing for future generations, from fracking to “the tons of plastic waste floating between the West Coast and Hawaii that according to some estimates covers an area twice the size of Texas,” as reported by the Associated Press. We cannot change the past, but we can act now to mitigate mistakes made and work to prevent future calamities. As the old saw goes, “Think globally, but act locally.” You can do that by participating in the Clear Creek Watershed Festival this Saturday, September 19th. “This is our seventh annual watershed festival,” Festival organizer Crouse told me. “It’s a chance to learn what a watershed is and what makes the Clear Creek Watershed so special: our natural resources, history, ecotourism, and this amazing community.” Not only will it be a great learning opportunity, it promises to be fun. “We’ll have a climbing tower, obstacle course, snow making, fly tying and fishing, gold panning, live local musicians, face painting and more!” said Crouse. “So, come and check it out!” By Jerry Fabyanic Jerry Fabyanic 28 October 2015: Library District exhibits dysfunction 9 September 2015: Co-op could make health care affordable 18 March 2015: Truth vs. tribal mentality 8 July 2015: Ongoing effort to create ‘a more perfect union’ 7 October 2015: Pope to Earth: Take care of our home! 15 July 2015: Clear Creek County can be the ‘American Dream’ 30 December 2015: Make sure history doesn’t repeat itself 3 June 2015: Gambling towns turning into tinsel 2 September 2015: Public changing its views on testing 17 June 2015: Balancing county’s needs with less money 30 September 2015: Workers should be treated fairly 20 May 2015: Clear Creek needs to think, act boldly 25 November 2015: Reform movement in tatters after the Jeffco BOE recall 16 December 2015: Terrorism knows no race, ethnicity, religion 8 April 2015: ‘Religious Liberty’ becoming new ‘States’Rights’ Search site or look for a specific interview: My personal philosophy is progressive and pragmatic, being open-minded and working to solve problems in a fair and non-ideological manner. 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__label__wiki	0.717436	0.717436	#emulator News 5/6/20 Mario Bros. Masters Set New Arcade High Score While Stuck At Home Steven Kleisath and Stephen Boyer are no slouches when it comes to Nintendo’s original Mario Bros. platformer.… PS4 Emulation Is Taking Its First Baby Steps As PS3 emulation continues to make strides, and with the PS5 on the horizon, it’s time for PS4 emulation to step… News 8/14/19 Demon's Souls Can Now Run At 4K And 60 FPS (In An Emulator) You’ll need a powerful PC and a copy of the original game, but thanks to a new patch to the PS3 emulator RPCS3, it’s… DIY Retro Gaming Handheld Is As Fun To Build As It Is To Play This is the GameShell, a retro gaming handheld that I built from a kit. I clipped and trimmed the plastic pieces,… Spooked By Nintendo, Popular ROM Site 'Changes' After 18 Years EmuParadise, one of the world’s longest-running and most popular emulator communities, announced today that in the… Animal Crossing On GameCube Can Actually Play Any NES Game A deleted feature from Animal Crossing for the GameCube would have let you play a library of 8-bit Nintendo… If The NES Had A Screensaver, It Might Look Like This Alter Dark is a new project that lets you create your own screensavers out of NES ROMs. Now Here's Demon's Souls Running On A PC In case seeing Persona 5 wasn’t impressive enough, here’s footage of another big PS3 game—Demon’s Souls—being… Here's Persona 5 "Running" On A PC Persona 5 may be fresh out this week on PS4, but don’t forget the game is also available on PS3. And has been out in… NES Emulator Transforms Classic Games Into Awesome 3D Sprites Patricia Hernandez Some of the most iconic NES games around have gotten a makeover—and you can experience it first-hand in your… After 19 years of operation (and 10 months spent contacting the original developers), MAME—probably the most well-known emulator on the planet—is now 100% free and open-source. Here's Mario Kart 8 Running On A PC In October, the Cemu emulator—which allows Wii U games to be played on a PC—could barely boot Mario Kart 8’s menu.… It’s a little technical, but this post by the Dolphin team outlining a big improvement to the emulator’s audio is fascinating, giving you a real insight into just how much work and problem-solving goes into the whole thing. Red Dead Redemption's Title Screen, Running On PC You can’t stop progress. GameCube Games Now Running On One Android Device June has been a big month for the team working on the Dolphin emulator, which allows users to play GameCube and Wii… What Nintendo DS Games Look Like In High-Res But Kotaku writer, I hear you ponder, the Nintendo DS was incapable of getting anywhere near a resolution you’d call… Kotaku East 10/23/14 Bootleg Console Maker Blatantly Copies the iPhone 6 Eric Jou The Chinese company best known for making knock-off Super Nintendo consoles is back again, this time with a mighty… Thousands Of People Are Playing A Single Game of Pokémon Together Being a Pokémon master takes time and patience—beating a game in the franchise usually takes at least a couple dozen… Epic Mickey Sure Looks Lovely In 1080p Michael McWhertor Disney's new Mickey Mouse adventure already looks spectacular, but some discriminating video game fans would… One Super Reason To Jailbreak Your iPad As seen at Where the Woozle Wasn't, via iPhoneBlog.de.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line926
__label__cc	0.552939	0.447061	HOTELS & RESIDENTIAL The Ritz-Carlton Residences Miami Beach – Miami Beach, FL The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Singer Island – Palm Beach, FL The Seagull Hotel – Miami Beach, FL Luxury Condo Development Site – Pompano Beach, FL 142 Henry Street – New York, NY RETAIL & COMMERCIAL OUT OF THE BOX VENTURES Haute City Center – Terre Haute, IN Lakeside Mall – Sterling Heights, MI Richland Mall – Mansfield, OH Manassas Mall – Manassas, VA Battle Creek Plaza – Battle Creek, MI Walnut Hill Plaza – Woonsocket, RI Victory Village – Williamsburg, VA Former JCPenney Box at The Pines Mall – Pine Bluff, AR JCPenney Box – Paso Robles, CA Former JCPenney Box – Yucca Valley, CA Former JCPenney Box – Alamosa, CO Re-Sale America at Lakeland Square Mall – Lakeland, FL Former JCPenney Box at Glynn Place Mall – Brunswick, GA JCPenney Box – Bourbonnais, Illinois Former Sears at Garden City Plaza – Garden City, KS JCPenney Box – Lafayette, Louisiana Former JCPenney Box at Lakeview Square Mall – Battle Creek, MI JCPenney Box – Bay City, Michigan Former JCPenney at Midland Mall – Midland, MI Former JCPenney Box – Sikeston, MO Former Macy’s Box at Great Northern Mall – Syracuse, NY Former Macy’s Box at Fort Steuben Mall – Steubenville, OH Former Bon Ton at Johnstown Galleria Mall – Johnstown, PA Former Macy’s at Washington Crown Center – Pittsburgh, PA Miami Design District – Miami, FL Miami Design District Micro-Retail – Miami, FL White Cap Lofts – Chicago, IL JOHN PETERSEN John Petersen is Comptroller at Lionheart Capital with more than 25 years of experience in public accounting and financial management within the hospitality and real estate industries. During his career he has coordinated and managed the business side of several ventures across the U.S. and Canada, developing a broad expertise in financial operations, systems and reporting. Originally from California, Petersen started his career in 1982 with the public accounting firm of Deloitte Haskins and Sells in Alberta, Canada, now Deloitte and Touche. He left public accounting to join the hospitality industry in 1985, devoting himself to the financial management of major hotel properties in the Canadian Rockies, New York City and Miami. While in New York he became extensively involved in real estate development and the acquisition, retrofitting, redevelopment and operation of choice hospitality properties in the northeastern U.S. After moving to Miami, during his six-year tenure at Carnival Hotels and Casinos, he directed the financial operations of the luxury five-star Grand Bay Hotel in Coconut Grove. In 1999, Petersen joined Flagler Holding Group, a predecessor partner of Lionheart Capital, as CFO and oversaw all administrative and financial matters relating to their major condominium developments in Miami. As Controller at Lionheart Capital and its 15+ affiliate companies, Petersen is responsible for all administration, including internal/external reporting, forecasting and budgeting. Petersen studied Economics at UCLA and holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Business) in Accounting from the University of Alberta in Canada. LIONHEART CAPITAL, 4218 NE 2ND AVENUE, MIAMI, FL 33137	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line928
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__label__wiki	0.676472	0.676472	Brilliance Shifts Into OverDrive Press Release: Overdrive [June 1, 2004] Abstract: Brilliance Audio the nation's largest independent audiobook publisher, announced that its entire inventory of titles will soon be available for retail purchase or patron loan via download through OverDrive's global network of online digital bookshops and public library websites. OverDrive provides digital fulfillment services for leading online retailers including Adobe Digital Media Store, WHSmith Online, eFollett.com, OfficeMax.com and a growing network of libraries including Cleveland Public Library, King County Library System, Denver Public Library, San Jose Public Library and many more. Chicago -- BookExpo: June 1, 2004) -- Brilliance Audio (www.brillianceaudio.com), the nation's largest independent audiobook publisher, announced today that its entire inventory of titles will soon be available for retail purchase or patron loan via download through OverDrive's (www.overdrive.com) global network of online digital bookshops and public library websites. OverDrive provides digital fulfillment services for leading online retailers including Adobe Digital Media Store, WHSmith Online, eFollett.com, OfficeMax.com and a growing network of libraries including Cleveland Public Library, King County Library System, Denver Public Library, San Jose Public Library and many more. Brilliance Audiobook titles will be made available in Microsoft Windows Media Player format and accessible to PCs, laptops and portable audio players. Each audiobook includes associated catalog data and 3-5 minute professionally produced "trailers" that enable users to listen and preview the contents of the title. OverDrive will manage digital distribution utilizing Microsoft Windows Media Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology. Brilliance and OverDrive are collaborating to further enhance the user experience by engineering navigation support into each digital audiobooks as recommended by Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) standards. Downloads of audiobooks through OverDrive's network are expected to begin early autumn 2004. "OverDrive has proven retail and library DRM systems that provide users with immediate access to our content while respecting the rights of our authors," stated Brilliance President and Publisher Michael Snodgrass. "They are working very closely with us to adhere to industry-wide standards, something we feel is extremely important," he added. "Brilliance is well-known for producing and providing high quality, popular titles that people demand," stated OverDrive CEO Steve Potash. "Our partnership will quickly expand the availability of audiobooks to a wider market of new and current users increasing the format's popularity and acceptance," Potash added. OverDrive will show live demonstrations of digital Brilliance Audiobooks in Booth #4731 at BookExpo 2004, June 4 - 6 at the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago. Attendees can also visit Brilliance Audio at Booth #4444 and see their entire audiobooks collection.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line931
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__label__wiki	0.940829	0.940829	Klay Thompson looks back at linking up with Kobe Bryant, expresses how much he misses him Here’s a sneak peak of LeBron James in ‘Space Jam: A New Legacy’ Vanessa Bryant gets ‘real’ about grief she’s continued to go through since losing Kobe and Gianna Anthony Davis reveals who he thinks are top 5 shooters on Lakers, ranked LeBron James hilariously explains why he wishes he was Justin Timberlake this late in his career Video: LeBron James throws down the nasty putback dunk against the Pelicans Video: Anthony Davis destroys Zion Williamson at the rim during Lakers-Pelicans matchup Gilbert Arenas says LeBron James is the GOAT, Jordan and Kobe couldn’t carry those Cavs teams Report: Lakers superstar LeBron James leaving Coke to become face of new Pepsi line Rockets player reveals that team ‘drew the line’ after latest beating from Lakers Home / Team News / Lakers News: Avery Bradley to Miss Entire Upcoming Four-Game Road Trip Lakers News: Avery Bradley to Miss Entire Upcoming Four-Game Road Trip Los Angeles Lakers guard Avery Bradley will remain off the court through the team’s upcoming four-game road trip, as he continues to rehabilitate a hairline fracture of his right leg that was injured on Nov. 3. Bradley, who signed with the Lakers during the offseason, suffered the injury after a collision with Dejounte Murray of the San Antonio Spurs. He’s scheduled to be re-evaluated on Nov. 29 to assess his recovery. The discovery of the hairline fracture came after Bradley underwent an MRI, with the Lakers announcing the news last Friday. Prior to the news, Bradley had only missed the Lakers’ Nov. 5 game in Chicago before then playing in the next four contests. He’s since missed the team’s past three games. In Bradley’s 10 games with the Lakers this season, the 10-year veteran’s statistical numbers have been modest, averaging 9.6 points, 3.2 rebounds and 1.8 assists per game. However, his defensive abilities have helped the Lakers rise to second in the NBA in fewest points allowed at 101.1 per game. That understated role for Bradley has helped the Lakers get off to a strong start, with the team winning eight of the 10 games that the veteran has played in for the season. As a team, they hold a league-best 12-2 mark. If Bradley is given the go-ahead to play after the Nov. 29 check, he could see action in the Lakers’ two games that weekend. They host the Washington Wizards that night, followed by a Dec. 1 afternoon clash against the Dallas Mavericks. avery bradleydallas mavericksdejounte murrayfeaturedLos Angeles Lakersnews tickersan antonio spursWashington Wizards ← Previous Story Report: Lakers Reveal Severity of Kyle Kuzma’s Latest Eye Injury Next Story → LeBron James Reaches 2 Major Career Milestones in Win Over San Antonio Spurs Brad is a freelance writer for LakersDaily.com, who can clearly recall watching Lakers games in 1972 as they captured the first of their 11 Los Angeles-based titles. The franchise's evolution into a beloved and iconic franchise among its fan base since that memorable year allows for a wider perspective to be a part of his writing about the team's current fortunes. Report: James Harden wants to be traded because he ‘knows’ he can’t beat Lakers with Rockets The dominant Los Angeles Lakers have the best record in the NBA this season. Houston Rockets disgruntled superstar James... Report: Knicks, Cavs and Mavericks interested in pursuing Talen Horton-Tucker over summer Report: Lakers looking forward to visiting White House when Joe Biden takes office Report: Kobe Bryant was planning to end relationship with Nike and start his own ‘Mamba’ brand before his death Report: Former Lakers guard signs contract with Chinese Basketball Association team Copyright © 2018 Lakers Daily, All Rights Reserved. Property of Ahn Fire Digital. Partner with USA Today Sports Digital Properties. Privacy Policy	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line937
__label__wiki	0.558172	0.558172	"Pound sign question mark star exclamation point" July 17, 2010 @ 8:18 am · Filed by Mark Liberman under Language and culture A recent post on Arnold Zwicky's blog features Kevin Fowler's Pound Sign, which brings cartoon cussing to the medium of music for the first time (?): Just in case there might be little ears around, I won’t say it, I’ll just spell it out – I feel like pound-sign, question mark, star, exclamation point, Don’t give a blank, and a whole lot of other choice words I can’t say – Today I feel like pound-sign, question mark, star, exclamation point. (You can hear the whole thing here, or buy a copy here.) As far as I know, Kevin Fowler isn't related to the brothers Henry Watson Fowler and Francis Fowler, authors of Fowler's Modern English Usage. But he clearly has a well-developed sense of linguistic propriety, as well as the nimble wit characteristic of both country song writers and usage mavens. This happens to be the fifth anniversary of the first LL post to discuss cartoon cussing (“You taught me language, and my profit on’t / Is, I know how to curse”, 7/17/2005). In the FoxTrot strip that I cited five years ago, Peter complains that "comic strip curse words leave something to be desired": And I've always agreed with him. But after listening to Pound Sign a few times, I'm starting to warm up to "pound sign, question mark, star, exclamation point" as a way to express pain, anger, frustration, or annoyance. [Other relevant LL posts include "Call me… unpronounceable", 9/6/2005; "Beetle Bailey goes positively meta", 6/22/2006; "More @!%!*#~@#!! wisdom from Beetle Bailey", 6/23/2006; "Everybody's going meta", 6/23/2006; "Obscenicons in the workplace", 8/24/2006; "2500 words for cursing the weather", 1/18/2007; "Reading the ampersand comics!", 3/21/2008; "Spiral thingy lightning bolt!", 3/20/2008;"A little more on obscenicons", 3/23/08; "Seven words you can't say in a cartoon", 7/4/08"; "Comic profanity", 4/26/2009. And here's a historical puzzle. In "The earliest typographically bleeped F-word?", 6/15/2006, a tip from Mark Matienzo traced the "F___" type of typographical bleeping back to 1698. What was the earliest use of mixed typographical symbols (as opposed to uniform asterisks or underlining) to represent (part or all of) taboo words?] Roger Depledge said, "£££!”? Someone has money on the brain. What many Brits call hash, the French call dièse “sharp”, which I have only just learnt is not actually the same character. The German Raute does sound pretty angry; I haven't looked for any others. [(myl) As I understand it, the connection is purely a matter of where on the typewriter keyboard it was traditionally placed. For whatever reason, the symbol # — which is less confusingly known as an "octothorp" or a "number sign" or a "sharp sign" or a "hash" — is conventionally called "pound sign" in the U.S. these days, even though it has no visual or semantic connection to the genuine pound sign £. And the proportion of Americans who associate the "pound sign" # in any way with money is negligible.] Theodore said, Through my childhood & adolescence (b. 1969 in the Chicago area), "#" was never known as "pound sign," but rather "number sign" or occasionally "hash mark." I don't think "pound sign" became common in my experience until it was used in automated telephone messaging systems (e.g. "enter the extension followed by pound"). As for "dièse," though we sometimes use "#" as a typewritten substitute for "sharp," the two are different: The musical sharp sign has the vertical strokes truly vertical and the crossbars slanted. Paula said, Isn't the American "pound sign" referring to weight, not currency? I recall reading recipe cards hand-written by my grandmother which used "3# potatoes" in the ingredient list. Ellen K. said, In particular, it seems to me, it's on telephones that the # sign is always called the pound sign in the U.S. And the is star. I'm actually inclined to think of it as a number symbol out of context. I've never seen it used as a pound sign, I just know what key to press when the voice on the phone says "press pound". Also, pound here refers to weight, not money. Definitely no money on the brain reflected in the song. If they were two brothers, why isn't it called Fowlers' Modern English Usage? [(amz) Because DMEU was almost entirely written by Henry. After the jointly-written King's English in 1906, Henry and Frank embarked on a joint Dictionary. They had about a quarter of it written in draft when the First World War intervened and Frank died (in 1918), leaving Henry to finish the volume on his own.] I had no idea "#" was called "pound" anywhere. Lesson of the day, I guess (easier than trying to understand tensors, though). Danish used a big Π of sorts to denote a pound (the weight/mass). I have a handwritten recipe of my nan's using that. Of course by then the pound had been decimalised after we adopted the Système International. Wikipedia has a comprehensive discussion of the names of # and their etymologies, as well as the many, many current uses. What was the earliest use of mixed typographical symbols (as opposed to uniform asterisks or underlining) to represent (part or all of) taboo words? I always assumed this was a comic strip convention. In his history of "grawlixes" (what I prefer to call "obscenicons"), Gwillim Law gives examples back to "The Katzenjammer Kids" — a strip from Sep. 3, 1911 has "★ – ! – !" along with some other scribbles. "Wash Tubbs" appears to have introduced the spiral character (the original "grawlix") c. 1924. [Update: I found an earlier example.] Lucy Kemnitzer said, It's called the pound sign because in groceries and suchlike places it represents the words "per pound," as in $2.50#, which means "two dollars and fifty cents per pound." I thought people knew that. [(myl) This is an interesting idea, which I've often heard advanced as an explanation of the name, but never seen in actual use. e.g. in the grocery store or in newspaper ads. So I've always assumed that it's a sort of semiotic folk-etymology.] Rubrick said, All the given etymologies for "pound sign" are spurious. It acquired that name when Ezra Pound began ending lines of poetry with it, in the mistaken belief that the reason people liked Emily Dickinson better than him was because she used nonstandard punctuation. [(myl) The best theory yet. (Not the one most likely to be correct, but the best one.)] Julie said, I'm with Paula on this one. I grew up with recipes and shopping lists marked in just that way, and my own (mostly copied from my mother's recipe book) use the same convention in those rare places where a pound of something is called for.* So one buys 10# potatoes, 2# onions, etc. *American recipes rarely designate weight except in regard to fresh produce. Other ingredients are normally measured by volume: 1t=1teaspoon, 1T=1 tablespoon, 1c= 1 cup. I learned these abbreviations as a child. I have never seen them in published books of any age, but they show up often in handwritten recipes. Q. Pheevr said, @Rubrick – Of course, real reason people liked Dickinson better than Pound was because she wasn't a fascist. But her use of the Emily Dash (or "Em dash," for short) probably didn't hurt. Terry Collmann said, As Wikipedia says, "On standard US keyboard layouts, the # symbol is Shift+3. On standard UK keyboards, Shift+3 generates the pound currency symbol (£)." So both keyboards generate what the natives would call a pound sign when Shift+3 is pressed, but they're two different signs … coincidence, or deliberate? [(myl) I was told by someone who worked for AT&T when the Touch-Tone™ keypad was developed (in the late 1950s) that the designation "pound sign" for the # symbol came from the fact that shift-3 generates # on American keyboards — a symbol whose name people were not sure of — but the "pound sign" on British keyboards. It's clear in any case that this was a widespread usage for decades before that time — the OED's second entry for pound sign is "U.S. The symbol #, esp. as found on a keyboard or touch-tone telephone; the hash sign", with citations back to 1923: 1923 W. E. HARNED Typewriting Stud. II. 29/1 Special Signs and Characters..#..Number or pound sign; # 10 (No. 10); 10# (ten pounds). It's not clear from this entry whether "ten pounds" was supposed to be avoirdupois or money.] Britons in the US must get very confused when asked to "press the pound sign" on automatic telephone systems. Much as I enjoy the eponymicality, I have to point out that Halmos had a tombstone long before he died. Also: sorry for trying to make a funny about misplaced apostrophes in "Fowler's". Guess it sounded better in my head. What makes it mysterious is that, in modern US usage, # is almost never used for anything associated with pounds; we use "lb." or "lbs." for pounds and "/lb." for "per pound". It is still sometimes used to mean "number". I always knew it as a "number sign" when I was a kid, and the phrase "pound sign" was initially as mysterious to me as it must be to Britons. I did not offer $2.50# as a theory, but as an observation. Is it a regional thing? Because it's all over the grocery stores here (California). Not as common as Lb, but common enough. Also, when I worked as a bagger of weird health food items and a grinder of peanut butter, we used the symbol all the time. [(myl) Perhaps there are regional differences. Or maybe I've just got a blind spot for this. Anyhow, I can't remember ever having seen it. (Update) But I do note that the American Heritage dictionary has "The symbol (#) for a pound as a unit of weight" as its second gloss for pound sign.] Lance said, It's called the pound sign because in groceries and suchlike places it represents the words "per pound"…. But then one might ask: is it called the "pound sign" because of that usage? Or did it gets its name via the transatlantic-keyboard explanation, and once it was called "pound sign", grocers began using it to mean "pound"? It doesn't surprise me that English readers would be unfamiliar with this usage, since "pound" has another meaning there, but I'm very surprised that Americans don't know it. I thought of it as something old-fashioned that "everybody" knew. Is this because few of us remain that learned to cook at our mothers' sides? I would be very surprised if that usage were to be new enough to be derived from keyboards. I'm pretty sure I've never seen it in a printed recipe. Now I will have to go back and look at my grandmother's recipes. Lucy, I've seen it in grocery stores, too, but I never thought it meant "per pound," but "pounds." I would interpret $2.50/# to mean 2.50 per pound, and 5# to be simply 5 pounds. Compare $1.25/10#. $1.25 for 10 pounds. I can see that grocers might have simplified it further in the stockroom; I only know what it said over the produce. Szwagier said, And there was me ("there was I"? I just don't know any more…) as a Brit being momentarily extremely impressed that a country singer, of all people, knew what a pound sign was. Ah, well… Kendra said, Growing up in the 80s in the Midwest, # was a pound sign – but it represented pounds as weight rather than pounds as money. I most often saw it at the grocery store where we'd buy certain things in bulk, and they were labelled with a pound sign for the weight. I learned to cook at my mother's side, but she was a nerdy Latin scholar who preferred "lb." When I worked in a commercial bakery where all ingredients are measured by weight, lb. was used. I did use "#" in the context of the hardware store, where it means "number" in screw and drill bit sizes.I'd be interested to see the statistics on where in N. America "#" is used as "pound". Kivi said, Other links relating to verbalizing punctuation marks: Waka Waka Bang Splat!, a poem consisting almost entirely of punctuation Victor Borge's classic phonetic pronunciation system Lars Mathiesen said, My grandmother (Danish) used a pound sign as well in her hand-written recipes, but it wasn't quite the same as the modern hash mark — it was more like a lowercase (handwritten) u with the right stem curled back to cross the left one. I can see how this could develop from an lb ligature (but not prove that it did, of course) — and how it could develop further into a hash mark by turning the bottom 'connection' of the u into another crossbar. So, maybe all those American grocery stores are in a sense writing lb for pound, with a ligature that's become as hard to recognize as & for et. [(myl) In 50-odd years of shopping, at one time or another in most regions of the U.S., I've never come across one of those grocery stores. No doubt they exist, given the testimony of various other commenters; but they can't be very common.] Lance, I doubt that the trans-Atlantic keyboard theory would be correct, unless people were a lot more worried about keyboard placement in the fifties-seventies than I think they were. [(myl) But the keyboard-placement actually derived from the Baudot-code equivalence. This was a more interesting and serious correspondence than typewriter-key location, and also one that would have been very familiar to the folks in the phone company who invented and marketed the touch-tone pad.] Ordbog over det Danske Sprog shows the mark I was talking about. Clearly a fancy ligature of 'lb', but also very reminiscent of a # to my eyes. I don't know if this was unique to Danish usage, and I don't have the means to research it, but Danish commercial usage was closely tied to German at times. Could it be that the grocery stores using # in the US are in Scandinavian- or German-settled areas? Steve Morrison said, One more data point: I've been familiar with the usage from childhood; I grew up in Cincinnati and was born in 1962. Nik Jeffords said, As a long time restaurant professional, I've been familiar with stacks of invoices from various food distributors. Most of them, Sysco included, use the # for pounds (weight) when denoting pack size. Thus 3/4# would mean a 12 pound box consisting of three, four pound units. Also, when taking inventory, I use the # all the time for pound. It facilitates clarity. When furiously scribbling numbers on a notepad, lb can look a lot like 16 and 3lb can easily turn into 316, especially if someone else transcribes. 3# is much harder to misread. giedd said, The consensus on the thread so far seems to be that "pound" is American, whereas "hash" is English. In that case, does anyone know why #(topicname) on Twitter got to be called a "hashtag" rather than a "poundtag" or "pound code" or some other variation on "pound"? which brings cartoon cussing to the medium of music for the first time (?) The band Everclear released a song in the '90s titled "Heartspark Dollarsign". Tyro said, Working in the back room of a store in the US, I once received a box directed to Store £177–obvious to me that it should have been #177, but wondering what thought process confused pound and number quite like that. (I can't remember if it was a box sent directly from China–seems like it wasn't, so non-native confusion shouldn't have been involved.) Matt McCarty said, The # designation is often used in agricultural notations, particularly livestock record keeping. 20 years ago when I took agri-science, the assignment would earn an F if we failed to use the # notation. Link love: language (28) « Sentence first said, […] Cartoon cussing in Country & Western. 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__label__wiki	0.710028	0.710028	SEARCH (316) 268-0200 In-process Projects 3 Wichita Dillons Stores Getting Makeovers Three Dillons stores in Wichita are getting multimillion-dollar makeovers. The stores are at 13th and West, Central and Rock Road and 37th St. North and Woodlawn, said Sheila Lowrie, Dillons spokeswoman. All three stores will have expanded offerings of natural and organic foods, which is a response to customer demand, Lowrie said. “We always look at ways we can continue to enhance the shopping experience for our customers,” Lowrie said. Wichita has seen more grocers come to town recently – like Whole Foods, Natural Grocers and Fresh Market – that offer those kinds of food. Renovations at the 13th and West store began last week and are expected to be completed by the fall. The store will include expanded produce selection, more deli foods, a new Collegiate Fan shop, beverage center, larger pharmacy with a drive-through, cafe seating and other upgrades. At Central and Rock Road, renovations are expected to be completed in late summer. The meat, seafood and produce sections are being renovated, Lowrie said. The 37th St. North and Woodlawn location renovations began in December and will be completed in the fall, Lowrie said. The store is getting a 28,000-square-foot expansion on the south and north sides, which will bring the store to about 87,000 square feet. The store will have a new gourmet cheese shop and olive bar, cafe seating with free Wi-Fi, beverage center, new pharmacy, sushi kiosk and other changes. Lowrie said she did not have any details on other future store renovations in the area. She also could not provide an exact cost for the renovations. Contractors for the project are D.F. Osborne Construction at the Central and Rock Road location and The Law Company for the locations at 13th and West and 37th St. North and Woodlawn. By Kelsey Ryan The Wichita Eagle Contact The Law Company headquarters at (316) 268-0200 or visit our contact page to get started. We look forward to speaking with you! 345 Riverview, 3rd Floor, Wichita, KS 67203 P.O. Box 1139, Wichita, KS 67201 ©The Law Company 2021 Website by cb{d}	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line942
__label__cc	0.573763	0.426237	Every private equity deal is different – so you’re bound to have some questions. Get to know private equity firm LDC better here too. Take a look at our most frequently asked questions below. About LDCAbout private equityAbout LDC Top 50 About LDC About private equity About LDC Top 50 Nominations are now closed for The LDC Top 50 Most Ambitious Business Leaders programme in 2020 But you can register your interest by nominating yourself or someone else for the LDC Top 50 2021 here. My business didn’t grow in its last full financial year, but is growing in the current financial year – can I still enter the LDC Top 50? Yes. The requirement is that the business is experiencing year on year growth at the time of entering. My business isn’t UK based – can still enter? Sorry, businesses are required to be UK based in order to eligible for the Top 50 business awards. My business is a UK based subsidiary of an overseas parent company – can I still enter? 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LDC can work with you to structure a private equity investment that suits you – whether as a minority or majority investor in a management buyout, secondary buyout, development capital or carve out. Find out more about the different types of private equity deals. Which sectors does LDC invest in? We have partnered with over 650 management teams across all sectors of the UK economy – including healthcare, retail & consumer, technology. media & telecoms (TMT), industrials, financial services, support services, travel & leisure and construction & property. Find out how we have helped businesses in your sector grow. How does LDC add value as a private equity partner? Working with private equity firms helps to bring additional value, for example non-executive directors joining the board of a business. At LDC, we also provide access to our Value Creation Partners (VCP), who can help you identify pressure points and growth opportunities across your business – in areas from sales and marketing to procurement and working capital. Discover more about how LDC can add real value to the businesses we back and meet our Value Creation Partners. What is it like working with LDC? You will be in good company. Over 650 management teams across the UK have chosen LDC’s flexible approach to private equity over the past 40 years. Every one of those growth journeys is different but they all have two things in common: ambition and partnership. We will get to know you and your business, backing you to achieve your business ambitions. Find out more about working with LDC. How long will LDC be invested for? As part of Lloyds Banking Group, we are not like other mid-market private equity firms. We don’t have to focus on fundraising. Nor do we have a set fund cycle. So we can be more flexible, supporting you through ups and downs. Some of our tenures have been less than a year and some have been for more than ten years – whatever happens, we will support until it’s right for everyone involved to proceed with an exit strategy. And we often stay invested after that. Find out more about LDC here. What is a private equity investment and how does it work? Private equity funding is the injection of capital into a business in return for a minority or majority stake in the business. This capital – plus the private equity company’s operational expertise – enables the portfolio company to increase in value, deploying a variety of growth strategies. Find out more about private equity. Or discover why LDC is very different to other private equity houses. Why choose private equity investment? Private equity can enable a change to the ownership structure of a business. For example, if the business owner has reached a stage in their career where they are looking to take a step back, de-risk and realise some of the value they have created. Most importantly, businesses backed by private equity can grow faster than companies that access capital by other means – thanks to the combination of funding and strategic input from experienced partners. To find out how private equity has helped businesses in your sector, read our case studies. What do private equity firms look for in an investment? Every private equity company will have its own investment strategy. A traditional approach requires the business looking for investment to have a steady and reliable cash flow, strong track record and a clear future growth path. LDC takes a management-focused approach, supporting those leading an organisation – and backing their knowledge, expertise and ambitions. You can find out more about LDC’s investment criteria here. How do private equity firms add value? The role of private equity is to work in partnership with business leaders to build scale and value. Together, they can supercharge the growth of a business, through making business improvements, organic growth, acquisitions or international expansion. Working with private equity firms can also bring additional value, like access to experienced business advisors or non-executive directors joining the board. How can private equity fund new business growth? Private equity investors help management teams map out and execute growth strategies. Each company’s opportunities are different and investors shape their approach accordingly. It could be making acquisitions, launching new products, building new manufacturing facilities, breaking into new sectors or expanding overseas. Due to LDC’s unique funding structure, we have up to £100 million to invest in each of our portfolio companies. We are able to provide follow-on funding to back further expansion – whether that’s capital to finance a bolt-on acquisition or the development of a new facility. Find out how a private equity investment can support a variety of growth strategies or read LDC’s Head of New Business John Garner’s article ‘How private equity can help you to grow your business’. How can I buy a competitor or acquire another business? Private equity can help support a buy and build strategy to help businesses expand, diversify or consolidate market leadership. This extends beyond the capital to purchase a business and includes significant mergers & acquisition (M&A) expertise to help integrate the acquired business. LDC can help identify, acquire and integrate suitable businesses. We supported 35 acquisitions across our portfolio in 2020, plus two thirds are on a buy & build growth journey. Read our buy and build case studies to see examples. How does the private equity investment process work? Every private equity deal is different – but there are a number of common stages of the deal process. The right private equity partner will work with you to make sure the process works for you. You can find out more about LDC’s private equity investment process here. Is it better to get corporate loans than private equity? A loan through a bank or corporate lender can provide you with capital to grow your company. A private equity partner can also provide you with advice, insight and experience alongside the money you need to see your visions become reality. Find out more about the benefits of working with a private equity company in our guide to private equity. What is the difference between private equity and venture capital? The distinctions between private equity and venture capital funding are often misunderstood. While both options offer cash and expertise to drive growth, the scale of investment and methods of working have a clear difference. Private equity firms tend to back established companies with a strong track record – demonstrating consistent growth and profitability, with a proven management team at the helm. Venture capital funding specialises in start-up and early stage businesses, often operating in high-growth sectors such as technology and fintech. Find out more about how private equity can support you and your business. What are the main private equity exit strategies? There are three typical exit routes for a private equity company: • IPO or flotation – where the company offers its shares for sale on a public stock market, often with the private equity partner continuing to hold shares • Trade sale – sale of the company’s shares to another company, likely to be a larger corporate in a similar industry • Secondary buyout – the sale of the company’s shares to another private equity firm Read more about how LDC can help you prepare for an IPO. What are the advantages of private equity investment for your company? Private equity helps you open up growth opportunities without losing control of your business. For example, a management team might want to raise funds to allow the existing owner to take a step back, or to expand or diversify the business. With private equity, as well as getting the capital that you need, you’ll also be backed by experienced business partners. Hear from LDC-backed CEOs on how the private equity experience has helped them achieve their ambitions. Is private equity worth it and right for me? Private equity is a big step for any company and business leader. But it can be a catalyst to help you transform and grow your business – with financial benefits for all shareholders. Read some private equity success stories here. How is a private equity transaction structured? A private equity investment is typically a medium to long-term investment in your company. Giving you a capital injection by acquiring ordinary shares and/or making loans to the company. There are various ways in which a deal or transaction will be structured. Each company’s needs and ambitions are unique, so the deal needs to be tailored accordingly. Speak to an expert to find out what your private equity journey could look like. How do private equity companies finance their buyouts? Many private equity firms generate capital through funds and large institutional investors – including pension funds, insurance firms and banks. LDC has a unique funding structure. As part of Lloyds Banking Group, LDC does not need to fundraise due to ongoing funding from the bank. This allows us to deploy patient capital, working to the timetable of our portfolio businesses. Find out more about the benefits of LDC’s unique funding structure. What legal agreements and documents are needed in a private equity deal? The main transaction documents needed for a private equity deal are usually: Share Purchase Agreement – governs the acquisition of the company’s shares and the consideration paid Shareholders’ Agreement – governs the relationship between the shareholders Debt documents – facility agreement, security documents and any inter-creditor agreements Plus a range of ancillary documentation Read more about the elements of a private equity deal in our jargon buster. How do you choose a private equity firm? The right private equity partner can enable business owners to supercharge the growth of their company – while they continue to run it and realise some of the value they have already created. There are many different types of private equity house with different investment strategies and styles, including how actively involved they are in the management of the business. It’s important to explore the options to help you decide on the right kind of private equity partner for you and your business. Find out more about what makes LDC different to other institutional investors. Private equity jargon. Made clearer We want to make private equity as straightforward and transparent as we are – take a look at our glossary if you’ve spotted any jargon. Videos on private equity partnerships with LDC Terry and Dan discuss why they chose private equity. Hear Sheila Dean from Equiom on how private equity supported her growth strategy. Carl and Richard discuss a 4-year private equity partnership.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line945
__label__wiki	0.64256	0.64256	Chapter Six — A Space to Hold Two Dozen Dreams Miss Helen Pathways filed away a report of petty theft in the sheriff’s filling cabinet. It was important she got it right. The sheriff was a demanding boss and didn’t take well to things not being exactly as he liked them. Helen looked up from her task just as the office door opened and a good looking young man entered. Her appreciative eye traversed the triangle from his waist to his shoulders before fixing on his face. The face smiled at her. She suddenly found herself wishing she’d paid more attention to her hair that morning. “Can I help you?” she asked. “Yes,” the young man said. “I was wondering what laws the council might have put in place regarding salvaging from wrecks.” Helen blinked. “I don’t think we have any laws for that yet.” Understanding dawned. “Oh, you must be thinking of the boat that ran aground on the small island out near the council preserve.” She waved a dismissive hand. “Don’t bother with it.” The young man looked disappointed. “Oh?” Helen hastened to explain. “There’s nothing there now, you see. They already took anything that was worth anything. It’ll all be just rotten timber.” The young man’s face lit up again. “But the wood is available?” Helen couldn’t for the life of her imagine why anyone would want such low-quality wood, but… “Yes, until the council makes a law about it and so long as you don’t go into the council preserve.” The young man smiled at her again. Charles Moore sat in an aluminium deck-chair, overlooking the warm blue sea, and sipped from a small tankard of stripe. This was the life. Thank Coincidence he’d chosen to be a dolphin whisperer all those years ago. It had merely seemed like a cool thing to be at the time, but now that he’d hit twenty-five and completed his fifth and final whisperer ritual, it was his ticket to see as much of Creakylid as he could deliver post to, all at the council’s expense, and unlike Earth, he didn’t have to hide what he was here. Being able to turn into a dolphin was still new and exciting and he loved it. A shadow blocked out his sun. “Charles?” He recognised that voice. “Hey, man!” he said, turning around in his chair. There stood a grinning Richard Struggle, complete with tiny trunk — Dear Driven what he would give for one of them. “What’s up?” Richard pointed to the tree-line that marked the start of the council preserve way off in the distance. “You know the wreck way past the peninsular there? What would it take for you to give me a lift to it?” Charles smiled. The wreck didn’t have a ferry service to it. There was nothing in the rules about not taking someone there. His eyes slid to the trunk at Struggle’s side again. “A spot on your next memory diary entry and a discount on a trunk when you start making them?” Struggle’s eyes sparkled. “Done.” Richard and Charles stood at the end of one of the many wooden piers that made up The Second Island docks. The sun shone down on them. The crystal blue water blobbed and sploshed around the wooden pier legs. Richard wore only swimming shorts and his trunk. “Hi all,” Richard said, talking to no one. “Hey everyone!” Charles waved at nothing. Richard pointed at Charles. “This here is Charles Moore — dolphin whisperer working for the council post office — and he’s going to be helping me with this next bit.” Charles looked between Richard and the nothing they were both talking to. “Yeah, the island’s a fair bit away, and carrying people can get pretty exhausting, but I’m sure we’ll manage.” “Yep,” Richard said. “I’ll try and find out later exactly how far it is.” A loud voice interrupted them, calling to them from across the far end of the pier. They turned. “Richard!” Elizabeth was marching up the pier. “Ah,” Richard said. She stopped a few feet away from them and hesitated, wide eyes dragging over his shirtless upper body. Richard chuckled. Elizabeth visibly shook herself and said, “So, that’s your ‘cunning plan?’ Use the wood from the wreck?” “And how long will that take you?” Richard shrugged and his face turned more serious. “I’m not sure.” Elizabeth looked away. “You know I’m leaving tomorrow evening.” Richard nodded. “I’ll try and be back before then.” Elizabeth didn’t say anything. Richard gave her an uncertain smile. “But there is something you could do for me while you’re still here.” Elizabeth looked back. “Oh?” “Could you tell Julie what I’m planning? Tell her to get the people trapped here ready to leave in a hurry. Oh, and they need to be ready to build a small boat too.” Elizabeth nodded slowly. “Be ready to leave quickly. Be ready to build a small boat. Got it.” “I trust you,” Richard said with a grin. Elizabeth snorted and Richard noted with satisfaction that she hadn’t been able to keep herself from flashing her wry smile. Charles stretched his arms. “You ready now? We’re going to need to finish this before I have to start my next post run.” Richard’s eyes firmed. “Ready.” Charles took a running dive off the pier and transformed into a dolphin mid-jump. He hit the water with a splash and re-emerged moments later, clicking and squeaking and bobbing up and down. Richard jumped in next to him, grabbed Charles’ dorsal fin, and together the two sped away through the wonderfully cooling water. Pretty soon, the water stopped being cooling, and started being annoying. Charles swam just below the surface, meaning that Richard was right at the surface. Every so often, he’d take a face full of warm salty seawater, causing him to splutter and cough and try to get the water out of his eyes while maintaining his hold on the dolphin whisperer. His back, shoulders and neck were burning too, he could feel it. The sun beat down like a hammer and the water only made it worse, reflecting and concentrating the rays on his far too pale skin. Eventually, though, Charles slowed down, and Richard could fully appreciate how close they now were to the small island ahead of them. They turned a corner around some rocks and Richard spied his prize up close for the first time. It wouldn’t win any awards for the most aesthetic boat of all time — it was dirty and rotten and looked like someone had been over it with a sledgehammer. Great gouges had been taken out of the hull and splintered wood lay all over the rocks around it, but to Richard, it might as well have been made out of solid gold. “Can you get me close?” he yelled to Charles. Charles made a trilling noise and darted off in that direction. Richard let go of his ride and paddled ashore, followed a few moments later by a once-again human Charles. “There you go, man,” Charles said. He gestured to the wreck. “Think that’ll be able to do you?” Richard’s eyes sparkled. “I should say so.” He wandered over to the side of the boat, which was tipped on its side, and pulled himself up to look at the decking. It was almost all still there. “Well, I need to be heading back,” Charles said. “Are you sure you’ll be okay for getting back on your own?” Richard nodded. “Not like I’ve got much of a choice. I’ll make it.” Charles gave him a wave. “Good luck, man!” He dived back into the water and transformed once again. The dolphin whisperer sped away across the tropical sea. Richard watched him go until he was out of sight, then turned to the ship and rubbed his hands together. Time to get down to work. Richard dropped his trunk on the pebbled ground and opened the lid. He’d done a quick survey of the immediate area and determined that making camp by the boat would be an extremely silly thing to do. The water lapped up the rocky beach and there would be nothing to stop it if a storm blew up. He’d found a rocky alcove not far away from the boat, which would serve him well. It was protected from the wind and was high enough to be safe from all but the worst waves. It also supplied ample flat surfaces for him to unpack everything he’d need, just like at the customs point yesterday morning and half an age ago. Planes, hammers, saws — he took out just what he thought he’d need and tried to keep the rest as tightly packed together as it had been before. The last thing he wanted was for his vintage tools to get rusty again, or for his precious books to become damp. He pulled on his shirt and winced as the redness of his shoulders and neck brushed against the thin cotton. He then wandered down to the wreck — pencil, folding rule, and try square in hand — and started marking out the usable parts he’d need. Over-head the sun continued to beat down. Richard stared at the pile of neatly cut planks at his feet and took a moment to catch his breath. Lugging all that all the way up to his alcove had taken a fair bit out of him, but he couldn’t afford to rest. The day was dragging on and he didn’t like his chances of continuing the build at night. He reached for his pencil again and started marking up dovetail joints. Richard stepped back. The dovetail joints for the box section were done. He had all the main bits laid out around him. Now he just had to put them together. He still hadn’t started on the lid. The sky had started to blaze orange and red. He took a deep breath, wiped his brow, and got back down to work. Light was failing. The oranges and reds were slowly retreating, making way for dark purples and blues. He wasn’t going to make it in time, Richard could tell. The trunk itself was almost complete, but he still needed to put together the arch-like lid and that might well take more time than the rest of the trunk had. If he didn’t get this finished, then he wouldn’t be able to start the magic spell to expand the trunk, and if he couldn’t do that overnight, then he’d never be able to make it back before Elizabeth left. Richard looked over his half-finished trunk and considered his options. Would being late actually be terrible in the grand scheme of things? No, not really. He’d miss Elizabeth’s departure but she would be leaving soon anyway. It would be annoying, but he could live with it. Maybe it would be better to get a good night’s rest and make sure to do the job properly in the morning. Not far away, waves crashed against the rocks — a rhythmic soundtrack of oceanic persistence, battering away at wood and stone, slowly rendering them as nothing by billions of weak, watery hammer falls. Richard glared at nothing. Was that really him thinking that? He could live with it? He thought of the drunk man back at the island, a man who said he wanted to leave but wasn’t apparently willing to go to the basic extremes needed to do it. Something inside him roared — something primal and ancient, and very, very angry. He could live with it? He could live with it? Yes, he could, ‘live with it’. Should he live with it? Fuck no! He reached into his side-trunk, pulled out a book on wilderness survival, and turned to the section on fire-lighting. The light of a campfire flickered around the alcove. Lighting it hadn’t been easy, but, with the help of one of his knives, his flint, and a small pile of sawdust from the trunk project, he’d managed it. Now black smoke drifted up from the slightly damp scrap wood planks too weak and shoddy for the trunk itself. Richard drew a long line of wood glue along the last line of the trunk’s lid and pressed the last two bits of wood together, before clamping them with one of his last hand screw clamps. Even if the trunk would be indestructible once the spell caught, he’d learned he had to build it as though it wouldn’t be or the spell wouldn’t work. The trunk now had so many long metal clamps attached, at almost every angle, that it more resembled an over-sized pin-cushion than a trunk. The air was now far colder. The wind chilled his bones and blew sea water on his skin. His lips tasted like a salt-lick. The night sky shone once again with a thousand-thousand stars and a pair of half moons finished the painting. There wasn’t another human anywhere in Richard’s whisper sensing range and probably not any for miles beyond even that. Magic spell time. Richard doggedly began to form a triangle around the trunk out of wood offcuts. He then formed three circles, each one just touching the outside of one of the triangle’s three tips. He then sat down in one of the circles. He closed his eyes and felt reality stir to his command. His mouth opened, words started streaming out in a slow and gentle chant, and, gently, gradually, he started casting his mother’s spell. All through the night, Richard stayed focused on casting and chanting. He was never in danger of falling asleep — the spell made sure of that. It commanded his attention the way a gripping novel might. Before he knew it, morning came, the spell caught, and, with no more need to focus, Richard slowly collapsed forward, finally allowing sleep to take him. Richard slowly opened his eyes. Sunlight shone down on him. What was he doing? Oh! Suddenly, it all came back to him. The trunk! He hastily scrabbled to his feet and looked around. The sun was overhead by now. The trunk sat in front of him, still clamped down with every clamp he had. Right. Richard’s eyes focused. Unclamp trunk, load up with wood, paddle back to The Second Island. He quickly set about unscrewing the many clamps from his newest creation. In the clear sunlight, the trunk looked like something dredged up from the deepest depths of the ocean. Despite his efforts to clean up where he could, he just hadn’t had the time to fully treat and sand the wood as he would have liked. The net effect was of an object hewn from a ghost ship. It was a far cry from the fine carving and oil stained wood of Creakylid itself. Richard grasped the sides of his new trunk’s lid and opened it. It made a loud squeaking noise as the brass hinges rubbed together for the first time under the lid’s weight. He looked inside and grinned. A large cavernous space greeted his gaze. He’d check to be sure later, but if his calculations were correct, the space would be exactly 16.25 meters square and exactly two meters high — about the size of a fair sized bedroom — just big enough to fit two dozen people if they really crammed together. He spent the next half hour hacking a ladder and paddle out of scrap wood, and then another few hours loading up the trunk with as much wood as he thought they might need to build a small rowing boat. Finally, he loaded all his stuff back up into his side-trunk, and slung it over his shoulder. He was ready. He picked up the heavy trunk with difficulty and walked it in increments out to the sea. It floated. It was by no means a stable craft and tended to rock about worryingly, but he didn’t have time to worry. Richard climbed into the trunk’s opening, stood atop the access ladder he’d fitted, and, using the paddle he’d just fashioned, started the slow journey back to The Second Island. “Richard, you made it!” Elizabeth stared down at him from atop one of The Second Island piers. She wasn’t alone either. Several men and women surrounded her, looking at the trunk Richard was bobbing up and down in with undisguised interest. Richard grinned up at her. “Did you ever doubt me?” Elizabeth crossed her arms. “No, but I was still worried. You didn’t put any memories on your crystal ball the whole time.” One of the men stepped forward. “If I might suggest, pleasantries can wait till later — we should get you out of there first — if that trunk is all our young lady here says it is”—he indicated Elizabeth—“then we’ve got a lot of work to do before we can get off this Prudence damned island.” Together, the men and women helped Richard get the trunk on dry land and then carried it all the way up Main Street to one of the all-metal buildings at the very end. It looked to be the most scrappy and least appealing building on the whole street. “I rented the whole thing,” Elizabeth explained. “I figured it would be perfect for secretly building a boat.” Richard looked around as two of the men put the trunk down in the centre of the open plan living space. “It’s perfect.” Elizabeth nodded in satisfaction and brushed an imaginary speck of dust from her shoulder. Then, surrounded by the trapped craftsmen and women, Richard approached his new ghost-ship like trunk, which had been shut for the journey to the safe house, and hefted the heavy lid open again. The hinges, once again, let out a loud squeaking noise. One of the men elbowed his friend in the ribs. “Squeakylid,” he said with a grin. Half the room groaned. The other half laughed. The group then watched in awe as Richard descended into the trunk’s depths and started handing up length after length of wood, all of which was demonstratively longer than the trunk by a wide margin. The group’s leader laughed mightily. “Yes! Finally!” He turned to the rest of the trapped craftsmen. “Alright, people. This is the real deal. Be ready to leave on a moments notice. Let’s get this job going!” The group cheered. It didn’t take long for the room to be transformed. Sawdust lay everywhere. Men and women seemed to rotate in and out as though through a revolving door. Julie had already been, but couldn’t stay long for fear of her absence being noticed by Mister Offwood. Plans and measurements were drawn up on scraps of paper pinned to the walls. Before Richard’s eyes, the skeleton of a small rowboat was starting to take shape. He’d heard about the process of boat building before but this was the first time seeing it with his own eyes. It was fascinating. “Richard,” Elizabeth gasped as she saw the raw sunburn all over his neck and shoulders. Richard grunted. The journey back hadn’t been any kinder than the journey there and had taken many times longer without a dolphin whisperer to help. “This must hurt so much.” She lightly touched the redness, causing Richard to wince. “Sorry,” she said, hastily pulling back her hand. Richard shrugged. “It’ll heal.” He returned his focus to the rapidly forming boat in front of him. There were so many skills on display here that he’d yet to learn. His trunk, which everyone now insisted on calling Squeakylid, might as well have been done by a total amateur compared to the craftsmanship in front of him. “I wish we could do something about it,” Elizabeth said. She was glaring at the sunburn as though it had insulted her. “Aloe vera is supposed to help relieve the symptoms,” Richard commented in an offhanded sort of way. He watched as a man slotted a row guide onto the side of the skeleton using a joint he’d never seen before. One of the carpenters walked over to them. “Mister Struggle?” he said. His voice held a deferential respect that still felt alien to Richard. “We’ve got a man here who got wind of what we’re doing and wonders if there’s any room for an extra passenger.” Richard glanced over to the door, and saw a familiar looking man wearing a faded baseball cap, looking rather hung over. It was the same man who’d taken his coin and then sloshed it away on drink the other night. He pursed his lips. “Tell him we’re very sorry but we don’t have any more room.” Elizabeth looked up from inspecting his shoulders. She narrowed her eyes and gave him an approving nod. They watched the carpenter walk back to the man in the baseball cap to deliver the message. The man didn’t look at all happy and cursed the whole room out before staggering out. “Good riddance,” Elizabeth said. Richard nodded slowly. More time passed. The sun started to go down in the sky. The boat was well on the way now. By tomorrow morning it should be ready. Richard frowned. He couldn’t shake the feeling he was missing something. His eyes widened. “Elizabeth,” he said urgently, turning to the girl sitting beside him. “Your boat — your ticket.” Elizabeth hesitated. “I ah, I already talked to Julie,” she said, sounding rather more nonchalant than was strictly necessary. “She said there would actually be room in your trunk for one more, at least.” Richard blinked. Elizabeth wanted to wait for him. She wanted to put off leaving the island, even if it meant travelling in a cramped, claustrophobic box… just to be with him for a few more days? He’d obviously done something right. He smiled. “I’m sure you’re always welcome to travel with me, my lady.” Elizabeth looked away. “I should hope so.” Richard grinned. Elizabeth looked back at him. “Actually,” she continued, this time with quite a lot more hesitancy. “I was wondering if you could do me a favour?” “What kind of favour?” “Well, ever since we got here, I’ve been feeling rather uncomfortable carrying this around.” She reached into her backpack and withdrew her large bag of chad.” She shifted around in her chair. “I was wondering if… well, if you”—she hesitated one last time, but then plunged on regardless—“if you could take care of it for me?” Richard couldn’t help blinking in surprise for the second time in as many minutes. “You want me to carry your money in my side-trunk? Are you sure?” Elizabeth nodded. “Or in ‘Squeakylid’ — at least until we go our own ways.” Richard took the bag solemnly. “Then I will protect your treasure with my life, my lady.” Elizabeth gave him a warm smile — the first warm smile he’d seen on her. It lit up her face and turned the elegance of the diamond industrial drill bit into the elegance of the diamond and silver ring. “Yes,” she said. “I would not be surprised if you actually meant that.” As Richard expected, the build went on through the night. More of the island’s trapped craftsmen turned up to help after darkness fell. Richard made use of the building’s only sofa to catch himself some much-needed sleep while Elizabeth took the bed upstairs. By morning, it was finished — a small rowboat, just big enough for two rowers and one ‘Squeakylid’. Julie turned to address the group of craftsmen, each with all their worldly goods on their backs or clutched to their chests. “Today,” she said, “we’ve been given a great gift. With the help of Mister Richard Struggle here, and his friend, Elizabeth Whisper, we finally have a way out of here.” The craftsmen and women all nodded. They didn’t cheer — not this time. The mood was instead one of grim-faced determination. “Everyone ready?” Julie asked. Everyone nodded again. “Then let’s get moving. We don’t want to wait to find out what shit Mister Offwood and his cronies might try to pull if we dawdle.” She turned to one of the craftswomen and nodded. The woman held up a hand to one of the aluminium walls, concentrated, and a good section of wall seemed to melt, splashing to the ground in a puddle of cool metallic liquid. “There goes my deposit,” Elizabeth muttered, wry smile firmly in place. Two men and four women lifted the currently upside-down boat. Richard and Elizabeth hoisted up Squeakylid. “Go!” Julie barked. They went, marching down Main Street like a swarm of human ants carrying a prize wooden beetle. All the way, cheap would-be hero labourers stopped work on their shanty-town like buildings to stare at the sight. Neither Richard nor Elizabeth, nor any of the craftsmen or women, noticed a man in a faded baseball cap, run ahead of them — a man who’d been hiding behind one of the workshop’s thin aluminium walls, listening to their every word. In The Second Island market, Mister Offwood glared at the empty space where Julie should be carving wood trinkets. He’d have to have ‘words’ with her when she got here about the need for humans to eat. One of his business associates walked up to him. “John’s late,” the man said. “So’s Julie,” Mister Offwood replied. The two looked at each other with narrowed eyes. Suddenly a man ran up to them, out of breath and wheezing — a man wearing a faded baseball cap. “What do you want?” Mister Offwood asked. “Passage off the island.” Mister Offwood crossed his arms. “And why do you think I’d give that to you?” The man smiled. “Cuz I have information on an escape by your workers.” Mister Offwood was suddenly all ears. “Go on.” A commotion behind them, towards the other end of the docks, caused them to glance around. “Passage off the island, or no information,” the man said urgently. “Fine,” Mister Offwood said. The man pointed to where the commotion was. “That’s them.” Richard and Elizabeth placed Squeakylid at the pier’s edge with a definite thlunk sound. “Lower away,” one of the craftsmen called out. The boat carrying team gently lowered the boat into the shimmering blue waters of the Creakylid sea. “Stop right there!” Richard turned. “Oh. Mister Offwood.” He smiled at the furious man, while protectively stepping in front of Elizabeth and Julie. The man certainly looked ready to attack. “How good of you to join us.” Mister Offwood caught his breath before shouting. “That wood is stolen!” The crowd around the docks watched with interest. Richard scoffed. “Of course it isn’t.” “Then where did it come from, eh?” Richard pointed. “From the wreck past the peninsula.” “You can’t salvage without permission!” “Of course you can. I checked with the sheriff’s office first.” Mister Offwood looked taken aback, but rallied with a smirk. “Well, you can’t run a ferry service from here to the island without a council licence.” “I guess it’s a good thing that it’s not a ferry service, then,” Richard said, still grinning. “We’re only going in one direction and we’re only doing it once. It’s a personal boat trip.” Mister Offwood frowned, looking around at the two dozen people milling around in front of him. “But, how…” Behind him, Elizabeth opened Squeakylid’s lid with accompanying loud squeak sound, and motioned everyone to start climbing inside. Mister Offwood’s jaw dropped as person after person climbed down into the depths of the trunk. The last woman to climb in was Julie, who gave Mister Offwood a victorious smirk and a wave before disappearing into Squeakylid’s depths. Richard and Elizabeth clambered onto the gently rocking rowboat and took the trunk from the last two men on the pier. The two men then climbed into the rowboat themselves and down into Squeakylid. Mister Offwood hurumphed and turned his back on them. “Fine. If you’re so desperate to throw away good opportunities, see what I care.” Richard and Elizabeth settled down by the oars for the first tour of rowing duty. “Au revior, Mister Offwood,” Elizabeth called out in a voice so sweet it dripped. “Yeah, whatever,” Mister Offwood scowled. “Don’t think that your leaving makes any difference to me. There’ll be plenty more where you came from.” Richard scowled back. They heaved on the oars and soon were off over the waves, trusty compass leading them east. They rowed in silence for a while until they were well out of earshot of the docks. Then Elizabeth turned to him with a thoughtful expression and asked, “Are you going to make this into a memory diary entry?” “Hmm?” Richard said. “A memory diary entry. You know, like the first one of your preparation.” Richard thought for a moment. Then a mischievous smirk slid onto his face. “Sure, why not. I’m sure someone will get a kick out of it — and I did kinda promise Charles.” Elizabeth gave him a sly look. “Or someone will get kicked because of it.” Richard chuckled. “I suppose it’s not impossible.” His eyes sparkled. “After all, some interesting people did say they’d keep a close eye on my crystal ball.” One week later… Dockmaster Samuel Peterson opened another hate letter and groaned. His desk was piled high with the things. Letter after letter — some calling for his head — others calling for his job — he’d even received one letter that simply read, “FUCK YOU!” Suddenly, his office door opened. He started to snap-off that he wasn’t to be disturbed, but the rest of his sentence died on his lips. Nikolo Maximilian Spinner stood in the door like an old, red-haired, Welsh Hercules. He quickly entered, flanked by three guards all wearing those long, flowing red robes and carrying those scary four-pronged spears. In his hand, Nikolo held a crystal ball. Samuel’s stomach dropped. “Samuel.” Nikolo said, his voice as hard as steel. “Yes, Grand Mage?” he croaked out. “You are under arrest for gross mismanagement of council responsibilities, corruption, and fraud. You are also on suspension from all council duties pending a public enquiry.” Samuel’s eyes widened. “Yes, Samuel, a public enquiry,” the Grand Mage bit out. “I have no intention of having this swept under the carpet.” Samuel’s head dropped into his hands. It had all started out so small. Little things here and there. How had it come to this? He was cuffed and led outside to where it seemed half of the town’s leadership was like-wise cuffed and waiting, sitting silently like a class of school children who’ve really pissed off the teacher. He spotted Mister Offwood among those restrained, cross-legged and looking miserable. Samuel was sat among the other prisoners just as another man wearing a faded baseball cap was dragged in for being drunk and disorderly. The Grand Mage then left without a backwards glance. Once away from the arrested men and women, and from the cries of the shouting drunk who seemed to have a grudge with Mister Offwood, the captain of the guard turned to Nikolo. “What should we do about Mister Struggle, Grand Mage? I know you intended to see him before.” Nikolo rubbed his beard. He really hadn’t expected the boy to be quite so resourceful. “Mmmm… nothing for the moment. I think it may have been a mistake to so overtly intervene in Mister Struggle’s journey so early on.” He held up the crystal ball again. “I think I would like to see how this plays out.” Thank you for reading the original Richard Struggle: Evacuate the Masquerade. I hope you enjoyed it. If you did, please consider becoming a patron. Every contribution directly allows me more time to craft the worlds and stories we love.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line946
__label__wiki	0.639148	0.639148	Legacy Revelstoke Current In Pictures: Art in the Park, GASP photography and Jackie’s farewell party Last Friday’s opening for the Art in the Park and the GASP exhibition as well as the retirement arty for Jackie Pendergast was quite the blow-out with 300 people in attendance. David F. Rooney photo By David F. Rooney Last Friday’s opening for the Art in the Park and the GASP exhibition as well as the retirement arty for Jackie Pendergast was quite the blow-out with 300 people in attendance at the Revelstoke Art Gallery These were two excellent shows with stunning art by 12 of our region’s best painters and photographers. “The Art in the Park program is a unique experience for artists,” said Jackie Pendergast, the Visual Arts Society’s outgoing executive director. “From personal experience I know this opportunity will give them inspiration for many years to come. In a time of financial accountability how can we quantify the impact of this program? I would argue the impact is priceless. For the artists who have participated in Art in the Park over the years they have been given a wonderful gift of being able to spend time with other artists in some of the most beautiful locations in the world. “You will respond to the pieces they have created in different ways. You may recognize the location of some of the pieces or they may make you want to visit. They may give you pleasure or you may have a different reaction. However you respond you will be making a connection to the place, in this case Glacier National Park.” I enjoyed all of the works on display but was really quite mesmerized by some of the photos by the students who went on the latest Glacier Adventure Stewardship Program. The images they displayed were remarkably mature and demonstrated that they know a great image when they see one. And, finally, there was a tremendous send-off for Jackie. On a personal note, I have always admired her calm and conciliatory manner and the tremendous dedication she brought to her role as executive director. She was certainly the right person for the job when Visual Arts Society’s board brought on nine years ago. Here’s her take on it: “After nearly 10 years as Gallery Administrator I have had the luxury of choosing when to retire. I chose this opening of Art in the Park as I have always loved the program and this fabulous group of artists have yet again reminded us why we choose to live in this beautiful part of the world. It is a bittersweet moment for me to be standing here for the last time ‘in charge.’ “I have had the pleasure of hanging thousands of pieces of artwork over the years. Every exhibit has been a bit like Christmas, seeing work for the first time and then showing it to its best advantage. I have especially enjoyed nurturing new artists and seeing them gain in confidence to not only exhibit in group shows but also to take on solo exhibits. I would not have been able to set up the various exhibits without my fabulous volunteers known affectionately as ‘The Hangin’Crew’ I would like to take this opportunity to thank past volunteers and ask the current crew, Peter, Mas, Cat and Sue to step forward so that I can personally thank them. “I would also like to personally thank Margaret who has been a great support and been involved with all the financial aspects of the Centre which have grown so much over the years. “I have enjoyed my time here enormously and feel blessed to have had two successful careers in my life. I am proud of what has been achieved and thank all the volunteers and members who have helped in creating the Centre we have today. I acknowledge the great work that occurred before me with initially the Revelstoke Art Group who had the vision to develop this building into a Gallery and Arts Centre and also the work of Sandra Flood who brought professionalism and knowledge to gallery exhibitions. “This brings me to my final two thank yous. Firstly to Garry who has supported me every step of the way and has willingly helped in so many different ways. We now begin the next adventure. “And my final thank you goes to Ken who is the most extraordinary volunteer I have ever known. Without his expertise, commitment and drive we wouldn’t have half of what has been achieved. I’m sure he has inwardly groaned when I have said ‘What do you think about doing …….or How about? …..’ And never once has he said “No”! He is the person so many members go to for help with their projects. “I would like to wish Victoria every success as she takes on the role of leading the Centre through its next stage of development. I could not be happier than to leave it in her capable hands. We have worked hard together to ensure a smooth transition and I know she will be amazing. “Lastly I would like to share with you the quote I have had as my guiding principle. It is by Sir Richard Attenborough: “The arts are for everyone – and failure to include everyone diminishes us all. “Judging by the number of you who have turned out this evening I hope you feel included. I thank you from the bottom of my heart for making me feel so special.” Here are some images from the evening: Illecillewaet Sky By Zu Riha Many artists, like Becky McMahon whose journal this is, included their original journals from this Art in the Park expedition. Dazzling Descent — Asulkan Valley By Valerie Speer Big Momma Snag By Kate Brooks-Heinimann Majestic Illecillewaet By Lyndsay Esson Long-term aperture photography By Melanie Macovoy The Impermanence of Eternity By Jo C Willems Gouache on paper Journal Pages By Jayme Johnson Illecillewaet Glacier Two-layer woodblock on Japanese paper Fred Dread Asulkan Valley By Leanne Spanza By Gwen Lips Elizabeth Elliott Kate Granstrom Here’s a tantalizing image of the retirement cake baked for Jackie’s party. David F. Rooney photo Allison Fleischer of Parks Canada Opens this year’s Art in the Park exhibition as Visual Arts Society Chairman Ken Talbot (left) and outgoing Executive Director Jackie Pendergast look on. Fleischer praised Jackie for her work over the years organizing and promoting the annual show. David F. Rooney photo Ken Talbot smiles as he listens to Jackie’s farewell speech. David F. Rooney photo Jackie, assisted here by her granddaughter Isobel, manages to cut the magnificent retirement cake. David F. Rooney photo David F. Rooney David F. Rooney Archives David Rooney’s Celebration of Life on Wednesday, August 9th The passing of a dear friend: David Rooney A chuckle a day David F. 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The online daily news site was established by Publisher-Editor David F. Rooney. Following his passing in 2017, the Revelstoke Current was reconstituted as a Not-For-Profit Society on February 15, 2018. © 2021 Revelstoke Current: The David Rooney Legacy Paper	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line951
__label__wiki	0.562149	0.562149	Comedy Theater Back for a fourth round: the Chicago Improv Classic tournament by Tony Adler Jerry Schulman The seven-week tournament returns to Second City. Improvisation has become the sriracha of performing arts. People are always finding new places to put it, from moviemaking to corporate-team building. I suppose most of those uses make sense. When you come down to it, improv is just a technique for getting folks to connect to one another as constructively as possible. What process couldn’t use a little of that? But I never understood why anybody would want to build a contest around it. “Yes and . . . ” and “We will crush you” don’t strike me as an easy fit. So I asked Kevin Mullaney to explain. He runs the Chicago Improv Classic, the latest incarnation of a contest he and Angie McMahon founded four years ago, when they co-owned Under the Gun Theater in Lakeview (Mullaney left in May, due, he told me, to incompatible “levels of optimism”). The 2017 Classic starts January 7 at the Second City, and culminates in finals there on February 18. Mullaney is no Bernie Sanders; he believes competition “drives people,” and that’s a good thing. Still, the Classic has checks and balances designed into it—runners-up can survive qualifying rounds, a talented member of a losing team can get picked up by a winning one. In the end, though, Mullaney relies on the genius of the marketplace: “The crowd knows good improv when they see it.” Chicago Improv Classic Qualifying rounds Sat 1/7, 1/14, and 1/21, 8:30 and 10 PM, Second City de Maat Theatre, 230 W. North, third floor; semifinals Sat 1/28, 2/4, and 2/11; finals 2/18, 10 PM, Donny’s Skybox Theatre, 230 W. North, fourth floor, 312-337-3992, secondcity.com, $13, $11 students. Comedy Theater Chicago Improv Classic Kevin Mullaney Angie McMahon Second City improv Under the Gun Theater Second City de Maat Theatre Donny’s Skybox Theatre Bernie Sanders Courtesy Preach Comedy group Preach proclaims the gospel of spoken word and improv The troupe is hosting a fund-raiser to benefit the Metropolitan Tenants Organization. by Brianna Wellen \| Jan 25, 2017	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line960
__label__wiki	0.975271	0.975271	Music » Music Feature Unlicensed to ill Bootleg rap and R&B vinyl is thriving, even though most of the music is easy to buy or free to download. by Leor Galil If you're a fan of rap or R&B and have a thing for vinyl, chances are you got the gift of wax this holiday season. Did somebody surprise you with an LP copy of, say, Kendrick Lamar's Section.80, Frank Ocean's Channel Orange, or Kanye West's Yeezus? Well, whether you know it or not, you're now the proud owner of a bootleg record. Perhaps you'd assumed bootlegging died when sales of physical music media collapsed. Perhaps you thought bootleg albums were just a rock thing—they certainly were that, particularly in the 70s. But unlicensed vinyl existed long before then, and it continues to hang on to life in a business littered with obsolete formats and failed business models. "It goes back as long as there's been records," says Numero Group's Rob Sevier. "As soon as they were manufacturing records, bootleggers were literally taking rubber or shellac 78s and using them as masters and cutting plates." Some observers maintain a distinction between piracy and bootlegging. In Bootleg: The Secret History of the Other Recording Industry, UK author Clinton Heylin says that an unlicensed record is a "bootleg" if it offers fans material not included in any formal, authorized release—unissued songs, out-of-print B sides, live recordings, et cetera. But the music industry doesn't differentiate, and in this context neither will I. Many bootlegs, especially older ones, have an aura of outlaw cool. This is bolstered by the existence of beloved records—perhaps most famously Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes—that first saw the light of day as bootlegs. That sort of backstory makes bootleggers sound like devoted fans on a mission to share deserving music that's been locked away by short-sighted record labels, not like opportunistic profiteers stealing from the artists they claim to love. The music industry has attempted to co-opt that cool for official, licensed releases: Columbia's Bootleg Series, for instance, packages previously unreleased Dylan material. And in December indie label Glassnote released a "bootleg" vinyl version of Childish Gambino's Because the Internet, whose cover design—a rubber-stamped title on a plain white sleeve—was clearly inspired by early releases from early-70s bootleg label Trade Mark of Quality. I first saw a real live bootleg in spring 2013 at the CHIRP Record Fair, at which point I'd already encountered online evidence of a bootleg vinyl version of Frank Ocean's Channel Orange. Local record distributor Groove Distribution had a handful of bootlegs at its table, and I dropped $20 on a copy of Frank Ocean's breakthrough 2011 release, Nostalgia, Ultra, largely because I couldn't believe that a vinyl version of a freely downloadable mixtape actually existed. Since then I've developed a minor obsession with bootleg LPs of popular rap and R&B artists, and I've found quite a few. Most wouldn't qualify as bootlegs by Heylin's definition—they're unlicensed versions of previously released mixtapes or albums that either never came out on vinyl or are no longer in print. Reckless Records and Logan Hardware have stocked vinyl of Yeezus, Eminem's Infinite, and the Weeknd's 2011 debut mixtape, House of Balloons. I've seen ordering pages for bootleg LP versions of Drake's Nothing Was the Same and Kanye's Graduation on the site of an international record retailer called Vinyl Digital. One manufacturer was brazen enough to sell a $75 double LP of Section.80 on a Big Cartel page made to look like the work of Lamar's label, Top Dawg Entertainment—its Web address is tde.bigcartel.com, whereas the actual TDE operates at topdawgent.bigcartel.com. Most of these records look and feel cheap, strange, and janky, even when they try to duplicate the legitimate releases they're copying, and that's a big part of their appeal. Are the bootleggers sincere but inept fans, or do they just not give a shit? The LP sleeves are thin and flimsy, sometimes with two or three LPs crammed into just one cover. They almost always bear the words "limited edition" somewhere, and the artwork is usually screwed up in one way or another. The color of the Channel Orange LP makes it look like it's been overcooked in a toaster oven, and the enlarged CD on the Yeezus cover is blown out and grainy. A vinyl copy of the Weeknd's House of Balloons does away with the original image—an artful black-and-white photo of a female nude in a bathtub partially obscured by falling balloons—in favor of a soft-porny shot of a topless model in her underwear stretched out on an exercise ball. An unlicensed version of the Geto Boys' We Can't Be Stopped attempts to reconstruct the original cover—a photo of Bushwick Bill after he was shot in the right eye, sitting in a hospital bed flanked by Willie D. and Scarface, his injured face exposed and swollen. But the new art is a mind-boggling Photoshop collage that superimposes a clumsily doctored (and much newer) photo of the group on a hospital hallway. Willie D. and Scarface have been given hats that sort of match what they were wearing on the original cover, but their clothes are completely different—and in Scarface's case the new hat has been pasted in atop the backward baseball cap he was already wearing. Bill, who's been Photoshopped into a hospital bed even though he's clearly standing up, has his eye patch on, so a gory eyeball has simply been dropped over it. Most of these bootlegs haven't attracted much attention, excepting from a few vinyl collectors and superfans, but that's not the case with the unlicensed Frank Ocean double-LP rarities compilation Unreleased, Misc.—it achieved such a high profile that Fact, NME, Exclaim, and Spin all wrote about it in July. This is probably at least in part because most of the music on it is impossible to buy legitimately in any format—Ocean posted some of the tracks online and others were leaked, but he's disowned a lot of them. Similar factors have doubtless influenced the production of many other rap and R&B bootlegs—people want this stuff on vinyl, and the labels aren't delivering. "What you're looking at today is more of a hole in the market," Sevier says. And bootleggers can get the job done cheaper than labels—they're not paying royalties, for instance, and they don't have to worry about promotion or PR. For legitimate businesses, Sevier says, "There's a point of diminishing returns if you can only move 1,000 units." Vinyl sales continue to rise, even as all those "records are back" trend pieces fade from memory—according to Nielsen SoundScan, the stateside numbers jumped 18 percent from 2011 to 2012, for a total of 4.6 million LPs sold. Sales in the UK nearly doubled from 2012 to 2013. But vinyl still accounts for a very small portion the total music market—in 2012 it was just 1.4 percent in the U.S.—and most rap and R&B fans appear to be moving away from physical formats altogether. "It's kind of dwindling," says Fake Shore Drive founder Andrew Barber. "More so than anything, people print up CDs to throw them out at shows." Barber says Chicago rap artists have been putting all their eggs in the digital basket over the past three to five years, and hip-hop and R&B fans all over the developed world seem to prefer to consume music as 320 kbps MP3s, not 180-gram vinyl. "The people that are buying vinyl are either true collectors or they're just people who like the way it sounds," Barber says. "It's definitely not super popular within the hip-hop landscape." All that said, the fact that so few rap and R&B artists release vinyl—combined with the format's anomalous resurgence, even as CDs continue their free fall—means that there's a small market to be tapped. Enough rap listeners are also vinyl collectors for some labels to get in on the action; in the fall Universal launched a cross-label reissue series called Respect the Classics, which is rolling out LP reissues of popular rap albums such as 50 Cent's Get Rich or Die Tryin', Public Enemy's It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, and, in February, Kanye's 808s & Heartbreak. Of course the folks behind Respect the Classics have an advantage in that sales of such beloved records are all but guaranteed. Most rap and R&B albums will never get a Respect the Classics release, and that's where bootleggers come in. They're able to fill these gaps in the market—and not get caught doing it—in part because they manufacture LPs in small quantities (generally between 250 and 1,000) and sell them internationally, meaning their product is spread so thin it's difficult for rights holders to notice, let alone police. It's also next to impossible to track down the people doing the bootlegging—something I proved to myself when I investigated an unlicensed CD version of Chance the Rapper's free Acid Rap mixtape. A "label" called MTC sold 1,000 copies of it this summer, landing the CD on two different Billboard charts and bringing the illegal release to widespread notice. I could easily determine that Houston company 1-Stop Distribution was responsible for getting the CDs into stores, and the manufacturer ID in the CD's bar code led back to small Houston label Music District, whose owner suspected 1-Stop had been using his bar codes. But that's where the trail went cold—if MTC actually exists, I have no idea who runs it, and I can't definitively pin anything on 1-Stop. The rap and R&B bootlegs I found don't even present me with clues I can follow that far—the retailers I've talked to have no idea where the vinyl originates, and none of the records includes a bar code. When a bootleg has a matrix number—a code carved into the dead wax near the hub label, which can provide information about an LP's manufacture—it's often an obviously bogus riff on the artist and title, such as "KENDRICKDRANK001" for an unlicensed 12-inch single of Kendrick Lamar's "Swimming Pools (Drank)." Nearly every bootleg I found states on its hub label that it was manufactured in Europe (Germany, the Czech Republic, France) and that it's "for promotional use only." That disclaimer doesn't protect manufacturers from legal liability—nor will it help anyone selling a bootleg, not even consumers flipping used copies on eBay. According to Chicagoland attorney John Miranda, a copyright holder can sue anyone who sells a bootleg LP for "actual damages," aka the profit recouped. If the rights holders have registered the copyright (which most do as a matter of course, unless the music contains uncleared samples), they can sue for statutory damages, which according to Miranda top out at $150,000 per bootlegged title. But considering how good most bootleggers are at hiding, it's not typically worth the time, trouble, or expense to track them down—generally the most effective way to attack the problem is to send cease-and-desist letters to retailers and distributors. Unlicensed LPs continue to trickle into record stores because people keep buying them. Maybe these customers are like me and let their curiosity get the better of their good sense; maybe they simply don't realize they're depriving the artists of sales. "I think that there's a weird psychic damage that happens to artists when their material is bootlegged," says Sevier, who's certainly dealt with his share of artists burned by labels acting like bootleggers. If there's an upside to this activity, it's that bootleggers inadvertently alert labels to instances where they're leaving money on the table. "Labels need to get more in touch with what record collectors desire," says Chris Lantinen, founder of record-fiend blog and consumer guide Modern Vinyl. "The recent bootleg release of Kanye West's Graduation is a perfect example. Why not ever press this album, allowing for a bootleg producer to take advantage of that miscue?" Bootleggers will probably never disappear entirely, no matter how savvy labels get, because they create objects that a certain breed of collector desires. Barber brings up the Makaveli tapes—unlicensed CD bootlegs of unreleased Tupac Shakur tracks that started hitting the streets after he was murdered in 1996. "After Tupac died everyone wanted Tupac material," he says. "They were on CD, and people could sell them at ridiculous rates. At the time nobody had CD burners other than bootleggers." Today you can download the entire Makaveli collection with little trouble (and many of the tracks were remixed for official posthumous releases), but some people still want the original illicit objects themselves. The present-day bootlegs I've written about occupy a similar niche. Even though most of the material is easy to find in other forms, the unlicensed vinyl versions are transgressions and anomalies—and because they somehow continue to exist, they're irresistible. Music Feature rap R&B records vinyl bootlegs bootleg vinyl Kendrick Lamar Frank Ocean Kanye West unlicensed vinyl Numero Group Rob Sevier piracy Clinton Heylin Bob Dylan Glassnote Childish Gambino Trade Mark of Quality CHIRP Record Fair Groove Distribution Drake mixtapes downloads Reckless Records Logan Hardware Eminem The Weeknd Big Cartel Top Dawg Entertainment tde.bigcartel.com bigcartel.com topdawgent.bigcartel.com TDE Geto Boys Scarface Willie D. Bushwick Bill Fact NME Exclaim Spin Nielsen SoundScan Andrew Barber Universal records Respect the Classics LP reissues reissues John Miranda copyright Modern Vinyl Chris Lantinen Tupac Shakur Todd Diederich How do record stores get such great used vinyl? 6 When record stores aren't buying used vinyl directly from the public, they might find a carload of goodies at the Chicagoland Record Collectors Show. by Leor Galil \| Apr 16, 2014 Chance the Rapper's Acid Rap gets bootlegged again, this time on vinyl 2 More on bootleg LPs: An official LP and an unauthorized record inspired by old-school bootlegs 2 by Leor Galil \| Jan 7, 2014 Leor Galil Who made the bootleg Acid Rap CD that hit the Billboard charts? by Leor Galil \| Aug 16, 2013 Better than a Silver Bullet 10 A bootleg compilation proves that Bob Seger made his greatest music before he got famous. by Tal Rosenberg \| May 12, 2011 Bootlegging the Bootlegger 1 The Numero Group's clever revenge. Plus: new local releases from G.O.D. Jewels, In Tall Buildings, and the Interiors by Miles Raymer \| May 13, 2010	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line961
__label__wiki	0.939576	0.939576	Music » Music Review by Frank Youngwerth Filth Pig (Warner Bros.) Ministry's seven albums and handful of singles tell a story rife with contradiction and permutation. Both derided as derivative and hailed as revolutionary, the band have done their best to be a little of both, shifting from frothy synth-pop to heavyweight guitar rock, from sample-heavy, drum-machine prefab to stripped-down, live-to-two-track organic. They're a longtime dance-club favorite, but most of their output is hard to dance to. One record they made for an indie label is so commercial it became a beer commercial; then they arguably became for a time the least radio-friendly band on a major label. Their smoothest, gentlest album (With Sympathy) flopped, while one of their harshest and rowdiest (Psalm 69) went platinum. Not to be outdone by their past, Ministry have now come up with Filth Pig, their most complex, surprise-packed recording yet. Back in 1983, singer and keyboardist Alain Jourgensen and drummer Stephen George called themselves Ministry and released the album With Sympathy on Arista. It's curious how much this version of the group paralleled the British duo Wham!, who splashed on the scene around the same time with superstar-to-be George Michael. Both bands lopsidedly paired one guy who wrote and sang all the songs with another who mostly just played his instrument and posed for photos. Stylistically, Ministry imitated British new romanticism, while Wham! aped American soul. Each even put out a catchy single about love in relation to labor: Ministry's "Work for Love" and Wham!'s "Everything She Wants." But unlike Wham!, Ministry didn't sell many records. They soon left Arista and disbanded. Retaining the group name, Jourgensen went on to make a few self-produced singles for the local Wax Trax label, and his "Everyday Is Halloween" was far better than anything on the Arista album. Its throbbing synth bass pattern drives a joyously syncopated groove, offset by submarine bells and a "bop bop bop" vocal hook that stays with you, like it or not. Al sings the part of the persecuted outsider--everywhere he goes people mock the way he's dressed. "Why can't they see they're just like me?" asks the surging, harmony-adorned refrain. "Why should I take the abuse that's served?" He resolves to fight back, taking on a fiercer, more defiant attitude: "I let their teeny minds think that they're dealing with someone who is over the brink / And I dress this way just to keep them at bay." "Everyday Is Halloween" conveys Jourgensen's wonderfully brooding pop style as well as his seething paranoia and contempt. He combines it all so well that a dozen years later the record still sounds great. But what should've been a sizable hit on a big label like Arista ended up as an underground club anthem on tiny Wax Trax. Around this time Jourgensen must have realized that he'd be taken more seriously as an artist if he'd start making less pleasant music. He signed with Sire and entered an experimental phase, joining forces with bassist Paul Barker to record the 1988 album The Land of Rape and Honey. The new guitar-laden sound was bleak and brutal, at times resembling a machine-gun symphony complemented by field-command vocals. The lyrics were often daffy ("Stronger than reason, stronger than lies / The only truth I know is the look in your eyes!"), though the monstrous guitar riffs made the overall effect anything but comical. During this period I attended a rather dull Ministry show. Jourgensen charged onstage at the Riviera as a raving, mad ball of energy, but his strength was quickly expended with three-quarters of the show remaining. The music was intense, but the band went through the motions as if they were backing up Neil Diamond. The set's end found the crowd either too dazed or bored to yell for more, yet Ministry returned for an encore. A few months earlier "Everyday Is Halloween" started popping up in some unexpected places: first on the TV commercial, then on the play lists of some mainstream Chicago radio stations. People who had never heard of Ministry were flocking into record stores asking for "that Halloween song." But the band refused to perform their current hit single! Why would Jourgensen want to remind the audience that his five-year-old synth-pop track was currently being used to sell beer? Still, playing it no doubt would have electrified the crowd like nothing else in his arsenal. Maybe this predicament never crossed Jourgensen's mind, but his omission struck me as the one interesting thing about the entire concert. Eventually Ministry's revamped "uncompromising" strategy paid off with million-dollar sales and a higher profire, presumably just what Jourgensen aimed for in the first place. But how long could Ministry continue to contentedly churn out those trademark abrasive soundscapes now that their style had become conventional, copied by other bands like Nine Inch Nails and White Zombie? On Filth Pig they plod through a fair bit of rock convention themselves. The unusually short opener, "Reload," cuts up the main guitar riff from Led Zeppelin's "Dancing Days" in a Bo Diddley-esque fashion. The bombast of "The Fall" recalls Pink Floyd's The Wall. "Dead Guy" could be Black Sabbath trying their hand at hip-hop. Though here is the radical reintroduction of something Jourgensen must have figured he'd repressed long enough: melody. It's often tucked away in places you wouldn't think to look, like the feedback at the end of "Useless," or the happy, galloping bass line that runs throughout "Brick Windows." Things get downright graceful on their cover of Bob Dylan's "Lay Lady Lay," a veritable feast of acoustic guitar textures lovingly strummed, haunting bits of slide, and soaring leads so gorgeous George Harrison could be guesting. A sterling production, it brings to mind Phil Spector's early 70s work with Harrison and John Lennon. But the biggest surprise on Filth Pig is another remake of an already familiar song, though it's not labeled as such. The monolithic, walloping "Lava," coated with a sonically searing finish, exhumes and reworks Ministry's greatest hit--yep, "Everyday Is Halloween." It's in the same key; the words follow a similar meter right down to substituting "hot lava" for "bop bop bop." Instead of submarine bells there's an eerie harmonica lick, and it all rides atop a basic pulsating pattern and dance-floor-perfect beat. Acknowledging his watershed song, and reaffirming the melodic and rhythmic values he once embraced and then suppressed, Al Jourgensen now comes full circle. Ministry's Filth Pig succeeds on the various strengths Jourgensen has shown before, though never all in one place. It transcends the baffling metamorphoses that clouded the band's identity until now. Finally Al's taken stock and got his bad-ass act together to deliver his own kind of soul music. Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): photo/James Crump. Music Review music review Martin Atkins’s greatest moment in Chicago music history 1 With his supergroup Pigface, the industrial-music veteran brings together all sorts of scenes onstage. by Martin Atkins \| Jun 16, 2020	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line962
__label__wiki	0.818834	0.818834	RFT Events Riverfront Times VIDEO: St. Louisian Jon Daly Shows RFT Music His Rare Elvis Collection by Daniel Hill Screenshot from the video. St. Louis' Jon Daly is an avid collector of Elvis Presley memorabilia. His obsession started in 1986 while in in Myrtle Beach, Florida, with his parents, where he saw a figure of Elvis in a wax museum. The young Daly, noting the cape, belt, bell-bottoms and chops, didn't even think Presley was a real person, but rather a superhero. Two weeks later Daly saw an Elvis concert air on PBS. From then, he was hooked. "When it comes to my collection, it's more about quality, not necessarily quantity," Daly says. "I look for items that have never been seen before, aren't necessarily documented, nothing that's actually in the physical price guide yet. "There's a lot of gift shops that you can buy things at at Graceland, which is all well and good," he adds. "But it's not really something that I pursue." Daly's collection is staggering, with promo photos, records, movie posters, tickets, guitar picks and much more. Watch the video by RFT's Nicola Muscroft to catch a glimpse. RFT MUSIC'S GREATEST HITS The 15 Most Ridiculous Band Promo Photos Ever "Where Did My Dick Go?" The Gathering of the Juggalos' Best Overheard Quotations I Pissed Off Megadeth This Week, My (Former) Favorite Band The Top Ten Ways to Piss Off Your Bartender at a Music Venue Follow @rftmusic Riverfront Times works for you, and your support is essential. Our small but mighty local team works tirelessly to bring you high-quality, uncensored news and cultural coverage of St. Louis and beyond. Whether it's a one-time acknowledgement of this article or an ongoing pledge, your support helps keep St. Louis' true free press free. Editorial: Josh Hawley and the Show-Me Seditionists Failed Us Hartmann: McCloskeys Still Chasing the Bright White Spotlight COVID-19 Trapped Big Mike in Paradise; He’s Still There Hartmann: An Act of Treason by and for Josh Hawley Hope for 2021: St. Louisans Have Their Wish Lists Ready © 2021 Riverfront Times	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line965
__label__cc	0.719285	0.280715	It Had Power Angelina Kerner Author Interview The Scented Bones follows a young forensic anthropologist thrown into the middle of a feud between vampires and werewolves. What was the inspiration for the setup to this thrilling story? The Godfather by Mario Puzo. When I was in college, taking an English class, most essays and books were boring until the professor chose his book. The book inspired discussions and gained attention of the students. It had power and I wanted to have similar power over my readers with my writing. This book has been in the works for more than 5 years. It has gone through 5 drafts, including Angel being a university student and main character to be Rayne and not Gage. However, that draft seemed to read more like about street gangs and so I worked hard to make it more like mafia families. The Scented book is the first in the series and in every book I’ll introduce more characters and families. Hopefully, my books will inspire readers to read more and even try their hand at writing. Angel is an intriguing character that I enjoyed following. What were some themes you wanted to capture in her character? I didn’t want her to be perfect. I wanted her to be smart but timid. Serious but with surprising funny moments. I wanted her to tread carefully when it comes to relationships and focus on the job. But, what I wanted to show was how she looked at magic. Of how she was afraid of what she was and what she could do. I enjoyed the backstory and mythology embedded in this world between the vampires and werewolves. What were some sources of inspiration that helped you create this world? Most inspiration came from the characters themselves. Originally all characters were mundanes and as the book progressed into the paranormal, the characters became their other selves. When I was re writing them, I was thinking that if they weren’t paranormal born, how would they shift if bitten? How would they act if they were born? I tried staying away from other paranormal books about vampires and werewolves to keep my characters original. Where will the next book in The Svabodina Case Files pick up and when will it be available? The next book will pick up a couple of weeks after the last scene in The Scented Bones with a new case. The new case will involve a serial killer. At the moment, I have about 20 chapters written. I’m going back to editing these chapters before finishing the book because I have to add information to the already written ones in order to write the scenes with the actual killer. It is a lot of work and I have a chapter summary file that I go back to for each chapter. I’m tracking dates, character appearances, etc. I’m not sure when it will be out, hopefully next year. The Scented Bones has been republished by a publisher! So, I’ll work closely with the publisher for book 2 as well. It’s super exciting! Book 2 is titled – The Puzzle of Bones. Author Links: Website \| Goodreads \| Amazon \| Twitter \| Facebook \| Pinterest Angel Svabodina is a rookie forensic anthropologist, enjoying the beginning of her new career. That joy comes crashing down when she figures out the skeleton she’s working on is not human and then it vanishes. She throws herself fully into the case without thinking about the parties involved, a psychopomp associate, and paranormal mafia families made up of vampires and werewolves—or the consequences. When she sees there’s no avoiding the inevitable, Angel has to suck it up and work with the werewolves to solve the case but can she trust them? Werewolves and witches are in a centuries-old feud, but that doesn’t stop the shivers running down her spine from one wolf in particular. Rights and wrongs become blurred, as she is tormented by her past and accepting who she truly is while searching for the skeleton. What’s more, nothing comes for free, including information. To get what she needs from the werewolf don, Angel has to meet with the fae queen. Can she meet her without repercussions and solve the case? 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__label__wiki	0.813033	0.813033	Home States & Cities Mumbai States & CitiesMumbai Maharashtra: BJP seeks Munde resignation over rape cost The BJP has upped the ante in opposition to Maharashtra Social Justice Minister Dhananjay Munde, looking for his resignation from the state cupboard. A girl has accused Munde of rape. The minister, nonetheless, denied the allegation and claimed that he’s being blackmailed by the complainant and her sister with whom he was in a relationship and has two youngsters. “Dhananjay Munde, who is heading the social justice ministry, should resign as he has no moral right to be in the post after accusation of sexual exploitation being leveled against him,” State BJP President Chandrakant Patil mentioned. The celebration’s ladies’s wing has additionally threatened to launch a statewide agitation if Munde didn’t resign. On January 11, the girl had despatched a written grievance to the Mumbai Police commissioner, stating that Munde had repeatedly raped her in 2006. The girl, in her grievance, claimed that Munde is her brother-in-law and had married her sister in 1998. She claimed that the minister had first raped her in 2006 when she was alone at her residence and since then he repeated the act a number of occasions over time. She added that Munde had assured her that he would marry her as effectively and assist her get work as a singer in Bollywood. Munde, who’s married and has a younger daughter, issued an announcement on Tuesday the place he acknowledged that he was in a relationship with the complainant’s sister and has two youngsters along with her. He added that he had financially supported them and given the youngsters his identify. He additional mentioned that his household was conscious of the connection and had accepted it. The minister, nonetheless, had denied the costs of rape and claimed that the accusation had been a part of a conspiracy to blackmail him. Munde mentioned the complainant’s messages can show his declare. After Munde acknowledged his relationship with the girl, former BJP MP Kirit Somaiya lodged a grievance with the Chief Election Commissioner in opposition to the minister for concealing particulars about his household and properties in his election affidavit. “I have submitted a complaint against Maharashtra Minister Dhananjay Munde to the Election Commission of India for non-disclosure and concealment of facts about his wives, children and properties,” Somaiya mentioned. “In his affidavit for the October 2017 Maharashtra Assembly elections, he did not disclose facts regarding his two wives, all children and properties in their names. I request to order an inquiry and take appropriate actions,” Somaiya mentioned within the grievance to the EC. The NCP, in the meantime, mentioned that it’ll anticipate the result of the police investigation into the grievance earlier than taking a call on the minister’s destiny. Munde, in the meantime, spent his day assembly the highest NCP brass, together with celebration chief Sharad Pawar, Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar and senior cupboard minister Chaggan Bhujbal. He additionally attended the state cupboard assembly. Munde, 45, although a first-term MLA, is deemed to be one of many essential leaders of the NCP that he had joined in 2012 after breaking ranks with the BJP and his uncle, Gopinath Munde, as he selected his daughter, Pankaja Munde, to be his inheritor. Previous articleDelhi certain IndiGo flight hits snow mound at Srinagar airport, passengers secure Next articleDelhi report second successive win, beat Andhra by six wickets 89 get bail in Palghar lynching case \| India News – Times of India In ‘dry’ Bihar, this MBA bootlegger made Rs 9 lakh per day \| India News – Times of India	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line973
__label__cc	0.553844	0.446156	Category: Seltzers by adminin Blue Marble Nationwide, Blue Marble News, Moscow Mule, Seltzers Blue Marble Ultra-premium Spiked Seltzers for the Win! Blue Marble Cocktails make gold-winning, lightly spiked, vodka-based seltzers as seen in this year’s Canned Challenge competition. All Blue Marble’s seltzers are made with vodka and sparkling water with 95 calories and 1 gram carbohydrate. The flavor evoking names Berry Bliss, Citrus Joy, Pure Love, and Tropical Retreat are just part of the endearment of this line of lightly spiked seltzers coming in at 5% abv. In a sea of canned cocktails and malt-based seltzers on the shelf, it could be overwhelming to decide what to buy. Knowing that esteemed judges in the industry believed in Blue Marble, should ease that decision. About Canned Challenge The judges consisting of sommeliers, retail buyers, journalists, mixologist and beverage directors conducted the competition in a double-blind process. All judges undergo a calibration course prior to the competition to ensure consistency, fairness in evaluation and scoring of all spirits. Visit Canned Challenge Blue Marble awards, blue marble seltzers, Canned Challenge competition., hard seltzers, Pure Love seltzer, spiked seltzers Hard Seltzers News announced 14 best Moscow Mules - Blue Marble included 14 BEST MOSCOW MULES IN A CAN FOR 2020 by “Hard Seltzer News” – November 23, 2020 Cold weather has arrived, and so has Moscow Mule season. The warming combination of spicy ginger and just the right amount of spirits make the Moscow Mule a favorite drink this time of year. With the rapid rise of the Moscow Mule cocktail-in-a-can, it can be confusing to sort through the Drizly listings for a delicious cocktail hiding behind the fancy graphics on the aluminum can. Our panel of tasters found the 14 best Moscow Mules in the US for 2020. MOSCOW MULE BY BLUE MARBLE Blue Marble makes a wide variety of hard seltzers and RTD cocktails, including this delicious Moscow Mule, coming in at 15% ABV. The taste is so well balanced that it is easy drinking in a high ball glass (or copper mug, if you insist) over ice. Blue Marble recently launched their award-winning Bloody Mary in a new 8-pack at Costco Wholesale Clubs. The vodka that is used in Blue Marble canned cocktails can also be purchased, so you can create your own cocktail. Blue Marble also has a canned water offering that will be coming in the near future. Products are available in AZ, AR, CA, CO, CT, FL, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, MD, MI, MN, MO, NE, NV, NJ, NY, ND, OH, OK, SD, TN, TX, UT, WA, and DC. See the full article on Hard Seltzers News best cocktail, blue marble cocktails, blue marble seltzers, Moscow Mule, moscow mule canned cocktail by adminin Blue Marble Awards, Blue Marble Nationwide, Blue Marble News, Seltzers, Tropical Retreat 2020 TASTINGS - Spiked Seltzer Tropical Retreat gets the Gold medal Seltzers are the hottest drinks this summer, and we know there are many choices in a sea of bubbly canned cocktails. Blue Marble’s lightly spiked seltzers are the gold-winning choice for many seltzer drinkers who prefer a smooth, vodka-based seltzer. The esteemed judges awarded Tropical Retreat a remarkable score of 93 points and a Gold, claiming an exceptional beverage. All Blue Marble’s seltzers are 5 percent alcohol by volume, 95 calories, 1g carbohydrate and made with ultra-premium vodka and no artificial ingredients. If you were thinking of trying a lower percentage cocktail or a seltzer, why not try one that has been awarded gold? About Tastings: They are an independent product rating and review source that provides beverage guides and education for consumers as well as the trade. Judging method is done by blind tasting by trained expert panelists, professional retailers, restaurateurs, journalists, buyers, and bartenders. blue marble seltzers, gold award, hard seltzer, spiked seltzers, tropical retreat seltzer by adminin Blue Marble Nationwide, Cocktails, People, Seltzers BevSource: Revolutionizing The World of Premium Cocktails, One Can at a Time Revolutionizing The World of Premium Cocktails, One Can at a Time BevSource – June 12, 2020 A part of our Beverage Business Breakthrough Series, featuring stories, advice, and insights from beverage entrepreneurs who’ve broken down barriers to reach remarkable goals. Imagine building a line of ready-to-drink cocktails, hard seltzers, spirits, a co-packing manufacturing business from the ground up, getting the largest distributor in the world to carry your products, and winning countless gold medals, including “World’s Best Pre-Mixed Cocktail.” Now picture accomplishing all of that with no prior beverage industry experience. Alan Miller, Founder, and Danyelle Rabine, Co-founder of Blue Marble Cocktails and Blue Marble Productions, are proof that passion for your product and smart business practices can turn obstacles into beverage building opportunities. In Search of a Better Cocktail A successful entrepreneur in the medical technology space, Miller’s journey into the beverage industry started when he couldn’t find a flavorful ready-to-drink cocktail. “Danyelle and I just wanted a great-tasting cocktail we could easily serve to our friends on our boat,” says Miller. “We couldn’t find anything that wasn’t watered down, loaded with sugar, or poorly packaged.” For Miller and Rabine, the gap in convenient cocktail options signaled an opportunity worth investigating. They spent a year researching the market to learn what it would take to be successful. They met with flavor houses and co-packers and worked on costing and business models. As they learned more about the intricacies of the beverage industry, they quickly realized what they needed to do to launch a successful product. “The vision behind Blue Marble is to be a company that stands out with premium, all-natural ingredients, and superior products that help make the world a better place through our “keep the blue marble blue” donation program,” says Miller. Beginning with The End in Mind With the vision in place, Miller set out to gather his team and get investors. While looking for the right investors Miller invested himself personally and still owns nearly 68% of the company’s stock. Having skin in the game was one of the most important considerations he has for success. From his success in his previous businesses, he knew he needed people with established relationships for distribution and on-premise and off-premise sales. He also needed an exit strategy. It may seem counterintuitive to think about exiting when you’re just starting, but Miller explains why it’s essential for success. “Having an exit strategy is like plugging in the address of your destination before you leave on a trip,” he says. “Once you know where you’re going, you can estimate how long it will take and measure how decisions will impact your journey.” Miller has been open about his plan to build Blue Marble nationally and eventually position it for a buyout to expand globally. Blue Marble curated a staff of industry experts with backgrounds in areas like product development, ingredient procurement, and distribution, as well as leaders from outside the beverage world who could bring in a fresh perspective. “I don’t care about what’s been done in the past unless it’s applied to what consumers want now,” says Miller, who worked with his in-house PhD and Purdue University to formulate cocktails with ingredients like real lime concentrate. “We knew that with enough passion, talent, and bandwidth, we could navigate the challenges and end up with a dynamite product. And we wouldn’t settle for anything less.” If You Can’t Find It, Build It With distribution contracts in place from day one, the biggest challenge Blue Marble faced early-on was finding a facility with the quality standards and capacity to produce the product. When Miller reached out to find co-packers who could package his eight flavors into 200ml cans, he realized that the manufacturing partner he needed might not exist. “The facilities I reached out to couldn’t do what we needed without a substantial upfront investment in building a new line,” says Miller. “There were canning lines for low-volume production, and there was high-volume capacity, running 1,000 cans per minute for companies like Molson Coors. There really wasn’t anything in between.” So, Miller set out to build out a canning line in 60 days. He went to Pack Expo and bought machines and materials off the show floor. Blue Marble Productions started small with a 35,000 square foot facility producing 600 cases on a “big” day. But soon, they began receiving requests from other companies for 200ml – 355 ml cans. They upgraded the line and can now produce 350 cans per minute with the flexibility to easily switch between can-type and end-packaging. “Consumers are changing,” says Miller. “It’s not just Coke and Pepsi in the running. This is the era of craft beverages and cocktails. Companies need more options to meet demand efficiently.” Canning Gets an Upgrade Starting a manufacturing company wasn’t originally in the plans. Still, Miller quickly saw the opportunity to bring his background producing medical-grade lasers to create a highly-technical and extremely flexible beverage manufacturing facility. In addition to incorporating world-class practices in traceability, quality assurance, regulatory compliance, and accounting, Blue Marble Productions uses automation to advance beverage manufacturing innovation. “We’ve gone outside the industry to look at robots, lasers, high-speed cameras, and other technology to improve efficiency and maximize output and quality,” says Miller. “We’re looking at everything to see how we can do it better with more flexibility and less cost.” The company is also helping brands become more sustainable by reducing waste and introducing non-plastic packaging options like biodegradable, edible trays, and cornstarch wrap. Blue Marble Productions is already producing for some of the top beverage companies in the world and bringing more processes in-house every day. From managing ingredients and packaging to label design, the ultimate goal is to make premium products more affordable by offering one-stop beverage production. “I see Blue Marble Productions as a place where Google meets canning,” says Miller. “We have a top-of-the-line facility and a fun environment. We offer premium wages and creative incentives like corn-hole, go-kart racing, and tastings. Even as a relatively small company, we’re attracting top talent.” What’s Next for Blue Marble For Miller, it’s all about expansion. The new Blue Marble Productions facility (opening this summer) is 181,000 square feet and has enough room to house six complete lines including can sleeving, pasteurization, in-house batching, in-house laboratory testing, and 3PL services. Blue Marble is already canning alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages including sparkling/still water, energy drinks, kombuchas, spiked/hard seltzers, and of course, ready-to-drink cocktails. “We want to offer turnkey services to our co-packing clients including private labeling so we can lower their overall cost and give them more of a competitive pricing strategy to their distributors/retailers and ultimately the consumer. If we can help them be successful it means we are more successful,” says Miller. He’s excited about growing Blue Marble’s line of premium products, advancing its support of global conservation and environmental initiatives, and inspiring others. Blue Marble’s line of beverages has already been expanded to include nine RTDs, four vodka-based hard seltzers, and their own ultra-premium vodka. “With the onset of COVID-19 we have been approached by restaurants, bars, and more on-premise businesses like arenas, and golf courses, seeking a solution for no-touch or one-touch cocktail service for their patrons. I am passionate about learning everything I can to advance the brand and our mission,” says Miller. “I want to use what I know and learn to help others succeed. So many people have helped me on my journey, and I am always looking for ways to pay it forward.” As for advice for aspiring beverage entrepreneurs-Miller says it’s all about passion. “Be fully immersed in whatever you do and make sure you plan on having at least double the money for whatever is in your business plan,” Miller says. “There are no quick wins, but if you believe in what you’re doing and are passionate about it, that will carry you through.” View the article on BevSource Blue Marble Cocktials, Happy Hour, Spoon University What’s In Your Seltzer? Canned seltzers are one of the most trending and interesting ready-to-drink segments in the spirit industry this year. Variations of malt-based and vodka-based seltzers with varying percentages of alcohol keeps consumers on their toes. San Francisco World Spirits Competition placed our vodka-based seltzers in high regard this year as Blue Marble collected medals for Berry Bliss, Citrus Joy, Tropical Retreat and Pure Love. About San Francisco World Spirits Competition This competition is controlled with blind tasting and judges do not receive information about the producer or price point, ensuring that the competition is fair and without bias. Blue Marble’s Pure Love Spiked Seltzer won GOLD, meaning this is an exceptional spirit and near the pinnacle of achievement. Silver medals appointed to Tropical Retreat, Berry Bliss and Citrus Joy are merited as an outstanding product in their category and show refinement, finesse, and complexity in this category. For placing so high, we will be listed in an upcoming issue of The Tasting Panel Magazine, which reaches over 90K beverage-trade decision-makers. Visit San Francisco World Spirits Competition Blue Marble awards, blue marble seltzers, hard seltzers, Pure Love seltzer, San Francisco World Spirits Competition, spiked seltzers by adminin Blue Marble Awards, Blue Marble News, Seltzers 2019 U.S.A. TASTE CHAMPIONSHIPS 2019 U.S.A. BEVERAGE CHAMPIONSHIPS Northern California – September 27, 2019 Blue Marble Seltzers was selected as a winning product line in the retail category of “Premium Ready-To-Drink Seltzers In Cans.” Their submissions in this product category, Ultra-Premium Spiked Seltzers: Pure Love, Citrus Joy, Berry Bliss and Tropical Retreat were all judged superior in Northern California by a panel of Masters of Taste selected by Chefs In America. The protocols of “triple blind” judging include the following ground rules to ensure accurate and fair judging results. Evaluators do not know: 1. Who the manufacturer is 2. What the product variety or appellation is 3.What the other evaluators’ scores and comments are during evaluation The American Masters Of Taste judging panel stated that, “These Ready-To-Drink Vodka-based seltzers in cans, continue to demonstrate Blue Marble’s commitment to creating flavorful, well executed, refreshing, low calorie cocktails for people to conveniently enjoy wherever.” Although panelists do not see the product packaging prior to the evaluation, they commented afterwards that the sleek, narrow 12 ounce cans with attractive graphics also add to the visual appeal of Blue Marble’s product presentation. The judging was part of the on-going U.S.A. Taste Championships and U.S.A. Beverage Championships founded in 1986 with the establishment of Chefs In America, whose professional culinary board members gather weekly to conduct taste tests on a myriad of foodservice and retail grocery products. Blue Marble Ultra-Premium Seltzers was declared a 2019 U.S.A. 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__label__wiki	0.769406	0.769406	As we do pretty much every day, our 1000 best albums of all time countdown continues all the way to #1. Thursday’s album was #475: The Peanut Butter Conspiracy Is Spreading The 1967 debut by this vastly underrated, eclectic psychedelic pop band combines the surreal folk-pop of early Jefferson Airplane with snarling garage rock and ornate chamber pop. Frontwoman Sandi Robinson’s vox are sort of a cross between Judy Collins and Grace Slick; the song arrangements are complex and sometimes haunting. The big innuendo-driven stoner-pop hits are Why Did I Get So High and You Took Too Much, both ostensibly love songs – back then, you couldn’t get on the radio if you sang about getting high on anything other than booze. There’s also the gorgeous chamber-rock of Then Came Love; the acid folk hit It’s a Happening Thing; the fuzztone-driven Twice Is Life; the punchy You Can’t Be Found, with its Leslie speaker guitar; and the intense, scampering Dark on You Now among the eleven tracks here. Here’s a random torrent via Hippy DJ Kit. The album was reissued in the early zeros as a twofer with the band’s second, more erratic one The Great Conspiracy, which you can get via Acid at Home. October 16, 2011 Posted by delarue \| lists, Music, music, concert, rock music \| 60s music, best albums, best albums all time, best albums alltime, best albums ever, best albums list, best albums lucid culture, best music, best music ever, best obscure albums, best obscure albums all time, best obscure albums alltime, best obscure albums ever, best rock albums, best rock albums all time, best rock albums alltime, best rock albums ever, best underrated albums, folk pop, greatest albums all time, greatest albums alltime, greatest albums ever, greatest obscure albums, greatest rock albums all time, greatest rock albums alltime, greatest rock albums ever, most underrated albums, most underrated albums all time, Music, peanut butter conspiracy, peanut butter conspiracy is spreading, psychedelia, psychedelic folk, psychedelic pop, psychedelic rock, sandi robinson, sixties music, stoner music, top albums all time, top albums alltime, top albums ever \| Leave a comment Album of the Day 9/14/11 Pretty much every day, our 1000 best albums of all time countdown continues all the way to #1. Wednesday’s album is #503: The Dukes of Stratosphear – 25 O’Clock This is XTC in 1985 doing a loving parody of pretty much every 60s psychedelic band and every 60s psychedelic rock production trope, having a great time making fun of stoners in the process. Blippy loops, echoes, thumps and swirls pan back and forth across the speakers as they parody the Electric Prunes on the title track, early Pink Floyd on Bike Ride to the Moon, the Yardbirds on My Love Explodes, the Beatles and Stones on What in the World, the Stones again with the fuzztone-fueled Your Gold Dress (whose leapfrogging brontosaurus drums are LMFAO funny) and finally the Move on the surprisingly sweeping, majestic The Mole from the Ministry. The keyboard settings are as trebly and cheesy as you would expect; perhaps surprisingly, Colin Moulding would never play more interesting, soaringly melodic basslines than he does here. There’s also a full-length album, Psonic Psunspot, which includes these songs along with several vastly less interesting Beach Boys ripoffs. Here’s a random torrent. September 14, 2011 Posted by delarue \| lists, Music, music, concert, rock music \| 60s music, colin moulding, Dukes of Stratosphear, dukes of stratosphear 25 o'clock, dukes of stratosphear psonic psunspot, psychedelia, psychedelic music, psychedelic rock, sixties music, stoner music, xtc, xtc band \| Leave a comment Every day, our 1000 best albums of all time countdown continues all the way to #1. Monday’s album is #554: The Who – The Who Sings My Generation OK, OK, this is “classic rock,” the one thing we’re trying to stay away from here. But what a rhythm section – and a tragedy that both John Entwistle and Keith Moon both left us so young. This album came out in 1965, when the band’s sound was new and fresh, before Pete Townshend turned into a Jimmy Page wannabe and Daltrey…well, the music here is good enough to make you forget he’s on it. With his completely unpredictable rumbling thunder attack, Moon absolutely owns La-La-La-Lies and Much Too Much. A Legal Matter mines the same amped-up R&B style as the Pretty Things and the early Kinks; the Good’s Gone foreshadows the Move. There’s also the country dancehall stomp of It’s Not True, the blue eyed soul ballad I Don’t Mind and Out in the Street, with its cool tremoloing intro. Oh yeah, there’s also an oldies radio standard, a future movie theme and a primitive, fuzztoned quasi-surf instrumental. The band only miss when they misguidedly try their hand at James Brown. Here’s a random torrent. July 26, 2011 Posted by delarue \| lists, Music, music, concert, rock music \| 60s music, 60s rock, best albums, best albums all time, best albums alltime, best albums ever, best albums list, best albums lucid culture, best music, best music ever, best obscure albums, best obscure albums all time, best obscure albums alltime, best obscure albums ever, best rock albums, best rock albums all time, best rock albums alltime, best rock albums ever, best underrated albums, classic rock, garage band, garage rock, greatest albums all time, greatest albums alltime, greatest albums ever, greatest obscure albums, greatest rock albums all time, greatest rock albums alltime, greatest rock albums ever, john entwistle, keith moon, mod band, mod rock, most underrated albums, most underrated albums all time, Music, pete townshend, roger daltrey, sixties music, sixties rock, the who sings my generation, top albums all time, top albums alltime, top albums ever, who first album, who my generation, who sing my generation \| Leave a comment The Electric Prunes – Mass in F Minor From 1968, this is one of the great stoner albums of all time, not bad considering that the band it’s credited to reputedly didn’t play on several of the tracks (history is fuzzy on this – a Canadian garage band, the Collectors, were reputedly brought in by composer David Axelrod to complete it when the Prunes basically broke up mid-session). It’s an attempt to make psychedelic rock out of imitation pre-baroque themes, and it’s successful beyond belief: with layers and layers of stinging reverb guitar, eerie organ and trebly, melodic bass, it’s a wild ride. The track everybody knows is Kyrie Eleison, which is on the Easy Rider soundtrack. All the song titles are in Latin, in the manner of a Catholic mass – Agnus Dei; Benedictus; Credo, Sanctus and Gloria – with occasional deadpan, monklike chanting amidst the chaos. Fuzz tones, feedback, all manner of cheap production tricks and some deliriously inspired (some would say sloppy) playing are everywhere. Here’s a random torrent. June 13, 2011 Posted by delarue \| lists, Music, music, concert, rock music \| 60s music, 60s rock, acid rock, best albums, best albums all time, best albums alltime, best albums ever, best albums list, best albums lucid culture, best music, best music ever, best obscure albums, best obscure albums all time, best obscure albums alltime, best obscure albums ever, best rock albums, best rock albums all time, best rock albums alltime, best rock albums ever, best underrated albums, collectors band, david axelrod, elecric prunes mass in f minor, electric prunes, greatest albums all time, greatest albums alltime, greatest albums ever, greatest obscure albums, greatest rock albums all time, greatest rock albums alltime, greatest rock albums ever, most underrated albums, most underrated albums all time, Music, psychedelia, psychedelic music, psychedelic rock, sixties music, sixties rock, stoner music, top albums all time, top albums alltime, top albums ever \| Leave a comment Every day, our 1000 best albums of all time countdown continues all the way to #1. Sunday’s album was #667: Jefferson Airplane – After Bathing at Baxter’s The bass player owns this album. Jack Casady’s growling, spiraling climbs, slinking funky rhythm and burning chords defined the Airplane at peak altitude, 1968. Add to that Paul Kantner’s stinging rhythm, Jorma Kaukonen’s crazed, jagged twelve-string leads, Spencer Dryden’s jazz-influenced drumming and Grace Slick’s presence (on the wane at this point) and you have a psychedelic rock classic. Kaukonen’s anxious ballad The Last Wall of the Castle, Slick’s darkly hypnotic James Joyce homage, Rejoyce and Kantner’s ferociously incisive Young Girl Sunday Blues are all great cuts. So is Two Heads, pulsing along on Casady’s bass chords. Watch Her Ride and Wild Tyme are slamming upbeat numbers; The Ballad of You & Me & Pooneil a big crowd-pleaser and Won’t You Try/Saturday Afternoon a reversion to the folk-rock of Surrealistic Pillow. There’s also the woozy instrumental Spare Chaynge, which sounds like Jorma and Jack jamming out after way too much ganja, forgetting that the tape was rolling. It was also the last good studio album the band did. Here’s a random torrent. April 4, 2011 Posted by delarue \| lists, Music, music, concert, rock music \| 60s bands, 60s music, acid rock, after bathing at baxter's, best albums, best albums all time, best albums alltime, best albums ever, best albums list, best albums lucid culture, best music, best music ever, best obscure albums, best obscure albums all time, best obscure albums alltime, best obscure albums ever, best rock albums, best rock albums all time, best rock albums alltime, best rock albums ever, best underrated albums, classic rock, funk rock, grace slick, greatest albums all time, greatest albums alltime, greatest albums ever, greatest obscure albums, greatest rock albums all time, greatest rock albums alltime, greatest rock albums ever, hippie music, jack casady, jefferson airplane, jefferson airplane after bathing at baxter's, jorma kaukonen, most underrated albums, most underrated albums all time, Music, paul kantner, psychedelia, psychedelic music, psychedelic rock, sixties bands, sixties music, spencer dryden, top albums all time, top albums alltime, top albums ever \| Leave a comment Every day, our 1000 best albums of all time countdown continues all the way to #1. Wednesday’s album is #713: Them – The Story of Them Featuring Van Morrison We recently went on record as saying that for a moment in the early 60s, the best rock band in the world wasn’t the Beatles, and it sure as fuck wasn’t the Rolling Stones. And come to think of it, it might not have been the Yardbirds either. How about Them? Although they seem to have been the model for the Lyres – more turnover among band members than you can count – Ireland’s greatest contribution to rock music until the punk era put out one ecstatically good garage rock single after another. Arguably, Van Morrison’s best moments were as a member of this band. And as great as all their original albums with Van the Man are, we got greedy and picked this reissue because it has more songs. You want the best version of Simon & Garfunkel’s Richard Cory? It’s by Them, right down to that snarling bass hook. How about It’s All Over Now Baby Blue? Or Route 66, Turn On Your Lovelight, I Put a Spell on You, or even a MC5 cover? The originals have the same wild, out-of-control intensity: Gloria, Mystic Eyes, Don’t Start Crying Now, Friday’s Child and more. The rest of the fifty tracks on this double cd set include the considerably laid-back, soulful original of Here Comes the Night (with Jimmy Page on guitar) and the epic Story of Them as well as covers by Ray Charles, T-Bone Walker and Jimmy Reed. After Morrison split, the band continued but were never the same. Here’s a random torrent. February 16, 2011 Posted by delarue \| lists, Music, music, concert, rock music \| 60s music, best albums, best albums all time, best albums alltime, best albums ever, best albums list, best albums lucid culture, best music, best music ever, best obscure albums, best obscure albums all time, best obscure albums alltime, best obscure albums ever, best rock albums, best rock albums all time, best rock albums alltime, best rock albums ever, best underrated albums, garage band, garage rock, greatest albums all time, greatest albums alltime, greatest albums ever, greatest obscure albums, greatest rock albums all time, greatest rock albums alltime, greatest rock albums ever, most underrated albums, most underrated albums all time, Music, R&B, rhythm and blues, rock music, sixties bands, sixties music, sixties rock, stor of them featuring van morrison, them band, them greatest hits, them van morrison, them's greatest hits, top albums all time, top albums alltime, top albums ever, van morrison \| Leave a comment Kenneth Bowser’s Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune Does Justice to a Legendary Cult Songwriter For those who haven’t already discovered him, Phil Ochs was arguably the greatest rock songwriter of the 1960s. Ochs cut his teeth in the West Village folk movement in the early part of the decade alongside Bob Dylan, a friend in their early days who would become something of a competitor. A legendary party animal, rakishly handsome and considerably talented multi-instrumentalist proficient on guitar, clarinet and piano, Ochs grew from a wryly witty singer of stinging topical songs, to become one of the most devastatingly powerful lyricists in the history of rock. But where Dylan found rock and roll, Ochs followed his muse into classical before embarking somewhat frantically on a rock career most notable for his 1969 album Rehearsals for Retirement, probably the most resonant requiem ever written for the idealism of the 60s. With its cover image of Ochs’ tombstone, it left no doubt that it was also a somewhat early suicide note. Kenneth Bowser, producer of the acclaimed Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘N’ Roll Generation Saved Hollywood, has a poignant, insightful new documentary out, Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune, a rapidfire collage of period footage, brief snippets of live performances and interviews with colleagues and fans which traces Ochs’ career from his early coffehouse days to his 1975 suicide. It’s currently playing in New York at the IFC Center at Sixth Ave. and West Third St. Singer Judy Henske, who comes across the most articulately of all of Ochs’ contemporaries, explains that he “made people nervous.” Ochs’ brother Michael (whose halfhearted decision to manage his brother springboarded a successful career as a music executive and archivist) and sister Sunny dredge up some cringe-inducing childhood anecdotes including a candid assessment of the mental illness that had plagued their father, and which their brother probably shared. His plunge into chronic alcoholism may have only exacerbated what seems to be a pretty clear-cut case of manic depression. Bowser follows the theory that Ochs saw himself as an archetypical everyman who took every attack on his fellow freedom fighters personally, and substantiates it well. Ochs is credited with changing Bobby Kennedy’s views on Vietnam on a flight from Washington, DC to New York by playing him his epic JFK requiem Crucifixion, and took Kennedy’s assassination, just a few months later, very hard. The police brutality against protesters at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, followed by the Kent State murders left Ochs at a loss as to how to address them; a particularly crushing blow seems to have been the coldblooded assassination of his friend the Chilean folksinger Victor Jara by a CIA-sponsored death squad in 1972. There’s almost as much footage of Ochs toward the end of his career is there is for his early years, and it is heartbreaking. A brief recovery promoting a benefit concert for Chile, alongside Dylan – who otherwise is conspicuously absent here – is followed by some cruelly vivid homemade footage of Ochs in various inebriated states shortly before the end. While there are numerous contributions on Ochs’ legacy from the likes of Sean Penn and Billy Bragg, Bowser also smartly puts Ochs’ producers Jac Holzman and Larry Marks on screen, who along with A&M Records’ co-founder Jerry Moss offer considerable insight into Ochs’ legacy as someone who was something of an eminence grise before his time. Perhaps the most telling moment of all is when frequent Ochs collaborator and pianist Lincoln Mayorga, playing completely from memory, rips into the ragtime of Outside of a Small Circle of Friends, the uncharacteristically lighthearted 1967 song (and Dr. Demento staple) that remains, somewhat ironically, Ochs’ best-known composition. IFC showtimes are here. January 11, 2011 Posted by delarue \| Film, folk music, Music, music, concert, New York City, review, Reviews, rock music \| 60s music, billy bragg, bob dylan, first run features, folk music, folk rock, folk singer, jac holzman, jerry moss, judy henske, kenneth bowser, larry marks, larry marks producer, lincoln mayorga, michael ochs, phil ochs, phil ochs movie, phil ochs there but for fortune, phil ochs there but for fortune movie, phil ochs there but for fortune review, protest singer, protest songs, sean penn, singer-songwriter, sixties music, songwriter, sunny ochs, victor jara \| 1 Comment Every day our 1000 best albums of all time countdown continues, all the way to #1. Wednesday’s is #755: The Pretty Things – SF Sorrow A cynic would call this a Sergeant Pepper ripoff, although it’s actually closer in spirit to the Stones’ Their Satanic Majesties Request, a dark, acid-drenched relic from 1967. By the time the band released this, they’d established themselves as a ferocious R&B band and then branched out into an Kinks-style kind of pop. This one is their most psychedelic album, a tortured, circuitous chronicle that ends up in bitter, solitary self-awareness – or the chronicle of an acid trip, complete with every psychedelic rock trope of the era. They follow the skittish SF Sorrow Is Born with the distant, delicate psychedelic pop of Bracelets of Fingers and then the one obvious Beatles ripoff here, She Says Good Morning. After that, it’s nothing but original, and it gets intense: the antiwar anthem Private Sorrow (complete with spoken-word litany of the dead); the anguished Balloon Burning; the effectively morbid Death; the ominous Baron Saturday (a real killjoy if there ever was one) croaked gleefully by lead guitarist Dick Taylor. Then the trippiest stuff kicks in: The Journey (yup), I See You, Well of Destiny and Trust, winding up on a haunted note with the manic depressive Old Man Going and the brooding acoustic vignette Loneliest Person. After this one, the band went deep into riff-driven proto-metal, broke up in the 70s, reunited with most of this crew triumphantly in the 90s, put out an excellent studio album and a live version of this with a David Gilmour cameo and have toured sporadically but ecstatically since. Some claim that they were the model for the band in This Is Spinal Tap. Here’s a random torrent. January 5, 2011 Posted by delarue \| lists, Music, music, concert, rock music \| 60s bands, 60s music, acid rock, classic rock, dick taylor, folk rock, pretty things band, pretty things sf sorrow, psychedelia, psychedelic music, psychedelic rock, sixties bands, sixties music \| Leave a comment The Latest Jimi Hendrix Compilation: A Snooze or a Scream? The great Irish-American rock band Black 47’s most recent album Bankers and Gangsters includes a very funny song, The Long Lost Tapes of Hendrix. It’s based on the incident where Jimi Hendrix’ bassist Noel Redding absconded to Ireland with tapes of Hendrix’ last live recordings, and used them as collateral for a mortgage there. Redding may well have had an extra laugh at the bankers’ expense – who knows if the tapes were in good condition, let alone if the playing was any good, considering how notoriously uneven Hendrix’ live shows were in the months before he was murdered. Likewise, is there any Hendrix worth hearing that hasn’t already been unearthed in the past forty years? With any icon of this stature, caveat emptor is the word here: just ask any former sixteen-year-old who dumped $15 or so on one of those Curtis Knight albums in the pre-napster era. The premise of the latest Hendrix compilation, a lavish 59-track box set titled West Coast Seattle Boy: The Jimi Hendrix Anthology, is that there in fact is some meat left on the bones, and as it turns out the compilers are right. To further whet Hendrix completists’ appetites, in addition to fifteen early-to-mid-60s tracks featuring Hendrix as a sideman, original engineer Eddie Kramer was brought in for some debatable remixes of original studio recordings. There’s also plenty of marginalia seeing the light of day here officially for the first time, although pretty much all of it’s been circulating for decades in one form or another. Consider this an amazing double album further fleshed out with some obvious if welcome choices, some stuff that will be prized by hardcore Hendrix fans plus the by-now expected album side, or more, worth of stuff that was never released because it shouldn’t have been. The Hendrix-as-sideman stuff is surprisingly lightweight, notable only for the guitar. But Rosa Lee Brooks’ shot at a top 40 soul hit, My Diary, has Jimi stunningly foreshadowing Axis: Bold As Love; the Isley Bros. Have You Ever Been Disappointed and The Icemen’s My Girl, She’s a Fox are rich with eerie, tremoloing broken chords; Billy LaMont’s Sweet Thang is a deliciously snarling one-chord funk vamp; and one of the Little Richard songs here is an unintentionally hilarious attempt to squeeze Mr. Penniman into a cliched early 60s dance-craze style (it doesn’t work, not even close). As much as the outtakes are also a mixed bag, this is where the real treasures are. A ragged acoustic take of the lyrical, Dylanesque My Friend resonates as a snide dismissal of shallow scenesters. Mr. Bad Luck, a mid-60s Experience tune whose rhythm parts were re-recorded by Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell twenty years later, could be interpreted as a premonition of Hendrix’ ultimate fate. Hear My Freedom, a proto-metal instrumental jam with organ takes a while to get going, but when the galloping beat kicks in it’s genius, a style echoed even more intensely on a later instrumental simply titled Bolero. A collaboration with Arthur Lee, Everlasting First, has political overtones and would have been perfectly at home on Electric Ladyland. There are also a deliciously Hendrixized version of Doc Pomus’ Lonely Avenue, just crazy guitar, vocals and drums; a pretty scorching, politically charged Shame Shame Shame, a Voodoo Chile soundalike; and inspired, peak-era psychedelic versions of Hey Babe/New Rising Sun, New Rising Sun and In from the Storm. The live stuff is choice, although most of it’s been readily available for a long time: the best tracks are absolutely unhinged versions of Stone Free and Foxey Lady, by Band of Gypsys. The remixes are uneven. Muting the psychedelia and bring out the rock works terrifically with Are You Experienced, maybe because that song is so hypnotic to begin with, but Love or Confusion – Hendrix’ best song – misses the cohesiveness of the original mix, a series of layers that don’t gel well when separated from the original feedback-iced morass. Pretty much every track here is up on youtube – it would have taken us as long to track down the links for all of these songs as it did to put this piece up to begin with, so we’re leaving that up to you. To experience how surprisingly rich it sounds, you need the actual item. Interestingly, the complete edition is only available as a cd box; itunes is limited to just sixteen of the tracks. December 22, 2010 Posted by delarue \| Music, music, concert, review, Reviews, rock music \| 60s music, 60s rock, acid rock, album review, arthur lee, billy lamont, black 47, cd review, classic rock, doc pomus, est Coast Seattle Boy: The Jimi Hendrix Anthology, icemen band, isley bros., isley brothers, jimi hendrix, jimi hendrix anthology, jimi hendrix box set, jimi hendrix compilation, jimi hendrix new box set, little richard, long lost tapes of hendrix, mitch mitchell, Music, noel redding, psychedelia, psychedelic music, psychedelic rock, rock music, rosa lee brooks, sixties music, sixties rock \| Leave a comment Album of the Day 12/9/10 Every day our 1000 best albums of all time countdown continues all the way to #1. Thursday’s album is #782: Country Joe & the Fish – Electric Music for the Mind and Body Late last July, we were closing out our Best Songs of All Time countdown and decided that we’d do albums next. In order not to bore you, we decided to debut with an “obvious suspects” page listing a bunch of picks that pretty much everybody agrees on – after all, you don’t need us to tell you how great London Calling, or Pink Moon, or Sketches of Spain are, do you? In our haste to get the page up, we neglected this one, in this case because we thought that it’s on the two most popular best-albums lists on the web and we didn’t want to duplicate them. As it turns out, it’s on the “1001 albums to hear before you die” list but not the other one. Country Joe McDonald and his bandmates’ mission on this crazed 1967 gem was to replicate the ambience of an acid trip. It’s by far the trippiest thing they ever did: their other albums have much more of a straight-up folkie or country-rock feel. Maybe because of that, it’s a lot looser and less earnest as well. Most of it has aged remarkably well, even the Grateful Dead-inspired Flying High and Superbird (a snide anti-LBJ broadside). Much of this, like Porpoise Mouth and the hypnotic instrumental Section 43, is unusually carnivalesque and eerie for these guys. Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine is surprisingly subtle and funny; the genuinely haunting Death Sound Blues and way-out-there Bass Strings, with its “did you just hear that” sound effects are anything but. None of us here can vouch for how this sounds under the influence of LSD but the band reputedly tried it and gave it their seal of approval. Here’s a random torrent. 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__label__wiki	0.936718	0.936718	News Singapore Airlines Singapore Airlines adds Paris flights from 15 July By Andrew 8 July 2020, 14:08 14 July 2020, 19:26 7 Comments on Singapore Airlines adds Paris flights from 15 July Singapore Airlines adds a seventh European destination and 25th city to its passenger route network from mid-July, with the return of flights to and from Paris In a schedule update today, Singapore Airlines confirmed that it will restart passenger flights between Singapore and Paris from next week, with twice-weekly Airbus A350 service. This is a new addition to the airline’s COVID-19 flight schedule, which has seen gradual increases since the low points of April and May 2020. Paris will become Singapore Airlines’ seventh European city to receive passenger flights since the COVID-19 pandemic, and its 25th destination globally. From 15th July 2020 Singapore ⇄ Paris Days Acft SIN ➔ CDG SQ336 □ □ ■ □ ■ □ □ 359 CDG ➔ SIN SQ335 □ □ □ ■ □ ■ □ 359 Flights depart from Singapore as SQ336 at 12.15am on Wednesdays and Fridays, touching down at Charles De Gaulle Airport at 7.35am the same day. As with SIA’s other long-haul routes, the aircraft and crew then rest overnight in Paris before flying back the following lunchtime as SQ335 at 12pm on Thursdays and Saturdays, landing in Singapore at 6.50am the following morning. Update 14 Jul: Since writing, Singapore Airlines has added an additional Sunday service to Paris from 1st August 2020, returning on Mondays back to Singapore, for a total of three weekly round-trip flights. See here for the full July and August schedule. Crew will spend just over 24 hours in Paris before returning to Singapore on the same aircraft. (Photo: Singapore Airlines) With the exception of a cargo-only flight in late May 2020, this will be the first Singapore Airlines service to Paris in four months, with the route discontinued on 15th March 2020 as the COVID-19 outbreak began to significantly dampen demand. Paris was scheduled to receive the airline’s latest Airbus A380 Version 3 aircraft on year-round daily service from July 2020, but instead a 3-class Airbus A350 will be used for these twice weekly flights. Airbus A350s will be used on these Paris flights, the first time the airline has operated the type to the city. (Photo: Transport Pixels) Currently Singapore Airlines is only operating Airbus A350s and Boeing 787s on passenger flights. Like the airline’s other European and US routes, a 3-class Airbus A350 will be used, including the 2013 Business Class seat. Singapore Airlines’ Airbus A350 2013 Business Class seats. (Photo: MainlyMiles) Recently, the airline cancelled its plans to re-launch flights to Brussels. Singapore Airlines is not currently flying passenger flights on seven of its regular European routes, including Manchester and Rome. Passenger routes Here’s how the map of Singapore Airlines passenger routes now looks with the addition of Paris services. These additional services will result in the mainline carrier operating 474 passenger flights during the month of July 2020, its highest level since the COVID-19 schedules came into force in April 2020, however still only representing around 6% of originally planned levels. You can check our updated full list of routes and schedules operating this month for full details. Full list of Singapore Airlines routes operating in July 2020 Transit passengers Update 14 Jul: Since writing, Paris has now been added to the list of approved origin cities for transit through Changi Airport. See here for the latest list. Paris is not one of SIA’s approved origin cities for transit passengers connecting on its flights through Singapore Changi Airport. Passengers can still fly to Paris from either Singapore or an approved transit origin city via Singapore (e.g. Sydney – Singapore – Paris), however that’s not currently possible in the opposite direction. Passengers originating in Paris will have to be eligible to fly to Singapore as their final destination. For full details of which cities are included in the list of approved transit origin points for SIA Group services, check our latest summary, or see the SIA website here. Full list of 15 origin cities with transit flight approval through Changi Who can fly to Paris? Nationals of France, the United Kingdom, Andorra, Monaco, San Marino, Switzerland, Vatican City (Holy See) or any EEA Member State, plus their spouses and children, are currently allowed to enter France. Students and those with a residency permit from the above countries are also eligible. At the time of writing, France also permits entry for residents from 13 countries assessed to be a low COVID-19 risk, however Singapore is not currently included: On arrival in France, a voluntary 14-day quarantine period applies. Singapore Airlines will soon be serving 50% of its regular European destinations with the inclusion of Paris flights from 15th July 2020, albeit on a significantly reduced schedule across the board. (Photo: Soroush Karimi) This will be the airline’s 25th passenger destination in a steadily growing list since a skeleton schedule was adopted in April 2020. Additionally, SilkAir is currently serving three routes and Scoot is flying to and from eight cities. Singapore Airlines has yet to announce its passenger flight schedule for August 2020. (Cover Photo: Shutterstock) Happy Camper says: 8 July 2020, 18:33 at 18:33 Step 1: Restart flights to CDG on A350 15 Jul.. Step 2: Demand increases Sep-Oct.. Step 3: Swaps our A350 for A380 Version 3 wef 1 Nov to cope with ever increasing demand.. Happy Days!!! 🤞🏻😇🤞🏻 Step 4: Awake from your beautiful dream! 😂 Ahhhhhhh…. Soooooo meeeeeeannnn!!! But… even if just for a min.. I believe even SQ’s got fingers crossed… else they’d be parking all eight of their Ver 3’s at Alice Springs, correct..? So… 🤞🏻😇🤞🏻 gigatoaster says: They have drastically increased their prices, though: 7 or 8k, usually it’s 5k or 6k. It’s back to 6.2k after mid-september. *2013 Business Class seat Oops thanks. Corrected 👍🏼 Pingback: Singapore Airlines increases flights, but no new routes in August 2020 – The Tourism International Previous Entry Raffles Bali opens its doors in Jimbaran Bay Next Entry Earn 4.5 mpd at Greenwood Fish Market – up to 8.5 mpd with the right credit card	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line985
__label__cc	0.69651	0.30349	ESPN Fantasy Football is Down By Pete Cashmore 2009-10-04 20:39:24 UTC Sports websites and services have a habit of failing at weekends. In mid September, NFL Fieldpass and Gamepass failed on the NFL's opening weekend. Today it's ESPN that's feeling the hit of Sunday traffic: the site's Fantasy Football service is down, with users complaining that they can't login. There's no word yet on when uptime will be restored, and in the meantime, users are venting their frustrations on Twitter (screenshot below). Are you experiencing problems with ESPN logins? Let us know in the comments. Topics: Media, Sports	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line988
__label__cc	0.614025	0.385975	Failure rate of contemporary low-dose radiosurgical technique for vestibular schwannoma: Clinical article Bruce E. Pollock, Michael J. Link, Robert L. Foote Object. The decline in cranial nerve morbidity after radiosurgery for vestibular schwannoma (VS) correlates with dose reduction and other technical changes to this procedure. The effect these changes have had on tumor control has not been well documented. Methods. The authors performed a retrospective review of 293 patients with VSs who underwent radiosurgery between 1990 and 2004 and had a minimum of 24 months of imaging follow-up (90% of the entire series). The median radiation dose to the tumor margin was 13 Gy. Treatment failure was defined as progressive tumor enlargement noted on 2 or more imaging studies. The mean postradiosurgical follow-up was 60.9 ± 32.5 months. Results. Tumor growth was noted in 15 patients (5%) at a median of 32 months after radiosurgery. Radiographically demonstrated tumor control was 96% at 3 years and 94% at 7 years after radiosurgery. Univariate analysis revealed 2 factors that correlated with failed radiosurgery for VS: an increasing number of isocenters (p = 0.03) and tumor margin radiation doses ≤ 13 Gy (p = 0.02). Multivariate analysis showed that only an increasing number of isocenters correlated with failed VS radiosurgery (hazard ratio 1.1, 95% CI 1.02-1.32, p < 0.05). The tumor margin radiation dose (p = 0.22) was not associated with tumor growth after radiosurgery. Conclusions. Distortion of stereotactic MR imaging coupled with increased radiosurgical conformality and progressive dose reduction likely caused some VSs to receive less than the prescribed radiation dose to the entire tumor volume. https://doi.org/10.3171/2009.3.JNS08949 Radiosurgery Vestibular schwannoma 10.3171/2009.3.JNS08949 Fingerprint Dive into the research topics of 'Failure rate of contemporary low-dose radiosurgical technique for vestibular schwannoma: Clinical article'. Together they form a unique fingerprint. Acoustic Neuroma Medicine & Life Sciences Radiosurgery Medicine & Life Sciences Cranial Nerves Medicine & Life Sciences Treatment Failure Medicine & Life Sciences Tumor Burden Medicine & Life Sciences Pollock, B. E., Link, M. J., & Foote, R. L. (2009). Failure rate of contemporary low-dose radiosurgical technique for vestibular schwannoma: Clinical article. Journal of neurosurgery, 111(4), 840-844. https://doi.org/10.3171/2009.3.JNS08949 Failure rate of contemporary low-dose radiosurgical technique for vestibular schwannoma : Clinical article. / Pollock, Bruce E.; Link, Michael J.; Foote, Robert L. In: Journal of neurosurgery, Vol. 111, No. 4, 19.10.2009, p. 840-844. Pollock, BE, Link, MJ & Foote, RL 2009, 'Failure rate of contemporary low-dose radiosurgical technique for vestibular schwannoma: Clinical article', Journal of neurosurgery, vol. 111, no. 4, pp. 840-844. https://doi.org/10.3171/2009.3.JNS08949 Pollock BE, Link MJ, Foote RL. Failure rate of contemporary low-dose radiosurgical technique for vestibular schwannoma: Clinical article. Journal of neurosurgery. 2009 Oct 19;111(4):840-844. https://doi.org/10.3171/2009.3.JNS08949 Pollock, Bruce E. ; Link, Michael J. ; Foote, Robert L. / Failure rate of contemporary low-dose radiosurgical technique for vestibular schwannoma : Clinical article. In: Journal of neurosurgery. 2009 ; Vol. 111, No. 4. pp. 840-844. @article{e53e7303e73247cca09566ad834806ac, title = "Failure rate of contemporary low-dose radiosurgical technique for vestibular schwannoma: Clinical article", abstract = "Object. The decline in cranial nerve morbidity after radiosurgery for vestibular schwannoma (VS) correlates with dose reduction and other technical changes to this procedure. The effect these changes have had on tumor control has not been well documented. Methods. The authors performed a retrospective review of 293 patients with VSs who underwent radiosurgery between 1990 and 2004 and had a minimum of 24 months of imaging follow-up (90% of the entire series). The median radiation dose to the tumor margin was 13 Gy. Treatment failure was defined as progressive tumor enlargement noted on 2 or more imaging studies. The mean postradiosurgical follow-up was 60.9 ± 32.5 months. Results. Tumor growth was noted in 15 patients (5%) at a median of 32 months after radiosurgery. Radiographically demonstrated tumor control was 96% at 3 years and 94% at 7 years after radiosurgery. Univariate analysis revealed 2 factors that correlated with failed radiosurgery for VS: an increasing number of isocenters (p = 0.03) and tumor margin radiation doses ≤ 13 Gy (p = 0.02). Multivariate analysis showed that only an increasing number of isocenters correlated with failed VS radiosurgery (hazard ratio 1.1, 95% CI 1.02-1.32, p < 0.05). The tumor margin radiation dose (p = 0.22) was not associated with tumor growth after radiosurgery. Conclusions. Distortion of stereotactic MR imaging coupled with increased radiosurgical conformality and progressive dose reduction likely caused some VSs to receive less than the prescribed radiation dose to the entire tumor volume.", keywords = "Acoustic neuroma, Dosimetry, Radiosurgery, Vestibular schwannoma", author = "Pollock, {Bruce E.} and Link, {Michael J.} and Foote, {Robert L.}", doi = "10.3171/2009.3.JNS08949", journal = "Journal of Neurosurgery", T1 - Failure rate of contemporary low-dose radiosurgical technique for vestibular schwannoma T2 - Clinical article AU - Pollock, Bruce E. AU - Link, Michael J. AU - Foote, Robert L. N2 - Object. The decline in cranial nerve morbidity after radiosurgery for vestibular schwannoma (VS) correlates with dose reduction and other technical changes to this procedure. The effect these changes have had on tumor control has not been well documented. Methods. The authors performed a retrospective review of 293 patients with VSs who underwent radiosurgery between 1990 and 2004 and had a minimum of 24 months of imaging follow-up (90% of the entire series). The median radiation dose to the tumor margin was 13 Gy. Treatment failure was defined as progressive tumor enlargement noted on 2 or more imaging studies. The mean postradiosurgical follow-up was 60.9 ± 32.5 months. Results. Tumor growth was noted in 15 patients (5%) at a median of 32 months after radiosurgery. Radiographically demonstrated tumor control was 96% at 3 years and 94% at 7 years after radiosurgery. Univariate analysis revealed 2 factors that correlated with failed radiosurgery for VS: an increasing number of isocenters (p = 0.03) and tumor margin radiation doses ≤ 13 Gy (p = 0.02). Multivariate analysis showed that only an increasing number of isocenters correlated with failed VS radiosurgery (hazard ratio 1.1, 95% CI 1.02-1.32, p < 0.05). The tumor margin radiation dose (p = 0.22) was not associated with tumor growth after radiosurgery. Conclusions. Distortion of stereotactic MR imaging coupled with increased radiosurgical conformality and progressive dose reduction likely caused some VSs to receive less than the prescribed radiation dose to the entire tumor volume. AB - Object. The decline in cranial nerve morbidity after radiosurgery for vestibular schwannoma (VS) correlates with dose reduction and other technical changes to this procedure. The effect these changes have had on tumor control has not been well documented. Methods. The authors performed a retrospective review of 293 patients with VSs who underwent radiosurgery between 1990 and 2004 and had a minimum of 24 months of imaging follow-up (90% of the entire series). The median radiation dose to the tumor margin was 13 Gy. Treatment failure was defined as progressive tumor enlargement noted on 2 or more imaging studies. The mean postradiosurgical follow-up was 60.9 ± 32.5 months. Results. Tumor growth was noted in 15 patients (5%) at a median of 32 months after radiosurgery. Radiographically demonstrated tumor control was 96% at 3 years and 94% at 7 years after radiosurgery. Univariate analysis revealed 2 factors that correlated with failed radiosurgery for VS: an increasing number of isocenters (p = 0.03) and tumor margin radiation doses ≤ 13 Gy (p = 0.02). Multivariate analysis showed that only an increasing number of isocenters correlated with failed VS radiosurgery (hazard ratio 1.1, 95% CI 1.02-1.32, p < 0.05). The tumor margin radiation dose (p = 0.22) was not associated with tumor growth after radiosurgery. Conclusions. Distortion of stereotactic MR imaging coupled with increased radiosurgical conformality and progressive dose reduction likely caused some VSs to receive less than the prescribed radiation dose to the entire tumor volume. 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__label__wiki	0.885427	0.885427	T. C. Narendran A new species and a key to species of Calotelea Westwood (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae) from India. On the systematics of Heptascelio Kieffer (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae). M. G. Ramesh Babu On a new species of Parastephanellus Enderlein (Hymenoptera: Stephanidae) from India. A new species and a key to species of Anteromorpha Dodd (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae) of India. R. Ushakumari A systematic study of six new species of Calliscelio Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae) of India with a key to Indian species. Two new species of Baryconus Forster (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae) with a key to Indian species. K. A. Karmaly (Kuruppassery Anthappan) A new species of Paratelenomus (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae) from India. Rajmohana K. A taxonomic revision of Leptacis Foerster (Hymenoptera: Pltygasteridae) of India. A systematic note on the genus Trissolcus Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae) with a key to species from India. Two new genera of Diapriidae (Proctotrupoidea: Hymenoptera) from India. Monelata completus, a new species of Diapriidae (Hymenoptera: Proctotrupoidea) from India. Studies on Oxypria Kieffer (Diapriidae: Proctotrupoidea) of the Oriental region. An interesting teratological Trichopria Ashmead Diapriidae: Proctotrupoidea) from India. Descriptions of a new genus Nigropria and a new species of Aneuropria Kieffer (Diapriidae: Proctotrupoidea: Hymenoptera) from India. Studies on Paramesius Westwood (Diapriidae: Proctotrupoidea: Hymenoptera) of the Indian region. A new species of Xenomerus Walker (Teleasinae: Scelionida) from India. Perspectives on biosystematics and biodiversity: Prof. T. C. Narendran commemoration volume. Biodiversity of diapriid wasps (Hymenoptera) of Kerala and their potential as biocontrol agents. On five new species of Tetramorium (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae) from India. A taxonomic review of the Indian species of Xenomerus Walker (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae). Parasitoids (Hymenoptera) of xylophagous beetles (Coleoptera) attacking dead wood in southern Western Ghats, Kerala, India, with descriptions of two new species. P. M. Sureshan A new species of the genus Paratopula Wheeler (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from India. Indian ants. Genus Camponotus Mayr [Formicidae - Hymenoptera]. Redescription of a little known myrmicine ant Recurvidris recurvispinosa (Forel) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). A new species of Trissolcus (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae): egg parasitoid of Scutellera nobilis Fabricius (Hemiptera: Scutelleridae) on Jatropha curcas Linnaeus (Euphorbiaceae) in India. T. Manoharan A remarkable new subgenus Neotrimorus of Trimorus Foerster (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae) from India. Grooca, a new name for Neoepistenia Sureshan & Narendran (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae). A new species of Diastephanus Enderlein (Hymenoptera: Stephanidae) from India. A new genus and new species of Myrmicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from India. Four new species of the genus Phaenoserphus Kieffer (Hymenoptera: Proctotrupidae) from India. First record of the male of the widespread Calliscelio elegans (Perkins) (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae) along with some taxonomic notes on the species. K. Rajmohana (Keloth) A. Peter (Abhilash) Hymenoptera diversity in single- and double-cropped rice ecosystems in Kerala, India. S. Pathummal Beevi K. R. Lyla	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line993
__label__wiki	0.919119	0.919119	Petition To Remake 'Game Of Thrones' Season 8 Is Getting Roasted Like King's Landing A Change.org petition to "remake game of thrones season 8 with competent writers" has accumulated over 800 thousand signatures.from disgruntled fans. People have been very unhappy with the show's writing - mainly with confusing character arcs and major plot holes. While we definitely agree with much of the unhappy sentiment, let's be real: there are way more important causes that deserve this overwhelming support. Twitter seems to agree. The petition has left many people completely dumbfounded, and they're showing their disdain the best way they know how: in 280 characters or less. remake game of thrones game of thrones backlash petition backlash weird twitter game of thrones petition 23 Freshly Harvested & Spoiler-Filled Game Of Thrones Memes Y'all, we're still absolutely shook over Game of Thrones season 8 episode 5 - "The Bells". The episode is being wildly panned by fans and critics alike - so much so that there's actually a petition to remake the entire eighth season. We're staying out of that mess and pretending D&D didn't destroy our favorite character arcs. Instead we'd rather focus on these fire memes. game of thrones the bells game of thrones season 8 episode 5 20+ Game Of Thrones Characters Get The Snapchat Gender Swap Treatment We've been having a whole lot of fun with Snapchat's gender change filter since its release last week, so we figured we might as well apply it to our favorite television show, Game of Thrones. Well, what once was our favorite television show. Sunday night's fiery episode still has us all out of sorts, so these gender swaps have been a welcome distraction from what feels like Game of Thrones imploding on itself. We mostly stuck to season 8 regulars, but couldn't help putting these goofy filters on some old fan favorites. Tell us who we missed in the comments! game of thrones gender swap snapchat filters snapchat gender change filter 30 Fresh Game Of Thrones Memes That Are Dark And Full Of Spoilers We're still absolutely shook over the events of Game of Thrones season 8 episode 5 - as we recounted in our reactions post. Now that we've accepted that our favorite characters are either dead or dead to us, all we have left are memes. And these memes really do sum up our feelings about this fiery garbage can of an episode. game of thrones deaths cleganebowl euron greyjoy All The Most Fiery Twitter Reactions To Game Of Thrones Season 8 Episode 5 (SPOILERS) Tonight we bore witness to one of the most bloody, fiery, and ultimately, disappointing episodes of Game of Thrones to date. The episode began with Varys sending word of Jon Snow's parentage to an unknown recipient. The Master of Whispers would not live to see the result of his efforts. Dany quickly learned of the treason from Tyrion and sentenced Varys to death by Drogon, a fate that most of Kings Landing shared by the end of the episode. Daenerys' transformation into her father was shocking to many viewers who took to Twitter to express their contempt for the character's unraveling. Many fans were equally shook over Jaime and Cersei's demise. Jaime is mortally wounded by Euron Greyjoy and goes to die with his twin and lover. Their ultimate death by rubble seemed an anticlimactic fate for such complicated and integral characters. We have to agree that it does not feel like Cersei got what she deserved. There's a whole lot more to unpack (hello, CLEGANEBOWL) but we'll let these tweets do the talking. It's time to grab a stiff drink and think about what we've been devoting our lives to since Season 1. We hope D&D are doing the same. You can catch some more reactions to this hellish episode at Ebaum's World and Fail Blog. For more general coverage of this harrowing season, check out last week's reaction dump and some of our favorite memes. sandor clegane game of thrones reactions varys 22 Freshly Plucked 'Game Of Thrones' Memes For The Superfans Still reeling after Sunday's episode of 'Game of Thrones?' Can't wrap your mind around why Jon just let Ghost leave? Or are you grappling with Sansa's complete and utter inability to keep her word? These fresh memes are definitely for you. greyworm missandei the north remembers 27 Fresh AF 'Game Of Thrones' Memes From Season 8 Episode 4 (SPOILERS) We've already covered the Twitter reactions and the coffee cup debacle - now we can really have some fun. We can generally count on some seriously dank memes following any episode of Game of Thrones, and this week did not disappoint. It feels like when fans are unhappy with an episode (we're looking at you, Jaime Lannister character arc) the memes are even better than usual. Scroll down to see for yourself. rhaegal 'Game Of Thrones' Left A Coffee Cup In A Shot And Twitter Is Going Berserk We thought that the deaths of Rhaegal and Missandei (and maybe Brienne and Jaime's steamy tryst) would be the talk of the town after last night's episode, but boy, were we wrong. Turns out someone left a very 2019 coffee cup in a shot - and people are seriously freaking out. There are the expected Starbucks jokes, but our favorite shade is coming from people who complained about episode 3 being way too dark. We'd say this blunder is proof that they should turn the lights up a notch. game of thrones tweets All The Best Tweets & Reactions From 'Game of Thrones' Season 8 Episode 4 (SPOILERS) Beware: MAJOR spoilers ahead! Jon and Dany may have defeated the Night King but after last night's episode it's clear that the war is very far from over. Jon's secret is being treated like high school gossip, everyone is bonin' (or breaking up) and Cersei has seriously asserted herself by killing both Missandei and Rhaegal, pretty much in one fell swoop. While the drama is entertaining, it's becoming clear that Dany is starting to resemble her father, the Mad King. She'd better rein that side of herself in, as people are realizing who Jon is and he's starting to look like a much, much better ruler. For more great tweets, visit Ebaum's World and Fail Blog! All The Best Twitter Reactions To Last Night's Episode Of 'Game Of Thrones' (SPOILERS) It finally happened, y'all! Last night's episode of HBO's Game Of Thrones marked the beginning of the end. The show has officially entered its eighth season and there's already no shortage of drama. We've got the Dany and Sansa shadefest in full force, a whole lot of emotional reunions, and some serious dragon action. The action didn't just inspire our hearts to beat faster - it also inspired a f*ck ton of hilarious Twitter memes. These are our favorites. twitter memes 16 Mostly-Fresh Game Of Thrones Memes That'll Get You Hyped Game of Thrones fans are getting pretty psyched for the show's eighth and final season. The trailer was released yesterday and people are theorizing left and right. While we love a little tinfoil as much as the next person, we're more interested in the memes. Here are some solid ones from one of our favorite subreddits, r/Freefolk. Game Of Thrones: The Season Finale, Hilariously Summed Up In Cartoon Form We've given you the best memes and reactions, and now we're bringing you some A+ cartoons from Dorkly. We hope Jon thanked Davos for his...smuggled goods. Game Of Thrones: 33 Best Memes And Reactions To The EPIC Season 7 Finale Spoliers ahead! Last night's episode was a seriously wild ride. While nothing was incredibly surprising, there's no denying our excitement over that Stark revenge, the ice dragon...and yes...#BOATSEX. These memes are the only things getting us through the agonizing TWO YEAR wait for the next (and final) season. Valar morghulis! Littlefinger Waiting For Tonight...Whoa-ooohhh Via wilfordbrimly WTF: All Your Favorite Game of Thrones Characters As Chinese Street Vendors Ever wonder what the characters of Game of Thrones would look like as Chinese street vendors? Neither did we. But the results are pretty bizarre and hilarious. Game of Thrones: 21 Memes To Get You Pumped For The Next Episode Yeah, we know it leaked, but some of us like our Sunday night rituals.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line996
__label__wiki	0.780985	0.780985	Gerstell and Boys’ Latin still alive for the final spot There is still one game to play in the MIAA B Conference soccer regular season and one final playoff spot to determine, but everything else is set as the league’s post-season gets underway on Monday. Gerstell Academy, which lost to first-place Friends on Wednesday, 4-1, can play its way into the tournament if the Falcons win or tie at Park School on Thursday. Currently, Gerstell and Boys’ Latin are tied for the final spot with 18 points each, but BL owns the tie-breaker because of a victory over second place Concordia Prep, which swept the Falcons. If Gerstell gets at least one point at Park, it advances outright. If not, Boys’ Latin will advance. The top two seeds, which have been locked down for some time, belong to first-place Friends (14-1-1) and second-place Concordia Prep (11-5), which had an excellent first year in the league, after winning the C Conference last year. Those two will have first round byes and host semifinal games on Nov. 2. Annapolis Area Christian (7-6-3) and Severn (8-8) tied for third, each with 24 points, but AACS owns the tie-break because it also claimed a win against second place Concordia, which swept Severn. With 22 points, Saints Peter & Paul (6-6-4) is the fifth seed. In Monday’s quarterfinal round, AACS will host either Gerstell or BL and Saints Peter & Paul will travel to Severn. The Saints Peter & Paul/Severn winner will go to Friends for the semifinals and the other quarterfinal winner will go to Concordia. On Senior Day at Friends, Wednesday, the Quakers continued to stay sharp for what they hope will be a run at the championship with their victory over Gerstell Academy. Freshman Ned Forbush got Friends rolling with a goal midway through the first half and senior Mike Klausner made it 2-0 at the half. The Quakers got second half goals from senior Jordan Finn and junior Jeremy Weinberg. Severn closed its regular season with a third straight win, routing Boys’ Latin, 8-0. This has not been a typical season for the Admirals, but they have won three straight league titles and pose a serious threat to anyone in the post-season. Nate Gauthier scored four time to lead the Admirals. Everett Cortes added two goals and an assist, while Devin McCarthy had a goal and three assists. In addition, Jared Dove scored a goal, Jack McCarthy had two assists and Sean Crowley had one. Also on Wednesday, as it clinched the fifth seed, Saints Peter & Paul eliminated Park School from playoff contention with a 1-0 victory. Nate Bidle scored the Golden Goal in overtime to lift the Sabres. PreviousReady set go in A Conference soccer playoffs NextShutdown D at the Lake	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line999
__label__cc	0.522153	0.477847	Gig review: Jang Kiha & the Faces + Yi Sung Yol at the Scala by Philip Gowman posted 23 Jun 2013 7 Apr 2019 updated 7 Apr 2019 in Events \| Festivals \| Music. 3 minute read The advertised start time for the gig was 7pm, and at 8pm there was still a huge queue at the door simply to get in. Clearly the administration of rock concerts at the Scala is not bound by the same conventions as a classical concert at a mainstream venue. Inside, the down-at-heel décor is probably par for the course for most rock venues, but an investment in air conditioning would be welcome. Jang Kiha and the Faces at the Scala As for the music, well, we had some first-rate musicians in prospect. Where Serious got the idea that they were “underground” is a bit of a puzzle, but most of the audience (it was probably 95% Korean) didn’t need to read publicity materials to persuade them to come along. Judging by the reception the they gave to the two singers, most of them had come to see Kiha & the Faces. LKL has followed both acts for a while: Yi Sung Yol’s 2nd album, In Exchange, was one of our albums of the year in 2007, but his latest album released in May this year was disappointing and so we suspected in advance of the Scala gig that Jang Kiha might be the star of the show given his catchy tunes and growing following. Yi Sung Yol tunes up And as we stood in the muggy atmosphere at the back of the Scala, an unwelcome question occurred: Is Yi Sung Yol better as a recording artist than as a live performer? His immaculately crafted, slightly introverted melodies sound wonderful in the privacy of your living room, but live at Scala he didn’t really connect with the audience. In between numbers he was twiddling with his laptop rather than bantering with the punters. His remarkable voice with its huge range never really took flight. His less familiar songs were politely received, and even his old favourites failed to ignite the audience. Maybe the jetlag was affecting him – I never understand how musicians fly half way round the world one day and then are expected to be on top form the next – or he was just not feeling on top form. Either way, Yi’s set was a disappointment. Part of the problem could have been the sound system, which made his mellow music come over as dark and muddy. But if so, that was something that was fixed before Jang Kiha came on. For even the slower, folk-style songs with which Jang started his set sounded cleaner and fresher than the sombre, murky sound that had marked Yi Sung Yol’s set. In fact it was as if a cloud had lifted when Jang came on stage. He tried to temper the audience’s ebullience by stressing how sad his initial songs were, but still they were received with a deal of enthusiasm. And as the tempo picked up in the later songs the temperature raised still further. Jang Kiha in pensive mood Sadly, I had to leave just as the evening was really taking off. If there had been a bit of air conditioning, maybe I might have been persuaded to stay a bit longer, but I was glad to have had the chance to hear two of Korea’s leading indie acts live. I’ll continue to listen to my Yi Sung Yol CDs with pleasure, and I now realise that I have been seriously delinquent in not already having added Jang Kiha’s second CD to the first I already have. It was definitely Jang which was the star of the Scala’s show. But what a shame that Kimchi Cult was not included in the initial PR for the event. While waiting for the Scala queue to die down I’d already over-filled my belly with a substandard burger at a nearby Turkish café. Had I known that the Kimchi Chariot was going to be serving Kimchi Burgers at the Scala I would have saved some room. Filed in: Event reports and reviews \| K-music Festival \| K-Pop, rock and indie \| Live music reviews Musicians: Jang Ki-ha \| Yi Sung-yol Organisations and venues: Scala Event tags: K-music 2013 The sticky craft of lacquerware: Korean crafts at Collect 2013 Concert review: Geomungo Factory at the Cadogan Hall	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line1003
__label__wiki	0.748531	0.748531	Louder Than War Home Music Bands Seasick Steve- exclusive interview Seasick Steve- exclusive interview Ian Johnston SEASICK STEVE interview by IAN JOHNSTON A recent conversation with the venerable white country blues singer/songwriter Seasick Steve, talking about his magnificent new LP, You Can’t Teach An Old Dog New Tricks. I think the first time I saw you perform was at the Electric Ballroom in Camden Town”Â¦. Seasick Steve: “That’s where I’m playing now again (Thursday, 26th May) . Haven’t played there in four years, or something. It’s in aid of the homeless, is that correct (full details below)? Seasick Steve: “Yeah, it’s a benefit for The Connection at St Martin’s, a day centre.”Â That’s obviously an issue you feel strongly about? Seasick Steve: “I’m really happy to do it. I lived rough a long time ago, but I didn’t think of myself as homeless. I just kinda wandered around. I don’t feel like I ever lived in a doorway, you know what I mean? I think some hard circumstances put these people here. Some kind of hard circumstances put me out there too, but it was a different time and that word (homeless) didn’t even exist. The people who are really stuck on the street out here, as recently as a couple of years ago, because they lost their house and shit like that, jobs. Even though I really wanted to do this, I don’t feel like I was a homeless person so I relate so well. It’s more that I have a lot of feeling for these people who end up there some way and everyone has got a reason why they’re out there. For some people it’s because things fell apart real quick. Some people can’t face the normal day to day. Which ever way you slice and dice it, it’s hard living out on the street. If there is any comfort that this organization (Streets Of London) can give, while they are trying to figure out”Â¦ If you want to get off the street, you’ve, first of all, got to want to get off it. In the meantime, people can give you some help. I hope playing will bring a little bit of attention and they will donate some money to the people to whom it will make some difference.”Â I love the sound of your new album You Can’t Teach An Old Dog New Tricks. Did it actually take long to record and how did you managed to capture that sense of urgency in the recording? Seasick Steve: “Because we did it urgently (Laughs). I didn’t pay more attention particularly. I just set the gear up in a house and me and Dan (Magnusson, drummer} stood around and had a bottle of wine and started rockin’ and if it sounded good, I punched the tape recorder on. So it was pretty fuckin’ urgent in that sense (Laughs). There was no fooling around. On the drum songs, we just bashed through them. Our main goal was how to end the songs.”Â The drums sound fantastic”Â¦ Seasick Steve: “The drums were in the front room. The guy who mixed it is real good; he’s my friend Vance (Powell) down in Nashville. He’s real good at that shit, I’m a little bit deaf now, but he’s real good. But I recorded it, I know I recorded it all right but he’s so good in the ears that he was able to put everything where it belongs. We don’t use no computers or any shit like that. We mix it on a tape; it’s all for real. We just record it and play it. We don’t have twenty takes to listen too; we have one take to listen too. If that take ain’t no good, then do it again.’ No overdubs? Seasick Steve: “No, we did overdubs. We really only overdub”Â¦ Well, most songs only have guitar and drums. So, we do that, because it was in a small room, in the house there, and after we’re done with the drums and shit like that and then I’d go sing it. I did a lot of live singing but not with the drums, because all you’d hear is the drums and the vocal. I just sat and sang playing the guitar at the same time.”Â You’re back on an independent label (Play It Again Sam) after being on a major”Â¦ Seasick Steve: “Hallelujah!”Â (Laughs) How is that working out? Seasick Steve: “Well, we just got going here so I hope it’s going to be good. And everyone is really nice. I don’t know, it’s so much more relaxed! But also when I made that record (You Can’t Teach An Old Dog New Tricks) I was with no record company. So, that’s maybe why”Â¦ I had no one calling me on the phone, no one anything. That was obviously different for me.”Â I remember there was a TV advertisement for the last album (Man From Another Time, 2009), so you had that behind you, but was it that you couldn’t get to speak to anybody, if you ever needed to speak to anybody, because the organization is so big? Seasick Steve: “People just get fired all the time. Like with that I Started Out with Nothin and I Still Got Most of it Left record (2008), the week my record come out everyone who had had anything to do with signing me was fired, even the head of the company, the week my record come out. The MD, the head of A&R, all of ”Ëœum, fired (Chuckles). There wasn’t anyone to talk to there anyway. Still the record did good. That whole major record company is a tough thing, man. There are people living in fear, you know. The people here, as far as I’ve been able to tell, are here for a whole lot of way different reasons: like kind of like loving’ music. A novel idea.”Â Former Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones makes very spirited musical contributions to the record. How did that come about, working with him? Seasick Steve: “Well, you just kind of thought,’Hey, be kind of funny to have some bass on some songs.’ It was really like that, I didn’t know how to get hold of him or anything. So Dan said, ”ËœWhy don’t we just get the guy from Led Zeppelin?’ (Laughs). Easier said than done, you know, and why would he want to play with us? That was the other question. He played last night with us on TV.”Â Seasick Steve: “Jools Holland. Damn, it was good.”Â I missed it; I’ll watch it on the BBC i-Player. Seasick Steve: “He played with us (John Paul Jones). It was rockin’. The longer show is going to be on again on Friday. We did two songs for that one and then talked to Jools. Anyway, we didn’t call him up; we called someone who we found out works with him. I just left a message. And he called me. I said, ”ËœI don’t mean to bug ya, but, you know, you want to play?’ He just said, ”ËœYep.’”Â You all sound really fired up on the tracks where you are working with him, the title track and ”ËœBack In The Doghouse’. How do you prepare to deliver that kind of vocal? It must be difficult going in cold to perform a number like that”Â¦ Seasick Steve: “Well, I was actually kind of sick when I sang that song. I lost my voice, kind of. So when I sang, ”ËœTricks’ anyway, I just sang it, thinking that wasn’t the right one but at least we need to have a vocal on there, just so we could see where we was. That ended up being the vocal. Never did go fix it. I was still hoarse and I figured that it ain’t gonna get no better, so I may as well leave that one. I didn’t actually think that I had sung the song yet. I thought I had to go sing it when I got better. But I listened to it with my wife and she said, ”ËœIt’s fine, just leave it the way it is.’ So that was kind of the demo part. So I certainly didn’t prepare, I didn’t even know that I was singing the vocal.”Â I really like the opening song ”ËœTreasures’. I think that if Johnny Cash was still alive the chances are that he would have recorded a cover of it. Seasick Steve: “Well that is a serious compliment. I appreciate that.”Â I was just wondering if that had been at the back of your mind, that type of Cash song? Seasick Steve: “I don’t even know where that song comes from, you know? I thought about Johnny Cash, funny enough, but not on that song. I thought about him when I was singing that song, ”ËœIt’s A Long Long Way’ (closing track on You Can’t Teach An Old Dog New Tricks). I don’t know why, but I did. But I did that ”ËœTreasures’ song all by myself. I was just kind of sitting, late at night, and I had to wait until all the traffic went by, because it’s so quiet, the song. I just sat down and played it. That’s the way it come out. Then we overdubbed the girl (Georgina Leach) playing the violin but she wasn’t there, you know, I had to go find this girl. She played real pretty. The vocal on the guitar is totally live, I just sat there and played it.”Â Where was the house where all this was recorded? In the UK? America? Seasick Steve: “Well, I live in Norway, so it weren’t no America. We mixed some of it in America, cos I went out there to record with Jack White.”Â Because you are on his Third Man label in America for You Can’t Teach An Old Dog New Tricks, right? Seasick Steve: “Yeah. We are doing a single (a 7”Â featuring two Mississippi Fred McDowell covers, ”ËœWrite Me A Few More Lines’ backed with ”ËœLevee Camp Blues’), that’s going to come out real soon too. He’s real good; he’s a good drummer, goddamn. I’m gonna fire my drummer (Laughs).”Â Nice. ”ËœDon’t Know Why She Love Me But She Do’ perhaps carries echoes of someone like John Lee Hooker and the Cigar Box Guitar pictured on the sleeve”Â¦ Seasick Steve: “That’s what we played last night. So, if you see it on that Internet thing, that’s the song we played.”Â That guitar looks incredible; there has to be some story behind that instrument? Seasick Steve: “Well, the actual Cigar Box didn’t quite look like that, I put the electronics on it and everything. But it’s just an old pickup from an old guitar; it ain’t nothing fancy or nothin’. I was playing down in Australia, we were playing in a kind of bar, no, it was a club and the bar was in another room. Before the gig, like maybe an hour or two before the gig, this young fella come in. he’s go this cigar box and a jar of moonshine, and he walks up to me and gives me this clear moonshine and this cigar box. Then he turns around and walks out again. A lot of people give me weird instruments like that, so I didn’t think much about it, but I took the moonshine and that thing into the dressing room and started to play it a little bit. I thought, ”ËœThis sounds kind of alright.’ I had to fix it a little bit, but I’ve been playing it ever since and that’s how I got it.”Â What about the 3-string Trance Wonder guitar? Seasick Steve: “Oh no, man. I’ve told that story so many times I don’t know if I can hardly spit that story out again. That was give to me by my friend Sherman in Mississippi.”Â Yes, sorry, I remember now, you told that story when I saw you live four years ago”Â¦ Seasick Steve: “Remember that now? It almost doesn’t work anymore. But that was the guitar that I played the first time I was on Jools’ TV show. That’s what got me going.”Â It’s amazing that such a dilapidated piece of equipment should launch a highly successful international career”Â¦ Seasick Steve: (Laughs) Well, they are all quite dilapidated, I can tell you that, man. And also, last night, I played the one that’s made out of two hubcaps put together (the Morris Minor Guitar). That one struggled a bit last night. That’s on ”ËœTricks’. It’s pretty rough to play it. “ The picture of the doleful dog on the cover of the LP is wonderful. How did you come across that? Seasick Steve: “We wanted a picture of a dog, or at least I thought I did, that looked a little bit like me; how I felt, anyway. My wife was looking on the Internet at some place were you can see loads of pictures of dogs and she found this picture of the dog. I think it was on that Facebook thing, I don’t know where she found this picture, but I went, ”ËœOh, I like that picture.’ And so somehow we were able to find the person who took that picture and it turned out that they lived in England. So I called up the girl who took it and said, ”ËœI love the picture of your dog. I was wondering if I could use it for the cover of my album. Can I use it?’ And she said, ”ËœSure.’ A pretty simple deal. I just love the way he’s looking: he’s not mad, he’s not anything, he’s just neutral.”Â The look of a survivor. He’s seen a lot. Seasick Steve: “Yeah. He’s like 12 or 13 years old. That’s pretty old for a dog. Apparently, he was waiting for her to throw him something. That’s his look, you know. But I thought that’s kinda how I feel. She was really cool that she let us use it.”Â You Can’t Teach An Old Dog New Tricks is a very musically diverse album. There’s a bit of Delta blues influence on ”ËœHave Mercy On The Lonely’, there’s a bit of country on ”ËœUnderneath A Blue And Cloudless Sky’. These are the touchstones of your music, right? Seasick Steve: “I like all of them, you know. I love country music and everything, hillbilly music and stuff. I don’t really think much about any of the records I make: whatever is in my mind goes on the record. After Dan left, having played the drums on the record, I found I wanted to put some kind of quiet ones down. I just started remembering some songs I had, so it was really kind of haphazard. When we got the songs together, my wife, she made the order. I’m no good at making no orders. But I like the order, the way it feels, a little bit of bluegrass or country, a little bit of crazy music, a bit of rock ”Ëœn’ roll”Â¦ It feels good to be a like a good mishmash. I guess we’ll find out if people like it or not later on.”Â It flows very well. You put it on and you listen to it until the end. Seasick Steve: “I’m glad about that, cos we ain’t had a whole lot of feedback on it yet. I was just over in Europe doing a three or four countries promo tour and did twenty something interviews. The interviewers over there were saying the same sort of thing. So, that’s a start, anyway.”Â Seasick Steve: “We are playing a lot of summer festivals, beginning here and then over in Europe. I got a few little TV things to do, then we are going to try and go on our own tour in October or November, something like that. We will be playing in England again, a proper tour. Then more dates in Germany, France, stuff like that.”Â On the I Started Out with Nothin and I Still Got Most of it Left album I really enjoyed the song you did with Grinderman, ”ËœJust Like A King’, and the show you performed with them in 2007 at the Forum, in Kentish Town. Seasick Steve: “I really like their band. That band kinda light me up when I go see them play. I really think they are amazing. These guys, who ain’t no kids, and they get up there and just tear it up. They go crazy, I love it. They are actually one of my favourite bands to go see.”Â Thank you very much indeed for your time, Steve. Seasick Steve: “And thank you. I appreciate your writing the kind words and taking some interest. It’s all good, it’s all good, my brother.”Â Seasick Steve will headline this year’s Streets of London Concert for Homelessness, at London’s Camden Electric Ballroom on Thursday 26th May. Tickets Ã‚Â£22.50 from Ticketmaster, Ticketweb, Seetickets, Stargreen. All proceeds from the night will go to The Connection at St Martin’s, a day centre near Trafalgar Square that provides specialist support to more than 200 homeless people each day. ”Â¨Streets of London Concerts for Homelessness ”â€œ raising awareness about homelessness and raising funds for front-line services with some great live music!”Â¨www.streetsoflondon.org.uk Seasick Steve’s new album You Can’t Teach An Old Dog New Tricks is released on 30th May. copyright Ian Johnston 2011 Previous articleMargate! 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__label__wiki	0.845076	0.845076	FOR PATIENT & PROVIDERS Department of Neurology's Mission Statement: To provide outstanding care for patients with disease affecting the nervous system, advance understanding and treatment of these conditions through research and other scholarly work, and educate the next generation of physicians and scientists in the field. Dr. Dawn Kleindorfer, Chair, Department of Neurology Dawn O. Kleindorfer, M.D., has been appointed chair of the Department of Neurology in the Medical School, effective May 1. The provost approved her appointment in April, and the Board of Regents confirmed approval in May. Kleindorfer returned to Michigan after serving as a professor and executive vice-chair in the Department of Neurology at the University of Cincinnati (UC). She also served as associate dean of faculty development and women’s initiatives, and director of the Vascular Neurology Division and Vascular Neurology Fellowship in the UC College of Medicine. She also was leader of the Comprehensive Stroke Center, and has extensive clinical experience with the management of acute stroke patients, including hyperacute treatments and long-term care. As director of the Vascular Neurology Division, she oversaw seven physician faculty, 2-4 vascular neurology fellows, and a staff of 20 research nurses/associates. As associate dean, she was responsible for broadening the scope of faculty development programs, including a college-wide approach to faculty mentoring and leadership training. She was the advocate for women’s issues in the College of Medicine, and she was able to create and implement a parental leave plan for clinical faculty in 2018. After earning a Bachelor of Science in biology from Indiana University, Kleindorfer received her medical degree from Washington University in St. Louis. She came to the University of Michigan for an internship in internal medicine and residency (chief resident) in neurology, before completing a fellowship in the Cerebrovascular Division at UC, and then she stayed on as faculty there. Kleindorfer is a fellow of the American Heart Association, and member of the stroke council of the American Stroke Association, and stroke and vascular neurology section of the American Academy of Neurology. She has more than 200 peer-reviewed publications, and numerous national invited presentations. She has been continuously funded at the R01 level since 2006, with a research focus in stroke epidemiology and racial disparities. She is chair of the education core of the National Institutes of Health StrokeNet, and received the American Stroke Association International Stroke Research Mentor Award in 2018. She also received the Derek Denney-Brown Outstanding Neurological Clinical Research Scholar Award, and in 2013 was named the UC Neurology Faculty Teacher of the Year. She was one of 50 women faculty selected for the prestigious Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) program. Dementia Lecture Series Hosted by the Michigan Alzheimer's Disease Research Center. Back on Duty at the Fire Station A first responder found himself in need of medical care during the initial surges of the pandemic, when his concussion symptoms left him miserable for most of the spring and summer. As Testing Costs Rise, Neurology Patients May Skip Screening ising out-of-pocket costs for neurological tests could lead many Americans to forgo them, researchers warn. Distribution of Neurologists Across U.S. Varies Widely The distribution of neurologists varies across the United States, according to a study published online Dec. 23 in Neurology. Our Commitment to DEI Our Residency Program (internal link) Our Fellowship Program (internal link) Giving to Neurology (link is external) Contact Us (internal link) 1914 Taubman Center SPC 5316 General Neurology Headache & Neuropathic Pain Muscular Dystrophy Clinic Neuro-Critical Care Neuro-Hospitalist NeuroSport Parkinson's / Movement Disorders VA Hospital Neurology Supplemental Faculty Cognitive Disorders - Including Alzheimer and Dementia Intraoperative Monitoring (IOM) Neuromuscular Diseases and ALS Parkinson's/Movement Disorders Life at Michigan Medicine Resident Photo Album Epilepsy Fellowship/Clinical Neurophysiology Fellowship Headache Medicine Fellowship Movement Disorders Fellowship Neuro-Oncology Fellowship Neuro-Otology Fellowship Neurocritical Care Fellowship Neuromuscular Medicine Sleep Medicine Fellowship Sleep and Genetics Training Grant (T32) Sports Neurology Fellowship Vascular Neurology/Stroke Fellowship Clinical Neuroscientist Training Program (R25) Neurology Department Training Grant (T32) University Clinical Research Training Life in Ann Arbor & at Michigan Medicine Neurology Health Services Research Program BASIC Project BASIC Patient BASIC Physicians BASIC Visual Aids BASIC Sleep Apnea Projects NIH-funded Clinical Trials in Stroke PAC (Post-acute Care) Sleep SMART Community Academic Partnerships	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line1011
__label__cc	0.56046	0.43954	Call for Works for the 2020 ISCM World New Music Days in New Zealand Has Been Announced World Music Days The Composers Association of New Zealand (CANZ), host of the 2020 ISCM World New Music Days, have announced the official Call for Works for the festival which will take place from 21-30 April 2020 in Auckland and Christchurch, New Zealand. (From 21-26 April, there will be numerous concerts as well as ISCM's General Assembly meetings in Auckland. Then on 27 April, delegates and other festival attendees will travel to Christchurch where the festival will continue through 30 April along with the Asian Composers League Festival and General Assembly as well as a Symposium.) The festival concerts will be programmed from ISCM official submissions, independent submissions, and New Zealand works selected by the festival organizers. Member organizations should submit their submissions via the ISCM’s Submission Wizard no later than July 31, 2019 at 11:59pm CEST (Central Europe Summer Time). Late submissions will not be considered. The Submission Wizard will open to receive submissions from mid-June 2019 and close on 31 July 2019. We would also like to draw the attention of both members and individual submitters to the ISCM Young Composer Award (YCA) presented during each ISCM WNMD festival to a composer under the age of 35 whose work was performed during the festival. The YCA consists of a cash prize and a commission for a new work to be presented at a future edition of the ISCM World Music Days. OFFICIAL SUBMISSIONS For Sections and Full Associate Members of the ISCM, the official submission will comprise six works across at least 4 of the 15 different Score Categories identified in this Call for Works. For an official submission to be eligible: each submitted work must be eligible; the durations specified for each work must be accurate; and the submitted works correctly aligned with the relevant category. Assuming the submission is eligible and the ISCM member is in good standing (2018 Annual Report completed and annual membership fee paid by 30 June 2019), the festival organizers guarantee that at least one of the submitted works will be presented during the 2020 ISCM World New Music Days. Submissions by composers whose work was performed in the ISCM World Music Days 2019 in Tallinn, Estonia will not be considered. For Affiliated Associate Members, an official submission will comprise up to three works. While there is no guarantee that one of the works will be selected, the organizer will strive to include them where possible. For more information how to submit via official submissions, please contact your local ISCM section representative. INDIVIDUAL SUBMISSIONS Individual Submissions must be submitted by an independent composer or a composer's authorized representative. Submissions should be sent via email to submission@iscm2020.nz with the email title "ISCM Individual Submission". An entry fee of €53.05 applies to Individual Submissions and is payable at the time of submission through an online payment link on the ISCM New Zealand web page https://www.iscm.org/activities/wmds/iscm-wmd-2020-new-zealand. Individual submissions are not guaranteed a performance. Space for Individual Submissions is limited, but we will consider all submissions to the best of our ability. Please promote this information via your networks. Priority will be given to works shorter than 12 minutes in duration, except where specifically noted in a category description (see below). Furthermore, priority will be given to works written since 2012. Only one work per composer may be submitted, by either Individual submission or Official submission. By submitting works to this Call, composers are agreeing that if their work is selected for performance/presentation that they grant automatic permission for the ISCM performance/presentation of their work to be recorded, broadcast, and streamed from the website without additional financial liability to the ISCM or the Festival Organizers. There is specific information required for each work that is submitted. The composer's personal and contact information: given names; family name; name as it should appear in the programme; date of birth; full mailing address; gender; phone number; email address; and website (if applicable). Work information: title; submission category; accurate duration; year of composition; statement of whether the work has been previously performed. The score (.pdf document preferred) or audio/video documentation if the work does not have a written score - as described in the Work Categories. An audio or video recording of the work (if available). Programme notes for the submitted work in English (maximum 100 words). Technical rider specifying all equipment necessary to perform the work. A short biography of the composer in English (maximum 100 words). A high-resolution digital photograph of the composer. WORK CATEGORIES 1. Piano plus 1a) Solo piano 1b) Solo piano (prepared) 1c) Solo piano with fixed audio media 2. Violin plus 2a) Solo violin / viola 2b) Violin or viola, and piano 2c) Violin or viola, and percussion (1 player: glockenspiel, vibraphone, pr bongos, suspended cymbal, large tam-tam, kick drum, concert bass drum, triangle, woodblock, cowbell and auxiliary percussion or found objects that would fit on a trap table) 3. Percussion plus 3a) Percussion (solo performer) - glockenspiel, vibraphone, pr bongos, suspended cymbal, large tam-tam, kick drum, concert bass drum, triangle, woodblock, cowbell and auxiliary percussion or found objects that would fit on a trap table. 3b) Percussion (solo performer) with electronics. Percussion instruments as above. Electronics: Roland SPD-SX, Laptop with RME UFX interface, Ableton Live, Protools, Logic, Max, or other electronics if the composer supplies the necessary software/components. Ideally, the set-up will be relatively simple. Quad speaker arrangement is possible. 4. Taonga Pūoro plus Taonga pūoro soloist, with/without flute/piccolo soloist (information sheet available) 5. Piano Trio Violin, cello, piano 6. String Quartet 6a) String quartet 6b) String quartet with fixed audio media 6c) String quartet with percussion (1 player: glockenspiel, vibraphone, pr. bongos, suspended cymbal, large tam-tam, kick drum, concert bass drum, triangle, woodblock, cowbell and auxiliary percussion or found objects that would fit on a trap table) 7. Small Ensembles Works for all or some of the following instruments: 7a) harp, percussion, and double bass 7b) saxophone, trombone, piano, and double bass 7c) clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, trombone, and percussion(1) 7d) flute/piccolo, oboe, and violin 8. Medium Chamber Ensemble Works for 3–8 players, instruments drawn from the following list: flute, oboe, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, trombone, percussion(1), piano, violin, double bass 9. Youth Orchestra 5 - 7 minute works written for Youth Orchestra, players aged 14 - 24 years 3 fl (III=picc). 3 ob (III=corA). 3 cl (III=bcl). 3 bn (III=dbn) - 4 hn. 3tpt. 2 trbn. 1 btrbn. 1 tuba - 5 perc. 1 timp. pft. - full strings 10. Orchestra 3 fl (II=picc, III=picc,afl). 3ob (III=corA). 3cl (III=bcl). 3 bn (III=dbn). - 4hn. 3 tpt. 2trbn. 1 btrbn. 1 tuba - 3 perc. 1 timp. 1 hrp - full strings 11. Choir A capella choir – SATB, SSATB, or SSA (no divisi) 12. Electroacoustic 12a) Electroacoustic music for fixed media, with up to 8 channels 12b) Works involving live electronics, with up to 8 channels Speakers are normally positioned as an 8.1 system in a semi-circular array. There is also the possibility of some upper reinforcement from a trio of hanging speakers. Single screen video is also possible in conjunction with the above. Works of up to 20 minutes in duration may be considered in this category. 13. Composer-Performer Open to composer-performers who work with an expanded approach to composition, artists engaged with the practice of researching and developing new compositional and performative tools which may work in an intersection of the physical, theatrical and visual. This may include performers exploring creation, composer-performer collectives, non-Western instruments, found/built instruments, electronics and extra-musical elements. Composer-Performers are required to bring all necessary materials for the performance, including their own computer with all software and additional hardware as well as all props and any other necessary materials. Please submit an artist CV in English (up to 2 pages), .pdf description of the work (500 word max), a video of the composer-performer's work, and a technical rider for the performance. 14. Improvising Ensemble Open to composers-improvisers who may wish to perform with local improvisers (violin, saxophones, percussion and/or keyboards). Composers are requested to send some demo material. 15. Audiovisual and Installation Works For gallery/exhibition presentation (i.e. non-concert presentation). Some installations may be positioned in an outdoor environment. Preference will be given to works that bear some relationship to the theme of Music Ecosystems. Please submit an artist CV in English (up to 2 pages), .pdf description of the work (500 word max), a list of equipment and installation materials, and online support material (2 examples of work). Short-listed applicants will be contacted for additional materials. Works longer than 12 minutes will be considered in this category. The artistic team for the 2020 ISCM World New Music Days is Glenda Keam (Festival Director, and President of the ISCM), Samuel Holloway (Associate Director – Artistic), and Chris Gendall (CANZ President, and ExCom member of the ACL). For more information, please contact info@iscm2020.nz.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line1012
__label__wiki	0.859262	0.859262	How I am Celebrating Choose Privacy Week 2015 May 1, 2015 by Michael ZimmerLeave a comment Today marks the start of Choose Privacy Week, the annual initiative (always May 1-7) of the American Library Association that invites the public into a national conversation about privacy rights in a digital age. Along with Center for Information Policy Research, I’ve been a proud supporter of Choose Privacy Week since its inception in 2010, including organizing a panel discussion on “Emerging Privacy and Ethical Challenges for Libraries in the 2.0 Era” (2010), participation in an ALA webinar on “Youth Privacy” (2011), the screening of the documentary “Big Brother, Big Business: The Data-Mining and Surveillance Industries” (2012), and hosting a talk by Dr. Kelly Gates on “The Computational Work of Policing” (2013). Here’s what I have planned for this year’s celebration of Choose Privacy Week: On Monday, May 4, CIPR welcomes Prof. Neil Richards to UW-Milwaukee for a public lecture about his new book Intellectual Privacy. Full details here. I wrote a guest post for the official Choose Privacy Week blog that will appear on May 6: “Toward a set of Best Practices to Protect Patron Privacy in Library 2.0” The first in a series of NISO-organized virtual forums to discuss Patron Privacy in Digital Library and Information Systems takes place on May 7. Also on May 7, I will be participating in a 2-day workshop on Privacy Enabling Design, organized by the Computing Community Consortium, and hosted by Georgia Tech. I’ll be working with the office of a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly to help draft legislation to create privacy protections for vehicle black box data Throughout the week, I’ll be listening to Jeffery Rosen’s excellent set of lectures on “Privacy, Property, and Free Speech: Law and the Constitution in the 21st Century.” Posted in: Events Libraries Privacy Tagged: choose privacy week Intellectual Privacy Libraries Privacy Previous Entry: Joining NISO Project on Patron Privacy in Digital Library and Information Systems Next Entry: Choose Privacy Week 2015: Toward a set of Best Practices to Protect Patron Privacy in Library 2.0	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line1015
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__label__cc	0.573855	0.426145	F1 2021 regulations overview by Craig Scarborough It’s been clear for some time now that F1 is going to change in a big way for 2021. On the technical side, this will include the much-anticipated overtaking aero changes and for the lesser-funded midfield teams a swathe of spec parts to cut costs and equalize the grid. No regulations have been published, but there is a growing amount of information being released that gives us our first clues into what F1 may look like in 2021. Since Liberty took over the running of F1, there’s been more focus on the sport’s roadmap going forwards, something forever lacking in the past. Also, the aims of the sports and how to enact them has been a key direction for Liberty. While F1, via the FIA and Liberty has a lot of changes to come, some of the technical changes are quite specific and being tackled intelligently with the help of Ross Brawn. Some of the aims of creating better racing is often considered simply increasing overtaking but also cost control and performance equalization to get the mid-grid teams closer to the top three. We can now look at how these three aspects will change the sport, with the potential aero and spec part rules for 2021. When it comes to the aero plans for 2021, things have already started moving with the 2019 rules. Historically, the effect of F1’s rules have not been researched beforehand, and what seem like good ideas get written into the rulebook without enough thorough analysis as to their effect or the potential loopholes within them. Often the rules fail to achieve what they set out to do, and what’s more they often come at a cost to other factors. Many attempts to slow the cars down have conflicted with overtaking. As wings have become ever smaller and highly loaded, the cars have become too sensitive to running in another car’s wake. F1 2021 Regulation – Affected areas One exception was the 2009 rules, that enjoyed a brief aero research programme, run and paid for by the teams under the guise of the Overtaking Work Group (OWG). Only now, under Liberty, and consulting with Ross Brawn, has a major rewrite of the rules been thoroughly researched beforehand, such that the changes are validated before being written into the rules. To achieve this, Brawn has set up an R&D group of ex-F1 engineers to look at every aspect of the aero rules, throwing away a lot of the legacy rules in order to come up with a rule set that meets the ‘overtaking’ brief given to them by Liberty. While the rules are not yet confirmed, there are two concepts under investigation. The most publicized one being the ‘India’ car model, exposed in the motorsport technical press (Racecar Engineering Magazine) as a CFD model, that gives us clues as to exactly how the cars might look and the mechanisms by which they will improve overtaking. It’s no surprise that the aim is to reduce the importance of the wings, by giving more of the job of downforce creation to the underfloor, whilst at the same time cleaning up the extraneous bodywork, reducing this to a few devices aimed at cleaning up the car’s wake. Formula 1 2021 Concept Looking at the car illustrated here, this is a 2019 spec car converted to the key changes promoted by the India concept. Looking first at the floor, the simpler flat floor and diffuser of the current car gives way to the fuller underbody tunnels, similar to IndyCars and reminiscent of the F1 ‘wing’ cars last raced in 1982. The tunnels feed more air under the floor, speeding it up and reducing its pressure in order to create downforce. With a ramped inlet and larger rear diffuser tunnels, far more air will flow under this floor, creating lots of downforce with very little associated drag. Underfloor downforce is created not under the diffuser section but in two spots, first where the floor first narrows, then again when it starts to expand. It’s noticeable that this floor is much longer than the current floor, so the downforce will be created more equally front to rear, thus reducing the importance of the wings. While any race car aero device will be handicapped when running behind another car, the underfloor is believed to be less sensitive than steep wings or short diffusers. So, the floor concept should meet the overtaking brief. The car is shorn of most aero add-ons, the bargeboards being a specific area, but the fences within the floor’s inlet will also act as bargeboards, directing the floor under and out of the floor’s tunnels. A delta-shaped fin mounted in-line with the inlet will also redirect the upwash from the front wing towards the tunnels. At the front, the wing profiles now span the full width of the car, intersecting the nose in the middle, unlike the current wings that hang below the nose and have a mandatory neutral center section. This is a key change and cures some of the problems of the 2009 Overtaking Working Group in not being able to follow up on their initial research. The post-2009 front wings created problems for following cars, as they were so wide and had the change in section from wing to the neutral center span. The wide wings allowed teams to create outwash at the endplate, to push air out around the front tyres, rather passing inside them as was the pre-2009 solution. The wing’s joint with the neutral section also formed a powerful airflow, since called the Y250 vortex, which also pushes airflow outwards behind the front tyre. The benefits of both these effects in controlling the front tyre wake led development for nearly ten years, before the current 2019 rules started to clean up the endplate outwash. Now, the 2021 rules seek to clean up the Y250 airflow by ridding the wing of its center section and thus prevent teams churning up the airflow in the Y250 area. Instead, the front tyre wake is managed by two devices. Firstly, the blade over the top of the tyre’s tread and secondly the return of the wheel fairing. The blade helps clean up airflow passing over the tyre, reducing the separation and turbulence created by the low-pressure area behind a spinning tyre. Then, the wheel fairing helps with cleaner airflow passing around the sides of the tyre. These ‘frisbees’ were banned for 2010, as they were such an effective aero tool, so their return may be as fixed fairings as we saw in 2009, (i.e. not spinning with the tyre) or as fairings fixed to and spinning with the wheel. Both have benefits and drawbacks with the practicalities of wheel changing and brake cooling. F1 2021 Regulations – Wheels It’s also worth noting that the 2021 tyres may be the larger diameter wheels that Pirelli have been asked to introduce for some time. Thus, the car model shown here has 18” rims, with the brake duct bodywork filling the inside of the rim. The exact rules for the brake dimensions and the bodywork rules are still unclear at this stage. At the rear, the large diffuser exit is sealed with vanes mounted at each side that sit lower than the floor. This should keep the underfloor aerodynamically efficient, but without the sudden loss in downforce sometimes experienced from the skirts lifting off the ground as with the early eighties wing cars. Without the requirement to produce lots of downforce from the top rear wing elements, the India concept wing is much taller and narrower than current wings while it sees the return of the lower beam wing elements spanning from the rear crash structure across to the wing endplates. This will keep the diffuser tunnels and top rear wing working together, which should make the rear downforce more consistent. Also at the rear, the shark fin sees a return although this is expected to come back ahead of 2021 in 2020 in a baby shark fin format. Its key function is to provide space for the driver’s race number, but will also serve to keep the rear wing working through corners, which again is better for consistent handling. The net result of the changes are downforce-producing surfaces that work well in turbulence and won’t unbalance the car if they fail to do so. Then, the proliferation of aero devices to push tyre front wake out wide behind the car have been deleted. Instead, the car’s rear aero surfaces will sit in the front tyre wake, but not suffer for doing so. In all, this is a well-conceived concept and one that has been proven in the wind tunnel, so should meet the requirements of the better racing for 2021 and beyond. Spec parts Rarely discussed and on show, there’s a lot of an F1 car that is identical across the grid. Every car runs the same tyres, for example, but also the same ECU controlling the car’s chassis and engine. Then, there’s a myriad of smaller systems where the FIA specify either the exact part, supplier or specification. Equally, there’s non-FIA specified parts that teams choose to run – nearly all cars use Brembo brakes, for example. F1 2021 Regulations – Parts To an even lesser talked about extent, there’s a huge amount of design on the cars that is near identical in concept, albeit slightly different in execution but adds nearly no performance advantage to the cars. Much of the gearbox, suspension, structures, hydraulics or electronics are virtually identical between the teams and some teams already buy these parts in from their partner teams. So, it’s false to say that spec parts are not F1 and that every part much be unique and at the peak of innovation. It would, of course, be nice to have a motorsport category like that, but there isn’t the money to invest into that level of differentiation. In more austere times, the teams should be focussing on what makes the car go faster, not engineering large parts of the car from scratch for little impact on lap times. To accept more spec parts in F1 will reduce costs for the smaller teams and bring them closer to the top teams. Of course, the better-funded teams will divert their resources into the areas of development that remain free, so F1 will still remain something of a meritocracy. Parts listed as potential spec parts for 2021 have emerged in the German press (Auto Motor und Sport). There’s an interesting mix of the obvious, the questionable and the unnecessary on the list. F1 2021 Regulations – Gearbox Already we know that the ‘gearbox’ will be spec part for 2021 and invitations for this tender have already been requested by the FIA. The new spec part will be a gearbox cartridge, this is the most common gearbox layout in F1, where the gears, selection mechanism, differential, and oil are all mounted in a self-contained unit. This cartridge unit then sits in the carbon rear casing of the car, which also joins the engine\chassis to the rear suspension and crash structure. Within the cartridge, the FIA have requested just a seven-speed (plus reverse) gearbox, rather than the eight-speed gearbox raced since 2014. The torque output of the current power units and the team’s experience of fixed gear ratios for the whole season means that the eighth gear is superfluous. Gear selection must be seamless for upshifts at least, so the new cartridge unit will need to two separate gear selection mechanisms. Whilst once cutting edge, this seamless shift technology is a simpler commodity nowadays, the Xtrac spec gearbox bought by the new teams back in 2010 was seamless even back then. F1 2021 Regulations – Brakes Brakes are the obvious choice for being a spec part. Currently, in F1 there are three brake caliper suppliers and two carbon brake material suppliers; Brembo being the dominant ‘brake system’ supplier, with AP racing and Akebono being an option as Caliper supplier and Carbone Industrie being the other brake material supplier. Even though the brakes for most of the teams come from the same supplier with its own technology, each team will bespoke the finer details of the brakes to suit their purposes, which requires design resources and added costs, for little apparent benefit. At this time, it’s not known if the brake dimensions or specification will change to suit the potentially larger wheels, as required for the Pirelli tyres in 2021. There are some drivers that prefer the ‘feel’ of different brake material, while consistency of quality and supply will be a key factor. But the spec supply of brake calipers, discs, pads and master cylinders shouldn’t harm the sport. F1 2021 Regulations – Axles Related to the brakes, another spec part put forward are the axles and wheel nuts. The FIA has been clever to limit this to the rotating assembly, rather than the upright that the axle sits within, as this latter part has huge influence of the suspension geometry and thus on the car’s handling, clearly an area teams will still want to have freedom over. The axle with its wheelnut, plus presumably its bearings and the ‘bell’ that connects the axle to the brake disc, can easily be spec parts. Perhaps these parts may be made by the proposed brake supplier, as the interface between brake disc and axle is a safety critical factor. F1 2021 Regulations – Pedals Likewise, the pedals are a potential spec component, although this might be a more contentious part for the teams to accept. Every driver will have a preference for pedal shape and feel, especially with the braking set up, the motion ratio of the pedal to master cylinder hugely affect the driver’s confidence in the brakes. Any spec part would need to have some adjustability for the driver get the ideal set up. Similarly, the shape of the pedal face must be free for the teams to adapt for the driver to get the ideal pedal operation. F1 2021 Regulations – Driveshafts Other mechanical parts include the steering column and driveshafts. These are often made by a few trusted specialists, the design of the driveshaft and steering joints being a mix of the supplier’s expertise and the teams own design input. As the suppliers are so well versed in the design of these parts, one of them stepping forward with a spec design is likely to cause very little difficulty for the teams. Going back to the wheel nuts, one rather surprising area for spec parts is in pit stop equipment as both the wheel guns, jacks and pit gantry are suggested to be of the same spec for all teams. Most teams already buy the base wheel guns from the same supplier, Paoli, but then modify and tune the guns to suit their needs. This added development speeds up pitstops, so it’s a clear performance differentiator for a team. Conversely, the jacks are designed by each team and the front jacks especially are hugely complex, semi-automated machines. The tech varies by team, but it’s no surprise that the top three teams pit stop tech is a clear step ahead of the midfield teams. So, with spec wheel nuts, wheel guns and jacks, the quickest pitstop times will be purely down to human endeavor as the mechanics do their work in the race. This might be an attractive idea, rather than the stop being down to who has the most development money! In this area, wheels are also being considered as a spec part. This is likely to be more controversial for the teams, who have existing commercial deals with wheel suppliers, which usefully brings in free supply and even sponsorship money for the huge number of wheels they require. There is some performance in a wheel design, matching the spoke and rim design to the brake cooling, then other tricks to alter the exchange of heat in between the brakes/wheel/tyre to tune the car to the track. Not to mention the visual differentiation of wheels used between the different teams, especially if the aero rules allow the potentially larger diameter wheels to be on show. I’d rather see tighter wheel regulations and free design than a spec supply for F1 in 2021. F1 2021 Regulations – IPS Away from the hard metal parts, some of the carbon fiber crash structures are to be included in the FIA tenders. Both the Side Impact Protection Spars (SIPS) and the Rear Impact Protection Structure (RIPS) are thought to be open for a spec supply. This, therefore, excludes the Front Impact Protection Structure, often referred to as the nose cone or more technically FIPS. This exclusion makes sense, as the shape of the nose is key to the car’s aero, so should remain free for the teams to develop and then prove with laboratory crash tests. It isn’t widely known, but the SIPS are already a near spec design – back in 2014 a fixed design spar was introduced to all cars. This was initially a Manor designed part put forward to the FIA, that was then further developed by Red Bull on behalf of the FIA. The shape and carbon fiber lay-up of the part is in the appendix to the rules and some teams have even purchased theirs direct from Red Bull Technologies. At the rear, the RIPS is currently free for the teams to shape within some dimensional and crash test rules. Effectively a rectangular section carbon fiber tube, the RIPS is bolted to the rear ‘gearbox’ casing and sits above the diffuser. So, any spec part will need to be allowed to be adapted to fit different cars and have add-on bodywork to shape the aero to suit the teams. Making the SIPS a single supplier part along with a large section of the RIPS will save money on development and crash testing. F1 2021 Regulations – DRS The last certain inclusion in the spec parts list is the DRS actuator -this is the hydraulic ram that opens the rear wing on the straights. Its inclusion suggests that DRS will remain a part of F1 at least for the short term, but it’s confusing why this innocuous part is included when so much else on the hydraulic system is left free. It would make more sense to specify the hydraulic pump, already the same basic part supplied to all teams by Parker Hannifin. Moreover, the various other hydraulic components such as the Moog valves, actuators, and steering rack could be included. While the talk of active suspension coming back to F1 in the future could also be using spec parts to limit extreme spending in developing bespoke devices. Finally, there remains talk of the steering wheel being a spec part. Again, this seems like an unnecessary restriction. Just as with pedals and brakes, there’s team and driver preference into the equation. Already the Dash display and internal electronic circuit boards and connectors are spec parts. I’d rather leave the wheel design to be unique to each team/driver and have some differentiation between the cars from the onboard shots. 2021 F1 featured Formula 1 regulations Tech Insight Are Ferrari already on the back foot over team orders? Hamilton wins processional Chinese Grand Prix on landmark 1000th race Hi Craig, i was wondering why you added diffuser strakes to the bargeboard area of the “ground effect underfloor”. Aren’t they used for the generation of vortices to capture the tyre squirt of the rear tyres and reduce the strength to increase the efficiency of the rear diffuser. Surely the angle of attack on the plane would create a large amount of lift near the centre of mass meaning that you cause a balance instability at the centre of the car which as i’m sure you know would mean it would be much more unstable. Thanks, Jack. Wes C says: Great piece. Very informative Alan Espindola says: What about the rear wing endplate? In the illustration it seems there is no endplate over the wing, how does that affect the aero? alexoxol78 says: Why there are 5 elements of the front win, not 3? First and most important change should be fuel.!! In future engines should only use normal pump-gasoline. Not toluen or alcohol or any other mixes. Just normal pump gasoline And every time organization bring it to race. This lower the costs significantly. And after that, we have more cars in start line, because smaller teams have afford those engines. Engines can be 1.5 liter turbos or 3 liter without, but normal 98 octane gasoline. And THEN, we have more excitement in F1. Alfaorso says: Very disappointing, DRS remains? – This is not Formula 1, it should have been trashed long ago. Or, kept, provided it could be activated by the driver, everywhere.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line1020
__label__wiki	0.642619	0.642619	The Curse of Oak Island- Season 7, Episode 10: Gary Strikes Again Nova Scotia / January 24, 2020 by Hammerson Peters / 2 Comments The episode begins at the bump-out area of the Smith’s Cove cofferdam, where the boys discovered the wharf-like structure the previous episode. Rick Lagina, Gary Drayton, and Peter Fornetti make a cursory examination of the partially-uncovered structure and fail to find any Roman numerals carved into it, Roman numerals being the markings that were found inscribed on the U-shaped structure. Archaeologist Laird Niven then arrives on the scene and examines the object. “My initial impression,” says Niven, “is that I would associate that with the slipway.” The archaeologist gives the treasure hunters the green light to hand-excavate the structure and search for any artifacts that might be found on top of or around it. An interpretation of the new structure discovered at Smith’s Cove. Before proceeding with the excavation, Gary Drayton scans the structure and its vicinity with his metal detector. In doing so, he comes across a strip of metal, which he suspects might be silver, perforated by a single hole. “It looks like some kind of silver tag,” he ventures, before suggestion a potential connection between this object and the lead cross he discovered on the Smith’s Cove beach back in Season 5, Episode 10. An interpretation of the metal tag which Gary Drayton discovered near the wharf in Smith’s Cove. Meanwhile, Craig Tester, Jack Begley, and Scott Barlow begin draining the Oak Island swamp, having obtained permits from the provincial government to excavate certain areas of interest within the wetland. The next day, Rick Lagina and Tom Nolan meet at the swamp with John Skierka of Great Excavations Inc. We learn that the treasure hunters are considering hiring Skierka to excavate their areas of interest in the swamp, apparently having disposed of the services of contractor Shawn Wilson, whom they invited to perform a similar job through the use of a “trench cage”, or “dig box”, back in Season 7, Episode 3. Skierka informs the team that he plans to excavate the areas of interest with a “swamp excavator”- a specialized piece of heavy equipment specifically designed for use in swamp-like environments. The Oak Island Swamp. “Drayton’s Cross” Later, the Oak Island team meets in the War Room and calls up Dr. Christa Brosseau of Halifax’s St. Mary’s University, who has analyzed the silver tag that Gary Drayton found near the wharf-like object in Smith’s Cove. Dr. Brosseau informs the crew that the object is not composed of silver or pewter as Gary Drayton initially suspected, but rather of impure lead alloyed with small amounts of tin and antimony. She further states that tin and antimony are commonly found in ancient lead objects, and suggests that the trace metals might have been added intentionally in order to improve the lead’s durability. Dr. Brosseau then advises that, if the team wants to learn more about the artifact, they ought to subject it to a laser ablation test (similar to that carried out on the lead cross by Dr. Chris McFarlane of the University of New Brunswick back in the Season 6 premiere), which will determine its isotopic signature. Meanwhile, Dave Blankenship, Dan Henskee, Doug Crowell, and Terry Matheson meet at the Money Pit area, where Choice Drilling is busy sinking an exploratory drillhole called FG-13 in search of a second piece of the Shaft 2 tunnel. Sure enough, while examining a core sample taken from a depth of 98.5-108.5 feet, the treasure hunters find a large piece of hand-sawn lumber, which they hope constitutes the coveted second piece of the tunnel in question. Matheson also points out layers of sand and clay within the core sample, which he says would make a perfect conduit for water from the Smith’s Cove flood tunnel to the Shaft 2 tunnel. The narrator then reminds us of the sand the crew discovered in a 99-109-foot core sample taken from a hole drilled in the Cave-In Pit area back in Season 7, Episode 5, and of the theory introduced in that episode that the sand might constitute the remains of the Smith’s Cove flood tunnel. The treasure hunters are soon joined by Rick, Marty, and Alex Lagina, who congratulate them on their success in determining the orientation of the Shaft 2 tunnel. In a later interview, Marty remarks upon the layer of sand that Terry Matheson identified in the FG-13 core sample and explains that the geologist believes the sand to be naturally-occurring material which facilitated the flooding of the Shaft 2 tunnel back in 1805. Marty also expresses his own opinion that the sand may have been placed intentionally by the creators of the Smith’s Cove flood tunnel, as “sand will transmit a lot of water”. Back at the Money Pit site, the treasure hunters agree to sink one more hole in order to further confirm that they have indeed determined location and orientation of the Shaft 2 tunnel. Later that afternoon, Rick and Marty Lagina, Tom Nolan, and Dave Blankenship watch as representatives of Great Excavations Inc. transport John Skierka’s swamp excavator across the Oak Island causeway. The next morning, the Fellowship in the Dig meets in the War Room with Dr. Chris McFarlane, the geochemistry professor who conducted the laser ablation test of the lead cross back in the Season 6 premiere. McFarlane, who has conducted a similar test on the lead tag recently discovered beneath Smith’s Cove, informs the team that the tag has the highest tin ratio he has ever seen in a lead artifact. He then discloses that “the slipway artifact is clearly not of North American origin,” and suggests that the lead of which it is comprised was probably mined somewhere in the Mediterranean regions of Italy, France, or Spain. Later, the boys head to the Oak Island swamp, which is now almost entirely drained. Heavy equipment operator Billy Gerhardt gets into the driver’s seat of John Skierka’s swamp excavator Marty Lagina comes along for the ride. Gerhardt drives the excavator to the so-called “paved wharf”- a pattern of stones which Tony Sampson discovered on the swamp floor back in Season 7, Episode 1. The episode ends as the treasure hunters begin excavating the area. An interpretation of the “paved wharf” in the Oak Island swamp. The Lead Tag In this episode, Gary Drayton discovered a tag-like strip of metal in Smith’s Cove near the wharf-like structure discovered the previous episode. Although Drayton initially suspected the artifact to be made of lead, Dr. Christa Brosseau determined that it was made of impure lead alloyed with 2% tin and 2% antimony. Dr. Chris McFarlane later conducted a laser ablation test on the object and determined that the lead from which it is comprised was likely mined somewhere in the Mediterranean regions of Spain, France, or Italy. McFarlane also stated that the artifact possessed a higher concentration of tin than any other lead object he has analyzed. Donald R Smith I am really surprised that no one has yet suggested that the “mysterious” impure lead strip that Drayton found on Oak Island could logically be found among materials used by printers. It is exactly the shape and size of what letterpress printers actually call “leads.” They are strips of metal used to separate lines of type, the most common of which are 2 points thick (1/36″). Furthermore, the metallurgic content is exactly those metals used to cast type — primarily lead, some tin for adding hardness, and antimony because its unique property is that it expands when cooling and thus conforms exactly to the mold used for casting type. It doesn’t really matter what the source of the metal is, nor speculation about how a piece of printers metal found its way to a waterfront. I have used printers leads over the years because they make great rust-proof shims for all kinds of uses. I guess we can now add to all the hyperbolic speculation of who came to Oak Island and what’s there, the possibility that Gutenberg himself must have dropped by! Hammerson Peters That’s a very interesting and compelling theory! Thank you for sharing. I think you may have opened up a whole new can of Oak Island worms.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line1025
__label__wiki	0.534526	0.534526	After announcement of the Frankfurt Fashion Week: Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week will remain in Berlin BERLIN, GERMANY - JANUARY 14: A model walks the runway at the Irene Luft show during Berlin Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2020 at Kraftwerk Mitte on January 14, 2020 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by John Phillips/Getty Images for MBFW) WIME X After yesterday’s surprise that the fairs of the organizers of ‘Premium’ and ‘Neonyt’, which were held on the dates of the Fashion Week in Berlin, will move to Frankfurt from summer 2021, this is the update we have all been waiting for: The catwalk shows which were part of the MBFW Berlin (former Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin) will continue to take place in the German capital. The show format ‘Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin’ is organized by ‘Nowadays’. Marcus Kurz, Managing Director of the creative agency, commented on the decision to move the trade fairs to Frankfurt, saying it had been a surprise for him too, but also confirmed Berlin as the future venue for the events organised by the agency. Ramona Pop, Senator for Economics, Energy and Operations, also confirmed a continuation of the format. According to her, independence brings with it certain freedoms, such as the dates of the event. A Fashion Week in Berlin later in the year is conceivable in this way. Other organizers and many designers based in Berlin, such as Marina Hoermanseder or Dawid Tomaszewski, also made their decision to continue holding their shows in Berlin as they announced on Instagram. In this article:Berlin, Fashion Week, Fashion Week Berlin, MBFW, MBFW.berlin, Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin The fashion industry is in need of outstanding talents like Lina Nordin Gee Fashion fairs move to Frankfurt: What does this mean for the Fashion Week in Berlin?	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line1026
__label__wiki	0.902646	0.902646	Home/News/Saudi-led coalition launches a military operation north of Hodeidah in Yemen Saudi-led coalition launches a military operation north of Hodeidah in Yemen Observatory StaffSeptember 21, 2019 UNITED STATES, WASHINGTON (OBSERVATORY) — The Saudi-led coalition launched a military operation north of Yemen’s port city of Hodeidah on Friday against what it called “legitimate military targets” in a development that could exacerbate tensions in the region after a weekend attack on two Saudi oil facilities. The coalition said it destroyed four sites used to “assemble and trap remote-controlled boats and sea mines”. The destruction of “hostile” sites contributed to the freedom of maritime navigation. Coalition Forces spokesman Colonel Turki al-Maliki said in a statement that the sites were used “to carry out hostilities and terrorist operations that threaten shipping lines and international trade in the Bab al-Mandab Strait and the southern Red Sea.” The Houthi group in Yemen, which claimed responsibility for Saturday’s attack on the two Saudi oil facilities, said through its Al-Masirah channel that the coalition violated the UN agreement reached in Sweden. The Western-backed Sunni coalition intervened in Yemen in March 2015 against Yemen’s Iranian-allied Houthi group after the group ousted the internationally recognized government in Sanaa in late 2014. A ceasefire in Hodeidah and a redeployment of troops were reached during peace talks in Sweden last year in a confidence-building measure to pave the way for talks to end the war, but the measures stalled for months before the Houthis pulled out of three Red Sea ports. Al-Maliki added that the Houthis used Hodeidah to “launch ballistic missiles, drones, booby-trapped boats and remote march as well as the random deployment of naval mines.” The coalition had previously asked civilians not to approach the targets of the operation and stressed that the military operation was in accordance with international humanitarian law and had taken the necessary precautionary measures. “We had forgotten the raids and fear and slept for months quietly,” resident Mohammed Abdullah told Reuters. “But the sound of explosions and planes terrified us tonight as the city continues to fly.” The coalition said on Thursday it intercepted a boat loaded with explosives and destroyed it after the Houthis fired it from Yemen. The Houthis, who have threatened to expand their attacks in Saudi Arabia, have previously targeted oil tankers off Yemen on one side of the Bab al-Mandab Strait at the southern entrance to the Red Sea, one of the world’s most vital shipping routes for oil tankers. This comes at a time when the United States and Saudi Arabia are discussing how to respond to the attack on Saudi oil facilities, which Washington and Riyadh blame on Iran. Tehran denies any role in the attack. Saudi Arabia Yemen Oil retreated after Saudi Arabia and Russia postponed their meeting Gulf financial markets are declining despite stimulus Saudi Arabia seeks to oust Russian oil from the market Saudi Arabia proposed to supply oil to Europe at $ 25 Russia and Saudi Arabia are fighting each other for oil prices Oil flows from Saudi Arabia at $ 25 per barrel	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line1027
__label__wiki	0.960198	0.960198	Official key dates for 2020-21 NHL season: Jan. 13 start, free agency, more By James O'BrienDec 22, 2020, 5:50 PM EST When it comes to a Jan. 13 start to the 2020-21 NHL season, hockey fans have had some idea of key dates for a while now. Still, some details were more tentative than others, so each confirmation from the NHL adds more pieces to the puzzle. On Tuesday, the NHL confirmed and clarified key dates for the 2020-21 season. Beyond confirming key dates, the NHL also announced COVID protocols and an offside rule change for the 2020-21 NHL season. Read more about that here. For the most part, reports and early rumblings were accurate. Still, there are a few changes, so it’s worth updating information. Here are the official dates. Interestingly, the league noted some 2020-21 NHL season dates that are “subject to adjustment.” (With COVID, aren’t they all, really?) Dec. 31 – Training camps open for seven teams that did not participate in the resumption of play for the 2019-20 season (Anaheim, Buffalo, Detroit, Los Angeles, New Jersey, Ottawa, San Jose) Jan. 3 – Training camps open for the remaining 24 teams Jan. 13 – 2020-21 regular season begins April 12 – Trade deadline (3 p.m. ET) May 8 – Last day of regular season May 11 – Stanley Cup Playoffs begin July 9 – Last possible day of Stanley Cup Final July 17 – Deadline for Protection Lists for Expansion Draft (5 p.m. ET) July 21 – Expansion Draft for Seattle Kraken (8 p.m. ET) July 23 – Round 1 of NHL Draft July 24 – Rounds 2-7 of NHL Draft July 28 – Restricted Free Agent/Unrestricted Free Agent signing period begins (12 p.m. ET) *subject to adjustment Again, most of those dates ended up as expected. The NHL did clarify that July 9 stands as the final possible date for the 2021 Stanley Cup Final to be settled, which was a tiny bit earlier than reports indicated. More to come … Top PHT Posts NHL injury news: Flyers lose Couturier; Islanders’ Varlamov hurt during... Keith Yandle’s NHL ironman streak in jeopardy with Panthers Your 2020-21 NHL on NBC TV schedule James O’Brien is a writer for Pro Hockey Talk on NBC Sports. Drop him a line at phtblog@nbcsports.com or follow him on Twitter @cyclelikesedins.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line1029
__label__cc	0.728965	0.271035	You are currently browsing the tag archive for the ‘Semi-Circle Song’ tag. GOOD LISTENING OF 2018: beats and bass and words and worlds and melancholia December 30, 2018 in A world of lists \| Tags: A Shot, All Melody, Angie Hart, Ben Salter, Best music 2018, Borrowed Verse, Depth of Field, Dorothy Porter, Eternal Return, good listening 2018, Herb Wharton, Immunity, Jon Hopkins, Judith Wright, Luke Howard, Max Richter, Michael Dransfield, Michael Nyman, Nils Frahm, Olafur Arnalds, Open Heart Story, Philip Glass, Sarah Blasko, Semi-Circle Song, Simon Munro, Singularity, The Go! Team \| Leave a comment Reading is the foundation – all the stillness and immersion and depth and revelation – but music is the other constant: without it I would not be able to respond to the world in a meaningful way. For what it’s worth, the following are the albums that I enjoyed the most this year. I have loved everything The Go! Team has ever done, so I hardly have a balanced view, but Semi-Circle is a delightful albeit subtle progression on what they do best, which is alternative pop (if that’s the right term). As always, every song is impeccably crafted, despite the lo-fi aesthetic. Head towards ‘Semi-circle song’ for a fun entry point. Depth of Field by Sarah Blasko is a wonderful companion to the stunning Eternal Return from 2015. This is sexy, soulful electronica with some heart-breaking ballads. Beautifully produced too. ‘A Shot’ is one of the many highlights from a very special album. Another Australian who is doing amazing things is Luke Howard. Open Heart Story fits into the category of beautiful, simple, new-classical music made popular by Ólafur Arnalds and Max Richter. There is a lot of cinematic melancholia on this record – try ‘Bear Story II‘ – which means I’m all over it and it’s all over me. Borrowed Verse is a fascinating project initiated and curated by Brisbane-based songwriter Simon Munro – it pairs Australian songwriters with prominent Australian poets, including Judith Wright, Dorothy Porter, and Michael Dransfield. Ben Salter’s ‘Tracks’, based on a poem by Herb Wharton is, for me, song of the year. Also brilliant is Angie Hart’s ‘Not The Same’, based on a poem by Dorothy Porter. To my mind, in 2018 there were two albums that verged on being truly great. The first is All Melody by Nils Frahm. Although I have been listening to experimental new classical music for years (starting with Glass and Nyman decades ago), Frahm is new to me. All Melody is everything I want a record to be: fresh, adventurous, intricate, all the while being highly listenable. There is such a range here: from simple piano pieces to electronic epics that could almost be played in nightclubs (if they dared). Sublime is the world. Try this video of Frahm performing ‘All Melody’ and ‘#2’. The other truly great album from this year, and one that I have been playing on repeat for months, is Singularity by Jon Hopkins. Immunity from 2013 was a superb work, but it is possible that with Singularity he has made his masterpiece – from the first note till the last it is stunning: there are dancefloor bangers and gentle ambient pieces, some of which are soft echoes of the more intense songs. Yes, a masterpiece. I could listen to ‘Luminous Beings‘ till the end of days.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line1032
__label__wiki	0.516895	0.516895	You are currently browsing the tag archive for the ‘Taboo’ tag. GOOD READING OF 2018: adventures and horrors and play and bloody relevance December 21, 2018 in A world of lists \| Tags: All Being Equal, Andrew Sean Greer, Bodies of Men, Book of Colours, Claire G. Coleman, Daniel Young, Erin Gough, Good reading of 2018, Goodbye Cruel, Griffith Review, Holden Sheppard, Inga Simpson, Julie Keys, Karen Viggers, Kayo Chingonyi, Kevin Powers, Kim Scott, Kumukanda, Less, Meanjin, Melinda Smith, Michelle de Kretser, No Country Woman, On Patriotism, Paul Daley, Robin Robertson, Robyn Cadwallader, Taboo, Terra Nullius, The Artist’s Portrait, The Life to Come, The Long Take, The Orchardist’s Daughter, The Weight of Light, The Yellow Birds, Understory, Zoya Patel \| 7 comments There has been a bit going on this year in my neck of the woods: seeing The Weight of Light have its world premiere in Canberra and then performed in Goulburn and Sydney (plus two other music projects but more on these at a later date) and a final spit and polish of Bodies of Men before it heads into the world in April/May 2019. As always, reading has been the foundation. Stillness and immersion and revelation and depth: there will never be anything like it. The following is not really a ‘best of’; it’s just a list of work that I have read that has got beneath my skin. In Terra Nullius, Claire G. Coleman, a writer from Western Australia who identifies with the South Coast Noongar people, reveals the horrors and hypocrisies that underpin contemporary Australia. In a way, perhaps, the novel is speculative fiction, but the scenario is far too present to be ignored, as are the uncomfortable truths it reveals. This is one of the most unique novels I have read in years. Speaking of unique, a work that I almost literally gobbled up is The Long Take by Robin Robertson. A verse novel, the narrative follows a D-Day veteran as he travels across the US so he can piece his life together. Rather surprisingly The Long Take is as much about urban planning and design as it is about war; there are also evocations of Hollywood. Disintegration appears to be the unifying theme, but this is not a grim read, nor is it inaccessible. Truly remarkable. With her trademark lyricism, Robyn Cadwallader in Book of Colours brings to life the people and politics behind the making of a fourteenth-century prayer book; the novel is also about the making of art in general. It is fascinating – and highly moving – from first page to last. A beautiful novel in every way. Also beautiful is Inga Simpson’s Understory, which is a chronicle of the author’s profound attachment to a small patch of Queensland forest. This is much more than a tree-change memoir: it is also about the desire to live a creative life and the need to find and survive love. Very moving. Two poetry collections especially resonated: Melinda Smith’s Goodbye, Cruel and Kumukanda by Kayo Chingonyi. In the former, Smith once again displays her extraordinary range, moving seemingly effortlessly from the dramatic to the deep historic. In the latter, Chingonyi investigates music, masculinity and racism, in a tone that reads to me as muscular melancholia – it is wonderful. Both collections I have read more than once. As others have said, Andrew Sean Greer’s Less is a surprisingly light read for a Pulitzer Prize-winner. It is a warm and accessible read, but it is ultimately a deeply yearning hymn to modern love in a global world. Although often hilarious, Less is also a broken-hearted novel and deserves to be read until the end for its full impact to be experienced. A second heartbreaking novel from this year, though it is also brain- and soul-breaking, is Taboo by Kim Scott. Another writer of Noongar decent, Scott has created a deeply affecting story about race relations in Australia. In spare but lyrical – at times literally magical – prose, Scott writes about the layers of this country’s history that are far too often glossed over to tell a more appealing but largely false narrative. Taboo is powerful and very necessary. I also thoroughly enjoyed The Life to Come by Michelle de Kretser and, though it took me a long time (years) to get to it, The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers, as well as On Patriotism by Paul Daley and No Country Woman: A memoir of not belonging by Zoya Patel. Much of this year was dedicated to reading gay fiction, which I wrote about for Meanjin. I also loved All Being Equal from Griffith Review, because it includes a suite of novellas that explore the contemporary gay experience, and because the stories are deeply moving. Finally, I was lucky enough to read advance copies of two wonderfully adventurous novels that will be released in 2019: The Artist’s Portrait by Julie Keys, which in a memorably unflinching voice reveals the complex and often fraught nature of creative identity; and Karen Viggers’ The Orchardist’s Daughter – told in the author’s typically unaffected prose, the novel explores the web of relationships and competing viewpoints that exist in and around a Tasmanian forest. Here’s hoping both novels will be much discussed and find a broad audience.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line1033
__label__wiki	0.676112	0.676112	Stephen Wilder Year: Senior Major: Journalism Minor: English High school: Holmes (Covington) Stephen started at NKU as a sports business major, but quickly learned that his strengths were working with words and people, not with numbers. He has a passion for working in sports and studying English, so he figured he would give sports journalism a shot. “It was the best decision I have ever made,” Wilder said. “Not only do I love what I do, but I also proved to be naturally good at it.” Almost immediately after he began taking journalism courses, Stephen reached out to The Northerner, NKU’s independent student newspaper, and started writing for the sports section. He quickly made it into an editor position and has kept moving up the ladder ever since. Stephen is going into his sixth semester with The Northerner and has held editor positions such as sports features editor, sports editor, managing editor, and now copy desk chief. Outside of the newspaper and taking classes, Stephen is a bartender at Red Lobster in Florence, Ky. He has been with the company for eight years and has done nearly everything there, except becoming a manager. He wasted no time getting involved with NKU’s chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and plans on being a national member for the rest of his career. He is currently vice president of the group. “I believe the networking opportunities that SPJ offers is invaluable to a journalist,” Wilder said. Even though math wasn’t his favorite subject, Stephen stayed involved with the Sports Business Club, and eventually became president of the group. “I figured the networking and experience in the business world that the club offers will make me more well-rounded and marketable,” Wilder said. Being involved in journalism and all of these organizations has given Stephen many chances to travel around the country to different conferences for training and networking. He has also been fortunate to cover NKU’s athletic program during its transition into Division I. Stephen appreciates everything journalism offers and likes the fact that it doesn’t involve only writing. His passion for English has led to a love for copy editing other student’s work, and he enjoys helping people in any way. He also loves taking photos and videos, as well as all of the other aspects of being a journalist. “My favorite parts of journalism are learning something new every day and doing something I never thought I would do almost every week,” Wilder said. NKU Week Recap NKU Digital Age on Twitter! Tweets by @DigitalAgeNKU Day 3 Recap Student Survery Featured-photo Students and mentors reflect on this year’s workshop Young children challenge journalism students Students battle elements to get latest on Health Innovation Center construction Student journalists learn how to adapt to changing plans at Aero Girls camp High-tech center presents videographers with choices 2015 Journalism in the Digital Age Highlight Videos Day 4: Student and mentors reflect on journalism workshop Exploring a hidden gem	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line1036
__label__cc	0.615093	0.384907	Ticket Cart VIEW CART & CHECKOUT > Find Events & Buy Tickets Ball Brothers NEW DATE 7:00pm show ~ doors open at 6:00 Wellsboro Area High School 227 Nichols Street Wellsboro, PA 16901 Purchase Tickets: The Ball Brothers - General Admission $15 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Children 2 and under sitting on a parents lap are free admission. Ticket prices at the door will reflect a $5 increase per ticket. Music That Spans The Generations – Get ready for the Ball Brothers The Ball Brothers are two brothers, Andrew and Daniel Ball along with brother-in-law Chad McCloskey and newcomer Rhett Roberts. The group travels world-wide, singing their distinctive brand of Christian music. Since their formation in 2006, the Ball Brothers have rapidly made their mark in Christian music by finding a musical balance between the old and the new. “We’ve never been to a place where every person in the audience was the same age. With over 100 million video views, singers and viral sensations, the Ball Brothers are the next big thing in Christian Music. Whether you know them from their viral video “It’s About the Cross” or have seen them featured on Facebook Watch’s fastest growing show “Legendary Vocals”, the Ball Brothers have continued their calling with over 150 live shows a year, highlighted by a #1 song on the iTunes Christian Chart and a recent featured article in Sports Illustrated. © 2021 New Creation Events 122 Buck Hill Lane Middlebury Center, PA 16935 melissa@newcreationevents.com New Creation Events Encouraging you and strengthening your faith in Jesus through great teachers, music, and events. Get Notified for New Events	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line1041
__label__cc	0.528233	0.471767	Top 10 stories of 2012: Across the board 23 campus stories from 2013 For modern Muslims, faith and democracy are compatible, says Iranian Nobel laureate “Governments should be separate from ideologies, and elected representatives of the people should determine the laws that govern them,” said Nobel laureate and Iranian human rights activist Shirin Ebadi during a recent talk at Yale.Shirin EbadiMore than... While you were away: Summer stories revisited From the appointment of new deans to the endowment of Yale’s first professorship in poetry to the surprising results of an eye exam for an ancient sea scorpion, there was was certainly no shortage of news this summer. In fact, the following headlines... President Obama’s Executive Order on immigration: Two faculty experts weigh in on the subject	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line1043
__label__cc	0.726602	0.273398	News American Patriot Social Media Censorship: The Left Refuses to Let You See the Bad in Biden The first amendment of the Constitution gives us the right to free speech. It is our right as Americans to publish what we want. It is then our right as Americans to decide what we want to believe. We can do our own fact-checking. We can determine if something is fake news or not. The problem is that social media has begun to censor the news to the point that they’re only allowing us to see one side. They’re taking away our right to see both sides. Social media giants like Facebook and Twitter have sided with the left. You’ll only see stories that paint Joe Biden in a positive light. Anything else will be removed and identified as “unconfirmed” or “disputed.” Twitter wants to hold onto their policy that they don’t allow the “distribution of hacked material.” That’s all well and good, but if that’s the case, they have to make sure they don’t allow that on either side of the political spectrum. The New York Post published an expose on an email found on an old laptop belonging to Hunter Biden. It was left at a computer shop to get repaired. Biden never picked it up. Why? Who knows – perhaps he was too high to remember what computer shop he dropped it off at. Either way, it was uncovered that an email was sent from a Ukrainian official at Burisma thanking Hunter for introducing him to his father, Joe Biden. The meeting in DC was a success. This email was from 2015 – and would prove that Joe Biden lied about never meeting with or talking about Hunter Biden’s business associates. These are things that we, as Americans, have a right to know about. After all, Joe Biden is not just the former VP – he’s also the Democratic presidential candidate. If he’s meeting with Ukrainians and lying about it, we need to know. It will absolutely affect how we vote on November 3. Twitter and Facebook took the post down. The Post’s Twitter account was locked. Anyone who shared the link had their posts blocked. Why? Apparently, they decided that the Hunter Biden expose was based on using “hacked materials.” No research has been done at this point. Twitter simply pulled a ruling out of their back pocket and slapped it down to prevent anyone from being able to read about this. The New York Post obtained the information legally. It wasn’t hacked. It came right from the source of the laptop repair shop. Oh, and the FBI has also been brought in on the whole thing – as the owner of the laptop repair shop called them. If Twitter isn’t going to allow hacked material, that’s fine. But what about Trump’s tax records? Those were all over Twitter just last week. No one authorized them. They were absolutely “hacked materials” but they were allowed to stay up. Twitter and Facebook want to deem the link to the New York Post article about Hunter Biden as “potentially harmful.” Yeah, it’s harmful alright – harmful to the Biden campaign. They don’t want the truth to get out because they don’t want people to start questioning just how involved Joe Biden was in the whole Burisma deal. Ukraine was conducting an investigation into the company just months after Biden met with one of the top-ranking officials. Then, Biden used US money as a hostage tool to get the prosecutor fired. Each and every day, stories are posted to Twitter. Over time, they fall apart because of not having enough weight to them. Yet, they’re never actually taken down. The Atlantic posted a story about Trump referring to military members as losers and suckers. That story stayed, despite every person present at the event claiming that it was never said. Yet Twitter wants to say that there was a lack of authoritative reporting on what The Post shared regarding Hunter Biden. Social media is playing a dangerous game – and censorship has reached a breaking point where we cannot allow it to happen. They’re destroying the first amendment. Media outlets have proven that they’re against Trump. As for learning anything about Biden, we’ll never get to see the bad stuff because social media will block it every time. Baseball Legend Curt Schilling Says AIG Cancelled Insurance Because He’s Conservative — But Here’s Who They Will Insure (Liberty Bell) â€“ We all know that liberals have deep roots in nearly every industry and area of life. We also know that these individuals and group ...Read More Ouch: Big Tech Bans President Trump And Takes Immediate Combined $51.2 Billion Blow (Liberty Bell) â€“ The saying is, â€œgo woke, go brokeâ€ and that seems to be true for Corporate America. While they have unabashedly and consistently s ...Read More More Than 1.1 Million Attended President Trump’s Rallies Since Labor Day – Not a Single Window Broken, Policeman Attacked or Attendee Killed – Clearly Trump Wasn’t Behind Violence at the Capitol (Liberty Bell) â€“ As soon as the siege on Capitol Hill occurred, liberals in Congress and the mainstream media immediately began to blame the entire ...Read More © 2020. News American Patriot. All Rights Reserved.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line1045
__label__wiki	0.744475	0.744475	2021 Winter/Spring Season Downloadable Season Brochure Past Author Events Raising Writers Creative Writing Classes Front Street Writers Authors Next Door Thank you Donors NWS Author Next Door: Stephen Lewis Before retiring from Suffolk Community College on Long Island, New York, as Professor of English Emeritus, Stephen Lewis described himself as a teacher who also wrote. Now, this Brooklyn native and reversed roles—he is a writer who now occasionally teaches. Having moved to his moved to Old Mission Peninsula, Lewis feels he has always been equally invested in both ac tivities—that working in one contributed to his ability in the other. His publishing history illustrates this duality. His first book length publication was a college level composition rhetoric while at the same time he was producing short stories and poems. That first textbook was followed by four more and then his first book length fiction, The Monkey Rope, a contemporary mystery novel set in Brooklyn featuring a lawyer/detective and published by Walker. A second Walker mystery was then followed by a three books series of historical mysteries set in the 17th century with a midwife as a crime solver, published by Berkley, and drawing on his doctorate in Puritan American Literature from New York University. After his move to Michigan, Lewis’ interest in history found a local focus in the sensational 1895 murder trial of Woodruff Parmelee, convicted of killing Julia Curtis, his pregnant mistress whose body was found in what people called the hemlock swamp off of the Peninsula’s East Bay, a couple of miles north of Traverse City. Murder On Old Mission, published by Arbutus Press, is his fictional telling of that case, and it was a finalist in the historical novel category of Foreword Magazine’s 2005 book of the year awards. What caught his attention about this case was one detail: the testimony in support of his father’s alibi by Parmelee’s teenage son. That became the narrative focus of the book. What if the boy had reason to believe the alibi was false? The facts of that story included the unusual circumstance twenty years later of Parmelee’s release from his life sentence after the direct intervention of then Governor Woodbridge Ferris. Coincidentally, that intervention and release occurred at about the same time as the intense and violent copper mining strike on the Keeweenaw Peninsula in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Murder Undone, Lewis’s sequel to Murder On Old Mission, combines efforts to secure Parmelee’s release along with the governor’s role in the strike that culminated in the Italian Hall disaster in which more than 70 people, mostly children of striking miners, were killed in a stampede at a Christmas party caused by somebody yelling “Fire. Not forgetting the other half of his professional devotion to writing, he recently published his sixth college textbook, which attempts to teach sentence structure on the model of computer templates. He has also recently completed Two Sisters, a Holocaust based novel. A passionate sports fan, his heart followed his Brooklyn Dodgers to Los Angeles where he still fervently roots for the California version of the team of Robinson and Reese, and he is profoundly disappointed at the Dodgers’ failure this year to make it to the World Series. A Heartfelt Thanks to Our Sponsors! Our Grantors Sustaining Sponsor Arts Benefactor Sponsor Major Media Sponsor Supporting Media Sponsors A Year Round Book Festival 1200 W 11th Street, Suite 231 NWS.CWEAVER@GMAIL.COM Subject * What would you like to contact us about?Author EventsFront Street WritersBattle of the BooksWebsite IssuesOther	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line1048
__label__wiki	0.814563	0.814563	Home Borrowing Student Loans Why the Election May Mean Relief From Your Student Loan Debt President-elect Biden wants to ease the burden for millions of student borrowers. JIM LO SCALZO / EPA-EFE / Shutterstock By Shane Murphy The election of a new U.S. president may bring relief to the roughly 44 million Americans who are currently struggling with student loan debt. That’s because President-elect Joe Biden has pledged to make significant changes to student loan repayment and student debt forgiveness under his Biden Plan for Education Beyond High School. In fact, some borrowers may even see their loans canceled for good. Here are a few of the ways your student debt burden may change after the Biden administration arrives in 2021. Pandemic forbearance could be extended Damir Khabirov / Shutterstock The current pause on federal student loan payments and interest during the coronavirus pandemic — instituted in March as part of the broad economic rescue package called the CARES Act — is set to expire at the end of the year. Although Congress remains deadlocked on a new stimulus package, it’s possible another pandemic relief bill could be passed prior to the Dec. 31 deadline. If not, Biden will likely try to push Congress to pass additional student loan and economic aid measures as soon as he takes office. Even without a new stimulus package, Biden could exercise his executive power to extend the forbearance on federal student loans, much like President Trump did in March and August. You may have more flexible repayment options President-elect Biden has called for overhauling the current income-driven student loan repayment plans, which require that borrowers pay between 10% and 20% of their discretionary income. That’s the money left over after taxes and essential spending, like food. Biden aims to cap income-driven repayment for federal student loans at 5% of discretionary income. And, after 20 years of responsible payments, the remaining balance on any federal student loan would be forgiven. But that’s not all: Federal loan borrowers earning less than $25,000 per year would not be required to make any loan payments or pay interest. Biden also plans to make enrollment in income-driven repayment plans automatic, unlike the current system that requires student loan borrowers to enroll manually. New relief likely wouldn't apply to private student loans Creative Lab / Shutterstock At the start of the pandemic, Biden tweeted his support for having the CARES Act forgive up to $10,000 each for borrowers carrying federal student loans. That didn’t happen. But what’s important to note is that forgiveness proposals, like that one, generally apply only to federal loans, not the private student loans obtained from banks and other nongovernment lenders. If your loan is from a private lender and you need relief, you’ll have to pursue other options, like refinancing into a cheaper rate. Refinancing could help reduce your monthly payment, and allow you to pay off the balance of your loan years sooner. Public service loan forgiveness could come sooner Meanwhile, the president-elect also has vowed to fix the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, which his plan says is “broken.” His goal is to cut the current amount of time it takes for public servants to get loan forgiveness — after 10 years or 120 monthly payments — in half. Under the Biden plan, it would take five years of public service to qualify for $50,000 in student loan forgiveness — $10,000 per year. Americans working in schools, government and other nonprofit settings would automatically be enrolled in the new program, and public servants with up to five years of national or community service also would qualify. Students may not need to borrow as much If you’re planning to take out a student loan in the future, you may not need to borrow as much — or anything at all. President-elect Biden supports the “free college” plan originally proposed by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, which would see tuition at public colleges and universities become free for all students whose family incomes fall below $125,000. Under this proposal, eligible students would no longer be on the hook for tuition, though they might still need student loans for other expenses, including room and board. Shane Murphy Shane is a reporter for MoneyWise. He holds a bachelor’s degree in English Language & Literature from Western University and is a graduate of the Algonquin College Scriptwriting program. 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__label__cc	0.585007	0.414993	Moon Lunar Calendar Super Full Moon in Cancer, 2 January 2018 Moon Phase Home > Free Horoscopes > Moon Phase Calendar > January 2, 2018 Super Full Moon in Cancer, Tuesday - 2nd January 2018 « 2017 2018 2019 » Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec \| Full/New Moons \| Eclipses \| VOC Moon Tuesday - 2nd January 2018 - Lunar calendar, Moon Phases (UT/GMT) Time \| Change to your local timezone Your current town/city: (Enter coordinates manually) ° ' North South ° ' East West Date Moon Phase (Lunar Phase) Moon Sign Chart January 2, 2018 FULL MOON at 02:24 Cancer 11°37’ (chart) Moon in Cancer: Your feeling of safety is now related to your home, family and related activities such as cooking and gardening. You may be prone to emotional fluctuations; you should learn to forgive and forget in order to avoid depression from thinking too much about things. Your perception of the world can be very subjective; try to create a certain distance without being bitter. Due to your rich emotional manifestation you can create a real sense of belonging in the world. Calculate your personal birth Moon Phase & Moon Sign Organs influenced by Cancer Moon Sign: Organs: Stomach, mucosa, ovary, womb, vagina, breast, pleura, peritoneum, lymph system, breastbone. These organs are now more sensitive so provide them with extra care. Surgical operations: NO! - Surgical operations are strongly not recommended during the Full Moon! Lunar calendar - January 2018 Date 2018 Moon Phase (Lunar Phase) Moon Sign Organs influenced by the Moon Sign Mon Jan 1 Waxing Gibbous from 08:10 Cancer Stomach, mucosa, breast, womb, ovary - Tue Jan 2 FULL MOON at 02:24 Cancer Stomach, mucosa, breast, womb, ovary NO! Wed Jan 3 Waning Gibbous Leo Heart, aorta, blood pressure, blood circulation Yes Thu Jan 4 Waning Gibbous Leo Heart, aorta, blood pressure, blood circulation Yes Fri Jan 5 Waning Gibbous Virgo Pancreas, small intestine, digestive tract Yes Sat Jan 6 Waning Gibbous Virgo Pancreas, small intestine, digestive tract Yes Sun Jan 7 Waning Gibbous Virgo Pancreas, small intestine, digestive tract Yes Mon Jan 8 Last Quarter Libra Kidney, ureter, urinary bladder, veins, skin Yes Tue Jan 9 Last Quarter Kidney, ureter, urinary bladder, veins, skin Yes Wed Jan 10 Waning Crescent Scorpio Genitals, anus, urethra, prostate Yes Thu Jan 11 Waning Crescent Scorpio Genitals, anus, urethra, prostate Yes Fri Jan 12 Waning Crescent Sagittarius Liver, hips, thighs, sacrum Yes Sat Jan 13 Waning Crescent Sagittarius Liver, hips, thighs, sacrum Yes Sun Jan 14 Waning Crescent Sagittarius Liver, hips, thighs, sacrum Yes Mon Jan 15 Waning Crescent Capricorn Backbone, joints, knees, skin, hair Yes Tue Jan 16 Waning Crescent Capricorn Backbone, joints, knees, skin, hair Yes Wed Jan 17 NEW MOON Aquarius Calf, ankle, shin, Achilles No Thu Jan 18 Waxing Crescent Aquarius Calf, ankle, shin, Achilles - Fri Jan 19 Waxing Crescent Aquarius Calf, ankle, shin, Achilles - Sat Jan 20 Waxing Crescent Pisces Feet, toes, pineal gland - Sun Jan 21 Waxing Crescent Pisces Feet, toes, pineal gland - Mon Jan 22 Waxing Crescent Aries Head, teeth, tongue, arteries - Tue Jan 23 Waxing Crescent Aries Head, teeth, tongue, arteries - Wed Jan 24 First Quarter Aries Head, teeth, tongue, arteries - Thu Jan 25 Waxing Gibbous Taurus Neck, vocal cords, throat, thyroid gland - Fri Jan 26 Waxing Gibbous Taurus Neck, vocal cords, throat, thyroid gland - Sat Jan 27 Waxing Gibbous Gemini Shoulders, arms, hands, bronchial tubes, lungs - Sun Jan 28 Waxing Gibbous Gemini Shoulders, arms, hands, bronchial tubes, lungs - Mon Jan 29 Waxing Gibbous Cancer Stomach, mucosa, breast, womb, ovary - Tue Jan 30 Waxing Gibbous Cancer Stomach, mucosa, breast, womb, ovary - Wed Jan 31 FULL MOON Lunar Eclipse Leo Heart, aorta, blood pressure, blood circulation NO! Surgical operations are generally recommended during the Waning Moon, because human body is healing better after surgery. However, try to avoid surgeries of the organs under the influence of the zodiac sign the Moon is in on the day of the surgery. These organs are more sensitive when the Moon is passing the sign they are affiliated with and their surgery is not recommended. 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__label__wiki	0.969296	0.969296	Shares 461 Views Submit News/Story Sony PlayStation 4 Holiday Sales Dip, Fueling New Console Prospects moondela Feb 02, 2019 Could PlayStation 5 be on its way? Aside from the speculation which continues to bubble up, yet another indication that a successor to the PlayStation 4 is imminent: Revenue of the almost 6-year-old video game program dipped this past holiday season. Sales of Sony’s PS4 system fell 10 percent during the interval, the electronics giant said Friday. Sony sold 8.1 million PS4s throughout its fiscal third quarter, down from 9 million in precisely the exact same quarter a year ago. And that drove lifetime PS4 sales to 91.6 million, surpassing the PS3, which sold roughly 83.8 million, according to GameSpot. The PS4 is gaining on the original PlayStation, which started in Japan in 1994 and the U.S. at 1995 marketed 102.4 million components. The PS2 was the best-selling console game system ever, surpassing 155 million units sold. Increased earnings of PS4 games and the PlayStation Plus service ($9.99 per month or $59.99 yearly), which gives subscribers access to downloadable games to play at no additional cost, helped drive Sony’s game unit sales up 10 percent to approximately $7.2 billion — roughly one-third of their company’s total $22 billion in sales. A number of the current hit games for the PS4 included exclusives such as “Marvel’s Spider-Man,” which has sold 9 million copies, Sony says, and “God of War,” which has sold 5 million. Music, movies and tax cuts helped Sony post profit of $3.9 billion, up 44 percent from a year ago. But the decrease in sales caught a lot of the attention, inciting the anticipation that was rising for a successor. “The PlayStation 5 is clearly on the horizon,” tweeted game website Mammoth Gamers. And the game news website Play4 UK noted that Sony had registered that the playstation5.pro domain noting that could indicate an “improved version of PlayStation 5,” or just that Sony is registering it “to shield abusing.” Sony CEO Kenichiro Yoshida added to speculation in October 2018 although he said the company worked on a console but provided no specifics. Sony announced it will bypass the 2019 Electronic Entertainment Expo, the country’s biggest video game conference, scheduled for June 11-13, 2019, in Los Angeles. Led many to predict Sony might have its own event in 2019 and debut a successor. As reported at the time by Variety competitor Microsoft is at work on a successor to the Xbox One, the company’s Xbox head Phil Spencer said in June 2018. ConsoleMicrosoftPS4SonySony Play StationXbox Google to close Google+ social network on April 2 NSF Science Research Funds are Flowing Again After the Shutdown Google Maps: The Epic Rise Of Digital Map Application Manas Thakker - Jan 16, 2021 There was a time when getting around was a lot more complicated. It required planning, difficulty to fold paper-maps, arguing with a spouse, and often needing to… Information All About WhatsApp New Privacy Policy Update WhatsApp - This word has become almost synonymous with communication in the modern world. Created by two former Yahoo employees, in the year 2009, WhatsApp soon… COVID-19 Complications: Life Problems After Virus Many people who contracted Covid-19 complications back in March-April have still not fully recovered. Almost a quarter year has passed still they face post-infection problems. Back in… Most from this category Countries Which Are The Top Garment Manufacturers Aditya Mahesh - Jan 15, 2021 Natural Alternatives to a Moisturizer You Can Find At Home Which Country May Be Referred As The Next Superpower shares184 views Early Morning Routine – A Trick To Stay Energetic All Day Manas Thakker - Dec 14, 2020 Sign up for MoonDela Magazine MoonDela is a magazine that is made to cover the people around the world shining bright like moon by doing their work, whether small or big, just like Dela. Contact us: info@moondela.com © Copyright 2019 MoonDela Magazine \| All Rights Reserved. Online Courses in India Online MBA in India	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line1053
__label__wiki	0.650083	0.650083	Hundreds of Residents Volunteer to Help Track Down Serial Rapist in Detroit, Report Claims “He needs to be caught,” one of the alleged victims told MyFoxDetroit. A group of Detroit residents have banded together to help track down a serial rapist on the loose who has attacked several women since the beginning of the year , MyFoxDetroit.com reports. Last week, she said she was followed by a man in a black car, forced by gunpoint into an abandoned home and raped. Now, the unidentified 19-year-old woman and her mother have joined the Detroit 300, a group that is on the hunt for the man. Taking to the streets by car and on foot, hundreds of volunteers have combed the city looking for him. They have knocked on doors and passed out flyers hoping to track down the man, who has allegedly raped at least 6 women, MyFoxDetroit reports. “I refuse to be a victim,” resident Tamkia Gaines said. “I cannot just stand around and be victimized. That’s just not acceptable. I’m going to live in Detroit. So therefore, I’m not going to allow that.” Members say they have uncovered some strong leads, although the suspect has yet to be caught. Coincidentally, Detroit police said another woman was raped in an alley on the city’s east side at the same time the residents fanned out to look for the suspect. Police said it does not appear the attack is connected to the serial rapist. For Politicians Scraping Bottom, a Scarce Resource: Impeachment Lawyers Stocks soar on European pledge to help banks Treasury chief urges economic reform by India Fort Hood victims' kin holding private memorials 2-Month-Old Starves to Death at Philadelphia Homeless Shelter Man arrested at Fla. airport for knife in carry-on	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line1054
__label__wiki	0.826324	0.826324	Foreign Affairs, National Security & Defense, News Azerbaijan wants to show it is capable of anything, ARF-D rep says Giro Manoyan Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s refusal to take part in the International Economic Forum following the Sargsyan-Medvedev-Aliyev meeting in Saint Petersburg was a specific way to express discontent with the Mountainous-Karabakh peace process, Giro Manoyan, ARF-D International Secretary, told NEWS.am, commenting on the Azerbaijani reconnaissance detachment’s intrusion in Karabakh on June 18. According to him, Azerbaijan’s act of sabotage was aimed to show that that country is capable of such actions at any moment. The incident proves that the Azerbaijani President is not content with the results of the trilateral meeting in Russia, Manoyan said. As to the international community’s possible response to the incident, Manoyan replied: “The international community should condemn Azerbaijan’s step, but I don’t think they will do that,” Manoyan stressed. Answering a question of an Armenia Today (Armtoday.info) correspondent on whether the Azerbaijani act would lead to the resumption of the military confrontation, Manoyan said: “I do not think this will lead to a resumption of the military confrontation.” On June 18, at 11:30 p.m. an Azerbaijani reconnaissance detachment intruded Nagorno-Karabakh from Azerbaijan, an NKR Defense Army operational report says. The trespasser Azerbaijanis could intrude into the north-eastern section of the NKR-Azerbaijani contact line, killing 4 Armenian soldiers and wounding 4 others, the MKR Defense Army press service reports. The armed reconnaissance detachment encountered Armenian soldiers on duty. The Armenian side took retaliatory measures. The enemy retreated, leaving one soldier killed and ammunition, the press service concludes. The response by the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmen to the violent attack by the Azeri Armed Forces last week was inadequate and aimed at appeasing Azerbaijan, said Armenian Revolutionary Federation International Secretary Giro Manoyan Wednesday at a briefing. He characterized the attack, during which four Armenian soldiers were killed on the frontline, as Azeri President Ilham Aliyev’s way of exerting pressure on the parties involved with the peace process. “Aliyev is trying to show that he is dissatisfied with the negotiation process and can resort to other means, such as military action, if the talks do not yield his desired results,” said Manoyan, adding that the resulting reaction from the OSCE Minsk Group was in some ways an encouragement for Aliyev to continue his modus operandi of threats of violence. The continued silence by the international community on this issue will only give the green-light to Azerbaijan to continue its policies of warmongering, he said, urging a more resolute approach by Armenian authorities on the Karabakh matter. Armenia should undertake serious and concentrated diplomatic efforts in the realm of the Karabakh conflict resolution process, without compromising its options to respond to military attacks, said Manoyan who pointed out that Armenia should actively oppose Azerbaijan’s anti-Armenian policies and take steps to better articulate the true essence of the Karabakh question. Manoyan added that while Azerbaijan was taking myriad steps to address the Karabakh conflict resolution process, Armenia has not yet made advances in conjunction with the current peace process. ← ARF-D Attends Socialist International Council at the United Nations ARF-Dashnaktsutyun continues to voice serious concern regarding proposed pension reform →	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line1056
__label__wiki	0.691211	0.691211	Marjorie Cirigliano Share Marjorie's life story with friends and family Marjorie U. Cirigliano, 84 Beloved mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother Marjorie U. Sullivan Cirigliano, born February 5, 1936 to the late Edward and Marjorie Sullivan passed away peacefully on Monday. Marjorie grew up in Oakwood Beach and raised her family on Staten Island, settling in Manasquan 10 years ago. Marjorie's entire life was dedicated to her children and grandchildren. Marjorie, known lovingly as "Nan," touched the lives of all that she knew. Her sense of humor, caring spirit and generous heart will always be remembered. Marjorie's legacy will live on in her loving family, where she was an instrumental caregiver and role model to all; each family member carrying a unique and special trait that only "Nan" could have passed on. Marjorie had a very long career in the communications field always being noted for her strong work ethic and commitment. Retiring at age 80, she was given a standing ovation for the outstanding performance and enthusiasm she brought to the workplace every day. Former wife of the late Joseph R. Cirigliano, beloved mother of Suzanne Cirigliano (Michael Assenza) and the late Mary LaForte, devoted grandmother to Joseph Cirigliano (Katelyn), Michael Cirigliano (Maria), Olivia Moeller (Kyle), Vincent Parisi (Alexis Quarto), Edward and Robert LaForte, and adored great-grandmother of Addison Parisi and Michael Patrick Cirigliano. Loving sister of Norma Sullivan and the late Marilyn Grimaldi, Mercedes Walsh, Carolyn Quinn, and Edward, Robert and James Sullivan. Favorite "Aunt Tabe" of many nieces and nephews. Friends will be received at Hanley Funeral Home, 60 New Dorp Lane, Thursday 5 p.m. - 9 p.m. Mass of Christian Burial St. Patrick's Church Friday 10 a.m. Burial at The Chapel at Short Hills, 451 Milburn Ave, Milburn, NJ 07041. Hanley Funeral Home Published in Staten Island Advance on Jan. 6, 2021. Hanley Funeral Home Inc St. Patrick's Church 60 New Dorp Ln Guest Book sponsored by Hanley Funeral Home Inc Matthew Buonforte Cluster of 50 Memorial Trees Faithful Blessings Bouquet - VASE INCLUDED joseph misseri	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line1062
__label__cc	0.546493	0.453507	Naach Di Jolly celebrates South Asian music, culture Henry Bendon, Staff Reporter The piles of coats sitting by the entrance to the Jolly Scholar were falling off the tables and covered blocked-off booths last Saturday night. The reason for this calamity of coats was Naach Di Jolly, a Bollywood and Bhangra night, hosted by Naach Di Cleveland, celebrating Indian music and culture. From 10 p.m. to 2 a.m., a large crowd danced its way through a globe-spanning set from DJ Vik, a DJ for weddings and other events. The night focused on Bhangra, a style of Indian music that blends Punjabi musical traditions with western popular music. The music has an upbeat style that lends itself well to dancing. DJ Vik mixed hip-hop and pop songs with Bollywood and Bhangra tracks from his spot on stage. Saturday’s event was the second widely-attended cultural event held at the Jolly Scholar this semester, following in the footsteps of September’s Noche Latina. It carried a similar appeal with an easily accessible dance style that gave the audience plenty of opportunities to dance. The events were relatively similar in format, with Bhangra replacing Bachata and attendees wearing heavier clothing in the line to enter, due to the frigid temperatures outside. Naachi Di Jolly was founded in 2014 by Case Western Reserve University students and alumni to expose the Cleveland community a board range of South Asian cultures. According to estimates, there were more than 400 attendees flowing in and out of the bar throughout the course of the evening. This attendance marks Naachi Di Jolly as one of the most popular events hosted by the Jolly Scholar so far this semester. A few attendees drank too much and caused a scene, but for the most part, the event ran mostly smoothly, with nearly everyone there having a blast. Aranya Kumar, a first-year student, went with her friends to Naach Di Jolly. “I loved it … the music and meeting everyone,” said Kumar. Shiv Desai, a fourth-year student, also described the event in glowing terms. Shouting over the music while continuing to dance, Desai said the event was amazing and lauded its ability to bring Indian culture and CWRU together. Third-year Cian Desai, who is not related to Shiv Desai, echoed this sentiment, describing the evening as an opportunity to “get involved more with my own people.” With no major complaints about the event afterward and a crowd of happy attendees, Naach Di Jolly was by most accounts a massive success. It seems near-certain that the next Naach Di Jolly, should it happen, will also be extremely popular. Henry Bendon is a fourth-year political science major who has been writing and taking photos for the Observer since the fall of 2016. In his time with... A semester unlike any other is coming to a close—here’s some music to reflect Spotify Wrapped is the best thing about the internet, but it’s also indicative of the future of streaming audio In this homage to radio, Oneohtrix Point Never produces his most consistent work yet “The Queen’s Gambit” proves the future of movies is TV, and I’m okay with it “Happiest Season”: Holiday rom-com meets queer existentialism “2020 (hindsight)”: A virtual play about despair and hope in this year to remember Coronavirus cancels CWRU events again Presenting the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2020 inductees … on HBO Max? Looking back at the PlayStation 4 Songs of hope after a divided election	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line1063
__label__cc	0.617505	0.382495	← The Winter Park Scenic Boat Tour or how I visited Orlando and escaped the theme parks (Nearly) Live at SXSW: Searching Google for the Driverless Car → Wide Boys and V-Girls: A Glossary of Historical Teen Personas Posted on March 7, 2016 by Ken Dowell Les Apaches Pioneers of juvenile delinquency. In Paris, no less. Urban, working class and young, they were known for their flamboyant dress, black jackets over bright colored shirts, with a silk scarf, and “tummy-ache” pants. The name was attributed to a French journalist, reflecting the European perception of the savagery of the Native American tribe. French historian Michelle Perot described the Apache as “an intellectual anarchist, he considers theft to be fair restitution and practices ‘individual recovery’ on the bourgeois.” Biff boys Britain’s men in black of the 1930’s. They were the militia of Oswald Mosley’s New Party of the early 1930’s. Originally founded by former Labour Party members as an answer to the Depression, Mosley eventually gravitated toward fascism. Dressed from head to toe in black, the biff boys, recruited mostly from among the disaffected young in London, were charged with “maintaining discipline” at Mosley’s fascist gatherings. This often involved clashes with protesters. Bobby soxers Teenage girls who were fans of swing and big band music in the 1940’s. These girls were regulars at dances and since many of those dances happened in gyms where you had to take your shoes off they danced in their bobby socks. In addition to the socks these girls likely wore skirts and sweaters and the footwear they discarded were most often saddle shoes. Frank Sinatra could make a bobby soxer swoon. Boxcar boys (and girls) The kids who left home during the Depression and started riding the rails. Mostly they were boys and of the girls who joined them, many would dress as boys. They were a product of the Depression. With no job, no food and a family that might have lost their homes and moved into increasingly cramped quarters, these teens hopped freight trains in hope of finding some work picking fruit, harvesting grain or chopping lumber. The feminine persona of the Roaring 20’s. Flappers listened to jazz. They also drank, smoked, drove cars and wore a lot of makeup. Short skirts and bobbed hair was the signature style of the flappers. Author Jon Savage (Teenage) calls flappers the “first mass female adolescent generation.” They were sexy and flirtatious and as such represented something of a liberation from the traditional perception of the female teenager. Ickies The term was part of the jive language for the 1940’s version of hipster. An icky was someone who wasn’t very hip. Someone who just doesn’t get it. Getting it involved being a part of swing culture with its zoot suits and bobby socks and jitterbugging. The icky was perhaps a predecessor of the modern day nerd. Jitterbugs One who did the jitterbug, which was the dance you did to swing music. You might wear a zoot suit to jitterbug or you might wear bobby socks. Variations of the jitterbug included the Lindy Hop, the Jive and the East Coast Swing. The term jitterbug was popularized by Cab Calloway. He issued a recording called “Call of the Jitterbug” and later a film titled “Cab Calloway’s Jitterbug Party.” Neo-Pagans Today Neo-Pagans are associated with spiritual movements, usually involving some type of magic or witchcraft. In the early 20th century, the neo-Pagans were a group of privileged young British intellectuals whose distinction was in defying Victorian customs. For example, male and female neo-Pagans freely intermingled, although they preached abstinence. They were socialist, some were vegetarian and they espoused a sort of Peter Pan like forever young philosophy. Apparently the movement died before it got old. Pachucos and Pachucas Latino zoot suiters of the 40’s. But since they were mostly Mexican-American youth who were the children of poor immigrants, the public perception was of a gang of dangerous delinquents. Boys and girls alike donned zoot suits. The Pachucos added triple sole shoes and sported a long slicked back duck tail. Pachucas went for a heavy dose of dark red lipstick and black mascara. They were also the primary victims of the 1943 zoot suit riots in which servicemen would attack, beat and “depants” pachucos in Los Angeles, Oakland and Venice, Calif. Sub-debs Members of Sub-Deb clubs, social groups of teenage girls that were popular in the middle of the decade. You might think of them as a high school version of sorority sisters. They set the standard for high school style and behavior and focused on the achievement of popularity. You would likely find them hanging out at the drugstore. They were generally an upper middle class group that were heavily into consumption. V-girls Short for Victory Girls. During World War II with men off to war and women off to the factories these often unattended teenage girls made their contribution to the war effort by entertaining soldiers and sailors. That might not have always involved sex, but usually it did. An organization called the American Social Hygiene Association described V-girls as “sexual delinquents of a non-commercial character.” Countries in Western Europe experienced some of the same resulting increases in venereal disease and out-of-wedlock births as the U.S. did during the war years, but only the Americans tried to frame it in a veil of patriotism. Wide boys The Cambridge dictionary defines wide boy by as “a man who is dishonest and decieves people in way he does business.” The British term was first used in a 1930’s novel “Wide Boys Never Work.” That is, of course, because they were crooks of one sort or another. Wide Boys were most likely found in the Soho and Paddington sections of London and they included racetrack gangsters, prostitutes and the gay and Jewish undergrounds. Zazous French zoot suiters. Came into being during World War II. Like their American counterparts they had a distinct style of dress including garish and oversized clothes. The women wore short skirts, striped stockings and carried umbrellas. And, like the zoot suiters they danced to swing. The zazous are viewed by historians as a way that young people in France expressed their resistance to the Nazi occupation. As the war years went on they became the targets of attacks by fascist youth organizations. Zoot suiters Folks who wore zoot suits. That includes the Pachucos, the Jitterbugs, the Zazous and the bobby soxers’ dates and dance partners. It was the preferred uniform of swing music afficionados. The zoot suit included an oversized jacket called a king coat, and wide legged, pegged pants and it was often topped with a fedora. The style originated in America’s black and Latino communities and went mainstream along with the music it is associated with. Cab Calloway performing in a zoot suit This entry was posted in History, History of Teenagers, Uncategorized and tagged bobby soxers, Cab Calloway, flappers, history, jitterbug, Pachucos, teenage history, teenagers, victory girls, Wide boys, zazous, zoot suit. Bookmark the permalink. 20 Responses to Wide Boys and V-Girls: A Glossary of Historical Teen Personas Phoenicia says: How interesting. I enjoy learning about the lifestyle and fashion of the 19th century ; 1920’s and 1960’s being my favour decades due to the amazing clothes and hairstyles. It appears back then, young people were trying to find their place in society. Such a difficult phase. Catarina Alexon says: Great pictures and interesting information about how people dressed and danced in various parts of the world. Can’t help wondering how those that are young today will be remembered?:-9 lenie5860 says: Ken, I have truly enjoyed this entire series about teenagers. It’s interesting how each generation has their own way of showing ‘independence’. Some of the terms you’ve come out with here I’ve never heard of. The biff boys, the zazous, sub-debs are all new to me. Rose Mary Griffith says: I love getting these mini-educations from you, Ken. I always liked the flappers and probably would have been one back in the day. Anything to set my Mom’s hair on end. When I learned about the Zoot suiters, I was amazed–wouldn’t it be better for our youth to dress that way than with all their undergarments sticking out? Yeech. Donna Janke says: This was a fascinating look at teen personas across the years. There was a lot here I’d never heard of. I have heard of zoot suits but didn’t really know what they looked like. It was good to see the photo. Jeri Walker (@JeriWB) says: Lots of great new terms here as well as I handful I was already aware of. What comes to mind after reading your post is that we are almost coming into the twenties again. Part of me really hopes a lot of the style comes back into fashion. So, is that a zoot suit that David Byrne wears in Stop Making Sense? BTW, Mosley’s first name was Oswald – Elvis Costello mocks him in the song “Less Than Zero”. I don’t know. David Byrne’s big suit looks like it’s still on a hanger. Thanks for the correction on Mosley. I made the change. William Rusho says: When I read this what popped in my mind was how they groups were displayed, especially in cartoons (mostly Looney tunes) Often if a pretty woman walked by a man, he magically turned into a wolf, wearing a zoot suit and then howled at her. Boxcar girls were often seen as wide eyed, innocent poor, usually portrayed a matchstick girls, selling matches on the street. Bobbysoxers were always seen dancing on a flag pole. I just think it is unique how these groups were presented to the public, especially to the young. thanks for sharing such a great informative post. maxwell ivey says: Hi Ken; yet another well researched and interesting post. am sure the images are really cool too. is this going to be a series? are you going to cover some similar groups from later generations? thanks max This is the last of a series of five posts about the history of teenagers. Went up to about 1975. Thanks for reading. heraldmarty says: Never ceases to amaze me this need we have to affix labels to things and people. I do like the various clothing styles, especially the “flapper” era. On a completely different and unrelated note, always loved Cab Calloway’s electric smile and energy. I’m glad we transitioned from the work Icky to the term Nerd. I sometimes call myself a nerd, but I would never want to call myself an Icky. That just sounds horrible. There were quite a few other terms I had never heard of. I know very much about pop culture before Elvis so this was very enlightening. Haha. I think “nerds” have come into fashion since the 40’s. Jason @ TheButlerJournal.com says: Seems like Zoot Suits were very popular to a lot of different groups. graceyb says: Thanks for the interesting look back in history through the culture of youth. It will be fascinating to look back and see how today’s youth are characterized Kire says: Love me some Cab Calloway and Louis Prima. As a young man in the 90’s, the resurgence of swing music was a gift I still enjoy today. the Squirrel Nut Zippers, Cherry Poppin’ Daddies, and the Brian Setzer Orchestra never fail to please. Not familiar with the Cherry Poppin’ Daddies but I’ve always been a big fan of Brian Setzer. 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__label__wiki	0.553373	0.553373	The Washington Post Just Did One Thing That Will Make You Question Their Sanity otwadmin January 3, 2018 0 The Washington Post is a dumpster fire of a newspaper. This liberal newspaper has been against President Trump since he was elected. And now they took out a one-page advertisement in their own paper to slam a pop singer. It wasn’t long ago that the failing Washington Post was bought by Amazon owner, Jeff Bezos, to save the paper. Under Bezos, the liberal newspaper didn’t change its partisan bias and has remained critical of President Trump. But it’s common practice for a Bezos company to play into taking advantage of the American people. President Trump has previously pointed out how Bezos takes advantage of everything and anything at his disposal. Why is the United States Post Office, which is losing many billions of dollars a year, while charging Amazon and others so little to deliver their packages, making Amazon richer and the Post Office dumber and poorer? Should be charging MUCH MORE! And is he wrong? It’s not like Amazon can’t afford to be a little more generous— considering Bezos recently became the richest person in the world with an estimated $100 billion net worth. Now The Washington Post is pulling the “bigot” card against pop singer Lorde, publishing a full-page advertisement to make this point. Breitbart reports: “A full page advertisement calling pop singer Lorde a bigot appeared in the Washington Post this week on the heels of her cancellation of a concert in Israel, after the New Zealand native publicly caved to pressure from the anti-Israel movement known as the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, or BDS. Lorde had been scheduled to perform in Tel Aviv in June, but reversed course and canceled the performance late last month. After stirring supporters on both sides of the issue, a full-page ad calling her a bigot was contracted by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach’s This World: The Values Network, according to the UK Guardian. The ad pummels Lorde, born in New Zealand as Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O’Connor, for ignoring the war in Syria only to attack Israel. Lorde accused of anti-semitism in full page Washington Post ad as fallout from cancelled Israel concert continues https://t.co/Hc7IoCi1yT pic.twitter.com/G9WDQ4zLVX — 1 NEWS (@1NewsNZ) January 1, 2018 The ad is in response to Lorde’s decision to acquiesce to the demands of BDS. “I’ve received an overwhelming number of messages and letters and have had a lot of discussions with people holding many views, and I think the right decision at this time is to cancel the show,” Lorde said in statement in December announcing the decision. Rabbi Boteach’s advertisement insists Lorde’s cancellation shows that a “growing prejudice against the Jewish state” is appearing in New Zealand that is “trickling down to its youth.” The ad also criticizes New Zealand itself for joining a recent UN resolution condemning Israeli settlements in what it called occupied Palestinian territory. Rabbi Boteach, also a featured writer at Breitbart, recently posted an editorial slamming Lorde for joining the “horde of anti-Semitic BDS” movement. “It took only 21 short years for New Zealand singer Lorde to succumb to the corruption of celebrity and align herself with bigotry and antisemitism,” Boteach, who fashions himself as “America’s rabbi,” wrote in a December 29 editorial.” Whatever you think of Lorde’s actions, this is a prime example of how relentlessly childish The Washington Post is. Tags entertainment Previous ArticleThe NFL Is Nervous About The Bad News It Just Got Next Article‘Dr. Phil’ Show Accused Of Something Shameful Golf Organization Just Made An Unbelievable Move Against Trump otwadmin January 15, 2021 Pro-Trump Actress Ripped Big Tech For The Terrible Thing They Did Arnold Schwarzenegger Released Ridiculous Video About The Capitol Hill Riot One NFL Team Just Gave Andrew Cuomo The Embarrassment Of His Life NBA Analyst Went On TV And Made One Insane Statement About The Capitol Riot LeBron James Is Trying To Strong-Arm A Republican Into Doing One Thing One Film Critic Is Ripping Donald Trump For Something Unbelievable Far-Left Actor Said Something Despicable To Donald Trump otwadmin January 9, 2021 Liberal Talk Show Hosts Bashed Trump And It Backfired In A Hilarious Way otwadmin March 23, 2018 0 Anthem Protester Could Be On The Verge Of Eating His Own Words otwadmin April 11, 2018 0 Seahawks Get Ripped For Smart Move They Made With Anthem Protester otwadmin January 15, 2021 0 Copyright © 2020 Off the Wire Network, LLC. All Rights Reserved. All materials contained on this site are protected by United States copyright law and may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, displayed, published or broadcast, in whole or part, without the prior written permission of Off the Wire Network, LLC.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line1066
__label__cc	0.741794	0.258206	Andrei Schiller-Chan Voice Coach and Founder of Orator \| Masters in Voice Studies, The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama \| Currently Coaching in London \| www.oratorvoice.com 4 Reasons as to Why You Lose Your Voice And why children never do… Photo by Jason Rosewell on Unsplash There tend to be four main drivers of occupational voice loss; they aren’t exclusive but they are the most common reasons in my profession. They are also almost non-existent in healthy children which is far from a coincidence as to why children rarely misplace their voice. Like children, speaking should not be effortful, but fluid. Not painful, but joyful. The Issue is Not Occupational Clients ranging from business analysts, meditation teachers, to QA techs have come to me for this issue that debilitates their ability to present, guide, or coach. Some occupations demand them to talk all day, while others ask for merely an hour, but the pain, or tightness, arises nonetheless. … 3 Rules That Will Get You Through Unemployment Getting a job in the era of Covid and beyond Photo by Priscilla Du Preez on Unsplash My partner, Emma, endured six months of unemployment. Throughout this time I saw her evolve due to the circumstances laid at her feet; and, indeed, in hindsight, this growth was due to three main rules she adapted to get herself to the finish line. I hope that for anyone going through the same ordeal this may provide some illumination and kindred feeling. There is no instant panacea to the suffering to be found here. Instead, I offer you a roadmap of how to endure, how to get to the finish line, and perhaps to get you a nose ahead. To begin, this wretched period of your life can be one of growth and, perhaps, one of necessity. … Published in Data Driven Investor How Your Voice Works Insight into the anatomy of the “you” in your voice Photo by Joyce McCown on Unsplash Where is the “you” in your voice? “Speech”, to the average person, is a terribly simple phenomenon that is largely an afterthought but underneath its simplicity lies a myriad of complex processes that each feeds into the way you speak and how you are heard. How you are heard influences your career trajectory, has been found to influence sexual attractiveness, and creates all kinds of opportunities if speaking is treated with skill and finesse. Becoming a great speaker demands that you understand how your anatomy works, and how it affects the “you” in your voice; because the powerhouse behind it all is largely… Read more in Data Driven Investor · 9 min read The Cost of Not Thinking Your Career Through The hidden statistics behind employment in the arts Photo by Ian on Unsplash With any kind of investment vehicle a legal caveat is required to be placed alongside promotional activities and typically runs like this: Invest in Bitcoin at zero commission and start trading like the professionals. *Warning capital is at risk and you may get back less than you invested. The legality behind this is to make sure individual investors, like you and I, take some time to think things through, understand the risk, rather than be blinded by the lust for wealth that the advertisement promotes. Similarly, studying a degree such as a Masters in Performance (Acting) should also contain the… How to Learn to Say No The benefits of boxing BJJ training with Inglorious Grapplers UK — Photo from the author If you’ve ever thought that therapy may be worthwhile, but are trepidatious to put a foot through the door, boxing, although unconventional, can be an alternate means of self-discovery through an ironically gentler nudge. I began boxing because I had a deeply ingrained habit to put other people’s needs above my own, a pattern I developed to survive an emotionally void and unstable support system in my childhood. The repression of feelings, whether or not they are anger or rage, have consequences down the line, and these patterns encroach upon every angle of your life. Gabor Mate’s book “When The Body Says No” has countless stories of patients that developed autoimmune diseases from the fact that they couldn’t say “no”, due to the repression of stress. … 2 Habits That Underrate Your Voice’s Influence Critical skills all leaders need to practice Photo by History in HD on Unsplash Habit 1: Monotone. The physiological effects upon a listener and the speaker. Habit 2: Underpowering. How your body may be working to keep you alive but at the expense of your voice. “Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.” J. P. Sartre We are free because we have the capacity to become angels of our better nature; we are condemned because we are born into contexts not of our choosing and hence everywhere curtailed by limits. Your voice and the muscular physiology that fuel it have been moulded with precision to account for the language you were taught, and how you should speak it, such as an accent. Bi-lingual children can imitate their primary caregiver’s accent precisely but once passed that developmental “critical-window”, up to the age of six, the ability to imitate, and learn a new language “is steadily comprised from then until shortly after puberty, and is rare thereafter” (Pinker, S, 1994). Your first language’s muscle memory interferes with the language you are trying to learn and hence the rise of the dreaded “foreign-accent”. … How to Give Your Voice Depth & Why it Matters Three rules to attain an influential voice Female Fallow Deer evaluate potential sexual mates by evaluating auditory cues underlying a males mating groan. Males who possessed lower fundamental frequencies compared to their rivals were judged by females to have higher social dominance and were more successful in passing their genes on. Photo by Will Swann on Unsplash You may have heard through the grapevine that human communication can be broken down into three proportions: 55% of communication is body language, 38% is the tone of voice, and 7% is the actual words spoken. Although, these proportions tend to change over the years because the jury is still out on this one; it is too simplistic to explain such a complex matrix but it did provide a nice framework for life coaches everywhere. Indeed, so as not to throw the baby out with the bathwater, body language is vital due to the effects it has on the unconscious parts of our perception and body! For example, mirror neurons fire when we observe subtle cues in another’s body language which influences us to replicate the same movement in our own body. It happens spontaneously, and albeit unconsciously, and may have been a survival mechanism to prime the body for danger before we are aware of a threat - a useful trait given that social cohesion was so pivotal for our survival. … The Science Behind a Sexy Voice How and why the voice attracts Photo by Gabriel Matula on Unsplash Sexual attraction can begin at the outset of hearing another’s voice. The extra-linguistic cues, hidden within our voice, are programmed to influence certain bodily responses of another and have been crystallized as such by a number of phylogenetic traits passed down from reptiles to mammals to primates to us. How female fallow deer choose their mates Male vocalisations are often subject to sexual selection and can be used to assess the quality and condition of the caller in various vertebrates… In most vertebrates, high quality males have larger body sizes that determine higher social status and in turn higher reproductive success… Previous research has emphasised the importance of vocal tract resonances or formant frequencies of calls as cues to body size in mammals. (Vannoni, E., McElligott, G, A., … ·Apr 29, 2020 What Crocodiles and Humans Have in Common And what you can learn from them to improve your voice Photo by Wolfgang Rottmann on Unsplash Somewhere in the Australian Outback, a lizard is scurrying for its life…but for a lizard to breathe, it must be stationary. Why is this so for our lizard? The reason is that the intercostal and thoracic muscles that are responsible for the dilation of its lungs are also required for its movement, the bending of the body from side to side, and, unfortunately for our lizard, breathing and moving are mutually exclusive! Crocodiles, however, can move, swim, and breathe all at the same time — and so can humans. The ability for humans to run and speak with each other was vital for sustaining life not to mention the necessity of speech underlying play for healthy upbringing, ‘like other animals, we play at those things that are important to our survival, and social play promotes social cohesion’ (Heinrich, 2008). Stopping to catch a breath to say a word every second or so would not be practical but because of our evolutionary ties to lizards, this may shine some light into why we find it difficult to speak when nervous. … How a Wrongfully Convicted Man Became My Mentor How Rubin “Hurricane” Carter’s legacy lives on David McCallum III. Exonerated in 2014 after having spent 29 years in prison. Iwas part of a rag-tag crew assembled by Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, to free a man, a friend, called David McCallum III from 29 years of wrongful imprisonment. My beginnings with Rubin, however, were a little stranger than fiction. It began with a letter I wrote, which traveled from Melbourne, Australia, to Toronto, where Rubin was currently residing. Beating all odds, it founds its destination — especially when considering that a 21-year-old man had just sent his first international handwritten letter — using stamps no less! Rubin, David, and a remarkable fellow called Ken were each to become mentors to me in their own way, at a time I needed them most. Little did I know what journey this letter would take me on, and how it would open my eyes to political and racial injustices universally. …	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line1068
__label__cc	0.658882	0.341118	Nobis Announces Charitable Donation of $20,000 to New Circles Community Services On November 25, 2019, Nobis announced that the company has donated $20,000 to New Circles Community Services in Toronto, along with 200 winter jackets collected from the Nobis Laundromat pop-up that took place earlier this month. Over 1,500 guests visited the Nobis Laundromat pop-up, which took place in Toronto from November 1 and 10, and contributed a total of 200 winter jackets. For each winter coat donated on site, Nobis matched the contribution with a $100 donation. The contribution will provide operational aid at New Circles Community Services, including essential staffing requirements to support their GLOW (Gently Loved Outfits to Wear) free clothing program, which annually helps 15,000 newcomers, refugees and economically vulnerable families in Toronto to meet their basic need and live and work with dignity. “We are honoured to be at New Circles to see firsthand how the donated funds and winter coats have directly helped those in need,” said Robin Yates, Vice-President and Co-Founder of Nobis. “This season, we wanted to be proactive in advocating the cause to share the warmth and shed light on the crucial service provided by New Circles. Seeing the community come together has been truly inspiring and we look forward to growing this partnership with them.” In addition to its clothing program, New Circles also offers employment training and social programs that help newcomers integrate into the community. Areas of focus include developing employability skills such as understanding employer expectations, resume building, interview skills, retail and customer service, as well as language skills. "Our deepest thanks to Nobis for supporting New Circles with the Nobis Laundromat pop-up and financial contribution. Laundering For Good was a wonderful campaign and we are grateful to all that have contributed," said Diana Gibbs, Manager of Resource Development for New Circles. “We encourage all Torontonians to continue this amazing momentum of support— for those looking to help, we are always in need of additional winter outerwear, boots and shoes, monetary donations and volunteers!”	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line1073
__label__wiki	0.911099	0.911099	Tag Archive \| crime TV Covered Polls For Viewers – Not Voters ! – By Mukesh Jhangiani TV Covered Polls For Viewers – Not Voters ! New Delhi (UNI) – Key social issues, law and governance took a back seat while television news channels focused on personalities and alliances in the 72-day run up to Poll 2009, a study reported today. A count by CMS Media Lab shows that six of India’s leading news channels between them spent 25,266 minutes or about 421 hours airing election news in their 7PM-11PM slots between March 1 and May 11. Analysing bulletins, the Lab found DD News, Aaj Tak, NDTV 24X7, Zee News, CNN-IBN and Star News spent more airtime on politics than on entertainment and sports– mainstays for ratings and revenues. ”Even though TV remains the popular medium of communication,” it appeared ”largely unsuccessful in shaping public opinion,” the study said. It pointed out, for instance, how a campaign by some major media houses urging citizens to vote failed to motivate, keeping voter turnout low. Issues Indians struggle with day in and day out– affordable food, housing, jobs, water, unbridled crime– blue-collar and white-collar, health, and social, economic and judicial inequities—barely got much attention. — Notwithstanding green revolution or claims of self-sufficiency, affordable food remains an issue. Foodgrain availability has fallen to 152 kg per capita, 23 kg less than in the 1990s, an e-source says. Some 47 per cent of Indian children, the nation’s future, are estimated to suffer from under-nutrition. India ”accounts for 21 per cent of the under-five children dying in the world… (and) is home to nearly 40 per cent of all low birth weight babies in the developing World.” In eradicating hunger, India ranked 66th among 88 developing and transition nations two months ago. A Hunger Index 2008 published under the auspices of Washington-based International Food Policy Research Institute highlighted ”the continued overall severity of the hunger situation in India. Most States have a ‘serious’ hunger problem, and one State, Madhya Pradesh, has an ‘extremely alarming’ hunger problem.” At least one manifesto pledged to enact a Right to Food law that guarantees citizens access to sufficient food. — With experts estimating that barely six per cent of heinous offences end in convictions– letting 94 per cent offenders walk free while law-abiding victims suffer, crime is a major concern. A serious example of white-collar crime in a company curiously named Satyam surfaced shortly before elections when its founder proclaimed himself a fraud, possibly to escape severer jurisdictions. The revelation raises questions about inept regulatory system– be it boards of directors, auditors or registrars of companies, not to mention investigators. Indeed, authorities have yet to make clear their response or consequences for such perpetrators. — Given a billion plus citizenry, the government acknowledges a deficit of 22.4 million houses. Authoritative sources say even 180 million dwellings in existence include 108 million in a dilapidated condition– unfit for healthy living. A television jingle some months ago cited the soaring prices of Delhi Development Authority flats as an accomplishment– rather than a criminal failure to ensure adequate housing. As the Law Commission recently pointed out, former President Zail Singh once suggested that no person in India be allowed to have more than one house– any extra houses given to the needy on installments. Issues abound. Critics say when it comes to parity and justice, Indian governance, no matter the political label, has been long on talk, short on delivery. But little of all that showed up in the election campaign or related coverage. The study said the channels spent more airtime on politics but the bulk of it was ‘superficial,’ not hard news that might have informed, educated or influenced voters. The channels gave politics 42.75 per cent news time– against usual 10-12 per cent, or 33 per cent in 2004 elections– but ”a major chunk of it remained superficial.” Almost a third or 30.87 per cent of this time– 7,801 minutes or about 130 hours– was devoted to political personalities and another 10.62 per cent– 2,683 minutes or 45 hours– to alliance prospects. Instant replays, trivialisation and reality formats– gimmicks to drive entertainment or sport viewership or television rating points and ad revenues– were liberally evident. The channels also played up hate speeches, verbal duels and bickering. The overall coverage of elections ”bordered on entertainment” as issues were trivialized– instead of being clarified to help broaden perspectives and build opinion in public interest. The study said the channels spent 10.62 per cent news time reporting political formations or breakups but barely 4.82 per cent on security, nuclear deal, jobs, development, governance, recession, farmers’ suicides and amenities. Many key issues made just fleeting appearances– in talk shows and debates. ”Communication that could empower voters with vital information needed to make an informed decision was negligible,” it said. Attention given to voting added up to 1,786 minutes or almost 30 hours or 7.07 per cent. There was virtually no television coverage about electronic voting machines although there have been some complaints of possible malfunction or tampering. ‘’There was not even a cursory debate on the subject,’’ Lab spokesman Prabhakar told United News of India Special Correspondent Mukesh Jhangiani. ”Broadly stating,” the study said, ”there was a clear disconnect between the voters and the media, which was apparent in the coverage priorities of news channels.” Skewed distribution of news time meant that insignificant issues ate up precious minutes that might have been used to air such pressing concerns as health, environment, water, electricity or roads. The study showed the time spent on basic concerns– jobs, crime, housing, price rise, justice– was miniscule. Governance, education, infrastructure, not to mention the controversial nuclear deal with the United States, figured even less. The six channels between them spent 414 minutes– 1.64 per cent– of airtime on corruption, an issue raised nationwide in the 1970s by veteran socialist Jayaprakash Narayan– and yet to be taken care of. Even word that Indians have trillions of rupees stashed in secret Swiss accounts, posed as a poll issue by a novice party, Youth for Equality, failed to fire up coverage. Almost equally little attention was paid to two of the most serious menaces– terrorism and criminalisation of politics– 314 minutes and 313 minutes– or 1.24 per cent of the coverage. This, notwithstanding the spate of incidents, including the ghastly 26/11 Mumbai raid, nor the rising clamour against allowing lawbreakers to blend in with lawmakers. Airtime spent on candidate selection or ticket distribution stories: 572 minutes or 2.26 per cent of the total. A quick check by an activist group, Election Watch News, shows the number of electees facing criminal charges went up on May 16 from 128 in the 14th Lok Sabha to 153 in the 15th Lok Sabha. As many as nine of them were appointed United Progressive Alliance Ministers. A ‘positive’ aspect of the coverage, the study said, was DD news, NDTV 24X7 and Star News highlighting some serious neighbourhood issues– 7.37 per cent airtime. The channels spent 1,361 minutes reporting on the Election Commission, 1,344 minutes, on opinion polls, 1,276 minutes, on parties’ campaigns and 605 minutes, on their strategies. UNI MJ ATI AS1109 Barack Obama’s election 2012 win: the world reacts (guardian.co.uk) India ‘Much More Divided’ Now Than By British: Rao – By Mukesh Jhangiani – December 4, 2009 (mukeshjhangiani.wordpress.com) EVMs – Good Idea. But Is It Time Yet ? – By Mukesh Jhangiani – December 20, 2010 (mukeshjhangiani.wordpress.com) It’s Morning in India as U.S. Votes Are Counted – Bloomberg (bloomberg.com) The global e-voting disaster: Why the US and the world shouldn’t try to make elections too high tech (qz.com) This entry was posted on November 7, 2012, in Governance, Justice, Law, Law-making, Workman and tagged 26/11 Mumbai raid, Aaj Tak, Affordable food, Alliances, Build opinion, By Mukesh Jhangiani, Claims of self-sufficiency, CMS Media Lab, CMS study, CNN-IBN, Controversial nuclear deal, crime, Criminalisation of politics, DD News, Delhi Development Authority, Developing and transition nations, Developing World, Economic inequities, Electees facing criminal charges, Election coverage, Election news, Election Watch News, Electronic Voting Machines, Ensure adequate housing, Eradicating hunger, EVMs, Failed to motivate, Farmers' suicides, Foodgrain-availability, Green revolution, Housing, Hunger Index 2008, Hunger situation in India, India, India's leading news channels, Indian children, Indians struggle with, Inept regulatory system, International Food Policy Research Institute, Jayaprakash Narayan, Jobs, Judicial inequities, justice, Key social issues, Law and governance, Law-abiding victims suffer, Lawbreakers, Low birth weight babies, Low voter turnout, Media houses, NDTV 24X7, News channels, Offenders walk free, Personalites, Poll 2009, Poll coverage, President, Public interest, Right to Food law, Satyam fraud, Secret Swiss accounts, Shaping public opinion, Social inequities, Social issues, Star News, Television news channels, Took a back seat, Under-nutrition, United News of India, United Progressive Alliance, United States, Urging citizens to vote, Washington-based, Water, White collar crime, Zail Singh, Zee News. Leave a comment Simplify Language Of Laws Of Land: PM – By Mukesh Jhangiani Simplify Language Of Laws Of Land: PM* New Delhi (UNI) – Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today launched India’s first national legal literacy mission: 2005-10 with a call to simplify the language of laws of the land. ”The complex legal language of our statutes acts as a hurdle to legal literacy… compounded by the intricacies of legal language in judicial pronouncements,” Dr Singh told invitees at the launch at Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi. He said ”an attempt should be made to simplify the language of the law so that any one who reads judgements and laws can easily understand their true meaning.” The legal literacy mission is intended to empower millions of disadvantaged and other Indian citizens through awareness and free legal aid. ”This mission is a step in the direction of empowering people to enjoy their rights,” Dr Singh said. ”Equality in law requires equal access to law for this noble principle to translate into reality.” Prime Minister Singh reminded that Article 39A of the Constitution gives a directive to the States to ensure that the operation of the legal system promotes justice on a basis of equal opportunity. ”It directs the State to provide free legal aid with the aid of suitable legislation or schemes. It also directs it to ensure that opportunities for securing justice are not denied to any citizen for reason of economic or other disabilities.” He said the dictum that ignorance of law is no excuse ”creates a duty on the part of government” to make people aware of laws it enacts. In spite of their publication in Gazette, due to low literacy, a majority of the population is not aware of its rights and duties, he said. ”This is an initiative that is dear to me and has my whole hearted support,” Dr Singh said. The Mission has identified a set of beneficiaries it immediately expects to address: children, minority communities, victims of militancy, victims of crime, disaster and disease, child and bonded labour, landless farming community, dalits and tribal communities, especially in the northeast, farmers hit by droughts and floods, trafficked girls and sex workers and the poorest of the poor. ”From Ignorance to Legal Empowerment” was the goal proclaimed as part of the Mission’s emblem and mascot unveiled by the Prime Minister jointly with India’s Chief Justice Ramesh Chandra Lahoti and Law and Justice Minister Hans Raj Bhardwaj. Justice Lahoti recalled the founding fathers’ vision of India as just and equitable for all citizens, but said ”this dream is yet to find fruition.” In the 21st century– 57 years after independence– ”concepts such as just and equitable remain unfamiliar for the millions of people who still remain beyond the safety net of law and justice.” Justice Lahoti said when citizens, particularly marginalised or underprivileged groups, know what the law has to offer them, they can recognise and challenge the injustices forcefully. ”The first step towards that knowledge of the law, which can transform people’s lives, is legal literacy.” Bhardwaj told audience that the Mission was aimed at addressing the farthest geographical areas and the most vulnerable sections of the population in the first phase. ”The people need to be told the benefits of legal aid… otherwise they will continue to resign to their fate for exploitation and discrimination.” The ceremony was also attended by Supreme Court Judges N Santosh Hegde and Y K Sabharwal and a number of other sitting and retired Judges, including Chief Justices of various High Courts. Justice Hegde, Chairman of the National Legal Services Authority (NALSA), which has undertaken the Mission, reminded that legal aid was not charity– but an obligation of the State ”enshrined in Article 39A of our Constitution.” He said NALSA was formed for this very purpose– ”to provide free and competent legal services and encourage the general public to settle their disputes amicably.” A note of caution and realism was struck by Justice Sabharwal, Chairman of the Supreme Court Legal Services Committee. ”I must emphasise,” Justice Sabharwal said, ”that from Ignorance to Empowerment is a long journey and let us not hope that one NALSA will achieve it in next five years like a magic.” ”Only providing legal aid to settle a dispute is not a solution for the progress of our country. ”The solution lies in our hands if we can grant these people a window of social justice by way of monitoring why such benefits meant for them have not been delivered to them and if not delivered to them, then who in this country is responsible for such a lapse. ”We need to set examples of accountability in our Governance,” Justice Sabharwal said. Asked afterwards whether legal literacy would include informing beneficiaries as to delays or other inadequacy involved in litigation, Justice Hegde said the effort would be to have matters resolved through pre-trial options. These include Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) techniques such as conciliation, mediation, arbitration and so on. Litigation would be the last step, he said. Justice Lahoti said three steps were being taken to reduce pendencies in courts. They included relying in a big way on ADR, making justice delivery system more effective and introducing information technology in judiciary. Justice Lahoti also mentioned two major studies which have been undertaken jointly along with Asian Development Bank and the United Nations Development Progamme to identify shortcomings in the system. Asked about inquiry commissions, some of which end up in the archives, Justice Lahoti said governments– he was not referring to incumbent government– sometimes buy time by appointing inquiries essentially to let tempers cool. UNI MJ RP GR1823 Law Minister Echoes PM’s Call To Simplify Laws* – By Mukesh Jhangiani – February 25, 2008 (mukeshjhangiani.wordpress.com) Simplify Language Of Laws Of Land: PM* – By Mukesh Jhangiani – March 6, 2005 This entry was posted on October 10, 2012, in Governance, Jurisprudence, Justice, Law, Law-making and tagged accountability, ADB, ADR, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Article 39A, bonded labour, By Mukesh Jhangiani, Chief Justice, children, complex legal language, crime, dalits, disaster, disease, droughts, economic or other disabilities, equal opportunity, farmers, floods, founding fathers' vision, HR Bhardwaj, Ignorance to Legal Empowerment, inquiry commissions, landless, legal aid, legal literacy, make people aware of laws, Manmohan Singh, mediation, militancy, minority, pendencies, RC Lahoti, sex workers, Simplify language of Laws, trafficked girls, tribal, UNDP, United News of India, victims. Leave a comment	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line1075
__label__wiki	0.547342	0.547342	Advertise in this news brief. Text version RSS Subscribe Unsubscribe Archive Media Kit October 28, 2014 Home About Us Membership Events Contact TC Transcontinental At TC Media (which acquired ThinData Inc. in 2008), we provide a full suite of email marketing solutions. In the next 4 weeks, 100 people will decide the future of the web On Feb. 8, 2000, the U.S. government signed a contract with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to run the so-called "IANA functions" — which glue together the internet as we know it. Ever since that day, people have been trying to end that contract. This time next year, it will finally happen. Hungary to impose world's first internet tax Hungary is preparing to impose the world's first tax on internet usage in the latest example of the unorthodox economic policies being pursued by President Viktor Orbán and his increasingly dominant Fidesz party. Mihály Varga, economy minister, unveiled the plans, which include a charge of Ft150 (62 U.S. cents) for each gigabyte of internet data consumed. How the Internet of Things will rule your workday in 2020 By the end of this decade, the world will be a more deeply and intimately connected place, with an estimated 7.3 billion smartphones, tablets and PCs, according to Gartner. And the Internet of Things will expand at an even more rapid rate — to 26 billion connected devices around the globe by 2020, a 30-fold increase over 2009. Let's walk through a day in the life of Charlie, an employee in the year 2020. 10 ways to succeed in a mobile work environment According to a recent survey, there's concern that remote workers are exposing sensitive company data while they are working on the go. Worldwide it is believed the most careless place to work is at the coffee shop. While coffee shops are popular work destinations for many remote professionals, 59 per cent of survey respondents say they believe working from them puts them at risk of exposing sensitive data. FEATURED ARTICLE TRENDING ARTICLE MOST POPULAR ARTICLE Define future business requirements first Computer Dealer News Communications-oriented technologies have become more and more complex as vendors move towards fully integrated communications solutions. Because each manufacturer strives to differentiate their products from competitors, (while essentially delivering the same solution), a host of conflicting terms, architectures and licensing models work to confuse even the most savvy potential customer. Google enhances search listings with new structured snippets Google recently announced via the Google Research blog that they will be introducing a new addition to search listings. The new feature is designed to pull out key pieces of information from a page and insert it into the search results snippet for that page. 2 million new roles by 2022 thanks to the Internet of Everything With the Internet of Everything (IoE) set to generate $14.4 trillion of value in the private sector over the next decade, businesses are queuing up to lay claim to their own little patch of the connected landscape. IT consultant: M2M will bring government regulation IT World Canada The so-called Internet of Things sparks two emotions among security professionals: a certainty that government regulation will be needed to prevent needless deaths, and an equal determination to keep legislators away from the industry. That's how some of the debate shaped up recently at the annual SecTor conference in Toronto, where a panel on predictions for the coming year found lively debate. Rapid growth and obsolete laws threaten the Internet and the global economy Infrastructure is not just roads and bridges, airports and power stations. There's also digital infrastructure. And as advanced as it is, rapid growth and obsolete laws and regulations threaten to overwhelm it, the World Economic Forum warns. Security certifications are soaring in value as thousands of new jobs are there for the taking I remain skeptical of claims that the so-called Internet of things will result in 25 billion or even 50 billion connected devices and a couple of million new jobs for security professionals around the world in the next few years. Nonetheless, security is probably the hottest topic in IT right now, and the public is being barraged by stories of data breaches, ransomware, security holes, and the NSA’s widespread data collection. The Internet sleeps (at least in some countries) Tech Cocktail Researchers at the University of Southern California have recently discovered that the Internet sleeps. Yes — the seemingly omnipresent spirit of the digital age actually has some kind of daily routine, at least when observed across the globe. 2 million new roles by 2022 thanks to the Internet of Everything (ZDNet) The many reasons why tech-savvy millennials need to get reality savvy (Entrepreneur) Why IT pros have to take more responsibility for their own performance (Information Age) Frank Humada, Multiview, Director of Publishing, 289.695.5422 Joanne Lam, Content Editor, 289.695.5474 Max Haroon, SIP, President, 416.891.4937 SIP information and inquiries: www.sipgroup.org This edition of SIPpost was sent to ##Email##. To unsubscribe, click here. Did someone forward this edition to you? Subscribe here -- it's free! 50 Minthorn Blvd., Suite 800, Thornhill, ON, L3T 7X8	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line1077
__label__wiki	0.61126	0.61126	Beauty and the Beast - Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack Alan Menken, Howard Ashman, Tim Rice Usually ships from our warehouse in 4 to 9 business days Series: Easy Piano A great Easy Piano Songbook for Belle's of All Ages! Rediscover a tale as old as time! The Motion Picture Soundtrack features songs from the 1991 Disney animated film as well as new material written by Alan Menken and Tim Rice. Arranged for Easy Piano songs include: a new version of the title track “Beauty and the Beast” as sung by Ariana Grande and John Legend, as well as a new original performed by Celine Dion, “How Does a Moment Last Forever” plus: Aria • Be Our Guest • Belle • Days in the Sun • Evermore • Gaston • The Mob Song • Something There. Plus! Color photos from the film are also included for the Beauty and the Beast Fan. ©2017, 88 pages George Michael, Wham! Last Christmas - Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack Beauty and the Beast - Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack P/V/G Trolls - Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack Songbook Composer: John Powell Arranger: Batu Sener The Call of the Wild - Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack Ray - Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack Beauty and the Beast - Recorder Fun! Tim Ray, Hey Rim Jeon, Ross Ramsay, Robert Christopherson Berklee Jazz Standards for Solo Piano Virginia Hanlon Grohl From Cradle to Stage: Stories from the Mothers Who Rocked and Raised Rock Stars Tony M. Dofat Become an Entrepreneur in the Music Business: First Edition Beautiful Classical Melodies for Solo Piano Beatles '66: The Revolutionary Year J. Randy Taraborrelli Becoming Beyonce: The Untold Story Jesse Canon, Todd Thomas Get More Fans: The DIY Guide to the New Music Business Cheryl Finn, Eamonn Morris Beanstalk's Basics for Piano, Technique Book, Level 1 Annie Patterson, Peter Blood Rise Again! A Group Singing Songbook Resonance® Vocalises and Recitatives 9-10 (High Voice) Michael Morenga Beats for Beginners - Springboard Series	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line1078
__label__wiki	0.917209	0.917209	Perth Voice Interactive Your free, independent newspaper Mt Hawthorn BONUS ENTRY! 91 and left to sleep in a shed October 4, 2019 · by Your Herald · in news. · • Bill, 91, from Northern Ireland, wants to keep living independently. Photo by David Bell. A 91-YEAR-OLD man has been forced to sleep in a shed after residents of a run-down hostel in Murray Street were evicted to make way for a 35-storey hotel redevelopment. The lodgers and the keeper of Hostel Milligan, some who’ve been there for more than 30 years, were told to leave the ageing property by September 30. But some, like 91-year-old Bill, have found even “affordable housing” is out of their reach, with newer hostels charging more than twice as much for a private room. Evictee Tom says it’s been hard knowing the redevelopment was looming. He says he’s felt “numb”. “I don’t know what to do,” Tom told the Voice. He’s looking at going interstate for cheaper accommodation. “I might have found a place in Dubbo,” he says – if he can get there. Later that night he carried his belongings off to look for a youth hostel nearby, but says he can’t afford their rates for long. Another resident who’s lived on and off at Milligans for nearly 30 years said he’d applied at a shelter and was hoping to hear back by next Thursday. It’s south of the river as he’s previously used up his quota of accommodation at local shelters. He doesn’t know what to do in the meantime. Hostel keeper Tony Ransom has been running the place for 30 years. Both a caretaker of the premises and residents, he’s worried about the fate of the last few. “From the time [developer] Fragrance first bought the property I stopped advertising for new guests. I even removed the vintage sign from above the front door. This was to ensure I did not have to inconvenience so many residents to relocate,” Mr Ransom said. He’s helped some find a new spot, and he’s let those in desperate straits skip rent since the August 20 notice to vacate in the hope they could save up money for a bond or moving costs. Bill can’t remember how long he’s lived at Milligans, but he came from Northern Ireland some misty years ago and “worked all over the bush”. “I’ve had a lot of addresses,” Bill said. His memory’s going but he’s still physically fit — he carried his own luggage down the stairs himself on the last day – and doesn’t want to give up his independence and go into an old age home. “Bill’s been here since 1988,” Mr Ransom says. “I keep him mentally active,” taking him out to exercise on park equipment, and for a visit to the zoo on the day before the eviction. With the locks changed on October 1, Mr Ransom drove Bill out to Midland where they both stayed the night in a shed. “It’s a friend’s shed, where the chaps lived picking grapes off vines since the year dot,” Mr Ransom says. “We’re safe,” he says, though Bill kept wanting to return to the hostel. “It’s not all bright and shiny, there’s nothing to it, but there’s lots of new little things to distract him from the circumstances.” by DAVID BELL ← XRWA activists take on The West BLOOM WITH JUSTINE STAHL → Voice Friends Fremantle Chamber Orchestra Fremantle Herald	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line1081
__label__wiki	0.73219	0.73219	Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History Oxford Research Encyclopedias African History Afrocentrism Colonial Conquest and Rule Early States and State Formation in Africa East Africa and Indian Ocean Historical Linguistics Historical Preservation and Cultural Heritage Historiography and Methods Image of Africa Invention of Tradition Language and History North Africa and the Gulf Northeastern Africa Oral Traditions Slavery and Slave Trade The Distinctive Nature of African Socialism African Philosopher-Kings, Social Engineering, and African Socialism Backlash to African Socialism: The IMF, World Bank, and Laissez-Faire Economics African Socialism: Myth or Reality Discussion of the Literature and Primary Sources Printed from Oxford Research Encyclopedias, African History. Under the terms of the licence agreement, an individual user may print out a single article for personal use (for details see Privacy Policy and Legal Notice). Philosophical Perspectives on the History of African Socialism Ajume H. WingoAjume H. WingoCenter for Values and Social Policy, University of Colorado Boulder The heyday of African socialism as the animating force behind African political developments has passed. Yet, like other political doctrines of great revolutionary movements, its name and principles continue to be invoked by political and social leaders today. As recently as 2005, the Rev. Johnson J. Chinyong’ole of the University of KwaZulu-Natal argued that the principles of African socialism should guide the Anglican Church’s efforts in reducing poverty in Tanzania. As part of the zeitgeist of early postcolonial Africa, the traditions and principles of African socialism have had a profound impact on how Africans have seen and shaped their world. An understanding of the central tenets of African socialism helps to explain the unique ways in which Africans have responded to and appropriated features of Marxism, socialism, and capitalism, as well as to illuminate distinctly African traditions of communalism, philosopher-kings, aestheticism, and perfectionism in politics. Ujamaa negritude	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line1084
__label__wiki	0.589297	0.589297	Abu Al-Nawwar Village / Bassel Mustafa Ibrahim / Donald Trump / Erdogan / Fadwa Tuqan / Fawzi Al Junaidi / Ibrahim Abu Thurayya / Jerusalem Old City / Netanyahu / Qabatiya Village / Uncategorized “. . . Why the time with amputated legs . . .” (Fadwa Tuqan) December 17, 2017 December 17, 2017 Harold KnightLeave a comment Ibrahim Abu Thurayya, 29, Palestinian activist, disabled by Israelis, 2008; murdered by Israelis, 2017. Photo Ma’an News Agency. ❶ Thousands march in funeral of disabled Palestinian killed by Israeli forces in Gaza . . . . . ― (ᴀ) 29-year-old Palestinian shot dead by Israeli forces laid to rest in Anata Background: “Intimidation, Reassurance, and Invisibility: Israeli Security Agents in the Old City of Jerusalem.” Focaal—Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology. ❷ Civilians arrested, cash stolen by Israeli army in West Bank sweep . . . . . ― (ᴀ) Blindfolded Palestinian boy surrounded by Israeli soldiers may spend 20 years in prison . . . . . ― (ᴃ) Israel to demolish Abu al-Nawwar hamlet’s only school ❸ Erdogan says Turkey will open embassy in East Jerusalem ❹ POETRY by Fadwa Tuqan Dec. 16, 2017 ― Thousands of Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip marched on Saturday in the funeral of slain Palestinian Ibrahim Abu Thurayya, 29, who was shot in the head and killed by Israeli forces on Friday during clashes along the border with Israel. ___Abu Thurayya was a well-known Palestinian activists, famously known for consistently protesting the Israeli occupation, despite losing both his leds in an Israeli airstrike in 2008. After he was disabled by Israeli in 2008, Abu Thurayya worked washing cars in Gaza to support hi 11-member family. MORE . . . Dec. 16, 2017 ― Hundreds of Palestinians marched on Saturday in the funeral of 29-year-old Bassel Mustafa Ibrahim, who was shot and killed by Israeli forces on Friday during clashes in his hometown of Anata, a village in the central occupied West Bank district of Jerusalem. ___Ibrahim was shot in the chest during clashes that had erupted following protests against US President Donald Trump’s decision last week to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. MORE . . . Grassiani, Erella and Lior Volinz. “INTIMIDATION, REASSURANCE, AND INVISIBILITY: ISRAELI SECURITY AGENTS IN THE OLD CITY OF JERUSALEM.” Focaal—Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology, vol. 2016, no. 75, Summer2016, pp. 14-30. [. . . .] Analyzing Jerusalem as a colonial city (and Israel as a settler colonial state for that matter) and thus acknowledging the asymmetrical power relations between Israeli Jews and Palestinians and the context of the oppression, exploitation, and dispossession of the latter by the Israeli state has two distinct goals. First, it embeds policing strategies within a power structure that is not found in a noncolonial setting. Policing and the provisions of (security) services to citizens and noncitizens beget inherently different connotations within a colonial or settler colonial context. . . . Second, by positioning the policing practices within the wider settler colonial enterprise of the Israeli state, we can understand these practices within their underlying and often hidden political context. [. . . .] Within policing literature [this is called] the strategy deterrence policing, where the police tries to deter criminals from carrying out illegal activities . . . something else is happening here: the police is not trying to deter criminals but local civilians who can be guilty only of living within the Old City. The strategy thus points much more to a performance of intimidation . . . a national strategy whose objective is to make daily life as difficult as possible in the hope people will leave the Old City to the Jewish minority. Such Judaization in Israel, and Jerusalem specifically, is part and parcel of the settler-colonial character of the Israeli state. [. . . .] . . . in the Old City of Jerusalem these policing strategies look like and shape the urban landscape. By using such strategies within the space of the Old City, these security agents (re)establish their power over the Palestinian population and legitimize their presence. Their (in)visibility confirms the occupation as a given; Palestinians are controlled, the settlers are kept in place and reassured, the tourist can continue to enjoy the space without worry. SOURCE . . . The Palestinian Information Center Dec. 17, 2017 ― A number of Palestinians were kidnapped by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) while others have had their homes ransacked in abduction sweeps rocking the West Bank at daybreak Sunday. ___The occupation army claimed responsibility for the abduction of five Palestinians at predawn time on allegations of involvement in anti-occupation protests. ___The Israeli forces also stole 1,800 Jordanian Dinars from the home of the Palestinian prisoner Mohamed Zakarna in Jenin’s southern town of Qabatiya on claims that they were funneled to anti-occupation parties. MORE . . . Days of Palestine Dec. 17, 2017 ― The Palestinian boy at centre of powerful photograph in which he has been blindfolded and surrounded by 22 Israeli soldiers marching him to prison is to face charges over throwing stones. ___Sixteen-year-old Fawzi al-Junaidi was photographed on 7 December during protests in the occupied West Bank city of Al-Khalil over US President Donald Trump’s decision to recognise the Palestinian city of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. ___Wearing ripped jeans, the boy is shown being propelled forward by soldiers in full protective gear who have hold of both of his arms. Israeli stipulates that a Palestinian boy charged with throwing stones faces 20-year-prison-term. MORE . . . Dec. 17, 2017 ― The Israeli army’s civil administration last Tuesday, December 12, delivered a demolition order against the only school in the Bedouin community of Abu al-Nawwar, east of Occupied Jerusalem. ___Spokesman for the Jerusalem Bedouin communities Abu Imad al-Jahhalin told the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that employees from the civil administration escorted by soldiers stormed Abu al-Nawwar hamlet and put up a demolition order giving the residents 72 hours before they come again to remove the school structures. MORE . . . ❸ ERDOGAN SAYS TURKEY WILL OPEN EMBASSY IN EAST JERUSALEM The Middle East Monitor – MEMO Dec. 17, 2017 ― Turkey will open an embassy in East Jerusalem, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday, days after leading calls at a summit of Muslim leaders for the world to recognise it as the capital of Palestine. ___“God willing, the day is close when officially, with God’s permission, we will open our embassy there,” Erdogan said in a speech, maintaining his fierce criticism of the United States’ decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. MORE . . . “EYTAN IN THE STEEL TRAP,” BY FADWA TUQAN Under the tree, branching out, spreading and growing … growing In savage rhythms, Under the “star”, as it builds before his very eyes Walls of bloody dreams, Forming a trap, held tightly together with the thread of steel, Trapping him within, denying him movement Eytan, the child, the human being, opens his eyes And asks, Why the trap and the walls? Why the time with amputated legs, clad in khaki and death, Enveloped in smoke rising from flames and from sorrows? If only the “star” could tell the truth, If only it could. But alas! Alas, the “star”! Eytan, my child You are the victim, drowning in lies, And like Eytan, the harbor is sunk in a sea of lies, Drowned by the bloated dream With the head of a dragon And a thousand arms. Alas, alas! If only you could remain the child, the human being! But I shudder, and live in dread. That you may grow up inside the trap, In this time of amputated legs, clad in khaki, In cruel death, in smoke and sorrow. From Abdel-Malek, Kamal. THE RHETORIC OF VIOLENCE: ARAB-JEWISH ENCOUNTERS IN CONTEMPORARY PALESTINIAN LITERATURE AND FILM. MacMillan, 2005. Web. Abu Al-Nawwar Village, Bassel Mustafa Ibrahim, Donald Trump, Erdogan, Fadwa Tuqan, Fawzi Al Junaidi, Ibrahim Abu Thurayya, Jerusalem Old City, Netanyahu, Qabatiya Village “. . . with their dyed hair and Italian shoes, they play prophet on golf courses . . .” (Mourid Barghouti) “. . . The eagles of this land will shield my open revolt . . .” (Fouzi El-Asmar)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line1087
__label__cc	0.626171	0.373829	In 1943, during the Second World War, Mexico was again faced with a silver crisis (There was a combination of reasons: anticipation of a rise in the price of silver; the Mexican government’s agreement to sell practically its entire silver production to the United States for its military industry; and a boom in the Mexican and US jewellery industries). On 21 August Mexico imposed a heavy export tax on silver products, to make it unprofitable to melt down silver coins to ship as bullion, and temporarily suspended a contract which promised all surplus silver production to the United States. However because of a shortage of fractional coinage, especially the fifty centavos denomination, it was compelled to authorise banks to issue cheques with printed denominations of twenty-five and fifty centavos. All these issues were quickly withdrawn. series from to total number total 50c includes 604CNBanxico #6339 B includes number 34157CNBanxico #12158 In Tabasco the Cámara Nacional de Comercio in Villahermosa, issued a 50c cheque drawn on the Banco Tabasqueno, S. A., dated 10 September. These were signed by Adalberto T. Manzur Ocaña as Presidente and Carlos Becerra Lacroix as Tesorero. Adalberto T. Manzur Ocaña Carlos Becerra Lacroix There were at least two series.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line1088
__label__wiki	0.928595	0.928595	Tom Brady feels for Eli Manning during ‘unfortunate’ situation By Hannah Withiam December 1, 2017 \| 12:35pm eli manning Giants teammate: Eli Manning once farted in my face Wayne Gallman on overcoming struggles, Eli Manning fart prank LeBron James, Eli Manning react to insane Hail Mary Tom Brady's relationship with Giants filled with extra-special moments Eli Manning has a supporter in the quarterback he stole two Super Bowl championships from. Tom Brady reflected on the “unfortunate situation” that befell Manning this week, when he was told he was being forced aside so backup Geno Smith and rookie Davis Webb could get their shots leading the Giants offense the rest of the season. The two Hall of Fame-bound quarterbacks have shared the field for a number of NFL classics over the last 13 years, none more so than the the Super Bowl comebacks Manning engineered against the Patriots in 2008 and 2012. “I have nothing but the most respect for him and everything he’s achieved and accomplished in his career,” Brady said in an interview Thursday with Westwood One Radio. “Obviously, being on the other side of two of those Super Bowl losses to an Eli Manning-led team, I just have so much respect for his dependability, for his consistency, for his toughness. “You know that’s really everything you want in an NFL player, and I think Eli has always provided that for the team. So I think it’s a pretty unfortunate situation.” Manning’s benching didn’t sit well with Giants fans and alumni alike, who feel the front office and head coach Ben McAdoo should have treated their veteran quarterback with more respect instead of halfheartedly offering he keep his 210-game consecutive starting streak alive, then take a seat for Smith. It’s been argued that if the Giants wanted to get a taste of their future, turning to Webb would have made more sense to the fans than handing the ball to a Jets bust. Brady, though, downplayed the gravity of Manning’s transition, citing other big-name athletes he remembers making their ungraceful exits from their franchises and the sport. “I think there’s always these types of situations,” Brady said. “As a fan growing up, I mean, to see Joe Montana playing in another uniform, and again, to see Jerry Rice or Ronnie Lott [in another uniform], you know guys that I really looked up to and admired, there’s not many happy endings in sports, and you know that’s just the way it is. “You always wish for everything to go like a fairy tale, but it doesn’t. Michael Jordan played for the Washington Wizards. I mean, who would have ever believed that? And that’s just pro sports.” While Manning could be headed to a new team for his NFL encore, Brady has a better chance than most athletes to walk off into the sunset with the Patriots. Already a five-time Super Bowl champion, Brady has his Patriots at 9-2 this season and looking primed for a run at another title. Filed under eli manning , new england patriots , new york giants , tom brady , 12/1/17 Inside Davis Webb's apprenticeship under Eli Manning	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line1096
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__label__cc	0.730424	0.269576	On Mechanism in Hegel's Social and Political Philosophy Nathan Ross Routledge (2008) The critique of mechanism in the political philosophy of Herder and German romanticism -- The political function of machine metaphors in Hegel's early writings -- Mechanism in religious practice -- The mechanization of labor and the birth of modern ethicality in Hegel's Jena political writings -- Mechanism and the problem of self-determination in Hegel's logic -- The modern state as absolute mechanism : Hegel's logical insight into the relation of civil society and the state. Keywords Mechanism (Philosophy Sociology Philosophy Political science Philosophy G. W. F. Hegel in 19th Century Philosophy Hegel: Social and Political Philosophy in 19th Century Philosophy History of Political Philosophy in Social and Political Philosophy Buy this book $29.00 used (54% off) $62.73 new $62.95 from Amazon Amazon page Call number B2949.S6.R68 2008 ISBN(s) 9780415963725 0415963729 9780415849081 041584908X Google Books (no proxy) La mediación ética en la esfera privada de la Filosofía del Derecho hegeliana.Eduardo Assalone - 2018 - Tópicos: Revista de Filosofía 55:127-162. Individuals: The Revisionary Logic of Hegel's Politics.Katerina Deligiorgi - 2017 - In Thom Brooks Sebastian Stein (ed.), Hegel's Political Philosophy: On the Normative Significance of Method and System. Oxford University Press. Elements of the Philosophy of Right.Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - 1991 - Cambridge University Press. Review of Nathan Ross, On Mechanism in Hegel's Social and Political Philosophy. [REVIEW]Michael Morris - 2008 - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2008 (10). The State and Civil Society: Studies in Hegel's Political Philosophy.Z. A. Pelczynski (ed.) - 1984 - Cambridge University Press. G.W.F. Hegel--Political Writings.Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - 1999 - Cambridge University Press. Religion, Modernity, and Politics in Hegel.Thomas A. Lewis - 2011 - Oxford University Press. The Concept of Mechanism in Biology.Daniel J. Nicholson - 2012 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 43 (1):152-163.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line1113
__label__wiki	0.669022	0.669022	Stories Behind the Apps Powerslyde Discover & Share Great Apps There are millions of mobile apps in the app store. How do you discover the right ones for you? Powerslyde helps you find the right apps for you with a little help from your friends. Receive personal app recommendations, automatically see when your friends add new apps, and share apps with your friends with one swipe. Download now for Android Powerslyde Profiles – Stories Behind the Apps: Codename Cygnus This is an awesome time to be in mobile. The core mission of Powerslyde is to make app discovery social and easy. It's not just through technology that we achieve this but also through cultivating strong relationships with our fellow industry developers who are as obsessed with creating innovative apps and sharing cool content as we are. This means we're lucky enough to get to meet a lot of amazing folks – including our fellow friends at Reactive Studios who happen to be finalists (just like us) in this year's GDC Next/ADC Best In Apps Competition. Before hopping on a plane to LA this week, we made time to chat with Jonathon Myers, the creator of Codename Cygnus. -Alexandra Tinsman, @pslyde Hey Jonathon – tell us about your app. Codename Cygnus is an interactive radio drama available for download on the App Store using iDevices with iOS 6.0+. Players take on the role of a secret agent in an interactive fictional world inspired by old time serial radio dramas. With either a spoken word or a simple tap on the screen you can progress through the story in multiple-choice dialogue moments like those you often find in adventure or RPG games, but in this case it is audio-only. Players can choose between options to accomplish mission objectives and listen to the drama unfold as characters react to the decisions. You get to be the type of spy that you want to be in an audio-only world of action and intrigue. Ok, confession time. This is a ridiculously cool and different type of mobile game. You had me the moment the trailer said, "So-o. Ya wanna be a spy, do you?" I immediately went and download the app to my iPhone. Don't judge but I've been listening to it while I work out at the gym. It's really fun. Tell us about the team behind the app. We have three core members on our team. I'm the Creative Director (Jonathon Myers) and I handle the narrative design, writing, voice direction and all general management of the company and production. Bruno Batarelo is the CTO and he handles or supervises all engineering. Shannon Daly is our Sound Director and she handles all sound design, audio recording, sound effects, processing and editing. We also have several others who we work with regularly. Xiao'an Li provides all the original music as the Composer, Xue Au Zhang provides all visual elements as the Lead Artist & UI/UX Designer, and Heather Albano works with me on story as our Lead Writer. There are many other contractors who have contributed to the game, including over 25 voice performers! How is your app different from similar apps or competitors? The app makes use of iOS voice recognition technology for a speech-operated experience of voice performance, sfx, and music. Your iPhone/iPad recognizes your speech (or accepts the tap of a button) to trigger and play the next sound file. Because there are no visuals it enables us to focus entirely on highly polished performances, sound and music. We're also set up for the release of additional episodes. We hope to engage an audience over time with a longer series. Cool icon. How did you design your icon and app UI? Almost all of the credit goes to our UI/UX Designer Xue Ao Zhang. She's incredibly talented and I highly recommend that others check out her work at https://hi.xue-az.com. It was difficult at times, because even with the gameplay our primary design principle is that someone must be able to experience it with their eyes closed. We knew we wanted something minimal and mostly menu-based that provided an audio delivery system for episodic content. And we knew how the speech-recognition and tapping for choices would work, but the rest was unknown. Xue iterated several times to find something that was slick and spy-like but also provided a simple interface and intuitive flow of experience. The icon came out of earlier work on the red swan logo that is the branding for Codename Cygnus, but we knew we needed something that conjured thoughts of spies and intrigue. Xue came up with the idea of a stamp of the logo on a manilla folder and it evolved pretty quickly after that. What process and/or people inspired or assited you in creating the app? There's so much to say! We met with the Indie Game Collective earlier on to gain feedback and they provided great advice. For narrative design, we attempted to use many different tools before settling on Articy: Draft by Nevigo. Their CEO Kai personally helped us to adopt their tool to our pipeline and without his consultation it would have taken us much longer to release. Also, our project was funded by a Kickstarter campaign this past July and our backers have provided some amazing support and encouragement. It gave us the necessary bump to get us to launch. The Indie MEGABOOTH was central to our showcase and launch at the Penny Arcade Expo. Yeah, I love the foks at The Indie MEGABOOTH. It's a great way to get facetime with the people who end up loving your game and who doesn't love PAX? Outside of Kickstarter, what other lessons did you learn building your app? The key to mobile development is to work fast, iterate quickly, and get your product out there as soon as possible so that it is tested on the market. A product or business will have trouble getting off the ground if you spend years developing your concept and first release. Also, thinking early about the right content pipeline will save you a ton of time later on. Finally, it takes so much more work to keep engaged with the fans of your product than we originally thought it would. So what went right and wrong with the final development release? Our development was fast and deadline-driven. We set our goals and pushed ourselves to get there, so all of that went well. However, I also made the very silly decision to require a Facebook login for the purchase of additional content in our app. I was initially working on Facebook games and we needed a simple sign on to save game progress on our servers. I didn't think it would be an issue. For mobile, it really bothered people and so we immediately had to remove that requirement. Many players can now only save their game locally and as a result there are some issues with the backend that we've had to redesign and fix. In hindsight, I wish I had thought that through carefully. Thankfully, we're arriving at a better solution. What were you doing before you created Codename Cygnus? I was already an established narrative designer and writer in the games industry. I was a game writer for Zynga Boston's Indiana Jones Adventure World to start. I was also the narrative designer and writer of the hit mobile game Jack Lumber, which was made by Owlchemy Labs and published by SEGA. I then helped to design and execute the narrative plan for Game of Thrones Ascent, which is an interactive adaptation of the George R.R. Martin series woven in with original narrative. After that, I got together with Bruno and another co-founder Matt and began prototyping this project. We soon formed a company and Shannon jumped on board. She received an MA in Media Arts from Emerson, where she studied audio drama, and later gained some experience as a sound designer in the games industry working on projects such as Girls Like Robots by Popcannibal. Alright. Your turn to confess. What are some of your favorite apps? I love Zombies, Run! and it has been a huge inspiration and influence on this game. I met the lead writer Naomi when she visited Boston and I showed her an early version of our app for feedback. They're doing a great job with their development. The photo sync feature of Dropbox is crucial for grabbing screenshots and getting them to others immediately during testing. Kik is also a great group messaging service. Thanks, Jonathon! Big congrats to you and the Reactive Studios team! We'll see you at GDC Next on November 5th. For the rest of you, head on over to the app store now to download the free-to-play radio drama Codename Cygnus! Hey you! 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__label__cc	0.546485	0.453515	Rate My Footprint Your Daily Science Source Quantum weirdness just got reinforced with an experiment billions of years in the making August 22, 2018 by admin 0 Comments What if we have quantum entanglement’s ‘spooky’ nature all wrong, and we’re missing something? A new experiment using the wavelength of photons created more than 7.8 billion years ago makes that more unlikely than ever. If there’s a classical physics explanation for the phenomenon, it’s extremely well hidden. MIT physicists have pushed the limits on an experiment they conducted last year that used light from a nearby star. This time they used photons from much further away, ones that started their journey long before our own Sun set blazing. Entanglement is weird. There’s no doubting that. It’s so weird, brilliant minds like Einstein’s couldn’t accept it at face value, leading them to dismiss it as ‘spooky’. Something else had to be at work. And who could blame them? The phenomenon relies on a mind-boggling idea – particles don’t have clearly defined properties until they interact with the apparatus that measures them. Momentum, spin, position … these only make sense when we look hard enough at the particle. Before then, they’re not ‘real’, at least not in an everyday sense. So what if two particles have their properties entwined in some way, such as when they form together? Einstein figured you could measure one particle and immediately know something ‘real’ about the other. Dust hands, walk away. The answer still blows our minds today. The moment one is measured, the other one – no matter where it is in the Universe – goes from being a blur of possibility to having a set measurement as well. It’s almost as if you buy a pair of shoes, but they’re not real until you get home and open the shoe box. Noticing you’ve only got the left one, the one you left behind spontaneously turns from a ‘maybe right or left’ into a ‘definitely right’. In the 1960s, an Irish physicist named John Stewart Bell came up with a set of proofs showing either quantum mechanics is wrong – which isn’t likely – or it’s correct, and there are indeed no hidden laws operating behind the scenes that could explain this strangeness. Bell’s theorem still leaves some possible explanations, including the slim chance we’re wrong about quantum mechanics. But physicists are slowly ruling them out one by one. One persistent option is the “freedom-of-choice” loophole. Maybe when we decide what to measure in a particle, there’s some knock-on effect that just creates an illusion of a correlation between particle properties? If you sit in the shoe shop and lift your left foot, the cosmic shopkeeper behind the counter might notice and grab out a left shoe for you while holding onto the right one. Sure it’s a cheat, but it’s still classical physics, meaning the Universe would operate under the guidance of that familiar light-speed message service rather than something weirder. Creating pairs of photons and then deciding exactly what to measure in a laboratory leaves plenty of room for a classical physics equivalent of the shopkeeper to create the illusion of a mysterious correlation. But putting some distance between the choice of measurement and the actual measurement process would make it harder for those choices to be limited by a non-spooky knock-on-effect. Last year, it was six centuries of distance, as the MIT team used the light from a nearby star to serve as a cosmic coin flip in deciding what to measure in an entanglement experiment. This time the team turned their sights onto a pair of quasars – the energetic cores of distant galaxies. Light from one was emitted 12.2 billion years ago. Light from the other set course some 7.8 billion years ago. A pair of telescopes took a peek at the colours of each and used them to decide how to measure the polarisation of each photon in a pair that had been entangled in a separate laboratory. In two trials, the team found correlations between 30,000 pairs of photons, which goes far beyond what Bell calculated was necessary for the freedom-of-choice explanation. That huge gap of time and space between coin flip and measurement leaves very little opportunity for some behind-the-scenes flim-flam to affect the experiment’s measurement conditions. How big? The chance that there’s still a classical explanation is now one part in one hundred billion billion. “If some conspiracy is happening to simulate quantum mechanics by a mechanism that is actually classical, that mechanism would have had to begin its operations – somehow knowing exactly when, where, and how this experiment was going to be done – at least 7.8 billion years ago,” says the study’s co-author Alan Guth. This research was published in Physical Review Letters. This article was originally published by Sciencealert.com. Read the original article here. Mystery gas has been detected shooting ‘like bullets’ from our galactic centre Newly identified social trait could explain why some people are particularly tribal An exploding star 65 light-years from Earth may have triggered a mass extinction First detailed study deepens the mystery of vast stone monuments in Saudi Arabia California just reported first case of human plague in 5 years An asteroid just made the closest Earth fly-by on record, and we didn’t see it coming Math riddle from decades ago finally solved after being lost and found by researchers Betelgeuse is dimming again Scorching Death Valley may have just reached a new global heat record This gas cloud is pulsing with gamma-rays from a distant black hole, but how? 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__label__wiki	0.552903	0.552903	Home Atheism Global Atheist Convention Cancelled Because Nobody Wanted To Go Global Atheist Convention Cancelled Because Nobody Wanted To Go Steven Bancarz By Steven Bancarz\| The third annual Global Atheist Convention called“Reason to Hope,” has been cancelled because of a lack of ticket sales, The Sydney Morning Herald and Daily Wire reports. As the conventions own website states: “As per the Convention’s refund policy, in the event of cancellation only the purchase price of the ticket (including fees) is refundable. We are sorry that cancellation has placed you in a difficult situation, but we could not proceed with the Convention given the level of ticket sales…ticket sales have been substantially below expectations and below the levels for previous conventions, so, unfortunately, the Convention cannot proceed.” Even with a speaker like Richard Dawkins on the roster, they were still unable to make enough ticket sales to go through with the venue. I think this goes to show not only the unattractiveness of atheism in general, but the dying-out of the cultural fad of “New Atheism”. Atheism is inherently depression and offers no ground for meaning, purpose, morality, or even logic itself. It forces people to rest on unimaginably low odds that the fine-tuning and emergence of life happened as a result of blind, random occurrences. It’s a shot in the dark, into the dark. And it’s also SO overdone. Atheists gloating over the “ignorance” of religious people, expressing anger toward parents who raise their children in the faith, explaining why they think we don’t “need” belief in God. How many different ways can you express the same rhetoric before people start losing interest? “After a while, protest movements fade, because once you get angry at something, where do you go from there?” — Robert Martin, City Bible Forum “Alongside the thinkers, there was also going to be the ‘entertainers,’” notes SMH. “Comic atheism is a particularly strong strand, and religious pomposity provides it with plenty of material. No doubt there was to be a feast of gloating about census figures.” The author of the SMH report, Anglican Rector Dr. Michael Jensen, offers an interesting perspective on the cancellation of the event. “It’s a great shame there’s a lack of interest,” said Jensen. “I say that as someone who believes in God and thinks that it is the most reasonable thing to believe. … But I also think that the full and frank discussion of fundamental ideas is part of what a healthy culture promotes and enjoys. A Global Atheist Convention is to be welcomed, because every time people think about God and about the meaning of life is a time we more deeply consider the value and purpose of human life. It makes us better citizens.” I, however, am personally glad it has been cancelled and would prefer to see conferences where Theists and atheists can dialogue and debate on the existence of God. Previous articleWhat Really Happened At The Council Of Nicea Next articleIf Evolution Is True, Our Cognitive Faculties Cannot Be Trusted & Atheism Cannot Be Rationally Held http://www.reasonsforjesus.com Steven Bancarz is the former founder of "Spirit Science & Metaphysics" and was a full time writer for spiritscienceandmetaphysics.com, which was one of the largest New Age websites in the world. He was also a guest author on thespiritscience.net. He had an encounter with Jesus Christ and quit his job as a New Age writer back in 2015, giving his life fully to the Lord. Steven has since been in full-time ministry after exposing the deception of the New Age movement, founding Reasons for Jesus as an apologetics website. He is the co-author of the best-selling book The Second Coming of the New Age, and has been featured on programs like the 700 Club, Sid Roth's It's Supernatural, 100 Huntley Street, and SkywatchTV. He is also a content creator on YouTube. Does “Bad Design” In Nature Prove It Wasn’t Designed? 12 Signs Your Church A Personality Cult Does Disease Proven Religion Is Futile? The Celestine Prophecy’s Dead-End Spirituality: A Christian Review Mariane Williamson’s New Age Deception & False Christ New Age Deception In ‘Eat, Pray, Love’: A Christian Review Why Science Doesn’t Equal Atheism What Does “Faith” Mean? Is It Belief Without Evidence? Atheist Philosopher Says Religious People Have Actual Brain Damage	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line1157
__label__cc	0.548127	0.451873	WinMagic SecureDoc Review: Lock Down Your Laptops WinMagic SecureDoc encryption software gets the better of hackers. By Nate Wooley It's a story that's been told too many times to count. Secure information, circulating in offices, gets out into the wider world because someone steals or loses a laptop. The security breach often makes headlines and can cause endless headaches if the device held sensitive information. Good encryption is the obvious answer, and it's one that WinMagic SecureDoc version 5 does a remarkable job of providing. Using 256-bit encryption technology and pre-boot password authentication, SecureDoc version 5 provides desktop-based security that's convenient and simple to use. The WinMagic encryption process applies to data sector by sector instead of simply working on an entire hard drive in one sweep. That seems to make cracking the data, in the event of a laptop loss, an even harder task than it would normally be. The system is designed for enterprise use. SecureDoc version 5 also complies with a host of other companies' security requirements for full-disk encryption concerning data at rest for most portable devices. Outside Help In testing SecureDoc, I faced a problem: How do you test an encryption system? After all, I had the password to bypass the security features. And, for all I knew, the system could be telling me what I wanted to hear. So I invited two members of a local university's computer sciences department -- one specializing in software and another in hardware -- to attempt to crack into a personal laptop on which I had installed the silver edition of SecureDoc version 5. Working individually and together, they didn't manage to crack it, even after pulling the resources of the entire computer department. At no point did either of them even get past the initial login screen. If I ever lose a laptop protected by SecureDoc, I'll sleep pretty easily. The test system was a 32-bit Windows Vista laptop that dates to 2009. We did nothing special to the machine other than to allow SecureDoc version 5 silver edition to install itself using the WinMagic install system. There's a gold version of the product that allows for file and folder encryption, as opposed to the silver edition that does only full-disk protection. (I did not test that for this article.) WinMagic can be installed on almost any system that runs Windows, and it's not dependent on any specific processor. In fact, the only requirements are at least a 1GHz processor and reliable clock or time source, which the OS and SecureDoc need to generate time stamps. WinMagic SecureDoc version 5 is not the sort of thing you'd find at a retail shop. It's a product intended for large-scale implementations in which IT departments are looking for a solution to the problem of data security in the age of data portability. Pricing and Precautions The WinMagic price is based on a 1,000-license purchase because of the way it's intended to be used. If you're part of an IT culture that has that many users, with a significant number of them bringing information into and out of your location on a regular basis, you could do worse than to install SecureDoc version 5 on their machines. A word of warning: Don't lose or forget your pre-boot password. We had some trouble with that following the initial install. This system is specifically designed to prevent anyone who doesn't have the appropriate password authentication from getting onto a machine. We figured it out, but it was a humbling experience. And don't write it down on your keyboard. That would kill the entire point of the exercise, wouldn't it? WinMagic SecureDoc version 5 is more than worth the costs involved. It's incredibly easy to use and can protect your enterprise from a huge and potentially embarrassing or dangerous outcome if your system is ever lost or stolen. WinMagic SecureDoc version 5 Price: $73.20 per 1,000 licenses WinMagic Inc. winmagic.com Nate Wooley is a freelance technology writer and product reviewer.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0013.json.gz/line1158
__label__wiki	0.607943	0.607943	A1CNow Systems Overview A1CNow+ A1CNow Self Check A1CNow+ Controls CardioChek Overview CardioChek PA CardioChek Plus Point-of-Care Testing Accessories CardioChek Home Use PTS Panels Test Strips and Controls PTS Collect Capillary Tubes PTS Connect Overview PTS Connect Adapter PTS Connect Blu-Adapter PTS Connect Blu-Dock PTS Connect Printer Target Ranges U.S. Reimbursement Pediatric Cholesterol Screening PreVantage by PTSDiagnosticsin All PTS Diagnostics Presents at J.P. Morgan Healthcare & Biotech Showcase 2015 Indianapolis – Jan. 27, 2015 – PTS Diagnostics, the U.S.-based manufacturer of both the CardioChek® brand and the A1CNow® family of point-of-care diagnostic products, was invited to present at the 33rd Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference & Biotech Showcase 2015 held the week of January 12 in San Francisco. The company’s presentation emphasized its industry-leading growth, its global distribution network with market leadership in many key countries, and its pipeline of innovative new products. The Biotech Showcase is an investor and partnering conference devoted to providing private and public biotechnology and life sciences companies with an opportunity to present to and meet with peers, investors, and pharmaceutical executives during the course of one of the industry’s largest annual healthcare investor conferences. Investors and biopharmaceutical executives from around the world gather each year to do what is widely viewed as setting the tone for the coming year. PTS Diagnostics was among best-in-class biotechnology and life science companies that presented to the more than 3,700 investors who attended the event. PTS Diagnostics’ products are sold in more 120 countries and its CardioChek analyzers have screened more than 120 million people worldwide. “In 2014, PTS Diagnostics delivered revenue growth in excess of 40 percent resulting in a 5-year CAGR of greater than 25 percent. Our innovation pipeline will bring several exciting products to market in 2015,” said Robert Huffstodt, President and CEO of PTS Diagnostics. “Our core products test for important health indicators in the fastest growing global pointof-care testing segments (lipids and diabetes). We offer the only truly globally-available point-of-care solution for lipid testing with our CardioChek analyzers and test strips. In addition, sales of our A1CNow System surpassed 1 million tests in just 8 months since we acquired the A1C monitoring device.” PTS Diagnostics products are manufactured in the United States, where it maintains facilities in the Midwest and Silicon Valley. The company’s 91 US and international patents and 86 pending patent applications place the company in a prime position to continue to work with the healthcare community to test more patients. Further, the company has entered into private label manufacturing agreements with major US pharmacies and retailers. “PTS Diagnostics has built an expert medical device leadership team. Combined with the efforts of more than 3,000 medical distributor sales representative in the US alone, PTS Diagnostics is continuing to rapidly grow market share both domestically and abroad,” said Huffstodt. PTS Diagnostics recently announced the launch of new technology for small-volume blood collection via its PTS Diagnostics™ Capillary Tubes, and has developed a wellness portal and health risk assessment software package to increase the quality of communication between patients and medical professionals. “We continue to unveil new sources of growth such as pharma services, and the development of software such as the PTS Connect™ Wellness Portal, which will change the way screening participants will communicate with wellness programs,” concluded Huffstodt. “We look forward to the future as we continue to innovate point-of-care testing through our people, technology and service.” PTS Diagnostics’ handheld, highly-accurate, fast, and economical diagnostic devices empower the medical community to quickly measure HbA1c and glucose, and generate a lipid (cholesterol) profile, all at the point of care. PTS Diagnostics’ portfolio includes the following systems: CardioChek professional analyzers address the connection between heart attack, stroke, and diabetes by providing on-site lipid panel (total cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, and triglycerides) screening results in as little as 90 seconds and by measuring glucose. CardioChek professional analyzers calculate LDL cholesterol, the TC/HDL ratio, the LDL/HDL ratio, and non-HDL cholesterol. The A1CNow+ system provides healthcare professionals with a fast, easy, and accurate method of obtaining HbA1c results while the patient is in the exam room. In just five minutes, clinicians have information to provide an immediate consultation with a patient. The A1CNow+ system is critical to diabetes management and is fully reimbursable. About PTS Diagnostics – PTS Diagnostics is a global provider of point-of-care diagnostic products to the healthcare industry. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, PTS Diagnostics designs, manufactures, and markets products for distribution in over 120 countries around the world. The company has sales offices in Europe, Latin America, and the Pacific Rim. PTS Diagnostics’ products include both the CardioChek systems and A1CNow systems. All trademarks used or mentioned in this release are protected by law. For more information, visit www.ptsdiagnostics.com or contact Tom Wiser at +1-317-870-5610. MKG001303 Rev. 0 1/15 4600 Anson Blvd Whitestown, IN 46075 +1-317-870-5610 DIRECT +1-877-870-5610 TOLL FREE A1CNow®+ CardioChek PTS Panels Test Strips & Controls PTS Diagnostics © 2020 Privacy Policy \| Terms of Use \| Sales and Refunds Not all products shown on this website may be approved in all regulatory jurisdictions. Consult with your local sales representative, distribution company or PTS Diagnostics customer support for details. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our site. 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