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__label__wiki	0.953864	0.953864	Outrage at US abuse of Iraqi prisoners Pictures showing abuse of Iraqi prisoners have led to shock and condemnation of the US. The disturbing pictures were aired on the CBS network The office of Prime Minister Tony Blair, the US strongest ally in its war in Iraq, condemned the abuses. His comments on Friday came after an American television network broadcast images of Iraqis stripped naked, hooded and being tormented by their captors. One photograph showed Iraqi prisoners naked except for hoods covering their heads and stacked in a human pyramid. The CBS network, which broadcast the pictures in the US on Wednesday, said they were taken at Abu Ghuraib prison near Baghdad late last year. “The US army spokesman has said this morning that he is appalled, that those responsible have let their fellow soldiers down, and those are views that we would associate the UK government with,” Blair’s official spokesman said. “This is not representative of the 150,000 soldiers that are in Iraq,” the spokesman said, adding that the occupation should not be judged on the alleged actions of a few. British military authorities are themselves investigating eight separate “allegations of maltreatment” by their troops in southern Iraq. ‘Absolutely terrible’ Blair’s human rights envoy to Iraq, Ann Clwyd, also condemned the alleged abuse. “I think they are absolutely terrible,” she told BBC radio, referring to the photographs. “I am shocked.” “I think they are absolutely terrible. Im shocked” Ann Clwyd, UK human rights envoy to Iraq Clwyd said she had previously discussed the treatment of detainees at Abu Ghuraib with officials in President George Bush’s administration, but said they had denied there was a problem. “I was told by a very senior person there ‘We don’t do this kind of thing,”‘ said Clwyd, a lawmaker in Blair’s ruling Labour party and supporter of the US-led war in Iraq. “Clearly the people in charge did not know this was going on.” ‘Culture of hate’ The editor in chief of the London-based Arabic daily al-Quds al-Arabi denied statements that this incident was the work of rogue soldiers. “This is the outcome of the culture of hate that the US administration adopts against the Arabs and Muslims,” Abd al-Bari Atwan told Aljazeera.net. A prisoner is hooded and wired up for a mock electrocution “They (the Americans) removed Saddam Hussein for acts of abuse, but who will remove Bush and Rumsfeld for inciting these acts?” Atwan added that the pictures were proof that the US administration had lost “the battle of winning the hearts and minds not only in Iraq but in the whole Muslim world.” Human rights watchdog, Amnesty International also said the incident was not an isolated case. “Our extensive research in Iraq suggests that this is not an isolated incident. It is not enough for the USA to react only once images have hit the television screens”. White House response The White House on Friday denounced the alleged abuse, saying the United States “will not tolerate” such behavior and vowing that those responsible will be punished. US authorities have promised to punish those responsible US authorities have promised to punish those responsible “We cannot tolerate it,” spokesman Scott McClellan told reporters. “The military is taking strong action against the individuals responsible for these despicable acts.” US President George Bush has known about the allegations of misconduct “for a while” and expects “appropriate action to be taken against these individuals,” he said. “We will not tolerate it.” Private contractors The abuses have thrown the spotlight on the shadowy world of private contractors. A military report into the Abu Ghuraib case – parts of which were made available to the Guardian newspaper showed that private contractors were supervising interrogations in the prison. One civilian contractor was accused of raping a young, male prisoner but has not been charged because military law has no jurisdiction over him. The military investigation names two US contractors, CACI International and the Titan Corporation, for their involvement in Abu Ghuraib.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1512
__label__wiki	0.891321	0.891321	Behind the Greens Buyside News Quick Dish Fresh Produce Jobs Upload a Press Release Costco Eyes Florida and Tennessee for Expansion Friday, Nov. 20th, 2020 by Jordan Okumura TENNESSEE & FLORIDA - Although the grocery market has shifted, that isn’t slowing down Costco and its expansion. The retailer recently announced two new stores that are in development, one in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and another in St. Augustine, Florida. The introduction of the two stores, each totaling over 150,000 square feet, will bring hundreds of new jobs to both areas and will further extend Costco’s footprint into the growing markets. Following a unanimous decision from the Murfreesboro City Council to fund $2.4 million of land for the proposed store, which will sit on 18.6 acres, the land will be transferred to the Rutherford County Industrial Board which will lease the land to Costco during a five-year tax break deal that was signed by the company, according to an article from Daily News Journal. The new store will be built near the New Salem Highway interchange with Interstate 24, and will be approximately 154,134 square feet. With the introduction of the new Costco will come 225 new jobs to the county, and the city believes that it will see a fast return on its investment in the company. Costco’s proposed new store in St. Augustine is planned to be built on 18.7 acres and will feature 162,785 square feet of new space. The store will be located at 655 Commerce Parkway, within 36 miles of the Palm Coast Parkway, placing it considerably closer to St. Augustine residents than the two other Jacksonville locations that Costco has already introduced. According to an article from Flagler Live, the proposed new site will put Costco in competition with stores like Sam’s Club that also reside in the area. However, the deal has yet to be completed, and as of now it is in the pre-application phases. If allowed to begin construction, the St. Augustine Costco would be larger than its average stores. As Costco continues to make its mark across the United States, AndNowUKnow will continue to bring you the latest information. Retail Costco Retailer Grocer Grocery Wholesale Expand Expansion Expands Florida Tennessee Growth Growing Market Footprint Competition Competitive Stay in the know, subscribe to our weekday newsletter: Walmart’s eCommerce Chief Marc Lore to Retire Category Partners Powered by Nielsen Reveals Super Bowl... Fresh Directions Introduces Carla Avocado Under New Luv Brand California Firm Posts Two $250,000 Employment Bonds Nature Fresh Farms Partners With the SmartWay Program to... Sakata Seed America Increases Food Donations to Yolo Food Bank Western Growers Inaugurates Next Generation of Agricultural... Have a new product, press release or story idea? andnowuknow.com 2005 Capitol Ave. Press & Editorial pr@andnowuknow.com sales@andnowuknow.com Fresh Produce Categories Fresh Produce Companies © 2008 - 2021 andnowuknow.com	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1516
__label__cc	0.667626	0.332374	How many joints are in the human body? There is no definitive answer to this question. The first problem is that the number of bones in a body changes. A fetus has about 300 bones, but by the time of birth, many of them have fused together. The average adult human has 206 bones. Also, what constitutes a "joint" is problematic. The skull is made up of a number of bony plates that knit together along their edges into a permanently fused structure that we think of as a single unit. Do we count each of those plates and where they meet each distinct other plate as a "joint"? Consequently, there is no simple or reliable answer to this question. The number is certainly in the range of the mid-200s to the mid-300s. How many joints are there in a human body? there are around 100 joints in the human body. How many joints does the human body have? It is unclear how many joints there are exactly but scientists think that there are about 230 joints in the human body. How many movable joints are in a human body? the human body has 230 movable joints in the body. How many joints are there in a person's body? There are 360 joints in a human body How many joints are in the thumb of a human body? there are two joints in a human thumb :) How many joints have you got in the body? BODY JOINTS - webcrawler 'THERE IS NO DEFINITIVE ANSWER there are around 360 joints in the human body.' What are the functions of the joints in a human body? Joints allow are body to move in many different ways . How many ball and socket joints are present in the human body? There are four ball and socket joints in the human body. The joints are in the shoulders (2) and hips (2). How many joints are in the body? There are 66 bones in the human body Number of joints in human body? 306 joints are present in human body How many ball and socket joints are in the body? there at lest 4 ball and socket joints in the human body Hello chum how are you? 230 semi-movable joints are in the human body. 230 semi-movable joints are in the human body. 230 semi-movable joints are in the human body. 230 semi-movable joints are in the human body. cheeese How many movable joints are the body? 8 the human body contains 230 movable and slightly movable joints What are most of the joints in the human body? synovial joint are the most common joints in the human body. What are the names of the joints in your body? there aare 360 joints in the human body Where are joints necessary needed in the human body? Joints are important because they provide mobility to the human body. Without joints our body would have been like a statue. Where are the joints located in the human body? The joints in the human body are connected by two bones. They are connected and that is how movement occurs. How many joints in a human skeleton? There are many joints human skeleton Examples of gliding joints? gliding joints of the human body How many joints are there in the human body and what are they called? There are 231 joints in the human body.The types are:(By mechanics)Ball and socket jointsElbow jointsGliding jointsHandHinge jointsHip jointsSaddle jointsSpine(By connection)FibrousCartilagenousSynovialYou can read more about each joint type at the related links below. What are the three main joints of a human body? sliding joints hinged joints fixed joints Are most joints in the human body synovial joints or ball and socket joints? A ball and socket joint is a type of synovial joint. Synovial joints are the most common in the human body. How many joint bones in a human body? The normal human adult has 203 joints made of two or more bones in the body. How many joints is in the human body? I'm guessing 15. Well, I counted. Why does the human body need joints? Without joints, we would be immobile. Human Anatomy and PhysiologyChild HealthHealthScienceMath and ArithmeticSkeletal System	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1518
__label__wiki	0.515536	0.515536	11 total shares. Be the next! Terri Loewenthal Oakland, CA 4.00 - 2 votes Save Terri to your Collection. Register Now! 'Psychscape 45 (Peach Springs Canyon, AZ)' 'Psychscape 33 (Mount Olsen, CA)' Terri Loewenthal is an Oakland-based artist whose work examines the intersection of landscape and psyche. In her series, Psychscapes, Loewenthal investigates the sublime expanse of land and sky romanticized in the still-potent mythology of Utopian California. Psychscapes are single-exposure, in-camera compositions that utilize special optics developed by Loewenthal to compress vast spaces into complex, evocative environments. These photographs combine straightforward landscape photography with explorations into the psychology of perception. Terri describes her work by saying, “I was referring to these images as psychedelic even before I made them. To have a psychedelic experience is to free your mind from its normal constraints. When I had the idea for these images, I was able to shift the colors of the natural world in my mind. Water was pink and leaves were blue. I’ve always been envious of painters’ ability to shift reality in whichever direction they choose. With this work, I wanted to do something similar: create a world that is familiar yet also wild, otherworldly. My work is a marriage of calculation and spontaneity. I have a toolkit and a sense of what might happen, but at the same time, it’s a surprise. I love the idea of making an “impossible” image. “ Quick facts about Terri Terri is also founder of The Chetwood, a residency program that provides housing for artists visiting the Bay Area, allowing them to create lasting community with supportive peer networks outside of typical art-making structures. Loewenthal has been an active musician for over a decade; her bands Call and Response, Rubies and Shock have performed extensively nationally and internationally. Terry says she wants these images to help preserve the wildness of our open spaces — by heightening and newly envisioning that wildness. Follow Terri Terri's website Terri's Instagram page Terri appears in the following Top 10 lists 'Into The Woods' 'Mountain Views' Deandra Lee Wihro Kim	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1521
__label__wiki	0.633669	0.633669	5 total shares. Be the next! Aaron Smith Los Angeles, CA 3.67 - 247 votes Save Aaron to your Collection. Register Now! About Aaron Aaron Smith is known for referencing art history in both his painting style and compositions. His new paintings’ color and surfaces are liberated of historic constraints. By taking such liberties with the images’ presentation, the artist transforms still life paintings into uniquely contemporary symbolic portraits. Derived from opulent objects; Gothic and Baroque sculpture originally created to spiritually inspire; the paintings strip the all-male characters of context, suspending them in an existential vacuum. His figurative oil paintings have earned him solo shows at some of LA and Chicago’s finer galleries. Aaron's website Aaron's Facebook page Aaron's Instagram page Recommended by our guest curators View All Guest Curators Matt Kennedy Director, La Luz de Jesus Gallery "I first met Aaron Smith a little over 20 years ago, when he applied for a job at the gallery where I was then an assistant manager. It was La Luz de Jesus Gallery, we hired him, and the rest is history. Aaron is one of the most gifted figurative painters alive. His ability to move from mannerist to symbolic while infusing elements of the Baroque and Rococo in pieces that practically drip with art history references that are impossibly contemporary is unique. He's also helped shape the current pop surrealist landscape as the Illustration Chair at Art Center. He's a rare example of an incredibly talented artist who is also a great teacher." Aaron appears in the following Top 10 lists '2008' 10 of 21 reactions displayed Show all reactions "It's a mammoth playground built of mountains, hills, lakes, edagkdfebdkk" "i luv it...................i wonder the man looks very realastic............" "I have been lucky to see some of Aaron's paintings in person and fell in love with his marks. His paintings are unique and he uses a fresh taste of history. I look at his work a lot, and his paintings just keep getting better! His color has a sensitive mood and his subject has an intimate quality. I will continue looking at his work to see what else he produces in the future." "inspiring work! the generous paint application gives life to the often inanimate subjects. I love that Smith is not bias towards either the concept or the rendering, but gives equal attention to both aspects of the piece. really impressive work" "Average at best. Done way too many times before. Doesn't stand out at all!" "The latest paintings are great. I do not care what they are supposed to mean, they just look and feel great. This is how I like paintings." "Wow...odd man out here. I know it isnt.. but it has a paint by number quality. Cant feel a depth...doesnt make make me reach. Tech talent is there but no ahhhh factor." "I am not good at all at art, but I can still appreciate it. This piece exudes a light, and it almost seems like it will breathe. Very beautiful." "This first image looks like my Dad mixed with Mark Ruffalo. Handsome!" "painterly, worked canvas,ideas, esoteric antiquity, volumetric with shading and light, grotesqueness del grotto, tinges of the passion, radical cropping,figurative (and floral), good use of color: background colors stay in the background no matter the hue, beautiful passages of color [the nose socket of the skull is turquoise] the hue and the value of the color is right then he pushes it. art about art history" Mark Allen Miller	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1522
__label__wiki	0.556939	0.556939	APSPublicationsPlant Disease1998November First Report of Root Rot Caused by Phytophthora cinnamomi on Avocado in Italy November 1998 , Volume 82 , Number 11 S. O. Cacciola , A. Pane , and M. Davino , Istituto di Patologia vegetale, University of Catania, 95123 Catania, Italy ; and G. Magnano di San Lio , Dipartimento di Agrochimica ed Agrobiologia, University of Reggio Calabria, 89061 Gallina di Reggio Calabria, Italy http://dx.doi.org/10.1094/PDIS.1998.82.11.1281C Accepted for publication 10 September 1998. Root rot caused by Phytophthora cinnamomi Rands is generally recognized to be the most important disease of avocado (Persea americana Miller) wherever this tropical fruit tree is grown (3). The disease was first found in Italy in the spring of 1998. Eight-year-old trees, with symptoms ranging from initial to severe, were observed in an experimental field near Rocca di Caprileone, in Sicily. Few trees showed symptoms of both root rot and collar rot. Infected trees were of 13 commercial cultivars. Trees were grafted on two different rootstocks: Hass seedlings and G6 seedlings. G6 is a selection reported to have some field resistance to P. cinnamomi infections (2). However, no correlation was observed between symptom severity and rootstock. P. cinnamomi was isolated on BNPRAH selective medium (4) from trunk bark, feeder roots, and rhizosphere soil of diseased trees, and from roots of symptomless trees. The isolates, identified primarily on the basis of morphological and cultural characteristics, formed rosaceous colonies on potato dextrose agar (PDA) and on corn meal agar (CMA) coralloid-type mycelium, with abundant hyphal swellings, which were typically spherical and in clusters. Chlamydospores were either terminal or intercalary, and often occurred in characteristic grapelike clusters. Sporangia, which were produced in saline solution (1), were broadly ellipsoidal or ovoid, persistent, non-papillate and proliferous. The identification was confirmed by the electrophoresis of mycelial proteins on polyacrylamide slab gel. The electrophoretic patterns of total soluble proteins and eight isozymes (AKP [alkaline phosphatase], EST [esterase], FUM [fumarase], GLC [NAD-glucose dehydrogenase], G6PD [glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase], LDH [lactate dehydrogenase], MDH [malate dehydrogenase], and SOD [superoxide dismutase]) of the isolates from avocado were identical to those of two strains of P. cinnamomi, used as reference (isolate 70473 from International Mycological Institute, U.K., and an isolate from myrtle from the Institute of Plant Pathology, University of Catania, Italy). Conversely, the electrophoretic phenotype of the P. cinnamomi isolates from avocado was clearly distinct from those of reference strains of eight other species included in Waterhouse's taxonomic group VI. Pairings with isolates of a known mating type of P. cinnamomi, P. cryptogea, and P. drechsleri revealed that all the isolates from avocado were A2 mating type. It is possible that P. cinnamomi had been introduced into the experimental field on infected symptomless nursery trees. In Italy, root rot caused by P. cinnamomi could have a significant impact on commercial avocado plantings extending over about 20 ha. Moreover, this polyphagous pathogen may be a threat to other crops as well as to forest trees. References: (1) D. W. Chen and G. A. Zentmyer. Mycologia 62:397, 1970. (2) M. D. Coffey. Plant Dis. 71:1046, 1987. (3) D. C. Erwin and O. K. Ribeiro. 1996. Phytophthora Diseases Worldwide. American Phytopathological Society, St. Paul, MN. (4) H. Masago et al. Phytopathology 67:425, 1977.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1526
__label__cc	0.54318	0.45682	Awards and recommendations Banking and Finance/ Restructuring Capital Markets / Securities EU/Competition Law IP/IT Restructuring / Insolvency Alejandro Fernández Araoz Pedro A. Rueda Rafael Bazán Guillermo Bueno Jesús Conde Israel de Diego Clara Mañoso Javier Prieto Francisco Solchaga Alfonso Suárez Ainhoa Veiga Laura Vintanel Employment fairs COVID-19 SPECIAL Informative notes Araoz & Rueda in the media Interviews and collaborations A&R TV “Awarded as “Best Legal Boutique in Spain in 2018” in the III Edition of Expansión Legal Awards”. “Recommended Firm” in the following legal directories in all editions since 2000 up to the latest in 2019. Awarded in Paris with the “Special Distinction as Best Spanish Law Firm in 2012“ Measures to support solvency introduced by Royal Decree Law 34/2020 Following the declaration of the state of alarm on 14 March 2020, a series of economic and social me... Modifications in bankruptcy regulations introduced by Law 3/2020 The next day leases One of the main mysteries of the time after the pandemic (of that long next day which is just starti... Who are the great promises of business law? Our lawyers Clara Mañoso (Labour) and Guillermo Bueno (Corporate) have been included today in the re... Recommendations by area of practice National and International Arbitration EU/ Competition Law Traditionally known as an M&A boutique, Araoz & Rueda has particular experience in the energy sector, as well as in post-acquisition disputes and shareholder or joint venture conflicts. In addition, the firm acts in a range of corporate and commercial litigation, as well as international arbitration. Eduardo de León advises in disputes before the Spanish courts and in domestic arbitrations, specializing in matters involving administrative law. Testimonials: “Deep knowledge of energy law in Spain, especially renewable energy” “Best price and quality in the energy sector” “Reputed law firm recognized by public administrations, utilities, developers and banks” “High success ratio in the disputes managed by this law firm” “Eduardo de León is a key person for dispute resolution” The EMEA Legal 500 2020 - Dispute Resolution Long-standing Madrid firm that often assists clients with commercial litigation or administrative proceedings, acting for both plaintiffs and defendants. Advises on the termination of contracts, mis-selling claims and real estate disputes, in addition to bankruptcy-related litigation. Has further activity in disputes in the renewable energy sector. The team draws praise for being "very fast in understanding the complexities of the claim and in drafting a very robust defence." Alejandro Fernández de Araoz has experience in commercial disputes and insolvency litigation. Interviewees dub him "a tough litigator." Chambers Global Guide 2020 - Procesal Sources describe the department as "knowledgeable and oriented to problem solving," adding: "The lawyers are very proactive and call us before we pick up the phone to call them. In our case they meet the deadlines all the time and are very helpful in negotiations." "They are very good lawyers in court and all members of the team are available and at the client's disposal when needed," says another interviewee. Alejandro Fernández de Araoz focuses his practice on contentious issues arising from commercial matters and insolvency situations. Interviewees say that "he understands the problem, works around it and looks for the best way to solve it. He is not discouraged by adversity and takes all measures to achieve resolution." Chambers Global Guide 2019 - Litigation/Arbitration The ‘hands-on team’ at Araoz & Rueda specializes in international commercial arbitration. The practice is best known for handling disputes arising from energy projects, with particular experience in expropriation proceedings linked to the development of new infrastructures, as well as matters involving mining operations. Eduardo de León and Alejandro Fernández de Araoz lead the team, which has ‘a level of knowledge and expertise that is excellent’. Also notable is senior associate Ángel Sánchez-Freire, who is ‘a rising star in arbitration’. The EMEA Legal 500 2019 - Litigation/Arbitration Long-standing Madrid firm that often assists clients with commercial litigation or administrative proceedings. Advises on the termination of distribution contracts and the recovery of receivables. Broad sector experience includes work in consumable goods, finance, energy and healthcare. Benefits from practitioners who possess an extensive track record in international arbitrations. Sources highlight the team's flexibility, saying: "They really understand your problem quickly and give alternative solutions." Interviewees further note the firm's capacity to work on cross-border mandates: "They are responsive, have good English and it is easy to communicate with them." Interviewees note Alejandro Fernández de Araoz's ability to handle both advisory and contentious mandates, describing him as "an all-terrain lawyer, a very intelligent and very good counsel," who "negotiates commercial agreements very well." He has further experience in arbitrations arising from disputed SPA or other commercial contracts. Established Madrid firm assisting clients with administrative proceedings, including claims linked to environmental and planning matter. Also active in commercial cases involving M&A and telecommunications law. As well as litigation, the department includes practitioners who have an extensive track record in key international arbitration courts. Strengths (quotes from clients): “The team approaches every matter as if were the only one they had”. “The lawyers know perfectly how to focus each situation and what the best solution for each case is”. Sources really appreciated Alejandro Fernández de Araoz’s “strategic vision, absolute loyalty to the client and maximum involvement in the matters”. He is highlighted for his particular expertise in commercial and transactional matters. Araoz & Rueda has recently been involved in several telecoms, transport and energy-related disputes, as well as an ICSID claim against the Argentine Republic. Eduardo de León is the key litigation contact, while Clifford Hendel handles the arbitration side. Mid-size local firm Araoz & Rueda’s dispute resolution practice is led by Eduardo de León. It recently acted for a French company in the technology sector in a claim against the Spanish Air Force in relation to an administrative contract. BNP Suisse, ENI, Unitronics Comunicaciones and Molypharma are also notable clients. Spain, Dispute Resolution: Most in demand arbitrator. Band 2. Key individuals have extensive track records as counsel and arbitrators in the most important international arbitration courts. Clifford Hendel of Araoz & Rueda receives particular praise for his US law experience and for his regular appointment as arbitrator in ICC, CAS, LCIA and CAM arbitrations. Strengths (quotes from clients) “One advantage is that you work very closely with the partners; in most big firms it is not so easy to work with the partner but in the case of Araoz & Rueda, you can work directly with the senior lawyer”. Alejandro Fernández de Araoz of Araoz & Rueda has a tremendously broad practice that encompasses contentious and non-contentious commercial issues. Clients describe him as a "tough negotiator," adding: "He is very intelligent and knows how my business works very well." Chambers Europe Guide 2016 - Litigation/Arbitration Spain, Dispute Resolution: Most in demand arbitrator. Band 2 Clifford Hendel of Araoz & Rueda has extensive international arbitration experience, particularly involving France. France, Dispute Resolution: Foreign expert based in Spain. Madrid-based Clifford Hendel of Araoz & Rueda is qualified to practice in the UK, France, Spain and the USA. He is a seasoned dispute resolution lawyer, with significant experience in both domestic and international arbitration as well as litigation. Spain, Dispute Resolution. Band 4 Alejandro Fernández de Araoz of Araoz & Rueda has a wide-ranging practice encompassing capital markets, M&A, litigation and arbitration. He is regarded by sources as an accomplished practitioner in this field. Araoz & Rueda's Alejandro Fernández de Araoz and Clifford Hendel represented ENI en judicial and arbitral proceedings against Unión Fenosa Gas over corporate governance issues. Eduardo de León heads the team. At Araoz & Rueda Alejandro Fernández de Araoz and Eduardo de León are recommended for litigation, and Clifford Hendel is well known for his international arbitration capabilities. Sources identify Clifford Hendel as a key arbitrator. He works on domestic and international ad hoc and institutional disputes. He is qualified in France and regularly handles France-related matters. Clients say Alejandro Fernández de Araoz is "an expert in litigation; he has a lot of experience and much prestige in this area". Araoz & Rueda is ‘doing very well at the moment’.The group includes Alejandro Fernández de Araoz and arbitrator Clifford Hendel. Sources praise Clifford Hendel's strong international background. He is admitted to the Bar in Madrid, Paris, New York and England and Wales, and has acted as arbitrator in all the major international institutions, including the ICC, the LCIA and the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). Alejandro Fernández de Araoz as “an all-rounder who brings useful corporate knowledge to his work.” He recently advised a leading financial institution on banking litigation against BBVA and Cartera Meridional regarding the scope and application of an on-demand guarantee. According to clients "Alejandro Fernández de Araoz is very able and also enjoys his job. He understands matters in depth and is discreet and incisive". Litigation, insolvency and arbitration specialist Íñigo Rodríguez-Sastre is "an excellent negotiator who is creative and realistic", say clients. Clifford Hendel figura en las listas de "Most in demand arbitrators", "Foreign experts" y "Experts based abroad". He is renowed as an outstanding arbitrator with international credentials. "Araoz & Rueda's performance is outstanding and is definitely worth the money". Key contact Íñigo Rodríguez-Sastre is "a very sound litigator" who "provides top-notch advice" and has a "well-deserved reputation for his skills in court". Alejandro Fernández de Araoz is also "an excellent lawyer". Arbitrator Clifford Hendel is "very strong technically". Clifford Hendel has been included for third year in the list of "Most in demand arbitrators". Clifford Hendel is an all-rounder with "tremendous international law knowledge". Alejandro Fernández de Araoz andÍñigo Rodríguez-Sastre are also recommended. This mid-sized firm has a strong dispute resolution practice. Alejandro Fernández de Araoz combines his litigation skills with his great cross-practice knowledge, and is lauded by clients for his "talent at resolving complex problems and in-depth knowledge of a number of areas of law". Clifford Hendel is well known for his domestic and international arbitration practice, and he usually acts as both counsel and arbitrator at a number of domestic and international courts. Clients say that the firm's "commitment and in-depth study of cases make them one of the most recommendable in Spain". Dispute practice is headed by Clifford Hendel and the "client-oriented" Alejandro Fernández de Araoz, who is "not only a natural team leader but also a skillful and capable litigator - the value he adds is truly remarkable". Clifford Hendel and Alejandro Fernández de Araoz are corporate Araoz & Rueda’s best-known litigators, collecting high praise for their strong experience in both international and domestic disputes. Alejandro Fernández de Araoz at Araoz & Rueda. Clients hail “his through preparation and impeccable manner when speaking in court.” Clifford Hendel figura en la lista de “Most in demand arbitrators”. Clifford Hendel: he is North American and thus a frequent choice as arbitrator in hearing featuring a Spanish party and requiring a non-Spaniard referee. At Araoz & Rueda, Alejandro Fernández de Araoz has built impressive expertise as a corporate litigator. Araoz & Rueda successfully represents clients in court. “Fernández de Araoz is a determined lawyer who never gives up”, remarked clients; “he gets deeply involved in every matter and is always willing to answer questions.” “A distinguished international Spanish arbitrator”. Araoz & Rueda has been expanding its dispute resolution practice in recent years winning a very good reputation. Alejandro Fernández de Araoz and Clifford Hendelboasts extensive expertise in both international and domestic disputes. Clifford Hendel and Alejandro Fernández de Araoz are the firm’s best-known litigators. Araoz & Rueda advises on a range of finance matters, debt restructuring, leasing, and the acquisition and sale of distressed debt. The firm is also active in litigation against credit institutions, investment services compa-nies and collective investment schemes. Rafael Bazán leads the practice and has particular expertise in transactions involving the acquisition and sale of NPLs and asset portfolios, representing sellers and buyers in major NPL transactions. Testimonials: “Proximity and flexibility” “Very nice and easygoing people” “Availability with senior partners involved” The EMEA Legal 500 2020 - Bancario & Financiero During the research period the firms’ work in banking included advice to borrowers and lenders on acquisition finance, loans and refinancing deals. “The firms’ strengths are availability and commitment”. Partner Rafael Bazán is highly recommended. IFLR 1000 2020 - Banking & Finance Rafael Bazán (Tier 2) of Araoz & Rueda is recognised for advising a range of high-profile banks on the sale and acquisition of portfolios, including distressed portfolios. He further assists clients with the financing of takeover bids. Chambers Europe Guide 2020 - Banking & Finance Araoz & Rueda offers the 'direct engagement of senior lawyers', with Rafael Bazán the name to note for banking and finance. Notable instructions include advising renewable energy companies Alten and Grupo Ortiz on the refinancing of two photovoltaic projects, and assisting Norwegian debt management company Axactor with the acquisition of two NPL portfolios from Bankinter. The EMEA Legal 500 2019 - Banking/Finance Rafael Bazán (Tier 2) of Araoz & Rueda draws praise for his "very business-oriented" approach in mandates which include debt refinancing operations, NPL deals and acquisition finance. He is adept at advising both borrowing and lending parties. Clients report: "He goes right to the bottom of the matter, he's always available and ready to help: it's a pleasure to work with him." Chambers Europe Guide 2019 - Banking/Finance "Focused on closing deals while ensuring customer's interest as much as possible." "Araoz & Rueda provides high-quality service and delivers on time." "Rafael Bazán and Ainhoa Veiga are great professionals on whom you can trust without any doubt". IFLR 1000 2019 - Banking/Finance Araoz & Rueda’s team was strengthened by the arrival of Rafael Bazán from Baker McKenzie. Highlights included assisting Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank with the Spanish aspects of Sidorme Hotels’ senior facility agreement in the sum of € 504m. Clients highlight Rafael Bazán (Tier 2) for his "negotiation skills and excellent knowledge of Spanish regulations." Interviewees further note that in complex situations “he knows how to manage everyone's interests." A recent addition to the team at Araoz & Rueda, he has standout experience on the sell side of distressed loan portfolio transactions. He also assists with corporate finance, acquisition finance and asset finance transactions. Rafael Bazán of Araoz & Rueda has experience of high-profile loan portfolio transactions for key Spanish banking entities including the FROB, Catalunya Banc and Bankia. He also has broader expertise in refinancing, acquisition and asset finance. Clients say: "He is clearly business-oriented and client-focused," adding: "He is very precise and can advise on a wide scope of financial matters. Araoz & Rueda is recommended in Banking & Finance. The firm advised a borrower in connection with a €200 million loan facility granted to a photo voltaic energy production plant to allow it to undergo refinancing procedures. The team also acted for wine producers in the financing of a new premises. Araoz & Rueda acts for a variety of corporate and financial clients, including BNP Paribas and LM Group. In banking all of the details of Araoz & Rueda's work in the last year are confidential. One highlight was partner Guillermo Yuste’s advice to the borrower in respect of the negotiation of a loan from a syndicate of banks, to fund a large piece of commercial real estate in Madrid. Other transactions saw the team act on behalf of the borrower in relation to the €160 million refinancing of an energy project. Araoz & Rueda advised LM Group on refinancing issues, including a bond issuance and a revolving loan facility. Guillermo Yuste is the key name. Araoz & Rueda offers experience in debt restructuring and refinancing, real estate finance and asset finance. Advises a broad range of entities, such as financial institutions, investment funds and private capital ventures. Guillermo Yuste is noted for his experience in the banking and finance sector, where he focuses on corporate finance, structured finance, acquisitions and debt restructuring in domestic and international transactions. Chambers Global Guide 2016 - Banking/Finance Araoz & Rueda's "very good and accessible finance specialists" recently advised the borrower, Unitronics, and its majority shareholder, Baring Equity Partners, on the company's debt refinancing. Practice head Guillermo Yuste is "quick, efficient and professional". Department head Guillermo Yuste is praised by clients as "proactive and really involved". He recently advised BNP Paribas on notes issued by Pescanova in the course of insolvency proceedings. Clifford Hendel attracts plaudits for his knowledge of the area as well as his astute advice. He has significant expertise in international finance transactions and is qualified in Spain, the USA and the UK. At Araoz & Rueda Guillermo Yuste "does an excellent job". Sources describe Clifford Hendel as "an excellent lawyer whom I thoroughly recommend". He advised BBAM on the lase of a Boeing 737 aircraft to Calima. Practice head Guillermo Yuste enters the rankings after earning warm client feedback: "Intellectually he is very good: he really looks at the details, explores all the issues and finds solutions that others wouldn't have." Guillermo Yuste receive strong recommendations from clients with top marks for legal expertise and speed of response. Clients admire Clifford Hendel's superb international understanding of the banking world. Thanks to his 25 years' experience working in Spain, France, the UK and the USA, he is praised as "a truly global lawyer". Guillermo Yuste is the primary contact in this area and is recommended. Top-level service in a boutique fashion". Araoz & Rueda is "a very good challenger to the larger firms". Guillermo Yuste made partner in 2011, both he and Clifford Hendel "are very knowledgeable of the Spanish legal framework" and "willing to put in extra effort to close a transaction. Expert Clifford Hendel brings his vast global expertise. He is a well-known adviser on international finance deals and joint-ventures. "The team has a strong reputation in this area and has more recently been involved with restructurings". The firm has established a good profile in financing. "Araoz & Rueda is active in the market. It is very strong in project financing and they have an acquisition financing practice advising the buyers in banking deals". The "outstanding" Araoz & Rueda is highly regarded for banking and project finance and restructuring work. The EMEA Legal 500 2010 - Banking/Finane The firm´s compact size and flexible business model, with emphasis placed on partner-time and a generalist approach, have enabled the banking & finance department to successfully adapt and handle restructuring and project finance commissions. Sources say: "Exceptional technical knowledge coupled with a pragmatic focus on problems, as well as superb commercial relationships and client care". Clifford Hendel is recommended as a key individual. Generally regarded as “one of the best corporate boutiques in Spain”, Araoz & Rueda has also built up an impressive banking and finance track record. C Sources agree that Araoz & Rueda’s banking and finance team is a name to watch, as it is increasing its presence in local and cross-border transactions, acting for companies as well as international law firms without representation in Spain. Clients applaud the group’s high levels of service and the steady involvement of the partners in transactions. As one commentator elaborates: “The lawyers are incredibly responsive and diligent and they always go the extra mile”. Araoz & Rueda has always maintained a strong banking practice and it maintains an impressive client list. Observers comment on the firm’s improved visibility on the Spanish finance scene, with an increasing presence in international financing transactions. Araoz & Rueda remains solid in this sector. The firm has a growing finance practice and is attracting world-class clients. The firm enters the rankings on the back of the numerous recommendations of its peers and on the strength of the deals it has recently closed. This year it retains its place among the premier Spanish firm. "…the firm´s finance practice continues to attract plaudits in the market”. "…Araoz & Rueda has a well-regarded finance practice”. The EMEA Legal 500 2005-2006 - Banking/Finance The ‘engaged, motivated and committed’ Araoz & Rueda is a ‘boutique and specialized firm that provides very unique M&A and corporate services’. The practice handles the spectrum of transactional and corporate work, across sectors including pharmaceuticals, construction, media, logistics and renewable energy. The team is co-led by Pedro Rueda, who has experience advising industrial and financial clients on behalf of the buyer and the seller; Israel de Diego, who is active in domestic and cross-border matters; and M&A and capital markets specialist Alejandro Fernández de Araoz. Testimonials “Quick understanding of customer needs. Very good management of equipment and resources” “True attention to details regardless of the size of the deal” “Good understanding of what metrics are important for the sector and for the deal itself” “The firm has good knowledge and vast experience in capital markets and M&A” “They prove to be fast, responsive, and provide valuable advice and excellent negotiation skills" “Alejandro Fernandez de Araoz is a responsive, persuasive and multi-skilled lawyer. Over the years he has shown ample experience and a broad knowledge in a different number of fields related to M&A and capital markets” “The team is extremely committed and results oriented” “They are really committed, extremely efficient and very knowledgeable lawyers to rely on” The EMEA Legal 500 2020 - Corporate/M&A Araoz & Rueda is recognized across all financial and corporate areas. The M&A team represented acquirers on deals in the pharmaceutical, energy, beverage, communication, health, construction, transportation and financial services industries. “I have a good impression of Araoz & Rueda’s work. Among its strengths I would like to stress that they follow the process very close to the client” “It is a very good firm, I would like to point out the partners’ involvement since the very beginning of any M&A process assessment” “The firm’s strengths are efficiency and agility” “The firm has deep knowledge of the needs of the customer. The partners are at front line, flexible and facilitators”. Partners Pedro Rueda, Alejandro Fernández de Araoz and Israel de Diego are highly recommended. IFLR 1000 2020 - Corporate/M&A The team maintains a consolidated reputation in the mid-cap M&A market. Regularly assists international companies and funds with inbound investment. Popular choice for foreign law firms looking either to refer key clients to a smaller Spanish firm or to work together on transnational M&A projects. Client portfolio comprises entities from the life sciences, transportation and TMT sectors. Strengths The firm garners praise for its "great experience," with one source adding that it is "a classic boutique for M&A." Clients find further value in the team's "immediate response and absolute availability." Work highlights Assisted Mazuelo Holding with the EUR230 million takeover bid launched over Spanish wine producer Barón de Ley. Pedro Rueda leads the team and enjoys a strong reputation as "an excellent lawyer." He offers significant experience in the acquisition and sale of Spanish companies, as well as advising domestic private equity funds on cross-border transactions. Alejandro Fernández de Araoz is widely known for his experience and draws strong praise from clients for his "commercial vision." He advises on M&A deals in the pharmaceutical, renewable energy and financial services sectors. Guillermo Bueno assists with transactions in the manufacturing, construction and automotive sectors. Clients say that he "delivers the product promptly and the quality of work is excellent." Chambers Europe Guide 2020 Araoz & Rueda maintains a consolidated reputation in the mid-cap M&A market, habitually advising Spanish and foreign clients on cross-border transactions. Popular choice for foreign law firms looking either to refer key clients to a smaller Spanish firm or to work together on transnational M&A projects. Notable activity on the buy side of M&A transactions. Client portfolio comprises entities from the life sciences, transport and TMT sectors. Interviewees report the team to be "helpful, knowledgeable, efficient and proactive." Pedro Rueda is regarded as "a strong and disciplined negotiator" who has the ability to "cut through to the point of the issue." He acts on both the buy and sell sides of cross-border M&A transactions, including splits, acquisitions and joint ventures, and is notably active in the financial and industrial spaces. Chambers Europe Guide 2019 - Corporate/Mergers and Acquisitions The 'always available' Araoz & Rueda 'understands its client's needs and tries its best to reach them'. The group frequently handles cross-border transactions: it advised German pharmaceutical company Dermapharm on the acquisition of Trommsdorff from Ferrer, and assisted French nursing home group Orpea Group with the acquisition of psychiatry centre Clínica López Ibor. Partner Pedro Rueda heads the corporate and M&A team, which saw the addition of Israel de Diego from Baker McKenzie in November 2017. The EMEA Legal 500 2019 - Corporate/Mergers and Acquisitions The partners Pedro Rueda and Alejandro Fernández de Araoz receive strong recommendations “Focused on closing deals while ensuring customer's interest as much as possible” "It provides high-quality service and delivers on time." IFLR 1000 2019 - Corporate/Mergers and Acquisitions Araoz & Rueda regularly advises international and domestic clients on mid-cap cross-border sales and acquisitions. Notable expertise in the pharmaceutical and healthcare sectors. Pedro Rueda consistently attracts superb praise for his work on mid-cap M&A mandates. "I can pick up the phone and call Pedro and he's 100% up to date on every bit of advice we have had," says one interviewee, while another adds: "He's involved in everything and can spot issues in the contracts in seconds." Sources also draw attention to his English language skills and his experience in handling cross-border transactions. Under the leadership of Pedro Rueda, Araoz & Rueda’s corporate team advised leading SMS corporation Esendex on the acquisition of SMSPubli Mobile Marketing. Other clients include Clínica Baviera, Osborne Group and Richemont Group. The firm maintains a consolidated reputation in the mid-cap M&A market, habitually advising Spanish and foreign clients with cross-border transactions. The team is particularly active in sectors such as pharmaceuticals, energy, media, transport and logistics. “A prompt and effective team, I find them to be technically excellent and responsive” “They have good knowledge of other jurisdictions and are great in negotiations” Corporate/M&A: Sources widely consider Pedro Rueda to be a “pragmatic and efficient” practitioner who has “great language and negotiation skills”. As head of the department, he has extensive experience in M&A, joint venture and other corporate matters. He regularly works with clients in the financial and industrial sectors. Private Equity: Compact, specialized team that routinely advises domestic and international private equity clients on acquisitions, investments and divestments. Also offers significant experience assisting venture capital entities with a range of investments. Sector expertise includes transportation, energy and healthcare. Pedro Rueda is a key contact for this practice area. Strengths: the team’s “quality, efficiency and high level of service” is singled out by market sources. The partners Pedro Rueda and Alejandro Fernández de Araoz receive strong recommendations from clients with top marks for legal expertise. IFLR 1000 2017 - Fusiones y Adquisiciones/Capital Riesgo Led by Pedro Rueda, Araoz & Rueda’s corporate team excels at advising foreign investors and Spanish corporations on significant transactions. Francisco Solchaga is also noted. Under the leadership of Pedro Rueda Araoz & Rueda has built a significant reputation in M&A and private equity work, and regularly acts for foreign investors and Spanish corporations in significant acquisitions and divestments. The EMEA Legal 500 2016 - Mergers and Acquisitions/Private Equity Compact, specialized team that routinely advises domestic and international private equity clients on acquisitions, investments and divestments. Benefits from significant experience of transactions related to sectors such as food and beverage, energy and media. "There is a lot of involvement from senior people on the deals and I really value that”. Chambers Europe Guide 2016 - Mergers and Acquisitions/Private Equity Compact Madrid team with a consolidated reputation in the midcap M&A market. Assists Spanish and foreign corporate clients with cross-border deals. “A boutique firm with specialized lawyers who are focused on clients’ needs”. “I value the lawyers’ excellent treatment of the client and the defence of the clients’ needs”. Clients appreciate that Pedro Rueda "handles the work himself and if you call you always get an answer from him directly." He has a long-standing reputation among peers as an experienced corporate and M&A lawyer working for mid-sized and some larger Spanish industrials. One source further notes Rueda's ability to "resolve conflicts and find solutions”. Chambers Global Guide 2016 - Mergers and Acquisitions/Private Equity Historic presence in the market that leverages formidable reputations of key individuals. Maintains relationships with venture capital firms and important international private equity houses. "I really like the quality and hands-on involvement of the partners" "I feel secure working with the firm - it has a very good image among investors and the lawyers are trustworthy and honest" Peers agree that Francisco Aldavero is "a genuine private equity specialist" who is "dedicated to his clients and hands-on". Sources add: "He knows how to read the negotiation well and is tough". Practice head Pedro Rueda has extensive experience across joint ventures, M&A transactions and sales of assets. Foreign mid-market investors and Spanish corporates instructed a team on a number of acquisitions and divestments. The group acted for 3i on the € 590m sale of its stake in Everis to NTT. Other clients include Aurum Mining and Baring Private Equity Partners. Pedro Rueda and Francisco Aldavero are the practice co-heads. Head of department Francisco Aldavero is described as "an excellent lawyer" by clients, who praise his "great combination of commercial and legal knowledge and high credibility in the market." Araoz & Rueda’s name partner Pedro Rueda is ‘a very able, personable and extremely well-trained professional’. He recently advised [...]; and Francisco Aldavero assisted [...]. The two partners form a ‘reliable and knowledgeable pair’. Practice head Pedro Rueda receives strong market feedback: "He's an extraordinary lawyer. Technically his advice is impeccable, he's very involved in the deals and his professionalism and rigour are exceptional." The partners at this firm receive strong recommendations from clients with top marks for legal expertise and speed of response. IFLR 1000 2014 - Mergers and Acquisitions/Private Equity Practice head Pedro Rueda impresses clients with his strong commercial sense and negotiation skills: "He has excellent chemistry with everyone, from clients to shareholders. He can see situations from everyone's point of view." Alejandro Fernández de Araoz is viewed as an excellent practitioner in all areas of corporate work, with sources saying he "does a stellar job." This firm has broad experience of advising private equity investors, particularly venture capital entities, on a variety of investments and disposals. Practice head Francisco Aldavero is described as "a knowledgeable and experienced lawyer who is very commercial." Araoz & Rueda has a busy mid-market M&A practice. Pedro Rueda and Francisco Aldavero are the names to note. This domestic firm is well known for its work on mid-market private equity deals, and has an impressive roster of clients. Sources identify practice head Francisco Aldavero as a leader in this field: "He has focused on private equity throughout his whole career. He is definitely a specialist." Alejandro Fernández de Araoz remains an integral part of the practice, particularly for the corporate expertise that he brings to deals. "Tier" 3 (of 5). Araoz & Rueda, within the "top ten" of law firms recommended in the area. "Excellent boutique", Araoz & Rueda is "very strong in the M&A/Private equity area". Led by Pedro Rueda, "one of the best lawyers in Madrid", the firm advises on top transactions.Francisco Aldavero is also highly recommended. Araoz & Rueda, among the "top ten" recommended law firms in the area of Mergers and Acquisitions and Private Equity (tier 3 of 5). Sources say: "Excellent service from a knowledgeable and very fast team. The lawyers know what they must concentrate on and how best to structure and negotiate a deal." "Dynamic approach to problem solving". "They have also cross-border M&A expertise". Client enthuse that partner Francisco Aldavero "has a lot of private equity experience and focuses on the key aspects of each transaction. He is proactive and anticipates the problems we might face" say clients. This compact Madrid firm has a consistently strong reputation for Spanish and international private equity work. Clients have the highest praise for the practice, emphasising above all the impressive level of partner time devoted to each case, and the lawyers´ deep knowledge of the field. "They are real experts in private equity, they know everything about it". Partner Francisco Aldavero is readily identified by peers as one of the top names in the field. Partner Alejandro Fernández de Araoz is present mainly on the M&A aspects of private equity work, and is lauded as "extremely focused and intelligent." "A firm where you feel like the lawyers are close to your company, understand your situation and are working with you as a team",interviewees say. Pedro Rueda is lauded for "being so easily able to put himself in the client´s shoes", while Alejandro Fernández de Araoz is respected by peers as "one of the best generalists in the market". Francisco Solchaga is a younger partner also recommended who has caught the eye of several clients. Araoz & Rueda provides the kind of service that can draw clients away from the bigger firms". "Working with Araoz & Rueda was excellent",says one client. "Alejandro Fernández de Araoz and Pedro Rueda were very good, well connected and bright". It is as good a firm as you can get in the local market. "The team is excellent in all aspects." Under "tough and skilled negotiator" Pedro Rueda and Francisco Aldavero, who is praised for his "excellent industry knowledge", Araoz & Rueda is praised for its "clear and to the point advice" and its ability to "understand points from a technical perspective and in relation to its clients´ needs." Francisco Aldavero and Pedro Rueda, are praised by peers for their strong work. "They are the two stars of the firm," comments one rival. "Their quality of work is great". Clients praise the close involvement of partners in the assignments. "They have very good partners in Alejandro Fernández de Araoz, Pedro Rueda and Francisco Aldavero, and clients very much like them for their commercial vision and legal acumen". This Madrid firm is one of the most active players in the private equity arena, and is “appreciated by clients for having all the flexibilityof a small firm, which means dedicated partner attention, and the ability to build long-term relationships with clients”. Francisco Aldavero is hailed by sources for his “incredible experience and efficiency – he knows private equity inside-out”. Meanwhile, Alejandro Fernández de Araoz is praised for his “strong negotiation skills and solid technical abilities”. This is a “splendid corporate firm that houses fantastic lawyers” interviewees say. It provides “tailor-made solutions” and also has a “striking track record for both mid-sized and large transactions”. Interviewees further highlighted its proficiency in the private equity field. Versatile lawyer Alejandro Fernández de Araoz is a “fantastic adviser for any corporate matter and is tough in negotiations.” Pedro Rueda “knows the market like the back of his hand and can adapt to his client’s needs”. Generally regarded as “one of the best corporate boutiques in Spain”. Arguably the market’s most admired small firms, Araoz & Rueda is widely regarded as "Spain’s finest corporate boutique, constantly punching above its weight". Name partnersAlejandro Fernández de Araoz and Pedro Rueda are the firm’s best-known corporate stars. Corporate partner Francisco Aldavero is also regarded as "a true corporate lawyer in the traditional sense, he is constantly there when you need him, and a perfect gentleman". Araoz & Rueda is arguably the most admired of the smaller corporate firms; “a fantastic firm, they have managed to build up a solid reputation and establish themselves as a player at the top of the market”. Regularly punching above its weight, the firm wins praise all round, with name partners Alejandro Fernández de Araoz and Pedro Rueda standing out. "Pragmatic negotiators who are able to come up with imaginative solutions". This team earns client commendations for the calibre of its top lawyers. It maintains an active and constant presence in mid-sized private equity deals, often assisting venture capital entities. Sources are full of praise for the team’s combination of "excellent quality and competitive fees". Francisco Aldavero is described as a “serious and proactive professional who knows his clients inside out, and has an excellent understanding of the economic landscape” Although best known as a corporate lawyer, Alejandro Fernández de Araoz is also an esteemed presence in private equity. Observers say: “He is highly esteemed from start to finish, and has a solid grasp of the sector”. "Solid transactional boutique with extremely good M&A partners and a very strong presence in the private equity market". Clients commented on their total satisfaction with Araoz & Rueda’s legal advice, which is defined by its lawyers’ "professional attitude, efficiency and careful preparation". The Lawyers: "Technically brilliant". Alejandro Fernández de Araoz is “permanently focused on the clients’ best interests - he provides a personalised service and ensures a fast response at all times.” The “forceful and hard-working” Pedro Rueda is known for his “fantastic negotiation skills and experience” in the M&A market. The firm receives consistent praise from its clients for the quality of its work. Francisco Aldavero and Pedro Rueda are real leading lawyers for their practice, while Alejandro Fernández de Araoz is described as "hard working with a good knowledge of the law and a charming negotiator – very to the point". Private Equity: This mid-sized transactional firm “continues to improve its position in the private equity arena.” In what observers describe as “an extremely successful year,” the firm “has been involved in top deals and has moved its practice one step forward”.Francisco Aldavero has “a profound knowledge of the legislation applicable to private equity transactions” and “he is able to optimise resources and focus on the important commercial and legal issues that ensure the success of a transaction”. Observers describe the firm as a “terrific independent M&A and private equity boutique, comparable to the top US transactional outfits.” An “extraordinary commercial profile, first-class quality of advice and impressive track record”. The lawyers: “superb and vastly experienced M&A lawyers who are permanently focused on closing the deal” say interviewees. Araoz & Rueda is well known as a generalist corporate law firm, and is extremely active in M&A and Private equity. “Araoz & Rueda is strong because it is one of the few independent Spanish firms” said one lawyer in our interviews. Araoz & Rueda is one of the most prominent smaller corporate firms in Spain. Highly respected partners Francisco Aldavero and Pedro Rueda have been involved in some of the most significant transactions, involving both listed and non-listed companies. The "practical and knowledgeable" Ainhoa Veiga routinely assists with day-to-day competition mandates, as well as advising on merger control proceedings and distribution agreements. She represents clients in cartel and infringement investigations, in addition to appealing CNMC decisions. Chambers Europe Guide 2020 - Competition-UK Law Clients appreciate Ainhoa Veiga of Araoz & Rueda's "transparent and realistic" approach. She has considerable experience in dealing with distribution agreements, representing clients before the CNMC due to complaints and cartel cases. Veiga also advises on merger control procedures. Chambers Europe Guide 2019 - Competition/Antitrust Ainhoa Veiga of Araoz & Rueda has experience in merger control, compliance and private enforcement matters. Her additional experience in unfair competition mandates was demonstrated in advice to Pompadour Ibérica on European competition and food law concerning the comparative advertising of food supplements. Sources say she is "very keen to achieve success for the client," with one client adding: "She is extremely knowledgeable and practical, and is able to adapt to the client's requests." Araoz & Rueda’s Ainhoa Veiga “was effective when dealing with the competition authorities and was very good all round”. She commonly assists companies with merger proceedings, distribution contracts and CNMC investigations. She has recently been instructed by IBA Molecular to advise on public procurement proceedings in hospitals. Ainhoa Veiga is the main contact at Araoz & Rueda, which is especially active on the transactional and merger-control side. The team recently advised Eni on antitrust issues related to its Union Fenosa Gas joint venture with Gas Natural Fenosa. The EMEA Legal 500 2017 - Competition/Antitrust Ainhoa Veiga of Araoz & Rueda is the head of department and is well regarded in the market. Her practice includes advising on merger control and IP related matters. Market commentators describe her as "very good, straightforward and practical." At Araoz & Rueda, practice head Ainhoa Veiga advised Eastman Chemical on the notification to the CNMC of the acquisition by its wholly owned subsidiary Taminco of Cepsa Química. Ainhoa Veiga heads Araoz & Rueda's competition practice and is highlighted for her proactivity and noted presence on the competition market. Ainhoa Veiga heads Araoz & Rueda's "very competent team", which has "a practical approach" and "knowledge of the domestic authority". Highlights included advising Apollo on merger control matters concerning its acquisition of Evo Banco. Ainhoa Veiga of Araoz & Rueda heads the firm's competition department. Clients highlight her efficiency and commitment. At Araoz & Rueda Ainhoa Veiga heads the competition team and is recommended. Ainhoa Veiga at Araoz & Rueda is "pragmatic and well rounded". Araoz & Rueda’s ‘excellent’ team advised waste management company Daorje on antitrust issues in the recycling market, and provided merger control advice to clients such as SK Capital Partners and Ferroatlántica. Practice head Ainhoa Veiga is ‘tough and energetic". Araoz & Rueda's team is "always available, with a high level of commitment". Practice head Ainhoa Veiga is "really intelligent; she captures the essence of the problem in a second and quickly provides solutions". Ainhoa Veiga at Araoz & Rueda receives praise for her "direct, clear and analytical style". High-calibre team led by partner Ainhoa Veiga: "She receives widespread recognition as a competition specialist with experience in M&A and IP". At Araoz & Rueda, Ainhoa Veiga´s team was praised for its "excellent service, prompt response time, in-depth subject knowledge and ability to explain issues in context". "This Spanish boutique has a compact but strong competition team. The firm aims to deliver a tailored service and happy clients comment that "compared to the big multinational firms it seems to dedicate a lot more time to the clients." Leading the team, and at the forefront of each case, is partner Ainhoa Veiga, a skilled competition lawyer specialising also in IP. Araoz & Rueda boasts sound expertise in competition issues. "They provide a real personal treatment within a speedy and flexible framework". Chambers Global Guide 2009 - Competition/Antitrust Clients are delighted with Ainhoa Veiga at Araoz & Rueda, noting her "solid, well-constructed arguments" as well as her "diligent and flexible service". Interviewees describe department head Ainhoa Veiga as "a smart lawyer who really knows what she is doing". This widely admired corporate firm has a small but highly efficient competition practice that offers splendid transactional and litigation services. Ainhoa Veiga is seen as an energectic and rising star on the team. The ‘very commercial’ Araoz & Rueda is ‘highly skilled in energy projects' and ‘able to grasp the important aspects of the deal’. The firm has particular expertise in the promotion, construction, financing, start-up and operation of renewable energy projects, especially photovoltaic plants. The ‘exceptional’ Francisco Solchaga leads the practice and has a ‘good commercial understanding of the business that allows him to provide good legal technical solutions’. Testimonials: “Francisco Solchaga is very approachable. He has a deep understanding of the latest developments in the sector as he works with the main players” “They work very closely with the client and ensure a good understanding of the legal questions” “A&R manages to keep an excellent relationship with other counterparties involved in the transaction” “An in-depth knowledge of the legal questions and able to bring about innovative solutions adapted to the needs of the company” “They are able to suggest several solutions and alternatives in a very short period of time, adapting the legal advice to the rhythm of the client company” “Deep knowledge of energy law in Spain, especially in relation to renewable energy” “Reputed law firm well known by all key players in the sector, such as developers, utilities, banks and so on” “As this law firm’s strengths I would highlight their global, 360-degree understanding of the matters assigned to them, and their commercial approach to the negotiations, going beyond the pure legal and technical aspects of the discussion” “Francisco Solchaga is on top of all the aspects of the transaction. He is very good at channeling and coordinating the different parts of the law firm working on a specific matter” The EMEA Legal 500 2020 - Energy Araoz & Rueda has ‘a strong global understanding’ combined with ‘a commercial approach to negotiations, going beyond the purely legal technical aspects’. The team has particular expertise in all aspects related to starting-up and operating renewable energy projects. ‘Exceptional’ practice head Francisco Solchaga is ‘good at channelling and coordinating the different areas of the law firm’, as well as ‘providing technical solutions, sensible and in line with business practices and the needs of the client’. The department is assisting Alten and Ortiz with the sale of six photovoltaic projects in Spain to Vela-Sonnedix, as well as advising African Renewable on its agreement with Solarig, for the development of a photovoltaic plant project in Cadiz. Araoz & Rueda has been highly active assisting clients with regulatory matters, refinancing and energy-related litigation. The practice assisted Renovis with the acquisition of two rooftop photovoltaic projects located in Badajoz. Francisco Solchaga is the key contact. Araoz & Rueda has particular expertise advising on the hydrocarbons and electricity sectors and has been active on privatisation and deregulation processes. Among other matters the team assisted Perwin with the € 15m acquisition of the Solluz photovoltaic project. At Araoz & Rueda Francisco Solchaga has extensive experience acting for clients in the hydrocarbons, electricity and gas industries. Recent highlights include assisting Grupo T-Solar on the acquisition of a stake in a photovoltaic project from minority shareholders. Araoz & Rueda advises sponsors on the development and financing of renewable energy projects and recently assisted China-based Huadian Fuxin Energy with the acquisition of a 40MW wind farm in Cuenca. Francisco Solchaga heads the team. ‘‘Versatility’ and ‘dedication’ are the hallmarks of Araoz & Rueda’s practice, which has transactional and financing expertise. Francisco Solchaga ‘personally handles his clients’ matters’ and has ‘excellent knowledge of the energy sector’. ‘Excellent in every way’, Araoz & Rueda is ‘always extremely quick to react’ and is ‘fully devoted to the client and the deals’. Francisco Solchaga is ‘remarkably business-oriented’, and has ‘deep knowledge and common sense’. Francisco Solchaga specialises in energy transactions, with clients including energy group OPDE. Chambers Europe Guide 2013 - Energy Francisco Solchaga has expertise in hydrocarbons, gas and electricity, and is highly recommended in renewable energy projects. Araoz & Rueda has niche expertise in renewable energy, particularly solar plants. Clients praise the team´s "response, support and commitment". The team is led by "outstanding partner" Francisco Solchaga. This compact Madrid-based firm has a small but steady flow of project finance work. The practice focuses on the financing of solar power farms in Spain. Sources speak highly of practice head Francisco Solchaga, who, having focused on renewable energy deals for several years, has acquired excellent legal and technical knowledge of the sector. Despacho recomendado en el área de energías renovables. Francisco Solchaga es el socio que lidera la práctica. PLC WHICH LAWYER? 2009 - Energy Peers identify this firm as an active player in the projects market, concentrating predominantly on the energy industry and working on photovoltaic projects on the side of the sponsors. Partner Francisco Solchaga leads the practice. Araoz & Rueda maintains a strong client base including both domestic and international companies. Headed by Javier Prieto, the 'customer-oriented' tax team has a particular focus on M&A, real estate tax and litigation. Its additional expertise in international tax law allows it to advise international clients, such as US logistics group Expeditors, which the firm advised on the implementation of tax incentives for the expatriation of employees. Other key clients include BBVA and Kefren Capital Real Estate. Testimonials: "They are customer oriented, always giving advice on different scenarios. They tell us what they would do if they were us, which is invaluable" "Javier Prieto is an exceptional professional. He is service oriented, with integrity and a sense of responsibility" "Personalised service, flexibility, punctuality" "Javier Prieto has a flexible and personal approach that is hard to find in other firms" "Good communication within the team. Good understanding of the issues. Ability to adapt" The EMEA Legal 500 2020 - Tax Javier Prieto has a broad tax practice that extends from advisory mandates linked to the expatriation of employees through to the appeal of decisions taken by the Spanish tax authorities. Clients say that "he is able to understand the issue very quickly and summarise our needs." "He is proactive and makes sure he gets ahead of all of the new issues that arise," says another source. Chambers Europe Guide 2020 - Tax Araoz & Rueda advises corporate clients and private equity houses on corporate tax matters and on the tax planning of midcap M&A or real estate transactions. Clients include foreign investors buying distressed debt portfolios or stakes in Spanish start-ups. Assists private individuals and companies with tax investigations. Sources say that the lawyers are "commercially savvy, technically strong and deliver exactly what I need." "They break their advice down into layman's terms,"states one interviewee, whilst another praises the lawyers' proactive approach, saying: "They give us updates and suggestions on what we should do." Javier Prieto has notable experience in the structuring of both national and international M&A transactions. Interviewees praise his attention to detail and say that "he's an excellent technician and very commercially savvy." Araoz & Rueda is experienced in a range of domestic and cross-border tax issues, as well as legislation. Leading the team is Javier Prieto, whose specialities include tax advice arising from national and international M&A transactions. Araoz & Rueda stands out for its “rigorous and responsive service that provides value for money”. Javier Prieto recently advised Orpea on its €150m acquisition of Spanish nursing home group Sanyres. Araoz & Rueda advises Spanish corporate clients and private equity houses on corporate tax matters and on the tax planning of mid-cap M&A, refinancing or real estate transactions. Also assists private individuals and companies with tax investigations. Team members have further expertise in tax issues related to insolvencies. Works in connection with its banking and finance, private equity and corporate M&A departments in order to provide a full range of support on tax mandates. Interviewees appreciate that the lawyers are "reliable and work rigorously." Clients report that Javier Prieto is "hard-working, very clear in his explanations and totally reliable." He is well equipped to handle the tax aspects of M&A transactions and the tax structuring of international investments, often on behalf of key financial institutions. "He is very devoted to the client's needs," says one interviewee Araoz & Rueda is recommended for its transactional tax-related advice. The team is led by partner Javier Prieto Araoz & Rueda advises Spanish corporate clients and private equity houses on corporate tax matters and on the tax planning of mid-cap M&A, refinancing or real estate transactions. Also assists private individuals and companies with tax investigations. Team members have further expertise in tax issues related to insolvencies. "The lawyers are diligent in their work and one of the things I like the most is that they are very quick." "The firm gives very good global advice." "In terms of the price and the quality of the work the mix is very good." Key partner Javier Prieto handles a broad range of tax structuring, indirect tax and international taxation mandates for companies and private individuals. Clients highlight the "technical knowledge that he has of Spanish tax law" and say that it is "easy to contact him and he gives rapid responses." Chambers Global Guide 2017 - Tax At Araoz & Rueda, Javier Prieto advised RedOne on a joint venture project to develop music festivals and other entertainment events in Spain and abroad. Other clients include SK Capital Partners and Votorantim Industrial. Araoz & Rueda provides transactional tax advice, offering support in corporate tax, in private equity and also in matters within the financial services industry. Frequently acts on tax inspections, in addition to handling complex debt restructuring mandates. “I was happy: it is the attention given to the client, the proactivity, the prompt response – it provides good service”. “The firm has the technical knowledge, accessibility and does quick work”. Javier Prieto offers experience advising on the tax aspects of domestic and international M&A transactions, in addition to the implementation of finance structures. A source notes: "He has very good knowledge of the tax world; he's a very good adviser." Another praises his client skills: "He has lots of empathy for their needs”. Araoz & Rueda has "strength in depth", and provides "thoroughly and accurate advice". The team primarily assists clients with the tax aspects of corporate, private equity and finance transactions, and recently advised 3i on the sale of its stake in Derprosa Film to Taghleef Industries. Javier Prieto heads the team. Javier Prieto receives praise for his role advising on M&A transactions, in which he is said to be "exhaustive in his answers and fast in answering". "He is open, easy-going and dedicated", adds one client. Boutique firm Araoz & Rueda has strength in depth beyond lead partner Javier Prieto, who has ‘extremely deep knowledge of Spanish taxation’ and gives ‘accurate and realistic’ advice. Practice head Javier Prieto is highly proficient across all areas of domestic and international tax law including litigation and planning. Clients praise him as "quick, practical and easy to contact". Recommended Firm The Tax Directors Handbook 2014 - Tax Javier Prieto leads the team and is respected by interviewees for providing sophisticated tax advice on domestic and international M&A transactions. "Excellent service, responses are clear, accurate and on time". Javier Prieto heads the team. Javier Prieto recently joined the firm. Clients describe him as "serious, technically strong and responsive" and admire his capacity to understand their needs. At Araoz & Rueda "the level of service is excellent" and "responses are clear and accurate". Partner Javier Prieto is recommended. Araoz & Rueda has a "very efficient" tax practice. "Knowledgeable and practical", the team is "very committed to achieving its goals". "Negotiating ability and capacity to find innovative solutions when required". This mid-sized firm was established in the early 1990s with a clear corporate focus. It has successfully diversified since then, and today tax constitutes one of its key departments. Clients view the team´s size as a benefit, noting: "We feel that the lawyers are close to our company, they understand us and work with us as a team." Sources describe the team as "dynamic and proactive." Araoz & Rueda´s tax practice is well regarded by clients. Clients praise the firm for its quick response times, and "low turnover, allowing for a long relationship and better understanding of our needs." "We were very positively impressed with the high level of quality of the tax practice of the firm”. The firm´s tax practice handles work for a variety of domestic and international clients, including M&A and restructuring related advice and international tax planning. “Proactive attitude and ability to explain issues clearly”. The employment practice at Araoz & Rueda covers a wide range of work, including the hiring and dismissal of workers, the implementation of workforce restructuring plans, negotiating collective bargaining agreements and strikes, and contentious labour matters. The team has experience advising on the employment aspects of corporate transactions; recent highlights include advising Avanza on the acquisition of Basque coach company Transportes Pesa. The 'highly experienced' Alfonso Suárez leads the practice. Testimonials: “The team has an excellent ability to adapt Spanish labour legislation for use in other jurisdictions” “The team has a highly experienced partner in Alfonso Suarez. We work with Araoz & Rueda only on complex cases or labour matters related to M&A” “The analysis is always very complete and detailed and the focus is always very intelligent” The EMEA Legal 500 2020 - Employment Alfonso Suárez of Araoz & Rueda is known for his experience in collective redundancies. Clients draw attention to his negotiation skills. Clients consider associate-to-watch Clara Mañoso of Araoz & Rueda to be "very responsible." She regularly assists with workforce restructurings and other employment issues arising from transactions. Chambers Europe Guide 2020 - Labour Araoz & Rueda's Alfonso Suárez offers expertise in negotiations with unions, individual dismissals and the employment aspects of M&A transactions. Sources recommend him for his "exceptional management of labour law and extreme sensitivity to the needs of the client." According to clients, Clara Mañoso of Araoz & Rueda is "extremely knowledgeable and a pleasure to deal with." She supports clients in the negotiation of working conditions and in collective dismissals. Araoz & Rueda has ‘significant expertise’ in the sector and provides ‘personal attention with detailed analysis of the situation and associated risks’. The ‘knowledgeable and effective’ practice is led by counsel Alfonso Suárez, who is particularly experienced in contentious employment matters. The team recently assisted Consolis Group with the closure of its Spanish branch, and represented the US Department of Justice in a dispute with Comisiones Obreras, related to the collective dismissal of a group of workers from the Rota naval base. Other key clients include DHL, Grupo Avanza and Alvana Ventures. The EMEA Legal 500 2019 - Labour What the team is known for most active on the implementation of redundancy plans and on related litigation. Advises on the negotiation and execution of senior management contracts and handles due diligence in support of M&A transactions, particularly for companies in the food and beverage sector. Clients value the team for its "capacity, extensive knowledge and real accessibility." One source says: "They advised us skilfully on countless doubts or requests we had and they accompanied us whenever necessary." Work highlights Acted for Grupo Emperador on the labour aspects of its acquisition of a brandy distillery in Jerez de la Frontera. Alfonso Suárez assists with corporate transactions, claims brought by trade unions and issues relating to the hiring and termination of senior management. He is valued for his "very high technical knowledge, effectiveness and client service," with one source adding: "He has a calm presence and facilitates reaching agreements." Clara Mañoso has experience in litigation and advising on the employment aspects of transactions. Clients report: "Clara is decisive, effective and establishes arguments with conviction, as well as being polite, respectful and good at anticipating any possible situations in advance." Araoz & Rueda is regularly instructed by clients in the retail, spirit and food sectors, on contentious and non-contentious matters. In the finance space, it recently acted for Spanish-based private equity fund Black Toro Capital on labour matters relating to its acquisition of Marypaz. Of counsel Alfonso Suárez, who has ‘exceptional knowledge, solid experience and commercial skills’, heads the team. Most active on the implementation of redundancy plans and on related litigation. Also handles due diligence in support of M&A transactions. Strengths: clients are impressed by the firm’s “ability to negotiate with the unions and provide good advice in difficult situations”. “They are thorough in their advice but are also practical in that they don’t allow excessive detail to affect the practicality of their service”. Clients praise Alfonso Suárez’s negotiation skills and say that he “goes the extra mile to support my business in terms of providing relevant practical information”. He acted for Pelican Rouge Coffee Solutions on a redundancy procedure and on negotiations for the modification of working conditions. Alfonso Suárez heads the team at Araoz & Rueda, which recently advised Brightstar 2010 Mobile on two redundancy procedures involving over 100 employees. Other clients include the Becara Group, Orpea Group and British Foods. Araoz & Rueda retains an impressive list of clients including family businesses and companies from the food industry. Offers services from M&A-related matters to advice on employee handbooks, all kinds of dismissals and protection of trade secrets, with a broad litigation practice. “The high degree of partner involvement in the matters really stands out”. "Our satisfaction is utmost: the response time, empathy and involvement in each of the matters dealt with is very professional”. Recommended for negotiation of contracts, litigation and workforce restructuring, Alfonso Suárez ”understands clients' needs to perfection." Sources comment that he is "quick, efficient, professional and a great negotiator”. "I cannot praise the lawyers highly enough; they are always absolutely clear, precise and punctual". Department head Pilar Albert receives considerable praise for her skill as a litigator. Clients value her "strategic vision, her way of acting and reasoning in court and her sound legal knowledge". Alfonso Suárez Migoyo often assists Spanish clients with collective dismissals and company restructurings.He is also known among peers for his supporting role on corporate transactions. Araoz & Rueda's "response times are excellent" and "clients' needs are understood". The firm is "extremely knowledgeable in employment matters" and is "great value for money". Pilar Albert and Alfonso Suárez are the names to note. "The lawyers show rigour, make a deep analysis of all different perspectives and are always at your service." Department head Pilar Albert retains a strong reputation in the market and is praised by clients for her "great experience, rigour and approachability." Alfonso Suárez is singled out for his experience in collective redundancies. Alfonso Suárez and the ‘business-savvy and vastly experienced’ Pilar Albert, who joined from Deloitte in October 2012, are recommended. This mid-market practice recently strengthened its employment team with the arrival of Pilar Albert, formerly of Deloitte. Sources say: "Great level of partner attention. The lawyers are always there for us and provide constant support." Alfonso Suárez leads the team. One client described him as "hands-on, completely available and solution-oriented. I feel comfortable and well protected with him." The new member of the team, partner Pilar Albert, earns praise for her experience in this area. Araoz & Rueda is highly recommended in this area. Alfonso Suárez and Pilar Albert are the key contacts. Araoz & Rueda's small but robust practice is led by partner Alfonso Suárez, "a true star" and "one of the best lawyers in his field in Spain". The compact employment team at this full-service Spanish firm receives consistent praise from market observers and peers. Sources say: "Excellent knowledge, fast, and great in negotiations". Practice head Alfonso Suárez is "highly experienced and meticulous. He has a lot of initiative and is outstanding in court". Sources say: "The relationship with this firm is magnificent, there are no time delays and the partners are always available". Alfonso Suárez is a well-respected employment lawyer and enjoys a strong reputation in the market. Araoz & Rueda´s labour department is praised for its "excellent client care, fast responsive and robust advice." "It clearly stands out among other firms in Spain", say clients. The labour team is led by the "knowledgeable, responsive and thorough" Alfonso Suárez The employment department at this reputed Spanish firm has particular strength in regulations and dismissals but advises on all employment issues, including implementation of workforce restructuring plans, negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and contentious labour conflicts. Department head Alfonso Suárez has extensive experience in the field and is admired by clients for his "deep knowledge of the law and great skills in court." The team frequently advises international companies that already have a presence in Spain, as well as those that are looking to invest in the country. The firm also has a great deal of expertise in due diligence and litigation work, capably negotiating collective dismissals and collective bargaining agreements. Department head Alfonso Suárez is described as "a master in his field" and is highly regarded for his preparation on a case and close ties with his clients". “The firm always delivers value for money and is punctual” say observers. It is heavily involved in litigation, due diligence matters, collective dismissals with the aim of reaching agreement without going to a tribunal and contracts for high-end employees such as company executives and directors. Recently, it has been particularly active in equality law. The Lawyers: “Vastly experienced” Alfonso Suárez is praised by clients for his “splendid strategy during trials”. Important Spanish corporate clients unanimously recommend the labour law practice of this firm. Interviewees valued the team’s “experience and excellent job co-ordinating international employment issues,” and praised the lawyers' “exhaustive analytical methodology, negotiating skills and capacity to meet strict deadlines”. The Lawyers: Partner Alfonso Suárez leads the firm’s employment practice and collected market praise for his “outstanding preparation, track record and detailed analysis of the issues.” Araoz & Rueda’s team, which provides ‘value for money and a creative, responsive’ service, handles high-value disputes. It is defending a renewable energy company against voluntary insolvency proceedings brought by a bank. Eduardo de León leads on litigation. Founded in 1994 by Alejandro Fernández de Araoz and Pedro Rueda, Araoz & Rueda, currently at Paseo de la Castellana 164, is a leading Spanish independent firm with broad-based corporate and commercial practice and particular expertise and recognition in M&A and Private Equity. 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__label__wiki	0.51108	0.51108	Paris Court / Archikon One of the most ornamented buildings in Europe, Paris Court is brought into the light for all to see. A popular location in spy films, the historical building has been renovated by interior design studio KROKI and architecture studio ARCHIKON, recreating the once-glamourous setting of Budapest’s iconic architectural gem. Had you visited the Paris Court in downtown Budapest only a handful of years ago, you’d have met with a significantly different impression. Darkened corners, rusted metalwork and damage from the tumultuous wartime events that shook Europe in the 20th Century all combined to make for an architectural sight that was at once historically rich yet in many ways a shadow of its former glory. In fact, it was a popular destination for filmmakers, who saw the opportunity to leverage the combination of the ornate passageway and limited natural light for covert undercover meetings in spy films - such as 2011’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Over the last three years, a partnership between interior design studio KROKI and architecture studio ARCHIKON has worked to revive the downtown location, restoring the dark and damaged arcade to a decorated landmark that introduces proper lighting to its intricate details for the first time in its history. View more View full description	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1530
__label__wiki	0.5251	0.5251	Architects Journal Students Journal Mariana Cabugueira Custodio dos Santos NUCLEUS, THE HYPERLOOP DESERT CAMPUS YOUNG ARCHITECTS COMPETITION Project by: Mariana Cabugueira Begum Aydinoglu Juan Carlos Naranjo Collaboration: Lina Celis, Left Angle Partnership, Pada Labs Renders by: Metrica Visuals Co-existing with its unique topography, climate and splendid scenery, the Hyperloop Desert Campus Competition cherishes designers who are brave enough to take on the challenge to design an iconic campus in one of the most sublime and reminiscent places on earth: The Mojave Desert. Surrounded by reddish rocks and buffered in a palimpsest of mankind, to design a campus requires a series of redoubtable decisions in which the functions in the campus and these geomorphological conditions bring an indivisible combination. Almost the opposite of the layers of years found in the desert, Elon Musk’s Hyperloop project aims to take place in this particular scenery where the subject of the competition will be located. Being an on-going research and production project, Hyperloop aims to rewrite the means of transportation in ways that are energy, time, budget and ecologically friendly and sustainable. The reminiscence of indestructibility and resilience found in the land form and in the reasons why we need a new transportation system suggests an equally resilient design concept to be adapted into the campus design. Therefore embraced “resilience” concept is implemented on five subjects. Resilience as a term covers self-sufficiency and independence hence the site’s resources are subjected to independent, effective and sustainable usage. The solar gain enables the production of electrical energy from solar panels embedded on the site while rainwater collection and gray water recycling systems located in the cores distribute collected and recycled water into the building and irrigation system of courtyards to nurture local ecosystems. The loop form gives the opportunity to create wind corridors and help passive ventilation of the interior. Another layer of resilience is the inclusive property of the design. The loops and circulatory system of the campus is designed to maximize the experience for each user type even for one-time visitors to create an invisible platform of information sharing since resilient communities only survive when they share the knowledge. Redundant character of the design is created by adapting a multi-nodal pattern of loops and cores which allow safe failure and potentiality to learn from past mistakes. Integrated design system brings four types of buildings together each having unique features, functions and users to allow encounters and enrich the diversity feature. Flexibility in the design facilitates resilient growth and spatial management so that the building can function for many more years. Form and Program: The symbiosis between the rough landscape and the iconic technology, helps The Hyperloop Desert Campus find its form The building was designed to seamlessly rise from the desert ground of Nevada; evolving above ground around four main courtyards; elegantly stretching connected spaces of four main programmatic units and two symmetric public and private spheres. The four courtyards introduce water elements in the deserted landscape of Nevada; it attracts greenery and it is circumscribed by tall palm-trees - they represent four unique Oasis - which are the main drive of the Hyperloop Campus. The building’s design spirals up - inspired by the speed of traveling - large corridors loop around these Oasis, crossing and interchanging levels, resembling complex interchange high-ways in form and function. The same spatial concept extends to the interior design: the Campus conciliates the high-tech identity of the Hyperloop with the rustic feel of the natural space. The visitor and the worker are invited to travel in a journey of fluid continuous spaces, graduating from natural and digital feels, public and private spheres. THE FABRIC WAVE Iglesia de Santa Monica The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC) voicearchi@gmail.com	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1531
__label__cc	0.632684	0.367316	Barnet Blog #5 Angus MacDonald reflects on an eventful few weeks for the Bees. A fine 3-0 win in front of the BT Sport cameras on the Kent coast saw many in the Vanarama Conference sit up and take notice, with the opposition seeming to up their games as a result during the following two games. As the manager has said on numerous occasions, Barnet will have to get used to their favourites tag and the extra motivation that this can give opposing sides. It seemed to give the referees some extra motivation as well, judging by their interpretation of what is and what is not handball against Telford and Wrexham respectively. Cue the old clichés about decisions evening themselves out over a season. But with a point to prove against Altrincham on Saturday Barnet put in a five star performance at The Hive. You may have read previously how impressed I have been with John Akinde. He has the stature to lead the line, but to go with it he has goals like the one he scored against Southport in his locker - a centre forward capable of finishes of real quality. This time it took Barnet's number nine just 45 + 4 minutes to bag a hat-trick. There's something about 45-minute hat-tricks at The Hive - this is the second in four home games (the first being Lee Cook's second half exploits against Dartford in August). Cook did not even feature on Saturday and it goes to show that there are plenty of goals in this team even without Barnet's top scorer. Of course it also helps when your new loan signing scores with his first touch after coming on to replace the hat-trick hero! Well done Sam Hoskins and hopefully the first of many. Akinde was given a standing ovation as he left the field, and indeed at the final whistle too, which was thoroughly well deserved. Good to see Luisma on the scoresheet again too so soon after that cracking winner against Alfreton two weeks ago, not to mention his deft header against Dover. As easy as it is to concentrate on the attacking prowess of a 5-0 victory, another clean sheet was very welcome too with Stack making a crucial save from a one-on-one and Muggleton slotting in well at full-back. Elliott Johnson seemed assured in a less familiar midfield role before Togwell came on for the booked and rather bruised Bondz N'Gala following an accidental clash in the first half. A flexible squad with players who can come in and perform well is exactly what is required for what will be a long Conference campaign. On then to Saturday's away game at Forest Green Rovers. A Mark Byrne effort in the first minute set the Bees on their way to a 2-1 in this fixture last season, but this will be a tough away game against a team that has only lost once at home. Yet if Barnet can show the attacking intent they showed against Altrincham on Saturday, you would think that there is every chance of us getting another result away from The Hive on Saturday. Come on you Bees!	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1538
__label__wiki	0.903864	0.903864	Interview \| Craig Ross – “I was more than ready” Photo: Paul Hazlewood/BHAFC Barnet FC goalkeeper Craig Ross made his first team debut last night, stepping in with a little over 30 minutes to go until kick off following an injury in the warm up to Jamie Stephens. The 27-year-old spoke to barnetfc.com following our narrow 1-0 defeat to Brighton and was unfazed about the late call. “It’s not a bad place to make your debut! Obviously, there was the unfortunate last minute injury to Jamie but I’m prepared to play any game so I was more than ready to go.” Ross, formerly of Brighton based non-league side Whitehawk, was happy with the sides performance, especially against top flight opposition. “We’ve come up against a Premier League team and put a real shift in. All the lads in front of me were so organised, we stuck to the game plan and did what we were meant to do. We were hard to break down.” The Barnet defence limited Brighton to just four shots on target, conceding once shortly after the restart. However, Ross pulled off an important save in the first half after 2016/17 Championship player of the season Anthony Knockaert raced down on goal. “Yeah, obviously that’s what I’m there to do, they didn’t have a great amount of efforts on goal and, in truth, we probably had the better chances but we just didn’t take them. “We weren’t quite clinical enough. It’s frustrating but when you come up against Premier League opposition, they’re going to take any chance they get.” Ross is confident that if Barnet can carry the performance levels shown in last night’s Carabao Cup defeat throughout the rest of the season, then good results are likely to follow. “It just shows we can match anyone. There is no reason why we can’t take this sort of performance against a Premier League team into the League 2 season. “If we can keep the same work rate that we had today into the league, I’m sure we’ll be successful.” Tim Flowers talks signings, training and Boreham Wood In a 15 minute long extended interview, Tim Flowers speaks on a range of topics ahead of a crucial period of the 2020/21 season. Liam Daly gives first interview after joining Club New defender Liam Daly speak to the Club Website after he signed on Monday afternoon from National League North side Gloucester City. First Words: Ben Richards-Everton New man Ben Richards-Everton spoke to us after signing for the Bees earlier today! Tim Flowers reacts to Boreham Wood defeat Tim Flowers gives his assessment following our defeat to Boreham Wood.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1539
__label__cc	0.703637	0.296363	National help Oregon – Law Offices of Bob Mionske California – Emison Cooper & Cooper LLP About Bob Mionske Cycling Advocacy About Bicycle Accidents About Bicycle Accidents Involving Uber and Lyft Rideshare Vehicles About Bicycle Accidents While Riding Rental Or Bike Share Bicycles About Bicycle Crashes: Why We Say “Bicycle Accidents” Are Not Accidents Defective Cycling Products How to Handle a Traffic Ticket Avoiding Bicycle Accidents How to Avoid Car-on-Bike Accidents Riding With Situational Awareness Emergency Maneuvers Every Bicyclist Should Know Stay Seen, Stay Safe: What Every Cyclist Needs To Know About How To Help Drivers See You About Bicycle Helmets: Weighing the Pros and Cons About Bike Theft California Bicycle Laws California Bicycle Helmet Law Oregon Bicycle Laws Oregon Bicycle Equipment Laws Oregon Bicycle Equipment Law: The Basics Oregon Bicycle Equipment Law: Brakes Oregon Bicycle Equipment Laws: Lights & Reflectors Oregon Bicycle Equipment Law: Audible Warning Devices Oregon Bicycle Helmet Law Road Rights Bicycling and The Law Bicycle Law in the News Bob Mionske’s Road ID Video Series on Bicycle Riding and Safety Tips Bob Mionske/We Are All Traffic Rally VeloRadio Cyclists And Motorists Can Coexist Peacefully In Vancouver BicycleLaw July 27, 2011 May 8th, 2016 Straight.com: Cyclists and motorists can coexist peacefully in Vancouver By Ted Laturnus, July 27, 2011 In May, I attended a conference in Vancouver called Changing Lanes. Organized by the Canadian Automobile Association, it was intended to bring cyclists, motorists, decision makers, and anyone else interested together in an effort to address the growing popularity of bicycles and all that goes with it: revamping infrastructure, changing attitudes, attempting to bring motorists and cyclists to some sort of reciprocity, and that sort of thing. The conference had a particular relevance for me because three years ago, I was knocked off my bike by a teenager in an SUV, was hospitalized, and spent some time in a wheelchair. It was completely her fault, but I’m the one who got banged up. As it happened, I was on my motorcycle, but my comments apply just as well to bicycles. After listening to speakers representing the cycling community, law enforcement, and special-interest groups—and as someone who is equally enthusiastic about cars, motorcycles, and bicycles—I have a few observations of my own to pass along. According to a recent study by the Traffic Injury Research Foundation of Canada, motorists simply do not “see” motorcycles and bicycles. Because of their smaller size and different rates of speed, bikes do not register in the brains of many drivers in the same way automobiles do. A neglectful driver may see a bike, but somehow the message is lost along the way before his or her brain can do the right thing. This is especially true with older drivers. The phrase “I just didn’t see him” is one that’s well-known to medical and law-enforcement personnel. The fact is many motorists do not see bikes; I have the scars to prove it. So it behooves riders to keep this uppermost in their minds when they ride, and this applies to both motorcycles and bicycles. One may be slower than the other, but in the eyes of motorists, they do not carry the same weight as a car. Ignore this at your peril. Which leads me to those who drive an automobile: how about giving cyclists a break? How about checking twice before you pull out into traffic, turn left, or open your car door? How about waiting for that extra half-second before you make your move? And if you see a bike—human-powered or otherwise—stop and think about the situation. The consequences of your neglect are severe. In a nutshell, readjust your thinking. Bikes are here to stay, and there are going to be more of them on the roads as time goes by. If I had my way, every motorist in the world would have to spend at least a week on a bicycle and a motorcycle before they could get their driver’s licence. Maybe then they’d see how dangerous it is out there. And for you hard-core cyclists, lose the attitude. Stop demonizing automobiles and acting like you have the high moral ground here. It’s annoying. Riding a bike doesn’t make you special or cooler than motorists, or mean you’re above the rules that apply to the rest of us. For reasons I’m not clear on, Vancouver in particular seems to have more than its share of in-your-face, militant cyclists who will only be happy when every single automobile in the world goes away. As far as they’re concerned, automobiles are tools of the devil and the sooner we get rid of them, the better. But what about the single mom who has to drop off and pick up her kids at daycare every day, the senior who relies on a car to get the necessities of life, or the tradesman who has to commute with a full load of tools and equipment? In one form or another, cars are also here to stay, and staging Critical Mass events, giving motorists the finger, and stifling main routes of traffic downtown doesn’t help anybody. I ride a bicycle as often as I can, but that doesn’t mean I feel compelled to paint myself silver, wear funny clothes, and block traffic. That’s right, Critical Massers, I’m talking to you. You’ve made your point; the authorities are listening and things are changing. Vancouver has installed two significant downtown bicycle lanes, with plans for more to come, and things are better for riders than they used to be. But for most people, bicycles remain a discretionary form of transportation, primarily enjoyed by young urbanites. Which leads me to my final observation, and this is for the people who make decisions about cars and bikes: try to remember that a car is not a luxury or an unnecessary evil. Most people can’t get by without their cars, and continually hassling motorists with punitive traffic fines, higher taxes, escalating gas prices, heightened law enforcement, and convoluted city planning just makes things worse. I was born and raised in Vancouver, but conditions for motorists in the downtown area are becoming intolerable, and it’s not fair. Look at the numbers. How many people ride bikes and how many drive cars? By all means, build as many bike paths and rights-of-way as you can, but don’t do it at the expense of motorists. The tail is wagging the dog in Vancouver these days, and the majority of commuters suffer because of the whining of a small group of zealots. The Burrard Street Bridge is a case in point. Even at the height of rush hour on a nice sunny day, few riders are using the bike lane. The bike path on this bridge only happened because militant cyclists intimidated city council and Geoff Meggs got knocked off his bike last year. The Burrard Bridge is a major artery to the downtown area, and there’s plenty of room for cyclists on either sidewalk. How about some sort of a compromise here? How about giving the bridge back to motorists in the winter and utilizing the sidewalks properly? West side for bikes, east side for pedestrians. Sooner or later, bike riders and motorists are going to have to coexist. There’s plenty of room for everyone. 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__label__wiki	0.923839	0.923839	Indonesia Seeks Reform for Flagging State Companies Bailouts and billions, new management as Covid-19 strikes Our Correspondent Jun 15, 2020 The Indonesian government is dramatically restructuring dozens of state-owned enterprises, reducing their numbers and replacing graft-ridden commissioners and directors with people from diverse backgrounds from bureaucrats and former anti-graft agency officials to generals from the police and army and injecting billions in the effort to save them. As Indonesia has run into increasingly heavy weather from the Covid-19 crisis, with more than 38,000 cases and more than 2100 deaths, President Joko Widodo authorized SOE Minister Erick Thohir to restructure the enterprises although there will be no asset selloff. Thohir’s mission is to restore and improve the internal condition of the SOEs, which have often been reported to be wasteful and corrupt. At least eight SOE directors have been arrested by the Corruption Eradication Commission over the past five years, with a total 73 cases recorded involving SOE officials to 2019. Some economists and members of the House of Representatives, however, have criticized the effectiveness of the bailouts for international flag carrier Garuda Indonesia and Krakatau Steel in particular, both of which were already entangled in financial problems long before the Covid-19 pandemic. Garuda Indonesia (empty seats, above) has been struggling to restructure US$500 million worth of global sharia-compliant bonds (sukuk) due in June and to maintain its cash flow as the outbreak hit air travel demand. Krakatau Steel has been struggling with debt long before the outbreak hit the economy. In an indication of the government’s new commitment to cleaning up the sector, Thohir appointed former Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) deputy chairman Chandra Hamzah as president commissioner at state-owned lender Bank Tabungan Negara (BTN) and former KPK deputy chairman Amien Sunaryadi as President Commissioner of electricity firm PLN. Thohir also placed at least five members of government-supporting parties in the ranks of SOEs officials, three from the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP), Jokowi's main backer party. Jokowi, as the president is universally known, set out in 2014 to make the SOEs what he called the “central actors” in his US$415 billion development strategy in a bid to disentangle sluggish infrastructure development, stagnant industrialization and swelling inequality, according to Kim Kyung-hoon, a doctoral candidate at the Department of Development Studies, King’s College London. They employ millions of Indonesian workers. However, state actors too often turned them into cash registers for corruption, stealing millions and funneling the money out of the country and into bank accounts in Singapore, Switzerland and other countries. At the end of the third quarter of 2019, according to the State-owned Enterprise Ministry, the SOEs faced debt of Rp1.6 quadrillion (US$98 billion) even before the onset of the coronavirus, which has driven revenues down even further. As with many other countries coronavirus outbreaks have devastated government revenues and worsened the condition of several SOEs both financially and operationally, such as Garuda, whose passenger traffic collapsed by 95 percent, toll-road operator PT Jasa Marga and construction company PT Hutama Karya, whose average daily traffic rate dropped more than 50 percent, and plantation firm PTPN, which is facing a steep decrease in sales, especially from the export market. Of 142 SOEs and around 800 subsidiaries, only 15 produced 76 percent of the program’s profits, totaling Rp210 trillion [US$1.5 billion] last year, Thohir said in December. Bank Indonesia (BI) recorded total SOE debt at US$55.4 billion in March. "The COVID-19 pandemic situation, in particular, is a good time to restructure SOEs in terms of both financial and industrial positions," Thohir told local media. Until now, the government has closed or merged 142 down 107, and will continue to reduce them to 70-80 companies in the future. The main goal, he said, is efficiency. In early April, Thohir ordered 51 subsidiaries of three SOEs closed – PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia, PT Pertamina and PT Garuda Indonesia. "We hope this rationalization and consolidation can improve operational effectiveness and business governance to be more optimal," Thohir said. He also intends to simplify the original cluster of state-owned companies from 27 to 12 with each deputy minister only overseeing around six clusters. Six clusters covering oil and energy, minerals and coal, plantations and forestry, fertilizers and food, pharmaceuticals and health industries, as well as defense, manufacturing and other industries, will be under the supervision of Deputy Minister of SOEs I, Budi Gunadi Sadikin. Another six covering financial services, insurance services and pension funds, telecommunications and media, infrastructure development, tourism services, logistics and other facilities, and transportation infrastructure, will be administered by Deputy Minister of SOEs II, Kartika Wirjoatmodjo. After beginning his second term last October, Jokowi ordered Thohir, a highly respected businessman who is the founder of the Mahaka entertainment and media group and former owner of several US and European sports teams, to overhaul the agency by placing professionals ranging from bureaucrats, former ministers, economists and bankers, to officials within the police and army. What caught the public's attention most was the appointment of former Jakarta Governor Basuki Tjahaya "Ahok" Purnama as commissioner at oil and gas company Pertamina in November 2019. Ahok was known as an anti-corruption official despite having been jailed in a case of blasphemy regarded as trumped up to drive him from the Jakarta governorship. In February, Thohir appointed police general Insp. Gen. Carlo Brix Tewu as Deputy for Law and Legislation, tasked to map the internal and external legal problems between SOEs. Tewu was also recently appointed a commissioner at state-owned coal miner PT Bukit Asam on June 10. An intelligence official, Comr. Gen. Bambang Sunarwibowo, was named commissioner at Indonesia’s diversified miner PT Aneka Tambang. Two other generals, Insp. Gen. Arman Depari and Admiral Achmad Djamaluddin respectively took over as commissioner and chief commissioner at port operator Pelindo I. Depari previously is the deputy for eradication in the National Narcotics Agency (BNN), while Djamaluddin is former secretary of the National Defense Council. Fund Injection for SOEs The government has issued regulations under the national economic recovery program that will allow the state to issue debt to finance business rescue packages, including for SOEs, as the pandemic is expected to hit the economy hard. The trend of increasing cases occurred when the government launched an easing of Large-Scale Social Restrictions (PSBB), the government's policy response, by encouraging people to worship, work and learn from home. The government will inject funds to 11 SOEs via state capital participation, compensation, subsidies and bailouts. Of the 11, five will get assistance through a bailout mechanism for working capital totaling Rp19.65 trillion. The five are Garuda, which receives Rp 8.5 trillion, developer Perumnas (Rp650 billion) and rail operator KAI (Rp3.5 trillion). Bailout funds totaling Rp4 trillion have also been steered to plantation firm PT. Perkebunan Nusantara (PTPN) with steelmaker Krakatau Steel receiving as much as Rp 3 trillion. The government has designated the bailout as debt so it must be repaid. Six other SOEs including oil and gas company Pertamina and PLN will receive accelerated compensation payments of Rp37.83 trillion and Rp41.71 trillion, respectively. Funds also will be channeled in the form of state capital participation to Hutama Karya (Rp7.5 trillion), Bahana Business Development Indonesia (Rp6 trillion), Permodalan Nasional Madani (Rp1.5 trillion), and Indonesia Tourism Development Corporation (Rp500 billion). Member of House of Representatives Eddy Soeparno said economic conditions provide justification for troubled SOEs to get government bailouts although economist Bhima Yudhistira Adhinegara of the Institute for Development of Economics and Finance (INDEF), said the government needs to differentiate between losses due to pandemics and losses due to mismanagement. However, Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani said the companies picked for bailouts had truly been affected by Covid-19 and their role is crucial to the interests of the community. Supporting Asia Sentinel with subscriptions will help us continue holding governments to account, investigating, and providing the most thoughtful coverage of Asia in the English language. 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__label__wiki	0.908816	0.908816	Aldergrove’s Lucas Mills made 25 saves to pick up the victory as the Langley-based Trinity Western Spartans opened their 2019-20 regular season with an emphatic win over the Vancouver Island Mariners Saturday (Oct. 12) at the Langley Events Centre. (TWU photo) Spartans defeat Mariners in overtime thriller Langley-based hockey team opens 2019-20 regular season with an emphatic win Oct. 13, 2019 12:00 a.m. Aldergrove’s Kade Vilio tallied the game winning goal with 48 seconds left in the overtime frame as the Trinity Western Spartans opened their 2019-20 regular season with an 5-4 win over the Vancouver Island Mariners Saturday at the Langley Events Centre. Josh Bruce, Aldergrove’s Elijah Vilio, Travis Verveda and Evan Last also scored for the Spartans, while goaltender Lucas Mills, also from Aldergrove, made 25 saves to pick up the victory. VIU’s Brett Witala had two goals, while Gage Colpron and Garrett Dunlop each added singles. Jeremy Balyk made 40 saves for the Mariners in the loss, as VIU’s record dropped to 2-2-0-1 on the year. First-year TWU forward Bruce opened the scoring at 6:16 of the first period, tallying his first career goal off a backhand. Witala then responded for the Mariners on the power play, scoring his third goal of the season to make it 1-1 at 10:20 of the first. Dunlop then added another for the Mariners with just over three minutes left in the first making it 2-1 VIU. The Mariners continued rolling in the second period, with captain Colpron taking a Dunlop feed and beating Mills to push their lead to two. TWU got back within one goal at 6:25 of the second, as a Verveda one-timer on the powerplay beat Balyk to make it 3-2. Another Spartans defenceman then knotted the game up 3-3, with Elijah Vilio jumping in on the rush with an individual effort at 10:01 of the second period. Witala scored his second of the game for the Mariners at 6:39 of the final frame to regain the Mariners lead. The back and forth affair continued as Last fired a wrist shot over Balyk’s glove hand to tie the game at 8:13 of the third. Despite both teams having numerous chances late in the game, including a Mariners power play in the final five minutes, regulation time was unable to solve anything. That set up the late game heroics. After hitting the crossbar earlier in the extra frame, Bruce found Kade Vilio alone in front with 48 seconds left in overtime, who buried it five-hole past Balyk for the game-winner on opening night. READ MORE: TWU Spartans goalie Mills sets record in hockey shutout READ MORE: Langley’s Spartans to play hockey in top university league TWU Coach Barret Kropf said the team has had “a very abnormal preseason playing lots of different teams at different levels, being banged up and short staffed.” “That was reflective in tonight’s game, we had spurts of really good momentum and spurts where we didn’t,” Kropf elaborated. “I wouldn’t say we had a bad game, but it just looked like we didn’t have the flow we usually do. There was some things tonight we definitely need to keep working on in practice.” Saturday was the first meeting between VIU and TWU since last season’s BCIHL championship series, • TWU has now extended their winning streak over Vancouver Island to nine consecutive games, with their last loss against the Mariners coming in Nanaimo on February 24, 2018 (6-5 L). Spartans home opener was also their final as a member of the BCIHL as TWU will enter U SPORTS in 2020-21. Next up, Spartans continue their homestand on Friday (Oct. 18), playing host to Victoria at the Langley Events Centre. Puck drop is set for 7 p.m. Vernon Pee Wee Vipers blitz Penticton Langley couple bring back medals from 55+ games LETTER: Resident sad to see worsening Maple Ridge litter problem A local letter writer said her concerns have fallen on deaf ears Crime Stoppers' weekly list based on information provided by police investigators Latest exhibits from TOSH in Qualicum Beach accessible online Work from Alexa Johnston and Kelly Corbett on display There's still tailor-work in the back of old AnnSew site, with the store in front	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1559
__label__cc	0.697927	0.302073	Mitch McConnell says GOP will pass health and tax reform without Democrats Caitlin Owens, author of Vitals J. Scott Applewhite/AP The Senate majority leader said today that Republicans will pass their health and tax agendas without Democratic votes, the Associated Press reports. This is a departure from GOP talk of eventually bringing Democrats to the table to help with reforms to the health care system after Republicans repeal Obamacare. Reality check: Republicans can't do everything they want to on health care without Democratic votes, under Senate rules. They can do a lot through a process called budget reconciliation, which allows them to pass budget-related policy with just 51 votes. But they can't touch central elements of Obamacare, such as: The law's ban on discriminating against those with pre-existing conditions, either through denying them coverage or charging them higher premiums. The law's requirement that insurers offer a defined set of benefits, known as the essential health benefits. The regulation on how much of an insurer's income can be profit. Why this matters: All pieces of health care impact one another. If Republicans don't write their health plans while acknowledging the reality of what they can and can't do, they could cause massive chaos in insurance markets.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1563
__label__cc	0.608091	0.391909	We have limited Portuguese content available. View Portuguese content. Brazil \| Português The Internet of Things Gets Real It’s about analytics, not simply connecting devices. By Ann Bosche, Michael Schallehn, Darren Jackson and Christopher Schorling This article is Chapter 7 of Bain’s inaugural global Technology Report. Explore the contents of the report here or download the PDF to read the full report. Many skeptics of the Internet of Things (IoT) are overlooking the crucial point: Although the number of new connected devices over the past decade fell short of projections, the devices that did get connected are starting to deliver real value. The reality is not everything needs to be connected to the Internet. The key to success in the IoT is to apply data analytics on top of high-value devices. For businesses, this can unlock insights that lead to better decision making and powerful gains in efficiency, productivity and return on investments (ROI). Building on their strong data analytics capabilities, cloud service providers (CSPs) have made the most substantial investments in the IoT over the past couple of years. They are creating new IoT platforms and services, and addressing the challenges that have held the sector back. The CSPs’ moves are changing the sector’s dynamics, as we’ve seen in the broader hybrid cloud sector. That creates new strategic decisions for enterprise IT companies and industrial original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) if they want to stay competitive and expand their share of the market. Seeing the value Looking across the IoT’s key battlegrounds, the sector is finally beginning to deliver on its promise in two critical areas: enterprise and industrial companies. And it’s the analytics and targeted use on critical machines that make it valuable. While the hype swelled and subsided over the past decade, many of these companies kept working diligently in the background on their IoT efforts. Now, the IoT is integral to many businesses’ operations. They’re using it for factory floor automation, equipment inspection and maintenance (including of remote assets), real-time shipment tracking, retail theft prevention and crowd safety, among other applications. Manufacturers are making it easier to deploy such IoT applications by building sensors and connectivity right into their devices and equipment. For example, German manufacturer Trumpf has started equipping its laser cutters and other machines with Device Gate, a system that collects sensor data and sends it to the cloud for analysis. These kinds of moves by Trumpf and other IoT vendors show the sector is maturing. Let’s unpack three examples that illustrate how enterprise and industrial companies are taking advantage of the IoT. Plant asset optimization Woodside, the global oil and gas company headquartered in Australia, has made significant IoT investments over the past five years. The company equipped its liquefied natural gas facility in western Australia with 200,000 sensors and used Amazon’s cloud and edge IoT platforms to collect the data. Armed with historical data and the information now coming off the devices, data scientists teamed up with plant engineers to develop applications to strengthen production monitoring, equipment maintenance and worker safety in ways that simply weren’t possible before. Considering it’s a $10 billion facility in a remote location, even incremental improvements in costs, operations and worker protection can make a significant difference for the business. For example, the facility’s acid gas-removal unit can’t be monitored by sight. Using connected sensors, Woodside can better predict and prevent this machine from foaming, which would require shutting down the plant. Woodside has also improved maintenance scheduling and productivity by digitally monitoring lubricant levels on turbines, using that information to perform preemptive maintenance before there’s a breakdown. The company increasingly deploys robots to handle routine surveillance and provide insights that help staff improve maintenance and facility uptime. These changes have reduced equipment downtime. Just as important, they’ve reduced the number of hours that workers need to be on site, decreasing their exposure to high temperatures and stressful situations. Factory quality control A large technology company developed a system that uses computer-vision technology to perform quality control on complex metal parts produced through a die-casting process. The product combines an HD camera, a trained artificial intelligence (AI) model, a robotic arm and back-end cloud computing powered by Alibaba Cloud. The manual inspection process caught fewer than 20% of parts defects, which led to downstream delays in production and customers returning faulty parts. The automated system detects defects more than 99% of the time. It’s being implemented in hundreds of factories across Asia. The Covid-19 crisis is accelerating adoption of the IoT. For example, theme park operators have deployed Insight Enterprises’ monitoring system that uses cameras with infrared sensors at park entrances to identify, in real time, patrons with a fever, one of the most common symptoms of the coronavirus. Each camera can take up to 30 temperature measurements simultaneously and alert security personnel through a mobile app. The system significantly improves efficiency and safety. Previously, nursing staff had to screen each guest with contactless thermometers, which is time consuming, disrupts guests’ experience and puts staff at greater risk. Insight has used Microsoft’s cloud platform, Azure, to develop and deploy the application quickly. It uses technologies from Intel and other partners to process the video footage at the network’s edge, so frontline personnel and other park stakeholders can receive crucial information quickly. Security protocols ensure that this sensitive data is shared only with people who have appropriate permissions. The system can also be configured for uses in other settings, such as environmental monitoring and observing industrial equipment. Cloud companies advance the field The common thread through these examples: CSPs play a central role by providing back-end and developer services that speed up the time to market. And the data indicates CSPs will continue to drive a lot of the growth and innovation during the next phase of the IoT (see Figure 1). Amazon and Microsoft IoT platforms have attracted the most developers Since 2018, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure have each more than tripled their number of developers, based on Bain analysis of developers’ self-declared proficiency in IoT on their LinkedIn profiles. That makes AWS and Microsoft Azure the most active IoT platforms, with 9,800 and 9,000 developers, respectively. PTC isn’t far behind, with 8,500 developers on its ThingWorx platform. No other competitor in cloud, enterprise IT or industrial manufacturing has surpassed 6,000 developers, according to Bain’s analysis. Cloud companies’ growing influence in industrial and enterprise IoT might seem surprising at first blush. They don’t have the most expertise with connected devices in these settings. But they do have the strongest data analytics capabilities, which is the key to generating value in the IoT. CSPs are doing a lot more than providing the cloud backbone for the IoT. The leaders—particularly Microsoft and Amazon—are investing heavily to address many of the biggest barriers to IoT adoption (see Figure 2). In particular, CSPs are increasingly making it easier for customers to bring third-party devices online, integrate them with their existing systems, glean useful insights from the data they produce, and do it all securely. Cloud service providers are addressing some of the biggest barriers to IoT adoption Microsoft, for example, in 2018 announced a $5 billion investment in IoT and edge technology over the next four years. A key part of its strategy is building IoT solutions that are essentially plug and play. The Azure IoT Central platform has software architecture templates and implementation examples for 10 use cases across four industries, such as improved logistics and inventory management for retail. The offerings include a library of third-party edge devices, such as network gateways, that are certified by Microsoft and can be connected with the click of a button. Microsoft is also investing in IoT security, both through development of new products (Azure Sphere) and acquisitions (CyberX). And CSPs have bolder ambitions to ingrain themselves more deeply in customers’ IoT strategies. CSPs are introducing new products that expand their cloud platforms to the edge, either through software (Microsoft’s Azure Arc) or hardware that runs their cloud software out of the box (Amazon’s AWS Outposts, Microsoft’s Azure Edge Zones). These products allow CSPs to capture and analyze data right at the point where it’s created. In addition, these products bring cloud services such as databases and AI technologies to the edge, allowing CSPs to take advantage of their well-established developer communities. All of these moves by CSPs are about building another layer of value on top of businesses’ connected devices, which could enable CSPs to capture a significant piece of the future growth in the IoT. Where does that leave everyone else? Although CSPs have momentum, there’s room for many winners in the IoT. Incumbent enterprise IT companies and industrial OEMs have opportunities to grow their share of the market. CSPs have made it easier for them to plug into a more standard framework to build complete solutions more quickly. Enterprise IT companies and industrial OEMs also have assets that are hard for CSPs to replicate, based on decades of building successful businesses in these industries. The incumbents have deep knowledge of customers’ businesses and potential IoT use cases, and they tend to offer higher-touch implementation services. Industrial OEMs have additional advantages: their proprietary data and equipment insights, as well as their access to sector-specific sales channels, such as industrial distributors. Enterprise IT vendors have more advantages as well. In many industries, they already provide the software that informs critical business decisions such as supply chain management or enterprise resource planning (ERP). But these vendors are under pressure to move quickly, or risk ceding the highest-value territory to CSPs, as we said in this report’s previous article on the hybrid cloud. We’re covering some of these themes again in this piece in order to more deeply explore the implications specific to the IoT battleground. Based on our observation of sector trends and experience helping companies develop IoT strategies, the following actions can help vendors grab a stronger foothold in the market. Beat ’em or join ’em. Enterprise IT companies and industrial OEMs have a crucial decision to make: build their own IoT platform, or plug into CSPs’ platforms and deliver value to customers in other ways. Either option is a viable path to a meaningful IoT business, but companies that have a realistic shot at creating a thriving developer platform should consider pursuing it because they can capture a larger slice of the market. Leading companies evaluate that decision by first considering their existing assets. Companies that already sell software that controls equipment and analyzes data from that equipment are in a good starting position to create a new IoT platform. Relationships with developers working for specialized software companies, systems integrators or customers will also be critical to the new platform’s success. Lastly, companies pursuing this path must be willing to make sustained investments in moving their software to a cloud-based delivery model, developing new capabilities in advanced technologies such as AI, and attracting and training a broad developer community. Companies that lack the resources or expertise to compete directly with CSPs can partner with them and build valuable IoT offerings on top of CSPs’ platforms. Focus on getting a few solutions right. Leading companies pick a smaller set of use cases, which makes it easier for them to deliver solutions better suited to customers’ needs. Once you prove the ROI with flagship customers in a select few areas, it becomes easier to entice new customers trying to solve similar problems. Focusing on too many targets makes it harder to build depth rapidly in any one of them. Make it easy. The IoT isn’t known for quick and simple implementations. Making it easier to build and deploy these solutions is critical for both delivering value to customers and continuing the sector’s progress. Making IoT solutions work on a broader scale will require a lot of integration middleware to knit edge devices together with back-end software and computing infrastructure. Think of all the machines on a factory floor; they have so many different ways of creating, naming, storing and managing data. It’s a huge task to make them talk to a central repository, let alone each other. This is both a product opportunity for middleware vendors and a service opportunity for specialized systems integrators. In addition, leading vendors are finding ways to deliver products that work right out of the box. For example, an enterprise IT company might collaborate with a sensor manufacturer to pipe sensor data directly into ERP software. This would enable customers to monitor critical operations processes in real time and automate decision making. Or, a company could tap into a CSP’s application development platform to quickly create IoT solutions that are easy for customers to use. One construction tools company developed a simple asset-tracking system by adding Bluetooth tags to its products and using a CSP’s platform to write an app that a construction supervisor can access on a smartphone. In the end, success in the IoT comes down to adding value for customers. That means not only collecting data from equipment, but analyzing that data to reveal powerful insights that guide businesses toward better decisions. Vendors that figure out how to deliver this value to customers in a fast, simple and reliable way will put themselves in the strongest position to excel in the IoT. 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__label__wiki	0.658208	0.658208	Blabbermouth.net - ALICE COOPER, MEGADETH, ANTHRAX, FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH Members To Take Part In Fundraising Event On Saturday, April 11, David Ellefson Youth Music Foundation, the nonprofit charity started by Grammy-winning MEGADETH co-founder and bassist David Ellefson, will partner with Grammy Music Education Coalition to host "Oh Say Can You Stream", a livestream online fundraiser, powered by Cisco Webex to raise money for the "School's Out" initiative which provides online lessons, instruments and gear to kids and aspiring musicians during quarantine, and other COVID-19 relief charities. The event kicks off at 3 p.m. CT / 4 p.m. ET can be streamed on Grammy Music Education Coalition's Twitch and Facebook, Ellefson's Facebook and YouTube channels, and David Ellefson Youth Music Foundation's Facebook page. Hosted by Ellefson with partner and solo band vocalist Thom Hazaert, "Oh Say Can You Stream" features co-hosts Don Jamieson, Jim Florentine, Craig Gass, Drew Fortier and Riki Rachtman. The nine-plus-hour marathon streaming fundraiser will feature appearances and performances from artists and celebrities, including * Alice Cooper * Charlie Benante (ANTHRAX) * Chris Kael (FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH) * Dirk Verbeuren (MEGADETH) * Kiko Loureiro (MEGADETH) * Darryl "DMC" McDaniels (RUN DMC) * Frank Hannon (TESLA) * Elias Soriano (NONPOINT) * Drake Bell * PJ Farley (TRIXTER, RA) * Daniel De Los Reyes (ZAC BROWN BAND) * John Driskell Hopkins (ZAC BROWN BAND) * Danny Cooksey (BAD4GOOD) * Rob Caggiano (VOLBEAT) * Alex Skolnick (TESTAMENT) * Carmine Appice (VANILLA FUDGE, ROD STEWART, KING KOBRA) * Dave Alvin (WHITE TRASH) * Ari Lehman (Friday The 13th) * Jason Bieler (SAIGON KICK) * Nita Strauss (ALICE COOPER) * Carla Harvey (BUTCHER BABIES) Ellefson will also perform a remote acoustic set with his eponymous solo band, featuring Italian guitarist and drummer Andy Martongelli and Paolo Caridi. The performance will include their new single "Simple Truth", out now, with all proceeds going to the Italian Red Cross COVID-19 relief efforts. "When we launched the School's Out initiative, we realized the immediate impact it had, as we got almost 1000 applications in the first week," says Hazaert. "We very quickly realized this was something we needed to take to the next level, and really began serious fundraising efforts to increase the scope of what we were able to do." "When one person suffers, we all suffer, and this is an unprecedented moment in history when all of us around the world are united for a common cause, especially in the music community," adds Ellefson. "As I saw so many of my friends who are 'hired gun musicians,' session players, etc., all losing so much work, we all saw months of work vanish before our eyes. We thought we could create an opportunity to really do some good on several fronts. So many of our friends have been so generous with their time, and it's a wonderful initiative to be able to not only give kids something great to hold onto, but also keep some of our friends working in this uncertain time." The David Ellefson Youth Music Foundation is an affiliate of the Grammy Music Education Coalition (GMEC), a collaborative movement whose goal is ensuring all students in public schools across America have music education. "Our Coalition of supporters of public music education numbers more than 70 organizations, and the David Ellefson Youth Music Foundation joined us early on," says Grammy Music Education Coalition executive director Lee Whitmore. "David's enduring support for what music does in students' lives is unwavering. 'Oh Say Can You Stream' has an amazing lineup. It will be awe-inspiring, supporting kids, music education, and helping provide COVID-19 relief in our communities." For the full lineup and details, visit ellefsonyouthmusicfoundation.org. 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__label__cc	0.621699	0.378301	HomeChinaBai’an Best time to visit, weather and climate Bai’an Best time to visit Bai’an, China The best time to visit Bai’an in China is from april until october, when you will have a pleasant till hot temperature and limited till mediocre rainfall. The highest average temperature in Bai’an is 33°C in july and the lowest is 11°C in january. The average climate figure for Bai’an is an 8,3. This is based on various factors, such as average temperatures, the chance of precipitation and weather experiences of others. Bai’an has the oceanic climate prevailing. If you want to know what the average temperature is in Bai’an or when most precipitation (rain or snow) falls, you can find an overview below. This way, you are well prepared. Our average monthly climate data is based on data from the past 30 years. Climate Bai’an per month All climate data from Bai’an Bai’an in brief Place in China Coordinates 30° 26' N, 107° 17' E Currency Chinese yuan renminbi (CNY) Local date mo 18 january 2021 Local time 08:03 hour in the morning ¹ From London-Heathrow Climate Bai’an Bai’an has the oceanic climate prevailing. There is rainfall during all months of the year. The average annual temperature for Bai’an is 18° degrees and there is about 192 mm of rain in a year. It is dry for 279 days a year with an average humidity of 46% and an UV-index of 4. Night 4°C 6°C 10°C 15°C 17°C 21°C 23°C 23°C 20°C 16°C 11°C 6°C Precip 9 days 8 8 13 16 17 17 23 22 18 16 12 8 days 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 days 22 20 18 14 14 13 8 9 12 15 18 23 per day 8 8 8 8 9 10 10 9 7 7 5 6 Weather Bai’an january On average, it is maximum 11° in january in Bai’an and at least around 4° degrees. In january there are 8 days of rainfall with a total of 9 mm. The it will be dry 22 days this month in Bai’an and on average, it snows 1 day in january. Weather Bai’an february On average, it is maximum 14° in february in Bai’an and at least around 6° degrees. In february there are 8 days of rainfall with a total of 8 mm and the it will be dry 20 days this month in Bai’an. Weather Bai’an march On average, it is maximum 19° in march in Bai’an and at least around 10° degrees. In march there are 13 days of rainfall with a total of 27 mm and the it will be dry 18 days this month in Bai’an. Weather Bai’an april On average, it is maximum 24° in april in Bai’an and at least around 15° degrees. In april there are 16 days of rainfall with a total of 55 mm and the it will be dry 14 days this month in Bai’an. Weather Bai’an may On average, it is maximum 26° in may in Bai’an and at least around 17° degrees. In may there are 17 days of rainfall with a total of 73 mm and the it will be dry 14 days this month in Bai’an. Weather Bai’an june On average, it is maximum 30° in june in Bai’an and at least around 21° degrees. In june there are 17 days of rainfall with a total of 70 mm and the it will be dry 13 days this month in Bai’an. Weather Bai’an july On average, it is maximum 33° in july in Bai’an and at least around 23° degrees. In july there are 23 days of rainfall with a total of 115 mm and the it will be dry 8 days this month in Bai’an. Weather Bai’an august On average, it is maximum 33° in august in Bai’an and at least around 23° degrees. In august there are 22 days of rainfall with a total of 103 mm and the it will be dry 9 days this month in Bai’an. Weather Bai’an september On average, it is maximum 27° in september in Bai’an and at least around 20° degrees. In september there are 18 days of rainfall with a total of 70 mm and the it will be dry 12 days this month in Bai’an. Weather Bai’an october On average, it is maximum 22° in october in Bai’an and at least around 16° degrees. In october there are 16 days of rainfall with a total of 43 mm and the it will be dry 15 days this month in Bai’an. Weather Bai’an november On average, it is maximum 16° in november in Bai’an and at least around 11° degrees. In november there are 12 days of rainfall with a total of 33 mm and the it will be dry 18 days this month in Bai’an. Weather Bai’an december On average, it is maximum 12° in december in Bai’an and at least around 6° degrees. In december there are 8 days of rainfall with a total of 7 mm and the it will be dry 23 days this month in Bai’an. 14 day weather forecast Bai’an The weather for Bai’an in China will be 11° till 12° degrees in the next 14 days with several days chance of light rain showers or even quite a bit of rain. 10°C 2°C 0 mm 0% 1m/s 5 9°C 7°C 2.2 mm 70% 1m/s 2 11°C 7°C 2.9 mm 75% 1m/s 2 6°C 6°C 10 mm 90% 2m/s 2 Weather experiences Bai’an Already been to Bai’an? Share your experience of the Bai’an weather and get a chance to win $150! Vacation Bai’an Hotels and apartments in Bai’an If you do not want to book a package tour, you can use Booking.com for the cheapest hotels, apartments and other accommodations in Bai’an Flight tickets to Bai’an The 3 nearest airports to Bai’an you can fly to are: Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport (101 km) Guangyuan Airport (264 km) Mianyang Airport (266 km) Through our partners below you will find the cheapest flight tickets for Bai’an. Click on a logo to visit the website or take a look on Skyscanner for the cheapeast flight tickets from all the airline companies. About Bai’an Bai’an lies in China in the province Sichuan. If you want to call Bai’an you have to use +86 or 0086 before the phone number without the first 0 in the original phone number (if it occurs). If the normal number is 05012457809, for example, you can remove the first 0 and call +865012457809 or 00865012457809. Bai’an is in a straight line at 8.490 km distance from London. From London-Heathrow the flight time is about 11 hours45. The coordinates of Bai’an, China are latitude: 30.4404 en longitude: 107.285 The GPS coordinates are N 30° 26' 25.4400" en E 107° 17' 6.0000" Niet de bestemming "Bai’an" die je zoekt? Bekijk een van de andere bestemming(en) met dezelfde plaatsnaam in China: Bai’an (Guangxi) Bai’an (Zhejiang) Bai’an (Sichuan) Bai’an (Hebei) Bai’an (Anhui) Bai’an (Shanxi) Bai’an (Fujian) Bai’an (Guangdong) Bai’an (Jiangxi) Bai’an (Jiangsu) Currency Bai’an In Bai’an the Chinese yuan renminbi is used to pay. Exchange rate Chinese yuan renminbi (CNY) 17 january 2021 1 Chinese yuan renminbi = 0,15 United States dollar 100 Chinese yuan renminbi = 15,20 United States dollar 1 United States dollar = 6,58 Chinese yuan renminbi 100 United States dollar = 657,85 Chinese yuan renminbi Time difference Bai’an In Bai’an it is now 08:03 o’clock in the morning on monday 18 january 2021. That is 13 hour later than in United States. 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__label__cc	0.713929	0.286071	Privileged Password Management Discover, manage, audit, and monitor privileged accounts Password Safe DevOps Secrets Safe Endpoint Privilege Management Manage privileges on Windows, Mac, Linux, and Unix endpoints Windows and Mac Unix and Linux Active Directory Bridge Centrally manage and secure remote access for service desks and vendors Remote Support Privileged Remote Access BeyondInsight Analytics Universal Privilege Management Our innovative Universal Privilege Management approach secures every user, asset, and session across your entire enterprise. Competitor Comparisons BeyondTrust Contributes Vulnerability Statistics to 2019 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report Findings point to continued increase of insider threats targeting data. Atlanta, GA – May 8, 2019 – BeyondTrust, the worldwide leader in Privileged Access Management, today announced that the 2019 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) leverages anonymous vulnerability statistics from BeyondTrust. Data was provided to help classify threats that have not been mitigated on the Internet. This data was classified by business vertical, platform, age and vulnerability, and was created from BeyondTrust’s BeyondSaaS cloud-based vulnerability management solution based on BeyondTrust vulnerability assessment technology and hosted in Microsoft Azure. Key findings of the report include: Nearly one third (29%) of successful data breaches in 2018 used stolen credentials. Cyberattacks need privileged credentials to accomplish their objectives. These credentials grant the high-level access that attackers require. In many large organizations, credentials are shared amongst employees and systems. This means that just one stolen credential can potentially be leveraged to move laterally throughout the network as the intruder searches for the information he wants. Privilege abuse is the top misuse variety in breaches, and it’s also the sixth most common threat action in data breaches. The report defines misuse as “the malicious or inappropriate use of existing privileges.” What this really refers to is privilege abuse by the people who either accidentally or intentionally misuse their privileged access in a manner that leads to a security incident. While no industry is immune to cyberattacks, the hardest hit in 2018 were public sector entities (16% of all breaches), healthcare organizations (15% of all breaches) and the financial industry (10% of all breaches). The report shows that different industries are more likely to be victims of different types of incidents. For example, the education industry was more than three times susceptible to phishing attacks than the retail sector. There are some commonalities though. For instance, credentials are among the three most common types of compromised data across every industry. “The results of the report make it exceedingly clear to us that organizations need to focus on security basics and be persistent with disciplines under their control,” said Morey Haber, Chief Technology Officer & Chief Information Security Officer at BeyondTrust. “Good security hygiene, privilege and password management, intelligent patching, and continuous vulnerability management lead to meaningful improvements in data breach protection based on the findings in this year’s report.” “Many findings in this year’s Data Breach Investigations Report substantiate what we saw in our own 2018 Privileged Access Threat Report,” continued Mr. Haber. “We look forward to the findings of our 2019 report which will be released later this year.” Following are BeyondTrust’s top five recommendations organizations can take immediately to strengthen their security postures: Deploy patches for known vulnerabilities as soon as possible to mitigate the attack surface of external parties seeking to become insiders by leveraging credentials to move laterally throughout an organization. Lateral movement can lead an attacker to exfiltrate data from a file server or database, which the report tells us, is much more damaging than owning a single user device. Deploy a password management solution that discovers every account in the environment, securely stores and manages credentials, requires an approval process for check-out, monitors activity while checked out, and rotates the credential upon check-in. Look for a workflow-based process for obtaining privileges. If requests happen during normal business hours and within acceptable parameters, set auto-approval rules to enable access without restricting admin productivity. But, if time, day, or location indicators point to something out of band, secure workflows can ensure the access is appropriate. Segment your network or implement a secure enclave to ensure all privileged accounts (employees, contractors, and third parties) do not have direct access to manage devices. This model ensures that only approved devices and restricted network paths can be used to communicate with sensitive resources. Enforce least privilege across your entire environment by removing local admin rights from end users, and restricting the use of admin and root account privileges to servers in your datacenter. Elevating rights to applications on an exception basis and employing fine-grained policy controls once access is granted can further limit the lateral movement of would-be attackers. Implement multi-factor. Multi-factor authentication raises the bar given the number of breaches that involve weak, stolen, or default credentials. Attackers need credentials to move laterally and multi-factor authentication makes that movement more difficult. When reviewing the need for multi-factor authentication, the only right answer is every user, every account. About BeyondTrust BeyondTrust is the worldwide leader in Privileged Access Management, offering the most seamless approach to preventing data breaches related to stolen credentials, misused privileges, and compromised remote access. Our extensible platform empowers organizations to easily scale privilege security as threats evolve across endpoint, server, cloud, DevOps, and network device environments. BeyondTrust unifies the industry’s broadest set of privileged access capabilities with centralized management, reporting, and analytics, enabling leaders to take decisive and informed actions to defeat attackers. Our holistic platform stands out for its flexible design that simplifies integrations, enhances user productivity, and maximizes IT and security investments. BeyondTrust gives organizations the visibility and control they need to reduce risk, achieve compliance objectives, and boost operational performance. We are trusted by 20,000 customers, including half of the Fortune 100, and a global partner network. Learn more at www.beyondtrust.com. Follow BeyondTrust: Twitter: http://twitter.com/beyondtrust Blog: https://www.beyondtrust.com/blog LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/companies/beyondtrust Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/beyond... Mike Bradshaw Connect Marketing for BeyondTrust E: mikeb@connectmarketing.com Keep up with BeyondTrust I agree to receive product related communications from BeyondTrust as detailed in the Privacy Policy, and I may manage my preferences or withdraw my consent at any time. middle name favorite color Privileged Remote Access DevOps Secrets Safe Copyright © 1999 — 2020 BeyondTrust Corporation. All rights reserved. Other trademarks identified on this page are owned by their respective owners. BeyondTrust Corporation is not a chartered bank or trust company, or depository institution. 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__label__wiki	0.592817	0.592817	Home Africa US House Calls For Mideast Religious Rights Envoy US House Calls For Mideast Religious Rights Envoy Stefan J. Bos By BosNewsLife Americas Service Christians in Egypt have lost loved ones in violence that also targeted churches and other Christian sites. WASHINGTON, USA (BosNewsLife)– A key rights official has “praised” a U.S. House of Representatives resolution for the creation of a special diplomatic envoy for religious freedom in the Middle East. Jeff King, president of Washington-based advocacy group International Christian Concern (ICC), told BosNewsLife that the legislation, which passed with an overwhelming bipartisan majority of 402 to 22, “unequivocally signals that the United States will not tolerate the persecution of Christians and other religious minorities.” He said however that “the cause of the Christian minority in the Middle East requires more attention and advocacy from the United States government.” King noted that recent governmental and societal changes in the Middle East “eroded or destroyed many of the few protections held by Christian minorities in the region.” He said Christians in the region are regarded by national majorities “not as fellow citizens, but as extensions of American interests. They are abused accordingly.” SEVERAL INCIDENTS Recent incidents included attacks by Islamic militants on Christian minorities in Syria and Iraq killing many, while in Egypt Christians recently suffered what experts called the “the worst violence since 1321, under the Mamluks.” In Egypt, over a hundred Christian sites were attacked last month by followers of ousted President Mohammed Morsi including 42 churches which Christians said “were utterly razed” and several believers were killed. In the south of Egypt, the town of Delga was reportedly occupied by Muslim Brotherhood supporters for 34 days and its Christian population was attacked. ICC said it had thanked Representative Frank Wolf for sponsoring the legislation and “his aggressive advocacy in support of religious freedom.” King stressed he was hopeful that the Senate would “soon follow the House with an overwhelming bipartisan approval of the resolution.” ICC is a non-profit organization devoted to raising global awareness of the persecution of Christians, providing relief to the persecuted, and advocating on their behalf. (BosNewsLife, the first truly independent news agency covering persecuted Christians, is ‘Breaking the News for Compassionate Professionals’ since 2004). Help BosNewsLife to be the voice of the voiceless. Click here for a subscription. Previous articlePakistan Christian Lawyers Demand Crackdown On Militants After Church Bloodshed Next articleNEWS WATCH: Austria’s Far-Right Spoils Victory Party Of Coalition https://www.bosnewslife.com Award-winning international journalist Stefan J. Bos is founder of BosNewsLife and also reports for other national and international media. Somaliland Frees Christian Couple Jailed For Evangelism	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1592
__label__cc	0.734034	0.265966	News Green Light £600m Eastgate Scheme Leeds Firms are embracing new methods of construction with a study revealing the majority have used innovative techniques in the last three years. Claire Cameron takes a look at what is on offer In the wake of the vote to leave the EU, the potential impact of Brexit on development needs to be considered, specifically in terms of environmental regulations and State aid, as well as the possible impact on UK infrastructure projects, in particular the proposed Heathrow expansion and Hinkley Point C, says Mark Northey, a partner in the projects team at Ashfords LLP. The UK has an ageing population – effectively, this means that for the first time ever there are more people of pensionable age than children under the age of 16 in this country. Defibrillators located on construction sites can save your life. Rosa Mitchell from independent supplier Defibshop gives her advice. CONSTRUCTION workers are often faced with a multitude of dangers at work, from the risk of electrical hazards to excavation and trenching accidents. Claire Cameron investigates the topic of daylighting and how the use of windows and rooflights can help bring sunlight into buildings all year round. WITH increasing energy costs and concerns about global warming, the use of windows and rooflights to bring sunlight indoors is gaining momentum as more people look to natural sources to save money and the environment. Within days of the announcement of the Brexit vote, we’ve seen major construction company stocks crash by almost a quarter, says Chris Ingram, managing director of Cornish-based underfloor heating specialists Continental Underfloor. READ Archive 2016 10 Commercial vehicles can drive success. Claire Cameron looks at why firms should upgrade and whether it is best to buy or rent a new fleet. With expert advice from David Brennan, CEO of Nexus Vehicle Rental, Dominic Reid of Northgate Vehicle Hire, Gareth Jones of Dawsonrentals Vans and light commercial vehicle industry consultant Tim Cattlin. The UK’s European Union referendum is proving to be a hugely divisive topic with the population split between leaving and staying. A potential Brexit on June 23 could have far-reaching consequences throughout almost every aspect of life from house prices to immigration policies. But what would leaving the EU mean for the construction sector? Those working in the industry give Builder & Engineer magazine their views. News Interserve Winning Uk And Middle East News Ons Figures Reveal Shock 15 Fall Construction Output Brexit Hangover Continues News Galliford Try Post Record Profits	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1593
__label__wiki	0.872742	0.872742	Bluefruit Software first tech firm to become owned by its employees 'By empowering our people to make the right decisions for themselves and their work we get a better result for our clients' Olivier Vergnault Bluefruit Software staff now own their company (Image: Bluefruit Software) Sign up to FREE email alerts from BusinessLive - South West One of Cornwall’s largest tech companies has become the first in the sector to become owned by its employees. Bluefruit Software has changed to become an employee owned business with the formation of an Employee Ownership Trust (EOT). Employees are now the principal shareholders in the company, with a 51% stake and a say in governance. The EOT’s board of trustees has two non-director employees on it, who will be working on decisions that affect all their colleagues. Already Truro , St Austell and Exeter law firm Stephens Scown is owned by its employees but Bluefruit is the first tech business in the Duchy to do the same. Paul Massey, founder director of Bluefruit Software in Redruth (Image: Bluefruit Software) Founder and director, Paul Massey, said it was a way to enshrine the parts of the business that helped the company’s impressive growth that is its people-led culture. He said: "We've found time and time again, that by empowering our people to make the right decisions for themselves and their work that we get a better result for our clients than if we didn't. "It was important that we found a way to preserve this and ensure the business would be around 10, 20 or even 30 years from now. Something that your typical Silicon Valley or London based tech startup doesn't care about." Cornwall's earth station opens new data centre for artificial intelligence The change of status comes as Bluefruit, which is based in Redruth , has undergone massive growth having gone from 39 staff in 2017 to 71 in 2019. In the year ended April 2019 annual revenues also grew by more than 30%. Bluefruit Software has also been recognised at the 2019 Cornwall Business Awards as Cornwall’s Growth Business of the Year, and as Cornwall’s Best Place to Work, and also at the Tech South West Awards in November as the Best Tech Workplace in the South West. Bluefruit Software director, Caitlin Gould added: "We're offering a place of work that’s unique in not just Cornwall but tech companies worldwide. Bluefruit Software in Redruth, the fastest growing tech firm in Cornwall is now owned by its staff (Image: Bluefruit Software) "There’s a real problem with businesses saying that they’re empowering their people, but they’re not. And that leads to high turnover in a sector that’s hurting for lack of talent. "We have an employee turnover rate of 4%—the tech industry average is 23%1. When you look at the growth we’ve had from being people first, it makes sense to protect that. "This is not only great for our people; it also provides stability to our customers." CoronavirusExeter tech firm develops Covid-busting air sanitizerAtmos-Clear AIR works by drawing in air and bombarding it with virus-killing UVC O2 switches on 5G in Cheltenham and Bournemouth TechnologyThe mobile phone operator has also increased its coverage in Bristol Seven young-gun innovators in the South West making the world a better place South WestNew entrepreneurs from the South West given a business boost in the Young Innovator Awards Businesses allowed to stay open during coronavirus lockdown as winter virus battle reaches crucial stage CoronavirusMost businesses will be forced to shut under latest Government restrictions - but some will stay open	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1595
__label__wiki	0.879677	0.879677	MARTHA TORNA DALLA MAMMA Martha Wainwright is set to release her brand new album, ‘Come Home To Mama’, on October 15. The album was recorded at Sean Lennon’s home studio in New York City and was produced was Yuka C Honda of Cibo Matto and features guest musicians Nels Cline of Wilco on guitar, Thomas Bartlett on keys, Brad Albetta – Wainwright’s husband – on bass and Jim White on drums. The record is Wainwright’s third studio album, following 2005’s self-titled debut and 2008’s ‘I Know You’re Married But I’ve Got Feelings Too’. Speaking about the album, Wainwright said: “This record is a culmination of my life experiences so far. Everything changed for me a couple years ago and this record is a representation of that and a return to the reason I started writing songs.” Of working with Honda, she added: “Making this record was a totally different experience. Yuka’s approach was very open. Sometimes I would just demo the song, singing in the closet which served as the vocal booth, then she would build the track around that. In other instances we would jam with a few musicians and try to get a live take.” The ‘Come Home To Mama’ tracklisting is: ‘I Am Sorry’ ‘Can You Believe It’ ‘Radio Star’ ‘Proserpina’ ‘Leave Behind’ ‘Four Black Sheep’ ‘Some People’ ‘I Wanna Make An Arrest’ ‘All Your Clothes’ ‘Everything Wrong’ Eric Clapton - While my guitar gently weeps ED ECCO ANCHE GLI ELBOW OPPPPPPSSSSSSSSSS ASCOLTI PASQUALI , TANTI AUGURI E TANTA BUONA MUSICA A TUTTI VOI POSTATO OR ORA PER MR ZANETTI SU ROCKOL E NON ROCKIT CD DA REGALARE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME, BY BILLBOARD KAMASI PER NETFLIX SU MICHELLE OBAMA, LA SOUNDTRACK	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1597
__label__cc	0.58911	0.41089	Home \| Business News \| CBJ Newsmakers \| Exercise of Unlisted Options Exercise of Unlisted Options TORONTO, Dec. 11, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Cardinal Resources Limited (ASX/TSX: CDV) (“Cardinal” or “Company”) advises that 16,000,000 unlisted options exercisable at $0.50 per share have been exercised in the Company to raise AU$8.0 million. Attached to this release is the Company’s Appendix 2A – Application for Quotation of Securities and the Appendix 3Y ‐ Change of Director’s Interest Notice for each of the relevant Directors.Authorised for release by the Board of Cardinal Resources Limited.For further information contact: Cannings Purple (Investor Relations, Australia) Peta Baldwin or Warrick Hazeldine E: pbaldwin@canningspurple.com.au E: whazeldine@canningspurple.com.auDisclaimer Cardinal confirms that it is not aware of any new information or data that materially affects the information included in its announcement of the Ore Reserve of April 3, 2019. All material assumptions and technical parameters underpinning this estimate continue to apply and have not materially changed.This ASX / TSX press release has been prepared by Cardinal Resources Limited (ABN: 56 147 325 620) (“Cardinal” or “the Company”). Neither the ASX or the TSX, nor their regulation service providers accept responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this press release.This press release contains summary information about Cardinal, its subsidiaries and their activities, which is current as at the date of this press release. The information in this press release is of a general nature and does not purport to be complete nor does it contain all the information, which a prospective investor may require in evaluating a possible investment in Cardinal.By its very nature exploration for minerals is a high‐risk business and is not suitable for certain investors. Cardinal’s securities are speculative. 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There are a number of risks, both specific to Cardinal and of a general nature which may affect the future operating and financial performance of Cardinal and the value of an investment in Cardinal including but not limited to economic conditions, stock market fluctuations, gold price movements, regional infrastructure constraints, timing of approvals from relevant authorities, regulatory risks, operational risks and reliance on key personnel and foreign currency fluctuations.Except for statutory liability which cannot be excluded and subject to applicable law, each of Cardinal’s officers, employees and advisors expressly disclaim any responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of the material contained in this press release and excludes all liability whatsoever (including in negligence) for any loss or damage which may be suffered by any person as a consequence of any information in this Announcement or any error or omission here from. 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These ‘forward – looking statements’ are necessarily based upon a number of estimates and assumptions that, while considered reasonable by Cardinal, are inherently subject to significant technical, business, economic, competitive, political and social uncertainties and contingencies and involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause actual events or results to differ materially from estimated or anticipated events or results reflected in such forward‐looking statements.Cardinal disclaims any intent or obligation to update publicly or release any revisions to any forward‐looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, circumstances or results or otherwise after today’s date or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events, other than required by the Corporations Act and ASX and TSX Listing Rules. 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__label__wiki	0.932077	0.932077	Thiam absolved but not unscathed in spy scandal Teflon Thiam 1 October 2019 By Christopher Thompson Follow @CGAThompson An internal investigation has cleared the Credit Suisse CEO of wrongdoing after his chief lieutenant hired spies to tail an ex-employee. Tidjane Thiam has now lost two key staff in three months. Worse, ignorance of key decisions in the company you run is not a good look. Credit Suisse said on Oct. 1 that its Chief Operating Officer Pierre-Olivier Bouée resigned after an internal investigation found he initiated surveillance of the bank's former wealth management head Iqbal Khan. The probe cleared Chief Executive Officer Tidjane Thiam. "The Board of Directors considers that the mandate for the observation of Iqbal Khan was wrong and disproportionate and has resulted in severe reputational damage to the bank," Switzerland's second-biggest bank said in a statement, adding there was no indication that Thiam had approved or even been aware of the surveillance. The bank had launched the enquiry to find out the circumstances that led to a confrontation in Zurich on Sept. 17 between Khan, who left in July and later joined rival UBS, and private detectives that Credit Suisse had hired to follow him. Credit Suisse shares were up 0.3% at 12.30 Swiss francs by 0821 GMT on Oct. 1. Source: REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann CEO Tidjane Thiam of Swiss bank Credit Suisse awaits the company's annual news conference in Zurich, Switzerland February 14, 2019. Reuters: Credit Suisse clears CEO in Khan probe, COO Bouee to go Credit Suisse statement Cox: The gnomes of Zurich aren’t boring enough Credit Suisse spy caper explodes Swiss discretion	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1604
__label__wiki	0.919324	0.919324	HomeNIGERIAN FOOTBALL Why No African is Worthy of winning Ballon d’Or – McCarthy Brila 0 December 11, 2017 7:27 am Former South African player Benni McCarthy has claimed there is a conspiracy against African players for global individual laurels because they’re not Box Office material. McCarthy argues that certain players; with marketability, will get the nod even at the expense of worthy African players blazing the trail in the sport. The former Ajax and Porto star told BBC Sport that some African greats were ignored because they couldn’t attract magazine or newspaper sales – although Liberian legend George Weah won every major award in Europe and the FIFA World Player of the year in 1995. “We are not eye-catching in Europe. We are players that they look past because they look the more lucrative, worthy players that will sell more newspapers, sell more magazines and be more of attraction. “If an African player wins it there’s not a lot of attraction but, if Gareth Bale wins it, if Rooney wins it, if Ronaldo wins it – it’s World news, breaking news. “Yaya Toure has been but never been recognized, Didier Drogba has been there; never been recognized, Samuel Eto’o has been there; never been recognized, Jay Jay Okocha has been there; never been recognized, Nwankwo Kanu…I can go on, the list can go on but we’ve not been recognized.” “So, I think because it’s not lucrative enough for them to pick an African as world best player because it won’t sell. “Football is a business my friend, everywhere, football clubs, FIFA; everywhere it’s about making money,” the Cape Town City Coach said. NIGERIAN FOOTBALL 10097 Ballon d'Or 10 Benni McCarthy 3 Federation Elections: FEAD Director Assures Ministry of Sports is “Good to Go” 0 Mourinho: English clubs at a disadvantage in the Champions League 0 Iwobi heroic helps Everton maintain perfect start in Premier league 0 Manchester United Defender Phil Jones Slapped with two-game ban for abusing Uefa official 0 Sikiru Alimi joins Morrocan side Maghreb de Fes 0	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1605
__label__cc	0.504674	0.495326	Compete Championships Nations Cup CCI3-S European Cup Blenheim Palace Horse Trials Festival of British Eventing BE90 and BE100 BE80(T) Championship Young Horse Past Success The Nations Cup series for eventing piloted in 2012 and rolled out in full in 2013. It is open to all nations and competitions are run at CCI4-S level. There are eight competitions throughout the eventing season where teams can pick up points from each one, with the nations' seven best scores counting. The series winner is the nation with the most points at the end of the season. Teams are made up of three or four athletes with the best three scores counting, however some of the Nations Cup fixtures are being used to trial the new Olympic format - more details can be found HERE. All of the competitions in the series are run at CCI4-S level except for the final fixture in the calendar at Boekelo Horse Trials, which is at CCI4-L. Dressage takes place over two days with all riders completing a predetermined test of movements in front of three judges. The judges award marks out of 10 and, after combining the scores to give an overall percentage score, the score is then converted into penalty points (the higher the percentage, the lower the penalty score). At the CCI4-S fixtures, the show jumping can take place either after the dressage or as the final phase after the cross country. In the final CCI4-L fixture, the show jumping takes place on the last day after the cross country. Any penalties for knocking down obstacles, refusals or exceeding the optimum time are added to the score. At the CCI4-S fixtures, the cross country can take place either after the dressage or as the final phase after the show jumping. In the final CCI4-L fixture, the cross country takes place after the dressage and before the show jumping; the course is also longer than that at the CCI4-S. Penalties are incurred and added to the score for refusals, run-outs and for exceeding the optimum time allowed. Could you represent GB on an Eventing Nations Cup squad? British Eventing would like to invite riders who meet the criteria below to apply for the British FEI Nations Cups squad in 2019. The team of four will be chosen from those who have expressed an interest; it is hoped that at least one senior team member will be on the squad and at least two less experienced riders, as it is considered necessary for more riders to have international team experience. Some funding will be provided, depending on the event. If you meet the following criteria please apply via the details below: Horse/rider combinations from past and present form in CCI4-S, CCI4-L and CCI5-L who have had recent good form. Hold a current and valid British Passport. Are qualified for the forthcoming Nations Cups, horses can be owned by any nationality as they take on the nationality of the rider for a Nations Cup. Neither horses nor athletes are for any reason not allowed to take part in the forthcoming Nations Cups under BE, BEF, or FEI rules. Horse/Rider must be eligible according to the minimum eligibility criteria as defined in the FEI Regulations. If you would like to be considered please fill out the overseas application form HERE and send back via email to Gemma Harriss on gemma.harriss@britisheventing.com. Please also send any questions to Gemma. Equestrian World Class Prorgamme The GBR eventing teams are supported by the British Equestrian Federation's World Class Programme, funded by UK Sport through the National Lottery. The Programme focuses on identifying talent, developing potential and maximising medal-winning performances on the world stage. The GB Nations Cup team are funded and supported by the World Class Programme, however selection on to a Nations Cup team does not constitute an automatic invitation to World Class Programme training or on to the World Class Programme (selection criteria for this Programme can be found on the BEF website). Nations Cup results	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1606
__label__cc	0.721783	0.278217	Meet Einstein and Max: Coming Soon to Brunswick Mineral Springs Bed and Breakfast Come this January, the year won't be the only thing "new." That's when there will be two new four-legged residents of the Brunswick Mineral Springs Bed and Breakfast. Einstein and Max. Einstein is an American Kennel Club (AKC) registered German Shepherd Dog. As explained on the AKC website, the breed ranks second in popularity of the 192 breeds of dog officially recognized by the organization. "Generally considered dogkind’s finest all-purpose worker, the German Shepherd Dog is a large, agile, muscular dog of noble character and high intelligence," reads the description. "Loyal, confident, courageous, and steady, the German Shepherd is truly a dog lover’s delight." Einstein understands commands in both English and German. He loves exploring, plays nicely with other dogs and yes... with cats, and his favorite toy is his blue, waffle-ball. He actually plays soccer... using his paws! It's a hoot to watch him dribble down a field, tee it up and kick it. I can also tell you that German Shepherd Dogs (referenced by most owners of the breed as 'GSDs') need a lot of exercise -- both physically and mentally -- to keep them from going (and to keep them from driving you) insane from boredom. Of all dog breeds, they are ranked as the third smartest. Because of this, my husband and I enrolled Einstein in a wonderful training program at New Sentry K-9 in Brooksville, Florida. After learning the basics -- sit, down, stay -- he was introduced to the obstacle course where he walked across swinging as well as elevated bridges and got to jump over barriers even through windows! He loved that part the most. Because GSDs can be a bit intimidating and because Einstein would be moving to the B&B, we thought it would be a good idea to take Einstein's training to a new level. So, when New Sentry's owner, John, thought he was ready, we registered Einstein in a course through which he could earn an AKC "Canine Good Citizen" award. "The Canine Good Citizen Program teaches good manners to dogs and responsible dog ownership to their owners," the AKC website explains. "The 10-step CGC test is a non-competitive test for all dogs, including purebreds and mixed breeds. It is a prerequisite for many therapy dog groups and some homeowner’s insurance companies encourage CGC testing. There are also an increasing number of apartments and condos that require resident dogs to pass the CGC test." The test took place on the grounds at New Sentry during an event they were hosting for National Dog Day in order to promote dog adoption. I was nervous, not so much because there were a lot of people and dogs walking around and about 15 other dogs participating in the test program, but because the test would have a rather large audience of event attendees. My worries, however, were unnecessary. Not only did Einstein pass with serious flying colors, he became the audience favorite. As you can see in the picture when he went to receive his certificate, he was so proud. Something else wonderful happened that day. That's the day Einstein met who would become his new brother... Max. Max is an AKC registered English Bulldog. Of the 192 breeds of dog, English Bulldogs rank fourth in popularity. "Kind but courageous, friendly but dignified," the AKC website describes the English Bulldog as a "thick-set, low-slung, well-muscled bruiser whose 'sour-mug' face is the universal symbol of courage and tenacity." "These docile, loyal companions adapt well to town or country," the AKC notes further. "You can’t mistake a Bulldog for any other breed. The loose skin of the head, furrowed brow, pushed-in nose, small ears, undershot jaw with hanging chops on either side, and the distinctive rolling gait all practically scream 'I’m a Bulldog!'" The first time I saw Max was when I was communicating with Sandy Henson of Animal Rescue Friends Network, Inc., a group that participated in the event held at New Sentry. My husband and I were looking for a companion for Einstein. Along with photos of the many possibilities they had available at the time, they sent me the photo shown to the right. It was love at first sight. It took about a month to complete the application/interview/meet and see what happens process... Then, on May 23, 2018, Max became a precious part of our family. Max is a big boy. Where the AKC says English Bulldogs "can weigh up to 50 pounds," Max tips the scale at around 70 pounds. According to our Veterinarian, Max isn't overweight, he's literally "super-sized." He's the opposite of a "runt." She also said that Max is the healthiest English Bulldog she has ever seen. Unlike most of his breed, Max's legs are not bowed, and -- because his snout isn't as smushed as most -- his breathing isn't as labored. That isn't to say he doesn't snore. He does. Loudly. It's all part of his adorable charm. If you're wondering how Einstein and Max get along, the photo to the right might give you some insight. Einstein adores Max, and Max idolizes Einstein. And while they will steal each other's toys, compete for attention and generally omit no opportunity to annoy each other just as any other siblings, they are inseparable. Where one goes, the other follows... always. They also prove the theory that "opposites attract." While Einstein loves exercise and outdoor adventures, Max prefers to snuggle on a sofa in an airconditioned environment. Where Einstein enjoys long, spirited walks, Max is happy just going to the end of the block and back. Where Einstein has a regal countenance, Max is silly. Einstein loves to run. Max... not so much. While Einstein is extremely intelligent, Max is, well... Did I mention that we was silly? "Their easy-going nature and physical laziness might be mistaken for slow-wittedness, but these dogs are by no means dumb," a popular pet website insists of the Bulldog's ranking of 98th on a list of 100 for dog-smarts, "they're just too lazy to perform tricks or obey silly commands when they can just relax and drool themselves to sleep." They are tenacious and brave, strong and loyal. Why else would the Marines choose the Bulldog as their official mascot? So, if you come stay with us after January, you'll get to meet Einstein and Max. If you have your own fur-babies, be sure to bring them along. We'll supply the playground and the cookies.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1609
__label__wiki	0.830646	0.830646	Walgreens CIO Abhi Dhar reportedly to depart February 8, 2017 by CDR Blog and Chain Drug Review Walgreens CIO Abhi Dhar is slated to exit the company next month to lead an online marketing startup company focusing on the retail arena, according to CIO magazine. Abhi Dhar Walgreens declined to comment to CIO about a replacement for Dhar. Dhar’s LinkedIn page describes him as the co-founder and CEO of an Illinois-based digital startup that “provides a marketing platform for retail locations to interact with qualified local consumers through easy and elegant experiences.” The page says that Dhar is now raising a seed round of funding to launch the venture in two markets this year. Dhar joined Walgreens in September 2009 as group vice president and chief technology officer. He became senior VP and CIO for Walgreens in November 2014 and was appointed to his current title, chief digital officer of Walgreens Boots Alliance and CIO of Retail Pharmacy USA, this past November. He joined Walgreens in 2009 from TravelCLICK, where he served as senior VP and CIO from 2006 to 2009. Prior to that, he held technology leadership roles at Cendant Corp. and its Travelport division and had worked in engineering and digital/online consulting roles at PricewaterhouseCoopers and AT&T.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1613
__label__cc	0.713359	0.286641	Adult care faces cuts as councils protect children’s services By Mithran Samuel on March 5, 2010 in Adults, Children, Mental Health, Social care leaders Most councils are planning savage cuts to adult social care but intend to protect children’s services from financial pain, public finance chiefs have found. A survey by the Chartered Institute for Public Finance and Accountancy, which represents council finance heads, has found 59% of councils in England and Wales plan to cut adult social care budgets, by an average of 7%. While a greater proportion – 87% – are planning cuts to children’s services in 2010-11 these average 1%. The results, which have not been published, were revealed in Public Finance, Cipfa’s magazine. The findings have sparked concerns that concerns over safeguarding, fuelled by the baby Peter case and its aftermath, have led councils to protect children’s services at the expense of adult care, despite massive demographic pressures on the latter. As Community Care has reported, many councils would have to increase their adult care budgets substantially to keep pace with rising demand, meaning a number are increasing their budgets slightly in cash terms while also making cuts or efficiency savings. It is not known whether Cipfa has identified a cut of 7% in real or cash terms. Thirty nine councils provided information on their plans for adults’ and children’s services. Support for fathers of learning disabled children Report into roles and tasks of adult social workers published	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1619
__label__wiki	0.675482	0.675482	Cross-border PwC team helps Italians acquire Zimmermann 15 December 2020 Consultancy.com.au Australian luxury brand Zimmermann has been acquired by Style Capital, an Italian private equity group. The deal was advised on by consultants from PwC’s M&A arms in Australia and Italy. Back in 1991 sisters Nicky and Simone Zimmermann teamed up to launch Zimmermann, and under their direction the company has grown to an international luxury fashion brand. Headquartered in Sydney, Zimmermann designs, markets and sells ready-to-wear and swim & resort collections through its owned retail stores (19 in Australia) and online platform, as well as through select luxury department stores, boutiques and online fashion retailers. Early 2016 the retailer received a financial injection from General Atlantic, and with the funding Zimmermann embarked on an expansion drive, opening flagship stores across the United States, increasing its presence in the European market, expanding its global e-commerce presence and capability, and strengthening its wholesale distribution with premium luxury partners. With the aim of taking the firm to the next level, Zimmermann has now roped in Style Capital – an Italian investor that already co-owns brands such as Forte_Forte, Re/Done and MSGM. The deal sees Style Capital take a 70% stake in Zimmermann, while the brand’s founding family will retain the remaining 30%. General Atlantic has exited its ownership. “We are excited to partner with the team at Style Capital as we continue on our journey to build a unique global luxury brand from Australia. We are so excited by what lies ahead,” said Nicky Zimmermann. Buyer Style Capital received M&A advice from PwC, Rotschild and law firms Russo De Rosa Associati, McDermott Will & Emery, Allens, and King & Wood Mallesons & Co. PwC’s advised the Italians on the tax due diligence with a team led by Nicola Broggi, Alessandro Campione (PwC Italy) and Trinh Hua, Ann Le and Sean McCann (PwC Australia). The Big Four firm also provided financial advisory services, led by Italy-based Emanuela Pettenò. Commenting on the acquisition, Style Capital CEO Roberta Benaglia said: “In recent years, I have followed the brand’s growth path with admiration, thinking how brave and talented these two Australian sisters have been in taking their luxury vision from Australia to the rest of the world. I therefore consider this partnership with Zimmermann a real privilege for Style Capital.” Other dealmakers that provided buy-side support include: Valerio Libani, Alessandro Manico, Francesco Belletti and Mattia Cardinali from Russo De Rosa Associati; Ettore Scandale, Emidio Cacciapuoti, Enrico Raso, and Davide Massiglia from McDermott Will & Emery. Sell-side M&A consultants were at the time of writing not known. Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed. Luxury Products news More Luxury Products Majority of Australians to go basic and cut luxury spend More than 60% of Australian consumers plan to cut luxury spending in the post Covid-19 economy, shifting their focus to essential spending instead. Australia a leading destination for migrant millionaires Australia has openly welcomed twelve thousand special category migrants in 2018 – those who are classed as millionaires. Mergers & Acquisitions news More Mergers & Acquisitions Seven factors driving M&A in the battery minerals industry Battery minerals (lithium, cobalt, nickel, manganese, graphite) is set to be a hot segment of the merger & acquisition market in 2021, according to Philip Wheeler, a partner at L.E.K. Consulting. PwC appointed transaction advisor for Queensland wind farm Stage one of the Clarke Creek Wind Farm project in Queensland is up for sale, and PwC has been named financial advisor for the transaction. Estimates place the asset at a deal value $800 million. PwC's M&A consultants running Natural Pet Food Group sale Spending on pets is booming amid the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown, and private equity firm Pioneer Capital is on the verge of capitalising on the trend. Projects news NSW government working with KPMG on stamp duty reform The Government of New South Wales has come under fire for handing a $5 million contract to consultants from KPMG, as it weighs up reforms to its property taxation system. HLB and McGrathNicol working on Dyldam's administration Sydney-based real estate developer Dyldam is now fully under administration, with HLB Mann Judd and McGrathNicol seated at either side of the table. Sayers hires Big Four seniors to kickstart new Technology unit Australian investment and advisory firm Sayers has launched a new Technology & Platforms business unit. More Retail Harnessing the power of data for Victoria's recovery A personal touch with customers has long been the hallmark of a successful business, and in the post-Covid-19 era, this will be no different. Online commerce booms amid shifting consumer behaviour A new report by Publicis Sapient has revealed that the online commerce wave already sweeping through Australia has been solidified by the Covid-19 crisis, as consumers look to sustain their online activity. Asia Pacific's GenZ is a unique and diverse generation of its own While often perceived as a younger extension of the digitalised Millennial generation, GenZ actually displays a number of unique consumer patterns across the Asia-Pacific (APAC). More PwC Mid-tier mining companies leading Australia's economic recovery Mid-tier mining companies have been the backbone of Australia’s economy amid Covid-19, and will be instrumental in the post-pandemic recovery. A new PwC report highlights the segment’s contribution.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1620
__label__cc	0.598366	0.401634	Log In View My Cart Home / Subject / Language Arts / Grace Abounding Grade 4Grade 5Grade 6-8Language Arts ‹ Back to the Store Grace Abounding The Core Knowledge Anthology of African-American Literature, Music, and Art Appropriate for use in the upper elementary grades through high school, this lavishly illustrated anthology gives students comprehensive insight into African American literary and arts traditions, from early African roots through colonial times, Emancipation, Reconstruction, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Black Arts Movement of the 1970s, all the way to the emergent voices of the twenty-first century. Both within and beyond the classroom, the anthology provides a wealth of inspiring, fascinating, and important readings for anyone interested in these vital voices. Free teacher guides are available for download. Grace Abounding is a lavishly illustrated anthology that gives students comprehensive insight into African American literary and arts traditions, from early African roots through colonial times, Emancipation, Reconstruction, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Black Arts Movement of the 1970s, all the way to the emergent voices of the twenty-first century. Both within and beyond the classroom, the anthology provides a wealth of inspiring, fascinating, and important readings for anyone interested in these vital voices. The anthology includes a wide variety of literary and informational texts, as well as features on Speaking and Listening Skills and suggested Writing Activities. With its accompanying free teacher guides, Grace Abounding should prove useful to teachers across a wide range of grade levels (4–10). The anthology is chronologically organized in four broad units: Unit 1: Origin: Out of Africa Unit 2: Let My People Go, 1619-1865 Unit 3: Up from Bondage, 1866-1939 Unit 4: Civil Rights and Beyond, 1939-Present A teacher guide is available for each of the four units. The teacher guides include lesson plans, reading check tests, vocabulary tests, and answer keys. Download the Free Teacher Guides Selections from Grace Abounding Informational Text: History SKU: GA Questions about this product? Let us know! What Your Fourth Grader Needs to Know The Core Knowledge Sequence: Content and Skill Guidelines for Preschool-Grade 8 Text Resources Grade 4	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1621
__label__wiki	0.514247	0.514247	BetOnline.ag Odds CLNS Media Boston Celtics Newsfeed 4X4 With CLNS Media: A Weekly Discussion on the Boston Celtics and the NBA Mike DePrisco (CelticsBlog), Greg Cassoli (Celtics Wire) and Daniel Poarch (Celtics Hub) join to dissect the Celtics-Bucks first-round series. Cory Prescott Giannis Antetokounmpo averaged 33.5 points, 10.8 rebounds and 5 assists in four games vs. the Celtics this season. How should the Celtics try and defend the Greek Freak? Mike DePrisco (CelticsBlog): I think their best chance of guarding Giannis is to do it by committee. Throw him a number of differe Giannis Antetokounmpo averaged 33.5 points, 10.8 rebounds and 5 assists in four games vs. the Celtics this season. How should the Celtics try and defend the Greek Freak? Mike DePrisco (CelticsBlog): I think their best chance of guarding Giannis is to do it by committee. Throw him a number of different looks, and defenders to keep him guessing and to keep him uncomfortable. The Celtics have done a great job this season with Al Horford giving him space to shoot, and then collapsing with help defense when Antetokounmpo drives to the basket. Boston could also send guys like Jaylen Brown and Semi Ojeleye his way to get in his air space and stay physical with him. He doesn’t have a great variety of moves off the dribble, so sticking to the plan Brad Stevens deploys and staying physical with him would be the keys for me. Greg Cassoli (Celtics Wire): This is quite clearly the most vexing tactical question the Celtics will have to deal with in this series. What do you do with an unfathomably long, athletic blur of a human being who is nearly automatic by the hoop? The most logical approach is to turn Giannis into a shooter. Often times that’s more easily said than done. Boston should have its primary defender offer him a sizeable cushion and encourage its off-ball defenders to help clog driving lanes aggressively. That may mean leaving shooters open to a degree that runs counter the team’s defensive identity, but the Greek Freak is good enough to force the Celtics to adapt and the Bucks typically don’t play enough quality marksmen to really punish such a strategy. Daniel Poarch (Celtics Hub): Al Horford has put in some great work on the Greek Freak this season, and I’d expect that to continue to be his primary assignment. We know the book on Giannis right now: he can’t knock down jumpers with consistency. Horford and the Celtics will heavily err on the side of letting Giannis take jumpers from the midrange and behind the arc, while doing their best to cut him off from the rim. One concern: the offense will need to take better care of the ball, as their recent turnover issues would create a lot of opportunities for Giannis’ devastating transition game. Cory Prescott (CLNS Media): No matter how you slice it, Giannis will have an impact on this series. The key is to make him work and hope that his supporting cast (Parker, Bledsoe, Middleton) fails to capitalize on the good looks he creates. The Celtics actually have a variety of defenders they can try on him, which should help keep Boston fresh in this series. Is there a particular matchup the Celtics should look to exploit in this series? DePrisco: Milwaukee matches up pretty well with Boston individually in my eyes. The problem the Bucks run into is staying connected on the defensive end and giving up easy baskets once their opponent breaks down their initial setup. The Celtics could look to go big and bully the Bucks’ bigs down low, but if they focus on moving the ball diligently and stopping their transition opportunities, the Bucks will settle for bad shots and leave games open for the taking. Cassoli: Boston needs to put Jabari Parker into as many actions as possible. He’s a limited defender, who is particularly prone to getting lost away from the ball. The Bucks have countered teams that try to pick on Parker by putting him on players that initiate sets. He’s a solid enough athlete and big enough body to be almost passable in one-on-one contexts. It likely won’t matter against the Celtics. Injuries have forced Boston to utilize an even more egalitarian, albeit less effective, offense than they ran at full strength. They should be able to make sure whoever Parker is guarding is keeping him occupied away off the ball, even if Milwaukee attempts to switch his assignment when they do. Poarch: Jabari Parker has played quite well offensively since his return from last season’s ACL tear, but defensively, he’s still a sieve. The Celtics will be able to create a lot of favorable matchups against him when they’re on the attack. He doesn’t have the instincts to check a crafty frontcourt player like Horford, and he lacks great quickness to keep up with energetic wings like Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum. I like Parker, but his defense makes him a target, and I think we’ll see Brad Stevens look to exploit that when he’s on the floor. Prescott: Jabari Parker’s lateral movement is non-existent, and he’s never been a plus-defender as it is. When Parker’s on the court, put him in uncomfortable positions. Additionally, when Milwaukee plays a traditional center (Henson, Zeller), get the ball to Greg Monroe. He’s playing against his former team and given Boston’s scoring droughts since Kyrie Irving went down, Monroe’s post game can be used as a solid way to generate good looks. Given the MASH unit Brad Stevens has to work with, what should his rotation look like against Milwaukee? DePrisco: He’s had to change it on what seems like a countless amount of occasions, but Stevens will probably go with a starting lineup consisting of Rozier-Brown-Tatum-Horford-Baynes. Baynes will be key to protecting the paint against Antetokounmpo and Eric Bledsoe’s dribble penetration, so I think it’s important to keep him in the starting five. Outside of that you’re probably looking at Marcus Morris, Shane Larkin, Semi Ojeleye, and Greg Monroe as the main subs. Morris and Ojeleye will be key to keeping Boston’s versatility on both ends, while Larkin will be a key contributor as Rozier’s backup. Monroe might not play consistent minutes, but he will have to come in and score for certain stretches if Boston’s youth can’t seem to manufacture points. Cassoli: I have no idea, but I bet it changes throughout the course of the series. Stevens isn’t one to shy away from what works (think Gerald Green starting games in last year’s playoffs). We’ll most definitely get heavy doses of the regulars: Rozier, Brown, Tatum, Horford, Baynes, and Morris. Who else plays will likely come down to who performs best. I’d expect Shane Larkin will emerge as a reliable option. I’m a little less confident in Greg Monroe. He really struggles to move his feet, and the Bucks have enough mobile bigs to make his life a living hell on the defensive end of the court. Whether or not they actually utilize them is another question entirely. Outside of those eight players, it’s hard to see anyone get really serious burn. Semi Ojeleye will likely get a chance or two to function as a “Giannis stopper” or a super small-ball center, and Guerschon Yabusele may land a few minutes if Monroe proves a bit too immobile. Poarch: Have you seen that GIF from Community where Donald Glover walks into the room to find everything on fire? Something like that. In all seriousness, though, I think Tuesday’s tilt against the Wizards served as a preview for what we’ll see against the Bucks. Stevens deployed a nine-man rotation for most of the night, with Nader, Allen, Bird, and Gibson not seeing the court until the game was out of reach. I would bet that shortened rotation is what we’ll see until Marcus Smart returns. Prescott: Play everyone. In all seriousness, Brad Stevens will monitor this series with magnificent focus. Rozier, Brown, Tatum, Horford, Baynes will continue to start, while Morris will be a super-sub and likely play starter-like minutes. Quite honestly, the Celtics depth (even with all of these injuries) gives them an advantage against a thin Bucks squad. Expect the bench to be used heavily and in interesting ways. PLAYOFF PREVIEW: Bucks vs #Celtics @JaredWeissNBA “really likes this matchup” for Celts. Agree? WATCH: Garden Report @CLNSMedia https://t.co/ukBpVEM57O pic.twitter.com/g7Blnc3XJq — Celtics on CLNS (@CelticsCLNS) April 12, 2018 Prediction Time DePrisco: I think the Celtics win this series in six games. While the Bucks have plenty of talent to make a depleted Celtics team vulnerable, they have never demonstrated any form of consistency this season. I feel that the advantage Stevens gives his team will make it difficult for the Bucks to figure out how to score outside of their incredibly simple offensive sets. The Celtics will need Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum to score a lot, so that is a potential concern, but they’ve proved all season long that they’re ready to handle the pressure that comes with being the featured players on a contender. Cassoli: Much like the entirety of the Celtics’ postseason, almost any possible outcome here seems feasible. I really don’t believe in the Bucks’ from a structural/strategic perspective, but having Giannis really matters, and the Celtics slew of injuries does too. I don’t feel comfortable predicting much beyond this series not being a sweep, but for the sake of the question I’ll say Boston in seven, primarily out of respect for the Greek Freak. Poarch: Celtics in 6. The Bucks have a lot of interesting pieces, but they’ve consistently seemed to be less than the sum of their parts this season. Giannis is a superstar and you always have to be hesitant about facing that caliber of player, but he’s still young and Stevens has an established gameplan for him. Considering how shorthanded the Celtics are, it’s probably going to be a grueling series, but they still have a lot of talent and a significant edge in coaching. I think this is the most favorable of the potential first-round matchups we could have seen, and the Celtics should be able to advance. Prescott: Celtics in 6. I think the coaching mismatch between Stevens and Joe Prunty is enough to swing this series. Plus, given the Bucks’ lack of discipline and consistency, the Celtics will win ugly and persevere to Round 2. Previous articleRiley Nash Happy To Have Two Ears Still Next articleWashburn: Celtics Need to Limit Giannis Antetokounmpo to Jumpers, Al Horford to Step Up Cory Prescott is the Editor at Large for Boston Celtics coverage on CLNS Media. Cory is a graduate of Susquehanna University, graduating with a degree in Communications - Journalism. While at Susquehanna, Cory spent three years as the sports editor for the school's weekly newspaper. He also worked for the Crusaders Athletics Communications Department.Following graduation, Cory spent time writing for the Maine Hockey Journal, Boston Sports Then & Now and his own blog, Brain Freeze.A native Mainer, Cory has been residing in Boston since 2012.Follow Cory on twitter @CLNS_Prescott. Celtics vs Knicks Post Game Show BetOnline.ag Celtics-Knicks Betting Odds, Preview and Predictions BetOnline.ag Celtics-Magic Betting Odds, Preview and Predictions Sign up to receive exclusives, daily highlights and more! Trent Frederic on Getting Under the Skin of P.K. 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__label__wiki	0.68918	0.68918	Oil Closes Below $81; Traders Ponder Peak Published Mon, Sep 24 20073:55 PM EDT Updated Fri, Sep 13 20134:33 PM EDT Energy futures fell Monday after a tropical depression that moved through the Gulf of Mexico late last week turned out to be a dud. Oil Refinery in California But investors also tried to determine if oil futures' recent record-setting run above $80 per barrel had run its course. "We feel that a substantial amount of speculative froth in the crude market exists and that this ongoing price advance is slowly sowing the seeds for an equally sharp price plunge that could easily negate the past month's price advance," said Jim Ritterbusch, president of Ritterbusch and Associates, in a research note. Many analysts believe much of oil's recent advance can be attributed to speculators buying and selling crude futures contracts, with no intention of taking delivery. That speculative frenzy received a shot in the arm last week when the Federal Reserve cut interest rates. Falling interest rates have driven the dollar lower against other global currencies, which makes commodities priced in dollars cheaper to overseas investors. "It's sort of like Uncle Sam declared a year-end clearance sale," said Phil Flynn, an analyst at Alaron Trading in Chicago. Data released Friday by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission showed speculators increased their crude futures positions by 22 percent in the week ended Sept. 18, according to Addison Armstrong, an analyst with TFS Energy Futures in Stamford, Conn. Investors sometimes view increases in speculative positions as a sign that the market is overbought and ripe for a decline. "We believe oil prices are due for a big correction," wrote Oppenheimer analysts Fadel Gheit and Dan Katzenberg in a research note. U.S. light, sweet crude for November delivery closed 67 cents lower at $80.95 per barrel, nearly $3 below the record $83.90 reached last week. London Brent crude shed 39 cents to $78.91. October heating oil fell 2.56 cents to settle at $2.2306 a gallon, while Nymex natural gas futures rose 28.7 cents to settle at $6.367 per 1,000 cubic feet. Natural gas futures were the only component of the energy complex to rally Monday on concerns about three new tropical weather systems, one located in the southern Gulf, one near the north coast of South America and one in the central Atlantic. "The hurricane season is not over yet and there are still tropical waves crossing the Atlantic that will need to be watched for development in the coming days," said Olivier Jakob, managing director of Petromatrix in Switzerland. Jitters about possible disruptions are likely to support natural gas prices going forward, Flynn said. On Friday, concerns about a tropical depression that was then moving across Florida prompted several gas and oil companies to evacuate hundreds of workers from offshore rigs and suspend about a quarter of the Gulf of Mexico's daily oil and gas production. Workers have since been redeployed and production restored. At the pump, meanwhile, gas prices dipped 0.1 cent overnight to a national average price of $2.809 a gallon, according to AAA and the Oil Price Information Service. Still, that is 1.2 cents higher than Friday's national average. Many analysts think gasoline will rise 10 to 15 cents over the next week to catch up with oil's recent advance.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1626
__label__wiki	0.621659	0.621659	Chingum — Discover Curiosities Chingum blog is a new way to explore the world that includes hidden wonders, people, interesting articles, strange photos and popular places. Celebrity Who Can Fly Airplanes Love for the sky is not some abstract concept, the feeling of freedom that a person receives during the flight really makes you feel extraordinary inspiration and rise. Hollywood celebrities who can fly Airplanes A famous actor - a pilot with great experience. At his disposal is a Boeing 707, and next to the house in Florida there is a real runway. Travolta can fly from the shoot right to the doorstep of the house! The performer of the role of the pilot Han Solo in Star Wars really knows how to pilot - albeit not a spaceship, but an ordinary plane. In his collection - 8 airliners! In 2017, Ford unsuccessfully landed the plane on the taxiway at the John Wayne California Airport, but decided not to apply any penalties to it. The actor knows how to fly an airplane - he got his rights in 1994. If some of the events in his films really happened, he could probably save everyone. The lead singer of Iron Maiden flew several thousand hours as a commercial airline pilot. In his youth, the actor served in the US Air Force as a radio mechanic. A few years later he realized his dream and received a license as a professional pilot. Few people know that the star has the right to fly small planes and this is her hobby since 2004. The actor and director have a pilot's license for an airplane and a helicopter. In his youth, he survived the crash of a military helicopter when he served in the army. In 2016, his knowledge allowed him to become the director of the film “Miracle on the Hudson,” based on real events. The actress and model learned to fly a helicopter in 2009, being a pregnant son of Benjamin from her husband, football player Tom Brady. Labels: Amazing, Celebrities JUAN GALÁN April 21, 2020 at 7:01 AM Qué curioso Pip The Gentleman \| The Male Model Over 50 Years If you thought that being a model was a young business, then you are wrong. A mature Englishman " Philip Pip "managed to become a ... Corpus Museum \| The Human body museum Alica Schmidt \| The Most Beautiful Athlete In The World Lee Jin Seo \| Korean Girl With Cute Face and Scary Body Bodybuilder Doctor Shocked By Her Physique \| Yuan Herong Interesting facts about calculators The Dragon Paws Chickens of Dong Tao Incredible leg length of a Swedish fitness model Ia Ostergren Best Drone Photography Of 2020 Muscular Barbie Yeon Woo Jhi Surrealist Photomontage By Monica Carvalho Blog Archive October (5) September (21) August (36) July (25) June (22) May (26) April (36) March (8) February (19) January (50) December (51) November (2) February (4) January (55) December (30) November (5) July (5)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1627
__label__wiki	0.824038	0.824038	Yes, a parliamentary saint James Garrard warms to William Wilberforce by William Hague Insider knowledge: the author and MP William Hague, right; and William Wilberforce in 1794 by Karl Anton Hickel WILLIAM WILBERFORCE must rank as one of the most remarkable Christians ever to give his life to public service. Any opportunity to remind ourselves of the higher motivations that can counter-balance the low skulduggery of politics is welcome. Nearly all substantial reviews of this book make the same point: William Hague brilliantly conveys an insider’s feel for parliamentary machinations, and of Wilberforce the man of faith in that environment. Hague is unfailingly respectful of the Evangelical faith that sustained Wilberforce. He can be savage about other parts of the Church of England. Wilberforce was born in 1759: he encountered Methodism from his aunt and uncle — to his mother’s utter disgust. He was elected MP for Hull at 21, after idling at Cambridge, and became a close friend of William Pitt the Younger. William Hague is obviously impressed at how good Wilberforce was at maintaining good relations with those from whom he differed, without compromising his principles. One immediately realises (as with every public figure who garners this reputation) that this was the result of canniness and toughness, not weakness. A few hated him. William Cobbett the radical thought him a loathsome hypocrite who did not care about British workers. HAGUE explains excellently Parliament before the rise of modern political parties, and Wilberforce’s place as an independent member. Wilberforce became a convinced Evangelical in 1785, influenced by the writing of Doddridge and the promptings of Isaac Milner. He took on an entirely new and rigorous approach to life, and bitterly regretted the wastrel days. He resolved to live frugally, and, though outwardly still the most amenable of men, and much desired for his company, exhibited the classic conviction of his own sinfulness. It was Pitt the Younger who, though uneasy at the conversion, encouraged Wilberforce to live out his faith in active political service. The Revd John Newton was also aware of the good that he could do, and urged him not to cut himself off from his friends. In the end, Wilberforce accepted that providence had placed him where he was. There was no time to lose. HIS FIRST campaign was to reform manners — so horrified was he by the extent of prostitution and crime. Although he would dearly have liked to see many public entertainments closed down, “his idealistic objectives were always pursued by means which took into account practical and political constraints,” Hague says. The tale of Wilberforce’s untiring annual efforts to get the slave trade banned, and his excoriation of those who supported such an appalling practice is told very well. Characters emerge who are as fascinating as those in a novel. Egos are to the fore: Thomas Clarkson travelled thousands of miles around the country, describing the appalling conditions in which slaves were kept on board ships. He liked to think himself the leader of the campaign: Wilberforce’s sons certainly disagreed with that. Wilberforce faced vituperative criticism from those who had vested interests in sustaining the trade. The French Revolution of 1789 caused such a shock to the governing classes that it seriously delayed abolition. Ever closer to like-minded friends, he was the leading light among the “Saints” in Parliament, and at the hub of the Clapham Sect, with a house which was thronged with friends and fellow believers. He published A Practical View in 1797, which laid bare his opinion of the difference between “almost” and “altogether” Christians. Certainly he believed that the truth and logic of his beliefs were overwhelming. Despite relentless effort, though, the prize of abolition seemed as distant as ever at the turn of the century. The Bill for Abolition of the Slave Trade finally passed in March 1807, to universal acclaim. Then, immediately after this towering success, Wilberforce had to fight the most arduous campaign of his career to remain an MP. He won. He had a huge moral influence on the House of Commons, even as a young member. When the Duke of York’s tenure as Commander in Chief of the Army hung in the balance, it was Wilberforce’s speech that forced him to resign. THERE IS always the danger with such a towering figure that we want to claim him as one of us. But he was a man of his time, and his attacks on Hinduism, and his opposition to Catholic Emancipation until 1813 reveal this all too obviously. Wilberforce lived just long enough to know that slavery would be outlawed. The style of William Hague’s book is as attractive as its subject. It is beautifully written, and handles complex themes with clarity. Above all, it goes to the heart of the assurance that Wilberforce’s Christian convictions gave to everything he did, private and public. William Wilberforce: The life of the great anti-slave trade campaigner by William Hague is published by Harper Collins at £9.99 (CT Bookshop £9); 978-0-00-722886-7. The Revd Dr James Garrard is Priest-in-Charge of St Leonard’s, Balderstone, and Warden of Readers for the diocese of Blackburn. WILLIAM WILBERFORCE— SOME QUESTIONS Which of the book’s scenes did you find most memorable? Why did it make an impact on you? How did Wilberforce’s faith inform and influence the campaign against the slave trade? Would a politician today be able to have such a profound influence in the House of Commons? “Surely the principles as well as the practice of Christianity are simple, and lead not to meditation only but to action” (Pitt to Wilberforce, page 70). How does this fit with the teachings of Jesus? If Wilberforce had lived today, how do you think he might go about campaigning against modern social ills? “Religion is still too much a toil to me and not enough of a delight” (page 209). What was at the heart of Wilberforce’s inner struggles? What made him happy, and gave him peace? How far do you think the softly-softly approach contributed to the final victory of the abolitionists after so many previous failures? What other factors helped their success? Which other people, do you think, were most critical to the abolitionists’ success? What did they contribute? Next month's book IN OUR next reading-groups page, on 7 November, we will print extra information about the next book. This is The End of the Affair by Graham Greene. It is published by Vintage at £6.99 (CT Bookshop £6.30); 978-00-9947844-7). In London during the Second World War, Maurice Bendrix, a writer, and Sarah Miles, the wife of a civil servant, embark on an affair, but Sarah breaks off the relationship without warning or explanation. Two years later, Bendrix meets Sarah’s husband, who confides his suspicions that his wife is not being faithful. Bendrix, jealousy aroused, hires a private detective to find out the truth about who or what caused Sarah to end their relationship. The result of the investigation is completely unexpected. The End of the Affair (1951) is believed to be semi-autobiographical. Greene was born in 1904, and educated at Balliol College, Oxford. He began his working life as a sub-editor on The Times, and made a career as a writer, editor, and critic. In 1926, he was received into the Roman Catholic Church. His novels include Stamboul Train (1932), Brighton Rock (1938), and The Power and the Glory (1940). He also wrote short stories, travel books, plays, essays, film scripts, and four books for children. He died in 1991. Books for the next two months: December: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer January: The Hands and Feet of Jesus by Clive Price Questions that have thorny answers Hark to creation groaning Notice board and correction Flowing lines Keeping the argument open with a kiss MusicUKAudio & Video Church Times Bookshop Save money on books reviewed or featured in the Church Times. To get your reader discount: > Click on the “Church Times Bookshop” link at the end of the review. > Call 0845 017 6965 (Mon-Fri, 9.30am-5pm). The reader discount is valid for two months after the review publication date. E&OE Top Comment Keep the stories of faith and freedom alive It has never been more urgent to support democracy — and religion has an important part to play, says Alan Smith Organists and Layworkers We have an exciting opportunity for you to create and drive initiatives to meet the spiritual needs of older folk, including those whose independence and/or social engagement are limited. You will offer them spiritual support, promote their spiritual welfare and recruit, organise, train and encourage a cohort of volunteers, the Anna Friends, to assist you. You will work with churches ecumenically, with existing groups and in the wider community. The Patrons are seeking to appoint an Priest in Charge for the Parish of St John, Burgess Hill, West Sussex. The Lord Chancellor as patron seeks a Team Rector for The West Hereford Team who will build on our existing foundations to strengthen our discipleship and mission. Is God calling you to a church keen to be relevant in a changing culture? The Church Times Archive Read reports from issues stretching back to 1863, search for your parish or see if any of the clergy you know get a mention. FREE for Church Times subscribers.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1632
__label__cc	0.717875	0.282125	An Assessment of Workplace Deviant Behaviours and its Implication on Organisational Performance in a Growing Economy Osibanjo Omotayo Adewale An Assessment of Workplace Deviant Behaviours and its Implicat... Deviant behaviours of employees in organisations have become serious concern in human resources management. The objective of this study is to examine the scope, causes, consequences and managerial strategic approach to various forms of behaviours and attitudes intentionally exhibited by the employees in workplace. The idea is to find out the reasons why employees engage such behaviours. The... Published at Journal of Organizational Psychology Pages 90 - 100 Download 77.17 kB visit (http://www.na-businesspress.com/Subscriptions/JOP/jopsubscription.html) Osibanjo, A. O.; Falola, H. O.; Akinbode, J. O.; Adeniji, A. A. 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He obtained a Doctorate degree of Philosophy in Management at Babes Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania under the scholarship of the Romanian Government in the year 2008. view full profile An Empirical Study of Gender Discrimination and Employee Performance among Academic Staff of Government Universities in Lagos State, Nigeria Impact of Job Environment on Job Satisfaction and Commitment among Nigerian Nurses Job Satisfaction, Task Significance & Value: An Investigation of Relationship among Salesmen in Transition Economy Job Satisfaction and Intention to Leave among Nigerian Salesmen Assessing the Value of International Workers: A Case of Shell as a Multinational in Nigeria Executives Perception of the Impact of Flextime on Organizational Performance: Evidence from the Nigerian Private Sector Determinant of Customer Loyalty and Recommendations to other in the Nigerian Telecommunication Industry Factors Affecting Application of ICT by Managers in the Nigerian Public Sector The Effects of Employee Information Disclosure on Personnel Motivation: A Nigerian Perspective Effective Communication: A Strategic Tool for Managing Organization Conflict, Communication Aspects of Conflicts and Terrorism Organizational Citizenship Behaviour, Hospital Corporate Image and Performance An Investigation into the Factors Affecting Adequate Application of Information and Communications Technology by Managers in the Nigerian Public Sector. 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__label__cc	0.720907	0.279093	»DfE Updates »30th Sept 2020 Updated guidance on the public health arrangements for autumn exams We have updated our guidance on the public health arrangements for autumn exams. This guidance is for school and college senior leaders, heads of exam centres, and staff involved in exam delivery. It sets out the expectation that schools and colleges will run autumn series exams, including schools or colleges who are only open for smaller student groups. We also expect schools and colleges in areas under local restrictions to run exams. This guidance provides information on what schools or colleges should do if: they are located in areas of local restrictions a candidate misses exams in the autumn series a candidate tests positive for coronavirus (COVID-19) This guidance should be read alongside: guidance on schools and colleges’ responsibilities for the autumn exams guidance for households with possible or confirmed coronavirus (COVID-19) infections Remote education webinars for primary and secondary school leaders – today and tomorrow We are offering two school-led webinars on remote education to help share good practice with school leaders in primary and secondary schools. During these webinars school leaders will be sharing what has worked for them in getting their schools set up to deliver remote education. They will last for 45 minutes and presenters will also answer questions from the audience. Schools can attend the webinars using the Microsoft Teams links below: Remote education for primary school leaders – 30 September 2020 at 4pm Remote education for secondary school leaders – 1 October 2020 at 4pm Each webinar is limited to a capacity of 10,000 viewers, however if you are unable to attend, recordings of each webinar will be available to watch after the live events through the Department for Education YouTube channel. Ordering additional coronavirus (COVID-19) tests An online portal is now live for schools and further education providers to order additional coronavirus (COVID-19) test kits if they have run out, or are running out, of their initial 10 kits supplied for use in line with our guidance. You will be able to make a new order for test kits 21 days after you receive a delivery confirmation email telling you that your previous supply of test kits has been sent. These kits are only for those who develop one of the symptoms of coronavirus (COVID-19) and face significant barriers to accessing a test. In particular, they will help schools and colleges get their symptomatic staff who test negative back to work as soon as they feel well enough, to ensure the continuity of education for pupils and students. It is for schools and further education providers to determine how to prioritise the distribution of their test kits in order to minimise the impact of the virus on the education of their pupils or students. The unique organisation number (UON) for ordering new test kits was emailed to schools and further education providers by the Department of Health and Social Care on 16 September. If you have not received your UON you can now look it up using your unique reference number (URN) or your UK provider reference number (UKPRN) or by calling the Test and Trace helpdesk on 119. Your delivery will be made by 4pm, and someone must be on site to receive it. Otherwise, Royal Mail will leave a calling card so that you can arrange re-delivery or collect it from your local sorting office. Tests conducted at a testing site will deliver the fastest results. Individuals must book a test in advance or they will not be given a test. People can also order home test kits to be sent directly to them. These routes remain the primary channels for people displaying coronavirus (COVID-19) symptoms to get a test. Information education settings should have to hand when they call for advice on a positive case Public Health England’s (PHE) dedicated advice service, delivered by NHS Business Services Authority, is available to early years settings, schools, colleges and out of school settings. The service is for those needing support on the action they should take when they have been informed of a confirmed case of coronavirus (COVID-19) in their setting (i.e. a pupil or staff member testing positive). It can be reached by calling the Department for Education coronavirus (COVID-19) helpline on 0800 046 8687 and selecting option 1 to report a positive test within your setting. This option will take you through to a dedicated team of NHS Business Services Authority advisors who will work through a risk assessment with you to identify close contacts, and will inform you what action is needed based on the latest public health advice. Advisors will be responsible for referring more complex cases to the PHE regional health protection team, as necessary, following a triaging of your circumstances during the call. Phone: 0800 046 8687 – option 1 to report a positive test within your setting Opening hours: Monday to Friday from 8am to 6pm Saturday and Sunday from 10am to 4pm When you call for advice, please have the following information to hand relating to the positive coronavirus (COVID-19) case in your setting as you will need to discuss this with the call adviser: the number of positive cases in your setting, whether the person who tested positive is displaying symptoms and if so, the date of the onset of the symptoms (if known) the dates that the person who tested positive was in attendance at the setting so that we can identify if the person was infections whilst on site for key stage 2, 3, 4 and 5, the seating plan for all lessons, and (where relevant) the timetable, for the person who has tested positive. This will help to support identification of close contacts with that person for key stage 2, 3, 4 and 5, if the person who has tested positive is a member of staff, records of any instance of close contact with other members of staff or students if the person who has tested positive is a pupil, records of any definite face to face contact with the individual and details of their friendship group within the setting This dedicated advice service is designed to expand the options available for support to education settings, and we would expect that most education settings would contact this service in the first instance. This approach will free up capacity of PHE’s regional health protection teams to deal with more complex cases and outbreaks. You should continue to inform your local authority of a positive case in your setting. We recognise that some local authorities have put more detailed local arrangements in place for their education settings with their local authority health protection team. Where those local arrangements are available and working, you can continue to receive support through that route to take action in response to a positive case. 3rd Sept 2020	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1645
__label__cc	0.514957	0.485043	Eastern Mediterranean Cruises Eastern Mediterranean Cruise Reviews Palermo (Sicily) to Europe - Eastern Mediterranean Cruise Reviews OverviewReviews Palermo (Sicily) 1 Palermo (Sicily) to Europe - Eastern Mediterranean Cruise Reviews Nice trip Europe - Eastern Mediterranean Overall a pleasant trip. Food was very good and room was nice. Unfortunately we traveled at a time of severe unrest in the Middle East. My wife and I visited Tunis and later that same day they had a riot (Sept 11, ... Sail Date September 2012 Reviews for Other Cruise Ships from Palermo (Sicily) to the Eastern Mediterranean Palermo (Sicily) to the Eastern Mediterranean MSC Divina Cruise Reviews Reviews of Cruises to the Eastern Mediterranean from Other Departure Ports Cruise Reviews for Cruises to the Eastern Mediterranean from Newcastle (England) Cruise Reviews for Cruises to the Eastern Mediterranean from Acapulco Cruise Reviews for Cruises to the Eastern Mediterranean from Tenerife Cruise Reviews for Cruises to the Eastern Mediterranean from Vancouver Cruise Reviews for Cruises to the Eastern Mediterranean from Ancona Reviews from Palermo (Sicily) to Other Destinations Cruise Reviews for Cruises to Europe - All from Palermo (Sicily) Cruise Reviews for Cruises to Europe - Western Mediterranean from Palermo (Sicily) Cruise Reviews for Cruises to Greece from Palermo (Sicily) Cruise Reviews for Cruises to Italy from Palermo (Sicily) Cruise Reviews for Cruises to Mediterranean from Palermo (Sicily)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1652
__label__wiki	0.96849	0.96849	Schutze Dallas Restaurant Directory: Takeout/Delivery/Dine-in Top 100 Dallas Restaurants Openings and Closings 100 Creatives Best Of Dallas®V Readers Choice Poll Dallas' independent source of local news and culture "It's Kind of Like Conjuring a Ghost": George Gimarc's Getting the Edge Crew Back Together Robert Wilonsky \| DFW Music News \| Robert Wilonsky \| June 16, 2009 \| 1:06pm Keep Dallas Observer Free Support the independent voice of Dallas and help keep the future of Dallas Observer free. Back in April we brought word of the KDGE-FM 20th anniversary shindig that George Gimarc's been putting together at the Lakewood Theater without a cent from Clear Channel, which ain't got many pennies left. Well, George called this afternoon to remind us that, yes, the thing's still on and, according to his Web site, filling out with a few familiar faces, among them John Easdale of Dramarama, which headlined the first Edgefest at Starplex at Pearl Jam's request. (Says George, Eddie Vedder was worried folks would leave before the band played, as PJ had yet to perform in a venue that held more than 1,000.) Advance tickets are available through the site; George says buy 'em now, "as they're as cheap as they're gonna be" at this very moment. Oh, and George says he has "loads of Tales from the Edge CDs" available for those who want 'em -- but they only go back as far as the Volume 5-6 two-fer, which features a whole disc's worth of historic DFW punk and new wave (Nervebreakers, The Doo, Telefones, Stick Men with Rayguns, N.C.M., etc.). And the Volume 9-10 double-disc set, featuing previously unreleased New Bos and Buck Pets, is worth owning too. You can get 'em at the reunion, where George expects all the original on-air staffers to show, even those long out of the radio business. "If you can remember them from The Edge, they will be there," he says. "It's kind of like conjuring a ghost." Keep the Dallas Observer Free... Since we started the Dallas Observer, it has been defined as the free, independent voice of Dallas, and we would like to keep it that way. Offering our readers free access to incisive coverage of local news, food and culture. Producing stories on everything from political scandals to the hottest new bands, with gutsy reporting, stylish writing, and staffers who've won everything from the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi feature-writing award to the Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism. But with local journalism's existence under siege and advertising revenue setbacks having a larger impact, it is important now more than ever for us to rally support behind funding our local journalism. You can help by participating in our "I Support" membership program, allowing us to keep covering Dallas with no paywalls. DFW Music News Annual Count of Dallas, Collin County's Homeless Population... Tyler Paper's Fake 'Antifa' Caption Under Photo of Capitol... Democratic State Rep. Chris Turner Calls for Investigating AG... There Are More Solutions to Food Deserts Than Grocery Stores The Dallas Observer may earn a portion of sales from products & services purchased through links on our site from our affiliate partners. ©2021 Dallas Observer, LP. All rights reserved. Join the Observer community and help support independent local journalism in Dallas.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1656
__label__cc	0.739762	0.260238	Andrew P. Chen, M.D., F.A.C.S. On-tat Lee, M.D. Alan S Nakanishi, M.D., F.A.C.S. Julio Narvaez, M.D. Pamela Y. Tsuchiya, M.D. Hana Rha, O.D. Julie Tse O.D. Sylvester Nguyen, O.D Cornea Services Retina Services Cosmetic and Aesthetic Services Delta Eye Medical Group Cataract Center About Cataract Surgery Premium Lens Self-Test What is LASIK? CustomVue LASIK LASIK Self Evaluation Test Refractive Lens Exchange Glaucoma Center Cornea Center DMEK DSEAK Retina Center Eyelid Surgery Center Glaucoma Treatments Glaucoma is a group of eye conditions associated with elevated intraocular pressure (IOP) that can affect newborns to the elderly and as a result of optic nerve damage can cause a gradual loss of peripheral vision and in severe cases, may cause blindness. In the United States, glaucoma is the leading cause of blindness and visual impairment and has been called the “silent thief of sight” because often it causes no symptoms until very late. Sadly, up to half of the more than 3 million Americans that have glaucoma may not be aware that they have it. Patients with the following conditions may be at greater risk for glaucoma: At least 45 years old without regular eye exams A family history of glaucoma African or Asian descent Higher eye pressures Nearsightedness (Myopia) Previous eye injury Use of cortisone and steroid products The best way to detect early signs of glaucoma is through routine eye exams, during which a tonometer may be used to measure the internal pressure of your eyes. At risk patients may require further diagnostic testing including optic nerve imaging and field of vision testing. Fortunately, most glaucoma can usually be controlled and blindness prevented with early detection and treatment. Although there is no cure for glaucoma, the goal is to preserve a patient’s remaining, functional vision. Delta Eye provides all forms of glaucoma treatment at all three of our locations (Stockton, Tracy & Lodi). In mild cases, glaucoma may be treated with prescription eye drops and/or rarely oral medication. If these treatments fail or are not well tolerated, glaucoma laser or surgery maybe required. Although surgery may reduce and lower intraocular pressure and help to prevent further vision loss, it will not reverse vision loss which has already occurred from optic nerve damage. GLAUCOMA SURGERY AT DELTA EYE Delta Eye doctors are equipped with the latest lasers and surgical technologies for effective glaucoma treatments at all our locations including Stockton & Tracy. Surgical alternatives may include: Peripheral Iridectomy Laser Treatment SLT Laser treatment iStent Trabeculectomy Filtering Valve Procedures Peripheral iridectomy is a procedure that involves using laser energy to open a small, full-thickness hole in the peripheral iris to allow a more normalization of fluid pressures and deepening of the anterior chamber of the eye. This is performed on an outpatient basis under topical anesthetic and is most commonly performed for narrow-angle glaucoma. SLT (Selective Laser Trabeculoplasty) and ALT (Argon Lasr Trabeculoplasty) SLT and ALT are advanced laser procedures used to safely and effectively lower intraocular pressure (IOP) by using laser energy to stimulate the eye’s natural mechanism of outflow drainage of aqueous humor thereby lowering IOP. The SLT laser selectively targets pigmented cells in the trabecular meshwork (drainage channels) and because this preserves the surrounding tissue without thermal damage, it is a procedure that can be repeated if indicated. iStent: In cases of mild glaucoma and cataract, a tiny glaucoma bypass drain can be implanted into the eye’s natural drainage channels to improve glaucoma control. This is a type of Minimally Invasive Glaucoma Surgeries, or MIGS Trabeculectomy (filtration surgery) is the most common type of glaucoma surgery. During the procedure, a small piece of tissue in the drainage angle of the eye is removed to create a new opening to relieve high pressure within the eye by enabling more efficient fluid drainage. The opening is partially covered with a flap of scleral tissue (white part of the eye) and the clear conjunctiva (skin-like tissue covering the sclera). This new opening allows proper fluid drainage by bypassing the trabecular meshwork (internal tiny channels responsible for fluid drainage) which can become clogged in some patients with glaucoma. After surgery, a small bubble known as a bleb is created as the fluid drains through the new opening. By observing the bleb during regular office visits, the eye physician is able to tell whether the fluid is draining properly and keeping the intraocular pressure in a good target range. Filtering valves are generally performed only after a failed trabeculectomy and involves the surgical placement of a valve and tube-like device that helps to enable proper fluid drainage within the eye. This device is placed in the eye against the white sclera and sutured into place under the conjunctiva. A tube is then inserted into the front of the eye over the iris (colored part of the eye) to channel fluid into the valve and then sutured in place. A small patch of donor sclera may also be placed over the tube for additional protection. MONDAY – THURSDAY: 8 AM - 5 PM Stockton Practice 1617 St Mark's Plaza, Suite D (209) 478-2010 LASIK (209) 478-1094 Optical Lodi Practice 521 S Ham Ln, Suite A Tracy Practice 2160 W Grant Line Rd, Suite 100 DELTA EYE MEDICAL GROUP Copyright 2020. All Rights Reserved. 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__label__wiki	0.867318	0.867318	School & Service: Class of 2022 Begins Year by Giving Back by Janelle Hill Aug 22, 2018 Servant leadership is deeply embedded in the culture of DeSales. The Class of 2022 kicked off their college experience by helping others. The largest freshman class in DeSales University’s history is making its mark on campus and the community. The Class of 2022—with an expected 512 students—participated in its first service project, just one day after moving onto campus. The newest Bulldogs chose from four different projects, including transforming plastic bags into plarn mats for the homeless. “They can put [the mats] over their sleeping bags to protect from the rain or on the floor as mats or beds,” says Majenneh Kennedy ’22. “I think it’s really cool because this is something I do at my church all the time.” Summer Hinton ’22 is also no stranger to service. She helped to make reusable feminine hygiene products, which will be donated to the Sisters of Charity in Kolkata, India. “I am really glad that service is part of it,” Hinton says. “I always got involved with my church back home so I’m glad I can do it here too.” Students also made decorations and games for the Special Olympics Pennsylvania Eastern Fall Sectional, which will be held on the DeSales campus on October 14, and they made flash cards, gifts, and welcome back banners for local schools where DeSales students tutor.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1661
__label__wiki	0.910908	0.910908	Thursday Look Ahead: Jobless Claims in Focus as Earnings Swing Higher Published Thu, Apr 22 201012:24 PM EDT Updated Fri, Sep 13 20134:33 PM EDT Patti Domm@in/patti-domm-9224884/@pattidomm Weekly jobless claims should get more attention than usual Thursday, after two weeks of backtracking. Claims are expected to come in at 450,000, after last week's disappointing 484,000. The Labor Department has blamed the higher numbers on seasonal factors, including the Easter holidays, and Thursday's report could be similarly affected. "If we have three weeks in a row of jobless claims closer to 500,000 than 400,000, it really could put some doubt in people's minds," said Boris Schlossberg of GFT Forex. "If equities sell off, it could be dollar positive..The critical question is whether (the recovery's) sustainable." The latest jobless claims data, while volatile, has not, in the minds of some traders, confirmed the March jobs report, which showed an increase in non farm payrolls of 162,000. That employment report, together with a string of improving economic reports, has injected a sense of confidence about the recovery into markets. Yet, consumer sentiment readings have sagged. Richard Bernstein of Richard Bernstein Capital Management says jobless claims are one of the most important indicators he watches. "If jobless claims continue to improve, this bull market will continue," he said, in a recent interview. Bernstein also says the bears will come roaring back if there's a serious, extended reversal. Producer price inflation data is also reported at 8:30 a.m., when the jobless claims data is released. Existing home sales data is another big report for markets, when it is released at 10 a.m. FHFA home price data is also released at 10. Stocks were little changed Wednesday, after trading in a tight range most of the day. The S&P 500 was down 1 at 1205, while the Dow was up 7, at 11,124. Some individual stocks, however, were standouts as earnings news propelled them. Apple was 6 percent higher, EMC was 2.3 percent higher, and Boeing was nearly 4 percent higher. Earnings will be a big story again on Thursday, when Pepsi, Nokia, Blackstone, Continental Airlines, Verizon, AutoNation, Diamond Offshore, Marriott, Sherwin-Williams, Raytheon, Hershey, Kimberly-Clark, Union Pacific and Textron report ahead of the bell, along with dozens of other major names. Amazon.com, American Express, Microsoft and Chubb report in the afternoon. U.S. Companies Reporting Thursday As of Wednesday morning, 98 S&P 500 companies had reported, and 85 percent of those had better than expected earnings, while 66 percent beat revenue estimates, according to Thomson Reuters. Harris Private Bank Chief Investment Officer Jack Ablin said typically 66 percent of companies beat earnings estimates, on a historical basis. Ablin says earnings are helping the market, which still has a ways to run. He sees another 10 percent move higher before the market pulls back in the second half. "It continues to battle bad news during the day and then ends the day higher," he said. He expects the market to hit a snag if the Fed signals it is getting closer to raising rates, some time in the second half. He said this could be the case after several months of much improved jobs data. Ablin said the market in the near term may not react well to financial regulatory reform, which is winding its way through the legislative process. Democratic Senators could move Thursday on a procedural step towards legislation, as they continue negotiating toward a compromise with Republicans. The Senate Agriculture Committee, meanwhile, voted Wednesday for a bill that would require most derivatives trades to go through exchanges or clearing houses; eliminates swap trading at banks and adds new oversight to the derivatives market. President Obama, meanwhile, takes his campaign for regulatory reform to lower Manhattan, where he will speak just before noon. "If the market can battle through that, that'll be a huge plus, a huge milestone," said Ablin. Financials have had a series of set backs in the past few days, though good earnings reports have helped counter that. The stock market initially sold off when the SEC announced fraud charges against Goldman Sachs Friday, but it has since drifted higher. "It doesn't sound like it's a solid enough case to bring down the firm but it could tarnish its reputation," Ablin said. Financial stocks Wednesday were among the three weakest performing sectors. The S&P financial sector was down 0.5 percent. Health care, meanwhile, was the worst performer, declining 1.8 percent on concerns new regulations will hurt the industry's profits. Gilead and Abbott both cut their full year outlooks, citing health care reform. Ablin said health care is a sector he is watching. "If health care started to move, I'd get interested, but unfortunately they keep getting cheaper. Health care relative to its peers is the cheapest it's been in a decade," he said. "The only problem with that is cheap markets can get cheaper," he said. In the S&P 500, more than 70 stocks made new highs Wednesday. Many of those stocks, ranging from Boeing, Honeywell, Wells Fargo, Northrop Grumman and United Technologies are trading at 2008 prices. However, several were at highs last seen at the start of the decade. Those names include BMC, Citrix, and Altera. Apple is an all time high, since its IPO in December, 1980, and Amazon.com is also trading at the highest level since it went public in 1997. S&P Stocks Hit Highs Ablin said the recession has been a time of shakeout for companies. "In many respects, this downturn has been cathartic for companies. It allows the survivors to thrive," he said, pointing to Best Buy versus its now out-of-business rival, Circuit City. What Else To Watch Greece is talking to the IMF, EU officials and the ECB about a rescue package. Yields on the Greek 10-year jumped to a high above 8.25 percent Wednesday. "What the market is skittish about is that there isn't the unified political force that will provide a long term solution to this," said Schlossberg. He said the EU has been willing to lend to Greece, but at "loan shark" rates. He also said the markets will be watching PMI data from Europe Thursday. "We have PMI manufacturing and services data. it gives you the latest snapshot of economic activity in the euro zone," he said. Questions? Comments? Email us at Coca-Cola Co Delta Air Lines Inc Altaba Inc	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1664
__label__wiki	0.556421	0.556421	Target's same-store sales up 17% over the holidays as it holds on to some of its pandemic gains Published Wed, Jan 13 20216:30 AM EST Updated Wed, Jan 13 20219:46 AM EST Melissa Repko@melissa_repko Target's comparable sales rose 17.2% over the holidays as e-commerce sales more than doubled in November and December. Home goods were popular, with same-store sales up in the low-20% range compared with a year earlier. The big-box retailer must prove it can hold on to market share gains as Americans get vaccinated and feel more comfortable returning to malls. Target’s holiday sales rose 17%, e-commerce sales more than doubled Target said Wednesday comparable sales rose 17.2% in November and December, as customers bought matching pajamas and gingerbread house kits to celebrate a cozy holiday at home during the pandemic. While online sales remained robust, shoppers also visited Target's stores and spent more money per purchase than they did last holiday season. Combined transactions in Target stores and on its website rose 4.3% and average tickets grew by 12.3% year over year, the company said. Target shares, which have a market value of about $100 billion, were recently trading down about 1% on Wednesday morning. Earlier, shares were higher, and touched an all-time high of $199.96. The stock has gained nearly 60% over the past year. Stifel analyst Mark Astrachan said Target's strong holiday sales surpassed consensus estimates, but the market's reaction was muted because investors already had heightened expectations for the company's performance. The pace of Target's sales growth slowed slightly compared with the gains it logged in fiscal third quarter and underscored the challenge that Target faces in the quarters ahead. As more Americans get vaccinated, the company will have to prove it can hold on to market share gains it made during the pandemic, even as consumers feel more comfortable making numerous trips to smaller stores or returning to malls. In a research note, Astrachan said he expects the retailer will be able to keep up its e-commerce gains because its same-day services like curbside pickup save customers time. The pandemic may permanently change the cadence of the holiday shopping season, too. Target said its stores will be closed on Thanksgiving Day 2021. The retailer had opted to remain closed last Thanksgiving due to the health crisis. To spread out sales and thin crowds, Target began sales weeks before Thanksgiving, which previously had been the starting line for the search for gifts and stocking stuffers. It also put more of its deals online. Target said comparable digital sales more than doubled in November and December compared with the year-ago period, while comparable store sales grew by 4.2%. Target's guidance includes only sales in November and December even though its fiscal fourth quarter won't end until Jan. 31. It will report the full quarter's results on March 2 at a virtual investor day. Ahead of Wednesday's news, analysts surveyed by Refinitiv estimated Target would earn $2.27 per share, after adjustments, on revenue of $26.67 billion. Target has been one of the bright spots in a hard-hit retail industry. It has reported eye-popping sales growth and $6 billion in market share gains as many other retailers have been pummeled by temporary store closures and even filed for bankruptcy during the pandemic. As consumers have limited store trips, they have spent more of their dollars in a handful of places and those have tended to be big-box retailers where they can get a gallon of milk, cleaning supplies and sweatpants all in one stop or all on one website. As in earlier months of the pandemic, Target shoppers continued to use the company's quick and contact-free online options. Its same-day curbside pickup service, Drive Up, grew by more than 500%. Target sales fulfilled by Shipt grew more than 300% during the holidays. Few retailers have reported their holiday sales so far, but Target far outpaced the industry's e-commerce growth. According to Adobe Analytics, U.S. online purchases over the 2020 holidays grew 32.2% from 2019, as more shoppers shopped from home during the pandemic. Target has also made strategic moves that have paid off. It owns Shipt, a same-day home delivery service. It recently added fresh and frozen groceries to curbside pickup, a same-day service that grew by more than 500% over the holidays. And it has expanded the assortment in its food and beverage private label, Good & Gather, with a premium line of gourmet pasta sauces and coffees as people cook more at home. Home goods and hardlines, which include appliances and sporting equipment, were especially popular during the holidays. Both categories saw same-store sales gains in the low-20% range compared with a year earlier. Within hardlines, growth was fueled by electronics sales. Comparable sales of food and beverage rose about 17%, Target said. Beauty and essentials saw growth in the low teens and apparel saw high single-digit gains. Target said family sleepwear sets and Christmas tree ornaments were among its bestsellers. The retailer also sold nearly 2 million of its Wondershop gingerbread houses. Target CEO Brian Cornell: Customers are shopping across multiple categories Coronavirus: Business Discount store and superstore operators Dick's Sporting Goods Inc Target Corp	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1667
__label__wiki	0.556577	0.556577	Book site wars bring price cuts One day after Amazon.com garners $54 million with its initial public offering, another Internet bookstore is slashing its prices. One day after Amazon.com (AMZN) garnered $54 million with its initial public offering, another Internet bookstore is slashing its prices. Book Stacks Unlimited, known as Books.com, is knocking 40 percent off the suggested retail price for all New York Times bestsellers. In addition, it's discounting the majority of the titles in its online database by 15 percent. "We did it in order to have our prices meet the competition," Mary Fair-Taylor, Books.com's director of marketing, said today. The war between online book sellers has electronic commerce spectators transfixed as they wait to see who gets rich and who gets burned. Unlike their brick-and-mortar counterparts, bookstores on the Net make browsing huge inventories simple with search engines and sell at lower prices because they don't have to maintain expensive shelf space. The market got tighter this week after Barnes & Noble opened its cyberdoors. The brand giant kicked of its grand opening by suing Amazon.com, challenging Amazon.com's claim that it is the largest online bookseller. But suing rivals over sales pitches isn't the best way to eliminate the competition, analysts say. Keeping prices down and building an online community is a better tactic. "When you move to the Web, a lot of the traditional factors such as location become moot," said Nicole Vanderbilt, senior analyst for Jupiter Communications. "No matter how nice any one bookseller makes their site, if somebody can undercut their prices, they're probably going to lose some business," she added. Barnes & Noble dressed up its site by holding almost daily chat sessions with authors and by printing book reviews, commentary, and book excerpts, some with audiovisual effects. Another potential big player that will soon enter the arena is Borders Books. No launch date is set, but visitors will be able to search its inventory, ask staff questions, chat with authors and musicians, and buy books, music, videos, and new media products. "Bookselling is really flourishing on the Web because the products are a known quantity, so people aren't as afraid to buy remotely," Vanderbilt said. "But it's going to be hard for Amazon.com to compete with a household name like Barnes & Noble." Others say Amazon.com will fare fine against the physical world's top sellers, especially after its impressive IPO and online brand power. "Companies other than Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, and Borders are not going to survive," said Bill Bass, senior analyst for Forrester Research. He said one advantage Amazon.com has over the big "Bs" is that more than 9,000 Web sites link Amazon.com within their book reviews and other content. "They have thousands of storefronts woven into the fabric of the Internet. Barnes & Noble and Borders will have a hard time recreating that." But, he added, "There is going to be huge price pressure on Amazon.com from Barnes & Noble and Borders because of the power those companies have with suppliers. They buy books in bulk at lower costs and can pass on those savings over online." As for companies like Books.com, Bass said, "Amazon.com is the only exclusively online bookstore that is going to end up mattering." His comments aren't deterring Books.com, however. The site has pushed books over the Web since October 1994 and has even turned a profit for the 30-person company. The vendor also started a frequent buyer club in which members pay an annual fee of $29.95 to receive 30 percent off about 350,000 titles. "Our main strategy is to base our business model on a membership model," Fair-Taylor said. "We'll offer our books at the lowest price possible and generate profit based on membership revenue." Book Stacks Unlimited is owned by CUC International, a membership-based consumer services company with approximately 66.3 million consumers worldwide. Discuss: Book site wars bring price cuts	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1668
__label__wiki	0.646371	0.646371	“Rhode Island ERS Sues Pinterest Over Culture of Discrimination,” Pensions & Investments Rhode Island Employees' Retirement System, Providence, is suing Pinterest Inc. executives and board members, claiming they fostered a culture of discrimination and retaliation that also hurt its financial success. The lawsuit filed Nov. 30 in U.S. District Court in San Francisco is supported by the $2 billion Ohio Laborers' District Council and Contractors' Pension Fund, Westerville. The $8.5 billion Rhode Island pension fund charges that Pinterest's top executives and board members "personally engaged in, facilitated or knowingly ignored the discrimination and retaliation against those who spoke up and challenged the company's white, male leadership clique. As a result of defendants' illegal misconduct, the Company's financial position and its goodwill and reputation among its largely female user base (which Pinterest's success depends upon) were harmed and continue to be harmed," the complaint said. Rhode Island Treasurer Seth Magaziner said in an emailed statement that "the Pinterest board's deference to a culture of sexism and systemic discrimination has impaired Pinterest's value and the value of the system's investment in Pinterest. The lawsuit charges Pinterest officials, including board Chairman and CEO Ben Silbermann, co-founder and board member Evan Sharp, and Chief Financial Officer Todd Morgenfeld with breaching their fiduciary duty, wasting corporate assets, abusing control and violating proxy solicitation disclosure rules. Rhode Island ERS is seeking corporate governance reforms and to have Pinterest executives and board members pay for the damages related to the alleged breaches of fiduciary duties. "We are bringing this action to meaningfully reform corporate governance at Pinterest and ensure this misconduct is addressed," Mr. Magaziner said. The lawsuit also references Pinterest's dual-class share structure. After its initial public offering in April 2019, shares held by co-founders and pre-IPO stockholders were reclassified to give them most of the voting power, which the company noted in its 2019 10-K "limits or precludes other stockholders' ability to influence corporate matters." The complete article can be viewed here. Molly J. Bowen Laura H. Posner Julie G. Reiser Lyzette M. Wallace Pinterest Stockholder Derivative Action	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1670
__label__wiki	0.627269	0.627269	Digital transformation of companies Combis Case study ComEnergy How did we implement the CALL FROM TEAMS service in Combis? After a long time, the paradigm of using fixed telephony changes. The change is big, but not complex, on the contrary, it will simplify use and change the way a desk phone is perceived – there is no need for it anymore! Because we have Microsoft Teams! Starting point – why have we decided to implement this service? Combis has been cooperating successfully with Microsoft for many years, continuously expanding its portfolio of services and solutions based on Microsoft technology, and when Microsoft announced an extension of Teams platform functionality called Direct Routing, which allows calls from Teams, a team of experts for Unified Communications solutions from Combis immediately became interested in the service and set out to study all the functionalities of the solution. The best way to get to know a solution in depth and to find out about all the advantages and pitfalls that the implementation of such a solution brings with it, is internal application, the so-called ‘in-house’ experience, especially if it is a complex implementation that requires continuous feedback from colleagues working with the solution. Microsoft Teams, as a collaboration tool, has been actively used in Combis for several years, and this upgrade was an opportunity for Microsoft Teams to further evolve and take on the role of a complete Unified Communications solution. All the reasons for implementation are on the table, the decision has been made – now, what’s next? Some of the initial preconditions for implementation within Combis were: certified Session Border Controller (SBC) by Microsoft SIP trunk with a telephone service provider physical infrastructure which includes: sufficient data center resources quality of service at the network level configuration of MS Teams in O365 service supervision and redundancy The initial situation in Combis was as follows: About 300 numbers / telephone connections… MS Skype for Business and Cisco Call Manager Combination of E5 and E3 Microsoft licenses “What means the most to me is that it’s easier for me to do work while I’m out of the office or on a business trip. No matter where I am, in a hotel room, or at the airport, on a park bench or a terrace, as long as I have internet access, I am available to everyone in the same way as if I were sitting in my office.” Andrej Anđelić, ICT Sales Manager, Hrvatski Telekom “Since I spend more than half of my working day ‘on the phone’, I was literally thrilled with Call From Teams. I don’t have to constantly pick up the phone, type in numbers, it may sound like I’m a little bit spoiled, but it’s only now that I see how much little things can cheer a person up. Thank you colleagues, you have definitely made my business days better.” Zorica Crnčić, Secretary of the Management Board, Combis Implementation in 5 steps: MS Teams configuration in O365 Firewall configuration for SBC connectivity with MS Teams cloud service Oracle SBC installation and configuration for SIP trunk reception from telecommunications service provider Connecting SBC with MS Teams Tenant Detailed testing and troubleshooting Find out all about the service Call From Teams How did we overcome the challenges? After the successful establishment of the first call to the fixed line, the team of experts working on the implementation was not completely satisfied with some functionalities that were not at a satisfactory level, such as putting the interlocutor on hold, transfering calls to another number, redirection…. “The problems we encountered were different, from breaking a call during transmission, one-way audibility when transferring a call, returning a call from hold, misrepresenting a calling number, interrupting a call when setting up a teleconference,… Each of these and other minor problems after mass implementation can become a big problem and the user can very quickly lose the will to use the service, which would cast a big shadow on the effort and raise doubt for implementing the service. We knew that we had to eliminate all problems and overcome all challenges. Our goal was for every aspect of fixed telephony to work perfectly”, said Darijo Puntarić, the engineer who worked on the project, and added: “After a long period of solving even the smallest problems, we could finally say – it works! We can go on with the mass implementation!” Until now, most of these implementations required having on-premises infrastructure, which many companies refused because the implementation costs did not stop at the costs of equipment and services of the system integrator, but also included the costs of infrastructure storage in the data center. With the CALL FROM TEAMS service there is no need for having your own infrastructure! Still hesitant? Maybe you are not ready for a complete transition to MS Teams and still want to keep your own PBX infrastructure for part of the business? No worries, our solution allows you to connect your existing PBX system to MS Teams platform for voice communication and calling. “Microsoft has previously offered calls to fixed telephony in its portfolio as its service, the so-called Microsoft Calling Plans, but only for a limited part of the market. Since this option is not available for Europe, we decided to test Direct Routing and very quickly became aware of the benefits of the new solution”, said Darijo Puntarić, System Engineer Specialist from Combis. “MS Teams is becoming the central application of the smart workplace, whether you work from the office or from home, but one of the functionalities that was constantly excluded from all smart systems for integrating work environment tools was fixed telephony, but fortunately, it is now a thing of the past, and our CALL FROM TEAMS service is the best proof of that”, points out Jasmin Baborac, Head of the Business Solutions Department for Unified Communications in Combis. Feel free to contact us for even more information, we love to talk about the benefits of our service! Enter your name and surname 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia Email: combis@combis.hr Tel: +385 (0) 1 3651 222 Fax: +385 (0) 1 3651 251 © Copyright Combis, usluge integracija informatičkih tehnologija, d.o.o., 2020 Our website uses cookies to provide you with the best experience possible. By continuing your visit on our site, you agree to the use of cookies. You can find information about the cookies we use or options for turning off cookies in settings. Cookies are small text files that are stored on visitor's computer by the websites visited. Cookies are widely used to provide website functionality, or to make the website even more efficient, and are also used to provide certain information to website owners. Find out more about cookie combis.hr web site uses in our Cookie Policy. Necessary cookies provide key functionalities on combis.hr website. 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__label__wiki	0.794469	0.794469	X-Universe >> View Post The Black Guardian Location: Paragon City, RI Evil G:DR Subj: Re: Someone always has to die. That's the law around here. Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2014 at 09:02:02 am EDT (Viewed 120 times) Reply Subj: Re: Someone always has to die. That's the law around here. Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 at 08:14:18 pm EDT (Viewed 134 times) > > But even back in those days, there was still the notion that you could kill off a lower-tier superhero and they might actually stay dead. If you killed off a civilian supporting-cast character, they were probably going to stay dead. And, looking at the characters you named, Cypher was killed in response to fan-demand. Magik died because her story could only really end one of three ways; she becomes a monstrous villain, she 'fixes' herself and in doing so loses everything that makes the character who she is, or she dies. > I disagree completely. She could easily have transcended that and become a better character for it. And in turn, I disagree with you completely. It would be like taking away Blade's vampirism, Nightcrawler's unhuman appearance, or Rogue's inability to control her powers (........wait a minute...), if you fix all of a character's problems either their story is over, or you have to find them new problems to keep them interesting, and the new ones are less likely to be as compelling. If characters aren't overcoming their problems, they're worthless. Magik's demonic taint is nothing like Nightcrawler's appearance. His appearance is part of who he is. That isn't what his problem is. Magik's demonic taint was forced upon her. It's something added to her character for her to overcome. And we probably won't see eye to eye on Rogue. She is lightyears better having control of her powers than she was. I just wish she still had the Ms. Marvel powers. > > The trouble with resurrecting characters for those purposes is that you have to put in all the time and effort to bring the character back, for the sake of them being able to star in a book that isn't likely to last long, with or without them. Was there really any point to the Necrosha crossover beyond "bringing back Cypher so her can be in New Mutants"? (and of all the dead characters we saw again in Necrosha, surely everyone here can think of at least 10 other characters we'd rather have back. Even if you just listed Maggott ten times, you're still right). > I'm no Cypher fan, but he would still have probably made my Top 10 characters to deserve a resurrection in 2009. Over everyone else who showed up in Necrosha? Really? No, not over everyone else resurrected in Necrosha. But he would have made my Top 10 most deserving. Of the Necroshan technozombies, I think only Banshee and Darkstar would be over him. Cypher being the only one to come back is a slap in the face to every fan of Caliban, Maggott, Banshee, Fabian Cortez, Unus, Thunderbird 1 and Fat Harry Leland. Ugh... a list of my least favourites, except for Banshee. Especially that Cortez traitor. And I AM a Maggott Fan! I still believe he's not really and truly dead (regardless of Necrosha). One of his slugs was being kept alive by Sinister. Keep Hope Alive, Maggoteers! That the Necrosha crossover just randomly decided that Shinobi Shaw and a load of the Acolytes had just died off-panel some time ago, and they're not coming back either, just made it even worse. Dying off panel was probably the best thing most of those Acolytes ever did. > > Can anyone truly argue that the last New Mutants book would have tanked sooner without Magik and Cypher? It's like bringing Jean back because the X-Factor lineup needed her, taught everyone the wrong lessons about bringing characters back, and subjected us to resurrections not many people were vocally demanding, and of characters who would often be right back in limbo within a year or two anyway, so may as well have been dead still. > X-Factor taught us no such thing with Jean. It taught us that if you're going to go to the lengths to bring a dead character back, giving them a starring role in a book that's going to last more than 2 years goes some way to suggest that there was a need for them to be back, because they were an important part of all those stories that someone had wanted to tell. That _IS_ an important lesson, and no-one really learned it. Well, Colossus had a starring role in a book that lasted longer than two years... okay, it took two years to get through one bloody arc. But... Cypher too. > People had been demanding Magik and Cypher back for decades. There was demand, yes, there always is when a character is killed off, but in those two cases, it had died down long ago, there was no huge vocal demand for it, and they'd both been gone so long, and the world had carried on without them, that there was no pressing need or demand for it. It never died off. It dwindled, like the rest of fandom. See also: Marvel bringing back Blink after fan-demand for it had died down. Blink's an odd thing. The dead version never was as cool as the really popular version. At the absolute least, it would have made sense to launch the New Mutants book first, see how it sold, and see if there was demand amongst the readers to bring back the deadies, before doing so, rather than treating them being back as a necessity before the book could even start. > Heck, Doug's death in the first place earn Simonson a lot of "fanemies." Well, that death seems to have been a predecessor of the 2004 Hawkeye death, in terms of "a lot of people vocally started caring about him only after he was killed off", with added funny irony over the fact that he'd been killed off because the fans that were writing to Marvel vocally hated him enough to convince them to kill him. That's not true at all... of Cypher or Hawkeye. Hawkeye's been one of the most popular Avengers since before either of us was born. Bendis knew this at the time, which is kind of why he "killed" him off. It was one of his attempts to "break Teh IntarWebs." > No question Nightcrawler had gone down some horrible paths. Colossus too. The correct response to this is for writers to stop doing it, not killing the characters. Well, yes, "stop writing crap comics" is always a good plan. But I stand by the point that if a character has been a mainstay in a team book for years, but either a) no-one's done anything of note with them in years, even decades, or b) the only things of note done with them in many years, were all terrible, then that probably IS a character you can kill off, or at least "retire", and get away with it. It's not the character that's the problem; it's the writer(s). > Writers not knowing what to do with him doesn't suggest he wasn't needed back. Needed? Don't confuse "you miss him" with "he's needed". Iceman's one of my favourite X-Men, and he's also had years of just...being there, and I wouldn't for a moment delude myself that they couldn't go on without him, or that he'd be "needed back" if he was gone. What had Colossus brought to the table over a couple of decades of just being there, that was suddenly absent from the X-Men once he was gone? Of all the charges you can hurl at the Casey/Morrison/Claremont books of 2001-4, "Colossus wasn't there for any of it" isn't really going to make the list. I'm not confusing anything of the sort. Characters are the vital resource. Just because a writer doesn't know what to do with a character doesn't suggest a lack of need, just a lack of vision. If a writer can't think of something to do with a character, that's a failure of the writer, not the character. And we'll never know. Morrison wanted to have Colossus around, but couldn't because "some writer" stupidly killed him. He was replaced with Diamond Emma Frost. A great deal of my dislike of Morrison's run had a lot to do with his Emma. > > When the Spider-Man books brought back Aunt May in 1998, despite no demand for it, and her death being an acclaimed and beloved issue, I think that really marked the point where, if even civilian characters could come back from being Very Dead, and if Marvel were bringing back characters that the fans wanted to stay dead, we were living in an era where "death in comics" was utterly meaningless. With that in mind, yes, you have a strong argument for not bothering to kill anyone. > > But on the other hand, it's all in the quality of how well it's done, isn't it? > Apparently not. Aunt May's return proves this. Not really. I don't remember many people really warming up to the idea of her being alive again until about 4 years later when JMS had her learn that Peter was Spidey. Until then, the sum total of "things done with her to justify her coming back" were "Aunt May gets a new haircut". That was my point. > > But on the other hand, it's all in the quality of how well it's done, isn't it? And if no-one ever died and there was no sense that anyone was in any actual danger, there'd be no sense of threat, nothing really at stake in any of the super-battles. So it's not "stop doing that", it's "do better". > That's never been a good argument, but yes, "do better" and that means "stop doing that." Other, better writers do. In terms of "ongoing serial fiction where people are fighting all the time and trying to kill each other, but no-one actually ever dies", the writers who are doing that would presumably be working on children's cartoons. Stopping all deaths in comics would be absurd. I'm not saying "no one." But in most popular fiction this is the case, not just children's cartoons. City of Heroes is BACK! Posted with Mozilla Firefox 28.0 on Windows 8 Amazing X-men, do you guys accept this outcome? [Spoilers] · Silver · Wed Mar 26, 2014 at 05:50:19 pm EDT This is why killing characters is almost always stupid [Spoilers] · H Man · Fri Mar 28, 2014 at 05:50:45 pm EDT Someone always has to die. That's the law around here. [Spoilers] · Evil G:DR · Mon Mar 31, 2014 at 07:35:21 pm EDT Re: Someone always has to die. That's the law around here. [Spoilers] · The Black Guardian · Thu Apr 03, 2014 at 07:21:44 am EDT Re: Someone always has to die. That's the law around here. [Spoilers] · Evil G:DR · Mon Apr 07, 2014 at 08:14:18 pm EDT Re: Someone always has to die. That's the law around here. [Spoilers] · The Black Guardian · Tue Apr 08, 2014 at 09:02:02 am EDT Re: Someone always has to die. That's the law around here. [Spoilers] · Evil G:DR · Sun Apr 20, 2014 at 09:46:10 pm EDT Re: Someone always has to die. That's the law around here. [Spoilers] · H Man · Wed Apr 02, 2014 at 02:28:56 pm EDT Re: Someone always has to die. That's the law around here. 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__label__wiki	0.847492	0.847492	BASW to join national college group after all By Kirsty McGregor on January 15, 2010 in Adults, Children, Workforce The British Association of Social Workers will join the development group for a national college of social work despite its initial concerns about government interference. BASW had been considering pulling out of talks to develop the national college because it was in danger of becoming “another quango”, chief executive Hilton Dawson said last week. The former Labour MP said the start-up funding of £5m offered by the government for the college came with “strings attached”. But when BASW council members met on Wednesday, they voted to accept the invitation to help develop the college. Dawson said: “We are still sceptical [about the government’s involvement in the college] but we looked at the various options and decided to engage rather than go off and do something else. We want to make sure social workers are represented from the beginning.” Acting chair Fran Fuller said: “Every one of BASW’s rapidly expanding membership is going to be involved in ensuring that social work will change.” BASW has 12,350 members. A spokesperson for BASW added: “BASW staff will work alongside Scie [the Social Care Institute of Excellence, which is convening the development group] to insist that the college is powerful enough to set entry standards, accredit continued professional development, license employers and set standards for licensing social workers.” She said BASW would “insist” the Social Work Reform Board reported directly to the college, and that the college development group was chaired by a social worker. The Social Work Task Force, which published its 15 recommendations for improving the profession in England in December, called for a national college after finding the sector lacked a single focus of responsibility for promoting social work, improving public understanding, spreading best practice and driving up standards. BASW ponders its role in social work college talks BASW chair Tim Chittleburgh steps aside after allegation What form should a national social work college take? News round-up: loan sharks; Tories want more disabled MPs; family spending falls Working with mental capacity advocates	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1674
__label__cc	0.5227	0.4773	Our Plant Doing the right thing for Digital Specialty Chemicals Succeeding by Failing: The Secret of Ultimate Achievement “It’s not about ‘what can I accomplish?’’’ writes Brené Brown,” but ‘what do I want to accomplish?’” Brown, one of my favourite writers, describes the process I went through when considering the future of Digital Specialty Chemicals. In 2014, I made a deliberate decision about what I wanted to accomplish for Digital Specialty Chemicals versus what I could accomplish. Since founding the company over 30 years ago, DSC had grown from a small team of bench chemists to a 25 million enterprise, with products serving global markets for specialty and fine chemicals. The company was a success, and its future bright. But looking ahead, there were many choices open to DSC as to the kind of company it could be. It was then I attended a conference at Harvard on deliberately developmental organizations. Inspired by the speaker, global expert Kazimeirz “Kaz” Gozdz, I set a goal directly tied to what was important to me: transform DSC into a deliberately development organization with a triple bottom line. [http://helixgroupllc.com/?page_id=16] By changing “can I accomplish” to “want to accomplish”, the goal I set for the company focused on what mattered to me in terms of what I most valued. Understanding the triple bottom line company Triple bottom line companies operated with 3 distinct yet interconnected priorities: people, planet and profits. None exist independently; each in turn, provides momentum to the next. • People: A triple bottom line organization ensures that its operations benefit the company’s employees as well as the community where it conducts business. This first “pillar” holds up the importance of helping employees find value in their work by developing their potential through education and ways to become better human beings. • Planet: Triple bottom line companies are committed to environmentally sustainable business practices, achieved by maximizing benefits while minimizing detriments. DSC ha always had the highest systems in place, (including ISO 14001 quality environmental standards). But this second pillar means a commitment to continually look for ways to surpass current measures and innovations. • Profits: Profits are always connected to the economic and social impacts of what a company does. By emphasizing the profits pillar, the company then has ability to reinvest in the other two pillars—social and environmental. I set a goal directly tied to what was important to me: transform DSC into a deliberately development organization with a triple bottom line. Creating a triple bottom line for Digital Specialty Chemicals My goal for transforming DSC into a triple bottom line organization is going to take 5 years. It involves learning on everyone’s part, discipline, openness to change, hard work, and focus. As a first step, we hired the expert I’d met at Harvard to guide us on the change process. For several months, Kaz advised on the transition to a deliberately development organization, and developing a framework for a new company structure. The process also means some serious letting go on my part. As a typical founder/CEO, I’ve been used to being in control. For example, DSC has always had a Board of Directors, but as the major shareholder, I made the decisions. It was “Ravi’s way” and it worked very well for many years. But part way through the transformation, we’ve created a functioning board called an executive council. Each member has an equal voice at the table, responsible for their own decisions based on the priorities set for the company. In order to grow its revenue to $100 million with just 180 employees, DSC requires a significant financial investment. To demonstrate my commitment to this part of the goal, I’ve reinvested a significant amount of my shares back into the company. Triple Bottom Line Supply Chain+1.416.231.2991 x131 dsc_supplychain@entegris.com Customer Service+1.416.231.2991 x171 Accounts Payable+1.416.231.2991 x112 dsc_accountspayable@entegris.com USA+1.603.579.0660 dsc_sales@entegris.com Asia Pacific & Korea Asia Pacific & Korea+82.10.8977.1751 dsc_salesasia@entegris.com Europe+1.603.579.0660 dsc_saleseurope@entegris.com India+1.437.836.3010 dsc_salesindia@entegris.com Headquarters470 Coronation Drive M1E 4Y4, Canada dsc_info@entegris.com DSC DSC DSC DSC AODA Compliance Policy © Copyright 2020. Digital Specialty Chemicals Limited. All rights reserved.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1677
__label__wiki	0.886313	0.886313	Sun Micro Amino Selects Sun's JavaFX TV to enable IPTV Applications Sun Microsystems Announces Amino Communications Has Selected the JavaFX TV Platform to Help Enable Rich, Expressive Set-Top Box Applications for the IPTV Content Community SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) today announced Amino Communications (LSE: AMO), the world’s leading independent IPTV specialists, plans to offer the JavaFX™ TV platform in their next generation IPTV set-top boxes (STBs) to help enable the creation of rich and expressive interactive content by global content authors. Content developers and authors can become part of this community by visiting javafx.com for more information, samples, and the JavaFX SDK. By embracing JavaFX TV, Amino will help enable third-party developers to create a wealth of new, expressive content that combines the use of high quality IP-delivered secure video with the powerful capabilities of the JavaFX platform. Because JavaFX also supports browser, desktop, and mobile, content authors can take those applications beyond TV to target multiple screens and achieve broad consumer and market reach. “There is now a vast global market for developers and content authors who want to deploy rich, expressive applications, services and experiences across the screens of our lives. Amino is well-regarded for its innovation, independence and integration expertise in IPTV and is a natural partner with whom to launch the JavaFX TV platform. JavaFX TV delivers a caliber of user experience that supports and will benefit from Amino’s leadership in quality and innovation,” said Eric Klein, vice president of Java Marketing at Sun. “JavaFX is a fantastic platform on which to develop community applications and we can offer a fully safe environment that protects the core functions of the device without restricting the creativity of the application developer. For the first time, we are able to offer our customers the chance to take advantage of a fast-growing community of third-party application developers,” said Dominique Le Foll, chief technical officer, Amino Communications. JavaFX TV delivers the JavaFX platform’s support for development of rich and expressive interactive content to televisions and set-top boxes. It is built on the same family of Java™ technologies as the Blu-ray Disc standard BD-J, tru2way and other global TV standards, helping to enable developers and content authors to leverage existing skills and tools. Sun continues to strengthen the JavaFX ecosystem by enabling more people to create content across more device types and establishing a channel – the Java Store – for developers and ISVs to directly deploy JavaFX applications to hundreds of millions of worldwide Java technology users. AltoBeam Closed Series C Funding with USVP and Long-Term Investors CableLabs® Providing Software Resources to Grow Tru2way® and ETV Ecosystem and Streamline Interoperability Testing enableTV Offers Support Program for CableLabs® tru2way™ Reference Implementation CableLabs® Releases Software Tools to Enable More Interactive Content On2 Technologies Unveils New Advanced Video Compression Format	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1678
__label__wiki	0.512076	0.512076	swimmer_girl02 swimmer_girl02's Activity (2008) happypug12 added a book review. The Maze Runner (Maze Runner, Book One) After watching the Maze Runner movies, I was interested enough to want to delve into the books, so I began the adventure with this one. We are immediately thrown into the fray, following a kid named Thomas who has no memories, just like every other "shank" in the glade. Dashner creates a mostly fascinating book, with strong characters, and I think he did a good job on it, but it almost feels as if it's missing something. I would say the thing The Maze Runner lacked most of was, as a reader, I somewhat feel a bit detached from the characters. But overall, this was a nice dystopian novel, and I'd recommend to anyone in middle school and above who's looking for a sound read. happypug12 has read this book. The Maze Runner (Book 1) By James Dashner Mysteries in Our National Parks: Wolf Stalker: A Mystery in Yellowstone National Park Wolf Stalker is one of those books that you can't find anything bad to say about, but it's not Newbery award material. It has some charm to it, with somewhat interesting characters with whom you can relate to, accompanied by a nice, stable plot, but it doesn't stand out from the hundreds of thousands of books out there, and it'll probably never think about it now that it's done and read. You're being too harsh, you say, what with the plot being about saving a supposedly-bloodthirsty wolf, uncovering secrets, a grumpy foster kid, and an evil dude, but even with all those features, Wolf Stalker just isn't phenomenal or mind-blowing, although it does have a good message about preserving the world we live in and the animals that live in it with us. I liked it, and I'd say ages elementary through middle school will enjoy it. By Gloria Skurzynski, Alane Ferguson I found Adrift after a desperate search of my library for a book that might heal a bit of the heartbreak from the ending of the Throne of Glass series., and since it was short and had a decent-looking storyline, I grabbed it and started reading. You can't go wrong with a book about five teens stranded at sea with no hope of survival, right? WRONG. Don't get me wrong, I like a fast-paced book, but Adrift was had a blink-and-you'll-miss-it plot. It felt like the author just tossed the story upon you without a second thought for character development. It definitely would have done better as a longer novel. But I have to give Mr. Griffin credit; the story is what it claims to be and nothing less. It was realistic in gristly details and had an ending that just sums up how life goes: The main characters don't always get the girl, not everyone lives, and it's not always just forgive-and-forget. I found Adrift in the teen section, but anyone could read it. It's only 228 pages, so I didn't lose much, but this book didn't leave me feeling like I'd gained anything, either. By Paul Griffin happypug12's book review was featured in Crown of Midnight (Throne of Glass). Crown of Midnight (Throne of Glass) I'm a bit late for this review, since I've already finished chugging through every entrancing page of Queen of Shadows and am soon going to be on to Empire of Storms. You'd think I'd have forgotten all 448 pages of Crown of Midnight, but no. Crown of Midnight continues weaving the enticing web that Ms. Maas begun spinning in the first installment of this series (which I highly recommend you dive into if you haven't already). Celaena is now freed from her toiling in Endovier, but she's still a slave to the vile King. Well, a disobedient slave. She's dancing on a fine line between life and death by sparing and then smuggling her targets out of Rifthold. But her own isn't the only life at risk. When something shocking and horrible comes to pass, Celaena's world is torn apart. As Celaena's bloodlust grows, something else grows with it. Something dark. Since I'm almost done with this whole series, I can promise you that Crown of Midnight is only the beginning of a wondrous, charming, bitter, tear-wrenching series, but as a whole, it will shock you. You're not going to be able to let go long enough to stop reading. Definitely not for elementary age range because of language and sexual innuendo, but teens will LOVE. You've been warned—and encouraged. By Sarah J. Maas happypug12liked a comment in Bodyguard: Recruit. Bodyguard: Recruit This was an excellent, quick, enthralling read. The main character, Connor, was pragmatic, skilled, charming and likable. You could definitely tell the intricate research the author brought into the book. The side characters were all multifaceted and my feelings shifted for them over time. I read the book over a few hours, unable to put it down. I loved reading about the inside world of the White House and the antics of the first daughter. It was impossible to be bored while reading this book. In conclusion, this made an fantastic beginning to what is sure to be a fascinating series. 772 optimus_lover 664 points 773 doctorwhotardis 664 points 775 matthewl1515 663 points 776 swimmer_girl02 662 points 777 glizz 662 points 778 docterstrange 662 points 779 zombiedude 661 points 780 fomaloso-156773974534 661 points	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1681
__label__wiki	0.783545	0.783545	Locations Open. Call now! 941-867-2233 Your Shopping Experience About DutchCrafters DutchCrafters Videos Timber to Table Blog Customer ID: Stain Samples National Doughnut Day with the Amish Baking Company Milca Rivera 01/06/2017 Amish Doughnuts Bonaroo Donut Doughnuts National Doughnut Day Sadie Peachey Sarasota The Amish Baking Company June 5 is National Doughnut Day and with the Amish’s reputation for making the most delicious desserts, we want to introduce you to Amish doughnuts. Sadie Peachey and her brother Nate started The Amish Baking Company in 2007, but the bread and butter, or in the case of Sadie and Nate — the dough — that makes the business has a history that goes back generations. “Before I was born, my grandmother in Pennsylvania would make doughnuts in her front yard,” Sadie says. “Sometimes on Saturday mornings she had her own little market going, and people would just pull in and buy doughnuts.” Sadie and Nate making doughnuts. Photo Credit: The Amish Baking Company Website While Sadie doesn’t remember exactly how old she was the first time she made the doughnut that has acquired a following at events in Florida and festivals around the U.S. (just ask the Georgia family who drove all the way to the Florida State Fair in Tampa, FL because they were craving the fluffy, vanilla-glazed treats), she does remember making them after her family moved to a farm in North Carolina to help support the family during a drought. “We had 400 acres, a dairy farm, and all kinds of crops, and the crops weren’t growing,” she says. “My father said ‘maybe we should try baking to support the family during the drought crisis’.” The farm had a large house where the Peacheys and their 8 children lived, with an attached four-car garage. “We were Amish, so we didn’t need it for cars,” she explains. “My father converted the garage into a bakery, and my mom, me, and my siblings baked for local markets.” The Peachey home bakery was equipped with a commercial kitchen where local businesses could order cakes, pies, breads, and doughnuts. However, the Peacheys quickly discovered that the doughnuts were a bit of a messy undertaking. Original vanilla glazed doughnuts on display. “It was the only thing we made fried, and it was just too much,” she says. “So, we stopped making those and focused on cakes, pies, and breads because they were easier.” Sadie says that her family are health-conscious foodies, and even though they did eat treats like homemade ice cream (her father is not only a minister in Sarasota’s Amish community Pinecraft, he’s also co-owner of Big Olaf Creamery, a local ice cream chain), the doughnuts became a special treat because the family was no longer making them in the bakery. “I remember making them one time on a snow day. My whole family got together – uncles, aunts, cousins, my grandmother was there, and we made doughnuts for the day. It was this very special treat.” Sadie explains that while they don’t use their grandmother’s exact recipe, “it’s a recipe that has been passed down and that honors both my grandmother and mother.” “My mom’s thing was sourdough — her bread, her rolls, everything was sourdough,” she says. “As kids we added my mom’s sourdough starter to the doughnut recipe.” Back to 2007. Sadie and Nate went to an apple festival in Tennessee where their two sisters live. “We wanted to make something to sell and we decided to make doughnuts,” she says. “I guess [we decided on doughnuts] because it was always the ultimate treat for us. Why not make the ultimate, most messy treat for people?” The business took off from there. Sadie and Nate, who had moved to Sarasota, FL in 2002 with their parents and brother Sam, started selling the doughnuts at local markets and festivals around the U.S. They named themselves The Amish Baking Company. Even though Sadie and Nate were no longer practicing Amish, they named the company in honor of where they came from. “We named it the Amish Baking Company because our doughnuts come directly from Amish families, and our culture where everything is homemade from scratch, and where you take so much pride in what you make with your hands,” Sadie explains. “That’s a big part of the culture — whatever you do, you do as best as you can.” Two years ago they purchased a food truck. Sadie takes it around to local events, while Nate and her brother Sam, who recently joined the business, go to the bigger festivals throughout the U.S. This includes Bonaroo where Spin magazine reported their doughnuts were the best thing they tasted all weekend in 2013, and Rolling Stone dubbed them “The Best Thing We Ate” in 2015. Photo credit: Peter Acker for Edible Sarasota The doughnuts take a little over an hour to make from start to finish, and minus the sourdough starter which the Peachey’s prepare beforehand, they are made fresh on site. Their original vanilla glazed doughnuts are their best-sellers, but they also create doughnuts that are unique to a special event. At this year’s Strawberry Festival in Plant City, FL for example, they purchased strawberries from local farms and stuffed their doughnuts with them along with real whipped cream. Doughnut created especially for the Strawberry Festival Photo Credit: The Amish Baking Company Facebook When asked why she thinks their doughnuts are so popular among their loyal following (just check out their 5-star Yelp reviews where someone even wrote an ode to their doughnuts), Sadie offers a few ideas. “I think it’s because they are completely homemade – there’s no mix, there’s no preservatives,” she says. “You eat them the day they’re made, fresh.” She also thinks nostalgia has something to do with it. “A lot of people tell us ‘my grandma used to make these, and I haven’t had them in years’,” she says. “It’s old-fashioned and touches a sentimental part in people.” She mentions that the sourdough starter makes it different as well. “People tell me that they just ate an entire doughnut and don’t feel sick,” she says. “People will ask me ‘how are they so light’?” One day as Sadie was adding her mom’s starter to the mix, she realized it was the sourdough. “It gets added at the very beginning of the process, and the dough has a little over an hour before it’s cooked,” she says. “That entire time the sourdough starter is fermenting, and it’s almost like predigesting or breaking down some of the dough.” Photo Credit: The Amish Baking Company Wesbite What started out as a special family treat has turned into a business with a loyal following that has brought delight to the palates and stomachs of thousands of people all over the U.S. When asked what her favorite part of running the business is, Sadie says that while she enjoys making the doughnuts, she loves being out in the community meeting people. “I just love the energy of people coming together,” she says. “The community, friendship, having a good time, and being able to contribute and bring good food.” Keep up with The Amish Baking Company by following them on Facebook. 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__label__wiki	0.559743	0.559743	Now Playing Hey Day Mic Christopher E.U. Reaches Agreement On Covid Recovery Fund Tuesday, July 21st, 2020 6:46am There's been a mixed response here to the €1.8 trillion EU Covid-19 recovery deal agreed overnight. The 27 leaders finally agreed a package for countries worst-hit by the virus, after five days of marathon talks in Brussels. The German Chancellor calls it an impressive response to a historic recession while the Taoiseach says it will reboot and re-engineer recovery. Ireland will contribute to countries hit hardest by Covid 19, who can avail of €750 billion of loans and grants. The Common Agricultural Policy has been reduced by €35 billion. The Irish Farmers' Association, The Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association, and The Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers' Association are all critical of the decision, saying the Government must make up the reduction in payments. IBEC says the deal brings confidence to the Irish business community. Labour leader Alan Kelly says the grant package is 20% less than planned and is not large enough.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1688
__label__cc	0.747488	0.252512	IF THE COFFIN FITS BY LILLIAN BELL This is a fun, exciting, and original series! Fans of cozy mysteries are definitely going to want to check out the Funeral Parlor mystery series! I recommend it! Release Date: September 11, 2018 Series: A Funeral Parlor Mystery #2 Format: eBook. ARC. When an unnatural cause of death finds one of her clients, Desiree must get to the bottom of the murder before she’s fitted for a coffin, herself. Funeral director Desiree Turner deals with death by natural causes all the time. Death by unnatural causes? Not so much. Yet, she and her boyfriend Nate have heard some not-so-dear things about the recently departed. A suspicious remark by the late Frank Fiore’s daughters sparks some concern. And when Violet Daugherty faints behind the wheel of her car, Desiree suspects she’s got a front seat to murder. Desiree can’t help but look into Violet’s untimely end, but soon after, rumors begin to spread that she’s accusing her clients of murder, which quickly spurs a mass cancellation and Desiree is on the verge of going out of business. What began as an effort to do due diligence for her client turns into a wild goose chase for Violet’s murderer. Desiree must find her proof before everything she works for is lost. But that’s easier said than done, because while everyone else in town is looking to take their business elsewhere, the killer sets sights directly upon Desiree. Now it’s up to Desiree to find the murderer before she becomes the next body her funeral parlor serves in If the Coffin Fits, Lillian Bell’s second charming Funeral Parlor mystery. AMAZON PRINT \| AMAZON KINDLE ADD TO GOODREADS Actual Rating: 4 stars Another enjoyable cozy mystery from Lillian Bell! I really like this series. The fact that it's set around a funeral parlor (with the heroine working there with her family) is quite original. Even more, the characters are top notch. Desiree Turner is quickly becoming one of my favorite sleuths and I know I am going to continue to plow through this series right beside her. I think the ending of this one is pretty intriguing as well. It doesn't end in a cliffhanger but the last page really ends in a bang making me want the next book that much more! If you are a fan of cozy mysteries and amateur sleuths, I very much recommend reading the Funeral Parlor mystery series. It's a fantastic one! The Funeral Parlor Mystery Series	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1694
__label__cc	0.603654	0.396346	More from Engadget’s Guide to Parenting in the Digital Age Atari's latest attempt at milking nostalgia is a 'Pong' RPG 'Below' arrives on PS4 on April 7th with an easier exploration mode 'Half-Life: Alyx' is proof Valve answers to no one 'Overwatch' will finally address some old problems with Quick Play The new Pictionary has you drawing in thin air The classic family game gets a digital makeover. Rachel England, @rachel_england Jeff O'Brien/Krystal DeBord It's not easy being a traditional board game manufacturer in these digital days, although some companies have taken pretty bold steps to bridge the gap between table-top and pixel-based play. Now Pictionary is doing the same with Pictionary Air, which takes your competitive sketching off the paper and puts it onto your phone, tablet or TV screen instead. Instead of a regular pen or pencil, players use a jumbo-sized light up pen to doodle their word in thin air, and their drawing is simultaneously cast to a mobile or TV screen using Chromecast or AirPlay -- it doesn't require any data use once downloaded, either. All the other components of the game remain the same, although you can video the artist in action and share drawings with friends on social, too, making it a cool spin on a classic game that'll keep it appealing for a long while yet. It'll be on the shelves in Target from June 1st and other retailers globally by July 1st, on sale for $20/£15. Check out the rest of our coverage from Toy Fair 2019 here. In this article: AirPlay, av, board game, ChromeCast, digital, drawing, game, gaming, home, personal computing, personalcomputing, Pictionary, Pictionary Air, toy fair, toy fair 2019, toyfair2019	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1699
__label__wiki	0.682493	0.682493	The Best Of Queen - Performed by Break Free announced rescheduled shows Last modified: Wed 13th Jan 2:57PM The Best Of Queen - Performed by Break Free just announced twenty new UK tour dates. The tour kicks off at South Mill Arts in Bishop's Stortford on Saturday 22nd May 2021 and finishes with a show at The Lighthouse Theatre in Kettering on Saturday 1st October 2022. There are also dates in Taunton, Wellingborough, Worcester, Coventry, Chesham, Maidstone, Horsham, Camberley, Barry, Weston-super-Mare, Norwich, Milton Keynes, Radlett and Ayr, two dates in Stevenage, and two in Tamworth. The Best Of Queen - Performed by Break Free last played a series of UK gigs late last year, finishing in December. Saturday 22nd May - South Mill Arts, Bishop's Stortford Wednesday 9th June - The Brewhouse Theatre and Arts Centre, Taunton Thursday 8th July - Castle Theatre, Wellingborough Thursday 29th July - The Swan Theatre, Worcester Saturday 4th September - Belgrade Theatre, Coventry Friday 17th September - Elgiva Theatre, Chesham Tuesday 28th September - Hazlitt Theatre, Maidstone Saturday 2nd October - The Capitol Theatre, Horsham Wednesday 13th October - The Gordon Craig Theatre, Stevenage Thursday 14th October - The Gordon Craig Theatre, Stevenage Friday 29th October - Tamworth Assembly Rooms Friday 5th November - The Camberley Theatre Friday 12th November - Memo Arts Centre, Barry Saturday 13th November - The Playhouse Theatre, Weston-super-Mare Saturday 27th November - Maddermarket Theatre, Norwich Thursday 2nd December - The Stables, Milton Keynes Thursday 27th January - The Radlett Centre Saturday 19th February - Gaiety Theatre, Ayr Friday 3rd June - Tamworth Assembly Rooms Saturday 1st October - The Lighthouse Theatre, Kettering See tickets, information, tour dates and more for The Best Of Queen - Performed by Break Free	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1700
__label__cc	0.522058	0.477942	JCPAAPLORGSTechnology Where is Apple Going with the Burberry Hire? \| Tuesday, 15 October 2013 12:11 (EST) On Oct. 15, Apple Inc. (AAPL) announced they had hired away Burberry CEO Angela Ahrendts to head up their retail and online divisions. Ahrendts is credited with turning Burberry’s image around by once again making the upscale brand exclusive and cool. Coupled with the hiring earlier this year of Yves Saint Laurent CEO Paul Deneve, it is looking more and more like Apple is shifting away from the 5C “affordable products” strategy, and towards fully embracing their high-end status. Why Ahrendts? Apple’s retail division has been enormously profitable for Apple, yet they can’t seem to pick someone to head it up. Ron Johnson departed in 2011 to begin his disastrous run at JCPenney Company (JCP) . After Johnson left, Apple hired on John Browett as his replacement. Browett’s tenure was ill-received, and his plan to save money by laying off Apple store employees was met with widespread scorn. He was let go in 2012. The role had been left vacant since Browett’s departure. Unlike Browett, who focused on the bottom line, Ahrendts has a reputation for re-establishing a brand’s fashionable reputation. She engineered a successful breach into the Chinese high-end market, and pushed her company to fully embrace social media. Burberry’s shares have more than quadrupled since 2008. As a fashion maven, Ahrendts hire also could signify Apple is moving in that direction as well. The company has long been rumored to be developing wearable tech like a smartwatch, so it would make sense to hire a fashion person to oversee diversification into that arena. But make no mistake: Burberry is not priced for the masses. The hiring of Ahrendts also indicates the market Apple is after. Altering the Emerging Market Strategy? Following Apple’s concomitant launch of the lower-end 5C with their standard upper-end 5S, analysts grumbled that the 5C wasn’t priced low enough to grab emerging market dollars. At just $100 cheaper than the 5S, the 5C seemed to split the difference between high and low, and in the end not succeed in either. A low priced 5C was essential to Apple breaking into the teenage and coveted Chinese markets, but at that high a price – coupled with a gaudy color scheme design – the 5C just wasn’t going to cut it. But Ahrendts’ success in China with a high-end product signals that the key to China’s heart might not be to lower prices on Apple products, but to establish Apple as the tech brand for affluent Chinese. Ishaq Siddiqi of ETX Capital in London said, "Ahrendts knows the emerging market world far better than most executives... that's why (Apple CEO) Tim Cook has chosen her." The Fashionable Apple Ahrendts hire has fueled speculation that Apple’s next big product will be a smartwatch. But the question for a smartwatch shouldn’t be “What does it do?” but “How does it look?” Most speculation concerning the future of Apple products looks at them from a utility point of view. What’s this iPhone’s new feature? How big is the new iPad? But perhaps the next step in the evolution in Apple as a brand (called the top brand in the world) is to worry less about product features and worry more about the brand perception in the high-end world. In other words: rather than try to make Apple products that end up appealing to a select few of the all, make products that appeal to all of the select few. Burberry’s shares on the London Stock Exchange lost 6 percent of their value in response to Ahrendts’ plan to leave. Their loss was Apple’s gain, with shares of the tech giant gaining .82 percent to hit $500.12 a share. Follow ORGS ORGSD Orgenesis Inc. 5.19 0.07 1.37 39,788 Trade Follow AAPL Apple Inc. 127.14 -1.77 -1.37 111,598,531 Trade Follow Orgenesis Inc. Follow Apple Inc.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1702
__label__wiki	0.657119	0.657119	Eurozone manufacturing: Fresh data shows steady recovery EURACTIV.com with AFP and Reuters A weaker euro has helped boost exports. [Land Rover MENA/Flickr] The year’s first economic numbers show encouraging signs that the eurozone’s economic recovery is steady and moving in the right direction, despite gloomy predictions. Manufacturing expanded in December at its fastest pace since April 2011. Orders jumped, despite companies raising their prices due to increasing raw materials costs. “Eurozone manufacturers are entering 2017 on a strong footing, having ended 2016 with a surge in production,” said Chris Williamson, chief business economist at IHS Markit which carried out the surveys. “To put the PMI data into perspective, the five-and-a-half-year high reached in December is broadly consistent with factory output growing at an impressive annual rate of approximately 4%.” The survey of companies’ purchasing managers showed growth was strongest in the Netherlands and Austria. German manufacturing expansion reached its highest in almost three years, driven by rising demand from Asia and the United States. France hit a five-and-a-half-year high. In Greece the contraction was at a slower rate. A strong performance was also reported from Italy, where the index was 53.2 (well above the crucial 50 level). This will reassure investors, who have been worried by banking sector problems and a change in government following a failed referendum on constitutional reform. Economist: 'Italian reforms will come to standstill' Italy’s dismissal of Matteo Renzi’s reform package sent a clear signal to the other member states that Rome is incapable of solving its economic woes alone, researcher Dr Paweł Tokarski said in interview with the SWP. The data comes as a bonus after Ifo chief Clemens Fuest said he believed Italians will reject the euro currency and return to the Lira in 2017. He told Germany’s daily newspaper Tagesspiegel: “The standard of living in Italy is at the same level as in 2000. If that does not change, the Italians will at some stage say: ‘We don’t want this eurozone any more’.” German think tank: Italy risks quitting eurozone The head of Germany’s Ifo economic institute believes Italians will eventually want to quit the euro currency area if their standard of living does not improve, he told German daily Tagesspiegel (1 January). As a whole, firms across Europe raised prices at the fastest pace in over five years, linked to the weaker euro and more expensive commodities. “Policymakers will be doubly pleased to see the manufacturing sector’s improved outlook being accompanied by rising price pressures,” IHS Markit’s Williamson said. The new data comes as a good omen to calm fears of new turmoil in the Eurozone. A poll of fund managers by Bank of America Merrill Lynch in December found that the break-up of the eurozone was seen as the biggest tail risk for 2017. Three trends that will continue hurting the eurozone in 2017 2016 did not fall short on anxiety over the eurozone’s fragile economic recovery. From feeble growth to fierce backlash, to full-blown uncertainty, here are three trends that look all but certain to spill over into 2017, writes Ilaria Maselli. The European Central Bank would like to see inflation reach almost 2%. In a surprise move last month, the ECB cut asset purchases but promised protracted stimulus to aid a still-fragile recovery and bolster weak inflation. The European Commission last November predicted that Europe’s economy would grow less than initially expected as domestic and global risks have intensified – mainly in the wake of the UK referendum and the increased opposition to globalisation. Commission cuts growth forecast for both EU and eurozone in 2017 Europe’s economy will grow less than initially expected as domestic and global risks have intensified, mainly in the wake of the UK referendum and the increased opposition to globalisation. Annual Growth Survey One response to “Eurozone manufacturing: Fresh data shows steady recovery” Ngonyama says: The eurozone shows steady recovery. Therefore Italy will drop the euro. Propaganda is seldom logical, but being blatantly contradictory does not help in trying to achieve your propagandistic goal of destroying the euro at all cost. Instead it exposes you for the liar you are.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1708
__label__wiki	0.573695	0.573695	WorldCom By: eWeek Editors \| June 04, 2001 WorldCom, operator of one of the largest internet protocol backbones in the world, sees speed and volume as keys to the future. WorldCom, operator of one of the largest internet protocol backbones in the world, sees speed and volume as keys to the future. To achieve a bigger, faster backbone, the company is implementing or testing next-generation products and technologies ranging from Multiprotocol Label Switching to Internet Protocol version 6. Despite the collapse of many Internet-related businesses, WorldCom still sees customers demanding more, says Vint Cerf, WorldComs senior vice president for Internet architecture and technology. Thats especially true when streaming video and audio or very large financial databases are involved. "Its not unusual to find a customer who might buy a 45-megabit[-per-second (DS-3)] connection, and a year later or less ask for an OC-3 [155-Mbps] or a 622-megabit[-per-second (OC-12)] connection," Cerf says. "Its astonishing to see how quickly they fill" capacity. WorldComs backbone is a legacy of UUnet; its network spans six continents and includes more than 2,500 points of presence. The background serves more than 70,000 businesses in 100 countries. Cerf says the network has been upgraded to a speed of 10 gigabits per second, and in late March achieved 3.2 terabits per second — 80 channels at 40 Gbps each. WorldCom, under the direction of Chief Operating Officer Ron Beaumont, strives for ever-faster routers; its best, from Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks, can push 10 Gbps, and can handle many interfaces. Product Review: Volterra Distributed Cloud Services... Why WiFi 6E is a Much Bigger Deal Than the Name Suggests Last year, WorldCom began migrating from Asynchronous Transfer Mode to speedier MPLS. The project should be completed next year. Separate from its primary network, WorldCom is targeting large financial customers to purchase Very high-speed Backbone Network Service, which uses IPv6. In the longer term, Cerf expects the network to adopt optical switching. Researchers are working on photon-switching techniques and may begin testing later this year. Previous Riding Out the Twists and (Down)Turns Next AT&T Animates E-Mail Net Neutrality Debate Ends Up Back in Court DAILY VIDEO: Net neutrality has its day in court, and Azure API Management gets preview support... FCC Investigates Carrier's Wireless Coverage Claims DAILY VIDEO: The FCC investigates wireless coverage cheating by telecom carriers, and IBM and...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1712
__label__wiki	0.914342	0.914342	Pep Guardiola in no rush to sign a new midfielder October 23, 2018 18:59 GMT (UK), by Sri Aswin Guardiola may wait for midfielder signing Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola is not desperate to sign a new central midfielder when the transfer window reopens in the New Year. The Catalan tactician was tipped to a sign a new midfielder during the summer after the departure of Yaya Toure, but the club could not fulfil his wish after failing to sign top target Jorginho, who later joined Chelsea. Since then, the Mancunian giants have been linked with a number of top players from across different leagues but ESPN claims that the club may not seek to bolster the midfield midway through the season. At present, Wolverhampton Wanderers' Ruben Neves and Ajax's Frenkie de Jong are said to be on Guardiola's radar but the Spaniard is aware that it will be difficult to prise away either player at the halfway stage of the campaign. Moreover, the City boss is said to be reluctant to pay over the odds for any new recruit and this could prolong the wait for a new midfielder until the conclusion of the current season. Fernandinho, Kevin de Bruyne and Ilkay Gundogan are currently the central midfield options at disposal for City, though the likes of David Silva, John Stones and Oleksandr Zinchenko can slot into the department if required. Chelsea defender on his way to AC Milan Chelsea target Adeyemi wants to stay with Red Bull Salzburg	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1717
__label__cc	0.635717	0.364283	ONA Statement Glimpses of Faith Wednesday Evening Conversations Mission and Outreach LEAP Program SOS Food Bank Category: January 2021 The U…C…What?! January 2, 2021 / David Reed The U…C…What?! For those not familiar with us, it can be a little confusing!: “Oh, yeah…You’re Unity, right?” Nope. We share their focus on community, positivity, and education, but that’s not us. “So, then, you’re the Unitarians?” Nuh uh. We share their value of other religions and spiritual paths, but that’s not us. We are the United Church of Christ. “Wait! You mean the ones who don’t use music instruments or allow women to preach?” Nope. While we love our conservative brothers and sisters (and man, can they sing!), we are waaaaayyy on the other end of the political and theological spectrum. The United Church (pause here) of Christ, is a Protestant (like Methodists and Lutherans) denomination that began when 4 denominations united in 1957. There are tons of us in the Midwest, Northeast, West Coast, Hawaii (yes, please!), and we’re growing in the South. We’re about as far left as you can go and still be considered Christian. Our Unitarian friends affectionately joke the UCC stands for “Unitarians Considering Christ” because we are similar, just with a much heavier emphasis on Jesus (as Trinitarians, we’re big fans of the Holy Spirit, too!) The UCC is a mainstream Christian denomination with deep roots in social justice, peace movements, activism, and support for the environment. Our ancestors were educators, abolitionists, civil rights and healthcare advocates, and folks of radical love and extravagant welcome. We ordained the first openly gay man in 1972, voted to affirm full rights and participation in the Church and society for transgender persons in 2003, and became the first mainline Christian denomination to support equal marriage rights for all in 2005. We’re relatively light on dogma; extremely light on judgment (we try hard never to be but, hey, we’re human); and heavy on standing with people Jesus hung out with—those cast to the margins by society, those treated as any way less than, and those oppressed (like Dr. King, we even try to love the gremlins in our own and others’ hearts that lead us to oppress others). We often say, “Jesus didn’t turn anyone away, and neither do we.” Micah 6:8—seek justice, love mercy, walk humbly with God—sums up what we seek to do, pretty well. We’re imperfect, ever-growing, and try to have a hella lotta fun together along the way. So, come hang out awhile, let us love on ya, and see if maybe we, and the UCC, are for you. Peace, Pastor Carla Info from the Conference and National Offices: UCC Webinar—What’s Possible?:Faith and Climate Policy in 2021 -January 13, 2021 After the Georgia Senate runoff election on January 5th, we will know the legislative landscape for the new Congress. What will be possible for climate policy? Aside from congress, what might President Biden accomplish through executive orders? This webinar will address these questions with an eye toward what faith communities can do to put their values into action in pressing for the kind of climate policies urgently needed in this time of crisis and inequality. The featured panelists will be Anthony Rogers-Wright from the Climate Justice Alliance, Emily Wirzba from the Environmental Defense Fund, and Clarence Edwards from the Friends Committee on National Legislation.Even if you can’t make the webinar’s scheduled time onWednesday, January 13th at 1 pm ET, still sign-up, and we will send you a recording of it.Register at https://www.ucc.org/event/whats-possible-faith-and-climate-policy-in-2021/ Save the Date – January 27, 2021 – 6p CST Quarterly Just Peace Webinar The UCC Just Peace Committee is inviting you to the next quarterly Just Peace Webinar to take place on January 27 (7 p.m. ET/6 p.m. CT/5 p.m. MT/4 p.m. PT/2 p.m. HT).Details and log-in instructions will be sent in the New Year but please mark your calendars now!The topic will be, Wheredo we go from here? How do we engage? What should be our Just Peace priorities in 2021 as individuals, congregations, Associations, Conferences and the National Setting. What might we expect in our global community? And, finally, let’s talk and share ideas and plans. UCC 2021 General Synod Our first ever virtual Synod promises to be an exciting time of connection, discernment, and renewal with special opportunities for youth and young adults!Learningmore about your denomination’s process, leadership, and your covenantal siblings across the country has never been easier or more affordable. Find out more at http://www.generalsynod.org/welcome-message/ Thank you from Pastor Scott Let me say once again that is has been an honor, a privilege and a blessing to serve as pastor of Faith UCC in New Braunfels these last 15 years. Thank you very much for all your cards, kind words, gifts and well wishes over Christmas and for my retirement! I would like to thank all those who made my retirement send off possible. Doing this over zoom and not in person complicated all of this. I love the memory book! A great deal of work went into it. What a surprise to see letters and cards not only from the members of Faith UCC but also former conference ministers and even my Old Testament professor from seminary! I would also like to thank the church for the very generous check. Once we are able to travel again I will put that to good use and will think of you all and remember the many years we have journeyed together here at Faith UCC. I wish Faith UCC and each of you individually all the best as our paths diverge for awhile. May God be with you. Grace and Peace, Pastor Scott Search faithuccnb.org Worship Services: Sunday, 10:30am First Sunday of each month. All are welcome at Christ’s table. The U…C…What?! January 2, 2021 Info from the Conference and National Offices: January 2, 2021 Thank you from Pastor Scott January 2, 2021 Introducing the Faith UCC, New Braunfels designated term Pastor: Rev. Dr. Carla Cheatham December 15, 2020 Special Committees Named December 14, 2020 Faith UCC Confirmation 2020 December 16, 2020 Glimpses of Faith Newsletter Signup Leave us your email address so that we can share our monthly newsletter with you. Select list(s) to subscribe to Glimpses Newsletter Yes, I would like to receive emails from Faith UCC New Braunfels. You can unsubscribe anytime By submitting this form, you are consenting to receive marketing emails from: Faith UCC, 970 Loop 337, New Braunfels, TX, 78130. You can revoke your consent to receive emails at any time by using the SafeUnsubscribe® link, found at the bottom of every email. Emails are serviced by Constant Contact Paypal donation link All The People! https://www.faithuccnb.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/All-the-People-Low-360p.mp4 faithuccinfo@faithuccnb.org 970 Loop 337	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1718
__label__wiki	0.893724	0.893724	Ordinary Lives School Years Employment and Volunteering Creating a Home Advocacy and Leadership making it happen Resourcing Inclusive Communities Membership Renewal 2021 Family Advocacy’s complaints and grievance process Advocacy related advice and information Develop advocacy and leadership skills of families Systemic advocacy Home / Carer's Handbook Carer's Handbook This small handbook has been put together so that carers of people with disabilities can get information about services and other forms of assistance available to them. The kinds of help covered include services provided through Commonwealth, State and Local governments, through charitable, community and other non government groups, and the range of available pensions and allowances (as at 1992). It refers to both direct forms of assistance (respite, training and information, and financial), and indirect forms of assistance (services provided for the person being cared for). Keyword: Professionals Check Out Item Request Share Resource: Mills, Carol Commonwealth Department of Health, Housing and C'ty Services This site uses Google Translate, a free language translation service, as an aid. Please note translation accuracy will vary across languages. Suite 704, 88-90 George Street, Hornsby, NSW, 2077, Australia Subscribe to our email newsletter to stay up-to-date with the latest Family Advocacy news. We acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which our offices stand and we pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging. We acknowledge the sorrow of the Stolen Generations and the impacts of colonisation on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. We also recognise the resilience, strength and pride of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. © 2015 - 2021 Family Advocacy. Site by Internetrix.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1719
__label__cc	0.631626	0.368374	Our rotational shelter program and warm hospitality is the foundation of the Family Promise model. Across this country, communities offer hospitality to families through Family Promise Affiliates. The innovative model — using existing space like congregations and volunteers motivated by compassion —has helped hundreds of thousands of children and adults in our national network of 200+ Affiliates. Working with community resources, Family Promise Affiliates provide comprehensive and targeted services, including extensive case management, at 1/3 the cost of traditional shelter. Furthermore, Family Promise Affiliates serve families of all compositions, often providing their only shelter option in a community. And it works. On average, 88% of the people served in the shelter program secure housing within nine weeks. Because of the depth of services and community support, families stay housed, and Affiliates provide both prevention and stabilization services to increase their impact. The resources are already there. In the community, there are congregations and organizations that can provide space in their buildings to serve as temporary homes. Day Centers, where families can take showers, receive case management, and look for housing and jobs, can be located at a house of worship or agency. There are multiple options for transportation to get families from the host shelters to the Day Center and back. With volunteers giving their time, making meals, and sharing hospitality, family homelessness is addressed without the creation of expensive shelters. Across the country, people have realized that this innovative approach truly makes a difference for families experiencing homelessness—and more than 200,000 volunteers. These volunteers are the core of the program. They share food, spend the night, play with children and lend their passion and expertise to help families get back on their feet. They prove that motivated people can solve family homelessness. And, in the process, they truly create “home” – and a community – for families who have no place left to turn. A COMMUNITY RESPONSE In every community, these core elements exist. By bringing the community together on the issue of family homelessness, Family Promise addresses a major social problem in a holistic, effective way. Once the community becomes engaged, people understand the root causes of family homelessness and take steps to address them. Family Promise Affiliates have created more than 1,700 community initiatives—housing programs, homelessness prevention, childcare and much more—that target the issues of poverty and homelessness on a local level. A LONG-TERM SOLUTION Not only does our 88% success rate mean many more families stably housed, it is also a tremendous cost saving to the community as diversion from far more expensive interventions. Our approach of keeping families together, identifying their strengths, and partnering with the community for solutions means that families are at much lower risk of returning to homelessness. Family Promise changes lives. We served 126,000 parents and children last year, giving them the ability to realize their true potential. We also change the lives of our 200,000 volunteers, giving them a meaningful outreach right in their own communities.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1721
__label__wiki	0.680191	0.680191	Kim Kardashian and Kanye West Travel Outside US for Quality Time With Their Kids By Desiree Murphy‍ 9:11 AM PDT, August 5, 2020 Kim Kardashian West and her husband, Kanye West, are getting away for some much-needed family time. A source tells ET the couple are currently spending time together "outside the US with their family." ET's source says that Kim and Kanye made the recent decision to travel abroad together "after Kim saw Kanye in Wyoming." Last week, Kim's emotional visit to their Wyoming ranch marked the first time the two were able to see each other following Kanye's controversial political rally in South Carolina and his subsequent Twitter storm of since-deleted comments about Kim and her family. "The couple knows they need quality time with their kids and no other outside voices or people," the source adds. "Kim knows that Kanye being with his family will be good for him." In photos obtained by TMZ, Kanye was spotted on a private jet in Cody, Wyoming, on Sunday with his 4-year-old son, Saint. The outlet reports that the jet originally took off from Los Angeles that morning, but no word on where it's going next. Meanwhile, it appears things are going great for Kim's sister Khloe Kardashian. A source tells ET that the reality star has reignited her romance with Tristan Thompson, who is the father of her 2-year-old daughter, True. "They are back together and things have been going really well. Khloe is doing what she feels is right for herself and her daughter," the source says. "Khloe has never listened to outside voices, she’s always stayed true to her heart." "Things with Khloe and Tristan have been great and the couple is taking this time in quarantine to really reconnect and enjoy one another," adds the source. Hear more in the video below. Kanye West 2020: The Latest on His Presidential Run Kim Kardashian Returns to L.A. After Emotional Visit With Kanye West Kanye West Overwhelmed Ahead of Visit to Hospital, Source Says Kim Kardashian Returns to LA After ‘Extremely Emotional’ Reunion With Kanye West in Wyoming Kim Kardashian and Kanye West: A Timeline of Their Relationship	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1730
__label__cc	0.595335	0.404665	Lighthouse optics Beacon lights of the modern age Lighthouses: The structures may appear old and dignifi ed, but the technology inside is modern and robust. Availability as well as low operating costs with long maintenance intervals are the decisive criteria when selecting lamps and the electromechanical design. Anyone who takes a look inside a lighthouse along the French coast has a good chance of experiencing drive technology from FAULHABER. France is the land of giants. Nowhere else on earth are there so many lighthouses along the coast that stand as tall as 80 metres. The impressive structures are not necessarily due to the fact that the sections of France’s coastline are particularly dangerous. Rather, the large and rich decorations of the buildings stem from the selfconfident national pride – and create publicity for themselves. When I think of lighthouses, I think of Henry Lepaute. The name comes to mind as soon as one mentions the technology used in these maritime navigation marks. Lepaute builds the optics that ensure that the light can be seen from distances as great as 40 kilometres. 23 nautical miles – the beam from the lamp room must be visible at least this far away. The distinctive lighthouses with buoys, satellite navigation and radar are part of a quartet that gives skippers the necessary orientation. Particularly in areas near the coast, visual navigation signs cannot be replaced by anything else. The density is especially high in France along the Channel coast due to the enormous tidal differences in the water level. Some 120 lighthouses with rotating light are operated, monitored and maintained in the Grand Nation by the governmental agency Cerema – and used very often in these lighthouses are the optics produced by Henry Lepaute, which in turn are based on the basic research conducted by Frenchman Jean Augustine Fresnel on the wave theory of light. The result is a lens comprising up to 20 ringshaped sectors with a focal length of up to 700 millimetres. The lenses refract the light that is emitted in all directions on a horizontal plane, thereby making it visible from a great distance. The typical flash of the lighthouses can be achieved with three technical methods: through constant lighting with a flashing light, a constant light source with rigidly arranged lenses and a circumferential aperture as well as – the most common variant – the combination of continuous light and a circumferential lens system. In the course of ongoing modernisation, Cerema makes use of LED technology – thereby benefiting from the advantages afforded by a longlasting and robust lighting system. According to information provided by Cerema, an availability rate of approximately 99 percent is achieved. “We would like to reach this level of operation reliability for the drive of the rotating optics as well”, emphasises Laurent Bernicot from the department for navigation and positioning systems at Cerema. “Reliability was a very important criterion for the choice of drive – and led us to FAULHABER.” The result of the design with manufacturer evaluation: DCmicromotors of the FAULHABER 2342 and 3257 series as well as brushless DCservomotors of the 3268 series – each combined with appropriately matched FAULHABER planetary gearheads. In addition to the general functionality of the drives, intensive test runs served to determine their behaviour in salty air. “We have lighthouses on land and at sea. The drives need to operate reliably there as well – and not only in France itself, but also in French Guiana or the Overseas Collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon off the coast of Newfoundland.” Double drive for maximum operation reliability With respect to design, the high demands on op eration reliability are reflected in a drive unit with two motors – an arrangement also found in German lighthouses. “Two motors are connected to one gearhead and run alternately”, explains Dirk Berger, spokesperson of the Stralsund Waterways and Shipping Office. The alternating operation harmonises the operating hours and ensures availability, as longer periods of downtime often lead to startup difficulties. Should one motor fail, the system in the lighthouse automatically switches to the second motor and reports the malfunction to the control centre. “We use remote monitoring, particularly with the large lighthouses”, reports Berger. A twostage escalation level is inte grated in the control here: prewarning in the event of impending malfunctions and failure. Reliable operation is monitored with a sensor that measures the time per revolution. “The lighthouses must turn at the exact speed specified in their identifier”, says Dirk Berger. Hidden behind the identifier is a special type of flash sequence that is listed in the nautical charts and, particularly when navigating at night, allows a lighthouse be unmistakeably identified. “Our goal is therefore to achieve a constant rotational speed on the optical level”, explains Berger’s French colleague, Laurent Bernicot from Plouzane in Brittany. “Thus, our motors must be precise.” The French lighthouses use a control developed by the EMF department at Cerema. The abbreviation stands for eau, mer, fleuves – or water, sea, river. The intelligence in the lamp room specifies how frequently and at what rate the light is to be visible within a given unit of time. As in Germany, a sensor measures the rotational speed of the optics and transmits the information to the control. After performing the calculation, the controller adjusts the motor speed via the analogue set value directly with the motor supply voltage. The speed is constantly monitored and adjust ed. Should a problem be detected, the automation solution provided by the EMF department saves the error and starts the second motor. During the design process, the EMF employees selected three different motor types as the standard drive solution. The DCmicromotor of the DC2342 series is tailored for small optics that require only low motor power. Mediumsized optics are put into motion by the graphitecommutated motors of the FAULHABER DC3257 series. For powerful systems with high light intensity and correspondingly heavier construction, the brushless, fourpole servomotors of the 3268 series are used. When Laurent Bernicot speaks of “heavy systems”, he is referring to a lamp optics system with a mass of between 200 kilogrammes and one tonne. During design, it is therefore important to ensure that, apart from normal operation, the motors deliver powerful peak torques in order to safely handle the high starting torques of between 5 and 8 Nm. “This was also an important factor in selecting the FAULHABER motors”, explains Bernicot. If, however, a standstill occurs because the lighthouses are only operated at night, the optics are decoupled from the motor via a freewheel integrated in the rotary ma chine when the lamp is stopped. Should one motor fail, the system in the lighthouse automatically switches to the second motor and reports the malfunction to the control centre. From clock-tower drive to high-precision electric motor Over a hundred years ago, lighthouse optics were still driven by a clocktower drive. From a design standpoint, this was, in fact, a modified mechanical clockwork for churches that had to be regularly wound up with weights by the lighthouse keeper. “The first electric drives appeared in the 1930s”, reports Dirk Berger, spokesperson of the Stralsund Waterways and Shipping Office. Another modernisation wave started in the 1980s. The technology is still in operation today. The long service life is the result of regular maintenance and operation at well below the maximum available torques. With respect to the high requirements on availability with long maintenance intervals, the framework conditions in a lighthouse are demanding. This is why it is so important to maintain a close project partnership. Cerema and the FAULHABER’s French subsidiary have been working closely together since 2011. DC-Micromotors Series 2342 ... CR Brushless DC-Servomotors Series 3268 ... BX4	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1732
__label__cc	0.562701	0.437299	FBI Michigan Announces Allure Medical Spa Email Tipline FBI Detroit Special Agent Mara Schneider Special Agent in Charge Steven M. D’Antuono announced today, May 5, 2020, a tipline aimed at soliciting tips from the public related to the Allure Medical Spa. The new tipline—AllureMedTips@ic.fbi.gov—will provide the public with a method of reporting information on the business practices of Allure Medical Spa. The spa’s founder, Dr. Charles Mok, was recently charged for his alleged role in a health care fraud scheme, which involved submitting false claims to Medicare for services that were never rendered and/or were medically unnecessary. “Since the search warrants nearly two weeks ago, the FBI has received a number of tips from the public about business practices at Allure Medical Spa and we want to be sure these tips are addressed in a timely manner,” said SAC D’Antuono. “We felt it was important to establish a dedicated tipline for this information to get directly to the agents and analysts who are focused on this investigation. This tipline is not designed to address any health-related concerns. If a member of the public has concerns about their health or exposure to COVID-19 at Allure Medical Spa, we encourage them to contact a trusted health care professional.” In a complaint unsealed last week, it is alleged Dr. Mok submitted false and fraudulent claims to Medicare for treatment of varicose veins by submitting claims for injections of Varithena in veins which had previously been ablated. The complaint alleges that once an ablation is done on a patient, there is no need for additional treatments including a Varithena injection. The complaint also alleges that some of the procedures were also medically unnecessary as numerous patients received up to 19 Varithena injections per leg and/or up to 12 ablations per leg, well beyond what is medically necessary to treat their conditions. The complaint also alleged COVID-19 isolation protocols were not strictly followed. The public is again reminded this tipline is not designed to answer questions about the physical health of any one who may have been exposed to COVID-19 at the Allure Medical Spa. If patients or staff have any concerns about their health or exposure to COVID-19, we urge them to consult with a trusted medical professional.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1733
__label__wiki	0.966325	0.966325	Killing of suspected Iranian nuclear mastermind risks confrontation as Trump exits The death of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, who Iranian media said died in hospital after armed assassins gunned him down in his car, will also complicate any effort by U.S. President-elect Joe Biden to revive the detente of Barack Obama's presidency. Written By: Parisa Hafezi / Reuters \| Nov 27th 2020 - 7pm. A security car passes in front of the Natanz nuclear facility 300 km south of Tehran on Nov. 20, 2004. Reuters file photo DUBAI, Nov 27 (Reuters) - An Iranian scientist long suspected by the West of masterminding a secret nuclear bomb program was killed in an ambush near Tehran on Friday that could provoke confrontation between Iran and its foes in the last weeks of Donald Trump's presidency. Iran pointed the finger at Israel, while implying the killing had the blessing of the departing Trump. Foreign Minister Javad Zarif wrote on Twitter of "serious indications of (an) Israeli role." The military adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed to "strike as thunder at the killers of this oppressed martyr." "In the last days of the political life of their ... ally (Trump), the Zionists seek to intensify pressure on Iran and create a full-blown war," Hossein Dehghan tweeted. Channels of the Telegram encrypted messaging app believed to be close to Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards reported that the top security body, the Supreme National Security Council, convened an emergency meeting with senior military commanders present. Israel declined to comment. The White House, Pentagon, U.S. State Department and CIA also declined to comment, as did Biden's transition team. Fakhrizadeh has been described by Western and Israeli intelligence services for years as the mysterious leader of a covert atomic bomb program halted in 2003, which Israel and the United States accuse Tehran of trying to restore. Iran has long denied seeking to weaponise nuclear energy. "Unfortunately, the medical team did not succeed in reviving (Fakhrizadeh), and a few minutes ago, this manager and scientist achieved the high status of martyrdom after years of effort and struggle," Iran's armed forces said in a statement. The semi-official news agency Tasnim said "terrorists blew up another car" before firing on a vehicle carrying Fakhrizadeh and his bodyguards in an ambush outside the capital. In the aftermath, there was a heavy presence of security forces stopping cars in Tehran in an apparent search for the killers, witnesses said. Trump, who lost his re-election bid to Biden on Nov. 3 and leaves office on Jan. 20, pulled the United States from a deal reached under Obama, his predecessor, that lifted sanctions on Iran in return for curbs on its nuclear program. Biden has said he will aim to restore that agreement, although many analysts say this will be a challenging goal. Robert Malley, who served as Iran adviser to Obama and has informally advised Biden's team, said Fakhrizadeh's killing was among a series of moves that have occurred during Trump's final weeks that appear aimed at making it harder for Biden to re-engage with Iran. "One purpose is simply to inflict as much damage to Iran economically and to its nuclear program while they can, and the other could be to complicate President Biden's ability to resume diplomacy and resume the nuclear deal," said Malley, adding that he would not speculate on who was behind Friday's killing. A U.S. official confirmed this month that Trump asked military aides for a plan for a possible strike on Iran. Trump decided against it to avoid a wider Middle East conflict. In January, Trump ordered a U.S. drone strike in Baghdad that killed Qassem Soleimani, Iran's most powerful military commander. Iran retaliated by firing missiles at a U.S. base in Iraq. U.S. Senator Chris Murphy, the top Democrat on the U.S. Senate's Middle East subcommittee, said on Twitter "this assassination does not make America, Israel or the world safer." U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged restraint to avoid an escalation of tensions, his spokesman said. Iran's U.N. envoy, Majid Takht Ravanchi, said in a letter to Guterres that Tehran "reserves its rights to take all necessary measures" to defend itself. He also called on the U.N. Security Council to condemn the killing and take steps "against its perpetrators." 'REMEMBER THAT NAME' Fakhrizadeh had no public profile, but was thought to have headed what the U.N. nuclear watchdog and U.S. intelligence services believe was a coordinated nuclear weapons program in Iran, shelved in 2003. He was the only Iranian scientist named in the International Atomic Energy Agency's 2015 "final assessment" of open questions about Iran's nuclear program. The report said he oversaw activities "in support of a possible military dimension to (Iran's) nuclear program." He was a central figure in a presentation by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 2018 accusing Iran of continuing to seek nuclear weapons. "Remember that name, Fakhrizadeh," Netanyahu said at the time. Michael Mulroy, a senior Pentagon official earlier during Trump's administration, said Fakhrizadeh's killing would set back Iran's nuclear program and alert levels should be raised in countries where Iran could retaliate. Sheik Naim Qassem, deputy leader of Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah movement, blamed the "heinous attack" on "those sponsored by America and Israel" in an interview with Al Manar television and said the response was in Iran's hands. During the final months of Trump's presidency, Israel has been making peace with Gulf Arab states that share hostility towards Iran. This week, Netanyahu traveled to Saudi Arabia and met its crown prince, an Israeli official said, in what would be the first publicly confirmed visit by an Israeli leader. Israeli media said they were joined by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. (Reporting by Parisa Hafezi and Dubai newsroom, Francois Murphy in Vienna, Dan Williams in Jerusalem, and Matt Spetalnick in Washington; Additional reporting by Humeyra Pamuk, Alexandra Alper, Phil Stewart, David Brunnstrom and Patricia Zengerle in Washington, Ghaida Ghantous in Beirut and Hesham Abdul Khalek in Cairo, Michelle Nichols in New York; Writing by Mark Heinrich, Peter Graff and Matt Spetalnick; Editing by Howard Goller and Daniel Wallis) Nation Nov 27th 2020 - 9am Explainer: Can Trump pardon his associates — or himself? Retail Nov 27th 2020 - 8am Pandemic fears, online deals thin U.S. Black Friday crowds World Jan 10th 2021 - 9am Indonesia locates black boxes of crashed jet as body parts recovered World Jan 4th 2021 - 8am UK judge rejects extradition of 'suicide risk' Julian Assange to United States World Dec 31st 2020 - 9pm With little ado, a divided United Kingdom casts off into the Brexit unknown	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1734
__label__cc	0.526917	0.473083	Frozen Packages by Pathos Chris and Ronnie, burger flippers in a Chuck L's drive-through, find something disturbing in the walk-in cooler; by Pathos. Looking back, it's shocking to think that for over a year I had been working in such close proximity to the packages. At times only feet away. But in the routine of my mundane occupation, I was completely ignorant of the fact that I was standing in the very shadow of something so horrifying. I looked out the drive-through window at the sheet of rain that smacked against the concrete of the parking lot, creating a continuous growl as the downpour splashed off the surface of the earth. I adjusted the microphone on my headset. It was fortunate that few people ventured out of the comfort of their homes on such a night. The overcast skies shielded the stars and moon from penetrating the gloom, the sparkling sheen of the rain catching the reflection of any far off light the only thing truly visible. And when anyone was so bold as to order at the outside menu of Chuck L's Roast Beef, I was the guy who would have to stick my head out that window to handle their money and give them their order. On every occasion, rain and wind would infiltrate the building and wreak havoc on my neat little stacks of paper cups and plastic lids, and leave me soaking wet in the process. "Hey Chris," Ronnie, the night manager called my name, "you wanna help me get the rest of the freezer ready for freight?" Ronnie was a renegade, his bony frame taut with muscles, which in turn were painted with green tattoos, so faded as to be all but indistinguishable as they climbed up his arms. "I'm the only one wearing a headset," I said, "unless you can find Anthony, but he sucks at taking orders." "I've got him cleaning the bathrooms," he told me. "Geez, it's not even eight," Ronnie was prone to overreaction, so I tempered my irritation at his unorthodox haste, "and somebody's got to cover drive." "You really think anyone's out driving in this crap-storm?" I saw that flare in Ronnie's eye, the kind that dared only the greatest fool to question his authority, "come on, I wanna get this crap done." I rolled my eyes and followed him into the freezer. Other than Ronnie, Anthony, and myself, the only other person working was Esperanza, the assigned back closer. She was a first generation Mexican immigrant, her English was actually pretty good, but her limited vocabulary kept her from being ideal in customer service. I don't even think she knew how to work the registers. It wasn't that she couldn't have learned, she was just such a good asset on the backline that there was no reason to switch her around. I followed Ronnie, briefly explaining to Esperanza that I'd be in the freezer helping him clear out boxes. "Then who's going to cover register?" she asked. I took off my headset and pretended to offer it to her. She smiled at the joke. She had a really fun smile, with cute dimples. "No, no, no," she laughed as she shook her head, then turned back to filling her sauce bottles. I put the headset back on and wore it into the freezer, even though it was useless in there. The insulation caused such interference that it wouldn't even beep if a customer pulled up to the outside speaker. Ronnie was already in there hastily pulling curly fries and mozzarella sticks out of their boxes, and tossing the individual bags onto a shelf where they wouldn't get in the way of stocking freight the next morning. He started tossing me boxes, which I automatically broke down and stacked. I had worked at Chuck L's for five years. But about a year ago the owner, Ken Patton, had made the odd move of storing miscellaneous items in the freezer instead of the attic. His excuse was that it helped with "energy conservation". Apparently he'd given the full lecture to a few other employees, and as his lectures could be tedious, I had never made a personal inquiry. But the fact was that half of our freezer was stacked floor to ceiling with boxes full of random crap. They were all labeled with a sharpie, and I perused the visible explanations pertaining to the contents of each box. "Employee Uniforms," said one, "Christmas Decorations," said another, "Monkey Dishes," whatever the hell those were. But what really struck me as odd was that in such a vast space jammed with boxes, to the extent where it seemed like a complete wall of cardboard cut us off from half the freezer, a couple of the boxes were marked "empty". Energy conservation or not, who the hell actually labels an "empty" box and crams it into an already crowded storage space? Ken certainly had his quirks, but this seemed to me, at that moment, sheer idiocy. It was hard enough with all the iron racks on the slippery metal floor to keep from accidentally toppling stacks of curly fry boxes when you reached up for them, and those were just individual stacks. "Hey Ronnie," I said, "why would Ken keep empty boxes stored in the freezer?" "What makes you think that they're empty?" he said as he continued to shovel frozen goods onto the side shelf. "Well, they're marked 'empty'," I said, "unless there's something so valuable hidden in them that he only wants us to think they're empty." Ronnie had a record as a druggie and petty thief. I'm only guessing that the suggestion that something valuable may be what truly caught his attention. He turned around and scanned the cardboard wall. He saw the boxes to which I referred and struggled to remove one from its place. A few adjoining boxes came crashing to the ground as he dislodged the one he chose, and he cursed roughly, but continued to remove the box for investigation. "It feels empty," he said when he had it in his arms. The top was loose, so he quickly opened it up and peered inside. "Yeah, it's empty," he sounded disappointed as he looked in. My state of mind was quite different. The crumbling avalanche of boxes that Ronnie had inadvertently created gave me a very small window to the back of the freezer. The wall had been two boxes thick, and as just enough had fallen away for me to see beyond them, something very suspicious caught my eye. "What is that?" I pointed toward what sort of looked like the contours of a human head and shoulders wrapped in a sheet. "What the hell?" Ronnie, seized with furious curiosity, tore through the remaining parcels that impeded our access to the back. When he was done, and the entire freezer floor strewn with miscellaneous containers, he had clearly revealed three human sized shapes, each entirely concealed within white sheets and sealed in large plastic coroner's bags. "Are those real?" I simply aired the question that had doubtlessly crawled into both of our minds. They were all standing erect, propped against the back wall. "Don't be stupid, of course not," he said in a voice that was somewhat less than certain. There clearly had to be other explanations. Mannequins perhaps. Why? Who knows, but it wasn't any less feasible that hiding human bodies in a restaurant. Ronnie approached one, flicking his box-knife open. I swallowed apprehensively. Surely this would only prove that my gut feeling was wrong, but the suspense thrilled me. It was a sort of nervousness, but my life was all-in-all so boring that I was almost just as afraid to have my suspicions invalidated. He slit the plastic man-sack which contained one of the enigmas, then carefully bifurcated the sheet over its head. He was blocking my view, so initially I didn't know what had startled him so much that he jumped back, slipping on the slick, icy floor and twisting his ankle against one of the iron racks. He started swearing loudly, profusely, and incessantly, while I stepped to the side to see what he had revealed. It was a hideous visage, that was sure enough. It looked like a human face, pale blue, and pocked with a few dark, shimmering sores which were caked with ice. The eyes, nostrils, ears, and mouth were all stitched shut, sutured with an extraordinarily thick metal wire. It certainly was a ghastly face, misshapen and deformed as it was with all of its sensory organs stitched shut. I stared in a state of stunned disbelief. "What the hell?" I gasped, while Ronnie scrambled to his feet, still cursing impulsively. "That's a real body," he panted as he finally rose, "that's a freaking real body." I just continued to stare from where I was, the unseeing disfigured face looking right back at me, suffering in grim agony as its skin was stretched and pulled tight with wire. "We have to close right now!" Ronnie shouted, and hurried out to, presumably, lock all the doors and turn off the lights on the pole sign and menu board. I remained for a time, the puzzle of this strangely mummified creature gnawing at my mind. When I finally left I saw Ronnie intercepting Anthony as he returned with his bathroom kit. "Anthony go home!" Ronnie shouted, every tendon in his neck visible as he furiously tried to corner Anthony with his body, "clock out and go home!" "What did I do?" Anthony asked. "Just get your ass out of here, we're closing!" Ronnie raged. "Okay, okay, geez," Anthony tried to duck around Ronnie's skinny frame without accidentally touching the raving lunatic. He was practically pinned against the backside of the counter, and finally Ronnie backed up enough to give the poor idiot enough room to clock out at the register and grab his raincoat. Anthony threw me a perplexed look as he left as if to ask me what was going on. In response I raised my eyebrows and twisted my mouth in a way as to tell him it was something pretty bad. I doubt he was completely satisfied, but he nodded at me, acknowledging at least my subtle implications that it wasn't his fault. "We're closing!" Ronnie shouted to Esperanza and me as Anthony went through the door, greeted by a howl of wind and an assault of pelting raindrops from the angry storm. I watched as he shuffled out of the parking lot toward the nearest bus stop. "Why, what's going on?" Esperanza asked me, used to Ronnie's bizarre fits of rage, but not so used to closing at eight o'clock. I really didn't know how to explain it to her. "There's some dead bodies in the freezer," I shrugged. "Haha, very funny, what's going on?" she was humorless this time. I gave her a very deep, meaningful look, one that she obviously didn't understand, but accepted the severe gravity of it. Ronnie swore loudly as he came back from locking both entrances. "Alright, what do we do, call the police?" I asked, trying to be as collected as I could, but feeling the panic creeping into my voice at both Ronnie's hysteria and the mysterious discovery that had been buried in the freezer. "Not yet," he said hotly, "first we have to drag their asses out here to make sure they are what we think they are!" "Who?" Esperanza asked. "Is that really necessary?" my panic was escalating, "can't we leave them in the freezer and give them a second look?" "No!" Ronnie's logic was senseless but resolute, "I want to make sure that those are really three dead people by seeing them in the proper light." He roughly slapped my shoulder, a signal for me to follow him. I sighed and, ignoring Esperanza's flurry of questions, complied. It took a little time, but after Ronnie had violently ripped the cords out of the oven, shoving it, as well as the bread rack, towards the back entrance, we finally were able to extract and reveal the entirety of the three bodies, laid out for examination on the floor of the backline. Bizarre specimens, the three of them. Two men and one woman, we surmised by body type, though the genitals had been removed and stitched tight, along with the rectal cavities, by that metal wire. It became apparent that the objective had been to tightly seal any opening in the bodies of the three victims. Eyes, ears, nose, mouth, butt, and genitals were all excessively covered by wire sutures and other means. They all seemed to have died of the same thing, a disease by the looks of it, as bulging, raw sores were abundant on all corpses. The sores were lumpy and veiny, and, at the moment glistening under the fluorescent lights with patches of icicles filling every crevice they could. Esperanza watched us unravel the horrid things with her hand over her mouth, her brown eyes wide with terror, but unable to tear themselves away from the mutilated abominations that Ken had apparently sealed in the freezer of his restaurant. "How did they die?" Ronnie asked me as if I were a freaking medical examiner. "Doctor Chris's official diagnosis is that they died from unnatural causes," I said bitterly. "Can we call the police now?" "Not yet," Ronnie looked at me with that authoritative flame in his eye. "Do you think Ken murdered these people?" "Hell, I don't know," I said angrily, "it doesn't look like they were murdered to me, looks like some weird virus." "Then why would he wrap them up and hide them in the freezer?" Ronnie challenged. "I think we should call the police," Esperanza piped in, her voice quivering. "Not yet!" Ronnie now cast his devil's glare upon her. I think at this point the bastard was just being stubborn. "Why not?" I said, "you expect me to solve the mystery of the frozen cadavers? That's not my job." "Your job is to do whatever I tell you to!" Ronnie's voice tingled with hate, but he was really only being immature. "I think I saw one move!" Esperanza gasped. We both looked down at the corpses. They were still prone, in the position we had laid them in. I thought of how lovely it would be if they were zombies. But, as weird as this whole thing was, nothing out of the realm of possibility had happened, so I was still sane enough to reject the theory of the corpses being infected with the zombie virus. Then we all saw a subtle convulsion from one of the sores on the female. As we watched in tense silence, these episodes became more frequent amongst all three bodies. "I think they're just thawing," Ronnie said, "as they thaw the muscles probably loosen up." "I don't know dude, something's screwy." As I said that one of the smaller sores on a man's head split open, and a reddish worm with giant, purple veins started to squirrel out. We all watched it in disgust as it wriggled out of the man's skin, and slithered like a snake under the backline coolers. "What the hell?" I said slowly as it disappeared. Suddenly the slamming of a car door penetrated the pattering storm, vibrating with so much fury it felt like it shook the entire building. There was only one man I knew that was capable of having such wrath as to reproach a rainstorm with the noise his anger produced. I went around the backline to the front, and could clearly see the shadowy silhouette of a disgruntled man stomping towards the restaurant through the glass door. "Holy crap, it's Ken!" I said. A torrent of cursing from Ronnie, and then. "Do not let him come back here! Do whatever it takes to keep him away! When he leaves, I'll call the cops, I swear." His instructions were sheer madness. It was easier to pacify a charging rhino by stepping right in front of it than to confront Ken Patton when he was rampaging. When he wasn't, he was a decent guy, but the thought that he'd felt it necessary to conceal mutilated corpses in the freezer created a mysterious and perhaps diabolical aura around the man that enhanced his menace further, were that possible. He tried the front door. When he found it locked he thrust his keys into it with such fury as to grind the pins in the door-lock to dust. When I saw his face, red with anger, under the light, I became petrified with a fear that the diseased corpses in the back could only dream of matching. His whole head was like a volcano, ready to explode and send a geyser of molten brain matter all over. And I had to keep him from reaching the backline. "Well, Ken, what an unexpected surprise," I smiled as I stood in front of the swinging employee entrance as to impede his path. He was so angry he could barely even find the words. "What's going on in here?" he threw up his arms, "why are we closed? We close at eleven, every night, no matter what. Where's Ronnie? Anthony called me and said he'd practically forced him out of the restaurant!" While trembling in terror at the unfavorable circumstances in which I'd been trapped, I tried to placate the irate business owner. "That Anthony," I said, "he got off early because we were slow. He must've been joking with you Ken, crazy idiot. We're not closed." "Then why are the outside lights off? Why are the doors locked? If something is broken I'm the first call you make! Where's Ronnie?" My attempt at deceit had only added fuel to the fire. "What's going on here?" Ken stomped his foot in frustration. "I think Ronnie's getting the freezer ready for freight," I told him. "Really? The lights were off? Maybe Anthony shut them off as part of his joke. I'll check the breakers. Why don't you go home and relax? Everything's fine." "Everything's not fine!" he roared, "you're lying to me! What did you guys -" He stopped mid-sentence as his eyes spotted something on the floor behind me. Suddenly, as if a switch had been thrown to turn him "off", Ken's face went from bright red to ghastly white. His shoulders began to sag, his jaw dropped in horrified disbelief. I followed his eyes and saw the little red worm slithering out into the lobby. "Y-you opened the packages?" all the fire had left him, he was choking out his words, "you dragged them out of the freezer? How long have they been out? They have to be frozen." Seemingly out of nowhere Ronnie lunged toward Ken and pointed a kitchen knife at his throat. The flicker in Ronnie's eye now seemed to grasp an even broader sense of control. As Ken was breathless and frightened, Ronnie found himself with some sort of leverage over his boss, and was manic with power. "What are they, bastard?" the ends of his lips almost curled into a smile, "where did they come from you vicious, murdering bastard?" Ken tried to wriggle his way into the back, but Ronnie swiftly maneuvered his knife to keep the owner right in front of him. I, meanwhile, had moved off to the side, in front of the register, where, if violence from these two madmen should occur, I would have relative safety. "I'll explain everything, I promise, but first we have to get the packages back in the freezer, they must stay frozen!" Ken pleaded with Ronnie, but it seemed to give the latter psychopath an even greater sense of authority. "You explain first, then we'll decide what to do," he said. "Please, you don't understand, we have to keep those packages frozen," Ken begged. I felt there must be good reason, in fact a sick tightening in my stomach thought it even knew what it was, considering the convulsing of the bodies and the emergence of the little worm. "Explain first!" Ronnie said through clenched teeth. Ken sighed in submission. "Okay," he said, "but I'm going to have to make a very long story very short because those things need to stay in the freezer." "Then get started!" Ronnie demanded. "The whole thing started during the recession," Ken hurried his voice, but I had yet to ever see him explain something that wasn't long-winded, I wondered if he was capable. "Sales were going down. Then a friend of mine called me out to his cousin's farm. He gave me a little fried brown piece of meat. It was absolutely delicious, and even addictive. I asked what it was. Well, they led me out to a dead cow, which had giant blisters teeming with those little worms. Nobody knew where they came from. But they were irresistibly delicious. I wanted to press them into oil and rub a glaze on our beef to make it, well, addictive. I realize it may seem a little unethical, but those were desperate times. That's before we found out what happens if you swallow them alive. They breed inside people, if you split them in two each half will remain alive. They still are completely safe if consumed dead, I want you to know that, I'd never poison anybody, but my friend and his cousin and his wife were so addicted to eating them, they'd somehow consumed some that weren't entirely dead. When I realized what was happening, and the three people all died of the worms eating them alive from the inside, I stitched every hole in their bodies shut. Then the worms started burrowing out of the boils they'd been breeding in, and I realized I had to keep them frozen to put them in a stasis, where they were completely benign. But if you revive them..." Ronnie's mouth was foaming with rage, and he seemed unyielding, so I jumped into the conversation. "Why did you bring them here?" "Because I was still hoping to use them somehow," he said, "I don't have a big enough freezer at home, so I wrapped them up and put them here. But as sales started to rise, I decided the most ethical thing to do was to keep them frozen until I absolutely needed them." "Yes, very 'ethical' of you." I was disgusted. "What are they?" Ken shrugged. "Undocumented parasites. I have no idea. We were just calling them 'tasty worms'." "Tasty worms?" I shouted fiercely. "Oh, that's a great description Ken! We'll call the bloodthirsty, mutilating parasites 'tasty worms'!" "We didn't know they were parasitic at the time," Ken started to get frantic, "come on, I told you the whole thing. We've got to freeze those packages!" Presently we heard Esperanza scream. "Oh, no!" Ken pushed his way past the knife wielding Ronnie, panicked to a point I'd never seen. I followed him. "It's too late!" Ken said woefully as the boils in the corpses began to burst one by one, great masses of wriggling worms pouring through each. "We can't let them escape the building, they'll hunt people and crawl inside their mouths and noses." "How do you know?" I asked. "I don't have time to explain it all!" I think that was the first time I'd ever heard Ken not want to explain something. "Chris, I need to go out to my car, make sure no worms escape. After I'm back, this whole place is quarantined until every last one of them is dead!" I covered the entrance as he went. One of the disgusting cretins had gotten pretty close to the door, so I smashed it with my foot. The things seemed to be giant pockets of blood. Red crimson splashed from the dying parasite, creating a large puddle under my foot. I lifted it and my stomach curled in revulsion as sticky flesh, like chewed bubble gum, clung to the bottom of my shoe. I thought I would puke, but a honey-sweet smell filled my nostrils. How could something so revolting smell so delicious? As Ken returned with a gasoline can, Esperanza locked herself in the woman's restroom. I figured it for the best, hoping only no "tasty worms" had preceded her. Ken locked the door. "Grab the fire extinguisher," he ordered. "You're going to start a fire?" I said. "Just enough to burn the bodies in the packages," he told me, "I'll have to cut my losses and destroy them. Then we have to kill every last one of those worms." The last thing I was worried about were his losses. I snatched the fire extinguisher and released the handle. "Oh, no!" Ronnie intercepted Ken, still brandishing the knife, "you are a sick bastard! I'm calling the shots now!" Ken was about to reason with him but I knew it would do no good. Ken was the smartest of the two evils offered at the time, so I took action. Aiming for his eyes, I hosed Ronnie down with the fire extinguisher. With great pressure the device hissed and flung its foamy aerosol into his face. He dropped the knife and screamed, seeking shelter in the back storeroom. "Good call, Chris," Ken told me. I just glared at him in response. He poured gasoline on the three bodies, which were flopping up and down as their wounds ejaculated flowing tentacles of worms. Ken lit a match. "Use the fire extinguisher on my word," he said as he dropped the match onto the trio of jumping worm incubators. A burst of light and a wave of sweltering heat grazed me as I tried to hold my ground with the fire extinguisher. The fire sprinklers kicked in almost immediately, but were wholly ineffective against the crematory blaze. The fire didn't spread, but the risk of smoke inhalation dwelled in the back of my mind, meanwhile my skin was being reddened by my close proximity to the flames. "Okay, go!" I was only too happy to comply, for the duration we had let the fire burn seemed excessive. I saturated the flames with the fire extinguisher, working back and forth to decimate the crackling inferno. Meanwhile, Ken threw the lids off of the fryers that weren't currently in use, and turned them on. "Our only options are smashing them or burning them," he explained, "when these are heated up, I'm going to dump hot oil on the floor. Until then, smash them!" The tasty worms popped like water balloons filled with blood as I hunted them across the restaurant. When the fryers were heated, Ken warned me to seek higher ground, and I climbed onto the front counter as he opened all five valves, flooding the restaurant floor with smoldering corn oil. The overpowering scent of the fry grease was made slightly more bearable as it overtook the worms and cooked them, sending their sweet aroma wafting into my nostrils. Eventually, after hours of scouring the restaurant, leaving no stone unturned, we were both satisfied that the infestation had been completely annihilated. Ken called out Esperanza and sent her home. The restaurant was completely trashed, everything overturned, spangled with great splashes of worm blood, and the whole texture of the floor had been altered by the boiling corn oil. Ken looked around dismally at the wreckage that had earlier that evening been a fully functional restaurant. He was quite distressed, but as for me, I was just glad that we'd finished, and the weirdest freaking night of my life was almost over. "Alright, Chris, thanks for the help," Ken said dully, "why don't you go home and rest, I'll start cleaning up this disaster." Exhausted as I was, were he not largely to blame for keeping his infective packages in the freezer, I would have offered to stay and help clean up. As it was, I felt little to no pity for the man. For him, it was poetic justice, that an act of corruption which he hoped would aid him financially ended up virtually destroying his business. "By the way, where's Ronnie?" he asked. I hadn't thought much about Ronnie amidst the mayhem unleashed upon the little restaurant. The last place I'd seen him was the storeroom, though I'd ventured back there since, on my raid to rid the world of the tasty worm threat. I finally found him standing in the walk-in cooler, with a look of pacified stupor on his face. "Thanks for the help asshole," I said, "what the hell are you doing in here?" He looked at me placidly. I saw a long, red stripe quickly slither out of his nose and down his throat. He grinned in ecstasy. "They really are good," he told me. Labels: creepy stories, medium length stories, Pathos Posted by Charlie Fish at 8:00 AM this really is excellent, great characters, especially Ronnie, who I just knew had an awful fate in store. original Story, mad. I loved it! Jim Bartlett April 6, 2014 at 4:08 PM Tasty worms!! Wow - just the right touch of tension, a good sprinkling of characters brought to life with great writing, and a dash of humor. Very well done! Fun story! What a disturbingly fun story! I don't usually read horror or science fiction on purpose, but this was well written and engaged me to the end. My favorite image/line is "The overcast skies shielded the stars and moon from penetrating the gloom" NICE! This was a good time. Nice balance of action, humor, and squick factor. --Wendy Hammer Dan April 21, 2014 at 1:47 AM I particularly enjoyed the minor conflicts and mysteries leading to the discovery of the packages. I Love, Love, Love this story. I was hooked from the very begging until the very end. Who hasn't wondered what's really lurking in the everyday places we all know? This story captures what we are quietly wondering...but might never say out loud...Hat's off to the author, Spectacular! Dream Catcher, Heart Listener by Christine E. Schulze Math is Funny by Amy Burns The Government Worker by Ed Nichols Entertained by Gary Hewitt Comet by Katherine J Parker The Heartwarming Story of Arnold Schwarzenegger by... No Curfew by Matthew Wilding Midnight Appointment by Charles Howard Wise The Rat Catcher By Max Detrano Heroin Girl by Josette Torres Mahadsanid by Jon Moray Why Can't They Leave Things Alone? by Harry Downey	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1736
__label__wiki	0.908315	0.908315	5 Worlds Book 4: The Amber Anthem from Penguin Random House can go live at any time. by First Comics News on April 30, 2020 5 Worlds Book 4: The Amber Anthem from Penguin Random House can go live at any time. 2020-04-30T08:52:33-07:00 - News NEW YORK, NY (April 30, 2020)—The fourth book in the enchanting graphic novel series 5 Worlds will see its heroes travel to Salassandra, a desert planet, to continue their mission of lighting ancient beacons to restore environmental harmony to an overheating galaxy. As with the previous three volumes The Sand Dancer, The Cobalt Prince, and The Red Maze, each book introduces a new ecosystem and inhabitants that expand the collective mythology behind 5 Worlds. In The Amber Anthem, Oona Lee will not only have to light a new beacon through elaborate dances that command mystical sands, but convince a crowd of 10,000 to join her in singing the titular anthem. “The 5 Worlds team has been constructing a dense fiction of planets and beliefs since the 2017 release of The Sand Warrior, and we’re seeing seeds we planted three years ago bloom in The Amber Anthem,” co-writer Mark Siegel explains. “From the history of the beacons to the mysterious Felid gods who built them, this book offers a parade of surprises from both the villains opposing Oona, Jax, and An Tzu, as well as a few from within.” A timely theme for an election year in the United States, the villains sow confusion and mistrust through the people of Salassandra, preventing the public from aiding Oona and her peers in their integral mission. As the trio nears their goal, the sinister being known as the Mimic possesses the corporate overseer Stan Moon, working in tandem with other corrupt officials to bend perception against Oona. “Though our fiction embraces the fantastic, our five worlds are not immune to the same problems we face on Earth today. These past four years have witnessed an onslaught of bad actors and propaganda,” Mark Siegel says. “New foe Peet Bowl and an unexpected voice from the past use those same weapons of ambiguity against our heroes.” Artistically, Mark Siegel, who also serves as 5 Worlds‘ creative lead, drew inspiration from the visionary coaching of Jean Giraud, who Siegel came to know as a teenager in Paris. Giraud—commonly known by his nom de plume Mœbius—created some of the most internationally beloved sci-fi works of the ‘70s and ‘80s. The 5 Worlds art team works in tandem for the final, glowing visuals; Siegel begins the process by providing layouts followed by Matt Rockefeller, Xanthe Bouma, and Boya Sun all contributing pencils. Rockefeller completes the final pass on the line work as Bouma establishes the key color palette, with Bouma and Sun collaborating on the final coloring. The creative team delights in the same mystical visual language Siegel learned from Giraud, from Bouma’s dreamy pastel color schemes to Sun’s startling ships and machines, and Rockefeller’s flowing deserts. “We all adore the vivid imagery of European science fiction, and have worked to not only weave an unforgettable story that spans an entire universe, but to solidify those stellar geographies and their sweeping histories with line and color,” Seigel says. “With this volume, we’ve hopefully created a truly memorable oasis of a world in Salassandra.” Print copies of 5 Worlds: The Amber Anthem will be available on 5/12/2020. Mark Siegel has written and illustrated several award-winning and bestselling picture books and graphic novels. He is also the founder and editorial director of First Second Books. He lives with his family in New York. Find Mark at marksiegelbooks.com and the 5 Worlds team on Twitter at @5WorldsTeam. Alexis Siegel Alexis Siegel is a writer and translator who has translated a number of bestselling graphic novels, including Joann Sfar’s The Rabbi’s Cat and Pénélope Bagieu’s Exquisite Corpse into English and Gene Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese into French. Xanthe Bouma Xanthe Bouma is an illustrator based in Los Angeles. Her work includes picture books, such as Little Sid, fashion illustration, and comics. Follow Xanthe on Tumblr at @yumbles and on Twitter at @xoxobouma. Matt Rockefeller Matt Rockefeller is an illustrator and comic artist from Tucson, Arizona. Currently living in Portland, Oregon. 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__label__wiki	0.525835	0.525835	Spain & LATAM Fischer Freedom™ Military website Vue d'ensemble des connecteurs Fischer Core Series AluLite Fischer UltiMate™ Series Rugged Flash Drive Fischer FiberOptic Series Fischer MiniMax™ Series Fischer Freedom™ Series Solutions actives Fischer Rugged Flash Drive Solutions de câblage IdO et technologies portables Marins & Sous-marins Robots & appareils télépilotés Caractéristiques dimensionnelles Guides utilisateurs Modèles CAD 3D News & Expos DSEI 2019 Qualité et certifications Télécharger nos certificats Partenariats et sponsorings SolarStratos TWIICE Règles d'utilisation des cookies Sopha Suth Sopha Suth: A decade of engineering, happily delivering innovative assemblies Sopha Suth has been designing cable assemblies for Fischer Connectors North & South America for ten years, and he wouldn’t have it any other way. “The small group setting, the team I work with, they are the best group I’ve been a part of, if you ask me.” Sopha worked with an international company before he came to Fischer Connectors, and says that his background in working with people in other countries helped him when he started working with colleagues in Switzerland from his Atlanta, GA office. One of the best skills he developed: listening and collaboration. “It’s so easy to get stuck on your own point of view, but I’ve learned that listening, looking for that new perspective and collaborating makes the work easier.” What inspires Sopha? “It goes back to the people. We are all people here trying to get a job done and have fun while doing it. We work for the customer. Everything we do is custom, one-of-a-kind, and we get to create new and complex cable assemblies that improve our customers’ products. It’s exciting to see what the customer wants and come up with a great design that fits. The team members help each other out when workloads get out of hand, and we’ve helped each other at home, too. If I don’t have a tool for that home repair job, I know someone else will help me out and lend me theirs. That’s the type of team I’m a part of. We help each other in and out of the office.” The engineering group in the US takes care of customers by designing cable assemblies and connectivity solutions. They work on sourcing cable and parts needed to get the customers’ custom assemblies perfect. He says he and the whole engineering team likes to get customer feedback on how the assemblies are used. “Our work affects the people who use our assemblies. We love to know how they are used, and how they can save lives. The amount of detail we put into it. The workmanship. It pays off when we know about the people who use it and the people who benefit from that use.” Sopha Suth, Sr. Engineer, Fischer Connectors, Inc., USA Copyright © 2021 Fischer Connectors SA \| All rights reserved.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1742
__label__wiki	0.800681	0.800681	Cultural Heritage + Diversity Fossils + Paleontology The Value of Museums Discover Fishes Pristis zijsron Fishes in the Fresh Waters of Florida Gallery Fish FAQ Fish Groups Fish Anatomy Features & Measurements Mouth Types Tooth Types & Patches Gill Arch & Scale Types Spines, Rays & Caudal Fins How Fish Swim Fish Adaptions Fish Species Profiles Sawfish FAQ Conservation & Research Sawfish Myths Sharks FAQ Atlantic Shark ID Guide Shark Fishing in the U.S. Megamouths Fossil Sharks Fossil Shark Basics Fossil Shark Teeth ID Guide Shark Books For Kids Shark Attack FAQ How to Avoid Shark Attacks Skates & Rays Skates & Rays FAQ Stingray ID Guide Careers in Ichthyology How to Become a Biologist About the Endangered Species Act Sawfish Classroom Activities Shark Classroom Activities Shark Dissection Ray & Skate Classroom Activities Related Museum Research Florida Program for Shark Research Sawfish Conservation + Research Florida Museum Fish Collection Green Sawfish Green sawfish at the Aquarium of Genoa. Photo from Tiia Monto, Wikicommons Sawfish look a lot like sharks, but they are actually rays. Their unusual snout, or rostrum, is studded with “teeth” (specialized scales) and is used to stun schooling fish by swinging side to side. The green sawfish is the largest species of sawfish, growing to 24 feet in length. The rostrum alone can be over 5 feet long. Order – Rhinopristiformes Family – Pristidae Genus – Pristis Species – zijsron Afrikaans: langkam-saagvis Arabic: abusef, sayyaf, and sayyafah Australia Aboriginal: dindagubba (Last and Stevens, 1994) Dutch: groene zaagrog Danish: grøn savrokke English: green sawfish, longcomb sawfish, longsnout sawfish, narrowsnout sawfish, narrow-snouted sawfish, sawfish (Last and Stevens, 1994) French: poisson-scie Guugu Yimidhirr: yubadhi Portuguese: tubarão-serra africano Tamil: vella-sorrah and vezha Importance to Humans Green sawfish. Photo courtesy Shedd Aquarium Green sawfish in Australia are occasionally caught in prawn trawlers and inshore gill nets targeting barramundi (Lates calcarifer) and threadfins (Polynemidae) (Field et al., 2008), though they are occasionally targeted purposefully for food. All sawfishes’ fins are more valuable than their meat on the Asian ‘shark fin’ market. The eggs, liver oil, rostra, and bile of sawfishes are used in chinese traditional medicine. Their rostra are sold as curios (Guilford, 2014). Sawfish are significant in Australian Aboriginal culture, often depicted in bark paintings. They are occasionally caught in fishing tournaments, but rarely targeted by sport anglers. Large green sawfish are capable of long fights on heavy tackle. The International Game Fish Association does not have a record holder for the green sawfish. Danger to Humans All sawfishes are harmless if left undisturbed. Humans are too large for potential prey. Though care must be taken when handling or approaching a sawfish, as they may defend themselves using their powerful rostrum. IUCN Red List Status: Critically Endangered Habitat destruction and modification has impacted sawfish populations worldwide (Dulvy et al. 2016; Leeney, 2017). To combat the ever declining population numbers the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) declared the family Pristidae to be “among the most threatened elasmobranchs” in the world. The green sawfish currently listed as “Critically Endangered”. The greatest threat is localized extinction from extensive fishing (Kyne et al. 2013). In June 2007, the Convention on International Trade of Endangered Species (CITES) imposed sanctions for the protection of all sawfish species, making it internationally illegal to trade in sawfish, their rostra, or their fins. The only currently permitted trade is from Australia for public aquaria, in extremely limited quantities. The status of local populations of green sawfishes are unknown. However, they are protected in Australian waters under the Australian Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act. > Check the status of the green sawfish at the IUCN website. World distribution for the green sawfish. Map © Chondrichthyan Tree of Life The green sawfish is found in the Indian and western Pacific oceans as well as the east African coastline of the Atlantic (Everett at el., 2015). Ranging to Somalia and the Gulf of Aden up to the Red Sea (Moore, 2014). Local ecological knowledge suggests that, while declining, there is still a population of P. zijsron in the Persian Gulf. From the Gulf of Aden, ranging from the Indian coast to Thailand and south through Indonesia (Last and Stevens, 1994). A 5.13 m (16 ft. 10 in.) specimen was caught off Port Blair in the Andaman Islands in 1967 (Marichamy, 1969). In Australia, occurrences have been reported from Broome (Western Australia) to Sydney (New South Wales), and a single record from Glenelg in South Australia (Last & Stevens, 1994). The Gulf of Carpentaria in Northern Australia may be one of the last viable Pristis populations due its limited human involvement (Peverell, 2005). Lastly, the Pilbara region of Western Australia has been identified as an important pupping ground for the species (Morgan et al., 2015). The green sawfish no longer appears to be common anywhere in its range. View reported sawfish encounters on a world map Green sawfish live in marine, estuary, and freshwater habitats. Often preferring sand and mud substrates located outside river mouths (Peverell, 2005). The species typically lives in 5.0 m (16.4 feet) of water or less, although adults are found in <100 m depths (Dulvy et al., 2016). All While they swim much like sharks, sawfish are actually a species of ray. The head is dorso-ventrally flattened with the mouth and gills located under the body and the eyes positioned dorsally. Sawfish are able to breathe while lying on the ocean floor by drawing water into their gills through large holes behind each eye, called spiracles. Their most distinctive feature is their long flat rostral “saw” – studded with rostral teeth along the margins. These “teeth” are set deeply in hard cartilage and do not grow back if the root becomes damaged. Sawfish can be distinguished from sawsharks (Pristiophorus spp.) by their lack of barbels, dorso-laterally compressed body, ventral gills, similar sized rostral teeth, large size, and preference for shallow coastal habitats. Green sawfish have the longest rostrum of any living species of sawfish, up to 1.66 m (5.4 ft.). They can have 23 and 37 (typically 25-34) rostral teeth per side. Usually one side of the rostrum as a slightly more teeth than other (Last et al., 2016). Green sawfish is distinguished from the knifetooth sawfish (Anoxypristis cuspidata) primarily by size but also by the shape and number of the rostral teeth (23-37 versus 20-25), presence of dermal denticles over the entire body, and the lack of a developed lower caudal fin lobe (Last et al., 2016). The Green sawfish is distinguished from the dwarf sawfish (Pristis clavata) by its narrow and moderately tapering rostrum (versus wide-based and strongly tapering), greater number of rostral teeth per side (23-37 versus 18-24), and the lack of a developed lower caudal fin lobe. In addition, the green sawfish reaches a larger maximum size (>7.3 m) than the dwarf sawfish (3.1 m) (Last et al., 2016). P. zijsron look similar to the smalltooth sawfish (Pristis pectinata), but the origin of their first dorsal fin positioned slightly posterior to the origin of the pelvic fins, versus directly over or slightly anterior to the pelvic fins. The space between last two rostral teeth on a side is about 4-8 times the space between the first two teeth, versus 2-4 times. P. zijsron rostrum less tapered and narrow. In addition, green sawfish have a greater average number of rostral teeth per side than smalltooth sawfish, and have a green body color, versus brown or bluish-gray. Rostra of very young green sawfish are similar to that of the smalltooth sawfish, but whole specimens may be distinguished based on the positioning of the first dorsal fin slightly posterior to the origin of the pelvic fins, versus directly over or slightly anterior to the pelvic fins (Last et al., 2016). Green sawfish are distinguished from the largetooth sawfish (Pristis pristis) by geographic range. Being found in the Indian and western Pacific oceans versus the western central Atlantic and eastern Pacific oceans. P. zijsron possess a greater number of rostral teeth per side, 23-37 versus 14-24. Their rostrum are narrow and tapering rostrum, versus the wide-based and strongly tapered largetooth rostrum. The first dorsal fin P. pristis originating of slightly posterior to its pectoral fins. Additionally, they lack a lower caudal fin lobe and the slender build of the P. zijsron (Last et al., 2016). Common Name Scientific Name Rostral Tooth Count Distribution Other Distinguishing Features Smalltooth sawfish Pristis pectinata 20-30 Atlantic Ocean common off the coasts of Florida Largetooth sawfish Pristis pristis 14-24 Global teeth evenly spaced; rostrum short and wide Green sawfish Pristis zijsron 23-37 Indo-West Pacific Ocean green in color Dwarf Sawfish Pristis clavata 18-24 Indo-West Pacific Ocean teeth evenly spaced Knifetooth Sawfish Anoxypristis cuspidata 16-26 West Pacific Ocean rostral teeth missing at the base of rostrum Green sawfish can be easily distinguished from other sawfish by its size and rostral teeth count and orientation (See table) (Last et al., 2016). The dorsal surface of green sawfish is greenish-brown or olive, with yellow-grey dorsal fins. Their rostral teeth are typically a dirty cream or yellow, contrasting with the darker hue of their dorsal rostrum. The lateral sides are yellowish in color. The ventral surface of the body is a creamy white. The eyes are gray to silver with black pupils (Last et al., 2016). Green sawfish have many rows of small close-set rounded cusp teeth in both jaws. Denticles Flat, rounded crown denticles cover the entire body. Denticles are similar through all development stages, although larger individuals exhibit a more pronounced crown. Like other Pristis species, zijsron have monocuspidate denticles which uniformly cover the body, as opposed to the tricuspidate denticles found in Anoxypristis (Deynat, 2005). Denticles along the posterior portion of the body are more elongate and convex, while the ventral surface denticles are smaller and pavement-like (Deynat, 2005). A mid-dorsal keel, composed of large specialized dermal denticles, extends from just beyond the spiracles to the base of the second dorsal fin. This dorsal keel appears darker in fetuses. Size, Age & Growth Maximum size of P. zijsron has been reported as 7.3 m (24.0 ft.) total length (Last et al., 2016). The green sawfish appears to grow longer than any other living sawfish species. Size at birth is 76 cm (2.5 ft.) (Eschmeyer et al., 1998). Males reach maturity at less than 4.3 m (14.1 ft.) (Last and Stevens, 1994). Females are estimated to reach maturity at 9 years of age (Dulvy et al. 2016). A post-partum female green sawfish measured 3.8 m (12.5 ft.), recorded from the Gulf of Carpentaria (Australia), leading researchers to propose female reach maturity before males. This is the longest living sawfish species, with a lifespan greater than 50 years (Dulvy et al. 2016). Green sawfish at the Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias, Valencia, Spain. Photo by Javier Yaya Tur, Wikicommons All sawfish swing their rostrum in a side-to-side motion to dislodge invertebrates from substrate and to stun schooling fishes. Prey items of the P. zijsron have not been reported, but likely include small schooling fishes, squids, and crustaceans such as crabs and shrimps (Last et al., 2016). All sawfishes, have aplacental yolk sac viviparity (Stevens et al., 2005). The embryos are nourished only by their yolk sac which provides all the energy needed for them to develop into fully functional young in utero before they are born. Parturition occurs during the monsoon season (December-March) in the Northern Australia, though data are sparse (Peverell, 2010). Gestation length is unknown, but the largetooth sawfish have a five month pregnancy, and only breed every other year (Campagno & Last, 1999). Red Sea green sawfish brood sizes range from 2 to 12. In Australia, up to 12 young are born during the wet season (January through July) (Peverell, 2010; Morgan et al. 2010, 2011). Size at birth has been reported as ranging from 60−80 cm (Morgan et al. 2015). The saw teeth of young sawfish are covered in a sheath of tissue, until after birth so as not to injure the mother (Walker, 2003; FSUCML. 2016). Young green sawfish rostral teeth reach their full size proportionate to the size of the rostrum soon after birth. Although adult green sawfish have little or no natural enemies, part of a large specimen was found in the stomach of a 3.0 m (10 ft) total length tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier) caught in the Great Barrier Reef. Other predators of the green sawfish may include bull sharks (Carcharhinus leucas), scalloped hammerheads (Sphyrna lewini) and saltwater crocodiles (Crocodylus porosus). When entangled in nets, this species is vulnerable to predation. The The parasites Nonacotyle pristis, Neoheterocotyle darwinensis, and Pristonchocotyle papuensis (Hexabothriidae) inhabit the gills of other sawfishes off Darwin, Australia and in Papua New Guinea; and may also use the green sawfish as a host. The copepod Ergasilus sp. (Ergasilidae) inhabits the gills of the freshwater sawfish in the Daly River (Australia), and may target green sawfish as well. Other species that target the green sawfish as a host include monogenean helminths such as Erpocotyle caribbensis and Pristonchocotyle intermedia. Other likely parasites include nematodes, protozoans, and trematodes. Confirmed parasites for zijsron are the Anasakis nematodes as well as several species of tapeworm: Fossobothrium perplexum (found in the spiral valves of zijsron as well as Anoxypristis cuspidata) (Beveridge & Campbell, 2005), Pterobothrium acanthotruncatum, and Pterobothrium australiense (Beverridge et al., 2014). In captivity, the green sawfish is susceptible to heavy infestations of trematodes, which can cover the body and cause irritation. The green sawfish was first described by the industrious European ichthyologist Pieter Bleeker in 1851 while residing in Java. Bleeker lived in the East Indies for nearly two decades, which enabled him to collect and describe roughly 1,300 fishes of Indonesia, including the green sawfish. A rostrum measuring 99.1 cm (39 inches) long was taken from a specimen captured in a Borneo river and saved as an example of the species (termed ‘type specimen’). This rostrum is currently housed at the Nationaal Natuurhistorische Museum in Leiden, Netherlands. The valid scientific name of the green sawfish is Pristis zijsron Bleeker, 1851. Synonyms for the green sawfish include a misidentification (Pristis pectinataLatham, 1794), an invalid species (Pristis leptodon Duméril, 1865), and several misspellings (Pristis zisron Bleeker, 1851, Pristis zyrson Bleeker, 1851, and Pristis zysross Bleeker, 1851). The generic name Pristis is Greek for “saw”. It is unclear as to what the specific name zijsron was derived from, and it does not appear to be named after a person or a place. The suffix -on is Greek, however the remainder of the specific name zijsron does not appear Greek. The derivation of the name zijsron continues to be a mystery. Act, B.C., 2011. Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999. Beveridge, I., Bray, R.A., Cribb, T.H. and Justine, J.L., 2014. Diversity of trypanorhynch metacestodes in teleost fishes from coral reefs off eastern Australia and New Caledonia. Parasite, 21. Beveridge, I. and Campbell, R.A., 2005. Three new genera of trypanorhynch cestodes from Australian elasmobranch fishes. 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__label__wiki	0.964517	0.964517	Trump says administration ‘would not even consider’ renaming military bases that honor Confederates WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump tweeted Wednesday that his administration “would not even consider” renaming various military bases like North Carolina's Fort Bragg that honor Confederate officers who led the fight against the Union and directly or implicitly defended slavery. Trump’s announcement came as Defense Secretary Mark Esper and Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy, both former Army officers, put out word through their spokesmen that they are “open to a bipartisan discussion” of renaming the bases. Ten major Army installations are named for Confederate Army officers, mostly senior generals, including Robert E. Lee. Among the 10 is Fort Benning, the namesake of Confederate Army Gen. Henry L. Benning, who was a leader of Georgia's secessionist movement and an advocate of preserving slavery. Others are in Virginia, North Carolina, Alabama, Texas and Louisiana. The naming was done mostly after World War I and in the 1940s, in some cases as gestures of conciliation to the South. RELATED: US military now rethinking links to Confederate army symbols Trump referred to the bases as “monumental and very powerful,” calling them a “part of a Great American Heritage, and a history of Winning, Victory, and Freedom.” Separately, the Navy's top admiral announced Tuesday that he will follow the example of Gen. David Berger, the commandant of the Marine Corps, who last week directed Marine commanders to remove public displays of the Confederate battle flag carried during the Civil War. The flag, which some embrace as a symbol of heritage, “carries the power to inflame feelings of division" and can weaken the unit cohesion that combat requires, Berger has said. “The Confederate battle flag has all too often been co-opted by violent extremist and racist groups whose divisive beliefs have no place in our Corps,” the Corps said in a separate statement last Friday. “Our history as a nation, and events like the violence in Charlottesville in 2017, highlight the divisiveness the use of the Confederate battle flag has had on our society.” RELATED: Marine Corps bans display of Confederate flag Adm. Mike Gilday, the chief of naval operations, directed his staff to begin writing a similar order. A Navy spokesman, Cmdr. Nate Christensen, said the ban would apply aboard Navy ships, aircraft and submarines and at installations. Berger shared a statement regarding the order to remove the Confederate flag in which he stated “there is no place in our corps for racists.” RELATED: President Trump pushes conspiracy theory about injured protester The Army and Air Force have not yet followed Berger's lead, but a defense official said Tuesday that the issue of banning Confederate Army symbols is now under discussion at the highest levels of the Pentagon. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss ongoing internal deliberations.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1751
__label__wiki	0.837372	0.837372	Defense's strong 2nd half leads Colts past Packers in OT After allowing three touchdown passes and 28 first-half points, the Colts gave up only three second-half points Former NFL player Ben Watson slams Warnock’s call for ‘reproductive justice’ Former NFL player Ben Watson tells ‘Fox & Friends’ we can’t fight for justice and forget about the most vulnerable among us which is the pre-born. The Indianapolis defense may have turned Aaron Rodgers into a believer Sunday. Everyone else might want to take notice, too. After allowing three touchdown passes and 28 first-half points, the Colts gave up only three second-half points. They also forced a game-changing fumble less than a minute into overtime for a 34-31 victory over Green Bay. Rodrigo Blankenship won it with a 39-yard field goal with 7:10 remaining. Indy (7-3) did it with an old-school combination: The offense that played keep-away, a defense that came up with two three-and-outs and a fourth-down stop late in the fourth quarter, and the key turnover in overtime. Philip Rivers was 24 of 35 with 288 yards, three touchdowns, and one interception in his 234th consecutive start, tying Eli Manning for the 10th-longest streak in league history. Jonathan Taylor had 22 carries for 90 yards in a wild game that included Green Bay scores in the final 10 seconds of each half; Indianapolis erasing a 14-point halftime deficit, then failing to seal the win because of five holding calls on its final drive in regulation. Rodgers took full advantage of the second chance, hooking up with Marquez Valdes-Scantling on a 47-yard pass play. That took the Packers from the 6-yard line to the Colts 47. Seven plays later, Mason Crosby tied the game at 31 with a 26-yard field goal with 3 seconds remaining. But Green Bay won the coin toss, Valdes-Scantling lost a fumble when hit by Julian Blackmon on Green Bay's second play. DeForest Buckner recovered and four plays later, Blankenship won it. Rodgers was 27 of 38 for 311 yards, three TD passes, and one interception. Davante Adams had seven catches for 106 yards and one score, and Aaron Jones rushed for another score. Trailing 28-14, Indy opened the second half by going heavily with the run, taking more than seven minutes off the clock before settling for a 37-yard field goal. The Colts closed to 28-25 when Jack Doyle caught a 6-yard TD pass from Rivers and Nyheim Hines scored on a 2-point conversion run. They finally tied it when Blankenship made a 32-yard field goal. Green Bay, which had only run six plays in the second half, then gave it right back to Indy on Darrius Shepherd’s fumbled kickoff return. Four plays later, Blankenship’s 43-yard field goal gave Indy a 31-28 lead. The Packers ran only 18 plays over the final 33 minutes. Packers: Green Bay had two key players back, receiver Allen Lazard and cornerback Kevin King, but lost center Corey Linsley (back) in the first quarter. He did not return. Colts: Right tackle Braden Smith (thumb) and Denico Autry (COVID-19 list) both missed the game. Rivers appeared to injure his right ankle in the fourth quarter but managed to finish the game. Packers: They hope to rebound next Sunday night when they host the longtime rival Bears. Colts: They attempt to take sole possession of the AFC South lead when Tennessee visits Lucas Oil Stadium next Sunday.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1752
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__label__cc	0.749433	0.250567	Foundation Park The Rocks New South Wales 2000 HistoricalKidsOutdoorsParks www.therocks.com Entry Cost: Free When you are visiting The Rocks make sure you visit the mysterious Foundation Park (located on the right-hand side around 500m into the lane named Gloucester Walk). Foundation Park is on the site of what was no’s 2 to 16 Gloucester Street (now known as Gloucester Walk). These houses were demolished in 1938 and a park formed on the site in 1972. In 1996 the foundations of the houses were marked out with low walls and now even include furniture…..a fascinating place! Hours of Operation Now Open Monday Open 24 Hours Tuesday Open 24 Hours Wednesday Open 24 Hours Thursday Open 24 Hours Friday Open 24 Hours Saturday Open 24 Hours Sunday Open 24 Hours Public Holiday Information: Open public holidays	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1755
__label__cc	0.592018	0.407982	Game thread: Pistons beat Thunder, 104-88 7:30 p.m., Fox Sports Detroit, WMGC-FM (105.1): Pistons return home to face MVP candidate Russell Westbrook, OKC Marlowe Alter Detroit Pistons (5-5) vs. Oklahoma City Thunder (6-3) When: 7:30 p.m. Where: Palace of Auburn Hills. TV: Fox Sports Detroit. Radio: WMGC-FM (105.1; other Pistons affiliates). Game notes:Andre Drummond has been ruled out with a right ankle sprain. Kevin Durant is gone and now the Thunder is Westbrook’s team. The fiery point guard entered Sunday third in the NBA in scoring (30.9), second in assists (9.4) and 17th in rebounding (8.9). The Pistons are 4-0 at the Palace this year. There is bad blood between Russ and Reggie Jackson — who remains sidelined — with the former calling out the latter for celebrating a Pistons win over OKC last March. Last time Thunder visited Palace: Jackson rubs OKC wrong way with celebration \| Ellis: Jackson gets last laugh by beating OKC On mobile? Tap here for live updates.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1757
__label__wiki	0.758538	0.758538	My Basse ~ Basse News Friends of Basse > Minutes of the August 16th, 2009 Conference Call. Minutes of the August 16th, 2009 Conference Call. Time: 3-5:45 pm (Eastern time USA) Chairman: MB Krubally Secretary: Cherno B. Jallow MB Krubally Wuyeh Sanyang Cherno B. Jallow Samba Johm Ousainou Krubally Pa Joof Bakary Jallow Alhaji Trawally Ousman Kamara Mamadou Sellou Jallow Basse Organizations MB opened the meeting with a formal introduction of Wuyeh Sanyang to the association. Wuyeh spoke of his delight about the steps that the organization was taking. He said he was impressed with the website and the ideas and comments therein. He revealed that he hadn't had the time to read through all the comments but he was impressed with the richness of the dialogue. He expressed gratitude to Pa Joof on the website, MB on his initiatives. He, however, lamented that there were some Basserians who do not have access to the internet in order to familiarize themselves with the website. He wondered if other avenues of communication outreach could be looked into so many more Basserians all over the world could be brought into the fold. Wuyeh asked for more brainstorming especially on ways of reaching to more Basse folks who haven't had any knowledge about the existence of the BA. MB suggested having a membership page on the website for reasons of accessibility and quantification. We would know who is who and who are active in the society, he said. Wuyeh was asked by Cherno B. Jallow to give an overview of the current status of another Basse organization (The Basse Welfare Association) newly rebuilt in the Kombos. He reminded the audience that this organization in the Kombos was spearheaded by a well-known Basserian in Talingding, Mawdo Sowe, before his untimely demise recently. He spoke highly of Mawdo and of his contributions to Basse causes. He reported preliminary efforts by the BWA to reach out to some Basse elders in the Kombos. A sub-committee was able to meet with former vice-president Alhaji Assan Musa Camara, Alhaji Hamidou Jallow, Alhaji Ousainou Jallow. Both Alhaji MC Cham and Alhaji Omar Sey weren't available. Pa Joof asked Wuyeh if the Basse Welfare Association was the same as the Basse Youth Association, newly formed in Basse. Wuyeh said it could be a different name, another organization. He stressed that the BWA was formed in the Kombos. Basserians in the Kombos have been establishing organizations in the Kombos since 1967, he reported. Pa promised to get in touch with both organizations to have some familiarity with their programs. Ous Krubally asked about the ramifications of the Basse Association (Global) affiliating with the home-grown ones. The possibility of collaborations in the future was discussed. Sellou said he was skeptical. He was concerned about politics. He stressed that the Basse Association should first work its way of its initial phase. "Let's think about how to get our organization off the ground first," he suggested. Bakary also was skeptical, citing the concerns of political interference, adding, however, that we could still work with them although with certain limitations. Cherno said it was too premature to talk about affiliating with the home groups since the BA was still functionally inadequate. But Pa thought it was still good to talk about the prospects of affiliations so the BA would be in the position to answer questions from the public about matters of partnership should it become necessary. Cherno gave a recap on the steering committee. He declined to be part of this committee, citing potential conflicts of interest. He said he didn't want his connections with the Gambian press to have any negative impact on the BA. He recued himself from the steering committee and nominated MB in his place. It was a unanimous decision to have MB come on board. He accepted the responsibility and vowed to work hard with the rest of the committee to help move the agenda of the BA until such a time that an executive was officially nominated and elected into office. Sellou reported to the meeting that both Dawda Sankareh in Basse and Mamadou Salieu Jallow in England had agreed to represent the BA in their respective areas. MB suggested Wuyeh Sanyang be a part of the steering committee. It was unanimously agreed. MB was to contact Wuyeh to seek his formal acceptance or on the contrary. As per the meeting, the following made up the Steering Committee: MB Krubally, Pa Joof, Bakary Jallow, Wuyeh Sanyang (prospectively) (all in the US); Ousainou Krubally (Germany), Mamadou Sellou Jallow (Holland), Mamadou Salieu Jallow (England); Dawda Sankareh (Basse) and Filly Sabally (the Greater Banjul Area). It was agreed with minimal dissent to have a press release sent out with a view towards reaching a broader Basse audience and tapping any benefits that might come out of such publicity. Pa Joof was tasked to write this press release and circulate it to the members for review and approval. Funds/Bank Accounts Both Ous Krubally and Sellou reported that some Basse folks in England were having difficulty paying their dues because of the high transfer fees from England to the US or to the Euro Zone. MB initially suggested having the UK folks wire money to Sellou for a deposit into the Association's account in Holland, but later amended it to having the UK folks wire their monies to Mamadou Salieu's account on behalf of the Association. It was unanimously accepted. Cherno thought there should be a monthly membership fee of $10.00 or a one time-payment of $120 depending on the member's financial situation. Sellou lamented that it might be time-consuming and inconvenient for some Basserians in Europe to keep up with the monthly payment; they could run into arrears, he warned. But Bakary thought that a $10 monthly fee would sound better to some Basserian students. Paying $120 in one full swoop might be too hard for them, he said. Pa suggested maintaining the $40 fee for this year until next year when the bye-laws would have been ratified and would have stipulated a monthly fee therein. His suggestion was unanimously accepted. Pa reported that Filly Sabally, the BA's point man in the Kombos, had opened an account for the BA with the Access Bank. Pa said he was still working on the bye-laws. Time constraints were keeping him from completing the draft. He handed over all the obligations pertaining to the bye-laws drafting to MB, who will work with Haruna Farage, Cherno and others to finish up the draft and submit it to the general membership. Both Bakary and Pa suggested having clauses in the bye-laws stipulating consequences for embezzlement and non-payment of dues. Pa revealed that he had only paid $10 as domain fees for the website. But he warned about additional costs if the website was to carry more features, say, pictures. He and Cherno were to get together and work on the website to fine-tune it for the membership and the general audience. Cherno suggested opening the website to more informational purposes about Basserians and their town, and to update the site as regularly as possible. He thought if the site was carrying some regular, interesting material, it would attract greater attention to both the site and the Association as a whole. Ousainou agreed but wanted a slow, incremental progress. As the site looks now, it is ok, he said. MB appealed for more efforts to reach out to folks. Call them twice or more if you have to, he suggested. He said what mattered was commitment even if it was just a few members. He asked for more dedication and support from the membership. For general inquiries, please email the Editorial Board: editorialboard ( at ) mybasse (dot) org The town is a major trading center. The main highway into town. School kids playing at the newly established SOS Children's Village Basse Car Park © 2009-2020 Friends of Basse, Inc. All rights reserved.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1758
__label__wiki	0.772835	0.772835	Selling up may impact Noosa on Weyba Land development application Noosa News \| 29th August 2015 RATEPAYERS may be spared the hefty price of one of Noosa’s biggest planning fights over Noosa on Weyba after it has been confirmed that two key parcels of land are up for sale with the owners keen to move on with their lives. Ray White Noosa is advertising the 12.5ha property at 99 Hollett Rd in today’s Noosa News and the company’s salesman John Stamp confirmed that the 110 parcel at 191 Hollett Rd that extends down to Lake Weyba was in the final stages of being put to market. Mr Stamp said the owners – long-time Noosa locals John and Kathy Hoffman who were co-developers of Noosa on Weyba – were selling up. The real estate agent said the Hoffmans were not proceeding with Noosa on Weyba and the couple was now intent on getting a good return for the sale value of land. The smaller block will go to auction on site at 2pm on September 27, while expressions of interest will be called for the 191 Hollett Rd site. This already has approvals for 52 rural residential blocks. The Noosa on Weyba application that straddles two shire boundaries has the potential to add more than 1000 residential allotments between Noosaville and Weyba Downs. But Northbrook Corporation, operated by developer and local landholder Godfrey Mantle, is part of a NoW planning appeal after the Sunshine Coast Council and the Noosa Council both rejected the application. Friends of Lake Weyba president Anita Brake said her group “can’t predict the ramifications of the decision by local developer, John Hoffman”. The actions of the co-developers Hoffman and Mantle have never been transparent. Our organisation can only hope any outcome will be beneficial to the conservation of ecologically sensitive Lake Weyba, its local community and the overall sustainability of the Noosa River system. Mayor Noel Playford was adopting a wait and see approach to the Hoffman decision to sell up, as a new owner might have the option for the purchase to be finalised pending a successful outcome of the appeal. Cr Playford said there was still an appeals directions hearing set down for early September. He said if the owners of the blocks withdrew their consent to have their land included in the Noosa on Weyba application, that could prove decisive. “As Noosa on Weyba is subject to an appeal, I imagine that would be the end of the appeal. But we don’t know for sure. If that’s what happens and the appeal falls over, I think there would obviously be a lot of happy people in the community and Noosa Council would obviously be pleased not to spend ratepayers’ money to defend its planning scheme.” Mr Mantle’s Mantle Group is yet to respond. By FOLW\|2014-09-05T10:19:37+10:00September 5th, 2014\|News\|0 Comments Lake Weyba flight concerns really taking off Weyba NBN Tower What’s going on in our backyard Friends of Lake Weyba Inc – Annual General Meeting Noosa news Reject the development Noosa News Let's tap into beauty of the lake Noosa News making new stand >> view more media reports Friends of Lake Weyba, is defined by a vision to strive to achieve and maintain environmental excellence for Lake Weyba and the adjacent Noosa River catchment. Join us and become a Friend of Lake Weyba >> download Membership Form Protect Lake Weyba Our vision is to achieve environmental excellence, to sustain and enhance the natural and social qualities of the Lake Weyba area as a natural and social asset for the local and wider community. A donation to our association assists us in providing community representation for Lake Weyba and it's community. To stand-up for Lake Weyba, please make a donation below. PO Box 1660, Noosaville Qld 4566 friendsoflakeweyba@gmail.com Copyright 2019 \| Friends of Lake Weyba Inc \| All Rights Reserved \| Design by AsiaWeb \| making \| websites \| work	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1759
__label__wiki	0.735613	0.735613	Ditton Park Academy Find out how Ditton Park Academy rates compared to other secondary schools in Slough with our school ratings New school - no rating available Overall /100 Rank /3,166 We've analysed all the local government data to bring you the rundown on your local secondary schools. Here Ditton Park Academy, Kings Reach, Slough, SL3 7UX, is put into focus to show its scores in relation to other schools in the area. You can also see how it compares against other schools across England. Data is available on pupils' attainment, average grades, the quality of the teaching and when the school was last inspected. The teacher to pupil ratio is also a good indication of the focus your child will get. Plus we can show how many full-time teachers there are at the school. See how other schools in your area rated School ratings: How we rated the schools Previous Name Kings Reach, Slough, SL3 7UX The open date and status above indicates when Ditton Park Academy opened or when it changed to its most recent incarnation, with a number of schools converting to academies in recent years. Where schools have changed type recently, data for previous years covering their previous incarnation is included below as well. What type of school is Ditton Park Academy and what are the admission criteria? Free school - Mainstream How many children have been on the school roll in recent years? This chart needs javascript to load Pupil characteristics - what percentage of pupils are in different groups and how does this compare to the national average? Pupil characteristics Pupils - School Pupils - National % English not as first language % Free School Meals % SEN Statement / EHC % SEN How do we rate this school? 2019 Rating Overall Stars England Rank (out of 3,166) (out of 3,031) (out of 3,088) Local Rank Missing Data? Yes - - 33 (out of 46) - - Our unique rating system takes into account a range of different indicators to evaluate a school's performance. The system tracks achievement, attendance, teaching, how well the school is preparing pupils for the future and whether it is improving. Data may be missing for some indicators because it has not been published. This may be because the school is new or because it is very small so data has been suppressed to avoid identifying individual pupils. Schools do not lose points for missing data, so will still fare better in the ranking than schools that underperform on that indicator, but they cannot score as highly as schools that perform well on the indicator. Schools that have opened in recent years and are yet to have pupils sit GCSEs are flagged as NEW, and are not scored on any of the indicators. How Ditton Park Academy scores in terms of stars for each indicator. Stars - 2019 What Ofsted says about this school In its most recent inspection, Ofsted has given Ditton Park Academy an overall rating of Good. If the table is blank, it means there are no recent inspections for this school. The inspection details are correct as of March 31, 2019. Prior to September 2012, a score of 3 indicated Satisfactory, it now indicates Requires Improvement. Category of Concern How does Ditton Park Academy perform on each of the areas inspected by Ofsted? A blank table indicates no recent inspections and as of September 2012, a score of 3 changed from indicating Satisfactory to Requires Improvement. Outcomes for pupils Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Effectiveness of leadership and management Personal development, behaviour and welfare How have pupils at Ditton Park Academy done in their GCSEs and how does it compare to Local Authority and national averages? The government introduced the Attainment 8 measure in 2016 (although some schools chose to opt in a year earlier). It measures pupil performance across maths, which is double weighted in the score, English, also double weighted, three qualifications included in the English Baccalaureate (EBacc) and three other approved qualifications (GCSE or equivalent). The higher the average score the better pupils at the school are doing. The majority of GCSEs are now graded on a system of 9-1 grades, where 5 is a strong pass, equivalent to a high C and 4 is a standard pass, where the bottom of the boundary aligns with the bottom of a previous grade C. The change was introduced in 2017 for English and maths with other subjects changing in 2018 or 2019. In 2018 the average Attainment 8 score per pupil at Ditton Park Academy was . All pupils Disadvantaged Low attainment Middle attainment High attainment The EBacc was introduced in 2010 and the government announced in 2015 its intention that all pupils should take it from 2020 onwards. The Ebacc is made up of English, Maths, History or Geography, Sciences, and a language. To achieve it, pupils must get a 9 to 4 grade in English and Maths and a C grade or above in the other subjects. In 2018, % of pupils at Ditton Park Academy had entries in all EBacc subject areas and % achieved the EBacc, with a standard pass in English and Maths, while % achieved it with a strong pass in those subjects. What proportion of different groups at the school also passed the EBacc with standard passes. In 2017, the most recent results available, % of pupils at Ditton Park Academy gained at least 5 A* to C or 9-4 grade GCSES including English and Maths at 9 to 4. Nationally 60.1% of pupils achieved this. How does Ditton Park Academy do when it comes to GCSE results in just English and Maths and what percentage of pupils pass those at A* to C or 9 to 4 grades? And what proportion of pupils achieved strong (grades 9 to 5) passes in both English and maths? Year for outcome % strong 9-5 passes LA - % strong 9-5 passes National - % strong 9-5 passes The Progress 8 measure was also introduced by the Government in 2016. It is calculated for each pupil by comparing their Attainment 8 score to the scores of all pupils nationally with similar prior achievement at the end of primary school. The school's Progress 8 score is the average of all those scores. A score of 0 means pupils have made similar progress during secondary school to similar pupils across England. Above 0 means more progress and below 0 means less progress. Below 0 doesn't mean pupils have made no progress or negative progress, just less progress than comparable pupils. How have pupils at Ditton Park Academy done in terms of their Progress 8 score for each element? What were the Progress 8 scores for different groups of pupils at Ditton Park Academy? Also were these scores significantly above or below the national average (set at 0)? What is the pupil:teacher ratio at Ditton Park Academy and how does it compare to the national average? How many teachers are there and what is the average wage? Teacher Details No. of Teachers (FTE) No. of Teaching Assistants (FTE) Average Teacher Salary (GBP) Average Teacher Salary (GBP) - National Figures below show what proportion of the half day sessions were missed by pupils and how this compares to the local and national averages. In 2017/18, the most recent full school year, 4.2% of half day sessions were missed. Nationally, secondary school pupils missed 5.5% of sessions. Figures below show what proportion of the half day sessions were missed by pupils and counted as an unauthorised absence and how this compares to the local and national averages. What proportion of pupils are classed as persistent absentees (missing 10% or more of all sessions)? Figures below show what proportion of the pupils, who left school in recent years, continued in education for longer than the first term. Of the pupils who finished school in 2017, the most recent data available, % of pupils stayed on in education or went into employment or training. Nationally, 94% of pupils stayed on in education or went into employment or training. There is also data on the proportion who stayed in education. % education LA - % education National - % education Figures below show the proportion of young people who dropped out of education, training or work within 3 months. % not sustained LA - % not sustained National - % not sustained While finances are not included in our calculation of how good schools are, many schools publish information about how much they are spending on pupils' education. What is the total school spend per pupil Ditton Park Academy compared to the local and national average? (school is in blue) How much does Ditton Park Academy spend per pupil on teachers and educational support staff and how does this compare to the average spending across the Local Authority? What percentage of the school's budget is spent on supply staff? Secondary School Ratings	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1762
__label__wiki	0.973314	0.973314	Venezuela National Assembly Stormed By Maduro Supporters July 6, 2017 by About 100 government supporters have burst into Venezuela’s opposition-controlled National Assembly, where they beat up several lawmakers. Witnesses said the confrontation came after an assembly session to mark the country’s Independence Day. Military police guarding the site stood by as intruders brandishing sticks and pipes broke through the gate, AFP news agency said. The government has vowed to investigate. “I will not be complicit in acts of violence,” said President Nicolás Maduro. About 350 people were besieged for hours, including journalists, students and visitors, according to the assembly’s speaker Julio Borges. Mr Borges also named five of the lawmakers injured. Some were taken away for medical treatment, including Deputy Américo De Grazia, who was carried out on a stretcher. Venezuela has been shaken by often violent protests in recent months and is in economic crisis. “This does not hurt as much as seeing every day how we are losing our country,” deputy Armando Armas told reporters as he got into an ambulance, his head swathed in bloody bandages. The US state department condemned the violence, calling it “an assault on the democratic principles cherished by the men and women who struggled for Venezuela’s independence 206 years ago today”. AFP, whose journalists were at the scene, said reporters were ordered to leave by the attackers, one of whom had a gun. Before the intruders rushed the building, Vice-President Tareck El Aissami made an impromptu appearance in the congress with the head of the armed forces, Vladimir Padrino López, and ministers. Mr El Aissami gave a speech urging the president’s supporters to come to the legislature to show support for him. A crowd had been rallying outside the building for several hours before breaking into the grounds. A statement from the the ministry of communication said, the government had ordered an investigation “to establish the whole truth, and on that basis, to apply sanctions to those responsible”. Categories News Tags AFP, Agence France-Presse, Amrico De Grazia, Armando Armas, head, Independence Day, Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Borges, Military Police, National Assembly, Nationality, Nicols Maduro, politics, Politics of Venezuela, president, Spanish language, speaker, Tareck El Aissami, US State Department, Venezuela, Vice President, Vladimir Padrino Lpez, War_Conflict Post navigation Alexandre Lacazette Wants To Win Trophies With Arsenal Saudi Arabia Accuses Qatar of Using Twitter To Stoke Dissent	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1763
__label__wiki	0.863928	0.863928	EVP'S Ghost Crusaders SHUDDER'S: "CREEPSHOW" Ep 4 - 6 Review Sorry, to have kept you all waiting for so long but life has been a rollercoaster lately (who am I kidding, no one is even reading any of these yet. lol). After watching all of the episodes from Shudder's "Creepshow" series, I can look back and say that the show works much better when you can binge the entire series then waiting week after week. When some episodes are weak there is little reason for people to tune in next week to see the next episode. Oh, I was right, by the way. AMC plans on airing the first season of the series ahead of the Season 2 premiere. So let's pick up right where we left off. Episode 4 is one of the better episodes in the series. Unlike its predecessors, it consists of two decent episodes, "The Companion" and "Lydia Layne's Better Half" both are generic horror tales, nothing original about them but the one thing it has going for it is that it doesn't feel like a "Goosebumps" episode. If I am going to be completely honest I think 'The Companion' (as generic as it is) feels closets to the original Romero, King film. Although the story is generic, it resembles stories told in the opening of the original 'Creepshow' film, as well as the sequel. The next segment tells another generic story of a high profile CEO who accidentally kills her lover/protege and tries to dispose of the body only to get stuck in the elevator for days. Again, nothing new but the story reminded me of the 'Creepshow 2' segment "The Hitchhiker". This is the first episode where neither parts annoyed or aggravated me. Could they have been better? Yes. But this was the first standout episode of the series. Every episode prior had one good episode and another that was mediocre or just awful but this one, both were mediocre but they felt true to its origins. They weren't great but I didn't hate either of them enough to write off the show or complain about them. Looking at the titles of the two segments in this episode completely baffled me. I had to play the episode to remember what the hell these two were about and I am actually pretty thankful I did. The first segment of Episode 5 is titled, "Night of The Paw" and I really did like this episode. I will grant you that again, there isn't much new to this episode but for me...for some reason, that's what made this episode work. This segment felt like it came straight out of an 80's anthology series. It felt like a 'Tales From The Darkside' or 'Tales From The Crypt' episode (granted 'Tales From the Crypt' always felt like it was a spin-off of 'Creepshow') which I might have complained about in my last review of the first three episodes but it just works. The writing is good and it's a twist on items granting wishes and zombies. After looking more into this episode I discovered the writer of this segment wrote 'The Graveyard Shift' and an episode of "Masters of Horror". I might have complaints about the ending but they are minor, I still enjoyed this segment and Bruce Davison is a phenomenal actor, and honestly if I had to pick one segment to show someone from this entire series I think it would be this one and 'The Finger'. The next segment is NOT WORTH EVEN SPEAKING ABOUT! Absolute trash, nothing to mention except it stars David Arquette (doesn't even deserve a link). Enough said. The season finale starts with the segment 'Skincrawlers' that was a fun unique take on the classic tale of beauty only being skin deep. Unique doesn't mean good, although I enjoyed this segment, it; like many of the previous entries into the series feels like the writer's children wrote the episodes or at least came up with the stories. "Nelly, can you tell me a scary story?". Mr. Johnson questioned his energetic five-year-old niece who was giggling and hopping around the sofa. "So, this fat guy wants to be skinny, and there is a company and they tell the people they can make them skinny but then when the sun goes out the fat people find out they got skinny cause they had animals inside their bodies eating the food they ate!" exclaimed Nelly. I still thought it was a fun segment, though. The final segment, the segment to close the first season of 'Creepshow' stars a majority of talentless actors! Honestly I think every single actor in this segment will go on to do absolutely nothing. Who cast this abomination? Honestly this story belongs on the Disney Channel. The lead actress is so dull and who told her it was a good idea to get collagen injections at her age? I know I might sound like an ass but there is nothing, absolutely nothing about this that was scary or even felt like it belonged in a horror anthology series, especially not one with Greg Nicotero's name attached to it. As a whole the series was lackluster, I think 5 good segments out of 12 just misses the mark and it honestly comes down to people involved that just don't care about the material. Robert Zemickis and Steven Spielberg loved EC comics as much as King and Romero did. You could tell while watching 'Tales From The Crypt' that these people loved these stories and they wanted to adapt these stories or write their own. They wanted to tell interesting and compelling tales to scare a new generation. These people attached to this project seems like they did it all for a paycheck. With all that being said, will I watch season 2? I probably will give season 2 a shot but I won't wait week, to week and waste my time. If they ended it stronger I would probably rate this higher. If 'Monkey's Paw' and 'Skincrawlers' were the season finale I think I probably would have given this show a higher rating but unfortunately they ended on a terrible episode. What a waste! -Jon Young UNMASKING ZOZO Into The Dark: Ep. 1 - TRANS-ALLEGHENY ASYLUM © 2020 Ghost Crusaders Proudly created with Wix.com (Webmaster: GhostCrusaders@protonmail.com)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1764
__label__cc	0.564515	0.435485	County Fleets Clean Energy Fuels Corp. Inks RNG Deals With Multiple Cities New and extended contracts for more than 20 million gallons of Redeem renewable natural gas will accommodate the continued demand across key business segments. 10 Feats This Fleet Manager and His Team Accomplished In 10 Years John Manring, fleet chief for San Diego County, Calif., leaves behind an impactful legacy before his retirement. Los Angeles Bookmobiles Powered by Motiv This year, Los Angeles County will expand its zero-emission fleet with two bookmobiles powered by Motiv EPIC chassis. Md. County Council Criticized for Take-Home Cars The Prince George County (Md.) Council has drawn criticism for costing the county $110,000 a year on automobile allowances and take-home cars. Choosing Fleet Motor Pool Over Reimbursement Establishing a motor pool for employee use rather than reimbursing for every trip can result in lower costs, higher utilization, and a more efficient fleet operation. But it has its limitations. Fla. Sheriff Signs $4M Fleet Management Contract The Broward County (Fla.) Sheriff’s Office has entered into a multiple-year agreement with Vector Fleet Management for fleet management and maintenance. The contract is valued at $4 million per year. Minn. Fleet Facility Catches Fire Part of the Lake County, Minn., Highway Department shop burned last week after a plow truck parked in a bay caught fire. Some snow plows, heavy equipment, and parts of the facility will need to be replaced. Police Vehicle Upfitting: In-House or Outsource? Whether a public agency upfits its new police cars in-house or sends them out depends on a variety of factors. Here’s why agencies choose their methods and some best practices they’ve learned from years of experience. Fla. County Seeks New Sheriff Fleet Facility Sarasota County, Fla., plans to build a new maintenance and storage facility for the sheriff's fleet. The project would include 13 vehicle service bays, storage and office space, and a refueling station, and is estimated to cost $20.9 million. Iowa County Officials Debate Fleet Centralization Scott County, Iowa, officials debated the county's fleet management plans at a recent board meeting. The debate came up after the county's director of budget and administrative services recommended to purchase a system to balance and align tires.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1767
__label__cc	0.709316	0.290684	Greeceme.com All Summer Destinations \|– Samaria Gorge \|– Angelokastro Gythio Paxi \|– Lindos Historical Destinations Castle Towns Byzantine Monasteries \|– The Acropolis \|– \|– The Parthenon Messolonghi Pilos Vergina Winter Destinations All Winter Destinations Arahova Dadia forest Dimitsana – Stemnitsa – Vytina Elati – Pertouli \|– Aliakmon River \|– Pamvotida Lake Kaimaktsalan \|– Agia Lavra Monastery \|– Vouraikos Gorge Kerkini Lake Plastira Lake Prespes Lakes \|– Vikos Gorge \|– Embassies in Greece \|– Greek airports \|– Types of Hotels Summer Info Historical Info \|– Mythology \|– Ancient Greek War Winter Info Embassies in Greece Greek airports Home » All Posts » Info » Greek National Holidays Greek National Holidays 25th of March: the Independence of Greece This is an anniversary of the Greek Revolution against the Turkish occupation which started in 1453, after the Fall of Constantinople and lasted for 400 years. The Greek Revolution of 1821 was the first part of the Greek attempt for its independence which was finally succeeded in 1832 with the declaration of the Hellenic Republic. This day includes celebrations and parades in the entire Greek territory and in many cities abroad where live thousands of Greek expatriates. The greatest parade is the military parade which takes place in the centre of Athens. 28th of October: the historical NO This day is an anniversary of the historical ‘’NO’’ of Metaxas, the Greek dictator. This was his answer to the Italian invaders during the Second World War. This was a dark period not only for Greece but for the entire world. The Greek-Italian war of 1940 started on the 28th of October until the 23rd of April in 1941. After this, came the German invaders and continued the war. Many of the historians argued that the Greek victory against the Italians (it was also the first victory of the Allies), effected on the final result of the war as forced Germans to postpone their invade in the Soviet Union for the purpose of helping the Italian allies who were losing the battles in Greece. The delayed attack of Germans in Moscow during the hard winter conditions had as a result their defeat. This day also includes parades and the military parade takes place in the centre of Thessaloniki as concurs with the celebration of the patron saint of the city, Saint Demetrius. 17th of November: the Revolt of the Students (Not Official) From the 21st of April in 1967 until the 23rd of July in 1974, in Greece was the dictatorship (also known as Greek military junta of 1967–1974 or The Regime of the Colonels). The 17th of November was a tragic day and a black page in the Greek history as 24 young people were killed, hundreds were injured and 2.500 were arrested for their attempt for a better education, freedom, democracy and independence, classical and timely values. The entire duration of the dictatorship is stigmatized by imprisonments, tortures and infringement of the human rights. On Wednesday, 17th of November, exploded in Athens rioting and started the Athens Polytechnic uprising. The total lethal result of Junta has never been recorded as many people were killed because they just supported their rights. After the revolution of the young people, on the 25th of November of the same year, the dictatorship fell and the much desirable freedom and democracy was finally replaced. « The town of Karpenisi Corfu Island » The best destinations for your Holidays in Greece Booking & Reservations Services © Greece Holiday Destinations - Created by: bluecloudnet.com	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1769
__label__wiki	0.741795	0.741795	Steam Winter Sale Games Worth Getting - 2016 in Sales As 2016 comes to an end, Steam is hosting their annual Winter Sale from now until January 2nd at 10AM PST. Steam’s annual Autumn Sale ran this year from November 23rd to 29th, so if you missed out on that, this is probably the last chance to get some savings for the year. Then again, Steam does sales routinely -- careful use of the wishlist means you’ll get notifications as items go up for sale throughout the year. For today, we have a list of some of our best PC games of 2016 as well as some titles from 2015 that are discounted significantly. As these Steam sales come to a close, we will just be arriving in Las Vegas for the year’s Consumer Electronics Show, so do follow closely for that! News will ramp-up significantly post-Xmas. Here is the shortlist: Steam Welcomes Hunger Games, 'Over 100' Lionsgate Films for 'Rental' It's an interesting world where global video game industry revenue out-grosses that of the incumbent movie and music entertainment industries. In an unprecedented cross-over, Valve today announced its partnership with Lionsgate (NYSE: LGFO) to bring “more than 100 movies” to Steam. Among the selection is the Hunger Games series, Ender's Game, and the Saw series. From our first look, we're only seeing 70 total films – but there are supposedly at least 31 more on the way. Week's Game News: Hyper Light Drifter, RCTW, Battleborn, & Steam Controller in Game News The past week in game news saw some contradictions in initial RollerCoaster Tycoon World plans, Steam controller 3D print customization, Battleborn's beta, and Hyper Light Drifter's launch. Big news in various segments of the gaming market, all covered in our weekly recap that's embedded below. RollerCoaster Tycoon World is up first (RCTW) – an easy topic, given our extensive coverage history of the game's tumultuous development pipeline. Developers nvizzio and publisher Atari have given in to the Early Access model, making available RCTW for $50 pre-purchases. More on this and other weekly news topics in this video: Valve Sells 15,000 HTC Vive Headsets in First 10 Minutes of Pre-Order Frenzy Steam today launched the pre-order for their collaboration project with HTC -- the HTC Vive for SteamVR. Those who pre-order get the whole kit-and-caboodle -- the headset, sensors, and controllers -- and a few extra throw-in games. We’ve covered Valve’s VR multiple times, going so far as to explain the “how it works” in-depth here, and we’ve talked about our opinion of the whole thing. Gabe Newell Publicly Disparages Caster: “[2GD] is an ass.” In a short-fused statement on reddit yesterday, Valve CEO Gabe Newell called James “2GD” Harding “an ass,” then went on to say “as long as we're firing people, we are also firing the production company.” This was all in response to Valve's newest DOTA2 event, the $3 million Shanghai Major tournament. As with all Valve events in recorded history, the Shanghai Major experienced several production delays and slow-downs that forced on-camera personality and veteran TV host '2GD' to buy time, entertaining the audience during between-match pauses. 2GD has been popular among the DOTA2 community since his time hosting the second TI event, but is also known for stints with MTV, SkyNews, and his own game studio. Shockingly for fans viewing the live event, 2GD was seemingly spontaneously fired mid-cast. The commentator released little information to fans pursuant to an agreement with Valve to “put it on ice” and resolve matters privately. Why We Won't Be Day-One VR Adopters in Hardware Guides Ivan Sutherland's “Sword of Domacles” head-mounted display lurched above its user as a spider above its prey; the contraption, as most technology of its era, was room-sized. The Sword of Domacles wasn't meant to be a user-accessible VR solution. It produced primitive wireframes of a room's interior and was strictly observational, demonstrated in awkward photos with the wearer's hands neatly clasped behind his back. This was Ground Zero for VR. Sutherland later joined David Evans to build the University of Utah's Computer Science and Computer Graphics divisions, responsible for students who'd later create the world's first computer-animated 3D graphics. Through Sutherland and Evans – and their students – the foundation for Adobe, Pixar, and Silicon Graphics (SGI) was set, later producing companies like the modern nVidia. All this history of VR is recapped more thoroughly in our “History of Virtual Reality” article. Oculus VR and Valve are makers of the modern-day HMD incarnates. Billions of dollars are backing these new ventures and, for the first time in history, viable VR solutions don't cost tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars. They're also not military-owned, another common theme of previous virtual reality attempts. Our team has spent a considerable amount of time in virtual reality demos. The technology is an impressive fusion of display advancements, frametime pacing optimization, input latency management, and IR scanning. Just the display tech alone is nearly unrivaled, the Rift packing 2160x1200 pixels into a space smaller than a phone screen. Screen Door Effect issues have been largely resolved or circumvented on each of the major two VR solutions, and timewarp has been navigated with clever GPU processing techniques by both AMD and nVidia. Everything's lining-up to be a serious push into virtual reality and, this time, there's enough money behind the concept that it's not another “3D glasses” fad. Probably, anyway. But I don't think VR is ready for day-one adoption by the general gaming audience. Impressive – yes; here to stay – yes. But not ready for gamers. The Vive and Rift both experience similar versions of the same problems: Hardware requirements and prices that rival more affordable displays, logistical and use case limitations, and the industry's myopic understanding of game design. HTC's Vive and Oculus VR's Rift are the two big players that we're focusing on today. Intel's 'Jetpack:' A Mobile, Almost Wireless HTC Vive Backpack in Hardware Intel has plenty of floor presence at CES – building-sized booths, et al. – but the most interesting thing they brought to CES may have been in a separate demo suite. The suite was loaded with the latest laptops from each of the industry's most prolific manufacturers, one of which – a GT72 from MSI (we’ve reviewed them a few times) – hung mounted to a mobile VR rig. We’ll get to that in a moment. We were first introduced to the new Razer Blade Stealth, an impressively light and thin laptop with a 1440p display and a USB type C port. The type C port can be used as a charging port for the laptop or as a Thunderbolt 3 connection. Intel used the USB C port as a Thunderbolt link to connect to the Razer Core, an external graphics card enclosure (we’ve looked at these before, too). The device inside the Razer Core was an AMD graphics card and the connection was announced by the software each time we removed or replaced the cable. Just for kicks, we also flipped the USB C connector because that's still fun to do that. Hands-On with New HTC Vive vs. Oculus Rift at CES 2016 The latest HTC Vive demo plants players within the photorealistic outcroppings of Mount Everest, an atmosphere which serves more as an “experience” than an outright “game.” Mechanics are effectively boiled-down to look at stuff and move the sticks, with the full bore of virtual reality graphics processing stealing the spotlight. Developers Solfar Studios stitched together tens of thousands of frames from the real mountain, accurately height-mapped the mountain, and firmly represent Everest’s actual crevices, ravines, and spine-like ridgelines to the Vive wearer. This is the final iteration of the HTC Vive. We previously published a deep-dive on the headset’s technological inner-workings, but substantial changes have been made in just the few months following. Core concepts and objectives remain largely unchanged, yet execution and design have received additional development focus thanks to delays from initial Xmas ’15 launch targets. The Vive isn’t the first HMD to push back launch into 2016, either; Oculus VR’s Rift will post its public pre-order page on Wednesday, 1/6, finally nearing its own launch target of 2Q16. The VR juggernauts are going head-to-head, then, with launch dates fully aligning and graphics vendors supporting all viable technologies. Our initial user impressions are above, GN’s Patrick Stone joining for a different perspective. Carry on for the split-author impressions editorial. Patrick Stone covers all Oculus Rift sections (demarcated with parenthetical notation); Steve Burke covers the HTC Vive. Week's Game News: Witcher 3 HD Textures, Red5 Misses Payroll, & More For a week following the holidays, game news has been non-stop in its roll-out since Christmas day. Valve experienced store downtime on Xmas for a period of about an hour, resultant of an emergency shutoff to protect users from a caching issue that exposed personal information. Valve stated that users have nothing to worry about with regard to credit card information and account data. That wasn't Santa's only gift to the games industry, though; employees at Red5, developers of Firefall, were reportedly told that payroll would not be issued due to lack of studio finances. News more specific to games – not just the industry – emerged for The Witcher 3, Escape from Tarkov, and Far Cry Primal. Additional information was revealed about the new Assassin's Creed: The Game: The Movie adaptation. You'll find all that in our news recap video below. Script below that. Valve's Official Response to Recent DDOS Attacks The Steam store was shut down on Christmas day following a series of DDOS attacks. Valve released a statement and apology following the event, clarifying that 34,000 people have been affected and that the released information “did not include full credit card numbers, user passwords, or enough data to allow logging in as or completing a transaction as another user.” Further, those who did not input any personal information to Steam on Christmas will not have been affected by the caching error.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1774
__label__wiki	0.532311	0.532311	Heather R. Martin Author of Women's Contemporary Fiction Copywriting, communications, speaker & performer Seeking a Literary Agent Award-Winning Books and Creative Copy Books by Heather FUCHSIA PARADE: One Woman's Quest for Sex, Love & Redemption Multiple Award-Winning #MeToo Novel A #MeToo novel written before the subject was broken open, Fuchsia Parade is a raw and candid look at one woman's quest to reclaim herself after being violated. Based on the author's personal healing journey to overcome repressed childhood trauma, this memoir-style book won multiple awards and is receiving stellar reviews from readers. Fuchsia Parade is the winner of three book awards, including the 2018 12th Annual National Indie Excellence Award, a Finalist in the 7th Annual Beverly Hills Books Awards, and winner of the 2019 summer Pinnacle Book Achievement Award. "An intriguing and powerful book. From the get go, the author pulls the reader into the beautifully flawed life of the main character and takes the reader on a journey filled with sarcasm, sex, alcohol, success, truth, and healing. The author does a beautiful job in helping the reader connect with the main character as she takes the painful journey to uncover and face past traumas. I found myself rooting for the main character as she rediscovers herself which leaves her feeling vulnerable and in unknown territory. This book will be hard to put down and will leave you wanting more in the end." - Amazon Reviewer Girl Talk Headquarters called the main character "the type of central female character that great feminist novels are made of – complicated, flawed, badass, powerful, yet tender and compassionate upon further reveal through layers of story. Within the first few chapters of ‘Fuchsia Parade’, we come to know Kailee as a heavy drinker, hard partying woman, well-connected socialite, and someone who has the type of self-confidence we all wish was instilled into us growing up as girls." ABOUT FUCHSIA PARADE Kailee Johnson has a voracious appetite for men. "There are 3 types of men when you're on the prowl - the tasty morsel, the hottie, and the nice guy." A successful and powerful businesswoman in the male dominated New York construction industry, she anchors her glamorous lifestyle in the up and coming "6th borough" of Jersey City, where Kailee aggressively pursues money, designer shoes, men and cocktails. One day she wakes up to the smell of booze, shame and regret to proclaim the powerful words "I need help." Her search for healing leads to a clairvoyant in Manhattan, to the deepest reaches of her subconscious mind, and to the New Mexican scene of a repressed childhood memory where abuse changed her life forever. Kailee fights a ferocious battle to reclaim her shadows by battling old ways, fears and a traumatic ecosystem to uncover the powerful and sensitive woman within. RECLAIMING KONIA: A Tale of Love, Loss and the Armenian Genocide My First Novel and Rite of Passage to Authorship: Historical Fiction Based on My Family's Story From a young age, I always knew I wanted to write a book. Finally, I ventured to write one. "Reclaiming Konia: A Tale of Love, Loss and the Armenian Genocide" was an eight year journey to tell the story of my Armenian great grandfather, Melkon Jenanyan, a survivor of the genocide. ABOUT RECLAIMING KONIA On the threshold of the 20th Century, Melkon Jenanyan sits alone in a room in the heart of Philadelphia. An intense and stubborn Christian Minister, and the one who must secure their family legacy, he has to make a decision. Will he further complicate his strained marriage by returning to the heart of the Ottoman Empire – as a targeted Christian minority in a Muslim land? The crux of his life’s meaning hangs in the balance as he struggles to choose between family or his life’s work, peace or a potential war zone. Will he find salvation as a martyr to save his people, or will he choose to save himself? GRATITUDE HAPPENS: A Tarot Card, Healing Crystal Infused, Gluten Free Love Story My latest project is a mix of quirky wine-drinking fun and healing the traumatic wounds within, wrapped in a selenite wand and basking in the afterglow of some serious smudging with sage. ABOUT GRATITUDE HAPPENS With guidance from a clairvoyant healer after her heartbreaking divorce, Christina Demata—aka Chrissie—is ready to make room for love to return into her life. She stops eating gluten, pulls tarot cards daily, creates a vision board, and carries her healing crystals with her everywhere. But when life goes sideways and she gets ghosted by a date turned one night stand, her life seems to fall to pieces overnight—sage, crystals and all. With the help of a whiskey-slugging guru she meets in a San Fernando Valley dive bar and an actual therapist, Chrissie begins to face repressed emotions about losing her father at a young age. In the process, she finds a creative strength she never knew she had and forges a path to liberate herself, finding her own inner source of strength and power. Seeking a Literary Agent: Women's Contemporary Fiction, Complete at 75,000 words heather@heathermartin.org ©2019-2020 by Heather Martin.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1787
__label__wiki	0.655341	0.655341	During COVID-19 Lockdown, Nepal Cooperative Connects Farmers and Customers with Innovative Agri-Ambulance By Heifer Nepal Bishnu Timalsina, a member of Lekbeshi Cooperative In Nepal, the countrywide lockdown means farmers have a difficult time selling their produce. At the same time, many people no longer have access to fresh foods. A Heifer-supported cooperative came up with a solution to both problems. The agri-ambulance connects farmers to customers, cutting out intermediaries in the process. They say when the going gets tough, the tough get going. This is exactly how the farmers in Hupseykot, Nawalpur, have reacted to the lockdown set in by COVID-19. With the majority of farmers' produce not making its way to the markets, the vegetables were beginning to perish and incur a huge loss. Determined to help farming families, the Lekbesi SEW Cooperative came up with an ingenious idea to collect and sell the fresh produce: by utilizing an agri-ambulance. The agri-ambulance is now connecting farmers to customers during Nepal's lockdown. The Cooperative acquired a transport pass and started collecting vegetables from the farmers, all while social distancing and adhering to the national protocol. Farmers like Renuka Gaha who make their livelihoods selling vegetables never thought they’d be able to market their produce during the lockdown. After taking out a loan from Machhapuchre Bank and with interest to pay, Gaha was beginning to get more worried by the day, but now she’s feeling somewhat relieved. “Because of the lockdown, farmers were unable to send their produce to the market and it began to rot,” said Mani Pandey of Lekbeshi Cooperative. “There was no way we could let the hard work of our member families go to waste, so in recommendation and permission of the Rural Municipality, we began the agri-ambulance service.” The lockdown has not only impacted the farmers but has also affected the consumers of the surrounding region, who look to farmer-owned, agribusinesses like Lekbeshi for their daily supply of nutritious vegetables. The services of the agri-ambulance have been a win-win for both struggling farmers and isolated customers. “The ambulance has not only helped farmers receive a better deal for the vegetables but also our consumers are also equally overjoyed,” said Agribusinesses Manager Sushila Pariyar. “On the first day of its operation itself, the ambulance was able to transport more than 350 kilograms of vegetables to the market.” Prolific vegetable farmer Bishnu Timalsina said, “I was so worried that all my produce would be spoiled. I had been having sleepless nights and was so stressed. As soon as I heard that the Cooperative would be collecting and selling the vegetables, I have breathed a sigh of relief.” Farmer Moti Sara Saru shared, “The Cooperative had helped us in setting up the vegetable enterprise. As soon as the vegetables were ready for picking the lockdown began. We had never felt so helpless. When the cooperative began the ambulance service and began going from door-to-door collecting the vegetables and handing us our money, we felt as though a guardian had come to our rescue. We are very happy.” A happy customer of agri-ambulance service is Kam Maya Thapa. Though she has her own vegetable patch, it was at quite a distance from her home, and she was unable to buy any fresh produce in the market. When she heard the ambulance announce vegetables, she was thrilled. “To be able to have fresh vegetables during the lockdown seems so unreal,” she stated. Lekbeshi Cooperative member Bishnu Timalsina can now sell her produce using the agri-ambulance. With a family of five to feed, Achyut Khanal managed to source rice and lentils before the lockdown, yet was having difficulty in managing the ration. “I live in a rented house, so I do not have space for growing vegetables, and it seemed unsafe to venture out to the market as well. So, when I heard the ambulance making rounds it was a great relief to me to be able to get vegetables at my own doorstep.” With the beginning of this service, the farmers have received a better price for the vegetables — by removing the middleman — and the price for the consumers also decreased. Lockdown or not, the Cooperative might soon invest in a vehicle to transport vegetables from the farmers' gates to the consumers' plates to provide this vital service to ensure fair prices for farmers, as well as consumers. Story and photos by Bishnu Pandey and Regeena Regmi An Update on the COVID-19 Situation in Nepal By Heifer Nepal \| April 9, 2020 While the whole country is on lockdown, small-scale farmers can’t comprehend how they can continue their livelihoods, which is their only hope.... More Related to Newsworthy Faced with the COVID-19 Pandemic, Farmers in Ecuador Innovate a Whole New Food System Worldbuilders and Humble Bundle Raise Over $1 Million for Heifer International Leading Food Journalist Laura Reiley Discusses How the COVID-19 Pandemic Is Changing the Way We Eat and Shop	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1789
__label__wiki	0.59039	0.59039	Dressed in Black: 16th Century By Trystan L. Bass on October 12, 2018 in Sixteenth Century This Halloween season, Trystan is indulging her gothy love of black garb in frock flicks fashion by looking at some of the most fabulous black dresses in historical costume movies and TV shows. Black wasn’t just worn for mourning, after all! Black clothing was something of a status symbol in the late medieval and early renaissance period because the dyes to make a true, solid black were somewhat expensive and complicated to produce. Wealthy Italian merchants a la the Medicis and upper-class Spanish courtiers were often painted in rich black clothes, and the fashions spread northward to figures like Diane de Poitiers who became renown for dramatic black-and-white gowns. But black clothes have often been worn for somber occasions in Christian cultures. In Elizabeth R (1971), the queen requires her entire court to wear black as mourning in response to the St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre. In most screen versions of Mary Queen of Scots’ life, she’s shown wearing the iconic black gown with white ruffs she was painted in during captivity, symbolic of her widowhood. Here are some of my favorite 16th-century historical frocks in black. What are yours? Natalie Portman as Anne Boleyn at her trial in 1536. Diane (1956) Costume sketch by Walter Plunkett. The gown worn by Lana Turner as Diane de Poiters. Diane with Henri’s young sons, supposedly in the 1540s. Black-Adder II (1986) Lord Edumnd Blackadder (played by Rowan Atkinson) in 1560s garb. Glenda Jackson as QEI in the film Mary, Queen of Scots (1971) — behind the scenes shot, note her cigarette, lol. Played by Vivian Pickles in Elizabeth R, circa MQoS’ trial and execution in the 1580s. Vanessa Redgrave in the titular role of Mary Queen of Scots (1971). Anonymous (2011) Joely Richardson as the young Queen Elizabeth, 1550s. Vanessa Redgrave as the older Queen Elizabeth, circa 1580s. Technically, this is set in the 1610s, but the style is much closer to 16th century than 17th, so I’m keeping Tilda Swinton here. Who loves a black frock with me? Tags1530s1540s1560s1580s1590s1610sAnne Boleynblack is the new blackBlackadderElizabethangothicHalloweenMary Queen of ScotsmourningQueen Elizabeth IThe Other Boleyn Girl Poll: Do You Binge-Watch Frock Flicks? MCM: Jude Law Emma Bull October 12th, 2018 Oh, lordy, blackwork embroidery on giganto sheer fabric sleeves I will DIE of covetousness. MrsC (Maryanne) October 12th, 2018 REally, the costumes in Black Adder were thumbs up, given it was a comedy! opusanglicanum October 14th, 2018 I always thought that the remarkable thing about blackadders outfit was that it made rowan atkinson look vaguely sexy SarahV October 14th, 2018 Aleko October 16th, 2018 What’s interesting about all of those is that none of them were really designed to give you different textures of black. If you look at contemporary portraits by good artists, they really are symphonies in black: black velvet, black silk, black leather etc all are differentiated and give richness and depth. Maybe the designers just knew that wouldn’t work on screen the way it does in real life or even in paint?	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1790
__label__wiki	0.619095	0.619095	Home Mobiles OnePlus to launch OnePlus 7T and OnePlus TV in India today: Catch... OnePlus to launch OnePlus 7T and OnePlus TV in India today: Catch the livestream here This is how you can watch the live stream of the launch event By Komila Singh The Chinese premium smartphone brand OnePlus is all geared up to launch OnePlus 7T in India today. The latest smartphone is the upgraded variant of the OnePlus 7 that the company launched a few months ago in the country. The launch event will be hosted in Delhi where the company will introduce the smartphone for the first time. Interestingly the company will also unveil its OnePlus TV during the launch event. By launching the Television OnePlus will enter into the smart TV industry for the first time. Both the products of the company have been the talk of the town for the past couple of months as the company has been teasing the smartphone and the Television every now and then across all its social media platforms. Additionally, the company is also expected to launch OnePlus 7T Pro at the same event. The said smartphone is the updated version of OnePlus 7 Pro. OnePlus 7T and OnePlus TV expected price, availability and how to watch the live stream OnePlus will unveil OnePlus 7T and OnePlus TV in India at 7 PM today. The company will be holding the launch event in New Delhi later this evening. If you are interested to watch the event live where OneOlus will be introducing its new flagship phone and its first-ever smart TV then you can watch it live here and we have embedded the link below for your convenience. As for the pricing, OnePlusTV will be competing with Mi TV and Motorola in the same price segment. While OnePlus 7T might carry the price tag somewhere around OnePlus 7 that was introduced in the country at Rs 32,999 for the 6GB of RAM with 128GB of internal storage option. OnePlus 7T, as well as OnePlus TV, will go on sale via e-commerce website Amazon during the Amazon Great Indian Festival sale that is commencing from September 29. OnePlus 7T expected specifications Ahead of the launch, OnePlus has officially confirmed that OnePlus 7T will arrive with a 90Hz display that we have already seen in the OnePlus 7 Pro. The company has also teased some of the pictures of the upcoming smartphone that also revealed that this time the device would come with a fresh new design with triple rear cameras placed in a circular module. It will come preinstalled with Android 10 out-of-the-box. OnePlus 7T is expected to come with a 6.55-inch 2K Super AMOLED display. It will be featuring a triple-camera setup combined with 8-megapixel, 16-megapixel and 12-megapixel sensors on the rear panel. It is suggested to be powered by an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 855+ SoC paired with 8GB of RAM along with 128GB of storage. Another one will be available with8GB of RAM with 256GB of internal storage options. It might carry a 3,800mAh battery supported with 30W Warp Charge. OnePlus TV specifications The company has been teasing OnePlus TV across its social media platforms as well as on the product page of the Amazon India website. OnePlus TV will come with a 55-inch QLED display supported by Dolby Vision and is promised to receive software updates for a minimum of three years. In addition to this, the Smart TV will be carrying eight speakers delivering a combined output of 50 W supported by Dolby Atmos and Custom Gama Colour Magic processor. The Television will also come integrated with Amazon Alexa Voice Assistant service. Komila Singhhttps://www.gadgetbridge.com Komila is a one of the most spirited tech writers at Gadget Bridge. Always up for a new challenge, she is an expert at dissecting technology and getting to its core. She loves to tinker with new mobile phones, tablets and headphones. Previous articleMario Kart Tour available on iOS and Android is already downloaded 5 million times: Why you should play it now Next articleThe next generation of iPhone models may have a new metal frame structure like the iPhone 4 trang hoc duong Dec 23, 2019 At 1:13 pm Austin Dec 4, 2019 At 10:30 am I know this website gives quality depending posts and additional data, is there any other web page which offers these kinds of data in quality?	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1793
__label__wiki	0.955707	0.955707	The murder that broke hearts and changed the Coast forever HAUNTING: The abduction and murder of Daniel Morcombe broke hearts of many across the Coast and brought the community together as the Morcombe family fought for justice. Contributed by Scott Sawyer Scott Sawyer 31st Jan 2019 10:07 AM TRUE CRIME: It was the crime that broke the Coast's heart. When bright-eyed Daniel Morcombe, 13, disappeared from beneath the Kiel Mountain Road overpass bridge at Woombye on December 7, 2003, few could've foreseen the torment that lay ahead. He'd been waiting for a bus to do Christmas shopping for his family on the fateful afternoon an opportunistic, sadistic child sex offender, Brett Peter Cowan, was driving past. The 1.35pm bus broke down and its replacement sped past Daniel, trying to make up time, about 2.10pm. By the time the back-up bus came past Daniel was in the clutches of evil. Cowan, whose record of horrific attacks had many questioning why he was even out in the community, had lured Daniel with the offer of a lift to the shops. Video of Daniel Morcombe murder confession to undercover cops - Part 1: The first part of the video referred to as the 'big boss' video or '127' video. Instead he was driven to a secluded shack in the shadows of the Glasshouse Mountains where he was murdered within the hour. It would be eight years before Bruce and Denise Morcombe and their family had answers. An enormous search was carried out on the ground and in the air, with dozens of Oxley police recruits sent north to help as police divers scoured dams and waterways. Bruce and Denise publicly appealed for help and on December 19, 2003, Daniel's 14th birthday, they said they believed their son had been abducted. APPEAL: Kevin Beavis, Denise and Bruce Morcombe, Monique Beavis front the media shortly after Daniel's disappearance. Nicholas Falconer Former Queensland Police Commissioner Bob Atkinson visited the family on the Tuesday, two days after Daniel disappeared. He had a "bad feeling" that something sinister had happened to the popular schoolboy. By March, 2004, more than 4000 calls had been lodged with Crime Stoppers and in October the State Government announced a $250,000 reward. For investigators wading through the masses of information, repeated reports of a blue car meant massive hours were poured into the search for a blue vehicle. Video of Daniel Morcombe murder confession to undercover cops - Part 2: The second part of the video referred to as the 'big boss' video or '127' video. It was a red herring. "Certainly a blue car was a focus, quite rightly, in the early stages," Mr Atkinson said. Thirty-three witnesses claimed to have seen a blue car, while 30 slightly different comfits were created from reports. The public passed over more than 15,000 pieces of information and more than 20,000 job logs were lodged by investigators, as they worked to follow up leads or rule out suspects. SEARCH: Police and SES at the end of Kings Rd, Glass House Mountains at the base of the search party for Daniel Morcombe whose body they believe may be buried in the area. Nicholas Falconer By December, 2008, the State Government lifted the reward to $1 million, but that would expire in May the following year. By July, 2009, the Morcombes' calls for a Coronial Inquest into Daniel's disappearance had been backed by Mr Atkinson and then-Premier Anna Bligh. Momentum was building. The family, the public, police, they all wanted answers. Video of Daniel Morcombe murder confession to undercover cops - Part 3: The third part of the video referred to as the 'big boss' video or '127' video. On April 16, 2010, thousands of pages of the police investigation into Daniel's disappearance were handed over to the State Coroner. The Coronial Inquest so desperately sought began in October, 2010. Daniel's parents Denise and Bruce Morcombe leave the inquest with boxes of evidence. Contributed Nambour-based lawyer Peter Boyce represented the Morcombes, and in January, 2011, a new police taskforce was established to review evidence in relation to his abduction. It'd been seven years since Daniel had vanished without a trace. On March 28, 2011, the inquest resumed. During the inquest, critical evidence from a person of interest (P7), who was later identified as Brett Peter Cowan, revealed a major hole in his alibi. MONSTER: An elaborate sting brough Brett Peter Cowan down. QUEENSLAND COURTS It sparked an extensive undercover sting operation in a bid to find out whether he was the monster who'd killed Daniel. In early-April Cowan was befriended by an undercover officer on his flight back home to Western Australia after appearing at the inquest. What followed was almost six months of painstaking work by Queensland and Western Australian police in a joint, covert operation. It culminated in August, 2011, when an undercover officer posing as a crime boss was able to extract a confession from Cowan. After almost a decade police had their man. Cowan was flown back to from WA to an old sandmining property off Kings Rd at the Glass House Mountains about 9am on August 13, 2011. SCENE: The demountable house in the Glasshouse Mountains where Daniel was killed. QUEENSLAND COURTS Maroochydore CIB detectives, including detective Sergeant Graeme Farlow and detective Senior Sergeant Daren Edwards, were in hiding at the property. They'd waited in a clearing until about 11am, before taking cover behind a woodpile. A Toyota Hilux containing Cowan and two other men, whom he understood to be WA crime syndicate figures, but were actually undercover police, pulled up. Video of Daniel Morcombe murder confession to undercover cops - Part 4: The fourth and final part of the video referred to as the 'big boss' video or '127' video. Cowan had led the officers to the place he'd so callously discarded Daniel's body after murdering him. Cowan was arrested over the abduction and murder of Daniel Morcombe. He was arrested at 4pm and charged three hours later with murder, deprivation of liberty, child stealing, indecent treatment of a child under 16 and interfering with a corpse. EVIDENCE: One of Daniel's shoes found during extensive searches of the scene. QUEENSLAND COURTS A massive search of the area began. Daniel's shoes were found and a week later nearby, human bones. On August 28, then-Police Commissioner Bob Atkinson announced DNA testing had confirmed they were Daniel's bones. The Morcombes finally had some closure. HUNT: Police and SES search for clues for Daniel Morcombe. Contributed A total of 17 bones were found on the property. "My own view is that it was a very fine piece of investigative work," Mr Atkinson said. He was of the opinion that the undercover strategy executed by Queensland and WA police to secure Cowan's confession would be regarded as "one of the finest examples" of policing in Australia history. Cowan, who former Assistant Commissioner Mike Condon said had been on police radars since December 21, 2003, pleaded not guilty to Daniel's abduction and murder. CONFIRMATION: Bruce and Denise Morcombe speak to the media after bones found at Beerwah were been confirmed as belonging to Daniel Morcombe. Cade Mooney It took a jury just 7.5 hours to find him guilty on all three counts in March, 2014 and he was sentenced to life in prison. Cowan was later refused leave to launch a High Court appeal against his sentence, and remains at Wolston Correctional Centre, where he was attacked with boiling water by a fellow inmate while playing cards with other prisoners in August, 2016. Mr Atkinson, who became a co-patron of the Daniel Morcombe Foundation in 2013, said across the board there'd been an understanding among investigators that they would not give up until they found Daniel's killer. "I'm enormously grateful to the senior officers who managed that," he said. INNOCENT: Daniel was a popular schoolboy. 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__label__wiki	0.852759	0.852759	글로벌 구성원 글로벌 업무분야 연구자료/간행물 글로벌 사무소 GT소식/이벤트 search menu Search {{typeahead}} Mian R. Wang Associate wangm@gtlaw.com Boston D +1 617.310.6273 T +1 617.310.6000 vCard PDF Print Share + Mian R. Wang focuses her practice on business litigation. She represents public and private corporations, financial institutions, directors, officers, and individuals before state and federal courts. She has deep experience litigating adversary proceedings and contested matters in bankruptcy courts as well as defending claims for breach of fiduciary duty, breach of contract, and unfair or deceptive business practices. Prior to joining the firm, Mian served as a law clerk for the Honorable Alvin W. Thompson in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, where she gained experience in legal writing, trial procedures, and case management. She also worked in Delaware as a litigation associate in a national firm where she represented clients on both state and federal matters. Counsel for former chief executive officer of a publicly-traded corporation in an adversary proceeding over claims arising out of alleged breach of fiduciary duties. Obtained summary judgment for a healthcare professional against claims arising out of an alleged breach of an oral contract and unfair and deceptive practices seeking over $3 million in damages. Defended and resolved for an event technology company claims of conspiracy, misappropriation of trade secrets, aiding and abetting breach of fiduciary duty, and unfair competition seeking over $8 million in damages. Advised a foreign institutional investor against clawbacks of alleged fraudulent transfers arising out of the Bernard Madoff Ponzi Scheme. 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__label__wiki	0.734742	0.734742	Famed Arecibo Observatory suffers more damage as 900-ton platform falls December 1, 2020 [email protected]_84 900ton, Arecibo, damage, Falls, Famed, Observatory, Platform, suffers The Arecibo Observatory’s 900-ton platform, long suspended above the telescope dish, has fallen. The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico has been a science and pop culture icon for decades. A series of tragic events involving broken cables has now been compounded by an even larger structural failure at the telescope. The observatory’s massive 900-ton platform — which was suspended in the air above the dish — has fallen. From the lab to your inbox. Get the latest science stories from CNET every week. The National Science Foundation announced the overnight collapse on Tuesday. “No injuries were reported. NSF is working with stakeholders to assess the situation. Our top priority is maintaining safety,” the foundation tweeted. Arecibo’s famous 305-meter (1,000-foot) telescope dish had already suffered extensive damage from the previous broken cables that had been helped to keep the platform suspended. The NSF decided earlier in November to decommission and demolish the telescope due to safety concerns. Despite the NSF conclusion, over 36,000 scientists and space fans had signed a Change.org petition asking for the telescope to be repaired and preserved for future generations. The platform’s fall makes any chance of saving the telescope even more remote. Dying space missions remembered in inspiring final images While the observatory’s scientific achievements in astronomy are its main legacy, it also starred in the 1995 James Bond movie GoldenEye and appeared in the 1997 Jodie Foster sci-fi movie Contact. “NSF is saddened by this development,” the foundation tweeted. “As we move forward, we will be looking for ways to assist the scientific community and maintain our strong relationship with the people of Puerto Rico.” ← Up to 50% of university students unhappy with online learning, regulator finds The Arecibo Telescope in Puerto Rico Collapses →	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1804
__label__wiki	0.600059	0.600059	Guru3D.com » News » E3 - Battlefield 3 launches Oct. 25 E3 - Battlefield 3 launches Oct. 25 by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 06/07/2011 07:57 AM \| source: \| 0 comment(s) EA has announced the release date for Battlefield 3: October 25, 2011. Utilizing DICE's proprietary 'Frostbite 2' engine, Battlefield 3 is launching on the PC, Xbox 360, and PS3. The Battlefield 3 multi-platform beta is scheduled to kick-start in September. Beta passes had been given away with new game sales of last year's Medal of Honor. Battlefield 3 captures the intense reality of modern warfare across the globe. DICE is working closely with highly decorated ex-SAS operator and acclaimed author, Andy McNab, to ensure the authenticity and grittiness of today's war is captured in both the single player and multiplayer campaigns. In the single player chapters being highlighted at E3, two new playable characters are introduced. Dmitri "Dima" Mayakovsky, a Russian undercover agent, must fight his way from the Paris Stock Exchange through the crowded city streets in a desperate attempt to stop PLR operatives from detonating a dirty bomb in the heart of Paris. Jonathan "Jono" Miller, a Marine Corporal from America's heartland, is deployed to the barren dustbowl of the Tehran desert to engage PLR forces. This chapter showcases a classic Battlefield vehicle warfare experience as players embark on a large scale tank attack to neutralize the PLR base. The popular Battlefield multiplayer mode « Wii 2 Possible Leaked Specifications · E3 - Battlefield 3 launches Oct. 25 · E3 - Mass Effect 3: Fall of Earth Trailer »	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1807
__label__cc	0.618569	0.381431	Investimenti Responsabili Diversità e Inclusione Impact Opportunities Fondo Sostenere oggi i vincitori di domani Azionario Mercati Privati Home » Podcast » Amplified: ESG integration across Hermes Fixed Income Amplified: ESG integration across Hermes Fixed Income 15 th August 2018 Fixed Income Private Markets In this podcast, Mitch Reznick, Co-Head of Hermes Credit & Head of Credit Research, looks at how ESG integration manifests itself across the varying fixed income products at Hermes. The following principal members of each of the fixed income teams join Mitch to discuss how ESG integration and engagement works for them: Patrick Marshall, Head of Private Debt & CLOs, Vincent Nobel, Head of Asset Based Lending and Andrew Lennox, ABS Portfolio Manager. See our podcast guide on how to download our podcasts on your phone. Mitch Reznick CFA, Head of Research and Sustainable Fixed Income Mitch joined the international business of Federated Hermes in February 2010 as Head of Research on the Credit team before becoming Co-Head of Credit from 2012 to 2019. In 2019, in addition to his role of Head of Research, he became Head of Sustainable Fixed Income and co-manager of the Federated Hermes SDG Engagement High Yield Credit Fund. Prior to this he was Co-Head of Credit Research for the global credit team at Fortis Investments. Other roles at Fortis include portfolio manager of European high yield funds, based in London, and senior credit analyst, based in Paris. Before this he worked as an associate analyst in the leveraged finance group at Moody’s Investors Service in New York. Mitch earned a Master’s degree in International Affairs at Columbia University in New York City and a Bachelor’s degree in History at Pitzer College, one of the Claremont Colleges in California. He is a CFA charterholder; Co-Chair of the Capital Markets Advisory Committee of the IFRS Foundation; founding member of the Executive Committee for the European Leveraged Finance Association; member of the Sovereign Working Group and the Credit Rating Advisory Committee for the PRI; member of the technical Working Group (Communications and Technology) for the US-based Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB); a workstream member of the UK-China Green Finance Task Force; and sits on the Green Finance Advisory of the City of London. Il valore degli investimenti e del reddito da essi derivante può diminuire o aumentare e non vi è garanzia di rientrare in possesso del capitale originariamente investito.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line1810
__label__wiki	0.95827	0.95827	hertfordshiremercuryLoad mobile navigation Hertfordshire News East Herts Young Hertfordshire mum, 31, died after mystery illness caused her body to shut down She was described as a teacher who 'made kids eager to learn' hertfordshiremercury Adam MayMultimedia Journalist Sinéad McNally, 31, with her six-month-old son Aidan and husband Ryan, 33 (Image: Ciara Grace) An 'inspirational' teacher and mum died at the age of just 31 after her body shut down following an 8-week battle with a mystery illness. Sinéad McNally, who lived with her husband Ryan and six-month-old son Aidan in Welham Green, Hertfordshire, felt unwell the day before their annual family trip to Southwold in early October. She took a temperature test and began to feel better and, when they arrived on the Suffolk coast the next day, Sinéad, Ryan, Aidan, sister Ciara and her mum, Theresa, and her dad, John, all went for a walk. Upon their return to where they were staying, Sinéad became seriously ill, and what was initially dismissed as a bug soon became something far worse than the family could ever have imagined. They called the NHS on 111 and the ambulance crews found her heartbeat to be worryingly high. She was then taken to hospital in Lowestoft late at night, with Ryan following closely behind, and it was when Ryan arrived at the hospital that he was told Sinéad had taken a turn for the worse. She then suffered a cardiac arrest in the early hours of October 13 - just six days after she first felt poorly. Her condition worsened after the cardiac arrest and she was rushed to Royal Papworth in Cambridge on October 14 where she would spend the next eight weeks in intensive care. Doctors told the family the next few hours would be critical, and when Sinéad, a primary school teacher at St Martin De Porres in Bounds Green, north London, was hooked up to an ECMO machine, she began to show some signs of recovery, although these were always followed with further bad news. Sinéad with her husband Ryan and newborn son Aidan (Image: Ciara Grace) The family's hopes were dashed, however, when the situation became so severe that she had to have her right leg amputated around Halloween in a desperate effort to save her following multiple organ failure and potential sepsis. "She was in a sedation from the operation," said Ryan. "We had some moments in there [the hospital] that were lovely where we were allowed in to spend some time with her. "One of the hardest parts of this was that she couldn't talk to us as she was on a ventilator and therefore couldn't communicate her wishes and feelings. We would have loved to have heard her voice again. "Then lockdown hit and there was a Covid scare in the bed next to her, and they moved her into her room on her own and tested her. "Then we had a conversation with the doctor around December 1. He was the head of the ICU and basically told us Sinéad's got even worse. Her body's started to shut down, there's nothing we can really do. "[The doctor said] it's going to get to a point now where we can't speak to Sinéad because she's not well, she's not responding, so you're going to have to start thinking about turning off the medication. "I remember saying to him that's not something I could agree to. It felt like I had to, it felt like that is what the question was. "He said it will be our decision [the doctors] if we don't think it can help anymore but we're just trying to let you know." That appeared to be the turning point and the start of a downward spiral and, on December 6, Sinéad sadly passed away, a month and a day before her 32nd birthday. 'She got on with everyone' Sinéad has been described as an 'inspirational' teacher who was loved by all (Image: Ciara Grace) The last few weeks have been particularly tough for husband Ryan, 33, who has temporarily moved in with some of Sinéad's family, including her older sister Ciara. Due to coronavirus restrictions, he was largely unable to see her in hospital, with him staying at their home in Hertfordshire while she was in intensive care up in Cambridge. Ryan, who met north London-born Sinéad when she was 18 and went to school at Loreto College in St Albans, will always remember how well-loved she was and her utter devotion to teaching. "Socially, she got on with everyone, so she had a lot of friends and family," said Ryan. "She was a teacher and she made a lot of connections there, the kids loved her, sending her videos and cards while she was in hospital. View the latest news in your area by entering your post code below: "She was very clever, she loved reading and she loved staying in or going to bed early. But when we did go out she was one of the liveliest and the first one on the dance floor. She was great fun." When Ryan first met Sinéad she was a hairdresser, although she soon found out that her real passion was in teaching. She went to re-train at university in her late 20s and continued to work as a hairdresser at weekends to prop up her funds. In the last couple of years, Sinéad and Ryan got married, bought their first house and Sinéad became a qualified teacher. "She knew exactly what she wanted to do", said her sister Ciara, 37. "I don't know anyone like that, that knew exactly what they wanted to do, and they just did it. Sinéad (right) and her older sister, Ciara (Image: Ciara Grace) "She wasn't there [at the school] that long, but the impact she had at that school was unbelievable. "All the messages from the teachers and parents were lovely, and there's a video that one of her classes did. It was a Bruno Mars song, and it was just so special." Teachers have been paying their respects to Sinéad, who also has an older brother, Shaun, and told Ciara that her sister made children eager to learn due to her infectious attitude. "Since Sinéad was ill, the teachers have been telling us what a great job she did," added Ciara. "She said Sinéad opened the door to learning for them using teaching methods which made it fun and easy to learn. "She made it so easy for them to learn, which I just think is a really nice way of describing a special teacher." She was also a hard worker, and would comb through her students' work meticulously so they were all marked properly and with appropriate feedback. Ryan said she'd always get up early to do work before she left the house, and then when she'd come back home would continue with lesson planning and marking until late at night. 'She came into her own as a mother' Sinéad with her son, Aidan (Image: Ciara Grace) Ryan and Sinéad's son, Aidan, is just six months old and was born during the coronavirus pandemic. As a result, Sinéad was in hospital on her own for five days because visitors weren't allowed, but Ryan says his late wife was an inspirational mum. "She just came into her own as a mum, just from the whole pregnancy and going into labour in lockdown," he said. "She really, really flourished. My memory of Sinéad will always be that six months as a mum. That's my fondest. "Sinéad had already planned Aidan's weaning programme before she became ill and had strong views about how to do this healthily to give him the best possible start. "She had also identified a day care facility for him in anticipation of returning to work once her maternity leave had finished, both of which illustrate what an amazing mum she was." Follow HertsLive on social media Follow HertsLive on Facebook - Like our Facebook page to get the latest news in your feed and join in the lively discussions in the comments. Click here to like and follow it. You can also join our local Facebook groups here. Follow us on Twitter - For breaking news and the latest stories, click here to follow us on Twitter. Follow us on Instagram - On the HertsLive Instagram page we share amazing pictures of our stunning county, and if you tag us in your posts, we could repost your picture on our page. Click here to follow Herts Live on Instagram. Family may never know exactly what made Sinéad ill Ryan has been told by doctors that he may never know what exactly caused Sinéad to fall ill. Doctors believe it might have been a condition known as myocarditis. Myocarditis is inflammation of the myocardium - the heart muscle. Most people with myocarditis recover without any complications but in rare cases when inflammation is severe, there can be damage to the heart. It's cause is not always known but it can be brought on by a viral, bacterial or fungal infection, a chest infection, or an autoimmune disease. In severe cases, like with Sinéad, it can lead to a whole host of issues, including heart failure. Ryan and the family struggle to understand why Sinéad, who was young, fit and healthy, was so badly affected by this illness and would like to understand more, and are keen to speak with other people who have had similar experiences. Fundraiser raises over £15,000 for Sinéad's family Sinéad with her husband Ryan (left), parents Theresa and John, and sister Ciara (far right) (Image: Ciara Grace) In order to help support Ryan and Aidan through their lives, a fundraising page was set-up by friends and family. More than £15,000 has been raised so far, and Ryan says the support has been overwhelming. He also admits he first felt uneasy about accepting the donations at first but thanked everyone for their generosity. Her funeral was also streamed due to Covid restricting the number of guests, so when everyone is allowed to meet again properly the family plans to celebrate her life together. "The priest at the funeral said that, with death, we usually promote silence and we want silence," said Ryan. "But he said in this instance I don't want silence. I want everyone to talk about Sinéad and let Aidan hear the stories, to keep Sinéad alive." You can donate to the Just Giving page here. 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