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__label__cc	0.741773	0.258227	Tours of Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre. Peter Tchaikovsky "The Sleeping Beauty" (Ballet in two acts) World famous Bolshoi Ballet and Opera theatre (established 1776) - Marvellous Main (Historic) Stage Tours of Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre. "The Sleeping Beauty" (Ballet in two acts) will take place at the Main Stage of Bolshoi Theatre on 29, 30 and 31 July, 1 and 2 August 2019 Music by Peter Tchaikovsky Modern Dance Ballet of Boris Eifman. "The Pygmalion Effect" Modern Dance Ballet of Boris Eifman. "The Pygmalion Effect" (by Johann Strauss, Jr.) will take place at the Main Stage of Bolshoi Theatre on 25-27 July 2019 Tours of Slovene National Theatre Maribor Ballet. "Peer Gynt" (A contemporary ballet by Edward Clug in two acts) World famous Bolshoi Ballet and Opera theatre (established 1776) - Small Stage Tours of Slovene National Theatre Maribor Ballet. "Peer Gynt" (A contemporary ballet by Edward Clug in two acts) will take place at the New Stage of Bolshoi Theatre on 23-24 July 2019 BAO SHRT LINK LND	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2557
__label__wiki	0.754317	0.754317	(WATCH) Alfa Romeo Montreal Highlights from the 2017 LA Auto Show EVENT COVERAGE, SHOWS Cars verging on becoming religions BLOG, CLASSIC CARS If you’re on Motor-Vision, it’s highly likely you’re quite fond of cars. We’re not afraid to say that we love cars, but with any model that instills any degree of passion, there are uber fans who take their love to a whole other plain. Here, we’re focussing on those very cult cars, which are not far from evolving into religions. This cutesy two-door, five-seat car is the ultimate example of a cult car. More than 21 million have been built since the late 1930s – no other car has been produced for a longer stretch of time. Festivals dedicated to the humble bug are held around the world, with modders showcasing their most extravagant additions and restorers investing months, sometimes years, and vast piles of cash into reviving wrecked shells into gleaming gems that far surpass their original glory. They’re used for various forms of motorsport, from drag racing and rally to Formula Vee and the Baja 1000 off-road race. The Mini residing in showrooms today is a very different animal to the original, which is arguably the most recognisable icon of 1960s British popular culture. Designed by Sir Alec Issigonis, it was voted the second most influential car of the 20th century behind the Ford Model T and is perhaps the biggest on-screen movie talent, thanks to The Italian Job. You could view the Fiat 500 as ‘the Italian Mini’ but this dinky city car predates the Mini by two years. Initially powered by a 479cc two-cylinder engine, it was dreamt up as one of the first purpose-designed city cars. The goal was a cheap, practical town car, which is what it was, but Fiat couldn’t have imagined they’d have such a resounding cult hit on their hands. Everything so far has been around since at least the 1950s, which makes this sturdy roadster one of the youngest entries on this list, but even so it’s been around for the best part of three decades. The MX-5 doesn’t leave much middle ground, either you want/have one or you can’t stand them and seize every opportunity to hurl abuse and mockery at them. Aside from their rust-prone sills, the MX-5 is a prime example of Japanese reliability, with their near-indestructible engines capable of taking you well into six figures. This kind of resilience makes them ideal for modders and you’ll find regular MX-5 gatherings in every major city around the world. Any Tesla Electric car fanatics are as passionate as they come. Maybe it’s the novel combination of boundary-pushing technology and super fast cars but Tesla fans are a different breed of car lover. With a 2.5-second 0-60mph time, the Model S is officially the quickest production car in the world, while few cars have the balls to brandish gullwing doors like the Model X does. Which car are you most passionate about? Tell us down there in the comments. Cult carsFiat 500Mazda MX-5mini cooperteslavolkswagen beetle "Money doesn't bring happiness but I'd rather cry in a Jaguar..."	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2558
__label__cc	0.58952	0.41048	Tag: heinous GlobalLeave a comment Canada & India stand in solidarity with the people of Sri Lanka The Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, today condemned the terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka.“I was shocked and saddened to hear of the devastating terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka, which have claimed the lives of more than two hundred people and injured many hundreds more. On behalf of the Government of Canada and all Canadians, I offer my heartfelt condolences to all those who have lost loved ones and my hope for a full recovery to those injured. “Canada strongly condemns these heinous attacks on hotels and Christians at prayer in churches. Places of worship are sacred, where all should feel safe and secure. No one should be targeted because of their faith. “For millions of people around the world, Easter is a time to reflect on Jesus’ message of compassion and kindness—a time to come together with friends and family. We cannot let attacks like these weaken the hope we share. “To the people of Sri Lanka and other communities affected by today’s attacks: Canada stands with you. We will continue to work with you and other international partners to combat terrorism and violent extremism and to promote greater peace and stability around the world. “To date, we have no reports of any Canadian citizens being affected. Due to the current situation, our High Commission in Colombo will be closed on April 22. However, Canadians in need of emergency consular assistance should contact sos@international.gc.ca or call +1 613 996 8885. Continue reading “Canada & India stand in solidarity with the people of Sri Lanka”	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2561
__label__cc	0.581964	0.418036	Geopolitics, Socialization Time to Make Sense of It written by 'N A Perfect World... photo by Karen Ducey for Getty Images It would be crazy, almost irresponsible for me to have a blog called ‘N A Perfect World, be a young woman of color in America and not talk about this election. Via text, phone calls, at my local watering holes I feel like I’ve spoken about it ad nauseam with friends and family. All with a sense of doom and gloom. Yesterday, in NYC it was grey and rainy. There was definitely a depression, a deflation if you will in the streets. We were emotionally exhausted. At a time when we need to come together, the divide in the US feels greater than ever, and that divide, while not created by this election was opened, picked and prodded at. So now we have a President-elect who has openly displayed acts of bigotry and misogyny, who is supported by the KKK and is simply a grade-A asshole. Great reality TV-star, but a great President? The leader of the free world? I would definitely trust Kim and Kanye more with nuclear codes than him. I have to have faith that my fellow Americans in those rust-belt states, in Florida, in states that 4, 8 years ago Obama killed it, that their votes were not votes of hate. Were not simply disgruntled votes because it wasn’t a Bernie, or Biden or even Elizabeth Warren. I was in the UK during Brexit, spoke to my friends there — who are mostly Londoners — and like me, they live in a cosmopolitan bubble. I was reading a New York Times piece and it’s one of the few things I’ve read that has given me hope or at least general understanding of some of my fellow Americans as not ignorant monsters but people that are frustrated with the status quo and being ignored by the government. Maybe they wanted something different just like I did 8 years ago. I would say this isn’t the best way to go about it, but… Mr. Trump’s election and Brexit together underscore a central facet of these times. The old ideological divisions of left and right have effectively been eclipsed by a new economic taxonomy — those who have benefited from globalization and those who have not. “In Britain, affluent communities of professionals who hire Romanians to clean their homes and who enjoy getaways to Spain overwhelmingly voted to stay in the European Union. Industrial communities that have lost jobs as manufacturing has shifted east — to Eastern Europe, Turkey and Asia — generally voted to leave. In the United States, college-educated urbanites making a comfortable living in the quintessential trades of globalization — finance, technology and media — disdained Mr. Trump. People in the center of the country who lack degrees and have seen jobs transferred to China and Mexico played a leading role in delivering the White House to Mr. Trump. In northeastern England (something like the Rust Belt of Britain) people who voted to leave Europe speak openly about doing so to punish those who beseeched them to vote to stay — people like the exceedingly unpopular former prime minister David Cameron. The situation is so depressed, it cannot get worse, the logic runs. Any economic pain will fall on wealthy Londoners, people say.” Peter S. Goodman for the New York Times I’m happy I got to go to the White House, and work with the first lady during a time in our country that was filled with hope, desire for change and a voice for the next generation. A first family that exuded class and inclusivity. Obama sited a hope for a difference between a campaign Donald Trump and a governing Donald Trump, and quite honestly, not that worried about him, but the hate that his campaign has normalized in pockets of this country. To my friends with a like-mind, now isn’t a time to run, inspired by people like my friend Rory, my friend Sophie, I’ve never been a runner. Now more than ever it’s our duty to make sure the nation doesn’t go to sh*ts. An actual wall? A friend of mine on Facebook actually asked people that he knew that were Trump supporters to explain “why?” I’d like to open that forum here. In the meantime, I’ll be researching all the necessary prep to protect myself as a young women before January 20th. And as for Calexit? California don’t leave… your avocados are just so delicious. This entry was posted in: Geopolitics, Socialization Tagged with: brexit, clinton, donald trump, economy, election 2016, free trade, hillary clinton, imwithher, presidential election, trump Heather Walker says 💯💪🏾😘 On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 10:58 AM ‘N A Perfect World with Nneya Richards © 2015 wrote: > ‘N A Perfect World… posted: ” It would be crazy, almost irresponsible > for me to have a blog called ‘N A Perfect World, be a young woman of color > in America and not talk about this election. Via text, phone calls, at my > local watering holes I feel like I’ve spoken about it ad nauseam” > Pingback: The clean sweeper of the whole caboodle \| Bijbelvorser = Bible Researcher Previous PostTravel Diaries: London Next PostPodcast: Never Date a Traveler – Kaua’i	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2562
__label__wiki	0.922315	0.922315	Barry A. Kosmin, Trinity College Professor Secularism in Society and Culture Hartford, Connecticut Barry.Kosmin@trincoll.edu Office: (860) 297-2388 20th century Europe Africa Community relations Contemporary Jewry Philanthropy Public values Religious groups and populations Secularism Social surveys Dr. Barry A. Kosmin has been a Principal Investigator of the American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS) series 1990-2008 since its inception. He has directed many other large national social surveys and opinion polls in Europe, Africa and the U.S., including the CJF 1990 US National Jewish P... Click to Expand >> Dr. Barry A. Kosmin has been a Principal Investigator of the American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS) series 1990-2008 since its inception. He has directed many other large national social surveys and opinion polls in Europe, Africa and the U.S., including the CJF 1990 US National Jewish Population Survey. Dr Kosmin has taught at Universities in Europe, Africa and North America. Prior to coming to Trinity he was on the faculty of the Ph.D. Program in Sociology, CUNY Graduate School and was a Visiting Professor at the University of Cape Town and University College Chichester, UK. His leadership of research institutes has included: Founding Director, Mandell L. Berman Institute-North American Jewish Data Bank, Graduate Center of the City University of New York: Associate Director, AHRB Parkes Centre for the Study of Jewish/Non-Jewish Relations, University of Southampton, UK; Executive Director, of the London-based think tank, Institute for Jewish Policy Research Dr. Kosmin is the author of over 20 books and research monographs and more than 50 scholarly articles in the areas of sociology, demography, politics, philanthropy, and policy research. His scholarship includes being (1993-99) Joint Series Editor (with Dr Sidney Goldstein) of the monograph series, American Jewish Society in the 1990s for State University of New York Press and Joint Editor of the journal, Patterns of Prejudice (1999-2004). Learn more about the Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture at Click to Shrink <<	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2565
__label__cc	0.548206	0.451794	You are at:Home»Arts and Culture»Fordham’s Performing Arts Programs Earn Top Ranking Fordham’s Performing Arts Programs Earn Top Ranking By Taylor Ha on September 13, 2018 Arts and Culture, University News Photo by Kathryn Gamble The highest ranked B.A. theater program in the country, the No. 2 dance program (also nationwide), and the 10th most represented college on Broadway. Bam, bam, and bam. This year, Fordham’s performing arts programs have taken center stage. Over the past few weeks, several nationwide rankings have been released online, including lists from OnStage Blog, a theater website, and Playbill. Fordham found its name among the top programs for 2018-2019. Fordham Theatre is listed as No. 1 on OnStage’s list of Top 25 B.A. Theatre Programs, beating competitors like Vassar College and Brown University. OnStage considered various facets of Fordham’s program: the facilities, faculty, cost/scholarship opportunities, selectivity, curriculum, and performance opportunities. “The program features tracks in not only performance and design/technology but also playwriting and directing,” the blog wrote. “With four mainstage shows and up to 20 studio shows each year, students are continually learning by doing.” OnStage also ranked the Ailey/Fordham B.F.A. in Dance program as the No. 2 dance program in the country, second only to NYU Tisch School of the Arts. “This mecca for dance is located in the heart of midtown Manhattan,” the blog wrote about the Ailey School. “It houses 16 climate-controlled studios equipped with sprung floors, pianos, sound systems, state-of-the-art acoustics, the 275-seat Ailey Citigroup Theater, physical therapy facilities, the Ailey Boutique, a library, and student and faculty lounges. It is [the] largest building for dance education in the dance capital of New York City.” The program not only has state-of-the-art facilities, it also allows students to study full time at both the Ailey School and Fordham. At the Ailey School, they are trained in classical ballet, jazz, and West African Dance; at Fordham, they are educated in the liberal arts. Lastly, Fordham tied for 10th place in the most represented colleges on Broadway in Playbill magazine. There are currently 12 alumni on Broadway who star in shows like Anastasia, The Lion King, and Wicked. AileyAiley Fordham BFA in DanceFordham College at Lincoln CenterFordham Theatre Program	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2567
__label__cc	0.683852	0.316148	Indigenous observers join Columbia River Treaty talks Honourable Michelle Mungall Email: EMPR.Minister@gov.bc.ca Kent Karemaker Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources Mining health & safety Mine permitting Energy conservation & efficiency Mines Act permits MapPlace Mineral Titles Online After the seventh round of Columbia River Treaty negotiations on June 19 and 20, 2019, in Washington, D.C., Katrine Conroy, Minister Responsible for the Columbia River Treaty, and the Ktunaxa, Syilx/Okanagan and Secwepemc Nations observer team have issued the following statements: Katrine Conroy, B.C.'s Minister Responsible for the Columbia River Treaty – “This round of negotiations marked a historic moment as representatives of Columbia Basin Indigenous Nations were present as observers for the first time. Representatives of the Ktunaxa, Syilx/Okanagan and Secwepemc Nations had already been collaborating with the governments of British Columbia and Canada on negotiation positions and strategies; but this week, they were present in the negotiating room and participated in breakout discussions with Canada and B.C. during negotiations. “This is a very significant step forward – not just in terms of the Columbia River Treaty, but also in supporting our government’s commitment to reconciliation and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. “During the latest round of negotiations, the American and Canadian delegations took stock of progress of negotiations since the Columbia River Treaty modernization process began in May 2018. The latest discussions focused on flood-risk management, power and adaptive management.” Joint statement from the observer team representing the Ktunaxa, Syilx/Okanagan and Secwepemc Nations – “While a great deal of work remains to be done, we are very pleased with what we have observed and participated in to date. This precedent-setting role as observers builds on and enhances our important work with Canada and B.C. over the last two years. We are confident that we can continue to contribute positively to these negotiations and help realize the First Nations’ goals for meaningful outcomes from these negotiations that are of critical importance to our nations and homelands.” The talks will return to British Columbia in the fall, with the next round of negotiation meetings scheduled to take place in Cranbrook on Sept. 10 and 11, 2019. To share views on the treaty, email: columbiarivertreaty@gov.bc.ca or write to the Columbia River Treaty Team, Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources, PO Box 9314 Stn Prov Govt, Victoria, B.C. V8W 9N1. To learn more about the treaty, visit: https://engage.gov.bc.ca/columbiarivertreaty/ Government’s response to hydraulic fracturing report: update	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2568
__label__wiki	0.571038	0.571038	Wealth Isn't the Problem Karl W. Smith Bloomberg June 18, 2019 (Bloomberg Opinion) -- Bernie Sanders can’t decide what socialism is. At times he frames it as nothing more than New Deal-style capitalism, not so different from the Scandinavian economies of Norway, Sweden or Denmark. Other times he defines it in the language of class struggle, vowing to smash “the oligarchy” and “restore power to the many, not the few.”In a speech last week at George Washington University, Sanders attempted to merge the two definitions: He aimed to finish the New Deal, he said, precisely because a failure to do so would threaten an oligarchic takeover of the U.S. He criticized the expansion of the power of the 1%, America’s richest self-made man and the wealthiest American dynasty. Only by defeating these moneyed interests, he said, can Americans gain access to the economic rights so vital to the survival of their political rights.There’s only one problem: Billionaires and social democracy are both doing quite well, thank you, in Scandinavia.First, there is the 1%. If anything, Sweden, Norway and, to a lesser extent Denmark are friendlier to the accumulation of great wealth than is the U.S. Indeed, the ranks of billionaires have grown more rapidly in Scandinavia in recent years than in the U.S. Denmark has just as many billionaires per capita as the U.S., and Sweden and Norway have far more.Nor are Scandinavians opposed to the maintenance of wealthy dynasties. Neither Norway nor Sweden has an estate tax, and there is a move to abolish Denmark’s 15% rate. In the U.S. the estate tax is 40%. Dividends, meanwhile — a common source of income for the dynastic rich — are given about as much if not more of a tax break, relative to labor, in Scandinavia.What about moneyed corporate interests? Sanders points to the 2017 Tax Cut and Jobs Act, which included a large corporate tax cut, as a sign of oligarchical power. But the U.S. corporate tax rate is still higher than it is in Scandinavia.How, then, is it possible for the Scandinavians to afford such an expansive welfare state? Three words: Higher income taxes. The tax code in Scandinavian countries is far less progressive, and therefore more efficient at raising revenue, than in the U.S. In the U.S., the top federal tax rate on wages is 40.8%, and it takes effect once annual income reaches above $600,000. In Denmark, the top marginal bracket is 55.9%, and it starts once pay exceeds $82,000 a year.Further, all three countries levy a substantial value-added tax, which is not on income but on consumption. By the standards of many American economists, the VAT counts as a regressive tax, because the wealthy consume a small fraction of their overall income.In short, the Scandinavian countries levy large taxes on the middle class and even the poor to pay for services that largely go to the middle class and the poor. This was, in fact, also the thinking behind the New Deal. The taxes that fund Social Security are payroll taxes, the least progressive federal taxes. When Medicare was created in 1965, it too was paid for by a payroll tax.New Deal capitalism wasn’t about class warfare. It was about social insurance. It’s the 99% chipping in to take care of each other, not take down the 1%. There is a deep intuitive logic to this: The idea is that recipients of government benefits — whether they be Scandinavians or American retirees on Social Security — not feel as if their benefits are something they’ve been given by (or taken from) the ignoble rich. They are something they’ve at least partially earned.In truth, American retirees are getting a great deal as it stands. The health care they receive, for example, costs a lot more than what they paid into the system when they were working. An honest discussion about expanding entitlements would recognize that such a change would require higher taxes not just on the super-rich, but on almost all working Americans, of today and tomorrow. If Sanders wants to bring more Scandinavian-style social democracy to the U.S., he should be straightforward about that.To contact the author of this story: Karl W. Smith at ksmith602@bloomberg.netTo contact the editor responsible for this story: Michael Newman at mnewman43@bloomberg.netThis column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners.Karl W. Smith is a former assistant professor of economics at the University of North Carolina's school of government and founder of the blog Modeled Behavior.For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com/opinion©2019 Bloomberg L.P. (Bloomberg Opinion) -- Bernie Sanders can’t decide what socialism is. At times he frames it as nothing more than New Deal-style capitalism, not so different from the Scandinavian economies of Norway, Sweden or Denmark. Other times he defines it in the language of class struggle, vowing to smash “the oligarchy” and “restore power to the many, not the few.” In a speech last week at George Washington University, Sanders attempted to merge the two definitions: He aimed to finish the New Deal, he said, precisely because a failure to do so would threaten an oligarchic takeover of the U.S. He criticized the expansion of the power of the 1%, America’s richest self-made man and the wealthiest American dynasty. Only by defeating these moneyed interests, he said, can Americans gain access to the economic rights so vital to the survival of their political rights. There’s only one problem: Billionaires and social democracy are both doing quite well, thank you, in Scandinavia. First, there is the 1%. If anything, Sweden, Norway and, to a lesser extent Denmark are friendlier to the accumulation of great wealth than is the U.S. Indeed, the ranks of billionaires have grown more rapidly in Scandinavia in recent years than in the U.S. Denmark has just as many billionaires per capita as the U.S., and Sweden and Norway have far more. Nor are Scandinavians opposed to the maintenance of wealthy dynasties. Neither Norway nor Sweden has an estate tax, and there is a move to abolish Denmark’s 15% rate. In the U.S. the estate tax is 40%. Dividends, meanwhile — a common source of income for the dynastic rich — are given about as much if not more of a tax break, relative to labor, in Scandinavia. What about moneyed corporate interests? Sanders points to the 2017 Tax Cut and Jobs Act, which included a large corporate tax cut, as a sign of oligarchical power. But the U.S. corporate tax rate is still higher than it is in Scandinavia. How, then, is it possible for the Scandinavians to afford such an expansive welfare state? Three words: Higher income taxes. The tax code in Scandinavian countries is far less progressive, and therefore more efficient at raising revenue, than in the U.S. In the U.S., the top federal tax rate on wages is 40.8%, and it takes effect once annual income reaches above $600,000. In Denmark, the top marginal bracket is 55.9%, and it starts once pay exceeds $82,000 a year. Further, all three countries levy a substantial value-added tax, which is not on income but on consumption. By the standards of many American economists, the VAT counts as a regressive tax, because the wealthy consume a small fraction of their overall income. In short, the Scandinavian countries levy large taxes on the middle class and even the poor to pay for services that largely go to the middle class and the poor. This was, in fact, also the thinking behind the New Deal. The taxes that fund Social Security are payroll taxes, the least progressive federal taxes. When Medicare was created in 1965, it too was paid for by a payroll tax. New Deal capitalism wasn’t about class warfare. It was about social insurance. It’s the 99% chipping in to take care of each other, not take down the 1%. There is a deep intuitive logic to this: The idea is that recipients of government benefits — whether they be Scandinavians or American retirees on Social Security — not feel as if their benefits are something they’ve been given by (or taken from) the ignoble rich. They are something they’ve at least partially earned. In truth, American retirees are getting a great deal as it stands. The health care they receive, for example, costs a lot more than what they paid into the system when they were working. An honest discussion about expanding entitlements would recognize that such a change would require higher taxes not just on the super-rich, but on almost all working Americans, of today and tomorrow. If Sanders wants to bring more Scandinavian-style social democracy to the U.S., he should be straightforward about that. To contact the author of this story: Karl W. Smith at ksmith602@bloomberg.net To contact the editor responsible for this story: Michael Newman at mnewman43@bloomberg.net This column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners. Karl W. Smith is a former assistant professor of economics at the University of North Carolina's school of government and founder of the blog Modeled Behavior. For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com/opinion ©2019 Bloomberg L.P. Debate bounce? Trump effect? Who is winning the race for 2020 campaign cash Why Are Democrats Undermining Obamacare? Sanders defends 'Medicare for All' after criticism by Biden Delivery Wars? Domino's Has a Plan for That As Zara Announces Its Latest Sustainability Goals, Three of Its Design Team Weigh In on Going Slower and Creating Responsibly Stocks slip slightly amid trade remarks, earnings season Off-grid renewable energy is helping tackle two of Africa’s biggest problems	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2571
__label__wiki	0.833151	0.833151	Home Thoughts Opinions Is Reverend Al Sharpton A Civil Rights Activist, Drug Buyer Or Both? Is Reverend Al Sharpton A Civil Rights Activist, Drug Buyer Or Both? Dwight L. Schwab Jr. Sun April 13, 2014 There are civil rights activists and there are drug-dealing ambulance chasing grandstanders. Reverend Al Sharpton puts himself forward as a spokesman for the black community, but he mainly looks like a complainer stuck in the past. Downplaying his role as an undercover snitch, Sharpton likes to be thought of as the civil rights defender who supports all things black, right or wrong. Unfortunately for Sharpton, former NYPD detective Bo Dietl, speaking in a Fox News interview, let the cat out of the bag, saying that Sharpton was known as “The Fat Rat.” The story goes that Sharpton was caught on camera attempting to buy kilos of cocaine, in 1983. Big Al had a problem, though, the drug dealer was an undercover FBI agent. The incident was videoed and now we can all see it. Al Sharpton in 1983 cocaine sting That incident lead to him helping the FBI is a Mob operation. Earlier this week, “The Fat Rat” admitted he “cooperated with the FBI” in their investigation of the New York Genovese crime (Mafia) family. He denied that was a paid snitch. Perhaps Sharpton’s memory is failing, so it was lucky that retired NYPD detective Dietl volunteered that it was well known the reverend was helping the FBI. He said, “There was a lot of involvement with the music industry at that time that Al was involved. People I knew from East Harlem, everyone on the streets at that time, knew he was an informant. We used to call him the fat rat.” The HBO video was shown on Fox TV by Sean Hannity. The former detective said, “The video stands for itself. He was talking about buying kilos of coke with an undercover cop. So who is he representing?” Will the black community still be proud of him now? Detective Dietl explained how people can be changed from bad guys to informants. “The majority of the times when we develop informants is when you get them on a felony case, and then you flip them, and they become an informant. When he says he didn’t know he was an informant, that’s a lot of baloney. Al Sharpton knew what he was doing, he was cooperating with the FBI.” New York media are aware of Dietl’s 1998 book that was made into a film starring Stephen Baldwin. As Smoking Gun reported, “Beginning in the mid-1980s and spanning several years, Sharpton’s cooperation was fraught with danger since the FBI’s principal targets were leaders of the Genovese crime family, the country’s largest and most feared Mafia outfit. In addition to aiding the FBI/NYPD task force, which was known as the ‘Genovese squad,’ Sharpton’s cooperation extended to several other investigative agencies.” Genovese squad investigators, representing the FBI and NYPD said, Sharpton “deftly extracted information from wiseguys.” One Gambino mobster was so comfortable with the bombastic Sharpton that he spilled his guts through 10 wired meetings about gangster activities extending from “shylocking and extortions to death threats and the sanity of Vincent ‘Chin’ Gigante,” the infamous Genovese crime boss who acted insane to fend off scrutiny by the feds. Al Sharpton admitted his role to the New York Times, but said his activities were “exaggerated.” Apparently Sharpton’s FBI code name was “CI-7,” but “The Fat Rat” has a better ring to it. Denying recent involvement with the FBI, Sharpton says he cooperated with them in the 1980s to help record repeat threats made against him over his campaign to help black concert promoters. He said “I wasn’t with the rats. I am a cat. I chase rats.” Conservative observers believe these revelations may enhance his career at MSNBC. Dwight L. Schwab Jr. is a moderate conservative who looks at all sides of a story, then speaks his mind. He has written more than 3500 national political and foreign affairs columns. His BS in journalism from the University of Oregon, with minors in political science and American history stands him in good stead for his writing. Dwight has 30-years in the publishing industry, including ABC/Cap Cities and International Thomson. His first book, “Redistribution of Common Sense – Selective Commentaries on the Obama Administration 2009-2014,” was published in July, 2014. “The Game Changer – America’s Most Stunning Presidential Election in History,” was published in April 2017. Dwight is a native of Portland, Oregon, and now a resident of the San Francisco Bay Area. 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__label__cc	0.568669	0.431331	High Net Worth Giving, Individual Giving Warren Buffett Eats Lunch, Community Nonprofit is $3.5 Million Richer Jim Schaffer June 11, 2016, NBC News Warren Buffett’s annual lunch auction is a statement of his values on any number of levels. Clearly, it makes a great difference to the community served. And unlike some examples of “big bet” philanthropy, it can show outcomes that are undeniable—but could anyone else pull this annual event off? The “last second” bid of $3,456,789 won this year’s 17th annual lunch-with-Warren Buffett auction for the benefit of the Glide Foundation. You can see the photos or watch the video of the Glide countdown party. The winning bidder can invite up to seven people to dine with Buffett at New York City’s Smith & Wollensky steakhouse. This the second time the five-day eBay auction bidding reached exactly this highest ever amount, also bid by an anonymous (but pre-qualified) bidder in 2012. Zhu Ye, Chairman of Dalian Zeus Entertainment Co., an online gaming company based in China, placed the winning bid last year of $2,345,678. The auction has raised $23.6 million for Glide since its inception in 2000. Buffett said, “that he’s never had a ‘bad experience’ with a winner, and that they have made ‘interesting and smart’ dining companions.” Buffett’s first wife, Susie Buffett, who died in 2004, inspired this annual fundraiser for Glide. “I am proud to be part of something that has directly benefited so many people in need,” Buffett says today. “Glide is a bridge for thousands of people on the brink of despair, helping them achieve dignity and opportunity by providing them with basic services.” The San Francisco–based Glide Foundation provides the following each year at no cost to its beneficiaries: 750,000 meals; childcare, afterschool services and access to the family resource center for nearly 450 children and parents across 175 families; 815,000 syringes distributed to 17,000 individuals struggling with substance use; rental assistance for 153 individuals and families; emergency shelter housing for 8,600 program participants; crisis counseling for 2,500 people; and legal counseling to assist more than 200 clients in securing housing and benefits, and in settling disputes. Yes, Glide is worthy of all the support it can raise. Warren Buffett, the world’s third-wealthiest individual, is known for the Giving Pledge, pledging most of his wealth to the Gates Foundation, for being a patriot, for the “Buffett Rule” that the wealthy should pay more in taxes, and, of course, for being the Oracle of Omaha. New York City’s Smith & Wollensky steakhouse donates about $10,000 a year to Glide for the privilege of serving as the location for the annual lunch with Warren Buffett.—James Schaffer The founders of Covenant House, AmeriCares, TechnoServe and the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp were my mentors who entrusted me with much. What I can offer the readers of NPQ is carried out in gratitude to them and to the many causes I’ve had the privilege to serve through the years. No Time for Gradualism: New Climate Emergency Fund to Support Disruption Soros and Koch Form Think Tank: Strange Bedfellows, or a Heavenly Match? High-Wealth Group Calls for Wealth Tax An IU Study Shows the Shape of US Disaster Giving By Jeanne Allen A Picture of Philanthropic Excellence: ProPublica Mourns a Founding Donor Though Silenced by an Assassin’s Bullet, St. Romero’s... By Jim Schaffer A City of Billionaires and Kids in Need: Homelessness in the... Arkansas Public Media Collaboration Falters	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2573
__label__wiki	0.518269	0.518269	Frontpage Inuvik Drum Climate Action Inuvik hosts final march of the season Climate Action Inuvik hosts final march of the season While it was their last march for the summer, it was also the first time they had hosted a rally with public speakers Aaron Hemens With summer break officially underway, politicians and residents joined members from the Climate Action Inuvik group for one final march and rally on June 28. “This is our last march of the season. I just want to say how successful – and for us to recognize the young people here who have a very unique voice,” said Abe Drennan, the founder of Climate Action Inuvik. The group met at the entrance of East Three Secondary School before marching down MacKenzie Road towards Chief Jim Koe Park where they held their first ever rally. As they made their way to their final destination, they shouted out chants and held up signs that contained various messages regarding climate change awareness. Residents and politicians joined members of Climate Action Inuvik for one final march down MacKenzie Road on June 28. Aaron Hemens/NNSL photo A number of speakers addressed the crowd of about 20 people, which included youth, Mayor Natasha Kulikowski, Inuvik Boot Lake MLA Alfred Moses and more. “Our future is bright because we won’t stop fighting for it,” said Kendra Bulldog, a member of Climate Action Inuvik and a student at East Three Elementary School. Kendra Bulldog, a member of Climate Action Inuvik and a student at East Three Elementary School, was one of several public speakers at the rally. Aaron Hemens/NNSL photo Mayor Kulikowski, who’s supported the local movement since it began in March, told the group that her involvement in their cause was to let members know that there is a politician out there who is listening to what they have to say. “As youth in our community, you’re showing the way for what adults should be doing and what kids could be doing,” said Kulikowski. “All of those new things that we’re going to come forward together with, to make sure that we have a better planet going forward.” Mayor Natasha Kulikowski, who has supported the group since March, also spoke before the crowd. Aaron Hemens/NNSL photo Earlier in the day, Inuvik Boot Lake MLA Alfred Moses was in town to announce the GNWT’s $5.5 million contribution to the renovation of Inuvik’s Mike Zubko Airport, a project that is designed to alleviate the impacts that climate change is having on the airport’s infrastructure. “That’s us working as a government with the municipality, as well as with the federal government to address these concerns, and we’ll continue to listen to what your needs are, as well as the needs of leaders right across the territory and the Arctic to say that we need to make some changes to make sure that our people are safe and are healthy,” Moses told the crowd. Inuvik Boot Lake MLA Alfred Moses shared some words of wisdom with the youth. Aaron Hemens/NNSL photo His parting message to the group was to continue to fight for what they believe in. “Your voice does mean a lot. Your support does mean a lot. I encourage you to continue to bring that voice forward,” he said. “I just want to say thank you on behalf of the GNWT, and as a resident of Inuvik and the NWT.” As students and residents head their separate ways for the summer break, Drennan said that the goal of the event was to test the waters of rallies and public speaking, which he hopes to see more of once school picks up in the fall. Abe Drennan, the founder of Climate Action Inuvik, provided the tempo for the groups chants. Aaron Hemens/NNSL photo “In some cases, young people can see solutions that adults can’t. That’s due to their passion and energy,” said Drennan. “I think as adults, I see my job as giving them space, listening to them and providing them opportunities for them to have a voice continuously along this journey.” Previous articleOrder of Canada ‘very humbling,’ says Edna Elias Next articleNorth Slave Metis Alliance says it’s been left out of Thaidene Nene Park Aaron Hemens has been working as the editor of the Inuvik Drum since January 2019. He's responsible for reporting on everything Inuvik, from covering community gatherings and sporting events, to writing the weekly columns. He's a dedicated photographer who loves getting to know the town through the community members that he meets. He's originally from Ottawa, Ont., where he graduated from Carleton University's journalism program in 2018. He can be contacted at 867-777-4545 or at inuvikdrum@nnsl.com. You can check out his photos on his Instagram account: @aaron.hemens.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2589
__label__wiki	0.919677	0.919677	E3 2019 Information Page E3 News 2019 E3 2019 Screens E3 2019 Trailers E3 2019 Hands On and Previews Retro Wrap-Up 3DS Reviews Wii U Reviews eShop Reviews Vita Reviews Anime of the Past Crowdfunding Spotlight Jeff’s Musings Operation Rainfall Origins Smashing Saturdays About oprainfall Contact Us / Tips Nintendo Download for 7/11/19 REVIEW: Persona Q2 E3 Info Page PR: The Official Word: SEGA To Publish Atlus Titles in America Friday, April 1st, 2016 We are proudly a Play-Asia Partner SUPPORT OPRAINFALL BY TURNING OFF ADBLOCK Ads support the website by covering server and domain costs. We're just a group of gamers here, like you, doing what we love to do: playing video games and bringing y'all niche goodness. So, if you like what we do and want to help us out, make an exception by turning off AdBlock for our website. In return, we promise to keep intrusive ads, such as pop-ups, off oprainfall. Thanks, everyone! By Joe Sigadel / April 1st, 2016 Recently we came across a Game Informer article claiming that SEGA would be taking over publishing responsibilities for Atlus games in North America, as it finishes its acquisition of the company best known for the Shin Megami Tensei and Persona franchises. We decided to reach out to SEGA ourselves to find out just what that means for Atlus’s titles, and were told that the Atlus brand and logo would be sticking around, and they’d still be allowed to act independently when it comes to localizing 3rd party titles, along with indie games. But don’t take my word for it, you can read SEGA’s press statement in full below, which also includes information on the future of the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise. SEGA of America Finalizes Acquisition of Atlus U.S.A. by Absorbing Publishing Duties New Corporate Structure Streamlines Publishing in the Americas IRVINE, Calif. – March 30, 2016 – To finalize SEGA’s acquisition of Atlus Co. Ltd (Japan) and Atlus U.S.A. in 2013, SEGA of America will now be the sole company responsible for publishing duties in North America. Each entity will continue to preserve their individual brand identities for upcoming video game and product releases. The new SEGA of America offices are located in Los Angeles and Irvine, California. This change is to simplify business accounts, and affects the companies in name only – both Atlus U.S.A. and SEGA of America will still act autonomously, and no games or products will be adversely affected by the publisher unification. Since Atlus U.S.A.—renowned for the award-winning Shin Megami Tensei, Persona, and Etrian Odyssey franchises—integrated with SEGA of America, the ATLUS expertise has allowed SEGA to localize and publish popular Japanese titles in the west, including the Yakuza series, Project DIVA series, and more. “After nearly a year working under the SEGA Games division, both SEGA of America and Atlus U.S.A. have thrived and released a combined total of 23 game products,” said Naoto Hiraoka, CEO, Atlus U.S.A., Inc. “Between ATLUS’ ability to localize and release Japanese video game products efficiently and the strength of SEGA of America’s reputation as a leading publisher in the industry, the situation could not be more symbiotic for both companies.” This year also marks the 25th anniversary of the iconic SEGA speedster, Sonic the Hedgehog. On top of many recent licensing deals, game announcements, and marketing partnerships for the brand, SEGA has appointed Ivo Gerscovich the new head of the Sonic business unit as the chief brand officer of Sonic and senior vice president of SEGA of America. He will oversee all aspects of Sonic business for the Americas and EMEA markets. In his new role, Gerscovich will provide guidance for game development, TV production and distribution, marketing, and licensing. With his extensive experience at numerous digital and motion picture entertainment companies the Sonic business unit will help shape the future of Sonic the Hedgehog in upcoming video games, television series, retail products, and a feature-length film. ” I consider it an honor to be part of growing the iconic global brand at such a storied company,” said Gerscovich. “Even after 25 years, Sonic’s speed, attitude, and cool quotient still resonate strongly with fans of all ages. This 25th anniversary celebration year will see the Sonic The Hedgehog brand propelled to maximum velocity while breaking new ground to surprise and delight fans around the world.” Furthering SEGA’s commitment to growing the Sonic brand is a paradigm shift towards global engagement by transitioning Takashi Iizuka, vice president of product development, from SEGA headquarters in Japan to the Sonic business unit in Los Angeles. Iizuka (Sonic franchise and NiGHTS franchise) has a long, storied history with SEGA development and has been with the company since 1992. By joining the Los Angeles office, Iizuka will streamline the production process for all forms of Sonic entertainment and products, and will establish Los Angeles as the centralized hub for the global brand. “There were challenging times for SEGA of America in San Francisco, but now I am confident that the collaboration between SEGA and Atlus U.S.A. will make us a uniquely positioned publisher poised to deliver top quality games from Japan,” said Tatsuyuki Miyazaki, CEO of SEGA of America and ATLUS U.S.A. board member. “Plus, the Sonic business team, with Ivo’s strong leadership and the addition of renowned Sonic Team creator Iizuka in the Los Angeles office, SEGA of America is in the best position yet to diversify and grow its business. SEGA of America is entering new age of publishing, and going back to the road to prosperity.” About SEGA® of America, Inc.: SEGA® of America, Inc. is the American arm of Tokyo, Japan-based SEGA Games Co., Ltd., a worldwide leader in interactive entertainment both inside and outside the home. The company develops, publishes and distributes interactive entertainment software products for a variety of hardware platforms including PC, wireless devices, and those manufactured by Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. SEGA of America’s website is located at www.sega.com. About Joe Sigadel Joe is the reporting manager for oprainfall, he is also a broadcaster on Twitch and loves showing off many of the games we report about on his channel. He has also been known to defended Senran Kagura from those who only want to accept it at face value. 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__label__wiki	0.766974	0.766974	A Voice from the Main Deck: Being a Record of the Thirty Years' Adventures of Samuel Leech by Samuel LeechSamuel Leech Samuel Leech (1798–1848) was a young sailor in the Royal Navy and the United States Navy during the War of 1812. He became notable as one of very few who wrote an account of his experiences, titled, in the manner of the time, "A Voice from the Main Deck". Leech's nautical career began in 1810, at the age of thirteen, when Lord William FitzRoy agreed to take Samuel into his frigate HMS Macedonian. He was a powder monkey during Macedonian's duel with the United States in 1812, and would later vividly describe the carnage on board the British ship before she struck her colors. He was a prisoner of war but his imprisonment seems not to have been too uncomfortable, and did not last long in any case, since the war ended the following year. Many years later he revisited Macedonian, now a US ship, when it was in port in New York (probably 1840), and perhaps this encounter inspired his book, which was published by Tappen & Dennet in 1843. Arcadia Press StreetLib SRL This memoir by a British seaman who fought in the War of 1812 provides valuable insights into the history of that war, illuminates the experience of the forecastle in the age of the fighting sail, and tells the story of an interesting life. Leech began his career at sea at the age of 12, worked as a "powder monkey" at the age of 14 on the during the War of 1812, was taken into Boston as a prisoner of war, and escaped to live in America. He later served as a seaman in the US Navy, and was taken prisoner off the west coast of Africa by a British ship. By the time he was 20, he had deserted several times and found religion in Connecticut. Lacks a subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Booknews	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2591
__label__wiki	0.654925	0.654925	File created: 6/18/2015 In control: CITY COUNCIL Title: Recognizing, honoring, and declaring July 6th- 12th, 2015 as "Siempre Salsa Philly Week". Sponsors: Councilmember Quiñones Sánchez, Councilmember Greenlee, Councilmember Goode, Councilmember Jones, Councilmember O'Brien, Councilmember Oh, Councilmember Neilson, Councilmember Reynolds Brown, Councilmember Henon, Councilmember Blackwell, Councilmember Johnson, Councilmember Squilla, Councilmember Bass 6/18/2015 0 CITY COUNCIL Introduced and Ordered Placed on This Week's Final Passage Calendar Pass Action details Not available Recognizing, honoring, and declaring July 6th- 12th, 2015 as “Siempre Salsa Philly Week”. The Council of the City of Philadelphia is pleased and proud to recognize, honor, and declare July 6th-12th, 2015 as “Siempre Salsa Philly Week”. WHEREAS, Siempre Salsa Philly has been established by Jesse Bermudez the Founder and Executive Director of A.M.L.A., Carlos Sanchez from Orquesta Del Barrio, and Robert Bernberg, owner of Latin Beat Magazine/LatinBeatMagazine.com, as an initiative designed to preserve and foster the growth of authentic salsa music throughout the City of Philadelphia; and WHEREAS, For decades, Philly salsa artists have provided the soundtrack for daily life in the barrio, while also garnering respect on a national and international industry basis and serving as “cultural ambassadors” by providing the entertainment for galas and promotional events sponsored by community-based social service organizations; and WHEREAS, Artists, Musicians and Educators from the City of Philadelphia have made major contributions to the emergence and growth of the salsa music genre. In recent years, as the salsa movement has gone global, with hotbeds of salsa appearing in virtually every major cosmopolitan city in the world, non-Latino’s in our region have come to appreciate the universal appeal of the music; and WHEREAS, Siempre Salsa Philly will be presenting a series of entertaining and educational events throughout the week of July 6th-12th intended to make salsa music more accessible to people of all cultures; and WHEREAS, On Monday, July 6th at a reception at City Hall “Siempre Salsa Philly Week” will commence the week with remarks from Jesse Burmudez, Rob Bernberg, and Carlos Santos accompanied by live music followed by a press conference celebrating the events to be held that week; and WHEREAS, “Siempre Salsa Philly Week” on Tuesday, July 7th, will present “The Jewish Side of Salsa” and will discuss and provide dance lessons which will be led by, Latin music legend, Jesse Bermudez, Rob Bernberg, and Kim Allen at the Gershman Y in collaboration with the Gershman Y’s “Jewish Treasures of the Caribbean” Series; and WHEREAS, On Wednesday, July 8th, the festivities will continue with the “Siempre Salsa Philly Dance Party” presented by The Painted Bride Art Center, as part of its Salsa Caliente Series, with dance lessons at 7 P.M. followed immediately followed by live music; and WHEREAS, On Thursday, July 9th at 9 PM, “Siempre Salsa Philly Week” will take over the Parx Casino with its Latin Night at Parx Casino with DJ George Dennis, is association with Salsa Prime Entertainment and 3-time Grammy Award Winner, Willy Torred, formerly the lead singer in the world renowned Spanish Harlem Orchestra; and WHERAS, On Friday, July 10th, 2015 Salsa Prime Entertainment, in association with Rumbero Entertainment will present “Salsa-Sonido Del Barrio” featuring Toque de Clase and Special Guests at Isla Verde Nightclub dedicated to Jesse Bermudez and his A.M.L.A. Legacy; and WHEREAS, On July 11th and July 12th “Siempre Salsa Philly Week” will finish the celebration at at an all day event at Penn’s Landing, in support of Concilio’s Hispanic Festival; and WHEREAS, Siempre Salsa Philly seeks to utilize the now-established universal appeal of salsa music and dance to introduce non-Latinos to the cultural and artistic values of the community from which the music emanates; and WHEREAS, Siempre Salsa Philly intends to emphasize and celebrate the salsa music’s unique capacity as a proven “social force” capable of bridging cultures, while also providing physical and mental benefits; now, therefore, be it Resolved, That the Council of the City of Philadelphia, Hereby recognizes, honors, and declares July 6th-12th, 2015 as “Siempre Salsa Philly Week”. Further Resolved, That an engrossed copy of this resolution be sent to Siempre Salsa Philly, as evidence of the sincere respect and admiration of this legislative body.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2594
__label__cc	0.523713	0.476287	Confusion reigns over on and off Dutertepresscon September 18, 2018 - Beting Laygo Dolor MANILA – The entire country was abuzz this week after Malacanang announced over the weekend that President Rodrigo Duterte would address the nation on Tuesday, Sept. 11. Believers and critics engaged in a wild guessing game, with one side believing that the president would declare martial law,... MANILA – The entire country was abuzz this week after Malacanang announced over the weekend that President Rodrigo Duterte would address the nation on Tuesday, Sept. 11. Believers and critics engaged in a wild guessing game, with one side believing that the president would declare martial law, and the other side hoping he would announce his resignation. It is worth noting that Sept. 11 would have been the 101st birthday of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, whom Mr. Duterte professes to idolize. During the martial law era, Sept. 11 was even declared as a national holiday, sometimes called National Thanksgiving Day. No bombshell announcement was made on Tuesday. Originally scheduled for 3:00 pm in the presidential Palace, it was announced by Special Assistant Bong Go that Chief Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo would co-host a “showbiz style” press conference. One hour before the scheduled presscon, Malacanang announced that the event had been cancelled. Then the Palace said it was on again, but would not be a presscon at all. Instead, it would be a tete-a-tete between Mr. Duterte and Panelo. (Since by definition tete-a-tete means a private conversation between two people, what actually took place was not a tete-a-tete at all, but rather a regulated, scripted “chat” between the two, answering questions that had been pre-approved by Malacanang. Moreover, only government media was allowed to cover the event.) In the rambling conversation, the president showed his irritation not only at Trillanes, but also anyone in the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) who supported the opposition senator. “You can kill me, you can oust me,” he told the AFP backers of the former Navy officer. In social media, commenters noted the apparent “obsession” of Mr. Duterte over Trillanes as proven by his referring to the lawmaker on numerous occasions even when there was no connection of the senator to the topic being discussed. In one instance, he said Trillanes had the makings of a dictator. In two instances, he accused the mother of the senator of hogging supply contracts with the Philippine Navy when Trillanes was an active officer of the service. He dared the AFP who backed Duterte to make their move, addressing the rumor that “something” was being planned by the military for Sept. 21, incidentally the date when Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law back in 1972. The only new development gathered from the conversation between Messrs. Duterte and Panelo was that the president vowed to take over the review of applications to be the country’s third telco. He promised to confirm the new player no later than November of this year. The president had earlier ordered awarding of the third telco franchise to a foreign player by March of this year, but this was bogged down by the government bureaucracy. Author Beting Laygo DolorPosted on September 18, 2018 Categories News Itama po natin! – Segment 329 June 18, 2019 Flexitarian diet June 18, 2019 Exes Anne Curtis, Richard Gutierrez surprise viewers as Binibining Pilipinas 2019 hosts June 18, 2019 Pinay crowned 2019 Mrs. Asia Pacific Global in Malaysia June 18, 2019 Ormoc City sets grander Piña Festival June 18, 2019 Global immigrant rights leader to step down after 30 years Part 1 June 18, 2019 Why Real Estate IRA? June 18, 2019 The 8th Annual PAPC Plaridel Awards Call for entries June 18, 2019 Month-long Philippine Independence Day celebrations in different U.S. cities loom June 18, 2019 ON PHOTOGRAPHY: The Dance of Light and Shadow June 18, 2019 Opinion& Community Timely Truth U.S News What's up Attorney	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2596
__label__cc	0.511057	0.488943	Breakthrough test screens for all known bacterial infections by Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health Credit: CC0 Public Domain Scientists at the Center for Infection and Immunity (CII) in the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health have developed the first diagnostic platform that can simultaneously screen for all known human pathogenic bacteria as well as markers for virulence and antibiotic resistance. A study in the journal mBio provides details on the performance of the BacCapSeq platform. "Once approved for clinical use, BacCapSeq will give physicians a powerful tool to quickly and precisely screen for all known pathogenic bacteria, including those that cause sepsis, the third leading cause of death in the United States," says first author Orchid M. Allicock, Ph.D., a post-doctoral researcher at CII. "This platform is 1,000 times more sensitive than traditional unbiased testing, at a level comparable to tests that screen one bacterium at a time." Currently, the most common method used to test for sepsis can take as long as three days, and even longer to provide information on antibiotic resistance. While physicians wait for a result, they usually prescribe broad spectrum antibiotics, a practice that contributes to the growth of antibiotic resistance. BacCapSeq provides results in 70 hours, but the researchers believe that the platform will become faster with advances in computing power. Each year, antibiotic-resistant infections claim 100,000 lives in the United States, and 700,000 globally, with the highest burden in the developing world, according to World Economic Forum estimates. The direct annual impact of antibiotic resistance in the U.S. is $20-35 billion with an additional $35 billion in lost productivity, according to the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Absent an effective response to limit further growth in antimicrobial resistance, the challenge will continue to increase. The World Bank issued a report in 2017 projecting an impact on the GDP between $1.1 trillion and $3.4 trillion. BacCapSeq contains 4.2 million genetic probes used to detect the signature DNA of all 307 pathogenic bacteria, as well as biomarkers for antibiotic resistance and virulence. Each probe binds to a corresponding sequence; when a particular bacterium and biomarker is present in a sample, a magnetic process "pulls out" its unique sequences, which can then be used to identify the bacterium and its characteristics. To date, even the most advanced multiplexed polymerase chain reaction systems are only able to screen for up to 19 pathogenic bacteria, and none can assess virulence and antimicrobial resistance. In the study, the researchers assess the performance of BacCapSeq in several ways: using nucleic acid from blood spiked with DNA from several different bacteria, blood spiked with bacterial cells, blood culture samples, and blood samples from patients with unexplained sepsis. In each case, the platform performance exceeded traditional methods, sometimes detecting infections that were missed by the alternative method. In one case, the test implicated the bacterium Gardnerella vaginalis, which is only rarely associated with significant disease, as the cause of unexplained sepsis in an individual with HIV/AIDS. BacCapSeq is a complement to VirCapSeq, a similar test developed at CII that screens for all known human viral infections. Recent published studies have reported on that test's performance in Tanzania and Uganda. A test for differential diagnosis of fungal infections is in development. "Microbiological intelligence must be an integral component of precision medicine,"says W. Ian Lipkin, MD, director of CII and the John Snow Professor of Epidemiology at Columbia Public Health. "Accurate, early differential diagnosis of infectious diseases and knowledge of drug sensitivity profiles will reduce mortality, morbidity, and health care costs." Pinpointing mutations that cause bacterial antibiotic resistance Journal information: mBio Provided by Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health Citation: Breakthrough test screens for all known bacterial infections (2018, October 23) retrieved 18 July 2019 from https://phys.org/news/2018-10-breakthrough-screens-bacterial-infections.html Low antibiotic concentration in the environment enough to increase antimicrobial resistance in laboratory conditions Researchers make FAST work of antibiotic resistance Test accurately and swiftly detects most leading causes of bacterial blood stream infection Discovery of new type of antibiotic Quick identification of multidrug-resistant pathogens New function for the nucleolus rrwillsj First broad-band detection of viral infections. Now the capability for detecting the spectrum of bacterial infections. With the promise of next using these techniques to detect fungal infections? A trifecta of disease control that cam alleviate a whole lot of Juman suffering. And, I would speculate, these procedures could be used to monitor and protect animals and plants. michael_frishberg "alleviate a whole lot of human suffering" (allowing us to further ignore our ever burgeoning population's impact on the rest of life on earth). We've already cut off any chance of humanity surviving to the year 2100. Sayonara vhemt.org - the only moral choice, remain childfree. mike I agree with your comments in general. However do you intend to "bell that cat"? To convince a large enough number of individuals in the reproductive demograph to voluntarily avoid reproducing? Especially considering the social pressures on the present fertile generation from their own families demanding grandchildren? And they mean, Right Now! It seems an easy choice, a "simple solution" to allow rampant disease and starvation and wars to cull a burgeoning population. But the reality is the opposite effect. Where there is voluntary, widespread & successful population control? Is in prosperous countries with a well-educated population. Freely permitted access to extensive Public Health Services. It is no accident that repression of publicly accessible birth control options, Pre & Post Natal health care are denied by the tyranny of religious fanatics, right fascist and left fascist regimes and other fake conservatives and fraudulent libertarian autocracies. torbjorn_b_g_larsson [qWe've already cut off any chance of humanity surviving to the year 2100. ... Not relevant, not in evidence. In fact, this week the news was that many nations have or will drop under sustained populations, so the problem will be different (ageing pops, decreasing pops).	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2598
__label__cc	0.528215	0.471785	Justia Patents US Patent Application for Irrigation Controller Communication System Patent Application (Application #20070191991) Irrigation Controller Communication System Feb 13, 2007 - AQUA CONSERVE, INC. An irrigation controller is programmed to automatically initiate communication with a data server to perform at least one of the following functions: (a) exchange irrigation data; (b) receive control data; and (c) receive synchronization data. The irrigation data can be station runtime history, evapotranspiration (ETo) data, rainfall, weather related information, irrigation faults and any other irrigation data. The control data can involve station runtime settings, cycle and soak settings, irrigation scheduling and any other irrigation control data. The synchronization data preferably includes a date and a time, originating from the data server, but can include other data that would be used to synchronize the communication between the irrigation controller and the data server. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention a microprocessor disposed in the irrigation controller is programmed to use the date and time to schedule a future contact with the data server. Latest AQUA CONSERVE, INC. Patents: Methods and apparatus for using water use signatures and water pressure in improving water use efficiency Management of peak water use Irrigation controller using estimated solar radiation Methods and apparatus for using water use signatures in improving water use efficiency Recording and processing utility commodity usage This application is a Continuation-In-Part of pending U.S. application Ser. No. 11/347,521, filed on Feb. 2, 2006, which is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/217252, filed on Aug. 31, 2005, which is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/297146, filed on Aug. 11, 2003, now issued as U.S. Pat. No. 6,963,808, which is a US national phase of PCT Application No. PCT/US00/15480, filed on Jun. 5, 2000, all of which are hereby incorporated by reference in their entirety. The field of the invention is water savings. In arid areas of the world water is becoming one of the most precious natural resources. Meeting future water needs in these arid areas can require aggressive conservation measures. This in turn requires irrigation systems that apply water to the landscape based on the water requirements of the plants. Many irrigation controllers have been developed for automatically controlling application of water to landscapes. Known irrigation controllers range from simple devices that control watering times based upon fixed schedules, to sophisticated devices that vary the watering schedules according to local geography and climatic conditions. With respect to the simpler types of irrigation controllers, a homeowner typically sets a watering schedule that involves specific run times and days for each of a plurality of stations, and the controller executes the same schedule regardless of the season or weather conditions. From time to time the homeowner may manually adjust the watering schedule, but such adjustments are usually only made a few times during the year, and are based upon the homeowner's perceptions rather than the actual landscape's watering needs. One change is often made in the late spring, when a portion of the yard becomes brown due to a lack of water. Another change is often made in the late fall, when the homeowner assumes that the vegetation does not require as much watering. These changes to the watering schedule are typically insufficient to achieve efficient watering. More sophisticated irrigation controllers usually include some mechanism for automatically making adjustments to the irrigation run times to account for daily environmental variations. However, due to the complexity of these irrigation controllers, the homeowner, after the irrigation controller is initially installed, makes few if any changes to the irrigation controller settings and may not even check, if the irrigation controller is operating properly unless the landscape plant material begins browning and/or dying. Additionally, since these irrigation controllers operate the irrigation system automatically, a typical homeowner makes no preparation for someone to check the system, such as when they are on vacation or otherwise absent from their residence for an extended period of time. Unfortunately, irrigation controllers are machines, and for any number of reasons they might fail to operate correctly, such as if the electricity to the residence is temporarily turned off. Whether because of user disinterest, lack of knowledge in the operation of present automatic irrigation systems, or any other reason, there exists a need for cost-effective methods to assist irrigation users in attaining more efficient irrigation of their landscapes, and in the regular monitoring of their operation of the irrigation systems. There are irrigation systems that are entirely or partly controlled by a distal computer, and/or receive information from a distal computer that is located at a remote site from the irrigation controller. Examples are disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,208,855, issued May 1993, to Marian; U.S. Pat. No. 5,696,671, issued December 1997, and U.S. Pat. No. 5,870,302, issued February 1999, both to Oliver; U.S. Pat. No. 5,740,031, issued April 1998, to Gagnon; U.S. Pat. No. 5,748,466, issued May 1998, to McGivem, et al.; U.S. Pat. No. 6,298,285, issued October 2001, U.S. Pat. No. 6,892,114, issued May 2005, and U.S. Pat. No. 6,895,9867, issued May 2005, all to Addink, et al.; U.S. Pat. No. 6,453,216, issued September 2002, to McCabe, et al.; U.S. Pat. No. 6,600.971, issued July 2003 and U.S. Pat. No. 6,898,467, issued May 2005, both to Smith, et al. and U.S. Pat. No. 7,146,254, issued December 2006, to Howard. In all of these cases, the irrigation controllers are either controlled by the distal computers, and/or they receive information from the distal computers that is used in the calculation of run times. However, there is no information sent, from the irrigation controller back to the computer, to verify what the actual runtimes were for the various stations operated by the irrigation controller. Additionally, there are irrigation systems having bidirectional communication of information between a distal computer and an irrigation controller. Some such systems are disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 6,944,523, issued September 2005 and U.S. Pat. No. 6,950,728, issued September 2005, both to Addink, et al. where the information communication is initiated by the distal computer. U.S. Pat. No. 6,823,239, issued November 2004, to Sieminski also discloses bidirectional communication of information between an irrigation server and an irrigation controller in which the irrigation controller initiates calls to the irrigation server. However, the information transmitted involves only ‘station or mainline flow failures, as well as station wiring faults’ and does not include any transmissions of irrigation run-time history. The above patents do not disclose irrigation controller initiated communication and/or do not involve the transmitting of data to perform at least one of the following functions: (a) exchange irrigation data; (b) receive control data; and (c) receive synchronization data. Methods and apparatus are provided herein in which an irrigation controller is programmed to automatically initiate communication with a data server to perform at least one of the following functions: (a) exchange irrigation data; (b) receive control data; and (c) receive synchronization data. The irrigation data can be station runtime history, evapotranspiration (ETo) data, rainfall, weather related information, irrigation faults and any other irrigation data. The control data can involve station runtime settings, cycle and soak settings, irrigation scheduling and any other irrigation control data. The synchronization data preferably includes a date and a time, originating from the data server, but can include other data that would be used to synchronize the communication between the irrigation controller and the data server. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention a microprocessor disposed in the irrigation controller is programmed to use the date and time to schedule a future contact with the data server. Various objects, features, aspects, and advantages of the present invention will become more apparent from the following detailed description that describes a preferred embodiment of the invention, along with the accompanying drawings in which like numerals represent like components. FIG. 1 is a schematic of a proposed irrigation controller that has a communication connection to a data server. Referring to FIG. 1, preferred embodiments of the irrigation controller (100) include: one or more microprocessors (110) to perform calculations; on-board memory (120) (e.g., RAM) to store intermediate results; and on-board permanent memory (125) (e.g., EEPROM) to store persistent data, such as inputted values, previously measured values, and past irrigation activities (i.e., archived and historical values). In one embodiment of the current invention, computations and processes required by the irrigation controller (100) are carried out by at least partial partitioning of tasks among the one or more processors and memories. The irrigation controller (100) can include manual input devices (130) (e.g., buttons and/or knobs) and a display device (140) (e.g., a text or graphic Liquid Crystal Display (LCD)) to enable interactions, provide feedback, and receive commands from an operator of the irrigation controller (100). In one preferred aspect of the inventive subject matter, the irrigation controller (100) includes electrical actuators and connectors (150) corresponding to the plurality of irrigation stations. The actuators and connectors feed electrical signals to the valves (160) which control water flow to corresponding regions of the irrigation site. The electrical actuators are preferably based on electromechanical relays or solid-state electronic devices (e.g., TRIACs). Additionally, the irrigation controller (100) is contemplated to include a power source (170) (e.g., a Wall Transformer) to power the on-board electronics as well as to supply electricity to the irrigation valves. Still further contemplated embodiments of the irrigation controller (100) include circuitry to accommodate a flow sensor input (180), an optional pressure sensor input (181), an optional temperature sensor input (182) and other sensors. Additionally, in a preferred embodiment of the present invention the irrigation controller (100) has an on-board communication device. The irrigation controller communication device is hereinafter referred to as the IC communication device (190). It can be appreciated that instead of an on-board IC communication device (190) the IC communication device can be external to the irrigation controller (100) and the irrigation controller would include interface circuitry to use the external IC communication device (190). Preferably the IC communication device (190) is a telephone data modem (Modulator and Demodulator). Alternatively, the IC communication device (190) can be a pager, mobile telephone, local area network (LAN) adaptor, wireless area network (WAN) adaptor or any other appropriate communication device that allows the irrigation controller (100) to communicate with a data server (200). The data server (200) can be a stand alone device, such as a computer. Alternatively, the data server (200) can be a microprocessor embedded into another device. Contemplated data servers (200) have an on-board communication device. The data server communication device is hereinafter referred to as the DS communication device (210). As with the irrigation controller (100), it can be appreciated that instead of an on-board communication device the DS communication device (210) can be external to the data server (200) and the data server would include interface circuitry to use the external DS communication device (210). Preferably the DS communication device (210) is a telephone data modem. Alternatively, the DS communication device (210) can be a pager, mobile telephone, local area network (LAN) adaptor, wireless area network (WAN) adaptor or any other type of appropriate communication device that allows the data server (200) to communicate with the irrigation controller (100). It is contemplated that irrigation controller (100), using the IC communication device (190), can be programmed to periodically, and at a predetermined time, initiate a connection with the data server (200) via the DS communication device (210). With a telephone connection, by having the irrigation controller initiate the connection to the data server, there will be no daily telephone ring at the residence or business where the irrigation controller is located. Preferably, once the connection between the communication devices (190/210) is established, the data server (200) and the irrigation controller (100) exchange irrigation data. Examples of irrigation data that is exchanged includes station runtime history, evapotranspiration (ETo) data, rainfall, weather related information, flow sensor data, irrigation faults and any other irrigation data. It is further contemplated that during the connection between the two communication devices (190/210) that the data server (200) will send information to the irrigation controller (100) that includes control data. The control data can involve station runtime settings, cycle and soak settings, irrigation scheduling and any other irrigation control data. In addition to the control data, the data server (200) can advantageously send synchronization data to the irrigation controller (100). Synchronization data can include information which can be used by the irrigation controller (100) to synchronize its internal clock (time of day and date) with the clock of the data server (200). It is further contemplated that the synchronization data will include the time and date of the next communication, essentially instructing the irrigation controller (100) of the exact time/date when the next communication to the data server (200) is to take place. Additionally, when the communication device is a telephone data modem, synchronization data can include a telephone number to be used by the irrigation controller (100), when the irrigation controller initiates the next communication to the data server (200). It is also advantageous to synchronize the internal clocks of the irrigation controller (100) and the data server (200) to permit for the greatest number of initiated communications between irrigation controllers (100) and the data server (200). In theory, the number of communications that can be accommodated during an m minute window of time is m/d where d is the duration of a single communication. For example, if the window of time is m=240 minutes and the duration of a communication is d=0.30 minutes, then a total of 240/0.30=480 communications can be accommodated over a single communication line. However, this theoretical number of communications can only be realized if the irrigation controllers (100) have synchronized internal clocks and are programmed to initiate a communication during non-overlapping times. Thus, it is essential for the data server (200) and irrigation controller (100) to use a time synchronization protocol in order to accurately maintain consistent internal clocks. Moreover, it is necessary for the data server (200) to assign an exact time that each irrigation controller (100) can initiate a communication to avoid overlapping communications. It is assumed that the data server (200) has means to maintain an exact internal clock. This is typically achieved using one of the common Internet time synchronization methods, such as the Network Time Protocol (NTP). Hence, in addition to maximizing the number of communications, time synchronization will eliminate the need for users to set their irrigation controller's (100) time and date. Furthermore it is contemplated that the irrigation controller (100) will automatically adjust for daylight saving. It is further contemplated that the data server (200) can also send an alternate communication number to an irrigation controller (100), in essence redirecting future communications from that irrigation controller (100) to an alternate data server (200). One reason for this mechanism is to have a method to perform load balancing. In particular, when the number of irrigation controller (100) communications surpass the capacity of a data server (200), some of the irrigation controllers (100) can be directed to initiate communications to an alternate data server (200). Another reason for this mechanism is to help bootstrap a newly installed irrigation controller (100). The irrigation controller (100) can be programmed, at the factory, with a default communication number (for example, with a telephone data modem communication device it can be a Toll Free number). After the initial setup, the irrigation controller's (100) first communication to the data server (200) will be processed by a central data server (200). The central data server (200) will than assign the communication number of a local data server (200) to which subsequent communications will be initiated by the irrigation controller (100). In one preferred aspect of the inventive subject matter, namely when a telephone data modem communication device is in use, since the telephone line can also be used for personal communications, the irrigation controller initiated calls will not interrupt a voice call that is in progress. Additionally, the irrigation controller (100) will drop its call-in-progress as soon as the user (home owner, business owner, etc.) picks up the phone to start dialing out. It is contemplated that if the call from the irrigation controller (100) to the data server (200) is interrupted, then the irrigation controller will initiate the call at a later time. Alternatively, the irrigation controller (100) can be assigned alternative calling times, if for any reason the communication between the irrigation controller (100) and data server (200) was not completed during the first assigned calling time. Thus, specific embodiments and applications of irrigation controller communication systems have been disclosed. It should be apparent, however, to those skilled in the art that many more modifications besides those already described are possible without departing from the inventive concepts herein. The inventive subject matter, therefore, is not to be restricted except in the spirit of the appended claims. Moreover, in interpreting both the specifications and the claims, all terms should be interpreted in the broadest possible manner consistent with the context. In particular, the terms “comprises” and “comprising” should be interpreted as referring to elements, components, or steps in a non-exclusive manner, indicating that the referenced elements, components, or steps can be present, or utilized, or combined with other elements, components, or steps that are not expressly referenced. Where the specification claims refers to at least one of something selected from the group consisting of A, B, C . . . and N, the text should be interpreted as requiring only one element from the group, not A plus N, or B plus N, etc. 1. An irrigation controller programmed to automatically initiate communication with a data server to perform at least one of the following functions: (a) exchange irrigation data; (b) receive control data; and (c) receive synchronization data. 2. The irrigation controller of claim 1, wherein the irrigation data is station runtime history. 3. The irrigation controller of claim 1, wherein the irrigation data is evapotranspiration (ETo) data. 4. The irrigation controller of claim 1, wherein the control data involves station runtime settings. 5. The irrigation controller of claim 1, wherein the control data involves cycle and soak settings. 6. The irrigation controller of claim 1, wherein the synchronization data includes a date and a time. 7. The irrigation controller of claim 6, further comprising a microprocessor that is programmed to use the date and time to schedule a future contact with the data server. 8. An irrigation system, comprising: an irrigation controller; a data server; and a software program that programs the irrigation controller to automatically initiate a telephone call from the irrigation controller to the data server to perform at least one of the following functions: (a) exchange irrigation data; (b) receive control data; and (c) receive synchronization data. Filed: Feb 13, 2007 Publication Date: Aug 16, 2007 Applicant: AQUA CONSERVE, INC. (Riverside, CA) Inventor: John Addink (Riverside, CA) Current U.S. Class: 700/284.000 International Classification: G05D 7/00 (20060101);	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2600
__label__wiki	0.591695	0.591695	Justia Patents Intersection Normally Under Local ControllerUS Patent for System and method for determining intersection right-of-way for vehicles Patent (Patent # 7,898,432) System and method for determining intersection right-of-way for vehicles Nov 16, 2009 - Kapsch Trafficcom AG A method and system for determining right of way for a plurality of mobile units at an intersection. The method and system include collecting position and movement information about the plurality of mobile units approaching the intersection; storing a plurality of rules about right of way at the intersection; accessing information about geometry of the intersection; calculating which one or more of the plurality of the mobile units have right of way to enter the intersection, responsive to the position and movement information, the stored rules and the information about geometry of the intersection; and wirelessly transmitting right of way indication signals to one or more of the plurality of the mobile units. Latest Kapsch Trafficcom AG Patents: Method for camera-based tolling Method for generating a digital record and roadside unit of a road toll system implementing the method Vehicle identification system and method Onboard-installation for a vehicle Method for checking toll transactions and components therefor This patent application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/927,151, filed Oct. 29, 2007 now U.S. Pat. No. 7,639,159 and is related to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/852,054, filed on Sep. 7, 2007 and entitled “SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SHORT RANGE COMMUNICATION USING ADAPTIVE CHANNEL INTERVALS”; and U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/859,978, filed on Sep. 24, 2007 and entitled “METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR BROADCAST MESSAGE RATE ADAPTATION IN MOBILE SYSTEMS.” The present invention relates generally to intelligent vehicle systems and more specifically to determining which vehicle(s) have right of way at an intersection and communicating that information to the vehicles. There is increasing efforts for integrating communication and computing technologies into motor vehicles to improve the safety and efficiency of roadways. For example, the US government has an ongoing Intelligent Transportation Systems initiative (US Department of Transportation, Intelligent Transportation Systems). The ability to determine the location of moving vehicles via a Global Positioning System (GPS) or other location determination means for the purpose of collision avoidance is known, for example, see, U.S. Pat. No. 6,405,132, which describes an accident avoidance system. Additionally, U.S. Pat. No. 6,281,808 describes an intelligent control of traffic signals. However, these systems and methods do not address an automated determination and dissemination of right of way information when multiple vehicles approach an (uncontrolled) intersection. In some embodiment, the present invention is a method and system for determining right of way for a plurality of mobile units at an intersection. The method and system include collecting position and movement information about the plurality of mobile units approaching the intersection; storing a plurality of rules about right of way at the intersection; accessing information about geometric and/or map representation of the intersection; calculating which one or more of the plurality of the mobile units have right of way to enter the intersection, responsive to the position and movement information, the stored rules and the geometric and/or map representation information; and wirelessly transmitting right of way indication signals to one or more of the plurality of the mobile units. FIG. 1 shows an exemplary configuration of a stationary (roadside) unit, according to some embodiments of the present invention. FIG. 2 illustrates a system for determining right of way at a traffic intersection, according to some embodiments of the present invention. FIG. 3 illustrates an exemplary processing flow associated with determining the right of way, according to some embodiments of the present invention. In some embodiment, the present invention includes a stationary communications and processing unit located near a traffic intersection, the intersection being either uncontrolled or having a traffic signal that is not operational. The stationary unit has access to a map and/or geometric representation (for example, in a geographical information system (GIS) format) of the intersection, and to right of way and safety rules related to the intersection. The stationary unit collects real-time position and movement information about one or more vehicles approaching the intersection as well as the status of the traffic signal, if one exists. Using this information, and taking into account safety rules and the map response information, the stationary unit determines which vehicle(s) have right of way at the intersection and then communicates that information to the vehicles. FIG. 1 shows an exemplary configuration of a roadside unit, according to some embodiments of the present invention. A stationary unit, for example, roadside unit 10 may be positioned near an intersection and may include wireless communications means, such as a transceiver 12, allowing connectivity with the vehicles approaching an intersection. A processing unit 11 calculates and generates right of way indications information 14. Although shown local to the roadside unit, the processing unit may be remote to the roadside unit. The roadside unit 10 also includes knowledge of the intersection and surrounding geometry, for example, via stored detailed map information 16 stored in a database (storage medium). This information knowledge of intersection may be stored remotely and communicated to the roadside unit on demand basis. FIG. 2 illustrates a system (environment) for determining right of way at a traffic intersection, according to some embodiments of the present invention. Vehicles 21 include wireless communications capability, allowing connectivity with one or more roadside units. Vehicles 21 may also include operator interface, with the ability to indicate right of way (or lack thereof), for example in a way of display, voice activated indication, and/or sensors, servos and actuators for automatically controlling the movements of the vehicles, for example, in the case of un-manned vehicles. Vehicles 21 may also include position determination capability, where accurate and timely mobile information 13 is determined and communicated to the roadside unit, allowing the roadside unit to track and predict vehicle trajectories. The positioning capability used to determine the positions of the vehicles 21, may be onboard the vehicles, for example, satellite based, like GPS, differential GPS, a combination of GPS and future satellite systems, or may be using embedded sensors 23 in the roadside unit, and/or around the intersection, or may use combinations of such positioning methods to yield accurate, lane and sub-lane level positioning. Existing navigation units in the vehicle may be used for some of these functions. Additionally, the system may include an out of band (e.g., wireline) communications means 24, that allows the roadside unit 10 to receive such information as operational status from a local traffic signal 22, traffic status from the local sensors 23, database and configuration updates 17 from a remote source, and the knowledge of the intersection if such information is stored remote to the roadside unit. Using the knowledge of the intersection and surrounding locale, the processor unit 11 evaluates vehicle (mobile unit) movement in the context of the intersection and local environment. Vehicle movement information includes at least vehicle location. From a series of location updates, vehicle direction, speed, and acceleration may be either calculated onboard the vehicle and reported to the roadside unit, or calculated in the processor associated with the roadside unit. Additional information that pertains to vehicle movement may be included. This additional information may include real-time information such as vehicle braking or turning status. The additional information may also include vehicle parameters that affect the vehicle's movement or priority, such as weight and size, or vehicle status (for example, emergency vehicle). Local information may include the route of roads entering the intersection, prevailing speed limits on those routes, location of turn-only lanes, size and orientation of the intersection itself, etc. In some embodiments, the local information (or a portion thereof) is received from a central source. The local information may be entered in the roadside unit directly or via messages received over a network connection. The evaluation in the processor includes such calculations as a prediction on when the vehicle will reach the intersection, the path it will take, and when it will exit the intersection. Real time information may include the location/heading/speed of approaching traffic, vehicle acceleration, and vehicle capabilities, such as the ability to accept and process right of way messages. This vehicular information may be received via reports or messages from the vehicles themselves, as well as from sensors (for example, cameras, radar, magnetic strips embedded in the roadway, etc.) positioned in proximity of the intersection. Real time information may also include prevailing conditions that affect traffic, such as weather, road condition and visibility, lane closures, constructions, etc.). This information may be received by the stationary unit from a central source, and/or from a local source (e.g., a road work crew, and/or various local sensors). In some embodiments, the prevailing conditions that affect traffic and the road are given different importance weights. For example, if a road is closed, no matter what, no vehicle would be allowed to go through, if the road is wet, the importance of the speed of the vehicles is increased, or if the visibility is weak, the importance of distance to the intersection is increased. The wireless communication means (for example, 12 in FIG. 1) may be any communications that allows low-latency information transfer between vehicles and the stationary unit. One technology particularly suited to this purpose is alternately known as wireless access in vehicular environments (WAVE) or dedicated short range communications (DSRC). Vehicles could automatically generate periodic updates of their positions and status and/or the roadside unit can poll the vehicles for this information. Traffic rules are construed and programmed based on the prevailing laws in effect at the locale, applied to the specific topology of the intersection. Some simplified examples of such rules are shown here in the form of right of way priority lists for two exemplary scenarios. A vehicle whose trajectory will not cause a collision or near-collision with any other vehicle is granted right of way. Otherwise, the vehicle(s) meeting the criterion highest on the list is granted right of way over all other approaching vehicles. 1—Minor road crossing a major road: i) Emergency vehicle ii) Through traffic on major road. iii) Right turning vehicle from major road. iv) Left turning vehicle from major road. v) Through traffic on minor road. vi) Right turning vehicle from minor road. vii) Left turning vehicle from minor road. 2—Crossing of two minor roads: ii) First vehicle to the intersection. iii) In the case of simultaneous arrivals: (1) If vehicles arrive at adjacent intersection entrances, the rightmost vehicle. (2) If vehicle arrive from opposite intersection entrances, the through or right-turning vehicle(s). The vehicles that receive the right of way messages from the stationary unit may act on the information in different ways depending on system design and vehicle capabilities. An on-board light or display (e.g., red/yellow/green) may be used to indicate right of way to the driver. Alternately, or in conjunction, different audible tones could express that information. Language-based information could also be provided, audibly, and/or visually. If the vehicle is equipped with an automatic control feature, the right of way information could be used by the vehicle controller to invoke braking, steering, and/or accelerating/decelerating controls to prevent the vehicle from entering the intersection or parts thereof if right of way has not been granted. FIG. 3 illustrates an exemplary process flow associated with determining the right of way, according to some embodiments of the present invention. In block 31, the process collects infrastructure status information, such as whether the local traffic signal is functional. From this information, in block 32, the process determines whether a right of way determination process is needed at the current time, for example, if the signal is not functional. If a determination process is needed, the process collects mobile unit status, in block 33, for example from wireless signals and/or roadside sensors. If no mobile units (vehicles) are detected (block 34), the process continues monitoring for the presence of any newly-arrived vehicles. If mobile units are detected, the process invokes the right of way rules to determine which mobile unit or units has right of way, in block 35. The process then reports the result to all present mobile units, in block 36. Upon receiving the right of way determination results, the vehicles act according to the results, as explained above. An exemplary scenario follows. Assume that multiple intelligent vehicles approach an intersection and the traffic signal at the intersection is temporarily disabled due to a failure. The vehicles at intervals automatically report their positions, directions, and speeds to a stationary unit located at or near the intersection. Using its knowledge of the intersection geometry, programmed traffic rules, vehicles' trajectories, and local information (such as weather or road condition) the roadside unit sends right of way messages or commands to each of the vehicles, which are in turn conveyed to the drivers or to the control systems of each vehicle. For example, north-south bound vehicles are sent a STOP message, conveyed to drivers by a red dashboard light and/or an audible command. East-west bound vehicles are sent a PROCEED WITH CAUTION message, displayed perhaps as a green/yellow light and/or audible indication. Once the initial east-west bound vehicles clear the intersection, subsequent east-west bound vehicles receive STOP messages, and north-south bound vehicles receive PROCEED WITH CAUTION messages. Different countries or legal jurisdictions may have different rules for right of way. Different rules may include granting priority to the first vehicle to arrive, the vehicle on the more major roadway, or the vehicle arriving from the other vehicle's right. Thus the right of way determination algorithm is programmed to reflect local laws. In some embodiments, the roadside unit recognizes (e.g., via the above-mentioned sensors) an approaching vehicle that does not have the ability to process the right of way messages, that is, a non-intelligent vehicle. In this case, the roadside unit's right of way determination may hold back the intelligent vehicles to allow the non-intelligent vehicle to pass safely. In some embodiments, the roadside unit recognizes emergency vehicles and grants them right of way over non-emergency vehicles. In some embodiments, the roadside unit considers turning intentions of a vehicle determined through any of a number of means, such as location of the vehicle in a turn lane, direction vector of the vehicle or activation of a turn signal within the vehicle. Additionally, the intelligent vehicle may have knowledge of its route or end destination and be able to provide an explicit report to the stationary unit, indicating its immediate intentions at the intersection (e.g., proceed straight, turn left, etc.), as it approaches the intersection. In some embodiments, the roadside unit monitors the status of the traffic signal controlling access to the intersection, and performs right of way determination when detecting a disruption of the signal's functionality, an emergency, or any other appropriate condition. In some embodiments, the roadside unit performs right of way determination in the presence of a functional signal, to provide guidance in situations where right of way is not unambiguously indicated by the signal. Such a case is where a left-turning vehicle has a green light, but must yield to oncoming traffic. In some embodiments, to prevent the possibility of directing a vehicle into a dangerous situation, the system provides negative messages to vehicles not found to have right of way in addition to providing positive messages granting right of way. Note that for simplicity reasons, the disclosure assumes a typical intersection with two crossing perpendicular roadways. However, the present invention can be applied equally to other situations where intersecting traffic patterns cause a potential for collisions. Examples of alternate types of intersections include, but are not limited to, merges, traffic circles, driveways entering a roadway, and intersections with less or more than four entrances. It can also be seen, that though this invention has been described in the context of a public roadway, alternate embodiments also represent the invention. For example, the invention can be applied to maritime navigation systems, airport ground traffic, and industrial machinery. In these applications different rules stored in the system would govern the right of way determination and different factors, for example the weather in the airport case and the wind or water conditions in the maritime navigation case may be given different weights. In summary, while certain exemplary embodiments have been described above in detail and shown in the accompanying drawings, it is to be understood that such embodiments are merely illustrative of and not restrictive of the broad invention. In particular, it should be recognized that the teachings of the invention apply to a wide variety of systems and processes. It will thus be recognized that various modifications may be made to the illustrated and other embodiments of the invention described above, without departing from the broad inventive scope thereof. In view of the above it will be understood that the invention is not limited to the particular embodiments or arrangements disclosed, but is rather intended to cover any changes, adaptations or modifications which are within the scope and spirit of the invention as described herein. 1. A method for determining right of way for a mobile unit at an intersection, the method comprising: collecting movement information about a plurality of mobile units approaching the intersection; obtaining information about geometry of the intersection; determining whether the mobile unit has right of way to enter the intersection, responsive to the movement information, the information about geometry of the intersection and a plurality of rules; detecting whether a traffic signal at the intersection is functional; and transmitting a right of way indication signal to the mobile unit when the traffic signal is detected to be not functioning. 2. The method of claim 1, wherein the movement information is collected over a radio communications link. 3. The method of claim 1, wherein at least a portion of the movement information is collected from one or more stationary sensors. 4. The method of claim 1, wherein at least a portion of the movement information is derived from a Global Positioning System. 5. The method of claim 1, wherein the collected movement information further includes one or more of position, direction, braking status, acceleration status, and turn status. 6. A system for determining right of way for a mobile unit at an intersection comprising: a stationary unit for collecting movement information about a plurality of mobile units approaching the intersection; a processing unit for calculating whether the mobile unit has right of way to enter the intersection, based on the movement information and a plurality of rules; a storage medium for storing information about road and weather condition, wherein the processing unit calculates whether the mobile unit has the right of way utilizing the information about road and weather condition; and a communication unit for transmitting a right of way indication signal to the mobile unit. 7. The system of claim 6, further comprising a display unit in the mobile unit for providing a visual indication or an audible indication of the received right of way indication signal. 8. The system of claim 6, further comprising vehicular controls for preventing a mobile unit from entering the intersection. 9. The system of claim 6, further comprising a plurality of stationary sensors for generating at least a portion of the position and movement information. 10. The system of claim 6, wherein the processing unit is remote from the stationary unit. 11. The system of claim 6, wherein the processing unit is local to the stationary unit. 12. The system of claim 6, wherein the information about geometry of the intersection includes a map representation of the intersection. 13. The system of claim 6, further comprising one or more storage media for storing information about geometry of the intersection and the plurality of rules. 14. A method for determining right of way for a plurality of mobile units at an intersection, the method comprising: collecting infrastructure status information about the intersection; determining whether a right of way determination is needed for the intersection at a current time according to the collected infrastructure status information; determining whether there are any mobile units approaching or at the intersection, when it is determined that a right of way determination is needed for the intersection; collecting movement information about one or more of the plurality of the mobile units approaching or at the intersection; and determining which one or more of the plurality of the mobile units have right of way to enter the intersection, responsive to the movement information, information about geometry of the intersection and a set of rules. 15. The method of claim 14, further comprising transmitting right of way indication signals to one or more of the plurality of the mobile units. 16. The method of claim 14, further comprising receiving route or end destination for one or more of the plurality of the mobile units from respective one or more of the plurality of the mobile units; and utilizing the received route or end destination to determine which one or more of the plurality of the mobile units have right of way to enter the intersection. 17. The method of claim 14, wherein the collected movement information further includes one or more of position, direction, braking status, acceleration status, and turn status. 18. 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International Search Report and Written Opinion dated Dec. 29, 2008 for the corresponding PCT Application No. PCT/US2008/081465; 7pp. Date of Patent: Mar 1, 2011 Patent Publication Number: 20100060483 Assignee: Kapsch Trafficcom AG (Vienna) Inventors: Justin Paul McNew (Del Mar, CA), John Thomas Moring (Encinitas, CA), Khaled I. Dessouky (Studio City, CA) Primary Examiner: Daniel Wu Assistant Examiner: Son M Tang Attorney: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP Current U.S. Class: Intersection Normally Under Local Controller (340/916); Highway Information (e.g., Weather, Speed Limits, Etc.) (340/905); Traffic Control Indicator (340/907); Discriminates Vehicle Direction (340/935); Environmental Or Drift Compensation (340/939); Traffic Control Or Local Controller Failure Indicator (340/931); And Other Vehicle Control (701/53); Model Or Learning Means (e.g., Neural Network) (701/59); Traffic Analysis Or Control Of Surface Vehicle (701/117) International Classification: G08G 1/07 (20060101);	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2602
__label__cc	0.679562	0.320438	Interviewing may be the most common method utilized by qualitative researchers. There are many hidden challenges, however. Some of these are rather well-known, such as the problems involved in selecting and contacting potential interviewees. Aspiring researchers are also probably aware that the specific form of a question, and the order in which questions are stated can influence the responses we receive. But all too often, researchers neglect to pay attention to what happens after the interview is over. What exactly should you do with all of the data you collected? How do you go about the task of comparing and aggregating the responses of your interviewees? The resources listed below are all very helpful in addressing these various stages. If you are looking for a single source to get you started, then Rubin and Rubin’s book may be useful. Chapter 4 addresses interview preparations. Chapter 6 addresses the importance of conduct during an interview. Chapter 7 provides advice on the structure of questions used in an interview situation. And finally, Chapter 7 discusses how to go about analyzing the data that you have collected. (Chapter 10 of Kvale goes into even greater depth). Kvale, Steinar. 1996. Interviews: an introduction to qualitative research interviewing. Sage Publications. Patton, Michael Quinn. 1990. Qualitative research and evaluation methods. Beverly Hills, CA: SAGE. Rubin, Herbert J., and Irene Rubin. 1995. Qualitative interviewing: The Art of Hearing Data. Beverly Hills, CA: SAGE. Weisberg, Herbert F., Jon A. Krosnick, and Bruce D. Bowen. 1996. An introduction to survey research, polling, and data analysis. SAGE. Peabody, Robert. et. al. “Interviewing Political Elites.” PS: Political Science and Politics 23:3 (September 1990), 451-55. Rivera et al. 2002. “Interviewing Political Elites: Lessons from Russia.” PS: Political Science & Politics 35, 683-688. On Creating Questions Rubin, Herbert J., and Irene Rubin. 1995. “Assembling the Parts: Structuring a Qualitative Interview.” Qualitative interviewing: The Art of Hearing Data. Beverly Hills, CA: SAGE. Kvale, Steinar. 1996 “The 1,000 Page Question.”. Interviews: an introduction to qualitative research interviewing. Sage Publications. Weisberg et al. Chapter 4 Questionnaire Construction Aberbach, Joel D. and Bert A. Rockman. 2002. “Conducting and Coding Elite Interviews.” PS: Political Science & Politics 35:4, 673 – 676. On Conducting Interviews Rubin, Herbert J., and Irene Rubin. 1995. “Chapter 6.” Qualitative interviewing: The Art of Hearing Data. Beverly Hills, CA: SAGE. Leech, Beth L. 2002. “Asking Questions: Techniques for Semistructured Interviews.” PS: Political Science & Politics 35:4, 665-668. Goldstein, Kenneth. 2002. “Getting in the Door: Sampling and Completing Elite Interviews.” PS: Political Science & Politics 35:4, 669-672. Woliver, Laura R. 2002. “Ethical Dilemmas in Personal Interviewing.” PS: Political Science & Politics 35:4, 677-678. On Analyzing and Interpreting Interview/Survey Responses Rubin, Herbert J., and Irene Rubin. 1995. “Chapter 10: What did you hear?” Qualitative interviewing: The Art of Hearing Data. Beverly Hills, CA: SAGE. Berry, Jeffrey M. 2002. “Validity and Reliability Issues In Elite Interviewing.” PS: Political Science & Politics 35:4, 679 – 682. updated August 3, 2017 – MN	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2607
__label__wiki	0.623426	0.623426	Pagbabago Pilipinas MAYSILO ESTATE SCAM- WARNING TO THE PUBLIC The Maysilo Estate Scammers are at it AGAIN! SC ruling dispossesses millions of lot owners Government failure punishes buyer Twice to vote Araneta Araneta Institute of Agriculture ARMM Bribery Cecilia Muñoz Palma Cheating Comelec Corruption Credit Cards Elections Fake Land Titles Felicitas Manahan Garci Heirs of Homer Barque Homer Barque Investing investment scams Is this Justice or Injustice? Jose Dimson Land-grabbing syndicate Land Scams Manotok maysilo, manotok, manotok realty, maysilo estate, land Maysilo Estate Political Dynasties Politics Rosendo Manahan Supreme Court Teresita Barque Hernandez Torrens March 29, 2012 — pagbabago By Amado P. Macasaet http://www.malaya.com.ph/03192012/edmacasaet.html IN its ruling promulgated March 15, the Supreme Court effectively made the state – the government – a land grabber of a valuable 34-hectare property bought and paid for and titled to the name of Severino Manotok as early as 80 years ago. The ruling on a 7-7 vote gives the land back to the government obviously because the Court cannot determine who among several claimants can produce the documents proving ownership. The records of the Court show that Severino Manotok bought the property, owned by the friars, in 1919 on a 10-year installment agreement. He completed the payment in more than 10 years. Under the law, the state is required to transmit to the register of deeds the deed of conveyance in favor of Severino Manotok. The deed was transmitted as required by the state. Forthwith, a title was issued to the buyer. The ruling, penned by Associate Justice Martin Villarama upholds the recommendation of the Court of Appeals that the property belongs to the state and the title must be cancelled based on the statute that states “no sale shall be valid until approved by the Secretary (of agriculture and natural resources)” It is plain to us that the state failed Severino Manotok, now represented in Court by his heirs. We agree that there might be such a requirement. But we ask, did Severino Manotok have any kind of control over the duty of the state – the secretary of agriculture and natural resources in this case – to sign the deed of conveyance? In fact, the buyer of the friar land, Severino Manotok, may not have known whether or not some details were missed in the deed of conveyance since the document was transmitted to the register of deed without him or his representative being notified – least of all given a chance to review it. Why then should the Manotoks (heirs of Severino) be denied a right to own the land proven by payment, deed of conveyance and a title that was subsequently issued? The Manotoks cannot be divested of their right to the land on the argument by the Supreme Court that the deed of conveyance did not have the signature of the secretary of agriculture and natural resources. If that were to be so, the Supreme Court is punishing the Manotoks for the failure of the state to do its job. It is not reasonable either for the Court to argue that the register of deeds can no longer find the transfer documents. The heirs of Severino Manotok never had any role in that negligence. Therefore, the property must be turned over to the state, absent such evidence that the Manotoks are not required to produce the documents? When the state fails to do its job – by omission or design – nobody should suffer for it. That is common sense law. After all, there is proof of full payment of the friar land. Taxes have been paid by the Manotoks up to this day from the time they took over possession. They have been in possession for around 80 years. They will lose the friar land sold to them by the state for failure of the state to perform its duty? That does not sound fair. It is important to remember that the state sold the friar lands to private persons or corporations after taking them over from the Spaniards. The state did its job of giving the Filipino the right to own land in his country. But the buyer must pay. And pay the Manotoks did. The records prove it. If the state takes back the land on orders of the Supreme Court, it will undo what it did when it sold the friar lands to the private sector. For what reason? That the deed of conveyance and other transfer documents supposed to be kept by the state cannot now be found? The precedent is dangerous. There could be hundreds, maybe thousands of buyers of friar lands, similarly situated as the Manotoks. Will their lands be ceded back to the state if the documents are questioned or adverse claims are filed and the documents perfecting the transaction cannot now be produced by the state although it is the keeper? But the Supreme Court said that is another matter. It is not. Some powerful people can always file an adverse claim with the Court. Some powerful people may strike a deal to buy the land after the state takes over. What happens to the buyer who has been presumably cultivating the land he paid for and got a title for it? He will lose it to the state, courtesy of the Supreme Court? If the Supreme Court can commit this kind of injustice it effectively condones the inefficiency of the state in keeping records as far as friar lands are concerned, or more specifically as far as the Manotoks are concerned. The Supreme Court makes the state a land grabber. The victim is an innocent buyer who believed – it now turns out wrongly – that if he performs his part of the sale the state will similarly do its job. The state did not. He must pay for the mistake or negligence of the state. It must be noted that the Supreme Court based its decision on the recommendations of the Court of Appeals which usurped the powers of the Regional Trial Court which, according to the law, has the original jurisdiction in administrative reconstitution of land titles. It is not funny at all that the High Court remanded the case to the CA instead of the RTC to comply with law. There is more than meets the eye in this case. We recall that in a division ruling, the land was awarded the heirs of Homer Barque. It turns out, however, that the documents of the Barques are not genuine as discovered by the appellate court. The fact finding job belongs to the regional trial court. That is what the law provides. Posted in Land Scams, Manotok, Supreme Court. Tags: Corona, Del Castillo, Manotok, Piedad Estate. Leave a Comment » By: Conrado R. Banal Philippine Daily Inquirer http://business.inquirer.net/51537/twice-to-vote Disturbing issues hound Chief Justice Renato Corona regarding his actions in the Supreme Court even while he is standing trial at the Senate that may cost him his powerful position. According to reports, in a landmark case involving a 30-year dispute over some 34 hectares of prime property in Quezon City, the Chief Justice in effect voted not just once but twice. The SC early this month issued a ruling en banc that the so-called Piedad Estate, which is close to the Ayala Heights project of premier developer Ayala Land, should belong to the government. The en banc voting was close at 8 versus 7, meaning it could have gone either way. It seems the Chief Justice himself broke the deadlock, but not with his own vote. Together with his own vote, he supposedly also used the vote of a justice on leave for more than a month—Justice Mariano del Castillo. The ailing Del Castillo reportedly was not even able to take part in the deliberation. In fact, all other SC documents would show that Del Castillo was on leave. In this particular case, the Chief Justice simply used the vote of the absent justice. It was the tie-breaking vote, at that. Disturbing questions thus arise. For one, can an absent justice, who could not be present in the discussion of the issues in a case, vote on en banc decision? May the Chief Justice really take the place of an absent justice? Is it legal, and if it is, is it the proper thing to do, particularly for a man who is supposed to be the paragon of fairness and morality in this country? We have been following this interesting case since the 1990s and have written a number of pieces on it. It started way back when, in 1988, a mysterious fire broke out at the office of the Registry of Deeds at the Quezon City hall. The result was a flood of apparently spurious titles over pieces of property in the city. The longtime owner of the Piedad Estate was the Manotok family, whose ancestor bought the land from the government in the 1930s. For the past 80 years or so, the family has been paying for the real estate tax on the property. All of a sudden after the fire at city hall, two other titles appeared, purportedly as evidence of the real ownership of the property. Two other names surfaced in the land title mess, Manahan and Barque, both claiming ownership of the property. Thus the Manotok family went to court to challenge the alleged “reconstituted” titles. The case dragged on for over two decades, going back and forth between the Court of Appeals and the SC. This is important: The ownership of the Manotok family, who had control over the property for the longest time by sheer of possession, was never in question in the original case. In an earlier decision, the SC negated the claims of the two groups—the Manahans and Barques. Thus, you would think that the Manotok family has won in the long-running land dispute. For whatever mysterious reason, the SC also decided that the CA should answer a question that came from nowhere. And that was, “Did the Manotok family own the land or not?” The CA eventually ruled that the property should go back to the government because of one reason: Some bureaucrat’s signature was missing in the documents presented by the Manotok family. Look at that: it was the government that failed to do its job. The court in effect said that, because of such a government failure, the poor individual must be punished. The SC in 2010 upheld the CA decision. The SC early this month ruled with finality on the case. That was the ruling in which the Chief Justice voted twice, if only to beat the dissenting opinion, penned by Senior Justice Antonio Carpio. Horror stories are flying on the possible reason for the daring role that the impeached Renato Corona played in this landmark decision. One story points at the group of lawyers specializing in land disputes in Quezon City. It is said that the Chief Justice could possibly owe the group favors in connection with the ongoing trial at the Senate. Those stories are rather difficult to substantiate. The fact is they are going around business and legal circles. They are not doing the impeachment process any good. But more than the reputation of the embattled Chief Justice, the land title system in this country can be in danger of collapse. Thousands—if not millions—of individuals already have titles on their properties in former friar lands, seized by the Americans during their occupation of the Philippines, and then sold to various individuals. More than half of Metro Manila used to be friar lands. The question is this: What will happen to the titles covering all those properties? The recent SC ruling takes the force of law, and it could therefore encourage other crooks to lay claim on thousands upon thousands of hectares of property all over the country. The decision may even open up an entire new racket in the property sector: Some syndicates would be selling land titles over certain property owned by millions of Filipinos for the past several years. Officials of the Land Registration Authority have long admitted such a problem. It seems that, for some time now, the LRA has been trying to settle land disputes—all in Quezon City. The cases were all handled by a certain group of lawyers associated with an organization. Posted in Land Registration Authority, Land Scams, Manotok, Supreme Court, Torrens. Tags: Manotok, Mariano Del Castillo, Piedad Estate, Quezon City, Renato Corona. 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__label__wiki	0.745728	0.745728	The Complete Works of Primo Levi Volume II, The Periodic Table ; The Wrench ; Uncollected Stories and Essays: 1946-1980 ; Lilith and Other Stories ; If Not Now, When? WW Norton 2015 Washington Post Notable BookThe Complete Works of Primo Levi, which includes seminal works like If This Is a Man and The Periodic Table, finally gathers all fourteen of Levi’s books—memoirs, essays, poetry, commentary, and fiction—into three slipcased volumes. Primo Levi, the Italian-born chemist once described by Philip Roth as that “quicksilver little woodland creature enlivened by the forest’s most astute intelligence,” has largely been considered a heroic figure in the annals of twentieth-century literature for If This Is a Man, his haunting account of Auschwitz. Yet Levi’s body of work extends considerably beyond his experience as a survivor. Now, the transformation of Levi from Holocaust memoirist to one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers culminates in this publication of The Complete Works of Primo Levi. This magisterial collection finally gathers all of Levi’s fourteen books—memoirs, essays, poetry, and fiction—into three slip-cased volumes. Thirteen of the books feature new translations, and the other is newly revised by the original translator. Nobel laureate Toni Morrison introduces Levi’s writing as a “triumph of human identity and worth over the pathology of human destruction.” The appearance of this historic publication will occasion a major reappraisal of “one of the most valuable writers of our time” (Alfred Kazin).The Complete Works of Primo Levi features all new translations of: The Periodic Table, The Drowned and the Saved, The Truce, Natural Histories, Flaw of Form, The Wrench, Lilith, Other People’s Trades, and If Not Now, When?—as well as all of Levi’s poems, essays, and other nonfiction work, some of which have never appeared before in English. "In the works for sixteen years, The Complete Works of Primo Levi is the most ambitious literary translation of the twenty-first century. Primo Levi, the Italian-born chemist once described by Philip Roth as that "quicksilver little woodland creature enlivened by the forest's astute intelligence," has largely been considered a heroic figure in the annals of twentieth-century literature for If This Is a Man, his haunting account of Auschwitz. Yet Levi's body of work extends considerably beyond his experience as a survivor. Now, the transformation of Levi from Holocaust memoirist to one of the twentieth century's greatest writers culminates in this magisterial publication of The Complete Works of Primo Levi, which, twenty-eight years after his premature death in Turin, finally collects all of Levi's fourteen books--memoirs, essays, poetry, and fiction--into three slip-cased volumes, along with new translations, one revised by the original translator, and an introduction by Nobel laureate Toni Morrison. Theappearance of this historic publication will occasion a major reappraisal of "one of the most valuable writers of our time" (Alfred Kazin)" -- Publisher: New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, A Division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2015] Branch Call Number: 858.914 LEVI V.2 Characteristics: [755]-1863 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 25 cm Additional Contributors: Goldstein, Ann 1949- Rich, Nathaniel 1980-- Translator Bastagli, Alessandra - Translator Bastagli, Francesco - Translator Shugaar, Antony - Translator Read more reviews of The Complete Works of Primo Levi at iDreamBooks.com Levi, Primo — Translations Into English Italian Literature — 20th Century	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2610
__label__wiki	0.64567	0.64567	Golden Guardians’ Head Coach Tyler Perron: “My keys for success are going to be how much we’ve developed since last week.” After their loss to Echo Fox on Saturday, I spoke with Golden Guardians new head coach Tyler “Akiri” Perron about drafting on stage for the first time, any resources provided by the Golden State Warriors, and being a Tyler in Tyler1’s world. Miles Yim: This is the first time you’ve been a head coach, calling picks and bans on stage. What’s it been like so far? Tyler: At first it was a bit awkward. The whole setup is kinda clunky, so when you’re gearing up, putting your headphones on, all the noise is blocked out. Everything is kind of muffled as you look around, but other than that it feels pretty normal. When you draft in scrims, it’s very similar. I’m used to doing this every single day, it’s just when you get on stage, you’re in a suit, you’re all clunky walking around, it does feel a little weird. But it’s a nice feeling, it’s exciting, something I’ve been working towards. The broadcast lists you by your first name, while some head coaches use their gamertag. Do you prefer Tyler or Akiri? I prefer Tyler. When I switched from being an analyst to a coach, I wanted a more mature coaching staff name. I didn’t really want to have my summoner tag name, hopefully to start maybe a trend towards professionalism. And I think the Guardians appreciate that as well. I love all the funny attraction it gets coming with it. “Coach Tyler1 POGCHAMP,” is like my favorite thing to see on Twitch when I go back and watch the games. Well since you brought it up, do you watch Tyler1 at all? Yeah, of course I watch Tyler. I think that the Tyler1 Championship Series is really funny, very entertaining. He’s a great personality. I look up to him as a Tyler in esports. Maybe not some of his actions! But I think he’s a really entertaining personality. You’ve been around the scene for a while now, but a lot of people don’t know who you are. Can you give me a brief history of your time in professional League of Legends? Yeah, so before Golden Guardians, I worked with Phoenix1 in the LCS last season. I was the assistant coach for that team. Started out head analyst, moved to assistant coach for the Summer Split. Before that I worked for Immortals, especially with the [Heo “Huni” Seung-hoon] and [Kim “Reignover” Yeu-jin] lineup, and before that I worked with Fnatic with the Huni and Reignover lineup. We got to semifinals at Worlds, which was really exciting. Put that way, it seems like you followed Huni and Reignover from Fnatic to Immortals. Or was that not the case? It ended up being the case, but it wasn’t necessarily intentional. It’s kind of hard to find analyst jobs when you’re not a known person yet, so you survey the opportunities, you reach out to organizations. Thankfully Immortals reached out to me, which was really nice, and we worked something out where I could work for Immortals for that split, and I just happened to have Huni and Reignover there too. So maybe it helped me get the position, but I don’t think I followed them, it just kind of happened that way. Those iterations of Immortals and Fnatic were some of the most successful teams Western League of Legends has ever seen. In your mind, what made them great? Was it great players, the way they played, a combination of the two? I think what made those teams great was the fact that they knew their identity, and they were really great teammates with each other. Something I’ve been working on with the Guardians ever since I took over was building up the sense of teamwork. The person sitting next to you is your teammate, and they know everything you’re going through. Obviously it’s been a bit of a rough start, but I think we have great expectations for what we want to be, and it’s just about reaching those goals. Something I’m taking from that Immortals lineup, from that Fnatic lineup, is that they knew how to be great teammates to each other, and help each other through things. And that’s just the process that we’re learning to do. We’ve only been a team for a little while, so it’s a matter of building up those blocks to become a great team. Let’s talk about your current roster then. How integral were you in selecting players at the outset? I did not play much of a role in the roster we have today. As an assistant coach, usually you don’t get much say in terms of what players you pick up. But at the end of the day, I did choose to come work for this roster because I see a great opportunity. What the Warriors want to do with their League of Legends team in the Golden Guardians is developing future NA talent that’s going to win championships. And I see that in these players. It’s just the start of spring season, and we’re looking much further than that. I know there’s a meme of like, “The Golden Guardians are only looking to move forward and look forward, they’re just going to keep losing and losing,” but I see past that pretty quickly. If you look at our game today against Echo Fox, we really proved that we’re a different team from last week, and we’re going to keep growing and improving. What was the mentality going into the Echo Fox game today, and how well do you feel you executed? Well, for this Echo Fox draft, we got almost identically the draft we wanted to get. So we prepared really well for that, that’s a draft we’re very practiced on. It’s just a matter of execution, right? Echo Fox is a really good team. We shouldn’t take anything away from the fact that that’s a first-place team. They have really strong solo laners. Their biggest strengths are some of our biggest weaknesses. Right now, we’re struggling with coordinating through early games, making sure that we’re even, and we can take over after that. And Echo Fox is really good at that. So it was a tough fight. I think it was a good fight, and it’s something we’re going to learn from today. I spoke to [Matthew “Matt” Elento] and [Matthew “Deftly” Chen] earlier in the split, and both of them mentioned decisiveness as something they wanted to improve on. What does it mean for a team to be decisive, in your mind? I think what Matt and Deftly were referring to was being decisive in their laning phase, and that’s something that takes time to grow with as players. Those two have never played together before, so obviously it’s going to take some time to do that. As in what we’re lacking, I don’t think we lack decisiveness. We lack controlled decisiveness. We’re always ready to go, it’s a matter of are we going too deep, are we too hype, stuff like that. In terms of Matt and Deftly’s growth, I think they’ve grown incredibly since they first started here, and they will continue to do so…We want to start from ground zero, where we know exactly where that is, and invest in players that we see a lot of potential in. Players that have an extremely high ceiling. And we see that in all of our players that we picked up. Let’s focus on [Juan “Contractz” Arturo Garcia] for a moment. He was the Rookie of Spring Split 2017, now a veteran of the world stage, and has played alongside [Nicolaj “Jensen” Jensen], one of the best mid laners in the West. I imagine if you’re looking for a Steph Curry, it’s him. How would you rate his play so far? I love working with Juan. Me and him get along extremely well, and it’s been enjoyable to see both his struggles and what he’s really strong with. Juan was a rookie last year, and he went from rookie to Worlds. And there’s still so many things you have to learn when you’re moving from that process. He still has so much to develop in his communication, his leadership skills. If we’re looking for Juan as our Steph Curry, then we need to give Juan the time and the resources to become that. Because obviously, if anyone picks up a rookie and they think they’re going to be a Steph Curry, that’s crazy. You don’t know yet. I see a lot of potential in Juan, and I’m very excited to continue to work with him. Deftly is a player that not many people knew about going into the split, especially if you didn’t follow Challenger last year. What has his growth been like so far, and how are you helping him meet—or raise—his ceiling? For Deftly, a lot of people might have looked at him, when we started this roster, as a question mark. Maybe even the Golden Guardians did when we picked him up. But after watching him grow, and his hard work, his dedication, it’s very admirable. He’s someone I know will be great. It’s not a question in my mind. Deftly just has the dedication, the hard work, and the commitment. He’s very coachable, he listens to everything anyone can tell him, and you can hear people like [Yiliang “Doublelift” Peng] talk about how Deftly’s good, he’s going to be good. I see that in him every day. I’m very excited to continue working with Deftly, and if anything, he makes me even more committed. I see that growth in him and that excitement to learn, and it just makes me work even harder. Courtesy of @GoldenGuardians I want to take a step back and look at the organization as a whole. It’s been well documented that the team visited San Francisco last year to see the Warriors and their new facility. What was that like meeting that side of the franchise, having such a globally recognized entity involved with the Golden Guardians? I haven’t seen a lot of the other new orgs that came in with NBA teams commit themselves with their NBA teams. A great example is 100 Thieves, they’re a whole different entity than the Cavs, right? It’s all under [Matt “NaDeSHoT” Haag]. What’s really nice about the Warriors is that we are neck-to-neck with their basketball team. They give us a lot of the same resources, the same expertise. I got to talk with Steve Kerr. There’s all these things that we have available to us that they want us to use. Everyone at the Warriors is really excited to meet us. We went up to San Francisco, we had a meet-and-greet to show people what League of Legends is, how to play League. All the regular workers were there like, listening to [Hai “Hai” Lam] talk about what mid lane is, who Galio is. It was really fun and exciting, and it’s a nice refresher to see that there’s more than just what’s going on in esports. There’s so much more being added to it. It just feels like we’re evolving, and the Warriors are one of the first teams to take that initiative. I have to ask: What have your conversations with Steve Kerr been like? When I talked to Steve Kerr, I wasn’t the head coach at the time, just an assistant coach. So it was just kind of talking to him about how he likes to run practice, what his ideals are on good practice, and team secret stuff so I can’t tell you. It’s really nice to know he’s a resource for me. That’s the best feeling. You’re 0-7 right now. What is your barometer for success going forward? When Miami rolls around, where do you want to be as a team? I want us to be in playoffs. That might be an unreachable goal, but it’s something we’re always going to push towards. But I think the best measurement for our success is how much are we growing as players. The Warriors are all about not necessarily long-term progress, but development. My keys for success are going to be how much we’ve developed since last week. How much better of a team are we from last week? Are we improving, and are we seeing the improvements we want to see. And on top of that: Are we better teammates than we were last week? Those are the two big questions I ask every week. If you asked me those questions, we’d have to wait and see until after tomorrow, but I definitely think we are. This transcript was edited for clarity. GGSNA LCSSpring Split 2018 This Week in Dota 2, February 4-10th Clutch Gaming’s Solo: “We can contend against anyone”	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2615
__label__wiki	0.966661	0.966661	Chuckles Comedy House Presents Alex Thomas Chuckles Comedy House Ticket sales ended Apr 20, 2019 10:00 PM. Additional tickets may be available at the box office. From Player's Club and Mr. Box office...Alex Thomas Jr. is an American Actor and stand-up comedian who was born and raised in South Central Los Angeles. Thomas first broke into the entertainment business as a teenage dancer on the hit long running TV show Soul Train. While on Soul Train he became great friends with one of the stars of the show, Rosie Perez. After High school Rosie Perez became the choreographer on the hit TV show In Living Color. Alex soon after became her Asst. choreographer for the first two seasons of the show. While working on the show Alex met Keenan Ivory Wayans and his brother Damon Wayans who were the producers of the show. The brothers talked Thomas into doing stand-up comedy and the rest was history. Chuckles Comedy House Presents Alex Thomas \| 10:00 PM Alex Thomas Jr. is an American Actor and stand-up comedian who was born and raised in South Central Los Angeles. Thomas first broke into the entertainment business as a teenage dancer on the hit long running TV show Soul Train. While on Soul Train he became great friends with one of the stars of the show, Rosie Perez. After High school Rosie Perez became the choreographer on the hit TV show In Living Color. Alex soon after became her Asst. choreographer for the first two seasons of the show. While working on the show Alex met Keenan Ivory Wayans and his brother Damon Wayans who were the producers of the show. The brothers talked Thomas into doing stand-up comedy and the rest was history. VIP Tickets	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2618
__label__cc	0.735246	0.264754	Our Programming ReNEW Schools Founded in 2011 as one of the first non-traditional high schools of its kind in the state, specifically to support the city’s large population of students looking for the opportunity to earn rigorous high school credit at an accelerated rate while preparing for success in college and a career after earning a diploma. Originally two campuses of 150 students each, RAHS was later combined to one campus of 300+ students in the Uptown area during the 2012-2013 school year. The Early Childhood Center opened in February 2013 to support students, faculty and community members with children ages 0-4. Added career/technical education courses in nursing; expanded to include carpentry and construction in 2014-2015, and digital media in 2016-2017. To date, more than 350 graduates At ReNEW Accelerated High School, we advocate for the fundamental freedom to determine the course of our own lives. By designing customizable learning paths that advance depth of knowledge, we develop everyone's ability to critically analyze challenging concepts without fear of failure. By building our ability to make well-reasoned and compassionate choices, we transform every interaction into an opportunity to advance our collective empowerment. We renew our commitment to innovate solutions to difficult problems. We renew our commitment to create a customized path rooted in the needs of each student. We renew our commitment to show love for each other and our communities. Professionalism: Blue Dogs come to school or work on time with required materials, dress appropriately, communicate clearly and in a timely manner, meet expectations (or respectfully challenge them), and take ownership for their personal responsibilities. Empowerment: Blue Dogs take initiative for their own learning and growth, seek to improve themselves for the betterment of the group, and actively support and encourage those around them. Resilience: Blue Dogs reach their goals regardless of external difficulties by embracing challenges and bouncing back from failure; they reflect on their own actions and reach out for support when necessary. Fellowship: Blue Dogs are personally invested in the success of the people around them, know and utilize the unique contributions of each member of the group, and actively seek out ways to contribute to the whole. Accomplishment: Blue Dogs set and achieve ambitious goals for themselves; they have the knowledge and skills they need to succeed. 3649 Laurel St., New Orleans, LA 70115	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2621
__label__cc	0.741206	0.258794	Elvis Costello and the Roots :: Wise Up Ghost Posted on October 1, 2013 by Erwin-Michael Melocoton // 0 Comments When I first heard that Elvis Costello and the Roots were working on a project together I nearly lost my mind. I mean, what could be better than the blending of Costello’s sharp pop sensibilities and diverse musical knowledge with the Roots’ edge to make a mind-blowing and unpredictable album? Then, after a quick listen through, I realized that this wasn’t what I expected at all. I was looking for something groundbreaking and catchy, something that would be able to push the envelope while still maintain the instant appeal of Costello’s earlier works like ‘Every Day I Write the Book’ or ‘Oliver’s Army’. Add to that the fact that Black Thought doesn’t show up to drop a verse once. Of course, this is entirely my fault for dreaming rather than looking at the project realistically. It’s not always fair to expect an iconic album just because the musicians involved are icons. The expectations caused by success can weigh heavily on artists to produce incredible albums. It feels more like they got together and decided to jam and record the tracks they liked in spite of such heavy expectations. Costello’s writing feels somewhat recycled, but to that point, his writing has always been better than anything most other musicians could dream of producing. In addition to the Roots’ musicianship, the final product, without a doubt, would still be something technically sound. But this isn’t the Roots that make crazy innovative hip-hop records but the band that plays other people’s songs as Jimmy Fallon’s house band. Regardless, the work still carries the Roots’ trademark takes on blues, funk, and soul. While it speaks of the talent the Roots have, it’s also some of the most conventional work they’ve done. This is not to say that I hate the album or anything. It’s still a good listen. It’s always a pleasure to hear great musicians and writers work on their craft. Though the tracks aren’t as thought out and focused, as you would expect, the album still has several standouts. ‘Tripwire’ is a ballad that shines with the brilliance only Costello could provide, while ‘Cinco Minutos Con Vos’ is reminiscent of the Root’s early 2000s work. Wise Up Ghost isn’t meant to fulfill anyone’s expectations. In its simplest terms, it is two incredibly talented musical entities coming together to make solid music. You need to enjoy it for what is rather than create larger than expectations because of their legacies. If you can temper expectations, you might find that you enjoy the album. elvis costello and the roots wise up ghost Harrison Fine puts on his musician hat evening newsies: Big Bricc and Wet Denim	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2622
__label__wiki	0.958234	0.958234	Pat Bowlen Champ Bailey John Elway Sports Football Halls of fame Museums Leisure travel Travel Lifestyle Recreation and leisure Professional football NFL football Broncos to honor Bowlen in myriad ways in 2019 By ARNIE STAPLETON - Jun. 17, 2019 05:58 PM EDT Joe Ellis, president and chief executive officer of the Denver Broncos, talks about the death of team owner Pat Bowlen during a news conference Monday, June 17, 2019, at the NFL football team's headquarters in Englewood, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski) ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — The Denver Broncos are planning several ways to honor team owner Pat Bowlen , who died last week at 75 after a long battle with Alzheimer's just two months shy of his enshrinement into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Renaming their stadium in his honor isn't one of those. The team has lacked a naming rights partner for several years, and an online effort pushed by Broncos broadcast partner Orange & Blue 760 called for fans to sign a petition asking the team to rename the stadium "Pat Bowlen Field at Mile High." "I don't think he would want that. So, I don't think we're going to do that," team president and CEO Joe Ellis said Monday. "We've honored him with a statue, with a Ring of Fame pillar, his plaque on the Ring of Fame. We'll do some things this season to honor him. But if we were to put his name on the stadium, I can remember him when he knew I was off-track saying, 'Joe, just a second.' "And I think that would be his reaction. Probably there are people who would disagree, and I respect that. But for now that is not something that would be in our plans." The team will hold a public tribute Tuesday at Broncos Stadium at Mile High. "It's kind of cool, we're setting up a museum walkway that has a lot of his personal and Broncos memorabilia, and then at the end of the line is a tribute to him where members of the public can pay their respects to his family," Ellis said. "All family members will be there tomorrow between the hours of 10 and 3. I'm looking forward to it. It'll be a nice send-off for Pat." Ellis said the Broncos also will wear an orange and blue "Mr. B." decal on their helmets this season. Bowlen's memory also will be honored before the regular-season home opener against Chicago and again in October on the same day fellow Hall of Fame inductee Champ Bailey is added to the team's Ring of Honor. Ellis said it was important to give fans that chance because so few can attend the Hall of Fame enshrinement ceremony in Canton, Ohio, on Aug. 3. He said the public outpouring of support from fellow owners, former players and coaches and from fans is proof that the team made the right call in putting together the five-hour public stadium tribute, which will be followed by a private funeral next Monday. In reflecting on Bowlen's legacy, Ellis called him "a really good friend, a great mentor, and he was a great boss." Ellis said that although Bowlen was famously shy and known publicly as a man of few words, "I've got to tell you he was a great communicator," one who would check in often whenever he was away on league business. "He just loved to stay in touch. He needed to know what was going on and what that did for me was let me know that he was paying attention," Ellis said. "He ran this football team with his heart and not his pocketbook," said general manager John Elway. That was something Ellis could attest to. "He wanted to rip up everybody's contract all the time to give them more money," Ellis said, laughing. Ellis said Bowlen's widow, Annabel, who also is suffering from Alzheimer's, visited team headquarters Friday afternoon shortly after her husband died. "She just wanted to see Pat's office," Ellis said. Ownership of the franchise is held in a trust Bowlen set up more than a decade ago in hopes one of his seven children will one day run the team. Although daughter Brittany is hoping to one day take over, the succession plan and the trustees' oversight of Bowlen's estate has been challenged in state district court in the last year by some members of the Bowlen family. "Nothing has changed," Ellis said. "Pat prepared himself for this day, planned ahead for this day. The trustees are going to follow Pat's plan. I'm going to carry out what Pat asked me to do and honor what he asked me to do and that's really as much as I would say at this time." Elway said nothing changes from his perspective, either. "I've got 100 percent trust in what the trust is doing and the plan that Joe's put together and the plan that Pat put together knowing this was coming down. I've got 100 percent confidence that this organization is going to continue to stand on its feet. Whatever direction that may be, it'll be the right direction." Elway did allow that Bowlen's death reinforces the urgency for him to reverse the slide that took the Broncos from Super Bowl champs three years ago to a team that posted double digit losses each of the last two seasons. "No. 1, we've got to get it turned around, and No. 2, with Pat, thinking about Pat, it's his memory," Elway said. "There's no question there's more motivation to get this thing turned around." Follow Arnie Melendrez Stapleton on Twitter: http://twitter.com/arniestapleton	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2624
__label__cc	0.519664	0.480336	To make sure you get the best experience on our website we use cookies. Visit our privacy policy to learn more. Accept Cookies & hide message Multi Currency Quoting & Invoicing For Accountants & Bookkeepers Accountants Edition Join the Adviser Program Find an Accountant or Bookkeeper Add-On Modules Add-On Marketplace Explore Accounting Product New Accounting Features Try Accounting Try Payroll Making money to make a difference Most people aren’t wholly consumed by selfish or self-interested motives for their actions. While making money is important for the small business owner and entrepreneur, making a difference to other people’s lives may also be a guiding disposition. In recent times, two kinds of money-makers-for-good have come into the mainstream, social entrepreneurs and effective altruists. The idea that entrepreneurship should be directed not for wholly self-interested ends, but instead should be commerce that improves the lives of the community in which it is found, is the guiding principle of social entrepreneurship. Social entrepreneurs direct their entrepreneurial efforts towards solving social, cultural or environmental issues, much like NGOs, but look towards using the market to fund and sustain these efforts. For instance, a person who notices that litter in their community is effecting their lives and their neighbours’ might start a litter collection and recycling business, cleaning the streets of unsightly detritus, and making a buck on the side. The social entrepreneur isn’t driven by profits alone. Instead, they may use other metrics to understand their own success. In the aforementioned case, the social entrepreneur may look to the number of blocks kept spotless by their efforts, or by the amount of recycling collected. Since social entrepreneurs are community, not profit focused, many are able to collect outside funding to further their efforts. Unlike NGOs however, the social entrepreneur’s endeavours aren’t kept at the whims of donors – they aim to self-sustain. For some, the ability to do good deeds may be limited by the circumstances in which they find themselves; not everyone can devote their lives to charities and NGOs. But for many, the desire may remain to have their life be more than just a self-interested race to the top. According to the effective altruism movement, a person can pursue a professional capitalistic career, and make the world better, by means of salary commitments to charitable endeavours. The effective altruism movement stakes its claim to a justified use of ‘effective’ by sticking to a strict selection criteria for the charitable causes on the end of the professional’s donations. One of the most common critiques of charities in the modern age is that most of the money collected by the charity is directed towards administrative costs, instead of the targets of the charity – the poor, unwell, under protected. Instead of abrogating responsibility to the charities, effective altruism insists on applying a cost-benefit analysis to causes. The effectiveness of a charitable intervention is, in many cases, determined by doing a randomised control trial (RCT). RCTs are commonly used in medical trials to establish whether a medicine is doing what the researchers planned for it to do. Groups such as the Jameel Poverty Action Lab organise and perform these trials for charitable interventions. These trials can show that interventions that have been taken to be obviously effective are far less cost-effective and have a smaller net benefit than more unconventional interventions. Among the victims of this approach are disaster relief charities (with the exception of Doctors without Borders). The second most effective charity, according to effective altruism organisation GiveWell’s index, is Schistosomiasis Control Initiative, which treats people for parasitic infections. Those who go untreated can suffer from a host of problems – in children, the developmental effects can be profound, with huge knock-on effects to health, and schooling performance. The treatment is extremely cheap, making this charitable intervention extremely worth-while. With the support of reliable scientific evidence of the success of the charitable intervention, the effective altruist can find assurance that their donations are making a difference. business for good South Africa, effective altruism, how to do good in business, social entrepreneurship South Africa © Sage Kenya Pty Ltd 2018. All rights reserved.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2630
__label__wiki	0.762252	0.762252	← The little known South African connection with The Household Division (The Guards) ‘Blue Stone’ debunked → The narrative that many South Africans understand of The Rand Revolt today is one linked to Jan Smuts, sending tanks and aeroplanes to brutally repress a miners strike murdering his own kind – white South Africans, and it is a narrative his opposition, the National Party, used repeatedly to criticise Smuts for political expediency for decades. The Nationalists went further, as during the Apartheid period Smuts was painted as traitor to his own ‘Volk’ (people) partly because of the actions he took to quell this ‘miners strike’ and adding to this was the example of Jopie Fourie and the ‘1914 Afrikaner Revolt,’ both of which proved beyond doubt Smuts’ betrayal and brutality to his own kind, certainly according to the Nationalists. However, like any history derived for political expediency, much of this above narrative is very incorrect. The truth is the Rand Revolt was much more than a simple miners strike and a deep irony sits behind the old Nationalists claims of Smuts’ betrayal – as the nationalists had found sympathy using their traditional enemies – the Communists – in order to gain political points. It is the strangest of bedfellows on which to press a criticism. The truth is The Rand Revolt was South Africa’s first ‘Communist Revolution’ and the rebels (not just strikers) were not Afrikaner Boere ‘Volk’, they were, for the most part, led by a bunch of very militant English Communists with origins in Great Britain. These Communist miners were joined by the ‘Syndicalists’ in their upcoming fight to overthrow the South African Union government, the Syndicalists were a similar organisation to the Communists as they held the same view – that an economic system should exist where the worker ‘syndicate’ owns the mine, not the capitalist. These miners were in fact the same miners who provided the British with the trigger to start the Boer War, the same ‘British’ miners who repeatedly protested for their workers rights to the old Transvaal Government, and even then Paul Kruger sent in his infamous ‘ZAR’ Policemen to baton and break up these miners’ strikes and protests on the Rand. They were also the rational behind the Jameson Raid. Jameson and his consorts on the mines in Johannesburg planned the raid ostensibly to liberate these miners from Transvaal government oppression (coupled of course with Rhodes’ ideals of imperial expansionism). This time the Jameson ‘revolt’ and miners uprising was universally crushed by the Transvaal government (The old South African Republic) who sent in their military Commandos to put an end to it. The white miners on the Rand and their issues, which almost universally revolved around citizen and worker rights, were a constant thorn in both Boer Republics, they were the reason behind the destruction of the Boer nation by Britain in the 2nd Anglo Boer war, friends of the Afrikaner ‘Boer’ population they were not. So now that we have dispelled the first miss-truth, let’s have a look at what this revolt was really all about and ask ourselves if Smuts had any alternative to the course he took. Also lets hypothetically challenge whether the Rand Revolt of 1922 would have been handled any differently by the old Transvaal government (should the Boer War not have happened) and the Nationalist government (should they have been in power at the time of the revolt instead of Smuts). Origins of a Communist Rebellion in South Africa The Rand Rebellion (also known as the Rand Revolt or Second Rand Revolt – the Jameson Raid was the first) was an armed uprising of white miners on the Witwatersrand mining belt in March 1922. The trigger was a drop in the world price of gold from 130 shillings (£6 10s) a fine troy ounce in 1919 to 95s/oz (£4 15s) in December 1921, the companies tried to cut their operating costs by decreasing wages, and by weakening the colour bar to enable the promotion of cheaper black miners to skilled and supervisory positions. This in turn triggered a strike action led by the South African Communist Party which very quickly turned into an open armed rebellion against the state. The Communist Party in South Africa in fact took a very proactive role in transcending a simple strike to an open armed revolt, they based their argument on the ‘class struggle’ premise and sought to follow the lead of the Russian Communist workers revolution in 1917 which saw the overthrow of the Tzar by the Bolsheviks and the establishment of Soviet Russia. Consider that by 1922 this revolution in Russia had only occurred 5 years perviously. Buoyed by the success of the Russian communists, the South African Communists hoped that their action in Africa would force regime change in the Transvaal and furthermore inspire more Communist overthrows of state by other worker colonies in far-flung countries like Australia and India. Consider the summary of the Revolt given by David Ivon Jones – a mine-union communist and you’ll see the point: The Rand Revolt was ‘the deed of indictment against capitalism [which was] filling up from every land and every clime; and the roll of honour of proletarian heroism [was] growing from Africa, Australia and India . . . ‘ The South African Communist Party’s racist beginnings However, contrary to current views of The South African Communist Party (SACP), the SACP has as its origin an ‘Apartheid’ beginning, it was initially not the party for Black Africans, in fact by the time of the Rand Revolt it had a pretty strong ‘whites only’ philosophy underpinning it. ‘Comrade Bill’ Andrews It was founded by William (Bill) Henry Andrews who became the first Chairman of the SACP. Bill Andrews was born in England and by 1890 he had travelled to South Africa to work on the mines, here he became a predominant trade union organiser. A fighter for the rights of ″white″ labour, Bill Andrews was always quick to complain when he perceived that an African (whom he openly called ″Kaffirs″) might take away a job from a white man. By 1922 Bill Andrews was the first General Secretary of the South African Communist Party, and as a result the SACP approached the Rand Rebellion as a fight for white worker rights and white worker job reservation. In fact they used the slogan”Workers of the world, unite and fight for a white South Africa!” as a rally call to their Communist brethren all over the world to join them. To anyone who is wondering at this stage why the modern African National Congress (ANC) politicians when in conflict with the modern South African Communist Party (SACP) politicians feely call them ‘racists’, now you know the reason why. The Rand Revolt background In the early days of mining no Africans possessed the skills necessary for deep level mining, therefore the division of the work force had been between white miners and white management. The custom that skilled work was done by white men had been reinforced by legislation when Chinese labourers were introduced. During World War I the overall ratio of white to black workers had been maintained. As time passed, however, black miners began to acquire these skills, although their wages remained at very low rates. In September 1918, white mine workers had succeeded in persuading the Chamber of Mines to agree that no position filled by a white worker should be given to an African or Coloured worker. When the Chamber of Mines gave notice that it would be abandoning the agreement and would be replacing 2,000 semi-skilled white men with cheap black labour, the white miners reacted strongly. Their jobs and pay packets were threatened by the removal of the colour bar, and they feared the social encroachment on their lives that differences in colour, standards of living, and the cultural background of the coloured races might make. Sporadic strikes were launched in 1921, but these did not become widespread until the end of the year. The trade unions Because of the large number of mines and workingmen living in and around Fordsburg, Johannesburg, trade unions had become active in this area. This set the scene for the revolt in Fordsburg. At this time some trade union members were attracted to the spirit of socialism and others became communists, who referred to themselves as ‘Reds’. The leader of the Communist Party, Bill Andrews, known to his chums as ‘Comrade Bill’, urged a general strike. In the meanwhile, a group of revolutionaries organized commandos under the leadership of people who called themselves the ‘Federation of Labour.’ The New Year marked a strike on the collieries of the Transvaal. Strikes soon spread to the gold mines of the Reef, especially those in the East Rand, when electrical power workers and those in engineering and foundry occupations followed suit. By January 10, stoppage of work in mining and allied trades was complete. Bob Waterston, Labour Party MP, sponsored a resolution urging that a provisional government declare a South Africa republic. Tielman Roos, leader of the National Party in the Transvaal, submitted this proposal to a conference of MPs convened in Pretoria, but they rejected it outright. Roos himself was emphatic that the National Party would have nothing to do with a revolt. The revolt itself In February 1922, the protracted negotiations with the South African Industrial Federation broke down when the Action Group seized control, armed some white miners, and set up barricades. Mob violence spread alarmingly with bands of white men shooting and bludgeoning unoffending Africans and coloured men ‘as though they were on a rat hunt’. A general strike was proclaimed on Monday, 6 March and on Wednesday, the strike turned into open revolution in a bid to capture the city. On 8 March, white workers attempted to take over the Johannesburg post office and the power station, but they met with stout resistance from the police, and the day ended in fights between white strikers and black miners. The Red commandos made the most of this chaos by encouraging their rebel followers to obtain firearms and other weapons from white miners and their sympathizers under the pretext of trying to protect women and children from attacking blacks. By spreading the alarm, they discovered who had firearms and immediately confiscated them. The following day six units of the Active Citizen Force were called out to prevent further disorder. On Friday, 10 March, a series of explosions signalled the advance of the Red commandos and an orgy of violence began. To quell this the Union Defence Force was called out, as well as the aircraft of the fledgling SAAF and the artillery. By this time, Brakpan was already in the hands of the rebels, and pitched battles were raging between the strikers and the police for control of Benoni and Springs. Aeroplanes strafed rebels and bombed the Workers’ Hall at Benoni. Rebels besieged the Brakpan and Benoni police garrisons. At Brixton 1,500 rebels surrounded 183 policemen and besieged them for 48 hours. From the air, pilots observed the plight of the beleaguered Brixton policemen. Swooping over them, they dropped supplies, and then returned to bomb the rebels. During one of these sorties Colonel Sir Pierre van Ryneveld’s observer, Captain Carey Thomas, was shot through the heart. Martial law was proclaimed and burgher commandos were called up from the surrounding districts. On Saturday, 11 March, the Reds attacked a small detachment of the Imperial Light Horse at Ellis Park in Doornfontein, which sustained serious losses, and, on their way to the East Rand, the Transvaal Scottish marched into an ambush at Dunswart, sustaining heavy losses. The rebels searched citizens passing through Jeppestown and Fordsburg and sniped at those they thought were supporters of the mine management, as well as many policemen on duty in the streets. Prime Minister General Jan Smuts was widely blamed for letting the situation get out of hand. He arrived on the Rand at midnight to take charge of the situation. The rebellion is crushed On Sunday, 12 March, military forces and citizens attacked the rebels holding out on the Brixton ridge and took 2,200 prisoners. The next day government troops led by General van Deventer relieved the besieged police garrisons in Brakpan and Benoni. On 15 March, the artillery bombarded the strikers’ stronghold at Fordsburg Square and in the afternoon, it fell to the government. Before committing suicide in this building, the two communist leaders, Fisher and Spendiff, left a joint note: ‘We died for what we believed in – the Cause’. Samuel Alfred (Taffy) Long, heralded by subsequent labour histories as one of South Africa’s greatest working-class martyrs, was arrested after the defeat of Fordsburg. He was charged with murder and later also with high treason and the possession of loot. From 15 to 19 March 1922, government troops cleared areas of snipers and did house-to-house searches of premises belonging to the Reds, making many arrests. On March 16, the Union Defence Headquarters issued a press statement that the revolt had been a social revolution organized by Bolshevists, international socialists and communists. The revolt was declared over from midnight on 18 March. Aftermath and resultant changes in goverment and law In all the Rand Revolt was a calamity. It cost many lives and millions of pounds. About 200 people were killed – including many policemen, and more than 1,000 people were injured. Fifteen thousand men were put out of work and gold production slumped. In the aftermath, some of the rebels were deported and a few were executed for deeds that amounted to murder. John Garsworthy, leader of the Brakpan commando, was sentenced to death, but he was later reprieved. Four of the leaders were condemned to death and went to the gallows singing their anthem, ‘The Red Flag’. The Red Flag anthem was the rally anthem for British Communists – and as an aside it is still the official song for the British Labour Party and sung at their annual party rally. Smuts was widely criticised for his severe handling of the revolt. He lost support and was defeated in the 1924 general election. This gave Hertzog’s Nationalist Party and the Labour Party, supported by white urban workers, the opportunity to form a pact (the old adage ‘enemy of my enemy is my friend’ applied – a strange and uneasy pact indeed). JBM Hertzog Whilst Smuts stood in opposition, three important Acts were passed by Hertzog’s Nationalists whilst in pact with Labour. They gave increasing employment opportunities to whites and introduced programme of African segregation. The first was the Industrial Conciliation Act of 1924, which set up machinery for consultation between employers’ organisations and trade unions. The second was the Wage Act, which set up a board to recommend minimum wages and conditions of employment. The third was the Mines and Works Amendment Act of 1926, which firmly established the principle of the colour bar in certain mining jobs. South African Communists U-turn Two things happened after the 1922 Revolt that would have long reacting ramifications. Firstly Jan Smuts lost the next election and had to sit in the opposition bench and endure coalition Nationalist law making in the Union along race barrier lines for 15 years until 1939, when he finally became Prime Minister of South Africa for a second time. Secondly the South African Communist Party evolved into the political juggernaut it is now, and in a strange twist, the Rand Revolt in 1922 forced the hard-line Communists to re-appraise their views on ‘white’ worker rights. The Rand Revolt showed this to be a weakness and broader population support was needed if there was to be any significant Communist revolt in South Africa to create an independent Republic under communist rule. So, even though their jobs were now protected by ‘colour bar’ laws, they turned against these hard fought for rights. ‘Comrade Bill’ Andrews was expelled from the South African Communist Party in a series of purges over the their new “black Republic” policy (he was only permitted to rejoin the SACP many years later in 1938 aged 68). Just six years after the Rand Revolt, by 1928 the SACP agreed with their controlling body ‘Communist International’ to adopt the “Native Republic” thesis which stipulated that South Africa was a country belonging to the Natives i.e. the Blacks. The resolution was influenced by a delegation from South Africa. James la Guma, the new Communist Party Chairperson from Cape Town, he had already met with the leadership of ‘Communist International’ to agree the new way forward. By 1928, 1,600 of the SACP’s 1,750 members were Black. During this period, the party was accused of dismissing attempts by other multiracial revolutionary organisations (the ANC and Syndicalists) and using revisionist history to claim that the Communist party and its Native Republic policy was the only viable route to African liberation. By 1929: the party adopted a “strategic line” which held that, “The most direct line of advance to socialism runs through the mass struggle for majority rule”. The SACP today Did Smuts have a choice? Smuts sent in 20 000 troops to crush the Revolt. The fact is, it was a Communist Revolt to establish the Transvaal as a Communist Republic, and not just a simple strike. The Communists wanted the fight, tooled up for the fight and even annexed cities to forward their goal. So the answer in truth is that Smuts did not really have a choice. Would anyone else have reacted any differently to Smuts? Upfront we established that the old Boere Transvaal Republic had no appetite for these militant miners and their strikes and revolts. Their reaction in quelling them was brutal and swift. Politically expedient packs between the Communists and the Nationalists after the 1922 Revolt aside, the Nationalists had real no appetite for the Communists – and by 1928 the Communists certainly had no appetite for the Nationalists. The Nationalists, who by 1948 were in full control of South Africa, had a deep-seated hatred for Communism, they regarded them as the ‘Rooi gevaar’ (Red Danger) and used this as a call to action when embarking South Africa on a war against Communism. This manifested itself in not only the implementation of ‘anti-communist’ legislation and the ‘banning’ of the organisation in 1950, but also in a proxy Cold War against ‘Communism’ fought in Angola and Namibia from 1966 to 1989. Over the two decades of The Border War, the Nationalists killed thousands more ‘communists’ using the country’s defence force. It was certainly a far stronger reaction against Communism than Smuts’ use of the defence force against the Communists in the Rand Revolt. So to answer the hypothetical question whether the Nationalists would have reacted differently to the Rand Revolt had they been in power instead of Smuts, the answer would in all likelihood be ‘no’, in fact it would be very probable that their reaction would have been even more brutal. The irony does not end there as to strange bedfellows and the war against Communism for the Nationalists, in waging their war against Communism the Nationalists found themselves in bed with Jonus Savimbi and his ‘anti-colonial’ movement UNITA fighting the proxy Cold War in Angola. By 1988, the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale found the National Party in a deep political hole and they had to use the South African Defence Force to very bravely (and successfully) fight their way out of it. To negotiate a peace, PW Botha and the National Party hung UNITA out to dry, agreed with Cuba and the MPLA’s Soviet alliance as to the withdrawal of their Communist forces from Angola so the Nationalists could go home and declare a ‘victory’ over Communism (the Cubans in turn could go home and declare they liberated Namibia see ‘The enemy of my enemy is my friend’). Thereafter, just five very short years later, by 1994, the Nationalists of FW de Klerk had handed South Africa to the ANC/COSATU/Communist Party Tripartite Alliance with the Nationalists in coalition government again. The twists and turns of history now really show up the ‘full circle’ nature of history and why it repeats itself – because by April 2005 the ‘sunset clause’ was over and the National Party folded shop completely – and for political expediency again – their MP’s walked the floor to amalgamate with the ANC and their Communist labour alliance in a full merger. You could cut the irony with a knife at this stage. How predictable is history in that it ‘repeats’ itself, and in light of all this ‘political expediency’, ‘irony’, ‘strange bedfellows’ and twisting by the party of Afrikaner nationalism, we have to genuinely ask ourselves how much of their constant criticism of Smuts over the 1922 Revolt was genuine and how much was just a case of political sandbagging? Researched by Peter Dickens. Chief extract of the time-line of the Revolt taken from South African History Online (SAHO) 1922 Rand Rebellion. Other references include Wikipedia. Tagged Bill Andrews, Communism, Hertzog, Jan Smuts, South African Communist Party, The Rand Rebellion, The Rand Revolt 4 thoughts on “South Africa’s very own Communist Revolution – The Rand Revolt of 1922” Allan Cowan Excellent article, Peter. My great uncle, William “Willie” Patrick Cowan was one of the lesser leaders of the 1922 miners’ rebellion. I’ve read and have copies of his trial, which documents are available in the SA Archives in Pretoria. He was charged with treason but convicted of sedition. Percy Yutar was one of the junior counsel in the case at the time. Great Uncle Willie Patrick was fined the huge sum at the time of 200 pounds. The case records of the special court constituted for the cases make for very interesting reading. 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__label__wiki	0.780969	0.780969	Two Kinky Boots Charlies Get Hitched on Same Weekend! October 14th, 2014 \| By Ryan McPhee One weekend, two Charlies, two weddings! Kinky Boots’ leading man on Broadway Andy Kelso and current national tour headliner Steven Booth both celebrated their weddings over the weekend. The New York Times made the announcement for both: Kelso wed Sheila Coyla in Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania on October 11, and Booth and Molly Alvarez tied the knot on October 12 in Los Gatos, California. Kelso and Coyle (a singer with The Manhattan Dolls) met in 2007 at a friend’s party in Queens. He popped the question on the stage of the Al Hirschfeld Theatre following a performance in September 2013, surrounded by family and friends. As his castmates backed him up during renditions of “On Broadway” and “The Way You Make Me Feel,” a glass case rose from the stage floor with the ring. Booth and Alvarez’s relationship began as a showmance during the national tour of Happy Days. The two played on-stage lovers, and the romance quickly developed offstage as well. Following a romantic dance to Ella Fitzgerald’s “Misty” last October in the middle of Il Bambino, an Astoria, Queens restaurant, Booth got down on one knee. Kelso originated the role of Harry in Kinky Boots before stepping in to Charlie’s shoes, replacing Tony nominee Stark Sands. He made his Broadway debut in Mamma Mia! and played Fiyero in the national tour of Wicked. Booth appeared on Broadway in Glory Days; his additional credits include Avenue Q in Las Vegas and Dogfight off-Broadway. Congratulations to the happy couples! We’re sure both of you looked positively dashing on your prospective big days in the red thigh-highs. (That did happen, right?)	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2633
__label__cc	0.56887	0.43113	Athanasius on the Canon January 13, 2019 UncategorizedRickeyD Athanasius of Alexandria (A.D. 296-373) was the most prominent theologian of the fourth century, and he served as bishop of Alexandria. His list of canonical books was published as part of his Thirty-Ninth Festal Epistle of A.D. 367. After the list he declares, “these are the wells of salvation, so that he who thirsts may be satisfied with the sayings in these. Let no one add to these. Let nothing be taken away.” 2. But since we have made mention of heretics as dead, but of ourselves as possessing the Divine Scriptures for salvation; and since I fear lest, as Paul wrote to the Corinthians, some few of the simple should be beguiled from their simplicity and purity, by the subtilty of certain men, and should henceforth read other books—those called apocryphal—led astray by the similarity of their names with the true books; I beseech you to bear patiently, if I also write, by way of remembrance, of matters with which you are acquainted, influenced by the need and advantage of the Church. 3. In proceeding to make mention of these things, I shall adopt, to commend my undertaking, the pattern of Luke the evangelist, saying on my own account, Forasmuch as some have taken in hand to reduce into order for themselves the books termed Apocryphal, and to mix them up with the divinely inspired Scripture, concerning which we have been fully persuaded, as they who from the beginning were eye-witnesses and ministers of the Word, delivered to the Fathers; it seemed good to me also, having been urged thereto by true brethren, and having learned from the beginning, to set before you the books included in the Canon, and handed down, and accredited as divine; to the end that anyone who has fallen into error may condemn those who have led them astray; and that he who has continued steadfast in purity may again rejoice, having these things brought to his remembrance. 4. There are, then, of the Old Testament, twenty-two books in number; for, as I have heard, it is handed down that this is the number of the letters among the Hebrews; their respective order and names being as follows. The first is Genesis, then Exodus, next Leviticus, after that Numbers, and then Deuteronomy. Following these there is Joshua the son of Nun, then Judges, then Ruth. And again, after these four books of Kings, the first and second 1 being reckoned as one book, and so likewise the third and fourth 2 as one book. And again, the first and second of the Chronicles are reckoned as one book. Again Ezra, the first and second 3 are similarly one book. After these there is the book of Psalms, then the Proverbs, next Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Songs. Job follows, then the Prophets, the Twelve [minor prophets] being reckoned as one book. Then Isaiah, one book, then Jeremiah with Baruch, Lamentations and the Epistle, one book; afterwards Ezekiel and Daniel, each one book. Thus far constitutes the Old Testament. 5. Again, it is not tedious to speak of the books of the New Testament. These are: the four Gospels, according to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. After these, The Acts of the Apostles, and the seven epistles called Catholic: of James, one; of Peter, two, of John, three; after these, one of Jude. In addition, there are fourteen epistles of Paul the apostle, written in this order: the first, to the Romans; then, two to the Corinthians; after these, to the Galatians; next, to the Ephesians, then, to the Philippians; then, to the Colossians; after these, two of the Thessalonians; and that to the Hebrews; and again, two to Timothy; one to Titus; and lastly, that to Philemon. And besides, the Revelation of John. 6. These are the fountains of salvation, that he who thirsts may be satisfied with the living words they contain. In these alone the teaching of godliness is proclaimed. Let no one add to these; let nothing be taken away from them. For concerning these the Lord put to shame the Sadducees, and said, Ye do err, not knowing the Scriptures. And he reproved the Jews, saying, Search the Scriptures, for these are they that testify of me. 7. But for the sake of greater exactness I add this also, writing under obligation, as it were. There are other books besides these, indeed not received as canonical but having been appointed by our fathers to be read to those just approaching and wishing to be instructed in the word of godliness: Wisdom of Solomon, Wisdom of Sirach, Esther, Judith, Tobit, and that which is called the Teaching of the Apostles, and the Shepherd. But the former, my brethren, are included in the Canon, the latter being merely read; nor is there any place a mention of secret writings. But such are the invention of heretics, who indeed write them whenever they wish, bestowing upon them their approval, and assigning to them a date, that so, using them as if they were ancient writings, they find a means by which to lead astray the simple-minded. See: http://www.bible-researcher.com/athanasius.html ← Revisionist Gay Theology Atheist’s Questions for the Christian →	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2639
__label__cc	0.679861	0.320139	Sharalyn Loves Animals Official Site of Author Sharalyn Morrison-Andrews Beautiful Hanoi September 20, 2007 September 23, 2014 / sharalynlovesanimals Hanoi was a much prettier city than Ho Chi Minh. Vietnam was under French rule for several years and many of the buildings were influenced by French architecture. In the center of Hanoi is Hoan Kiem Lake (Lake of the Restored Sword) which had a lovely walkway around it. It was an area popular with the tourist and locals alike. It came alive at night, when the temperature got a little cooler. We walked around one night and observed a couple of aerobic classes, badminton, children playing and couples romancing! The legend of the lake is the 15th-century war hero Le Loi used a magic golden sword from heaven to vanquish Chinese invaders. While Le Loi was boating on the lake in celebration of his successful martial exploits, a gigantic tortoise rose from the depths and seized the blade, restoring it to its heavenly owner. This story was acted out at the water puppet theater. On a small island in Hoan Kiem Lake, is the Tortoise Tower (Thap Rua) which is linked to this legend. North of the lake, is the Old Quarter of Hanoi. This was a walled city in 1011, when it was first established. Each of the 36 streets was had a specific craft that the artisans practiced there. The word for street is “Hang” so on Hang Chieu one can still find straw mats or “mat street,” but Hang Bong, or “cotton street,” cotton is no longer sold. Today, it is much the same, only with more modern items. One street had only sewing equipment. On another street, there were only shoes. The streets were extremely narrow and very interesting. Ma Mae Street turned out to be our favorite…it had the best restaurants and souvenir shops. Tube house were and still are very popular in the Old Quarter. This is because people were and are taxed on their size of their store frontage. So, the stores are very narrow and the rest of the house is divided into sections. In some sections, there is the living space for the family, an area set aside for gardening and for the servants. We ate in a restaurant that was originally a tube house. Other places that we visited in Hanoi were the War Museum. Vietnam has a long history of war, especially with the French. By the time Mark and I got to the Vietnam war, we had pretty much had enough of the museum. We ventured to the art museum. I loved the folk art exhibit that displayed the art of the various ethnic groups. Their weavings of cloth and baskets were beautiful. Many of the paintings, whether it was on silk, oil or lacquered-wood there was a strong influence of military themes. We visited Ba Dinh Square which is where Ho Chi Minh’s museum, mausoleum and home are. The Vietnamese love “Uncle Ho”. We visited his modest home, which was behind the opulent Presidential palace. It was the gardener’s house that he chose to live in. His mausoleum was closed, which we couldn’t really find out why. Also, in this park is the One Pillar Pagoda. This was built by King Ly Thai Tong who had a dream that Quan Am, the Asian Lady of Mercy, instructed the King to go to a women, who later became his wife and bore him an heir. King Tong built the One Pillar Pagoda to honor Quan Am. Another favorite spot of mine in Hanoi, was the Temple of Literature. It is such a beautiful, peaceful oasis in a busy, loud city. Again, it was King Ly Thai Tong who founded this temple in 1070 to pay tribute to the scholars of his kingdom. Eventually, it became Hanoi’s first university. In 1484, Emperor Le Thanh Tong started the tradition of carving the names of graduates in stone steles (or slabs) that are held up by stone tortoises. There was an amazing statue of Confucius in a temple of lacquered wood. We had our own personal cyclo driver in Hanoi. Sing waited patiently for us to emerge from the Army Hotel. Some times, we had to fib and tell him that we were just walking as we wanted to get to the other side of town quicker. So, we would walk a block and hail a cab. Often, it was cheaper than the cyclo driver. Still, we often would take Sing to the Old Quarter where he would drop us off. He was a good cyclo driver and helped restore my trust in them!!! ← Cu Chi Tunnels and Mekong River Trip Ha Long Bay an UNESCO World Heritage Site → Sharalyn Morrison-Andrews is an author and traveler based out of the state of Maine. Follow me as I share my travels and books with people around the world! 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__label__cc	0.580163	0.419837	adipurnama 10 months ago U-16 Asian Cup Schedule, Tonight Indonesia U-16 National Team Vs. Vietnam Indonesia U-16 national team will return to the second match in the U-16 2018 Asian Cup. Their schedule for the second match is to face Vietnam U-16 national team on Monday (09/24/2018) night. Indonesia's Under-16 national team made a positive start in the U-16 2018 Asian Cup in Malaysia. They were surprisingly a 2-0 win over Iran's Under-16 national team in the first match at the Bukit Jalil Stadium on Friday (9/21/2018). Two goals from the U-16 national team victory were printed by the twins Bagus Kahfi and Bagas Kaffa. The two players will again be a mainstay in the match against Vietnam. Unlike Indonesia, the Vietnam national team suffered defeat in the first match. They were beaten 0-1 by India's Under-16 national team. If you want to qualify, Vietnam U-16 national team must be able to win the match against Indonesia. Bagus Kahfi and his friends must be alert. Indonesia's U-16 national team versus Vietnam will compete at Bukit Jalil Stadium on Monday at 19.45. This game is scheduled to be broadcast live by MNC TV. Soccerasiaaff cup	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2652
__label__wiki	0.576196	0.576196	San Diego Gay and Lesbian News A Hale Media Company Email SDGLN Health, Wellness & Sports Subscribe Email SDGLN HowStuffWorks.com Breaks Down the Top 10 Myths of Health Care Reform Fact: Current Bill Comes in at More Than 1,500 Pages; Site Simplifies What Everyone Should Know (ATLANTA) PRNewswire/ -- Health care reform is currently one of the most talked-about issues in America, and myths and misconceptions continue to abound. To help separate fact from opinion in this complex and confusing proposal, HowStuffWorks.com, the award-winning, credible online resource that provides easy-to-understand information and explanation for thousands of topics, breaks down the "10 Myths About U.S. Health Care Reform Proposals" in a way that everyone can comprehend. Does the plan really hurt small businesses? Will older Americans face "death panels?" With a goal of answering every question that may arise, the website explains why change could be beneficial in "Why Pursue Health Care Reform?" Knowledge-seekers who want the nitty-gritty details can learn even more at "How U.S. Health Care Reform Works," which elaborates on everything from the history of the U.S. health care system to the arguments for and against public health insurance options. For example, below are just a few factoids that may not be common knowledge: How much does the U.S. currently spend on health care compared to other countries? Answer: In the U.S., we currently spend approximately $6,000 per person each year on health care, which is $2,797 more than any other industrialized country spends. However, 47 million people are still uninsured. Did you know that the U.S. health care system was built on something of an accident? Answer: In the 1940s, employers started offering health insurance as a workplace perk after the government implemented price controls and froze wages to curb wartime inflation. This set the stage for a system in which most citizens receive their health insurance through their employer. Did President Obama write the health care plan himself? Answer: Although the current health care reform proposals are frequently termed "Obamacare," these plans weren't written by Barack Obama. Instead, he has laid out his eight requirements and then taken a hands-off approach, leaving it to the Congress to write the bills. "Because health care reform affects everyone, it is crucial for Americans to get the facts straight,” said Conal Byrne, Editor-in-Chief, HowStuffWorks.com. "Often it is difficult to decipher fact from fiction on the Internet, and we aim to make everyone smarter and more informed about this important subject." Sign up for the San Diego Gay & Lesbian News newsletter Opt in below to recieve the latest SDGLN updates and news stories right in your inbox! San Diego Pix San Diego Pride © Copyright 2019 Hale Media, Inc.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2656
__label__wiki	0.893188	0.893188	(CBS) 2020 Democrats begin to approach topic of reparations for black Americans April 15, 2019 United StatesFrancisco Marques Pereira (CBS) In a CNN town hall in March, Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren became the latest candidate to bring one of the most controversial political topics in America into the spotlight: “I believe it’s time to start the national full-blown conversation about reparations in this country.” Warren is one of several 2020 presidential candidates who has advocated for a serious discussion about reparations, which is the idea that descendants of slaves should be compensated in return for the forced labor and bodily harm done to their ancestors. Sens. Cory Booker and Kamala Harris, who are both black, have discussed the need to have conversations around the issue. Reparatations used to be a fringe idea — at least among white politicians — but it’s receiving more attention from mainstream Democrats in the 2020 presidential campaign. Many of the declared Democratic presidential candidates have identified a position on reparations, or at least support having a national conversation about the issue. As the topic enters the political mainstream, Americans may be forced to reckon with the racial injustices of the past and present, even if these discussions don’t result in full reparations. A history of opposition In January 1865, as the Civil War was winding down to a close, General William Tecumseh Sherman issued Special Field Order 15, dictating that freed slaves would receive land parcels on the coast between South Carolina and Florida. The order allocated 400,000 acres of land — 40 acres per family — and directed that these lands be governed by black people themselves, with the “sole and exclusive management of affairs will be left to the freed people themselves.” Sherman later ordered that the army could give the new settlers mules. President Andrew Johnson reversed the order in 1865, allowing the plantation owners who once owned the land to return. But the promise of “40 acres and a mule” for those formerly enslaved has echoed through history as a mantra for supporters of reparations: the idea that for the injustices that they had endured, some kind of payment was owed. Supporters of reparations argue that 250 years of slavery, plus a century and a half of racial terrorism, segregation, discriminatory housing policies and other injustices mean that reparations for black people are just as necessary today as they were in 1865. However, the idea has remained politically unpopular, according to recent polling. A 2018 poll by the left-leaning organization Data For Progress found that 26 percent of Americans supported reparations. A 2016 Marist poll also found that 26 percent of Americans believe the U.S. should compensate black Americans as “a way to make up for the harm caused by slavery and other forms of racial discrimination.” However, a February Gallup poll found that only 18 percent of black Americans are satisfied with how blacks are treated in the U.S. today. An April Pew poll revealed that 84 percent of black Americans “believe the legacy of slavery affects the position of black people in American society today a great deal/fair amount.” The 2016 Marist poll also showed that nearly 60 percent of black Americans support reparations. But the unpopularity of the idea may also stem from the way reparations was defined in the polling questions. For instance, the Marist poll asked whether the U.S. “should or should not pay reparations, that is, should or should not pay money to African-Americans who are descendants of slaves.” Direct payment to the descendants of slaves may be the simplest expression of the solution, but it’s viewed by many as impractical and may not be the most effective way to try to right this historic wrong. In Congress, a bill to create a commission to study reparations and its implementation — H.R. 40, named for the “40 acres and a mule” promise — has languished in the House since former Rep. John Conyers first introduced it in 1989. But Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee reintroduced the bill in January. Former President Barack Obama, the first black president in American history, is among those who thinks reparations are not “practical.” In 2016, he said he suggested the better approach might be to throw more resources into moving children out of poverty. “I have much more confidence in my ability, or any president or any leader’s ability, to mobilize the American people around a multiyear, multibillion-dollar investment to help every child in poverty in this country than I am in being able to mobilize the country around providing a benefit specific to African-Americans as a consequence of slavery and Jim Crow,” Obama said in an interview with writer Ta-Nehisi Coates for The Atlantic in 2016. (Coates wrote a well-regarded article in 2014, “The Case for Reparations,” which stirred interest in reparations among white reporters and politicians.) The proposals If the economic proposals espoused by presidential candidates like Warren, Booker and Harris are any indication, they hew more closely to Obama’s belief about reparations — that the better approach might be to address income inequality across the board, and not just African-Americans hurt by the legacy of slavery and racial segregation in America. William “Sandy” Darity, a professor at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University and an expert on racial inequality and reparations, said that the candidates’ proposed plans broadly addressing income inequality might also help to diminish the racial inequality gap, but he does not think that they go far enough to make a difference in the lives of black people. “I think that the primary objective of a reparations program has to be elimination of the racial wealth gap,” Darity said, since policies such as slavery and segregation were responsible for poorer economic outcomes for African-Americans in the first place. Darity is co-writing a book on reparations that he expects to publish in 2020. Here are some of the candidates’ income inequality proposals: Booker’s proposed American Opportunity Accounts Act, commonly known as “baby bonds,” would provide every child born in the United States with a $1,000 savings bond. The child would receive up to $2,000 every year, based on family income. The child would be able to access the account at age 18, and only for allowable uses, like education and home ownership. If a family of four lives below the federal poverty line — living on $25,100 or less — a child would receive an additional $2,000 each year. This would give the child around $46,000 by the age 18. The size of the additional deposits decreases as family income increases; a child in a family earning roughly $56,000 would receive $500 a year, while a child in a family with an income of around $125,000 would get no additional deposits. A study by Naomi Zewde of Columbia University’s Center on Poverty and Social Policy found that the baby bonds proposal would “reduce generational wealth disadvantages and improve the net asset position of young African American households,” and “reduce the black-white wealth disparity from a factor of 15.9 to 1.4 at the median.” This proposal, inspired in part by ideas floated by Darity and Darrick Hamilton of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at The Ohio State University, would diminish the racial wealth gap. But, Darity is quick to note, it would not eliminate it completely — meaning that he does not consider it true reparations. “I’ve actually endorsed this proposal but I don’t view it as reparations,” Darity said about the baby bonds. “From the standpoint of dealing with general wealth inequality, the Booker proposal is a pretty good one. But from the standpoint of dealing with racial inequality, it’s wholly inadequate.” Booker has also introduced a bill in the Senate to create a committee which would study reparations, a companion bill to H.R. 40 in the House. Harris’ proposal, the LIFT The Middle Class Act, would provide up to $3,000 a year for a single person or $6,000 a year for a married couple, given in a lump sum at the beginning of the year or in monthly installments. Working families earning $100,000 or less would qualify. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a nonpartisan institute, found that Harris’ plan would lift 9 million Americans out of poverty, according to the Atlantic. However, the proposal is an income supplement. Because black Americans already have a far lower median income than white Americans, providing an additional $6,000 a year would not close the disparity. Pew Research Center calculated in 2014 that black median income was around $43,300, while white median income was around $71,300. “A $6,000 allocation that goes to all families who have incomes below $100,000 will do very little in terms of closing the racial wealth gap, although it could be helpful in terms of reducing the kind of economic stresses that families are confronted with,” Darity said. Warren’s proposal to diminish income inequality is based on housing. Warren has proposed the American Housing and Economic Mobility Act, which includes a provision that would offer grants to first-time homebuyers who live in formerly redlined neighborhoods or areas which were previously segregated by law and remain low-income. Redlining occurred when the federal government denied housing subsidies to black Americans, pushing them into certain higher-risk neighborhoods. “This enormous gap is a moral stain on our country. And because the government bears a big part of the blame for it, the government should take real steps to fix it,” Warren said in a Medium post of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at The Ohio State Universityexplaining her proposal. The post also notes that the plan has been endorsed by Professors Mehrsa Baradaran and Darrick Hamilton, who have said it “has the potential to make a substantive dent in closing our enormous and persistent racial wealth gap.” However, while this bill will redress some of the harm done by federal housing laws against black homeowners, not all formerly redlined neighborhoods are still majority-black, and not all homeowners seeking to move into these communities are black, due to gentrification. “It is uniquely focused on home ownership and the barriers to home ownership that were associated with the post-World War II period for black potential homeowners,” Darity said. “But it doesn’t address at all the huge litany of injustices that has been inflicted on black Americans from slavery to the present moment.” Only two candidates have explicitly endorsed reparations: Marianne Williamson and Julian Castro. Castro has not yet offered specifics on his plan, although he said in an interview with The Grio that reparations could come in the form of housing reform or educational investment. Williamson’s proposal has varied in price, ranging from $100 billion up to $500 billion. Her reparations plan would not involve payments to individuals, but rather would “apply this money to economic projects and educational projects of renewal” for African-Americans. However, critics argue that this is not nearly enough: Darity has calculated that reparations to black Americans could cost a minimum of $1.5 trillion. Responses from candidates on the fence Several candidates have expressed interest in discussing how the history of racial inequality in the U.S. could be addressed, although they may not necessarily support reparations. Sanders has been the most dismissive of reparations. In 2016, Sanders said it was “its likelihood of getting through Congress is nil” and that it was very “divisive.” At another CNN town hall in February, Sanders questioned the definition of the term when told that Warren and Castro had indicated support for reparations. “What does that mean? What do they mean? I’m not sure that anyone’s very clear,” Sanders said, although he continued, “As a result of the legacy of slavery, you have massive levels of inequality.” When asked if he still believed reparations would be divisive, Sanders said, “it depends on what the word means.” However, in his speech at Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network convention in April, Sanders said that he would be willing to sign H.R. 40 to create a commission to study the topic. “If the House and Senate passed that bill, of course I would sign it,” Sanders said. “There needs to be a study, but let me also say this, that I think that what we need to do…is to pay real attention to the most distressed communities in America.” Sanders also supports the “10-20-30” proposal by House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn which would require that a minimum of 10 percent of federal funds go to communities in which the poverty level has been twenty percent or higher over the past thirty years. O’Rourke told voters in Iowa that it was necessary to have a conversation about reparations before taking any action. “At the root of the word ‘reparations’ is ‘repair’…in order to make sure we repair this country, we first have to confront the truth,” O’Rourke said, arguing that conversations need to start happening at a community level before it could be addressed by the government. “We have to be able to have conversations in homes like this one. There has to be the political will developed so then we can take action nationally,” O’Rourke said. At the National Action Network convention in April, O’Rourke confirmed to Rev. Al Sharpton that he would sign H.R. 40 if he became president. He added that he had “never seen a major Democratic candidate for president talk about white privilege.” In an interview with Esquire, Buttigieg said that “the cleanest way” to redress wrongs done to black Americans were to focus on policies which address inequality. “I’ve never seen a specific, workable proposal. But what I do think is convincing is the idea that we have to be intentional about addressing or reversing harms and inequities that didn’t just happen on their own,” Buttigieg said. He suggested a strategy whereby focusing on housing and criminal justice could disproportionately benefit people of color, similar to the ideas presented by Booker, Warren and Harris. “I think that’s one way that we can be intentional and make a difference on this. I’ve just not seen a cash transfer mechanism that’s been laid out that you can envision working that most people would think is fair,” Buttigieg said. In an interview on “The View,” Buttigieg suggested a policy similar to Warren’s, focused on assisting homeowners in formerly redlined areas. He also said that he supports H.R. 40. ← (BBG) France’s Macron to Address Nation With Plans to Quell Discontent (Reuters) Mnuchin says hopes U.S.-China trade talks nearing ‘final round’ →	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2657
__label__wiki	0.839696	0.839696	Henry Ian Cusick Henry Ian Cusick Chavez (1967-04-17) April 17, 1967 (age 52) Trujillo, Peru Playing "Desmond Hume" on Lost Henry Ian Cusick (born April 17, 1967) is an Emmy Award-nominated Scottish-Peruvian actor of stage, television, and movies. 1.2 Career Biography[change \| change source] Early life[change \| change source] Cusick was born in Trujillo, Peru to a Peruvian mother and a Scottish father. He lived in Trinidad and Tobago for 10 years. He went to high school there at Presentation College. He can speak both English and Spanish. Cusick spent six months at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow. After that he joined the Citizens' Theatre. Career[change \| change source] Cusick's first leading roles at the Citizens' Theatre were Dorian Gray in The Picture of Dorian Gray with Rupert Everett, Hamlet in The Marovitz Hamlet with Helen Baxendale, and Horner in The Country Wife. His performances as Torquato Tasso in the Edinburgh International Festival production of Torquato Tasso, and Creon in the Citizens' Theatre production of Oedipus earned him a special commendation for the Ian Charleson Award 1995 for "Outstanding Performance by a Young Actor in a Classical Theatre Role". He was nominated for an Emmy for his guest role as Desmond Hume on the television series Lost. He joined the main cast of Lost in season 2. He was also in two episodes of season 5 of 24. Henry Ian Cusick on IMDb Retrieved from "https://simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Henry_Ian_Cusick&oldid=6317898" Scottish stage actors Scottish movie actors Scottish television actors Peruvian entertainers This page was last changed on 22 November 2018, at 07:44.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2662
__label__cc	0.722685	0.277315	A Licentious Nation of Pretend Christians Written by: Rob Pue Once upon a time, not so long ago, JUNE was known as “Dairy Month” here in Wisconsin. I suppose other states had similar celebrations related to what their states were known for. But in Wisconsin, Dairy Month was celebrated with parades, festivals, Dairy Breakfasts, Farm Tours and other things, to acknowledge the hard work and dedication of our state’s farm families. While, officially, the month of June IS STILL “Dairy Month” here, (I THINK), one would be hard pressed to know that, because NOW the month of June marks the official “kickoff” of sodomite “pride” festivities all across the world. And in Wisconsin, SODOMY gets FAR MORE publicity than the dairy industry ever did. Now, these celebrations actually start well before the month of June and last well into the late fall — and in some places, they never end. The “pride” of sodomy, with it’s rainbow colored flags, debaucherous parades and so-called “family-friendly” festivals seems to never end. And make no mistake: this is not just some passing “fad” acknowledged by a small handful of people on the fringe of society. Today, America — and the WORLD — is fully immersed, 24/7, 365 days a year — so enamored we are, with the act of sodomite sexual activity. It seems this world cannot get enough. The LGBT movement began adding new letters to their alphabet some time ago, to include the “Q” for “queer,” whatever THAT means. And now, though some will not admit it, the FULL acronym (at least for now) is actually “LGBTQP+” — the “P” standing for “pedophilia” and the “plus” meaning — well… “whatever one would like to add, that’s just fine.” “Love is love,” they tell us. “Love wins,” they say. But LOVE has NOTHING to do with it! While this movement is cloaked in the illusion that this is all about who (or WHAT) a person chooses to “love,” and that those involved in the LGBTQP+ agenda are all about “love and acceptance, diversity and inclusion,” the truth of the matter is, this stuff is nothing less than demonic delusion, the deliberate twisting and indoctrination of young hearts and minds, licentiousness and evil…as the devil seeks to steal the souls of our children and grandchildren. And he’s making pretty good progress. Once again — while the modern American so-called “church” sleeps. I’ve just returned from Columbus, Ohio, where about 100 Christians from 21 states gathered to minister on the streets at the 2nd largest “pride” parade in the country, with a half million participants. You heard me right, a HALF MILLION. During this time, SODOMY takes over the entire city. Open (and PROUD) nudity is commonplace, right out on the city streets. Rainbow flags and regalia are everywhere you look. Not just in the parade — even on banners on downtown city streetlight poles…. PROUDLY DISPLAYED by the city of Columbus. Yes, the entire CITY celebrates the sodomite lifestyle… or better stated, “death-style,” as we all KNOW the end result of this perverted sexual activity. But while Columbus, Ohio boasts the 2nd largest of such parades in the nation, these events are taking place in nearly EVERY city and town across the country. If YOUR city doesn’t yet have one, just give it time; it won’t be long… it’s coming to your backyard… soon. How will YOU respond? Let me tell you what happens at one of these events. First there’s the parade itself. IN the parade, you will see many so-called “Christian churches” with floats adorned in rainbow colors, near-naked men dancing and gyrating on top of the floats, sometimes simulating sodomite sex, while others walk alongside, holding signs APOLOGIZING for the way “Christians” have treated sodomites. There will also be signs such as “LGBT families for Jesus,” “God thinks you’re fabulous,” “OUR church LOVES you!” “We embrace diversity.” And of course, “Love over hate.” These churches promise they are “open and affirming” of the sodomite death-style, and “ALL are welcome.” Of course, in their world, “ALL” never means “all.” When REAL Christians bring the message of forgiveness of God through humble repentance (the opposite of perverted PRIDE), these church-goers have no problem whatsoever showing us their middle finger and screaming vulgarities. Then there are the businesses and corporations — nearly EVERY company you can think of, from Noodles restaurants to Target stores to UPS. TRULY, too many to mention. Most appalling and sad are the thousands upon thousands of CHILDREN at the parade — and IN the parade, babies pushed in strollers, toddlers riding on the shoulders of near-naked men – walking as couples, stopping every so often to grope one another and give each other a passionate kiss in front of the thousands of cheering onlookers. Older kids walking in the parade… their faces full of sadness and confusion as they dutifully wave small rainbow flags, as instructed by their so-called “parents.” And then there are the thousands of kids TAKEN to the parade by THEIR so-called “parents to watch all of this hedonism. Some in the parade hand out candy to the young children — candy shaped like sexual organs. Others in the parade hand out condoms to the teens. I find it ironic that children under 13 cannot go to a theater to watch a PG-13 movie. Yet they are encouraged and TAKEN to these events BY THEIR PARENTS to view some of the most outrageous and debaucherous activities you could imagine. And the more outrageous and offensive the better — the crowds love it, the filthier it is, the better. Then, there are the public school buses in the parade, decked out in rainbow colors and flags, boasting “City Schools Celebrate Pride” — and the teachers’ unions marching in the parade, touting once again “Diversity makes us stronger,” and “Public School Teachers LOVE kids.” (Yeah, I BET they do). Everywhere you look, it’s nothing but sodomite sex, nudity, “drag queens” greeting young children — and young children frightened out of their minds as they are forced to view these demons — more frightening to a kid than an evil circus clown. I could go on, but I won’t. Then there are the handful of Christians. Our group, as I said, consisted of about 100 people, from all over the United States. We are all part of the Salt and Light Brigade and we gather for important opportunities to witness for Christ wherever we have the chance to stand up for God’s natural order and design, and God’s TRUTH. We are peaceful. We are KIND. We are NOT the “Westboro Baptist Church” types. The local police hate us. The Columbus police chief is an open lesbian; and of course, the city police department also participates in the parade, so you know whose side the cops are on. They rope us off, ostensibly for our “protection.” But it has nothing to do with our protection. They rope us off and surround us, to make sure that WE do not cause any problems — AND, dare I say, to make us an easy target for those “loving” sodomites to abuse — like shooting fish in a barrel. As we seek to share the Word of God and witness to those watching the parade around us, we are attacked on all sides — to the great AMUSEMENT of the police. You see, since the sodomites have NO valid argument for their lifestyle choices, all they can do is drown us out with noise, so that our message cannot go forth. On more than one occasion, the signs we hold have been stolen and destroyed. We have been pushed, shoved, spit upon, our personal property destroyed, we’ve been punched, and the foul-mouthed swearing never ends. People blow whistles loudly non-stop. They use air-horns, blasted inches from our ears, STEADILY. They bang on drums and cowbells and blow trumpets to drown out any Godly message we might try to speak. They cover our signs with rainbow flags. They call us every foul name in the book and SCREAM at us through megaphones — again, inches from our ears. ALL of this, mind you, while the police are right there, inches in front of us, smirking and smiling in delight to see us there in our makeshift “cage,” enduring the abuse for more than three hours straight. They try to provoke us to violence. But we do not act in the “flesh,” rather we take their abuse and continue our mission. Make no mistake: if WE were to so much as “bump into” one of our abusers, the police would be right there to wrestle us to the ground, handcuff us and haul us off to jail. There is virtually NO opportunity, in an atmosphere like this, to speak one-on-one with anyone — oh they DO talk to us — but only to call us filthy, foul names, cast aspersions on OUR sexuality, our mothers, ANYTHING to elicit violence from us. And again, while we are being violently attacked by the sodomites, the police offer NO protection or equal rights or free speech for US. It’s “open season” on Christians. This was just one such parade. In Louisville, Kentucky, another group of Christians went to witness at that parade. There, one minister had a bag of dog feces dumped on his head and rubbed in his face. In another instance, in Oklahoma City, four Christians were arrested by parade security officers, one man tazed. The charge? “Trespassing!” Trespassing on a public street at a public event — because he was preaching from the Bible. Several times at these events, I HAVE had an opportunity to speak directly, one-on-one with people. As I compassionately shared our reason for being there, and explained how these young adults had been lied to and deceived by our culture and their schools, I WAS able to have an impact. On one occasion a young lesbian couple came to attack us, but by God’s grace, the situation turned around, and I was able to take them aside to a quieter spot and have a wonderful conversation with them, and in the end, tears began to well up in their eyes, and one said, “I think I have some things to think about now.” And then this couple and their five friends LEFT the parade. With some things to think about. But things have changed drastically over just a few years. No longer is there any chance of civil conversation. Now, as I said, all they can do is drown out our message with noise. They WILL NOT listen. They WILL NOT hear. Apparently, they have been trained to respond this way, because this is how they act now at every such event. It’s called “jamming” — drowning out our message with horns, megaphones, whistles, cowbells, drums, you name it. ANYTHING to keep people from hearing what we have to say. Oh, and I might also mention that WE are forbidden by police from using any form of amplification so that OUR message might be heard. Yet THEY are freely able to blast these vulgarities inches from our ears through megaphones turned up on “high.” You might wonder WHY we do this. We do this because we are grieved, because we have compassion, because we have the TRUTH of the deception and lies that millions today are embracing. If WE do not go and stand up for God’s Word and Truth, WHO, I ask you, will? Local Bible-believing and preaching churches WILL NOT go. The apostate churches are IN the parade. And for us to even get a hundred people to get involved, it took dedicated men and women of God from 21 different states to come… and all we could gather (after MONTHS of begging other Christians to help us) was a hundred… out of the ENTIRE United States. Meanwhile, the sodomite agenda rages forward, full force. In cities across the nation now, we have crosswalks painted in the rainbow flag colors. Multiple state governors are celebrating too — raising the rainbow flag above the state capitol buildings. Even in the small city where I live, the local Department of Motor Vehicles now proudly flies the rainbow flag. When this happened, there were only THREE people that cared enough to oppose this publicly. Of course, these three courageous speakers were, afterwards, treated with extreme disdain, called “haters,” “bigots,” “homophobes,” and worse. Much worse. Need I mention how our pubic schools and libraries are now ALSO being taken over by the sodomite agenda? You’ve no doubt heard of “Drag Queen Story Time,” where a man comes dressed as a woman — not just as a “woman” but as an outrageously HIDEOUS woman — sometimes with a full beard, piercings, wearing jewelry with satanic symbols, brightly colored rainbow wigs, and a TON of makeup… and they read stories to little children about sodomite sex. And once again, when a few (a very FEW) Christians show up to these events to preach the truth and expose the lies, they are ALWAYS abused, and most often arrested for “trespassing” — again, at a public venue, open to the public, paid for with our tax dollars. I guess some people are more “equal” than others. Because today, the Christian message is not only excluded, but openly and unapologetically persecuted. What has happened to America? What sort of “inheritance” are we leaving to our children and grandchildren? As I’ve said before, “as go the pulpits, so goes the nation.” Even so-called “good” Bible-believing, Bible-preaching pastors and churches avoid all this like the plague. They WILL NOT speak on it. They REFUSE to instruct their congregants on what the Word of God has to say about sexual perversion and abomination. And so the people in the pews are sheep without shepherds. As the pastors focus on “happy fun time” with milquetoast VBS weeks, filled with fun and games, summer time church-wide cookouts, and loud, raucous rock bands as the people raise their hands and sway back and forth in what can only be described as vain “worship-tainment,” the people remain blissfully oblivious and apathetic to the whole world around them. I admit, I am beyond frustrated and discouraged by all this. CHRISTIANS — TRUE Christians have the very power of GOD within them. Scripture tells us “the righteous are as bold as lions and the wicked flee when no man pursues.” But in our world today, the wicked rule the day and the so-called “righteous” are nowhere to be found. Probably because VERY FEW who attend church (yes, even YOUR church, no matter how “good” you think it is) are really TRUE Christ-followers. Go ahead — just TRY to get some people from your “good” church to go out of those four walls to the streets — to the very gates of hell at one of these “pride” events and stand up for Jesus… and SEE for yourself how many you will get to participate. I can tell you now, the pastor will NOT be in favor of your actions. He will not only NOT encourage your efforts, he will DISCOURAGE you, and tell others to avoid you. You will quickly see you are surrounded by goats. Perhaps professing Christians don’t care about the LGBTQP+ agenda steamrolling over God’s Word, twisting the minds of young children and fundamentally changing the mindset of millions of Americans because as these deviants become stronger and more bold, it gives THEM license to practice their OWN forms of sexual perversion, whatever that may be, and to not be ashamed or concerned, because as the popular lie most churches preach now is: “God loves everybody, just the way they are.” No such thing as “sin’ anymore. The Bible calls this “licentiousness.” We are a “licentious” nation of pretend Christians, and we should be ashamed of ourselves. Indeed, we have nothing to be proud of. Education Impacts You Have To Learn About: G7, G8, G20, ILO, The UN & More Next Post: TAQIYYA: Ilhan Omar Swaps Hijab For African Headdress To Pander To LGBTQ About the Author: Rob Pue Rob is the founder and publisher of Wisconsin Christian News, a national Christian newspaper headquartered in Wisconsin. He writes a monthly commentary for WCN, and can also be heard twice weekly, (Tuesdays and Saturdays) nationwide on the VCY America Radio Network, with his “From the Editor’s Desk” commentaries. He is also available for speaking engagements for conferences, seminars and special events. Rob’s messages offer unique teaching and insights from God's Word, dealing with the most important issues of our day.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2672
__label__cc	0.545301	0.454699	James Hoyce “Horsefly” Coffey Feb 28, 2017 \| Uncategorized \| 1 comment https://southernoaksfuneralservice.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Coffey-James.mp3 Mr. James Hoyce “Horsefly” Coffey, age 84, of Lexington and formerly of Somerset passed from this life on Friday, February 23, 2017 at St. Joseph Hospital following a brief illness. He was born on July 27, 1932 in Wayne County, Kentucky to the late Mrs. Mabel Coffey Gilmore and Mr. Jamie Brown. James was a retired Assistant Director of Environmental Services with the A. B. Chandler Medical Center of Lexington, and past President of the Dunbar Alumni Association of Somerset. He was a veteran of the Korean War, serving in the U. S. Army. He was an avid fisherman and sports fan. He enjoyed reading and watching old westerns. James was a magnanimous individual who seemed to never meet a stranger. He was a member of the old Church of God of America of Somerset. He is survived by his loving wife of 53 years; Doris Ingram Coffey, two daughters; Estel (John) Bailey of Detroit, Michigan and Michel Coffey of Lexington. One son; James T. Coffey of Somerset, five grandchildren; India, Fernando, Jordy, Malik and Braydon. Four great-grandchildren; Fernando, Jalen, Kalijah and Iniyah. Sister; Estel “Essie” Coffey Slaughter of Lexington. Brother; Morse Coffey of Durham, North Carolina, Special niece; Carlnetta “Connie” Brown; special cousin-in-law Sheila K. Hugges of Somerset. Several other nieces, nephews and cousins. Besides his parents her was preceded in death by his son; Bradley Thomas Coffey; Step-father; George Gilmore, brothers; William Coffey, Woodrow Coffey and sisters; Lucy Coffey and Litha Coffey and granddaughter; Karma Thomas Visitation will be 10:00 A.M. – 12:00 Noon on Friday, March 3, 2017 in the Chapel of Southern Oaks Funeral Home Funeral will be at 12:00 Noon on Friday, March 3, 2017 in the Chapel of Southern Oaks Funeral Home with Pastor Wm. Hale and Bishop Eric Barnes, officiating. Interment will be at the Mill Springs National Cemetery with military Honors by American Legion Post #38 Honor Guards. In Lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society. Southern Oaks Funeral Home of Somerset is entrusted with the funeral Jana and Jonita Davis on March 1, 2017 at 12:15 am Our deepest condolences to the Coffey family.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2673
__label__wiki	0.928455	0.928455	Shop Blues Gear Canadiens start spending Aho offer sheet money on Chiarot The Associated Press July 4, 2019, 9:48 PM UTC FILE - In this Dec. 20, 2017, file photo, Winnipeg Jets defenseman Ben Chiarot plays against the Nashville Predators in the first period of an NHL hockey game in Nashville, Tenn. The Canadiens began using the money they won't be paying Sebastian Aho by signing defenseman Ben Chiarot to a $10.5 million, three-year contract. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File) MONTREAL (AP) -- The Canadiens began using the money they won't be paying Sebastian Aho by signing defenseman Ben Chiarot to a $10.5 million, three-year contract. Montreal had signed Aho to a $42.7 million, five-year offer sheet, but Carolina intends to match that contract and keep its best player. The Canadiens can't offer sheet another player until the Hurricanes officially match. The 28-year-old Chiarot will count $3.5 million against the salary cap in each of the next three seasons. The 6-foot-3, 219-pound left-shooting blue liner had a career-high 20 points (five goals, 15 assists) and 62 penalty minutes in 78 games with the Jets last season. The Hamilton, Ontario, native has 64 points (12 goals, 52 assists) in 305 career regular-season games, all with Winnipeg. He has three assists in 24 career playoff games.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2675
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__label__cc	0.51948	0.48052	Planning & Financing State Building Commission Bid Center Within the Construction Management Page Centralizing in Casper In Honor of Wyoming's Heroes A New Beginning in Mental Health Care Wyoming Capitol Square Project Pages Related to Construction Management The Construction Management Division oversees the construction, renovation and major maintenance of state-owned buildings and community colleges. The division also reviews and evaluates the acquisition and sale of property for state agencies. Prior to 2016, Construction Management (CM) functioned as a division of the Wyoming Department of Administration and Information (A&I). With the passage of Enrolled Act No. 59 in 2016, Construction Management was removed from the A&I umbrella and merged with School Facilities, thereby creating the Wyoming State Construction Department. The Construction Management Division reports directly to the State Building Commission (SBC) who is comprised of the state's five elected officials: the governor, who chairs the Commission, the secretary of state, the state auditor, the state treasurer, and the superintendent of public instruction. The Division Administrator for Construction Management, Mel Muldrow, also serves as the secretary of the SBC. In an effort to consolidate office space used by various state agencies a new centralized building is under construction in Casper. The new complex will put all state agencies operating in Casper under one roof, ending the need to rent various offices around the city. Nearly 400 state employees will be housed in the building. Due to the project affecting so many different state agencies, a special task force was established to provide guidance and expertise during construction. Advisory Task Force Info & Meetings Realizing a potential need, in 2018 the Wyoming Legislature authorized the planning and design of a skilled nursing center especially for veterans. The State Construction Department was appropriated $300,000.00 to conduct a level I and level II study in consultation with the Veterans' Commission and the Wyoming Department of Health. This skilled nursing center for veterans would be the first of its kind in Wyoming. Review the Study Wyoming's new beginning in mental health started April 26, 2018, when the state broke ground on new facilities at the Wyoming State Hospital. The project is part of a multi-million dollar initiative to modernize both the Wyoming State Hospital in Evanston and the Wyoming Life Resource Center in Lander. These updates to the facilities will help ensure that the Wyoming Department of Health can deliver quality, modern care for Wyoming citizens. Learn more about these projects The Wyoming Capitol Square Project centers on the extensive restoration of the Capitol Building, which is a National Historic Landmark. The project also includes the rehabilitation of the adjacent Herschler Building, a large four-story, two-wing office building, as well as the Central Utility Plant (CUP) which services both buildings. This complex multi-year project will preserve the historic character of the Capitol, improve public access to the political process, and address needed life safety and building systems deficiencies. The project is set to be completed during the summer of 2019. Wyoming Governor State Auditor Supt. of Public Instruction Wyoming Department of Education Wyoming Community Development Authority Wyoming Department of Health Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality Wyoming Department of Transportation Wyoming Game and Fish Wyoming State Parks and Cultural Resources Wyoming Travel and Tourism Jobs in Wyoming Wyoming Business Council Wyoming Department of Workforce Services Wyoming State Jobs Oil and Gas Commission Copyright © 2019 State of Wyoming. All Rights Reserved	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2681
__label__wiki	0.776105	0.776105	← Je Suis Eritrean Eritreans in Washington DC Celebrate and Remember → ERITREA: No weapon can defeat a people committed to be free Posted on May 21, 2015 by sophietm7 “…The birth of the State of Eritrea was not a miracle but rather the product of “wisdom and foresight” by patriots who abided by a transition process that led to a non-violent process of Eritrea’s independence…”-US diplomat Mark Baas Eritrea’s independence came in 1991 when the Eritrean People’s Liberation Front’s (EPLF) army rolled into Asmara, the Eritrean capital, ending the 30-yr armed struggle for independence. Eritrea’s independence was accepted by the US led international community with great reluctance, and for the last 24 years, there have been several attempts to thwart Eritrea’s independence, violate her sovereignty and disrupt Eritrea’s nation building process. In addition to a sustained and concerted effort to distort the unparalleled history of the Eritrean People’s Liberation Front (EPLF), now the Peoples Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ) and misrepresenting Eritrea’s national identity-Eritreanism has come under relentless attack. Nation building requires amongst other things these three-a strong political organization to act as the vanguard of the people, a unified population, and a clear vision. Eritrea has all three and more. The EPLF’s base was uniformly strong across Eritrean society and it developed into a national institution with a mass character during the protracted struggle for Eritrea’s independence. The EPLF had effectively been a government-in-waiting, a “government in the jungle”-mengisty ab beraka-for quite some time before independence was finally achieved. The Front: “… accomplished extraordinary things with meager resources. Despite the continuing absence of sustained external support, the Front steadily improved its military capacity, while simultaneously building basic infrastructure (construction, transportation, communications), promoting economic development (agriculture, animal husbandry, commerce and trade), delivering social services (education, health, emergency relief), and campaigning to alter fundamental power relations within rural society (land reform, marriage reform, restructuring of village administration)…” The Front which enjoyed legitimacy and broadly based support in Eritrean society, had within it a committed competent caliber of dedicated political and administrative cadres, who were easily mobilized to fill the gaps in the institutions of government when the EPLF took control of the country. “…the selflessness, discipline and honesty of the EPLF cadres smoothed the transition in circumstances of extreme economic devastation and social dislocation…” This strong reserve of seasoned leaders at the national and village level were ready and able, to embark on the arduous task of nation building. Across Eritrea, these dedicated sons and daughters who served in the liberation war, now work side by side the younger generation who are honing their skills and rebuilding their beloved nation from scratch. Understanding Eritrea’s development strategy requires knowledge of Eritrea’s rich history, and Eritrea’s diverse cultures, norms and social traditions. Non-pecuniary motivations such as love of people and service to country, self -reliance, dignity and self-esteem, values cultivated during the long struggle for Eritrea’s independence, remain the driving force and guiding principles today, as they did then… By unifying the religiously and ethnically diverse population to rally behind the struggle for Eritrea’s independence-the Front established a key foundation for nation building-UNITY. The National Charter says: “…it is primarily necessary to build a national government which ensures unity and equality of the people of Eritrea, rejects all divisive attitudes and activities, places national interest above everything else, and enables participation of all sectors of Eritrean society. All political establishments must be built on a national basis, and all sectarian political tendencies must be categorically rejected. All forms of discrimination and domination, including ethnic and regional, must also be rejected. The diverse cultures of Eritrea should be a source of power and unity. The national system should be secular, separate from religion, yet respectful of the equality of religions. In short, nationhood must be the basis of all political institutions and policies…” With national unity achieved and strengthened over time, and with a committed generation of freedom fighters on hand, the Front, with its conscious polity, embarked on the arduous task of nation building. During the struggle for Eritrea’s independence, and during the early formative years of statehood, the Government of Eritrea introduced judicious policies on religion, language, land reform, gender equality etc. in order to preserve and enhance the unity of the people. After independence the Government of Eritrea also instituted the National Service program and the Warsay Yikaalo Program for development, but the naysayers ridiculed the programs. Today all the programs have borne measurable results in the improvement of the people’s standard of living and have enabled Eritrea to lay the necessary economic foundations relying mostly on internal resources. Frantz Fanon understood the importance of national unity and wrote in “The Wretched of the Earth”: “…The mobilisation of the masses, when it arises out of a war of liberation, introduces into each man’s consciousness the idea of a common cause, of a national destiny, of a collective history…the building of the nation is helped by the existence of this cement, which has been mixed with blood and anger….” Eritrea’s got it… The international community which has spent billions on peacekeeping missions around the world purportedly to secure peace, stability and security in nations emerging from conflict did not have to spend a penny on Eritrea in 1991 because, the EPLF was not only capable of securing its own territories, but it also secured Addis Ababa and some key towns, so that Ethiopia would not disintegrate into chaos and mayhem following the overthrow of the Derg-military regime, as Somalia did after the overthrown of the Siad Barre regime. The absence of a strong unifying Front or an indigenous political organization rooted in its own cultures and traditions, can have disastrous effects on a nation, even if there is strong international support as we have seen in Ethiopia, South Sudan and Somalia. Today, the existence and vitality of the PFDJ in the nation building process have become even more apparent with the escalation of hostilities against Eritrea and its people. It is the existence of the PFDJ, a strong organization rooted in Eritrean society, a stabilizing force underpinning Eritrea’s economic, social and political development, which has prevented Eritrea from descending into chaos and disaster. It remains the stabilizing linchpin of Eritrea’s political system today…as such, it has borne the brunt of the various destabilizing agendas directed at Eritrea from the various quarters. Eritrea’s mass organizations such as the National Union of Eritrean Workers, the National Union of Eritrean Women (1979) and the National Union of Eritrean Youth and Students (1979) which were established during the long struggle for independence, and had their roots in Eritrean society were also undermined and vilified as external entities attempted to establish their own footprints in the young nation. When the Peoples Front for Justice and Democracy (PFDJ) began the task of organizing the youth in the vast Eritrean Diaspora, Eritrea’s enemies were petrified. The cable sent by Ronald McMullen, the US Ambassador in Eritrea, exposes this fear: “…Eritrean youth in the diaspora are a divided community. For those that support the GSE, their unwavering dedication likely stems from their isolation as a minority in another country and from the ever-present hand of the Young People´s Front for Democracy and Justice (YPFDJ) to enforce a “proudly Eritrean” identity. The YPFDJ bills itself as a movement to build “strong, conscious, and patriotic Eritrean youth.” The sub-goal is to strengthen support abroad for the PFDJ and the GSE… Social networking sites abound with YPFDJ groups (37 groups on Facebook and a newly formed Twitter account as of October). Although many YPFDJ gatherings are merely cultural exhibitions or parties, the youth involved are indoctrinated early on in pro-GSE propaganda, thus further fueling many diaspora youth´s overt infatuation with Eritrea and vehement defense of the GSE…” Obviously the good Ambassador was not losing sleep over YPFDJ cultural exhibitions and parties, but like the others who want to undermine the movement and the caliber of its members, underestimates the importance of the values and principles- national unity, active public participation, the human element, linkage between national and social struggles, self-reliance, and the strong relationship between the people and the leadership, which are producing miracles in Eritrea today. Eritrean unity remains at the heart of Eritrea’s peace and political stability, economic development and exemplary harmonious culture of ethnic and religious tolerance and respect. The peoples unity being the first and foremost prerequisite for a peaceful and prosperous country, strengthening it has been one of the fundamental themes during the struggle for Eritrea’s independence and remains central today in Eritrea’s nation building strategy. The Government of Eritrea has instituted policies to strengthen the unity of the people through education and culture. Unfortunately, as with all other programs and policies in Eritrea, no stones have been left unturned in order to disrupt the unity of the Eritrean people. Much time and resources has been spent to create a divide between the people and government and also within the population along religious and ethnic lines. Eritrea’s religious institutions have been attacked by both Christian and Islamic fundamentalists alike. Eritrea and its people have, in the last 24 years, in addition to US-Ethiopia engineered UN sanctions in 2009 and 2011, undeclared economic sanctions that persist to this day, a sustained and ferocious orchestrated media attack on its economic, social and political strategies for development, insidious plots to disrupt the people’s unity and arrest Eritrea’s economic development through sanctions and sabotage, a destructive Ethiopian war of aggression, a 13-year long Ethiopian occupation, and a dangerous and insidious campaign to drain its human resource capacity by an organized trafficking network of colluding states such as Ethiopia and Djibouti, United Nation’s agencies, such as the United Nation’s Mission in Eritrea and Ethiopia (UNMEE) and UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and members of the Eritrean Quislings League (EQL). Every country has its Quislings League-internal enemies who work with the enemy, and Eritrea is no different. Eritrea’s quislings are seasonal and predictable; they only make their appearances when their handlers are cornered, and when they feel their livelihood is being threatened. The Eritrean Quislings League (EQL)[1] is: “…an alliance of jilted and scorned individuals, of like-minded defeatists, self-serving defectors, deserters and draft dodgers, human traffickers, disgruntled runaway diplomats, pedophiles, rapists, deceitful counterfeiters, information launderers and an assortment of shameless scandalous opportunists disguised as “journalists”, “human rights” and “democracy” activists. These pawns serve as runners for western fundamentalist Christian cartels, Western agencies and NGOs. These self-professed “intellectuals and professionals”, and pseudo-intellectuals who engage in academic dishonesty, a loathsome miscreant mercenary Eritrean elite have spent the last 15 years slavishly parroting prepared anti-Eritrea propaganda, in exchange for pitiful stipends…” The EQL- the “Eritrean Faces”, serve to advance agendas against the State of Eritrea-useful because of their access and understanding of Eritrean culture and psyche. The individuals who serve as the “Eritrean Faces” formed several Astroturf organizations in cyberspace, and were directly or indirectly funded by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), Amnesty International and the media outfits such as the Committee for the Protection of Journalists (CPJ) and Reporters San Frontiers (RSF). They mushroomed in cyberspace in 2001, but other than milking US and EU taxpayers, have found no support in Eritrean society or in its vast Global Diaspora Communities. In violation of the African Union and UN Charters and international law, Eritrea’s sovereign rights, its people’s right to self-defense and right to development, and most importantly, the right to live in peace within their own internationally recognized borders continue to be undermined and violated. Eritreans are constantly baffled by the misrepresentation of the Front, its policies and the Eritrean people by agencies and individuals who rely on the EQL for their information on Eritrea. Let us take a look at some of the statements made by those who insist on distorting Eritrea’s realities: “… we think that the whole population wants independence. They may not understand what it means…We are worried about Eritrea because we are not sure that differences among different groups can be kept under control. Everything could be destroyed there if people begin fighting each other. When the EPLF takes over Asmara, they will have a difficult burrito, because they have to keep the people together. Some of the Muslims will favor separatism but there is no strength in unity among them on this issue…”-Meles Zenawi in his interview with Paul Henze in April 1990 “…Eritreanism . . . was essentially the negation of Ethiopianism rather than a historically rooted supra-tribal, supra-linguistic, and supra-religious sense of Eritrean affiliation…”-Quote attributed to Haggai Erlich “…Although it seems that loyalty to the Eritrean national identity has not diminished, Eritrean citizenship has lost much of its appeal […], especially among young people that are about to serve their compulsory military service. Therefore, national identity could start to fray…”-Alexandra Dias “…in the eyes of the Eritrean leadership […] Eritrea, with its patiently disciplined population, resembles a hardened battalion of stubborn soldiers”. The leadership’s “insistence on pursuing their ideology of “self-reliance” may thus turn out to be at best counter-productive, and at worst disastrous. The government simply cannot afford to scare away donors, NGOs, and UN agencies (not to mention foreign investors) by adhering to a nationalist narrative based on “stubbornness”-(Christian Bundegaard) “…If the new proclamation [Eritrea;s Proclamation on NGOs] results in the closing down of the few independent local NGOs as well, starvation threats will rise to top…”-An international NGO “…most of the population will have no personal memory of the struggle at all, and calls by members of the ruling party to remember their heroic contribution will simply fall on uncomprehending ears. In some cases, as with the national service scheme in Eritrea, deliberate efforts were made by the ruling party to inculcate into rising generations the values of struggle, discipline and dedication to the cause that had driven their predecessors, but – try as one may – the post-liberation situation is so different that this objective is almost impossible to achieve…”-Christopher Clapham “…the Warsay Yikealo Development Campaign is an attempt to contest the cultural spaces of the various social groups by superimposing the ideology of the armed struggle on the young generation. It is forbidden to practice one’s religion in the military service, and the rich variety of language and culture is merged into a superficial performance of cultural dances presented during state holidays, which cannot cover the predominance of Tigrinya language and culture which dominates life in the national service, reflecting the power structure within the ruling elites within the government and military…”-Nicole Hirt Eritrea’s self-reliance principle has garnered the most space in the volumes produced about this young nation. Lest it is once again misconstrued, let us take a look at what the Front has to say. In its 1983 document, “The Experiences of the E.P.L.F. in Pursuing the Policy of Self-Reliance on the Economic Field, the Front clearly defined Eritrea’s self-reliance principle: “…The pursuance of a policy of self-reliance is essential for the total independence and liberation of a society. Politically, it is the only means to complete freedom. Economically, it is likewise the only means…that enables a people to develop their economic potential depending on their own material and human resources. Socially, it is an essential liberating process, emphasizing as it does working cooperatively and collectively to satisfy your own needs. Dependence breeds subservience and lack of self-confidence. Freedom from dependence enhances a people’s independence of thinking, innovativeness, perseverance and pride in work and struggle. In pursuing a policy of self-reliance, these attitudes permeate and accelerate the development of every aspect…” The last 24 years, as Eritrea developed its nascent institutions, built human capacity and embarked on an ambitious development program in a very hostile international environment, it was this principle that has enabled the young nation to not only survive, but thrive. Despite the unprecedented, and unprovoked, hostilities by the US led international community, Ethiopia and its surrogates in the EQL, and a sustained two decade long vilification and defamation campaign by the above mentioned groups and individuals, the people and government of Eritrea have not only survived, but have managed to create miracles. Today, Eritrea remains a stable and peaceful haven in the turbulent Horn region, and its hard working and determined people are on track to meet 7 out of the 8 UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), have achieved food security, greatly improved literacy in its adult population, extended life expectancy for both men and women, reduced child mortality, improved maternal health, eradicated polio and malaria, reduced incidence of HIV-Aids etc. etc admirable achievements considering the hostilities and the many attempts at sabotage. The formative years since independence, although a very short transitional period of statehood, have provided Eritreans an invaluable lesson for generations to come. As Eritreans around the world celebrate Eritrea’s 24th Independence Anniversary, and the people and government take stock of Eritrea’s challenges and opportunities of the last couple of decades, Eritrea’s message to the world remains the same: “…[to those] who give aid and support in the name of Christianity or Islam that such aid or support is of no use to us; we do not want it. We want to assure them that they will be only wasting their resources in vain. To those Eritreans who want to serve their personal interests using religion as an instrument, we wish to not only remind them that their opportunism is shameful but that they will also be remembered as criminals in the history of our people and in the eyes of the world…” The above is from the 1971 EPLF document Nihnan Elamanan[2]…. Eritrea’s vision for the future remains the same as it was in 1991: “…Our vision is for Eritrea to become a country where peace, justice, democracy and prosperity prevail. Our vision is to eliminate hunger, poverty and illiteracy from Eritrea. Our vision is for Eritrea to preserve its identity and uniqueness, develop commitment to family and community care, and by advancing economically, educationally and technologically, find itself among the developed countries. Our vision is for Eritrean society to be known for harmony among its different sectors, gender equality, love of country, humanity, discipline, hard work and love for knowledge, respect for law and order, independence and inventiveness. Our vision is to perform miracles in peaceful nation-building as we did in the war of liberation…” It may have come as a surprise to some, especially the younger generation, to see the extreme hostilities of some states against Eritrea and may even be surprised by the silence and acquiescence of the United Nations and its tentacled organizations to the anti-Eritrea campaigns, and some may even succumb to the pressures and believe Eritrea can’t do it alone…but history and the experience of the last 24 years have shown that Eritrea can-the obstacles placed may prolong the journey, but it will not arrest Eritrea’s progress…. The distinguished Eritrean scholar, the late Tekie Fessehazion, in his 2000 article, “In defiance, Eritrea was born; in defiance, it will live forever”[3] said it best: “…Since the late forties one or both of the nuclear powers have tried to abort Eritrea’s birth as an independent state. In fact had the U.S had its way, Eritrea was not supposed to exist as an independent entity, and if it existed at all, it could be allowed to live only as an appendage of Ethiopia. Eritrea was born in defiance, against the wishes of the U.S and the international community. Those who did not want to see Eritrea born then should not now be expected to do a thing to see it live. Yet Eritrea will live, simply because its people will make sure it does. In the end it matters not whether the world likes it or not, Eritrea is here to stay. Eritrea lives…” Who could have imagined, in 1991 for instance, that the course of events would make this country the master of its own destiny? The will and resoluteness of the Eritrean people have been tested. Eritrea is standing tall today because of the determination, steadfastness and tenacity of its people who have rejected all machinations and attacks against their beloved nation…and just as it was back then… no weapon can defeat a people committed to be free! Zelealemawi zkri N’Semaetat Eritrea-Eternal glory to Eritrea’s Martyrs Awet N’Hafash-Victory to the people! [1] http://www.allacronyms.com/EQL/Eritrean_Quislings_League Accessed 12 May 2015 [2] http://www.ypfdjcalifornia.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/EPLF-Founding-Document.pdf Accessed 12 May 2015 [3] http://www.dehai.org/conflict/articles/tekie_in_defiance.html Accessed 12 May 2015 This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged Africa, Asmara, Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission, Eritrean community, Eritrean Women, Freedom Fighters, Human Rights, Human Rights Council, Religious Freedom, United Nations Human Rights Council. Bookmark the permalink. 2 Responses to ERITREA: No weapon can defeat a people committed to be free Pingback: ERITREA: No Weapon Can Defeat a People Decided to be Free KIBROM Y. TSEGGAI says: This is what i have been waiting for you said it best! I think all ERITREANS should read and keep a copy of this article well written simple and to the point who ever put this article together got TRUE and REAL VOICE IMAGE and CHARACTER of the Eritrea and its people and its leaders.After all we are one and the SAME.Thus ONE HEART ONE PEOPLE.(HADE LBI HADE HZBI) For those who work tirelessly to distort and defame ERITREA and its people keep a copy of this article handy and pass it on to them let them swallow the sour pill (hamot harmaz)of the factual analysis and the true nature of what Eritrea and its leader ship is all about.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2684
__label__cc	0.501114	0.498886	ATIS Welcomes Michael Nawrocki as Vice President of Technology and Solutions WASHINGTON — Feb. 1, 2016 — ATIS today announced that Mike Nawrocki has joined the organization in its new position, Vice President of Technology and Solutions, focusing on strategic initiatives to embrace the direction of the industry. In this role, he will specifically leverage his service provider perspective and extensive industry experience to provide ATIS direction on emerging technology trends as well as next generation technologies and networks. As an information and communications technology (ICT)industry veteran, Nawrocki’s hire deepens ATIS’ technical bench. Throughout his career, he has made contributions to many ATIS priority initiatives. As Vice President of Technology and Solutions, he will also be key in ATIS’ policy interface with the FCC and other agencies. His most recent industry experience encompasses serving as Director – Standards & Industry Groups for Verizon Technology Strategy & Planning. At Verizon, Nawrocki also served as a Principal Member of the Technical Staff and as a Fellow for New Services Technology in the Verizon CTO Organization. His extensive career with major service providers includes working in network planning and engineering positions both at AT&T and Bell Atlantic. His leadership has also been demonstrated through service on the MoCA Board of Directors, FCC CSRIC working groups, the FCC Network Reliability Council as well as other key industry technical and regulatory fora. Nawrocki’s most recent ATIS engagement was through its comprehensive work addressing the all-IP transition. Specifically he was co-chair of a major ATIS initiative advancing public safety communications infrastructure into the all IP era and a key driver in creating the valued industry resource Developing a Roadmap for the Migration of Public Safety Applications During the All IP Transition. He also led ATIS’ initiative on IP-Downloadable Security. “With his broad industry experience, operator insights, and direct knowledge of how ATIS achieves results, Mike is a strategic addition to the team,” said ATIS President and CEO Susan Miller. “His insights into the direction of the industry will be an important asset to advance our members’ business and technology priorities.” About ATIS As a leading technology and solutions development organization, the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) brings together the top global ICT companies to advance the industry’s most pressing business priorities. ATIS’ nearly 200 member companies are currently working to address 5G, the all-IP transition, network functions virtualization, big data analytics, cloud services, device solutions, emergency services, M2M, cyber security, network evolution, quality of service, billing support, operations, and much more. These priorities follow a fast-track development lifecycle – from design and innovation through standards, specifications, requirements, business use cases, software toolkits, open source solutions, and interoperability testing. ATIS is accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). ATIS is the North American Organizational Partner for the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), a founding Partner of the oneM2M global initiative, a member and major U.S. contributor to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), as well as a member of the Inter-American Telecommunication Commission (CITEL). For more information, visit www.atis.org.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2685
__label__wiki	0.980871	0.980871	The Star Trek Movies Finally Have a Gay Character, and, Surprise, It’s Someone You Know By June Thomas Zoe Saldana as Uhura and John Cho as openly gay Lt. Hikaru Sulu in Star Trek Beyond. ©2016 Paramount Pictures. The news that the next installment in the Star Trek franchise will reveal Lt. Hikaru Sulu to be a gay man, complete with a husband and a daughter, makes him arguably the highest-profile gay character to break through the final frontier of the summer blockbuster. Visiting Australia to publicize Star Trek Beyond, which will open in the United States July 21, John Cho, who plays Sulu in the movies, told News Corp Australia’s James Wigney that writer Simon Pegg and director Justin Lin decided to give Sulu an explicitly gay identity as a tribute to George Takei, who played the character in the original TV series. As Vulture noted, Takei came out publicly in 2005 “after then Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a bill that would have legalized same-sex marriage in California.” Takei has since emerged as one of America’s most effective mainstream advocates for LGBTQ rights. The Star Trek universe has a well-deserved reputation for blasting through silly social boundaries. In “Plato’s Stepchildren,” which first aired in November 1968, a kiss between William Shatner’s Capt. James Kirk and Nichelle Nichols’ Lt. Nyota Uhura was one of the first interracial kisses on American television. Twenty-seven years later, Star Trek: Deep Space 9 featured the Star Trek universe’s first same-sex kiss when Jadzia Dax (Terry Farrell) smooched Lenara Kahn (Susanna Thompson) in “Rejoined.” Ronald D. Moore, now famous as the man who rebooted Battlestar Galactica and brought Outlander to television, co-wrote “Rejoined.” He has consistently included same-sex relationships in his work ever since. In January, when I asked Moore about the audience’s outraged response to the Dax–Kahl kiss, he could only wonder at the way the world, and the television business, has changed. “It’s amazing. I work in such a different landscape than when I started,” he said. With Star Trek Beyond’’s embrace of Sulu’s sexuality, we have yet more evidence of that happy development. LGBTQ Outward Star Trek	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2686
__label__cc	0.567853	0.432147	CityWorks Officially Kicks off for the Summer June 21, 2019 /in Bay Area, News /by swinerton The SFPUC’s eighth CityWorks Summer Internship Program flipped the script on Friday, June 14 as some of the top construction and engineering firms in the Bay Area pitched themselves – to interns. The networking event served as the official launch of the paid summer internship program, giving 15 students from San Francisco’s Southeast neighborhoods real-world exposure to groundbreaking careers. The paid internship program is made possible through a unique partnership between the SFPUC Social Impact Partnership Program, SFPUC’s private firm partners, and Young Community Developers (YCD). “I’m super excited,” said CityWorks intern Hasana Robinson. “I’ve been interested in law and criminal justice and I thought it would really be important for me to broaden my horizons this summer and experience different career fields. I know other people who went through the program and they loved it, so I thought, ‘Why not just take a leap of faith and try it?’” Robinson, who is a rising sophomore at City College of San Francisco, is one of the 15 Bayview-Hunters Point students who got a chance to interview prospective construction and engineering firms including AGS Inc., Brown and Caldwell, Carollo Engineers, CPM Partners, HDR Inc., Parsons, Swinerton, and Most Likely To in addition to the SFPUC. SFPUC’s private firm partners and SFPUC staff will mentor interns who have a diverse range of interests including engineering, communications, and marketing and will provide interns with six weeks of on-the-job experience. “On a professional level I hope they really get an opportunity to develop technical skills and soft skills,” said David Gray, acting director of Community Benefits at the SFPUC. “On a personal level my hope is that the interns will walk away from this internship with the self-confidence and the belief that they have a right to be in these spaces. For a lot of our youth, this is their first time interning in a professional setting and at times, a lot of these spaces are predominately white spaces and predominately male spaces and these jobs can seem so far and so distant, not just physically.” Since its inception in 2012, CityWorks has aimed to have a positive impact on Southeast communities that include Bayview-Hunters Point, Potrero Hill, Sunnydale and Visitacion Valley. The Sewer System Improvement Program (SSIP) is investing over $2 billion to upgrade and modernize the Southeast Treatment Plant, San Francisco’s largest wastewater treatment plant that is located in Bayview-Hunters Point. The internship program has since worked to increase the number of women and underrepresented minorities within the fields of architecture and urban design, engineering, finance and accounting, communications and government relations, and operations and environmental management. Over the last seven years, CityWorks has provided over 75 young adults with a chance to explore a world of opportunity. “We just really hope to raise the bar every summer,” said Lindsey Lopez, CityWorks coordinator at YCD. “We want the internship to be more competitive every summer. We keep changing up the application process, adding GPA requirements, adding essay requirements, just making sure we have interns in here who are dedicated to bettering themselves professionally.” Robinson said that she is dedicated to doing just that this summer. Although her interest has primarily been in law, she hopes that while she is still fresh in college and spending her summer with CityWorks, she can explore her other interests in public relations, community advocacy, communications, and environmental management. “After I applied for CityWorks, I got the email and I was ecstatic,” said Robinson. “I was over the moon, like ‘Yes my summer is set!’ I was so excited to start this new journey and learn new things and make new friends and I’ve already done that here.” To read the full article, click here. https://swinerton.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Swinerton-logo-300x138-300x138.png 0 0 swinerton https://swinerton.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Swinerton-logo-300x138-300x138.png swinerton2019-06-21 16:34:132019-06-21 16:51:13CityWorks Officially Kicks off for the Summer $1 billion 5M project starts construction, transforming South of Market United Airlines San Francisco Polaris lounge gets worldwide honor	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2689
__label__wiki	0.795861	0.795861	Mormon leader: Nicknames for faith are ‘victory for Satan’ Friday, Oct. 12, 2018 1:06 PM Updated: Friday, Oct. 12, 2018 7:50 PM Church president Russell M. Nelson says using nicknames for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is “a major victory for Satan. Rick Bowmer/Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY – The president of the Mormon church reiterated last weekend that he wants members, the media and others to use the faith’s full name, saying nicknames are “a major victory for Satan.” Addressing The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ twice-yearly conference in Salt Lake City, Russell M. Nelson said the church’s name “is not negotiable.” “When the Savior clearly states what the name of his church should be, and even precedes his declaration with, ‘Thus shall my church be called,’ he is serious,” Nelson said. “And if we allow nicknames to be used and adopt or even sponsor those nicknames ourselves, he is offended.” Nelson, 94, who is considered a prophet, reiterated that his instruction is not a name change, The Salt Lake Tribune reported. “It is a correction,” he said. “It is the command of the Lord.” Nelson’s speech came after the church announced that the famed Mormon Tabernacle Choir has been renamed the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square. It’s the first big change since Nelson announced guidelines in August asking people to stop using previously accepted shorthand names. The faith had embraced and promoted the term Mormon over the past several years, using it in a documentary and TV and billboard ads. A church webpage that was up before Nelson’s announcement had described the term as an “unofficial but inoffensive nickname for members.” If people use Mormon to describe the church or its members, Nelson urged adherents to “be courteous and patient” in their efforts to correct them. Nelson, who in January took over the top post of the Utah-based faith with 16 million members worldwide after the previous president died, rejected what he called “worldly arguments,” including the benefits of internet search engine optimization with the word “Mormon.” The faith believes that God revealed the full church name to founder Joseph Smith in 1838. The term “Mormon” comes from the church’s signature scripture, the Book of Mormon, which followers believe is based on the record-keeping of an ancient prophet named Mormon. Recent Faith Views on clergy vary by age, education, religious identity Americans rarely seek guidance from clergy, poll reveals Southern Baptists combat sexual abuse as critics rally	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2692
__label__cc	0.603312	0.396688	The Progressive Pub Speakeasy Archive It’s like police officers are trying to make people hate them It sure looks like Wonder Woman supports Pride On best friends, Keanu Reeves, and why I was triggered by Captain Marvel (but still loved it) Where is this great, exceptional nation “they” keep talking about? Tony Thompson on On best friends, Keanu Reeves, and why I was triggered by Captain Marvel (but still loved it) Weekly Reader Vol 2 Issue 4 \| Iacon East on On best friends, Keanu Reeves, and why I was triggered by Captain Marvel (but still loved it) Weekly Reader Vol 2 Issue 3 \| Iacon East on Where is this great, exceptional nation “they” keep talking about? kyuss on On best friends, Keanu Reeves, and why I was triggered by Captain Marvel (but still loved it) Tony Thompson on I think I’m done listening to Delilah Asian-Americans assholery Celebrities Say Awful Things Chitler cultural traditions Eclectic Eats Frivolous Friday gender essentialism gun culture human decency Interesting Eats intersectional feminism irresponsible gun owner LGBT Link Round-Up Mens Rights Movement militarization of police Monday's Maddening Meme Mondays Maddening Meme Music that moves me Police Behaving Badly Police harassment QUILTBAG Racism Round-Up Relaxing Room religion&superstition right wing ideology sexual objectification The Fabulous Art of Tony Tales Weird Wacky Bizarre The Best of Humanity: Caring for an orphaned bat October 29, 2014 Tony Thompsonbats2 Comments Lil’ Drac is a short-tailed bat who was orphaned by his mother (apparently bats are extremely sensitive during maternity season and if disturbed, will abandon their young). Thanks to the Bat World Sanctuary in Weatherford, Texas, Lil’ Drac has received much love and care. (via Motivious) Here, let’s rekindle some faith in humanity August 31, 2014 Tony Thompson3 Comments (I think people know which definition of faith I’m using too) Via Feminist Batwoman, I’ve discovered Human Beings are all Kinds of Awesome Sauce, a blog that appears to be dedicated to showcasing the many ways in which humans can be kind, dedicated, compassionate, empathetic, and just all around awesome. My faith, sorry, confidence in humanity is often challenged (see: police brutality), and stuff like this is a nice antidote. Here are just a few of the images that really made me smile with pride at our species: Here, let's rekindle some faith in humanity Talking about Ferguson & Race August 23, 2014 Tony Thompsonprivilege Ferguson: Why atheists should care — and what they can do This guest column is written by Dr. Anthony B. Pinn, the Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities and Professor of Religious Studies at Rice University and a leading scholar of black nontheism. I’m troubled by the taking of yet another black life, but I’m also baffled: Why are some people, including many atheists, so surprised by the tragedies of racial violence—as if the United States hasn’t had a steady diet of discrimination? And why aren’t more humanists and atheists speaking out? As Cornel West and W. E. B. Du Bois before him noted, race matters. It is a matter of willful ignorance to think otherwise; to deny the continued existence of racial hostility is a marker that one is out of touch with life in the U.S. Sure, there are ways in which theological arguments can distract people from the harsh realities of life and blind some to the dynamics of racial discrimination. But theists aren’t the only ones who sometimes fail to grapple seriously with the consequences of racial dynamics in the U.S. Too many atheists and humanists assume their appeals to reason and logic are a prophylactic against racism. This is a mistake—a bad mistake. Behind the humanist hero Thomas Jefferson was a host of dehumanized, enslaved Africans. Humanists often claim to be informed, frequent readers, and more intelligent than theists—so the common mantra of “I just don’t know much about African Americans” doesn’t work. Those who make this claim in a society marked by easy access to information should be embarrassed by such intellectual laziness. It’s just as easy to find a copy of Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk as it is to find a copy of Richard Dawkins’s The God Delusion, okay? I sympathize with Dr. Pinn. He thinks atheists should be more informed and better educated about the realities of racism in the United States. I’m inclined to agree with him, but there is a slight problem. If you read the entire post, you’ll note that he uses ‘atheists’ and ‘humanists’ interchangeably. This is problematic. Atheism is defined as ‘a lack of belief in a higher power or powers’. It is not a set of beliefs. It is NOT believing. Humanism is a set of beliefs. Specifically, Humanism is a philosophical and ethical stance that emphasizes the value and agency of human beings, individually and collectively, and generally prefers critical thinking and evidence (rationalism, empiricism) over established doctrine or faith (fideism). Atheists are often Humanists-I’m one for instance. I do not believe in any higher power or powers, and I do believe in the value and agency of human beings, and I think that since there is no deity to assist humanity, it is our responsibility to use critical and rational thinking to solve the problems of humanity. I think that since we share this planet, and we as a species are social creatures, that we ought to do our best to minimize harm and maximize happiness, not just for ourselves, but for other humans, and animals as well. I’ve encountered and interacted with many wonderful atheists and humanists who feel the same way I do, and many of them are involved in the Atheist movement and seek to make it more inclusive for a broad range of people, especially those who belong to marginalized groups. Not every atheist feels this way. As I’ve seen in the last 4-5 years, there are atheists who are concerned with making the world better, only insofar as it relates to the existence of religion and religious beliefs. Among this group are atheists who are actively opposed to efforts at making the Atheist movement a safer space for those who belong to oppressed groups. Some atheists dislike the idea of those in the movement advocating for social justice for women, LGBT individuals, People of Color, and other marginalized groups. In my experiences, these atheists are dictionary atheists who adhere to a limited definition of atheism-a dictionary definition. Their concerns are largely focused on eliminating the direct effects of religious belief in society, such as opposing creationism in the classroom or ensuring the continued separation of church and state (in democratic countries like-ostensibly-the US). They don’t want to go any further though. They think that atheism should end there. As a result of this disagreement between dictionary atheists and social justice atheists, there have been a series of rifts in the Atheist community with Social Justice Atheists on one side of an ever growing chasm, and Dictionary Atheists on the other (my interactions with the DAs has made me despise a great many of them, and I’m more than happy for the chasm to grow wider). The lack of concern on the part of many Dictionary Atheists for their fellow humans disgusts me. I’ve seen them engage in sexism, misogyny, transphobia, homophobia, and ableism. I’ve seen them engage in an ongoing campaign of cyber harassment of female bloggers (to the point that some have withdrawn from online participation in the Atheist movement). I’m aware of one group of them that has set up an entire website dedicated to haranguing and opposing those atheists who also are interested in advocating for social justice. I am unsure if Dr. Pinn is aware of this group of atheists, but they definitely are not Humanists. It may be that these are the types of atheists he is criticizing for not speaking up about racism in the US. There are atheists, however, that have spoken up. I’ve interacted with these people, and they are passionate about improving the quality of life for all people, including-obviously-black people. I’ve watched these dedicated individuals working to signal boost the events of Ferguson over the last few weeks. Many of these people have tirelessly dedicated their time to helping spread the word of the horrible actions of the Ferguson PD, the death of Michael Brown, the militarization of the police in the US, gun violence, racism in our culture and more. Most of the updates on Ferguson that I’ve blogged about are the direct result of efforts of many atheists to get this information out to people. I’m very grateful to these people, and I’m proud to call many of them my friends. These are the type of people embodying exactly what Dr. Pinn advocates. DIFFERENT RULES APPLY The boy asked his mother, “So I should just put my hands in the air?” “Yes,” his mother said. “Just put your hands in the air.” “If I put my hands in the air, will the police not shoot?” he asked. “Probably not, but you can’t be sure. Some people say you should just kneel or lie down, don’t ask questions, just get down on the ground.” “If I lie down on the ground, they won’t shoot?” “Probably,” she said. I recognized the exhaustion in that “probably”—a parent trying to explain a fundamentally unfair fact of life in the most neutral terms possible, so as not to make a child prematurely paranoid or cynical or bitter, and realizing that there are no words with which to do such a thing. After my son and I left the restaurant, though, I was disturbed by a mental image of this small boy dropping face-down on the ground at the sound of a cop’s voice—thinking just maybe he wouldn’t get shot. I thought of Oscar Grant, who was detained by police on a BART platform on New Years Day, 2009, and got shot in the back anyway. To death. “Is that what you’re supposed to do? Get down on the ground?” my son asked. He’d heard about Ferguson. It was everywhere. I said, “Not necessarily. Some police want you to put your hands up. Some don’t ask you to do that. It depends. I guess the main thing is to just do what the police officer tells you to do. Don’t make any sudden moves.” “Can the police just shoot people?” he asked. He seemed genuinely worried. “They’re not supposed to just shoot people,” I said. “There are supposed to be rules about when you can and can’t shoot a person. Sometimes mistakes happen and people who shouldn’t get shot do get shot. And there are other times when…” And I trailed off because I realized I was evading the real issue. “It happens, and it’s horrible,” I told my son,” and in a lot of cases the reasons why some people get shot and others don’t get shot are unfair, or they don’t make sense, but you….” I trailed off again. “What do you mean?” he asked. “White people just aren’t as likely to get shot by police,” I told him. “There are a lot of reasons why that’s true, and we’ll talk about them later, but that’s the bottom line,” I said. “It’s not right, but it’s the truth. That’s what that woman was telling her son about.” My mind added: …in a conversation that most white dads would not be having with their white elementary school-age sons. Why didn’t I say this out loud to my son? I don’t know. Something was holding me back. Maybe it was the fact that my son has friends of different races and ethnicities, and I didn’t want to burst what I thought was an idyllic bubble, if indeed he lived in one, which he probably doesn’t. No, that wasn’t it. I wasn’t protecting my son from anything. I was protecting my son’s image of his father, or what I imagined that image to be. And I was protecting myself from myself. I was lying to myself about myself. I was reminded of something my best friend, a skinny Irish guy from Bay Ridge, told me. He was hanging out with his dad one afternoon. Out of the blue his dad told he should always be grateful for the greatest gift his dad and mom ever gave him. “What gift is that?” my friend asked. “Your white skin,” he said. “If you’re white in this country, you’re ahead of the game. You get more chances. You get more second chances. That’s the gift your mother and I gave you—and we didn’t have a damn thing to do with it!” My friend’s dad was being bitterly sarcastic. But he was also being honest about white privilege. I believe that there’s a difference between knowing something and understanding it. You know how you’ll try to communicate something very important to you to another person and sometimes they’ll wave you off with an impatient, “I know, I know”? That’s knowing: I got the gist, filed it away, I don’t need to think about it again. Knowing is comprehension; understanding is deeper because it comes from empathy or identification. All of which is a wind-up to say: having grown up in a mostly black neighborhood near Love Field airport in Dallas, and having been a diligent liberal for most of my adult life, I already knew there was such a thing as white privilege, and was properly horrified by it, but I didn’t truly understand what it meant, on a deep level, until one summer night in 2006, when I was spared arrest or worse thanks to the color of my skin. (read the rest here) BEYOND FERGUSON: POP CULTURE THROUGH THE LENS OF RACE HANDS UP: LOS ANGELES PROTEST AGAINST POLICE VIOLENCE Their buddy, Darren Wilson, shot and killed Michael Brown, and somehow they’re the victims?! Blame poverty, not race, say Ferguson’s white minority For the love of all the nonexistent gods in the heavens, white people saying this, please shut up and listen. p style=”text-align:center;”> Facial Fun, Filipino Food and more in this link roundup August 23, 2014 Tony Thompsonfood There isn’t really any thematic connective tissue to the following links. They’re just stuff I’ve found around the net that I think are cool: I’ve never had Filipino cuisine. If these images are anything to judge by, I need to change that as soon as possible: Lumpia Longgansia These, and other Filipino dishes (along with links to recipes) can be found here. The reason I became interested in Filipino cuisine is because I found images of this totally cool Filipino restaurant nestled at the foot of a waterfall: From the link: Asking to be seated at a table with a view is no problem at this Filipino restaurant. Located at the foot of the Labasin Falls in the Quezon Province, diners may enjoy authentic Filipino cuisine and the area’s natural splendor as fresh water streams through their toes. Nature and dining all in one? Now that’s my kind of travel. Welp, The Ice Bucket Challenge Is Officially Over Thanks To Patrick Stewart Gutter? What gutter? 99-Year-Old Woman Sews a Dress a Day for Children in Africa (there are images at the link) 99-year-old Lillian Weber has a generous heart and sewing hands that just won’t stop. The Iowa-based woman spends hours every single day making a dress for small children who receive the clothing through the Christian nonprofit group Little Dresses for Africa. For the past two years, Weber has made more than 840 dresses because, simply stated, she just wanted to help people. She uses a pattern to make the dress but she doesn’t stop there. She adds a few personal touches to each garment in order to make the items more unique and so that no two dresses are alike. Weber’s goal is to continue sewing 150 more dresses so that she can create her 1,000th dress by the time she turns 100 years old next May. “When I get to that thousand, if I’m able to, I won’t quit,” she recently said. “I’ll go at it again.” What an amazing story of generosity! You can learn a little more about Weber in the video below. The world’s first zombie proof house More images at the link What does 200 calories look like? What does 200 calories worth of food look like? The website Wisegeek conducted a study of 71 different edibles to find out. They proportioned things like peanut butter, canned beans, fruits, veggies, and even soda into 200 calorie quantities and photographed the results. It’s surprising to see what this actually looks like when on a plate. Makeup Artist Paints Her Chin and Mouth to Look Like Cartoon Characters From Empathize This comes a reminder that bisexual people are often treated poorly or even erased in LGBT spaces. This is not acceptable. I admit, with a great deal of shame, that in years past, I engaged in similar behavior. I treated bisexual people poorly. I felt they were trying to “have their cake and eat it too”. Sometimes I thought they just couldn’t make up their mind. In the last 4-5 years, I’ve come to examine many of my biases and prejudices. It hasn’t been easy, but I think I’ve become a better person for it. This doesn’t mean I’ve rid myself of every bias that I have, but I do try to engage in self-reflection and reexamine my opinions and views when challenged. So when I came to rethink my beliefs about people who are bisexual-which came when I actually listened to people who were bisexual and stopped talking over them/down to them-I realized that their lives and their experiences are valid and valuable. I realized that I can’t expect others to respect my dignity and right to exist as I choose if I don’t extend the same respect and courtesy to others. Once I realized that, I felt…well I felt pretty shitty. There is no excuse for my behavior. I can’t make up for what I’ve done in the past, but I can damn sure not repeat those actions in the future. Moreover, I can speak out about how such behavior is shitty. Bisexual people are not trying to have it both ways. They are not trying to have their cake and eat it too. They are not “undecided”. Their experiences are their own, and they are every bit as valid as mine or anyone else’s. I refuse to engage in the behavior I once did, and I ask everyone to check themselves…to examine their beliefs and biases and give thought to the harm those beliefs could bring to others. (via Feminist Batwoman) Russian gay couple marries in the most fierce way possible through loophole: Two brides have become two of the most kickass women in the world by marrying to protest against homophobia in Russia. Alina Davis, a 23-year-old trans woman, and Allison Brooks, her 19-year-old partner, donned matching white floor-length bridal gowns and married at a civil registry office earlier this month. As Davis is still legally regarded as male, the office had no choice but to hand them a marriage certificate. It is unfortunate that the government of Russia will not allow all consenting adults to marry regardless of gender or sexuality. I hope the day comes where this will be the case. Everyone deserves the opportunity to marry without the state dictating the terms (obviously this applies to consenting adults only). I wish the couple a long and happy life together. Iranian Muslim lesbians marry in religious ceremony in Sweden: Iranian Muslim women Sahar Mosleh and Maryam Iranfar married in Stockholm on 2 August during the city’s annual LGBTI pride festival – perhaps the first Iranian women to marry each other in a religious ceremony in the world, and the first in Sweden. The couple married in a ceremony performed by Algerian born South African based Imam Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed who was in Stockholm as the festival’s nominated Imam. Oh noes! It’s ‘ArmaGAYddon’!!!! Run for the hills! It’s the end of civilization as we know it. Not really. Unless you’re a bigot who thinks marriage equality is going to somehow be the downfall of society. Which makes me wonder what the time table is on that. Massachusetts has had same sex marriage for how long now-runs off to check…over 10 years now-and somehow their state hasn’t fallen into chaos and disarray. Maybe The Gay takes a little time to set in. Perhaps it creeps up on you little by little and before you know it BAM! You’re just like the couple in this hilarious horror movie parody: I just realized that the commentary above could apply to the video or the story about the lesbian couple above it. That wasn’t intentional, but it was neat. Comic books as a reflection of the world today August 19, 2014 Tony Thompson Andrew Wheeler is a writer for Comics Alliance, and he also has his own Tumblr. I came across his answer to a question posed by one of his followers: gpack3 said: What do you think would be the best way to introduce a trans superhero? Introduce them first and then reveal they’re trans after the audience is used to them? Introduce them as trans from the beginning? Have them transition on panel? Take a preexisting character whose past is something of a blank slate (eg. Eye-Boy) and make them trans? I’d love to hear from trans people about what they’d like to see in a trans superhero, because I’m sure they have sensitivities that I don’t have, and I’m sure they’re aware of cliches and pitfalls that I’m not aware of. To answer from my perspective as a gay man who does not identify as trans, I would tentatively draw a parallel to what I always want to see in gay heroes. Namely; I don’t want to always have to see gay people struggling and suffering with their identities. I want to see gay heroes who are at peace with their identities, and who face the same problems as other heroes, because that’s a much more hopeful and inclusive message. So I’d most like to see a trans superhero who is totally at peace with their identity, and whose identity is very quickly and unambiguously established to the audience. That seems like the most positive way to represent trans people in superhero fiction. That said, coming out stories and self-acceptance stories are hugely important – especially if they come from people who can make those stories personal. I’d love to read a story about a superhero transitioning, but I’d like to read it from a trans writer. Either way, I think establishing or reintroducing an established character as trans would be most useful given how difficult it is to establish new characters in superhero comics. As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, my personal choice would be to reintroduce Christian Frost as a trans woman whose transition allows her to access her mutant powers for the first time – and whose transition is celebrated by her sister Emma. Christian was previously written as a gay man with severe depression. I don’t think it would be implausible to re-imagine the character as a trans woman. But I may be stepping into cliches that I’m not aware of. (As a final note, I should acknowledge that when I say I don’t want to always have to see gay people struggling and suffering with their identities in fiction, my own Sacha Valentin in Valentin & The Widow is exactly that sort of character. But I am at least a gay man writing from personal experience, and Sacha also gets to travel the world punching evildoers.) I worry that a non trans writer would wind up doing some stupid or offensive shit, so perhaps, as Wheeler says, it would be better for a trans writer to create such a story. But then I’m reminded that Gail Simone created a trans character as Barbara Gordon’s roommate in Batgirl and that character has been, IIRC, well received. Her name is Alysia Yeoh: States like Arizona are currently spending taxpayer’s money trying to legalize trans discrimination, and others like Idaho are arresting and citing trans patrons from using public restrooms that don’t match their birth sex. As this kind of discrimination continues to reach bizarre new heights, there’s one place where trans acceptance seems ready to take hold—in the hallowed halls of geekdom known as DC Comics. This week, the comic book giant published Batgirl #19, featuring a storyline involving the first ongoing, trans-identifying character in a mainstream superhero book. Wired reports that in the latest Batgirl edition, the character Alysia Yeoh reveals to her roommate, Barbara Gordon (aka Batgirl), that she is a trans woman. In addition, Alysia is also bisexual. Author Gail Simone tells Wired that the impetus to include a trans character came from a pretty obvious source of inspiration—her fans. And building out a world as diverse as they are is her ultimate goal. “It’s the issue for superhero comics. Look, we have a problem most media don’t have, which is that almost all the tentpoles we build our industry upon were created over a half century ago…at a time where the characters were almost without exception white, cis-gendered, straight, on and on,” she said. “It’s fine—it’s great that people love those characters. But if we only build around them, then we look like an episode of The Andy Griffith Show for all eternity.” I really like that last line from Simone. She wants to help build fictional worlds that reflect the world we live in today, rather than the world of 75 years ago. My thanks to Twitter Users plus more on Ferguson I’m not on Twitter, but I have a lot of people to thank who are. Thank you, Twitter users! You’re too numerous for me to try naming, and I would not want to forget anyone, but suffice to say, if you were Tweeting the events of Ferguson, you have my thanks. Also, the people who were retweeting deserve a round of thanks as well. Twitter users were on the ground, reporting what was going on in Ferguson before the Mainstream Media was. They were giving accurate reporting (despite the vast majority of people not being reporters) from the start. Much of the information we have about what has happened in Ferguson has been the result of Tweets, both from reporters and civilians. These Tweets are evidence and should not be dismissed. In the court of public opinion-which is not the same as a court of law, where higher standards exist for determining guilt-Tweets very much qualify as valid evidence in coming to a reasonable conclusion about a given situation. Please pay attention to the 5 facts that we know that are not in dispute in the following collection of Tweets (note that all these facts can be verified if one takes the time to verify them. The mainstream media should, by now have compiled a timeline of events to further verify.) My point with all this is that this shitty “Let’s wait till we know all the facts” is preventing people from reaching any conclusion about the events in Ferguson and in fact is used by racist assholes who wish to support Officer Wilson’s murder of Mike Brown. https://storify.com/miniver/mike-brown-facts-and-dog-whistles-from-shaunking I have some 5 essential FACTS about the Mike Brown case. These are not in dispute & agreed upon by all sides. 1. According to the Police Chief Officer Darren Wilson DID NOT know about the stolen cigars & all agree the stop was just about jaywalking. 2. A struggle ensued at the window of the car. Dorian Johnson & 4 eyewitnesses saw it ONE way. We can assume Officer Johnson sees it another 3. Mike Brown fled on foot and got about 35 feet away from the truck. His body was found 35 feet away from the truck. So key. 4. Mike Brown was unarmed from start to finish. This is never in dispute. 5. Officer did not file a report and almost no witnesses were interviewed the day of the murder. This was well before DOJ intervention. (thanks to Shaun King for compiling this list) Kevin Sorbo doesn't understand atheists Kevin Sorbo was the star of a syndicated 1990s tv show, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. Recently, he starred in a christian film called God is Not Dead where he played an atheist. He says he doesn’t understand why atheists are so angry about a god they don’t believe in: Sorbo, who is still promoting his most recent film, God Is Not Dead, in which he plays an atheist, said he can’t comprehend the logic behind atheist’s lack of beliefs and their anger. “I’m a Christian myself and had to play an atheist. I see the anger of these (atheist) guys on TV and it’s like ‘wow, how do you get so angry at something you don’t believe in?” Sorbo said. Earlier this year, Sorbo discussed self-professed atheist Bill Maher, calling him “angry and lonely,” before adding, “I did Politically Incorrect a couple of times, and all I can do is feel sad for the guy, because I think he is a very angry and lonely man. Comedy comes from anger anyway. You know, what are you going to say when a guy talks like this?” My first question I’d ask him is have you ever listened to an atheist? If he had, he’d realize that we’re not angry all the time. You see, atheists, like other human beings, are human. We possess and display the full range of human emotions (to one degree or another, and at various points in our lives). We laugh when we’re happy. We cry when we’re sad. We get frustrated when things don’t go as planned. We shrug our shoulders over things we don’t care about. We care about the lives of family and friends. We show concern when the people we care about are hurt. We are most certainly not angry all the time. To believe that is to truly not know what the fuck one is talking about. We do get angry though. Some of us get angry on a regular basis, and guess what? There’s nothing wrong with that. Anger is an emotion and like all emotions it helps us express our thoughts and feelings. There is much in the world to be happy or joyous about. There is also much to be angry about. I could discuss a great many things about religion in general that make me angry, but I’ll limit it to just 5 items (and not just christianity Mr. Sorbo, it’s hardly unique): I’m mad that the Catholic Church uses it position as one of the most powerful organizations on the planet to deny women the right to have an abortion. The right to bodily autonomy is a right all human beings have. It is foundational to the right to self-defense, which is a right all humans have. To deny women the right to have an abortion results in women being denied a right they are entitled to by virtue of being human. Such a denial relegates women to second class status, and I condemn that 1000%. I’m mad that children are brought up, indoctrinated into religious belief. The foundation of religious belief-faith-instills in children (from a very young age) the idea that it is preferable to hold beliefs without any reason to do so; in the face of evidence to the contrary. Religious belief hinders the ability of children in the areas of logic and critical thinking. The damage isn’t irreversible, but is difficult to overcome. The ability to use critical thinking, logic, and reason is essential in learning how to understand and interpret the world around us. These tools are also important in allowing us to cut through the bullshit we so often find in life. Faith-belief without evidence-allows people to believe in all manner of things, often to their own personal detriment. Religious teachings on sexuality are wrong. As I’ve written before, there is no moral component to sexuality. It’s personal to each individual, and has no bearing on questions of right and wrong in interactions between people. I find the teaching of many religions on the subject of sexuality to be abominable. Homosexuality is not morally wrong. Bisexuality is not morally wrong. That many religions teach that homosexuality is morally wrong is itself deeply immoral. These teaching have led parents to disown their kids, kick them out of their homes, and even kill them. These teachings have led to a lifetime of shame and disgust that many people feel over their sexuality. These religious teachings have led entire countries-I’m looking at you Russia-to enact legislation that discriminates against and oppresses people. All for the “crime” of not being heterosexual. Religious teachings on sexuality-on the whole-are deeply harmful to people, and actively work to make people miserable and the world a worse place. Creationism does not belong in the classroom. It is a wholly religious idea that has no foundation in science. There is no empirical evidence in support of creationism, yet despite this, there are efforts across the US and other parts of the world to teach creationism in place of evolution in the classroom. This angers me because I want people to be educated, but I want that education to be reality based. Not fantasy based. Evolution has mountains of evidence to support it, and a vast array of scientific disciplines support the theory of evolution. I am an atheist. That means I do not believe in the existence of any god or gods. That does not mean I’m an immoral shitbag who has no reason to not rape or kill people. I am angry that people believe-without knowing who I am-that I’m an immoral person. Morality concerns the distinctions between right and wrong or good and evil actions between humans. How does one determine whether a particular course of action is good or evil? One way is to attempt to understand how the other person feels in that situation. If I’m trying to decided if I want to punch someone or not, by imagining myself in the shoes of someone else, it can be easy to see that they wouldn’t like to be punched. I know I don’t want to be punched either, so it’s probably a good idea for me to not punch them, at least if I think they have the same rights as I do (which I do). The Golden Rule-basically treating others as you would be treated yourself-has been in existence for longer than christianity, and informs morality. Likewise, morality was a necessary component in creating societies. There must be rules to govern our interactions if we’re going to live among each other, and humans being a social species, that’s pretty much going to happen everywhere. These rules attempt to balance the desires of the individual against the desires of society as a whole. Destructive, damaging behaviors obviously harm society as a whole and are discouraged. Positive behaviors are encouraged. This is obviously in simple terms, but we don’t encourage people to kill or rape one another because that threatens social cohesion by affecting the safety and security of others. The idea that you cannot have morality without god is a false one (and ridiculous anyways-how can you decide which actions are good and which are bad when {if you use christianity} god commits genocide and encourages or permits rape, slavery, and murder?) If Sorbo were interested in actually learning why many atheists are angry-sometimes-he ought to check out Greta Christina’s book Why Are You Atheists So Angry: 99 Things That Piss Off The Godless. Suffice it to say, there are plenty of good reasons to get angry at the actions of the religious. Given the shit going on in the world, if you’re not angry, then you don’t care, and apathy is responsible for tremendous amounts of human suffering. Incidentally Mr. Sorbo, we aren’t angry at god. We’re angry at how believers act in the name of god.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2693
__label__wiki	0.960084	0.960084	deal off Wembley will not be sold after Fulham owner Shahid Khan withdraws offer to buy stadium, FA announce The 'home of football' will remain under the ownership of the Football Association By Sean O'Brien 18th October 2018, 7:41 am Updated: 18th October 2018, 11:28 am Wembley will not be sold by the Football Association after Shahid Khan withdrew his offer to buy the stadium, a move that has been declared a huge disappointment for grassroots football. The Fulham owner had offered the FA £600million in cash for the stadium, as well as letting it keep the Club Wembley hospitality business, worth around another £300million. Wembley will not be sold FA chairman Greg Clarke and chief executive Martin Glenn were both strongly in favour of the deal and wanted to use the money to fix England’s dilapidated changing rooms, water-logged pitches and stretched 3G facilities. They hoped Khan’s £600million could be the catalyst for a total investment in community facilities over the next 20 years of £3.3billion, more than double what the Football Foundation and Sport England have been able to do since 2000. But in separate statements, Glenn admitted the proposed sale had been “more divisive than anticipated”, while Khan said it had become clear “there is no definitive mandate to sell Wembley and my current proposal, subsequently, would earn the backing of only a slim majority of the FA Council, well short of the conclusive margin the FA chairman has required”. This has been on the cards ever since last week’s council meeting proved just how split football was on the idea, with some seeing it as a gilt-edged opportunity to solve one of football’s most expensive problems, while others likened it to selling the family silver and questioned the FA’s ability to invest the windfall wisely. Martin Glenn was in favour of the deal to sell Wembley Glenn said: “We fully respect his decision. Mr Khan believed that his offer to buy Wembley Stadium would release funds to help improve community football facilities in England and that it would be well received by all football stakeholders. “At a recent meeting with Mr Khan he expressed to us that, without stronger support from within the game, his offer is being seen as more divisive than it was anticipated to be and has decided to withdraw his proposal. “Wembley Stadium is an iconic venue that is revered around world and it will continue to thrive under the ownership and direction of The FA.” As well as having the support of the FA’s senior leadership, the proposed deal was backed by the government and the professional game, but there were significant doubts elsewhere. In a statement, Khan said: “The intent of my efforts was, and is, to do right by everyone in a manner that strengthens the English game and brings people together, not divides them. “Unfortunately, given where we are today, I’ve concluded that the outcome of a vote next week would be far from sufficient in expressing the broad support favoured by the FA Chairman to sell Wembley Stadium. Khan felt the deal could not be done with split opinions “Wembley is indeed a national treasure, one I would care for and respect for generations. “I recognise the passion many people have for Wembley and what it means to English football, and will be willing to re-engage with the FA on this matter under proper circumstances.” Khan had eventually hoped to use Wembley as a home for his NFL team, the Jacksonville Jaguars, and was willing to agree to a number of highly restrictive conditions on how he would run the national stadium, most notably in terms of maintaining it as a venue for all of English football’s biggest games. Khan’s decision to withdraw the offer has been described as a “huge disappointment” and a missed opportunity by two of the biggest sponsors of grassroots facilities. The UK’s largest sports charity, the Football Foundation, would have been the vehicle the FA used to pick, manage and fund the projects, as it currently does with the funding it receives from the FA, Premier League and government. In a statement, it said: “News that Mr Khan has decided to withdraw his offer to buy Wembley should come as a huge disappointment to community footballers everywhere. “Football participation in this country is huge. Unfortunately, those who play the game, simply for the love of doing so and for the health benefits are having to put up with a stock of community football facilities that is in a shameful state. “This would have been a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make considerable inroads into probably the most pressing issue facing football in this country.” Nick Bitel, the chair of Sport England, the government agency that funds grassroots sport, was more measured but his disappointment was equally plain. “We agree with the view that the Wembley Stadium offer was a huge opportunity to boost funding into the development and maintenance of artificial and grass pitches up and down the country,” he said. “Now that this deal is off the table, we hope the football family will now consider other ways the much-needed additional funds for grassroots facilities can be generated.”	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2695
__label__cc	0.610659	0.389341	Week 15: Will A Dominant Team Please Stand Up?!?? The late great NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle used to speak all the time about parody in the National Football League. Yet what we have seen over the last four days may have been tantamount to what his wishes were but it leaves a lot to be desired. First on Thursday night the 11-3 Denver Broncos, who had the inside pole position for home field advantage, lose to the 7-7 San Diego Chargers 27-20. All of a sudden the Patriots can have home field if they win out. Oops they slipped on a banana peel against the 8-6 Miami Dolphins 24-20 and dropped to 10-4. Sure the Patriots had won 5 of 6 before that but they needed last second wins in 3 of those. The Broncos had won 6 of 7, yet lost at Invesco Field. Not the message to send to the league when securing home field. Greg Jennings and the Vikings stunned the Eagles. Then we move to the NFC East leading Philadelphia Eagles who were on a five game winning streak. All they had to do was keep their #2 ranked offense on track against a 31st ranked defense in Minnesota. Nevermind the Vikings were 3-7-1 in their last 11 games. They fell 48-30 and the chance for the Dallas Cowboys to tie them in the division. The Cowboys knew that when they took the field agianst the Green Bay Packers led by back-up quarterback Matt Flynn. They stormed out to a 26-3 halftime lead, then did their best Run & Shoot impression and refused to run the football and use the clock. The Packers roared back and won 37-36 scoring on all five second half possessions and Tony Romo… sigh…pulled a Tony Romo. The 8-6 Eagles accidentally still lead the 7-7 Cowboys in the NFC East. Did we say something about accidentally leading their division?? Take the Cincinnati Bengals. They took the field after the Patriots lost and now can take the #2 seed if they won their game with the Pittsburgh Steelers and won their next two games. Then they hit their heads on the goalposts in Pittsburgh and was down 21-0 at the end of the first quarter en route to a 30-20 loss to their division rival. Viola!! Back to the #3 spot that would have them playing on wildcard weekend. The Bengals gave up 21 points to the Steelers before they got out of the 1st quarter. Even the Arizona Cardinals almost pulled a fast one on themsleves. In the hunt for the final NFC playoff spot with an 8-5 record, and winners of 6 out of 7 contests traveled to Tennessee. They were up 34-17 in the fourth over a Titan team that had lost their starting quarterback for the season and losers of 4 of their last 5 contests. Wouldn’t you know they played down to their competition and allowed Ryan Fitzpatrick to look like Joe Montana in roaring back to tie the game at 34. Just before the Cardinals could botch their season they squeezed out a 37-34 win. Que the video short of Vince Lombardi screaming “What the hell is going on out here?!?” Next to screw things up are the Baltimore Ravens. Thanks to the Bengals gaffe last night, they control their own destiny and can win the AFC North. No way can they in this weekend of parody not screw this up and lose to the Detroit Lions tonight. Stay tuned. As for the teams that are making a case for being dominant, the Seattle Seahawks just finished their 2013 road stanza with a gaudy 6-2 record. Their next away game will be Super Bowl XLIII in the Meadowlands with just one more win. Considering they haven’t lost at home in nearly two years, this is a case for dominance. Counting their 6-0 home record, Seattle’s average margin of victory at home is by 3 touchdowns at 18.6. Cold beer thrown on him from Oakland fans couldn’t cool down Jamaal Charles near record day. The Chiefs aren’t quite making a case for dominance but Jamaal Charles is. Andy Reid and the coaches should be ashamed they didn’t pay attention to the fact that Charles was 1 touchdown short of tying Gale Sayers, Dub Jones, and Ernie Nevers all time record of 6 touchdowns. With 5 minutes to go in the 3rd quarter you’d think someone would get that information to the sideline. Hell George Halas had pulled Gale Sayers with 5 touchdowns until the crowd called for Sayers to go for another. Well he’ll have to settle for the Chiefs record book with his 215 yards from scrimmage 5 TDs including 4 receiving. Lost in the shuffle is the fact that a defensive first team the first part of the season has transformed into an offensive team. Going into yesterday’s battle with Oakland, the Chiefs had averaged 37 points per game over the last four weeks. After yesterday’s 56-31 win, that averaged moved up to 41.75 over five games. Slightly better than AFC West rival Denver’s 32.5 points per game. Yet Denver swept the Chiefs and both have 11-3 records. The Chiefs are forced to see if the Broncos will blink in their final contests @ Houston then @ Oakland. As you’ve just read with all these teams, stranger things just happened. This entry was posted in 2013 NFL Regular Season and tagged Cincinnati Bengals, Dallas Cowboys, Denver Broncos, football, Jamaal Charles, Miami Dolphins, new england patriots, NFL, Philadelphia Eagles, Seattle Seahawks, sports. Bookmark the permalink. ← Missing Rings: 1993 Houston Oilers Legends of The Fall: Eric Dickerson → 2 thoughts on “Week 15: Will A Dominant Team Please Stand Up?!??” Leonard Spale says: December 16, 2013 at 7:14 pm Reminds me of the old ‘What’s my Line’ show when they would say “would the REAL Division Champion please stand up” and they would start to get up but sit back down because they were just pretending. The Chancellor of Football says: December 17, 2013 at 4:43 am Nice analogy. No one wants to stand and take command.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2696
__label__cc	0.665396	0.334604	Something Rotten at Rotten Tomatoes. By Anthony R. Rizzuto on March 14, 2019 • ( Leave a comment ) Rotten Tomatoes, the Movie review Site, continues down the path of self destruction. It took a major turn for the worse when it eliminated commentary on films prior to their release. At the same time it also disabled the feature that allowed people to indicate whether or not they intended to see a particular film under the heading: “Want to see.” All of this took place in advance of the Release of “Captain Marvel” which had received a tremendous backlash over the male bashing comments made by the film’s lead Brie Larson. Following its release RT went a step further when it “accidentally” deleted more than 50,000 negative reviews in an obvious attempt to boost the flagging Audience score which up to that point was sitting at a low of 34% in stark contrast to the Critic’s score of 79%. They succeeded. The Audience score though still comparatively low has been bumped up to 62%. Why would the Site go to such lengths to gin up the numbers of this particular film? The answer as always is follow the money trail. Rotten Tomatoes is owned by Fandango a major purveyor of online ticket sales. The other reason is the Site is operated by former Disney executives, Disney now being the parent company of Marvel. As if purging reviews portraying the film in a negative light wasn’t bad enough, “The Daily Wire” is now saying that in order to prevent “trolling” of films and the Site itself in the future, RT is considering implementing a practice which would require a person to prove they’d actually seen the film in order to leave a review. The logistics of this are headache inducing. What poor sap is going to be assigned the unenviable task of matching pics of ticket stubs to a person’s review? Worse, how do we know given their already shady practices that Rotten Tomatoes won’t simply use this as an excuse to eliminate virtually all negative comments or at least enough to make the Audience score match the Critic’s? There are countless incidents of this occuring and not just in one direction. There are many cases where the Audience score was more favorable towards a particular film than that of the critics. The most recent example being “Alita Battle Angel” which received a Critic’s score of 60% but an Audience score of 94. Will Rotten Tomatoes now fudge those nunbers as well in order to hurt a film that may be in competition with one that for financial reasons they favor? It’s impossible now not to question the validity of the numbers of the Site moving forward. The only thing beyond question is that by engaging in such practices, Rotten Tomatoes has destroyed what little credibility they had left. Image Copyright Rotten Tomatoes and Fandango LLC. Tagged as: Captain Marvel, featured, Marvel Films, Rotten Tomatoes, Walt Disney Company Captain Marvel: Big Numbers, Empty Seats? January New Home Sales Finally Revealed	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2698
__label__cc	0.68204	0.31796	-publications Value chain activities Identify your product value chain Strategy & organisation Upstream supply chain Own manufacturing Customers and consumers Develop more sustainable products End-of-life of products Other stakeholders Trends & Issues History and definitions Eco-efficiency How we work with LCA at AkzoNobel By Emma Ringström & Sofia Petersson At AkzoNobel a corporate group, AN Sustainability, are specialists at performing environmental assessments with a life cycle thinking. The LCA methodology is used to perform a variety of different anlyses in order to support the strategic sustainability work of AkzoNobel. This is though not how it all started. The development of this group, AN Sustainability, are described below. It all started in the early nineties with a couple of employees who had heard about LCA and in 1993 the first LCA was carried out by a thesis worker on alcohol etoxylate. The main part of this project was to make an inventory (collect information) of the processes at the Berol plant in Stenungsund used to produce the alcohol etoxylate as well as for the raw materials used and calculate the environmental impact of these processes. After this first LCA project more projects followed for other products of the Berol plant, but at this time the work was done by an employee on part time. Studies was also carried out by thesis works. The aim of most projects were to compare new products or processes with old and to identify where the main part of the environmental impact orginated from. The work was time consuming since a lot of information had to be gathered for each project. As help to perform the calculations an LCA software was used. The information gather during the projects for raw materials and processes was also stored in the LCA software and could thereby easily be used again when needed. In the late nineties the LCA team grew from 1 to 2 persons that worked as internal consultants. Around 2002 a new sense of the importance of sustainability was developed within the AkzoNobel organization and at the same time the LCA team of Akzo Nobel started up the DANTES project, which was a project with the aim of Demonstrate and Assess New Tools for Environmental Sustainability, www.dantes.info together with ABB, Stora Enso and Chalmers University of Technology. This project was partly financed by the EU LIFE-Environment programme. DANTES dealed mainly with environmental activities that are usually characterized as voluntary rather than regulatory. When this project was started up the LCA group grew from 2 to 4 people. During this project a lot of new contacts was established both inside and outside the company. For the implementation of LCA within Akzonobel the most important contact were with other business units within in AkzoNobel and with the Corporate Social Responsibilitydirector of AkzoNobel These new contacts resulted in that the LCA team has been assissting more and more Business units with environmental assessments on consultancy basis. The contact with the Corporate Social Responsibility director resulted in that the LCA team, now called the Sustainable Development group became responsible for introducing Eco-Efficiency Assessment (EEA) within the whole company. The decision to implement EEA within the whole company, made at the end of 2005, was mainly based on the belief that EEA is an excellent tool for obtaining figures and goals to make more efficient solutions for the future. After introducing EEA in the company, the carbon and eco footprint of the whole organization of AkzoNobel were calculated. This means that the environmental impact of all the Business Units of AkzoNobel with their key products has been mapped. In 2011 the Sustainable Development group became part of the AkzoNobel Sustainability with the goal to support the business units in the strategic sustainability work and to develop the sustainbility work of AkzoNobel. How LCA is used today The result from an LCA is used to derive eco-footprints and carbon footprints. Eco-footprints are used to get a full picture of the environmental load from a product. The result can be used in both marketing and R&D activities. An eco-footprint may be used as it is or may be verified by a third party for example to get the format required in an EPD (Environmental Product Declaration). The carbon footprint can be used in a similar way as the eco-footprint but focuses on the climate impact of the product. It can be certified in the form of an Climate Declaration. At AkzoNobel we use the information from carbon footprints to calculate the total carbon footprint of the company. This is part of our carbon policy where we have a goal to reduce our total carbon footprint (cradle-to-gate) by 20-25 % per ton of product to the year 2020 compared to 2009. From an LCI we also perform eco-efficicency studies that compared two or more products on both economical and environmental terms. More about eco-efficicency can be found here. How LCA studies are preformed The data collection is one of the most time consuming activites in an LCA. In AkzoNobel we work with a extensive corporate database that assist us in our work. There is also external databases that can be used, the CPM database is one. Often we also need to collect data from suppliers which we often do by using a questionnaire. Supplier questionnaire 2010 Eco-footprint A questionnaire is a good way of summarizing the data and make sure that it is complete. But it is not as easy as just sending out the questionnaire, often suppliers need support in filling out the questionnaire correctly. Life cycle assessment of the manufacture of lactide and PLA biopolymers from sugarcane in Thailand Introduction to LCA How to perform an LCA Applying LCA LCA in strategy LCA for product development LCA in sourcing LCA in marketing Experiences at SCA Experiences at AkzoNobel Where to find support Navigation by keywords Copyright © 2011 TOSCA project partners	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2699
__label__wiki	0.548781	0.548781	Cal Poly Pomona scores high rankings by The Poly Post September 19, 2017 By Chelsea Mazer Cal Poly Pomona has been ranked No. 4 among public universities in the West on the U.S. News & World Report “Best Colleges 2018” list, released last week. This list ranked the top colleges and universities across the 15 states of the western UnitedStates. Schools placed on this list were ranked based on qualifications including tuition & fees,enrollment numbers, acceptance rates and majors available. Furthermore, with its No. 4 ranking in the report, CPP was also given second place among all ofthe California State University campuses put on the list. CSU schools took 10 out of the 15 spots on this year’s “Top Public Regional Universities” list for western schools. The CSU schools that made the top 15 list are as follows: ” Cal Poly San Luis Obispo is No. 1. ” San Jose State University is No. 6. ” Cal State Chico is No. 8. ” Cal State Long Beach is No. 9. ” Cal State Monterey Bay and Humboldt State tied for No. 11. ” Cal State Stanislaus is No. 13. ” Sonoma State University is No. 14. ” Cal State Los Angeles is No. 15. ” Cal State San Bernardino is No. 16. ” Cal State Channel Islands is No. 18. ” Cal State Sacramento is No. 20. In addition to the university being ranked, CPP’s College of Engineering was listed among oneof the best engineering schools and programs in the U.S. where the highest attainable degree is abachelor’s or master’s. The college ranked on the list in the fifth spot among all public universities and was also No. 14among all public and private university programs across the nation. With CPP being known as an engineering and science based school, this recognition is one thatwill continue to dignify the program and keep its reputation strong. This is not the first year that the university has qualified for or been ranked on this list, with 2018being the third consecutive year in this particular group of universities being recognized. CPP has made a strong showing in “Best College” reports in the past and is acknowledged forgiving its students a great value for their education with the annual tuition costs being close to$4,000 less than the national average annual tuition. The university has other exemplary programs in departments including agriculture, hospitality,sciences and education. The College of Business Administration was recently recognized as one of the nation’s bestundergraduate business programs in the same report. The entire list of rankings for the 2018 academic year is available online on at usnews.com. Sungah Choi / The Poly Post CPP’s high rankings among public universities Quarterly parking rates go up $20 for fall Cal Poly Pomona rose garden: a quiet haven	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2701
__label__wiki	0.656917	0.656917	Butera’s moving to new location By: Monica Zalaznik/Staff Writer 12-21-18 - Updated: 6 months ago Posted Dec 21, 2018 BUCKHANNON—Butera’s Italian Grill announced it will be moving downtown in January. Owner of Butera’s Italian Grill Paul Butera said the opportunity presented itself when he was asked to renew his lease at the Buckhannon Country Club. He said the increase in rent was not something he was willing to pay so he started looking for other opportunities and purchased a building at 13 Florida Street that is the New Community Church. “I bought the building just because I like the building,” Butera said. “It’s got a full kitchen downstairs and I decided to go ahead and maybe do a delivery business in the church because delivering will be quicker to downtown and that would put us right next to downtown businesses, and also houses in the downtown area.” Butera also said he hopes it will be easier for him to hire people at the new location. “My main stress at this location has been employing the dining room,” Butera said. “It’s been really hard to find staff suit that and I can’t be in both places at one time.” He said he will not need as many employees at the church because he is thinking they might start focusing more on delivery at the new location. He said they will have limited dine in, but it will not require as many servers to operate. He also hopes that he will be able to get the word out about Butera’s easier once they move into their downtown location. “That would alleviate some time for me to do a little more PR than I have been able to do here because we’re a little forgotten out here,” Butera said. He said since the business will become more about delivery, and the menu will be trimmed down so some of the less popular dishes will be removed. Some of the dishes that Butera said are not going anywhere include grilled chicken fettuccine, spicy Italian pasta, the scampi, pizzas and three of the desserts. He said the hours for the restaurant will remain the same through December and they will continue to do any Christmas parties that were already scheduled to occur. They will also have a buffet style dinner available Dec. 23 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. where customers will have their choice of baked lasagna, spaghetti and meatballs, chicken fettuccine and spicy Italian sausage with pasta. The buffet will include an entrée, salad, bread, drink and dessert. Hodgesville alumni scholarship deadline extended to May 3 House tables education bill Ramirez eager to study in Germany Hurst hired as Record Delta sales rep BUCKHANNON—Butera’s Italian Grill announced it will be moving downtown in January. Owner of Butera’s Italian Grill Paul Butera said the opportunity presented itself when he was asked to renew his lease at the Buckhannon Country Club.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2702
__label__cc	0.604314	0.395686	All Things Equal More Than Half of Indian Parents Want Their Children To Become Teachers, Survey Finds There are two things everyone knows about Indian parents: One, that they are often the ones deciding what their children should grow up to do, and two, there are only a few, acceptable options: engineering or medicine. Now, a global study suggests that’s changing: The UK-based Varkey Foundation’s Global Teacher Status Index (GTSI) 2018 reveals more than half of Indian parents (54%) polled say they are positive and encouraging about their children pursuing teaching as a career. This is a bigger margin than any other country surveyed, including China, where 50% of parents say they want their children to become teachers. The survey included 35 countries, and by comparison, less than a quarter of British people said they would encourage their child to become a teacher; at the extreme other end of the spectrum is Russia, where only 6% Russian parents say they would want their children to take up teaching. Teachers in India form the third-largest workforce among white-collared employees; of the country’s 64 lakh teachers, 29 lakh, or 45%, are women, and the number of female teachers continues to rise. Although partly because of a government policy, which makes it mandatory to employ one female teacher per two teachers in Indian schools, feminization in the teaching profession is neither a recent development, nor is it restricted to India. (According the US Department of Education’s 2015-16 survey, of the 3.8 million public school teachers in the country, about 77% of them are women–up slightly from 76% in 2012.) Teaching is perceived as a career that will allow women to balance work with managing homes and children — still perceived as the responsibility and domain of women — thanks to the shorter working hours and long vacations that coincide with kids’ school timings and holidays. It is also perceived as a career uniquely suited to stereotypically ‘feminine’ traits: Schools, especially primary and pre-primary, tend to hire more female candidates, influenced by stereotypes of motherly affection and instincts. “Women are considered as aptly suited to teaching profession that provides an additional source of income for the family without disturbing patriarchy,” writes N Mythili, an assistant professor at the National Institute of Education Planning and Administration, in a 2017 report. While women’s domination of the teaching field could be seen as a success story, especially in a country where women’s representation in the labor force is so low, the truth is that education has come to be perceived as a feminine, rather than masculine, field of work. As women have entered it, men have opted for other professions — or simply moved into the upper echelons of education administration — either way, with higher salaries. Children need both male and female teachers as their role models. Some experts believe that boys who struggle more in the classroom could use an example of male role models to overcome their insecurities. Moreover, the same perks of work-life balance and job security that are thought to be uniquely suited to women, are becoming more sought-after by men who want to spend time caring equally for their families. So, while it’s great to see Indian parents warming up to a different career choice for their children, it’s important to look at which children we’re encouraging to take up teaching — and why. All Things Equal \| education \| school Written By Anubhuti Matta Anubhuti Matta is an associate editor with The Swaddle. When not at work, she’s busy pursuing kathak, reading books on and by women in the Middle East or making dresses out of Indian prints. See all articles by Anubhuti	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2703
__label__wiki	0.689226	0.689226	Latest Podcast Episode Season Four Program #tippetrise Ticket Drawing FAQ Stephen Talasnik Mark di Suvero Ensamble Studio Program Books Founders' Statement Tippet Rise Art Center is located in Fishtail, Montana, against the backdrop of the Beartooth Mountains, roughly midway between Billings and Bozeman and north of Yellowstone National Park. Set on a 12,000-acre working sheep and cattle ranch, Tippet Rise hosts classical chamber music and recitals and exhibits large-scale, outdoor sculptures. Tippet Rise celebrates the concept that art, music, architecture, and nature are inextricably linked in the human experience, each making the others more powerful. The art center features musical performance spaces indoors and out, with programs that seek to create memorable experiences for performers and audience members alike. Classical concerts are held on summer weekends in the Olivier Music Barn, or outdoors under the Domo. Bike, hike, or take a van tour led by the art center’s staff. [Book early, as tours fill up.] Who is Tippet Rise? Peter and Cathy Halstead Cathy and Peter Halstead have known each other since they were 16. They both grew up in families that for generations have sought to bring art and education to communities both in the United States and abroad. They were later classmates at both Columbia and NYU. Cathy is an abstract painter, who has shown around the world. Peter is a pianist, photographer, and poet. He has published several volumes of poems and photos, and is working on a six-volume piano series, Pianist Lost, for The Adrian Brinkerhoff Foundation. Four volumes of his poetry are so far available : Sea Sun, Blinds, Poems of Earth, and A Selection. Cathy worked with her father in the liquor company he founded with her in 1972, and ultimately became President and Chairman. Cathy and Peter founded the Digital Lab in the Rockefeller library at Brown, where Cathy is a Member of the Corporation. Cathy is on the board of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. She and Peter are trustees of the Sidney E. Frank Foundation, which makes over ninety grants annually to charities in the United States and England. Grantees include Storm King Art Center, The Juilliard School, San Diego Youth Symphony, The Curtis Institute of Music, the La Jolla Playhouse, Hawaii Opera Theater, and the Aspen and Vail Music Festivals. The foundation has helped fund films of the Glyndebourne version of La Traviata and Don Pasquale, as well as a film of Brian Bedford’s The Importance of Being Earnest on Broadway. In England, it has digitized the filmed repertoire of the National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, and Shakespeare’s Globe. It has digitized the repertoire of The Cleveland Orchestra, and helped fund a film about Patrick Dougherty, Stickworks. It has provided high-end audio equipment to the Aspen Music Festival and the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. It supports diverse efforts in Montana in the arts and education. Cathy and Peter were inspired to found Tippet Rise by the Storm King Art Center, Tickon Sculpture Park in Denmark, la fondation Maeght in St.-Paul-de-Vence, Snape Maltings in England, and by the Vail and Aspen Music Festivals. Cathy and Peter have two wonderful daughters and two adorable grandchildren. Pedja Muzijevic Artistic Advisor Lindsey Hinmon Managing Director, Programs Pete Hinmon Managing Director, Operations Ben Wynthein Ranch Manager Communications and Administration Manager Beth Korth Art Education Coordinator and Visitor Center Manager Publications Administrator Monte Nickles Audio and Technology Systems Manager Maintenance, Events, and Special Projects Coordinator Dan Luttschwager Maintenance and Operations Assistant Jenny Van Ooyen Guest Experience and Administrative Assistant Emily Rund Filmmaker and Production Coordinator Zachary Patten Christopher Castillo Facilities Operator Jim Ruberto Assistant Audio Engineer and Technical Systems Engineer Pianist Pedja Muzijevic has defined his career with creative programming, unusual combinations of new and old music, and lasting collaborations with artists and ensembles. Pedja’s symphonic engagements include performances with the Atlanta Symphony, Dresden Philharmonic, Milwaukee Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, Orquesta Sinfonica in Montevideo, Residentie Orkest in The Hague, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Santa Fe Pro Musica, Shinsei Nihon Orchestra in Tokyo, and Zagreb Philharmonic. He has played solo recitals at Alice Tully Hall in New York, Mostly Mozart Festival Little Night Music series, 92Y and The Frick Collection in New York, Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival in Kalamazoo, MI, Terrace Theater at Kennedy Center, Dumbarton Oaks, Phillips Collection and National Gallery in Washington, DC, Casals Hall and Bunka Kaikan in Tokyo, Teatro Municipal in Santiago de Chile, Da Camera of Houston, for Arizona Friends of Chamber Music in Tucson, Lane Series at University of Vermont, Spoleto USA, Verbier, Bay Chamber Concerts, Aldeburgh Festival in Great Britain, and many others. His Carnegie Hall concerto debut playing Mozart Concerto K. 503 with Oberlin Symphony and Robert Spano was recorded live and has been released on the Oberlin Music label. Pedja’s festival appearances include Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival in New York, Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, Tippet Rise Arts Center, Holland, Melbourne, Lucerne festivals, Bravo! Vail, and many others. Pedja is the artistic administrator at Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York, artistic advisor to Tippet Rise Arts Center in Montana. He is on the faculty of Citizen Artist Project at the Verbier Festival Academy and he also directs a residency at the Banff Centre in Canada called Concert in 21st Century. In all these roles he looks at the concert experience, both in programming and presentation and questions what can we do to make it more relevant today. He lives in New York City and, in his free time, he enjoys cooking for friends and seeing performances in all disciplines. Lindsey assists in leading Tippet Rise, alongside her husband, Pete. She keeps the art center’s logistics humming smoothly, oversees public relations, and is instrumental to our planning and development. Lindsey coordinates with artists, architects, and musicians, community members and educators, from kindergarten teachers to university deans, as well as leaders from regional and national cultural institutions, welcoming everyone into the Tippet Rise family. In short, Lindsey helps to bring the Tippet Rise vision of nature, music, and art intertwined to full, blooming life — an experience she hopes to share with her Montana friends and people from all over the world. She and Pete live in Red Lodge with their baby girl. A lifelong pursuit of adventure in the mountains led Pete to Tippet Rise where he draws on his experiences to make the organization’s vision a reality. Intrigued by the exploration of art and nature, Pete’s role at Tippet Rise is an adventure in itself. Often working in tandem with his wife, Lindsey, Pete provides team leadership, oversees the art center’s operations, planning, and development, and coordinates the installation of its sculptures. When he isn’t orchestrating Tippet Rise’s many facets, Pete enjoys life with Lindsey and their baby girl, all the better if it’s outside beneath Montana’s big, beautiful sky. Ben oversees ranching operations at Tippet Rise. From May to mid-November, this work includes grazing oversight of 200 to 300 calf-cow pairs, 100 to 120 heifers and 2,000 to 2,600 head of sheep. He works year-round to improve Tippet Rise’s rangeland health as well as its water use and conservation practices. Through these efforts, Ben endeavors to make Tippet Rise an increasingly healthy and viable ranchland, wildlife habitat and treasured piece of the Montana landscape. In the process, he hopes the art center’s guests can enjoy and experience Montana’s rich ranching heritage. For the past ten years, Ben has lived with his family on or next to what is now Tippet Rise. From the moment a guest first learns of Tippet Rise to the time they exit the art center’s gates, Melissa helps facilitate their experience from beginning to end. With a background in theater and hospitality, she oversees communication and administration at the art center. From managing the Tippet Rise website and social media accounts to orchestrating event planning and ticketing, her contributions are indispensable to day-to-day operations and to her colleagues at the art center. Melissa lives in Red Lodge with her husband and two young daughters. With a background in fine art and education, Beth has taught kindergarten through 12th grade, as well as at the college level, running art workshops, teaching classes, and giving tours. She earned a BFA from the University of Wyoming and an MFA from the University of Montana and is a professional artist herself. Beth began working at Tippet Rise as an intern during the inaugural season. Today, she manages the visitor center and oversees our art education programs, which focus on art, music, architecture, and conservation through hands-on workshops for all ages. Born to a pianist mother and raised in the US, England and Greece, Lexy grew up surrounded by music: from the Haydn, Bach and Chopin her mother practiced each morning to Greek Rebetiko, bossa nova, and the American folk songs of the 1960s and ‘70s. A longtime freelance writer, her work has been published by Oxford University Press, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, National Geographic Traveler, Scientific American and other publications. At Tippet Rise, Lexy writes and edits content for the art center’s publications and website, and she assists with our public relations efforts. Although she often works alone and behind the scenes, Lexy’s favorite days are spent working alongside her colleagues at the art center, helping guests, and marveling at the extraordinary acoustics of the Olivier Music Barn. Monte maintains the Olivier Music Barn’s state-of-the-art audio-video systems and supervises all audio recordings of performances at Tippet Rise, which he masters in ultra-high-fidelity formats and in 9.1 surround-sound. With a Bachelor’s degree in Audio Production from Webster University in St Louis, his background also includes recording the St. Louis Symphony’s performances for several years. But Monte not only records performances, he also performs: on the trumpet, which he has played since childhood. Carl has served as interpretive ranger at Tippet Rise since the inaugural season, patrolling the art center’s 12,000 acres by mountain bike and providing insight and guidance to our guests as they explore our trail system on foot and by bike. He also serves as events crew, assisting with the setup and breakdown of concerts. When not working as a ranger or on the events crew, Carl helps to complete a wide variety of projects, and assists with the coordination of new building endeavors. Originally from the great state of Maine, Carl has a degree in Biology from Saint Lawrence University in upstate New York. Dan helps to maintain the buildings, mechanical systems, vehicles, and equipment at Tippet Rise. Always willing to help with whatever is needed, he is not only indispensable to the art center’s operations, he is a friendly face to guests, artists, and staff alike. A lifelong Montanan, Dan loves the outdoors, especially the mountains and the rivers and streams, which he explores by raft as often as possible. He and his wife Yvonne live near Absarokee, Montana. They have three children and four wonderful grandchildren. Dan is proud to be on the Tippet Rise staff, believing it to be “one of the greatest places there is.” Jenny began her journey at Tippet Rise as an interpretive ranger and member of the events crew during the art center’s inaugural season. From setting up concerts at the Domo to taking guests on sculpture tours or helping those who are hiking and biking the art center’s trails, she utilizes her passion to try to create unforgettable guest experiences. Jenny’s position at Tippet Rise also requires her to assist in a variety of administrative duties. When she’s not giving tours, maintaining trails, or riding with cyclists out on the land, Jenny enjoys spending her time hiking and fishing in the Beartooth Mountains. With a degree in Environmental Studies from St. Lawrence University, she loves sharing the connections between art, music, and the beautiful Montana environment with the art center’s visitors. Emily works at our art center year-round to document events and the landscape. She edits and produces photographs as well as documentary, performance and concert films. She works with musicians, actors and artists, and assists visiting filmmakers by coordinating logistics and taking part in varying production roles. Emily is passionate about the creative process and its avenue to experiment, advocate, and share stories. Her personal work crosses between the arts and sciences, including documentary work on invisible illnesses, stop-motion animation, and encouraging environmental preservation. Emily graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of the Arts with degrees in Photography and Film, with a concentration in Film, and Kinetic Imaging. Music in unique sonic spaces, sculpture and architecture in stunning landscapes, storytelling, delivering intriguing programs, and being part of a forward-thinking team are passions of Zachary Patten. In his professional career, he has served as Library Manager, Production Manager, and Manager of Operations & Performance for several outstanding arts organizations, most notably the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Musica Sacra, Aspen Music Festival, Mostly Modern Festival, and Boulder Bach Festival. At Tippet Rise, he is Production Coordinator and podcast creator. Zachary is also finishing his D.M.A. Composition from CU Boulder; his art focuses on designing and building instruments and working with individual performers to create music that is patient, immersive, new, and nostalgic. With a Master’s degree in Architecture from the University of Texas at San Antonio and a Bachelor’s degree in Studio Art from Knox College, Chris brings a wonderfully apt blend of insights and skills to Tippet Rise where he manages and maintains the art center’s grounds, buildings and mechanical systems. His nimble orchestration of our state-of-the-art heating and cooling systems helps to keep the pianos of Tippet Rise, and the many instruments that accompany our visiting artists, in fine shape. Chris helped shepherd the art center through the process of receiving LEED certification for the Olivier Music Barn and is continually looking to improve the building’s operational and energy efficiency. Before moving to Montana, he spent ten years with the National Park Service working in Facility Management and Cultural Resources. Jim assists in all phases of audio production process at the art center and helps manage the cutting edge technology systems behind the scenes. His mission is to support the Tippet Rise vision by capturing the powerful musical moments with an exceptional level of faithfulness, spatial realism, and clarity. With more than 25 years in the music industry as an engineer, producer, performer, and technical systems engineer, Jim brings leadership, creativity, and rigor to his work, and balances the highly technical tasks the A/V team faces daily with a sense of playfulness. Jim splits his time between the art center and his home in Colorado, where he’s a busy musician and audio engineer, and also enjoys the outdoors and writing music. Tippet Rise Art Center is located in Fishtail, Montana, against the backdrop of the Beartooth Mountains. Set on a 12,000-acre working sheep and cattle ranch, the art center hosts classical chamber music and recitals and exhibits large-scale, outdoor sculptures. Tippet Rise celebrates the concept that art, music, architecture, and nature are inextricably linked in the human experience, each making the others more powerful. Working, volunteering, and interning at Tippet Rise promises rich, rewarding experiences within the realm of an extraordinary contemporary arts organization. info@tippetrise.org 96 S. Grove Creek Rd. Fishtail, MT 59028 Sign up to receive updates about Tippet Rise © 2015-2019 Tippet Rise Website by Crush & Lovely Videography & Photography by Mickey Houlihan, Djuna Zupancic, Erik Petersen, Iwan Baan, Kathy Kasic, and Taylor Fraser of Curve Blue, and Andre Costantini of Silly Dancing	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2708
__label__wiki	0.986619	0.986619	David Livingstone - Biography and Images David Livingstone is a former presenter of Sky’s golf coverage. He began his career as a news reporter in the early part of the 1970s, and then moved into sports broadcasting, primarily football. He then moved to working for Scottish Television as a reporter and production journalist. He joined BSkyB at its formation in early 1990, and with the subsequent merger with Sky Sports later that year found himself being a reporter on live football matches as Sky won its first Premier League contract in 1992. Following this Sky bought the rights to screen the PGA Tour and Livingstone joined that team. He announced his departure from Sky Sports Golf at the conclusion of the 2018 Ryder Cup. Biography & Images • Sky Sports Former Presenters Henni Zuël: Biography and Images Henrietta ‘Henni’ Zuël – born on 6th January 1990 – is an English professional golfer and the youngest ever player to join the Ladies European Tour as an amateur. She was a nominee for Britain’s Best Awards for Home Grown… Read more Rachel Riley: Biography and Images Rachel Riley – born 11 January 1986 – is a former presenter on Sky Sports’ Friday Night Football. She co-presents the Channel 4 daytime puzzle show Countdown, and its comedy spin-off 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown. A mathematics… Read more Dara Kennedy: Biography and Images Dara Kennedy is a former reporter for Sky Sports NFL coverage She also presented Sky’s Sunday coverage when Kevin Cadle was away.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2712
__label__wiki	0.961405	0.961405	August 18, 2017 10:30PM PT Nordic Content Powers Up Haugesund Market The increasing international focus on Nordic content the main reason explained market director, said market head Gyda Velvin Myklebust By Jorn Rossing Jensen Jorn Rossing Jensen 's Most Recent Stories Recalling My Time as Ingmar Bergman and Jeanne Moreau’s Go-Between Göteborg: Eyewell Picks Up Antti-Jussi Annila’s ‘The Eternal Road’ (EXCLUSIVE) Göteborg: Ísold Uggadóttir Talks Sundance Winner ‘And Breathing Normally’ CREDIT: Courtesy of TrustNordisk HAUGESUND, Norway — A record number of 440 Nordic and international film professionals have registered for the 23rd New Nordic Films market at the Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund, now the largest Nordic film market. It opens on Tuesday Aug. 22 at Haugesund’s Edda Theatre with the announcement of the nominations for the Nordic Council Film Prize, one of the largest and most prestigious awards in the Nordic countries. “In the last couple of years, the international focus on Nordic content has been increasing, which is the main reason for the growing participation,” said market director Gyda Velvin Myklebust, who has been in charge of the operation for 15 years. She added that another reason was the market’s presentation of films “on four levels”: Graduation movies from Nordic film schools; screenplays for new features; works-in-progress and completed features – as well as the projects in the Nordic Co-Production and Finance Market.” Danish screenwriter Jens Dahl’s directorial debut, “3 Things” (“3 Ting”), starring Nicolai Coster-Waldau (“Game of Thrones”) and Birgitte Hjorth Sørensen (“Borgen”), will open market screening of 23 features, including Swedish director Ruben Östlund’s Cannes Palme d’Or winner, “The Square,” Danish director Per Fly’s “Backstabbing for Beginners,” with Theo James and Ben Kingsley in the leads, Swedish director Jens Assur’s “Ravens” (“Korparna”) and Finnish director Zaida Bergroth’s “Miami.” Icelandic directors Grímur Hákonarson’s “Winter Brothers” (“Vinterbrødre), which won a top prize in Locarno, and Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurdsson’s “Under the Tree” (“Undir trénu”), which is bound for Venice, will also screen, with Norwegian director Kim Hiorthøy’s feature debut, “The Rules for Everything.” 20 works-in-progress – Nordic films in post-production – have been selected for the market, which for the second time include eight contenders for the Eurimages Lab Project Award of €50,000 ($59,000), sourced in part from the Karlovy Vary, Thessaloniki and Les Arcs in France festivals. The entries in the Scandinavian Debut Pitch must be experimental in production form or narrative style, with a cutting-edge approach. Otherwise, Danish director Ole Bornedal, who is also represented in the festival by his latest feature ”Small Town Killers” (”Dræberne fra Nibe”), will talk about ”The Way to Mandalay” (”Så længe jeg lever”), his biopic on one of Denmark’s most beloved musicians, John Mogensen (1928-1977): Mogensen started in the Four Jacks quartet, became a popular solo artist from 1971 to his death from a heart attack, due to extensive alcohol abuse. Icelandic director Kristín Jóhannedóttir’s ”Alma” follows a young refugee in Iceland, who is serving time for the murder of her boyfriend, whom she does not remember. When she learns he is alive, she decides to escape and kill him. In Slovenian director Sonja Prosenc’s ”History of Love,” a Norwegian co-production, Iva’s mother dies, and while mourning she discovers she had a secret relation with one of her workmates. Her image of the family starts to fall apart. In ”Ploey – You Never Fly Alone (”Ló – Þú flygur aldrei einn) Icelandic director Árni Ólafur Ásgeirsson uses animation to tell the story of Ploey, a plover chick who has not learned to fly when his family migrates in the fall, and must survive the Arctic winter, vicious enemies and himself, to be reunited with his beloved next spring. Finnish director Arto Halonen will introduce a psychological thriller based on true events, ”The Guardian Angel,” portraying a man who used hypnosis to turn another man into a robber and a murderer in post-war Copenhagen. This year the Nordic Co-Production and Finance Market includes 17 projects from Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Canada, Germany, The Netherlands, Estonia, Georgia and Turkey, and the Nordic Film & TV Fund will present the last seven of 23 projects in its Nordic Genre Boost development initiative. The participants have each received a NOK 200,000 ($25,000) grant and been in a development process taking in two residential workshops, the last in Haugesund. Books@Haugesund is a new pitching initiative, where Nordic book agents will propose five books suitable for filming to the industry, and Scandinavian Debut – also new and organized with regional film centres – will introduce 10 newcomers with pitches competing for a NOK 50,000 ($6,300) award. Scriptwriters in Search of a Producer will take place for the sixth time, allowing six Nordic screenwriters to talk up their latest works to producers and film funds. Haugesund Film Festival Nordic Film Market	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2715
__label__wiki	0.609688	0.609688	The Disappearance of Lord Lucan: What Happened? Richard John Bingham was the 7th Earl of Lucan. Prior to his infamous disappearance, he was once considered for he role of James Bond – such was his popularity. Yet Bingham suffered a remarkable fall from grace – including a failed marriage and subsequent bitter custody battle, stalking allegations and heavy gambling losses. The fall from grace culminated in his disappearance – by which time Bingham was known as Lord Lucan. In November 1974, Lucan supposedly killed a nanny before vanishing. In this article, we take a look at the case in full and some of the theories for Lucan’s disappearance. What happened to Lucan is a complete mystery Binham was born in 1934, and worked for a merchant bank in his early adult years. But as a skilled backgammon and bridge player, he soon became a professional gambler. However his gambling career was riddled with heavy losses. Bingham’s losses meant he struggled to sustain his lavish lifestyle – which included regular holidays, owning an Aston Martin and racing powerboats. Bingham married Veronica Duncan in 1963, and, following the death of his father in 1964, became Lord Lucan. By 1972, the aforementioned gambling losses, combined with Veronica’s weakened mental condition, led to their marriage becoming strained. They eventually separated. Veronica was able to retain custody of their children. Yet Lucan was seen spying on Veronica and their children – and hired private investigators to do the same. Lucan intentionally delayed payments for childcare services – leading to a slew of temporary nannies to help with the children. By late 1974, a nanny called Sandra Rivett started working for Veronica. By this time, Lucan was in severe financial difficulties, was heavily drinking, and his gambling was said to be out of control. By the time that the fateful November evening came around, Rivett had been working for Veronica for a few months. It is believed that when Rivett went to the basement to make tea, she was attacked, and ultimately bludgeoned to death. The killer subsequently placed her body in a mailsack. When Veronica became concerned at Rivett’s failure to return with the tea, she went to investigate. She was then attacked, and in her account, Veronica said she thought the man was going to kill her. He was choking Veronica, before she squeezed his balls, helping her to gain the upper hand. At this point Veronica allegedly saw the injured attacker was Lucan. Lucan confirmed he had killed Rivett in a short exchange, before Veronica brokered a deal with him that she would aid an escape if he stayed for a few days – to give her wounds time to heal. Yet when Lucan went to the bathroom, Veronica took her opportunity to escape the house. Veronica raised the alarm, and eventually the Police discovered Rivett’s body. An investigation into her death was immediately launched, with Veronica meanwhile recovering in hospital. After Lucan discovered Veronica had left, it isn’t entirely known what happened. It is known that he called his mother – telling her about a ‘terrible catastrophe’, which involved Veronica fighting with a man. He is also known to have visited a house owned by the Mother of one of his child’s friends, but there was no answer. Lucan then travelled 40 miles to Sussex to see friends, taking Veronica’s car. He would leave his friend’s house in the early hours of the morning. This was the final confirmed sighting of Lucan – he would never be seen again. The appearance of the death scene and its contents was consistent with Veronica’s account of the night. Officers searched Lucan’s own residence, finding his passport among other possessions. The Police drafted up a list of potential suspects – not yet thinking Lucan was responsible. However, it transpired that when Lucan was at his friend’s house, he wrote two letters to friends – emphasising his innocence – yet the letters were bloodstained. The car Lucan had used to see his friends was found ditched a further 16 miles away. The car included blood, and part of the murder weapon was found. An international arrest warrant was issued for Lucan. The area around the car was searched – though there was never a sign of Lucan again. Lucan could be anywhere – his whereabouts are unknown. Photo by NastyaSensei Sens on Pexels.com Lucan Committed Suicide: The most common theory is that Lucan took his own life, and that his body has simply never been found. It was some time before Lucan’s car was found – it is feasible that he walked a long way. Lucan appeared to have little to live for at that point – being on the verge of bankruptcy, not to mention facing a long prison sentence. Therefore, he may well have opted to commit suicide. But this doesn’t explain where his body went – unless it has simply never been discovered. Lucan Escaped: But, in the absence of a body, there is speculation that Lucan was able to evade capture, before assuming a new identity and escaping to a new country. Lucan has supposedly been spotted in several locations around the world – though nothing conclusive has ever been found. It is questionable whether or not Lucan would be able to not arise suspicion – he was after all a famous face. But some believe he is still out there. Shadowy Underworld Figures: The last people to see Lucan – the friends in Sussex – had their own theory. They suggested he was helped out of the country by shadowy underworld figures – who in turn opted to kill Lucan when interest in the case hit too high levels. Alien Abduction: With no conclusive evidence in this case, it has been speculated that Lucan could have been abducted by aliens. However, this theory hasn’t garnered too much support. 8th: Louis Le Prince 7th: Lord Lucan 6th: Leah Roberts 5th: DB Cooper The disappearance of Lord Lucan has become a phenomenon, one which attracted national interest and worldwide headlines. An inquest into Rivett’s death found Lucan to be responsible, despite some suggesting Veronica had lied. Veronica died in September 2017 – having committed suicide. The case has left a remarkable legacy – and it seems as if no one will know the entire truth ever. Lucan, if he is still alive – would be 84 years old at the time of writing – it isn’t inconceivable to believe that he could still be out there somewhere. Officially, Lucan was declared legally dead in 2016. 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__label__wiki	0.713319	0.713319	Dog The Bounty Hunter Reveals How Wife Beth Prepared Him For Her Death posted by Hayden Brooks - Jul 11, 2019 As you probably guessed, Duane "Dog" Chapman is still processing the death of his wife Beth Chapman and the reality star sat down with ET to talk about life without his partner in crime. "[With any] new experience that you have, you don't know how you're doing because you've never experienced it," the Dog's Most Wanted star said during the intimate interview. "I have a lot of people who depend on me. All my supervisors said, 'Dog, it's time to man up.' So I'm trying to man up." Elsewhere in the discussion, Chapman revealed that the two discussed what would happen after she passed away. "For two to three years, she knew this might happen. So she would say, 'Who is going to sit next to you?' And I said, 'No one,'" he recalled. "'Big Daddy, you better not let another girl take my place.' I said, 'I won't.'" He also told ET that as Beth's health took a dip, both stars had to partake in therapy to deal with the ongoing issues. "I needed therapy and the therapy she used when she was sick was to hunt. Her therapy, you know, was hunting, bounty hunting, catching the bad guy," he explained. Chapman died on June 26 after fighting for her life in a Hawaii hospital. She was 51. Dog took to Twitter to share his farewell to his wife. "It’s 5:32 in Hawaii, this is the time she would wake up to go hike Koko Head mountain. Only today, she hiked the stairway to heaven. We all love you, Beth. See you on the other side," he wrote. During the weekend prior, Chapman was admitted to Hawaii's Queen's Medical Center and placed in a medically-induced coma amid her battle with Stage 2 throat cancer since 2017. She was laid to rest with a memorial service in Hawaii and cremated, as per her final wishes.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2725
__label__wiki	0.770046	0.770046	Contrary to modern Greek claims, Macedonia was never part of Greece, and the ancient Macedonians were not regarded as ancient Greeks. Quite the opposite – the Macedonians conquered Greece and enslaved the Greeks for centuries until Rome conquered Macedonia in 168 BC. PART I. ANCIENT AND MODERN HISTORIANS, ORATORS, WRITERS PART II. THE MODERN GREEK PROPAGANDA THE “GREEK” POSITION BORZA’S CONCLUSION ON THE GREEK POSITION WHY IS GREECE STEALING MACEDONIAN HISTORY? THE GREEK LIES The purpose of these pages therefore is: To provide the reader with documented evidence for all these assertions above. To show the reader that ancient Macedonians could not have been Greeks based on all documented evidence. That ancient Macedonians conquered Greece and did not unite the Greek city-states. That ancient Macedonians did not regard the Greeks as their kindred. Alexander the Great was not a Greek king, did not regard the Greeks as kinsmen. Alexander’s Macedonian Army was not a Greek army. Alexander’s Macedonian conquest was not a Greek conquest. Ancient Macedonians were just that – Macedonians, and looked down upon the Hellenes with contempt. It will provide scholarly evidence that the ancient Macedonians: hired mercenaries from Greece, and used the Greeks as foreign allies. razed Greek cities to the ground. sold the Greek inhabitants as slaves. pillaged and burnt Greek cities and countryside. garrisoned Greek cities (a sure sign of servitude). were asked to evacuate from the whole of Greece back to their own Macedonia by the Romans. were hated and cursed by the Greeks. destroyed Greek religious temples and monuments. enslaved the Greeks. were not regarded as Greeks (Hellenes) by the Greeks, nor they regarded themselves to be Greek, but were proud of their Macedonian nationality and way of life. the Macedonians were called barbarians, a label that the ancient Greeks attributed only to all non-Greeks. Here you will find evidence, both ancient and modern, that proves that the ancient Macedonians were not Greeks, evidence that is indeed overwhelming. To the ancient peoples and to the ancient authors that was not a matter for debate; it was simply an accomplished fact. ANCIENT SOURCES MODERN SOURCES 1) Arrian 7) Demosthenes 1) Eugene Borza 7) Pierre Jouguet 2) Plutarch 8) Thracymachus 2) E.Badian 8) Ulrich Wilcken 3) Quintus Curtius Rufus 9) Isocrates 3) Peter Green 9) M.Grant 4) Polybius 10) Herodotus 4) A.B.Bosworth 10) F.Reed 5) Livy 11) Thucydides 5) N.G.L.Hammond 11) David G Hogarth 6) Justin 12) Diodorus 6) Werner Jaeger 12) APA American Philological Association Below are the main points of the Greek propaganda which claims that the ancient Macedonians were Greek. All of these claims are absurd in the eyes of the history and are completely unsupported by credible evidence. The goal of this page is to provide the audience with all evidence (ancient and modern), and to prove the absurdity of the modern Greek claims that the ancient Macedonians “were Greek”. Professor Eugene Borza who is rightfully credited as a “Macedonian specialist” by the American Philological Association, and who have done extensive studies regarding the ethnicity of the ancient Macedonians, had also presented in-depth analysis on the modern Greek position in his In the Shadow of Olympus p.91-92: “Thus, long before there was a sufficient ancient evidence to argue about the ethnic identity–as revealed by language–of the ancient Macedonians, there emerged a “Greek” position claiming that the Macedonian language was Greek, and that thus the inhabitants were Greek.” The modern Greeks have therefore, developed a position that the Macedonians were Greek, even though there was not enough evidence long before. The “Greek” position although prematurely established, had not however changed yet, despite the overwhelming evidence available today, which will be presented below. Borza continues: “For example, recent work describes the funerary stelae found in the tumulus covering the royal tombs at Vergina. These stelae date from the fourth and early third centuries, and the preponderance of names are Greek”. “The excavator of Vergina, Manolis Andronikos, in a useful summary of the epigraphic evidence, writes: “In the most unambivalent way this evidence confirms the opinion of those historians who maintain that the Macedonians were a Greek tribe, like all the others who lived on Greek territory, and shows that the theory that they were of Illyrian or Thracian descent and were hellenized by Philip and Alexander rests on no objective criteria.” Manolis Andronikos Vergina:The Royal Tombs, 83-85.” Here is Borza’s answer to Andronikos: “This argument is true enough only as far as it goes. It neglects that the hellenization of the Macedonians might have occurred earlier then the age of Philip and Alexander, and can not therefore serve as a means of proving the Macedonians were a Greek tribe.” Indeed. Not only Andronakis was obviously wrong to conclude that the Macedonians were Greek, but also notice how the Greek archeologist does not point that the Macedonians might have been a separate nation, but prefers instead to call it if not Greek, either Illyrian or Thracian, two ancient nations that can not be associated with the Balkans politics surrounding Greece since 1913 in the matter of Macedonia (see below). Also notice how Andronikos used the term “like all the others who lived on Greek territory”. It’s like he wants to convince us that Macedonia is a Greek territory, which is exactly what he uses as a base for his inaccurate conclusion. “The fullest statement of the “Greek” position, and also the most detailed study of the Macedonian language, is by Kallaris, Les anciens Macidoniens, esp. 2: 488-531, in which alleged Greek elements in the Macedonian language are examined exhaustively. A more chauvinistic (and less persuasive) point of view can be found in Daskalakis, Hellenism, esp. pts. 2. and 3. The most blatant account is that of Martis (The Falsification of Macedonian History). This book, written by a former Minister for Northern Greece, is an polemical anti-Yugoslav tract so full of historical errors and distortions that the prize awarded it by the Academy of Athens serves only to reduce confidence in the scientific judgment of that venerable society of scholars. The most sensible and scholarly Greek position is that laid out by Sakellariou, in Macedonia, 44-63. Lest it seem, however, that the “Greek” position is held only by modem Greeks, see Cawkwell, Philip of Macedon, 22: “The Macedonians were Greeks.” – Borza, his In the Shadow of Olympus p.91″ Sakellariou, in his Macedonia 4000 years of Greek History, 44-63 (quite questionable of accuracy title to begin with), “proves” that the “Macedonians were Greek” although he purposely avoided the overwhelming evidence that does not suit his conclusion. Borza has a line for him as well: “It is indicative of the strength of Badian’s case that his critics have succeeded only in nit-picking: e.g., Sakellariou, Macedonia, 534-35 nn. 52.53″ (In the Shadow of Olympus p.96). Of course, Badian from Harvard’s Department of History in his extensive research Greeks and Macedonians, had presented all evidence and soundly concluded that the Macedonians were distinct nation from the Greeks. That is precisely what Sakellariou had avoided, and choused instead to nit-pick. We can indeed see a trend among the Greek scholars. Sakellariou’s Macedonia 4000 years of Greek History was even donated for free to the libraries throughout the United States, which smells like there is a well-developed Greek propaganda strategy, to influence all those who are unaware that “Macedonians were Greek.” But the Greeks are showing the world that the “Macedonians were Greek”, regardless of the fact that they avoid all evidence that does not suit their purpose, and in that process they try to pass books so full of historical errors and distortions that can only be awarded by their Greek Academy. It is really ironical to see now the former Greek politician Nicolas Martis write a book called The Falsification of Macedonian History, when in fact he is the one who is falsificating and lying about the history of Macedonia. We can only imagine what harm he had done in Macedonia while he was a minister of the Northern Greece province. It is pathetic, but also sad and worrisome at the same time, that the students of the countries who have nothing to do with the modern Greek politics, must be exposed on historical inaccuracies, fabrications, and propaganda, all directed against one of the most dynamic powers of the ancient times – the Macedonians. But why is Greece doing this, what is behind it, why do they steal the history of the ancient Macedonians? Well it’s rather quite simple. Macedonia was partitioned in 1913 after the Balkan wars and Greece swallowed the biggest part – 51%. There was nothing in Macedonia then that connected that land with Greece, since the Greek minority there was not more then 10% comparing to the overwhelming majority ethnic Macedonians who lived throughout Macedonia. For complete statistical evidence, please see the “Macedonian-Greek Conflict” on this matter. Now, in 1913, since Greece acquired obviously a foreign land, they had to provide a link that would justify their claim on that ½ of Macedonia, and that is exactly why they claim that the ancient Macedonians are Greek, so if in the ancient times there was a Greek tribe (Macedonians) living in Macedonia, then that land therefore is Greek (just like Andronikos points above). Indeed absurd. What is not disputable however, is that since 1913 till today, that modern Greek state still discriminates against the ethnic Macedonians who now find themselves living in Greece (see Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International) which is evidenced in the “Macedonians in Greece” page. The other northern part of Macedonia, today’s Republic of Macedonia, broke out of Yugoslavia and became independent in 1991. That brought addition fuel to the Greek nationalists who are afraid now that one part of the ethnic Macedonian nation is independent, the partition of 1913 can be seen as illegal, and that could lead to loss of their Greek Macedonian part and a reunification of one Macedonia. That is exactly why they claim that there is no modern Macedonian nation, not in Greece nor anywhere, and continue to violate the basic human rights of their Macedonian minority. It is indeed mean politics, filled with paranoia, which without the revision of the ancient history could not breathe. But let us now go through the Greek Propaganda, a propaganda which extensively bombards the internet, the libraries, the bookstores, and try to examine it in greater details: Greek Propaganda on the Internet Lie 1: “Macedonia is a Greek land” Lie 2: “Ancient Macedonians were Greeks” Lie 3: “Philip II from Macedon united the Greek states” Lie 4: “Alexander’s conquest was a Greek conquest” Lie 5: “Alexander’s army was a Greek army” Lie 6: “There is no ancient Macedonian Language but a Greek dialect” THE GERMAN 19TH CENTURY VIEW AND ITS NEGATIVE INFLUENCE Late nineteenth and early twentieth century historians who were inamorata with anything Greek, who saw ancient Greece as the cradle of the Western civilization, could not possibly imagine that uncouth, and brute people like the ancient Macedonians could topple the Greek states, specifically Athens, and build an empire of the likes that Europe has not seen yet. They regarded Philip of Macedon and his Macedonians as destroyer of “Greek spirit and culture”, as people who extinguished the flame from the Athenian glory. Philip was seen as “great not for what he was, but for what it was given him to do”. (Thirwall) Athens in particular, and the rest of the Greek city-states in general, were culturally and physically exhausted. Hogarth says that they suffered from “premature senility”, incapable of growth and re-organization of its citizenry. The enthusiasm for Hellas in a cultivated modern age, and the romanticism with Greek art and culture, created an atmosphere of hatred for the person and the people (Philip and his Macedonians) who destroyed Greek autonomy. In the backdrop of such a poisonous milieu, the ancient Macedonians “could not possibly be perceived as masters of the world”, for if anybody should achieve such a supreme act, then they must be Greek. Thus, subsequent reference to ancient Macedonians as Greeks should not come to a great surprise. These people could not accept the fact that a) the organism in the Greek city-state, as they have come to know and appreciate, no longer breathed any signs of life, and b) that the Macedonians as a non-Greek nation possessed power, discipline, and inner strength to conquer not only the Greeks but the Persians too. Some historians from the West, specifically German historians led by Droysen, saw parallelism between events which occurred in Greece and Macedonia with those in Prussia and Germany. The 19th century is the birth of nationalism in Europe, Italy was unifying, and Prussia was the advocate of the German unification. Therefore: When Philip and his Macedonians conquered the Greeks after Chaeronea it was not a conquest but a “unification” (contrary to all ancient sources). When Alexander undertook the conquest of Asia, it was the “Greek vengeance”, not the Macedonian plan for action (again contrary for all sources that point that Alexander fought for the glory of Macedonia). When the Macedonian Army conquered territories from Greece to India, it was the “Greek Empire” that received the recognition, not the Macedonian Empire (although Alexander’s empire had been correctly called Macedonian and not Greek in the ancient sources). And instead of Alexander spreading Macedonism in Asia, it was the “Greeks spreading Hellenism”. The Macedonian kingdoms after Alexander, which were ruled till their end by Macedonians and not Greeks, became “Hellenistic kingdoms”, and so on, and so on… Those western historians from the modern age (like the German ones followed by Droysen), by denying Philip and his Macedonians the merit that they so rightfully deserve, have to a certain degree ignored the writings of the ancient biographers and chroniclers, and were ignorant to the truth. However, even with this occasional omission on their part, the inevitable recognition of Macedonians as a separate people from the Greeks does occur nevertheless. In the end, it was the whole revisionist movement launched against the false historical interpretations and led by Badian from Harvard University, to finally put an end to the historical inaccuracies and prove that the Macedonians were not Greeks once for all, but a proud distinct nation who enslaved them for three centuries. It should be no surprise that Alexander introduced the standard koine Greek language for his multi-ethnic empire. For that Greek language was already the only international language on which the people in antiquity communicated prior to the Macedonian conquest (just like English is international language today). The Macedonians were smart enough to keep this international Greek language for the Persians, Egyptians, Jews, and all the nations of his empire to communicate. Forcing all those people to learn now a new foreign Macedonian language (or any other one) would have only provoked an additional hatred and multi-ethnic resistance for the Macedonian occupation of Asia, Egypt, and Greece, which the Macedonians did not wanted to face. Unlike the Roman Empire, there was no single powerful centralized Macedonian Empire, but three fragile Macedonian kingdoms (Macedonia, Asia, Egypt) which were occasionally in conflict with each other, and the Macedonians needed such language standardization to help them maintain their power. That of course, does not mean that although the Macedonians, Persians, Egyptians, Jews, now communicated in Greek, that they all turned into Greeks, just like the African nations did not turn into English because of their usage of that language to communicate among themselves. What is for certain is that Alexander spoke Macedonian with his own Macedonian troops and used Greek in addressing the Asians and Greeks. After all, the Macedonians were his kinsmen (precisely the way he calls them), not the Greeks. All these sources, both ancient and modern, specifically refer to Macedonian as a language and not as a dialect of Greek, and Alexander himself specifically calls the Macedonian – “our native language“. During the trial of Philotas, Alexander himself clearly distinguishes his native Macedonian language from the Greek language which as a second languageat the Macedonian court alongside with Macedonian, was used in diplomacy, a fact we found in the Philotas trial (Q. Curtius Rufus). “What did others say about Macedonians? Here there is a relative abundance of information”, writes Borza, “from Arrian, Plutarch (Alexander, Eumenes), Diodorus 17-20, Justin, Curtius Rufus, and Nepos (Eumenes), based upon Greek and Greek-derived Latin sources. It is clear that over a five-century span of writing in two languages representing a variety of historiographical and philosophical positions the ancient writers regarded the Greeks and the Macedonians as two separate and distinct peoples whose relationship was marked by considerable antipathy, if not outright hostility.” The conclusion is thus complete – ancient Macedonian was a separate Indo-European language, different from ancient Greek, just like the Macedonians were a separate nation different from the ancient Greek nation, and the claim that Macedonian was a “dialect of Greek” and that “Macedonians were Greeks”, a claim that today is supported only by the modern Greeks and only out of political reasons, is absurd and ridiculous. Vlado Maleski The Macedonian Question in Foreign relations The Archbishopric of Ohrid and the Macedonian Orthodox Church Saint Clement and Saint Naum – History of Ohrid Architecture and art prior to the XX century – History of Ohrid	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2729
__label__wiki	0.940365	0.940365	Georgia’s Republican Gov. Kemp signs early abortion ban Posted 10:10 am, May 7, 2019, by Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s Republican Gov. Brian Kemp signed legislation on Tuesday banning abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be detected. That can be as early as six weeks before many women know they’re pregnant. Kemp said he was signing the bill “to ensure that all Georgians have the opportunity to live, grow, learn and prosper in our great state.” The signing caps weeks of tension and protests at the state Capitol, and begins could be a lengthy and costly legal battle over the law’s constitutionality. But a legal showdown is exactly what supporters are looking for, and Kemp said “we will not back down. We will always continue to fight for life.” Anti-abortion activists and lawmakers across the country , energized by the new conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court that includes President Donald Trump appointees Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, are pushing abortion bans in an attack on the high court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling, which legalized abortion nationwide until a fetus is developed enough to live outside a woman’s uterus. Staci Fox, the president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Southeast, said she has “one message for Governor Kemp: We’ll see you in court.” Fox’s statement says Planned Parenthood also will campaign to unseat the lawmakers who supported the bill: “They will be held accountable for playing politics with women’s health.” ACLU of Georgia legal director Sean Young told The Associated Press that “under 50 years of Supreme Court precedent, this abortion ban is clearly unconstitutional.” “Every federal court that has heard a challenge to a similar ban has ruled that it’s unconstitutional,” Young added. Under current law, women in Georgia can seek an abortion during the first 20 weeks of pregnancy. If it’s not blocked in court, the new ban would take effect Jan. 1, 2020. HB 481 makes exceptions in the case of rape and incest — if the woman files a police report first — and to save the life of the mother. It also would allow for abortions when a fetus is determined not to be viable because of serious medical issues. The bill also deals with alimony, child support and even income tax deductions for fetuses, declaring that “the full value of a child begins at the point when a detectable human heartbeat exists.” Republican Rep. Ed Setzler, the bill’s author, called it a “common sense” measure that seeks to “balance the difficult circumstances women find themselves in with the basic right to life of a child.” But Democratic Sen. Jen Jordan said “there’s nothing balanced about it: It’s an all-out abortion ban.” Jordan said she is particularly worried that the new law will push obstetricians away from practicing in Georgia, worsening health care outcomes for women in a state that already has one of the nation’s worst maternal mortality rates. “It’s about the unintended consequences,” Jordan said. “They’re making policy choices that are going to end up causing women to die, and they’re preventable deaths.” In the first few months of 2019, “heartbeat abortion” bans have been signed into law in four states: Mississippi, Kentucky, Ohio, and now Georgia. Lawmakers in a number of other states including Tennessee, Missouri, South Carolina, Florida, Texas, Louisiana and West Virginia are considering similar proposals. A bill that recently passed the Alabama House would outlaw abortions at any stage of pregnancy, with a few narrow exceptions. Kentucky’s law was immediately challenged by the ACLU after it was signed in March, and a federal judge temporarily blocked it. According to the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion rights, about 33,000 abortions were provided in Georgia in 2014. President Trump tweets that he favors exceptions to abortion bans More ‘heartbeat’ abortion bans advancing in South, Midwest Gov: Abortion ban shows Alabama values ‘sanctity of life’ Federal lawsuit filed to block Alabama’s new abortion ban Tiffany Haddish postpones Atlanta show over Georgia’s abortion law AMC to rethink Georgia filming if abortion law takes effect Missouri Senate passes bill to ban abortions at 8 weeks Rallies for and against abortion fire up around the South Alabama House approves ‘born alive’ abortion bill 2 film productions quit Georgia after abortion law is signed Louisiana sends ‘heartbeat’ abortion ban bill to governor’s desk Tennessee lawmakers send governor ‘triggered’ abortion ban	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2730
__label__cc	0.602769	0.397231	The Afternoon Magazine Topic: Environment April 09, 2013 - Afternoon Magazine Archives Community Cinema - The Island President The Island President screens Tuesday night at the Champaign Public Library as part of our Community Cinema series. Henry Radcliffe joins us to discuss a film that explores the immediate implications of climate change for the small island nation of the Maldives. President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives Photo Credit: Films for the Earth (Duration: 6:45) December 16, 2011 - Afternoon Magazine Archives The National Audubon Christmas Bird Count Saturday December 17, 2011 Michael Ward, Ph.D., Scientist; Assistant Professor in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois October 28, 2010 - Afternoon Magazine Archives A Journey to Promote Green Energy August 21, 2010 - Afternoon Magazine Archives Raising Awareness About Devastating Flood in Pakistan February 18, 2010 - Afternoon Magazine Archives The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean’s Are One The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One Less is More: Embracing Simplicity for a Healthy Planet, a Caring Economy and Lasting Happiness The Seasons on Henry’s Farm: A Year of Food and Life on a Sustainable Farm The Seasons on Henry's Farm: A Year of Food and Life on a Sustainable Farm September 10, 2009 - Afternoon Magazine Archives My River Chronicles: Rediscovering America on the Hudson Prairie on the University of Illinois Campus Healing Spaces: The Science of Place and Well-Being Page 1 of 4 pages 1 2 3 > Last › afghanistan, africa, african-american, agriculture, animals, architecture, art and design, arts & life, asia, astronomy, behavior, biography, books, books and reading, business, business and economy, champaign county, champaign unit 4 schools, chicago, children and parenting, china, cinema-theatres-film, civil rights, climate change, community, computers, congress, consumer issues, cooking, crime, criminal justice, cultural studies, economics, economy, education, election, elections, energy, entertainment, environment, ethics, europe, family, film-movies, food, foreign policy-u.s., gardening and horticulture, gender issues, government, governor pat quinn, health, health care, higher education, history, housing, how-to, human rights, illinois, immigration, indiana, insects, international affairs, internet, iraq, law, literature, media, media and journalism, medicine, mental health, middle east, military, music, national security, nutrition, pension crisis, personal finance, politics, poverty, psychology, public policy, race-ethnicity, religion, same-sex marriage, science, sports, technology, terrorism, transportation, travel, u.s. supreme court, united states history, university of illinois, urban planning, vietnam, violence, war, war crimes, weather, women's health,	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2731
__label__cc	0.673714	0.326286	Ready, Set, SCIENCE!, by the National Research Council, focuses on K-8 science classsrooms. Check out the other publications in our online store, as well as classroom materials. This animation shows elliptical orbits with different eccentricities. It also shows how the Sun is at the focus of an ellipse, and some of the math behind elliptical orbits. Original animation by Windows to the Universe staff (Randy Russell). Interactive animation showing shapes of orbits Eccentricity of an orbit Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion Perihelion and aphelion Elliptical Orbits You may think that most objects in space that orbit something else move in circles, but that isn't the case. Although some objects follow circular orbits, most orbits are shaped more like "stretched out" circles or ovals. Mathematicians and astronomers call this oval shape an ellipse. All of the planets in our Solar System, many satellites, and most moons move along elliptical orbits. An ellipse can be very long and thin, or it can be quite round - almost like a circle. Scientists use a special term, "eccentricity", to describe how round or how "stretched out" an ellipse is. If the eccentricity of an ellipse is close to one (like 0.8 or 0.9), the ellipse is long and skinny. If the eccentricity is close to zero, the ellipse is more like a circle. Earth moves around the Sun in an elliptical orbit. Earth's orbit is almost a perfect circle; its eccentricity is only 0.0167! Pluto has the least circular orbit of any of the planets in our Solar System. Pluto's orbit has an eccentricity of 0.2488. The Sun isn't quite at the center of a planet's elliptical orbit. An ellipse has a point a little bit away from the center called the "focus". The Sun is at the focus of the ellipse. Because the Sun is at the focus, not the center, of the ellipse, the planet moves closer to and further away from the Sun every orbit. The close point in each orbit is called perihelion. The far away point is called aphelion. Johannes Kepler, a German astronomer who lived in the early 17th century, discovered some important laws about orbits. Kepler's First Law of Planetary Motion states that planets move in elliptical orbits. His Second Law explains how planets move faster when they are close to the Sun (near perihelion) than when they are far away (near aphelion). If you want to know more about the mathematics of ellipses, take a look at the advanced version of this page. Last modified December 16, 2005 by Randy Russell. Learn about Earth and space science, and have fun while doing it! The games section of our online store includes a climate change card game and the Traveling Nitrogen game! You may think that most objects in space that orbit something else move in circles, but that isn't the case. Although some objects follow circular orbits, most orbits are shaped more like "stretched...more Pluto is a frigid ball of ice and rock that orbits far from the Sun on the frozen fringes of our Solar System. Considered a planet, though a rather odd one, from its discovery in 1930 until 2006, it was...more Kepler's 2nd Law: The Speeds of Planets Kepler's second law he again discovered by trial and error. Kepler realized that the line connecting the planet and the Sun sweeps out equal area in equal time. Look at the diagram to the left. What Kepler...more The solar system is made up of the Sun, the // Call the planets count function defined in the document head print_planet_count('planets'); planets and // Call the planets count function defined in the...more Mechanics is the term used to refer to one of the main branches of the science of physics. Mechanics deals with the motion of and the forces that act upon physical objects. We need precise terminology...more Eris - a dwarf planet Eris is a dwarf planet in our Solar System. Eris was one of the first three objects classified as a dwarf planet, along with Pluto and Ceres. Eris was first spotted in January 2005. Eris is a large sphere...more Orionid Meteor Shower The Orionid meteor shower happens every year in October. Meteor showers are times when you can see many meteors or "shooting stars" in one night. There are several meteor showers each year. Most meteor...more	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2732
__label__wiki	0.962694	0.962694	Romberg applauds NFL for compensating ailing ex-players Tecumseh's Brett Romberg hopes a proposed $765 million settlement with the NFL can make a difference in the lives of thousands of ex-players who are suffering from dementia and other concussion-related brain injuries. Star News Services Tecumseh’s Brett Romberg joined former Detroit Lions offensive tackle Lomas Brown and other former football players who hope a proposed $765 million settlement with the National Football League can make a difference in the lives of thousands of ex-players who are suffering from dementia and other concussion-related brain injuries. “The NFL took a step in the right direction,” said Romberg, a Belle River high school grad who retired from the NFL in 2012 after a nine-year career. “They messed up in the past but the 765 million will be a much-needed bandaid, especially for those who suffered injuries 20 and 30 years ago.” Romberg, who said he suffered head trauma while playing football in high school, college and the pros, was one of 84 former players who started the lawsuit against the NFL in 2010. He withdrew his name from the lawsuit to sign a $1-million contract with the Atlanta Falcons in 2012. “I don’t regret not being part of this settlement,” Romberg said. “I was aware of the consequences of my injuries but I wanted to leave the game on my own terms. I had another career to fall back on. I’m just glad to see the NFL acknowledge the direct correlation between head injuries and the pain and suffering of former players.” Romberg, 33, is now a sales manager of Tire Group International in Miami. His wife, Emily, is a corporate real estate lawyer. Brown, a seven-time Pro Bowler with Detroit, Arizona, Cleveland, the New York Giants and Tampa Bay, and Super Bowl-winning quarterback Jim McMahon were among the more than 4,500 former athletes — some suffering from dementia, depression or Alzheimer’s — who have sued the NFL since the first case was filed in Philadelphia in 2011. They accused the league of concealing the long-term dangers of concussions and rushing injured players back onto the field, while glorifying and profiting from the kind of bone-jarring hits that make for spectacular highlight-reel footage. “I’m curious how they came up with the figure and I’ve got a lot of questions, but I am happy that it’s done,” Brown told The Associated Press. “Any time the NFL acknowledges they are ready to settle something, it shows they knew they had some sort of negligence.” The settlement would mean immediate compensation for ailing former players and their families, as well as medical exams and treatment for all other retirees — a group that could total more than 20,000. It also would set aside $10 million for research that the plaintiffs hope will protect future generations from the devastating effects of repeated blows to the head. The settlement still has to be approved by Senior U.S. District Judge Anita Brody in Philadelphia, something lead plaintiffs’ lawyer Christopher Seeger said he expects to happen in the next 60 to 90 days. “I’m glad to see there’s been some movement and some reaction to all this,” said Hall of Fame running back Dorsett, who starred for the Dallas Cowboys after winning the 1976 Heisman Trophy at Pittsburgh. Dorsett is the most accomplished and best-known plaintiff in the mass of lawsuits. “I’m glad to see this has come to somewhat of an end,” Dorsett said. “But the research obviously is going to be important, the safety of the players is going to be extremely important.” The NFL has insisted that safety has always been a top priority, and in settling the thousands of cases it admitted no wrongdoing. While a trial could have forced the NFL to disclose what it knew, and when, about concussion-linked brain problems, Seeger said the plaintiffs’ greater concern was a fair settlement — and one that would be paid immediately. Had the lawsuits gone to trial, it could have been years before the players saw any money. Years the players might not have. “It’s a good day, because we’re getting help for those who need help,” said Mark Rypien, the MVP of the 1992 Super Bowl for the Washington Redskins. “And a sad day, because we didn’t get this done earlier to help guys in the past.” Already, Pro Bowler Junior Seau and former Atlanta Falcon Ray Easterling, one of the first players to file a lawsuit, have committed suicide. Former Philadelphia Eagles fullback Kevin Turner has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s disease, at 44, and fears he might not live to see his 50th birthday. Dorsett finds himself forgetting how to get places he’s been going for 30 years, and his 10-year-old daughter now complains that they can’t do certain things together because “Daddy won’t remember how to do it.” “Football has been my life and football has been kind to me,” Dorsett said. “But when I signed up for this, I didn’t know some of the repercussions; I did know I could get injured, but I didn’t know about my head or the trauma or the things that could happen to me later on in life. I’m glad, again, that they’ve come to some type of resolution, but I’ve got to see how it all plays out. I hope it will benefit some guys that need help. That’s the good thing.” The settlement would cost the league $765 million, the vast majority of which would go to compensate athletes with certain neurological ailments, plus plaintiffs’ attorney fees. Under the settlement, individual payouts would be capped at $5 million for men with Alzheimer’s disease; $4 million for those diagnosed after their deaths with a brain condition called chronic traumatic encephalopathy; and $3 million for players with dementia. “They deserve it, there’s no question about it,” said Mike Ditka, who played tight end for the Chicago Bears and later coached the 1986 Super Bowl winners. “It’s absolutely good to see that. I think people have hid behind this too long. It’s time it’s out in the open.” The settlement also sets aside $75 million for medical exams, and all former NFL players are eligible to seek care, screening or compensation — whether they suffered a documented concussion or not. The amounts they receive will be based on their age, condition and years of play. They do not need to prove their health problems are connected to playing football. “My whole deal, and the other lawsuit with images, is all about health care, which we don’t have,” said Joe DeLamielleure, the Hall of Fame offensive lineman with the Buffalo Bills. “Some reporter called and said, ‘That comes out to $170,000 per man.’ I said, ‘Good, I don’t want that. I want health care.’ Because what good is the money going to do you?” Many had expected the litigation, or at least the negotiations, to drag on longer. And most expected the settlement to be larger. “I’m not going to say it was settled. I’m going to say it was a good start,” said Rayfield Wright, the Hall of Fame offensive lineman with the Dallas Cowboys. “It’s not the end of it because there are a lot of other players that will come up with the same situations, so I think the league has to find some kind of way to address the issue because it’s going to happen. Those are issues that have to be resolved, and I don’t think they’re going to be resolved overnight.” But it’s better than what the players had before. “My whole thing through this whole thing is we lived our dreams, the players, and now our families live our nightmares,” DeLamielleure said. “Let’s help take care of the women and the kids who have to take care of their dads from this stuff.” With files from The Associated Press and The Windsor Star Cabrera leaves game with injury in second inning Ex-Spit Maletta to skate for Wings in prospects tourney	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2733
__label__cc	0.512126	0.487874	Real Housewives Dorit Kemsley Paul Kemsley Taxes ‘RHOBH’ Star Dorit Kemsley and Husband PK Accused of Owing $1 Million in Back Taxes "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" star Dorit Kemsley and her husband PK are accused of owing a total of $1 million to the IRS and now Uncle Sam is taking steps to collect on the debt. According to court documents obtained by The Blast, the IRS filed two federal tax liens over unpaid tax bills. The first was filed against Dorit and Paul "PK" Kemsley for unpaid 2015 taxes totaling $635,887.23 The second lien was for PK solely and accuses him of failing to pay an additional $289,423.67 for the years 2014 and 2016. The grand total of the debt for both liens comes to $925,310.90. The IRS is starting the process of seizing Dorit and PK’s assets if they don’t cough up the cash quickly. The $925,000 tax debt is only the latest in a string of financial woes for the couple, with As The Blast first reported, PK has major creditors on the hunt for his assets. Kemsley was hit with a $1.2 million judgment over years old unpaid loans from a man named Nicos Kirzis. Last month, Kirzis filed documents in California to register the judgment there, which is the first step a creditor takes to begin the process of seizing assets. Kirzis said that Kemsley finally made a payment of $250,000 on the debt, which basically only covered the interest that grew over the years. The unpaid balance remains at $1,275,221.48. On top of that, earlier this month the Bellagio Hotel and Casino officially registered in California the judgment they won in Nevada against PK Kemsley, stemming from a $3.6 million casino marker he’s been working to pay off for years. By registering the judgment in Los Angeles, it allows them to go after property and assets located in the state of California.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2737
__label__wiki	0.629761	0.629761	California urges power conservation during heat wave published on July 24, 2018 - 12:51 PM Written by ANITA SNOW, Associated Press (AP) — California’s power grid operators called for cutbacks in electricity usage as parts of the U.S. Southwest braced Tuesday for another day of scorching heat. With triple-digit temperatures expected throughout the region, the California Independent System Operator Corp. urged people to ease off blasting the air conditioner or using the washer or other appliances from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday and again on Wednesday. Those are the times of peak power usage. The so-called Flex Alerts are needed to reduce the risk of rotating power outages, Cal-ISO said. Scattered outages during the day and evening Monday left several thousands of people sweltering even though overall state electrical demand never exceeded available power. Officials urged homeowners to keep the thermostat at 78 degrees (26 Celsius) or higher. The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health also urged people to stay out of the sun. “When temperatures are high, even a few hours of exertion may cause severe dehydration, heat cramps, heat exhaustion and heat stroke. Others who are frail or have chronic health conditions may develop serious health problems leading to death if they are exposed to high temperatures over several days,” said Dr. Jeffrey Gunzenhauser, the county’s interim health officer. Children, the elderly and pets shouldn’t be left in homes without air conditioning or in cars even with open windows because temperatures can quickly soar to life-threatening levels, he said. Highs around the Southwest approached 120 degrees (49 Celsius) Monday, with Phoenix recording a steamy 115 degrees (46 Celsius), breaking the previous record for the day, the National Weather Service reported. “It can be suffocating,” said Don Frey, an employee of the moving company Budget Movers, told KTVK-TV. An important tool of his trade was his water jug, he said. Asked about Tuesday’s forecast of a high of 117 degrees (47 Celsius), Frey said: “Those are the days that you really wish you listened to mom and dad and stayed in school.” Forecasters said southern Arizona will swelter through temperatures from 112 to 119 degrees through Wednesday. In Texas, forecasts called for a high of 108 degrees (42 Celsius) along the border from Del Rio to Laredo and up to 101 in Central Texas and the Big Bend. However, temperatures were only expected to top out in the upper 90s over much of the state. Parts of Utah were also issued an excessive heat warning with temperatures this week expected to approach 109 degrees. The weather service said the warning for Utah’s Dixie and Lake Powell regions will be in effect Tuesday through Thursday. With some of the highest temperatures over the next few days expected in Phoenix, officials cautioned people to stay hydrated and take advantage of cooler indoor buildings. Maricopa County public health officials say 155 people died in the Phoenix area last year from heat-caused illnesses such heat stroke. Obama holds first summit in US with Southeast Asian leaders Posted: February 16, 2016 at 5:58 am (AP) — President Barack Obama and leaders of Southeast Asian AP Source: Tesla looking at cameras, radar in Florida crash Posted: July 29, 2016 at 10:19 pm (AP) — A person familiar with the discussions says Tesla Renaming of Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum criticized Posted: March 28, 2019 at 12:54 pm (AP) — The University of Southern California's sale of naming Trump administration agrees to delay health care rule Posted: July 1, 2019 at 1:11 pm (AP) — The Trump administration has agreed to postpone implementing	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2739
__label__wiki	0.699721	0.699721	Iranian president Hassan Rouhani (right) inspects the country’s nuclear facilities in April 2019. Iranian Presidential Office/EPA Iran’s nuclear program breaches limits for uranium enrichment: 4 key questions answered Martin Sevior, University of Melbourne Martin Sevior Associate Professor of Physics, University of Melbourne Martin Sevior does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment. University of Melbourne provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. Iranian officials this week revealed that the country’s nuclear program will break the limit for uranium enrichment, set under the terms of the deal struck in 2015 between Iran and world powers including the United States under former president Barack Obama. Read more: Uranium, plutonium, heavy water ... why Iran's nuclear deal matters What is uranium enrichment? The nucleus of a uranium atom is a very rich source of energy. The splitting of a uranium atomic nucleus – a process called nuclear fission – produces more than 20 million times more energy than a strong chemical reaction such as burning a molecule of natural gas. Atomic nuclei are made of two types of subatomic particles: protons and neutrons. All uranium atoms contain 92 protons, but can contain varying numbers of neutrons. Each specific combination of neutrons and protons is called an isotope. Isotopes are named according to the total number of protons and neutrons – hence, uranium-238 (U-238) contains 92 protons and 146 neutrons, whereas U-235 contains three fewer neutrons. U-235 undergoes nuclear fission more readily than U-238, making it more valuable as a source of nuclear energy. What’s more, only U-235 can sustain a “nuclear chain reaction”, in which enough neutrons are released during nuclear fission to trigger fission in neighbouring atomic nuclei. This process is necessary to efficiently release large amounts of energy – either in a controlled way, such as in a nuclear power station, or in an uncontrolled explosion such as in a nuclear bomb. Natural uranium, however, contains just 0.7% U-235, and 99.3% U-238. Commercial nuclear reactors designs generally require uranium fuel with U-235 concentrations of between 3.5% and 5%. Uranium enrichment is the process of artificially increasing the proportion of U-235 in a sample of uranium to meet this requirement. What does the process involve? The technical details of uranium enrichment technology are highly classified, but we know the most efficient technique uses a process called centrifuge enrichment. This involves reacting the uranium with fluorine to form a gas called uranium hexafluoride (UF₆). This is then spun at very high speeds in a series of centrifuges. UF₆ molecules containing the heavier U-238 isotope are forced to the outside of the centrifuge, where they are removed. The remaining gas is thus richer in U-235, hence the term “enrichment”. By feeding the mixture through a succession of centrifuges, the uranium becomes successively more enriched. Higher levels of uranium enrichment are therefore more expensive and time-consuming. A typical 1-gigawatt commercial nuclear reactor contains one reactor and uses around 27 tonnes of enriched uranium fuel per year, although this depends on the quality of the nuclear fuel used. In a commercial market this costs around US$40 million, which is a small fraction of the US$450 million revenue that would be generated if we assume an electricity price of 5 cents per kilowatt-hour. Does it inevitably lead to weapons? The technical details of nuclear weapons development are more closely guarded still. But we know that a uranium fission weapon requires tens of kilograms of highly enriched uranium, with U-235 concentrations of around 90%. While the level of enrichment is much higher, there is no difference in the equipment used to make weapons-grade uranium, as opposed to nuclear fuel. The same facilities used to produce 27 tonnes of 3.6% U-235 fuel for a commercial reactor could conceivably also be used to make one tonne of U-235 enriched to 90% – roughly enough for 20 nuclear weapons. However, the post-processing of the UF₆ to make nuclear fuel is considerably different to that required for a weapon. In the case of nuclear fuel, it is formed into uranium oxide pellets and encased in zirconium alloy tubes. Weapons require pure uranium metal. What limit has Iran breached, and what does it stand to gain? Under the treaty, Iran agreed to enrich uranium to no more than 3.6%, and to only stockpile enough fuel to run its single commercial nuclear reactor for one year. It has already breached the stockpiling limit, and has now broken the enrichment limit. Read more: The Iran nuclear deal could still be saved, experts say In theory, these breaches could allow Iran’s nuclear reactor to run more economically and for a longer time before the fuel needs to be replaced. However, these higher-enrichment fuels require very specialised processing, and only a handful of companies worldwide have the technology to do this. The waste handling required for the spent fuel is also more sophisticated. Whatever Iran’s ultimate aim, and despite the diplomatic tensions, its uranium enrichment levels are not yet near those required for nuclear weapons. 2015 Iran nuclear deal Kyung Muk Lim/Shutterstock.com The atomic history of Kiritimati – a tiny island where humanity realised its most lethal potential British Prime Minister Theresa May meets Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia at the G20 in Osaka, Japan. Andy Rain/EPA Just as bad as each other: what the British public thinks of Saudi Arabia, Iran and Russia Wit Olszewski / Shutterstock Libra, Iran and the potential end of cryptocurrencies as we know them Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, leading the Eid al-Fitr prayer ceremony in Tehran in early June. Iranian Supreme Leader's Office/EPA US-Iran tensions: no route for de-escalation in sight	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2740
__label__cc	0.725665	0.274335	Bring Home The Revolution June 20, 2017 · by The Escape Artist · in Motivation · 16 Comments Readers tuning in for their weekly instalment of personal finance tips, schoolboy humour and banging tunez may want to look away now…because this week we will be sorting out British politics. Yes, really! 🙂 Getting rich is simple. Its just not easy…partly because some things aren’t meant to be easy and partly because of how our society is set up. So we have to think about broader questions of our values, psychology…and even politics. Wait! Come back! For capitalism to work its magic and deliver the incredible benefits of wealth creation and compounding, we need a political system that provides economic and personal freedom, social justice and has broad democratic support from all sections of society. It has been brought to the attention of The Escape Artist that the recent performance of politicians here leaves room for improvement. So today, I’m summarising the ideas of journalist Jonathan Freedland from his book Bring Home The Revolution. Freedland makes the case for taking the good bits of American political culture and its written constitution (based on the ideas of British liberals in the eighteenth century) and bringing them back home. Here’s my summary of his suggestions: 1. Power to The People The British constitution still runs on the basis of “The Crown in Parliament” where power flows from the top down. This is a historical legacy. British history from 1066 to 2016 is a series of steps from an absolute monarchy to an imperfect democracy. There’s a lot to be said for a step-by-step approach…but this left us some unfinished business. We tamed an absolute monarchy but, in its place, we’re left with an over-powerful executive. A prime minister with a landslide majority in the House of Commons (from a minority of the popular vote) holds all the power that a tyrant King used to wield. And we have an establishment caste of bossy officials, judges and administrators that seem to think they are entitled to rule over us…without being elected. In contrast, the American constitution works on the idea that power flows from the bottom up. The People are in charge and they “hire” (elect) politicians to do the work of running a government on their behalf. 2. More democracy In a democracy, direct elections are the way to select people for public service. In America, every city of scale has a mayor and dozens of officials that are elected. There are fewer unelected bureaucrats, administrators and quangos. Direct elections allow the will of the people to be expressed and brings accountability and greater local engagement. Britain has already moved in this direction with the creation of a Mayor of London, local parliaments in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales plus national referenda for big constitutional questions such as devolution and EU membership (see points 4 and 6 below). We could have more local elections for mayors and officials (e.g. senior police officers, CEOs of regional health trusts, housing associations etc)…these extra elections could be made more efficient and painless with online voting. Some people will moan about more elections….but then one bloke I used to work with moaned when given an unexpected bonus because now he’d have to pay extra tax(!). Voting will not be compulsory. But if you don’t use your votes, you really shouldn’t complain about the outcomes. 3. A New Republic If we really believe in meritocracy, equality of opportunity and social mobility then we need to make a few changes at the top. Its not fair or logical to have a hereditary monarchy that retains significant (but hidden) power. We should separate the monarchy from the constitution. There should be no more Queen’s Speech at the opening of Parliament (she can still do her TV chat show at Christmas). The monarch should not be able to appoint the Prime Minister in a hung parliament (this happened as recently as 1931). We don’t have to follow the French approach to dealing with royals. So there’s no need for the guillotine. We can keep the Royal Family with their benefits for tourism (valuable) and tabloid story generation (not so much). They can still open village fetes and supermarkets and live in Buckingham Palace and their various holiday homes (although they might want to read this). 4. Separation of Powers We need more checks and balances and better separation of powers between the executive, the legislature and the judiciary. What do I mean by that? The executive is the prime minister and the cabinet, who set policy and propose new laws. The legislature is the voting assembly that makes the law. It discusses, reviews and votes on legislation. In the UK, this is the House of Commons. The judiciary is the system of courts and judges that enforce the law, from local magistrates to the Supreme Court. Britain has weak checks and balances. A prime minister with a “safe” majority in the Commons has almost unfettered power. This is dangerous for democracy and individual civil liberties. Parliament should have 2 chambers. The House of Commons would remain as the primary chamber. We should have a new upper house (The Senate) which is democratically elected and has greater power to review and amend laws. This would replace the House of Lords with its unelected appointees and aristocrats. Parliamentary elections would be staggered so that elections for the upper house would be held during mid terms. 5. Individual rights When The People are sovereign, what we really mean is the majority of the people. We need protections for the minority. The American founding fathers realised that pure democracy required checks and balances to avoid a tyranny of the majority. This is basically a British invention. As Freedland points out in politically incorrect terms, Brits first came up with the Magna Carta (1215) when the rest of the world was still in loincloths. The Magna Carta introduced limits on the power of the monarch to tax, to imprison and to govern without reference to free men. And the 1689 Bill of Rights built on this, setting out the rights of Parliament, including the requirement for regular parliaments, free elections and freedom of speech. It also set out rights of individuals including the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment. A modern bill of rights would boost free speech, legal equality between races and sexes, the right to practice religion (or not) and freedom of sexual choice. This would enshrine (and where necessary strengthen) existing freedoms and protect us against authoritarian governments or mob rule. 6. A written constitution Once the Americans had declared the sovereignty of the people (point 1) and secured the rights of the minority (point 5), they wrote it down. Americans knew that a written constitution was fundamental for the same reasons that a person buying a car needs an ownership certificate and a manual. A written constitution is important for open government because it lets everyone know how their system works. Britain has no written constitution. What we have is a jumble of common law, traditions, protocols, statute, conventions and treaties. If knowledge is power then people who don’t understand their own political system are powerless. All those archaic Westminster ceremonies (Black Rod, Robes, latin etc) have the effect of confusing ordinary people and persuading them to accept the appointment of a priesthood of self-interested experts to interpret the hidden and unwritten rules. The constitution could still be changed but would require 2/3 majorities in both houses of parliament. This would represent a major improvement on our current situation where a single party with a simple majority in the Commons has the power to violate even our most basic liberties. 7. Local power European Union officials used to talk a good game on “subsidiarity”, the sensible idea that decisions should be taken at the level of government as close to the citizens as possible. But sadly the Brussels machine looked like it was more interested in taking ever more power to the centre and this triggered a reaction from British voters. Subsidiarity should get put into effect in the UK as well as the EU. Power should get delegated down to the regions wherever possible. This would involve a big change in our political culture, switching emphasis from centralised government in Whitehall (or Brussels) to local councils, mayors and other locally elected public servants. This would encourage greater maturity from the electorate as well as the media. We’d eventually stop whining about “postcode lotteries” and instead accept (or even celebrate) regional variations. In some ways this is nothing new, 100 years ago no one expected a hospital (or waste collection) in Edinburgh to be run exactly the same as a hospital (or waste collection) in Exeter. Its 100% possible to have regional variations in the national health service without privatising it. In the US, different states and different counties retain significant powers (including tax raising powers). They can then choose different priorities and different solutions that are most appropriate for the local conditions. This could be introduced over time in the UK on a tax neutral basis whereby increased local taxes levied by local government were matched with tax cuts by central government. 8. Civil society Taking charge will mean breaking a long-held British habit. We will need to curb our instinct to look to the State, not ourselves, to solve our problems. Popular sovereignty and delegated local power entail not just rights but also responsibilities. During most of history, we have looked upwards – first to our feudal master(s) and then to The State – as if to a benign parent ready to feed us and change our poopy nappies “from the cradle to the grave”. That needs to change. We should see that habit for what it is, a feudal leftover. The much loved welfare state has its roots in the old class system, in which a permanent elite felt obliged to look after a permanent proletariarat. There is such a thing as society. So whilst we gradually shrink the more bloated aspects of the old welfare state, we should actively encourage the development of social capital, not for profit organisations (e.g. Vanguard) and volunteering. 9. A classless society The Escape Artist has previously written how The British Class System has mostly been quietly dismantled. Unfortunately no all-staff memo was sent out confirming this. So these gradual changes have left many people a bit confused. The class system left behind a set of outdated limiting beliefs which hold back people in ways they are often unaware of. The 1% has a responsibility to treat the 99% as adults (and the 99% have the same responsibility). That means being more honest and giving everyone the opportunity and the incentives to work hard, climb the ladder and reap the rewards…rather than paying people to sit on the sofa watching daytime TV on sink housing estates. As we move away from the old paternalistic welfare state, we’ll need more civic engagement and a new approach to equality. Freedland suggests that our model should be the American Dream: social mobility and equality of opportunity (not outcome). 10. A New British Identity If Britain were to take the 9 steps above, it will have constructed a shared national project and patriotism based on ideas not blood. It would help to gradually heal some of the lingering divides between different groups and different regions…caused by historical class divisions, past inequalities and injustices. This stuff would take time and it wouldn’t make life perfect…but let’s get real…why would you expect perfection? The question is whether this would help protect our freedoms and improve the quality of outcomes delivered by our political system over time? I’m a Yes on that. Building blocks of a Wealthy Society spreadsheetman · June 20, 2017 - 11:11 am · Reply→ Hi TEA, I bought that book s/h for £2.32 on Amazon after you recommended it in an earlier post so I think I get marks for frugality there 🙂 I’m hoarding it for my summer holiday reading though, so am resisting reading it for now. Looks good, although i don’t see how the various vested interests will be persuaded to let go? The Escape Artist · June 20, 2017 - 11:32 am · Reply→ Yes, there will be vested interests that resist / slow these changes but I think they’ll eventually have to yield to the inevitable…the same way that Kings / Queens tried to cling to absolute power in the past but were forced to share it in a series of reforms over time. And our votes can maybe accelerate the process in the meantime… mrspickypincher · June 20, 2017 - 1:43 pm · Reply→ Oh wow! Thanks for putting this together. I’m American, so it was very eye-opening to learn these things about our cousins across the pond! Adam · June 20, 2017 - 3:00 pm · Reply→ A lot of points in this article seem to be looking to the American system of government for inspiration. That seems to be working well for them, so why not? Tim Kim @ Tub of Cash · June 20, 2017 - 8:43 pm · Reply→ For me, reading this reminded me of Winston Churchill’s famous quote: ““Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.” Aristotle points something similar out too because democracy in the purest sense can lead to a sort of “mob rule.” Sometimes people, as a whole, don’t know what’s best for them and best for human kind, especially with the long-term perspective in mind. So things they do, to benefit them today, may not work out well for future generations for example. It’s an inherent selfishness since today’s needs may seem more urgent than the needs of people they don’t even know living hundreds of years from now. wephway · June 20, 2017 - 10:56 pm · Reply→ I agree with a lot of what you say about democracy, the balance of power and so on. But I think you need to be careful when you talk about class and social mobility. Have a look at this comic strip: https://digitalsynopsis.com/inspiration/privileged-kids-on-a-plate-pencilsword-toby-morris/ Don’t get me wrong, you’ve clearly done well to get to where you are and should be applauded for that but don’t underestimate how much luck you needed along the way. There’s a great book I’d really recommend called ‘Capital in the 21st Century’ by Thomas Piketty in which he talks a lot about class and inequality and the direction of travel for society in the UK and the US. Suffice to say it doesn’t look good. Class is making a comeback and equality of opportunity (if it ever existed) is disappearing fast. The Austrian · June 21, 2017 - 11:19 am · Reply→ Very interesting ideas. Unfortunately though, more democracy doesn’t necessarily lead to better democracy. The US is itself a political and legal basket-case, isn’t it? E.g. because their constitution is in a written, inviolable form, the ‘right to bear arms’ has resulted in an untold thousands of unnecessary deaths. And they actually have a deeply entrenched class system, probably made worse by the assumption that in a meritocracy the rich must be more talented than everyone else – leading to a billionaire weirdo like Trump in the White House. There’s also profound corruption in the form of vast subsidies for moribund industries and for agriculture, and pork-barrel politics – the naked buying of votes by federal money being spent in areas whose representatives’ votes are needed by the executive; and that has always been the case (see the film Lincoln). The single most important point here is number 8, return to the individual, and to individual families, of their responsibilities. The US revolution came out of a society of independent, Protestant-minded farmers, traders and craftsmen, who wanted a low-tax, low-interference State, that (like them) hated debt and lived well within its means. We are now in the UK about as removed from that environment as we are from Alpha Centauri. 40% of the electorate have just voted for an unabashed socialist who plans to expand the involvement of the State, and its tax take, to levels of the 1970s. Most people, especially the young, simply do not want more personal responsibility – they want more ‘free’ goodies. And any reduction in the planned increase of govt spending is widely considered to be savage austerity that is directly responsible for killing people. The reason FI is a distant dream for all but the highest earners, is that ordinary workers cannot save a meaningful amount of money as capital for themselves and their families when the State takes way more than half of most worker’s and business’s incomes (across income tax, Nat Ins, CGT, IHT, VAT, council tax, fuel duty, etc.); and despite that about £1 for every £6 the State spends is borrowed, i.e. the debt and interest will come from taxes our children will pay. Even to save up money is seen my many (most?) as immoral, because it is considered that other ‘needy’ people in society need that wealth to help them. Until that argument is won, the rest is window-dressing. Rowan Tree · June 21, 2017 - 12:06 pm · Reply→ wephway, I think you’re right. The Paula side of that comic strip describes my life, and only by extreme diligence and self denial have I achieved anything. My interest in personal finance came first from a need for survival and decent housing. Subsequently it has enabled me to retire early, but I fear I was too harsh and self denying on the way. I do wonder about the chances for the sick and disabled in our society. The middle class must have all moved here to the Shires and are doing very well, keeping the “wrong sort” out and keeping them down. Fortunately, I can be a social class chameleon. Keep up the good work, Mr Escape Artist, education and encouragement is the way. Damo · June 22, 2017 - 11:32 am · Reply→ It looks like the book hasn’t dealt with one of the biggest issues with the British (and American) political system. i.e, the terribly unfair first-past-the-post (FPTP) voting system that is in use in both countries. Much fairer (though, also, more complicated) is the Single-Transferable-Vote (STV). First past the post leads directly to a two party state (like in UK and US), where most voters end up picking the party or candidate they hate the least (TEA as you pointed out recently you neither liked Theresa May or Jeremy Corybn – and I agree with you!). A vote on smaller parties/candidates is usually a waste in FPTP, and so the smaller parties wither and die. Single-Transferable-Vote is used in Australia and Ireland to name a few, and leads to proportional representation, and elected parliament that closely represents the wishes of the electorate. This is far better explained in the entertaining videos (using cute animals!) Problems with FPTP How single transferable vote is a solution: The Escape Artist · June 22, 2017 - 12:03 pm · Reply→ Thanks Damo. The book does touch on the question of First Past the Post vs Proportional Representation but, rightly or wrongly, Freedland comes to the conclusion that FPP would work better with more checks and balances from a stronger upper house. Personally, I would be happy to see some form of proportional representation if that meant more coalitions, more checks and balances and less scope for elective dictatorship. Just to clarify re May / Corbyn…the point I was making was that we voters shouldn’t judge (or complain about) politicians based on how attractive (or unattractive) we find them. Winston Churchill was not blessed with film star looks…and yet was arguably the best Prime Minister of the twentieth century. xsubsquid · December 6, 2017 - 7:09 am · Reply→ TEA, thank you for a really insightful post. I’m a resident of New York State (a small city of 15,500 called Gloversville about 50 miles WNW of Albany, NY, at the base of the Adirondack Mountains). I am a former city councilman – 10 years ago now – so have a moderate amount of knowledge of the topic of elections. One of the concerns I have with our system, which is rather in conflict with one of your statements, is that voting is not either mandatory or incentivized in some fashion. Nationally and locally, the number of people voting has dropped precipitously. Oh sure, certain elections, such as this last presidential election, can draw crowds. However, most elections get around 55% of registered voters nationally and less than 20% locally – and that’s of registered voters, not those who would be eligible to register, but don’t even bother. In my first election I ran unopposed for a seat on a council of a city that was $1,600,000 in the red (general fund deficit). You’d think there would be people crawling out of the woodwork to run for office to protest this travesty, if nothing else. Nope. Not only that, but when the votes were tallied, in a ward of the city (there are 6) with roughly 3000 registered voters, only 262 bothered to show up. Of those 262, only 143 voted for me. In subsequent elections over the last 10 years, that level of participation, especially in off-year elections, has remained steady. The danger, here, is that if you are a candidate of a certain party and know this is always happening, you can also know that you can win just by convincing about as many people as you could fit in a smallish theater to come out to vote and turn the election. Strategies become unbelievably easy for packing the council with cronies and electing whoever you want to run for mayor. In essence, without two key requirements added to the voting process, what you claim to experience in the UK is defacto what we are already experiencing over here. Those two requirements would be: 1. Mandatory testing. A person should only be allowed to vote if they can demonstrate a basic level of civic awareness. Currently, anyone over the age of 18 with a pulse and not burdened with a felony conviction can vote. In order to exercise my Second Amendment rights, I had to pass a background check, take required training courses and go before a judge to make sure I didn’t show signs of being a lunatic. Why, then, would the election of people who literally hold the power of life and death – in some cases globally – not be met with the same level of serious consideration? 2. Incentivized voting. The idea here is that to encourage more people to go through the process of becoming a voter, one should make some sort of advantage to the task to make the task more palatable. In the same way “volunteer” firefighters over here are incentivized to volunteer by being given tuition discounts for college and tax breaks (is it really a volunteer activity is one is receiving a financial benefit?), why can’t people who actually vote be allowed to check a box on their state tax form for a fraction of a percent reduction in personal income taxes (or some other scheme)? I agree with those who don’t want to force people to participate. However, I’m very concerned that if participation levels keep dropping we’ll have the same oligarchical problems that we tried to escape with the revolution (arguably, we’re already there). All the fancy paperwork and written Constitutions in the world are worthless if those most strongly empowered by them stay home. Oh, and a comment regarding replacing the House of Lords with a Senate. Try not to screw that up like we did. The Senate was originally elected out of the legislature of the individual states. The idea here was that the popularly elected House of Representatives could be tempered in their passions by the longer termed essentially appointed representatives of each state (voted on in each state legislature, not by popular vote). When the 17th Amendment passed for direct election of Senators, the state legislatures lost their voice eliminating a crucial check and balance on federal power. Since 1913, we’ve seen federal encroachment at all levels. It is a direct result of the federal government not needing to work with the states any longer. The Rhino · December 6, 2017 - 10:09 am · Reply→ @xsubsquid – interesting stuff, incredible about the no. of votes swinging elections! Idea (1) sounds dangerous and burdensome from an admin point of view to me. I think it has regressive overtones. Idea (2) sounds good, I’ve often thought it might be nice to try and nudge people to vote. My approach would be to have all voters entered into a lottery with some chunky cash prizes. I think that would be more attractive and less admin than having every voter entitled to a small tax rebate. xsubsquid · December 6, 2017 - 10:23 am · Reply→ Since all worthwhile politics, in my opinion, is identified through the art of compromise (or, as someone once put it, it was a good negotiation when both sides left the table mildly dissatisfied), I am willing to drop item one, the stick I’d love to beat a few lazy non voters with, in favor of the carrot approach of item two. So now that’s settled, we have only to solve Brexit, Trump and Kim Jong Un to have peace in our time! 😃 I’ve been reading you quietly in the background for years. You and MMM have helped considerably in framing a worldview where less can mean more without serious sacrifice. I won’t say I’ve arrived at financial escape velocity. Sadly, I started very late digging my way out of the prison camp. Still, in about five years I’ll be biking, sailing and hiking (not necessarily in that order) around the US and Europe all thanks to this amazing mind shift. The Escape Artist · December 6, 2017 - 10:34 am · Reply→ xsubsquid – Thank you for the comments and the kind words!…I’d just like to make clear that The Rhino and me are 2 different people 🙂 but I actually agree with his comment on your 2 points xsubsquid · December 6, 2017 - 10:38 am · Ah! My apologies. I didn’t even notice. I’m going to fall back on the “I’ve been up all night at work so I’m frazzled” defense. MKD · January 10, 2018 - 9:17 pm · Reply→ This is my first time making a comment here after reading your blog for years. I just want to say, excellent article, very well written. It sounds like you want the UK to be more like America. Unfortunately, I think there is a better chance that America will become more like the UK instead. 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__label__wiki	0.832869	0.832869	5AM Thursday: Michael Now A Tropical Storm Miami, Fla. (970 WFLA)-At 5:00 AM EDT, the center of Tropical Storm Michael was located near latitude 33.5 North, longitude 82.5 West. Michael is moving toward the northeast near 21 mph and this motion is expected to continue with an increase in forward speed through tonight. A turn toward the east-northeast and an even faster forward speed are expected on Friday. On the forecast track, the center of Michael will move through eastern Georgia into central South Carolina this morning, then moves across portions of central and eastern North Carolina and southeastern Virginia into the Atlantic Ocean by late tonight or early Friday. Maximum sustained winds have decreased to near 50 mph with higher gusts. Some additional weakening is expected today while the center remains over land. However, Michael is forecast to intensify as it becomes a post-tropical low over the Atlantic late tonight or early Friday.Tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 160 miles mainly to the southeast of the center. Louisville, Georgia recently reported a wind gust of 60 mph, and there are several reports of wind gusts of 40-50 mph in the Augusta area. The estimated minimum central pressure based on surface observations is 983 mb (29.03 inches). Tropical storm conditions are occurring over portions of eastern and southeastern Georgia, and will spread across portions of central and southern South Carolina this morning. Gale- to storm-force winds are expected over portions of southeastern Virginia, extreme northeastern North Carolina, and the Delmarva Peninsula as Michael becomes post-tropical off the Mid-Atlantic coast late tonight or early Friday. Michael is expected to produce total rain accumulations of 4 to 7 inches from eastern Georgia to the southern Mid-Atlantic states and 1 to 3 inches over the northern Mid-Atlantic states and coastal southern New England. Isolated maximum amounts of 9 inches are possible in North Carolina and Virginia. This rainfall could lead to life-threatening flash floods. Isolated tornadoes are possible today over portions of eastern South Carolina, eastern and central North Carolina, and southeast Virginia. Graphic credit: NHC Miami	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2742
__label__cc	0.554552	0.445448	OMEGA Celebrates 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing with Rory McIlroy Short Film Honoring the Milestone OMEGA, Official Patron of the PGA of America, is celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing with a short film featuring OMEGA ambassador Rory McIlroy, who is playing in the 101st PGA Championship this week at Bethpage State Park, Black Course in Farmingdale, N.Y. The short film rejoices OMEGA’s long-standing relationship with NASA and the Apollo 11 Moon Landing which took place on July 20, 1969. The OMEGA Speedmaster Professional is the first and only watch worn by an astronaut walking on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission. The OMEGA Speedmaster Professional has a unique place in the history of space exploration as the only watch flight qualified for all of NASA’s piloted space missions. When Buzz Aldrin stepped on the lunar surface in 1969, he was wearing an OMEGA Speedmaster Professional, the chronograph that has been known as the Moonwatch ever since. The OMEGA Speedmaster Professional Moonwatch is one of OMEGA’s most iconic timepieces. Having been a part of all six lunar missions, the legendary Speedmaster is an impressive representation of the brand’s adventurous pioneering spirit. On Tuesday night, OMEGA hosted a media reception in advance of the 101st PGA Championship. The short film featuring McIlroy was debuted at the reception. The film shows McIlroy hitting a golf ball, which appears to land on the moon. “I’ve always been enamored with the history around OMEGA and its involvement in the space program and to think that I’m being featured in a celebration for something that happened 20 years before I was born is a huge honor for me,” said McIlroy. “This is a big week for me in golf but to celebrate astronauts who have walked on the moon, that’s even bigger.” To view: https://youtu.be/nt1FU7ezhFw To honor this special milestone OMEGA recently released the OMEGA Speedmaster Apollo 11 50th anniversary model crafted in new 18K Moonshine™ gold. OMEGA Speedmaster Apollo 11 50th Anniversary; OMEGA Ambassador Buzz Aldrin McIlroy, an OMEGA Ambassador since 2013, won the 2012 PGA Championship in Kiawah Island, S.C. and the 2014 PGA Championship at Valhalla in Louisville, Ky. Thus far in his current PGA TOUR season, he has one win and is ranked fourth in the world. McIlroy has 15 career PGA TOUR victories and nine international wins. ABOUT THE OMEGA-PGA OF AMERICA PARTNERSHIP OMEGA has been the PGA of America’s Official Patron and Official Timekeeper since 2011: further proof of the brand’s commitment to the growth of golf, both globally and across the United States. The PGA of America is the world’s largest sports organization, comprised of around 28,000 PGA Professionals. Through this constructive partnership, OMEGA has established and maintains close ties with experts who teach, promote and manage the game of golf. Please contact BZA PR on behalf of OMEGA Dana Gordon Phone: 856-397-2917 / Email: danag@bzapr.com Chris Madigan Phone: 203-918-1652 / Email: chrism@bzapr.com « ANNIKA Invitational Europe Winner Golf Digest Selects Best Resorts and Courses »	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2745
__label__wiki	0.506205	0.506205	Technology + Online + Industry + Partnerships Seeing the 'Green' Light A new essay competition asks secondary students to describe how schools can best use technology to preserve the environment. WITH TECHNOLOGY and the environment increasingly at the forefront of global discussion, PC Mall Gov is giving middle and high school students an opportunity to examine how one can be used to make a positive impact on the other. Partnering with T.H.E. Journal, Hewlett- Packard, and InFocus, PC Mall Gov is accepting student entries for its Green Light Contest. Students in grades 5 to 12 must submit an application along with an essay of 1,000 words or less that describes a potential program to help students and teachers use technology to protect the environment. The essays must also reflect on the overall impact the technology program could have on the school and surrounding community. The programs presented in the essays will be scored by a panel of judges from the education technology field based on their potential environmental impact, originality, implementation capabilities, and potential for replication. The four highest-scoring essays will be published on www.thejournal.com. From those four essays, the judges will choose two firstprize winners-- one from grades 5 through 8 and another from grades 9 through 12-- to each receive an environmentally friendly HP laptop. One of the two first-prize winners will be named the grand-prize winner and receive a 30-seat "green" computer lab for his or her school. The lab will include HP thin clients with a server, software, and networking equipment, as well as laptops, a printer, and an InFocus projector. The winners will also be recognized during the 2009 Florida Educational Technology Conference, which will be held Jan. 21-24 in Orlando, FL. "We are excited and pleased to offer this contest to students across the country," says Alan Bechara, president of PC Mall Gov. "Our partnership with HP and InFocus enables us to encourage students to think about how technology and environmental awareness come together in our schools and classrooms, and how we can responsibly use these tools not only to advance learning but also to protect the environment. There is no better group than our tech-savvy students to think about, and address, these issues." "It is our hope that through this contest we will foster lifelong interest in environmental stewardship through the use of technology," adds PC Mall Gov Vice President of Business Development Sharon Ennis. Entries are due Dec. 1, and each school may only submit three essays per grade level. If you would like more information about the Green Light Contest, including submission criteria and applications, visit here. The website also includes free contest posters for your school, tips for helping the environment, and links to environmental websites that may provide information and inspiration to entrants. Send questions about the contest here. SETDA OFFERS TIPS FOR STEM TEACHING THE STATE EDUCATIONAL Technology Directors Association (SETDA) recently released a report titled "Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics," which addresses the need to provide all children with rigorous instruction in the four STEM subjects. The report includes examples of schools that have successfully implemented STEM education into their curriculum, and uses these examples to offer suggestions for effective instruction. Key recommendations include exposing students to STEM careers, and providing ongoing STEM professional development and preservice teacher training. SETDA also places a special emphasis on building societal support for STEM education. "The negative connotation of the 'computer geek,' 'brainiac scientist,' and 'mathlete' needs to be turned on its head," said SETDA Executive Director Mary Ann Wolf in a statement. "Parents, teachers, and community leaders must promote the possibilities of STEM careers instead of relegating these choices to 'other kids' who are really good at math or science." The report is the second released as part of SETDA's Vision 20/20 Action Plan series, an initiative that aims to outline steps that policymakers and school districts can take so that the class of 2020 will have all of the skills needed to compete in a global economy. Visit here to download the report. :: Industry News SPECTRUM K12 HOSTS RTI WEBINAR SERIES. Spectrum K12 School Solutions is hosting the "Architecting Success: Manage RtI and Student Achievement" Exceed/Response to Intervention webinar series for K-12 educators who want to improve student achievement through personalized instruction for all students. The interactive sessions will review research from leading national organizations, demonstrate tools for integrating data, and illustrate progress monitoring through the use of visual displays. The first of the free, one-hour webinars, titled "RtI-- Process or Program?" will be held at 3 p.m. EDT on Oct. 9. For more details and to register, visit here. STR LOANS MICROSCOPE KITS TO SCHOOLS. School Technology Resources has launched a program to provide free loaner microscope kits to science teachers, including free shipping of the kits to and from anywhere in the US. The loan program coincides with the introduction of the company's Scope on a Rope (SOAR), a handheld video microscope with interchangeable magnifying lenses, and an output for connection to a computer, projector, TV, or LCD display. The new SOAR kits include the microscope, an XYZ stage/stand, and a teacher resource CD with more than 100 K-12 lesson plans. To find out more about the program and sign up for a loan, teachers can visit here. TEACHSCAPE OFFERS FREE PD MODULES. By joining the Module of the Month Club, teachers can explore the online professional development resources found in the Teachscape XL web-based PD platform. After signing up for the club on www.teachscape.com, teachers will have access to a free online course module each month, to use for their own learning or to share with teachers they're coaching. Up coming course topics include English language development, overcoming dyslexia, and evidence-based practices for teaching reading. :: Awards and Contests CLASSROOM MAKEOVER VIDEO CONTEST LAUNCHES. AVerMedia has teamed up with eInstruction to bring the second annual Interactive Classroom Makeover Video Contest to K-12 schools. Participating classes must produce a short music video parodying a song of their choice while demonstrating how different types of technology can be used to enhance instruction. A panel of judges will choose one winning class from each of the K-5, 6-8, and 9-12 grade categories. The three grand-prize winners will receive cash, products, and services from various education technology companies totaling about $75,000, which they will use to give their classrooms a technology makeover. Submissions are being accepted until Oct. 24. Visit www.eimakeover.com for more information and complete contest details. UPDATE: VERNIER/NSTA AWARD DEADLINE EXTENDED. Vernier Software & Technology and the National Science Teachers Association have extended the submission deadline for the Vernier/NSTA Technology Awards to Nov. 30. The awards, which comprise $1,000 in cash, $1,000 in Vernier equipment, and $1,000 toward expenses for attending NSTA's 2009 National Convention, will be given to seven of the most resourceful science teachers in the country. For more information, visit here.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2747
__label__wiki	0.968848	0.968848	China’s latest crackdown on messaging apps casts a shadow on WeChat’s global expansion plans by Kaylene Hong — in Apps Tencent has ambitious global plans for its WeChat messaging app, but a new crackdown from China’s government could undermine its efforts to entice Western users to the service. The Chinese government has started an initiative to “clean up” instant messaging services, China Daily reports. WeChat stands to lose the most from this new effort, simply because Weixin — the version of WeChat offered in China — is the most popular chat app in the country. Other messaging services which will be affected in the Chinese government’s latest project include Alibaba’s Laiwang, Xiaomi’s Mi Talk, and China Telecom’s Yixin, among others. Although Weixin and other messaging apps are primarily used for private communication, public accounts haven’t escaped the eye of the Chinese government’s censorship mechanism. The newspaper cited a statement from China’s State Internet Information Office as saying that some people have made use of instant messaging platforms “to distribute illegal and harmful information, seriously undermining public interests and order in cyberspace.” According to the statement, the project is aimed at public accounts, which are typically owned by either individuals or organizations seeking to communicate on a wider scale to their followers — in a similar way to Facebook’s pages. The government will focus on stamping down accounts which are determined to spread rumors and information related to matters including terrorism and pornography, as well as those involved in fraud. The China Daily report cites the statement as saying: “We will firmly fight against infiltration from hostile forces at home and abroad.” A representative for WeChat tells TNW it is unable to comment on the matter at this moment. In the long run, the government’s actions could actually be beneficial for Weixin, given that making use of a public platform to spread rumors won’t do good for its reputation anyway. However, as Weixin is the only one out of the crop of Chinese messaging services pushing for overseas expansion via its sister product WeChat, this could cast a shadow on how global users perceive it. It must be made clear that WeChat and Weixin stand as independent and separate products under the same parent company. “WeChat is designed for international markets while Weixin aims to serve users in Mainland China, and as such are operated on separate infrastructures and supported by different teams,” Poshu Yeung, vice president of the international business group at Tencent, emphasized in an interview with TNW last year. Amid aggressive global marketing (such as launching an advertising campaign fronted by football star Lionel Messi), WeChat surpassed 100 million user accounts outside China in August last year. This year, it passed the 100 million download mark on Google Play internationally. It was recently revealed that WeChat and Weixin have chalked up a combined 396 million monthly active users. This just trails behind the world’s most popular messaging app WhatsApp, which has 450 million monthly active users and 1 million new sign-ups each day. In its earnings report, Tencent said it “continued to drive user engagement” for the app internationally, but stopped short of naming any specific countries. While Weixin continues to dominate in China, the larger question is whether WeChat it can challenge apps such as WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger in the West. The presence of the Chinese government’s censorship mechanism, though it only affects public-facing accounts in China and across the whole industry, not only Weixin, still casts a shadow upon such expansion plans — particularly in the West. Yeung had told us earlier this year that he sees the US as the hardest market to penetrate. With the Chinese government’s latest round of censorship efforts targeted at the messaging service, it could make WeChat’s job even harder. With internet users in the West wary of cyber spying and censorship, particularly in the wake of NSA leaks, it can become harder for WeChat to convince users that the Chinese government won’t touch the overseas version of Weixin, after this latest round of censorship efforts. It can also lead to paranoia that the Chinese government could reach beyond public accounts into private communication. What’s more, there is always a possibility lurking that the Chinese government could also target public accounts based overseas but with a reach into China via WeChat. This could potentially lead to a lot of lines blurring — which could be a contributing factor to why companies like Weibo and Baidu aren’t that aggressive in taking their businesses overseas. It remains to be seen how Tencent will fend off the Chinese government’s threat to its overseas expansion, but it can’t be denied that this will introduce some reluctance on the part of Western users to trust it entirely. WeChat has to be prepared to come up against such concerns as it seeks to persuade overseas users to choose it over other existing messaging apps. Headline image via WeChat, other images via Lintao Zhang/Getty Images, Paul J. 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__label__wiki	0.598468	0.598468	Occult History [Prev] [Next] [Up] [Top] [Search] [Index] [Print] [Home] [Map] Version 2.5.4 [ Lecture: S-2335: 27th December, 1910 \| Stuttgart \| GA0126 \| OsmondDavy ] [ Make Corrections \| Help ] [ Buy from: Verlag \| Powell's \| Amazon ] On-line since: 15th July, 2007 Stuttgart, 27th December 1910 THE character of Spiritual Science is such that the truths and data of knowledge contained in it increase in difficulty the farther we descend from universal principles to concrete details. You may already have noticed this when attempts have been made in different groups to speak about historical details, for example about the reincarnations of the great leader of the ancient Persian religion, Zarathustra, or about his connection with Moses, with Hermes, and also with Jesus of Nazareth. [see Note 1] On other occasions too, concrete questions of history have been touched upon. As soon as we descend from the great truths concerning the universe as pervaded and woven through by Spirit, from the great cosmic laws to the spiritual nature of a particular individuality, a particular personality, we pass from matters where the human heart will still accept, comparatively easily, this or that questionable point, into realms teeming with improbabilities. And, as a rule, those who are insufficiently prepared become incredulous when they confront this abyss between universal and specific truths. Our study is intended to be an introduction to lectures which belong to the domain of occult history and will present historical facts and personalities in the light of Spiritual Science. In these lectures I shall have many things to say to you that will seem strange. You will hear many things that will have to reckon upon the will-for-understanding promoted by all the spiritual-scientific knowledge brought before you in the course of the years. For, after all, the finest, most significant fruit of the spiritual-scientific conception of the world is that, complicated and detailed as the knowledge is, we finally have before us not a collection of dogmas, but within us, in our hearts and feelings, we possess something that carries us beyond the standpoint we can reach through any other world-view. We do not imbibe so many dogmas, tenets, or mere information, but through our knowledge we become different human beings. In a certain respect, the aspects of Spiritual Science we shall now be considering call for more than a purely intellectual understanding — for an understanding by the soul, which at many points must be willing to listen to and accept intimations that would become crass and crude if pressed into too sharp outlines. The picture I want to call up in your minds is that behind the whole evolutionary and historical process, through the millennia up to our own times, spiritual Beings, spiritual Individualities, stand as guides and leaders behind all human evolution and human happenings, and that in the greatest, most significant events in history, this or that human being appears with his whole soul, his whole being, as an instrument of spiritual Individualities standing and working with set purpose behind him. But we must familiarise ourselves with many a concept unknown in ordinary life if we are to gain insight into the strange and mysterious connections between earlier and later happenings in the course of history If you will remind yourselves of many things that have been said through the years, you will be able to picture that in ancient times — and in Post-Atlantean times, too, if we go back only a few thousand years before what is usually called the historic era — men fell into more or less abnormal states of clairvoyance. Between our matter-of-fact waking consciousness, limited as it is entirely to the physical world, and the unconscious sleeping state, there was once a realm of consciousness through which man penetrated into spiritual reality. And we know that what is nowadays explained as poetic folk-fantasy by scholars who are themselves the originators of so many scientific myths and legends, is to be traced back to ancient clairvoyance, to clairvoyant states of the human soul which in those times gazed behind physical existence and expressed what it saw in the pictures contained in myths, fairy-tales and legends. So that in old, genuinely old myths, fairy-tales and legends, more knowledge, more wisdom and truth are to be found than in the abstract erudition and science of the present day. Therefore when we look back to very ancient times, we-find men who were clairvoyant; we know too that this clairvoyance faded away more and more among the various peoples in the different epochs. In the Christmas lecture to-day [see Note 2] I told you how in Europe, at a comparatively very late time, abundant remains of this ancient clairvoyance still survived. The extinguishing of clairvoyance and the advent of consciousness limited to the physical plane occur at different times among the different peoples. You can conceive that through the culture-epochs after the great Atlantean catastrophe — through the ancient Indian, ancient Persian, Egypto-Chaldean, Greco-Latin culture-epochs and an into our own — the effects produced in the plan of world-history by the activities of men have been very diverse — inevitably so, because the peoples all stood in different relationships to the spiritual world. In ancient Persian and also in ancient Egyptian times, what man inwardly felt and experienced extended upwards into the spiritual world, and spiritual Powers played into his very soul. Not until the Greco-Latin epoch did this living connection between the human soul and the spiritual world cease in essentials; nor did it disappear completely until our own times. As far as outer history is concerned, the connection exists in our time only when, with the means that are accessible to man to-day, the link between the human soul and the realities of the spiritual worlds is sought consciously. Thus in ancient times, when man looked into his own soul, this soul enshrined not only what it had learnt from the physical world, had pictured according to the pattern of the things of the physical world, but the spiritual Hierarchies ranging above man up into the spiritual worlds were experienced as immediate realities. All this worked down to the physical plane through the instrument of the human soul, and men knew themselves to be connected with these individual Beings of the higher Hierarchies. When we look back, let us say, into the Egypto-Chaldean epoch — but it must be the earlier periods of it — we find men who are, so to say, historical personalities; but we do not understand them if we think of them as historical personalities in the modern sense. When as men of the materialistic age we speak of historical personalities, we are convinced that it is only the impulses, the intentions, of the actual personalities in question that take effect in the course of history. But with this conception we can in reality understand only the men of the last three thousand years: that is — approximately of course — the men of the millennium which ended with the birth of Christ Jesus, and those of the first and the second Christian millennia in which we ourselves are living. Plato, Socrates, possibly also Thales and Pericles, are men who can still be understood as having at any rate some resemblance to ourselves. But farther back than that it is not possible to understand human beings if we attempt to do so merely by analogy with those living to-day. This applies, shall we say, to Hermes, the great Teacher of the Egyptian epoch, also to Zarathustra, and even to Moses. When we go back before the thousand. years preceding the Christian era we must reckon with the fact that wherever we have to do with historical personalities, higher Individualities, higher Hierarchies stand behind and take possession of these personalities — in the best sense of the word, of course. And now a strange phenomenon comes to light, without knowledge of which the process of historical evolution cannot really be understood. Five culture-epochs including our own, have been enumerated. Many, many thousands of years ago we come to the first Post-Atlantean culture-epoch, the ancient Indian; this was followed by the second, the ancient Persian; this by the third, the Egypto-Chaldean; this by the fourth, the Greco-Latin; and this by the fifth, our own epoch. When we go back from the Greco-Latin to the Egyptian epoch we must change our whole way of studying history: instead of looking at the purely human aspect — which it is still possible to do in connection with the figures of the Greek world as far back as the age of the Heroes — we must now apply a different criterion by looking behind the single personalities for the spiritual Powers which represent the super-personal and work through the personalities as their instruments. We must have These spiritual Individualities always in mind, so that working behind some human being an the physical plane we can discern discern a Being of the higher Hierarchies who, as it were, takes hold of him from behind and Sets him at the appropriate place in evolution. From this point of view it is highly interesting to perceive the connections between the really significant happenings — those which were determinative factors in the course of history — in the Egypto-Chaldean epoch and in the Greco-Latin epoch. These two culture-epochs follow one another, and to begin with we go back, let us say to the years from 2800 to 3200–3500 B.C. — which comparatively speaking is not so very far. Nevertheless we shall not understand happenings then — of which ancient history is already able to tell something to-day — unless behind the historical personalities we discern the higher Individualities. But then it also becomes evident to us that in the fourth, the Greco-Latin epoch, there is a kind of repetition of the really important happenings of the third epoch. It is almost as if things that in the earlier epoch an be explained through higher laws, must be explained in the following age through laws of the physical world, as if everything had sunk down, had become a stage more material, more physical. There is a kind of reflection in the physical world of great events of the preceding period. By way of introduction, I want to draw your attention to how one of the most important happenings of the Egypto-Chaldean epoch is presented to us in a significant myth, and how this event is reflected, but at a lower stage, in the Greco-Latin epoch. I shall therefore be speaking of two parallel happenings which in the occult sense belong together, the one taking place half a plane higher, as it were, and the other entirely on the physical earth but like a kind of shadow-image on the physical plane of a spiritual event of the earlier epoch. Outwardly, it is only in the form of myths that humanity has ever been able to tell of events behind which stand Beings of the higher Hierarchies. But we shall see what lies behind the myth which describes the most significant event of the Chaldean epoch. [see Note 3] We will look only at the main features of this myth. There was once a great king, by name Gilgamish. From the name itself, one who understands such matters will recognise that here we have to do not merely with a physical king, but with a divinity standing behind him, a spiritual Individuality by whom the king of Erech is inspired, who works and acts through him. Thus we have to do with one who in the real sense must be called a god-man. [see Note 4] The story narrates that he oppresses the city of Erech. The city turns to its deity, Aruru, and she causes a helper to arise out of the earth. These are pictures of the myth. We shall see what deeply significant historical events lie behind it. The Goddess of the City produces Eabani out of the earth. Eabani is a kind of human being who, in comparison with Gilgamish, seems to be of an inferior nature, for we are told that he was clothed in the skins of animals, was covered with hair, was like a wild man. Nevertheless in his wild nature there was divine Inspiration, ancient clairvoyance, clairvoyant knowledge, clairvoyant perception. Eabani comes to know a woman of Erech and is attracted by her into the City. He becomes the friend of Gilgamish and this brings peace to the city. Gilgamish and Eabani together are now the rulers. Then Ishtar, the Goddess of Erech, is stolen by a neighbouring city. There upon Eabani and Gilgamish go to war with the marauding city, conquer the king and bring the Goddess back again to Erech. Gilgamish lives near her, and here we come to the strange fact that he has no understanding of the essential nature of the Goddess. A scene takes place, directly reminiscent of a Biblical scene described in the Gospel of St. John. Gilgamish confronts Ishtar, but his conduct is very different from that of Christ Jesus. He upbraids the Goddess for having loved many other men before she had encountered him, reproaching her particularly for her most recent attachment. Thereupon the Goddess carries her complaints to that deity, that Being of the higher Hierarchies, to whom she belongs. She goes to Anu. And now Anu sends a bull down to the earth; Gilgamish has to engage in combat with it. Those who recall Mithras's fight with the bull will see a resemblance here. All these events — and when we come to explain the myth we shall see what depths it contains — have led meanwhile to the death of Eabani. Gilgamish is now alone. A thought comes to him that gnaws at the very fibres of his soul. Under the impression of what he has experienced, he becomes conscious for the first time of the thought that man is mortal; a thought to which he had previously paid no heed comes before his soul in all its terror. And then he hears of the only man of earth who has remained immortal, whereas all other human beings in the Post-Atlantean epoch have become conscious of mortality: he hears of the immortal Xisuthros far away in the West. And because he is resolved to fathom the riddle of life and death, he sets out on the perilous journey to the West. [see Note 5] — I can tell you at once that this journey to the West is nothing else than the search for the secrets of ancient Atlantis, for happenings prior to the great Atlantean catastrophe. Gilgamish sets out on his journey. The details are interesting. He has to pass through an entrance guarded by giant scorpions; the spirit leads him into the realm of death; he enters the kingdom of Xisuthros and there learns that in the Post-Atlantean epoch all men will inevitably be more and more penetrated with the consciousness of death. Gilgamish now asks Xisuthros whence he has knowledge of his eternal being; how comes it that he is conscious of immortality? Thereupon Xisuthros says to him: “You too can have this consciousness, but you must undergo all that I had to experience in overcoming the terror, anxiety and loneliness through which it was my lot to pass. When the god Ea had resolved to let perish” (in what we call the Atlantean catastrophe) “that part of humanity which was to live no longer, he bade me to withdraw into a kind of ship. I was to take with me the animals that were to remain, and those Individualities who are truly to be called the Masters. By means of this ship I outlived the great catastrophe.” Xisuthros then tells Gilgamish: “What was there undergone, you can experience only in your innermost being; but you can attain the consciousness of immortality if for seven nights and six days you refrain from sleep.” Gilgamish wishes to submit to the test but soon falls asleep. Then the wife of Xisuthros baked seven mystic loaves which by being eaten are to be a substitute for what would have been attained in the seven nights and six days without sleep. With this “life-elixir” Gilgamish continues his journeying, bathes as it were in a fountain of youth, and again reaches the borders of his own country in the region of the Euphrates and the Tigris. A serpent deprives him of the power of the life-elixir and so he reaches his country without it, but all the same with the consciousness that there is indeed immortality, and filled with longing to see the spirit at least, of Eabani. The spirit of Eabani appears to him, and from the discourse which then takes place we can glean how, for the culture of the Egypto-Chaldean epoch, a consciousness of the link with the spiritual world could arise. — This relationship between Gilgamish and Eabani is very significant. I have now outlined pictures from the significant myth of Gilgamish which, as we shall see, will lead us into the spiritual depths lying behind the Chaldean-Babylonian culture-epoch. These pictures show that two individualities stand there: the individuality of one — Gilgamish — into whom a divine-spiritual being has penetrated; and an individuality who is more of a human being, but of such a nature that he may be called a young soul, who has had few incarnations and for that reason has carried over ancient clairvoyance into later times — Eabani. Eabani is depicted as being clothed in skins of animals. This is an indication of his wild nature; but because of this very wildness he is still endowed with ancient clairvoyance an the one hand, and an the other hand he is a young soul who has lived through far, far fewer incarnations than other souls who have reached a high level of development. Thus Gilgamish represents a being who was ready for initiation but was not able to attain it, for the journey to the West is the journey to an initiation that was not carried through to the end. On the one side we see in Gilgamish the actual inaugurator of the Chaldean-Babylonian culture, and working behind him a divine-spiritual Being, a kind of Fire-Spirit. [see Note 6] And beside Gilgamish there is another individuality — Eabani — a young soul who descended late to earthly incarnation. If you read the book Occult Science, you will find that the individualities returned only gradually from the planets. — The exchange of the knowledge possessed by these two is the root of the Babylonian-Chaldean culture, and we shall see that the whole of this culture is an outcome of what proceeds from Gilgamish and Eabani. Clairvoyance from the divine man, Gilgamish, and clairvoyance from the young soul, Eabani, penetrate into the Chaldean-Babylonian culture. This process, enacted by two beings working side by side, each of whom is necessary to the other, is then reflected in the later, fourth culture-epoch, the Greco-Latin, and in fact reflected on the physical plane. We shall of course only very gradually reach complete understanding of such a process. A more spiritual process is thus reflected on the physical plane when humanity has descended very far, when men no longer feel the relation of human personality to the divine-spiritual world. These secrets of the divine-spiritual world were preserved in the places of the Mysteries. So, for example, many of the ancient, holy secrets which proclaimed the connection of the human soul with the divine-spiritual worlds were preserved in the Mysteries of Diana of Ephesus and in the Ephesian temple. A great deal in these Mysteries was no longer comprehensible in an age when human personality had come into prominence. And like a token of how little the purely external personality understood what had remained spiritually, there stands the half-mystical figure of Herostratus, who has eyes only for the superficial aspect of personality — Herostratus who flings the burning torch into the temple of Ephesus. This deed is like a token of the clash between the personality and what had survived from ancient spirituality. And on the very same day when a man, merely in order that his name might go down to posterity, throws the burning brand into the sanctuary of Ephesus, there is born the man who has achieved more than all others for the culture of personality — and on the very soil where the culture of were personality was meant to be overcome. Herostratus flings the burning torch on the day when Alexander the Great is born — the man who is all personality! Alexander the Great stands there as the shadow-image of Gilgamish. [see Note 7] A profound truth lies behind this. In the Greco-Latin epoch, Alexander the Great stands there as the shadow image of Gilgamish, as a projection of the spiritual on to the physical plane. And Eabani, projected on to the physical plane, is Aristotle, the teacher of Alexander the Great. Here indeed is a strange circumstance: Alexander and Aristotle standing, like Gilgamish and Eabani, side by side. And we see how in the first third of the fourth Post-Atlantean epoch there is carried over, as it were, by Alexander the Great but transformed into the laws of the physical plane — that which had been imparted to the Babylonian-Chaldean culture by Gilgamish. This comes to wonderful expression in the fact that, as a result of the deeds of Alexander, there was established an the scene of Egypto-Chaldean culture Alexandria itself, the city founded by Alexander in 332 B.C. in order that the great achievements of the Egypto-Babylonian-Chaldean culture-epoch might be brought together in one centre. And gradually all the streams of Post-Atlantean culture that were intended to come together did indeed converge on Alexandria, the city established an the scene of the third culture-epoch but with the character of the fourth. Alexandria outlasted the beginnings of Christianity. Indeed it was in Alexandria that the factors of greatest significance in the fourth culture-epoch developed, when Christianity was already in existence. There the great scholars were working; there the three most important streams of culture flowed together: the ancient Pagan-Grecian stream, the Christian stream and the Mosaic-Hebrew stream. They interpenetrated one another in Alexandria. And it is impossible to conceive that the culture of Alexandria which was built entirely on the foundation of personality — could have been inaugurated in any other way than through the being who was inspired by personality — Alexander the Great. For now, through the very existence of this centre of culture, everything that formerly was super-personal, extending from the human personality upwards into the spiritual world, assumed a personal character. The personalities we find in Alexandria have, as it were, everything within themselves; the Powers from higher Hierarchies who guide the personalities and set them in their allotted places, are very little in evidence. All the sages and philosophers working in Alexandria seem to be embodiments of ancient wisdom transformed into human personality; it is the personal element that speaks out of them. The singular fact is that everything in ancient Paganism that could be explained only by the teaching of how gods came down and united with daughters of men in order to bring forth heroes — all this is transformed into personal forcefulness in the men in Alexandria. And the forms which Judaism, the Mosaic culture, assumed in Alexandria can be described from what is in evidence precisely during the period when Christianity was already in existence. Nothing is to be found of those deep conceptions of a link between the world of men and the spiritual world which were present in the age of the prophets and are still to be found in the last two centuries before the beginning of our era. In Judaism too, everything has become personality. There are gifted, able men in Alexandria, men possessed of extraordinarily deep insight into the secrets of the ancient occult teachings ... but everything has become personal; personalities are working in Alexandria. And it is there that to begin with, Christianity appears, shall we say, in a distorted, debased state of infancy. Christianity, whose real function is to lead the personal element in man upwards into the impersonal, made its appearance in Alexandria in a very ruthless form. Christian personalities, in particular, acted in such a way that we often have the impression: their deeds are anticipations of later actions by bishops and archbishops working on a purely personal basis. This applies both to Archbishop Theophilus in the fourth century and to his kinsman and successor, St. Cyril. [see Note 8] We can judge them only an the basis of their human failings. Christianity, which was to give to mankind the greatest of all gifts, reveals itself to begin with in its greatest failings and from its personal side. But in Alexandria a sign and token was to stand before the whole evolution of humanity. There again we have a projection on the physical plane of earlier, more spiritual conditions. In the Orphic Mysteries of ancient Greece there was a wonderful personality, one who was initiated in the Mystery-secrets and was among the most loveable, most interesting pupils of these Mysteries, well prepared by a certain Celtic occult training undergone in earlier incarnations. This individuality sought with deepest fervour for the secrets of the Orphic Mysteries. The pupils of these Mysteries had to live through in their own soul what is described in the myth of Dionysos Zagreus, who was dismembered by the Titans but whose body was carried away by Zeus into a higher life. How, as the result of a certain path taken in the Mysteries, man's life is surrendered to the outer world, how his whole being is torn in pieces so that he can no longer find his bearings within himself — this was to become an actual, individual experience in the pupils of the Orphic Mysteries. When in the ordinary way we study animals, plants and minerals, what we learn is merely abstract knowledge because we remain outside them; but anyone who wishes to obtain knowledge in the occult sense must train himself to feel as if he were actually within the animals, plants and minerals, in air and water, in springs and mountains, in stones and Stars, in other human beings — as if he were one with them. all. Nevertheless, a pupil of the Orphic Mysteries had to develop the inner strength of soul which would enable him, re-established as a self-based individuality, to triumph over the disintegration of his being in the external world. When all this had become an actual human experience, it represented in a certain sense one of the very highest secrets of Initiation. And many pupils of the Orphic Mysteries had undergone such experiences, had lived through this disintegration in the world and, as a kind of preparation for Christianity, had therewith attained the highest experience within reach in pre-Christian times. Among the pupils of the Orphic Mysteries was the loveable personality of whom I am speaking, whose earthly name has not come down to posterity, but who stands out clearly as a pupil of these Mysteries. Already in youth and then for many years, this person was closely connected with all the Greek Orphics during the period preceding that of Greek philosophy — a period of which no account is given in books an the history of philosophy. For what is recorded of Thales and Heraclitus is an echo of what the Mystery-pupils had accomplished in their way at an earlier period. And one of the pupils of the Orphic Mysteries was the individual of whom I have just spoken, whose pupil in turn was Pherecydes of Syros, referred to in the lecture-course given at Munich last year: The East in the light of the West [see Note 9] Investigation of the Akasha Chronicle reveals that the individuality of that pupil of the Orphic Mysteries was reincarnated in the 4th century A.D. We find this individuality amid the activity and life of those gathered together in Alexandria, the Orphic secrets now transformed into personal experiences of the loftiest kind. It is very remarkable how all the Orphic secrets were transformed into personal experiences in this new incarnation. At the end of the 4th century, A.D., we find this individuality reborn as the daughter of a great mathematician, Theon. We see how there flashes up in her soul all that could be experienced of the Orphic Mysteries through vision of the great mathematical, light-woven texture of the universe. All this was now personal talent, personal genius. These faculties had now to be of so personal a character that it was necessary even for this individuality to have a mathematician as father in order that something might be received from heredity. Thus we look back to times when man was still in living connection with the spiritual worlds, as was this Orphic pupil; and we see the shadow-image of this pupil among those who taught in Alexandria at the end of the 4th and the beginning of the 5th century A.D. This individuality had as yet experienced nothing that enabled men at that time to see beyond the shadow-sides of Christianity at its beginning. For all that had remained in this soul as an echo of the Orphic Mysteries was still too powerful to enable any Illumination to be received from that other Light, the new Christ Event. What arose round about as Christianity, represented by men of the type of Theophilus and Cyril, was in truth of such a nature that this Orphic individuality, working now with personal faculties, had things far greater, far richer in wisdom to say and to give than those who represented Christianity in Alexandria at that time. Theophilus and Cyril were both filled with the deepest hatred of everything that was not Christian in the narrow ecclesiastical sense in which these two bishops, in particular, understood it. Christianity had assumed in them such an entirely personal character that these two patriarchs levied hirelings in their service; men were collected from far and near to form bodyguards for them. Their aim was power in its most personal sense. They were utterly obsessed by hatred of what originated in ancient times and yet was so much greater than the new that was appearing in caricatured shape. The deepest hatred was directed by the dignitaries of Christianity in Alexandria against the individuality of the reborn Orphic pupil. The fact that she was branded as a black magician will not therefore surprise us. But that was enough to incite the whole mob of hirelings against the noble, unique figure of the reborn pupil of the Orphic Mysteries. She was still young, but in spite of her youth, in spite of the fact that she was obliged to undergo much that in those days, too, imposed great hardships an a woman during a long period of study, she found her way upwards to the light that outshone all the wisdom, all the knowledge existing in those days. And it was wonderful how in the lecture halls of Hypatia — for such was the name of this reincarnated Orphic pupil — the purest, most luminous wisdom in Alexandria was presented to the enraptured listeners. She drew to her feet not only the Pagans, bat also Christians of deep and penetrating insight, such as Synesius. She was an influence of outstanding significance, and the revival of the old Pagan wisdom of Orpheus transformed into personality could be experienced in Alexandria in the figure of Hypatia. World-karma was working in the truest sense symbolically. What had constituted the secret of her Initiation was now projected, mirrored, on the physical plane. And here we come to an event that is symbolically significant in the case of many things that have taken place in historical times. We come to one of those events that is seemingly only a martyrdom, but is in reality a symbol in which spiritual forces, spiritual intimations are coming to expression. On a day in March in the year 415 A.D., Hypatia fell victim to the fury of these who formed the entourage of the patriarch of Alexandria. They resolved to rid themselves of her power, of her spiritual power. The utterly uncivilised, wild hordes were rushed in from the environs of Alexandria as well, and the chaste young sage was fetched away under false pretences. She mounted the chariot, and at a given sign the enflamed rabble fell upon her, tore off her clothing, dragged her into a church, and literally tore the flesh from her bones. The fragments of her body were then scattered around the city by these hordes, completely dehumanised by their rapacious passions. Such was the fate of the great woman philosopher, Hypatia. Symbolically, so to say, there is indicated here something that is deeply connected with the founding of Alexandria by Alexander the Great — although it happened a long time after the actual founding of the city. In this event, important secrets of the 4th Post-Atlantean epoch are reflected. This epoch, destined as it was to represent the dissolution, the sweeping-away, of the old, contained so much that was great and significant, and with paradoxical grandeur placed before the world a most pregnant symbol in the slaughter — one can call it nothing else — of Hypatia, the outstanding woman at the turn of the 4th-5th centuries of our era. [Prev] [Next] [Up] [Top] [Search] [Index] [Print] [Home] [Map] [ Make Corrections \| Help ]	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2752
__label__wiki	0.519641	0.519641	Robert Redford Says Announcing His Retirement From Acting Was ‘A Mistake’ E. Oliver Whitney Next week, Robert Redford‘s final role hits theaters. Or wait, is it? David Lowery‘s The Old Man & the Gun is expected to be the last movie on Redford’s acting resume, but now he’s regretting announcing his retirement in the first place. Back in 2016, Redford revealed he had two more movies on the way, then he was bidding adieu to it all to focus on directing. The first of those was Netflix’s Our Souls At Night, making his alleged final role Lowery’s film. Then last month Redford confirmed his retirement to Entertainment Weekly saying, “Never say never, but I pretty well concluded that this would be it for me in terms of acting.” However, now that may not be the case. When asked if he was really retiring at the premiere of The Old Man & the Gun on Thursday, the 82-year-old actor told Variety, “That was a mistake. I should never have said that.” Wait, what?! When pressed once more if this was indeed his last role, Redford wouldn’t answer, saying he rather let it be a mystery. He added: If I’m going to retire, I should just slip quietly away from acting, but I shouldn’t be talking about it because I think it draws too much attention in the wrong way. I want to be focused on this film and the cast. That’s a totally fair response, especially considering how much the press (myself included) has made his retirement news a big part of the conversation around Lowery’s movie. But the thing is, The Old Man & the Gun plays like a loving tribute to Redford’s career, so if it turns out to be his last movie, it’s a darn perfect way to say goodbye. Now that there’s been all this fuss though, perhaps Redford will take another role just to, as he says, keep the mystery alive. And hey, if he keeps acting, that’s only a win for us. The Old Man & the Gun hits theaters September 28. ‘THE OLD MAN & THE GUN’ REVIEW: ROBERT REDFORD’S CHARMING FAREWELL Source: Robert Redford Says Announcing His Retirement From Acting Was ‘A Mistake’	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2758
__label__wiki	0.623538	0.623538	Twitter : https://twitter.com/CrisCola_ CRIS COLA - Cris Cola: The Voice of the Next Generation The inspirational artist releases his newest single, “Going Insane” Memphis, TN – Memphis native Cris Cola (born Christopher Reed Johnson) is only 23, but he’s wiser than most middle aged men you’ll meet. In an industry where rap and hip hop is saturated with anger, the young artist is determined to be a voice of clarity. Cola wrote his first rhyme when he was only 9 years old, and something inside him clicked; an artist was born. He filled pages and pages full of lyrics – purging his emotions and adolescence onto the paper. He explains, “Instead of losing my mind or snapping, I put all the anger I had towards certain family members, or friends that did me wrong, I just put it on paper.” The artist didn’t know then that what he was doing could one day be his true purpose. It would take many years, and a lot of maturing, before the budding star would be ready to turn his life long passion into a career. “If I’d had this mindset at 18,” he muses, “I would’ve been successful already.” Even though Cris Cola was later to the party, he’s here to stay and make a name for himself. His music has a powerful quality to it, transcending race and age to start a conversation about personal and worldly things that weigh heavily on his mind and heart. Cris Cola writes about his personal perspective, but also speaks to cultural and societal issues as well. In a social climate rife with racial disparity and crime, Cola is dismayed – his community needs help, and is turning to all the wrong people and places looking for answers. Much of the music is angry, and perhaps rightfully so, but Cola suggests that his community needs to band together to create positive change and intelligent discussion. “We should, as a culture and as a people, come together. We need to have a better message within the music. There’s a lot of stuff going on, but at the same time we’re our own worst enemy.” His single, “Going Insane,” was recorded in the beginning of 2015 and it speaks to Cola’s frustrating feelings about the world around him. Friends facing legal troubles and arrests, family issues, disloyalty and heartache led him to feel like he was “going insane” as the song suggests. His music is, as he calls it, “good riding music. You can play in the car and forget about everything else. It’s reality. Some of the stuff I say, you might already be thinking about.” Cris Cola is giving a voice to the unheard and is a refreshing departure from run-of-the-mill music. He’s ready to be heard, and never willing to be put in a box. CRIS COLA IS REPRESENTED BY J.T. PRODUCTIONS/RECORDS, LLC FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT: JT Productions – Records, LLC – Memphis, TN \| (901) 219-4527 nineteen + eight =	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2764
__label__wiki	0.774943	0.774943	The One Show takes a look inside an Access unit with surprising results Were you watching the One Show on BBC 1 earlier this week? If so you would have seen Matt and Alex introduce a segment about an Access Self Storage facility! As part of a new series for the popular teatime show, Britain’s ‘most intriguing storage units’ are being opened up to see what’s inside. The One Show travelled to our store in Camberley, Surrey, to take a look around our 44,000sq ft storage facility and its more than 500 different storage units. With hundreds of homeowners and businesses side by side, there are more than a few stories to tell. Darren Mimms, the manager of Access Self Storage Camberley, told the One Show of a particular story that really stood out. “The most unusual thing I’ve heard about is a customer that had an interest in the dark arts [and] voodoo, and to be honest the staff at that store didn’t go anywhere the unit for a while afterwards,” he said. Yet there is one rather odd use of one of our storage units that has a very noble cause behind it – and that’s what the One Show was looking into. At our Camberley facility, Ray Edwards uses a large storage unit to house his vast collection of second-hand limbs. Ray, who is a quad-amputee, brings limbs together from across the country to help amputees in third-world countries that don’t have the same level of healthcare and support that we enjoy in the UK. Having lived as an amputee for many years, Ray set up Limbcare in 2010 to support amputees in the UK, but quickly expanded to bring help and support to those in poor countries. As Limbcare grew so did the amount of limbs that Ray and charity co-founder Barry were dealing with; Barry was keeping most of the limbs at home and even in his car. Since moving into an Access Self Storage unit the charity has gone from strength to strength and will continue working with Access as they continue to grow. Access in the Community	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2767
__label__wiki	0.928832	0.928832	Crown Street Methwold Thetford Church of England Diocese of Ely Methwold St. George`s Church is a Grade One Listed Building, situated in the middle of a conservation area. The first church was built on the site in the 1200`s. It was a Gothic “Decorated” church. Within the first 100 years the body of the church was destroyed by fire and the present nave, with its enlarged aisles was built. The original east walls of the “Decorated” aisles are incorporated in the present ones. The only parts of the original church to survive are the chancel, the chancel arch and the tower. The east window still displays the original tracery. During the rebuilding of the nave in the 1400’s, Gothic “perpendicular” windows were inserted in the side walls of the chancel and the ground floor of the tower. At the same time, an octagonal corona and a long, thin spire were built on the tower. The design was probably inspired by the belfry of Bruges . When the Bruges spire burned down, it left the spire and corona of Methwold unique in the world. English Heritage recently contributed 60% to the cost of extensive repairs to the stonework of the tower, corona and spire. The church contains many carved works on the stonework and the opinion is that half were carved by a conventional, ecclesiastic carver, the others by an irreverant joker. A lot of fun can be had when studying the carvings carefully. The tower used to contain six bells, four of which date back to 1630 and the other two from 1778. The tenor bell weighs over 12 cwt. In 1999 these bells and two new ones were rehung and dedicated in time for the Millennium celebrations and are now rung regularly after forty years of silence. The church clock is a fine example of 17th century workmanship and has an unusual continental style pin-wheel escapement. An interesting feature of the clock is the spring which supports the pendulum — this is an ordinary kitchen knife (complete with handle) which was fitted by Mr Fred Merrick in about 1934 and still works perfectly. The clock has ticked away contentedly to itself virtually undisturbed for over three hundred years, but sadly in 1999 the clock had its weights and most of its winding gear removed and replaced by two electric motors. In doing this the clock has been robbed of much of its unique character. In the north aisle is a brass of Sir Adam de Clifton which has a sad history. Legend has it that in 1680 a rogue sexton sold Sir Adam`s brass to a passing tinker. Eventually the tinker was found and the parts of the brass which had not been sold were recovered, only to rest in the parish chest for two centuries. In 1860 the new incumbent John Denny Gedge, with some help, remounted the brass on the wall where he now stands minus various parts. After many years on the church floor the Bells were re-hung after structural repairs to the tower and in time for the millennium celebrations. We have a dedicated award winning team of ringers. Sundays at 9.30am ST. GEORGE’S TODAY The church is still in the centre of the village both as an iconic building and place of worship. The regular congregation are very active and the beautiful building is in constant use for both worship and the usual church related activities plus variuos concerts and fund-raising events.. St George’s is in the Diocese of Ely and is one of a group of eight churches, the others being; St Andrew's Barton Bendish, St Mary's Beachamwell with Shingham, All Saints Boughton, St Margaret’s Wereham, St Andrew’s West Dereham, Christ Church Whittington and All Saints Wretton with Stoke Ferry. We run a Family Messy Church on Saturday afternoons every three months and an Adult Messy Church on Saturday mornings about every six weeks. The Friends of St. Georges is a group formed to assist and coordinate the upkeep of the church’s structure and look after it’s interests for generations to come.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2768
__label__cc	0.523929	0.476071	Sep 21, 2016 \| Blog Here, Caroline Fiennes from Giving Evidence shares findings from a new study into evidence use in non-profit services for mental health. UK non-profits delivering mental health services are not great at producing or using scientific evidence. This is the main finding of a new study by Giving Evidence. We interviewed 12 such organisations to understand their ‘evidence system’, i.e., how evidence is: Synthesized Shared, both ‘outbound’ from them and ‘inbound’ to them – and stored. These nonprofits talked of their growing interest in being evidence-based and focusing on impact (and we don’t doubt them) but in practice it’s not happening consistently. Some charities said that they struggle to find and use external research about what is effective in treating or preventing mental health conditions when designing their programmes. One reason given is the difficulty of accessing, interpreting and applying academic / independent research – for example, much academic research is behind paywalls, so charity staff sometimes resort to sneaking into their former universities to read it, and certainly much of it is pretty unintelligible to non-researchers. Another is the claim that there isn’t much research which is relevant, although that claim is disputed by some experts and researchers. However, charities delivering mental health services seem laudably interested in the views of their service users. Three-quarters of the charities we interviewed regularly collect user feedback, and over half have done so on a large scale. Evaluation research About half of these organisations are producing (or funding production of) impact evaluations, i.e., investigations of the causal effects of their interventions, and many of these seem to be simple pre/post studies, which are open to considerable errors. It may be just as well that not all of them are producing such evaluations, because doing unbiased evaluation research is a specialism which most service delivery organisations don’t have. Instead, they should (we would argue) be using reliable research from elsewhere, which few are. One charity said that: Evidence for us is what our users say works…that is enough for us This concerns us, because the human mind is often misled about what works and only rigorous research can reveal the reality. Happily some of the non-profits which are involved in producing evaluation research are doing so in partnership with reputable research institutions. Undervalued and underfunded? Sadly some charities we spoke to seem to be being forced to produce low quality research. Several told us that funders and commissioners require ‘evaluations’ of services but only put towards them budgets too small to allow for reliable research (e.g., with adequate sample size). Most were only £5-10k, and a few were £20-30k. For example, one charity said that is has dozens such budgets a year, which is very frustrating because individually, those budgets only allow for research that is essentially pointless, but collectively they could enable something insightful. Adding to the knowledge pool? About half of these charities are producing the kind of research or impact evaluations which could be useful to other organisations. Plus, reportedly, “every contract specifies different outcomes, which makes it a nightmare to aggregate”(charity interviewee) and also prevents comparisons. We didn’t have resource to look at the quality of that research, i.e., to see whether it is reliable and useful. However, dissemination of that is weak, and that’s not really the charities’ fault; there’s no incentive for them to do so, and few channels anyway. One charity said that part of the reason they don’t publish much is that: We don’t want competitors to pick this [our intervention] up. We have encountered this in other sectors and this is a major problem (not of the charities’ making). On the upside, amongst the charities that do produce this kind of material, we found no evidence of selective publication: we had thought we might find that material which is flattering is more often published and unflattering material isn’t, which creates publication bias, but we did not find this. Brutal under-funding of mental health This is all in a context of brutal under-funding. Mental health accounts for 23% of the UK disease burden, but gets only 13% of the NHS budget and 5% of the UK health research budget. Moreover, charitable giving to mental health is very low: it’s only £714 for every adult with mental health problems whereas donkeys get £2,047 each. Using evidence-based mental health research to find out what works Giving Evidence has long said that most charities should not produce causal research, which requires expertise that they don’t have and don’t need, but rather should get good at hearing from their target users about what they want and think of what they’re getting, and then finding and using causal research about what works in addressing it. That seems to be the case for charities delivering mental health services. Some organisations help with this, such as the Centre for Mental Health, and the Mental Elf. We recommend that mental health charities work towards (and are funded and incentivised to work towards) finding and applying the relevant rigorous research, and working with specialist researchers to produce research where none already exists. We expect to work with some mental health charities on this. → What works in research use? from our Science of Using Science project. Caroline Fiennes Biography Caroline founded and directs Giving Evidence. She is one of the few people whose work has appeared in both OK! Magazine and The Lancet. She is on boards of the US Center for Effective Philanthropy, of the world’s largest charity rating agency Charity Navigator, The Cochrane Collaboration (specifically Evidence Aid). She is the Corporation of London’s City Philanthropy Coach, and writes a monthly column in Third Sector magazine. Caroline was named a Philanthropy Advisor of the Year by Spears Wealth Management. More information about Giving Evidence is at http://www.giving-evidence.com/about PreviousWALES The Wellbeing of Future Generations in Wales NextHow are we doing? ONS update personal wellbeing indicators and figures at Local Authority level Embedding Wellbeing in Northern Ireland: participating local authorities announced What can we learn about wellbeing and social capital from South Australia? Call for evidence: Learning and Wellbeing	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2772
__label__cc	0.697567	0.302433	Agility’s Management Building Awarded Green Building Certification State-of-the-art building receives prestigious LEED Silver certification KUWAIT CITY – Nov. 14, 2017 – Agility, a leading global logistics provider, has been awarded the LEED Silver certification for its new environment-friendly management building in Sulaibiya, Kuwait. The LEED rating system, developed by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), is the foremost program for buildings, homes and communities that are designed, constructed, maintained and operated for improved environmental and human health performance. The Agility Management Building, which was finalized in January 2017, was built with state-of-the-art sustainability features that maximizes the use of natural light while improving overall cooling efficiency and energy use. The 834 sq.m. building is equipped with solar thermal panels, which provide the energy needed to operate the air-conditioning units. The building also includes triple-pane windows that are covered in electro chromic coating, to adjust tint in response to external conditions, allowing light to pass through while blocking heat and increasing energy efficiency. Tarek Sultan, Vice Chairman and CEO, Agility said, “Responsibility is ingrained in Agility’s corporate DNA, and we take carbon footprint reduction very seriously. Creating a better environment for our talent is an important component of our overall sustainability efforts.” Sultan added: “This achievement is the result of years of collaboration not only with our planners, architects, and contractors, but also in consultation with our employees. We hope to replicate this model in future infrastructure projects.” Mahesh Ramanujam, President and CEO, USGBC, said: “LEED is a transformative tool that ensures a building is designed and operating to achieve high performance in key areas of human and environmental health while enhancing the triple bottom line – people, planet and profit. By prioritizing sustainability, the Agility project is leading the way in their industry and helping USGBC continue toward our vision of a sustainable built environment within a generation.” In Kuwait, Agility is one of only four certified projects, and one of 38 registered LEED projects in the country. Incorporating green building practices in the construction industry is a critical way for Kuwaiti companies to help meet the country’s sustainability targets. More than 38,600 commercial projects have been LEED certified across 167 countries. LEED is the most widely used third-party verification for green buildings, with around 2.2 million square feet certified daily. LEED-certified buildings are resource efficient, using less water and energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The LEED Silver certification is one of a number of environmental projects and achievements for the company. The Agility 2016 Corporate Social Responsibility Report showcases its commitment to building a greener supply chain, including sustainable construction and upgrades to warehouses and logistics facilities, and achieving ISO 14001 certification in 19 countries; 48% of Agility employees work in an ISO 14001 certified site. Download the full Agility 2016 Corporate Social Responsibility Report here.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2777
__label__wiki	0.568249	0.568249	Creating Opportunities through Service: Mrs. Denise Jacobs Denise and Bryon Jacobs Assistant Professor of Business Denise Jacobs first set foot on the Purpose Road in 1982, and she has been a member of the Alice Lloyd College family ever since. Denise graduated in 1986 with a degree in Business Administration and went on to get her MBA at Morehead State. She continually believes that the mission of Alice Lloyd College changed her life forever. “I don’t think my siblings and I would have been able to attend school, were it not for Alice Lloyd. We were able to get Academic scholarships and made it through with no debt, which was at one time unheard of for working-class families in Appalachia. The opportunities here are very limited.” One of Professor Jacobs’ greatest motivators is creating further opportunities for students like her. After acquiring her MBA, Denise returned to this region to continue the tradition of ALC graduates serving their mountain communities. “ALC was willing to help me out if I was willing to work hard and improve myself in the process. Those lessons really stuck with me. I’ve always found work ethic to be a very noble and honorable trait. It gives one the confidence and dignity needed for success.” Professor Jacobs lists a strong work ethic as one of the most admirable qualities she finds in her husband of 30 years, Byron Jacobs. Denise and Byron met during the days as undergraduates on the Purpose Road, and have since raised three bright children: Brynnan, Colton, and Connor. Denise, Brynnan, Colton, Connor, and Byron Jacobs Between working full time and raising a family, organization and efficiency come out in everything Professor Jacobs does. She also channels these skills into the community outreach program known as Power-Up for Nutrition that she directs at ALC saying, “I tend to be very left-brained, and I think that can be a good thing when it comes to organizing efforts to give back what has been given to us. Some of the kids at Jones Fork Elementary here in Knott County are food insecure. They were saving snacks from lunchtime at school to take home and share with their younger siblings because they don’t always have food at home. We noticed some kids at church were doing the same thing during youth group events as well, and I knew something could be done.” Professor Jacobs and her colleagues in the Joe Craft School of Business give out over 30 bags of food to elementary students that are food insecure every weekend. Denise also rallies support for the Power-Up for Nutrition Program from the students she sponsors through the ALC chapter of Phi Beta Lambda. In addition to their philanthropic efforts, Professor Jacobs has made it her mission to sponsor Phi Beta Lambda students on trips to Chicago, Washington D.C., and California. When she isn’t organizing efforts to better our Appalachian region, Professor Jacobs enjoys “cozy mystery” stories and travel to historic sites, including Colonial Williamsburg. The Revolutionary War, she says is of particular interest to her and her family. Denise is also something of a baker, her family particularly enjoys the sweet desserts she creates. With bounteous grace and commitment to a life of service, Professor Jacobs is a reminder of what it means to graduate from Alice Lloyd College. Students, like Mrs. Jacobs, emerge from their time on the Purpose Road as charitable citizens who remain faithful to the mission of the school and their fellow man.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2787
__label__wiki	0.964752	0.964752	The Road to Victory for Otto Pérez Molina, Guatemala's President-Elect BY Nic Wirtz \| November 9, 2011 Breaking down Otto Pérez Molina's defeat of Manuel Baldizón as well as the circumstances surrounding the election. Citizens of the Guatemalan department of Quiché wait their turn to vote in the September 11 primary. Photo: Courtesy of Spot Us. Homepage Photo: Courtesy of Flickr user Surizar. With all votes counted within a couple of hours of polls closing on Sunday, November 6, retired general Otto Pérez Molina was confirmed the new president of Guatemala, beating rival Manuel Baldizón by 53.74 percent to 46.26 percent. This year’s election was the second-largest presidential runoff turnout in Guatemala’s history. By the end of the night, Pérez Molina and his Patriot Party secured 2,300,874 votes to Baldizón and his LIDER party, with 1,998,819. The largest turnout for a second-round election was in 1985, at 65.3 percent, when democratic elections returned to the country for the first time since the coup against President Jacobo Árbenz in 1954. But last weekend was not far behind, with a turnout of 60.8 percent. For much of the day the turnout was projected to be around 50 percent, with some departments such as Escuintla reporting it to be 40 percent in mid-afternoon. Pleas from the media, the Tribunal Supremo Electoral (TSE) and the candidates themselves saw a late flood of voters, many of whom were motivated by the polarized options for president, as well as fear, civic responsibility and individual gain. Both parties were accused of offering coupons to exchange for building materials or fertilizer and money for votes. Pérez Molina will be the first former general to be democratically elected as president when he assumes office in January 2012 and his vice-president, Roxana Baldetti, will be Guatemala's first ever woman to hold that role. Baldetti described herself as "a woman committed to the women of Guatemala. Starting today it's a new life for Guatemalan women." A former journalist for Univision’s Primer Impacto crime program, she also worked with the United Nations at a national level promoting women’s rights. In the 1990s she was appointed by then-President Jorge Antonio Serrano Elías to the foreign ministry. At the turn of the century she helped Pérez Molina to form Partido Patriota (PP) before being elected to Congress in 2004. Since 2009 she has been the general secretary of the party as well as their leader in Congress. “Baldetti has that authoritarian characteristic that identifies strong leaders in this country,” said Álvaro Velasquez, political professor and researcher at Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO). “It shouldn’t be a novelty that she will be vice-president but in a traditional country like ours it is.” The front-runner since the beginning of the election campaign, Pérez Molina has followed the historical path to the Guatemalan presidency. In 2007, he lost the second-round vote to incumbent President Álvaro Colom. In a country with a population of more than 14 million, winning Guatemala City—with over 2 million inhabitants—was critical for Pérez Molina's success. Had he failed to win the capital and lost Quetzaltenango, the country's third biggest city, the election result could have been far different. "The alliances Otto Pérez Molina made in the capital were to his benefit," said Velasquez. "Baldizón's alliances were weaker because they only had two months to organize." Baldizón enjoyed a rapid rise in his profile since this past May, when he was polling just 4 percent of the vote. However, his decision to make the outer regions of the country his power base may have backfired. Reports suggest that had Baldizón won both cities he would have become the next president with a vote breakdown of 1.9 million to 1.7 million. “Most of [Baldizón’s] votes came from rural areas so maybe this was a mistake,” said Velasquez. “Where he campaigned, he won. He might not have won the presidency but he won a lot of supporters.” Hailing from Pétén in the far north of the country, Baldizón’s policies such as Bono 15, an extra monthly salary and promises to improve social programs initiated by Sandra Torres, the ex-wife of President Colom, resonated with the poor that mainly live in Guatemala’s outlying departments. The parties that he allied with also had their power bases mainly in rural areas; the downside of this strategy was ceding urban regions to his opponent. Pérez Molina’s power base was in the country’s major cities, where people are more inclined to be interested in the presidential race. "I voted for Otto. The other candidate does not know Antigua at all. He spent all his time in the countryside," said shop assistant Fidelia Tecún de Acajabón. For international observers, the relative peaceful nature of the second round was cause for celebration. The TSE identified areas that had the potential for conflict after analyzing first-round incidents and deployed a heavy police and army presence. The main incidents involved journalists. The first saw a Salvadorian photographer get too close to President Colom, which resulted in his security detail stepping in. The photographer ended up in hospital with rib injuries. In the second, a journalist for national TV channel Guatevision was roughed up by the bodyguards of Unidad Nacional de la Esperanza Congressman Mario Rivera in El Quiché. Two civil national police agents have been arrested under suspicion of failing to intervene in the alleged assault. “In the first round it was a matter of one or two reports per minute, problems here, problems there, violence in some of the centers,” said Carlos Ponce, coordinator general of Red Latinoamericana y del Caribe international election observers. Following recommendations made by various groups, the TSE made efforts to improve the organization, training and quality of electoral materials. “We never expected that they would be ready to change the whole system,” added Ponce. Despite reports of “cash-for-votes” schemes, there was no repeat of the spontaneous riots and deaths from the first round. These improvements, coupled with enhanced quality of ballot papers saw election observers in Guatemala City turn their attention to events in Nicaragua, whose citizens also went to the polls on Sunday. The main issue that dominated this election was security, even among many Baldizón supporters for whom his promises of improved social programs and economic incentives were enticing. As a former military intelligence officer, Pérez Molina had promised to use this experience to disrupt the organized crime groups in Guatemala. "The government staff will work 60 to 70 percent of the time on safety," said Pérez Molina during his victory speech. "I can promise that you will see a difference." This will come as welcome news to Guatemalans still coming to grips with the aftereffects of the 36-year civil war and the increasing control of the country by narcotrafficking cartels. "I know he's not going to do miracles but if he reduces the violence and the criminality, he will at least have made a little difference," said psychologist Maria Eugenia Mejia Antigua Guatemala. Baldetti will be a central figure to PP’s plans as the party plans to face the problem of the lack of an overall majority in Congress. Baldizón will have many opportunities to influence the next four years with a congressional alliance and having seemingly come from nowhere to 2 million votes in five months. "From today I will be the leader of the opposition," said Baldizón in his concession speech. “We will be the guardians of Pérez Molina's promises." With key alliances, support in the city, the promise of an iron fist against crime and impunity and the weight of tradition, Pérez Molina also had one major advantage. "Pérez Molina won in a country swept by violence and where he had the support of the financial conservative powers. For them he was the only option," Velasquez said. Like what you've read? Subscribe to AQ for more. Tags: Guatemala, Otto Perez Molina, Roxana Baldetti, Manuel Baldizon Meet the Candidates: Guatemala Why War Criminals Could Walk Free in Guatemala	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2789
__label__wiki	0.580463	0.580463	NAWL Annual Meeting & Awards Luncheon NYU International Taxation Conference 12th National Forum on Defending and Managing Automotive Product Liability Litigation Advisories February 27, 2018 Securities Litigation / Cybersecurity Preparedness & Response / Securities Law Advisory: SEC Adopts Statement and Interpretive Guidance on Public Company Cybersecurity Disclosures Cara M. Peterman Lauren Tapson Macon Minute Read The Securities and Exchange Commission has released new guidance on cybersecurity issues for public companies. A cross-practice team from our Securities Litigation, Cybersecurity Preparedness & Response, and Securities Law Groups examines the new guidance and considers the effects of the SEC’s expectations. Foreshadowing increased action Comparing the 2018 Guidance to 2011 The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a press release announcing its unanimous approval of a statement by SEC Chairman Jay Clayton and interpretive guidance (the “2018 Guidance”) to assist public companies in preparing disclosures about cybersecurity risks and incidents. This is the first interpretive guidance published by the full Commission on the topic of cybersecurity for public companies, and it may foreshadow increased SEC action to protect investors from the potential negative effects of increasingly common large-scale data breaches. The 2018 Guidance formalizes and expands on the SEC staff’s earlier position that cybersecurity risks and incidents may trigger disclosure obligations for public companies. In addition, the 2018 Guidance focuses on (1) the importance of comprehensive cybersecurity policies and procedures that enable public companies to understand the impact and materiality of cybersecurity incidents and facilitate the timely disclosure of such incidents; and (2) the prevention of insider trading in connection with cybersecurity incidents. In 2011, the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance released CF Disclosure Guidance: Topic No. 2 (the “2011 Guidance”), addressing the staff’s views that companies may be required to disclose cybersecurity risks and incidents as part of their existing disclosure obligations. Since 2011, the SEC has issued intermittent informal statements relating to cybersecurity, including in connection with its Cybersecurity Roundtable in 2014 and Chairman Clayton’s September 2017 Statement on Cybersecurity, which disclosed an intrusion into the SEC’s own data systems. Given the SEC’s public focus on cybersecurity issues, it has long been expected that the SEC would issue more formal guidance. In many respects, the 2018 Guidance varies little from the 2011 Guidance and addresses disclosure issues that most public companies have already integrated into their disclosure processes. Among other things, the 2018 Guidance reinforces that companies should consider the materiality of cybersecurity risks and incidents when preparing disclosures. The 2018 Guidance, however, does provide a more comprehensive and detailed view of the SEC’s expectations for public company disclosures. Though the SEC does not expect disclosures to detail circumstances that could “provid[e] a ‘roadmap’ for those who seek to penetrate a company’s security protections,” the SEC does expect companies to make tailored disclosures of cyber risks and incidents that are material to investors, including the associated financial, legal, or reputational consequences of a significant breach. The 2018 Guidance repeatedly emphasizes that required disclosures should be made “timely” and on an ongoing basis. For example, while the SEC understands that some material facts may not be available at the time of the initial disclosure, it emphasizes that “an ongoing internal or external investigation … would not on its own provide a basis for avoiding disclosures of a material cybersecurity incident.” Companies may also have a duty to correct or update a prior disclosure of a cybersecurity risk or incident in certain circumstances. The 2018 Guidance adds specific requirements and suggestions for companies to the 2011 Guidance: Risk factor disclosures should take into consideration past incidents involving “suppliers, customers, competitors, and others” and should include cybersecurity risks “that arise in connection with acquisitions.” To the extent cybersecurity risks are material to a company’s business, the company’s proxy statement disclosure regarding the board’s oversight of risk should include the nature of the board’s role in overseeing cybersecurity risks in particular. Companies should assess whether their disclosure controls and procedures relating to cybersecurity ensure that relevant information is reported “up the corporate ladder to enable senior management to make disclosure decisions and certifications and to facilitate policies and procedures designed to prohibit directors, officers, and other corporate insiders from trading on” material nonpublic information about cybersecurity. Executive management certifications regarding the design and effectiveness of disclosure controls and procedures should consider whether cybersecurity risks and incidents pose a risk to the company’s ability to gather and report information for SEC filings and whether such deficiencies would render disclosure controls and procedures ineffective. Companies should consider how their code of ethics and insider trading policies take into account and prevent insider trading related to cybersecurity risks and incidents, and whether trading restrictions may be appropriate for insiders while companies are investigating and assessing significant cybersecurity incidents. Companies are expected to have policies and procedures to ensure that any disclosures of material nonpublic information related to cybersecurity risks and incidents are not made selectively in violation of Regulation FD. The 2018 Guidance is effective upon publication in the Federal Register, which typically occurs within 4–7 days of release. Although most of the topics covered in the 2018 Guidance will not come as a surprise to public company counsel, officers, and directors, it is somewhat unsettling that the release of the SEC’s formal views on these topics comes while most public companies are finalizing their annual reports. Moreover, several focal points of the 2018 Guidance, such as timely disclosure, insider trading, executive management certifications, and the admonition that the SEC is carefully monitoring cybersecurity disclosures, in combination with the SEC’s recent investigations arising out of the data breaches at Equifax Inc. and Yahoo Inc., suggest that the SEC will not soon divert its attention—and its investigative and enforcement powers—from the cybersecurity arena. 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__label__wiki	0.729713	0.729713	New York Law School Art Leonard Observations Posts Tagged ‘King v. Governor of New Jersey’ Supreme Court Rejects Appeals from Gay Death Row Inmate and Conversion Therapy Practitioners Posted on: April 15th, 2019 by Art Leonard No Comments The U.S. Supreme Court announced on April 15 that it will not hear an appeal by gay death row inmate Charles Rhines, who contends that the jury that chose death over life in prison without parole in his murder trial in 1993 was tainted by homophobic statements by some of the jurors during deliberations. Rhines v. Young, No. 18-8029 (filed Feb. 15, 2019). At the same time, the Court announced that it will not take up the question whether the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals, based in Philadelphia, should reconsider its 2014 decision to reject a constitutional challenge to a New Jersey law prohibiting licensed health care providers from providing “conversion therapy” to minors. King v. Murphy, No. 18-1073 (filed Feb. 11, 2019). Both of these petitions for review were considered long shots at best. The South Dakota Attorney General’s Office filed a short reply to Rhines’ petition, insisting that its own investigation of the jury – sparked by his contentions – had failed to substantiate his claim that the jurors sentenced him to death because he is gay. There is no doubt that a juror joked that Rhines, as a gay man, would enjoy being locked up for life in an all-male environment where he would be able to mingle with other prisoners and enjoy sexual contacts, as even interviews conducted by the AG’s office confirmed this. Interviews of jurors by Rhines’ lawyers, conducted long after the trial, produced a range of recollections, ranging from a recollection that the juror in question was challenged for his remarks and apologized, to a recollection that there was considerable discussion of Rhines’ sexuality, which had been a topic of testimony during the penalty phase of the trial, when a family member testified that Rhines had struggled with his sexuality. The jury sent a note to the trial judge during penalty deliberations, posing a series of questions about the conditions under which Rhines would be serving if he were sentenced to life without parole. Some of the questions inspired concerns by Rhines’ defense attorney that the jurors were inappropriately taking his sexual orientation into account in making their decision. The trial judge refused to respond to the questions, instructing the jurors to rely on the instructions he had previously given them. Rhines has spent a quarter-century on death row since his conviction and sentencing, seeking to get courts to set aside the death sentence based on a variety of theories, but his hopes were spurred by a Supreme Court decision last year, holding that a court could breach the usual confidentiality of jury deliberations when there was evidence of inappropriate race discrimination by a jury. Had the Court taken Rhines’ case, it would have provided an opportunity to determine whether juror homophobia should receive the same constitutional evaluation as jury racism. Unfortunately, the federal courts in South Dakota and the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals found that this issue was not raised early enough in the appellate process, and that Rhines’ attempt to bring a fuller account of the juror interviews before the courts came too late. As a result, no court has ever considered Rhines’ evidence of jury homophobia on the merits. The Supreme Court had turned down a prior attempt by Rhines last year, while a prior appeal was pending before the 8th Circuit. After the 8th Circuit rejected his latest attempt, Rhines filed a new petition, but in vain. Publicity to his plight resulted in the submission of three briefs in support of his petition, by a Law Professors group, the NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund, and the American Civil Liberties Union. Although the Court granted the motions to receive those briefs, it rejected Rhines’ petition without comment. The conversion therapy petition posed a novel question to the Court. Should it order a federal appeals court to reopen a decision that had received unfavorable mention in a recent Supreme Court opinion in an unrelated case, when the Supreme Court itself had years ago rejected a petition to review the appeals court decision? Conversion therapy practitioners filed a constitutional challenge to the New Jersey law banning conversion therapy, claiming it violated their constitutional free speech rights. The federal district court and the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals both rejected their argument. King v. Governor of New Jersey, 767 F. 3d 216 (3rd Cir. 2014), cert. denied, 135 S. Ct. 2048 (2015). The speech involved was “professional speech,” said the court of appeals, and thus entitled to less protection than political or literary speech. The 3rd Circuit’s ruling reached the same result as a ruling by the San Francisco-based 9th Circuit in rejecting an earlier challenge to California’s conversion therapy ban, but the 9th Circuit had opined that the regulation of therapy was not subject to 1st Amendment challenge because it was a regulation of health care practice, not specifically aimed at speech as such. These distinctions did not affect the outcome of the two cases. Either way, the courts found that the state’s legitimate concerns about protecting minors from a practiced that he been condemned by leading professional associations outweighed the practitioners’ free speech claims. However, in a new case arising from California last year, Family and Life Advocates v. Becerra, 138 S. Ct. 2361 (June 26, 2018), the Supreme Court found fault with a state law that required licensed clinics providing services to pregnant women to advise them of the availability of abortion services from the state. The Supreme Court found this to be “compelled speech” subject to the most demanding level of judicial review, “strict scrutiny.” The state’s argument defending this requirement relied on the conversion therapy cases, arguing that the speech in question was “professional speech” subject to a less demanding level of judicial review. Writing for the Court, Justice Clarence Thomas rejected that argument, and he specifically mentioned the 3rd Circuit’s ruling with disfavor. Even though the Supreme Court had refused a petition to review the 3rd Circuit’s ruling in 2015, the conversion therapy practitioners asked the 3rd Circuit to reconsider its ruling in light of the Supreme Court’s negative comments about the earlier decision. The 3rd Circuit refused, and this petition for Supreme Court review was filed on February 11. Counsel for the respondents – New Jersey’s Attorney General and Garden State Equality, which had intervened as a co-defendant in the original case – thought so little of the petitioners’ chances that they did not file briefs in opposition. Their confidence was justified. It was never likely that the Supreme Court would order a circuit court to reopen a case from years ago that had already been denied direct review by the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court’s April 15 announcements, deriving from its April 12 conference, failed to include any mention of five other pending cases related to LGBT rights that are being closely watched. The Court will hold another conference to discuss pending petitions on April 18 (a day earlier than normal because of the Good Friday holiday on April 19), so there may be word on April 22 whether the Court will address sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination issues next term, as well as another “gay wedding cake” case. Liberty Counsel Revives Assault on New Jersey Conversion Therapy Ban Posted on: February 12th, 2019 by Art Leonard No Comments Usually the U.S. Supreme Court’s refusal to review a lower court decision puts an end to the case, but Liberty Counsel, a right-wing religious group that represents psychologists in New Jersey who want to provide conversion therapy to “change” people from gay to straight, has seized upon an opening created by a U.S. Supreme Court decision from last June to revive their constitutional attack on New Jersey’s law prohibiting licensed professional counselors from providing such therapy to minors. On February 11, the organization petitioned the Supreme Court to effectively reopen the case. King v. Governor of New Jersey & Garden State Equality. Governor Chris Christie signed the measure into law on August 19, 2013. Liberty Counsel promptly filed suit on behalf of two psychologists and their patients, as well as the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH), and the American Association of Christian Counselors, claiming that the measure violated the constitutional rights of plaintiffs. U.S. District Judge Freda L. Wolfson granted the state’s motion for summary judgment, finding no constitutional violation (see 981 F. Supp. 2d 296), and the plaintiffs fared no better before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, based in Newark, which upheld Judge Wolfson’s ruling on September 11, 2014 (see 767 F. 3d 216). Wolfson found the measure to be a regulation of professional conduct, only incidentally affecting speech. As such, she held that the challenge should be rejected as long as the legislature had a rational basis for enacting the law. She found that the legislative record about the inefficacy and harm of such therapy was sufficient to meet the test. On appeal, the three-judge panel disagreed with Judge Wolfson to the extent of finding that the ban as applied to “talk therapy” is a content-based regulation of speech, not just a regulation of conduct with an incidental effect on speech. But the appeals court unanimously rejected the plaintiffs’ argument that the statute was consequently subject to the strict scrutiny test, under which it would be presumed to be unconstitutional unless New Jersey could prove that it was narrowly tailored to achieve a compelling state interest. Instead, wrote Circuit Judge D. Brooks Smith for the panel, the speech involved in providing conversion therapy is “professional speech,” subject to state regulation. As such, the court ruled, the state could prevail under the less demanding “heightened scrutiny” test by showing that the ban substantially advanced an important state interest, and that the legislative record was sufficient to uphold the law. Liberty Counsel petitioned the Supreme Court for review. That petition was denied on May 4, 2015 (see 135 S. Ct. 2048). The Supreme Court also denied a petition to review a similar decision by the San Francisco-based 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in a case brought by, among others, Dr. David Pickup, in which that court rejected a similar challenge to California’s ban on conversion therapy. (Dr. Pickup is also a plaintiff in the case challenging a conversion therapy ban in Tampa, Florida, about which we blogged earlier.) Judge Wolfson relied on the 9th Circuit’s ruling in finding that conversion therapy statutes can be upheld as within the traditional state power to regulate the conduct of licensed professionals. More than a dozen jurisdictions have since passed such bans, and attempts to challenge them in the courts have similarly been unsuccessful. But the Supreme Court may have upset this trend by its ruling on June 26, 2018, in National Institute of Family and Life Advocates (NIFLA) v. Becerra, 138 S. Ct. 2361. NIFLA challenged a California law that required licensed pregnancy-related clinics to inform their clients about the availability of publicly-funded family-planning services, including contraception and abortions, and non-licensed facilities to provide notices stating that they were not licensed by the state. The Supreme Court agreed with NIFLA that the statute violated the 1st Amendment protection for freedom of speech by compelling the plaintiffs to speak the government’s message. In defending the statute, California relied on the conversion therapy decisions from the 3rd and 9th Circuits. This provoked Justice Clarence Thomas, writing for the 5-4 majority, to reject the idea that “professional speech” in the context of regulated, licensed professions was entitled to any lesser constitutional protection than other speech. After summarizing these and other cases, Thomas wrote: “But this Court has not recognized ‘professional speech’ as a separate category of speech. Speech is not unprotected merely because it is uttered by ‘professionals.’ This court has ‘been reluctant to mark of new categories of speech for diminished constitutional protection.’” Thomas went on to write that there were only two circumstances in which the Supreme Court had provided lesser protection to “professional speech”: “First, our precedents have applied more deferential review to some laws that require professionals to disclose factual, noncontroversial information in their ‘commercial speech.’ Second, under our precedents, States may regulate professional conduct, even though that conduct incidentally involves speech.” Thus, at least by implication, a majority of the Supreme Court ruled last June that states passing conversion therapy bans will have to meet the demanding strict scrutiny test when they are challenged under the 1st Amendment. Unless, of course, they can show that this is really a regulation of professional conduct with incidental effect on speech, an approach that worked in the 9th Circuit. Although Thomas’s comments in NIFLA suggest this may be a difficult task, it is not necessarily impossible. Reacting to the Supreme Court’s NIFLA ruling, Liberty Counsel jumped into action to try to revive its challenge to the New Jersey law. First, it filed a Motion with the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals, demanding that it recall the Mandate it had issued to the District Court in 2014 to dismiss the challenge to the statute. Liberty Counsel argued that the Supreme Court’s ruling had “abrogated” the 3rd Circuit’s decision, thus the 3rd Circuit should acknowledge that its 2014 ruling was erroneous and correct the situation by “recalling” its Mandate. Although Liberty Counsel does not explicitly state what would come next, presumably this would mean reversing the District Court’s grant of summary judgment to the state and resetting the case for argument under the strict scrutiny test. The 3rd Circuit denied this Motion without a hearing or a written opinion. Undaunted, Liberty Counsel then sought rehearing en banc (by the full 3rd Circuit bench), which was also denied, on November 13, 2018. Liberty Counsel petitioned the Supreme Court on February 11, arguing that the 3rd Circuit “abused its discretion” by refusing to take action based on the Supreme Court’s “abrogation” of the 3rd Circuit’s prior opinion. Liberty Counsel cites numerous cases in which it claims federal courts of appeals have “recalled” their mandates from lower courts after a Supreme Court decision in a similar case has rejected the reasoning underlying their earlier decision. Liberty Counsel argues that the current situation is particularly stark because the Supreme Court has not only rejected the reasoning of the earlier case, but has cited and quoted from the earlier decision while doing so. On the other hand, Justice Thomas did not use the term “abrogate” and his opinion in NIFLA recognizes that there may be circumstances in which state regulation of professional speech may be constitutional. The 9th Circuit’s reasoning in the Pickup case, focused on the regulation of professional conduct rather than speech, may be such an instance, and the 3rd Circuit’s case could be reconsidered under such a standard. In this case, Liberty Counsel may be following the lead of West Publishing Company, which operates the Westlaw legal research system. If one finds the 3rd Circuit’s decision in Westlaw, one sees, in bold red above the citation of the case, the phrase “Abrogated by National Institute of Family and Life Advocates v. Becerra, U.S., June 26, 2018” and the characterization “Severe Negative Treatment.” Liberty Counsel’s petition, a bit disingenuously, assumes this means that the New Jersey law is unconstitutional, but all it really means is that the 3rd Circuit applied too lenient a standard in ruling on the case and should have applied the strict scrutiny test to be in line with the Supreme Court ruling in NIFLA. In its argument to the Supreme Court, Liberty Counsel contends that failing to grant the petition and to require the 3rd Circuit to “recall” its mandate will have harmful rippling effects throughout the nation. It points to the steady progression of new state and local laws that have been enacted in reliance on the “incorrect” decisions by the 3rd and 9th Circuits, which it asserts will “chill” the ability of conversion therapy practitioners to “offer” this “cure” to their patients. In January, U.S. Magistrate Judge Amanda Arnold Sansone relied on the Supreme Court’s NIFLA decision in her report recommending that the U.S. District Court issue a preliminary injunction against the application of the Tampa, Florida, conversion therapy ban to practitioners who provide “talk therapy.” The complaint filed in federal court in Brooklyn last month by Alliance Defending Freedom, challenging New York City’s ordinance, is devised to raise the same arguments. And it is predictable that either ADF or Liberty Counsel will file suit in an attempt to block the new state law enacted last month in New York raising similar arguments. Although Liberty Counsel couches its petition as an attempt to have the court settle a dispute among lower courts about the proper way to respond when one of their decisions is substantially undermined in its reasoning by a subsequent Supreme Court ruling in a similar case, it is at heart an attempt to relitigate the question whether conversion therapy practitioners have a 1st Amendment right to ply their trade free of government restrictions. It is a blatant attempt to get the issue of conversion therapy back before the Supreme Court now that Trump’s appointments have solidified the conservative majority. And, at that, it is a test of science against homophobia and transphobia. 3rd Circuit Rejects Constitutional Challenge to New Jersey’s Ban on “Conversion Therapy” for Gay Minors Posted on: September 12th, 2014 by Art Leonard No Comments A unanimous three-judge panel of the Philadelphia-based U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals decisively rejected a constitutional challenge to a New Jersey law that prohibits licensed therapists from performing “sexual orientation change efforts” (SOCE) — sometimes called “conversion therapy” — on persons under 18 years of age. The court rejected arguments that the law violates the freedom of speech and free exercise of religion of the therapist, in a September 11 opinion by Circuit Judge D. Brooks Smith, who was appointed by George W. Bush. The other judges on the panel were Thomas Vanaskie, appointed by Barack Obama, and Dolores Sloviter, a senior judge appointed by Jimmy Carter. The case is King v. Governor of the State of New Jersey, 2014 U.S. App. LEXIS 17545. The measure was signed into law last year by Governor Chris Christie. It provides that a person who is licensed to provide professional counseling “shall not engage in sexual orientation change efforts with a person under 18 years of age,” such efforts including any attempt to “change a person’s sexual orientation, including, but not limited to, efforts to change behaviors, gender identity, or gender expressions, or to reduce or eliminate sexual or romantic attractions or feelings toward a person of the same gender.” The law is not intended to forbid counseling to assist people in determining whether they should undergo gender reassignment, or counseling intended to assist a person in adjusting to their sexual orientation or gender identity or seeking to avoid unlawful conduct or unsafe sexual practices. The law does not impose any specific penalties, but by expressing public policy against SOCE may provide the basis for professional sanctions, loss of professional license, or perhaps liability towards people harmed by SOCE. The law does not prohibit licensed counselors from expressing their views about such therapy; they are just prohibited from providing the actual therapy. This is one of several lawsuits on the issue of SOCE pending in New Jersey. This case was brought by therapists and organizations supporting their right to perform such therapy, another case was brought by some patients and their parents, and a third, pending in the state court, was brought by some people whose parents signed them up for SOCE and who are seeking damages from the therapists under New Jersey’s consumer protection laws, claiming that the practitioners fraudulently claimed to be able to change their sexual orientation and subjected them to therapy that caused mental and emotional harm. The New Jersey law was modeled on a California statute that had also been unsuccessfully challenged by some therapists. Last year, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled, in a case called Pickup v. Brown, that the California law did not violate the 1st Amendment rights of the therapists. U.S. District Judge Freda Wolfson, following the reasoning of the 9th Circuit decision, ruled similarly in this New Jersey case. The appeals court agreed with Judge Wolfson’s conclusion, but adopted a different analysis of the 1st Amendment free speech issues. Like the 9th Circuit, Judge Wolfson concluded that the statute regulates conduct, not speech, and did not have enough of an “incidental effect” on speech to require any more than a rational basis in order to be upheld. Judge Wolfson’s ruling was premised on the longstanding authority of the government to regulate the provision of health-care through the licensing of health care professionals. She also rejected the therapists’ claim that the law violated their right to free exercise of religion, finding that it was a “neutral law” that never referred to religion or religious beliefs and thus the therapists could not claim a religious exemption, even if there was some incidental burden. As for rationality, Judge Wolfson found that New Jersey had a legitimate interest in protecting minors from harm, and that the legislature considered sufficient evidence about harm. Judge Smith rejected Wolfson’s conclusion that the law only regulates conduct. His analysis was premised on an agreement by all parties that “modern-day SOCE therapy, and that practiced by Plaintiffs in this case, is ‘talk therapy’ that is administered wholly through verbal communication.” In a footnote, he explained that “prior forms of SOCE therapy” had included non-verbal “aversion treatments,” including induced nausea and vomiting or paralysis, electric shocks, or “having the individual snap an elastic band around the wrist when the individual became aroused to same-sex erotic images or thoughts,” but he reported that the plaintiffs considered such techniques “unethical” and had asserted that no ethical licensed professional had used them “in decades.” This was an interesting contention, inasmuch as a recent opinion in the state consumer protection case details plaintiffs’ allegations about some non-verbal therapies that are still used by at least some SOCE practitioners in New Jersey, including the elastic band technique. Be that as it may, the restriction of the plaintiffs’ brand of SOCE to ‘talk therapy’ led the court to conclude that the state was not just regulating conduct. To the court, this appears to be content-based regulation of speech, thus requiring a higher level of judicial review than the deferential rational basis approach. Smith’s opinion devoted several pages of analysis to determining exactly how such speech regulation should be evaluated, before concluding that it should received the same level of protection that is afforded to commercial speech. Political speech enjoys the highest level of protection, and cannot be restricted unless the government show a carefully-tailored rule designed to achieve a compelling interest, usually involving national security or the prevention of imminent criminal acts. Commercial speech, by contrast, can be restricted to advance important governmental interests, such as consumer protection or public health. For example, the government can forbid false advertising or advertising of dangerous products, such as cigarettes or alcoholic beverages. Commercial speech is subject to heightened scrutiny, the standard that the court decided should be applied to the “professional speech” at issue in this case. Judge Smith ultimately concluded that the legislature’s findings, based on testimony and resolutions by reputable professional organizations, provided sufficient justification for the law to survive the heightened scrutiny standard. “We conclude that New Jersey has satisfied this burden,” wrote Smith. “The legislative record demonstrates that over the last few decades a number of well-known, reputable professional and scientific organizations have publicly condemned the practice of SOCE, expressing serious concerns about its potential to inflict harm. Among others, the American Psychological Association, the American Psychiatric Association, and the Pan American Health Organization have warned of the ‘great’ or ‘serious’ health risks accompanying SOCE counseling, including depression, anxiety, self-destructive behavior, and suicidality. Many such organizations have also concluded that there is no credible evidence that SOCE counseling is effective.” Smith observed that legislatures are “entitled to rely on the empirical judgments of independent professional organizations that possess specialized knowledge and experience concerning the professional practice under review, particularly when this community has spoken with such urgency and solidarity on the subject.” He rejected the plaintiffs’ contention that there was not “conclusive empirical evidence regarding the effect of SOCE counseling on minors,” finding that the legislature “is not constitutionally required to wait for conclusive scientific evidence before acting to protect its citizens from serious threats of harm.” The court rejected the plaintiffs’ argument that the state could adequately deal with any problem by imposing an “informed consent” procedure. Finding that minors are an “especially vulnerable population” who might feel pressured to consent to SOCE by their families “despite fear of being harmed,” the court concluded that the state could properly have found that such a consent requirement was not adequate to deal with the problem. The court also rejected the plaintiffs’ rather odd argument that the statute was unduly vague, pointing out that the individual and organizational plaintiffs had use the terms in the statute many times to describe their activities and had no doubt what the statute was prohibiting. As to the religious freedom argument, the court agreed with Judge Wolfson that this law is neutral on its face regarding religion, and the court rejected the plaintiff’s argument that despite this surface neutrality it was somehow targeted at licensed professionals who held particular religious views. There was no “covert targeting” of religion in this law, even if many of the SOCE practitioners are religiously motivated in providing the therapy. The court also upheld Judge Wolfson’s conclusion that the therapists were not entitled to represented the interests of their patients in this case. Patients could represent their own interests, as they have done in filing another case challenging the law which has thus far been unsuccessful. The court also approved Judge Wolfson’s decision to allow Garden State Equality, a New Jersey state-wide gay rights organization, to intervene as a defendant in the case. The appeal by the plaintiffs was argued by Matt Staver, Dean of Liberty University Law School and a prominent anti-gay activist on behalf of Liberty Counsel. Susan M. Scott of the New Jersey Attorney General’s office defended the statute, together with David S. Flugmann representing Garden State Equality in collaboration with the National Center for Lesbian Rights. The court received numerous amicus briefs on both sides of the case, including from Alliance Defending Freedom, the anti-gay religious litigation organization, supporting plaintiffs, and Lambda Legal, supporting the constitutionality of the statute. Given the nature of this litigation, it is likely that the plaintiffs will seek en banc review in the 3rd Circuit and/or petition the Supreme Court to review the case. The lengthy discussion of the freedom of speech issue by Judge Smith made clear that there is not a consensus among the circuit courts of appeals about how to deal with state regulation of professional speech, and the Supreme Court has not spoken with perfect clarity on the issue. Now that anti-SOCE statutes have survived judicial review in two circuits and similar bills are pending in many state legislatures (including New York’s), the Supreme Court might be persuaded that a national precedent would be appropriate. 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__label__wiki	0.9391	0.9391	Jul 17 Fire Breaks Out in Kyoto Animation's 1st Studio Building (Updated) Crunchyroll Adds Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2202 Anime posted on 2018-05-09 18:30 EDT by Rafael Antonio Pineda Also: Date A Live , 1st 2 WIXOSS Crunchyroll began streaming the first episode of Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2202 on Wednesday. The project is a seven-part theatrical anime project. The first episode premiered in Japan in February 2017, and the fifth film will premiere on May 25 in Japan. Funimation is streaming an English dub that also premiered on Wednesday. The anime's story is set in the year 2202, three years after the Yamato's return from the planet Iscandar. The people of Earth restored their planet with the Cosmo Reverse System, and they signed a peace treaty with Garmillas. In addition to reconstruction, Earth developed a new defense fleet that includes the state-of-the-art battleship Andromeda. The Earth goes down a path of military expansion, despite Starsha Iscandar's wishes. The Yamato helps accomplish this so-called peace, but it comes at the price of many invaluable sacrifices. The goddess Teresa, who prays for tranquility in space, calls the Yamato to a new voyage. The threat of Gatlantis is sweeping over the universe and approaching Earth. Nobuyoshi Habara ( Fafner and Fafner EXODUS director, episode director and storyboard writer for Star Blazers 2199 ) is directing the new anime, and Harutoshi Fukui ( Mobile Suit Gundam UC original novel writer, screenplay for Harlock: Space Pirate ) is writing and overseeing the scripts. The late Yoshinobu Nishizaki is credited with the original work, and his son Shoji Nishizaki ( Star Blazers 2199 planning, producer for Space Battleship Yamato Resurrection ) is the executive producer. Crunchyroll also announced on Tuesday that it has added the Date A Live , Date A Live II , Selector Infected Wixoss and Selector Spread Wixoss anime to its catalog. Date A Live is available for users in the United States and Canada, while Date A Live II is available for users in the United States, Canada, South Africa, Iceland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and the Netherlands. The 12-episode Date A Live series, based on Koushi Tachibana 's light novel series of the same name, premiered in 2013. The second 10-episode season premiered in 2014. A film titled Gekijōban Date A Live: Mayuri Judgment opened in Japan in August 2015. Funimation streamed the first and second seasons as they aired in Japan, released the first season on Blu-ray Disc and DVD in June 2014 with an English dub , and released the second season on Blu-ray Disc and DVD in March 2016 with an English dub . Selector Infected Wixoss and Selector Spread Wixoss are available for users in the United States, Canada, South Africa, Iceland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and the Netherlands. The Selector Infected Wixoss anime series, based on Takara Tomy 's WIXOSS (pronounced like "wi-cross") card game, premiered in April 2014 in the same month that the card game launched. Selector Spread Wixoss , the anime's second season, premiered in October 2014. The Selector Destructed Wixoss anime film then opened in Japan in February 2016. The 12-episode Lostorage incited WIXOSS anime premiered in October 2016, and Crunchyroll streamed the series as it aired. Crunchyroll is also streaming the currently airing Lostorage conflated WIXOSS series. Funimation released Selector Infected Wixoss on Blu-ray Disc and DVD in September 2015 and Selector Spread Wixoss on Blu-ray Disc and DVD in June 2016. Thanks to kenno20081 for the news tip. served by kurisu-chan cloudflare ray# 4f821b06e4105685-IAD	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2798
__label__wiki	0.801484	0.801484	Anoka-Ramsey Community College Named One of Top 10 Community Colleges in U.S. Anoka-Ramsey Community College’s student-focus, teaching excellence and research opportunities, and low-cost tuition, which have been regionally well-known for years, have launched the college into a top 10 finalist spot for the 2017 Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence, the nation’s preeminent recognition of high achievement and performance in America’s community colleges. The $1 million prize, awarded every two years since 2011, recognizes outstanding institutions selected from an original pool of more than 1,000 public community colleges nationwide. The prize will be awarded in March 2017 in Washington, D.C. to the winner and up to four finalists with distinction. “You might ask, ‘Why Anoka-Ramsey?’ and I proudly say, it’s our people,” says Anoka-Ramsey President, Kent Hanson, upon hearing of the distinction. “Anoka-Ramsey is a unique and special place. It’s the faculty, staff and students and an unwavering commitment to student success. It’s our community support system from those who donate to scholarships, to local legislators who support our funding, to business leaders who share insights and advice, and often hire our graduates. Through our collaborative strategic planning process I feel we have developed an exceptional roadmap for distinction by focusing on student success, academic excellence, creating a vibrant culture, enhancing our identity and fostering our partnerships.” The Aspen Institute College Excellence Program director echoes Hanson’s sentiments: “We were incredibly impressed by the efforts of Anoka-Ramsey Community College faculty and staff to nourish a deep culture of support for students,” says Joshua Wyner, Executive Director of the Aspen Institute’s College Excellence Program in Washington, D.C. “That, paired with an unusually strong undergraduate research program and a clear focus on teaching and learning, makes Anoka-Ramsey a uniquely supportive educational environment for Minnesota students.” The Aspen Institute said Anoka-Ramsey stood out as one of the nation’s top community colleges for many reasons, including: Excellent three-year graduation/transfer rate of 56% Distinctive programs to provide college-going opportunities to students who are first in their family to go to college and for those still in high school students, including not just high-achieving students but also those in the middle of their class The lowest cost tuition and fees of any public or private higher education institution in Minnesota High success rates that are virtually identical for white populations and students of color—especially notable in a state with one of the largest achievement gaps in the nation The march for the $1 million prize continues this fall as the Aspen Institute visits Anoka-Ramsey and the other nine nominated colleges to conduct a rigorous review process that includes examination of extensive data on performance and improvements in learning, graduation, workforce, and equitable outcomes for all students as well as multi-day site visits to each of the 10 finalist institutions. Then, a distinguished prize jury of higher education experts will select a grand prize winner and up to four finalists with distinction. The 2017 Aspen Prize Finalists (listed in alphabetical order): Anoka-Ramsey Community College, the only Minnesota community college on this list, joins the following colleges to comprise the top 10 finalists: Broward College – Fort Lauderdale, FL# Chaffey College – Rancho Cucamonga, CA Indian River State College – Fort Pierce, FL# Lake Area Technical Institute, Watertown, SD* Northeast Community College – Norfolk, NE Odessa College – Odessa, TX Pasadena City College – Pasadena, CA San Jacinto College – Pasadena, TX West Kentucky Community and Technical College, Paducah, KY* * finalists in four consecutive prize cycles; # finalists for a second time More about The Aspen Institute's College Excellence Program The Aspen Institute's College Excellence Program aims to advance higher education practices, policies, and leadership that significantly improve student outcomes. Through the Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence, the New College Leadership Project, and other initiatives, the College Excellence Program works to improve colleges' understanding and capacity to teach and graduate students, especially the growing population of low-income and minority students on American campuses. For more information, visit www.aspeninstitute.org/college-excellence. The Aspen Prize is funded by the Joyce Foundation, the Siemens Foundation and the Kresge Foundation. To follow Anoka-Ramsey Community College’s progress toward the top spot, or to learn more about the outstanding educational opportunities available, visit AnokaRamsey.edu. ABOUT ANOKA-RAMSEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE Anoka-Ramsey Community College, with campuses in Cambridge and Coon Rapids, is a member of the Minnesota State system and has been a leading provider of higher education and training in East Central Minnesota since 1978 and the north suburban area of Minneapolis/St. Paul since 1965. Annually, the college serves more than 12,500 learners of all ages as they pursue associate degrees that transfer as the first two years of a bachelor's degree, or certificate programs that lead immediately to rewarding careers. Anoka-Ramsey Community College is aligned with Anoka Technical College and together the institutions serve more than 16,000 learners–the largest community and technical college entity in Minnesota. An affirmative action, equal opportunity employer and educator. Accredited by the Higher Learning Commission. This document is available in alternative formats to individuals with disabilities by calling the Minnesota Relay Service at 1-800-627-3529. Anoka-Ramsey Community College named top 10 finalist for the 2017 Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence, the nation’s preeminent recognition of high achievement and performance in America’s community colleges. 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Workforce Development Scholarships available to new students seeking in-demand careers Bachelor degree partnerships and transfer pathways make Anoka-Ramsey a great place to start earning a four-year degree Deidra Peaslee, Anoka-Ramsey Community College’s Vice President of Academic and Student Affairs to Serve as Interim President of Saint Paul College Anoka-Ramsey Community College Spring 2019 Dean’s List Announced Anoka-Ramsey congratulates its class of 2019 Anoka-Ramsey In The News Farmer sees conservation opportunity in Buffer Law MN Board of Water and Soil Resources February Snapshots Anoka-Ramsey seeks design help for $17M upgrade Variety of reading series available among this week’s literary events – Twin Cities St. Paul Pioneer Press Art Faculty makes list of Best of 2018 Exhibitions Across the United States Anoka-Ramsey welcomes new STEM dean ABC Newspapers From janitor to nurse: How an Ethiopian immigrant seized his American dream in Minnesota Media Relations Contacts: Mary Jacobson & Fia Prpic 763-433-1315; 763-433-1545 mary.jacobson@anokaramsey.edu	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2799
__label__wiki	0.955662	0.955662	Shooting drew together ordinary lives of driver, officer Apr 12th 2015 6:34PM White SC officer charged with murder for shooting black man, South Carolina, Slager, Walter Lamer Scott CHARLESTON, SC - SEPTEMBER 11: Michael Slager (left) stands as defense attorney Cameron Blazer guides him toward the podium to speak in circuit court for the first time at the Charleston County Court House September 11, 2015 in Charleston, South Carolina. Former North Charleston officer Slager is charged with the murder of Walter Scott after shooting Scott in the back during a traffic stop on April 4, 2015. (Photo by Leroy Burnell - Pool/Getty Images) CHARLESTON, SC - SEPTEMBER 11: Michael Slager ( center ) at the podium on Friday the former North Charleston police officer spoke in court for the first time to circuit Judge Clifton Newman on September 11, 2015 in Charleston, South Carolina. Former North Charleston officer Slager is charged with the murder of Walter Scott after shooting Scott in the back during a traffic stop on April 4, 2015. (Photo by Leroy Burnell - Pool/Getty Images) CHARLESTON, SC - SEPTEMBER 10: Former North Charleston officer Michael Slager (C) is lead into court for a bond hearing at the Charleston County Court House September 10, 2015 in Charleston, South Carolina. Slager is charged with the murder of Walter Scott. Slager shot Scott in the back when Scott ran away during a traffic stop on April 4th in 2015. (Photo by Grace Beahm-Pool/Getty Images) NORTH CHARLESTON, SC - APRIL 10: A passer-by looks on at the site where Walter Scott was killed on April 4th by a North Charleston police officer on April 10, 2015 in North Charleston, South Carolina. Mr. Scott was killed by North Charleston police officer Michael T. Slager after a traffic stop and the officer now faces murder charges. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) NORTH CHARLESTON, SC - APRIL 10: A memorial is seen through a fence marking the site where Walter Scott was killed on April 4th by a North Charleston police officer on April 10, 2015 in North Charleston, South Carolina. Mr. Scott was killed by North Charleston police officer Michael T. Slager after a traffic stop and the officer now faces murder charges. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Tiffany Williams (C), a childhood friend of Walter Scott, the 50-year-old man who was shot as he ran away from an officer after a traffic stop, is hugged by Project Street Outreach Manager Denise Cromwell, as she breaks down while visiting the spot where Scott was killed in Charleston, South Carolina on April 9, 2015. The shooting is America's latest high-profile police killing of a black man by white officers. A string of such shootings of unarmed victims, where officers are rarely charged, have sparked protests around the country with demonstrators alleging racism in the nation's police forces. (Photo credit: JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images) (photo credit: South Carolina Law Enforcement Division) NORTH CHARLESTON, SC - APRIL 08: People participate in a rally to protest the death of Walter Scott, who was killed by police in a shooting, outside City Hall on April 8, 2015 in North Charleston, South Carolina. Video captured by a bystander showed officer Michael Slager shooting Scott as he ran away. Officer Slager has been charged with murder as a result of the incident. (Photo by Richard Ellis/Getty Images) After watching the video, the senseless shooting and taking of #WalterScott's life was absolutely unnecessary and avoidable. (1/2) My heart aches for the family and our North Charleston community. I will be watching this case closely. (2/2) NORTH CHARLESTON, SC - APRIL 08: A family friend of Walter Scott, who was killed by police in a shooting, breaks down during a rally outside City Hall on April 8, 2015 in North Charleston, South Carolina. Video captured by a bystander showed officer Michael Slager shooting Scott as he ran away. Officer Slager has been charged with murder as a result of the incident. (Photo by Richard Ellis/Getty Images) Recap of the press conference: https://t.co/342hrODMkF #WalterScott RT @celmorePC: Chief Driggers and other officers standing by #chsnews #WalterScott http://t.co/0lR9xN2EZg Officer Michael Slager fired 8 shots toward #WalterScott, Attorney says 4 hit him, 2 fatal: http://t.co/y8mqwG3zD6 http://t.co/LkwfB2SwQc NORTH CHARLESTON, SC - APRIL 10: (L-R) Andrew Gordon, Mr. Turner and Swerve wear shirts reading, ' Don't Shoot Me', on the front and, 'While My Back is Turned' on the back, during a vigil in front of the North Charleston City Hall for Walter Scott on April 10, 2015 in North Charleston, South Carolina. Mr. Scott was killed on April 4 by North Charleston police officer Michael T. Slager after a traffic stop. The officer now faces murder charges. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) NORTH CHARLESTON, SC - APRIL 12: Rev. Jeremy Rutledge and his son look at a memorial built on the site where Walter Scott was killed by a North Charleston police officer, April 12, 2015 in North Charleston, South Carolina. Scott was shot and killed on April 4, 2015 by officer Michael T. Slager, who now faces murder charges. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) CHARLESTON, SC - APRIL 11: The flag drapped coffin of Walter Scott is carried by pallbearers to his burial site at the Live Oak Memorial gardens cemetery, after he was fatally shot by a North Charleston police officer after fleeing a traffic stop in North Charleston on April 11, 2015 Charleston, South Carolina. Mr. Scott was killed on April 4 by North Charleston police officer Michael T. Slager after a traffic stop. The officer now faces murder charges. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) NORTH CHARLESTON, SC - APRIL 12: The Rev. Al Sharpton speaks during a church service at Charity Missionary Baptist Church on April 12, 2015 in North Charleston, South Carolina. Sharpton addressed the congregation on issues surrounding the recent fatal shooting of Walter Scott by North Charleston police officer Michael T. Slager, who now faces murder charges. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) NORTH CHARLESTON, SC - APRIL 10: People attend a vigil in front of the North Charleston City Hall for Walter Scott on April 10, 2015 in North Charleston, South Carolina. Mr. Scott was killed on April 4 by North Charleston police officer Michael T. Slager after a traffic stop. The officer now faces murder charges. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) NORTH CHARLESTON, SC - APRIL 09: North Charleston Mayor Keith Summey bows his head in prayer before a City Council meeting on April 9, 2015 in North Charleston, South Carolina. The City Council held their regularly scheduled meeting on Thursday, with the addition of a two minute speech by Muhiydin Moye D'Baha of the Black Lives Matter movement on the recent shooting of Walter Scott by North Charleston Police Officer Michael T. Slager. (Photo by Richard Ellis/Getty Images) NORTH CHARLESTON, SC - APRIL 08: North Charleston Mayor Keith Summey answers questions during a press conference after the shooting death of an unarmed African Amerian man by police on April 8, 2015 in North Charleston, South Carolina. The mayor announced that the officer, Michael Slager, has been fired and charged with murder in the death of Walter Scott after a traffic stop on April 4. (Photo by Richard Ellis/Getty Images) NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- But for a series of split-second decisions that followed a traffic stop, Walter Scott might still be alive and police officer Michael Slager still patrolling the streets. When the two men's lives intersected on April 4, Scott had just purchased a used car from a neighbor. Slager was starting a routine weekend shift on a warm spring day. In a matter of minutes, one man was dead. Within days, the other was charged with murder. A third man on his way to work captured the encounter on cellphone video that shocked the world and added fuel to the national debate about race and aggressive police tactics that began in August with the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Family members say Scott was so fearful of returning to jail over late child-support payments that he tried to outrun the law. And the officer, amid the adrenaline of a short foot chase, fired a fatal volley of eight bullets at the back of a fleeing suspect who appeared to pose no immediate threat. Walter Scott funeral SUMMERVILLE, SC - APRIL 11: A young child walks among mourners as they attend the funeral service for Walter Scott at the W.O.R.D. Ministries Christian Center, after he was fatally shot by a North Charleston police officer after fleeing a traffic stop in North Charleston on April 11, 2015 in Summerville, South Carolina. Mr. Scott was killed on April 4 by North Charleston police officer Michael T. Slager after a traffic stop. The officer now faces murder charges. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) SUMMERVILLE, SC - APRIL 11: Judy Scott is greeted after the funeral for her son Walter Scott, at the W.O.R.D. Ministries Christian Center, after he was fatally shot by a North Charleston police officer after fleeing a traffic stop in North Charleston on April 11, 2015 in Summerville, South Carolina. Mr. Scott was killed on April 4 by North Charleston police officer Michael T. Slager after a traffic stop. The officer now faces murder charges. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) US Senator Tim Scott (R), R-SC, departs following the funeral of Walter Scott at WORD Ministries Christian Center in Summerville , South Carolina on April 11, 2015. Hundreds of mourners gathered Saturday for the funeral of Walter Scott, an unarmed black suspect who was shot dead by a white officer in South Carolina as he fled following a routine traffic stop. Scott's death, which a bystander caught on video, has reignited debates about excessive police force and race relations in the United States. Scott's body arrived, where family, friends, politicians and law enforcement gathered to bury the 50-year-old father of four. AFP PHOTO/JIM WATSON (Photo credit should read JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images) Tiffany Williams (C), a childhood friend of Walter Scott, the 50-year-old man who was shot as he ran away from an officer after a traffic stop, is hugged by Project Street Outreach Manager Denise Cromwell, as she breaks down while visiting the spot where Scott was killed in Charleston, South Carolina on April 9, 2015. The shooting is America's latest high-profile police killing of a black man by white officers. A string of such shootings of unarmed victims, where officers are rarely charged, have sparked protests around the country with demonstrators alleging racism in the nation's police forces. AFP PHOTO/JIM WATSON (Photo credit should read JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images) It all began with a traffic stop in North Charleston, a city that, not unlike Ferguson, has a large working-class black population policed by a force that is overwhelmingly white. Scott was buying a nearly 25-year-old Mercedes-Benz sedan from a neighbor, and he knew in advance that it needed a few repairs. But it was still better than his van, a beater that would break down on the way to his job as a forklift operator in a distribution warehouse. So that Saturday morning he picked up a friend from work and headed to an auto-parts store a few miles away. Slager had been with the North Charleston Police Department for about five years, following a stint in the Coast Guard. He was watching out for traffic violations and waiting to answer trouble calls over the radio. If things went right, maybe he'd get home early enough to enjoy the rest of the day with his wife, who was eight months pregnant, and their two children. A few blocks away, 23-year-old Feidin Santana was getting ready for work. As usual, the immigrant from the Dominican Republic planned to walk to his job at a barbershop, passing storefronts, houses and empty lots. The three men did not know each other when they left their homes, but their lives collided shortly after 9:30 a.m., when Slager flipped on his blue lights to pull Scott over. Police said it was for a burned-out taillight. Scott knew he was in trouble. The father of four had fallen behind, again, on child support owed to his ex-wife. So while he was still in the car, he called his mother to tell her he might be heading to jail, according to his older brother, Anthony Scott. "He wanted to let her know he was getting pulled over and the way this was going, he'd probably be getting arrested," said Anthony Scott, his older brother. "In other words: Get ready to come and get me." Slager told authorities that he fired his Taser at Scott as he ran, but the stun gun didn't work. Then during a scuffle over the weapon, Slager said, he shot Scott with his handgun in self-defense. North Charleston police turned the investigation over to state law-enforcement officials. That night, the police department issued a news release, repeating Slager's account of the shooting. But Scott's family was suspicious. They said the 50-year-old wasn't violent, had a steady job and was making plans to marry his girlfriend. As a young man, he had served two years in the Coast Guard. Years later, his brothers said, he earned a degree in massage therapy. Even with all his struggles to keep up with child-support payments, his brothers said, Scott stayed close to his four children - a 24-year-old daughter and three sons ages 22, 20 and 16. The family wanted answers. As word of the shooting spread in the community, many feared police would close the case without taking any action against the officer. Then there was the video. On his way to work, Santana noticed the confrontation between the white officer and a black man in an empty lot. He stopped, pushed record on his iPhone and captured a video that showed Scott running away and Slager firing eight shots at his back. When Santana heard the man who was shot died, he started checking Facebook to see if he had a friend who knew the family. He did, and Santana reached out to them. On Sunday, a day after the shooting, he showed them the video. It confirmed the family's worst fears, said Chris Stewart, attorney for the Scott family. The following day, Santana gave a copy to state investigators. The video immediately changed perceptions of what happened. But there was more evidence that contradicted Slager's story, including video captured by a camera mounted on the dash of the officer's cruiser, as well as radio traffic. With the dash cam, the traffic stop starts like any other. Slager is seen walking toward the driver's side window and heard asking for Scott's license and registration. Slager then returns to his cruiser. Next, the video shows Scott starting to get out of the car, his right hand raised above his head. He quickly gets back in the vehicle and closes the door. Seconds later, he opens the door again and takes off running. Within a block or two, out of the dashboard camera's view, Slager catches up to him in an empty lot. A recording of police radio traffic shows about three minutes pass between the call from Slager that he is conducting a traffic stop on a Mercedes and a second call to report that he is in a foot pursuit of a "black male, green shirt, blue pants." The dispatcher can be heard calling for all other police units in the area to respond. Several officers reply that they're on the way. About a minute later, Slager can be heard yelling "Lie on the ground!" About 50 seconds later, Slager radios the dispatcher: "Shots fired. Subject is down. He grabbed my Taser." On Santana's video, Slager is seen walking over to handcuff Scott, who is face down and motionless in the grass. A voice on the radio asks Slager if everyone at the scene is "10-4," a radio code often used by officers to mean "OK." Police officer Clarence Habersham, who arrived at the scene seconds after the shooting, responds: "Everyone is 10-4, except for the suspect. ... Gunshot wound, it looks like, to the chest, to the right side. Unresponsive. ... Another gunshot wound to the buttocks." An ambulance arrives about seven minutes after the shots were fired. Scott is declared dead at the scene. North Charleston officials announced Tuesday that Slager had been charged with murder. They quickly fired him from the police force. Authorities refused to provide some details, including the name of the passenger who was with Scott at the time of the incident. A police report said the man was questioned at the scene and released. Slager lived a mile from the shooting scene in neighboring Hanahan. Days after the shooting, the house looked empty. A car covered in pollen with a Coast Guard sticker on the window sat in the driveway. Neighbors mostly politely declined to talk about Slager, saying he mostly kept to himself and walked his pug dogs. 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__label__cc	0.715574	0.284426	If We Lose, They Win: Who'd Have Benefited From a Debt Default? Bruce Watson, AOL.com Oct 16th 2013 3:12PM Over the last few weeks, as battles over the government shutdown and the debt ceiling raged in Washington, it became increasingly hard to find anyone really benefiting from the fight. The losers were easy to find: basically, anybody who relies on government spending, anyone who relies on a stable economic system, and anyone who relies on government programs like food inspection has definitely been hurt. In context, it's hardly surprising that even the Koch brothers, among the strongest supporters of the Tea Party's lower taxes/lower services mantra, were pushing GOP congressmen to make a deal and avert a debt ceiling default. So those are the losers. Winners and potential winners, however, are harder to find. Certainly, a few congressmen -- notably Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) -- rode the crisis to greater prominence, though one could argue that polling in the past few weeks have proved that not all publicity is good publicity. Now that the Senate deal has saved us in the nick of time, Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) may pick up some statesman points for stepping forward finally corralling Congress into preventing economic oblivion. But beyond the obvious political hard-liners, who might have benefited from letting the debt limit clock hitting zero? Who had money on the line, and a rooting interest in America's failure? Here are a few of our best bets: Warren Zevon once crooned about the need to send "Lawyers, Guns and Money" when things get rough. Regarding the first, it seems likely that some of the victims of the shutdown, including children denied entrance into Head Start programs, consumers poisoned by uninspected meat, and veterans denied access to federal monuments, will take their problems to the courts. And, for that matter, even though the shutdown is over, the longer-term results of Congress' economic shenanigans could push more Americans in bankruptcies and foreclosures. Over the past few years, fears about economic and political destabilization have driven gun sales through the roof. Gun manufacturers and private equity firms, like Cerberus Capital Management, that invest heavily in the gun business, have made record profits. With social spending cut and economic insecurity rampant, it isn't hard to see why many people might want to buy the kind of "security" that they can tuck under their pillows. Score another one for Zevon. The value of the dollar is largely based on the perception that the U.S. government pays its debts -- always. When that perception slips, it could take the value of the dollar with it. Currency traders who bet against the buck stand to make a pretty penny when political gridlock casts doubt on the full faith and credit of the United States of America. Gold Bugs Speaking of things that (theoretically) don't lose their value, gold is a classic refuge when more traditional investments go south. This, incidentally, is why it did so well the last time we went through an economic disaster. For this reason, gold bugs sprout up in times of economic misery. Speaking of guns, money and gold, pawn shops usually clean up when things go downhill. In many areas, they are a good source for low-cost firearms; beyond that, though, they also tend to be one of the first stops for desperate people hoping to cash in on their possessions, including gold. With a high-profit business model, it isn't hard to see why they did so well in the last economic crisis, why they've likely done well in this one, and why they benefit from long periods of economic turmoil. Surplus Stores When things get really bad, surplus stores are great places to be. From low-cost dehydrated food to firearms, paramilitary equipment to discount clothing, they're a veritable Mecca for people looking to stretch their money -- while preparing for the worst. For years, Glenn Beck has been urging his viewers to prepare for a societal collapse. For him, the worst case scenario has generally been a best-case profit center: Whether the commodity in question is gold, dehydrated food, or farmland, he's reaped huge earnings from his advertisers. To him, an economic storm cloud on the horizon (or right overhead) would certainly have a silver -- or gold -- lining. Bruce Watson is DailyFinance's Savings Editor. You can reach him by e-mail at bruce.watson@teamaol.com, or follow him on Twitter at @bruce1971. (Editor's note: This article was updated late Wednesday evening to reflect the passage by both the Senate and House of a bill to end the government shutdown and raise the debt ceiling.) Cerberus Capital Management currency speculation debt default All index data provided on a 15 minute delay.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2802
__label__wiki	0.729374	0.729374	Quantum Physics Quantum Physics Quantum theory (otherwise known as quantum physics or quantum mechanics) is one of the two main planks of modern physics, along with general relativity, and between them the two theories claim to explain virtually everything about the universe. General relativity gives us our picture of the very big (space-time and gravity), while quantum theory gives us our picture of the very small (atoms. Which atoms and particles does quantum physics apply to? Every particle, atom and molecule [photons, electrons or whole atoms] behave in accordance with the laws of quantum mechanics – as does. Jul 08, 2015 · Quantum physics is usually just intimidating from the get-go. It’s kind of weird and can seem counter-intuitive, even for the physicists who deal with. Does everything emerge from these 24 fields and their interactions? Let’s start with what a quantum field actually is. 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__label__wiki	0.741778	0.741778	2016 Subaru WRX earns IIHS Top Safety Pick+ rating EyeSight tech achieves "Superior" front crash prevention rating Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. (FHI), the manufacturer of Subaru vehicles, announced that the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has awarded the highest standard of safety along with a “Superior” front crash prevention rating to the 2016 WRC equipped with the brand's EyeSight technology. By adopting the EyeSight for the 2016 model, Subaru says the WRX earned 6 of 6 points for front crash prevention. The Japanese automaker adds that seven Subaru vehicles, including the 2016 WRX, have earned the 2015 safety awards from IIHS: six with Top Safety Pick+ and one with Top Safety Pick. These are the following Subaru vehicles that were recognized by the IIHS: (1) 2015 Impreza, (2) 2015 XV Crosstrek, (3) 2015 Subaru Forester, (4) 2015 Legacy, (5) 2015 Outback and (6) 2015 BRZ. The EyeSight technology detects objects such as vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists. Since its Japanese debut in May 2008, Subaru claims that this technology has been “highly praised.” The said technology includes safety features such as pre-collision braking control and adaptive cruise control. To win the “Top Safety Pick,” Subaru explains that a vehicle must have “Good” ratings in all four tests of high-speed front and side crash tests, a rollover test and evaluations of seat/head restraints for protection against neck injuries in rear impacts. In addition, “Good” or “Acceptable” performance in a small overlap front test introduced in 2012 is also required. The 2016 WRX earned the highest possible rating of “Good” in these five IIHS evaluations for occupant protection. The same level of performance in those tests, along with an “Advanced” or “Superior” rating for front crash prevention, is required for the higher accolade, “Top Safety Pick+.”	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2804
__label__wiki	0.899503	0.899503	Renault Megane RS sets new Nurgburgring lap record Lap time record of 7 minutes and 54.36 seconds Last April, Renault Sport launched the #Under8 campaign and vowed to set a new lap record at the 2014 Nurburgring. The automaker stood to its promise as the Megane R.S. 275 Trophy-R special edition managed to add a third lap record at Nurburgring’s legendary Nordscheife to its list of achievements. Renault established records with Megane R26.R in 2008 and Megane R.S. Trophy in 2011, but the engineers at Renault Sport were not content as the Megane R.S. posted a new lap time of 7 minutes and 54.36 seconds. Compared to the standard RS 275 Trophy, the R version is almost 100 kg lighter because the rear seats were removed as well as most of the sound-absorbing and insulating materials. The automaker also equipped the R version with a smaller battery and lighter Recaro bucket seats. Furthermore, the radio and the air conditioning system were also removed. The Megane R.S. 275 Trophy-R has a black roof along with a white colored body paint finish. It has a checkered flag graphic at the bottom of the front doors and an F1-type front blade with a Trophy-R text. Rounding up the exterior of the vehicle are the 19-inch rims. It is powered by a 4-cylinder 2.0-liter turbocharged gasoline engine that delivers 275 PS with 360 Nm of torque. The Trophy-R is fitted with standard cup chassis and has a titanium Akrapovic exhaust system, adjustable Ohlins Road and Track dampers, Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 tires and 350 mm disc brakes. Watch the on-board video as the Renault Megane R.S. 275 Trophy-R pursuit the goal of setting a new lap record.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2805
__label__cc	0.593593	0.406407	Chris Skinner Dec 11, 2015 Millennials on banks and money There’s been a lot of debate about millennials and their likes and dislikes. I myself cite regular surveys that millennials would rather go to the dentist than visit their bank and that surveys of millennials find no bank brands are desired. In some ways, this gives a false impression, as we have to think that when we refer to this demographic we are now referring to age groups of between 20 and 35. They may not like banks, but it is interesting to see what they really think about them, rather than what people think they think about them. For example, I often bring up the fact that when Deutsche Bank designed their cool new high net worth branch in Berlin, they created the iPod Room for millennials and the Senator Room for their mums and dads. The iPod Room was all white plastic and looked, to me, like the inside of a toilet. The Senator Room, on the other hand, was all red leather, oak panels and screamed “tradition.” So, the bank branch opened and all the mums and dads went to the iPod Room; they wanted to still feel young, cool and hip. Meanwhile, grungy teenage dudes went to hang out in the Senator Room, as money is serious, man; you don’t joke about moolah. This is where many pundits are making falsehoods and suppositions, as the idea that kids who are now young workers don’t want branches or advice is not always true. Think back to when you got your first job, opened your first bank account, bought your first house, considered your first long-term savings investment, thought about the idea of saving for a pension, which at that point seemed like an eon away … did you make all those decisions on your own? You might today, but would the 25-year old younger version of yourself have had the gumption to do all these things on an app? Sure, you might investigate for first ideas, and then ask a few friends or family members. But I’m pretty darned sure that the average Millennial Joe is going to get told, “Best go and see a financial guy.” And, when they ask who that guy is, they’ll be told, “Start with a bank, I guess, as that’s what I did.” So, now I’m making supposition and assumptions, so what’s the truth? Well BAI Research recently produced some fascinating results from a survey of over 2,000 US consumers, a quarter (545) of whom were Millennials, with those split into Young Millennials (57) and Mainstream Millennials (488). And yes, it’s true: the recommendation from friends and family is a key factor as to how they choose their bank, along with whether there’s a branch nearby (see chart, “Main Reason Primary FI Was Chosen”). In fact, a key surprise of this survey, for some, may be that Millennials and Non-Millennials are similarly aligned in their citing a vast ATM network and convenient branches as the most important factors when choosing a bank. Maybe this is because it’s where they want to obtain advice. Likewise, corroborating my view that those early account openings are nervous moments for the youth, the majority are opening their first deposit, savings and mortgage accounts in a branch. Note that this has stayed fairly consistent between Millennials and Non-Millennials (see charts, “Percent of Accounts Opened in a Branch in the Past Year” and “Percent of Accounts Opened Online in the Past Year”). Millennials prefer mobile-first bank access with branch falling way down the list to fourth place after internet (desktop/laptop) and ATM. The older folks like internet first and, intriguingly, branch second, so the old folks out there will keep those branches alive for a while yet (see chart, “Current Channel Usage”). I don’t expect it to stay that way, but this is in line with the reasons why the banks are in a major branch consolidation program as, given ten years or so, the idea of the large branch footprint will be nonsensical. Instead, banks need a Genius Bar-style distribution network modeled on the Apple structure of being where most of the consumers are at, namely, shopping malls and airports. The rest can be remote capture, self-service and pop-up stores. There’s a whole raft of other stuff in the research that’s worth noting but, for me, this bears out my gut feeling that Millennials are not some new generation who shun the world’s traditions. Rather, they are growing up in a world that’s tough and want the reassurance that, when it comes to money (which is serious), they will be looked after by firms they trust because they are licensed and regulated, not because they are loved. Mr. Skinner is chairman of the Financial Services Club, CEO of Balatro Ltd., comments on the financial markets through his blog the Finanser, and is the author of Digital Bank. He can be reached at chris.skinner@fsclub.co.uk.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2808
__label__cc	0.718687	0.281313	Having Faith by Louise TaylorLouise Taylor Never trust the wrong man, especially with your heart. But how does one know ahead of time he is the wrong man? In the case of innocent vicar's daughter Faith Halstead, governess to a middle class family with a marriageable son, one only finds out he is a cad after it is too late. Now she is alone in the world, a fallen woman, facing a bleak and uncertain future. While leaving London in disgrace, a chance encounter on the train lands Faith in front of the darkly dominant Duke of Buckingham. He is in search of a woman to serve as his slave at an upcoming Ruttingdon Club house party, and the shy, modest young woman has unaccountably captured his attention. Desperate for any excuse not to return home to her harshly judgmental father, Faith rashly promises to serve as the duke's absolute slave for a week, alone with him at the secluded Ruttingdon Hall. Will his dark and brutal desires and the oftentimes sweet pain he inflicts upon her ripe body drive her away, or will the awakening desires in her heart seduce her into staying longer with him – perhaps forever? Publisher's Note: This book contains adult, consensual spanking and discipline, and graphic descriptions of sexual activity, including breath play in the form of choking. If such material bothers or offends you, please do not purchase. Blushing Books Publications I'm Louise Taylor, and I love writing historical romantic erotica. I have three novels published in my Victorian Vices series, and am in the process of releasing book three of my Ruttingdon series. I've also contributed to some anthologies. All my novels will be published by the lovely people at Blushing Books. All my books have elements of power exchange, spanking and BDSM, but none of my heroines are weak-willed or easily dominated—they make their men work for their love! I live on the beautiful Welsh coast, and I love walking the cliff tops and visiting some of our wonderful historical ruins. I get my best ideas when I'm in the great outdoors and you can usually find me chasing after the piece of paper I've just scribbled my notes on! I live in a Victorian house with wonderfully high ceilings and no central heating; thank goodness for my fabulous fireplace. I'm owned by Alfred The Great, an enormous tom cat with very decided ideas about who gets to sit where on the sofa and how long I am allowed to stay in bed in the morning! Having Faith 4.7 out of 5 based on 0 ratings. 14 reviews. BB-Reader More than 1 year ago This author has such a way with spinning her writing into tales of love, even with the some of the darker aspects of BDSM in them! I love it!! I read the first two Ruttingdon books and loved them, they were right up my alley as to the erotic scenes and spankings it depicted. Now, this new story about Faith and Michael, the Duke of Buckingham, is a story of the Duke's desire to have true master/slave relationships with his women. Through the mix up of Faith arriving at his home, he desires her, and as desperate as she is, she takes him up on his offer to be under his complete control, for a price of 10,000 pounds! (She does add a few changes to his usual agreement, which just adds to how much you love Faith in this story)! As the week of training Faith goes on, the reader really starts to see the changes in both characters. There is some angst, confusion, and some doubts along the way. The book ends, as it is only part 1, with Faith having to decide whether or not to stick it out for the whole month. I received this book from the publisher for an honest review, and for a genre that isn't even my favorite to read about, I can honestly say I can't wait for part 2!! boujie1 More than 1 year ago Loved it! You felt the humiliation and pain as Faith was walked out of her job for sleeping with her employer’s son who was not a gentleman. In a time where reputation was everything, Faith meets the Duke. He normally prefers much a more experienced submissive but she intrigues him. He makes her a proposition to be a slave and train with him for an event that he is hosting. The entire house is designed for privacy and pleasure. His needs go much deeper than spanking. Will she survive the week? Is it all about the financial security he offers her if she stays for the month? Will she realize she can never go back to the vanilla world? This is one of the most erotic books I have read in a very long time. I want MORE!!! (Book received from the Publisher in exchange for an honest review.) Redrabbitt More than 1 year ago ON THE ART OF SLAVERY, BY AN ENGLISH GENTLEMAN I enjoyed this brilliant story that is well-written with the storyline and its characters. It is detailed to the point that a reader can envision the sights, sounds, and activities. The story revolves mainly around two main characters, Faith Halstead and the Duke of Buckingham. Faith has been thrown out of the house where she worked as a governess after being caught in a dalliance with their adult son. Traveling back to Birmingham in disgrace to her vicar father she meets Helen Monkton, a courtesan on her way to audition for a very important gentleman. A mix up in a noisy train station has Faith taken not to her hometown of Birmingham but instead to meet the Duke. He is enthralled with her innocence, her blushing, and her boldness and decides he wants her and makes her an offer she decides to accept under contract. The plot has a fallen woman, Faith, who is more innocent and shy, but curious. She is not forced, coerced, or tricked in any way to accept the contract and even negotiates herself, which actually gains her respect from the Duke. The story covers the first week of this Master/Slave relationship; it is explicit in details that are dark and depraved behavior, with multiple harsh punishments for his pleasure, of lessons in sexuality, and of Faith giving complete control over to Michael. The agreement is a contract of one month for ten thousand pounds, but after one week of intense training, if either one decides to end the contract, she will leave with five thousand pounds. What will happen when they reach the end of their audition week? Will they continue or part company? “What he wanted was both illegal and immoral, and totally reprehensible. It was disgusting; it was horrific; it was –Arousing.” “This new slave was truly new to this world, and she interested him. Her reactions were real, not the faked or forced motions of veterans to whom the sport had lost its novelty.” “She was already trying to detach herself from her body’s natural responses to pain.” “In the time he had her, though, he would have her, body and soul.” Joanie_M More than 1 year ago Since Faith was obviously a new character, I enjoyed this as a stand alone book, although I plan to read the first two in the series. This story is one of discovery; Faith discovers the pleasures of the body and her desire for pain and submission, while Michael discovers his need for improvement as a Master as well as that his pleasure is heightened by Faith's innocence. The journey through the first week of their Master-slave relationship is well-written. Both characters are complex and conflicted as one would expect. There are many BDSM elements included in the story with an emphasis on bondage, humiliation, and control. The subtitle of volume 1 made it no surprise that the book ended before the conclusion of the plot. I'm looking forward to volume 2. kimlrkim More than 1 year ago Having Faith is an excellent addition to The Ruttingdon Series. Faith Halstead is a governess to a middleclass family and a vicar’s daughter. In an instant her life is ruin and she’s a fallen woman. Peter told her he loved her and wanted to marry. All lies that she had believed. Her innocence was given away to a cad and he was one who never even looked back at her. Thrown out of town on the first train, at least the seats were first class. A chance meeting on the train with Mrs. Monkton, a mistress of all things, has Faith meeting up with the dark dominant Duke of Buckingham. The story of Faith and Michael, Duke of Buckingham runs dark and deep with lots of twist and turns. The story for them starts with a contract, being call Slave and calling him Master. Then a drug induced sleep to Ruttingdon Hall where everything is not as it seems but a few whips, chains, and dirty talk… all in a pain and passion kind of way. Louise Taylor magnificent in describing the world around Slave and Master, down to the little bits her Master gives her to eat out of his hand. The heat level is out of this world. With each new room the Master unveils to her the heat level goes up another notch and by the end we’re off the rector scale. I highly recommend this book. If you like a book that’s a scorcher with the BDSM element then this one is for you. I’m giving it 5/5 stars. I received an ARC copy for my honest review Pico1 More than 1 year ago Another wonderful historical romance in the Ruttingdon Series. Faith is a young governess who has been wronged by the son of her employer, and dismissed from her job. A chance meeting, and an accidental mix-up, leaves her in the home of the Duke of Buckingham, who had been expecting a professional courtesan, but decides he likes the innocent young woman who has accidentally ended up at his home. She agrees to be trained by him for a large sum of money – and the description of that training, which includes sex and BDSM, and their growing interest in one another, make for a very interesting story. Coventryteri More than 1 year ago I received an ARC copy by the publisher for an honest review. I haven't read the first two books in the series but enjoyed this book immensely. I think I enjoyed this book the most because it went through there different processes that both the Duke and Faith went through in their relationship. The realization that yes I do like both the pain and the pleasure is always an eye open for many. Of course, I am with most of the readers- what's next? This can't be the end of Faith and the Duke. Can't wait to read more!! Laurel1 More than 1 year ago I've read all of Louise Taylor's books and I never have been disappointed and now I can add this book. I won't repeat the story as the overview and other reviews cover it. It was well written with an excellent storyline and the characters were deeply explored as to their feelings and emotions. There was BDSM, D/S learning to submit and a strong alpha Dom. It was an exciting page turner and hard to put down. Now I have to wait for the final book to see if there is a happy ever after! I was given this book by the publisher for an honest review and the thoughts and opinions are mine. Jimmysweetie More than 1 year ago I was provided a free copy to review but had already read the first 2 books in the series and this one fits right in with those two. Thoroughly enjoyed the 3rd book in this series and am looking forward to the next book. If you enjoy the master/slave dynamic of this era, then this should be on your "to read" list. The Duke is very clear about what he wants, and what he expects from his new slave. She find much that she didn't know about herself. Hot and exciting and I want to know how this turns out. Aperull More than 1 year ago Having Faith is the third book in the Ruttingdon series, but can be read as a stand alone. I had not read any of Louise Taylor's books before this, but I am going to go back and read the first two in this series. Faith finds herself a fallen women, on a train, being sent home to her clergyman father. Faith befriends a mistress who is on her way to audition to be of service to a Duke, Mrs. Monkton, on the train. By accident, Faith ends up in the coach that was to be for the mistress. Faith accepts the offer from the Duke for Faith to replace the services of Mrs. Monkton, as a slave. We get to witness the one week trial between Faith and the Duke, and how she comes to embrace the rough handling the Duke gives her. We also see how the duke comes to care for Faith in part 1. I am very much looking forward to part 2. I have received an ARC from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. AnnaKay More than 1 year ago I received this book as an ARC in exchange for an honest review. Having Faith is the third book in The Ruttingdon Series but it can be read alone. I really enjoyed this unique book. I give it 4.5 stars. Ms. Taylor has brought the master/slave dynamic to the late 1800s. Faith is a broken-hearted governess who , after being thrown out of her employer's home under scandalous circumstances, ends up in the Duke's home being propositioned to be his slave for an amount of money that is hard to turn down. Faith doesn't understand her body's responses that the Duke is eliciting and her strict upbringing and the time-limited nature of the contract tell her to resist becoming emotionally involved. I enjoyed that the author alternated between Faith's and the Duke's point of view. Faith's motivations were more explained than the Dukes and I would have liked to have known why the Duke was so hard. I really enjoyed this book. It ended on a cliff hanger and I can't wait to see what happens with Faith and the Duke. I received this ARC book free in exchange for an honest review. The only thing keeping this rating from being 5 Stars is the bold step by the author of choosing to have a cliff hanger ending! I almost screamed out loud. I go to work and live my life for suspense and unhappy endings! I expect happy closure, all tied up in a neat bundle! Having said all of that, I am only so upset because I became entranced and intrigued with the experiences of Faith and Michael. The narrative is so clear I felt I could see and feel their world; I certainly learned a few things I did NOT know! I got sucked into their hopeful feelings for each other. Well done, interesting, detailed, steamy bdsm play; loved it and will read part two but am still a little peeved :) emz376 More than 1 year ago This book was amazing. Faith has just had her world turned upside down. She is being sent back home to her vicar father after being found in a compromising situation. As fate would have it she never makes it to her destination. Instead, she meets the Duke of Buckingham. He has a proposal that can change her life forever. The story was fabulous. She, a novice, learns at the hands of an expert the BDSM lifestyle. I loved the fact the author gives the main characters' points of view throughout the story. I enjoy reading what each character is feeling and thinking. I couldn't be more pleased with the characters, storyline, or settings. I am impatiently waiting for the next book to come out. I was given a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. Greyling54 More than 1 year ago I received this book in exchange for an honest review. Having read the first 2 books in Taylor's Ruttingdon Series, I looked forward to the third volume and was not disappointed. It is not necessary to read the first 2 books. Having Faith stands on its own. Connecting shy, innocent Faith, with the handsome, but extremely dominant and kinky Duke of Buckingham is done through a series of reasonably plausible coincidences. Once they meet, he offers her the position of "slave" for a week, possibly a month. They even draw up a contract, which seems amazingly 21st century, but in context, it works. The characters of Faith and the Duke are well drawn and developed. Motivations for both are clear. Faith initially accepts the Duke's offer because the money she will earn will set her up almost for life. The Duke becomes taken with the idea of taking an almost virgin and training her. I particularly like the chapter epigrams from "On the Art of Slavery, by an English Gentleman" which seem to come from a guide the Duke decides to write. The BDSM and sex scenes are explicit and very well done. They are frequent (after all, Faith is learning to become a slave and needs lots of instruction), but not repetitive. The story ends, not with an HEA, but with the first chapter of the next book, which Taylor's website says will be released in early September. Her comment is something to the effect that the story got too long. So Having Faith is really the first half of the book. I look forward to the second half with bated breath. I read this not quite in one sitting, but almost.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2810
__label__wiki	0.640866	0.640866	Harley: We won’t raise prices, but we’ll move production abroad By Ben Purvis Writing about bikes for 20 years. Published in dozens of titles on five continents. Mildly obsessed with discovering how things work. Harley prices to remain unchanged Despite the huge hike in tax, Harley-Davidson says it won’t be increasing prices in Europe. Instead it’s going to absorb the increased cost – which it puts at £1660 ($2200) per bike – until it can move production of EU-bound Harleys to factories outside the USA. That could take as long as 18 months, though. Harley-Davidson explained its moves in a ‘Form 8-K’ filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission, used to notify investors of important events that could alter a company’s financial position. In the filing, the firm explained: The European Union has enacted tariffs on various U.S.-manufactured products, including Harley-Davidson motorcycles. These tariffs, which became effective June 22, 2018, were imposed in response to the tariffs the U.S. imposed on steel and aluminum exported from the EU to the U.S. Consequently, EU tariffs on Harley-Davidson motorcycles exported from the U.S. have increased from 6% to 31%. Harley-Davidson expects these tariffs will result in an incremental cost of approximately $2,200 per average motorcycle exported from the U.S. to the EU. However, Harley said that it couldn’t pass this cost onto either its dealer network or customers, so it won’t be raising prices in response to the new taxes. Instead it will absorb the cost. The filing says: Harley-Davidson will not raise its manufacturer’s suggested retail prices or wholesale prices to its dealers to cover the costs of the retaliatory tariffs. In the near-term, the company will bear the significant impact resulting from these tariffs, and the company estimates the incremental cost for the remainder of 2018 to be approximately $30 to $45 million. On a full-year basis, the company estimates the aggregate annual impact due to the EU tariffs to be approximately $90 to $100 million. Harley might be able to bear the cost of the EU tariffs for a while, but in the longer term the company’s plan is to move the production of motorcycles destined for Europe to plants based outside the USA. Its Form 8-K filing reads: Harley-Davidson will be implementing a plan to shift production of motorcycles for EU destinations from the U.S. to its international facilities to avoid the tariff burden. Harley-Davidson expects ramping-up production in international plants will require incremental investment and could take at least 9 to 18 months to be fully complete. Exactly where EU-bound bikes will be made remains unknown at the moment, but Harley already has assembly plants in Brazil, India and Thailand. The Indian plant already manufactures the small-capacity Street 500 and Street 750 models for some other markets, too. Europe still a key market Harley-Davidson’s biggest market by far remains the USA, where approaching 150,000 Harleys were sold last year. But Europe is its next-largest outlet, with around 40,000 annual sales. That means it’s been put into a tough spot by the latest European tariffs. Harley-Davidson’s all-American image is a key part of the firm’s appeal in its homeland and to European H-D buyers. In America, the plan to shift export production outside the USA has already drawn criticism from President Trump, who tweeted: “Surprised that Harley-Davidson, of all companies, would be the first to wave the White Flag. I fought hard for them and ultimately they will not pay tariffs selling into the E.U., which has hurt us badly on trade, down $151 Billion. Taxes just a Harley excuse - be patient! #MAGA” And at the moment it’s not clear how European customers will react to being offered Harleys that aren’t made in the USA. Plans could yet change Donald Trump’s tweet – saying ‘ultimately they will not pay tariffs’ selling into the EU – seems to indicate that he doesn’t believe the EU tariffs are here to stay. And Harley too is hoping that a trade agreement can be reached that will bring them to an end. In its SEC filing the firm said: Harley-Davidson’s purpose is to fulfill dreams of personal freedom for customers who live in the European Union and across the world, and the company remains fully engaged with government officials in both the U.S. and the EU helping to find sustainable solutions to trade issues and rescind all tariffs that restrict free and fair trade. However, with the tariffs now in force, the firm can’t afford to sit on its hands and simply wait for the issue to blow over, particularly since there may yet be further EU tariffs. The EU has already put in place a list of goods that could be hit with a second wave of tariffs from 23 March 2021, or earlier if the World Trade Organisation’s Dispute Settlement Body rules that the US measures aren’t consistent with provisions of the WTO Agreement. If the dispute continues for that long, US-made motorcycles could get an additional 25% tariff, pushing the total to 56%. Harley-Davidson says that it will reveal more information about both the financial implications of the EU tariffs and its plans to mitigate them during its second-quarter earnings conference on July 24. Trump not happy Donald Trump went on a twitter tirade when the news of Harley’s plan for overseas production emerged. It included a statement that if Harley wants to sell foreign-made bikes in the US market, they’ll have to pay a ‘big tax’ – suggesting that he could hit back at EU tariffs with his own additional tax on imported motorcycles. This story may only just be beginning. Here’s what Trump said on Twitter: Early this year Harley-Davidson said they would move much of their plant operations in Kansas City to Thailand. That was long before Tariffs were announced. Hence, they were just using Tariffs/Trade War as an excuse. Shows how unbalanced & unfair trade is, but we will fix it..... — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) 26 June 2018 ....When I had Harley-Davidson officials over to the White House, I chided them about tariffs in other countries, like India, being too high. Companies are now coming back to America. Harley must know that they won’t be able to sell back into U.S. without paying a big tax! A Harley-Davidson should never be built in another country-never! Their employees and customers are already very angry at them. If they move, watch, it will be the beginning of the end - they surrendered, they quit! The Aura will be gone and they will be taxed like never before! 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__label__cc	0.624955	0.375045	Berklee Alumnus Nominated for Best Orchestrations Tony Award Tori Donahue Jamshied Sharifi ‘85 received his first Tony nomination today for Best Orchestrations Arkadiusz Banasik Berklee alumnus Jamshied Sharifi ‘85 received his first Tony nomination today for Best Orchestrations for the musical The Band’s Visit. He studied film scoring, jazz piano, and composition while a student at the college. Sharifi also taught in the Music Production and Engineering and Ensemble departments between 1988 and 1992, before moving to New York to pursue his music. Boston Conservatory at Berklee alumna Rachel Prather (B.F.A. '12, musical theater) stars as Julia in The Band’s Visit, which was also nominated for Best Musical. Tony-winning producers Ben Simpson (B.F.A. ’11 musical theater) and Joe Longthorne (B.F.A. ‘12 musical theater), both Conservatory alumni, produced the musical. Additionally, various College and Conservatory alumni contributed to many of the year’s top Tony-nominated shows, including Frozen (Stephen Oremus B.M. ’92; Austin Lesch B.F.A. ‘04, musical theater, ensemble), My Fair Lady (Liz McCartney G.P.D. ’88, musical theater, ensemble; Matt Wall B.F.A. ’95, musical theater, ensemble), and Junk (Stephanie Umoh B.F.A. ’08, musical theater, ensemble). If Sharifi were to win the Tony, it would be the third consecutive year a Berklee alumnus has won in the Best Orchestrations category; Alex Lacamoire B.M. ’95 took home the award in 2017 and 2016. Best Orchestrations The Band’s Visit: Jamshied Sharifi ‘85 Berklee Alumni and Faculty Receive Grammy Nominations Alumni and Faculty Who Made 2018's Best Music Nine Berklee Alumni, Three Faculty Members Win Grammy Awards Guitar Sessions: Michael Williams Monday / August 12, 2019 / 7:30 pm Giorgio Albanese Thursday / August 22, 2019 / 5:30 pm Club Passim Cindy Latin Friday / September 6, 2019 / 12:00 pm	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2813
__label__cc	0.583287	0.416713	Reigning Ironman World Champion Mirinda Carfrae to race Asia Pacific Ironman Championships in Melbourne Posted On Feb 12 2015 Current IRONMAN® World Champion Mirinda Carfrae will be the headline act at the 2015 IRONMAN® Asia-Pacific Championship in Melbourne on March 22, 2015. It is the first time Carfrae, one of triathlon’s greatest runners of all time, has raced on Australian soil since finishing third in 2012’s inaugural IRONMAN®Melbourne event behind Switzerland’s Caroline Steffen. “I’m looking forward to racing again at home. Winning an Australian IRONMAN title is not something I’ve done yet, so I’d love to add one to my resume,” Carfrae said. Carfrae’s record at the IRONMAN World Championship is stellar, including a third-place finish in 2012, second-place finishes in 2009 and 2011, and wins in 2010, 2013 and 2014. At last year’s race she finished the 3.8km swim and 180km bike with a deficit of 14:30 minutes – and then turned in of the greatest runs the sport has ever seen, with a time of 2:50:27, to claim her third IRONMAN World Championship title. Carfrae’s win also extended Australia’s dominance of the sport’s most prestigious title, as an Australian has won the men’s or women’s IRONMAN World Championship every year since 2006. “It was tough to stay positive for particularly the first half of the run last year. The girls started the run really well, it wasn’t until the last 15km that they started to falter. Fortunately for me I was able to hold my form and come out on top,” she said. Carfrae would love nothing more than to win a major title in her home country, however, she will again face defending IRONMAN Asia-Pacific Champion, Caroline Steffen. See also: Gallery: Images from Challenge Venice “It’s a championship race so some of the girls will be really targeting it and be in great shape. I’ll put my nose to the grindstone for the next four weeks, aiming to be as fit as I can be to have a shot at the title,” Carfrae said. This is the first time in over a year that Carfrae will be training in Australia. “This trip is well overdue and flying in was a nice feeling,” Carfrae added. “My family is excited to have me back and I enjoyed spending time with them in Brisbane. I have six nieces and nephews and the oldest is seven, they change so quickly so I always miss out when I’m away too long.” follow us on facebook.com/asiatrilive Challenge Walchsee-Kaiserwinkl to host the 2016 ETU European Half Distance Triathlon Championships Ironman 70.3 Panama Returns in 2016 as Pan American Pro Championship Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the latest news, chance to win free race slots and more….	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2815
__label__cc	0.543534	0.456466	'Buff' film by Stephen Burke is now online! Niamh McCabe · July 10, 2019 You can can check out ‘Buff’ - a short film by Stephen Burke, on Vimeo from today!! Over the last three years, Stephen created the film in collaboration with Irish film maker Sean Clarke. The 16 minute feature is set in Dublin city and investigates the style and psychology behind buffing in Ireland. Buffing is the name given to describe the removal of the painting over of graffiti. It is a daily task undertaken by councils, private home owners and contracted companies around the world. Through many years of investigation, and documentation, the film ‘Buff’ is developed from the perspective that buffing can be identified, and be critically engaged with, as a creative art form itself. Check out the video below, or by following this link: https://vimeo.com/345893806 ARTIST TALK & FILM SCREENING BY STEPHEN BURKE Niamh McCabe · June 24, 2019 The event is the culmination of an exciting partnership between Atelier Maser, OFFSET, the RHA!! Registration link: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/atelier-maser-x-offset-x-rha-artist-talk-film-screening-by-stephen-burke-tickets-63372700453 Join us for a film screening and Q&A event with Stephen Burke, taking place on Wednesday 26th June at the RHA School in Dublin. Stephen Burke is a contemporary Irish artist living in Glasgow, Scotland. He is the next artist to exhibit at Atelier Maser, and his solo exhibition 'Utility' will launch to the public the following day in Atelier Maser. At the RHA event, the Q&A will be hosted by Bren Byrne from Offset and Stephen will also be premiering a16min short film. Stephen created the film, titled 'Buff', alongside Irish filmmaker Sean Clarke. It is part of a larger project of the same name that investigates the painting over, or covering up of graffiti, within Dublin (also known as 'buffing'). The project has greatly informed Stephen's artistic practice, and this event will be a fantastic insight to his creative concept and process behind Stephen's art work. Guests attending the artists talk and film screening will be added to the guest list for a special preview of Stephen's exhibition which takes place at 6pm on Thursday 27th June at Atelier Maser. For more information about the artist and exhibitions please visit: www.ateliermaser.com www.stephenburkeart.com Please note, places are very limited. If you RSVP and can no longer make it - please release your ticket. 'Utility' a solo exhibition by Stephen Burke Niamh McCabe · June 7, 2019 Join us on Thursday 27th June to launch a solo exhibition of new work by Stephe Burke! The show kicks off from 6-9pm at Atelier Maser, with drinks sponsored by Jameson. We hope to see you there! Stephen Burke is a contemporary Irish artist, currently living and working in Glasgow, Scotland. Since the age of fifteen Stephen has grown strong roots in the Irish street art community, and in more recent years, he has evolved his artistic practice into the realm of fine arts. Stephen has exhibited extensively across Ireland and the UK, including shows at Glasgow School of Art (UK), The Law Society of Ireland (IRL) and The Pipe Factory (UK). Stephen creates work inspired by our shared public places and in doing so, he diverts our perception away from the conventional ideals associated with these spaces. The resulting artworks strive to bring a broader interest in the many irregular characteristics which make up our built environment. For ‘Utility’, Stephen’s exhibition at Atelier Maser, visitors will have the opportunity to see a new body of work which includes a collection of tiled paintings and a steel sculpture that are informed by, and recollective of the city landscape. The exhibition at Atelier Maser will launch on Thursday 27th June 2019, and continue until Wednesday 17th July. Follow Stephen on insta: https://www.instagram.com/stefano.bardsley/ Check out his website: https://www.stephenburkeart.com/ Tags: atelier maser, dublin art, stephen burke, Irish art	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2816
__label__wiki	0.86523	0.86523	Showing results by narrator "David Birney" Literature & Fiction (10) Mysteries & Thrillers (8) Parenting & Relationships (1) Politics & Social Sciences (1) Teen & Young Adult (1) 3-6 Hours (11) Over 20 Hours (1) Abridged (6) Sort by Relevance Newest Arrivals Best-selling Title Length Avg. Customer Review Written by: Orson Scott Card Narrated by: David Birney, Stefan Rudnicki Best selling SF author Orson Scott Card brings to life a new chapter in the saga of Ender's Earth. Earth and its society have been changed irrevocably in the aftermath of Ender Wiggin's victory over the Formics. The unity forced upon the warring nations by an alien enemy has shattered. Nations are rising again, seeking territory and influence, and most of all, seeking to control the skills and loyalty of the children from the Battle School. Series: Ender's Shadow, Book 3, The Enderverse, Book 8 Speaker for the Dead In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: the Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War. Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered by Portuguese colonists on the planet Lusitania. But again the aliens' ways are strange and frightening...again, humans die. And it is only the Speaker for the Dead, who is also Ender Wiggin the Xenocide, who has the courage to confront the mystery...and the truth. Best Fictional Book I've Ever Read By Joseph Gindo on 2019-01-25 Series: The Enderverse, Book 11, Ender's Game, Book 2 Shadow of the Hegemon Narrated by: David Birney, Scott Brick, Gabrielle de Cuir Orson Scott Card tells a tale long awaited by millions of fans: the story of how Bean turned away from his first friend, Ender, and became the tactical genius who won the Earth for Ender's brother, Peter, who became the Hegemon. great book, editing could be better. By Amazon Customer on 2019-05-13 Shadow of the Giant Narrated by: David Birney, Scott Brick, Full Cast Bean, once the smallest student at the Battle School, and Ender Wiggin's right hand, has grown to be a power on Earth. He served the Hegemon as strategist and general in the terrible wars that followed Ender's defeat of the alien empire attacking Earth. Now he wishes for a safe place to build a family, something he has never known, but there is nowhere on Earth that does not harbor his enemies; old enemies from the days in Ender's Jeesh, new enemies from the wars on Earth. Ender in Exile Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki, David Birney, Cassandra Campbell, and others Andrew Wiggin is told that he can no longer live on Earth, and he realizes that this is the truth. He has become far more than just a boy who won a game: he is the Savior of Earth, a hero, a military genius whose allegiance is sought by every nation of the newly shattered Earth Hegemony. He is offered the choice of living in isolation on Eros, at one of the Hegemony's training facilities, but instead the 12-year-old chooses to leave his home world and begin the long relativistic journey out to the colonies. Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki, David Birney, Cassandra Campbell, Emily Janice Card, Don Leslie, Mirron Willis, Orson Scott Card Series: The Enderverse, Book 10, Ender's Game, Book 10 Murder for Christmas Tales of Seasonal Malice Written by: Margery Allingham, Marjorie Bowen, Agatha Christie, and others Narrated by: David Birney, Robert Culp, Paul Eddington, and others Ah, the pleasures of Christmas...the hanging of greens, the traditional feast, the gathering families, a few secrets in the air...and a bit of murder, conspiracy, and theft. The holiday season seems to inspire the imagination of the best mystery writers, and their talents shine here in these delightful tales of Yuletide crime. So seize a few quiet hours in this busiest of seasons to enjoy their sleigh full of mysterious treasures, here with the finest of flair. Written by: Margery Allingham, Marjorie Bowen, Agatha Christie, John Collier, Arthur Conan Doyle, Stanley Ellin, Ngaio Marsh, Dorothy L Sayers Narrated by: David Birney, Robert Culp, Paul Eddington, John Standing Series: Roderick Alleyn The Greatest Mysteries of All Time, Volume 2 Written by: Frederick Irving Anderson, Harlan Ellison, Thomas Hardy, and others Narrated by: David Birney, Harlan Ellison, Judy Geeson, and others Breathtaking suspense, cold-blooded crime and challenging twists of plot make this collection a chilling audio experience. Featuring the finest short story mystery fiction by the most acclaimed writers, past and present, including: "Soft Monkey" by Harlan Ellison, "The Adventures of the Unique 'Hamlet'" by Vincent Starrett, "The New Girlfriend" by Ruth Rendell, "The Infallible Godahl" by Frederick Irving Anderson, "The Three Strangers" by Thomas Hardy, and more.... Written by: Frederick Irving Anderson, Harlan Ellison, Thomas Hardy, O. Henry, Jack London, Charles McCarry, Ruth Rendell, Vincent Starrett Narrated by: David Birney, Harlan Ellison, Judy Geeson, Edward Herrmann, David Warner, Efrem Zimbalist Jr. Murder in America A Coast to Coast Collection of Murder and Mayhem Written by: Whitley Strieber, Mary Higgins Clark, William F. Nolan, and others Narrated by: Arte Birney, David Johnson, Perry King, and others A collection of coast-to-coast murder and mayham, including these unabridged short stories: "Vaudeville" by Whitley Strieber, read by Roddy McDowell; "Lucky Day" by Mary Higgins Clark, read by Betsy Palmer; "Starstruck" by Jon A. Breen, read by James Stacy; "Snookered" by Gerald Tomlinson, read by David Birney; "It Was Bad Enough" by Ron Goulart, read by Arte Johnson and Gee Whiz; "My Lovely" by Betty Buchanan, read by Joan Rivers. Written by: Whitley Strieber, Mary Higgins Clark, William F. Nolan, Jon A. Breen, Gerald Tomlinson, Ron Goulart, Betty Buchanan Narrated by: Arte Birney, David Johnson, Perry King, Roddy McDowall, Betsy Palmer, Joan Rivers, James Stacy Murder on the Aisle The 1987 Mystery Writers of America Anthology Written by: Joan Richter, Isak Romun, Henry Slesar, and others Narrated by: David Birney, Arte Johnson, Perry King, and others Prepare to be entertained by a host of Hollywood celebrities reading the finest collection of short mystery stories surrounding the world of entertainment. Written by: Joan Richter, Isak Romun, Henry Slesar, John F. Suter, Gerald Tomlinson, Lawrence Treat Narrated by: David Birney, Arte Johnson, Perry King, Roddy McDowall, Joan Rivers Written by: Jon A. Breen, Mary Higgins Clark, Ron Goulart, and others Stories by Seven Renowned American mystery writers offer a delightful mix of mystery, suspense and murder in this new anthology. Written by: Jon A. Breen, Mary Higgins Clark, Ron Goulart, William F. Nolan, Whitley Strieber Narrated by: David Birney, Arte Johnson, Perry King, Betsy Palmer, Joan Rivers Masterpieces of Modern Short Fiction Written by: Ambrose Bierce, Joseph Conrad, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and others Narrated by: David Birney, Michael York An eclectic compendium of the finest short fiction of the last 150 years, featuring works by Paul Theroux, Joseph Conrad, James Ellroy, Ambrose Bierce, Charlotte Perkins Gillman, Aldous Huxley, Philip Roth, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Written by: Ambrose Bierce, Joseph Conrad, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Aldous Huxley, Joyce Carol Oats, Philip Roth, Paul Theroux, Orson Welles, Isabel Allende Pure Voice Audio Bible - King James Version, KJV: New Testament Written by: Zondervan Narrated by: Rene Auberjonois, Theodore Bikel, David Birney, and others The New Testament of the King James Version Bible in a pure voice audio format: each book of the New Testament is read one voice at a time. Clear and uncluttered, this Bible speaks plainly and makes it easier for you to enter into God’s Word. Acclaimed audiobook readers speak new life into the cherished and revered King James Version of the Bible, including Scott Brick, Edward Herrmann, John Rubinstein, LeVar Burton, Theodore Bikel, Samantha Eggar, Robert Forster, Kristoffer Tabori, and more. Narrated by: Rene Auberjonois, Theodore Bikel, David Birney, Scott Brick, LeVa Burton, Samantha Eggar, Robert Forster, Edward Herrmann Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front, in the Words of U.S. Troops and Their Families Written by: various Narrated by: David Birney, Scott Brick, Orson Scott Card, and others In the summer of 2004, the National Endowment for the Arts organized a series of writing workshops, led by prominent authors, to encourage U.S. troops and their families to record their experiences and reflections on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The result is this extraordinary volume of first-hand letters, poems, journals, memoirs, and e-mails from the men and women directly involved in battle and their families back home. Narrated by: David Birney, Scott Brick, Orson Scott Card, Harlan Ellison, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Stephanie Zimbalist The Conspiracy Club Written by: Jonathan Kellerman Narrated by: David Birney When his brief, passionate romance with nurse Jocelyn Banks is cut short by her kidnapping and brutal murder, Dr. Jeremy Carrier is left emotionally devastated, haunted by his lover's grisly demise and warily eyed by police still seeking a prime suspect in the unsolved slaying. To escape the pain, he buries himself in his work as staff psychologist at City Central Hospital, only to be drawn deeper into a waking nightmare when more women turn up murdered in the same gruesome fashion as Jocelyn Banks. The Greatest Speeches of All Time Written by: Joan of Arc, Winston Churchill, Susan B. Anthony, and others Narrated by: David Birney, Loretta Swit More than 40 speeches - considered among the greatest of all time - comprise this marvelous collection. All the works you'll hear are unabridged, and the most contemporary are live recordings. Included are speeches by Susan B. Anthony, Joan of Arc, Winston Churchill, Jefferson Davis, Amelia Earhart, and John F. Kennedy. Written by: Joan of Arc, Winston Churchill, Susan B. Anthony, Amelia Earhart, John F. Kennedy, George Washington Pure Voice Audio Bible - King James Version, KJV: (35) 1 and 2 Thessalonians, 1 and 2 Timothy, Titus, and Philemon Written by: Zondervan Bibles Narrated by: David Birney, Edward Herrmann, Richard McGonagle Length: 1 hr More than a Bible you listen to, the King James Version Audio Bible is an experience that helps you enter into God's Word... so God's Word can enter into you. The books of 1 and 2 Thessalonians, 1 and 2 Timothy, Titus, and Philemon, from the poetic, classic King James Version of the Bible, have been digitally produced to bring the Bible's stories to life. Performed by David Birney, Edward Herrmann, and Richard McGonagle, this vivid recording will help you hear God's word again... for the first time. Out on the Rim Written by: Ross Thomas Shadowy and well-financed interests need a resourceful and gutsy team to engineer the transfer of funds to fund a revolt against a new government. And what a team it is! There's Booth Stallings, a terrorism expert, the only man the rebel leader trusts as a liaison. And there's Georgia Blue, a colorful statuesque lady bodyguard. Their point man: Otherguy Overby, so called for his skill in making sure whenever he's in trouble, that the other guy did it. Classic Stories from the American Frontier Written by: Gary McCarthy, Zane Grey, Gordon D. Shirreffs Narrated by: David Birney, Arte Johnson, Joseph Campanella Wild mustangs, ghosts on the ranch, gun-toting outlaws and trailblazing cowboys roam the pages of this collection of 8 classic stories about the American frontier. Travel down "The Road to Hell" with a mysterious ranch builder, face down the "Yellow Devil" mountain lion, travel "Where the Wind Blows Free," and join in on a herd of other adventures that will keep you reading until long after high noon. Classic Stories of the American West Written by: Stephen Crane, Bret Harte, Jack London Narrated by: David Birney, Robert Forster, Arte Johnson, and others This collection features a selection of classic short stories and poems by legendary Western authors Stephen Crane, Bret Harte, and Jack London. Narrated by: David Birney, Robert Forster, Arte Johnson, Stephen Hoye, Stefan Rudnicki, William Windom, Rex Linn, full cast The Dab of Dickens, The Touch of Twain, and The Shade of Shakespeare Written by: Elliot Engel PhD Narrated by: Elliot Engel, David Birney, Scott Brick, and others They are icons of the literary world whose soaring works have been discussed and analyzed in countless classrooms, homes, and pubs. Yet for most readers, the living, breathing human beings behind the classics have remained unknown - until now. In this utterly captivating book, Dr. Elliot Engel, a leading authority on the lives of great authors, illuminates the fascinating and flawed members of literature’s elite. In lieu of stuffy biographical sketches, Engel provides fascinating anecdotes. Narrated by: Elliot Engel, David Birney, Scott Brick, Grover Gardner, Joe Barrett, Stefan Rudnicki, Ralph Cosham Show 20 30 40 titles per page	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2817
__label__cc	0.718206	0.281794	Showing results by narrator "Ginger Roll" Sci-Fi & Fantasy (1) Whispersync (10) Mindfulness: A Practical Guide on Mindfulness for Beginners By: Jane Peters, Mindfulness Guide Narrated by: Ginger Roll Mindfulness can help us to improve our physical and mental well-being by helping us to improve our awareness of ourselves and our surroundings. As a tradition, mindfulness has deep roots stretching back thousands of years into the timeless wisdom of the East. Scholars have detailed how mindfulness practices can be used as a way to wisdom while people from the worlds of sport, business, and government today adopt mindfulness as part of their strategies for success. How to be a Grandmother Your Step-by-Step Guide to Grandmothering By: HowExpert Press If you want to discover how to be a good grandmother, then get this guide. In this step-by-step guide, you will find out real-life lessons on how to be a better grandmother and have a better relationship with your grandchildren. Ultimate Survival Guide to Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Your Newborn By: Sylvia Swanson So, you have just found out that you are pregnant and expecting a newborn baby? Wonderful! In a few months, you will meet the little angel that will become the center of your whole world. You are about to embark on a unique adventure, which will transform not only your body but also your personality. The Apostles in Plain English, Vol. 1: The Apostle Paul - The Writings of Paul in Their Order of Appearance in the Bible By: Rev. Paul J. Bern Five years in the making, this first of a series is a lot more than just a compilation of Bible studies. This collection of Paul's writings presents them from a broader perspective that is much more applicable to modern life than one might expect. These studies of the apostle Paul begin with Romans and end with Philemon, with everything in between. This study of Paul's writings is done from a whole new perspective that is sure to educate, while making the process enjoyable. By: Cindy Carroll A road trip without a plan sounded like a good idea when Lena and her friends hit the road. After hours of driving in the heat in a cramped car they're all ready for something to eat and a good night's rest. Reflections Inn looks perfect for the group of friends. A little run down, it hides a supernatural horror. A curse that replaces people with their repressed alter egos forces the friends to fight for their lives. Duplicates who lack restraint, crave gratification emerge from the mirrors. Too late they realize they didn't know each other as well as they thought. Your Step-by-Step Guide to Selling on eBay By: HowExpert Press, Ann Marie Moore How to Sell on eBay will take you from knowing zero to becoming a real seller. But just knowing how to set up a listing on eBay is not enough. When you make the decision to sell on eBay you have to consider the serious opportunities that can really open up to you. How to Get Good Grades: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Getting Good Grades If you want to know the secrets on how to excel in your academic standing, then get a copy of this How To Get Good Grades guide. In this step-by-step guide you will be able to learn the following: How to deal with different types of teachers. How to avoid failing. How to prepare yourself in studying your lessons. How to manage your time. Princess Discovered The Lost Children of Ka'Orah, Book 1 By: Jenna Riley Chloe Sommers, an up-and-coming Seattle artist is haunted by her childhood amnesia. Frightening nightmares are pulling apart her self-made life until the night Nico Decker thrusts her amidst his family and tears down the walls separating herself from her past...and her future. The Stickier Side of Love, Book 1 Laurel Tate's world is upended when she catches her long-time boyfriend in a compromising position with a candy counter clerk. Determined to start a new future, she packs her bags and heads to the small-town security of Thunder Mountain, Washington, where she spent blissful teenage vacations. Now she's ready for the simple life. All she has to do is manage the stickier side of love. Valentina Goldman Ships Out By: Marisol Murano After her husband's unexpected departure a year ago, poor Valentina is stuck. Help arrives in the form of an unwelcome guest: her mother, who shows up unannounced at Valentina's doorstep to take her on a 12-day Mediterranean cruise full of unexpected detours. If you've always longed to go on a cruise, ship out with Valentina. And if you've never wanted to go on a cruise, go anyway. You are likely find yourself alternately delighted and surprised by her quirky encounters at sea and alluring ports of call. Series: Valentina Goldman, Book 2 Valentina Goldman's Immaculate Confusion Since her arrival in the US from Venezuela, Valentina Goldman isn't exactly living the American dream. She is living the American nightmare. Her late husband, Max, has left her a young widow, an angry ex-wife who is keeping the secret of Max's untimely departure, plus an American step-daughter Valentina cannot figure out. Angels at the Gate By: T.K. Thorne Secretly raised as a boy in her father's caravan and schooled in languages and the fine art of negotiation, Adira rejects the looming changes of womanhood that threaten her nomadic life and independence. With the arrival of two mysterious Northmen, rumored to be holy men, Adira's world unravels. She loses everything she values most, including the "Angel" who has awakened her desires. Covered in Pet Fur How to Start an Animal Rescue By: Stacey Ritz Non-profit organization founders Amy Beatty and Stacey Ritz discuss in detail the ins and outs of running a successful non-profit organization. From the early days of animal shelter volunteer work to currently running a sustainable and viable organization within their community, the authors discuss both their successes and failures in forming and running their organization. While non-profit organizations are often characterized as a labor of love, keen business sense, ingenuity, and dedication to one's passion are essential ingredients for any business. Creativity: Simple Steps Toward Thinking Outside the Box & Boosting Imagination By: Lara Lesinksky Creativity is a gift shared by all, yet most of us have been led to believe that if we are not starving artists, musicians, or writers, then creative thinking is not something we are capable of. This just isn't true and to prove it I've brought together some of the best methods to trigger and retain that creative spark within. Miracles Sandwiched Between the Challenges Making It Through the Roller Coasters of My Life (with the Help of My Guardian Angels) By: Renee Alter This book was inspired after I attended my first Toastmasters meeting. Part of the meeting was calling up newcomers and giving them a Table Topic to speak about for seven minutes; designed for encouraging quick thinking. It seemed like a miracle to me that the topic I was given was to explain the difference between living and existing. I had just finished outlining all the situations in my life in which I had experienced miracles...ones that were sandwiched between all the challenges. The Land of Mark The Land of Mark is a tale woven from my personal experience while participating in the Landmark Education/Forum many years ago. There is what happened in our life and the stories we made up about what happened in our life. What most people don't realize (and I certainly didn't) are things I concluded about myself when I was barely three years old. I hope you can find some truth about yourself and those you love in this story.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2818
__label__cc	0.748794	0.251206	Roland and BOSS Present an Evening with Legendary Guitarist Andy Summers Jim Bybee Artists Bass, CE-1, CE-2, CE-2W, Chorus, Delay, echo, Flanger, GRAMMY, GRAMMY Museum, guitar, photography, recording, Robert Fripp, Stewart Copeland, Sting, Strat, Stratocaster, Tele, Telecaster, The Police, vocals, Waza Craft New Album Debut and Solo Performance, Streamed Live from the GRAMMY Museum On Thursday, March 23, 2017, Roland and BOSS will present a special evening with award-winning guitarist and composer Andy Summers at the GRAMMY Museum® in Los Angeles. The event celebrates his latest release, Triboluminescence, and will feature a conversation with the artist and an intimate solo music performance. Summers is a noted photographer as well, and the event will also include a multimedia presentation with never-before-seen original photography, backed by a live improvised guitar soundtrack. The evening will be live-streamed on the Roland and BOSS Facebook pages as a Facebook Live event. Read on to find out more!	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2829
__label__wiki	0.754649	0.754649	DEA seizes $1.8 million in heroin, fentanyl The Maine Drug Enforcement Agency announces the arrests of two people for Trafficking in Heroin/Fentanyl and the seizure of over eight pounds of the drug — half of the amount seized in Sanford, Maine and the other half seized in Massachusetts. It is the largest seizure of heroin in Maine. The arrests of the man and woman took place on Friday, January 13, in Sanford. 39 year old Jason Bolduc of Parsonsfield was arrested by state and federal drug agents after police stopped a vehicle on Nowell Street in Sanford. Also arrested with Bolduc was 35 year old Nichole Farrar of Sanford. Both were charged with Unlawful Trafficking in a scheduled W drug (Heroin/Fentanyl). Both remain at the York County Jail on $25,000 cash bail. Sanford Police and the York County Sheriff’s Office also assisted. Courtesy of the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency By Laurel J. Sweet \| laurel.sweet@bostonherald.com \| Boston Herald PUBLISHED: January 30, 2017 at 12:00 am \| UPDATED: November 17, 2018 at 12:00 am Authorities in Maine say they seized half of a $1.8 million payload of heroin and fentanyl as part of a drug bust in Massachusetts Friday that they believe was bound for their state. The Maine Drug Enforcement Agency announced today that 4.4 pounds of the potentially lethal drug they and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents intercepted in Massachusetts, combined with close to 4 pounds more that was seized from two vehicles in Sanford, Maine, is the largest in Maine's history. Details of the Bay State bust, as part of a related investigation that started Jan. 13, are not being released at this time, the Herald was told. The approximately 8 pounds of the heroin and fentanyl mix is the equivalent of 35,000 individual doses, according to Maine Public Safety Commissioner John Morris. "The arrests and seizure have likely saved a number of lives from drug overdoses in both Maine and New Hampshire from this poison," Morris said. Authorities arrested a man and woman from Maine earlier this month on drug trafficking charges. They say "a number of suspects have been identified," and more arrests are anticipated. Jason Bolduc, 39, of Parsonsfield, Maine, and Nichole Farrar, 35, of Sanford, Maine, each remain held on $25,000 bail. Bolduc is suspected of having sold the drug out of his home on the Maine-New Hampshire border for the past four months, the MDEA said. Investigators have to date seized $180,354 in cash, several handguns, ledger books detailing drug sales and more than $100,000 worth of vehicles and recreational equipment as part of their investigation of Bolduc. The other half of the drugs was allegedly found in a rental car Bolduc was driving when he was arrested Jan. 13, and in one of his personal vehicles, authorities said. David Price: ‘It’s trash’ for Dennis Eckersley to answer questions about 2017 altercation Cohen: Trump tweet went too far … but he has a point Laurel J. Sweet	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2830
__label__wiki	0.960138	0.960138	Erja Lyytinen brings Finnish blues to Brighton Erja Lyytinen by Tina Korhonen Phil Hewitt Published: 08:49 Friday 15 March 2019 European Blues Award-winner Erja Lyytinen returns to the UK in March, with dates including Brighton, Komedia on Monday, March 18. Erja will release her new studio album in 2019 on her own record label Tuohi Records. The new album will feature guest performances from Sonny Landreth and Jennifer Batten (Michael Jackson). The album will include Erja’s two new singles Without You and Another World, which were released digitally in 2018. “Another World has a lot of meanings,” says Erja “First of all, it is a love story. It’s a dream about loving somebody in another dimension, because it´s not possible in this world. I have always loved sci-fi movies, so I wanted to add something extra-terrestrial and supernatural to the video, too. “It also points out how important it is for us to be aware of environmental aspects. Do we need to find another planet someday to be able to breathe? All this has been wrapped together by these two worlds happening at the same time, and how in the end it is important that we as lovers, and as a human race, could survive.” “We added big guitars on the track and it has a guitar solo inspired of blues rock - guitarists such as Eric Gales and Jimi Hendrix. The melodic 80s rock music was also a source of inspiration while writing the song. Heart is one of my all-time favourite rock bands, and when performing their hit song Alone on Stars Stars on National TV last year, it kind of brought me back to that music style. “I did my first solo album in 2003, and in 2005 I got a contract to a German label and made a bunch of records for them, and then I put my own together. It has been a busy ten to 15 years. But every album is different. Every album is a different baby.” Erja is originally from the eastern part of Finland, close to the Russian border, but she moved to Sweden before moving to Helsinki to pursue her music education: “Helsinki is very vibrant. We have a lot of different types of music, a lot of jazz and so on, and Finland is very well known for its heavy metal music. “I am a blues rocker, I would say. Why I got the blues is a question I have pondered. It’s just the feeling. I just kind of had it when I was 18 or 19. I think I experienced a bit of a heavy time in my life, and for me the blues was about healing those wounds. I remember seeing Ray Charles playing on VHS. It was the feeling. It was the interpretation. He was singing Georgia On My Mind. It was so pure and so honest, and I just thought ‘I want that feeling.’ I wanted to do music that was deep and emotional, music that had meaning.” Which isn’t to say that the blues is solely about sad emotions. “It is also about joy and lust and happiness, and it is about sharing that with other people.” Erja recognises that there is a very distinctive British blues. Plus, of course, there is the American blues, the blues that went around the world. “I live in a dark, sad country. I think the Finnish blues would be a bit Slavic. There is a tone of that. But I have also respected the American tradition and the British tradition, but I guess there is also a bit of Finnish blues inside me.” The Take That musical The Band returns to Southampton The late great Keith Flint to be remembered with Brighton mental-health charity fundraiser Brit inspiration for US country star Sarah Darling as she heads to Brighton Chichester’s Pallant House Gallery explores the work of Harold Gilman in centenary year Chichester set Suzi Ruffell on stand-up road as she heads to Brighton Angmering Chorale celebrates The Glory of Venice The state of play with every Brighton player as they prepare for first pre-season with Graham Potter Thursday’s Premier League whispers: Brighton target Liverpool’s £20m attacker and Higuain to West Ham Wednesday’s Premier League whispers: Are Brighton winning the race for Newcastle’s £15m star and Lindelof to Barcelona? Premier League Transfers: Key duo linked with Brighton exit, Chelsea braced for £45m bid, West Ham eye shock La Liga deal, updates on Newcastle, Liverpool and Everton Brighton & Hove Albion FC More from Brighton & Hove Independent	cc/2019-30/en_head_0044.json.gz/line2835

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