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__label__cc	0.543812	0.456188	June 17, 2018 in Columnists Father’s Day for imperfect dads The happy family is a myth for many. Carolyn Spring Every Father’s Day there are tributes to all the perfect dads out there. Glowing praise, love and gratitude illuminate the virtual halls of social media as these dads bask in their well-earned praise. I’ve known some remarkable dads — some in my own family. Mine was not one of them. I can’t exactly blame him. He was shredded from the git-go by his academic parents who had the emotional intelligence of honey badgers (sorry, honey badgers). He distrusted love — hated to be touched. He and his brother — gorgeous boys who grew up into handsome men — were harmed past repair. My father was the rage. My uncle was grief. I only found this out when I was a teenager. Before that, I thrashed about, trying to get his attention — trying to break through. I loved him so much and I think he loved me (at least the perfectly behaved, far prettier theoretical child he thought he’d adopted), but the barrier of his profound damage was insurmountable. I have known some pretty special dads and not all of them biological. My oldest is a fantastic stepdad to his lovely wife’s marvelous son. My older daughter’s partner is a doting dad to three and my younger daughter’s husband is the sweetest papa imaginable. I get to see great dads on a regular basis. So I have a good idea of how it works — I just didn’t see it firsthand much, particularly not as a child. Turns out a lot of my agemates had problematic parents. People who seemed to have it so together, people I thought were better than me on every level, who seemed to have happy childhoods often suffered private torments with their parents that leave me in tears when they tell me about them. Some of the things their fathers said to them make me want to crawl back through time and punch the bastards’ lights out. And then kick them when they’re down. My father’s rages were sudden and vesuvial. One minute I was at peace. The next, I would unwittingly say something sassy and boom! He would erupt out of his chair, face beet red, veins standing out, teeth bared, hand raised and I was in full flight. It felt like he wanted to murder me and would if he could catch me, which he always did. Those spankings were hard as beatings — he used the full force of his arm, spending his rage in violence, then turfing me into my room to go hungry until morning, however long that took. Between his violence and the 45 minute slap marks my mother left on my face, it’s no real surprise I have severe, chronic PTSD. And yet — he was clever and funny and even though he could be mean as a rattlesnake, he could also be kind. Unlike my mother, he never gaslighted me (you haven’t lived until you tell your mother a story, have her tell you it never happened, then overhear her telling the same story to your brother half an hour later). He never invalidated me like she did, either — there’s nothing like talking to someone and have them begin speaking to the new person in the room when you’re mid-word, just as if you ceased to exist the moment someone more interesting came along. My father could be a real beast, but he never made me feel like I wasn’t quite all there — mentally or physically. And I loved him. I thought he was the most handsome man ever. I was proud that he was an anthropology professor and rode his bicycle to campus every day. I loved his innate athleticism. I loved how he could knock out an obsidian arrowhead with only a rock and the obsidian in about 20 minutes. I loved that he could go into the wilderness with nothing more than a pocket knife and a waterproof lighter and come out having gained weight. He taught survival from an anthropological perspective, and I was proud of that, too. More than that, I understood him. His rage became my rage. His damage became mine. He made sure of it. The odd result was that I got him in ways that few others did — and it engendered an empathy that I actually didn’t expect. I knew his pain and that made it impossible to ever truly hate him. Toward the end of his life, after my southern belle mom — who had always culled me from the herd; they were her men, after all — had passed, I began a campaign of unrelenting, unremitting unconditional love. No matter how mean he got, I responded only with love. It took a few years, but such love can be pretty hard to resist. The phone calls began to open with “Hey sweetie!” and end with “So glad you called. I love you.” He still couldn’t be in a room with me without getting mean — just seeing me triggered something in him — but over the phone, it was good and I took it. It was better than anything that had gone before, after all. Not all dads are greeting card fodder. Some of them are just not that great. Others are truly monstrous and those fathers can take their nasty asses straight to hell and stay there. But as for the rest, they still raise some pretty good kids, by and large. So here’s to the ones who at least stuck it out. Who were so flawed they could never really be what their kids needed, but loved them as best they could. Perhaps it’s time for some “I forgive you, Dad” cards. Seems like an idea whose time has come… Carolyn Wyler Wow!! What a great column! Again I’m so amazed at everything you have been through in your life and still you forgive. Thank you so much, dearheart. I think if I didn’t understand so well myself, it would be harder, but my own older daughter is struggling to forgive me — and I completely understand that. She may never, and I’ll understand that, too. Understanding has been my ticket to forgiving all those (but one) who hurt me. They didn’t dream, as small children, of growing up to be harmful and they were harmed themselves. If I wanted to hate someone — who? The first kid in line who was abused and passed it on? Mind you, I woke up and got to work, so that excuse only goes so far, but if I had been living in a time where the awareness that parents must grow and improve constantly didn’t exist — and in their time, that was the reality — would I have known I needed to? I am not at peace with any of them yet. The pain is still too enormous. But I can start with forgiveness, even if it’s for the little kids who still lived on, so anguished and confused, within them. <3 Paul Mattson My wife’s father was like that until he swallowed his pistol . My father was the opposite and died from his 5 th heart attack at 58 . Some kids have normal parents . Some don’t . Life is a crap shoot … We survive and become better the next time around or not . Its Karma ! But whose karma? What did I do to deserve a childhood mostly devoid of love? What did they? Life is a crap shoot and amazing kids can be born to monsters, but to shrug and say “that’s life” can impede the drive to make it better. That said, I’m so sad about your wife’s father — the anguish that drives a person to suicide is so devouring and they leave that legacy to all who loved them. I can only imagine the devastation of losing your dad at that relatively young age and FIVE heart attacks? Just think how he hung on with such fragile health, most likely because he couldn’t bear to leave you. Me, I want to do more than survive now. I’ve done the survival thing. I want to live fully and joyously and I am trying to figure out how to climb out the well of agony I was cast into literally at birth so I can do that. It’s easier said than done. Maya, my dear, you are truly the phoenix who rose from the ashes. I loved your column. I think the only perfect family was on a TV show called “Leave it to Beaver.” 🙂	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line889
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__label__wiki	0.816058	0.816058	Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/arx/papers/1912.10488.html Efficient and Convergent Sequential Pseudo-Likelihood Estimation of Dynamic Discrete Games Adam Dearing Jason R. Blevins We propose a new sequential Efficient Pseudo-Likelihood (EPL) estimator for structural economic models with an equality constraint, particularly dynamic discrete choice games of incomplete information. Each iteration in the EPL sequence is consistent and asymptotically efficient, and iterating to convergence improves finite sample performance. For dynamic single-agent models, we show that Aguirregabiria and Mira's (2002, 2007) Nested Pseudo-Likelihood (NPL) estimator arises as a special case of EPL. In dynamic games, EPL maintains its efficiency properties, although NPL does not. And a convenient change of variable in the equilibrium fixed point equation ensures EPL iterations have the same computational simplicity as NPL iterations. 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__label__wiki	0.881324	0.881324	Photo credit: Alex Vasey December 2, 2020 \| The Brief The Brief: Reporting on impact, impact goes public, banking Mexico’s unbanked, Texas health clinics, Total vs. Neste Oyj, Nasdaq’s diversity mandate The team at Greetings, Agents of Impact! On the impact beat. Impact investing and sustainable finance are generating prototypes for a new financial system and a new economy. As finance goes “impact on,” it is arriving at purpose-built vehicles and approaches incubated, in some cases for decades, by community and impact investors. ImpactAlpha’s David Bank joins Laurie Lane-Zucker to talk about “Reporting on Impact” as part of Impact Entrepreneur’s Luminarias webinar series, tomorrow at 12pm ET. The beat, as Agents of Impact know, is hopping. Join us. Dealflow: Follow the Money Inclusio seeks to anchor its social mission by going public. Brussels-based Inclusio develops and manages affordable housing, schools, reception centers for asylum-seekers and other social housing and infrastructure projects. Last week, it listed shares on the Euronext Brussels exchange, with the aim of raising about €60 million ($72 million) and becoming one of the first impact finance products in the public markets. KOIS, the Belgian impact investor that set up Inclusio in 2015 with Degroof Petercam bank and real estate developer Revive, said the IPO anchors the company’s mission by giving investors liquidity without the sale of its real estate assets. “As such, you protect your inventory of buildings dedicated to social housing,” KOIS’s Francois de Borchgrave told ImpactAlpha. “It is critical for the social mission protection of Inclusio to go public.” Public markets. Inclusio’s European IPO is part of a broader wave of managers and companies tapping the public markets to raise capital for electric vehicles, green infrastructure, alternative proteins and other sustainability-themed companies. Bridges Fund Management, TPG, Revolution and Equilibrium Capital among others have leveraged special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, as an alternative route into the public markets. Vital Farms, an Austin-based B Corp, listed on the Nasdaq this summer. Last month, Schroders and Big Society Capital announced a £100 million IPO for a social impact investment trust to acquire impact funds and debt portfolios. With a public listing like Inclusio, “every single person is able to invest their capital into a fund in which societal and environmental impact is held to the same standards as profit,” de Borchgrave said. Low-risk assets. Inclusio manages a portfolio of 62 properties valued at €141 million ($168 million). Belgium, like most countries, faces a deficit of affordable housing; Brussels has 49,000 households on its 10-year-long social housing waiting list. Affordable and workforce housing is one of the most stable asset classes in real estate, with low vacancy rates and insatiable demand. In the U.K., the Ethical Housing Company raised capital to build more social housing in the country’s high-need northern region. U.S.-based Affiliated Development launched an impact fund to invest in workforce housing in Florida. Dig in. Blue like an Orange backs Mexican neobank kubo. Digital financial institutions have expanded financial inclusion in Latin America. Still, in Mexico, only 37% of adults have a bank account. Blue like an Orange Sustainable Capital provided mezzanine debt financing to Mexico-based kubo, which began as a simple saving and lending platform for low-income borrowers before getting a banking license. It now serves about 8,000 borrowers earning less than $1,000 per month. Kubo’s loans are generally in the range of $500 to $2,500 – larger than microfinance loans but smaller than commercial banks or even most non-bank small business lenders (see, “Latin America’s micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises need working capital to survive and thrive”). The company aims to grow its customer base five-fold, focusing in particular on women and women-owned small businesses. Neobanking. Kubo launched in 2013, along with Brazil’s Nubank and several years before Argentina’s Uala and Mexico’s Albo. Most of kubo’s competitors are focusing on middle-class millennials. BlueOrange’s Pablo Gonzalez Rueda told ImpactAlpha that kubo is distinguished by its full range of financial services “for those that are underserved (or not served at all) by traditional banks.” BlueOrange’s financing will help the company build up its alternative credit assessment technology. SDG alignment. Blue like an Orange touts the Sustainable Development Goal ‘report cards’ it prepares for each investment (listen to our podcast interview with BlueOrange’s Bertrand Badré and Suprotik Basu). Basu told ImpactAlpha that kubo “very comfortably cleared our thresholds” with regards to SDG No. 8 (inclusive and sustainable economic growth) and No. 5 (gender equality). More than half of kubo’s beneficiaries are expected to be women or women-owned small businesses. Read on. Texas foundations make emergency loans to strengthen community clinics for COVID. Health facilities in many parts of the U.S., and particularly low-income and rural areas, are buckling under the weight of the coronavirus disaster. The Episcopal Health Foundation in Houston and the Austin Community Foundation launched an emergency loan fund “to keep more clinics up and running to serve low-income families who may need the care now more than ever,” said Episcopal Health’s Elena Marks. The Texas Clinic Emergency Loan Fund will provide low-interest loans of up to $1 million to community-based health centers and charity-funded clinics. It already has issued checks of $250,000 to $1 million to six facilities. More. Series: Impak Battles Corporate impact face-off: Total vs. Neste Oyj. The renewable energy sector is expected to reach $1.5 trillion by 2025, spawning a new class of energy supermajors. At least some oil and gas majors are maneuvering to grab their share of the pie in the high-stakes transition. The latest edition of Impak Battles, an ImpactAlpha series with impak, a Montreal-based impact ratings agency, pits Finnish energy company Neste Oyj against French oil company Total. Neste Oyj began its gradual shift towards renewable energy a decade ago and now dedicates almost 20% of its activities to the production of renewable diesel and renewable petroleum products. At Total, sales of renewable electricity to client companies represents just 1% of company activities. Writes impak, “The battle felt as if one of the two companies already knew what the future holds.” Face-off! Catch up on earlier face-offs. Nestlé vs. Danone, Engie vs. Enel, Novartis vs. Sanofi and Crédit Agricole vs. BNP Paribas. “Diversify or delist.” The Nasdaq stock exchange filed a proposal with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to require all 3,249 listed companies to disclose the diversity of their boards of directors. The rules would require companies to have at least one director that identifies as female and one who identifies as either an under-represented minority or LGBTQ. Currently, 75% of companies listed on the Nasdaq do not meet the requirements, reports The New York Times. Agents of Impact: Follow the Talent Taryn Goodman Gallery, former food and agriculture lead for TPG Rise Fund, joins Cultivian Sandbox as managing director… Irvin “PeDro” Cohen is the new executive director of the Jacksonville, Fla. arm of Local Initiatives Support Corp…. The FAIRR Initiative seeks an investor outreach manager in London… Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism is looking for an operations manager in New York… Gratitude Railroad is hiring an impact investing analyst and hosting an “Advancing diversity in asset management” pitch event, Tuesday, Dec. 8. – Dec 2, 2020 ImpactAlpha, January 14 – Healthy coral reefs foster biodiversity and provide food, income and protection for more than 500 million people. But pollution and … Join the conversation in our subscriber-only Slack channel Email [email protected] for an invite	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line916
__label__cc	0.569916	0.430084	If the Risk Is Low, Let Them Go Renee Feltz Jun 29, 2016 How a man who served 33 years on a 15-to-life sentence is pushing New York’s intransigent parole board to release violent offenders who have aged out of crime, the fastest growing segment of the prison population. Terror in the Back of the Police Van: My ‘Rough Ride’ Experience Gan Golan May 19, 2015 The “rough ride” is a common tactic used by U.S. police. It is real, incredibly dangerous and totally illegal.… Keep Fighting for Ramarley Yoni Golijov Jul 29, 2013 "I don't want another parent to feel what I'm feeling, or bury another child the way I did. Please,… Finding a Road Through the Recession: An Interview with Make the Road New York Organizer Julissa Bisono Jon Gerberg Mar 11, 2010 Tucked under a discreet awning along Roosevelt Avenue in Elmhurst, Queens, Make the Road New York is nestled in… Indypendent Staff Dec 11, 2009 Please send event announcements to indyevents@gmail.com. WED DEC 16 7:30 pm • $6/$10/$15 DISCUSSION AND PERFORMANCE: MONEY JUNGLE: THE… Just Food Brings the Farm to the City Jacquie Simone Aug 6, 2009 Fifteen years ago, before it was hip to be green and before most people thought about organic vegetables, a… Bhopal Takes Action Jessie Bhangoo Aug 8, 2008 Twenty-three years after the worst chemical leak in Indian history, momentum is building — both in the streets and…	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line925
__label__wiki	0.6337	0.6337	Insane Japan: Radioactive Debris Burning Begins (Resulting Radioactive Ash And Incombustibles To Be Used As Landfill In Tokyo Bay) November 5, 2011 by Infinite – Disposal of quake debris begins (Japan Times/Kyodo News, Nov. 4, 2011): Work to dispose of debris from the quake-ravaged city of Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, began Thursday in Tokyo with about 30 tons arriving on a train at Tokyo Freight Terminal, the first load from Iwate to be accepted by a local government outside the Tohoku region. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government plans to accept a total of 11,000 tons of debris from Miyako by next March, as part of plans to dispose of a combined 500,000 tons of debris from both Iwate and Miyagi prefectures, the areas hit hardest by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, by fiscal 2013. At the terminal in Shinagawa Ward, debris containers were transshipped onto trucks to be carried to a crushing facility in Ota Ward, from where combustibles will be taken to an incinerator in Koto Ward. Resulting ash and incombustibles are to be used as landfill in Tokyo Bay. In light of radiation fears among residents, the metropolitan government plans to monitor and release data weekly on radiation levels in the air at the edge of the crushing premises and once a month on crushed waste, ash and exhaust gas, it said. Its four crushing facilities, incinerator and landfill site are all located in an industrial zone facing Tokyo Bay. Miyako is located 260 km north of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, while Tokyo is roughly 220 km southwest of the plant. Tepco denies criticality Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Thursday the detection of radioactive xenon at its stricken Fukushima No. 1 power plant, indicating recent nuclear fission, was not the result of a sustained nuclear chain reaction known as a criticality, as feared, but a case of “spontaneous” fission. When it revealed Wednesday that it had detected at its crisis-hit No. 2 reactor xenon-133 and xenon-135, which are typically generated by nuclear fission and have relatively short half-lives, it touched on the possibility that melted fuel inside the reactor may have temporarily gone critical. Tepco has been analyzing the phenomenon, which did not raise the reactor’s temperature or pressure, with support from the Japan Atomic Energy Agency. The nuclear crisis at the plant, the world’s worst in 25 years, erupted in the wake of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and resulted in the meltdown of nuclear fuel in the six-reactor power complex’s reactors 1, 2 and 3. Categories Environment, Global News, Health, Politics Tags Environment, Fukushima, Global News, Government, Health, Japan, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Politics, Radiation, TOKYO Post navigation Heads Of Mossad And Shin Bet May Have Leaked Plans For Attack On Iran, PM Netanyahu Orders An Investigation A Top US General Fired For Verbal Attack On Afghan Puppet President Hamid Karzai	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line926
__label__cc	0.731421	0.268579	Hibiscus and Bays Local Board OPEN MINUTES Minutes of a meeting of the Hibiscus and Bays Local Board held in the Council Chamber, Orewa Service Centre, 50 Centreway Road, Orewa on Wednesday, 15 October 2014 at 4.30pm. Greg Sayers Janet Fitzgerald, JP Gary Holmes Lovisa Rasmussen Gaye Harding-Kirikiri Julia Parfitt Lisa Whyte ALSO PRESENT John Watson (from 6.30pm) Wayne Walker (from 6.30pm) Independent Maori Statutory Board The Chairperson welcomed those in attendance. Resolution number HB/2014/189 MOVED by Deputy Chairperson AG Sayers, seconded by Member DR Cooper: That the Hibiscus and Bays Local Board: a) accept the apology from members Harding-Kirikiri, Parfitt and Whyte for absence. There were no declarations of interest. MOVED by Deputy Chairperson AG Sayers, seconded by Member GR Holmes: a) confirm the minutes of the Local Board Plan Hearings – Hibiscus and Bays held on Wednesday, 10 September 2014 and the minutes of the ordinary meeting, held on Wednesday, 17 September 2014, as a true and correct record. There were no leaves of absence. There were no acknowledgements. There were no petitions. There was no extraordinary business. There were no notices of motion. 29 Procedural motion to exclude the public a) exclude the public from the following part(s) of the proceedings of this meeting. The general subject of each matter to be considered while the public is excluded, the reason for passing this resolution in relation to each matter, and the specific grounds under section 48(1) of the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987 for the passing of this resolution follows. This resolution is made in reliance on section 48(1)(a) of the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987 and the particular interest or interests protected by section 6 or section 7 of that Act which would be prejudiced by the holding of the whole or relevant part of the proceedings of the meeting in public, as follows: C1 Council Controlled Organisation Review, Progress Report to Local Boards Reason for passing this resolution in relation to each matter Particular interest(s) protected (where applicable) Ground(s) under section 48(1) for the passing of this resolution The public conduct of the part of the meeting would be likely to result in the disclosure of information for which good reason for withholding exists under section 7. s7(2)(a) - The withholding of the information is necessary to protect the privacy of natural persons, including that of a deceased person. In particular, the report contains information on proposed changes that may impact the employment of staff within the Auckland Council group. s48(1)(a) The text of these resolutions is made available to the public who are present at the meeting and form part of the minutes of the meeting. 4.35pm The public was excluded. Resolutions in relation to the confidential items are recorded in the confidential section of these minutes and are not publicly available. 4.41pm The public was re-admitted. It was resolved while the public was excluded: Council Controlled Organisation Review, Progress Report to Local Boards That there be no restatement of the confidential report, attachments or resolutions of this item until after the governing body meeting on 27 November 2014. Renewal and variation of community lease to Mairangi Bay Bowling Club Incorporated, Ramsgate Terrace, Mairangi Bay MOVED by Member DR Cooper, seconded by Member GR Holmes: That the Hibiscus and Bays Local Board approve: a) the renewal and variation of the community lease to the Mairangi Bay Bowling Club Incorporated for Part Lot 165 DP 13311 and Part Allotment NW 193 Takapuna Parish situated on Mairangi Bay Park, Ramsgate Terrace, Mairangi Bay subject to the following conditions: i) Term – 10 years commencing 1 April 2015; ii) Rent - $1.00 plus GST per annum if requested; iii) Variation to the lease to include the Mairangi Bay Bowling Club Incorporated Community Outcomes Plan (Attachment B). b) all other terms and conditions in accordance with the terms of the original lease agreement and the Auckland Council Community Occupancy Guidelines July 2012. Local board feedback on the draft Arts and Culture Strategic Action Plan (ACSAP) MOVED by Deputy Chairperson AG Sayers, seconded by Member LC Rasmussen: a) endorse the Arts and Culture Strategic Action Plan’s proposed goals and actions and recommend that the Arts, Culture and Events Committee adopt them noting that this is a high-level document with no detail of tangible actions, aligned funding and no indication of how outcomes will be realised. b) note that further work on the implementation section will be undertaken with local boards from November 2014 to February 2015. c) provide the following general feedback on the Arts and Culture Strategic Action Plan: (i) request that local boards be involved in the development of the implementation plan. (ii) request that the implementation plan details the role of local boards, where appropriate and outline when they will be engaged. d) recommend greater recognition of the role of local boards and the activities being undertaken by local boards. This includes: (i) Auckland Council’s role in arts and culture (page 9): to outline the role of local boards in producing arts and culture outcomes though local facilities, initiatives and programming. (ii) Strategic Framework section (pages 10-13): stronger alignment and recognition of the local board plans. (iii) throughout all six goals: to highlight where local boards have undertaken arts and culture-related activities in the ‘what we are already doing’ sections. (iv) Goal 1 (pages 27-29): to highlight the opportunities local boards can provide so that all Aucklander’s can access and participate in arts and culture. (v) Goal 2 (pages 32-33): to highlight how local boards can invest in arts and culture through events and programming, as well as advocating for new facility builds. (vi) Goal 3 (pages 36-38): to reflect and recognise the opportunities local boards can provide arts and culture groups through community leases, venue hire, partnering and programming. (vii) Goal 4 (pages 41-43): to recognise the role of local boards in place-making. (viii) Goal 5 (pages 46-48): to recognise the role of local boards in celebrating cultural identity by undertaking a range of local events. (xi) Goal 6 (pages 51-53): to highlight how local boards can contribute to a creative economy through local economic development and arts and culture facilities, initiatives and programming. Seek Local Board approval for the facility building renewal work schedule for the 2014-2015 financial year Lesley Jenkins, Relationship Manager, spoke to this item. MOVED by Member J Fitzgerald, seconded by Member LC Rasmussen: a) delegate authority to the Aquatic and Recreation Facilities Contract Manager Leisure to confirm and implement the 2015 Aquatic Facility Equipment Renewals for the Stanmore Bay Leisure Centre. Auckland Transport Update to Hibiscus and Bays Local Board, October 2014 Ellen Barrett, Elected Member Relationship Manager, was in attendance. MOVED by Member J Fitzgerald, seconded by Member GR Holmes: a) defer the decision on the Ferry Road footpath until the previously received submissions are reviewed and a further site visit is held with all the parties involved, including Auckland Transport . b) having accepted the rough order of cost of $57,300 for Local Board Transport Capital Fund Project 383, for the provision of a concrete vehicle crossing, parking by and spaces for 5-6 parallel parks on the property at 8 Galbraith Green, Silverdale, request completion of a detailed design and provision of a firm cost estimate for the project. c) note there may be a small increase in costs to Project 383 due to the need for a second vehicle crossing. Integrated bylaws review and implementation programme (IBRI) update – September 2014 MOVED by Member DR Cooper, seconded by Member LC Rasmussen: a) receive the update on the progress of the Integrated Bylaw Review and Implementation programme towards its completion of the delivery of new bylaws by October 2015. MOVED by Deputy Chairperson AG Sayers, seconded by Member J Fitzgerald: a) provides the following feedback on the draft significance engagement policy: i) Endorse the principal-led approach taken to drafting the policy ii) Agree that the development of consultation and engagement guidelines for Auckland Council will support the policy and the sharing of best practice iii) Request that staff make use of local board’s extensive community engagement experience to inform the development of the guidelines. Financial Policies Issues for Long-term Plan 2015-2025 MOVED by Member DR Cooper, seconded by Deputy Chairperson AG Sayers: a) provides the following feedback on the proposed financial policies for the Long-term Plan 2015-2025: i) That the Uniform Annual General Charge (UAGC) should be set at the highest level permitted by the legislation (maximum of 30%) as the uniform contribution for core council services. This is the highest priority. ii) Requests that a longer transition be applied for the business differential over the period of the Long-term Plan as there is limited capacity to off-set against the residential rates over the next five years iii) The rural residential differential of 0.9 is noted and the separation from core council services is acknowledged iv) Considers that any approach to support low or fixed income residents (including super-annuitants) that will need to be off-set by other ratepayers is a blunt tool to create affordability v) Request that council seek government support for low and fixed income residents (including super-annuitants) in Auckland as an exceptional situation and look to provide others sources of revenue and investment to off-set any proposed rates reductions vi) Subject to the impact of the revaluation look to provide a continued period of transition with a 10% ceiling on individual rates increases for residential ratepayers vii) Extend rates remissions for community, sporting and heritage rates remission and postponement policies across Auckland viii) Retain the current policy of providing rates remissions for community halls that are providing a clear and evidence-based community service (privately or community- owned facilities) and does not support any transition to charge rates to these types of facilities ix) Targeted rates, with the exception of the BID targeted rate, are not supported by the local board Fees and Charges Policy x) Considers that cost recovery does not provide any incentive for council to be more effective and efficient and that any increases in fees and charges should be assessed against clear value for service criteria particularly in across those areas where there are no alternative service providers xi) Consider that social housing may be able to be provided in more cost effective and higher quality ways by looking at community housing providers xii) Any assessment of street trading fees needs to be based on value for money assessments and not a one size fits all cost for service xiii) Considers there are opportunities for improved and more lateral approaches to procurement which needs to be investigated and considered xiv) Improve the way that community infrastructure is funded and address the funding shortfalls due to the inadequate level of contributions currently set for reserve purposes xv) Support a review of the policy in response to the legislative changes and would seek an opportunity for local boards to be directly engaged on the policy and its application xvi) Request that the finance department report back on development contributions revenue collected by local board area(s) on a six monthly basis in the quarterly report xvii) Seek clarification on the approach for defining the proposed catchment areas and the process for the inclusion of projects in the development contributions schedules for the Long-term Plan 2015-2025 Other Matters – General xviii) Strongly challenge the growth statistics and modelling that are being applied to inform the setting of financial policy positions and the calculation of infrastructure projects, costs, contributions, fees, charges, rates and other revenue options xix) Request more accessible reporting on overall council spend by department, CCO, and local boards by area. New Road Name - Woodridge Drive, Ruth Craig Place, Somerset Place, Eastview Crescent and Tirohanga Crescent MOVED by Member GR Holmes, seconded by Member LC Rasmussen: a) approve the new road names under section 319(j) of the Local Government Act 1974 of Woodridge Drive, Ruth Craig Place, Somerset Place, Eastview Crescent and Tirohanga Crescent for the Karepiro Holdings Limited subdivision off Karepiro Drive and Wade River Road, Stanmore Bay. Council Reference SLC-55169. Feedback on Mayoral Proposal a) Provide the following feedback on the Mayor’s Proposal for the Long-Term Plan 2015-2025 and Strategies: i) Acknowledges the Mayor’s Proposal and the key focus areas but expresses concern about the justification, implementation and timing of the City Rail Link and commencement should be dependent on timing of the government funding contributions. ii) Notes the spatial priorities and request that planning for the future addresses high growth areas across Auckland which have not been included in the spatial priorities. iii) Requests that the Uniform Annual General Charge (UAGC) be increased to the highest legislative level to more adequately contribute to the provision of core council services and this be a high priority. iv) Notes that when the detailed analysis from the revaluation data is available that the local board may propose and recommend the UAGC level. v) Requests that any decision to set an average rate increase not be limited to 2.5% if an increase up to 3.5% and a higher level UAGC reduces the rating burden on the residential ratepayer. vi) Agrees to the proposal to move to fully fund depreciation on capital assets and request the governing body consider a staged approach to reach the 100% over the later years of the Long-term Plan 2015/2025 rather than the proposed commencement in the 2015-2016 financial year. b) Provide the following feedback on the Parks, Community and Lifestyle departmental responses to the Mayor’s Proposal: Parks, Sport and Recreation i) Expresses concern that the Mayor’s Proposal and the departmental responses to achieve the proposal significantly impact on the Auckland Plan deliverables including becoming the world’s most liveable city by limiting Auckland-wide and local projects that make this vision possible and the Auckland Plan should be reviewed as a result. ii) Acknowledges that revenue is a key component of cost to service for council activities and requests that public good elements continue to be considered as a core part of Parks, Sport and Recreation service delivery. iii) Seeks assurance that the Development Contributions policy approach will clearly identify projects required in the growth areas (which are outside the spatial priority areas), will clarify the catchment areas, provide the details of those catchment areas for the local boards to review, and will set contribution levels that fully respond to the costs of projects that are required by growth. iv) Agrees that the renewal of existing assets are a top priority and requests that visitor numbers and non-resident users at key locations, including popular beach areas and reserves, be included in the consideration of future funding allocations. v) Notes some areas have high level of use therefore funding needs to reflect the impact of that demand and use on those key locations. vi) Requests that high-use demand of assets and asset areas are included in asset management considerations not just the life cycle of assets, as condition assessments should define the need for and timing of renewals. vii) That the renewals budgets reflect the actual cost of renewals including the funding of parks foundation infrastructure for approved specialist facilities e.g. hockey and other specialist turf areas. viii) Agrees that the priorities for non-renewal project categories includes; contractually committed, land acquisition (funded by development contributions), projects falling into geographic areas and/or special housing areas, other projects identified in network planning and includes the extent of community engagement, commitment and partnerships as a further method for a shared delivery model. ix) Expresses concerns that the proposal to cut key operational service delivery and proposing a one size fits all approach does not provide good outcomes or savings. x) Does not support: a) chemical spraying in parks and reserve areas b) standard approaches which do not respond to local climatic conditions in local board areas e.g. coastal areas. xi) Supports Strategic Asset Management Plans (SAMP) if they: a) acknowledge each facility and park asset, including those in high growth areas where the demand for those parks and recreation areas are fully realised, and b) includes levels of service, which do not decrease aspects of community safety in those areas and facilities. xii) Seeks confirmation that local boards will be involved in the development of Community Facilities Strategic Asset Management Plans and acknowledge the importance of providing high quality multi-purpose assets across all of Auckland. xiii) Seeks confirmation that local boards will be involved in any Open Space Strategic Asset Management Plan as local boards are best placed to contribute to the information on asset and community performance. xiv) Agrees and welcomes the opportunity to be involved in the Property department’s development of baseline asset standards of service for the build renewal programme. xv) Considers that the proposed reduction in Parks, Sports and Recreation capital project spending will limit the council’s ability to deliver on the Auckland Plan. xvi) Considers there has been a failure to allocate funding for non-built assets in the Parks, Sports and Recreation departmental response to the Mayor’s proposal and this needs to be addressed to include those local board areas with extensive coastlines to include an adequate response budget to address any urgent and emergency coastal protection works. xvii) Disagrees with harmonising or reducing levels of service for local and sports parks maintenance and management that: a) results in park mowing service levels being standardised and aligned across Auckland as our local board area is impacted by coastal and climatic conditions and therefore service levels need to be set at levels that address those coastal and climatic differences b) results in chemical spray control on local and sports parks and requests that a clear and detailed cost analysis be undertaken and reported back to the local board prior to any decisions being made that affect the local board area c) results in the removal of some street gardens in the local board area and would request that council alternatively reviews the traffic management processes, compliance costs and requirements and look at the opportunities for community partnerships. (Noting the concern that compliance costs appear to be coming an Auckland response as not an issue across other parts of New Zealand). xviii) Agrees in principle with the following reduction of service levels for local and sports parks maintenance and management including: a) reduced mowing service levels in lower use parks b) removing up to 20% of shrubberies in local parks with replacement by grass and mowing and reducing maintenance frequencies in other gardens/shrubberies c) the reduction in the number of litter bins in low use parks as long as any littering issues are quickly addressed d) to the non-renewal of some underperforming parks assets such as playgrounds, furniture and toilets but seek assurance that the local board will be consulted early prior to any decisions being made. xix) Agree to the ‘business of leisure’ efficiencies and revenue benefits from the pools and leisure networks that: a) focuses on membership retention and the leveraging of the advantage to a network of facilities to increase membership numbers b) more efficient purchases of goods and services such as cleaning services and pool chemicals (but consider that this should already be happening) c) growing the early childhood education opportunities but only if this is part of core business and associated with the activity within a network facility which doesn’t directly compete with commercial facilities d) extending opportunities such as corporate membership or commercial partnerships e) targeting strategic investment in facility renewals and pool and leisure plant and maintenance to support both growth and improved operational efficiency f) allowing renewal investment to be allocated regionally based on condition need and with a focus on systematic upgrades of facilities across all Auckland ensuring that there is no risk to facilities failing and that realistic thresholds are set xx) Agree to introducing user-charges for commercial activities on parks ensuring that sporting codes (particularly not for profit groups) are not charged for funding their own fund-raising activities and request further information about what constitutes a “commercial activity” within a park. xxi) Agrees in principle to land acquisition and development (parks and open space) that utilise development contributions to cover growth related costs associated with the purchase and development of parks where it includes those growth areas outside of, as well as, the spatial priorities. xxii) Agrees that development contributions be used to fund the growth component of certain development works on parks including toilets, playgrounds, sports fields, and greenways and that local boards’ be consulted on the options and scenarios for the identification and funding of these types of development works. Community Development, Arts and Culture i) Agrees in principle that renewals for community facilities, arts facilities and social housing units that are close to the end of their life, in poor condition or badly in need of upgrading be assessed at to whether they are fit for purpose. ii) Agrees that low-utilisation areas or non-performing areas are reduced but would like to ensure that the local boards are consulted and informed on how this process will work prior to its implementation. iii) Urgently requests detailed information on community facility hireage and usage necessary to enable the local board to assess the levels of fees for community facilities and notes that until that information is made available is not supportive of any increase in hireage fees across local community facilities. iv) Requests that any process to harmonise event permitting fees is simple and that there is no charge for community events as they provide wide community benefits and support place-shaping. i) Supports having seven (7) days a week service in libraries and request that regular and updated information is provided to the local board on usage and numbers to ensure that the local board can make an informed decision and validate any approved expenditure. ii) Agrees that any decision by the local board to extend hours of operation for seven (7) days a week library opening needs to be carefully looked at in terms of the cost to deliver this service. iii) Supports the library facility network review to increase library space at Browns Bay including the potential for a new facility within the Upper Harbour Local Board area and in the future at Silverdale. iv) Supports that the library model is changing and that it is important for libraries to be fit for purpose and be able to provide a range of different functions including community hubs and in some areas social service provision without blurring the core business lines and functions. v) Supports the assessment and investigation of different partnership models with other providers for library services to be delivered across Auckland. vi) Requests further information on the costs to maintain library hours at the levels proposed in the local board plan (seven (7) days a week). vii) Supports the planned investment in library technology in accordance with the department’s response to the Mayor’s Proposal. viii) Supports the 10 year plan for regional collections in accordance with the department’s response to the Mayor’s Proposal. ix) Agrees that targeted quality events that connect diverse communities can bring value but would seek to ensure that libraries do not move away from the core business and needs of library services. x) Agrees with the department’s proposal to reduce the opening hours of 4 local history research centres. xi) Supports the integration of the corporate library service subject to no loss in the flexibility, value and delivery of the service. xii) Supports the charge for the request for items which are not picked up from libraries. xiii) Supports the option to reduce the delivery time of collection items to libraries. Environmental Management and Regulation i) Does not support the sale of Te Waka Korero (the big rig) as it provides a key focus and location for community engagement. ii) Agrees to introducing a user charge for inorganic collections based on $25, and 10% participation and requests further information on how cost effective this model will be. iii) Agrees to the proposed increases in regulatory fees and charges subject to a value for money exercise and confirmation that any increases will not result in increased costs of compliance. Auckland Development - CPO Division c. Provides the following feedback on the Auckland Development – Chief Planning Office (CPO) departmental responses to the Mayor’s Proposal: i) Considers that any reductions in the CPO division will be locally irrelevant as the local board will receive limited benefit from the CPO division as a result. ii) Acknowledges that the bylaw programme is a priority but the potential for further delegations to local boards without the adequate funding and dedicated support for any delegations is of concern. iii) Considers that the spatial priorities do not reflect where growth is occurring and the impacts of high growth in the local board area. iv) Is opposed to the absence of spatial planning or urban design work being undertaken outside of the spatial priority areas as this fails to acknowledge and respond to where growth is currently occurring. v) Does not support any reduction in marine spatial plans especially within the Hauraki Gulf as this impacts on liveability and could result in potential impacts for the adjoining coastal environment. vi) Seeks confirmation as to how the impact of Special Housing Areas on the local board and neighbouring areas will be monitored and assessed particularly as the Special Housing Areas impact on existing and the future need for local and community facilities. vii) Does not support charging council administration costs to Business Improvement Districts, or to businesses within a local board BID area without the approval of the businesses, as this will impact on funding capabilities, effectiveness and deliverables and would result in the detriment of BID’s. viii) Supports the reduction in funding to COMET. Adoption of Hibiscus and Bays Local Board Plan 2014 Bridget Davey, Senior Local Board Advisor in attendance for this item. MOVED by Member J Fitzgerald, seconded by Member DR Cooper: a) adopt the Hibiscus and Bays Local Board Plan 2014. b) delegate to the Chairperson to approve any minor wording changes that may be necessary following adoption. c) include advocating for the long term protection of the Hammerhead at Gulf Harbour for reserve purposes. Hibiscus and Bays Local Board Meeting Schedule for 2015 MOVED by Member GR Holmes, seconded by Member DR Cooper: a) adopt the meeting schedule for 2015 as listed below: Council Chamber Orewa Service Centre 50 Centreway Road Local Board Office 2 Glen Road Wednesday,16 September 2015 b) note that the dates and times for hearings and deliberations for the Local Board Agreement 2015/2016 are not finalised and as such the meeting schedule may require alteration. Dinner adjournment 6.05pm – 6.30pm Councillors John Watson and Wayne Walker joined the meeting at 6.30pm Whangaparaoa Baptist Church Joe Youssef was in attendance to thank the local board for their contribution to the community and to outline his role as team leader at Whangaparaoa Baptist Church. a) thank Mr Youssef for his attendance and presentation. Silverdale Commercial Business Association Lorraine Sampson and Graham Johnson were in attendance Submission documents were tabled, a copy of which has been placed on the file copy of the minutes and can be viewed on the Auckland Council website. a) thank Mrs Sampson and Mr Johnson for their attendance and presentation. a Tabled presentation documents Set Netting Neil Henson from Hatfields Beach made a presentation on set netting at Hatfields Beach. Presentation documents were tabled, a copy of which has been placed on the file copy of the minutes and can be viewed on the Auckland Council website. a) thank Mr Hensen for his attendance and presentation. Mr and Mrs Hemmingsen were in attendance to make a presentation on set netting at Browns Bay. a) thank Mr and Mrs Hemmingsen for their attendance and presentation. a Tabled Presentation Notes b Further tabled presentation documents Proposed summer set net control at Shakespear Regional Park beaches Rebekah Stuart-Wilson and Mathew Vucich, Northern Principal Ranger were in attendance. a) recommend to the Regulatory and Bylaws Committee that a set net control be made for Army Bay and Te Haruhi Bay at Shakespear Regional Park annually starting from 20 December to Easter Monday, extending 200 metres seaward of the mean high water mark. b) recommend to the Regulatory and Bylaws Committee that they agree to implement a set net control at Hatfields Beach for the 2014/2015 summer period from 20 December to Easter Monday, extending 200 metres seaward of the mean high water mark. c) recommend to the Regulatory and Bylaws Committee that they agree to implement a set net control at Browns Bay Beach for the 2014/2015 summer period from 20 December to Easter Monday, extending 200 metres seaward of the mean high water mark. d) request that officers report back to the local board on permanent implementation of set net controls and timing for Army Bay, Te Haruhi Bay, Hatfields Beach, Browns Bay and Arkles Bay. Community Grants Policy Feedback MOVED by Member DR Cooper, seconded by Member J Fitzgerald: a) receive the Community Grants Policy feedback memorandum dated 2 October 2014. Ward Councillors Update Councillor Watson discussed the recent comments made in the media on the high salaries paid to some staff and the cut backs every department is being asked to make. Councillor Watson advised that the only salary councillors are responsible for is the Chief Executive. Councillor Walker said there are concerns around the stadium strategy and the feeling is that the full costs have not been put forward. He said that local boards should be demanding information on both capital and operational options throughout the long term plan process. a) thank Councillors Walker and Watson for their update. Local Board Members Reports Member Cooper reported on the recent Trafinz Conference he attended.. A copy of the tabled report has been placed on the file copy of the minutes and can be viewed on the Auckland Council website. a) receive the information. a Tabled Report from Member Cooper Record of Workshop Meetings a) endorse the records of the workshop meetings held on 27 August 2014 and 3 September 2014. There was no consideration of extraordinary items. 8.15 pm The Chairperson thanked Members for their attendance and attention to business and declared the meeting closed. CONFIRMED AS A TRUE AND CORRECT RECORD AT A MEETING OF THE Hibiscus and Bays Local Board HELD ON DATE:......................................................................... CHAIRPERSON:........................................................	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line927
__label__cc	0.558536	0.441464	I hereby give notice that an ordinary meeting of the Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board will be held on: Otāhuhu Town Hall Otāhuhu Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board Lemauga Lydia Sosene Carrol Elliott, JP Nick Bakulich Tafafuna'i Tasi Lauese, JP Christine O'Brien Leau Peter Skelton Walter Togiamua (Quorum 4 members) Janette McKain Local Board Democracy Advisor Contact Telephone: (09) 262 5283 Email: janette.mckain@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz 1 Welcome 5 5 Leave of Absence 5 6 Acknowledgements 5 7 Petitions 5 8 Deputations 5 9 Public Forum 5 10 Extraordinary Business 5 11 Notices of Motion 6 12 Manukau Ward Councillors Update 7 13 Security Gate Beach Road Favona 9 14 Auckland Transport Update - March 2016 13 15 New Road Name Approval sought by Watercare at 500 Island Road, Mangere Bridge 25 16 Timing for review of local dog access rules Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board area 35 17 Mangere Bridge and Mangere East Heritage Survey 41 18 Performance Report for the Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board for the quarter ending December 2015 55 19 Community Led Small Build Programme 101 20 Regional Facilities Auckland - Second Quarter Report 2015-2016 107 21 ATEED Performance Report for the Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board for the six months ending December 2015 127 22 Draft Business Improvement District Policy (2016) – local board feedback 139 23 Feedback on the Draft Civil Defence and Emergency Management Group Plan 145 24 Adoption of the Youth Connections South Local Governance Group Terms of Reference 149 25 Local government elections - order of names on voting documents 155 26 Local Government New Zealand Annual General Meeting and conference 167 27 Community-led alcohol licensing project - six month report 175 28 Governance Forward Work Calendar 181 29 Mangere-Otahuhu Local Board Workshop Notes 187 30 Mangere-Otahuhu Local Board Members - Portfolio, Outside Organisations and BID Updates 193 31 Chairpersons Announcements 197 Member Peter Skelton will be attending a formal dinner on behalf of the Board for the Pacific Arts Assn Symposium being held at the Auckland Museum. That the Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board: a) confirm the ordinary minutes of its meeting, held on Wednesday, 17 February 2016, including the confidential section, as a true and correct record with the following amendment “be funded from the local board Professional Development Fund”: Item 24 Making Good Decisions (MGD) Course - Resolution number MO/2016/16 That the Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board endorse member Christine O’Brien’s participation in the Making Good Decisions course to be held Wednesday 11 May and Thursday 12 May 2016 to be held in Auckland and that the cost of $2,002.60 (excl GST) be funded from the local board Professional Development Fund. At the close of the agenda no requests for leave of absence had been received. At the close of the agenda no requests for acknowledgements had been received. At the close of the agenda no requests to present petitions had been received. Standing Order 3.20 provides for deputations. Those applying for deputations are required to give seven working days notice of subject matter and applications are approved by the Chairperson of the Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board. This means that details relating to deputations can be included in the published agenda. Total speaking time per deputation is ten minutes or as resolved by the meeting. At the close of the agenda no requests for deputations had been received. A period of time (approximately 30 minutes) is set aside for members of the public to address the meeting on matters within its delegated authority. A maximum of 3 minutes per item is allowed, following which there may be questions from members. Mark Erskine – Beach Road Reserve & Favona Coastal Walkway Roger Gummer – SOUL Campaign At the close of the agenda no requests for notices of motion had been received. Manukau Ward Councillors Update 1. A period of time (10 minutes) has been set aside for the Manukau Ward Councillors to have an opportunity to update the Mangere-Otahuhu Local Board on regional matters. a) That the verbal and written reports from Cr Alf Filipaina and Cr Arthur Anae be received. Janette McKain - Local Board Democracy Advisor Authorisers Security Gate Beach Road Favona 1. To seek direction on the security arrangements at Beach Road Favona. 2. The board has requested a review of the security gate arrangements at Beach Rd Favona. 3. Beach Rd is a short spur road off James Fletcher Drive in the industrial area of Favona in Mangere. It is a legal road all the way to the coastal edge of the Mangere Inlet but the last 50m is unformed. 4. This last 50m of unformed legal road takes the appearance of a small park and is managed as such. It is connected on either side by undeveloped esplanade reserve that form part of a wider reserve network around the Inlet. 5. In 2005, Manukau City Council agreed with local property owners that a security gate and fence be erected at this point to deter anti-social and illegal activities that were occurring in the area, particularly after dark (Attachment A). The Police supported the taking of this action. 6. Security gates and fencing on this scale are not common in parks but the extent of the problem in Beach Rd was such that it could be justified in this case because the standard park vehicle gates were continually broken. 7. At the same time it was agreed with the adjacent property owner of 28 and 32 Beach Rd that he would lock and unlock the gate each day to allow access to members of the public who wished to use the area for recreation purposes. 8. Should the security gate and fence be removed, there is no reason to believe that the anti-social and illegal activities will not return to this relatively remote location. Subject to ensuring that the gate can continue to be open and closed at an appropriate time and subject to better and clearer signage, it is recommended that the existing security arrangements stay in place. 9. This can be reviewed in the future, particularly when plans for the coastal walkways around the Mangere Inlet are further developed, adopted, funded and implemented. That the Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board resolves to retain the security fence and gate at Beach Road subject to the gate being opened at 7am and closed at 7pm each day and with new signage in position. Local Board views and implications 10. This matter was discussed at a Parks Portfolio Meeting on 27 January 2016 and at a local board Workshop on 10 February 2016. At both meetings members expressed concern about the dominating appearance of the fence and gate across a public area, and that the gate appeared to be locked at times when it should have been open. These concerns will be addressed by the revised opening and closing arrangements and by signage that will be more informative to the general public who wish to access the harbour edge at this location. Māori impact statement 11. The security arrangements are an operational matter with no known impacts on Maori. However Maori will be widely consulted in the future over the proposal to develop a coastal walkway around the Mangere Inlet. 12. There are no implementation issues. Once a decision is made the new security gate arrangements can put in place. aView Beach Road Letter Malcolm Page - Manager Local & Sports Parks South Carol McKenzie-Rex - Relationship Manager Mace Ward - General Manager Parks, Sports and Recreation Auckland Transport Update - March 2016 1. To provide an update about local transport matters over the last two months recording Local Board decisions, issues and advocacy. 2. This report contains a general monthly update on transport matters both locally and from across Auckland, as well as issues currently being addressed by Auckland Transport for the Mangere-Otahuhu Local Board (MOLB). This includes responses to MOLB resolutions and decision-making. That the Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board receives the Auckland Transport March 2016 monthly report. Mangere Town Centre bus station 3. One of MOLB’s advocacy initiatives is for the local board area to have “a great public transport network that is easy to get around, frequent and reliable”. Auckland Transport (AT) is keen to report that it is able to support the MOLB’s initiative and in December 2015 secured funding for delivery of a new Mangere bus station. 4. Planning has started and soon AT will start to meeting with the MOLB and wider community aiming to confirm plans and build a new Mangere bus station at the town centre by October 2016. 5. The Mangere Town Centre bus station will be a key hub for South Auckland’s new public transport network, particularly for Rapid Network 32 (RN or Route 32) that is being built as part of the East-West project. 6. Within the Mangere-Otahuhu Local Board area there will also be modifications to local roads to make them more suitable for buses with the installation of high occupancy vehicle lanes, potentially bus lanes but could also be T2 or T3 lanes. Roads that will be affected are Atkinson and Walmsley. This work is part of the development of the rapid network Route 32 that will link Mangere and Otahuhu. Manukau Bus Station starts construction 7. The Manukau Bus Station has started construction. One of MOLB’s advocacy initiatives is for the Local Board Area to have “a great public transport network that is easy to get around, frequent and reliable”. 8. AT is keen to report that it is able to support the MOLB’s initiative and recently started work on the new Manukau bus station. 9. The station officially started construction on 12 February 2016 and is planned to be completed in 2017. The new bus station will be a modern, attractive and practical facility designed to provide a safe, comfortable link for passengers between buses and the rail station. It will include service and food kiosks and toilets. The pictures below provide an idea of what the new station will look like. Figure 1: The station viewed from the council offices. The Manukau train station is at the rear. Figure 2: A view of the inside of the new bus station Informing Local Board’s about managing growth – Transport Future Urban Growth (TFUG) project 10. AT, Auckland Council and utility providers are discussing the issue of growth with local board’s in high growth areas in the north and south of Auckland. 11. MOLB is outside the study area but AT is keen to make sure that all local boards know about the project before public consultation on these issues takes place in early 2016 and will organise a workshop about the project for the members and has programmed a southern cluster meeting on 10 March 2016. (Invites have been sent to members). 12. The overall aim is ensure that the all local boards are aware of this consultation process and can engage effectively. Future Streets 13. The Future Streets project is the MOLB’s largest local board transport capital fund project and involves re-modelling a number of streets in Mangere to make them safer and friendlier for pedestrians and cyclists. The aim being to make the area safer and to encourage active modes of transport. 14. Resource consent for the major works on Mascot Ave, Windrush Close and in the Waddon Place/Windrush Close walkway was confirmed in February and the contracts are currently being confirmed with contractors. It is planned the work in these streets will start in mid-March. Local board transport capital fund (LBTCF): 15. MOLB has a total pool of approx. $1,971,770 available in this electoral term to spend on transport projects. 16. In this electoral term the MOLB has identified six projects and these are discussed in detail in Attachment A. 17. In next month’s AT report this information will be presented in new standardised form within the report. MOLB consultations: 18. Auckland Transport provides the MOLB with the opportunity to comment on transport projects being delivered in this local board area. 19. In this reporting period one project was circulated for comment by the MOLB. 20. Attachment B provides a summary of the project and of the response made by the transport portfolio leaders. Summary of Mangere-Otahuhu Local Board Transport Capital Fund bView Summary of consultation material sent to the Mangere-Otahuhu Local Board Ben Stallworthy Elected Member Relationship Manager , Auckland Transport Jonathan Anyon - Elected Member Relationship Team Manager, Auckland Transport New Road Name Approval sought by Watercare at 500 Island Road, Mangere Bridge 1. The purpose of this report is to seek approval from the Mangere-Otahuhu Local Board, for a new road name for a road created at 500 Island Road, Mangere Bridge. 2. Auckland Council has road naming guidelines that set out the requirements and criteria of the Council for proposed road names. These requirements and criteria have been applied in this situation to ensure consistency of road naming for the Auckland Council. 3. Following assessment against the road naming criteria, the road names ‘Mark Ford Drive’ (applicant’s preferred road name), ‘Manukau Harbour Drive’ and ‘Restoration Drive’ were determined to meet the road naming guideline criteria. 4. Local iwi groups were consulted via email on 2 October 2015. The only feedback Watercare received was from Te Kawerau a Maki, who objected to the names submitted by Watercare. After further consultation, Makaurau Marae Maori Trust and Te Kawerau Iwi Settlement Trust opposed the name ‘Mark Ford Drive’ and suggested an alternative name ‘Hiaroa Drive’, which was then opposed by Te Akitai Waiohua. 5. The name ‘Mark Ford Drive’, proposed by the Applicant (preferred by the applicant) and the names ‘Manukau Harbour Drive’ and ‘Restoration Drive’ (proposed by the applicant) are considered for approval by the Local Board. The name ‘Hiaroa Drive’ (proposed by Iwi) is also considered for approval by the Local Board. That the Mangere-Otahuhu Local Board, pursuant to section 319(1)(j) of the Local Government Act 1974, considers for approval, the road name ‘Mark Ford Drive’, proposed by the Applicant, for the new road at 500 Island Road, Mangere Bridge while noting that ‘Manukau Harbour Drive’, ‘Restoration Drive’ and ‘Hiaroa Drive’ also meet the road naming criteria. 6. The Auckland Council Road Naming Guidelines allowed that where a new road needs to be named as a result of a subdivision or development, the developer shall be given the opportunity of suggesting their preferred new road name for the Local Board’s approval. 7. The road to be named is a straight, 530m access road with a width of 13.5m, which includes a median strip and connects the Ascot Road roundabout to Island Road. There is a footpath on the eastern side of the road and cycle ways on both sides. 8. Watercare’s construction work at the eastern end of Island Road is scheduled to commence in May 2016 and is subject to contractual arrangements with the construction company. It is therefore time critical for Watercare to receive an approved road name for the new road so that the eastern end of Island Road can be permanently stopped and the construction work commenced on time. Auckland Transport cannot approve the opening of the new road until a name is approved. This report was first submitted to the Mangere-Otahuhu Local Board meeting for 9 December 2015 and was deferred to February 2016. The notification email was from the Chairman of the Makaurau Marae Maori Trust and the Te Kawerau Iwi Tribal Trust, which stated that the trusts had opposed the proposed names and suggested a meeting between the trusts and Watercare prior to the next meeting of the Local Board. Following this, Watercare met with Makaurau Marae Maori Trust and Te Kawerau Iwi Settlement Trust on 21 January 2016 and the name ‘Hiaroa Drive’ (named after the Tainui ancestress, Hiaroa. Te Motu a Hiaroa (Puketutu Island) also takes its name from this tupuna, which reflects the cultural and historical significance of the immediate area), was put forward. This name was subsequently opposed by Te Akitai Waiohua. In view of that, Watercare did not seek the views of other iwi. Due to Watercare’s contractual arrangements, Watercare has run out of time to consult on further names and still meet the March agenda deadline. As a result, Watercare has decided to continue with the original names proposed. It is further noted that Te Waka Angamua is providing advice to the Local Board on other road naming options. Watercare has advised that they support the Board adopting an alternative name recommended by Te Waka Angamua, provided that the name is approved at the Local Boards March meeting or very soon thereafter so that Watercare has sufficient time to have the name approved by Auckland Transport before the end of March. 9. This development was granted consent under resource consent 42936 (in conjunction with P42936, P42938, P42934, P43917 and P43918). The Applicant has proposed the following names for consideration for the road created as part of the development at 500 Island Road, Mangere Bridge. Proposed New Road Name Mark Ford Drive Mark Ford was Watercare’s Chief Executive for nearly 20 years, until he passed away in October 2014. Mark drove the biggest environmental restoration programme, in New Zealand, called Project Manukau which restored 500ha of oxidation ponds to natural tidal flats and 13km of coastline. Under his leadership, Watercare’s wastewater operations were transformed to benefit the Manukau Harbour which is the healthiest it has been for generations. Mark was also committed to the public sector; he served as executive chairman of the Auckland Transition Agency, chairman of Auckland Transport, chairman of Solid Energy, independent chair of the Christchurch Client Governance Group for Infrastructure Rebuild and as a member of the Better Public Services Advisory Group. First Alternative Manukau Harbour Drive The road follows the previous shoreline and will lead to harbour access and viewing points. Second Alternative Restoration Drive The road adjoins the past location of the wastewater oxidation ponds of the original Manukau Sewage Purification Works, which were restored back to the sea when the upgraded Mangere Wastewater Treatment Plan was established. Iwi Proposed Alternative Name Hiaroa Drive Named after the Tainui ancestress, Hiaroa. Te Motu a Hiaroa (Puketutu Island) also takes its name from this tupuna, which reflects the cultural and historical significance of the immediate area. Figure One: Location and Layout of new Road 10. The Auckland Council, by way of the Auckland Council Long Term Plan (2012 - 2022), allocated the responsibility for the naming of new roads, pursuant to section 319(1)(j) of the Local Government Act 1974, to Local Boards. 11. The Applicant’s proposed road names have been assessed against the criteria set out in the Auckland Council road naming guidelines; 12. The Applicant’s preferred name ‘Mark Ford Drive’ meets all the criteria of the road naming guidelines. It is also noted that the alternative names ‘Manukau Harbour Drive’, ‘Restoration Drive’ and ‘Hiaroa Drive’ comply with the criteria. 13. The proposed suffix of ‘Drive’ is appropriate in this circumstance, as the road is a wide, main roadway without many cross-streets. The suffix ‘Road’ also meets the definition, however, the applicant’s preference was ‘Drive’. 14. As the Applicant’s preferred name ‘Mark Ford Drive’ meets the criteria, it is recommended for consideration for approval while noting that the alternative names ‘Manukau Harbour Drive’, ‘Restoration Drive’ and ‘Hiaroa Drive’ are also appropriate as they comply with all the criteria of the road naming guidelines. Significance of Decision 15. The decision sought from the Mangere-Otahuhu Local Board for this report does not trigger any significant policy and is not considered to have any immediate impact on the community. 16. The decision sought from the Mangere-Otahuhu Local Board on this report is linked to the Auckland Plan Outcome, “A Maori identity that is Auckland’s point of difference in the world”. The use of Maori names for roads, buildings and other public places is an opportunity to publicly demonstrate Maori identity. 17. The applicant states that Watercare initially advised the Mana Whenua Kaitiaki Forum of the proposed road at the Forum’s quarterly meeting on 29 January 2015. The meeting was attended by nine of the 19 iwi of Tamaki Makaurau. The matter was raised again at the Forum meeting on 9 April attended by 15 of the iwi of Tamaki Makaurau. The applicant has supplied a letter from the Chairman of the Mana Whenua Kaitiaki Forum, Tame Te Rangi, dated 3rd March 2015 and one email from Waikato-Tainui, confirming support for the name ‘Mark Ford Drive’. On 2 October 2015, Watercare formally wrote to the 13 Mana Whenua entities (listed on the Auckland Council website as the Kaitiaki contacts for the Mangere Otahuhu Local Board area), informing them of Watercare’s preferred name and two alternative names for the new road and requesting further name suggestions. However no names were received within the one month allowed for suggestions to be sent to Watercare. Watercare received an email from Edward Ashby advising that Te Kawerau a Maki opposed both ‘Mark Ford Drive’ and ‘Restoration Drive’ being used as names for the new Road and further did not agree that the Mana Whenua Kaitiaki Forum was the appropriate forum to decide on the name. The email concluded with a statement that Mr Ashby would discuss the matter with the Chair of Kawerau a Maki on how to respond formally. Watercare did not receive a formal response from Kawerau a Maki and no suggested alternative names were received for the proposed Road until after Watercare met with the Chairman of Te Kawerau Iwi Settlement Trust, following the Local Boards December 2015 deferment decision. After a further meeting with Makaurau Marae Maori Trust and Te Kawerau Iwi Settlement Trust, an alternative name, ‘Hiaroa Drive’ was provided on 21 January 2016. Watercare consulted with Te Akitai Waiohua who opposed the name ‘Hiaroa Drive’. 18. New Zealand Post was consulted and indicated that all proposed road names, including ‘Hiaroa Drive’, are acceptable from their perspective. 19. The family of Mark Ford (Merelyn Ford on behalf of both Luke and Ben Ford) have been consulted and state that they would be honoured to have the main access way to the island named after him. The agreement of the family is required pursuant to the road naming guidelines. Financial and Resourcing Implications 20. The cost of processing the approval of the proposed new road name and any installation of road name signage is recoverable in accordance with Council’s Administrative Charges. Legal and Legislative Implications 21. The decision sought from the Mangere-Otahuhu Local Board for this report is not considered to have any legal or legislative implications. 22. The Resource Consenting Team is involved in ensuring that appropriate road name signage will be installed accordingly once an approval is obtained for the new road name. Merelyn Ford letter of approval Te Kawerau Iwi Settlement Trust Letter Debby Blackburn - Resource Consent Administrator Ian Smallburn - General Manager Resource Consents Timing for review of local dog access rules Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board area 1. To approve the review of local dog access rules in the Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board area in 2016/17. 2. The Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board had previously resolved to review its local dog access rules in 2015/16 (resolution number MO/2013/511). However, the decision made by the local board in December 2015 (resolution number MO/2015/212) has resulted in the Mangere- Ōtāhuhu Local Board area not being able to be included in the 2015/16 review. 3. The Chair and Deputy Chair of the local board at a meeting with staff on 11 February 2016 requested staff to provide this report to inform the board of the effect of the December 2015 decision and to enable the local board to consider when it will undertake the review. 4. Staff have identified two options for consideration: Option 1: That the Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board approve the review of local dog access rules in the Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board area in 2016/17 Option 2: That the Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board decline to review local dog access rules in the Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board area at this time 5. Staff recommend Option 1 because it would enable the Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board to meet its delegated authority requirements to undertake the review before the governing body reviews the policy and bylaw on dogs and delegations in 2017/18, and because it would better achieve the outcomes of the Auckland Council Policy on Dogs 2012. a) approve the review of local dog access rules in the Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board area in 2016/17. b) request the Manager Social Policy and Bylaws provide a report to the Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board in December 2016 to enable the local board to determine the content of the review. Previous local board decisions 1. The Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board at its business meeting on 11 September 2013 approved the timing for the review of local dog access rules in its local board area for 2015/16 as follows - That the Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board approve the timing for the review of dog access rules in the Māngere-Ōtāhuhu local board area for 2015/16 (Resolution number MO/2013/511). 2. At the commencement of the 2015/16 local dog access review project, a report to the Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board business meeting on 9 December 2015 sought to define the content of the review. The local board at this business meeting resolved to not receive the report as follows - That the Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board does not receive this report (Resolution number MO/2015/212). 3. The effect of the above decision has been to remove the review of dog access rules in the Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board area from the 2015/16 review period because: · staff could not proceed without direction from the Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board on what to review · staff could not delay the review for the eight other local boards that are included in the 2015/16 review. A delay would have meant decisions on changes to dog access rules would not be made before the 16/17 summer season · the review process has progressed beyond the point where the Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board can rejoin the 2015/16 review. Why a review is necessary (triggers) 5. A review is considered necessary for the following reasons: · to comply with delegated authority requirement from the governing body to review local beach and foreshore dog access rules (resolution number GB/2012/157) · local dog access rules in the Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board area have not been reviewed since before the creation of the Auckland Council in 2010, a period which has seen changes to population growth and density (including possible special housing areas), and wildlife rehabilitation · the current local dog access rules in the Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board area are confusing making them difficult to communicate and enforce. This is in part due to the fact that the Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board area has inherited two sets of local dog access rules from the former Auckland and Manukau city councils. What might a review include (content of the review) 6. The content of the review is a matter that is determined by the local board at the commencement of the review. Examples of what may be included and excluded from the content of the review are provided in Table 1 below. Table 1: Examples of what a local dog access review may or may not include Examples of content included in the review Examples of content excluded in the review · local beach and foreshore dog access rules. A full review of local beach and foreshore rules is required to meet delegated authority requirements. · local park dog access rules. This may range from a targeted review of a few specified parks to address known issues to a full review of all local parks similar to the beach and foreshore review. · region-wide dog access rules. This is the responsibility of the governing body. Examples include rules on playgrounds, sports surfaces, car parks and roadside footpaths · regional park dog access rules. This is the responsibility of the governing body. Examples within the Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board area include Ambury Farm · dog access rules on Tūpuna Maunga. This is the responsibility of the Tūpuna Maunga o Tāmaki Makaurau Authority. Examples include Māngere Mountain (Te Pane o Mataoho). · dog access rules on Auckland International Airport. This is the responsibility of the airport authority. What is the process for the review (next steps) 7. A standard process has been established to facilitate the review of dog access rules that takes advantage of economies of scale and aligned to the dog registration process. A description of the process for the 2016/17 review is as follows: · December 2016: local board decides on the content of review · summer 2016/17: information and local engagement to inform proposed changes · April/May 2017: proposed changes adopted by the local board · June 2017: proposed changes notified for public submissions · August and September 2017: local board public hearings and deliberations held and a final decision made on changes · October 2017: changes commence in time for summer. 8. Staff have identified two options in regard to when to reschedule the review of local dog access. 9. An analysis of each option is provided in Tables 2 and 3 below 10. The option of running a customised process for the Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board is not viable because the review would not be completed in time for summer 2016/17 and would be an additional cost to council. The election in October this year would further extend and complicate a customised review process. 11. The criteria used to analyse each option relate to the local board delegations, Auckland Council Policy on Dogs 2012 and resource. Table 2: Assessment of Option 1: Approve local dog access review for 2016/17 · local board would meet its delegated authority requirement to review local beach and foreshore dog access rules (resolution number GB/2012/157) · local board would complete its review before the governing body reviews the Auckland Council Policy on Dogs 2012 and Dog Management Bylaw 2012 in 2017/18. The governing body review will include a review of delegations to local boards It is noted that the 2016/17 review is the last round of a four year dog access review programme that started in 2013/14 and will include two other local boards and all regional parks (including Ambury Farm). · provides an opportunity to make local dog access rules more certain and to ensure the rules provide dog owners with reasonable access to local park, beach and foreshore areas in a way that is safe to everyone (Policy 4 of the Auckland Council Policy on Dogs 2012). · will place additional workload on local board elected members and staff for local engagement and participation in local hearing and deliberations. · local board resource required in 2016/17 may conflict with 2017 local board plan reviews. · local board to include review in its planning for 2016/17 · local board to use resource as one criterion in determining the content of the review in December 2016. Table 3: Assessment of Option 2: Decline to review local dog access rules · enables local board to focus on other projects such as the review of the local board plan in the first year of a new electoral cycle · no resource impact on local board elected members or staff. · unmet expectations that the local board would review its local dog access rules, particularly from dog owners in relation to time and season rules on beach and foreshore areas (including Shelly Bay Beach) and from environmental groups in relation to wildlife protection · confusing or inappropriate dog access rules remain in effect. · the governing body may rescind the local board delegation to decide local dog access rules. · provide reasons for declining to review local dog access rules at this time. 12. Staff recommend option 1 because it would enable the Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board to meet its delegated authority requirements to undertake the review before the governing body reviews the policy and bylaw on dogs and delegations in 2017/18, and will better achieve the Auckland Council Policy on Dogs 2012. 13. The Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board had previously resolved to review its local dog access rules in 2015/16 (resolution number MO/2013/511). However, the decision made by the local board in December 2015 (resolution number MO/2015/212) has resulted in Mangere-Otahuhu not being able to be included in the 2015/16 review. 14. All local boards considered the timing of the review of local dog access rules in their local board areas in 2013. At the time of this report, 10 local boards had completed their reviews, eight local boards are in the process of their review in 2016, and two local boards are scheduled to undertake their review in 2016/17. Each review commences with a decision on the content of the review. 15. Previous engagement with iwi in 2013 and 2015 identified an interest in dog access and the protection of sensitive ecological areas. This is a matter that can be determined by the local board in relation to dog access on local park, beach and foreshore areas. 16. Adopting Option 1 which will schedule the review of local dog access rules in the Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board area for 2016/17 will enable the local board to address this area of interest to iwi. 17. If the local board adopts Option 1 (approve local dog access review for 2016/17), the local board will receive a report to determine the content of the review in December 2016. 18. If the local board adopts Option 2 (decline to review local dog access rules), no further action is required from the local board. The decision will be reported to the governing body as part of its review of the Auckland Council Policy on Dogs 2012 and the Dog Management Bylaw 2012 in 2017/18. Paul Wilson - Team Leader Bylaws Justin Walters - Policy Analyst Michael Sinclair - Manager Social Policy and Bylaws Kataraina Maki - GM - Community & Social Policy Mangere Bridge and Mangere East Heritage Survey 1. To seek approval of the heritage survey project brief and budget for the project over the 2015/2016 and 2016/2017 financial years. 2. The services of a heritage consultant/consultancy are required to undertake a Historic Heritage Survey (HHS) of Māngere Bridge, Māngere East and Favona. The project will involve research, documentation, and recommendations on heritage places in the area. 3. The survey project will assist in identifying and better understanding the built heritage values of Māngere Bridge, Māngere East and Favona; with particular emphasis on the identification of built places that are likely to be eligible, however do not currently have statutory heritage management in the Proposed Auckland Unitary Plan (PAUP). 4. The project is staged in two sections. Through stage one of this project, it is anticipated that a report will be produced expanding on the knowledge of the historical development of the area as well as the identification of places of interest. The key anticipated outcome of stage two is the evaluation of highest priority places, provided that eligible historic heritage places are found. 5. The entire project has a not-to-exceed budget of $80,000, inclusive of GST and disbursements and related costs. Stage one is anticipated to cost around $30,000 and be substantially complete by 30 June 2016. Stage two will be confirmed following review of stage one deliverables, but is expected to cost about $35,000 as it is currently scoped. The indicative timeframe for stage two will be from mid-June through to December 2016. The final portion of stage one will fall into the 2016/2017 budget. 6. The project brief will be disseminated to three conservation architecture consultancies for bids of interest to be made on undertaking the project, with one consultancy selected by the Heritage Unit project coordinator. a) Approves the project brief for the Māngere Bridge and Māngere East heritage survey. b) Notes that a heritage consultant will undertake the project, to be selected by the Heritage unit project coordinator. c) Approves $30,000 of the local board’s Heritage Survey LDI budget for the purposes of the project for the 2015/2016 financial year. d) Approves a further $35,000 of the local board’s Heritage Survey LDI budget for the purposes of the project in the 2016/2017 financial year. 7. The key deliverables of the project are: · Survey report · Historic context statement · Prioritised places of interest list · Existing PAUP scheduled places · GIS maps · Appendices, including supporting documentation and illustrations · Heritage evaluations 8. The project brief (Attachment A) includes a project execution plan, setting out key deliverables, anticipated time frames and the identification of responsible parties. The project brief also includes indicative study boundaries of the geographic scope of the study area. 9. The recommendations within this report fall within the local board’s allocated authority, with funding specifically set aside for a heritage survey through the Māngere-Otāhuhu Local Board Plan. 10. The project coordinator met with the local board in September 2015 to understand the scope desired by the board for the heritage survey project. A further meeting was held on 18 February 2016 with the Chair and Heritage portfolio holder/heritage champion, to present the draft project brief. Refinements to the brief have been made as a result of this consultation, and are included within Attachment A: Project Brief. 11. The Māngere Bridge and Māngere East Heritage Survey focuses on built heritage. As a separate but interrelated project, the Maori Cultural Heritage team, within the Heritage Unit are underway with a region-wide survey programme specifically collaborating with Mana Whenua to assess places of significance/value. Mana Whenua groups are actively engaged in that project. 12. The recommendations within this report do not trigger the Auckland Council Significance Policy. Project Brief for Mangere Bridge and Mangere East Heritage Survey Cara Francesco - Principal Specialist Built Heritage John Duguid - General Manager - Plans and Places Performance Report for the Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board for the quarter ending December 2015 1. To update the Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board members on progress towards their objectives for the year from 1 July 2015 to 30 June 2016 as set out in the Local Board agreement. 2. A financial performance report is presented to the local boards for the accounting quarters ending September, December, March and June. 3. To improve overall performance reporting the Financial Advisory Services – Local Boards team produces a combined quarterly financial report and department performance report 4. The attached report contains the following reports this quarter · Local Community Services including Libraries · Local Environmental Management · Local Sports Parks and Recreation · Local Board Financial Performance · Local Board LTP results for Non-financial Performance measures for quarter 2 5. Auckland Council Local Environmental Management team has provided a reforecast of what LDI (Locally Driven Initiatives) projects cannot be delivered this year. 6. Following discussions with and advice from the board members, reallocation of these LDI funds are provided in the recommendations. a) Receive the Performance Report for the Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board for the financial quarter ended December 2015. b) Approve the reallocation of $20,000 unspent funding from the LDI Southern Recycling Centre options development work programme, as forecast by Local Environment Management staff, to the Community Response Fund in the Community Services Activity. c) Approve allocation of $400 from the Community Response Fund for the funding top-up of the annual Samoan Language Week debate to be held at Tōia Library. 7. In consultation with local boards this report provides the elected members with an overview of local activities from council departments for discussion. 8. The report is presented to the Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board members at a workshop prior to the business meeting. Maori impact statement 9. Maori, as stakeholders in the council, are affected and have an interest in any report of the local board financials. However, this financial performance report does not impact specific outcomes or activities. As such, the content of this report has no particular benefit to, or adverse effect on Maori. Performance Report for the Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board Faithe Smith - Lead Financial Advisor Christine Watson - Manager Financial Advisory Services - Local Boards Community Led Small Build Programme 1. This report provides an update on the implementation of the Community Led Small Build programme (‘the programme’). 2. This report also requests that Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board delegate to one or more board members to provide the local board’s views on new applications to the programme. 3. For Community Led Small Build projects the Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board will have a decision making role in relation to funding of projects or where projects are to be located on land or in a facility that the local board is the land owner or has delegated decision making. 4. The programme has been developed following feedback from local boards and community groups on the barriers that communities encounter when trying to progress small build projects for themselves. 5. This initiative aims to support community groups who want to deliver assets for their wider community, examples include changing sheds, connecting paths, public art or refurbished kitchens in community halls. The intention is to support projects that are community priorities and community led, as such at least 80% of the funding or resources need to come from the community with no more than 20% from rate payer sources, for example, local boards’ LDI capex or business improvement districts. 6. Projects that do not require funding from local boards will also be eligible. In these cases the local board views will be a factor in deciding whether the project is supported through the programme. 7. For all new applications in the Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board area the board will be asked for their views on whether the project is consistent with the priorities and preferences of the wider community and on the capability of the community group to deliver. A delegation is requested from the Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board to ensure that new applications can be progressed quickly. 8. If the project is planned to be located on land or in a facility that the local board is the land owner or has delegated decision making on, local board consent will be sought through the standard processes and delegation protocols. 9. When allocating resources council has to balance community led initiatives with their responsibility to all rate payers. For this reason the programme is focused on simple, smaller projects with the majority of funding coming from the community. The criteria are: · straight forward and standalone projects · project cost of $250k or less (including valuing in-kind contributions but not including consent fees) · community contribution (cash or in-kind) of 80% or greater · the project is agreed between the community group and council staff prior to work commencing (includes technical and health and safety considerations) · the project creates an asset, usually on land owned or managed by council, that is accessible to the wider community 10. The support provided by council will include a single point of contact in the new Community Facilities department, a toolkit, consent fees generally covered by council and ongoing maintenance of assets vesting with council. Strategic Brokers in the new Community Empowerment team will also play a key role in working with community groups to build capacity. 11. Implementation of the programme is underway starting with a trial of two community led projects, a bike track in Grey Lynn and a bunkhouse in Whangaparaoa. 12. The programme will be rolled out in full once the initial stages of the pilot projects are evaluated in early 2016. The programme will be evaluated after the first year. The community groups involved and local boards will be asked to provide their feedback as part of that evaluation. a) Receives the update on the Community Led Small Build programme b) Delegates to [X] to provide the local board’s views on new applications for the programme in the Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board area. 13. The programme is aimed at supporting communities who want to deliver assets of value to their wider community. The types of projects that may receive support include paths, public art, refurbished kitchens in a community hall or changing sheds. The programme is not designed to support ongoing operational activities. For example if the proposed project is to build a new community garden this programme could support the building of the garden beds and paths, but not the ongoing use of the garden. 14. The programme will predominantly support initiatives on land owned or managed by council however there may be exceptions for projects on land owned by others. Accessibility by the wider community will be a key factor in considering these exceptions. 15. Council has to balance enabling community initiatives with ensuring use of council resources is providing value to rate payers across Auckland. Projects supported through this programme will not be assessed using council’s usual prioritisation frameworks, such as asset management plans, and so need to be simple, smaller projects with the majority of funding coming from the community. As outlined in the executive summary these are key considerations in setting the following criteria for the programme: · the project creates an asset that is accessible to the wider community (fees can be charged to cover costs and the asset can be secured when not in use) 16. Projects that require notification during the resource consents process will not be considered straightforward unless the notification requirements are limited and all affected landowners provide their support. The requirement for the project to be standalone refers to it not being a part of a larger project, as this could add complexity to the consenting process and is likely to take total costs beyond the $250k threshold. 17. Community groups may receive funding for their project from local board discretionary funds, other council funds (such as the Waste Minimisation Innovation Fund) or a Business Improvement District, however in total this cannot exceed more than 20% of the project cost. 18. The support provided by council will include: · A single point of contact in council (a project co-ordinator) · A toolkit including procurement guidance, health and safety checklists and community engagement guidance. · Consent fees covered by council · Ongoing maintenance of assets vesting with council 19. Projects will go through a simplified project management process with 4 phases – Apply and Assess, Planning, Delivery and Asset Handover/Evaluation. Gateway assessments during these phases will cover issues such as health and safety, technical requirements and consistency with regional policy and plans. 20. Implementation of the programme is underway starting with a trial of two community led projects, a bike track in Grey Lynn and a bunkhouse in Whangaparaoa. The Grey Lynn Pump Track is a proposed sealed all weather bike track at the northern end of Grey Lynn Park. The Waitemata Local Board support the project and may provide funding. 21. The bunkhouse is proposed overflow accommodation for the Peter Snell Youth Village. The Hibiscus and Bays Local Board support the project but are not providing funding and the project is on land not owned or managed by council. The Peter Snell Youth Village bunkhouse is being used in the pilot to test a project that is not on council land. Accessibility is an important factor for projects not on council land, a fee to cover costs can be charged and assets can be secured when not in use. The Peter Snell Youth Village provides facilities to schools, youth clubs and holiday programmes and provides an opportunity to test the accessibility criteria. 22. The Community Facilities Department, established through the Services Reshape, will be responsible for delivery of the Community Led Small Build programme going forward. A Community Led Projects Co-ordinator will be appointed to lead this programme and facilitate the appropriate level of support across council for each project. 23. Early in 2016, once the initial stages of the two pilot projects have been assessed, the programme will be rolled out more broadly across all local board areas. The programme will be trialed for a year to assess its effectiveness in assisting community groups to deliver assets of value. Those community groups involved and local boards will be asked to provide their feedback as part of that evaluation. 24. Local boards will play an important role in community led small build projects including: Developing the idea with the community group, ensuring that the views of the wider community are considered. · Potentially providing up to 20% funding · Providing input into the assessment of new applications · Promoting the initiative, encouraging support and volunteers across the wider community · Launch activities and supporting ongoing use of the asset 25. Local board input is important to ensure that the right community initiatives are supported. In particular the Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board will be asked to comment on whether a proposed project is consistent with the priorities and preferences of the surrounding community as reflected in the Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board Plan. The capacity of the community group to deliver the project is also a factor that local board input may be asked for. 26. A delegation is requested from the Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board to one or more board members to provide input on new applications. The delegation is aimed at speeding up the progress for community groups with new applications by eliminating delay due to meeting schedules. 27. If Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board decide to support a community led small build initiative with funding this needs to be managed through a separate process and formally approved by the Board. However, to reduce the demands on the community group the accountability report (on final delivery of project) could be used both for the local board funding requirements and the programme. 28. Local boards will be provided with regular updates on projects that are receiving support under the programme including an update on which projects are at application stage, planning stage, delivery stage and asset handover/evaluation. 29. This programme has been developed based on feedback from community groups and local boards that council needs to ‘get out of the way’ for communities who want to deliver small, straightforward initiatives for themselves. 30. An initial proposed approach was presented to Local Board Chairs on 27 July 2015. Local Board Chairs were generally supportive of the approach although questioned whether the $250,000 limit on project cost and 20% funding limit from council were too low. This feedback will be considered when the programme is evaluated after the first year. The applications for support in the first year will provide an indication of whether the current programme design and criteria is effective in supporting community priorities. 31. Community groups wanting to improve outcomes for Māori will be able to access this programme. The Community Led Projects Co-ordinator can organise access to expertise within council to support the community group to achieve their goal. 32. Where any aspects of a proposed project are anticipated to have a significant impact on sites of importance to mana whenua, appropriate consultation will follow, led by the Resource Consents team. 33. This programme is aligned with the community empowerment model being implemented by council. Strategic Brokers will play an important role in promoting use of the programme and building the capacity and capability of community groups to deliver small build initiatives. 34. The community group leading a project under the programme is responsible for the delivery of the project; however to different degrees they will be reliant on input from council staff. Simple projects will predominantly be delivered by the community group with a low level of reliance on council process. More comprehensive projects will need more project management, technical input and will need to go through the consenting process. 35. Council will endeavour not to cause delay to a Community Led Small Build project over and above the necessary time required for consents, health and safety, legal and procurement processes. Karen Titulaer – Senior Advisor Strategic Partnerships Dean Kimpton – Chief Operating Officer Karen Lyons - Manager Local Board Services Regional Facilities Auckland - Second Quarter Report 2015-2016 1. To present the Regional Facilities Auckland – Second Quarter Report 2015/16 to the Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board for their information. That the Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board notes the Regional Facilities Auckland Second Quarter Report 2015/16. Regional Facilities Auckland Second Quarter Report 2015-2016 ATEED Performance Report for the Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board for the six months ending December 2015 1. To provide the six monthly report from Auckland Tourism, Events and Economic Development (ATEED) – a council controlled organisation - on their activities. 2. This report provides the local board with highlights of ATEED’s activities for the six months from 1 July to 31 December 2015. That the Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board receives the ATEED six monthly report for the period 1 July to 31 December 2015. 3. This report is presented for local board consideration and feedback to ATEED is invited. Ateed Six Monthly Report Paul Robinson, ATEED Local Economic Growth Manager Draft Business Improvement District Policy (2016) – local board feedback 1. The purpose of this report is to invite local boards to provide formal feedback on the draft Business Improvement District (BID) Policy 2016. 2. The May 2015 Budget Committee approved a review of the BID policy to be undertaken in collaboration with business improvement districts and local boards. The committee also approved a new service delivery model for Auckland Council’s BID programme team. Both need to be operational by 1 July 2016, as per resolution number BUD/2015/62. 3. The primary objective for reviewing the 2011 policy is to clarify and confirm the roles, responsibilities and accountability required for each of the partner groups that have a key role in delivering the Auckland BID Programme. The review is required, as there will be significant changes to the roles of the different partner groups, as part of the move to the new service delivery model. BID Policy (2016) project scope does not include a review of the principles of having a BID programme. 4. BID programmes are based on Auckland Council collecting a targeted rate for core funding – collected using powers under the Local Government (Rating) Act 2002. They are represented by business associations, which are independent incorporated societies sitting outside Auckland Council. Local boards have the primary relationship with business associations operating BID programmes in their area. 5. The December 2015 Regional Strategy and Policy Committee approved the draft policy for consultation (resolution number REG/2015/103). 6. The BID Policy (2016) includes two separate but linked parts: · Part 1 – Policy – sets the rules “the what to do” · Part 2 - Policy Operating Standards – “the how to do” The above attachments can be found on the following link: http://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/EN/AboutCouncil/meetings_agendas/local_boards/Pages/home.aspx 7. Business associations operating existing BID programmes, local boards and stakeholders have had opportunities to input into the development of BID Policy (2016). 8. Local boards are now being invited to provide formal feedback on a revised draft policy (attachment A the policy and attachment B the operating standards). 9. Feedback from local boards will help shape the further development of BID Policy (2016). It would be, however, particularly useful to get local board views on a number of matters outlined below: i. Are local boards’ roles and responsibilities clear in respect of BID programmes? ii. Do you agree that BID programmes below $100k target rate income per annum should (normally) have audited financial accounts every two financial years to reduce costs for smaller BID programmes? iii. Do you consider that the processes outlined to handle problems, issues and serious concerns are fair to all parties and provide enough clarity? 10. Officers are working to ensure that the policy aligns with Auckland Council’s Māori Responsiveness Framework and are in contact with the Independent Maori Statutory Board to discuss relevant opportunities to leverage the Auckland BID Programme. a) Provides feedback on the draft Business Improvement District Policy (2016) or, b) Delegates to the chair and member(s) to provide feedback on the draft Business Improvement District Policy (2016) before the feedback deadline of 31 March 2016. BID programmes 11. BID programmes are based on Auckland Council collecting a targeted rate to provide core funding to business associations using powers under the Local Government (Rating) Act 2002. The business associations, which are independent incorporated societies sitting outside Auckland Council, deliver the BID programmes. 12. BID programmes are established to develop local business prosperity and local economic development. They are defined by a partnership agreement between each business association and Auckland Council, in which both parties agree to operate within the BID Policy. 13. Local boards have the primary relationship with business associations operating BID programmes in their area including: i. As collaboration partners – local boards and business associations have a vested interest in a particular place and share similar goals. Working collaboratively will achieve greater outcomes. ii. As governors – local boards have significant decision-making responsibly for BID programmes, including recommending to the governing body to strike a BID programme target rate and around BID programme establishments, expansions amalgamations and disputes. BID Policy (2016) 14. The May 2015 Budget Committee approved a review of the BID policy to be undertaken in collaboration with business improvement districts and local boards. The committee also approved a new service delivery model for the Auckland Council BID programme team. Both need to be operational by 1 July 2016, as per resolution number BUD/2015/62. 15. The primary objective for reviewing the 2011 policy is to clarify and confirm the roles, responsibilities and accountability required for each of the partner groups that have a key role in delivering the Auckland BID Programme. The review is required, as there will be significant changes to the roles of the different partner groups, as part of the move to the new service delivery model. BID Policy (2016) project scope does not include a review of the principles of having a BID programme. 16. The BID Policy (2016) establishes the rules and responsibilities of the Auckland BID Programme. It will replace the Auckland Region Business Improvement District Policy (2011), from the date of adoption by Auckland Council. 17. The BID Policy (2016) includes two separate but linked parts: · Part 2 - Policy Operating Standards – “the how to do”. 18. The December 2015 Regional Strategy and Policy Committee approved the draft policy for consultation (resolution number REG/2015/103). Business associations operating BID programmes were invited to provide feedback on the draft policy by 18 December 2015. Consultation to date 19. The consultation process commenced in September 2015 and partners and stakeholders have had a number of opportunities to provide feedback. 20. Business associations (operating BID programmes) have been invited to attend a number of workshops in September and November to discuss the key themes for policy change and the draft policy. Sixteen separate written submissions on the draft policy were received by business associations by the 18 December deadline. 21. Key sector and industry groups that are represented in BID programme areas and subject matter experts have been asked for feedback on the draft policy. Feedback has been received from Independent Election Services and The Property Institute. 22. Other stakeholders have indicated that they will provide feedback in the next few weeks. Feedback from stakeholders will be incorporated into the revised draft policy. Differences between BID Policy 2011 and 2016 and feedback received 23. There are a number of key themes for policy change that have helped shape the development of the draft BID Policy (2016). The themes have been discussed as part of the consultation process with local boards, business associations operating BID programmes and key stakeholders. The table below provides details of the key themes for change between the 2011 and 2016 policies, feedback received and the draft policy response to this feedback. Key themes for change, feedback received and draft policy response Key themes for change Differences between 2011 and 2016 Feedback received and response Clarify and confirm partner roles Clearer definitions of the roles of each of the key Auckland BID Programme partners · Business associations concerned about the stated local board delegations Draft policy response: Added wording to clarify the overall intent of these delegations - there should be a focus on creating a collaborative and aspirational relationship between a local board and a business association operating a BID programme · Feedback from local boards and local board services team that some of the draft responsibilities of local board representatives on BID programme boards were not appropriate Draft policy response: Draft roles amended to reflect feedback received. Accountability - keep full financial audits or proportional relating to size of BID (target rate) Audits for all BID programmes must report on areas of financial control Business associations were overall in favour of keeping audits. Mixed feedback from local boards - a majority keen to keep audits but others requesting a financial review or proportional requirement to BID programme size. Draft policy response: keep audits but: · BID programmes with target rate income of $100,000 per annum or greater - audits every financial year · BID programmes with a target rate income under $100,000 per annum – audits every two financial years - subject to no serious concerns from previous audit. Resolution of issues Clearer definition of issues, concerns and the processes to resolve Concern from a number of business associations that the policy steps too soon into intervention by Auckland Council Draft policy response: Relevant sections in both parts of the policy have been re-written to provide a staged response with a significant number of steps before Auckland Council would consider intervention in the management of the BID programme. Rating mechanisms -Increasing baseline for new BID programmes The minimum required for a new BID programme establishment is increased from $50,000 to $120,000 (target rate only) BID programmes were overall in favour of increasing the baseline. Mixed feedback from local boards - some agreed with increasing the minimum but others thought that it would disadvantage smaller and/or less prosperous business areas. Ideal minimum changed to $120,000 but still with the option to explore new BID programme establishment for proposed target rates less than this on a case-by-case basis (subject to the BID programme proponents meeting establishment criteria outlined in Policy Operating Standards). Local board feedback on BID Policy (2016) 24. Local boards have provided some feedback at the 19 workshops during September and October 2015 on the key themes of accountability, new BID programme establishment and programme leverage. 25. Local boards are now being asked to provide formal feedback on a revised draft policy (attachment A the policy and attachment B the operating standards). 26. Feedback from local boards will help shape the further development of BID Policy (2016). It would be, however, particularly useful to get local board views on a number of matters outlined below: 27. Feedback from local boards, external stakeholders and any further feedback from business associations (operating BID programmes) will be reviewed by officers and this will help inform the further development of the policy. Officers will then hold a second joint workshop with Regional Strategy and Policy Committee members and local board chairs and/or ED portfolio holders in mid-April, before seeking approval of the final draft version of the policy at the 5 May 2016 committee meeting. 28. The consultation process commenced in September 2015 and local boards have had a number of opportunities to provide feedback including: · A memo was sent to local board members and councillors on 16 September 2015 outlining the purpose and proposed process for developing the policy. · Following the memo, officers provided a briefing to the Local Board Chair’s Forum on 28 September 2015 · During September and October 2015, officers attended 19 local board workshops to seek feedback on the proposed key themes for policy change · The draft BID Policy (2016) was work-shopped with members of the Regional Strategy and Policy Committee, local board chairs and local board economic development portfolio holders on 5 November 2015. This workshop provided a progress update and outlined the feedback received from both BID programmes and local boards to date · A second memo was sent to local board members on 1 December 2015, providing an update on the policy development process, attaching the draft BID Policy (2016) and a summary of local board and business association feedback to date. 29. Officers are working with Auckland Council’s Te Waka Angamua Department to ensure that the BID Policy (2016) aligns with the Auckland Council’s Māori Responsiveness Framework. 30. Officers are in contact with the Independent Māori Statutory Board to discuss the policy and opportunities to leverage the Auckland BID Programme. 31. Paragraph 1.9 of the BID Policy 2016 (part 1) outlines the potential to leverage the Auckland BID Programme under the new operational model, working initially within Auckland Council to identify potential opportunities. For example, this could include working closely with key stakeholders and business associations to investigate and pilot opportunities to provide assistance to Māori businesses or facilitate Māori economic development. 32. The BID (Policy) 2016 and the new BID Programme Team service delivery model are intended to become operational on 1 July 2016. Draft Business Improvement District (BID) Policy 2016 - Part 1 (Under Separate Cover) Stephen Cavanagh – BID Partnership Advisor Alastair Cameron – Manager CCO/External Partnerships Team Feedback on the Draft Civil Defence and Emergency Management Group Plan 1. To seek local board feedback on the draft Civil Defence and Emergency Management (CDEM) Group Plan 2016-2021, noting that the draft CDEM Group Plan advocates for each local board to develop local emergency management plans. The attachments can be found on the following link: 2. Auckland Council is required under the Civil Defence and Emergency Management Act (2002) to develop and review the direction for civil defence and emergency activities within Auckland through a five yearly review of the Civil Defence and Emergency Management (CDEM) Group Plan. The current CDEM Group Plan for Auckland is due to expire in June 2016. 3. A draft Auckland Civil Defence and Emergency Management (CDEM) Group Plan 2016-2021 (draft Group Plan) has been developed for consultation (a copy is appended as Attachment A). The draft Group Plan is primarily centred on community empowerment and resilience across all environments (social, economic, environmental and infrastructure). 4. This report asks the board to provide feedback on the draft Group Plan, with particular reference to the proposal for local boards to champion development of local emergency management plans, and the role of elected members in a civil defence emergency. a) Provides feedback on the draft Civil Defence and Emergency Management Group Plan 2016-2021, with particular reference to local priorities for emergency management. 5. The Auckland CDEM Group is a statutory committee of Auckland Council as required under section 12 of the CDEM Act. The CDEM Group has overall responsibility for the provision of CDEM within Auckland. It comprises five elected members of the Auckland Council and a number of co-opted observers from CDEM agencies invited by the committee to attend. 6. The CDEM Group has delegated authority to develop, approve, implement, and monitor the CDEM Group Plan. The purpose of the Group Plan is to enable the effective, efficient and coordinated delivery of CDEM across Auckland while building a resilient Auckland with our communities. All CDEM groups are required every five years to consult on the development of group plans under the CDEM Act (2002). The current Group Plan for Auckland expires at the end of 2016. 7. The draft Group Plan has been developed as a framework for action which will form the basis for more detailed business planning and development of civil defence and emergency management work programmes. The key framework areas for consultation are: · Knowledge through education · Volunteer participation · Emergency Management planning · Business and organisational resilience · Strong partnerships · Response capability and capacity · Information and communications technologies · Build Back better · A safe city · Research · Building resilient communities 8. Local boards are well placed to help with leadership, championing resilience and local engagement in their respective communities. The draft Group Plan proposes that this role be formalised through the development of local CDEM plans. It is anticipated that the development of local CDEM plans will provide further opportunity for local boards to determine their role in a civil defence emergency. 9. Actions described in further detail on page 37 of the attached draft Group Plan respond to feedback received from local board workshops that local boards wanted a more formalised, simple mechanism to support their communities in planning and responding to emergencies. 10. Public consultation timelines on the draft Group Plan is from 15 February to 18 April 2016 with significant consultation as part of the Have your Say annual plan events. The final Group Plan is due to be formally adopted by the CDEM Committee in August 2016. 11. Local board portfolio holders have been briefed on issues relevant to the draft Group Plan and, on their recommendation, workshops were held with 20 of the local boards in October 2015. The results of these workshops helped formulate relevant sections of the draft Group Plan. 12. Local board views on the draft Group Plan are being sought in this report. Subject to consultation, the Group Plan indicates a wider role for local boards in emergency management. 13. Māori will have the opportunity to submit on the draft Group Plan during the statutory consultation phase. 14. In addition, the CDEM department are developing a Māori Responsiveness Plan to support a more proactive approach to engaging iwi and mataawaka in emergency management planning. 15. The draft Group Plan is to be adopted by the CDEM Committee in August 2016. The Group Plan is also provided to the Ministry of Civil Defence and Emergency Management for review. The flow chart appended as Attachment B to this report provides further information on the process for developing and implementing the Group Plan. Draft Auckland Civil Defence and Emergency Management Group Plan 2016-2021 (Under Separate Cover) Process for developing the draft Group Plan (Under Separate Cover) Janice Miller – Manager Logistics, Civil Defence and Emergency Management John Dragicevich – Civil Defence and Emergency Management Manager Karen Lyons – Manager Local Board Services Carol McKenzie-Rex - Relationship Manager Adoption of the Youth Connections South Local Governance Group Terms of Reference 1. To request the adoption of the Youth Connections South Local Governance Group (LGG) Terms of Reference. 2. The LGG has reviewed its terms of reference, following a request from its two parent local boards. 3. The final draft of the Terms of Reference was adopted by the LGG at is meeting held on 25 February 2016. A copy of the adopted Terms of Reference is at attachment A. 4. The new Terms of Reference are simpler and shorter than the current Terms of Reference. A change of name to “Youth Connections South Local Governance Group” is included. 5. The LGG recommends that the Ōtara-Papatoetoe and Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Boards adopt the new Terms of Reference. a) Adopt the Youth Connections South Local Governance Group Terms of Reference, replacing the current terms of reference adopted in 2012. 6. On 14 May 2012, Auckland Council launched a new initiative called Youth Connections across Auckland in collaboration with the Mayors Taskforce for Jobs, the Tindall Foundation, Auckland Airport Community Trust and several other key stakeholder organisations. 7. At their meetings held in June 2012, the Ōtara-Papatoetoe and Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Boards decided to work collaboratively in the governance and delivery of the Youth Connections project. A local governance group, consisting of three members from each board, was set up and given terms of reference. 8. In the new electoral term in November 2013, both the Local Boards reconfirmed their support to Youth Connections and requested that the Terms of Reference be updated. 9. In September 2015, when the quorum of the LGG was changed from four members to three members, the Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board once again requested a thorough review of the LGG Terms of reference. 10. The LGG undertook the review of the Terms of Reference in October 2015 and the updated Terms of Reference was adopted at the meeting held on 25 February 2016. 11. The main changes in the new document are: a. The name of the LGG is changed to “Youth Connections South Local Governance Group” b. A vision has been added for the LGG: “That all young people under 25 be engaged in appropriate education, training, work or positive activities in our communities.” c. Objectives have been clarified, and are now are at strategic level rather than operational. d. Roles and responsibilities of the LGG have also been clarified. Responsibilities include reporting six monthly to the full local boards on progress, with a financial report. The LGG is also given responsibility to report annually to funding providers. e. In relation to membership, the LGG has the ability to appoint advisory members. The quorum has been retained at three members, with at least one from each board. (Until 2015, the quorum was four, when it was reduced to three by resolutions of both boards.) f. Unnecessary detail in the previous terms of reference has been omitted. This includes names of current members and staff, and the current budget details. 12. The updated Terms of Reference is now presented to the Ōtara-Papatoetoe and Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Boards for adoption. Neil Taylor - Senior Local Board Advisor Local government elections - order of names on voting documents 1. To provide feedback to the governing body on how names should be arranged on the voting documents for the Auckland Council 2016 election. 2. The Local Electoral Regulations 2001 provide a local authority the opportunity to decide by resolution whether the names on voting documents are arranged in: (i) alphabetical order of surname (ii) pseudo-random order (iii) random order. 3. Pseudo-random order means an arrangement where names are listed in a random order and the same random order is used on every voting document. 4. Random order means an arrangement where names are listed in a random order and a different random order is used on every voting document. 5. In 2013 the council resolved for names to be arranged in alphabetical order of surname. A key consideration was the extra cost of using one of the random order options. The electoral officer has advised that it is now possible to use a true random arrangement with minimal additional cost. 6. Staff recommend that the current approach of alphabetical printing is retained for the 2016 council elections, as the benefits to the voter noted above, outweigh any perception of a name order bias problem that analysis of the 2013 results show does not exist. a) Recommends to the governing body that candidate names on voting documents should be arranged in: (choose one only) EITHER: alphabetical order of surname OR: pseudo-random order OR: random order. 7. The Local Electoral Regulations 2001, clause 31 states: (1) The names under which each candidate is seeking election may be arranged on the voting document in alphabetical order of surname, pseudo-random order, or random order. (2) Before the electoral officer gives further public notice under section 65(1) of the Act, a local authority may determine, by a resolution, which order, as set out in subclause (1), the candidates' names are to be arranged on the voting document. (3) If there is no applicable resolution, the candidates' names must be arranged in alphabetical order of surname. (4) If a local authority has determined that pseudo-random order is to be used, the electoral officer must state, in the notice given under section 65(1) of the Act, the date, time, and place at which the order of the candidates' names will be arranged and any person is entitled to attend. pseudo-random order means an arrangement where— (a) the order of the names of the candidates is determined randomly; and (b) all voting documents use that order random order means an arrangement where the order of the names of the candidates is determined randomly or nearly randomly for each voting document by, for example, the process used to print each voting document. 8. In 2013 the council resolved to use the alphabetical order. A key consideration was that there would be an additional cost of $100,000 if council chose the random order. The electoral officer has advised that due to changes in printing technology, it is now possible to use the random order with minimal additional cost. 9. All the metropolitan councils apart from Auckland Council used random order printing for their 2013 local authority elections. 10. Of the District Health Boards that were elected in conjunction with the 2013 council elections, the Counties Manukau District Health Board chose the random order. Auckland and Waitemata District Health Boards chose alphabetical. 11. Of the Licensing Trusts that were elected in conjunction with the 2013 council elections, all chose alphabetical except for the Wiri Licensing Trust which chose pseudo-random order. Options for 2016 Pseudo-random order and random order printing 12. The advantage of random order printing is it removes the perception of name order bias, but the pseudo-random order of names simply substitutes a different order for an alphabetical order and any perceived first-name bias will transfer to the name at the top of the pseudo randomised list. The only effective alternative to alphabetical order is random order. 13. A disadvantage to both the random printing options is it may be confusing for the voter as it is not possible for the supporting documents such as the directory of candidate profile statements to follow the order of a random voting paper. 14. The advantage of the alphabetical order printing is that it is familiar; it is easier to use and understand. When there are a large number of candidates competing for a position it is easier for a voter to find the candidate the voter wishes to support if names are listed alphabetically. 15. It is also easier for a voter if the order of names on the voting documents follows the order of names in the directory of candidate profile statements accompanying the voting document. The directory is listed in alphabetical order. It is not possible to print it in such a way that each copy aligns with the random order of names on the accompanying voting documents. 16. The disadvantage of this alphabetical printing is that there is some documented evidence, mainly from overseas, of voter bias to those at the top of a voting list. 17. An analysis of the council’s 2013 election results is contained in Attachment A. It shows that any bias to those at the top of the voting lists is very small. The analysis looked at: · impact on vote share. (Did the candidate at the top of the list receive more votes than might be expected)? · impact on election outcome (did being at the top of list result in the candidate being elected more often than might be expected?). 18. The analysis showed that, for local boards, being listed first increased a candidate’s vote share by approximately 1 percentage point above that which would be expected statistically if voting was random. There was no detectable impact of being listed first on the share of votes received in ward elections. 19. Therefore for the 2013 council election results, there was no detectable impact of being listed first on whether a candidate was elected or not. In fact there were slightly fewer candidates at the top of lists elected to positions (29) than might be expected statistically if voting was random (31). Similarly, there was no meaningful impact of having a surname earlier in the alphabet on election outcomes. 20. Given there is no compelling evidence of first name bias for the council’s own 2013 results, staff recommend that the current approach of alphabetical printing is retained for the 2016 council elections, as the benefits to the voter noted above, outweigh any perception of a name order bias problem that analysis of the 2013 results show does not exist. 21. Feedback from local boards will be reported to the governing body when the governing body is asked to determine the matter by resolution. 22. The order of names on voting documents does not specifically impact on the Māori community. It is noted that candidates are able to provide their profile statements both in English and Māori. 23. There are no implementation issues as a result of this report. Order of candidate names on voting documents Warwick McNaughton - Principal Advisor - Democracy Services Marguerite Delbet - Manager Democracy Services Local Government New Zealand Annual General Meeting and conference 1. To inform local boards about the Local Government New Zealand (LGNZ) Annual General Meeting (AGM) and conference in Dunedin from Sunday 24 July 2016 to Tuesday 26 July 2016 and to invite local boards to nominate a representative to attend as relevant. 2. The Local Government New Zealand annual conference and AGM takes place at The Dunedin Centre from Sunday 24 to Tuesday 26 July 2016. 3. The AGM takes place on the first day of the conference. Auckland Council is entitled to four official delegates at the AGM, one of whom is the presiding (or voting) delegate. The Governing Body will consider this at their meeting on 31 March 2016. The four official delegates are likely to be the Mayor as a member of the LGNZ National Council (or his nominee), the Deputy Mayor as the Mayor’s alternate for this position, Cr Webster as Chair LGNZ Zone One and a member of LGNZ National Council, and the Chief Executive. 4. In addition to the official delegates, local board members are invited to attend. Local boards should consider the relevance of the conference programme when deciding on attendance, with the expectation that no board will approve more than one member to attend the conference. a) nominate a representative to attend the Local Government New Zealand 2016 Annual General Meeting and Conference from Sunday 24 July 2016 to Tuesday 26 July 2016 on the basis that the conference programme is relevant to the Local Board’s work programme b) confirm that conference attendance including travel and accommodation will be paid for in accordance with the current Auckland Council Elected Member Expense Policy. 5. The 2016 LGNZ Conference and AGM are being held in Dunedin. The conference commences with the AGM at 1pm on Sunday 24 July 2016 and concludes at 12.45 pm on Tuesday 26 July 2016. 6. The theme of this year’s conference is “Creating places where people love to live, work and play”. The programme includes: • Greg Doone, Director at PwC will provide a future vision on New Zealand's communities, taking a look at demographic, social, technological, economic and environmental trends. • Troy Pickard, President of the Australian Local Government Association and Mayor of Joondalup, Perth will cover a broad perspective on key global issues for future generations in Australia and beyond. • Vaughan Payne, CEO, Waikato Regional Council; Brian Hanna, Mayor, Waitomo District Council; Damon Odey, Mayor, Timaru District Council; Dame Margaret Bazley, Commissioner, Environment Canterbury and Jim Palmer, Chair of the Canterbury Chief Executives Forum will describe their stories of collaboration and how their approaches are aiding "place-making" for their regions and providing a platform for regional economic development. • Jason Krupp, Research Fellow, The New Zealand Initiative will focus on the example of Manchester City Council and how it combined with its neighbouring authorities to strengthen its leadership, governance and capacity to partner with central government. This session will involve video interviews with leaders of Manchester City Council. • Peter Kageyama, an Author and international thought leader will offer a fresh and innovative perspective around what engagement is going to look like in the future and how we can better engage with our communities, and tell our stories to build a sense of place. • Andrew Little, Leader of the Opposition, will discuss the importance of regional New Zealand and local government to the wider economy, and the challenges we will face as the future of work changes. • Lawrence Yule, President of LGNZ and Jonathan Salter, Partner at Simpson Grierson will provide a fresh approach on resource management • Lieutenant General Tim Keating, Chief of Defence Force will offer a personal perspective of what he believes makes for a successful leader. • Jeb Brugmann, Founder of ICLEI, Local Governments for Sustainability and Managing Partner of The Next Practice will take an over-arching look at resilience and how we can build strong towns, cities and regions of the future. • Sir Mark Solomon, Kaiwhakahaere of Ngai Tahu will discuss the value achieved when councils build strong local partnerships within their towns, cities and regions. In particular, Sir Mark will discuss his view on the significance of relationships between iwi and local government. 7. The programme also includes six Master Class sessions: • Customer-centric services and innovative engagement - how community leaders can be intentional about creating a more emotionally engaging place • Special economic zones – what are they and can they help regional New Zealand? • Collaborative processes and decision-making • Resilient towns, cities and regions – creating places for the future • Risk management and infrastructure. 8. Local boards should consider the relevance of the programme when deciding on conference attendance, with the expectation that no local board will approve more than one member to attend the conference. 9. The AGM takes place on the first day of the conference. Auckland Council is entitled to have four delegates to the AGM, one of whom is the presiding (or voting) delegate. The four official delegates are likely to be the Mayor (or his nominee), the Deputy Mayor, Councillor Penny Webster (as Chair of Zone 1) and the Chief Executive (or his nominee). 10. The Mayor is a member of the LGNZ National Council, the Deputy Mayor is the Mayor’s alternate for this position, Cr Webster is the Chair of LGNZ Zone One and a member of LGNZ National Council. The Governing Body will consider an item on AGM attendance at their meeting on 31 March 2016. 11. LGNZ request that local board members who wish to attend the AGM, register their intention prior to the AGM. 12. The Local Board Services Department budget will cover the costs of one member per local board to attend the conference. 13. Registration fees are $1410.00 including GST before 1 June 2016 and $1510.00 including GST after that. Full conference registration includes: · Attendance at conference business sessions (Sunday-Tuesday) · Satchel and contents · Daily catering · Simpson Grierson welcome cocktail function · Fulton Hogan conference dinner and EXCELLENCE Awards function · Closing lunch and refreshments. 14. The council hosted tours on Sunday 24 July 2016 are not included in the conference price. Local board members are welcome to attend these at their own cost. 15. Additional costs are approximately $155 per night accommodation, plus travel. Local Board Services will be co-ordinating and booking all registrations and accommodation and investigating cost effective travel. Local Board Views 16. This is a report to the 21 local boards. 17. The Local Government NZ conference will better inform local boards and thereby support their decision making for their communities including Maori. Implementation Issues 18. There are no implementation issues associated with the recommendations in this report. LGNZ 2016 conference and master class programme Polly Kenrick, Business Process Manager, Local Board Services Anna Bray, Policy and Planning Manager Local Board Services Karen Lyons, Manager Local Board Services Community-led alcohol licensing project - six month report 1. This report provides an update on the local board’s community-led alcohol licensing project for the Māngere-Ōtāhuhu and Ōtara-Papatoetoe Local Board areas, for the six months October 2015 to March 2016. The information in this report is sourced from the progress update of the contractor (Grant Hewison and Associates Ltd), providing policy support and advice to members of the community engaged in alcohol licensing advocacy and objections. 2. Since October 2015, one new off-licence application has been made for Super Liquor Ōtāhuhu, situated at 743 Great South Road, Papatoetoe. The Ōtara-Papatoetoe Local Board has objected to the application and the Māngere-Ōtāhuhu local board has supported the objection. The hearing date is yet to be set as the buildings are not yet complete. 3. During the same period, seven objections were made to off-licence renewal applications, four of these in the Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board area. 4. The project contractor (Grant Hewison and Associates Ltd) advises that public notices are now being made online, applicants are generally using advisors to draft their applications, applicants are most often companies, rather than real persons, and applications do not include any mention of alcohol-related offences. 5. A guide for objecting to a licence to sell or supply alcohol has been updated by the Health Promotion Agency to assist objectors. 6. The contractor has highlighted an opportunity for the local board to make a submission to the Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Display of Low-alcohol Beverages and Other Remedial Matters) Amendment Bill 2015 to address issues. 7. The project contractor reports objectors are often negotiating settlements with applicants for renewal applications prior to Hearings and that this action has resulted in good outcomes for objectors and that in some cases objections have resulted in the imposition of a condition which would likely have not have been included if the objection had not been made. 8. The project contractor has commented that communities supported by the local boards are acting as an important check and balance on the system. At a minimum, community-based objections are testing the new legal framework, the evidence presented by applicants, the views and evidence of the Inspectors, Police and Medical Officer of Health, and the judgment of the District Licensing Committee (DLC). That the Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board note the local board’s community-led alcohol licensing project report for the period October 2015 to March 2016. Alcohol Licensing 9. Since October 2015, one new application has been made for a new off-licence in the Ōtara-Papatoetoe Local Board area for Super Liquor Ōtāhuhu, situated at 743 Great South Road, Papatoetoe. The Ōtara-Papatoetoe Local Board has objected to the application and the Māngere-Ōtāhuhu local board has supported the objection. The hearing date is yet to be set as the buildings are not yet complete. 10. During the same period, seven objections were made to off-licence renewal applications and several other applications were assessed, with no objections being made. In the Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board area the following applications received objections: · ‘Pak’nSave Mangere’ (Kennedys Foodcentre 2003 Ltd, 44 Orly Avenue, Mangere) · Countdown Mangere East (1/359 Massey Road, Mangere East) - variation to alcohol area · Countdown Mangere Mall (Bader Drive, Mangere Mall) · Thirsty Liquor Mangere (3/18 Mangere Town Centre, Mangere) In the Ōtara-Papatoetoe Local Board area, the following applications received objections: · ‘Countdown Papatoetoe’ (Hunters Plaza, 217 Great South Road, Papatoetoe) · Liquor Spot East Tamaki (217b East Tamaki Road) · KK Liquor (4/93 Ferguson Rd, Otara) 11. Between October 2015 and March 2016, the Auckland District Licensing Committee (DLC) issued decisions regarding the following applications with community objections: · Brews Otahuhu (52 Atkinson Avenue, Otahuhu) · Papatoetoe Liquor Spot (8/14 St George Street, Papatoetoe) · Super Liquor Papatoetoe (24 Charles Street, Papatoetoe) · Otahuhu Discount Liquor (7/628 Great South Road, Otahuhu) · R8 Nightclub (5/1 Town Centre Square, Mangere) · Caspar Road Liquor (584 Great South Road, Papatoetoe) 12. The full decisions are available at: http://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/EN/AboutCouncil/meetings_agendas/hearings/Pages/districtlicensingcommitteehearings2014.aspx Issues – Observations from the project contractor 13. The project contractor (Grant Hewison and Associates Ltd) has reported the following issues and observations of the process over the past six months: 14. The Sale and Supply of Alcohol Regulations 2013 allow notices of applications to be solely published online. It appears that applicants are looking to predominantly publish online notices on the alcohol notices website below rather than in newspapers. Link to online website: http://www.alcoholnotices.co.nz/ 15. The contractor reports that there may be a reduced likelihood of members of the public regularly searching this website, and that this highlights the valuable role of the Community Action Against Alcohol Harm Facebook page for proactively sharing alcohol license application information. 16. An issue identified by the contractor for objectors is that public notices do not differentiate between completely new applications and new licence holder applications. This has been partially addressed by the council staff highlighting completely new applications for local boards in a regular liquor licence applications report. Reviewing the Applications 17. The contractor reports some applicants are using advisors to draft their applications and approves of this approach because advisors include more information, similar in nature to an Environmental and Cumulative Impact Assessment (ECIA), which is a practice suggested under the Provisional Local Alcohol Policy (PLAP). 18. Form 4 of the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Regulations 2013 provides that the details of applicants include criminal convictions: [state all criminal convictions (other than convictions for offences against provisions of the Land Transport Act 1998 not contained in Part 6, and offences to which the Criminal Records (Clean Slate) Act 2004 applies)] 19. The contractor reports that typically applicants do not include any mention of alcohol-related offences, such as selling alcohol to minors or intoxicated persons, and it seems that alcohol-related offences are not considered criminal convictions. However, the contractor believes these are important offences that should be identified by the applicant. 20. The contractor suggests seeking to have the regulations amended to include a requirement to identify these offences and advises that this issue could be raised in a submission to the Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Display of Low-alcohol Beverages and Other Remedial Matters) Amendment Bill 2015, or directly with the Minister. Use of company entities 21. The contractor reports that it is typical that licensees and applicants for licences are companies rather than real persons. In the opinion of the contractor, there are advantages for licensees and applicants in using a company structure. One difficulty for community members is understanding who is behind the company and whether they have been associated with any inappropriate activities in the past, such as sales to minors, or how many other licences they may hold, as there can be multiple companies established. This also poses difficulties for other agencies such as the Police, Inspectors and Medical Officers of Health. 22. The contractor reports that community objectors have been involved in objections where the directors or shareholders of an applicant company, which may have been recently established and have an unblemished record, have had previous suspensions of licences or been involved in other companies with blemished records. 23. The contractor advises that the Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Display of Low-alcohol Beverages and Other Remedial Matters) Amendment Bill 2015 is likely to seek to clarify that a company can hold an alcohol licence, which was the law under the previous Sale of Liquor Act 1989, which explicitly said they could. 24. The contractor suggests that if the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act is to be amended in this way, a submission might be made to establish requirements that a company applicant declare in their licence application whether any real person associated with it, such as a director or shareholder or a store manager, has also been involved themselves or with another entity in a matter that has resulted in the suspension of a licence. Drafting and filing an Objection 25. The contractor advises that the Health Promotion Agency has refreshed its advice on objecting to an alcohol licence, noting that "the law now gives communities a stronger voice when it comes to issuing licences to sell or supply alcohol. There are more options to object to a licence that affects you than has been the case in the past." A copy of “Objecting to a licence to sell or supply alcohol” can be found here: http://alcohol.org.nz/resources/objecting-to-a-licence-to-sell-or-supply-alcohol-a-guide-to-objections-and-hearings Renewals Register 26. The contractor has developed a renewals register for the local board area, so that each licence renewal can be identified and assessed in advance of an application for renewal being made, and that this information can be shared with community members engaged in alcohol license processes. Off-Licence Checklist 27. In addition to the renewals register, the contractor has advised that community members engaged in license objections have also sought an off-licence checklist to be prepared. This identifies the conditions of a licence, any undertakings given and any assurances given in an application for each licence. The checklist will enable members of the community, as well as other agencies, to easily check whether an off-licence is complying with their conditions, undertakings and assurances. An example of a checklist for one off-licence is set out below. XXXXX Liquor Are they selling alcohol before 9am or after 11pm - or before 1pm on ANZAC day? Is there prominent signage displayed at the entrance and at the point of sale saying that alcohol will not be sold to minors or intoxicated persons? Is there anyone under the age of 18 in the store alone (without a parent or guardian)? Assurances (Page 8, Application Form) Ask the salesperson’s name. They should be either xxxx; or xxxx; If not, ask for the salesperson’s name. Does the salesperson ask for ID of every person who looks under the age of 25 years at the entrance of the store? Are there non-alcoholic drinks in the store? Is there no alcohol beer in the store? Are chips and snacks being sold in the store? Social Responsibility Policy (Attached to Application) Are there signs or messages in the store actively promoting safe and responsible drinking? Are any single bottles or cans of alcohol being displayed or sold less than 440ml? Are there any promotions of the sale of alcohol in the store or outside the store? Is there any graffiti on or in the vicinity of the shops? Is there anyone drinking alcohol in vicinity? Negotiated Settlements 28. The contractor reports that where possible for license renewals, objectors are seeking to negotiate settlements with applicants for renewal applications prior to Hearings, or at the commencements of Hearings. These negotiations have generally been commended by the DLC and resulted in good outcomes for objectors. The contractor believes it would be useful if this practice was recognised in a consistent way by the DLC. 29. Some objectors have been criticised for not attending hearings. Sometimes this is inevitable due to work commitments or illness. To ensure some representation at hearings, objectors have appointed agents to represent them. The contractor advises that while most DLC panels have accepted the use of agents or consultants, and this is stated to be permitted in the agendas of Hearings, sometimes this hasn’t been accepted. 30. The contractor suggests it would be very useful if there was a consistent DLC approach to the use of agents. Conditions and undertakings 31. The contractor reports an important outcome of the objections being made is that typically they have resulted in the imposition of a condition, such as a reduction in trading hours, or a discretionary condition such as no single sales, which would likely have not have been included if the objection had not been made. 32. However, the contractor points out that it is also important to follow up to ensure conditions and undertakings are actually implemented by the applicant and can give some examples where it appears that applicants have not been implementing conditions and undertakings thoroughly or promptly. 33. Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board has continued to support individuals or organisations within its communities to object to liquor license applications on a case by case basis throughout 2015/16. 34. The contractor reports that members of the community supported by the local boards are acting as an important ‘check and balance’ on the system. At minimum, community-based objections are testing the new legal framework, the evidence presented by applicants, the views and evidence of the Inspectors, Police and Medical Officer of Health and the judgment of the DLC. In the absence of a Local Alcohol Policy, this would appear to be the only way for community members to influence alcohol licences. Carol McGarry - Democracy Advisor Governance Forward Work Calendar 1. To present the Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board with its updated governance forward work calendar. 2. The governance forward work calendar for the Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board is in Attachment A. The calendar is updated monthly, reported to business meetings and distributed to council staff. 3. The governance forward work calendars were introduced in 2016 as part of Auckland Council’s quality advice programme and aim to support local boards’ governance role by: · ensuring advice on meeting agendas is driven by local board priorities · clarifying what advice is expected and when · clarifying the rationale for reports. 4. The calendar also aims to provide guidance for staff supporting local boards and greater transparency for the public. a) Note the Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board Governance Forward Work Calendar. Mangere-Otahuhu Local Board Workshop Notes 1. Attached are the notes for the Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board workshops held on 3 and 10 February 2016. That the Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board workshop notes from the workshops held 3 and 10 February 2016 be received. 3 February workshop notes 10 February workshop notes Date of Workshop: Wednesday 3 February 2016 Time: 1.00pm to 4.00pm Venue: Mangere-Otahuhu Local Board office Present: Lemauga Lydia Sosene, Peter Skelton (from 1.13pm), Carrol Elliott, Walter Togiamua (left 2.06pm), Tasi Lauese, Christine O’Brien, Janette McKain (Democracy Advisor), Carol McKenzie-Rex (Relationship Manager), Kenneth Tuai (Advisor), Thomas Murray (Engagement Advisor) Apologies: Nick Bakulich for absence. Tasi Lauese opened the meeting in prayer 1.00 - 1.30pm Yates Park Incident Chair Lemauga Lydia Sosene The Board discussed the recent Mangere Shooting @ Yates Park. Anna-Jane Jacob, Ben Udan The Board had a power point presentation and discussed the Healthy Families programme in the Mangere-Otahuhu Local Board area. Community Arts Broker Naomi Singer, Bobby Kennedy, Sally Barnett, Bronwyn Bent The Board discussed the community arts brokers draft work plan, which includes key project areas for delivery until September 2016 and indicative allocation of the $60k project budget. Elected Members Election Year Policy Warwick McNaughton To Board discussed the draft “Local Government Election Year Policy for Elected Members and provided feedback. 3.30 – 4.00pm Draft MOLB Open Space Network Plan Sam Noon, Siani Walker To Board discussed and provided feedback on the draft MOLB Open Space Network Plan. Date of Workshop: Wednesday 10 February 2016 Present: Lemauga Lydia Sosene, Carrol Elliott (from 1.20pm), Walter Togiamua, Tasi Lauese, Christine O’Brien, Nick Bakulich, Janette McKain (Democracy Advisor), Carol McKenzie-Rex (Relationship Manager), Kenneth Tuai (Advisor), Rina Tagore (Senior Advisor) Apologies: Peter Skelton for absence Nick Bakulich opened the meeting in prayer Legal opinion on Wickman Way and update on other issues. • Inorganic rubbish collection service and illegal dumping · Request for a legal opinion relating to a lack of a resource consent covering the entrance, stairwell and canopy of the upstairs liquor store at 18 Wickman Way. · Mangere Town Centre Fruit Shop issues. · The Board watched the new Auckland Council Waste video. · Portage Crossing. · Events in the Mangere-Otahuhu Local Board Area. District Licensing Committee (DLC) processes and meeting with DLC Chairs Carol McKenzie-Rex To Board discussed the legal opinion regarding DLC processes and advise a meeting is being arranged with DLC Chairs including the Otara-Papatoetoe and Mangere-Otahuhu Local Board Chairs and to include Member Nick Bakulich. A pre briefing will be organised for the Board Chairs and members prior to a meeting with the DLC Chairs. 24hr South Auckland Campaign Luo Lei A video was shown on the 24hr South Auckland Campaign and the received the results of this video. Beach Road Reserve Security Gate Malcolm Page The Board discussed the removal of the Beach Road Reserve security gate. A report will be coming to the March business meeting. Toia - Request to change the session times Davin Bray To Board discussed the recommendation to adding a new session time for school holidays, public holidays and weekends. What we suggest is as follows: 1 session break from 1pm and open 2pm Close 12pm and open 1pm Close 3pm and open 4pm The main reasons why we would like to make this change are as follows: • One session currently; we still reach capacity usually between 2:30pm and 3:00pm and these people stay long periods of time (some people line up and wait and a lot of others just leave) • The detailed cleaning that is getting done is outstanding so adding another time for this will add to the longevity of the building and enhance our customer experience • Less chance of reaching capacity allowing everyone who comes entry to the facility • Enhance customer experience and allow more people to access the facility • Assist us in our aim to maintain our water quality to NZ Standards (currently cannot due to over capacity) Officers to provide visitors information data from August to December and a report will come to a business meeting – April. Swimming Pool Charging Policy Rina Tagore To Board was informed on the swimming pool charging policy (response to Otara-Papatoetoe Chair from Community Policy and Planning). A report will come to the board prior to the 2017/2018 Annual Plan. Mangere-Otahuhu Local Board Members - Portfolio, Outside Organisations and BID Updates 1. This item allows the local board members an opportunity to present written and verbal updates to the board on their portfolios, outside organisation and BID representation. That the written and verbal updates from local board members be received. Member Elliott Report Chairpersons Announcements This item gives the Chairperson an opportunity to update the Board on any announcements and receive the Chairpersons written report. That the verbal update and written report be received.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line928
__label__cc	0.737099	0.262901	Jan Stites Lovingly-crafted women's fiction BookSurge Publishing Edgewise Simone, a troubled white middle class teacher, flees from the outpatient treatment program to which she was referred because the other patients in the inner-city program are mostly uneducated, severely depressed, and/or psychotic. Simone is forced to return to the program because “Oakhell” is the only facility she can afford. There she meets Satch, a streetwise black woman who scoffs at her denial and cheerful demeanor. In the weeks that follow, Simone and Satch are thrown together both inside and outside of the hospital. Their tumultuous relationship becomes crucial to both women’s quests to uncover the truths that propel them toward self-destruction before they take actions from which there can be no recovery. Watch a dramatized, adapted Scene Edgewise Copyright © 2021 Jan Stites	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line932
__label__wiki	0.899042	0.899042	[Mythbusters] White Makes Right When It Comes to Whaling Mythbusters Special Reports [Mythbusters] NYT Reporter Goes Round and Round Looking for Ways to Denigrate Japan Culture Mythbusters [Mythbusters] If You Want to Understand Fertility Rates, Stop Focusing on Japan Mythbusters Politics [Mythbusters] Tokyo Re-elects a Woman, Yet Foreign Media Sticks to Stereotyping ‘Backward’ Japan [Mythbusters] Voting in Japan: Pencils-and-Paper System Isn’t Broken, Don’t Fix It [Mythbusters] Reporting — and Exploiting — the Tragic Death of Hana Kimura [Mythbusters] Paper Jam: Foreign Reporting is Short on Facts About Fax in Japan Earl Kinmonth On the last day of 2018 the editorial board of The New York Times (NYT) issued one of its ex cathedra statements telling Japan and the Japanese what it had determined was best for them. Under the headline “Japan: Stop Slaughtering Whales,” this NYT version of a papal bull repeated — in several variations — statements that “most of the world…have moved on from the days when killing whales was deemed an acceptable pursuit.” This clearly shows that the NYT editorial board is well aware that Japan is not the only nation outside the International Whaling Commission (IWC) that engages in commercial whaling. Yet, nowhere are those other nations named: Norway, Iceland, and, depending on definition, Denmark. It is hard to imagine an approach more carefully crafted to confirm the belief of many Japanese, and not a few non-Japanese, that racism is a component of foreign opposition to Japanese whaling. Race Makes a Difference Adding to the implicit message that the NYT editors think whaling is not so bad if white people do it, is an article that appeared only a few months before the condemnation of Japan. That earlier article was headlined “Meet Iceland’s Whaling Magnate. He Makes No Apologies.” Although Sea Shepherd opposition was mentioned, the article basically let Kristjan Loftsson, a commercial hunter of fin whales, have his say, including his advice that those offended by his whaling operations should look the other way. The article concluded with him saying, “There’s nothing wrong with this.” Reading the editorial board’s condemnation of Japan in conjunction with this article on Iceland makes it hard to think that the NYT editorial on Japan was driven by anything other than racism. Not to be outdone, The Los Angeles Times (LA Times) editorial board issued its we too statement on Japanese whaling last January 3. It proclaimed, “But among the more than 80 nations that belong to the International Whaling Commission and have signed on to its ban on commercial whaling, Japan has always been a renegade member.” This artfully omitted the fact that, while Iceland and Norway are nominal members of the IWC, both conduct commercial whaling following quotas they set themselves. The LA Times editorial went on: “But the start-up of commercial whaling in its coastal waters in the North Pacific is an outrageous flouting of a long-established and still necessary global effort to preserve whale species and help them thrive.” In a long-standing pattern of woke Americans telling the Japanese what they should do, the editorial concluded, “It’s past time for the Japanese to join the overwhelming majority of the world and put the practice of whale hunting to rest, once and for all.” Again, there was no mention of Iceland and Norway, even though whaling in their exclusive economic zone is precisely what Japan has said it will do. The Guardian commentator Owen Jones also launched a vitriolic attack on Japan published under the title “The idea of Japan resuming commercial whaling is Horrifying.” Although mentioning “other nations,” he named none. He then concluded, “Japan’s actions should meet universal condemnation.” Again, it is hard to see this as anything other than racism. We won’t even mention those “other nations” since they happen to be predominantly white. Although many appending comments to this article agreed with Jones, not a few pointed out the failure to mention Norway, Iceland, and Denmark (Faroe Islands). National Public Radio was among those reporting Japan’s withdrawal with no reference to Icelandic or Norwegian whaling. It, too, used quotes such as, “This is the path of a pirate whaling nation, with a troubling disregard for international rule.” ‘Japan Kills Pregnant Whales’ Even before the flap over withdrawal from the IWC there was a spate of articles about Japan killing pregnant whales in its Antarctic operations. A typical article such as one in The Guardian carried a quote saying, “The killing of 122 pregnant whales is a shocking statistic and sad indictment on the cruelty of Japan’s whale hunt,” while making no mention of Iceland or Norway. Whales do not have obvious “baby bumps,” and if you kill whales, some will be pregnant females. Whales have long gestation periods (10-17 months), making it difficult or impossible to avoid taking pregnant whales through a seasonally limited catch. Further, the only reason those critical of Japanese whaling had this ammunition is because Japan reported this information as part of its research whaling. Reports that Norway had taken more than three times the Japanese catch and that 90% of the whales taken by Norway were pregnant received a small fraction of the attention and condemnation meted out to Japan. Even where there is condemnation of Norway in these articles, the rhetoric is notably muted compared to that used for Japan. Japanese Government Rebuttal The Japanese government responded to the NYT editorial with a letter published (January 11, 2019). The rebuttal noted that the editorial “didn’t mention critical facts,” which were given as (1) there would be strict catch limits; (2) no endangered species would be taken; (3) whaling would be limited to “Japan’s 200-mile exclusive economic zone, where it has the sovereign right to use the living resources”; (4) “there is no general international prohibition on whaling.” The letter continued, pointing out that “whaling has been a part of Japanese culture for centuries, just as it has been in Norway, Iceland, and Denmark, and among indigenous peoples in the United States and Canada, who continue to engage in it.” Perhaps wisely, the Japanese government did not describe the NYT editorial in terms of racism. Doing so would have almost certainly have provoked whataboutism of the form, “How can Japanese condemn racism when Japanese discriminate against….” But, it is not only Japanese who have sensed racism in the condemnation of Japanese whaling. Other news media do not seem to have published a rebuttal if one was received. Australians See Racism in Opposition to Japanese Whaling Some Australians have recognized a racism component in Australian opposition to whaling, including some who might consider themselves activists. University of Queensland anthropologist Adrian Pearce, writing in The Conversation in 2011, noted that Iceland’s “booming Arctic fin whaling” was more of a threat to whales than the faltering Japanese operation in the Antarctic, but he observed: “Demonizing the Japanese has long been the other side of the coin to worshipping the whale.” … But Icelanders look like us and talk like us, their science is much the same as ours (including the science which sets whale quotas) as are their political processes. Turning our gaze northwards to Iceland’s whaling economy will require realignment of our moral compass. What Japan is Actually Doing The one sided-condemnation of Japanese whaling and Japan’s withdrawal from the IWC ignored an important point that a small number of more intelligent and less biased commentators noted. The announced plan for commercial whaling in Japanese territorial waters and its economic zone does not represent an increased whale kill, but rather a substantial scaling down of Japanese whaling. Japan’s territorial waters and economic zone whaling has been going on at ever diminishing scale without adverse foreign comment. Under the announced plan, antarctic whaling will be stopped as well as North Pacific expeditions. Adding to the feeling that the NYT and LA Times editorials were knee jerk Japan bashing is the absence of serious consideration of what Japan says it will be doing: scaling down its whaling and perhaps even phasing it out. If the NYT and LA Times were concerned first and foremost about protecting whales rather than bashing Japan, this should have been emphasized. Whether Japan is in the IWC or not, whether the whaling is called commercial or research, if far fewer whales get killed, that should have earned Japan praise and led to condemnation of Iceland and Norway because both have announced increases in their self-imposed quotas. Japan’s Decision an Objective ‘Win’ for Everyone Remarkably, even Jeff Kingston — a longtime critic of Japanese policy in many areas and a severe critic of the Abe government in particular — recognized this in an opinion piece published in the South China Morning Post. Although not entirely sure his scenario would play out, Kingston observed, “Thus, it is possible to imagine a positive scenario where Japanese whaling will be scaled down, taxpayers’ money will not be squandered, and Japan will no longer be cast as the Voldemort of the oceans.” Julian Ryall, another inveterate critic of Japan and Japanese policy, cited Japanese sources to make much the same point in an article in The Telegraph. Other British papers had unsigned articles making the same point. As noted by Kingston and a small number of other commentators, the Japanese withdrawal from the IWC and planned resumption of commercial whaling has something for everyone: Sea Shepherd can proclaim success. The Australians and New Zealanders can applaud the ending of Japanese whaling in an area over which they claim a special interest. Those Japanese who see the IWC strictures as an affront to national sovereignty and pride can say we told the IWC what to do with its moratorium. Whaling communities can find comfort in the stated government policy of resumed commercial whaling. Costs of Maintaining the Fleet There are also suggestions that the costs of maintaining the Antarctic whaling operation have made it impossible to sustain. The main factory ship, the Nisshin Maru, is said to be in need of replacement or complete refurbishment. In addition, new regulations on ships operating in the Antarctic region require them to be double-skinned. That means that Japan would have to ignore this regulation or replace the rest of the whaling fleet as well. The Japanese withdrawal from the IWC, the abandonment of research whaling, and the resumption of commercial whaling might actually be the beginning of a stealth withdrawal from whaling. This “don’t ask, don’t tell” possibility should have occurred to the United States and the United Kingdom editorial writers, if for no other reason than that it was being enunciated in readily available English language news media. I have eaten whale meat. I rather like it. I have even tried to cook it myself with unfortunate results. The least bit of overcooking turns it rock hard. Nonetheless, as a Japanese taxpayer and later as a citizen, I have always thought that Japan should get out of whaling or at the very least stop the research whaling that was widely and rightly considered a farce. The Japanese demand for whale meat can easily be met by imports from Iceland or Norway. Let them take the heat. Having said that, I must also say that racist criticism of Japanese whaling is not to be permitted. Moreover, racist criticism of Japan is not limited to whaling. English language articles about Japan in both foreign media and domestic media, such as the Japan Times and Japan Today, are larded with derogatory comments about Japanese culture. It is insular, backward, xenophobic, sexist, feudal, and even worse. Even Japanese writers make such statements. The converse of denigrating Japanese culture, which means in effect the denigration of Japanese people, is the elevation of Western culture, which is a code word for European white culture. It is high time that Japanese stopped denigrating their own culture and ultimately denigrating themselves while giving ammunition to foreign racists. At the same time, Japanese companies should seriously consider withdrawing advertising from media, both domestic and foreign, that manifest blatant racism against Japan and the Japanese. Author: Dr. Earl H. Kinmonth Related Topics:anti-JapanDemonizing the JapaneseDenmarkFaroe IslandsIceland and NorwayIceland’s WhalingIWCJapan TimesJapan Todayjapanese cultureJapanese Government RebuttalJapanese territorial watersJapanese whalingJeff KingstonJulian RyallLA TimesMythbustersNisshin MaruNYTRacismracist criticismSea ShepherdThe Guardianwhalewhalingwhataboutism Earl H. Kinmonth is professor emeritus at Taisho University. Before moving to Japan in 1997, he was reader in Japanese Studies at the University of Sheffield (1989-1997) and professor of history at the University of California-Davis (1977-1989). His research is in the history and sociology of Japanese education from the Meiji period to the present, with an emphasis on 1930s-1940s Japan. He is a Japanese citizen and writes commentary in English and Japanese, and does Japanese English translation. He is currently writing a book on foreign media coverage of Japan under the working title Japan in the Foreign Imagination. [Bookmark] Politics Keeps the West Holding on to 300,000 Nanjing Massacre Tally A Unified Korean Peninsula Poses a Nuclear Threat to Japan To Set Issues Straight, Japan’s Best Bet is to Talk Directly to the South Korean Public How Would Japan in the Reiwa Era Appear to Yukio Mishima? [Bookmark] Discovering the Promise of Asia and America in Grant’s Visit to Japan	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line933
__label__cc	0.72643	0.27357	What is Life Care? Healthy Living Center Platinum Member Portal Our Giving Program Newsletter/Annual Reports Our History/Mission We’re growing to fit your We’re expanding our award-winning, wellness-focused community, adding 60 new independent living 1- and 2-bedroom plus den apartment homes with open floor plans and opportunities for personalization with updated finish selections. Plus, we’re building The Healthy Living Center, a state-of-the-art rehabilitation center, adding more dining options like a bistro, destination dining, and other amenities and services. We’re also renovating common areas in assisted living and skilled nursing. This planned expansion will enhance the lifestyle and experience for current residents while anticipating the desires and needs of a whole new generation of Long Islanders who are planning for retirement. Stay informed about the latest expansion developments. Picture yourself at Jefferson’s Ferry with a sneak peek of our new floor plans. Hear What Our Depositors Are Saying… The greatest gift we can give each other, our children and grandchildren, is to take care of ourselves. The concept of a continuing care community largely satisfies that goal. We are looking forward to spending many enjoyable years at Jefferson’s Ferry. Kathy and Paul Klotz We’ve known about Jefferson’s Ferry since it was built and have heard positive things from children of parents who have moved in and recently from residents. We have always tried to be proactive in planning our lives. We currently live in a condo, but we are concerned about the upkeep and responsibilities that will only get harder for us as we age. Moving to Jefferson’s Ferry will remove those concerns and, in our view, offer some of the perks of hotel living. Our anxiety will be lifted around our needs as we age. We feel that we will be able to preserve our privacy and dignity without creating an undue burden on our children. Additionally, though hard to come to grips with, when one of us passes, our spouse will have the support of being part of a community. Bob & Fran Boonin When my husband of 51 years died two years ago, I was left with the need to rethink my future. Although I’m quite healthy and active at this point (age 76), I do worry about what the future might bring. I do not want to be a burden to my daughter and believe that Jefferson’s Ferry offers me an excellent alternative to living into old age alone. I particularly like the idea that one check covers almost all costs of living and that I won’t have to worry any longer about the ever-increasing cost and trouble of maintaining my 90-year-old home. Karin Wile Learn more about who and where we are and why we created this award-winning Life Plan community. Get a closer look at what it’s like to live here. You just have to experience our community for yourself. Live the life you love — maintenance-free and on your own terms — in one of our cottages or apartment homes. Explore Independent Living One Jefferson Ferry Dr South Setauket, NY 11720 welcome@jeffersonsferry.org Copyright © 2021 Jefferson's Ferry. All rights reserved. \| Compliance Construction has begun! We broke ground on our expansion. Most popular floor plans are selling out. Lock in the lowest prices before they’re gone. SECURE YOUR DISCOUNT	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line937
__label__cc	0.658519	0.341481	Advertising & Publishing InlandEmpire.us Riverside Wants to Know if You’re “Happy or Not?” The City of Riverside, which places a premium on providing excellent customer service, is starting a new effort to measure customer satisfaction in real time through the use of the... First Annual Engineers Day Celebrated in Downtown Riverside Lancer Sports Review for the Week Riverside Parks, Recreation and Community Services Department Receives Award of Excellence CBU Lancers Results for the Week Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Citizens Academy Riverside Board of Public Utilities to Discuss Economic Impact Study & Utility Strategic Plan At the Board of Public Utilities meeting on Monday Feb. 13, staff will present two important reports that will help set the course for Riverside Public Utilities future over the... City of Riverside Names Stephanie Holloman Human Resources Director New Children’s Book About Riverside is in High Demand 2017 PRSA Western District Conference – March 2-3 in Riverside, CA It only comes to the Inland Empire every 8 years! And this year, it's the last time it will be in California for several years. PRSAInland Empire Chapter is proud... 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 How Changes to California’s Property Tax System Could Affect Reassessments Oak Valley College offers a Full Tuition Scholarship for Cal Grant award recipients MSJC Art Gallery Presents Art Talk with Artist Emma Robbins Claremont Graduate University Partners with San Manuel Band of Mission Indians to Support Healthier Communities in the Inland Empire Manufacturing Day Celebrated With Virtual Tours Inland Empire Community Foundation Selects New Director of Policy & Governmental Affairs Community Leaders to Jointly Address Inland Empire Educational and Economic Challenges Former Board of Supervisors Chairman Dennis Hansberger Passes City of Riverside Approves New Program Providing Grants to Small Businesses SBD International Airport Welcomes Amazon Air >> More News Stories Advertise & Publish Content Funding on InlandEmpire.US All Cities... Former Board of Supervisors Chairman Dennis Hansberger Passes https://t.co/zIDFyEI0yW #inlandempire #politics #countyofsanbernardino254 days ago City of Riverside Approves New Program Providing Grants to Small Businesses https://t.co/D7ScxPbL1w #inlandempire #business #riverside254 days ago SBD International Airport Welcomes Amazon Air https://t.co/gVJHgGphSR #inlandempire #business #amazon #sanbernardino #sbd #transportation254 days ago Copyright © 2019 RedFusion Media, Inc.. All rights reserved. Privacy Policy/Terms of Use Partner And Advertise Jobs in the Inland Empire	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line939
__label__wiki	0.731662	0.731662	Genre: Family & Relationships 4.5 Score: 4.5 (From 125 Ratings) New York Times bestselling and Newbery Medal-winning author Neil Gaimanâ€™s modern classic, Coralineâ€”also an Academy Award-nominated film "Coraline discovered the door a little while after they moved into the house...." When Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely similar to her own (only better), things seem marvelous. But there's another mother there, and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go. Coraline will have to fight with all her wit and courage if she is to save herself and return to her ordinary life. Neil Gaiman's Coraline is a can't-miss classic that enthralls readers age 8 to 12 but also adults who enjoy a perfect smart spooky read. More by Neil Gaiman The Sandman (2010-) #1 Neil Gaiman & Sam Kieth Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett 12 Common Core Essentials: Literature Harper Academic, Paulo Coelho, Neil Gaiman, Agatha Christie, Barbara Kingsolver, Richard Wright, Thomas C. Foster, Richmond Lattimore, Ray Bradbury, Zora Neale Hurston & Betty Smith Anansi Boys Coraline 10th Anniversary Edition American Gods: The Tenth Anniversary Edition (Enhanced Edition) (Enhanced Edition) George R.R. Martin, Gardner Dozois, Gillian Flynn, Neil Gaiman & Patrick Rothfuss The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes (New Edition) Neil Gaiman, Mike Dringenberg, Sam Kieth & Dave McKean Fragile Things An Excerpt from The Ocean at the End of the Lane Legends II Robert Silverberg, Terry Brooks, Diana Gabaldon, Neil Gaiman, George R.R. Martin, Anne McCaffrey, Robin Hobb, Orson Scott Card, Tad Williams, Raymond E. Feist & Elizabeth Haydon The Sandman Vol. 2: The Doll's House (New Edition) Neil Gaiman, Mike Dringenberg, Chris Bachalo & Michael Zulli Coraline 10th Anniversary Enhanced Edition The Sandman Vol. 3: Dream Country (New Edition) Neil Gaiman, Kelley Jones, Charles Vess & Colleen Doran Neil Gaiman & Al Sarrantonio The Sandman Vol. 4: Season of Mists (New Edition) Neil Gaiman, Mike Dringenberg, Kelley Jones & Matt Wagner A Study in Sherlock Laurie R. King, Leslie S. Klinger, Lee Child, Neil Gaiman & Alan Bradley Doctor Who: Nothing O'Clock The Sleeper and the Spindle The Sandman: Overture (2013-2015) #1 Neil Gaiman & J.H. Williams III Sandman Vol. 6: Fables and Reflections (New Edition) Neil Gaiman, P. Craig Russell, Jill Thompson, Bryan Talbot, Shawn McManus & Stan Woch Free Comic Book Day 2020 (General) Critical Role/Norse Mythology Jody Houser, Neil Gaiman, P. Craig Russell, Ariana Maher, Galen Showman, Lovern Kindzierski, Stephan McGowan & Maricela Ugarte Selections from Fragile Things, Volume One The Sandman Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones Neil Gaiman, Marc Hempel, Charles Vess, Dean Ormston, Richard Case, Kevin Nowlan & Teddy Kristiansen Make Good Art The Sandman: The Wake Neil Gaiman, Jon J. Muth, Michael Zulli, Charles Vess & Bryan Talbot Viriconium M. John Harrison & Neil Gaiman Eternity's Wheel Neil Gaiman, Michael Reaves & Mallory Reaves Clive Barker's Collected Best: Hellraiser, Vol. 1 Clive Barker, Alex Ross, Neil Gaiman, Mike Mignola & Dan Brereton Sandman Overture Deluxe Edition Copyright © 2021 Insatiable Reads.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line941
__label__cc	0.670337	0.329663	Home Fly Guy's Vintage Aviation Air Travel then and now: Pan Am’s Worldport vs Emirates’ new A380... Air Travel then and now: Pan Am’s Worldport vs Emirates’ new A380 Hub Dubai’s Emirates Airline has drawn close comparisons to the once supreme Pan American World Airways. Emirates’ luxurious aircraft, global route network, trend setting innovations and glamours cabin crew have many calling the airline the new Pan Am. Early next year when Emirates opens its new “A380 Hub” it will have one more strong comparison to add to the list. In 1960 Pan Am gave a home to the jet age when it opened the Pan Am Terminal later named Worldport at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City. The state-of-the-art terminal was designed for the new 130 seater Pan Am Jet Clippers – The Boeing 707. For several years the 8 gate terminal held the title of the world’s largest and most advanced. In 2013 Emirates will give the super jumbo its first official home when it opens the “A380 Hub” at Dubai International Airport. Designed to accommodate 20 of the 517 seater Airbus A380s at one time, the new hub can handle up to 15 million travelers per year. With 500,000 m2 on eleven levels the hub will feature dinning outlets such as Giraffe café, Paul, Carluccios, Shake Shack, Costa Metropolitan and a Moet & Chandon Champagne Bar. It will also be home to the biggest business class lounge in the world and a first class lounge with exclusive new facilities like a cigar bar and duty free shopping area. Both lounges offer direct access to the aircraft which means premium customers could be able to complete an entire air journey from check-in, duty free shopping, to arrival without ever seeing their fellow economy passengers flying on the lower deck. Also featured under the massive roof will be a dedicated hotel floor that will provided a 170-room four-star and 32-room five-star hotel. The hub is a concourse of the four-year-old Terminal 3, which by itself is already the wold’s largest terminal and the third largest building in the world by floor space. A380 hub worldport Previous articlePlane View: Qantas A380 Next articleSpoiled and I know it! http://internationalflyguy.com Jay Robert (A Fly Guy) is a journalist turned international air steward flying for one of the most luxurious airlines in the world. His insight into the airline world has been featured by major media outlets around the world such as CNN and The Wall Street Journal. In his spare time A Fly Guy runs a successful flight attendant network, A Fly Guy’s Cabin Crew Lounge. Follow his travels around the globe via his instagram In Search of Constellations: Fly Guy Finds a TWA Connie Brazilian Aviation Pioneer The only type of service to give… The Gold Service :) Let's hear from you Cancel reply	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line944
__label__wiki	0.519674	0.519674	Archive: Lithuanian Poetry by Marius Burokas Written by Marius Burokas Translated from the Lithuanian by Rimas Uzgiris Lithuania \| Lithuanian \| Poetry He smokes Camel grays. He translated Ginsberg into Lithuanian. Bushy grey hairs sprout from his pony tail--an unmistakable mane on a wiry frame. He quit drinking six years ago. He translated Bukowski. We worked together to put out an anthology of young Lithuanian poets in English. His literary knowledge is vast. He has read more than most people I know--in English, not to mention Lithuanian and Russian. We are now working together to put out a manuscript of his selected poems, and the poetry here is a part of that project. Marius Burokas is a poet and translator--a constant commentator on contemporary literature, an organizer of events, an editor of anthologies of new poetry, a family man. His poetry is rooted in the daily life of Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. Unlike much of the neo-romantic, nationalist verse of the last century that came out of a country struggling for independence, Marius is part of a new generation ushering in the postmodern era of interrogation and transnationality. In his second poetry collection, Conditions (Būsenos), he marks himself as a Lithuanian poet while standing naked in an American laundromat--not in the countryside, not on an ancient castle hill as would be expected in the hoary neo-romantic vein that dominated Lithuanian poetry until recently. In his I’ve learned how not to be (Išmokau nebūti), which won him the Young Jotvingian Prize in 2011, his Vilnius is the city outside of the renovated, tourist-filled, historical Old Town. Dingy dives and impersonal apartment blocks present the reader with a seedy and grim contemporary landscape. Whether thematically or stylistically, in a free-verse style indebted to William Carlos Williams, the beats, and the deep-image poets, Marius positions himself outside of traditional Lithuanian perspectives. He sees different aspects of life in Vilnius and he sees more typical aspects differently. So when he describes a traditional folk festival, he brings out the cruelty that lies behind the superficial enjoyments and smug nationalism. Burokas searches for meaning in a fallen world, while death in the form of a naked prostitute calls to him from an apartment window. - Rimas Uzgiris	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line946
__label__wiki	0.743939	0.743939	Office 365 - Getting Started with Groups Important: You have multiple choices when it comes to using this feature. Before proceeding, please review the following document to see if another option exists to better suit your needs: Office 365 - What are the differences between an Office 365 Group, an Office 365 Security Group, a Contact list, a Google Group, and WiscLists?. Groups in Office 365 let you choose a set of people that you wish to collaborate with and easily set up a collection of resources for those people to share. You don't have to worry about manually assigning permissions to all those resources because adding members to the group automatically gives them the permissions they need to the tools your group provides. When you subscribe to a group, all the email messages and meeting invitations are sent directly to your inbox. But they're also stored in your group folder. So don't worry about accidentally deleting something or creating a rule to move mail from your inbox to a private folder. Delete it from your inbox after reading it and know there's still a copy safely stored in your searchable group folder; in fact, all the messages since the group began are stored in the group folder. Even if you weren't a member at the beginning, you'll get to see the full history once you join. As of 6/10/2019, Groups created via Outlook on the web, Outlook desktop, Outlook mobile, SharePoint, Microsoft Stream, and Microsoft Teams are now created Private by Default. By default, when a Microsoft Group is created, the Group and its members are visible within Global Address List (GAL). This means that anyone within UW-Madison's implementation of Office 365 will be able to search for and see the members of any Group. To manage this feature, see Office 365 - Make a Group Hidden or Unhidden within Global Address List (GAL) or make Members Hidden from non-members. All groups are assigned an email address which follows the format: name@office365.wisc.edu. By default, anyone with a UW-Madison Office 365 account can send a message/email to the group - this can be managed within the settings of the group. By default, when new Office 365 Groups are created in Outlook, the default subscription option will be set to receive all group emails in the inbox. Group owners and members can change this setting at any time. If you are member of a group (which is enabled for mail delivery to every member of the group) and send a message to the group, you will not receive this message into your mailbox. It will only be visible in your "Sent Items" folder. This is expected behavior. To manage this behavior, follow steps outlined in Receive a copy of email you send to a group section below. Service Accounts can be members of a group, but they will only have access to the shared Inbox and shared Calendar features of the group. They won't get the document library, Planner, Teams, or any of the other capabilities/features of the group. When a new Team is created via Teams client and not associated with an existing Group (one which does not have a Team assigned to it), the process will create a Group for this team but the Group will be hidden to all Outlook clients. In addition, other Group features will not be created - Mail, Calendar, Groups, and Files. If the Team was not connected to a Group during the creation process and you intend to use the other Group features, you should delete this Team and start the process creation process by creating a Group via Groups app and then creating a Team and assigning it to the Group you just created. A public group is open to everyone. If you just want to see what the group is doing, all the content and conversations are easy to view. But if the group interests you, you can join it and become a member. In most cases, a public group is your preferred alternative. A private group is exclusive and only open to its members. The content and conversations are secure and not viewable by everyone. Choose a private group when you are concerned about security and privacy, such as trade secrets or confidential information. Although anyone can see the name of the private group, information is also security-trimmed so it is not accessible from search, links, or in other ways. Joining a private group requires approval from a group administrator. Before you can join a group, you need to find it. Fortunately, groups are open and discoverable by default. Both public and private groups have a group profile displayed in a card that includes the name, description, photo, alias, membership, and so on. If this group information is sensitive, you should look at other options instead of using a group. Although you cannot participate in a private group that you are not a member of, by default, anyone with a UW-Madison Office 365 account can send a message/email to a private/public Group. You have the ability to change a public group into a private group, or a private group into a public group. It is recommended that you use Outlook on the web to create a group. Learn more. You can set up your group to allow external senders to email your group. See below to learn how. Select "Settings" within your Office 365 group Select "Edit group" Select the "Let people outside the organization email the group" setting Select "Save" Important: If you have not enabled advanced administration for the Group, you will not be able to complete the steps below. See Manage/View Group Settings/Parameters on how to enable advanced administration. Log into the https://email.wisc.edu/admin Enter your NetID credentials Select Delegated Administration Select a domain that you have administrative rights to If you do not see the option to select a domain (ex: doit.wisc.edu), you do not have administrative rights to one You will need to contact the DoIT Help Desk or your IT department for further assistance Select Add Alternate Address Account to Add Address To: Enter your Office 365 Group's email address (ex: buckybadgers12@office365.wisc.edu) New Alternate Address: Enter your preferred alternate email name (ex: buckyacademics) Search for your Office 365 Group email address (ex: buckybadgers12@office365.wisc.edu) in the search field Select Email Addresses Select Set Primary next to the newly created alternate email address Note: If your newly created alternate email address does not appear right away for your Office 365 Group, try opening a new private browser session and search for your Office 365 Group using the group's email address. Then select the Email Addresses option and try to select the alternate email address as the primary again. As an owner of a group, you can manage members of the group. Note: It may take up to 24 hours for a member to be able to access the Teams application for a Group. Important: If the Office 365 account you are attempting to add is hidden in the GAL (Global Address List), it cannot be added through the Group/Teams client. You will need to use the administration site to add this member. Guest access in Office 365 Groups lets you and your team collaborate with people from outside your organization by granting them access to group conversations, files, calendar invitations, and the group notebook. Access can be granted to a guest - for example, a partner, vendor, supplier, or consultant - by any group owner. Learn more. Note: You can only add individual email addresses as guests. You cannot add lists or groups from external systems. Also, nesting groups is not supported. If you add another Office 365 group as a member, the membership is expanded and the members of the group you were adding will be added individually and any changes to the nested group will not be reflected in the group they were added to. As an owner of a group, you can advertise (email, flyers, word of mouth, etc.) the group by providing the url of the group. The format of the url should be in the form of: https://outlook.office.com/owa/?path=/group/AddressOfGroup/mail AddressOfGroup = email address of the group (somename@office365.wisc.edu) There are times when you would like to browse/search for an existing group - use the instructions below: Open Outlook on the web. In the navigation pane, under Groups, select Discover. (If you don't see Discover, click More at the bottom of your groups list. Once all of your groups are displayed you should see the Discover link.) There are times when you would like to join an existing group or looking for more information on the purpose of the group. Follow steps to request to join a group. To find out the use of the group, contact the group owner - by searching for the group and viewing the group members. Important: If the group/members are hidden in the Global Address List, contact the help desk to make this request. All accounts that have this format name@office365.wisc.edu are group accounts. If the account is searchable in the Global Address List (GAL), you will be able to find additional details on the account. You can search for the account using the search feature via the 'People' screen within Outlook on the web. If the account cannot be searched for, then you must contact the DoIT Help Desk for further assistance. When you follow a group in Outlook, all group conversations and calendar events will be sent to both the group mailbox and your personal inbox. This is particularly helpful when you belong to multiple groups and want to stay on top of the conversations from one location. Important: By default, if you are a member of the group and send a message to the group, you won't receive the messages in your inbox. If you want to receive the message into your inbox, please make sure to modify your Group settings. Learn how to follow or unfollow a group. If you are a member of a group and send a message to it, by default, the message will not be delivered to your mailbox. You now have the ability to change this setting so that messages you send to a group that you are a member of will also arrive into your mailbox - follow Microsoft steps to activate this setting (follow steps outlined within Web). Groups can be created and managed by any Office 365 account. View the following video to see a group in action. At this time, PLC groups can only be created using Outlook on the web. When creating a group via Outlook on the web, you will have the option to create a Standard and Professional Learning Community (PLC) group. Important: It is recommended that you wait at least 60 minutes after creating, managing members, or deleting a group so that the changes are synced within Office 365. Manage/view Group Settings/Parameters. For more information about how to perform certain actions, such as joining a group, scheduling a meeting on the group calendar, managing group members, limits for groups, etc, review the following document: Learn about Office 365 groups. Guest access in Office 365 Groups enables you and your team to collaborate with people from outside your organization by granting them access to group conversations, files, calendar invitations, and the group notebook. Access can be granted to a guest --- including partners, vendors, suppliers, or consultants --- by any group owner. Learn how to use guest access. What happens when a group is deleted All data within the group will be deleted, this includes conversations, OneDrive for Business files, Notebooks, Planner, Team, and calendar data. A group can be deleted via the 'edit group' screen or via the Planner app. A Group can be restored within 30 days of it being deleted. Please see Microsoft documentation on what is restored. Contact the DoIT Help Desk and request the Group to be restored - please provide the Group name and email address. You can interact with a group using many different clients/devices: Outlook for the web and Outlook 2016 for Windows/Mac Android, iOS, and Windows Phone Microsoft rolls out support for Groups to Outlook for Mac, Android, and iOS Compare Outlook Groups on all platforms What's the difference between an Office 365 group and a distribution list? If the Group was deleted within the last 30 days, follow these steps to restore it: As the owner who deleted the Group, log into Outlook on the web. Go to People from within Outlook screen. Expand the "Groups" section. Click Deleted folder. Find the Group in question and click the Restore button. Note: It may take a few minutes for the Group and all its related data to be restored and available within all clients. At this time, Shifts data/schedule is not restored - Microsoft is aware of this and is working on a solution. Office 365 - Connectors for Groups Office 365 - What are the differences between an Office 365 Group, an Office 365 Security Group, a Contact list, a Google Group, and WiscLists? 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__label__wiki	0.970685	0.970685	Vanessa Hidary impresses audience with spoken word performance By Ilana Yergin February 12, 2014, 6:05 pm 0 Edit Vanessa Hidary, also know by her stage name, the Hebrew Mamita, chats at a mixer prior to her spoken word performance, Thursday, Feb. 6, at the Union Project in Highland Park. The show, which was sponsored by the Holocaust Center of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh, was intended to reach a young Jewish audience. (Chronicle photo by Lindsay Dill) Vanessa Hidary, better known by her stage name, The Hebrew Mamita, performed Thursday evening, Feb. 6, at the Union Project in East Liberty, to some 100 people as part of the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh’s Meet the Artist series. “Tonight was great,Vanessa Hidary, better known by her stage name, The Hebrew Mamita, performed Thursday evening, Feb. 6, at the Union Project in East Liberty, to some 100 people as part of the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh’s Meet the Artist series. “Tonight was great,” said Hidary after the show. “Really passionate and fun. I felt good.” “I’m impressed,” said Temple Sinai’s Rabbi James Gibson. “She has a very, very broad range and she comes from a diverse culture.” Through her spoken word performance, Hidary explores her culturally diverse upbringing, what it means to her to be a Jew, and the importance of accepting all cultures. In her namesake poem “Hebrew Mamita,” she recounts an anti-Semitic encounter she had at a bar and forces the audience to consider and question: “What does Jewish look like?” “[The performance] did live up to my expectations,” said Sasha King, who found out about the performance through Facebook. As someone who has done Jew of Color activism, she was excited that Hidary would be coming to the city. “Maybe it’s opened a few minds,” King said. Hidary describes herself as: “Half-Sephardic, half-Syrian, and half-Russian.” In her act, she shares stories of the different cultures and religions she has gotten to know through friends and old boyfriends, and how those experiences have helped her discover more about herself and her own identity. The crowd Thursday night cheered Hidary on as she performed samples of her slam poetry and an excerpt from her book “The Last Kaiser Roll in the Bodega.” “I think it was fabulous,” said Joy Braunstein, director of the Holocaust Center, after Hidary’s performance. “The point of the series originally was to reach out to a young adult Jewish audience.” Although Braunstein says the crowds have tended to be more intergenerational, Hidary drew a relatively young audience. The event was co-sponsored by J’Burgh and Shalom Pittsburgh. Wednesday evening, Hidary put on an event for an even younger audience of local teenagers who were not invited to the 21 and over main show. The teen event, which the Agency for Jewish Learning helped organize, gave Hidary the opportunity to speak with around 45 teenagers and to help them write their own slam poetry. “They were really open,” said Hidary, who has done projects like this with teens in other cities. “Sometimes teens can be really closed and they were really open and fantastic.” “She talked to them about what being Jewish means and also about inter-Jewish prejudice, which I think was really evocative for them,” said Braunstein. “It was cathartic for them to stop and think about not only how does the world perceive me, how do I perceive myself as being Jewish, but how do other Jews perceive me and how do I perceive other Jews?” Watch the Hebrew Mamita video (Ilana Yergin can be reached at ilana.yergin@gmail.com.)” said Hidary after the show. “Really passionate and fun. I felt good.” (Ilana Yergin can be reached at ilana.yergin@gmail.com.)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line953
__label__cc	0.639748	0.360252	Pope Francis Directs Priests to Pardon Women for Having Abortions Anna Merlan It’s the Holy Year of Mercy in the Catholic world, and the remarkably chill Pope Francis has announced that the Vatican will mark the occasion by sending out “missionaries of mercy” who will pardon women for having had abortions and doctors for performing them. Abortion, which is considered a mortal sin, can still result in excommunication from the Catholic church. Vatican Archbishop and President of the Pontifical Academy for Life Rino Fisichella announced the move at a press conference this week. The missionaries will be specially appointed, and empowered to pardon people for all kinds of usually unforgivable sins; Fischiella said it should be seen as “a concrete sign that a priest must be a man of mercy and close to all.” This appears to be the first time a pope has ordered pardons for abortion, although it clearly doesn’t mean Francis is, in any sense of the word, pro-choice: in January of last year, he called abortion “a horror” and “frightful.” In a fairly remarkable document called a “bull of indiction,” he outlined the other kinds of things the Vatican will be doling out mercy for this year. Abortion isn’t specifically mentioned, but criminal organizations are. Pope Francis is Argentinian; the country is plagued by organized crime and brutal drug cartels, and in the document, he begs criminals of all stripes to change their ways: May the message of mercy reach everyone, and may no one be indifferent to the call to experience mercy. I direct this invitation to conversion even more fervently to those whose behaviour distances them from the grace of God. I particularly have in mind men and women belonging to criminal organizations of any kind. For their own good, I beg them to change their lives. I ask them this in the name of the Son of God who, though rejecting sin, never rejected the sinner. Do not fall into the terrible trap of thinking that life depends on money and that, in comparison with money, anything else is devoid of value or dignity. This is nothing but an illusion! We cannot take money with us into the life beyond. Money does not bring us happiness. Violence inflicted for the sake of amassing riches soaked in blood makes one neither powerful nor immortal. Everyone, sooner or later, will be subject to God’s judgment, from which no one can escape. The Pope also specifically called for repentance from anyone who “either perpetrate[s] or participate[s] in corruption,” writing, “This festering wound is a grave sin that cries out to heaven for vengeance, because it threatens the very foundations of personal and social life.” He’s also reportedly considering celebrating mass with prisoners during the Year of Mercy. Pope Francis pictured in May 2015. Photo via AP Images Contact the author at anna.merlan@jezebel.com. Public PGP key PGP fingerprint: 67B5 5767 9D6F 652E 8EFD 76F5 3CF0 DAF2 79E5 1FB6 Bears for President I like that we’re judging the head of the Catholic Church roughly the same way I judge the stuff my 8 year old nephew makes in his pottery class.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line954
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__label__wiki	0.787808	0.787808	Attorney Todd Falzone Represents Abuse Case Against the DCF A lawsuit filed this week revealed a long history of willful neglect from the Florida Department of Children and Families. The abuse victims, who were adopted twins, suffered years of neglect and mistreatment from their parents, which eventually led to one of the children’s death. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of the twins’ now 11-year-old sister, identified as “J.B.,” who retold the children’s shocking mistreatment before their adoptive father murdered one of the siblings and injured another. In 2011, the parents faced criminal charges after law enforcement found the two children in their father’s car, which reeked of hazardous chemicals. The boy suffered severe burns, and his sister died as a result of her injuries. “It’s a horrible, disgusting set of facts,” said Attorney Todd Falzone, who represents J.B. According to the lawsuit, the children suffered abuse for years, including physical, emotional, and sexual abuse. Falzone then explained that DCF failed the children by allowing the abuse to continue. “It’s about a systematic failure of DCF and its agency to protect children that they’re supposed to be protecting.” The lawsuit revealed that, when the children were formally adopted in 2007 by their abusive parents, DCF investigators knew about the allegations of mistreatment but failed to halt legal proceedings. Falzone is suing DCF for the right to trial by jury. DCF faced another suit in 2012, filed on behalf of the twins. Like J.B.‘s claims, the 2012 lawsuit alleged the same abuse from the parents and neglect from DCF. View news articles here: The Miami Herald Miami-Herald-print NBC6-Falzone Todd R. Falzone Previous: Previous post: CVS Pharmacy Removes Tobacco Products from Shelves Next: Next post: Robert Kelley Represents Nurse in Ebola Whistleblower Case John Uustal, Catherine Darlson, and Michael Hersh Named “Most Effective Lawyers of 2020” by Daily Business Review Kelley \| Uustal is pleased to announce that attorneys John Uustal, Catherine Darlson, and Michael Hersh have been named the “Most Effective Lawyers of 2020” by the Daily Business Review… Kelley \| Uustal named a Tier 1 “Best Law Firm” in Fort Lauderdale by U.S. News – Best Lawyers® in 2021 Kelley \| Uustal has once again been named a Tier 1 “Best Law Firm” in Fort Lauderdale in three practice areas by U.S. News – Best Lawyers® in 2021. The practice… Harold Pryor secured the keys to the Broward State Attorney’s Office Democrat Harold Fernandez Pryor secured the keys to the Broward State Attorney’s Office after facing off against Republican Gregg Rossman. Pryor obtained 582,880 votes — 64% — and Rossman received 334,684 — 36%. Pryor is a former…	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line970
__label__cc	0.662805	0.337195	KFR Win Prestigious Award KFR were proud winners of the Reuse organisation of the year award 2019. Our Operations manager, Dan Thompson, tells us about winning the award and what it means to the charity. “the award was open to all reuse charities/social enterprises in the country that are a member of the Resuse network. As we have had a very successful year, with appearances on ITV Westcountry and various interviews on BBC Radio Wiltshire, I thought us worthy to be considered for this award. The Reuse network were very complimentary about our application and shortlisted us to the final 3 nominees. The competition was tough with the other two applicants very successful and established charities with great causes at the heart of their business. The winner would be decided by public vote. We asked our loyal fans on Facebook and all our local contacts to vote for us and they came through for us. I would like to thank everyone that voted, you made this happen for us and without your support on donations, buying and volunteering we couldn’t be the success we are today”. “with the extra exposure we plan to take in more unloved furniture, help more low income families, get more volunteers into the workplace, become bigger and better at what we do. We plan to refurbish more white goods by expanding our engineering output, reach further limits of the county, help people who need our help. We are a charity run by members of our community, for our community and supported by the community. We will beat the reuse drum as loud as we can to further save items of furniture entering landfill, whether your relocating or just updating, KFR can turn a house into a home on a limited budget”. PrevPreviousDesperately seeking white goods NextITV Filming with KFRNext	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line974
__label__wiki	0.770818	0.770818	27th August, 2015, 3:52 pm Four things Labour’s moderates need to do before the next leadership election Tom Mauchline Whatever the outcome of the Labour leadership election one thing is clear, we moderates in the party were smashed. This may have been easier to stomach if the candidate or campaign had been rubbish – they weren’t. They were actually quite good. But as Lynton Crosby says “you can’t fatten a pig on market day” and it is clear now the moderate wing of the party’s campaign infrastructure is sorely lacking. There are some noble reasons for this. But that doesn’t matter. If we want to win we need to get four things in place before the next campaign or, as one senior member of the Kendall campaign told me, “it’s like running the 400m whilst trying to put your knickers on”. Build a movement of supporters Corbyn’s rise might look like an overnight success but his wing of the party have been building their movement for years. Dr Eoin Clarke gets a lot of publicity because journalists are on Twitter but his audience pales in comparison to the hundreds of thousands who like a network of left wing Facebook pages. RedLabour where a lot of Corbyn staffers started was rolled out nationally with no resources by Alexander Craven. And that isn’t even one of the larger ones. Corbyn’s movement has combined these pages with more traditional organisations such as Trade Unions and socialist societies to create a powerful movement. We can’t wait for the membership list at the start of the campaign to start finding volunteers. We need to start now. Building up that database centrally is hard and takes resource we don’t have, but tools like Ctrl Shift Labs and Facebook allow MPs, Councillors, members and the public to run their own campaigns and grow the networks data. You didn’t receive a mail out from Liz? It didn’t get lost in the post, she just couldn’t afford to send one. Which should humiliate all of us. The big donors that should have supported the campaign didn’t and we didn’t have the audience in place to do a serious micro-funder push. The creation of formal bodies in the style of “The Chris Smith List” or “Emily’s List” in the US could be a practical way to build reserves from big donors before a campaign starts. If the current crop of moderate donors are too tight fisted then a prawn cocktail offensive is needed to replace them. However, in the UK, – quite rightly – big donors will never be enough. We need to start building out our understanding of micro-donations. A/B testing page layouts and copy tricks now, so when the time comes we know that our candidates are best equipped to fund those crucial early weeks. Build a coalition The false dichotomy between moderates in the Labour Party and large parts of the trade union movement has held us back for too long. It is very rarely in politics that the cynical thing and the right thing overlap but building a strong coalition amongst radical centrists and radical trade unionists will simultaneously help us win elections and fix the big problems facing our country. Learn to talk to members We know that our values are exactly the same as everyone else in the labour movement. Where we may differ is method. Yet we have allowed ourselves to get painted as Tories, cynics and careerists. Most of this doesn’t come down to policy but rather tone and emphasis. In a search to become the party of government we have adopted the language of the centre ground, which fails to resonate with the rest of our movement. Whether this was the right decision doesn’t matter – it makes winning internal elections hard. The most obviously stark example of this during the current election is in a much missed interview with LabourList Andy and Liz gave about tax breaks for private schools. Both answers were in substance the same; serious, understanding and full of nuance. But whilst Andy started with ‘no, private schools shouldn’t get tax breaks’, Liz started with ‘yes, they should’. Labour members understand that hard choices have to be made but they want to be sure that those choices are still moving us closer to the ideal. Our wing of the party has correctly taught me to never blame the electorate. Focus groups may be needed but we need to start having proper conversations with our comrades when we are campaigning in seats. The practicalities of winning shouldn’t stop us having wider conversations about the future of the labour movement. I was once at a pub quiz where one of the questions was ‘what is the national animal of Scotland?’. One lady on the table opposite knew it was a unicorn. Her friends were incredulous. She tried to convince them but the more emphatic she was the more drunk she looked and the less her friends believed her. It was funny to watch, but it’s a reminder that being right doesn’t always matter. Tags: Tom Mauchline / Labour leadership / Tom Mauchline is a Labour member and was head of digital for Jess Phillips' campaign. @TomMauchline View all articles by Tom Mauchline	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line977
__label__wiki	0.600607	0.600607	← Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +) ‘Dear Los Angeles’: 1,000 Quotes in Search of a Book → Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights — Rah! Rah! Hollywood Celebrates Pennants Posted on February 11, 2019 by lmharnisch Hollywood has always been creative in promoting its films and personalities to the public. Employing posters, lobby cards, window cards and photographs, silent film production companies hyped upcoming films. With the success of these forms of advertisements and publicity, companies began selling or giving away photographs, buttons, pillow tops, plates and pennants featuring likenesses of popular moving picture stars as souvenirs and collectibles to eager fans. The film industry was usually not the first to conceive of ideas; instead, it built on successful practices and gimmicks of other fields. One such popular practice the silent film industry quickly copied was the manufacture and distribution of small felt pennants promoting either producing companies or the film stars of such organizations. Now on Amazon: “Hollywoodland: Tales Lost and Found” by Mary Mallory Pennants arose as a form of identification and signaling aboard sailing ships around 600 years ago, a small, tapered flag whose color helped identify the owner or captain of a ship. The word itself arose in the 1600s, per the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. The sport of baseball was one of the first to promote the simple pennant as an emblem of commendation and support. Winners of the National Baseball League won their division’s pennant each year, with the National League awarding pennants back to 1876. Fans took up the little flags to support their teams, as they were cheap and easy to put together. Their popularity quickly spread to colleges and universities, both for the schools in general as well as for their teams. A 1910 story in the Los Angeles Times noted that felt pennants were a nice gift for college boys and girls, since they were very simple to make. A piece of felt would be cut in the shape of a flag, with lettering applied either by paint, embroidery, or by cutting out letters from different colors of felt, gluing them to the pennants, and then machine stitching the edges. Car rallies, social organizations, parades, churches, cities, states and special events quickly began employing pennants as souvenirs to support themselves and allow fans and supporters to cheer on the cause. Manufacturers of film-related products quickly followed suit. 1910 Moving Picture World featured advertisements from Chicago’s America Badge Co., which produced buttons, badges and pennants as souvenirs. A 1911 Moving Picture World story noted that a Manhattan sales gathering of motion picture companies at a ball and picture exhibition would feature pennants of the various independent film manufacturing companies. Vitagraph appears to be the first studio to sell pennants promoting itself, buying ads in 1913 issues of Motion Picture Story Magazine offering 11- by 30-inch felt pennants at 25 cents each. American Film Manufacturing Co., the Flying A, bought ads and released stories to Moving Picture World, Motography, and Motion Picture News as early as Jan. 24, 1914, stating that they had “…issued a very attractive felt pennant with the “Flying A” and the name “American.” These pennants are made up in red, white, and blue, with the trade-mark and name sewed thereon, making a very attractive souvenir. These can be secured direct from the Chicago office of the American or from the Mutual offices.” In August, they also sold Beauty pennants for Beauty Films and the motion picture “Sweet Land of Liberty” starring Marguerita Fischer for $1 each. Vitagraph followed suit later in the year, offering an 11-inch felt pennant with the company’s name on the side. The Aug. 25, 1915, Moving Picture World noted the popularity of pennants in a story titled “Pennant Craze Strikes City,” describing the popularity of pennants at San Francisco’s World Exposition that year. Demand for all types of pennants was huge, and exhibitors quickly stepped forward to give film pennants away on certain days. “To meet this demand Davis Brothers have just brought out an interesting Charlie Chaplin felt pennant, six by three inches in size, with a picture of this screen favorite on one side. The convenient size of this pennant enables it to be worn on the lapel of a coat and it is offered at a price sufficiently low to permit of its being given out in quantities.” In 1915, Motion Picture Magazine ran ads telling readers that a year’s subscription to the magazine costing $1.50 earned a set of 15 pennants, or subscribing for a year of Motion Picture Classic costing $1.75 earned a set of 13 pennants. If readers paid $3 to subscribe to both magazines, they received 30 pennants. Early in 1916, Film Fun magazine published an ad announcing that a set of 24 pennants would be given away with one year’s subscription costing $1 to the magazine. Readers could also subscribe for only three months at 25 cents and earn five pennants. Manufacturers jumped in on the craze as well, buying advertisements in the back of fan magazines, listing the names and faces of various stars affixed to pennants, which readers could purchase by money order. Fans could even purchase autographed pillow tops featuring photographs of their favorite stars. Pennant collecting reached its height in 1917, with several companies listing pennants for sale in magazines, but by 1920, the craze was over. This entry was posted in Film, Hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory and tagged film, hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory, movies. Bookmark the permalink.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line978
__label__wiki	0.713479	0.713479	Fin Whale Sound Reception Mechanisms: Skull Vibration Enables Low-Frequency Hearing Ted W. Cranford , * E-mail: Ted.W.Cranford@gmail.com ¶‡ These authors contributed equally to this work. Affiliation San Diego State University, Department of Biology, San Diego, California, United States of America, and Quantitative Morphology Consulting, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America Petr Krysl Affiliation University of California San Diego, Department of Structural Engineering, La Jolla, California, United States of America Ted W. Cranford, Ted W. Cranford Petr Krysl 23 Mar 2015: The PLOS ONE Staff (2015) Correction: Fin Whale Sound Reception Mechanisms: Skull Vibration Enables Low-Frequency Hearing. PLOS ONE 10(3): e0122298. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0122298 View correction Hearing mechanisms in baleen whales (Mysticeti) are essentially unknown but their vocalization frequencies overlap with anthropogenic sound sources. Synthetic audiograms were generated for a fin whale by applying finite element modeling tools to X-ray computed tomography (CT) scans. We CT scanned the head of a small fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) in a scanner designed for solid-fuel rocket motors. Our computer (finite element) modeling toolkit allowed us to visualize what occurs when sounds interact with the anatomic geometry of the whale’s head. Simulations reveal two mechanisms that excite both bony ear complexes, (1) the skull-vibration enabled bone conduction mechanism and (2) a pressure mechanism transmitted through soft tissues. Bone conduction is the predominant mechanism. The mass density of the bony ear complexes and their firmly embedded attachments to the skull are universal across the Mysticeti, suggesting that sound reception mechanisms are similar in all baleen whales. Interactions between incident sound waves and the skull cause deformations that induce motion in each bony ear complex, resulting in best hearing sensitivity for low-frequency sounds. This predominant low-frequency sensitivity has significant implications for assessing mysticete exposure levels to anthropogenic sounds. The din of man-made ocean noise has increased steadily over the past half century. Our results provide valuable data for U.S. regulatory agencies and concerned large-scale industrial users of the ocean environment. This study transforms our understanding of baleen whale hearing and provides a means to predict auditory sensitivity across a broad spectrum of sound frequencies. Citation: Cranford TW, Krysl P (2015) Fin Whale Sound Reception Mechanisms: Skull Vibration Enables Low-Frequency Hearing. PLoS ONE 10(1): e0116222. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0116222 Academic Editor: Yan Ropert-Coudert, Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien, FRANCE Received: July 1, 2014; Accepted: December 3, 2014; Published: January 29, 2015 Copyright: © 2015 Cranford, Krysl. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited Data Availability: The relevant data is described in the manuscript, especially in the supplementary information. Funding: TWC received funding from Michael Wiese and James Eckman, at the Office of Naval Research (N00014-12-1-0516); Frank Stone, Ernie Young, and Robert Gisiner at the Chief of Naval Operations Environmental Readiness Division as well as Curtis Collins and John Joseph at the Naval Postgraduate School (N00244-08-1-0025. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Mysticete whales are the largest animals on Earth. The pelagic balaenopterids may reach 30 meters in length and produce low-frequency sounds in the range of 10–200 Hz [1, 2]. Most other mysticetes are primarily coastal species, less than 20 meters in length and produce sounds below 10 kHz. These acoustic frequency bands are presumably used for very long-range communication, managing social structure, and perhaps echo-navigation [3, 4]. The acoustic bandwidths used by mysticetes overlap with anthropogenic sound sources, raising concerns over potential deleterious effects from increasing trends in ocean noise [5, 6, 7, 8, 9]. Risk assessment is hampered by a lack of information about mysticete sound reception mechanisms and their sensitivity to various acoustic frequencies [10] [Science 10 January 2014, Vol. 343 no. 6167 p. 128. doi:10.1126/science.343.6167.128], [11]. To date, attempts to estimate the hearing parameters of baleen whales fall into three categories based on inferential methods: (A) the vocalizations of various species, based on the assumption that they can hear the sounds they generate [12, 13, 14, 15, 16]; (B) the anatomic structure of the ears, based on and compared to the functional morphology of the ears in well-known mammalian species [17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23]; and (C) behavioral reactions of wild mysticetes to playback experiments, based on the assumption that observations of behavioral reactions are interpretable in well-designed, controlled sound exposure experiments [24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29]. Generally, these methods cannot predict mysticete sound reception mechanisms or reliably extract frequency sensitivity based on predicted sound exposure levels. We constructed a finite element modeling system, based on serial CT scans, that allows us to predict low-frequency hearing sensitivity and identify sound reception mechanisms in cetaceans [30]. Recently, simulations from our vibroacoustic toolkit (VATk) have been validated [31, 32], used to study toothed whale bioacoustics [22, 33, 34], and hearing mechanisms in fish [35, 36]. This study shows that mysticete sound reception is primarily governed by bone conduction, as incident sound induces skull vibrations that are transmitted to both bony ear complexes. On 20 November 2003 a newborn male fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) calf stranded alive on Sunset Beach in Orange County, California. Personnel from Sea World, San Diego and the California Marine Mammal Stranding Network attempted a rescue of this animal but it died during transport. This work was carried out in strict accordance with the Stranding Agreement, issued pursuant to Section 112(c) of the Marine Mammal Protection Act, between NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service Southwest Region (NMFS-SWR) and SeaWorld San Diego (SeaWorld) (administrative reference number 151410SWR200900478:SMW). This stranded fin whale was 550 cm long, weighed 1,165 kg, and was assigned a Field-ID (JEH520) by John E. Heyning at the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. The average length at birth for Northern Pacific fin whales is between 600–650 cm, while adults can reach 2400 cm in length [37]. The necropsy was performed by Dr. Judy St. Leger with help from additional personnel at SeaWorld San Diego, the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, and the California Marine Mammal Stranding Network. This specimen was shorter than average for a neonate, however there was evidence of expanded lungs but no evidence of gastric milk. The umbilicus was not yet closed but fetal folds were not appreciated. This suggests an animal of a few days of age. Poor development is reasonable based on the thin nutritional condition. This suggests (but cannot confirm) to either represent placental issues or a pre-term delivery of a live calf that did not thrive due to medical concerns (Judy St. Leger, personal communication). Tissue property measurements were made by Dr. John Hildebrand and his research team from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The intact head was removed for further study and frozen within 24 hours of death. After sufficient time to allow for complete freezing, the head was placed inside a 48 inch diameter fiber Sonotube, and a custom container was constructed, as described previously [38]. The contained specimen was then transported to Hill Air Force Base in Utah and scanned in an industrial CT scanner. The CT data was processed into a three-dimensional image volume that provided the anatomic geometry of the animal used in our models. After CT scanning, the head (in its container) was returned to a freezer until it was dissected on 21 August 2006. When the necropsy of the head was conducted, the tissue handling protocol was approved by the Graduate and Research Affairs, Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee at San Diego State University (APF#: 09-05-014B). Permission to possess the head was provided by a Letter of Authorization from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Marine Fisheries Service Southwest Region (Administrative File: 151408SWR2013PROOOl). The prepared skull was accessioned by the Museum of Biodiversity at San Diego State University. The specimen now resides there under Accession-ID S-970. Computational approach Each bony ear complex in cetaceans is a conglomeration of various bones that comprise the tympanoperiotic complex (TPC), which can be modeled to some approximation as a collection of vibrating solids. For example, the work reported here uses a finite element model (a complete description of the finite element model and the input parameters used in this study can be found in the S1 File). The computational problem is the so-called forced harmonic vibration analysis, which can be readily solved [39], producing results (in terms of a transfer function) that transform the incident sound pressure into some measure of input to the cochlea. The cochlear input from the stapes can be transformed into an approximation of an audiogram. In order to exercise such simulations we need to determine the forcing applied to the model of the TPC. An incident acoustic wave of a given pressure amplitude in the sea water surrounding an animal interacts with the tissues of its head to generate traction loads on the surface of the TPC. These loadings on the TPC can be calculated from the incident sound pressure because they are, to a good approximation, driven by the amplitudes of acoustic pressure. The TPC vibrates under the action of the loads, resulting in motion of the stapes within the oval window, which produces a velocity at the center of the stapes footplate. The resulting transfer function, the Stapes Velocity Transfer Function (SVTF), is the composite of two transfer functions: the first transfer function calculates the pressure on the surface of TPC given the amplitude of the incident sound pressure; the second transfer function calculates the velocity at the center of the stapes footplate given the pressure on the surface of the TPC. Correspondingly, we use these two models in series to calculate the two transfer functions. We also consider the possibility that the ossicular chain may be set into motion by loading on the TPC that is analogous to bone conduction in humans [40]. In this case, we consider that loading of each TPC can be described by the motions of the periotic bones, which are firmly embedded in the skull. Each tympanic bone is forced to follow the vibration of the periotic bone, which is set into motion by the vibration of the skull, thereby exposing the ossicles to differential displacements. We have quantified both means of loading the TPC, by pressure delivered through soft tissues and by “skull-bone conduction”, using our two-component series of finite element models specialized for propagating elastic waves through arbitrary geometries of combined fluids and solids in an acoustic medium. The CT scans were converted to a mesh of finite elements by mapping the voxel values to the material types (see S2 Table). For the simulations reported here, incident sound waves were directed toward the head, along a single axis from directly in front of the animal at selected frequencies. At each of the excitation frequencies, after the steady-state vibration was reached, the amplitude of the total pressure in the soft tissues and the amplitudes and phase shifts of the displacement components of all tissues were extracted. These quantities were then used to define loads on the TPC as transfer functions from the sound pressure wave incident upon the animal and either the pressures acting on the TPC or the amplitudes and phase shifts of the displacements of the periotic bone. The forced harmonic vibration analysis of the TPC then resulted in the combined transfer function between the incident acoustic pressure and the stapes footplate velocity. The stapes velocity transfer function (SVTF) was then used to estimate an audiogram, for each of the loading modalities separately and also for their combination. The audiogram curve was calibrated with respect to the minimum audible pressure using measurements and estimates from two previous studies of odontocetes [41, 42]. The sensitivity of the computed transfer functions to the input parameters was assessed by performing a series of forward/backward sensitivity analyses. The full details are provided in the S1 File. The mechanical response of the TPC and the vibrations of the tissues of the head, especially the skull, can be visualized with animations (as shown in the S1 File). Synthetic audiograms were generated for a fin whale head using finite element modeling simulations derived from CT scans of a small Balaenoptera physalus. The simulations reveal two mechanisms that excite each bony tympanoperiotic complex (TPC), the pressure mechanism and the bone conduction mechanism. The bone conduction mechanism is the dominant of the two (this assertion will become clear with the figure at the end of this Results section). The primary, or dominant, bone conduction mechanism is characterized by deformation of the whale’s skull, as the acoustic pressure waves interact with it. During bone conduction, excitation of the hearing apparatus results from vibrations of the TPC induced by the motion of the skull. Secondarily, the pressure mechanism is the result of the acoustic pressure waves that reach the TPC through the seawater and various soft tissue pathways, resulting in direct pressure loading on the tympanic bulla. Our assertion that mysticetes receive sound by a bone conduction mechanism is buttressed somewhat by the morphology of the skull and TPC, as noted by previous authors [43, 44]. In baleen whales the posterior process of the TPC is wedged between the squamosal and the exoccipital bones, while the anterior process is sandwiched between the squamosal and the pterygoid bones of the skull [45, 46, 47, 48]. In this fin whale, the CT scans reveal that there are also a series of dense bony ossifications within the squamosal bones of the cranium that appear to fan out from the junction with the adjacent periotic portion of each TPC (Figs. 1 and 2). Upon closer inspection these dense ossification components of the squamosal bones suggest that they may function to “anchor” or extend and reinforce the connection between the TPC and the cranium (Figs. 1 and 2). Fig 1. Left lateral view of the skull bones in a fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus). Some display transparency has been applied to the squamosal bone so that the tympanic bulla and the dense bony ossifications or “anchors” become visible. Bony skull components that are visible in this orientation are the: occipital (yellow), parietal (white), frontal (red), maxillary (green), squamosal (magenta), tympanic bullae (green), and the “anchors” (white). The dense bony anchors fan out dorsolaterally within the squamosal bones of the skull (see also Fig. 2). In this lateral view, the adjacent periotic bones are not visible because they are obscured by the anchors and tympanic bulla. Fig 2. Posterior view of both tympanoperiotic complexes in a fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus), with some display transparency applied. The periotic bones (yellow) and tympanic bullae (green) are components of each TPC. The dense bony fan-like projections (cyan) are contained within the bones of the skull (salmon). Specifically, the anchors fan out as dense ossifications within the squamosal bone, from a locus at the junction with the juxtaposed periotic bones, and may function to stiffen the connection between the periotic and the skull. The mandibles (pink) are shown for context. By contrast, the TPCs of most odontocetes tend to be separated from the skull. Odontocete TPCs are suspended from the skull by numerous ligamentous fibers that originate from an approximately hemispherical distribution on the periotic fossa and peribullary fossa, sometimes crisscrossing, to insert upon the periotic bone of each TPC. It is generally considered that this suspension system functions to acoustically isolate the TPCs from skull vibrations in odontocetes. Instead, sounds apparently reach odontocete TPCs primarily through the mandibular fat bodies [22, 33, 34, 49, 50, 51, 52], probably by way of the gular pathway [53]. The Physeteridae and the Ziphiidae are exceptions to this exclusively ligamentous suspension system for odontocete TPCs. The sperm whales and beaked whales retain a bony connection to the skull through the pneumatized posterior process, where the vacuities in the posterior process may be filled with lipids in life. This raises the possibility that a bone conduction mechanism may also exist in these two odontocete groups. The results of our model have been applied to a fin whale, but the same firm connection between the TPC and the skull is common to all mysticetes [48]. This lends credence to the hypothesis that the same two sound reception mechanisms may be common to all baleen whales. However, vast differences in skull geometry between different Families of mysticetes (Balaenidae, Neobalaenidae, Eschrichtiidae, Balaenopteridae) suggest differences in the patterns of skull deformation and the resulting audiograms across these Families. Two finite element models were required to cover the range of geometric resolution needed to accurately represent the relevant mechanisms. The first model (WP = Wave Propagation) simulated the traveling acoustic pressure waves through the water, from in front of the animal toward the head. The sound waves propagate through seawater, reach the head, continue along/within various soft tissue pathways (which have acoustic impedance values similar to water), and impinge upon the skull and the tympanic bone, the tympanic “bulla” of the TPC. The WP model could reasonably resolve the bone thicknesses of the TPC by employing cubic finite elements with dimensions of 2.7 mm on each side. This resolution was not sufficient to accurately represent the fine features of the middle ear ossicles. Therefore, the WP model was used to estimate the loading mechanisms acting on the TPC, and a second model with much higher resolution (0.684 mm) was used to compute the Forced Harmonic Vibration response of the TPC to these loads (hence the FHV model). For the pressure mechanism, forces are exerted upon the tympanic bulla by the sound pressure waves that travel through seawater and various soft tissues. The extreme impedance mismatch between soft tissue and the dense tympanic bone causes significant force from the acoustic pressure waves to be exerted upon the tympanic bulla at the interface with soft tissue [22]. Since the malleus is fused to the bulla, the force applied to the tympanic bulla will cause some motion in the ossicular chain, resulting in motion at the stapes footplate, which sits in the oval window of the cochlea. The pressure delivered to the surface of the tympanic bulla is the source of forcing for the pressure mechanism of sound reception. The models that incorporate the pressure mechanism are essentially identical to those that we used to investigate sound reception in toothed whales [22, 33, 34]. That work led us to understand that the odontocete head works like an acoustic antenna; the entire surface of the animal’s head receives sound, and the anatomy channels the sound toward the ears. This head-as-an-acoustic-antenna hypothesis probably applies to all mysticetes too. The bone conduction mechanism was discovered by observing skull deformations that are associated with the elastic waves propagating through the head. Skull vibrations are apparently transmitted through the bony anchors to the periotic portion of the TPC (Figs. 1 and 2). Each tympanic bulla forms a lever arm that hangs from two thin bony struts (pedicles) (Fig. 3), and ends in the massive thickened rim at the distal tympanic bone, known as the involucrum [54]. The tympanic bone essentially “swings” on the pedicles [23], which function as the fulcrum of the lever arm. The flexing occurs in response to the differential motion between the periotic bones and the tympanic bulla, enhanced by the inertial properties of the hypermineralized [55] involucrum, causing it to lag behind the motions of the skull and periotic. The malleus is fused to the tympanic bone in all extant cetaceans, so any motion of the tympanic bone is transmitted through the middle ear ossicles that push on the oval window of the inner ear. Fig 3. Transverse section through the otic region in the head of a fin whale calf. The bony projections that “anchor” the tympanoperiotic complexes to the skull are cyan. The brain is blue, the skull is salmon colored, and the mandible is pink. The periotic portions of the TPC are yellow, and each tympanic bulla is green. Note that thin bony pedicles form a fulcrum for differential vibration between the periotic bones and the large hypermineralized masses of the tympanic bulla at the distal end of each involucrum. This lever arm construction is common to all cetacean TPCs (Archaeoceti, Odontoceti, and Mysticeti) [17, 23, 56], and is perhaps the single most innovative adaptation that allowed underwater hearing to evolve. The tympanic bullae in cetaceans develops precocially, such that it reaches adult size and shape very early in life [57, 58], attesting to its essential incipient functional prominence. The primary difference across the cetaceans is the degree to which the periotic is attached to the rest of the skull, and may be an indication of the relative importance of bone-conduction versus pressure mechanisms in sound reception and transduction across all cetacean groups [23, 59, 60, 61]. For the skull-vibration induced bone conduction, the WP model yielded the amplitude of the displacements of the periotic bone and relative phase shifts between the components of displacement, while the FHV model simulated the response of the TPC to the forcing by prescribed harmonic-motion of the periotic bones. For both the pressure and the bone conduction mechanisms, the result of the simulation was a transfer function (TF) between the amplitude of the incident sound pressure wave in the environment around the head and the magnitude of the velocity of the stapes footplate, the stapes-velocity transfer function (SVTF). Since two models were used to construct the SVTF for both loading mechanisms, the result is a composition of two TFs, WP-TF for the wave propagation model and FHV-TF for the forced vibration model. For the pressure mechanism, the WP-TF describes the pressure acting on the tympanic bone as a function of the amplitude of the incident pressure wave, and the FHV-TF describes the velocity of the stapes footplate as a function of the pressure on the surface of the tympanic bone. For the bone conduction mechanism, the WP-TF describes the motion of the periotic bone due to the vibration of the skull caused by a given amplitude of the incident pressure wave, and the FHV-TF describes the velocity of the stapes footplate as a function of the differential motions between the periotic bone and the bulla. We note that Tubelli and colleagues [62] computed transfer functions for the minke whale middle ear that are analogous to the FHV-TF (for the pressure loading mechanism) in our two model series. Consequently, their results are only partial, as the wave propagation transfer function from the environment was not calculated. They considered two conjectural locations for application of loading by pressure, the tympanic bone and the tip of the glove finger. They did not consider the possibility of skull bone conduction. With the SVTF at hand, we can attempt to predict the audiogram. The audiogram curve needs to be calibrated with the respect to the minimum audible pressure. Since this value has never been measured for a baleen whale, our approach was to set the hearing threshold to be similar to that measured for toothed whales, the bottlenose dolphin [41], or the killer whale [42], i.e. around 70 dB re 1 μPa at one meter. Then, the minimum threshold pressure across all frequencies can be estimated and the stapes velocity at the threshold can be consequently expressed through the maximum of the SVTF (see S1 File for a detailed explanation). Finally, the threshold pressure amplitude curve can be predicted from the SVTF as a function of frequency as shown in Fig. 4. The three curves correspond to the audiograms predicted from, (1) the pressure mechanism alone, (2) the bone conduction mechanism alone, and (3) from the sum of the effects of these two mechanisms. Fig 4. Predicted audiograms for the fin whale calf. The solid blue line represents the audiogram for the pressure mechanism. The red dashed line represents the audiogram for the bone conduction mechanism. The solid black line shows the combined audiograms for the pressure and bone conduction mechanisms. Mysticete sound reception by the bone conduction mechanism is, according to Fig. 4, considerably more sensitive, particularly at low frequencies, than by the pressure mechanism, indicating that the bone conduction mechanism is largely responsible for the mysticete whale’s sensitivity to low-frequency sound. Note that within the box (dashed lines) around the region of best hearing in Fig. 4, the curve drops by as much as 40 decibels, indicating better sensitivity in that range. Therefore, according to the synthetic audiograms generated by our finite element models (Fig. 4), the bone conduction audiogram is approximately four times more sensitive (lower threshold) between 1–2 kHz than the pressure audiogram. More significantly, Fig. 4 predicts that the difference in auditory sensitivity over the range of the lowest frequencies used by fin whales (10 Hz to 130 Hz), is between 10 to 30 dB (i.e. up to 10 times) more sensitive for the bone conduction mechanism than for the pressure mechanism. This study uses the only currently available method capable of predicting relative sensitivities for sound reception in a mysticete over a broad range of frequencies, between 10 Hz and 12 kHz. Note that the lower frequencies (~20 Hz) propagate well in the ocean and are relatively less attenuated by the environment, so there may be no need for the best sensitivity to be located at those frequencies. The bone conduction mechanism produces the lowest thresholds (red dashed line in Fig. 4), when both mechanisms are considered in isolation. Therefore, the bone conduction mechanism is likely the dominant component in mysticete hearing. Mysticete sound reception is enabled by the vibration of the relatively stiff and dense skull in response to the sound waves passing through the body of the whale. The advantage to mysticetes of using low-frequency (long-wavelength) sounds becomes evident when considering the motion or displacement of the scatterer (i.e. the skull), instead of the scattered pressure, as described by Rayleigh [63]. The scattered pressure from low-frequency acoustic waves becomes ineffective as an excitation mechanism, because the amplification of the scattered pressure on the surface of the TPC is negligible for waves longer than the body of the animal. Consider, for example, that the wave length for a 20 Hz sound in water is 75 m, which is at least three times longer than the bodies of largest fin whales [64]. At the same time, the amplitude of the oscillations (displacement) of the scatterer (skull) grows with the wavelength of the incident sound [65]. It is of interest to note that a similar vibration mechanism has been studied in fish, where the otoliths respond to long-wavelength sound by moving relative to the soft tissues attached to them [66]. The air spaces associated with the TPCs play a minor role for the pressure forcing mechanism, but only for high frequencies (above 5 kHz). At those frequencies, the air spaces helped to establish a “resonant cavity” for the sound waves propagating through the soft tissues towards the ears. The waves in the soft tissues are much too long below 5 kHz for the air spaces to be significant contributors to the pressure-distribution calculation. The most important function for these interconnected air spaces may be to maintain sufficient air volume in the tympanic cavity around the ossicular chain to allow the ossicles to vibrate free of damping or interference by nearby soft tissues. A similar mechanism has also been proposed for the enlarged pterygoid sinuses in Ziphius cavirostris [38]. Although these simulations were conducted with the skull geometry of a fin whale calf, the two basic mechanisms will not change significantly for the adult skull. The reasoning here is twofold. First, the tympanic bullae develop precocially [58]. Second, the firm connection between the TPC and the cranium is common to all mysticetes. Adult fin whale skulls are approximately twice as long as they are wide [64], nearly the same length/width proportions as in our fin whale calf. According to True [64] the absolute dimensions of an adult fin whale skull are approximately four times longer and wider than our neonate skull. In order to understand the potential implication of adult skull size, we generated an artificial geometry by uniformly scaling the voxel dimensions by a factor of 4.0. This resulted in a skull of ~5 m in length, which we modeled with the WP model as for the neonate, but currently only for a 200 Hz incident sound. The displacement amplitudes of the periotic bone were slightly larger (1.1 to 2.0 times greater) than those calculated for the neonate at a similar frequency. Therefore, the WP+FHV model prediction for an adult is likely to result in an audiogram similar to those reported here for the neonate, and our preliminary result suggests that with an increase in skull size the frequency of best sensitivity may be shifted towards lower frequencies. The audiogram is understood to be shaped by the external, middle, and inner ear connected in series [67]. Experimental data and models discussed therein point to the external and middle ear as the main contributors to low and mid frequency regions of the audiogram, and the cochlea is believed to contribute to the shape of the audiogram around the limit of high-frequency hearing. The graphs in Fig. 4 probably rise less sharply for the very high frequencies than would be observed experimentally, because in our transfer function we consider the effect of the cochlea only through a fluid load. Our predicted audiogram curves are certainly only approximations, but these approximations should be rather good for low and mid frequencies, until we begin to predict what happens at the high-frequency limit. For the fin whale, that high-frequency limit would probably begin around 10 kHz. We contend that our predictions are likely quite robust below 10 kHz, for the low and mid frequencies of concern with anthropogenic sound exposure. Understanding the potential effects of anthropogenic noise on mysticetes is a subject that has long plagued U.S. regulatory agencies and concerned large-scale industrial users of the ocean environment. The results reported here provide a new tool for assessing these acoustic interactions. S1 File. This supporting information file contains a description of the modeling process and additional visualizations of the results, including animations, figures, and tables. S1 Fig. Schematic of the two models that extract the cochlear input from the incident wave. (PNG) S2 Fig. (A) Finite element mesh 4, and (B) Close-up of the ossicular chain. (A) Finite element mesh 4 (approximately 41,000 nodes, 230,000 elements). The periotic bone is trimmed off, and the red markers at the top-right of the mesh indicate nodes with prescribed displacements (as dictated by the motion or the lack of the motion of the squamosal bone of the skull). (B) Close-up of the ossicular chain and the sigmoidal process in the foreground. The joints between the ossicles are shown in color: the annular ligament between the stapes and the oval window is yellow; the incudostapedial ligament is green, and a small portion of the malleoincudal ligament is blue (most of this ligament and the malleus are obscured by the sigmoidal process). (TIF) S3 Fig. The damping ratio for the Rayleigh proportional damping model as a function of the frequency for the parameters shown in the text. S4 Fig. Surface of the tympanic bone with applied damping condition to account for the interaction with the soft tissues during skull bone-conduction loading is indicated by dark red color. Mesh 4 as in S2 Fig. S5 Fig. Distribution of the total sound pressure in the head of the fin whale for a 4 kHz incident signal. Sound Pressure Levels (SPL) between -3 dB (pressure diminished with the respect to incident) and +6 dB (pressure amplified with respect to incident) are shown. The pressure is not displayed in the volume of the bones (gray regions) or in the volume of the air spaces or sinuses (black regions). (A) is a transverse section through the TPC with labels indicating the involucra (i) of the tympanic bulla and the expanded portion of the squamosal (sq); (B) is a coronal (horizontal) section through the TPC, at the level of the tympanic bullae (tb). Note the amplified pressure amplitude near the dorsal surface of the tympanic bullae (tb) from a reflection off of the squamosal bones (sq). S6 Fig. Transformation of the incident pressure to pressure at the TPC near the sigmoidal process (TPTF). Note that close to 1–2 kHz the incident pressure is magnified to arrive at the surface of the TPC almost doubled in amplitude. S7 Fig. Periotic-bone displacement transfer function (PDTF). (A) Amplitudes of the displacements, and (B) phase shift with respect to the dorsal-ventral displacement. S8 Fig. Stapes Velocity Transfer Function (SVTF) and approximate error. (A) SVTF(P) for two meshes: mesh 3, with 62,000 nodes, in solid line, and mesh 6, with 20,600 nodes, in dashed line. (B) Approximate error vs. the number of nodes in the model, where the smallest error is Ea,4 = 0.061. The errors are for meshes 4,…,9 (right to left). S9 Fig. Deformations and motion of the skull for 100 Hz incident wave. Amplitude magnified 20,000 times. (Animated visualization link with displacements magnified by 20,000 times). (GIF) S10 Fig. Deformations and motion of the skull for 250 Hz incident wave. S11 Fig. Deformations and motion of the skull for 1.0 kHz incident wave. S13 Fig. Motion of the TPC for pressure loading at 10 Hz. (Animated visualization link with displacements magnified by 5,000 times). S14 Fig. Motion of the TPC for pressure loading at 599 Hz. S15 Fig. Motion of the TPC for pressure loading at 1 kHz. S16 Fig. Motion of the TPC for pressure loading at 2.7 kHz. S17 Fig. Motion of the TPC for pressure loading at 14.1 kHz. S18 Fig. Motion of the TPC for skull-vibration loading at 129 Hz. S20 Fig. Motion of the TPC for skull-vibration loading at 1 kHz (Animated visualization link with displacements magnified by 5,000 times). S21 Fig. Motion of the TPC for skull-vibration loading at 5.99 kHz (Animated visualization link with displacements magnified by 5,000 times). S22 Fig. Motion of the TPC for skull-vibration loading at 20 kHz (Animated visualization link with displacements magnified by 5,000 times). S23 Fig. Change of the SVTF(P) due to a change in the cochlear impedance. Dotted line: decrease by a factor of ½, Δ = 0.159; dashed line: increase by a factor of 2, Δ = 0.084. S24 Fig. Change of the SVTF(P) due to a change in the elastic modulus of the joints in the ossicular chain. Dotted line: decrease by a factor of ½, Δ = 0.65; dashed line: increase by a factor of 2, Δ = 0.85. S25 Fig. Change of the SVTF(P) due to a change in the Rayleigh system damping. Dotted line: decrease of ςmin by a factor of ½, Δ = 0.25; dashed line: increase of ςmin by a factor of 2, Δ = 0.24. Dotted line: decrease of ωmin by a factor of ½, Δ = 0.21; dashed line: increase of ωmin by a factor of 2, Δ = 0.22. S27 Fig. Change of the SVTF(U) due to a change in the surface impedance on the tympanic bone. S28 Fig. (A) The SVTF(P). (B) The audiogram predicted from the SVTF(P). S29 Fig. (A) The SVTF(U). (B) The audiogram predicted from the SVTF(U). S1 Table. Properties of materials used in the TPC simulations. (DOCX) S2 Table. Properties of materials used in the VATk simulations. This project included multiple daunting logistical challenges that were eventually solved by an array of individuals with diverse skill sets. We thank the following people for their support on various aspects of this project. Michael Wiese, James Eckman, and Dana Belden at the Office of Naval Research (N00014-12-1-0516); Frank Stone, Ernie Young, and Robert Gisiner at the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO45) along with Curtis Collins and John Joseph at the Naval Postgraduate School (N00244-08-1-0025). We appreciate assistance with specimen acquisition from: Judy St. Leger and Erika Nilson (Sea World, San Diego), John Heyning, David Janiger, and Jim Dines (Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History); James Mead, and Charles Potter (National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution); David Casper and Robin Dunkin (UC Santa Cruz); Joseph G. Cordaro and Sarah Wilkin, Jennifer L. Skidmore, Blair Maise, Susan Chivers, Kerri Danil, Wayne Perryman, and Debra Losey (NOAA); Eric Ekdale, Tom Deméré, and Philip Unitt (San Diego Natural History Museum). We also thank several other individuals, Jim Christmann and Dave Jablonski, Winston C. Lancaster, Jennifer Jeffress, Maureen Flannery, Kristi West, Michele Berman, Carl Schilt, William Ary, and A. Todd Newberry. Staff at the San Diego State University Research Foundation and Department of Biology provided essential logistical assistance: Frank Sweeney, Thomas Scott, Michele Goetz, Maria Ortega, Eugene Stein, Jennie Amison, Danielle Arellano-Rieger, Mary Perl, (SDSURF) Terry Frey, Medora Bratlien, Christopher Glembotski, Annalisa Berta, Bob Mangen, and Mike Van Patten (Biology). Individuals from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography were also instrumental by helping encase the specimen in a specialized container for scanning at Hill AFB: John Hildebrand, Sean Wiggins, Megan McKenna, and Jeremy Goldbogen. Michael Philcock at Analyze Direct also made valuable contributions. The staff at Hill Air Force Base provided expertise with specimen CT scanning using their industrial scanner: Sal Juarez, Barry Gould, Randy Huber, Sam Samuelson, and Art McCarty. 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__label__wiki	0.610291	0.610291	Bio & Credits View My Walks NHS National Campaign on Mental Health Jan 7, 2021 \| Passions The NHS launched their first national campaign on mental health at the very end of November 2020 which comes following only 57,814 national referrals made in April 2020 compared to 133,191 in April 2019 (a 56% decrease). We know from our communities that lockdown has... A Little Bit Of Positive Podcast with Giles Payley-Phillips Dec 15, 2020 \| Passions A Little Bit of Positive is a podcast full of positive news, positive conversation and positive people. In each episode, British TV presenter Julia Bradbury and her friend, best-selling author Giles-Paley Philips, talk about the little bits of positivity they’ve... The Greek Islands with Julia Bradbury – DVD Dec 8, 2020 \| Passions This six-part series features Julia Bradbury exploring the hidden side of the dazzling, sun-drenched Greek Islands. The Greek Islands are loved by Brits – with three million flocking there every summer. Julia Bradbury has a special affinity with them as her mother is... Mental Health Advice Apr 24, 2020 \| Passions Julia and her good friend Jonathan Hoban really explored the many dimensions of the health benefits of the outdoors during lockdown in an interview on Instagram. Click here for an overview of the interview. TOG asked him how he met Julia. He told us, “After seeing her... Scummy Mummies Podcast Mar 31, 2020 \| Passions, Press Getting Outdoors with Julia Bradbury Our guest for this episode is TV presenter, rambler and all round legend Julia Bradbury! We talk about her love of walking and her favourite places to visit in England, and try to persuade her to come to Catford. There’s some... BBC Countryfile Magazine Litter Heroes Bag Nov 4, 2019 \| Passions BBC Countryfile Magazine, Julia Bradbury and The Outdoor Guide have teamed up with like minded outdoor communities to bring a reusable option to plastic carrier bags! Sign up for your litter hero bag and pay just £2.75 postage and packaging (UK Mainland). Whilst... BRAND NEW SERIES NOW ON ITV 2021 Sitting down at work is ‘the new smoking’ says TV’s Julia Bradbury Stepping Out on Her Latest Small-screen Adventure Mental Health … When I was Having Trouble – Walking Was The Therapy A Place In The Sun Daily Express Daily Telegraph Embrace Good Housekeeping Hello! Magazine Homes & Antiques ITV Mail Online MCS Magazine Scottish Sunday Mail S Magazine Sunday Express Sunday Mirror The Sunday Telegraph The Times Trail Magazine TV & Satellite Week Village Woman & Home Woman's Weekly Womans Own Yorkshire Post Your Healthy Eating Yours Archives Select Month January 2021 (7) December 2020 (8) November 2020 (1) October 2020 (1) August 2020 (3) July 2020 (1) May 2020 (2) April 2020 (4) March 2020 (2) January 2020 (1) November 2019 (5) July 2019 (1) April 2019 (1) April 2018 (2) March 2013 (3) May 2010 (2) April 2010 (2) December 2009 (1) November 2009 (1) July 2008 (1) February 2008 (1) January 2008 (1) © Julia Bradbury \| Media Enquiries: email \| Corporate Enquiries: email \| Personal Enquiries: email	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line997
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__label__cc	0.522046	0.477954	Sunday Songs 1. Spring Song 2. Drone 3 3. Can't Wrap My Head Around It 4. Elongated Easter Egg 5.Fortunate Ones 7. The Perpetual Glow 8. Sea of Voices (Machinefabriek Rework) lp and download on First Terrace Records First Terrace Records is honoured to present The Beacon Sound Choir singing Sunday Songs - a project conceived by Peter Broderick and brought to life through collaborations with a number of Portland-based individuals including David Allred, Holland Andrews (Like a Villain), Branic Howard, Alela Diane and Heather Woods Broderick. Utilising the harmonies of a 35 strong choir, Sunday Songs plays out with an almost religious undercurrent; the product of individuals inspired to commit a divine act of collaboration, recalling the rare splendour of a community in seamless alliance. This is not to place the choir in an unattainable bracket however. As Peter explains, the aim of the project was simply to get as many people singing together as possible, regardless of musical experience. The relaxed demeanour of the singers and the occasional unguarded moments of wonder and excitement betray the true nature of the recordings; that they were not made to be works of art in their own right, but rather to serve as a snapshot of a glorious phenomena; documents of a small miracle occurring on Sunday mornings at the Beacon Sound record shop in Portland, Oregon, where for Peter the act of singing became “nothing short of a magical teleportation to another realm”. As well as the original choir recordings, the album also features a sprawling ambient rework from the endlessly inventive Machinefabriek, which he describes as “a patchwork, connecting and expanding the more dreamlike parts of Sunday Songs into a sea of voices, where it’s unclear where one voice stops and the other begins.” His jaw-dropping reinterpretation of the source material is informed in some ways by the work of Renaissance composer Josquin des Prez. (“When I discovered his choir music not so long ago I realized that ambient music already existed around the 1500s”.) FTR002-mockup-500x1500	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line1005
__label__wiki	0.832039	0.832039	Baby Were Really In Love Faeshakar 06.03.2020 9 Comments Dont Surrender - Keep It Dark - 1st Down & Ten (Vinyl, LP, Album), Breakdown (Rave Mix) - Luke - Breakdown (Cassette), It Aint Over - Down Low - Greatest Hits (Cassette), Low Low - oneBYone* - Activation EP (File, MP3), Mon Banjo A LOmbre - Jean-Stéphane Brosse, Philippe Sirop - Pièces insolites (CD, Album), Easier Said Than Done - Various - Girls Girls Girls: 1960s Rock N Roll (CD), Llorando Por Ti (Remix) - Various - Sonic Mix (Cassette), Rainbow Arabia - F.M. Sushi (CD, Album), Shes All In My Life - Champion Jack Dupree - From New Orleans To Chicago (CD, Album), Wait, Herzmuskel (Live) - Palais Schaumburg - Palais Schaumburg (Vinyl, LP, Album, Album, LP), Koxo - Step By Step (Vinyl), Bean Curst 9 thoughts on “ Baby Were Really In Love ” Vudotilar says: Baby, we're really in love. My folks think i've gone crazy And i don't feel too sure And yet there's nothin' wrong with me That weddin' bells won't cure If you go for me like i go for you Baby, we fit like a glove If you're lovin' me like i'm lovin' you Baby, we're really in love. Submit Corrections. Nedal says: BABY WE'RE REALLY IN LOVE Recorded by: Hank Williams, Sr. Writer: Hank Williams, Sr. If [C] you're lovin' me like I'm lovin' you Baby, We're Really In [G7] Love If you're happy with me like I'm happy with you Old Cupid just gave us a shove [C] If you're thinkin' of me like I'm thinkin' of you Then I know what you're thinkin' [G7] of If you're lovin' me like I'm lovin' you Baby, We're Really . Gunris says: Baby We're Really In Love lyrics and chords These country classic song lyrics are the property of the respective artist, authors and labels, they are intended solely for educational purposes and private study only. The chords provided are my interpretation and their accuracy is . Kajiktilar says: Baby, we're really in love. My folks think i've gone crazy And i don't feel too sure And yet there's nothin' wrong with me That weddin' bells won't cure If you go for me like i go for you Baby, we fit like a glove If you're lovin' me like i'm lovin' you Baby, we're really in love. Related. Dukora says: Jul 14, · G If you're loving me like I'm loving you D7 Baby we're really in love If you're happy with me like I'm happy with you G Old Cupid just gave us a shove If you're thinking of me like I'm thinking of you D7 Then I know what you're thinking of If you're loving me like I'm loving you G G7 Baby we're really in love C G I run around in circles G7 C G. Mezshura says: "Baby, We're Really in Love" is a song written and recorded by Hank Williams and released on MGM Records. It peaked at number four on the Billboard country singles chart. It was recorded at Castle Studio in Nashville on July 25, with Fred Rose producing and backing from Don Helms (steel guitar), Jerry Rivers (fiddle), Sammy Pruett (lead B-side: "I'd Still Want You". Zulukus says: Baby, We're Really in Love Lyrics: If you're lovin' me like i'm lovin' you / Baby, we're really in love / If you're happy with me like i'm happy with you / Old cupid just gave us a shove / If you. Nelkree says: Baby, we're really in love My folks think I've gone crazy And I don't feel too sure And yet there's nothin' wrong with me That weddin' bells won't cure If you go for me like I go for you Baby, we fit like a glove If you're lovin' me like I'm lovin' you Baby, we're really in love. C If you're lovin' me like I'm lovin' you G7 Baby, We're Really In Love If you're happy with me like I'm happy with you C Old Cupid just gave us a shove If you're thinkin' of me like I'm thinkin' of you G7 Then I know what you're thinkin' of If you're lovin' me like I'm lovin' you C Baby, We're Really In Love. El Cazanguero - Ruben Blades - Anthology (CD) Liar - Anxiety (11) - If I Were... (CD, Album) Dennis Brown - Tribulation Times (Vinyl, LP) La Pêche À Léplan - Paulette De Courval - Un Peu de Soleil....Un Peu de Pluie (Vinyl, LP, Album) JoJojind on Baby Were Really In Love	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line1007
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__label__wiki	0.684617	0.684617	Home › Lacrosse › RBLL-MN: Eastside skates past Lakeville RBLL-MN: Eastside skates past Lakeville The Eastside Freeze pulled away in the second and third periods to win its home opener against the Lakeville Lumberjacks by a score of 19-10 on Friday night. The Freeze were unselfish throughout the entire game. Ten of their 11 point-getters all posted an assist. Eastside Freeze win their home opener tonight vs @LakeLumberjacks 19-10. https://t.co/yAVyKBD2No #RBLLmn It was newly-added Quinton White who helped lead the charge for the Freeze. The Stillwater High School grad led the team with nine points, he scored four goals and dished out five assists. Cole Herder was right behind White with eight points, he recorded three goals and five assists. Jake Pitts was the top goal scorer with six. Will Mckinney scored three goals and tagged four assists. Rawley Scherman bagged five assists and a goal, Ryan Gillard tallied four assists and Nicholas Peterson recorded three assists and a goal. Lakeville struck first with two goals to start the game. However, the first period was very similar to a ping pong match, alot of back and forth. Eastside scored three goals to take the lead before the Lumberjacks scored another two right after. The Freeze went on a 5-2 run to close out the first period and led 8-6. Pitts and White scored seven of the eight goals scored in the first. Eastside outscored Lakeville 6-2 in the second period. Five different Freeze players found the back of the net at least once. Goalie Joseph Brothers looked sharp with the 11 saves he made in the second. He didn’t look back at the first where he faced 14 shots and allowed six goals. Brothers finished the game with 28 saves. It took McKinney a couple periods to find the back of the net. He scored three goals in the third period. The Freeze had Lakeville’s number in the third as well and only held the Lumberjacks to two goals. Marcus Fiori was just over fifty percent on faceoffs (13-11) and recorded two assists. Jimmy Garay-Triviski won seven of his eleven draws. Eastside will square off with Lakeville again Tuesday, tonight at 7 p.m. in Cottage Grove. The game will be live streamed on Instagram from Eastside Freeze’s official account. Lakeville will be looking for its first win of the year (0-2) while the Freeze (1-1) will look to grab a second win before another matchup against Minneapolis. ‹ RBLL-MN: Freeze drop opener against Wheat Kings Butte Cobras add Ty Smith to coaching staff ›	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line1012
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__label__wiki	0.597481	0.597481	Camping and Holidays From the earliest days of Guiding, the highlight of the year has always been the annual unit camp, with many of the unit meetings in the run up to the camp being devoted to learning and practicing the practical skills, for in Guiding in the UK the tradition has always been for the unit to plan and run it's own summer camp, renting an empty grass field from a farmer and turning it into a comfortable home for a weekend or week (and in the old days, sometimes a fortnight or more) - the UK has no tradition of organised camps being run by paid professionals or paid staff as there is in some countries, and until the more recent decades, Guiding owned few permanent campsites. And we don't have wooden platforms for tents in the UK - we can and do pitch tents straight onto the grass. For girls in many areas in those early decades of Guiding, this would be their first ever holiday beyond perhaps visiting relatives, simply because of it's affordability - and for most it would be the first time they had ventured so far afield - significant numbers of Guides had their first ever sighing of farm animals, or of the sea, and their first escape from city grime, at Guide camp. And of course, the adventure of outdoor living was one of the most attractive and adventurous parts of the Scouting and Guiding, programmes, the very thing many of them had joined the movement for - learning the theory and techniques of knotting, signalling, stalking and the like back at the dusty church hall was all very well, but the chance to put that theory into practice for a week and do it 'for real' . . . that really was adventure! The first handbook of 1912 stated "We go into camp not only because we enjoy it so much but also to gain experience. A Girl Guide likes to try her hand at making things, and finding out how to do a thing herself in a way she can't do at home. Some people talk of 'roughing it' in camp, but these people are generally 'tenderfoots'. A wise Guide does not 'rough it', she knows how to look after herself and to make herself comfortable by a hundred little dodges". After all, the roots of Scouting can be strongly traced back to that first camp on Brownsea Island (and what an adventure sailing across the bay in order to take possession and camp on an island would have been!), where Lt Gen Baden-Powell took a group of boys, in mixed Patrols, in order to try out his ideas on outdoor programmes for youths and see if they would work as well he hoped amongst different classes of boy . . . In the very early days, although the handbook promoted tents as well as indoor accommodation, most Guide Companies went in for what we would now term 'indoor holidays' - sleeping in a building, often a village hall or an empty barn at a farm - mainly due to pressure from society which considered that actually sleeping in a tent would endanger girls' 'delicate health'. For many units, camping itself was an experiment - there were few textbooks on how to camp, and few people had much experience of pitching tents, or how to arrange improvised cooking and bathroom facilities. Gradually, as camping became a more familiar activity generally, and was indulged in by all sorts of youth groups, cycle touring clubs and the like, to no ill effect, the public became more accepting of it, and more textbooks became available with advice on equipment and campsite layout. Thus 'real' camping in tents was the norm for Guides by the 1920s - nevertheless, every camper had to bring a medical certificate, signed by her doctor, to confirm that she was fit enough to camp. In the 1910s and early 1920s, the tents were all ex-army bell tents, the groundsheets were rubber or oiled canvas, the beds were old sacks made into 'paliasse' cases and filled with straw bought from the local farmer, the bedding was two heavy blankets folded and pinned into a sleeping bag shape using 'blanket pins' and the luggage would ideally be a duffle bag - as the army had been the only ones to camp before then, all kit was naturally improvised or 'army surplus', and suitcases (the only alternative to round kit bags in those days) were as impractical in tents then as they are now. However camping kit was just starting to become available to serve the growth in camping, both within Guiding and Scouting, and in the public at large, as can be seen from the numerous adverts in "The Scout", "The Guide" and "Headquarters Gazette" for all sorts of 'essentials' and some more interesting innovations (I'd love to see a photo of the 1920s/30s pneumatic tent, and find out how it was inflated, and what precautions were taken against puncture, or gales!). Either uniform or Guide blue 'camp overalls' would be worn every day, though skirts got shorter, and the black wool stockings might be dispensed with onsite, although insisted upon whenever off-site regardless of weather - just as would be the norm at home. With few Guides having access to proper waterproofs, drying wet clothes was an ongoing issue during a wet camp, and too many rainy days could be trying, especially as the kit list was very limited (many of the poorer girls wouldn't own many changes of clothes anyway) - no need for the thermals modern Guides seek when you are used to living in a house with no double glazing, cavity insulation or central heating. Some army traditions were still maintained - some early camps still had Patrols take shifts at collecting rations and blankets and heading off to 'guard the camp' overnight, and (still done at many camps nowadays) the flag was hoisted in the morning and lowered at dusk with full ceremony. Inspection often involved each person's kit being laid out formally on their groundsheet in front of the tent, perfectly polished and folded, to be checked for neatness. In the absence of bugles, whistle and hand signals were used to issue instructions to the Company, with a set system of signals devised for use in camp, utilising both whistle and hand signals - some units used these at their indoor meetings too, especially in the case of larger units - for instance, the raised hand for silence. Many of these things are still done at camp, if in a less formal way, and are still practical - a whistle is still more audible and much more practical than trying to shout across the length of the field, and beds still need to be aired and bags packed in order to allow the grass to air and the lost property to be found . . . Camp was always at least a week, some lucky units were able to camp for longer periods - although in working class areas those 14 and over might not be able to stay longer than a week due to limited annual leave from work. Camp allowed time for exploring, picnics, and lots of nature lore, as well as giving the girls the chance to learn the practical skills of cooking and self-reliance. It was also a chance to test those parts of Second and First Class ideally suited to outdoor work - the observation, tracking, signaling, nature study and First Class hike, along with putting into practical use those Tenderfoot knots which had been so carefully learnt. In those days most camps would hire their camp equipment from one of the many companies which sprang up to supply the need, or would make their own tents following the instructions printed in "The Guide" magazine - only the wealthy few could actually buy new tents without a lot of hard saving and fundraising first (some things don't change!). Both the luggage and the Guides would travel to camp by train, charabanc, or on the back of an open lorry or in a furniture van (or for nearby campsites, it would be hauled by the Guides themselves on a Guide-powered 'trek cart'). Food was bought from the farm (milk, eggs, sometimes fruit and vegetables in season, water often being drawn from the farm's well or pump in the yard) which helped maintain goodwill with the farmer - and groceries, meat and bread were invariably ordered from village shops, and either collected by the Orderly Patrol or delivered to the site by the shop's delivery staff - as well as the convenience of flexibility over quantities which came from ordering supplies daily, it ensured the campers were welcome visitors to the community, bringing income to what were often financially deprived rural areas - and it also reduced the difficulties of fresh food storage. Camps were generally run by the unit's own Captain, perhaps (but not necessarily) with the help of a Lieutenant, or a Camp Nurse (usually a qualified nurse or VAD) - seemingly regardless of the size of the unit - there are plenty of reports of large camps of 30 or 40 Guides with only one adult in those early, comparatively rule-free days! The full camp kit list suggested in the July 1912 handbook was "1 old coat or waterproof, one wool combination, one pair stockings, one woolen vest, flannel nightdress or sleeping suit, one pair stout walking boots or shoes, one bathing dress, hairbrush and comb, soap and towel, toothbrush, four handkerchiefs, paper" - plus wearing one's full uniform, of course. So they clearly believed in packing light if that was considered adequate kit for a week! And though the kit list makes no mention of dishes, these would inevitably be metal, or possibly enameled . . . for bakelite and plasticwares did not yet exist. The hallmark of any early camp would be 'pits for everything'! The latrine was a long narrow trench (just over a spade-width), fenced by stakes which had a layer of hessian wrapped strategically round them, for modesty and to create cubicle dividers and doors which fastened with pieces of cotton tape. In each cubicle would be a wooden 'sugar box' to sit on, the lid being removed and the box turned upside down and balanced over the trench, with a round hole cut out strategically in what had been the base of the box - this formed a combined 'seat and base unit' perch. The soil that had been dug out from the trench was laid in a heap within the hessian boundary, with a trowel to hand, so that after using the latrine one could 'cover one's tracks' with some of the loose soil before leaving the cubicle fit for the next person - each morning the boxes would be moved sideways within the cubicle to left or right in turn, thus moving them gradually back and forth through the week so that the trench was refilled evenly along it's length by the end of the week. (Though this sounds primitive to modern eyes, it has to be remembered that such an arrangement wouldn't be so far different from the 'outside toilets' many of the girls would have had at home, which in some cases would be 'dry-earth closets' anyway). Some food waste could go in the 'pig pail' for the farmer to feed to his livestock, and scrap paper and card could be saved up for firelighting - but other rubbish such as tin cans underwent 'bash and burn' - the insides burnt to leave no trace of food which might attract vermin, then the ends removed and the tin stamped or malleted flat, and put in the 'rubbish pit' for burial. Waste water was filtered through a layer of grass or leaves in the 'grease trap', which was set above a 'soakage pit' of stones, which is also where the water from washing up would go, with the filter regularly being burnt and replaced - just as many sites still do now. The most common form of fireplace then was the trench fire - standing in the trench allowed the cooks to be spared so much bending over the fire when tending to pots, but it took a lot of digging to create the trenches large enough for the cooks to use - the altar fire was a postwar development in most areas. Usually, campers were encouraged to 'pay a man' to dig all these trenches and pits - in days when rural employment didn't pay well, it wouldn't be hard to find someone willing to do the work for a modest fee. Lightweight camping had certainly yet to come to the fore . . . and with all these preparations to be done for even a modest unit camp, it's not surprising that weekend camping was almost unheard of in these early days! During the 1920s, camping expanded dramatically, just as Guiding expanded dramatically. Comparatively cheap rail fares meant that many Companies in urban areas could now afford to travel to sites in the country, though there were still regular appeals for financial assistance published in the "Headquarters Gazette" from those units whose members could not afford even a modest camp fee due to the economic situation in the era, particularly in working class industrial areas where unemployment was high due to the depression, and the General Strike loomed. At the same time, camping within Guiding became more organised - the District Commissioner's permission was now needed for a unit to go camping, and a system of County Camp Advisers was created, who were able both to organise "training weeks" for Guiders who wished to take their Companies away to camp, and also to assess potential campsites for their suitability (or lack thereof) - there was a list of areas of the country where camping was totally banned. A qualification for camping was created, with all Guiders who wished to take their unit away now having to be assessed, and most camps faced the prospect of a formal inspection visit by the local Camp Adviser at some point during the week, her uniform hat and suit bedecked with green cords! Nevertheless it did improve the general standard of camping, as some very unsuitable camps were closed down . . .Water for swimming (or 'bathing' as it was more commonly termed at the time) now had to be assessed too, and a qualified lifesaver and several 'pickets' used to ensure safety. Another reason for the expansion of camping was that more equipment became available and affordable, especially army surplus in those post-WW1 days - stacking 'dixie' and 'billy' pots, bell tents, groundsheets and trek carts became commonplace as they were being sold off cheaply, and many units were now able to consider obtaining their own camping kit at this time, rather than always having to rely on hired kit with the uncertainty over quality and condition that entailed, especially in summer when the hire companies were at their busiest and could not always be relied on to have checked kit properly between hires, or to have resisted the temptation to make that barely-waterproof tent do one more season! It was also more socially acceptable for girls to camp, too, indeed camping was being taken up by many other youth groups, cycle clubs, hikers and hillwalkers, as an affordable way to see the country at a time before Youth Hostels became widespread. With this came the first real advances in creating lightweight camping kit, with the gradual adoption of such things as the ridge tent instead of the bell, the scandinavian frame rucksack rather than the awkward-to-carry round drawstring-tied kitbag which had to be balanced on one shoulder, the rubber wellington boot providing the first truly waterproof footwear where previously leather boots or shoes had had to serve, those who could afford them, and the increasing availability of waterproof 'mackintosh' coats and capes, and enamel crockery rather than metal, so much easier to use without burning the fingers and at much less risk of tainting the food. Camp attire, too, became much more relaxed as society's clothing rules relaxed, hemlines rose to mid-calf, and it became acceptable to have bare legs on the campsite (although wool stockings would automatically be put on before going into the village) - open-necked 'camp dresses' and ties worn as headscarves became the norm, often teamed with canvas or rope shoes. Cooking was still always done 'Company' style, with each Patrol taking turns at spending the day as 'cooks', preparing all the meals for that day, but small stoves such as the 'primus' became available, bringing the chance to heat small amounts of water or food quickly without the need to keep the fire going all day. The 'World Camp' which was held alongside the World Conference at Foxlease in 1924 also helped to cement the place of camping in Guiding, both in the UK and around the world. The contingents from various countries picked up lots of ideas and techniques from each other, and as the first large-scale Guide camp in the UK, it set the path for all future large-scale and international Guide camps which have been held here since. The start of the 1930s was a sort of golden era for camping - new equipment was becoming more available (early canvas rucksacks with wicker or metal frames, compact battery-powered torches replacing the risky candles, the "Icelandic" tent from 1930 onwards at bargain price as hundreds of the 'only used for a week' tents became available at second-hand price, and waterproofs becoming more available), affordability of bicycles giving more transport options - more units than ever were getting the chance to go to camp, and official 'Guide campsites' were starting to be established - following on from those at Foxlease and at Waddow Hall, some Counties in different parts of the country were lucky enough to have suitable land donated, or to be in a position to buy some land of their own. Train companies were able to offer special rates for groups, and to send 'luggage in advance'. Trainings, too, were becoming well established, and the work of the Camp Advisers had served to raise standards and reduce the number of 'problem camps' around the country. And with the opening of "Our Chalet" in Switzerland, the prospect of international travel became open to some of the more wealthy units too. But throughout 1938, the shadows started to lengthen, and in 1939, just as the main camping season was drawing to a close, there was major change afoot. On 3rd September many campsites immediately closed, the campers had to strike camp and leave straight away, and camping stopped in all areas. Some units had their camp equipment requisitioned for war use by groups such as the Local Defence Volunteers (Home Guard), and most of the Camp Licence holders were of an age to be called up for war service immediately. After the initial quiet period, during the summer of 1940 in the South of England in particular, the threat of air raids was a constant worry. In spite of that, and subject to certain strict rules - the ban on camping was lifted and some camping was permitted. Camps had to be a certain distance from the coast or from any military installation, all of the tents had to be camouflaged using paint or (preferably) nets covered in foliage to break up the distinctive shape, there must be no visible lights at all after dusk, and large gatherings were definitely not permitted - and an extra slit trench large enough to hold all the campers had to be dug, to serve as a makeshift air-raid shelter. There was also a ruling that camps had to be held within a reasonable radius of home - but that wasn't exactly a barrier since petrol was heavily rationed, and people discouraged from unnecessary train travel, hence travelling far was impossible anyway. Still, the lack of licence holders to run camps was a big problem, so in 1941 a radical new scheme was introduced - the "Patrol Leader's Permit". This allowed a Patrol Leader to take her Patrol to camp even if there wasn't an adult available to go with them, and it opened up the possibility of camping to many Guides who had been missing out . . . and it still exists. Camp catering during wartime was also a major hurdle due to rationing - the camp had to register in advance with the Ministry of Food in order to get any supplies at all from a local grocer, there was the need to deal with each person's 'coupons', and the oddments of food that each brought with her if the camp started part-way through a 'ration week' - and working out what each person's share to take home afterwards should be too, so they would have enough food to realistically last until the start of the next ration week. Rationing applied to meat, butter, cheese, margarine, cooking fat, milk, sugar, jam/marmalade, eggs, tea and sweets. Other supplies might not be rationed, but could still be difficult to obtain, so vegetables and 'substitutes' featured heavily in wartime camp menus. Especially for those camps held later in the year, the 'blackout' ban on any lights after dusk meant that all cooking had to be finished and the fires covered or put out in good time, ruling out late night hot drinks, or real campfires after dusk. With the encouragement towards war work and 'dig for victory', many units went 'farmping' - holding their week's camp based on or near a farm in order to spend their days helping out the farmer with tasks such as weeding or harvesting crops, and gathering hedgerow fruits to be preserved. During the war (and in the immediate post-war years) another difficulty was lack of camp equipment - some camp equipment had been requisitioned at the outbreak of war and was slow in coming back if it was returned at all, other items had been damaged or destroyed in bombing, factories were focussed on production of war materials, and personal kit, if it was obtainable at all, cost too many clothing coupons - so if kit could not be borrowed then adaptation became the only way. Tin cans could have wire handles fitted to become nesting billies. Tents could be made from old canvas fabric painted with home-made waterproofing solutions, wool oddments could be knitted into 'sleeping bags' to go inside the blankets, and damaged old waterproofs could be cut down and sewn into new garments or made into waterproof storage bags . . . wellingtons were totally unobtainable and waterproofs near enough so, but with a bit of determination, improvisation, and a lot of asking around and rummaging in attics and outhouses for forgotten pre-war oddments, a makeshift camp kit could be gathered, 1910-style . . . and the Guide shop stocked whatever items they could obtain as best they could given the circumstances . . . From the mid-1950s, camping boomed again. Ridge tents such as the Icelandic, Niger and Stormhaven became more widely available, army surplus kit was widely available and affordable, and the newer convenience foods emerged, making life much easier for the Quartermaster. The wider availability of cars and vans made more remote campsites easier to get to - but the increase in traffic and some nasty accidents signalled the end of the trek cart, and saw hired private coaches becoming more common than open lorries. More and more Counties obtained their own campsites, many of them having equipment stored onsite, which reduced the difficulty of sending heavy canvas tents and awkward poles as luggage on trains, and brought things full circle back to the 'hiring' days! The old 'box over a hole' latrines were gradually replaced by chemical toilets such as the 'elsan' which were used with individual 'toilet tents' which allowed greater privacy - but still required a 'lat pit' for emptying, and had a chemical smell all of their own which anyone who used them will well remember! 'Altar' fireplaces began to become available, which saved on bending, or digging trench fires, and lightweight aluminium metal pots, and plastic pails and basins (rather than enamel) helped to cut down on the weight and bulk of the luggage - and the introduction of tinfoil opened up lots of new possibilities for 'backwoods' cooking. It was also during this time that 'Patrol Cooking' became used more widely, and rapidly took off. Guiders could see that the slight extra expense and workload at first - was fully justified by the way the Guides learned to cook for themselves, and do their own menu planning - and the teamwork skills it taught. Nylon sleeping bags became more affordable, allowing bedding to become warmer than the traditional 'two blankets and four pins' homemade sleeping bag - though the blankets were still retained, as an outer layer around the sleeping bag. Up to now, Ranger camping had been near-identical to Guide camping, but advances in kit meant that lightweight camping especially took off with the Ranger section - now portable 'Primus' and 'camping gaz' stoves became readily available, and lightweight 2-peson tents with aluminium poles instead of wood or bamboo too, which made it much more feasible to go on overnight or weekend hikes with everything necessary being carried on the back. Frame rucksacks became much more available and affordable, and plastic crockery was lighter than enamel. Nylon 'cagoules' came in, much lighter and more waterproof than the old 'mackintosh' or cape, and waterproof trousers were produced too. All this lightweight, waterproof kit also made it easier to combine camping with adventurous country activities such as climbing, hillwalking or pony treking, and cycling or canoeing tours were also popular. During the 1970s and 1980s, camping itself did not undergo radical change - but campsites did. Mainly, it was down to campers' rising expectations, which led to more of the established campsites opening up 'providores' or shops selling basic supplies and souvernirs, providing basic onsite adventurous activities such as orienteering, pioneering and backwoods cookery, and looking to build toilet blocks, and in some cases supply electricity for lighting. Some technologies gradually became available - such as the 'coolbox' and the gas boiler, but otherwise, technological advances were few and camping continued mainly unchanged. So, the big change that did happen in that era wasn't to the style of camping itself, but to the duration of camps. Weekend camping had always been a popular option for Patrols to get away by themselves during school termtime, but up until now, unit camps had always been a week or more away - now many Company camps were having to move to being of shorter duration, and even to being weekend camps, as more Guiders worked at full-time jobs and could not spare so many days from their limited annual leave allowance. The downside was that camp programmes became more crowded and hectic, as leaders still tried to fit in as many as possible of the usual camp activities into their programmes. Where before a programme might have read 'Saturday - arrive and pitch, make gadgets, Sunday - explore village and finish gadgets, Monday - nature walk and picnic, Tuesday - sports day, Wednesday - day out, Thursday - badgework and skills testing, Friday - wide game and initial clear-up, Saturday - strike camp' - now the programme read more like 'Friday - arrive, pitch camp, explore site, Saturday - gadgets, badgework, wide game, campfire, Sunday - sports, strike camp'. In the rush to literally try to squeeze most of a week's worth of activities into 48 hours, time to 'stand and stare' at the surroundings, chat over the dinner table, or take a quiet walk and appreciate the locality or observe nature was lost in the rush to always be 'doing something', and not 'waste' a minute . . . Guides could end up going home more exhausted after their 'holiday' than when they had arrived! The 1990s and 2000s brought more tent innovations, lightweight 'family' nylon tents with 'inners' and fibreglass poles meant that new shapes and styles of larger Patrol-size tents became available, with 'pods' and 'tunnels', meaning that lightweight camping no longer had to be the preserve of Rangers. Although in theory more lightweight, their larger size and additional features meant that the weight actually wasn't that much lighter at all! Nevertheless, the separate bedroom areas allowed the Guides (and particularly the older Guides) more privacy, and allowed central space in the tent for luggage to be stored, separate from the bedrooms. The downside to the built-in groundsheets was that they killed the grass below the tent if left down too long, so many sites instituted rules that the tents had to be moved every 48 hours - thus many sites and units stuck to their Icelandics. Cooking innovations such as gas cookers became more common too, as questions began to be asked about whether wood fires were necessarily the best option for the environment. On the other hand, as recycling became fashionable, we realised that our pre-existing habits of separating out rubbish to cut down the amount in the bin bags, and the habit of recycling food waste and re-using paper waste for firelighting - put camping ahead of the norm in the newly-fashionable 'green' stakes. Marquees were less frequently used, as many sites installed storage huts which were large enough to double as wet weather shelters - or even purpose-built huts or buildings with mod cons. Toilet blocks became the norm, some even incorporating showers, electric light and hot running water. Kit advances, too, made a big difference, with the rectangular nylon sleeping bag being replaced by the 'mummy' style bag, designed to cope with use in cooler weather, and heavy canvas metal-framed rucksacks being replaced by lightweight nylon rucksacks with greater capacity for less weight. Foam rollmats and 'thermarests' offered alternatives to either lying on the hard ground, or trying to avoid rolling off metal-framed campbeds or heavy rubber airbeds. Coolbags and boxes became almost standard in place of the improvised hanging larder and bucket-in-the-river dodges, and gas water boilers became more readily available, making it easier to keep a constant supply of hot water on tap. Camping had also become much further removed from the Guides' home life than ever before - whereas in the past the cooking fire wasn't that far different from the 'range' and coal fire at home, and the trench lat not so different from the outside toilet in the back yard, now Guides found camp very different from their centrally-heated double-glazed homes with electricity and hot water 'on tap'. In the 2010s, the unit camp is becoming rarer, as Camp Licences become harder to earn, and Leaders who work full-time find it difficult to get the leave to run longer camps. Because of this, in many areas the unit camp has been partially or fully replaced by the 'Division Camp', where a few Guides from each unit in an area come together for a weekend. As a result, 'camp preparation' takes up less time in the unit programme and there are fewer opportunities for Camp Permits. There has been a massive increase in so-called 'adventurous activities' with many camps having instructor-led sessions of activities such as archery, climbing wall, canoeing, caving, crate climbing and the like. 'So-called', because actually these are activities which are already familiar to most of the Guides, being the sort of thing they do regularly on family resort holidays every year at 'kids club', so they aren't actually adventurous at all. The most popular camp activities are wide games, pioneering and backwoods cooking - because they don't get to do these anywhere else . . . Kit has become more advanced, with some units using gas burners instead of wood fires, and lightweight tents tending to replace the Icelandics and Stormhavens in many areas - yet most continue to make bedding rolls, even if waterproof bags are starting to become more common than groundsheets as the outer layer. Most camps still do flag ceremonial daily, and while some campsites offer a range of adventurous activities all day and centrally organised activities each evening, for most units the Guides ideal camp is one which intersperses these with plenty of home-made fun - the wide game, the 'silly sports', the night hike, and the campfire as evening draws on . . . New styles of hybrid accommodation, half-way between camping and indoor holiday, have started to come in with options such as cabins and Yurts. And many units are doing indoor adventure holidays rather than camping. Camping is still the most popular activity for Guides - but the proportion who actually get the chance to camp is declining. Brownie Holidays Brownie holidays started around the late 1920s, with the introduction of the 'Pack Holiday Licence', although there doesn't seem to have been much publicity around it's launch, as it was some time before Scotland heard about the possibility, and it took a lot of correspondence to work out the right procedure for getting the first person in Scotland licenced - after all, who could test the first candidate! Often, the Brownies would take over a house, or a village school during the summer holidays, with each Six having a bedroom or area, and helping out with the household chores by rota. The activities would tend to be picnics, country walks, and passing the outdoor Golden Bar challenges such as skipping and ball throwing. If they were lucky there might be swimming in a river or exploring the seaside, or visiting a farm to see the animals. In the evenings there might be sing-songs, improvised entertainments, or surprise fancy dress parties. Originally the format was simply that of a holiday, but there grew up a tradition of adding to the fun of the adventure by adopting a theme and incorporating it into the activities. From earliest days (right up until the late 1970s), a Brownie holiday was for a minimum of 5 nights, and a full week was the norm, it would usually incorporate a 'day out' on the middle day of the holiday, where the Brownies would go into a nearby town or village, visit a place of interest, and buy souvernirs to take home - and doubtless visit a swimming pool, partly to enjoy swimming, but mainly to utilise the hot showers! Some units would also have a 'visitors day' when the families could come and see what the girls had been doing, although this was only possible if the holiday was held near to home, and was accessible by public transport - for many decades cars were a rare luxury. hose days, the Leaders had to make all the arrangements themselves. They would often have to arrange with the gas or electricity board to have a cooker installed in one of the rooms, and might have to bring their own crockery, cutlery and cookware too. Originally, themes weren't From the 1940s onwards, pack holidays grew increasingly popular and that, combined with the demand for premises, led many areas to either obtain and adapt a building, or design and build their own purpose-built 'Brownie House' for Brownie holidays. These purpose-built houses often had bunk beds, large kitchens with enough room for the Brownies to help prepare the meals, and activity rooms with space for playing active games. At Brownie holidays, the main (and most popular) activities would surprise adults - it is the chance to do household chores! Brownies do love the chance to get involved in making meals, to clean a sink until it shines, to be allowed to sweep and mop a floor . . . they also love the games, crafts, and the chance to play with friends. It was only in the 1990s that, following a few experiments, Brownies were allowed to camp in tents . . . at first it caused a deal of concern that girls who had been to Brownie Camp would have the adventure of Guide Camp spoiled - they would have 'seen it all before'. So far, that doesn't seem to have been the case, because at Brownie camp the girls need a lot more help and support from the Leaders than Guides do - help to make up their bedding rolls, the greater part of the tent pitching done for them while they help out with it, either whole unit cooking or an adult directly supervising each group. So when they get to Guide camp, and the Patrol is expected to organise and look after themselves, it is still a step up from what they have done before, and they seem to revel in the increased independence . . . In the 2000s and 2010s, Brownie holidays have become less common. It seems to be down to a combination of factors. Parents concerned that the girls 'aren't read' (although there doesn't seem to be any particular evidence for this). The girls' busy schedule on evenings and weekends makes weekends away tricky, especially if split families are a factor. And fewer Leaders are able to run them - full-time work, family commitments and busy schedules make it difficult. We are seeing more groups going to 'everything laid on' centres like PGL where the staff organise all the catering and activities, and the Leaders can just hand over the girls for the weekend. We also see an increasing number of sleepovers - sometimes at the local meeting hall, but sometimes at exotic venues like museums, aquariums and art galleries . . . Guide Indoor Holidays Although from the earliest days camping was always the favoured option, indoor holidays have always co-existed with camping. In the early days, when parents were reluctant to allow camping, they were often happier to think the girls would be living in a 'proper building' rather than a fabric tent, so many of the earliest Guide 'camps' of the 1910s were actually held in buildings - but not all! Thereafter, the Guide Indoor Holiday tended to trundle along under the radar. In some areas, it was considered far inferior, in others it was considered acceptable as part of another activity - whether it was a visit to a location such as in a town where indoor accommodation was more feasible, or as part of a trekking holiday between Youth Hostels - or where a Leader's health meant that she could not camp, in which case it was seen as 'next best thing'. Where Guides travelled abroad as a group, it was often more feasible to utilise indoor accommodation, such that Guide hostels were established - both the World Centres such as 'Our Chalet' and 'Our Ark' (now Olave House), and national ones in some European countries. The other advantage of the indoor holiday was in allowing units, particularly those with younger or less experienced Guides, the chance to go on residentials outwith the main camping season in the summer. In recent years, a fashion has grown up for 'package' indoor holidays at commercial centres. For a price (they are usually a much more expensive option), the leaders hand over the Guides to the centre's staff at the start of the weekend, and the staff look after the Guides and organise all their activities virtually 24/7. Meals are prepared by the staff and served in the comunal dining room, and the cooking and cleaning is all done by the staff - there is no opportunity for the Guides to have a go. Meantime, the Leaders are free to occupy themselves as they wish, since the Guides are almost entirely taken off their hands - the centres being designed to cater for unaccompanied children. In times when adults find it hard to get the time to organise traditional residentials, a few have turned into a flood . . . It was really in the 1990s that 'sleepovers' in Guiding started to take off. Up until then, most units would go away for a weekend or longer. Occasionally, an activity which a unit would want to do was in a location or of a duration that made it more realistic to stay overnight rather than try to do it as a day trip, but the sleepover part was just an add-on to the main activity, it was felt to be too much work to do all the organising for a one-night event - after all, it took as much preparation, and as much paperwork, as a weekend or week-long residential did. But then, it was seen that the sleepover part of the outing was in itself adventurous, and might be a useful stepping stone, particularly for younger age groups, or for girls who hadn't been on a residential before, the shorter duration making it less daunting than being away from home for a whole weekend, and some units saw it's potential as a preparation for longer camps and holidays, especially if premises could be found near at hand so the travelling didn't eat too heavily into the activity time. With sleepovers, almost more so than for longer events, 'the theme's the thing'. For a sleepover to work well there really has to be a clear theme running behind all the activities, or a clear purpose behind having the event. It could be to enable the girls to attend an event which, because of it's location, would make it too long and tiring to do as a day trip. It could be to tackle an activity which wouldn't fit into the timespan of a unit meeting, or one which could only be done during daytime. It may be to fit in a series of outings on the one day which would be hard to manage as a day trip. It could be to give a first residential experience to a younger group, or a group who haven't been away before. It could be that a Leader wants to start by being assessed for Overnight Licence, before adding on the necessary modules for an indoor or camp licence. Sleepovers are commonly run for Guides or Brownies for these purposes, but the real explosion in recent years has been in Rainbow sleepovers. Rainbows aren't allowed to go on longer residentials as a unit, so the sleepover is the residential option for the age group, and one which units are increasingly taking up. It gives the Leaders a chance to get to know the Rainbows better, it allows them to do activities which are better done with a higher ratio (like craft and cooking), and can be a great preparation for Brownie Holidays . . . And where sleepovers used to be either at the regular meeting hall, or at existing Guide holiday houses - now they are taking place in Yurts, Museums, on Boats, in Aquariums, in Art Galleries . . .	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line1027
__label__wiki	0.624135	0.624135	Cycle Forums and Clubs Medway Towpath Travel Choices Summit Maidstone CycleFest Maidstone Cycle Campaign Forum Maidstone Cycle Campaign ForumMaidstone Cycle Campaign ForumMaidstone Cycle Campaign Forum Working with you to improve cycling conditions and encourage people to take up cycling as part of a healthy lifestyle Active Travel Planning Project MERLin - Medway Ecological Riverline Link is an initiative to provide a green corridor between the River Medway at Allington and the River Medway at Barming. Sitting on the Maidstone / Tonbridge and Malling boarder this initiative seeks to support connectivity for active travellers and nature. This is needed now as a coherent plan which can protect key parts of the landscape as multiple development sites are proposed in the area. An example of MERLin in action is working with MCCF in their response to the Pea Field planning application in Barming to show the importance of establishing bridleways through the development before approval. A planning application on the other side of Maidstone at Otham for over 400 houses is a big focus for MCCF at the moment. This was subject to to a public enquiry commencing on the 23rd November and MCCF were granted Rule 6 status so that they could oppose the development due to the impact of traffic congestion and road danger on walking and cycling and to highlight the lack of accessible and convenient active travel routes to access the proposed site. Full details are on our Consultations page. Outcome announced 7th January - The Inspector has determined that the Appeal by the developer, Bellway Homes, will be allowed and the development is approved subject to conditions including Active Travel provisions. More People Cycling MCCF publicised and supported the Sustrans Bike to School Week by offering to suggest routes and encouraging schools to take up the resources and plans provided. A number of schools took up the challenge, particularly Maidstone Grammar School For Girls. They published an excellent piece on their website MGS Bike to School Week Road Schemes MCCF wants to contribute to road schemes and improvements even where they are not primarily directed at cycling infrastructure. A recent example has been the changes made to Charing Hill which are still ongoing. MCCF was contacted by multiple people raising concerns that the narrowing and solid white line in the middle of the road has the effect of holding motorists behind cyclists travelling up the hill. This is intimidating for cyclists and frustrating for motorists. It also raises safety concerns and has a tendency to put people off cycling. The alternative proposed from MCCF is that the extra space on the road is used for a cycle lane as this is an important link to Canterbury. Covid-19 emergency funding was provided by the government to implement road schemes across the country. Two were implemented in Maidstone, one in King Street and the other in Earl Street. There are many good points about the schemes and the timescales for implementation were very challenging. The schemes are being evaluated at the moment with a view to deciding on whether they should be used as the basis for a permanent implementation. MCCF have supported the need for dissabled access and taxi services to be maintained which we believe can be appropriately accommodated. In terms of the cycling specific elements MCCF are calling for such schemes to be implemented in accordance with National Cycle Infrastructure Design which would have resolved many of the negative comments. MCCF continues to respond to public consultations. They have recently responded to the: Kent County Council Strategic 5 year Plan 20 mph schemes in Maidstone Keep Maidstone Moving A229 Blue Bell Hill Junction Improvement Scheme - Walking, Cycling and Horse-Riding Review. We are currently working on the: Kent Rail Strategy 2021 consultation. All residents are entitled to participate in public consultations and have their say. Simply go to https://kccconsultations.inconsult.uk/consult.ti/system/home and register. We have also responded to the: The Department of Transport consultation on changes to the Highway Code improving safety for cyclists, pedestrians and horse riders The Roads Policing review Our responses are available to download on our Files to Download page. The Forum has two objectives: 1 Encourage infrastructure for cycling specifically but Active Travel in general 2 Encourage more people to use their bikes for transport We see the first as an enabler for the second which we would like to spend more time on. What is KCC spending £8 million for Walking and Cycling on Article from KCC Media Hub - May 28th PRESS RELEASE - Maidstone Cyclists positive about the benefit of new pandemic cycle measures. Kent County Council has welcomed news that government is investing £70 million to help restart local economies and make roads safer for pedestrians and cyclists. KCC has been allocated just over £8 million by the Department for Transport (DfT) to invest in walking and cycling and to embed new behaviours whilst promoting the positive effects of safe and sustainable active travel. The first round of funding, however, will be £1.6 million with the remainder subject to agreement if spent within eight weeks. In addition to this, plans are being worked on to introduce further 20mph zones, including trials in Faversham and Tonbridge. Since lockdown on March 23, Kent Highways has recorded a 300% increase in the number of people cycling and a recent survey of people across the county found 63% supported the idea of more cycle lanes. Michael Payne meeting with Chris Heaton-Harris, the Cycling Minister, earlier this year. Kent County Council Cabinet Member for Highways and Transport Michael Payne said: “I very much welcome this funding and we can now get started on planning some short, medium, and longer-term schemes for those walking and cycling. “I hope this will encourage more people to walk and cycle as the health benefits speak for themselves. This investment will allow our active travel options to be enhanced and improved so that these journeys remain safe and sustainable. “We will be looking into the possibility of reallocating road space for walking and cycling, encouraging people to take part in active travel, for instance going to school, and reducing speed limits where appropriate. “I very much hope that the number of people cycling and walking increases as there are a wealth of benefits to our communities if people are more active – lower traffic levels, reduced congestion, less road noise and improved air quality. “But to make these changes long lasting we need to work together, and this can only be achieved with local support.” Mr Payne added: “I want to develop ideas and improvements that not only give some quick wins, but to also learn and experiment so that we can lock-in the longer-term benefits from a programme of improvements across the county. “I appreciate there will be lots of groups that will want to be involved. But right now we are assessing the opportunities this funding brings so that we can invest in the right places at the right time, whilst also responding to the key worker and urgent needs that we face in the current pandemic to quickly provide safe walking and cycling infrastructure. “Welcome though this funding is we all need to realise that it will not be possible to accommodate every idea immediately. That is why some of the schemes that are chosen are likely to be experimental in the first instance.” KCC anticipates more people will be travelling to work and to school by bike or on foot. Working with colleagues in the local districts and boroughs, KCC is arranging to implement temporary signs that reinforce the social distancing message. As part of the DfT Access Fund programme, KCC has worked alongside Cycle Community CIC based in Ashford supplying 50 refurbished bikes to key NHS staff. The bikes have been supplied with safety equipment including helmets, locks, lights and hi-vis vests. KCC will be looking to: Trial ‘pop-up’ cycle facilities with a minimum level of physical separation from volume traffic and also widen some existing cycle lanes to enable cyclists to maintain distancing. Use cones and barriers to widen some footways particularly outside shops and transport hubs. Encouraging walking and cycling to school. Reduce speed limits: trial 20mph speed limits where appropriate and locally supported. Introduce pedestrian and cycle zones, with the possible introduction of low traffic neighbourhoods and maybe modal filters. Provide additional cycle parking facilities at key locations, such as outside stations and in high streets, to accommodate an increase in cycling. Change junction designs to accommodate more cyclists – for example, extending Advanced Stop Lines at traffic lights. ‘Whole-route’ approaches to create corridors for buses, cycles and access only on key routes into town and city centres. Identify and bring forward permanent schemes already planned, for example under Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plans that can be constructed relatively quickly. The top risks that COVID is putting on road safety are: Poor driver behaviour, particularly incidences of speeding in areas where there are lower traffic levels Mental health impacts on levels of distraction, anxiety and tolerance Driver fatigue – where people haven’t been used to driving as much during lockdown. When passing a person cycling, give plenty of room – a minimum of 1.5m – and don’t pass too quickly. It can be frightening to a rider if they are passed at high speed. Fewer people have been on our roads since lockdown began and traffic levels have been at about 60% of what they normally would be. However, with government encouraging schools to go back, traffic levels will increase. What’s more, children will now be walking or cycling to school alongside other parents driving their children, and general traffic will be thrown into the mix – drivers need to slow down, be patient and stay alert to other road users. Some drivers will be re-adjusting to driving, having not driven for a long time, or the skills involved may be rusty when it comes to pedestrians, cyclists and other drivers on our roads. We want everyone to share our roads safely because one mistake or a moment’s inattention can have tragic consequences, and human error is a factor in 95% of crashes. KCC Media Hub Active Travel Fund Schemes KCC Measures to encourage residents safely get on their bikes are being welcomed by Maidstone Cycle Campaign Forum. The Government has given Kent County Council £8m to spend on quick to deliver new cycle and walking schemes across the County. In Maidstone Town Centre, two schemes are proposed, a pedestrianisation of Earl Street between Pudding Lane and Week Street and to implement two pop up cycle lanes along each side of King Street. The King Street scheme will link a cycle route from the town centre to Maidstone East Station and the Medway Towpath in one direction and Mote Park and routes to Downswood and Bearsted in the other direction. Both schemes are due to be operational from mid-September 2020. Maidstone Cycle Campaign Forum is supportive of both schemes and is willing to work with both Maidstone Borough Council and Kent County Council to ensure that the schemes are of the highest order and are exemplars of best practice and show the way forward in promoting cycling and walking. We have also been informed by sources in both Kent County Council and Maidstone Borough Council, that as part of Phase 2 there is a plan to install a cycle path along the A20 from Lenham to Maidstone (Willington Street) which via Mote Park will link to the new King Street Cycle Lanes. Paul Harper, Chair of Maidstone Cycle Campaign Forum said “we welcome these proposals, we expect Kent County Council will design and deliver them to the best exemplar standards of best practice. However next week our schools go back, and typically 60/70% of secondary school pupils travel by bus, however the indications are that only 5/10% will go by bus and around 90% will be driven increasing car journeys across Maidstone Borough by up to 20/30,000 car journeys twice a day. Urgent attention in needed to provide support for pupils to walk and cycle to school and college. In the longer term Maidstone Borough needs a comprehensive investment in walking routes and also a cycling infrastructure where people can cycle on dedicated cycle paths around and across town.” Duncan Edwards, Vice Chair of Maidstone Cycle Campaign Forum said “the early part of lockdown in April 2020 showed the desire and willingness of people of all generations and backgrounds to get on their bicycles, it demonstrated that when you can cycle away from busy and congested roads, people will cycle. There was an acknowledged 300% increase in cycling across Maidstone and Kent. Now the traffic is back the bikes are going back into storage. We need to get a decent infrastructure as in other towns in the UK and also Denmark and the Netherlands, to get people on their bikes for the long term.” Paul Harper said “during lockdown when people took to their bikes and walking leather air quality across our town was the best it’s been for decades, you could feel the freshness, we need to get that back and reduce our dependency on the car again. Duncan Edwards said “As part of our plan we call on Kent County Council to repair the Medway Towpath/Cycle Route at Aylesford, which has been closed since the February 2020 River Medway Floods., also we are continuing to campaign to improve the heavily polluted Medway Bridges Gyratory and to enable safe cycling and we and Sustrans have submitted plans to KCC for urgent funding. Download on our files page Government boost for Cycling and Walking falls at the Medway Towpath - PRESS RELEASE - Letter to the Editor During lockdown the number of cyclists and walkers in Maidstone as in the rest of the UK went up incredibly. It demonstrated that families and cyclists of all generations and confidence will take to their bicycles if safe road conditions are available. As the Chair of the Maidstone Cycle Campaign Forum and a Fant Councillor, I welcome the Governments support for getting in safe infrastructure for cycling in a number of exemplar schemes across the Country. In Maidstone we are promised cycle lanes along King Street for mid-September 2020 and even a segregated cycle lane from Willington Street to Lenham alongside the A20 during the winter of 2020/21. All positive and hopefully the start of addressing an integrated package of cycling and walking measures across Maidstone Town and Borough. Unfortunately however all is not rosy the Medway Towpath/ Cycleway was damaged in the February 2020 floods near Aylesford where it was partially undermined. It has since been closed off and now the closure stretch has been extended back along the timber walkway. Everyone expected that it would be repaired as an urgent priority, alongside all the extra road works undertaken in lockdown, but NO the current site notice states that repair works will not be completed until Summer 2021 a year away. That will be a closure of a 1 ½ years. This is utterly disgraceful and a public scandal. Since this route opened from Barming Bridge to Aylesford Bridge in 2015, it has become extremely popular with cyclists and pedestrians of all ages and levels of fitness and is now a major cycling route for people to get to the town centre and the Aylesford industrial estates. It would easily have been possibly over the spring to put in some temporary timber decking to bridge the damaged area, which would have allowed walkers and cyclists to use the route while longer term repairs were done, but no close it off, forget it and hope it goes away seems to be the approach. The Maidstone Cycle Campaign Forum (MCCF) has raised this issue with the County Council, but to no avail, they clearly do not seem to be interested in prioritising walking and cycling in Kent, despite being happy to take Government money. If this had been the A20 or any main road into or out of Maidstone or the M20, it would have been repaired within hours or days. Because it is used by cyclist and pedestrians it is the bottom of the pile. At a time when KCC is looking to pedestrianise Earl Street and put in cycle lanes on King Street, its lack of support to maintain the best used and valued piece of cycling infrastructure in the Maidstone/ Aylesford area is incredulous. The towpath is much loved by residents of Barming, East Farleigh, Maidstone and Aylesford, we deserve better and I and the Maidstone Cycle Campaign Forum will make sure that this issue is taken seriously on behalf of all those who use and love the towpath. If KCC is serious, like the Government is about active travel and encouraging cycling, repairing the Medway Towpath should be its top not bottom priority. Concerned cyclists can contact us at maidstonecycling.uk. Paul Harper Chair of Maidstone Cycle Campaign Forum River Medway Towpath - Closures Cycle Gyratory in Central Maidstone Due to landslip and tree issues parts of the towpath are currently closed. See ExploreKent for full details. See our Press Release - Download on our files page The River Medway Towpath which runs between Aylesford and Barming (total length: 10.5km) has been closed near Aylesford since 15th June due to landslip. MCCF have raised this with KCC and to date there is no positive start date for the work required. The current 'closure' expires on the 12th December and KCC are looking for another 6 month extension. Their update on the 30th October is that site investigations are nearly complete and that the path will remain closed until Spring 2021 at the earliest. New Roads Should Prioritise People on Bikes and on Foot over Cars The Health Watchdog's statement as reported in Cyclist Magazine ( www.cyclist.co.uk ) : https://www.cyclist.co.uk/news/5814/new-roads-should-prioritise-people-on-bikes-and-on-foot-over-cars-says-uk-health-watchdog Made to Move Report to MPs Chris Boardman's presentation to MPs as reported by British Cycling ( www.britishcycling.org.uk ) : https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/campaigning/article/20180123-campaigning-news-Made-to-move--Chris-Boardman-presents-walking-and-cycling-report-to-MPs-0 Explore Kent Cycle Maps https://explorekent.org/activities/ MCCF have made a proposal to meet the current challenges of the Gyratory. See our Campaigns page for details. SUSTRANS AUDIT SUSTRANS were commissioned by Maidstone Borough Council and Kent County Council to assess the current provision for walking and cycling in the town centre and along main Walking/Cycling corridors – Sutton Road and Hermitage Lane. The scope also included proposals for linking the corridors i.e. High Street - Maidstone West, East and Barracks – Medway Towpath. The report went to the Strategic Planning, Sustainability and Transportation Committee on Tuesday 12th June - Agenda Item 17. Download the Assessment below. Maidstone Borough Council are now commissioning a further assessment adding to the scope of the original. To find out more click here Campaigns or on the tab at the top of this page. More Great Information SUSTRANS - Cycling Visits their website for a range of information on cycling. Look at Exemplars section for examples of great cycling provision. including: Nijmegen: The City that tamed cars so that people can walk and bike where they please. Walthamstow Village Kent County Council Consultations - Strategic Statement - Five Year Plan The 5 Year Plan is the flagship strategy for Kent County Council. It unites the Council with clear outcomes and objectives. It has been brought together by working with and listening to our residents, young people, local businesses, the voluntary and community sector and staff. We’ve reflected what we heard during our engagement process in this draft consultation document. KCC are keen to hear from you as we further develop this draft during formal consultation. The Consultation ran from 6th January to 17th February 2020. Read our response For more information please visit the KCC website www.kent.gov.uk/5year The result promised for March is still awaited. 20mph Public Health Scheme Church Road, Otham - Planning Applications - Outline and Full for up to 440 residential dwellings Kent County Council Consultation - Keep Maidstone Moving A249 – Bearsted Road Improvement Scheme 3 Storey Secondary School – New Cut – Maidstone Kent County Council Consultations A20 Harrietsham Highway Improvements Scheme Erection of a new two-storey primary school and special educational needs secondary school DoT Call for 'Evidence on Cycling and Walking Safety' DoT M2 Junction 5 Consultation A20 London Road Junction Improvement A229 Blue Bell Hill Junction Improvement Scheme - Walking, Cycling and Horse-Riding Review Hermitage Lane, Maidstone, in The Borough of Maidstone - to reduce the 40mph speed limit and to extend the 30mph speed limit. Further details of these are on our Consultations page and our full responses downloadable on our Files page Copyright © 2017 Maidstone Cycle Campaign Forum - All Rights Reserved. (Registered Charity Number 1172691)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line1030
__label__cc	0.583843	0.416157	Distribution: victimisation & elimination, by an ex Ford worker. (Brisbane) 1974 2 p. Sad pie, who do you belong to? Brisbane (197?) 2 p. Teacher's college - the politics of oppression! Student teacher's cell. Brisbane, 1974. 2 p. (2 copies) Authoritarian education, by S.M.G. Cavendish Road Students. (Brisbane) 1972. 2 p. Bosses blacklist (who calls the tune?), by Blacklisted metal worker. (Brisbane, 197?) 1 p. Politics of history, by History Action Committee, including S.M.G. members, neo-Marxists, Libertarian Marxists and Christian humanists. (Brisbane, 197?) 2 p. Education system - who is it for? by Students for Self Management. Brisbane, 1972 2 p. Censorship and self-management. Brisbane, 1972 2 p. Irish scapegoats. Brisbane, 1976 2 p. (2 copies) Those who give the orders make the laws. Brisbane (197?) 4 p. (2 copies)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line1038
__label__cc	0.539271	0.460729	The cost of productivity loss due to noise in your office Open plan offices are the most common office space layout these days. The main advantage is facilitating communication and dialogue among colleagues. However, this comes with the downside of employees having to put up with constant noise levels. According to research done in Down Under around 50% of workers in open plan offices feel disturbed by noise. Have you done a poll in your office? Some of the noise is created by colleagues speaking with each other. But a lot is also due to people on calls whether it’s with potential clients, existing customers or colleagues in other locations. Research quoted by the BBC states that open plan offices reduce employee productivity by 15%. What does this mean for you? It negatively impacts your entire organisation, whether you have a sales team, marketeers, developers, customer service agents, and so on. You get the picture. In addition, employees often waste time finding a quiet space where they can make a call or have some privacy. Often they’ll end up in a staircase, outside on the street, or maybe even in the loo! Let’s assume your organisation has 100 employees in its office. If every week employees spend on average just 5 minutes wandering around the office trying to find a quiet place to make a call that translates into almost 25,000 minutes (or 400 hours) lost productivity per year. Plus it can lead to some serious frustration among your colleagues. Luckily minimising the downsides of open plan offices is easy peasy. Just pop in a few MEAVO phone booths. That means lower noise levels as calls are made inside the pod plus less time wasted trying to find a quiet place. Your colleagues will thank you forever! P.S. Our new Soho Office Phone Booth is back in stock! Phone booth comparison – 5 things to look for when purchasing an office pod Sales & Operations Lead – France \| MEAVO Careers Here are the stats: how office phone booths can boost your business What makes a great coworking space? About Meavo Soho Booth Shoreditch Booth Hoxton Wall Pod Terms & Conditions \| Privacy \| Cookie Policy Get our Spec Sheet Get detailed information about our products, lead times and customisation options. This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these cookies, the cookies that are categorised as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyse and understand how you use this website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may have an effect on your browsing experience. You can read more about our cookie use here. These cookies are not strictly necessary for the website to function and are used specifically to enhance the user experience via analytics, personalisation and ads.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line1041
__label__wiki	0.926778	0.926778	home Biography Cassady Mcclincy Cassady Mcclincy Selena Published On Tue Mar 17 2020 Modified On Tue Mar 17 2020 Facts of Cassady Mcclincy Full Name Cassady McClincy First Name Cassady McClincy Last Name McClincy Birth Name Cassady Mcclincy Ethnicity Caucasian- American Birth City Los Angeles, California Birth Country United States Mother Name Dayla McClincy Gender Identity Female Horoscope Virgo Sibilings 3(Callie McClincy, Kaya McClincy, Gavin McClincy) Insta Profile Wiki Profile Date of Birth September 1,2000 Amount 600,000 Body and Relation Status of Cassady Mcclincy What is Cassady Mcclincy marital status ? Single What is the height of Cassady Mcclincy? 163 cm What is the weight of Cassady Mcclincy? 51 kg Have you ever watched AMC's horror drama, The Walking Dead? If yes then you are probably familiar with the name, Cassady Mcclincy, who played the breakout character as Lydia in 2019. American actress, Mcclincy is also known for her portrayal of Anna Sloan on the Netflix original series Ozark (2017). The TV star was born on September 1, 2000, in Los Angeles, California, United States. Further, she grew up alongside mother, Dayla McClincy and three siblings Callie McClincy, Kaya, Gavin McClincy. So far, Cassady holds American citizenship and is of Caucasian-American ethnicity. Is The Walking Dead star, Cassady Mcclincy Dating Anyone in 2020? Cassady Mcclincy is only 20 years old and therefore there is no way to get married or have a husband. Constantine's star, Cassady's relationship status remains a mystery now, as there are no details on her love affair. Image: Cassady Mcclincy with her Love Simon's Co-stars Source: Instagram @cassadymcclincy Meanwhile, Mcclincy is neither dating anyone or has a boyfriend. But throughout her acting work, she certainly has few on-screen romance with her fellow cast. Are there any Dating Rumors? Cassady Mcclincy is reported to be a single lady and is cherishing her singlehood without any love rumors. The actress loves spending her time with her family and co-stars. Even though she is spotted with many other actors, Mcclincy is not part of any rumors as of now. Picture: Constantine's star Cassady Mcclincy with her brother, Gavin Mcclincy Besides her love life, the actress who played the character of Young Molly Strand in Castle Rock in 2018 loves to travel and spends quality time with her mother and three siblings, Kyla, Callie and Gavin. Thousand Dollars Of Net Worth 5 feet 4 inches tall American actress, Cassady Mcclincy has earned a pretty good amount of wealth from her acting career. As of 2020, she enjoys an estimated net worth of $600,000 which is far less than her The Walking Dead's co-star Matt Lintz who enjoys $1.7 million wealth. Image: Cassady Mcclincy as Lydia in The Walking Dead Some of her most recognized work is included in The Walking Dead, The Wizard of Agni, It's Supernatural and Love Simon alongside Nick Robinson. Thus, she could be paid off satisfied paycheck from her roles. Nevertheless, the cast members of The Walking Dead series reportedly brings home from $650,000 to $90,000 per episode of the show. Thus, Mcclincy also probably receives wages in the same range. Movies and TV shows of Cassady Mcclincy Cassady started her acting career initially when she first landed a lead role for Munchkin Bobbi in the TV film The Wizard of Agni (2010). She appeared in the short film Five Smooth Stones in the same year. Later, she appeared in a small role in Drop Dead Diva's sixth season. Image: Cassady Mcclincy as Greta Hetfelderz in Lore (2017) In addition, TV star also played another recurring role in Constantine's first season. Plus, she made a recurring appearance on the original Netflix show Ozark in 2017. Likewise, during season 9 in 2019 McClincy started playing Lydia in The Walking Dead and became a regular series beginning with season 10. In an interview with EW, she broke down her role on the show and how she got the part. Apart from the TV shows, Cassady debuted in the movie with the role of Sarah in The Unexpected Bar Mitzvah in 2015. She further portrayed in several movies like Crime and Mister Meanors (2015), Erica in Poor Jane (2018) and Love Simon (2018). Visit Married celeb and read about more cast members of The Walking Dead!!!	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line1045
__label__cc	0.722905	0.277095	Snow arrives MENDOTA - Ice and snow arrived throughout the area to start the new year following a warmer and drier December for most of the state. Total precipitation for December ranged from just under 3 inches in northwest Illinois to just over 1 inch in much of central and southern Illinois. The entire southern two-thirds of Illinois was drier than average in December. Illinois State Climatologist Trent Ford at the University of Illinois’ Illinois State Water Survey says after the active start to January, the Climate Prediction Center’s 8- to 14-day outlooks indicate the highest odds of a change to warmer and drier than normal conditions across the state into the second week of January. The outlooks for the entire month of January lean toward warmer and wetter than normal conditions, suggesting a change to more active winter weather around the middle of the month. As La Niña conditions are expected to persist into early spring, forecasts from the North American Multi-model Ensemble for February through April favor warmer and wetter conditions through the winter-spring transition. BEST, Inc. wants to help make 2021 ‘your year’ Education Briefs 1-13 MENDOTA - Ice and snow arrived throughout the area to start the new year.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line1060
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__label__cc	0.681635	0.318365	Russia Test Fires ICBM in Zapad Exercise Published: September 21, 2017 \| By Missile Defense Project On September 20, Russia successfully test fired a SS-29 Yars intercontinental ballistic missile on the final day of the Zapad 2017 military exercise. As part of the exercise, Russian missile crews practiced relocating the missile, testing its mobile variant rather than the silo-based variant tested on September 12. The missile was launched from Plesetsk launch site in northwestern Russia, travelling approximately 6,000 km before its multiple warhead payload hit targets at the Kura testing range in far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula. The purpose of these tests was to “reaffirm the reliability” ICBM. The Ministry of Defense conducted a test launch of the Yars missile from Plesetsk, Tass Training launch of Yars ICBM from Plesetsk, Russian Strategic Forces (blog) Missile Defense Project, "Russia Test Fires ICBM in Zapad Exercise," Missile Threat, Center for Strategic and International Studies, September 21, 2017, last modified June 15, 2018, https://missilethreat.csis.org/russia-test-fires-icbm-zapad-exercise/. Associated Tags: Russia, ss-29	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line1073
__label__wiki	0.693607	0.693607	Fitbit is using Pebble’s software expertise to build an app store and smartwatch By Igor Bonifacic@IgorBonifacic It was just last month that Fitbit acquired Pebble, the now defunct wearable startup founded by Canadian Eric Migicovsky, and many of its best software engineers, and already the company is putting those assets to good use. In an interview with multiple U.S.-based publications at CES 2017, Fitbit CEO James Park said the company intends to launch its own app store “as soon as possible.” He later added, in an interview with The Verge, that the company plans to do so using assets acquired from Pebble, noting that the startup had “worked out a lot of the kinks” that go into building an app marketplace. Park didn’t say it in so many words, but it’s likely the company will release a new smartwatch to coincide with the launch of its app store. In the same interview with The Verge, Park said, “there so many different applications [our partners] want to write… from fitness-related ones to pill applications. And we don’t have the support in place for that right now, or any software infrastructure on our devices to run those devices.” Indeed, Fitbit’s wearables have a limited software scope. For the most part, they do things like step and calorie tracking, but little else. To accommodate the more advanced functionality afforded by third-party apps, it follows then that Fitbit will have to fundamentally rework how devices like the Blaze and Charge 2 work, or, more likely, launch an entirely new device. Just don’t expect a flood of consumer-focused apps. As evidenced by Park’s statements, Fitbit appears mostly concerned about developing apps to appease its corporate customers. Via: Android Authority, Forbes, The Verge Here’s how to activate Google Assistant on a Fitbit Sense or Versa 3 Guy builds a Pebble-like smartwatch with week-long battery life	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line1081
__label__wiki	0.824944	0.824944	West Virginia Shooting Slump The Mountaineers fired off 15 wins and have followed it up with losing four of five. What has caused the skid? The West Virginia shooting slump is certainly played a role. So who is feeling the effects of the shooting slump the most? Well, senior guard Daxter Miles is in a season long slump when you compare his performance to previous seasons. He is shooting just 25% from deep during the season. In his first three seasons as a Mountaineer he was never below 30%. The past five games it has became even worse. Bob Huggins has taken notice of the season-long slump by Miles and made a reference to possible lineup changes in the most recent post-game interview. Additional to that, a report from Fansided claims that the Mountaineers may be without Daxter Miles for the Iowa State game tonight. #WVUbasketball: Daxter Miles may miss ISU game https://t.co/sD7pOE1mZy via @hail_wv pic.twitter.com/jKwxQvz2qn — FanSided College (@FanSidedU) January 31, 2018 Esa Ahmad had a decent start offensively when returning from his suspension, but the last two games Ahmad has gone 0-for-12 from three-point range. Jon Rothstein made a note of the poor shooting on Twitter: Daxter Miles is 4-26 from three-point range in West Virginia’s last five games and Esa Ahmad is 0-12 from the field in his last two. The epitome of brutality. — Jon Rothstein (@JonRothstein) January 30, 2018 During the TCU game the Mountaineers were shooting as low as 29% deep into the second half. Luckily a hot streak brought the Mountaineers to 33.3% to finish the game including 26% from three-point range. Also struggling during the TCU loss was senior star Jevon Carter who was 0-for-6 from deep during the loss. Against Kentucky on Saturday the Mountaineers shot 41.7% from three-point range. Despite this the Mountaineers blew a 17-point lead in the second half and still rolled up another loss on their home court. Wednesday night the Mountaineers have a chance to get back on track. Iowa State is on a cold streak of their own, losing seven of their last nine games. If that’s not enough, the Cyclones will be without their starting point guard. The game is set to tip off at 7 p.m. EST in Ames, Iowa and will be televised on ESPNU. It will be interesting to see if Huggins makes any lineup changes after the Mountaineers lost their fourth out of five after blowing a 17-point lead against Kentucky. More in Basketball WVU Basketball Assistant Erik Martin Presents College Basketball ‘Bubble’ Approach While everyone is desperate to see college athletics this fall and winter, most of... See Where Jerry West Ranks on ESPN’s All-TIme Best College Players List Jerry West is certainly the best player in West Virginia University basketball history and... Mountaineers Have UNFINISHED BUSINESS Next Season The West Virginia Mountaineers were playing their best basketball of the year before the... WVU Lands A Pair Of JUCO Lineman Recruits WATCH: Bob Huggins – This Team Has Destroyed Press Virginia	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line1083
__label__cc	0.534191	0.465809	One letter at a time. One word at a time, One post at a time. MMJ Review List (A-Z) MMJ Trailer Analysis Music in Movies Specials/Lists Posted on August 7, 2019 August 7, 2019 by MovieManJackson Still waiting on that #JusticeforHan…but we’re getting there (slowly). After thwarting Cipher’s plans, former DSS Agent Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) and mercenary Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham) return to their respective lives. Meanwhile, another threat rises in the form of a lethal, “Darwinism” virus that, if released, will exterminate the weak of the weak of humanity before rebuilding them into synthetics. Trying to delay the inevitable is MI6 agent Hattie (Vanessa Kirby), who is framed by cybernetically enhanced super-terrorist Brixton Lore (Idris Elba) after stealing the virus. Brixton’s organization that has outfitted him will stop at nothing to get it back. He’s the apex alpha that can’t be defeated by one man. Which is why two alphas, despite their dislike for one another, stand the best chance of taking “Black Superman” down. Regardless of whether we’ll ever see true justice for a beloved Fast and Furious character or not, it’s close to assumed fact that the best aspect of the bombastic and beyond bloated eighth installment known as The Fate of the Furious was the conjoined dynamic Johnson and Statham brought to the proceedings. So much so, that an end credits teaser that would have crystallized the Hobbs & Shaw future in the envelope of F&F was axed by executive producer Vin Diesel in what can be looked at as a final act of pettiness after a prolonged feud with The Great One. This will not be the first nor the last time that you’ll read “Hobbs & Shaw is exactly the movie you thought it would be.” The primo mileage out of this one may very well come down to how much a movie goer enjoys the steady one-upmanship the characters Johnson and Statham deploy on one another. Whether it’s making not-so-subtle and subtle jabs on each other’s manhood/lack thereof, or totally being unimpressed with how the other handles business, above all Hobbs & Shaw is a buddy-cop movie and the on-screen chemistry of the two action stalwarts is special. The electricity the two possess largely keeps the spinoff, way lengthier than needed, amusing. They’re not alone in cast support. Although he’s nothing more than a #2 to the true big baddie, Elba calibrates his performance into the appropriate tune, and Kirby looks poised to return if she wants to as the only current female of note. Two prominent cameos appear, one inspired and another probably sucking up too much screen time to be considered one. Huge unanswered question: Where’s Owen Shaw? Beginning with Fast & Furious 6, the F&F films have an affinity for using something just barely above a MacGuffin that is explained by being dangerous in the wrong hands (Nightshade, God’s Eye, EMP device) to serve as the crux of their plots. That’s Hobbs & Shaw as well; a mix of M:I2 and Mass Effect 3‘s synthetic/organic storyline (Perhaps future follow-ups will continue to lean into sci-fi?). And it wouldn’t be at least a little connected to everything without an underlying theme of family, making amends with those who share literal bloodlines. As the decade draws to a close, there have been a few directors that can be credited with pushing the action genre forward. One is Chad Stahelski of John Wick fame, and another is the person that was uncredited in the movie that assisted in bringing Baba Yaga to life in David Leitch. If the trailers indicated — read, spoiled — anything, it was that the improbably wild set pieces are here to stay. It’s about as good as a CGI-heavy actioner can be, captured with the good stuff in frame as opposed to out of it. Having two distinct characters with different approaches and fight styles gives a little more intrigue and creativity to all the outlandish stuff. Hobbs & Shaw, while sharing many strengths and weaknesses of what it’s being spun off from, ultimately lives on the outskirts of the billion-dollar franchise. That’s actually a good thing. If Johnson & Statham’s tag-team effort proves but one thing upon conclusion, it’s that there’s likely more fun left in subsequent follow-ups featuring the ice-cold can of whoop-ass and the champagne problem than there may be with the original family. Photo credits go to cnet.com, syfy.com, and time.com. For additional detailed thoughts on films both small and large, games, and the key moments that comprise each, check out ThatMomentIn.com. Follow me @MovieManJackson/@Markjacksonisms Tags: 2019, David Leitch, Dwayne Johnson, Fast and Furious, film reviews, Hobbs & Shaw, Hobbs & Shaw review, Hobbs and Shaw, Hobbs and Shaw review, Idris Elba, Jason Statham, Kevin Hart, Movie Man Jackson, movie reviews, Roman Reigns, Ryan Reynolds, Vanessa KirbyCategories: Action, Adventure, Movies/Film 7 thoughts on “Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw” I think I scored it a tad higher than you simply because I tend to have fun with these movies. It’s funny though, they always land around the same score for me. Rarely does one make a meaningful stride forward. But I guess I am content with them being fun, lightweight throwaway entertainment. If I were to lose that enjoyment, these things would sink fast. I was kind of meh on it immediately after watching, but that’s why it’s beneficial sometimes to let things linger, because a day later, I found myself more amused than I thought I was. Weirdly enough, this kind of feels reminiscent to Venom for me. Some good things in this movie, but not a strong movie overall imo. But with that said, Venom’s ending and post credits has me excited for a sequel, and so does Hobbs & Shaw. I believe that there’s more juice and future on this F&F end than with the originals right now. A huge chunk of Fast & Furious died when Paul Walker sadly passed away, at least in my opinion. Going to take a lot for me to get truly interested in F&F9. Carson Maitland - Smith says: How awesome to see a WWE superstar in that movie? Ha, don’t know if we can call Dwayne a WWE superstar anymore. Mark Hobin says: I’m basically in the same boat….(or car or airplane). I went in with really low expectations and they were met. I was entertained while I watched but have now forgotten everything I saw. I gave it a mild pass at the time because the chemistry between the two leads was amusing. The chemistry definitely carries this to enough of a recommendation. I’m actually fairly excited for the sequel in a way that F&F9 doesn’t have me excited. Pingback: The Top 10 Action Movies of the Decade (2010-2019) – MMJ Published by MovieManJackson I am Movie Man Jackson. Doing my best to share my view on movies. Not the be all end all, just one man's view. Thanks! View all posts by MovieManJackson PreviousBrian Banks Next47 Meters Down: Uncaged Follow MMJ on WordPress.com	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line1084
__label__cc	0.525292	0.474708	Review: Since Otar Left MovieSteve rating: Dinara Drukarova, Nino Khomasuridze and Esther Gorintin in Since Otar Left A movie for every day of the year – a good one Cave city of Vardzia consecrated, 1185 On this day in 1185, the cave monastery of Vardzia, on the slopes of the Erusheti Mountain in Southern Georgia, was consecrated by Queen Tamar of Georgia. Building on the site, about 19 tiers high, had started a couple of years earlier, but excavation shows that people had been living there since the Bronze Age. Tamar was a warrior queen and dedicated the site to the Virgin Mary after successes against the Muslim invader. Because of its height and its construction in the rock, the site was held to be as impregnable “as the wall of Alexander the Great”, as the Persian Hasan Bey Rumlu described it. However, this proved not to be the case and it was taken, and sacked, by the Persian Shah Tahmasp I in 1551. The Ottomans arrived in 1578, the monks left and the site was abandoned. Today, it is visited by people eager to see the construction itself – 242 rooms and a church in the western site; 165 rooms, including six chapel, in the eastern – and its famous wall paintings. It is a candidate for inclusion on Unescso’s World Heritage List. Since Otar Left (2003, dir: Julie Bertuccelli) The story of modern Europe since the Wall came down, Since Otar Left focuses on a family torn about by economics and is about migrant workers and the families they leave behind. Though the story is familiar, it’s unlikely you’ll have seen it told as well as it is here, the acting at such a level that we’re entirely engaged with the three women Otar has left behind – the grandmother Eka (Esther Gorintin), the mother Marina (Nino Khomassouridze) and her eye-magnet daughter Ada (Dinara Droukarova). Otar is Eka’s son, a doctor who went to Paris to make money working on a construction site. Since Otar left, the relationship with him has been the odd snatched call on telephones that don’t work so well since the communists lost power (says Eka), as well as the sum of money he regularly sends back. And then, as often happens to migrant construction workers, Otar dies. Marina is worried that it will kill her aged mother if she finds out. And so the two younger women decide to keep the truth from Eka, in a plot development that feels as if the film is going to head into the comic territory of Good Bye Lenin! It doesn’t, though. Instead director Bertuccelli and her gifted trio of actors spin a teasing story of two younger women holding out against the older woman, and then the older woman finding out anyway, because she’s been alive longer and simply has more guile than they do. Which leads to Eka deciding, once and for all, to settle the increasingly dubious fact of Otar’s existence by heading off to Paris, a place she hasn’t visited since the Second World War. Bertuccelli has a history as a documentary maker, and also did time as an assistant to Kieslowski, Iosseliani and Tavernier, so you might expect her feature debut to be intelligent, focused and well crafted. But this beautiful? – the shots of Tbilisi could be hoovered up and re-used by a grateful tourist office. This well acted? – Gorintin is a total find (she was 90 when this was made and had only made her acting debut five years earlier), though all three actresses are remarkable in their interplay, as if they had known each other for decades. There’s a documentary-maker’s eye, too, for their surroundings – the book-packed apartment they share, crammed with the belongings of women from three different generations – and Bertuccelli constantly stays away from the close-up. The film is about the women being in their environment and of their environment. So what of Otar? Not much, to be honest. He’s the Macguffin that drives this beautifully observed character piece whose perfection would be complete if it stopped at the point where it is revealed that the old lady has trumped the other two. Or perhaps that would be too Hollywood. Why Watch? Christophe Pollock’s sun-kissed cinematography Esther Gorintin – a brilliantly understated comic actress Tbilisi – a beautiful city Perfect ensemble playing © Steve Morrissey 2014 Since Otar Left – Watch it now at Amazon Since Otar Left (2003) Drama \| 1h 43min \| 17 September 2003 (France) Director: Julie BertuccelliWriters: Julie Bertuccelli, Bernard RenucciStars: Esther Gorintin, Nino Khomasuridze, Dinara DrukarovaSummary: The one joy in the lives of a mother and daughter comes from the regular letters sent to them from Paris from the family's adored son, Otar. When the daughter finds out that Otar has died suddenly, she tries to conceal the truth from her mother, changing the course of their lives forever. Written by Sujit R. Varma See all photos >> Source: imdb.com Klown aka Klovn: The Movie The Battle of the Sexes	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line1086
__label__wiki	0.638413	0.638413	Chefs/Restauranteurs Equestricon GalaxyCon Episode Library About Kirt H-U-N-G-R-Y: Hopkins’ moxie fuels his appetite for life by Kirt Jacobs \| Dec 31, 2019 \| Blog \| 0 comments How would you like to spend your 82nd birthday? If you are Sir Anthony Hopkins, who turns 82 on Dec. 31, 2019, you’re spending it hearing Oscar buzz for your latest performance. Hopkins’ performance as Pope Benedict XVI in the Netflix movie The Two Popes has sparked rumors of a nomination for Best Supporting Actor. If he’s nominated, it will be his fifth nomination for an Academy Award. If he wins, he’ll be clearing shelf space next to the Oscar he won in 1992 for his iconic turn as Hannibal Lector in The Silence of the Lambs. Not bad for a protégé of the legendary Sir Lawrence Olivier. Since the 1960s, Hopkins has starred in dozens of roles on screens big and small, in every genre from Shakespeare to suspense to action. It takes moxie to creep everyone out as the world’s favorite serial killer in one decade and charm them as Thor’s dad in the next, and Hopkins has it. Here’s how: Moxie is prepared. Hopkins’ preparation for a role is legendary. Foundational to his preparation is the memorization of his lines. He will read his lines a minimum of 200 times as he prepares, marking his way as he goes. He memorizes the lines so that they become second nature to him, and he can deliver them as easily and naturally as one might converse in real life. Hopkins’ reliance on memorization as a key tool in preparation is especially interesting to me because he struggled as a student. He had difficulty focusing and preferred drawing to paying attention in class or doing his homework. It’s been suggested he is dyslexic, and many people with dyslexia develop strong memorization skills as a way of overcoming. But Hopkins’ discipline is remarkable to be also because it displays such respect for the material and for the process of acting. It reveals a deeply-rooted work ethic and humility. That takes moxie. Moxie knows how to simply let go. Hopkins’ life has been quite an adventure, and he’s learned to sit back and enjoy it. He shared this insight in an interview with Brad Pitt, his co-star in the movie A River Runs Through It: “There was a film I saw when I was a child, called the Elephant Boy. The elephant would take Sabu, the main character, through the jungle, and I remember sitting there with my grandfather watching it. My impression is that I sat on this big beast, whatever it is — life,” he said in the interview. “At some point, I made an unconscious choice to sit on this beautiful, powerful thing. And I just go where it takes me.” Being in the moment has been a guiding principle of Hopkins’ life. “I once asked a Jesuit priest, ‘What is the shortest prayer in the world?’ He said,’F* it.’ It’s the prayer of release. Just say, ‘F* it.’ None of it is important. The important thing is to enjoy life as it is. Your life today, it’s fantastic,” he told Pitt. It takes moxie to know where your control begins and ends and to be content in your circumstances. Moxie doesn’t always look the same, even in the same person. Hopkins brings that same approach — being in the moment and celebrating exactly where he is — to his visual art. He has blossomed into a credible painter in recent years, with works on display in a gallery in Hawaii. He has no formal training, yet his work has been praised and his talent is clear. How does he describe his work? According to an interview on his website: “I don’t think there’s any meaning in it. I just paint it. I discover as I go along and I don’t analyze, I just go for it.” He simply approaches the canvas and creates without fear. The works emerge from his hands and brush almost spontaneously. How stunningly different from his careful preparation for acting roles. It speaks to me that Hopkins approaches different endeavors in such strikingly different ways. If I ever have the chance to interview him, exploring that dichotomy will be at the top of my list. What would you ask Hopkins if you had the chance? [WP_CYCLE] - Winston Churchill - © Copyright MoxieTalk, LLC. All rights reserved. MoxieTalk, LLC. is compensated for Amazon/Audible.com links appearing on this web site. Views or opinions expressed by a guest are those of the individual speaking and do not represent the views or opinions of MoxieTalk, LLC. Bourbon & Beyond HomeTown Rising Louder Than Life	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line1088
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__label__cc	0.618486	0.381514	One Song A Day Keeps The Evil Away… Artist Guides 08/12/2018: “Mistry Babylon Dub” by The Heptones The Heptones are one of the most influential reggae groups, being one of the main bands responsible for the shift in Jamaican music from Rocksteady and 1st wave Ska into reggae. “Mistry (Mystery) Babylon came a good deal after that, in the late 70s. It came about as a result of the groups successful collaborations with Lee “Scratch” Perry, who produced the groups ’77 album Party Time, the same year as this song was released as a single. The bass is soft but insistent, with a more than a small note of melancholy. The main riff is a splashy, underwater guitar skank, which is just classic Lee “Scratch” Perry. It lends the song a rather strange vibe, but it absolutely works. It could easily be up their as one of Perry’s all time greatest productions. When the bassline is isolated, it becomes clear just how much of golden melody it has. The wistful feeling of the song is clear and powerful, and the layered guitar licks and general foggy atmospherics make this something of a masterpiece. The song was released first in a small run, with a handwritten label, in 1974, before a proper release in 1977. Such a contemplative track. CategoriesDub Tags70s, Dub, Jamaica, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Reggae, The Heptones Previous PostPrevious 07/12/2018: “Catch The Feeling (feat Judy Obeya) (Tuff Jam Dub)” by Banana Republic Next PostNext 09/12/2018: “The River” by Bruce Springsteen Follow us on Facebook and Twitter! Pick Your Poison Select Category Afro-Beats Blues Classical Country Dance Bass Music Breakbeat Disco Drum and Bass Dubstep Electro Garage House Techno Trance Dancehall Drill Dub Electronica Experimental Film Soundtracks Folk Funk Grime Highlife Hip Hop Jazz Bossa Nova Pop R’n’B Reggae Rocksteady Rock Heavy Metal Punk Salsa Ska Soca Soul The Big Questions Uncategorized The Music365 Playlist	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line1094
__label__cc	0.582592	0.417408	New English D 100 Miles From Comerica Park 2016 Back Pick Project Stat Primer The First 15 Starts Of Jordan Zimmermann By Neil Weinberg on July 3, 2016 The Tigers struck early this winter, signing Jordan Zimmermann to a five year deal to bring him to Detroit through 2020. Zimmermann, unlike most of the other potential cogs in the upcoming rotation (Verlander, Sanchez, Norris, Greene, Fulmer, Boyd, Pelfrey) was a low variance bet. Zimmermann had been a durable model of consistency since coming back from Tommy John Surgery in 2011 and the Tigers figured he’d be a good bet to maintain his skills into his early 30s. In a basic sense, things have looked good for Zimmermann this year. His 91 ERA- and 83 FIP- put him somewhere between good #3 starter and solid #2. His full season performance doesn’t reflect that of an ace, but the Tigers didn’t sign him to be an ace. In 95.2 innings, he’s put together a 2.2 fWAR to go along with his 1.3-1.4 WAR if you like RA9, Baseball-Reference, or Baseball Prospectus WAR. In other words, Zimmermann has been successful in 2016 and generally in line with what the Tigers figured they’ve be getting when they put pen to paper last November. Interestingly, Zimmermann has achieved these results in a manner slightly out of step with his recent approach. His walk rate is an as expected 4.6%, but his strikeout rate is a career low 15.2%. Fewer strikeouts is generally a bad thing, as more balls in play leads to more hits, but Zimmermann has combined that drop in strikeout rate with a decrease in home run rate as well. After allowing 1.07 HR/9 in 2015, Zimmermann has allowed 0.75 HR/9 this year which is a tick below his career average. That works out to 3-4 fewer HR allowed this year based on the lower HR/9 rate. Add that to a slightly higher pop up rate compare to last year and it’s easy to see how Zimmermann has survived more balls in play. The lower home run rate and higher pop up rate aren’t at all unprecedented for Zimmermann, so while we shouldn’t over emphasize 95 innings of work, we’re not talking about crazy BABIP suppression or something like that. You’re worried about the drop in strikeouts, but you’re not worried that this is a totally implausible way to succeed. When the ball has been put in play, he’s allowing a little bit harder contact than last year, but we’re not talking about anything dramatic that indicates it’s a mirage of a stat line. He’s getting fewer strikeouts than we’ve seen him get in his career, but as long as he’s not letting those lost strikeouts turn into extra base hits or walks, you’re not going to be too worried over half a season. That said, there are some differences in his game that extend beyond the outcomes. First, last season’s velocity decline was not a blip or a glitch. The trend has continued: In addition, he’s relying on his fastball less often in 2016. Against lefties, he’s added many more sliders and even some changeups. Against righties, he’s added a fewer more curveballs. This is really evident when you check out his zone profile against lefties. His MO is fastballs up and away and curveballs low, but this year with more breaking balls to lefties, you can see that he’s working a lot lower in the zone. You can see a similar effect against righties. It’s not clear if this is a mandate from the Tigers or if it’s simply a feel thing for Zimmermann based on how he likes his stuff. To this point, it’s been effective for him, but if he loses a touch of command and the walks go up or if hitters start squaring him up, he’ll have to revisit he approach to see if he can rediscover his strikeouts. Zimmermann has mixed in three bad starts among his 15, but overall his been a reliable and steady force in the rotation despite missing time with the groin injury. The drop in strikeouts, and especially the continued loss of velocity is somewhat concerning, but so far he’s shown an ability to pitch effectively in Detroit through his first 15 turns. Posted in: Tigers Posts New English D Search Are The 2020 Tigers Real? One Day We’ll Say Goodbye to Mr. Tiger This Has To Work Meaningful Baseball The Tigers 2019 Payroll Is Indefensible New English D on Twitter 2016 Bellwethers Appointment Television Ballpark Reviews Baseball and Culture Dynamic Standings Projection GIFGRAPHS Goofy Leaderboards Guide to 2014 How Was The Game? MLB Posts New English D Audio One Quick Thing SOEFA Tigers Posts	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line1100
__label__wiki	0.594036	0.594036	Yuheng Amber Zhu ’20/Cornell University Master’s students in matter design computation take part in a Product Studio “sprint” session in the Tata Innovation Center at Cornell Tech. AAP-Cornell Tech partnership crosses disciplinary boundaries By Patti Witten \| This semester, students in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning (AAP) may find themselves working with future colleagues and company co-founders, as they design and develop innovative products in a new interdisciplinary partnership at Cornell Tech. “We are collaborators, working together rather than simply adjacent to one another,” said Cameron Nelson, a first-year student in the Master of Science in Matter Design Computation (M.S. MDC) program. Nelson is participating in a pilot partnership that combines both M.S. MDC students and undergraduate architecture students at AAP NYC with Cornell Tech students in collaborative projects to develop digitally enabled solutions that address challenges posed by a diverse range of companies. Launched Aug. 27, the partnership was advanced by Jenny Sabin, the Arthur L. and Isabel B. Wiesenberger Professor in Architecture and associate dean for design initiatives; J. Meejin Yoon, the Gale and Ira Drukier Dean of AAP; and Andrea Simitch, a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow and architecture department chair. It springs from the college’s priorities of creating interdisciplinary opportunities and pursuing cross-college initiatives in design. The MDC program has grown by seven seats this semester; those students, including Nelson, are part of the new program in New York City. They join Cornell Tech master’s students in computer science, business, engineering, law, health tech and connective media in the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute. Sabin has worked since 2011 to develop a graduate architecture curriculum that enhances collaboration within the college, the department and the university. Sabin credits Yoon, who joined the college Jan. 1, with crafting a strong presence for AAP within the unique model at Cornell Tech and for strengthening AAP’s alliance with Cornell Tech’s emphasis on entrepreneurial ventures and collaboration. “Design is inherently interdisciplinary,” Yoon said. “At a moment when the challenges facing the built environment and society are multiscale, complex and dynamic, the collaborative initiatives between AAP and Cornell Tech will give our students opportunities to engage in pressing questions across technology, human-centered design and the built environment with an expanded perspective on the design challenges facing society today.” Simitch sees this collaboration as a model for architecture as well as a radical extension of it. “Architecture pedagogy is by default a collaborative practice based on interactive dialogues – dialogue with one’s own work from drawing to model, between faculty and students, and between peers and colleagues, as well as our discipline’s fundamental dialogue with our rapidly expanding contexts,” she said. Sabin said that as designers, architecture students have unique skills to contribute to the interdisciplinary teams. “Our undergraduate and graduate students bring an ability to synthesize a set of complex relationships, form a plan and follow through in a meaningful way. It’s not only about problem-solving, but problem-generating,” she said. “I’m excited to see what they do and how what we do well in educating our students strengthens their facility for expanding collaboration.” See a longer version of this story on the AAP website. Patti Witten is a writer for the College of Architecture, Art and Planning. Lindsey Hadlock lmh267@cornell.edu NYC artist Wendy White named Teiger Mentor in the Arts Campanella’s ‘Brooklyn’ takes long look at author’s hometown	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line1103
__label__wiki	0.694628	0.694628	Sean Casten on Confronting COVID-19 and His Conservative Challenger Nick Blumberg \| March 18, 2020 8:27 pm Conservative state lawmaker Jeanne Ives on Tuesday captured the Republican nomination for the 6th Congressional District, which covers parts of Chicago’s west and northwest suburbs. Ives is a former state lawmaker who, in 2018, forced then-Gov. Bruce Rauner into a primary and very nearly beat him. She’s hoping she can flip the 6th District back to red by beating Sean Casten, a first-term congressman representing the 6th District. With turnout in Tuesday’s primary election low amid COVID-19 fears, Casten said it’s critical for Congress to fund medical testing and health care, and to address what he calls an “unprecedented economic meltdown.” “This is going to make the 2008 financial crisis look trivial by comparison,” Casten said Wednesday on “Chicago Tonight.” “I wish we were (at) this point without having blown a trillion-dollar hole in our deficit in the last cycle. An awful lot of the companies that are coming looking for bailouts just got huge tax cuts and then paid out big dividends. Anything we do on the bailout side is going to have to have some strings to make sure that we don’t funnel money to investors … but we don’t have a choice right now but to spend massive amounts of money.” Casten also says a slow response from the federal government will make addressing the rapidly expanding crisis even more challenging. “We have seen those countries like South Korea, like China, that dealt with this at the early stage, that listened to the scientists that were talking to them and didn’t ignore them or try to politicize it. We lost three weeks, and people are going to die because of that,” he said. Unopposed in the Democratic primary, Casten faces a staunch conservative in the form of his Republican challenger Ives. She describes Casten as “part of a radical new caucus that thinks they are better suited to make decisions concerning your life than you are.” “That’s not a serious comment,” Casten said. “I am part of a freshman class that came here with a tremendous amount of experience. As one of the my colleagues said to me, ‘The weird thing about your class is you all value expertise over experience.’ ... My goodness do we need that right now.” Sean Casten Republican Jeanne Ives on Facing Sean Casten, Coronavirus Pandemic Underwood Reflects on Primary Win, Looks to November Challenge Illinois Primary: Jim Oberweis Narrowly Wins 14th Congressional District Kim Foxx Talks Primary Win, Moving Beyond Smollett Case Spotlight Politics: An Election Amid the Specter of Coronavirus Circuit Court Clerk: Iris Martinez Wins Race to Replace Dorothy Brown High Court Rules for City of Chicago in Vehicle Impound Case	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line1106
__label__wiki	0.867861	0.867861	'Hands free': Automakers race to next level of not quite self-driving cars 2021 Cadillac Escalade SUV with General Motors' Super Cruise hands-free driving assistance Ben Klayman and Paul Lienert By Ben Klayman and Paul Lienert DETROIT (Reuters) - Autopilot, ProPilot, CoPilot: Automakers have many names for new systems that allow for hands-free driving, but no safety or performance standards to follow as they roll out the most significant changes to vehicle technology in a generation. Spurred by Tesla Inc's <TSLA.O> success and eager to start profiting from billions spent on autonomous driving research, automakers are accelerating plans to automate routine driving tasks such as cruising on a highway and make them widely available within five years, industry executives said. Most traditional automakers until recently had resisted allowing drivers to take their hands off the steering wheel for extended periods, concerned about product liability claims. Now, hands-free driving systems offer a new and sorely needed source of profit for automakers and suppliers such as Aptiv Plc <APTV.N>, especially when this technology is packaged with other extra-cost options. "Consumers are willing to pay extra - sometimes a lot of money - for advanced technology and features that are convenience-oriented rather than strictly focused on safety," IHS principal analyst Jeremy Carlson said. To address concerns about liability, some automakers are installing cameras inside vehicles, along with warning systems, to ensure drivers remain attentive and ready to take over manual control when necessary. Critics charge that the technology to automate highway driving, parking and navigation in stop-and-go traffic is being deployed in a regulatory vacuum where an absence of industry-wide standards and common terminology creates confusion about what the systems can safely do. The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, in a written response to Reuters, said it is still conducting research and gathering data on hands-free technologies, which it said are "not sufficiently mature" to require formal federal standards. Former NHTSA chief Mark Rosekind said the industry may need to further develop the technology before federal mandates are needed, but agreed things are confusing for consumers. "If people don't know what they've got and how it actually operates, that's a safety issue," added Rosekind, who is chief safety innovation officer at self-driving startup Zoox, which is being acquired by Amazon.com Inc<AMZN.O>. Jason Levine, head of the Center for Auto Safety advocacy group, said NHTSA should develop minimum performance standards. "Even if consumers know what the feature is supposed to do, there's no standard to be sure it's even performing as advertised," he said. Tesla's Autopilot, one of the industry's first semi-automated driving systems, has been criticized by the National Transportation Safety Board for allowing drivers to turn their attention from the road, leading to deadly accidents. NHTSA has investigated 15 crashes since 2016 involving Tesla vehicles equipped with Autopilot. Autopilot was promoted initially as "hands free," but Tesla quickly shifted that position and now insists that drivers must keep their hands on the steering wheel when Autopilot is deployed. On Tuesday, a German court banned Tesla from repeating misleading claims in advertising about its driver assistance systems, including that its vehicles were capable of autonomous driving. In the absence of regulations or standards, a group including J.D. Power, Consumer Reports and AAA is trying to convince automakers to agree on standard terminology and definitions, an initiative that has been endorsed by the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Society of Automotive Engineers. But even top industry research groups do not agree on labels. Rather than "hands free," J.D. Power uses the term "active driving assistance" while IHS Markit prefers "extended hands-off driving." Detroit automakers have been less aggressive than Tesla in labeling their semi-automated driving systems. Increasing numbers of consumers are buying or leasing new vehicles with Advanced Driving Assistance Systems, according to J.D. Power's Kristin Kolodge, including such features as automated lane keeping (70% of new vehicles) and adaptive cruise control (77%), two key components of most hands-free driving systems. Automakers say wider deployment of automated driving technology will lead to fewer crashes and lower auto insurance rates for consumers. So far, insurance providers have been wary, saying they need more data to show that the technology reduces costs related to accidents. "We're looking at it from a safety standpoint. Do these technologies improve the safety of those that are on the roadway?" said David Harkey, president of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, a research arm of the insurance industry. (Reporting by Ben Klayman and Paul Lienert in Detroit; Editing by Matthew Lewis) Israeli authorities on Sunday advanced plans to build nearly 800 homes in West Bank settlements, in a last-minute surge of approvals before the friendly Trump administration leaves office later this week. COGAT, the Israeli defense body that authorizes settlement construction, confirmed the approvals, which drew swift condemnations from the Palestinians. The anti-settlement monitoring group Peace Now said that over 90% of the homes lay deep inside the West Bank, which the Palestinians seek as the heartland of a future independent state, and over 200 homes were located in unauthorized outposts that the government had decided to legalize.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line1107
__label__wiki	0.60031	0.60031	Published On: Wed, May 20th, 2020 Crime / Latest News \| By Ibrahim Imam Bureau-de-Change Operator Bags Seven Years Jail Term News Investigators/ The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Kaduna Zonal Office on Wednesday, secured a seven years prison term of one Sadiq Mustapha without option of fine. This followed a judgement delivered by Justice Mallong Peter of the Federal High Court, Kaduna who found him guilty of obtaining money by false pretence to the tune of N6,100, 000 and operating illegal bureau de change. Mr. Mustapha was arraigned on December 2, 2019 on a two-count charge, bordering on obtaining money by false pretence and operating a bureau de change without authorisation by the Central Bank of Nigeria, (CBN). Trouble began for the convict following a petition by one Abdulsalam Danlami Abubakar, who alleged that sometime in 2016, Mustapha lured him into transferring the sum of N6,100.000 in three separate transactions from his Zenith Bank account to that of his company, Abueleven Limited, domiciled in Fidelity Bank for exchange with dollar equivalent of $ 20,000 USD. One of the count read: “That you Sadiq Mustapha while being the Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of your company, called Abueleven Limited, sometime in 2016, at Kaduna within the judicial division of the Federal High Court of Kaduna, without appropriate licence from the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, and with intent to defraud, obtained from one Abdulsalam Danlami Abubakar, the total sum of N6.1m through your company account called Abueleven Limited with account number 4010185189, domiciled at Fidelity Bank Plc for changing the money to $20 000 United State Dollars at the rate of N305 per dollar, which you knew all to be false and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 1(1)(a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offence Act 2006.” He pleaded not guilty to charges. In the cause of trial, prosecution counsel, S.H. Sa’ad presented two witnesses and tendered various exhibits. Apart from the sentence, Justice Mallong further ordered the convict to make a N100,000 (One Hundred Thousand Naira) restitution to the complainant, having earlier refunded the sum of N6,000,000 (Six Million Naira) to him, and additional N100,000 (One Hundred Thousand) fine to the Federal Government of Nigeria on count-two of the charge. Ibrahim Imam -	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line1108
__label__cc	0.649371	0.350629	Home » FEATURE » IKA Writes: The sorry condition of our State Institutions; doom awaits IKA Writes: The sorry condition of our State Institutions; doom awaits Posted by Admin@newslinegh.com in FEATURE, NEWS // 0 Comments In January 2017, Ghana Police Service held a Press Conference to brief the media and by extension the nation about actions taken by the Police Service in respect of foot soldiers lawlessness after Nana Addo took over power from Mahama. At the Press Conference, the police listed a number of people, mostly NPP sympathisers arrested for seizing some businesses and properties perceived to be manned by supporters of the NDC and owned by the state. To be honest, at the Press Conference, every single reporter doubted whether the police service will follow the issue to the logical conclusion or chicken out like they mostly do when the identity of the offender is Kweku NPP or Kofi NDC. After the Press Conference, one Senior Police Officer (name withheld) approached me and said “Isaac, not that we cannot fight these foot soldiers or bring the politicians to order: the truth is that we are not given the room to operate as professionally as we’d want to operate. He added: “any police officer who tries to enforce the law to the letter risks getting punished in many ways.” He stated transfers and promotions as areas used to punish or reward police officers. According to him, all they needed was total independence from the government so that in the execution of their duty, they don’t harbour the fear of getting punished for doing the right thing because the one at the wrong end is a politicians or connected to a powerful one. This is clearly a frustrated senior police officer who is forced to close his eyes over wrongs because we operate a system that puts the destiny of the law enforcer in the hand of the potential law breaker. When Obama paid his historic visits to Ghana in 2009, he made a profound statement that has become a sound bite to ward off the gun man from jumping to political leadership through coup de tat. “Africa Doesn’t Need Strong Men, It Needs Strong Institutions” We lost sight of the most important thing he said which to me isn’t what has become our sound bite but what I have captured below: “Democracy is more than holding election; it’s also about what happens between elections.” Nations with strong institutions that respect independent judiciaries, police forces and press are key to democracy, “because that is what matters in people’s everyday lives,” We paid little attention to this because all we know about Democracy in this country is keeping a Civilian government in power. It doesn’t matter if the democratically elected government rises above the laws of the land and get state institutions to protect them. January 4th to 6th remains one of the most chaotic days of my 9 years of practice as a journalist. During the accreditation for the handing over ceremony, NPP supporters invaded the National Accreditation Centre to be given special accreditation to participate at the January 7th Handing Over Ceremony. This is a public event that was opened to every Ghanaian and yet party loyalist felt they needed special accreditation to go to the Independence Square. Strangely, Information Service Department and National Security could not tell these supporters that they were not part of the process. In the end, it was a scramble for accreditation between journalist, dignitaries and party foot soldiers Party supporters hijacking national events is not new and what happened prior to the 7th January event is unlikely to be the last, but I am looking for a Ghana where laws work and institutions don’t bend the rules because the offenders ride on an elephant or carry an umbrella even at dawn when it is not raining At the accreditation centre, one police officer likely to be in his early thirties tried to ensure some orderliness by insisting on getting journalists first attended to before any ‘improvisation. One foot-soldier took his name and threatened that the very next day he was going to lose his job. I knew it was an empty threat but guess what? In less than 5 minutes, the police officer had blown cold like frozen sobolo. He laid back and watched on for matters to worsen because his job was now on the line and given the fact that his colleagues had abandoned their duty, it wasn’t worth the sacrifice Last week, we woke up to the news that Ibrahim Mahama received an invitation to answer questions at EOCO on some alleged 44 dud cheques he issued to Ghana Revenue Authority If the allegation and facts of the matter are not distorted to fit into the widely held view that the brother of our ex-President indeed abused the power held by his brother, then it is a big deal and must be dealt with according to the law My issue is EOCO and how they suddenly realized their powers and usurped the effort of Ghana Revenue Authority who were using their internal mechanisms to deal with the matter. This Ibrahim Mahama and GRA issue has been dragging on since 2015: since when did EOCO realise that the brother of the former President had issued dud cheques to Ghana Revenue Authority? GRA deserve a mention too. How many Ghanaians, with no political connection would have been given this leeway? Why did they wait until December 2016 when the NPP won elections before entering repayment agreement with Ibrahim Mahama. It’s a shame that we live in a country that institutions forget their core mandate when it comes to dealing with politicians. Many Ghanaians including top businesses have gotten their items confiscated for refusal to pay their duties on time but not the brother of our President. Power has shifted and it is time to redirect the privileges. After pampering him for two years and embarking on fruitless journey to the bank on countless times, GRA can now sanction Ibrahim Mahama for defaulting in payment and give him deadlines. It is also true that in the event people refuse to pay or default in their payment, Ghana Revenue Authority use internal mechanisms to deal with the issue. Ibrahim Mahama is not the first to do this and won’t be the last to do it but one law must apply to whoever does wrong. How many times have EOCO investigated people for defaulting in their payments to GRA? For the record, Ibrahim Mahama is not the first to issue dud cheques to the revenue authority but each instance; they have found ways internally to deal it. In cases beyond them, they have used the police successfully. Ibrahim Mahama got a special treat from GRA because his brother was in power and is getting raw deal from EOCO because he’s no longer where the shots are called. This is what happens when State Institutions operate at the whims and caprices of politicians. Three days after Hon Kennedy Agyapong put his life on the line, EOCO moved to deal with Ibraham Mahama without even consulting Ghana Revenue Authority who had reached a repayment agreement with him, imposed a penalty on him and given him a deadline to pay. This wasn’t the first time Hon Kenedy Agyapong raised an alarm on this issue. When he did it in the past, he was ignored because his government was in opposition and the culprit was in power. Today, his government is in power so EOCO felt obliged to deal with the issue even though it was not in their jurisdiction What happened to the whistle blowers act signed in 2006 to deal corruption even from speculation and whispering? At best, the police should have dealt with the matter. This is how dud cheques are dealt with. Interestingly, GRA has not been able to respond to the number of cheques issued. They are afraid to contradict government sources with the fact only they can have access to. The spokesperson of GRA has declined giving the exact number of cheques on every single platform he has been on to set the record straight. EOCO on the other hand bypassed all the dud cheques that have been issued to GRA to pick the one that suit their new political alignment. Bank of Ghana issues dud cheques on regular basis, businessmen do it all the time, state in institutions do it all the time. Does it make this one right? Of cause not! But when there’s selectivity in application of the law, it undermines the integrity of State Institution and makes it difficult to rule out the political influence in their decision As long as State Institutions cannot operate with absolute independence, lawlessness will thrive and the fight against corruption will forever remain a mirage. So far, the whistle blowers act is the most useless law passed in Ghana’s parliament. This is why I am not even enthused about the Right to Information Bill. Regardless of how many laws we make in this country, (For the record, we have some of the best in the World) without the political will and genuine desire of State Actors to see thing done right, we won’t make much progress in the fight against corruption. Why should the President Appoint the IGP? Why should he appoint the Commissioner of CHRAJ? Why should he appoint the head of EOCO? Why should the president of the day have a hand in the appointment of the EC chair? Who bites the finger that feeds him? Whatever the objective of the framers of our constitutions were, from where I stand as a layman in legal matters, a lot doesn’t add up or to be diplomatic, most of them have outlived their usefulness. In this country, it is clear that intelligent people deliberately make bad laws or undermine good ones to propagate their selfish and negative agenda. However, the time is ripe to right some wrongs and save this nation in the future. This party supporters chaos that largely goes unpunished stands in the way of peaceful elections in this country. We are sitting on time bomb. It isn’t every day that supporters of opposition parties will chicken out in the face of abuse because their party lost the elections. In the year 2000, NPP Members attacked NDC Member without a single arrest from Ghana Police. In 2008 NDC Members did same to NPP members and got away with it. It repeated itself this year. One day, the abused will react and things will get out of hand. This country’s long term security and stability can be sustained only if we allow State Institutions to operate without any political interference. There is no difference between Civilian Governments that prevent State Institutions from operating independently and a Military Government. Both are affront to democracy. Credible elections are not enough: Credible institution is the way to go. God save this country Isaac Kyei Andoh Nana Addo Danquah Akuffo Addo President Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line1109
__label__wiki	0.897066	0.897066	Man found dead with 14 stab wounds in Penang January 12, 2019 miami news0 BUKIT MERTAJAM, Penang: The body of an agent supplying foreign workers was found with 14 stab wounds at his rented house where he lived with a group of foreigners at the Taman Pulasan Flats in Bukit Minyak on Saturday (Jan 12). Seberang Perai Tengah (SPT) police chief Nik Ros Azhan Nik Abdul Hamid said R. Manogaran, 55, was found dead in a room by a factory van driver who went to look for him at 2pm. “According to the van driver, the agent supplied Myanmar workers to several factories in the Bukit Tengah industrial area and was unmarried. Ten Myanmar workers also occupied the ground floor unit. “He (the van driver) told us that at 10am the victim had ferried the workers to the factories and had informed that he wanted to return home to rest, Four hours later, he received a call from his factory’s management that the victim did not send the workers’ meals,” he told reporters. He said the van driver was told the workers did not want to continue working because their “lunch did not come” and was asked to look into the situation. Nik Ros Azhan said on reaching the flat, the van driver found the flat unlocked and made the gruesome discovery. He said a 33cm long dagger was still lodged in the victim’s stomach. “Investigations are still ongoing but we do not dismiss the possibility it could have been due to unpaid wages (to the foreign workers),” he said, adding that police were tracing his housemates to assist in the investigation. Thai security forces kill two linked to deadly shooting at school Huawei sacks employee arrested in Poland on spying charges Adam Beyer and Ida Engberg Make Long-Awaited Return to Miami December 26, 2019 miami news Rachel Angel Finds Inspiration for Her Alt-Country Sound in Miami Seven Miami New Times Stories That Made an Impact in 2019	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line1111
__label__cc	0.739521	0.260479	Naughty Mom Story Time Naughty Mom Book Reviews NMST Review Policy Preorder Promos Book Deals & Freebies Blog Tours, Giveaways, New Releases Check out this EXCERPT from Lori Foster’s TOUGH LOVE (An Ultimate Novel) [#Giveaway] August 31, 2015 Naughty Mom Story Time Leave a comment Title: Tough Love (An Ultimate Novel #4) Author: Lori Foster She’s playing hard to get…to win the MMA fighter of her ultimate fantasies in a sultry new novel from New York Times bestselling author Lori Foster Vanity Baker loves a good, clean match, but she’s not above playing a little dirty. She’s wanted Stack “The Wolf” Hannigan from day one. Seems as though the best way to corral the famously commitment-phobic fighter is to insist on keeping it casual. And her plan works—deliciously well—until Stack’s past steps out of the shadows. Stack learned early to stay free of attachments. But with sexy, forthright Vanity, he’s the one always left wanting more. Then his troublemaking family comes back into the picture, threatening everything Stack cares about—Vanity included. Suddenly he realizes they’re much more than friends with benefits. He’s ready to go to the mat for her…but will it be in time to protect the woman who’s tamed him for good? Amazon Barnes and Noble iBooks Kobo GooglePlay ** Booksamillion Praise for TOUGH LOVE: “Foster brings her signature blend of heat and sweet to her addictive third Ultimate martial arts contemporary. Foster ably tosses out red herrings and also seamlessly lays the foundation for the next book in this series. This luscious tale will appeal to Foster’s legion of fans and attract new ones—even those who aren’t fans of professional fighting.” – Publishers Weekly The breath she held came out in a gasp as he pulled her against him, locked an arm around her waist and took her mouth with hot, incredible greed. Whoa. And here she thought she’d been on the ragged edge. He was so much bigger than her in every way, he made her feel tiny and feminine and fragile. In all other situations her independent soul might have rebelled, but not now. Not with Stack. She trusted him one hundred percent, and wanted him even more than that. Flattening her hands on his chest, she smoothed over the solid wall of his pecs, up to those rock-solid shoulders. Heat poured off him, and—oh God—he smelled so good. With his big hands opened on her, his mouth eating at hers, she forgot… everything. The music and the conversation of other guests faded away. She tunneled her fingers into his hair and tried to get closer still. Someone bumped into them; Stack didn’t stop kissing her. If anything, his tongue became bolder, exploring, tasting. Laughter, probably from his friends, sounded nearby, and still he didn’t stop. He gathered her closer. Jarred back to the here and now, Vanity pressed against him. A true gentleman, Stack immediately eased up. Her lips tingled. Shoot, her whole body tingled. She drew in a shaky breath. “Wow.” Proving he hadn’t, in fact, forgotten they stood in the middle of the floor at a friend’s wedding, he whispered against her lips, “Let me get you someplace private.” A softer kiss of persuasion. “I’ll give you reason to be wowed.” Such a tempting promise. Oh, how she wanted to haul him to the nearest quiet closet. But that would be dumb. What she wanted, what she hoped he ultimately wanted, would require hours, not a few frenzied minutes. Voice filled with regret, Vanity explained, “I can’t go just yet.” His rough growl proved his impatience. “Very soon, I promise.” Adjusting their embrace, her arms around his neck, his hands at her waist, she put some space between them. “Let’s dance while you cool down and I—” “Dream on.” But he eased his hold and fell into step with her. Gaze burning over her, then lingering on her cleavage, he asked, “How much longer do I have to wait?” Vanity didn’t pretend confusion; she knew exactly what he meant, exactly what he wanted. “One dance. Then I need to get the bouquet out of the fridge and gather up some presents and—” He groaned again, prompting Vanity to laugh. “Let’s talk.” Maybe casual conversation would help cool his jets and give her a needed opportunity to regroup. “Okay.” He leaned in. “I can’t wait to taste you—all over.” All over? “And to get you under me. Or over me. Your preference.” “Stack.” Her shaky voice sounded weak. “Let’s talk about something that isn’t provoking.” “Like what? Because honest to god, darlin’, after weeks of your verbal foreplay, I’m feeling pretty damned provoked.” The smile came slowly. Teasing Stack was a true pleasure. And don’t miss the first books in the Ultimate Series! Since first publishing in January 1996, Lori Foster has become a USA Today, Publisher’s Weekly and New York Times bestselling author. Lori has published through a variety of houses, including Kensington, St. Martin’s, Harlequin, Silhouette, Samhain, and Berkley/Jove. She is currently published with HQN. Lori hosts a very special annual “Reader & Author” event in West Chester, Ohio. Proceeds from the event have benefited many worthy causes, including the Hamilton County YWCA Battered Women’s Shelter, the Animal Adoption Foundation, The Conductive Learning Center for children with spina bifida and cerebral palsy, and The One Way Farm, Children’s Home. Each year Lori donates all proceeds from one book to charity. You can see the benefit romance books here: http://lorifoster.com/benefit-books/ GOODREADS \| PINTEREST \| YOU TUBE Holding Strong is part of the Ultimate series. 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__label__cc	0.52375	0.47625	The Coronavirus and MS: What You Need to Know Mom's Story A discussion about Mom's Story and MS… An FDA Approved Generic Form of Copaxone® (Glatiramer Acetate) For Relapsing MS Called Glatopa™ Is Launched In the U.S. A generic equivalent of daily Copaxone® (glatiramer acetate, 20 mg), called “Glatopa”™ (Sandoz, a Novartis company, developed in collaboration with Momenta Pharmaceuticals) that was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in April, has been launched in the U.S. Glatopa is a disease-modifying therapy for people with relapsing forms of MS, including those who have experienced a first clinical episode and have MRI features consistent with MS. The generic medication is a 20mg dose injected under the skin every day. This approval means that the manufacturer provided evidence that this generic medication is equivalent to the brand-name drug (Copaxone®). According to Novartis which owns Sandoz, Glatopa would have a wholesale list price of about $63,000 per year. This is an estimated 15- 18 percent less than the list price of daily Copaxone. Sandoz advises that it will offer support services that include financial assistance to qualified patients, personalized injection training and 24-hour access to nurses for non-clinical questions, services not typically offered for generic medications. “Having a generic option for one of the MS disease-modifying therapies is an important milestone, and it has the potential to increase access to MS therapies,” commented Dr. Bruce Bebo, Executive Vice President, Research at the National MS Society. “As more generic and biosimilar options become available, we are hopeful that we will start to see some price relief for people living with MS” he added. “Health care professionals and patients can be assured that FDA-approved generic drugs have met the same rigorous standards of quality as the brand-name drug,” said Janet Woodcock, M.D., director of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, in an FDA press release. “Before approving this generic product, given its complexity, we reviewed additional information to make sure that the generic product is as safe and effective as the brand name product.” The FDA’s press release provides additional details (available here) related to how the agency determined the generic’s equivalency. Selecting a therapy should be done by people with MS in collaboration with their MS doctors, taking into account a variety of factors, including the effectiveness of any therapy they are currently using, and weighing potential risks and benefits, costs and lifestyle factors. About Glatopa: The FDA has approved a generic medication that has been shown to be equivalent to 20mg daily glatiramer acetate. Glatopa is not a generic version of the 40mg dose of Copaxone taken every three days. Glatiramer acetate is a synthetic protein that mimics myelin basic protein, a component of the myelin that insulates nerve fibers in the brain and spinal cord. This therapy seems to block myelin-damaging T-cells through a mechanism that is not completely understood. The approved generic form of glatiramer acetate is given by subcutaneous (under the skin) injections every day. Potential benefits: In clinical trials of glatiramer acetate, it was shown to significantly reduce annual relapse rates and new brain lesions as shown on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), when compared to those who were given a placebo. This therapy has had a long track record of effectiveness and safety. As part of the generic medication approval process, the FDA requires that generics have the same active ingredients, strength, dosage and mode of administration as the brand-name medication, and that they are manufactured according to federal quality control regulations. Clinical trials are generally not required to prove equivalence to a brand-name medication. Potential risks and side effects: Side effects of glatiramer acetate that generally resolve on their own and do not require medical attention unless they continue for several weeks or are bothersome include injection-site reactions (e.g., swelling, the development of a hardened lump, redness, tenderness, increased warmth of the skin, itching at the site of the injection); runny nose; tremor; unusual tiredness or weakness; and weight gain. There is also the potential for local damage to the skin (necrosis) and underlying tissue (lipoatrophy). Some people using glatiramer acetate experience, at one time or another, a very temporary reaction immediately after injecting glatiramer acetate. This reaction, which often occurs only once, includes flushing or chest tightness with heart palpitations, anxiety, and difficulty breathing. During the clinical trials, these reactions occurred very rarely, usually within minutes of an injection. They lasted approximately 15 minutes and resolved without further problem. Unusual side effects of glatiramer acetate that should be discussed as soon as possible with your doctor include hives (an itchy, blotchy swelling of the skin) or severe pain at the injection site. The National MS Society will provide more information about generic glatiramer acetate as it becomes available. Download prescribing information (.pdf) Read a press release from the FDA Read more about disease-modifying therapies and other treatments for MS and MS symptoms. Frequently Asked Questions: Approval of Generic Glatiramer Acetate When will generic glatiramer acetate be available for prescription? There is no information yet about when this medication, called Glatopa, will be available for prescription in the United States. What will the generic glatiramer acetate cost? Though we don’t have specific costs of Glatopa at this time, according to Novartis which owns Sandoz, the product would have a wholesale list price of about $63,000 per year. What does it mean for a therapy to go generic – will Copaxone still be available for prescription? As patent protections expire for Copaxone, other manufacturers are free to replicate it and seek drug regulatory agency approval to market it. For many medications available as generics, the brand-name medications remain on the market. From the information currently available, it is expected that Copaxone will continue to be available by prescription in both the 20mg once daily dose, and the 40mg dose taken every three days. What about insurance coverage for the generic or for Copaxone – will I be forced to switch from my current medication? Coverage of prescriptions differs among various insurers. At this point we don’t know how insurers will handle coverage of Copaxone versus generic glatiramer acetate. Does this generic medication 20mg dose have the same therapeutic benefit as 20 mg Copaxone? The FDA has a thorough review process and guidelines in place to evaluate the equivalence of proposed generic drugs to brand name drug products. If the FDA reviews and approves a generic medication, it means the medication’s maker has provided sufficient evidence that the generic will have the same therapeutic benefits as the brand-name product. The U.S. FDA is empowered by Congress to evaluate generic drug candidates through Abbreviated New Drug Applications. The National MS Society has confidence in the FDA’s processes. Will patient support services be available to people who are prescribed Glatopa? According to Sandoz, it will offer support services that include financial assistance to qualified patients, personalized injection training, and 24-hour access to nurses for non-clinical questions. Frequently Asked Questions: Generic Therapies for the Treatment of MS The MS therapy landscape is continuously evolving. Two decades ago there were no disease-modifying therapies available, and now there are more than a dozen. We have also reached the point where “generic” versions of MS therapies are entering the marketplace. The following provides information about generic drugs and what they may mean for the MS community. What is a generic medication? A generic medication is a product that is equivalent to a brand-name drug whose patent protections have expired. As part of the generic medication approval process, the FDA requires that generics have the same active ingredients, strength, dosage and mode of administration as the brand-name medication, and that they are manufactured according to federal quality control regulations. Generic makers are required to show that the generic drug delivers the same amount of active ingredients to the person’s bloodstream in the same amount of time as the brand-name product (referred to as “bioequivalency”). What is the Society’s view of generic therapies for MS? The National MS Society advocates for increased treatment options for people with all forms of MS. Early and ongoing treatment is currently the best known way to reduce future disease activity. Having approved generics has the potential to increase individuals’ access to MS therapies and provides the MS community with more options. Does the National MS Society recommend the use of this new generic MS therapy? The National MS Society does not make individual treatment recommendations, but as we do for all other approved therapies, we make information available to constituents so that they can make informed decisions about their treatment choices. Do generic medications have the same therapeutic benefit as name-brand medications? Will there be equivalent medications for all MS therapies? It’s possible that eventually there will be. But before any medication may be copied, the patents protecting the brand-name medication must expire. Then a maker of equivalent medications would need to apply to the FDA with a request for approval of its medication. The term “generic” technically applies to products that are considered drugs made through a chemical manufacturing process. Some of the MS therapies are classified as chemical drugs, and so when their patents expire, they would likely be eligible to be manufactured as generics. These FDA-approved therapies are classified as chemical drugs: Aubagio, Copaxone, Gilenya and Tecfidera. The other MS therapies — Avonex, Betaseron, Extavia, Lemtrada, Plegridy, Rebif, and Tysabri — are technically classified as “biologics.” Biologics are generally more complex and they are made from human or animal materials rather than chemical processes. The technical term for equivalent medications for biologics is “biosimilar” or “follow-on biologic.” The FDA has long-established requirements for the approval of generic medications, and has recently released guidelines related to the approval of biosimilars. What is the current progress toward developing equivalent medications for MS therapies? The FDA just approved a generic form of glatiramer acetate, and the agency has received Abbreviated New Drug Applications for other generic forms of this medication. With the exception of Novantrone and Copaxone, no other disease-modifying MS medications are available in a generic form. Where can I get more information about generic drugs and biosimilars? The FDA’s Website has information about generic drugs and biosimilars and processes for their approval. Copaxone is a registered trademark of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries LTD. Glatopa is a trademark of Novartis AG Posted in Uncategorized and tagged chronic disease, copaxone, FDA, generic, Glatiramer acetate, glatopa, MS, multiple sclerosis, National Multiple Sclerosis Society, NMSS, research, research studies, side effects Mom’s Story Mom’s Story, A Child Learns About MS New advice for people with MS Am I Lazy or Is MS Actually to Blame? Staying Healthy and Minimizing the Spread of COVID-19 Making life easier in the kitchen Inside An MS Exacerbation National Multiple Sclerosis Society	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line1117
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__label__cc	0.601445	0.398555	The Abominable Trial of Omar Khadr Well I see the military jury at the kangaroo trial of Omar Khadr has dropped its pants, squatted over a hole in the ground, and...um...delivered its symbolic sentence. And no doubt given Stephen Harper a warm fuzzy feeling and/or a woody. Omar Khar was sentenced today to 40 years in prison for murder, terrorism and spying by a military panel unaware that the confessed Canadian war criminal had agreed to plead guilty in exchange for a sentence capped at eight years and the chance to return to Canada after one more year in Guantanamo. By sentencing Khadr to FIFTEEN years more than even the war criminals at the Pentagon had demanded. Even though he almost certainly killed no one, and the only reason he was singled out for prosecution, as I explained in this post. Was so the Pentagon could lower the bar of justice and international law so much, they could do ANYTHING to ANYONE. So now all I want to know is when can that jury and that Stalinesque court be arrested for crimes against a child soldier? And what is the Harper government waiting for to demand that Omar be brought home IMMEDIATELY? For that barbarous sentence only serves to prove beyond all doubt that the trial was a travesty. "Everything about Omar Khadr's ordeal at Guantanamo Bay over the past eight years has been a fiasco," Mr. Neve said. "It comes as no surprise that the sentencing phase and this stunningly punitive jury decision has so starkly highlighted the injustices of this process." And sentencing him to spend another year, in a maximum security section of that hideous gulag called Guantanamo, is an abominable act of cruelty and judicial torture. Oh well. I'll have more to say about this in the days ahead when I'm not so angry. But tonight I just want to pay tribute to the extraordinary strength of that young Canadian, who has been victimized by just about everyone. His own family, the Taliban, the Pentagon torturers, two Canadian governments. And abandoned by so many of his own people. But although he is still riddled with shrapnel and blind in one eye, has somehow managed to endure, and is by all accounts a decent and gentle guy. I also want to salute Khadr's defence team, Canadians like Dennis Edney, as well as the members of the U.S. military, who criticized their superiors and their own government to stand up for the rule of law. “Al-Qaeda uses kids, they had radicalized him,” Col. Jackson said, reminding the panel that Mr. Khadr is considered internationally to be a “child soldier,” a victim, rather than a combatant who can’t, under United Nation’s protocol’s be held accountable for war crimes. And by so doing tried to save the honour of their country. Unlike their weak and cowardly President. The verdict of history will be harsher on Obama, and Harper, and all the others, than today's abominable sentence was on Khadr. And what else can you say eh? Except that for Canada the shame will last FOREVER. And that NOTHING will ever change the truth. Omar Khadr was a child soldier. And he lives HERE... Labels: Guantanamo, Omar Khadr, Stephen Harper, The Great War on Terror Rob Ford and the Homophobes As you know, I believe that Rob Ford won by such a large margin, partly because he harnessed the twin demons of racism and homophobia. Now I see that the homophobe Michael Coren at least partly agrees. Ford not only won, he smashed his opponents and was declared Toronto’s mayor within eight minutes of the polls closing. The chattering classes are claiming this was because the white, angry, male and suburban people voted for him. Some did. But it takes more than that to win. What these liberal dinosaurs refuse to grasp and are too insecure to accept is ethnic Toronto is conservative. Smitherman is gay and speaks of his husband. Many Muslims, Tamils, West Indians, Africans and others responded with an electoral “not our values.” Now it's easy to dismiss someone like Coren, if this hadn't happened. Or there weren't other troubling signs that immigrants are making this country more conservative. And the the Cons weren't trying to harness those retrograde attitudes and use them to get a majority. But I am still hopeful that won't happen in Toronto. Because I think that in a city as diverse as this one, even the bigot immigrants will soon come to realize, that the Cons are not their friends. And that if they set fire to the social fabric the flames will consume us ALL. Besides most of the young immigrants are on our side. So Coren can crow all he wants. But the battle for Toronto is not over, it's just beginning. Bigotry will not triumph. And if he squeals too loud and too foul. The Pig Man will not RULE... Labels: homophobia, immigration, racism, Rob Ford Rob Ford and the Fake Tweeter I don't know about you eh? But I find the weird story about the Rob Ford campaign and the fake tweeter really creepy. Not just because of this: The Twitter account was the work of the deputy communications director of Rob Ford's campaign, Fraser Macdonald, and was created with one purpose in mind: getting the whole recording of a conversation between Dieter Doneit-Henderson and the candidate, in which Ford promised the fibromyalgia-afflicted man that he would "fucking try to find" OxyContin for him. But also because of the level of deception. The amount of work that went into it, the buried messages. And of course, this picture... Which only makes me REALLY want to know who paid for this homophobic Tamil radio ad. Because it seems to me that it achieved two objectives. It reminded people about the Tamils migrants who Ford had attacked. In a city where anti-migrant feeling is higher than any other place in Canada. And it reminded people that Smitherman was gay. Just a few days before the election. Subtle eh? You know the right-wing media is so busy blowing Ford they seem to be ignoring the role racism and homophobia played in the election. But I'm not convinced. I still believe both issues helped give him a landslide. And now that I see the kind of people who are pulling the Pig Man's strings. I have a feeling Rob Ford's Toronto could become a REALLY scary place... Labels: Rob Ford, Toronto, Twitter Rob Ford: When the Downtown Strikes Back Well it sure has been a scary week. Who needs Halloween when we got Rob Ford? Because now reality is setting in. And all over the Greater Toronto Area you can hear them screaming: Oh. My. Fordzilla. What have we done !!!! AAAAAAAAAH !!!! Although I see the Toronto Sun managed to find somebody to put a positive spin on those low expectations. Dismissed by opponents as unpolished at best, short on policy and often wrong on the numbers, Ford now enters office without the burden of high expectations, veteran fundraiser and campaign organizer John Capobianco said. “(People think) he’s a buffoon, he doesn’t know his stuff, he can’t get anything through council,” the source said. “Expectations are low. We’re in a good spot.” Great eh? Does that mean if the Fordzilla stays sober for three days, he'll EXCEED my expectations? But it isn't all bad news.You know those downtown latte-sipping elites that the right-wing media has been turning into The Enemy, just like Stephen Harper does? Well, they're starting to fight back. To chalk up widespread disapproval of the message he and his supporters sent – that streetcar tracks should be torn up, that downtown voters are objects of ridicule, that a Toronto mayor should endorse the view that gay marriage erodes democracy, that the inability or unwillingness to explain one’s beliefs to voters doesn’t matter – as nothing more than condescending elitism is to almost completely fail to grasp not just “urban sophisticates” but an entire cohort of Canadians... Most of the country’s supposedly clueless urban elites are not disconnected from the “real” world. They are from it...For one reason or another, they choose a different life. There are any number of reasons. Some are attracted to urban living, where everything is within range of transit or bicycle. Some want careers that can only be pursued in cities. Some are gay and have bad experiences. Some realize their world views don’t quite mesh with those of all the Rob Fords they know. Which is sort of how I feel eh? I choose to live downtown, not because I'm an elitist. But because it's the only place I can feel free to be MYSELF... And for me freedom is EVERYTHING. Resistance lifts me like the wind. Braying jackasses don't scare me. And the suburbs are just a song... Hey Toronto. The resistance is RISING. Have a great weekend everyone !!! Posted by Simon at 1:29 AM No comments: Labels: resistance, Rob Ford, Toronto Rob Ford's Toronto is NOT My Toronto From where I live, on a late fall afternoon, the city of Toronto looks pretty damn beautiful. But of course, what I'm looking at is the REAL Toronto, not the Frankencity the Con thug Mike Harris, and his little stool tool Jim Flaherty created. You think maybe there’s a cultural divide going on here? It’s no surprise that Ford’s support was concentrated outside the boundaries of the original city of Toronto, but the starkness of the division is startling to see. In essence, Toronto is two cities that don’t like one another much but have been forced to cohabitate. And who performed the ceremony? Yes, Mike Harris. Gosh. Big Hog Mike as Rob Ford's porky daddy. Isn't that a scary thought? You add up both of their IQs and you still get dumb bully or thug buffoon. You know as I said the other night, I'm a Montrealer eh? So I could look at that map and the pink zone where I live, and think OMG what have I done? Who knew I'd end up playing Davy Crockett at the Alamo? Gimme a train ticket quick !!!! But actually, it only makes me proud to live here. A city where white, black, brown, straight, gay, young and old, rich and poor, or whatever live happily together. And Cons are DEFINITELY not welcome. You know every progressive in Canada should be proud of the REAL Toronto, the bastion of real Canadian values. The little but mighty fortress that Stephen Harper will NEVER conquer. And the Pig Man will NEVER rule. But look, if I'm going to play Davy Crockett at the Alamo we're going to have to change the ending eh? In my version WE win, and the porker ends up as bacon, next to the Harper ham. Or just another loser. The small crowd at Esther Shiner Stadium proved they were up on their current events. “Gravy train, gravy train,” mocked the Chaminade fans. In the meantime, on a late fall afternoon, looking across at the REAL Toronto all I can say is this... Hey beautiful... it's me... Simon.... from Montreal. Look I don't know how I ended up living in a fortress under siege. But I'm REALLY glad I'm here to help defend you. The Cons will not pass. Now all I need to know is if we can't win back the angry teabaggers in the suburbs. When can we SECEDE? Labels: Con Canada, Mike Harris, Rob Ford, Toronto Rob Ford and the Road to Resistance Damn. They say you can't put lipstick on a pig. But that hasn't stopped our pathetic right-wing media from trying to do that. And looking ridiculous. And sadly even some progressives seemed to have succumbed to post-election guilt. “We urban-dwellers need to get our asses out of the downtown core from time to time and listen to what people are saying in the suburbs.” But not me eh? The only thing I regret is that we lost. Because the fact is the election of Rob Ford is a disaster for this city. And the guy is a reactionary jackass. Rob Ford: You know, I'm the only one that can go down there [Inaudible, then, yelling:] Just go get changed! Go! Out! And get changed! Don't worry about the water right now. [Pause.] Sorry. Carol Off: Well you know that your campaign has been compared to Mike Harris's Common Sense Revolution, to the Tea Party movement, do you see those comparisons? Rob Ford: I don't see [inaudible] comparisons [inaudible] what, I don't care [laughs]. I just, I just know, know the taxpayers, uh, want, uh, you know, the gravy train to come to an end, and that, uh, Rob Ford's the guy to do it, and uh [inaudible]— That's a Mayor of Toronto? Gimme a break. A man whose victory was fueled by racism and homophobia. A swaggering bully who has put down people with AIDS. A callous freak who says if cyclists are killed by cars it's THEIR fault. A grotesque windbag who is always apologizing for being drunk. A man who has attacked the homeless. Who in case the right-wing media don't know, also live downtown. And DON'T drink lattes. Nah. I've got a better idea. Instead of deluding ourselves into thinking it could be a good thing. Or apologizing to suburbanites who want to work and play downtown, but don't want to pay for it. I say we RESIST. I say we ask progressive Councillors to block every bad thing Ford plans to do. Let's make Mayor Idiot look like Mayor GRIDLOCK. Until he surrenders.... or explodes with frustration. And looks like even more of a jackass. I say we join city workers in the streets during the strikes and protests that are sure to come. I say we stage mass bike rallies and let Ford know exactly what we think of him, by bringing lots of these. It just seems so appropriate eh? And above all I say we try to get progressive residents of the downtown and the suburbs to unite and form one mighty coalition to drive Ford and his Con rabble from power. If this bigot wants some GRAVY. I say we give him some... The Shameful Show Trial of Omar Khadr I've been standing up for the human rights of Omar Khadr for so many years you can imagine how I feel about his shameful show trial. This horrifying mix of Kafka and Stalin. Because if this is pure Stalin. The statement of facts Khadr signed also says he would think back on his actions and the death of the American soldier when he was aggravated by his guards in Bagram, Afghanistan, and "it would make him feel good." Surely this must be Kafka. Dr. Welner's conclusions were reached, he explained, based largely on his understanding of the work of a psychiatrist in Copenhagen, Dr. Nicolai Sennels, who published a study of young Muslims in prison there. Although Welner admitted that he hadn't actually read Dr. Sennels's book because it was written in Danish, which Welner can't read. He "expressed no interest in developing himself academically," said Welner, because when given U.S. schoolbooks - not classes, just books - he did not show much interest in reading them. Instead, he read Harry Potter, which Welner characterized as a form of "escapism." The fact that Khadr is surrounded by all Muslim prisoners - a choice made by the U.S. military, not Omar Khadr -- is also a strike against him, said Welner. He's been "marinating in radical Jidahism," Welner said several times on Tuesday. Welner had not spoken to any of the other prisoners in Camp 4, and the source of his information about those prisoners and their beliefs was unclear. Kafka.Or Dr Strangelove. Or just Dr Welner the inventor of the...um... Depravity Scale. Because let me get this straight. They riddled this kid with shrapnel. Then shot him twice in the back. They then tortured him, and locked him up in Guantanamo, and now because he spent so many years there, he's too dangerous to release? Oh boy. Here we go again . For the record, Khadr's guards say he is a decent young man. Not a religious fanatic. He almost certainly did not throw any grenade because he was too badly wounded. The real war criminals are in the Pentagon. Obama is a weakling. Stephen Harper is a sadistic monster. The trial is a travesty. And whatever they say or whatever they do. Omar Khadr WAS a child soldier. Labels: Guantanamo, Omar Khadr, The Great War on Terror When a Husband Confronts Anti-Choice Protesters His wife is about to have an abortion because the fetus has a congenital deformity and no chance of survival. When he see anti-abortion protesters screaming at people entering the abortion clinic. So he decides to confront them... Wow. That'll teach them to torture women, and their lovers, on one of the worst days of their lives. I don't blame him for being angry. And I sure love this message: Consider this my plea: stop terrorizing women. Stop adding trauma to their trauma. If you’re able, stand up to these bullies in nonviolent ways. Speak out. And if you have a camera, use it. Stand-up. Speak out. Remember Dr Tiller. "Anti-abortion forces have succeeded in restricting the availability of abortion through lots of means short of outright prohibition — everything from punitive regulations... to physical intimidation and harassment of abortion providers," Fight them, fight them, fight them. Don't let them WIN... Labels: abortion, anti-choice wingnuts, Dr George Tiller, women's rights Rob Ford: When a Bully is a Bigot Well I see that the day after this grotesque right-wing bully became Mayor of Toronto, the right-wing media is going hog wild. As if those who believe in a modern, more livable city were THE ENEMY. And the grubby uneducated and the boors bores from the suburbs were the future. And nowhere in all the coverage do I see the word RACISM. When in fact that was the main reason Fordzilla won. “We can’t even deal with the 2.5 million people. How are we going to welcome another million people in? It is going to be chaotic…. I think we have to say enough’s enough.” For saying aloud what I hear so many in this city muttering to themselves. While Premier Dalton McGuinty was lambasting Ford’s comments last month — “I just don’t think it’s representative of Canadians” — we now know that Ford was more in tune with Ontarians, for better or for worse. The latest Angus Reid poll shows opposition to the boat people is strongest in this province. Because in Canada we like our bigotry DISCREET. And that includes new immigrants, who see other immigrants as competition for low paying jobs. And as the right-wing libertarian Tasha Kheiridin exults, see their new land as a jungle. Newcomers to Toronto don’t have time to dwell on how to make Toronto “inclusive”. They aren’t interested in funding alternative art exhibits. They could care less about bicycle lanes. They are busy working night and day to feed their kids and put a roof over their heads. They don’t sympathize with “fair wage” policies that pay inflated prices to keep unions happy, at the expense of hard-working taxpayers like themselves. And for many of these first generation immigrants, just like Ford's bigoted old white supporters, homophobia is a bonus. And Ford never stopped reminding people that unlike Smitherman, he was married to a woman. With predictable results... That's the main reason he won. And that's why I agree with Glen Murray. Glen Murray, the minister of research and innovation and a former Winnipeg mayor, wrote in a post on his Twitter account on the weekend that “If u vote Ford u r voting for bigotry." Even though Murray has now apologized. Because there may be other reasons people voted for Ford. But nothing can change the cold hard fact. The bully is a bigot. The lout is a liar. And the asshole is an asshole. That's a Mayor of Toronto? Hee Haw. Hee Haw. Don't make me laugh VOMIT... Labels: bigotry, homophobia, Rob Ford Rob Ford: The Night Hogtown Got Its Hog Well oink oink. Isn't that a pretty sight? And who says racism and homophobia aren't a winning combination? Because only that can explain this landslide of pig shit. Or how this grotesque right-wing hog could be mayor of Canada's largest city. Oh well. There will be time to analyze what happened and what this means for the way progressives fight the right. God save us from the electoral idealists who want you to "vote with your heart." Time after time, they are the right-wing’s secret weapon. But tonight I just want to say this: Toronto a world class city? Cue the Mexican clowns.... And of course eh ? We know a bigot when we see one. And the resistance begins TOMORROW... Labels: homophobia, racism, Rob Ford, Toronto Rob Ford's Assault on Gay People I suppose it was inevitable. Even in the most diverse city on earth. When they got tired of attacking George Smitherman's policies, they'd go after his gay family "Should Muslim vote for him who married a man?" the crudely designed signs read. Attached to the sign is a photograph of Smitherman and his husband Christopher Peloso, and a clipped newspaper headline referring to their adoption of a child. And then there was that disgusting radio ad. You don't have to understand the language... To SMELL the homophobia. But here's the thing eh? When you attack one gay family, you attack them ALL. When you pit one community against the other in a city as diverse as Toronto, the flames will scorch the clouds. Burn baby burn. But never forget who lit the fuse. Rob Ford’s long-held belief in traditional marriage has exploded into a campaign issue now that he has endorsed the views of a fundamentalist Christian pastor who suggested online that same-sex marriage could “dismantle” a “healthy democratic civilization." Never forget his other explosions. Never forget who are his friends. Never forgive the idiot progressives who could help Rob Ford blow this city apart. Pantalone and his supporters will have a lot to answer for if Ford gets to unleash his tsunami of misery on the city because they have downplayed the risks. And what does that grotesque bigot bully have to say about all of this? Being gay is a "lifestyle." People CHOOSE to be gay. At a time when gay people are mourning the deaths of so many teenagers who killed themselves because they couldn't HELP being gay. You couldn't have attacked a community as savagely if you had stuck a knife in its heart. Oh boy. So many people are so angry tonight. Toronto is a great and diverse city. Don't let it BURN... Labels: gay families, homophobia, Rob Ford When a Fordzilla Attacks Toronto Gawd. Living in Toronto isn't easy eh? First we had the G20 to show us how it feels to live in a police state. Nasty. And now we're under attack by a humungous Fordzilla. A crass right-wing bigot bully who could be the city's next mayor. And here's the problem. Like many other lefty types I'd like to vote for Joe Pantalone. But unless his supporters switch their votes to George Smitherman, Ford will probably win. Mayor Joe isn’t going to happen. He’s lost. A vote for him is a statement of principle they could make much more eloquently — and risk-free — with a blog, a Tweet or a letter to the editor explaining why they voted for their second choice. So I'm with Jonathan Goldsbie: “I am not a fan of strategic voting,” he wrote, “but neither am I a fan of regret and ridicule; I want to be able to live with myself for the next four years.” And with Alice Klein Democracy is not soul food. Elections are not some romantic ideal designed to inspire potential voters. They are duke-outs for the reins of real power. They absolutely have consequences that affect us all, and they demand a healthy, critical rationality. Because it's so true. Progressives need to get real. Stop picking the lint out of their navels, while the bad guys win. Smitherman is a bit too right-wing for me. And I'm sorry Pantalone is not more popular. But anyone who thinks Smitherman is as bad as Ford is either a Con or an IDIOT. And surely we can all agree. That ANYTHING is better than this... Yup. Sharpen your pencils everyone. The alarm bells are ringing. Progressives need to get real. And the Fordzilla must be DEFEATED... Labels: Rob Ford, The Divided Left, Toronto Bullying and the Journey from Anger to Peace When I was a teenager the bullies made me angry. And because, unlike other gentle kids I was able to fight back, that anger almost consumed me. Because I felt I was alone, I could never allow myself to be a victim. Only a fighter. Who learned how to fight in the mean streets of Glasgow. So now that so many others are speaking out about bullying. And how it does get BETTER. And sending out such powerful messages of hope. I'm having trouble telling my story. Because it seems so inadequate and so wrong. But it is a story about a journey from anger and violence, to love and peace. So although I'm not religious, when I heard that a gay choir in Texas, had joined singers from 30 other religious institutions, to remember some of the bullied kids who didn't make it. And that the concert included Bach's DONA NOBIS PACEM (Grant Us Peace) from his Mass in B Minor. I thought I'd play it tonight... From anger and violence, to love and peace. I'll keep trying to tell my story. But it does get BETTER. Have a great weekend everybody... Labels: bullying, gay youth, homophobia, my stoopid life Stephen Harper and the Horror of Iraq OK. Please play this YouTube but don't bother to watch it all. Because I just want to use it as background sound, to set the mood for what follows. Now click on the following link to see revealed, on one page, the full horror of the Iraq War. And of course, don't forget to read this brutal indictment : The Iraq war wasn't just a horrible mistake, it was a war crime. George Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Tony Blair, and a legion of other neocons should, if there was any justice, be charged with crimes against humanity. And of course, if Stephen Harper had been Prime Minister, we would be wiping the blood and the shame off OUR hands. "Mr. Speaker, the issue of war requires moral leadership. We believe the government should stand by our troops, our friends and our allies and do everything necessary to support them right through to victory." Stephen Harper, supporting the American invasion of Iraq, House of Commons, April 1, 2003. And don't you love this one? "This government's only explanation for not standing behind our allies is that they couldn't get the approval of the Security Council at the United Nations - a body [on] which Canada doesn't even have a seat." - Stephen Harper supporting the American invasion of Iraq, CTV's Question Period, March 30, 2003. From the guy whose disgraceful behaviour just cost us a seat on the Security Council. Yup. We can't change what happened in Iraq. But for our own safety, and the security of the world. We can and must get rid of Harper... Labels: Great War on Terror, Iraq, Stephen Harper Are the Harper Cons Talking in Tongues? As if it wasn't bad enough that every time Stephen Harper answers a question in the House of Commons these days, he sounds like he's talking in tongues. All you can make out is the word COALITION. And this kind of insane gibberish. "The real issue here raised by the Leader of the Opposition is his priorities,” the Prime Minister declared, carrying on quite demonstratively as if to warn the villagers of this monster’s imminent arrival. “He says that he would ground the Canadian Air Force. He says that he would put criminals out on the street. Why? In order to justify a bunch of tax increases he wants to bring on employers. That is the kind of thing that would put the Canadian economy into a deep ditch.” Today we had the ugly spectacle of the Con stooge John "Screamer" Baird answering another reasonable question from Ignatieff like this. The crudest response to Mr. Ignatieff’s questions in this regard was by now no doubt obvious, perhaps even inevitable. And though for a moment it seemed no one would dare say it, after a third and final question from the Liberal leader, Mr. Baird could apparently not contain himself. “I am pleased to talk about the Liberals record on foreign takeovers,” he said. “I think they had a foreign takeover of the Liberal Party just last year.” “The Conservative side loudly expressed its delight at this and, returned to his seat, Mr. Baird smirked with great self-satisfaction. Great eh? Ignatieff as the foreigner, the outsider, the TRAITOR. Ha. Ha. Ha. God fucking help us. What dark parallell universe are these sinister Cons inhabiting? Why are they oinking and defecating in OUR parliament? Why can't they answer a simple question? Why have we come to accept this? And while we're at it, why does the CBC, which is funded by the Canadian people, not see fit to cover Question Period ? So more Canadians can see what these totalitarian hogs are doing to our country. Oh well. Best line of the day from Scott Brison: “Does Canada not deserve better, than a finance minister who cannot add and a Prime Minister who can only divide?” Good question. Too bad so few heard it. Thank goodness for Aaron Wherry. As for those Cons...I can only conclude that they have added yet another step to the bizarre way they prepare for Question Period...as detailed in Lawrence Martin's new book. First they all kiss Great Ugly Leader's ass reverentially....on both chubby cheeks. Then they pray for victory over the godless foreigners. Then they memorize their lines as prepared for them by the thugs in the PMO. Then they take out their secret weapon. Tongues for Dummies. And start brushing it up on it. Like these guys... And if you thought Stephen Harper and John Baird sound ghastly talking in tongues eh? Just wait until you hear Vic Toews talking about those dangerous refugees. Aka Baraka Coalition Macaca. They're Coming in a Honda !!!! Those hideous freakish Con BASTARDS. When can we get rid of them ? Labels: John Baird, Stephen Harper Who Cares About the Blog Awards? I was surprised to see that the Canadian Blog Awards are back. Because after last year's fiasco I thought they were dead and BURIED. Which is why I'm so amused to see that those who created the biggest fuss over the awards last year, are the ones most eager to be nominated this year. But who really cares eh? If it was a serious contest, where the nominees were chosen by a jury of other eminent bloggers, it might be worth something. But it's not. It's just a popularity contest where those who win have the most Facebook friends. And besides I can never forget how two years ago, when I was nominated, a friend told me he wanted to vote for me, but couldn't because somebody had used his office computer to vote for somebody else. Oh sure, I guess the "contest" does serve some purpose by introducing me to some blogs I'd never heard of before. But like most other Canadian awards, it's usually the same people nominated over and over again. Who then bombard us with posts BEGGING us to vote for them, because they need to show us how much better they are than the rest of us. How annoying. Or how BORING. And as far as self promotion goes, well I don't call my dog Kerouac for nothing. You know just do it eh? Write as honestly as possible, and leave it at that. If people want to read you they will, and if they don't too bad. After 1,775 posts, all of them written by me, if I depended on the encouragement of others, I would have quit long ago. Which reminds me, you don't think there is something we can do something about cross posting do you? So two identical posts from some blogging conglomerates, don't force two other humbler ones into the blogging basement, before we have a chance to read them. No. I didn't think so. Oh well. To all the other bloggers out there who didn't make the short list, don't be discouraged, because it doesn't mean ANYTHING. As for The Chosen... whoopee shit. Gimme me a drum roll. And cue the big monkey.... Labels: Canadian Bloggers, Canadian Blog Awards The Cons and the F35 Fiasco Now that it appears the Harper Cons are going to buy more of these F-35 fighters than Britain. Future prospects for the F-35 joint strike fighter program got a lot murkier Tuesday after British government officials announced plans to delay and dramatically trim their purchases of the warplane from Lockheed Martin. Even though they are way too expensive, we don't really need them. The only reason the Cons want to spend so much money is so they can pump up the deficit, and use it as an excuse to kill medicare. And as usual they are lying like thieves. The 2006 agreement for developing the controversial F-35 stealth fighter jets contains a withdrawal clause that would allow a new government to end Canada's participation with no penalties and appears to contradict the government's claim that Canadian firms involved up to now would suffer. Maybe it's time to seriously consider other options. And other planes. The most likely avenue of attack from the air on Canada today is not from a lumbering Bear bomber, but rather a small privately owned commercial aircraft. The American Norad commander, Admiral James Winnefeld, recently called for aircraft that can fly "low and slow" in order to counter this threat; "F-16s don't fly slow very well," he said. The same could be said of the F-35. A turboprop aircraft like Embraer's "Super Tucano" or Beechcraft's AT-6B (whose engines are manufactured by Pratt & Whitney Canada in Nova Scotia) would easily fit this bill. At roughly $6-million per copy, we could outfit the air force with 10 times the number of airframes. And if not turboprops, why not drones? Just months before the Harper government announced it would spend an estimated $16-billion on new fighter jets, a report for the Defence Department recommended using “flocking” pilot-less drones to enforce Canada’s sovereignty in the Arctic. And BTW, if anyone thinks that pilotless aircraft are not the future of military aviation. They really should take a look at these nifty robots... I for one welcome our new robot overlords. Forget those old fashioned F35s. Send the Cons to the cleaners. And gimme a quadrotor for Christmas... Labels: Con Canada, F35 Fiasco, military Spirit Day and a Message from Google On a day when hundreds of thousands of people in Canada and the United States answer the call of a Canadian teen to wear purple. The event, called Spirit Day is the brainchild of Canadian teenager Brittany McMillan. The 16-year-old suggested the color purple for a reason. “Purple represents spirit on the LGBTQ flag, and that’s exactly what we’d like everyone to take with them today,” she says. The idea took off. More than a million Facebook users have pledged to wear purple today. McMillan says that “we will wear purple in memory of the recent gay suicides. Many of them suffered from homophobic abuse in their schools or in their homes. We want to take a stand to say that we will not tolerate this.” LGBT employees at Google have a message for bullied kids... Good for Google. Good for Brittany McMillan. You know how I feel about bullies. I found a purple baseball cap. Now please Mr Google, if I promise to be a good gay boy. Can I have this t-shirt ? Labels: bullying, gay youth, homophobia Bullies, Gay Daddies, and the Princess Boy With all the stories about bullying in the news recently I couldn't help thinking how would I react, if I was a dad, and one of my kids was being bullied. Because it would drive me crazy. I hate bullies of all ages, but seeing a happy child turning into a sad, withdrawn one, and feeling helpless to do anything about it, must be one of the worst feelings in the world. Which is another reason, the whole idea of parenthood...which my mother loves so much... makes me feel faint. And besides as if bullying wasn't bad enough, I recently saw the Swedish film Patrik Age 1.5. Where two gay men think they are adopting a baby. Only to end up parenting a 15-year-old homophobic juvenile delinquent. And although the film had a happy ending, I was practically traumatized eh? But if Seb and I ever adopted a kid. And it's NEVER going to happen Mum. I hope that we'd be as cool as these amazing parents and their little princess boy... Because every little boy and girl should be allowed to be who they are. And if there were more great parents like that, the world would be a happier place. Except that as much as I loved that gentle video, I couldn't help thinking how are they going to protect that kid from the bullies who would DESTROY him? So all I can say is, I won't be a daddy. Because you have to be very special to be a good one. And I won't wearing purple today. Because I don't own anything that colour. But I will remember those dead kids, the children who are suffering in our Canadian schools. And that gentle little princess boy. And I will fight bullies, homophobia, and all other kinds of bigotry. Until the day I DIE... Afghanistan: Where the Truth is the Enemy A Con Zombie Gets an Honorary Degree Omar Khadr and the King of Torture The Legal Lynching of Omar Khadr When Stephen Harper Plays a Cop Omar Khadr: The Sorrow and the Shame The Incredible Shaming of Stephen Harper Maxime Bernier and the Con Plot to Kill Medicare Why Bullying Kills, and the Demon Homophobia Are Old White Men Killing Canada? The Brutal Humiliation of Stephen Harper Stephen Harper and the Humiliation of the Con Klowns Carl Paladino and the Day of the Living Dead Was a Canadian Girl Killed for Not Praying? Bullying, Homophobia, and the Holy Monsters The Harper Cons: Government or Dangerous Cult? Jason Kenney Forced to Admit Gay People Exist Seth Walsh and the Homophobic Bullies The Cons Are Made to Look Like Idiots. Again The Collapse of the Harper Regime A Vigil To Remember the Victims of Homophobia Stephen Harper: When the Monster Shows His Stripes Exposed !!!!! Maxime Bernier Can't Count Canada, Bullies, and the Silence that Kills Jason Kenney's War on Canadian Values Stephen Harper, the Maniac, and the Political Blues The Harper Theocons Strike Again The Con Propaganda Machine Blows a Fuse	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line1122
__label__wiki	0.702773	0.702773	10 Movies Like Flipped This is a list of movie recommendations of movies similar to Flipped. Bear in mind that this list is in no particular order. Little Manhattan(2005) Gabe (Josh Hutcherson), a sixth grader, is partnered with Rosemary (Charlie Ray) in his karate class. Though he’s known her a long time, Rosemary suddenly becomes his first crush. At home, Gabe’s unhappy parents, Adam (Bradley Whitford) and Leslie (Cynthia Nixon), are waiting for their divorce to be finalized. Gabe and Rosemary begin dating, but when he realizes she’ll be going away to camp soon, he panics. His attempts to permanently win her over backfire, leaving him confused and miserable. That’s What I Am(2011) A boy (Chase Ellison) learns about appearances, tolerance and other concepts when his teacher (Ed Harris) pairs him with a misfit student to work on a class project. Girl In Progress(2012) Grace (Eva Mendes) is a single mom who is often too busy juggling her job, bills and two love interests (Matthew Modine, Eugenio Derbez) to pay much attention to her daughter, Ansiedad (Cierra Ramirez). Inspired by the coming-of-age stories her English teacher (Patricia Arquette) introduces in class, Ansiedad decides to skip adolescence and jump-start her life without her mother. But, when the misguided plan unravels, Ansiedad and Grace must both learn that growing up means acting your age. Love At First Hiccup(2009) A high-school freshman (Devon Werkheiser) falls for a pretty senior (Scout Taylor-Compton) who is way out of his league. Keith(2008) Natalie (Elisabeth Harnois) thinks she has life figured out — until she meets a guy. The Man In The Moon(1991) Maureen Trant (Emily Warfield) and her younger sibling Dani (Reese Witherspoon) share a strong connection, but local boy Court Foster (Jason London) threatens to throw their bond off balance. Dani and Court meet first and have a flirtatious rapport — but when he meets Maureen, he falls hard and they begin a passionate affair. The new couple try to keep their love hidden from Dani, but she soon learns the truth, disavowing her sister. But a heartbreaking accident later reunites the girls. Waiting For Forever(2010) A street performer (Tom Sturridge) has no ambition other than reconnecting with his best friend (Rachel Bilson) from childhood and pursuing a romance with her. Whatever It Takes(2000) A nerdy teen, Ryan Woodman (Shane West) is smitten with the popular and gorgeous Ashley Grant (Jodi Lyn O’Keefe), who apparently has no interest in him. Meanwhile, dim star athlete Chris Campbell (James Franco) has his eye on Ryan’s brainy and beautiful friend, Maggie Carter (Marla Sokoloff). The two agree to help each other in their romantic quests, but, as they come closer to their goals, both Ryan and Chris suspect that they might be pursuing the wrong girls. The First Time(2012) A spark of attraction smolders, then ignites, between two teens (Dylan O’Brien, Britt Robertson) from different high schools who meet by chance at a party. Trust(2010) A man (Clive Owen) has difficulty coping with the knowledge that his 14-year-daughter (Liana Liberato) was assaulted by a sexual predator she met in an online chat room. 8 Movies Like National Treasure [Recommendations] 10 Movies Like Little Nicky 10 Movies Like Soul Plane 10 Movies Like Atonement Top 7 Best Music Apps for Android [iOS as well] 10 Similar Movies Like The Magnificent Seven 6 Movies Like Cyberbully [Recommendations] Rebeca Betancourt i like this list a lot hank you!!!	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line1129
__label__wiki	0.814454	0.814454	David Wilson Feed Declining condom use driving sexually transmitted infections A fall in condom use across Australia is driving growth in sexually-transmitted infections but new national strategies could improve our sexual health, UNSW experts say. Royal Society trifecta UNSW has won three of four prizes at the Royal Society of New South Wales awards, including a coveted medal not presented for 20 years. Triple Eureka win Research projects on evolution, dingoes, and the battle against HIV/AIDS have won three UNSW scientists prestigious Australian Museum Eureka Prizes. HIV tool launched in Indonesia A team of Indonesian and Australian researchers has developed a new computerised tool to help authorities reduce HIV infection and track disease burden across the Indonesian archipelago. The payback of needle and syringe programs Every dollar spent on needle and syringe programs saves four dollars by preventing life-threatening infections, according to UNSW research. The paradox of anti HIV microbicides Vaginal microbicides now in clinical trials are one of the most promising weapons protecting women against HIV infection. A dangerous precedent in HIV Infection with HIV could quadruple in certain populations if people with HIV follow potentially misleading advice contained in a statement from the Swiss Federal Commission for HIV/AIDS, UNSW research warns. Reduced condom use and other STIs lead to more HIV in Australia's gay men HIV infection rates are predicted to rise by up to 75 percent in parts of Australia in the next seven years if the current trends continue, according to University of New South Wales (UNSW) researchers, based at the National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research (NCHECR).	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line1131
__label__cc	0.511394	0.488606	A Welsh Born Icon Recovering Alcatholic Here's looking at you Kidjo Ever since I listened the the latest episode of Soul Music (Icons passim), I have had the album above on heavy rotation. Never mind just "Once In A Lifetime," singer Angelique Kidjo recorded her own version of the whole of "Remain in Light" in 2018 after coming full circle with the music from her arrival in Paris in 1983 fleeing the dictatorship in her home country of Benin. She heard the record at a student party and recognised the Afrobeats adopted by David Byrne and Brian Eno that made her feel both joyful and homesick at the same time. Count me among the joyous syncretists. If you ever catch me among the culturally inappropriate parsimonious, finger-waggers; diskard me. I am the sum total of my ancestors I carry their DNA We are representatives of a long line of people And we cart them around everywhere This long line of people That goes back to the beginning of time And when we meet - they meet other lines of people And we say: bring together the lines of men XBOX al-Zaman When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. I bought the Bomber an XBOX for his sixth birthday (Icons passim). All these years later he is still an XBOX man. Fourteen years ago I needed to be more involved, so his account was set up with my email address and credit card details. We have never got round to changing this. Yesterday I got an email saying we had bought "200 Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War Points." As I was forwarding it on to him for information I noticed that - for the first time I think - he had overwritten the stored card details and paid with his own. A sentimental rite of passage for me. Addendum: A while back, when it was still allowed, I was a around at Helen and Mat's in the garden. Their son came out to join us and asked his mother if he could have some thyme. I at least took it for thyme probably because he seemed to me to be heading for the row of potted herbs on the patio. A keen cook myself, I was extremely impressed. But no. He was after XBOX time. It turns out that they ration him via a phone app. Another hour was negotiated and he returned to his pit. Four Play I got a heads up yesterday about Bill Gates on a Radio 4 programme called "How to vaccinate the world," so I listened to it on BBC Sounds in the evening. It was a refreshing change to hear something that wasn't glib. The Guardian leader yesterday was glib. Boris Johnson is glib. Left and right are equally guilty. William Gates III's mother obviously brought him up to chew his food thoroughly before swallowing. More power to her elbow. Soul Music on my beloved Talking Heads Once in a Lifetime is also available. I love Radio 4. Lay my burden down I am getting better. I take great solace from - of all things - something the Boss says in Springsteen on Broadway: "We are ghosts or we are ancestors in our children's lives. We either lay our mistakes, our burdens upon them, and we haunt them, or we assist them in laying those old burdens down, and we free them from the chain of our own flawed behaviour. And as ancestors, we walk alongside of them, and we assist them in finding their own way." My father is walking beside me not haunting me. Thanks to the Old Boys Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May their souls and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen 🔰🙏🏼 pic.twitter.com/G0JZ8iP9b3 — Old Illtydians RFC (@OIRFC1928) December 23, 2020 brought up short I am thinking of Dad of course, and how he explained things to me simply when I was a little boy. Today in this season I remember (somehow I remember as I was a toddler) him explaining to me that Jews were warm and generous people. So warm and generous in fact that they often volunteered to work over Christmas so that other people could have a few days off. Just a hand on my shoulder steering me the right way. I Won’t Be Wronged, I Won’t Be Insulted, and I Won't Be Layed a Hand On Dad would kneel down at the side of his bed and say his prayers in public in barracks when he was doing his National Service. If anyone took the piss he would sort it out the old fashioned way. My sister Caroline is 19 years younger than me. When he was putting her to bed, I am told, he would craftily say his prayers then as well to save time later. Love grows. To see oursels as ithers see us! BBC Sounds: A Promised Land by Barack Obama Ep 8. Former President Barack Obama continues reading from the first volume of his presidential memoirs A Promised Land, offering a unique and deeply personal account of some of the landmarks of his first term at the White House. In today’s episode, Obama confronts one of the key issues of any current world leader - what to do about climate change. Prompted by his own experiences of a Hawaiian childhood and driven by the need to create a safer environmental future for his daughters Malia and Sasha, he refuses to be blown off course. With the Kyoto Protocol set to expire in 2012 Obama is determined to negotiate a major international climate agreement. He travels to a summit in Copenhagen but is confronted by stalemate as world leaders refuse to compromise or, in some cases, to even engage with the issue. He decides the only way forward is to engage in a spot of gate crashing with Hillary Clinton. I listened caught the last five minutes or so of this driving back up the M4 yesterday. I don't think I have ever heard anything so self serving. "That was some real gangster shit back there"??!! O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us It wad frae mony a blunder free us, An' foolish notion: What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us, An' ev'n devotion! Browne Boots Ben wore Brahn Boots to the funeral yesterday. Dad would have approved. He used to sing it to me when I was little. I have a quick blub up listening to it on Spottily. If I had thought of it in time I would have worn a pair as well. Our Aunt Hanna's passed away, We 'ad her funeral today, And it was a posh affair, Had to have two p'licemen there! The 'earse was luv'ly, all plate glass, And wot a corfin!... oak and brass! We'd fah-sands weepin', flahers galore, But Jim, our cousin... what d'yer fink 'e wore? Why, brahn boots! I ask yer... brahn boots! Fancy coming to a funeral In brahn boots! I will admit 'e 'ad a nice black tie, Black fingernails and a nice black eye; But yer can't see people orf when they die, And Aunt 'ad been so very good to 'im, Done all that any muvver could for 'im, And Jim, her son, to show his clars... Rolls up to make it all a farce, In brahn boots... While all the rest, Wore decent black and mourning suits. I'll own he didn't seem so gay, In fact he cried most part the way, But straight, he reg'lar spoilt our day, Wiv 'is brahn boots. In the graveyard we left Jim, None of us said much to him, Yus, we all gave 'im the bird, Then by accident we 'eard... 'E'd given 'is black boots to Jim Small, A bloke wot 'ad no boots at all, So p'raps Aunt Hanna doesn't mind, She did like people who was good and kind. But brahn boots! Fancy coming to a funeral, And we could 'ear the neighbours all remark 'What, 'im chief mourner? Wot a blooming lark! 'Why 'e looks more like a Bookmaker's clerk... In brahn boots!' That's why we 'ad to be so rude to 'im, That's why we never said 'Ow do!' to 'im, We didn't know... he didn't say, He'd give 'is other boots away. Wore decent black and mourning suits! But some day up at Heavens gate, Poor Jim, all nerves, will stand and wait, 'til an angel whispers... 'Come in, Mate, 'Where's yer brahn boots?' Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow I am in Cardiff. The requiem for dad will be in St Joe's at 11 and the burial in Thornhill at 11. Thanks to everyone who has reached out to me. My Name Is Inigo Montoya I want my father back, you son of a bitch. 96 Tiers Fuck Boris Johnson and fuck Mark Drakeford. All I wanna do it bury my father with dignity on Tuesday while supporting my mother. I will never forgive the two of you for this shit. I logged onto Facebook yesterday only to find: Marcus Campbell Sinclair (1976-2020) It is with much sadness that I must let you know that Marcus passed away yesterday. He courageously lived with his cancer for many years. Marcus was a unique and gifted person, who will be sorely missed. Bad news. Much fun with Marcus over the years. I learned from the comments on the post that he was Emperor Palpatine in the The Star Wars Exhibition at the County Hall, London back in 2007. I wish I could have told him how unimpressed Ben was with his throne (see Icons Passim). He would have laughed like a drain. The Forty Thieves At one minute to eight on the morning of January 29, 1928, Danny Driscoll walked to the waiting gallows in Cardiff prison. With just seconds to go before his life ended he looked up at the sky and smiled. "Well," he said, "they've given me a nice day for it." Outside the prison more than 5,000 men, women and children jammed Adam Street. A teenage girl led the singing of a Catholic hymn but silence when Driscoll's four brothers were led to the front of the barriers where armed police patrolled - Cardiff's underworld was rife with rumours that an attempt would be made to spring the men. That underworld was ruled by Cardiff's fabled Forty Thieves, thugs who terrorised local race courses running protection rackets, charging bookies for supplies of chalk and sponges, and even buckets of water. You paid up. Or got cut up. But Dai Lewis, a popular former boxer, refused to pay up. At Monmouth races on September 28, 1927, he defied the Cardiff gang led by Edward and John Rowlands - "Tich" and "Jack Tich". A detective recalled years later that though Lewis wasn't frightened, "he was worried". So instead of going home to Ethel Street in Canton he stayed at a hotel. That night Lewis sat in the Blue Anchor at the bottom end of St Mary Street with Driscoll and Tich Rowlands. John Rowlands and Edward "Hong Kong" Price waited in a cafe across the road. At eleven o'clock Dai Lewis walked out of the pub - and into local legend ....... read on PG told me this story on Sunday. I had never heard of it. The Adam Street outside the prison jammed with 5,000 hymn singing protesters is the same Adam Street where Dad would be born five years later. 'Hong Kong' Price was PG's brother-in-law's grandfather. http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/Driscoll%20and%20Rowlands.html is worth a look as well. Free Since 1597 I stumbled on the Gresham College lectures on YouTube. An intriguing establishment: Gresham College is an institution of higher learning located at Barnard's Inn Hall off Holborn in Central London, England. It does not enroll students and does not award any degrees. It was founded in 1597 under the will of Sir Thomas Gresham, and it hosts over 140 free public lectures every year. Since 2001, all lectures have also been made available online. La Cucina Futurista Futurist cooking will be free of the old obsessions with volume and weight and will have as one of its principles the abolition of pastasciutta. Pastasciutta, however agreeable to the palate, is a passéist food because it makes people heavy, brutish, deludes them into thinking it is nutritious, makes them skeptical, slow, pessimistic… Any pastascuittist who honestly examines his conscience at the moment he ingurgitates his biquotidian pyramid of pasta will find within the gloomy satisfaction of stopping up a black hole. This voracious hole is an incurable sadness of his. He may delude himself, but nothing can fill it. Only a Futurist meal can lift his spirits. And pasta is anti-virile because a heavy, bloated stomach does not encourage physical enthusiasm for a woman, nor favour the possibility of possessing her at any time. And again: RAW MEAT TORN BY TRUMPET BLASTS: cut a perfect cube of beef. Pass an electric current through it, then marinate it for twenty-four hours in a mixture of rum, cognac and white vermouth. Remove it from the mixture and serve on a bed of red pepper, black pepper and snow. Each mouthful is to be chewed carefully for one minute, and each mouthful is divided from the next by vehement blasts on the trumpet blown by the eater himself. I can't help but think that this is Nigella Lawson's next series sorted out. Does anyone know her agent's phone number? Hat tip: https://www.openculture.com/2020/12/when-italian-futurists-declared-war-on-pasta-1930.html Cold Shower I didn't have any hot water yesterday because I turned it off a few days ago and neglected to turn it back on. I am trying to work out a way to blame https://www.hivehome.com/ but so far I have come up short. Sometimes I am astounded that I even manage to get through the day. ‘He was a trailblazer’: Charley Pride, country music’s first Black superstar, dies from Covid complications Pride, 86, who was the first Black member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, died in Dallas, Texas on Saturday, his publicist confirmed. Dolly Parton and a string of celebrities took to Twitter to pay tribute to the musician. "It’s even worse to know that he passed away from Covid-19. What a horrible, horrible virus. Charley, we will always love you. He was lucky to get his career underway before bullshit notions like cultural appropriation got their feet under the table. Harmony: Faravahar Faravahar (Persian: فَرَوَهَر‎), also known as Forouhar (Persian: فُروهَر‎) , or Farr-e Kiyâni (فَرِّ کیانی), is one of the most well-known symbols of Iranian peoples, and Zoroastrianism, the primary religion of Iran before the Muslim conquest of Iran, and of Iranian nationalism. Fifteen years later (see Icons passim) we're back. Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone Deep breath; "Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone" is available to stream on video. I will visit it soon. Hidden Depths Here's the Bomber's current work in progress when it comes to reading and his art work. Dad started off as a draughtsman, and came into his own as a late bloomer. Maybe the apple didn't fall that far from the tree. bobochacha Ben and I went to bobochacha last night, at Helen's recommendation. It is a Pan-Asian place. We shared some dumplings to start and then both had prawn Singapore noodles. Singapore noodles are, for some reason, a sort of gold standard with me. I almost always try them to test a new place out. They didn't disappoint. Last week (see Icons passim) we went to the Little Taperia and we have penciled in the Brazilian Picanha Steakhouse next. All just round the corner and within a three minute walk from each other. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has apologised to those affected by the Christchurch terror attacks as a report shed new light on how the gunman eluded detection. The nearly 800-page Royal Commission of Inquiry report released Tuesday concluded that despite the shortcomings of various agencies, there were no clear signs the attack carried out by Brenton Tarrant was imminent. But it did detail failings in the police system for vetting gun licenses, and said that New Zealand's intelligence agencies were focused on the threat posed by Islamic extremism rather than white supremacists. Among 44 recommendations, the report recommended the government establishes a new national intelligence agency. Following the report’s publication, Ms Ardern said: "The commission made no findings that these issues would have stopped the attack. But these were both failings nonetheless and for that I apologise." Jacinda Ardern says "I" when talking about things which went wrong and "we" when talking about successes. On the face of it, perhaps, uncharitably a rhetorical gimmick. It impresses me very much though. I can tell because it has started to infuriate me when other people don't put their hands up an take responsibility. That lemon Vaughn Gething on Radio 4 this morning for example. Through the barricades Dad, who died at 87, was the youngest in his family with four older brothers and three older sisters. Auntie Nelly was the oldest. Peter, my Dad's cousin, was born in 1939. He was brought up in Tremorfa. There was an RAF camp that adjoined the house. His older brother Bernard told him that Auntie Nellie used to come round and "court" Bunny Churcher who was stationed there through the barbed wire at the bottom of the garden in the early days of the Second World War. They married but my uncle Bunny was killed in the conflict. The two hooligans on the right are my youngest nephews. They have a little sister who is only one year old. They are eighty years but only two generations away from Nelly. Alys may well have been born a century after her. If we were the Royal Family there would have been maybe a dozen monarchs at the most between 1066 and today. "Today I settled all Family business" ‘The Godfather 4’ could still happen, says Paramount Love you Dad. Dad passed away at the age of 87 at about eight o'clock last night. A substantial meal The Bomber and I went along to The Little Taperia, a nearby Spanish tapas bar and restaurant round the corner, last night. I felt that we had to because Morcilla Scotch eggs, with piquillo peppers were on the menu. A scotch egg is definitely a substantial meal, Michael Gove has said, as he performed a screeching U-turn on his earlier controversial position that it constituted merely a starter. We also ate salt cod fritters, prawns with garlic and chilli, plus a potato tortilla. Red wine for me. Lager for him. I know you might find it difficult believe but we mostly talked about philosophy and mathematics. I didn't notice anyone on an adjoining table inclining an ear so as not to miss any of our musings on Platonic solids. Why are we waiting? Bethany's collaboration with Rhys Ifans is supposed to drop on https://www.heartofcardiff.co.uk/ today. It ain't there yet, but it is what is going on these spindrift pages today so I guess we will just have to wait. You can catch it now at https://www.heartofcardiff.co.uk/listen-gwrandewch/rodney though you have to sign up. implications of threat and strong feeling produced through colloquial language, apparent triviality, and long pauses I was back in Cardiff yesterday with the intention of putting in a shift making sure Dad ate and drank at least something. He was never really awake though I managed to get some thickened Lucozade and yoghurt into him by putting a sweet drop on his tongue which seemed to trigger a swallow reflex and then following up with the rest of a teaspoon's worth. At about ten to one, a nurse came into the room to do his "obvs" (short for observations). Concerned that his heart rate was very low, she called in Hannah, a more senior nurse, who then called the Dr. After that they did an ECG. The Dr took me aside and told me that he was a lot worse than the day before, and implied - quite frankly - that this might be it over the next several days. I could have stayed but I was just getting in everyone's way in that single room. Later, when I got a call to say he was much improved, a mental image formed of him opening one eye as I left and whispering "has he gone yet, Hannah?" *V impressed that Hannah's business-like hair bun was secured with tinsel rather than a hair tie. Going for a Burton I am down in Cardiff to try and see Dad. Next time I am back I will certainly catch this Museum of Wales show if possible. Ashley has curated it, I Won’t Be Wronged, I Won’t Be Insulted, and I Won... implications of threat and strong feeling produced... The Cloud (147) Welsh Born Icons (81) Bunburying (76) Eat the World (52) El Grupo (47) Beachcomber (25) Health and Efficiency (24) Mr. Beeton (24) Opium des Volkes (23) left on Afghanistan's plains (21) Route55 (20) singalongablog (18) Seahawks (16) Nukes Bear (15) Dry January (11) ManCave (11) Merton Priory (11) West Wing (11) Sound and Vision (10) Yule Yarn (9) AAA1 (8) Sunday Morning Coming Down (6) Never the sinner (4) Country Matters (3) Training Diary Who He? (Ed.) Nick Browne	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line1134
__label__cc	0.559168	0.440832	Dumped Coal Mine Expansion Labelled A Victory News/Environment In south-east Queensland a land court has recommended scrapping a $900 million coal mine expansion, in a move landholders and farmers say is a major victory. The proposed expansion of the New Acland Coal Mine in the Darling Downs has faced intense opposition from property owners since it received state government support in 2012. The matter was taken to the Land Court in 2016, with opponents arguing the expansion would damage groundwater levels, air quality and agricultural land. After a record-breaking length of more than 100 days of hearings and 2000 exhibits the court recommended the expansion not be granted. CEO of the Queensland Environmental Defenders Office Jo-Anne Bragg says the victory is a win for locals. http://news.nirs.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Jo-Anne-Bragg-Acland-Coal.mp3 The State Government will now need to decide whether to follow the court’s recommendation or approve it regardless. (AUDIO: ABC) Remote NT Community To Get Solar Greens Threaten QLD Gov Over Adani Deal Roe 8 Protester Lock On to Gates Top End Traditional Owners Fight Off Pest	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line1138
__label__wiki	0.876604	0.876604	District Central’s taxes used to go to someone as extortion: Murtaza Wahab by News Editor December 17, 2020 012 The recently launched web portal for the payment of municipal taxes by Karachiâs District Central has already collected Rs5.1 million in a few weeks, and this revenue used to go to someone as extortion, said Sindh government spokesman Barrister Murtaza Wahab on Wednesday. Wahab, who is also the chief ministerâs adviser on law and environment, was addressing a ceremony that was organised to inaugurate a gymkhana in the North Nazimabad neighbourhood of the city. He said that the taxes being collected by the Central District Municipal Corporation (DMC) were not in hundreds of thousands of rupees but Rs500 to Rs1,000 â the difference being that in the past these taxes had gone to someone as extortion. He explained that there existed a mafia who used to pocket these taxes, otherwise they used to be pilfered, which was why the tax collection system for the district had been digitised. This pilferage will not take place after the introduction of the e-system, he asserted. âEarlier, Rs10.8 million was collected from this district in an entire year, but the tax collection has reached Rs5.1 million in just a few weeks through this new system.â Wahab said that all of this had happened because of the new administration running the affairs of the Central DMC, clarifying that no new tax had been levied. He said that the business owners operating in the district had started registering themselves with the e-system, pointing out that the more the DMC earned the more it would be in a position to spend the revenue on public welfare. Regarding the gymkhana, the government spokesman said that the Central district could have three gymkhanas at different locations but the DMC needed resources for doing such kind of work. He also said that municipal waste was now being lifted from the district for disposal, pointing out that the DMC was doing this work with the same resources it had in the past, with the only difference being the resolve to do work. The adviser said that 1,800 to 1,900 tonnes of municipal waste was being collected from the district on a daily basis. âThere used to be only garbage at KDA Chowrangi, but now itâs being cleared. To give relief to the district we have appointed a genie-like person who only works.â He said that the fuel resources earlier available with the DMC had been wasted, but now the same resources were being spent to provide essential municipal services to the people. He pointed out that the employees of the DMC now also got their salaries on time. âWhatever promises Prime Minister Imran Khan had made to the people of the Central district are now being fulfilled by the new administration of the DMC.â Wahab said that they needed to engage the people to resolve their issues together. âWe donât want any differences any more. We should rather get together to develop our city, province and country.â He said that it was everyoneâs common responsibility to beautify Karachi. He pointed out that people would not be able to realise the achievements of the municipal institutions until they themselves started understanding the progress made by them. He also said he was attached to District Central because of his memories of the time spent there. âEven my parents are buried here. I spent a very pleasant time in the district. My parents used to live in North Nazimabad. It hurts me to see the districtâs situation today.â The spokesman said that his primary complaint against the federal government was that it did not deliver on its commitments. âPolitics apart, the PM had announced Rs162 billion for Karachi, so this money should be spent on the city. If Rs162 billion is not possible, at least Rs1.62 billion should be spent here.â Match timings and schedule for Pakistan vz New Zealand T20I series 56% Pakistanis want opposition to postpone rallies: survey Ministry of IT and FAO sign collaboration agreement News Editor March 26, 2020 Two held as 43 fall unconscious after consuming toxic milk Traffic cop shot dead on Thursday night laid to rest Bilawal Bhutto Zardari inaugurates Labour City in Sukkur Khairpur rape case: Relative’s DNA matches seven-year-old victim’s sample PPP locks horns with GDA in Umerkot by-polls Pak vs SA: Why did Indian analyst not come to Pakistan with South African team?	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line1139
__label__wiki	0.931635	0.931635	NOW MagazineMusicFeaturesHow streaming killed underground micro-labels How streaming killed underground micro-labels The vital role once held by small record labels has all but vanished, writes Arachnidiscs Recordings founder Jakob Rehlinger By Jakob Rehlinger It’s Nanaimo, BC, in the late 90s. Looking impossibly cool behind the pulpit of the Blackball Records cash register, Andrew hands me a cassette. The J-card is just a cheap black-and-white photocopy, like an 80s hardcore punk demo. He declares it comes from “the real underground” and bestows upon it (with his clear disdain for everything that’s not on this cassette) an impossible aloof and authoritative coolness. Listening to the music on the store’s overhead, I am confused. To my uninitiated ears, it’s clearly music for and by weirdos – shambolic in the extreme, just pointless noise. Why would someone make this? And why would someone else release it? And why on a dead format like cassette, of all things? But someone did, and that is how I heard the Tower Recordings, a band whose music I never would have encountered if not for the micro-label that put it into Andrew’s hands and then temporarily into mine (I didn’t want it and Andrew wouldn’t have sold it to me anyway). Without that tape I never would’ve found myself deeply submerged in the improv-psych scene 10 years later, proudly putting out music for and by weirdos on my own label. I founded the CD-r micro-label Arachnidiscs Recordings in late 1999 – and now, after 20 years, I’m shutting it down. Why? There are a few personal reasons, but there’s one abiding philosophical one: the vital role once held by micro-labels has all but vanished. I initially founded Arachnidiscs as a means of releasing the debut recording by my own BABEL project. The album was sold exclusively from the Blackball Records store, mainly to my weirdo friends, but also – we were all shocked – to a stranger who ran a yoga class that needed some background drones. Soon friends and associates of Blackball were given releases on Arachnidiscs and the label made the leap from vanity press to independent label. Even though the reach of the label was limited to a small percentage of patrons of a small record store in a small Vancouver Island city, the artists reached an audience they otherwise had no access to. Now, at the end of its 20th year, Arachnidiscs will release its 200th title – its last. Thirteen Exquisite Corpses by BABEL On October 31, we’ll say goodbye with a double album called Thirteen Exquisite Corpses, featuring BABEL and many label alumni including Andrew MacGregor, Eiyn Sof, Kayla Milmine and more. It’s a series of “exquisite corpse”-style improvisations, each building off the last. Having moved to Toronto over a decade ago, after exposing local and Canadian weirdos (Gown, Nick Storring, Clara Engel, Colin Fisher, Holiday Rambler, etc.) to an international contingent of dedicated fans and followers with CDr, cassette and vinyl releases, I am closing up shop. As hard as it is to accept, you no longer need micro-labels to disseminate underground music. That role is now filled, and you could argue in some ways filled better, by Bandcamp and Spotify. In 1979, if The Fall recorded a song in the forest and there was no one there to put it out on a 7-inch, did it exist? For all intents and purposes, no. In the pre-digital era – before Napster, then SoundCloud, then Bandcamp and Spotify – recorded music only existed on physical formats. Mainstream glossy music magazines, photocopied zines and early blogs simply weren’t able to write about an album based on a URL, as is conventional nowadays. If it wasn’t available on a CD, cassette or LP, the general public wasn’t going to hear it – or even hear about it. There were no Spotify discovery algorithms to guide you to The Tower Recordings, there was Andrew behind the counter at the record store. There was no Bandcamp tag you could follow, there was a genre-specific college radio show on between 11pm and 1am on Tuesdays. Bands and fans, reviewers and DJs, were all beholden to labels, whether that was Warner or Foxy Digitalis. Labels of all sizes were more than vital, they were it. But now, a band doesn’t need a record label to put out their album, because an album doesn’t need to be a record. It can exist completely virtually as a download from Bandcamp or a stream on Spotify. Increasingly, what a band needs a label for is to be a PR firm, agent and manager, to get them on the right playlists, which will in turn get them on the right festival lineups. That’s because there’s no longer career-sustaining money in selling music – physical or digital – but conventional wisdom says there is still a bit in playing live. Physical records themselves are a sort of affectation left over from the old model. And there’s nothing wrong with affectation in an industry, let’s be honest, built entirely on affectation. I love the affectation. If a struggling band needs a label to bankroll the pressing of an album just so they can hold that existence-affirming artifact in their hands, that’s cool. But while labels can still maintain a sort of brand recognition and loyalty due to the careful curation of their roster, that doesn’t matter much when people are discovering music solely via Spotify playlists. The band can get by without an LP and without a label. Small labels can and will continue to exist, and there’s still value in them existing, but it’s hard to say they still need to exist. The world, I’m perfectly happy to admit, can now get by without Arachnidiscs Recordings. UPDATE: Arachnidiscs is throwing a farewell show on Sunday (January 19) at Array Space. The show will feature collaborative performances by Heraclitus Akimbo & Beard Closet, Eiyn Sof & Dark Bird, and M. Mucci with Khôra and Totenbaum Träger. More info here. @Arachnidiscs Arachnidiscs Recordings BABEL Music music feature Tower Recordings Toronto’s Shortstack Records held a record sale in a Walmart parking lot With most local businesses locked down, they pointedly went where the customers are: a big-box store That time MF DOOM brought an imposter to Toronto A decade after the late rapper's infamous concert, it remains full of intrigue – behind-the-scenes and onstage Toronto music predictions for 2021: when will concerts return? Livestream concerts aren't going away, but they will get better. 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__label__wiki	0.712977	0.712977	The Apartment at Holt Renfrew Home shopping. Writer Kristin Ramsey There’s a phrase common to the fashion set, a notion of revisiting your existing wardrobe: “shop your closet”. But Holt Renfrew gives new meaning to the saying with the Apartment, a 1,000-square-foot private shopping suite at its Yorkdale Shopping Centre location in Toronto, pulling out all the stops to make shoppers feel right at home. Designed by New York–based architectural firm Janson Goldstein, the Apartment lives up to its name with a living room, dressing room, kitchen, and en suite bathroom. The multi-purpose space essentially becomes a customized closet to fulfill the desires of the retailer’s top-tier clientele (access is currently by invite only), who can host lunches there, enjoy trunk shows, meet a visiting designer, relax with a spa treatment, hold a pre-party for an event, or let the kids run around while shopping. In today’s crowded, and competitive, retail environment it’s a smart move for the company. “We have to elevate our game when it comes to the personalized relationship,” says Barbara Wolfson, Holt Renfrew’s divisional vice president, sales and service at the Yorkdale location. “We all have a million opportunities to shop elsewhere, whether online or in a boutique, or hopping over to New York for the weekend.” Past trunk shows held in the space have featured designs from Gucci, Fendi, Donna Karan, Brunello Cucinelli, and Dolce & Gabbana. The Holt Renfrew team outfits the Apartment with fresh flowers, food, and beverages at each guest’s request, and decorative elements such as a bold lighting fixture by Lindsey Adelman Studio, Usona bar cart, DDC dining table, B&B Italia dining chairs, and a rotating exhibit of artwork. Plush carpets, contemporary furniture, and sparkling shelves create a comfortable environment that offers plenty of space to display merchandise. After a successful launch earlier this year, the Apartment concept is expanding to the retailer’s Bloor Street store in Toronto, as well as its Vancouver and Calgary locations (all are expected to open before the end of 2017). The residential concept also takes a different form at the recently-opened Holt Renfrew Men on Bloor Street, also designed by Janson Goldstein. Here, the walls are upholstered in suiting fabric and the space includes rotating installations of art and cultural objects as well. “I have to tell you I came from an incredibly competitive market in Florida, and I think competition makes you better,” says Wolfson. “It elevates the leadership, it elevates the way in which we buy, and I think it makes you really drill down to the details to ensure that you are building strong relationships with the client, giving them different experiences, and very exciting experiences to make them come back for more.” 4 Top Boot Trends for Fall 2020 Costume Call FeaturesSpring 2016 Whitney Linen A Design Collaboration: Simon Beck and Icebreaker ArtWinter 2014	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line1142
__label__wiki	0.613403	0.613403	Fast algorithms for large-scale genome alignment and comparison Arthur L. Delcher, Adam Phillippy, Jane Carlton, Steven L. Salzberg Biology and Genomics We describe a suffix-tree algorithm that can align the entire genome sequences of eukaryotic and prokaryotic organisms with minimal use of computer time and memory. The new system, MUMmer 2, runs three times faster while using one-third as much memory as the original MUMmer system. It has been used successfully to align the entire human and mouse genomes to each other, and to align numerous smaller eukaryotic and prokaryotic genomes. A new module permits the alignment of multiple DNA sequence fragments, which has proven valuable in the comparison of incomplete genome sequences. We also describe a method to align more distantly related genomes by detecting protein sequence homology. This extension to MUMmer aligns two genomes after translating the sequence in all six reading frames, extracts all matching protein sequences and then clusters together matches. This method has been applied to both incomplete and complete genome sequences in order to detect regions of conserved synteny, in which multiple proteins from one organism are found in the same order and orientation in another. The system code is being made freely available by the authors. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/30.11.2478 Fingerprint Dive into the research topics of 'Fast algorithms for large-scale genome alignment and comparison'. Together they form a unique fingerprint. Genome Medicine & Life Sciences benzoylprop-ethyl Medicine & Life Sciences Memory Medicine & Life Sciences Synteny Medicine & Life Sciences Amino Acid Sequence Homology Medicine & Life Sciences Reading Frames Medicine & Life Sciences Human Genome Medicine & Life Sciences Delcher, A. L., Phillippy, A., Carlton, J., & Salzberg, S. L. (2002). Fast algorithms for large-scale genome alignment and comparison. Nucleic acids research, 30(11), 2478-2483. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/30.11.2478 Fast algorithms for large-scale genome alignment and comparison. / Delcher, Arthur L.; Phillippy, Adam; Carlton, Jane; Salzberg, Steven L. Delcher, AL, Phillippy, A, Carlton, J & Salzberg, SL 2002, 'Fast algorithms for large-scale genome alignment and comparison', Nucleic acids research, vol. 30, no. 11, pp. 2478-2483. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/30.11.2478 Delcher AL, Phillippy A, Carlton J, Salzberg SL. Fast algorithms for large-scale genome alignment and comparison. Nucleic acids research. 2002 Jun 1;30(11):2478-2483. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/30.11.2478 Delcher, Arthur L. ; Phillippy, Adam ; Carlton, Jane ; Salzberg, Steven L. / Fast algorithms for large-scale genome alignment and comparison. 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__label__cc	0.747096	0.252904	Money, drugs, and bodies: Examining exchange sex from multiple perspectives Naomi Braine, Sluytman van Laurens, Caroline Acker, Sam Friedman, Don C. Desjarlais Research on men who sell sex has primarily focused on psychological profiles and HIV risk factors. Substantially less literature examines the consumers in the male-to-male exchange sex dyad. This article examines the perspectives of venders and consumers. Data come from a qualitative study of a group of 26 men who recently ex-changed sex for money or drugs in New York City. Findings indicate that a complex set of interactions between motivation, communication, medium of exchange, and access to capital-financial, drug, or sexual-shapes risks. This article includes discussion of the potential implications of these findings for practitioners, and future research. 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__label__cc	0.691135	0.308865	Nobody’s Perfect: Obama’s Irish Ancestors Weren’t There… Obama ran his last Presidential campaign on how much he was watching out for women. He had the utmost concern for woman all around the world, who according to him, were getting the shaft. But here is ONE woman in the world, who resides in the Irish Parliament, that is more than fed up with him, and has no trouble at all saying so. She may not be perfect to many (amfortas hates the Irish) but this Nobody would LOVE some of the women in our Congress to have as much spunk. Our ladies of spunk, Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann, have been kicked so many times, they are ignored by the media. But, thanks to Youtube, we can at least get some satisfaction. Obama wins the Nobody’s Perfect in Ireland award for the week! He just can’t help himself. Nobody also notes: Watch the gentlemen listening in the peanut gallery. Priceless! July 1, 2013 - Posted by Joyanna Adams \| Obama, Uncategorized \| Irish, Obama Yes indeed a feisty lady, and more power to her criticisms. ( I won’t comment on the validity of her having ‘spunk’ as that word in the UK – and Ireland – means semen 🙂 ) Now. I hate the Irish? Oh Joyanna. A calumny. My attitude is Love the Sinner, not the Sin, and the Irish have many sins to repent, especially about their actions against the English. America shares some of those sins. We have discussed previously the American support – financial as well as verbal and materiel – for Irish Terrorists who bombed public streets and buildings in Britain, shot hundreds of people, Irish as well as English and anyone else who got in their way and consorted with other terrorist around the globe. I have good cause to hate those actions. But hate the people? I have personally fought hot battles in war (albeit few, thank God) and resisted every call to hate my enemies. I have prayed over the bodies of people I have been called upon to defend myself against. But I am not a man of hatred. I had friends who were killed by Irish terrorists. My home city, not three years after surviving the German’s concerted efforts in destruction, suffered from IRA bombings. I have little cause to love the Irish. But still I do not hate the mad or the bad. Eire is an Independent Nation. It used to be a part of the British Isles. PART of the island of Ireland sought independence and voted democratically. Their wishes were honoured by the United Kingdoms. PART of the island wished to remain British. Their choice. Irish people loyal to the Crown and the Nation. Northern Island – just 6 counties – is a part of the United Kingdom, just as Arkansas or New York are part of the United States. Do Americans just not get that? Would you put up with Idaho waging a terrorist war against North Dakota? The Terrorists of Eire waged a vicious war against the United Kingdoms. American monies paid for the arms they used. That was not in Obama’s day of course although that awful President still uses the same interfering hypocricy as his predecessors. I find the Irish in general to be a faulted people. They have a turn of mind that I, as a professional versed in Psychology, would call a mental pathology. A dis-ease. They are not alone of course as few national ‘characters’ are free from some fault. But the Irish verge in insanity with THEIR hatreds which seem last over tens of generations. It is hardly surprising that Ireland has a population of 5 million living there and 100 million spreading their dis-ease all over the world from where they sing maudlin songs and agitprop their hosts with anti-British sentiment. Comment by Amfortas \| July 1, 2013 \| Reply Thanks for the opinions! � The Irish here, are not terrorists, except in a few bars. Comment by joyannaadams \| July 2, 2013 \| Reply	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line1147
__label__wiki	0.955507	0.955507	Five new COVID cases reported in the Sudbury area Darren MacDonald CTV News Northern Ontario Digital Content Producer @Darrenmacd Contact Published Tuesday, November 24, 2020 4:58PM EST Public Health Sudbury & Districts reported five new COVID-19 cases Tuesday afternoon. (File) SUDBURY -- Public Health Sudbury & Districts reported five new COVID-19 cases Tuesday afternoon. Four of the cases are in Greater Sudbury, while one is in the Sudbury district. There have now been 224 cases in the health unit's coverage area since the pandemic began. And there are now 14 active cases, an increase of four since Monday. The source of infection for the five new cases is not known, Public health said. Three of the five are men, one is a woman and no gender was released for the fifth. No age ranges for the people infected was released. "Data on sex and age groups are listed as unspecified until there are sufficient numbers to allow them to be assigned to the appropriate categories," the health unit said. "This ensures that individual cases cannot be identified. Sex is not specified for cases aged 19 years and under." The five COVID cases comes on the day the health unit announced outbreaks at Extendicare Falconbridge and Extendicare York. One staff member at each of the long-term care homes tested positive, prompting the outbreak. More information, including how to get tested and keep yourself safe, can be found on Public Health's website. Northern Ontario COVID-19 coverage Tracking the number of active COVID-19 cases in northeastern Ontario COVID outbreaks declared at two long-term care homes in Sudbury	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line1150
__label__cc	0.684007	0.315993	Sharon Kopriva Sharon Kopriva is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in Houston, Texas and Hope, Idaho. Known primarily as a painter and sculptor, she also works in installation and printmaking. Drawing from her Italian Catholic upbringing in Houston and her connection to the forests of the Northwest, Kopriva creates work that is both highly personal and universally relevant – often commenting on current environmental, spiritual and sociopolitical issues. In her most recent studio production, Kopriva’s sculptural work has intentionally made a turn towards abstraction through a series she titled Tubers. Working with rope, she wraps the material around empty space, allowing the rope to guide her hands, binding the fiber together till an abstracted human form emerges. Through the use of simple abstract and iconic forms, Kopriva creates figures that have many access points for interpretation. In Earth Mother, for example, we see the figure of a woman emerge with a snake inferred through the inclusion of a simple piece of driftwood. She is Gaia. She is Eve receiving the knowledge of good and evil in the garden. She is the Aztec mother goddess, Coatlicue (skirt of snakes), who gave birth to the moon, the stars and the god of the sun. She is Pachamama (Earth Mother) with the Inca snake deity (wisdom, knowledge, the underworld) wrapped around her waist. Through the meditative ritual of coiling, wrapping and binding rope around empty space, she creates headless figures that float in the room – speaking to life, death, nature and the spiritual world, and also to the chord that connects it all. The wrapping ritual and binding practice in her sculptural work has greatly influenced her most recent drawings and paintings, both conceptually and compositionally. In Eden’s Serpent, we again see the biblical serpent represented. The serpent is wrapped around the tree, and its fangs are bared to the viewer. Perhaps, this snake is defending tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Perhaps in this version of the story, we as humans remain in the Garden – without choice and without the ability to destroy Eden. In Breaking Bonds, Kopriva represents women breaking free of the things that bind them. Inspired by the “Know Your Worth” and “Me Too” movements, Kopriva has depicted a diverse group of women breaking bonds and barriers. Some are escaping physical bondage, while others are removing psychological masks that symbolize restrictions placed upon them by society. The women in this painting are untwining the bindings that hold them back, yet each figure is connected by a chord that binds them all in unity and power. In Red Headed Witness, Kopriva depicts her late friend, artist Nancy Kienholz, wrapped in a cyclone of white birds. Her gaze is directed at the viewer, calm and knowing, and her fiery hair is floating among the flutter of bird wings. She used the birds “to move a spirit and free it of its bondage to Earth,” she explained. By wrapping the figure in birds, Kopriva is symbolically binding her up towards Heaven. “I was hoping to give her a little momentum,” she explained. The works of Sharon Kopriva in this exhibition utilize binding motifs in ways both physical and symbolic. Through the use of coiled rope sculptures that are reminiscent of Peruvian basketry, she abstracts the human form through an organic and intuitive process. She engages the primal coil of the snake and the ecstatic murmuration of birds to depict spiritual concerns. She tackles pressing social issues through symbolic binding and breaking of bonds, allowing her figures to bind themselves together in unity while breaking free of the negative situations to which held them back. Sharon Kopriva, Eden’s Serpent, 2019, Mixed media on scratchboard, Collection of Marilyn Oshman Sharon Kopriva, Breaking Bonds, 2019, Graphite and collage on paper, Collection of the artist Sharon Kopriva, The Red Headed Witness, 2020, Mixed media on paper, Collection of the artist Sharon Kopriva, Red Headed Witness detail, 2020, Mixed media on paper, Collection of the artist Sharon Kopriva, Lena Tuber, 2015, Rope and mixed media, Collection of the artist Sharon Kopriva, Earth Mother, 2015, Rope and mixed media, 60″ x 20″ x 17″ Curated Conversation	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line1155
__label__cc	0.658698	0.341302	Why Hire an Arborist Tree of the Month Let Ohio Tree Experts Help You! Sawtooth Oak The Ohio Chapter ISA continued efforts is to advance responsible tree care practices through research, technology, and education while promoting the benefits of trees. This month Tree-Of-The-Month is commonly known as the Sawtooth Oak(Quercus acutissima). The Sawtooth Oak is native to Japan, China, and Korea. The Sawtooth Oak is a species that was first introduced into the eastern United States around 1862. Sawtooth Oak is commonly known as a tree species that can be easily be grown and readily establishment in most Ohio landscape sites if sited properly. One of the unique special traits of the Sawtooth Oak is its clean, glossy appearance of the foliage. The foliage of the Sawtooth Oak is unblemished and glossy-green all summer long. In the fall, it turns yellow, finally aging to rich brown. Though the leaves of the Sawtooth Oak look decidedly un-oak-like, the appearance of the acorns in the fall identifies this tree with the plant Genus Quercus (Oaks). Often the leaves of Sawtooth Oak are confused with the tree commonly known as American chestnut (Castanea dentata). The Sawtooth Oak produces heavy fruit(acorn) production at an early age, serving as an important source of food in late summer and throughout autumn for wildlife. Large birds (crows, bluejays, turkeys), squirrels, deer, raccoons, opossums, and other mammals adore the large, abundant crops of acorns, which are borne heavily every other year, if not every year. Placement of a Sawtooth Oak near sidewalks and other publicly accessible surfaces can create slip fall hazards. The Sawtooth Oak tree is very suitable for urban planting and does well in areas were large parking lot islands (> 200 square feet in size); wide tree lawns (>6 feet wide). The Sawtooth Oak is recommended for buffer strips around parking lots or median strip plantings in the highway; shade tree; specimen; residential street tree. The Sawtooth Oak has been successfully grown in urban areas where air pollution, poor drainage, compacted soil, and/or drought are common. Sawtooth Oak is known to lift sidewalks and curbing if planted in tree lawns less than eight feet wide or too close to walks. The Sawtooth Oak is easy to identify by its pyramidal shape in youth, striated young bark, retained winter foliage, acorns with frilled caps, and finely serrated(sawtooth-like) leaves (from which it gets its common name). The trunk and bark of Sawtooth Oak are gray-brown and deeply furrowed. It is planted throughout most of Ohio and may reach 60-70 feet tall by 60 feet wide at maturity when found in the open. The sawtooth oak is fast growing for an oak, reaching 30 feet in 15 years. As a member of the Red Oak group and the Beech Family, it is related to the Beeches, Chestnuts, and other Oaks. Planting Requirements Sawtooth Oak prefers moist, well-drained, acidic soils of moderate fertility but adapts well to relatively poor, dry soils of neutral or slightly alkaline pH. It thrives in full sun to partial sun (but is shade tolerant in youth) and is grown in zones 5 to 9. However, the best performance is achieved in deep,well-drained soils. Sawtooth oak seedlings do not do well in poorly drained soils or areas subject to flooding. If underwater for 24 hours in the summer, they will not survive. Cultivars, Improved, and Selected Materials (and area of origin) This tree species is often sold and is available from nurseries throughout the Ohio region and it transplants easily. The Sawtooth Oak cultivar named ‘Gobbler’ was released in 1986 by the Quicksand Plant Materials Center in cooperation with the Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station, Kentucky Department of Fish & Wildlife, and the Kentucky Division of Forestry. It was selected for resistance to insects and disease, wildlife food value, and growth form compared to similar use species. Another cultivar is called “Chenii” and its known for the features of smooth leaves and smaller acorns. Additionally, botanist have reported approximately 20 subspecies of Sawtooth Oaks with varied leaf sizes and tree forms. The feature that most clearly distinguishes the subspecies are the type of young leaves that are covered with a thick, yellow pubescence that lingers for a while after spring bud break and the variances in the teeth on the leaves being curved or erect. It is reported that in Japan the Sawtooth Oak wood is utilized to make charcoal for the braziers for the heating water for tea ceremonies. The Sawtooth Oak is susceptible to oak wilt, a fungal disease that invades the water-conducting vessels and plugs them. As water movement is slowed, the leaves wilt and rapidly drop off the tree. The disease begins with a crinkling and paling of the leaves, followed by wilting and browning from the margins inward. Necrosis may be strongest along the veins or between them. The symptoms move down branches toward the center of the tree, and the tree may die within 1–3 months, although some diseased trees may survive up to a year. The disease may be spread by insects (primarily beetles) or pruning tools, but most of the tree loss in oak wilt centers results from transmission through root spread between adjoining trees. Special Note: Prune oaks in the dormant season to avoid attracting beetles that may carry oak wilt The Ohio Chapter ISA recommends working with an ISA Certified Arborist when selecting or caring for any tree in your landscape. To better guide you on the vital plant information for the Red Buds use our friendly users guide below: Tree Selection Tips Genus Quercus Plant Family Fagaceae (Beech Family) Life cycle Perennial woody Origin Introduced from Japan, China and Korea Habitat Full Sun Tree form Symmetrical canopy with a regular (or smooth) outline, and individuals have more or less identical crown forms (see reference) Does it produce shade? Yes Soil Clay; loam; sand; slightly alkaline; acidic; occasionally wet; well-drained. Bloom season April-May and inconspicuous and not Showy. Brown in color. Fruit Produces oval fruit length is 5 to 1 inch that is dry or hard and brown in color that attracts squirrels and other mammals and is showy. Plant height 60-70 feet Plant spread 60 feet Growth rate Fast Suitable for planting under or near electric(utility) wires No Potential Concerns No pests of major concern although the potential list is long. It is usually pest-free. Anthracnose may be a serious problem in wet weather. Infected leaves have dead areas following the midrib or larger veins. These light brown blotches may run together and, in severe cases, cause leaf drop. Trees of low vigor, repeatedly defoliated, may die. Trees defoliated several years in a row may need spraying, to allow the tree to recover. Written by Mark A. Webber BCMA, CPH, LTE, MArborA, OCMNT, TRAQ Sawtooth Oak. USDA NRCS Northeast Plant Materials Program .Quercus acutissima Carruthers. USDA.2002 Plant of the Week: Sawtooth Oak. Gerald Klingaman. University of Arkansas.2002 Quercus acutissima Sawtooth Oak. Edward F. Gilman and Dennis G. Watson. US Forest Service.1994 http://forestry.ohiodnr.gov/sawtoothoak http://dendro.cnre.vt.edu/dendrology/syllabus/factsheet.cfm?ID=67 https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/st540 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quercus_acutissima http://www.hort.uconn.edu/plants/detail.php?pid=380 https://www.internationaloaksociety.org/content/species-spotlight-quercus-acutissima-subsp-kingii-menitsky Photograph sources Mark A. Webber 2019 Woody Forms Past Trees of the Month American Sweet Gum Japanese/Chinese Tree Lilac Spring Flowering Dogwood Flowering Cherry's Nootka Cypress	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line1157
__label__wiki	0.810432	0.810432	Home/Satellite TV Updates/IRT & CATV new symbole rate on Eutelsat 3B IRT & CATV new symbole rate on Eutelsat 3B Television was introduced to Iran in 1958, when TVI (Television Iran) was established in Tehran as a privately owned and commercially operated monopoly, and granted a concession of five years, repeated by a second. A southern branch of Television Iran, based in Abadan, was established in 1960. Its programming included quiz shows and American programmes dubbed into Persian, and appealed to an unsophisticated audience. Habib Sabet, a Baha’i who was one of Iran’s major industrialists, was the founder of the first television station. New symbole rate update. IRT (Iran Today channel) CATV (Central Asia TV) STK-10 (Novokuznetsk) left from Express AM33 Nilesat 201 & Eutelsat 7 West updates – 10 Feb 2017 channels left from Eutelsat 5 West A TS Cinema channels started on Thor-7	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line1158
__label__cc	0.722384	0.277616	LibDems Try To Hire Apprentice Bad news for Lembit Opik – it seems that Cowley Street doesn’t have faith in his bid to be London Mayor. Much like the Tories were before Boris threw his hat in the ring, the LibDems are desperately seeking a decent candidate for the coalition’s first big election battle. A yellow spinner said “that’s not the way we would do it”, but Guido hears that senior LibDems have approached The Apprentice winner Tim Campbell and asked him to put his name forward… A rather odd choice of candidate given a) Campbell is not a LibDem and b) he has just taken up a role advising Boris. mdi-tag-outline LibDems Mayor of London	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line1160
__label__wiki	0.780801	0.780801	Mr Elkhan SULEYMANOV 16/07/2015 \| Doc. 13773 \| Written declaration Historical controversy between Turks and Armenians 26/05/2015 \| Doc. 13774 rev 2 \| Written declaration The attempt at undemocratic seizure of power in Macedonia {According to Resolution (95) 23 of the Committee of Ministers, for all purposes within the Council of Europe, this State is provisionally referred to as “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia” pending settlement of the difference which has arisen over the name of this State.} 04/05/2015 \| Doc. 13779 \| Motion for a recommendation The situation of the deported Meskhetian Turks 23/04/2015 \| Doc. 13773 \| Written declaration Historical controversy between Turks and Armenians 05/02/2015 \| Doc. 13709 \| Motion for a resolution Ensuring the right of Dilgam Asgarov and Shahbaz Guliyev to a fair trial 23/01/2015 \| Doc. 13675 \| Motion for a recommendation The allocation of seats in the Parliamentary Assembly with respect to Turkey 01/10/2014 \| Doc. 13622 \| Written declaration Protecting women and children in a humanitarian crisis 24/06/2014 \| Doc. 13546 \| Motion for a resolution The armed occupation of Azerbaijani territories by Armenia 18/06/2014 \| Doc. 13535 \| Motion for a resolution The application of sanctions against Armenia for its armed occupation of Azerbaijani territories 01/04/2014 \| Doc. 13468 \| Motion for a resolution Inhabitants of frontier regions of Azerbaijan are deliberately deprived of water 03/07/2013 \| Doc. 13270 \| Motion for a resolution Expected humanitarian catastrophe caused by the dangerous condition of the Sarsang water reservoir in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan 27/06/2013 \| Doc. 13261 \| Written declaration Anxiety towards the developments in the region of Transnistria 26/06/2013 \| Doc. 13255 \| Motion for a resolution Serious setbacks in the fields of human rights and the rule of law in France 25/01/2013 \| Doc. 13115 \| Motion for a resolution Call for a proper and mandatory exchange of information on condemned medical professionals 04/05/2012 \| Doc. 12925 \| Motion for a resolution Metsamor nuclear power station – a permanent danger to the South Caucasus and Europe 31/01/2012 \| Doc. 12863 \| Motion for a resolution The urgent need to solve the IDP and refugee problems arising from the Nagorno Karabakh conflict 27/01/2012 \| Doc. 12856 \| Written declaration Dangers of restricting freedom of expression 26/01/2012 \| Doc. 12855 \| Written declaration 20th anniversary of the Khojaly Massacre 25/01/2012 \| Doc. 12852 \| Written declaration The situation in Bahrain 25/01/2012 \| Doc. 12852 \| Written declaration The situation in Bahrain 14/04/2011 \| Doc. 12590 \| Written declaration The construction of an airport in the occupied Azerbaijani territories by Armenia 14/04/2011 \| Doc. 12591 \| Written declaration Murder of 9-year-old Azerbaijani civilian, Fariz Badalov 27/01/2011 \| Doc. 12508 \| Written declaration The Anniversary of the Khojaly Massacre 25/01/2011 \| Doc. 12489 \| Written declaration The mutual useful outcome and prospects of Azerbaijan’s ten years in the Council of Europe	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line1166
__label__wiki	0.633715	0.633715	Home News Federal Officials Rule On Mayor’s Request After Alt-Right Attack Federal Officials Rule On Mayor’s Request After Alt-Right Attack After the recent act of terrorism on the train in Portland, Ore., the city’s mayor, Ted Wheeler, has urged federal officials and organizers to shut down “alt-right” Trump rallies planned for the upcoming weekend. The Portland mayor said on Monday that the “alt-right demonstrations” would only fuel hatred and fear during a time of tragedy. Two men were stabbed to death while coming to the aid of two women who were experiencing a hate-filled anti-Muslim tirade. Mayor Wheeler said in a three-part note posted on Twitter, “There is never a place for bigotry or hatred in our community, and especially not now.” The mayor has declared that the city did not issue permits for the “Trump Free Speech Rally” and other similar events scheduled for this Sunday, June 10th. “Our city is in mourning, our community’s anger is real, and the timing and subject of these events can only exacerbate an already difficult situation,” Wheeler said, adding that the permits already granted should be revoked. Please read this update (1 of 3) pic.twitter.com/LMlxzWUHfZ — Ted Wheeler (@tedwheeler) May 29, 2017 (2 of 3) pic.twitter.com/RYlq1SdP7b (3 of 3) pic.twitter.com/2Tde0PsU4u An appeal against Mayor Wheeler’s actions was opened because of the debate that ensued regarding First Amendment rights. The threat of violence has already derailed appearances by presumed controversial figures on college campuses and other places in liberal cities like Portland and Berkeley, California. The tensions created by violent clashes between the far-right and the far-left have caused some like Mayor Wheeler to shut down free speech rallies. However, his appeal has been overturned the Washington Post reports: Mr. Wheeler unsuccessfully appealed to federal officials to revoke a permit granted to a group to hold a pro-Trump, free-speech rally Sunday at a downtown federal government plaza. His request that a permit not be granted for a June 10 anti-Muslim rally was made moot when organizers opted Wednesday to cancel the rally and encourage participants to attend a similar event in Seattle instead. The mayor characterized the rallies as “alt-right” and said “hate speech is not protected by the First Amendment.” Throughout this year Portland has been rocked by national political protests and protests against police brutality. The Facebook page for the event scheduled for Sunday in Portland stated that there would be speakers and live music in “one of the most liberal areas on the West Coast.” Adding that it will be “an uplifting experience to bring back strength and courage to those who believe in freedom.” President Trump condemned the hateful stabbing on his official POTUS Twitter page on Monday. He said that the violence was “unacceptable.” “The violent attacks in Portland on Friday are unacceptable. The victims were standing up to hate and intolerance. Our prayers are w/ them,” Trump tweeted. The violent attacks in Portland on Friday are unacceptable. The victims were standing up to hate and intolerance. Our prayers are w/ them. — President Trump (@POTUS) May 29, 2017 It would be nice if the protesters in Portland at least allowed the people of the city to mourn and at least pushed back the rally. But, decency like that is hard to find these days. Credit: Fox News Previous articleCNN Caves To Alt-Right Pressure Next articleRepublicans On the Intel Committee Subpoena List Shows Why They Can’t Be Trusted	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line1168
__label__cc	0.734675	0.265325	Afterglow (Deluxe Edition) CD2 I Am In Love (Home Demo) Instinct (Home Demo) Spirit Of The Stairs (Home Demo) I’m So Scared Of Losing I Can’t Compete (Home Demo) Everything Is Good For You (Home Demo) Not The Girl You Think You Are (Home Demo) I Don't Know You (Studio Demo) A Taste Of Something Divine (Studio Demo) Spirit Of The Stairs (Studio Demo) Loose Tongue - Rough Mix Everything Is Good For You Discography of Crowded House Afterglow (Deluxe Edition) CD1 Crowded House The Very Very Best Of Crowded House Crowded House Crowded House Crowded House Woodface Crowded House Platinum Crowded House Crowded House Intriguer Crowded House Recurring Dreams - The Very Best of... Crowded House Temple of Low Men Crowded House Together Alone Crowded House Woodface (Deluxe Edition) CD1 Crowded House Time On Earth Crowded House Farewell To The World: Live from Sydney Opera House CD 1 Crowded House Together Alone (Deluxe Edition) CD1 Crowded House Weather With You (Single) Crowded House Afterglow Crowded House Alle 40 Goed Crowded House CD1 Crowded House Weather With You (The Remix) CD5 Crowded House Live 92-94, Pt. 2 Crowded House Crowded House (Deluxe Edition 2016) CD1 Crowded House Recurring Dream: The Very Best Of Crowded House (Limited Edition) CD1 Crowded House Temple Of Low Men (Deluxe Edition) CD1 Crowded House Time On Earth (Australian Tour Edition) CD2 Crowded House Recurring Dream: The Very Best Of Crowded House (Limited Edition) (Live) CD2 Crowded House	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line1172
__label__wiki	0.90205	0.90205	COUNTRIES & SPECIES Argentina A-Z Uruguay A-Z Paraguay A-Z Gymnocharacinus bergii Paulicea gigantea LISTS & UPDATES ICP-JOURNAL Pseudoplatystoma reticulatum – a valid species from Argentina a valid species from Argentina: Pseudoplatystoma reticulatum Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 1889 Originally described as a subspecies of Pseudoplatystoma fasciatum, Pseudoplatystoma reticulatum is now recognized at species level and confirmed for Argentina. The formerly reported P. f. fasciatum (e.g. López et al. 2003) is not a species found in Argentina. All argentinean records of P. fasciatum have to be considered as Pseudoplatystoma reticulatum. Buitrago-Suárez, U.A. & B.M. Burr (2007): Taxonomy of the catfish genus Pseudoplatystoma Bleeker (Siluriformes: Pimelodidae) with recognition of eight species. Zootaxa 1512: 1–38 remarks (from publication): Eigenmann and Eigenmann (1888, 1889) described four subspecies of P. fasciatum from the Amazon basin; P. f. brevifile, P. f. nigricans, P. f. intermedium and P. f. reticulatum… Eigenmann and Allen (1942), Ringulet et al., (1967) and Mees (1974) placed these names in the synonymy of P. fasciatum… Pseudoplatystoma fasciatum reticulatum is elevated herein as P. reticulatum for a distinct population that inhabits the Paraná and Amazon rivers geographic distribution (from publication): Central Amazon and Paraná River in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. abstract (from publication): The genus Pseudoplatystoma Bleeker consists of three species long recognized as: P. fasciatum (Linnaeus), P. tigrinum (Valenciennes), and P. corruscans (Spix & Agassiz), and five species recently recognized or described here: P. punctifer (Castelnau), P. reticulatum Eigenmann & Eigenmann, P. orinocoense n. sp., P. metaense n. sp., and P. magdaleniatum n. sp. The eight species form a monophyletic group with two clades that are supported by anatomical features (i.e., skeletal anatomy and myology). One clade (P. tigrinum and P. metaense) is restricted to the Orinoco and Amazon basins, and the other clade, comprised of the remaining six species, is found in the Guyanas, Orinoco, Amazon, and Paraná basins. The species are diagnosed on the basis of body shape, color pattern (e.g., bars, loops, and spots), skeletal anatomy, and vertebral numbers. Pseudoplatystoma punctifer and P. tigrinum are sympatric in the Amazon Basin, P. metaense and P. orinocoense in the Orinoco Basin, and P. corruscans and P. reticulatum, are sympatric in the Paraná. Pseudoplatystoma magdaleniatum (Magdalena basin) and P. fasciatum (Guyanas) each occur as the only species of Pseudoplatystoma in their respective individual ranges. Pseudoplatystoma reticulatum may be sympatric with the two other species in the Amazon Basin, but we have no records of them being captured together in the mainstream or tributaries. All eight species are used as food in both commercial and subsistence fishing, and there is a moderate–sized ornamental fish market for the young and juveniles. A key to adults of the eight species is included. Stefan Koerber2020-12-26T21:09:18+01:00 Scleronema macanuda – first record from Argentina Ituglanis australis – first record from Argentina Corydoras aurofrenatus is a sr. synonym of C. ellisae Loricaria holmbergi – first record from Paraguay Hemiancistrus punctulatus – first record from Uruguay Scleronema milonga sp.nov. from Argentina Scleronema macanuda sp.nov. from Uruguay Scleronema teiniagua sp.nov. from Uruguay Scleronema ibirapuita – first record from Uruguay Scleronema minutum is a sr. synonym of Pygidium angustirostris Scleronema operculatum – not a species from Argentina or Uruguay Oligosarcus hepsetus – not a species from Argentina or Uruguay Moenkhausia forestii – first record from Argentina Moenkhausia australis – confirmed for Argentina Psalidodon anisitsi comb.nov. from Hyphessobrycon PecesCriollos 2020 \| Datenschutz \| Impressum \| All Rights Reserved \| Powered by buero_v1	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line1174
__label__wiki	0.990692	0.990692	Join writer/director Jay Duplass and actors Mark Kelly and Steve Zissis as they sit down with Indiewire’s Eric Kohn to discuss the hilarious comedy "The Do-Deca-Pentathlon." They’ll be joined by brothers Anton and Mark Solak—the real-life inspiration for the film about two grown brothers who rekindle their competitive childhood sporting event during a family reunion. When their games become fierce and disruptive, they continue to carry on in secret. Jay Duplass and cast, "The Do-Deca-Pentathlon": Meet the Filmmakers Events at the Apple Store Jay Duplass and cast, "The Do-Deca-Pentathlon": Meet the Filmmakers Join comic talent Dax Shepard (NBC’s “Parenthood”) and actor Kristen Bell (“Forgetting Sarah Marshall”) as they discuss their new film “Hit and Run”, written and directed by Shepard. The film is the story of Charlie Bronson (Shepard), a former getaway driver who busts out of the Witness Protection Program to drive his girlfriend (Kristen Bell) to Los Angeles so she can land her dream job. Their road trip grows awkwardly complicated, when they are chased by the feds (led by Tom Arnold), and increasingly dangerous, when Charlie’s former gang of criminals (led by Bradley Cooper) enter the fray. ℗ & © 2012 Apple Inc. Top Podcasts In TV & Film MTV's Official Challenge Podcast Pop Culture Happy Hour Watch What Crappens Ben Mandelker & Ronnie Karam The Rewatchables The Ringer & Bill Simmons Search Party: The Podcast HBO Max and iHeartRadio Too Long; Didn't Watch OBB Sound More by Events at the Apple Store Malcolm Gladwell, Revisionist History: Special Event Twilight: Meet the Director and Actor Meet the Filmmaker Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell: Meet the Filmmakers Kevin Hart: Meet the Comedian	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line1178
__label__cc	0.527395	0.472605	Sensing Delays Control Robot Swarming January 29, 2016 • Physics 9, 13 A robot group clusters together or disperses based on each robot’s reaction time for sensing light, a finding useful for search-and-rescue missions. M. Mijalkov & G. Volpe/Bilkent Univ. Bot swarm. Light-sensing robots tend to cluster together when they are programmed to experience a time delay between when they receive a light signal and when they react to it. (See videos below.) Researchers have designed an ensemble of robots whose collective behavior can be changed from clustering to dispersive by controlling the time delay between when they receive a light signal and when they react to it. The team tested a group of small robots, each of which sends out its own light signal. These findings could be exploited in search-and-rescue missions where robots must first disperse widely to effectively search an area and then cluster together to share data. Animals organize into flocks, swarms, and colonies, and researchers would like to understand how their collective behaviors are coordinated. Groups of autonomous robots could potentially be organized in similar ways, and whether it’s animals or robots, researchers call the individuals “autonomous agents.” Studies of these agents have largely ignored the role of sensorial delays—the time between when an agent receives a signal and when that signal is processed—or treated them as an inconvenience [1]. However, “understanding time delay in autonomous mobile individuals is crucial to understanding self-organized patterns in moving entities that sense and react to signals,” says Fernando Peruani of the University of Nice in France. Now Giovanni Volpe of Bilkent University in Turkey and Jan Wehr of the University of Arizona and their colleagues have explored using sensorial delays to modify the collective behavior of a troop of light-sensing robots. Three microbots that move randomly but also adjust their speed based on the detected light intensity. They aggregate into a cluster because their reaction time is positive (5 seconds in this case). The robots react to the infrared light they emit, which is not visible here. (The green lights are used to track their positions.) Volpe, Wehr, and their colleagues first studied one robot in isolation. They placed a poker-chip-sized robot on the floor near a 100-watt infrared lamp. The robot’s speed was programmed to be inversely proportional to the intensity of light it measured—it slowed down when it passed near the lamp and sped up when far away. The robot was also designed to change its direction a little bit every second so that its direction was completely randomized after about 10 seconds. The researchers introduced a sensorial delay of up to 10 seconds between the time when the robot measured the light intensity and when it responded by changing speed. This delay was long enough to allow the robot to partially randomize its direction before adjusting its speed. The team also experimented with negative sensorial delays, where the robot extrapolated past light measurements to predict the future light intensity (for example, predicting continually increasing intensity when approaching the lamp). M. Mijalkov and G. Volpe/Bilkent Univ. Three microbots as above, but with a negative reaction time (-5 seconds in this case). Here they disperse, rather than aggregate. The researchers found that applying a positive delay caused the robot to preferentially remain near the infrared lamp, while a negative delay sent it exploring regions far away. To understand these results, imagine a robot with a positive delay moving outward (away from the light). It will move slower than a robot without a delay because it’s always responding as though it’s closer to the light, receiving a stronger light signal. So it remains essentially “trapped” within the region close to the lamp if the delay is long enough. Conversely, a robot with a negative delay traveling outward will move faster than an undelayed robot, so it “escapes” the region close to the lamp. The team confirmed their results using groups of robots, each of which generated its own infrared light and sensed the light of its neighbors. With a positive sensorial delay, the robots moved toward one another and formed clusters. With a negative delay, they dispersed to seek out low-light conditions. The researchers suggest that these trends can be adjusted in real time to use autonomous robots in tasks such as search-and-rescue operations, in which both clustering and dispersion are valued. They note that any radially decaying signal—such as a chemical or acoustic one—could be used to the same effect. The team has also performed simulations showing that their results hold true for agents operating in three dimensions, such as flying drones or submarine robots. This work “identifies a new, powerful control parameter in artificially programmed swarming,” says Hartmut Löwen, of the University of Düsseldorf in Germany. Charles Reichhardt of Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico says that sensorial delays can be “harnessed to generate artificial collective behaviors in aerial drone swarms, groups of robots, self-driving vehicles, and other active systems.” This research is published in Physical Review X. –Katherine Kornei Katherine Kornei is a freelance science writer in Portland, Oregon. Y. Chen, J. Lü, and X. Yu, “Robust Consensus of Multi-Agent Systems with Time-Varying Delays in Noisy Environment,” Sci. China Technol. Sci. 54, 2014 (2011). Engineering Sensorial Delay to Control Phototaxis and Emergent Collective Behaviors Mite Mijalkov, Austin McDaniel, Jan Wehr, and Giovanni Volpe Phys. Rev. X 6, 011008 (2016) Interdisciplinary Physics Emitting Radio Waves with Polarization Currents An unconventional antenna technology can focus the radio waves emitted from the acceleration of polarization currents, aiding use of the waves in communication applications. Read More » Lockdowns Cause Pollution Dips Data indicates that the 2020 spring lockdowns in Europe induced measurable drops in gaseous pollutants. Read More » Shouting in a Political Echo Chamber Social media interactions with friends and political campaigns can lead to the emergence of polarized echo chambers of thought. Read More »	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line1185
__label__wiki	0.908279	0.908279	Thomas Bryant, Wizards unable to contain Embiid, Sixers’ offense By johnmitchelllikanje on January 6, 2021 No Comment Washington Wizards’ center Thomas Bryant (13) dunks the ball against the Philadelphia 76ers during the first quarter at Wells Fargo Center. (Photo: Bill Streicher-USA TODAY Sports) By JOHN LIKANJE Thomas Bryant came into Wednesday’s contest in the midst of a three-game stretch which included finishing just shy of his career-high and first double-double of the season. However, the former Bishop Kearney star had a quiet night against the Philadelphia 76ers: 11 points on 4-of-6 shooting, six rebounds and one assist in 33 minutes in the 141-136 loss. Bryant did most of his damage in the first half when he scored nine points. His first bucket was an easy dunk thanks to Russell Westbrook threading the needle between two defenders from the right wing. Bryant also hit a floater right outside the restricted area and finished a three-point play in which he converted a contact layup off a Bradley Beal pick and roll. Although Bryant had a quiet second half, he made two important plays down the stretch: corralling an offensive board and kicking it out to Davis Bertans for a go-ahead three-pointer and making a game-tying layup with four minutes remaining. Otherwise, it was hard for Bryant to make a significant impact in Wednesday’s game due to Joel Embiid (38 points and eight boards), the Sixers knocking down 18 long-range shots and Beal (tied franchise record with 60 points). The former Bishop Kearney star’s two lowest-scoring games of the season have come against the Sixers (season-low 10 points in the opener). Friday night at Boston should be a different story because the Celtics don’t have a true center to match Bryant outside of Tristan Thompson. Game is slated for 7:30 p.m. at TD Garden. In other NBA action, former McQuaid star Isaiah Stewart record five points and seven rebounds in 20 minutes in the Detroit Pistons’ 130-115 loss to the Milwaukee Bucks. Thomas Bryant, Wizards unable to contain Embiid, Sixers’ offense added by johnmitchelllikanje on January 6, 2021 View all posts by johnmitchelllikanje →	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line1186
__label__cc	0.687464	0.312536	How To Earn Bitcoin In The Roblox Mining Simulator in 2021 6 Major Benefits of Composite Decking in 2021 5 Advantages of Outsourcing WordPress Development Services in 2021 Do You Know How Home Security Products Are Evaluated – 2021 Review 7 Things Celebrities Love About Wearing Wigs – 2021 Review Danik Harris What is Roblox? This is a game that is very similar to the real world since it has a significant difference from most competitors – the presence of Roblox Studio, which allows any player to create a new map with his own logic and laws. The Roblox mining simulator is one of the many Roblox modes. The gamer can feel himself in completely different roles: a snow cleaner, a hermit on the island of death, a Roblox beekeeper, or running away from Oreo cookies. In this article, we will consider how to play a mining simulator, whether the virtual world of mining is not similar to the real one, what codes are best used, how to earn Robux, and whether you can get real money for creating a map. How to play the mining simulator Before moving on to the crypto city, let’s figure out how the game works as a whole. Appearing in mining mode for the first time, the player cannot visit almost any other location, of which at least three are provided: Toy Land, Candy Land, and Private Mine. The entrance to Toy Land is prohibited due to the insufficient number of mined blocks, Private Mine cannot be visited, since 150 Robux coins are required to enter – the game currency of the game, which must be bought for real money. The first question that arises is how to get Robux for free? There are several ways: Before moving on to the crypto city, let’s figure out how the game works as a whole. Appearing in mining mode for the first time, the player cannot visit almost any other location, of which at least three are provided: Toy Land, Candy Land, and Private Mine. The entrance to Toy Land is prohibited due to the insufficient number of mined blocks, Private Mine cannot be visited, since 150 Robux coins are required to enter – the currency of the game, which must be bought for real money. The first question that arises is how to get Robux for free? There are several ways: Buying a builder club is a kind of entrepreneurial activity in the game. Everything is like in real life: first, you need to spend money in order to receive a steady income in the future. Builders Club is a service that pays out a certain amount of Robux to the owner every day. The cost of builders’ clubs of various levels ranges from $ 5 to $ 70. Exchange tickets for Robux. Tickets are kind of like coupons that reward players for visiting a game every day, creating interesting games, selling pants and T-shirts, and complaining about dishonest players. Become a reseller and sell collectibles at better prices. Collect and trade small privilege badges that are everywhere. After wandering a little around the neighborhood, the player will see various characters offering to complete quests and stumble upon the most important mining area. This place is like a mine. But in normal mode, you can only mine ore. At the first stage, the Roblox mining simulator offers to literally dig with a pickaxe, but this way they progress through the game will be very slow. To speed up, you need to use special commands. Below are the best codes for mining simulator Roblox: Patriot – he code that gives the legendary hatbox. Hats add block mining speed, increase the cost of ore, and also increase the price of items sold by the player. PatrioticStars – Grants a legendary egg. Legendary and epic items in the game have more value than regular items. America – gives 80 Rebirths tokens. HammieJammieSucksx2 – gives 20 Rebirths tokens. CoolWater – plus one Legendary Egg. Lemonade – Gives a Legendary Hat Box. Toast – is a box with an epic hat. Retro – gives a skin. Skins are needed to decorate items. Invasion – is an epic hatbox. Overhaul – is another epic hat crate. NewStart – plus a rare egg. Separately, it is worth highlighting the codes of the mining simulator Roblox for money: Update! – replenishes the piggy bank for 1500 coins. JellyBean – Adds 2500 coins. Coal – plus 2000 coins. Rebirths – plus 1200 coins. Bread – gives 10,000 coins. Jam – plus 2000 coins. Applejuice – 2500 coins. BreadLand – 1300 coins. Sneaky – 5000 coins. Roblox codes are constantly updated and this list is far from complete. It is convenient to keep track of new secret phrases on the site Wiki mining simulator. For the received coins in the store, you can buy various items: mining tools, pets, skins, hats, etc. All of them increase the speed of digging or increase other game characteristics in different ways. The most popular type of conventional digger is the Roblox space mining simulator, but we will consider a different mode. Bitcoin mining simulator It’s time to move to the Roblox crypto city. This mode differs from the previous one in that it is not ore that is mined here, but bitcoins. The mining process is also slightly different, in this mode there is a beam indicating the path to search for bitcoins. In the store, instead of picks, you need to purchase video cards for mining with different hash rates. The game speed of mining is not measured in Mh / s or Sol / s, but in GreenHash or RedHash. The faster the video card, the more GreenHash it digs per unit of time. As in normal mode, you need to collect coins in your backpack. The roomier the backpack, the less time you will have to spend on excursions from the mine. For 650 robux, you can buy a portfolio with infinite capacity. One robux costs about $0.0035. To donate, you need to buy robuxes for USD. To do this, you need to go to the official website roblox.com. This portal will not work if you only have a Qiwi wallet. In this case, you can use the rbxgo.com website, enter the top-up amount, the QIWI wallet number, and the exact nickname in the game. Be careful, a mistake when entering a nickname will result in a loss of money! In addition to video cards and backpacks, donations to Roblox Mining Simulator Bitcoin allow you to increase the speed of mining, the price of bitcoin, the cost of selling, add the jump value, display the map update time and play the radio. In Roblox, the Bitcoin mining simulator is designed in such a way that the depth of digging increases the price of the mined block. When the search for RedHash begins, the likelihood of finding gold bitcoin, which costs several times more than usual, increases. The method of searching for a cryptocurrency affects the efficiency of mining. The best way is to go down into the mine in the very center so that the blocks are on four sides and mine through one block. Sometimes the game collapses and the mine fills up with blocks again. In this case, the “blockchain” is updated, but all the mined bitcoins do not disappear anywhere. The “Roblox Mining Bitcoin Simulator” mode does not involve codes, which makes the card fairer than the regular mode. How to make money in Roblox As noted at the beginning of the article, each player can create their own map. This method is the main type of earning money in the Roblox game. The more donations go to the created regime, the higher the author’s profit. The income of individual authors in 2017 was over $ 1 million. To create a map in Roblox, you do not need to download the studio separately. Roblox Studio is installed bundled with the game. The process of creating a new world is similar to a constructor in which ready-made things are available. There are also tools for creating new game components. An easier but less lucrative way to make money is to rock and sell Roblox accounts. On average, the price of an account is 2$. 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__label__wiki	0.78774	0.78774	TV Database Sports Drip Chrissy Teigen Reveals She Is in a 'Grief Depression Hole' Following Pregnancy Loss By Hannah Barnes - November 28, 2020 10:29 am EST Chrissy Teigen and John Legend lost their third child, son Jack, in October after Teigen had numerous pregnancy complications that led to her being hospitalized. The Cravings author has since penned an emotional Instagram post and an essay for Medium detailing the loss and appeared in an interview with her husband on Good Morning America this week. But she further opened up to fans on Twitter on Wednesday when she revealed how she is currently in a "grief depression hole." "I'm not tweeting much because I’m honestly in a bit of a grief depression hole but do not worry as I have so much help around me to get better and I’ll be fixed soon," she shared with her followers. "They'll call when I'm better and ready for pickup and u can swing by and grab me ok? thank u and love you!" I’m not tweeting much because I’m honestly in a bit of a grief depression hole but do not worry as I have so much help around me to get better and I’ll be fixed soon. they’ll call when im better and ready for pickup and u can swing by and grab me ok? thank u and love you! — chrissy teigen (@chrissyteigen) November 25, 2020 After one person took issue with her use of the word "fixed," Teigen replied, "I am in a very dark bubble and incapable of expressing what is happening and doing the best I can. I feel broken and all I know is the opposite is fixed - I know it isn't that easy but it's all I can think of at the moment. Did not mean to offend." The 34-year-old also used Twitter on Wednesday to defend Meghan Markle after the Duchess of Sussex wrote an op-ed for The New York Times detailing a miscarriage she experienced earlier this year. "Is anyone really questioning the pain and sheer awfulness of suffering a miscarriage, or are they perhaps criticizing Meghan's decision to write a 1,000 word op-Ed about herself?" one Twitter user wrote. "What does it add to the resources already available for those who go through a tragedy like this?" Teigen retweeted their message and added, "Award for today's absolute piece of s— goes to Marco Giannangeli. Congratulations, piece of s—." She later deleted her tweet and followed up with, "Sorry forgot I'm trying to be nicer lol." After the loss of her son, Teigen shared photos of the family grieving in the hospital, writing in her essay for Medium that she could not care less that some people did not agree with her decision to do so. "I knew I needed to know of this moment forever, the same way I needed to remember us kissing at the end of the aisle, the same way I needed to remember our tears of joy after Luna and Miles," she wrote, adding that she asked her mother and husband to take the pictures and could tell that Legend "hated" it. "And I absolutely knew I needed to share this story." Teigen continued: "I lived it, I chose to do it, and more than anything, these photos aren’t for anyone but the people who have lived this or are curious enough to wonder what something like this is like. These photos are only for the people who need them. The thoughts of others do not matter to me." 'American Idol' Season 4: New Trailers Show Pandemic-Related Changes as Katy Perry, Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie Return Ryan Reynolds Feuds With 'Seething Demon' Betty White in Throwback 'The Proposal' Video Archie Lyndhurst, 'So Awkward' Star, Cause of Death Revealed After Passing at 19 'American Idol' Alums Kat Luna and Alex Garrido Get Married Jana Kramer Apologizes to Tiger Woods' Ex Rachel Uchitel for Saying She 'Hates' Her Anthony Mackie Jokes Who Has a 'Better A—' Between Him and Chris Evans Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel Confirm Birth of Second Child, Reveal Name Lady Gaga's Donald Trump Supporting Father 'Extremely Proud' Over Joe Biden Inauguration Performance Entertainment Tonight/TV Guide Network. Copyright 2020 PopCulture.com. All rights reserved.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line1196
__label__wiki	0.766225	0.766225	← Record Review: Stephen Duffy – I Love My Friends DLX RM Record Review: Stephen Duffy – I Love My Friends DLX RM [part 3] → Record Review: Stephen Duffy – I Love My Friends DLX RM [part 2] Posted on June 6, 2019 by postpunkmonk Cooking Vinyl ‎\| UK \| CD5 \| FRY CD68 \| 1998 […continued from last post] A larger contrast between the introspective and somber cut “The Postcard” and the following “Seventeen” could not be more profound. This was originally slated as the pre-release single when Indolent was going to release the album; before the whole deal was spiked. When Cooking Vinyl picked up the option the next year, they also led with this song as the single. I can see why as it’s a confection of popcraft so irresistible that it would have surely been a top ten song had the fallen world not been in steep decline by 1998. The one note rhythmic piano hook was just the start of it, but even Duffy’s vocal was filtered on the verses for Brechtian distancing effect indicating sheer pop music was happening. It bears mentioning that this one was produced by Duffy without the aid of co-producer Stephen Street. He obviously knew how to work “the single” when push came to shove. The biographical vignette of his earliest days is bittersweet nostalgia over losing the girl due to his being an “empty headed libertine.” The simple chorus was all smiling/crying [repeat three times] with Duffy’s vocal ultimately extolling her beauty as he metaphorically rolls his eyes on how he threw it all away like an idiot. The mournful, cello-led “Autopsy” opened with a powerful couplet of cold-eyed self-assessment that gave himself a dressing down that only he could deliver. “I’m not very bright but I know right from wrong And I’ve not been right for I don’t know how long” – “Autopsy” Things went downhill from there as the self-loathing fairly flowed from his pen. Next came a strange outlier to a road not travelled on the Duffy path. “She Belongs To All,” was a breezy, near Latin Samba that leaned heavily on the strings and especially the late 60s flute of Dave Heath that ultimately took the spotlight. One can almost smell the Ipanema surf here. I would like to hear more in this vein from Duffy. With chanson laying in wait in the periphery for much of his oeuvre it makes a kind of sense that he would find himself alight on that very 1968 sound that was adjacent to the Nick Drake sound he fancied. I have to admit, when I first learned about this album and saw it had a song entitled “One Day One of these F**** Will Change Your Life,” I was almost in awe. The seed of eternal wisdom, wrapped in vulgarity seemed to be a near genius move. The reality was such that it more than lived up to the promise inherent in such a loaded title. The Duke String Quartet figured here, as they did on several tracks already, and the heavy scent of Beatleism via the song’s rhythms and strings pointed the way back to “I Am A Walrus,” though Duffy’s label at the time were hoping for a more “trip-hop” mix! That notion alone showed that the cancellation of this album on Indolent/BMG [Duffy got the word as he was making a video for “Seventeen] was pretty much a foregone conclusion. The song was more than just a word of wisdom to another soul as Duffy managed to cast shade on the music industry and even a “tinsel god” like himself in the process as well. Duffy had submitted the album to his label and they [in classic tin-ears mode] “didn’t hear a single”so Duffy decamped to some sessions with Andy Partridge who had previously produced half of The Lilac Time’s third album [but strangely enough, none of its singles]. So the first track that resulted was the sumptuous pop confection that was “You Are.” The simple and upbeat tempo belies a song that was touched with sophisticated gestures and filigree throughout it’s nearly five minute running time, though it feels more like three. The tone was slightly more glib and less confessional than most of “I Love My Friends,” so one can sense that Duffy was tossing a bit of a softball here, but only in the best possible way. This may stick out on the original album of mostly melancholy songs, but this was clearly a world class pop single given every ounce of loving care and polish to get it out of the starting gate of pop. The delicately ascending glockenspiel figure on the later choruses simply slays me. Alas, it fell on deaf ears as the second single in the UK [the first in Canada, for what it’s worth]. That such pop perfection would be any less than world-straddling is a mystery to me. The second Partridge cut was appended as the last track on this DLX RM. “What If I Fell In Love With You” was quirkier than “You Are,” and more in line with the sort of vibe that Andy had brought to the tracks he’d produced earlier with Duffy/The Lilac Time. Though I couldn’t fail to notice that the song crossed the psychedelic line in the sand to enter into Stratosfearic territory with its extended coda. Ultimately, I’m happy that these two tracks were retained on this version of the album. If I had to pick the Duffy song for a desert island from the 90s, it would be “You Are.” Next: …Waiter, There’s Another Album In My Album! This entry was posted in Core Collection, Record Review and tagged 1998, 2019, Stephen Duffy. Bookmark the permalink. 8 Responses to Record Review: Stephen Duffy – I Love My Friends DLX RM [part 2] That comment that his label wanted a more trip hop mix circa 1998 is amazing, I am pretty sure that trip hop as a genre was quite dead by then and the label generally resurrected for any new Massive Attack album, even if Mezzanine (1998) isn’t very trip hop and 1994’s Protection was complemented with a Mad Professor dub mix album. I think even later Tricky releases were getting away from the Trip Hop label. Massive Attack’s first (and I think only) signing to their Melankolic label Alpha released their sublime Comefromheaven in 1997 and I honestly don’t remember the genre bandied about for that one when it came out but I think that Trip Hop was used mostly in reference to the progenitors of the label and not the act itself, I know Colin Dingley has said outright on Facebook that he doesn’t consider Alpha to be Trip Hop. Trip Hop was pretty much Massive Attack’s Blue Lines and the early work of Portishead. There were hangers on like Earthling that made the pages of NME or Select but as a genre I don’t think it had a real long life span. Mono’s song Life in Mono has been called Trip Hop but i don’t see or hear it and Morecheeba, while I like bunches of their work, is more like TrIKEA Hop. Tim – That was perhaps more than I ever imagined about trip hop! I only have the first two Portishead albums and maybe Gary Numan’s “Sacrifice” which gets called “trip hop influenced.” Wasn’t “Earthling” “jungle?” (Whatever that was…) This is all so out of my comfort zone! I generally like the ”genre” but you know, I’ve read pieces by people who claim that some of these monikers are merely creations of the UK music press and to be absolutely honest I think that the trip hop moniker could be exhibit a or b for the prosecution in that case. Tricky is a great case, he was an alumni from the first Massive Attack album. His first solo album, no way in hell I’d call that trip hop, I’m not saying it’s good or bad but I think it was labeled TH merely due to his history with Massive Attack. Then there’s his Nearly God album which, again, not Trip Hop and (in my opinion) the best thing he’s done. A lot of this stuff – trip hop, jungle, drum and bass – I just call it electronica. Um, back to Duffy. I’ve actually rationed the unowned product by him and save buying it for a rainy day. Don’t have this new one, you know where I sit on this spectrum. i did recently acquire Because We Love You, mostly for the attributed Lilac Time songs….um, which I am having a real tough time placing in their chronology. They sound more poppy than folky. Also snagged “No Sad Songs” which is a nice slow burner. More ambient than folky I think, doesn’t quite chug along as much as say “Looking for a Day in the Night” but I found a lot to like within on the first listen. Tim – I still need “No Sad Songs!” It hurts me that I have trouble staying current on my favorites. But then again, I have so many favorites! Living in Bristol I can’t help but comment:) Monk I’m sure you would appreciate Portishead’s live album and their other studio album. If you’ve not heard Mezzanine run to a record shop asap! SimonH – Nope. I’ve not heard “Mezzanine.” It’s true. I never see it in the used bins over here. Saw them do a Mezzanine album show in March, on the runway of an old airfield. What made it extra different was that they played covers of songs sampled on the album, mainly post punk and including Ultravox! I really like Beth Gibson’s recent take on Gorecki’s 3rd Symphony, that and Rustin’ Man do more for me than Portishead. Mezzanine is worthy of the suggestion, the first three Massive Attack albums are all really something special in their own ways, for repeat listenability I keep circling back to Protection.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line1198
__label__wiki	0.943479	0.943479	Sunset Overdrive has been rated for PC in Korea NewsPCXbox One Leo Stevenson The Korean Ratings Board has rated Xbox One exclusive, Sunset Overdrive for PC. Developed by Insomniac Games, Sunset Overdrive was released for Xbox One in 2014. Set in Sunset City, the player must survive a colourful, punk rock zombie apocalypse after soft drink company FizzCo launches its latest drink; OverCharge Delirium XT. Development on Sunset Overdrive began in 2010 and was revealed at E3 2013. Insomniac partnered with Microsoft on the game who helped fund it but allowed Insomniac to retain the rights. Sunset Overdrive PC Insomniac is better known for working with Sony on PlayStation titles but worked with Microsoft on Sunset Overdrive after Resistance 3 was completed. Given that Microsoft helped fund Sunset Overdrive and its push for Xbox Play Anywhere, it’s likely that Sunset Overdrive is being released on PC as an Xbox Play Anywhere title. The applicant for the game rating was Korea Microsoft Corporation and was rated for 12-15-year-olds in South Korea today, May 23, 2018. Sunset Overdrive is available now for Xbox One. It looks likely that a PC release will be announced shortly. How many missions are there in Spider-man... Guide Leo Stevenson - November 7, 2020 0 Spider-man Miles Morales is a follow-up to 2018's Spider-man and shifts focus from Peter Parker to Miles Morales. Playing very much like Spider-man, Miles... Spider-man Miles Morales Review (PS4) – Ultimate... Reviews Leo Stevenson - November 7, 2020 0 Spider-man Miles Morales is a better game than 2018's Spider-man in every conceivable way. I wasn't a big fan of Spider-man, finding it tedious,... How many suits are there in Spider-man... How to find Stan Lee’s statue in... It's been two years since Marvel juggernaut and Spider-man creator Stan Lee passed away. Lee appeared widely in Marvel-related properties over the years including... Leo Stevensonhttps://powerup-gaming.com/ I've been playing games for the past 27 years and have been writing for almost as long. Combining two passions in the way I'm able is a true privilege. PowerUp! is a labour of love and one I am so excited to share.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line1199
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__label__cc	0.734127	0.265873	River’s Club Volunteer Spotlight: Hanah Gilmore By Primates Incorporated12/30/2020News I am a senior Zoology and Conservation Biology undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison interested in wildlife biology and species conservation. I have two cats, Basil and Barley, and grew up with horses, which inspired my passion for animal care and welfare. I was inspired to volunteer at Primates Incorporated because I think, as our closest biological relatives, primates are a deeply fascinating and valuable species that deserve our attention and respect. I think Primates Incorporated’s mission to give monkeys an enriching retirement is incredibly important, and I am thankful to be a part of it. I have been volunteering at Primates Inc. for a just over a year, and have really enjoyed getting to work with all the staff and monkeys. I have especially loved getting to experience the introduction of Jojo to the sanctuary. He has grown so much already and it has been an incredible experience watching his journey. Thank you so much for all of your help, Hanah! The monkeys and humans greatly appreciate it! Get Our eNews ©2020 Primates Incorporated. All Rights Reserved.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line1213
__label__wiki	0.804915	0.804915	Home Arts & Entertainment Art: In-Your-Face American Century Art: In-Your-Face American Century Art in Town Art In Trenton Art in the Workplace Art by the River In the "good old days," art was art and was recognized as such. It was a drawing or painting, a sculpture, or even a photograph. Invariably, the artist was a white male. All that ended about 50 years ago. Oh, it didn’t happen right away, on the first day of 1950, when Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning were very much the art world names to contend with. But "the times they were a changin’." Before long, other names — and other kinds of artists, and art — came to the fore. And that is what "The American Century, Part II: Art and Culture, 1950-2000," at New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art, is all about. Occupying four stories-plus, the show which continues to February 13, focuses on the time when American art came into its own. Curated by Lisa (Barbara Haskell curated Part I), and with a few new ways of doing things, the show is touted as an improvement over the first half. It depends on what you think art is, or should be — what you want memorialized and treated as representative of the American visual art scene. Should it be familiar, beautiful, uplifting, inspirational? Or something altogether different — jarring, mysterious, repellent, frightful? Or all of these? Or does it depend? Your opinion of what makes an artist — technical skills, ambition, angst, political correctness, or incorrectness — also plays into the equation. This exhibition forces you to reconsider the basic question, "What is art?" Based on your answer, you will be turned on — or put off — by what you see here. Very broadly, what happened to American art in the second half of this century is that it stopped being imitative; it stopped deferring to the academic or to European models. In tandem with non-traditional social and political events taking place in the nation — movements against war and for civil rights, equal rights, gay rights — people began to make art work that served purposes other than esthetic pleasure. Sometimes viewers knew this was art only because its makers said so. The work was shown, bought and sold, and exhibited in museums. Often this art was bizarre, confrontational, distasteful, ugly. How else could you describe "Mile-Long Drawing" (1968; since destroyed), two parallel chalk lines in the Mohave Desert by Walter de Maria; or Nan Goldin’s "Ballad of Sexual Dependency" (1976-92), 690 slides, with audiotape, computer disk, and titles — a series of debasement? How about "Untitled (Portrait of Ross in L.A.)" by Felix Gonzalez-Torres, from 1991, a pyramid of multicolored candies wrapped in cellophane? Or performances of vagina painting (1965) or with hair dye (1992), or "Shoot" (1971), a photograph of an artist with a bullet wound in his arm, or Kiki Smith’s "Tale" (1992), a sculpture of a crawling human figure trailing yards of excrement? Obviously, what American artists have been up to in the second half of the 20th century is not "the same old, same old." And in a way, this challenging, in-your-face art was not as new as all that. The century began with Marcel Duchamp’s take on that icon of tradition, the Mona Lisa — with the addition of a mustache and goatee (Take that, bourgeois art!), and with his "ready-mades" such as the white porcelain urinal he called "Fountain." These were treated as art because Duchamp said they were art, titled them as art, and submitted them to art exhibitions. Outrageous then, he grew into America’s grand old man of outre art, smilingly accepted and assumed to have been a harbinger, far ahead of his time. And now, we are seeing the century end very much as it began, with an exhaustively publicized flap about the "Sensation" show at the Brooklyn Museum, which has served as a red flag to no less than New York City’s Mayor Rudolph Giuliani (as the French would say, "Le plus ca change . . .") Starting on the Whitney’s fifth floor with "America Takes Command: 1950s into the 1960s," and working downwards (a physical direction that to traditionalists will seem apt), the Whitney displays the movements, -isms, and -ists marking that decade, from Abstract Expressionism through early performance and assemblage art to color field painting, so-called "figurative expressionism," and avant-garde film. Concurrent cultural and historical milestones are grouped together in small rooms and virtual alleyways, rather than integrated with the fine art, as they had been in Part I. This "improvement" never fails to cause traffic jams and back-to-back people unsure of which way to move except into one another. With "America at the Crossroads: 1960s into the 1970s," on the fourth floor, works by Andy Warhol (whose Elvis images serve as icons of the exhibition) and Roy Lichtenstein epitomize the reign of pop culture. Counterculture and protest art become entities, and post-minimalism take their turns, video art is born, and dance and performance are also documented. "The Rise of Alternatives: 1970s into the 1980s" on the third floor, amply illustrates how this pluralist decade challenged the cult of the "white male genius." Body art, street culture, and graffiti art were ascendant, while racial and sexual liberation movements arising in the ’50s and ’60s slowly entered the mainstream. Works on view range from photographs of Robert Smithson’s earthwork, "Spiral Jetty" and Nan Goldin’s "Cookie at Tin Pan Alley" to Robert Mapplethorpe’s "Man in Polyester Suit." By the second floor’s "Approaching the Millennium: 1980s into the 1990s," pluralism is in full flower — a mixed bouquet. Well before reaching Kiki Smith’s gross "Tale" (the crawling figure with excrement), it’s all too clear that what we’re seeing is the deliberate antithesis of that elusive white male genius. But many of these works also prompt the wish for the triumphant return of same. There’s Jeff Koons’s stainless steel "Rabbit" that looks like a silver balloon; Jenny Holzer’s "Laments" on granite sarcophagi with LED electronic signs; and Jack Pierson’s mixed-media "Desire, Despair." In the nearby historical our own Mercer County comes in for dubious distinction, as the place where a Republican Club forced the county library to move "Heather Has Two Mommies," a book about lesbian parents, from the area to the parenting section. "The American Century, Part I" featured the music of such contemporaneous artists as George Gershwin in the stairwells between floors. In Part II, stairwell sounds include excerpts from Terry Fox’s "The Labyrinth Scored for the Purrs of 11 Cats." It’s In fact, even the visitors to "The American Century" seemed atypical. Did this exhibition, ending so fulsomely on a theme of diversity and in-your-face art, also sound some kind of fanfare for the common man? Many of those shuffling through the show, peculiarly silent except for occasional giggles and sideways glances, could have been prototypes of hyper-realist sculptor Duane Hanson’s "man or woman in the street." If viewers weren’t silent and almost dazed as they passed through the show, they seemed unusually dependent on their exhibit guide earphones, moving determinedly along as if with the right of way. All right, much in this half of "The American Century" could not be called "classic" or even "traditional," and certainly not "establishment." And, perhaps reluctantly, we have come to realize that "esthetically pleasing" no longer applies. Challenge, not comfort, is what these late 20th-century offer, with viewers left to decide only whether to accept it. However Part II may strike you, though, don’t shoot the messenger, as I felt metaphorically inclined to do through much of the show, until I was forced to think more about it — and realized that the museum is simply reflecting the times. Yet you have to wonder which of these works will endure for a century or more. And what kind of art — more of the same, some completely different tangents, or perhaps a return to tradition — might be featured in a major exhibition of 2050. For now, the debate generated by this show may be the best proof of just how stimulating this art actually is. — Pat Summers The American Century: Part II, Art and Culture, 1950-2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, 945 Madison Avenue, New York, Two accompanying websites: www.artmuseum.net provides context information for more than 200 works, and www.whitney.org specifies show-related programs and materials. Show continues to For those who weren’t alive or conscious during this period (or who have chosen to blank it out), the exhibit catalog offers an excellent graphic and textual reminder. Cranbury Station Gallery, 28 Palmer Square East, Exhibit of watercolors and oils by Kathleen Maguire Morolda. Gallery hours are Monday to Saturday, 10 to 6 p.m.; Thursday and Friday to 9 p.m.; and Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. Medical Center at Princeton, Witherspoon Street, In the Merwick unit library: "Paintings of Fred and Jennie Angley," to March 9. Part of proceeds benefit the medical center. Open 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily. Main Street Gallery, Montgomery Center, Route 206, Featuring color and black-and-white photographs by Harry Rubel who has been making photographs for 45 years. Also, works by area artists Patrice Sprovieri, Wayne Mathisen, Annelies van Dommelen, and Susan Setteducato. Also exhibiting Hsu Dan, Tom Chesar, Larry Chestnut, Calvin Hart, Clem Fiori, Leslie Neumeyer, Leyla Spencer, Janet Landau, Jacob Landau, Ellyn Gerberding, and Marge Levine. Hours are Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Thursday to 9 p.m.; and Saturday, Pringle International Art & Williams Gallery, 8 Chambers Street, 609-921-9292. "Going Global: Contemporary fine art from around the world spanning Princeton, New Jersey, to Reykjavik, Iceland." Princeton artists include Michael Berger, Jane Eccles, Richard Erdman, and Robert Sakson; from farther afield, Tanya Kohn, Karolina Larusdottir, Salvatore Magazzini, and Mary Stork. To January 22. Art Museum, Princeton University, 609-258-3788. "American Works on Paper," to January 16. "Contemporary Photographs, new acquisitions and photographs from the permanent collection; to January 9. The museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday 1 to 5 p.m. Free tours of the collection are every Saturday at 2 p.m. The permanent collection features a strong representation of Western European paintings, old master prints, and original photographs. of Chinese, Pre-Columbian Mayan, and African art are considered among the museum’s most impressive. Not housed in the museum but part of the collection is the John B. Putnam Jr. Memorial Collection of outdoor sculpture, with works by such modern masters as Henry Moore, Alexander Calder, Pablo Picasso, and George Segal located throughout the campus. Bernstein Gallery, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton 609-258-4790. "Dreamscapes," an exhibition of paintings by WWS alumna Alexandra Isaievych. Combining her passion for art with an interest in public policy and economics, Isaievych has worked on economic assistance programs in Ukraine, an experience that has strengthened her conviction that "art which provides inspiration for reclaiming the dignity of the human spirit is as essential as good economic advice." Gallery is open daily from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. weekdays; weekends from DeLann Gallery, Princeton Meadows Shopping Center, Plainsboro, 609-799-6706. "Portraits in Other Objects" by Eric Montoya, an artist who exhibits in Los Angeles and New York. The show features oil portraits whose forms are comprised of other narrative elements. To February 12. Gallery hours are Tuesday to Thursday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Friday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Firehouse Gallery, 8 Walnut Street, Bordentown, The gallery celebrates its fourth year and a new exhibition season featuring 12 gallery co-op members presenting shows that change monthly. Working with owner Eric Gibbons are curators and artists Beverly Fredericks and Lana Bernard-Toniolio. Wednesday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Thursday to Saturday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Montgomery Cultural Center, 1860 House, 124 Montgomery Road, 609-921-3272. All-Artists Show in the Upstairs Gallery, presented by members of the 1860 House Professional Artists Group, to January 29. Gallery hours are Tuesdays to Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Stony Brook Millstone Watershed, 31 Titus Mill Road, Pennington, 609-737-7592. "Vanishing Landscape," an exhibit of oil pastel and watercolor studies of the region’s fast-disappearing natural by Dorothy Bissell. To January 8. Burlington County Historical Society, 454 Lawrence Street, Burlington, 609-386-4773. "Wildfowl Decoy Exhibit" by master Burlington carver Jess Heisler (1891-1943), whose best work ranks among the finest of the Delaware River school of carving, and works by his friend and pupil John Marinkos (1915-1999). To January 9. Hours are Monday to Thursday, 1 to 4 p.m.; and Sunday, 2 to 4 p.m. Hopewell Museum, 28 East Broad Street, Hopewell, On exhibit through January, toys from the collection of Tom and Marion McCandless, including seven toys made in Hopewell by the short-lived Hoproco Toy Company, located on Burton Avenue from 1925 to ’27. Also on exhibit, a dozen miniatures including doll houses, churches, and barns. Free. Mondays, Wednesdays, Saturdays from 2 to 5 p.m. Hunterdon Museum of Art, Lower Center Street, Clinton, 908-735-8415. "Mud Like a Blessing: Elemental Clay Sculpture," featuring works by Peter Callas, Sara D’Alessandro, Shellie Jacobson, Jim Jansma, and Lauren Silver. To January 9. Gallery hours are Tuesday to Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Guest curator for the show is Michele Mercadal whose concept and title was inspired by a phrase from a poem by Mary Oliver. "The in this exhibit conveys the honoring of clay as a material and the organic process by which it becomes a sculptural form," says Mercadal. "The forms carry a contemplative feeling and convey the mysteries and secrets of combining earth and fire." James A. Michener Art Museum, 138 South Pine Street, Doylestown, 215-340-9800. "Let Children Be Children: Lewis Hine’s Crusade Against Child Labor," an exhibition of historic photographs from the early 20th century. Show runs to February 27. Website: http://www.michenerartmuseum.org. Museum hours Tuesday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Saturday & Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. $5 adults; $1.50 students; children free. Capital Health System, Mercer Campus, 446 Bellevue Avenue, Trenton, 609-394-4121. "Ben Shahn: Graphic Works from the of the New Jersey State Museum." Show features 17 prints, created from 1936 to 1968, by the renowned American artist who lived in Roosevelt, New Jersey, before his death in 1969. Lobby gallery is always open. To January 11. Grounds for Sculpture, 18 Fairgrounds Road, Hamilton, 609-586-0616. Fall-Winter Exhibition. In the Museum and Domestic Arts Building, "Beverly Pepper," one-artist show. On the mezzanine, a thematic photography show, "Focus on Sculpture." Shows to April 16. Gallery hours are Thursday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and by appointment. New additions to the 22-acre landscaped sculpture park include works by Michele Oka Doner, David Hostetler, J. Seward Johnson Jr., Leiro, John Martini, and Joseph Menna. The park is on the former state fairgrounds site, with indoor exhibitions in the glass-walled, 10,000 square foot museum, and renovated Domestic Arts Building. New Jersey State Museum, 205 West State Street, Trenton, 609-292-6464. "Unseen Treasures: Imperial Russia and the New World," an exhibit of historic treasures of the Russian empire. The dazzling collection of 300 art objects and artifacts from Russian’s famed State Historical Museum and State Archive is displayed in five historical settings. Show remains on view through April 16, 2000. Admission $10 adults; $8.50 seniors and students; $6 children. Advance ticket at 800-766-6048 or online at http://www.tickets.com. Tuesday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. The dazzling collection of over 300 art objects and artifacts from Russia’s State Historical Museum and the State Archive are being seen for the first time outside the Russian Museum since its recently 10-year renovation. The exhibition takes the visitor on a unique journey beginning with the formation of the Russian American Company in 1799 and spanning a period of 200 years and 6,000 miles. From the Imperial Court of St. Petersburg through the Russian winter in Siberia to the New World of Alaska and Northern California and back to Moscow for the of Alexander II, the exhibit tells an adventurous story of heroism, romance, and spiritual enlightenment through the experiences of real people who shaped Russian-American relations in the 18th and 19th centuries. Rhinehart-Fischer Gallery, 46 West Lafayette, Trenton, 609-695-0061. "Art from 19th Century to the Present," plus antiques and interior design. Gallery hours are Wednesday to Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. Stark & Stark, 993 Lenox Drive, Building 2, Lawrenceville, 609-895-7307. Garden State Watercolor Society third annual associate member juried exhibition. Jurors are Gary Snyder of Snyder Fine Art, and Frances McIlvain, American Watercolor Society. To January 7. is open Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. ABC Gallery, Lambertville Public Library, 6 Lilly Street, 609-397-0275. "Heart and Soul," a doll exhibit by Brook Lachelle Beaty and paintings by Cory S. Dale. To January 15. Gallery hours are Monday to Thursday, 1 to 9 p.m.; Friday 1 to 5 p.m.; and Saturday, Artists’ Gallery, 32 Coryell Street, Lambertville, The annual "Small Works Show," a mixed bag of affordable, collectible art by 17 area artists. Show runs to Saturday, January 22, when the gallery celebrates the new millennium with a party and 2,000 seconds of discounts on small works. Gallery hours are Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Bell’s Union Street Restaurant, 183 North Union, Lambertville, 609-397-2226. Pastel landscapes by Julia Akers Gribbin, to January Coryell Gallery, 8 Coryell Street, Lambertville, Holiday show featuring landscapes and regional scenes by Hunterdon County artists Alexander Farnham in oil and by Ron Lent in watercolor. To January 9. Gallery hours are Wednesday to Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 Howard Mann Art Center, 45 North Main Street, 609-397-2300. A show of Charles Fazzino’s whimsical, three-dimensional paper constructions on big subjects that include New York, Philadelphia, sports, and the law. To February 28. Open Wednesday through Sunday, Museum of the American Hungarian Foundation, 300 Somerset Street, New Brunswick, 732-846-5777. "The Hungarian Spark in America," an exhibit highlighting Hungarian contributions to the arts, sciences, humanities, commerce, religious and civic life in America. To January 31. Museum hours are Tuesday to Saturday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Sunday, 1 to 4 p.m. $3 donation. Museum hours are Tuesday to Saturday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Sunday, 1 to 4 p.m. $3 donation. Zimmerli Art Museum, George and Hamilton streets, New Brunswick, 732-932-7237. "The Enduring Figure, 1890s to 1970s: Sixteen Sculptures from the National Association of Women Artists." Show continues to March 12 when the museum closes for renovation, through mid-October. 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__label__wiki	0.838225	0.838225	Home Survival Guide E-Commerce Retrospective E-Commerce Retrospective This story by Barbara Fox was published in U.S. 1 Newspaper on March 17, 1999. Only three years ago, when newspapers were new to the online world, some of their advertising rates were sky high. It was like the Gold Rush, when eager miners were flocking to California and paying hundreds of dollars for a shovel. Those advertising rates have dropped by half. "Our CPM (cost per thousand) averages in the $25 to $30 range," says Peter Levitan, CEO of one of the state’s leading websites. "In 1996, it might have been in the $50 range," he admits. "In 1996 people were picking numbers out of the sky." Levitan founded New Jersey Online, part of the Newhouse empire, which also includes the Star Ledger, the Times of Trenton, the Jersey Journal, the New Yorker, Parade, and other Conde Nast magazines. Surveys show that New Jersey Online is the third largest website in the New York area, second only to AOL’s Digital City and the New York Times. "E-Commerce: Is New Jersey Ready for It?" is the topic for Levitan in a speech sponsored by Technology New Jersey at the DeVry Institute, 630 Route 1 North in North Brunswick, on Tuesday, March 23, at 8 p.m. Cost: $30. Call 609-452-1010. How to price Internet advertising is still an open question, says Levitan, and so New Jersey Online offers price points of from $40 to $12,000 per month. For $40 you get a mini site in the yellow pages The son of a Manhattan-based apartment builder, Levitan earned his bachelor’s degree from the San Francisco Art Institute, Class of 1973, stayed to get his master’s, worked for five years as a commercial photographer, and then went into agency work at Saatchi & Saatchi, where he was an account manager for such clients as Johnson & Johnson, General Mills, and Northwest Airlines. "I left Saatchi to start an interactive test market in Maine, and a friend of mine, who was president of the New Yorker, said that Newhouse was doing in New Jersey what I was doing in Maine," says Levitan. He launched New Jersey Online in the spring of 1995 (http://www.nj.com). The $64 question: Is any publication, anywhere, making money on a website? Until nine months ago, no, says Levitan, but now the answer is yes. "It went through a complete shift. Local sites are doing well in terms of local advertising. Ultimately, it is a recognition that a lot of people are using the Internet every day." He quotes a Star Ledger Eagleton poll taken last fall that showed 36 percent of New Jersey residents went online in a given week. Nationally, 44 percent of youth ages 12 to 19 use the Web. Levitan speaks of "just absolutely incredible numbers" generated by holiday sales. In the 1998 holiday season consumers doubled the amount of money they spent ($2.3 billion according to a Jupiter survey) and 60 percent of the shoppers were new to the Web. "It’s a crystallization of the idea that this is not the future any more, it’s today," says Levitan. His opinions: What retailers do need: Some kind of Internet presence. "If I were Susy’s dress shop in Princeton, and I realized shoppers were watching less TV and consuming less print media, I would add the Internet to my marketing objectives. What retailers don’t need: An extensive virtual store. "I can make the case that a brilliant banner alone can work," says Levitan. He cites an America Online study showing that ad banners are as effective as television commercials in terms of day-after recall. "We have some advertisers who have been extremely successful with a two-page website. We preach simplicity." The late entry of ad agencies in cyberspace has been caused, he says, by too much attention to the bottom line. "They didn’t have the incentive to take people off the profitable side of the business, for instance, making TV commercials, to use them on the less profitable side, the Web side," says Levitan. "Some of their lunch has been eaten by the dedicated agencies. Some of the agencies in the state need to figure this out fast." Because some of these agencies are not making proactive moves to take their clients to cyberspace, clients are doing it on their own. For a major daily, at least 85 percent of the advertisers supply "camera ready" copy from an ad agency, says Levitan. In contrast, fewer than 70 percent present "web ready" ads to New Jersey Online. The biggest mistake ad agencies make: not making the investment in the right people. "That is a very big investment. Agencies are paying a lot of money to a very small population of people who do understand how to buy and create digital media," he says, quoting a salary figure of $75,000 for someone with two years experience who knows how to create Web ads and buy Web space, and that someone is probably 28 years old. "There is a great demand for very few people with that skill set." The worst ads: those without a call to action, the plain logo that assumes someone will click on that logo to learn more. Even if you only add the words "Click here" that improves the click through rate, and "active banners," those with motion, also receive higher click-through rates. The value of speed versus glitz: "I can’t say that speed is critical," says Levitan, "because we have to do certain things graphically, but we do have page size parameters." On his site, news pages will load faster than feature areas targeting to leisure surfers and college students, such as the area on Bruce Springsteen. And the site always has a live cam somewhere. Look for beach scenes next summer. None of this wisdom was as obvious three years ago. And three years ago the value of databases was also not generally known. "In ’96 I didn’t know the value of the database applications," Levitan admits. Seven reporters (one-fourth of the company’s staff) are responsible for updating the now popular databases for such areas as movies, yellow pages, maps with directions, events, and school reports. What with the databases and special breaking news stories these reporters generate 20 percent of the information put on the Web. The rest comes from the newspapers and the chat rooms. Levitan notes that chat rooms are not profit centers: "They are more sponsorship oriented. The fact is, if you are chatting, you are not inclined to want to leave to go visit Susy’s Dress Shop." "In 1999 we are going to position ourselves as the single best place for people to save money in the state," says Levitan, "with coupons and efficient delivery of deals to the consumer." Need a lawnmower? Go to his site and type in the words "lawnmower" to see if someone has a lawnmower deal. Print out the dollars-off coupon and take it to the store. Or tell the website to E-mail you when there is a lawnmower sale. "Our goal is to help bricks and mortar retailers to grow their business," says Levitan, "to drive people to their front door." Levitan’s coupon-printing strategy will be in place by early summer. Yes, he admits, there are national coupon sites. "The problem is they are national. The reality is, these kinds of decisions are local. You want to shop within 20 minutes of your house." The $64 million question is whether the Newhouse newspapers are finding their ad revenues siphoned off by cyber ads. Levitan hedges on this question, noting that the company does not release internal profit figures, but he answers it as president of a national new media federation with 1,000 online newspapers in its membership. "We have not seen across America an erosion of advertising dollars because of advertising spent on the Internet," says Levitan. "Will that change? As more people spend money on the internet, the money has to come from somewhere. That’s why smart newspapers have robust online businesses." Another medium that desperately needs a robust Internet presence is television, says Levitan, and he uses Princeton as a harbinger of what will come. Television viewership in Princeton is way below the national average, and Internet usership is far above average. 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__label__wiki	0.533226	0.533226	Embarrassing Celebrity Crushes STUMBLE SHARE SHARE TWEET PIN by Cara Mason \| 18 July 2013 We’ve all got that one crush that we’d rather not share with the world, and for the majority of us it happens to be a well-known celebrity. We’re embracing our slightly odd crushes and broadcasting them to the world. So, do yours match up to ours? Ever since he shaped up we’ve been debating on just how attractive Ricky Gervais is. Sure. He’s got a dashing smile and rockin’ facial hair, but he also plays Derek. Not so attractive. He definitely has that something about him, plus, he is part of the brains behind An Idiot Abroad so you simply have to love him. In secret. The 50-year-old Top Gear presenter probably wouldn’t make any Hot 100 lists but he definitely makes this one! He’s the type of man that you’d love to sit and drink a cup of tea with whilst reading the morning papers and listen to him babble on about utter rubbish, yet you’d never take him home to meet your mates. He’s controversial, crude and hosted one of the most popular radio shows in the UK (until he was bumped off for a younger model). Despite losing tons of weight, he still reminds us of a cuddly teddy bear and we’d happily snuggle him all night long, we just wouldn’t tell anyone about it. He’s awkward in social situations, he speaks his mind without thinking about it and he’s grossly intelligent. Unbelievably, these are all of the reasons that make him oddly attractive. As well as his perfectly coiffed hair, obviously. Karl Pilkington He’s balding (sorry, Karl) and has a ‘glass half empty’ view on life that he prefers to call ‘being realistic’, but despite that, we can’t help but fancy him. His brilliant one liners and simple views on life draw us to him in a way in which we can’t quite explain. Yes, don’t even try and deny it, you’ve had a crush on Rowan Atkinson forever, right? Don’t worry about it, we can totally see why. We know, he played Mr Bean but aside from that, he’s actually very charming. And come on, how funny was he at the Olympic Ceremony?! Jimmy Carr He’s rude, avoids taxes and often gets into trouble for his questionable humour, but his bouncy hair more than makes up for it. He also looks dashing in a suit, and you know how much we love a man in a suit here at FemaleFirst. Too much. by Cara Mason for relationships.femalefirst.co.uk find me on and follow me on tagged in Chris Moyles Ricky Gervais Rowan Atkinson Love relationships Jimmy Carr James May David Mitchell Attraction Karl Pilkington celebrity Win a place on the Detox Your Money Programme... Win a copy of Dead Man Running on DVD, starring... QUIZ: What do your partner’s Christmas traditions say about them? How to survive a long distance relationship while in lockdown Pandating, mask-fishing and quaranteams: A definitive guide to dating in a pandemic Phil Spector dies aged 81 of coronavirus... Cow saved from slaughterhouse will live on... Man set to miss out on millions after losing... Woman makes embarrassing job interview mistake Relationship Discussion Showbiz (DE) v5.00a - 1.44743s [RUM] 2021-01-17 23:20:29	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line1238
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Long associated with cowboys, outlaws, cheats and chancers, poker has moved away from the saloon and the speakeasy and onto television, the Internet, glossy magazines, national radio, and the professional card tables of such well-appointed city centre establishments as The Merrion Casino Club in Merrion Square. Sign up to be the first getting the offers, competitions, and a sneak preview of what's coming up over the weekend. It also maximises poker's ruthless individualism and social interaction. Regardless of sex or age also - there is always a handful or more women playing in the tournaments at the Merrion and Fitzwilliam clubs, and one of the most successful players in Dublin in the past year is year-old retired maintenance officer Paddy Hicks. The Irish are known for their luck, for keeping their cards close to their chest, and for being natural bluffers - they can say one thing and mean the opposite. 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It was a golden era of such fabled and imposing characters as Amarillo Slim Preston, a slender, wise-cracking world champion from Texas who wore a Stetson adorned with the remains of a rattlesnake, and Walter Clyde "Puggy" Pearson, a brash, stogie-smoking hustler. Ireland's best places for lunch The top cafes, restaurants and bars for lunch in Ireland. The real language of poker is, of course, money. In the US, many are now talking about poker as a "fully-fledged cultural phenomenon". Dead Man's Hand: A pair of Aces and a pair of eights - the hand Wild Bill Hickok is said to have been holding when he was killed in Gunshot: the card needed to make an inside straight draw. Running over six series since , the programmes were devised as a way of keeping post-pub weekend television audiences glued to the screen between early hours' documentaries on schlock-horror movies and Japanese nudist game shows. Priceless if you spot one. It is Channel 4's Late Night Poker programmes, however, that provided the poker boom's original spark. Perhaps there are other traits and tropes, too. Rogers's Irish contingent was the first group from outside the US to take part. Sign In. Here are 20 of the printable. Ireland was represented by "Gentleman" Liam Flood, so called because of his impeccable manners and wardrobe, and Mike "the Man" Magee. In turn, its audience has exploded. Also known as the bullets and pocket rockets. Introduced to Dublin in by the late, winningly flamboyant bookmaker Terry Rogers after he had seen it being played in Las Vegas, Hold 'em was played in charity tournaments organised by Rogers and "Gentleman" Liam Flood in hotels throughout the country in the s and s. It is a fast-growing hobby with a new veneer of respectability for some, and a dog-eat-dog profession for others. Meet the Chef. The archetypal American pastime, and the staple of many an Irish pub game, hotel competition and St Stephen's Day family feud, has gone through a radical transformation in recent years. The Gloss Read the digital edition of The Gloss magazine. Like Indian food? It was also played in Ireland's first poker card club, The The fitzwilliam casino and card club events, in Phibsboro, which Rogers founded in In the s, Rogers organised trips for dozens of Irish players to compete in poker's biggest and most prestigious event, the annual World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. Unlike the rest of Europe, which has largely taken to playing Hold 'em only over the past few years, the game, curiously, has a long history in Irish poker circles. Players simply have to download the software and enter their credit card number to compete in real-time against players https://rating.beadhall.ru/card/lg-g4-sd-card-slot.html around https://rating.beadhall.ru/card/dream-card-poker-las-vegas.html world. In draw, players are dealt five cards face down and allowed to exchange or "draw" cards from the dealer's deck; a pair of Jacks or better is usually required as a starting hand. There are also the inherent attractions of the game itself. See a sample. This demystifying of the game, and its new accessibility, partly explain the huge growth of interest in poker. The game even has the fitzwilliam casino and card club events endorsement. Sign up to join our 10km Advanced running course. It leads to close hands, fast action, tricky decisions, improbable bluffs article source lively banter. Tell: an unconscious gesture or mannerism that reveals the strength or weakness of a player's hand. Subscriber Only. This may help to explain why in Las Vegas poker circles there is something called "Irish position", a term used to describe an aggressive player who puts in a big raise when he is first to bet and not, as is more usual, one of the last. It quickly became Britain and Ireland's hippest cult series. Follow IrishTimesLife. Sign up to receive the Stay on Track eight week programme to keep running! The Internet has been another major factor in poker's newfound popularity, with gambling sites representing the fastest the fitzwilliam casino and card club events link of the web. It's 9 p. Want to eat at Michelin-starred Liath restaurant? Another renowned Irish poker professional, Padraig Parkinson from Dublin, won the fifth series. A new magazine, Inside Edge, was launched in Britain in March, aimed partly at the growing army of poker players. If you're holding 8,9,J,Q, the 10 is the gutshot or the belly-buster. In tournament poker, every player, regardless of income, education, nationality or https://rating.beadhall.ru/card/card-games-played-in-casinos.html, starts with the same number of chips. The Fitzwilliam offers tournament and cash game poker every night, organises poker business leagues, in which company teams compete against each other, and even runs regular poker classes, one of which was featured on Marian Finucane's radio programme earlier this year. Lifting the lockdown: A new way of buying and selling game card rules home blackjack. Don't have an account? Yet, from its earliest days on the Mississippi steamboats, poker has been replete with slang, lingo, insult and innuendo. Channel 4's pioneering poker series, Late Night Poker, broadcast after midnight, has attracted a staggering audience of 1. The type of poker featured on all these television programmes and Internet sites is a long way from the traditional draw poker found in Irish pubs and homes. A recent ICM poll for British bookmaker Ladbrokes suggests that a quarter of all British adults have played poker; in the US it has been estimated that more than 50 million are regular players, making poker a more popular pastime than golf or tennis. The Nuts: the best possible hand on the table. Maybe playing poker is some kind of rebellion against all that. Also known as the lock, cinch, boss hand, hammer and the immortal. Food Month: Michelin stars and magical meals. The visitors themselves give away few clues - they are predominantly male, but of all ages, dress styles and body shapes. On Tilt: playing very poorly or recklessly, usually after losing badly or winning big.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line1243
__label__cc	0.663331	0.336669	Being Libertarian Home Articles Opposing Decolonization Means White Supremacy? Hold Your Horses, Social Justice Warriors! Opposing Decolonization Means White Supremacy? Hold Your Horses, Social Justice Warriors! Martin van Staden “Social justice writer and blogger” Luke Waltham recently wrote an article for The Daily Vox titled, “Those who are against decolonisation are white supremacists”. The average reader whose mind is not clouded by preconceived, prejudiced, and collectivist notions of what people think by virtue of being of a certain race, would immediately notice the problematic thesis put forward in the title. Indeed, the title is enough to reject the entire article outright, as any argument which proceeds from such flawed premises would always also be flawed in and of itself. However, given that I am not a philosopher, I have entertained Waltham’s short rant, and, even after reading the whole piece, I have arrived at the same conclusion. Waltham’s entire article is one, big strawman argument, wherein he not only misrepresents the very valid arguments against so-called ‘decolonization’, but he ignores them entirely. Other than being a strawman, the entire article is also a non sequitur argument, in that his conclusion does not follow from what he attempted to argue. Let’s take his piece apart. “The reality of the decolonisation debate, and the views argued, is that there is an exceptional amount of ignorance and lack of understanding from the majority of those who argue against it.” This first excerpt was presumably inserted by a Vox editor. So, according to this editor, opponents of decolonization are ignorant and don’t understand the concept. Sure, that’s one view. But based on this, how can Waltham later conclude that opponents of decolonization are ‘white supremacists’? Would a Zulu be considered racist if he were unable to speak French to Frenchmen? Would an extra-terrestrial alien be speciest if they were unable to make heads or tails of English literature? No? Then how can someone be a ‘white supremacist’ if they fail to understand decolonization? They can’t. White supremacy is the notion that the white race is superior to all others. It does not depend upon an understanding or lack thereof of concepts which emanate from the social justice left. A true white supremacist would be a white supremacist regardless of whether or not they understood the notion of decolonization. And those who aren’t white supremacists cannot be called white supremacists if their only error is not understanding. “If someone were to ask you for the name of a well-known black scientist, professor or academic, you would most probably find yourself stuck, unable to answer.” This is true, although there are some notable exceptions. Walter E. Williams, author of South Africa’s War Against Capitalism, is a brilliant black academic. Thomas Sowell, who once remarked that he is not a ‘professional black man’ but rather a professional economist, is a similar brilliant mind, who many within libertarian circles regard as virtually unmatched. The lack of notable black scientists, professors or academics, however, has nothing to do with decolonization, unless one argues that ideas are racial. Decolonization, as Waltham later defines it, is about opposing “the notion that our society and our education system should be based solely off of Eurocentric ideas.” I agree with this definition. Why, then, is the race of these intellectuals questioned? Waltham, a white man, is a proponent of decolonization. Presumably if he were to become a law lecturer and later a legal intellectual, he would incorporate the ideas of decolonization into his work. Would he not qualify as part of the decolonization movement, then? Thomas Sowell – a radical capitalist and individualist – is a black economist who would likely oppose decolonization with all the fiber of his being. Does he, however, qualify as an academic who is black? Or will he be discounted because his ideas don’t line up with the narrative? Clearly, confusing race and ideas is problematic, and social justice warriors carry on doing it regardless. To them, as we know, being ‘black’ is not a matter of skin color, but a mentality. (This same rule does not apply to whites, however. If you are white, you are cursed with it for life.) “The first ignorant, white supremacist response would be, ‘Yes, that’s because all the best inventions, discoveries and ideas have come from Europe and the West.’ This, of course, is wrong.” Waltham continues to confuse ideas and race. Thinking that the best ideas have tended to come from the West does not make one a ‘white supremacist’. Thomas Sowell and his ideas are a product of the West. Does my belief that Sowell’s economic ideas and analysis are vastly superior to that of his peers in Africa make me a white supremacist? Surely not. But Waltham also confuses ideas and geography. “Europe” is a place; “the West” is not. The West is an intellectual tradition – or, at least, that is what it became. Sowell is a Westerner, but not a European. I am a Westerner, but not a European. Half of my black lecturers at university were Westerners, but not Europeans. My 98% black colleagues at African Students For Liberty in West and East Africa are Westerners, but not Europeans. I agree with Waltham, however, that it’s ignorant to attribute ‘the best ideas’ to Europe. Communism, Critical Theory, Critical Feminist Theory, and Critical Race Theory are all products of Europe, after all. And yes, it would be ignorant and, indeed, white supremacist for someone to claim that the best ideas come from whites. But that is rarely said by any serious intellectual. It’s a strawman. “Regardless, it is extremely important that as an African state and as people living in Africa, we oppose the notion that our society and our education system should be based solely off of Eurocentric ideas.” I agree on the point about Eurocentrism, and that is why I have dedicated my life to fighting against Marxism, lite socialism, and Critical Race Theory – all products of Europe. But Waltham’s argument that ‘as’ an African state and ‘as’ people living in Africa, we should follow a particular mode of thinking, is silly, dangerous, and totalitarian. As an individual, I will think according to whatever system I choose. If Waltham’s argument is that we should not impose these systems of thought on our children, then I agree. I am a big proponent of privatizing education and giving education firms and individual schools the ability to decide for themselves what they will teach. Ditto universities. I would love it if students could tick ‘Afrocentric,’ ‘Eurocentric’, or ‘Westocentric’ on their university application forms. Waltham, of course, is not arguing for that, and I suspect he is likely a big fan of state-provided education. In other words, he wants to force kids as well as university students to learn according to an imposed curriculum with no real choice in the matter. So what he and other proponents of decolonization propose is no less authoritarian than what we currently have, and what they claim they are fighting against. “Instead, we need to create an inclusive, open system that composes of African ideas, African education and African knowledge.” Yep – authoritarian, but also doublespeak. An “inclusive, open system” but that imposes “African ideas, African education and African knowledge”? How exactly is it open and inclusive if I have no choice in the matter? “It is nonsensical to argue that there is nothing we can gain from integrating African knowledge and education.” Another strawman argument. Nobody has seriously argued against integrating African knowledge and education where it is relevant. Teaching African philosophers alongside European and Asian philosophers is a great idea. Replacing European philosophers with African philosophers in the curriculum is, however, not such a great idea. What is important at the end of the day is a diversity of ideas, not of origins and races. “Our society needs to deconstruct systems of white supremacy and instead, uplift and equalise the ideas, knowledge and sciences of both black and white people. “ Quite, but let’s not ‘deconstruct’ those things which are not “systems of white supremacy”. In South Africa, we are fortunate that all of our systems of white supremacy – collectively known as ‘Apartheid’ – have already been deconstructed. Of course, Waltham and company will argue that capitalism and a host of other ideas are part of ‘white supremacy’, which really makes his entire article irrelevant. He might as well have simply said: “Only those who agree with a certain ideology are good, and the rest are white supremacists.” Lastly, ‘ideas’ cannot be ‘uplifted’ and should certainly not be ‘equalized’. An idea has no dignity – it cannot be offended or harmed, so it doesn’t need to be ‘uplifted’ or ’empowered’. You can advocate for a certain idea, but that idea has no independent right of existence. If people like the idea, they will accept it. If not, they won’t. And ideas are certainly not equal nor are they supposed to be. The ‘idea’ that a woman need not consent to sexual intercourse for it to be fine is not equal to the idea that consent is imperative. Ideas should be debated and argued on their own merits – not abstractly ‘equalized’. The non sequitur in Waltham’s article should be evident. It does not follow that favoring Western thinking equals ‘white supremacy’. It does not follow that being a black person means one supports decolonization. It does not follow that integrating African knowledge means imposing it on people. It does not follow that ‘deconstructing’ white supremacy means deconstructing everything the social justice warrior disagrees with. Similarly, Waltham attacked a strawman. Virtually nobody has campaigned to exclude the ideas developed in Africa from education. What people have opposed, however, is throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Let’s find a compromise. Those universities and schools which want to ‘Africanize’ ideologically should be allowed to do so. Those universities and schools which want to ‘Westernize’ ideologically should be allowed to do so. Those which want a perfect 50/50 balance should be allowed to do so. This, however, means that government needs to lose its monopoly on education and allow the people to decide for themselves in the open marketplace. Fallism The Daily Vox Previous articleSACP goes in alone: Will they survive? Next articleConsider that capitalism is the real problem http://www.martinvanstaden.com Martin is the Editor in Chief of the Being Libertarian LLC group, with which the Rational Standard is affiliated. He has a law degree from the University of Pretoria. His articles represent his own views and beliefs, and not that of any of the organizations he is involved with. 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__label__cc	0.67535	0.32465	Send Support Tickets Office Mail Cloud Drive DropMySite Virtual Data Center Cloud Bare Metal Hyper Converge Infrastructure WordPress Server Docker Manager About ReadySpace Why Readyspace? What will be the biggest development trends in 2019? by Alex Yau Comments Off on What will be the biggest development trends in 2019? Ubuntu is available in Cloud Server Linux. Contact us to find out our latest offers! What’s the most popular programming language today among software developers? It’s still JavaScript, with over 10M users globally. Python has reached 7M active developers and is climbing up the ranks. How do we know that? Thanks to the Developer Economics survey. Every year it reaches over 40,000 developers in 167+ countries to discover what’s happening in the software world and where it’s going next. This week, Developer Economics survey is back again in its brand new 16th edition, calling out all developers to take part. If you’re involved in mobile, desktop, IoT, AR/VR, machine learning and data science, web, backend/cloud, and game development, then you’ll find this survey relevant. It’s open to all developers, seasoned professionals and well as early stage beginners, students and just hobbyists. Developer Economics survey focuses on the kind of questions that help industry understand the future trends and opportunities for growth. What sort of developer skills are the most important? What programming languages, tools or platforms are you using in your projects? What kind of resources are the most valuable when you want to learn something new? In this new 16th edition, the survey also asks questions about ethics, privacy and security, as well as project management methodologies in software development. The insights coming from the survey will help shed the light on the most important trends in 2019. All participants who complete the survey enter the prize draws where they can win $18,000+ worth of prizes, including Samsung S9 Plus, Oculus Rift + Touch Virtual Reality System, Filco Ninja Majestouch-2 Tenkeyless NKR Tactile Action Keyboard, developer licenses, Udemy vouchers, and more. Developers will also get access to survey results in the form of “State of the Developer Nation 16th edition” report and benchmarks to compare their standing against global trends. Finally, those who like the surprise factor will be pleased to discover their ultimate sci-fi AI character at the end of the survey, built based on their answers and worth sharing with their friends. We want to help developers be at the forefront of where the industry is going next. That’s why we’re supporting Developer Economics survey – to shed the light on the upcoming trends. We’re inviting you all to take part in the survey and be a part of something bigger. The post What will be the biggest development trends in 2019? appeared first on Ubuntu Blog. ReadySpace Cloud Platform Release Notes : 20210112 ReadySpace is an Open Source Cloud Service Provider that focuses on providing services to business of all sizes with applications that require performance, compliance and connectivity in Asia. Join the Parallels Team for IGEL DISRUPT 2018 Events readyspace.com/join-the-parall… pic.twitter.com/tFvzUrFje3 GitLab Patch Release: 10.3.3 readyspace.com/gitlab-patch-re… Unit 15 ,39/F, One Midtown, 11 Hoi Shing Road, Tsuen Wan, N.T. care@readyspace.com.hk Copyright © 2021 ReadySpace Hong Kong. All Rights Reserved.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line1247
__label__wiki	0.95671	0.95671	Morgan Stanley managed fund to invest Rs 190 crore in Centrum Housing CHFL has a loan book of over Rs 500 crore and operates through 36 branches across Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, and Delhi, serving over 3,500 customers. MUMBAI: The Jaspal Bindra-controlled Centrum Group has roped in Morgan Stanley to invest Rs 190 crore in its retail-affordable housing-focused lending arm Centrum Housing Finance ltd (CHFL). The infusion by a fund run by Morgan Stanley Private Equity Asia will lead to the private equity (PE) giant acquiring a "significant minority stake" in CHFL, which began operations in April 2017, the companies said in a joint statement without disclosing how much the equity dilution will be. The fund managed by Morgan Stanley will be the first external institutional investor in Centrum Housing, an arm of the publicly traded Centrum Capital, which manages assets of over Rs 2,000 crore. Bindra had told in December that Centrum Group was in talks with PEs to sell 15-25 per cent stake in the NBFC for around Rs 250 crore. The main promoters of the group -- veteran banker and former chief executive of Standard Chartered Bank Asia Pacific Bindra and group founder Chandir Gidwani -- were looking at diluting 15-25 per cent in the credit vertical in a phased manner, Bindra, who had picked up over 25 per cent stake in the group in April 2016, had said. "We are talking to a number of PEs and a deal should be concluded very soon. We can dilute between 15 and 25 per cent step by step for Rs 150-250 crore. Maybe we will begin with SME arm and then microfinance," Bindra had said. Centurm Group has been driving its credit business through acquisitions. It first acquired the Rs 100-crore microfinance portfolio of South African lender First Rand Bank India in 2017, followed by L&T Finance's supply chain finance book of Rs 650 crore in September 2018. Last month, it took over New Delhi-based microfinance player Altura Finance's Rs 100 crore portfolio. Bindra had said he was keen on more acquisitions after the deal with a PE investor gets completed. "At least half the money raised will be used for acquisitions and the rest will be used as growth capital," he had said. Currently, Centrum's loan book is a little over Rs 2,000 crore, of which over Rs 1,000 crore is the SME (small and medium enterprises)book, Rs 600 crore is home finance and the rest is microfinance. Centrum Housing is led by industry veteran Sanjay Shukla, who has 30 years of retail lending experience and had previously headed Tata Capital's housing finance arm. Bindra, executive chairman of the Centrum Group said, "Together with Morgan Stanley, we will work to grow the business nationally as there is a big opportunity in the low to middle income segment in small cities. We will continue to focus and grow in these segments." Arjun Saigal of Morgan Stanley Private Equity Asia said the investment follows the large potential in the affordable housing space which is under-penetrated and offers tremendous opportunity for growth. This will be the fourth investment in retail lending space in India by funds sponsored by Morgan Stanley Private Equity Asia, he added. centrum housing finance Morgan Stanley Private Equity Asia Jaspal Bindra housing finance companies Centrum Group Most Read in Allied Industries Indigo Paints IPO to open on Jan 20; sets price band at Rs 1,488-1,490 a share Piramal Enterprises' bid receives 94% votes by DHFL lenders: Sources Aadhar Housing Finance planning $1 billion IPO this year Central Bank of India to exit & sell stake in housing finance business for Rs 160 crore Kapil Wadhawan says ready to govern DHFL as per CoC's set standards DHFL case: 63 Moons moves NCLT seeking to protect bondholders PE investment in real estate expected to grow 30% in 2021: Report	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line1249
__label__cc	0.504551	0.495449	Sign Up For Service Recycle Depot Recycle DepotRecycle DepotRecycle Depot Serving the Hudson Valley. Roll Off Containers, Weekly Refuse Service, Drop Off and Materials Information and Alerts - Updated 01/18/2021 YES WE ARE OPEN! Our facility at 230 Van Wagner Rd, Poughkeepsie is open regular hours. Scale hours 8:00am - 4:30pm - Monday - Friday 9:00am - 1:00pm Saturday Our on-site administrative office is closed to the public. As always, you can contact via email or by phone. Holiday Schedule -2021 Alerts and Information We are family owned business. Joseph (Peppy) and Rita Trocino were raised right here in the Hudson Valley. The communities that Recycle Depot serves are as important to the Trocino Family as they are to you, our neighbors, our customers. The future of our local economy is important to all of us. Our goal is to work together with you, our community to provide a full The future of our local economy is important to all of us. Our goal is to work together with you, our community to provide a full service company with the necessary, dependable trash and recycling services you require while pricing those services fairly and competitively to our customers. We want to thank you for helping us celebrate 13 years of business at our facility in Poughkeepsie. Processing Facility Recycle Depot serves as an oasis in a region sorely in need of viable alternatives to landfills and recycling options. Prior to opening the NYS DEC Permitted Construction and Demolition Processing facility, local construction companies were faced with the much higher costs of disposal with no real convenient local recycling options. Th Recycle Depot serves as an oasis in a region sorely in need of viable alternatives to landfills and recycling options. Prior to opening the NYS DEC Permitted Construction and Demolition Processing facility, local construction companies were faced with the much higher costs of disposal with no real convenient local recycling options. The construction and demolition could be taken in but as co-mingled debris. There is a major distinction between a transfer station and a PROCESSING FACILITY. The transfer station just redirects debris from point A to point B. The processing facility takes action to sort the sustainable product from the waste stream. After three decades in the construction business as a redi-mix concrete producer, pouring foundations in our community the Trocinos were convinced that there was a better way, more environmental and economical way to dispose of the material(s). Their vision paid off after years of planning and investment to develop the processing locate After three decades in the construction business as a redi-mix concrete producer, pouring foundations in our community the Trocinos were convinced that there was a better way, more environmental and economical way to dispose of the material(s). Their vision paid off after years of planning and investment to develop the processing located on Van Wagner facility which is now Recycle Depot. At Recycle Depot, the debris is sorted and processed into reusable materials such as landscaping mulch, screened soil, and clean fill. Click below to see more information on services we offer Scales are open: Monday through Friday: 8:00am to 4:30pm (Please be on the scale by 4:15 pm ) (Please be on the scale by 12:45 pm ) 230 Van Wagner Road., Poughkeepsie, NY 12603, US Copyright © 2021 Recycle Depot - All Rights Reserved. Screened Soil	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line1250
__label__cc	0.606653	0.393347	Red Omen The Music of Ryan Walker Record Tracklist Humana ante oculos foede -:-- / 3:13 Nam veluti pueri trepidant -:-- / 1:56 Nil igitur mors est -:-- / 3:02 Avia Pieridum peragro loca -:-- / 1:38 De Rerum Natura is an epic poem written by the Roman philosopher Titus Lucretius Carus (ca. 99-55 BCE). We know little about Lucretius’s life beyond the fact that he was an adherent of Epicurus, a Greek philosopher who had lived two centuries before him. The poem, written for and dedicated to Lucretius’s friend Gaius Memmius, sets forth and expounds upon many of the ideas of Epicureanism – that the universe is governed by the motion of atoms, that we must conquer fear (particularly that of death), and that humanity must achieve its own salvation rather than petitioning it from the gods. Of the six books, I have selected text from each of the first four to be set for concert choir. In 2009, the first, second, and third movements of De Rerum Natura received the National Federation of Music Clubs Award for Choral Composition. The first three movements were recorded on Monday, November 16, 2009, and feature the following performers: Kristin DeGroot, Jasmine Haghighatian, Megan Radowick, Bronwyn White, soprano Heather Blount, Roxanna Tehrani, alto Lorenzo Garcia, Emmanuel Medina, Rafael Moras, Darius Thomas, tenor Anthony Garant, Christopher Garcia, Jeffery Hunter, Adrian Kirtley, bass Special thanks to Andrea Cerda and Amanda Cullom, who helped prepare the piece but could not join us on the concert. This recording of the fourth movement is from Monday, April 27, 2009, and features the following performers: Jasmine Haghighatian, Michelle Lange, Bronwyn White, Chrissy Whitford, soprano Heather Blount, Andrea Cerda, Roxanna Tehrani, alto Lorenzo Garcia, Rafael Moras, Ryan Ramirez, tenor Carlos Saenz, Jeff Sambula, bass Overture Ryan Walker 1:59 Circles Ryan Walker 2:47 Trajectory Ryan Walker 6:00 Nil igitur mors est Ryan Walker 3:02 Firmament Ryan Walker 3:24	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line1252
__label__wiki	0.725667	0.725667	Dataset for "Circular dichroism in higher-order diffraction beams from chiral quasi-planar nanostructures" This dataset contains both experimental and numerical data relating to figures presented in the paper, "Circular dichroism in higher-order diffraction beams from chiral quasi-planar nanostructures". The experimental data contain measurements obtained from atomic force microscopy (AFM) and the spectra used to plot far-field circular dichroism (CD) diffraction patterns. The numerical data contain simulated spectra used to plot a corresponding set of far-field CD diffraction patterns, and electric near-field data corresponding to maximum and minimum CD responses in the far-field. Light-Matter Interactions Scattering & Spectroscopy Optics, photonics and lasers Lasers and Optics Optical Devices and Subsystems Kuppe, C., You, J., Gordeev, S., Panoiu, N., 2018. Dataset for "Circular dichroism in higher-order diffraction beams from chiral quasi-planar nanostructures". Bath: University of Bath Research Data Archive. Available from: https://doi.org/10.15125/BATH-00479. Dataset.zip application/zip (45MB) Data licenced under Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0 Christian Kuppe Jie You Sergey Gordeev Nicolae-Coriolan Panoiu Calum Williams Joel Collins Timothy Wilkinson Ventsislav Valev From 1 March 2017 to 30 September 2017 Data collection method: Sample fabrication: 10 mm x 10 mm x 525 µm single side polished Si(p-doped)-SiO2(300 nm) samples are sonicated in successive baths of acetone and IPA (Isopropyl alcohol) for 10mins, blow dried with compressed N2 and dehydrated on a hotplate (200°C, 20mins). PMMA (Polymethyl-methacrylate) A4 950k positive-tone photoresist is spin-coated (5,000 rpm, 45s) and baked (180°C, 2 mins), resulting in a final thickness of ~150 nm. 80 kV electron beam lithography (Nanobeam, nB-1) is used for the high-resolution patterning, with exposure conditions: area dose ~10 Cm-2, operating current 5 nAs-1 and main-field/sub-field apertures of 50/6 µm. Resist development is carried out in a 1:3 solution of MIBK (Methyl-isobutyl-ketone): IPA for 10 s. Deposition of Cr/Au (5/30 nm) is performed using a thermal evaporator at a base pressure ~1x10-6 mbar, at an evaporation rate ~0.1 nm s-1. Resist lift-off is carried out in NMP (N-Methyl-2-pyrrolidone) at an elevated temperature of 60°C for 4 hours, followed by fresh NMP sonication, acetone and IPA rinse. For nanoscale surface quality inspection, a Carl Zeiss Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) operating at 3 keV is used. Sample characterisation : AFM experiments were carried out using a Multimode Scanning Probe Microscope (Veeco, Plainview, NY) with a Nanoscope IIIA controller. Images were obtained in contact mode under ambient conditions. A Pointprobe-Plus® Silicon-SPM-Sensor AFM probe (PPP, NanosensorsTM, Neuchâtel, Switzerland) with a force constant of 0.039 N/m was used for imaging. The additional SEM shown in Figure 1 (c) was taken with the JEOL SEM6480LV SEM operating in the backscattering mode at 10keV. Experimental setup: The experimental setup consisted of a Fianium SC400-2 2 W laser source with a 1064 nm output wavelength and 20 MHz repetition rate and a 5 ps pulse spliced to an in-house fabricated supercontinuum fibre, described in ref.[56] providing a spectrum between 450-1050 nm. We used a short-pass filter to only allow light in the spectral region between 450 – 750 nm. We used two linear Glan-Laser polarizers to control the power output and a remotely controlled quarter wave plate to selectively produce LCP and RCP light. The sample was mounted on an alignment disk, which in turn was mounted on an in-house designed adapter placed in the centre of an optical breadboard. The breadboard was mounted on a remotely controlled rotation stage. The diffracted light from the sample was collected via a 400 µm diameter multimode fibre mounted on the edge of the breadboard at a distance of 25 cm and measured with an Ocean Optics QE Pro spectrometer. The automated setup used a step size of 0.5° and the spectrometer used an integration time of 250 ms and was averaged over 8 scans. Simulations: The optical near-field and the intensity of the diffracted beams have been computed numerically using the rigorous coupled-wave analysis (RCWA) method, implemented in Synopsis’ RSoft DiffractMOD, a commercially available software. In this method, both the distribution of the dielectric constant and electromagnetic field are decomposed in Fourier series, the corresponding Fourier coefficients being computed using the boundary conditions at the top and bottom of the structure. These coefficients are subsequently used to calculate the optical near-field and the intensities of the diffracted beams. The frequency dispersion of the permittivity of Au, Cr, and SiO2 has been fully incorporated in our simulations. Moreover, we used N=20 harmonics for each transverse dimension, which amounts to a total of (2N+1)^2=1681 harmonics. Documentation_for_Dataset.txt Chirality and Multiphoton Nanophotonics from Molecules to Metamaterials Kuppe, C., Williams, C., You, J., Collins, J. T., Gordeev, S. N., Wilkinson, T. D., Panoiu, N.-C. and Valev, V. K., 2018. Circular Dichroism in Higher-Order Diffraction Beams from Chiral Quasiplanar Nanostructures. Advanced Optical Materials, 6(11), p.1800098. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.201800098. Contact person: Christian Kuppe	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0025.json.gz/line1259

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