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__label__wiki	0.872899	0.872899	Home » Biomass boiler to put VA facility on cutting edge Biomass boiler to put VA facility on cutting edge February 2011 Upfront A rendering of the new VA energy plant. Construction is expected to start in about two months on a biomass boiler system that will give Chillicothe (Ohio) VA Medical Center the distinction of being the first VA health care facility to utilize the technology. Steven Benson, chief of facilities management at the medical center, says the VA facility is building a new energy plant that will house three new natural gas-fired boilers at a cost of $11.7 million. The additional biomass unit will cost $13.4 million, bringing the total cost of the project to about $25 million, he says. Funding for the biomass boiler came from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Once the biomass unit is up and running, it will provide the 1 million-square-foot facility's entire water heating and steam heat generation needs, Benson says. The natural gas units will serve mostly as backup, especially in extremely cold weather. "It makes a lot of sense financially," Benson says about installing the biomass boiler. "It actually saves costs. Depending on natural gas prices, the biomass boiler will save $600,000 to $900,000 a year in fuel costs. And natural gas likely will increase much more rapidly than biomass. "More than that, the biomass unit is green energy, it's renewable, it's carbon neutral. That is something that's becoming important to the entire power-generating industry," he says. The biomass boiler will burn wood chips, which will be shipped to the facility in semitrailers every day during most of the year. During extreme winter weather, three loads of wood chips will be shipped daily, he adds. The three natural gas boilers are scheduled to be operating by October while the biomass unit is expected to start running by the fall of 2012, Benson say. EPA issues final rule on boiler and incinerator standards April 2011 Checklist EPA announces next steps on boiler and incinerator standards March 2011 Checklist Energy analysis puts winning hospital on cost-cutting path May 2012 Upfront	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line1844
__label__wiki	0.604326	0.604326	Gale Trippsmith With a compelling style, magically rich voice and heartfelt lyrics, Gale Trippsmith's talent and experience in the music business has made her one of the most popular solo artists in the Tampa Bay area. Gale has performed in venues from coffee houses and beach bars to hotels and music halls. Gale has opened for acts like Leon Russell, Al Stewart, Pat Benetar and Leon Redbone. She is a talented singer/songwriter whose lyrics merit as much attention as her strong instrumentals and vocals. Her delightful songs are likely to turn casual listeners into fans because her love of music is both sincere and contagious.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line1846
__label__cc	0.513366	0.486634	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Ypsilanti Community Schools Partner to Implement Powerful Digital Learning Solutions Districtwide HMH Anywhere enables connected learning across virtual and in-person environments with all-in-one platform Ypsilanti, Mich.—Sept. 30, 2020—As students and educators begin the school year across a range of virtual, hybrid and physical environments, Ypsilanti Community Schools has partnered with learning company Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to ensure its community has access to comprehensive, flexible and connected curriculum solutions that can be accessed wherever learning is happening. The school district, which is offering a variety of modalities (in-person, remote, and fully online) this fall, is currently implementing HMH Anywhere™, a digital platform and content solution which offers simple subscription access to one connected teaching and learning experience. Regardless of setting, Ypsilanti educators will be able to leverage HMH’s Ed platform to assign and assess work across the four core subject areas of literacy, math, social studies and science, as well as to measure student growth, proficiency and mastery, and access supplemental adaptive support. “HMH Anywhere is a great fit for our YCS students, families, and staff because it offers a single point of entry where students and staff can access our rigorous curriculum with minimal unnecessary interruptions,” said Alena Zachery-Ross, Superintendent of the Ypsilanti Community Schools. “We are excited about this partnership with HMH because it provides our students exposure to a comprehensive rigorous curriculum that is aligned to the Michigan Academic Standards, and it is designed to cultivate the genius that our students already bring to our classrooms.” Ypsilanti has been using HMH’s leading literacy programs, Into Reading™ and Into Literature™, for over a year. In March, as schools switched to remote learning amidst the onset of the pandemic, students and educators swiftly experienced the benefits of online usage of these programs via HMH’s platform, Ed. “At YCS we committed financial resources and employed a team of ELA Instructional Coaches to support the full implementation of the HMH Into Reading and Into Literature program. Our implementation plan was a complete success. Teachers felt supported, learned how to successfully teach the units of instruction, and learned how to utilize all types of embedded technology tools, programs, and materials included within the HMH program,” added Dr. Carlos Lopez, Assistant Superintendent of the Ypsilanti Community Schools. “As a result, our students receive high quality daily instruction that supports the mastery of the standards.” Building upon this success, the YCS Board of Education adopted the purchase of the HMH Anywhere curriculum solutions on Monday, Sept. 14. As the district ventures through the current school year, YCS educators will receive ongoing content specific professional learning opportunities to deepen engagement with the solutions and help them apply innovative methods for student engagement across a blended learning flipped classroom environment. “HMH is honored to partner with Ypsilanti Community Schools as we collectively navigate this unprecedented, challenging time for the education community,” said Dr. David Bain, Vice President, Academic Planning & Analytics, HMH. “It is abundantly clear that YCS is striving to meet the diverse needs of students, teachers, and families through connected, innovative technologies and content, with a central vision of student achievement and comprehensive educator support as its focus.” HMH Anywhere frees educators from the challenges of managing multiple platforms as they teach across live and asynchronous formats by bringing all components under one roof, including instructional content, professional development and coaching, benchmark assessment, access for families and caregivers, and more. Learn more about HMH’s connected solutions at hmhco.com/connected. About Ypsilanti Community Schools Ypsilanti Community Schools offers many learning opportunities for students. Experts in K-12 education along with the universities, business, and parent partners have assisted in the development of our exciting educational system. YCS accepts all children with compassion and a commitment to meet each child wherever he or she is along the learning spectrum, and grow together from there. About Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (NASDAQ: HMHC) is a learning company committed to delivering connected solutions that engage learners, empower educators and improve student outcomes. As a leading provider of K–12 core curriculum, supplemental and intervention solutions and professional learning services, HMH partners with educators and school districts to uncover solutions that unlock students' potential and extend teachers' capabilities. HMH serves more than 50 million students and 3 million educators in 150 countries, while its award-winning children's books, novels, non-fiction, and reference titles are enjoyed by readers throughout the world. For more information, visit www.hmhco.com. Follow HMH on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. Leah Riviere leah.riviere@hmhco.com HMH Education HMH Books & Media Math Solutions Literacy Solutions © 2020 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved. Terms of Purchase Privacy Policy Site Map Trademarks Permissions Request	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line1850
__label__wiki	0.624835	0.624835	You are here: Home>Themes>Sea and wildlife>Boats>'Naughty but Nice' Cartoonist Tom Browne's Seaside postcard "By the Briny" - "is it quite safe, Enery ?" one of Tom Browne's naughty but nice seaside postcards. For generations of holidaymakers these popular comic postcards were as much a part of the seaside experience as soggy chips and Kiss Me Quick hats. Tom Browne born Thomas Arthur Browne (8 December 1870, Nottingham – 16 March 1910, London), was an extremely popular English strip cartoonist, painter and illustrator of the late Victorian and Edwardian periods. A cheery character by all accounts Tom Browne was a popular artist of comic postcards, using simple line drawings, Browne’s style was ideal for this format and the cards are still highly collectible today. He was a founder member of the London Sketch Club, a Royal Illustrator, a member of the Royal Society of Artists, the Royal Instutute of Painters in Watercolours and the Savage Club. He died after surgery for cancer on 16 March 1910, at the age of 39. Anonymous (157) HPC041.170 rowing boat (5) Tom Browne (5) Edwardian (151) More from Boats Paddlesteamer Nelson Catamaraning next to Hastings Pier Fishermen by the net huts repairing their nets More from Victorian The Victorian Pier View of the Victorian Pier from White Rock gardens Edwardian photographs of Hastings and St Leonards Piers	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line1859
__label__wiki	0.606505	0.606505	Kearney Area Children's Museum 49.2 miles from Stamford, NE At the Kearney Area Children's Museum, the basement is rumored to be haunted. Said to be full of "strange equipment" with unusual stains all over the walls, some witnesses say the temperature dropped suddenly, their hair stood on end and they got a very uneasy feeling. Devil's Canyon McCook, Nebraska A dirt road located 7 miles north of McCook on East 11th Street leads to what locals have named Devil's Canyon. Its story is old and sad: Over 100 years ago a man is said to have killed his wife and kids here, then killed himself. Nicknamed The Duke, his ... Hastings, Nebraska The ghost of a music professor is said to show up in the music hall as an apparition or an orb. He also is said to turn lights on and off. Also, the Altman Hall is said to be haunted by namesake Clara Altman, who is said to act as ... Haunted Bridge Stamford, Nebraska The 1885 story of the haunted bridge begins with Tom Jones and his widowed sister Elizabeth Taylor, who were fighting with their neighbors over their cattle getting into their neighbors' crops. Tom and Elizabeth felt unsafe over the turmoil and bought a shotgun. Soon after, some men were cutting trees ... Plumer Street House Maxwell, Nebraska The Plumer Street house is near the center of town along the first part of the street nearest Maxwell Road. The 2-story house is the site of many tortured souls and has been the site of many deaths. From the house have come wails and cries of tortured infants, and ... Ellis Railroad Museum Ellis, Kansas The jail cell in this railroad museum is believed to be haunted, although it is currently used only for storage. The ghost was a prisoner who drowned in the 1958 flood, unable to escape the rising water. Unexplained noises and an eerie figure that flits past the windows are signs ... Jenners Park Loup City, Nebraska Witnesses at Jenners Park, a former zoo with its old cages still intact, say the sound of disembodied childlike laughter can be heard here at night. Arrow Historic Hotel and Pub Broken Bow, Nebraska There have been many strange reports of paranormal activity in the hotel, which is still in operation. Staff have reportedly seen a grey-haired walking around the building after closing hours, but upon investigating have found no one there, as well as a ghostly man sitting in the cigar room. The ... Broken Bow Library Staff have reported voices in heated arguments in the southeastern corner of the building near closing time. Also heard have been the voices of children laughing and playing accompanied by cold chills. A Guide to the Ghosts of Lincoln Alan Boye BS MA How to Hunt Ghosts: A Practical Guide Joshua P. Warren Haunted Hotels: Eerie Inns, Ghoulish Guests, and Creepy Caretakers Tom Ogden Stamford, Kansas Originally called Fort Fletcher, Fort Hays was a U.S. Army post active 1865-1889, used during the American Indian Wars. In 1929 it opened as a historical park. The ghost said to haunt the premises is known as the Blue Light Lady. According to her legend, she was Elizabeth Polly, who ... Built in 1929 by former Nebraska governor Keith Neville, the former Fox Theatre is now the Neville Center for the Performing Arts. Witnesses say that in the balcony lighting booth, a spirit causes sudden temperature drops and sometimes touches their hands. McCabe Hotel and Building This former historic hotel is now believed to be abandoned, but former tenants reportedly heard footsteps and strange noises on the third floor when there was no one around. (Submitted by Callum Swift) Midland Railroad Hotel Wilson, Kansas 108.3 miles from Stamford, NE Built at the turn of the twentieth century, this historic hotel was the site of an inferno in 1902 that gutted the building, and it has been established that several guests perished in the blaze that took place. Guests staying on the third floor have reportedly smelt smoke and ... » Cemeteries near Stamford, NE » Find museums in Stamford, NE	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line1860
__label__wiki	0.810097	0.810097	Check the live video of HarmonyOS smartwatch, could launch this year By Deng Li Huawei has announced that it’ll bring HarmonyOS 2.0 for smart wearables by this year and now the first look at Huawei’s HarmonyOS powered smartwatch has appeared to show us how its UI really likes. According to Weibo tipster, Changan Digital, Huawei is currently developing a new smartwatch that runs HarmonyOS and may release by the end of this year or early 2021. There’s also a live video of this watch shared by the tipster, featuring round design and showing its software interface. However, the rest of the watch’s body remained hidden under a PCB like showcase. Meanwhile, the software system is very identical to the existing Huawei Watch GT 2 series LiteOS and the watch face reveals features such as SpO2, step count, heart rate monitor, sleep tracker, battery level, activity tracker, and more. The video seems to be recorded from the second day of Huawei’s exhibition at Huawei Developer Conference 2020 (HDC 2020) and it’s part of the live tech session. From the showcase, the watch looks almost completed but there could be some more tuning being done by the Chinese tech giant. At HDC 2020, Richard Yu, Huawei’s Consumer Business Chief announced, starting September 10, HarmonyOS will open for devices from 128KB – 128MB RAM covering IoT devices such as smart TVs, wearables, cars, and more. Aside from IoT, Huawei will also open HarmonyOS 2.0 for device start from 128MB – 4GB RAM in April 2021 and later it’ll add the support for over 4GB RAM. This suggests the launch of smartphones and tablets running HarmonyOS in Early 2021, which was also confirmed by Richard during his opening Keynote. Currently, there’s no official confirmation on the launch of the HarmonyOS smartwatch but we may not have to wait too long to hear an announcement from Huawei. We’ll keep you posted. Related Items:HarmonyOS, HarmonyOS 2.0, Hongmeng OS, Huawei Huawei P50 concept renders shows flat display, center hole punch and triple rear camera AppGallery and HMS working with global partners to strengthen the app ecosystem Huawei aims to install HarmonyOS in 200 million devices by 2021	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line1862
__label__cc	0.520596	0.479404	Mount Greylock Unified Team Edges Wahconah in OT iBerkshires.com Sports 10:41PM / Thursday, October 17, 2019 Print Story \| Email Story DALTON, Mass. -- Aidan Barnes hit a shot from 12 feet with 11 seconds left in overtime to give the Mount Greylock Unified Basketball team a 46-44 win over Wahconah. Barnes scored 16 points to go with Aaron McKeon's team-high 18 for the Mounties. The game was tied 20-20 at half-time and 42-42 at the end of regulation. Wahconah's Tony Marra scored with 11 seconds left in regulation to send the game to OT. Marra finished with a game-high 20 points to go with 10 from Helen Jamrog. Jessica Jones and Cal Prett each scored four, and Chris Morin and Brock Prett each scored a pair for Wahconah. In a game filled with dramatic shots, one of the highlights came in the first half when Hayden Robb brought the ball up the court and hit a jumper from the baseline for his first career basket for Wahconah.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line1870
__label__cc	0.528081	0.471919	Corning Concept Car Features All-Glass Dash But what happens if you crash? For all you tech enthusiasts out there -- Corning is betting on your willingness to get into a car that features a dashboard made entirely of glass. The famous processor of precision glass and ceramics recently unveiled its “Connected Concept Car,” to a roomful of investors, and it features a pretty cutting-edge console made of Gorilla Glass – which is the same stuff that your iPhone screen uses. CNN Money is reporting that the car's glass center console features so much inherent strength that a thin sheet of it, at room temperature, bends like a sheet of plastic. Apparently, that made it easier to create continuous glass shapes that can bend around complex contours. Corning also says “the displays are bright and clear enough to see even in bright daylight and they aren't prone to damage or discoloration from the sun.” Additionally, in the event of a wreck, the glass would crack in that spider web fashion that your phone does when you drop it, rather than into shards of potentially lethal sharp glass. It seems Corning’s desire is to eventually get more Gorilla Glass into vehicles, replacing the soda lime glass that’s currently used on windows and windshields because when a Gorilla windshield reportedly breaks, the glass shatters to the outside of the vehicle, rather than into the interior. However, says CNN Money, the price point on that is still way too high. To put it in perspective, the Ford GT Supercar uses it now because it allows for a much thinner and lighter windshield, but the price of the GT is $450,000. On current regular-people vehicles, the premium might be too high, as it could double the cost of the windshield. I’m Anna Wells and this is IEN Now. Corning Buys Long-Shuttered Plant Welding with Honey and a Pen Light The Corvette-Wagon Hybrid Ford is Bringing Back the Bronco	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line1872
__label__wiki	0.877788	0.877788	Indianapolis Colts first-round pick Malik Hooker will miss the rest of the season after suffering a knee injury in Sunday's 27-0 loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars. Hooker tore the MCL and ACL in his knee, according to coach Chuck Pagano. Hooker tweeted Sunday night: "Was A Fun Year While It Lasted, Enjoyed Every moment Of It. Appreciate All The Support And Love, In The Mean Time Starting This Journey For The Return....Stay Tuned "PS: I WILL BE BACK!!!!" More:Doyel: Pointing fingers at clueless T.Y. Hilton and the hopeless Colts Hooker was attempting to tackle Allen Hurns along the left sideline when he was blindsided by a Jacksonville player making a block and appeared to injury his right knee. Hooker made 21 tackles and had three interceptions this season as the Colts' starting free safety. “Very, very unfortunate," Pagano said. "He’s a great young talent. You hate to see it happen to anybody. He’ll get through it and we’ll help him get through it.” In other injury news, Andrew Luck will not practice this week as expected. Safety Clayton Geathers and offensive lineman Denzelle Good will return to practice, though Geathers is not expected to return until Nov. 26 and Good can't play for at least two more weeks since he is on injured reserve. Starting center Ryan Kelly left the game and did not return after injuring his hamstring. He called the decision to sit out the rest of the day a "collective decision." Kelly suggested the injury was not serious. Pagano said Kelly would be limited in practice but did not rule him out for Sunday. Outside linebacker John Simon, who left the game with what was described as a stinger and did not return, will miss time, according to Pagano. Cornerback Rashaan Melvin was diagnosed with a concussion, meaning he'll be in the concussion protocol heading into next week's game at Cincinnati. Melvin's injury could finally press rookie cornerback Quincy Wilson into action. "We're going to get that kid up, and he's going to play for us," Pagano said. Wilson was a healthy scratch Sunday for the third consecutive game.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line1880
__label__wiki	0.723045	0.723045	You Won't Believe Which Artist Quit the Competition: Ink Master Season 12 Episode 2 Recap Here's what you missed from last week's episode of Ink Master Devon Preston After the elimination of Tim Lease, the artists begin the episode by gathering in a warehouse for their first flash challenge. The judges announce that each week, a pair of Ink Master veterans will return to the competition to coach the contestants. This week, it was season 3 winner Joey Hamilton and season 8 winner Ryan Ashley who came back as coaches. The coaches will not only lead their teams to victory for the flash and elimination challenges, they will have the opportunity to compete for a $25,000 prize at the live finale. However, in the words of Dave Navarro, "To defeat the enemy, you must know the enemy," so each team of artists will be coached by the opposite sex. Therefore, Ryan Ashley coached the men and Joey Hamilton coached the men this week. For their first flash challenge, the teams were tasked with creating an 8x12 ft design using different colored coffee beans. The key word of this challenge was shading and the winning team was given the power to assign the skulls in the elimination challenge. Using only coffee beans, the women created a landscape design, while the men made a castle. And although the judges had positive critiques for both teams, they decided that the men's team had the best design overall in a 2-to-1 vote. For the elimination tattoo, the artists were assigned black-and-grey tattoos—a nod to judges Hamilton and Ashley. The men were given chance to pick the tattoos for the women and the claws came out right away. The men's team was up first during the judging process, with Cam starting off strong with a bold cathedral tattoo. Peck praised the line work in the design, but knocked Cam on his inconsistent saturated blacks. Next up, Jake was told his piece was tonal but the technical application of the design was beautiful. Big Jaz was told his tattoo was big and tough, but was criticized for the lack of contrast between the skull and the headdress. "I don't like it," was the first thing Nunez said when he saw Tito's tattoo, exclaiming that the piece looked like a coverup because of the lack of balance. For Pon, Peck liked the peppery shading but told him that he needed to be able to do soft, smooth blends. Nunez pointed out the lack of contrasting shading styles between the background and the heart of Justin's tattoo. Peck complimented the shading from the lantern in Creepy Jason's design, however, he noted that the rest of the piece was messy. Fon was told that he had the most skills so far with his shader, but Peck pointed out that the unfinished leaves were a "bummer." First off, from the women's team, Holly was complimented for pulling off multiple tones of shading. Peck pointed out the weakness in the line work of Ashley's design, while coach Hamilton weighed in that this artist had one of the most difficult clients of the week. Laura was praised by Peck for her shading in this design but was told that the contrast was somewhat inconsistent throughout the piece. Nunez enjoyed the rich blacks in the fingers of Ash's tattoo, however, he tore apart the shape of the world in the design. Peck called Pony's outline challenged and said the piece was rough overall. Nunez told Alexis that it looked like the woman in her tattoo had just come out of a coal mine and the design overall was too dark. Janelle was told that her tattoo was over shaded and over worked. Elva told that the tattoo wasn't proportional and the design was heavily challenged. Dani was complimented for the shading in her tattoo and showed technical ability in the design. When it came down to deciding the best tattoo of the day, the judges decided in a 2-to-1 vote that Fon was the winner, despite having an unfinished design. His win allowed the men's team the opportunity to determine one artist who deserved to be in the bottom three. The men's team picked Alexis to be considered for elimination, with the judges selecting Elva and Big Jaz. And before the judges could make their choice, Elva decided to eliminate herself from the competition for mental health reasons. This meant, that because a member of the women's team went home, Ryan Ashley would be moving forward to compete at the live finale as a coach. What do you think of this week's episode? Do you think the right artist went home? What was your favorite tattoo from this week? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section. Battle Of The SexesInk MasterParamount NetworkSeason 12 Episode 2 Did The Right Artist Go Home: Ink Master Season 12 Episode 3 Recap Here's What You Missed From the Season 12 Premiere of Ink Master Cross-Stitch Tattoos Take Center Stage on This Week's Episode of Ink Master You Won't Believe Which Tattoo Artist's Canvas Tapped Out Every Tattoo Artist Competing on Ink Master This Season Ink Master Reveals Groundbreaking Theme for Season 12 You Won't Believe Which Tattoo Artists Were in the Bottom This Week Does This Season of Ink Master Have a New Front Runner?	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line1882
__label__wiki	0.77189	0.77189	Press Release June 23, 2020 BrightInsight Raises $40M in Series B Funding to Cement its Position as the Leading Global Regulated Digital Health Platform for Biopharma and Medtech Financing led by Insight Partners, the premier global investor in scaling enterprise software companies, with participation from Series A investors, New Leaf Venture Partners and Eclipse Ventures SAN JOSE, Calif., June 23, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — BrightInsight, Inc., provider of the leading global regulated digital health platform for biopharma and medtech, today announced a Series B funding round of $40M led by global venture capital and private equity firm, Insight Partners, with participation from Series A investors, New Leaf Venture Partners and Eclipse Ventures. The significant funding will fuel extraordinary growth for BrightInsight as it continues to scale its team and platform to meet customer demand. This financing will enable BrightInsight to achieve significant scale by accelerating team growth and international availability and enhancing the already robust BrightInsight Platform. Specifically, the funding will be used to grow BrightInsight’s teams around the world, including establishing a new regional Customer Delivery Center in London to support its European clients. As all its customers operate around the world, BrightInsight will continue to execute on its international expansion plan in China and other Asian markets. The funding will also enable BrightInsight to invest more in its analytics functionalities to enable its customers to drive more valuable insights faster, and to launch new pre-built software assets that will allow its customers to enhance and accelerate their digital clinical trials. “This Series B will enable significant growth and rapid scaling for BrightInsight at a pivotal time for our company. As we continue to grow our customer base and projects, this latest funding will be used to expand our company’s footprint globally so we can be closer to our customers,” said Kal Patel, MD, CEO & Co-Founder, BrightInsight. “The investment from Insight Partners, an active investor in the Software as a Service (SaaS) space, as well as returning investors Eclipse Ventures and New Leaf Venture Partners, further validates our approach of providing the underlying technology so that our biopharma and medtech clients can concentrate on bringing new treatment innovations to market to transform patient outcomes.” Since launching the BrightInsight™ Platform in 2018, the Company has quickly established itself as the de facto underlying digital health infrastructure for the world’s top biopharma and medtech companies. Even amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, BrightInsight has continued to expand its business across current customers, including the addition of two new customers, AstraZeneca and CSL Behring. By accelerating time to market and ensuring ongoing regulatory, security and privacy compliance, BrightInsight enables biopharma and medtech companies to launch regulated digital health products, including connected combination products, Software as a Medical Device, apps, and more, quickly and confidently. Insight has direct experience working with companies in the pharmaceutical space through its Series A investment in Medidata. Peter Sobiloff, Insight Partners Managing Director, led the firm’s investment in Medidata in 2004 and was on the board through IPO. He will now be joining the BrightInsight Board of Directors. “The life sciences industry has been a laggard in terms of digitization due to a number of factors, including complex regulatory, security and privacy requirements," said Peter Sobiloff, Managing Director, Insight Partners. "BrightInsight has emerged as the clear technology and execution leader in a market that is growing rapidly, and its expanding list of enterprise customers validates biopharma and medtech companies’ need for a regulated underlying platform to support their new digital health offerings. We're excited to work closely with the team as they enter this monumental phase of growth and push the industry towards more personalized and enhanced care.” BrightInsight’s Series A investors, top healthcare firm, New Leaf Venture Partners, and top technology firm, Eclipse Ventures, both participated in this Series B round. Flex remains an investor in the Company. “Since our Series A investment, BrightInsight has proven the importance of its platform to the healthcare industry, and has executed exceptionally well through challenging circumstances,” said Vijay Lathi, Managing Director, New Leaf Venture Partners. “The Series B recognizes those achievements and provides the capital to fully realize the company's potential." “The demand for healthcare at the edge is growing rapidly. Moreover, connecting digital experiences with therapeutics is delivering real value across the healthcare value chain — not the least of which is providing better patient outcomes," said Justin Butler, Partner, Eclipse Ventures. "BrightInsight has built the leading platform for enabling these digital experiences, and we’re proud to be supporting them." ABOUT BRIGHTINSIGHT, INC. BrightInsight provides the leading global regulated digital health platform for biopharma and medtech. Every line of code of our BrightInsight Platform is built under a Quality Management System to support and optimize regulated drugs, devices and software through integrated data and actionable insights. The Platform can enable our customers to drive increased patient adherence and engagement across therapeutic areas, with active projects in diabetes, respiratory, oncology, ophthalmology, obesity, hematology, immunology, neurology and more. The BrightInsight™ Platform uses software and services to capture, transmit and analyze data from CE-marked and FDA-regulated medical devices, combination products, apps and Software as a Medical Device, in compliance with global security, privacy and regulatory requirements. Deployed as a managed service, the platform accelerates time to market for biopharma and medtech companies, reduces the cost of implementation and maintenance versus a custom solution, and scales across products and global markets. For more information, visit BrightInsight’s website, our blog, Twitter and LinkedIn pages. Committed to the highest quality standards, BrightInsight, Inc. is ISO13485:2016 certified and its software development lifecycle process conforms to IEC 62304. From a security perspective, the BrightInsight Platform is HITRUST CSF® v9.1 Certified and HITRUST Certified of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework to manage risk, improve security posture and meet compliance requirements. The Platform is also ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certified. To support our commitment to the upmost privacy standards, the BrightInsight Platform is HIPAA and GDPR compliant and certified under both the EU-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield frameworks. The BrightInsight Platform was selected as Google Cloud’s Technology Partner of the Year for Healthcare for the past two years, was selected as the “Best IoT Healthcare Platform” in the 2019 MedTech Breakthrough Awards, was featured as the cover story for CIOReview Magazine’s “20 Most Promising Biotech Solution Providers 2019," and was included in The Journal of mHealth's “2020 Global Digital Health 100”. ABOUT INSIGHT PARTNERS Insight Partners is a leading global venture capital and private equity firm investing in high-growth technology and software ScaleUp companies that are driving transformative change in their industries. Founded in 1995, Insight Partners has invested in more than 400 companies worldwide and has raised through a series of funds more than $30 billion in capital commitments. Insight’s mission is to find, fund, and work successfully with visionary executives, providing them with practical, hands-on software expertise to foster long-term success. Across its people and its portfolio, Insight encourages a culture around a belief that ScaleUp companies and growth create opportunity for all. For more information on Insight and all its investments, visit insightpartners.com or follow us on Twitter @insightpartners.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line1885
__label__wiki	0.690499	0.690499	Suning Youth Centre Happy birthday to... Star roster Home Season Home Club School & Academy Football federation Company & Investor University & Conference Join Inter Club Special match Siamo Noi card Stadium Directions Museum and Tour Press Accreditation Procedure Transfer tickets INTER Official Site Born in Bahía Blanca (ARG) on 22-08-1997 Lautaro Martínez was born in Bahía Blanca, Argentina, on 22 August 1997. He began his career as a defender before then switching to attack – primarily playing as a central striker thanks to his impressive pace and technique. His debut came in Argentina’s top division with Racing Club on 1 November 2015, as he replaced Diego Milito as a substitute. In 2017, he took part in the Under-20 South American Championship with Argentina before then being called up for the Under-20 World Cup. He scored his first professional goal away to Huracán on 19th November 2016, following it up with a hat-trick on 4 February 2016, once again against Huracán. On 20 March 2018, he was called up by Argentina for the first time. He joined Inter on a permanent deal on 4 July 2018, signing a five-year contract with the Nerazzurri and opting to the wear the No.10 shirt. Shop on store.inter.it away jersey third jersey inter stadium home jersey 2020/21 inter home vapor match jersey 2020/21 inter stadium home jersey 2020/21- women inter stadium home jersey 2020/21- kids inter maglia gara third stadium 2020/21 Career and honours Coppa Italia and Italian Super Cup European competition Domestic league Season Honours Team Appearances Goals 2015 Racing Club 2016/17 Racing Club 2018/19 Inter Lautaro Martinez: "Happy with my goal, it was important to win" Team Read Lautaro Martinez: "We're ready to start the season" INTERnationals, Lautaro Martinez scores two for Argentina Medical test results for Lautaro Martinez You'll be kept up to date on all latest deals of our Online Store, early ticket sales and much more	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line1890
__label__cc	0.510533	0.489467	Heather D. Nelson Author Interview - Andrew Klein You know sometimes despite all the due diligence and research, you can still get totally sidelined by unforeseen situations. I have written extensively these past few weeks, about various authors who were duped by a “publisher gone wrong”. A bad deal, a predator editor, so-to-speak. But not everyone who worked with this publisher was expecting grandeur. Some knew fully what brand of publishing Tate Publishing was and still somehow ended up getting scammed. Such is the story of the unsinkable Andrew Klein. Andrew began writing his first book with the help of his son, then age 7. His son gave him a wealth of insights and Klein’s first book soon grew into a series of books. Or rather, an IDEA of a series. Andrew poured himself into each page and he was so inspired to just wanted get his new book, a fun and exciting read, into the hands of as many kids as he could. When he hit a certain level of “completeness” in his work, he began researching publishers. In 2015 he found Tate Publishing. “After researching other ‘hybrid’ publishing companies, I felt Tate could give me the best offer to product my series. They published my first book, The Fantastic Adventures of Oliver Phenomena, in February of 2016, with my second and third books well into production by the end of the same year.” Andrew knew full well that Tate was NOT a traditional publisher house, nor a Print on Demand or even Self Publisher. Despite Tate’s marketing model, Andrew saw them as they were, a hybrid stint of the old vanity publishing firms. A Pay-to-play publisher, if you will. With his eyes open he made an educated choice thinking he had a solid plan and could get good bang for his buck. Sadly, even as mindful as Andrew was with his contract with Tate, even he ended up being a victim. Klein said he received a ‘smoking gun’ of an email from a begrudged former employee of Tate Publishing. The email stated simply that Tate had gone out of business and no more work would be done. “After the email, Tate then wrote a big email to all us authors that the whistle blower was a big lie, a hacker, and that we should all feel safe. Then came some new ‘portal for author communications’ and shortly thereafter a final email about Tate’s transition and subsequent closing.” Within less than a year of signing on with Tate, Andrew was suddenly left holding the bag. No email or phone communication from his former Tate representatives, and no quarterly sales reports or royalties. Surely no marketing done on his first book and NO idea on where the 2nd and 3rd books left off in production. That is, if production was ever really started. Andrew even bought into the ‘Publisher for Life’ contract that so many of us fell prey too. A surprising step from a man who seemed to have no delusions as to Tate’s REAL business model. Alas, a testament still to Tate’s cunning use of emotional wording and pressure sales tactics. “I, like so many, lost all the books I already published, and lost momentum on the others I began production on. I had even begun a 4th book as a memoir of 15 years I spent travelling the world. Now it’s stopped too.” Discouraging to be sure. Klein did have a few choice words for Tate Publishing though. Even though their closing has put a damper on his reputation as a writer, Andrew was bold in stating that Tate would “reap what they sow. Tate will get theirs in the end, no doubt.” Andrew is at peace to forge a new path forward and leave Tate behind in his past. He also is encouraging all his fellow Tate authors to keep their chin’s up and make sure they don’t let this get them down. Andrew is undeterred in his original goals. “I am waiting for some responses from other publishing companies, and trying to stay positive. In keeping it real, and after reading all of the encouraging messages from other Tate victims, I’ve learned to just keep going and not let this get me down.” WISE WORDS indeed and one I echo often myself. JUST KEEP WRITING! “If the good Lord sees fit to instill in me the inspiration to write, then WRITE is what I’ll do. I’ll still be around and trying different ways to get published despite Tate’s unfortunate business ethics.” Way to go Andrew! If you keep that work ethic and fighting spirit up, I feel confident I will see YOUR books on the shelves again soon! To follow Andrew's writing journey forward, check out: Facebook: Oliver Phenomena GoodReads: Andrew Klein Reader's Favorites: Andrew Klein To read more stories like this, check out: Author Interview - Bob Richley Author Interview - Cheri Andrews Author Interview - Lita T. Cruz Author Interview - Wesley Caldwell #writer #write #author #publishing #JUSTKEEPWRITING #writing #publisher #book Entering 2020 Unapologetically Why I Hit PAUSE on Life The Night Before (mom's) Vacay copyright by Heather D. Nelson - Connecticut (for now) - CONTACT ME Via my Media Page or my Contact Page I am a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for me to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and possibly other affiliated sites. All Tips, Advice, and insights within this sight are simply the opinions of the author, Heather D. Nelson, and are NOT intended to replace medical advice, your unique life experience, and good ol' fashioned common sense. Be Wise! Professional inquiries can be mailed to 7365 Main Street #174 - Stratford, CT 06614. Please do not send copies of manuscripts or books that you expect to have returned.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line1896
__label__cc	0.669771	0.330229	For Whom The Bell Tolls: Red Stars Parade He can see into your soul. So. Bands break up. It sucks, but that’s the way of things. For most of them, the reason is pure and simple; on some level, they suck. Whether it’s only a little, or harder than a $20 hooker, it doesn’t matter; the world doesn’t lose a whole bunch. The members go on with their lives, and probably go on to make a greater impact in other areas of society. Like clearing my gutters. Then there are bands that are forced into submission for other reasons: money, conflict – both personal and artistic – or sometimes the fanbase only comes after they’re long gone. This is a chronicle of those bands. Most you will not have heard of, for the very reason that they’re not even around to promote themselves any more. But trust me, they are bands that you really really should have heard of. Up this week: Red Stars Parade I wait, eyes peeled and ears pricked, for the longest fucking time for Red Stars Parade to announce shows anywhere south of Leeds, their home town. Seriously; ages. Scotland? Suuuure. But not a whiff of even Birmingham. This is pretty geographically significant for the UK; what, did they have something against the south? And then they break up (if you’re surprised, you really aren’t getting the point of this column…), and have left me in such a state that I started two sentences with a conjunction, two paragraphs into the article – which really isn’t like me. Sure, I’m metal, and I don’t play by society’s rules – except the rules of grammar, that is. But I digress (and alas, commit the faux pas once again!). I’m pretty sure they never did gig anywhere near me in the two or so years that I was a fan before that sad day. Bah. Such is life though, and it’s not out of the ordinary for the bands featured here thus far. Red Stars Parade were one of my Myspace discoveries way back when Myspace was still cool. Alright, it was never cool, but neither was I when I was sixteen, so the ridiculous, angularly-posed cap fit. 01. Merculine 02. Ruin Vegas 03. Dividing… 04. The Icon 05. Black Lung 06. World’s Greatest Tiger Trainer 07. El Retardo 08. Seconds Turn to Minutes Turn to Hours Turn to Years 09. Zemanova 10. 6hz 11. Kids of Disko No, this isn’t a tiny jpeg stretched to pixel-popping proportions; this is the bonafide album art (I have always wondered what to original picture was, if anything). The band’s 2005 debut full-length, the jazzily-titled Disko, is a lesson in face-melting metal goodness. It’s one of those albums where nothing is a dud. Although a couple of the tracks serve to segue one track into another, they are by no means filler; more lulls between the ‘main’ tracks, which are themselves superb. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvQ4t-T0C6o] Zemanova was one of the first tracks I heard. The main guitar line rolls on thr0ughout the 8+ minutes, alternating between but a few riffs, but it doesn’t get old; the punctuation of the drums, and in particular Matt Dixon’s caustic but ever-comprehensible vocals lend it great strength. It is in no way a technical album. You’ll hear no shredding, no djent and nary a solo. I’m not even sure I’d call it a particularly clever album, but the beauty is that it’s not trying to be. It was made by four guys who knew exactly what they wanted to do; rock the fuck out. And it really does. Fuck, I did it again… [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpo4-xVGiwc] They released an EP, Lutine Bell, in 2008 – recorded at the prestigious Foel Studios on New Year’s Eve (a productive way to bring in the new year if you ask me) – which was pretty good, but for me didn’t reach the heights of Disko. Still worth checking out if you ask me. I have no idea what any of them are doing now, if anything, but I do know that they only have about five hundred listeners on last.fm, which is pretty criminal. Go forth and change that! – CG If you have any suggestions for this column, please send them my way to chris(at)heavyblogisheavy(dot)com or leave a message in the comments section! DiskoLutine BellRed Stars Parade	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line1897
__label__wiki	0.723388	0.723388	Riteish Deshmukh’s Biography, Education, And Net Worth! Know more about Bollywood actor Riteish Deshmukh. Riteish Deshmukh is a renowned actor, producer, and entrepreneur. He works in Hindi and Marathi films. The hero is the son of former Chief Minister of Maharashtra, late Vilasrao Deshmukh. His mother’s name is Vaishali Deshmukh. He got married to Genelia D’Souza in 2012. The couple has two sons and is happily married. He made his debut with Hindi film Tujhe Meri Kasam in 2003. Later on, he starred in various films and achieved fame and became successful. He made his Marathi debut as a film producer with Marathi movie Balak Palak in 2013. Next year in 2014, he made his Marathi acting debut with action film Lai Bhaari. Riteish Deshmukh is an architect and did his studies from G.D. Somani Memorial School. He did an architectural degree from Kamla Raheja College of Architecture in Mumbai. He has his own production company named Mumbai Film Company. The actor is also known for his fun-loving behavior, and he just entertains his fans and makes them happy. He has a melodious voice, and he is also known as a singer. According to the media reports, the actor’s net worth is around Rs 114 crores. Must read: Best of Riteish Deshmukh on TikTok Keep reading IWMbuzz.com. biographyeducationNet worthrenowned actorRiteish Deshmukh Mahesh Babu, NTR Jr, Suriya, Chiranjeevi: Combined Staggering Net Worth OMG: You Will SIMPLY BE SHOCKED To Know The Combined Net Worth Of BTS And Blackpink Girls Deepak Chahar's Biography, Lifestyle And Net Worth In 2020 Saath Nibhaana Saathiya 2 Actress Sneha Jain Aka Gehna's Biography, Lifestyle Details Want A Hot Beard Like Riteish Deshmukh? Take Some Special Beard Grooming tips South Indian Actor Jr NTR's Biography, Education, And Net Worth In 2020! Ansh Bagri's Life Story And Net Worth REVEALED Music \| Snippets BTS RM's Net Worth, Dating History, and Controversies REVEALED Digital \| Celebrities Mirzapur 2 Pankaj Tripathi aka Kaleen Bhaiya's Net Worth Revealed Sports \| Snippets KL Rahul Affairs, Dating History, Controversy And Net Worth REVEALED Lifestyle \| Love and Relationships Jasmin Bhasin's Net Worth And Dating History Revealed Neha Kakkar And Rohanpreet Singh's Family, House, Cars, Salary, Net Worth And Biography 2020 Net Worth 2020: How Rich Is Canadian Rapper Drake?	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line1909
__label__wiki	0.62968	0.62968	Ornette Coleman: New York Is Now + Love Call Wednesday, February 1st at 9pm The Garden of Souls will perform Ornette Coleman's Love Call and New York Is Now in their entirety. Ornette Coleman (March 9, 1930- June 11, 2015) was an American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer who was one of the major innovators of the free jazz movement of the 1960's. From the beginning of his career, Coleman's music and playing were in many ways unorthodox. His approach to harmony and chord progression was far less rigid than that of bebop performers; he was increasingly interested in playing what he heard rather than fitting it into predetermined chorus-structures and harmonies. "With his milestone recordings of the late fifties, Ornette opened the gate to a whole new world which is still being explored today as it will be tomorrow. While the original quartet with its Atlantic output is rightly regarded as his most important achievement, these two albums rank among his most successful and accessible work, as uncompromising as they are. Writing an easy melodic line is often underrated or disregarded but Ornette has always been a composer with the very rare ability to fit a lot of music into his pieces. These two CDs once more lay proof to the fact that his music is, besides all other qualities, lasting." - Amazon.com "Broadway Blues" "Round Trip" "Love call" "Airborne" PERFORMANCES BY: Nick Mazzarella - Alto Geof Bradfield - Tenor/Trumpet Joshua Abrams - Bass Mike Reed - Drums Featured Visual Artist - Farren Victoria ADMISSION & LOCATION: Doors open at 8:30, show starts at 9pm. Suggested $10 donation or $5 w/ valid student ID* Cash only, Smaller bills appreciated. All ages. 21+ for alcoholic beverages. Beverages generously provided by Candid Wines. All JRAC events take place at The Fulton Street Collective: Located in the Hubbart Street Lofts 1821 W. Hubbard St. (3rd Floor)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line1913
__label__cc	0.570216	0.429784	Shin Bet Receives Extension to Tap Personal Cell Phones Speculation Grows Over Former UN Ambassador’s Intentions for 2024 Israel Seeks to COVID-19 Immunize 1 Million People a Week Former NSA Advisor: Netanyahu Had No Faith in Kushner Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was “dubious” about US President Donald Trump’s decision to appoint the latter’s his son-in-law, Jared Kushner to be the architect of the “Deal of the Century” peace plan that was supposed to put an end to the longterm conflict between the Palestinian Authority and Israel, according to a claim by former National Security Adviser John Bolton in his to-be-published memoir. Bolton, a veteran US official and Trump appointee, wrote that prior to joining Trump’s administration, he had a conversation with Netanyahu, who expressed scepticism over Kushner’s ability to achieve success in an area in which everyone else has failed. “[Netanyahu] was dubious about assigning the task of bringing an end to the Israel-Palestinian conflict to Kushner […] He was enough of a politician not to oppose the idea publicly, but like much of the world, he wondered why Kushner thought he would succeed where the likes of Kissinger had failed”, Bolton wrote. The office of the Israeli prime minister, however, publicly dismissed Bolton’s claim, stating that Netanyahu “has complete faith” in Kushner’s ability, adding that Trump’s son-in-law was able to “contribute to furthering peace in the Middle East”. The office credit Kushner with not only drafting a peace plan, but also with Trump’s choice to suggest that Jerusalem is Israel’s capital while accepting Israel’s claims for the Golan Heights. “With these accomplishments alone and under President Trump’s leadership, Kushner has already achieved what others before him did not accomplish”, Netanyahu’s office said, in response to Bolton’s claim. Mideast Economic Peace Plan Previous articleIsrael Places Hope in US Experimental COVID-19 Vaccine Next articleIsrael Takes 1st Step in Legalizing Marijuana Report: Trump Blames Kushner for Downfall Report: Kushner Seeks to Radically Modify GOP Platform	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line1917
__label__cc	0.629952	0.370048	Developments in Haptics Haptics in 2020s: Three Trends to Watch by David Birnbaum, Head of Design Strategy and Outreach The new decade started off with a bang as companies showcased their latest technologies and offerings at CES 2020. Haptics at CES was especially prominent at this year’s show, with many new solutions, devices,… Haptic Learning The Haptic Stack By Chris Ullrich, CTO at Immersion New use cases for haptic technology in various markets, including automotive, gaming, IoT, PC and virtual reality, has led to more interest in developing haptic experiences and products with haptic feedback. But jumping into developing… Haptics in Gaming: Coming of Age Dashboard When I started my career in haptics over 20 years ago, I worked mostly on military and industrial virtual reality systems with high quality (and expensive) haptic feedback. When Sony put haptics in the DualShock controller,… In the digital world, what is the feeling of “softness” By David Birnbaum, Head of Design Strategy and Outreach Researchers from UC San Diego recently published findings on simulating softness by first calculating how soft or hard a material will feel based on material thickness, stiffness, and surface properties. The… Designing the Ultimate User Experience with Haptics: Mobile, AR, VR and Beyond Curious about what’s next for designers incorporating haptics into their systems and devices? Wonder how a visionary demo can transform the AR experience? XD IMMERSIVE sat down with David Birnbaum, Immersion’s Design Director, to understand the user experience and… The Human Brain: New Study Shows Haptic Exposure Generates Positive Emotion The human brain is constantly processing a wide variety of ongoing feedback from the world around it and then determining higher-priority experiences based on that feedback to gain a better understanding of any given real-world situation. Understanding the enigma of how… The Future of Haptics In the last 25 years, we’ve seen many changes in the field of haptics. In its early days, haptics was, for the most part, an academic thought that few labs entertained, and few companies were bold enough to try to commercialize. The killer haptic application still unknown,… Making New Things Possible Through Haptics Discovery The Immersion Research and Development Group is at the heart of haptic innovation. Their discoveries drive breakthrough product experiences and make new things possible in all areas of haptics development – from gaming, advertising, mobile and beyond. We sat down with… Embracing Mobile Innovation and Emerging Tech to Redefine the Consumer Experience For many in the brand and agency worlds, there’s still a big leap between the trendy vernacular of emerging technologies such as Augmented and Virtual Reality and the day-to-day integration of these elements into brand strategy and execution. Still perceived as nascent,… Game On: Shaking Up the Gaming Experience at XR Connects Immersion’s Business Development Lead for Gaming, Bob Heubel, recently attended PocketGamer’s XR Connects and talks about the event and what it was like to be a judge for the VR Indie Pitch. This year I had the pleasure of attending XR Connects Helsinki, a show that brings… Immersion News It’s a good time to be a Haptician! What is Haptics? Beyond the PlayStation 5 The Haptic Stack – Design Layer Wellness in the Age of Haptics リーガル商標・特許表示	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line1921
__label__wiki	0.576476	0.576476	PODCAST: Spike Lee, Quentin Tarantino and the Challenges of Making Movies Today This week’s episode of Screen Talk is presented by Vimeo. Head here to check out movies you can rent on Vimeo selected by Indiewire’s Eric Kohn, including the Sundance-acclaimed “Call Me Lucky” (above), which you can watch at a 15% discount using the promo code “eric15.“ If you want to sell your film or series on Vimeo On Demand, all you need is a Vimeo Pro account. Go to vimeo.com/startselling and use promo code eric20 for 20% off Vimeo PRO and start selling. This week, the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that Spike Lee would be among the recipients of its Honorary Awards (another one will go to Gena Rowlands). The decision prompts serious questions about the message the Academy is trying to send. Lee, after all, hasn’t made a big studio project in years, and rarely gets along with Hollywood — yet one of the most influential institutions in town has decided to honor his career. Is the Academy trying to offer a mea culpa? On this week’s episode of Screen Talk, co-hosts Eric Kohn and Anne Thompson debate Lee’s career before turning to another filmmaker who has found much more success in recent years doing what he wants: Quentin Tarantino, whose new interview making the rounds has drummed up a lot of speculation about his upcoming “The Hateful Eight.” However, the film’s distributor, The Weinstein Company, isn’t exactly a heavy hitter this awards season. Kohn and Thompson discuss the Weinsteins’ recent problems before turning to a couple of new releases worth your time this weekend. Listen to the full episode above. Screen Talk is available on iTunes. You can subscribe here or via RSS. Share your feedback with Thompson and Kohn on Twitter or sound off in the comments. Browse previous installments here, review the show on iTunes and be sure to let us know if you’d like to hear the hosts address specific issues in upcoming editions of Screen Talk. Check out Indiewire’s other weekly podcasts here. READ MORE: How the Toronto Lineup Changed Oscar Season This Article is related to: Podcast and tagged Awards, Call Me Lucky, Film Podcast, Podcast, Podcasts, Screen Talk	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line1923
__label__cc	0.630027	0.369973	Aspiring To Be Saints (St. Silouan the Athonite) Panagia Megalomata in Skiathos The Slaughter of Christians By Turks and Kurds in ... St. Kosmas Aitolos on the Holy Apostles The Apostle Paul as Preacher and Orthodox Ecumenist Paul, the Christian Equivalent to Muhammad Didactic Sayings of St. Raphael of Lesvos The Recipe of Salvation According to Elder Paisios The Byzantine Chapel Featured in "Before Midnight" A Psychological Perspective on Homeopathy and Alte... Synaxarion of our Venerable Father David of Thessa... Testimonies of Miracles Following the Repose of El... Message of the Archbishop of Greece on Drug Abuse The Divine Liturgy of Serapion Celebrated For the ... Orthodox Saints and the Future of America The First Reaction of the Orthodox Church Against ... How A Hindu From Fiji Became an Orthodox Priest Saint Athanasios Parios (1722-1813) Homily on the Birth of the Honorable Forerunner Jo... Scriptural and Patristic Conceptions of the Holy S... 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But what is important in this case and needs to be noted is that in the interview granted by the author of this book there is a characteristic quote: "In America cinematography is a religion. We don't have saints, but we have folklore" (Ελευθεροτυπία, 11/06/2000). America is a young country, the so-called "new world", created after the migration of entire populations of Europe, primarily to find work. In this way the spirit of the Renaissance, the Reformation and the Enlightenment with all its consequences on individual and social life was transferred. So the spirit that prevails is rationalism and sensationalism. This affects all social behaviors, which is why Puritanism dominates the American land. When one reads several books by American writers they will find that the examples they use come from films, which at their basis represent the American environment and the American atmosphere, where there is no deep theological or philosophical thought. This shows that indeed cinema is a religion in America, and actors are considered models and idols. Frank Schaeffer, in his book Dancing Alone: The Quest for Orthodox Faith in the Age of False Religion, writes: "Unlike the ancient Orthodox Churches in various countries such as Palestine, Africa, Greece, Ukraine and Russia, the Orthodox Church in North America (with the exception of the Church in Alaska) is entirely a Church of migrants. The founders were not monks and missionaries, but people seeking to find a better life." In the Roman Empire, known as Byzantium, the standards of our society were the Saints, the deified, whoever had communion with God at various levels. Even today in Greece we honor, celebrate and process our Saints. This is precisely the difference between our country and other countries, especially America. If we don't understand this truth we will not be able to understand the difference between us. For this reason Greece and the Greeks of America play an important role in changing the climate and culture in America. When the manners and customs of our country are transferred there, which at its basis is an ecclesiastical atmosphere and life, then the climate of America will change, which has been influenced by Protestantism, who rejected the Saints. Our models should be the Saints and not the "American dream", in which there are no saints, but folktales from the fields of art, science and politics. Source: Paremvasis, "Εποχή χωρίς Αγίους", March 2001. Translated by John Sanidopoulos. Labels: America, Metropolitan Hierotheos Vlachos, Movies, Orthodoxy in America, Pop Culture, Saints	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line1928
__label__cc	0.581989	0.418011	BUSINESS & INDUSTRY / INTERNATIONAL Prince Charles to Host Accounting for Sustainability Forum Accounting and business leaders from around the world will meet Wednesday, Dec. 17, in London for a forum on accounting for sustainability hosted by Prince Charles. The forum will include remarks from Prince Charles, HSBC Holdings Plc. Chairman Stephen Green and BP Plc. CEO Tony Hayward. The AICPA will also participate in the forum. Prince Charles established the group Accounting for Sustainability ( www.accountingforsustainability.org and www.sustainabilityatwork.org.uk ) in 2004 to research and develop systems to help public- and private-sector organizations account more accurately for the wider social and environmental costs of their activities. Accounting for sustainability seeks to connect these costs with business strategy and financial performance. “Ultimately, any integration of sustainability into a business’s operations will have an impact on its bottom line and communications to stakeholders,” said AICPA President and CEO Barry Melancon, who will attend the forum. “It’s critical that we understand how sustainability intersects with strategy and financial reporting,” said Bob Laux, an AICPA board member who is senior director of financial accounting and reporting for Microsoft Corp. “We have to look at the way we do business reporting and look beyond the short term. When you consider long-term strategy, sustainability fits well, because it’s a long-term issue.” Click here to see video of Laux discussing sustainability, accounting for sustainability and the London forum. Representing the AICPA on the forum program, Laux, Brian Ballou, CPA, Ph.D., and Dan Heitger, Ph.D., co-directors of the Center for Business Excellence at Miami (Ohio) University, will participate in a panel discussion titled “Connected Reporting—A Mechanism for Change.” Their presentation will explore the U.S. perspective on the following questions: · How can connected reporting that links strategy and financial and sustainability performance be developed that will change behavior and decision making? · How can organizations overcome the barriers that hinder them from effectively implementing a connected reporting approach that aligns sustainability initiatives to strategy? · What influence can connected sustainability reporting have on investors’ decision making, and to what extent will regulatory enforcement be required to drive change? A report on the forum’s proceedings will be published outlining responses to key sustainability challenges and potential solutions to barriers.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line1930
__label__cc	0.742502	0.257498	Keep in mind that to preserve their pungency, you will need to add black mustard seeds late in the cooking process. Yellow mustard seeds do have a mustardy tang, so they can provide some flavors that you would get from black mustard seeds. Yellow mustard seeds and black mustard seeds come from two different plants in the Brassica family. Major producers of mustard seeds include India, Pakistan, Canada, Nepal, Hungary, Great Britain and the United States. The most common kinds of garden mustard are yellow … The origin of yellow mustard seeds can be traced to East Mediterranean region. I dutifully started the mustard seeds indoors {How To Grow Mustard From Seed} , and transplanted them into the ground several weeks later. If you prefer mild flavors and black mustard seeds are your only option, you can try taming the heat with a little vinegar or using fewer seeds. Yellow mustard seeds are considered the mildest of all the mustard seeds. 1. What they won’t provide is heat, which is usually the main reason that people use black mustard seeds. Use a good quality, well draining organic soil mix. Yellow mustard seeds and black mustard seeds are both versatile spices that you can use to make your food tangy and flavorful. Grinding and mixing the seeds with water, vinegar, or other liquids creates the yellow condiment known as prepared mustard. It is an excellent spice base for developing custom flavors, … You can do this by starting the seeds indoors in a small box. Mustard Consumer Website. It works best when you need the mustard flavor without the bite. Once sprouted, thin the seedlings to 6-8 inches apart. Mustard seed is used as a spice. 16 March 2016 Look for them in markets that carry Indian and Asian products. Wild forms of mustard and its relatives, the radish and turnip, can be found over west Asia and Europe, suggesting their domestication took place somewhere in that area. The mustard plant is a plant species in the genera Brassica and Sinapis in the family Brassicaceae. They are used in American ballpark mustard, which is better known for its vinegary tang than for heat. Mild white mustard (Sinapis alba) grows wild in North Africa, the Middle East, and Mediterranean Europe, and has spread farther by long cultivation; oriental mustard (Brassica juncea), originally from the foothills of the Himalaya, is grown commercially in India, Canada, the United Kingdom, Denmark, and the US; black mustard (Brassica nigra) is grown in Argentina, Chile, the US and some European countries. Grinding and mixing the seeds with water, vinegar, or other liquids creates the yellow condiment known as prepared mustard. A mustard plant will grow long, skinny seed pods. The level of heat in brown and yellow mustard seeds is not the same; Yellow mustard seeds are more mild than brown mustard seeds; Brown mustard seeds have a much spicier taste Yellow Mustard Seeds Vs. Black Mustard Seeds: SPICEography Showdown, while black mustard seeds come from the Brassica nigra plant. The black mustard has its origin in the Middle East. Find here details of companies selling Yellow Mustard Seed, for your purchase requirements. The seeds are also used to prepare mustard oil and its leaves are eaten as mustard greens. Each "~" indicates a missing or incomplete value. Discover 500+ spicy recipes and hundreds of pepper profiles, comparisons, cooking tips + more. Mustard plants and seeds are rich in calcium, potassium, vitamin C, and vitamin A! You are here: Home / SPICEography Showdown / Yellow Mustard Seeds Vs. Black Mustard Seeds: SPICEography Showdown. To harvest the seeds from the mustard plant, wait until the plant’s leaves have started to turn yellow. 3. Mustard Seeds - 32 Oz/2 Lb (16 oz/1 Lb Each)– Yellow Mustard Seeds – Whole Mustard Seeds – Bulk Spices 4.6 out of 5 stars 72 $15.99 $ 15 . Mustard is a popular condiment made from the seeds of the mustard plant. The seeds can also be pressed to make mustard oil, and the edible leaves can be eaten as mustard greens. Yellow mustard seeds are considered the mildest of all the mustard seeds. The most obvious difference between yellow and black mustard seeds is right there in their names: yellow mustard seeds have a yellow color while black mustard seeds have a much darker exterior. in Germany, Netherlands, mainly differing in lateness of flowering and resistance against white beet-cyst nematode (Heterodera schachtii). To make a powder, toast your mustard seeds for 20 seconds in a dry skillet. Yellow mustard seeds come from the Brassica alba plant while black mustard seeds come from the Brassica nigra plant. Get latest info on Yellow Mustard Seed, White Mustard Seeds, suppliers, manufacturers, wholesalers, traders, wholesale suppliers with Yellow Mustard Seed prices for buying. Process until seeds break down and mustard reaches desired consistency. Although attractive, wild mustard plants can quickly spread throughout thin turfgrass, de… Facts about Mustard Plants The mustard plant family includes a variety of plant species, spread all over the world. Black mustard seeds are still a specialty item. The leftover meal after pressing out the oil has also been found to be an effective pesticide.[5]. Also available in Brown Mustard Seed , Ground Mild Mustard , or Ground Medium Mustard . Even though they are similar in some respects, they also have some significant differences that we examine in this SPICEography Showdown. Yellow Mustard (Sinapis Alba) - The use of the mustard herb plant dates back 5000 years! Encyclopædia Britannica. Mustard seed (taken from the plant we eat as mustard greens) on its own has a slight acidic, pungent flavor. The biodiesel made from mustard oil has good flow properties and cetane ratings. The seeds also have a dark use. While it is in the Brassicaceae family, it is not as closely related to the other two types of mustard as they are to each other. In rotations with sugar beets, suppression of the white beet-cyst nematode is an important trait. Yellow mustard weed, more commonly called wild mustard (Brassica kaber or Sinapis arvensis), grows as a winter annual weed throughout the western parts of the United States, but a summer annual weed in cooler areas. Savory Spice carries both regular yellow mustard seeds and a mild variety. Source: Nutrient data for this listing was provided by USDA SR-21. SMDC 2011. Chinese herbalists used the yellow mustard to treat lung conditions like asthma and bronchitis as well as relieve the symptoms of arthritis. Mustard seeds and its oil has traditionally been used to relieve muscle pain, rheumatism and arthritic pain. McCormick Yellow Mustard Seed is always sourced from #1 grade mustard seeds. 2. Traditional Indian applications include curries and a range of spicy Indian dishes where the seeds are often tempered in oil or ghee until they pop. Black mustard seeds can replace yellow mustard seeds in many dishes but are best when you want to give your dish a little heat. Mustard is a condiment made from the seeds of a mustard plant (white/yellow mustard, Sinapis alba; brown mustard, Brassica juncea; or black mustard, Brassica nigra).. It is a common ingredient in some versions of Indian spice blends like panch phoron and cambaar podi. Recent research has studied varieties of mustards with high oil contents for use in the production of biodiesel, a renewable liquid fuel similar to diesel fuel. However, Zohary and Hopf conclude: "Suggestions as to the origins of these plants are necessarily based on linguistic considerations. Seed will become plump and soft. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Yellow Mustard (Sinapis alba) - Yellow mustard is a widely cultivated annual, also found wild in many parts of the world. Yellow mustard comes from the seeds of the white mustard plant, Sinapis alba. Yellow mustard seeds are often used in making pickles or relish when in their whole form. Yellow mustard seeds are much easier to find in grocery store spice aisles than black mustard seeds. Not all mustard seeds are the same, however. Note though that the whole forms are the ones that are often referred to as white mustard seeds, while the powdered ones will be better known as the yellow mustard seed due to the color, which may have been enhanced by food coloring. You don’t want to eat the leaves once the plant has bolted, as … Mustard seeds are still in their shape, as they came from the seed pods of flowering mustard plants. Another key difference is flavor. Secure jar lid and soak overnight. Although some varieties of mustard plants were well-established crops in Hellenistic and Roman times, Zohary and Hopf note, "There are almost no archeological records available for any of these crops." "[1] Encyclopædia Britannica states that mustard was grown by the Indus Civilization of 2500–1700 BCE. If you want an especially hot prepared mustard, black mustard seeds will be your best bet. Web. (Disclaimer). Another key difference is flavor. Canada and Nepal are the world's major producers of mustard seed, between them accounting for around 57% of world production in 2010. Pass the powder through a sieve to remove the hulls. One learns that mustard seeds leave a trail, produce commerce, and may even offer health benefits. Blend a pinch or two of turmeric with the mustard to create the bright yellow associated with the condiment. The flowers of mustard seed plant are generally yellow but some varieties have white flowers. Mustard has a long history, and has more uses than merely putting yellow mustard on a frankfurter (although that is a great application!). If you plan on making your own American yellow mustard or want to dilute the heat in prepared brown or black mustard, yellow mustard is a good option. Yellow Mustard Seed – This is the variety most commonly found in American kitchens. The reason in availability is that yellow mustard seeds can be picked using machines while black mustard seeds must be picked by hand making the process of harvesting them more labor-intensive and expensive. If you are cooking Indian food, this is the kind of mustard you need. David's Garden Seeds Cover Crop Mighty Mustard Pacific Gold 2821 (Yellow) Open Pollinated One Ou… Saskatchewan Mustard Development Commission. They aren’t actually black. Its ground seeds act as a laxative, stimulant to the gastric mucosa and increase intestinal secretion. Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 2016. When creating a mustard condiment, there is a difference between yellow and brown mustard seeds. Yellow Mustard Seed Spicier than the brown seeds, yellow mustard seeds add heat to pickles and relishes, and they are essential for corning beef. It adds tangy subtle heat to pickling brines, rubs, seafood boils and so much more. This condiment all starts with the mustard seed. [2] According to the Saskatchewan Mustard Development Commission, "Some of the earliest known documentation of mustard's use dates back to Sumerian and Sanskrit texts from 3000 BC".[3]. Harvest mustard in the morning when plant leaves seeds are yellow or brown. The seeds can also be pressed to make mustard oil, and the edible leaves can be eaten as mustard greens. 99 ($0.50/Ounce) Yellow mustard seeds grow quickly and easily. Visit our sister site PepperScale. Yellow mustard seeds can be harvested by either swathing or straight combining. Just keep in mind that the darker the mustard seed, the more spice it will have, so be sure to taste as you are seasoning. 99 ($0.50/Ounce) Mustard grows well in temperate regions. "Indus civilization". The mustard seed … Farmers prefer late-flowering varieties, which do not produce seeds; they may become weeds in the subsequent year. Use yellow mustard seeds when you need a mild mustard flavor. Planting Mustard Seeds: Plant the mustard seeds about three weeks before the last frost date. I use mustard seeds in pickles, salad dressings, mayonnaise, and yes you can even make that yellow condiment we all know so well from the plants’ seeds. The black and the yellow mustard seeds are small with round shape but the black ones come a bit smaller. Yellow mustard seeds come from the Brassica alba plant while black mustard seeds come from the Brassica nigra plant. Footnotes for Spices, mustard seed, yellow. Mustard seeds can be substituted for one another, so you can use the brown mustard seeds in place of the yellow quite easily at a one to one ratio. Cool the seeds, then transfer to a spice grinder and pulse until you have a powder. Black mustard is dark brown to black colours, whereas yellow mustard seeds are either yellow or white in colour. The mustard plant is a plant species in the genera Brassica and Sinapis in the family Brassicaceae. Grown for its seeds, mustard, as fodder crop or as a green manure. Combine vinegar, cider, brown mustard seeds and yellow mustard seeds in a glass jar. Early vigor is important to cover the soil quickly and suppress weeds and protect the soil against erosion. Cut the plants just below the lowest seed pods. Sometimes colored black, purple or green, the mustard seed pods split in the middle to expose small, light yellow, white, black or dark brown seeds, depending on the plant type. McCormick Culinary Whole Yellow Mustard Seed is less pungent and more mellow, with an initial floral sweetness. As the mustard flower grows and matures, it will form pods. Percent Daily Values (%DV) are for adults or children aged 4 or older, and are based on a 2,000 calorie reference diet. Add mustard seeds to liquid and heat for seasoning and pickling. Many varieties exist, e.g. Web. These have a mellow, rounded flavor without the pungent spiciness of hot oriental mustards. Yellow mustard seeds and black mustard seeds come from two different plants in the Brassica family. Plants stand about 3 1/2 feet high on thick stalks and bear bright yellow flowers that give way to round, purple to black seeds. Mustard Seed and Mustard Powder - 28 Ounces (14 Ounce Bags) - Yellow Mustard Seeds & Ground Mustard Bulk Spices and Seasoning YAMEES 4.4 out of 5 stars 30 $13.99 $ 13 . Mustard seeds can be white, yellow, black or brown, and are derived from three different plants. Each mustard seed should be planted about an inch apart. Ground mustard, also known as mustard powder, is made by grinding up those same seeds. Releasing Mustard's Flavor Watch for these pods to start to turn brown. The leaves and swollen leaf stems of mustard plants are also used, as greens, or potherbs. It has been widely used as a culinary and medicinal herb. Another sign that you are nearing harvest time will be that the leaves of the plant will start to yellow. The white mustard plant bears light tan seeds that are a little larger than brown mustard seeds. The yellow flowers of the plant produce hairy seed pods, with each pod containing roughly a half dozen seeds. <, "What is Mustard?". Black mustard is your best option for pungency and heat. Specially made for chefs to inspire extraordinary menus and deliver consistent recipes. In other words, they can work if you are willing to forego the heat or are deliberately trying to tone it down but may be less than ideal if you want a spicy kick. Resistant white mustard varieties reduce nematode populations by 70–90%. Brown and black mustard seeds return higher yields than their yellow counterparts. [4] White mustard (Sinapis alba) is commonly used as a cover crop in Europe (between UK and Ukraine). Mature mustard plants grow into shrubs. 16 March 2016 <, http://www.britannica.com/topic/Indus-civilization, "Industrial mustard crops for biodiesel and biopesticides", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mustard_plant&oldid=970732984, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 2 August 2020, at 01:52. The same mustard plant, however, also provides us with seeds that can be ground for prepared mustard sauces and spreads. Add honey and salt and transfer into a food processor. 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__label__wiki	0.690278	0.690278	This Game-Changing Material for Spacecraft Regulates Its Own Temperature "It's like a sponge, to be honest." Mark Alston Tiffany Jeung Mother Nature is a constant source of technological inspiration. But she’s also had millennia to craft her systems, so recreating them is no easy task. Take the case of the human body, which possess a multitude of miracles that scientists are still generations away from being able to replicate in the lab. The human body’s ability to regulate its own temperature is just one characteristic scientists would love to recreate and put to use. And last Friday, a group of researchers from the University of Nottingham unveiled a new polymer material that can do just that. Led by Dr. Mark Alston, a professor in environmental design, the team has tackled the challenge of incorporating a complex thermal process into human-designed materials. The results published last week in a new paper in Nature How A Material Can Regulate Its Own Temperature Alston and his team said they were inspired by the processes they saw in leaves and animal tissue and knew it had the potential to address the pesky problem of temperature control in material science, with applications ranging from burn treatment to space travel. “Nature actually deals with thermal management in a completely different way,” Alston tells Inverse. “So nature looks into an absorption approach, where they actively harness and capture solar radiation energy into a material and then they take the energy out of the material to be used for growth, proliferation of the species, or regulation of temperature.” In an array, individual units may react differently than their direct neighbors when exposed to stimuli like sunlight or shadow. Mark Alston The team mirrored this technique, creating A5-sized units that can capture and redirect energy. The cell-like structures redirect energy using fluidics, a field of research often used in medical research that uses properties of a liquid to operate a system. Differences in pressure or flow rates can act as switches to cue reactions. The physics may sound daunting, but your body uses fluidics all the time to regular temperature in a more familiar process, sweating. “So very similar to the human body, where if we’re sitting down, the fluid in our bodies don’t move as quickly, so it’s low flow,” Alston explains. “But if we start to run very quickly, the body recognizes a change of requirement, so the flow in the human body will start to increase circulation faster because it needs the energy and therefore we perspire more.” What Are These Used For? The power of thermal self-regulation opens astronomical opportunities — in both senses of the word. If constructed in silicon form, the material could be wrapped around skin to monitor burn victim injuries, or shrunk down to chip size and used in semiconductors. But most notably, if integrated into spacecraft design, the material could combat the intense thermal stress that accompanies a trip to space. Because each cell is an individual unit that functions based on its own inputs, an array of them could fit perfectly into space applications. Neighboring units can have completely different responses, so worked into the body of a spacecraft, a unit in sunlight and a unit in shadow could be right next to one another while maintaining a comfortable temperature for the material — all without any manual work by the crew. Say goodbye to heat spots. The group hopes to partner with the space industry to scale-up its operations and continue testing their nature-inspired material. “The beauty of nature is that it looks effortless,” Alston tells Inverse. It’s very resolved, functionalized, and that’s what we’re trying to do.” Related Video: How Plants Break a Sweat	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line1936
__label__wiki	0.76303	0.76303	New Music Prize GOLD: Our 50th Anniversary season Finding Harmony Finding Harmony Japan Global Foundation Finding Harmony Ambassadors If you live in either the UK or the USA, you can deduct the total of your gifts to the Foundation from the tax you owe. Therefore, we’ve split the donation options below so that both you and the Foundation can get the most out of your generosity. Please leave your details so we can be in touch to thank you. If you’d like further information please email [email protected]. For supporters based in the USA (or anywhere else in the world): You can make a single or regular gift online here. You can send a cheque, made out to The King’s Singers Global Foundation, to the Foundation c/o The Treasurer, PO BOX 597, Alliston ON L9R 1V7 CANADA If you’d like to make a donation by bank transfer please email [email protected]. For supporters based in the UK: You can send a cheque, made out to The King’s Singers Foundation, to 4 Albert Road, Richmond, Surrey TW10 6DP. You can make a bank transfer to Coop: Sort Code 08-92-99; Account Number 65995011. Tweets by @kingssingers Sign up to The King’s Singers newsletter to stay up-to-date Agents Contact Us Resources Site Navigation \| Privacy Policy \| Terms of Use © 2021 The King's Singers. All Rights Reserved. Site by Woven Design. KS Photography: Andy Staples. How to use The King’s Singers website We have developed this site to be easy to use and accessible for everyone whether using a computer, tablet or smartphone. Here are a few hints and tips for exploring the site. To enter a section of the site, either click on the relevant tile or image on the home page, or use the menu in the top right-hand corner. Once you’ve chosen your section, you can use the arrows on either side of the centred image to view more content. To return to the homepage or visit another area, click the menu button in the top right-hand corner.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line1942
__label__wiki	0.905024	0.905024	Before Big Convention Speech, Trump Visits FEMA For Storm Briefing President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence listen during a Hurricane Laura briefing at FEMA headquarters in Washington. Hours before the final night of the Republican National Convention, President Trump visited FEMA headquarters in Washington for a briefing on Tropical Storm Laura. Trump sat with Vice President Mike Pence at the front of a long conference table in FEMA's National Response Coordination Center as officials detailed the federal response to the storm and showed pictures of the damage. Laura made landfall over Louisiana as a Category 4 storm, but has been downgraded to a tropical storm as it moves across the South. "This team forward deployed resources," Pence said. "We were ready for the worst, and by all accounts from the experts, while this was obviously a major storm with devastating impact, it was not as bad as it could have been." Trump said the campaign briefly considered postponing his convention speech until Monday so he could travel to Texas, Louisiana and possibly Arkansas to survey hurricane damage, but he said the campaign ultimately decided to continue with the speech as planned. The president said he will visit Texas and Louisiana over the weekend. "We got a little bit lucky," Trump said. "It was very big, it was very powerful, but it passed quickly, so everything's on schedule." Earlier, the president issued an emergency declaration for Arkansas in response to the storm, authorizing federal assistance and FEMA coordination of disaster relief. He previously issued similar declarations for Louisiana and Texas. With all eyes on Trump ahead of his acceptance speech tonight, the president's appearance at FEMA offered an opportunity to present the image of the nation's top executive presiding over a natural disaster. Throughout the week, Trump has leaned on his official duties to boost his reelection campaign. During Tuesday night's programming, Trump granted a presidential pardon and later looked on as his homeland security secretary conducted a naturalization ceremony for the cameras. This morning, Trump campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh told reporters the president will address Laura in his convention speech tonight and "ask for God's blessing for people in its path." The overlap of hurricane and convention season has scrambled convention plans before. In 2012, Tropical Storm Isaac, which eventually developed into a hurricane before it made landfall in Louisiana, delayed the Republican convention in Tampa. And when Hurricane Gustav made landfall in Louisiana in 2008, most of the Republican convention's first night was called off. See stories by Sam Gringlas	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line1944
__label__cc	0.609851	0.390149	Land Policy \| KCET SoCal Mountains Face Dramatic Loss of Snowfall, Study Finds Los Angeles is on track to lose up to 40 percent of its snowfall in nearly four decades, according to a UCLA study released today. Summer Evenings In the Desert When the sun shines in my eyes, sunset's an hour off, and it's time to walk out into the desert. carrizo plain Enjoy The Silence: The Inaudible Wonders Of The Carrizo Plain Elson Trinidad I love noise. Or at least, I thought I did. Here, buffered by mountains and distance, the great urban lion has been hushed. Malibu Least Terns Have Flown Back To Venice Beach The least terns that had set up shop at the Malibu Lagoon for the first time in 73 years have returned to Venice Beach as of last Saturday. Seeking Zion -- the National Park, that is... Rocks, frogs, and humans find refuge in Zion National Park. A First in 73 Years: Endangered Birds Nesting Again at Malibu Lagoon The terns are migratory seabirds that breed primarily along the California coast. Only two other sites have been found in L.A. County. Ode To The Stately California Golden Poppy For it has been 110 years after the state legislature made official its status as The Golden State's flower that I had finally been successful at growing them en masse. One of the Oddest Flowers: Desert Trumpet From the Joshua trees and saguaros to the raggedy chollas, there are a lot of odd-looking plants in the desert. You'll have to get out of your car and look around to really get to know one of the oddest. A Usable Past: How Norris Hundley, Jr. Schooled California on the Meaning of Water The late Norris Hundley, Jr. warned that California's "Great Thirst" would be its undoing -- a warning we must heed. Fox Populi: Near-Extinct Species Makes a Comeback on CA Islands Katharine Gammon The fox population on Santa Cruz Island has recovered in just 10 years. Its story can teach us about nature, conservation, and the future. Proposed Trash Dump Next to Joshua Tree National Park Canceled In a bit of long-awaited good news for Joshua Tree National Park and its wild residents, the agency responsible for disposing of L.A. County's trash has abandoned the idea of using the closed Eagle Mountain Mine as a landfill. Drift Nets Threatening Marine Life Off California Coast A gruesome secret hides in the waters off the California coast: mile-long nets that sit in the ocean like invisible walls. Our Lord's Candle, Spanish Bayonet, or... What Should We Call This Plant? It's one of my favorite plants in Southern California, but I'm never sure what to call it in polite company. When Baby Animals Go Missing Chris Clarke on neighborhood wildlife in Joshua Tree and scientists' attachment to the animals they study. Go Take A Hike: Trekking Griffith Park With The Sierra Club Having grown up just a few miles away, the park has been part of my life since I was an infant. I thought I knew Griffith Park, yet there was much more left to discover. Making California Frack-Free is Smart Politics Banning fracking in California will not save the planet. But it's a start. Sky Burial: Feeding the Condor Though condors are threatened by many factors, the greatest long-term threat would seem to be a lack of large dead mammals for the scavenging birds to eat safely. I have a way we might fix that. At Fault: When Will California Regulate Fracking? With a governor who seems unwilling to step up, and a set of regulatory agencies that have not yet announced a clear-cut set of rules to control the impact of fracking on public health and the environment, the legislature must take the lead. In Touch With Nature at Augustus F. Hawkins Natural Park A place that many deride as "The Hood" or "The Ghetto" can still yield the most pleasant surprises. Globemallow Binding the Desert's Wounds The khaki West Mojave bore a color I hadn't seen there before: a bright sparse orange scattered across the desert, almost as if someone had planted a few hundred thousand California poppies out among the paper bag bush and creosote.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line1946
__label__wiki	0.652421	0.652421	You searched for... Andy Roberts News: Andy Roberts Shares his Restoration Show Highlights 2017 Where else but at The Practical Classics Classic Car & Restoration Show are you likely to find not one but three Austin Ambassadors, all of them the flagship Vanden Plas version, and a 1975 Wolseley-badged blue Wedge? News: So Macho? 40 Years Of The Matra Rancho "To start 2017 in style, I’d like to mark the 40th anniversary of one of my all-time favourite classic cars, one that mesmerised my younger self... The Matra Rancho" - Written by Andy Roberts News: That Was The Year That Was: Classic Memories of 2016 "What, you may reasonably ask, does Carry On Cabby have to do with any end-of-the-year classic round up? The answer is simply that today I was thinking about the moment that I first became interested in the world of old cars, which I can trace more or less directly to the 7th and probably best, in my opinion, Carry On ever made being screened on BBC2.... Here is That Was The Year That Was: My Classic Memories of 2016" - Written by Andy Roberts News: This Week’s Star Prize! – 1980s Quiz Show Cars "Ah, the lost world of the 1980’s ITV quiz – glitter, tinsel and the chance to win a Ford Fiesta Popular. On a BBC game show, victors might have left with ‘a selection of board games’ and even on the commercial channel there was heavy restrictions on prize values until 1993. Happily, for the motoring enthusiast, this frequently resulted in a splendid array of Lada 1200s and the like." - Written by Andy Roberts News: Top Five Vanishing Family Cars "There comes a moment in the life-cycle of many previously popular cars when they almost vanish overnight and looking at the ‘How Many Left’ website is almost as depressing as watching Take the High Road. Then you start to think when you last saw a Rover 600, a Vauxhall Cavalier Mk.2 or a Citroen BX?" - Written by Andy Roberts News: 50 Years of the Viva HB We look back at the Viva HB at 50. - Written by Andy Roberts. News: The Magnificent Seven Microcars The Magnificent Seven Microcars... Or, a wholly and utterly subjective list of my very favourite microcars – all very different and all with industrial levels of charm! - Written by Andy Roberts. News: Top Ten 4-Seater Coupes Do you dread the thought of leaking hoods and malfunctioning heaters as autumn approaches? Then have no fear of frost or damp as we present a list of our Top Ten 4-Seater Coupes! - Written by Andy Roberts. News: The Škoda Estelle At 40 If in the late 1970s you were in the market for a new car, needed four doors and a reasonably sized cabin, but had only the funds for a Mini 850, you may well have been attracted to the Škoda Estelle. - Written by Andy Roberts. News: 35 Years Of The Triumph Acclaim At classic shows, I occasionally encounter those cars with the instant power to return me to the time of three channel television, Adam Ant and Diana Dors in the Prince Charming video and when the Sony C7 video-recorder was a major status symbol. The 35 year-old Triumph Acclaim, launched on the 7th October 1981 and promising ‘sheer driving pleasure’ is one such vehicle. - Written by Andy Roberts. News: 30 Years Of The Jaguar XJ40 Was it really 30 years ago that Jaguar launched one of its most important ever models? Take My Breath Away was apparently being played on the hour by every radio station, ITV was still screening 3-2-1 to non-discriminating viewers and, on 8th October 1986, the XJ40 was unveiled. - Written by Andy Roberts. News: 50 Years Of The Baron – And The ‘Itc White Jaguar’ In 1965 ITC, the television production company that specialised in men of mystery pursuing fez-wearing villains across ‘Somewhere foreign’ (aka Elstree Studios’ car park), commenced filming of The Baron. This was their first colour adventure show and it co-starred Steve Forrest as one John Mannering, a square-jawed antiques dealer/solver of crimes, with an Oyster Grey Jensen CV8 Mk. II. - Written by Andy Roberts.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line1956
__label__cc	0.550213	0.449787	City map Calgary Brief overview Calgary That somewhere as modern and prosperous as Calgary should have the nickname ‘Cowtown’ says plenty about the city’s two different faces. On the one hand, it’s a prairie town just an hour or so away from the Rockies, a settlement best known for being home to the 10-day cowboy carnival known as the Calgary Stampede. On the other hand, it’s a flash metropolis made wealthy on decades of oil riches, a city defined by shiny towers, top-notch restaurants and a general air of 21st-century living. But whether you’re passing through to the mountains or staying put for a few days, it offers plenty to entertain. Book now – Calgary Top 10 sights in Calgary © Rick Rudnicki / Alamy Glenbow Museum 130 9th Ave SE T2G 0P3 Calgary Tue-Thurs 0900-1700 Fri 1130-1930 Sat 0900-1700 An excellent art and history museum which tells the story of the region as well as hosting high-quality exhibitions. It has the largest art collection in western Canada. Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame 169 Canada Olympic Road SW T3B 6B7 Calgary Tue-Sun 1000-1700 An entertaining interactive museum-cum-attraction at the Olympic Park, letting you shadow-box with Lennox Lewis, hone your ice hockey skills or even try your hand at wheelchair racing. Calaway Park 245033 Range Road 33 T3Z 2E9 Calgary Daily 1000-1900 (Jul-Aug) Sat-Sun 1000-1900 (May-Jun and Sep-mid Oct) The region’s largest outdoor family amusement park has been going strong for more than three decades and offers a winning mix of rides. TELUS Spark Science Centre 2220 St George’s Drive NE T2E 5T2 Calgary Sun-Fri 1000-1600 Sat 1000-1700 (until 2200 second Thurs of the month) This purpose-built new science centre opened in 2011 and has been wowing kids and adults ever since. Focusing on creativity, technology and science, it has a good mix of the serious and the fun. Calgary Zoo 1300 Zoo Road NE T2E 7V6 Calgary Daily 0900-1700 (mid Mar-Oct) If you’re unlikely to see a grizzly bear elsewhere on your Canadian travels, a trip here gives you the chance – it also houses more than 1,000 different animals from around the world. Lougheed House T2R 0K8 Calgary Wed-Fri 1100-1600 Sat-Sun 1000-1600 A National Historic Site dating back to 1891, this stately home is set in its own estate and makes for an enjoyable place to tour the house and gardens. 101 9th Avenue SW T2P 1J9 Calgary 0900-2100 (Sep-Jun) It’s no longer the tallest structure in town, but the tower still grants a spectacular view across Calgary, and a glass-floor section adds an extra element of fun. Fort Calgary Historical Park 750 9th Avenue SE T2G 5E1 Calgary A vivid look at the Calgary of days gone by, with a replica of the barracks as they used to be and all manner of interactive family fun. Heritage Park Historical Village 1900 Heritage Drive SW T2V 2X3 Calgary Daily 0930-1700 (mid May-mid Oct) 0930-1600 (Jan-mid May) A living history museum that’s now been open for 50 years, covering Calgary’s story from the days of the fur trade to the oil boom. 5555 76th Avenue SE T2C 4L8 Calgary Tue-Sat 1330-1730 This is one of Alberta’s top breweries and offers hour-long tours, giving visitors a look at the brewing process – and a taste of the end results. Canada is a rich and diverse travel destination. Enjoy outdoor sports such as skiing, canoeing and sailing alongside museums and theater – this enormous country offers a wide range of activities for every taste and interest. The west of Canada is mainly famous for its breathtaking landscapes, while the east is a blend of European charm and North American bustle. The north is the best place for observing wild animals. If solitude is what you seek, the wide-open spaces are the place for you. Most Canadians live in large cities like Vancouver in the west or Quebec, Montreal or Toronto in the east. Canada covers the northern part of the North American continent, with the exception of Alaska in the northwest, which is a US state. Greenland is off the coast of Canada in the northeast; to the west is the Pacific Ocean, and to the east the Atlantic. In the south, the 48th parallel forms the border with the USA. After Russia, Canada is the largest country in the world by land mass, but it only has 37 million residents. Most of the middle of the country consists of the breadbasket region of the Laurentian Plateau. The Rocky Mountains are to the west, and to the southeast are the Great Lakes, the Saint Lawrence River and Niagara Falls. Population: 37.06 million (2018 estimate) Capital: Ottawa English and French are the official languages. 1 Canadian dollar = 100 cents. Currency abbreviation: C$, CAD (ISO code). Bank notes come in values of 100, 50, 20, 10, and 5 C$, and coins have face values of 2 and 1 C$, and 50, 25, 10, 5 and 1 cent. 110 V/120 V, 60 Hz. Two-pronged flat plugs. Adapters are required for European plugs. National holidays between January 2020 and December 2021 are listed below. Some provinces of Canada also observe additional holidays. * not in all provinces Victoria Day: 18 May 2020* Canada Day (Republic Day): 1 July 2020 Labor Day: 7 September 2020 Thanksgiving Day: 12 October 2020* Remembrance Day: 11 November 2020* Christmas Day: 25 December 2020 Nightlife in Calgary Whether you’re looking to raise a beer to the spirit of the Stampede, go wild on the dance floor or settle into a classy wine bar for the night, Calgary has plenty to offer for all tastes. Cowboys Nightclub 421 12th Avenue SE T2G 1A5 Calgary A legendary mega-bar that has become something of a Calgary institution, offering line-dancing lessons, live country music and more. Laugh Shop Comedy Club 5940 Blackfoot Trail SE T2H 2B5 Calgary The best place in town to catch touring comedians, including some of the biggest names on the circuit. T2P 0L9 Calgary An 800-capacity nightclub with resident DJs, five bars and a party spirit. HiFi Club 219 10 Ave SW T2R OA4 Calgary An arty place in the Beltline district serving up eclectic music and a regular roster of strong live acts. Restaurants in Calgary From top-level gastronomy to resistance-slaying street food, Calgary runs the full gamut of options and gives the chance to sample some of Canada’s best dishes and ingredients. The Rimrock T2P 2M3 Calgary Set in the Fairmont Palliser Hotel, specialising in classic dining and a high-class atmosphere. 1240 8th Avenue SE T2G 0M7 Calgary Fine dining with an emphasis on local produce and an extensive wine list. Price: Moderate Fresh and funky, this ‘gourmet casual’ restaurant serves inventive dishes from chef Michael Noble. Blue Star Diner 809 1st Avenue NE T2E 0C2 Calgary A quality independent diner in Bridgeland with a commitment to Canadian produce and a mix of new and traditional recipes. Gaga Pizza 1236 12th Avenue SW T3C 1A7 Calgary Locally revered pizza joint using organic flour and offering a friendly welcome. Great for a touch of local character. High Performance Rodeo Venue: Various venues Calgary’s international arts festival is, rather unusually, held in midwinter. International and Canadian acts stage experimental theatre, avant-garde dance shows, poetry readings and musical performances. One of the highlights is the annual 10-Minute Play Festival in which local up-and-coming theatre groups perform 10-minute plays with just 24 hours’ notice, the only inspiration being a prop and one line of dialogue. FunnyFest Calgary Comedy Festival Bringing laughs to Calgary since 2001, FunnyFest aims to improve your mental and physical well-being through stand-up comedy. Each year, Western Canada’s largest comedy festival hosts around 70 acts, many of them Albertan born and bred, and claims to deliver over 11,000 punchlines. Shows generally last around one and a half to two hours during which you’re guaranteed to see at least six performers. Venue: Stampede Park Each July, for 10 days, Calgary hosts one of the grandest celebrations of cowboy culture in the world. Over one million visitors, most of them in cowboy hats and boots, descend on the city for a week and a half of chuck wagon races, rodeos (the roughest in North America), parades, square dancing and free pancake breakfasts. By night, there is music, cabarets, dancing, fireworks and a lively bar scene. The main venue for the Calgary Stampede is Stampede Park (complete with an amusement park, concert halls, bars, restaurants, animal displays and a range of stalls), although the festive atmosphere infects the entire city. Calgary International Blues Festival Venue: Shaw Millennium Park Spread out a picnic blanket in Shaw Millennium Park to enjoy the best of North America’s blues artists. Several acts take to the outdoor stage each day, then the partying continues with late-night dancing at the nearby Kerby Centre. Aspiring blues musicians can sign up to singer-songwriter and instrumental workshops. The organisers also run a Midwinter Bluesfest in late February. Calgary Fringe Festival Venue: Various venues in Inglewood, east of Downtown Inspired by the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, this steadily growing indoor theatre celebration presents local, national and international acts, some experienced, others new to the fringe scene. There’s a vibrant assortment of music, dance, theatre, kids’ productions and comedy. What makes this festival especially intriguing is that performers are selected by lottery, so expect the unexpected. All shows take place in the historic neighbourhood of Inglewood, with venues a short walk from one another. GlobalFest Venue: Elliston Park Thousands throng to Elliston Park to watch Calgary’s late-summer skies light up in this international fireworks competition, with several countries competing for the ‘Best Of’ and ‘People’s Choice’ awards. As well as extraordinary pyrotechnic displays, there are live musical performances, cultural pavilions reflecting Alberta’s diverse ethnic communities, a café serving international specialities, a night market and a kiddie zone with bouncy castle, story area and crafts. Calgary International Film Festival September – October 2020 Established in 1999, Calgary’s film festival is fast becoming one of Canada’s largest. The event screens more than 200 films from over 60 countries in 12 days. There’s every genre imaginable, from aboriginal, action and animation to family, fantasy and food. The most outstanding films are selected by juries, with glitzy award presentations and gala evenings all part of the fun. WordFest Venue: The Banff Centre and various Calgary venues Calgary shares this respected literary festival with nearby mountain town Banff. An impressive line-up of over 70 authors arrives in Alberta each October, leading an exciting range of discussions, debates and readings in both English and French. Previous participating writers have included Margaret Atwood, Annie Proulx, John Irving and Alexander McCall Smith. At WordFeast, you can join top authors for dinner in one of the city’s best restaurants. Once Upon A Christmas at Heritage Park Venue: Heritage Park Historical Village Heritage Park opens up for weekends in the run-up to Christmas with an old-fashioned, winter wonderland-themed event. This is a real family affair, with horse-drawn carriage rides, carol singing in the church and live historical theatre. Children (and grown-up kids too) can pass on their requests to Santa Claus and pat his reindeer. The Haskayne Mercantile Block is also open for a spot of Christmas shopping. Hotels in Calgary The city’s stature in the corporate world means it has plenty in the way of business-oriented hotels – some of them superb – but you’ll also find some great independent places to stay and, if you head slightly out of town, even guest ranches too. Sheraton Suites Eau Claire 255 Barclay Parade SW T2P 5C2 Calgary A sophisticated business hotel that also suits well-heeled leisure visitors. 700 Centre Street SE A luxurious business hotel with a large collection of Western Canadian objets d’art. Hotel le Germain 899 Centre Street SW T2G 1B8 Calgary A stylish boutique property now also featuring a spa. 6.875 mph 6°C / Climate & best time to visit Canada If you’re planning on skiing or enjoying winter sports, the best time to visit Canada is between December and April, though some resorts open as early as November and extend their seasons as late as June (or even July on Whistler’s glacier). If you want to enjoy the great outdoors without the snow, travel between May and September. Be aware however, that if there’s been heavy snowfall during the winter, some high-altitude hiking trails may be closed well into July. May, June and September are typically cheaper than July and August, but you’ll get the best of the weather in the latter two months. Summer thunderstorms are common throughout Canada. Occasionally, these may become severe. Tornados also occur throughout Canada, with May to September being prime months. The peak season is June and early July in southern Ontario, Alberta, southeastern Quebec, and a band stretching from southern Saskatchewan and Manitoba, through to Thunder Bay. The interior of British Columbia and western New Brunswick are also tornado zones. Earth tremors occur in the western mountains. Forest fires can occur at any time, regardless of the season, particularly in the grasslands and forests of western Canada. absolute max absolute min Ø absolute max Ø absolute min Ø precipitation days with deposit > 1mm Jan 16 °C -44 °C -3 °C -15 °C 71 % 16 mm 6 3.4 h Feb 18 °C -45 °C 0 °C -12 °C 72 % 17 mm 4 4.2 h Mar 22 °C -37 °C 3 °C -8 °C 68 % 19 mm 6 4.7 h Apr 29 °C -30 °C 10 °C -2 °C 58 % 28 mm 6 6.1 h May 32 °C -16 °C 16 °C 3 °C 53 % 51 mm 8 7.7 h Jun 35 °C -3 °C 20 °C 7 °C 58 % 88 mm 9 7.8 h Jul 36 °C 0 °C 23 °C 9 °C 57 % 69 mm 8 10.2 h Aug 35 °C -2 °C 22 °C 8 °C 58 % 54 mm 8 8.8 h Sep 33 °C -13 °C 17 °C 3 °C 58 % 39 mm 6 6.2 h Oct 29 °C -25 °C 12 °C -1 °C 54 % 18 mm 4 5.1 h Nov 22 °C -35 °C 2 °C -9 °C 69 % 15 mm 4 3.7 h Dec 19 °C -42 °C -2 °C -14 °C 69 % 14 mm 6 2.9 h year 36 °C -45 °C 10 °C -2 °C 62 % 428 mm 74 5.9 h Public telephones are now rare, but a few of them still exist. They are operated with coins, phone cards or credit cards. CDMA and GSM (800, 850, and 1900 MHz). Not all European mobile phones will work in Canadian networks. Mobile phone coverage can be spotty outside of densely populated areas. The Canadian mobile phone network is organized regionally. Providers include Bell Canada (bell.ca), Telus (telus.com), and Rogers (rogers.com). Renting mobile phones locally, or doing so online in advance of your trip, is cheap and easy. There are internet cafés in larger cities, but their numbers are dwindling as more and more cafés and restaurants are offering their guests free Wi-Fi access. Wi-Fi is often available at popular tourist attractions. A map of free Wi-Fi hot spots is available for Montreal from Zap (zapwifipublic.ca). Downtown Calgary isn’t short on places to shop, with notable districts including 4th Street SW, the pedestrianised Stephen Avenue and 8th Avenue SW. Even the city’s oldest neighbourhood, Inglewood, has these days been regenerated into somewhere full of shops and businesses. Calgary’s atmospheric Chinatown is the second largest in Canada. The Calgary Farmers Market (510 77th Avenue SE) serves up fresh local produce – and a range of arts and crafts – in a lively environment, and there are further treats to be had at the city’s largest year-round collection of stalls, Crossroads Market (1235 26th Avenue). The CORE (751 3rd Street SW) is the key downtown mall, with around 160 stores and a sizeable food court, but other good options around the city include the Chinook Centre (6455 Macleod Trail SW) and Bankers Hall (315 8th Avenue SW), both of which are good for fashion buys. Conduct: Dos and don’ts Canadians shake hands to greet each other. In the French-speaking areas of the country, they sometimes greet each other with a light kiss on each cheek (bises). Typical rules of politeness apply when visiting someone’s home. Formal clothing is expected in elegant clubs, restaurants and at the theater. Smoking is prohibited in public buildings and restaurants. Some places may have designated smoking areas. Service generally is not included in hotel and restaurant bills. A customary tip is 10 to 15 percent of the total bill (before GST/VAT). Taxi drivers also expect about 15 percent. Baggage porters should be tipped 1 C$ per piece of luggage, and hotel staff generally expect a tip of 1-2 C$ per day of your stay when you depart. Tap water is safe to drink and food safety standards are high. If camping in the backcountry, you should be aware of the risks of giardia, where water in streams or lakes has been contaminated by animal waste. This can cause diarrhoea, vomiting and headaches. Ensure you boil, filter or purify water first; purification tablets are easy to buy in any outdoor equipment store. You should also be aware of the dangers of eating shellfish directly from the sea, which can cause paralytic shellfish poisoning, resulting in illness or death. Check locally before you travel. Summer can bring extremely high temperatures, so you should guard against the problems of heat and sunstroke. Wear sunscreen to prevent sunburn, particularly on days when the widely publicised UV rating is high. (Remember that sunburn can be a risk in winter too, especially if you’re skiing, when the high altitude and reflection from the snow can be a potent combination.) In winter, on the other hand, temperatures can be bitterly cold and frostbite is a real risk; ensure you wear multiple layers and a hat, and cover your face when outdoors. Rabies is present in animals. For those at high risk, vaccination before arrival should be considered. If you are bitten, seek medical advice without delay. An outbreak of hepatitis A was reported in Vancouver Island in 2011, but most cases have been confined to one cultural group on the island. Vaccination against hepatitis A is not advised unless you’re visiting the outbreak area. If walking in tick-infested woodland and brush areas, you should be aware of the risk of Lyme disease. Ensure you cover bare skin (tucking in all clothes), use insect repellent containing DEET and remove any attached ticks using tweezers. The disease is transmitted from the bites of the western blacklegged tick in British Columbia and the blacklegged or deer tick in other parts of Canada. Since 2010, there has been an increased risk in southern Quebec due to newly discovered populations of ticks carrying the bacterium that causes Lyme disease. The first symptom is usually a circular rash, accompanied by fatigue, chills, fever, headache, muscle and joint pain and swollen lymph nodes. You should seek treatment as soon as possible as symptoms can worsen if left untreated, though fatalities are rare.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line1960
__label__wiki	0.591717	0.591717	About LRY Learn more about Laughing River School of Yoga: Liberation through Self-Knowledge Laughing River Yoga As an Intense Winter Unfolds, Some Lessons From Herbalists You and plants, together during a fearsomely uncertain time. A New York times article that features our very own teacher, Candace Taylor! This piece was written to bring insight and knowledge from herbalists from across the country. "Humans have relied on plants for their healing properties as long as we’ve been incarnated on this planet. Sumerian clay tablets from ancient Mesopotamia contained instructions for the herbal preparation of more than 200 different plants, including poppy and mandrake. A Neanderthal burial site discovered in the 1960s contained branches of a bush known to contain ephedrine, commonly used to treat breathing ailments, and several wildflowers that also have medicinal properties." Written by Jenna Wortham and released on Jan. 8, 2021. "Last summer, under the weight of the pandemic and social justice protests, I turned to my deep network of Black, Latino and nonbinary herbalists around the country, who were generously sharing their ancestral knowledge of plants online to care for their communities and help them cope with the waves of grief, anxiety and depression." Find Candace in the article: Eat something nurturing "I am a chef, and I love how we can integrate medicine into our foods,” said Candace Taylor, 38, who lives in Winooski, Vt. “I love using cinnamon, star anise, cardamom in dishes, which all support lung health. Same with curries made with cayenne, turmeric, cumin and mustard seed, which is so powerful for lungs.” She also loves using eucalyptus, she added, “in a diffuser or even taking a hot bowl of water, placing plants like wintergreen, ginger, rosemary or cinnamon into the water, and draping a hot towel over your head and lowering your face to the bowl for a quick steaming session.” “I’m growing mushrooms for the first time this year,” said Cheré (rere) Bergeron, 33, an herbalist in Minneapolis. “I put reishi and chaga mushrooms into everything I make, including my elderberry syrups and my bone broths. They also have a lot of vitamin D, and as we head into winter we aren’t getting enough sunlight and that’s also important. In fall and winter, the energy of the plants is traveling downward, back into the earth, so this time of year, eating things that grow in the ground can mirror that action and in our own bodies, helping to slow down so we can rest and move slower, at the speed of molasses.” “The very first plant that I picked in herbalism school — like an herbal tarot card — was yarrow,” said Arvolyn Hill, 31, an educator and herbalist in Harlem. “It’s an abundant plant on the land I grew up on, it’s a warrior plant.” Candace, we are SO proud of you. Benefits of Reiki by Mackensey Smith Doing the Work: Collective Liberation Book through MindBody	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line1962
__label__wiki	0.552165	0.552165	Breaking: Chevrolet Unveils Camaro ZL1 1LE! By Chase Christensen February 24, 2017 2018 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 1LE So we’re just going to get straight to the point: you know that sixth-gen Camaro everyone has been catching glimpses of testing everywhere from the Nurburgring to mid-America? Yeah, turns out that was actually the ZL1 1LE, a vehicle which Chevrolet took the wraps off tonight at the hallowed grounds of the Daytona International Speedway to a crowd of automotive journalist that we just so happened to be a part of. In a move that shocked even a room full of well informed industry professionals, Chevrolet doubled up on two of its most iconic performance brands by combining the 1LE with the veritable ZL1. While we were shocked when Jeff Gordon rolled the car in—yeah, did we mention Jeff Gordon was driving it—we weren’t surprised to see a new performance variant of the Camaro, though we and almost everyone in the industry was expecting that we would see the debut of the Z/28. But this car did not disappoint us. “The track-focused 1LE package offers progressive levels of performance across the Camaro lineup, from the V6 1LE to the SS 1LE,” said Al Oppenheiser, Camaro chief engineer. “But with the new ZL1 1LE, the progression takes a quantum leap — this is the ultimate track-day Camaro.” So lets get down to what you are probably reading this article for in the first place, the specs. The ZL1 1LE is a drastic departure from the standard ZL1, even if its looks may or may convey that–depending on who you ask. In fact, it has enough go-fast goodies to have it lapping the Milford Proving Grounds three seconds faster than the standard ZL1—you know the “standard” ZL1 that just lapped the Nurburgring in just 7:29.60 seconds. The biggest change for the car is probably the addition of Multimatic DSSV shocks. If they sound familiar, that’s because they were originally piloted on the fifth-gen Z/28 and recently shook up the mid-sized truck market when they debuted on the Colorado ZR2. The Multimatic Formula 1-inspired absorbers replace the ZL1’s Magnetic Ride Control and help to shave 60 pounds off the car’s curb weight. Chevrolet says that they estimate the car to weigh in at a svelte 3,820 pounds. The car lost additional weight with the use of a fixed rear seat, thinner rear glass, and lighter wheels. Other than the aforementioned changes, the ZL1’s interior remains unchanged with the 1LE. You still get Apple Car Play, heated and cooled seats, and power everything. Other suspension changes include anodized, adjustable camber plates that allow for up to -3.7 degrees of camber to be dialed in up front. The shocks are also threaded and allows the addition or subtraction of up to 20 mm of ride height all the way around. The front shocks are also hard mounted at both ends, removing the annoying rubber bushings that would normally deflect under the conditions that these things are liable to see. The control arms also utilize double ball joint construction which adds a lot of strength and stability to the equation. A three way adjustable stabilizer bar out back allows you to dial in under- or over-steer depending on track conditions, though camber is fixed at the rear at -1 degree. The engine also remains unchanged, albeit with the updated supercharger lid that was implemented on all 2017 LT4s, ensuring that the mill is constantly getting crisp, cool air no matter the operating conditions. Some how 650 horsepower and 650 lb-ft of torque will have to suffice—and we doubt many will find much to complain about the 6.2-liter, direct-injected bullet. The ZL1 1LE is also only available with the six-speed manual, which is how we prefer it, but we were somewhat surprised to see that they won’t be offering it with the track-capable 10-speed automatic. In the braking department, the standard ZL1 binders carry over with the front six-piston, monobloc Brembos clamping down on a two piece 390 mm diameter rotor up front and four piston calipers biting on 365 mm rotors out back. Head honcho Al Oppenheiser said that they decided to forgo the carbon ceramic brakes with the ZL1 1LE due to the substantial size of the current braking system, rendering it virtually fade-free in any condition and added that the addition of carbon ceramics would just make the car more difficult to live with, increase expense and not offer much in the way of actual performance gains. One of the largest changes on the ZL1 1LE, other than the spool-valve Mutlimatic absorbers, is literally where the rubber meets the road. Chevrolet tells us that they have been working with Goodyear for three years now to develop a tire that is more capable then any piece of rubber that has ever shod a Camaro. Which is impressive considering the standard ZL1’s Goodyear Supercar F1 tires are some of the best you can get your hands on. The new tires are massive Goodyear Eagle F1 Supercar 3Rs, measuring P305/30ZR19 up front and P325/30ZR19 out back, making them the largest tires ever fitted on a Camaro. They are wrapped around new, light weight, forged aluminum wheels, 19X10 up front and 19X11 at the rear. Brand new aero pieces are the main visual indicator that what you’re seeing isn’t your standard ZL1. The typical flat black elements from the 1LE, such as the hood and door mirrors, carry over but have been applied to as the grill, new aero pieces, and wheels as well. The large carbon fiber wing out back sits at a 10 degree down angle and provides 300 pounds of downforce at the rear of the car—more than double that of the standard ZL1 spoiler. The stanchions that attach the wing to the rear deck lid are also hollow to save weight and the wing has a subtle X marking at either end. Dive planes, more commonly referred to canards, adorn the front of the car and provide additional downforce. The brake duct intakes, as well as the entire grille, have been redesign and are much more aggressive at grabbing atmosphere to stuff through one of the nine coolers on the car or redirect to the cars brakes. Another big change for the 1LE is the addition, or rather subtraction, of the rear cradle bushings. The stock rubber units have been ditched in favor of solid mounting the cradle to the car’s chassis. All of these improvements combine to bring the car’s skid pad number up to an unbelievable 1.10 g. This car will literally be able to rip your face off whether it’s accelerating, braking, or turning. “The new Camaro ZL1 1LE offers the supreme track experience,” said Mark Dickens, executive director, Chevrolet Performance Variants, Parts and Motorsports Engineering. “It’s the pinnacle of Camaro performance and advances the 1LE’s nearly 30-year legacy of uncompromising, track-tailored capability.” Unfortunately for us, the ZL1 1LE is a 2018 model which means it won’t be available for sale until sometime this summer. However, ordering one will be pretty easy as it is just another option box to tick on the order sheet—though they wouldn’t share with us how much the 1LE option will cost as they’ve yet to put 2018 pricing together. So, were we disappointed that the ZL1 1LE wasn’t a Z/28? Not at all! This capable performer will be thrilling us until the General sees fit to bestow a Z/28 upon us. “We’ve always said that we’ll bring a Z/28 to market if the formula for one looks right, so it’s not out of the realm of possibility,” Oppenheiser said. In the mean time, we’ll be bugging General Motors to send us one of these bad boys to test as soon as possible, so stay tuned. Check out the video walk around our buddy Cleetus McFarland did of the reveal too. Chase Christensen Chase Christensen hails from Salt Lake City, and grew up around high-performance GM vehicles. He took possession of his very first F-body— an ’86 Trans Am— at the age of 13 and has been wrenching ever since.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line1965
__label__wiki	0.693993	0.693993	‘Bang Said the Gun’: Leeds Lit Fest at Carriage Works 05/03/20 Image credit: Leeds Lit Fest I can safely say I have never been welcomed into a spoken word evening with raucous ‘60s and ‘70s ballads and the rattling of stones in empty milk bottles. Yet this was how we were beckoned in the audience for Leeds Lit Fest’s ‘Bang Said the Gun’ performance. At what has been called a ‘vortex of energy and enthusiasm’ by ex-Poet Laureate Andrew Motion, the rambunctious welcome equally settled and unnerved the mixed audience of university students and the over-thirty crowd. Line drawing animations were projected onto the screen overhead and two signs in block capitals told us to “RATTLE” and “SHAKE” in exuberant equal measure. Some members of the audience enthusiastically picked up their milk bottles and joined in, yet those of us under thirty remained more timid and sketchy, looking around with raised eyebrows at our fellow poetry-goers. As the numerous rave reviews proclaim, it certainly is unlike other spoken word events and is a refreshing take on performing spoken word. Spoken word, in itself as the new mode of poetry, sits comfortably to encapsulate the every day, to elevate the mundane. It is scenarios such as these, those moments that all audiences can relate to, that the milk cartons were rattled and shaken with vigour in order to cheer and applause the poets’ performances. The situations in the poetry are localised in this recognisable plane of the ordinary, tender moments and the personal fragments of their lives were often funnily conveyed or touchingly rendered. This was echoed with the relaxed and inviting participation with the audience that often felt more like a comedy gig because of the humour and the ease from the performers and the ‘break’ in the show where a balloon was battered back and forth along the audience. Whatever performance/audience tension might have been created was dissipated in these moments and helped to maintain the closer atmosphere. Certainly no one could be said to be standing on ceremony which was a pleasant change from the often serious veneration that comes with spoken word events. This doesn’t mean that the subject matter was entirely frivolous, as both MC Daniel Cockrill and the first act Martin Galton recited poems about parenthood and the love for their children with resonant tenderness. Galton was reading from his black book of ‘hate’ which resonated with the middle-aged crowd, who’d cheered enthusiastically for it over the red book of ‘love.’ It was therefore a surprise when he finished with the tender poem about his son (who was in the audience) who’d recently started university in Leeds. Cockrill’s poems about his twin sons were exceptionally poignant and this tenderness only increased when he ended his set with a poem revealing that they were conceived through IVF. Though it no doubt resonated more with the parents in the room, I was still touched by the lamentations of parent’s love and felt an inescapable urge to phone my own parents. Alongside the touching there was also the personable, comedic performances from Laurie Bolger and Rob Auton. Bolger had an excellent stage presence and engaged with the audience in a more comedic exchange that some of the other performances, as well as being able to showcase a wide range of her work in the short set. I particularly enjoyed her selection of poems about the important women in her life for International Women’s Day. Auton, the other comedic poet, certainly had a bizarre stand-up comedy kind of routine mainly focused around funny deconstructions of everyday thoughts. His rhythm, rhyming and playing with words was very clever and funny and engaged all swathes of the audience with his witty observations. The headliner of the show, Mike Garry, swaggered on as the final act, almost as if he’d swaned in from a day of hiking with his teal puffer and sunglasses. He brought a different dimension of performance once again. His history of touring with John Cooper Clark and the soft, almost ambiguous Mancunian lilt and repetition created a kind of hypnotic quality with the stories performed from North West England. In this repetition there was a kind of immersion into the stories shared, with often many voices slipping into the one as the poet paced and sang, sliding his glasses on and off at intervals. This shuttered the intimacy of the performance, on and off, yet his performance was sustained and tight throughout his set. I headed to this event armed with the many rave reviews clanging in my head and the often sensory overload compared with the often pared down poetry performances was certainly an interesting and enjoyable take on the spoken word event. Follow @bangsaidthegunand @leedsliton twitter! Pure: a show that finally portrays the O of OCD 'The Girl's Bathroom': Your new best friend and podcast all in one	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line1972
__label__wiki	0.753323	0.753323	Hudayriyat Heritage Trail opens to the public November 12, 2020 beech The Hudayriyat Heritage Trail opened to the public on the 10th November 2020. The Hudayriyat Heritage Trail has been established to protect the important archaeological remains discovered on the island. The shell middens provide direct evidence of the activities of pearl fishermen who previously lived there. The remains of dugongs and sharks demonstrate the importance of marine resources for the community living on Hudayriyat. An archaeological experience with a twist, the Hudayriyat Heritage Trail is a winding stretch of beautiful pathways and raised tidal boardwalks. It offers visitors the chance to stroll down a timeline of local history and learn all about the curious and intriguing facts of the recent and distant past. The trail includes a range of contemporary sculptures, alongside viewing platforms overlooking the Arabian Gulf. The trail combines historical artworks such as oysters, pearls, and pottery, burnt shark and dugong bones, along with historical fishing nets. Along the route are a number of educational nodes where families can learn about how the local Bedouins lived and adapted to the environment many years before modern technology. Download the Hudayriyat Heritage Trail Official Brochure by clicking here. Download the Map of the Hudayriyat Heritage Trail by clicking here. Visit the Hudayriyat Heritage Trail Instagram page. Visit the Hudayriyat Heritage Trail Facebook page. See VisitAbuDhabi’s video about Hudayriyat Island. See a video on YouTube about Hudayriyat Island. Previous PostNew paper published in the International Journal of OsteoarchaeologyNext PostNew publication about lithics from Delma Island	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line1974
__label__cc	0.621624	0.378376	Why P&G’s agency cull could signal a new model for brand agency partnerships P&G’s recent decision to cut its agency roster and reinvest savings into marketing activity is reflective of the pressures the company is under to cut costs. However, while a crucial aspect, the move is not just about saving money, and the strategy could be viewed as indicative of the way brands will work with agencies in the future. By Alison Millington 1 May 2015 8:40 am On a call with investors to discuss the company’s first quarter results last week, chief financial officer John Moeller said P&G is looking to cut marketing costs by up to $500m with the savings set to be reinvested to “improve positions and support new innovations”. A P&G spokesperson told Marketing Week that the opportunity for cost savings includes production costs and agency fees across advertising, media, public relations, package design and development of in-store materials. “We want the best creative quality and talent working on our business,” P&G added. “This should help us improve creative effectiveness and operate more efficiently across all agency types worldwide.” Global Brand Officer Marc Pritchard told Ad Age last week that the company started looking at this a few years ago “because the amount of content required and the fragmentation of media and the number of touch points where consumers were going and agency sub-specialization have created a lot of extra work and in some cases a lot of extra cost”. Money is also being moved from traditional media channels to what the company sees as more efficient digital channels, which now account for about 30% of its communications budget. The race to drive efficiency The company is not the only one looking to its use of agencies to cut costs – rival Unilever has also focused on driving efficiencies in the cost of producing its advertising over recent years by continuing to increase its digital ad spend while significantly cutting non-working media spend – production costs and agency fees. Elsewhere, last year Coca-Cola announced plans to make $1bn in productivity savings by 2016 through more efficient resource and cost allocation, with savings to be invested into global brand building initiatives with increased consumer-facing media spend. The move by P&G is largely due to pressures the Pampers, Ariel and Fairy owner is under to cut costs because of foreign exchange concerns – currency fluctuations hit sales in the three months to March, tumbling 8% to $18.1bn. Excluding the impact of foreign exchange rates, sales were up by 1%. However, a re-examining of agency relationships isn’t just about cutting costs – companies such as P&G and Unilever are recognising that the world has changed, and traditional marketing models, many of which were developed before the age of digital, no longer work. Further, as the world of media has evolved many brands have added multiple specialist agencies, a move that has proven to be inefficient in terms of efficiently using marketing budgets. Richard Robinson, managing partner of Oystercatchers, who help agencies and brands create efficient models for partnerships, told Marketing Week that companies such as P&G are looking for “a model fit for purpose today, not five years ago”. “Agencies need to look at themselves and ask if they have the most appropriate model for their clients or if they are hanging on to a colonial past,” he added, suggesting that some of P&G’s savings will come from its agencies better organising and streamlining their processes. Developing a better process should involve “encouraging the agencies to proactively identify who their best talent is” and “elevating the decision making process” so that agencies take feedback from marketing directors rather than junior marketers, according to Robinson. He believes P&G will look to remove duplication and consolidate at a local level, while its main lead agencies will stay the same, in an effort to develop “top quality creative that grows the business on every brand”, according to the company. Advertisers set to adopt the same approach P&G likely won’t be the last to adopt this structure. Debbie Morrison, director of consultancy and best practice at ISBA, told Marketing Week that she expects to see more advertisers taking a similar approach in the coming year. “In the desire to grow business in an ever challenging and competitive market many advertisers are now seeking ways to extract greater value from their spend and maximise effectiveness,” she said. “To do this they are looking at their rosters and many are currently working on consolidation projects.” She added that some brands, like BA, have already “restructured their marcoms ops and their agency relationships consolidating down into fewer more manageable relationships.”, while ISBA is having “many conversations with our members of a similar ‘consolidation’ and ‘ more value’ or ‘more agile’ nature”. This suggests that instead of looking at P&G and Unilever’s cost-cutting strategies simply as responses to financial pressure, marketers should view them as models of more streamlined and modern marketing strategies. “If I was the CMO of a major organisation, I would certainly be taking note of this,” Robinson says, adding that CMOs too often believe a faltering marketing performance can only be fixed by hiring a new agency. “The problem doesn’t lie with the agency, but with the fact that they have not addressed the model their consumers now need,” he adds. News Agencies Agency Relationships Digital Marketing FMCG Procter & Gamble P&G to cut agency roster and reinvest some of $500m savings in marketing activity Procter & Gamble is to cull the number of agencies it works with worldwide as it looks to cut its marketing costs by up to $500m. P&G’s European brand director on the importance of on the job training Jonathan Bacon Q Is on the job training an important feature within P&G? We are very passionate about training and it never really stops. It’s primarily on the job – there are certain standard programmes that people go through, such as our colleges for people at different [job] levels, but there’s also a mass menu of different […] 1 Apr 2015 4:14 pm P&G brand boss: ‘Digital brings unimaginable opportunities but obsession with tech can threaten brands’ Kaltrina Bylykbashi Chief brand officer of P&G, Marc Pritchard says digital technology has brought marketers ‘unimaginable opportunities’, but brands should not put ‘obsession’ with technology at the cost of ‘customer experience’ and should tackle the threats that digital presents as much as reaping the benefits of it. 6 Mar 2015 5:11 pm There is one comment at the moment, we would love to hear your opinion too. Mark Fiddes 5 May 2015 There is no contradiction between cutting $500m and asking for the best creative quality. Clients have reinvented their own product innovation processes. It’s time the global ad networks did the same or risk being lost to the industrial or “colonial” past, to borrow Richard’s descriptor. But every client needs an internal advocate to drive that change. Our experience is that it falls to the thought-leaders in procurement – sometimes even the CFO or CEO – who have the imagination and courage to trial agile new ways of delivering successful brand ideas.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line1977
__label__wiki	0.636817	0.636817	Chemistry CHANGE TOPIC Home » Materials chemistry » News » Recipients of the 2014 Acta Student Awards Recipients of the 2014 Acta Student Awards 25 August 2015 \| Subhash Mahajan Top row (left to right): Dr. Riccardo Casati; Dr. In-Chul Choi; Dr. Jun Ding; Mr. Denver Faulk; Mr. Heemin Kang; Mr. Philipp Krooß. Bottom row (left to right): Dr. Brittany R. Muntifering; Dr. Kelsey A. Potter-Baker; Dr. Spencer E. Szczesny; Ms. Jana Šmilauerová; Mr. Dalong Zhang. A team of judges consisting of Acta Materialia, Scripta Materialia, and Acta Biomaterialia editors has completed the evaluation of nominees for the above awards. Each year we receive many excellent nominations and selecting the winners is a challenging task. Several factors are considered in the evaluation of each nominee: the quality of paper, or papers, for which he or she was nominated, recommendation letters, and leadership potential. The awardees selected from papers published in 2014 in the Acta Journals are: Dr. Riccardo Casati, Politecnico di Milano & CNR-IENI Lecco, ITALY. Advisor: Prof. Maurizio Vedani. “Thermal cycling of stress-induced martensite for high-performance shape memory effect,” Scripta Materialia 80 (2014), 13-16. Dr. In-Chul Choi, Hanyang University, Seoul, SOUTH KOREA (now at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany). Advisor: Prof. Jae-il Jang. “Evolution of plasticity, strain-rate sensitivity and the underlying deformation mechanism in Zn–22% Al during high-pressure torsion,” Scripta Materialia 75 (2014), 102-105. Dr. Jun Ding, Johns Hopkins University, USA (now at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory). Advisor: Prof. Evan Ma. “Full icosahedra dominate local order in Cu64Zr34 metallic glass and supercooled liquid,” Acta Materialia 69 (2014), 343-354. Mr. Denver Faulk, University of Pittsburgh, USA. Advisor: Prof. Stephen F. Badylak. “The effect of detergents on the basement membrane complex of a biologic scaffold material,” Acta Biomaterialia 10 (2014), 183-93. Mr. Heemin Kang, University of California, San Diego, USA. Advisor: Prof. Shyni Varghese. “Mineralized gelatin methacrylate based matrices induce osteogenic differentiation of human induced pluripotent stem cells,” Acta Biomaterialia 10 (2014), 4961-70. Mr. Philipp Krooß, University of Paderborn, GERMANY (now at Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg). Advisor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hans Jürgen Maier. Mr. Krooß is receiving dual awards for outstanding work in both Acta Materialia and Scripta Materialia, an unprecedented event in our student award program. “Cyclic degradation mechanisms in aged FeNiCoAlTa shape memory single crystals,” Acta Materialia 79 (2014), 126-137 “Thermal cycling behavior of an aged FeNiCoAlTa single-crystal shape memory alloy,” Scripta Materialia 81 (2014), 28-31. Dr. Brittany R. Muntifering, Boise State University, USA (now at Northwestern University, USA). Advisor: Prof. Peter Müllner. “Intra-variant substructure in Ni–Mn–Ga martensite: Conjugation boundaries,” Acta Materialia 71 (2014), 255-263. Dr. Kelsey A. Potter-Baker, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA (now at Cleveland Clinic Foundation). Advisor: Prof. Jeffrey R. Capadona. “Curcumin-releasing mechanically compliant implants prevent neurodegeneration and blood-brain barrier instability at the implant-tissue interface.” Acta Biomaterialia 10 (2014), 2209-2222. Dr. Spencer E. Szczesny, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. Advisor: Prof. Dawn M. Elliott. “Interfibrillar shear stress is the loading mechanism of collagen fibrils in tendon,” Acta Biomaterialia 10 (2014), 2582-2590. Ms. Jana Šmilauerová, Charles University in Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC. Advisor: Prof. M. Janecek. “Ordered array of ω particles in β-Ti matrix studied by small-angle X-ray scattering,” Acta Materialia 81 (2014), 71-82. Mr. Dalong Zhang, University of California, Davis, USA. Advisor: Prof. Enrique Lavernia. “Prism stacking faults observed contiguous to a {10-12} twin in a Mg–Y alloy,” Scripta Materialia 76 (2014), 61-64. The editors would like to congratulate the awardees and thank all the nominees for their participation. We wish them all the best in their careers. Subhash Mahajan Coordinating Editor, Acta Journals Acta Journals’ Outstanding Reviewers in 2017 Find out about the recipients of the 2018 Outstanding review awards from the Acta Journals. Qingjie Zhang - 2021 Acta Materialia Hollomon Award Recipient Acta Student Awards 2018 Submit your entry to the 2018 Acta Student Awards.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line1981
__label__wiki	0.632864	0.632864	Structural considerations for a prosperous Greece 04/01/2021 - 14:25 Podcast - What does Brexit mean for the UK-Greece relationship? 31/12/2020 - 17:55 Podcast - The rise and fall of Golden Dawn 24/12/2020 - 16:24 Podcast - What is Greece going to do with the EU's Covid-19 recovery funds? 15/12/2020 - 13:54 The risk of losing control before help arrives 04/12/2020 - 14:30 Podcast - Covid-19 takes another bite out of the Greek economy 02/12/2020 - 16:25 You are at: Home / Agora / Why Tsipras might gamble on snap elections Why Tsipras might gamble on snap elections Agora 17/08/2015 - 14:04 1 Comment(s) Categories: Politics (301), Greece (419) Photo by MacroPolis Many people asking whether Greece can afford to hold snap elections in the autumn. Perhaps, though, we should also be asking whether the country, and especially its prime minister, can afford not to. It is clear that the prospect of asking Greeks electing a government for a second time this year, between September and November, is part of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s thinking, especially after seeing just 118 of his coalition’s 162 MPs back the third bailout in Friday’s vote, which took him below the absolute minimum of 120 needed in a confidence vote. Many observers outside Greece find this idea baffling given that Tsipras has the support of three opposition parties (New Democracy, To Potami and PASOK), at least as far as bailout-related legislation is concerned. This provides Tsipras with well over 200 votes in the 300-seat Parliament and the apparent certainty of winning crucial votes in the chamber. However, is such a marriage of convenience sustainable in the topsy-turvy world of Greek politics? It is unlikely that opposition parties will want to keep shouldering the political cost of approving unpopular measures while having no say in the way the country is being run. The situation within SYRIZA looks equally unviable as about a quarter of the party’s MPs will be voting against bailout legislation and will thus not face the same pressure as their colleagues when they return to their constituencies to speak with voters. The only way to overcome this friction without holding new elections is for Tsipras to split with the dissenters within his party and form a new coalition government with the opposition parties. Such a move would be unprecedented in contemporary Greek politics and perhaps too big an ask of all those involved, especially when one takes into account the shift in SYRIZA policy that the last six months have prompted and that PASOK and New Democracy are essentially under caretaker leadership. Of course, snap elections may not necessarily change much but at least it would allow the SYRIZA split to be formalised and for voters to position themselves on this fragmentation as well as whether they still trust Tsipras to run the country. There is a sense that the momentous nature of the third bailout, from the way it was agreed, the onerous content and the possibility that it will lead to debt relief, means that Tsipras needs a fresh mandate to implement it. Without it, there is every chance that the authority of even a broad coalition will be constantly eroded by speculation about elections and the jostling between parties and MPs ahead of such a vote. Of course, there are also much narrower political reasons for Tsipras to consider the option of snap polls this autumn. In effect, he has a small window of opportunity to capitalise on his enduring popularity before it potentially crumbles and ahead of voters feeling the full impact of the measures approved by Parliament on Friday. In many ways, Tsipras could potentially ride a number of waves in the autumn. After clinching the third bailout with relatively minimum fuss and with positive feedback from Eeurozone decision-makers at Friday’s Eurogroup, he still has a chance to convince voters from the centre ground that he has the ability to lead Greece towards stability. At the same time, he will play up his plans for tackling corruption and social injustice in the hope of maintaining support from the left. These will be much easier messages to get across if Greeks have not yet started to count the cost of a new round of pension cuts, VAT hikes and other adjustments. It is also worth remembering that voters have to pay several billion euros in income, property and road tax in the second half of the year. Submitting a request for a new mandate before notices for these payments start landing on the doormat may be to Tsipras’s advantage. Striking early could also catch his rivals on the backfoot. New Democracy and PASOK have both changed leaders in the last few months and find themselves in a transition phase which, at the moment, has no clear final destination. To Potami, meanwhile, has failed to build on its entry into Parliament for the first time in January. Tsipras’s main concern is likely to be his internal opposition. It appears that SYRIZA’s Left Platform has already begun the process of forming a new party that will advocate for Greece leaving the euro. This will be a magnet for SYRIZA’s grassroots support and the sooner elections are held, the less likely it is that the new party will be in a position to present a convincing programme that could attract more than just marginal support. Tsipras also knows that he is currently the dominant political player domestically, with no real challengers. Somehow, he has managed to be at the forefront of developments over the last six months but also to shield himself from much of the fallout from the failure of the government’s tactics. This precarious balance will not last forever and Tsipras knows that his popularity will begin to wane in the months to come. When this starts to happen, SYRIZA will also lose perhaps the only advantage it has over the other parties. At the moment, voters’ faith in the party is largely a vote of confidence, or at least hope, in Tsipras. Many Greeks have taken a conscious decision to cut the umbilical cord with dominant political powers of the past, New Democracy and PASOK, and to give someone new a chance. For all his faults, Tsipras currently embodies this spirit. He is not the son, nephew or cousin of a previous leader, and in Greece’s efforts to extricate itself from a crisis largely caused by chronic problems this counts for something. Of course, it is not enough on its own and the prime minister has already shown many fallibilities and has prompted concern that he is not the agent of change he claims to be. But this means that for him there is all the more reason to obtain a new mandate before the fog of confusion lifts and voters start to pose tougher questions. This is why Tsipras could choose in the next few days to hold a vote of confidence in Parliament that he knows he might lose, paving the way for Greeks to to make a third trip to their polling stations after January's general elections and the referendum in July. In both of those cases, Tsipras opted for a high-risk strategy, forcing snap polls in January after refusing to support the previous government's presidential candidate and then pulling out of negotiations with creditors at the last minute to ask Greeks to judge the bailout deal on offer. Both of those gambles paid off for Tsipras in a political sense as SYRIZA came to power for the first time in January, while Tsipras defeated the united force of the opposition parties, European lenders and mainstream media in the referendum. A third gamble is now on the cards and Tsipras may be feeling lucky. *An earlier version of this article appeard in our August 7 e-newsletter, which is available to subscribers. You can follow Nick on Twitter: @NickMalkoutzis Posted by: Dean Plassaras You mean why Tsipras MUST hold snap elections? Answer: Because ND + Pasok are at their weakest and they need to be wiped off the map. Reply You have to in order to reply. in order to add a comment. 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__label__wiki	0.912957	0.912957	Home >Companies >Foreign ship owners decide to fly the Indian flag A Maersk Ronneby container ship at Cochin Port. Photo: Reuters Foreign ship owners decide to fly the Indian flag 4 min read . Updated: 11 Jan 2016, 01:41 AM IST P. Manoj Registering under the Indian flag allows foreign vessels carry cargo and containers on local routes, in accordance with the country's cabotage laws Bengaluru: The initiatives taken by the Narendra Modi government to promote India’s coastal shipping sector has started yielding results with some foreign ship owners seeing benefits of registering ships under the Indian flag to carry cargo on local routes. In shipping, a ship flies the flag of the country where it is registered and is subjected to the tax jurisdiction of that nation. Only Indian registered ships are allowed to carry cargo on local routes, according to a so-called cabotage rule. Rules on registering ships in India have often faced criticism even by the local fleet owners because of multiple taxes hurting their operational competitiveness. But foreign ship owners have already converted, or are in the process of converting, some of their ships to fly the Indian flag. To be sure, the sudden interest among global ship owners to run Indian flag ships along the country’s vast coast line is focussed on container shipping and has been kindled by the unfolding business environment for shipping containers by sea as the shipping ministry led by Nitin Gadkari eases rules and offers incentives for diverting cargo from the predominant road and rail by tapping a cheaper mode of transport which also reduces the carbon footprint. Singapore-based container shipping company Pacific International Lines Pte Ltd is the first to convert one of its container ships registered in Singapore to the Indian flag to run a service linking Mundra port in Gujarat with the container transhipment terminal at Vallarpadam in Cochin port. Privately held Pacific International, one of the largest ship owners in South-East Asia and ranked 18th among the world’s top container ship operators with a fleet of 164 ships, is looking at registering at least three more ships in India, said a person familiar with the development. Singapore is a much sought-after place by global fleet owners to register ships because of the island nation’s investor-friendly and tax-friendly rules. Dubai-based feeder operator Simatech Shipping LLC has started the process of registering two of its container ships under the Indian flag and putting them on a service linking Mundra with Cochin, Colombo and Mangalore, said an executive at one of its India offices, asking not to be named. A spokesperson for India’s Directorate General of Shipping (DGS), which oversees the ship registration process, confirmed the development. “We’ve started getting enquiries from more global fleet owners to register ships under the Indian flag," said the spokesperson. Sea Consortium Pte Ltd, which runs container shipping services under the brand name X-Press Feeders, is also discussing the possibility of running Indian flag container ships, a company official said. Coastal shipping is a different opportunity altogether, said an executive at Pacific International. “If you look at the local cargo moving by road and if we try to convert that into coastal, it is a huge opportunity. Besides, due to the government’s new policy and projects like Sagar Mala and more emphasis on coastal shipping, naturally the traffic as well as the number of participants will increase. Plenty of ships can come and start operations. That will decongest the roads, there will be lot many advantages, customers will benefit financially also," the executive said, declining to be named. For years, global container carriers have been calling for the opening up of Indian cabotage trade (shipping cargo on local routes) mainly for container transportation—a plea backed by India’s port and terminal operators. The demand is based on the argument that India’s locally registered container fleet of 16 ships is inadequate to meet the rising requirements of container trade. This is particularly so when the government is looking to ship containers directly which are now send via neighbouring hub ports by setting up terminals in India that can facilitate this task by allowing bigger vessels to dock. These require more Indian container ships to feed containers to transshipment terminals and vice versa. Indian fleet owners, under the banner of industry lobby Indian National Shipowners’ Association (INSA), have been opposing this demand. Registering ships under the Indian flag by foreign fleet owners would be a half-way meeting point between these two conflicting positions, says a shipping industry executive who declined to be named. This will help India increase its shipping tonnage (capacity) while foreign owners will get access to Indian container cargo without the need to ease the cabotage rule. India has targeted to raise its tonnage to 43 million gross tonnage (GT) by 2020 from 10.4 million GT. “It (converting foreign ships into the Indian flag) is non-controversial and is not an emotive issue with the local fleet owners unlike easing of cabotage," he added. Last year, India’s shipping ministry issued detailed guidelines for implementing a financial scheme to incentivise shifting some portion of the cargo now carried by rail and road to coastal shipping and inland waterway routes to help develop them as an integral part of the country’s logistics chain. The scheme proposes to provide monetary incentives to beneficiaries when they transport certain identified commodities, containerized cargo or automobiles on Indian flag vessels on local routes. Among others, transportation of any commodity in containers will be eligible for an incentive of ₹ 3,000 per twenty foot equivalent unit (teu)—the standard size of a container. Further, India-registered ships carrying export-import containers, empty containers and containers stuffed with cargo meant for local consumption plying on local routes were exempted last year from payment of customs and excise duty on bunker (ship fuel). This was a big bonanza for Indian ships because bunker accounts for about 40% of the operating cost of a ship. Since 2004, India-registered ships are subjected to tonnage tax—a levy based on the cargo carrying capacity of a ship—in place of corporate tax which cut the tax outgo of a shipping company to 1-2% of their income. About 95% of the global shipping fleet operates under the tonnage tax regime.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line1990
__label__wiki	0.632454	0.632454	HOME > Interviews > INTRODUCING KING & TUCKFIELD MENSWEAR UNDERSTATED CASUALWEAR AND JAPANESE SELVEDGE MADE IN LONDON Written by Paddy Maddison in Interviews on the 24th July 2017 / Introducing King & Tuckfield Menswear Here at MenswearStyle we've always got our ear to the ground to find the most exciting new menswear brands. One that really caught our attention recently is London-based label, King & Tuckfield. Stacey Wood's thoroughly British label is making a name for itself through its stylish, understated casualwear and the truly outstanding quality of its clothes. They’re becoming especially well known for its superior quality Japanese selvedge jeans. They’re all made here in London - something that only a handful of brands can lay claim to - at Black Horse Lane Atelier, and really are some of the best fitting jeans we've ever come across. If you’re a fan of Folk, A.P.C., YMC and the like, then this new label is going to be right up your street, with its beautifully constructed garments and timeless, yet contemporary, approach to style. We'd heard that the brand has a great story behind it, so to find out more about that and King & Tuckfield in general we caught up with Stacey herself, the founder and creative force behind the clothes. For those unfamiliar with the brand could you tell us the story behind the clothes? "King & Tuckfield is the alternative to throwaway fashion. We make pieces to become even more cherished the more time passes, like the colourful stories of my own family history. We've taken our name from my Grandmother Joan Marion King and father Graham Aubrey Tuckfield, both of whom have had a big influence on my own sense of style." Can you tell us a little about what it was that inspired you to go into fashion and, in particular, menswear? "Since I was a child I've always looked up to people with style. They stood apart for me and seemed to have an aura of beauty. My Grandmother with her rebellious elegance, my eldest sister in her stonewashed Levis that I couldn't wait to get my hands on. My father was also one of those people. He had great taste and had a beguiling gracefulness, perhaps due in part to his background as a ballet dancer. My father died when I was young and many years later as I dug into his past, the more photos I found and the more I learnt of his fascinating stories, I was inspired to build a collection based around that." What would you say are the standout items in your men's collection? "The merino knitted polos are definitely the biggest hit and this seasons textured version is a personal favourite of mine. I also love the workshirt in a beautiful Japanese coloured denim." We love your clothes and especially your jeans. Why did you choose denim as a key area to focus on? "It's a direct reflection of our brand values. There is no fabric in the world that lives longer, ages more beautifully and looks so cool through all the style evolutions of an entire century. I guess that explains why we've always loved denim. We are also fortunate to have great denim experience within the team and the opportunity to work with a top–level factory, Black Horse Lane, right here on our doorstep in London." Where do you take your design inspiration from? "My inspiration draws a lot on vintage and archive material, flea market finds, old books and films from the era of our namesakes, King and Tuckfield. We're inspired by the stories and personalities that have shaped our own style and there’s always some kind of detail or reference linking directly to the family heritage. A lot also comes from the raw materials; we're always looking for fabrics that will age better and obsess over quality but we're also about finding that exciting new fabric that will bring the whole concept alive for the season." What can we expect from King & Tuckfield in the next few years? "Every season the collection gets stronger as we continually refine our fits and build lasting relationships with our suppliers, but the core product is consistent, indigo and wool with a modern mid-century leaning... because that’s what we love!" In Conversation with Stacey Wood of King & Tuckfield We speak to Stacey Wood, the found of an exciting new British label known as King & Tuckfield.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line1997
__label__cc	0.740527	0.259473	For investees Venture – early stage Private equity – fuelling growth Debt – flexible loans Funds we manage Mercia hub AIM Rule 26 Mercia - Asset Management Proactive specialist asset management We provide venture, private equity or debt finance to regional businesses with growth ambition. Debt - CBILS Championing regional businesses Providing the best possible support to our portfolio businesses and partners. We are #onemercia Striving to be the first choice for our investors, investees and colleagues. Your ideal investment partner Discover more about our Group including our approach to corporate governance and driving shareholder value Spotlight on the Northern VCTs Fund Since 2015 the Northern VCTs have achieved 26 exits from the mature portfolio generating proceeds of £183.2 million and an average return multiple of 2.7x (as at September 2019). It’s a track record which speaks for itself. Today, as part of the Mercia Group (having been acquired from NVM Private Equity in 2019), the fund has significant liquidity and the team is actively looking for new, VCT qualifying businesses to back. Meet Investment Manager – Charlotte Barttelot Charlotte joined the Northern VCTs in 2018 and is responsible for transacting and managing investments across all sectors. She is a specialist in technology and life sciences investments having spent five years at Silicon Valley Bank focussing on growth to late-stage technology companies in Europe and the United States. She has a background in pharmacology and spent time working at Citi Investment Bank. What were the synergies between the Northern VCTs and Mercia which led to the acquisition? The VCT’s approach to investment management was identical to Mercia’s. It’s all about being able to add value once the initial transaction has been completed; this is something which is core to us both. We were already syndicated partners on one investment, Voxpopme, and our teams have recently completed a further syndicated round into Currentbody, and I am sure there are many more syndicated deals to come given the synergies in our approach. Has COVID-19 affected your deal flow? Our approach to generating new deals has changed somewhat, clearly most of our origination has been done digitally, or through telephone calls. Compare this to last year when this would have all been done at face-to-face meetings, and networking events. That said, we still managed to complete deals since the first lockdown, with a few more to come before year end and an interesting pipeline to take us into 2021. What’s the most interesting VCT investment from 2020? We’re fortunate enough to have done several really exciting investments – but if I had to single one transaction out then it would be OddBox. The team has a strong sustainability angle, and this has resonated well with customers which has fueled significant growth since we invested at the beginning of the year. The team have performed particularly well to harness the opportunity living in a post COVID world and scaled the operations of the business to meet the demand, What sort of deals are you looking for? We are sector agonistic and looking for a range of businesses, but they all have one thing in common – a strong management team with ambition. We look for companies that have gained market traction, but what that traction looks like will vary from sector to sector. For example, in software businesses these will typically be able to show revenues of £1million or more, but for medical technology or life science companies, where commercial milestones are often later down the line, this may be FDA approval or perhaps other strategic partnerships. We are interested to talk to members of the NED network about any opportunities they may have, even if it’s just to give some guidance around VCT eligibility, we’d be happy to help where we can. Please email info@mercia.co.uk. We have so much to tell you Whether you’re ready to invest today or you’re thinking about a capital solution for tomorrow we would love to hear from you. © 2021 Mercia Asset ManagementWebsite by 438	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line1999
__label__cc	0.628874	0.371126	HOTTER ON METALS: The unlikely views on the LME spot trading platform Plans for a London Metal Exchange spot trading platform have sparked intense debate within the aluminium industry. But opponents and supporters don’t necessarily fall into the camps that one might expect. For starters, a decision by the LME not to change its futures contract, establish a new green aluminium contract or set thresholds to define what constitutes low-carbon metal is proving key in starting to turn around negative sentiment among high-carbon producers that rely on fossil fuels. It’s been a relief to these producers, who had been so concerned that they risked being left with assets that will not be viable to mine, process or refine while sustainability issues gather momentum. Their new approach is not to argue against the platform, but instead to embrace its transparency and push for other metrics of sustainability to be included. These factors would span the supply chain and would, for example, consider the use of water, tailings management schemes or the use of carbon offsets – in other words,... Andrea Hotter spot trading platform low-carbon aluminium LMEpassport	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line2002
__label__wiki	0.758706	0.758706	Metalrage.com Metalrage.com is a non-profit website created and maintained by a small group of music lovers from the Netherlands (and some other territories). You can read more about us or contact us by clicking here. Metalrage.com wil only accept digital promo's to save us all time. There will be a form available soon to upload the promo using our website. For now use the contact form available here to get in touch and send promos. All logos and trademarks in this site are property of their respective owner. The comments are property of their posters, all the rest © 2002-2021 Metalrage.com Enter keywords and hit enter! EmpYrios - Metal with an infinity of different approaches... I surely was surprised when I listened to ‘…And the rest is silence’, the debut-album of Italian metalheads Empyrios. An almost perfect album with stunning technical aspects. A great opportunity for a mail-interview with composer/guitarplayer Simone Mularoni, in which you can clearly find the same energetic approach as you hear in their music! First of all I’d like to congratulate you with the record! Although it’s Empyrios’ debut album, it already sounds very professional and tight. Is that the reason why you waited so long to release an album? Did you guys really wanted everything to be perfect or were there internal problems (e.g. the line-up) that held back a release? ‘Well, actually we are perfectionists. But the main reason of the long wait surely was line up establishment! We waited so long because we wanted to have the perfect guys in the band!’ Typical question, what’s the meaning of Empyrios and why have you opted for the album name “…and the rest is silence” ? ‘EmpYrios is the first heaven in the Paradise of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy. Actually me and Teo [Matteo Mastroianni - drums] were in school together many years ago and we decided to choose that name for an eventual band in the future… and here we are! The album title is kind of a word joke…. You know, “the rest of the metal bands are silence..:” hahaha. Or if you want, after you listen to the entire album as a whole, you really appreciate the silence…' As an Italian band you are signed with a Greek label. How did Empyrios and Burning Star Records find each other? ‘Well Ema [Emanuele Casali - Keyboards] had already signed a contract with his other band Astra so we had the possibility to meet Mike of Burning Star!! He’s a great guy, he’s working so hard and most important he seems to like our music, haha!’ The label classifies Empyrios as ‘Technical Power Metal’. How would you define it and could you give a brief explanation how you feel about the music? ‘mmmhhh… we actually don’t like labels so much but if I have to… to me it’s simply metal with an infinity of different approaches… all of us listen to different kinds of music, from punk, to hard rock, death, thrash and so on… so if we like something we just put it down and play it! This is actually what I think is “progressive” music!’ You and Matteo both are ex-Marsh Mallows members. Did you leave that band together with already a new idea in mind or has the will to create music like this grown with time? ‘Well, actually we’re still in the band! But that’s another story... Marsh Mallows isn’t our “main” band… it’s just a great hardcore band in which we play a lot live and have fun across Italy!' The first thing that I noticed when listening to the record was the mix of genres. Was this truly something you wanted from the beginning or did it just come along with the composing? ‘I personally never think about those things, I just pick my guitar and play what comes out… Sometimes it can be a mellow ballad and sometimes a strong heavy thrash riff! It really depends by the moment. I love to mix different genres. Ya know, at the beginning neoclassical and shortly after growl vocals and so on!’ For example, throughout the record we can hear some awesome filmscore-sounding parts. Did you incorporate those with a meaning? e.g. at the end of ‘The Ruiner’: that part reminded me to ‘Pirates of The Caribbean’ and, in my opinion, really gives that song the most powerful ending it can have! ‘Wow, thank you! I usually compose this kind of music… it really gives me satisfaction! And when I tried, just for fun to put the piece at the end of 'The Ruiner', it turned out great! So why not? ' How about the ‘Making of’ video that comes along with the record. Could you tell us some more about that? ‘It was very funny! It’s simply a montage of images taken during the recording sessions of the album, there are too much stupid things I think, but it pictures perfectly what we are! 5 crazy guys trying to play and compose “serious” music! ' What can we expect in the future, touring-wise and album-wise? ‘Well, for now we’re working on the new songs of the next album. We really hope to release it in the near-future! About touring, we’re waiting for some proposals, but we prefer doing some great supporting act tours instead of bad and single gigs!’ If you would have to introduce someone to Empyrios with only one song, which would it be? ‘Wow…. It’s the same old story, you know. I composed them so for me they are all great! But I think ‘Tort’ explains the most progressive and introspective part of our music and ‘The Ruiner’ is the powerful and fast side! By the way: listen completely to the album, haha!' I would like to thank you a lot for taking the time for this interview and especially for bringing us this very nice record! ‘No, thank you! We’re honoured and proud you like our record! See you soon!’ You can find a review of "...And the rest is silence" here. Details Written on 2007-03-18 Writer @Peekay Tags: #EmpYrios Empyrios - ...And The Rest Is Silence (Review)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line2003
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__label__cc	0.661977	0.338023	J. Cam McKechnie Philip Di Tomaso Alex Choi Personal Injury Litigation Debtor-Creditor Litigation Real Property Litigation General Commercial Litigation Neck and back injuries are common after car wrecks Motorcycle safety tips for Vancouver riders What is whiplash and how is it treated? Covid-19 Firm Policy Don’t drive when you’re too tired Evidence you should collect after a commercial truck accident On behalf of McKechnie & Company \| Dec 9, 2019 \| Uncategorized Building a claim after a traffic accident requires collecting evidence that supports your version of events. In many cases, particularly those that involve commercial trucks, the other parties also gather evidence and may try and use it to tell a different story about how the accident occurred. Because of that, it is wise to make sure that gathering your own evidence is a priority. Truck accidents can cause major property damage and injuries, but with a strong legal strategy and evidence to back up your claims, settling an injury claim does not have to take forever. You have a life, and the sooner you get on the road to recovery, the sooner you can move beyond your accident and back to your everyday routine. Gathering evidence at the scene and receiving a full medical examination after the accident are two ways you can set yourself up for a fair, relatively quick resolution to your claim. Gathering evidence after a truck accident No matter what vehicles are involved in a car accident, it is always wise to gather several forms of evidence at the scene. If possible, try to document the scene before wrecking crews arrive to move the vehicles and clear the debris. Once the clean-up process begins, gathering evidence is much more difficult. You can begin your evidence-gathering by taking pictures and video of the accident site with your phone, if it is available. It is also a good idea to search out any security footage that nearby businesses and homes may have, not forgetting that most security footage does not remain available for more than a few days. Commercial truck evidence Commercial trucks should all contain two additional types of evidence that passenger vehicles do not, the driver’s logs and the data from the truck’s electronic control module, or ECM. Drivers must keep logs of how often they break for rest and eating, and they must provide them to you upon your request. If possible, request the driver’s logs at the scene of the accident to avoid any alteration to their contents. Similarly, the owner of the truck must provide you with the data from the ECM, which may shed light on dangerous driving habits of the driver or mechanical malfunctions that may have led to the accident. Be sure to request these in writing from the owner of the vehicle as soon as possible, before the owner has the opportunity to delete the data, which they may do until you request it. Protect your future now Building a claim after a truck accident may seem overwhelming, but it does not need to be. Using high-quality legal tools and guidance, you can begin building your claim and seeking fair compensation today. This will allow you to keep your rights secure while you work toward recovering from your injuries and losses and moving forward from the accident altogether. Arrange For A CONTACT US NOW For A Free 30-MINUTE Consultation Contact Our Lawyers McKechnie & Company CONTACT INFORMATION 300- 1122 Mainland Street Vancouver, BC V6B 5L1 Send Us An-Email © 2020 by McKechnie & Company. All rights reserved. Disclaimer \| Site Map Privacy Policy \| Business Development Solutions by FindLaw, part of Thomson Reuters.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line2006
__label__cc	0.633718	0.366282	new flared chance xl huge dildo creampie step mim and aon chloe grace moretz sex scandal xxx big boob bra mom bikini evelyn gebhardt MediSieve wins CMS Healthcare Startup of the Year Award 2017 in the Beanstalks Competition Created on 04-05-2018 MediSieve have recently been announced winners of the CMS Healthcare Startup of the Year Award 2017 in the Beanstalks competition. This news was announced at the GIANT Health Event, held at the Old Truman Brewery in London from 8-10 November. The prestigious award, now in its second year, was given to the startup medical company for their advances in magnetic blood filtration. The Beanstalk Awards are a competition for startup companies with ideas, prototypes or advancements in the medical sector. The awards aim to celebrate, encourage and reward innovation within the medical sector, where entrepreneurs are making great strides towards actionable advances in technology in order to tackle some of our biggest diseases and conditions we are facing in today's world. Following their nomination for the TCT Magazine awards 2017 in the Healthcare Application category, the win comes as a shining example of the life-saving work MediSieve are continuing to be a part of and has instilled great confidence and pride into the heart of the company. The award for CMS Healthcare Startup of the Year as part of the Beanstalks competition will allow MediSieve to expand their business in new and exciting ways. As a reward for winning this prestigious prize, the company is entitled to a package of legal services which are worth anything up to the value of £8,000, as kindly provided by CMS. This will be tailored to the company's needs, and will allow them to develop in any legal area they choose, including everything from the development of new technology and patents, through to commercial contracts and share schemes. MediSieve are excited about what this will mean for their future, and for their development as a company who are passionate about bringing brilliant new ideas into the healthcare industry. George Frodsham, founder and CEO MediSieve said: "It's an amazing achievement and we're all happy to have won the Beanstalks Competition Healthcare Startup of the Year award. Everyone has worked incredibly hard on our magnetic blood filtration device, and it's great to see all that work and the future applications being recognised. We're still working on ways to improve the device, to be able to broaden its applications and help to tackle some of the challenges that affect us all". The MediSieve device, an innovative medical blood-filtration device that magnetically filters particles from the bloodstream, is still undergoing extensive testing and research to be able to target the causes of specific diseases, such as sepsis and leukaemia, and is hoped to be able to improve treatments for cases of malaria. Amir Amraie from GIANT Health Events said "our vision is to improve the health and well-being of people around the world, by promoting healthcare innovation and supporting health-tech entrepreneurs. And I believe with all and every one of you we were able to achieve this. This year we had over 100 health entrepreneurs from 18 countries applying and you are doing great work with MediSieve Limited." All of those who worked tirelessly on MediSieve's product and on ensuring it becomes an established product within the healthcare industry are incredibly proud of their achievement. To find out more about the Beanstalks Awards, visit http://beanstalks.gianthealthevent.com/ Sort by: Newest First Oldest First Most Popular Most unliked Job Posting: Regulatory Affairs Manager Job Title: Regulatory Affairs Manager Reports to : CTO Start Date : ASAP Hours of Work : Full-time Salary : £50-60k PA Closing Date : December 2020 (or earlier if a suitable candidate is found) Please send your CV and a cover letter explaining what you can... Job Posting: Product Development Scientist Job Title: Product Development Scientist Reports to : CTO Start Date : ASAP Hours of Work : Full-time Salary : £37.5 - 45k PA Closing Date : December 2020 (or earlier if a suitable candidate is found) Please send your CV and a cover letter explaining what ... Copyright 2021 by MediSieve. Company number 8983823 registered in England and Wales. Registered address: 48 Chancery Lane, London, WC2A 1JF.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line2008
__label__wiki	0.71478	0.71478	Semi-Permanent Sparks By Frances Morton date May 30, 2013 Semi-Permanent, the annual talk fest of design and ideas, is on at the Aotea Centre May 31 and June 1. Frances Morton talked to regular Sam Chapman about getting the most out of the event. If you’ve lived in Auckland or Wellington in recent years, chances are Sam Chapman has helped you have a good time. He’s one of the brains behind Wellington’s the Matterhorn and Mighty Mighty, and when he moved north, he founded Ponsonby’s Golden Dawn. Not that he wants to be known as the bar guy. His job title these days is “strategist”. He runs his own communications company, Toot Group, and works on projects as diverse as marketing ethical farming products and consulting on the Christchurch rebuild — helping to make the central city a place people actually want to live, shop and socialise in. Chapman’s an ideas man and if you go to Semi-Permanent, you might be sitting next to him. He has become a regular at the event since moving to Auckland five years ago. It’s tricky to describe exactly what Semi-Permanent is. You could call it an art and design conference. In reality, it’s a couple of days sitting at the Aotea Centre listening to inspiring speakers talk about their fabulous careers in the creative industries. That’s all great fun, but what makes organiser Simon Velvin really excited — and he’s a bouncy kind of person who does get very excited — is the idea of “creative collisions”. Bringing people together and making industry happen. Chapman went to his first Semi-Permanent in 2009 looking for inspiration. He can still remember the speakers who appeared that year. They included Pentagram, an international multi-disciplinary agency, UK illustrator Kate Moross and Cleve Cameron, an advertising creative from Wellington. Chapman and Cameron got talking during a break, which led to a beer, which led to a business partnership. “The great thing about Semi-Permanent is it provides a forum to connect with people,” says Chapman. “It’s an environment where it’s not only acceptable but it’s encouraged to talk.” Kiwis tend to be a reticent bunch. Although forums for sharing ideas are increasing with initiatives such as Pecha Kucha slide nights and Creative Mornings presentation breakfasts, we’re not natural trumpet-blowers and networkers. “Seeing people actually get up and talk about and be proud about what they’ve done is really important — especially as New Zealanders,” says Chapman. He introduced himself to advertising agency Special Group after seeing them present at Semi-Permanent last year and they’ve since teamed up on business projects. Chapman’s tip is to come to the party with your own ideas. “Conversation shouldn’t be just one way. If you’ve got something you’re inspired by and have got something to share, it’s always going to be great fertile ground for an ongoing conversation.” And even if you’re not ready to strike up a deal at break time, hearing international speakers share the inner workings of their business and recognising a common philosophy in their approach to work can be a big boost. “We’re pretty outward looking as a nation but sometimes it can seem quite far away so it’s nice to have those people actually here, not just a talking head on a YouTube clip. And to see they may have resources and budgets working with brands that we just don’t have here. But, at the end of the day, the thinking is something that you can really identify with.” This year’s lineup Aaron Rose /Alleged Press / Los Angeles / Big breath now for this mega-slashie job title: artist/writer/musician/film director/curator. Annoyingly, he’s good at all of them. Annie Sperling / art direction / Los Angeles / She makes David LaChapelle look good. Askew / Auckland / His street art makes our city better. Sam McIntosh / Stab publishing / Sydney / For tips on creating a smart surfing magazine that’s more sexy than stoner. Daan Lucas, Random Studio / Amsterdam / The vague lingo “digital”, “media” and “interactive” gets a lot more exciting when you add “Amsterdam” and “dance parties”. Darryl Ward and Matt Noonan / Curious Films / Auckland / Pictures that move. Award-winning TVCs, short films, and they bring cool films to our shores too. Dominic Hofstede / Design Studio / Melbourne / It’s definitely not lettering. It’s “typographic craft”. Kelly Thompson / illustrator / Melbourne / Languorous drawings of pretty gals. That’s going straight to Pinterest. Mark Bashore / Digital Kitchen / Seattle / The big guys in making creative content for the big guys. Credits include a bunch of Emmys for the title sequences of hit shows True Blood, Dexter and Six Feet Under. Niklas Roy / Berlin / Arty robotmaker. March Studio / architecture / Melbourne / Ridiculously good-looking buildings. Steve Ayson / TV commercials director / Los Angeles / Two words: ghost chips. Michael Lugmayr / Toko / Rotterdam to Sydney / Branding. That sounds simple. It’s not. Sandra Dieckmann / illustrator/artist / London / An injection of woodland whimsy to the whizz-bang line-up. What Auckland's art scene needs as we enter a new decade by Anthony Byrt Denmark Design: A "comprehensive and immersive exhibition" at Auckland Art Gallery by Jo Bates On place, and the weird aesthetics of Tuia 250 In the #metoo era, trailblazing art activist group the Guerrilla Girls are still relevant When it comes to New Zealand painting, Colin McCahon is still everything WATCH: Award-winning photographer Petra Leary captures a bird's eye view of Auckland Mercury Plaza is (nearly) gone: A reflection on Chinese food in Auckland Dane Mitchell’s Venice Biennale exhibition is a homespun act of resistance	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line2010
__label__wiki	0.955049	0.955049	/ Jordan: COVID-19 cases 8 times higher than declared ones Meshaal updates Egyptian intelligence chief on prisoner exchange deal February 20, 2014 at 3:34 pm \| Published in: Middle East, News The political leader of the Islamic Resistance Movement has met with the Director of the Egyptian intelligence services to discuss the implementation of the prisoner exchange deal with Israel which was brokered by Egypt. Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal thanked Murad Muwafi for Egypt's support for the Palestinians and its role in brokering the deal which will see more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners released from Israeli jails, including all the women currently being held. "We thank our sister country Egypt," Mr. Meshaal told reporters, "and its General Intelligence Service for standing by us through difficult and painstaking negotiations." Egypt, he said, had carried out a national duty that Palestinians cherish and are grateful for. "By the grace of God the Egyptians' efforts bore fruit by completing a deal that represents a historic achievement for the resistance and the Palestinian people." On Tuesday, Meshaal said that the deal, mediated by the Egyptians and Germans, was struck after "fierce" negotiations with the Israelis. In a televised speech, Meshaal said, "The exchange deal will be in two phases: the first will include the release of 450 prisoners within a week, while the second phase will be the implementation of the deal in two months' time and will see the release of 550 prisoners." Source: Cairo Jerusalem Press Service difficult negotiationsEgypt Intelligence ServiceEgyptian intelligence chiefEgypts supportGaza NewsHamas chiefIslamic Resistance MovementIsraeli jailsKhaled MeshaalLatest Middle East NewsMEMOMiddle East MonitorMiddle East NewsMiddle East WarMurad MuwafiPalestine NewsPalestinian peoplePalestinian prisonersprisoner exchange dealWest Bank News Middle EastNews	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line2011
__label__cc	0.619877	0.380123	Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition International Military Forums > Military Discussion Forums > Military Quotes > Military Cadence Calls, Military Songs, Jody Calls Topic: Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition Down went the gunner, a bullet was his fate Down went the gunner, then the gunners mate Up jumped the sky pilot, gave the boys a look And manned the gun himself as he laid aside The Book, shouting Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition! Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition and we'll all stay free! Praise the Lord and swing into position! Can't afford to sit around and wishin' Praise the Lord we're all between perdition and the deep blue sea! Yes the sky pilot said it You've got to give him credit for a son - of - gun - of - a - gunner was he, Shouting; Praise the Lord we're on a mighty mission! All aboard, we're not a - goin' fishin; I found this song while I was searching for some more information about a quote by Chaplain Forgy: "Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition." - H. M. Forgy, chaplain USS New Orleans, Pearl Harbor, Dec 7, 1941 http://www.military-quotes.com/database/f.htm You can read more about Forgy and the amazing story behind this song here: http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/p...-f/h-forgy.htm http://my.execpc.com/~dschaaf/praise.html Sounds like a Padre whose sermon you wouldn't want to fall asleep in. Topic: A variation My history book from school has a picture of a poster from the vietnam era critisizing the archbishof of new-york(who supported the war in vietnam) it has a archbishof in the field charging forward holding a rifel. underneeth it says-"Pass the Lord and praise the ammuinition"....	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line2014
__label__wiki	0.820617	0.820617	Olympic swimmer Cameron van der Burgh calls coronavirus 'by far the worst virus' he faced Andrew Joseph For The Win With the Tokyo Olympics scheduled for July, pressure is mounting on the International Olympic Committee to postpone the Games given the risks that athletes and visitors would face with the global coronavirus pandemic. We’re already seeing some athletes struggle with the virus. South African swimmer Cameron van der Burgh won gold at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London for the 100-meter breaststroke. He’s a world-class athlete and is 31 years old, but he has been struggling with COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. In a Sunday Twitter thread, van der Burgh discussed his multi-week battle with the coronavirus, calling it “by far the worst virus” he had ever faced and urged the public to take preventive measures seriously. 2/ I have been struggling with Covid-19 for 14 days today. By far the worst virus I have ever endured despite being a healthy individual with strong lungs(no smoking/sport), living a healthy lifestyle and being young (least at risk demographic) — Cameron van der Burgh (@Cameronvdburgh)March 22, 2020 4/ The loss in body conditioning has been immense and can only feel for the athletes that contract Covid-19 as they will suffer a great loss of current conditioning through the last training cycle. Infection closer to competition being the worst. 6/ Please, look after yourself everyone! Health comes first - COVID-19 is no joke! According to van der Burgh, his symptoms have improved — and he no longer has a fever — but he raised issues that the IOC need to consider, especially when it comes to athletes preparing for the Olympics. In a letter released on Sunday, the IOC set a deadline of four weeks to come to a decision on postponing the Tokyo Games. The IOC has, however, ruled out the possibility of canceling the Olympics.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line2020
__label__cc	0.738936	0.261064	Introducing SWAT: Elite Force (v4) news Post news RSS Introducing SWAT: Elite Force (v4) An introduction to the most tactical SWAT 4 experience, and a hint of what's in store. Posted by eezstreet on Jan 18th, 2017 SWAT: Elite Force is the most immersive police simulator experience for SWAT 4. The mod, in essence, aims to become almost like a community expansion pack for the game, and eventually there will be new graphical improvements, missions, and equipment in the spirit of the original game. This is not a fresh coat of paint, rather, it is a full realization of what the game can be. With the help of the followers this mod has gained, I aim to market this as a fully-fledged police training tool. THREE CAMPAIGNS IN ONE The Stetchkov Syndicate and original game missions are merged into one campaign, with missions reorganized based on difficulty. A creepy house with a dark secret awaits your start, and a pro-life assault on a university lies at the end. In addition, a new series of missions, Extra Missions, will soon be added to the game as a separate campaign from the main game. YOUR ACTIONS MATTER - YOU MUST PRESERVE LIFE Every decision you make, whether in the loadout panel or in live gameplay, all matter. You may encounter traps upon doors - a feature which was cut from the original game. Penalties are much stronger, and easier to incur. You may now be penalized for not reporting suspects you incapacitate, as the trailer crew needs to be aware of them. Snipers and C2/Tasers from your crew can now trigger penalties. THE GAME IS SMARTER THAN EVER Suspects (and civilians) may possess unique personality traits such as Insane or Polite which modify their behavior. Insane suspects will fire without hesitation at hostages. Your AI counterparts will automatically report restrained civilians to TOC, and respond to new orders such as SEARCH FOR TRAPS. And lastly, the game will inform you of your mistakes and your progress - incurring penalties will trigger warnings, and completing objectives will provide a satisfactory "Objective Complete!" PAY ATTENTION TO YOUR GEAR Your less lethal equipment is no longer a shield for poor gunplay - TASERs can cause cardiac arrest in the elderly and drug users, flashbangs can seriously injure people, and the stinger is as dangerous as ever. In V4, the Less Lethal shotgun can expel beanbags realistically at forces strong enough to break ribs and incapacitate people at point-blank range. All of the equipment in the game has been modified to use real-world values for rate of fire and muzzle velocity. And now, the next version is on its way... THE FIRST EXTRA MISSION: MEAT BARN RESTAURANT This mission, originally a multiplayer-exclusive map, features a large restaurant area, kitchens, deli, meat packing and huge outdoor areas to explore. The Brooklyn Italian Mafia have ransacked the building in an effort to provoke other establishments in paying protection money. What they didn't count on was an alarm tipping off the police. All of the Extra Missions will feature briefings, dispatch audio, custom maps, custom loading screens, and all the fixings of the original Irrational games. This one in particular was based on a heavily modified Multiplayer map with a new layout. WEIGHT AND BULK One of the new systems to keep your decisions tactical is the inclusion of Weight and Bulk. Weight is a measure of how heavy your equipment is, and Bulk is a measure of how big your equipment is. Weight affects your movement speed, is measured in Kilograms, and is shown on the HUD, as it frequently changes. Bulk affects your interaction (lockpick/C2/wedge) speed, and is a simple 0 to 100% percentage. Weight and Bulk are both shown as bars on the Loadout screen, and they affect both the player and AI controlled officers. At 5kg (the minimum weight), you move at 260 units per second - about twice the speed increase of No Armor from Light Armor. At 35kg (the maximum weight), you move at 160 units per second - just a little over 1.5x the speed decrease from Light Armor to Heavy Armor. At 0% bulk, your interaction speed is doubled, the same as No Armor in the original game. At 100% bulk, your interaction speed is halved. As you use your equipment, your weight and (for all non-magazine based weapons) bulk will decrease. As a result of this change, pistols are now equipable as primary weapons. CUSTOMIZE YOUR AMMO TAKEN Of course, with weight and bulk having a significant impact on your loadout, you'll want to eliminate any excess equipment you might not need. Ergo, you now have the ability to customize the amount of ammo you would like to bring for your weapons. (note: the display is not final yet) The ammo bag item has been removed, and in its place, you may now change the amount of ammo you would like to bring. For all magazine-based weapons, you can now carry up to 10 magazines; for the grenade launcher and taser you can carry up to 25 rounds; for the shotguns you can carry up to 50 rounds, and the pepper-ball gun is locked at 200 rounds. BULLET RICOCHETS One of the factors not frequently accounted for in a tactical shooter is the tendency for bullets to ricochet against hard surfaces. In SWAT: Elite Force v4, you will need to be extra considerate of the types of bullets you want to bring, and where you are shooting. FMJ rounds and buckshot now have the ability to ricochet off of certain surfaces, potentially injuring unintended victims. The ricochet projectile loses some of its momentum, and it's subject to randomness, but it could still be fatal nontheless. Exercise caution when firing in areas with lots of hard surfaces, such as alleyways, parking garages, and other outdoor areas. This system is not perfect, as ricochet has little research done. Bullet fracturing is something I want to look into, where bullets split into multiple parts when hitting hard surfaces, and in the future there will be more choices than FMJ and JHP. Keep your eyes peeled for more info on this. REALISTIC ARMOR MECHANICS Armor in SWAT4 has always been a poor representation of how body armor actually functions. Type III armor ("Heavy Armor") is capable of stopping rifle rounds dead in their tracks, but the ceramic plates in such heavy armor tend to degrade. Likewise, kevlar vests ("Light Armor") are capable of catching 9mm projectiles at reasonable range. But in SWAT4, armor is more of tissue paper than anything real. It might offer some small protection, but it is otherwise a burden. With the advent of weight and bulk being the dictator of movement speed, the focus now shifts on real, tangible benefits that armor can provide. In SWAT: Elite Force v4, body armor will be much more effective at stopping bullets in general. Light Armor will have improved effectiveness against small rounds at range. Heavy Armor will receive a large overhaul - the ceramic plates will be able to catch large rifle rounds, but they will quickly deteriorate the armor gradually over time. The armor breaks with diminishing returns - the first bullet removes a lot of protection from the armor, and subsequent bullets affect it less. You will be able to view the status of your armor on the HUD, but the exact method has yet to be determined. There are a new set of commands: Leader Throw. These will show up on the menu as "OPEN, LEADER, and CLEAR" for example. These will allow you to throw the grenade you want, instead of your AI controlled officers doing it. You can now lock doors using your toolkit, similar to how picking locks works, but it locks the door instead of picking the lock. The "Join Game" button is back on the menu. The game (should) now allow for people with different texture packs to join the game. Various DRM methods have also been removed from the game. Civilian morale has been largely reduced across the board - you'll still encounter noncompliant civilians frequently, but they won't require both a pepper spray AND punch to be compliant. At least, most of the time. Less lethal equipment has been tweaked. Stingers and less lethal shotgun modify morale stronger, but less lethal shotgun can injure and/or incapacitate now. CS Gas affects a much larger area and for a longer duration, but modifies morale much less. Suspects are a little less accurate, and they have a slight delay before firing upon you. Unskilled suspects are no longer master shooters that can target your head in less than a millisecond. Fixed various bugs, including the sniper rifle not being accurate. WHEN WILL VERSION 4 BE RELEASED? Currently, the only main feature left to be complete are the armor changes. On top of that, bug fixes and a little extra work, the next version should be ready to go very soon. If you're interested in beta testing the mod, feel free to drop by in the Discord server. (https://discord.gg/RfujTnF) HOW CAN I SUPPORT THE MOD? I would love for the mod to better advertised. If you can think of a way for me to advertise better, let me know. Also, I appreciate the videos people have done showcasing the mod, and I have taken time to gather people's feedback and watch their videos. I'd like to give a shoutout to SiC, who has gotten a significant portion of the campaign done via Letsplays, here's a link to the first in the series: Youtube.com I intend to set up a Patreon page soon for anyone who would like to donate, as I have received a request for this. By all means though, spread the word about this mod and SWAT4. Keep the page covered. There will be more intel soon. Azatoth027 Jan 18 2017 It's getting better and better. Everything I was hoping for in SWAT 4 (and much more) is all in this article. Thank you so much for this mod! WeeGee9000 Jan 18 2017 Hey there, is there an incentive to use lethal weapons now? The way i remember SWAT 4 reduced your score for every kill you had, so what would be the point of using the new lethal weapons? eezstreet Jan 18 2017 Lethal weapons are your only option for the first few missions, aside from pepper spray. Less than Lethal options are also not totally foolproof as of V4, as the LL shotgun can be dangerous if used improperly, the pepperball weapon is not always effective, and the taser may cause people to go into cardiac arrest. That being said, I was considering changing the scoring system a little bit to not punish as sharply for correct utilization of lethal force. Spencer_Ruler Jan 29 2017 That's my biggest pet-peeve with the vanilla game. You get this great arsenal of lethal weapons but it's actually easier to just shoot beanbags with a shotgun because you don't have to ask for compliance first. I also feel that it's a bit annoying that it's so important to keep suspects alive in terms of score. You get like 20 points for keeping all suspects alive but only 10 if you keep your squad and yourself alive. Like at least give me half points for neutralizing suspects when I get shot at, game! NetBuddyBoo Jan 18 2017 Thank you so much for keeping this game alive. Jeza123c Jan 18 2017 Thanks for the continued work on this, a true marvel! (Ps your discord link seems to have expired). Did some gameplay also :) Youtu.be Thank you for the exposure! Very interesting to see the mod with GEM installed, I might have to give it a shot. salmenda Jan 18 2017 I'm slow. So how is this installed? Installation instructions are included in the readme, but basically you'll want to unzip everything into your SWAT 4 folder and run the .bat file that's included. You'll know it's set up correctly when there's a Content, ContentExpansion, and SEF folder. Then to uninstall the mod, just remove the SEF folder and .bat. SeriousToni Jan 18 2017 Looking awesome! I'm watching this now. Good luck on this, folks! :) TheRenegadist Jan 18 2017 Will this also include proper full widescreen support? (And not the buggy kind either where text is missing from buttons and other UI issues.) As you'll note, all of the screenshots of the mod are in 1440x900 (16:10 / 8:5) widescreen. :) You can select from a variety of widescreen resolutions in the video menu. Got a few more questions for you: 1. How moddable is Swat 4? (How much can you alter the game) 2. Will you be revamping the weapon models and animations? 3. Are you able to do more model and skin variations for the NPC's to make the game feel more varied? 4. How many new levels do you plan on adding? 5. Would you consider adding other people's levels with their permission? (Make a campaign made up of the best levels that the community has made) 6. Will AI be expanded in the future? Thanks eez, really interested in this mod! 1. The developers released an SDK and the modding tools for it. It's fairly moddable, but a lot of stuff is locked down behind native code, which requires lots of workarounds. The engine is also fairly complex and hard to understand initially, but we're making good progress with that I think. 2. Maybe, if we can get our hands on an artist! I'd want everything to be made from scratch, not ported from other games. 3. Hopefully, if an artist can help with that. We'd like to see some new suspect apparel for Meat Barn specifically. 4. At least 3 confirmed, with the Extra Missions. 5. I've already gotten permission from Sebastien Nova to use his maps, so perhaps that answers your question. :) 6. Yes! I wanted to specifically model some patterns of suspect behavior which aren't seen in the game (roaming killers, etc) juliethotel13 Jan 19 2017 First off, I love your mod and hands down one of the best mods for any game I've ever played. That being said, I do have some few questions/comments though. Is there any way for you to implement the ability to "force" arrest someone or to have your squad mates arrest suspects/hostages dynamically? Will the penalty messages continue to show up during the actual mission? The messages (for me personally) was a nice touch in the beginning but later felt distracting, especially during moments when I knew it wasn't my fault or having it pop up in the middle of the screen while I was engaging targets. Is there any possibility of being able to make it "true" first person by being able to see the rest of your body when you look down? Also, one of the biggest gripes I have with this game is the fact that your friendly teammates tend to stop in the middle of the fatal funnel (aka doorway) especially if a suspect is directly in front of them as they're entering. Is there any way that would allow your teammates to engage and still move smoothly into a room without stopping and possibly moving/stacking towards the next closest door we need to go to? (Not my videos but makes a good reference for what I mean) Another gripe I have with the friendly AI is when I tell them to cover a door or something, but they end up moving/chasing after a suspect somewhere else. Is there any way to prevent that from happening also? I know I'm asking a lot but I seriously think at this point you're the only one that could pull off any of these. If you're referring to what I think you're referring to, Force Arresting would be pretty much the same thing as spamming the melee button over and over until they comply, so I'm not sure how useful that would be. An "Arrest All" command is something that I'm looking into implementing but I can't give a timeframe for when it can be done. Penalties will continue to show, but I can perhaps add a toggle option to the Settings menu to turn that, and other notifications (Objective Complete!) off. The main reason is that sometimes the game makes it unclear what is considered to be a correct kill, especially when a suspect is running towards you. But I agree it can be annoying at times. The AI is something that I want to work on but it's difficult code to work with. It'll be baby steps with the AI. KevinL Jan 20 2017 It's useful to work around the "suspect will never surrender" bug if you haven't fixed it already. Here's a list of top 10 SWAT bugs a clan came up with: Ets-clan.co.uk That bug has been fixed. It's because the Army of Faith goons on Hologen have a maximum morale of 9.0, which is ludicrously high. I've tweaked it down to like 1.5 or so. Have you found the cause of / fixed suspects being able to see through walls if you lean? I think it's different from accidentally leaning through doors. Not sure what causes that. But then again, I am so used to playing on ETS that I rarely even lean in the singleplayer! [TDNL]SiC Jan 23 2017 Hello mate, thanks for the exposure to my channel and of course the mod! I have one more suggestion that I'd love to see in Elite Force v4 or some later version which I also saw in the Sheriff's Special Forces mod, namely the automatic switching back to the primary weapon after throwing a grenade. Or make it so that it switches back to whichever weapon you were holding before getting out a grenade, be it the primary or secondary. Thank you for the suggestion! I will look into it soon, but I can't guarantee that it will appear in v4 due to more time restraints. Some news on this coming up but I am not at liberty to discuss it. I am looking forward to your next videos though - I have subscribed as your content looks interesting. :) That's alright, doesn't have to be on the next version, just to have it at some point is good enough for me! Thanks for subscribing btw. I put a new video online today. Also, now that GOG are selling SWAT 4 again and even pointed out your mod you should probably see a lot of activity soon :) I actually implemented your idea today, it was easier than I thought. Feel free to hop on the Discord, perhaps we could chat. :) That is awesome hehe :) we can certainly do that. Where can I find the details? The news post has the Discord link, but here's another link: Discord.gg NewFaith Jan 25 2017 Your Mod is great and I can't wait for V4. But I am kind of confused whenever the AI officers get triggered on non-compliant suspects or civies and stop obeying my orders XD. Was just wondering: why is that? And also, any improvements on Speech Recognition in Version 4 (please)? Maybe contact MulleDK19 and integrate his Speech Recognition Improvement Mod with Your Elite Force? Yes, there will be some improvements to the speech recognition, although they are minor. Any issues with the microphone not getting good reception/voice not being understood is not something I can fix however. The AI officers won't get bothered so much by uncompliant civilians, but they tend to ignore orders when engaging with suspects, which can be annoying when they are ordered to cover an area. It's something I'm looking into. Guest Feb 16 2017 Multishape Feb 4 2017 Wow, this mod seems amazing. I can't wait for the next version. HolyOrangeJuice Feb 6 2017 I'm curious to know if my AI SWAT officer are making bad shots or if the bad guys are executing hostages. I've failed missions several times because a hostage was killed after my team entered a room. Latest example was one bad guy and one hostage in a bathroom. I knew they were there because I mirrored it. I had blue team stack up, and get ready with a stinger. Didn't want a flashbang to wound a hostage. The line up one on each side of the door (my officers), and when the one opens the door he is in perfect sight of the bad guy. Gunfire happens, hostage go down, fail mission. Officers and I rush the bad guy who if stunned by the grenade. We ended up having to shoot him. This was on A-bomb and the prior mission i had the same problem too. It wasn't until I went gas masks and CS gas that I could pass it. So..I'm not sure how to avoid this because I don't know what the problem is. I wish you could control which side of the door your AI team stacked on. Sometimes they do a good job. Other times bad job. And you can't do anything except do it yourself. tomatomketchup Feb 13 2017 thank so much for this mod seems amazing to me please add more suppressor guns Introduction, v4 6,633 (1 today) SWAT: Elite Force SWAT 4: The Stetchkov Syndicate SWAT 4 First Person Shooter SWAT 4: The Stetchkov Syndicate First Person Shooter Related Engines Unreal Engine 2 Commercial Released 2000 2K Boston/2K Australia Developer & Publisher Sierra Entertainment Developer & Publisher	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line2021
__label__cc	0.675523	0.324477	Mosessco Methods & Vision Public & Community The Arik Einstein Community Center <- Return 3,000 sq.m Ir Yamim neighborhood, Netanya With the establishment of the Ir Yamim neighborhood, there was an apparent need for founding a community center for informal education and recreational activities for the neighborhood’s residents. Establishing a high-quality activities center, which will attract residents of all ages, and contribute to strengthening a sense of community throughout the young neighborhood. The project is characterized by the concentration of public space alongside two perpendicular axes – the “blue axis” running from east to west and leading to the sea, and the “green axis”, which ends in the open and green square that communicates with the neighborhood’s abundant green patches. The intersection between these axes, which is the heart of the complex, creates four spaces around it. These spaces are exposed to the visitor upon entering- three of which are built sections that together form the building, while the fourth one forms a negative image as an open space. The three sections house different activities – one area is dedicated to extra-curricular activities, dance instruction, and a live performance hall, while the open space is a square located at the front of the plot. The design of the structure corresponds with its designated activities and the spaces which compose it, and the interior of the space is exposed to visitors while observing its exterior. you be might interested also in ‘Riviera’ Resort Village Petah Tikva Industrial Zone Hi-Tech Company Offices Ben-Gurion Airport Ground Equipment Facility at Ben-Gurion Airport Bar-Ilan University Central Library at Bar-Ilan University Ha’sharon Education and Culture Campus Ground Transportation Terminal UX/UI/Design: Three bears studio Developed By: MyMuse בניית אתרים בהתאמה אישית	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line2029
__label__wiki	0.618012	0.618012	The Greatest 110 Words About Dick Cheney, Ever Adam Weinstein If you must read a summary of Dick Cheney’s new memoir, make it this one, from Charlie Savage of the New York Times. Here, in two paragraphs, Savage manages to summarize Cheney’s obstinacy and cluelessness: Former Vice President says in a new memoir that he urged President to bomb a suspected Syrian nuclear reactor site in June 2007. But, he wrote, Mr. Bush opted for a diplomatic approach after other advisers—still stinging over “the bad intelligence we had received about Iraq’s stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction”—expressed misgivings. “I again made the case for U.S. military action against the reactor,” Mr. Cheney wrote about a meeting on the issue. “But I was a lone voice. After I finished, the president asked, ‘Does anyone here agree with the vice president?’ Not a single hand went up around the room.” Now, Bashar al-Assad is not a nice guy, and inshallah, he’s a soon-to-be-ex-dictator. But unilaterally bombing out a “suspected” nuclear reactor? In Syria? At the height of the civil war in Iraq? Bare months after Israel went into Lebanon and World War III nearly broke out? When even the Bush cabinet, to a man and woman, can’t stand Dr. Strangelove’s bully ramblings anymore, you know the good doctor has turned one hell of a corner into Crazytown. Read on, and find out why Cheney was so ready for 9/11 and Condi was such a girly-girl. On 9/11, Rumsfeld Fiddled While Cheney Ran the Country James Ridgeway Dick Cheney’s Disappearing Clout Dick Cheney’s Last Laugh	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line2030
__label__wiki	0.822872	0.822872	'My Little Pony' to introduce first-ever same-sex couple on TV show Children's show "My Little Pony" will soon be unveiling its first-ever same-sex couple, according to an interview with Michael Vogel, a writer and producer for the show. According to Buzzfeed, Aunt Holiday and Auntie Lofty are a lesbian couple who care for the character Scootaloo. They appeared in the "My Little Pony" books a few years ago, but they had not yet appeared on the show. Vogel told Buzzfeed the storyline was important to him, because he wants the show to reflect the real world. "My Little Pony has always been about friendship and accepting people (or ponies) that are different from you. So it just felt like something important to do," he told Buzzfeed. The episode has already aired in Europe but will make its debut to U.S. audiences Saturday. Read more trending lifestyle news from GateHouse Media: Airbnb wants to plan your next trip with Airbnb Adventures Budweiser’s Father’s Day ad honoring stepfathers will bring you to tears Doctor finds hundreds of undigested bubble tea pearls in Chinese teenager’s stomach	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line2032
__label__wiki	0.886415	0.886415	You are here: Home / Business / Pressure grows on farmed salmon Pressure grows on farmed salmon Salmon is big business in Norway but the farmed variety has been the target of complaints and warnings for years. Just as the wild salmon fishing season gets underway this month comes a new assault on fish farming, and a defensive retort from the government minister in charge of fisheries. Fish farms dot the Norwegian coast and are often found in scenic locations, but they’re just as often criticized for spreading salmon lice and producing fish that are full of chemical substances. PHOTO: newsinenglish.no Newspaper VG reported on Monday that Norwegian doctors, professors and international health experts are advising women, children and young teens not to eat farmed salmon. VG’s report followed a similar report in Oslo-based newspaper Dagsavisen back in April. It’s a brave warning to make in a country that’s behind 60 percent of the world’s production of Atlantic Salmon, and where salmon arguably has become the most common and popular main course on lunch and dinner menus. Norway exports farmed salmon to 97 countries around the world, and the country’s salmon export value was set at nearly NOK 30 billion last year. Norwegian seafood in general is second only to oil and gas as the country’s major export product. Salmon is now one of Norway’s biggest export products after oil and gas, with sales to 97 countries. Domestic consumption increased by more than 20 percent last year as well. PHOTO: DNV Norwegian health authorities recommend eating seafood three times a week, but now concerns are rising over consumption of farmed salmon. Some health professionals, such as Dr Anne-Lise Bjørke Monsen at Haukeland University Hospital in Bergen, are warning against eating any farmed salmon. “I don’t recommend that pregnant women, children or youth eat farmed salmon (called oppdrettlaks in Norwegian),” Monsen told Dagsavisen in April and VG again this week. “It’s too uncertain how much toxic substance is in the salmon, and how these substances can affect children, youth and pregnant women.” It’s the so-called “persistent organic” substances fed to the salmon in the fish farms that cause the most concern, since they “have a negative effect on brain development” and are associated with autism, hyperactivity and reduced IQ, Monsen said. She said the toxins in farmed fish, which also color the meat pink, can also have an effect on internal organs and immune systems. Norway’s Crown Prince Haakon (right) and Crown Princess Mette-Marit have promoted Norwegian salmon abroad, like here in Asia with trade minister Trond Giske. King Harald, meanwhile, is an avid sports fisherman and was out fishing for wild salmon again last week when the season opened. PHOTO: Utenriksdepartementet Other researchers have claimed that farmed salmon is becoming “a swimming vegetable” full of bad fats and dangerous chemicals. Newspaper Dagbladet has reported that some top chefs, also in Oslo, refuse to use farmed fish because of their “unnatural habitat” and what they’re fed, while Russian authorities earlier this year claimed they found high bacteria levels in Norwegian salmon. Some veterinarians and researchers claim it’s wrong to say Norwegian salmon is sick, and point to strict regulations governing sale of farmed fish. Some of farmed salmon’s harshest critics, including Kurt Oddekalv of the environmental organization Miljøvernforbundet, have been branded as radicals who aren’t taken seriously, while the Norwegian salmon industry and government officials often react sharply to the criticism they get. Researchers quarrel Fish-farming critics say the resistance they’ve met in Norway only makes them more eager to challenge the huge fish-farming industry. The controversy around farmed salmon reached a new peak a few weeks ago, when newspaper Dagens Næringsliv (DN) reported that researchers at fish-farming giant Marine Harvest (which has been trying to take over state-controlled fish-farming firm Cermaq) had blacklisted researchers at the state ocean research institute Havforskningsinstituttet (HI) in an e-mail to the senior HI researcher Stein Mortensen. The e-mail was sent by Marine Harvest’s research chief Olav Breck after Mortensen had reported challenges over high rates of death, bacterial infection and weakened fish welfare among fish used to reduce rates of salmon lice at fish farms. Marine Harvest later apologized after complaints from a Member of Parliament, reprimanded Breck and claimed it never tries to censor research and has no lists of researchers it won’t cooperate with. Meanwhile, consumption of salmon increased by another 23 percent in Norway last year, not least because of the rising popularity of sushi, and some of Norway’s rivers best known for wild salmon have reopened after earlier lice scares blamed on escaped fish from nearby fish farms. Other rivers in southern and western Norway can claim the largest quantities of medium- and large wild salmon for the past 25 years. King Harald V was out fishing in Romsdal last weekend, when the wild salmon season opened on June 1st, while his son Crown Prince Haakon has helped promote Norwegian farmed salmon abroad. Bente Torstensen, research director at the state nutritional agency NIFES, told newspaper Dagsavisen recently that salmon “is still one of the best sources of marine Omega 3 in our food.” While some research in the US has indicated it can contribute to higher levels of diabetes or even cancer, others claim it can reduce heart disease. Consumers confused Consumer are often left confused over the conflicting research and official recommendations and warnings. While Torstensen says she still eats farmed salmon “and lots of seafood in general,” Monsen of the university hospital in Bergen says she doesn’t. “I stopped eating farmed salmon a few years ago, when I realized it wasn’t good for us,” she told Dagsavisen. State fisheries minister Lisbeth Berg-Hansen of the Labour Party, whose family has interests in fish farming, rejected the latest round of criticism in VG on Monday and said she’s certain that research into the questionable substances used in fish farming were taken into account when nutrition authorities recommended consumption of more fish. “I think we should all eat even more seafood, not less,” Berg-Hansen told VG. “I’m aware that all fish contains foreign substances, but farmed salmon and wild salmon are the same. All professional advice suggests we should eat more fish, and farmed salmon and wild salmon are equally healthy food.” Views and News from Norway/Nina Berglund Please support our news service. Readers in Norway can use our donor account. Our international readers can click on our “Donate” button: Filed Under: Business, News Tagged With: exports, fish-farming, fishing, government, politics, salmon, seafood	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line2035
__label__wiki	0.835785	0.835785	Home / Federal Politics / Partners to be allowed to stay in Australia when applying for new visas Partners to be allowed to stay in Australia when applying for new visas admin November 29, 2020 Federal Politics Comments Off on Partners to be allowed to stay in Australia when applying for new visas 41 Views Government sources said partners who had visas that were about to run out would be allowed to stay in the country until changes were put in place in early 2021. Under present rules, partners who have lodged the $7000-plus offshore partner visa application must also be outside Australia just before their visa is granted. The government on Sunday confirmed there would be a “temporary concession” for partners who were in Australia and unable to travel offshore due to border closures. The changes will also apply to child, adoption, dependent child and prospective marriage visas. Acting Immigration Minister Alan Tudge said the changes would be reviewed in line with any updates to Australia’s international travel restrictions. “These are commonsense changes to reduce the impact that the travel restrictions are having on our immigration program,” he said. “Importantly, this will allow a foreign national who is a partner of an Australian citizen to progress their visa without having to leave the country.” Mr Hill said the changes contained no clarity about who will be covered or when exactly the change may happen, “so for months to come, partners still face a risky and expensive round trip overseas just to have their visa granted”. “Couples who’ve already wasted tens of thousands of dollars on flights and quarantine are right to be pissed off. They deserve an apology and compensation from the Morrison government,” Mr Hill said. “Over 35,000 Australians are stranded overseas, desperate to come home. How many more quarantine places will be wasted before Christmas while the minister fails to act?” The partner subclass 309 visa costs $7160, requires proof of marriage or established de facto relationship, and applicants must be outside the country when they apply. Melbourne woman Amelia Elliott was this year forced to sell her apartment to pay the fees to help get her husband, Bowie Domingo, permanent residency. Mr Domingo, who is from the Philippines, applied for his partner visa in 2018 and was granted it and permanent residency last month. He is in hotel quarantine in Perth, having travelled to Singapore while the visa was being processed. The couple have had to spend almost $40,000 on fees and travel expenses. Ms Elliott welcomed the government’s move, but said there would be many people whose visas were expiring at the end of this year before the changes came into place. “The Department of Home Affairs is saying they are intending to implement some changes in early 2021, but it still means these families are under a great deal of pressure,” she said. “We’ve had to make a lot of sacrifices … and I don’t want other couples to have to go through that.” Catch all the day’s headlines At the end of each day, we’ll send you the most important breaking news headlines, evening entertainment ideas and a long read to enjoy. Sign up to The Sydney Morning Herald’s newsletter here, The Age’s here, Brisbane Times’ here, and WAtoday’s here. Anthony is foreign affairs and national security correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Previous As summer arrives, Sydney’s flying foxes are waiting for their sprinklers Next Neighbouring stables set to sparkle on Sapphire Coast Hopes grow for stranded Victorians Sinovac vaccine shows up to 97 per cent efficacy in early trials, Bio Farma says I’m happy to be out of lockdown but I’m also exhausted Scientists crack the enigmatic beginnings of the sunfish Staines one of three stars in isolation as NRL sends stern reminder	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line2036
__label__wiki	0.890274	0.890274	Police shoot unarmed man, fifth time unarmed motorist shot by police in 13 months Tuesday, August 5th 2003, 12:00 am MILWAUKEE (AP) _ A police officer shot and wounded an unarmed man during a traffic stop, the fifth time in 13 months that an unarmed motorist was shot by Milwaukee police. The man, Timothy Nabors, was shot in the chest Monday afternoon and was expected to survive, police said. The shooting happened after Officer Michael W. Lutz and his partner pulled over the sport utility vehicle Nabors was driving. Nabors immediately raised his hands when police asked him to get out, and also held up his shirt to show he was unarmed, witnesses said. But when a gun belonging to Nabors' passenger skidded across the pavement toward Nabors, Lutz shot him from just a few feet away, witnesses said. Lutz, a 12-year veteran of the department, was placed on administrative leave while the shooting is investigated. The Justice Department's civil rights division was already investigating the four prior police shootings of unarmed motorists before Nabors was shot. The man, Timothy	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line2037
__label__wiki	0.716151	0.716151	Local Jeweler Helping Stop The Sale Of African Conflict Diamonds Saturday, March 24th 2007, 9:59 pm A Tulsa jewelry store owner is part of the effort to make sure the diamond industry doesn't support conflicts in Africa. It's been a more prominent issue since a movie came out about it, but Vicki Cunningham says the movie didn't tell the whole story. Almost every diamond comes from Africa, but Vicki Cunningham says the diamonds she sells are not from countries at war. The News On 6â€™s Emory Bryan reports only recently have diamond retailers been able to give that assurance to their customers. "They want to be sure the diamonds they're buying are from a good source," said Vicki Cunningham, owner of Cunningham Fine Jewelry. Customers only recently have been asking, some because of the movie â€œBlood Diamond,â€ a film about the civil war in Sierra Leone. It makes the case that everyone who buys a diamond is helping fuel the wars in Africa. "As an industry, unfortunately for us, we had already tackled that issue well before the movie came out, we had stopped that flow of conflict diamonds and the movie doesn't tell you that," said Cunningham. Cunningham is just back from South Africa, where she's helping shape the ethics of the diamond industry. She says what Hollywood calls 'blood diamonds' and the industry calls 'conflict diamonds' are becoming the rarest diamond of them all. "That conflict is over, but today, as an industry, we can say that less than 1% of all diamonds come from conflict areas," she said. Cunningham says diamond stores should have complete records on what they're selling and be able to produce the guarantees that show their diamonds are not conflict diamonds. News On 6 A Tulsa jewelry store owner is part of the effort to make sure the diamond industry doesn't support conflicts in Africa. It's been a more prominent issue since a movie came out about it, but Vicki	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line2038
__label__wiki	0.916008	0.916008	Home Lifestyle Health Moderna CEO says the world will have to live with Covid ‘forever’ Moderna CEO says the world will have to live with Covid ‘forever’ Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel Steven Ferdman \| Getty Images The CEO of Covid-19 vaccine maker Moderna warned Wednesday that the coronavirus that has brought world economies to a standstill and overwhelmed hospitals will be around “forever.” Public health officials and infectious disease experts have said there is a high likelihood that Covid-19 will become an endemic disease, meaning it will become present in communities at all times, though likely at lower levels than it is now. Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel appeared to agree Wednesday that Covid-19 will become endemic, saying “SARS-CoV-2 is not going away.” “We are going to live with this virus, we think, forever,” he said during a panel discussion at the JPMorgan Healthcare Conference. Health officials will have to continuously watch for new variants of the virus, so scientists can produce vaccines to fight them, he said. Researchers in Ohio said Wednesday they’ve discovered two new variants likely originating in the U.S. and that one of them quickly became the dominant strain in Columbus, Ohio, over a three-week period in late December and early January. Pfizer researchers said its vaccine developed with BioNTech appeared to be effective against a key mutation in the U.K. strain as well as a variant found in South Africa. Moderna’s vaccine has been authorized by the Food and Drug Administration for use in Americans who are 18 years old and older. Additional studies still needed to be completed in children, whose immune systems can respond differently to vaccines than those of adults. U.S. officials are racing to distribute doses of both vaccines, but it will likely take months before the U.S. can vaccinate enough people to achieve herd immunity, meaning the virus won’t have enough new hosts to spread. Still, Bancel said Wednesday he expects the U.S. will be one of the first large countries to achieve “sufficient protection” against the virus. There are already four coronaviruses that are endemic across the world, but they aren’t as contagious or deadly as Covid-19, according to the World Health Organization. Biotech and Pharmaceuticals Previous articleMcConnell rebuffs Democrats’ call for speedy impeachment trial, but is undecided on convicting Trump Next articleGovt steps into WhatsApp row, ‘examining’ data-sharing update \| India News – Times of India Mask-associated dry eyes: All you need to know UnitedHealth launches employer virtual primary care service UK plumber has helped over 2,000 vulnerable families fix heating and plumbing during the... James Anderson, 53, of Burnley, a town in Lancashire, England, has provided over 2,000 free emergency repair services for the disabled and elderly community... Trump purposefully sought to upend conventional domestic and foreign policy, fundamentally altering America's role in the world. And he disrupted the status quo in... BharatPe raises Rs 139 cr debt from Alteria Capital, ICICI Bank – Times of... Business Newsresults.in - January 17, 2021 NEW DELHI: Fintech company BharatPe on Sunday said it has raised Rs 139 crore (about USD 20 million) in debt from venture debt... UK plumber has helped over 2,000 vulnerable families fix heating and... BharatPe raises Rs 139 cr debt from Alteria Capital, ICICI Bank...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line2039
__label__wiki	0.814074	0.814074	News Archives – View All Posts NH Cities and Towns NH State Constitution NH State Government Agencies NH Judicial Branch NH House of Representatives New Hampshires State Senators Roster The Articles of Confederation The Mammals of Yellowstone Department of the Treasury Federal Courts & the Public US Court Website Links United States House of Representatives NH POLITICIAN Pure Politics – Local, National, World News National Security & Defense Posted inNational Security & Defense Leaked Documents Reveal Chinese Regime’s Orders to Steal Foreign Technologies by NH Politician January 5, 2021 January 5, 2021 By Alex Wu A series of leaked government documents recently obtained by The Epoch Times reveal that Chinese authorities have funded projects that are aimed at obtaining foreign advanced technologies through partnerships with international research institutions. Public records show that China’s Ministry of Science and Technology is behind the efforts. Budget for ‘Transferring’ Foreign Technologies Hebei International Talent Exchange Association (also known as International Technology Transfer Center) was established in 1988 in Hebei Province. It has more than 200 international technical projects and more than 300 foreign experts, covering more than ten fields, including artificial intelligence (AI), information communication, biology, medical, and health. The organization issued a report, “Hebei Provincial Budget Project Performance Evaluation Form” on Nov. 17, in which it explicitly states that the group aims to “introduce foreign advanced technology … and realize technology transfer [to China].” To achieve that goal, the document specified that the organization would expand cooperation channels with at least 50 international organizations; set up a minimum of four international scientific and technological cooperation activities; maintain at least 50 foreign technology projects; obtain at least five cooperation intention agreements; and target 60 to 80 foreign technical experts for recruitment. The report, “Hebei Provincial Budget Project Performance Evaluation Form,” listed the budget and goals for “transferring” foreign technology, with the official seal of approval of Hebei International Talent Exchange Association. (Provided by The Epoch Times) The report laid out a 1 million yuan (about $153,000) budget for the association to recruit talent from overseas and fund the projects they would set up in Hebei. It also projected a profit of 10 million yuan (about $1.53 million) that could be achieved by “transferring” foreign advanced technology to Chinese companies in Hebei. The purpose of transferring foreign technology was mentioned in another report that was issued at the same time, titled, “Plan for the Use of Special Subsidy Funds for the Construction of Hebei International Science and Technology Cooperation Base.” The foreign technology would upgrade Hebei’s technology, improve products, and boost international competitiveness, the report said. U.S.-based China affairs commentator Li Linyi told The Epoch Times that the initiative is a lucrative scheme and a blatant plan to steal advanced technology and intellectual property from other countries to benefit the Chinese regime. According to public records, Hebei International Talent Exchange Association operates under the state-run China Association for International Exchange of Personnel (CAIEP). CAIEP is directly managed by the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs, an agency under the Chinese regime’s Ministry of Science and Technology. Higher Education Institutions Are Required to ‘Transfer’ Foreign Technology Hebei education authorities have also set requirements and goals for obtaining foreign technologies through its “2020 Work Plan of the International Technology Transfer Center of Hebei University of Technology,” issued in 2019. The Epoch Times obtained a copy of this document. Some of the instructions include establishing an international technology transfer center website; “vigorously introducing” international high-tech talents, high-level management teams and advanced technology resources; “all-round” strengthening of international cooperation and technology transfer; and “improving various working systems in the international technology transfer work.” The Hebei University of Engineering, for example, has set up partnerships with international schools to develop high-end scientific and technological projects, as outlined in its report, “Hebei International Joint Center Base Defense,” issued on Nov. 21 this year. The website of Hebei International Joint Center Base at Hebei University of Engineering, listing its goals of obtaining technology from other countries and the technological advantages gained from partnering with foreign universities. (Screenshot of Hebei International Joint Center Base website) Under the section “Cooperative Units and Research Teams” of the document, the university partnered with Le Mans Université and Université Paris-Saclay in France, University College London in England, and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. The document noted that University College London is the world’s top science and technology university, ranking among the top 10 universities in the world; and Professor P. Picart at Le Mans Université is an authoritative expert on digital holographic display. Sounding the Alarm In October this year, at the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s Fifth Plenary Session, Party leader Xi Jinping emphasized “independent science and technology” and “strengthening basic research and focusing on original innovation” in his speech. Analysts observed that Xi’s remarks are a response to the growing criticism from the international community regarding the CCP’s theft of intellectual property and technology from Western countries, especially the United States. On Dec. 9, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered a speech at Georgia Institute of Technology, in which he called out the CCP’s stealing of intellectual property and technologies from other countries. He stated, “Much of the high-end industrial base inside of China is based on stolen technology, or technology purchased from other nations. It’s not home-grown.” Gu Qing’er contributed to this report. 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__label__wiki	0.914529	0.914529	Army soldier arrested after military spouse and veteran found murdered at Hawaii barracks WATCH: TikTok dancer films alleged intruder breaking into her home A Maryland TikTok user managed to capture an alleged home invasion in a now-viral video on the social media platform. Hannah Viverette was recording herself over the weekend, as a form of “meditation,” when the video caught her stopping in her tracks as a neighbor entered the apartment through the patio door, Fox 5 DC reported Wednesday. Viverette told the outlet the man asked if he was her friend, to which she said, “No.” The woman said the alleged intruder scared her at first because “he kept his hands in his pockets,” leading her to fear that he might have had a weapon. Alleged home intruder Angel Moises Rodriguez-Gomez Angel Moises Rodriguez-Gomez, 36, was arrested Tuesday and has been charged with two counts of burglary, second-degree assault, stalking, and malicious destruction of property for the alleged intrusion. He’s been released on bond. Viverette said she was told by authorities that he was released, in large part, with them “not wanting to house him due to COVID. “I just really don’t think it’s fair that he’s walking freely right now,” Viverette told the outlet. “And I have to watch my back at every angle.” At the moment, Viverette said she is not sleeping at the apartment where the intrusion occurred.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line2046
__label__cc	0.627492	0.372508	Does Your Child or Youth Have Special Health Care Needs? Home Special Needs Articles Special Education Classes Can Be Held In-Person this Summer Governor Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order allowing necessary special education to take place in-person this summer. By Jacqueline Neber June 18, 2020 Get Great Family Activities! Governor Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order that will allow necessary special education instruction to take place in-person across the state this summer on June 5. Districts will still have to follow state and federal safety guidelines, but this new order could eliminate the anxiety some parents are feeling about what will happen to their kids in July and August. This executive order reverses one Cuomo signed that required all summer school sessions to be remote. Check with your district to see what they’re offering for special education this summer. At the beginning of June, the NYC Department of Education announced it is offering remote summer school for all students. It’s unclear if the DOE will change its stance for New York City students in special education. The original summer school programming for NYC students with Individualized Education Plans (IEPs) included the following: Students in any grade with 12-month IEPs will participate in remote summer school five days a week for up to 5½ hours a day from Wednesday, July 1 through Thursday, Aug. 13 Students who are receiving or eligible to receive these services will be contacted by their school 1-to-1 check-ins will be part of the summer programs for middle and high school students There are approximately 200,000 kids receiving special education in New York City and more than 500,000 students receiving special education in New York state. It’s unclear how in-person special education will work, and it’s unclear what “necessary” education means. But when it announced remote summer school, the NYC DOE promised it would continue sharing resources for parents as they become available. You can still receive a remote learning device for your child for summer school by filling out this form. These tips will help your child transition to online summer school, too. New York state dropped all normal grading procedures during the school year (and schools closed for the remainder of the year back in May—remember that?!) because of coronavirus closures, and this might happen for summer school as well. The transition to remote learning can be uniquely difficult for students with special needs, which may have played a role in Cuomo’s decision. You can keep up with Cuomo’s decisions through his daily press briefings, and stay informed on the latest numbers in New York to help you make decisions for your family this summer. Going out will introduce more risk than staying home. If you think you’ve been exposed to coronavirus, especially if you’ve been to crowded areas or to a recent protest, New York has more than 750 testing sites where you can get tested quickly and easily. Visit the Department of Health’s website for more information. Need ideas for how to have summer fun at home when your kids are done with summer school sessions? Source inspiration from these 25 tips for recreating classic summer experiences in your own backyard, check out these examples of playground equipment for kids of all ages, and make sure you brush up on safety tips for going in pools and visiting beaches. This summer will look a little different than normal, but that doesn’t mean we can’t have fun! RELATED: Everything You Need to Know About Safe Summer Fun as New York Reopens Want more content like this? Great Family Activities Sent To You! More Special Needs Articles: Support & Resources for Children with Special Needs in Brooklyn Get the proper care for your child with special needs with these helpful resources in Brooklyn. Find the perfect school or therapy program online. How to Celebrate Halloween with a Child with Special Needs Helpful tips for how to celebrate Halloween for parents of children on the autism spectrum or with other special needs Author: Jacqueline Neber is a social journalism MA candidate at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. When she’s not reporting, you can find her petting someone else’s dog. See More Tutors on Wheels Our Ivy League tutors pride themselves on offering personalized sessions that are geared towards each student’s individual needs to create an exciting... Brookville Center for Children's Services Brookville, Brookville Center for Children’s Services provides daycare services and early childhood programs at four locations in Nassau County. 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__label__wiki	0.989111	0.989111	Police to destroy Nicky Hager data clones 17 Mar, 2016 02:41 AM 4 minutes to read Nicky Hager and his lawyer Steven Price will be at the High Court at Auckland to witness the destruction of the hard drive and memory card. Photo / Christine Cornege By: David Fisher Senior writer, NZ Herald david.fisher@nzherald.co.nz Police will have to smash a cloned hard drive and memory card seized during an "unlawful" search of the home of investigative journalist Nicky Hager before returning seized computer equipment and files tomorrow. Hager and his lawyer Steven Price will be at the High Court at Auckland to witness the destruction of the hard drive and memory card, which contain copies of files made by detectives during the 2014 raid, according to a press release this afternoon. The release, from another of Hager's lawyers Felix Geiringer, said Hager will then be given the destroyed drive and card, along with computer equipment which has been kept under seal at the High Court since the raid. The return of equipment brings to a close the disastrous police attempt to track the hacker Rawshark through Hager. It was Rawshark who provided damning content from the email and social media accounts of blogger Cameron Slater which was then used in Hager's Dirty Politics book. The book alleged a dirty tricks campaign run through the blogger's website from the Prime Minister's office - a claim John Key has always denied. Mr Geiringer's statement said Hager and Mr Price were due at the High Court at noon to collect the items seized during the police raid and held since in sealed containers. "Mr Price was present during the raid and signed the seals before the containers were removed from Mr Hager's house. He will be inspecting them to ensure that no one has accessed Mr Hager's property while it was in storage awaiting the court decision." The statement said a police officer was also expected at the court and "Mr Hager and Mr Price will also watch as a police officer destroys a police hard drive and memory card onto which the officers had copied materials from Mr Hager's house". "The hard drive and memory card have been sealed up with the rest of Mr Hager's belongings inside the Court." A police spokesman confirmed "in accordance with the direction of the court, certain items will be returned to Mr Hager tomorrow". "Police will also be destroying other items in the presence of Mr Hager and others," he said. In December, Justice Denis Clifford ruled against the way police went about obtaining the search warrant used to search Hager's home. The judgment found detectives sought the search warrant with little more than a "hope" they would find useful information. Police arrived at Hager's house in October 2014 with a search warrant while the journalist was in Auckland, meeting his daughter at the door. They spoke to Hager by phone, who said there was nothing to identify Rawshark in the house but he was concerned about other confidential source information he held. In the High Court challenge to the search warrant, Hager said he was able to claim journalistic privilege under the Evidence Act, and a breach of the Bill of Rights. It was also claimed the warrant was too broad. Justice Clifford said there was "no explicit reference" in the warrant application put before a district court judge to "Hager's status as a journalist". He said it also lacked details about the legal principles around search warrants executed on journalists, or information about the legal rights journalists had under the Evidence Act. Also lacking was an explanation of how those rights were explained in the Search and Surveillance Act, which was "not the type of facilitation" Justice Clifford believed the law expected. He said Parliament would have expected a judge to be told about journalistic privilege, partly so the judge was informed but also as a check on police knowledge. He said the result was "a material failure to discharge the duty of candour" by police.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line2049
__label__cc	0.560849	0.439151	Hope Hicks Cooperates with House's Trump Probe Hope Hicks Hope Hicks, former White House communications director, is expected to cooperate with the House Judiciary Committee’s investigation into whether Donald Trump obstructed justice. Judiciary chairman Jerry Nadler sent a letter to Hicks earlier this month, in which he asked for documents related to the firing of FBI director James Comey, false statements made by ex-national security advisor Michael Flynn to the FBI, hush money payments sent to sexual partners of Trump and the drafting of misleading letters about Donald Trump Jr.’s 2016 meeting with Russians at Trump Tower, according to CNN. The Congressman wants personal or work documents dealing with Hicks' work at the White House and the Trump Organization. Daniel Schwartz, Nadler’s spokesperson, said she has agreed to comply with the request. Hicks did testify at a closed-door session of the House Intelligence Committee last year when it was chaired by Republican Congressman Devin Nunes, a close ally of the president. At that meeting, she only answered questions from Republicans. Democrat Adam Schiff, who now chairs the Intelligence panel, may also ask Hicks for documents. Following her White House resignation, Hicks landed a top PR job at Fox. She began her PR career at Zeno Group and represented Ivanka Trump at Hiltzik Strategies before joining the Trump Organization as communications director. Category: Government	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line2051
__label__wiki	0.621724	0.621724	Wendy Heard’s “The Kill Club” Is A Multi-Layered Survival Story DailyEssays Wendy Heard’s The Kill Club is a multilayered crime novel that peels away like an onion to reveal a story of survival, a heartfelt narrative about the power of motherly love, and a love letter to Los Angeles in all its messy, diverse glory. Packed with violence and desperation, The Kill Club is one of those rare novels that pushes readers to question their moral compass while showing them that crime fiction bad guys are a cliché and that changing things around and adding complexity to crime stories can make them become memorable. Jazz and her younger brother Joaquin are trapped in a nightmare. Their foster mother, Carol, is a religious zealot who only seems to get worse with time. While Jazz could protect Joaquin while they all lived under the same roof, things take a bad turn once she leaves and Carol decides that Joaquin doesn’t need his insulin and that prayer can take care of his diabetes. Jazz talks to child services time and time again, but the system is broke and they offer no help. Things change when Jazz gets a call from a blocked number and the caller, using a distorted voice, offers her a solution. Just like Jazz, there are plenty of people in LA who are desperate and have nowhere else to turn. They are people abandoned by office and institutions; people for whom the usual channels have yielded no results. The person who calls Jazz helps these folks by organizing them so they can help each other out. If Jazz wants to save Joaquin, all she has to do is kill someone; get rid of someone else’s problem. The killings that come from this, dubbed the Blackbird Killings, are all over the news. …a multilayered crime novel that peels away like an onion to reveal a story of survival, a heartfelt narrative about the power of motherly love, and a love letter to Los Angeles in all its messy, diverse glory. If Jazz agrees to participate and takes care of business, someone else will take care of Carol, which will end Joaquin’s conundrum. However, things are never as easy as they look and Jazz quickly finds herself deeply immersed in a dark world of murder and secret agendas. The Kill Club mixes emotions and violence wonderfully. It’s also packed with tension and constructed carefully so that every step of Jazz’s journey gets its time in the spotlight. Also, Jazz is one of the most memorable character I’ve read in a while. She is strong and insecure, honest but full of secrets, ready to destroy that which affects her and fully aware of the consequences of her actions: “The urge to do violence swells huge inside me, but I have to stay calm.” In other words, Jazz is wonderfully complex, and having her at the center of the narrative amplifies everything that happens and makes us care more because it’s easy to feel empathy for her from the start because her pain is something we can relate to (“I can’t lose Joaquin. He’s my only family, the one thing tethering me to this earth.”) and the way the system has failed her is something that most of us have or are currently experiencing. While Jazz is at the center of the story and she is a perfect example of how good a storyteller Heard is, Los Angeles is also an important character in the novel. Jazz is truly something special in contemporary crime fiction. Her complexity is a vehicle Heard uses to explore everything from motherhood and poverty to homosexuality and self-esteem: “I catch a glimpse of myself in the mirror that hangs on the bathroom door and straighten up to get a better look. My eyeliner is smeared, casting my eyes into shadow under my shaggy bangs. I hate the way I look in mirrors. I feel bigger from the inside, tougher, stronger. Sometimes I’m caught by my own reflection and shamed by my own smallness, by how vulnerable and female I must look to the world around me.” While Jazz is at the center of the story and she is a perfect example of how good a storyteller Heard is, Los Angeles is also an important character in the novel. In a way, this chaotic narrative couldn’t take place anywhere else and Heard nails the flavor of the city. In a literary landscape stained by novels that take place in a clean, whitewashed LA, The Kill Club is a superb reminder that one of the cradles of crime fiction is a city where cultures mix, nationalities share every corner, and people have all kinds of histories and backgrounds: “Outside my windows, East LA’s collection of small businesses flashes past, disconcertingly cheerful; a taco shop, a panaderia; a Laundromat; a frutero under a colorful umbrella; a woman inexplicably selling stuffed animals out of the back of a station wagon. For the first time in my life, I feel disconnected from all of it.” The Kill Club is the kind of novel that will place Heard on the radar of any crime fiction lover who hasn’t read her work yet. It’s a heartfelt, fun narrative that moves forward at breakneck speed and leaves you wanting more. Go read it. To read other essays by Gabino Iglesias on Mystery Tribune, please visit here. Gabino Iglesias Gabino Iglesias writes "Brass Ovaries: Reading Women" column for Mystery Tribune. He is the author of Coyote Songs, Zero Saints, and Gutmouth and his nonfiction has appeared in places like The New York Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the LA Times, El Nuevo Día, and other venues. 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__label__wiki	0.553849	0.553849	Studies in Buddhist Philosophy By: Mark Siderits Author: Mark Siderits Description About the author Contents This volume brings together nineteen of Mark Siderits's most important essays on Buddhist philosophy. Together they cover a wide range of topics, from metaphysics, logic, philosophy of language, epistemology, and ethics, to the specific discussions of the interaction between Buddhist and classical Indian philosophy. Each of the essays is followed by a postscript that Siderits has written specifically for this volume. The postscripts connect essays of the volume with each other, show thematic interrelations, and locate them relative to the development of Siderits's thought. In addition, they provide the opportunity to bring the discussion of the essays up to date by acquainting the reader with the development of research in the field since the publication of the essays. Siderits's work is based on an investigation of Indian sources in their original language, nevertheless the focus of the essays is primarily systematic, not historical or philological. The idea of 'fusion philosophy' (a term coined by Siderits) embodies precisely the assumption that by bringing a Western and an Eastern tradition together, both can benefit by learning from each other about new ways of tackling old philosophical problems. Edited by Jan Westerhoff Studies in Buddhist Philosophy, Mark Siderits, Oxford University Press, Hardcover, 385 Pages, 2016, $75.00 Mark Siderits, Seoul National University Mark Siderits' research interests lie in the intersection between classical Indian philosophy on the one hand, and analytic metaphysics and philosophy of language on the other. He received his PhD from Yale University, and taught first at Illinois State University and then at Seoul National University, retiring from the latter in 2012. Among his more recent publications are Buddhism As Philosophy (Ashgate/Hackett, 2007), Personal Identity and Buddhist Philosophy: Empty Persons (Ashgate, 2nd revised edition 2015) and, together with Shoryu Katsura,Nagarjuna's Middle Way: Mulamadhyamakakarika (Wisdom, 2013). He has also edited several collections of work on Indian/analytic philosophy, including Self, No Self? (with Evan Thompson and Dan Zahavi; OUP, 2010). Jan Westerhoff is Associate Professor of Religious Ethics at the University of Oxford, a Fellow and Tutor in Theology and Religion at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, and a Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. His publications include Nagarjuna's Madhyamaka (OUP, 2009), The Dispeller of Disputes: Nagarjuna's Vigrahavyavartani (OUP, 2010), and Reality: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2011). His research concentrates on systematic aspects of ancient Indian Philosophy, especially on Madhyamaka. Introduction, Jan Westerhoff 1: Madhyamaka and anti-realism 1.1. Nagarjuna as anti-realist 1.2. Thinking on empty: Madhyamaka anti-realism and canons of rationality 1.3. On the soteriological significance of emptiness 1.4. A Note on the Early Buddhist Theory of Truth 2: Logical and metaphysical problems 2.1. Perceiving Particulars: A Buddhist Defense 2.2. Do Persons Supervene on Skandhas? 2.3. Causation in Early Madhyamaka 2.4. Contradiction in Buddhist argumentation 2.5. Deductive, inductive, both, or neither? 3: Philosophy of language 3.1. Buddhist nominalism and desert 3.2. Apohavada, nominalism, and resemblance theories 3.3. The Sense-Reference Distinction in Indian Philosophy of Language 4: Epistemology 4.1. The Madhyamaka critique of epistemology I 4.2. The Madhyamaka critique of epistemology II 4.3. Madhyamaka on Naturalized Epistemology 5: Ethics 5.1. Buddhist paleo-compatibilism 5.2. Buddhist reductionism and the structure of Buddhist ethics 6: Buddhist and non-Buddhist Indian Philosophy 6.1. Nyaya realism, Buddhist critique 6.2. Distinguishing the Madhyamika from the Advaitin: a field guide Related Products.... Apoha: Buddhist Nominalism and Human Cognition By: Mark Siderits (Editor), Tom Tillemans (Editor), Arindam Chakrabarti (Editor) Personal Identity and Buddhist Philosophy: Empty Persons, 2nd Edition By: Mark Siderits Studies in Buddhist Philosophy Books & Publications > Books by Publisher > Oxford University Press	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line2055
__label__wiki	0.540336	0.540336	Clearing the Air: Asthma and Indoor Air Exposures (2000) Chapter: 1 Major Issues in Understanding Asthma « Previous: Executive Summary Suggested Citation:"1 Major Issues in Understanding Asthma." Institute of Medicine. 2000. Clearing the Air: Asthma and Indoor Air Exposures. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9610. MAJOR ISSUES IN UNDERSTANDING AS th ma I he purpose of this chapter is to provide background infor- mation helpful to the understanding of the material covered in the report. It contains a summary of the 1993 Institute of Medi- cine report Indoor Allergens, which covered some of the same top- ics examined here. It also addresses some of the major issues in understanding the medical condition called asthma: the contro- versy over the definition of the illness; the characteristics of its clinical presentation in children, adolescents, and adults; and the concepts of the "development of asthma" and "exacerbations of asthma." Finally, the chapter presents brief discussions of four topics addressed in greater detail later in the report: risk factors, trends in prevalence, pathophysiology, and tools for evaluating the effectiveness of interventions to reduce asthma. ORIGIN OF THE STUDY In 1993, as a result of joint funding between the U.S. Environ- mental Protection Agency (EPA) Indoor Air Division (IAD) and several agencies within the Department of Health and Human Services, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) issued a major report: Indoor Allergens: Assessing and Controlling Adverse Health Effects (hereafter called Indoor Allergens). Indoor Allergens received wide public and press attention and helped to focus public health 19 20 CLEARING THE AIR policy on the dramatic increases in asthma, especially in children. The report also pointed out the role of indoor allergens such as dust mites, cockroaches, fungi, and pet dander in the etiology of asthma. At about the same time, IAD and the EPA Office of Re- search and Development issued a major assessment of the health impacts of environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), which found a correlation between exposure to ETS and asthma in children. EPA's asthma and indoor air initiatives are now the responsi- bility of the Indoor Environments Division (IED), a part of the Office of Radiation and Indoor Air. IED has been actively involved in public outreach efforts on asthma and its relationship to indoor environmental pollutants. These include educational campaigns in high-risk communities, the Indoor Air Quality (IA Q) Tools for Schools Action Kit, and cooperative efforts with other government agencies. EPA is currently developing an outreach strategy focused on reducing asthma-related morbidity and mortality associated with exposure to indoor environments. To help ensure that such ef- forts are based on sound science, EPA requested that the National Academies undertake an assessment of asthma and its relation- ship to indoor air quality. This report presents the conclusions of that research effort. SUMMARY OF THE INDOOR ALLERGENS REPORT The early 1990s saw an increase in the level of concern about the potential adverse health effects of indoor air quality. Moti- vated by this concern, several agencies of the federal government asked the IOM to undertake an assessment of the public health significance of indoor allergens. The IOM responded by assem- bling a committee of experts in such fields as allergy and immu- nology, epidemiology, mycology, engineering, industrial health, pulmonology, education, and public policy. The study undertaken by the committee had three primary objectives: 1. to identify airborne biological and chemical agents found indoors that can be directly linked to allergic diseases; 2. to assess the health impacts of these allergens; and MAJOR ISSUES IN UNDERSTANDING ASTHMA 21 3. to determine the adequacy of the knowledge base that is currently available on this topic. That report described what was then known about the ad- verse human health effects caused by indoor allergens, the mag- nitude of the problem nationally, the specific causative agents and their sources, the testing methods used for identifying allergens and diagnosing related diseases, and associated educational and research needs. The committee responsible for the study identi- fied and developed a list of research agenda items and priority recommendations. The recommendations focused primarily on the need to improve awareness and education, while the research agenda focused on the longer-term, more expensive, and more technical aspects of fundamental research and data collection. Indoor Allergens details the 1993 study committee's conclu- sions. Although some of these conclusions address medical con- ditions and topics outside the scope of the present report, several address issues related to asthma and the impact of indoor air ex posures. The Indoor Allergens committee recommended that steps be taken to improve estimates of allergenic disease incidence and prevalence, and to establish effective mechanisms for medical professionals to acquire assessments of potential exposure to in- door allergens in residential environments. It called for improve- ments in heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning (HVAC) equip- ment in order to minimize allergen reservoirs and amplifiers, and for the development of consensus standards for controlling mois- ture in buildings to help control microbial and arthropod aeroallergens and allergen reservoirs. The committee also recom- mended several educational initiatives including the develop- ment of focused intervention programs for allergic populations with different socioeconomic and educational characteristics. It called for efforts to inform architects, engineers, contractors, building maintenance personnel, and others responsible for the design and maintenance of indoor environments about the mag- nitude and severity of diseases caused by indoor allergens and the health implications of the design, construction, and operation of buildings. Among the report's research agenda items were calls to 22 CLEARING THE AIR · better characterize rates of initial asthma sensitization, in- cidence, prevalence, and morbidity, and clarify the relation be- tween these and socioeconomic status, race, and other factors; · identify, characterize, and determine the health impact of indoor allergens, specifically suggesting research on allergenic chemicals, arthropods, dust mites, fungi, and indoor animals and plants; · conduct dose-response studies in humans to determine both the relationship between allergen concentration and immu- nologic response and the threshold environmental exposure con- centration for sensitization; and · evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a broad variety of environmental control measures on patient symptoms, and determine whether long-term allergen avoidance has a posi- tive effect on quality of life. DEFINITIONS OF ASTHMA Although patients of all ages are routinely diagnosed with asthma, finding a widely accepted definition for this disease has proven to be problematic (Samet, 1987; Toelle et al., 1992, 1997~. One commonly used definition of asthma (Murphy, 1997) states: Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disorder of the airways in which many cells and cellular elements play a role, in particular, mast cells, eosinophils, T lymphocytes, macrophages, neutrophils, and epithe- lial cells. In susceptible individuals, this inflammation causes re- current episodes of wheezing, breathlessness, chest tightness, and coughing, particularly at night or in the early morning. These epi- sodes are usually associated with widespread but variable airflow obstruction that is often reversible either spontaneously or with treatment. The inflammation also causes an associated increase in the existing bronchial hyper-responsiveness to a variety of stimuli. (Murphy, 1997) There are two important concerns with this definition: (1) the definition implies that asthma is a single disease entity, although much of the contemporary evidence suggests that asthma is a syn- drome caused by several different mechanisms (Borish, 1999~; and (2) many interpret this definition to mean that asthma results from an aberration or variation of the immune system leading to MAJOR ISSUES IN UNDERSTANDING ASTHMA 23 chronic inflammation. There is general agreement that asthma is always associated with inflammation within the lungs, and the intensity of the inflammation is related to the severity of respira- tory symptoms and the degree of bronchial hyperresponsiveness (slough and Dow, 1987; Ingram, 1991; Pattemore and Holgate, 1993~. (Hyperresponsiveness refers to the abnormally large re- sponse of the lungs to the inhalation of minor irritants such as cold air.) There is also consensus that inflammation is the cause of hyperresponsiveness (Ingram, 1991; Jeffrey et al., 1989; Richmond et al., 1996; Woolley et al., 1996~. Discovering the origin or origins of the inflammatory response, however, remains a critical unan- swered question for researchers. The absence of a universally accepted definition of asthma makes it especially difficult to arrive at a consistent operational definition for epidemiologic studies. One of the most commonly used definitions of asthma in epidemiology is a "physician's di- agnosis" (Barbee et al., 1985; Dodge et al., 1986; Samet, 1987; Yunginger et al., 1992~. This term is imprecise since there is little information about the reasoning and consistency used by physi- cians when making this diagnosis. A variety of definitions, based on questions about symptoms, have been proposed. The validity of these symptom-based definitions has rarely been rigorously evaluated (Toelle et al., 1997~. For the purposes of this report, asthma is understood to be a chronic disease of the airways characterized by an inflammatory response involving many cell types. Both genetic and environ- mental factors appear to play important roles in the initiation and continuation of the inflammation. Although the inflammatory re- sponse may vary from one patient to another, the symptoms are often episodic and usually include wheezing, breathlessness, chest tightness, and coughing. Symptoms may occur at any time of the day but are more commonly seen at night. These symp- toms are associated with widespread airflow obstruction that is at least partially reversible with pharmacologic agents or time. Many persons with asthma also have varying degrees of bron- chial hyperresponsiveness (Britton, 1992; Ingram, 1991~. Research has shown that after long periods of time this inflammation may cause a gradual alteration or remodeling of the architecture of the 24 CLEARING THE AIR lungs that cannot be reversed with therapy Jeffrey et al., 1989; Kamm and Drazen, 1992; Murphy, 1997; Richmond et al., 1996~. CLINICAL PRESENTATION OF ASTHMA . Asthma may present at any age, but most studies suggest that in the majority of patients, asthma will present before puberty (Barbee et al., 1985; Martinez et al., 1995~. Discussing the presen- tation of asthma is complicated by a lack of consensus on criteria for defining the onset of asthma. Many children who are sick with respiratory infections will experience asthma-like symptoms. In some children the symptoms will diminish, whereas in others the symptoms will persist (Brooke et al., 1995; Dodge et al., 1996; Martinez et al., 1995; Ross et al., 1995; Williams and McNicol, 1969~. A diagnosis of asthma is dependent upon the recurring na- ture of these symptoms over a period of time. It appears that the more frequently these episodes occur, the more likely the child is to have asthma (Dodge et al., 1996; Martin et al., 1982; Martinez et al., 1995; Williams and McNicol, 1969~. Unfortunately, no clear criteria mark the transition from recurrent wheezing with infec- tions to asthma, and there are no tests capable of confirming a diagnosis (Brooke et al., 1995; Dodge et al., 1996~. Tests of pulmo- nary function are very helpful in the diagnosis of asthma in ado- lescents and adults, but testing the lung function of children ages 1-6 is very difficult and possible only in a small number of re- search settings. This means that defining the onset of asthma de- pends on the variable skills and criteria applied by different phy . . slclans. In most children, asthma begins as episodes of prolonged coughing, with or without wheezing, within the first few years of life. In young children, these symptomatic episodes are almost always associated with infections of the respiratory tract. The agents most often associated with these respiratory infections are common viral respiratory pathogens (Busse, 1989,1995; Folkerts and Nijkamp, 1995; Martinez, 1995; Pattemore et al., 1992) . The potential roles of other infectious agents including mycoplasma and chlamydia have been questioned but not defined (Hahn et al., 1991, 1998; von Hertzen et al., 1999~. In the majority of chil- dren these symptomatic episodes resolve with time. For others, MAJOR ISSUES IN UNDERSTANDING ASTHMA 25 the episodes will continue and will gradually begin to occur with- out the concomitant presence of infection (Brooke et al., 1995; Martinez et al., 1995~. The frequency and severity of these epi- sodes appear to increase with exposure to tobacco smoke and other forms of airborne pollutants (Arlian et al., 1993; Gidding and SchydIower, 1994; Menon et al., 1991~. A family history of asthma and allergy and a personal atopic predisposition increase the likelihood that asthma will develop (Brooke et al., 1995; Martinez et al., 1995; Williams and McNicol, 1969~. With asthma symptoms ranging from clearly episodic to nearly continuous, from mild to severe, and from an isolated cough to a loud wheeze, diagnosing patients accurately can prove to be very difficult. In some children, asthma presents as distinct episodes of wheezing and difficulty breathing, whereas in others, cough may be the only complaint. When episodes are distinct events and wheezing is a prominent symptom, a diagnosis of asthma is relatively easy to make. However, when symptoms are less episodic and when wheezing is minimal or absent, asthma can be misdiagnosed or missed altogether. In many children the episodes of symptoms are diagnosed as recurrent bronchitis, bronchiolitis, or pneumonia (Brooke et al., 1995; Dodge et al., 1996; Sherman et al., 1990~. When treated with antibiotics, these ill- nesses seemingly "resolve." If these episodes occur only a few times each year, the true asthma diagnosis may be missed for years (Davis, 1976; Martin et al., 1982; Schwartz et al., 1990~. Phy- sician recognition of asthma symptoms is further complicated by the parents' and child's perceptions, expectations, and abilities to describe the symptoms. When a diagnosis of asthma has been made, many parents of asthmatic children often state that the symptoms they now recognize as coming from asthma were present months or years before a diagnosis was made. These variations in the presentation of asthma lead to confu- sion between the concepts of the "development of asthma" and the "exacerbations of asthma." The concept of developing asthma is that the lungs of a normal individual go through a process in which they develop characteristic, chronic, eosinophilic inflam- mation. The eosinophilic inflammation is associated with symp- toms, such as cough and wheezing, that are recognized as asthma. Because there is no distinct finding or test that allows precise iden 26 CLEARING THE AIR tification of these changes, it is usually impossible to pinpoint when asthma actually begins or develops. The term asthma exac- erbation is used when referring to the sudden onset of symptoms in someone who already has developed asthma. In older children and some adults, the onset of asthma can be defined by the first exacerbation that brought the patient to medical attention. How- ever, even in these individuals there was presumably a gradual process that took days, weeks, or months before the exacerbation appeared. There is essentially no information concerning whether changes in lung function or immune process in the lung can be detected prior to or during the development of asthma. Another important but difficult concept is referred to as "growing out of asthma," which originated from the experiences of many parents and physicians. As already mentioned, many in- fants and young children wheeze in association with viral respi- ratory infections (Brooke et al., 1995; Martinez et al., 1995; Ross et al., 1995~. As these infants grow older they cease to wheeze with this type of infection. If the child had been diagnosed as having asthma, he or she has now "outgrown" that asthma. There are also children who have recurrent episodes of wheezing during childhood and are diagnosed as having asthma, but cease to wheeze during adolescence, often during the years of puberty. The probability that the symptoms of asthma will remit appears to be higher if the child has little evidence of allergic disease (Martinez et al., 1995; Ross et al., 1995; Williams and McNicol, 1969~. Some of the children whose asthma has remitted will rede- velop asthma symptoms in adulthood. Because of the length of time required, there have been few prospective studies of the risk of asthma recurring once remission has occurred; hence there is no information about risk factors for redeveloping asthma. As children move into adolescence and adulthood, respira- tory infections remain a common cause of symptomatic episodes (Busse, 1995; Martinez, 1995~. Additionally, symptoms may occur "spontaneously" or with exercise. Spontaneous symptoms are of- ten discovered to be the result of exposure to either an allergen or a potent airborne irritant. When symptoms of coughing and wheezing are associated only with exercise, it is often difficult to distinguish whether these are new symptoms or unrecognized symptoms that have been present for years. Symptoms associ MAJOR ISSUES IN UNDERSTANDING ASTHMA 27 ated with exercise are more easily recognized in older children because they typically have a higher level of physical activity and have developed the verbal means to describe their symptoms. In some adolescents and adults, symptoms are perceived more as chest tightness or chest pain than as difficulty breathing. People who experience these symptoms may not recognize them as com- ing from the chest and complain instead of chronic fatigue or of becoming fatigued rapidly during the day (Brooke et al., 1995; Dodge et al., 1993~. An interesting change that takes place between childhood and adulthood is in the ratio of males to females with asthma. In child- hood, boys with asthma outnumber girls by 1.5-2 to 1. By 20-30 years of age, women with asthma outnumber men by 1.5-2 to 1, a complete reversal of the childhood ratio (Barbee et al., 1985; Clough, 1993~. Although it is tempting to speculate that this change, which occurs over the years of sexual maturation, results from hormonal changes, little is known about the actual cause. Although asthma can develop anytime, there are times in a person's life when it can be especially troublesome. For some women, asthma first appears or markedly increases during preg- nancy. Because poorly managed asthma is associated with an in- creased risk of maternal and fetal complications, the prompt rec- ognition and appropriate treatment of asthma during pregnancy are important. During pregnancy, the onset of asthma and changes in the severity of preexisting asthma are presumed to be related to the major hormonal changes that occur, but the exact cause is unknown. Occupational asthma is another complex problem (Cartier, 1994; Park et al., 1986~. In some individuals, asthma symptoms first develop as a result of an occupation-related exposure. In most cases the agent responsible for the onset is an allergen to which the worker has become sensitized. In other cases the agent is a strong respiratory irritant. Occupational problems are beyond the scope of this report, however, and are therefore not discussed in detail. A final important concern about the progression of asthma throughout life is the relationship between asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. As mentioned earlier, the chronic inflammatory process of asthma appears to ultimately result in 28 CLEARING THE AIR irreversible obstructive changes in the lungs. The progression from a largely reversible airway obstruction, asthma, to an essen- tially irreversible state, chronic obstructive lung disease, appears to be highly variable and dependent upon a variety of factors such as smoking. The contribution of indoor sources of allergens and irritants to respiratory disease is important because chronic ob- structive pulmonary disease is an important cause of increased morbidity and mortality among adults. RISK FACTORS FOR ASTHMA As early as the 1920s, studies demonstrated that a familial predisposition to asthma existed, suggesting that genetics may play a role in asthma development. This genetic influence has remained constant in subsequent studies; however it explains only 30-80% of the asthma risk. The remaining risk appears to be related to environmental exposure. The recently noted increase in the prevalence of asthma suggests a change in some environmen- tal influence since it is hard to imagine a significant change in human genetics in such a short time (Borish, 1999~. Major studies have been conducted to better define the genes related to the development of asthma. These studies reveal com- plex relationships between genes and asthma (Borish, 1999~. It appears that asthma results from the effects of multiple genes, not a single gene. Further complicating the association between ge- netics and asthma has been the discovery that genes closely linked to asthma in one population may not be significantly linked in another population. Some of these discrepancies appear to be ra- cial, and some appear to be related to the peculiarities of rela- tively isolated and therefore somewhat inbred populations. These findings raise the question of whether asthma is best thought of as a single disease entity, a syndrome, or a final common manifes- tation of several different disease processes (Borish, 1999~. Many different environmental variables have been evaluated in relationship to asthma. Some of these are nonspecific such as an increase in global pollution, a decrease in exercise or outdoor play because of television and computer games, fewer childhood infections because of immunizations, more childhood respiratory infections because of day care, alterations in microbial flora be MAJOR ISSUES IN UNDERSTANDING ASTHMA 29 cause of the frequent use of antibiotics, or changes in indoor envi- ronments. Alternatively, there are relatively specific factors, such as increased exposure to dust mite allergens, that are discussed in more detail in Chapters 5-8. TRENDS IN THE PREVALENCE OF ASTHMAS Many studies have shown that the prevalence of asthma has been increasing in the United States for the past 30 years. Al- though this subject is explored further in Chapter 3, it is impor- tant to summarize some of the most important aspects of asthma trends to provide a better understanding of the problem of asthma in the United States today. In 1998, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published a study concerning the change in the prevalence of asthma across the United States from 1960 to 1995 (Manning et al., 1998~. That report combined information from several sources to produce a broad picture of the changes in asthma prevalence. Population estimates were based on the 1960,1970,1980, and 1990 censuses and the 1996 intercensal estimate. Each data set was stratified by region, sex, race, and age group. Self-reported asthma data came from the National Health Interview Survey, which is conducted annually. Data on visits to physicians' offices for asthma have been collected since 1975 by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). The data have been gathered on five different occasions within the study interval, and each time ap- proximately 2,000 physician offices or about 30,000-60,000 patient encounters, were evaluated. Also since 1992, NCHS has gathered annual data on hospital emergency and outpatient department visits. Hospitalizations attributable to asthma were estimated from 1979 to 1994 from the National Hospital Discharge Survey. Only cases with a primary discharge diagnosis of asthma were included. Finally, mortality was estimated from the Underlying Cause of Death data set from NCHS for 1960 through 1995 to identify all deaths in which asthma was selected as the underly- ~ng cause. The results of this study show an increase in the prevalence of asthma and death rates from asthma over 15 years both nation- ally and regionally. Regional differences were found for some end 30 CLEARING THE AIR points such as hospitalization but not for others such as preva- lence. The self-reported prevalence of asthma increased by 75% from 1980 to 1994. In 1993-1994, an estimated 13.7 million resi- dents of the United States reported asthma during the preceding 12 months. A significant increase in asthma was found for all races, both sexes, and for all age groups. The increase was most prominent among children 0-4 years (160%) and 5-14 years (74%~. During 1993-1994, the self-reported prevalence of asthma was slightly higher among children <14 years of age than among per- sons 215 years of age. In this same year, prevalence rates were similar in all four regions of the country. When office visits for asthma are considered, the estimated annual number of visits increased from 4.6 million to 10.4 million between 1975 and 1993-1994. Again, the increasing rates were found for all race strata, both sexes, and all age groups. During 1993-1994, the rate of office visits for asthma was lowest for the 15-34 year age group. Data on emergency room (ER) visits for asthma were avail- able only from 1992-1995, and during this interval there was no significant change. In 1995, there were in excess of 1.8 million ER visits for asthma. African Americans had consistently higher rates of ER visits than whites. The rate of ER visits decreased with in- creas~ng age. From 1979-1980 to 1993-1994, the estimated number of asthma-related hospitalizations increased, but the rate of hospi- talization did not change over this interval. Hospitalization rates were consistently higher among African Americans than among whites. In 1993-1994, the age-adjusted asthma hospitalization rates were higher in the Northeast than in the West. In each time interval examined, the hospitalization rates were highest among children 0-4 years, lowest among persons aged 15-34 years, and intermediate for those 235. Mortality rates from asthma are confused by the changes in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) coding criteria. Asthma death rates declined from 1960-1962 to 1975-1978, and then began to rise again by 1993-1994. The 1960-1962 death rate was 28.2 per 100,000 in contrast to a rate of 17.9 per 100,000 in 1993-1994. The lowest death rate was in 1975-1978 at 8.2 per 100,000 or less than half the rate of 1993-1994. MAJOR ISSUES IN UNDERSTANDING ASTHMA 31 These national statistics are consistent with many local and regional reports showing an increase in the prevalence of asthma predominantly in children (Gergen et al., 1988; Gerstman et al., 1993; Vollmer et al., 1998; Yunginger et al., 1992~. This problem has been found in all regions of the United States and affects all races. Even though all races are affected, most studies have con- sistently shown a greater impact of asthma in African Americans in comparison to whites (Cunningham et al., 1996; Gergen, 1996; Gergen et al., 1988; Gerstman et al., 1993~. Similar trends have been observed in most developed countries. This increase in the prevalence of asthma over the relatively short interval of approxi- mately 30 years strongly suggests that some as yet unidentified environmental or behavioral change is responsible. MECHANISMS OF ASTHMA Details of the pathophysiology of asthma are presented in Chapter 4; thus, only the major concepts are discussed here. Fig- ure 1-1 attempts to illustrate these major concepts in a schematic form. Asthma appears to present in two different forms, allergic and nonallergic asthma, illustrated on the left and right sides of the figure, respectively. The critical difference is that in persons with allergic asthma, inhalation of allergens initiates an inflam- matory response that leads to hyperreactivity of the airways and symptoms of asthma. In persons with nonallergic asthma, the in- flammatory process and airway hyperreactivity appear the same as in individuals with allergic asthma, but allergic responses, de- fined by the presence of immunoglobulin E (IgE) antibodies spe- cific for allergens, cannot be demonstrated. As shown in the fig- ure, allergic asthma is the result of allergen exposure leading to allergic sensitization of a genetically predisposed individual. The development of allergic sensitization during allergen exposure may be influenced by other environmental effects such as the fre- quency and type of respiratory infections, passive exposure to to- bacco smoke, or intensity of allergen exposure. Airway hyperre- activity may be a direct result of allergic airway inflammation or may result from one or more genes. Once asthma is present, a variety of exposures may result in acute or chronic asthma symp- toms. In addition to allergen exposure, the exposures capable of 32 Genetic Predisposition Allergen ~ I Exposure Respiratory,' Allergic ~~~~---- lnfections .' Sensitization . . _ ,, , , ~ ~ ,- lnflammation Airway in the Lungs + Hyperreactivity Allergic Asthma \ CLEARING THE AIR Genetic Predisposition ~ \ ,' \ Respiratory ~ , ~ ~ Factors ~~~~~~~~,~~----~\,, ' Infections i ~ -~- Environmental Exercise-_ \: Pollutants- _ am/ Allergen Exposure ~ \ --Temperature Changes ./ \~ Infections ~ / \ Emotions - - - - ~ ~ ~ ~ +/ Asthma Symptoms Inflammation Airway in the Lungs + Hyperreactivity ""' 1 '1 Nonallergic Asthma FIGURE 1-1 Development of asthma symptoms. This figure attempts to il- lustrate schematically the interrelationships of a number of factors thought to be important in the development of both allergic and nonallergic asthma. The weight of the lines attempts to provide some information about the strength of the evidence for the relationships: bold lines where there is ample evidence for a relationship and regular lines where the relationships have been demonstrated or at least strongly suggested. Dashed lines illustrate relationships that are likely to exist but for which there is little direct evi- dence at present. The phrase "genetic predisposition" is used to convey all of the genes in the human genome that are likely to be directly related to the outcome. causing symptoms include airborne irritants, infections, and ex- ercise. The development of nonallergic asthma is somewhat harder to explain, although there are suggestions that chronic infections may be related to asthma in some nonallergic individuals (von Hertzen et al., 1999~. As in the case of allergic asthma, inflamma- tion occurs in the lungs and is typically accompanied by airway Hyperreactivity A variety of exposures may lead to wheezing in the nonallergic asthmatic; however, the origin of the inflamma- tion cannot be directly identified. It is probable that various ge- netic influences on the immune system lead to inflammation in the lungs following some as yet undefined environmental expo MAJOR ISSUES IN UNDERSTANDING ASTHMA 33 sure. It is possible that nonallergic asthma is the result of an uni- dentified allergen, but for many reasons this appears unlikely. Estimates suggest that approximately 80% of asthma in chil- dren is allergic asthma. In adults, the percentage of those with allergic asthma is lower, in the 30-50% range depending on the population studied (Burr, 1993; Eriksson, 1990; von Mutius, 1996; Wever and Wever-Hess, 1993~. The lower prevalence of allergic asthma in adults may arise in many different ways. The preva- lence of allergic sensitivity is lower in adults than in children. It is possible that the inflammatory response that started as an allergic response in a child may become self-perpetuating by adulthood even as the allergic sensitization is lost. It is also possible that these are two different disease processes that merely have similar clinical appearances. EVALUATING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF INTERVENTIONS TO REDUCE ASTHMA Before an asthma intervention can be evaluated, the goals of the intervention must be defined. The goal of asthma therapy is ultimately to prevent a patient's asthma from altering or unduly influencing their life. Specific goals proposed in the Guidelinesfor the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma include (1) prevention of chronic and troublesome symptoms; (2) maintenance of "normal" pulmonary function; (3) prevention of recurrent exacerbations of asthma and minimization of the need for emergency department visits or hospitalizations; (4) provision of optimal pharmaco- therapy with minimal or no adverse effects; and (5) meeting pa- tients' and families' expectations and satisfaction with asthma care (Murphy, 1997~. Once goals are agreed upon, tools must be selected to evalu- ate how close the intervention comes to achieving all of the goals. In a typical clinical practice, the physician simply asks patients how they are doing. This is imprecise, and responses can vary depending upon how well the person can perceive his or her symptoms. Since many patients perceive their symptoms poorly, other tools are necessary to assess the adequacy of asthma control. Pulmonary function tests, primarily spirometry, are essential 34 CLEARING THE AIR tools for evaluating a patient with asthma. Good control of asthma is reflected in normal or near-normal spirometry. Sequential i] spirometry allows the physician to follow the course of disease and judge the adequacy of therapy. In children old enough to per- form spirometry, lung growth can be monitored and assessed more easily. There has been increasing recognition that control of asthma evolves more than the absence of symptoms and the normality of lung function tests. Important aspects of asthma management involve the total impact of the disease on a person's life. How much does it affect what a person tries to accomplish? How does it affect daily activities? Do people avoid certain situations for fear of an attack? These diverse aspects have been grouped under the term "quality of life," and questionnaires have been devel- oped that attempt to capture and estimate these aspects of dis- ease control Quniper et al., 1993; Rowe and Oxman, 1993~. Other methods for evaluating asthma are constantly being developed and evaluated. One of the most important areas in need of an adequate means of testing is the intensity of Jung in- flammation. In research settings it is possible to directly sample the linings of the airways and the numbers of inflammatory cells within the lungs, but these techniques are very expensive and involve some risk to the patient. Techniques are needed that could estimate Jung inflammation accurately and yet be simple and in- expensive enough for use on a routine clinical basis. The present state of the art in assessing any form of interven- tion for the control of asthma typically involves four components: (1) patient symptom scores or checklists, (2) physician assess- ments, (3) spirometry (often supplemented with home peak flow monitoring), and (4) completion of quality-of-life questionnaires. Given the lack of precision of these instruments, it is usually nec- essary to apply them with a relatively large number of persons for weeks or months before the effect of the intervention can be estimated adequately. In some cases, other measurements can be used to supplement the components listed above. 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Williams HB, McNicol KN. 1969. Prevalence, natural history, and relationship of wheezy bronchitis and asthma in children. An epidemiological study. British Medical Journal 4~679~:321-325. 38 CLEARING THE AIR Woolley KL, Gibson PG, Carty K, Wilson AT, Twaddell SH, Woolley MJ. 1996. Eosinophil apoptosis and the resolution of airway inflammation in asthma. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 154~1~:237-243. Yunginger JW, Reed CE, O'Connell EJ, Melton LJ III, O'Fallon WM, Silverstein MD. 1992. A community-based study of the epidemiology of asthma. Incidence rates, 1964-1983. American Review of Respiratory Disease 146~4~:888-894. Next: 2 Methodological Considerations in Evaluating the Evidence » Clearing the Air: Asthma and Indoor Air Exposures Get This Book Since about 1980, asthma prevalence and asthma-related hospitalizations and deaths have increased substantially, especially among children. Of particular concern is the high mortality rate among African Americans with asthma. Recent studies have suggested that indoor exposures—to dust mites, cockroaches, mold, pet dander, tobacco smoke, and other biological and chemical pollutants—may influence the disease course of asthma. To ensure an appropriate response, public health and education officials have sought a science-based assessment of asthma and its relationship to indoor air exposures. Clearing the Air meets this need. This book examines how indoor pollutants contribute to asthma—its causation, prevalence, triggering, and severity. The committee discusses asthma among the general population and in sensitive subpopulations including children, low-income individuals, and urban residents. Based on the most current findings, the book also evaluates the scientific basis for mitigating the effects of indoor air pollutants implicated in asthma. The committee identifies priorities for public health policy, public education outreach, preventive intervention, and further research. Executive Summary 1–18 1 Major Issues in Understanding Asthma 19–38 2 Methodological Considerations in Evaluating the Evidence 39–66 3 Patterns of Asthma Morbidity and Mortality 67–86 4 Pathophysiological Basis of Asthma 87–104 5 Indoor Biologic Exposures 105–222 6 Indoor Chemical Exposures 223–262 7 Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke 263–297 8 Indoor Dampness and Asthma 298–315 9 Asthma and Nonresidential Indoor Environments 316–326 10 Impact of Ventilation and Air Cleaning on Asthma 327–393 11 Summary of Research Recommendations and Overall Conclusions 394–408 Appendix A: Theoretical Considerations Relevant to the Influence of Ventilation and Air Cleaning on Exposures to Indoor-Generated Pollutants 409–414 Appendix B: Workshop Summaries 415–417 Appendix C: Committee and Staff Biographies 418–424	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line2056
__label__cc	0.504436	0.495564	In First Person: I Miss You When You're AFK By Rachel Roberie Making Friends on the Internet It's trendy these days for older audiences to lament the lost social lives of the upcoming generations Y and Z, of digital natives' apparent inability to relate like "normal people" in face-to-face encounters. It's like the mere ability to send instantaneous messages were the deepest evil in Pandora's box, and now that the technology exists, the best we can do is manage the descent of our naturally sociable children into a lifetime of stunted, abnormal social interaction. My own story went in quite the opposite direction. I did not have an active social life as a child, between turbulent familial relationships and the paralyzing social anxiety that has persisted (much more manageably, now) into adulthood. I was much happier playing Gameboy on the couch on my weekends than enduring hours in a corner at a party that a parent invited me to out of propriety, while the kid made sure I knew I wasn't welcome. I didn't have more than one close friend at a time until college, and they were just as into spending hours in a dark room playing computer games as I was. That's not to say I was a quiet child. In the right company I would never stop talking, debating, and playing with semantics - my mom could not get me and my brother to quit our playful verbal sparring over dinner. It was more that I felt very acutely whether someone appreciated my word vomit, or more often, when they powerfully and visibly disliked it - and it made me wary of speaking to anybody that hadn't established that they cared to speak to me. Of the nightly hours I spent on the computer ages 10-18, about a quarter of that time was spent playing games and browsing the Internet (Neopets was my jam). The other 75% was dedicated to talking, and talking, and talking some more, with the friends I had found online. We found each other in multiplayer maps of my favorite strategy game, in anime forums, in virtual pet communities, spaces where our shared interests allowed us to comfortably move into conversations about our real lives. We would call each other by our usernames first, and seek out familiar faces (avatars) for the next round of games. But we saw the same folks in the same places often enough that eventually we established groups on a first-name basis, and returned to our chat rooms each night to update each other on how our day had been. It became a great comfort to me that I could log in after a fight with my mom, and find my friends were all already online, ready to hear me and send hugs from a distance. Some of us switched to keeping long-term contact on MSN messenger, and continued to chat regularly for years. Meeting Lehki One such friendship with a fellow monikered "Lehki," who lived in New York while I resided in New Orleans, rose above the rest. It was as important and intimate a friendship to me as my other lifelong best friend, who I met at middle school around the same time. It started with his response to a thread I started about Star Wars, moved to private messages as we discovered all of the games we both played, and soon became all-night IM conversations, as comfortable to us as a mom's four-hour phone calls with her wine buddy. Neither of us had the funds nor the independence to visit each other, so we made jokes about crashing a jet into the other’s roof some day. Lehki and I – real name John, but he’ll always be Lehki to me - spoke (via MSN) every single night for hours. Sometimes we would hop on the phone, but we both felt better elucidating our thoughts in text, when we had time to think about our responses and the flexibility of having multiple asynchronous conversations. I told my friends at school about our adventures across the web – he was always willing to try a new website or game with me - and when they came over we’d all sit and chat with him. I liked to tell them that he knew more about me than my diary did - he was an incredible listener - and if it weren't for his constant shoulder and his even counsel, I might literally have not survived my adolescence. As I stumbled awkwardly through high school, Lehki and I mailed birthday gifts to each other and swapped books. We had been friends for six years when I met his younger brother for ice cream in New York during my college tours – he was working that day and couldn’t come. It wasn’t until my third year of college, 10 years into our friendship, that I could afford to travel, and I met him and his brother at a piano bar in Times Square, where my awkward nerd friends and I looked thoroughly out of place. It was as though we had always known each other in person, but when we split ways at the end of the trip, we felt just as fine returning to our messaging routine. We didn’t need the physical proximity to feel that the other cared – they were simply there on the other end of the line, no matter what. My Digital Friends Are Just As Real You don’t need to hear someone’s voice to hear their voice. Everyone knows that writing has a “tone,” a persona that leaks out of the person writing it whether they try to control it or not. But we seem to disregard that concept when we think about text messages; we shrug off the idea that emoji could actually represent the emotions they were made to represent. We assume that anyone hiding their face behind a screen has ill intentions, that they reach their tentacles out from the dark web to steal credit cards and harass children. It’s true that one must use caution when sharing personal information - but it’s no less true of real life strangers than it is of online ones. I’m overjoyed to see more people acknowledging text speak and Internet slang as dialects, just a set of linguistic shortcuts to communicate information with more speed and familiarity between people who both understand it. But what I’d really love to see is respect for friendships that occur primarily online. It’s not for everyone, just like you may not take to the Internet dialects as readily as another. It may take longer for the bond to develop because of the lack of visual feedback. But it may also be more accessible for a great many people, especially the physically disabled and others who suffer from social anxiety, and sans the pressure of the expensive regular travelling required to keep up long-distance physical relationships – not because it’s “easier,” but because it’s no less meaningful than a beloved pen pal across the ocean. There should not be physical or economic barriers to love, and there is no love less “worthy” than another simply because it’s performed in text. I now have a wonderful circle of “IRL” friends, some more nerdy and reclusive than others, and we all manage to get out of the house once in a while. Still, I always get excited when I return to my desktop after work and check the new posts in the forum, messages in a bottle from kindred souls across the planet. And I feel the same slew of emotions when Lehki says he won’t be responding to texts because he’s going to sleep as I do when I shut the apartment door behind my departing friends. I miss you when you’re gone; I miss you when you’re AFK (away from keyboard). I miss my friends when they’re not there, whether there is here, or way over there. The love is always the same. The #BookshelfConfessions: 8	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line2061
__label__wiki	0.709559	0.709559	Habeas Corpus - Hope Street Theatre, Liverpool Amanda Lancaster, Alan Bennett, Habeas Corpus, PJ Murray, Hope Street Theatre, Liverpool Keyhole Theatre Jackie Connolly Albert Hasting Linda Dolan Irene Morrison Colette O’Connell Ann Bates Nadege Josa Habeas Corpus in a farce written in the early 1970s by Alan Bennett taking a satirical look at the “permissive society” and British middle class values. Keyhole Theatre Co’s production, directed by Ann Bates, assisted by Nadege Josa, combined the farcical elements of Bennett’s script with the bittersweet message embedded in the script. Presented on a thrust stage with a set consisting only of three chairs, the focal point here was the actors and the few props which were used to enrich the production. Narrated by Mrs Swabb (Jackie Connolly), the cleaner and omniscient representative of sense within the universe of the show, the play tells the story of the Wicksteed family. Arthur Wicksteed (Albert Hasting) is a doctor who lusts after young female patients. His underappreciated wife, Muriel (Linda Dolan) is losing patience with him and aims to have a liaison with her ex-lover Sir Percy Shorter (Ted “Jive Teddy” Williams). The Wicksteeds share their home with son Dennis (PJ Murray) and Arthur’s sister Connie (Amanda Lancaster). Lady Rumpers (Irene Morrison) arrives in town with her daughter, Felicity (Colette O’Connell), leading to a series of events which cause several misunderstandings, mistaken identities and almost all of the male actors running around with no trousers! Although a farce at its core, Habeas Corpus is lower in energy than most plays of the genre, and contains very little slapstick comedy, instead relying on British postcard humour reminiscent of the Carry On films and dry sarcastic wit. Today some of these jokes can feel slightly dated, so some of the comedy can be missed by a modern audience. However the play had many amusing points and the audience laughed out loud several times. When performing on a thrust stage it is important to bear in mind projection of lines when facing upstage and lines of sight for the various perspectives of the audience. There were a few occasions where lines could not be heard and a number of times that nothing could be seen but a single actor’s back. There was also one point where background music being played was much louder than the actors’ voices. This may be worth some consideration for future performances. There was a benefit to the thrust format of the stage, in that the fourth wall was pushed against throughout the performance and broken entirely several times. This made the audience feel involved in the lives of being portrayed, which was beneficial due to the caricatured nature of the characters. Dennis’ miserable hypochondria and Connie’s melancholic spinsterhood are particular highlights in these caricatures, performed extremely well by Murray and Lancaster to excellent comic effect. Hasting’s performance as the rakish doctor was delightful and his rhythm when delivering speeches in verse was flawless. Scott Jones, as Canon Throbbing, the lecherous vicar in love with Connie, was equally slimy and sly, reflecting issues still present in today’s society. There were a couple of times where the pace of performance dropped noticeably and some gaps between scene changes were too long. This can be put down to opening night nerves in an unfamiliar venue and is not likely to cause issues in future performances. The cast and crew as a whole are also to be praised for displaying the utmost professionalism for their unbroken performance during several interruptions by some loud and disruptive audience members. This bittersweet look at regret and reluctance in relation to social expectations, is a light entertaining look at historical British values. The play is firmly rooted in its time, but its gentle nods towards the modern world may make you consider how far we have really come. Habeas Corpus is showing at the Hope Street Theatre until 19th January. Tickets are available here https://goo.gl/HGWb5j Reviewer: Donna M Day Reviewed: 17th January 2019	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line2066
__label__cc	0.576997	0.423003	Samsung Galaxy Note 5 SM-N920A Samsung Galaxy Note 5 SM-N920A (Galaxy Note Серия) Samsung Exynos 7420 Octa 8 x 2.1 GHz, Cortex-A57/-A53 ARM Mali-T760 MP8 5.70 дюйм. 16:9, 2560 x 1440 пикс., 10-Punkt kapazitiv, Super AMOLED, 10-Punkt kapazitiv, глянцевое покрытие: ✔ 32 GB UFS 2.0 Flash, 32 Гбайт 1 USB 2.0, Аудиоразъёмы: 3,5 mm Kopfhörer, 1 сканер подушечки пальца, Датчики и сенсоры: A-GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Beschleunigungsmesser, Gyroskop, Barometer, Herzfrequenz, Kompass, Umgebungslicht 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac (a/b/g/n = Wi-Fi 4/ac = Wi-Fi 5), Bluetooth 4.2, GSM (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz) and UMTS (850, 900, 1900, 2100 MHz), Cat. 6 литий-полимерн., 3000 mAh Фронтальная камера: Rückseite: 16 MP, f/1.9, bis zu 2160p30 Video, LED-Blitz, Vorne: 5 MP, bis zu 1440p30 Video акустическая система: monaural, Kurzanleitung, Kopfhörer, Micro-USB-Kabel, Strom-Adapter, Nano-SIM-Karte, 12 мес. гарантии в Европе 171 г, адаптер питания: 40 г Samsung (сайт производителя) Samsung Galaxy Note 5 SM-N920A Средняя оценка: 87.54% - Хорошо Стоимость: 83%, Производительность: 85%, Оснащение: 79%, Качество экрана: 90% Портативность: 83%, Внешний вид: 86%, Эргономичность: 83%, Нагрев и шум: 93% Обзоры Samsung Galaxy Note 5 SM-N920A 87.6% Samsung Galaxy Note 5 (SM-N920A) Smartphone Review \| Notebookcheck The modern pen and paper. Who needs college-ruled paper and lead pencil when the Galaxy Note 5 does it all? The Note 5 may be a great successor to the Note 4, but don't throw away that classic notepad just yet. 86% Samsung Galaxy Note 5 review The Galaxy Note 5 was made available just days after its launch across all major carriers in the US, and as expected, it comes at a steep price point. In total, about $700 is what you will shell out to get Samsung’s latest addition to the Galaxy Note line, whether or not you use payment plans on AT&T, T-Mobile, or elsewhere. Samsung Galaxy Note 7 vs Galaxy Note 5 So there you have it for this in-depth look at the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 vs Galaxy Note 5! A lot of this comparison shows how the Note 7 is the definitely the phone to beat. Better on-board and expandable storage, a bigger battery, and the new features make the Note line feel fresh again. Or at the very least, it makes us feel the way the Note 5 failed to when it was first released. обзор-сравнение, доступен в Сети, средний по длине, Дата: 12/09/2016 Galaxy Note7 vs. S7 edge vs. Note5 We doubt any of these tests will make a Note fan get the S7 edge, because if you love the S-Pen, nothing can replace it. We wanted to explore Samsung's flagship camera evolution over the past few devices and see what got better and what not. As it turned out Samsung just made a great camera even greater. The image quality is often on par across all three devices, but the processing algorithm is more sophisticated for brighter and sharper images. While there is an Auto HDR option on all devices, we're pleased to say that the Note7 hardly needs this mode. The dynamic range optimization Samsung has implemented does a great job of brightening up the shadows just when it's needed. Samsung Galaxy Note 7 vs Samsung Galaxy Note 5 Maybe the biggest downside – and this is a huge matter of personal preference – is the lack of a flat-screen Note 7. We're sure that a fair number of established Note fans will be mourning the loss of their familiar display geometry, but there's just so much else the new Note does well that it's hard to imagine the majority of them holding a grudge for long; they'll poke around at the new Edge UX interface, learn to appreciate the phone's smooth curves, and likely begrudgingly admit that Samsung didn't ruin anything with this change. Galaxy Note 7 vs Galaxy Note 5 Источник: V3.co.uk EN→RU Even on paper it's hard to pick a clear winner between the Galaxy Note 5 and Note 7. Both feature impressive internals, cameras and QHD screens. The Note 7 does win out when it comes to looks, storage and forward-thinking biometric security features. The improvements to the S Pen and addition of IP68 protection are also very welcome, but aren't essential in our eyes. What’s new in Samsung Galaxy Note 7? Difference between Note 5 and Note 7 The Note 7 at first glance appears to be an expensive upgrade, but this may not bother you if you’re getting it on a contract - which will be possible, unlike with the Note 5. If you’re prepared to pay the money it’s a fantastic upgrade, with phenomenal performance, a fantastic dual-edge screen, a user-friendly stylus, a brand-new iris scanner and upgraded cameras. 80% A GREAT smartphone but it STILL hasn't been released in the UK Источник: PC Pro EN→RU Once upon a time there were few rivals for the Note 5's status of best big-screened smartphone on the market. That’s because, for a long time, It was the only game in town. Nowadays, screen-sizes of 5.5in and above are common on smartphones and there are loads handsets making a grab for the Note 5’s crown. The best of the bunch is Google’s 2015 flagship phone, the Nexus 6P. 80% Impressive all-rounder with a price tag to match So should you buy a Samsung Galaxy Note 5 Dual? Well, as of today, the S7 twins have already been launched in India. The camera is also expected to be even better on the new models, making the Note 5 a tough sell. Moreover, the S7 twins also pack in Samsung’s dual hybrid SIM slots, giving them expandable memory and dual SIM capabilities. Рейтинг: Общий балл: 80% Производительность: 85% Оснащение: 80% Качество экрана: 85% Портативность: 80% Внешний вид: 75% Should you jump off the Note upgrade train? Given the upgrades made by Samsung to the Galaxy S7 Edge, I felt compelled to purchase one. I've have spent the past week trying to decide if the Note 5 or S7 Edge should go on the auction block or if both remain in my arsenal. To let you in on the indecisive, irrational, justification-based mind of a smartphone enthusiast I put together the lists below. Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Vs Galaxy Note 5 So there you have it for this in-depth look at the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge vs Galaxy Note 5! The Galaxy Note 5 is the older of the two smartphones, and is also understandably cheaper right now. There is absolutely no question if you are someone who will find the S-Pen to be very useful, but if that isn’t the case, what the Galaxy S7 Edge brings to the table is better battery life, a better camera, expandable storage, dust and water resistance, a more refined design, and of course, a more powerful processing package. If not for the S-Pen, the Galaxy S7 Edge is definitely the better option between the two, with it bringing upgrades over the Galaxy Note 5 in almost every department. Samsung Galaxy S7 edge vs Samsung Galaxy Note 5 With all of this in mind, let's have a look at the prices. At $799 unlocked, the Galaxy S7 edge is certainly one expensive smartphone. Currently, the Galaxy Note 5 can be had for $600 unlocked, and considering this, the 5.7-incher beats the Galaxy S7 edge in terms of value for money. With the S-Pen's presence, it offers more functionality, and it doesn't fall short of the S7 edge in terms of hardware and camera features. Of course, if you still want Samsung's latest and greatest, there are carrier offers and upgrade plans to consider, so scoring a deal on it isn't impossible by any means. обзор-сравнение, доступен в Сети, умеренно подробный, Дата: 10/03/2016 90% Samsung Galaxy Note5 review With the Galaxy Note5 Samsung continues the tradion of offering the most powerful phablet on the market, rightfully so as the company came up with the concept of the large-screened smartphone. The fifth generation comes with the newly adopted design, with materials and build to finally match its price and market position. Рейтинг: Общий балл: 90% Производительность: 100% Качество экрана: 100% Портативность: 100% Внешний вид: 80% Нагрев и шум: 90% Источник: Androidcommunity.com EN→RU Galaxy Note 5 vs. iPhone 6s Plus vs. LG V10 If you are to embark on snowy adventures and you intend to use your smartphone as the designated camera - then any of these high-profile smartphones will do the job quite well. If you are pixel peeping, you may find few pros and cons on each, but at the end of the day, none of this will matter when sharing on social networks as they downsize the images anyway. 90% Galaxy Note 5 Dual-SIM Источник: Techtree.com EN→RU Fans of the Samsung Galaxy Note 5 may have been miffed at not getting a removable battery and expandable storage on this iconic smartphone, but now at least those who miss a second SIM can relax. Samsung has just launched a dual SIM variant of the Note 5. iPhone 6s Plus vs. Lumia 950 XL vs. Galaxy Note5 The Apple iPhone 6s Plus price is rock steady for a simple reason - demand for it is just as steady. Apple is coming out of its shell a little bit, we get more RAM, ad blockers and higher resolution camera, which erodes the feature gap between iOS and Android. The Samsung Galaxy Note5 is sailing stormy seas - first Samsung delays the wide launch, then it runs into issues with the redesigned S Pen, all the while current Note users ask for their microSD slot back. The feature-packed era has come to a close though, it's all about the experience now, never mind the specs behind the curtain. Lumia 950 XL vs. LG V10 vs. Galaxy Note5 vs. iPhone 6s Plus Spoilers ahead! Voting is now closed, but you can still go to Page 2 and pick your favorites with a mind clear of brand preconceptions and promises. Below the phones behind the letters A, B, C and D are revealed as well as the winners. There were a lot of correct guesses in the comments, well done readers! It was the Apple iPhone 6s Plus, which was behind the label 'A', 'B' was the LG V10, 'C' - the Microsoft Lumia 950 XL and finally, 'D' - the Samsung Galaxy Note5. Nexus 6P vs. LG V10 vs. Galaxy Note5 Spoiler alert: the results of the voting are revealed below. It's not too late to check out the camera samples on the second page with an open mind and pick your favorite. Thanks to everyone who voted on the blind shootout! We made it more difficult this time around by concealing the FoV of the different phones, but we saw some very accurate guesses in the comments. Samsung Galaxy Note 5 Vs LG V10 So there you have it for this in-depth look at the Samsung Galaxy Note 5 vs LG V10! As mentioned, for most users, the choice between the two will be easy, based primarily on design and build quality. The Galaxy Note 5 features the sleeker and more elegant design, the arguably better display, and those looking for productivity will love the S-Pen and all its capabilities. On the flip side, if durability is a concern, the LG V10 is the device for you, and features like expandable storage and a removable battery are big positives as well. Источник: T Break EN→RU I hope Samsung focuses on implementing a faster fingerprint scanner, and different type of rear glass panel that doesn’t attract smudges for their next Note device. On a personal note, I think the Galaxy Note5 has a better value for the buck than the Galaxy S6 Edge Plus, even when both has the exact hardware innards. Источник: Expert Reviews EN→RU At this stage, it's hard to score a phone that currently doesn't have a UK price, or indeed a solid UK release date. However, when the Note 5 has so much in common with the Galaxy S6 Edge+, which I think is much more comfortable and easy to hold, the Note 5 doesn’t immediately make me feel like I'm missing out on much. The S-Pen obviously makes it quite different from other smartphones on the market, but unless you're one of its rare devotees, then right now the S6 Edge+ is the much better option. Ultimate Phablet Battle The iPhone 6s comes out (barely) on top because it is significantly faster (both in real-world scenarios and synthetic benchmarks), and because it simply takes better pictures based on our side-by-side comparisons. The iPhone 6s is no slouch in the features department, either, as its 3D Touch adds a level of immersion to the overall user experience while saving you time. Camera Wars: iPhone 6s Plus vs Galaxy Note 5 vs Nexus 6P With good clarity, vibrant and accurate colors, as well as excellent low-light performance, the iPhone 6s Plus consistently produced great shots. It was also one of the faster cameras tested, while the Nexus was sometimes slow to shoot. Those looking for the best smartphone camera around will find it in the iPhone 6s Plus. обзор-сравнение, доступен в Сети, краткий, Дата: 27/10/2015 Nexus 5X and 6P vs. Galaxy Note 5: A quick camera comparison Источник: Computerworld.com EN→RU These samples are just scratching the surface, of course. I'm taking and looking at tons of different types of shots with the new Nexii -- including lots of on-the-go shots of my ever-moving little one in all sorts of awkwardly lit real-world environments -- and I'll have a full analysis of how both phones hold up in my upcoming review. I'll also tackle the broader issues of what each phone is actually like to use in day-to-day life, including some crucially important comparisons related to the devices' forms and displays. 80% Classing It Up The 32GB version of the Samsung Galaxy Note 5 retails for Rs 53,900, which makes it better value compared to its curved-screen sibling. Plus, you get the useful stylus which will add more value to your life as compared to a curved screen. The Galaxy Note 5 is a very good iterative upgrade over previous Galaxy Note models, and if you're in the market for a phone with a stylus, this is your best bet. However, should you ditch your Note 4 for the Note 5? Certainly not. Samsung has made some very good improvements such as the stronger aluminium body, more powerful processor, improved S Pen features, but has also cut down on a couple of important ones along the way. Apple iPhone 6s Plus vs Samsung Galaxy Note 5 Thus, if you aren't already too invested in iOS or Android, just enter the store, grab the phones, and pick whichever you think looks better and fits your palm and pocket well – you can't go wrong with either one. If you have to switch sides, though, better stick with your current ecosystem, as neither one is that more enticing than the other to warrant the swap, unless you are really curious. Last but not least, don't forget that the $750 iPhone 6s Plus starts you off with 16 GB of storage only, while the basic 32 GB Note5 can now be had for $650 or even less, which can also tip the scales for you. Источник: It Pro EN→RU The only thing stranger than Samsung's decision not to sell the Galaxy Note 5 in the UK is the phablet itself. Until this year's crop of Galaxy S and Note phones, Samsung had defined its mobile products in opposition to Apple's. What Cupertino refuses to offer – be it storage slots, removable batteries or IR emitters – Samsung would. This is a difficult one. If you live in the UK, then you’re not going to go into a shop and pick one up because Samsung is pushing the Galaxy S6 Edge Plus as the bigger alternative to the S6 and the S6 Edge. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t other means to get hold of one. Рейтинг: Общий балл: 80% Стоимость: 80% Производительность: 90% Оснащение: 80% Качество экрана: 90% Портативность: 80% Внешний вид: 80% The Samsung Galaxy Note5 and Galaxy S6 edge+ Источник: AnandTech EN→RU The Galaxy Note5 is a bit of a break in form for Samsung, but in some ways it represents a return to form. To understand what this means, we can look at the various aspects that make up the Galaxy Note5 in contrast to the Galaxy S6. One of the easier places to start is the design, which shares a great deal in common with the Galaxy S6. Samsung Galaxy Note 5 Vs Huawei Mate S – Quick Look And there you have it – a quick comparison between the Samsung Galaxy Note 5 and the Huawei Mate S. If you had to pick between the two, the decision might not just come down to specs but things like regional availability and local pricing will also be a factor. Ignoring price and availability then the Note 5 is the better of the two devices, however even though it is weaker in certain departments, the Mate S isn’t too far behind when it comes to the overall experience. Samsung Galaxy Note 4 vs Note 5: What's the difference between Note 4 and Note 5? With significantly improved performance, a more user-friendly fingerprint scanner and S Pen stylus, and the premium glass-and-metal design, we see no reason why you would choose the Note 4 over the Note 5 given the very similar pricing. However, you may feel the removable battery, microSD support and IR blaster in the Note 4 are enough to make you choose it over the new Galaxy Note; it's also the only phone of the two that is available on a contract in the UK. Источник: Techspot EN→RU Whether or not the Galaxy Note 5 and its S Pen are worth $300 more than similar phones is up to you, although I think it’s on the expensive side considering the hardware at hand. Of course it’s cheaper than an iPhone 6s Plus if you’re looking at Apple’s offering, though Apple has never been a budget smartphone provider. Galaxy Note 5 Impressions (from a Galaxy user) Having shown the Note 5 to a handful of Note 4 users, the jury is out whether the Note 5 is worth the upgrade. Out of five people, three said they liked the handset while two said they preferred the Note 4. Whichever way you look at it; the Note 5 is definitely a real Galaxy Note but whether it’s for you depends on whether you can handle the compromise. Samsung Galaxy Note5 vs Samsung Galaxy S6 For those looking to uplift their screen desires, Note5 is a more than worthy replacement of the capable Galaxy S6. Not only does it sport a similar eye-catching design, but also offers an extra input method with the S Pen stylus tucked in the thin and light chassis. Samsung Galaxy Note 5 Review: Hands-on There’s a lot to love about the new Samsung Galaxy Note 5, primarily thanks to its killer hardware, beautiful design and unique feature set, but locking away the battery and storage will sting many long-time Note fans. Источник: Phandroid EN→RU The best thing we can do is look at the Note 5 in a vacuum. Throw out all the comparisons and view the device for what it is. It has a beautiful design, excellent display, the best camera on the market, and a handy stylus. It may be missing a few things, but overall this is the best Note that Samsung has ever made. 100% Samsung Galaxy Note 5 review The Samsung Galaxy Note 5 is a great sequel to the classic Note 4, and a phone we can imagine plenty of people favouring over the Galaxy S6 Edge+. After all, a pressure sensitive pen is a bit more useful than a screen that bends around a bit at the sides, right? A great screen, amazing camera and Samsung’s new upscaled build make it among the best phones around at the moment. Despite the big screen it’s pretty easy to use too. Samsung Galaxy Note 5: First Impressions The new Samsung Galaxy Note 5 definitely brings some upgraded innards and slight updates to the UI compared to its predecessor. One of the most notable differences between the Galaxy Note 4 and Galaxy Note 5 in India has been the pricing. While the Galaxy Note 4 was launched last year starting at Rs. 61,500 (with the market price settling at around Rs. 58,500), the new Galaxy Note 5, on the other hand, starts at Rs. 53,900 for the 32GB model. The 64GB Galaxy Note 5 variant will be available at Rs. 59,900. Both will go on sale starting September 20 in India. Источник: Droid-Life EN→RU Phones like the Galaxy Note 5 make reviews very easy. As a daily driver, there is not much to complain about, with the exception of no microSD card slot and no removable battery – both of which came on the Galaxy Note 4. If you can live without those two things, which I sure can, the Galaxy Note 5 will treat you quite well. I will stick to my guns and claim that the Galaxy Note 5 is an easy pick for Phone of the Year currently, at least until we get our hands on upcoming Nexus devices and the Moto X Pure Edition. 90% Powerful Pen, All-Day Battery Although the Note 5 is no longer the premier Samsung flagship phone — that title now belongs to the curved S6 Edge Plus — this device still commands a budget-breaking $700 price tag. You could get the OnePlus 2 for considerably less, at $389, but the Note 5 boasts a much better display and longer battery life. Mobile professionals searching for a smartphone that works just as hard as they do have found their match in the Galaxy Note 5. 90% The sleek and gorgeous phablet never destined for the UK So, what do we think of the Galaxy Note 5? We’re very fond of just about every aspect of the Galaxy Note 5, from its curved and sleek design to its vibrant display and high-resolution camera. It can handle almost anything you can throw at it thanks to its CPU, GPU and 4GB of RAM and we experienced no lag during our testing. The only bad point is that the Note 5 would sometimes falsely detect the S Pen detaching – and to point out such a minor fault says a lot about the quality of the handset. With this being said, we’re both surprised and sad that the Galaxy Note 5 won’t be heading to UK shores any time soon. Рейтинг: Общий балл: 90% Производительность: 80% Оснащение: 80% Внешний вид: 90% So, there you have it for this in-depth look at the Samsung Galaxy Note 5! It’s hard not to look at the Galaxy Note 5 in comparison to what Samsung has offered in the past, because of the company’s decision to take quite a departure in design and hardware choices. This phone may not feel like a power user’s device anymore, and people who feel that way are completely validated in doing so. For those who expected more, this new iteration feels too much like the Galaxy S6 in terms of what features it leaves out. 80% Samsung Galaxy Note 5 (AT&T) For now, we'll call the Galaxy Note 5 our Editors' Choice for phablets on AT&T. It's the fastest large smartphone available, and the S Pen is still a uniquely differentiating feature. But if your dollar is important to you at all, I'd advise waiting to see how the rest of these new phablets look as they come out over the next few weeks. Источник: Hot Hardware EN→RU The octal-core Exynos 7420 at the heart of the Samsung Galaxy Note5 and S6 Edge+ isn’t brand new. It is the same SoC that powers the original Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge, so we had a good idea as to how the Note5 and Edge+ would perform. Samsung did make some tweaks on the software side, however, and also added additional memory to these devices (4GB vs. 3GB), so the overall experience and general performance is somewhat better with these new, larger devices. The Galaxy Note series has never been inexpensive. And now its aesthetics match the price, thanks to a glass back that feels excellent in two hands. Be careful of what you wish for, though. There's no microSD card slot or removable battery anymore. Power users can blame everyone who complained about the company's plastic-clad phones. Samsung Galaxy Note5 vs LG G4 All things considered, for most users, deciding between the Galaxy Note5 and the LG G4 would be a classic decision of either splurging on a device that's more expensive and able to do more than they actually need, or paying less for a device that seems to be less pretentious, but about as versatile in almost all cases. Whether the Note5 is worth the price premium is up to your individual tastes, needs, and financial situation, which is why we can't straight up recommend it as a better purchase than the LG G4. But if pure technological enthusiasm, or the need for stylus-driven mobile productivity are the motivating forces in your decision-making process, you will end up happier with the Note5. Samsung Galaxy Note5 vs Apple iPhone 6 Plus Years ago, it was rather pointless to directly compare the current iPhone generation with a Galaxy Note powerhouse. The two simply did not belong to the same device category. In 2015, however, we have the iPhone 6 Plus and the Galaxy Note5, which are clear and formidable opponents. But picking a favorite among the two could be tricky. The phablets are comparable in terms of display size and overall dimensions. Also, the latest Galaxy Note offering is about as attractive and well-designed as the iPhone 6 Plus. Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+ vs Google Nexus 6 It’s hard to get used to the crazy pace of innovation in the mobile space with so many new devices, but comparing the Galaxy S6 edge+ with the nearly year-old Nexus 6, the pace of innovation can be clearly felt. And we’re not talking just about the cool-looking edge screen - we consider this a neat little touch that required some serious display innovation, but its hard to say that it brings a ground-breaking change in usage. No, we’re talking about overall design and performance: the S6 edge+ has a much faster and consistently great camera, a significantly better, brighter and more power efficient AMOLED display, neat wireless charging option, a hugely improved thin and stylish design, a fast and reliable fingerprint scanner with the option for future use with Samsung Pay, and the list just goes on. Galaxy Note 5 review: A big phone finally grows up As I mused in a blog earlier this week, it really feels like the Note 5 is the true Samsung flagship of the year -- not just a bigger model of the Galaxy S6, but a more refined and complete version of the phone. It has all of the same high points as its smaller sibling -- the striking design and build quality, the awesome screen, the exceptional camera -- and it also introduces a more ergonomic curved-back design and a major improvement to battery life. And we can't forget about the stylus, which could range from being a massive positive to being an interesting little bonus, depending on your perspective. 90% Samsung’s best phone yet: the Galaxy Note 5 reviewed Источник: Gadgetguy EN→RU Even with the pointlessly low storage number, Samsung’s 2015 Note 5 phablet is easily the best phone the company has produced this year, as it just makes this long-running device perfect, except for that lack of space inside. It’s probably the best phone Samsung has ever made. It’s definitely the best phablet you can buy today. Рейтинг: Общий балл: 90% Стоимость: 90% Производительность: 90% Оснащение: 90% Портативность: 100% Внешний вид: 100% Samsung Galaxy Note5 vs Google Nexus 6 However, if one considers price, this difference is indeed reflected in the cost. The Google Nexus 6 has the advantage of having been on the market for nearly a year now, and this has brought a significant price drop: from an initial MSRP of $650, the phone is now officially sold for $500 (full retail price). The Samsung Galaxy Note5 looks like a costly device in comparison: it comes with an MSRP of $750, exactly 50% higher price than the Nexus 6. Put in simple terms, the Galaxy Note5 is clearly the superior phone in most aspects. But is a 50% difference in price justified? It’s up to your wallet to give a judgment about that. Samsung Galaxy Note5 vs Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+ Rather than going into detail about their pricing, we’ll just generalize it by saying that the Galaxy S6 edge+ carries a higher premium than the Note5. There might not be a huge disparity when breaking down their pricing on a fixed, monthly financing plan, but it’s undeniably profound when we look at their outright costs. In fact, the Galaxy S6 edge+, depending on which carrier you buy it from, is normally accompanied with an $80 increase over the Note5. Again, it’ll be different for each carrier, but that’s the cost we’re roughly looking at here. 91% Galaxy Note 5 review: a different breed of tablet killer Источник: Pocketnow EN→RU Fortunately for Samsung, it turns out that “a big Galaxy S6 with an S Pen” is also a pretty fantastic smartphone. The Galaxy Note 5 is a premium-built handheld with a jaw-dropping display, one of the best cameras available on a smartphone, and a stylus that finally brings enough real-world usefulness to make regular people notice. This is a product for a certain subset of those regular people, folks who don’t mind spending more money if it means a better experience … and the Note 5 delivers one of the best smartphone experiences out there. If you’re in the market for multiple devices and you’ve got a little room in your budget, ditch your plans to get a separate tablet and smartphone and get this instead. Рейтинг: Общий балл: 91% Производительность: 80% Оснащение: 93% Портативность: 60% Samsung Galaxy Note 5 review: Head of its class Источник: Gizmag EN→RU The consensus from other reviewers will likely be "wait to see what Apple has in store before buying the Galaxy Note 5." And if you're torn 50/50 between Apple's and Samsung's products, then that's great advice. But if you already liked older Galaxy Notes, then we don't see any reason to hesitate about this one. The Note 4 was one of our favorite smartphones of 2014, and the Note 5 just jumped to the top of our 2015 list. 80% The best big phone just got better Источник: Engadget EN→RU Samsung has another world-class performer in the Note 5, and unlike its cousin, the S6 Edge+, it has more going for it than just looks. The Note still can't completely mimic the feel of pen and paper, but it's getting closer than you might expect. Throw in some high-powered internals and a tremendous screen and you've got a Note that refines the phablet formula in almost all the right ways. Рейтинг: Общий балл: 80% Качество экрана: 90% Портативность: 80% 90% Galaxy Note 5 Review: Powerful Pen, All-Day Battery When I heard the initial specs for the Samsung Galaxy Note 5, I derisively dubbed it the Note 4.5. I thought Samsung hadn't gone far enough with upgrades and new features. However, I quickly became a convert as I lovingly caressed the smooth glass, and live-streamed video of my dog. And it took much less time for me to create a slew of to-dos, reminders and save-for-laters with the S Pen's new Screen-Off memo feature. Samsung Galaxy Note5 vs Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Although members of the one and the same product family, the two phablets are both extremely similar and noticeably different from each other simultaneously. While the Note 4 can be safely viewed as one of the most feature-rich phones Samsung has made to date, the Note5 is going down a different, more design-oriented path. With “form over function” kicking in inside Samsung's camp, the Note 4 could be regarded as the last great dinosaur of a dying era. 90% Galaxy Note 5 review: Continuing Samsung's reign as the King of Phablets Источник: PC World EN→RU I enjoyed the last two generations of Samsung’s Note phablet and I gave them both high scores, but I’m giving the Galaxy Note 5 a slightly higher score because it’s absolutely everything you want out of a smartphone: a fantastic camera, a productivity device, a sketchbook, a digital scrapbook, a boom box, and a portable gaming console. If you’re going to spend gobs of money for the most premium smartphone out there, it’s gotta be completely worth your while, and the Galaxy Note 5 is totally worth it. Good news is, if you're of the stylus mindset then the S Pen delivers more on the Note 5 than in any prior generation. The tweaks are, in and of themselves, fairly small, but they add up to a much more usable experience that - with features like PDF annotation - address legitimate and common complaints among power users. The great camera, solid battery life, and incredible display only gild the Note 5's core talents. 90% Continuing Samsung's reign as the King of Phablets Источник: Greenbot EN→RU I enjoyed the last two generations of Samsung’s Note phablet and I gave them both high scores, but I’m giving the Galaxy Note 5 a slightly higher score because it’s absolutely everything you want out of a smartphone: a fantastic camera, a productivity device, a sketchbook, a digital scrapbook, a boom box, and a portable gaming console. If you’re going to spend gobs of money for the most premium smartphone out there, it’s gotta be completely worth your while, and the Galaxy Note 5 is totally worth it. If Samsung would only cut back on the heavy-handed TouchWiz interface changes and bloatware, it could easily score 5 stars. Samsung Galaxy Note5 review Samsung Galaxy Note5 is the best looking iteration of the phablet to date. In line with the Samsung Galaxy Note tradition, the latest generation is also the most powerful phablet available today by quite a margin. The S Pen once again defines the Samsung Galaxy Note5 as a product. As expected, the newcomer's stylus is better than ever with new tricks to go with its clickable release mechanism. Источник: BGR EN→RU The reason I have always liked the Galaxy Note series of phones more than most other phablets is simple: Notes are gigantic, but there’s a reason for their size. Samsung’s Galaxy Note 5 isn’t just big for the sake of being big, it includes a wide range of features that put its size to good use. We’ve dissected every part of the Samsung Galaxy Note5, and not surprisingly, it’s still an incredibly advanced device that’s untested in the phablet space. Performance alone proves that it’s every bit capable of tangling with the other handful of heavy handed phones that have been announced so far for the upcoming holiday season. From a specs sheet aspect, the Note5 has all the internals to make it a formidable thing to choose over the competition – more so when its S Pen features add to the overall experience; you don’t get that on other phones. Samsung Galaxy Note 5 hands-on: Classy evolution but no UK launch currently planned It's funny saying that a Note device is the more conventional option considering Samsung almost single-handedly created the phablet category with the first one, but in direct comparison that's how it racks up. And that's most likely why the UK market will get a staggered release approach. Samsung Galaxy Note 5 hands-on review With the Galaxy Note 5, Samsung has built on the Galaxy S6, which has been the number one phone in our Top Ten list of smartphones for months now, and have made one of the best phablets ever. It delivers on almost every front: looks, feel, quality, features, and performance, and we have no doubt a full review will only serve to reinforce these initial findings. The same but much better The Samsung Galaxy Note 5 has one fatal flaw: it won't be coming to the UK, at least, not any time soon. That seems to be a damning indictment on the way the British public views the slightly confusing S Pen, and would rather have the large simplicity of the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge+ if they're going to spend a huge wedge of cash on a phablet. Источник: Ubergizmo English EN→RU I used to think of the Galaxy Note as “the” pen-enabled, large-display, large-battery capacity phone. The Note 5 design is very neat, but it did remove the large-battery capacity of the equation. That said, the Note 5 is easily the best large-display phone on the market, and certainly the best large-display Android phone. The excellent pen user experience is really a bonus on top of that. Samsung Galaxy Note5 and S6 edge+ hands-on When we said Samsung rushed the launch of the Galaxy Note5, you may have thought it was somehow unfinished. It certainly doesn't appear to be so at this point, instead it's the carefully thought out upgrade we're used to seeing from Samsung. Sure, it has lost a few of its productivity features, and we'll be hearing a lot about its battery. The comments section was barely beginning to accept that it won't be user-replaceable, as the rumored 4,100mAh capacity was enough to shake battery anxiety away. The actual capacity is nowhere nearly as impressive and the 3,000mAh number is less than even the Note II. Một tuần với Galaxy Note 5: Vẫn còn quá ngon sao lại quên lãng? Exynos 7420: Производительный процессор для смартфонов и планшетов с 8 процессорными ядрами и поддержкой 64-битных вычислений. Устройства с таким же графическим ускорителем Mali-T760 MP8, Exynos Exynos 7420, 5.10", 0.15 kg Adreno 650, Snapdragon SD 865, 6.50", 0.19 kg Mali-G52 MP2, Exynos 850, 6.50", 0.192 kg Mali-G52 MP2, Mediatek Helio P65, 6.40", 0.185 kg > Обзоры Ноутбуков, Смартфонов, Планшетов. Тесты и Новости > Библиотека > Samsung Galaxy Note 5 SM-N920A	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line2067
__label__cc	0.586968	0.413032	The physical world: quantum This album examines the revolution in scientific thinking that overthrew classical physics in favour of quantum physics. Called the crown of the twentieth century, quantum mechanics is a blueprint for how everything behaves on an atomic level. Seven video tracks presented by Robert Llewellyn offer a beginner's guide to quantum. He revisits the battle of ideas fought between Einstein and Bohr, explains the importance of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Thought Experiment, and looks to the future of q Author(s): The iTunes U team The History of Soccer Soccer, as we know it today, originated in England in the mid-nineteenth century. WatchMojo speaks with soccer writer and enthusiast John Doyle about the history of this wildly popular sport. (03:02) The EU-15/25 is a large and prosperous player on the world economic stage. 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__label__wiki	0.979292	0.979292	JETS' ASCENT CONTINUES WITH VICTORY DETROIT -- The New York Jets are beginning to emerge from the huge hole they dug for themselves. Chad Pennington threw a career-high four touchdowns -- two to Wayne Chrebet -- as the Jets scored the last 18 points to beat the Detroit Lions 31-14 Sunday. The Jets (5-5) have won three straight and four of five to save their season after a 1-4 start. NEW YORK STORY LINE Since 1997, the Jets have won an NFL-best 27 games on the road and are 9-3 as visitors under Coach Herman Edwards, who does not want his team to be content with its turnaround. The Lions (3-7) had won three in a row at Ford Field and four straight against the Jets. New York led 13-0 after its first two possessions but fell behind 14-13 midway through the third quarter after Joey Harrington threw touchdown passes of 37 and 7 yards to Bill Schroeder. DETROIT STORY LINE James Stewart ran for 93 yards -- but just 8 in the second half -- against the Jets after they had limited running backs to 60 yards or less in the previous four games. Schroeder caught three passes for 57 yards and two scores after being sharply criticized for his play. Detroit drove to the Jets 4 on the opening possession, but linebacker Marvin Jones ended the drive with a diving interception in the end zone. The Jets went ahead for good late in the third quarter on Pennington's second scoring pass to Chrebet on third down from the 4. The play capped a 66-yard, 12-play drive after New York gained just 45 yards on its previous four possessions. Laveranues Coles, completely uncovered, caught the 2-point conversion to give New York a 21-14 lead. John Hall's 22-yard kick on the Jets' next possession made it 24-14, and a 1-yard pass to Anthony Becht made it a blowout. SUNDAY'S SURPRISE Pennington, an unheralded third-year pro, outshined rookie Harrington in a duel of promising young quarterbacks. Pennington was 21-of-26 for 229 yards with one interception. Harrington was 15-of-30 for 171 yards with two scores and one interception. 114: Yards receiving by Coles, who caught seven passes. 112: Yards rushing by Curtis Martin on 22 carries. INJURIES OF NOTE Detroit receiver Az-Zahir Hakim will miss the rest of the season after dislocating and fracturing his left hip. Defensive end Robert Porcher left the game with a hyperextended right knee, and defensive tackle Luther Elliss sprained an ankle. POST-GAME CHAT "The big thing a month ago was to get back to .500 as soon as possible, and hopefully we would have enough games left to make a run for the playoffs." -- Chrebet The Jets could be this year's Patriots, or this year's Jets. Marvin Jones (football, wide receiver)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line2074
__label__wiki	0.894104	0.894104	Kurio City Book Classifieds Covering Goa since 1963 Home Opinion Editorial Loyalty as Eligibility For Important Chairs Loyalty as Eligibility For Important Chairs Navhind Times The students of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) continue to protest the appointment of Gajendra Chauhan as the institute chairman, and people will sympathize with their resistance. Chauhan has no credentials as a film worker: all he has to show was his acting role as Yudhisthir in B R Chopra’s Mahabharat on television in the ‘80s and his affiliation with the BJP. FTII is the most prestigious training institute for all disciplines of the film art; its chairmen have included eminent film makers Shyam Benegal, Adoor Gopalkrishnan and Girish Karnad. The idea of the BJP-led government in appointing Chauhan seems to be to use him to ‘purge’ FTII of ‘non-nationalist’ influences and elements. In that sense he is sort of a Dolores Jane Umbridge, the tyrannical ‘High Inquisitor’ and headmistress of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the Harry Potter series: a government employee with zero teaching experience and no idea about education appointed as a government spy in the magic school so as to keep its students and faculty on a tight leash. Chauhan has been rewarded for loyalty to BJP, just as Pahlaj Nihalani, who was appointed as the censor board chief after Leela Samson quit citing “interference and coercion” by the Modi government, was. Nihalani is least likely to be remembered for the films he made, which include B-grade potpourri Shola aur Shabnam and Aag ka Gola. The top on the list of Nihalani’s eligibility criteria was his open support to the BJP and his fulsome praise of Prime Minister Narendra Modi soon after he took over. Nihalani told anyone who cared to hear that he saw Modi as his action hero and was proud to be a BJP person. The NDA government also nominated Telugu actress Jeevitha Rajashekar on the censor board. Jeevitha is BJP’s spokesperson in Telangana and released a song singing hymns of Modi during the last Lok Sabha elections. The list of appointments to key posts in artistic, cultural and educational institutions largely on grounds of the person’s close association with the BJP and RSS has been growing. Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani has been making appointments on that basis in several institutions. V R Jamdar has been placed as the head of Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur; Baldev Sharma, former editor of RSS mouthpiece Panchajanya, as the chairman of National Book Trust; Professor Inder Mohan Kapahy as a member of the University Grants Commission (UGC); and so on. One of the first such appointees was Y Sudershan Rao as the chairperson of the Indian Council for Historical Research (ICHR). The purpose of appointing Rao was very explicit: the RSS and BJP have a plan to ‘rewrite’ the ‘distorted’ accounts of history that ‘leftist’ historians have been writing about India past and present. The leftists, in their view, have also been sceptical about the many claims of the ‘glorious achievements’ of India in various sciences. Now, that is not true. The so-called leftist and liberal historians and scholars of India have noted the several ideas in astronomy, mathematics and other fields that originated in India and are as much proud of them as the ‘nationalist’ historians and scholars. It is utterly unjust to portray the leftist and liberal scholars as the upholders of the colonial mindset. They are as much nationalist as the nationalist scholars. The only difference is that they try to judge materials on the basis of facts. Belief and faith are something that may hold good for religion or emotional relationship. To depend on them in scientific research can be illusory and misleading. If the ruling party goes on appointing a Chauhan or a Nihalani or a Rao to the exclusion of persons of better credentials they may have well rewarded their loyalists but the institutions headed by them would become poorer. A glaring example of such foolhardy attitude is the case of the NDA government delaying renewal of the contract of Nobel laureate Amartya Sen for chancellorship of Nalanda University for a second term, although the governing board unanimously recommended it. In a letter to the board written with a “heavy heart,” Sen noted it was “hard for him not to conclude that the government” wanted him to “cease” being chancellor. Academics in the country remain “deeply vulnerable to the opinions of the ruling government,” Sen observed. Is Amartya Sen not proud of being an Indian? Is he not proud of the glorious achievements of India past and present? Was he not using his renown and scholarship to restore the old glory of Nalanda by involving presidents, prime ministers and universities of Southeast Asia? The BJP should not become talent-blind in its partisan zeal. Previous articlePM, FM must come clean on ‘Modigate’: Digvijay Next articleLETTERS TO THE EDITOR https://www.navhindtimes.in/nt A Dishonourable Exit Growth Without Ethics Reprieve for Centre © Navhind Papers & Publications, Navhind Bhavan, Rua Ismael Gracias, Panaji, Goa 403516. \| Privacy Policy	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line2075
__label__wiki	0.909708	0.909708	Virginia’s McAuliffe to make gubernatorial bid official Former Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe expected to announce bid to get his old job back. (FILE) By Associated Press \| December 8, 2020 at 8:10 PM EST - Updated December 8 at 8:21 PM RICHMOND, Va. (WVIR) - Terry McAuliffe is apparently trying to get his old job back. The former Virginia governor is set to announce a formal bid for governor Wednesday morning at an elementary school in Richmond. That is according to a McAuliffe aide who was not authorized to speak publicly about the campaign. McAuliffe, once best known as a top Democratic money man and close friend of Bill and Hillary Clinton’s, will enter an already crowded Democratic primary. McAuliffe served as Virginia’s 72nd Governor for one four-year term from 2014 to 2018. Virginia law does not allow consecutive terms, but former governors can run for another term in a future election. The governor’s race in Virginia will be one of the country’s marquee political contests next year, serving as a barometer of the public mood during President-elect Joe Biden’s first year in office. NBC29 plans to speak with McAuliffe Wednesday. Former Virginia Governor @TerryMcAuliffe to announce run for governor at Miles Jones Elementary School in Richmond tomorrow. Catch my interview with him on @NBC29 tomorrow evening. — Daniel Grimes (@dnlgrimes) December 9, 2020 The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line2076
__label__cc	0.659155	0.340845	One incredible woman A year ago today I was at Westminster Abbey for a service of celebration and hope, organised by a very normal but one incredible woman in this whole wide world who has been inspiring me for years and continues to do so. As a mother she lost her twin sons to addiction, both coming back before one sadly took his life. She wrote “Mum, can you lend me twenty quid” which was adapted as a play and was as every bit as gritty as the book. Actually more so. To see Elizabeth’s life played out on stage was hard hitting and impactive. DrugFam the charity was started and last year was awarded the Queen’s Award, the highest honour a charity can receive. The service at Westminster Abbey was uplifting, emotional, inspiring and inclusive. Some months later an envelope arrived from 10 Downing Street and I gladly accepted the PM’s invitation to a reception to celebrate the charity’s achievement. A few days later Mrs B-P became Mrs B-P MBE, which could justifiably be Most Brilliant Elizabeth. Earlier this year Elizabeth asked me if I would be an Ambassador. Of course I cried and accepted. I love this brave, courageous and inspiring lady with a heart of gold, a superb sense of humour and a very cheeky smile. To be asked to be an Ambassador means so much to me and it’s all thanks to Elizabeth Burton-Phillips.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line2079
__label__wiki	0.607001	0.607001	The opposite of fear and hate is courage and love. Manchester Arena Attack: ParentFolk thoughts. (Words By Laura Garner) I’m sure we all had ‘that’ moment yesterday. The moment where we hugged our kids and thanked the moon and stars they were not at the Mancester Arena on Monday night. I’m sure within that moment we also squeezed our eyes tight and thought of the utter horror and sheer disbelief, grief and torment of the families affected by the terror attack in Manchester. We have all at some point, I’m sure, either attended ourselves or taken an excited pre-teen to a concert at this iconic venue (the second largest concert venue in Europe as reported by the BBC). My first ever concert was at just nine years old, poignantly at the Manchester Arena, with a group of my best friends from primary school. It was 1994 and we were watching 911. Not only were we travelling to the bright lights of the city from a small village outside of Chester (Backford) but we also were getting a chance to watch our pop idols on stage, wearing every bit of merchandise we had collected throughout their glorious reign over the air waves. They were the stars, we were the fans, Manchester Arena was the venue. Fast forward nearly 25 years and I’m on the other side of the fanzone (parent side). It was such a pleasure as I watched so many friends take their children to watch X Factor winners and all round girly supergroup Little Mix at the inaugural Wirral Live over the weekend. What fun they had tying their hair in cosmic buns and sporting the latest denim jackets emblazoned with gems and band t-shirts covered in glitter. It was enchanting thinking they were feeling those same emotions, that excitement that I once felt all those years ago. And so to Manchester, where so many children, pre-teens, parents and music fans descended onto the Manchester Arena to watch their idols. To sing, to dance, to laugh and enjoy the music of 2017’s pop idol du jour, Ariana Grande. Bunny ears, pink balloons, empowering lyrics and the atmosphere filling the auditorium space with such enigmatic energy. And then, barbarism in its most wicked, inhumane form. Lives lost, childhoods destroyed, families shattered, dark memories solidified in one cruel senseless act. The terror described by those who were there, the images across our TV screens, and the raw and emotional media interviews will stay imprinted on our minds. Yesterday morning Sir Richard Leese, leader of Manchester City Council said Manchester is “ a proud, strong city and we will not allow terrorists who seek to sow fear and division to achieve their aims”. So, if like us you are faced with talking to your children about the atrocities that occurred in Manchester, may we speak more of love than of hate, more about community than about division. Let’s share with them the brave stories of those who offered first aid to the injured inside the venue, of the free rooms and free taxi rides home offered by local businesses, the water and cups of Manchester tea that were offered by residents close by, about the community solidarity shown at last nights Manchester vigil. Mostly lets speak of the way in which the city pulled together to show it’s support in what Greater Manchester Police have described as its ‘darkest hour in recent history’. We can’t stop going to concerts, neither can we nor should we stop riding the Underground, travelling by plane or living our way of life. We are British and yes ‘keep calm and carry on’ is at our core, it’s what we do, it’s in our DNA. Now is the time to be brave, to stand strong and to unite as we always do, especially in challenging and uncertain times like these. There are little eyes looking to us as parents for reassurance that life as they know it will carry on – and it will. Words By Laura Garner. A minute’s silence will be held tomorrow (Thursday 25th May) at 11am. A JustGiving page has been set up to support families of those killed and injured in the Manchester Arena attack. You can donate here NSPCC have published advice to help parents to talk to children about terrorism: https://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/keeping-children-safe/talking-about-difficult-topics/ Manchester, Manchester Arena, Manchester Attack, NSPCC, Stand Together, talking to children, Talking to your kids Mother’s Day Edit: Ways to say Thank You. Build United: Legoland Discovery Manchester & Manchester United team up for Half Term Eat fresh: Where to try the season’s best new menus	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line2083
__label__wiki	0.726518	0.726518	I'm about a dozen battles in and I still don't know why Total War: Arena exists By Tom Senior 28 March 2018 How much fun can you really have controlling one tenth of an army? Total War: Arena a free-to-play online RTS built around 10 vs 10 battles, in which each player controls three units. It's less of a shambles than 20 players pushing 60 units around a single map ought to be, but it is still quite a shambles, and one mired in a ponderous progression system borrowed from World of Tanks. I love a bit of Total War, but it's impossible to escape the sense that this one should have stayed on the 'mad ideas' whiteboard. Your mission is to cap your enemy's base at the other end of the map. Between each base there are smaller points that you can take to peel back the fog of war. The terrain is rich. Elevation shifts and blocking walls create choke points. Forests hide units, low walls can be garrisoned and racks of wooden stakes deter charges. Before battle you pick a commander to unlock abilities for your troops. Germanicus can order infantry units to lock shields and adopt Testudo formation to ward off ranged fire, while Caeser's upgrades boost allied units' defense and attack damage. Ah, Julius Caesar: one of history's great supports. As your commander slowly levels up you can use Free XP earned in battle, or paid-for Gold, to unlock new commanders and units. You can mix and match your trio to incorporate close combat fighters, long-range fighters with bows or javelins, and artillery. In battle you ideally want to manoeuvre alongside other players so your lone trio of units doesn't get immediately chewed up. Across the course of a 10-15 minute conflict, though, there's little opportunity for communication, particularly when you come into contact with the enemy and need to activate each unit's special abilities to throw javelins, switch formation or make a charge. Map pings help players to spot artillery and incoming forces, but I spent most of my time trying to second guess whether nearby allies wanted to push forward, fall back or, often, just stand there and wait for the enemy to turn up. Battles are short, but even so there is some waiting around, especially if you decide you want to take some ranged units and lock down key roads, or just defend the base. Plus if your units are all wiped out you can't use your commander again until the battle is over. I found myself alt-tabbing out to do something else while my dead commander lay on the battlefield waiting for someone to finally capture the damn winning point. In the open beta the starting commanders for the Barbarian, Roman and Greek factions are available, but it's unsatisfying to have to shift down to a low-level commander. I found myself alt-tabbing out to do something else while my dead commander lay on the battlefield waiting for someone to finally capture the damn winning point. If I wasn't playing the game for this write-up I would have just walked away forever. There are a few things to admire about Arena. It works smoothly on a technical level, which is neat considering how many players there are in a battle. It looks as though the game is built out of an earlier iteration of the Total War battle engine, but the maps in particular look great and it runs well. The UI is good too. Unit outlines help you to clearly pick your warriors out from a massive scrum. Massive icons pop up over enemies you've routed or destroyed to deliver a little 'well done!' dopamine hit. The units feel more responsive than I've come to expect from Total War battles. In Arena you can disengage with relative ease and your troops are quick enough to respond to the sudden appearance of a bunch of new enemy units at a treeline. At this stage in the open beta ranged fire and artillery seem particularly brutal, however. You can do your best to absorb charges and flank enemies in short range engagements, but there's nothing you can do about a catapult in a forest some distance away, except ping it and hope that one of your nearby teammates cares enough to help you out. This frustration aside, Arena has a bigger problem. Putting so many players in a Total War battle doesn't add much to the experience, except for plenty of confusion, and to achieve this the design has to strip out almost everything that makes Total War special. Total War is about two things: running an empire on the strategic map level, and being a general on the tactical level. Arena replaces the strategic layer with a sluggish progression system that wants your money, and then slims down your command to a nippy little battalion that can't get much done on its own. Total War could be great in multiplayer, and I hoped that Shogun 2's system would take off more than it did, but though well-made, Arena hasn't nailed that promise yet. Tom Senior Based in Bath with the UK team, Tom loves strategy games, action RPGs, hack ‘n slash games, digital card games… basically anything that he can fit on a hard drive. His final boss form is Deckard Cain.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line2089
__label__cc	0.52343	0.47657	Publishers of technology books, eBooks, and videos for creative people Share on twitter Share on facebook Share on email✉ Register your product to gain access to bonus material or receive a coupon. 3ds max 6 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide By Michele Matossian Published Mar 11, 2004 by Peachpit Press. Part of the Visual QuickStart Guide series. This product currently is not for sale. Dimensions: Special (all other) ISBN-10: 0-7357-1391-X The most efficient, affordable, must-have guide to the leading 3D modeling and animation application for Windows. It covers all of the new features in the latest version, 3ds max 6. This popular format functions as a tool for learning 3D modeling, animation, and rendering, and as a handy reference. With 3ds max 6, illustrators, animators, game designers, and special effects designers can create and animate dazzling, highly realistic 3D graphics such as those seen in summer blockbusters like Minority Report and Spider-Man. That's one reason so many art schools offer 3ds max training to aspiring professionals. The complex interface and powerful technology underlying 3D animation and modeling software can be intimidating to newcomers, but the 3ds max 6 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide breaks the process down into manageable tasks to remove the fear factor. The amply illustrated, task-based format also makes the book an invaluable reference for experienced users upgrading to the new version. This is an efficient but authoritative guide. After a thorough introduction to the program's interface, navigation, and display tools, the book gets to the real heart of this QuickStart Guide: modeling and transforming objects, surface mapping, 3D rendering and animations. 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__label__cc	0.742445	0.257555	TWR with Aida Salazar: A Virtual Success This fall, we were joined by wonderful interns who each wrote about an experience at an author visit that impacted them. We are thrilled to present this essay by Isabel Callahan and Melissa Young, our Literary Outreach/Education Programs interns. You can also read Melissa’s essay on Mark Oshiro’s visit here. “So you basically like poetry because you can feel what it’s saying?” As the sixth grader spoke—one of thirteen students in the class—award-winning children’s and young adult author Aida Salazar lit up. “Yes! Exactly!” she exclaimed. Aida was this fall’s featured author for Together We Read (TWR). A multi-school book club, TWR provides Washington, D.C. students with the opportunity to come together and celebrate their love of reading by engaging in writing activities and an author conversation. Though the program this fall was virtual, the concept was the same: invite students to read The Land of the Cranes by Aida Salazar; ask them to participate in related writing workshops; and then engage them in intimate dialogue with Aida herself. A poignant novel-in-verse, The Land of the Cranes tells the story of Betita Quintero, a young Latina girl who is separated from her father and placed in an immigration detention center with her pregnant mother. While fictional in detail, the book is inspired by Aida’s own experiences as a young, undocumented immigrant, living in constant fear of la migra (immigration police). The book also pulls inspiration from current immigration injustices in the United States, with families being detained at the border and children being separated from their parents. The novel uses sensory language to convey the range of emotions Betita experiences while living in the detention center. Inspired by Aida’s use of sensory language, this year’s TWR writing workshops focused on the five senses. Students first immersed themselves in a specific memory. “What sounds do you hear? What do you smell?” Then, students wrote a poem based on the sensory details of the memory and hand-picked favorite lines from their poems to share with the class. “It tastes and smells like victory,” one student shared. “I hear the crunch of dried leaves,” said another. Each class worked together to create a class poem featuring their individually chosen line, which was later combined into a single, multi-school, collaborative poem, featured below. A few days later, the students gathered again virtually to meet Aida. She began each of the sessions by showing a book trailer for The Land of the Cranes, reinforcing the themes and characters of the novel. This also helped students understand some of the more difficult subjects covered in her book, such as families being separated from one another in the process of immigration. Aida then answered a variety of student questions. Students were curious about her life, asking if she was from Mexico and in which part of California she lives. Others asked about the process of writing and publishing The Land of the Cranes: “Why did you write your book in English and Spanish?,” “Was Betita related to you in some kind of way?,” and “Did you draw [the front cover]?” Students did not shy away from posing deeper questions as well, probing into whether she put any of herself in the book and how she felt while writing it. As the sessions went on, one thing became clear: the magic of poetry speaks to us all. Listening to Aida speak about her life, the purposes writing serves are evident: Writing can help us work through our grief, as it did for Aida after her sister died. Writing can amplify the stories of those who might not feel seen in literature, as it did for Aida’s children. She began writing children’s books so that her children could “see themselves as the main characters.” Writing can also serve a broader purpose, bringing attention to issues that desperately need it. “Even though it’s hard, you have the power as a writer and a person in the world to write down how you feel,” Aida says. “Keep writing, because we need your stories.” Reading and writing are shared experiences because they are means of connecting people. While togetherness can be thought of as sharing in a physical space, it can also be thought of as joining together in any kind of space—in mutual interest and feeling. While this fall’s Together We Read might not have been in-person, its name still rings true: across bi-coastal time zones and geographic space, we were still together, a thread of words connecting us all. A Collaborative Poem by Students from West Education Campus, CHEC/Lincoln Middle School, and Cardozo Education Campus It’s cold outside and I see people with coats and scarves. I reach for the falling snowflakes. The snow feels light like a feather. It tastes bland and watery. It tastes like winter. I reach for my hot chocolate. It feels hot and warms my hands. It tastes like winter, too. Winter. I hear the snow dropping from the sky. I see a white plate with three cookies and it reminds me of Christmas. Quiet. I hear footsteps. Quiet. I hear the kids laughing as they play in the snow. It’s night. I can hear no noise. Everybody’s sleeping. It’s quiet and I hear the wind breezing by. I see a pink plate with pancakes and bacon, Watching as my plate breaks and my pancakes fly. I eat a burnt piece of bacon. Spring. It tastes and smells like victory. I was wearing a summer dress and my party was in the yard. I looked up and saw how beautiful all the stars were. I hear laughter and smiling friends. “Let’s go eat some caviar,” they say. I reach for a piece of cake. It is fluffy and warm. Summer. It smells like lavender, Like books and a hint of lemon. It tastes cold and refreshing. I see shooting stars. It’s two AM and I hear a noise. Quiet. I hear my brother snoring. “Let’s go break the law,” I think. Fall. It’s rough and smooth at the same time. I hear the crunch of dried leaves. Dogs weeping. I reach for—	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line2091
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No, I’m not talking about the content of the final season of Game of Thrones but rather the fan reaction to it. It’s been one whole year since the six-episode eighth season of HBO’s huge fantasy series came to an end and, in some ways, it feels like it’s been at least five. The vast outpouring of hate and disappointment has tainted the once adored series forever and it feels as if this gloom in the fandom has been around for much longer. It’s hard to believe that just a little over 12 months ago there were legions of positive fans anticipating the final episodes and naming the series one of the greatest to ever grace the screen. It’s been difficult to think about Game of Thrones without being washed up in the extreme negativity and I found watching the final episodes when they first aired to be an interesting but complicated affair. I think it’s undeniably the weakest instalment of the show but is it really that bad? The are problems at the very core of the season but does the quality really nosedive such a drastic amount? For the next six weeks, exactly one year after their first airing, I’ll be revisiting each episode of Game of Thrones’ final season away from the hubbub of the ever angry fanbase to see if the season is worthy of its infamous reputation, starting with the premiere ‘Winterfell’. Upon rewatch I was shocked to find that the first episode of this odious season is in fact fairly unremarkable. Not in a way that indicates the potentially vapid and unsatisfying nature of the season, a thing that heralds the upcoming disarray, but quite the opposite in fact. It’s an unremarkable episode in the same way most Game of Thrones premieres are unremarkable. For the most part, it’s table setting. The laying out of the board on which the pieces will begin to move in the coming episodes. As we all were last year, if you came to this episode not knowing the reaction to the season, you’d think nothing of the instalment other than just how in-line it is to the series up to this point. There are issues with the episode to be sure but also genuinely great moments, and is only slightly weaker to the premieres of previous seasons. Although, for a final season consisting of only six episodes and a vast amount of characters seeking closure, keeping with the slow feel of old might be a problem itself. The episode opens with a young boy racing to the Kingsroad at the entrance of the titular Winterfell, hoping to catch a glimpse at not only the ‘King in the North’ but also of the ‘Mother of Dragons’ and her exotic army arriving. It brings to mind the scenes from the pilot episode of Bran running across rooftops and King Robert’s procession arriving to enlist Ned Stark, offering a nice bookend to the series. It also reminds us that no matter how familiar we the audience become with these characters, to the smallfolk of Westeros they’re almost mythic figures to behold, and throughout the season to love, hate and fear. It’s a good reintroduction of the characters as so many of them come under one roof for the first time in this previously sprawling series. Daenerys and her faction are introduced to the remaining Starks and the Northerners are reunited. At one point during the alternating tense/heart-warming pleasantries, Bran remarks “We don’t have time for all this”. Well, apparently, we do. Instead of moving the plot forward by any substantial degree, ‘Winterfell’ instead chooses to focus on the characters and the episode is full of reunions. And side-eye. At one point even a dragon gives Jon some side-eye. Despite taking this episode slow in a season which will become ludicrously fast-paced, sometimes it seems as if important scenes between characters with a rich shared narrative have been relegated to merely meaningful glances across a courtyard in the interest of time. Even some of the reunions feel a little condensed. Arya reunites with both The Hound and Gendry in one scene for the sake of time. After not seeing each other since the fourth season, I would have liked more between Sandor and Arya, but we’ll get that in later episodes. I’m almost surprised they didn’t have her reunite with Jon in the same scene. Just one big group hug and move on. The Jon and Arya reunion we get is very effective and probably one of the best scenes of the season. Seeing both of these characters who have been inexorably hardened by their journeys suddenly soften in this tender scene is wonderful and, despite the weight of the past seven seasons, they feel like those young characters we met in the first season. Having them compare swords was a nice touch and the scene works much better than the Sansa/Jon reunion in season 6 because these characters actually have an onscreen history. The scene even has a nice bit of foreshadowing with Arya being able to sneak up on Jon in the middle of the Godswood without him seeing paying off – or at least returning – in a pivotal moment during the third episode. Jon really is the star the premiere and, as I remember, the season as a whole too. I remember Daenerys’ arc taking some leaps but Jon’s having a much clearer through line, although I guess I’ll see how true that reverie is as I continue to watch and review the season. However, I’m confident in saying that the first episode deals with Jon’s struggles very well, being ably scripted by Dave Hill. He has to face the consequences of relinquishing his title of ‘King in the North’ before finding out he’s the heir not only to the North but the entire Seven Kingdoms; a revelation that pits him against his family and his lover/Queen. The relationship between Jon and Daenerys works well enough because of the conflict and intrigue it presents but the issue from last season remains that they fell in love unbelievably quickly and it sours many of their moments together. Despite the shaky foundations on which the relationship is built, I very much enjoy the scene in which Dany and Jon ride her dragons above the frozen wilderness. It feels like a scene from some old western epic. The cowboy falling in love with a woman while they ride and race horses, but here we get the extreme fantasy version with dragons and kings and queens. The following scene by the waterfall is one of the aforementioned that fall flat because of the rushed nature of their supposed love for each other. At one point, Daenerys tells Jon that Sansa doesn’t like her and he replies, “She doesn’t know you”. Neither do you Jon! And while we’re discussing Jon, I’ll say that I was disappointed that we didn’t get to see his full reaction to learning the Wall has fallen. The structure he has dedicated so much of life to (and given his life for) and the destruction of which spells almost certain doom for the realm and all we get is him hearing the news before looking at Sansa to see if it’s true – we spend more time on her face than his – and then we immediately cut to the next scene. Some discussion or emotional reaction would have been nice. Not all the reunions and character meetings are quite so jolly as Jon and Arya’s scene however, this is Game of Thrones after all. After years of seeing these characters rise in power, it’s fascinating to see them all collide and try to maintain everything they have gained. The friction between houses, like the Starks unwilling to bend the knee to Daenerys, and even friction within houses, with Jon and Sansa having different ideas for how to secure the North’s future, is intriguing and for a season that will amp up the scale in terms of action, it’s nice to take some time and focus on character dynamics. Dany in particular just doesn’t fit in this cold wintery setting and despite the presence of her forces, its clear she’s unwelcome. After years of seeing her in deserts and mesas, it’s bizarre to see her in the snow and it’s antithetical to her nature. She doesn’t belong there, like a naked flame surrounded by ice. Her presence is melting what is around her only for the meltwater to then threaten to extinguish the flame. The episode also offers a fun bit of foreshadowing: Daenerys doesn’t just smile when she sees her dragons overheard but instead smiles at the fear the common folk show towards them. A scene I feel conflicted about is that between the advisers of the two core monarchs in which Tyrion, Davos and Varys walk the city wall and look over the preparations being taken for the coming battle, while also spying on Jon and Dany. Where once these scenes, such as those involving the small council, felt like the true machinations of power, that these were the actual people in control, now feel simply like a running commentary. The kings and queens are in control not only of Westeros and their followers, but of the plot too like never before. The side characters, for as snappy as their dialogue and interplay is, feel somewhat meaningless, at least at this stage. All the drama is between the major players and the supporting cast do little but watch on. It’s Sam who manages to transcend his almost irrelevant status and not only gets to be the one to finally report Jon’s true heritage but also John Bradley’s performance in the scene in which he learns Dany executed his father and brother is exceptional. It’s a fantastic scene packed with consequences and while Jorah is a character relegated to meaningful glances, his looks over to Sam during that discussion are heart-breaking. While events in the North take up most of the running time, we do briefly travel south to King’s Landing to check in with Cersei and her band of supporting characters. I recall Cersei surprisingly and frustratingly being a nonentity this season and while I think that remains true and her season overall is quite poor, I do like what we see of her in this premiere episode. It feels like she reached the end of her arc in season 6 and we’ve been waiting for the rest of the plots to catch up in order for her inevitable downfall to take place, and in an almost meta way that’s what works for me in this episode. She’s finally obtained ultimate power so what now? Well, nothing. Not only is she annoyed at the lack of elephants among the ranks of the Golden Company (as am I) but she’s traded the throne for everything of real value in her life. She’s got what she always wanted but lost everything because of it – Jaime’s betrayal weighs heavily on her – and I think it’s only right that we spend time seeing her wallow in this despair she’s caused. She’s finally Queen but still finds herself essentially whoring herself out to Euron. He mentions King Robert and we see that Cersei is pretty much in the same position in the final season as she was in the first. She’s now Queen but still finds herself sleeping with a man she hates for power. Euron himself is one of the weakest parts of the episode and the latter seasons of the show as a whole. As with the Dorne storyline previously, the show has taken a complex narrative from the books and simplified it too much to the point it almost feels irrelevant. There needed to be some adaptive license – those parts of the books are far too expansive – but the writers have taken it too far and Euron has ended up uninteresting and frustratingly simple for this show that previously offered much more complex villains. His entire motivation is painfully simple: “fuck the Queen”. While the performance does offer a kind of demented charisma that’s fun to watch, Euron ultimately feels like a weak villain from a lesser series. If there are any storylines in the episode that hint at the rushed pacing and thin plotting of what is to come then it’s Bronn and Theon’s contributions. Bronn gets his first of three scenes in the season that sets up his quest to hunt down Tyrion and Jaime to secure his place in Cersei’s court, and also fills the nudity quota for the show. I’ll go on to discuss Bronn’s role in the season in later reviews but suffice it to say his limited role is disappointing. Theon’s on the other hand is much more interesting but no less rushed. He’s caught between two allegiances to his two families. In the premiere he saves his Greyjoy sister very quickly before heading off to aid his Stark brethren. It’s a decent sequence but he really manages to rescue Yara from the middle of Euron’s fleet in Blackwater Bay? It’s very unbelievable. One small detail I do like about it however is that Euron comments about using mutes to run his ship – aptly named Silence – and when Theon rescues Yara he can’t speak to her out of guilt until he leaves the ship. Yara leaves to secure the Iron Islands for Daenerys but annoyingly this turns out to be unimportant because she never ends up going there, choosing Dragonstone instead. Like Bronn, Yara is sent on a quest as a way to write her out of the following episodes because the show has too many characters for its final short season. As I’ll no doubt repeat endlessly in this series, the show’s greatest issue is the short episode count of the final seasons. The abrupt change of pace torpedoes some otherwise great drama. After a neat horror sequence featuring the survivors from the Wall at Last Hearth, competently directed by David Nutter, the episode ends with Jaime arriving at Winterfell and laying eyes upon Bran. Just like the opening sequence of the episode, it’s an ending that bookends with the ending of the very first episode with Jaime coming face-to-face with a very different Bran than the one he pushed from that tower many years ago. As the episode came to an end and the credits began to roll, I was surprised. Surprised at how much I enjoyed the episode and the well-examined drama it contains. Yes, it’s weaker than most episodes of the show and some cracks that will grow considerably larger as the season progresses are maybe beginning to show, but it’s a solid episode of Game of Thrones. The negative reaction to mainly the second half of the season has unjustly percolated to the first few episodes and I don’t think this episode should be tarred with the same brush. As I said at the beginning, it’s a largely unremarkable episode in the same way most Game of Thrones premieres are. The show is not at the heights it was seasons before but nor is it the catastrophe the fandom believes the season to be. Which begs the question, if the premiere isn’t as bad as I remember it being and the fandom vehemently claim, is the rest of the season? Have you revisited the show since it concluded last year? Do you disagree with my positivity over the season at this early stage? Is the season truly as bad as the Internet makes out? Let me know in the comments and be sure to geek out with me about TV, movies and video-games on Twitter @kylebrrtt. Join me next week when, exactly one year after its first airing, I revisit the second episode of the final season, ‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’. game of thronesGame of Thrones Season 8Game of Thrones Season 8 One Year LaterRevisiting Game of Thrones ArticleOpinionTVTV And Movies The best Final Fantasy Badasses you can’t play as by Guest Writer - Apr 13, 2020 Studio Ghibli Review (Part 3) by Adam Thomas - Apr 15, 2020 Kyle Barratt The world is full of mysterious creatures whose existence spark constant debate. Scotland have the Loch Ness monster, North America have big foot and the Himalayas have the Yeti but none can hold a candle to England's mythical beast. 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__label__cc	0.733933	0.266067	RHA MA-350 Libby Plummer, Former Pocket-lint reviews editor · 28 July 2011 · RHA MA-350 earphones There are slightly cheaper in-ear options around, but the decent audio and non-tangle cable help to make these a great buy. Non-tangle cable Good audio Pricier than some (Pocket-lint) - We recently reviewed the SA-500 headphones from RHA - a division of the Reid and Health Group - a British audio company based in Glasgow, with the can's performance impressing us, so we were very interested to see how the brand's MA-350 noise isolating earbuds would fare. While the manufacturer offers three different headphone models, the MA-350 are the only in-ear option it has. The slightly unusual shape of the MA-350 is inspired by the aerophonic design of a trumpet's bell - with the idea being that the sound is transferred naturally from the speaker to your ear. The earphones are crafted from "solid aircraft grade aluminium, sandblasted and partially anodised in matte black", says RHA and they certainly have the look of a premium product, largely thanks to the matte silver finish on the inner earbud, and the discrete white logo on the outside. The earphones are provided with three different sized soft silicone tips so that you can find the best fit for you. As well as making the MA-350 nice and comfy, the tips also offer noise isolation to reduce any pesky background noise from drowning out your tunes. We found that that mid-sized tips provided the best fit and meant that we didn't have any problems with them falling out of our lugholes mid tune. Like the brand's SA-500 headphones, the earphones sport a fabric braided cable, complete with 3.5mm gold plated connections. Unlike the headphones, obviously this cable isn't detachable. As well as preventing your earphones from emerging from your bag as a tangled mess, the fabric covering should also reduce the effects of wear and tear, compared to a conventional plastic-covered cable. The cord is 1.2m long, which we found gave sufficient slack to allow us to move about freely withouth having to worry too much about snagging the lead and accidentally pulling the earphones out. The earphones sport a Y-cable design with a sliding ring that can be adjusted to make the Y bigger or smaller. As with the SA-500, there's no 6.3mm adaptor for rigging up your headphones to AV gear at home, so you'll need to shell out for one separately if you want to have that option. What RHA does provide is a small, faux velvet drawstring carry case which should give the earphones a little extra protection when they're plunged into the cavernous pits of your manbag or handbag. Naturally, the most important aspect when it comes to earphones is the sound. The MA-350 pack quite a punch when it comes to the sonics, offering a warm sound with very little distortion, along with some mighty fine bass response. The earphones really show some class when it comes to listening to tracks featuring acoustic instruments being plucked, where every nuance of each instrument is captured for a really natural sound. As well as serving up a slice of tasty audio, the MA-350 also do a grand job of blocking out noise from the outside world, while also not leaking any noise that might annoy fellow passengers on the tube. At £29.95, the RHA MA-350 earphones aren't the cheapest we've seen, but they're not too pricey either. The minimalist, understated aesthetics are sure to appeal to the design-conscious among you, while the thoroughly decent audio performance is there to back them up with some substance. Aside from the quality sonics on board and the premium look of the product, the fact that they're comforatble to wear and sport a non-tangle cable make the MA-350 a very good choice if you're in the market for some punchy earphones for your daily commute.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line2107
__label__wiki	0.920563	0.920563	‘Fck the algorithm’? 5 ways algorithms already rule our lives School grades are not the only area where algorithms have a say. Regulators said the grading algorithm had not relied solely on automated means By Vincent Manancourt Press play to listen to this article Voiced by Amazon Polly British students sent a clear message to policymakers last week: "Fck the algorithm." The outcry worked. A week after algorithm-generated grades resulted in almost 40 percent of students getting lower grades than predicted, the government said students would get teacher-predicted grades after all. The scandal underlined the creeping influence of algorithms in our lives — and the subsequent pushback. "From benefits fraud assessments, to visa algorithms, to predictive policing systems, we’re increasingly moving towards government by algorithm. And the grading fiasco this week in Britain shows that when people realise it’s there, they don’t like it," said Cori Crider, whose tech justice group Foxglove backed a legal claim against the grading algorithm. For governments, algorithms promise to make time-consuming and costly decision-making better, more efficient and cheaper. But critics say that automated systems are being rolled out with little transparency or public debate, and risk exacerbating existing inequalities. Demand for greater transparency is further complicated by the owners of algorithms who argue they are trade secrets whose inner workings cannot be made public. "The algorithm takes the biases and prejudices of the real world and ‘bakes them in’, and gives them a veneer that makes it seem like a policy choice is actually neutral and technical. But it isn’t," said Crider. The EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) gives people the right to an explanation of a decision based on automated means, and people can object to the decision if it is based solely on an algorithm. But the grading scandal revealed the GDPR's shortcomings in dealing with algorithms. Regulators said the grading algorithm had not relied solely on automated means — it said humans were involved in the process — implying that any objection to the decision on these grounds wouldn't stand. British computer scientist and privacy campaigner Michael Veale is also skeptical of the power of regulation like the GDPR to act as a bulwark against algorithms. The right to an explanation of an algorithm-generated decision does little to fix "systemic injustices" built into algorithms like the one used to grade British students, he said. "Getting an explanation but no democratic say in how systems work is like getting a privacy policy without a ‘do not consent’ button," he said. Here are some of the ways in which algorithms are running our lives. 1. Getting access to welfare Deciding who gets access to welfare and how much is a costly business for governments, and so has become an area that has seen a boom in the use of algorithms. The Swedish city of Trelleborg has automated parts of its social benefits program so that new applications are combined with other database to come to a decision. Denmark's been getting on the welfare algorithm bandwagon too, building a "surveillance behemoth" in the process, activists say. In England, local authorities began using algorithms to determine how much money to spend on each person nearly 10 years ago. In one high profile example, a registered blind wheelchair user had his allowance cut by £10,000 after his local authority began using the system. But activists started fighting back. In April, Dutch activists got a system used by government to detect welfare fraud banned after a court found it violated privacy. 2. Getting across a border Hungary, Greece and Latvia have trialled a system called iBorderCtrl that screens non-EU nationals at EU borders, using automated interviews with a virtual border guard, based on “deception detection technology." The system is in effect an automated lie-detector test taken before the person arrives at the border. In Slovenia, a border police system automatically matches travellers to “other police data” such as criminal files. Here again, there is pushback. Watchdogs have filed complaints against the Slovenian system, while the U.K. government said earlier this year it would scrap an algorithm used to used to screen visa applicants following a complaint. The groups behind the complaint argued the algorithm was racist, and favored applications from countries with a predominantly white population. 3. Getting arrested Using algorithms to model when and where crime will happen — an area known as predictive policing — is on the rise. In 2019, British civil rights group Liberty warned that the growth in the use of computer programs to predict crime hotspots and people who are likely to reoffend risks embedding racial profiling into the justice system. In 2016, a Belgian police department started implementing a predictive policing system which they claimed can predict neighbourhoods where burglaries are more likely to take place. In the German city of Mannheim, authorities have installed a video surveillance system that monitor people's behaviour for "certain patterns ... that indicate criminal offences." 4. Getting a job Employers in Finland used to be able to use the services of DigitalMinds, a company that analyzed candidates' online presence — on Twitter, Facebook and their email inbox — to come up with a personality assessment. Measures tracked included how active individuals are online and how they react to posts and emails. The company folded following an investigation by AlgorithmWatch. 5. Getting a loan Having your credit rating scored by a private company is a fact of life for many, and can have far-reaching consequences. A low score typically means banks may turn down a loan or credit card application, or that internet service providers or phone companies may deny service. The score you get may also be based on questionable data. Earlier this month, activists filed a complaint with the Austrian data protection watchdog after a credit scoring company gave a customer that did not owe debts and had a well-paying job a bad score, but denied holding any data on the person. This article is part of POLITICO Pro’s premium coverage of Cybersecurity and Data Protection. From the emerging threats of a volatile digital world to the legislation being shaped to protect business and citizens, across sectors. For a complimentary trial email [email protected] and mention Cyber. 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__label__wiki	0.933839	0.933839	Marine Fellows / Directory of Marine Fellows / Asta Audzijonyte Asta Audzijonyte, Ph.D. Directory of Marine Fellows University of Tasmania, Nature Research Centre Australia, Lithuania Predicting fish body size to improve sustainability in coastal fisheries Asta Audzijonyte, at her office at the University of Tasmania, analyzing data from underwater visual surveys to understand how fish size changes with rising ocean temperatures. Andrew Rhodes The size of a fish can determine how vulnerable it is to predators, how much energy and oxygen it requires, and how much and how often it can reproduce. Asta Audzijonyte will use global datasets to understand how warming oceans are affecting fish size diversity and will use this knowledge to inform more sustainable management of coastal fisheries and ecosystems. Body size also affects what a fish eats, the role it plays in ecosystems, and its economic value to humans. The size of many fish species is expected to decline as oceans warm and fishing pressure increases. But size is often overlooked in fisheries management. Audzijonyte will gather available global data on fish size, including from underwater video surveys, as well as environmental data, such as sea surface temperatures. She will also collect fish size information in unsurveyed areas by partnering with researchers who manage citizen science initiatives in several countries. Audzijonyte will then develop models to analyze these data and will explore the effects of changes in fish size on ecosystem and fisheries. From her analyses, Audzijonyte will create maps of coastal fish species’ size diversity and identify areas where human activities are having the greatest impact on fish size, which can serve as an indicator of ecosystem health. Audzijonyte’s research will improve the scientific understanding of trends in fish size and enable more sustainable fisheries management in coastal habitats. To learn more about Audzijonyte, read her bio: https://www.utas.edu.au/profiles/staff/imas/asta-audzijonyte See the full list of 2020 Pew marine fellows Search Pew Scholars Institution University of California at Berkeley Boston University U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service U.S. Department of the Interior Safina Center Oregon State University Russian Academy of Sciences University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Center on Food Security and the Environment Stockholm University Centre for Research on Natural Resources and the Environment Kodiak Brown Bear Trust Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Wider Caribbean Sea Turtle Conservation Network Caribbean Coastal Area Management Foundation Conservation Law Foundation Stanford University Wildlife Conservation Society Marine Conservation Institute Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science and Oceans, Conservation International North Carolina State University, Center for Applied Aquatic Ecology University of Washington NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center Center for Research on Aquatic Bioinvasions James Cook University, Townsville University of California at Irvine University of Hawaii at Manoa Universidade Federal de Pernambuco R.B. 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__label__wiki	0.941575	0.941575	Vice President Leni Robredo, USAID Philippines Mission Director Lawrence Hardy II, and PBEd Chair Ramon del Rosario, Jr. during the launch of a new partnership to benefit unemployed and out-of-school Filipino youth on October 22, 2020. Released/ US Embassy in the Philippines Robredo partners with USAID, non-profit org to train unemployed, out-of-school youth (Philstar.com) - October 24, 2020 - 12:03pm MANILA, Philippines — Vice President Leni Robredo is teaming up with the US Agency for International Development and an education non-profit to give free technical-vocational skills and employability training to over 1,000 unemployed and out-of-school Filipino youth. Through its TrabaHOPE program, Robredo's office "will co-sponsor the training needs of youth aged 18-30 years old who qualify for YouthWorks PH, USAID’s private sector-driven employability initiative with [the Philippine Business for Education]," the US Embassy in the Philippines said Thursday. How will learning for out-of-school youth continue amid COVID-19 pandemic? "YouthWorks PH is a free technical-vocational training program for youth who are currently not studying, in training or employed," the embassy added. According to the consulate, the combined P17 million commitment from the OVP, USAID, and PBEd will fund the training costs for YouthWorksPH participants until year-end. "We are grateful for this partnership with USAID and PBEd, which will allow us to open more doors for young people who may be supporting themselves and their families, especially during the COVID-19 crisis,” Robredo said. The Office of the Vice President's support, specifically, will cover the participants' daily allowance "along with a welcome kit, hands-on materials, mobile/internet allowance and pre-employment support, complements the learning devices, online mentoring, online/blended tech-voc training, [and] in-company training. The US embassy said the OVP will also cover Technical Education and Skills Development Authority national certification provided by YouthWorks. According to PBEd Chairman Ramon del Rosario, the partnership will meaningfully impact the lives of underprivileged young Filipinos who are in dire need of learning and livelihood opportunities at this time. Data from the Department of Education shows that 24.8 million enrolled this school year, compared to 27.2 million who enrolled last year. This means some 2.4 million youths may currently be out-of-school due to the problems posed by the pandemic and distance learning. "We are still in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and the OVP’s and USAID’s commitment to support our trainees will empower young Pinoys who are disproportionately affected by this crisis,” Del Rosario added. USAID Philippines Mission Director Lawrence Hardy II, meanwhile, said that the opportunities provided by the YouthWorks initiative will serve as an "important boost toward a brighter future." "USAID remains committed to working with our partners in government and the private sector to ensure that economic growth is inclusive and sustainable for all," Hardy added. Those who wish to apply for the YouthWorks program may do so through this link: https://youthworks.pbed.ph/trainee-registration/form. — Bella Perez-Rubio COVID-19 NOVEL CORONAVIRUS OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT SCHOOL YEAR 2020-2021 VICE PRESIDENT LENI ROBREDO	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line2120
__label__cc	0.724933	0.275067	With 150 properties in the Philippines, RedDoorz promises a safe, affordable, and reliable stay for all kinds of travelers. RedDoorz: Big on city experience, bigger on hotel savings Gerald Dizon (Philstar.com) - August 15, 2019 - 5:00pm MANILA, Philippines — When travelers find themselves in the big city—foreign or familiar—and in need of a place to stay, they take into consideration several things. Budget is almost always the top concern, knowing that hotel accommodations in prime locations may be costly. Now they don’t have to. Whether vacationing with family, planning a group study with college buddies, looking for a place to crash after a night of partying, or simply wanting to de-stress from work or school, there’s a safe and cozy yet budget-friendly sanctuary for travelers. Introducing RedDoorz, the largest- and fastest-growing, technology-driven hotel management and booking platform in Southeast Asia. With over 1,000 properties scattered throughout the region—150 in the Philippines alone—the company promises a safe, affordable, and reliable stay for all kinds of travelers. Since its arrival in the Philippines in 2018, it has managed to expand to 10 major cities in the country, including Metro Manila, Iloilo, Palawan, Bacolod, Metro Cebu, Davao, Pampanga, and Tagaytay. Last July 30, select members of the media were invited for an exclusive sneak peak of their premium properties in Trinoma and South Triangle, both strategically located along main thoroughfares, and nearby malls and MRT stations. These prime locations are matched by amenities and services to benefit an ever-growing client base. “There's really a lot of growth and opportunity in the industry, especially in the Philippines. That's why you see a lot of ‘Mom-and-Pop’ hotels starting to offer standardized hotel stays because there's a huge demand for it, even if you move outside Manila. So we partner with them...providing guaranteed service and affordable stay,” said Ray de Jesus, country marketing manager for RedDoorz. Best prices, easy access Customers, either locals or foreigners, who book with RedDoorz can expect a great experience on services and facilities. Not only can they take advantage of affordable prices, they are also provided Service Guarantee and standardized amenities such as free WiFi, satellite television, beverages, and toiletries, among many others. Because of this assurance, travelers enjoy their tours and activities at their destinations even more. If they’re there for business and not leisure, then they can accomplish tasks more effectively after a restful night. As part of its diversified offerings, RedDoorz accommodations come in three tiers: Standard, Plus, and Premium, all under the promise of “best price.” It also has event-ready spaces for those inclined to host happenings for bigger groups. For easier accessibility, the company is also out with a mobile app that fast-tracks booking processes. Users can streamline searches, view photos, and read detailed descriptions and reviews of properties for more certainty and ease of mind. Booking via the website or app also gives customers up to 40% RedCash reward points that they can use for future bookings, as well as exclusive promotions, discounts, and partner deals through their RedClub membership. Booking only takes three easy steps: Select a desired RedDoorz Hotel Tap the “Book Now” button and place your payment using your method of choice (credit cards, DragonPay via bank transfer and 7-Eleven outlets, online banking, and Pay-at-Hotel) Once payment is done, a confirmation email will be sent you will all the details to make sure you’re all set! As a treat, RedDoorz is offering bookings for as low as P499 this August, so make sure to book now! With RedDoorz, get ready to save on hotels, and not on experiences. For more information, visit the RedDoorz website here, check out their Facebook page here, and download the mobile app on Google Play and iOS. ONLINE HOTEL BOOKING REDDOORZ Philippines named world's 2nd most Instagrammable place The Philippines made it to the 2nd spot of the list of most Instagramable places in the world, according to travel website... Boracay, El Nido named among world's best beaches for 2020 The country's top beaches, Boracay and El Nido, were among those that made it to Condé Nast Traveler’s... HygienePass certification launched to ensure hotels comply with safety, sanitation protocols With the government slowly allowing travel despite the coronavirus pandemic, safety is still the number one priority... 12 'stays' of Christmas: Hotels and resorts where it’s safe for you and loved ones By Jap Tobias \| 30 days ago We have curated ‘The 12 Stays of Christmas’ to present you with a range of different staycation ideas to lift... Welcome back to paradise: Movenpick Resort & Spa Boracay reopens doors Movenpick Resort & Spa Boracay offers luxury and safety combined. Cebu Pacific's 'piso fare' returns with 'new normal' twists By Kata Dayanghirang \| 38 days ago The company, in turn, said in a virtual media conference yesterday that its "new normal" protocols now include daily disinfection...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line2121
__label__cc	0.575282	0.424718	Insurance coverage options for fine arts Not all collectibles are fine arts, and it’s important to know the difference for a claim. By Christine G. Barlow, CPCU \| January 15, 2019 at 12:00 AM There is no set definition of what constitutes fine art, but generally it is defined as a genuine work with some historic or artistic significance. (Photo: Shutterstock) The world is full of beautiful things: paintings, sculpture, glass works, textiles, figurines, jewelry and other items. Many people collect such things, which are often known as fine arts. However, the category is not as straightforward as it seems. Is the china a bride receives for her wedding a fine art that should be scheduled on the homeowners policy? What about baseball cards? Are they fine arts or collectibles, and should they be added to a homeowners schedule? Christine G. Barlow, CPCU Christine G. Barlow, CPCU, is Managing Editor of FC&S Expert Coverage Interpretation, a division of National Underwriter Company and ALM. Christine has over twenty-five years’ experience in the insurance industry, beginning as a claims adjuster then working as an underwriter and underwriting supervisor handling personal lines. Before joining FC&S, Christine worked as an Underwriting Supervisor for Maryland Auto Insurance Fund, and as Senior Underwriter/Underwriter for companies Montgomery Mutual, Old American, Charter Group, and Nationwide. The publications Christine has written or edited include Personal Lines Unlocked: The Key to Personal Lines Underwriting, Personal Lines Endorsements Coverage Guide, Commercial Flood Insurance Coverage Guide, Personal Flood Insurance Coverage Guide, Homeowners Personal Lines Coverage Guide 5th Edition, Personal Umbrella Coverage Guide 2nd Edition, and Condominium Coverage Guide 2nd Edition, all published by the National Underwriter Company. Christine regularly writes for Claims Magazine and National Underwriter Magazine. Christine regularly presents and moderates webinars on a variety of topics and is an experienced presenter. Christine graduated cum laude from Towson University, Maryland, with a degree in Sociology/Psychology with a concentration in Gerontology. Wildfires and wine don't mix Patricia L. Harman \| January 06, 2021 The latest Insurance Speak podcast features Larry Chasin’s insights on the impact of an unusual wildfire season on California’s vineyards. When wine goes up in smoke Hannah Dingley, Tim Gillihan and Trevor Eaton \| November 16, 2020 Subrogating winery inventory claims after a wildfire involves identifying the origin and type of damage.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line2124
__label__cc	0.748159	0.251841	Get Recruited Program Database Hoops 2.0 Winter Showcase 1/9-1/10 Standouts Pt. 1 By David Yapkowitz Posted On: 01/11/21 10:30 AM With the high school basketball regular season in California temporarily on hold, various grassroots and AAU events have popped up across the country to fill in the void in the meantime. Hoops 2.0 kicked off its winter showcase the weekend of 1/2 as one of those events looking to help players get exposure opportunities as they await final word on the regular season. I was able to attend the showcase this most recent weekend and there was quite a bit of talent on display. Here’s a look at some of the players who stood out at the event. 1. Isaiah Brickner - St. Augustine 2021 Brickner is a big point guard. He has some of the best court vision I’ve seen this winter. He keeps his head up on the break and is a very unselfish player always looking to make the right play. Good ball-handler who can handle defensive pressure. His size enables him to be a decent rebounder and he starts the break off a board; aggressive on the glass. Runs the floor well in transition and plays with good pace. Offensively, he’s strong off the dribble and getting to the rim. 2. Lorenzo MarshLorenzoMarsh6'5" \| SFSt. Anthony \| 2021State - With the high school basketball regular season in California temporarily on hold, various grassroots and AAU events have popped up across the country to fill in the void in the meantime. Hoops 2.0 kicked off its winter showcase the weekend of 1/2 as one of those events looking to help players get exposure opportunities as they await final word on the regular season. I was able to attend the showcase this most recent weekend and there was quite a bit of talent on display. Here’s a look at some of the players who stood out at the event. 1. Isaiah Brickner - St. Augustine 2021 Brickner is a big point guard. He has some of the best court vision I’ve seen this winter. He keeps his head up on the break and is a very unselfish player always looking to make the right play. Good ball-handler who can handle defensive pressure. His size enables him to be a decent rebounder and he starts the break off a board; aggressive on the glass. Runs the floor well in transition and plays with good pace. Offensively, he’s strong off the dribble and getting to the rim. 2. Lorenzo MarshLorenzoMarsh6'5" \| SFSt. Anthony \| 2021State - Long Beach Poly 2021 Marsh is a player who I first saw a couple of years ago and he’s made some strong improvements since then. He’s become a more consistent three-point shooter who looks very comfortable letting it fly from distance. He’s also an improved ball-handler who is capable of creating his own shot on the perimeter and making solid passes. He’s always been active around the rim, especially using his length on the glass. Has the tools to be an effective defender. 3. Joshua Smith - Culver City 2021 Smith is a good ball-handling wing who is always in attack mode. He can get into the lane with dribble penetration and he’s a strong finisher at the rim. He has good body control when attacking the defense at the rim and he can draw contact and get himself to the free-throw line. He can play pretty well off the ball as well, making good cuts and dives around the rim and getting himself open for back door cuts. Good playmaker who can find the open teammate. 4. Skylar Wilson - Southern California Academy 2021 An Eastern Washington commit, Wilson is a flat-out shooter. He can shoot from three-point range and he can move in closer and knock down the midrange. He likes that one to two dribble pull-up and knocks it down with consistency. Also thrives as a catch and shoot player with a quick release who’s always ready to shoot. He’s got great length and he has a little bit of a slashing game to him as well. California All Access Pass Subscribe to Prep Hoops California to get access to all premium articles and prospect rankings for as little as $2 per week with an annual subscription! Recruiting Report: Small School Sleepers SoCal’s 2023 Breakout Candidates (Pt. 2) Southern California 2021 152 players ranked #1 Peyton Watson #2 Reese Dixon-Waters #3 Wilhelm Breidenbach #4 Kenneth Simpson, Jr. #5 Jahmai Mashack Pangos Diamond in the Rough: CA Evaluations (Pt. 1)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line2129
__label__cc	0.528727	0.471273	Home GROW SOMETHING! Growing Good Food: A Citizen's Guide to Backyard Carbon Farming — by Acadia Tucker Growing Good Food: A Citizen's Guide to Backyard Carbon Farming — by Acadia Tucker Written by regenerative farmer Acadia Tucker, Growing Good Food: A Citizen's Guide to Backyard Carbon Farming calls on us to take up regenerative gardening, also known as carbon farming, for the good of the planet. Whether you're a gardener who has no space, a little space, or a lot of space, Tucker drafts a plan which shows how a person can impact the environment through one’s own garden. By building carbon-rich soil, even in a backyard-sized patch, we can capture greenhouse gases and mitigate climate change, all while growing nutritious food. The author offers advice on how to prep soil, plant food, and raise the most popular fruits and vegetables using regenerative methods. She shares the gardening tools you need to get started, the top reasons gardens fail and how to fix them, and how to make carbon farming count when the only dirt you have is in pots. Growing Good Food: A Citizen's Guide to Backyard Carbon Farming suggests what could happen if more of us saw gardening as a civic duty. By the end of it, you’ll know how to grow some really good food and build a healthier world, too. It's not too late for you to add Growing Good Food: A Citizen's Guide to Backyard Carbon Farming and begin regenerative gardening today...for the good of the planet! Format: New, Softcover Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing (Stone Pier Press) Dimensions: 9"inches H x 1" inch D x 6.5" inches W Weight: 2 lbs, 3 oz, before shipping Rating: ✭✭✭✭ Acadia Tucker is a regenerative farmer, climate activist, and author. Her books are a call to action to citizen gardeners everywhere, and lay the groundwork for planting an organic, regenerative garden. For her, this is gardening as if our future depends on it. Before becoming an author, Acadia started a four-season organic market garden in Washington State inspired by farming pioneers Eliot Coleman and Jean-Martin Fortier. While managing the farm, Acadia grew 200 different food crops before heading back to school at the University of British Columbia to complete a Masters in Land and Water Systems. She lives in Maine and New Hampshire with her farm dog, Nimbus, and grows hops to support locally sourced craft beer in New England, when she isn't raising perennials in her own backyard. Collections: Garden Shop, GROW SOMETHING!	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line2130
__label__wiki	0.868847	0.868847	> Home > music > Album review Neil Cooper finds hidden depths in a thrillingly contemporary folk album Alasdair Roberts – Pangs (Drag City) If ever there was an artist you’d least expect to burst into a massed chorus of sha-la-las, it’s Alasdair Roberts. Here, after all, is a singer, song-writer and musician steeped in a Scottish folk tradition forged by his Callandar roots, even as he found a kindred spirit in Will Oldham’s similarly doleful backwoods laments. Under the name of Appendix Out, Roberts played the indie circuit with an ever changing line-up, and proved way ahead of the curve with the embrace of traditional music which has since permeated more mainstream culture. As the eight albums and other sundry releases under his own name have proved, however, Roberts is no tweed-sporting faux-folk flunky. Rather, his explorations and reconstructions of the arcane have sounded thrillingly contemporary, even as they looked to a more spectral past. Roberts’ Oldham-produced 2005 No Earthly Man album may have been a collection of ancient murder ballads, but at times seemed to channel the Velvet Underground circa All Tomorrow’s Parties, and did for folk music what Nick Cave has done for the Blues. Things have leavened out a bit since then, but the sha-la-las – that most quintessentially twee indie singalong – on a song called The Angry Laughing God, no less, and the nearest thing to anything resembling a wig-out on Roberts’ ninth collection, are still a surprise. It’s a joyous one too, despite some of the downbeat themes of the album’s ten songs. The opening title track sets the tone with a jaunty invitation to a feast while awaiting an unspecified king to return across the border. Despite the electric guitar solo, Roberts’s words and ascetic-sounding vocal are at odds with the modern world. It’s a tone that runs throughout, with Roberts’ ornate lexicon seemingly plucked from some unearthed medieval scroll. Recorded in Ireland, primarily with bassist Stevie Jones and drummer Alex Neilson, both stalwarts of numerous Glasgow-based bands, the album’s low-key arrangements put flesh on the bones of the starkness of some of Roberts’ lyricism. While Roberts’ guitar picking comes straight outta Trumpton, guests Debbie Armour, Tom Crossley, Rafe Fitzpatrick and Jessica Kerr add subtle textures of low-key chamber baroque by way of various shades of school assembly piano, cello, fiddle and female backing vocals. These give the songs ballast and lend them warmth which for the casual listener sheds a chink of light on what might be an otherwise austere world. On The Downward Road, whoops, yelps and even unlikely little synthesiser squiggles are in the mix. As a collection, Pangs recalls the sort of 1970s Caledonian-tinged folk-rock that emanated out of cellar bars, but mercifully avoids some of the studio-bound bombast that came later. This makes for a rousing and beguiling excavation of traditions both ancient and modern, sha-la-las to the max. Pangs is available at www.dragcity.com	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line2132
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__label__cc	0.662787	0.337213	quoteTab Peter Mandelson Quotations Peter Mandelson Quotes about: Peter Mandelson Peter Benjamin Mandelson, Baron Mandelson PCis a British Labour politician, president of international think tank Policy Network and Chairman of strategic advisory firm Global Counsel. He served as Member of Parliamentfor Hartlepool from 1992 to 2004, and held a number of Cabinet positions under Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. He was also the European Commissioner for Trade between 2004 and 2008... (wikipedia) Born in England ↪ Born On October 21, 1953 ↪ Nationality British Quotes ↪ Profession Politician Quotes Want Quotes They want to derail peace because they want to plunge Northern Ireland back into armed conflict. Taken Quotes For too long, decisions have been taken behind closed doors - tablets of stone have simply been past down to people without bothering to involve people, listen to their views or give them information about what we are doing and why. Lasts Quotes The last thing we need is to turn in on ourselves rather than face us up to what we have to do in the world. Europe Quotes Having viewed Europe as an extension and projection of itself, France now finds Europe developing a mind and identity of its own which embraces France but is not controlled by France. Ideas Quotes It's a very good idea that we have a third term Labour government led by Tony Blair for a full term. Instead of saying that globalization is a fact, that it's inevitable, we've also got to demonstrate that while the growing interdependence of the world economy is indeed a fact, it's not uncontrollable. Jobs Quotes What is most important for Europe is economic growth and jobs, security at home and safety in the world. What we have to do is reinvent the idea of Europe. Single Relationship Quotes We've got to demonstrate why European unity and integration, our vast single market, our single currency, equip us with the strength to embrace globalization. Squares Quotes If the constitutional treaty is rejected it will be back to square one, just at a time when we want Europe to be a more effective force for good in the world, when we need to buttress ourselves against the pressures and insecurities of globalization. Internals Quotes Of course, the EU is not going to fall apart, but at best it will stagnate for the foreseeable future and we will be dealing with quite a lot of internal chaos. Thinking Quotes Too often we think we can act without explaining and take decisions without justifying them. Instability Quotes The markets don't like instability and they don't like uncertainty. Believe Quotes I believe that if you treat China as an enemy, then it is likely to become one. Gains Quotes I certainly believe that we gain through open trade and liberalisation. Vision Quotes I'm optimistic that we are actually seeing the opportunity of a generation being created in this. Moved On Quotes I have moved on from being a British parliamentarian, I have moved on from being a New Labour politician, I have moved on from being the supporter in the active day-to-day sense of Tony Blair. Blair Quotes I hesitated, too, because for better or worse, I have been one of the principal architects of New Labour and I have worked closely with Tony Blair and the team for nearly 20 years. Needs Quotes Essentially we need a new social consensus for economic reform as New Labour has achieved in Britain. Europe has to address people's needs directly and reflect their priorities, not our own preoccupations. I do not share the half-in, half-out attitude to the EU of some in Britain. Britain's place is in Europe. I think Europe is going in the right direction and we shouldn't be set back. Skills Quotes I understand why the Tories will be gunning for Alastair Campbell because they fear his campaigning skills. Space Quotes In the space of a decade, China and India have emerged as dramatic, dynamic competitors. My fear is that in lowering expectations for Hong Kong, we will cause the overall ambition for the round to fall. Claims Quotes Of course, there's an investigation following claims of dumping, Advance Quotes If we do not advance this negotiation in concrete terms this week -- and among ourselves today -- we will have to acknowledge that we may simply run out of time for Hong Kong, China Quotes China is not yet qualified to receive the recognition of market economy status by Europe. There are technical criteria which China needs to fulfill, in which it's making progress towards fulfilling. Bring Quotes I don't think people will complain about that, in particular those who bring some perspective to this matter. Round Quotes If we scale back in Hong Kong, we should not scale back for the round as a whole. It is too important. Determine Quotes I always hesitate to use the term make-or-break, but I think next week will determine whether we can get into the position of making Hong Kong a success or not. Benefit Quotes There is no benefit at all for us taking these parochial fights and these past divisions onto the European stage. Aggressive Quotes have been pushed into a sort of agricultural siding by some very aggressive agricultural producing countries whose interests do not necessarily coincide with the bulk of developing countries. Accept Quotes I accept that it is not possible to go for full modalities (of a detailed outline) at Hong Kong. But that does not mean we can't achieve anything, Achieve Quotes It is not possible to go for full modalities (of a detailed outline) at Hong Kong. But that does not mean we can't achieve anything, It is not possible to go for full modalities at Hong Kong (where a crucial WTO ministerial meeting is to be held next month). But that does not mean we can't achieve anything, Defining Quotes Our meeting has been useful, not in narrowing the differences but in defining them, ... I feel we have done everything we could reasonably be expected to do in agriculture. Certain Quotes We have found a satisfactory and equitable way of dealing with the overshoots in certain of the textile categories, Balance Quotes There is progress in agriculture, even though we are still looking for further commitments from others. However, this progress is not matched in industrial goods or services. This lack of balance is a real problem and points to the ground we need to make up at Hong Kong. But my (EU) member states will simply not accept further first moves from the EU which are pocketed without parallel moves by others, Beat Quotes The problem has been caused by importers trying to beat the restrictions after the Shanghai Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed on June 10, Blocked Quotes continues to keep everything else blocked at the gate, we cannot get to Hong Kong in the shape we need. Biggest Quotes Firstly, people take for granted that the E.U. has created the biggest economic space in the world. Developing Quotes SA needs to push the G-20 (Group of 20 developing nations) to open their markets. Offered Quotes offered all sorts of positive, well-meaning, in my view misguided, justifications for a stance that is ... backward-looking, inward-looking, protectionist. Both Quotes Are both sides prepared to persevere with the uncertainty of change? Large Quotes It sometimes seems to me they won't be satisfied until they have seen proposals implemented that would ... wipe out large sections of agriculture in Europe, Commission Quotes It will be the Commission doing the explaining, nobody else, not in narrowing differences but in defining them. Motion Quotes I have set in motion procedures to unblock the goods. Engage Quotes I'm prepared to engage with them on this subject, but not in isolation. Agreement Quotes I am pleased that the EU and China have been able to resolve this problem with the implementation of the Shanghai agreement in a way that preserves the agreement without unfairly penalizing retailers and importers, Confident Quotes I feel hopeful and confident that the ultimate prize -- stable, inclusive government in Northern Ireland and an unbreakable peace -- will at long last be within our grasp. Exaggerate Quotes I do not exaggerate when I say that the Hong Kong ministerial meeting is on a knife-edge, Combine Quotes The UK must combine its recent success with a dash of humility. Party Quotes In my experience of these things, parties which shout about dirty tricks and the like tend to do so because they fear a direct hit in some vulnerable part of their political anatomy. Climate Change Quotes There is no high-carbon future Lying Quotes I didn't mislead people. I know I didn't lie and I have got to establish that. High Ground Quotes Few politicians are good at taking the high ground and throwing themselves off it. Missions Quotes Europe lacks leadership and a sense of mission and too many people don't feel a part of it... Fighter Quotes I'm a fighter, not a quitter. People Quotes Intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich Peter Mandelson Fans Also Likes Quotations from R. A. 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__label__wiki	0.891215	0.891215	Ray Hartmann Fox's Laura Ingraham whines authorities are doing too much to keep DC safe after pro-Trump insurrection Even by the sub-standards of Fox News, it was fairly amazing Wednesday night when host and evil sorceress Laura Ingraham bemoaned the fact that authorities are doing too much to keep Washington, D.C. safe for next week's presidential inauguration. Ingraham hosted retired Gen. Robert Spalding, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank. This is how she introduced the segment: "After resisting Trump's calls for the National Guard last summer, the Left is now fine with militarizing every aspect of the People's House," Ingraham whined. "Fox News reporting that officials will now increase the number of National Guard members who will be deployed in Washington during the presidential inauguration from 15,000 to 20,000 on Wednesday, about three times the number of U.S. troops deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan combined. So, is this all necessary?" Spaulding doesn't think so. "You know, it's absolutely -- I think it's a travesty" he told Ingraham. "It's politicizing the military more than any I've ever seen. I know there's been a lot of discussion about the president politicizing the military but when you have a capital filled with 20,000 troops in anticipation, I'm not sure what they are anticipating. You know, the hordes coming across the Potomac River, I'm not sure why this is necessary. I think for the most part it's done for show and that's the great travesty here of this episode." Conveniently omitted from this enlightening conversation were two details: One, "the Left" objected to the use of the National Guard to attack protesters, not over it having protected anyone. And more importantly, two, that security for the inauguration is in the hands of the Secret Service, which is not customarily confused with "the Left." Here' how the Washington Post described security plans Tuesday for the inauguration: "The Secret Service and federal law enforcement agencies are spending the final days of the Trump administration bracing for a possible violent assault against the Jan. 20 inauguration, launching a security mobilization that will be unlike any in modern U.S. history. "On Wednesday, the Secret Service will take command of security preparations at the U.S. Capitol and other federal buildings, backed by as many as 15,000 National Guard troops, thousands of police and tactical officers, and layers of eight-foot steel fencing. "The high-alert security posture is starting six days earlier than planned to coordinate roles for the FBI, National Guard, U.S. Marshals Service and a host of other federal agencies that will fall under Secret Service command. "Everyone can just rest assured they are throwing the kitchen sink at this event," said one Secret Service official involved in protective planning who was not authorized to speak to reporters." It's not altogether clear why Ingraham takes offense at any of that. But here's her interview with Spaulding: Republicans lay out the case for impeaching Trump in explaining why they didn't Republican members of Congress are displaying some impressive verbal gymnastic skill in rationalizing how they didn't have the courage to vote against Double-Impeachee Donald Trump today. In a joint statement explaining why they wouldn't stoop to impeaching Trump in a hurry, Republicans Reps. Dan Crenshaw and Chip Roy, TX, Nancy Mace, SC and John Curtis, UT, prefaced their indignation by eloquently laying out the case for impeaching Trump: "President Trump publicly pressured Vice President Mike Pence and members of Congress to accept the demonstrably unconstitutional idea that the Vice President has unilateral authority to ignore the sole slate of electors sent to Congress from each of the states and to declare who would be president. He did so leading up to, and during, a massively attended rally which he called for and encouraged. Moreover, the event was deliberately scheduled to take place at the precise moment at which members of Congress were meeting to carry out our Constitutional duty to count those very electoral votes. "This pressure campaign whipped many of those present into a frenzy that contributed in part to the assault on the Capitol resulting in the deaths of several American citizens, including at least one Capitol Hill police officer. Therefore, we condemn the President for his words and actions which contributed to these events and encourage every member of Congress to similarly condemn." "While we do not make legal judgment of the President's intent regarding Wednesday's demonstration, his actions were reckless. No President should ever, among other things, promote clearly unconstitutional theories that risk the stability of our nation and, in particular, do so to the detriment of the peaceful transition of power." Then the four members of Congress proceeded to say why there wasn't enough of a "sober review of the facts" to justify impeachment. That rather belies the litany of impeachable conduct they laid out in their preamble, one that should even be compelling after a "drunk review of the facts." Should the members really have it both ways? If there wasn't enough evidence to impeach Trump, then where do they get off accusing him of pressuring his vice president and themselves to conduct themselves unconstitutionally? On the basis of what non-evidence would they accuse him of calling for a massive demonstration--timed to coincide with their vote-counting--and then of having "whipped many of those present into a frenzy," an action they claim "resulted in" the violence that ensued? If these facts needed further study and hearings and the like, then shouldn't they have refrained from making such inflammatory accusations about Trump's conduct? They accused him of all they could ever need and more to impeach a president and then claim not to have enough information to go through with it. Some profile in courage. In Missouri, Rep. Ann Wagner (R-MO) similarly concluded there had not been "the appropriate investigations and a complete airing of the facts so our vote can be fully informed." But in the very same statement, she said: "That does not mean, however, that President Trump should escape accountability for his role in the violence that took place January 6th. I support censuring the President for his rhetoric to ensure that his behavior is not deemed acceptable to future leaders, or to our adversaries around the globe." Wagner also concluded that Trump's statements after the Capitol riot, "were antithetical to the leadership our nation desperately needed in a time of crisis." Presumably, then, Wagner must have been willing to censure the president without the benefit of evidence. Except his on-camera statements, she quoted that we all saw with our lying eyes. You know, the ones based upon which she couldn't be "fully informed." In still another instance, Rep. Ashley Hinson, R-Iowa, apparently saw enough to conclude "I believe the President bears responsibility, and that is why I urged him personally to call off those who were violently storming the Capitol last week. I wish he had spoken up sooner, but he did not." But she didn't enough to justify impeachment without "collecting evidence, conducting committee hearings, and having preliminary votes." After all, it's not like the people for whose actions the president bore "responsibility" are talking about storming the Capitol--and the ones in all 50 states--before next weekend. Well, maybe the Secret Service and FBI think so, but what do they know? Besides, what's the rush? Who would suggest that Trump was responsible or deserved condemnation or should be held accountable for what happened last week in Washington D.C.? Oh right, these members of Congress, the ones who couldn't bring themselves to impeach Trump today. Cop union head faces resignation calls for equating Capitol terrorism with Black Lives Matter A growing chorus of officials in Seattle is demanding the resignation of Mike Solan, president of the Seattle Police Officers Guild. Eight of the nine members of the City Council issued that call today. Last Thursday, Solan tweeted that police were "caught in the middle between factions vying for political control" in retweeting a post from far-right Portland blogger Andy Ngo that claimed a BLM activist from Utah was part of the siege of the Capitol building. Here's the tweet: Solan's resume includes having presiding over the union last June as it was kicked out (https://bit.ly/39m6FOS) out of Seattle's top labor group -- the King County Labor Council -- in the wake of the George Floyd killing. The group said then it was reaffirming its commitment to an "anti-racist union movement."The City Council members' demand were just the most recent calls for Solan's head. Here's how the Seattle Times reported it: "Mayor Jenny Durkan called last week for Solan to retract his words and apologize, or resign. The Martin Luther King Jr. County Labor Council, which expelled the police union from its ranks in June amid the mass protests against police brutality, called for Solan's resignation. So did Black Lives Matter Seattle-King County. And the Black Law Enforcement Association of Washington. "The union's contract expired at the end of 2020 and the acrimony comes as negotiations with the city over a new contract are set to begin. "'Mr. Solan's remarks and their implications are reprehensible and untrue,' Councilmember Alex Pedersen said at a Monday morning City Council briefing. Pedersen has been one of two council members who have consistently opposed efforts to defund the police department by up to 50%. "'It's time for Mr. Solan to hand this important position over,' Pedersen said. "We must have a partner who has truly embraced that we cannot go back to the way things were. The current president of the police union has, in my view, disqualified himself to be a fair partner in negotiating the contract." Also calling for Solan's resignation as union president Monday were Seattle City Councilmembers M. Lorena González, Lisa Herbold, Andrew Lewis, Tammy Morales, Teresa Mosqueda, Kshama Sawant and Dan Strauss." Ngo, the blogger extolled by Solan, isn't backing down from the preposterous effort at real-time revisionist history for the insurrection by making it a both-sides issue. Today, this is what he posted on Twitter: There is no misinformation in my post that Mr Solan retweeted. John Sullivan is involved in BLM militancy in Utah,… https://t.co/ohGjObsYHF — Andy Ngô (@Andy Ngô)1610372173.0 Sullivan, the man cited by Ngo, was indeed inside the Capitol Building. But as the Utah Deseret-News reports, what he was doing there remains unclear. The newspaper reported that Sullivan "claims he attended a pro-Trump rally that turned into a violent attack on the U.S. Capitol in order to see "the truth" about the protests for himself and the organization he represents. "For me, it's important from the group and the people around me to see that side of things, to see the truth," John Sullivan said Wednesday night. "I don't care, like what side you're on, you should just see it raw." Sullivan, who is the founder of Insurgence USA, a social justice group that calls itself anti-fascist and protests police brutality, was detained by Washington police for about an hour and a half Thursday night, a day after he talked to local and national media about what he witnessed Wednesday. He was handcuffed the entire time, and said police questioned him about being inside the Capitol and witnessing the shooting death of one of the protesters. He was not arrested. Sullivan said he also intended to "support the Black community" with his attendance, but also feels it was "important to understand" those who were protesting in support of President Donald Trump. "But some of the 40-minute video he posted to his social media sites contradicts his assertion that he and another woman were "only filming" the actions and not participating as he can be heard in the video encouraging people to join them as they push their way through police barricades." As far as folks in Seattle are concerned, their problem is Solan, not Sullivan, no matter what the Utah activist was doing. And this part of the Seattle Times reporting suggests why: "Solan, a Seattle police officer since 1999, was elected president of the department's rank and file union last year with more than 70% of the vote. He ran as a hard-line candidate, arguing that police were "under unreasonable levels of scrutiny." A campaign video for Solan praised him for speaking at the scene of a police shooting, "supporting officers' actions and quickly capturing the narrative." "Over the summer, he emerged as a frequent guest on conservative media, condemning protesters and Seattle's elected leaders." Here's why Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley are truly in danger of getting booted from the US Senate Senators Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz should be afraid. Very afraid. There's a very real possibility that they might soon find themselves on the business end of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Hawley and Cruz -- likely in that order -- are truly in danger of getting booted from the U.S. Senate by their fellow senators. As historian Michael Beschloss and others have noted, the legal basis is clear, dating back to the post-Civil War amendment ratified during Reconstruction in 1868. Amendment XIV Section 3 states definitively that "no person shall hold any office" if as a member of Congress they "shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof." It's never good news to get caught helping out in a civil war when you're holding a job with qualifications that read "hasn't helped out in a civil war." Well, that's what Hawley and Cruz just did: The organized insurrectionists incited and directed by Donald Trump to attack the Capitol were doing so in the name of a borderless civil war. (The fact that Trump continues to shun any expression of sympathy for fallen Capitol police officers confirms he regards them as enemy casualties). Not long after these heavily armed insurrectionists stormed the U.S. Capitol for the expressed purpose of preventing Congress' certification of the 2020 election -- keyword, "after" -- Hawley moved to give their seditious cause "aid and comfort" by challenging the election results of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Cruz had done the same before the insurrection with respect to the state of Arizona. Both were among senators who voted to reject Pennsylvania's electors. If you're looking for clues as to why the whole enterprise might have been not-so-kosher by this point in time, Hawley yielded his five minutes of time, his first shunning of a microphone or camera in 41 years on the planet. Hawley knew who he was helping and why and wasn't about to add to the record. But while the conduct of Hawley and Cruz affronted the Constitution's language, the remedy is purely political. That, too, lies in the Constitution: Article 1 Section reserves solely to each chamber of Congress the power to "determine the Rules of its Proceedings, punish its Members for disorderly Behaviour, and, with the Concurrence of two thirds, expel a Member." So it comes down to this: Would 17 Republicans join 50 Democrats and independents in taking a patriotic stand against the sedition of Hawley and Cruz? For the blue team, it's not a tough vote, because January 6 will forever remain on a shortlist of tragic days in American history. Doing nothing shouldn't be an option with regard to members of Congress who actively abetted it. For both parties, however, almost all political questions come down to three criteria: 1) Is this in our political self-interest?' 2) Is this in our political self-interest, and 3) Is this in our political self-interest? Normally, that would be that -- as it was during Trump's impeachment -- and the prospect of finding 17 Republicans to vote against him would be impossible. That might remain the case here. But the big problem for Hawley and Cruz is that this wasn't just any domestic terrorist event: It was one that jeopardized the lives of all members of Congress and their staffs, across party lines. Many found themselves quaking under desks making farewell calls to loved ones. And lots of stuff got messed up. Let's not mince words: They are pissed off and are likely to stay pissed off at Trump and anyone who gave him and his terrorist minions an iota of aid and comfort, especially after the attack occurred. This one literally hit home to them. This brings us back to the politics. What would be the consequence, in terms of angering the Trump base, to punishing Hawley and Cruz for supporting his cause? And even if Hawley and Cruz can wrap themselves in MAGA flags now, will that matter two or four years from now? Further, would a defanged and de-platformed Trump himself matter by then, especially if he's off making license plates somewhere? Unhelpful to both senators are the low esteem with which they are held by colleagues, even on their own side of the aisle. Cruz has long held the "most hated man in the Senate" without much competition, pretty much by acclamation. Compare him to a snake and the reptile lobby will go nuts on you. Hawley might not quite be living on Cruz Island, but he's not far from it. Consider this from the New York Times Friday: "The day after Josh Hawley became the first Republican senator to say he would indulge President Trump's demand that lawmakers try to overturn the election, a reporter asked if he thought the gambit would make him unpopular with his colleagues." "'More than I already am?' he retorted." Such a lovable guy. But getting back to the original question about political self-interest, there's a factor that weighs against Hawley more than Cruz: Removing him would mean replacing him, with near certainty, with another Republican. And it would probably do a favor to Senator Roy Blunt, a highly regarded member of the party's Senate leadership, who has potential primary concerns of his own as he faces reelection in 2022. Missouri is one of the Trumpiest states in America, having favored him by 15 percentage points this year and 19 percent in the 2016 election. Were Hawley ejected from the Senate, his replacement would be chosen by Republican Governor Mike Parson--one of the most pro-Trump governors in the nation -- and that person who would stand for a special election alongside Blunt in 2022. Missouri in 2022 would host a rare dual-senator election like Georgia did in 2020, but with a far higher likelihood of success for the Republicans. Blunt would benefit from running alongside a teammate. Parson would benefit because he could break a logjam of statewide Republican officeholders looking for higher office, including his (Parson is term-limited out in 2024). Hawley has been disowned by his erstwhile patron saint, former Senator Jack Danforth, and two of the state's most influential and wealthy GOP political donors. So the Republican Party writ large would be glad to be rid of Hawley, who is almost certainly damaged goods for the long term. Even if the party decides it needs a Trump acolyte to carry its banner in 2024, there's a long list of people with last names like Trump, Pompeo, and Haley standing ahead of him in that regard. For Cruz, the politics are a bit foggier. Unlike Hawley, he has been around quite a while and has more of a natural base of his own. But far more important, Texas is growing more purple by the day. The Republican Party runs a real risk of losing a seat if it jettisons Cruz as it would open the possibility of a Democrat winning the seat in 2022. Cruz isn't up until 2024. Plus, Cruz didn't inadvertently pose for an iconic fist-pump-to-the-seditionists photo like Hawley did on his way to the Capitol. (That one will help every bit as much smiling from a tank helped not-President Michael Dukakis in 1988.) And Cruz isn't continuing to act in as bellicose a fashion as Hawley, who is continuing to spout "I will never apologize!" and claiming ludicrously that Simon and Schuster abridged his First Amendment rights by dumping his book deal. Still, Cruz did offer aid and comfort to Donald Trump's cause and, by implication, his little army. And given that so much champagne would flow so freely among so many senators across the aisle were Cruz kicked to the curb, it cannot be ruled out that they'd gleefully kick him to the curb over sedition. Now if you're thinking none of this could possibly be real, look no further back than a quarter of a century, when longtime Senator Bob Packwood of Oregon was facing expulsion. Over a period of a few years, a sordid history had emerged of Packwood having sexually harassed female aides and other women. Plus he had altered diaries to cover it up. Packwood resigned in disgrace in 1995, but only after the Senate Ethics Committee voted unanimously -- under Chairman Mitch McConnell, of all people -- to have him expelled from the Senate. Kicking out a senator hasn't happened often, but it's not out of the question. Long before the Me Too movement, Republican senators were ready to boot a senator for sexually harassing people in the Capitol building. So might they do the same for a senator who offered aid and comfort for people who stormed that very building with guns blazing? We'll all have to wait on the edge of our seats to learn the answer to that one. You can rest assured that Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz are. 'More unstable than what?' Critics wonder what Mike Pence is waiting for Some prominent figures are reacting rather strongly to a report from CNN's Jim Acosta that Vice President might invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Donald Trump's power should he become "more unstable." Mary Trump, the president's niece and most prominent psychologist analyst, weighed in, "'More unstable' is the equivalent of having an amp that goes to 11." Writer Tom Nichols had a pretty good take: "More unstable. How bad does it have to get? Nixon has some drinks and rails about enemies in the residence, and GOP senators are calling SECDEF to secure the nukes. Trump goes completely bye-bye and VP is like: Let's see if he thinks he's Gilgamesh before we do anything rash." And actress Morgan Fairchild asked Pence, "More unstable than what? He almost got you killed last time." Rep. Eric Swalwell tweeted incredulously, "More unstable? Seriously? Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor, asked, "More unstable? How much more? What more does Trump need to do to demonstrate he's become too unstable." The hashtag #MOREUNSTABLE is obviously trending, with an endless parade of tweeters outdoing one another in working off the "more unstable" set up line. Here are some of the best so far, including some bank shots at Pence: Mike Pence announces "well, ordering domestic terrorists to murder me, laughing and dancing as they raged, that's n… https://t.co/goEwIBlI9S — Howard ✡ (@Howard ✡)1610244145.0 HE INCITED HIS INSANE NAZI FOLLOWERS TO STORM THE US CAPITOL AND HAD TO BE BANNED FROM TWITTER HOW MUCH MORE UNSTAB… https://t.co/Mge2eOb5vb — The Volatile Mermaid (@The Volatile Mermaid)1610243036.0 In case Trump becomes more unstable? How is that possible? https://t.co/1pw9DlsRzw — THE G🤥P'S M🤥RAL BANKRUPTCY (@THE G🤥P'S M🤥RAL BANKRUPTCY)1610251792.0 Just what exactly is more unstable than inciting a terrorist attack, and watching it live-streamed to his tent? A… https://t.co/ddsPpLUIqw — 🇺🇸Snaps #GovOfMinnechigan 🇺🇸 (@🇺🇸Snaps #GovOfMinnechigan 🇺🇸)1610250954.0 "MORE unstable" is acknowledgement of unstable. What exactly is @VP waiting for, the flying monkeys? https://t.co/UhTdwUhD0d — Carl J. Gerber (@Carl J. Gerber)1610250786.0 I think I speak for all of us when I say that no one wants to see what “more unstable“ looks like, ok Mike?!??? https://t.co/ZNC3QjQCyr — Tara Ewald🥁🌸🛹🌸🥁 (@Tara Ewald🥁🌸🛹🌸🥁)1610243557.0 What would Trump have to do to be considered “more unstable”? Incite a riot or assassination attempt of VP Pence?..… https://t.co/9c7sTwYzY1 — ᎠᏌNᎬᎷYᎢᎻᎪNᏩ™️ (@ᎠᏌNᎬᎷYᎢᎻᎪNᏩ™️)1610244355.0 Oh, “more unstable”. Because inciting an angry mob of rabid zombies to attack the Capital and inspire them to call… https://t.co/31LGEskhu9 — Jo (@Jo)1610241879.0 Pence wants to wait to see if his boss becomes “more unstable.” What? If my boss was trying to kill me, I certa… https://t.co/cSoBJ02MJd — Deb WARRIOR WOMAN Farmer 🇺🇸 (@Deb WARRIOR WOMAN Farmer 🇺🇸)1610245145.0 Man who plowed car into BLM protest gets a free pass -- but not the protesters Even in a nation in which "criminal justice" is an oxymoron it doesn't get much worse than what has happened in the wake of an Iowa City racial justice protest from last summer. As Time Magazine reports, "A white man who deliberately sped his car through a crowd of racial injustice protesters in Iowa City, striking several, will avoid prison and have the incident erased from his record if he stays out of trouble for three years." What's more, Michael Ray Stepanek, 45, "who told police he drove his Toyota Camry through the crowd in August because the protesters needed "an attitude adjustment," will receive a nice adjustment of his own: A $1,025 civil fine was suspended by Judge Paul Miller, along with the prospect of expungement of his record. As if that gentle touch on the wrist wasn't galling enough, in turns out that no such kindness will be forthcoming to many of the protesters who were on the business end of the wingnut's speeding car. For them, prosecutors are intent on bringing down the full weight of the law. In one of the larger understatements in recent history, Time reported this: "The Johnson County Attorney's Office, which agreed to Stepanek's plea deal, could face accusations of double standards as it continues to pursue charges against some Black Lives Matter protesters involved in the demonstrations last summer. "Prosecutors are pursuing 15 counts, including nine felonies, against a protest leader charged with shining a laser beam light in police officers' eyes in August. "A 20-year-old Black protester who carried an assault rifle through an Iowa City crowd in June has been indicted on a federal charge of illegally possessing a gun while using marijuana. The man, who faces up to 10 years in prison, had already been prosecuted by Johnson County on related charges after the gun was found during a traffic stop following the protest. "Stepanek's violence came during a downtown Iowa City protest organized by the Iowa Freedom Riders, whose members have been pushing for changes to policing for months. Police fired tear gas on them in June, outraging city leaders. "Police say Stepanek became enraged when he was stopped behind other vehicles after protesters blocked an intersection. He honked his horn then made a U-turn, squealing his tires to turn around. "Then, he shut off his lights, drove around the block, and turned onto a downtown street where there were no vehicles between him and the protesters, police say. Video shows his car striking multiple protesters, dragging one on his hood, before speeding off." It is highly unlikely any of the Black protesters will be treated to a public explanation that sounds anything like Stepanek received for his joy ride through a crowd of people. "Stepanek's attorney John Bruzek said his client was influenced by social media and political rhetoric characterizing the protesters as dangerous criminals," Time reported. "Stepanek initially believed he was legally justified but has come to see he was wrong and apologized, Bruzek said. "Michael understands how his conduct could have resulted in a much more serious and harmful situation," he said. So the Iowa judge graciously allowed "Michael" to plead to a charge less than a "forcible felony," allowing him to skate from a state law prohibiting deferred judgments for violent felons. He did have no prior criminal record and spent 76 days in jail awaiting trial. That probably is of little solace to one of the people Stepanek hit with his car. Here's Time's report on that: "A 21-year-old protest organizer said she had a sore leg after she was mowed down and that the incident opened her eyes to the "hatred of people in this community." "It was extremely jarring to have some stranger take it upon himself to punish a group of young unarmed people for inconvenience and/or political dissidence," the University of Iowa student wrote in a victim impact statement. She said the crime made her wary of cars and "paranoid about violence." Car drives through protesters in Iowa City www.youtube.com Sarah Palin strangely uses the insurrection to attack the media None other than Sarah Palin has jumped into the fray for a little counterprogramming on behalf of the insurrectionists unleashed today by Donald Trump. A large headline at Townhall.com blared: "'Knock It Off': What Has Sarah Palin Peeved About How Media Are Reporting DC Protesters" Here's how it was reported at the wacko right-wing website: "With the nation's capitol in chaos on Wednesday as protesters stormed the Capitol Building, Sarah Palin had a message for the media about how they ought to be reporting. "Sharing a photo of a bare-chested man wearing horns standing with other individuals inside the building, the former Alaska governor said they need to be identified before labeling them. "Media: quit labeling DC protestors 'Conservatives, Republicans, Tea Partiers, Trump Supporters, etc' LOOK IN TO (sic) WHO THESE PEOPLE ARE who'd choose an apparent leaderless insane swarm to create a perception of condoned violence. KNOCK IT OFF," she tweeted. "And to any insincere, fake DC "patriots" used as PLANTS - you will be found out." Media: quit labeling DC protestors “Conservatives, Republicans, Tea Partiers, Trump Supporters, etc” LOOK IN TO WHO… https://t.co/XYbYQti2xE — Sarah Palin (@Sarah Palin)1609965775.0 (2/2) And to any insincere, fake DC “patriots” used as PLANTS - you will be found out. Supporting Mama Grizzly's strange read on the situation, Town Hall offered this insight: "Jay Richards, research assistant professor at The Catholic University of America, questioned who would benefit most from such a situation. "One question: Who are the greatest beneficiaries from a crowd identified with MAGA and Trump storming the US Capitol, and footage of it being broadcast around the country and the world?" he asked. Richards pointed out vast numbers of Trump supporters were outside not engaged in a confrontation with Capitol Police to storm the building. "The reality is, we don't know at this point who exactly is storming the Capitol. We do know there are hundreds of thousands of pro-Trump people outside not doing so," he said. "So maybe it would be prudent to suspend judgment on who is doing what until we know more." Alternately, maybe it would be prudent not to get one's information from TownHall.com. Immediately after Trump's mob stormed the Capitol, here's how the website had reported the terrorism: "They've Had Enough: Trump Supporters Bust Inside Capitol; UPDATE: Shots Fired Inside Capitol" That was right around the time the similarly cranked information providers at TheGatewayPundit.com offered this: "BREAKING: Patriots Have Made Their Way INSIDE THE CAPITOL — Pence Evacuated, Lawmakers Sheltering in Place" the Gateway Pundit trumpeted. Its story, such as it was, began "Patriots have now made their way past the police and into the Capitol building." New GOP congresswoman basks in right-wing glory by packing her glock With thousands of armed zealots descending upon Washington D.C. spewing threats of violence in pursuit of a coup, it's reasonable enough that Congresswoman Lauren Boebert is talking about the need to protect herself. Unfortunately, she's one of them. Boebert, a newly elected Republican from Colorado, is basking in media glory before she even gets to work in Congress because of how she's coming to work in Congress: proudly packing her Glock. It was reported here in November that she had been asking around about carrying her gun on Capitol grounds. But this week, she struck wing-nut gold: After garnering support through a letter from fellow Republicans -- who, let's face it, will sign anything if it's creepy enough -- Boebert is now enjoying a full-throttle media joy ride. Fox News, desperate to crawl out of Trumper Time Out, greeted her with a hero's welcome. Boebert has gone viral with a 3-minute video and accompanying tweet that might best be described as having a QAnon Amazon Chic motif. It begins with her loading her weapon dramatically and then venturing out into the dangerous "liberal" streets of Washington D.C. (Boebert previously expressed support for QAnon, but now says she's not so sure.) In any event, her ad doesn't seem to suggest that you'd want her as your Congresswoman next door. Here it is: Let me tell you why I WILL carry my Glock to Congress. Government does NOT get to tell me or my constituents how… https://t.co/yA5KuB38Mx — Lauren Boebert (@Lauren Boebert)1609720406.0 Fox commentators heaped praise on Boebert for "exercising her Second Amendment rights." And sure enough, she got lots of Republican lawmakers to sign onto to a letter supporting that noble cause. Looking at many of them, it's probably the only exercise they'd endorse. Here's how Fox News reported her triumph: "The advertisement comes after Boebert wrote a letter to House leadership Friday, urging them to keep a 1967 rule that exempts lawmakers from a ban on firearms inside the Capitol building. The letter, which was signed by 82 other current and incoming GOP Congress members -- including Dan Crenshaw, Mo Brooks, Louie Gohmert, and Matt Gaetz -- came three days after 21 Democratic lawmakers asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy to change the 53-year-old rule to keep Boebert from carrying her gun into work. On Saturday, Boebert appeared to score a victory, as new rules unveiled by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi did not appear to include a proposed ban on firearms in the Capitol." There is another side of this, however. As Business Insider reports, the local police are not all that impressed: "The police chief of Washington, DC, said on Monday that the Metropolitan Police Department intended to contact newly elected GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert after she talked about carrying a handgun around the city. "'We plan to reach out to the congresswoman's office to make sure that she is aware of what the laws of the District of Columbia are, what the restrictions are," police Chief Robert Contee III said during a news conference. "The freshman lawmaker will be 'subjected to the same penalties for everyone else that's caught on the District of Columbia street carrying a firearm unlawfully,'" Contee added. Win, lose, or draw -- especially "draw," -- Boebert really can't lose. If she's prevented from carrying her weaponry, she'll be canonized by the National Rifle Association and every right-wing media outlet in the nation. If she's allowed to pack heat in the chamber, she'll probably be treated with extra civility. Her central mission is, after all, to defend herself. Normal members of Congress of either party or others in the nation might be inclined to ask this longer-term question: Who's going to protect us from Lauren Boebert? These 9 red states should have their results thrown out based on GOP 'fraud' claims Everyone knows Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will be sworn in January 20. Donald Trump will leave by that day, one way or another. Before that happens, however, a sizeable number of Republicans will challenge the integrity of U.S. elections to curry favor with Trump's angry political base. It is perhaps the most ironic of Trump's legacies that the subject of election reform will long outlast his tenure. It indeed cries out for attention, just not for the bogus reasons he claims. Voter suppression and the need to make the franchise more accessible to more Americans do require immediate attention. When Trump realized many months ago that he was likely to get beaten by Biden, he resorted to the same undemocratic tactic he had employed as a 2016 presidential candidate during both the primary and general elections. Trump convinced his followers of a binary choice. Either he would win, or the election surely had been rigged against him. In 2020, faced with the COVID-19 pandemic he was so desperate to deny, Trump's choice of bogeymen for this purpose was easy: Any measures taken to make voting easier -- something Republicans instinctively resist -- would be the source of fraud against him. And the low-hanging fruit was to claim falsely that mail-in balloting was inherently corrupt, with the likes of drop-off ballot sites and relaxed submission deadlines not far behind. There is no evidence to support Trump's nonsensical claims, but that's hardly deterred him from the repeating his lies thousands of times for the purpose of rendering them truthful to millions. So the nation will be hearing from a handful of lean and hungry politicians this week -- led by Missouri Senator Josh Hawley -- who will essentially argue that the effectiveness of Trump's demagoguery is reason enough to doubt a legitimate election. Lacking any evidence, the arguments will default to taking issue with the basic notion of making voting safer and more accessible. While the nation humors that -- and even after Congress' certification of the election for Biden and Harris -- it should be noted that among the more suspects in Hawley's illogic are nine red states that gave their electoral votes to Trump. In all nine instances, these Republican-run states adopted measures designed to promote safer and easier ballot access during the pandemic. Here are the states that Hawley should thus be trying to disqualify Wednesday in Congress: Utah; Ohio; North Carolina; Kentucky; Iowa; Kansas; West Virginia; North Dakota; and Nebraska. The 69 electoral votes of these states surely were "tainted" by a combination of mail-in balloting, drop off boxes, lack of signature requirements, acceptance of ballots beyond the election day and a variety of relaxed rules to accommodate the special circumstances of the pandemic. The source is a state-by-state scoreboard of pandemic voting measures compiled by the Brookings Institute, published in October and last updated Election Day. Brookings researchers graded states on the basis of how well they accommodated mail-in voting and the like, on a scale from A to F. Trump supporters would reverse the grades. Here's the premise of the research: "Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, many have wondered if the U.S. can conduct a safe election in November. What we know is this: The safest and most secure way to vote in a pandemic is vote-by-mail. During the 2020 primaries, coronavirus severely disrupted elections. State voting systems were overwhelmed by long lines, an influx of absentee ballot requests, and technology issues. Considering this, we have chosen to assess the ease of mail voting in each of the 50 states and Washington, D.C., on dimensions such as requesting, completing, and submitting a mail-in ballot. This scorecard does not attempt to gauge overall voter experiences or cover all aspects of the voting system. It is a forward-looking and evolving analysis of what states are doing now to expand access and improve the process of voting by absentee ballot or via a universal vote-by-mail system, thereby improving voting in a pandemic." Brookings gave A's to eight states, including the five that already had laws requiring that ballots be sent to all voters: Utah, Colorado, Oregon, Washington and Hawaii. None of them had been accused before of fraudulent behavior before 2020. One of them, Utah, is a red state. Conversely, eight states were also given F's and D's for poor voter access, including Hawley's Missouri. Of the eight, Virginia and New Hampshire were blue states. Here's a breakdown of the nine red states that received either an A or B from Brookings, meaning they were highly suspect of terrible behavior by the Republicans' new definition, complete with a list of their offenses: Voters automatically receive a ballot Ballot does not require a witness signature Ballot is accepted if postmarked by election day and received beyond 5 or more days from election day Drop-off boxes, mail, and in-person channels are available Ohio: All registered voters receive an application Voters can submit an application for an absentee ballot via three or more channels Ballot is accepted if postmarked by election day and received within 5 days from election day Mail and in-person channels are available. Kentucky: COVID-19 concerns are permitted to request an application Ballot is accepted if postmarked by election day and received beyond 5 or more day Iowa: Mail and in-person channels are available Kansas: No excuse is required for an application West Virginia: North Dakota: Nebraska: Republicans will use Trump's bogus election claims to push for more voter suppression in 2021 Long after Donald Trump is extracted from the White House, voter suppression will live on more zealously than ever in states across the nation. Increased stifling of democracy will rank as one of Trump's more noxious legacies, which is saying something. An ABC News report Thursday that in at least five key battleground states, "Republican state lawmakers are taking the baseless claims of fraud and lack of election integrity often promoted by the president and repeated by their constituents, into the 2021 session as arguments for changing election law." Those states are Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, Arizona and Texas. ABC reported that "Republicans across the country are still using fraud claims as justification for proposed legislation that would undo some provisions, some implemented during the coronavirus, such as the use of ballot drop boxes and no-excuse absentee voting." Sylvia Albert, director of voting and elections at the nonpartisan voting rights group Common Cause, expressed concern. "Obviously we saw record turnout everywhere and part of that was because access to the ballot was expanded. And obviously nothing is perfect," she told ABC News. "We would want improvements and improvements should be made, with consultation with election officials and election security experts and advocates in the community, but that's not what we're seeing. "What we're seeing is legislatures adopting the president's lies about there being problems with the election," Albert added, referring to unsubstantiated claims about voting machines changing votes, fraudulent signature matching processes and other baseless claims promoted by the president." Georgia Senate Republican Whip Steve Gooch had this to say for the efforts to "crack down" on such presumed horrors as ballot drop boxes and no-excuse absentee balloting (in use since 2005): "We have totally lost confidence in our election system this year," said during a committee hearing about the election. "I'm here on behalf of those citizens. I have a duty to let you know that this issue isn't going to go away unless we make some changes." You can read the full report here: https://abcn.ws/3hzt52C ABC News is not alone in observing the efforts in Georgia. Last month, Savannah Morning News editorial page editor Adam Van Brimmer noted that Republicans are facing a crossroads with Democrats now threatening the stranglehold they've held on state politics for the past two decades. Here's part of his December 12 column: "The GOP (has) two options to stem the blue wave: Sell their ideas or make voting more difficult. Electioneering is always easier, at least when you have the power of the majority. And that's what the Legislature's Republicans intend to do in the 2021 session by pushing measures that would limit absentee balloting, complicate the voting process and perhaps even move toward making the state's top election official, the secretary of state, a post chosen by them instead of the voters. To borrow a silly slogan, 'stop the steal.'" Another bizarre pro-Trump election lawsuit bites the dust Loony Louie Gohmert just had his zany lawsuit against Vice President Mike Pence tossed on the sad heap of Krakens. Gohmert and some other Republicans were trying to get the courts to require Pence to abuse his position as U.S. Senate presiding officer to make his own call about which electors counted on January 6. Once again, the nonsense of the Republicans' legal clown car was rejected by a Republican judge appointed to his post by Donald Trump. This time it was Judge Jeremy Kernodle hammering one more nail in the judicial coffin. LawandCrime.com had this report tonight: A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed against Vice President Mike Pence by Rep. Louie Gohmert and fake pro-Trump electors on Friday, finding that plaintiffs lacked standing. "The problem for Plaintiffs here is that they lack standing. Plaintiff Louie Gohmert, the United States Representative for Texas's First Congressional District, alleges at most an institutional injury to the House of Representatives. Under well- settled Supreme Court authority, that is insufficient to support standing," U.S. District Judge Jeremy Kernodle wrote, echoing the Department of Justice's argument that plaintiffs sued the wrong defendant. "The other Plaintiffs, the slate of Republican Presidential Electors for the State of Arizona (the 'Nominee-Electors'), allege an injury that is not fairly traceable to the Defendant, the Vice President of the United States, and is unlikely to be redressed by the requested relief." Perhaps the most hilarious part of the story came earlier today when Gohmert's crack legal team argued in vain against Trump's own Justice Department: "They say that the Vice President, the glorified envelope-opener in chief, has no authority to preside over anything else or to decide anything of substance or to even count the votes in those weighty envelopes. He is only the envelope-opener." Incredibly, those words were in a filed legal pleading in federal court. As opposed, say, being contained in the transcript of two drunks arguing in an alley. Pence, apparently hoping for future employment opportunities more glorious than envelope opening, had pushed backed strongly against getting drawn into the nonsense. His attorneys argued that the plaintiffs' complaint was with Congress, not him. As NPR had reported recently, "In some key battleground states, groups of Republicans have baselessly declared themselves to be 'alternate electors,' claiming to represent the true wishes of the voters. Gohmert and the other plaintiffs — including a group of proclaimed electors from Arizona — argue that when confronted with competing slates of electors, the Constitution gives Pence the power to choose which electors to certify. Kernodle let Pence off the hook for now. But Pence might have less luck ducking from public view January 6, when the world's cameras are trained upon his hapless announcement that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have been officially certified President and Vice President by Congress. Josh Hawley's Electoral College stunt is a hopeless distraction -- this is what he is really up to Missouri Senator's Josh Hawley announced plan to fight for Donald Trump's attempted coup next Wednesday in Congress has everything to do with Hawley. And nothing to do with Trump. Hawley did what he does best -- receive major headlines -- with his announcement that he'll contest the presidential election results in Congress next week. He's doing Trump's bidding for one reason, and one reason alone: He's running for the 2024 Republican nomination for president. Esquire Magazine didn't dub him the "Thirstiest Man in Washington D.C." for nothing. The announcement was a brilliant political move. Hawley elbowed several of his top challengers for 2024, including Vice President Mike Pence (who had to be praying no senator would allow the circus to proceed), and some fellow Republican senators including, but not limited to, Ted Cruz, Tom Cotton, Marco Rubio and Rick Scott. In a recent Chicago Tribune piece, Hawley was alone among that group in having publicly pledged to support Trump should he run again. That's vintage Hawley. Most observers agree that the odds of another Trump candidacy are slim to none, so why not support the return of King Lear? In the same vein, Hawley well knows this is a hopeless quest. All that's required for failure is for a majority of either chamber to reject challenges to states' certification of electors. There's virtually a 100 percent chance of that happening: The Democratic controlled House of Representatives will deny any objection if the sun comes up in the east on January 6. But for Hawley, this has nothing to do with winning in Congress. By being willing to fall on the sword and make the pro-forma effort to please Trump, he wins with the prized base when he loses. It's a political clinic. And it shows why Hawley has emerged as the preeminent master of smoke-and-mirrors on the national stage. Consider this: Josh Hawley has only held public office for four years. In 2016, he made his first (and successful) run for office at 36, becoming Missouri attorney general as nothing more an associate law professor at the University of Missouri. He hadn't spent a moment in public office. He didn't come from a successful business career. He wasn't even a full professor. Hawley's two years as attorney general were unremarkable, He joined the Republicans' national legal assault on Obamacare. He jumped on the pile investigating Missouri's corrupt, now-former Governor Eric Greitens and -- tellingly -- he took a swipe at Big Tech, his signature issue today. That was no coincidence. Hawley used his fleeting moments as attorney general to run for the next office, almost from the start. With the help of some big-money donors, Hawley took on Senator Claire McCaskill, who, despite a centrist voting record, had widely been sent as vulnerable in a state Trump had won in 2016 by almost 19 percentage points. In 2018, the Kansas City Star reported that his office wasn't merely influenced by his national aspirations. It was basically run by his consultants. "Josh Hawley pledged to Missouri voters in 2016 that he was not the kind of career politician who would use "one office to get to another. But within weeks of Hawley's swearing in as the state's top law enforcement official, the high-powered political team that would go on to run his U.S. Senate campaign had stepped in to help direct the office of the Missouri attorney general — and raise his national profile. "Out-of-state political consultants gave direct guidance and tasks to his taxpayer-funded staff, and followed up to ensure the tasks were completed, according to emails, text messages and other records" obtained by The Kansas City Star." Hawley would go on to an upset win over McCaskill. He became the U.S. Senate's most junior member, but one of the loudest. As Esquire writer Charles Pierce observed, "In a town full of thirsty people, Josh Hawley is a man crawling across the Kalahari. And this is the thing that I know for certain. The most dangerous place to stand in Washington D.C. is any place between Senator Josh Hawley and a live microphone." So the story continues. There's literally nothing one can take at face value about Hawley. He grew up comfortably in rural Missouri as a banker's son yet spins wonderful tales about his upbringing on a farm. He was educated in private schools and at elite institutions like Stanford and Yale universities, but since his maiden Senate speech in 2017, has been railing about cosmopolitan elites. That angle that drew condemnation by the Anti-Defamation League and rave reviews on Nazi websites. Hawley bemoans the evils of money in politics but is one of the most shrewd and effective fundraisers on the national scene. He ran in 2018 as an admirer of Trump's tax cuts and pounded McCaskill for having opposed them, but his favorite populist-rhetoric schtick is to attack the evil Wall Street power brokers who benefitted from Trump's largesse. Hawley has adroitly used social-media platforms to build a formidable national political base by trashing social-media platforms. So it's hardly a shock that he's now crusading for Trump as a loyal Republican by forcing a vote that Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and others fear as toxic to holding the Senate in 2022 and maybe in the short run. On the day after the election, Hawley staked out his turf as a potential leader of Republicans by acting like he wasn't one of them: Republicans in Washington are going to have a very hard time processing this. But the future is clear: we must be a… https://t.co/wV6Q3kbwla — Josh Hawley (@Josh Hawley)1604542107.0 Josh Hawley should never be underestimated, even when embarking on what appear an impossible dream, such as the present political errand for Trump. What a perfect guy to call out fraud. He is one. Rev. Warnock attacks Kelly Loeffler's fear-mongering in latest ad billed as his closing message As the Georgia U.S. Senate races heads into its final week, Democratic Senate candidate Raphael Warnock has not shied from making it personal. Here's what the Atlanta Journal-Constitution is reporting as the campaign's "closing message" in an ad released Tuesday: "Kelly Loeffler spends tens of millions of dollars to scare you. She's attacked my church, attacked my faith. She's even attacked my family. She's trying to make you afraid of me because she's afraid of you," Warnock said, walking down an empty street as he speaks directly to the camera. "Afraid that you understand how she's used her position in the Senate to enrich herself and others like her. Afraid that you'll realize that we can do better." The newspaper reported the ad campaign as a response to "a steady barrage of attacks aimed at Warnock's past sermons and stances." More than $500 million has been spent or reserved on advertising for the two pivotal races, one pitting Warnock and Senator Kelly Loeffler, the other between John Ossoff and Senator David Perdue. Both Republicans have had to defend against charges that they've used their positions for personal enrichment. In Loeffler's case, she has tried to change the subject. "Loeffler's campaign and her allies have rejected accusations that she leveraged her position and have relentlessly accused Warnock, the pastor of Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church and a first-time candidate, of being too liberal for Georgia," reports the Journal-Constitution. "Republicans have also emphasized comments from Warnock in defense of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright when his sermons became a flashpoint in Barack Obama's 2008 bid for president. Warnock has pushed back on attempts to tie him to Wright's controversial remarks. In a TV messaging pivot, Loeffler also recently debuted an ad focusing on her rural roots, which included images of braces she once wore on her legs and an eye patch to fix a childhood vision problem." In the new ad, Warnock counters -- and closes -- with his personal narrative: "I'm Raphael Warnock, and if you elect me to the Senate, I'll wake up everyday, guided by the values of hard work and passion instilled in me by my parents and inspired by the words of Dr. King who said that "Life's most persistent and urgent question is what are you doing for others?" Even in these crazy times, I still think it's possible to work together to improve the lives of Georgians. All Georgians. That's exactly what I'll do in Washington. I approve this message and humbly ask for your vote." Watch the ad below: This election is a choice between hope and fear. I'm humbly asking for your vote so I can get to work for all Geo… https://t.co/NWJlNFOKZN — Reverend Raphael Warnock (@Reverend Raphael Warnock)1609254000.0 Even if it's fake news -- you gotta love Space Force trending Space Force. The final frontier of fake news. These are the voyages of the Starship Trump. It's a 5-minute mission: to explore strange new hoaxes. To seek out new scams and new suckers. To boldly go where no corrupt politician has ever gone before. in a nation that has turned its lonely eyes to social media in the collective second-by-second countdown until the end of 2020, we now have the likes of #SpaceForce and #Starship Troopers trending. It's all about unconfirmed new designs for the Guardians of Space Force. It might be fake news. But who cares? It is important to understand that any discussion of Space Force has a high probability of preposterousness as long as the asteroid Donald Trump hovers over America. Ever the master brander, Trump has slapped his name on the program like an old casino purchased on the auction block. The Space Force program actually began under President Ronald Reagan, although its 1982 origins are known mostly to Americans who have bookmarked https://www.spaceforce.mil, the agency's official website. There you'll find a futuristic logo and a catchy name -- Space Force Guardians -- but to date, at least, there are no cool uniform designs to see. Don't tell that to the good people and bots on Twitter. Today, the platform is enjoying a meteor shower of tweets unveiling --and mercilessly ridiculing -- new uniform designs that may well have originated over a good bong somewhere. Twitter has greeted it all with annoying solemnity: "Military spokesperson says the viral mock-ups of US Space Force uniforms that are being compared Starship Troopers and Spaceballs costumes are not real The uniform graphic being shared on social media is not an official US Space Force uniform design concept," Maj. Nick Mercurio said in an email to Military.com. "The Space Force service dress uniform is still in development." An earlier disclaimer for #Starship Troopers was less definitive: "People are comparing some unofficial US Space Force uniform concepts to those seen in 1997's Starship Troopers and 1987's Spaceballs. The military has not yet confirmed what uniform concepts will actually go into production." Never have disclaimers mattered less. Whoever came up with the new designs that have turned Twitter a virtual military-fashion runway deserves all the likes and retweets they get. With the caveat that some tweets might have disappeared by the time you read this, what follows are some of the finer descriptions of what the Guardians might be styling. One of the earlier posters was Travis Akers, veteran Navy military officer and social-media sensation and activist. And who doesn't love a good Spaceballs reference? Space Force uniforms look like Spaceballs uniforms. https://t.co/PJsxBm5mdU — Davram Stiefler (@Davram Stiefler)1609259480.0 No less a fashion expert than the distinguished never-Trumper Bill Kristol weighed in: Yikes. Decline is a choice. https://t.co/XK8MFji7ye — Bill Kristol (@Bill Kristol)1609258396.0 Others came up with their own designs: Little concerned about the new Space Force uniform design https://t.co/pWprfqjX45 — garf,,,the quaranteen (@garf,,,the quaranteen)1609259862.0 It’s like they didn’t even look at my suggestion for the Space Force uniforms. 😢 https://t.co/a6EDz1fryF https://t.co/bGmFSnl6Ua — Booster (@Booster)1609260686.0 The latest posts are greeted increasingly with the warning from some website called taskandpurpose.com: "No these Space Force uniform concepts aren't real. Would you like to know more?" Here are my two responses: I don't care. And no. With all the depressing real news raining upon the world like a meteor shower, we could all do worse than have a robust debate about Space Guardian garb in detoxing from 2020 and Donald Trump. Trump supporters short-circuit after the New York Post tells him to 'stop the insanity' When you lose the New York Post, you've lost the padded room. Loyalists of Donald Trump have short-circuited over the Post's betrayal of him in Monday's cover-story editorial calling for him to accept his loss to President-elect Joe Biden. It was a bridge too far for an army of followers that knows a little something about buying bridges. Newsmax star and oddcast host Greg Kelly was having none of it for his 280k Twitter followers: Thing is...he Didn’t Lose. https://t.co/ld64cSjOFB — Greg Kelly (@Greg Kelly)1609161450.0 And wacko former New York Police Commissioner is so upset that he lost control of his grammar: It’s mind boggling that no one has the courage to fight back. He did not lose the election! Even the @nypost has co… https://t.co/gFOcECusXt — Bernard B. Kerik (@Bernard B. Kerik)1609183745.0 This account with 68k followers even played the Christie card in anger: @NYPostOpinion @nypost Chris Christie could have written this. This piece is a joke. — PollWatch (@PollWatch)1609170238.0 Another account with more than 40k followers summed it up with the "T" word: The NY Post has committed treason https://t.co/cQjBb20Cn1 — Toxic Avenger1 🇺🇸 (@Toxic Avenger1 🇺🇸)1609175879.0 Still another made short use of the "F" word: Fck you @NYPostOpinion https://t.co/uTXfUgTHJe — MeTheDeplorableChump (@MeTheDeplorableChump)1609177452.0 A Trump loyalist who now has "Kraken" as her middle name is standing firm: @newsmax Last I checked @realDonaldTrump doesn’t work for the NY Post, or China...he works for WE THE PEOPLE. https://t.co/SnlBLUFMCP — Joanne Kraken Pappas ⭐️⭐️⭐️ (@Joanne Kraken Pappas ⭐️⭐️⭐️)1609182212.0 And business isn't booming in the subscription department: @nypost shame on the #NewYorkPost for today’s cover story. You are a disgrace. Canceling my subscription. Never… https://t.co/tnGYknhs1C — President-Elect Richard (@President-Elect Richard)1609182077.0 Finally, this one sums up that so much of the Republican world is to blame: @realDonaldTrump #NYPostEditorial DISGRACE!!! I just cancelled my subscription to it. This is a Coup‼️It's been in… https://t.co/eBa0LuiVf1 — hyland11 (@hyland11)1609172964.0 Of course, there were others from the Dark Side that rather enjoyed the moment. Here are two of the better examples: The NY Post is the shittiest paper in the City, and they LOVE trump. You have to be completely batshit crazy to los… https://t.co/fxpSW2Q3Fn — BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@BrooklynDad_Defiant!)1609169240.0 The @nypost turning on @realDonaldTrump is like @Playboy turning on boobs https://t.co/Z6qyAgOFS6 — Erin Brockovich (@Erin Brockovich)1609168984.0 Still, at the end of the day, no recounting of the reactions to Trump's betrayal by the Post would be complete without a trip down memory lane to the archives of his erstwhile favorite newspaper. While many in the Trump base have relied upon the Post for its deep and analytical insights, at the end of the day, it's all about the headlines. Today's "STOP THE INSANITY" wasn't bad, but the New York Post has done better. 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__label__cc	0.659666	0.340334	The Truth About Us Dirty Swedish Player Butt Ending Big Stick Mr. So Wrong Mr. All Wrong Where Promises Die Where Promises Die Cover Reveal! Dick is coming April 25th! Bitter Sweet Love is FREE for a limited time! Title: Where Promises Die Author: R.C. Stephens Release: February 20, 2017 “You have no right to be in here.” She took another few steps into the room and crossed her arms over her chest. Her lips pursed in anger. “This is my personal space. Keyword being personal,” she emphasized. “I honestly didn’t mean to intrude on your privacy,” he spoke quickly. “The door was open a nudge and my curiosity got the best of me. We’ve been apart so long, I was hoping to get some answers about the woman you are today,” he answered honestly. It was the truth. He’d made her that promise and kept it all along, even when the truth hurt. “You’re right. You have no clue who I am today. If you wanted to know, you should have asked me instead of sneaking into my room like some creeper to stare at my work,” she snapped, her voice elevated and shaky. Eisav’s lips turned up in a slow curve. “Is that what you think? I’m a creeper.” He laughed and it came deep from his chest. “You know … I think you’re the only woman alive that would have this reaction to me being in her room. ” He quipped and then immediately regretted his words when he took in the frown on her lips. “I’m sorry, Mr. Rock Star, if my panties aren’t getting in a twist over you, but I’ve had more serious and pressing problems in my life than worrying about my next concert.” Her words came out harsh, bitter. “Is that how you see me?” Eisav’s eyes grew hooded. “I’m not a rock star. I’m a boy that fell in love with a girl in a forest at the break of dawn.” His voice grew soft and tender as he took two steps forward and pointed to the first painting he saw when he walked in the room. The painting of a young Grace and Eisav in their forest for the first time. “And if I’m not mistaken, that girl fell in love with me …” He put his palm to his heart, feeling winded yet full of hope that she would finally come to her senses and realize that what he said was true. Grace’s eyes turned wide and her insides began to quiver as she allowed the brunt of his words to penetrate her mind. Then something inside her switched off. She almost seemed shocked with herself that she had called him a creeper. Her eyes grew soft, shoulders slackened. She felt like each of her limbs were shouting to run into Eisav’s arms, but she fought them with every fiber of her being. Deep down she was always his. As much as she worked to deny that fact, it always rang true. Now it felt like there was a magnetic force pulling them together and it was too strong for her to resist. Taking her silence as rejection, Eisav’s lips turned down. “I won’t let you back away from me.” He took a few steps until he was close enough to touch her. Then he grazed the pad of his thumb along her cheek. Her eyes began to swell with tears as her walls slowly chipped away. “I’m here, Gracie. I’m not walking away,” he began to say. Follow me on Bookbub and Enter to Win a $100 Amazon Gift Card! Giveaway!!! 2 Signed Paperbacks of Dick up for grabs? Dick free book Giveaway Holiday romance Sale Twisted Series Where Promises Die Wild Cards Bec green commented on Wild Cards: A Twisted Novel 3 (Standalone) © R.C. Stephens \| Theme customized by Christy Makes It Pop! \| Privacy Policy.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line2144
__label__wiki	0.956915	0.956915	Kemoy Campbell Collapses While Pacing Men’s 3K at Millrose Games The Jamaican Olympian remains hospitalized, but his family has a positive update on his condition to share. By Taylor J. Dutch Kevin Morris What should have been another day at the track turned into a tragic turn of events for Kemoy Campbell. While pacing the men’s 3,000-meter run at the Millrose Games on Saturday, the Jamaican Olympian collapsed on the inside of the track and was transported to New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center that evening. As of Monday morning, Campbell is still being treated at the hospital. The official cause of his collapse hasn’t been released. The 28-year-old, who trains with the Reebok Boston Track Club, led the field past the 1K mark, when he began to slow down and grimace in pain. Then, Campbell suddenly collapsed on the inside of the railing. Immediately, event organizers rushed to his side and brought medical personnel onto the track. Announcers on the NBC Sports broadcast reported that Campbell was unconscious for a period of time, and emergency responders had to use a defibrillator to revive the runner. Local police and the fire department arrived on the scene, as Campbell remained on the track. The meet stopped completely. Applause for the athlete and the emergency workers. pic.twitter.com/oT0B2QuusG — Joe Fleming (@ByJoeFleming) February 9, 2019 Campbell collapsed next to the ring where the shot putters were competing. When the throwers saw that Campbell was on the ground, the athletes immediately moved equipment to make room for medical personnel. While Campbell was being treated, world champion Joe Kovacs, Olympic champion Ryan Crouser, Jamaican standout Ashinia Miller, Josh Awotunde, and Curtis Jensen all took a knee together. A group of shot putters keep Jamaican runner Kemoy Campbell in their thoughts, after Campbell collapsed near the shot put area during the men's 3000m. ❤️ pic.twitter.com/FwbWx0xkIB — #TokyoOlympics (@NBCOlympics) February 9, 2019 Over 20 minutes later, Campbell was put on a stretcher and taken from the track to New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center, where he is currently sedated and undergoing tests. How to Give CPR “We are thankful for the team of doctors and first responders who assisted Kemoy and for the outpouring of support from the track and field community,” Campbell’s agent and Millrose Games meet director Ray Flynn wrote in a statement to Runner’s World. “Our thoughts and prayers are with Kemoy and his family.” On Sunday, Sports Illustrated reported from New York that Campbell was put in a medically induced coma for 48 hours and was on assisted breathing. Over email, Flynn told Runner’s World, “I continue to be encouraged,” by Campbell’s progress. On Monday morning, Campbell’s family issued a statement on the runner’s health: “Kemoy’s condition has not changed much. He is still sedated so that his body can rest. The doctors are some of the best in the world, and are keeping us constantly updated.” But on Tuesday morning, Campbell’s family shared a positive update on the runner’s condition: He’s currently stable in the intensive care unit, and is now awake and talking. However, he will continue to be monitored by doctors in the hospital. The Campbell family is accepting donations on GoFundMe to help support his medical costs. “Kemoy and his family are very grateful for the overwhelming support and outreach,” Flynn wrote in a statement. “The Campbell family would also like to express their gratitude for the team of doctors at New York Presbyterian/Columbia University Hospital, and the quick response of The Armory’s onsite medical professionals and doctors who assisted Kemoy, and for the outpouring of support from the track and field community.” Editor’s note: This article has been updated to include further information about Campbell’s health, which was released by his family on February 12. Taylor J. Dutch Contributing Writer Taylor Dutch is a sports and fitness writer living in Chicago; a former NCAA track athlete, Taylor specializes in health, wellness, and endurance sports coverage. High Cardio Fitness Lowers Risk of Heart Disease USATF Indoor Champs Canceled Because of Pandemic An Avocado a Day Can Boost Your Gut Health Leadership Changes, Mass Layoffs Continue at NYRR Should I Run Before or After My Workout? Compete Against Your Friends’ Workouts With Shred Here's How to Watch “The Courage to Run” Peloton Just Released 3 Exclusive Elvis Remixes Millrose Games This Is the Indoor Track Meet You NEED to Watch This Saturday Kemoy Campbell Retires 7 Months After Collapse Millrose Games Will Be on YouTube	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line2146
__label__cc	0.744142	0.255858	SS&J New Mexico doctors and malpractice claims On behalf of The Law Offices of Salazar, Sullivan & Jasionowski \| Apr 21, 2016 \| Doctor Errors Each year, Americans file approximately 17,000 malpractice lawsuits against their doctors. According to the American Medical Association, general surgeons and OB-GYNs are more likely to be sued for malpractice than pediatricians and psychiatrists. However, just because a doctor may have been sued does not mean that he or she is a bad physician. In fact, the AMA said in a 2010 report that 65 percent of these types of lawsuits are dropped or dismissed. Furthermore, state disciplinary boards may sanction doctors for a variety of reasons including defaulting on a student loan payment or failing to renew a license on time. In a country where anyone can be sued for anything, it may be a good idea to get the facts related to a claim before jumping to conclusions. Patients can get the specifics of a claim through a state medical board or looking at court records. Patients may also be able to get the information that they are looking for by doing an online search. The easiest way to determine if a doctor is the target of a malpractice claim is to do a search for that person’s name, the word malpractice and the state or states where the doctor is licensed. As doctors must be certified in each state where they practice, multiple searches may be necessary. Not every physician error constitutes medical malpractice. In addition to the patient being harmed, it must be demonstrated that the health care practitioner failed to exhibit the requisite standard of care. An attorney representing a plaintiff can make such a determination through a review of the patient’s medical records and by obtaining the opinions of medical experts. Albuquerque Medical Malpractice Law Blog (13) Birth Injuries (86) Doctor Errors (105) Failure To Diagnose (119) Hospital Negligence (114) Medication Errors (94) Surgical Errors (78) What is failure to thrive? 3 commonly misdiagnosed sports injuries What to know about C-section dangers Can a doctor fail to diagnose preeclampsia? Pneumonia symptoms could conceal a more dangerous condition Contact Salazar, Sullivan & Jasionowski today to learn more about how we can help you. Call our firm at 505-349-4003 or toll free at 888-819-2544. Map + Driving Directions Salazar, Sullivan & Jasionowski 100 Gold Avenue SW, Suite 201 © 2021 The Law Offices of Salazar, Sullivan & Jasionowski. All Rights Reserved.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line2150
__label__wiki	0.643989	0.643989	To attend this webcast, login to your SANS Account or create your Account. This webcast has been archived. To view the webcast login into your SANS Portal Account or create an account by clicking the "Get Registered" button on the right. Once you register, you can download the presentation slides below. Case Study: See How Aruba Networks Uses Bug Bounties to Discover Vulnerabilities, Faster Thursday, July 14, 2016 at 11:00 AM EDT (2016-07-14 15:00:00 UTC) Leif Dreizler, John Pescatore, Jon Green You can now attend the webcast using your mobile device! Today's IT threats demand a more active role in detecting and responding to sophisticated attacks. Defenders can no longer simply press "scan" or hire a penetration test shop to protect their applications. That's where a crowd of bug hunters steps in, possessing the collective creative power to mimic bad hacker behavior in the wild. Today, innovative companies are bringing thousands of good hackers to the fight, evening the odds and finding bugs before the bad guys do. One of those companies leveraging the power of the crowd is Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company. Last year, Aruba launched a private bug bounty program for its enterprise-grade Wi-Fi solution on Bugcrowd's CrowdControl platform. Since then, the initiative has led to the discovery and resolution of a number of vulnerabilities in Aruba's solutions, including its ClearPass Policy Manager. John Pescatore will lead the discussion during this webinar, you will hear from Aruba's Senior Director of Security Architecture Jon Green on the drivers behind the Aruba bug bounty program, the process the program follows, and the ROI Aruba has seen from it to date. Attendees will have the opportunity to see a short demo of Bugcrowd's crowdsourced testing platform Crowdcontrol. First-hand account of how bug hunters assess a target Details on how Aruba leverages its bug bounty program to enhance the security of its networking solutions Where bug bounties fit into the lifecycle of securing software ROI of the modern bug bounty program John Pescatore John Pescatore (moderator) is the director emerging security trends for the SANS Institute. A former vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner, Pescatore has over 30 years of experience in computer, network and information security. Prior to joining Gartner, he was senior consultant for Entrust Technologies and Trusted Information Systems and a security engineer for the U.S. Secret Service and the National Security Agency. Leif Dreizler As a Senior Security Engineer at Bugcrowd, Leif Dreizler works to build the internal security program and customize and security testing solutions for Bugcrowd clients. Prior to Bugcrowd, Leif spent over two years as a Senior Application Security Engineer at Redspin, performing application security assessments. He also served as the Application Security Team Lead, interfacing with clients at the engineering and sales level. Jon Green, CISSP serves as CTO for Aruba Networks Government Solutions (part of Hewlett Packard Enterprise) and is responsible for ensuring that Aruba’s enterprise mobility solutions meet the security and deployment requirements of government customers worldwide. Jon joined Aruba in 2003 and helped it grow from a small startup to today’s position as a leading provider of network mobility solutions. Prior to Aruba, Jon held technical, marketing, and sales positions with Foundry Networks, Atrica, Nortel Networks, and Bay Networks. Jon holds a B.S. in Information Security from Western Governor’s University and a M.S. in Computer Science with a concentration in Information Security from James Madison University. When not playing with technology, he enjoys flying airplanes, learning to play the banjo, and cooking competition barbecue. Need Help? Visit our FAQ page or email webcast-support@sans.org. Not able to attend a SANS webcast? All Webcasts are archived so you may view and listen at a time convenient to your schedule. View our webcast archive and access webcast recordings/PDF slides. Webcasts RSS Note to Vendors If you are interested in sponsoring a future SANS Webcast, contact our vendor team today. "It was a great learning experience that helped open my eyes wider. The instructor's knowledge was fantastic." - Manuja Wikesekera, Melbourne Cricket Club "The perfect balance of theory and hands-on experience." - James D. Perry II, University of Tennessee "Just amazing content and instruction, it's really a 'must do' for any info sec professional." - Mark Austin, PHH Mortgage	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line2152
__label__wiki	0.95866	0.95866	Share this Story: One-month grace approved for tax payments One-month grace approved for tax payments Tyler Kula Sarnia City Hall Photo by File photo //The Observer Short-term financial relief for Sarnia citizens and a $1-million land sale for downtown Bayside Centre redevelopment were the big-ticket items in a condensed Sarnia city council meeting March 25, held via teleconference. The meeting had a few technical issues. Members were disconnected at one point during the closed portion of the meeting, which Coun. Mike Stark called “troublesome.” A live stream on sarnia.ca also didn’t work, though the meeting was available via YourTV Sarnia’s Facebook page and a recording of the meeting will be posted to the city’s website, said finance director Suzanna Dieleman. One-month grace approved for tax payments Back to video But needed financial relief was passed for citizens dealing with lost income as governments respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. Council deferred tax payments by a month, an addition to what was already being recommended, including waiving late fees until May 31 on taxes, water and sewer rates, and miscellaneous invoices, as well as the $40 non-sufficient-fund fees charged when pre-authorized payments don’t go through. The waiving of transit fares was also approved for the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic. Extensions of those measures, and potential new measures, will be considered by council when appropriate, city officials said. Mayor Mike Bradley called the financial breaks for citizens a first step on March 24. That’s exactly right, Stark said the next day. “We’re going to need to look at this again,” he said. The city expense of providing services isn’t going away, he said. “Having said that, the reality is that this is a crisis and you have to do extraordinary things during a crisis. That being the case, we’re going to look at every avenue to provide relief to our citizens.” There’s no date set yet for the next council meeting, but expect them more frequently as city council deals with urgent matters, and lets the rest – including rezoning applications – slide for the time being, Stark said. “There’s going to be a lot of catching up in terms of trying to get things back to where they should be” when the need for social distancing subsides, he said. Bayside land deal approved Council approved the $1 million sale of the 3.5-hectare Bayside Centre lands to Seasons Retirement Communities for redevelopment. Seasons had previously purchased the mall buildings, but the city retained possession of the land, appraised in 2018 at between $890,000 and $1.1 million. It took “significant discussion” to get the deal, Stark said, stressing it’s important the city not sell any property at less than its appraised value. The sale is contingent on an imminent deal with Seasons and the County of Lambton being finalized for tenancy in the mall for the county’s Lambton Shared Services Centre. The hope is to have that deal done by April 1, Stark said. Seasons’ proposal includes building a retirement-residence tower that Bradley said Tuesday will impact some of the existing underground parking. Remaining items on the agenda – all passed – included $988,000 for three single-axle plow trucks, a $12.3-million contract to build a new pump station at Plank and Indian roads, and a new bylaw regulating Sarnia’s fire department. The new bylaw is tied to the new contract struck with the Sarnia Professional Firefighters’ Association in November, Stark said. “That involved rewriting a law that had been in place since 1991 and then revised in 1997,” he said, “so this goes back a long way.” The bylaw won’t result in any noticeable changes, he said. “It really puts into writing what we’re already doing.”	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line2154
__label__cc	0.6863	0.3137	A Very Bradford Easter April 5, 2015 •Posted in NFH, R.L. Mathewson Chronicles •48 Comments » (The Ladies on FB voted for this!! I’m sorry!!!!!!!!!!!! I feared for my life!) “This is probably the saddest thing that I’ve ever seen,” Danny said, sighing heavily as he set the brakes on his wheelchair. “They’re not really going to sign up to do this, are they?” Jodi asked, shooting another nervous glance towards the tables where nearly two dozen Bradfords stood in line, waiting to sign up for the town’s annual Easter Egg Hunt. Danny watched as his brother Garrett pointed out something else on the flier to the poor man that had been trying to explain for the past hour that this event was intended for children. “Yes, yes they are,” he said with a resigned shake of his head, accepting the fact that this would probably be the last time any Bradford was allowed at a city sponsored event. “And why exactly are they doing this?” she asked as she placed her hand on the curve of her large stomach where their twins were growing and carefully sat down on his lap. “Because they’ve been allowing teenagers to enter and none of the little kids have been able to find any eggs,” Haley explained as she walked over and handed Jodi a small bottle of apple juice. “Last year the kids were so excited about coming here. We got here an hour early, signed up and waited for nothing. As soon as they blew the whistle a half-dozen teenage boys stormed the woods and scooped up every single egg,” Zoe added with a sigh as she joined them, placing her hand on the slight swell of her belly as she sat down at the picnic table next to them. “Dad tried to talk some sense into the City Council, but they won’t put an age restriction on the hunt,” Haley said, pushing her glasses back up her nose while they watched the Bradford men as they each donned the set of bunny ears they were handed when they signed up. “The guys asked the kids if they’d rather have an Easter egg hunt at home, but they said they wanted to do this with their friends,” Zoe explained as Danny wrapped his arms around his wife and placed his hand over hers where it rested on her belly. “The other parents complained too, but the Council wouldn’t hear it,” his mother explained as she joined them, shooting Jodi a warm smile as she sat down next at the picnic table next to Zoe, putting her arm around the younger woman’s shoulder. “So, to keep it fair, the guys decided to give the smaller kids a hand,” Haley explained as they watched every Bradford align himself with a child as a group of teenage boys, shoving each other and acting up, tried to push their way to the starting line. “At least this should prove entertaining,” Jodi murmured as they watched Jason and Trevor come between the roughhousing teenagers and the smaller kids stumbling over themselves to get out of the way. “Everyone ready?” the Mayor asked, shooting a nervous look between the Bradford men and the teenage boys, who’d given up trying to cut in front of the line and were now shooting nervous looks of their own at all the large men partnered up with small children. “Yes!” the kids cried out in unison, smiling hugely as they got ready to run as fast as their little legs could carry them. “Go!” the Mayor yelled and just like that, they were off. Danny watched as the kids ran for the field and woods, yelling with excitement as they pounced on the plastic eggs littering the field with a Bradford of their very own trailing after them and stepping in whenever a teenager tried to swoop past the little kids and grab the eggs. The men ignored the teenagers who were smart enough to go off to the side and grab those eggs, but the others who tried to swoop in and grab the eggs just as one of the little kids reached for it… “Hey!” one of the teenagers yelled in outrage as Sebastian and Jonathan swooped in and blocked him as he tried to grab the egg their little sister was reaching for. “That’s not fair!” another teenage boy yelled as Jason stepped in and blocked him from taking the egg away from the three-year-old girl that he’d partnered with. “Don’t hate the player, hate the game,” the little girl said as she picked up her egg and placed it in the bucket that Jason dutifully held for her. “I was going for that egg, man!” another yelled as a little boy dressed like Superman hugged a pink plastic egg to his small chest as he jumped up and down with excitement as Trevor blocked the kid. “This isn’t fair!” another yelled, gesturing to Aidan as who stood there, glaring down at the kid as an adorable little girl wearing a fluffy pink dress waddled past him, hugging the blue plastic Easter egg she’d managed to pick up before the kid could steal it from her. “At the very least, the City Council will probably place an age restriction on the hunt next year,” his mother pointed out as they watched the teenage boy, who’d made the mistake of trying to pluck a green egg away from the little boy that Lucifer had partnered with, started crying hysterically at whatever it was that his brother had said to him. “Then again, they might just decide to cancel it next year,” his wife mumbled thoughtfully while they watched as another teenager was reduced to tears when he tried to come between Uncle Jared and little Matthew as he picked up a golden egg. “That might be for the best,” Haley said, shaking her head in disbelief as Sebastian and Jonathan took exception to another teenage boy trying to steal an egg from their sister. “I let it go! I let it go!” the teenage boy cried out as- “Not again,” Zoe said, sighing heavily as she stood up, keeping her hand on her belly and headed for her boys. “I’ll get the first aid kit,” Haley announced, sounding bored as she headed towards the sign-in tables where the Mayor and half the town stood, staring in horror as the twins made sure that the boy sobbing hysterically and begging for mercy never made the mistake of trying to get between them and their sister again. “Not the face!” “Even if we don’t get banned,” he started to say, cringing when the twins focused their attention on a teenager trying to grab an egg from their little brother, “we might want to reconsider doing this at home next year.” “That probably would be for the best,” his mother murmured in agreement as the twins reduced another teenager to tears. © Rerum Industries, Inc. 2015. All Rights Reserved. Excerpt & A Little Something Extra Give me two weeks….three tops!!!!!! 48 Responses to “A Very Bradford Easter” Nettie Wachacha says: April 5, 2015 at 6:46 am Love those Bradfords. More please. Alyssa says: April 5, 2015 at 6:46 am that was awesome! Happy Easter!! Ps. Zoe’s pregnant again?!? How did I miss this? Or is this the first time it was mentioned? Or hinted at? Seph says: November 16, 2015 at 1:13 pm She is have Darrin and MaryBeth’s triplets for them since MaryBeth could no have kids. Lori merendina says: April 5, 2015 at 6:56 am Happy Easter! Every week I think it does t get better, then the next week I’m corrected! Great chronicle! Cilicia White says: April 5, 2015 at 7:06 am Gotta love those Bradfords!! No one messes with kids they are around!! Tarra says: April 5, 2015 at 7:14 am Love it!! Was there also hints that Zoe is pregnant again? Love all the Bradfords!! Andrea M says: April 5, 2015 at 7:18 am I seriously fall more in love with the Bradfords every week! Happy Easter every one. Thanks for the heartwarming laughs RL! vicky says: April 5, 2015 at 7:23 am I can’t seem to get this right in my head, but my conclusion to it is: zoe and Trevor had been together for years when Danny and jodi got together. Trevor and zoe had their two pair of twins close. And reading this… Do zoe and Trevor have more Kids dowb the line?? R.L. Mathewson says: April 5, 2015 at 5:46 pm This Chronicle is for present time, but a month or so before the epilogue in The Game Plan………. You will see what’s going on better in Double Dare Vicky says: April 6, 2015 at 12:12 am Great 🙂 thank You for answering! Looking very much forward to Double dere 😀 Amber says: April 5, 2015 at 7:45 am Love the Bradford’s!!!! LuAnn Borders says: April 5, 2015 at 8:05 am It’s all about family Sandy says: April 5, 2015 at 8:17 am love these stories, keep up the great writing and laughs. Thank you so much for making my morning a smily one. Barb Kiser says: April 5, 2015 at 8:24 am Awesomeness…..have to go back and ‘re read because can’t remember why Danny’s in a wheelchair elaine mccrory says: April 5, 2015 at 8:27 am Can’t get enough of the Bradfords! irene gorniak says: April 5, 2015 at 8:36 am Happy Easter.!! Love that the Bradfords are about family… Great news about Zoe – looking forward to hearing more about that Frin says: April 5, 2015 at 8:46 am Tar …. You’ve made my Easter !!! 😀 karen says: April 5, 2015 at 9:04 am Omg I truly loved it. It was great I love the Bradford clan. Melba says: April 5, 2015 at 9:06 am Love, love this family. More Bradfords please. Tina says: April 5, 2015 at 9:29 am Love those Bradfords 🙂 These chronicles are great – just love to hear what the family is up to, and to visit with some of my favorites charaters, even though it is hard to choose I have a soft spot for Trevor ♡ 🙂 I want my own Bradford! 😉 janet says: April 5, 2015 at 10:28 am Love!!!! so funny- I just can’t wait for more of the Bradford family story- amazing that I came across r l Mathewson book by mistake because I got the author confused with another but best mistake ever!!! Noreen says: April 5, 2015 at 11:14 am Perfect end to my easter day love it made me laugh Jessie T says: April 5, 2015 at 11:18 am Can’t get enough of this family! They’re great! Pregnant Zoe? They can’t seem to keep their hands to themselves. Lol! Danielle Kincaid says: April 5, 2015 at 11:23 am Absolutely hysterical! Thanks for my Easter gift 🙂 Sandy says: April 5, 2015 at 11:37 am Thank you Rl I love the Chronicles and the Bradfords! You gave us a great Easter treat! Rose says: April 5, 2015 at 12:39 pm Love the Bradfords! Happy Easter everyone! jamie says: April 5, 2015 at 3:24 pm Thank you R.L. for the Easter story. Maybe after so many weeks of Bradfords, could you switch to other characters? I would interested in getting updates on the others. Bridget says: April 5, 2015 at 3:27 pm I absolutely loved this chronicle. I think it may be my favorite so far. My hubby and I were just talking about how the older kids were trampling the young kids at the park across from our house. I laughed and I also cried a little when reading this. Absolutely wonderful!! The NFH series is one of my favorite ever. Monica says: April 5, 2015 at 4:28 pm Zoe’s pregnant? That’s great!!!! I love this family but I’m starting to get confused. Have we read Danny’s story yet? Him being in a wheelchair sounds vaguely familiar. But I can’t remember! Help! Vicky says: April 5, 2015 at 4:38 pm We don’t actually know if she is pregnant. She doesn’t say it, and considering Zoe isn’t super thin, R.L might just be screwing with our heads by making it sound like she is preggers but in fast just chubby. Dannys book is The Game Plan. I could be…………………… Susanne says: April 5, 2015 at 4:45 pm Okay, love these, but you gotta watch it!! 3 year old Jessica and her brothers protecting her? They would only be like 6 years old! Not to mention, at Jason & Haley’s anniversary (10) they would have had a baby?? Funny story though!! Keep up the awesome writing and I’ll be reading it all….you crack me up!!! Susanne, this Chronicle is for present day. The older boys are nine and Jessica is only a few years younger than them. This Chronicle was set up to be a teaser and let the reader get a hint of something to come. It’s a teaser 🙂 Susanne says: April 7, 2015 at 7:00 am LOL okay, I really enjoy your writing and just didn’t want any mix ups! Can’t wait till the next books!! BTW, any word on Shayne’s story?? Lynn Latimer says: April 5, 2015 at 6:43 pm That was just awesome! ! Love these chronicles so much. Can’t wait for next weeks Dawn C says: April 5, 2015 at 7:14 pm I love see the twins protecting their sister and being sweet. Well Bradford sweet. Can we get a family tree to help us remember whos brothers with who? I love all your books but these are my favorite! greanne says: April 5, 2015 at 10:16 pm Happy easter.. Charmarie Dotson says: April 5, 2015 at 11:52 pm I love these chronicles, but I seriously need to catch up on my NFH series…..I am behind:-( Sue Miler says: April 6, 2015 at 12:43 pm Awesome!!! I love the Bradfords!! Michelle says: April 7, 2015 at 8:05 am Another winning posting! Thanks ☺️ Rebecca says: April 7, 2015 at 2:11 pm The best easter ever!!!! So Zoe is pregnant again? I take that was the teaser?….Oh but how I love the Bradford men, they truly are some great men to those they love. Diane says: April 8, 2015 at 5:15 am Love this. Just sat and read while eating lunch. 🙂 Do like how they all defend their own. Would like to see a family tree also. Just to keep them straight in my head. When’s Lucifers story coming out? Christa Ray says: April 10, 2015 at 2:14 pm I can just picture this and love it. I love those twins boys and cant wait to see how they develop in life. They are all too funny! Irish Grimes says: April 11, 2015 at 5:00 pm So Zoe pregnant again didn’t see that coming Jennifer says: April 15, 2015 at 1:46 pm I wanna be a Bradford!!! As for Zoe, with a man like Trevor I’d stay preggers too. Hello, Bradford men are are HOT and demanding. Mic S says: April 15, 2015 at 8:14 pm I love the Bradfords! Lucy says: April 17, 2015 at 5:38 pm I’m loving the twins. They should have romances of their own at some point, even if it just is a kiddie subplot. Loes Molenkamp says: April 27, 2015 at 11:15 am As always, the Bradford’s are hilarious and very fun to read. Loved this little interlude and I hope there are more coming!! Started this weekend on all your other books, and I hope there’s soon coming a second in the EMS series. But I do love them all so PLEASE keep on writing them! 😉 Leave a Reply to Dawn C	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line2156
__label__wiki	0.730088	0.730088	Read Next Rage Against the Machine Detail History Behind 'Killing in the Name' in Mini-Doc Home Music Music News May 15, 2020 1:50PM ET Celeb Law Firm Refuses Hacker Ransom as Lady Gaga Files Leak “The leaking of our clients’ documents is a despicable and illegal attack by these foreign cyberterrorists,” rep for Grubman Shire Meiselas & Sacks says Daniel Kreps Daniel Kreps's Most Recent Stories See the War on Drugs Unearth ‘Arms Like Boulders’ for Virtual ‘Colbert’ Performance Duke Bootee, Rapper and Co-Writer of Hip-Hop Classic ‘The Message,’ Dead at 69 Lady Gaga 91st Annual Academy Awards, Arrivals, Los Angeles, USA - 24 Feb 2019 David Fisher/Shutterstock Days after the celebrity law firm that represents Madonna, Bruce Springsteen, and Nicki Minaj admitted it was “victimized by a cyberattack,” the hackers that executed the breach released their first batch of stolen data Thursday: files that focused on the law firm’s work with Lady Gaga. The unnamed hacker group, using ransomware dubbed “REvil,” launched the cyberattack against the internal data systems of Grubman Shire Meiselas & Sacks; on Wednesday, they asked the law firm for $21 million in exchange for the 756 gigabytes of stolen data. However, after the firm allegedly hired cyber-extortion specialists to combat the ransomware demands, the hackers released a 2.4 gigabyte batch of files Thursday. “It seems that GRUBMANS doesn’t care about their clients or it was a mistake to hire a recovery company to help in the negotiations,” the hackers wrote. “As we promised, we [published] the first part of the data because the time is up.” A source close to the firm confirmed to Rolling Stone that the company has declined to pay any ransom. The “first part” was a 2.4-gigabyte folder including legal work the law firm did for Lady Gaga: contracts sent to producers, collaborators, and members of her touring ensemble; promotional agreements; expense sheets; confidentiality agreement forms; performer agreements; reimbursement forms for the artist Jeff Koons; a handful of promotional photos; and reams of tedious paperwork one would expect to find in the database of an entertainment law firm. (A representative for Lady Gaga declined to comment.) Lady Gaga to Sing National Anthem for Biden-Harris Inauguration Rolling Stone's Top Longreads of 2020 Why the Band's 'The Last Waltz' Is the Greatest Concert Movie of All Time Country's 15 Highest Drug Odes Soon after the hackers dropped the initial 2.4 gigabytes of information, they issued a “little press release” saying that their demands had not been met and that “the ransom is now $42 million.” They also claimed to be in possession of documents connected to President Trump. “There’s an election race going on, and we found a ton of dirty laundry. Mr. Trump, if you want to stay president, poke a sharp stick at the guys, otherwise you may forget this ambition forever,” they wrote. “And to you voters, we can let you know that after such a publication, you certainly don’t want to see him as president. Well, let’s leave out the details. The deadline is one week.” A source close to the firm confirmed to Rolling Stone, however, that the law firm had no dealings with Trump. “Our elections, our government, and our personal information are under escalating attacks by foreign cybercriminals. Law firms are not immune from this malicious activity,” a spokesperson for Grubman Shire Meiselas & Sacks told Rolling Stone in a statement. “Despite our substantial investment in state-of-the-art technology security, foreign cyberterrorists have hacked into our network and are demanding $42 million as ransom. We are working directly with federal law enforcement and continue to work around the clock with the world’s leading experts to address this situation. “The leaking of our clients’ documents is a despicable and illegal attack by these foreign cyberterrorists who make their living attempting to extort high-profile U.S. companies, government entities, entertainers, politicians, and others,” the spokesperson added. “We have been informed by the experts and the FBI that negotiating with or paying ransom to terrorists is a violation of federal criminal law. Even when enormous ransoms have been paid, the criminals often leak the documents anyway.” “Adhering to [Department of Justice] standard practice, the FBI neither confirms nor denies the existence of any investigation. We have no further comment for you,” a rep for the bureau told Rolling Stone. Prior to Thursday’s leak, the ransomware group only revealed three documents related to the cyberattack: a form with Christina Aguilera’s signature, a contract related to Madonna’s Madame X tour, and a blanket nondisclosure agreement from Lizzo’s tour. The website for Grubman Shire Meiselas & Sacks has displayed only the law firm’s logo since the day of the ransomeware attack last Saturday. Antivirus software maker Emsisoft’s threat analyst Brett Callow tells Rolling Stone that the law firm’s main options to retrieve its data are restoring their backups — if it kept backups and the hackers didn’t already delete them — or pay the ransom, which at $42 million is the largest ransomware request on record. “This is a lose-lose situation for both the firm and its clients,” Callow tells Rolling Stone. “If the firm does not pay the criminals, it’s likely that more data will be published. If the firm does pay, it will simply receive a pinky promise from a bad-faith actor that the stolen data will be destroyed. But why would a criminal enterprise ever delete data that it may be able to further monetize, and especially if that data may have a high market value?” For example, there is nothing preventing the hackers from reaching a settlement with the law firm, only to then turn around and shake down their celebrity clients with the stolen data. Emsisoft estimates that ransomware fleeces victims out of $1.9 billion annually in the U.S. alone; globally, that figure balloons to $25 billion. “Ransomware is hugely profitable,” Callow says, adding that “about 25 percent of all types of ransomware have faulty encryption that enables us to break it so people can get their data back. REvil’s encryption is perfectly implemented so it cannot be broken in that way.” However, these cyberattacks usually avoid public scrutiny — they’re often settled quietly between the two parties, often without informing those whose personal information has been comprised — but the situation involving the Grubman law firm and its high-profile celebrity clients magnified the issue of ransomware. “I think it’s probably the only ransomware negotiation that’s taken place with a huge amount of public scrutiny,” Callow says. “In some ways, this is a good thing. It may shine more light on the issue. It’s a huge problem. There are a whole bunch of groups that steal and publish data. They’ve stolen information from banks, people’s credit card numbers are online, tax returns, veterans’ PTSD claims, medical records, missile schematics … you name it, it’s online. And most people have no clue it’s going on.” Callow adds, “Companies must do more to protect their data, their customers’ data, and their business partners’ data.” Grubman Shire Meiselas & Sacks’ Full Statement Our elections, our government and our personal information are under escalating attacks by foreign cybercriminals. Law firms are not immune from this malicious activity. Despite our substantial investment in state-of-the-art technology security, foreign cyberterrorists have hacked into our network and are demanding $42 million as ransom. We are working directly with federal law enforcement and continue to work around the clock with the world’s leading experts to address this situation. The leaking of our clients’ documents is a despicable and illegal attack by these foreign cyberterrorists who make their living attempting to extort high-profile U.S. companies, government entities, entertainers, politicians, and others. Previously, the United States Department of Defense, HBO, Goldman Sachs, as well as numerous state and local governments have been victims of similar cybercriminal attacks. We have been informed by the experts and the FBI that negotiating with or paying ransom to terrorists is a violation of federal criminal law. Even when enormous ransoms have been paid, the criminals often leak the documents anyway. We are grateful to our clients for their overwhelming support and for recognizing that nobody is safe from cyberterrorism today. We continue to represent our clients with the utmost professionalism worthy of their elite stature, exercising the quality, integrity, and excellence that have made us the number-one entertainment and media law firm in the world. In This Article: cybersecurity, hackers, Lady Gaga, RSX	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line2162
__label__cc	0.742259	0.257741	Home Tours Short breaks Hotels About us Overview THE DETAILS Availability The Greenbank Hotel, Falmouth, Cornwall Gorgeous harbour views 2 AA Rosette-awarded restaurant Reviewed and loved by us The Greenbank Hotel Rates provided by Booking.com Perched on Falmouth's historic harbour, with stunning estuary views, the stylish Greenbank Hotel is ideally positioned for ocean lovers, as well as those wanting to explore the coast on foot. With its nautical charm and dreamy backdrop, plus an array of water sports, sea-faring activities and local events for all ages, The Greenbank makes for a spectacular holidaying spot for sampling the very best of the South Cornish coast. The quaint cobbled streets, lined with an eclectic mix of antiques shops and stylish cafés such as Beacon Coffee, are well worth exploring. Overlooking Falmouth Harbour, The Greenbank and is a short walk from the town centre's pubs, bars and restaurants, as well as the beach. By car: just of the A39 towards Falmouth, the hotel is 30 minutes from Truro, 50 minutes from Newquay and a couple of hours from Exeter. Limited free on-site parking is available. By train: Falmouth Town is a short taxi ride from the hotel or 20 minutes by foot. Regular connections from Truro, reached from Penzance and Exeter. Style & Character The Greenbank is ideal for those looking for a stylish, conteporary base on the South Cornish coast. The hotel's chic interiors are decorated in coastal hues and feature subtle nautical influences; elegant bronze and brass fittings blend with oaks and glass. The Working Boat, the hotel's very own pub, has an authentic and relaxed atmosphere, and serves fresh local produce right on the water's edge. The Working Boat pub Crabbing lines, dominoes, buckets and spades The Florence Suite The Lookout Suite The attention-to-detail throughout the bedrooms is impressive; we love the statement feature wall inspired by coastal scenes. The Florence Suite, The Lookout Suite, Deluxe Rooms, Classic Rooms, Superior Rooms and nine Dog Friendly Rooms Facilities include: en-suite bathrooms, local Living Sea Therapy toiletries, complimentary tea and coffee, 24-hour room service A laidback, freshly-caught fish 'n' chip supper enjoyed in The Working Boat, a chic spot right at the water's edge, will make your stay one to remember. This hearty, flavoursome Southwest produce is the true taste of Cornwall. The Water's Edge: 2 AA rosettes, hearty breakfasts, fine dining, afternoon teas, kids' menu. All day dining available. Two courses for £22 or three courses for £26. Terrace: traditional, special and 'Gentlemen's' afternoon teas from £15 per person. The Working Boat: quality pub grub, seasonal menu. Occasional events. Mains from £12. Rooms available from £80.10 per night 1 Adults, 0 Children, 1 Rooms Please select 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 This tour is operated solely by Booking.com All rates provided by Booking.com. Enjoy big savings on hotels in 120,000 destinations worldwide. To view Booking.com’s supplier’s terms and conditions click here. Home Tours Short Breaks Hotels About us Terms & conditions FAQ Privacy & cookies Cookie settings Contact us The best things in life today from the worlds of beauty, fashion, food, interiors, travel and more, brought to you by team behind Red magazine	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line2164
__label__wiki	0.948484	0.948484	Rediff.com » Sports » 'Indian motorsports victim of poor infrastructure' 'Indian motorsports victim of poor infrastructure' February 12, 2013 18:10 IST Lack of infrastructure and racing culture among the Indians have resulted in motorsports not being able to grow as quickly as it could have in the country, feels racing enthusiast and businessman Gautam Singhania. Singhania, who organised a track day for the Super Car Club, test drove a Ferrari 458 Challenge car and managed to achieve a timing of 1 min 59 secs -- the fastest non-open wheel drive achieved at the Buddha International Circuit in Greater Noida on Tuesday. "It is disappointing when we compare India to other European countries. Infrastructure has been a real let down. We have only two proper circuits in the country, one BIC and the other in Chennai," he said. "Apart from infrastructure, lack of motorsports culture, which is still considered a rich man's game, has not helped in the development of the sports," he added. Singhania, who is preparing for the Ferrari Challenge Cup to be held in Europe this year, lapped over 4,500 kms in the last two days at the circuit and managed to reach the top speed of 270kmph. "I have always been passionate about racing and motorsports. Today, we have a wonderful circuit in BIC, but it needs to be used properly. The common refrain among Indians remain that motorsports is a rich man's game, which needs to be changed," he said. Singhania, who is the chairman and managing director of Raymond Ltd, also emphasised that a proper feeder system and infrastructure needs to be set up first to improve the standards of motorsports in the country. "We need to have a setup for drifting, super car clubs, rally racing, F1, MotoGP first. It is very similar to other games like cricket where we have feeder system which include tournaments based on various age categories," he said. Rally driver Gaurav Gill and young driver Aditya Patel were also present at the circuit. Related News: BIC, Gautam Singhania, Ferrari, Super Car Club, Aditya Patel Farmers ready to protest till May 2024: Union leader India's batting hero, Thakur says he's no dud with bat Hazlewood shrugs off fatigue claims IMAGES: Super Car Show 2013 all set to take off	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line2165

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