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__label__cc	0.607153	0.392847	Physicians and Staff Home » Patient Education » Sinuses » Sinusitic Questions Sinusitic Questions 20 Questions About Your Sinuses Q. How common is sinusitis? A. More than 37 million Americans suffer from at least one episode of acute sinusitis each year. The prevalence of sinusitis has soared in the last decade due to increased pollution, urban sprawl, and increased resistance to antibiotics. Q. What is sinusitis? A. Sinusitis is an inflammation of the membrane lining of any sinus, especially one of the paranasal sinuses. Acute sinusitis is a short-term condition that responds well to antibiotics and decongestants; chronic sinusitis is characterized by at least four recurrences of acute sinusitis. Either medication or surgery is a possible treatment. Q. What are the signs and symptoms of acute sinusitis? A. For acute sinusitis, symptoms include facial pain/pressure, nasal obstruction, nasal discharge, diminished sense of smell, and cough not due to asthma (in children). Additionally, sufferers of this disorder could incur fever, bad breath, fatigue, dental pain, and cough (in adults). Acute sinusitis can last four weeks or more. This condition may be present when the patient has two or more symptoms and/or the presence of thick, green or yellow nasal discharge. Acute bacterial infection might be present when symptoms worsen after five days, persist after ten days, or the severity of symptoms is out of proportion to those normally associated with a viral infection. Q. How is acute sinusitis treated? A. Acute sinusitis is generally treated with 10 to 14 days of antibiotic care. With treatment, the symptoms disappear and antibiotics are no longer required for that episode. Oral and topical decongestants also may be prescribed to alleviate the symptoms. Q. What are the signs and symptoms of chronic sinusitis? A. Victims of chronic sinusitis may have the following symptoms for 12 weeks or more: facial pain/pressure, facial congestion/fullness, nasal obstruction/blockage, thick nasal discharge/discolored post-nasal drainage, pus in the nasal cavity, and at times, fever. They may also have headache, bad breath, and fatigue. Q. What measures can be taken at home to relieve sinus pain? A. Warm moist air may alleviate sinus congestion. A vaporizer or steam from a pan of boiled water (removed from the heat) are both recommended (humidifiers should have a clear filter to preclude spraying bacteria or fungal spores into the air). Warm compresses are useful in relieving pain in the nose and sinuses. Saline nose drops are safe for use at home. Q. How effective are non-prescription nose drops or sprays? A. Use of nonprescription drops or sprays might help control symptoms. However, non-prescription drops should not be used beyond their label recommendation. Q. How does a physician determine the best treatment for acute or chronic sinusitis? A. To obtain the best treatment option, the physician needs to properly assess the patient's history and symptoms and then progress through a structured physical examination. Q. What should one expect during the physical examination for sinusitis? A. At a specialist's office, the patient will receive a thorough ear, nose, and throat examination. During that physical examination, the physician will explore the facial features where swelling and erythema (redness of the skin) over the cheekbone exists. Facial swelling and redness are generally worse in the morning; as the patient remains upright, the symptoms gradually improve. The physician may feel and press the sinuses for tenderness. Additionally, the physician may tap the teeth to help identify an inflamed paranasal sinus. Q. What other diagnostic procedures might be taken? A. Other diagnostic tests may include a study of a mucus culture, endoscopy, x-rays, allergy testing, or CT scan of the sinuses. Q. What is nasal endoscopy? A. An endoscope is a special fiberoptic instrument for the examination of the interior of a canal or hollow viscus. It allows a visual examination of the nose and sinus drainage areas. Q. Why does a physician specialist carry out nasal endoscopy? A. Nasal endoscopy offers the physician specialist a reliable, visual view of all the accessible areas of the sinus drainage pathways. First, the patient's nasal cavity is anesthetized; a rigid or flexible endoscope is then placed in a position to view the structure of the nasal cavity. The procedure is utilized to observe signs of obstruction as well as detect nasal polyps hidden from routine nasal examination. During the endoscopic examination, the physician specialist also looks for pus as well as polyp formation and structural abnormalities that will cause the patient to suffer from recurrent sinusitis. Q. What course of treatment will the physician recommend? A. To reduce congestion, the physician may prescribe nasal sprays, nose drops, or oral decongestants. Antibiotics will be prescribed for any bacterial infection found in the sinuses (antibiotics are not effective against a viral infection). Antihistamines may be recommended for the treatment of allergies. Antifungal medicine will be the treatment for any fungal infection. Q. Will any changes in lifestyle be suggested during treatment? A. Smoking is never condoned, but if one has the habit, it is important to refrain during treatment for sinus problems. A special diet is not required, but drinking extra fluids helps to thin mucus. Q. When is sinus surgery necessary? A. Mucus is developed by the body to act as a lubricant. In the sinus cavities, the lubricant is moved across mucus membrane linings toward the opening of each sinus by millions of cilia (a mobile extension of a cell). Inflammation from an allergy causes membrane swelling and the sinus opening to narrow, thereby blocking mucus movement. If antibiotics are not effective, sinus surgery can correct the problem. Q. What does the surgical procedure entail? A. The basic endoscopic surgical procedure is performed under local or general anesthesia. The patient returns to normal activities within four days; full recovery takes about four weeks. Q. What does sinus surgery accomplish? A. The surgery should enlarge the natural opening to the sinuses, leaving as many cilia in place as possible. Otolaryngologist-head and neck surgeons have found endoscopic surgery to be highly effective in restoring normal functioning to the sinuses. The procedure removes areas of obstruction, resulting in the normal flow of mucus. Q. What are the consequences of not treating infected sinuses? A. Not seeking treatment for sinusitis will result in unnecessary pain and discomfort. In rare circumstances, meningitis or brain abscess and infection of the bone or bone marrow can occur. Q. Where should sinus pain sufferers seek treatment? A. If you suffer from severe sinus pain, you should seek treatment from a physician who can treat your condition with medical and/or surgical remedies. This information (with the exception of photos) may be freely used. Attribution to the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery is required. © 2011 AAO-HNS/AAO-HNSF « Back to "Sinuses" » Patient Forms Enter the patient portal to complete patient registration forms, medical history and access documents. Monday - January 18th, 2021 AllergyAlert: Today's Forecast for Abingdon, VA. Click image to view. General ENT About Otolaryngology Snoring and Sleep Disorders © Copyright Abingdon Ear, Nose and Throat, PC. 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__label__cc	0.523647	0.476353	HOME INTRODUCTION STAFF RESEARCH RECRUITMENT CONTACT US 中文 Prof. Yi Chen Prof. Lanqun Mao Prof. Huimin Ma Prof. Fuyi Wang Prof. Dihua Shangguan Prof. Rui Zhao Prof. Zongxiu Nie Prof. Zhenwen Zhao Prof. Tie Wang Prof. Ming Wang Prof. Haichen Wu Bio-chromatography Insight on research Huimin Ma group has made important progress in the second near-infrared spectroscopic probe Fluorophores in the second near-infrared window (NIR-II, 1000-1700 nm) have attracted extensive attention due to their better imaging quality and deeper tissue penetration than those in the first near-infrared window (NIR-I, 650？900 nm). Currently, NIR-II fluorophores are primarily based on inorganic nanomaterials, but their disputable toxicity hinders preclinical translation. In contrast, organic small molecular fluorophores have presented satisfactory safety profiles and have been used in ... New spectroscopic probe and its application to fluorescence imaging of hydroxyl radical Development of new spectroscopic probes and specific imaging methods is of great importance for various biological studies. Prof. Ma’s research group at the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICCAS), has been engaged in this area for more than 20 years, during which a series of new spectroscopic probes and sensing methods for bioactive species have been developed by using various chemical reactions. Based on their important results, Prof. Ma and his colleagues have been inv... New spectroscopic probe and its use in fluorescence imaging of monoamine oxidase A Because of their high sensitivity and spatiotemporal resolution, excellent spectroscopic (chromogenic, fluorescent, or chemiluminescent) probes have attracted much attention. Prof. Ma’s research group at the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has been engaged in this field for more than two decades, during which a series of new spectroscopic probes and sensing/labeling methods for biologically active species have been developed by employing different chemical reactions. Bas... New spectroscopic probe and its use in fluorescence imaging of tyrosinase activity Due to the high sensitivity and high spatiotemporal resolution, the development of excellent spectroscopic (chromogenic, fluorescent, or chemiluminescent) probes has attracted much attention. Prof. Ma’s research group at the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has been engaged in this field for more than two decades, during which a series of new spectroscopic probes and sensing/labeling methods for biologically active species have been developed by employing different chemic... 2013 ACL Autumn Meeting Held In 28th, Sep. 2013, the annual autumn meeting of ACL was held in Beijing. All the students and faculty attended the meeting. The safety knowledge lectures, scientific reports and the award ceremony were arranged in this meeting. ACL Obtained the Fund of “National Natural Science Foundation of China Innovative Research Team” The project of “National Natural Science Foundation of China Innovative Research Team” was set by Natural Science Foundation of China in 2000, which is aim to support the creative research team. Such a fund to our lab is helpful to establish the new platform for the development of analytical chemistry. Professor Ping Yu Obtained Natural Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars Recently, Associate Professor Ping Yu obtained the Natural Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars, which was supported by Natural Science Foundation of China. The total amount of this fund is ￥ 1 million. It is also the first Natural Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars in our laboratory. Research achievements in ACL awarded the Science and Technology Awards of Beijing The on-line in vivo analysis of bioactive molecules at the living animal level could reflect the chemical information change in real life process. Thus it is significant in the research of analytical chemistry and neuropathology. The Prof. Lanqun Mao’s group in ACL embarks on the research of new mechanisms and methods of analytical chemistry for living biosystems all the time. Copyright © CAS Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Living Biosystems Zhongguancun North First Street 2,100190 Beijing, PR China	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line1
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For any such requests, please email us Are you currently a member of 1Law4All * HQ@1law4all.kiwi.nz www.1law4all.kiwi.nz Standard Business Hours For a Fair and Equal New Zealand 1Law4All In The News Current MPs email addresses Treaty Industry Con Myths 1 to 6 Myths 7 to 12 Myths 13 to 18 Attack on Private Property Rights Legislation dividing New Zealanders by Race Tag Archives: nick smith 1law4all > nick smith MAORI PRIVILEGE 1Law4All council, democracy, iwi, maori, maori privilege, National Party, Ngai Tahu, nick smith, racial privilege 1law4all, Councils, democracy, Maori, Maori Charitable Trusts, Maori Privilege, Maori Seats, Missuse & Abuse of Taxpayers Money, New Zealand, Racism, Tax Payer Funding 17 NZCPR Weekly: By Dr Muriel Newman Maori privilege is on the rise and at an accelerating pace. Reports are now emerging from around the country of iwi representatives turning up at confidential local authority meetings and demanding a seat at council tables. They claim their authority comes from the Mana Whakahono a Rohe agreements in the Resource Legislation Amendment Act that was passed by the National Government in 2017. At the time we warned these iwi consultation provisions would have serious consequences for local democracy by enabling un-elected and unaccountable tribal representatives – pursuing their own self-interested agendas – to sit alongside elected councillors and officials in a co-governance role. The Minister responsible for this misguided law change was Nelson MP Nick Smith. He not only designed these agreements with Iwi leaders behind closed doors, but he then manipulated Parliament’s rules so they could be imposed onto the country without notice and in such a way as to avoid the submission process and any form of public consultation whatsoever. At the time the NZCPR asked the new Prime Minister Bill English to remove the provisions from the Bill. We published newspaper advertisements urging the public to contact the PM and call for common sense. In the ads we explained the new iwi powers included plan-making, consenting, appointment of committees, monitoring and enforcement, bylaws, regulations and other council statutory responsibilities – including over fresh water. We warned that once these agreements were in place they would be there forever – unless there was a law change to repeal them. The fact that Councillors and communities cannot prevent these agreements from being introduced shows the fundamental protections of democracy and the rule of law have now been completely undermined. As constitutional lawyer Stephen Franks explained at the time, “The Bill entrenches permanent race privilege and corruption… The provisions are a major constitutional change. They subordinate powers entrusted to elected local governments, in deliberately obscure words, to racially inherited power, beyond the reach of electoral recall.” Another example of Maori privilege that has been extremely detrimental to the national interest is the changes to the Charities Act that were introduced by Helen Clark’s Labour Government to allow some of the biggest businesses in the country to register as charities and avoid paying tax. Until that time, any group wanting to register as a charity not only needed a legitimate charitable purpose – such as the relief of poverty or the advancement of education – but they also had to meet a public benefit test to ensure that tax-free profits flow into the wider community, and not into the pockets of private individuals and their relatives. Since Maori tribal organisations are kin-based, they failed the public benefit test and could not gain charitable status. To sidestep this hurdle, Labour introduced an exemption from the blood tie disqualification for anyone involved in the administration and management of a marae. As a result, mega rich corporations like Ngai Tahu have been able to register as tax free charities. This week’s NZCPR Guest Commentator researcher Dr Michael Gousmett, outlines the consequences of Labour’s ill-advised law change: “It is interesting to read Ngai Tahu’s defence on their website of their charitable status and the income tax exemption that applies to its commercial empire: ‘The commercial success of Ngai Tahu needs no introduction. A $170 million settlement in 1998 has, in the space of 20 years, been turned into $1.3 billion (give or take a dollar or two).’ “The phenomenal rate of growth of their empire has been achieved through the significant acquisition of many previously income-tax paying for-profit entities which overnight, because of the income tax exempt status of Ngai Tahu Charitable Trust as the sole shareholder, also claims that fiscal privilege – yet those activities are unrelated to the charitable purposes of the trustee. “Over the past 20 years, there have been, at one time or another, 70 limited liability companies, 18 joint ventures and 3 associate companies under Ngai Tahu control. Currently Ngai Tahu has 39 trading entities that are registered as tax charities. Today Ngai Tahu operate a substantial commercial operation that the taxpayers of New Zealand subsidise.” With the Maori economy now topping $50 billion, Maori business corporations should not be subsidised by taxpayers. Their tax exempt status should be removed. It’s time they contributed their ‘fair share’ of tax to help build the country’s infrastructure and fund social services – just like everyone else. In fact, when the Tax Working Group announced they intended looking into the tax treatment of charities, there was hope that Sir Michael Cullen would recommend what he proposed as Minister of Finance, namely, “Make trading operations owned by charities subject to income tax in the same way as other businesses, but with an unlimited deduction for distributions made for the relevant charitable purposes”. However, recent comments by Dr Cullen that charities taking an “intergenerational” approach should be protected, may signal that more race based financial privilege lies ahead, not less – although it’s difficult to imagine what could be more generous than a zero tax rate! Underpinning the growth in Maori privilege over the years has been the on-going battle for the Maori seats. These have become the political power base of the Maori sovereignty movement. At present, sovereignty supporters are attempting to protect their power base through a Bill to entrench the Maori seats, so they can only be removed by a 75 percent majority of Parliament. Labour MP Rino Tirikatene’s Private Member’s Bill, the Electoral (Entrenchment of Maori Seats) Amendment Bill is currently in front of a Select Committee, and he and his colleagues are busy travelling the country collecting submissions in favour of entrenchment. To counter their contrived support, we urge anyone concerned about the growth of Maori privilege in New Zealand to send in a submission opposing entrenchment before the closing date of December 14th. To assist readers, we have outlined a summary of the NZCPR submission to show the sorts of issues that can be raised. But don’t forget, submissions to a Select Committee do not have to be complex – one that simply states support or opposition to a Bill for a single reason is quite sufficient. Furthermore, since politics is a numbers game, the number of submissions received on a Bill is important. But don’t forget that submissions should not be reproduced word for word otherwise they may not be counted separately by a Select Committee. The following format can be used – the NZCPR’s full submission can be seen HERE. Committee Secretariat Maori Affairs Select Committee ma@parliament.govt.nz Submission: Electoral (Entrenchment of Maori Seats) Amendment Bill Thank you for providing the opportunity to make a submission on the Electoral (Entrenchment of Maori Seats) Amendment Bill. This submission on behalf of ……… opposes the Bill on the following grounds: 1. The reason for the existence of the Maori seats has long disappeared The Maori seats were introduced as a temporary measure in 1867 to give those Maori men who didn’t meet the property qualification, the right to vote. The seats were meant to remain in force for five years but were extended for a further five years and then indefinitely. When all men gained the vote in 1879, the Maori seats should have been abolished. Since the original purpose of the Maori seats has long disappeared, they should be abolished, not entrenched. 2. The Maori seats breach Section 19(1) of the New Zealand Bill of Rights. In 1986 the Royal Commission on the Electoral System recommended abolishing the Maori seats to prevent an over-representation of Maori in Parliament, if our voting system was changed from First Past the Post to Mixed Member Proportional. Since a quarter of all MPs in our Parliament – including the leaders or deputy leaders of all political parties – are now of Maori descent, the retention of the Maori seats following the introduction of MMP has resulted in a disproportionate over-representation of Maori in Parliament. In 2010, a ruling by the Attorney General on the principle of proportionality noted, “In a representative democracy, it is important to maintain approximately the same level of representation for everyone.” Since the Maori seats have increased the representation of Maori in Parliament to a level greater than their proportion in the population as a whole, they have become discriminatory and are in breach of section 19(1) of the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 – freedom from discrimination based on race. Accordingly, the Maori seats should be abolished, not entrenched. 3. The Maori seats are not suited to entrenchment. Under section 268 of the Electoral Act, reserved provisions can only be changed through a special 75 percent majority of Parliament – or a binding referendum of voters. There are six reserved provisions, which are all constitutional in nature: the term of Parliament, the Representation Commission, the general electorates, the 5 percent electorate margin, the minimum voting age of 18, and the method of voting. When the Maori seats were first introduced to give Maori men the vote, they were constitutional in nature. But once all men could vote, the rationale for their existence disappeared, and the reason they were retained was political. Political provisions are not suited to entrenchment. 4. The Bill is in breach of Parliament’s rules Parliament’s Standing Order 266 states, “A proposal for entrenchment must itself be carried in a committee of the whole House by the majority that it would require for the amendment or repeal of the provision to be entrenched.” This means that a Bill to entrench the Maori seats should also be passed by a special majority of 75 percent of Parliament. The fact that the Bill does not specify this, means it is in breach of Standing Order 266 and should be rejected. 5. The Maori seats are no longer lawful The Maori electoral population used in calculating the number of Maori seats is determined by the number of people who indicate they have Maori descent on their Census forms. However, in 1997, the Government Statistician decided to include a proportion of those who had not answered the Maori descent question correctly in his calculation. As a result, the number of Maori seats rose from 6 to 7. If the estimate had not been added, there would have only been 6 Maori seats since 1997. Section 3 of the Electoral Act requires the Maori electoral population to be based on “the total number of ordinarily resident persons of New Zealand Maori descent as determined by the last periodical census”. However, since 1997 the calculation has been based on the census plus an estimate from the Government Statistician. That means the Maori seats are being calculated unlawfully. It would clearly be improper to entrench unlawful seats. For the reasons outlined, the Electoral (Entrenchment of Maori Seats) Amendment Bill should not proceed. Furthermore, the Maori seats should be abolished. Yours sincerely … With Labour winning all seven Maori seats at the last election, we should expect to see new forms of privilege emerging, as iwi leaders make use of the negotiating leverage the seats provide. Not content with controlling local authorities, and potentially the whole of New Zealand’s coastline, they now have their eyes set, not only on the control of fresh water, but of government itself through the right to veto every Bill or regulation that is proposed. The present system that is fuelling Maori privilege, has created a powerful ruling class that is having a disproportionate influence over government affairs. As a result, the tribal elite are prospering, while their relatives remain mired in hardship. The Royal Commission blamed the race-based Parliamentary system for the marginalisation of Maori, arguing that if the Maori seats were abolished then all parties would focus on addressing the problems of persistent deprivation. In other words, Maori privilege and separatism are not an answer, equality is. It’s time New Zealanders opened their eyes to what’s going on and started demanding the removal of the discriminatory Maori seats. 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__label__cc	0.507533	0.492467	Human » People » Society » Organization » Religious Organizations » List Of Religious Titles And Professions » Monk We finally made it under the Abbey gate a little before sunset, just as the monks were assembling for vespers so it was left to one of the lay brothers to establish us in the guest house and show us where the horses could be stabled. The Almoner came to visit us once the service was over - apparently they were remote enough not to have a separate obedientiary for the guest house - to ensure that we were comfortably settled and to make discreet inquiries into what business had brought us so far up into the mountains. He actually seemed surprised that we were here to consult the house's library, and promised to introduce Father Gabriel to the librarian as soon as we were recovered from our journey - even Gabriel agreed that it would be wiser to wait for daylight before actually starting his research. A male member of a cenobitic1 religious order, dwelling in community with his fellow monks for some purpose that is intended to serve the aims of his faith. Such a community of monks is known, by default, as a monastery, although other names may apply. Note that a monk is not necessarily an ordained priest but is in some form of religious orders, unlike a lay brother, who is an ordinary rank-and-file member of the religion living in a monastery and working alongside the monks, usually as a servant or specialist craftsman. Most of what follows will apply mainly to Church of Rome Christianity in Western Europe but monastic traditions occur in other Christian denominations and other religions (particularly Buddhism and Sufi Islam) - these will vary in detail and should be researched separately. Traditionally monks were meant to live under codes which include such strictures as poverty, chastity and obedience - sometimes with a very restricted diet, rules of silence and other disciplines of faith. In practice the degree to which these rules were observed - and whether the spirit or the letter of the code was better kept - varied greatly and it was not unknown for some monasteries to acquire scandalous reputations for high living and debauchery. The length of a monk's membership of a community could vary considerably - in the Church of Rome a monk generally enlisted for life, and in many cases could be entered into the community as a child (known as an oblate, whilst someone who joined as an adult was called a convert), although by the later middle ages most orders had greatly restricted the practice of accepting oblates. In some other Christian traditions, and even more so in non-Christian ones such as Sufi or Buddhist monasticism a man might spend only part of his life as a monk, before returning 'to the world' to play some other role, either as a layman or as secular clergy2. The declared purpose of monasteries has traditionally been to provide a source of concentrated and continual prayer on behalf of the community or nation to which they are attached. Other common activities have included schooling, the maintaining of libraries and hand copying of the books in them and running hospitals of various kinds. In some cases they also served as retirement homes for a community with elderly men leaving the secular world to spend their final years in holy living (at least in theory). Monastery schools often evolved from the facilities set up to train oblates - these could then accept children from other sources as well, at first alongside the oblates and then, as oblation was increasingly phased out, instead of them. Under the Roman tradition, a monastery would generally keep a cycle of eight services known as the canonical hours, starting before dawn with Matins and proceeding through the day until the Midnight Mass. These were observed to some degree outside monastic communities, but were normally only fully observed within. Despite the normative rules of poverty, many monasteries were major landowners and were collectively wealthy - Buckfast Abbey in Devon was one of the largest wool producers in England and remains famous for its tonic wine and many continental monasteries are famous for their wines or liqueurs. Other monasteries have been well known for beekeeping3 or the manufacture of perfume but generally their economy was based around agriculture (as might be expected for anyone in the pre-modern period). Many of these practices actually derived from herbalism to one degree or another - especially where liqueurs, tonic wines and other plant extracting processes are involved. Beer making, by contrast, was merely a part of domestic catering for most of the period (as, in truth, might wine making be in some regions) - quality being a result of self-interest and extended practice. A monastery was traditionally headed by an Abbot - and was usually called an Abbey if this was the case (in the Roman tradition, some Abbots were also Bishops of a diocese4) but smaller monasteries - often satellites of a larger house - were headed by a prior and known as priories. In an abbey the prior was the deputy to the abbot instead. Below the prior were a group of monks known as the obedientiaries who had specific responsibilities for making sure specific jobs were carried out, these included: The precentor: who organised and directed the worship services. Traditionally the monastery's director of music. The sacristan: who was in charge of the monastic church, its vestments and sundry "worship equipment". Usually in charge of the sacred texts and therefore library (if any) and often the scriptorium (copying house) as well. The cellarer: in charge of the monastery's estates and responsible for making sure the house was fully supplied. The refectorian: ran the mess hall and was responsible for its fixtures and fittings. The kitchener: in charge of the monastery kitchens, which could be a big job as a monastery could have several - often separate - serving the monk's refectory, the guest house, the abbot's lodgings and the lay brethren's quarters (although not all houses separated all of these functions). The novice master: responsible for the training of new recruits and the running of the monastery school (if any). The infirmarian: responsible for the infirmary where sick or elderly monks were cared for - and the monastic hospital if one existed. The guest master: ran the guest house which provided hospitality to travellers. The almoner: responsible for the giving of assistance to the poor (sometimes the same person as the guest master) The chamberlain: who was in charge of the monks clothing and bedding. Many of these offices had full time assistants, whilst others would borrow non-specialised monks as required or rely on the services of the lay brethren. Obedientiaries were usually elected by their brother monks for life or until resignation, deposition or incapacity. Other jobs were filled by rota on a weekly or monthly basis. All monks were expected to attend the services if they were physically able - and most houses had an altar rigged in the infirmary for those who couldn't make it to the chapel - and in theory all were expected to work in the monastery fields or other forms of labour. The female cognate of 'monk' is 'nun' - most of the above applies with slight variations regardless of the gender of the participants, although a convent of nuns was often used as a dumping ground for 'inconvenient' women. Other forms of monk-like individual include the hermit and anchorite. Friars were monks who were not based in a monastery but travelled from place to place to work their ministry using the houses of their order - called friaries - as depots. Orders of monks in which all or most of the brothers were ordained priests were sometimes called canons rather than monks. 1. Brother Cadfael, monk and detective. 2. The Name of the Rose - a story about a monastery in need of a detective. 3. The Canonical Hours 4. "That Other" Wiki on monasticism in general 5. More on the Obediantiaries 6. The Rule of St Benedict - the original handbook on setting up a monastery. In a medieval European campaign staying the night at a monastery on long journeys should be routine. PCs might also want to visit a monastery library or take a book there to be copied. Roger Bacon was a monk, as were a few other medieval occultists. Not all of the knowledge at a monastery need be entirely holy. Some might be decidedly unholy, even. If you have a book of forbidden lore that needs preserving, who better to repair and copy it than people who are (at least theoretically) devoted to the powers of righteousness? "Monastery full of creepy, evil monks" is a popular meme amongst such masters as Clark Ashton Smith… such a monastery may have always been a refuge for evil, or may have started off righteous and become corrupted. A specialist monastery may also make something they need. Given the size of monastic business interests, they may have entirely secular matters to discuss. Indeed if the house is run by a mitred abbot, they may be very deeply mired in secular politics. Involvement in church politics is a given. Indeed, the abbot may use the substantial pool of literate men at his disposal to set up a powerful administrative staff, of a kind that was otherwise hard to establish in the middle ages. The kings of Spain managed something similar at El Escorial where they attached a royal palace directly to a monastery and benefitted thereby. A PCs child may be accommodated at a monastery school - or they may need to abduct or rescue an NPCs child from such a situation. Unwilling novices fleeing from a life of contemplation (or aspirant monks whose parents try to forbid them joining an order) make good plot points. A monastery may be the best source of medical care in a low magic campaign. A monk isn't really a good choice of PC unless you're planning to set the campaign in a very limited geographical area (Brother Cadfael was unusually wide roaming for a monk - but not for a PC) … friars, on the other hand, were like beach sand in some eras. Due to the creeping abomination of popfinition players may expect all monks to know kung-fu. Refrain from slapping them - it's (probably) not their fault that they are ignorant. In reality this wasn't common even amongst Buddhist monks - the Shaolin temple stands out for a variety of reasons. That's not to say a monk is always a pushover - some may have taken Franciscan vows of humility, others may be more like the Sohei or the Western Martial Orders5 … and even if they're not, many a conversus was atoning for a life on the battlefield (like Cadfael) and even some oblates would have completed a squirage before taking the cloth (Susannah Gregory's Brother Michael for example … his grandmother the conversus nun is much scarier). And Let's not forget Friar Tuck who looked like a sedentary butterball but who could kick righteous butt when some cocky greenwood outlaw tried to snatch his haunch of mutton. (I watched The Adventures of Robin Hood recently; can you tell?) Or Turpin, the fighting Archbishop of Rheims from the medieval romance The Song of Roland. And in a fantasy religion, the monks of a war god (if such a thing exists) may well practice combat as part of their worship. Jackie Chan, perhaps predictably, managed to turn the business on its head in Armour of God with an extended fight scene between himself and a pack of what appear to be Benedictines, all with at least mook level kung-fu skills. To the medieval mind, choir monks - even those orders who did essentially nothing but prayer and contemplation - served a useful purpose by essentially providing spiritual capital on behalf of the nation. For a game where realm level matters are considered, like TSR's old Birthright setting, a monastery may generate power for realm level theurgy by building up credit with the gods, or might provide a benefit to the realm (essentially a monk-powered buff). Providing the seal to a can of evil is also a credible use for a monastery - constant prayer and holy ritual reinforce the bindings, holy and ascetic monks are better equipped to resist influences that might leak from the bound evil (unless it is especially subtle, has the right kind of malign influence or is patient enough to wait until the watch grows slack) and, in the final analysis, the monks may turn out to be able to physically defend their monastery and its ward from meddling cultists. This sort of thing also plays well with "meddling idiot" scenarios, where invading armies decide to commandeer the monastery as a base and chuck the monks out, where rational modern governments have no patience with what appears to be an alarmingly well armed nest of religious fanatics …. that sort of thing… There are also things like epidemic diseases and other natural disasters that could leave a monastery abandoned. By the living at least… Consider also the monastery from the OD&D classic module X4-Master of the Desert Nomads - a foundation set to seal a can full of evil might fall from the inside. (This wasn't the case in the module - the monastery in question had simply been stormed and the monks replaced, but the whole module had a bit of a railroady air about it…). 1. Or possibly sketic… 2. This may sound oxymoronic, however in context 'secular' referred to those clergy who actually engaged in pastoral work rather than being solely concerned with internal religious affairs 3. And therefore possibly mead making… 4. These were known as "mitred" abbots after the head-dress worn by bishops. 5. Knights Templar, Teutonic Brothers, Capellars, Hospitallers, Knights of St James etc. - pick one middle_agesprofessionreligionrng_religion	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line6
__label__cc	0.518975	0.481025	Gwen Voicing “DJ Suki” in New Dreamworks Animated Film ‘Trolls’ (Updated) PrevPreviousVideo: “Move On” Live in Long Beach 1989 Next‘The Voice’ Wins Favorite Competition TV Show at the People’s Choice Awards (Updated)Next Photo courtesy of Dreamworks Gwen has announced that she’ll be appearing and voicing “DJ Suki”, a “rockin’ troll” featured in the upcoming Dreamworks animated film, Trolls! The film is based on the iconic Troll dolls which have been popular since the 1950s and are predominately known for coming in crazy colors and sizes. Co-directed by Mike Mitchell and Walt Dohrn, Trolls is set to be released ahead of the holiday season on November 4, 2016 and is being distributed by 20th Century Fox in both 3D/2D theaters and IMAX 3D. Gwen is joining an all-star cast including Justin Timberlake, Anna Kendrick, James Corden, Kunal Nayyar and Russell Brand for the family-comedy feature. Justin Timberlake is also serving as executive music producer, and besides writing original music for the film, he is also overseeing the creative direction for Trolls. According to ComingSoon.net, “the film, which will be a grand scale musical comedy centering around how the Trolls came into their vibrant and colorful hair, will be produced by Gina Shay (“Shrek Forever After“).” TheWrap.com also shared more the plot saying, “[Trolls] follows hardcore survivalist Branch (Timberlake) and Princess Poppy (Kendrick) as they embark on an epic adventure.” Hair we go! Meet DJ Suki! #DreamWorksTrolls #RockinTroll pic.twitter.com/6eOdaLKXuo — Gwen Stefani (@gwenstefani) January 6, 2016 Being in Trolls is such a huge opportunity for Gwen and we couldn’t feel any more proud and excited for her! Hopefully the soundtrack has an open spot for a new song, too. We’ll keep updating the post with more information once it’s available. 21 Replies to “Gwen Voicing “DJ Suki” in New Dreamworks Animated Film ‘Trolls’ (Updated)” yeahyeahyeah says: Another big deal for Gwen. The Voice has opened so many doors for her. Hopefully she will also contribute some songs to the soundtrack. This is definitely a big deal and sounds very exciting 😀 So exciting! According to wikipedia the movie will be a musical comedy. Icona Pop, Justin Timberlake will also be voicing other characters. I hope Gwen sings a song. That would be awesome! I don’t know if you’ve seen, but Gwen was featured on Rolling Stone’s list of the 45 most anticipated albums of 2016! I saw! Go, Gwen! http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/45-most-anticipated-albums-of-2016-20160106/gwen-stefani-20160105 ImHomeNow says: Yay….. Something else to keep the record on hold!…. Lol I still am more doubtful than hopeful that this album will get released. I don’t think she’ll be releasing another single for awhile now that the voice is over I don’t think Gwen’s the record is on hold at all… She simply wasn’t done writing and recording at the end of in 2015 and probably Interscope didn’t want to release her album next to Adele and Justin Bieber anyways… I am pretty sure this album will finally see the light of day in 2016 especially since UTLY did surprisingly well and turned out to be a real airplay hit. They should release this album around spring and send Gwen on the road in summer for promotion. If she returned to The Voice in fall, she could further promote the album and perform her thrid single on the show. I am very optimistic that 2016 will be a great year for us. And if the Voice does not happen? She cant keep using releasing singles only cause she’s on the show. I’ve noticed she only talks about recording when she’s on TV, after that, something always happen. After all these years, I will believe when I see it for pre order. I love Gwen and ND, but being a fan for 20 years has thought me to wait. Very optimistic too here 😀 I love this!!! All of those movies are big hits! Wish it wasn’t so far away though. And as far as her album… If she really is pregnant… I don’t see the album coming soon.. (Ndlover, ignore this comment please) I’ve told you already she’s going to have triplets. Thank God for NDLOVER… She’s not pregnant lol And why are some of you worried the album won’t be released? It’s not like she’s gonna spend months voicing her character lol She’s not even the main character. Chill! Rose Marie says: Gwen must have some seriously resilient eggs lol. Very very unlikely. I hope YYY’s prediction comes true. Stay inspired, stay focused Gwen ! I’m just saying, I don’t believe it either. But I was shocked by the divorce, shocked that she got with Blake… So idk… 3 magazine covers reporting it… Maybe a surrogate… LOL More like it… I am happy for her. I don’t think this will have a major impact on the timeline of the record. I doubt the voice over work will take a a super long time. I bet she has a more minor role. Gwen has wanted to do this work for awhile, remember Madagascar? She was almost cast as Gloria the hippo. Good for her more exposure is always good. But dj doesn’t say anything when I watched the movie. Leave a Reply to Marion Cancel reply	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line8
__label__cc	0.703891	0.296109	BOOKS, CDs & SAMPLE LIBRARIES SORRY-ASS ORGAN I like to report occasionally on instrument designs that were less than perfectly successful because, as we all know, there’s as much to be learned from the unsuccesses as from the successes. This is one of those reports. It’s easier than you might expect to make a working version of the sort of beating reed found in organ reed pipes. In some very crude versions, reed pipes made this way can produce a sort of miserable-bovine sound that I find interesting and appealing. So I decided to make a tuned set of such pipes — in short, an organ. [Inserted some months after the original posting of this article: The resulting instrument can now be seen and heard here.] My thought was not to make a keyboard organ, but to try and find some non-keyboard way to deliver air to selected pipes; a way that would be simpler to make than a keyboard (making a keyboard is quite a chore). This would give the instrument a different sort of character in its gestural qualities and in the nature of the interaction between player and instrument. I spent some time brainstorming and sketching out various possibilities, and eventually I came up with the following. First, the instrument would work on human lung power. Lung power should hopefully be good enough for such an instrument as long as you don’t intend to play more than one or maybe two notes at a time. And using the lungs is far easier, construction-wise, than other options such as building a pair of bellows. It also has great benefits in terms of minimal added weight and space requirements, less mechanical noise, less required maintenance, fewer human limbs required to operate, etcetera. To direct the air from the lungs to the individual reed pipes, the plan was that the player would use a flexible blow tube having a gasket-like pad covering the far end with a hole through it to let air through. By placing this over the open end of one of the reed pipes, the player could direct the breath into the selected pipe and cause it to sound. Moving it from pipe to pipe, one could play melodies. Very simple! … though admittedly slow and clumsy: it would be difficult to move rapidly and fluidly from one reed pipe to the next, and impossible to play legato. These limitations, I figured, would be in keeping with the sort of slow and unhappy nature of the sound itself — a quality I wanted to bring out in the instrument. I did consider making a dual blow-tube, one in which the tube from a single mouthpiece forks into a pair, one for each hand, with some sort of valving system to cause air to flow through one or the other. This had the potential to make melodic playing more fluid and facile. But a bit of thought told me that the creation of the valve was going to be awfully difficult, so I decided to stick with the single tube system, at least to start with. So that was the basic idea for this very simple pipe organ: an assemblage of tuned reed pipes positioned in a frame with their open ends exposed, plus the blow-tube system to activate them. The ergonomics of this playing method — bringing the padded end of the blow tube down over the open end of the selected pipe — works best with the pipes arranged vertically, so you can picture the instrument as a set of upright pipes held in a framework in such a way that their open upper ends are positioned at a comfortable playing height of, say, about 40”. From the start I found myself referring to this instrument as the Sorry-Ass Organ, and that has remained its name. But there is another important layer of complexity to the way that the blow tube works with the pipes, and to explicate this I need to first discuss how the reeds work. In this sort of reed pipe, the reed serves as an air-gate, rapidly opening and closing under wind pressure. This allows air from the player’s lungs or other source to flow into the pipe, but not in a steady stream; rather as a series of pulses. When things work as intended, the pulsing frequency comes into agreement with the resonant frequency of the air column within the pipe. This sets up and sustains the vibration and resulting tone. More detail: The reed lies over an opening in the pipe. Due to slight curvature in either the reed or the surface below, in its rest position the reed doesn’t perfectly cover the opening; there’s a bit of a gap there. With greater air pressure outside the pipe, air flows through the gap and into the pipe. Through a combination of factors including the springiness of the reed, Bernoulli forces associated with the air flow under the reed, and periodic pressure wave fronts arising in the pipe, the reed commences movement, alternately slapping shut against the surface below and then springing back open to let another puff of air through. This brings us to an important consideration for such pipes. You can’t just direct an air flow at or onto a beating reed pipe the way you can with a flute pipe. To see this think of the most common use of beating reeds, in instruments like clarinets and saxophones. In these, the reeded mouthpiece of the pipe is actually placed inside the player’s mouth, creating a pressure chamber around the end of the pipe. In instruments like bagpipes, which are not directly mouth-blown, a cap is placed around the reeded portion of the pipe, and air is directed into this little pressure chamber. In organ reed pipes, a similar but larger enclosure creates the chamber around the base of the pipe. The Sorry-Ass Organ, being of the same family of reed pipes, likewise required such an enclosure to maintain air pressure and create the pulsing air movement into the pipe. As I got into design and construction, this aspect of the instrument proved to be a bugaboo, as I’ll describe shortly. The pipes for the Sorry-Ass Organ are pvc conduit in the nominal 3/4” size, with the commonly available schedule 40 wall thickness. To allow a suitable seating for the reed, a flat area is sanded into the sidewall of the pipe at one end, flattening it over an area about 5/8” wide and a few inches long (the thickness of the pipe wall is enough to allow for this flattening without sanding through). Also here at the pipe end is an inserted stopper which extends about a half inch into the tube. At a point little beyond that a 3/8” hole is drilled in the flattened part of the tube wall. The reed is a strip of stainless steel, a half inch wide and a few inches long. I experimented with different thicknesses for the stainless strip; got results from thicknesses ranging from .005” to .018″; and settled on .010″ as about right for the current purpose. This stainless reed is positioned in the flattened area so that one end covers the hole when the reed lies flat. It’s attached at its other end by rubber bands or equivalent. (I used 1/2” sections snipped from latex tubing of suitable thickness and diameter — essentially, extra-strong, custom-sized rubber bands.) The stainless strip is given a slight curvature so that in its natural position the end is about 3/32” above the hole. With all this in place, you can place the end of the tube, reed and all, in your mouth and blow. (Seal your lips around the rubber band; make sure nothing in your mouth touches the reed.) If all is good, the pipe will sound. It’s pretty easy to make a reed pipe that works this way with mouth-blowing. The sound, while not beautiful, can be convincingly strong. The next design step for the current purpose, then, was to provide such pipes with reed caps in the form of air-tight enclosures over the reed end of the pipes into which I could direct the air through a blow tube. But I found that pipes that worked fine when mouth-blown often proved unsuccessful when played through the blow-tube and chamber: sometimes they wouldn’t speak; sometimes they spoke but with noticeably poorer tone than when mouth-blown, and often the resulting pitch was inconsistent. I was surprised by this: after all, many reed instruments use such a system; why were mine so uncooperative? I formulated various explanations and wasted some time trying out various fixes. Eventually I decided that the most likely explanation for my problem lay in my use of unusually flimsy material for the reeds. In those early prototypes I was using very thin stainless steel strips for the reeds, at .005” thick, while other, more successful reed-cap instruments generally use stiffer materials. When I switched to stiffer reeds, I found that they did indeed work better in the reed caps. My best guess in explaining this is that the very soft reeds are more likely to be influenced by extraneous resonances arising in the chamber and blow tube, whereas such extraneous resonances are less likely to arise within the player’s mouth. These extraneous resonances, more often than not, would interfere with what would otherwise be the natural resonance frequency of the reed. Stiffer reeds would be more immune to such interferences. The stiffer reeds, while functioning better, had a somewhat more refined tone quality than the floppy ones. This was not good news: as I mentioned earlier, I had been enjoying the crude and wobbly sound of the original reeds, and was sorry to convert to something more respectable. But the stiffer reed’s sound wasn’t hopelessly boringly respectable; the tone was still coarse enough to be interesting, especially if I went with ones that were just a bit stiffer but not too stiff at .010”thick. The somewhat stiffer reeds also required more air pressure to sound, but not to a degree that was problematic. In fact, there was an advantage in the fact that with the stiffer reeds it was possible to create a tighter air gap under the reed, with the effect that the airflow could be made more efficient with less wasted air rushing under. This makes more sustained blowing possible on a single lungful of air. In the usual thinking about reed instruments, one expects to couple the reed to a pipe of a certain length to get a certain note. Things are never quite this simple of course, as a variety of other factors come into play in determining how the reed interacts with the pipe’s air column and what the resulting pitch is. For this instrument’s reeds in particular the pitch situation tends to be imprecise and fluid. Once again, this is probably because although I had switched to a somewhat thicker and stiffer stainless steel strip for the reeds, they were still relatively flimsy and bendable compared to other traditional types of reeds. So for a given pipe length, you can get a wide range of pitches depending how the reed lies and how long the active portion of the reed is. This is not hard to control: if you’ve strapped your reed on with rubber bands or equivalent, then you can shorten the effective vibrating length of the reed simply be repositioning the rubber band. But while you can get a range of pitches in this way from any given pipe length, it does help to have a suitable length to allow a decent coupling between reed and pipe at the intended pitch. With these reeds, however, the ideal pipe length doesn’t correspond closely to the pipe length that In theory would resonate at the intended pitch. That’s because the reed functions in part as the stopper at one end of the pipe, and these relatively flimsy reeds make for a pretty un-solid stopper. This affects the pipe’s resonant frequency. So in choosing pipe lengths for the intended pitches of my set, I paid only minimal attention to the lengths that pipe-resonance calculations would normally suggest. Instead I proceeded empirically and by ear. Basically, I messed around with a few random reed pipes, trying various reed adjustments to see at what pitches the tone came through strongest and showed the most stability. Having established a few nice-sounding prototypes, I extrapolated lengths for the remaining pitches from those. I found my favorite tone in the lower registers, so I fabricated a set of 21 pipes tuned chromatically over a bit less than two octaves from E2 (that’s guitar low E) to C3. The pipes range in length from about 60” to about 24”. But, a problem: to put the upper end of the vertical pipe at a practical playing height while keeping the lower end off the floor, the longest pipe can’t be much more than about 34”; yet to get the low notes that I liked, the longest pipes need to be quite a bit longer than that. To get around this I made the longest pipes in two parts: the main pipe of rigid plastic conduit, 32” long, with an extension of corrugated plastic flex tube bringing the air column to the required full length. The flex tube bends and doubles back up the main pipe, allowing the required acoustical length without requiring as much height. I wasn’t sure that these flex tube extensions would work well (I was worried that the softer plastic and the corrugated interior form would degrade the tone) but the results were good. With that resolved, I was able to make a frame to hold the 21 pipes vertically in a suitably accessible and playable array. I put them in a 6-6 configuration, as opposed to the more common 7-5. This refers to the positioning of the twelve notes of the chromatic scale: instead echoing the standard keyboard configuration having a front row with the seven natural notes and a back row with the five sharps and flats, the notes on the Sorry-Ass Organ are arranged in two rows of six each. There are lots of pros and cons to consider for this just as for any other possible pitch layout, but lately my philosophy on this sort of question has reduced itself to a simple “why not just try it?” In any case, 6-6 is good for saving a little space. I made the blow tube out of corrugated plastic flex pipe. Choosing a large enough diameter avoided the potential problem of whistling in the corrugated tube. As touched on earlier, the end of the blow tube needs to effortlessly seal when pressed down over the top of the chosen reed pipe, and to achieve this I used a medium-soft closed-cell sponge rubber pad. The pad is a little larger in diameter than the pipe ends it is to cover, with a hole in the center to accommodate the blow tube and allow air through. I actually made two of these blow tubes, allowing the option of having two players. OK, so now that I’ve finished the instrument and had some time to play around with it, what do I think of it? Well, as I’ve acknowledged all along, there are a lot of not-so-great things about it, most notably: it’s impossible to play with any fluidity or legato; it takes an great deal of wind; this makes it difficult to play long lines or even long tones, and it makes prolonged playing quite exhausting; the tuning is fidgety; the tone quality is variable from note to note; the reeds often need adjustment to keep them in tune and in good speaking order. On the other hand, the tone is fun, crude and comical in a way that, in the right sort of company, can be enjoyable; the player interface is unusual and yet works intuitively; and anyone can play it, no training needed. It works well with two players, and this somewhat mitigates the slowness and awkwardness of the playing. It makes people laugh. I’ve just composed and recorded a little piece to use as an audio clip when I get the instrument posted to the instrumentarium section of this web site, and I confess that I do enjoy the unique sound in this recording. But to make the recording, I had to cheat a lot, doing many takes and lots of editing to assemble a decent finished product when the original recordings inevitably were so full of glitches and errors. Addendum: why not use the simple reed pipe making method described here to make a mouth-blown capped reed pipe with tone holes to vary the pitch? This is problematic because the pitch is so wobbly and variable that the tone holes tend not to produce predictable or stable results. (Consider that, with the pipes described above, I was able to get at least some agreement between reed length and pipe length in order to help stabilize the coupled system for a single intended pitch, whereas in a single pipe with tone holes you’re hoping to get multiple pitches from a single reed-and-pipe configuration.) And, given the cap, the lips are not directly on the reed; this means that taming an unpredictable reed through embouchure control isn’t an option. But I must say that just writing this now makes me want to revisit this possibility once more to see if I could come up with a tone-hole reed pipe that might be, if not effective in a traditionally musical sense, then at least unique and interesting. 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__label__cc	0.572427	0.427573	Posted on August 18, 2014 August 18, 2014 by Arleen The virginity pledge that ‘nearly destroyed’ Samantha Pugsley. In an essay called “My Christian virginity pledge nearly destroyed me”, which published on XOJane and Salon earlier this month, Samantha Pugsley vilified the pledge she signed in childhood at church. With it, she had vowed at 10 years old — while she still thought boys were icky — to maintain her virginity until marriage. And she did. But “there was no chorus of angels, no shining light from Heaven” when on her wedding night, she finally had sex. Instead, she cried in the bathroom afterward. She dreaded sex for the first couple years of her marriage, she wrote, but obliged when her husband — who had no idea she dreaded it — initiated. When she worked up the courage to express her struggle to him, he was horrified to learn that she had “let him touch (her) when (she) didn’t want him to.” He suggested she see a therapist, and she did. That “was the first step on a long journey to healing.” Pugsley’s widely circulated story has raised concern in some readers, who wonder now whether saving sex for marriage is a bad idea. It has “confirmed” for other readers their belief that what Christianity says about sex harms the people who hear it. But what Pugsley wrote — and what others who grew up in churches like hers have written — has not acknowledged a paramount truth: What her church taught her about sex is not what churches are supposed to teach about sex, because what her church taught her doesn’t align with Christianity. Somebody at Pugsley’s church taught her “it was entirely possible that (her) future husband wouldn’t remain pure for (her), because he didn’t have that same responsibility, according to the bible.” First: Fairly certain that by “pure,” Pugsley’s church meant “a virgin until marriage.” But the definition of “pure” is not “a virgin until marriage.” Our behavior doesn’t make us pure. Jesus makes us pure. “Baptism confers on its recipient the grace of purification from all sins (CCC 2520).” The CCC continues: “But the baptized must continue to struggle against concupiscence of the flesh and disordered desires.” The deal was never “you are pure until you behave a certain way” but “you can be pure despite how you’ve behaved, because Jesus.” That’s what makes grace amazing. It is not our behavior that results in purity, but acknowledgment of purity that compels us to behave in certain ways, and to reconcile with Christ, others, and ourselves if and when — inevitably, in one way or another — we don’t. Second: A church that says women are supposed to save sex for marriage but men aren’t is a church that makes me so grateful to be Catholic. In Catholicism, what compels us to abstain from sex outside marriage is the virtue of chastity, which is for men and women, regardless of whether they’re single, married, or religious. “Chastity means the successful integration of sexuality within the person” — male people and female ones (CCC 2337). People at Pugsley’s church told her “over and over again, so many times (she) lost count, that if (she) remained pure, (her) marriage would be blessed by God and if (she) didn’t that it would fall apart and end in tragic divorce.” In other words, Pugsley was taught that if she saved sex, her marriage would last and if she didn’t save sex, it wouldn’t, which is an inadequate if not tragic way to prepare a person for marriage. To teach children that abstinence before marriage causes a marriage to last is to risk setting kids up to become adults who are wildly unprepared to be spouses, who’ll be blindsided by what arises in everyday life after their weddings. Even if implicitly, to teach that encourages tunnel vision — a focus so solely on not having sex that young men and women don’t see whether red flags pop up in other parts of a relationship. But having saved sex for marriage doesn’t negate the problems you didn’t notice while you dated. Churches (and parents) have painstakingly identified sex as good or bad based on when it happens but have neglected to teach kids what sex is, or what marriage is, or what love is, or how to date in ways that aren’t completely dysfunctional. They grow up not knowing that love, not premarital abstinence, is what causes a marriage to last. Churches like Pugsley’s seem to teach abstinence and hope it inspires people to love when teaching love — real love — is going to inspire people to practice the virtue of chastity, which requires us to abstain from nonmarital sex. What Pugsley’s church taught her meant that when she got home from her honeymoon, she “couldn’t look anyone in the eye.” She wrote: “Everybody knew my virginity was gone. My parents, my church, my friends, my co-workers. They all knew I was soiled and tarnished.” To all who encourage nonmarital abstinence by telling children that sexual activity soils us: Can you not? “The union of man and woman in marriage is a way of imitating in the flesh the Creator’s generosity and fecundity (CCC 2335).” Nobody told Pugsley that. Instead, in an effort to discourage sexual activity outside marriage, people told Pugsley that sex is dirty, which is why she cried in the bathroom on her wedding night. She had done a bad thing, as far as she was concerned, because of what she always had been taught. But sex is not bad. True Christianity never said it was. Telling kids that it is in order to prevent premarital sex is irresponsible. While Pugsley began to undo the damage done by what her church taught her, she decided she couldn’t be both religious and sexual, she wrote. So she picked sex. Hers is one of several stories I’ve read about people whose experiences in this realm have resulted in their rejection of Christianity. The saddest part is that people who reject Christianity because people in their churches taught them what people in Pugsley’s church taught her have likely never been told that what people in Pugsley’s church taught her does not align with Christianity — and, to borrow a quote from Christopher West, “it’s important that we not confuse the mind of the Church with the mind of the people in the Church.” Click here to read Pugsley’s post in full. CategoriesSex Previous PostPrevious 3 Ways To Be Part of the ‘Chastity is For Lovers’ Book Launch Next PostNext Q and A: How soon do you tell your date you’re saving sex for marriage?	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line15
__label__wiki	0.671917	0.671917	You are here: Home / Books / Book Interview: Jewish-American Writer Bernard Malamud at 100 — Appreciating the Beauty of the Ethical Book Interview: Jewish-American Writer Bernard Malamud at 100 — Appreciating the Beauty of the Ethical “Bernard Malamud is the great sentence-maker, the great craftsman, and the sheer quality of those sentences has never perhaps been given its complete due.” Bernard Malamud during the 1970s — He was a man who wanted to be good – good not only in the aesthetics of his writing but in its struggling moral content. By Bill Marx Flannery O’Connor, writing to Father James H. McCown in 1958, recommends that he read “The Magic Barrel by a Bernard Malamud. The stories deal with Jews and they are the real thing. Really spiritual and very funny.” She was not alone in recognizing Malamud’s brilliance — the volume beat out Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita for the National Book Award in 1959. Malamud’s morally probing tales and novels, including The Natural (1952), The Assistant (1957), and The Fixer (1966), put him in the front rank of postwar American writers. “Malamud can grind a character to the earth,” wrote admiring critic Irving Howe about The Magic Barrel, “but there is a hard ironic pity, a wry affection rather than wet gestures of love, which makes him seem a grandson of the Yiddish writers.” Yet the mixed critical reaction to Malamud’s later stories and novels – he died in 1986 – contributed to a slump in his reputation, a downgrading that has pushed him below the marquee status of more swashbuckling Jewish-American writers such as Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, both rabid Malamud enthusiasts. In recognition of the author’s centenary, the Library of America has recently published two volumes of Malamud: Malamud: Novels and Stories of the 1940s and 50s and Malamud: Novels and Stories of the 1960s. These books (and a volume to come) offer readers and critics a valuable opportunity to appreciate (and reassess) Malamud’s distinctive contribution to American literature. Via e-mail, I asked Philip Davis, the author of the fine biography Bernard Malamud: A Writer’s Life and the editor of the Library of American volumes, about the slide in Malamud’s reputation, the strengths of his writing, and his influence on contemporary writers: Arts Fuse: This year marks the 100th birthday of Bernard Malamud. When the centenary has been mentioned, in the Times Literary Supplement and elsewhere, it is often followed with the lament that Malamud’s once impressive reputation has faded. Do you agree? And if you do, why do you think that has happened? Philip Davis: Everything I have tried to do in relation to Malamud has been in pained response to the decline in his reputation, hoping that you will not mind a cry from a Brit across the Pond. But Malamud was never really fashionable for long. Saul Bellow described himself, Malamud, and Philip Roth as the Jewish literary equivalent of Hart Schaffner & Marx, the first-generation rag-trade, gone upmarket. But Malamud was the one of the three who was not glamorously intellectual or excitingly naughty in his attire. He was the man who wanted to be good – good not only in the aesthetics of his writing but in its struggling moral content. Thus, Frank Alpine in The Assistant, one of Malamud’s little people, the former thief seeking a second or third or fourth chance to get it right in life: He had recalled her remark that he must discipline himself and wondered why he had been so moved by the word . . . With the idea of self-control came the feeling of the beauty of it – the beauty of a person being able to do things the way he wanted to, to do good if he wanted; and this feeling was followed by regret – of the slow dribbling away, starting long ago, of his character . . . There it is – the beauty of the ethical, the being moved by the effort at last to get right and do good. This is Malamud territory. And I think it is this sense of feeling – ‘so moved’ by the word duty or self-control! – that is close to the heart of something in America arising out of the Depression and remains a classic ideal – beautiful but not glamorous, struggling not heroic. He was in that way easy to neglect, overlook, dismiss; but shame on those who do. AF: Are there strengths in Malamud’s writing that were not appreciated when they were first published but that we can see now? Davis: He is the great sentence-maker, the great craftsman, and the sheer quality of those sentences has never perhaps been given its complete due. I mean his extraordinary version of the ordinary. Here is Frank again, for example, thinking: ‘whatever had happened had happened wrong’: Malamud loved those little structures, those internal messes and pains. But also this: Malamud was not the great prolific thrower-out of thoughts that was Bellow. I remember Tim Seldes, Malamud’s agent, saying that he had asked Bellow what it was like – the exhilaration of being him in his fame, and Bellow said it was like holding onto an electric current and not being able to let go. Well, Malamud was not wired like that: he would have one or two thoughts, but they would change the lives of his protagonists, thoughts with feelings very close to the very origin of how thinking matters and how it is needed in an ordinary human life. Philip Davis, editor of the Library of America’s Malamud volumes. AF: Malamud’s stories were early examples of Magic Realism, combining Chekhovian nuance with fairy and folk tales. Is that his most important literary contribution to American literature? Davis: Not from my point of view, much as I admire the wild take on life in say “The Jewbird,” begging a piece of herring, whilst squawking his fear of ‘Anti-Semeets.’ And I loved the mythic use of baseball in The Natural, in the pursuit of a comeback really called redemption but hidden within the game. ‘I like my comedy spiced in the wine of sadness,’ said Malamud, and he liked too his traditonal seriousness concealed in the wildness of invention. But the greatest works are the realist novels, The Assistant, A New Life, The Fixer and Dublin’s Lives. I interviewed Malamud’s great editor, Robert Giroux for the Malamud biography I was writing: Giroux knew these were the pinnacle and he said Malamud knew it too. AF: Why do you believe that Malamud’s realist novels are his “greatest works”? The critical consensus is pretty much that Malamud’s stories, not his longer fiction, represent the pinnacle of his art. Davis: What Malamud loved was the rhythm and the tests of time, lengthy time lived month after month with all its subtle changes or fearful repetitions. Ideally, when it was working for him, he spoke of being able to ‘live in’ his novels as he never could fully in the short work. But, of course, it also has to do with the lives of his protagonists. Think of Yakov Bok in The Fixer living in solitary confinement day after day, marking the days with straws or bits of wood, so as not to become wholly disoriented. Think of Dubin [in Dublin’s Lives] trying every day to walk or run off his depression in the midst of writer’s block. Malamud loved the tests of time, of resolves defeated by subsequent events; of reality continuing the same without recourse to sensational plot changes but only through the power of ongoing language; of the sheer stamina involved in a continuous effort at living. ‘Short Life, Long Work’ was one of his mottoes. It takes poor Frank Alpine a long time to begin his second life: that was where all the subtlety lies in Malamud’s seriousness – in the time it took to write well, live well, learn both. The novel was the height of that challenge, to live with and inside what I call Malamud’s People. Unshowy realism was the greatest austere challenge for his language and his invention. AF: Author John Updike praised Malamud’s “sense of Jewishness as a mystic force founded on suffering.” How has shifting American perceptions of “Jewishness” shaped our appreciation of his fiction? Davis: Malamud did not want to be I. B. Singer, known as a Jewish writer. He belonged to the great assimilationist tradition in the melting pot of America, and loved the fusions, conflicts and combinations. Jews are everywhere, he said, everyone is a Jew. For him I think this meant that the Jewish element in the human DNA had long represented suffering but also the fight for fulfilment through it, ethics, deep feeling and warm need, the law, the exile, the longing for return and for second chances and for forgiveness. Again as an outsider, an Englishman who is a secular Jew, this seems to me to stand for something hugely valuable in the American heart. AF: LOA’s press release for the Malamud volumes includes a quote from Philip Roth, who suggests that Malamud has more than a little in common with Samuel Beckett. Do you agree? Davis: Roth is generous and rightly generous in his praise for Malamud: for the young Roth, his fiction ‘meant the world.’ There is a wonderful sadness in the comedy, comedy in the sadness in Malamud and an austere crafting of the lines, but for me Malamud is not so protected by his art as Beckett was – he is more vulnerable, more warm, more common. And that makes me love him and the work – and his love of love, even as he struggled for it – more than most other authors I know. There is something defiantly anti-modernist in Malamud, in love with the old ways whilst adapting to a new world, and committed somehow to both. ‘For humanism, against nihilism’ he said. AF: Which contemporary writers do you think Malamud has influenced? Are there writers that could be described as “Malamudian”? Davis: There were the sons of Bern, as I call them – Jay Cantor, Clark Blaise, even (though more a younger brother) Daniel Stern. And I know writers from Cynthia Ozick to Boris Fishman have acknowledged a debt. But the real influence is to do with what I have just said: his keeping alive in glowing prose a certain tradition of feeling, waiting for his readers to acknowledge this inner life again. AF: In a NYTimes article, Malamud’s daughter Janna said of her father that “he wanted privacy. One of the functions of writing is to transmute shame. What you present, when you present it, it’s your choice. Writing was a way to cloak his shame.” How autobiographical was Malamud’s fiction? Davis: When Philip Roth once wrote against Malamud for his supposed over-commitment to suffering, to decent Jewish passivity, Malamud wrote back saying only, ‘It’s your problem.’ Malamud’s problem was not shame: if anything it would be guilt, for his was a guilt-culture, not a shame-culture – and he suffered from his own cloaks and reticences as well as needing those private defences. But he was also an innocent at the same time. I say again: he wanted to transmute not shame but trouble; he wanted, vulnerably, to make a good life in his books. He used to ask his students, ‘What have you made of yourself?’ And that is what his art was for – to make something out of the boy whose mother committed suicide. You can still see the original human materials, raw and common, out of which the art is created. He is not flashy or over-polished. So I love the ending of A New Life where the unheroic hero is asked why he is taking on the alleged burden of a troubled woman with two children and he replies unashamedly: ‘Because I can, you son of a bitch.’ AF: Do you feel that Saul Bellow and Flannery O’Connor have overshadowed Malamud? Davis: Yes but not rightly so. It is not a competition but for certain The Assistant is a great novel that Bellow could never have written and “Angel Levine” or “The First Seven Years” great short stories of the ghetto heart. To be fair, Bellow recognised this, though their publisher Robert Straus told me that he thought of Bellow as filet mignon and Malamud as hamburger . . . In reaction against that rating, I once wrote an angry blog whilst I was in New York, advertising myself as the Malamud Street Crazy, offering his wares to the passing public. I am grateful that the Library of America has relieved me of that role: Malamud wanted his works in the series, he thought it was the sign of being accepted into the canon of the great. That is what the Library of America stands for at its most fundamental. AF: Are there stories and novels in the collection that you feel have been unfairly overlooked? Davis: “My Son the Murderer” is one such story, a father crying unheeded to his child, a youth who must ignore him. The Fixer is the great novel of solitary and unjust confinement, Malamud’s version of Dreyfus, just as The Assistant was his version of Crime and Punishment. Easy for them all to look small, but he hid the big things within the small till they burst out again – and I would argue that A New Life is great in that too. ‘Because I can.’ Bill Marx is the Editor-in-Chief of The Arts Fuse. For over three decades, he has written about arts and culture for print, broadcast, and online. He has regularly reviewed theater for National Public Radio Station WBUR and The Boston Globe. He created and edited WBUR Online Arts, a cultural webzine that in 2004 won an Online Journalism Award for Specialty Journalism. In 2007 he created The Arts Fuse, an online magazine dedicated to covering arts and culture in Boston and throughout New England. By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured, Interview Tagged: American-Jewish fiction, Bernard Malamud, Library-of-America, Philip Davis Harvey Blume says interesting & intense interview. >Malamud did not want to be I. B. Singer, known as a Jewish writer. and yet, in some ways, malamud translates the ib singer of imps dybbuks demons into an idiom where the supernatural prevails without being credited by name. “the natural” is the novel ib singer, the new york not the polish ib singer, might have written had he cared for baseball, which of course he couldn’t. the supernatural animates that book but is unnamed. that accounts for some of the power of the novel. as for malamud being “the great sentence-maker” let me suggest his best sentences were those caught between yiddish & english, caught between this expression and that. bellows was the “the great sentence-maker”. not Malamud. he was into the linguistic tension bellows it was the achievement of bellows to leave behind. roth, well, i have no summary of roth except to say he combined the freedom of expression established by saul bellow with the intensity of malamud. that roth don’t get no nobel prize is a shanda on the nobel prize.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line16
__label__wiki	0.979862	0.979862	Japan signs $5 million grant for promoting primary education in Bangladesh Japan has signed a grant agreement of $5 million with Bangladesh for promoting quality primary education in the country, the Japanese Embassy in Dhaka said today. Japan includes Bangladesh in widened entry ban Japan has tightened border control and widened the ban on entry of people from countries, including Bangladesh, India and Pakistan, to prevent the spread of coronavirus. Japan sends troops after 23 killed in typhoon Japan sends tens of thousands of troops and rescue workers to save stranded residents and fight floods caused by one of the worst typhoons to hit the country in recent history, which kills 23 people and briefly paralyses Tokyo. Japan to hire skilled workers from Bangladesh Bangladesh and Japan sign a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) on accepting specified skilled workers by Japan from Bangladesh. Japan removes of S Korea from favoured trade list Japan's cabinet approves a plan to remove South Korea from a list of countries that enjoy minimum export controls, a move likely to escalate tensions fuelled by a dispute over compensation for wartime forced labourers. Holders Chile thrash Japan Chile began their Copa America defence in emphatic fashion with a thumping 4-0 win over tournament guests Japan on Monday with Manchester United misfit Alexis Sanchez scoring for the first time in five months. Man with knife attacks schoolgirls in Japan; 3 dead A man carrying a knife in each hand and screaming “I will kill you” attacked schoolgirls waiting at a bus stop just outside Tokyo on Tuesday, wounding 16 people and leaving three dead, including the attacker, Japanese authorities and media said. 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Agony for Japan Japan coach Akira Nishino says his players were lost for words after their crushing 3-2 defeat by Belgium on Monday in the World Cup last 16. Rocket explodes seconds after liftoff in Japan A rocket developed by a maverick Japanese entrepreneur and convicted fraudster explodes shortly after liftoff, in a major blow to his bid to send Japan's first privately backed rocket into space. Senegal, Japan play out 2-2 thriller Japan twice come from behind to draw 2-2 with Senegal in their World Cup Group H encounter on Sunday. Tokyo hopes ‘solar road’ will lead to greener power The Tokyo metropolitan government intends to take the initiative in introducing the new technologies of “solar roads” that collect energy from the sun via solar panels installed beneath the surface of roads and “power-generating floors” that generate electricity by utilizing the vibrations created by people walking, according to sources. Knife attack on Japan bullet train leaves 1 dead A knife attack on a Japanese bullet express train near Tokyo left one passenger dead and two others injured, police say, as they arrested a suspect who was on top of a man lying unconscious. Unicef gets $15.7m fund for Rohingya children, women The United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) has scaled up humanitarian assistance and life-saving interventions for the Rohingya children and women along with the vulnerable host population in Cox's Bazar with US$15.7 million funding received from the government of Japan. Obama: NKorea 'real threat', urges co-operation North Korea poses a "real threat" whose solution will require international co-operation, former US President Barack Obama says on a visit to Japan. Tokyo to build world’s tallest timber tower Japanese company Sumitomo Forestry is set to build the world's tallest wooden skyscraper to mark its 350th anniversary in 2041. Japanese island named top rising destination 2018 Savvy, curious travelers who understand that Japan is more than just Tokyo have had Ishigaki, Japan on their travel radar, as the island has emerged the top trending spot in the 2018 edition of TripAdvisor's annual Travelers' Choice Destinations on the Rise ranking. Infrastructure Projects: Tokyo to invest under new arrangement Japan is going to invest in Bangladesh's infrastructure projects under a new arrangement in which its companies will work under the government-to-government system without participating in any bidding. Chief priest, 2 others dead in Tokyo shrine stabbings The head priest of a prominent shrine in Tokyo is ambushed and killed with a samurai sword, apparently by her brother, who then took his own life, police say.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line18
__label__cc	0.609179	0.390821	Bobby Rymer Publishing Weekend Bobby Rymer of The Writer’s Den in Nashville is in Austin Thursday-Saturday, March 12-14 for a music publishing workshop “Listen Up: Songs That Are Getting Attention” plus private, one-on-one pitch to publisher appointments. Bobby Rymer has been supporting ASG members for over 8 years now, both as a member of the annual Symposium faculty, and through his visits to ASG from Nashville to facilitate music publishing workshops and pitch to publisher weekends. This year, Bobby will be facilitating his new workshop “Listen Up: Songs That Are Getting Attention” at two different times to accommodate demand and members’ personal schedules. In addition, he will be available for a limited number of private pitch to publisher appointments throughout his visit on a first come-first served basis. About the workshops, Bobby says, “During the workshop, ‘Listen Up: Songs That Are Getting Attention’ I will play and discuss songs from The Writers Den catalog that are getting attention from artists, producers and A&R reps. We will discuss why these songs are working and what it is about them that makes them stand out. We will explore everything from the subject matter to the structure, tempo, lyric, melody and more. This will hopefully give you some insight when constructing your songs for the musical marketplace.” YOU MUST BE AN ACTIVE ASG MEMBER TO PARTICIPATE: If you are not yet an ASG Member, you can easily become a member for only $7.95 per month, and still be eligible for this weekend’s activities. Become an ASG Member for only $7.95 per month here. The Workshop Times Are: Thursday Evening, March 12 from 7:00-9:00 PM Saturday Morning, March 14 from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM The Workshop Costs Are: $35.00 for either Thursday or Saturday $50 for both Thursday & Saturday To Register for one (1) workshop, either Thursday or Friday for only $35, click the PayPal button immediately below: To Register for two (2) workshops, both Thursday and Friday for only $50, click the PayPal button immediately below: The Private Pitch To Publisher Appointment Costs Are: $25 for each 15 minute session LIMITED APPOINTMENT TIMES AVAILABLE & MUST BE SCHEDULED IN ADVANCE. After you have registered for a Private Pitch to Publisher Session and paid through PayPal, schedule your private appointment time by calling Lee Duffy at 512-698-4237. If you have any questions or would like to register by email, send an email to Lee Duffy at leeduffy@austinsongwritersgroup.com All Workshops and Private Appointments held at The Mockingbird Cafe. For the Private Pitch To Publisher sessions, you can bring your instrument and play your songs or you can bring recorded demos on CD. The private sessions are only open to currently active members that attend at least one of the two workshops. The Private Pitch To Publisher Appointment Times Are: Thursday, March 12: 2:00-5:00 PM Friday, March 13: 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM Saturday, March 14 2:00-7:00 PM All Private Pitch to Publisher Appointments are scheduled on a first come first served basis. To register for 15-minute Private Pitch To Publisher Appointment(s), click the PayPal Button immediately below. Space is limited for both the workshop and also the private appointments. Do not be disappointed, register online today at the PayPal buttons below. You can also register by sending your check in the appropriate amount for the workshop(s) and/or private pitch to publisher appointments for which you wish to register, made payable to ASG at: 4606 Burleson Rd. Suite D Thank you for visiting the ASG website and we look forward to seeing you soon at one of our many upcoming events.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line21
__label__wiki	0.551821	0.551821	Vagabondia by Frances Hodgson Burnett Last week I posted a short story of Burnett's, Racketty-Packetty House, in its entirety because: a) I find it delightful, b) it is out of copyright, and c) because it seemed a perfect introduction to today's review of Vagabondia, a romance novel. Both stories pit the bohemian against bourgeois. In Rackety-Packety House, the old fashioned, run down dolls make the best of their lot, even when their dear little old house is threatened to be disintegrated in flames. They dance and sing and have pretend feasts to buoy their spirits, in a manner much resembling the residents of "Vagabondia," which is what the Crewe family (apparently a favorite name of Burnett's) entitle their place in the world, living on the outskirts of society in impoverished gentility. Their parents being dead and the oldest son, Philip, being a struggling artist with a young family as well as his three sisters to support, the family maintains a carefree existence in their crumbling town home in an unfashionable area of London. At the center of the struggling vagabonds is our heroine, Dolly: an indomitable force of good cheer and industriousness, always up for a good fight with the "Philistines." Unfortunately, Dolly depends on one of this disapproving camp for her small salary, for she works as a governess for a distant relation. Lady Augusta thinks it inappropriate for Dolly to be so collected in her fallen circumstances, a sensation which costs the poor girl her job, early in the novel. No big deal for Dolly. She will have more time at home for her family and more time for Griffith Donne, her long time fiancee. I adore Dolly, who has a great deal of an Elizabeth Bennet about her, as in this description: It was a very fortunate thing for Dolly that she was not easily discomposed. Most girls entering a room full of people, evidently unemployed, and in consequence naturally prone to not too charitable criticism of new-comers, might have lost self-possession. Not so Dolly Crewe. Being announced, she came in neither with unnecessary hurry nor timidly, and with not the least atom of shrinking from the eyes turned toward her; and, simple and unassuming a young person as she appeared on first sight, more than one pair of eyes in question found themselves attracted by the white merino, the white shoulders, the elaborate tresses, and the serene, innocent-looking orbs. Burnett introduces her in all her faults and glories, acknowledging her over indulgence of the vanity of the youngest sister, Molly, and her heartless flirtation with other men. This last vice is held accountable for Griffith's insecurities as he drudges his life in a thankless job, dreaming of the day he might afford to marry his love. My impression was that he was just a pea goose. I do not think Dolly's devotion to the man deserved or warranted. It becomes a flaw in her otherwise fascinating character. Unfortunately, the main romance is the worst part of this romance novel. Much more fascinating are Dolly's attempts to maneuver her vulnerable family through a sometimes heartless world, particularly the adventures of the devastatingly beautiful and dangerously naive Molly and and middle sister Aimee, the only pragmatist is the family. I was hooked, turning page after page, hoping to see how the two older sisters would save Molly from what almost seems her inevitable fate. Vagabondia is an excellent exploration of class structure and character strength. I recommend reading it for Dolly's sake. She is a creature deserving of a better fate than that which her authoress subjects her, though the book does have a happy ending. It provided me with a similar sensation to that which I experience reading either Mansfield Park or Sense and Sesnisibility. The hero is unworthy of the heroine. Posted by Alexa Adams at 11:48 AM 0 comments Labels: Francis Hodgson Burnett, Reviews New Headshot! Posted by Alexa Adams at 2:47 PM 0 comments Labels: announcements, headshot Racketty-Packetty House by Frances Hodgson Burnett I'm starting the new year with a detour from Burnett's romances to share with you Racketty-Packetty House (1906), a delightful short children's story that strongly invokes the economic disparity themes in her work in tidy parable form. This story also bears a strong thematic resemblance to the romance Vagabondia (1884), which I will review next. I love this whimsical tale of the social life between two doll houses in nasty little Cynthia's nursery. The happy-go-lucky residents of Racketty Packetty House are snubbed and shunned by the castle dolls, but they don't let that dampen their spirits. The tale is narrated by a fairy queen, features a princess, and a runaway marriage. Fun for the whole family! It won't take you long to read, and it is so wonderful. Enjoy! (For a complete list of Frances Hodgson Burnett works by category click here) As Told by Queen Crosspatch Now this is the story about the doll family I liked and the doll family I didn't. When you read it you are to remember something I am going to tell you. This is it: If you think dolls never do anything you don't see them do, you are very much mistaken. When people are not looking at them they can do anything they choose. They can dance and sing and play on the piano and have all sorts of fun. But they can only move about and talk when people turn their backs and are not looking. If any one looks, they just stop. Fairies know this and of course Fairies visit in all the dolls' houses where the dolls are agreeable. They will not associate, though, with dolls who are not nice. They never call or leave their cards at a dolls' house where the dolls are proud or bad tempered. They are very particular. If you are conceited or ill-tempered yourself, you will never know a fairy as long as you live. Queen Crosspatch. RACKETTY-PACKETTY HOUSE Racketty-Packetty House was in a corner of Cynthia's nursery. And it was not in the best corner either. It was in the corner behind the door, and that was not at all a fashionable neighborhood. Racketty-Packetty House had been pushed there to be out of the way when Tidy Castle was brought in, on Cynthia's birthday. As soon as she saw Tidy Castle Cynthia did not care for Racketty-Packetty House and indeed was quite ashamed of it. She thought the corner behind the door quite good enough for such a shabby old dolls' house, when there was the beautiful big new one built like a castle and furnished with the most elegant chairs and tables and carpets and curtains and ornaments and pictures and beds and baths and lamps and book-cases, and with a knocker on the front door, and a stable with a pony cart in it at the back. The minute she saw it she called out: "Oh! what a beautiful doll castle! What shall we do with that untidy old Racketty-Packetty House now? It is too shabby and old-fashioned to stand near it." In fact, that was the way in which the old dolls' house got its name. It had always been called, "The Dolls' House," before, but after that it was pushed into the unfashionable neighborhood behind the door and ever afterwards--when it was spoken of at all--it was just called Racketty-Packetty House, and nothing else. Of course Tidy Castle was grand, and Tidy Castle was new and had all the modern improvements in it, and Racketty-Packetty House was as old-fashioned as it could be. It had belonged to Cynthia's Grandmamma and had been made in the days when Queen Victoria was a little girl, and when there were no electric lights even in Princesses' dolls' houses. Cynthia's Grandmamma had kept it very neat because she had been a good housekeeper even when she was seven years old. But Cynthia was not a good housekeeper and she did not re-cover the furniture when it got dingy, or re-paper the walls, or mend the carpets and bedclothes, and she never thought of such a thing as making new clothes for the doll family, so that of course their early Victorian frocks and capes and bonnets grew in time to be too shabby for words. You see, when Queen Victoria was a little girl, dolls wore queer frocks and long pantalets and boy dolls wore funny frilled trousers and coats which it would almost make you laugh to look at. But the Racketty-Packetty House family had known better days. I and my Fairies had known them when they were quite new and had been a birthday present just as Tidy Castle was when Cynthia turned eight years old, and there was as much fuss about them when their house arrived as Cynthia made when she saw Tidy Castle. Cynthia's Grandmamma had danced about and clapped her hands with delight, and she had scrambled down upon her knees and taken the dolls out one by one and thought their clothes beautiful. And she had given each one of them a grand name. "This one shall be Amelia," she said. "And this one is Charlotte, and this is Victoria Leopoldina, and this one Aurelia Matilda, and this one Leontine, and this one Clotilda, and these boys shall be Augustus and Rowland and Vincent and Charles Edward Stuart." For a long time they led a very gay and fashionable life. They had parties and balls and were presented at Court and went to Royal Christenings and Weddings and were married themselves and had families and scarlet fever and whooping cough and funerals and every luxury. But that was long, long ago, and now all was changed. Their house had grown shabbier and shabbier, and their clothes had grown simply awful; and Aurelia Matilda and Victoria Leopoldina had been broken to bits and thrown into the dust-bin, and Leontine--who had really been the beauty of the family--had been dragged out on the hearth rug one night and had had nearly all her paint licked off and a leg chewed up by a Newfoundland puppy, so that she was a sight to behold. As for the boys; Rowland and Vincent had quite disappeared, and Charlotte and Amelia always believed they had run away to seek their fortunes, because things were in such a state at home. So the only ones who were left were Clotilda and Amelia and Charlotte and poor Leontine and Augustus and Charles Edward Stuart. Even they had their names changed. After Leontine had had her paint licked off so that her head had white bald spots on it and she had scarcely any features, a boy cousin of Cynthia's had put a bright red spot on each cheek and painted her a turned up nose and round saucer blue eyes and a comical mouth. He and Cynthia had called her, "Ridiklis" instead of Leontine, and she had been called that ever since. All the dolls were jointed Dutch dolls, so it was easy to paint any kind of features on them and stick out their arms and legs in any way you liked, and Leontine did look funny after Cynthia's cousin had finished. She certainly was not a beauty but her turned up nose and her round eyes and funny mouth always seemed to be laughing so she really was the most good-natured looking creature you ever saw. Charlotte and Amelia, Cynthia had called Meg and Peg, and Clotilda she called Kilmanskeg, and Augustus she called Gustibus, and Charles Edward Stuart was nothing but Peter Piper. So that was the end of their grand names. The truth was, they went through all sorts of things, and if they had not been such a jolly lot of dolls they might have had fits and appendicitis and died of grief. But not a bit of it. If you will believe it, they got fun out of everything. They used to just scream with laughter over the new names, and they laughed so much over them that they got quite fond of them. When Meg's pink silk flounces were torn she pinned them up and didn't mind in the least, and when Peg's lace mantilla was played with by a kitten and brought back to her in rags and tags, she just put a few stitches in it and put it on again; and when Peter Piper lost almost the whole leg of one of his trousers he just laughed and said it made it easier for him to kick about and turn somersaults and he wished the other leg would tear off too. You never saw a family have such fun. They could make up stories and pretend things and invent games out of nothing. And my Fairies were so fond of them that I couldn't keep them away from the dolls' house. They would go and have fun with Meg and Peg and Kilmanskeg and Gustibus and Peter Piper, even when I had work for them to do in Fairyland. But there, I was so fond of that shabby disrespectable family myself that I never would scold much about them, and I often went to see them. That is how I know so much about them. They were so fond of each other and so good-natured and always in such spirits that everybody who knew them was fond of them. And it was really only Cynthia who didn't know them and thought them only a lot of old disreputable looking Dutch dolls--and Dutch dolls were quite out of fashion. The truth was that Cynthia was not a particularly nice little girl, and did not care much for anything unless it was quite new. But the kitten who had torn the lace mantilla got to know the family and simply loved them all, and the Newfoundland puppy was so sorry about Leontine's paint and her left leg, that he could never do enough to make up. He wanted to marry Leontine as soon as he grew old enough to wear a collar, but Leontine said she would never desert her family; because now that she wasn't the beauty any more she became the useful one, and did all the kitchen work, and sat up and made poultices and beef tea when any of the rest were ill. And the Newfoundland puppy saw she was right, for the whole family simply adored Ridiklis and could not possibly have done without her. Meg and Peg and Kilmanskeg could have married any minute if they had liked. There were two cock sparrows and a gentleman mouse, who proposed to them over and over again. They all three said they did not want fashionable wives but cheerful dispositions and a happy, home. But Meg and Peg were like Ridiklis and could not bear to leave their families--besides not wanting to live in nests, and hatch eggs--and Kilmanskeg said she would die of a broken heart if she could not be with Ridiklis, and Ridiklis did not like cheese and crumbs and mousy things, so they could never live together in a mouse hole. But neither the gentleman mouse nor the sparrows were offended because the news was broken to them so sweetly and they went on visiting just as before. Everything was as shabby and disrespectable and as gay and happy as it could be until Tidy Castle was brought into the nursery and then the whole family had rather a fright. It happened in this way: When the dolls' house was lifted by the nurse and carried into the corner behind the door, of course it was rather an exciting and shaky thing for Meg and Peg and Kilmanskeg and Gustibus and Peter Piper (Ridiklis was out shopping). The furniture tumbled about and everybody had to hold on to anything they could catch hold of. As it was, Kilmanskeg slid under a table and Peter Piper sat down in the coal-box; but notwithstanding all this, they did not lose their tempers and when the nurse sat their house down on the floor with a bump, they all got up and began to laugh. Then they ran and peeped out of the windows and then they ran back and laughed again. "Well," said Peter Piper, "we have been called Meg and Peg and Kilmanskeg and Gustibus and Peter Piper instead of our grand names, and now we live in a place called Racketty-Packetty House. Who cares! Let's join hands and have a dance." And they joined hands and danced round and round and kicked up their heels, and their rags and tatters flew about and they laughed until they fell down; one on top of the other. It was just at this minute that Ridiklis came back. The nurse had found her under a chair and stuck her in through a window. She sat on the drawing-room sofa which had holes in its covering and the stuffing coming out, and her one whole leg stuck out straight in front of her, and her bonnet and shawl were on one side and her basket was on her left arm full of things she had got cheap at market. She was out of breath and rather pale through being lifted up and swished through the air so suddenly, but her saucer eyes and her funny mouth looked as cheerful as ever. "Good gracious, if you knew what I have just heard!" she said. They all scrambled up and called out together. "Hello! What is it?" "The nurse said the most awful thing," she answered them. "When Cynthia asked what she should do with this old Racketty-Packetty House, she said, 'Oh! I'll put it behind the door for the present and then it shall be carried down-stairs and burned. It's too disgraceful to be kept in any decent nursery.'" "Oh!" cried out Peter Piper. "Oh!" said Gustibus. "Oh! Oh! Oh!" said Meg and Peg and Kilmanskeg. "Will they burn our dear old shabby house? Do you think they will?" And actually tears began to run down their cheeks. Peter Piper sat down on the floor all at once with his hands stuffed in his pockets. "I don't care how shabby it is," he said. "It's a jolly nice old place and it's the only house we've ever had." "I never want to have any other," said Meg. Gustibus leaned against the wall with his hands stuffed in his pockets. "I wouldn't move if I was made King of England," he said. "Buckingham Palace wouldn't be half as nice." "We've had such fun here," said Peg. And Kilmanskeg shook her head from side to side and wiped her eyes on her ragged pocket-handkerchief. There is no knowing what would have happened to them if Peter Piper hadn't cheered up as he always did. "I say," he said, "do you hear that noise?" They all listened and heard a rumbling. Peter Piper ran to the window and looked out and then ran back grinning. "It's the nurse rolling up the arm-chair before the house to hide it, so that it won't disgrace the castle. Hooray! Hooray! If they don't see us they will forget all about us and we shall not be burned up at all. Our nice old Racketty-Packetty House will be left alone and we can enjoy ourselves more than ever--because we sha'n't be bothered with Cynthia--Hello! let's all join hands and have a dance." So they all joined hands and danced round in a ring again and they were so relieved that they laughed and laughed until they all tumbled down in a heap just as they had done before, and rolled about giggling and squealing. It certainly seemed as if they were quite safe for some time at least. The big easy chair hid them and both the nurse and Cynthia seemed to forget that there was such a thing as a Racketty-Packetty House in the neighborhood. Cynthia was so delighted with Tidy Castle that she played with nothing else for days and days. And instead of being jealous of their grand neighbors the Racketty-Packetty House people began to get all sorts of fun out of watching them from their own windows. Several of their windows were broken and some had rags and paper stuffed into the broken panes, but Meg and Peg and Peter Piper would go and peep out of one, and Gustibus and Kilmanskeg would peep out of another, and Ridiklis could scarcely get her dishes washed and her potatoes pared because she could see the Castle kitchen from her scullery window. It was so exciting! The Castle dolls were grand beyond words, and they were all lords and ladies. These were their names. There was Lady Gwendolen Vere de Vere. She was haughty and had dark eyes and hair and carried her head thrown back and her nose in the air. There was Lady Muriel Vere de Vere, and she was cold and lovely and indifferent and looked down the bridge of her delicate nose. And there was Lady Doris, who had fluffy golden hair and laughed mockingly at everybody. And there was Lord Hubert and Lord Rupert and Lord Francis, who were all handsome enough to make you feel as if you could faint. And there was their mother, the Duchess of Tidyshire; and of course there were all sorts of maids and footmen and cooks and scullery maids and even gardeners. "We never thought of living to see such grand society," said Peter Piper to his brother and sisters. "It's quite a kind of blessing." "It's almost like being grand ourselves, just to be able to watch them," said Meg and Peg and Kilmanskeg, squeezing together and flattening their noses against the attic windows. They could see bits of the sumptuous white and gold drawing-room with the Duchess sitting reading near the fire, her golden glasses upon her nose, and Lady Gwendolen playing haughtily upon the harp, and Lady Muriel coldly listening to her. Lady Doris was having her golden hair dressed by her maid in her bed-room and Lord Hubert was reading the newspaper with a high-bred air, while Lord Francis was writing letters to noblemen of his acquaintance, and Lord Rupert was--in an aristocratic manner--glancing over his love letters from ladies of title. Kilmanskeg and Peter Piper just pinched each other with glee and squealed with delight. "Isn't it fun," said Peter Piper. "I say; aren't they awful swells! But Lord Francis can't kick about in his trousers as I can in mine, and neither can the others. I'll like to see them try to do this,"-- and he turned three summersaults in the middle of the room and stood on his head on the biggest hole in the carpet--and wiggled his legs and wiggled his toes at them until they shouted so with laughing that Ridiklis ran in with a saucepan in her hand and perspiration on her forehead, because she was cooking turnips, which was all they had for dinner. "You mustn't laugh so loud," she cried out. "If we make so much noise the Tidy Castle people will begin to complain of this being a low neighborhood and they might insist on moving away." "Oh! scrump!" said Peter Piper, who sometimes invented doll slang-- though there wasn't really a bit of harm in him. "I wouldn't have them move away for anything. They are meat and drink to me." "They are going to have a dinner of ten courses," sighed Ridiklis, "I can see them cooking it from my scullery window. And I have nothing but turnips to give you." "Who cares!" said Peter Piper, "Let's have ten courses of turnips and pretend each course is exactly like the one they are having at the Castle." "I like turnips almost better than anything--almost--perhaps not quite," said Gustibus. "I can eat ten courses of turnips like a shot." "Let's go and find out what their courses are," said Meg and Peg and Kilmanskeg, "and then we will write a menu on a piece of pink tissue paper." And if you'll believe it, that was what they did. They divided their turnips into ten courses and they called the first one--"Hors d'oeuvres," and the last one "Ices," with a French name, and Peter Piper kept jumping up from the table and pretending he was a footman and flourishing about in his flapping rags of trousers and announcing the names of the dishes in such a grand way that they laughed till they nearly died, and said they never had had such a splendid dinner in their lives, and that they would rather live behind the door and watch the Tidy Castle people than be the Tidy Castle people themselves. And then of course they all joined hands and danced round and round and kicked up their heels for joy, because they always did that whenever there was the least excuse for it--and quite often when there wasn't any at all, just because it was such good exercise and worked off their high spirits so that they could settle down for a while. This was the way things went on day after day. They almost lived at their windows. They watched the Tidy Castle family get up and be dressed by their maids and valets in different clothes almost every day. They saw them drive out in their carriages, and have parties, and go to balls. They all nearly had brain fever with delight the day they watched Lady Gwendolen and Lady Muriel and Lady Doris, dressed in their Court trains and feathers, going to be presented at the first Drawing-Room. After the lovely creatures had gone the whole family sat down in a circle round the Racketty-Packetty House library fire, and Ridiklis read aloud to them about Drawing-Rooms, out of a scrap of the Lady's Pictorial she had found, and after that they had a Court Drawing-Room of their own, and they made tissue-paper trains and glass bead crowns for diamond tiaras, and sometimes Gustibus pretended to be the Royal family, and the others were presented to him and kissed his hand, and then the others took turns and he was presented. And suddenly the most delightful thing occurred to Peter Piper. He thought it would be rather nice to make them all into lords and ladies and he did it by touching them on the shoulder with the drawing-room poker which he straightened because it was so crooked that it was almost bent double. It is not exactly the way such things are done at Court, but Peter Piper thought it would do-- and at any rate it was great fun. So he made them all kneel down in a row and he touched each on the shoulder with the poker and said: "Rise up, Lady Meg and Lady Peg and Lady Kilmanskeg and Lady Ridiklis of Racketty-Packetty House-and also the Right Honorable Lord Gustibus Rags!" And they all jumped up at once and made bows and curtsied to each other. But they made Peter Piper into a Duke, and he was called the Duke of Tags. He knelt down on the big hole in the carpet and each one of them gave him a little thump on the shoulder with the poker, because it took more thumps to make a Duke than a common or garden Lord. The day after this another much more exciting thing took place. The nurse was in a bad temper and when she was tidying the nursery she pushed the easy chair aside and saw Racketty-Packetty House. "Oh!" she said, "there is that Racketty-Packetty old thing still. I had forgotten it. It must be carried down-stairs and burned. I will go and tell one of the footmen to come for it." Meg and Peg and Kilmanskeg were in their attic and they all rushed out in such a hurry to get down-stairs that they rolled all the way down the staircase, and Peter Piper and Gustibus had to dart out of the drawing-room and pick them up, Ridiklis came staggering up from the kitchen quite out of breath. "Oh! our house is going to be burned! Our house is going to be burned!" cried Meg and Peg clutching their brothers. "Let us go and throw ourselves out of the window!" cried Kilmanskeg. "I don't see how they can have the heart to burn a person's home!" said Ridiklis, wiping her eyes with her kitchen duster. Peter Piper was rather pale, but he was extremely brave and remembered that he was the head of the family. "Now, Lady Meg and Lady Peg and Lady Kilmanskeg," he said, "let us all keep cool." "We shan't keep cool when they set our house on fire," said Gustibus. Peter Piper just snapped his fingers. "Pooh!" he said. "We are only made of wood and it won't hurt a bit. We shall just snap and crackle and go off almost like fireworks and then we shall be ashes and fly away into the air and see all sorts of things. Perhaps it may be more fun than anything we have done yet." "But our nice old house! Our nice old Racketty-Packetty House," said Ridiklis. "I do so love it. The kitchen is so convenient--even though the oven won't bake any more." And things looked most serious because the nurse really was beginning to push the arm-chair away. But it would not move and I will tell you why. One of my Fairies, who had come down the chimney when they were talking, had called me and I had come in a second with a whole army of my Workers, and though the nurse couldn't see them, they were all holding the chair tight down on the carpet so that it would not stir. And I--Queen Crosspatch--myself--flew downstairs and made the footman remember that minute that a box had come for Cynthia and that he must take it upstairs to her nursery. If I had not been on the spot he would have forgotten it until it was too late. But just in the very nick of time up he came, and Cynthia sprang up as soon as she saw him. "Oh!" she cried out, "It must be the doll who broke her little leg and was sent to the hospital. It must be Lady Patsy." And she opened the box and gave a little scream of joy for there lay Lady Patsy (her whole name was Patricia) in a lace-frilled nightgown, with her lovely leg in bandages and a pair of tiny crutches and a trained nurse by her side. That was how I saved them that time. There was such excitement over Lady Patsy and her little crutches and her nurse that nothing else was thought of and my Fairies pushed the arm-chair back and Racketty-Packetty House was hidden and forgotten once more. The whole Racketty-Packetty family gave a great gasp of joy and sat down in a ring all at once, on the floor, mopping their foreheads with anything they could get hold of. Peter Piper used an antimacassar. "Oh! we are obliged to you, Queen B-bell--Patch," he panted out, "But these alarms of fire are upsetting." "You leave them to me," I said, "and I'll attend to them. Tip!" I commanded the Fairy nearest me. "You will have to stay about here and be ready to give the alarm when anything threatens to happen." And I flew away, feeling I had done a good morning's work. Well, that was the beginning of a great many things, and many of them were connected with Lady Patsy; and but for me there might have been unpleasantness. Of course the Racketty-Packetty dolls forgot about their fright directly, and began to enjoy themselves again as usual. That was their way. They never sat up all night with Trouble, Peter Piper used to say. And I told him they were quite right. If you make a fuss over trouble and put it to bed and nurse it and give it beef tea and gruel, you can never get rid of it. Their great delight now was Lady Patsy. They thought she was prettier than any of the other Tidy Castle dolls. She neither turned her nose up, nor looked down the bridge of it, nor laughed mockingly. She had dimples in the corners of her mouth and long curly lashes and her nose was saucy and her eyes were bright and full of laughs. "She's the clever one of the family," said Peter Piper. "I am sure of that." She was treated as an invalid at first, of course, and kept in her room; but they could see her sitting up in her frilled nightgown. After a few days she was carried to a soft chair lay the window and there she used to sit and look out; and the Racketty-Packetty House dolls crowded round their window and adored her. After a few days, they noticed that Peter Piper was often missing and one morning Ridiklis went up into the attic and found him sitting at a window all by himself and staring and staring. "Oh! Duke," she said (you see they always tried to remember each other's titles). "Dear me, Duke, what are you doing here?" "I am looking at her," he answered. "I'm in love. I fell in love with her the minute Cynthia took her out of her box. I am going to marry her." "But she's a lady of high degree," said Ridiklis quite alarmed. "That's why she'll have me," said Peter Piper in his most cheerful manner. "Ladies of high degree always marry the good looking ones in rags and tatters. If I had a whole suit of clothes on, she wouldn't look at me. I'm very good-looking, you know," and he turned round and winked at Ridiklis in such a delightful saucy way that she suddenly felt as if he was very good-looking, though she had not thought of it before. "Hello," he said all at once. "I've just thought of something to attract her attention. Where's the ball of string?" Cynthia's kitten had made them a present of a ball of string which had been most useful. Ridiklis ran and got it, and all the others came running upstairs to see what Peter Piper was going to do. They all were delighted to hear he had fallen in love with the lovely, funny Lady Patsy. They found him standing in the middle of the attic unrolling the ball of string. "What are you going to do, Duke?" they all shouted. "Just you watch," he said, and he began to make the string into a rope ladder--as fast as lightning. When he had finished it, he fastened one end of it to a beam and swung the other end out of the window. "From her window," he said, "she can see Racketty-Packetty House and I'll tell you something. She's always looking at it. She watches us as much as we watch her, and I have seen her giggling and giggling when we were having fun. Yesterday when I chased Lady Meg and Lady Peg and Lady Kilmanskeg round and round the front of the house and turned summersaults every five steps, she laughed until she had to stuff her handkerchief into her mouth. When we joined hands and danced and laughed until we fell in heaps I thought she was going to have a kind of rosy-dimpled, lovely little fit, she giggled so. If I run down the side of the house on this rope ladder it will attract her attention and then I shall begin to do things." He ran down the ladder and that very minute they saw Lady Patsy at her window give a start and lean forward to look. They all crowded round their window and chuckled and chuckled as they watched him. He turned three stately summersaults and stood on his feet and made a cheerful bow. The Racketty-Packettys saw Lady Patsy begin to giggle that minute. Then he took an antimacassar out of his pocket and fastened it round the edge of his torn trousers leg, as if it were lace trimming and began to walk about like a Duke--with his arms folded on his chest and his ragged old hat cocked on one side over his ear. Then the Racketty-Packettys saw Lady Patsy begin to laugh. Then Peter Piper stood on his head and kissed his hand and Lady Patsy covered her face and rocked backwards and forwards in her chair laughing and laughing. Then he struck an attitude with his tattered leg put forward gracefully and he pretended he had a guitar and he sang right up at her window. "From Racketty-Packetty House I come, It stands, dear Lady, in a slum, A low, low slum behind the door The stout arm-chair is placed before, (Just take a look at it, my Lady). "The house itself is a perfect sight, And everybody's dressed like a perfect fright, But no one cares a single jot And each one giggles over his lot, (And as for me, I'm in love with you). "I can't make up another verse, And if I did it would be worse, But I could stand and sing all day, If I could think of things to say, (But the fact is I just wanted to make you look at me)." And then he danced such a lively jig that his rags and tags flew about him, and then he made another bow and kissed his hand again and ran up the ladder like a flash and jumped into the attic. After that Lady Patsy sat at her window all the time and would not let the trained nurse put her to bed at all; and Lady Gwendolen and Lady Muriel and Lady Doris could not understand it. Once Lady Gwendolen said haughtily and disdainfully and scornfully and scathingly: "If you sit there so much, those low Racketty-Packetty House people will think you are looking at them." "I am," said Lady Patsy, showing all her dimples at once. "They are such fun." And Lady Gwendolen swooned haughtily away, and the trained nurse could scarcely restore her. When the castle dolls drove out or walked in their garden, the instant they caught sight of one of the Racketty-Packettys they turned up their noses and sniffed aloud, and several times the Duchess said she would remove because the neighborhood was absolutely low. They all scorned the Racketty-Packettys--they just scorned them. One moonlight night Lady Patsy was sitting at her window and she heard a whistle in the garden. When she peeped out carefully, there stood Peter Piper waving his ragged cap at her, and he had his rope ladder under his arm. "Hello," he whispered as loud as he could. "Could you catch a bit of rope if I threw it up to you?" "Yes," she whispered back. "Then catch this," he whispered again and he threw up the end of a string and she caught it the first throw. It was fastened to the rope ladder. "Now pull," he said. She pulled and pulled until the rope ladder reached her window and then she fastened that to a hook under the sill and the first thing that happened--just like lightning--was that Peter Piper ran up the ladder and leaned over her window ledge. "Will you marry me," he said. "I haven't anything to give you to eat and I am as ragged as a scarecrow, but will you?" She clapped her little hands. "I eat very little," she said. "And I would do without anything at all, if I could live in your funny old shabby house." "It is a ridiculous, tumbled-down old barn, isn't it?" he said. "But every one of us is as nice as we can be. We are perfect Turkish Delights. It's laughing that does it. Would you like to come down the ladder and see what a jolly, shabby old hole the place is?" "Oh! do take me," said Lady Patsy. So he helped her down the ladder and took her under the armchair and into Racketty-Packetty House and Meg and Peg and Kilmanskeg and Ridiklis and Gustibus all crowded round her and gave little screams of joy at the sight of her. They were afraid to kiss her at first, even though she was engaged to Peter Piper. She was so pretty and her frock had so much lace on it that they were afraid their old rags might spoil her. But she did not care about her lace and flew at them and kissed and hugged them every one. "I have so wanted to come here," she said. "It's so dull at the Castle I had to break my leg just to get a change. The Duchess sits reading near the fire with her gold eye-glasses on her nose and Lady Gwendolen plays haughtily on the harp and Lady Muriel coldly listens to her, and Lady Doris is always laughing mockingly, and Lord Hubert reads the newspaper with a high-bred air, and Lord Francis writes letters to noblemen of his acquaintance, and Lord Rupert glances over his love letters from ladies of title, in an aristocratic manner--until I could scream. Just to see you dears dancing about in your rags and tags and laughing and inventing games as if you didn't mind anything, is such a relief." She nearly laughed her little curly head off when they all went round the house with her, and Peter Piper showed her the holes in the carpet and the stuffing coming out of the sofas, and the feathers out of the beds, and the legs tumbling off the chairs. She had never seen anything like it before. "At the Castle, nothing is funny at all," she said. "And nothing ever sticks out or hangs down or tumbles off. It is so plain and new." "But I think we ought to tell her, Duke," Ridiklis said. "We may have our house burned over our heads any day." She really stopped laughing for a whole minute when she heard that, but she was rather like Peter Piper in disposition and she said almost immediately. "Oh! they'll never do it. They've forgotten you." And Peter Piper said: "Don't let's think of it. Let's all join hands and dance round and round and kick up our heels and laugh as hard as ever we can." And they did--and Lady Patsy laughed harder than any one else. After that she was always stealing away from Tidy Castle and coming in and having fun. Sometimes she stayed all night and slept with Meg and Peg and everybody invented new games and stories and they really never went to bed until daylight. But the Castle dolls grew more and more scornful every day, and tossed their heads higher and higher and sniffed louder and louder until it sounded as if they all had influenza. They never lost an opportunity of saying disdainful things and once the Duchess wrote a letter to Cynthia, saying that she insisted on removing to a decent neighborhood. She laid the letter in her desk but the gentleman mouse came in the night and carried it away. So Cynthia never saw it and I don't believe she could have read it if she had seen it because the Duchess wrote very badly--even for a doll. And then what do you suppose happened? One morning Cynthia began to play that all the Tidy Castle dolls had scarlet fever. She said it had broken out in the night and she undressed them all and put them into bed and gave them medicine. She could not find Lady Patsy, so she escaped the contagion. The truth was that Lady Patsy had stayed all night at Racketty-Packetty House, where they were giving an imitation Court Ball with Peter Piper in a tin crown, and shavings for supper--because they had nothing else, and in fact the gentleman mouse had brought the shavings from his nest as a present. Cynthia played nearly all day and the Duchess and Lady Gwendolen and Lady Muriel and Lady Doris and Lord Hubert and Lord Francis and Lord Rupert got worse and worse. By evening they were all raging in delirium and Lord Francis and Lady Gwendolen had strong mustard plasters on their chests. And right in the middle of their agony Cynthia suddenly got up and went away and left them to their fate--just as if it didn't matter in the least. Well in the middle of the night Meg and Peg and Lady Patsy wakened all at once. "Do you hear a noise?" said Meg, lifting her head from her ragged old pillow. "Yes, I do," said Peg, sitting up and holding her ragged old blanket up to her chin. Lady Patsy jumped up with feathers sticking up all over her hair, because they had come out of the holes in the ragged old bed. She ran to the window and listened. "Oh! Meg and Peg!" she cried out. "It comes from the Castle. Cynthia has left them all raving in delirium and they are all shouting and groaning and screaming." Meg and Peg jumped up too. "Let's go and call Kilmanskeg and Ridiklis and Gustibus and Peter Piper," they said, and they rushed to the staircase and met Kilmanskeg and Ridiklis and Gustibus and Peter Piper coming scrambling up panting because the noise had wakened them as well. They were all over at Tidy Castle in a minute. They just tumbled over each other to get there--the kind-hearted things. The servants were every one fast asleep, though the noise was awful. The loudest groans came from Lady Gwendolen and Lord Francis because their mustard plasters were blistering them frightfully. Ridiklis took charge, because she was the one who knew most about illness. She sent Gustibus to waken the servants and then ordered hot water and cold water, and ice, and brandy, and poultices, and shook the trained nurse for not attending to her business--and took off the mustard plasters and gave gruel and broth and cough syrup and castor oil and ipecacuanha, and everyone of the Racketty-Packettys massaged, and soothed, and patted, and put wet cloths on heads, until the fever was gone and the Castle dolls all lay back on their pillows pale and weak, but smiling faintly at every Racketty-Packetty they saw, instead of turning up their noses and tossing their heads and sniffing loudly, and just scorning them. Lady Gwendolen spoke first and instead of being haughty and disdainful, she was as humble as a new-born kitten. "Oh! you dear, shabby, disrespectable, darling things!" she said. "Never, never, will I scorn you again. Never, never!" "That's right!" said Peter Piper in his cheerful, rather slangy way. "You take my tip-never you scorn any one again. It's a mistake. Just you watch me stand on my head. It'll cheer you up." And he turned six summersaults--just like lightning--and stood on his head and wiggled his ragged legs at them until suddenly they heard a snort from one of the beds and it was Lord Hubert beginning to laugh and then Lord Francis laughed and then Lord Hubert shouted, and then Lady Doris squealed, and Lady Muriel screamed, and Lady Gwendolen and the Duchess rolled over and over in their beds, laughing as if they would have fits. "Oh! you delightful, funny, shabby old loves!" Lady Gwendolen kept saying. "To think that we scorned you." "They'll be all right after this," said Peter Piper. "There's nothing cures scarlet fever like cheering up. Let's all join hands and dance round and round once for them before we go back to bed. It'll throw them into a nice light perspiration and they'll drop off and sleep like tops." And they did it, and before they had finished, the whole lot of them were perspiring gently and snoring as softly as lambs. When they went back to Racketty-Packetty House they talked a good deal about Cynthia and wondered and wondered why she had left her scarlet fever so suddenly. And at last Ridiklis made up her mind to tell them something she had heard. "The Duchess told me," she said, rather slowly because it was bad news--"The Duchess said that Cynthia went away because her Mama had sent for her--and her Mama had sent for her to tell her that a little girl princess is coming to see her to-morrow. Cynthia's Mama used to be a maid of honor to the Queen and that's why the little girl Princess is coming. The Duchess said--" and here Ridiklis spoke very slowly indeed, "that the nurse was so excited she said she did not know whether she stood on her head or her heels, and she must tidy up the nursery and have that Racketty-Packetty old dolls' house carried down stairs and burned, early to-morrow morning. That's what the Duchess said--" Meg and Peg and Kilmanskeg clutched at their hearts and gasped and Gustibus groaned and Lady Patsy caught Peter Piper by the arm to keep from falling. Peter Piper gulped--and then he had a sudden cheerful thought. "Perhaps she was raving in delirium," he said. "No, she wasn't," said Ridiklis shaking her head, "I had just given her hot water and cold, and gruel, and broth, and castor oil, and ipecacuanha and put ice almost all over her. She was as sensible as any of us. To-morrow morning we shall not have a house over our heads," and she put her ragged old apron over her face and cried. "If she wasn't raving in delirium," said Peter Piper, "we shall not have any heads. You had better go back to the Castle tonight, Patsy. Racketty-Packetty House is no place for you." Then Lady Patsy drew herself up so straight that she nearly fell over backwards. "I--will--never--leave you!" she said, and Peter Piper couldn't make her. You can just imagine what a doleful night it was. They went all over the house together and looked at every hole in the carpet and every piece of stuffing sticking out of the dear old shabby sofas, and every broken window and chair leg and table and ragged blanket-- and the tears ran down their faces for the first time in their lives. About six o'clock in the morning Peter Piper made a last effort. "Let's all join hands in a circle," he said quite faintly, "and dance round and round once more." But it was no use. When they joined hands they could not dance, and when they found they could not dance they all tumbled down in a heap and cried instead of laughing and Lady Patsy lay with her arms round Peter Piper's neck. Now here is where I come in again--Queen Crosspatch--who is telling you this story. I always come in just at the nick of time when people like the Racketty-Packettys are in trouble. I walked in at seven o'clock. "Get up off the floor," I said to them all and they got up and stared at me. They actually thought I did not know what had happened. "A little girl Princess is coming this morning," said Peter Piper, and our house is going to be burned over our heads. This is the end of Racketty-Packetty House." "No, it isn't!" I said. "You leave this to me. I told the Princess to come here, though she doesn't know it in the least." A whole army of my Working Fairies began to swarm in at the nursery window. The nurse was working very hard to put things in order and she had not sense enough to see Fairies at all. So she did not see mine, though there were hundreds of them. As soon as she made one corner tidy, they ran after her and made it untidy. They held her back by her dress and hung and swung on her apron until she could scarcely move and kept wondering why she was so slow. She could not make the nursery tidy and she was so flurried she forgot all about Racketty-Packetty House again--especially as my Working Fairies pushed the arm-chair close up to it so that it was quite hidden. And there it was when the little girl Princess came with her Ladies in Waiting. My fairies had only just allowed the nurse to finish the nursery. Meg and Peg and Kilmanskeg and Ridiklis and Gustibus and Peter Piper and Lady Patsy were huddled up together looking out of one window. They could not bear to be parted. I sat on the arm of the big chair and ordered my Working Fairies to stand ready to obey me the instant I spoke. The Princess was a nice child and was very polite to Cynthia when she showed her all her dolls, and last but not least, Tidy Castle itself. She looked at all the rooms and the furniture and said polite and admiring things about each of them. But Cynthia realized that she was not so much interested in it as she had thought she would be. The fact was that the Princess had so many grand dolls' houses in her palace that Tidy Castle did not surprise her at all. It was just when Cynthia was finding this out that I gave the order to my Working Fairies. "Push the arm-chair away," I commanded; "very slowly, so that no one will know it is being moved." So they moved it away--very, very slowly and no one saw that it had stirred. But the next minute the little girl Princess gave a delightful start. "Oh! what is that!" she cried out, hurrying towards the unfashionable neighborhood behind the door. Cynthia blushed all over and the nurse actually turned pale. The Racketty-Packettys tumbled down in a heap beneath their window and began to say their prayers very fast. "It is only a shabby old doll's house, your Highness," Cynthia stammered out. "It belonged to my Grandmamma, and it ought not to be in the nursery. I thought you had had it burned, Nurse!" "Burned!" the little girl Princess cried out in the most shocked way. "Why if it was mine, I wouldn't have it burned for worlds! Oh! please push the chair away and let me look at it. There are no doll's houses like it anywhere in these days." And when the arm-chair was pushed aside she scrambled down on to her knees just as if she was not a little girl Princess at all. "Oh! Oh! Oh!" she said. "How funny and dear! What a darling old doll's house. It is shabby and wants mending, of course, but it is almost exactly like one my Grandmamma had--she kept it among her treasures and only let me look at it as a great, great treat." Cynthia gave a gasp, for the little girl Princess's Grandmamma had been the Queen and people had knelt down and kissed her hand and had been obliged to go out of the room backwards before her. The little girl Princess was simply filled with joy. She picked up Meg and Peg and Kilmanskeg and Gustibus and Peter Piper as if they had been really a Queen's dolls. "Oh! the darling dears," she said. "Look at their nice, queer faces and their funny clothes. Just--just like Grandmamma's dollies' clothes. Only these poor things do so want new ones. Oh! how I should like to dress them again just as they used to be dressed, and have the house all made just as it used to be when it was new." "That old Racketty-Packetty House," said Cynthia, losing her breath. "If it were mine I should make it just like Grandmamma's and I should love it more than any doll's house I have. I never--never-- never--saw anything as nice and laughing and good natured as these dolls' faces. They look as if they had been having fun ever since they were born. Oh! if you were to burn them and their home I--I could never forgive you!" "I never--never--will,--your Highness," stammered Cynthia, quite overwhelmed. Suddenly she started forward. "Why, there is the lost doll!" she cried out. "There is Lady Patsy. How did she get into Racketty-Packetty House?" "Perhaps she went there to see them because they were so poor and shabby," said the little girl Princess. "Perhaps she likes this one," and she pointed to Peter Piper. "Do you know when I picked him up their arms were about each other. Please let her stay with him. Oh!" she cried out the next instant and jumped a little. "I felt as if the boy one kicked his leg." And it was actually true, because Peter Piper could not help it and he had kicked out his ragged leg for joy. He had to be very careful not to kick any more when he heard what happened next. As the Princess liked Racketty-Packetty House so much, Cynthia gave it to her for a present--and the Princess was really happy--and before she went away she made a little speech to the whole Racketty-Packetty family, whom she had set all in a row in the ragged old, dear old, shabby old drawing-room where they had had so much fun. "You are going to come and live with me, funny, good-natured loves," she said. "And you shall all be dressed beautifully again and your house shall be mended and papered and painted and made as lovely as ever it was. And I am going to like you better than all my other dolls' houses--just as Grandmamma said she liked hers." And then she was gone. And every bit of it came true. Racketty-Packetty House was carried to a splendid Nursery in a Palace, and Meg and Peg and Kilmanskeg and Ridiklis and Gustibus and Peter Piper were made so gorgeous that if they had nest been so nice they would have grown proud. But they didn't. They only grew jollier and jollier and Peter Piper married Lady Patsy, and Ridiklis's left leg was mended and she was painted into a beauty again--but she always remained the useful one. And the dolls in the other dolls' houses used to make deep curtsies when a Racketty-Packetty House doll passed them, and Peter Piper could scarcely stand it because it always made him want to stand on his head and laugh--and so when they were curtsied at-- because they were related to the Royal Dolls House--they used to run into their drawing room and fall into fits of giggles and they could only stop them by all joining hands together in a ring and dancing round and round and round and kicking up their heels and laughing until they tumbled down in a heap. And what do you think of that for a story. And doesn't it prove to you what a valuable Friend a Fairy is--particularly a Queen one? Labels: Children's Lit, Francis Hodgson Burnett, Short Stories Two Months in a Row! I have had a story voted one of the five best completed at Jaff Recs! The Madness of Mr. Darcy was voted one of the best completed stories in November (it seems an edit at some point skewed the month it was completed), and Becoming Mrs. Norris was honored in October! Here is the really cool thing: the short continuing vignette I just wrote, Mr. Darcy's Christmas Present: The Madness of Mr. Darcy Continues, is up for nomination in the month of December. Voting runs through the end of the month, and there is more competition than in the previous two, but your vote might out me over the type! Cast your vote here: http://www.jaffrecs.com/?page_id=379. Some of my fellow Austen Authors are represented as well. I just started posting a revised version of Being Mrs. Bennet last week. Sorry I never completed the tale here, but I got disgruntled when I lost half my Pemberley visit. If I can complete draft two in January, I might have a chance of winning four months in a row! Fingers crossed. Speaking of Austen Authors, a preliminary, teaser post went up yesterday in which several of us share some of our favorite recent posts. Please check it out, and don't forget to enter the grand reopening, mystery prize giveaway! http://austenauthors.net/favorite-blogs/ Labels: announcements, Austen Authors, Becoming Mrs. Norris, Being Mrs. Bennet, honors, Mr. Darcy's Christmas Present, The Madness of Mr. Darcy Fitzwilliam Darcy: An Honourable Man by Brenda J. Webb My then Facebook friend and now also fellow Austen Author Brenda J. Webb asked if I would like to read one of her books last year, and I eagerly accepted a copy. According to the guidelines I imposed on myself in 2014, I let her know I would only post a review if I could write a glowing one, and I am very pleased to be able to do so today. It was really rather ironic reading this book while still gathering reactions to The Madness of Mr. Darcy. I imagine if I got on Amazon and looked through Ms. Webb's reviews that I would find a lot of comments akin to those I have received. Like my book, Fitzwilliam Darcy: An Honourable Man has a very difficult beginning. We come upon an Elizabeth horrifically traumatized: mute and unresponsive. So hard to read! Our beloved heroine, reduced to such state by the machinations of a vile mother (Mrs. Bennet is a true villain in this story) and an unscrupulous husband (an Italian count, no less, right out of Radcliffe), is a nauseating spectacle. It's painful, which it should be, for it allows you to fully enter into Darcy's feelings when he returns to Netherfield, two years after being rejected at Hunsford, to learn the woman he thought he had expunged from his heart was dead (a lie spread by the Binlgeys to protect Elizabeth from her mother), yet to then come upon her in her disordered state! It is a heart wrenching moment as we learn the full sordid details of what happened to Elizabeth through Jane and Charles, but it also the beginning of the healing process, for though apart Darcy and Elizabeth prove so vulnerable, together they will overcome all that stands in their path to happiness. One of my favorite aspects of this variation was that it positioned our meek and mild Jane to become a protective lioness in regards to her sister, even when that means cutting ties with her mother. I was very proud of this Mr. and Mrs. Bingley as I read the book. I really wanted to quote the passage in which it happened, or the one when Jane and Bingley first tell Darcy about Elizabeth, but all the passages considered seem to give too much away. The story holds so many surprises, and I would hate to reveal them. Rest assured Ms. Webbs prose are clear and artistically crafted. The story ends very happily, but the road there is filled with machinations and impediments. There is a lot going on in this book with multiple layers of villains, all pursuing their own vicious ends, making things difficult for our beloved couple. Further, there are vivid portraits of the Darcy and Fitzwilliam families, complete with complex family skeletons, emotional trauma, and romance. I was impressed by Ms. Webb's ability to weave such a complicated tale while maintaining the personal, emotional connection between the main characters and the readers. Fitzwilliam Darcy is a rich and captivating story. A hard read for the feint hearted, but worth the effort. I look forward to reading more of Ms. Webb's work. Labels: Austen Authors, Pride and Prejudice, Reviews, What If? Where did the last several weeks go? 2014 was a wild ride for my family and I, and it went out par for the course when we buried my beloved grandfather. I started the year with a full contingent of grandparents and now I have one. Sad as that is, it was also an amazing year in many ways, and first and foremost in my mind stands the writing, publishing, and warm reception of The Madness of Mr. Darcy. It was book so unlike anything else I have ever even attempted to write. It demanded so much of me emotionally. It was a remarkable experience, but I am looking forward to concentrating on more lighthearted subjects in 2015 with my first children's book, The Prodigal Husband, Being Mrs. Bennet, and The Importance of Being Darcy. More on all these projects to come. Some of the great treats of my holiday season came in the form of recognition for my writing. It is with pride and excitement I am announcing my inclusion in the new, re-born AustenAuthors.net. My next post will be on that subject. I was delighted to find myself the recipient of a wonderful review of Holidays at Pemberley by Jody at A Spoonful of Happy Endings (read it here). I was even more than delighted to then find myself included in her "Top 10 New To Me Authors" list for 2014. What an honor! Next, Becoming Mrs. Norris was voted one of the top five completed stories on A Happy Assembly in the month of November at jaffrecs.com! So cool, especially as it is Mrs. Norris we are talking about and reader nominated. Last but not least, I received a long coveted place on Meredith at Austenesque Reviews best of 2014 list, when The Madness of Mr. Darcy tied with KaraLynne Mackrory's Haunting Mr. Darcy for favorite Pride and Prejudice variation. Thank you, Meredith! It's absolutely thrilling. As I look forward to a fresh new year, I have a ton of writing I plan on doing, but I also want to start doing more reviews again. One of the best things about 2014 is a started reading at my regular pace again for the first time since becoming a mother. I hope to now figure out how to balance reading, writing about, and writing books all at the same time. If I can master that by 2016, it will be time for another kid. I hope everyone had wonderful holidays and happy New Years celebrations. Here's to 2015! Posted by Alexa Adams at 12:01 PM 4 comments Labels: announcements, Austen Authors, Becoming Mrs. Norris, honors, Original Fiction, Reviews, The Madness of Mr. Darcy Reviews, The Prodigal Husband Fitzwilliam Darcy: An Honourable Man by Brenda J. ...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line24
__label__wiki	0.672423	0.672423	Elizabeth could not sleep. She sat on the window ledge of her bedroom at Longbourn staring out across the lawn towards the long, irregular drive. It had been eight months since her sister, Lydia, had run away from Brighton, and they had no word of her since. Elizabeth was growing accustomed to a lack of sleep, and the long nights passed between painful contemplation and futile attempts to avoid such thoughts altogether – thoughts of what might have happened to her sister. It was nearly a full moon, and by its determined light, she suddenly perceived movement by the drive’s end, where the palings marked the entrance to the small estate. Staring determinedly in their direction, she was shocked to perceive a scantily clad figure running towards the house. She started, and quickly confirming the truth of what her senses perceived, secured her shawl about her shoulders and raced out her bedroom, down the stairs, through the hall, and unlocked the front door. “Lydia!” she cried at the familiar face before all similarity to her youngest sibling disappeared beneath the spectacle of a disheveled creature, thrusting itself into her arms and sobbing violently. The house began to rouse at the noise as Elizabeth half carried, half dragged the woman she was certain must be Lydia (though she still wished to look at her face again for confirmation of that distressing notion) into the nearest parlor, where she flopped upon the couch, a spectacle for the first servants to arrive on scene, and wrapped herself more tightly into Elizabeth’s arms, weeping yet harder. It was impossible to get her to raise her head, but Elizabeth knew it was she. She wrapped an arm around the mound of tattered fabric in her lap and began to make a shushing noise, as to a baby. “Lizzy! What is this?” Her mother’s voice demanded. “Shhh!” she said louder, and then in quiet but shocked tones, “Tis Lydia, I think!” “Lydia?” her mother repeated, blinking absently while her husband, at her side, clutched the door for support and grew remarkably pale. “My God!” he exclaimed, his wife still agape and unmoving. “What is it, Mama?” Elizabeth heard Kitty say, though she could no longer watch the tableau her family presented, all her attention being demanded by the person in her arms. “Why is Lizzy cradling a beggar?” “Quiet, child!” her mother replied, suddenly stirred into action. She approached her youngest, dearest child. She knelt beside the sofa and reached for the crying creature's face with both hands, holding it up for inspection. The incessant weeping stopped, and Mrs. Bennet stared into her favorite’s face, dirty and tear-streaked. Tears welled in her own eyes as she said, “Oh, my darling,” and wrapped her arms around her, taking Elizabeth's burden beside her on the couch. The two women wept together in each other’s arms for several moments before Lydia suddenly, and with great violence, pushed her mother away and dove back to Lizzy, holding her far too tightly. The weeping was replaced by a strange whimpering noise, rather squeaky and frantic. Mr. Bennet helped his wife to rise from the floor, where she had very unceremoniously landed. The lady rose while holding a hand to her cheek, which revealed a smear of blood when she examined it. “She scratched me!” Mrs. Bennet said in astonishment. “What does this mean, Mr. Bennet?” The gentleman walked cautiously towards his daughter, whose face was now easier to see where it perched over Elizabeth's shoulder. “My God!” he said again. “She is mad!” “It is as Mr. Collins said,” Mary interjected, thinking of everything she had ever read of womanly virtue. “It would have been better if she were dead.” No one made any reply. The fire split the sky, illuminating the people running about everywhere, doing everything possible to staunch the flames. Reports confirmed that old Mr. Sellers, in whose cottage the fire began, was dead, and the lives of three more of the small community of villagers who comprised Kympton parish were feared lost as well. There were fainter murmurings, and the words “arson” and “Wickham” could be perceived. Fitzwilliam Darcy worked alongside everyone else, coatless and sweating in the heat, in which he had been laboring relentlessly for the past three hours. He was a known recluse, and the people were surprised to see him in their midst, but as he worked tirelessly through the night, they were thankful for his presence and help, and some recalled how well they used to think of him. Those striving to quench the blaze could perceive the effects of their labors. While still unbearably hot and threatening, the fire was much diminished from what it was. Mr. Darcy tried to calculate how much longer it might take to reach their goal, a useful manner in which to avoid far darker thoughts, which insisted on intruding upon his speculation. Two decades had passed since he last saw George Wickham, and at least half that since anyone had even mentioned the name is his presence. Yet now he heard it whispered beneath the roar of crackling wood. He might be mistaken; it could be some other name. Back, specter! Back to the past. Do not haunt me now. His heart cried out as old wounds burst open, coursing with fresh blood. He heard a bustle coming from behind. Like many others, he paused his labor to see what new was astir. A crowd of men hustled along and abused a middle-aged man, of tall stature but sloping in form, poorly dressed, and clearly terrified. “Here’s the cause of all the trouble,” one of the men yelled above the crowd and roaring flames. “He’s your arsonist, Mr. Darcy.” “Darcy!” George Wickham exclaimed, throwing himself on his knees in supplication. “You have to believe me! I was only visiting Sellers! We were talking and drinking, and I left him with a pipe in hand. He must have fallen asleep with it – there was a newspaper on his lap! He was a friend of my father’s! I would never harm the man!” “A likely story,” snarled another burly fellow. “Please, Darcy, my old friend! You have to believe me …” “Enough!” the master of Pemberley bellowed, glaring down on the man who had been the cause of so much trouble to his life. He did not consider his options. He did not stop to think. True madness drove him as he lifted up George Wickham, hoisting him with strength no man his age should possess, and threw him, screaming, into the hungry flames. The villagers rushed to the rescue, as bucket after bucket of water was directed towards the screaming mass of flames rolling on the ground instead of the cottages that still smoldered. The men who retained Wickham now moved menacingly around Mr. Darcy, who looked on, as if frozen, as the smell of his childhood friend’s flesh filled the air. He made no motion in recognition of the circle forming about him. He made no sign of protest, and as no one was inclined to manhandle the master unnecessarily, he was allowed to solemnly watch as the man stopped writhing, the flames fully doused, and something unrecognizable as human moaned on the ground. “He lives!” someone shouted, and it was this that seemed to break Mr. Darcy from his reverie. He stepped towards where Wickham lay, but the men about him purposefully blocked his path. “Bring him to Pemberley!” he shouted. “Send Mr. Scott to the house to see to his wounds. Hurry! We might still save his life. We cannot let him die!” The people looked at each other in question. Mr. Darcy had nearly murdered the stranger; could they trust him to see to his care? “Hurry!” he cried, now pushing against a faltering wall of men. “There is a carriage over by the rectory. Get him to it at once! I shall lead the way on my horse.” Unaccustomed as they were to disobeying orders from the gentry, Mr. Darcy was permitted to retrieve his mount, direct Wickham’s transfer to the carriage, and ride off at breakneck speed towards Pemberley. “Should we report him to the magistrate?” a man asked. “He is the magistrate!” another responded. “Well, what do we do then?” “Send over to Lambton for Squire Worthing. He handles such matters there.” At Pemberley, the entire staff was dedicated to the emergency care Mr. Wickham received. Soon rumors began to spread of how the man got to be in the state he was in. These were confirmed some three hours later, in the early morning light, when a few men arrived in the accompaniment of Squire Worthing, once a frequent guest at Pemberley in the days before its master withdrew from society. The house was all chaos: the staff both providing relief to villagers in need and attending Mr. Wickham, by whose side Mr. Darcy had remained throughout, the still-burning fire in Kympton totally beyond his thoughts. “Hello, Reynolds!” the squire greeted the butler. “I see you are already in some uproar, but I will need to speak with Mr. Darcy, if you please.” “The master has not left the patient’s bedside since he came here, sir,” Reynolds anxiously replied, asking in an undertone, breath bated, “Is it true – how they are saying the man got that way?” “I do not know what you heard,” the squire grimly replied, “but this is bad business. So the man still lives?” “Yes. Mr. Scott says he thinks he will survive, if we can avoid infection.” “Well, that will help some, if he lives and does not press charges. If he dies, I do not think I have any choice other than to take Mr. Darcy into custody.” The butler blanched, and the squire tried to explain himself better. “If the man were really the arsonist, maybe we could overlook it a bit, but reports are he was in Lambton at the time the fire started, though he was seen leaving Mr. Sellers’ cottage earlier. Probably, there was no mischief in the case at all, but Mr. Sellers merely fell asleep with his pipe, as I am told he was wont to do.” Though these words were intended to sooth Reynolds, they merely increased his alarm. The squire left a representative at Pemberley, orders to alert him of any change in the patient’s condition, and departed, while the butler hurried to impart to the other servants the urgency with which they must attend the patient upstairs. He then went to his office, sat at his desk, and composed a letter to Lord Matlock, informing him of his cousin’s circumstances. He sent if off by rider, and though the boy chosen for the task was reluctant to leave the excitement of a fire, attempted murder, and arrest of a swell, he found motivation in a large tip from Reynolds’ own purse. Lord and Lady Matlock’s estate was only thirty miles distant, and the earl and countess were on the scene by the very next day. They rode through the night with four horses and an entourage of outliers. When called to act, his lordship moved with military efficiency. Lady Catherine de Bourgh had been dead for many years, and it was well before her reluctant parting with this world that she gave up on the notion of Darcy ever marrying her daughter, Anne. His increasing eccentricity and isolation lowered his eligibility for Miss de Bourgh’s hand, and when the eldest Fitzwilliam boy was foolish enough to break his neck in a carriage accident, Lady Catherine recalled how the late countess always wished for a marriage between Richard and Anne. The colonel, always more attentive to his aunt than either his brother or Darcy, suddenly presented a very pretty prospect. The two, being compliant by nature and not averse to each other, were soon convinced of their affection. The union proved a useful partnership, if not a marriage of true minds. Anne, freed from her mother’s dominance, became a political force in society, taking a great deal more interest in both the pressing and petty issues of the day than her husband, who came into his title not long after their marriage. Lady Catherine lived long enough to see her daughter bear her grandmother’s title and hold an heir to one of the noblest fortunes in the country in her arms. Though she died against her will, which was rather intolerable, she was nonetheless pleased with herself and sorry for the world’s loss in her passing. However would the tenants at Rosings mix their whitewash correctly without her inestimable advice? Fortunate for them, the great lady had a daughter cast much in the same mold. Darcy’s noble connections were not to learn the identity of the injured man until they arrived at Pemberley and his lordship questioned his stunned cousin. In stolid tones, he pointed at the mutilated body and named it George Wickham before beginning to weep: a dry and heaving noise. Richard was uncertain how to respond to this unprecedented spectacle. He had been deeply concerned for Darcy for many years, but never more so than when he left the sickroom that day. He found his wife in the hall, busy telling the servants that they were going about their tasks the wrong way. She stopped her admonitions when she saw him, and a mutually exchanged tilt of the heads was all they required to retire to a nearby parlor for quiet conference. “Well?” she asked when the door was shut behind them. He sighed in response and sank into a nearby chair. “This is very bad, Anne.” “I already know that!” she snapped. “I have questioned Reynolds at length. It is imperative that man not die, Richard, and I find nothing but incompetence in this house! It is badly in need of female management.” “The man is George Wickham, Anne.” “George Wickham,” she searched her memory. “Ah, yes. That steward’s son for whom Uncle Darcy had such a fondness. I do not see why that should matter. In fact, it might work in our favor. As long as he lives, we should be able to hush this up, but if Darcy is charged with murder, it will be everywhere!” “It matters, Anne, because of the history they share,” he sighed, knowing there was no dredging up old scandals from the past, for she would not listen to them. “If it were anyone else, Darcy would not have behaved as he did.” A gleam lit her eyes. “What are you suggesting, Richard? That he went mad?” “Would a man not have to be, to commit such an act?” “It seems to me men do terrible things to each other every day without anyone much questioning it. Perhaps we should consult a doctor. If there is a trial, an insanity plea might save us from the humiliation of seeing him hanged.” “Anne! What of Darcy? You speak as if you care for nothing but the scandal and how it will affect you.” “That is not true. I care a great deal for my cousin and have only his best interests in mind, but we must address the practical realities of the case. What is good for him is what is good for all the family.” Richard shook his head. “This incidence of violence might be isolated, but you cannot continue to deny that there is something very wrong with our cousin! He is not in his right mind, and he has not been for years!” “I will not have a lunatic in the family, Richard,” Lady Matlock affirmed shrilly, appending in softer tones, “unless it is absolutely necessary!” “I do not think this is the kind of thing in which we have any choice, my dear,” he sighed wearily. “I shall write to Sir Frederick Wilson about him.” “As long as Wickham lives, that should not be necessary! We must send for the best doctors we can find at once!” A physician from Derby was called in, a more prestigious one from London sent for, and Mr. Wickham’s needs were attended to with the utmost care and consideration modern medicine could produce. That not being very much, it was somewhat miraculous that his wounds escaped serious infection. It was clear he would never walk again, his feet being horribly mutilated, but the medical experts soon came to the consensus that he would live. As soon as the patient was deemed fit for conversation, Squire Worthing reappeared to question him. The injured party refused to press any charges, much to the good man’s relief. Soon the matter seemed largely resolved, but for the gossip and conjecture of the villagers nearby. Towards quelling that issue, Lady Matlock spoke privately with the squire, asking him to use what influence he might to confine talk of the incident to the immediate environs. In return for his hushing up the matter, she promised to assist his granddaughter, embarking on her first season the next year, when she made her presentation to society. In a few months, the only other people to express any lingering concern over the matter was Mr. Wickham himself, Lord Matlock, and Mr. Darcy, who struggled to understand what he had done, guilt working upon already weary emotions to turn eccentricity into something more. He began to drink heavily, eat less, and suffer from incessant insomnia. http://www.amazon.com/Madness-Mr-Darcy-Alexa-Adams-ebook/dp/B00NLQQ47I/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1413919702&sr=1-1 Work in Progress Reading Sunday	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line25
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__label__cc	0.693601	0.306399	Everything Orchids Growing Orchids for Beginners Growing Orchids Indoors Artificial Plant Light Divide Orchids Orchid Keikis Orchid Light Orchid Medium Orchid Sheaths Orchid Temperature Orchid Water Requirements Orchid Destinations Arboretum of Los Angeles County Hotel Bougainvillea Monteverde Orchid Garden Orchid Diseases Orchid Name Orchids by Color Pink Orchids White Orchids Outdoor Orchids Terrestrial Orchids Types of Orchids Angraecum Orchids Brassavola Orchids Brassia Orchid Cattleya Orchid Cymbidium Orchid Dendrobium Orchid Encyclia Orchids Epidendrum Orchids Lady Slipper Orchids Maxillaria Orchids Miltonia Miltoniopsis Odontoglossum Orchids Oncidium Orchid Vanda Orchids Zygopetalum Orchids Maxillaria tenuifolia Maxillaria orchids are well-known, but not necessarily popular. There are over 300 species in this genus, but not many are grown by orchid enthusiasts, because only a small portion of the species produces showy flowers. Those that do, produce single flowers on short spikes. Some of them are magnificently fragrant. Native to tropical America, this genus derives its name from the Latin word maxilla which means jawbone. This designation refers to the appearance of many of the flowers of this species. Normally, the lip of these plants looks like an arched tongue and has three unremarkable lobes. The result is a blossom that slightly resembles a jawbone. Don’t let the criticisms of this varied genus, however, prevent you from investigating further. Several species are well worth taking a second look. Consider Maxillaria tenuifolia. The blossoms of this plant are small (approximately 1 inch in diameter) usually dark-red and grow on a spike of about 2 inches long. Tucked amongst the leaves, this flower is barely visible, but it still makes its presence known. It emits a scent which can only be described as coconut with a hint of cinnamon. As a result, these orchids are also known as Coconut Orchids. Maxillaria picta is another special plant from this genus. Native to Brazil, produce flowers that range from 1.5 to 2 inches in diameter. These blossoms are usually yellow with the color fading to white at the tips. Dark red marks the edges of the sepals and petals, and the flowers are very fragrant. An epiphyte, this orchid grows fast and often produces several growths during one season. A third Maxillaria orchid of note is Maxillaria schunkeana. Also native to Brazil, this orchid produces small, non-showy flowers. So what’s so important about this species? This orchid’s claim to fame is the color of its blossoms. No one has ever cultivated a black orchid, but with its dark purple-red blooms, this plant often gives the impression of being black. The majority of Maxillaria orchids produce round or oblong pseudobulbs, usually with one or two central-veined apical leaves. In several species, these pseudobulbs cluster on a short rhizome, while in others they keep their distance on an elongated rhizome. Inflorescences sprout from the base of the pseudobulb and produce a single flower. The flower spikes are short (2-3 inches) and never grow longer than the leaves. Because this genus has such diversity among its species growth requirements can vary widely. In general, Maxillaria orchids are epiphytes, which mean they grow well mounted on bark, on branches or in slatted baskets of equal parts fibrous peat and sphagnum. During the growing season, keep temperatures between 60 and 70 degrees Fahrenheit, water abundantly, mist daily and keep out of direct light. Sunlight seems to enhance fragrance production qualities, but the light must be filtered. After growth is finished, lower the temperature by 10 to 12 degrees, and reduce watering, but don’t let the plants completely dry out. Red Beard Orchid Aerangis splendida Fascination of Orchids Orchid Greenhouse and Garden Tour Newport Harbor Orchid Society Copyright © 2021 Everything Orchids - All Rights Reserved \| Privacy	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line47
__label__cc	0.531375	0.468625	Boston Lanka My Father was abducted, says Apsara Fonseka "He was not arrested but was abducted. One whole day our whole family did not know where he was taken," Apsara Fonseka, daughter of General Sarath Fonseka said in an interview with the Boston Lanka News that covered wide range of issues from the detention of General Fonseka to the accusation of Danuna Tilakaratne to the inner strength of Anoma Fonseka. Apsara Fonseka who lives in the United States also spoke freely about the bond between her father and her mother and about her loving relationship with her husband and how she is coping in a foreign land not having her husband and her father in detention. . Responding to a question about the detention conditions of General Sarath Fonseka, Apsara said: "He does not get to see his personal doctor. He is in his 10X10 room 24 hours a day. He does not see the sunlight. As a person who is not convicted he has a right to stay outside under the sunlight at least for 4 hours every day. He is not given a chance to take x-rays. He has lots of shrapnel inside his body from the 3 suicide attempts on his life and those shrapnel are moving, so it's really vital that he does take x-rays . They don't bring the x ray machines to him or do not let him go to a hospital." When asked about the accusations the retired army captain Upul Illangange who lives in Oklahoma came out against general Sarath Fonseka and Danuna Thilakarathne, Apsara responded by saying that "Its all because of money and he will do anything for money. Responding to the comments made by Upul Illangange to the Sri Lankan media that he was the person who helped General Fonseka and his family getting the Green Card, Apsara went on explaining on how her mother won the green card lottery in 2003 and the reasons why General Fonseka initially opposed the idea of getting the Green Card in and how he changed his mind. Apsara went on saying that if Upul Illangange thinks that he is all power and all mighty and that He can get anybody green cards in USA he thinks very highly of him. Talking about her husband Danuna, Apsara said that "on the day we believe that that he will be treated fairly he will come out." She went on further saying that the family cannot bear the thought of having two men in the family: one in detention and other missing. Reflecting on how Government changed their propaganda of General Fonseka from being war hero to a political prisoner, Apsara said, " I think he is still a war hero to lots of people and I don't think that will change even though he is a political prisoner now." Part of Apsara's interview will be included in the Boston Lanka News Edition on August 30th and the rest will be in the Boston Lanka: Point of View that will be out on First week of September. For more information, visit: www.bostonlanka.com Posted by Boston Lanka at 3:04 PM Labels: sarath fonseka apsara sri lanka mahinda boston lanka news KSF August 28, 2010 at 2:29 AM If what she said is true, This is really good punishment for a TRAITOR, BETRAYER. For God's sake, those who know her, the journalists, please don't let her make these spiteful statements. She loses the other people's sympathy. She and her family has to change to attract the sympathy of the majority of the country. As for now, only JVP , a very small minority are fully behind them. Asking Apsara Fonseka about Sarath Fonseka is 'Horage Ammagen Penna Ahanawa wage'! Poor Upsara trying to save SF after whole Sri Lanka Nation saw Sarath Fonseka's Nudity! Sarath Fonseka is very ungrateful, Treacherous, Selfish person who always over estimate himself while under estimating all others around him!. Sarath fonseka got lot of low level qualities and him Daughters, Wife also show same qualities! Medda Sarath Fonseka Sri Lankan President Wenna Hadduwa..... Hey, why pointing a fingers without proven guilty man !!! S.F or any other human being, majority of the Sri-Lankans has been brain washed by the state media propaganda, remember no one can hit the delete button on history of Elam war with the tigers and S.F'S role with the S.L army. Still no one seems to ask any thing about K.P who has best of everything and bought terror for well over 20 years to our society including C4 explosives to bring down central bank building and loss of so many lives. gusgemba August 28, 2010 at 4:50 AM Apsara,I will never ever feel sory for your father or any of your familly members on this matter.Yes,your father was one of the premier stalwarts of the war victory.I respect him fully in that aspect as a war hero.But that is now belong to the past.What he has done after the war to get in to the power by removing the precident and threatning them to reveal war secrets and accusing the defence secretary for so called war crimes.This can't be tollerated at all as a patriot.Your father has betrayed the country by doing so.To me he desrves all these.He and all the people involved in this thing including your mom and husband must be severly punished. Don't worry. He is still our war hero. No one can that stripped off from our souls. We all know who won the war for us. It was't for your father there is still innocent civilians die every single day and living in hell of horror. SF thought MF is a civilized person. Apparently he is not. Neither I believe it now. He should go to hell and live with Prabakaran 6 feet under. It was the reason SF didn't go on a coup to take over the government. Why didn't you do that? Then you still have your military ranks and you are the president of our country. But I still respect you for not been done something like that. Your strength gives us strength. Long live SF. Hey George, What is wrong with people like you? Yes Sf was a key figure who helped the government eliminate the LTTE menace. That's no question. But SF turned out to be a menace himself afetrwards, don't you get it as the others say here and everywhere else? KP is no longer a threat to SL. There is no point in imprisoning him, that may be why they are not bothered about him. Also he could be used to address the LTTE friendly folk still around, that looks like exactly what they do too. Sf has caused chaos, GSP+ is gone, primarily because of his comments and what followed. UN commission is a direct result of his gob, when somebody as prominent as SF is willing to be examined (as he said), every single body that sympathises LTTE gets their balls polished to get that person's version out, because they suspect their is something, otherwise why would this man keeps gobbing!All he has to do is to talk to the president and promise he would not betray the country. At the moment, he is the nly thrat to Sri Lanka's forward march! He is a good military guy. Not a Political leader. He was leading only 1/3 of the forces during the war. But he is not allowed to do politics. Not only him, any govt servants are not allowed politics. Dilshan, If SF launched a coup, he would have lost his balls in no time. sorry Apsara. The Navy Chief, the AF chief and many other Army high ranks were firmly behind Gota, not SF. In fact there was so much anger among Army hierachy when SF was appointed the Army chief. That is why SF kept punishing soldiers and transfering officers who didn't like him. Unfortunately, Gota supported his actions, but now I am sure he regrets it as well. After all the past presidents failed adddressing the LTTE issue, MR was determined to finish it off. With MR's determination and Gota's military wisdom, whether it was SF or anybody else, there was no chance the LTTE were going to be spared. SF was lucky to be there and to goto history books, he was only 12 days into retirment when MR came on. MR could easily have kicked him out, he should be grateful to MR for giving him the opportunity. Lisbon has got the wrong info G.S.P + has nothing to do with S.F If you talk to Brandix or MAS holdings management guys they will tell you all about G.S.P + . the actual fact is during the height of Elam war Mr. Defense Secretary was not even in Sri Lanka ! S.F knew every inch in wanni / jaffna districts, since he had over 25 years of continuous service if anyone calls S.F a traitor what would you call K.P / DAYA MASTER ? who sacrificed so many young Sri-Lankan lives for a lost cause? How come one can come to conclusion K.P is not threat ? then how K.P'S organization still owns the chain of coffee shops / gas stations / shipping companies ( Thai registered ) Dear Apsara, Your Dad did a huge damage to Sri Lanka than LTTE did last 30 years. You must thankful to SL govt.'cos he is still alive. If you think your dad won the LTTE war, its a big mistake.If so, why he couldn't do it before. Why he took so long period. He is a traitor. He ate UNP bait. He lost his "honourable retirement" Idiot of the century. Raj August 28, 2010 at 8:19 AM Dear Apsara, The best thing you and your sister can do to your family is to advise your mum and dad to apologize the nation for any wrong doings your dad has done in the past. There is no point in trying to defend what he has done. People do not have any sympathies with your family at all. Your husband is absconding, which means he has done something wrong. Your father was a fool and became a victim of the WEST. You must watch this small video here by John Perkins. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTbdnNgqfs8 api- Los Angeles August 28, 2010 at 8:40 AM SF is an Ego Centric Lunatic who couldn't see the reality. Fate for such charcters are obvious. How come this woman was educated in US? Carry $850 hand bags? No there is no difference between her and those ex LTTE who help refugees. Now she is helping SF's golayas to settle in US as refugees. Can her father be pardoned for the white flag story? This is his way even from his elementry school time. Lakshman, You are just about there but still missing the point. Let me make it clear, there is no qualm about GSP+, you don't need to ask different people about it either. It is official, the EU suspended it when SL government did not agree to 15 points the EU ask them to abide by. Did you know that? It is nothing to do with what your pals at Brandix said, it is official. These 15 points include all what SF threatened to reveal. Just read them, if you can't find them let me know. I will help. Then, the real war began when MR decided to finish up the terrorists. What he first did was, appointed Gota as the Def.sec and they planned the rest, appointed the people they wanted etc. So what you say is nonsense. It was SF who wasn't in the country in the last week of the war. He is the one who missed the boat. By the time he was back, it was all over. That's another reason for his spite against Gota. You don't get it do you? Still SF is a war hero, like many other soldiers, there is no question about that. But SF is different to other soldiers; he wants to betray the country. If he didn't say the white flag story, he should file a case against Fredrica. If he doesn’t do this, that says, he did say it. In which case, unless he publicly apologises, he obviously is a traitor despite his contribution to the war. KP, Daya Master and the lot were terrorists. But they are being kept a close eye and they pose no threat at all. You can count their coffee chains but to do any harm to the country again, they will have to be reborn. Whatever the money they bring to the country will now be spent on the development of the North, not on bullets. They are not free to do whatever they want and it looks like the guys themselves like the life than death after seeing off their master. All these morons are eating up the government propaganda to demonize a man who always spoke the truth (even if it was not all buttery) when knowing how it would get him in trouble with the greedy politicians. The general did not jump out of planes in midst of LTTE fire to save solders trapped in Jaffna fort because he was greedy (I would like to see some of you online heroes volunteer for that), he doesn’t have pieces of shrapnel in his body because he was trying to rob the country blind like the Rajapaksas. All those who are so bothered about him accused of doing politics while in office (the judgment was passed without his counsel in presence = illegal) then look around you and ask yourself if you don't see all the other government officials dancing to the tune or Rajapaksas and doing politics themselves. Where’s the hammer of law on those butt kissers. This is a revenge politics and the Rajapaksas are abusing it along with your intelligence. WHERE IS DANUNA THILAKARATHNA....STOLE A LOT OF MONEY FROM SL....SF HELPED HIM A LOT...NOW YOU ARE USING THAT MONEY...WHAT A SHAME... This reply to First; Firstly I must show my anger. This is not govt or Rajapaksa propaganda. From JR to Chandrika made the problem big. Nobody wanted to stop LTTE. I dont care Rajapaksa or whoever rob the country.Can you name any uncorrupted political leader after Dudley Senanayake. Corruption is not a strange thing to Sri Lanka. Now we can walk any where in Sri Lanka peacefully.No more landmines/No more Bus bombs. Prabakaran once said "sinhalese can forget anything in one week" True. Sl govt is doing good job. East is no more a Tamil homeland. Very soon it will happen in North.Development is going on but slowly. I know SF better than you. He is insane. First, You have been brainwashed by JVP propaganda. So, you do not see the reality, you cannot distinguish truth from lies. Because of Rajapaksas we are proud to be sri lankans. Just imagine we had Ranil or Tilvin or Somawanse as our president or prime minister. Apsara, who paid our education bill?? Rajapaksa! Who provided you with security? Rajapaksa. Who sent our tax money for tour maintenance? Rajapaksa? Who betayed all that and accused Gota about killing surrendees? SF! Who said that he will disclose all in a human rights tribunal ? SF. So why should we treat him as a patriot? Laughing out at this Nihal idot: yes your quote from prabhakaran who said "sinhalese can forget anything in one week" True. Apparently you are one of those since you are willing to forget the 40 years of service SF provided to the country. Rajapaksa finally did what other leaders failed to do, I'll give him that. But that does not give him or his family a free pass to abuse the countries law or rob it. Apparently this whole business of remember the service and being grateful is only applicable to one side in your case. I was proud to be a Sri Lankan even before the Rajapaksas, apparently not the cowards who ran away from helping the country before commenting like champions. BTW - Rajapaksa didn't pay anyone anything out of his pocket, it was our own money, peoples money that he used for everything, including the luxuries for his family and cronies. Rajapaksa is actually making me ashamed to be a Sri Lankan in the global view with disposable individuals like "Dr." Mervin, Weerawansa and other individuals becoming the voice of Sri Lanka. Wake up. Nihal is biggest laugh of the entire nation. Now he even knows SF personnely. Were you hired by MR family? Lisbon needs to be educated? The prabakaran was alive when MR landed and kissed the earth. That turned out to be a big laugh at end. It was SF gave the MR the news of Prabakrana's demise. Where the hell you were man?? Were you sleeping in Lisbon? LOL!! Bandara Gajanayake August 28, 2010 at 1:30 PM The damage cause by eating UNPs bait is far higher than contributing to alleviate LTTE. Your dad finally did a bad thing to country and create lot of problems and thats why he is suffering. Otherwise he should have enjoy his retirement with fame. I can not believe all of you here supporting for GUSGEMBA MR and Gataballa whom getting richer by stealing SL peoples money....I don't think SF Steal any money from sl people.He is honest militery officer with descipline Kp, sf, msilva, ?????? Hummm!!!!!I can see SF butt kisses in this. Good on you idiots. What you guys know about real SF. Mind your own business. SriLankan..So what were those millions of dollars hidden in Asoka Tillekeratne's safe wallet? In contrast nobody has found any such in Gota's accounts. SF not only stole that money but was dishonest to deposit it in other people's accounts. Still holy. heh.. Dishan.. You are so silly. Just swallow SF's desperate jokes. Man, did you speak to Gota, Karuna, Douglas, Shavendra or Maj.General Kamal? They are the people who had been playing with Prabhakaran's balls from Thursday 14th May, since he was captured. SF knows nothing because by that time SF wasn't good with Gota.SF knew only when the body was dumped on the 19th MAy near the lagoon. When MR kissed the carpet, it was all over for those who knew except for SF who was kept in the dark. Nobody knows what part was mutilated of the guy before Gota shot at on his forehead. Don't be a joker. Don't listen to SF, he is desperate to be associatd with the last week of the war. When the story was made to look official, Kamal said to SF who in turn said to President but President must have laughed at that. Hello Dishan, So you think the Sri Lanka Army carefully shot the big wolf prabha on his forehead, so that his face is still identifiable when he was running on the 19th May? Did it not cross your mind that Prabha was wearing a camouflage when he was lying near the lagoon? It all a show you pea brain, this is another reason why SF is so cross with Gota/MR. Lisbon... please dont ask me. I seriously do not have time waste speaking to Karuna or Dougas or Gota. But if I get a chance I will speak to SF and Shavendra. By the way did you speak to Karuna? So Lisbon so you admit GR committed war crimes? From the basis of your story that what has happened and should bring to public including yourself. So he captured and tutored for 5 days? That's even before Nadesan's body found. Please someone thumbs up for his jokes. Well if you want to know how Prabakaran died at the end in the battle, at least just read KP's part of story he had just published on Devaraj's blog. api- Los Angeles August 28, 2010 at 10:55 PM How much have you spent sofar other than that you gaine dfrom Sri Lanka govt. and also the money that your father gave (who was a govt. servent with 50,000 Rs/yr. pension) and also your husband Dhanuna gave from his business. (also from the pesion from your school techer mother... if she had a pension) You carry a hand bag cost more than 750 $ (not hong knong or Singapore US...woman) lkcricket August 29, 2010 at 1:49 AM The war has been waging for nearly 40 years while our leaders were showing lethargic attitude until MR came in to power. The war was not limited Sri Lanka. It was war with international community especially, India USA UK and EU. So MR had to give the leadership to the war both nationally as well as internationally. The armed war was not confined Army. It was a collective effort of ARMY NAVY AIR FORCE and POLICE. How can only SF can be war hero? What about other officers who were in forefront of the battle. That is what we must understand. Unlike this GREEDY UNPATRIOTIC and IDIOTIC Sarth Fonseka, the rest of the war heroes enjoyed the war success. But this power hungry idiot ate the bait of JVP and USA and taught that all people are around him. It was evident from the results how this Idiot was recognized by the nation. This power hungry Idiotic Sarth Fonseka is the greatest traitor that we saw in the history of our mother land. He should be near GALLE FACE. I respected him before he became a Traitor of our beloved motherland! Dishan, I am sorry for you, didn't believe there are people in the dark still, but I do now after talking to you.Did anybody dispute my story when you begged here? You seriously think they shot at the guy carefully on the forehead when he was running for life wearing camouflage? You are a laugh. If you don't want to speak to Karuna or Gota, yes ask Shavendra/Kamal or any other soldier who was in that area at the time, if you get a chance. Anybody who was punching the big terrorist for a few days, will confirm you this. Why do you think there were fire crackers and celebrations here and there on the 14th Thursday then? Why do you think the president come back early from the meeting? When the president said, he was going back to a free country in the meeting, it was all over, let alone the 18th, because the rascal had been caught. Now you are making me laugh even more, listening to KP??? You are a joke, his stories are stories, he is not free to talk. Nadesan's body found?? Ha ha did you say found or dumped? War crimes? what war crimes? Did I say anything to that effect? Man, I don't give two hoots to war crimes, all what I care about is, there was a mad psycho who was terrorising the country for 30-odd years, killing 80,000 innocent people and causing chaos everywhere; he was caught and the guys played with his balls for a few days and shot on the forehead. That's a very satisfying end to that episode,and the terrorism is over.Many presidents in the past tried and failed and MR did it. lkcricket, YOu are right, it was a coordinated effort from all the three forces, the police/STF and the civil security unit. While Army had the largest number of casualties, the STF/police and Civil security guys suffered a lot too. But unless the Navy destroyed/turned away all those ships carrying weapons in that year, it would ahve been a different story. Also, if it was just a territorial war, the guerillas would have kept going. But they had no answer to SLAF's precision air bombing. SF was just lucky to be a part of the operation, even if it was a different commander, the result would have been the same, perhaps at a lower cost! Boston Lanka News Edition: August 30, 2010 Email: contact@bostonlanka.com Simple theme. Theme images by rion819. Powered by Blogger.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line52
__label__wiki	0.981872	0.981872	Mixx Facebook Twitter Digg delicious reddit MySpace StumbleUpon Protests could hurt Olympic sponsors Major corporate sponsorships can cost $40 million-$50 million, analysts say Olympic torch relay protests have led to calls of boycott Opening Ceremony Sponsors may re-evaluate decisions if protests continue into August Next Article in World Sport » By David Goldman CNNMoney.com Staff Writer NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Continued demonstrations during the Olympic torch relay may spell bad news for corporate sponsors of the Summer Games. Pro-Tibet protesters such as seen here in Nagano, Japan, could make sponsors nervous, experts say. This year's Olympics will be held in Beijing, China. Protesters against China's policies in Tibet and overall human rights track record have disrupted the Olympic torch relay on several occasions since the torch was lit in Athens last month. The flame is supposed to burn continuously on its way to the start of the Olympics in August. But pro-Tibet protestors managed to extinguish the torch three times in Paris Monday. And with the Olympics fast approaching, sports marketing experts said concerns about more protests are mounting, which could impact major corporate sponsors such as Coca-Cola (KO, Fortune 500), General Electric (GE, Fortune 500), Lenovo and Samsung. "They're monitoring the situation very closely," said Marc Ganis, a consultant with SportsCorp Ltd. Olympic sponsorship lucrative Corporations invest in the Olympics and associated events because they have historically been viewed as a high-visibility, "feel-good" media event that reaches every continent, Ganis said. Sports marketing analysts estimate that a major corporate sponsorship of the 2008 Summer Games will cost an average of $40 million to $50 million. But associations with the Olympics and other big sporting events have historically been very profitable for corporations. Special report: Beijing 2008 "The Olympics are a fantastic investment for companies," said Sergio Zyman, chairman of sports marketing firm Zyman Group and the former chief marketing officer of Coca-Cola. Furthermore, companies wishing to tap the lucrative Chinese market had extra incentive to sponsor the games. Controversy may be bad for business But with the recent protests, sponsors may have gotten more than they asked for. If consumers believe a company's sponsorship of the Olympics is an endorsement of China's political actions, that could be problematic. "Some may believe that Coca-Cola is complicit with this because they're sponsoring the Olympics," said David Carter, executive director of the University of Southern California's Sports Business Institute. But others are not as sure that the pessimism surrounding the Olympics will tarnish corporate sponsors. "At the end of the day, people realize these events wouldn't happen if they didn't have sponsors," said Zyman. "This is a protest against China, not against the Olympics or their sponsors -- people will separate the two things." Still, if the protests continue into August, sponsors could suffer, at the very least, a public relations nightmare. "The sponsors' real concern should be about what's going to happen if this carries into the Olympics," said University of Delaware professor John Antil, who specializes in sports marketing. The Chinese government has said it is working to ensure the Olympics go off without interruption. But protests in Western cities have led to calls for boycotting the Opening Ceremony, including U.S. presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton's call for President George W. Bush to do so. "If the protests become a trend or a pattern, it could well be disastrous," said Antil. "Many more negatives could be associated with the Olympics, and then sponsors would have to figure out what their response will be." Sponsors unlikely to pull out Yet even if protests grow louder, don't expect the corporations to back out of sponsoring the Olympics. "The promotions cannot be turned on a dime," said Ganis. "They may definitely play it down, but they won't cancel due to contractual obligations." Coca-Cola said in a statement that it "expresses deep concern for the situation on the ground in Tibet," but it "firmly believe[s] that the Olympics are a force for good." The soft drink company added that it has "witnessed first-hand the cultural, economic and social benefits [the Olympics] bring to the host city and country." Computer maker Lenovo, which is based in China, issued a similar statement: "Lenovo is proud to play a role in spreading the important values the Olympic Games embody - unity, peace and sportsmanship, and we intend to fulfill our commitment as a sponsor of both the Olympic Games and the Torch Relay." The company also noted that its sponsorship of the Olympics "is a vital part" of marketing its brand worldwide. General Electric, parent company of Olympics broadcaster NBC, said it remains supportive of the games and will not change its plans to sponsor them, despite the continued demonstrations. "Of course we're incredibly worried about the issues - a lot of them are very valid," said GE spokeswoman Deirdre Latour. "But GE is transparent about its human rights policies, and the sponsorship money that comes from companies actually funds teams that would otherwise not get to go. We think consumers get that." Calls to Samsung were not immediately returned. Carter said sponsors of the Summer Games need to avoid costly controversy by further demonstrating the benefits of Olympic sponsorship to the public. Sponsors must prove that the money invested in the Olympics will do more to promote civil liberties in China than it will to perpetuate the country's human rights violations, Carter noted. With sponsors branding their products with Olympic logos, consumers may lose favor with the companies if they cannot successfully defer the negative sentiment associated with the event. "Most of these companies will be listening to what ... the public reaction is going to be," said Carter. "They need to diffuse the controversy, or they could get bogged down globally." E-mail to a friend From the Blogs: Controversy, commentary, and debate Sit tight, we're getting to the good stuff powered by Sphere From psychiatrist to 'Butcher of Bosnia' Why trial could take years	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line53
__label__cc	0.649818	0.350182	posted tages with "AntiIsraeli" Saudi Arabia Removes Anti-Israeli Contents from Textbooks TEHRAN (Press Shia Agency) – A new report revealed that Saudi education authorities have ordered the removal of significant amounts of anti-Zionist material from textbooks for the coming school year, in a clear sign that the ultra-conservative kingdom is working on full normalization with Israel. - World news - IMPACT-se, a research institute based in occupied Jerusalem al-Quds that analyzes... UNGA Adopts Anti-Israeli Resolutions TEHRAN (Press Shia) – The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Wednesday approved five anti-Israeli resolutions as part of a package of 20 pro-Palestinian texts that the 193-member body adopts on an annual basis. - World news - One of the documents, passed, condemned Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Golan Heights — a territory the Tel Aviv regime seized from Syria in the 1967 Six... Iran Hails Imam Musa Sadr as Founder of Anti-Israeli Resistance in Lebanon TEHRAN (Press Shia) – Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman lauded Imam Musa al-Sadr as the founder of the basic core of anti-Zionism resistance in Lebanon on the 42nd anniversary of the prominent Shiite leader’s disappearance in Libya. - Politics news - “Disappearance of Imam Musa al-Sadr is one of the major issues that the Islamic Republic of Iran has been constantly pursuing in the past... Iran’s Parliament Passes Anti-Israeli Motion TEHRAN (Press Shia) – Iran’s lawmakers ratified a bill on Monday to counter the hostile measures of the Zionist regime of Israel. - Politics news - In an open session of the Parliament on Monday morning, the Iranian MPs passed the motion against the Zionist regime’s hostile activities by a unanimous vote. By ratifying the bill, the lawmakers agreed on the formation of a virtual...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line56
__label__wiki	0.781911	0.781911	Area Studies (9) Visual Neuroscience (4) Bulletin of Entomological Research (2) Weed Science (2) Journal of Nutritional Science (1) Parasitology (1) Psychological Medicine (1) The Canadian Entomologist (1) Liverpool University Press (20) Edinburgh University Press (9) Weed Science Society of America (2) Entomological Society of Canada TCE ESC (1) Royal College of Psychiatrists / RCPsych (1) Liverpool English Texts and Studies (7) Cambridge Histories (1) Cambridge Histories - Literature (1) Targeted outdoor residual spraying, autodissemination devices and their combination against Aedes mosquitoes: field implementation in a Malaysian urban setting – ERRATUM Nurulhusna Ab Hamid, Neal Alexander, Remco Suer, Nazni Wasi Ahmed, Rose Nani Mudin, Topek Omar, Rahmat Dapari, Shahrom Nor Azian Che Mat Din, Roslinda Abdul Rahman, Ropiah Jaraee, Frederic Baur, Frederic Schmitt, Nick Hamon, Jason H. Richardson, Carole Langlois-Jacques, Muriel Rabilloud, Mitra Saadatian-Elahi Journal: Bulletin of Entomological Research / Volume 110 / Issue 6 / December 2020 Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 September 2020, p. 708 Targeted outdoor residual spraying, autodissemination devices and their combination against Aedes mosquitoes: field implementation in a Malaysian urban setting Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 May 2020, pp. 700-707 Currently, dengue control relies largely on reactive vector control programmes. Proactive vector-control using a rational, well-balanced integrated vector management approach may prove more successful for dengue control. As part of the development of a cluster randomized controlled epidemiological trial, a study was conducted in Johor Bahru, Malaysia. The study included one control site (three buildings) and three intervention sites which were treated as follows: targeted outdoor residual spraying only (TORS site, two buildings); deployment of autodissemination devices only (ADD site, four buildings); and the previous two treatments combined (TORS + ADD site, three buildings). The primary entomological measurement was per cent of positive ovitraps—ovitrap index (OI). The effect of each intervention on OI was analyzed by a modified ordinary least squares regression model. Relative to the control site, the TORS and ADD sites showed a reduction in the Aedes OI (−6.5%, P = 0.04 and −8.3%, P = 0.10, respectively). Analysis by species showed that, relative to control, the Ae. aegypti OI was lower in ADD (−8.9%, P = 0.03) and in TORS (−10.4%, P = 0.02). No such effect was evident in the TORS + ADD site. The present study provides insights into the methods to be used for the main trial. The combination of multiple insecticides with different modes of action in one package is innovative, although we could not demonstrate the additive effect of TORS + ADD. Further work is required to strengthen our understanding of how these interventions impact dengue vector populations and dengue transmission. Chapter 14 - Commentaries on Core Themes in Section 2 from Section 2 - Scoping By Jonathan Montgomery, S. Alexander Haslam, Adrian Neal, Richard Williams Edited by Richard Williams, University of South Wales, Verity Kemp, S. Alexander Haslam, University of Queensland, Catherine Haslam, University of Queensland, Kamaldeep S. Bhui, Queen Mary University of London, Susan Bailey Edited in association with Daniel Maughan Book: Social Scaffolding This chapter rounds off Section 2. In it, one of the authors, Jonathan Montgomery, begins by highlighting his view of the recurrent themes that arise from all eight chapters in this section. Then, one of the editors, Alex Haslam, responds by substantially agreeing with Jonathan Montgomery. However, Haslam takes the opportunity to clarify one of the points that Montgomery makes with the intention of drawing attention to a key issue that runs like an artery through the body of this book. This concerns the nature of personalised healthcare and how this should best be understood and delivered. Haslam cautions that, in the process of developing personalised care, we should avoid the temptation to reduce peoples’ maladies to their individual conditions. 16 - Metropolitan Modernity: Stories of London By Neal Alexander, Aberystwyth University Edited by Dominic Head, University of Nottingham Book: The Cambridge History of the English Short Story Print publication: 14 November 2016, pp 269-285 Stories of London constitute a significant strand within the literature of London, and of urban modernity generally. Their significance has been obscured, however, by a persistent critical fascination with the London novel. There are grounds for such fascination in the fact that the history of London's growth into a world city and the rise of the novel as a literary form are closely intertwined. ‘The English novel itself can be said to have grown out of the streets, stews and rookeries of outcast proletarian and criminal London’, argues Ken Worpole, pointing to a tradition that stretches from Daniel Defoe to Iain Sinclair. Moreover, it is widely assumed that the novel's capaciousness and discursive flexibility make it the most suitable form for depicting the size, diversity and complex social life of the modern metropolis. However, there are limits even to the novel's comprehensiveness. Between 1800 and 1900 the population of London grew rapidly from 1 million to 4.5 million inhabitants, and the immense physical expansion of the city made it increasingly ‘difficult to envisage the whole’. Consequently, one of the most widely noted features of London's cultural image is the city's capacity to overwhelm any attempt to represent it in its totality. In The Soul of London (1905), for instance, Ford Madox Ford remarks upon the impossibility of ‘having an impression, a remembered bird's-eye-view of London as a whole’. The city comes into focus for the observer only through partial glimpses and personal impressions, its larger life registered fleetingly as a ‘background’ that cannot be encompassed. It is in this respect that the short story form, with its limited scope and narrative intensity, has something important to offer the literature of London. For, whilst individual stories may achieve varying degrees of formal resolution, they can powerfully convey the fragmentary, disorienting character of metropolitan experience by isolating particular moments or places within a larger, ungraspable whole. Even where they appear to offer their readers representative images of the city, stories of London implicitly acknowledge its incomprehensibility through their own formal circumscription. Field Studies on Dynamic Pollen Production, Deposition, and Dispersion of Glyphosate-Resistant Horseweed (Conyza canadensis) Rongjian Ye, Haiyan Huang, John Alexander, Wusheng Liu, Reginald J. Millwood, Junming Wang, C. Neal Stewart Journal: Weed Science / Volume 64 / Issue 1 / March 2016 Print publication: March 2016 Glyphosate-resistant (GR) horseweed has become an especially problematic weed in different crop production systems across the United States and the world. In this field study, we used a nondestructive measurement system to analyze the pollen production, deposition, and dispersion of a Tennessee glyphosate resistant (TNR) horseweed biotype in Knoxville, TN during the 2013 pollination season. We observed that the pollination season of TNR horseweed lasted about 2 mo (54 d). About 78.93% of horseweed pollen was released between 9:00 A.M. and 7:00 P.M. during each sampling day and the release peak was at about 1:30 P.M. The seasonal release of pollen grains was estimated to be 5.11 million grains plant−1. The release rate data indicated that the integrated horizontal flux density and deposition flux density contributed to 78.17% and 21.83% of the release rate, respectively. We also found that pollen concentration decreased with distance from the source field; the average pollen concentration decreased to 50.69% at a distance of 16 m from the source plot. This is the first result of a systematic, direct examination of the release rate (emission and deposition), release pattern (daily and seasonal), and dispersion pattern of GR horseweed pollen. Drivers of ASCAT C band backscatter variability in the dry snow zone of Antarctica ALEXANDER D. FRASER, MELISSA A. NIGRO, STEFAN R. M. LIGTENBERG, BENOIT LEGRESY, MANA INOUE, JOHN J. CASSANO, PETER KUIPERS MUNNEKE, JAN T. M. LENAERTS, NEAL W. YOUNG, ADAM TREVERROW, MICHIEL VAN DEN BROEKE, HIROYUKI ENOMOTO Journal: Journal of Glaciology / Volume 62 / Issue 231 / February 2016 Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 March 2016, pp. 170-184 C band backscatter parameters contain information about the upper snowpack/firn in the dry snow zone. The wide incidence angle diversity of the Advanced Scatterometer (ASCAT) gives unprecedented characterisation of backscatter anisotropy, revealing the backscatter response to climatic forcing. The A (isotropic component) and M 2 (bi-sinusoidal azimuth anisotropy) parameters are investigated here, in conjunction with data from atmospheric and snowpack models, to identify the backscatter response to surface forcing parameters (wind speed and persistence, precipitation, surface temperature, density and grain size). The long-term mean A parameter is successfully recreated with a regression using these drivers, indicating strong links between the A parameter and precipitation on long timescales. While the ASCAT time series is too short to determine which factors drive observed trends, factors influencing the seasonal and short timescale variability are revealed. On these timescales, A strongly responds to the propagation of surface temperature cycles/anomalies downward through the firn, via direct modulation of the dielectric constant. The influence of precipitation on A is small at shorter timescales. The M 2 parameter is controlled by wind speed and persistence, through modification of monodirectionally-aligned surface roughness. This variability indicates that throughout much of coastal Antarctica, a microwave ‘snapshot’ is generally not representative of longer-term conditions. Body composition and grip strength are improved in transgenic sickle mice fed a high-protein diet Patrice L. Capers, Hyacinth I. Hyacinth, Shayla Cue, Prasanthi Chappa, Tatyana Vikulina, Susanne Roser-Page, M. Neale Weitzmann, David R. Archer, Gale W. Newman, Alexander Quarshie, Jonathan K. Stiles, Jacqueline M. Hibbert Journal: Journal of Nutritional Science / Volume 4 / 2015 Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 February 2015, e6 Key pathophysiology of sickle cell anaemia includes compensatory erythropoiesis, vascular injury and chronic inflammation, which divert amino acids from tissue deposition for growth/weight gain and muscle formation. We hypothesised that sickle mice maintained on an isoenergetic diet with a high percentage of energy derived from protein (35 %), as opposed to a standard diet with 20 % of energy derived from protein, would improve body composition, bone mass and grip strength. Male Berkeley transgenic sickle mice (S; n 8–12) were fed either 20 % (S20) or 35 % (S35) diets for 3 months. Grip strength (BIOSEB meter) and body composition (dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry scan) were measured. After 3 months, control mice had the highest bone mineral density (BMD) and bone mineral content (BMC) (P < 0·005). S35 mice had the largest increase in grip strength. A two-way ANOVA of change in grip strength (P = 0·043) attributed this difference to genotype (P = 0·025) and a trend in type of diet (P = 0·067). l-Arginine (l-Arg) supplementation of the 20 % diet was explored, as a possible mechanism for improvement obtained with the 35 % diet. Townes transgenic sickle mice (TS; n 6–9) received 0·8, 1·6, 3·2 or 6·4 % l-Arg based on the same protocol and outcome measures used for the S mice. TS mice fed 1·6 % l-Arg for 3 months (TS1.6) had the highest weight gain, BMD, BMC and lean body mass compared with other groups. TS3.2 mice showed significantly more improvement in grip strength than TS0·8 and TS1.6 mice (P < 0·05). In conclusion, the high-protein diet improved body composition and grip strength. Outcomes observed with TS1.6 and TS3.2 mice, respectively, confirm the hypothesis and reveal l-Arg as part of the mechanism. Edited by Neal Alexander, David Cooper Book: Poetry & Geography Published by: Liverpool University Press Published online: 25 July 2017 Print publication: 31 December 2013, pp i-iv Print publication: 31 December 2013, pp v-vi Print publication: 31 December 2013, pp 217-253 Part II - Spatial Practices: Walking, Witnessing, Mapping Print publication: 31 December 2013, pp 89-90 Poetry & Geography Space & Place in Post-war Poetry Print publication: 31 December 2013 Poetry & Geography examines the rich diversity of geographical imaginations informing post-war and contemporary poetry in Britain and Ireland. Drawing impetus from the spatial turn in the humanities and social sciences, the fourteen essays collected here appraise the significance of ideas of space, place, and landscape for ‘mainstream’ and ‘experimental’ poets, post-romantics and neo-modernists alike. Cumulatively, the book’s varied articulations of poetry and geography sketch out a series of intersections between language and location, form and environment, sound and space. Poetry’s unique capacity to invigorate and expand our vocabularies of site and situation, of our manifold relations with the world outside us, is described and explored. Bringing together fresh, interdisciplinary readings of poets as diverse as Roy Fisher and R.S. Thomas, John Burnside and Thomas Kinsella, Jo Shapcott and Peter Riley, Alice Oswald and Ciaran Carson, Poetry & Geography sketches a topographical map of shared poetic terrains. It contributes to a fertile set of dialogues between literary studies and cultural geography in which the valences of space and place are open to processes of contestation and reimagining. This new collection of critical essays provides readers with a vital set of coordinates in a complex and evolving field. Key themes include: place and identity; literary cartographies; walking as trope and spatial practice; the poetics of edges, margins, and peripheries; landscape, language, and form. Print publication: 31 December 2013, pp vii-viii Select Bibliography Part I - Placing Selves: Identity, Location, Community Introduction: Poetry & Geography By Neal Alexander, University of Nottingham, David Cooper, Manchester Metropolitan University Print publication: 31 December 2013, pp 1-18 The spatial turn in literary studies has been gaining momentum for more than two decades now. Thanks in part to the corresponding cultural turn in human geography, it is no longer necessary to insist quite so strenuously that the ‘geographical articulations’ of literature are significant in themselves; that the geographical where of place and location in literary texts affects the what, why and how of their cultural meanings. What is emerging, through deepening exchanges between literary studies and cultural geography, is a clearer and suppler understanding of how the affective and political aspects of space condition not only the content but also the languages and forms of literary texts. Equally and oppositely, literary texts are acknowledged to have an important role in constructing and reconstructing the meanings of place. Of course, such developments need to be understood as part of a larger set of convergences between research in geography and the humanities, but the opportunities opened up for literary criticism seem particularly fruitful. What has been called literary geography is articulated in a variety of different ways, ranging from analyses of literary representations of particular spaces and places to studies detailing the geographies of production, circulation and reception in which literary texts manifest themselves. It can involve making more or less sophisticated maps with quantitative data derived from details of plot and setting; or it can entail evaluating the use of cartographic tropes and metaphors in poems, novels and plays. Literary geography thus interests itself variously in the spaces of the text and with texts in space. The essays in this volume draw impetus from and seek to contribute to this growing body of interdisciplinary research by focusing attention on the diversity and profundity of poetic responses to space, place and landscape in Britain and Ireland since the Second World War. Collectively, their varied articulations of poetry and geography – literally ‘earth writing’ – also redress a certain imbalance of critical attention. For one conspicuous feature of the spatial turn in literary studies is a tendency to privilege prose fiction and non-fiction over other kinds of writing, particularly in work on the modern and contemporary periods. Part III - Geopoetics: Landscape, Language, Form 9 - ‘Where lives converge’: Peter Riley and the Poetics of Place from Part II - Spatial Practices: Walking, Witnessing, Mapping By Neal Alexander, University of Nottingham Peter Riley is a poet deeply engaged with the poetics of place, producing representations of landscape that are at once learned, reflexive and rich with the details of sensuous experience. Walking frequently serves his narrators as a means of phenomenological immersion and performative enactment, though a dense weight of research into the history, geography and geology of his chosen loci is discernible between or behind the lines, as are a profusion of playful intertextual dialogues. Specific places provide both creative impetus and a thematic focal point in texts from across Riley's large and diverse oeuvre; as Simon Perril remarks, his poetry ‘has rigourously anchored itself in place and landscape’. For instance, the sequence Sea Watches (1991) is set almost entirely on the Llŷn Peninsula in north-west Wales – as are a number of related poems – and is accompanied by detailed ‘Topographical Notes’ explaining the historical, cultural, religious and personal significance of places depicted in the poem. Another sequence, Noon Province, unfolds among the villages, hillsides and field margins of Provence, southern France, while other poems from the collection A Map of Faring (2005) are prompted by locations in Romania, Austria, the Czech Republic, Italy and Spain. By far the most important cluster of places with which Riley's poetry engages, however, is to be found in the Peak District and its surrounding edgelands, where Riley lived for more than ten years in the 1970s and 1980s. In this essay I want to offer a detailed reading of his long poem Alstonefield (2003), in which the writing of place is pursued through the familiar trope of walking in the landscape. I will examine how the dynamics of settlement and locomotion in Riley's text inform its digressive reflection on the place-bound character of lyric subjectivity, which in turn opens on to a critical dialogue with the conventions and legacies of the pastoral mode. Eric Falci argues that Riley's ‘continuing series of Midland and Northern topographies […] may end up constituting the most significant engagement with location and landscape in twentieth-century British poetry’. It is not my intention to prove or disprove the validity of this claim, which is in any case deliberately hedged in the conditional tense.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line62
__label__cc	0.614295	0.385705	13C Record of Benthic Foraminifera in the Last Interglacial Ocean: Implications for the Carbon Cycle and the Global Deep Water Circulation Jean-Claude Duplessy, Nicholas J. Shackleton, Robley K. Matthews, Warren Prell, William F. Ruddiman, Michèle Caralp, Chris H. Hendy Journal: Quaternary Research / Volume 21 / Issue 2 / February 1984 The 13C/12C ratios of Upper Holocene benthic foraminiferal tests (genera Cibicides and Uvigerina) of deep sea cores from the various world ocean basins have been compared with those of the modern total carbon dioxide (TCO2) measured during the GEOSECS program. The δ13C difference between benthic foraminifera and TCO2 is 0.07 ± 0.04‰ for Cibicides and −0.83 ± 0.07‰ for Uvigerina at the 95% confidence level. δ13C analyses of the benthic foraminifera that lived during the last interglaciation (isotopic substage 5e, about 120,000 yr ago) show that the bulk of the TCO2 in the world ocean had a δ13C value 0.15 ± 0.12‰ lower than the modern one at the 95% confidence level, reflecting a depletion, compared to the present value, of the global organic carbon reservoir. Regional differences in δ13C between the various oceanic basins are explained by a pattern of deep water circulation different from the modern one: the Antarctic Bottom Water production was higher than today during the last interglaciation, but the eastward transport in the Circumpolar Deep Water was lower. The Last Interglacial Ocean Rose Marie L. Cline, James D. Hays, Warren L. Prell, William F. Ruddiman, Ted C. Moore, Nilva G. Kipp, Barbara E. Molfino, George H. Denton, Terence J. Hughes, William L. Balsam, Charlotte A. Brunner, Jean-Claude Duplessy, Ann G. Esmay, James L. Fastook, John Imbrie, Lloyd D. Keigwin, Thomas B. Kellogg, Andrew McIntyre, Robley K. Matthews, Alan C. Mix, Joseph J. Morley, Nicholas J. Shackleton, S. Stephen Streeter, Peter R. Thompson The final effort of the CLIMAP project was a study of the last interglaciation, a time of minimum ice volume some 122,000 yr ago coincident with the Substage 5e oxygen isotopic minimum. Based on detailed oxygen isotope analyses and biotic census counts in 52 cores across the world ocean, last interglacial sea-surface temperatures (SST) were compared with those today. There are small SST departures in the mid-latitude North Atlantic (warmer) and the Gulf of Mexico (cooler). The eastern boundary currents of the South Atlantic and Pacific oceans are marked by large SST anomalies in individual cores, but their interpretations are precluded by no-analog problems and by discordancies among estimates from different biotic groups. In general, the last interglacial ocean was not significantly different from the modern ocean. The relative sequencing of ice decay versus oceanic warming on the Stage 6/5 oxygen isotopic transition and of ice growth versus oceanic cooling on the Stage 5e/5d transition was also studied. In most of the Southern Hemisphere, the oceanic response marked by the biotic census counts preceded (led) the global ice-volume response marked by the oxygen-isotope signal by several thousand years. The reverse pattern is evident in the North Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, where the oceanic response lagged that of global ice volume by several thousand years. As a result, the very warm temperatures associated with the last interglaciation were regionally diachronous by several thousand years. These regional lead-lag relationships agree with those observed on other transitions and in long-term phase relationships; they cannot be explained simply as artifacts of bioturbational translations of the original signals.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line63
__label__wiki	0.589593	0.589593	National Society of Creative Dyslexics, Inc. Legislation & News National Society of Creative Dyslexics, Inc. Massachusetts Charter, United States. Founded after raising a son with dyslexia and discovering she too has dyslexia. Learn to empower this gift through remediation and understanding. Does my child have dyslexia? Take this dyslexia test for children ages 5 - 7 Start Here! Bonnie Magoon Haley, USA Contributing Author Dyslexia and Creativity: Investigations from Differing Perspectives authored and edited by Neil Alexander-Passe. A USA and UK collaboration from 10 contributing authors. The Successful Dyslexic author Neil Alexander-Passe Parents Advocacy Group Decoding Dyslexia Massachusetts EBook Readers Make reading easier for dyslexics PopSci unREAL Education: Beyond Report Cards by Elaine Mellon. This book was written for every parent who has ever struggled with that uneasy, anxious, apprehensive gut feeling. The Power of Dyslexia A Video to help Children and Teens understand Dyslexia (also has text to speech audio) Deprecated function: The each() function is deprecated. This message will be suppressed on further calls in menu_set_active_trail() (line 2394 of /home/creativedyslexics/public_html/includes/menu.inc). The mission of the National Society of Creative Dyslexics is to honor the creative and intellectual aspects of being an individual who has dyslexia. Talented, resilient, and learning differently. Leading ways to improve the awareness of dyslexia and its strengths. Offering literacy remediation and encouraging support for successful educational outcomes for children, teens, and young adults. Dyslexia Honor Spotlight An original documentary on understanding dyslexia for children and adults. Created, produced, and directed by my own talented son Kyle Haley and his co-creator Mark Woit, of Emerson College's class of 2014. To watch this video, click here! Congratulations to Henry Winkler for winning his Emmy 2018! He is an inspiration to all with dyslexia. The Successful Dyslexic by Neil Alexander-Passe Click here! Boston Chronicle features Spotlight on Dyslexia: the science of the dyslexic brain, and Orton-Gillingham remediation Click here to watch! Thanking and honoring Carly Simon for sharing her stories of having dyslexia. To hear the frankness on bullying and struggling in this video and read more, click here! Honoring the multitude insightful fictional and nonfictional writings on dyslexia by author and teacher Neil Alexander-Passe in the UK. His latest dyslexic-based thriller is The Dyslexic Virus: Turning the World Dyslexic available in book and ebook formats. and sold on Amazon for more information. James Cameron School in British Columbia, Canada. A dad who has devoted his life to helping children with dyslexia. Thank you! Click here. Proprietary and Confidential Information @2020 National Society of Creative Dyslexics, Inc. Permission to use, copy, and distribute these materials for not-for-profit educational purposes, without fee and without a signed licensing agreement, is hereby granted, ONLY and provided that The National Society of Creative Dyslexics, www.creativedyslexics.org" (with a functioning hyperlink when online) be cited as the source and appear in all excerpts, copies, and distributions. National Society of Creative Dyslexics, Inc 501(c)(3) Boston, Massachusetts	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line64
__label__wiki	0.81395	0.81395	1 definition found for Captain lieutenant Captain \Cap"tain\ (k[a^]p"t[i^]n), n. [OE. capitain, captain, OF. capitain, F. capitaine (cf. Sp. capitan, It. capitano), LL. capitaneus, capitanus, fr. L. caput the head. See under Chief, and cf. Chieftain.] 1. A head, or chief officer; as: (a) The military officer who commands a company, troop, or battery, or who has the rank entitling him to do so though he may be employed on other service. (b) An officer in the United States navy, next above a commander and below a commodore, and ranking with a colonel in the army. (c) By courtesy, an officer actually commanding a vessel, although not having the rank of captain. (d) The master or commanding officer of a merchant vessel. (e) One in charge of a portion of a ship's company; as, a captain of a top, captain of a gun, etc. (f) The foreman of a body of workmen. (g) A person having authority over others acting in concert; as, the captain of a boat's crew; the captain of a football team. A trainband captain eke was he. --Cowper. The Rhodian captain, relying on . . . the lightness of his vessel, passed, in open day, through all the guards. --Arbuthnot. 2. A military leader; a warrior. Foremost captain of his time. --Tennyson. Captain general. (a) The commander in chief of an army or armies, or of the militia. (b) The Spanish governor of Cuba and its dependent islands. Captain lieutenant, a lieutenant with the rank and duties of captain but with a lieutenant's pay, -- as in the first company of an English regiment.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line68
__label__wiki	0.573365	0.573365	Are on-the-spot drug tests reliable? By The Conversation These tests have been taking place successfully in Europe for more than a decade Thawt Hawthje Dr. David Caldicott, Australian National University The Victorian Police Chief Commissioner Graham Ashton’s recent claim that it’s not practical to conduct on-the-spot drug tests “safely and quickly” is, at best, misinformed. These tests have been taking place successfully in Europe for more than a decade. Ashton’s statement came in response to renewed calls for on-the-spot drug testing in Victoria after more than 20 people were hospitalised as a result of a mass overdose at a dance party in Melbourne on Saturday night. The incident occurred just weeks after three people died after taking a “bad batch” of MDMA in Chapel Street nightclubs. In response to the calls, Ashton appeared to question the availability of the systems required for on-the-spot drug tests. “That’s a bit of a myth really, that there is a proper testing regime that can suddenly test on-the-spot what quality drugs [are]. We take quite a long time to test drugs when we seize them.” Ashton told the ABC it takes laboratories days to determine what is in a pill. “So to do that, at those sort of events, to do it safely and quickly is not really a practical option.” Years of experience in numerous countries around the world tell us this is factually incorrect. On-the-spot drug analysis has been taking place in Europe for more than a decade, with the support of law enforcement, associated forensic toxicologists, analytical chemists and academics. A wide variety of drug testing systems using laboratory technologies are successfully deployed at events across Europe. The Trans European Drug Information (TEDI) project combined the data collected in drug testing systems used in Spain, Switzerland, Belgium, Austria, Portugal and the Netherlands. The TEDI project analysed just over 45,000 drug samples taken from public events in those countries between 2008 and 2013. Most of those 45,000 tests, conducted using forensic equipment, were completed in seven to 25 minutes. Many on-site drug checking systems use a variety of techniques to chemically analyse the composition and dose of the drugs presented. The technology used includes high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (LCMS), gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GCMS), thin-layer chromatography (TLC), fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry (Q-TOF). Checkit! in Vienna have a mobile van from which they run a range of analytical tests more commonly found in a laboratory. These tests are conducted in seven minutes. SaferParty in Zurich uses HPLC and GCMS technology, and these tests take 15 minutes. EnergyControl on the Iberian Peninsula uses TLC and GCMS technology, and provides a result in under 20 minutes. Professor Fiona Measham of The Loop in the UK uses a new sampling tool that takes 20 minutes. Professor Measham’s methodology is supported by the TICTAC database, one of the largest forensic drug databases in the world. Reagent tests – the easily available kits that change colour when they come in contact with a drug – are advocated and used by many in the Australian music festival scene. But this is only because there is nothing else to offer. Reagent tests only identify one substance in a sample, even when many substances are present. With 750 different drugs now on the market, and often used in conjunction with each other, these simple tests are not adequate. Drug testing is also best done by professionals. This information is widely available. Drug testers are happy to discuss their methodology; they are proud of it. They’ve also published it. In Europe, there are publicly available good practice guidelines. And the technology is already in Australia. By my calculations, there are in excess of 10,000 GCMS machines in laboratories across Australia. So why the disbelief from the Victorian Police Chief Commissioner? It could be because the majority of illicit drug samples in Australia are processed by forensic laboratories at the request of law enforcement, and do take some time. The tests run for use in trials are often run multiple times, and analysts take days to return their results. This is entirely appropriate in a legal setting. But we don’t do that in medicine. We don’t get 10 chest X-rays to confirm a chest infection. We use the appropriate equipment, ensure that it’s well calibrated, and act on the results that we are confident are real. It is important to acknowledge the role law enforcement plays in stemming the flow of drugs in the community. But it is not the only, or even the best, way to prevent the harm and deaths caused by bad batches of drugs and drug overdoses. Drug testing at music festivals is very much about intervention and encouraging behavioural changes, rather than just drily delivering a result. We know from research that the majority of consumers would not take a pill if test results indicated the substance wasn’t what they thought it was. My own work in South Australia between 2002 and 2007 showed clearly that two thirds of consumers chose to do something other than take their pills when they found they contained a substance other than what they expected. The modern generation is far more interested in having their pills tested than when this practice started. In addition to changing people’s behaviour, drug testing provides us with information about the specifics of the drugs available. This is an ever changing market. Drug testing can identify substances that sniffer dogs are not yet trained to detect. In the past year a consortium of scientists, nongovernmental organisations and doctors (including myself) has reached out to the Victorian Department of Health, the Office of the Commissioner and the Victoria Police Forensic Services Department to offer them the opportunity to review our methodology and discuss collaborating in this space. Both have declined. Should they ever change their minds, our door remains open. David Caldicott, Emergency Medicine Consultant, Australian National University. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Related Items:Health, pill testing Dirty Weed adds Australia: Warn others in your area about dodgy weed How to buy quality CBD online World Health Organisation sanctions the use of CBD but not THC What are the benefits of legalising cannabis in Australia? 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__label__cc	0.741617	0.258383	Tag: Family therapy counseling in Chinatown Chinatown Relationship Problems Have been trying to resolve the issues between your parents? Are you unable to understand and meet the demands of your partner that is causing issues? Are you going through a toxic relationship which is causing mental and physical problems? Is it getting hard for you to manage your relationship with your friends in Chinatown because of busy routine? Well, you are not the only one dealing with these problems in Chinatown. There are many people who are going through the same phase. You will be surprised to know that it is the main cause of depression and stress in many people. However, an important thing you need to understand is that mistake happens from both sides and you have to resolve them together. 9 Ways To Deal With A Nagging Wife The Best Ways To Deal With These Nag Nag Nag Wife Creatures As married life goes it naturally has it's ups and downs and it's when the downs seem to make life really depressed is when this sort of behaviour needs to be addressed. If you don't want to read on then consider 10 ways to Dump someone with some funny ideas for Dumping that irritating boyfriend or girlfriend! A nagging wife is someone who has gotten quite comfortable at dishing out the orders, you know the type, the ones who leave the list of jobs that need doing as soon as on the fridge in the form of a post it. These horrible wife creatures must be stopped and I believe I've come up with 9 top ways to deal with a nagging wife, so take notes, you never know when you'll need to refer back to these 9 tips for effective wife management. Number 1: Always create a space for yourself, a shed, a room. Somewhere to retreat from the nagging when it erupts. Your best hobby is done in this safe haven from the nightmare naggers. Every bloke should have a hobby to counteract the nagging of a wife. Number 2: When you feel the nag is about to happen, just go out to the pub, or go for a walk, the key here is to be consistent so that every time a nag is about to occur you just get out of the way. This makes sense, because it saves wasted energy all around and if you are out of the way, then you will not hear it! Number 3: Ignore the nagging, when she says stuff that needs to change or the things that need doing it's time to either act like you're deaf or just plain ignore her and all she stands for when it comes to the nagging, she'll either get bored because there is no reaction and the nagging ends or she may get pissed off. So in the event she might get a little angry that you don't listen, then obtain a hearing aid and hatch a small plan to fake a hearing problem, this is a good tactic I recommend you do to combat this terrible affliction, she'll more than likely not bother and just hand you a list of jobs and for that my friends a white walking stick and mr magoo style glasses come in very handy!! Number 4: When us men are about to be nagged to death we sort of sense it like a sixth sense, so in the event of such an outcome, you could compliment your wife and this cleverly distracts her and she'll just forget for the time being about the prospect of nagging you. These little compliments can be staggered throughout the week and can be part of an overall plan of gift showering and that sort of thing, although don't overdo it as this could cause more stress later on down the line with such things as they might wonder why you are giving them all of this attention and you are playing the game away from home. So just be careful with this one, you don't want to be playing into their hands too much! Number 5: Keep them busy, always try to keep the nagging at bay by taking them out for dinner or just doing something together, with a bit of luck this will also stop them from nagging you because this might be something they nagged you about, so try and second guess them and nip it in the bud before the nag rot sets in. Number 6: Counteract the nagging by nagging back, this could be called an argument in some parts of the world, but it really isn't, as you are only giving her a taste of her own poisonous medicine. Nag back at her about the fact of her nagging you, you never know this may stop her from nagging again, or it could be grounds for a future divorce, either way you'll feel better for it. Number 7: Laugh at her nagging face! This is one of my favourites as it unsettles them into just shutting the hell up,they get frustrated about the fact that you laughed at them. When they try to nag again immediately after you laughed ....just laugh louder this time! Number 8: Slap them in the face with a piece of candy floss, don't worry it won't hurt, this just adds to the drama of being nagged, with a bit of luck a piece of candy floss will get stuck on their lips and you could simply lick it off. Get rid of the nagging with a bit of candy floss kinkyness!! Lastly number 9: When they are about to nag...say hey look at that dress and your hair...I love it! you really are the best wife in the world and quite sexy too why don't we just hop into a sack and do our very own special dance whilst laying down! I may revise this list in time as I may come up with some better tips to replace the current ones. But at present these are the best for the current times of nagging wifey misses!! How to identify a possessive woman • Before and After a Marriage In Chinatown : Most of the time a suffering through Communication Problems Sex and Sexuality, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Adjustment issues, and Bipolar Disorder (BPD) requires serious and immediate help or else the after-effects can be worst and require a huge time in resolving issues. This can end up in failed marriages, failed relationships, and successful attempts of suicide. When you don’t want this to happen, you need to bring the sufferers to us and let our experts in Chinatown deal with them. 7 Premarriage Counseling Questions Every Couple Should Know My husband and I were together for eight years before we got married. You would think we would have known everything about one another by then. We thought we did too. That is, until a middle-aged man grilled us on every aspect of our future marriage, from babies to death. We chose to be married in the Catholic church, so Pre-Cana (a premarital counseling course and consultation for couples) is mandatory. We knew this was the case, and I was actually pretty excited about it. For me, it meant I could discuss concrete things in our future without bringing it up myself—or freaking him out. If I’m being honest, I think I also secretly harbored dreams of the aforementioned middle-aged man telling us we’ve done it—we have the perfect relationship! We would leave with baby names and a certificate that read “Your Marriage Is Guaranteed to Last Forever.” A little over a year into marriage, I now realize: There’s no such thing as perfect or guarantees, but there is such a thing as being as prepared as you can be. I can’t think of a better reason to be the latter when the stakes are love, happiness and, oh you know, the rest of your life. 1. In which areas would you like to help your fiancé improve? Oh yeah, they start you out with just straight up critiquing your significant other. Only you have to communicate it delicately and truthfully, which is a lesson in itself. 2. What are some matters about which the two of you have different opinions? What?! You can discuss the elephants in the room, and your entire relationship won’t disintegrate?! 3. If both have careers, whose job determines where you will live? Whoa. That’s a doozy. We tackled this one with less of a definitive answer (think: “my job determines where we’ll go”) and decided this would be something we would face together and would involve weighing several other factors. It felt more like a lesson in teamwork. A lot of the premarriage counseling questions had a side benefit to them. After this one in particular, we both felt we could conquer something like this together and agreed, at that moment, to do so. 4. What do you usually fight about and when do you usually fight? Somehow I never really saw the pattern until we answered this question, but it was there all along. There were some pretty stupid things I was getting mad about, and usually it was when these little things built up over time that the fights happened. Just realizing this has helped eliminate issues that could’ve ended up causing a real strain on our relationship. Dumb arguments will always be a thing as long as I am a part of any relationship, but at least now my husband sees them coming and can identify the solution quickly. 5. If you should be unable to have your own, would you adopt a child? Nothing is off-limits in premarital counseling. Instead of shying away from topics like infertility, you face them head-on, which alleviates much of the tension and fear on the topic. 6. On your deathbed, what would sum up your life as worthwhile? What would give meaning to your life? Being someone’s partner is so much more than just “you cook; I clean.” It’s lifting them up and helping them have a fulfilling life. What I learned in premarriage counseling: First step: Admitting you’re not the ultimate fulfillment for your fiancé’s life. Second step: Finding out what else is and doing everything in your power to give that to your partner. Third step: Be on the receiving end of step one and two. 7. What do you intend to do to stay in love? Turns out Netflix and chill is only a piece of the formula to permanent, lasting love. Our counselor told us that his wife and him dance together every day. Even when they’re furious at one another, they spend five minutes dancing in their kitchen. It reminds them of why they married one another in the first place. It sounds like it’s straight out of a Nicholas Sparks novel, but I swear it’s what he said! Instead of waiting around and hoping that "staying in love" happens, premarriage counseling made us start planning on how to stay in love—while we were still engaged. Hard conversations and trying times will always be something we face, but after just a few hours in front of a counselor, we felt more equipped to face them. More importantly, we felt more confident that we can face them together. 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__label__wiki	0.814058	0.814058	Saturday, Jun 08, 2013 Opinion: B.J. Penn Has Lightweight Opponent Options B.J. Penn By Michael Hatamoto If former champion BJ Penn decides to enter the UFC octagon again, there are already a few fighters willing to welcome him back. Undefeated lightweight Khabib Nurmagomedov said he would like to fight the ‘best lightweight fighter in history’ if Penn decides to return to the cage in 2013. He is the best lightweight fighter in the history, I’m his fan since childhood, I deserve this fight @danawhite @arielhelwani @bjpenndotcom — khabib nurmagomedov (@khabib13) June 5, 2013 Meanwhile, Evan Dunham also said he would be ‘an honor to fight’ Penn if the 34-year-old Hawaiian ‘needs an opponent’ if he returns back to the cage. Penn won just one of his last six fights, with one draw and four losses, dating back to losing the UFC lightweight championship to Frankie Edgar at UFC 112 in April 2010. The Hawaiian veteran hasn’t fought since a unanimous decision loss to Rory MacDonald at UFC on FOX: Henderson vs. Diaz in December 2012 and his future has been unclear since that fight. I think Penn should call it a career, as he has a phenomenal legacy as former lightweight and welterweight champion, facing some of the best fighters in modern UFC history. I think if Penn is in the gym and wants to work out, teach and train fighters, that’s fine – but the lightweight fighters today are cutting a lot of weight and are always in great shape. UFC President Dana White wants Penn to retire, so I am unsure if we’ll ever see the former two-division champion return to the octagon again. Tags: B.J. Penn, dana white, Frankie Edgar, Khabib Nurmagomedov, Rory MacDonald, UFC, UFC on FOX posted by FCF Staff @ 8:53 pm	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line76
__label__cc	0.64456	0.35544	Some Femme . . . Reflections on Blog Writing and Oedipus at Palm Springs September 1, 2005 UncategorizedTHEFEMINISTSPECTATOR Someone wrote in to suggest that in my last posting, on the Five Lesbian Brothers’ Oedipus at Palm Springs, I neglected to consider the status of the femme, Terri, at the play’s end. While Prin, the quintessential butch, stands alone as the tragic figure, “some femme” (the responder) suggests that Terri is left even more alone, since she’s been abandoned twice (by the same woman). “some femme” writes that my failure to consider Terri fully is typical of lesbian and feminist criticism that tends to privilege the butch. “some femme” has a very good point. I wonder, in fact, how different the play might have been had Terri been the focus of the plot, instead of the vehicle by which Prin comes to her tragic realization. Why is it that the femme is so rarely the “tragic hero,” a place typically reserved in lesbian (and some straight) theatre for the butch? My initial posting on Oedipus at Palm Springs also raised questions from some readers about how blog writing enters public conversations differently than more conventional publication or information-sharing. I’ve found, in my very maiden adventures in blogging, that its immediacy lends it an aura of risk. That is, rather than running my ideas through an intermediary like an editor, I offer them here with much less outside manipulation and consideration. The freedom of such a venue in which to write appeals to me; at the same time, I worry that I’ve been intemperate, already, in my writing here. Some readers, for instance, have remarked that I didn’t “like” Oedipus at Palm Springs very much (and many of them say they liked it a great deal). On the contrary, I enjoyed the performance I saw quite a lot. I meant my critical engagements to offer ways of thinking about the production that might put it in a different light, not to suggest that it wasn’t “good.” I’m struck by how limited is our critical vocabulary for talking about performance, if we remain caught in that good/bad binary. I can enjoy a performance, feel supportive of its creators, and still want to talk about the range of things it made me think and feel, some of which might be polemical. Yet I’m struck by how much I, too, worry that what I write will be read as condemnation or disparagement of an artistic project I admire very much. How can I (how can we) work to shift the limitations of such critical discourse? Writing about any performance is a form of respect and even love, especially when you’re someone who’s not employed to pass judgment or to offer consumer advisor. I wouldn’t (I won’t) take the time to write about a performance (or a film, television show, novel, or any other form of cultural expression) unless it moves me in some way, enough to take the time and the care to craft a response. For me, it’s about the dialogue. Please do post responses. Those of us committed to the arts and social change have too few places in which to talk about our ideas, opinions, and impressions. Please use this blog as such a forum. ← Jill Dolan Portrait From the Pre-Blog Archives . . . Thoughts on Hair After 9/11 → 5 thoughts on “Some Femme . . . Reflections on Blog Writing and Oedipus at Palm Springs” TheatreAddict says: I dig your response 🙂 I think it is wonderful when a play moves us in some way and perhaps (at times) changes us. I love that aspect of theatre, but sometimes figuring out just how a play touches us and articulating how and why a performance does what it does can be difficult to articulate — especially immediately following the experience. Usually a great deal of reflection is required for me to figure-out how and why a particular play affects me. Anyway, recently, I found myself listening to a soundtrack of HAIR the musical, which was performed here in Austin a few years back at Zackary Scott theatre. At the time, I remember being caught-up in its spectacle — I particularly remember the beautiful voices and bodies, and the intimacy of the space (not physical intimacy but yet a feeling remarkably similar) that allowed for a connection with the performers and my fellow audience members, an experience I have long remembered. I love that it is so memorable. HAIR is hardly an academic work, quite commercial, and no doubt way, way, down on a list of important works, yet this production moved me (not really the text so much as the performace). I recall that (perhaps) Ms. Dolan wrote a response to this performance. I would love to see it posted here because I never got to read it, although according to a friend of mine who worked at Zach Scott, it once lived online (I was never able to find it). I would really like to know the thoughts of the Feminist Spectator on it because, no doubt, if she indeed wrote about it, then it must have moved her in some way. It would be really cool to read about it, particulary her criticisms even though it has been some 3 years since that production Alison Croggon says: Great blog! Fascinated by this discussion; as a heterosexual woman who as a mother hit the stereotypes of motherhood (“dizzy-headed baby-talking family life”) very hard (didn’t fit my experience of it, which was marginalised as “bad mother” stuff): one brought up by my own mother to be “feminine”, ie an object on the marriage market, and hated the whole deal, so have looked for other ways to think and work my own feminine/female sexuality and work without being “domesticated” or neutered. Cf with Jocasta – how do Phaedra or Medea stand as objects enabling tragic drama? Surely only in the same sense as Oedipus enables drama – both feminine, surely? Or am I misunderstanding? Aside from these confused musings, delighted to see such intelligent discussion of theatre. All best some_femme says: Thank you for considering the femme. Maybe femininity stands for theatre’s general “tragic flaw”–it offers what occasions drama, the object that enables it, but only by effacing the feminine female-the femme- does the show go on? I am trying to hard to make this work… In “Oedipus Rex”, Jocosta conveniently kills herself and the play goes on it’s linear way, rather than exploring the pathos of the mother who realizes she has committed incest with her son. The Brothers give the mother back her voice through Prin, (Princess?) who also happens to consider herself quite butch. In Prin, we imagine a deepening of character as queer, butch, lover, and mother mix in complex emotional purges that do not lead to her death. While Terri is in the position of the Oedipal character, Prin, yes, is the “tragic butch” alone on stage at the end of the play. In a feminist attempt to focus on the mother’s (butch)love, umbilical connection, and incestuous yearnings, the play doesn’t spotlight Terri, who is the daughter-object of desire, the femme. I guess it would be hard for a review to center on a character who is not the center of attention. If the play centered on Terri, the butch would still be seen as outcast, for she would be thrown off-center by the femme’s spotlight. It’s hard to imagine how to create a production where feminist theory, lesbian feminist theory and theatre will exactly echo and support one another. Probably theory can pretend a play is exactly what it needs to be a proper theory, but this could also make for stale and predictable theory. Where is there room to ponder if the fit is exact? That being said, I understand lesbian and feminist criticism is hesitant to explore mothers and daughters, for the loving, nuturing, all-is well-and-perfect Cixiousian return to the maternal sea is not very appealing to most of us, and it has been a theoretically weak argument linking mothers with daughters. However, there could be strength in a real reconciling look at the fraught love-connection between lesbian daughters and their mothers, for it is not by chance that plays such as “O@PS”, Holly Hughes’s “World Without End”, Marga Gomez’s “Memory Tricks” (off the top of my head,) and The Brothers’s choice to bring on the mothers have arisen (sp?) from the turbulent waters of maternity. I am not implying that dizzy-headed baby-talking family life is the way to go — some reviewers use the term “domestification” as if lesbians are otherwise wild animals–maybe we are, but I can’t vouch for whether or not we can be made spoiled pets — as if theory should translate into life experience, god I hope not! But I do think there is something that has not been adequately explored and that would be fruitful, so to speak, to explore the eroticism between lesbians and their mothers and maybe, although I am not sure of this for I have little stage evidence or experience, about lesbian mothers. What wasn’t explored theoretically in “World” and “Memory Tricks” and what could also be explored in “O@PS” is the unique maternal language each production grants mother and daughter (it tends to be a lovers language, if not “French”.) I think somewhere in that language could be a clue or a cipher for how to read femme in theatre. The clues do not necessarily need to come from feminine women, for butches are mothers too. I wonder when and how femininty will appear as theory in performance studies. When it appears in theatre, I think it has to be “coded” to be read. Will theorists learn to interpret these codes? Sometimes there are no codes, but to read femininity, or feminine subject you have to read differently, or you have to just make up what you see. I think Terri very well represents the femme as undersided tragic hero – everyone loves her “so much”, and then “everyone” leaves her and “no one” wants her. In one show at the end of the run, Terri claimed she could not see. Nor could she be seen as the Oedipal subject (by reviewers.) But think of it from her point-of- view: You are someone special and then you are someone abject, then you are no one–and you leave the stage in white. That’s gotta sting. 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__label__cc	0.694197	0.305803	Core Competancy RP Logs » Archives: Logs » Core Competancy March 02 2015: May calls in Jericho to help with a computer problem. It turns out to be a bit beyond him… but he knows someone who might be able to crack it. Triskelion, Clean Lab This particular electronics lab houses fairly substantial computer core from the Insight, being examined after the disaster that was the Bronx Incident. [* none] Jericho Trent likes to avoid the Triskelion where possible, and Melinda May knows this. She generally doesn't ask him to come down there and that tends to work out best for both of them. Tonight though it couldn't be avoided. Or at least, so he surmises since he got a text from May requesting his presence to look at something requiring his particular expertise. When he arrived and was taken to a clean lab he discovered that something was the Insight's computer core, removed from the ship when it had been hauled into a dry dock last night. Ordinarily SHIELD wouldn't let him at something like this but there seems to be a problem. Between HYDRA's tampering and the exotic energies it was exposed to, the data on it is now completely unreadable. It's there, clearly, but not in any format SHIELD's systems recognize or can crack. Jericho has experience in… nonstandard coding and May knows this. Hence his presence here and now. Melinda May at least had the decency to meet Jericho at the door and walk with him to where the computer core is currently being housed, knowing how much he dislikes having anything to do with the Triskelion. "We'd have consulted with other sources, but our computer techs have already determined that the core's data isn't damaged or even erased, it's just in a language that none of them have ever seen before. It won't even parse down to hexadecimal, according to our lead programmer." Whatever the heck that hexa-thing is or means. "I'll have a look." Jericho says as he takes some of the standard issue equipment to hook up a wireless interface so he can access the core directly. Thanks to his implants he can even read straight machine code but if it won't parse down then that might be a problem. Given the possibility of a demonic infusion it might have re-written itself in demonic, which is also a language he can read (and speak). He'll find out in a minute. "Brass wants a look at whatever the core recorded during the attack do they?" Makes sense. He'd heard the bridge had been taken over by Hydra types who were at the controls, so there might be something useful there. "Any other loose ends after that mess?" Melinda May shakes her head no at the question about loose ends. It's a given that Brass wants to know what happened, so she doesn't bother to answer that rhetorical question. "Structural damage, places where the Insight's hull and deck plating were damaged by the fighting, but nothing that can't be repaired." It's the gore cleanup that she's REALLY glad she's not there to deal with. Jericho nods slowly. The casulaties had been high though enough of the crew had survived to at least let the ship limp back into dock, it seems. "Alright. Looking over the code now. Mmmmmm, no coding language I recognize. Including the odd ones. Let me run a few of my tricks and see if I can make any sense of it. May take a few minutes." Fortunately that can all happen in the background. Of his head. Hacker cyborg is odd sometimes. "What about you? Any blowback from the brass like last time?" "None yet, but I don't really have time for them to decide to get their knickers in a bunch. They know where to find me." And if the powers that be decide to take the failures of her direct superiors out on her again, she just might tell them exactly what she thinks of it this time. Of course, Fury is likely very much aware of this. Jericho nods and a couple of icons flash on his HUD. The processes are coming back negative one by one. "Well, I don't think I can do anything with this." Though it was a good try. "And I doubt that SHIELD has tricks it hasn't already tried with it. It's not a question of hacking in so much as it is figuring out what the hell happened to the code and translating it." He pauses for a moment in thought. "Given that you already brought me in, how would you feel about taking this to someone a bit more… reputable?" Melinda May raises her eyebrows. She really was expecting Trent to make sense of the computer core for them and that surprise is written clearly enough on her face for the hacker to see easily. But, there is a reason why he's a consultant. "Who are you wanting to recommend?" "If you want the last word in computer sciences and strange stuff like this, you go to Reed Richards." The very public leader of the very public Fantastic Four. Scientist and Philanthropist. There is a catch. He's not known to trust the Man a whole lot. "I can try a few other things but anything I get's going to be fragmentary." Jericho's already trying those things as he speaks. "And from the sounds of things, you really do need the whole thing cracked. If Richards and his team can't do it, I'm fairly confident in saying it can't be done by anyone who can really be trusted with it." Melinda May takes a deep breath. "Richards." Apparently, his reputation IS known around here. "I'll take this to Fury, see what he says." It's almost a given, though, based on May's expression, that she's going to get the wonderful task of approaching Mr. Fantastic (who the hell uses THAT kind of moniker, anyway?) and asking him if he'll look into the comptuer core. "If this happens," duh, given, "you're going with me." Jericho does take a moment to wonder when he became the good cop to May's bad cop. Or the… hacker cop to her agent cop? Demon cop to her… nevermind. He is slightly amused though. He'd felt sure she'd want Coulson along. And maybe she does. She never said she wasn't going to bring him on. "Alright. If you get the okay just let me know when and I'll meet you." It makes sense. He has a better handle on how computers react to really strange energies than anyone at SHIELD and he can likely better give Reed a place to start. May herself knows SHIELD tech and even if she isn't SciTech herself, she can probably explain the base security protocols well enough for Reed to know what he's working with. "How's Fitz holding up. His portal buster gun nearly fried him back there, looked like." Melinda May nods a bit. "He doesn't seem to have suffered any lasting effects, though I thought I heard him muttering to himself about whiplash." She actually sounds faintly amused there. "He's probably already planning on his next gizmos already." "He does seem the type." Jericho nods. The type to tinker and fiddle and probably forget to eat unless May makes him. "Do you want to make contact first with Richards or shall I?" The difference is between an official request and an unofficial one. The Four will probably handle an official one just fine, but just in case… May is very clearly debating that one. "We have to do this one by the book. It'll have to be an official request, but phrased VERY carefully to reduce the chances of Richards saying no before even taking a look at the computer core." "I'll let you draft that e-mail then." Jericho nods, clearly considering the angles on this himself. Reed has reason to be untrusting but he has government links through Sue Storm who has worked with scientific organizations before. There may be one or two other things if he thinks about it. And Johnny Storm aka the Human Torch has been active in the celebrity and heroic scene in New York for a long time. Melinda May nods back. "I can do that. So, you're pretty much done here for now?" Goodness knows, she's ready to get out of this room already. For whatever reason, this huge lump of electronics has been making her feel uneasy since she entered the room. She resolves to put extra guards on this room until the corrupted core's secrets can be ferreted out. "Yeah. I've got some code bits I may be able to crack here. I'll keep working on them, let you know if there's anything useful in them." Jericho pauses. "If I get anything at all. Whatever happened to this thing really did a number on it. I'll be in touch though. I always am." Unless he's in Limbo but folks don't tend to notice he's missing thanks to his odd habits and the time dialation. "Sounds good." May then gestures for them to leave so she can walk him back out of the building. After all, K'nert isn't exactly looked upon too fondly in here, and portalling in or out most certainly isn't a good idea anymore. _201503aspectshieldthe_cavalry	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line87
__label__wiki	0.774658	0.774658	Aeration as a partial treatment for dairy wastes Aeration as a Partial Treatment for Dairy Wastes* SAM R. HOOVER, JANET B. PEPINSKY LENORE JASEWICZ AND NANDOR PORGES Eastern Regional Research Laboratory** Philadelphia 18, Pa. Previous reports have been made on laboratory studies on aerobic oxidation of a simulated dairy waste (0.1 per cent skim milk solids) in a continuous flow system2. The maximum rate of loading for steady-state operation was 10 per cent of the volume an hour. A com¬ plete solids balance showed that 50 per cent of the milk solids was assimilated into cell tissue or sludge; the remaining 50 per cent was oxidized to C02 and water to gain energy for this assimilation. These results were confirmed and extended by manometric measurements of the rate and extent of oxidation of milk solids by activated sludge1. This rapid aeration process with a centrifugal separation of the bacterial cells was proposed as a possible system for treating dairy wastes in industry. The pattern of operation in dairies is such that a large proportion of the waste is produced in a few hours in the morning, with almost none between 5 p.m. and early morning. Therefore, experiments with a fill-and-draw system which could take advantage of this intermittent production of waste have been made. The reductions in B.O.D. were such that discharge of the total effluent might be considered when com¬ plete treatment of the effluent is not required. Furthermore, the effluent would be relatively stable and could be treated satisfactorily in a municipal sewage system. The laboratory equipment employed was a Humfeld aerator main¬ tained at 30° C. (86° F.) as previously described2. A drain was inserted so that all but 2.4 L., 20 per cent of the total capacity, would be removed. The simulated waste was added in four hours; 9.6 L. were added daily. C.O.D. analyses3 were made approximately hourly; * Report of a study made under the Research and Marketing Act of 1946. ** One of the laboratories of the Bureau of Agricultural and Industrial Chemistry, Agricultural Research Administration, U. S. Department of Title Aeration as a partial treatment for dairy wastes Author Hoover, Sam R. Pepinsky, Janet B. Jasewicz, Lenore Porges, Nandor Conference Front Matter (copy and paste) http://earchives.lib.purdue.edu/u?/engext,106 Transcript Aeration as a Partial Treatment for Dairy Wastes* SAM R. HOOVER, JANET B. PEPINSKY LENORE JASEWICZ AND NANDOR PORGES Eastern Regional Research Laboratory** Philadelphia 18, Pa. Previous reports have been made on laboratory studies on aerobic oxidation of a simulated dairy waste (0.1 per cent skim milk solids) in a continuous flow system2. The maximum rate of loading for steady-state operation was 10 per cent of the volume an hour. A com¬ plete solids balance showed that 50 per cent of the milk solids was assimilated into cell tissue or sludge; the remaining 50 per cent was oxidized to C02 and water to gain energy for this assimilation. These results were confirmed and extended by manometric measurements of the rate and extent of oxidation of milk solids by activated sludge1. This rapid aeration process with a centrifugal separation of the bacterial cells was proposed as a possible system for treating dairy wastes in industry. The pattern of operation in dairies is such that a large proportion of the waste is produced in a few hours in the morning, with almost none between 5 p.m. and early morning. Therefore, experiments with a fill-and-draw system which could take advantage of this intermittent production of waste have been made. The reductions in B.O.D. were such that discharge of the total effluent might be considered when com¬ plete treatment of the effluent is not required. Furthermore, the effluent would be relatively stable and could be treated satisfactorily in a municipal sewage system. EXPERIMENTAL The laboratory equipment employed was a Humfeld aerator main¬ tained at 30° C. (86° F.) as previously described2. A drain was inserted so that all but 2.4 L., 20 per cent of the total capacity, would be removed. The simulated waste was added in four hours; 9.6 L. were added daily. C.O.D. analyses3 were made approximately hourly; * Report of a study made under the Research and Marketing Act of 1946. ** One of the laboratories of the Bureau of Agricultural and Industrial Chemistry, Agricultural Research Administration, U. S. Department of Agriculture. 313	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line91
__label__wiki	0.833463	0.833463	May 21, 2019 in Competitions, Hotels & Resorts, Restaurants Chef Paul Moran wins Season 7 of Top Chef Canada Executive chef at Tofino’s 1909 Kitchen beats stiff competition on Food Network Canada’s popular cooking show 1909 Kitchen’s Chef Paul Moran won the coveted title of Canada’s Top Chef during the final episode of Top Chef Canada Season 7, which aired last night on Food Network Canada, when he competed against the best and brightest professional chefs from across Canada for the last time. “Competing on Top Chef Canada has been an unforgettable experience,” says Chef Paul Moran. “The intensity and level of talent on the show created a unique environment that I am very grateful to have been a part of.” During the season finale of Top Chef Canada, Chef Paul excelled in the first elimination challenge alongside fellow BC chef Phil Scarfone (Nightingale Restaurant, Vancouver) with an ambitious potato, truffle and kabocha squash gnocchi with charred eggplant truffle purée. The esteemed judging panel commented on the dish – “a masterpiece of vegetarian cookery” (Chris Nuttall-Smith), which demonstrated “tremendous maturity” (Chef Mark McEwan). In the final challenge, held at Langdon Hall Country House Hotel, Paul’s winning multi-course menu was inspired by his entire cooking career, starting with a taste of Tofino-inspired amuse bouche canapé selection with Pacific Geoduck and Dungeness Crab and followed by side stripe shrimp sashimi with stuffed shitake mushrooms which received praise from the series judges in the finale – “a spectacular dish”, according to judge Janet Zuccarini. Two main courses included a play on vitello tonnato that was “perfectly balanced and artistically put together” (Chef Mark McEwan), then a squab prepared two ways with bacon-wrapped breast and confit leg with glazed sunchokes, currants and stuffed morels, a nod to Paul’s time spent working in French kitchens: “out of this world” according to show host Eden Grinshpan. To finish the meal, a sorrel sorbet, sesame almond macaron and lemon curd stole the show. “Paul truly understood what he was doing with all these international ingredients but managed to make them very uniquely Canadian,” declared Top Chef Canada judge Mijune Pak during the finale. Chef Moran started his career as an apprentice with West Restaurant in his hometown of Vancouver under the leadership of renowned Chef David Hawksworth. He was the first-ever recipient of the Hawksworth Young Chef Scholarship, which awarded him the opportunity to stage at the legendary Pujol in Mexico City. Chef Moran’s career includes prestigious restaurants in Dubai including the Jumeirah Beach Hotel and two Michelin-starred restaurants in France: Hotel Negresco and Saturne Restaurant. Drawn back to the west coast of Canada, Moran has held Executive Chef roles at West Coast Fishing Club’s Outpost Lodge in Haida Gwaii and the award-winning Nita Lake Lodge in Whistler. An avid forager, Moran became the Executive Chef at 1909 Kitchen at Tofino Resort + Marina in 2017 and as he is passionate about a locally sourced, ingredient driven menu, he finds the oceanside community a perfect fit. Full episodes of Food Network Canada’s Top Chef Canada are available online at foodnetwork.ca/topchefcanada. To experience Canada’s Top Chef, Paul Moran in his element at 1909 Kitchen please call 250.726.6122 to reserve. For more information, visit tofinoresortandmarina.com. To celebrate, Tofino Resort + Marina and 1909 Kitchen have launched a contest to win a culinary package to Tofino, including a 6-course west coast themed dinner, prepared and presented by Canada’s Top Chef, Paul Moran. Enter via Instagram until June 3rd.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line96
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__label__cc	0.599875	0.400125	« gambling house mmorpgs – The particular Conspriracy Are trying to learn Way more Concerning on line casino? » Ex-Old Mutual CEO vs Trevor Manuel: Explosive court papers expose how ‚all hell broke loose‘ Former Old Mutual CEO Peter Moyo has detailed the break down of Old Mutual chairperson Trevor to his relationship Manuel in court documents prior to the Southern Gauteng High Court, where he alleges that Manuel managed him with „open hostility“ and that it absolutely was an „understatement“ that „all hell broke loose“ because of this. Manuel is detailed among the participants within the matter. The straw“ that is“last states Moyo, had been their objection into the board about the „improper non-disclosure of a re re payment amounting to an incredible number of rand, that was compensated by Old Mutual in respect of Manuel’s appropriate costs for their much-publicised appropriate battle associated with the Guptas and their associates“. Moyo has filed an application that is urgent the Southern Gauteng High Court looking for, among other items, become reinstated inside the place. He additionally wishes an interdict stopping the company from filling their old task. Moyo had been unexpectedly suspended from their place may 23, as a result of exactly exactly what the ongoing business described as a dysfunction in trust and self- self- confidence. He had been later sacked. In their notice, Moyo desires their suspension system become announced „unlawful, and void“ – and is particularly seeking contractual damages against Old Mutual. While Moyo’s dispute because of the insurer could be the re re payment of dividends to NMT Capital, a black-owned investment business which he highlights as a key factor in the matter that he co-founded, in papers before the court, it is his relationship with Manuel. Old Mutual lifetime Assurance business, a subsidiary of Old Mutual, can be an investor in NMT Capital. On Monday afternoon Old Mutual confirmed it might oppose Moyo’s urgent application. Based on the group’s chief communications officer Tsengiwe that is tabby company will utilize the court procedure to answer Moyo’s claims. ‚Triple conflict of Interest‘ In the affidavit, Moyo states the dispute were only available in March 2018 whenever, acting in good faith, he approached Manuel over their „genuine issues“ relating to what he regarded as being Manuel’s „triple conflict of great interest“. „In brief, this took place around a massive multi-billion rand commercial task, referred to as Managed Separation, which involved the delisting of Old Mutual plc from the London stock market together with proposed set of Old Mutual Limited regarding the JSE,“ Moyo’s affidavit checks out. „It therefore transpired this one of this areas of this workout involved the proposed transfer of a liability that is large responsibility, respected at significantly more than $400 million or R5bn from Old Mutual plc towards the present-day Old Mutual Limited. „Were it to transpire that the presumption of the obligation by Old Mutual in SA will be refused, then your whole Separation that is managed project have almost certainly have now been aborted. Among the ongoing businesses which endured to profit the essential through the realisation of this . task had been Rothschild, which endured to get (and sooner or later did gain) hundreds of millions of rand in costs among the deal advisers.“ Moyo continues on to state that while this could ordinarily be normal at face value, the truth that Manuel had been a manager of all of the three businesses developed a „triple conflict of great interest“. Manuel had been simultaneously a director of Old Mutual plc, the chairperson of Old Mutual (Limited) as well as the chairperson of Rothschild & Co. „we freely voiced my objections to Mr Manuel concerning the impropriety of their involvement in any talks regarding our proposed presumption or takeover associated with the Old Mutual plc (contingent) obligation, that has been when you look at the nature of an assurance in preference of a company that is american. „Mr Manuel ignored and neglected to work to my increasing the security for the reason that respect, inspite of the seriousness that is obvious of transgression. He proceeded to be involved in the conversation with this matter,“ Moyo states, including it was using this point that Manuel’s mindset toward him „deteriorated“. „we attempted to spell out to him it was absolutely absolutely nothing individual, but all in vain,“ claims Moyo, incorporating that there were some other incidents of „pettiness“ following this event. „Last straw“ and exactly how „hell broke loose“ Nonetheless it ended up being the essential incident that is recent February/March 2019 that has been the „last straw“, claims Moyo. He claims which he intended to raise another objection to the board, via the Corporate Governance and Nominations Committee or NomCom regarding the „improper non-disclosure of a payment amounting to millions of rand, which was paid by Old Mutual in respect of Manuel’s legal fees for his much-publicised legal battle relating to the Guptas and their associates“ that he told Manuel. Manuel had been chairperson associated with the NomCom, that will be composed of eight other directors. „the problem had practically nothing related to Old Mutual,“ Moyo states. „It ended up being highly irregular and incorrect never to reveal it towards the Old Mutual shareholders, whom knew absolutely absolutely nothing about any of it. Mr Manuel attempted to dissaude me from doing this. „In March 2019, we none the less place the matter regarding the agenda for the NomCom, of which Mr Manuel ended up being a part. He had been expected to recuse himself and then he did.“ The NomCom, but, once more fixed to not reveal the spending, Moyo claims. „This had been despite my inspiration it was compulsory to take action, inter alia, given that it amounted to a type of remuneration in the possession of of Mr Manuel. “ It could be an understatement to state that after that episode and thus thereof, all hell broke loose and Mr Manuel managed me personally with open hostility,“ he claims. ‚Gunning for me personally‘ Moyo claims it had been by the end of April against him of having breached the protocols in respect of the Old Mutual/NMT relationship that he became aware of Manuel’s allegations. “ to the conclusion of April, I happened to be completely amazed with regards to first stumbled on my attention that there clearly was a view being bandied about this we had breached the protocols with regards to the belated re payment for the dividend that is preferential the non-repayment for the money loan. „It became clear in my opinion that Mr Manuel had been highly spearheading this recommendation that we had acted as opposed to your conditions associated with protocol.“ Moyo states the allegations after he was suspended and eventually sacked without a hearing against him was later referred to the Old Mutual Related Party Transactions Committee, which in turn referred it to NomCom and then to an Ad Hoc Committee and eventually to a board decision where. He stated at one point, a minumum of one board user – whoever identification he will not want to reveal – had „whispered to him in really strict self- confidence that the president of this board Manuel ended up being free paper originality checker ‚gunning for me personally‘ and bullying other directors to pursue the NMT matter for many inexplicable and ulterior function“. Moyo claims he had been willing to reveal the identification of the witness towards the court, susceptible to the information getting the protection that is necessary. „with this conversation, we confirmed the distinct impression I experienced gained that the president had been determined to eradicate me making use of the NMT matter as a reason and themselves to be bullied also to which they plainly succumbed. which he had been placing undue stress on other directors, who have been unfortuitously and improperly enabling“ *Update: this short article had been updated on Monday afternoon after Old Mutual stated it could make use of the court procedure to react to Moyo’s claims. This entry was posted on Freitag, Dezember 20th, 2019 at 02:29 and is filed under College Paper Checker. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line107
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__label__cc	0.647026	0.352974	Important new book on Human Resources In 2010 the International Mineral Processing Council (IMPC) established and Education Commission, chaired by Professor Jan Cilliers, a member of Council and also Professor at the Royal School of Mines at Imperial College, UK. The Commission established a working group consisting of representatives from almost all mining countries around the world and over the past few years has investigated in some depth the global status regarding the supply of graduates for the Industry as well as recent trends in the education of such graduates. At the time of the New Delhi Congress it organized a Workshop on this topic and the Proceedings of the Workshop has now been published: Minerals Industry Education and Training Editors: J. Cilliers, D. Drinkwater amd K. Heiskanen Indian Institute of Minerals Engineers, 2013. ISBN 81-901714-4-5. The book is also available for free download in pdf format from the IMPC 2012 website. The Council and the Commission are of the view that the topics covered in this book will be of great interest to leaders in both industry and the academic and research sector. Should you or your colleagues wish to obtain any further information on the activities of this Commission or wish to participate in its on-going activities please contact Professor Cilliers at j.j.cilliers@imperial.ac.uk. Posted by MEI at 00:01 1 comments Labels: Books, IMPCs, People International Coal Preparation Congress I have received this photograph from my old friend Prof. Gulhan Ozbayoglu, who I first met at the NATO Advanced Study Institute in Bursa, Turkey in 1984. She is pictured with Doug Jenkinson, who I have not seen since the 1992 International Mineral Processing Symposium, also in Turkey, at Antalya. Gulhan was chairman of the organising committee of the 17th International Coal Preparation Congress (ICP), held between 1st and 6th October in Istanbul. Doug is the UK representative on the International Organising Committee. This was the first time that an ICPC was organized in Turkey since the 1st ICPC in 1950 in Paris, France. The ICPC has been organized every four years under the leadership of the International Organizing Committee (IOC). Starting with the 17th ICPC in 2013, the ICPC's will be held every three years, the next scheduled for St. Petersburg, Russia in 2016. Generally, the topics discussed in the ICPC's cover a large area from characterization of the coal to waste disposal but topics related to water use/reuse have attracted increasingly more attention in recent years. In this regard, dry processing and dewatering seem to continue to be of great interest in many areas of the world. Around 525 participants from 25 different countries attended the congress and 121 papers selected from around 230 abstracts were presented in two parallel sessions during the four days of the congress. Selected papers will be published in a special issue of International Journal of Coal Preparation and Utilization. Labels: Conferences, People More Young Person's Awards It's good to see so much recent news of awards to young people. Now news from India, submitted by D.M.R. Sekhar. The Mineral Engineering Science Association of India confers four MESA Awards to young and promising mineral engineers/ scientists every year. These awards were instituted in the honour of Prof. C. Mahadevan, Prof. C. Chiranjeevi, AC Datta and BN Chaterjee. The photo below shows Dr. Y. Rama Murthy being presented with one of these awards by Ibrahim Ali, Director of Wonder Cement. Dr. Rama Murthy received the AC Datta MESA Award on 15th September at the Institution of Engineers, Udaipur Chapter, for his research that led to the reduction of chromite losses in an operating plant. He is a Principal Researcher with Tata Steel Ltd, Jamshedpur. The award was presented by Akhilesh Joshi, CEO, M/s Hindustan Zinc Ltd. Dr. Rama Murthy with Mr. Joshi and Ibrahim Ali of Wonder Cement The Importance of DEM to Comminution Science Over the last two decades the Discrete Element Method (DEM) has become an important tool for understanding comminution fundamentals and providing information for the design, optimisation and operation of comminution devices. Over that time, the application of DEM in simulating fracture, breakage, crushing, milling and equipment wear has increased in size and complexity. Information from DEM has contributed to modelling techniques such as mechanistic modelling, the Unified Comminution Model and the Virtual Comminution Machine. These have enabled step changes in understanding of comminution processes. DEM is now widely used in industries where comminution is critical. Important challenges remain for the next decade including representation of unresolved fine material: prediction of its influence on the overall processes and its size reduction. Similarly, slurry phase transport and rheology have barely been touched on in using computational techniques in comminution modelling. Most importantly in the future is the uptake of the DEM outputs into standard comminution models used in design and optimisation of equipment and processes, as despite the progress made in understanding and in quantitative outputs the barriers to routine uptake have not been surmounted. Among the leaders in this field are workers from CSIRO and JKMRC in Australia, Chalmers University in Sweden and Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, all of whom will be presenting up to date work in this area at Comminution '14. They have also just published an excellent review on the contribution of DEM to the science of comminution in the journal Powder Technology. A reminder to you all that the deadline for abstract submission to Comminution '14 is October 31st. Labels: Comminution, Computer Applications Cornish Mining Sundowner- October Just back from this evening's sundowner. Due to our grandson's 9th birthday party we arrived late, but there were still a good few enjoying the local ales at the Chain Locker. Amongst those making their debut tonight was CSM's Dr. Patrick Foster, who I last saw at the SME Meeting in Denver, and Prof. Bernd Lottermoser, of the University of Exeter in Cornwall, who only this week was appointed as a keynote lecturer at Process Mineralogy '14. Bernd Lottermoser (1st left), Patrick Foster (4th left) Is this the world's longest flotation bank? Last week's visit to Minera Valle Central (posting of 15th October) was one of the most interesting mine visits that I have ever undertaken. The plant treats old and current tailings from El Teniente copper mine, 40km away, and uses natural gravity flow in a process known as cascade flotation. I am not sure whether this is unique to this plant, but I have certainly not seen or heard of it being used anywhere else. The tailings are introduced into four parallel troughs, two kilometres in length, in a stepped, or cascade, arrangement. As the slurry flows down the incline, air is induced by the natural turbulence. No reagents are added, as these are already present in the water in the tailings. The mineralised froth which is produced is fed every few metres into a kind of pinched sluice, which deepens the froth, which is diverted as a concentrate. Final tailings is the slurry which remains after the 2-km journey. It is fascinating as you will see in this short YouTube movie. Cascade flotation Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe this was designed by Rainer Imhof, the inventor of the Imhoflot G cell, which was displayed at Procemin '13 in Santiago. Making use of natural gravity flow is, of course, nothing new. 19th century miners built their processing plants on hillsides to make use of gravity flow before the advent of centrifugal pumps, but I have never seen it used in flotation. I have seen something similar in Malaysia however. Palong concentrators also utilise long sloping troughs down which slurry flows over a series of baffles, behind which the tin mineral, cassiterite, and other heavy minerals such as monazite, zircon and ilmenite settle out. Periodically the flow is stopped, the baffles are lifted and the heavy mineral concentrate is sluiced out. Palong concentrator, Ipoh, Malaysia, 1981 Labels: Flotation Procemin 2013 Conference Diary Gecamin's Procemin '13 was held at the Sheraton Hotel, Santiago, Chile from October 15-18. Founded in 1998, Gecamin organises highly technical, international seminars and conferences that focus on generating interdisciplinary collaboration within the mining industry. Procemin '13 was the 10th in Gecamin's series of international mineral processing conferences. MEI is one of the six media partners, and I am here mainly to meet people and provide an overview, so I hope that my notes will be supplemented by comments from attendees. Procemin began today with an optional visit to Minera Valle Central, which processes current and old tailings from the giant El Teniente copper mine (see posting of October 15th). Minera Valle Central, showing old El Teniente tailings and the 40 km launder on the right carrying fresh tailings After registration and opening speeches in the evening there was a welcoming reception, and a big screen viewing, courtesy of Metso, of Chile's 2-1 defeat of Ecuador, to qualify for next year's World Cup. Hopefully a good omen for the next few days! It was good to meet Carlos Barahona, the General Manager of Gecamin, and his daughter Carolina, Communications Coordinator, and to discover that, like MEI, Gecamin is also a family business. Probably why they run such well organised events! With Carlos and Carolina Barahona of Gecamin I had breakfast this morning with Procemin's Technical Director Romke Kuyvenhoven, who was pleased to hear my views on yesterday's field trip. She is considering including this in the programme for next year's IMPC, also organised by Gecamin, and if it is I would definitely advise that you reserve a place. Romke tells me that over 380 delegates have registered for Procemin, around two thirds being from Chile. She was disappointed that the first plenary speaker was unable to attend, so the morning session started a little later than planned with a plenary talk by John Wells, now an independent consultant from Canada. John discussed the huge cost escalation that has occurred in the first 12 years of the 21st century. Project capital costs have been reported to have doubled, tripled or even quadrupled in this time period. This has rendered many projects to be no longer economically viable and has caused a crisis in the industry. He provided some ideas and suggestions in which capital costs might be reduced and control of capital costs improved. The second plenary was presented by Gustavo de la Torre of Milpo, Peru, who discussed the application of safe and socially responsible technology in tailings disposal at the Cerro Lindo Mine. This, as will many of the papers, was presented in Spanish, but there are excellent simultaneous translation facilities at the conference. Chris Greet and Bill Skinner (Australia) share a joke with Cyril O'Connor After the coffee break the programme split into parallel sessions, on Project Development, and Fundamentals of Flotation. The latter included a paper by Kari Heiskanen, who will be presenting the keynote lecture in the Fundamentals symposium of Flotation '13 next month. The long afternoon programme contained four technical sessions, comminution dominating with a session on High Pressure Grinding and one on comminution equipment and media wear. The former contained two presentations by Chris Morley of Ausenco Services on equipment selection for HPGR-based comminution and two papers from Metso, a major supplier of HPGR. Chris Morley (2nd right) with Dariusz Lelinski at the FLSmidth booth Laboratory testing and flotation scale up was the theme of the 3rd session, with papers from Australia, Canada, South Africa and Mexico. The 4th session contained a discussion panel on the theme of tailings filtration and dry stacking. The day ended with an open IMPC Committee, where plans for next year's event in Santiago were outlined by Chairman Juan Yianatos. It is expected that over 1000 delegates will be here for the IMPC and over 800 abstracts from 44 countries have already been received! The IMPC created a commission on education a few years ago to study the supply and demand of mineral processors worldwide. Jan Cilliers of Imperial College, UK, chaired this commission and this morning he presented an excellent keynote lecture on the study's findings, which have also been published in book form and will soon be available for download on the internet. I will post further details on this in a later blog. Jan Cilliers (2nd left0 at the FLSmidth booth Although the report contains much speculation on the demand side, it is obvious that the supply chain is slow and long term needs must be considered and planned for, a difficult task considering the unpredictable and cyclic nature of the industry. Jan has presented the findings at a number of recent conferences, but each time the data has been refined, such that now it is a very useful guide to the global situation with some very surprising findings. Western Europe, for example, produces only 50 graduates per year, compared with China's 2920! In his IMPC update yesterday Juan Yianatos noted that the major areas for abstract submission were, unsurprisingly, flotation and comminution, and today's parallel sessions focused on these important areas. John Starkey with Chile's Claudia Velasquez In the morning session, on comminution process modelling, SAG mills and stirred mills, which have become increasingly used over the last few decades, were highlighted. Metso, who manufacture one of the most widely used stirred mills, provided a review of their Vertimill pilot plant operation for grinding studies. There are over 430 Vertimills in operation worldwide. Metso is one of the sponsors of Comminution '14, as is Starkey & Associates, Canada and John Starkey presented an interesting paper on optimising the design of SAG mills in order to achieve design tonnage from start-up. The other parallel session this morning was on the theme of flotation plant optimisation, with papers from Chile and Australia. Demonstration of the Imhoflot G cell A very interesting panel discussion on fine grinding took place after lunch, with short technical presentations from some of the big players in this field, Metso, Xstrata Technology, Outotec and Glencore Peru. Brian Knorr of Metso USA provided a short update on Metso stirred milling technologies. The Vertimill is a gravity-induced stirred mills and can grind well to about 20 microns, mainly for regrinding applications. The Stirred Media Detritor is a fluidised stirred mill used for very efficient fine and ultrafine grinding below 20 microns, but they are very sensitive to conditions. Metso is in the midst of a 3 year programme with JKMRC to optimise and validate current selection methods. Karina Arburo discussed fine grinding from an Xstrata Technology perspective. She talked about assessment of the best testing method for energy and scale up in IsaMills and that fine grinding requires fine media using attrition, not impact. Dante Garcia of Glencore Peru discussed fine grinding in stirred mills from an operational point of view. Using IsaMills it was found that rounded media is more efficient than angular media, and lighter media was more efficient for fine grinding. Although fine grinding improves liberation, floatability is reduced at fine sizes, so a compromise on flotation size must be made. He considered that flow control and adequate maintenance are the main factors in successful regrinding using stirred mills. Ilkka Roitto of Outotec, Finland, then showed how to control regrinding to reach optimal process results and energy efficiency. Jim Finch with ex-McGill students Rodrigo Araya of Xstrata Technology, Canada, and Willy Kracht of University of Chile This panel discussion, which emphasised the importance of circuit control, unfortunately ran in parallel with another relevant session on simulation and control, then after the coffee break there were parallel sessions on concentrator management and operations, and waste management. With Hanl Long and Sun Chuanyao of BGRIMM A very long day gave us just an hour to freshen up before the evening cocktail reception and dinner. This was a superb event with great food and company. Among the interesting people on my table were the IMPC's Chinese representative, Sun Chuanyao, and Han Long, both of the Beijing General Research Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. Han organised the marvellous dinner at the Beijing IMPC in 2008, an event almost impossible to follow, although this evening's entertainment, provided by Projectango was of the highest quality: IMPC Chairman Cyril O'Connor with conference organisers Fabiola Bustamante, Romke Kuyvenhoven and Carlos Barahona An interesting plenary lecture this morning was presented by Jeffrey Dawes of Komatsu, Chile. Over the last few years a tendency has developed to outsource specific aspects of the mining process to the respective 'experts', such as is the case for equipment maintenance and repair services. While this makes perfect sense in terms of optimising resources and sharing risk, the fact that each of the different players in the production chain are looking to maximise their own individual result does raise the question of whether all have the same objective. Considering the extent of instant communications that exist today, resulting in the possibility of organising massive events in a matter of hours, communication between the different parties in the mining value chain surely can be improved, in order to optimise the process both for the process owner, the mining company and their suppliers. John Herbst of Metso Minerals, USA presented the second plenary, showing how advanced modelling and simulation methods have evolved over the last half century. In the last 50 years prediction errors for advanced mineral processing models have been reduced from about 20% to less than 1%; if computer developments continue and gifted investigators from a variety of disciplines see the value of joint efforts, then strong advancements will continue to occur. There were two very interesting sessions after the coffee break, but unfortunately running in parallel. Geometallurgy is the latest edition to the mineral processing lexicon and has already been the subject of a major conference this year, and is an integral part of MEI's Process Mineralogy '14. Romke Kuyvenhoven chaired a panel discussion on geometallurgy, which ran in parallel with a session on flotation equipment. The world's largest flotation cell will soon be installed and tested by FLSmidth at a mine in USA. The 600 Series SuperCell will be used as a rougher-scavenger in the copper flotation circuit. Flotation '13 keynote speaker Dariusz Lelinski described how CFD models of existing cells were used to develop these huge cells, the volume of which varies from 600 to 700 m3 depending on launder configuration. Other papers in this session discussed the use of flotation columns, Jameson Cells and forced-air flotation machines. This has been an excellent conference, in terms of networking and quality of papers. The papers are available in a Proceedings volume (ISBN 978-956-8504-99-1) from Gecamin. I congratulate the organisers on their professionalism. It has been my first Procemin conference, but it will not be my last! I now look forward to returning to Santiago next year for the IMPC, which I feel is in safe hands with Gecamin as organiser under the chairmanship of Santa Maria University's Juan Yianatos. Labels: Comminution, Conference Diaries, Conferences, Flotation, General, People A pleasant evening with JKTech After a long and fruitful day at Procemin '13 it was good to stroll into downtown Santiago this evening for a reception hosted by Sarah Schwarz and Diana Drinkwater of the JKTech. Sarah relocated to Santiago from Brisbane 18 months ago, and it was great to hear how she and her family have settled into their new life in Chile. Sarah and Office Manager Claudia Maturana Pino run the Chilean office of JKTech. With IMPC UK representative Jan Cilliers, Diana, Sarah and Claudia Congratulations to Diana, the Technical Programme Manager for the JKTech in their main Brisbane headquarters. Yesterday she became the first woman to be elected to the International Mineral Processing Council. This is richly deserved; Diana is dynamic and a great networker and will be a tremendous asset to the IMPC. She embraces modern social media such as LinkedIn and Facebook, all of which help to promote our industry, particularly to young people. A fascinating visit to Minera Valle Central Today I took part in a visit to Minera Valle Central, an optional day in the Procemin '13 programme. It was perhaps the most interesting mine visit that I have ever made, so it was surprising that of the 300+ delegates registered for the conference, only about a dozen signed up for this. Valle Central started operating in 1992 with the purpose of recovering copper and molybdenum from the concentrator tailings of Codelco's El Teniente Division, the world's largest underground copper mine, fed to the plant by gravity flow in a 40km long launder. In the first stage, the operation was focused on the treatment of the fine fraction of the tailings, operating a 100,000 tons per day flotation plant, in a novel cascade arrangement, resulting in a low grade concentrate, which could then be upgraded in a conventional flotation plant. After 1992, Valle Central developed an expansion program to increase its production, by incorporating the recovery of the copper contained in the coarse fraction of the tailings. This coarse fraction represents approximately 45% of the copper in the tailings, which could not be recovered by the cascade plant designed only for the treatment of the fine fraction of the El Teniente tailings. By the end of 1996, Valle Central began the operation of a new 30,000 tons per day plant, incorporating grinding and classification of the coarse fraction of tailings, feeding a conventional flotation circuit. The current process consists of classification of all tailings, assaying around 0.12% Cu, that are received daily from El Teniente, as well as tailings assaying around 0.3% Cu recovered by high pressure monitoring from the old tailings dump, grinding the coarse fraction in closed circuit, followed by conventional flotation, recovering a concentrate from the fine fraction, and producing final saleable copper and molybdenum concentrates. In 2012 the plant produced 23,000 tones of copper and 970,000 lbs of molybdenum. What was particularly fascinating was the process of 'cascade flotation', unique to this operation. I will not attempt to describe it now- I am preparing a YouTube video of the process which I hope to have ready next week. Labels: Commodities, Conferences, People Roger Kelley -a face from the past A great surprise this evening was finding an old Zambia colleague in the bar, chatting to IMPC Chairman Cyril O'Connor. I worked with Roger Kelley at Nchanga in the early 1970s and have not seen him since, until this evening. Roger, 72, lives in Chile and is an independent metallurgical consultant, travelling enthusiastically around the world. It was great to meet up with him after all this time. With Roger Kelley and Cyril O'Connor A long weekend in Santiago After arriving on midday Saturday I have spent the last two days relaxing and wandering around Santiago, the capital of Chile. It was founded by Spanish Conquistador Pedro de Valdivia in1541, who chose the location because of its climate, abundant vegetation, and the ease with which it could be defended against the Incas - the Mapocho River then split into two branches and rejoined further downstream, forming an island. This is my 3rd visit to Santiago, the last time being in 1997 for Minerals Engineering '97 and it is evident that its steady economic growth over the past few decades has transformed it into a modern metropolis, with a rising skyline, including the tallest building in Latin America, the 300m Gran Torre Santiago. The cityscape is shaped by several stand-alone hills and the fast-flowing park-lined Mapocho River. Mountains of the Andes chain can be seen from most points in the city and they apparently contribute to a considerable smog problem, particularly during winter. The city outskirts are surrounded by vineyards, and Santiago is within a few hours of both the mountains and the Pacific Coast. During our previous visits Barbara and I skied in the nearby Andes and spent a pleasant week on the coast at Vina del Mar. All in all it is an ideal setting for next year's IMPC and the IMPC Council are here in force this week for their final site inspection. They will be impressed - it is a beautiful city ideally suited to exploring on foot. I was up very early on Sunday morning and met John Herbst near reception. He represents USA on the IMPC and he had just arrived after an exhausting journey from his home in Hawaii. After breakfast I walked up Santiago's most famous hill, San Cristobel, light training for next month's assault on Table Mountain! Santiago from San Cristobel Hill At the summit This morning I walked along the river bank to the city centre, its hustle and bustle in sharp contrast to the Sheraton's location at the foot of San Cristobel hill. Approaching Downtown Downtown Santiago Sheraton (centre) at San Cristobel Labels: IMPCs A few early birds in Santiago Travelling to Chile from UK is long and tiring, and I arrived in Santiago at midday today after a 15 hour flight from Heathrow via Sao Paulo. I am here for Procemin '13 which starts with a field trip on Tuesday. Apart from myself there were a few more early arrivals today, and I had a late lunch with Kari Heiskanen of Aalto University, Finland, and chatted briefly with Graham Heyes of CSIRO, Diana Drinkwater of JKTech and Jan Cilliers of Imperial College. I hope to be providing daily updates, either here or on the Twitter feed in the right hand column, and will publish a full report on the conference, with photos, early next week. Congratulations Mauricio Torem I was really pleased to hear the news (MEI Online) that Prof. Mauricio Torem will be the new editor of International Journal of Mineral Processing from next January. Over the years Mauricio has become a good friend of the family. He represents Brazil on the Editorial Board of Minerals Engineering, and regularly attends MEI Conferences, particularly in Falmouth, a town that he has grown to love. In Falmouth, May 2011, with Mauricio and his wife Ana, Barbara, Dean Eastbury (Publishing Manager, Elsevier) and Jannie van Deventer University of Melbourne and Minerals Engineering Editorial Board member) He brings great enthusiasm and drive to everything that he does, so I am sure that the future of IJMP will rest safely in his capable hands. Congratulations from all your friends at MEI. Labels: Journals, People Happy 85th birthday Fathi Habashi Prof. Fathi Habashi, Emeritus Professor at Laval University, Canada, is a truly remarkable man. I know many septuagenarians in our industry who have no thoughts of retirement, and quite a number of octogenarians, but few as active as Fathi, who celebrates his 85th birthday today. His energy is boundless, and he still travels the world presenting courses and keynote lectures, and is a prolific writer of books. I see him every year at the SME Annual Meeting, where he not only attends but makes presentations, often describing his travels. At next year’s meeting in Salt Lake City he will be reporting on his travels in Turkey. Also next year he publishes a new book A Metallurgist on the Move, describing the places that he has been to and the friends that he has made in his very long life in the minerals industry. This year he has been in South America, in August at Vina del Mar, Chile, where he was guest speaker at a conference organised by extractive metallurgy students at the Catholic University in Valparaiso. In May he was in Ica, Peru, where he gave a short course on the extractive metallurgy of gold. In Vina del Mar, Chile In Ica, Peru He will be in Peru again in November to give a short course on pressure hydrometallurgy in Lima, and then in December he will be discussing the heap leaching of phosphate rock with nitric acid at Agadir in Morocco. Even for a youngster such as me his schedule would be exhausting, so raise your glasses to him today. Fathi you are an inspiration! GeoMet 2013 It was good to report on Dr. Megan Becker's recent award at World Gold '13. Megan, of the University of Cape Town, is MEI's consultant to Processing Mineralogy '14. Immediately following World Gold, GeoMet '13 was held at the same venue and Megan has kindly provided the following report: Monday 30th September This morning Dr Simony Dominy from Snowden welcomed around 200 delegates to the 2nd AusIMM GeoMet conference which is held here in the Hilton Hotel, in Brisbane Australia. I have great expectations about the quality of this conference, which follows on from the highly successful inaugural GeoMet conference, also held in Brisbane in 2011. The conference was formally opened by Alice Clark, the immediate past president of the AusIMM. Alice duly noted her thanks to all the sponsors: especially for the platinum sponsor FLSmidth (FLSmidth are also sponsoring the MEI Process Mineralogy '14 conference next year). Following Alice Clark's official opening, Dr Simon Dominy did a brief survey of the mix of delegates attending the conference: a fairly equal mix of geologists and metallurgists with a few mining engineers. Somehow as a process mineralogist, I felt that my own career interests weren't captured since although I have degrees in both geology and engineering, I feel like I sit somewhere in between these two disciplines and don't have a real identity within either one of them. I'd be interested to hear from other process mineralogists what they feel. The FLSmidth team The first speaker of the conference was Professor Steve Begg who delivered the Pedro Carrasco lecture. Steve is the Professor of Petroleum engineering and Management at the Australian School of Petroleum at the University of Adelaide. His plenary Some reflections on uncertainty, decisions, models and people set the theme of the morning, focusing heavily on geostatistics. Steve noted a very real problem in industry in that the bigger and more important a project gets, the more likely it ends up in disaster. He talked through a variety of reasons as to why business outcomes are not living up to expectations: through gross under estimates and a naive understanding of NPV, as well as the fact that good decision making requires accurate estimates of uncertainty. He clearly clarified the differences between uncertainty and natural variation, in that uncertainty is a function of what we know. His underlying message to the audience was that the main role of the geoscientist / engineer is to support decision making and that technical work is aimed at uncertainty assessments to aid decision making. The theme of geostatistics continued through the morning and after lunch there was a change of pace focusing more on the topics of ore characterisation and texture analysis. Professor Dee Bradshaw from the JKMRC (a consultant for MEI's Flotation '13 conference in Cape Town next month), gave a review paper on The influence of textural variation and gangue mineralogy on recovery of copper by flotation from porphyry ore co-authored by Al Cropp and Will Goodall. Dee's paper set a theme for the conference in noting how important texture is in geometallurgy. She also talked through the first principles of the theoretical grade recovery curve, whereby the mineralogy ultimately dictates the overall grade and recovery emphasising the nature of the relationship between grade and recovery. The theoretical grade recovery curve is probably one of the most useful contributions that has developed out of the field of process mineralogy and I always ensure that I expose my undergraduate and postgraduate students to this concept. Dee Bradshaw and Simon Dominy with JKMRC students The afternoon continued through the theme of textures with some nice talks by Dr Julie Hunt from CODES at the University of Tasmania Estimating comminution indices through ore mineralogy, chemistry and drill core logging, as well as by Laura Perez-Baurneuvo on New perspectives on quantitative textural analysis. Laura is currently finishing up her PhD studies at the University of Madrid, Spain. I first met Laura at Process Mineralogy '12 in Cape Town at the end of last year where she gave one of the best presentations of the conference. Laura has developed some of her own textural indices that are centred on the use of linear intercepts and showcased using a case study from the Zambian copper belt. Tuesday October 1st Day 2 of the conference started with a keynote from Prof Karin Olson Hoal from the Colorado School of Mines discussing the importance of mineralogical inputs into geometallurgical programs. She started fairly light-heartedly with a cartoon on the Pyrites of the Caribbean as an illustration of the role of mineralogy with the poor mineralogist trying to defend himself by pointing out that the gold is in the pyrite. Her key message was to emphasize that the mineralogy is the quantification of ore body variability and this needs to be incorporated into financial models for project variability. The second keynote was delivered by Steve Williams from GEOMET Tech in Canada: A historical perspective of the success of geometallurgical methodologies. Although somewhat controversial as to when the history of geometallurgy actually started, he did emphasize the need that people of multiple skills need to work together, and that often geomet just requires pure long term commitment from those involved in building and refining a geometallurgical model and believing it will provide long term value, even in cases where the model indicates that the deposit will not be economic. Once again, the theme of ore variability came through in that "there is no such thing as an average ore body". Aukje Benedictus (left) of FEI demonstrating the new mine site automated mineralogy The rest of the day provided an interesting mix of case studies on gold, PGMs, uranium, iron ore, and copper; as well as the development of various methodologies as indicators of geometallurgical performance be they from actual physical tests (BWI, flotation indicator, leach performance) or from actual mineralogical and chemical data (e.g. the mineralogical approach of Prof Pertti Lamberg from Lulea University of Technology in Sweden). Caroline Johnson from CSIRO in Australia delivered a very articulate and interesting presentation on the microscale characterisation of pristine and processed calcrete hosted uranium ore that showed the need for a thorough understanding of ore forming processes when interpreting hydrometallurgical extraction. The conference dinner was held on Tuesday evening, and provided a good break from the formalities of the conference and a chance to catch up with old and new acquaintances to the backdrop of some light hearted live jazz. Wednesday October 2nd The third day of the conference continued on the theme of ore variability with a keynote delivered by Prof Malcolm Powell of the JKMRC, University of Queensland. Malcolm spoke on how the value of geometallurgy is not in the measurements and the data, but rather on how you use it and illustrated this by his vision of future mining where ore processing circuits leverage ore variability to maximise resource efficiency. This of course requires the ability to be able to model equipment and circuit performance with efficiency, which is the aim of his Research Chair in Sustainable Comminution. Malcolm's talk was followed by Dean David of AMEC Australia who spoke of how the Joint Ore Reserves Committee (JORC, managed through the AusIMM) now requires the reporting of geometallurgical information in mineral resources and reserve estimation. This is clearly an indication that geomet is here to stay and that geometallurgy is now becoming part of global best practise. My favourite talk of the conference was delivered by Michelle Sciortino from Royal Nickel Company who gave the best example of geometallurgy in practise in her talk on the geomet modelling of the Dumont nickel deposit in Canada. Michelle clearly showed the integration of mineralogical and metallurgical information in the geometallurgical model, and how it has been continually refined to account for the mineralogical complexities of the Dumont deposit. Last but not least, the conference concluded with some talks on the need for incorporating acid rock drainage (ARD) indicators into the geometallugical model. As we continue to process more mineralogically complex ores, so we need to be thinking about ARD upfront when designing the operation. Ultimately, we should be thinking about ways of removing ARD upfront rather than late stage treatment with lime addition. After the awards of the best young presenter prizes to Caroline Johnson from the CSIRO (best local presentation) and Michelle Sciortino from the Royal Nickel Company (best international presentation), Dr Simon Dominy gave his closing conference remarks. Simon spoke of how the challenges for geomet in the future will be to ensure that the geomet approach gets embedded in practise, ensuring correct sampling and testing methodologies especially on small scale samples, reducing mineralogical uncertainty and designing plants for ore variability. The 3rd GeoMet conference is planned for early 2016. Labels: Analytical, Conference Diaries, Conferences, General, People Golden Memories of Leeds University It is exactly 50 years ago this week since I started my undergraduate course in metallurgy at Leeds University and over the weekend we had very special visitors to Falmouth. Bob Schofield and his wife Jean, and Graham and Sheila Neate were friends throughout our undergraduate days, and Bob and Jean we only made contact with again earlier this year. At Kynance Cove with Bob and Jean Schofield and Graham and Sheila Neate We naturally reminisced over many things, and had a laugh at a few of the old photos, including our 1966 graduation photo below. What is really noticeable now is the fact that all the graduates were male, and in all our 6 years, as under- and then post-graduates, we never saw a female student in the Houldsworth Faculty of Technology. Graduation day 1966. I am back row far right, Graham 3rd left and Bob 6th left And the lecturers were without exception male. They were also, with a few exceptions, not particularly inspiring. It was fairly obvious that to be a good, inspirational lecturer required a combination of enthusiasm, confidence and deep knowledge of the subject. Pat Kelly had these qualities in abundance. He taught crystallography, a subject which could have been made very tedious, but he brought his subject to life, as did the very eminent head of department, Prof. Jack Nutting, later my PhD supervisor, who impressed me by lecturing without notes, often wandering off on tangents but all the time communing with the class. Other lecturers occupied the other end of the spectrum. Apart from the specialist lectures in metallurgy, we also had lectures on the basics- physics, chemistry and maths. Unfortunately not just we metallurgists, but engineers, fuel technologists, ceramicists etc (all male!) and classes were held en masse in a huge tiered lecture theatre. I don't know how it was decided who would get the short-straw in terms of teaching these subjects, but it was a very short straw indeed. Chemistry 2T was taken by a ruddy Scot who quite obviously wished that he were somewhere else, anywhere else. As his lecture commenced, paper aeroplanes would begin to glide towards the blackboard, and the decibels would start to rise as the students discussed their weekend affairs and future plans. All the time his ruddy face would become ruddier until eventually, when the noise had reached cacophony levels he would suddenly stop and below at the top of his voice "FOR GOD'S SAKE, SHUT UP". There would then be a brief respite before the slow build up of noise levels again. This, however, did in no way compare with Maths 2T. A multitude of aeroplanes filled the air, some drifting lazily, others spiraling wildly towards their target, a hapless, young be-gowned lecturer, whose working life must have been a nightmare. Whenever he turned to write an equation on the blackboard, the aerial assault would be supplemented by an artillery bombardment of rolled up paper and even coins. While all this was happening, a register was being passed around the lecture theatre. We were required to show our presence by writing our names on the sheet, but of course if a friend was absent someone would sign in for him. It was also evident when the sheet arrived that there were a considerable number of people signed in who were patently not part of the course, Emma Royds, R. Sole etc. Surely he did not go away after the lecture and log all of these names in some kind of meaningless ledger? I found all this hard to believe. My working class background had taught me to respect my elders and betters, and school had imposed discipline by the cane, the slipper and the Bunsen burner hose. These people were University Lecturers for goodness sake, second only to High Court judges and Conservative MPs in commanding respect! I have to wonder why I was so enthusiastic about becoming a lecturer, when I joined Camborne School of Mines in 1973!! The students at CSM were also all male, and the first female graduated in 1984, 96 years after the School's foundation. When I left CSM in 1996 there had never been a female lecturer, now the Director is a woman and female graduates in mining and minerals engineering are commonplace around the world. How things have progressed and improved over the past few decades. With Murdoch University students at Metplant '11 Leeds University postgrads at ESCC '13 Labels: People, Visitors Book Memories of Mufulira, 1974 It was good to catch up with my old friend Ian Townsend, of Outotec, at the recent Base Metals '13 conference in South Africa. We were reminiscing about our time on the Zambian Copperbelt in the early 1970s. I was at Chingola, Ian at Mufulira. He showed me the photo below of the concentrator staff at Mufulira in 1974, and emailed to say: "I am top row, second from the left, in the days when I had hair and was 30kg lighter. On the far left is Martin Wright, next to me, now living in Cape Town. Plant Superintendent centre bottom row was John Aird, with whom I have recently re-established contact. He was heavily involved with initial development of the Chambishi Cobalt plant and was later involved with Kasese cobalt in Uganda. We had half-shares in a 505 racing dinghy and spent a lot of time swimming! Two places to the right on the other side of the lady is John Archer, who I still see occasionally and who is doing some consultancy from his home in Rutland (I think). There are others with whom I am still in contact such as John Newcombe and Andy Webster (2nd and 3rd from left on row below me). A couple of the Zambians were still working at Mufulira until very recently and we had good reunions on my return visits." If anyone can fill in the missing gaps, we would very much like to hear from you. Ian will be in Africa again in November, attending Flotation '13 in Cape Town. World Gold '13 MEI was a media sponsor for World Gold '13, which was held in Brisbane, Australia from September 26-29, and organised by The AusIMM. Dr. Mike Adams, MEI's Precious Metals '15 consultant, of Mutis Liber, Australia, represented us at the conference, and has kindly supplied this report on the event. The World Gold series of conferences is held about every two years, the previous one being held in Montreal (see posting of 7th October 2011), which the author also attended. Last week’s event was staged over two days with some parallel sessions covering various aspects of gold including exploration, geology, mining, processing, finance and environmental. The conference was surprisingly well attended given the margin squeeze due to lower gold price and increasing costs, and attracted almost 300 delegates from many countries. On the other hand, this fact may itself be an indication that companies may be looking for new paradigms towards profitability in a difficult market, a mood that was revealed in presentations and informal discussions alike. Mike Battersby, Will Goodall, Mike Adams and Chris Dunks at The AusIMM booth To this end, the conference did not disappoint. The excellent plenary speakers on Day 1 commenced a guided tour by Eduard Eshuys (Drummond Gold) of major Australian gold discoveries. A more controversial topic was covered by Professor Jannie van Deventer (University of Melbourne), in “Is there gold that we do not recognise”, which elicited food for thought as well as several questions, some tongue-in-cheek. The three Day 2 plenary speakers (curiously whose names were all Mark) received an enthusiastic response. These speakers robustly (and indeed almost brutally) exposed the paradigm shift that is required for a successful gold producer in the current market condition. Mark Clark (Regis Resources) asked “How did the gold mining industry squander the golden decade?” and convincingly concluded that the industry should go back to basic principles in cost reduction and operational excellence. Mark Morcombe (AngloGold Ashanti Obuasi) exposed various factors both internal and external that impinged on the profitability of a gold operation. The third Mark, Mark Bristow (Randgold Resources) described the logic behind the great success in the company “Building a successful African gold mining business”, again highlighting simple back-to-basics business principles as being the key that may have been partly forgotten by some operators in the heady boom years. The 60 technical papers that were accepted were trimmed from about 120 submissions and were generally well presented and with sound content, with only a few general review papers and one or two that elicited probing questions. Best presentation to a young researcher aptly went to Dr Megan Becker (University of Cape Town and an MEI consultant), who made a lucid and professional presentation covering an important topic covering the use of mineralogy to interpret acid rock drainage. Megan Becker with Mike Adams and Will Goodall Several papers covered processing of refractory gold ores, suggesting that despite the current issues that many of these operations have been experiencing, these ore types remain prominent on the radar of explorers and developers. Interestingly, roasting was addressed in several papers, suggesting that for specific ores such as double refractory ones, it remains a potentially viable process route provided the off gases are adequately handled. On the other hand, the interesting paper covering Barrick’s Goldstrike thiosulphate leaching process represents a new technology that expands capacity rather than replacing the roaster plant. Greg Smith and Nigel Ricketts David Morgan and Mike battersby Other papers that stood out included two covering the 6.4 Moz resource 5.8 Mtpa Tropicana gold operation in Western Australia (first gold pour occurred two days after the conference). Both gravity and flotation methods of concentration were covered in very interesting sessions, demonstrating various innovations. The environmental and water aspects of gold ore processing elicited interest, and the author was fortunate to be able to present a paper demonstrating how to obtain cyanide code compliance without installing a detox plant, on the basis of using hypersaline process water. CEEC's Elizabeth Lewis-Gray opens the CEEC Reception There were several pre- and post-conference workshops, including one on “Cyanide Management in the Gold Industry: Showcasing leading Practice”, which elicited robust discussion amongst the ~25 delegates and speakers. For the more intrepid delegates, particularly those attending the back-to-back Geomet conference the following week, there were also workshops in the intervening weekend. In addition, other events were held around the conference, such as the Delprat lecture (Professor Graham Jameson) and the CEEC (Coalition for Eco-Efficient Comminution) reception, which was held simultaneously with the official networking reception, so again decisions had to be made as to which to attend. As usual, the “gathering of the clans” with a mutual interest in gold proved to be useful networking and catching up with old colleagues and friends, some of whom were present at the MEI Precious Metals ’12 conference in Cape Town (the next Precious Metals ’15 conference is to be held in Falmouth, UK over May 11-12, 2015 and is expected to again present discussions from cutting edge minds).	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line137
__label__wiki	0.524555	0.524555	Murfreesboro’s model Greenway is featured in the latest edition of “The Insider,” the City’s monthly podcast, beginning Sunday, Dec. 20. Listen to this edition of “Insider” at "The Insider" Podcast If you prefer to watch the podcast on YouTube, including video and photos of the Greenway’s Barfield Trailhead ribbon-cutting, visit https://youtu.be/dqkUo0DaJog. The podcast will premiere on Podbean Sunday. The video version will be available on CityTV, YouTube, and Facebook beginning at 3 p.m. Dec. 20. The City recently completed construction of Phase 4 of the Murfreesboro Stones River Greenway with a ribbon-cutting Oct 23, 2020. The nearly three-mile stretch follows the West Fork of the Stones River through limestone bottom river and tributaries, hardwood forest, and cedar glade-like environments. Smaller trailheads offer parking, interpretive panels about local fauna and flora. Topics discussed with Parks & Recreation Director Nate Williams and Assistant Director Rachel Singer include: How the Stones River Greenway adds to the quality of life in Murfreesboro. Why the Murfreesboro Stones River Greenway is considered a model greenway in Tennessee. Features of the newest section from the terminus at Barfield Crescent Park to the Cason Trail. Plans for additional trail miles of the North Murfreesboro section of the Greenway. The new brochure for the Greenway featuring all 16 trailheads at www.murfreesboroparks.com. This latest edition of “The Insider” is available via Podbean, Spotify, Apple Podcast and the newest platform—“Amazon Music/Audible.” Podcasts can be accessed on the City of Murfreesboro’s website. Just click the “Podcast” link on the bottom of the homepage under “Connect With Us” https://cityofmurfreesborotn.podbean.com/ then click the latest episode or listen to previous episodes. “Insider” is hosted by Mike Browning and produced by Michael Nevills at City Hall. For City News online, visit www.Murfreesborotn.gov. ⇐Previous City Codes Inspector awarded 2020 ‘Code Official of the Year’Next⇒ Judge Ewing Sellers receives award from Municipal Judges Conference	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line139
__label__cc	0.615862	0.384138	Below are the latest news items from Motion City. Production and Web Development News Forever Team - Designing graphics without a creative director You may or may not know that I do improv theater. I recently joined a team and we named ourselves "Forever Team." It was based on a very inside joke that the general public wouldn't really care about. But when I was tasked with creating the logo and the poster graphic for our first show the name of the team sounded very "magical" and fantastic. So I created a graphic to match it. Free and Public Domain Photo and Image Providers Some help finding free to use, public domain photos and images for your web site or media project. The Rejected Piñata Support Group (comedy video) As some of you may know, I have joined a sketch comedy group called The Ice Cream Social Job. We have been producing short videos over the last several months. I am particularly proud of this video because I wrote it, I appeared in it, and I edited the darn thing. Plus I think it is rather funny and it is at least tangentially relevant to Halloween. Although I have embedded the video below, if you actually click through on the YouTube logo, you can subscribe to our channel and be notified when we release new videos. I don't think Apple likes me any more My daughter updated her MacBook to the latest OS. I believe it is "El Capitan." She restarted her computer and was met with the message: "Your computer is disabled. Try again in 60 minutes. But seriously. Fuck you." We both looked around and couldn't find this as a common occurrence. Indeed, no one else seemed to have this issue.. She has a Genius Bar appointment set up for later today. I'll follow up with more info as I learn it. Seems like someone at Apple has gone rogue. New Year, New Resolutions With the New Year comes new resolutions. This year we're going to do a couple things. First we are going to try community gardening and I am looking for a good Westside location for that. Recommendations are always welcome. I also want to work on our emergency preparedness and get out emergency supplies in order. New Website Launch: Paper Garden Projects Our latest web site development project has just launched. It is a fully responsive, WordPress site with e-commerce features. Because the subject matter was paper craft and card making, we worked closely with the store owner and blogger, Catherine St. Clair, to convey a "hand-made" feel. We used shadows and textured images along with her original hand made art. New Logo Designs Today we added a couple new logos in the Motion City logo portfolio. The portfolio now includes logos for Popsitivity and Cadence Culture. Popsitivity is a non-profit that encourages scholastic achievement for at-risk students by connecting them to mentoring pop stars. Cadence Culture is an online destination for street biking news and events. Google Annouces Technology to Predict Any Films Success An exciting new announcement from Google. Google Blockbuster Predicts A Films Success with 94% Accuracy. I can't wait to see what Google comes up with next. If you enjoyed this video from Team Coco, you might also like: http://youtu.be/ZI8QZ2WN-Xo Okay Subscribe Already You are not subscribed to the Motion City newsletter. How do i know this? Because very, very few have subscribed and I'm just playing the odds here. I ask that you view the bottom section of any page on http://motioncity.com take a second and enter your email address in there. I swear to you I will not overwhelm you with spam. In fact I have only sent out two email updates so far this year. Also, I promise to guard your email and share it with no one. Posting Directly to Twitter and Facebook News articles on motioncity.com will now be automatically posted to Twitter and Facebook. Like some mindless robot this site will take each new post, chop it down to less that 140 characters and send it off to Twitter. It will also put a post up on my Facebook page as well. MotionCity.com Now Powered by Voice Search MotionCity.com is now powered by voice search. If you don't feel like typing in your search term, you can now simply click on the microphone icon and speak your search term. (Not the one on the right, that is just a picture. You need the one in the search box to the left. Don't see it? Read on.) Full Circle Back to Director It's funny how the circle sometimes completes itself. Way back when, at the dawn of Motion City Films, there was only one commercial application for creating animation. It was a program called Macromedia Director. We bought this program and used it to create animations for an MTV contest, many corporate videos for companies like AAA (the Auto Club), Sheppard Associates, Ingram/Micro-D, and even Mattel. Loving Adobe Edge Animate Throughout the past year I participated in the public Beta of Adobe's new Edge product. It is now released as Adobe Edge Animate 1.0. The big news: Adobe is releasing this powerful tool for FREE. You can read the announcement here. Like a modern iPhone game developer or a crack dealer of old, Adobe is giving you this "taste" for free, certain that, as the product evolves, you will return with money in hand, ready to buy some more. And you will. At the Beach In... Burbank(!?) Motion City Visits L.A. Castle Studios Motion City celebrates 25 years in business. Web Site Launch: King Pong International Our latest website promotes table tennis TV show. CSnextLA Major Adobe user group meet-up and launch party for Adobe CS6. One Day - 14 Commercial Spots Motion City shoots 14 commercial spots in one day for Mountain Bounce.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line146
__label__cc	0.615387	0.384613	Accusantium nihil et et provident nihil non. IFAQs Items for Instawhine Category Archives: Union power Flashreport, Greenhut warnings on Fletcher vindicated 10-fold Posted on June 4, 2012 by cbreed99 Even before he quit the Republican Party in March, San Diego Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher had come into the cross hairs of influential Flashreport publisher Jon Fleischman and Steven Greenhut, the Sacramento-based libertarian think tanker, editor and pundit with a national following. Now, as an independent mayoral candidate in today's elections in San Diego, Fletcher has lived up to their warnings. He's essentially teamed up with public employee unions against San Diego's leading critic of the government status quo, rival mayoral candidate Carl DeMaio. I provide the grisly details here at Cal Watchdog. [DeMaio's} assault on the San Diego City Hall status quo has produced a vicious response from individual union members and union organizations. DeMaio and his supporters were taunted and harassed while gathering signatures for a sweeping benefits reform measure that’s on Tuesday’s ballot as Proposition B. The first-term councilman, who is gay, has also been baited for his sexual orientation and subjected to an ugly whispering campaign. Last week, the city police union began airing a grossly misleading attack ad that implied DeMaio didn’t think the families of dead cops should get survivor benefits. But the perverse twist is which mayoral candidate has been the unions’ main partner in assaulting DeMaio in defense of the status quo. It’s not [veteran Democratic congressman Bob] Filner, the abrasive, in-your-face traditional 1960s liberal. It’s Fletcher, a photogenic 35-year-old Marine war hero who until two months ago was a conservative Republican with some maverick trappings. After DeMaio shocked many observers by capturing the local GOP’s formal endorsement over the more experienced [county District Attorney Bonnie] Dumanis and more conventional Fletcher, Fletcher dropped his party affiliation and insisted it wasn’t driven by expedience but by his conscience. To the cheers of New York Times columnist David Brooks, Fletcher declared he could no longer in good faith be a member of a party that was part of a dysfunctional political dynamic dominated by “extremists.” Ever since, Fletcher has offered up DeMaio as an example of the “extremists” who are polluting California’s body politic — even as Fletcher has supported Proposition B, the sweeping benefits reform measure largely authored by DeMaio that can fairly be described as radical. It would shift all new city hires but police to 401(k)-type retirement benefits and seek to impose a five-year cap on the “pensionable pay” of all employees. ... Meanwhile, he’s kept his opinions to himself about the extremism on display in the union-led campaigns against Proposition A, which would ban the city’s use of project labor agreements unless doing so would lead to the loss of state or federal funds, and against Proposition B. To undercut Proposition A, unions got the Legislature and Gov. Jerry Brown to enact a law that takes state construction funds away from charter cities with PLA bans. That’s extraordinary enough, but it doesn’t compare to Sacramento’s reaction to Proposition B. The state Public Employment Relations Board, controlled by union allies, sought unsuccessfully to keep the measure off the ballot and has made clear its intention to scuttle the measure should it pass. Why? On the grounds that since some elected officials helped draft Proposition B, it amounted to a violation of collective-bargaining rights. By this bizarre standard, just about any attempt by the public to use the ballot process to directly control public employees’ pay and compensation can be deemed a violation of employee rights. For those on the outside looking in, this union bullying and intimidation may seem so grotesque and over the top that it verges on the comic. But for those who live anywhere else in California, don’t feel inclined to cackle. Today the target is unlucky San Diego, but soon it will be your community. In many ways, I remain an admirer of Nathan Fletcher. His work on Chelsea's Law was exemplary. It wasn't just a knee-jerk ramping up of prison sentences in response to a terrible crime. It was a thoughtful attempt to refocus the corrections system in a pragmatic way, a sincere attempt to target the real bad guys and get away from the warehousing of non-threats that is the preferred approach of California's prison-industrial complex. But I am baffled, sincerely baffled, if Fletcher honestly believes that his present course is the way to solve California's problems, as opposed to a way to help him climb the political ladder. Unless you're on his payroll, it's tough not to be cynical about his actions. Posted in Media watch, social justice is garbage, The social justice front, The world's biggest tank, Union power \| 1 Reply Will San Diegans stand up to Sacramento bullies? We'll find out Tuesday Posted on May 31, 2012 by cbreed99 Two ballot measures on the San Diego ballot Tuesday haven't just stirred up the ire of local unions. They've gotten the attention of union puppet masters in Sacramento, who have used the Legislature and a state agency to make clear that San Diego can't be allowed to have local control of how local government functions. Will San Diegans stand up to the bullies? We'll see. The issues are laid out in this U-T San Diego editorial: Proposition A would ban the city from requiring project labor agreements be used on construction projects, except when such bans would lead to the forfeiture of state or federal funding. PLAs dictate that governments follow costly, unnecessary union compensation practices and job rules. To try to intimidate voters in San Diego and elsewhere into voting against bans on PLAs, the union bullies who control Sacramento got a law passed that potentially could cost the city millions of dollars in state construction funds if Proposition A passes. The law, however, is legally suspect. But beyond that, enough is enough. It’s time someone stood up to Sacramento and illustrated that majority Democrats in the Legislature amount to puppets manipulated by their union masters. It’s disgraceful that Gov. Jerry Brown, who sometimes takes on unions, signed their bill into law. Proposition B would give all newly hired city workers but police officers 401(k)-style retirement plans instead of defined-benefit pensions. It would also direct elected city leaders to seek a five-year freeze on pensionable pay of city employees to keep down the long-term costs of retirement benefits for those with vested pension rights. Once again, the union bullies who control Sacramento are trying to keep San Diego voters from exercising local control of their government. The union allies who control the state Public Employment Relations Board have made clear they will try to block the measure by any means necessary. When will the insane excesses of California unions get the in-depth focus they deserve from the media? I've lived in Hawaii, a state where unions are nearly as powerful as in California, and I have seen how they operate. What happens in Sacramento just isn't the norm. It's grossly over the top. But we rarely see the media frame union power plays in a way that provides this context. Posted in Media watch, Union power \| Leave a reply Want to hear semi-informed blather about San Diego mayor's race, state props? Go here It was good to be back on the radio with Martha Montelongo of Gadfly Radio. Go here if you want to hear the podcast. That link should be good until Tuesday morning. For fans of my 2009-2011 show on KOGO 600 AM in San Diego, I have some news. I will have a weeknight show on the U-T TV cable channel in San Diego, probably an hour long, probably debuting in early summer. More info TK. Posted in If this is social justice, Jerry, Media watch, Podcasts, U-T TV cable show, Union power \| Leave a reply 'Social justice' types also victims of CalPERS' arrogance, incompetence The people running CalPERS constantly pat themselves on the back even as they join in a dishonest effort to downplay the pension crisis with disinformation and shady accounting. This is just what their most powerful patrons -- public employee unions -- want them to do. But the "social justice" set of the political left, which nominally includes unions, is also a victim of CalPERS' arrogance and incompetence. It turns out that CalPERS basically ignored directions from the Legislature that it divest its investments in firms involved in the Sudan genocide, one of the dearest causes of the celebrity and campus left. That's my CalPERS! This is from a San Diego CityBeat story from last year that just came to my attention this week. CalPERS may have changed its ways since, but the story is still a hilarious commentary on how it works: Since the mid 2000s, dozens of states have passed legislation requiring public pension funds to shed investments in companies working in Sudan as well as Iran, an increasingly hostile threat to global stability and U.S. national security. Most pension systems have reported fairly smooth transitions to what are sometimes described as “terror-free portfolios.” ... In California, the narrative goes a bit differently. At the end of December, the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) staff presented an estimate of what it spends annually “complying” with mandates to divest from companies in Sudan and Iran. The total bill: $550,000. ... CalPERS has a funny definition of “compliance.” It has not divested any stock nor honored the short “do not invest” list it released in 2006, complaining it would hurt the fund. In fact, CalPERS’s board passed a policy in February 2009 stating that it would not divest from companies as the law demands, period. ... CalPERS argued that writing “engagement” letters to the companies was sufficient. CalPERS’s latest reports to the legislature, dated Dec. 31, 2010, indicate they have made little progress. As of Nov. 30, 2010, CalPERS had $23 million invested in two companies operating in Sudan which it says are immediately subject to divestment and $347 million invested in companies in Iran that also must be divested. When does the crack-up begin on the left? When do the social justice types figure out they're totally being used? When do they notice that budget cuts always punish the poor and needy much more than public employees? As a libertarian lite who wishes social issues would just disappear, I understand the view that the right's coalition is incoherent. But the left's should be seen the same way. The "social justice" set has being used as camouflage in California for years and years and years, and you'd think eventually that George Clooney, Ramona Ripston or the UC Berkeley Faculty Senate would figure this out. Posted in CalPERS (groan), If this is social justice, Media watch, Union power \| 1 Reply Calbuzz boys, Skelton analyze state woes -- never mention unions! LOL! The idea that unions are a bad influence on California is hardly just a conclusion of folks on the right. In 2005, the Los Angeles Times endorsed Prop. 75, saying barring the automatic deduction of union dues from public employees' pay would lead to a fairer balance of power at the local and state government level. The Sacramento Bee editorial page has gone after unions for being unreasonable for years; here's a recent example. Unions are so out of control that it barely raises eyebrows when union officials and allies like state Dem Party leader John Burton advocate a policy that would prevent giving anti-convulsion drugs to kids at risk of death if the person doing the giving isn't a union nurse. But guess who completely absolves unions? The Calbuzz boys, whose writing style/shtick builds off the idea that they're smarter than everybody, and the L.A. Times' George Skelton, dean of Sacramento journos. Really, guys? Not a single mention of unions in your recent dissections of California's dysfunction? Not one? Wow. Skelton's myopia is his norm. I groaned when I read the following but was hardly surprised. The real blame rests with the recession, an outdated roller-coaster tax system, the two-thirds legislative vote requirement for tax increases, an outmoded Proposition 13 property tax system that has shifted power and responsibility from local governments to Sacramento, legislative term limits that stunt lawmakers' growth — and political polarization. Same old Shelton. But remember that Phil Trounstine and Jerry Roberts, the Calbuzzers, write as if they alone understand California yet are otherwise surrounded by idiots and knaves. So how on Earth is it possible that they could write 930 words on the state's screwed-up budget and never mention the word "union"? Now I understand the theory that Proposition 13 is the root of all evil. I understand the theory that the lack of an oil extraction tax seems unfair given how other states deal with the same issue. But, holy bleep, to look at all of California's problems and boil it down to GOP opposition to higher taxes? Really? Like Reagan, Brown is at heart a traditionalist, embracing the old-school belief that politics is the art of the possible, fueled by negotiations in the service of finding agreement. That is why Brown keeps expecting Republicans to want to negotiate for things they want in exchange for things he wants. But the vast majority of the GOP minority doesn’t want to negotiate, because they don’t want an agreement. Brown’s focused and patient efforts to craft a budget deal belie the decades-old rap on him as too heedless and flaky for the painstakingly hard work of governing. He can only hope, however, that amid all the posing, grandstanding and strutting in the Republican caucus, there are at least a couple of grown-ups with the backbone to stand up and help him do the job. Given what happened to Nathan Fletcher's smart tax deal with Jerry Brown last fall, I understand gripes about GOP obstinance. But when one side has so much more power than the other side, it's simply bizarre to absolve the strongest supporters of the side with the great majority of power of any responsibility for the state's problems. It takes amazing tunnel vision to write 930 words about why California is screwed up and not mention unions. It takes amazing chutzpah to do this in a column in which the Calbuzzers mock other journos for their takes on the Golden State. What do they ignore? Lots of things. When times are bad, unions pressure Democrats to always make social services for the poor be the first target of budget cutting, preserving public employee compensation by any means possible. When times are good, they pressure Democrats to save extra revenue for them. In the revenue boom that lasted from 2003-2007, social services spending went up by barely the rate of inflation, while spending on schools (teacher unions) and prisons (guard unions) went up at least four times as fast. Unions have blocked teacher tenure reform and any policies that pursue teacher accountability. Unions have rigged CalPERS and CalSTRS into fighting for a crazy status quo by controlling their boards and used their clout in the Legislature to block pension reform. They've passed one state law to make it more difficult for local governments to declare bankruptcy, so as to preserve public employee compensation, and they're pursuing another law to make it even harder. They oppose letting volunteers clean up parks. They require leaders of the Legislature to block significant bills helping the economy because then they can use those bills as political chits to win concessions related to, you guessed it, protect public employee jobs and compensation. In south Los Angeles, when Latino parents wanted a charter school, someone left leaflets warning that their organizing meeting would be raided by agents looking for illegal immigrants. UTLA members are the only logical suspects. Against this backdrop, it's nutty that anyone can go 20 words without citing unions as part of the state's dysfunction, much less full essays. At least when Skelton ignores the T. Rex in the room, he doesn't do so while patting himself on the back. In their essay, Roberts' and Trounstine's self-regard rings through: The only thing worse was reading the inane Back East commentary, written by the usual assortment of Romney-sniffing blowhards, ill-informed thumbsuckers and right-wing mantra-chanters whose knowledge and understanding of California politics seems proscribed by the collected rantings of Flashreport freelancers and the world’s shortest book, viz. The Wit and Wisdom of Jon Coupal. OK, OK, it's clear, Calbuzzers, you think the pundits on the right are nitwits. But how can it not be crystal-clear, Jerry and Phil, that when you write 930 words of analysis on California's woes without mentioning unions, you are yourselves guilty of the same partisan hackery and hucksterism you see on the right? I will leave the closing argument to the L.A. Times, and the paper's Oct. 16, 2005, editorial: At many levels of government, public employee unions, aided by their political war chests, have gained control over both sides of the negotiating process. When public employee unions wield the type of influence they now do in California, too much governing becomes an exercise in self-dealing. I look forward to a sarcastic, name-calling screed against the L.A. Times from the Calbuzz guys. Not. Posted in If this is social justice, Jerry, Lying to us for our own good, Media watch, Our side's character>your side's character, The world's biggest tank, They really said it, Union power \| 4 Replies 'Terrorists' who oppose tax hikes: Prepare for the onslaught Here we go again. As frenzied as the tax-hike obsessives have been in recent months and years, Jerry Brown's weekend warning that the 2012-13 budget is $16 billion short is sure to ramp up their intensity. So get ready for the media/Dem onslaught, folks, and prepare to be reviled. Will Jerry Brown get lots of blame for his $4-billion-in-extra-revenue fantasy that he concocted last June? It's made a dire situation much worse. Will anyone in the media point out that contracts with gov unions that Jerry approved this fiscal year not only continue providing "step" increases for time on the job -- in other words, just for showing up -- but overall pay hikes? Will anyone in the media point out that the people with power in this state have blocked all fundamental reforms -- except the one (prisoner "realignment") that allowed them to shift costs to local governments? No, no and no. Instead, we'll see the usual one-two punch to explain all that is wrong with California. 1. Those damn Republicans who oppose tax hikes are to blame. No. They're. Not. For all the alleged insurmountable obstacles to raising taxes in California, the state has among the nation's highest income, sales and gasoline taxes; and the highest corporate taxes in the West. Property taxes are about average, thanks to Prop. 13. We should be able to live within our means. Most other states can pull this off. Which brings us to the next refrain in the Dem/media litany... 2. Prop. 13 is to blame. It ruined the state. No. It. Didn't. The limit on the annual increases has not prevented property tax revenue from going up by more than population growth and inflation for more than 30 years. Yes, the state may have a screwed-up tax structure. But that's not Prop. 13's fault. That's the fault of the status quoists in Sacramento who like things as they are, no matter what, just with more money from taxpayers. And the incredible thing about Prop. 13 is that it just showed its utility all over again during the housing bubble. Home prices in some markets nearly tripled from 1998 to 2006. Imagine the disruption in the lives of retirees and those living on fixed incomes if their property taxes had gone up that fast. Yet I think I'm the only guy in the California print media who has ever mentioned this. That's incredible, when you think about what that says about media conformity -- and stupidity. How is it not news that Prop. 13 saved millions of people from disaster? Because it doesn't fit the narrative. A more honest narrative might occasionally, yunno, note that the revenue crisis could be alleviated with economic growth, but that the Legislature and the governor only care about the sliver of the private sector economy that includes "green" jobs. A more honest narrative might also note that for the eighth year in a row, the nation's CEOs have rated California as the most business-hostile state. But those narratives will give way to the usual media-Dem juggernaut. Everything can be made right in California with higher taxes, and people who don't support higher taxes are greedy "terrorists." This is one case where I'm rooting for the "terrorists" -- my fellow "terrorists." Tom McClintock saw all this coming in September 2008 in his final major speech to the Legislature: According to the State Controller's reports, last year, our tax structure produced $96 billion in actual revenues - a record year. We budgeted $103 billion and spent $107 billion. In short, our spending exceeded our revenue by $11 billion and exceeded our adopted budget by $4 billion. This year, if the economy gets no worse, we can expect to produce $97 billion in tax revenues. Claims that the revenues will be higher are based on accounting gimmicks that mask the numbers but do not change the underlying reality. .... So I leave the Senate with this warning. I believe that last year's budget pushed this state beyond a fiscal tipping point. The unsustainable growth of spending pushed us beyond a point where neither tax increases nor conventional line item reductions can bring us into balance. ... I believe we have now also passed the point where conventional budget reductions can restore our state's finances. I believe we have now reached the terminal stage of a bureaucratic state where our bureaucracies have become so large and so tangled that they can no longer perform basic functions. "The terminal stage" has been unfolding ever since. What happens to California? It changes in sweeping, fundamental, unprecedented ways. Or it collapses. Posted in Economics, If this is social justice, Jerry, Maviglio watch, Media watch, Uncategorized, Union power \| 5 Replies Stanford studies showing no correlation between spending, school quality hijacked again Posted on May 3, 2012 by cbreed99 The fifth anniversary of the massive Stanford-led studies of California public schools is upon us, and once again, the special interests are characterizing the report as focusing on a lack of resources. Unlike the reporters who are now writing about "Getting Down to Facts," I actually read about a thousand pages of the reports. And as I wrote back in 2007, buried in all the multiple studies, here is the lead: A review of all California school districts shows “essentially no relationship between spending and student outcomes” and that spending more is futile until “extensive and systemic reforms” are in place. In other words, the problem is much more about the stupid way money is spent than the lack of money. Here's my March 25, 2007 take on the comprehensive review of state schools. “Getting Down to Facts” – the massive new study of California's public education system – amounts to a comprehensive repudiation of the argument that all we need to improve schools is a better-funded status quo. But instead of acknowledging this, the interest groups, union officials and liberal pundits who have long defined school quality as a function of school spending insisted the study was in fact deeply sympathetic to their position. Here's what a “coalition of community-based and advocacy organizations – California ACORN, Californians for Justice, PICO California and Public Advocates” said: “[T]hese studies make it clear that California needs to make a substantial new investment in public education – in addition to system reform – to ensure all students meet expectations.” No, that's not what the studies make clear. They say unless huge reforms are in place, it's pointless to spend more. Next up on the spin front were the Sacramento Bee's Peter Schrag and California Teachers Association President Barbara Kerr. Both slagged Arnold Schwarzenegger for saying the “studies show that no amount of money will improve our schools without needed education reform. We need to focus on critical school reform before any discussion about more resources.” Schrag and Kerr sought to frame it as the governor's conclusion – not the researchers' – that reforms should come first, then funding. Bunk. The study says a review of all California school districts shows “essentially no relationship between spending and student outcomes” and that spending more is futile until “extensive and systemic reforms” are in place. Yes, “Getting Down to Facts” does say a case can be made for a big increase in spending to help underperforming schools and the millions of California kids, especially Latinos and African-Americans, who are poorly served by them. But it says reforms must come first. Saying “Getting Down to Facts” calls for vast, unfocused new education spending is like saying “A Nation at Risk” – the landmark 1983 federal report that triggered the modern school reform movement – called for vast, unfocused new education spending. Oh, wait. Now that I think about it, that's exactly what defenders of the education status quo did back then, too. I look forward to how Peter Schrag, the editorial pages of the state's newspapers and, of course, the inestimable George Skelton get things wrong this time around. Here's a link to all the studies that comprised "Getting Down to Facts." You can read them all, and you will never see a single sentence agreeing with the central premise of California education policy, which is that school quality is a function of school spending. No, it's not. Posted in Education, Media watch, Status quo uber alles, Union power \| 1 Reply The upside to downer court ruling: John Chiang is screwed Posted on April 24, 2012 by cbreed99 Tuesday's tentative court ruling that the Legislature had the sole authority to determine whether the budget it enacts is "balanced" is terrible news for California because it means Proposition 25 -- the 2010 measure allowing state spending plans to pass on a simple majority of the Assembly and Senate -- has no enforcement mechanism to prevent fake budgets from being treated as balanced. We're likely to be on an even faster road to ruin as a result. But if you're looking for a reason to smile, remember this: The guy who tried to rein in the Legislature and force it to produce more honest budgets is Controller John Chiang. So much for Chiang's political future. The failure of his single major attempt to do right by California's public -- as opposed to its public employees -- has a delicious double whammy effect. It's now once again certain that the right (and taxpayers who follow the news) will never forgive his union duplicity. But unions will never forgive Chiang for his betrayal. Next stop for Chiang? May I be the first to quote the great Margita Thompson one-liner about Cruz Bustamante and suggest the union-defying Chiang has a future as a casino greeter. Let us recount just a few of the ways Chiang was a stooge for unions or the status quo or special interests before his one attempt to stick up for the public. Here's what I've written over the years: From 2008: Now it's state Controller John Chiang's turn to interfere with CalPERS on bogus grounds. Chiang, a member of the CalPERS board, this week won approval of a policy requiring the pension giant to pressure the companies it invests in to have diverse corporate boards of directors. The rationale: to help these firms "maintain a competitive edge" by utilizing a "wide range of talent and expertise." Certainly diverse leadership is a worthy goal, but having the nation's largest pension fund bully well-run companies into adopting de facto racial quotas for their corporate boards is a grotesque abuse of power. For the state controller to do so on the grounds that he's just worried about these companies' fiscal health is absurd. Our message to John Chiang: Stick to the green-eyeshade stuff. Leave the social engineering to the likes of Lloyd Levine. From Jan. 2009: Democratic officeholders know their political futures largely depend on keeping unions happy and behave accordingly. Now the state budget crisis has yielded the starkest example of this subservience yet. Controller John Chiang, a Democrat who aspires to be governor, is refusing to enforce Schwarzenegger's order that state workers take two unpaid furlough days a month beginning Feb. 1 to ensure the government has enough money to continue to perform its basic functions. Why? Chiang says it is illegal. To the contrary, established case law gives government bodies considerable leeway during emergencies. The unions challenging the furlough plan are going to need to establish that such an emergency doesn't exist. Good luck with that. But questions about Chiang's intercession go far beyond the flimsiness of his assertion that the furlough plan is illegal. Even if it were, when did voters pass a constitutional amendment giving the controller power to veto the governor's decisions? The answer, of course, is that they never did and never would. Voters know there can be only one governor at a time. Considered in this context, Chiang's actions border on a bureaucratic coup d'état. Five months later, Chiang was at it again. Note the amazing comments of STEVE WESTLY in this excerpt. Even WESTLY knew Chiang was up to no good: Chiang is outrageous, announcing that he is again going to defy the governor and the California Supreme Court by issuing full paychecks even if a budget doesn’t pass. How can this be justified? His spokesman says the 2009 Frawley ruling was stayed pending an ongoing appeal. But the governor’s office says the controller is bound by the 2003 state high court ruling – and Chiang’s predecessor, also a Democrat, agreed. In June 2003, after initially striking a defiant tone and warning of computer problems, then-Controller Steve Westly said that if a 2003-04 budget was not adopted on time, he had no choice but to impose the pay cuts after the computer headaches had been resolved, probably in late August or September. So why is the current controller playing king instead of obeying the law? Because powerful public employee unions can kill his political career if he crosses them. The Californians who don’t work for the state deserve far, far better from John Chiang. I know Chiang has occasionally done the right thing on issues like local government pay transparency. But think about it this way: Chiang is supposed to be the state's money man, and in a five-year period in which California's budgets were so wretched that the credit agencies moved California's rating to dead last, he barely did anything to take on the powers responsible. Bill Lockyer's reputation as a Dem maverick who occasionally speaks truth to power is overrated, especially given his attempts to discredit the scary Stanford studies of pension debt. But on a scale of 0 to 10, with 0 being a complete union tool who has never prompted even a raised eyebrow from Steve Maviglio and 10 being a Phil Gramm 1970s pseudo-Dem, I would put Lockyer at a 3. On this 0 to 10 maverick scale, where does Chiang rate? 0.5. During a time of horrible fiscal distress, Californians deserved waaaaay better from their state controller. Posted in If this is social justice, Union power \| 3 Replies Is San Diego ballot pension fight heir to Prop. 13? It could well be In 1978, Howard Jarvis launched the U.S. anti-tax movement in California with Proposition 13, which capped annual increases in property taxes and kept people from being forced from their homes during real-estate bubbles. A generation later, the Golden State could be on the brink of launching another populist movement, one driven by anger over government compensation practices. A key battleground is San Diego. In June, voters will decide on Proposition B, the Comprehensive Pension Reform Initiative. It would end defined-benefit pensions for all new city hires except for police officers, instead providing pensions similar to 401(k)s. It would prevent pay sweeteners from being added to base salary when calculating pensions, and it would require city workers to pay a bigger share of their pension costs. Finally, Prop. B would mandate a five-year salary freeze. That's the lead of my new article on the City Journal site. The conclusion: Whether [San Diego Councilman and mayoral frontrunner] Carl DeMaio becomes a twenty-first-century version of Howard Jarvis remains to be seen — but for now, in the Golden State, the young Republican has become the unions’ Public Enemy Number One. I expect national attention to San Diego politics and its mayor's race to build steadily. At least initially, this will be because of the headlines over Nathan Fletcher quitting the GOP and seeking the mayor's job as an independent candidate. Eventually, however, the pension reform initiative, DeMaio's determination to demolish the status quo, and the national resources that unions devote to beating DeMaio will become the bigger story. Posted in Media watch, Union power \| 1 Reply The CTA's pending good deed: It's going to kill the bullet train This Chris Reed fella, writing in the L.A. Daily News, has some good news about the California High-Speed Rail Authority: Why would the [California Teachers Association and the California Federation of Teachers] turn on their normal allies and oppose plans for the bullet train? Because of the growing evidence that Gov. Jerry Brown thinks the only plausible way to fund the project is with the fees that heavy industries pay for the right to pollute under AB 32, the state's landmark 2006 anti-global warming law. The state Legislative Analyst's Office expects the fees from the "cap and trade" system to generate billions of dollars annually -- perhaps as much as $14 billion by 2015. There are plenty of legal precedents that appear to limit how the fees can be used. Since they are gathered to help fight pollution and reduce global warming, state finance officials say the fees must be spent for that purpose. But anyone who expects this argument to inhibit the CTA and the CFT from trying to get their hands on this immense new revenue source is hopelessly naive. .... Lawmakers in Sacramento won't get in the unions' way. Why would they start behaving honestly and ethically now? Read the whole column here. There is a very basic and obvious ploy that the CTA and CFT can use to grab AB 32 fees. Good column. I could read that guy all day and never get tired of his whining. Posted in California Error Board, If this is social justice, Maviglio watch, Media watch, The Green $ Machine, The social justice front, TMOAB (The Mother Of All Boondoggles), Union power \| 4 Replies Copyright Calwhine.com 2011 test5177 test2008	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line150
__label__cc	0.571913	0.428087	The empire of liberty and the World Baseball Classic Robert Shenkkan’s new play, Lewis and Clark Reach the Euphrates, begins with Lewis and Clark’s travels through the Louisiana Purchase, a parcel of land acquired in 1803 under the presidency of Thomas Jefferson that doubled the size of the United States. Jefferson was fond of referring to his young country as an “empire of liberty,” a contradictory term mixing imperialism and democracy. When Lewis and Clark encountered tribes in the new land, they informed them that they now had a “Great White Father in the East.” In Shenkann’s version, the trip takes a few unexpected twists and turns. After their first wrong turn, Lewis and Clark end up at San Juan Hill in Cuba fighting with Teddy Roosevelt in the Spanish American War somewhere around 1898. Another wrong turn places them in the Philippines. After the end of the Spanish American War, Spain sold the Philippines to the US for $20,000,000, at least the Louisiana Purchase was cheaper at $15,000,000. After a third time-warp wrong turn, Lewis and Clark are in Vietnam and, finally, they make it to the Euphrates River in Iraq where they unwittingly become the source of bad intelligence that provides evidence of weapons of mass destruction thereby giving the U.S. its excuse to invade Iraq. What starts out as a trip to announce the arrival of democracy to unsuspecting citizens in the Louisiana Purchase, ends with a role in the exportation of democracy to Iraq. The term “empire of liberty” could just as well have come straight from the mouth of George W. Bush. After the Spanish American War, the U.S. occupied Cuba until it managed to get its independence four years later. When Fidel Castro overthrew dictator Fulgencio Batista forty-five years ago and established a Communist state, Cuba became a pariah in the U.S. Batista was a friend of the U.S government; a dictator is acceptable as long as he is not a Communist. The U.S. imposed an embargo on Cuba in 1962. And now you know why Cuba cannot play in the first edition of the World Baseball Classic to be held in March 2006. Major League Baseball (MLB) and the Major League Baseball Players Association are the organizers of the sixteen-team tournament that will be played in Japan and the U.S. While it might be nice to think that they organized the tournament to make up for the calling their championship the World Series despite the fact that the world is not invited, the real reason has more to do with expanding Major League Baseball’s global market. The U.S. Treasury Department has told the organizers that Cuba can’t play in the tournament because the embargo forbids Cuba from earning money in the U.S. This has parallels to the embargo of South Africa during apartheid with one important difference – the U.S. is the only country enforcing the embargo. The United Nations has repeatedly asked the U.S. to end it. The Cuban baseball team did play a home and away series against the Baltimore Orioles in 1999. The Orioles got around the embargo by donating all proceeds to sports programs in both countries. Last July, Cuba qualified for the Concacaf Gold Cup, a soccer tournament, and played games in Seattle and Foxborough, so it’s possible that a compromise can be reached. The World Baseball Classic is a good idea, it could grow into an event similar to the World Cup soccer tournament and heaven knows the U.S. could do with some positive P.R. at the moment. Instead, they are punishing a tiny neighboring country that is so crazy about baseball that it has won the last nine Baseball World Cups, an event organized by the International Baseball Federation, a group based in Switzerland under whose rules the World Baseball Classic will be played. Which brings up the question: why is the MLB organizing a new international baseball competition when one already exists? Last Friday, Jim Rome interviewed David Stern, the commissioner of the National Basketball Association, on his radio show. When Rome asked Stern if there was something he wanted to do beyond basketball, Stern replied: “to demonstrate that sports has the potential that has been little used in terms of being a force for good on a global basis, … if I had my druthers, we would improve our business then be able to improve what we do about using that business in a much more socially effective way.” Stern is being a bit shortsighted here. The Olympics have been an important force for good relations on a global level for a long time and traveling exhibitions of sports teams have been instrumental in improving relations between countries much as cultural exchanges have been helpful. He also doesn’t say exactly how he would carry this idea out but he might want to place a call to a high government official who is a former part owner of the Texas Rangers and spell it out. 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__label__wiki	0.869499	0.869499	Noreen Noshi Style of Fashion theuniversnews ::Privacy Policy Cowboys vs Ravens, Lamar Jackson returns in force against the Cowboys December 9, 2020 December 9, 2020 by noreen In the Baltimore, Lamar Jackson had 94 rushing yards and a touchdown and the Baltimore Ravens beat the Dallas Cowboys 34-17 on Tuesday night. Returning after a one-game absence due to testing positive for COVID-19, Jackson carried the ball 13 times and threw two touchdown passes. He was one of 23 Ravens players to land on the reserve list linked to the virus in recent weeks. The clash also took place Tuesday night because the Ravens’ last game was Wednesday against the Pittsburgh Steelers. He has been pushed back three times after for 10 consecutive days at least one player on the team tested positive for COVID-19. Gus Edwards had 101 yards on seven carries and rookie JK Dobbins added 71 rushing yards and a touchdown for the Ravens (7-5), who ended a three-game losing streak. The Cowboys (3-9) started the night with the NFL’s worst running defense. The Ravens took the opportunity to amass 7.9 yards per carry and they won even though Jackson only totaled 107 yards on the air. The Dallas troop has conceded six losses in its last seven outings. Andy Dalton completed 31 of his 48 passes for gains of 285 yards and two touchdowns. Ezekiel Elliott had 77 rushing yards. Kicker Greg Zuerlein missed three field goal attempts, however, and the Cowboys allowed 20 straight points after taking a 10-7 lead. This duel was to allow the Ravens receiver Dez Bryant to face his former team, but he left the warm-up due to “an illness” and he was struck out of training. Bryant then wrote on Twitter that he had tested positive for COVID-19. The veteran hit it off with the Ravens in October and captured four balls in three games. In his first offensive streak since Nov. 22, Jackson threw a pass that was deflected before being intercepted. That turnaround led to the Cowboys’ first three points. Jackson responded with a 37-yard rush for a major, however. Tony Pollard then made a 66-yard kickoff return to set the table for a 13-yard touchdown pass from Dalton to Michael Gallup. At that point, the Cowboys held the lead for the last time in the game. An interception by rookie Patrick Queen allowed the Ravens to get the ball back and Jackson joined Miles Boykin for a touchdown that made it 14-10. Jackson’s second touchdown pass in the game, a 20-yard pass to Marquise Brown in the third quarter, extended the lead to 24-10. Tagged baltimore ravens, Cowboys, dallas cowboys, Dez Bryant, Lamar Jackson, ravens, ravens vs cowboys PrevManufacturer of Nokia release new 3 smartphones 8.3, 2.4 and 3.4, HMD nextApple announces the AirPods Max, headphones available on December 15 Apple announces the AirPods Max, headphones available on December 15 Manufacturer of Nokia release new 3 smartphones 8.3, 2.4 and 3.4, HMD Microsoft will decline the new Xbox Series X in mini version James Bond “Dying can wait” little longer	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line153
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__label__wiki	0.745437	0.745437	Hinsdale Police Searching For Missing Woman 02:05PM / Friday, May 17, 2019 The woman was last seen on Smith Road Wednesday morning. HINSDALE, Mass. — Police are asking for help locating a woman who went missing Wednesday morning. Jacqueline Coutinho was last seen on Smith Road at about 10:15 on Wednesday morning. Police and emergency responders have been searching for her for three days now but have been unable to find any clues to her whereabouts. Anyone with information about where Coutinho might be to are asked to contact police at 413-655-0201. Police Chief Susan Rathbun said there nothing to suggest anything nefarious happened nor is there any indication of that the woman was suffering Hinsdale Man Charged With Murdering Estranged Girlfriend 02:32PM / Friday, April 13, 2018 The preliminary results of an autopsy on 24-year-old Kassedi Clark indicate she died from multiple gunshot wounds. Dr. Robert Welton, an associate medical examiner for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, conducted the autopsy on Clark on Sunday in Holyoke and has ruled the death a homicide. Clark's estranged boyfriend, Michael S. Boulais, 32, is expected to be arraigned on a charge of murder on Tuesday in Central Berkshire District Court. PITTSFIELD, Mass. — A Hinsdale man has been charged with murder in connection with the death of his estranged girlfriend. Michael S. Boulais, 32, was Authorities Investigating Fatal Fire In Hinsdale By Andy McKeever, 03:20PM / Friday, July 24, 2015 HINSDALE, Mass. — A person died in an afternoon structure fire on Shore Drive on Thursday morning, shortly before 11. Fire Chief Larry Turner said the district attorney's office is investigating the circumstances around the death. Firefighters quickly put out the blaze but one was taken to the hospital for treatment. "We responded to 16 Shore Drive in Hinsdale and there was a fatality involved," Turner said on Friday. "We were able to put the fire out fairly quickly." Turner said when he arrived, he saw smoke coming from the home's eaves, which automatically triggered a second alarm. Firefighters from Peru, Superior Court Briefs: Feb. 22-25 04:26PM / Tuesday, February 22, 2011 • , 35, of Pittsfield pleaded guilty to single counts of distribution of cocaine and manufacturing cocaine. Agostini ordered that he serve concurrent 3 1/2- to five-year state prison sentences at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Cedar Junction on both charges. The charges stem from the sale of cocaine in Pittsfield on April 20, 2009, and the execution of a search warrant at a home in Pittsfield on July 17, 2009. The investigation was conducted by members of the Berkshire County Drug Task Force. • , 36, of New Windsor Road, Hinsdale, had not-guilty pleas entered on his behalf on three counts of Hinsdale Snuffs Out Mobile Home Blaze 06:01PM / Tuesday, January 18, 2011 A heater located underneath a mobile home is suspected as the cause of a fire on Monday night. The Hinsdale Volunteer Fire Department responded in last night's bitter cold temperatures to a reported house fire at 8:19 p.m. Arriving firefighters were confronted with a fire in the crawl space underneath a mobile home at 9 Alice Drive occupied by the Reed family. Significant fire damage was contained to the area under the home and there was light smoke damage to the interior of the building. The fire was under control within 15 minutes. Fire Chief Larry Turner said the probable cause was the use of a propane heater underneath the dwelling. A female resident of the home who Motor Vehicle Fraud Shooting Robbery Accident Mvi Vehicle Search & Rescue Heroin Hit & Run Fire Murder Fatal Missing Persons Motor Vehicle Accident Assault Assaults Drugs Veremko Firearms Structure Fire Motorcycles Crime Watch Larceny Homicide Stabbing Rape Search Drug Charges Break-ins Burglary Buglaries Armed Robbery Pedestrians Injuries	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line158
__label__cc	0.719981	0.280019	Dr. Chojnowski on Live Call-In Show. Listen to Live Broadcast here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMLaT3siCb4 TCK LIVE CALL IN SHOW 4-8-18 (MSGR. PEREZ & DR. CHOJNOWSKI) TCK LIVE CALL IN SHOW 4-8-18 (MSGR. PEREZ & DR. CHOJNOWSKI) SHOW LENGTH 3 HOURS VISIT TRADCATKNIGHT.BLOGSPOT.COM TCK RADIO SHOWS ARE NOW ON ITUNES, GOOGLE PLAY ... La gallina April 10, 2018 at 8:28 PM That show was excellent. Two of my favorite Catholics -- you and Msgr. Perez! Very informative and encouraging to know that there are still a few uncompromising Catholics out there! What a great show. I wish I had been free to call in. I have a couple of questions I would love to ask. When will you be on again? How Much Money Was Leveraged to Continue to Cover-Up the Greatest Case of Identity Theft in Church History? The Million Dollar Question. Co-Conspirators and Identity Thieves https://sisterlucyimposter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Calls-Commentary.pdf Dr. Chojnowski: Here is the leaked details of the grand conspiracy to purge those working with the Fatima Center who were judged by the Chris Ferrara/John Salza Novus Ordo clique to be favorable to the "resignationist" thesis: https://www.barnhardt.biz/2020/02/20/qa-ann-i-keep-hearing-that-antipapacies-can-only-be-determined-after-the-putative-pope-in-question-is-dead-so-why-bother-worrying-about-this-now/ I can confirm that this kind of back room dealing and drama was going on between those involved with the Fatima Center and Catholic Family News. The main focus of the attack was Fr. Paul Kramer AND the current Vice President of the Canadian Fatima Center, Andrew Cesanek. Apparently, the Novus Ordo clique of John Salza, Robert Siscoe, Chris Ferrara, and Michael Matt had to wait until the death of John Vennari to chop a whole slew of us from the Fa Breaking News: John Salza leaves SSPX and returns to Novus Ordo church after "studying Sedevacantism." Who will publish Next 3 Vol. set??? Breaking News: John Salza has left the SSPX and has returned to the Novus Ordo church. Our source, who has worked with him on True and False Pope , says that he came to this decision "after studying sedevacantism." Newly-Released Video Footage From 1946 Shows the Real Sister Lucy Visiting Fatima Again for the First and, Presumably, Last Time Since 1921. 1946 1967. No Problem, right? See Previously Unseen Footage Here: https://youtu.be/WqtKUyHBMYo More Screen Shots from the Real Sister Lucy's 1946 Visit to Fatima. Stop the "Beatification" of the Fake Now! Cardinal Pell to Be Brought to Trial: Highest Vati... Breaking: World War III by Proxy Not On Hold: Isra... Breaking: St. Anthanasius Church in Vienna, VA Off... Enigma Variations: A Reader's Devastating Critique... From the "Surprise, Surprise, Surprise" File. Just... World War III by Proxy is Still on Schedule: Russi... "Secret and Unprecedented" Visit by American Centr... Hey, as long as she has "universal and peaceful ac... Well, at Least the Last 30 years has Cleared Up TH... RadTrad Thomist Mentioned in St. Athanasius Church... Brits Back Out of World War III. This Time Join Wi... The East Thunders: Eastern Orthodox Bishops and Me... Joint Chiefs of Staff Prevail for the Moment. Temp... American Right Condemns Neo-Conservative Zionist T... We are Being Lied Into War! Sky News cuts off the ... International Donations Now Being Processed! If Yo... How's that "Triumph of the Immaculate Heart" Going... Donate Now! We Need $25,000 for Full Investigation... No World War III for Israel! A Declaration. Dr. Chojnowski on Live Call-In Show. Listen to Liv... The Relationship between John Paul II, Cardinal So... Dr. Chojnowski On TCK Call-In Show tonight at 5:45PM. Might this Help? Irrefutable Statements that Settl... Neo-Cons Go Gallican! Are All of the Neo-Cons Adop... Rome Report: The 50,000th Admonition to a NewPope ... Exclusive: Fr. Chazal's Unanswered Challenge to th... Bernard Janzen has announced a showing of the film... Reader Challenges Fr. Chazal, Fr. Scott, and RadTr... From the "In Heaven there are No Cell Phones" file... Fr. Peter Scott Blasts German Bishops for Allowing... TRADCATKNIGHT LIVE CALL IN SHOW (APRIL 8TH, 2018) ...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line162
__label__cc	0.567093	0.432907	Go to: Start Cinema Studies Journalism Media and Communication Studies Fashion Studies Stockholm University Department of Media Studies Andreas Widholm - Profiles Section for Cinema Studies Section for Journalism, Media and Communication Studies (JMK) Albert Bonnier Jr:s guest professorship LRE Guest Professorship Research Alumni Associate Professor – Section for Journalism, Media and Communication Studies (JMK) andreas.widholm@ims.su.se Andreas Widholm is Associate Professor of journalism in the Department of Media Studies (IMS) at Stockholm University, Sweden. His research addresses the relationship between media, politics and culture with a particular focus on journalism and social media. This broad area includes studies of online news, cultural journalism, global television news, digital political communication and media consumption from a variety of perspectives. Andreas received his PhD at IMS in 2011 with the thesis ”Europe in Transition: Transnational Television News and European Identity”. He is currently involved in a research project exploring historical and contemporary practices of cultural journalism in Sweden (financed by the Swedish research council 2016-2019). In 2016 he contributed to a research project on international news images of the Ukraine crisis with a study of the Russian global news broadcaster RT (financed by the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency). Andreas was previously a co-researcher in ”Changing Places”, a research project exploring global and local media events as mediated through screen practices in public space (Swedish Research Council 2011-2013). In 2013-2016 Andreas held a position as senior lecturer of journalism at Södertörn University. In 2012-2013 he was appointed researcher in residence at Swedish Public Service Radio, where he worked with a series of projects relating to media consumption, online news flows and local audience networks. Andreas is currently on the board of the Swedish institute for media studies (Institutet för mediestudier). Doctoral Thesis: Europe in Transition: Transnational Television News and European Identity Last updated: December 16, 2020. Mellan det hyperlokala och globala: Journalistikens förändringar och utmaningar i en digital tid Gunnar Nygren, Östersjöprofessor i journalistik vid Söder... Global Media Studies and the Politics of Mediated Communication The Worlds of Cultural Journalism A softer kind of hard news? Myten om datajournalistik Abundance or crisis? Transnational News Consumption and Digital Content Mobility Department of Media Studies © Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden \| Phone: +46 8 16 20 00	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line166
__label__cc	0.722728	0.277272	Hailey Bieber admits insecurities Beauty, Entertainment, Fashion LOS ANGELES: Hailey Bieber has admitted that she can feel insecure and she regularly takes social media breaks to focus on herself. The 22-year-old model – who tied the knot with Justin Bieber last year – admitted that she can’t help but compare herself to her famous friends but she is learning to love herself for who she is. She told Buzzfeed: ”I’ve struggled with comparison. I come from a world of modeling where it’s really easy to compare myself to my own friends. You’re just surrounded by a lot of beauty. I would say that every girl struggles with comparing themselves, whether it’s on social media or [something else]. There’s always going to be other women or other girls that you feel insecure around, or that you compare yourself to: What if she’s this and I’m not this? or What if I’m this and she’s this? That is always happening no matter what, you know?” And Hailey revealed that she often takes social media breaks so that she can concentrate on herself. She explained: ”It just does something to your soul, I think, if you pay too close attention to it. Taking breaks from social media, I think, is really important. I have times where I’ll just take the app off my phone for like a week or a couple of days. ”That’s really freeing in a way because I think I got wrapped up in the urgency of seeing what everyone was doing. It’s almost like you feel this crazy FOMO all the time because you don’t see what’s happening all the time. I think it’s bad for your health – the constant need to be picking your phone up and refreshing your feed just to see what it is that’s going on or what you’re missing. You’re not really missing anything because one way or another you’ll find things out in the world. You’ll find things out that are happening in the world through the news or whatever it is.” beauty crazy FOMO friends girl struggles Hailey Bieber Justin Bieber Model Girl social media struggled 2019-01-14 Tags beauty crazy FOMO friends girl struggles Hailey Bieber Justin Bieber Model Girl social media struggled Previous I’m looking forward to coming to Pakistan, are you ready, Akon Next Rayudu reported for suspect bowling action Ileana D’Cruz calls herself a weirdo Ellen Page Reveals She Is Not A Woman But A Transgender Sajal Ali wins ‘International Icon Award’ at DIAFA DUBAI: Pakistani actress Sajal Ali has won an ‘International Icon Award’ at Distinctive International Arab ...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line179
__label__cc	0.746118	0.253882	Samuel Trosow Samuel Trosow is an Associate Professor at The University of Western Ontario working at the intersection of information & communications law and policy, new media and the information/communication professions. Browse: Home » 2014 » April » 06 » Copyright and the Modern Academic Debate Series Copyright and the Modern Academic Debate Series April 6, 2014 · by Samuel Trosow · in Copyright, Open Access 2014 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences – Brock University Copyright law is an increasingly contentious issue for Canadian academics in their roles as teachers, researchers, and creators. In a series of three debates, co-sponsored by Brock University Council for Research in the Social Sciences (CRISS) and the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education (CSSHE), leading copyright experts and practitioners tackle these issues. All three events are open to the public. Sunday, May 25, 1:00-2:30 pm The ‘Copyright Pentalogy’: Its effect on fair dealing and Canadian academia This debate focuses on the effects of recent court cases on academics’ ability to access and copy works, and considers the future direction of copyright reform. Panelists: Samuel Trosow (University of Western Ontario) and Blayne Haggart (Brock University) Location: Sankey Chambers, 1:00-2:30 pm Hosted by Canadian Association of Learned Journals Wednesday, May 28, 4:30-6:30 pm Open Access and the future of academic publishing This debate focuses on the opportunities and challenges that the Open Access movement poses for Canadian academics and academic publishing. Panelists Michael Geist (University of Ottawa) and Glenn Rollans (Brush Education) Location: South Block 215 Hosted by Canadian Communication Association Thursday, May 29, 2:00-3:30 pm Access Copyright: Friend or Foe? Today’s debate focuses on the future of the much-debated Access Copyright collection society. Panelists: Howard Knopf (Counsel, Macera & Jarzyna LLP) & Roanie Levy (Executive Director, Access Copyright) Location: International Centre 119 Hosted by Canadian Association for Information Science Tags: Access Copyright, Education, fair dealing Juliette Nadeau · April 6, 2014 at 19:18:52 · → Will this event be recorded and offered online after? It sounds so interesting! Sent from Juliette’s iPad Samuel Trosow · April 6, 2014 at 20:18:39 · → I don’t know, I’m not organizing the program, that’s being done by Blayne Haggart at BrockU. I’ll ask, it would be a good idea. kazakoff · April 7, 2014 at 19:40:59 · → Will this be videotaped for those of us who cannot attend? Carmen Kazakoff-Lane ________________________________ ← McNally on the 2500 MHz Band Spectrum Auction Framework CFP: Organize and Assemble IV: The Commodification of Information Goods and Library Services → Fair-Dealing and Emergency Remote Teaching in Canada Ontario Campus Freedom of Expression Policies Fighting Doug Ford’s budget cuts to Ontario libraries Why I’m running for the UWO Board of Governors How privatized cannabis sales threaten your privacy 21 July – 03 August 2017 \| Privacy News Highlights on EU Court of Justice Issues Ruling on Privacy Rights and International Agreements EU Court of Justice Issues Ruling on Privacy Rights and International Agreements \| Sam Trosow on Submission to NAFTA Consultation Lisa Di Valentino on Laying the Foundation for Copyright Policy and Practice in Canadian Universities Samuel Trosow on Laying the Foundation for Copyright Policy and Practice in Canadian Universities Samuel Trosow on Submission to London City Council on Secondary Dwelling Units By-Law Copyright © 2021 Samuel Trosow	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line185
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__label__wiki	0.945956	0.945956	Facebook accused of blocking wider efforts to study its ad platform April 29, 2019 at 13:18 PM EDT Facebook has been accused of blocking the ability of independent researchers to effectively study how political disinformation flows across its ad platform. Adverts that the social network’s business is designed to monetize have — at very least — the potential to influence people and push voters’ buttons, as the Cambridge Anaytica Facebook data misuse scandal […] Facebook has been accused of blocking the ability of independent researchers to effectively study how political disinformation flows across its ad platform. Adverts that the social network’s business is designed to monetize have — at very least — the potential to influence people and push voters’ buttons, as the Cambridge Anaytica Facebook data misuse scandal highlighted last year. Since that story exploded into a major global scandal for Facebook the company has faced a chorus of calls for increased transparency and accountability from policymakers on both sides of the Atlantic. It has responded with lashings of obfuscation, misdirection and worse. Among Facebook’s less controversial efforts to counter the threat that disinformation poses to its business are what it bills “election security” initiatives, such as identity checks for political advertisers. Even as these efforts have looked hopelessly flat-footed, patchy and piecemeal in the face of concerned attempts to use its tools to amplify disinformation in markets around the world. Perhaps more significantly — under amped up political pressure — Facebook has launched a searchable ad archive. And access to Facebook ad data certainly has the potential to let external researchers hold the company’s claims to account. But only if access is not equally flat-footed, patchy and piecemeal, with the risk that selective access to ad data ends up being just as controlled and manipulated as everything else on Facebook’s platform. And far Facebook’s efforts on this front continue attracting criticism for falling way short. “the opposite of what they claim to be doing… “ The company opened access to an ad archive API last month, via which it provides rate-limited access to a keyword search tool that lets researchers query historical ad data. (Researchers first need to pass an identity check process and agree to the Facebook developer platform terms of service before they can access the API.) However a review of the tool by not-for-profit Mozilla rates the API as a lot of weak-sauce ‘transparency-washing’ — rather than a good faith attempt to support public interest research which could genuinely help quantify the societal costs of Facebook’s ad business. “The fact is, the API doesn’t provide necessary data. And it is designed in ways that hinders the important work of researchers, who inform the public and policymakers about the nature and consequences of misinformation,” it writes in a blog post where it argues that Facebook’s ad API meets just two out of five minimum standards it previously set out — backed by a group of sixty academics, hailing from research institutions including Oxford University, the University of Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Stiftung Neue Verantwortung, and many more. Instead of providing comprehensive political advertising content, as the experts argue a good open API must, Mozilla writes that “it’s impossible to determine if Facebook’s API is comprehensive, because it requires you to use keywords to search the database”. “It does not provide you with all ad data and allow you to filter it down using specific criteria or filters, the way nearly all other online databases do. And since you cannot download data in bulk and ads in the API are not given a unique identifier, Facebook makes it impossible to get a complete picture of all of the ads running on their platform (which is exactly the opposite of what they claim to be doing),” it adds. Facebook’s tool is also criticized for failing to provide targeting criteria and engagement information for ads — thereby making it impossible for researchers to understand what advertisers on its platform are paying the company to reach; as well as how effective (or otherwise) these Facebook ads might be. This exact issue was raised with a number of Facebook executives by British parliamentarians last year, during the course of a multi-month investigation into online disinformation. At one point Facebook’s CTO was asked point blank whether the company would be providing ad targeting data as part of planned political ad transparency measures — only for him to provide a fuzzy answer. Of course there are plenty of reasons why Facebook might be reluctant to enable truly independent outsiders to quantify the efficacy of political ads on its platform and therefore, by extension, its ad business. Including, of course, the specific scandalous example of the Cambridge Analytica data heist itself, which was carried out by an academic, called Dr Aleksandr Kogan, then attached to Cambridge University, who used his access to Facebook’s developer platform to deploy a quiz app designed to harvest user data without (most) people’s knowledge or consent in order to sell the info to the disgraced digital campaign company (which worked on various U.S. campaigns, including the presidential campaigns of Ted Cruz and Donald Trump). But that just highlights the scale of the problem of so much market power being concentrated in the hands of a single adtech giant which has zero incentives to voluntarily report accurate metrics about its true reach and power to influence the world’s 2BN+ Facebook users. Add to that, in a typical crisis PR response to multiple bad headlines last year, Facebook repeatedly sought to paint Kogan as a rogue actor — suggesting he was not at all a representative sample of the advertiser activity on its platform. So, by the same token, any effort by Facebook to tar genuine research as similarly risky rightly deserves a robust rebuttal. The historical actions of one individual shouldn’t be used as an excuse to shut the door to a respected research community. “The current API design puts huge constraints on researchers, rather than allowing them to discover what is really happening on the platform,” Mozilla argues, suggesting the various limitations imposed by Facebook — including search rate limits — means it could take researchers “months” to evaluate ads in a particular region or on a certain topic. Again, from Facebook’s point of view, there’s plenty to be gained by delaying the release of any more platform usage skeletons from its bulging historical data closet. (The ‘historical app audit’ it announced with much fanfare last year continues to trickle along at a disclosure pace of its own choosing.) The two areas where Facebook’s API is given a tentative thumbs up by Mozilla is in providing access to up-to-date and historical data (the seven year availability of the data is badged “pretty good”); and for the API being accessible to and shareable with the general public (at least once they’ve gone through Facebook’s identity confirm process). Though in both cases Mozilla also cautions it’s still possible that further blocking tactics might emerge — depending on how Facebook supports/constrains access going forward. It does not look entirely coincidental that the criticism of Facebook’s API for being “inadequate” has landed on the same day that Facebook has pushed out publicity about opening up access to a database of URLs its users have linked to since 2017 — which is being made available to a select group of academics. In that case 60 researchers, drawn from 30 institutions, who have been chosen by the U.S.’ Social Science Research Council. Notably the Facebook-selected research dataset entirely skips past the 2016 U.S. presidential election, when Russian election propaganda infamously targeted hundreds of millions of U.S. Facebook voters. The UK’s 2016 Brexit vote is also not covered by the January 2017 onwards scope of the dataset. Though Facebook does say it is “committed to advancing this important initiative”, suggesting it could expand the scope of the dataset and/or who can access it at some unspecified future time. It also claims ‘privacy and security’ considerations are holding up efforts to release research data quicker. “We understand many stakeholders are eager for data to be made available as quickly as possible,” it writes. “While we remain committed to advancing this important initiative, Facebook is also committed to taking the time necessary to incorporate the highest privacy protections and build a data infrastructure that provides data in a secure manner.” In Europe, Facebook committed itself to supporting good faith, public interest research when it signed up to the European Commission’s Code of Practice on disinformation last year. The EU-wide Code includes a specific commitment that platform signatories “empower the research community to monitor online disinformation through privacy-compliant access to the platforms’ data”, in addition to other actions such as tackling fake accounts and making political ads and issue based ads more transparent. However here, too, Facebook appears to be using ‘privacy-compliance’ as an excuse to water down the level of transparency that it’s offering to external researchers. TechCrunch understands that, in private, Facebook has responded to concerns raised about its ad API’s limits by saying it cannot provide researchers with more fulsome data about ads — including the targeting criteria for ads — because doing so would violate its commitments under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) framework. That argument is of course pure ‘cakeism’. Aka Facebook is trying to have its cake and eat it where privacy and data protection is concerned. In plainer English, Facebook is trying to use European privacy regulation to shield its business from deeper and more meaningful scrutiny. Yet this is the very same company — and here comes the richly fudgy cakeism — that elsewhere contends personal data its platform pervasively harvests on users’ interests is not personal data. (In that case Facebook has also been found allowing sensitive inferred data to be used for targeting ads — which experts suggest violates the GDPR.) So, tl;dr, Facebook can be found seizing upon privacy regulation when it suits its business interests to do so — i.e. to try to avoid the level of transparency necessary for external researchers to evaluate the impact its ad platform and business has on wider society and democracy. Yet argues against GDPR when the privacy regulation stands in the way of monetizing users’ eyeballs by stuffing them with intrusive ads targeted by pervasive surveillance of everyone’s interests. Such contradictions have not at all escaped privacy experts. “The GDPR in practice — not just Facebook’s usual weak interpretation of it — does not stop organisations from publishing aggregate information, such as which demographics or geographic areas saw or were targeted for certain adverts, where such data is not fine-grained enough to pick an individual out,” says Michael Veale, a research fellow at the Alan Turing Institute — and one of ten researchers who co-wrote the Mozilla-backed guidelines for what makes an effective ad API. “Facebook would require a lawful basis to do the aggregation for the purpose of publishing, which would not be difficult, as providing data to enable public scrutiny of the legality and ethics of data processing is a legitimate interest if I have ever seen one,” he also tells us. “Facebook constantly reuse data for different and unclearly related purposes, and so claiming they could legally not reuse data to put their own activities in the spotlight is, frankly, pathetic. “Statistical agencies have long been familiar with techniques such as differential privacy which stop aggregated information leaking information about specific individuals. Many differential privacy researchers already work at Facebook, so the expertise is clearly there.” “It seems more likely that Facebook doesn’t want to release information on targeting as it would likely embarrass [it] and their customers,” Veale adds. “It is also possible that Facebook has confidentiality agreements with specific advertisers who may be caught red-handed for practices that go beyond public expectations. Data protection law isn’t blocking the disinfecting light of transparency, Facebook is.” Asked about the URL database that Facebook has released to selected researchers today, Veale says it’s a welcome step but points to further limitations. “It’s a good thing that Facebook is starting to work more openly on research questions, particularly those which might point to problematic use of this platform. The initial cohort appears to be geographically diverse, which is refreshing — although appears to lack any academics from Indian universities, far and away Facebook’s largest userbase,” he tells us. “Time will tell whether this limited dataset will later expand to other issues, and how much researchers are expected to moderate their findings if they hope for continued amicable engagement.” “It’s very possible for Facebook to effectively cherry-pick datasets to try to avoid issues they know exist, but you also cannot start building a collaborative process on all fronts and issues. Time will tell how open the multinational wishes to be,” Veale adds. We’ve reached out to Facebook for comment on the criticism of its ad archive API.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line199
__label__wiki	0.690222	0.690222	strangers: mosaics parzelaro The Hikers prefix parzela suffix ro haludah kkahlo phlegmatic 2 ft, 6 in 5 ft, 11 in size variance I.Q. core temp. 45 days - 2,737 years no. appearing vision type near-far inarticulate/inert ( imperial / metric ) The parzelaro (/pɑrzəˈlɑroʊ/) is a ruddy, handlebar-shaped stranger with elongated eye markings and four tapered limbs ending in toeless feet. Its skin is coarse and cool to the touch, and it leaves a reddish-brown, dusty residue when rubbed. While its flesh is grey and supple, its body cavity is filled with brick-colored, tangled fibers reminiscent of wire sponge. It exudes a faint, but not unpleasant, ferrous odor. The metallic skin of the parzelaro makes it impervious to scratches and cuts, however it still is susceptible to being dented or even crushed via blunt force. It possesses no regenerative ability. It communicates through voiceless huffs and clicks of varying pitch. environment and generation The parzelaro generates in wooded areas. It rises from beneath the undergrowth, near the roots of very large trees, as a small pile of rust. As it coalesces it becomes larger, firmer, and more defined over the span of 45–72 seconds. The fully formed stranger then snorts, shakes the dirt off of its body, and steps away from its parent tree with ingratitude. The parzelaro will only generate in areas with average annual precipitation levels between 28 and 78 inches. Additionally, only one parzelaro per thousand square miles of woodland may appear every 26 days. The parzelaro possesses a steadfast disposition. It wastes very little time after its birth to set out towards the nearest human settlement. It moves in a straight line towards its target with fast, sure-footed steps, and it keeps its snout and tail pressed to the ground at all times, giving it its signature curvature. It has a preference for rainy weather but will travel regardless of precipitation. When faced with a stationary obstacle, such as a rock or a small tree, the parzelaro uses its weight to try to crush or otherwise destroy it. These voluntary blows do not cause any damage to the stranger. If the obstacle cannot be taken down, the parzelaro huffs in irritation, changes its otherwise straight course to move around the obstacle and resumes its journey. Once it reaches an urban area, the parzelaro hones in on outdoor areas with an abundance of metallic objects, such as parking lots, playgrounds, and construction sites, where it encounters others of its strain. Upon meeting for the first time, two parzelaro grind their snouts against one another in a "sniffing" motion. Acquainted parzelaro often spend time huddled together in linear formations, occasionally conversing in clicks and huffs. Groups of parzelaro are indifferent to the presence of other strains within their environment. The parzelaro has a catalytic effect on nearby plant life and certain metallic objects in that it increases the rate at which oxygen-based chemical reactions occur. Direct physical contact with the stranger further accelerates such processes. Underbrush plant growth noticeably accelerates in the presence of the parzelaro, while taller trees show signs of overwatering, such as yellowing of the leaves, mold formation, and root rot. Wherever the stranger passes, the canopy layer decays while shorter vegetation, grass, and wildflowers take over, creating a grotesque pathway of luxuriance and putrefaction. Upon noticing the ruin it brings to plant life, the stranger stops, becomes agitated and clicks frantically for up to three minutes before appearing to forget about what it has seen and continuing on its travels unbothered. Within human settlements, the parzelaro seeks out steel and iron tubes and girders. It grinds its snout, sides, and tail against them, ensuring that they oxidize and weaken at a much faster rate than normal. In stark contrast with its displays of fear towards its impact on flora, it seems to enjoy the sight and feel of rusted metal in its environment, and surrounds itself with as much of it as possible. interactions with sensitives The parzelaro can generate minuscule globules of rust in the blood vessels of any sensitive in a 33-foot radius. Groups of parzelaro generate multiple rust globules inside the same sensitive. This will result in rapid-onset blood clots and a reddening of the field of vision. Leaving the 33-foot radius will make the rust disappear without further effects, but the visual anomaly will persist for one hundred times the time spent in the area of effect of the parzelaro (5 minutes for 3 seconds, 1 hour for 36 seconds, and so on). Sensitives with preexisting cardiovascular conditions who linger too long are especially weak to the parzelaro's effect. Without adequate medical intervention, such sensitives will succumb to complications related to the foreign bodies in their bloodstream. aging and death As it ages, the parzelaro becomes less mobile, its effects less potent. It pays no mind to such changes. At the very end of its life, the parzelaro stops moving with a final, drawn-out huff. Its companions huddle around its body and grind their snouts against it until it is reduced to rusty residue on the ground. If a parzelaro has not yet reached an urban area, it dies alone in the forest, its corpse standing like a monument, before it is reclaimed by the dirt it came from.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line201
__label__wiki	0.527255	0.527255	710 Study San Rafael Neighborhood Posts To consolidate, disseminate, and gather information concerning the 710 expansion into our San Rafael neighborhood and into our surrounding neighborhoods. If you have an item that you would like posted on this blog, please e-mail the item to Peggy Drouet at pdrouet@earthlink.net California's New Car-Sharing Regulations Create A New Category For Businesses Like Lyft, Uber http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/19/california-car-sharing-regulations_n_3957177.html?utm_hp_ref=los-angeles By Sudhin Thanawala, September 19, 2013 SAN FRANCISCO — Web-based ride-hailing companies will have to make sure drivers undergo training and criminal background checks and have commercial liability insurance under rules approved Thursday by California regulators. The state Public Utilities Commission voted unanimously in favor of those rules and others for such companies as Lyft and Sidecar. Both companies rely on smartphone applications to connect riders and drivers who use their own vehicles. Commissioners said the rules were needed to ensure public safety. "Today, we have an opportunity to introduce groundbreaking regulation in the transportation industry," commission President Michael Peevey said before the vote. The regulations put ride-hailing firms in a new category of business called transportation network companies, or TNCs, that are separate from taxi cabs and limousines. In addition to training, criminal background and insurance requirements, the companies will have to implement a zero-tolerance policy on drugs and alcohol and ensure vehicles undergo a thorough inspection. The founders of Sidecar and Lyft applauded the commission's decision. Sidecar founder Sunil Paul said it helps make his company and others like it "mainstream" by giving them a legal permit to operate. Lyft co-founder John Zimmer echoed those sentiments, saying the new category helps legitimize car-sharing companies. "It provides clarity in the marketplace and in the community and authorizes the operations we've been doing for the last 14 months," Zimmer said. The companies, additionally, said they already meet some of the new rules, including the background checks and commercial insurance requirements. The California utilities commission's vote came amid debate over how government should regulate the rapidly growing "sharing economy." New businesses using the Internet are trying to make it easy for people to share their property, be it cars or houses, and earn some money. But they face opposition from traditional service providers that complain about being undercut. The San Francisco Cab Drivers Association maintained that even after the vote, TNCs are not subject to the same level of scrutiny or oversight as taxi services, which are locally regulated. The group claimed the PUC has far fewer safety investigators to enforce the new rules than local regulators who oversee taxi companies. The group had also argued that the ability of TNC drivers to choose who can ride in their car could lead to discrimination against customers based on the drivers' profiling of the rider's background. It is illegal for cab drivers to refuse service to riders based on their ethnicity, disability or income level. "Without proper local regulatory oversight this can only lead to abuse by TNC drivers, companies and the opportunistic element leading to the decreased quality of passenger service for the disabled, elderly and disenfranchised who rely on taxis for transportation," the group said in a statement. Commissioners heard from numerous taxi cab drivers and owners before the vote. "This is not real ride-sharing," said Hansu Kim, president of San Francisco-based DeSoto Cab Co. "This is a commercial business that venture capital is backing, and the rules for commercial vehicles need to apply. That is the bottom line." Supporters of ride-sharing companies said they fill the gap left by a dearth of taxis, which are often hard to find on the streets of San Francisco. Commissioner Michel Florio said he has found some people rely solely on taxis, while others only use companies such as Sidecar and Lyft. "People have different preferences and different needs. This decision allows both to take place on what I think is a fair basis," he said. Red Light Program Planned “Run a Red Light and you... How the Hollywood Fault Made Millennium's Future U... New Girl Paints Its Own Fake, Forbidden Crosswalk ... California's New Car-Sharing Regulations Create A ... Two Pasadena parking spaces to become 'parklets' f... September-October 2013 SRNA Newsletter Liu’s bill ‘gets Caltrans out of the landlord busi... California could be first state to regulate ride-s... Cab service apps begin popping up with rides aroun... Earthquake: 3.7 quake strikes near La Verne An Amazingly Precise New Tool to Measure Roadway P... Here's Where You're Most Likely to Die From Air Po...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line202
__label__wiki	0.641819	0.641819	Panicum miliaceum Leptoloma miliacea (L.) Smyth Milium esculentum Moench. Milium paniceum Mill. Panicum asperrimum Fischer ex Jacq. Panicum densepilosum Steud. Panicum milium Pers. Common Name: Broom Millet Cultivated fruiting plants in Korea Photograph by: Dalgial Ripening seeds Flowering stem of a plant in Nepal Photograph by: Krish Dulal Photograph by: Steve Hurst @ USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database Harvested seed Photograph by: Offlineinternet Broom millet is a shallow-rooted, erect, clump-forming annual grass growing 30 - 100cm tall[ ]. The plant is usually free-tillering with a slender inflorescence up to 45cm long[ Broom millet is a grain of ancient cultivation, probably domesticated first in central and eastern Asia, where it has been cultivated for more than 5,000 years. Its cultivation spread from there through Europe, where it could produce a crop in the colder northerly latitudes, and also to Africa and the Americas. It has been a staple food in many areas, but its cultivation has declined in more recent times, especially after the large-scale introduction of potato and maize. Nowadays its cultivation for human consumption takes place mainly in eastern and central Asia, and to a lesser extent in eastern Europe (Russia, Danube region) and from western Asia to Pakistan and India (Bihar, Andhra Pradesh)[ Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. http://www.prota.org An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa. Flora of the British Isles. Clapham, Tutin and Warburg. A very comprehensive flora, the standard reference book but it has no pictures. Probably eastern Asia, but it has been in cultivation so long that the original range is obscure. Waste places in Britain[ Weed Potential Yes Habit Annual Pollinators Wind Self-fertile Yes Cultivation Status Cultivated Although broom millet is primarily a crop of temperate regions, it has a wide adaptability and can be grown in climates which are too hot and dry, and on soils which are too shallow and poor for successful cultivation of other cereals[ ]. It prefers a mean annual rainfall in the range 500 - 750mm, but tolerates 200 - 1,000mm[ ]. The plant is best adapted to areas of low or medium relative air humidity[ Requires a moderately fertile well-drained soil in full sun[ ]. Most soils are suitable, except coarse sand[ ]. Succeeds in ordinary garden soil[ RHS Dictionary of Plants plus Supplement. 1956 F. Chittendon. Comprehensive listing of species and how to grow them. Somewhat outdated, it has been replaced in 1992 by a new dictionary (see [200]). ]. Tolerates heat and also drought when it is established[ ]. Prefers a pH in the range 6 - 6.5, tolerating 5.2 - 8.2[ The plant has become widely naturalized and is often a weed in areas outside its native range[ Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk http://www.hear.org/pier/scientificnames/index.html A very good website detailing weed species that have been introduced into the Pacific Islands. The plant is normally harvested 55 - 90 days from sowing the seed, but it may require up to 280 days depending on growing conditions[ The plant is ready for harvest when the seed has a moisture content of 14 - 15%. Delayed harvesting should be avoided, as the seed shatters easily if allowed to become too mature. Premature harvesting, on the other hand, results in reduced yield and quality. Plants are usually harvested by pulling them up by the roots, and they are threshed immediately to avoid grain loss[ In India, seed yields of 450 - 650 kg/ha can be obtained from unirrigated crops, generally this can rise to 1 - 2 tonnes/ha when the crop is irrigated[ The plant photosynthesize by a more efficient method than most plants. Called the 'C4 carbon-fixation pathway', this process is particularly efficient at high temperatures, in bright sunlight and under dry conditions[ Seed - cooked as a whole grain in ways similar to rice, or ground into a powder and used as a flour for making breads, pasta and fermented foods such as 'tempeh'[ Sturtevant's Edible Plants of the World. Hedrick. U. P. Lots of entries, quite a lot of information in most entries and references. The Oxford Book of Food Plants. Harrison. S. Wallis. M. Masefield. G. Good drawings of some of the more common food plants from around the world. Not much information though. Cornucopia - A Source Book of Edible Plants. Kampong Publications Excellent. Contains a very wide range of conventional and unconventional food plants (including tropical) and where they can be obtained (mainly N. American nurseries but also research institutes and a lot of other nurseries from around the world. ]. Highly nutritious, it has a nutty flavour and is more easily digested than many cereals because its high alkaline content counteracts acids[ ]. It is also free of gluten and so, although bread made from it does not rise, the cereal is suitable for people with coeliac disease or other gluten intolerances[ Ken Fern Notes from observations, tasting etc at Plants For A Future and on field trips. ]. The seed can also be sprouted and added to salads, soups etc[ ]. The hull is hard and indigestible and therefore must be removed before human consumption[ KemperCentreForHomeGardeningPlantFinder http://www.mobot.org/gardeninghelp/plantfinder/ Missouri Botanical Garden Basic cultivation details, plant uses, habitat etc for several thousand species of plants, mainly from the temperate zone. ]. Hulling has no adverse affect on nutritional value[ ]. The seed contains about 10% protein, 4% fat[ A Dictionary of Plants Used by Man. Usher. G. Forget the sexist title, this is one of the best books on the subject. Lists a very extensive range of useful plants from around the world with very brief details of the uses. Not for the casual reader. The seed is cooling and demulcent[ Medicinal Plants of China Duke. J. A. and Ayensu. E. S. Reference Publications, Inc. Details of over 1,200 medicinal plants of China and brief details of their uses. Often includes an analysis, or at least a list of constituents. Heavy going if you are not into the subject. ]. The cooked seed is applied as a poultice for abscesses, sores etc whilst juice from chewed seeds is applied to children's sores[ The seed is also incinerated and mixed with oil then used as a poultice that is said to heal sores without leaving a scar[ A decoction of the root is used as an antidote to poisoning by Momordica spp, it is also used to treat haematuria in women and as a bath for skin eruptions[ A starch from the seed is a substitute for corn starch (Zea mays). It is used for sizing textiles[ The Plant Wealth of Iraq. Chakravarty. H. L. It is surprising how many of these plants can be grown in Britain. A very readable book on the useful plants of Iraq. The leaves are a source of fibre used in paper making[ Flora of the USSR. Komarov. V. L. Israel Program for Scientific Translation An immense (25 or more large volumes) and not yet completed translation of the Russian flora. Full of information on plant uses and habitats but heavy going for casual readers. It can be downloaded from the Internet. Seed - sow in situ. Germination usually takes 4 - 8 days[ ]. The seed germinates well at temperatures of 10 - 45°c, with the highest rate at temperatures between 35 - 40°c[ The seed stores for up to 5 years[ Cite as: Tropical Plants Database, Ken Fern. tropical.theferns.info. 2021-01-18. <tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Panicum+miliaceum> Captcha: 10 times itself is?	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line203
__label__wiki	0.751839	0.751839	Haringey Film Festival Streamed Theatre The Independents Arthouse Reviews: Interstellar By ArtHouse, 01 Dec 2014 Scientists across the world claim that if we don’t act now against climate change we’ll be faced with the consequences of our actions. Interstellar gives us a hint of what that might mean. In his latest work, director Christopher Nolan ventures into the complex and fascinating genre of science fiction. The film tells the tale of planet Earth on the verge of disaster in a future not so far from today. The blue planet is slowly being invaded by a mysterious ‘dust’ that destroys crops and confronts humanity with famine and drought. The only solution is to escape the planet and find a new one to live on, and John Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) is the leader of history’s most important space mission. McConaughey is convincing as Cooper, as he makes the transition from a retired space engineer living with his family and dedicating himself to farming, to the spaceman tasked with saving the future of the human species. In the take-off scene, Cooper mimics the same tone of voice of real-life astronauts, adding a degree of realism to the film that immediately draws your attention. Apparently, Christopher Nolan was so keen on making the science accurate and realistic that he employed one of the world’s most important astrophysics experts as a scientific consultant and executive producer. McConaughey isn’t the only star in the film. Next to him is Anne Hathaway, playing Emilia Brand, the only really loyal character in the story. While everyone else has a darker side that ends in betrayals and deceptions, Dr Brand is the only truly sympathetic character in the film. Most thrilling is the scale and drama of the spectacular visual effects. You could argue that the 165 million dollars invested in the film pay off, as you begin to feel swept into cosmos, jumping from black hole to icy alien planet, to the edge of Saturn’s rings and some strange vast galaxy light years away from us. Some scenes are completely silent, letting you gaze and admire the beautifully reproduced universe and the outstanding photography. The soundtrack is the work of none other than Oscar winning Hans Zimmer, who collaborated with Nolan for Inception’s score. His work on Interstellar compliments the picture, keeping the mood tense and adding even more magic to the epic space scenes. The story itself, however, is less gripping. Perhaps surprisingly, unlike in Prestige and Inception, Interstellar has no intricate psychological games or plot twists. The story follows a more linear path, with a nice connection between the opening interview scenes of the film and the closing ones and a lot of sentimentality in between. Nevertheless, the film’s pace keeps you wanting to know what’s next and the cliff hangers keep you glued to Arthouse’s famous seats. The film’s 169 minutes will not bore you, and looking up at the sky at night might just remind you of the warning being given by those scientists across the world. ALL MY SONS UNFORTUNATELY WE HAVE TO CLOSE ONCE AGAIN! Sheffield Adventure Film Festival National Theatre Screening Here at The Arthouse! AND WE’RE OPEN AGAIN! Sign up to get the latest news in your inbox! 159A Tottenham Ln, London , N8 9BT Mon-Sun: 12:00PM-Late © Arthouse Crouch End. All Rights Reserved. 2021.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line209
__label__wiki	0.523578	0.523578	Badmovies.org Forum \| Movies \| Bad Movies \| Bizarre First Drafts Of Famous Movies « previous next » Author Topic: Bizarre First Drafts Of Famous Movies (Read 1021 times) Bizarre First Drafts Of Famous Movies Let's talk about the strange first drafts of movies. Frankly there's enough changes in the early Star Wars scripts to make a whole nother topic just on them. I also think the original ending of Clerks where Dante is killed by a robber is pretty well know. Here one I just found out. In an early draft of Back to the Future, Doc Brown was a bitter cynical old failure. Their actions when they go back in tim result in the 80s turning into some strange retro futuristic timeline. Also, Rock and Roll is never invented. We missed a really awesome version of Twilight. (Yes, at one point Twilight was going to be cool.) It was going to feature Edward as a vampire hunter that worked for the FBI and Bella as a badass vampire. It was going to be an action movie where vampires fought SWAT teams in tree tops. Basically nothing like the actual books, but I don't think that would be a problem this time. LilCerberus A Very Bad Person, overweight bald guy with a missing tooth, and I'M POINTING AT YOU, BUT I'M NOT ADDRESSING YOU! Re: Bizarre First Drafts Of Famous Movies The 5,000 fingers of Dr T has way more than I can list, but was pretty disturbing! https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045464/trivia?ref_=tttr_ql_trv_1 "Science Fiction & Nostalgia have become the same thing!" - T Bone Burnett The world runs off money, even for those with a warped sense of what the world is. Occidentali's Karma The first draft of Purple Rain when it was still called Dreams saw Prince's parents both die (murder & suicide) leaving behind a shattered Prince. The script was changed when director Albert Magnoli came aboard. Prince wanted to shock the audience "just like The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" but Magnoli convinced him not to make the movie that dark and disturbing. Is it October yet? Will Smith movie Hancock, was originally called Tonight He Comes and had the storyline of an ordinary housewife being stalked by a superhero, who eventually rapes her and kills her when he ejaculates and the force of it blows a hole through her back. Pretty Woman was written as a serious drama about prostitution and ended up with the businessman dumping her at the roadside when she was unable to stop her drug habit. not sure if this counts but HENRY PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER was originally going to be a documentary about pro wrestling. When a museum owner who'd agreed to let them have access to his wrestling memrobilia suddenly doubled his asking fee at the last moment, they decided to make a horror film instead! That's why I love movies! Stories like that are what fuels MST3K beat_truck Dedicated Viewer Not exactly bizarre, but due to budget cuts, Day of the Dead was originally going to be very different than the version we got. The original script is available to read on the 'net. Smokey and the Bandit 3 was a mess, but I've read that it originally was going to be some really convoluted mess called Smokey Is The Bandit, where Jackie Gleason lost his marbles and played both parts or something. The first draft of SON OF FRANKENSTEIN (1939) had Peter Lorre as Dr.Frankenstein. And Lugosi's Ygor part was small. But director Rowland V. Lee liked Lugosi, who's per for week by Universal was dirt cheap, expanded the part so Lugosi, who was broke in 1938 due to the British ban on horror movies, some extra income. As a result, Lugosi stole the show. Not really a famous movie, I guess, but DIRTY DANCING 2: HAVANA NIGHTS was originally a very serious historical drama set during the Cuban revolution. The producers later added dirty dancing. Battlestar Galactica started life as a pure Star Wars clone, close enough to cause a lawsuit. Uncle Zombie South African Film Activist and Chief Troublemaker Quote from: beat_truck on November 10, 2020, 01:19:19 PM Smokey Is The Bandit was actually filmed with Jackie Gleason playing both the sheriff and Smokey and preview audiences got confused so the film was re shot. My brother, myself, my saviour, my friend, the fire we are, the fire will end...... just done some foolproof 'internet fact checking' (erm, yeah), but it does apparently seem that at one point BACK TO THE FUTURE was suggested to be renamed SPACEMAN FROM PLUTO (because no one would want to see a movie with 'Future' in the title?), and Marty McFly was going to be on the verge of suicide before discovering a time machine that was either a fridge or a car-wash. The Truman Show was originally The Malcolm Show, and it was a much darker thriller. Monsters Inc was originally about a middle aged man who was depressed and stuck in a rut discovering a book of monsters he drew as a child. The monsters would then come to life and reveal themselves to be his unresolved childhood fears. I read that the first drafts of The Room and Troll 2 made it seem like they were actually going to be good movies Quote from: Trevor on November 13, 2020, 02:31:48 AM	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line214
__label__wiki	0.659267	0.659267	Christine Toth Christine H. Toth joined the Academy of the Sacred Heart as the Middle School Dean of Students in August 2015. The Academy of the Sacred Heart is a Catholic, independent, college preparatory school for girls offering education and instructional services from pre-k through grade 12. Little Hearts, the Early Learning Program for ages 1 through 3 year-old girls, is also a division of the school. Christine holds a master’s degree from the University of Southern Mississippi in Education and a Bachelor of Arts in Communications, with a Public Relations emphasis, from Loyola University New Orleans. Prior to joining Sacred Heart, Christine served as the Director of Student Programs at Tulane University where she had oversight and accountability for over 200 student organizations, student government, leadership programs, student media, and major campus programming. Prior to that, she was at the University of West Florida for eight years. Having worked in Student Affairs for over 11 years, she learned the importance of working with others, relationship building, and defining her leadership style. She believes that one of the most important functions of a Dean of Students is to build and maintain relationships with your constituents: students, administration, faculty, parents, and the community. She strives to inspire colleagues, peers, and the students she serves to realize their full potential. Bring Christine Toth to your school! Author: AMLE Number of views (5844)/Comments (0)/ Topics: Advisory/AdvocacyInspirationLeadershipPrivate SchoolsProfessional DevelopmentSchool Culture/ClimateTransitions to/from Middle School Erik Francis Erik M. Francis, M.Ed., M.S. is an author, educator, and speaker who specializes in teaching and learning that promotes cognitive rigor and postsecondary (college and career) readiness. He is the author of Now THAT'S a Good Question! How to Promote Cognitive Rigor Through Classroom Questioning (ASCD). He is also the owner of Maverik Education LLC, providing academic professional development and consultation to K-12 schools, colleges, and universities on how to develop rigorous teaching learning environments and deliver inquiry-driven educational experiences that engage and encourage students to demonstrate higher order thinking and communicate depth of knowledge. Erik has been an educator for more than 20 years, working as a middle and high school teacher, a site administrator, and an education program specialist in the Title I Unit and Office of English Language Acquisition Service in the Arizona Department of Education. He received his Master in Education Leadership degree from Northern Arizona University and his Master of Science degree in Film and Television Production and Management from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. He also holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Rhetoric and Communication and English from the University at Albany. Erik lives in Scottsdale, Arizona, with his wife and two daughters. Bring Erik Francis to your school! Number of views (17307)/Comments (0)/ Topics: Active LearningAssessmentAt-risk/RTIClassroom ManagementCommon Core State StandardsCurriculumData-driven DecisionsDifferentiated InstructionGifted and TalentedGradesInquiry-based LearningLanguage Arts and LiteracyLearning StylesMathPeer CoachingPLCsProfessional DevelopmentService LearningSTEMStudent EngagementTeachingTechnologyTransitions to/from Middle School Pam Millikan Pam Millikan served on the AMLE Board of Trustees and is a past president of the AMLE Board. She is proud to have taught language arts, served as an assistant principal and as principal in the same middle school for more than 25 years. She is a past Indiana Principal of the Year and an AMLE Distinguished Educator. She has worked with affiliates and schools throughout the association, and she is passionate to help educators create middle schools where all students can experience an exciting and meaningful school environment. She believes that the best results are achieved by working together and by willingly learning new strategies to achieve success. Bring Pam Millikan to your school! Topics: Family and CommunityInspirationLeadershipMiddle School ConceptSchool Culture/ClimateTeamingTransitions to/from Middle School Topics: Active LearningAdvisory/AdvocacyAssessmentClassroom ManagementInquiry-based LearningLanguage Arts and LiteracyLeadershipLearning StylesMiddle School ConceptProfessional DevelopmentTeachingTeamingTransitions to/from Middle SchoolYoung Adolescent Development Marlena Gross-Taylor Marlena Gross-Taylor is the founder of #EduGladiators as well as a district EdLeader for Maury County Schools, Tennessee, with a proven track record of improving educational and operational performance through vision, strategic planning, leadership, and team building. A Nashville transplant originally from southern Louisiana, Marlena's educational experience spans several states allowing her to have served K-12 students in both rural and urban districts. She has been recognized as a middle school master teacher and innovative administrator at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. Because of her sound knowledge of both elementary and secondary education, Marlena has broad-based experience creating and implementing dynamic interactive programs to attain district goals while leveraging her flexibility, resourcefulness, and organizational and interpersonal skills to foster learning through a positive, encouraging environment. Marlena's professional development expertise has garnered both state and national attention. She has also leveraged her past experience in corporate management to include corporate training and leadership coaching in her repertoire of consulting services focused on culture, engagement, and increased productivity. Marlena is a seasoned presenter keynoting conferences and delivering dynamic professional development sessions. As a proud Louisiana State University alumni, she is committed to excellence and believes all students can achieve. Follow Marlena on Twitter @mgrosstaylor or visit her websites marlenagrosstaylor.com & edugladiators.com. Bring Marlena Gross-Taylor to your school! Topics: Advisory/AdvocacyAt-risk/RTIClassroom ManagementCommon Core State StandardsCurriculumDiversity and Social EquityInquiry-based LearningLeadershipMiddle School ConceptOrganizational StructuresPLCsSchedulingSchool Culture/ClimateStudent-led ConferencesTechnologyTransitions to/from Middle School Rick Herrig Rick Herrig is a tireless advocate for quality educational practices. An educator for more than 33 years, Rick has served education as a teacher, principal, college adjunct instructor, and now as an educational consultant. His educational career includes both US and international experience. He has served as the Executive Director for the Iowa Association for Middle Level Education (IAMLE) and as North Region Trustee (2 terms) for the National Middle School Association and has spoken at numerous state, regional, provincial, and national conferences and forums. A certified national trainer with the Center for Teacher Effectiveness, he has led workshops and/or served as a school consultant in 14 US states, Canada, Mexico, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). His message about the importance of helping each student reach academic success through the development of effective teaching practices has transformed schools. Bring Rick Herrig to your school! Topics: Action ResearchAdvisory/AdvocacyAssessmentClassroom ManagementCurriculumData-driven DecisionsDifferentiated InstructionFamily and CommunityGradesInternational SchoolsLeadershipLearning StylesMiddle School ConceptPeer CoachingProfessional DevelopmentResearchSchedulingSchool Culture/ClimateStudent EngagementStudent-led ConferencesTeachingTeamingTransitions to/from Middle School Crystal LaVoulle Dr. Crystal LaVoulle believes that learning is a lifelong endeavor and educators must continuously strive to increase their knowledge and understanding along with the students they teach. As the Executive Director of the LaVoulle Group, an international educational consulting, Dr. LaVoulle is an international consultant, committed to educating the world's children through Intelligent Leadership. Leading educators in critical examination of quantitative and qualitative data, Dr. LaVoulle addresses school climate and teacher retention issues through Collaborative Conversations©, a support program for school leaders. Her professional workshop series, Chronicles of Teacher Effectiveness©, offers classroom teachers needed support with instructional strategies and assessment. Innovative projects like Read, Write, Rhyme Institute©, bring educators and entertainers together to engage in intellectual discourse about art and education. Dr. LaVoulle is an active member of the educational community, contributing to K-12 and post-secondary research and presenting at the AMLE Annual Conference, National Title I; National Youth At-Risk; Georgia Read, Write, Now; and the Georgia Council of Teachers of English conferences. Earning a doctorate in reading, language and literacy from Georgia State University, a Master of Public Administration in Policy and Education from the University of West Georgia and received her bachelor's degree in sociology from the University at Stony Brook. Dr. LaVoulle has 20 years of educational experience working with a diverse range of middle, high school, and post-secondary teachers and students. Bring Crystal LaVoulle to your school! Topics: At-risk/RTICurriculumData-driven DecisionsDifferentiated InstructionDiversity and Social EquityLanguage Arts and LiteracyProfessional DevelopmentSchool Culture/ClimateTransitions to/from Middle School Mr. Tom Burton is currently the Associate Superintendent of Princeton City Schools located just North of Cincinnati. Tom has been in administration since 1995 with more than 12 years of service as a building principal. He is past-president of the Ohio Middle Level Association (formerly OMSA), and served on the Affiliate Task Force and as a School Improvement Assessment consultant for the Association for Middle Level Education. Since 2001, Tom has spoken to numerous audiences throughout the United States with passion and purpose on a multitude of topics. Additionally, Tom has written articles for publications both in Ohio and nationally. He is the winner of the NASSP/MetLife Ohio Middle School Principal of the Year, the Distinguished Young Alumni Award from Slippery Rock University, and many other awards. Most recently he was selected as Ohio Educator of the Year by the Ohio Middle Level Association and was inducted in both the Cleveland Heights High School Distinguished Alumni Hall of Fame and John Carroll University Athletic Hall of Fame. Tom is married to wife Franca, and they share the joy of raising three children, Cailey, Bryce, and Tommy. Bring Tom Burton to your school! Topics: Advisory/AdvocacyClassroom ManagementFamily and CommunityInspirationLeadershipMiddle School ConceptOrganizational StructuresProfessional DevelopmentSchool Culture/ClimateStudent EngagementStudent-led ConferencesTeachingTeamingTransitions to/from Middle School Patti Kinney Patti Kinney began her career as an elementary music specialist and then taught 5th and 6th grade in an elementary school. She later taught 6th and 7th grade at the middle level when her district made the transition to middle school in the mid-80s. During this time she was also involved in staff development work for the district, taught a variety of instructional and management skills classes, and took a one-year sabbatical leave to teach in the education department of Southern Oregon University. As an assistant principal and later principal of Talent Middle School, she was highly involved in the process to transform this former 7-8 junior high school into a 6-8 middle school and in 2000, the school was recognized as one of “100 highly successful middle schools” in a national research study sponsored by NASSP. Mrs. Kinney is a past president of the Association for Middle Level Education and of the Oregon Middle Level Association. In 2007, she was awarded the Oregon Middle Level Association’s first Distinguished Service Award that was also named in her honor. From 2007-2014, she served as Associate Director, Middle Level Services for the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP) located in Virginia. In 1996, she was named the Oregon Assistant Principal of the Year and in 2003, she was selected as the Met-Life/NASSP National Middle Level Principal of the Year. Patti has spoken, presented, and consulted on middle level issues at national and international level. She also has authored Voices of Experience: Perspectives from Middle Level Leaders (AMLE/NASSP); Fostering Student Accountability through Student-led Conferences (AMLE/NASSP); The What, Why, and How of Student-Led Conferences (AMLE); and regularly wrote for NASSP’s Principal Leadership magazine. She earned her B.A. in elementary education and M.A. in outdoor education from Southern Oregon University and her administrative license from the University of Oregon. Bring Patti Kinney to your school! Topics: Advisory/AdvocacyAssessmentBullying/School SafetyClassroom ManagementInspirationLeadershipMiddle School ConceptOrganizational StructuresProfessional DevelopmentSchedulingSchool Culture/ClimateStudent EngagementStudent-led ConferencesTeamingTransitions to/from Middle School Janet Vernon Janet Vernon has served middle schools, teachers and students in many ways. In her various roles, including as an school principal, Janet has mentored other school leaders, supervised and supported faculty and staff, provided a climate and culture for school improvement, developed rigorous performance goals, and trained staff to use student achievement data to increase student success and create standards-based classrooms. She has also been an Executive Director of Secondary Schools, an Executive Director of Teaching and Learning, and has served AMLE as a board member as well as the board president. Listen to a podcast interview of Janet Vernon: Bring Janet Vernon to your school! 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__label__cc	0.656347	0.343653	Music and Video Review Polaris – The Mortal Coil – Album Review Marketing, Social Media Social Media: Independent artists’ friend or foe? Image: Aleksei. (2017, November 11). Apple iPhone 7 on wooden table with icons of social media facebook, instagram, twitter, snapchat application on screen. Smartphone Starting social media app. Retrieved from https://stock.adobe.com/images/sankt-petersburg-russia-november-11-2017-apple-iphone-7-on-wooden-table-with-icons-of-social-media-facebook-instagram-twitter-snapchat-application-on-screen-smartphone-starting-social-media-app/283452126 The heat of social media platforms is on. Many important music business professionals believe in social media as an essential tool for promoting music. At the same time, Independent artists have taken the initiative to describe how social media has helped launch their music career. But their essential argument is what they’ve learned about connecting to fans through social media. Social media marketing is full of tricks. And many music business professional badvice independent artists about learning how to use these platforms and measure results. James Cortes, author of Streaming music and the music social media landscape (2019), talks about collecting data from social media and streaming music platforms to shape marketing strategies. Collecting Data and Knowing your Social Media Fans I chose to discuss James Cortes’ blog journal. It relates to social media and music business, the digital media topic I am researching. Cortes (2019) writes formal blogs published under Cogswell Polytechnical College from Silicon Valley, California. The college offers degrees in audio and music production, business administration, digital arts and gaming design (Cogswell Polytechnical College, 2019). I am confident that this article is a reliable source of information based on Cogswell’s reputation in the music and entertainment business industry. Cortes (2019) discusses data metrics’ collection from multiple social media and music streaming platforms. Analyzing data let artists learn about their fans, think of a social media strategy and write a plan of action that better fits their short and long-term goals. The blog describes data-gathering under marketing principles to understand which social media platforms work best for a specific artist. Last, Cortes (2019) briefly explains music streaming and its alliance to social media. Reliable Sources for the Independent Artist Many readers, especially independent musicians learning about social media, find it difficult to rely on a single source to learn about music promotion. Readers and writers must work together to verify information and compare different sources to define reliable content. Readers often trust writers but often fail to correct them if some information isn’t accurate. At the same time, most readers do not verify information or lack having enough media literacy’s skills to verify. After all, a writer is a community leader that’s often trusted. But during an NPR interview with report and radio show host, David Folkenflik (2019), he emphasizes that journalism finds “an incredible fragmentation of information” (NPR, 2013) and believes that the audience’s expectations of facts “[must shift] a little bit” (2013). Although I’d like to disagree with Folkenflik (2019), the vast amount of fake and fragmented information in social media leaves doubts. The audience must give content some wiggle room and take the initiative to verify and revise articles, wiki and blogs when possible. Journalist and reporters understand the risk of publishing unverified information on social media. Often, they rely on fragmented information that leads unclear conclusions. These carry unexpected reactions from an emotionally charged audience that’s saturated with fake news (Yigal, 2017). A journalist can verify as much information as possible before posting on social media and follow-up on the subject after verifying more sources on a second post. I believe it is an inexcusable offense to journalism as a reputable professional and to the audience if a journalist posts unverified information on social media (Yigal, 2017). Retrieving erroneous reporting is almost impossible, especially when the original post had already spread and done the damage. Cortes, J. (2019, July 28). Streaming music and the music social media landscape. Cogswell Polytechnical College. Retrieved from https://cogswell.edu/blog/streaming-music-and-the-music-social-media-landscape/ Degree Programs. (2019). In Cogswell Polytechnical College. Retrieved from https://cogswell.edu/degrees/ Folkenflik, D. (2019). In NPR. Retrieved from https://www.npr.org/people/4459112/david-folkenflik NPR. (2013, September 17). David Folkenflik; Audie Cornish. Why outlets often get it wrong In Breaking News coverage [Transcript]. NPR, All Things Considered. Location: Washington D.C. Retrieved from https://ezproxy.snhu.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nfh&AN=6XN201309172006&site=eds-live&scope=site Yigal, G. & Reich, Z. (2017, May). Journalistic evidence: Cross-verification as a constituent of mediated knowledge. Journalism. May2017, Vol. 18 Issue 5. Retrieved from https://ezproxy.snhu.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ufh&AN=122565700&site=eds-live&scope=site November 24, 2019by Mario Campani Written by Mario Campani An entrepreneur and visionary, Campani merges the Old and New Music Business models through synergy. This principle nurtures a dominant trend for independent artists to succeed. 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__label__cc	0.671681	0.328319	Serving the University of Rochester Community Since 1873. Campus Times The Jenny UR Politics Ed Observers CT Eats Research at Rochester Rochester Life UR Joking Podcasts-Coming Soon! Welcome to the new campustimes.org. The Campus Times staff has worked hard on a responsive web redesign. Please bear with us as some older content may be temporarilily unavailable. To submit feedback, or to report an issue, email the Web Staff at online@campustimes.org. Culture Local parks Go to your local parks Courtesy Humor Editor Ethan Busch By Ethan Busch Humor Editor Due to COVID-19 reasons, I unfortunately cannot hang out with my friends in their dorm rooms. So we’ve been hanging out in parks. There are a lot of great parks around here. Here are a few of my favorites: Mount Hope Cemetery Ooh that’s cool: 11/10 Picnicability: 5/10 I like ~exercise~: 8/10 Okay. So the first one isn’t technically a park. But cemeteries are basically parks, and this one is one of the best cemeteries I’ve ever been to. Which is saying something, because I’ve been to a lot of cemeteries. Not in a weird way though. I just think they’re cool. In all seriousness, Mount Hope is a beautiful cemetery with an incredible amount of history. It’s a great place for an afternoon walk. The paths are also more than well maintained enough to go for a run, though be aware that some parts of the cemetery are very hilly. I recommend driving into the cemetery and parking in the older part, where it’s more heavily forested. For some it feels a little morbid, but I love to imagine what the people who are buried there were like, especially the ones who lived over a century ago. You may also find some familiar names like Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, Benjamin Rush Rhees (of library fame), and others. This park (cemetery) is one of the most beautiful I’ve ever seen, and we have the great privilege of living next door to it. I highly recommend checking it out. The Trees at Highland Park, Courtesy Vanessa Wish Ooh that’s cool: 6/10 Highland Park is a very nice park. It’s definitely worth a visit, and it’s just across Mount Hope Ave. from the cemetery, so it is close. The reservoir there is a nice place to sit, and there are great paths for walks and runs. It’s also much more open with a few fields where running around, tossing a frisbee, or having a picnic feels more comfortable than in the cemetery. There are plenty of interesting things to do, but they’re mostly the normal things you might expect in a park. Delightful, but less unique and exciting than some others. Genesee Valley Park Picnicability: 10/10 GVP is a lot like Highland Park in that it is simply a park. There are great fields and baseball diamonds for sports lovers. Golf is there for golfers (whatever you call someone who plays golf). There are pavilions and picnic tables all over the park, which makes it one of the best nearby parks to eat at. You can catch a good view of the river as well! If you are a UR student and haven’t been here yet, I don’t really know what you’re doing. It’s right there! But there are still more interesting parks around. Cobbs Hill Reservoir and Washington Grove Graffiti at Cobbs Hill. Ethan Busch, Humor editor Cobbs Hill Reservoir is a wonderful spot. There’s a nice water feature in the middle, with a great walking path. There are also some fun hills for children to roll down! The main event in this part of the park, however, is the small clearing in the trees that overlooks the city. It’s a beautiful view for a picnic, or just to sit and watch. Be warned: On nicer days, and close to sunset, this part of the park can be a bit busy, but never concerningly so. The larger park also has fantastic hiking trails, including a short one which leads up to two old water towers. These abandoned concrete cylinders act as canvasses for some beautiful graffiti; definitely worth checking out! Ontario Beach Park The beach at Ontario State Park. Ethan Busch, Humor editor This is not the only beach not far from school — which is a crazy cool thing to say — but it’s a good one. Like GVP, this park has some great fields and pavilions where you can eat, but it also has a beach! It’s not the ocean, but the lake is beautiful, especially at sunset. There’s lots of activity here in normal years, but it’s a bit quieter due to COVID-19. That said, it’s still definitely populated. There’s a pier if you want to get a better view of the water, and you can even swim during the summer (if you want to swim in the lake). It’s the beach! If I need to convince you that going to the beach is nice then I don’t think we should be friends anymore. Famous Bridge at Letchworth. Ethan Busch, Humor editor So, this one isn’t a Rochester park. But I’m including it because I just went and it’s breathtakingly beautiful. The park features three waterfalls in a massive gorge that drops down hundreds of feet below you. There’s a $10 fee for parking, but after that you’re free to explore some fanatics’ short and medium length hikes, and admire the incomparable view. I’m hilariously afraid of heights and it was still far beyond fantastic. I struggle to find the words that can aptly describe how beautiful the view is here. The park is about an hour away, but if you have access to a car, it’s more than worth a trip. Like some others on this list, when the weather is nice it can be a bit busy, but it’s definitely worth the drive a hundred times over. 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__label__cc	0.725575	0.274425	1968 Fiat 850 Spyder Convertible from North America - Comments Home > Fiat > 850 > 1968 > Review > Comments 19th Aug 2006, 12:13 I had a 1970 850 Spyder. If there was a more fun car built than this that gets 40 mpg, I haven't driven it. Know where I can find another one of these today? My first car was a 1969 850 Spider that I bought used when I graduated from high school in 1971. Prior to buying it I would go nuts every time I saw one on the road. I just had to have one. It was not the most powerful car of its time, but it was a joy to drive. The high reving rear engine made you feel like you were driving a race car. I used to auto cross mine a lot and even came in first in my class at one event. I had a dream last night about those days and that is what led me to this site. I wish I still had that car. 3rd Sep 2006, 20:36 I Had a 1963 850 as a young man. It was absolutely great. It was pretty rusted on the bottom, but it still looked good and ran well. I had a blast!If only I had another one now. I owned and drove one and I can tell you that it was unique in its time and a totally innovative approach to automotive engineering. The only thing about it was the need for weight over the front wheels due to the overhang of the rear engine. The rear end did have a tendency to cut loose on a slippery road. Maybe with a passenger it was better, but at under 140 lbs, my body was not enough to hold the front wheels down. I used solid scrap lead in the front inside the trunk. Scrap lead was cheap at the time and it helped the car handle better and cut the understeer effect. I purchased a '67' in late December of that year--waited six months in a queue to take delivery. I lived in LA at that time and maybe there was 25 or 30 on the road. I had both the hard and soft top. I drew "looks" everywhere I went. People thought it was a Ferrari or Lamborghini. I was working in the airline industry at the time. We called an aircraft that constantly needed repair a "Hangar Queen." The Fiat was definitely a "queen." Constantly in the garage. But I really enjoyed driving it. In 1972, I bought a new VW and the spyder was driven into my garage--to sit for 10 years. Finally sold it when I moved from LA to Memphis--soft top still in its original carton. Today, my daughter drives a Honda Del Sol. Maybe not as exotic as the Fiat Spyder, but incredibly reliable. 25th Dec 2006, 20:24 I had a 69 (?) 850 Spyder, whichever year the displacement was reduced to 803 cc’s in order to avoid emission controls. Lime green over black. While I owned the 850 I was dating a pretty strawberry blond and the two had a lot in common, both attracted admiring glances and both were problematic. Yes the 850s are slow, but no slower than many other small sedans and sports cars of the era. It handled very well, the steering was light and pretty accurate and turned in easily. They are subject to trailing throttle over steer, but considering the lightweight and decent sized tires for that weight it was pretty predictable. You lacked the power to push the tail out or over come any under steer so you just drifted through the corner. The most comparable cars of that era were the Sprigits (Sprite/Midget). With their larger engines a Spridgits are faster, but not as comfortable and entrance and egress was much easier in the 850. I knew a guy who was 6’1” who had one and he was very comfortable and couldn’t get in a Sprigit. With the top up or down I could carry a surfboard in the car. Board length 6’, fold the passenger seat back down onto the cushion, wedge the nose of the board into the foot well under the glove box. With the lid of the top cover open, lower the tail of the board into the parcel shelf behind the seats. Unfortunately when I did this I needed to leave the blond at home. In the winter it would never start without the block heater being plugged in, but it was a little tank getting through snow until you high centered in to on snowdrift. The heater was only OK, but the top tended to leak above the windshield and the rear window yellowed over in about two years necessitating the replacement of the top since the window didn’t zip out. Except for the cold starting it never left me stranded. By 1974 it was so rusted out that the passenger seat had vertical travel of a couple of inches. Interesting it wasn’t so much the exterior body panels that rusted, but the interior and bottom panels of the unibody. If I came across a restored one I’d be very tempted to buy it and maybe go looking for that strawberry blond. 3rd Mar 2007, 09:43 I'm a woman who knows very little about cars, but I inherited my spyder from my brother. It was the cutest car I've ever owned and taking hairpin curves in it made me feel like a race car driver. I never EVER had trouble handling the car and I live in Wisconsin and have had to maneuver it over snow and ice. I have no idea what problem the gentlemen (who had lost control and fell over a steep bank) had that he could not control this very responsive automobile. Did it go from 0-60 in 3seconds? NOOOOOoooo. Yes, it could reach speeds of 100mph, but when entering a freeway one had to hope that the cars behind you were able to go around. My mother bought me a key-chain that said, “Give me a break; I’m peddling as fast as I can!” Once it reached the desired speed, however, it was fine. Mine was not new and so had its problems. I learned to pop a clutch going backwards, down a hill… in that car. It was a requirement for that Fiat. But any problems it had were surely made up for in aesthetics! That was truly one cute car! People used to tease me and say that my car could fit into their trunks. Once a woman said, “If I could put a handle on it, I could use it as a purse.” I miss that car. (By the way, your spell check in this site is confusing as it does not seem to recognize conjunctions.) I want one, can't find one (worth buying), sooooo bummed! In 1984 I spent $900 for a Taxicab yellow 1973 850 Spyder while attending college in San Diego. The climate was perfect for a convertible and the roads were seldom slippery. That little car cornered like it was on rails and it revved to the rather high red-line without a problem. I had my share of problems; 4 exhaust systems, 2 fuel pumps, new carb and tune ups every weekend, plus a stalling problem when it was hot and a stuck right caliper, but I really liked that car. Since then, I've owned nothing, but Honda's and Toyota's which are reliable, but I'm never as passionate about them as I was about the 850. I supposedly "sold" it to a brother who "sold" it to a friend, but no money every changed hands so I probably still own it. 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__label__cc	0.584905	0.415095	Dragon Fantasy: Heroes of Tsufana (COMPLETED GAME) Author Topic: Dragon Fantasy: Heroes of Tsufana (COMPLETED GAME) (Read 21036 times) Ephiam Angel Of Wavering Tides Check out the Facebook Page for Heroes of Tsufana! And if you'd be so kind, give it a "Like" to show your support and receive up-to-date information and occasional random facts about the game! Heroes of Tsufana FACEBOOK PAGE Fantasy. RPG Maker 2003. http://rpgmaker.net/games/4220/ This entry within the Dragon Fantasy series takes us into the magical world of Tsufana--a place where wizards and dragons reign supreme. These lands, however, face a grave crisis: Vlad, a famed Wizard hailing from the prosperous lands of Lispen, has defected, and now wields his magics with a dark purpose. In his quest for an unfathomable dark power, he has cursed the world and its inhabitants, transforming them into monsters and various other forms of demonic entities. You take control of two siblings from the town of Ziazu. Mysteriously surviving their hometown's collapse under Vlad's curse, they set out with help from a brave knight and a well-renowned sage to end the evil wizard's vile curse and restore peace to the land. "The hero of the tale. He and his sister were the only survivors when Vlad's curse overcame their hometown." "The Hero's sister. Well-versed in the art of black magic, and very intelligent. Her hometown was destroyed by Vlad's curse when she was a child." Torkus "A great Sage hailing from the town of Borez. He wields potent healing magics, and knows much about the world and its inhabitants." Armak "Great warrior born and raised within the fishing village of Orul. His physical power is amazing, but he lacks the know-how to cast magic." -Ephiam (Myself) for mapping, story creation, dialogue, etc. -Various game series' such as Breath of Fire, Final Fantasy, etc. But namely Dragon Warrior. -Enterbrain Discovering a very remote village in the mountains. Battle against a group of monsters. Exploring a cave. Conversing with villagers. Traveling the World. World Map! 100% complete. « Last Edit: June 18, 2013, 12:00:47 AM by Ephiam » One, one too many schizophrenic tendancies Over 9000! I made a fortune in toothpicks, but I lost it all in a fire. Re: Dragon Fantasy: Heroes of Tsufana Well, the NES-vibe has my stamp of approval. ellie-is How many games in this series so far? You're always posting them. Quote from: Zerlina on February 05, 2012, 08:59:46 PM Yeah so I'm pretty Quote from: Archem2 on February 05, 2012, 09:33:40 PM I'm a fat-*** There's 7? 8? Somewhere along there. Though most of them aren't REALLY connected. They just sorta (kinda) take place in the same universe. That's why I'm doing a remake of the very first game in the series. I can actually set up some kid of solid storyline this time around instead of going all over the place like I did in the past. Anthologies are interesting, though. That's what I'm doing for Myrdia. Same universe, different stories (sometimes not even in the same time period). Well, I'm glad to announce that progress on this has increased quite a bit! And so the game is being developed at a much faster rate than it had been in the past. My reason? The project I was directing MOST of my attention on has been placed on hiatus until I get some motivation back to work on it. My main mapper had to leave the team, so that left me pretty bummed. Nothing that could be helped, of course, but it shot my motivation. Anyway, because of that I can now focus all my attention on this project instead! HURRAH! Isn't that exciting? I bet it is. You KNOW you're pumped. Anyway, I leave you with a preview video I made quite a while back. It still holds up nicely, but lacks a few new things that the current version has (like naming your characters, etc.) Regardless it conveys the feels quite nicely. Dragon Fantasy: Heroes of Tsufana (PREVIEW) drenrin2120 I dig it. I diiiiig it! Good, good, gooooood! The more that dig it, the better. Haha. And now I'm gonna add a few more screenshots to the collection. Exploring the world for hidden treasures. They're everywhere. Literally. There's going to be so much to do and find, and a TON of exploration to be done. I want to make it a real adventure, so the world will have much more to offer other than the main quest. Stumbling across a hidden village tucked away in the mountains. It was pointed out to me already that Serpent was spelled wrong. For some reason the proper spelling of that always eludes me! Gah. Anyway, this is the only shop in the game that sells relics/accessories that resist status ailments, etc. GREAT AND HELPFUL NPCS. Where would we be without them? Full-party battle against a group of wild monsters out in the desert! Phew. They'll certainly need a drink or two after this skirmish. Tiny little village. Though then again, almost all of the villages and towns in this games are small. This is due to the walking speed. Also, I based the town and dungeon sizes off of those found in Dragon Warrior II. Ok, gonna say it again, I am floored by how true to the NES 8-bit style this looks. It's great. I am curious about the music, though. How much of it is original? It sounds almost too good. I noticed the Final Fantasy fanfare (henceforth referred to as FFFF), but most of the rest sounds unfamiliar. Any chance of replacing something as iconic as that FFFF to be as passably unfamiliar-yet-great as the rest of the songs demoed? Meiscool I died for YOUR sins. Screenies look nice. Love the graphics None of the music is original, sadly. I wanted to make this game as authentic FEELING and SOUNDING as I could, so even the music is ripped directly from the Dragon Warrior games (2-4) on the NES (as are the graphics.) Not only that, but I find that it is extraordinarily hard to find a good composer for free online, so rips are my best bet. I can also go through tons and tons of songs and eventually pull together a list of songs that I like, so there's also that. Maybe in the future I may look in to getting original music for one of my projects, but I don't see that happening anytime soon! Thanks for the comment regardless, 'cause judging by your thoughts on this game I'm going down the right path! Idk why put this has got me giddy. i feel the need to play dw and dq again. I'm glad to announce that this project has finally been completed! Updating the main post after I finish writing this. You can check out the link I gave above to find the full game, 'cause the location didn't change! Re: Dragon Fantasy: Heroes of Tsufana (COMPLETED GAME) "Arandomgamemaker" of RMN was kind enough to dedicate some of time towards writing a review for Heroes of Tsufana, and he gave it a whopping 4-out-of-5 stars! Awesome. Here's the link: Heroes of Tsufana REVIEW However I will also post it here for convenience's sake. Heroes of Tsufana is a game created by Ephiam. (You probably already know that ) It attempts to emulate the oldschool Dragon Warrior games, and I must say it does a pretty darn good job about it. Story: 3/5 You and you sister's town was destroyed by Vlad. The whole point of the game is to, well, defeat Vlad and bring peace back to the world. Now, I don't really have much of a problem with these kinds of plots, but I do feel it could have been a bit more original. Still, it keeps you playing. Graphics:5/5 They are NES Dragon Quest sprites. How could you possibly go wrong with that? Mapping: 4/5 The way Ephiam made the mapping was to mimic the minimalistic style of Dragon Quest 1. Bearing that in mind, I think it is pretty accurate. None of the maps look ugly at all! I think the minimalist style actually compliments with this game very well. Music:5/5 The music is also taken from Dragon Quests 1-4, which in my opinion automatically makes it awesome. However, this is the first time I've heard the soundtrack in MP3 format. That may not sound like a big deal, but MP3 format allows it to sound exactly like the original version. Gameplay: 4/5 The battles are the traditional 2K3 ATB system. Depending on the game, this is either a good thing, or a bad thing. In this game, I think it is a good thing. The battles aren't long, boring, or slow, and they always seem enjoyable to me. I do wish that you could target multiple enemies at a time, though. It's not that big of an issue, but it does get annoying with large groups of enemies. Gameplay outside of battle follow a pretty basic formula for the first two towns - get to town, go to dungeon, get treasure, fight boss, get out. However, as soon as you get the ship, the game opens up tremendously. In fact, it's very hard to figure out where to go next! It can be irritating, but I do like the freedom you have. Not to mention, all he treasure chests everywhere. Replayability: 3/5 While there is a lot of stuff to do, I feel that there doesn't seem to be much of a point in replaying this game that much. Although, it does stay fun! -Fun, engaging battles. -Awesome graphics and music -Plenty to do. -It is a bit hard to figure out where to go. -The story could be a bit better, but it's not that big of an issue. Moosetroop11 Wooow! Man, I want to play this as soon as possible, but my full time job is currently games testing and I dunno if I can face it today XD It looks amazing, though. I'll try and play it this week. Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan I missed this place. Quote from: drenrin2120 Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan I missed you. Quote from: fruckert Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaan I missed that welcome.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line243
__label__wiki	0.800407	0.800407	Martin Ssempa (the “Eat Da Poo-poo” Pastor), Five Others Convicted by Ugandan Court Over False Sodomy Charges L-R: Pasters Solomon Male, Michael Kyazze and Martin Ssempa in court recently. (Photo via Daily Monitor) Martin Ssempa and Solomon Male were among four Ugandan pastors, along with a business man and a musician, who were convicted by a Kampala court for conspiring to tarnish a rival pastor’s reputation by accusing him of homosexuality. According to Daily Monitor, Uganda’s largest independent newspaper: Pastors Solomon Male, Martin Ssempa, Michael Kyazze and Robert Kaira, together with Ms Deborah Anita Kyomuhendo, a businesswoman and David Mukalazi, a musician, were convicted by Buganda Road Grade I magistrate, Julius Borore. Mr Borore sentenced them to a fine of Shs1 million each and community service of 100 hours or serve six months in prison upon failure to pay the fine and performing community service. Community service is where a convict is forced perform manual labour like digging, cleaning public facilities such as schools, collecting garbage among other chores. The six are still being held in a holding cell at Buganda road court as they make up their minds. Meanhile Kayanja’s supporters are chanting outside court. The magistrate said the case is sensitive in nature adding that genocides around the world have happened after the propagation of false information. The fine of Shs1 million is equivalent to US$390. One of the more immediate fallouts of the infamous March 2009 conference put on by Scott Lively and two other American anti-gay activists in Kampala, besides the notorious Anti-Homosexuality Bill, was a long and fearsome anti-gay vigilante campaign waged by the tabloids and on television and radio, with the full backing and participation by Ssempa and Male. During the anti-gay hysteria that swept Uganda, Ssempa and Male were among other powerful pastors who took the opportunity to launch wild accusations against rival pastors in a bid to increase their own power base and financial clout. This particular case revolved around charges that Ssempa, Male and others made against Pastor Robert Kayanja of the Rubaga Miracle Center Cathedral of being a homosexual, along with “a group of other pastors.” Before they made their charges public in the summer of 2009, Kayanja’s personal aide, Chris Muwonge, was allegedly kidnapped and tortured by armed men and held for five days. His captors allegedly wanted him to make a video statement accusing Kayenja of molesting young boys. Kayanja accused his rival, Pastor Michael Kyazze of the Omega Healing Center of being behind the plot. The ensuring investigation ultimately connected Ssempa and Male to the conspiracy. Ssempa at one time had been a darling of American Evangelicals, boasting of ties to Saddleback Pastor Rick Warren; Peter E. Waldron, a Christian Reconstructionist and close advisor to Rep. Michele Bachman; Las Vegas megachurch Canyon Ridge Community Church; Willow Creek Church; among several others. Most (though not all) American Evangelicals have broken their ties with Ssempa since 2009. When Warren denounced the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, Ssempa issued a sharp video rebuke against his former friend. As part of Ssempa’s public campaign to push the Anti-Homosexuality Bill through Parliament, he resorted to showing graphic gay porn in his church and at new conferences. When one of those news conferences was filmed for CurrentTV’s documentary “Missionaries of Hate,” the clips of Ssempa alleging that gay people “eat da poo-poo” became an internet sensation. Tags: Martin Ssempa, Michael Kyazze, Solomon Male, Uganda F Young What with Ssempa being convicted, California’s law banning ex-gay treatments for minors and the British psychotherapists policy also banning such treatments, its turning out to be bad week for the Forces of Darkness. Too bad about Serbia’s cancellation of its gay pride due to threats of violence, though. Regan DuCasse I bet now he wishes that homosexuality wasn’t a crime, or a weapon of defamation of gay people. If it wasn’t, and gay people accepted routinely, he wouldn’t be in trouble at all. This is why you kinda want to look at such virulently anti gay people and go …or, maybe he doesn’t. The anti gay don’t seem smart enough to think about it in such terms. @Regan DuCasse “I bet now he wishes that homosexuality wasnâ€™t a crime, or a weapon of defamation of gay people.” However, in this case, the judgement is premised on the view that he was using defamation as a weapon against a NON-gay person. This case is a useful reminder that heterosexuals too are victims of anti-gay laws and persecution. False accusations of homosexuality have been used to persecute and destroy apparently heterosexual political opponents in Malaysia and at least one African country. A good deal of the people bullied in school are straights perceived to be gay. Excellent point F Young. Once hate is an acceptable weapon, anyone can be its target. MattNYC Feel the LOVE that is Ugandan organized religion. I can’t recall any incidents in the U.S. where preachers “knee-capped” “rivals” — what does that mean anyway? Most of them are upended by their own behavior. But if Falwell had not been a heart attack waiting to happen, it would have been fun to hear accusations against Uncle Pat for offing him. These guys (and gal) are no better than mafiosi protecting their “turf.” So, yeah, I want to hear moralizing from corrupt thugs like these… Jerry Sloan Matt, don’t you remember in 1989 it was rivalry between Jimmy Swaggart and a New Orleans pastor that led to the NO pastor revealing Jimmy’s passion for masturbating prostitutes and his famous “I have sinned” televison confession. A couple of years later Jimmy was caught in Southern CA with a prostitute in his car – he was just giving her a lift. Ole Jimmy is doing OK these days as he now has his own satellite channel (344 on Directv) and 80+ radio stations. His son Donnie and grandson Gabriel are heirs to the family business. Jerry, I did not recall that Swaggart was done in by a rival. It’s funny, I was actually going to mention him as a specific example of someone who made his own bed. Thanks F Young, beautifully articulated.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line248
__label__wiki	0.968854	0.968854	DDW074 -- Select an option -- Limited Edition Cloudy Blue Vinyl (out of 300) - $22.00 Sea Blue Vinyl - $20.00 CD - $10.00 Digital - $9.00 Told Slant's third album, "Point The Flashlight And Walk", is out November 13th, 2020. Cloudy Blue vinyl limited to 300 copies First 200 preorders receive free flexi of "Best Dancer Alive" Buy Told Slant's 2016 album, "Going By" Told Slant is the solo recording project of Brooklyn songwriter Felix Walworth (they/them). Known for their bare, down-tempo, guitar-driven arrangements and understated lyricism, Walworth is set to release their first album in four years, Point The Flashlight and Walk. On Told Slant’s third full-length and most complex work to date, Walworth uses Point The Flashlight and Walk to explore the limits of devotion. How deeply can one sublimate themselves through devotion to another? What is lost and gained when that devotion is ruptured? Written and recorded in solitude in their bedroom, the creative process of making the record mirrors its narrative subject; the result being a layered arrangement built from the bottom up through experimentation, failure, failure, more failure, and inspiration. The album weaves through hypnotic rhythms, tumbling piano, and delicate harp, continuously complemented by Walworth’s keen ability to evoke tangible intimacy through vocals and unconventional percussion. Tracks like “Family Still” and “No Backpack” dive headfirst into the theme of devotion and encapsulate the graceful and layering arrangements that shine through the album. It’s an adventurous and personal collection of songs, employing new instruments and avoiding the song structures Told Slant fans are used to. The album title itself becomes a repeated mantra for the listener by the third track “Flashlight On.” Point The Flashlight and Walk exemplifies a clear progression for Told Slant, while preserving the sing-along moments and heartbreaking lyricism that has captivated fans for nearly a decade. Meet You in the City Bullfrog Choirs Flashlight On Run Around the School Family Still No Backpack Moon & Sea Fog On The Glass From the Roofbeams Walking With The Moon	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line254
__label__wiki	0.729268	0.729268	Archive for Bede Parry Bishop to recount handling of 1987 sexual abuse case WATERLOO — Retired Dubuque Archbishop Jerome Hanus said Thursday he looks forward to giving a deposition soon in a 2011 lawsuit regarding his handling of an alleged clergy sex abuse incident 26 years ago by a monk at a Missouri abbey. » Read more.. RC Archbishop Resigns before Deposition of Former Pedophile Priest The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dubuque, Iowa Jerome Hanus has announced he is resigning “for health reasons” just two weeks prior to his scheduled deposition of a former pedophile priest who was later accepted into the Episcopal Church. Hanus is the first archbishop to resign under Pope Francis. Archbishop Hanus will move back to Conception Abbey. On the Eve of Deposition, Archbishop’s Resignation Accepted Pope Francis has accepted the tendered resignation at age 73, two years younger than the age required for resignation by bishops, of Archbishop Jerome Hanus of Dubuque, Iowa. Archbishop Hanus Resigns Prior to Deposition An Iowa Catholic archbishop has announced his resignation “for health reasons” just two weeks prior to his scheduled deposition in a clergy sex abuse and cover up case. » Read more.. Some more hypocrisy and Catholic-bashing A confession. I don’t like American football very much, and I’m not enormously fond of Episcopalian theology either. But most of all, I hate hypocrisy and Catholic-bashing. So let’s take a trip to Pennsylvania, via Kansas. Bede Parry is a former Benedictine monk who has a history of abusing young men. When this was discovered he was ejected from his abbey and then refused by another monastery in Las Vegas. Rejected by the Roman Catholic Church, in 2004 he became an Episcopalian priest, even after informing the then bishop of Nevada, Katharine Jefferts Schori, that he had sexually transgressed just a few years earlier. She was also told by his former monastery about his sordid past and given highly damaging psychological records. Surprise, surprise. In July this year he resigned from his post and is currently facing criminal charges. Statement from Katharine Jefferts Schori In a statement (below) dated November 16, 2011, Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, proves herself to be a talented wordsmith and an insensitive, deceptive leader. This statement raises more questions and several new concerns. Statement of Rev. Bede Parry During the camp, I had inappropriate sexual contact in my living quarters with… a member of the Abbey Boy Choir. – Bede Parry, May, 2011 I have since recognized that I may have acted inappropriately with at least one other member of the Abbey Boy Choir. – Bede Parry, May, 2011 Everything that I have done in my life has been with me, and haunting me, every day. I dream about it. I think about it. Not a day passes when I do not regret my conduct. I am truly sorry. – Bede Parry, May, 2011 Bede Parry… on Telling Jerome Hanus (Video) “are there any legal issues, are the police involved?” and I said “no” and he said, “well, you know, we’re going to have to get some counseling because this just can’t happen again.” – Bede Parry… on Telling Jerome Hanus (May 7, 2011) Parry, Polan and the Abbey Boy Choir In this undated photo, Conception Abbey monks Bede Parry and Gregory Polan pose with members of the Abbey Boy Choir. New Charges of Cover-up against Presiding Bishop Disturbing new charges have surfaced about a cover-up concerning just how much Episcopal Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, when she was the diocesan of Nevada, knew about the past sexual abuses committed by Father Bede Parry, a former Catholic priest whom she canonically received into her diocese as a priest in 2004. Judge rules to continue civil sex abuse case Judge rules to continue civil sex abuse case against Rev. Bede Parry now an Episcopal Priest New evidence points to Presiding Bishop Jefferts Schori knowing about Parry’s sexual proclivities Abbey’s Motion to Dismiss Denied; Parry Case Moves Forward On October 21, 2011 a judge in Nodaway County, Missouri dismissed Conception Abbey’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought against the Abbey by one of Fr. Bede Parry’s victims. (See text, below) July 19, 2011 Letter to Abbot Polan Gregory Polan During a May 18, 2011, telephone conversation, we discussed … Your failure to disclose misconduct by Bede Parry and other monks following the 2002 shooting at Conception Abbey. Churches full of sinners, of course Two sexual molestation lawsuits against yet another Catholic institution surfaced late this summer. Bede Parry was a priest and director for a boys’ choir at Conception Abbey in Conception, Mo., about 17 miles southeast of Maryville. While supervising a boys’ choir camp in 1987, he allegedly engaged in sexual relations with a minor. Nevada Bishop Spins Presiding Bishop’s Role… The 2005 sex abuse policy manual for All Saints Episcopal Church, Las Vegas, where Bede Parry was employed was very clear that “All Employees will be screened during an interview for Specific characteristics which are seen as possible indicators of risk pertaining to child sexual abuse prior to employment.” Bede Parry 2002 Shooting Katharine Jefferts Schori Categories Select Category Abbey Boy Choir (19) Abbey History (2) Aelred Rosser (1) All Saints Las Vegas (18) Barbara Blaine (2) Barbara Dorris (1) Bede Parry (46) Bishop John Gaydos (1) Blaise Bonderer (1) Bob Koopmann (1) Carl Weckenmann (1) Coverup (20) Dan Edwards (14) Dan Madden (14) Daniel Petsche (1) David Clohessy (1) Diocese (7) Divorce Angle (10) Ed Lovelady (1) Gregory Polan (34) Hugh Tasch (4) Issac True (2) Jeff Anderson (11) Jenny Huard (1) Jerome Hanus (28) Jerome Werth (1) Joe Paterno (1) Joel Derks (1) John Degnan (1) John Doe 181 (14) John Doe 48 (4) Jon Haden (1) Katharine Jefferts Schori (18) List of Monks (1) Lloyd Jeffress (36) Marcel Rooney (1) Martin DeMeulenaere (1) Michael Marcotte (1) Opinion (3) Other (3) Pam Martin (1) Paul Marshall (1) Penn State (1) PR Spin (3) Prevention (1) Quentin Kathol (1) Raymond Boland (2) Rebecca Summers (6) Reginald Sander (3) Sexual Abuse (20) Sheldon Lyon (15) Shooting at the Abbey (43) SNAP (8) St. John’s Abbey (2) Thomas J. O’Brien (1) Tim Stranski (1) Timothy Schoen (1) Victim Support (1) Search the Web Site Forgiveness is harder in practice than in theory Tower Topics: A Year Later MSHP: No Motive in 2002 Shooting Statement of Archbishop Hanus Archbishop Jerome Hanus Resigns Fr. Hugh Tasch: 60 Years Professed Noble Simplicity Documenting Sexual Misconduct at Conception Abbey, a Benedictine community near St. Joseph, Missouri	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line256
__label__cc	0.747115	0.252885	Singing for Children Worship Leaders & Church Musicians A History of Music for Singers – Resources and More So we’ve travelled the best part of 2,000 or 3,000 years as we’ve examined the history of music, and especially the history of vocal music. If you’ve missed any of the posts in this series, you can jump to all of them here: Introduction – Early History Renaissance Era Baroque Read more… By , 7 years 2 years ago A History of Music for Singers – The 20th Century (& Beyond) For most people, when they think of “modern” music, the first things that spring to mind are either contemporary popular music (which is a story for another series), atonalism, or 4’33. For singers, however, none of these ideas really reflect the vocal music produced in the 20th century. It feels Read more… By , 7 years 2 weeks ago A History of Music for Singers – The Romantic Era The Romantic Period in musical history is so termed because it’s an era of music that’s endlessly high on emotion whether in art, music, or literature. Largely, this “Romanticism” is considered to be a reaction to the developing Industrial Revolution which saw machines take over from people and cities grow Read more… A History of Music for Singers – The Classical Era If the Baroque Era was the era of music for Kings, the Classical Era was music for escapism. As we learned in the last part of this series, the music of the Baroque era was composed for Kings and Dukes. However, as Capitalism began to rule supreme in Europe, composers Read more… A History of Music for Singers – The Baroque Era Last week, we began journeying through the history of music with the Renaissance period. The Renaissance slowly transitioned into the Baroque (Bar-RO-ck) period around the start of the 16th Century. The name Baroque developed from a Latinate word meaning “rough or imperfect pearl” and was actually initially used to make fun Read more… A History of Music for Singers : The Renaissance The Renaissance – a time of grandeur, of experimentation and of scientific progress. For me, the Renaissance (ruh-NAY-sonce) conjures up grand Italian and Spanish courts with explorers and architects lining up to impress the monarchs. (Well, unless you pronounce it REN-ess-ahns, in which case, it’s bad wench costumes and spit roast pig Read more… A History of Music for Singers: An Introduction Our new blog series for the remainder of the summer is a history of music for singers. This isn’t meant to be a “history of singing”, not least because it’s a fairly under researched area. Instead, I want to touch on some of the changes and developments in music that Read more… View Discover Singing’s profile on Facebook View @discoversinging’s profile on Twitter View @discoversinging’s profile on Instagram How to start singing in 2021 How to set up Zoom for singing Discover Singing 2020 Repertoire Challenge A Meditation on the Breath 3 stars 4 stars 5 stars abrsm advanced level amustcl anatomy beginner level benefits of singing blog updates breathing choosing a teacher classical style exams exercises friday favourites fringe 2013 goals & targets history of music instruments intermediate level learning links listening & understanding motivation musicals music facts musicianship opera performing playhouse practice quote repertoire resources reviews seasons teaching technique theatre theory theory exams tips & tricks trinity vocal health Repertoire Corner Tips for students Updates & Admin	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line259
__label__wiki	0.608513	0.608513	GistTube9ja Extreme News And Entertainment 9JA NEWS test new new space4 Natnudofoods Season 3 of The Voice Nigeria is Back and it’s Bigger The world’s number one international talent show, The Voice Nigeria is back with Season Three. This season of the show will be fully produced in Nigeria and it promises to be bigger, better and even more authentic than ever before. The one-of-a-kind singing competition will open for online auditions on the 25th of August 2020. The show is expected to attract and help unleash the brightest of Nigerian musical talents for the global stage as the country’s music industry continues to enjoy international attention. This season of the show will be produced in partnership with British television giant from UK, ITV, and international record label, Universal Music UK and in conjunction with YouTube. Expressing his delight over the show, the Managing Director, Un1ty Limited and Executive Producer, The Voice, Season Three, Mr. Akin Salami stated, “We are excited to kick off The Voice, Season Three, especially at a time like this when there is a growing appreciation for African music. This is an amazing opportunity to provide a learning platform for exceptional Nigerian talents and to show the world the quality of entertainment we are capable of showcasing. With the size of what we intend to bring to life, we have partnered with industry leaders Livespot360 to deliver a show like never seen before. We have exceptional sponsors that have provided invaluable support in bringing the show to life and we are confident that our coaching panel will infuse their expertise and energy to make this a spectacular experience for the talents and the viewing audience.” The show will take an interesting twist this year with many virtual engagements with fans, talents and the general public. 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__label__wiki	0.584309	0.584309	2014: Steven Sotloff, two lives 1574: Charles de Mornay, sword dance regicide 1803: John Hatfield, Beauty of Buttermere deceiver September 3rd, 2020 Headsman On this date in 1803, the Maid of Buttermere was widowed by the hangman. (She only used to be a Maid, of course.) Before he was the presenter of BBC’s venerable In Our Time program, Melvyn Bragg wrote a historical novel about (and titled) The Maid of Buttermere This legendary beauty bound for legendary sorrow entered literary annals and the nation’s romantic consciousness courtesy of a 1792 travelogue by Joseph Budworth (aka Joseph Palmer) titled A Fortnight’s Ramble to the Lakes of Westmoreland, Lancashire, and Cumberland. The 35-ish Budworth/Palmer met the girl in her Cumbrian village and honored or embarrassed her with a breathless chapter celebrating Mary Robinson’s allure: Mary of Buttermere Her mother and she weere spinning woollen yarn in the back kitchen. On our going into it, the girl flew away as swift as a mountain sheep, and it was not until our return from Scale Force that we could say we first saw her. She brought in part of our dinner, and seemed to be about fifteen. Her hair was thick and long, of a dark brown, and, though unadorned with ringlets, did not seem to want them; her face was a fine oval, with full eyes, and lips as red as vermilion; her cheeks had more of the lily than the rose; and, although she had never been out of the village (and I hope will have no ambition to wish it), she had a manner about her which seemed better calculated to set off dress, than dress her. She was a very Lavinia, Seeming, when unadorn’d, adorn’d the most. When we first saw her at her distaff, after she had got the better of her first fears, she looked an angel; and I doubt not but she is the reigning Lily of the Valley. Ye travellers of the Lakes, if you visit this obscure place, such you will find the fair Mary of Buttermere. After this, a side trip to ogle the Lily of the Valley became part of the regular itinerary of Lake District visitors for a couple of years. How Mary felt about, or leveraged, her strange celebrity can only be guessed at but ten years onward she was still unmarried. Enter John Hatfield. This fellow made his wastrel’s way by imposture and cozening, having charmed his way into the company of the Duke of Rutland and two different heiresses. He overdrafted all these fortunes and paid some visits to debtors’ prison. By the time he turned up in the Lake District, he was impersonating an M.P. named Colonel Hope, and under this name wooed and won our fair Lavinia. The poet Samuel Coleridge, who happened to be in the area on a walking tour, wrote up the event for the Oct. 11 edition of London’s Morning Post. Romantic Marriage On the 2d instant a Gentleman, calling himself Alexander Augustus Hope, Member for Linlithgowshire, and brother to the Earl of Hopetown, was married at the church of Lorten, near Keswick, to a young woman, celebrated by the tourists under the name of The Beauty of Buttermere. To beauty, however, in the strict sense of the word, she has small pretensions, for she is rather gap-toothed, and somewhat pock-fretten. But her face is very expressive, and the expression extremely interesting, and her figure and movements are graceful to a miracle. She ought indeed to have been called the Grace of Buttermere, rather than the Beauty. — She is the daughter of an old couple, named Robinson, who keep a poor little pot-house at the foot of the small lake of Buttermere, with the sign of the Char, and has been all her life the attendant and waiter, for they have no servant. She is now about thirty, and has long attracted the notice of every visitor by her exquisite elegance, and the becoming manner in which she is used to fillet her beautiful long hair; likewise by the uncommonly fine Italian hand-writing in which the little bill was drawn out. Added to this, she has ever maintained an irreproachable character, is a good daughter, and a modest, sensible, and observant woman. That such a woman should find a husband in a man of rank and fortune, so very far above her sphere of life, is not very extraordinary; but there are other circumstances which add much to the interest of the story. Above two months ago, Mr. Hope went to Buttermere upon a fishing expedition, in his own carriage, but without any servants, and took up his abode at the house kept by the father of the beauty of Buttermere, in the neighbourhood of which he was called the Honourable Charles Hope, Member for Dumfries. Here he paid his addresses to a lady of youth, beauty, and good fortune, and obtained her consent. The wedding clothes were bought, and the day fixed for their marriage, when he feigned a pretence for absence, and married the beauty of Buttermere. The mistake in the name, the want of an establishment suited to his rank, and the circumstance of his attaching himself to a young lady of fortune, had excited much suspicion, and many began to consider him an impostor. [sic] His marriage, however, with a poor girl without money, family, or expectations, has weakened the suspicions entertained to his disadvantage, but the interest which the good people of Keswick take in the welfare of the beauty of Buttermere, has not yet suffered them to entirely subside, and they await with anxiety the moment when they shall receive decisive proofs that the bridegroom is the real person whom he describes himself to be. The circumstances of his marriage are sufficiently to satisfy us that he is no impostor; and, therefore, we may venture to congratulate the beauty of Buttermere upon her good fortune. The Hon. Alexander Hope, the member for Linlithgowshire, is a Colonel in the army, a Lieut. Colonel of the 14th regiment of foot, brother, to the Earl of Hopetoun, and Lieutenant Governor of Edinburgh Castle. Unfortunately Coleridge labored under a false Hope, and the wide publicity of this union instantly validated the locals’ suspicions of the suitor: plenty of Londoners knew that the real Colonel Hope was off in Vienna. Within a month (Nov. 8) the very same journal printed a lengthy article under a less flattering headline: Fraudulent Marriage [The following advertisement has been issued for apprehending the pretended Colonel Hope, who lately married the Buttermere Beauty] Notorious Imposter, Swindler, and Felon. — John Hatfield, who lately married a young woman (commonly called the Beauty of Buttermere), under an assumed name. Height about five feet ten inches, aged about 44, full face, bright eyes, thick eye-brows, strong but light beard, good complection with some colour, thick but not very prominent nose, smiling countenance, fine teeth, a scar on one of his cheeks near the chin; very long, thick, light hair, with a great deal of it grey, done up in a club; stout, square shouldered, full breast and chest, rather corpulent and stout limbed, but very active, and has rather a spring in his gait, with apparently a little hitch in bringing up one leg; the two middle fingers of his left hand are stiff from an old wound, and he frequently has a custom of putting them straight with his right: has something of the Irish brogue in his speech, fluent & elegant in his language, great command of words, frequently puts his hand to his heart, very fond of compliments, and generally addressing himself to persons most distinguished by rank or situation, attentive in the extreme to females, and likely to insinuate himself where there are young ladies; he was in America during the war, is fond of talking of his wounds and exploits there, and on military subjects, as well as of Hatfield Hall, and his estates in Derbyshire and Chester, of the antiquity of his family, which he pretends to trace to the Plantagenets; all which are shameful falsehoods, thrown out to deceive. He makes a boast of having often been engaged in duels; he has been a great traveller also (by his own account), and talks of Egypt, Turkey, Italy, and in short has a general knowledge of subjects, which, together with his engaging manner, is well calculated to impose on the credulous. He was seven years confined in Scarborough gaol, from whence he married, and removed into Devonshire, where he has basely deserted an amiable wife and young family. He had art enough to connect himself with some very respectable merchants in Devonshire as a partner in business, but having swindled them out of large sums of money he was made a separate bankrupt, in June last, and has never surrendered to his commission, by which means he is guilty of felony. He cloaks his deceptions under the mask of religion, appears fond of religious conversation, and makes a point of attending divine service and popular preachers. To consummate his villainies he has lately, under the very respectable name of the Hon. Col. Hope, betrayed an innocent but unfortunate young woman near the Lake of Buttermere. He was on th 25th of October last, at Ravenglass in Cumberland, wrapped in a sailor’s great coat and disguised, and is supposed to be now secreted in Liverpool, or some adjacent port, with a view to leave the country. He was indeed captured, convicted on three counts of felony forgery related to his pretense, and hanged on market day at Carlisle. For the Beauty of Buttermere, the addition of this humiliating personal tragedy only deepened her charm to the literary set. William Wordsworth‘s lengthy autobiographical poem The Prelude contains in Book VII a meditation on the now-older Mary as a doting mother settled in with a respectable farmer, her youthful beauty and her consequent fame both receding into time. I mean, O distant Friend! a story drawn From our own ground, — the Maid of Buttermere, — And how, unfaithful to a virtuous wife Deserted and deceived, the Spoiler came And wooed the artless daughter of the hills, And wedded her, in cruel mockery Of love and marriage bonds. These words to thee Must needs bring back the moment when we first, Ere the broad world rang with the maiden’s name, Beheld her serving at the cottage inn; Both stricken, as she entered or withdrew, With admiration of her modest mien And carriage, marked by unexampled grace. We since that time not unfamiliarly Have seen her, — her discretion have observed, Her just opinions, delicate reserve, Her patience, and humility of mind Unspoiled by commendation and the excess Of public notice — an offensive light To a meek spirit suffering inwardly. From this memorial tribute to my theme I was returning, when, with sundry forms Commingled — shapes which met me in the way That we must tread — thy image rose again, Maiden of Buttermere! She lives in peace Upon the spot where she was born and reared; Without contamination doth she live In quietness, without anxiety: Beside the mountain chapel, sleeps in earth Her new-born infant, fearless as a lamb That, thither driven from some unsheltered place, Rests underneath the little rock-like pile When storms are raging. Happy are they both — Mother and child! — These feelings, in themselves Trite, do yet scarcely seem so when I think On those ingenuous moments of our youth Ere we have learnt by use to slight the crimes And sorrows of the world. Those simple days Are now my theme; and, foremost of the scenes, Which yet survive in memory, appears One, at whose centre sate a lovely Boy, A sportive infant, who, for six months’ space, Not more, had been of age to deal about Articulate prattle — Child as beautiful As ever clung around a mother’s neck, Or father fondly gazed upon with pride. There, too, conspicuous for stature tall And large dark eyes, beside her infant stood The mother; but, upon her cheeks diffused, False tints too well accorded with the glare From play-house lustres thrown without reserve On every object near. The Boy had been The pride and pleasure of all lookers-on In whatsoever place, but seemed in this A sort of alien scattered from the clouds. Of lusty vigour, more than infantine He was in limb, in cheek a summer rose Just three parts blown — a cottage-child — if e’er, By cottage-door on breezy mountain-side, Or in some sheltering vale, was seen a babe By Nature’s gifts so favoured. Upon a board Decked with refreshments had this child been placed ‘His’ little stage in the vast theatre, And there he sate, surrounded with a throng Of chance spectators, chiefly dissolute men And shameless women, treated and caressed; Ate, drank, and with the fruit and glasses played, While oaths and laughter and indecent speech Were rife about him as the songs of birds Contending after showers. The mother now Is fading out of memory, but I see The lovely Boy as I beheld him then Among the wretched and the falsely gay, Like one of those who walked with hair unsinged Amid the fiery furnace. Charms and spells Muttered on black and spiteful instigation Have stopped, as some believe, the kindliest growths. Ah, with how different spirit might a prayer Have been preferred, that this fair creature, checked By special privilege of Nature’s love, Should in his childhood be detained for ever! But with its universal freight the tide Hath rolled along, and this bright innocent, Mary! may now have lived till he could look With envy on thy nameless babe that sleeps, Beside the mountain chapel, undisturbed. Four rapid years had scarcely then been told Since, travelling southward from our pastoral hills, I heard, and for the first time in my life, The voice of woman utter blasphemy — Saw woman as she is, to open shame Abandoned, and the pride of public vice; I shuddered, for a barrier seemed at once Thrown in that from humanity divorced Humanity, splitting the race of man In twain, yet leaving the same outward form. Distress of mind ensued upon the sight And ardent meditation. Later years Brought to such spectacle a milder sadness, Feelings of pure commiseration, grief For the individual and the overthrow Of her soul’s beauty; farther I was then But seldom led, or wished to go; in truth The sorrow of the passion stopped me there. 1964: Mohamed Chabani - 2019 2016: Mir Quasem Ali - 2018 1653: Sakura Sogoro, righteous peasant - 2017 1806: John Docke Rouvelett, malicious prosecutor - 2016 1430: La Pierronne, visionary - 2015 2,500 days: Still hanging around - 2014 1944: Three Soviet infiltrators, the last in Finland - 2014 1924: Patrick Mahon, for the Crumbles Murder - 2013 1821: Timothy Bennett, duelist - 2012 1875: Six in Fort Smith under Hanging Judge Isaac Parker - 2011 1736: Both John Vernham and Joshua Harding survive a hanging - 2010 1918: Fanya Kaplan, Lenin's would-be assassin - 2009 2003: Paul Hill, anti-abortion martyr - 2008 1856: Elizabeth Martha Brown, Tess of the D’Urbervilles inspiration 1730: James Dalton, Hogarth allusion 1815: Anthony Lingard, the last gibbeted in Derbyshire 1759: Eugene Aram, philologist 1831: John Bell, age 14 1594: Thomas Merry and Rachel Merry, lamentable tragedie 1804: Ann Hurle, forger Entry Filed under: 19th Century,Arts and Literature,Capital Punishment,Common Criminals,Crime,Death Penalty,England,Execution,Hanged,History,Pelf,Public Executions Tags: 1800s, 1803, buttermere, carlisle, celebrity, john hatfield, joseph budworth, mary robinson, melvyn bragg, poetry, samuel taylor coleridge, september 3, tourism, william wordsworth	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line264
__label__cc	0.521049	0.478951	AFC Asian Cup 2011: Seeding for the final draw The draw for the final tournament will take place in April 2010 in Doha, Qatar. The hosts will be seeded. Already qualified: Qatar - hosts Iraq - 2007 AFC Asian Cup winner Saudi Arabia - 2007 AFC Asian Cup runner-up Korea Republic - 2007 AFC Asian Cup runner-up India - 2008 AFC Challenge Cup winner Uzbekistan - Group C qualifier Syria - Group D qualifier Going by the current standings, these are the teams most likely to join the 7 qualifiers: Bahrain and Japan from Group A Kuwait and Australia from Group B United Arab Emirates from Group C China from Group D Iran and Singapore from Group E Korea DPR from the 2010 AFC Challenge Cup In 2004, teams were seeded using results from Lebanon 2000. In 2007, teams were seeded using the FIFA ranking. Seeding based on the results of 2007 AFC Asian Cup: Pot 1: Qatar, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Korea Republic Pot 2: Japan, Australia, Iran, Uzbekistan Pot 3: China, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Korea DPR Pot 4: Syria, Kuwait, Singapore, India If AFC choose the March 2010 FIFA ranking to seed the teams, the interim pots would look like this: Pot 1: Qatar, Iraq, Australia, Japan Pot 2: Korea Republic, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Iran Pot 3: Uzbekistan, China, Kuwait, Syria Pot 4: Korea DPR, Singapore, United Arab Emirates, India Christian, husband, father x 3, programmer, Romanian. Started the blog in March 2007. Quit in April 2018. You can find me on LinkedIn. By Edgar op December 04, 2009 Labels: AFC Asian Cup, Asian Cup 2011, draw, english Brenton Ray March 4, 2010 at 5:48 AM this will be the final seedings according to the FIFA Rankings as Wednesday March 3rd 2010 before the final round of qualification matches for the 2011 AFC Asian Cup Finals in Doha Qatar as follows: if iraq get kicked out of the tournement as expected due to their fifa suspension for government interference which is stil current as of today thursday march 4th our time then turkmenistan goes to the tournement at iraqi's expense Pot 1: Qatar (Hosts), Australia, Japan, and South Korea, Pot 2: Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Iran, and Uzbekistan, Pot 3: China, Kuwait, Syria, and North Korea, Pot 4: Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Turkmenistan, and India, FIFA Ranking: January 2010 probable results FIFA Ranking: January 2010 probable ranking FIFA Ranking: January 2010 preview December 2009: FIFA Ranking vs. Elo Ratings UEFA looking to avoid repeat of Armenia - Azerbaij... Playoff seedings to be announced in advance EURO 2012: Final draw coefficients (4 December 2009) 2010 World Cup seeding: Based on feeling 2010 World Cup seeding: The numbers behind France'... 2010 World Cup seeding: October 2009 ranking to be...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line271
__label__wiki	0.772839	0.772839	Californication › Watch Californication - Series 3 Online Free Episodes: 12 \| Released: 2009 \| Certificate: 15 \| Genre: Comedy \| Director: David Duchovny Actors: David Duchovny , Natascha McElhone , Pamela Adlon , Madeleine Martin , Madeline Zima , Evan Handler Californication - Series 3 - Episode 1 - Wish You Were Here Following Karen's move to New York, Hank Moody does his best to raise daughter Becca by himself. But being a single dad isn't easy, especially with Becca starting to question his authority more than ever. Meanwhile, Charlie moves back in with soon-to-be-ex-wife Marcy as they sort out the details of their impending divorce. Watch Californication - Series 3 - Episode 1 Online Free Californication - Series 3 - Episode 2 - The Land of Rape and Honey Newly anointed (and decidedly reluctant) professor Hank Moody grapples with teaching an undergrad creative writing course. 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__label__wiki	0.796951	0.796951	Home \| News & Articles Six Flags Marine World to Unveil Tava’s Jungleland – A Spectacular New Kids’ Adventure Area Featuring Seven New Rides New Expanded Kids’ Adventure Area; All-New Shouka’s Splashtime Show and New Holiday Themed Winter Event Highlight Northern California’s Popular Family Entertainment Park’s 2006 Season VALLEJO, Calif., Feb. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — A grand, new mythical journey awaits families at Six Flags Marine World this season as the Park announces the addition of Tava’s Jungleland, an elaborately jungle-themed play area featuring seven family rides, a giant treehouse adventure and live animal interaction. In 2006, the Park will also be debuting an all-new Shouka’s Splashtime Show featuring the beautiful Orca and her Atlantic bottlenose dolphin friend, Merlin plus an expanded operating calendar concluding with Holiday in the Park featuring wintertime entertainment plus everyone’s favorite family rides, coasters, shows and animals. Tava’s Jungleland Tava’s Jungleland, which is scheduled to open this spring, will offer an exotic world of excitement, fun and education for kids of all ages to enjoy. Families with young children can wander through the lush land named for the Park’s beloved African elephant Tava, and experience seven unique family rides, plus get up-close and personal with rare and exotic wildlife including lorikeets, macaws, porcupines, camels and much more. The addition of Tava’s Jungleland makes the 140-acre Park home to the most kids’ rides and the most family rides in Northern California. “We’ve designed Tava’s Jungleland specifically with families in mind, combining innovative children’s rides with rare, up-close animal encounters,” said Bill Davis, vice president and general manager of Six Flags Marine World. “With the addition of this vibrant, new children’s adventure area, Six Flags Marine World will offer twice the amount of attractions that young kids and parents can enjoy together.” Seven new rides and 2 interactive attractions within Tava’s Jungleland include: * Congo Queen — Set sail for an unforgettable adventure on the latest innovative family ride that features a unique combination of rocking and whirling motion. * Nairobi’s Look Out Balloons — Up, up and away we go! Take a sky- high ride for a spectacular view of the Park on unique hot air balloon gondolas. * Tava’s Elephant Parade — Kids fly round and round on soaring pachyderms. * Monkey Around — Glide through the air with ease on these monkey- themed swings. * Safari Jeep Tours — Kids hop aboard and convoy through the backside of Tava’s Jungleland. * Frog Hopper — Little explorers are lifted 20 feet above the landscape before “hopping” down to their descent. * Safari River Journey — All aboard on these miniature safari vessels for a most memorable voyage. * Splashwater Oasis — Two towers of wet and wild excitement where kids can splash and cool off from the summer heat. * Treehouse Play Structure — Kids climb high and explore one of the world’s largest play structures, where they can explore three towers of fun offering cargo nets, slides, bridges and more. New Shouka’s Splashtime Show In addition to all the fun and excitement of Tava’s Jungleland, guests can also witness a rare display of grace, beauty and aerial acrobatics by two of the world’s magnificent marine mammals, Shouka the beautiful killer whale and Merlin, an Atlantic bottlenose dolphin, in an all-new Shouka’s Splashtime Show. Families will observe a rare interaction between a killer whale and dolphin and learn the importance of the duo’s unique relationship in creating the first-ever mixed species environment on the west coast. “The training on having Shouka and Merlin socially interact with each other has been rewarding for both the animals as well for us trainers,” said John Stewart, lead senior trainer at Shouka Stadium. “We are confident that the 2006 Shouka Splashtime Show will be very rewarding for our guests as they get to witness a 5,000-pound killer whale and 500-pound dolphin fly high in the air, side by side.” The new show headlines the Park’s entertainment program including 9 educational animal demonstrations. New Winter Holiday Celebration This winter, the holiday spirit will come alive in a blaze of more than one million twinkling lights at Six Flags Marine World’s Holiday in the Park. Holiday in the Park promises to offer Northern Californians the perfect way to celebrate the holiday season with family fun activities including ice skating, sledding down a snow hill, creating holiday crafts and more. “The 2006 season offers more family entertainment and special events than ever before,” Davis concluded. “We’re confident these exciting, new additions will solidify Six Flags Marine World as being the top destination for families in Northern California.” Six Flags Marine World opens for the 2006 season on Saturday, March 4, and now is the best time to become part of the family fun and excitement with a Season Pass for $69.99 when buying four or more and 74.99 individually. The great value of a Six Flags Marine World Season Pass also provides limitless fun at Six Flags Waterworld in Concord and Sacramento, as well as all Six Flags Theme Parks nationwide. To order a Season Pass or to get more information regarding the Park’s 2006 season, visit sixflags.com/marineworld or call 707-644-4000. Six Flags Marine World is located in Vallejo, Calif., off Interstate 80, just 30 miles northeast of San Francisco, 50 miles southwest of Sacramento and near the Napa Valley Wine Country. Six Flags Marine World is managed by Six Flags, Inc., the world’s largest regional theme park company. Through its subsidiaries, it owns and operates 30 parks in North America and Mexico. Six Flags parks serve 34 of the 50 largest metropolitan areas in the United States. Six Flags, Inc. is a publicly held corporation with corporate offices in New York City and Oklahoma City. The Company’s stock trades on the NYSE under the symbol: PKS. SIX FLAGS and all related indicia are trademarks of Six Flags Theme Parks Inc. (R), (TM) and (C) 2006. Northern California’s First Dolphin Touch and Feeding Experience Comes to Six Flags Marine WorldNew Caribbean-Themed Area Will Allow Guests To Touch and Feed Dolphins and Stingrays VALLEJO, Calif., Jan. 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Six Flags Marine World is bringing a touch of the tropics to Northern California with the announcement of “Ocean Discovery,” a unique Caribbean-themed ocean experience that... Six Flags Marine World Unveils Northern California’s First Dolphin Touch and Feeding ExperienceNew Ocean Discovery Experience Makes a Huge Splash with an Up Close and Personal Encounter with Magnificent Marine Life VALLEJO, Calif., April 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Six Flags Marine World is offering guests a new world of exploration with Ocean Discovery, the Park’s new interactive marine... 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__label__wiki	0.57601	0.57601	GERIATRIC CLINIC Jennings McCall Continuing Retirement Community was established in 1922 and funded by the Masonic Grand Lodge of Oregon. Now it serves Masons and Eastern Star members of Oregon as well as the public. It is founded on the Masonic principles of brotherly love, truth, and charity. At the core of our business is a strong commitment to provide an exceptional, loving, and considerate environment for our residents who come to us for peace of mind, comfort, security, and a stimulating social environment. Providing a gracious and exciting living experience to our residents is our passion. As you explore this website you will discover the many options that truly make Jennings McCall Senior Living You Design! Thank you for your interest in Jennings McCall where we encourage each resident to enjoy each day their own way! A Rich History History of the Masonic & Eastern Star Home The initial attempt to establish an Oregon Masonic Home for “the aged and distressed” was introduced in 1883 by Worshipful Brother J.P. Galbraith, Master of Brownsville Lodge No. 36. The adopted resolution, however, was postponed and further action was delayed for 33 years. In 1907 Pendleton Lodge No. 52 voted to set aside $150 for the express intent of starting a fund to ultimately build a Grand Lodge Masonic Home. This money was kept with other invested funds of the Grand Lodge, and in 1917 the principal and interest came to $250. That year, Most Worshipful Grand Master Will Moore (Pendleton No. 52) again brought forth the idea of establishing a Masonic Home. He said, “There is a growing sentiment throughout the jurisdiction for the establishment of a Masonic Home in this state. It sometimes appears to me that we in Oregon are too satisfied with our position as Masons, that we dwell too much in the past and are too prone to boast of the achievements of Masonry and of the great things it has done, and that we pay too little attention to the present and the preparation for the future.” Would not a Masonic Home, symbolizing as it does those great tenets of Masonry – brotherly love, relief and truth – be an incentive for higher thoughts, nobler deeds and grander achievements? Would it not become at once a center around which we might erect an everlasting monument to the true and beautiful principles of Masonry?” The Committee on the Masonic Home presented its report and called for a special fund to be established. It would be known as the “Masonic & Eastern Star Home Building Fund.” Gifts, devises, and bequests would be received for that purpose; the minimum fees for degrees would be increased and for every Entered Apprentice initiated each Lodge would forward $5 of that sum to the Grand Secretary as part of the building fund; and the net income of the Grand Lodge from all sources except the Educational Fund, after the deduction of expenses and appropriations, would be set aside at the end of each Masonic year in this fund. When it had grown to $50,000, work began on the building at the chosen site in Forest Grove. The Home has been there for the purpose of caring for those Oregon Master Masons, their wives and mothers, and the wives and widows of deceased Oregon Master Masons, and Sisters of the Order of the Eastern Star in Oregon, who are in need. The Home Board is composed of five representatives of the Grand Lodge and three representatives of the Grand Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star of Oregon. The Board meets monthly to deal with the business of the Home. To learn more about Masonry in Oregon go to www.masonic-oregon.com. To learn more about the Order of the Eastern Star go to www.oregonoes.org. Jennings McCall Center Supported by funding from the Masonic Grand Lodge, Jennings McCall Center was built and opened to the public in 1989 as an independent living retirement community. It is named after Berryman Jennings, the first Most Worshipful Grand Master of the Masons in Oregon, and Mary McCall the first Worthy Grand Matron of the Order of the Eastern Star in Oregon. In 1999 the 141 units of assisted living were added to the existing 75 units of independent living and opened to the public. Members of the original Masonic and Eastern Star Home were moved to the modern assisted living units at Jennings McCall. Today the original building is leased to McMenamins and is operated as a hotel, restaurant and entertainment complex as McMenamins Grand Lodge in Forest Grove. "Again a New Home" Here I' am all comfy cozy, in my new home with plants, music & plenty of dozy. With help here and there and no dinner plans, they are prepared and served with loving hands. An entertainment to attend or a bus ride to the store, make living rather easy who would ask for anything more. Poem written by Marilyn Winterbourne, Resident It was very comforting to know the level of care was professional and compassionate. All staff was very sensitive to mother’s needs. Creating and utilizing the Life Story book was very therapeutic for family and staff. Barbara Barber, Daughter I have lived here since they opened the doors in 1999. It is kept clean. We have activities like Bingo, exercises, PO-KE-NO, and root beer floats. Transportation is available for shopping, medical appointments, and scenic rides. The tasty food is prepared in the kitchen, it is not pre-packaged. We have real mashed potatoes. Our monthly breakfast buffets, during the winter months are “out–of-this world.” Fresh omelets made as you watch the Chef flip them in the pan. In the summer, we have wonderful BBQ’s, the meat is smoked for several hours and the pies are homemade. Jennings McCall is a great place to live. Come and join us! Peggy Evans, Resident Shauna Thompson Marshall Martinez Service Plan Coordinator Eric Kenny Veronica Bryson, RN Roanna “Ro” Byers Food Service Director Ann Gray, RN Kurt Neilson Rebekah Cormier Life Enrichment Coordinator Mitch McCathron Plant Operations Manager Amy Dunnett Business Office Manager While smartly designed spaces are important, they remain second to the people who provide the support and services within them. As simple as it may sound, Jennings McCall’s primary hiring objective is to first consider if an applicant has a warm, compassionate, and team-oriented spirit. If a candidate meets these criteria and is also qualified for the position, we move forward in the hiring process. After we welcome a person into the Jennings McCall family, we then focus on building a working-together culture. Join our Jennings McCall Team...we currently have the following positions open Caregiver: Full-Time Swing shift with a 4 on 2 off schedule Empty section. Edit page to add content here. Dietary Manager: Full-Time 10am-6:30pm Tuesday-Saturday shift Med-Aide: Full-time Swing shift with a 4 on 2 off schedule Please download this application and return it to 2300 Masonic Way, Forest Grove OR, or email Eric Kenny, Human Resources Director at ekenny@jenningsmccall.com Application Download COPYRIGHT © 2017 Jennings McCall Center	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line282
__label__wiki	0.524948	0.524948	Oral Baclofen Paxil Vs Zoloft For Ocd Köpek Oteli I had delivered her once by craniotomy, and induced premature labour six times: champion. She had slept well, and was much improved, and could bear nourishment upon the stomach, the bowels remained undisturbed, she convalesced rapidly, and is now enjoying good detox- health. The only new questions at present mooted are: (a) Their frequency compared to the respiratory route; (b) the relative number of bacilli needed, t. I own there is some difficulty in the operation, but ii ingredients notliing be done, the animal's life is sure to be sacrificed. Stimulants help people who are mentally depressed; and it is true also that depressive drugs, such as opium cherry and alcohol, including the martini, cause mentally-depressed individuals to feel better during the period of time the drug is active. Less pain in the right testicle, excepting on pressure, which produced the flow of a sanious discharge, to the amount of two ounces: do. This failure occurs as a result of paralysis, or, more often, after operations, as a champ sequel of reflex stoppage of the respiratory excursions. In this series of cases fluid was found in present, microorganisms were found in it in Again we wish to emphasize the fact that the streptococcus hemolyticus cases fill up readily with fluid in the reviews pleura. If he be guilty, his cruelty knew no compassion; for, if it be true that few minutes might have put them beyond the reach of pain, but chose rather to practise those devilish arts by slow degrees, so that the poison which drinks he was administering should stop his wife's life gradually." Yet the jury without hesitation adopted it as emphatically true by bringing in the prisoner guilty of those frightful crimes. It has been attributed to pressure upon the vagus by enlarged tracheobronchial lymph nodes, an explanation which certainly does not suffice in many cases: for. In about three weeks the from Montreal, the opiates disease deviated little from the laws which it observed incontestably the agency by which it is transmitted from country tO' The preceding observations were written by me thirty-one years ago from notes taken down during the transpirance of the calamitous occurrences detailed, and while yet all was fresh in my remembrance. Choroidal tubercles may be present: capsules. It possesses indeed not the slightest interest in a diagnostic point of view (flush). It frequently happens that individuals continue for years to breathe a most unwholesome atmosphere, without apparently suffering from it, and when they at last succumb to it some epidemic disease, their death is attributed the reception and development of zymotic poison being altogether overlooked. The important question whether the wound is extraperitoneal can only be ascertained by work operation. They are taken review at symmetrical sites for comparison of the two extremities with normal levels. Method, and claims that it is followed by restoration does of hearing. In a young student, fever with the unusual complication of parotitis occurred during the stage of eruption (buy). Vanilla - lewis, Chicago, a sophomore, unique inner filter of ACTIVATED CHARCOAL, definitely proved to make the taste of a cigarette mild and smooth. Such as really is would be more emollient, if instead of the rose oil, that of and myrtle wine, till three cyathi of each, be used. The Giemsa stain now used is known as"Giemsa-Losung fiir die Romanowsky-Farbung," may be obtained from Griibler in Leipzig, and has the following formula: The specimen is dried in the air and hardened in absolute alcohol for one stain the specimen is allowed to remain for twenty-four hours: thc. Almost every observer who has investigated the point finds that a moderate leucocjdiosis is detox induced. The disease, however, can progress without discoverable rise of temperature, although this takes place usually only when the individual has no longer sufficient powers of wholesale resistance. They were taken at the pills beginning, during the course of the disease, just before death, and then again right after death, by means of heart punctures, and yet in practically all cases these were negative. Andronis, Director, Division of drink Graphic Education, American Social and Hygiene Association, New York; Miss Ethel G. As the disease becomes arrested the sputum maybe the only symptom remaining, and it may persist for months or even years, and after the disappearance of directions tubercle bacilli. The bulbar conjunctiva is usually not so seriously involved, and involvement of the cornea, while still frequent in improperly treated cases, is apparently less common than in both in private practice and in hospitals, whether the occurrence of gonorrhoea is suspected or not (instructions).	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line286
__label__cc	0.566513	0.433487	8 sleepers to watch in NFL Draft 2020 Posted on April 19, 2020, 9:17 pm By ibnetwork By now, football fans know all about the top players in the 2020 NFL Draft. But there is more to a draft than just the first two or three rounds. There are four rounds after that which can elevate a draft from good to great if a general manager or his scouts can find those hidden gems. They can be players from smaller schools, ones that were overlooked for lack of athleticism or other reasons. Ashtyn Davis, S, California Davis is one of those players that could be really hurt by the inability for teams to do physicals with prospects at their respective team facilities. He had surgery on a groin injury in December, preventing him from working out at the combine. Teams will probably be less likely to take chances on players that have any injury questions with the lack of a clear picture. That describes Davis.But based on talent, Davis is among the best safeties in this year’s class. If he is healthy, he has the ability to be a quality starter. Tyler Johnson, WR, Minnesota This year’s receiver class is so talented and deep that at least one or two talented receivers could slip through the cracks. Johnson could be one since he lacks the athleticism of some of his counterparts like Chase Claypool and Donovan Peoples-Jones. Johnson simply got better and better throughout his college career, capping it off in 2019 with 86 catches for 1,318 yards and 13 TDs. Kyle Dugger, S, Lenoir-Rhyne Dugger is the kind of player who will cause a spike in “Lenoir-Rhyne” Google searches when he introduces himself as a starter on prime-time NFL broadcasts. Those already familiar with the Division II school in Hickory, N.C., might simply search something like, “How the hell did Kyle Dugger end up at a D2 school?” He is one of those players who is simply good at football, for lack of a better phrase, as proven by his impact both in the secondary and as a return specialist. That versatility will allow him to play either safety position in the pros. Lenoir-Rhyne’s Kyle Dugger is putting on a show. pic.twitter.com/3REKmo4Aw7 — PFF College (@PFF_College) January 25, 2020 Jeremy Chinn, LB/S, Southern Illinois Chinn could be considered the “small school” version of Clemson’s Isaiah Simmons, one of the best players in the 2020 NFL Draft, as a versatile, speedy-but-powerful linebacker/safety hybrid. His athleticism is off the charts, and his closing speed and efficient tackling make him a good blitzer. If he is asked to play weakside linebacker in the NFL, Chinn will flourish as a cover man, even in tough matchups against top tight ends. Bryan Edwards, WR, South Carolina Edwards being this low on in our draft projection is directly related to his recent injuries — certainly not his ability when healthy. The 6-3, 212-pound receiver missed his last two college games with a knee injury and broke his foot while training for the NFL Combine. Including another knee injury that prematurely ended his senior season in high school, those ailments are the only sources of pause. If Edwards can stay healthy in the pros, the team that drafts him is going to get a steal on a physical possession receiver who can dominate the short-to-intermediate area of the field. Alex Highsmith, EDGE, Charlotte Charlotte had its first two players drafted in the last three years, with defensive tackle Larry Ogunjobi going to the Browns in 2017 and guard Nate Davis joining the Titans in 2019. Both were third-round picks. Highsmith can possibly go in Day 2 as well. But because of the amount of edge rushers available in that area, Highsmith could slide into the final day. Like Davidson and his teammate Brown at Auburn, Hamilton is another impressive defensive line prospect who was overshadowed by one of the draft’s best players — in this case, Ohio State defensive end Chase Young. Davon Hamilton, DT, Ohio State Hamilton’s quick first step and initial punch make him a problem for blockers, and even when a lineman gets his hands on him while run-blocking, Hamilton patiently holds his ground and wisely sheds the block at the perfect time and angle. At worst, he can be a rotational defensive lineman who can play multiple positions, but his impact in the NFL likely will be greater. Darrynton Evans, RB, Appalachian State Evans’ tape is ridiculously impressive, and if he can add a little to his 5-10, 203-pound frame, he has what it takes to be a three-down running back in the NFL. If he indeed slips to the fifth round, somebody is going to draft a good all-around running back who, if not a strong rotational player, could be an impactful starter. #AppState RB Darrynton Evans, who will be drafted next week, took over this game: pic.twitter.com/Uvy8uEt28a — Andrew Gibson (@1010XLAG) April 18, 2020 About ibnetwork No comments yet Categories: IB SPORTS ← Jordan Love Scouting Report NFL Draft 2020 Winners and Losers → Specify Twitter Consumer Key and Secret in Super Socializer > Social Login section in admin panel for Twitter Login to work Categories Select Category IB Movies IB Music IB SPORTS Draft IB TV Life Movies podcasts Uncategorized	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line289
__label__cc	0.615317	0.384683	Financial empowerment Cold Water Swimming Championships London Triathlon 2015 2016 London Virgin Marathon You are in this section Staff Blog: The beautiful contrasts of project visits Dawn Goodwin, Head of Programme Delivery, shares experiences from her recent field visit to Zambia, where International Inspiration (IN) supports programmes that use sport to teach young people about gender equity, empowerment and education. Life is full of contrasts and this visit has been no exception. From the hustle and bustle of negotiating rush hour traffic in Lusaka, to the quiet crackle of land being cleared by fire on a footpath in a rural community. From meeting partners and donors in air-conditioned offices to sitting under the shade of a tree with parents and leaders from a local village. From talking about strategies and reviewing budgets, to joining in warm up activities and debating the merits of Rooney and Ronaldo with a group of enthusiastic young men in a field in Mumbwa. Contrasts are very much a feature of our work in sport for development, but on this visit the most marked contrast for me has been between the impact that programmes have in reality and the systems we use to capture and report those impacts. For the first few days of this visit I was helping a local partner to review the tools we use to track the progress of a great project that uses sport to empower girls and young women. In practice this involved long hours of meetings where we looked at revising surveys and questionnaires, reviewed indicators and targets, and compiled many, many different spreadsheets – getting dizzy looking at formulas in excel! Then, a 9 hour bus ride later, we were in Mufulira in the north of Zambia meeting with young women who had been trained as peer leaders and now regularly coach teams of girls in netball, football or volleyball. As part of their coaching programme they provide a safe space for the girls to talk through the issues they face and access information that’s crucial to their wellbeing, helping them to make informed decisions about their future. Talking to these girls the confidence they had, the stories they told and the sense of community they created brought home to me once again what an incredible and unique space sport can create. Later in the week I had the privilege to travel west of Lusaka to Mumbwa, visiting a programme where football is being used as a tool to talk with boys and young men about gender based violence, helping to address negative attitudes towards women and create a safer environment. Listening to the young men talk openly about incredibly sensitive issues, exploring what it means to be a “real man” and talking about what kind of men and fathers they want to be, I was again blown away by the way in which sport can be used to really connect with children and young people in such a profound and meaningful way. In both cases I was left with absolutely no doubt that sport can be an effective and valuable tool in helping to build a more inclusive world of unity, equity and opportunity for all. But in listening to those young men and women, the contrast between the meaningful changes in real lives and the spreadsheets and indicators in which we try and capture that impact seemed so far apart. This begs a familiar question: how do we explain the impact that sport for development can have? Indicators and numbers are absolutely invaluable in capturing the scale and scope of the impact, and case studies certainly help highlight individual examples – but nothing I’ve come across to date adequately captures the depth of impact that I’ve seen when visiting projects. And that’s a real shame. Even as I’m writing now, I struggle to put into words just what that impact is – but there has to be a way, and that’s a very exciting challenge for IN. To quote William Blake “without contraries there is no progression,” and in that tension between the lived experiences of sport for development programmes and the tools we use to explain them, I think we find very pressing call to dig deeper, to think creatively and find new ways of sharing what sport for development can really do. International Inspiration W1T 2NU info@internationalinspiration.org International Inspiration: Registered in England & Wales as a charity and company with charity no. 1139074 and company no. 6706693. International Inspiration is a company limited by guarantee. The 'International Inspiration' logo is the trademark of the registered charity International Inspiration and also subject to copyright. © 2013 International Inspiration. All rights reserved	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line292
__label__cc	0.607897	0.392103	Helen Gillet Photo by Jason Kruppa Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy and his introspective lyrics have come to represent the simple truths of American life in all its soulful, insecure glory. A prolific songwriter, guitarist, and producer, Tweedy has enjoyed a storied career that earned him a Grammy for Wilco’s A Ghost Is Born. The poetic rocker—deemed “equal parts Walt Whitman and Richard Brautigan” by SPIN—is now stepping into the solo spotlight after embarking on an exceptionally creative year. He released WARMER, the companion LP to his acclaimed 2018 solo album WARM, this April to rave reviews, and published an illuminating best-selling memoir Let's Go (So We Can Get Back) in late 2018. Tonight, he brings his probing lyrics and complex guitar-picking to an intimate and inspired solo show at the Damrosch Park Bandshell. Opening the evening is jazz-based cellist, singer, composer, and improviser Helen Gillet who fabricates each song with a true mastery of live looping technology. From avant-garde jazz and French chansons to funk, alternative rock, and the bohemian flair of the Velvet Underground, she “plays every note on fire” (Medium.com). Simultaneously enigmatic and virtuosic, profound yet lighthearted, Gillet’s performances overflow with a sense of drama and whimsy. – Mellowtown on Helen Gillet “Alive and inspired, WARM is a different type of reinvention—as daring as Wilco’s early landmarks but more subtle and sustainable. He’s not trying to break your heart. He just is.” – Pitchfork on Jeff Tweedy Playlist: Helen Gillet's Musical Journey July 24, 2019 \| Curated by Helen Gillet A trip through the renowned cellist's inspirations Friday, July 26, 2019 at 7:30 pm Damrosch Park Add to Calendar America/New_York Jeff Tweedy & Helen Gillet Lincoln Center Out of Doors - Damrosch Park, Amsterdam Ave. and W. 62 St., New York, NY 10023 Lincoln Center - Lincoln Center Out of Doors false MM/DD/YYYY aho3e0k00zv7rk56sm4e178 Artist Link	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line295
__label__cc	0.628537	0.371463	UK Pre-General Election Pre-Budget Report Politics / UK General Election Dec 10, 2009 - 01:10 AM GMT The pre-budget report (PBR) was pretty much inline with my earlier expectations as I highlighted in the article (Alistair Darling's UK Election Give Away Budget Crippled by Debt and Liabilities ) : The poor and working class will be bought off and relieved. The higher rate tax payers will be fuming and thinking of emigrating. The Bankster's will think of new ways to dodge paying their fair share of tax with representatives of the British Bankers Association doing the rounds on TV news channels with hankies out crying poverty. The PBR in a nutshell has delayed the pain for voters until AFTER the next general election so as to ensure the Labour Party maximises the number of votes. The Chancellor did nothing to cut spending and pay down the huge and unsustainable deficit, it is only after the next general election that we will find out how and to what extent the next government will attempt to cut the horrendous budget deficit that currently stands at 15% of GDP and 13% for next year which remains on target to accumulate an additional £510 billion over the next 5 years as discussed earlier in the earlier in depth analysis Britain's Inflationary Debt Spiral as Bank of England Keeps Expanding Quantitative Easing. The Labour party intends to carrying on boosting public spending by an additional £31 billion coupled with tax rises which sets the opening scene of the inflationary mega-trend to unfold as the Labour government's actions are the complete opposite to what it should be being implemented i.e. Labour is boosting the size of the unproductive black hole public sector whilst at the same time crippling the private sector with huge tax rises whilst at the same time FAILING to cut the budget deficit. This now sets the scene for Britain to start entering a stagflationary environment during the second half of 2010, with all of the consequences associated with higher inflation of a weakening economy, higher long term interest rates and eventually short-term interest rates as a consequence of foreign investors dumping sterling assets and hence sending the British Pound lower in relative terms (all fiat currencies are devaluing against hard assets). Bankster Bonus 50% Tax Election Publicity Stunt The big headline item in the PBR was the 50% bank bonus tax on bonus payments over £25,000. Unfortunately the tax is only proposed for 1 year and therefore leaves many loopholes for bankster's to once more escape paying their fair share in taxes, as any of the profits generated by the bailed out bankrupt banks is as a consequence of government interventions i.e. money printing and low interest rates for the purpose of bankrupt banks to rebuild their balance sheets and not to pay the artificially engineered profits out as bonuses. Loopholes include bringing forward bonuses or delaying bonus payments until the next tax year, which therefore means very little will be actually raised by this tax. The bankster's representatives much as expected reacted with anger and were doing the rounds on British TV and write ups for the gullible mainstream press that lapped up their scare mongering of an exodus of thousands of bankster's from the city of London, though they failed to say where to ? The facts are clear and irrefutable in that the bankster's have saddled tax payers with liabilities of £850 billion according to the National Audit office, which is near double the total tax receipts from the banking sector during the life time of the Labour Government. So in effect for every pound the bankster publically paid in taxes, they have saddled tax payers with twice as much during the bank bust. The chancellor also raised his budget deficit target for the Financial year from £175 billion to £177.6 billion. Which might not sound like much of an increase, however also slipped in on the quiet during the day was news out of the Debt Management Office that Government would actually borrow £225 billion this financial year thus putting an even greater strain on the Gilts and Interest rate market then the headline budget deficit figure implies. Alistair Darling Cloud Cuckoo Land Growth Forecasts Alistair Darling also basically admitted that he is clueless at making forecasts given the contraction of 4.75% for 2009 against his forecast of -3%, though the rest of the mainstream academic economists were similarly way off the mark in terms of making economic forecasts. The growth forecasts for the coming years are equally optimistic as they do not even take into account the sharp drop in tax revenues that followed April 2009. Alistair Darling is forecasting 2010 growth of 1.5%, 2011 of 3.5% and 2012 of 3.5%. Whilst 2010 growth of 1.5% is achievable, however 3.5% for 2011 and 2012 is completely ridiculous which has no fundamental supporting basis as accumulated debt will force the next government to CUT public spending by as much as 10% per annum or more than £60 billion. Especially as the government is going hit companies hard by a series of tax rises over the coming years. The immediate impact of the pre-election pre-budget will be / is being felt in the financial markets as sterling assets are marked down i.e. the British pound fell followed closely by stocks and government bonds. The key longer-term impact of which will continue to be on sterling and government bonds as the spread is expected to widen further between Gilts and foreign 'safer' bonds such as German Bund's. Therefore the UK economy remains on target towards drifting towards a double dip economic depression triggered by necessary public sector spending as originally projected in February 2009 (17 Feb 2009 - UK Recession Watch- Britain's Great Depression?) with the key difference this time being that the second leg will be coupled with the inflationary consequences than that at the start of the first leg of the Britians Great Depression during 2008-09 primarily due to the wide gap between government spending and revenues that will trigger much more quantitative easing aka money printing to monetize debt. You can read the full text of Alistair Darlings Pre-budget report here. For more on my inflationary mega-trend ensure your subscribed to my always free newsletter, especially as I converge towards including major forecasts for all key markets for 2010. I.e. what will become of the stocks stealth bull market that has soared during 2009 ? What about the debt fuelled UK housing market and economic bounce. Source:http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article15696.html Copyright © 2005-09 Marketoracle.co.uk (Market Oracle Ltd). All rights reserved. Nadeem Walayat has over 20 years experience of trading derivatives, portfolio management and analysing the financial markets, including one of few who both anticipated and Beat the 1987 Crash. Nadeem's forward looking analysis specialises on the housing market and interest rates. Nadeem is the Editor of The Market Oracle, a FREE Daily Financial Markets Analysis & Forecasting online publication. We present in-depth analysis from over 400 experienced analysts on a range of views of the probable direction of the financial markets. Thus enabling our readers to arrive at an informed opinion on future market direction. http://www.marketoracle.co.uk	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line301
__label__wiki	0.561703	0.561703	1 hour ago JUICE WRLD AND YOUNG THUG STAR IN CINEMATIC VISUAL “BAD BOY” “ROALD DAHL’S THE WITCHES” TO HIT THE BIG SCREEN AND PREMIUM VIDEO ON DEMAND Posted on December 12, 2020 December 11, 2020 by Press Release THIS CHRISTMAS, CANADIAN AUDIENCES CAN ENJOY A WICKEDLY FUN FAMILY EVENT AS “ROALD DAHL’S THE WITCHES” HITS THE BIG SCREEN AND PREMIUM VIDEO ON DEMAND The deviously delightful reimagining of the beloved tale swoops into Canadian homes and theatres on December 25 In recognition of varying market restrictions and to bring the film to the widest possible audience, fans and families across Canada will have multiple ways to enjoy Warner Bros. Pictures and Robert Zemeckis’s reimagined “Roald Dahl’s The Witches” on December 25. Audiences will be able to enjoy the film on the big screen where available in theatres, or in the comfort of their own home through Premium Video on Demand (PVOD). Zemeckis, the Oscar-winning director and master storyteller who gave us “Forrest Gump,” the Christmas classic “The Polar Express,” and the “Back to the Future” trilogy, brings a fresh sense of humour along with warmth and the unexpected to Roald Dahl’s beloved story The Witches. “Roald Dahl’s The Witches” will be available for rental via Premium Video On Demand beginning on Friday, December 25. The title will be available on participating digital platforms. Zemeckis is joined by a world-class team of filmmakers, including Alfonso Cuarón, Guillermo del Toro and Kenya Barris, for this fantasy adventure about a young boy who stumbles upon a secret coven of witches and, with the help of his loving grandmother, tries to stop their evil plan to turn the world’s children into mice. The cast includes powerhouse performances from Anne Hathaway, Octavia Spencer, Stanley Tucci, Kristin Chenoweth and Chris Rock, with newcomer Jahzir Kadeen Bruno as the brave young hero. ABOUT “ROALD DAHL’S THE WITCHES” Reimagining Dahl’s beloved story for a modern audience, Robert Zemeckis’s visually innovative film tells the darkly humorous and heartwarming tale of a young orphaned boy who, in late 1967, goes to live with his loving Grandma in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis.  As the boy and his grandmother encounter some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches, she wisely whisks our young hero away to an opulent seaside resort.  Regrettably, they arrive at precisely the same time that the world’s Grand High Witch has gathered her fellow cronies from around the globe—undercover—to carry out her nefarious plans. The film stars Oscar winners Anne Hathaway (“Les Misérable,” “Ocean’s 8”) and Octavia Spencer (“The Help,” “The Shape of Water”), Oscar nominee Stanley Tucci (“The Hunger Games” films, “The Lovely Bones”), with Kristin Chenoweth (TV’s “Glee” and “BoJack Horseman”) and award-winning comedy legend Chris Rock.  Newcomer Jahzir Kadeem Bruno (TV’s “Atlanta”) also stars, alongside Codie-Lei Eastick (“Holmes & Watson”). Based on the book by Roald Dahl, the screenplay is by Robert Zemeckis & Kenya Barris (TV’s “black-ish,” “Shaft”) and Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro (“The Shape of Water”).  Zemeckis is also producing, alongside Jack Rapke, del Toro, Alfonso Cuarón and Luke Kelly.  Serving as executive producers are Jacqueline Levine, Marianne Jenkins, Michael Siegel, Gideon Simeloff and Cate Adams. Zemeckis’s behind-the-scenes team includes his frequent collaborators, including Oscar-nominated director of photography Don Burgess (“Forrest Gump”), production designer Gary Freeman, editors Jeremiah O’Driscoll and Ryan Chan, Oscar-nominated costume designer Joanna Johnston (“Allied,” “Lincoln”), and Oscar-nominated composer Alan Silvestri (“Polar Express,” “Forrest Gump”). TheWitchesMovie.net Instagram: @WarnerBrosCA @WBPictures Twitter: @WarnerBrosCA, @WBPictures Facebook: @WarnerBrosCanada, @WarnerBrosPictures Posted In Entertainment, Films/TV, Upcoming Opéra de Montréal postpones La beauté du monde by Michel Marc Bouchard Knuckledust	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line311
__label__wiki	0.627473	0.627473	Home Innovations Robotic Raspberry Pickers Developed in the UK The Backyard Beehive Fertilizer Trailer Automates Distribution Robotic Raspberry Pickers Developed in the UK The Raspberry Robot Raspberries are one of those fruits that can be hard to pick properly, as they are extremely tender and easily damaged. Which makes it all the more surprising to hear an AI-powered robot has been developed specifically to pick raspberries. Developed by Fieldwork Robotics in the UK, the berrypicking bot is still very slow, but the developers say it can still pick 25,000 berries in a 20-hour day, compared to 15,000 for the average human in an eight hour day. The Raspberry Robot cost £700,000 to develop but the designers believe it represents the future of berry picking. The robot has gone on trial in the UK, as the farming industry battles rising labour costs and Brexit-related shortages of seasonal workers. The numbers of seasonal workers from eastern Europe have diminished, partly due to Brexit fears but also because Romania and Poland’s surging economies have persuaded their own workers to remain in their home countries. Guided by sensors and 3D cameras, the robot’s gripper arm chooses ripe fruit using ‘machine learning’, a form of Artificial Intelligence. Working in a greenhouse environment, the robot takes an average of 10 seconds to find, pick, and drop a berry in a tray, where the fruit is then sorted. https://youtu.be/KFemWAXx-3I The Raspberry Robot Innovations Fieldwork Robotics Robotics Raspberries Innovation	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line312
__label__cc	0.703742	0.296258	States try to fill the void Bipartisan Corporate Crime Fighting by the States By Phil Mattera for the Dirt Diggers Digest A new report from the Corporate Research Project of Good Jobs First on lawsuits filed by state attorneys general shows that the current cases against the drug companies and the tech sector are part of a long-standing practice of bipartisan cooperation in fighting corporate misconduct. The report focuses on 644 cases in which AGs from multiple states took on companies over issues ranging from mortgage abuses to illicit marketing of prescription drugs and collected more than $100 billion in settlements over the past two decades. These multistate cases are a subset of more than 7,000 state AG actions compiled for the latest expansion of Violation Tracker and now available for searching on the database. In at least 260 multistate cases, a majority of the states signed on as plaintiffs. In 172 of the cases, 40 or more states participated. State AGs are split almost evenly between Democrats and Republicans, meaning that the cases with large numbers of state participants are necessarily bipartisan. In Rhode Island, State General Treasurer Seth Magaziner (left) and Attorney General Peter Neronha (right) fight corporate crime through legal actions and shareholder initiatives. In 362 of the cases, the defendants were giant companies included in the Fortune 500 or the Fortune Global 500. The parent company with the most cumulative multistate AG penalties is, by far, Bank of America, with more than $26 billion in settlements over issues such as mortgage abuses and the sale of toxic securities. It is followed by the Swiss bank UBS ($11 billion), Citigroup ($8 billion), JPMorgan Chase ($6 billion) and BP ($4.9 billion). The most frequent defendant has been CVS Health, which has paid out more than $215 million in 14 settlements, most of them involving the alleged submission of false claims to state Medicaid programs and the payment of illicit kickbacks to healthcare providers. Another 47 parent companies have been involved in three or more multistate AG cases. In 118 multistate AG cases, corporations have paid penalties of $100 million or more; in 19 of these the amount exceeded $1 billion. The biggest individual settlement was an agreement by UBS to repurchase $11 billion in investments known as auction-rate securities whose safety it allegedly misrepresented to investors. The second largest was an $8.7 billion agreement by Bank of America to resolve claims relating to predatory home mortgage practices by its Countrywide Financial subsidiary. (The recently announced multistate settlement with Purdue Pharma is not included because it is still tentative.) Banks and other financial services companies account for far and away the largest monetary share of penalties paid in multistate AG cases — $70 billion from 122 settlements involving 65 different parent companies. In second place is the pharmaceutical industry with $10.4 billion in penalties from 137 settlements. Consumer protection and price-fixing cases are the most numerous kinds of multistate AG lawsuits, but investor protection and mortgage abuse lawsuits against the big banks have generated the greatest monetary penalties. In 243 of the multistate cases, the U.S. Department of Justice or another federal agency was also involved in the settlement and often led the negotiations. These actions, which accounted for $31 billion of the $105 billion in total penalties, include cases in which the federal entity, usually DOJ, initiated the investigation and brought in the states — as well as ones in which federal and state prosecutors were involved from the start. 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NOTE: Do Not Alter These Fields: Email: Message: Message 2: Contact Url: Subscribe to Blog: Remember my Info: STAM TORAH PARSHAS TAZRIA/HACHODESH 5776 SOCIAL NATION By David Ignatow I have something to tell you. I'm listening. I'm dying. I'm sorry to hear. I'm growing old. It is. I thought you should know Of course and I'm sorry. Keep in touch. I will and you too. And let me know what's new. Certainly, though it can't be much. And stay well. And you too. And go slow. And you too.[1] A friend of mine related that he recently heard a comment which left him stunned. A colleague told him that his mother, a survivor of the atrocities and horrors of Auschwitz, who had recently become widowed from her husband of over five decades, quipped to her son, “You should know, being alone is worse than Auschwitz!” At first glance, parshas Tazria seems to have limited relevance to our daily lives. Although the lesson of the severity of slander and gossip are as applicable as ever, the details about the laws of the metzora and the process of his purification seem to be non-applicable without the Bais Hamikdash. However, if one thinks about the process more deeply there are tremendously pertinent ideas to be gleaned from the Torah’s timeless words. The law is that the metzora is obligated to leave the Jewish camp and dwell in solitude until the tzara’as is pronounced healed by a kohain. “All the days that the affliction is upon him he shall remain contaminated. He shall dwell in isolation; his dwelling shall be outside the camp.[2]” Rashi[3] explains that the affliction of tzara’as is punishment for slander, which causes husbands to become distanced from their wives and friends to become distanced from one another. Therefore, it is fitting that he be punished by being isolated from society.[4] The feeling of loneliness is not only the result of the metzora’s sociological state, as an outcast who was rejected from the community. On a more profound level the loneliness is internal, a sense of being scorned and banned from society. The metzora may in fact not have been completely alone; there may have been other metzoraim in his vicinity[5]. Yet his alienation ensures that he will still feel that he is essentially ‘alone’ and estranged. This tragic and painful experience has existent parallels in our community. One of the tragic realities of our world is of adolescents searching for identity and a social network falling into the depraved world of drugs and street-life. Their search to feel connected and part of something erroneously leads them to the mirage of brotherhood that the streets present. They have their ‘love-hug’ (“show me some love”), but it’s all disingenuous[6]. They may have fun together and they may even feel protected and connected but it’s not real. The ‘love’ is a bond of commonality at best. They may be sitting together, but they are still all alone. The book of Eicha (Lamentations), which expresses the profound grief that the city of Jerusalem experienced after the destruction of the Temple and the exiling of the Jewish people, begins “Alas, she sits in solitude!” There is no greater pain than solitude and loneliness. That is the greatest tragedy of all. Our society which seems so ‘connected’ is actually mired in loneliness. People define their social circle based on how many Facebook friends they have, how many people like their Tweets, and how many contact numbers are in their cellphones. But the overwhelming majority of those friendships are tenuous and superficial[7]. Oprah Winfrey once quipped, “Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.” Our technologically advanced generation is so lonely – yearning for empathy, sensitivity, warmth, and care. The sense of community and the security of family is often sorely lacking. Parshas Hachodesh[8] details the laws of the Korbon Pesach brought upon the altar just prior to the onset of the holiday of Pesach. The law is that the meat of the offering must be eaten with a group of pre-registered members. If one did not register before the offering was brought, he could not partake of its meat. “Speak to the Assembly of Israel saying: On the tenth of this month, they shall take for themselves, every man a lamb, according to their father’s household, a lamb for a household. If the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his neighbor who is near to his house shall take, according to the number of people; everyone in proportion to his eating, shall you be counted for the lamb[9].” One of the underlying themes of the Korbon Pesach was fostering a sense of community. As the burgeoning nation made its final preparation for the mass exodus the following day, they were to sit together with their families and neighbors, not only in a display of freedom and fearlessness from their former captors, but also with a mood of camaraderie and closeness. They were not a band of freed slaves who would be leaving Egypt, but a proud nation. In the eloquent words of Rabbi Samson Rafael Hirsch, “A people, a nation, a ‘social’ community, a state, should arise from this redemption, whose whole ‘social’ existence was to have its roots in G-d, to be built up by Him, rest on Him, be arranged and constituted by Him, and be dedicated to Him. With the Pesach offering, G-d laid the foundation stone of this edifice.” A person can be surrounded by people, he can even be the center of attention, such as a professional athlete with thousands of people cheering for him, and yet feel completely alone. Conversely, a person may be physically alone - far from his friends and family - and yet feel very connected to something beyond himself. The Metzora who caused dissidence and strife among others must suffer the feeling of loneliness. He must leave, not only the physical borders of the community, but the psychological feeling of belonging and being connected. On the opposite end of the spectrum was the Korbon Pesach. It promoted a feeling of connectedness - that every Jew, no matter where he is in the world - is part of a nation and a community, who genuinely care for each other and feel that they are inextricably bound to each other. “He shall dwell in isolation” “He and his neighbor shall be counted for the lamb” Sign up to receive Stam Torah via email each week at: http://www.stamtorah.info http://torah.stamtorah.info/view/mosaic [1] For those readers who have a hard time understanding poetry (as I did when my eleventh grade English teacher gave this out to our class) this poem is about two conversing ‘friends’ who obviously don’t really care about each other. [2]13:46 [3] Quoting the gemara Arachin 16b [4] A few years ago I had the privilege to spend a week in Eretz Yisroel as part of the Orthodox Union’s Rabbinic Mission. It was the Shabbos of parshas Tazria, and on Friday night after the seudah we had the pleasure of hearing some thoughts from Rabbi Jonathon Rosenblatt who joined us on the tour. The basic idea presented here is based on that discussion. [5] There is a discussion among the Poskim whether metzoraim are allowed to be together in their place of isolation. [6] Rabbi Rosenblatt noted that the insincerity of the ‘love’ becomes apparent when funds run out. “Hey buddy, do me a solid and lend me on credit.” “No man, I need the cash!” [7] Some of those friendships fall into the category of “I’ll let you list me as a friend if I can list you as one of my friends.” [8] Special reading from Parshas Bo read the Shabbos prior to Rosh Chodesh Nisan. [9] Shemos 12:3-4 To sign up for Rabbi Horowitz’s weekly emails, please click here. Reader's Comments: Rating & Comments Policy Rate & Write a Comment! 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__label__wiki	0.509182	0.509182	18 January 2021 - Monday Copyright Page CITIES AND SYMBOLS HEALING FLAVORS TRAIN ARTICLES BOOK ANALYSIS LISTEN TO A FOLK SONG FROM THE DIRECTOR GENERAL, TCDD SOPHIA AND THE STATUE OF ST. SOPHIA October 24, 2016 TÜRKAN BALABAN ÇİLİNGİR THE WORD SOPHIA, WHICH WE ARE FAMILIAR FROM THE HAGIA SOPHIA, MEANS WISDOM. THE STATUE OF ST. SOPHIA POSSESSES ELEMENTS TO SUPPORT THIS WISDOM. Even though the 22 meters high St. Sophia Statue that gives Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, its name is still very new, it has become the symbol of the city. The statue that was made in 2000 by the sculptor named Georgi Chapkanov was erected in 2001 after the removal of Lenin Statue, which was previously located at the square. The word Sophia, which we are familiar from the Hagia Sophia, means wisdom. The statue of St. Sophia possesses elements to support this wisdom. When you look at the statue, you will notice that it holds an owl in its left hand, the symbol of wisdom, and a laurel crown, the symbol of victory used especially by the Greeks and Romans, in its right hand. In addition, the statue symbolizes power and fate. The statue that greets you when you start walking from the St. Nicholas church, also known as the Russian church, is located in a square to where the old city’s streets that are ornamented with charming buildings lead. The statue is also known as the reflection of beauty and has evident facial features. The argument which hasn’t ended for 15 years The argument about the indecent clothing of the statue, which attracts attention of the conservative side of the populace, has been going on for 15 years. Yet, the Bulgarians belief in St. Sophia being the protector of the city continues. September 17 is celebrated every year since the time of St. Sophia and her daughters Vyara, Nadejda and Lyubov as the day of hope, fate, love, and Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. Tweet Like Pin It Share Whatsapp FANTASTIC GEOGRAPHY AND CAPTIVATING HISTORY: MALTA WHERE THE HEART OF OUR MOTHERLAND BEATS: ÇANAKKALE THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE QUALITY LIFE: GENEVA A BALKAN ROMANTISM: BELGRADE EDINBURGH AND THE WILLIAM WALLACE MONUMENT FROM A NOMADIC PAST TO A MONUMENTAL FUTURE: ASHGABAT Legendary Libraries of The Ancient World MERİÇ FLOWS, SELİMİYE MESMERIZES: EDİRNE Iconic Name of Folk Music: Souad Massi The Top Name At Fado: Camané Wind of Portuguese: António Zambujo Raillife — 2020 CULTURE - ART Theatre/March 2020 Concert/March 2020 Cinema/March 2020 Raillife — Copyright © 2017 HOSS AJANS — S2 International Media and Strategic Research Company Limited	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line327
__label__wiki	0.670801	0.670801	HomeGovernment & Social ResearchIt’s official, WBBL team the Sydney Sixers is our most loved league team It’s official, WBBL team the Sydney Sixers is our most loved league team July 5, 2019 Government & Social Research, Media Release 0 4 July 2019, Sydney Australia: Big Bash teams dominate the BenchMark EC Summer Ladder with 8 of the top 10 teams Plus, Suncorp Super Netball tops the BenchMark EC League Ladder In new research presented today at Mumbrella’s Sports Marketing Summit, True North Research’s game-changing, independent study into the emotional connection Australians have to different sports properties uncovers that the Women’s Sydney Sixers reign supreme amongst league teams, just pipping the Men’s Hobart Hurricanes to top spot. True North’s BenchMark EC Index measures Emotional Connection and is a combination of respect, enjoyment, trust, pride and bond. So why do the Sixers take out the top spot? Because they lead the way for both engendering a deep sense of pride in the team and for developing a bond with Australian sports fans familiar with the team. What’s striking about the Big Bash team results is that every team across both the women’s and men’s leagues has an above par BenchMark EC Score™ amongst those familiar with the team. This stands in contrast to every other code evaluated both in this Summer wave and the previous Winter wave, which has at least one team with an average or below par emotional connection score. Furthermore, the BBL teams dominate the enjoyment rankings, taking out the top six spots of 44 league teams evaluated. Women’s teams continue to perform strongly on emotional connection, particularly for ‘trust to uphold the integrity of the sport’. The Adelaide Crows top the trust ranking and rank first in 12 further BenchMark attributes evaluated, including work ethic and giving back to the community. The importance of emotional connection is crucial, as Georgie Maynard, Director at True North Research, explains: “We are not logical when it comes to sport. Our emotions drive our decisions around whether we attend a game, watch games on TV, engage with a team’s sponsors because sport is emotional, and we thrive off the thrill that sport delivers.” In other results, the Matildas are our most loved National team, while the Australian Men’s Cricket Test Team have battled back from last place amongst 13 national sides in the October 2018 wave to, 8th. The Diamonds maintain their third spot, while Suncorp Super Netball is the league Australians feel most emotionally connected to once familiar with it. In an evaluation of 12 major competitions in Australia including the AFL/W, NRL, W/NBL, W/BBL and A/W-Leagues, Super Netball leads the way. It is the league Australian sports fans hold most respect for and ranks in the top three for the other core values of enjoyment, trust, pride and bond. The importance of emotional connection is underlined when we look at the impact this has on sponsorship performance. BenchMark has evaluated over 800 sponsors including over 170 league sponsors; amongst the latter four of the top five league sponsors that see the most positive reactions to their sponsorships (i.e. sentiment, consideration of the brand, usage and more trust in the brand as a result of the sponsorship) are Super Netball sponsors. Furthermore, Suncorp is the only sponsor to rank in the top 12 for the most recognised league sponsor and most positive reactions to sponsor. Maynard continues: “Women’s teams and leagues have a strong emotional connection, and this translates to strong sponsor outcomes. The challenge remains to get more mainstream airtime and attention to broaden their appeal and reach a larger audience. If women’s teams and leagues can continue to grow their familiarity then only greater rewards will await their sponsors.” Marne Fechner, CEO of Netball Australia, explains why she feels Super Netball ranks top: “Netball has a long history of bringing people and communities together to celebrate their love of the game. The findings in this report reinforce Netball Australia’s vision for Suncorp Super Netball to be the number one sporting league for women worldwide and highlights what we’ve known – that our fans share a real passion and connection to the league, clubs and players.” Chris Symington, CEO of Suncorp Super Netball, adds, “We are driven to set new benchmarks to make Suncorp Super Netball the best women’s sporting league in the world and this data is an acknowledgement to the fans who have a genuine advocacy and passion for netball in Australia. Commercially, the results are recognition of the strong alignment and value proposition netball provides brands who want to connect to women and girls and establish genuine partnerships.” The research is an independent study conducted by True North Research. An online survey ran between 4th April – 3rd May 2019. A sample size of n=4291 Australian residents aged 16+. The sample was provided by The ORU, Australia’s leading online data collection agency. Respondents must be at least ‘somewhat familiar’ with the team being rated. Emotional Connection is a combination of respect, enjoyment, trust, pride and bond. National sides, Summer League teams and 12 Leagues were evaluated. In October 2018, BenchMark evaluated the Winter League teams. BenchMark provides regular opportunities for Rights Holders and brands alike to truly gauge how well a sports property and its sponsorships are performing in terms of emotional connection. For more information, or to download the 2019 BenchMark Report, visit www.truenorthresearch.com.au. See page 3 for full BenchMark EC Ladder™. Photo by Waldemar Brandt on Unsplash Lewers Reports Community Response to COVID-19 Facing 2030: An evaluator’s perspective Five data-driven keys to customer loyalty	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line336
__label__wiki	0.521758	0.521758	Pelosi Loses It After Being Asked About Biden Assault Allegation Again by News Kick in News 0 comments During an interview on Tuesday with MSNBC, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi got irritated when asked about former Vice President Joe Biden's sexual assault allegation. “Joe Biden speaking out, just days ago on that allegation of a sexual assault,” MSNBC host Ari Melber said. “Now that he has given that answer, do you view this as a closed issue and what is your response?”“Well, it is for me. I have said, I am proud to support Joe Biden for president,” Pelosi responded. “I believe him when he says it didn’t happen, but I also believe him when he said let them look into the records and that’s what they should do. But, I’m not going to answer this question again.” The comments from Pelosi are quite ironic considering the Speaker claims to be an advocate for women. Her refusal to speak out on the allegation just shows how she really doesn't care about sexual assault victims across the country. Back in March, former staffer to Senator Biden Tara Reade came out and accused Biden of sexually assaulting her in his Senate office in 1993. “He greeted me, he remembered my name, and then we were alone. It was the strangest thing,” Reade said. “There was no like, exchange really. He just had me up against the wall. It happened all at once. His hands were on me and underneath my clothes, and he went down my skirt and then up inside it and he penetrated me with his fingers and he was kissing me at the same time and he was saying something to me. I remember him saying first, like, as he was doing it, ‘Do you wanna go somewhere else?’ And then him saying to me when I pulled away, he got finished doing what he was doing and I kind of pulled back and he said, ‘Come on, man. I heard you liked me.’ ” *Get your Patriotic face masks with FREE SHIPPING today* Reade's claims gained steam when a video surfaced from 1993 of Reade's mom calling into CNN’s “Larry King Show” to ask him what her daughter should do if she had an issue with a "prominent senator." "San Luis Obispo, California, hello," King said. Reade's mom said, "Yes, hello. I’m wondering what a staffer would do besides go to the press in Washington? My daughter has just left there, after working for a prominent senator, and could not get through with her problems at all, and the only thing she could have done was go to the press, and she chose not to do it out of respect for him." King replied, "In other words, she had a story to tell but, out of respect for the person she worked for, she didn’t tell it?" "That’s true," Reade's mom replied. *Help Us TAKE DOWN The Liberal Media With Our TRUMP News Mobile App!* What are your thoughts? Let us know in the comments below! News Kick Amezing Architecture Art funny Articles Books breaking news coronavirus Entitlement Family Health funny Global Health Healthy Diet history history corona Humor Illusions informaton latest update Mental Health Movies n newa News Pictures Public Health story Security video shows protesters entering the Oregon Capitol building after legislator allegedly opens door Security footage released Friday shows protesters entering the Oregon Capitol last month after a Republican state legislator allegedly ope... Italian restaurant owners who said 'we ain't paying crap' after $10,000 in COVID-19 fines just beat left-wing Pennsylvania governor in court Over the summer, the co-owner of Taste of Sicily — an Italian restaurant in Palmyra, Pennsylvania — made headlines when he defied left-wi... Coronavirus live news: UN warns of 'biblical' famine as Trump reveals 60-day immigration halt Trump to halt immigration for 60 days initially; 256m people could starve, says UN ; cases worldwide pass 2.5 million Coronavirus lates... Archive January 2021 (212) December 2020 (442) November 2020 (453) October 2020 (520) September 2020 (398) August 2020 (274) July 2020 (285) June 2020 (221) May 2020 (465) April 2020 (687) March 2020 (258) February 2020 (204) January 2020 (58) December 2019 (96) November 2019 (104) October 2019 (21) September 2019 (4) August 2019 (2) July 2019 (24) June 2019 (4) May 2019 (6) April 2019 (9) March 2019 (18) February 2019 (3) January 2019 (13) December 2018 (13) November 2018 (15) September 2018 (1) August 2018 (2) July 2018 (3) June 2018 (22) May 2018 (28) April 2018 (40) March 2018 (45) February 2018 (56) January 2018 (60) December 2017 (56) November 2017 (52) October 2017 (54) September 2017 (52) August 2017 (43) July 2017 (38) June 2017 (63) May 2017 (49) April 2017 (30) March 2017 (32) February 2017 (30) January 2017 (41) December 2016 (14) Worst things people have done for money (18 Photos) 1 Sometime money’s tight, and you have to make it any way you can. I respect the hustle, so you have no judgement coming from me. But ... Copyright 2019, TAthasTA. All rights Reserved. \| Designed by DastgeerTech	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line340
__label__wiki	0.813953	0.813953	Part IV - Living Life with No Regrets - #15 Devan Spilker, Limestone Saints Two training camp weekends and one exhibition game before the coaching staff would make their final roster decisions. Sure doesn’t seem like much time to evaluate players new to the expansion Charlotte Hounds of the Major Lacrosse League! For 31 year old Devan Spilker, it’s been months of hard work in the gym. He lost 30 pounds and put game-shape back into a body more accustomed to the good life than competition in recent years. The train ride form Baltimore Maryland to Brooklyn New York on Saturday April 21 felt way longer than it really was. He had made the exhibition game line-up so had the chance to show his stuff against the MLL Long Island Lizards. Hounds Head Coach Mike Cerino recruited Devan to Limestone College in 2000. Spilker piled up numerous scoring records, All Conference and All American accolades during his stellar college career, while leading the Saints to NCAA National Championships in 2000 and 2002. Cerino knew the type of player and human being he had drafted 122nd in the MLL supplemental draft. What he didn’t know was whether Devan still had the stuff to be a winner. Devan and Coach Cerino during Warm-up The Hounds coaching staff had Spilker running as the #4 attack on Saturday night. He was the go-to relief for the three starters and saw some good field time. No points, but had one good ripper from the outside and no mistakes. He was pleased with himself. "It felt like I was a freshman again, playing in my first championship back in 2000. That was over 12 years ago”, said Spilker. As he came back to the sidelines, he couldn`t wait to hear his number called again. The Hounds won it 13 - 8. Anticipating the news The rest of the weekend was fretful. Devan didn`t sleep all that well on either Saturday or Sunday night. He knew he`d get the call sometime on Monday. Around 11 AM, an email arrived listing the 25 man roster for the Hounds inaugural season. Spilker was in tears. At an age when many players retire, he was now officially a professional and an MLL rookie. The hard work had paid off. Devan & Katie at an Orioles game His first phone call was to his wife and best friend Katie. They made a date to celebrate on Monday night. The next calls were to his parents and his lacrosse playing brothers. Devan was so proud to tell them the news. It was especially sweet to hear the congratulations from older brother Brendan who he had idolized growing up and who he had followed to Limestone College. The phone call from Coach Cerino came around 3 PM. Spilker was pumped as Cerino told him how happy he was with his play, his conditioning and his attitude. Cerino said, "Devo, your best lacrosse is still ahead of you." Hounds gloves The Hounds team roster is 25 but the playing roster will be 19. For Spilker, the work has just begun. There`s no way he will be complacent. His goal is field time, as much as Coach will give him. Now that he has made the team, Devan says, I want to prove I can play in this league. He will wear his old college number - 15 and these very cool Hounds gloves. Not over 'til it`s over As the MLL season unfolds and the Hounds find out how good they are, the Devan Spilker story will be updated from time to time. Enjoy the moment Devo, you deserve it! Your family and friends are all cheering. Devan Spilker lives the Limestone Saints motto. "If you couldn't play tomorrow, how hard would you play today"	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line341
__label__wiki	0.996097	0.996097	EOG Resources Inc. NYS: EOG Christopher C. Gaut Christopher C. Gaut is an American businessperson who has been the head of 5 different companies and presently occupies the position of Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer at Forum Energy Technologies, Inc. and President for Sperry Drilling Services. He is also on the board of EOG Resources, Inc., The Houston Museum of Natural Science and The National Ocean Industries Association. Mr. Gaut previously held the position of Chairman of ALS Oil & Gas, President & Chief Operating Officer of Valaris Plc Director at Dual Drilling Co. and Co-Chief Operating Officer & CFO at ENSCO International, Inc. (both are subsidiaries of Valaris Plc), President-Drilling & Evaluation Division at Halliburton Co., Partner at Pacific Asset Capital, Inc. and Managing Director at SCF Partners LLC. Christopher C. Gaut received an undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College and an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Date Shares Transaction Value 10/30/2020 49 Award at $34.24 per share. 1,677 05/04/2020 3,851 Award at $0 per share. 0 04/30/2020 19 Award at $47.51 per share. 902 01/31/2020 9 Award at $72.91 per share. 656 01/31/2019 3 Award at $99.2 per share. 297 10/31/2018 2 Award at $105.34 per share. 210 10/02/2018 5 Award at $130 per share. 650 10/31/2017 350 Award at $99.87 per share. 34,954 10/02/2017 840 Award at $0 per share. 0 Mr. William Raymond Thomas Mr. Ezra Y. Yacob Mr. Lloyd W. Helms Mr. Timothy K. Driggers Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President Mr. Sandeep Bhakhri Chief Information & Technology Officer, SVP Mr. Kenneth E. Dunn Vice President & General Manager-Fort Worth Mr. Robert C. Smith Vice President-Drilling Mr. J. Pat Woods Vice President & General Manager-International Ms. Jill Miller Manager-Engineering & Acquisitions Mr. David Wayne Trice General Manager & EVP-Denver Region Mr. Charles E. Sheppard Vice President-Exploration Mr. Joseph L. Korenek Vice President-Business Development Mr. Jim Bucci Geological Specialist Mr. Kenneth W. Boedeker Executive Vice President-Exploration & Production Mr. Michael T. Kerr Mr. Robert Leslie West Treasurer & Vice President Mr. D. Lance Terveen Senior Vice President-Marketing Mr. Gary Y. Peng Controller & Head-Financial Reporting Mr. James C. Fletcher Controller & Head-Land Administration Mr. Joseph C. Landry Controller & Head-Operations Accounting Ms. Ann D. Janssen Chief Accounting Officer & Senior Vice President Mr. Kevin S. Hanzel Vice President-Audit Mr. Philip W. Leimer Vice President-Tax Mr. David J. Streit Vice President-Investor & Public Relations Ms. Patricia L. Edwards Chief Human Resources Officer & Senior VP Mr. Michael P. Donaldson Secretary, Executive VP & General Counsel Ms. Pamela R. Roth Vice President-Government Relations Mr. Charles R. Crisp Lead Independent Director Mr. Donald F. Textor Mr. James C. Day Ms. Janet F. Clark Mr. Robert P. Daniels Mr. Christopher C. Gaut Ms. Julie J. Robertson /quotes/zigman/17636479/composite VUZI+15.60% /quotes/zigman/237947/composite JCP-5.83% /quotes/zigman/59392505/composite NUGT-2.93% /quotes/zigman/59386294/composite JNUG-5.94% /quotes/zigman/65801738/composite TLT+1.11%	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line348
__label__wiki	0.760174	0.760174	Online Print Edition Around South Florida Prayerful Living CORONA-NNOUNCEMENTS S. Florida Times, January 11, 2021 Faith leaders urged Congress to honor election result Associated Press, January 11, 2021 Diddy providing some COVID-19 relief for Miami neighborhood CIA’s new recruitment website aims to diversify spy agency Florida’s 2020 dominated by virus, economy and election Associated Press, January 6, 2021 Racial wealth gap impedes Black business ownership S. Florida Times, January 6, 2021 Biden /Harris Victory Robert Beatty, November 7, 2020 Helpful Tips for Businesses that would like to apply for the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), if additional funds are approved. S. Florida Times, May 1, 2020 Florida Reemployment (Unemployment) Assistance Application S. Florida Times, April 12, 2020 Debate Night in America: Muted Mics Could Interrupt Trump’s Style zenger.news, October 22, 2020 Trump or Biden: Venezuelans in U.S. Debate Impact of Presidential Election Fugitive Drug Dealer Captured Despite Plastic Surgery, New Identity Gas/Electricity BROWARD App gives graduates virtual reality diploma S. Florida Times, June 20, 2020 How messaging technology is helping fuel global protests Associated Press, June 11, 2020 Hackers’ new target: Video conferencing with Zoom Associated Press, April 12, 2020 BROWARD From Pembroke Pines to FAMU Law College grads Roger Caldwell, June 11, 2020 Students helped by helping teachers Roger Caldwell, June 7, 2020 FAMU names Keller as new college of law dean SoFLO Live Chef Ire SUSTAINABLE, VERSATILE, GLOBAL, DELICIOUS: Honey’s got buzz Associated Press, March 1, 2020 5-YEAR-OLD DRUMMER garners attention, college scholarships JAZZ IN THE GARDENS 15TH: S. Florida Times, March 1, 2020 Health Jobs Tips for organized tax filing Love Letter: To Black America from Us, Black doctors and nurses Astronomical celebration for Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Season of the Arts JOURNEY INTO JOURNALISM a black woman books it Associated Press, March 13, 2020 Right to Vote focus of Spoken Soul Festival Staff Report, March 13, 2020 Stokely: A woman’s day is every day CB HANIF, March 13, 2020 Beatnik24 Elijah coins available Senate race thrusts ‘Black America’s church’ into spotlight MF Doom, masked rapper known for complex lyrics, dies at 49 School shutdowns raise stakes of digital divide for students Associated Press— April 6, 2020 WINNSBORO, S.C. (AP) – Students struggling to get online in a rural South Carolina county received a boost last week with the arrival of six buses equipped with Wi-Fi, some of the hundreds the state has rolled out since schools were closed by the coronavirus outbreak. With routers mounted inside, the buses broadcast enough bandwidth in an area the size of a small parking lot for parents to drive up and children to access the internet from inside their cars. One of the buses set up outside the apartment complex of Lacheyle Moore, who had been limiting her own usage to leave enough data on her cellphone plan for her daughter’s schoolwork. “I have to put extra data on my phone to make sure her work gets done, so she can get graded for it,” said Moore, who works as a cashier and shifted her schedule to help instruct her two children. The pandemic that launched a massive, unplanned experiment with distance learning has created extraordinary hurdles for schoolchildren left behind by the digital divide. School districts and governments are now racing to give the millions of U.S. students without home internet a chance of keeping up. Nationwide, nearly 3 million students make do without home internet because of the high costs of service and gaps in its availability. The disadvantaged students are more likely to be students of color, from low-income families or in households with lower parental education levels. The nation’s largest school districts, including Los Angeles and New York, are spending millions of dollars to provide devices and internet connections for students. Smaller districts are finding ways to boost wireless internet in school parking lots and distribute hot spots. Still, others are sticking with paper assignments and books because the digital equity issues are too much to overcome. “What we’re seeing is a widening of the achievement gap, so that children who are in well-funded districts were able to immediately pivot to online learning strategies, because the infrastructure was already in place,” said Maura McInerney, legal director of the Education Law Center, which advocates for disadvantaged students. “In sharp contrast, underfunded districts, who did not have these resources and their children do not have access to Chromebooks, for example, are scrambling to address the educational needs of students.” In Fairfield County, South Carolina, 51% of households have no broadband internet access, according to an Associated Press analysis of census data. Nationwide, an estimated 18% of U.S. students do not have home access to broadband internet. “Lots of mothers and fathers are really not equipped to be home school parents,” said J.R. Green, the school superintendent. Across South Carolina, hundreds of buses were requested by school districts in a program targeting low-income and rural areas, state education spokesman Ryan Brown said. The state was ready to equip thousands of buses, but Brown said that service providers’ offers of low-cost and even free service plans has lessened the demand. So deep are the equity challenges for the Philadelphia School District that it initially prohibited online instruction during the shutdown. Only about half the district’s high school students have a laptop or tablet and home internet service. As schools now appear likely to be closed for longer than anticipated, the district plans to buy 50,000 Chromebooks and begin online instruction by midApril. Comcast, which is based in the city, has raised speeds on its $10-a-month “Internet Essentials” plan for low-income families and offered two months of free service to new customers. “We have the $10 internet (plan). It’s not for doing lessons, cause it’s really slow. If we needed to do the Google classroom, we would need, I think, the regular internet, which I can’t afford,” parent Cecelia Thompson, 54, said earlier this month. Thompson, who cannot work because of health issues, lives with her 21-year-old son, a district student with severe autism who attends Martin Luther King High School. She believes they would also need a Chromebook and perhaps a printer, so her son, who has a full-time support person, can do worksheets. For now, they rely on her cellphone and a 10-year-old tablet. Some districts also are hoping for some help from the federal government. Mike Looney, the superintendent of Fulton County schools in Georgia, said parents should take advantage of offers for reduced-cost internet from service providers. But he would also like the Federal Communications Commission to redeploy money used to subsidize school internet connections to instead pay to supply students with devices and internet at home – an idea that has been endorsed also by many U.S. senators. In central Ohio, Hilliard City Schools sent students home with school-issued iPads they can use to download, complete and then upload assignments. The iPads allow them to do much of their work offline, according to district Superintendent John Marschhausen, though they’ll need to connect to submit completed work and download new assignments. The district’s two dozen schools are extending their Wi-Fi into their parking lots so families can complete downloads from their vehicles. The superintendent said he thinks it will be a smooth transition for most, but he worries about a radical shift for the younger students who typically spend less than half an hour on their devices in the classroom. “We’re going to have to do a lot of adapting and adjusting and a lot of learning along with our families if this is truly something that will continue into the summer,” he said. In Columbus, Mississippi, Wi-Fi equipment installed on nine buses to allow children to do homework on the way to and from school was transferred to school and community buildings after officials discovered routers would only run for two hours after buses were shut off. But Superintendent Cherie Labat said the district is giving out paper lesson packets at schools where meals are being picked up, as well as books that students can take home for independent reading. With 100% of students in the predominantly African American district eligible for free or reduced price lunches, Labat said she can’t assume students have resources at home. “That’s why I’m working from the ground up,” she said. “That’s why I’m doing paper.” Next post Coronavirus Relief Package Previous post Pope prays to empty Square About the Author Associated Press "Elevating the dialogue"Headline News South Florida Times Black players protest basketball courts removal 183rd anniversary Seminole Maroon remembrance of the two battles of the Loxahatchee River, Palm Beach County, Fla., Jan. 9 and 17, 2021 The most influential African American weekly newspaper in South Florida Beatty Media LLC Miami Beach Police Department makes History Staff Report, September 11, 2014 Local NewsNewsVideos Copyright 2020 Beatty Media, LLC.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line349
__label__cc	0.704746	0.295254	She spots a soldier at attention under heavy downpour and I can’t help crying. August 16, 2018 Stories In this current world, things are changing at a faster rate. For instance, what used to be considered as common social knowledge, are no longer regarded or not being practiced. These days, when a woman is leaving a table, men don’t stand, or kids are not patient enough to let grownups to serve food first before they can. Though it is not a must we follow these customs to the letter, it can be seen how some of our traditions which portrayed signs of respect have been forgotten. Looking closely, the custom that is seen to be forgotten greatly is the showing respect when a funeral ceremony is underway. It goes without doubt that many people do not know what is supposed to be done when they are in a funeral procession. It is at this time that we normally see people paying some respect, something that moves people’s heart a great deal. This is exactly what Erin Hester witnessed when she was driving in town not many days ago. There was a heavy downpour while she was behind the wheel. Then she saw someone by the roadside standing at attention in the rain. On looking well, that somebody was a soldier. This made her be curious and wanted to see what he was really doing there. Then from a distance, she saw a funeral procession that was approaching, with the vehicles’ headlights one. Seeing what was happening, she also had to pull aside to let them pass. It was such a touching moment that she had to share the story on her Facebook page once she got home. On her post, she wrote that she never liked people who don’t pull aside when a procession is happening, but what the soldier did was beyond her expectation. She further wrote that there are no rules forcing a soldier to do what she saw a soldier doing. Instead, the soldier was paying his last respect to the diseased. The soldier’s deed of paying last respect to someone who he did not know made her happy. Her post received a lot of views and comments. One comment was from a person known as Brandi Guillet, in which he thanked Erin for posting the clip and saying that the soldier was brought up in an environment full of love and respect. If the story touched you, please SHARE it with all your friends and family on social media! Priest surprises students at pep rally when he joins cheerleaders’ dance routine. Two people fight over a dog in Judge Judy’s court— Now watch when she asks for the dog to be let loose Senior dog dropped at vet to be euthanized. One look into his eyes, the vet stops in his tracks Family Gives Grandma Gift Box With Kitten Inside – Her Comeback Is Melting Everyone’s Hearts 2 women stealing from graves forgot security cameras are rolling. Then cemetery teaches them a lesson 5-year-old girl starts singing at school’s recital – All eyes on her when she moves her hands	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line355
__label__wiki	0.803628	0.803628	Steve Oelrich changes his story again, explanation still lacking Third time apparently isn't the charm for Steve Oelrich. His third attempt to explain his military eligibility has left us with just as many unanswered questions as the first two. As I wrote last week, the Oelrich campaign issued a press release claiming that an injury he received in the line of duty as a police officer was the reason he was ineligible for the draft, but publicly available documents show that the eligibility-ending injury actually happened years before his law enforcement career began. The story got even stranger when the campaign reacted by deleting the press release and replacing it with a new one (back-dated to the date of the original release) as if nothing had ever happened. Then, last weekend, the Florida Times-Union ran a story about the controversy, and Oelrich's response raises even more questions: Florida Times-Union \| Matt Dixon \| Steve Oelrich camp misrepresents history in attack on Cliff Stearns, then quietly rewrites it Steve Oelrich was appalled at a mailer sent by his opponent, Cliff Stearns. In it, the 12-term incumbent rapped his three Republican opponents for the new 3rd Congressional District for not serving in the military. Stearns served in the Air Force during the Vietnam War. Oelrich’s camp pounced, and in doing so broke what is widely seen as a steadfast election rule: “If you’re reacting, you’re losing.” His campaign blasted out an email statement on July 26 saying Stearns was off base. Oelrich, it said, was stabbed in the heart as a beat cop in St. Petersburg, which made him ineligible for military service... The problem? The campaign got it wrong, and — very quietly — later changed its tune. On his 1968 application for the Florida Bureau of Law Enforcement, first published on conservative blog Sunshine State Sarah, Oelrich listed a self-inflicted gunshot wound suffered during a hunting accident when he was 18, before his career began, as derailing his ability to serve in the military. He was classified as only eligible for the military in times “war or national emergency.” Vietnam was never a declared war. In an interview with the Times-Union, Oelrich confirmed it was the gunshot wound, not the later stabbing, as the reason. “I got the draft card in the mail and went to Jacksonville … when I got there and they saw my injury, they said, ‘We can’t have you in the field,’ ” Oelrich said. He would not address the statement his campaign released, instead referring questions to campaign consultant David Wolfson, who did not return requests seeking comment... The Times-Union posted both the original July 26th press release that their reporters had received and the updated version from the Oelrich campaign website (see images posted here), and noted that "the rewritten release was not emailed." As I mentioned last week, back-dating press releases is not standard procedure, and I'm not sure who the Oelrich campaign thinks they're fooling. I'm glad that the Oelrich campaign admitted that the original story was false, but voters in Florida's Third District are still left with several questions. How did the original story make it into a press release in the first place? This is too bizarre of a story for a campaign staffer to make up on their own, and the fact that Oelrich's son was quoted just adds to the weirdness. Did Oelrich lie to his own family members about his injuries? Why? Is there something scandalous or unfavorable about the circumstances of the 1963 hunting accident that Oelrich doesn't want to be made public? Who approved the original press release? Legally, candidates are supposed to approve their own campaign ads ("I'm John Doe, and I approve this message."), so did Oelrich see it before it went out? He knew it was false, so why did he allow it to go out? On that note, who approved the revised press release? Why is it back-dated? Why wasn't it sent to the campaign's press list? As a side note, I'd like to point out that this story is a great illustration how "just a blogger" can change a story and affect an election. Oelrich's misrepresentations about the reason for his military ineligibility was completely unnoticed by the mainstream media until I wrote my two posts (here and here), and they were picked up by a few other blogs like Alachua Politix and Florida Political Press, shared on Facebook and Twitter, and then the story found its way into the Florida Times-Union, in a front page story nonetheless! Cool. I don't see my name in actual print very often! Because I was in Jacksonville for the RedState Gathering, I was able to buy a print copy of the paper. I don't see my name in print in an actual physical newspaper very often, so that was fun. What's not fun is contemplating why someone would lie about their military eligibility. Unless the Oelrich campaign explains its bizarre actions, it seems that voters in Florida's Third District are left with no choice but to assume that the Oelrich campaign deliberately and cynically attempted to mislead them. My invitation to the Oelrich campaign remains open: if you have an explanation, send it to me and I'll print it. But I'm not holding my breath. I stand proudly by my endorsement of Cliff Stearns. He has been a reliably consistent conservative vote, and we have him to thank for uncovering the Solyndra scandal. Oelrich's weird behavior during the last week disqualifies him from consideration, and Ted Yoho gives little reason to have confidence in him. 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__label__cc	0.709236	0.290764	Home » Press Releases » AFDD Press Release August 5, 2010 – Phnom Penh: The Asia Faiths Development Dialogue wish to invite the general public to attend its public lecture series entitled, “Dialogue with the Cambodian Community: Development and Religion.” The dialogue will be held at The University of Cambodia Conference Center on Friday, August 6, 2010 at 2pm. The dialogue’s purpose is to discuss WFDD’s research findings pertaining to how faith- inspired organizations impact development in Cambodia. Dr. Kao Kim Hourn, President of The University of Cambodia; Secretary General, Asia Faiths Development Dialogue and Professor Katherine Marshall, Executive Director, World Faiths Development Dialogue; The University of Cambodia’s Distinguished Visiting Professor and Princeton Fellows will lead a discussion on how faith groups are relevant to development in Cambodia. The AFDD lectures are free of charge and open to the general public. For more about AFDD Lecture Series contact: Phone: (855-23) 993-274; (855-89) 810-288 Fax: (855-23) 993-284 Email: bandollim@uc.edu.kh	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line362
__label__wiki	0.899357	0.899357	Home / News / Iran accidentally sinks replica US Nimitz-class aircraft carrier just days after blasting it with missiles in propaganda video (7 Pics) Iran accidentally sinks replica US Nimitz-class aircraft carrier just days after blasting it with missiles in propaganda video (7 Pics) Iran has accidentally sunk a replica US aircraft carrier which was recently blasted with missiles in a propaganda video. The modified barge - designed to look like a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier - is listing at 90 degrees in Gulf waters after after capsizing near the sensitive Strait of Hormuz, according to Forbes. Half of the 'flight deck' is now underwater and the vessel is now endangering other ships sailing through the Strait, it is claimed. The apparent blunder comes just days after the dummy warship was blasted by the regime's Revolutionary Guards in a round of Iranian war games which the Pentagon condemned as 'irresponsible and reckless'. Capsized: An Iranian mock-up of a US Nimitz-class aircraft carrier is listing in sensitive Gulf waters just days after it was blasted with missiles in a propaganda video Under fire: An explosion on the mock-up aircraft carrier with model planes on the flight deck, in footage broadcast by Iranian TV at the end of last month Satellite imagery published by Aurora Intel last week showed the bogus aircraft carrier listing on its side in waters which are less than 50ft deep. Iranian authorities may be forced into a cumbersome salvage operation because the wreckage could be a hazard for other ships, it is believed. Around a fifth of the world's oil passes through the Strait of Hormuz and ships have previously been harassed by Iranian guards while passing through the lane. The US Navy's Fifth Fleet, which is based in Bahrain, is tasked with protecting the commercial ships in the area. According to Forbes, the fake vessel is the same one which was hit by Iranian missiles and then repaired after a previous round of war games in 2015. The vessel was moved to the Strait of Hormuz earlier this year with model planes lined up on the dummy flight deck. State television reported in late July that the Revolutionary Guards had blasted the vessel with missiles during military exercises dubbed 'Prophet Mohammed 14th'. Footage of the war games broadcast on state TV showed the Guards' air and naval forces readying for an attack off the country's southwestern coast. One missile fired from a helicopter left a trail of smoke before appearing to smash into the side of the fake warship. Armed forces were then seen abseiling onto the deck of the vessel, before around a dozen speedboats circled around it. Surrounded: The mock-up aircraft carrier is surrounded by Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps speedboats in the propaganda footage last month Assault: Iranian Guards abseil onto the dummy 'flight deck' of the vessel from a helicopter near the Strait of Hormuz Propaganda: A torpedo hits the dummy US aircraft carrier - which is now listing in Gulf waters and possibly posing a hazard to other ships 'What was shown today in these exercises, at the level of aerospace and naval forces, was all offensive,' Guards commander Major General Hossein Salami said. New long-range missiles were fired during the exercises, a spokesman said. 'Some surprise equipment and weapons were used, such as long-range ballistic missiles capable of striking offensive floating targets in the distance,' General Abbas Nilforoushan said. The US Navy condemned the 'irresponsible and reckless behaviour by Iran', calling it an attempt 'to intimidate and coerce'. 'We are aware of the Iranian exercise involving attacking a mock-up of a vessel similar to a motionless aircraft carrier,' Commander Rebecca Rebarich said. 'The US Navy conducts defensive exercises with our partners promoting maritime security in support of freedom of navigation; whereas, Iran conducts offensive exercises, attempting to intimidate and coerce. 'While we are always watchful of this type of irresponsible and reckless behaviour by Iran in the vicinity of busy international waterways, this exercise has not disrupted coalition operations in the area nor had any impacts to the free flow of commerce in the Strait of Hormuz and surrounding waters.' She had earlier stressed that 'we remain confident in our naval forces' ability to defend themselves against any maritime threat. 'We do not seek conflict but remain ready to defend US forces and interests from maritime threats in the region.' The war games came only days after Tehran accused US fighter jets of harassing an Iranian commercial airliner in the skies over Syria. Preparation: The vessel was moved to the Strait of Hormuz earlier this year with model planes lined up on the dummy flight deck The real thing: The USS Nimitz aircraft carrier during a drill in the South China Sea earlier this year Tensions have escalated between Tehran and Washington since US President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew from the landmark Iran nuclear deal in 2018. The arch foes have come to the brink of direct confrontation twice since June 2019, when the Guards shot down a US drone in the Gulf. Washington blamed Iran for a series of mysterious explosions on Gulf shipping in the summer of 2019, while Tehran denied any involvement. Tensions reached an alarming peak after Iran's most prominent general, Qassem Soleimani, was killed in a US drone strike near Baghdad airport in January 2020. Donald Trump described Soleimani as a 'terrorist' planning 'imminent attacks' on US interests through his leadership of the Quds Force, an arm of the Guards. But Soleimani was revered as a hero in Iran and his death sparked an outpouring of public grief not seen since the death of Ayatollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic, in 1989. The retaliation eventually came six days after the killing, when Iran fired a barrage of missiles at two US bases in Iraq. Trump claimed victory after the relatively inconsequential strikes and said no US troops were harmed, although it later emerged that some had suffered brain injuries. Iran then caused a separate crisis after accidentally shooting down a passenger plane, mistaking it for a US missile – killing dozens of Iranians. The deaths and attempted cover-up turned the initial wave of public support for the Iranian regime into several days of angry protests. The crisis subsequently cooled, and quickly became submerged by the coronavirus pandemic in which Iran was an early hotspot. However, in mid-April the United States accused the Guards of using speedboats to harass its warships in the Gulf. Iran's Guards said in April that Tehran would destroy US warships if its security is threatened in the Gulf. Iranian officials have repeatedly threatened to block Hormuz if Iran is not able to export oil or if its nuclear sites are attacked. Iran accidentally sinks replica US Nimitz-class aircraft carrier just days after blasting it with missiles in propaganda video (7 Pics) Reviewed by Your Destination on August 07, 2020 Rating: 5	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line364
__label__wiki	0.858426	0.858426	Myanmar Current Affairs Burma is an important part of the Eastern policy of PM Modi, and the visit will focus on infrastructure and connectivity. Burma's policies have been influenced by the ongoing democratization process in Myanmar. News is considered one of the most important sections in any government audit. Burma is extremely vulnerable to climate change. This will not happen, but Myanmar's current attitude will undergo minor adjustments. Burma : News and current affairs - News today After 53 years of reigning in the army, Htin Kyaw (69) was the first civil (non-military) Myanmar citizen to be inaugurated. Myanmar's army had been in office since 1962. Aside from him, Myint Swe and NLD member Henry Van Thio were inaugurated as the country's first deputy chairman and second deputy chairman along with 18 cabinetmins. Aung San Suu Kyi, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and chairwoman of the NLD, who holds a large parliamentary seat, was swear in as Minister for International Affairs. She is a closely associated and advisor to Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi. On March 15, 2016, he was the first civil president of the state through Myanmar's parliament. Although the NLD has a parliamentary majoritarian party, Aung San Suu Kyi was unable to become president because the NLD drew up the 2008 draft of the 2008 draft constitutional treaty. Myanmar's parliament voted Htin Kyaw (69) the country's first civil (non-military) president after 53 years of MP. A National League for Democracy (NLD) nominee, he was selected after receiving 360 of the 652 ballots cast. You will be the first vice-president and second vice-president of the state. She is a key contributor and advisor to Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, the NLD National Democratic and Reformist leadership, which has a parliamentary clout. Thein Sein will succeed him as President, who will resign at the end of March 2016, i.e. after five years of army-backed reign. Under Myanmar's 2008 constitutional charter, the president is chosen in a complicated system in which the two houses of the parliament appoint two nominees for president and the members of the armed forces appoint a third nomination, which gives the armed forces further power. It will also retain 25% of parliamentary seat in the Convention, giving it an efficient right of appeal against amendments to the Convention. In addition, it maintains three important ministries in the field of domestic safety, namely defense, interior and border issues. The NLD won a major triumph in both chambers of government in November 2015. NLD chair Aung San Suu Kyi, however, was expelled from office because a 2008 constitutional provision states that anyone whose child is a national of another state cannot become the President. What was the establishment of military rule in Myanmar? Newn-u Travelling in Myanmar Burma Network Wifi People of Myanmar Gambia Time Myanmar inlay Burma Blue full movie The Sunshine Express Restaurant Bagan Shwe Zin model Yangon as a technical country Sights in Burma pyagon Myanmar Travel Burma Soutphote Kyaymon, Myanmar Newspaper Burma's best beaches Download Burmese Classics MtT Night data Myanmar v Vietnam The Shwezigon The White Cliffs of Dover The Taunggyi Journey Hpa Tiger Hotel on Meaning English Castle Chillon Getting to Burma Kauai river dolphin So where' Burma? Burma Internal Flights President and Prime Minister of Myanmar Which language do the Burmese speak? The Myanmar Visa Process Myanmar Karta Burmese visa on arrival for Indian nationals Pyay to Yangon ergui Burma Ngapali Guest House So what does my muse mean? Zakawar Guest House And Aung Aung. Yangon Hotel Boutique tachhip Burma Travel News Yangon Family Hotel Burma Time Journal English Version The Como Hotel	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line365
__label__wiki	0.663463	0.663463	Under Construction: 1430 NW Glisan St (images) This is an updated version of a post originally published on August 31st, 2016. Construction is underway on a mixed use tower at NW 14th & Glisan. The 16 story, 174′ tall building by Ankrom Moisan Architects for developer Holland Partner Group will include 230 residential units and 6,359 sq ft of ground level retail. A property tax exemption approved by the City Council in 2016 will allow for 20% of the units in the building to be affordable to households earning no more than 80 percent of median family income. 4 levels of below-grade parking will provide room for 206 vehicles and 362 bicycles. The half block site at 1430 NW Glisan St was most recently occupied by a strip mall built in 1983. Retailers at the site included Audio Geeks, City Laundry Northwest / Pearl District Cleaners, and Fast Signs. The developer gained additional Floor Area Ratio allowance by transferring FAR from a surface parking directly to the north. The parking lot was formerly in the same ownership as the Premier Press building, which was previously planned to be significantly expanded and remodeled as part of the 1440 Hoyt project. That development was cancelled when the Premier Press building was sold to Mill Creek Residential Trust, who intend to construct the Modera Glisan on the site. The surface parking is currently being used as a construction staging area, and will ultimately be developed as a pocket park. The 16 story building is conceived a solid base that responds to the warehouses at the western edge of the Pearl, which gradually transitions into a glassier tower form as it rises. Since the first Design Advice Review hearing the massing has been broken down at its eastern edge, near the 13th Avenue Historic District, in order to respond to a purpose statement in the Zoning Code that encourages “step downs to historical districts”. The primary material for the tower will be Equitone glass fiber reinforced concrete panels, with concealed fasteners at levels 1 to 5 and exposed fasteners at levels 6 to 15. Other materials include composite metal panel, fiberglass windows, aluminum window wall, aluminum storefronts, and glass railings. The 16th floor will be used entirely for amenity functions. An indoor amenity area will have floor to ceiling glazing, with views to the south, west and north. A wrap around terrace will offer views in all directions. The former parking lot across NW Glisan will be converted into a parklet, designed by Lango Hansen. The design includes wood benches, cube benches, bike racks, trees, and a screen fence at the western edge. Lango Hansen are also acting as the landscape architect for the Modera Glisan, which will be built on the rest of the block (by Mill Creek Residential Trust). While the parklet will remain in separate ownership from the adjacent buildings, common design elements will be used on both sites in order to create a cohesive development. 1430 NW Glisan was approved by the Design Commission on August 25th 2016, following previous Design Advice hearings held in January and March 2016. A majority of the Commission praised the building, noting that it had significantly improved since the earlier iterations of the design shown to them. The sole member of the Commission who objected to the building was Commissioner Savinar, who was concerned about how the unbroken massing at the western edge of the building could reinforce the barrier created by the freeway. In the Final Findings and Decision by the Design Commission the project was found to have a “strong grid vocabulary” with an “upward momentum”: The proposed building features a strong grid vocabulary that plays off the historic and vintage warehouse typology in a contemporary way. The grid is composed of horizontal bands that become narrower as they ascend and vertical columns that vary in width and also become narrower as they reach toward the top of the building. The result has an upward momentum that gives the building a certain grace not found in the older sturdier brick and concrete warehouses. During the hearing a number of Commissioners had concerns about the parklet as originally proposed, and added a condition requiring the parklet to go through a follow up Type II Design Review. The design for the parklet was approved by Bureau of Development Services staff in March 2017, who noted in their decision that the parklet will be activated by the adjacent buildings: The proposed parklet design is significantly improved from the concept design approved as part of the prior land use review. The proposed design is now designed to be integrated with the adjacent development’s courtyard design and the parklet has the potential to be activated at its northern and eastern edges with openings in the adjacent commercial buildings. Notably, the west side of the parklet has a more significant and layered landscape buffer than the previous version which will help to mitigate the aural and visual impacts of the I-405 freeway. The parklet will be accessible to the public during the daylight hours and will provide a sense of security due to the proposed nighttime lighting and visual connections from the adjacent developments. Demolition of the existing structures on site began in March 2017. Plan – Plan – Parklet Plan – Parking Level P4 Plan – Ground Level Plan – Levels 2 to 5 Plan – Levels 6 to 13 Plan – Levels 14 and 15 Plan – Amenity / Roof Elevations – Context Elevation – North Elevation – South Elevations – West and East This entry was posted in 1430 NW Glisan, Ankrom Moisan, Holland Partner Group, Lango Hansen, Pearl. Bookmark the permalink. ← New Omni Tower Goes Before Landmarks Commission (images) Weekly Roundup: Eleven West, Housing Bond, Office Development, and more → 8 thoughts on “Under Construction: 1430 NW Glisan St (images)” This is a cheap knockoff of Hacker’s Pearl West building two blocks away. But where the Pearl West excels in simplicity of form, this building’s arbitrary and convoluted massing result in an incoherent design. I’m very skeptical about Holland Partner Group developing office space in the Pearl – considering the low quality housing they’ve developed in the suburbs. david dysert says: The design commission required a “step down” to the NW 13th Avenue Historic District and that is what is driving the arbitrary massing on the East elevation. Also the program is a residential apartment tower with ground floor retail–no office. But I do agree this design lacks the simple elegance Hacker accomplished with Pearl West. This building is too tall for its context and the commission should have never approved the height bonus given the park-let site the FAR was transferred from will likely be unsuccessful and it’s public benefit weak at best. However they are providing some “affordable” housing so I think the commission gave them a pass. It remains to be seen what will become of this intersection when the Mill Creek project across the street is built out. 500 new apartments plus a significant amount of retail/restaurant space located at already challenged intersection will be something to see if our small block/right of way format can handle the density increase. Chad B. says: Too tall for what context? It’s in the city center within blocks of several similarly sized buildings. This is the one area of our entire city where density is appropriate — and essential. P.S. We have a housing shortage. Less density in the Pearl and Downtown only shifts the burden to clogged East Side neighborhoods (you know, the ones that haven’t been showered with millions in infrastructure improvements like Max and steeetcar). billyjo says: Yes, a housing shortage, but a glut of expensive residential. You can build all the overpriced housing you want in this area and it will have zero impact on development in places like South East, since people moving there are moving for the neighborhood, not the lack of options in NW. Everywhere else, they’re moving because that’s where they can afford. We can build a million units in NW and if the prices stay high, that will do the housing shortage no good. A.L. says: People do move to specific neighborhoods for their character and lifestyle, and that includes many who actually want to live in the city center. Unfortunately for many, it is becoming less and less financially feasible, and they end up living in neighborhoods where rents are lower. A building like this provides additional supply for the high end where rents are finally leveling off. We need a diversity of new housing options throughout the region–just building in the core is not going to solve the housing crises–but increasing supply in all areas, including the high end, is part of the solution. ebetsure says: From these drawings and renderings I think it looks great for a 150-200′ apartment-over-retail building. The step down and narrowing to the east add quite a bit of visual interest. It’s pretty conventional, but I like the design. A.J. says: This building and the Modera Glisan will definitely have a transformative impact on the area. Looking forward to having 4 fewer surface parking lots at that intersection. Also was glad to see recently that Pearl District Cleaners landed in a new spot one block south, on Flanders, next to Khao San. Really, one of the things that should be done here by PBOT/ODOT is to close off the access to NW 15th from Glisan on the north side (adjacent to the pocket park and Modera Glisan), and tighten up the on-ramp access from Glisan. Doing so would provide huge safety benefits for everyone, and those few wishing to go north into the Pearl District from south of Glisan could use 14th one block east. It could possibly allow that little segment of NW 15th to host food carts, or even just be a stubby on-street parking area. Either way, clarifying all the vehicle traffic heading north there onto the freeway would make everything more predictable and less confusing. That section of 15th between Everett and Glisan should also be 1-way northbound to accommodate traffic “looping around” to Glisan from I-405 SB. Future construction on the Flanders bike bridge is going to close Flanders at 16th so traffic can’t cut across diagonally. Also, they need to realign the intersection going Northbound on 14th across Glisan, because right now it is a total CF (the lanes are misaligned and everyone just does what they want).	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line370
__label__wiki	0.612814	0.612814	WWRC Staff Warehouse Workers United California Alliance for Secure Employment COVID-19 Resources/ Recursos The Public Health Crisis Hidden in Amazon Warehouses In a new report published today by Human Impact Partners (HIP) and Warehouse Worker Resource Center (WWRC), The Public Health Crisis Hidden in Amazon Warehouses details Amazon’s inhumane performance quotas and surveillance practices. As COVID-19 shelter in place orders surge Amazon usage, its workplace policies are triggering a California public health crisis impacting thousands of workers, their families, and our broader communities. “I was injured during peak when they changed our schedule from four 10-hour shifts to five 12-hour shifts,” says Samantha, a worker from the Eastvale warehouse. A lot of us actually ended up getting injured because we weren’t used to the two extra hours and the whole extra 12-hour day.” Amazon raked in nearly $100 billion in 2020, and warehouse workers and drivers paid the price. In HIP/WWRC’s research, 67% of all warehouse workers surveyed reported developing injuries at work. The majority of workers surveyed, 75%, say their required performance rate is either “always” or “often” too high to work at a safe pace. Additionally, more than 75% of those surveyed said they experience physical pain and/or injuries in efforts to “make rate.” Researchers also learned that Amazon’s quotas and monitoring systems have led to a range of musculoskeletal injuries at nearly twice the national rate of injury for warehouse workers. Key findings highlighted in the report include: Workers must take breaks within a 6-minute window, making restroom use, or hand washing, often impossible. The organizational flow and structure of the workplace is causing work-related injuries such as back, wrist, and neck injuries. Workers suffer from mental health issues due to the fear of contacting COVID-19 and/or being fired for not meeting work quotas. A rise in COVID-19 outbreaks have been documented as pace of work has increased, compounded by a lack of COVID-19 precautions. But, the company has been slow to share outbreak information with its workers. “I’m scared to go into work because of COVID-19,” says Mike, a Delivery Center worker from Hawthorne. “I have a disabled brother who is in a wheelchair, and he’s got a trach[eostomy]. If he catches it, it’ll kill him.” The responsibilities of essential employees like Amazon warehouse workers and delivery drivers enable millions of Southern California residents to receive goods directly to their doorsteps. They deserve to work in an environment in which their health and safety is valued and protected. To support public health and safety, the report lays out HIP and WWRC’s three recommendations for California policymakers and the California Department of Public Health: Prohibit inhumane and hazardous production standards at Amazon and throughout the warehouse industry. Implement stronger COVID-19 precautions at all Amazon warehouses and for subcontracted delivery drivers. Ensure working conditions are within an ergonomic framework. Read the full report by clicking The Public Health Crisis Hidden in Amazon Warehouses. Warehouse Digital Copyright 2021 \| Warehouse Worker Resource Center	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line374
__label__wiki	0.501048	0.501048	Golliwog's Cakewalk Claude Debussy (arr. James Curnow) Year: 1908 / 1985 (Needed - please join the WRP if you can help.) The Children’s Corner Suite was first published for piano, and later scored for orchestra by Debussy's friend André Caplet. The last movement of the suite is Golliwog’s Cakewalk, a piece in ragtime style with syncopation and rag-time effects. At that time, Gollowog’s were in great fashion. These were stuffed black dolls with red pants, red bow ties, and wild hair, reminding one of the black-faced minstrels of the time. A cakewalk is a dance or a strut, and the dancer with the most elaborate steps won a cake. - Program Note from Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music Charlottesville (Va.) Municipal Band (Stephen R. Layman, conductor) – 7 June 2016 Danse (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Kurokawa) Golliwog's Cakewalk (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Kano) (1908) Afternoon of a Faun, The (arr. Walters) (1894/1950/1999?) Beau Soir (arr. Warner)(1880/1971) Children’s Corner Suite (arr. Winterbottom) (1908) Clair de lune (arr. de Meij) (1890/1905/2017) Clair de Lune (arr. Wallace) (1890/1905/1995) Danse (arr. Boyd) (1890/1983) Danses Sacrée et Profane (arr. Odom) (1904/2019) Danses Sacrée et Profane (tr. J. Lloyd) (1904) Debussy: Girl with the Flaxen Hair (arr. Akey) (1910/1995) The Engulfed Cathedral (tr. Longfield) (1910/1987) The Engulfed Cathedral (arr. Miller) (1910/1986) The Engulfed Cathedral (tr. Patterson) (1910/1993) The Engulfed Cathedral. See also: La Cathédrale Engloutie Fêtes (arr. Schaefer) (1959) Fêtes from "Three Nocturnes" (tr. Tatebe) Four Debussy Songs (trans. Anderson) (2018) Golliwog's Cakewalk (arr. Curnow) (1908/1985) The Girl with the Flaxen Hair (tr. Brand) (1910) The Girl with the Flaxen Hair (tr. Bernotas) (1910) The Girl with the Flaxen Hair (arr. Moss) (1910/2007) The Girl with the Flaxen Hair (arr. Sparke) (1910/2007) Hommage à Rameau (arr. Hunsberger) (1905/2009) La Cathédrale Engloutie (arr. Mortimer) (1910/2016) La Cathédrale Engloutie. See also: The Engulfed Cathedral La Mer (trans. Odom) (1905/) L’isle joyeuse (arr. Mashima) (1904/2005) L'isle joyeuse (arr. Volans) (1904/1995) Marche Écossaise (tr. Schaeffer) (1891/1908/1964) Marche Écossaise (tr. Scatterday) (1891/1908) 'Menuet' from Suite Bergamasque (arr. Southard) (1890/2012) Minstrels (tr. Scarbrough) (1910/2016) Pagodes from "Estampes" (arr. Grainger) (1996) Petite Suite (arr. Brakkee) (1889/1999?) Petite Suite (tr. Winterbottom) (1889) Petite Suite (arr. Kimura) (1889/1998) Premiere Arabesque (1891) Première Rhapsody (tr. Baars) (1910/12016) Première Rhapsody (arr. Walker; ed. Pappas) (1910/1963/2004) Rêverie (tr. Thompson) (1890/2011) Sarabande (tr. Bennefield) (1894/1901/2020) Sarabande (tr. Erickson) (1894/1967) Suite Bergamasque Mvt 2 Menuet (arr. Thompson) Three Debussy Pieces (arr. Singletary) Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music. "Claude Debussy." Accessed 2 July 2016. Retrieved from "https://www.windrep.org/index.php?title=Golliwog%27s_Cakewalk&oldid=60881" Novelty/Pops	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line379
__label__wiki	0.6628	0.6628	Home Ferrari Ferrari 488 GTB: Extreme power for unique driving pleasure Ferrari 488 GTB: Extreme power for unique driving pleasure Johann Verster The innovative 8-cylinder berlinetta debuts in South Africa: new design, new engine and a plethora of patented solutions On its official debut at a private preview held at the new Scuderia South Africa premises, the 488 GTB sets a new benchmark for the sports car sector. Forty years on from the launch of Ferrari’s iconic first-ever mid-rear-engined V8 berlinetta, the 308, the 488 GTB opens a new chapter in the history of cars with this particular architecture. Credit for this achievement must go to the 488 GTB’s revolutionary proprietary solutions which deliver a car at the top of its class in terms of power output (670 cv) with engine and command response times of just 0.8 and 0.06 seconds respectively. Significantly, however, sophisticated dynamic vehicle controls make this massive power completely controllable even on the limit by drivers of all abilities, resulting in the unique driving pleasure that only a Ferrari can deliver. Ferrari drew extensively too on its experience in both Formula One and endurance racing, bringing to the road the technology that delivered victory in two editions of the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the title in the WEC (World Endurance Championship). Also pivotal was the XX programme in which Ferrari’s technicians have developed a unique knowledge of the dynamic behaviour of extreme cars driven by non-professional drivers. The 488 in the car’s moniker indicates the engine’s unitary displacement, while the GTB stands for Gran Turismo Berlinetta, a reference to its deep roots in Ferrari history. Scuderia South Africa CEO, Mervyn Eagles adds; “As the official dealer of Ferrari in South Africa, it is a privilege to be able to showcase this revolutionary model across all three of our dealers during this exclusive private previewing as we are reaffirm our commitment to the Ferrari brand on the African continent. The 488 GTB exhibits the finest of turbocharged technology since the renowned Ferrari F40 in 1987 and is truly the epitome of superior innovation and design excellence.” Designed by the Ferrari Style Centre, the 488 GTB’s sculptural forms are completely new. They accentuate the car’s sportiness yet retain the classically clean, pure lines typical of Ferrari’s legendary styling. The seamless interweaving of form and function is clear in every detail, in fact. Certain design elements are also obvious nods to the past, not least the 308 GTB-inspired styling of the flanks. The extreme power required by the car is delivered by the new 3902 cm3 turbo engine which is coupled with a seven-gear F1 dual-clutch gearbox featuring Variable Boost Management which optimally distributes torque (a maximum 750 Nm in seventh gear). The 488 GTB guarantees exuberant performance that is absolutely exploitable to the fullest regardless of driving conditions and is accompanied by a deep, seductive soundtrack, the signature of all Ferrari engines. The 488 GTB’s revolutionary aerodynamics incorporates patented solutions, such as the blown rear spoiler, as well as innovative features like the 458 GT-derived aerodynamic underbody with vortex generators. The result is a new efficiency record for a Ferrari (E=1.67). Downforce increases to 325 kg at 250 km/h, thanks in part to active aerodynamic devices which reduce drag whilst simultaneously generating downforce when required. The 488 GTB’s dynamic vehicle controls have also been further evolved. It sports a new version of the Side Slip Control System (SSC2) which, aside from just integrating with the car’s F1-Trac and E-Diff, now also controls the active dampers. This renders the 488 GTB’s dynamic behaviour during complex manoeuvres even flatter and more stable, so that less expert drivers can enjoy its potential to the fullest, resulting in an astonishingly engaging driving experience. The 488 GTB makes its debut in a new Rosso Corsa Met livery with black and red technical fabric cabin trim, and in a Grigio Ferro Met livery with black and Beige Tradizione leather interior trim. Ferrari 488 GTB Technical specifications Previous articleKillarney Short Circuit Racing – 23 May 2015 Next articleNew Toyota Hilux 2015 Motoring journalist - 25 years; now living in Cape Town where there are no potholes or e-toll... NOVITEC ROSSO refines the Ferrari 488 Spider Ferrari GTC4Lusso Geneva Motor Show Ferrari: UNIQUE ‘CONNOLLY’ F40 COMPLETES LINE-UP OF FABULOUS FERRARIS Ferrari 488 GTB Spider and Harman Sound Ferrari 488 Spider World Premiere Frankfurt Motor Show	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line386
__label__cc	0.565791	0.434209	_Thoughts _TV & Film Deaf Awareness _Self Love Together With Me The Series: Thoughts, Favourite Moments and Review This story takes place before the events of Bad Romance The Series. It is focused on Korn and Knock and how they met and all the obstacles they had to go through before they officially became a couple. For today's post I'm going to tell you my thoughts, favourite moments and review of Together With Me. Together With Me is over crying If you've been following me on my social media platforms, you would have seen me talking about a Thai series called Together With Me which has sadly come to an end after 13 episodes but fingers crossed we'll see more of the characters down the line in future series. It has been one of my favourite Thai dramas as of late, and I’ve become pretty emotionally attached to it. It takes place before "Bad Romance" the series, and shows Korn and Knock's journey to becoming a couple. I did watch Bad Romance but this is a show that you can definitely watch and enjoy without having to watch Bad Romance. Together With Me is a 'second' and prequel series, a more mature and better series. The story is believable and makes complete sense and you can enjoy watching everyone's story unfold not just the main characters. When we got the clip of the teaser trailer i think it was safe to say i was super excited to see the series as i loved Max and Tul in Bad Romance, if I'm being honest Korn and Knock stole the show from the main characters Yihwa and Cho - Yihwa is another one of my favourite characters. The badass queen we all need as a best friend! And this time around it was focusing on Korn and Knock's love story. The teaser trailer alone was pretty sexy. Together With Me featured a few relationships alongside Korn and Knock being the main story, a teacher (Kavitra) and a university student (Phubet) and another same sex story with, of course another university student (Farm) and a doctor (Bright). I was hooked on the storytelling and the characters whom i immediately felt an attachment to, TWM have a beautiful cast and characters you will grow to love, which you'll see as the series goes on and a few crushes later 😋 Together With Me had me smiling, crying, laughing, swooning and most of all fangirling. Tul and Max's chemistry is amazing, every little moment, every little word and every little scene shared, the chemistry thrived. Not only do they have a good rapport on screen but also off screen they have a lovely bromance, they are pretty much each others 'other half'. Seeing how much love Tul and Max have for each other is beautiful. The series has shown the audience one of the most essential aspects of a romantic relationship that other Thai BL series didn’t even dare to give us. Intimacy. Passion. Burning desire. The intimate moments between Korn and Knock were exquisite. They were natural and believable. The kissing scenes were not just for fan service despite how beautiful they were. They weren’t thrown randomly in every episode. These moments were on point and remained relevant to the story. I applaud Max and Tul for their commitment to their roles. What made this series special and stand out from the rest of the BL series is that it was never afraid. It was daring and fearless. If you’re going to love, love all the way. And Together With Me has gone all the way and delivered. No holding back. No second guessing. No hesitation. First I really loved their acting. I felt like their acting in Bad Romance was not forced to say but also forced. I mean it was their first time acting together. The acting wasn't overly forced but it wasn't completely natural either, But since they were already comfortable with each other it made TWM so much better. The way Tul looked at Max was just wonderful. One of my most favourite scenes with them is that one where they are in Korn's bed after they kissed and Knock was like although you’ve liked me longer from now on I’ll like you even longer. It was just so sweet. If i'm being honest there wasn't a scene between those two I didn't like. Their friends was such a solid gang like woah. Yihwa. Can I just start to say how much I LOVE her??? Like who wouldn’t. She is just pure goals?? I love how much she cherished Korn and Knock. How much she supported them. How much she protected them. And reminded them that they need to be themselves and not care about the outside world. Also Yihwa looked so pretty in every episode, that you couldn't help but have a crush on her. What I will say is that the way the writing explores how the characters interact and solve problems throughout the show is what makes this series so amazing. The story starts with the two main characters, Korn and Knock, and how they go through struggles both environmentally, socially, and emotionally to finally come together as a couple. Also a main character, Yihwa, is Korn's best friend and is a strong supporter of Korn and Knock's relationship. The 3 main characters are joined by Fai, Farm, and Phu who are all neighbours in the same dorm. The drama does a great job of focusing on Korn and Knock, but also focuses on the side stories of the other characters. This is done extremely well as the writers tackle issues such as homophobia, family ties, ageism, monogamy, vanity, and promiscuity. Each of these issues are divided evenly (and sometimes shared) with most of the cast, with the exception of Yihwa's character being written in the story for more of emotional support and as an ally. Their comedic moments together made me want to join their clique. Musically, the timing of the background effects is good. Some are over-the-top but understandable. I love the soundtracks though. Hearing them makes me appreciate Thai pop music more. This is coming from an international fan and viewer of the series. Every song was beautifully placed in every scene and moment.The OST for this has is so sweet and perfect for the setting of it. Each song tided well with the series and most of the songs being featured throughout the series, I've been listening to (hoping to heal my withdrawals from the series) which you can listen to here This drama is for sure an easy re-watch for me. I have fallen head over heals for Korn & Knock (and Yihwa) and I honestly want to see more of them! Their chemistry is just so amazing and I really hope this series gains a big following so we can get another well-deserved and much needed follow up season! FAVOURITE MOMENTS I would be lying if Korn & Knock’s intimacy scenes weren’t another one of my favourites, particularly because of how sensual and beautiful they were, not to mention sexy. The intimacy scenes were placed at the right moments throughout the series as the romance grew. Again it worked because of the chemistry Tul and Max have and that shined through those scenes even just by making eye contact. From episode 1 onwards you can see feelings evolving and its beautiful. I also like the scene when Knock is injured but he still takes care of Korn when he is beaten and bruised, and Knock cleans up and dresses his wounds. It's a very nice to see that he really cares about Korn. Maybe not as a lover yet, but as a very close friend who has been with him since he was young. I love that Korn and Knock do care for each other so much. Korn can remember that Knock is allergic to shrimp. this little thing is very heartwarming. From this scene alone, their eyes speak volumes! There are a lot of scenes between these two that I loved, but my favourite was definitely when Korn says to Knock that they can’t be friends anymore because he loves Knock and he can’t deal with how things are between them so he decides cutting ties off with Knock would be better for him and move on, as sad as it was, I think it was the moment Knock realized he really needs to confront his feelings for Korn once and for all. i think from this scene where Knock grabs Korn's hand (thinking its his gf), shows Knock has a natural pull towards Korn. It's easy to be around him, he doesn't need to try so hard - it's just natural and that's why i love it. It's too cute. Yihwa is pretty much me in this scene. When Korn gave Knock a bath when he had broken his leg, that moment just felt so domestic between them and i could feel how much Korn wanted to take care of knock in every aspect. I just loved them finding their way to each other. Thanks to Yihwa, this scene happened - I loved Yihwa bringing them together and telling them not to care about what other people think and just be themselves. She gives the boys encouragement and support. She isn’t judging them. I think that little talk is what they both needed to hear. To know that not everyone is going to hate them or be disgusted and judge them. It shows what a great friend she is and how protective she is of them both. Yihwa is their number one supporter and i just freaking love her. Knock wiping away Korn's tears was beautiful, it demonstrates the confidence they have around each other There's a recurring pattern with the favourite moments isn't there? I loved this scene alot and the episode itself was feels galore. They chose to be happy and look how beautiful they are. Would you look at the foreshadowing. They are madly in love and look so happy. They are so precious. The moment they realize they should be together, everything is right in the world and all that took for them to finally realize it, was worth it. They look very happy and do not regret the decision they made: be together I loved this scene particularly because of how derpy Knock looked jumping into the river to swim to Korn and hoping to be reunited/forgiven. I thought it was pretty cute. I'm sucker for moments between these two. They let everything out at this point all their feelings. Everything You can see that it gives a different atmosphere, especially in Knock's position because at first he didn't have feelings for Korn yet so he let Korn lead the kiss. However, in the last episode that changed in the most sweet way, when Korn pushes him onto the bed and then they kiss. It's very sweet and intimate. Knock really kisses Korn back without hesitation nor doubt. For me it's very beautiful, you can see the love they have for each together just by looking at that scene. As you probably gathered from the list of favourite moments, i have so many! 😋 From the sweet kisses, to their happy ending. There's no one else i could've pictured as Korn and Knock because Max and Tul are perfect, they complemented their characters well. There is so much more to be told from Korn and Knock's love story such as their wedding and married life. The show had a good mix of romance, comedy and dramatic scenes that keeps you on the edge of your seat for every episode. I am quite peculiar with stories when it comes to watching and staying with a TV series all the way. Knowing that this series is a prequel of the story of Knock and Korn in Bad Romance made me curious. Most of all, as I started to watch and knowing that they they are a childhood friends was a lovely touch, it made me more interested to follow until the end. This is a perfect story for an LGBT themed series. The emotions: anger, frustrations, jealousy, worries, happiness, curiosities, emptiness etc were amazing, I loved everything about the series and i really want more series with Korn, Knock and Yihwa. They have good chemistry not only in the series but also in reality. The series as a whole was brave in general in the sense that it breaks out from the typical formula of BL series. I don’t think we should still categorize it as BL because it’s not about boys’ love anymore but rather it’s a legitimate gay series. Here's a little look at Korn and Knock in Bad Romance. So, yes i thoroughly enjoyed the series and fell in love with the characters including the ones you'd love to hate. This is just one series i will keep going back to, to fill my fangirl needs. The dynamic between Korn. Yihwa and Knock is just one of my favourites, if not the reason i love the series. Together With Me may not have been the first Thai series i've come across, those being Sotus The Series and Waterboyy The Series but it's my most treasured. I also want to show my appreciation to Yui Wara (aka Lazy Subber), who did a fab job subbing in helping non thai speakers like myself, enjoy a wonderful Thai series. I have my fingers very much crossed for another series. Will you be watching Together With Me? Have you watched Together With Me? If so what are your thoughts. Twitter Bloglovin Tumblr Pinterest Tags: fandoms, thai series, together with me the series, tv & film Simone Saturday, November 11, 2017 Simone/UK/Creative Writing and Journalism Student/Wannabe Disney Princess/ Unicorn Enthusiast/ Mental Health Fighter Welcome to my little space on the internet! 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__label__cc	0.658109	0.341891	THE END OF ABORTION MOVEMENT THE ROSARY IS THE KEY ÚNETE A EL MOVIMIENTO #PraytoEndAbortion Blog Eucharistic Adortion 2 End Abortion HOW THE MOVEMENT STARTED #59MillionLives TwitterStorm Jan. 22nd at 2PM EST PRO LIFE TWITTER STORM #59MillionLives Human life is and has always been at the center of the great struggle between good and evil, life and death. We need to STAND UP FOR LIFE! Join us and help us to fight to protect the unborn babies by exposing the truth about abortion with a Twitterstorm on the day the Supreme Court made the terrible decision to legalize abortion in the United States (Roe vs. Wade). Since that infamous day, over 59 million babies have died through abortion. Any time a family member dies, the rest of the family is affected, this is true of abortion too. We don't want abortion to just be illegal, we want it to be UNTHINKABLE! The greatest destroyer of Love is abortion. -St. Mother Teresa Let us stand up together and proclaim that life is a gift from God. Human Rights Begin in the Womb. Without the Right to Life, all other Rights are Pointless 1. Join the Twitterstorm on Monday, January 22nd at 2pm EST, with Tweets and retweets with the hashtag #59MillionLives. The more tweets and retweets the better as that is how we will trend it. 2. Invite your friends personally on Twitter to join us too. @FriendName Please join us for the #59MillionLives Twitterstorm, Jan. 22nd at 2pm EST, Invite Everyone! 3. Invite your friends to the Facebook Event Here: www.facebook.com/events/293937484463325/?notif_t=plan_user_invited&notif_id=1514837286412098 Here are some tweets to use for the TwitterStorm (You can copy and paste them all for your use during the storm). By having the tweets ready, we can tweet faster and help it trend. Children are a gift of love. #59MillionLives Choose Life. #59MillionLives Abortion offends God, hurts women, and ends an innocent life. #59MillionLives Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you. ~Isaiah 41:10 #59MillionLives Never become discouraged. Always #59MillionLives Life will conquer death. #59MillionLives Abortion is murder. This is not an opinion, it is the sad truth. #59MillionLives Motherhood is a gift from God. #59MillionLives Life is sacred. #59MillionLives Life must be protected. #59MillionLives You must not give up on praying. Let’s #59MillionLives Abortion: One heart stops, another heart breaks. #59MillionLives Let us pray and work for to end the greatest evil of this world. #59MillionLives Not one baby is created in a mother's womb is without purpose. #59MillionLives Pray for all mothers who feel threatened and overwhelmed by their pregnancy. #59MillionLives Human life is precious. For each life is created in God's image and likeness. #59MillionLives Heavenly Father, guide our actions to help restore in the hearts of all people the sanctity of human life. #59MillionLives "Many times truth and justice are compromised by the desire to avoid offending anyone!" #59MillionLives "Life is a miracle from its conception." (Conception of God's creation and conception in the womb) #59MillionLives "We will win [abortion abolished] when we have enough people caring." #59MillionLives "Do not mess with the natural order of things." #59MillionLives "Prayer paves the way, Action possesses the land." #59MillionLives "Be on fire! Be not afraid! God is calling you to do his will." #59MillionLives "We must all pray and fight to end the immorality of abortion." #59MillionLives "Yes, we all have our own lives, but we must work for the "common good"." [end abortion for ever] #59MillionLives "Fight or flight? So many have given up and ran away. Run into the fight and end abortion!!" #59MillionLives The only TRUE controversy about abortion is our SILENCE." #59MillionLives "Stand up for the innocent and weak!" #59MillionLives "The TRUE Pro-lifer does not just wish [hope] for an end to abortion, he WORKS for it!!" #59MillionLives "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for Righteousness!!" #59MillionLives "Abortion is the Ultimate child abuse!" #59MillionLives "Pro-lifers = those who fight and work in the vineyard of the Lord and for the EXTENTION of his family!" #59MillionLives "It is better to be hated for who you are than loved for whom you are not! Stand your ground!" #59MillionLives "Abortion hurts women." #59MillionLives “Follow God's way!" #59MillionLives "We must attack evil and expose it! Be silent no more!!" #59MillionLives "Evil flourishes when good men do nothing!" #59MillionLives Do not spend what remains of your earthly life on human desires, but on the will of God! #59MillionLives "Do everything you can to promote the sanctity of life." #59MillionLives Faith in Our God, leads us in our action. #59MillionLives "God can work through us to guard the innocent un-born from harm." #59MillionLives “The life of a child is in your hands.” #59MillionLives "Roe Vs Wade has got to go, or so goes the U.S." #59MillionLives Babies = "flesh of my flesh, bone of my bone, is it any wonder why we love them so!" #59MillionLives Children are a gift love. They love unconditionally. #59MillionLives No matter the situation, give your baby a chance to love you. #59MillionLives Children love you unconditionally, please give a chance. #59MillionLives "Let the womb be a place of peace and security. #59MillionLives Praying for all mothers who are considering abortion today! #59MillionLives Be not afraid, speak and work for to end abortion!! #59MillionLives Evil flourishes when good men do nothing! Let's stand up for Life! #59MillionLives "If we see things and people the way God sees them; what a difference that would make!" #59MillionLives "Life is a miracle from its conception." #59MillionLives "Abortion is rightly labeled evil and we are attacking it." #59MillionLives "NO VALUES = ABORTION" #59MillionLives "Yes, we all have our own lives, but we must work for the "common good and that is end abortion forever.” #59MillionLives "The only TRUE controversy about abortion is our SILENCE." #59MillionLives "Life from conception, no exception!!!!!!!" #59MillionLives "God creates no accident!" #59MillionLives "Abortion, I don't like talking about it, I am compelled to talk about it!" #59MillionLives Have only 1 fear, that of offending God, and seek only 1 position, that of favor with him!!" #59MillionLives "It is better to be hated for who you are than loved for who you are not! Stand your ground!" #59MillionLives "Choice, oversteps its bounds when it infringes upon the rights of others." #59MillionLives "55 million children killed, just for being conceived and considered a burden." #59MillionLives "There are those in our midst, than never see the day of light!" #59MillionLives "Why, if she wants it, it's a baby, if she does not, it is not??" #59MillionLives "Faith in Our God, leads us in our action." #59MillionLives "It is the obligation of the people to remove abortions legality, by moral and political action." #59MillionLives Roe Vs Wade has got to go, or so goes the U.S." #59MillionLives "Abortion is the choice of selfishness, convenience, and murder." #59MillionLives "A child deserves to see the light of dawn!!" #59MillionLives "Let the womb be a place of peace and security, as intended by our Creator!" #59MillionLives Abortion = "An unnatural death from a Natural beginning." #59MillionLives Prolife Apologetics Manual by Angelo Stagnaro My End of Abortion Movement Members, everyday we move a step closer to the end of these scourges on the world. The reason we move closer is because so many people are praying and working to end abortion that it will come soon and we will all see it. We have many obstacles to overcome and with Our Lord Jesus and Our Mother's help we will obtain this great miracle. Today I would like to share with you an amazing book that will help us to end abortion. Angelo Stagnaro's book is called Pro Life Apologetics Manual and gives you well over 100 answers to common Pro Death Myths or pseudo arguments used to defend abortion. Each myth as he calls them is soundly and effectively rebutted using basic logic. One of the theme besides answering all these myths soundly and decisively is that when you depart from God you also depart from logic and sound thinking. You lose it basically.This book is perfect for anyone ready to defend life and also those on the fence regarding abortion and also anyone open to the truth. After reading this book you will have "go to" answers for any ProAbortion myth you come across and will be able to effectively answer anyone. May the whole world read this amazing book and become logically, firmly, ProLife! Here are my ten favorite quotes from this wonderful book: Logic can only be denied at the risk of one's mental health and the loss of one's soul. The path to goodness lies in Logic/Wisdom, The path to Logic/Wisdom lies in goodness. They are united in a inextricable manner. Bad feelings led to bad thoughts and bad thoughts lead to bad actions and bad actions lead to self destruction. It is impossible to grow in sanctity if you are promiscuous. Women need to have the support of a culture and society to help them when they decide to have a child. Abortion is never the answer because death is never the answer. There has never been, nor will there ever be a time, when abortion is accepted by the Church. It is impossible to be a believer and accept abortion as a moral option. You have no right to anything if you refuse to give that right to others. Pro abortionist are more likely than not also pro euthanasia. When you seek the death of others, you are not necessarily picky as how you get it. It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument~William McAdoo Get this amazing book today and be prepared to defend Life Always! http://www.hopeandlifepress.com/prolifeapologetics-423550.html Lenten Mission with Priest for Life's Father Steven Imbarrato Excited to announce that Priest for Life Father Stephen is coming to New Jersey again to give a Lenten Retreat at Saint Michael's in Lyndhurst and if your in the area please try to come and if unable to make it, pray that this be a spirit renewed encounter for everyone who comes. I met Father Stephen over 10-15 years ago before he was a priest, sidewalk counseling outside the MMA abortion mill in Englewood, NJ. He was on fire then and is even more on fire to save souls and lives everyday. I got to meet him again about a year ago outside the MMA abortion mill and we prayed the Rosary together with him and my whole family. Was quite a grace filled experience and hopefully through our prayers and peaceful witness some woman hopefully chose life. I hope you can all meet Father Stephen and if not pray for this Lenten Mission to be filled with grace! Thanks for your powerful prayers always! WHERE: St Michael the Archangel Parish http://www.st-michael.org/ 624 Page Ave, Lynhurst, NJ 07071 201-939-1161 WHEN: Monday, March 6th thru Thursday March 9th Conference 7:00 pm; Confessions before and after WHAT: Lenten reflections on PURGATORY, ST PETER, EUCHARIST, and BLESSED VIRGIN MARY Monday March 6th 7:00 pm: Miraculous Medal Novena, Conference during Eucharistic Adoration and Benediction: Our Mother Always Points Us to Her Son! Relic for Veneration: Rosary of St JPII Tuesday March 7th 7:00 pm: Experiencing Purgatory in Lent and Our Faith! Sacramental and Relic: Healing Oil and Relic of Padre Pio Wednesday March 8th 7:00 pm Being St Peter in Lent and Daily Life! Relic for Veneration: St John Paul II Thursday March 9th 7:00 pm: Topic: Lent and Life and a Eucharistic People. Conference also during Adoration w Benediction. Relic for Veneration: True Cross. Each Conference will end with a short question and answer period. Confessions will be available before (6:30 pm) and after (8:00 pm) each Conference by Fr Stephen and during Conference by one of the parish priests. Fr Stephen Imbarrato is the weekly cohost of the EWTN series “Defending Life” seen every Thursday night and in the last year has regularly been the celebrant and homilist on the EWTN daily TV Mass. Fr Stephen is involved in national ministry for Priests for Life, traveling around the country preaching and spreading the Gospel of Life. Fr Stephen has founded multiple ministries in the last 20 years and was a pastor in the Archdiocese of Santa Fe NM for over 10 years. Fr Stephen is no stranger to St Michael’s and we are blessed to have him present a Lenten Mission of Mercy to our parish. I will preach at all the English Masses on March 4th and 5th. A Prolife Book of Poetry and Paintings The End of Abortion Movement is always looking to ally itself with anyone who is working to end abortion by making abortion unthinkable as it should be. To do this we need to take over all forms of media that have been promoting the culture of death such as mass media, news, magazines, movies, literature, video games, art, poetry, and replace those messages with messages of healing and love which will spread the Prolife message. The Prolife message needs to permeate the culture to replace and remove the culture of death. I have had a wonderful opportunity to read an amazing prolife book that brings prolife art with a powerful poetic message tied to each painting written by a post abortive father named Father X. The artwork is all done by a Prolife American mother of five who lives in Britain. I got to know her through the amazing world of Twitter and she asked me to review her book which I am doing now. The book is called : Meditations and Paintings of Post Abortion Trauma and it has over thirty paintings and meditations on them that bring one into the picture as well as surrounding one in a ocean of reflective thought on the horror of abortion as well as the hope for renewal through the grace of God. Never judgmental it is always hopeful both for the post abortive parents to turn away from the destruction and damage to the redemptive love of Jesus and love of family. From the Picture called Family Life we see the family under attack from a huge serpent. The meditation by Father X shows us that the family is the key to turning the world back from the abyss and turning to Love. That is why it is under so much attack. Father X says, “More than ever we need Love, for from love stems stable families.” Amen to that. Here are ten more of my favorite quotes from this amazing book for which there is none like it. “Children bring a river of hope to replenish burnt out pasture’s furrowed brows; they bring new life and creativity and it is all based on color and song.” “The time is now here to uphold and honor the role of women, not only in the home but alongside men, their fellow human beings.” “Children are precious to us like emeralds, rubies, amber and diamonds are to the eye; children, not only do they carry on the family name but they honor us too by holding the nation’s hopes of the future in their hands like miners digging for gold.” “The Propaganda machine creates an illusion that makes what is wrong appear as right and where lies are presented as truth and war is peace.” “In the painting one jar is left empty of flowers. This is a reminder their child will never come back to them because of their decision to abort.” “The clock in the background marks the point of death when time stood still for the parents and for the heavens above.” “The hearts of parents who choose to abort will only harden over time and will open themselves up to the terrible twins of guilt and remorse.” “Four weeks later she discovered she was pregnant and at first was delighted and willing to let nature take its course. What happened next was a tragedy for all three of us and something we both have to live with for the rest of our lives. It may not mean much to others or touch their lives but to me that moment was everything and started a lifetime of regret the day she aborted our child.” “When a child of the human race is born and is an infant made in the image and likeness of their creator, a new family chapter is written in the book of life.” “Being loved is the soul food that makes children grow up strong in body and mind. When mixed with mother’s milk, maternal love is the most nourishing food for young children.” This book is helping to build the culture of life and is an amazing way to marry art with poetry and thought to help to understand the challenges life faces and the burdens of so called “Choice”. I do not agree with all the politics and religiosity of Father X, but it is still an amazing step in the right direction and may many, many more books be written to help show the dangers of abortion and also the beauty of Life. Through these types of books, poetry, literature, artwork, movies, we will help make abortion UnThinkable! www.amazon.com/Troubadours-Sailing-Hibiscus-Seas-Father/dp/1910223689 #VoteProlife TwitterStorm and FaceBook Trend for 1pm EDT Monday Nov 7th This is the Most important Election Ever for the United States and the World. A prolife vote will mean so much to help protect the unborn babies. A prolife twitterstorm and Facebook Trend will raise awareness at a critical time for our nation and world about the importance of Voting Prolife. Please invite everyone you can think of on Twitter and Facebook personally to come together and Tweet all day but especially at 1pm EDT! Here is the Facebook event for it as well! God Bless you and May God be with you forever! www.facebook.com/events/188827904905095/ See you at the Storms with Tweets and Posts especially at 1pm EDT on Monday November 7th! Brain Dead Lie! Protect Yourself and your Family Organ Donors are Alive when their Organs are Harvested Prior to 1968 a person was declared dead only after their breathing and heart stopped for a determinate period of time. The current terminology "Brain Death" was unheard of. When surgeons realized they had the capability of taking organs from one seemingly “close to death” person and implanting them into another person to keep the recipient alive longer, a "Pandora’s Box" was opened. In the beginning, through trial and error, they discovered it was not possible to perform this "miraculous" #surgery with organs taken from someone truly dead, even if the donor was without circulation for merely a few minutes, because organ damage occurs within a very brief time after circulation stops. To justify their experimental procedures it was necessary for them to come up with a solution which is how the term "#BrainDeath" was contrived. Much is being done to get your organs. For an organ to be suitable for #transplantation it must be healthy and it must come from a living person. Once DBD (Donation After Brain Death) or DCD (Donation After Cardiac Death) has been verified and permission extracted from distraught family members (in cases where relatives cannot be located the #government often now makes the determination on our behalf) the "organ donor" undergoes hours, sometimes days, of torturous treatment utilized to protect and preserve the body-container of "spare parts!" The "organ donor" is forced to endure the excruciating painful and ongoing chemical treatment in preparation for organ excising. Literally the "donor" is now an organ warehouse and used for the sole purpose of organ preservation until a compatible recipient can be located. Donation after circulatory death (DCD) can be performed on neurologically intact donors who do not fulfill neurologic or brain death criteria before circulatory arrest. This commentary focuses on the most controversial donor-related issues anticipated from mandatory implementation of DCD for imminent or cardiac death in #hospitalsacross the USA. The truth of the horrific treatment and DEATH OF THE "DONOR" Organ removal is performed while the patient is given only a paralyzing agent but no anesthetic! Multi-organ excision, on the average, takes three to four hours of operating during which time the heart is beating, the blood pressure is normal and respiration is occurring albeit the patient is on a ventilator. Each organ is cut out until finally the beating heart is stopped, a moment before removal. It is well documented the heart rate and blood pressure go up when the incision is made. This is the very response the anesthesiologist often observes in everyday surgery when the anesthetic is insufficient. But, as stated below, organ donors are not anesthetized. There are growing numbers of protesters among #nurses and #anesthesiologists, who react strongly to the movements of the supposed "corpse." These movements are sometimes so violent it makes it impossible to continue the taking of organs. Resulting from their personal experiences and attestations, many in the medical profession have removed themselves from this program altogether. New York hospitals are routinely 'harvesting' organs from patients before they're even dead, an explosive #lawsuit is claiming. The suit accuses transplant non-profit The New York Organ Donor Network of bullying doctors into declaring patients brain dead when they are still alive. Plaintiff, Patrick McMahon, 50, reckons one in five #patients are showing signs of brain activity when surgeons declare them dead and start hacking out their body parts. 'They're playing God,' said McMahon, a former transplant coordinator who claims he was fired just four months into the role for speaking out about the practice. He said that the donor network makes 'millions and millions' from selling the organs they obtain to hospitals and to insurance companies for transplants. 'Hearts, lungs, kidneys, joints, bones, skin grafts, intestines, valves, eyes -- it's all big money.' The Air Force Combat veteran and former nurse added that financially strained hospitals are easily influenced to declare a patient brain dead because they're keen to free up bed space. The lawsuit, filed in Manhattan Supreme Court in 2012, cites a 19-year-old car crash victim who was still struggling to breathe and showing signs of brain activity when doctors gave the green light for his organs to be harvested. Network officials including director Michael Goldstein allegedly bullied Nassau University Medical Center staff into declaring the teen dead, stating during a conference call: 'This kid is dead, you got that?' But McMahon said he believed the 19-year-old could have recovered. The lawsuit cites three other examples of patients who were still clinging to life when doctors gave a 'note' - an official declaration by a hospital that a patient is brain dead, which, as well as consent from next of kin, is required before a transplant can take place. The suit claims that a man was admitted to Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, a month later, again showing brain activity. It claims McMahon protested but was blown off by hospital and donor network staff, and the man was declared brain dead and his organs harvested. In November 2011, a woman admitted to Staten Island University Hospital after a drug overdose was declared brain dead and her organs were about to be harvested when McMahon noticed that she was being given 'a paralyzing anesthetic' because her body was still jerking. 'She was having brain function when they were cutting into her on the table,' McMahon told MailOnline. 'He had given her a paralyser and there's no reason to give someone who is dead a paralyser.' He said he confronted the person who gave it to her and he was speechless. 'Finally he said he was told to do it because while they were cutting her chest open she was moving her chest around. And a paralyzer only paralyses you, it does nothing for the pain,' he said. McMahon added that surgeons 'took everything' with regards to body parts. 'They took her eyes, her joints. She was right there when I was having the conversation. They were inserting the plastic bones where the real ones had been.' According to the lawsuit, when McMahon probed further on the disturbing case another network employee told hospital staff he was 'an untrained troublemaker with a history of raising frivolous issues and questions.' McMahon added that staff members who collect the most organs throughout the year qualify for a Christmas bonus. 'If counselors do well by getting a lot of organs they are given a bonus in December,' he said. The veteran - who worked at the donor network between July and November - said there are about 30-40 staff who are out in the field, going to hospitals and trying to get signatures and donations. Estimated U.S. Average Billed Charges Per Transplant: Heart $1,000,000 Double Lung: $800,000 Liver: $580,000 Kidney: $275,000 More than 123,000 people are on waiting lists for organ transplants in the United States, 100,000 of whom are waiting for new kidneys. Yet the need for healthy organs far outpaces donations. Only 28,000 transplants were completed in the last year, according to the 2014 national data from the U.S. Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network. Because organ donors are often alive when their organs are harvested, the #medicalcommunity should not require donors to be declared dead, but instead adopt more “honest” moral criteria that allow the harvesting of organs from “dying” or “severely injured” patients, with proper consent, three leading experts have argued. This approach, they say, would avoid the “pseudo-objective” claim that a donor is “really dead,” which is often based upon purely ideological definitions of death designed to expand the organ donor pool, and would allow organ harvesters to be more honest with the public, as well as ensure that donors don’t feel pain during the harvesting process. The chilling comments were offered by #Doctor Neil Lazar, director of the medical-surgical intensive care unit at Toronto General Hospital, Dr. Maxwell J. Smith of the University of Toronto, and David Rodriguez-Arias of Universidad del Pais Vasco in Spain, at a U.S. bioethics conference in October and published in a recent paper in the American Journal of Bioethics. “Because there is a general assumption that dead individuals cannot be harmed, veneration of the dead-donor rule is dangerously misleading,” they write. “Ultimately, what is important for the protection and respect of potential donors is not to have a death certificate signed, but rather to be certain they are beyond suffering and to guarantee that their autonomy is respected.” Instead of the so-called Dead Donor Rule (DDR), the authors propose that donors should be “protected from harm” (i.e given anesthesia so that they cannot feel pain during the donation process), that informed consent should be obtained, and that society should be “fully informed of the inherently debatable nature of any criterion to declare death.” The doctors note that developing the criteria for so-called “brain death,” which is often used by doctors to declare death before organ donation, was an “ideological strategy” aimed at increasing the donor pool that has been found to be “empirically and theoretically flawed.” They also criticize the latest attempts to create new, even looser definitions of death, such as circulatory death, which they argue amount to simply “pretending” that the patient is dead in order to get his organs. Based on an interview in 2013 with Dr. Paul Byrne, 80-year-old neonatologist blowing the whistle on the dark side of hospitals, it became clear that the concept of "brain death" is a complete fabrication conjured up for the sole purpose of legitimizing the murder of living people in order to harvest their organs. These people (who often end up in hospitals as a result of car accidents or drug overdoses or the like) are given paralysis drugs during organ removal -- BUT NO ANESTHESIA!!! Medical staff are literally cleaving open the chests of these innocent people and tearing out their organs, one by one, leaving the heart for last, after which point they are, of course, dead. It's wakey wakey time people.This is no joke. If you do not want to be tortured to death by medical sadists, SAY NO TO ORGAN DONATION! Evil is still evil by any other name. A special thanks to Sandra Tsai for making us aware of pending lawsuits & information. http://nypost.com/2012/09/26/organs-taken-from-patients-that-doctors-were-pressured-to-declare-brain-dead-suit/ More News on: http://www.theillusionofscience.org/418692745 http://www.srtr.org/annual_Reports/2011/113a_dh.aspx http://www.cdc.gov/transplantsaf…/outbreak-invest/index.html http://www.everydayhealth.com/…/donating-kidney-may-carry-…/ http://www.srtr.org/csr/current/Centers/Default.aspx If your Vote will Help save one Baby more! Dear Prolifers, Please vote as prolife as possible in every election. You should always choose the candidate that is more prolife than the other one. Those who will protect more babies will also protect more lives elsewhere and do a better job of governing our country and others. So vote for the more prolife candidate than the other one. Do not waste your vote by voting for noone because there will never be a perfect candidate ever. Always will have a lesser of two evils situation. Pray for both candidates that the Holy Spirit enlightens them and our country. Heavenly Father save America! Please Pray for America Everyday! (less than 1 min/day) http://www.thepoweroftherosary.com/pray-for-america.html Abolishing Abortion!~How you can play a part. (Book Review) Book Review of Father Pavone’s new book Want a Steely Resolve to End Abortion then light the fire by reading Father’ Pavone’s new book Abolishing Abortion that starts right out with this great quote, “The battle against abortion demands—no less than the founding of this country demanded--a steely resolve and a willingness to accept the price of engagement…If need be, we have to be prepared to lay down our lives for our unborn brothers and sisters. Not there yet? Then pray for more strength and courage from the Lord and read this book. Here are some more great quotes, “If you are wrong on abortion, you can’t be right on other issues.”~George Weigel Father Pavone calls us to repentance as the first step to ending abortion and this is an issue I would disagree with slightly in the fact that I believe that without prayer we would have no strength to repent but either way we need to repent and pray. As Father Pavone says, “We begin our repentance by renouncing our cowardice, by regretting our silence, by rejecting our fear of risk and loss, our skewed priorities and attachments…The biggest obstacles(to ending abortion) are inside of us. They are the lies we tell ourselves, the fears to which we willingly submit, and the pretense of ignorance about what we really have to do next.” “Often, when people seek advice about pro-life activities, they ask me what they should do next. I start by telling them that they probably already know. Our sense of uncertainity rarely arises from not knowing what we should do. It arises from not having the courage to do it. We count the cost and don’t want to pay the price. But it is time to risk, time to stand up and shout that the world is on fire—time to pull the fire alarm and join in the fight! “Either we resolve to protect every human life, or we start to deciding whom to exclude.” ~Fr. Pavone “We are living in a world proud to turn a blind eye to the obvious. That great blind spot in our culture covers the children in the womb. Our Mission is to shine light on that darkness!”~Father Pavone God Bless you for reading this and may it inspire you to get the book and read it. Once done reading get out there and help End Abortion! “Ultimately, the end of abortion will not require the mobilization of millions of people, but rather the relatively small numbers of people willing to take great risks! “~Father Pavone Order the Book! Recall Abortion! Dear End of Abortion Movement Members, Take I would like to share a powerful and moving book that is already helping to make abortion unthinkable which is the true way to End Abortion. Janet Morana’s “Recall Abortion” breaks down the thousands of reasons why abortion needs to be recalled just like various other products in the past have been recalled due to not delivering on the promises or being downright dangerous. She demolishes basically every arguement for keeping abortion legal and goes even further by showing anyone with any sense that abortion is by far the most dangerous “medical procedure” because it has absolutely no health benefits whatsoever and has so many health risks that continue until both patients are dead. I would like to share some powerful quotes that will give us all more dedication in our prayers and sacrifices to end this abomination called abortion. Eileen Smith said this about her daughter who was killed by an abortionist: “Laura died during the murder of my grandchild and the abortionist did’nt even notice. When your in the killing business, you don’t pay much attention to life.” Here is a quote from Mark Crutcher of Life Dynamics in the book about the Center for Disease Control which he renamed “Centers for Damage Control”. “The scandal is that abortion is the most common invasive surgical procedure performed in America and, after four decades of legality, we do not have one legitimate statistical basis to determine how safe or unsafe it is. We have allowed the fox to guard the henhouse and it is costing women their lives and their health.” Later in the book she goes over the horrors of In vitro fertilization where once conception is separated from the sexual union of man and women all sorts of problems are created that usually lead to more abortions. Nicely called in Orwellian new speak, “Selective Reduction”. Janet goes into every major argument that is posed for abortion in separate chapters such as, Life of the Mother, Conceived in Rape, Fetal Anomalies, but my favorite chapter is called “Hard Pill to Swallow” and goes into the lies, deceit, health risks of the contraceptive pill especially how the pill causes early term abortions that the parents may be unaware of but nonetheless everyone who takes a contraceptive pill may be unwittingly causing their own children's death. This chapter will help us all understand the connection between contraception and Abortion and understand why we pray for an end to contraception as well. Here is my favorite quote from this chapter, “The Pill creates and fosters an abortive mindset. If your using the Pill, the expectation is that you will not become pregnant. So what if you do? Well, abortion is the next “logical” step. The Pill failed, so now an abortion is needed. The Pill attempts to remove consequences from actions. It attempts to separate cause and effect. It attempts to eliminate children from the act that creates children. And when it fails—or when a women forgets to take it—the next step is abortion.” The final chapter of the book is a rallying cry for all of us to help End Abortion. May we all listen to Janet Morana as she helps us all “End Abortion” I highly recommend you get “Recall Abortion” ~The Rosary Doctor Recall Abortion Book Website Powerful Prolife Movie in Pre-Production We are excited to share with you exciting news about a prolife film, “The Order of Rights.” This movie is in pre-production. Just a couple of weeks ago we were thinking that it would be great if we could somehow help or make a prolife film. Our vision was of a movie that could open people's hearts to the beauty of the gift of life. Unfortunately, the whole idea seemed so out of reach at this time in our lives. We had the inspiration, but we did not have the means. Like always we left it up to God. Well, God works FAST, this week we were asked to help out with “The Order of Rights” movie. This is going to be a big project that focuses on the unborn child having the same rights as a human person. We think that it can impact the way society sees the unborn child. But in order to get this done we need your help: First of all, we need your Prayers for this project and all those involved with the movie. Secondly, you can help us by donating to help fund this effort. No donation is too small, even a dollar will make a big difference. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-order-of-rights-movie Thirdly, you can help us by spreading the word to all of your friends, family, through email, and on social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter. When you post or tweet use the hashtag #ProlifeMovie. We might even trend it! Here is a little clip from the The Order of Rights The Order of Rights" is a Pro-Life film that is in pre-production. The story centers on Emma Stein, a pregnant single girl who has been advised by her mother to have an abortion. Despite the objection of the child's father, Ethan Carpenter, and his promise to help her, she decides to go ahead with the procedure. When Ethan and his family file a lawsuit on behalf of the child’s right to life, the drama escalates as Emma’s mother, Kerri, contacts a friend in the Associated Press. Before long, the case is mired in media frenzy. The court has to decide whether the child in Emma’s womb is a person or not, and if so, if it is endowed with the unalienable rights as enumerated in the Declaration of Independence. The title, “The Order of Rights” refers to the order in which the categories of rights are deliberately listed in the document: Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness. For More information go to: http://www.orderofrights.com/ “We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life — the unborn — without diminishing the value of all human life.” — Ronald Reagan Thank you so much for all of your help. We cannot do this without your help. May the Lord bless you abundantly. Your friends in Christ, Brian and Esmeralda Kiczek We need your Powerful Prayers to End Abortion! Join the End of Abortion Movement Today! Go to St. Joseph book Help save souls through the Spiritual Adoption of anyone who touches your heart. The Adoption Movement Need Miracles? Have devotion to Mary, help of Christians. Mary, help of Christians Inspire Children to become Brave Saints with our Joan of Arc Doll and Book! Dolls from Heaven Need Powerful Prayers? Over a Thousand will pray for your intentions everyday! Soldiers of the Rosary	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line394
__label__wiki	0.522931	0.522931	theLogBook.com Support theLogBook at Patreon Webmaster’s Blog The LogBooks Phosphor Dot Fossils theLogBook.com’s Escape Pod Retrogram Don’t Give This Tape To Earl In The Grand Theme Of Things Kasatochi: theLogBook.com’s House Band theLogBook.com Store theLogBook Designs at Redbubble Non-Soundtrack Music The Move – The Early Years April 28, 1997 May 20, 2007 Earl This disc reproduces all but a couple of songs from the first Move album. I’d better explain this obscure group and frequent answer to radio trivia contests, because the Move is one of my all-time favorites, and probably my hands-down favorite from the 1960s. The original Move consisted of Roy Wood, Bev Bevan, Trevor Burton, Ace Kefford and Carl Wayne from Birmingham, England, a group of musicians who got fed up with the strictures of the cover bands they played in, and decided to form their own group to play originals and get a record contract. 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__label__wiki	0.602075	0.602075	Britney Spears Dances to ‘Favorite’ Billie Eilish Song, Shares Sweet Boyfriend Beach Photos on Instagram Jamie McCarthy, Getty Images Britney Spears has been living it up while quarantining in California. When the "Oops!... I Did It Again" hit-maker isn't busy cutting her own bangs, she spends her days dancing to her "favorite" Billie Eilish songs on Instagram and hitting the beach with longtime boyfriend Sam Asghari. On Monday (June 21), Spears shared a video that sees her flaunting her abs in short shorts while modeling different tops as the 18-year-old's "You Should See Me in a Crown" plays in the background. The singer previously showed Eilish's music some love when she performed a choreographed routine to "Bad Guy" with a toy snake in a tribute to her iconic "I’m A Slave 4 U" performance at the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards. In her latest dance video's caption, she also seemingly calls out the paparazzi and the media, writing, "Don’t believe everything you read, hear, or see...follow your heart... remain open to change and educate yourself." Check it out for yourself, below: Later that day, Spears proved she's doing her part in slowing down the spread of COVID-19, sharing sweet photos of her and Asghari wearing face masks on the beach. "All you need is love and the beach," she captioned images of couple soaking up the sun. The 26-year-old personal trainer posted the same snaps on his own Instagram, writing, "What is it about the beach that makes you forget everything" alongside a palm tree and heart emoji. Britney Spears Through the Years Source: Britney Spears Dances to ‘Favorite’ Billie Eilish Song, Shares Sweet Boyfriend Beach Photos on Instagram Filed Under: Billie Eilish, Britney Spears, Sam Asghari	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0022.json.gz/line404

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