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__label__wiki	0.512893	0.512893	Start by marking “Vixen 03 (Dirk Pitt, #5)” as Want to Read: We’d love your help. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of Vixen 03 by Clive Cussler. Preview — Vixen 03 by Clive Cussler Vixen 03 (Dirk Pitt #5) 3.85 · Rating details · 12,030 ratings · 303 reviews 1954. Vixen 03 is down. The plane, bound for the Pacific carrying thirty-six Doomsday bombs — canisters armed with quick-death germs of unbelievable potency — vanishes. Vixen has in fact crashed into an ice-covered lake in Colorado. 1988. Dirk Pitt, who heroically raised the Titanic, discovers the wreckage of Vixen 03. But two deadly canisters are missing. They're in the h 1954. Vixen 03 is down. The plane, bound for the Pacific carrying thirty-six Doomsday bombs — canisters armed with quick-death germs of unbelievable potency — vanishes. Vixen has in fact crashed into an ice-covered lake in Colorado. 1988. Dirk Pitt, who heroically raised the Titanic, discovers the wreckage of Vixen 03. But two deadly canisters are missing. They're in the hands of a terrorist group. Their lethal mission: to sail a battleship seventy-five miles up the Potomac and blast Washington, D.C., to kingdom come. Only Dirk can stop them. ...more Mass Market Paperback, 384 pages Published July 25th 2006 by Bantam (first published January 1st 1978) 055358944X (ISBN13: 9780553589443) Dirk Pitt #5 Dirk Pitt, Al Giordino Other Editions (64) To ask other readers questions about Vixen 03, please sign up. How do you say the title? Vixen Three? Vixen O Three? Vixen Zero Three? See 1 question about Vixen 03… Treasure Hunter Thrillers 370 books — 825 voters Action Adventure Favorites · 12,030 ratings · 303 reviews All LanguagesDansk ‎(1) English ‎(268) Español ‎(3) Italiano ‎(6) Nederlands ‎(2) Norsk ‎(1) Português ‎(1) ไทย ‎(1) Start your review of Vixen 03 (Dirk Pitt, #5) Nov 06, 2009 John Shumway rated it liked it This is the same comment for all the Dirk Pitt books: Great set of books, I had to stagger these books into my reading rotation since they are so similar. Dirk Series Book in less then 50 words. (introduction to bad guy, introduction to hot chick, introduction to Dirk, Dirk gets in impossible dangerous situations to stop the bad guy, Dirk wins, Dirk gets the hot chick.) Oct 09, 2019 John McDermott rated it really liked it Read this in that there Eighties ! Enjoyed it at the time. Dec 12, 2009 Lee rated it really liked it · review of another edition Shelves: action-adventure, dirk-pitt When I feel like a quick, action-packed read, with a big screen cinematic ending - can't go wrong with Dirk Pitt. #5 came out thirty-five years ago, but, they're still a kick-in-the-butt fun time of a read. When I feel like a quick, action-packed read, with a big screen cinematic ending - can't go wrong with Dirk Pitt. #5 came out thirty-five years ago, but, they're still a kick-in-the-butt fun time of a read. ...more Jun 10, 2017 Roopkumar Balachandran rated it really liked it Shelves: adventure In early part of 1950's Dr.John Vetterly, a microbiologist, chemically created an artificial form of life that in turn was capable of producing a disease strain that was non detectable, unidentifiable bacteriological agent able to incapacitate a living thing within seconds of exposure and disrupt the vital body functions, causing death within three to five minutes it was named quick death shortly QD. Admiral Bass was given the task to dump the remaining 36 stainless steel canisters of QD in Rong In early part of 1950's Dr.John Vetterly, a microbiologist, chemically created an artificial form of life that in turn was capable of producing a disease strain that was non detectable, unidentifiable bacteriological agent able to incapacitate a living thing within seconds of exposure and disrupt the vital body functions, causing death within three to five minutes it was named quick death shortly QD. Admiral Bass was given the task to dump the remaining 36 stainless steel canisters of QD in Rongelo from Buckley Field. Major Vylander commanded the Air Force Boeing C-97, number 75403, a Stratocruiser named Vixen 03. The plane did not reach the destination and his whereabouts was not known. Our hero Dirk Pitt is on a vacation with his lover Loren Smith, a Congresswoman. In her father's garage he finds a part of plane wreckage, out of curiosity Pitt tries to find out where the wreckage came from. Through proper channels he contacts Colonel Abe Steiger and by chance Pitt understands that the plane should have crash landed in the nearby lake. With help from his sidekick Al, Pitt finds out the remains of Vixen 03. The report of Vixen 03 did not stir the Government and through Pitt's friend FBI agent Paul Buckner he gets information and pays a visit to retired Admiral Bass in his inn. Bass did not believe first and then together they bring up Vixen 03. But 8 canisters are missing from the lot, Bass gets ill and was hospitalized with much difficultly Pitt gets the background of Vixen 03 and the canisters. The story moves to South Africa where internal problems was at its peak. The AAR (African Army of Revolution) headed by Hiram Lusana and assisted by Machita was gaining attraction from local people, the people look at Lusana as a messiah. To eradicate his popularity and AAR the minority whites hatches a plan, disguising as AAR and attacking white people and their farm. On one such operation navy retired Fawkes family is killed and his farm burned. Some of the officials in South African government convinces Fawkes that Lusana and his men are responsible. (This South African part drags as there is no Dirk Pitt action for a very long time.) They create one master plan "Operation Wild Rose". Hiram Lusana comes to US to get some support from Congress, after his meeting with Congressman Daggat he was kidnapped by someone. Now the story returns to Dirk Pitt as he was in search of the missing canisters. Did Dirk Pitt finds out the person who stole the canisters? Who kidnapped Hiram Lusana? What is Operation Wild Rose? What is the role of Fawkes in Operation Wild Rose? Did Pitt got hold of the missing QD canisters? all are answered in the remaining pages of this action packed novel. The South African story at first looked strange and it made me feel what this has to do with the story, Clive Cussler's knack of storytelling is again become evident when he pieces them together in the end. The climax is faster and kept me at the edge. Pitt has shared more action with Abe Steiger, Sandecker and Al Giordino. The chances of finding the person behind stealing the canisters looked bleak for me but that is real twist in the story, as Pitt did some deductions like Sherlock Holmes. The characterization and back stories of Hiram Lusana, Felicia and Fawkes are very well done. Lusana and Fawkes are opposing characters, we know that Lusana is not behind the slaughter of Fawkes family, in climax without knowing the truth both die for their cause. I already mentioned author Clive Cussler has a bit of answering our own questions arising from story, one such appears when Admiral Bass tells them that QD is killed when in immersed in water, in our mind we also ask, then let the QD be in the lake bottom forever. That question features by way of Al Giordino, Al cuts in and says if water kills this QD stuff, why don't we simply leave it on the bottom of the lake? Bass shook his head solemnly. No thank you. If you found it, so can someone else. Below are some one liners of Dirk Pitt. (1) Pitt and Mapes when entering the weapons storage room. Mapes slowed his Rolls-Royce convertible and lifted both hands from the steering wheel in an apparent greeting. The guard nodded and waved to his partner, who pulled open the gate from the inside. I assume that was a signal of some kind, said Pitt. The hands in the air routine. An yes, Mapes said. If you had been holding a concealed gun on me, my hands would have remained on the wheel. A normal gesture. Then, as we were waves through and your attention was lulled by the guard's opening the gate, his teammate would have discreetly stepped behind the car and blown your head off. I am glad you remembered to raise your hands. (2) Pitt getting angry when Mapes was not able to account for the missing canisters. How many men did your merchandise kill and maim last year, and the year before that? If one of those gas shells went off you'd be responsible for perhaps millions of deaths. (3) After saving Loren Smith from blackmailing. What's that for? he asked, grinning with pleasure. A reward for bailing me out of a nasty situation. Pitt to the rescue. I always was a pushover for congresswomen in distress… Women should be able to stand alone. He put his arm around her and led her to his car. There are times when even a dedicated feminist needs a chauvinist to lean on. (4)Before the climax. Bad news and dismal weather go hand in hand, Pitt said. (5) Inside the battleship Pitt meeting Lusana who is tied. I take it you lost the ship's popularity contest... The dark form behind the light moved closer and Lusana felt his bonds being loosened. Where are you taking me? Nowhere. But if you value social security in your old age, I suggest you get the hell off this boat before it's blown to pieces. Not that it matters, the name's Pitt. Are you part of Captain Fawke's crew? No, I am free-lance. (typical Pitt one liner) (6) Pitt and De Vall before the Fawkes family cemetery. Why are you doing this? De Vall said savagely, What do you hope to gain? I don't like to see traitors prosper. Pitt retorted. Feb 25, 2020 Eli Hornyak rated it really liked it · review of another edition Another good Dirk Pitt novel, I’m still hooked. Can’t wait until I start the next one. Feb 05, 2008 Brooke rated it it was ok Shelves: thriller, 2008 Vixen 03 flips back and forth between Dirk Pitt's discovery of a plane wreck in a Colorado lake and a civil war brewing in South Africa. The connection between the two is pretty clever, but unfortunately, the portions of the book that focus on the South African plot just drag. For a while, I forgot I was even reading a Dirk Pitt novel. Dirk's sections flew by in excitement, but the rest just did not mesh. After enjoying Raise the Titanic so much, I was surprised by how much of a step backwards Vixen 03 flips back and forth between Dirk Pitt's discovery of a plane wreck in a Colorado lake and a civil war brewing in South Africa. The connection between the two is pretty clever, but unfortunately, the portions of the book that focus on the South African plot just drag. For a while, I forgot I was even reading a Dirk Pitt novel. Dirk's sections flew by in excitement, but the rest just did not mesh. After enjoying Raise the Titanic so much, I was surprised by how much of a step backwards this book took. Glancing over some reviews online, there seems to be a consensus that this is Cussler's weakest novel, so I'm expecting to be back on track with his next book in the series. As a side note, there is stuff in here that seems racist, but I had a hard time deciding if I should be offended. Unlike some books, it was hard to tell if the comments were the author's voice or not. And, more to the point, since this was written in the '70s before I was born, and before the current PC era, I'm unsure that I should apply my 2008 views to it. At this point I figure that it's a product of an era that I never experienced. ...more Apr 01, 2018 Debra Johnson rated it really liked it · review of another edition Shelves: suspense, mystery, crime Vixen 03 by Clive Cussler Genres; Action/Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Suspense It took awhile for me to find the copy of the one I read. I think I got it right. I wish I still had my copies! But, alas, I have lost them through the many times I have moved. Through my own adventures, while worth it, caused me to lose those copies decades ago. Al Giordino is still my favorite character in the Dirk Pitt series. Vixen 03 by Clive Cussler Al Giordino is still my favorite character in the Dirk Pitt series. ...more May 07, 2018 Ken rated it liked it · review of another edition Another fun adventure in the Dirk Pitt series. Following the events of the previous book, Pitt and he’s team are tasked with finding a military aircraft that disappeared 30 years ago. The other half of the book features a civil war brewing in South Africa. Compared to others in the series, this instalment is weaker. The fact that it referenced the previous story highlighted this. The South Africa sections were interesting, but I was keen to get back to Pitt’s section of the book. One for this that en Another fun adventure in the Dirk Pitt series. One for this that enjoys Cussler. ...more Mar 26, 2019 Matt rated it liked it Shelves: adventure, 2019-reads A deadly biological weapon thought long-lost is suddenly out in the world and a South African-planned black-op terrorist attack on the United States meant to discredit an insurgency to white rule intertwine with only one man finding himself at the crux to stop them. The fifth book of the Dirk Pitt series, Vixen 03, by Clive Cussler finds the intrepid NUMA Special Projects Director racing to first solve a mystery and then racing to save the nation. An Air Force transport plane takes off in a Janua A deadly biological weapon thought long-lost is suddenly out in the world and a South African-planned black-op terrorist attack on the United States meant to discredit an insurgency to white rule intertwine with only one man finding himself at the crux to stop them. The fifth book of the Dirk Pitt series, Vixen 03, by Clive Cussler finds the intrepid NUMA Special Projects Director racing to first solve a mystery and then racing to save the nation. An Air Force transport plane takes off in a January Colorado blizzard carrying a deadly cargo, but the storm results in the plane crash landing on top of a snow covered lake then sinking. The Pentagon, under orders from Eisenhower, alters the records of the plane to hide its deadly secret. Thirty-four years later in South Africa, Scottish naval captain-turned-farmer Patrick Fawkes goes to a meeting with the South African Defense Minister and discusses the feasibility of a black-op, which Fawkes explains is impossible yet during the meeting his family is murdered during an attack seemingly by the African Army of Revolution run by an American-born black against the white South African government. As a result Fawkes talks the Defense Minister into letting him do the black-op, which the AAR finds out about and gets the info to the American government though they regard it highly unlikely to take place. Meanwhile in Colorado’s Sawatch Mountains, Dirk Pitt is at the cabin of his current girlfriend, Congresswoman Loren Smith, when finds parts from an old aircraft in the garage that Loren believes her deceased eccentric father found while hiking. Bored while not having sex, Pitt begins investigating and stays at the cabin after Loren returns to Washington where she runs afoul of a black congressman who supports the AAR for his own political ends and attempts to blackmail her after getting racy photos of her and Pitt sleeping together. Pitt’s investigation results in him identifying an aircraft that shouldn’t be in Colorado but in the Pacific and along with his friend Al Giordino and an Air Force Colonel Abe Steiger investigate a nearby lake and find the wreck along with the body of Loren’s father—he supposedly blew himself up. Steiger is stonewalled in Washington while Pitt heads to his assignment raising a Union ironclad, but travels to Virginia to talk with the man who assigned the plane’s mission and finds out it carried a deadly biological weapon. Pitt finally informs his boss Admiral Sandecker and NUMA raises the aircraft but find that 8 out of the 36 shells are missing. Pitt, Giordino, and Steiger confront Loren’s neighbors who killed her father and sold them to an arms company for extra money. After conning the arms company Pitt and Steiger track down six of the eight, but the last two were accidently purchased by the AAR but really the South Africans for their terrorist attack. Fawkes with his unwitting black crew and the kidnapped AAR leader in an overhauled battleship go up the Potomac to within range of Washington and start bombarding the capital on December 7. The U.S. government “warned” by the South African Prime Minister launches an attack on the battleship since Fawkes doesn’t know he has two biological weapons. Pitt is able to get onboard the battleship and neutralizes one of the weapons, but the other was already loaded into a tube. The shell is fired, but do to it being a biological warhead it parachutes and a helicopter piloted by Steiger intercepts it and flies it out to the Atlantic. Pitt travels to South Africa to bury Fawkes and meets with the South African Defense Minister, who orchestrated the murder of Fawkes family and who sent the Prime Minister warning, is killed by a member of his own staff and a member of the AAR then buried in Fawkes’ grave. Set a 1988, Cussler’s guess at the overall situation in the world was off but still made for interesting alternate history in which to set his book’s narrative. The two main plots following Pitt and Fawkes were well written while the two main subplots of the AAR and Loren Smith were underwhelming. Fawkes as a good tragic figure who setup by the Defense Minister was easy to guess, while Loren Smith’s first appearance as Pitt’s on-and-off girlfriend was just showing off Pitt’s sexual greatness and given his characterization in these early books isn’t surprising. The science behind the biological weapon was a little farfetched if one really thought about it, but overall it wasn’t the worst thing in the book. Critically nothing was bad, but there were a lot of things that alright. Vixen 03 is a nice next installment in the Dirk Pitt series by Clive Cussler, building up on Raise the Titanic! Overall it’s a good book with only a few bits that were unfortunately off putting but nothing compared to earlier books. While the not the best book of the series I’ve read so far, it’s shows a lot of improvement on Cussler’s part. ...more Sep 14, 2020 Patrick rated it liked it Too long and repetitive but a good read nonetheless....Go with "Deep Six" or "Iceberg" or for that matter "Sahara", chock full of historical fact & fiction. For instance, did you know Abraham Lincoln was not assassinated?" I thought not, he was actually captured by Confederate forces and taken aboard a civil-war frigate to the Sahara desert....fact or fiction? Too long and repetitive but a good read nonetheless....Go with "Deep Six" or "Iceberg" or for that matter "Sahara", chock full of historical fact & fiction. For instance, did you know Abraham Lincoln was not assassinated?" I thought not, he was actually captured by Confederate forces and taken aboard a civil-war frigate to the Sahara desert....fact or fiction? ...more Jan 27, 2013 Christian D. Orr rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: Cussler fans, thriller fans in general Vintage Cussler at his best, that grabs your attention and holds it no matter how many times you read it, and in spite of how old and dated (especially the South Africa segments) the material is. When I say "vintage Cussler," I mean Clive (and Dirk Pitt) at his old-school violent, bloody, profane, sexually-explicit best, not the toned-down PG-rated material (though still highly enjoyable) material he's been writing since the early 1990s (starting with "Dragon"). Vintage Cussler at his best, that grabs your attention and holds it no matter how many times you read it, and in spite of how old and dated (especially the South Africa segments) the material is. When I say "vintage Cussler," I mean Clive (and Dirk Pitt) at his old-school violent, bloody, profane, sexually-explicit best, not the toned-down PG-rated material (though still highly enjoyable) material he's been writing since the early 1990s (starting with "Dragon"). ...more Aug 24, 2019 AndrewP rated it liked it · review of another edition Shelves: action-adventure, read-in-2019, 2019-bookshelf-clearance Another of the early Dirk Pitt novels and this one did not disappoint even some of the content and events seem a bit outdated now. A biological weapon lost at the end of WW2 is rediscovered and some of the stock is missing. This ties into a terrorist 'v' government plot in South Africa. The story was not bad overall but there was a big coincidence that took some believing and the characters were not that deep. I'm not sure when this was written but history has turned out otherwise in a couple of Another of the early Dirk Pitt novels and this one did not disappoint even some of the content and events seem a bit outdated now. A biological weapon lost at the end of WW2 is rediscovered and some of the stock is missing. This ties into a terrorist 'v' government plot in South Africa. I'm not sure when this was written but history has turned out otherwise in a couple of instances. For example, I know the USS Iowa was not scrapped in 1988 as it's currently sitting in the port of Long Beach, California. ...more May 15, 2019 Kevin Findley rated it really liked it · review of another edition Shelves: fiction, adventure One word review: FUN! I haven't read a Dirk Pitt book in quite a while. Back when he was at his most popular, it was Tom Clancy that sat on my shelves, Cussler was almost a side note. I enjoyed the book quite a bit, but realized that I couldn't remember too many of the characters other than Dirk within a few hours after finishing it. I guess that means it's not literature, but that's fine. I liked it, and you will too. Find it! Buy it! Read it! One word review: FUN! Find it! Buy it! Read it! ...more Nov 26, 2017 Shane Phillips rated it liked it · review of another edition Chock full of 1970's race and sexist language. One of my favorites is when Dirk finds his lover waiting for him at his car. "Are you crazy? A luscious creature all alone in a Washington parking lot. It's a miracle you weren't assaulted and gang banged." Dirk is such a romantic. Chock full of 1970's race and sexist language. One of my favorites is when Dirk finds his lover waiting for him at his car. "Are you crazy? A luscious creature all alone in a Washington parking lot. It's a miracle you weren't assaulted and gang banged." Dirk is such a romantic. ...more Apr 21, 2018 Amy rated it liked it · review of another edition The earlier Dirk Pitt stories are not as polished as the later ones, for obvious reasons. Grittier, more graphic, more heavy with the do-gooder speeches. I'm enjoying revisiting the old Pitt, to better appreciate the new one. The earlier Dirk Pitt stories are not as polished as the later ones, for obvious reasons. Grittier, more graphic, more heavy with the do-gooder speeches. I'm enjoying revisiting the old Pitt, to better appreciate the new one. ...more May 05, 2018 Mark Harrison rated it liked it Pretty decent story as a long lost plane laden with a deadly poison nerve agent leads Dirk Pitt into numerous potentially life threatening situations. Less of the awful sexism that spoilt the earlier books and quite a good, gripping plot. Definitely an upturn for this series. Dec 02, 2019 Josh Rose rated it really liked it Properly mysterious and well paced. The only time it slows down and causes you to lose interest is when it gets into South African politics. Can't wait to get to the next one! Properly mysterious and well paced. The only time it slows down and causes you to lose interest is when it gets into South African politics. Can't wait to get to the next one! ...more Dec 25, 2018 Neil rated it really liked it · review of another edition Shelves: end-of-the-world, finished-in-2018, mystery, sci-fi, historical-fiction, fiction, alternate-history, action, adventure, clive-cussler-shelf I love the cover of the “original” copy of the paperback. It is mysterious and has a supernatural aura about it, which is ‘sadly’ misleading, as there is nothing supernatural that occurs in this book. I still remember being haunted by the cover when I saw it as a young child; it sat on my uncle’s bookshelf and always drew my attention (this book and the paperback cover for Raise the Titanic!). Here you have this sunken aircraft with its windshield missing and yet there is an eerie orange glow fr I love the cover of the “original” copy of the paperback. It is mysterious and has a supernatural aura about it, which is ‘sadly’ misleading, as there is nothing supernatural that occurs in this book. I still remember being haunted by the cover when I saw it as a young child; it sat on my uncle’s bookshelf and always drew my attention (this book and the paperback cover for Raise the Titanic!). Here you have this sunken aircraft with its windshield missing and yet there is an eerie orange glow from inside emanating out and illuminating part of the wing and engine cowling. Despite having read this more than once, it still moves at a fast pace. It also bounces around a bit, jumping from South Africa to different parts of the country before ending in Washington, D.C. The character development is decent; I did like how some of the characters in this book show up in Night Probe. I also liked how Admiral Sandecker and Abe Steiger had a pretty decent part to play in the novel, in how the novel wraps up. In later books, it tends to be an “Al Giordino and Dirk Pitt” show and everybody else is second fiddle (which is a shame). While I thought the overall plot was an interesting idea, it is definitely ‘dated’ in terms of its execution and some of the language (or verbiage) used in the book. It might be a bit of a stretch to call it 'science fiction,' but the author does have advanced technology in it that was extrapolated from the current technology available at the time, and he does attempt to predict how some future events might happen, based on certain prior conditions having previously happened. It felt bit 'science fictiony' to me, anyway. Hahahah! There were some plot points that did drag a little bit; probably the ‘worst’ was the attempted blackmail of Congresswoman Loren Smith. Clearly, it was not going to ‘take’ and she was going to be ‘saved’ from the attempted blackmail, somehow. At the same time, it is a bit of a brutal moment, and a bit sorrowful (in that it means the death/loss of a close friendship for attempted political gain). (view spoiler)[Probably the ‘dumbest’ part of the book was Major Thomas Machita, the third-in-command and eventual new leader of the AAR (African Army of Revolution). At first, he is said to be an American citizen. Then, he is said to have emigrated to the United States at an early age. By the end of the book, he fully identifies as “African” and no longer as “American.” It could be a part of the role he is playing, as he had multiple aliases he lived under in the United States. He might be fully identifying with his role, now, as the new leader of the AAR. In any case, his claims that Pitt cannot understand because he is a “Westerner” and not African sounded extremely funny and hypocritical to me, but that is just my opinion. (hide spoiler)] There is a lot of humor in the book that I did not remember reading previously. Al has several funny one-liners in it, but other characters have moments of humor, too. I would say the “heroes” tend to have the majority of the funny lines when compared to the villains. At the same time, some the “funny lines” the villains have have to deal with pompous statements and outrageous remarks. There are some ‘over-the-top’ statements that are made by various characters; this time around, I could hear a mental drum going “dum-dum-dummmmmm!” with some of the comments. For example, two lines that stand out to me the most are (view spoiler)[ “Your choice is clear: a girlish school friendship in exchange for the freedom of millions of our brothers and sisters who are enslaved by a tyrannical government” (140). “I find it incredible that after thirty-four years no one can safely go in and carry out Vetterly’s remains.” There was a sickness in Bass’s voice. “There is no way of pinpointing the exact date,” he murmured, “but our best estimate indicated that man won’t be able to step foot on Rongelo Island for another three hundred years” (159) (hide spoiler)]. Dirk’s bickering with the Captain of a Coast Guard vessel was pretty funny, too. (view spoiler)[The situation is that Captain Fawkes has rescued Dirk’s life by setting him adrift in the Potomac River with an inflatable life vest to keep his head out of the water. After he floats down the river, away from the Iowa, he is subsequently rescued by the Coast Guard vessel that dropped the Navy SEALs off on the Iowa. “A little free with my men and equipment, aren’t you, mister?” Pitt didn’t doubt for a second that if Kiebel had had two good arms, he’d have mashed him to the deck. “What do I have to do to get your cooperation?” Kiebel fixed his cork-brown eyes on Pitt with a murderous stare; then, slowly, they took on a twinkle as his mouth etched into a smile. “Say ‘please.’” Pitt complied, and exactly twelve minutes later he was in a Coast Guard helicopter, racing back to Washington (344). (hide spoiler)] I think there was a ‘moment’ in the book where the author might have been trying to make some kind of statement, but I could not be sure. If so, it fell pretty flat. At the same time, it was somewhat amusing. (view spoiler)[ The scenario is that Dirk is representing a government official (probably breaking various laws in the process) while visiting a weapons-surplus company that sells weapons and ammo to anybody with the right money. The company accidentally sold four of the QD (Quick Death) shells to unsuspecting buyers wanting high explosive shells. Dirk is pretty pissed about the accounting error and tries to give what-for to the Arsenal’s owner: A thousand insults swirled in Pitt’s mind, but he could not sort out any one in particular. Finally, as Mapes’s expectant expression turned to puzzlement, Pitt spoke. “I do not concern myself with what others do with my goods,” Mapes offhandedly. “If one of those gas shells went off, you’d be responsible for perhaps millions of deaths.” “Millions, Mr. Pitt?” Mapes eyes hardened. “To me, the term is merely a statistic” (231). I thought Mapes made a ‘great statement’ about how, when numbers reach a certain level, they become hard to fathom and merely become a statistic. I think it was one of the few times that Dirk does not get the last word in; in future novels, nobody else seems to be able to get the last word in when it comes to ‘one-upmanship’ insults. (hide spoiler)] (view spoiler)[An interesting conundrum is that Loren’s father was murdered at some point prior to the events in this novel and his body discovered in this novel. Yet, in one of the later novels, when Loren and Dirk ‘finally’ get married, he is alive and well enough to walk Loren down the aisle to her future husband. It’s a bit amusing; I am sure it is hard to keep track of everything you write about in each of the novels. Still, though, one would think the death of the father of your primary character’s lover would be an important ‘plot point’ to remember for future novels. Another conundrum is that Loren tries to decide between two men – the man who asked her to marry him versus Dirk Pitt, who brings out the ‘animal’ in her. It is kind-of amusing to read, as she tries to decide if she will actually follow through with the engagement or not, because her desire for Dirk Pitt is so strong and so deep. I supposed what is really ‘amusing’ is that she is supposed to be a ‘strong, independent woman’ who does not need a man, yet she constantly needs Dirk and his attention and his love. He is like a ‘drug’ that she cannot get enough of. Her part in the book ends with her cursing Dirk because her desires for Dirk have interfered with her ability to convince herself she really wants to marry the ‘vanilla’ Phil Sawyer who has asked her to marry him (256 – 257). It is an interesting contrast, that she shows up in the book with Dirk in her bed in Colorado and her part ends in Washington, D.C., with another man in her bed. Her curses were rather poignant, considering her conversation with her (soon-to-be-prior) “best” friend, Felicia. They are talking politics, at first, but quickly switch to lovers as they do not want to be angry with each other after not having seen each other for a while. “I agree,” Felicia said, her mood changing. “What about you, Loren? Are there any men in your life?” “Two at the moment” . . . “You serious about either of them?” “Phil is the sort you marry: loyal, true blue, sets you on a gilded pedestal and wants you to be the mother of his children.” Felicia made a face. “He sounds perfectly mundane. What about this Pitt?” “Dirk? Sheer animal power. He makes no demands; he comes and goes like an alley cat. Dirk can never truly be owned by a woman, and yet he’s always there when you need him. The lover who turns you on but won’t stand still long enough for you to grow old with” (170). I say it is poignant because of Felicia’s subsequent betrayal and being a part of the attempted blackmailing of Loren. She originally had been the lover of Hiram Lusana, an American expatriate who moved (fled) to Africa because he was close to going to prison, again, for his many crimes. He moved to Africa, took up a ‘cause’ to free his ‘African brothers in bondage,’ and changed his name to sound more ‘African.’ Along the way, Felicia became enamored with him and joined him. However, after Hiram “gave” Felicia away for political support from one Senator Daggat, Felicia quickly changed her tune and began throwing her support behind Daggat. After Felicia’s betrayal of Loren is revealed, Loren’s hurt was pretty clear. I did like Loren’s riposte, though. ‘Loren stared at her. “So you sink to blackmail to further your great moral cause?” (243) Her anger over Felicia’s betrayal is pretty clear, yet Felicia no longer seems upset or saddened over the loss of a close friendship. It was a weird and sad moment in the book; I found it hard to believe somebody would so willingly give up a close friendship for political gain and social approval, but what do I know. (hide spoiler)] (view spoiler)[I thought the idea of piloting the Iowa up the Potomac River so it could shoot shells into Washington, D.C., was a crazy idea. I would have thought there would have been more damage, but the damage inflicted was bad enough. Well, I should say, I would have thought more shells would have been fired – I guess it is safe to say the plans of the villains were thwarted before the maximum amount of damage possible could have been inflicted. Still, though, it would have been crazy had more monuments and/or historical sites had been destroyed. It was a sad end to a proud vessel with a long, storied history. (hide spoiler)] One of the ‘better’ moments occurs at the end of the novel. (view spoiler)[Abe Steiger manages to fly his helicopter just right so that he is able to catch the shroud of the parachute for the final QD shell over the helicopter’s fuselage before turning and heading out to sea with it. If the author had not had some other idea in mind on how to ‘resolve’ this ‘final solution,’ I am sure it would have been Dirk and somebody else flying the chopper (Al being injured, having been shot in the hip while in Colorado earlier in the novel). Otherwise, it would be Al and Dirk saving the day by flying the dangling shell out to the ocean so that it could be dropped into the ocean and the QD plague die a suffocating death from immersion in water. As it was, Dirk and Al end up piloting a small airplane with a scientist and his personal argon laser on board. Well, Al is actually the one piloting the airplane. I am not quite sure what Dirk was doing at that point; providing the scientist with moral support? He does provide the foil the scientist needs to explain how the laser works, which is pretty unusual. Usually other characters are the foil for Dirk to reveal how smart he is. To everybody. (hide spoiler)] Another moment I liked had to do with Al Giordino. (view spoiler)[All to often, he is portrayed as a witless lummox, the muscle-bound brawn to Dirk’s brains and lithe strength. He left the Air Force as a Captain, so one would think he cannot be a complete idiot, yet the author has a tendency to portray Al as being a brainless oaf, as the funny sidekick to Dirk Pitt. In this novel, he actually has some good ideas in trying to decipher water—soaked documents and in trying to reveal some hidden symbols on a piece of metal salvaged from the sunken aircraft. He is clearly smarter than he is portrayed in later novels, which seems all sorts of sad, on varying levels. That means he and his knowledge, his skills, are being underutilized in subsequent stories in which he appears. (hide spoiler)] Overall, it was a fun book to revisit and reread. I am not sure when I will be ‘swinging back around’ to read this again, but it was still an enjoyable adventure to revisit. ...more flag Like · see review Aug 25, 2012 Neil rated it really liked it · review of another edition Shelves: fiction, mystery, clive-cussler-shelf, finished-in-2014 This was [and still is] an interesting, if dated book, in my opinion. My first acquaintance with this book was my uncle's bookshelf when I would spend the night at my grandparent's house - I was always fascinated by the covers of many of his paperbacks. This one was always eerie - the glowing cabin in an airplane at the bottom of a body of water. Always stood out to me. It still moves at fast pace and has all of the essential elements necessary for a Dirk Pitt novel to take place. It does have d This was [and still is] an interesting, if dated book, in my opinion. My first acquaintance with this book was my uncle's bookshelf when I would spend the night at my grandparent's house - I was always fascinated by the covers of many of his paperbacks. This one was always eerie - the glowing cabin in an airplane at the bottom of a body of water. Always stood out to me. It still moves at fast pace and has all of the essential elements necessary for a Dirk Pitt novel to take place. It does have dated references to blacks, South Africa, and attitudes towards sex and women. The plot, as usual, starts out with a journey to yesteryear. In this case, it is 1954, when a MAT aircraft is taking off from Buckley, CO, during a blizzard. The aircraft crashes in the Rocky Mountains soon after take-off and disappears. The US Military and government hide the crash. Jump to 'now' [1988] where we find our here, Dirk Pitt, enjoying an extended vacation with his love/lover, Congresswoman Loren Smith. He discovers some old aircraft parts in her father's garage, which sparks his inquisitive nature. Unable to let sleeping mysteries lie, he begins his quest to discover where the wreckage came from. He speaks with Loren's father's nearest neighbors for a bit before calling in the FAA. I enjoyed the description of Abe Steiger - essentially the 'twin' of Al Giordino. A chance remark by Abe points Dirk to searching the nearby lake, whereupon he discovers the sunken aircraft. When the Air Force and government refuse to investigate further, he absconds some of NUMA's equipment to bring the C-97 Stratocruiser to the surface. A friend in the FBI who loves crossword puzzles figures out who sent the aircraft on its final journey, and just prior to raising the aircraft Dirk pays the retired admiral a visit. He learns a horrible, undetectable, perfect, lethal pathogen [of sorts] was created in the 1950s and this bacterial strain still exists on an atoll in the Pacific. In order to determine if any of the canisters are missing from the downed plane, Dirk essentially forces his boss to ensure the aircraft will be lifted from the lake bed. Once raised, they discover eight canisters are missing. Dirk, Abe, and Al confront the Rafferty's [neighbors of Loren's dead father] about Loren's father's death and discover how the canisters were brought to the surface. From there, they track the canisters down to a private weapons depot which has sold some of them to various buyers. They track down all but two of them. Meanwhile, in South Africa, a ranch is attacked and the inhabitants brutally murdered. The husband/rancher/father is the only survivor, and the South African government convinces him to pilot a battleship up the Potomac River to attack Washington, D.C., in retaliation for the murder of his wife, children, and ranch hands. Crazy, right!?! The largest group of Black rebels will be blamed for this crazy operation. Obviously, only a Black Congressman [Daggat] and a beautiful black woman [Felicia] are capable of supporting the leader of the largest 'resistance movement'; the leader of this movement is obviously a former black criminal [Lusana] who has seen the light and decides to become the Black Messiah. Poor Loren is deceived by her friend Felicia and invites Dirk to join her in a special 'love nest'; unbeknownst to the two of them, Daggat has hired a photographer to take pictures of them copulating for extortion and blackmail. Obviously it is up to Dirk to come to the fair Loren's rescue. Had this been a later book, I am sure Daggat would have had more than a pound of flesh removed for his attempted blackmail. In this earlier novel, Dirk lets the man off the hook with a promise to never attempt to blackmail him or Loren ever again. A retired American battleship is purchased and refitted so that it can sail up the Potomac. Admiral Bass has given Dirk the information needed to ensure the pathogens in the chemical shells are safely disposed of. Parts of Washington, D.C., are destroyed. Yet, in the end, civilization [in D.C., anyway] is saved at the end of the story. I think one of the best descriptions in the book occurs when Al and Abe are rowing a boat across the lake in Colorado while Dirk handles an underwater camera/sensor: Abe is described as showering Dirk with a four-letter stare before commencing with the rowing. I found it pretty funny. The author definitely had a way with wordplay in his earlier novels I had forgotten about - I think it is something definitely missing in his later [more recent] novels. ...more May 28, 2019 Eden Thompson rated it liked it · review of another edition From my book blog www.JetBlackDragonfly.blogspot.com Vixen 03 is a Dirk Pitt adventure novel by Clive Cussler. His action hero Pitt stars in over twenty of his fifty-plus novels and was introduced to many people in the fourth Pitt novel Raise The Titanic! in 1976. Cussler has several other character series on the go, written with other co-authors (meaning they are pumping at least one new novel every few months). The Pitt adventures always seem to follow the same blueprint, but always deliver as From my book blog www.JetBlackDragonfly.blogspot.com Vixen 03 is a Dirk Pitt adventure novel by Clive Cussler. His action hero Pitt stars in over twenty of his fifty-plus novels and was introduced to many people in the fourth Pitt novel Raise The Titanic! in 1976. Cussler has several other character series on the go, written with other co-authors (meaning they are pumping at least one new novel every few months). The Pitt adventures always seem to follow the same blueprint, but always deliver as well. They are what they are - entertaining. I've seen this book around since I was a kid, Vixen 03 followed Titanic in 1978 when I was eleven. I always liked the original cover of the plane under water and wondered what mystery was aboard. Vixen 03 starts in 1954 with an exciting beginning, with a military plane on a secret uncharted mission going down for a crash landing in a snowy mountain clearing. Once the plane lands, they find the clearing was an ice covered lake, and he plane sinks. Thirty four years later, Pitt is vacationing near the lake and discovers the plane, hidden all these years, and decides to explore it. He is the Special Projects Director for the National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA) and calls in his specialist team, as well as the Navy to explore it. The secret military cargo turns out to be canisters of a toxic biological weapon en route for testing in the Pacific, which no one wants to admit to. They decide to raise the plane in order to destroy the deadly cargo and discover several canisters are missing. This leads to several other sub plots involving the African Army of Revolution trying to overthrow the government in South Africa, and a vengeful ex-Navy captain who steals a battleship equipped with the deadly toxin who wants to destroy Washington. Cussler is the tops in adventure and has millions of fans. For me, Vixen 03 was completely far fetched but just what I expected. Exciting, plot rolled right along, decent characters. Pitt was an interesting hero, and for entertainment, it was good fun. After seeing this book for so long, in my mind it was going to be all about the dive, the wreckage and the recovery. This is only a third of the book, the rest devolves into political wrangling and posturing towards the explosive finale. A little heavy on the South African overthrow plot - I wanted to stay with the wrecked plane myself. Loving books like The Poseidon Adventure from around the same time, I was hoping for something different, but still enjoyed it. ...more Jun 23, 2012 Feliks rated it really liked it · review of another edition Shelves: genre-thrillers My second-favorite favorite 'Dirk Pitt' adventure after 'Raise the Titanic'. For some reason which eludes me, this chapter in the Pitt series is somehow not as talked-up as a few of the others; when in every category it ranks superior to all but his first. Of any Cussler title this one is surely the one you can go back to over and over. Hey, I might not even re-read 'Raise the Titanic!' ever again, because that was truly such a singular, exalted, one-off experience. But in Vixen 03, what you hav My second-favorite favorite 'Dirk Pitt' adventure after 'Raise the Titanic'. For some reason which eludes me, this chapter in the Pitt series is somehow not as talked-up as a few of the others; when in every category it ranks superior to all but his first. Of any Cussler title this one is surely the one you can go back to over and over. Hey, I might not even re-read 'Raise the Titanic!' ever again, because that was truly such a singular, exalted, one-off experience. But in Vixen 03, what you have is smoothness, finesse, and such adroit good storytelling that it continually re-appeals. There are no 'bones sticking out' of this tale, no snags, no loopholes; no loose-ends. Everything within it is in perfect balance and harmony; well-proportioned blend of character and humour and action and suspense. Its a story which stands very self-contained; indeed if 'Titanic!' had never been written this episode could easily swap in for a great introduction to the basic elements of a Dirk Pitt story. There's just nothing to complain about. Pitt is flawless in this one, no mawkish quips or overdone bravado. The supporting characters too, keep their proper places. Plot: plausible, (one of the last --if not the very last--plausible Dirk Pitt plot before the franchise turned sour) and it is sufficiently rich in context and detail to convince. When I mention (above) that there are 'no bones protruding' what I'm referring to is this: other Dirk Pitt adventures to come later, always ask too much of us. They introduce us to inventions-which-haven't-been-invented-yet; and feature cameos by the "Prez of the United States" (almost any thriller will suffer from this), they introduce 'arch-villains', or spend too much time belaboring the obscurantist industry of undersea salvage. Why, fer criminey's sake...in 'Night Probe!' Cussler tries to pass off on us, a special cameo by James Bond! Come on now, just silly. Nothing of that sort of zaniness, when it comes to 'Vixen 03'. Its a sweet little thriller where its bombastic author--for once--shows some restraint and moderation. Apr 03, 2014 Paul rated it it was ok The storyline is not plausible in many ways, although the book starts with a good story. Many details in the book are technically implausible as well, as some of the actions were simply not possible (such as piloting a ship with a 22' draft up the Potomac). Many or most of the weapons and aircraft mentioned were figments of Cussler's imagination, which also sucked some of the credibility from the book. The art on the front of the Bantam paperback is of a B-29 bomber, not a C-97 cargo plane as de The storyline is not plausible in many ways, although the book starts with a good story. Many details in the book are technically implausible as well, as some of the actions were simply not possible (such as piloting a ship with a 22' draft up the Potomac). Many or most of the weapons and aircraft mentioned were figments of Cussler's imagination, which also sucked some of the credibility from the book. The art on the front of the Bantam paperback is of a B-29 bomber, not a C-97 cargo plane as described in the book. Apparently detail doesn't matter to Cussler. Is he this lazy in writing his other books? The storyline is cheaply written as if lots of action will overcome ridiculous implausibility. For example, why would the added plywood be necessary if the ship was going to move under the cover of darkness? Toward the end I had to make myself finish the book because the implausible details became piled on top of each other so as to become almost silly. ...more Nov 26, 2013 Barbara ★ rated it it was ok Shelves: x-set-in-africa, zzz-cover-transpo-boat, mystery-thriller, read-2016, x-set-in-usa-colorado, x-set-in-africa-south-africa Because of my love of the later Pitt novels, I grabbed this one without reading the premise. Boy what a mistake! This book was terrible. Heck I think Pitt appeared in only about 30% of it. Other than his time in bed with the congresswoman, Pitt actually plays a very small part of this book until the last 50 pages or so. I'm so disappointed as I usually love these books. I'll have to be more careful in choosing my books. I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone. Because of my love of the later Pitt novels, I grabbed this one without reading the premise. Boy what a mistake! This book was terrible. Heck I think Pitt appeared in only about 30% of it. Other than his time in bed with the congresswoman, Pitt actually plays a very small part of this book until the last 50 pages or so. I'm so disappointed as I usually love these books. I'll have to be more careful in choosing my books. I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone. ...more Jun 13, 2014 Greg Strandberg rated it it was amazing · review of another edition Shelves: mystery-thriller, favorites I think this is my favorite Dirk Pitt novel. It's one of the first we see his Congressional love interest, and we also get some good back story and glimpses of his hangar. But it's the gripping opening scenes and the tension with the lake that really sets it going. Cussler really began to come into his own around this point, and it shows. I'll have to pick this one up again, and if you want to just sample one book by this guy, I'd say go with Vixen 03! I think this is my favorite Dirk Pitt novel. Cussler really began to come into his own around this point, and it shows. I'll have to pick this one up again, and if you want to just sample one book by this guy, I'd say go with Vixen 03! ...more Apr 10, 2008 James rated it liked it · review of another edition Another adventure series with wondrous escapes. Always a good non-thinking read. Interesting histories in Prefaces. Saw him at Murder by the Book party in Denver years ago. He was too busy to meet. Certainly has lots of silver hair. Mar 24, 2009 Ryan Burt rated it it was ok I listened to this on Audio tape. Usually a big fan of Dirk Pitt. But he isn't even in this book for what seems like more then half of it. At one point I wasn't even sure it was the same book. The ending was good. I listened to this on Audio tape. Usually a big fan of Dirk Pitt. But he isn't even in this book for what seems like more then half of it. At one point I wasn't even sure it was the same book. The ending was good. ...more Feb 02, 2009 Steve rated it really liked it I read this one twice so far. Great story! Jul 07, 2016 Paulo Goulart rated it really liked it Shelves: aventura Liked the structure, the parallel "stories" joining towards the end... And, as always, good action! Liked the structure, the parallel "stories" joining towards the end... And, as always, good action! ...more Aug 03, 2020 Casey Carlisle rated it it was ok · review of another edition Shelves: action-adventure Misogynistic. Sexist. Discrimination. Transphobic. So many times I nearly threw up in my mouth. I figured ‘Iceberg’ as the only one of Clive Cussler’s early works as being problematic in this matter of insensitivity. But ‘Vixen 03’ is giving it a run for its money. Women are objectified just about every time they are in a scene. I hate to say it, but this was fairly typical of this James bond adventurer genre in the 70's. So I shouldn't be surprised. Thankfully Clive Cussler evolved as a writer Misogynistic. Sexist. Discrimination. Transphobic. So many times I nearly threw up in my mouth. I figured ‘Iceberg’ as the only one of Clive Cussler’s early works as being problematic in this matter of insensitivity. But ‘Vixen 03’ is giving it a run for its money. Women are objectified just about every time they are in a scene. I hate to say it, but this was fairly typical of this James bond adventurer genre in the 70's. So I shouldn't be surprised. Thankfully Clive Cussler evolved as a writer and this kind of writing is left in the past where it belongs. This was the first novel I read after the news of Cussler’s passing, and I wish it had done a better in service of his legacy. I was really disappointed and searched for some redeeming qualities. ‘Vixen 03’ deals with themes of racism, nationalism, terrorism, and international espionage. And the premise sounds interesting, as do all of Clive Cussler’s novels. They promise adventure, action and intrigue. But to be honest this left the taste of disgust in my mouth. The pacing terribly slow with frequent tangents around non-essential topics to the plot. So much time is spent building the South African contingent part of the story that Dirk Pitt was featured in less than half of the story. This did not feel like a Dirk Pitt novel, more like he swooped in at the end to resolve the mystery. The plot itself is a good one, there are plenty of red herrings, heroics and a massively woven web of intertwined actions boiling down to a single event. If it weren’t for all of the inappropriate representation, I would have really enjoyed this fare. ‘Vixen 03’ was not the Dirk Pitt I’ve come to appreciate. He felt very one-toned. An un-killable saviour, putting his life on the line to save the world (cough-America-cough) I would have liked some nuance outside of all this male bravado. Thank goodness I know it gets better in later volumes of this franchise – a bit campier and stereotypical – but better and more entertaining. The whole reading experience was marred by old-fashioned, politically incorrect attitudes. I recommend you skip this one. Jan 02, 2020 JP rated it really liked it Shelves: read-in-2020, listened-to Vixen 03 was a surprisingly good listen. From the reviews, I expected something far worse. It's Pitt to the core, with crazy action scenes, ocean (more lake really) salvage, weird ships where they shouldn't be, and Pitt getting himself mixed up in situations he has no reason to be involved in. Oh, and a sprinkling of racism and misogyny. At least it's getting better? Plotwise, the story of the doomed Vixen 03, it's discovery, and the involved salvage mission is the best part of the book. The fin Vixen 03 was a surprisingly good listen. From the reviews, I expected something far worse. It's Pitt to the core, with crazy action scenes, ocean (more lake really) salvage, weird ships where they shouldn't be, and Pitt getting himself mixed up in situations he has no reason to be involved in. Oh, and a sprinkling of racism and misogyny. At least it's getting better? Plotwise, the story of the doomed Vixen 03, it's discovery, and the involved salvage mission is the best part of the book. The final conclusion with a retired battleship, retrofitted, and sailed up (view spoiler)[the Potomac to train their guns on Washington DC (hide spoiler)] is ridiculous and would make an excellent blockbuster sequence. The plot about the African revolutionaries feels... rather racist and bizarre? I'm not actually sure, but it certainly feels very strange. That level of hatred between races and peoples is something that I thankfully have little personal experience with and felt odd in the story. It probably could have been traded out for any sort of terrorist group with little change to the plot. Overall, a good book. Not quite as good as Raise the Titanic!, but a fun listen nevertheless. ...more Goodreads Librari...: page count is missing 2 10 Apr 08, 2020 02:51PM Goodreads Librari...: Please add page-number in Vixen 03 (Danish edition) 5 22 Oct 12, 2019 03:56AM SSG: Spy/Spec-Ops...: How well do you know your military transport helicopters? 7 11 Sep 07, 2016 02:23PM Thriller > Mystery Thriller Spy Thriller > Espionage About Clive Cussler Cussler began writing novels in 1965 and published his first work featuring his continuous series hero, Dirk Pitt, in 1973. His first non-fiction, The Sea Hunters, was released in 1996. The Board of Governors of the Maritime College, State University of New York, considered The Sea Hunters in lieu of a Ph.D. thesis and awarded Cussler a Doctor of Letters degree in May, 1997. It was the first time Cussler began writing novels in 1965 and published his first work featuring his continuous series hero, Dirk Pitt, in 1973. His first non-fiction, The Sea Hunters, was released in 1996. The Board of Governors of the Maritime College, State University of New York, considered The Sea Hunters in lieu of a Ph.D. thesis and awarded Cussler a Doctor of Letters degree in May, 1997. It was the first time since the College was founded in 1874 that such a degree was bestowed. Cussler was an internationally recognized authority on shipwrecks and the founder of the National Underwater and Marine Agency, (NUMA) a 501C3 non-profit organization (named after the fictional Federal agency in his novels) that dedicates itself to preserving American maritime and naval history. He and his crew of marine experts and NUMA volunteers discovered more than 60 historically significant underwater wreck sites including the first submarine to sink a ship in battle, the Confederacy's Hunley, and its victim, the Union's Housatonic; the U-20, the U-boat that sank the Lusitania; the Cumberland, which was sunk by the famous ironclad, Merrimack; the renowned Confederate raider Florida; the Navy airship, Akron, the Republic of Texas Navy warship, Zavala, found under a parking lot in Galveston, and the Carpathia, which sank almost six years to-the-day after plucking Titanic's survivors from the sea. In addition to being the Chairman of NUMA, Cussler was also a fellow in both the Explorers Club of New York and the Royal Geographic Society in London. He was honored with the Lowell Thomas Award for outstanding underwater exploration. Cussler's books have been published in more than 40 languages in more than 100 countries. His past international bestsellers include Pacific Vortex, Mediterranean Caper, Iceberg, Raise the Titanic, Vixen 03, Night Probe, Deep Six, Cyclops, Treasure, Dragon, Sahara, Inca Gold, Shock Wave, Flood Tide, Atlantis Found, Valhalla Rising, Trojan Odyssey and Black Wind (this last with his son, Dirk Cussler); the nonfiction books The Sea Hunters, The Sea Hunters II and Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt Revealed; the NUMA® Files novels Serpent, Blue Gold, Fire Ice, White Death and Lost City (written with Paul Kemprecos); and the Oregon Files novels Sacred Stone and Golden Buddha (written with Craig Dirgo) and Dark Watch (written with Jack Du Brul). Clive Cussler died at his home in Scottsdale, Arizona on February 24, 2020. ...more Other books in the series Dirk Pitt (1 - 10 of 25 books) Books by Clive Cussler New African American Histories and Biographies to Read Now Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “We are not makers of history. 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__label__wiki	0.749548	0.749548	Lucy Dacus Announces New Album, 'Historian,' Shares "Night Shift" By Jackson Maxwell 12 December 2017 Lucy Dacus' No Burden, for awhile, was one of 2016's most criminally under-appreciated rock records. A moving, deeply personal collection of alternately comforting and volcanic songs, it immediately marked the Richmond native as one of the country's most brilliant up-and-coming songwriters. Naturally though, Dacus' talent didn't go unrecognized for too long. She signed to Matador, played a Tiny Desk Concert at NPR's headquarters and even got shouted out by Senator (and then Vice-presidential candidate) Tim Kaine in an op-ed column highlighting—among other things—some of his favorite music. Today, Dacus has announced her sophomore album, Historian. You can listen to its first single, the astounding "Night Shift," above. "This is the album I needed to make," Dacus said of Historian—which is set for a March 2 release via Matador. "Everything after this is a bonus." Dacus and her band recorded the album in Nashville last March, regrouping with No Burden producer Collin Pastore, and mixed it a few months later with John Congleton. You can preorder it here, and check out the tracklist below. Historian tracklist 1. Night Shift 2. Addictions 3. The Shell 4. Nonbeliever 5. Yours & Mine 6. Body To Flame 7. Timefighter 8. Next Of Kin 9. Pillar Of Truth 10. Historians	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1858
__label__wiki	0.672205	0.672205	January 2014 Guitar World: The Beatles' 50 Greatest Guitar Moments, Jimi Hendrix, Mark Tremonti, 15 Signature Guitars and More By Guitar World Staff 27 December 2013 The all-new January 2014 issue of Guitar World is available now! Guitar World's January 2014 issue counts down the Fab Four's 50 greatest guitar moments from their hit-making history. Also, the Beatles' Live at the BBC disc gets remastered, and now includes a companion, On Air — Live At The BBC Volume 2. Next, missing for years, a set of newly released recordings and footage from the 1968 Miami Pop Festival reveals the Jimi Hendrix Experience at a bright spot in their brief and troubled history. Also in the January issue, Guitar World pays a visit to Alter Bridge guitarist Mark Tremonti's home and private stronghold of collectible axes, amps and pinball machines. We then bring you 15 new signature guitars that can help you channel the spirit of your favorite ax slinger. PLUS, the history of artist axes; where Myles Kennedy finds his greatest musical inspiration; a eulogy for Lou Reed; and much more! Five Songs with Tabs for Guitar and Bass The Beatles - "The End" The Black Keys - "Gold on the Ceiling" The Who - "Pinball Wizard" Attila - "Payback" The Velvet Underground - "Sweet Jane" The January 2014 issue of Guitar World is available now at the Guitar World Online Store!	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1859
__label__wiki	0.590705	0.590705	7 of the best free apps for your fitness and mental health during self-isolation It's an important time to be kind to yourself... March 19, 2020 - 15:07 GMT Alex Light Coronavirus has equalled self-isolation for many of us. But we don't have to be stuck at home with nothing to do - many health, fitness, mindfulness and mediation apps are offering free content to help us get through the pandemic. With uncertainty surrounding the current coronavirus pandemic and how long we might be self-isolating for, we need kindness and a sense of community now more than ever. So it’s amazing to see apps putting commercial gain aside to offer free content - especially important considering how many people’s salaries are currently on hold. Many apps have stepped up to the plate with their free offering, and it’s set to make being stuck inside much easier - self-isolation can be detrimental to our mental health and implementing a routine that includes a variety of different activities is important. It's important to take care of your mental health during isolation From yoga classes to meditation and even exercise for your kids, these are the best apps to download now for your mental and physical health: Beeja Meditation is a powerful technique for reducing anxiety, it allows us to put a distance between ourselves and worry - something that is very important during such an anxious and uncertain time. To help, Meditation app Beeja is offering free meditation live streams every day at 12pm in the UK on its Instagram channel. The original mindfulness app, Headspace is now offering free content to help manage stress and anxiety. "There are a lot of unknowns in the world right now," the company says on its website. "To help support you through this time of crisis, we’re offering some meditations you can listen to anytime." The collection, called 'Weathering The Storm,' is free for everyone and includes meditations, sleep and movement exercises to help find some space for yourself. MORE: 13 of the best wellness apps to download as we head into spring Not technically an app, but website Help Hub is absolutely important enough to mention - this online therapy service is offering free 20-minute sessions aimed at vulnerable older people and others who are self-isolating or struggling. "Thanks to the kindness of therapists right across the country willing to work for free, the idea snowballed," said founder Ruth Chaloner. Apps are an excellent way to get your at-home workouts in Down Dog Down Dog makes a handful of fitness apps for Yoga, HIIT, Barre and Pilates. To help people stay active and engaged during self-isolation, Down Dog has made all of its app free until 1 April. "Due to the current outbreak, many people are avoiding gathering in large groups, including at yoga studios and other fitness spaces. We believe that stressful times like these are precisely when people need wellness practices the most, and we are committed to doing our part to help out," they wrote on the website. Planet Fitness is encouraging people to remain active at home during self-isolation through a series of live workouts streamed on Facebook. "Exercise can reduce stress, help you stay healthy, and keep you feeling great. So, we’re offering FREE in-home workouts, live-streamed daily, for all Planet Fitness members and non-members alike. Workouts will be led by our trainers and surprise celebrity guests," says a statement on the website. As well as these live streams, the Planet Fitness app also offers hundreds of free workouts that can be done anywhere. RELATED: 7 of the best celebrity fitness apps to download during the coronavirus pandemic With the kids being off school, fitness star Joe Wicks, aka The Body Coach, is stepping up to act as the nation’s PE teacher - every Monday to Friday at 9am, Joe will be holding 30-minute sessions on his YouTube channel. The Tone It Up app is packed full of workouts for all levels along with nutritional advice, and they’re currently offering a free 30-day membership for new users. Go quick! Hello to Kindness More about hello to kindness 10 books to transform your life in 2021: Improve your life, be happier & get motivated Meet the Hello To Kindness winner at HELLO!'s Star Women Awards 20 Thoughtful gifts to give a friend who is having a hard time 47 fun things you can do to keep yourself busy at home during the winter lockdown Feeling bad about not being productive enough during lockdown? It's time to cut yourself some slack Why you don't have to be underweight to suffer with an eating disorder 9 best adult colouring books to keep you entertained for hours in isolation Where to access mental health support: A helpful guide for World Mental Health Day 9 acts of kindness you can do for free	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1864
__label__wiki	0.748314	0.748314	E3 2013 Indie Roundup Well, ladies and gents, it would seem E3 is upon us once again. Microsoft and Sony came out guns blazing, Nintendo sort of just sat there like “hey”, and EA actually proved that they can make cool games sometimes. Oh, and Aisha Tyler bombed. Let’s just be glad she wasn’t representing Microsoft. So, E3 is obviously a huge event made for huge companies. Microsoft and Sony both had new consoles to show, full of huge AAA titles. But that doesn’t mean we, or these big companies, can forget about the indie. That’s simply not the time we live in anymore. Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo all had some amount of indie presence at E3, so today we’re going to have a nice little round-up of each and every indie title we got to see at the major events. First came Microsoft. The company had a surprisingly good conference despite recent bad press, but their indie presence was certainly not a strong point, not making a very good part 1 to the story of the indie at E3. But that doesn’t mean we were left completely dry in terms of independent development. Max: The Curse of Brotherhood is an action platformer developed by Press Play, a small studio in Denmark. The game is a 2D platformer with 3D visuals, bearing a very Pixar-esque vibe. In this game, you play as Max, a boy who one day decides that he’s sick of his little brother and uses a spell to trap him in another dimension. (personally I would have just tried to get him in time-out, but different strokes I suppose) Max follows his brother into this hostile new world armed only with a magic pencil, which he uses to help him get through by moving obstacles and creating passageways. (think Okami but probably less cool) The game looks to have a very family feature adventure vibe, and so will probably be skippable unless you have kids. I have been known to occasionally be wrong in my usually indisputable prophecies, though, so it might be checking out if you decide to go the Xbox One route. And then there was Minecraft. Microsoft started talking about all the indie games they’ve helped bring to the market, patting themselves on the back and whatnot. So naturally you would assume talk of more indie support would be afoot, right? Ha. HA HA HA. I made the same mistake, and so I was quite disappointing when it all led up to the reveal of Minecraft for Xbox One. Yes, you have to buy it again. If you’ve been holding out thus far I’m sure this version will be superior to the 360 version, but if you already have it in some other way, shape or form, you might as well skip out. Do they think indie games are Below their area of interest? Not quite. Below is a new game by Capybara studios, the folks behind the amazing Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP, and composed by Jim Guthrie. Below is a roguelike set in an enormous cavern system underneath an island. Ruins, enemies, and treasure await. And knowing Capybara, this will be a must-have for anyone with an Xbox One. Atmospheric and vaguely spooky. A Capybara game through and through. And then it was Sony’s turn. It seems to be generally agreed that Sony “won” E3 this year, and it isn’t hard to see why. They’ve got the big guns on a level that Microsoft wasn’t quite able to match this year. But we’re not here to talk about the big guns, we’re here to talk about the finer weapons. The artistically-crafted blades, the knives and katanas and vintage flintlock pistols. This isn’t a very good metaphor, but you understand what I’m getting at. Sony’s indie presence was quite significantly larger than what Microsoft was able to drum up. And they even managed to give us a good idea of what we’re getting with each of them. All of these games will be PS4 console exclusives, and several will be new releases with the system. The recently-acclaimed Don’t Starve was announced to be ported to the system. Tribute, developer of the Scott Pilgrim game, is bringing their new project Mercenary Kings to the PS4, undoubtedly leaving a mile of bullet-ridden troops in its wake. Think Scott Pilgrim with guns, guerrilla warfare, and the occasional giant robot. Other titles include a port of the PC cult classic Octodad: Dadliest Catch, the upcoming survival horror title Outlast, created by veteran-ridden team Red Barrels, and Oddworld: New N’ Tasty, a remake of the original Playstation game. The game is telling me to keep it in my pants. I am strangely unperturbed by this. Looking for something new? So far these are all things we’ve heard of before, or at the very least upcoming titles with PC builds we’ve already seen. But wait, there’s more. Switchblade Monkeys has unveiled Secret Poncho, a gloriously stylized indie shoot-em-up spaghetti western game. Ragtag Studios brings us Rays the Dead, a charming little hand-drawn adventure where you play a zombie on a mission to find out why he was killed. Galak-Z, the new title by 17-bit Games, is a side-scrolling open world space shooter reminiscent of Geometry Wars, but with less eye cancer-inducing neon. Sony also announced that indie developers will be allowed to self-publish on the PS4, a huge step in a fantastic direction. That would have been enough. They could have ended their indie showcase there and I would have walked away saying “okay Sony, very nice job”. But no. They had one more trick up their sleeve, one known as Transistor. The newest creation by Supergiant games, the company responsible for critical golden child Bastion back in 2011, Transistor promises to recapture similar fun beat-em-up gameplay to Bastion, with an even more inspired world to set it in. Transistor will be making its console debut on the PS4 next year. Runaway Red is ready to rumble. Nintendo rose with the sun that next morning. Without a legitimate conference at which to put down every fan’s constantly exaggerated expectations, nobody really knew what to expect from the Nintendo Direct broadcast we got instead. What we got was a lot of things we knew we’d see, which isn’t a bad thing. Super Smash Brothers 4 looks promising, and we got to see a new 3D Mario. Nerds rejoice! But even the big, elderly N had some indie treats to toss our way on the Wii U eshop. The games were shown quickly, without any real elaboration on each, but we get an idea of what we have. Ballpoint Adventures is a hand-drawn sidescrolling adventure which appears to involve movement between multiple 2-dimensional planes. Think Shantae: Risky’s Revenge. Coaster Crazy Deluxe is a roller coaster building game. That’s…that’s pretty much it. /shrugs WayForward’s Duck Tales remake is waddling its web-footed way to the Wii U, as will the previously mentioned Oddworld: New N’ Tasty. And speaking of old games, Capcom’s Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara will be finding its way to the system as well. The game is a combination of two classic D&D arcade titles, Tower of Doom and Shadow over Mystara, and proves to be plenty of fun for the Wii U owner in need of a little arcadey beat-em-up action. And really, don’t we all just need to beat the crap out of skeletons sometimes? The 3DS may not have gotten as much attention as the Wii U at this direct, but the same can’t be said for its games. Mutant Mudds Deluxe is splattering on to the Wii U. Scream Kitty and his Buddy on Rails is…a new game by Dakko Dakko that I honestly could not describe to you in words. I seriously have no idea whats going on there. But it looks fun, so hey! Why not! The highly-anticipated kickstarter success Shovel Knight has dug its way onto the Wii U as well as 3DS, and looks to be one hell of a fantastic return to classic Snes-stylized games. A really strange Spin the Bottle game was somehow worthy of broadcast, because y’know, family games and such. Interestingly, the indie lineup ended with A Kingdom for Kelflings. Previously an XBLA exclusive, this game puts you in the shoes of your own Mii as you build a town for a race of tiny kelflings. Be careful not to step on any. Shovel Knight seems to be the most promising of Nintendo’s downloadable offerings at the moment. Ready your gardening tools. So all in all, this was a surprisingly good E3 for the indie scene. As I said, this is the time and place for bigger studios, and we certainly had those. But, particularly in the case of Sony and Nintendo, I think it’s been proven that indie games are too big to simply be put by the wayside in any large gaming event. Yes, the independent scene is bigger at something like Pax or GDC, but it’s nice to see that (almost) no company thinks of themselves as too big to acknowledge the strength of the small. May this trend continue. So my favorite indie title we saw at E3 was easily Transistor, a game for which my passion has been boiling for quite some time now. But what about you guys? Tell me what third-party experience you can’t wait to download on your Xbox One, PS4, or Wii U in the comments below, or on our forums! 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__label__cc	0.515755	0.484245	Mettlesome Manushi Don't Let the Editor's Winsome Smile Fool You-She's a Tigress Poornima Narayanan, Delhi On a mild winter evening I walked into the home of Madhu Kishwar-social activist, intrenational lecturer and editor of Manushi, India's only "serious" magazine about women. The apartment is cozy, very Indian, with soft ikat prints, oil paintings and book-lined walls. Madhu herself, dressed in bright ethnic colors, is a petite figure. Behind her unusually expressive, soft amber eyes, I see the trenchant mind that unnerves even the boldest bullies who attempt to defend or excuse India's blatant social abuses, especially those who denigrate her women. Over tea, we talked about her personal life, her journal's birth, its tremulous adolescence and more recently, its heart-warming recognition as one of India's most intelligent and informed voices of social conscience and sensible religio/political debate. Founded in 1978 by a group of women in Delhi, "Manushi was conceived to exist for a cause, for causes, and serve as a catalyst to make our society more just and humane," Madhu summarizes. "Our task is not just to passively put together articles that come to us but to initiate positive corrective change, improvement." For this reason, the Manushi world is far more than printed words and meeting bi-monthly deadlines. Always the printed word is their most powerful tool, but Manushi's action pallette includes all kinds of strategies and endeavors-legal aid service, human rights campaigns, book publishing, even street plays, whatever. Exposing the discrimination of-and demoralizing minimalization of-women in Indian society is the tempest that thrsuts against Manushi's sails. But there is so much more. This is definitely not a for-women-only, feminists' empowerment manual. Manushi is very much every thinking man's magazine too. Muslims love it. Though Hindu, Madhu routinely comes down hardest on her own co-religionists when they can't even live up to the most basic Hindu teachings of love and respecting God in people of all faiths. In fact Manushi's elusive editorial mind-set disorients even the most loyal readers who think they have Madhu and Manushi pigeon holed. Readers were stunned when Madhu came out supporting arranged marriages (still not condemning love marriages) in a long, logically reasoned out, article (for which she interviewed 1,715 adults). Fearing she had sold out to the arch-conservative medievalists, or entrenched patriarchalists she was supposed to be emancipating her country from-or just getting old and unromantic-readers stormed her mailbox with letters crying betrayal. She stood her ground. It All Began With Rs 500 The story of Manushi's early years is the story of all "little" magazines with a conscience-uphill, bumpy, lots of begging, never enough readers. "Our initial capital consisted of no more than Rs. 500 (US$15) collected from early volunteers," Madhu reminisces. "Oftentimes we would have no money for postage, and an issue had to be put together through loans. We could not even afford a typewriter. In those early years, Manushi was on the verge of dying every day." It was daringly decided at the outset to not accept grants and advertisements. And still does not. "All our activities-including research, investigations, legal aid, etc.-are funded from subscriptions and single copy sales," Madhu proudly shares."In India, if people see that you're not in social work for personal gain-that it's not a money-making enterprise-you get a lot of affection and respect." Manushi has an impressive 6,000 subscribers-parliamentarians to housewives -and has spread wings to Europe, America, Africa and Australia on a pauper's promotional budget. Manushi sells itself. Inspired readers are its invisible sales force. The editorial focus is an evolving thing. Early issues dealt with specific social issues and hot-button incidents, notably atrocities against women, rural labor disputes, the landless poor, tribal rights, etc. However, Madhu soon realised that it was critical that readers first fully understand the subtler forces within Indian societal fabric in order to meaningfully assess any event or issue. She did not want the journal to become simply a bullhorn for "propaganda-oriented reports of struggles by different organizations." This brought a new energy to Manushi. How-awful-everything-is metamorphsosed into more of a let's-see-what-we-can-actually-do-to-help attitude. Readers responded and subscriptions jumped. New articles appeared with a marked cultural/religious focus, reflective, more philosophical. There came inspirational people profiles, presentations of Indian traditions, tribal rituals and their meaning, even humor (the hardest emotion for die-hard social activists to express.) Readers died laughing when editors ran a piece on the superiority of Indian-style over Western-style toilets! Their tenth anniversary issue,"Women Bhakta Poets"-a masterfully crafted 108 pages on the female songsters and saints who helped shape India's spiritual landscape was a masterpiece. In every issue there is always a deep-research piece by Madhu herself. "In her "In Defense of Dharma" [issue #60] she outlined a down-to-earth, yet visionary 10-point plan to strengthen Hinduism. It included the return of temples to their earliest design as potent cultural education hubs. Readers love her high-minded, lucid writing style-so refreshing in India where British-era-styled journalists still delight in floral, Victorian phrases of such hollow substanceon matters of such social consequence. Poetry, film reviews, book reviews, fiction stories and analyses of social trends and political events-with usually an angle on women-spiced up the magazine a lot. Madhu also realized that in order to accomplish real social reform in India, it was essential to factor in unique, geographic, religious values and village customs -and never formulate a fascile, one-solution-for-all approach-so often artificial, imposed, unwanted, alien and delusively panaceaic in nature. For this editorial accomplishment, she has won major journalism awards. People, Not Laws, Dictate Justice In the spirit of Gandhi, peaceful protest has been one of Manushi's most effective wedge in leveraging truth, compassion and justice. One demonstration outside the home of a young victim of dowry murder (husband torched wife with kerosene because not enough dowry was paid) sparked off hundreds of similar protests all over India. Madhu precisely pinpoints its unprecedented success: "This form of protest has certain peculiarly Indian characteristics. In our society, social opinion matters far more in regulating social behavior than do laws." Since many of her articles carry in-depth information about the legal aspects of social issues, I was curious to know if Madhu, an ex-professor, had any legal background. "No, I have no legal background at all," Madhu replied. "In fact, I believe that the present day legal profession is devilish." The fire I have heard about her flares. "They make people fight, and then drag them into interminable conflicts. When Manushi got started, a lot of abused wives came to us, right to our door, to seek help. We had perforce to go and look for lawyers who could help them. In the process, we saw how very limited were the existing laws in helping women and how limited the legal machinery is in giving people justice.There's something terribly wrong with this so-called modern system of jurisprudence that the British gave us." One issue extensively covered by Manushi is the Ramjanmabhoomi movement that culminated in massacre and bloodshed in the aftermath of the destruction of the Babri Masjid at Ayodhya in December, 1992. Madhu gets forceful: "The secular intellectuals argue that religion is unduly interfering in politics. In fact, it is the other way around. Politicians are taking over religious institutions and religious symbols with the sole aim of grabbing political power in the crudest possible fashion. I think a real believer would define religion, dharma, as a space for altruism, where you forget your self-interest in the name of God, where you seek no recognition, reward, no monetary or political gain. It's simply labor for God. Religion, or dharma, to me begins where self-interest ceases to exist. That's what makes it sacred. My mother tells me how stressful it has become for her to go to the local Arya Samaj Mandir, because, she says, they start giving political speeches against Muslims and for-or-against certain political parties. They do it even at shraddh ceremonies. She says it's where we go to seek peace, we don't go to listen to political speeches!" One would assume an opinionated magazine like Manushi would attract enemies. Strangely, it's not. "Only two kinds of people are perpetually annoyed with Manushi," Madhu relates. "One is a section of the feminist lobby in India and the other, one section of Marxists, who've been traditionally hostile." "What's their grouse ?" I ask. "That we exist," Madhu responds with a smile. "Other than that, well, in 16 years of our existence, we have so far received only one hate letter, and that from an NRI in America who never read the magazine. His fiancée was a Manushi subscriber and since she was not super-submissive, he thought Manushi was spoiling her. Other than this, Manushi has mostly evoked love and affection. I would not have survived but for this." It has been a special evening getting to know Manushi and its charismatic editor, her courage and conviction. I leave Madhu's home with good wishes for Manushi's future, inspiring Hindu society to honor women as a precious strength and better dignify their position in the home, society and workplace. Address: C/202 Lajpat Nagar 1, New Delhi, 110024 India Tel: 6833022 (Sub. Rs 60 per year) or R. Narang, 75 Fieldston Terrace, Rochester NY 14610 USA (Sub. $29/one year airmail) Sidebar: Compassionate Mettle Interview by Poornima Narayanan Hinduism Today: Is your feminism a reaction to a patriarchal family structure? Madhu Kishwar: So often-even in your question-people presuppose that I take an interest in women's issues because I came from a patriarchal family filled with male or fatherly oppression. For me, it's been the contrary. I think the reason I came to take such an active interest is that since I never was treated badly, I cannot bear to see others maltreated. To me it's an aberration. It was only after I joined college that I began to see how women grow up with such low self-esteem and therefore allow others to treat them shabbily. As a woman student trying to participate in university politics, I became more sensitive to the kind of pressures women confront. But not raised to accept an inferior, meek position, I would put my foot down and say, `No, this [mistreatment of women] cannot happen.' HT: Please tell us something about your family background. MK: There's nothing exceptional about my family background. My father worked for Life Insurance Corporation. He is now retired. My mother is a housewife. I have two younger brothers. Perhaps the only exceptional thing-which I never realized then, but I appreciate now when I see the lives of other women, in India and other parts of the world-is the amount of unconditional love support and freedom-rarely given to kids-I got from my family, no matter what I did. Not just from my parents but also my grandparents, aunts and uncles. It is the foundation of my strength and self-confidence. This has contributed the most to my ability to stand by my own beliefs and convictions. In fact, without their continued affection, I couldn't live. I think I would just wilt and die. I consider it one of the biggest blessings of my life. HT: Who are your most forceful critics, toughest challenges? MK: The only kind of women I have had problems with are Indian feminists who are overly tuned to Westernized feminism and have very little respect for their own society and people. For some reason they're the only ones who can't stand Manushi. Nothing satisfies them. I don't understand what they want, which is one of the reasons I distance myself from the Westernized feminist movement in India. I have an uneasy feeling they dislike Indian women as they are and want to remold them into creatures alienated from their own social environment. I chose not to get married. I am happy in the life I've chosen, and enjoy the work I do. It's hard, but very challenging. Yes, stressful. I'm overstressed. I'm overexhausted. I'm overworked. I also take so many pungaas, you know. I'm inviting trouble all the time. I am always calling upon my family to help out. My father will rarely walk out of the house without a copy of Manushi in his bag to get subscribers. If I asked them all to even sit on the street to polish shoes to do fundraising for Manushi, they would do it. That's the kind of unconditional love and support that surrounds me. Which is equally true for most of my friends and volunteers-males and females. HT: How do you relax-yoga or hobbies? MK: I have a lot of interests. Music is something that interests me profoundly. Theater, good cinema but, unfortunately, I have very little time for those. If I had lived in a more sane world, a more sane society where there wasn't so much injustice around, then perhaps I would have made more time for other pursuits. If I could, I would have spent my entire life on two things-music and yoga-and learning Sanskrit. But I don't have those luxuries available to me. At least not in this lifetime. HT: I know you meditate. Can you say something about this? MK: The time I spend on yoga, mediation, is, you could say, my puja time. When you're doing breathing control, you're controlling your mind, focusing it. I don't do any ritualistic pujas as such. My family inculcated this idea very strongly in all of us that doing good karma is the best puja. Also, to be honest, I haven't fully sorted out my relationship with God. The only kind of God that is acceptable to me (and luckily, our Hindu faith teaches it) is the idea that God is sarvavyapi, all pervasive, and indwelling-one who lives in every living being, connects all forms of life to each other-us to trees, plants, rivers, mountains, birds, animals. I am unwilling to ever consider God as an external creature sitting in the heavens, telling people what to do, punishing them, frightening them into submission.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1868
__label__cc	0.610336	0.389664	Economic Outlook Based on July Results The majority of U. S. economists believe that the economy continues on a very slow growth path and that the danger of a double-dip recession is not high. In July, U. S. private companies added 71,000 jobs but total employment fell by 221,000 jobs as more Census workers were laid-off. June’s private sector employment number was reduced to 31,000 people. The number of new jobs being added cannot bring down the rate of unemployment because there are more new workers (high school and college graduates) than the number of new jobs added. By comparison, California alone would need to add more than 100,000 workers each month just to accommodate the number of new workers. In July, 71,000 jobs were added nationwide. This has caused many experts to project a rising unemployment rate as more new workers enter the marketplace and some people who have stopped looking for jobs resume the job search. The “underemployment rate,” which includes part-time workers who would prefer fulltime work, and workers who have given up searching for a job, is 16.5%. Private employment in July was led by gains in manufacturing, education and health services. Manufacturing payrolls increased by 36,000 in July (about half of the total increased jobs for the month), reflecting a 21,000 rise in employment in the motor vehicles and parts industry. Service sector, construction jobs and temporary worker employment declined during the month. Construction companies reduced payrolls by 11,000. Economists point to continued strength in industrial raw materials as evidence that the economy is not weakening to the point of slipping back into a double-dip recession. However, because the unemployment rate will continue to stay high and even rise as people return to the job search, business leaders believe that Washington needs to become more supportive and positive about business. In July, the Business Roundtable, which had previously been seen as largely supportive of Washington’s agenda, changed its position in July sending the White House a 54 page letter explaining why the federal government’s policies were hurting the economy. Consumer and business confidence remain low. Seven in ten Americans believe that the economy is still in recession, and the public is conflicted about joblessness and the federal deficit. Seven in ten Americans state that reducing the jobless rate is the number one priority. At the same time, the public has grown very skeptical of budget decision making in Washington (and in some states) with more than half of Americans saying the deficit is “dangerously out of control.” Back to all Blogs Rock and Rail: Construction career on the right track Structures construction estimator sounds alarm on falsework Graniterock helps raise $30k for Aromas School with virtual fundraiser Champion of the asphalt industry wants to spread the news Graniterock CFO appointed to Monterey Bay Economic Partnership board Chico State’s concrete graduates have strong hold on job market Graniterock's safety team steers the company through the coronavirus crisis	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1885
__label__wiki	0.966117	0.966117	Councillors' u-turn on taxi fare decision after over 50 drivers say increase is too high Hackney cab drivers say adopting the same level of charges as East Lindsey District Council could have damaged trade Alex Thorp The six vehicle taxi rank on Station Approach, Grimsby. Councillors have gone back on their decision to raise taxi fares by the same level as a neighbouring local authority after the council received more than 50 objections from drivers, who claimed it could damage business. Earlier this summer, more than 130 hackney cab drivers put forward proposals which would have seen the typical tariff rise by 10p a mile. But in June, members of North East Lincolnshire Council's (NELC) community protection committee went a step further and agreed to adopt the same rates charged by East Lindsey District Council (ELDC) - a move which prompted 59 objections, 55 of which were from taxi drivers. Because of the opposition, the matter was discussed again by members of the committee at Wednesday's meeting (September 6) at Grimsby Town Hall, where councillors decided to revert back to taxi drivers' original demands. Businessmen 'lied about company's financial state and pocketed large sums of money to finance their own lifestyles' Adrian Moody, licensing manager at NELC, said concerns had been raised by hackney carriage drivers that their trade could have been damaged after committee members agreed to adopt ELDC's higher tariff. The taxi rank on Victoria Street, Grimsby. Between the hours of 7am and 11pm, hackney cab drivers across East Lindsey can charge up to £3.20 for the first half mile, with 20p for each subsequent 200 yards. And customers travelling across East Lindsey between the hours of 11pm and 7am can expect to pay up to £4.80 per half mile, plus 30p for each subsequent 200 yards. The rates are more expensive than those initially proposed by hackney carriage drivers in North East Lincolnshire, who wanted to charge £4 per mile and £1.60 each mile thereafter. Councillor Ian Lindley said he agreed with the 59 objectors. Did you shout at pair rowing in the street? "When you look at more lengthy journeys you are looking at an £11 increase to go to places like Keelby. It's a significant increase and surely it will have an impact on the amount of users who use that service on a night time," he said. "It's made me think in great detail about whether we should be approving this. In real terms it's a very significant increase." Councillor Tim Mickleburgh, who was not able to attend the original meeting in which the committee decided upon ELDC's rate, said: "I think the original proposal was fair. Otherwise it would have been a large increase which would be born by people who often don't have transport of their own. First day at newly named Beacon Academy signals start of classroom 'revolution' "If taxi drivers don't want it, why are we putting an extra burden on the people of North East Lincolnshire?" Councillor Matthew Brown argued that adopting ELDC's rate would allow hackney carriage drivers greater flexibility when charging customers because the tariff was down to the individual driver's discretion. "If we deal with a smaller increase in tariffs we are constraining them. It's about giving them freedom," he said. Six councillors voted in favour of the hackney cab drivers' original proposal, while three voted against. Two members abstained. East Lindsey District Council Covid-19 vaccines to be rolled out to over 70s and clinically extremely vulnerable UK & World NewsThis will happen from Monday, January 18, the government has announced	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1891
__label__wiki	0.820967	0.820967	Broncos bounce Mustangs in five games; move onto semi-finals for first time since 2014 THE BRONCOS NEEDED JUST FIVE GAMES TO WIN THE BOURGAULT CUP AND BEAT MELFORT IN THE SJHL QUARTER-FINALS. The Broncos are off to the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League (SJHL) semi-finals for the first time since 2014. Saturday in Melfort, Parker Tobin made 37 saves helping Humboldt blank the Mustangs 3-0 clinching the Bourgault Cup in five games. Tobin backed up Jacob Wassermann for games one and two before taking over and subsequently won three straight games in the series. The 18-year-old netminder said the team was great in front of him in the victories. “When you get in the crease you don’t want to give it up as much as I love Jacob. The boys were playing well, it was nice to be behind them. They made my job easy,” Tobin said. Jaxon Joseph opened the scoring in the first period with his sixth goal of the series against his former team. Logan Schatz made it 2-0 with a power-play goal in the second frame, Nick Shumlanski added his fourth of the series in the third period to cap the scoring. Tobin stopped short of saying the series was easy for them despite a four to one game advantage. “Every game was a battle and they took game two quite handily. I wouldn’t say it was too easy but there was an expectation we not only could do this, we should do this,” he said. The line of Joseph, Schatz, and Shumlanski scored 12 goals and provided 26 points in just five games. For the Broncos’ captain, the series win was a long time coming. “It’s been a battle my whole career here, we’ve had struggles since day one. To have this first series win is awesome. I love everyone in that room and it’s just a real cool feeling,” Schatz said. The Broncos will now meet the Nipawin Hawks in the semi-finals. Last season Nipawin swept Humboldt in the first round. Game dates will be announced soon. Previous PostCamrud plays hero in “Bourgault Cup” game four thrillerNext PostSemi-final dates set; advance tickets available at Johnny’s Bistro, Co-op gas bar	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1898
__label__wiki	0.85185	0.85185	You are at:Home»Posts Tagged "florida" Conn’s Opening Pair Of Tampa Stores Conn’s is entering the Tampa, FL, market with two stores debuting early next month and a distribution center on the way. New Winn-Dixie Stores Feature Custom Assortments With some unique touches included, Southeastern Grocers is launching four new Florida Winn-Dixie stores on November 11 with the completed conversion of three former Earth Fare stores located in Boynton Beach, Jacksonville and Lakewood Ranch and one former Lucky’s Market in Gainesville. Dollar Tree Opens Two Distribution Centers Dollar Tree has celebrated the grand opening of its 25th U.S. distribution center in Rosenberg, Texas, with a small ceremony. The company also recently started shipping product from its 26th U.S. facility in Ocala, Florida. Amazon To Open Fulfillment Center In Tampa Bay Area Amazon plans to launch a new, state-of-the-art fulfillment center in Temple Terrace, Florida. The new fulfillment center, which is anticipated to launch in 2021, will create 750 new, full-time jobs. Arizona Expansion Will Help Lift Aldi Past 2,000 U.S. Stores Aldi has opened its 2,000th store and plans to keep on growing, entering the greater Phoenix market as part of initiatives that include debuting 70 new stores by the end of the year and, to support slated Gulf Coast expansion, christening a new distribution center in Loxley, AL. Bed Bath & Beyond Plans More Layoffs As the company continues to adjust its organization, Bed Bath & Beyond plans to lay off additional workers, according to declarations filed under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act. J.C. Penney Reopening Stores In Texas, Florida, Ohio, Indiana Today, May 20, J.C. Penney has reopened 34 Texas stores, 12 Florida stores, 11 Ohio stores, and seven Indiana stores bringing the total it has operating to 153 after temporarily closings due to the COVID-19 pandemic. CVS Opening Nine Tampa HealthHub Locations As it continues to refocus operations to meet evolving consumer priorities, CVS Health is expanding its recently developed wellness format in the Tampa, FL, area. Amazon Plans New Fulfillment Center In Florida Amazon plans to open a fulfillment center in Auburndale, Florida. When the site opens, Amazon will create more than 500 new, full-time jobs for the facility, according to the company. Dollar General Celebrates Opening Of 16,000th Store Dollar General has celebrated the grand opening of its 16,000th store in Panama City, Florida. The company celebrated the milestone with a community celebration and donations to two local elementary schools at its new store, which will serve Gulf Coast residents still rebuilding from Hurricane Michael in October 2018. Conn’s Expanding Into Florida Market Conn’s is continuing to expand, entering into its 15th state with a 413,000-square-foot logistics distribution center in Lakeland, FL, which is scheduled to open in August 2020 as the retailer opens stores in the state. BJ’s Opens New Florida Store Location BJ’s Wholesale Club continues to expand with the recent opening of its newest club in Clearwater, FL. IHA Teams With Good360 For Hurricane Michael Relief Regions of the country impacted by Hurricane Michael can receive assistance from Good360, the charity the International Housewares Association has partnered with to provide hurricane victims with home goods products as they rebuild their lives and homes. Last month, IHA partnered with Good360 to help the Carolinas recover from Hurricane Florence. Publix To Expand Lakeland Headquarters Publix plans to expand its headquarters in Lakeland, FL, and add 700 additional jobs by the end of 2027. Ikea To Open Customer Distribution Center Ikea has leased additional warehouse space in Lakeland, FL, to serve as a customer distribution center supporting the Tampa, Orlando and Miami markets. Publix Purchases Florida Safeway Stores Publix has entered into an agreement to purchase three Florida stores from Safeway. Ross Readies New Store Openings Ross Dress for Less will open a new namesake store in Cooper City on July 21. Walgreens Takes New Retail Approach With Pilot Program As part of a pilot program at 17 Gainesville, Florida, area stores, Walgreens is bringing together new approaches to pricing and promotions, product selection, the shopping experience and strategic collaborations to bring new services to customers. Walmart Investing $200M In Florida Store Openings, Remodels Walmart will invest an estimated $200 million over the next year in Florida with the retailer planning new store openings and remodels of more than 40 locations in the Sunshine State. Ross Debuts First Chicago DD’s Discounts The DD’s Discounts division of Ross Dress for Less has opened its first two stores in the Chicago area.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1906
__label__wiki	0.711443	0.711443	Honda West \| Articles \| CHAPTER TWO OF THE CIVIC RENAISSANCE. \| Honda West CHAPTER TWO OF THE CIVIC RENAISSANCE. \| Honda West Articles Apr 15th, 2016 First Drive Review According to Honda research, buyers who prefer coupes to sedans are primarily seduced by styling and image, feeling that the absence of that second set of doors suggests that both car and driver possess a sporty persona. That’s not always the case, but the dynamic character of the new Civic coupe vindicates the sporty part of the proposition. The coupe’s sheetmetal is even edgier than the sedan’s, a welcome departure from the caution that has marked so many Honda designs—with tidier dimensions, more sculpting, and wheels that fill their wheel wells right to the edge of the fenders. The coupe shares the sedan’s 106.3-inch wheelbase, a sizable 3.1-inch stretch versus the previous generation. But at 176.9 inches, the new coupe is an inch shorter than its predecessor, 1.8 inches wider at 70.8 inches, and a smidge (0.1 inch) lower at 54.9 inches. It also has much wider tracks: 60.9 inches front and 61.5 rear. Although overall length has shrunk, the overhangs have diminished even more, and compared with the new sedan, the coupe is 5.4 inches shorter—all of that chopped out of the rear overhang—and almost an inch lower. The net is a coupe that looks compact in the athletic sense—squat, taut, and ready to rock. Smaller dimensions and extensive use of high-strength and ultra-high-strength steel in the body shell ought to add up to reduced mass, but the official specifications are a little murky on this score. Honda’s listed curb weights for the old coupe range from 2754 to 2916 pounds. Depending on trim level, the 2016 coupes will weigh between 2735 and 2896 pounds, according to Honda. Nevertheless, the new coupe should have a performance edge over the previous generation, thanks to its new engines—a naturally aspirated 158-hp 2.0-liter four-cylinder (in LX and LX-P models) and a 174-hp 1.5-liter turbo four (EX-T, EX-L, and Touring). In our test of a new sedan equipped with the 1.5-liter turbo and a continuously variable automatic transmission (CVT), we logged a 6.8-second zero-to-60-mph sprint. That’s just 0.3 second behind the last Civic Si we tested, and Honda insiders say that in development testing the coupe has been a little quicker than the current Si. This leads us to wonder how much power the new Si will bring to the game when it makes its appearance, as well as what its body style will be—coupe? sedan? hatchback? all three?—but Honda isn’t talking about that yet. Our initial experience with the new coupe was confined to turbo-powered versions with Honda’s torque-converter-enhanced CVT, and the impressions were much the same as those logged in our sedan test. Stomp on the throttle and once the turbo spools up, the Civic’s front tires emit a healthy chirp and forward momentum builds in a hurry. The spool-up is quick with the transmission in D, but for even quicker results, slip the lever into S. At wide-open throttle the CVT delivers simulated upshifts and exhibits little of the slipping-clutch sensations that often accompany transmissions of this type. Paddle shifters aren’t part of the deal, however, and the driver is still aware that it’s a CVT. Somewhere East of Julian Is the coupe any quicker than a similarly equipped sedan? We’ll need a test track to nail that down. But we don’t need a test track to identify an area of performance where the coupe holds an edge over its four-door cousin—as well as its rivals. That would be on the mountain roads near Julian, California, east of San Diego, where the coupe impressed. While the sedan’s unibody gets high marks for its robust structure, the coupe takes chassis rigidity a step further, with selective stiffening around the front and rear suspension pickup points. Suspension elements—dampers and springs—are also stiffer, varying by trim level. The basic LX model, for example, gets firmer damping and increased front roll stiffness. The LX-P and EX-T have increased spring rates as well as more authority in the dampers; EX-T and higher trim levels get 17-inch wheels. The EX-L and Touring models get refinements of the foregoing, including hydraulic rear bushings for better road isolation and lighter wheels for reduced unsprung weight. While the dynamic distinctions among the various trims are subtle and hard to quantify in short driving stints, the bottom line is a coupe that’s quick on its feet, responding promptly to steering inputs, with modest body motions and absolutely no drama. It’s easy to be precise with the steering, as well, thanks to an electrically assisted rack-and-pinion system that’s exceptionally quick (2.2 turns lock-to-lock), accurate, and tactile. The steering wheel further enhances the process with its just-right rim thickness and grippy feel. Pushed hard, the coupe will do exactly that—push. It’s agile, but like most front-drive cars, sporty or not, the weight bias is decidedly forward, and it’s not very difficult to provoke noisy protest from the front tires in enthusiastic cornering. A more performance-oriented tire would probably raise the understeer threshold—all models are shod with all-season rubber—and also shorten braking distances. It’s easy to modulate pressure at the brake pedal, and fade is not an issue, but we don’t anticipate much improvement over the sedan’s 178-foot stopping distance from 70 mph in our test. The new coupe posts solid marks on the comfort scorecard. Although the suspension tuning is distinctly firmer than the sedan’s, it’s also compliant enough to take the edge off sharp bumps and expansion joints. And Honda’s extensive efforts with sound insulation pay off here, just as in the sedan. The new Civics raise the bar for quiet operation among compacts. Waiting for Manual Honda insists Civics equipped with the 1.5-liter turbo engine also will get the six-speed manual-transmission option currently available with the 2.0-liter. We got a very brief experience with a manual-equipped turbo mule, a sedan in heavy camo, and found it to be typical of Honda shift-for-yourself gearboxes with short throws and crisp engagements. But the product planners get cagey about precisely when it will arrive; our best guess is late in this model year. The new infotainment and safety features that made their debut with the sedan carry forward to the coupe. Of the latter, the lane-keep assist system is particularly annoying—it’s a little random in picking up the edge and center lines, and a little too eager to intervene when it does see them. Inside, the coupe sustains the high quality of materials established by the sedan, including first-rate bucket seats, as well as a rear seat actually habitable by adults. Although the new coupe is shorter than its predecessor, the stretched wheelbase allowed Honda to expand rear-seat legroom by 5.1 inches. Like some other elements of the ongoing Civic saga, pricing remains an unknown—at least until the mid-March on-sale date. We have estimates, but that’s complicated by the revised trim levels—there are now five, culminating in the new Touring model. But this much is certain: The new Civic coupe makes the outgoing version as forgettable as last year’s curling-tournament results. And the sportiness goes well beyond mere appearance. CHAPTER TWO OF THE CIVIC RENAISSANCE. \| Honda West, 2016 honda coupe, 2016 honda civic coupe VIEW OUR NEW INVENTORY CONTACT HONDA WEST FOR MORE INFOMATION	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1908
__label__wiki	0.763104	0.763104	Friday the 13th: The Complete Collection Friday the 13th: The Complete Collection - Friday the 13th Blu-ray Review Blu-ray released by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Directed by Sean S. Cunningham Written by Victor Miller 1980, Region A, 95 minutes, Unrated Blu-ray released on September 13th, 2013 Betsy Palmer as Pamela Voorhees Adrienne King as Alice Harry Crosby as Bill Kevin Bacon as Jack Jeannine Hill as Marcy Laurie Bartham as Brenda Peter Brouwer as Steve Christy Walt Gorney as Crazy Ralph Friday the 13th is the longest-running cinematic franchise not intended as a series. Much has been written on this collection over the past three decades and I am unlikely to contribute anything new, but I will attempt to entertain and inform. I am not looking to uncover any deep philosophical views hidden in the subtext of these films, nor am I going to dismiss the movies with the casual summary, "kids go camping and they don't come home." I will say that I have been a life-long fan of the series and that I subject those around me to mini-marathons of these films whenever the titular calendar date arrives. Where is all this rambling going? Stick with me... Camp Crystal Lake is jinxed. According to the locals, it has a death curse. It seems the trouble started in the late '50s when a young boy drowned despite being supervised by a pair of teenagers. The following year the camp was forced to close when two counselors were murdered. Further attempts to open the facility were dashed with a series of fires and a scare involving a tainted water supply. Steve Christy is determined to repair his family's name by making the place successful again. When the last of his staff arrives, they are immediately put to work before Steve sets off to run errands in town. Later that night as a storm moves in, the counselors begin getting murdered one by one in increasingly violent ways. Friday the 13th kicked the idea of the slasher film into high gear and shocked audiences with its unflinching approach to violence. Much has been made of Tom Savini's makeup effects and rightly so, as they appear to be the true star of the picture. While Kevin Bacon (Tremors) would go on to eclipse the rest of the cast, Savini became a celebrity in his own right. The film suffered only a small amount of cuts (roughly 11 seconds) by the ratings board to receive an R, but the backlash that followed would have the sequels facing multiple trips to the censors. The uncut version of the picture appears on this new release and is still powerful even though the hi-def transfer belies some of the magic tricks performed. This first film in the series is kind of an anomaly when viewed along with the rest of the franchise it inspired. Unlike the sequels, it does not include the character archetypes that became so popular in the genre. These are responsible and thoughtful adults who do not deserve the punishment they receive. Sure they drink, smoke pot and fool around, but never in the presence of children and only after they have completed their work for the day. There is no angle for purity in this movie – you don't get to live just because you are a virgin. The cast of unknowns give solid performances across the board and lend an authenticity to the proceedings. As a whodunit, Friday the 13th is guilty of not introducing the killer before the final act. There really is no way of even knowing a big reveal is coming when the villain is a person never seen much less mentioned before the end of the picture. I guess you could say there are a number of suspicious characters like the motorcycle cop or even Steve Christy who conveniently steps away before the murders begin. How awesome would it have been for the local prophet, Crazy Ralph to be the killer with his creepy old man hands drawing blood for god?! Owing everything in inspiration to the success of Halloween, director Sean S. Cunningham and writer Victor Miller created a variation on Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians set in a summer camp and opted to place the murders in the spotlight, which resulted in cinematic gold. While not the first slasher, Friday the 13th cemented the formula, and many copycats followed with masked maniacs attacking people on holidays and at school functions for years to come. The film has gone on to enjoy unprecedented success and spawned nine direct sequels to date, plus a remake and a crossover with its closest competitor A Nightmare on Elm Street. Unlike the other heavy hitters in the genre, Friday the 13th plays almost like a prelude to the rest of the films in the franchise; a story strong enough to start a revolution, even without the star of the show. Reflections from Behind the Mask (may contain spoilers): Betsy Palmer was the only star in the cast and her commanding performance went so against type that she is unforgettable despite her limited screen time. She shows up in the last reel and takes total control of this film. Perhaps there was not enough time to properly introduce the character, resulting in her tipping her hand almost upon arrival, but it is still a relief when she finally appears at the camp. Mrs. Voorhees is a hypocritical psychopath. She wants to avenge the death of her son at the hands of horny teens. I get that, she's distraught. A year after Jason drowns, his mom sneaks into camp and murders two counselors who are getting frisky. It is unlikely the teens responsible for last year's accident were invited back, so these kids are simply killed for heavy petting. Making matters worse, she commits this act while young children are sleeping nearby! She really should have no beef with any of these contemporary adults. Perhaps Steve Christy was the intended target all along. Would Mrs. Voorhees have been content to kill only him? She really doesn't even give the current staff a chance before attacking them within hours of their arrival. Annie pours her heart out to Mrs. Voorhees about wanting a career helping underprivileged children and gets her throat slit in response. To add to the weirdness, she then drives around with Annie's corpse in her car for the rest of the day instead of leaving her in the woods. One more thing relating to motive: when Ned pretends to be drowning, shouldn't Mrs. Voorhees be relieved to see how quickly the others race to his aid? No, instead she kills Ned and hides under the bed while a couple makes love above her...creepy. And she tricks one of the most responsible characters from her cabin by pretending to be a child in distress just so she can kill her and later throw her through a window! Why does she feel the need to fight dirty and why is she wearing a bulky sweater in June? Video, Audio and Special Features: Video, audio and special features for this collection will be discussed on the final page of this review. Go to the next Friday Want to comment? You can leave one at the end of the review, or head over to the Horror DNA Review Forum. Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Marcus Nispel John Carl Buechler Sean S. Cunningham Victor Miller Ron Kurz Martin Kitrosser Joe Zito Barney Cohen Danny Steinmann Tom McLoughlin Manuel Fidello Daryl Haney Rob Heddon Adam Marcus Jay Hugely James Isaac Mark Swift Damian Shannon Carl Buechler Todd Farmer	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1912
__label__wiki	0.933812	0.933812	2019 Horror Comic Award Winners Horror Comic Awards Horror Comic Award Honorees CT HorrorFest The Horror News You Need! Tag: r.l. stine Series Based On R.L. Stine’s ‘The Babysitter’ Books In The Works Horror Movies and TV Shows Rob Caprilozzi - July 25, 2020 0 Big news for fans of R.L. Stine as yet another one of his works is being adapted on the small screen. Lookout Entertainment announced via Twitter that they are working with Chernin... IDW Publishing Taps Marieke Nijkamp To Pen Next ‘Goosebumps’ Series Horror Comics Rob Caprilozzi - June 17, 2020 0 IDW Publishing has announced a new entry in the Goosebumps series today with an upcoming comic called Goosebumps: Secrets of the Swamp. The five-issue series will be written by New York Times... ‘Goosebumps: Dead Of Night’ Game Arrives This Month Horror Games Thomas Tuna - June 1, 2020 0 While you're waiting for the new live-action TV series based on the R.L. Stine Goosebumps novels to debut, you can get your thrills and chills from a new game, Goosebumps: Dead Of Night. The game--which will... R.L. Stine’s ‘Just Beyond’ Heading To Disney+ In 2021 Horror Movies and TV Shows Thomas Tuna - May 8, 2020 0 The man behind the Goosebumps legacy is at it again, this time teaming with Disney to bring new characters and stories to life on the small screen. R.L. Stine's YA horror/comedy graphic novel... Live-Action ‘Goosebumps’ Set For Small Screen Horror Books Thomas Tuna - April 29, 2020 0 If you love getting that tingly feeling on your arms as much as the next horror fan, here's some great news: R.L.Stine's Goosebumps novels will get the small-screen treatment before you know... R.L. Stine’s ‘Fear Street’ Trilogy adds Sadie Sink Horror Movies and TV Shows Mark McCurley - April 4, 2019 0 Straight from Deadline, Stranger Things star Sadie Sink has joined the Fear Street film trilogy. Based off of R.L. Stine’s novel series of the same name, Fear Street hit shelves in 1989 and... ‘Fear Street’ to Begin Filming in March with Growing Cast Horror Movies and TV Shows Mark McCurley - March 13, 2019 0 Straight from Deadline, the first installment to the 20th Century Fox and Chernin Entertainment adaptation of R.L. Stine's Fear Street books series is set to begin production this month and has added... R.L. Stine’s ‘Fear Street’ Films Still in the Works Horror Books Rob Caprilozzi - November 17, 2018 0 Although it has been a while since we heard anything about the Fear Street films, R.L. Stine took to Twitter to alleviate concerns and confirm that three Fear Street movies are still... ‘Two Sentence Horror Stories’ Kimani Ray Smith: The Horror News Network Interview Article Christine Caprilozzi - January 18, 2021 0 With the latest season of the CW’s Two Sentence Horror Stories premiering last week, Horror News Network caught up with director, Kimani Ray Smith... New HBO Max Trailer Reveals Clips of ‘Godzilla vs Kong’, ‘Conjuring 3’ And More Horror Movies and TV Shows Rob Caprilozzi - January 16, 2021 0 HBO Max revealed a new trailer today which showcases some of the bigger films set to premiere on their channel in 2021. While most... ‘Hound’ Script Starring Zoey Deutch Acquired by Searchlight Horror Movies and TV Shows Mark McCurley - January 16, 2021 0 In what could definitely add some originality to the horror scene, Deadline has reported the screen rights to Hound have been acquired by Searchlight... Horror News Network	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1913
__label__cc	0.639834	0.360166	Home > Reference > Geography of India > Natural Resources of India > Water Resources in India > Indian Rivers > Himalayan Rivers > Mahanadi > Origin of Mahanadi River Origin of Mahanadi River, Indian River The origin of Mahanadi River is at Sihawa Mountain in the Chhatisgarh province. Mahanadi River starts from Sihawa mountain of Chhatisgarh province and debouches into the Bay of Bengal near Paradeep Sea Port in Orissa province. The Mahanadi takes its starting point near Sihawa in the Amarkantaka hills of Chhatisgarh. Important tributaries like Hadso, Jonk, Mand, Sone, Ib, Ong and Tel feed the river. The river flows along the boundary of Athamallik Sub-Division and Boudh District at about 8 Kms, which lies west of Boudh and Kiakata. The river however changes it's course from southeast to south near Boudh town but after passing a few kilometer it again takes a southeastern course on rocky, solid and irregular bed. After that the river moves eastward in winding course and lies few kilometers west of Tikarpara into Barmul canyon, which is locally known as Satakosia Gonda. The Gorge is 22 Kms. long and here the river meanders round wooded hills, 457 to 915 meter in height, crags and peaks of rare beauty are found along the river's course on both sides. Total length of Mahanadi since the origin is 832 Kms. of which only 77 Kms. crosses on southwest periphery of this district. This article is a stub. You can enrich by adding more information to it. Send your Write Up to content@indianetzone.com More Articles in Mahanadi (11) Mahanadi River System Origin of Mahanadi River History of Mahanadi River Geography of Mahanadi Riv... Geology of Mahanadi River Religious Importance of M... Course of River Mahanadi Mahanadi River Delta Tributaries of River Maha... (1) Mahanadi River Basin Recently Updated Articles in Geography of India • Koyna Dam Koyna Dam is the largest dam in Maharashtra. This dam has been constructed in the Koyna Nagar nestled in the Western Ghats between Chiplun and Karad. It originates from Mahabaleshwar, a hill station in the Sahyadris Mountain Range. • Jindhagada Peak Jindhagada Peak is the tallest peak of Eastern Ghats Mountain Range. • Eastern Coastal Plains The Eastern Coastal plains extend amongst the sea coast from Subarnarekha River to Kanyakumari and Eastern Ghats. The Deltas of Mahanadi, Godavari, Kaveri and Krishna River traverse these plains. The eastern coast has several sub categories in it as well. • Rocket Launches in India Rocket Launches in India were some of the biggest challenges faced by the country. India pioneered not only in manufacturing of the rockets and launching them but also designing them with the help of knowledge gained from the French scientists. • Sasthamkotta Lake Sasthamkotta is a freshwater lake in Kerala. It happens to be the largest fresh water lake in India. The lake is located at Sasthamkotta in Kollam District. It is situated at a distance of 30 kilometers from Kollam. Subscribe to Free E-Magazine on Reference	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1917
__label__cc	0.537054	0.462946	Electronic Cash Payments: Canada Loves its Debit Cards, but Will the Cashless Revolution Happen in the U.S.? By Garth A. Buchholz The INTERAC Generation Doesn't Rely On Cash Banks Assumed Consumers Would Opt for Smart Cards When Will the Cashless Revolution Happen Here? The Debit Card Is Here to Stay INTERAC Milestones in Canada Been to Canada lately? If so, you know how convenient spending money without cash can be. You can make electronic cash payments for just about anything, from groceries to taxi cab rides to home delivery pizza. Why are electronic payments so popular in Canada? And is the United States the next stop for the cashless revolution? Garth Buchholz has some answers. Designing Systems for Internet Commerce, 2nd Edition Everywhere you go in Canada, from major retail outlets to restaurants to gas stations to little kiosks, the ubiquitous INTERAC logo and the familiar electronic keypad or "pinpad" are present. Canadians have come to expect that they can make electronic cash payments just about anywhere for anything, from coast to coast. Even pizza delivery drivers bring wireless versions of the pinpads when they come to your door. Just swipe your bank-issued debit card, verify the amount on the screen, select whether you want to pay from your checking or savings account, enter your PIN (personal identification number), and press Enter. A receipt prints, and the money is automatically withdrawn from your account and issued to the retailer—who also pays an acquirer fee for each debit card transaction. In a country where even a trip to a nearby Automated Bank Machine (ABM) can be bone-chilling during the winter, Canadians don't like having to withdraw hard cash to pay for everyday purchases, and they don't like writing checks, either. Most Canadians select bank service packages in which a specific number of transactions are included along with account service fees. There are some individuals who do not select service packages, however, and a small transaction fee can be applied when a transaction occurs. Even technology-challenged little old ladies have become comfortable with completing their INTERAC transactions at their local stores, where some clerks quaintly mispronounce it as "interact." Canadians have become the world's most avid users of debit cards and ABMs. Point-of-sale debit card transactions have been offered across the country only since 1994, but in just over 10 years, INTERAC Direct Payments (IDPs) have become Canada's national debit card service. Debit cards have now surpassed cash as Canadians' preferred method of payment, especially for payments between $25.00 and $100.00. In 2004, a record 2.7 billion point-of-sale transactions were made using IDPs at almost 400,000 merchants. A whole generation of children is growing up without ever knowing what it was like before you could pay for a movie or a car rental with your debit card. "INTERAC Shared Services have been successful because they are convenient, fast, secure, and ubiquitous," says Sara Feldman, Vice President of Communications and Marketing for the INTERAC Association, which is located in Toronto, Ontario. INTERAC Association is an unincorporated, not-for-profit association; was founded in 1984 by five Canadian banks; and now boasts a diverse membership of banks, other financial institutions, and non-financial enterprises. Any company incorporated in Canada is eligible to join the Association. Feldman says, "The framework is a 'co-opetition.' On the back end, members cooperated to build the network and establish standards of service. On the front end, members are competing to sell the services to merchants and consumers in the marketplace. The reliability level of the services is well-known, and Canadians have traditionally been early adopters of new technology." Definitive XML Schema, 2nd Edition By Priscilla Walmsley XML: Visual QuickStart Guide, 2nd Edition By Kevin Howard Goldberg Designing Forms for SharePoint and InfoPath: Using InfoPath Designer 2010, 2nd Edition By Scott Roberts, Hagen Green, Jessica Meats	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1921
__label__wiki	0.973797	0.973797	Your guide to our Japanese film picks at this year's Tokyo International Film Festival In the running: Rikiya Imaizumi's "Just Only Love" is one of the films screening in the Tokyo International Film Festival's Competition section. \| © 2019 "JUST ONLY LOVE" FILM PARTNERS by Mark Schilling The Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) offers fans a rare chance to see dozens of new and classic Japanese films with English subtitles on the big screen. Among my own picks for the event’s 31st edition: ‘Another World’ (TIFF Competition): Junji Sakamoto’s drama about two friends from junior high school who reunite after a period of years — and open old wounds as they approach their 40th birthdays. Former SMAP member Goro Inagaki ditches his pop star image to play a conflicted charcoal maker. ‘Just Only Love’ (TIFF Competition): An acclaimed maker of multilayered romantic dramas, Rikiya Imaizumi returns to TIFF with a comedy about a 28-year-old OL (office lady) madly fixated on a guy who is coolly indifferent to her existence. ‘The Gun’ (Japanese Cinema Splash): Four years after winning the Japanese Cinema Splash Award for his boxing drama “100 Yen Love,” Masaharu Take returns with “The Gun.” Nijiro Murakami stars as a young man who finds a pistol by a riverbank — and lets it take over his life. ‘The Manga Master’ (Japanese Cinema Splash): Famed actor and comedian Issey Ogata stars in Moe Oki’s biopic about pioneering manga artist Rakuten Kitazawa. ’21st Century Girl’ (Japanese Cinema Splash): Fourteen short films and an animated title sequence made by young female directors, with a common theme expressed in the title. ‘Gangoose’ (Special Screenings): Yu Irie’s thriller about three thieves who target only criminals — and end up battling the yakuza. Based on a popular manga in turn based on Daisuke Suzuki’s reportage about young people scraping along at society’s depths. ‘Hard-Core’ (Special Screenings): Nobuhiro Yamashita’s black comedy about two social misfits who become inseparable buddies. The story takes a sci-fi turn when they team up with a mysterious sentient robot. Based on a 1990s manga that has become a cult hit. ‘A Geisha’s Diary / The Temple of Wild Geese / The Graceful Brute’ (Japanese Classics): 4K digital restorations of three classics by Yuzo Kawashima. A mentor to Shohei Imamura, Kawashima was long neglected by foreign critics but a re-evaluation of his brilliant social satires and penetrating dramas is now well underway. All three films star Ayako Wakao, Kawashima’s muse. TIFF, TIFF 2018	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1923
__label__cc	0.504591	0.495409	Britta Nielsen and her son remain voluntarily in prison Svindelsigtede Britta Nielsen is going voluntarily to remain in custody. This was stated by her counsel, attorney Nima Nabipour, in a text message to the news Svindelsigtede Britta Nielsen is going voluntarily to remain in custody. This was stated by her counsel, attorney Nima Nabipour, in a text message to the news agency Ritzau. Britta Nielsen would otherwise have been a judge on Tuesday to take a position as to whether she should remain in custody. According to TV2 accept her 48-year-old son also, that the remand proceeding. Thus, a judge first assess whether they should be behind bars 15. January. the Son refuses guilty. Britta Nielsen have not yet taken a position to the charges. It is not succeeded to ascertain if it still applies, since Nima Nabipour in the sms-correspondence with Ritzau do not have the answer to the question. his Son was arrested 30. October in Johannesburg international airport in south Africa. It happened, shortly after that same day he had been remanded in custody in absentia and thus international called for. 5. november was Britta Nielsen as arrested in an apartment in Johannesburg. the Mother and son arrived in Copenhagen 9. november, and the day after they were both remanded in custody. the Son sifted among other things, for receiving stolen goods of a particularly serious nature, by the from 2002 to 2018, to have received the proceeds from, or helped to hide the proceeds, as Britta Nielsen svindlede. In total hælerisigtelsen against him on 3.6 million. Some he received, through account transfers, while the other is received in the properties.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1924
__label__wiki	0.911248	0.911248	Dan Leavy James Ryan injury could open the door for Ryan Baird Gerry Thornley James Ryan would appear to be in a race against time to be fit for Ireland’s re-arranged 2020 Six Nations games against Italy at the Aviva Stadium on (...) James Ryan set for up to 12 weeks on the sidelines Eamon Donoghue James Ryan is set to be sidelined for up to 12 weeks with a shoulder injury and the Leinster lock could miss Ireland’s Six Nations clash against Italy(...) Felipe Contepomi: Lockdown a double-edged sword for the likes of Johnny Sexton John O'Sullivan There was a hint of a smile as Felipe Contepomi considered the question before responding: “Don’t always trust the photo shoots. They can make a chimp(...) Ringrose and Healy fit again as Leinster return to training All of the Leinster squad have returned to full training bar long-term casualty Dan Leavy and James Lowe, who has flown back to New Zealand for person(...) Bernard Jackman helping world’s top coaches pick each other’s brains Gavin Cummiskey June 5, 2020, 06:00 “The Secret to the Japanese Attack Speed” by Atsushi Tanabe captivated the most recent Zoom gathering of coaches. It was effectively a presentation th(...) Gerry Thornley: Stoppage could tip balance in favour of big money teams About eight minutes into the 2014 final of what was then known as the Rabo Direct Pro12 between Leinster and Glasgow, Brian O’Driscoll’s farewell game(...) Leo Cullen proud of Leinster medical staff on nation’s frontline As an Everton fan, Leo Cullen can joke about the English Premier League season ending without Liverpool being declared champions for the first time in(...) Leinster set for big financial hit if vintage season unfinished No team had set up a more rewarding and lucrative finale to the 2019-20 campaign than Leinster, unbeaten as they were after 19 wins in 19 competitive (...) Dan Leavy ready to return after ‘unbelievable job’ Live rugby cannot return soon enough, and whenever Leinster do resume playing competitively again this momentous event will be given even added resona(...) Gerry Thornley: Global pause allows rugby to tidy up the breakdown Necessity being the mother of invention, for the first time ever rugby has been forced to adopt its oft-mooted and much debated global calendar albeit(...)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1930
__label__wiki	0.646779	0.646779	Around the block: One Direction’s Harry Styles buys LA pad for $4 million March 20, 2014, 00:00 There’s a lot to be said for a good manager and a gravity-defying hairstyle, it would seem. One Direction singer Harry Styles’s notorious bad-b(...) Arctic Monkeys and One Direction clean up at Brits Indie quartet Arctic Monkeys picked up the coveted best album award and triumphed over boy band One Direction to be named best group, promptin(...) Chaps, step away from the eyeliner Puzzling isn’t it, what’s happening in Korea? No, sorry, I don’t mean the question of whether the combined might of Paddy Power and Dennis Rodman can (...) Arctic Monkeys and Haim lead NME nominations Arctic Monkeys lead the field for this year’s NME Awards with eight nominations. The annual music bash sees the Sheffield quartet competing for(...) One Direction’s cash more than doubles to €2.3m to end 2012 Gordon Deegan Co Westmeath’s Niall Horan and the other four members of boy band One Direction had £2.3 million (€2.7 million) in cash at the end of last year, accor(...) OMG it's 1D in 3D: One Direction This Is Us - the review Tara Brady HHH#weeping OMG! OMG! OMG! #Ijustcantstopstaringatthescreen… So excited! Ovaries Ache! The 1D movie is so like the most freaking awesome movie ever! I(...) One Direction movie premieres across the world One Direction’s global dominance spread a little further tonight with the world’s first multinational live premiere of the band’s biopic. The singers (...) Horan, Flatley and U2 make music rich list Jason Kennedy Despite not touring since 2011, U2’s combined wealth makes them the third highest-grossing music millionaires in Britain and Ireland. Wi(...) Girls Aloud: Cheers, Tears and Ten Years Ten years is a long time in the world of pop. Ten years ago, Justin Bieber and Harry Styles had both just turned nine years of age, their dream(...) Covid-19: Teachers urge Government to reconsider resuming special education classes 21:26 Man claimed ‘boredom at work’ led him to distribute child pornography 21:19 Judge urges mediation in Iveagh Market ownership dispute 20:53	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1931
__label__wiki	0.509618	0.509618	Yangon’s Stray Dogs TIMELINE: China-Myanmar Relations Thailand Greenlights First Phase of $5.5-bln Railway Project With China Artist’s Work Goes From Garbage Bins to International Shows KIA, TNLA Deny Planning Lashio Attacks Rakhine Farmers Seek Compensation for Police Land Seizure Mandalay Ma Ba Tha to Defy Govt Ban US Urges Myanmar to Allow UN Inquiry Into Crimes Against Rohingya Harpist Hopes to Improve Music Education Ten Things to do in Yangon This Week (July 11 – July 17) In Sketches: Myanmar’s Challenging Media Landscape News Analysis: Myanmar Army Looks to India Dengue Fever Kills 20 in Irrawaddy Division U Zaw Htay: Kofi Annan Commission is Govt ‘Shield’ Yangon Parliament Appoints New Security Minister The Lotus of SoHo Comes Home Yangon Bus Collision Death Toll Rises to 10 Security Forces Kill 2 Suspected Militants in Rakhine Journalists’ Case to Test Judiciary This Week in Parliament (July 3 – July 7) The Irrawaddy Business Roundup (July 8) Viva Italia at Parami Pizza Reporters’ Arrest Could Lead to Review of Unlawful Associations Act Hearing Date Set for Detained Myanmar Journalists A Conversation With Mikael Gravers: Research Among the Karen, Past and Present Ceasefire Monitoring Committee Criticized as ABSDF Member Awaits Sentencing Mon State Govt Probes Looting of Smuggled Goods UNHCR Chief Urges Freedom of Movement in Rakhine Frenchman Setting the Bar for Myanmar Chocolate The Art of Street Stories Myanmar Tycoon Says Economy Neglected by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s Government Sofaer, So Good Journalists Planning to Sue Police Interactive Timeline: Press Freedom Under Attack Majority of Joint Ceasefire Monitoring Committee Complaints are Territorial Disputes 60 Bn Kyats Worth of Drugs Seized in Mandalay Do Not Punish Migrant Workers, Fix a Broken System 34,000 Migrant Workers Return from Thailand Myanmar Mulls Change to Defamation Law Coal Mining in Hsipaw Township Poisoning Farmland: Report Hunger Rife Among Rohingya Children: WFP Book Review: Conflict in Myanmar: War, Politics and Religion Sittwe Police: Security Escort For Attacked Muslims Was Unarmed Restaurant Review: Daw Shan Ma Groups to File Lawsuit Against Govt to Rewrite 2008 Constitution Cash Donations Rising for Myanmar Pagodas: Religion Minister Gen Aung San’s Secretariat Office to be Restored, Open to Public on Martyrs’ Day Locals Flee as Chindwin River Swells A stray dog and its caretaker in Yangon. / Myo Min Soe / The Irrawaddy By Kyaw Phyo Tha 11 July 2017 From freedom of expression to race and gender discrimination, people at home and abroad have spoken out against human rights issues in Myanmar for years. But you rarely hear anything about animal rights. Let’s talk about it, specifically stray dogs in my city. Yangon is a divided city when it comes to mutts on the street. For those who love them, these dogs are poor creatures struggling for their survival by scavenging garbage bins or using their hunger-filled eyes to beg people for leftovers at roadside food stalls. In dog lovers’ eyes, the miserable canines are living beings who can feel hunger, pain and fear. They feed them out of sympathy and a belief that mutts have the right to live too. A stray dog in downtown Yangon. ( Thet Tun Naing / The Irrawaddy) But, sadly, in many cases, feeding is where the help ends. In Myanmar, bringing a stray home is a novel concept, even to those who care for them. Plus, vaccinating and neutering the street dogs are rarely considered. (I have to admit there are people who do handle everything, but they are outnumbered by those who don’t.) So, it is no surprise that the canine population has grown rapidly over the years, and that strays are now omnipresent on Yangon’s streets. For those who don’t like them, street dogs are a threat to their safety. Rabies is a serious concern, as Burma has the highest number of rabies-related deaths in Southeast Asia with some 1,000 deaths per year. If you are attacked by a street dog, you are on your own in most cases. Even if you know the person who cares for the dog, you would likely be told: “I don’t own the dog. It’s a stray. I just feed it.” The city municipal body, the Yangon City Development Committee (YCDC), had scattered poisoned meat around the city for decades to control the unruly population. But this method has largely failed because it never attracted public participation. Animal lovers stage a protest against poisoning strays in downtown Yangon in May. (The Irrawaddy) The method is widely criticized by dog lovers as inhumane, as the victims suffer before they die. It sickens them to see dead dogs on the street with froth around their mouths. Puppies left suckling on the pavement, unaware of their mom’s death, melt the heart of even those who think nothing of the strays otherwise. As such, dog lovers respond by hiding the mutts when they hear of mass cullings and later release them back to the streets to resume feeding and breeding. Their efforts have contributed to an increase from some 70,000 strays in 2013 to last year’s 200,000. YCDC has to stop the practice of poisoning dogs. Even though it is currently suspended, city authorities need to realize that the short-term solution doesn’t work. Animals have the right not to suffer at the hands of humans. The municipal body should emphasize options such as vaccination and sterilization, as well as open shelters like the one it is building in Hlaing Tharyar Township that is large enough to hold up to 1,000 strays. A stray dog is carried by a volunteer during a YCDC vaccination and sterilization program in July of last year. ( Myo Min Soe / The Irrawaddy) It’s taken for granted that responsible stray dog lovers will welcome the YCDC shelter. Scheduled to open in October, it could lessen the burden that these people have taken on for years. Individuals and communities have fed, sterilized and vaccinated dogs in their neighborhoods. Some have built private shelters to hide the dogs from the danger of possible poisoning. And thanks to increased Internet connectivity, people concerned with animal rights are more connected and united than ever before. If a stray dog is hit by a car or needs immediate medical treatment, members of the Emergency Animal Rescue Team (EART) are on call. This is all done with personal money or donations. These are the same people who sign petitions and recently staged a demonstration in front of City Hall against the poisoning of stray dogs. I really take my hat off to them. On the other hand, I’m worried that the YCDC shelter will become a dump site for strays. Authorities should take animal welfare into consideration and not let this become a place that jails 1,000 dogs grabbed from around the city. Apart from building the shelter, the YCDC needs to carry out the vaccination and sterilization programs it has initiated. Despite logistical and financial hurdles that make it difficult for the municipal body to follow through on this, it is the only way to curb the stray population in the long run. To make it happen, the YCDC should form an alliance with animal lovers who might be willing provide logistical and financial support, as long as the mutts they love are no longer killed. International organizations could also be asked to assist. It would also be helpful if stray dogs were welcomed into homes, but I’m not sure that will happen anytime soon. Whatever the answer is, we need to respect life. Even a stray dog shouldn’t suffer mistreatment at our hands. I believe this as someone who has been sheltering, feeding, vaccinating and sterilizing seven pariah mutts for years. Topics: Animal Rights Kyaw Phyo Tha The Irrawaddy Kyaw Phyo Tha is the News Editor of the English edition of The Irrawaddy.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1932
__label__cc	0.739208	0.260792	Interview: Roger Josefsson Interviews \| January 1, 2021 \| Image courtesy of Roger Josefsson Luca Curci talks with Roger Josefsson, one of the winners of ARTIST OF THE MONTH – DECEMBER 2020. For 30 years I have worked with a combination of collage and painting and I’m still as fascinated by the surprising possibilities of combination that can arise in this method of creating. I always start the work with preparing a workspace by scraping out paint in several layers until I feel unrestricting possibilities have arisen. After this the artistic process can start in an interacting combination of painting and collage which most often takes place at the floor of the studio where I have easy access to collage materials spread out over the floor wherein I use trial and error by adding and removing chosen material. By doing the work on the floor I also have a good overview and can let the process take its time. I also have to say that I am enormously interested in the very process, as a sort of end in itself where the result often comes as a total surprise. Normally I work on several projects at the same time which enables me to complete several works in a serial process where some sort of coherent narrative can arise. I never know in advance what I will make, I instead test the different possibilities which arise during the process. However, I can in retrospect sense an existential fundament and sometimes also an ironic element in my works. My inspiration is to create as suggestive an expression as possible where the picture, without synthetic means or strained shortcomings, can stand on its own. Luca Curci – What is art for you? Roger Josefsson – It ́s a part of my life. I am still fascinated by the creative process and it’s open possibilities. LC – What are you currently working on? RJ – After more than 40- years of work with a combination of painting and collage, in recent years I have also started sculpting in wood. Same motive and expression as before but now in 3 dimensions. LC – What’s your background? What is the experience that has influenced your work the most? RJ – Former painter. Studied at art schools in Stockholm in the 1970s and has since been active as an artist in combination with various jobs. I have many different influences but mostly I start from my own experiences. LC – Are your artworks focused on a specific theme? RJ – Yes in some way but mainly it feels more like coincidences are allowed to determine the process and this interest me a lot. LC – How is being an artist nowadays? RJ – A little different. I am not financially dependent on my creation and therefore not so familiar whit art and the gallery world. Still think that the creative process in the studio is the most primary thing in life. LC – Do visitors’ suggestions enrich yourself and your art? RJ – Of course! I ́m quite active on social media where I get in touch with other artist and get feedback. Are you an artist, architect, designer? Would you like to be featured on ITSLIQUID platform? Send an e-mail to info@itsliquid.com or fill the form below Name/Surname * Interview: Maria Stamati Interviews \| January 1, 2021 She was born in Amphilohia at 1962. She studied privately next to Rune Bergstrome (professor of school of Fine Arts in Getteborg, Sweden), in atelier of M. Veloudios too and for short time, next to K. Niarhos. She has presented 20 personal exhibitions in Greece and abroad and has taken part in more than 85 group exhibitions. Read more Interview: Lora Talbot As an undergraduate Lora studied ceramic sculpture and continued to express herself through clay for many years. She threw and hand built vessels but desired more color, depth on the surface of her sculpture. Read more ARTIST OF THE MONTH –… Events \| January 1, 2021 ITSLIQUID Group is pleased to announce the WINNERS of the ARTIST OF THE MONTH - DECEMBER 2020, a competition open to anyone and established to increase and develop the art market and the dialogue between collectors, art critics, journalists and art lovers. Making contemporary art accessible to all. Read more Interview: Martin Sigwald SiG's work is extensive, experimental, and packed with symbolism. It is inhabited by the most varied images of different times or artistic periods, these references are mixed with an iconography, which is in principle alien, to build an absolutely original and different discourse; the works provoke a new reading in a paradigmatic framework; they acquire a meaning open to reflection in the viewer. Read more	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1935
__label__cc	0.694223	0.305777	State space race gathers pace Joan Westenberg The Queensland government has ramped up efforts to snag a bigger slice of Australia’s nascent space sector, committing to the development of a Queensland Space Strategy to address space infrastructure, careers paths, and targeted STEM education. The government agreed fully or in principle to all 15 recommendations of a State Development, Natural Resources and Agricultural Industry Development Committee report on job creation opportunities that would arise from the creation of an Australian Space Agency. The report was commissioned on the heels of the Federal Government’s creation of a national space agency, to investigate and research opportunities to activate Queensland as a potential industry hub. While the Australian Space Agency itself will be based in South Australia, there are still wide ranging opportunities for other states to work towards building the fledgling industry. Queensland’s State Development, Manufacturing, Infrastructure and Planning Minister Cameron Dick affirmed the government’s interests in expanding the sector’s capabilities. “Following last year’s launch of the Queensland Aerospace 10-Year Roadmap and Action Plan and this year’s Deloitte Access Economics report on Queensland’s space industry capabilities and potential economic growth, the Committee’s recommendations show that what’s needed now is to build on our strengths and accelerate industry growth,” Mr Dick said. “The Australian Government has committed to establishing a national space industry. My vision is a future where Queensland is getting our share of the jobs and growth that will create.” Queensland has already established a vision for the industry, with the formation of the Queensland Space Industry Reference Group (QSIRG) in June last year, and the release of the Aerospace 10-Year Roadmap the same month. The roadmap highlighted the state’s advantages as a manufacturing hub for civil and defence aviation projects, and the presence of the $101 million autonomous defence cooperative research centre as building blocks for the space and aeronautical sector. QSIRG chair air vice-marshal Neil Hart positioned the report and the government’s response as contributing to a strong future for Queensland’s space and aeronautical industries. “Key enablers for the space industry include advanced manufacturing capabilities, a healthy R&D and innovation start-up ecosystem and solid base of people with STEM skills,” vice-marshal Hart said. “Initiatives like the Advanced Manufacturing, Aerospace, Defence Industries and Mining Equipment Technology and Services 10-Year Roadmaps and Action Plans, Schools of the Future STEM Strategy and the Advance Queensland suite of programs give this state a strong launch pad for space industries,” he said. Australia’s space industry has become a central focus of the innovation agenda across the country. In South Australia, the state government has been pushing its space agenda hard. The Australian Space Agency is to be headquartered at the Adelaide innovation hub, Lot Fourteen. The Marshall government last week announced a $600,000 boost for the Lot Fourteen Hub, earmarked to attract overseas companies and space tech to the hub. Meanwhile, the NSW government last week unveiled the Australian Research Council’s Training Centre for CubeSats, Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles and their Applications (CUAVA) led by the University of Sydney. CUAVA will work to develop training to support Australia’s space industry, with the Morrison Government backing the centre with $4.6m in support. NSW senator Arthur Sinodinos highlighted the important role of both the Centre itself and the space sector in Australia. “The international collaboration between leading universities, government and industry will fundamentally change the capabilities and applications of CubeSats, making the international satellite market more accessible and economical than ever before.” Related: Cameron Dick \| CUAVA \| Lot 14 \| Queensland \| Space Qld Sqhub targets creative startups Stone & Chalk’s $8m SA payday Trust in govt surges through pandemic: Study Posted on 15 September 2020 \| by James Riley The Queensland government has ramped up efforts to snag a bigger slice of Australia’s nascent space sector, committing to the development of a Queensland Space Strategy to address space... Tech can be the job creation engine: Le Busque Posted on 8 June 2020 \| by James Riley ACCC to review roaming charges Posted on 12 September 2016 \| by Mark Gregory Encryption laws need judicial oversight: INSLM Posted on 10 July 2020 \| by Denham Sadler	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1944
__label__wiki	0.863723	0.863723	Singapore firms trialling use of digital health passports to verify travellers’ COVID-19 test results 21-Dec-2020 Intellasia \| CNA \| 6:02 AM Singapore firms have developed digital health passports that can verify travellers’ COVID-19 test results, as the country gradually reopens its borders with safe management measures in place. Tech firm Affinidi said it is working with government agencies and private sector partners on trials for inbound travellers, while two other companies said they were involved in pilots for the Singapore-Hong Kong air travel bubble, which was supposed to begin on November 22 but has since been postponed. DIGITAL HEALTH PASSPORTS Digital health passports allow clinics and hospitals to share healthcare data across borders in a secure manner, using technology like blockchain. After prospective travellers take their COVID-19 test at a healthcare provider working with these apps, developers issue a QR code with the test result, which travellers show to immigration authorities. When scanned, officers can see details such as whether the laboratory is on the destination country’s whitelist, what type of test was taken, and whether it was done within the required time frame. “So we actually work directly with the clinics, hospitals and laboratories, where they send data to us securely either through an API or through our cloud-based solution, and we take that data, make it into a verifiable document, and put it into the hands of the individual in their digital health passport,” said Quah Zheng Wei, co-founder and CEO of Accredify. This is to ensure that test results have not been tampered with while ensuring that sensitive personal health records are shared only with those the user chooses to share them with. This compares to options like opening up centralised databases of medical records to countries around the world, which brings up issues of data privacy and could potentially make healthcare providers targets for cyberattacks. ENSURING RELEVANCE WITH WIDE NETWORKS Accredify has 80 labs and clinics in Singapore and Hong Kong on board, through partnerships with private healthcare providers such as Parkway Pantai and Raffles Medical Group. Next year, it aims to expand its network to about 440 clinics in Singapore that have been authorised to offer COVID-19 polymerase chain reaction tests, and it is expecting more to come on board as testing gets ramped up. Another digital health passport, ICC AOKpass, has access to a global network of about 73,000 medical providers that are regularly audited by its partner International SOS. “It provides a go-to network, especially when we’re dealing with business clients, because many of them are already serviced by this network. So the referral to the high quality clinic … that already exists in many ways through a network like that,” says Dr Chester Drum, co-founder of ICC AOKpass. “That network is present in almost every country. And that’s the advantage if you’re in a sparsely populated country in Africa, or if you’re in the middle of London, there’s access no matter where you go.” PLUGGING THE INTEROPERABILITY GAP With at least 10 digital health passports being developed by airlines, multinational organisations and private entities, a key problem will be interoperability what happens when a traveller turns up at an immigration counter with an app the officer has never seen before? “There are many providers today that are helping you to issue these test results in a way that is verifiable. The problem then is that there are many different standards, which the immigration officer or the (airline) check-in counter will need to verify against,” said Nicholas Foo, who does business development at Affinidi. Drawing a comparison with credit card payment systems, Foo said it is unlikely that a single type of digital health passport will dominate the scene. Instead, what is needed is “a single terminal (that) can read everything”. To help do so, Affinidi has built a web application it calls the Universal Verifier. “We will work with all these different standard providers to be able to read the QR codes and display the result in the same way to the immigration officer. This helps to save a lot of time, and the immigration officer doesn’t have to learn different types of standards,” said Foo. Affinidi said more details about trials in Singapore will be revealed soon. It has also received interest from other countries and is engaging them to see how it can scale up the solution. “The vision is that we will trial this in the region first, but hopefully expand this to become a more global solution in the near term,” said Foo. Affinidi currently has eight digital health passport providers on board, including Accredify and AOKpass. Others include Knowledge Catalyst, NextID, Collinson, and 3DCerts. According to the solution providers, these platforms have potential beyond international travel. “For example, when we spoke to counterparts in Malaysia, in Indonesia, there are requirements for a negative COVID-19 test to be proven for you to cross between states,” said Foo. “Negative COVID-19 test results are also required for the purposes of employment … these are very real-life applications.” Such systems may also be useful for gaining entrance into events. Providers said these solutions can also be easily adapted if proof of COVID-19 vaccinations becomes a requirement in future. “This is ultimately a game of confidence, and the more confidence you have, the more willing you are to open up borders. (Having) the confidence that the people (who) are travelling to your country have these digital certs will allow us to open the borders more quickly,” said Foo. https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/covid-19-firms-trialling-use-digital-health-passports-13805726 Category: Singapore « Dreame Technology’s Smart Factory Breaks Suction Speed Barrier to Mass Produce 150,000rpm Vacuum Motors Antengene Announces its U.S. Partner, Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc., has received FDA Approval of XPOVIO® (Selinexor) as a Treatment for Patients with Multiple Myeloma After At Least One Prior Therapy » British man, Singaporean fiancee charged after he breaches stay-home notice to meet her in hotel Singapore records 30 new Covid-19 infections, including one in the community WEF targets Marina Bay Sands for Singapore’s ‘Davos’ summit, say sources 9 NMPs chosen including ex-national swimmer Mark Chay and academic Hoon Hian Teck COVID-19: Negative test required for shore-based personnel to board vessels in Singapore Sea robbery incidents in Singapore Strait rise again in 2020 Underwater World Singapore admits to safety lapses following diver’s death Epsilon Appoints Warren Aw as Managing director, Asia-Pacific to Accelerate Growth in APAC Singapore Orchard Towers fatal brawl: Jail, fine for man who discarded alleged killer’s blood-stained T-shirt	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1948
__label__wiki	0.568904	0.568904	Current page: Victoria set to lead Australia on medicinal cannabis Victoria set to lead Australia on medicinal cannabis A $16 million investment is helping position Victoria as the country’s main hub for medicinal cannabis. As an early medicinal cannabis adopter, in 2016 Victoria became the first Australian state to legalise access to medicinal cannabis for patients in exceptional circumstances. This paved the way for doctors to now be able to prescribe medicinal cannabis to patients to treat a range of medical conditions – including children suffering severe epilepsy. And now, the world’s largest medicinal cannabis company, Canada’s Canopy Growth Corporation, will establish its Asia Pacific headquarters and research and development (R&D) centre in Victoria, generating 200 jobs and investing $16 million into the local economy through the Victorian Government's Medical Cannabis Industry Development Plan. Fast forward to 2028 and Victoria is forecast to provide medicinal cannabis products to 83,000 of 166,000 potential patients across the nation. This is tipped to net $90 million for our local economy annually and create up to 500 local jobs, from cultivation through to sales. International supply could be on the cards in the future, too. Countries such as the Netherlands and Canada already export medicinal cannabis products and with the announcement that Australia will establish an export market, Victoria is well placed to eventually supply products worldwide. Ben Quirin, Spectrum Cannabis Australia, Managing Director Ben Quirin, Spectrum Cannabis Australia, Managing Director– through its wholly-owned subsidiary Spectrum Cannabis Australia – is exploring suitable Victorian locations for a high-tech greenhouse and processing facility to produce at scale. Its priority will be on whole-plant and pharmaceutical-grade products and rigorous evidence-based physician and pharmacist education. We caught up with Ben for a talk about the way ahead for medicinal cannabis in Australia. Why Victoria for your Asia Pacific headquarters? The Victorian Government initially approached us to understand the Canadian experience. Their productive and positive approach, as well as their commitment to innovation, made it clear to us that Victoria was the right place to establish our headquarters and R&D facility. We’ve committed $16 million to generate jobs and help the Victorian Government reach its goal of creating jobs, attracting investment and developing high-quality, locally-produced products to meet patient needs. Spectrum Cannabis Australia’s priority is to domestic patients and this will be supported by our objectives to undertake local R&D, and education for the medical and general community. Who are your key audiences? Our focus will be Australian patient access, and we’ll explore other Asia Pacific areas as they come online. Our view is that consistent supply to the Australian market is a key pillar of access. Research is underway between Canopy and Agriculture Victoria. Tell us more. We signed a formal research collaboration agreement with Agriculture Victoria, part of the Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources, at the beginning of the year, which will focus on medical applications for cannabis genetics – specifically strain development, cultivation and processing. Legal access to medicinal cannabis products is available via the Special Access Scheme or Authorised Prescriber Scheme administered by the Commonwealth Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA). Discover more about medicinal cannabis Victorian Office of Medicinal Cannabis Commonwealth Therapeutic Goods Administration Commonwealth Office of Drug Control State Government of Victoria © Copyright Department of Treasury and Finance 2021 Page updated: 28 July 2020	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1949
__label__cc	0.559434	0.440566	Advanced Technical Analysis Concepts By Cory Mitchell What is the Detrended Price Oscillator (DPO)? A detrended price oscillator is an oscillator that strips out price trends in an effort to estimate the length of price cycles from peak to peak or trough to trough. Unlike other oscillators, such as the stochastic or moving average convergence divergence (MACD), the DPO is not a momentum indicator. It highlights peaks and troughs in price, which are used to estimate buy and sell points in line with the historical cycle. TradingView. The DPO is used for measuring the distance between peaks and troughs in the price/indicator. If troughs have historically been about two months apart, that may help a trader make future decisions as they can locate the most recent trough and determine that the next one may occur in about two months. Traders can use the estimated future peaks as selling opportunities or the estimated future troughs as buying opportunities. The indicator is typically set to look back over 20 to 30 periods. The Formula for the Detrended Price Oscillator (DPO) Is: DPO=Price from X2+1 periods ago−X period SMAwhere:X = Number of periods used for the look-back periodSMA = Simple Moving Average\begin{aligned} &DPO=Price~from~\frac{X}{2}+1~periods~ago-X~period~SMA\\ &\textbf{where:}\\ &\text{X = Number of periods used for the look-back period}\\ &\text{SMA = Simple Moving Average}\\ \end{aligned}DPO=Price from 2X+1 periods ago−X period SMAwhere:X = Number of periods used for the look-back periodSMA = Simple Moving Average How to Calculate the Detrended Price Oscillator (DPO) Determine a lookback period, such as 20 periods. Find the closing price from x/2 +1 periods ago. If using 20 periods, this is the price from 11 periods ago. Calculate the SMA for the last x periods. In this case, 20. Subtract the SMA value (step 3) from the closing price x/2 +1 periods ago (step 2) to get the DPO value. What Does the Detrended Price Oscillator (DPO) Tell You? The detrended price oscillator seeks to help a trader identify an asset's price cycle. It does this by comparing an SMA to a historical price that is near the middle of the look-back period. By looking at historical peaks and troughs on the indicator, which aligned with peaks and troughs in price, traders will typically draw vertical lines at these junctures and then count how much time elapsed between them. If bottoms are two months apart, that helps assess when the next buying opportunity may come. This is done by isolating the most recent trough in the indicator/price and then projecting the next bottom two months out from there. If peaks are generally 1.5 months apart, a trader could find the most recent peak and then project that the next peak will occur 1.5 months later. This projected peak/time frame can be used as an opportunity to potentially sell a position before the price retreats. To further aid with trade timing, the distance between a trough and peak could be used to estimate the length of a long trade, or the distance between a peak an a trough to estimate the length of a short trade. When the price from x/2+1 periods ago is above the SMA the indicator is positive. When the price from x/2 + 1 periods ago is below the SMA then the indicator is negative. The detrended price oscillator does not go all the way to the latest price. This is because the DPO is measuring the price x/2 +1 periods relative to the SMA, therefore the indicator will only go up to the x/2 + 1 periods ago. This is ok though because the indicator is meant to highlight historical peaks and troughs. The indicator ranges, and is also displaced into the past, and therefore isn't a real-time useful gauge for trend direction. By definition, the indicator is not be used for assessing trends. Therefore, determining which trades to take is up to the trader. During an overall uptrend, the cycle bottoms will likely present good buying opportunities, and the peaks good selling opportunities. Example of How to Use the Detrended Price Oscillator (DPO) In the example below, International Business Machines (IBM) is bottoming approximately every 1.5 to two months. Upon noticing the cycle, look for buy signals that align with this timeframe. Peaks in price are occurring every one to 1.5 months; look for sell/shorting signals that align with this cycle. Difference Between the Detrended Price Oscillator (DPO) and Commodity Channel Index (CCI) Both of these indicators attempt to capture cycles in price moves, although they do it in very different ways. The DPO is primarily used to estimate the time it takes for an asset to move from peak to peak or trough to trough (or peak to trough, or vice versa). The commodity channel index (CCI) is usually bound between +100 and -100, but a breakout from those levels indicates something important is going on, such as a new major trend is beginning. Therefore the CCI is more focused on when a major cycle could be starting or ending, and not the time between the cycles. Limitations of Using the Detrended Price Oscillator (DPO) The DPO doesn't provide trade signals on its own, but rather is an additional tool to aid in trade timing. It does this by looking at when the price peaked and bottomed in the past. While this information may provide a reference point or baseline for future expectations, there is no guarantee the historical cycle length will repeat in the future. Cycles could get longer or shorter in the future. The indicator also doesn't factor in the trend. It is up to the trader to determine which direction to trade. If an asset's price is in free fall, it may not be worth buying even at cycle bottoms since the price could keep falling soon anyway. Not all the peaks and troughs on the DPO will move to the same level. Therefore, it is also important to look at price to mark the important peaks and troughs on the indicator. Sometimes the indicator may not drop much, or move up much, yet the reversal from that level still could be a significant one for the price. An exponential moving average (EMA) is a type of moving average that places a greater weight and significance on the most recent data points. Volume analysis is the examination of the number of shares or contracts of a security that have been traded in a given time period. Moving Average (MA) Definition A moving average is a technical analysis indicator that helps smooth out price action by filtering out the “noise” from random price fluctuations. Williams %R Definition and Uses Williams %R is a momentum indicator in technical analysis that measures overbought and oversold levels. It is similar to the stochastic oscillator in how it generates trade signals. Ichimoku Cloud Definition and Uses The Ichimoku cloud is a technical analysis indicator, which includes multiple lines, that help define the support, resistance, momentum, and trend direction of an asset. Point-and-Figure (P&F) Chart Definition and Tactics A point-and-figure (P&F) chart plots price movements as a series of stacked X's or O's that do not take into consideration the passage of time. The charts may help traders see trends and reversals more clearly. What Is the Moving Average Convergence Divergence, and How Is It Calculated? 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__label__wiki	0.583262	0.583262	Ivins Secures Post-Mayo Victory in Federal Circuit Invalidating Treasury Regulation -- Dominion Resources v. United States In Dominion Resources, Inc. v. United States, decided on May 31, 2012, in which Eric Fox, Les Schneider, and Pat Smith of Ivins, Phillips & Barker represented Ivins’ long-time client, Dominion Resources, the Federal Circuit drove home the point that the Supreme Court’s ruling in Mayo Foundation For Medical Education and Research v. United States, 131 S. Ct. 704 ( 2011), that the two part test established in Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 467 U.S. 837 (1984), applies to tax regulations by no means created the nearly insurmountable obstacle to challenges to IRS regulations that many practitioners and even some in the IRS believed. Rather, as Ivins’ Pat Smith has noted in his writings since the Mayo ruling, the case was a double edged sword for the IRS, requiring it to meet the standards of the Administrative Procedure Act just as any other agency must do. The Federal Circuit underscored the correctness of this view today in a ruling that held that a provision of the interest capitalization regulations under section 263A is invalid under the second step of the Chevron test as being an unreasonable interpretation of the statute, as well as being in violation of the arbitrary and capricious standard in the Administrative Procedure Act, based on the failure to provide an explanation of the reasons for the provision as required by Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co., 463 U.S. 29 (1983). Eric Fox Leslie Schneider Standards for Tax Court Review in Equitable Innocent Spouse Cases Tax Notes, 02.20.2012 The APA’s Reasoned-Explanation Rule and IRS Deficiency Notices Is the Anti-Injunction Act Jurisdictional? DC Circuit: 'The IRS Is Not Special' Omissions From Gross Income and ‘Numerators and Denominators’ Life After Mayo: Silver Linings Mannella, State Farm, and the Arbitrary and Capricious Standard Omissions from Gross Income & Retroactivity Mayo and Chenery: Too Much of a Shift in Rationale? Gaps in the Seventh Circuit's Reasoning in Lantz Omissions From Gross Income And the Chenery Rule Brand X and Omissions From Gross Income The IPB Difference Highlights from Our History Search & Directory Federal Tax Policy & Advocacy Tax Planning & Advisory Services IRS Appeals Proceedings Arbitration & Litigation Support Payroll Tax & Fringe Benefits Plan Investments Vendor Contracting & HR Outsourcing Gift & Estate Tax Planning Income Tax Planning International Planning & Compliance Privately Held Businesses Exempt Organizations & Charitable Giving Recruiting Contact IPB Washington, DC IPB Dallas, TX © 2021 Ivins, Phillips & Barker, Chartered	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1952
__label__cc	0.723023	0.276977	Here’s What a Designer Thinks About the iPad Pro by Usman Qureshi – Fri, November 13, 2015 Design director at Vox Media Carrie Ruby has shared her thoughts on the iPad Pro in an article over at The Verge, saying that after using the 12.9-inch device at work for a few days, it has exceeded her expectations. However, she notes that while the ability to move from app to app with ease or use multiple apps at the same time made the iPad much more useful, she still wasn’t able to perform all her day-to-day tasks on it, and ended up reverting back to her laptop apps. Ruby shares that a typical day for her revolves around various Adobe Creative Cloud applications. So when she got the iPad Pro, she immediately downloaded Draw, Sketch, and Comp, the mobile versions of the heavier desktop apps that she normally uses, but wanted to try and integrate them in her current projects and tasks into the various apps. I particularly liked using Adobe Comp on the Pro. I could work this app into my daily workflow, for sure. Creating a wireframe was simple and fast. You just draw a box and quickly make an “X” in the middle and it instantly turns into a shape that you can move and adjust as well as fill with an image. Next, when you need a few lines of copy, you just draw a couple parallel lines and end it with a dot. This instantly turns into placeholder text. Images are easy to pop in and manipulate. But I wasn’t quite as impressed with some of the other iPad Pro versions of the Adobe apps. For someone trying to do simple sketches or wireframes, the apps work. Anything heavier, I found too cumbersome and complicated to do, and ended up reverting back to my laptop programs. Regarding the Apple Pencil, she says that it works extremely well. “I’ve tried a few different brands of styluses in the past, and never have I been wowed like I am with this one”, she writes. “It’s comfortable in the hand, it’s incredibly precise, and it felt natural. Using it with Apple Notes has virtually no lag. It’s fast and keeps up with my messy writing, almost making it better.” You can read the interesting review in full at this link. Get a 10ft/3m MFi-Certified Lightning Cable for $19.99, Shipped Free [Deals] Fri, November 13, 2015	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1954
__label__wiki	0.614751	0.614751	Royal Bank Customer Loses $1,734 During an E-Transfer by Usman Qureshi – Mon, May 13, 2019 A Royal Bank of Canada customer, who had $1,734 stolen during an e-transfer, has warned that transferring money by email is much riskier than people realize. According to CBC News, the theft occurred when a fraudster intercepted an RBC e-transfer transaction and diverted the money to his own account at another bank. Anne Hoover from Peterborough, Ont., said that misleading marketing made her think that Interac and RBC would protect her from fraud if something went wrong during an e-transfer, but they didn’t. “I always use e-transfer,” Hoover said. “I thought it was a safe way to send money.” An internal investigation by RBC found that the email account of Hoover’s friend Fran Fearnley, whom she was transferring the money, had been hacked and when Hoover sent the e-transfer, the fraudster figured out the answer for the security question necessary to deposit the money and used it to redirect the transfer: How you manage those passwords is very important,” says Claudiu Popa, author of The Canadian Cyberfraud Handbook and a cybersecurity expert who advises government and companies. “Banks and financial institutions have made it very easy to transfer money via email. Unfortunately, with convenience comes lack of security.” Although the bank is blaming the theft on Fearnley’s email security, the manager has offered Hoover half the missing funds as a “gesture of goodwill.” Tesla’s Japanese Battery Supplier Predicts Falling Annual Earnings	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1955
__label__wiki	0.664326	0.664326	TV Series 8/24 Airing DUB Enen no Shouboutai: Ni no Shou [DUB] Score: 7.99/10 Genre: Action, Shounen, Supernatural Status: Airing Summary: Second season of Enen no... SUPER HXEROS [DUB] Genre: Action, Comedy, Ecchi, School, Shounen, Supernatural Summary: In a world on the verge of a great disaster that began five years ago, heroes who, with the help of a device called HxEros, use the power of Ecchi (H) and erotic power (Ero) to save the planet from libido-devouring monsters! Enjou Retto and Hoshino Kirara are childhood friends who have drifted apart from each other. One day, they're caught in a battle against a "Censor Bug" that feeds on human's... Kakushigoto [DUB] Summary: "We will open the curtain back in time, to the story of one lone manga creator." This story is about Gotou Kakushi, an artist who draws a somewhat vulgar manga, and tries to hide it for the sake of his daughter, Hime. A father-daughter tale of love and laughter. (Source: MU,... TV Series 167/? Airing Genre: Action, Adventure, Martial Arts, Shounen, Super Power Episodes: ? Summary: Following the successful end of the Fourth Shinobi World War, Konohagakure has been enjoying a period of peace, prosperity, and extraordinary technological advancement. This is all due to the efforts of the Allied Shinobi Forces and the village's Seventh Hokage, Naruto Uzumaki. Now resembling a modern metropolis, Konohagakure has changed, particularly the life of a shinobi. Under the watchful eye... TV Series 135/? Airing DUB Black Clover [DUB] Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Magic, Shounen Summary: Asta and Yuno were abandoned at the same church on the same day. Raised together as children, they came to know of the "Wizard King"—a title given to the strongest mage in the kingdom—and promised that they would compete against each other for the position of the next Wizard King. However, as they grew up, the stark difference between them became evident. While Yuno is able to wield magic... TV Series 50/50 Airing Genre: Comedy, Drama, School, Shounen, Sports Summary: Lacking what is considered the most important asset in basketball, Sora Kurumatani has struggled with his short height since the inception of his love for the game. Despite missing this beneficial aspect, Sora's unwavering drive never allowed his small stature to dictate his ability to play, believing strongly in trying his hardest and persistently practicing to prove his capability. In hopes of... TV Series 33/50 Airing DUB Ahiru no Sora [DUB] TV Series 13/? Airing Food Wars! The Fifth Plate Shokugeki no Souma: Gou no Sara Genre: Ecchi, School, Shounen Summary: Fifth season of Shokugeki no... Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Shounen, Super Power Summary: Gol D. Roger was known as the "Pirate King," the strongest and most infamous being to have sailed the Grand Line. The capture and execution of Roger by the World Government brought a change throughout the world. His last words before his death revealed the existence of the greatest treasure in the world, One Piece. It was this revelation that brought about the Grand Age of Pirates, men who... Genre: Comedy, Drama, Shounen, Sports Summary: Second season of Major... TV Series 5/Unknown Airing DUB Kanojo, Okarishimasu [DUB] Score: N/A/10 Genre: Comedy, Romance, School, Shounen Episodes: Unknown Summary: Dumped by his girlfriend, emotionally shattered college student Kazuya Kinoshita attempts to appease the void in his heart through a rental girlfriend from a mobile app. At first, Chizuru Mizuhara seems to be the perfect girl with everything he could possibly ask for: great looks and a cute, caring personality. Upon seeing mixed opinions on her profile after their first date, and still tormented... TV Series 12/12 Finished Detective Conan (TV) Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Mystery, Police, Shounen Summary: Shinichi Kudou, a high school student of astounding talent in detective work, is well known for having solved several challenging cases. One day, when Shinichi spots two suspicious men and decides to follow them, he inadvertently becomes witness to a disturbing illegal activity. Unfortunately, he is caught in the act, so the men dose him with an experimental drug formulated by their criminal... TV Series 12/Unknown Finished Muhyo & Roji's Bureau of Supernatural Investigation 2nd Season Muhyo to Rouji no Mahouritsu Soudan Jimusho 2nd Season Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Shounen, Supernatural Summary: Second season of Muhyo to Rouji no Mahouritsu Soudan... Genre: Comedy, Shounen Summary: Inside the human body, roughly 37.2 trillion cells work energetically 24 hours a day and 365 days a year. Fresh out of training, the cheerful and somewhat airheaded Red Blood Cell AE3803 is ready to take on the ever-so-important task of transporting oxygen. As usual, White Blood Cell U-1146 is hard at work patrolling and eliminating foreign bacteria seeking to make the body their new lair.... TV Series ?/12 Finished Muhyo & Roji's Bureau of Supernatural Investigation Summary: Are you a victim of unwanted spirit possession? Is there a ghost you need sent up and away...or down to burn for all eternity? If the answer is yes, then you need Muhyo and Roji, experts in magic law. Serving justice to evil spirits is their specialty. (Source: VIZ... Genre: Comedy, Ecchi, Harem, Romance, Shounen, Supernatural Summary: Once a hot springs inn, now a boarding house with extraordinarily cheap rent, Yuragi-sou is virtually uninhabited save for a few peculiar residents. As rumor has it, it is haunted by a vile ghost which scares away all potential tenants. Therefore, it is the perfect refuge for Fuyuzora Kogarashi—a broke, homeless psychic seeking an affordable roof to stay under and ghosts to exorcise. Kogarashi... TV Series 24/24 Finished DUB Plunderer [DUB] Genre: Action, Ecchi, Fantasy, Shounen Summary: In a post-apocalyptic world dominated by the so-called "Numbers," each human will have their identity branded with their own "Count," which could define any number related to their life. May it be one's walked distance or amount of compliments given to them by others, this Count could lead them to the abyss when it has dropped to zero. In the year 305 of the Alcian calendar, Hina has inherited a... One Piece [DUB] ONA 2/2 Finished My Hero Academia: Make It! Do-or-Die Survival Training Boku no Hero Academia: Ikinokore! Kesshi no Survival Kunren Genre: Action, Comedy, School, Shounen, Super Power, Uncategorized Summary: In this brand-new adventure, some Class 1-A students are sent to hone their survival skills at a training course. Having yet to receive their provisional licenses, they're eager to cut loose and have a little fun. They quickly discover that the danger they face is no simulation! It's going to take their combined training, teamwork, and quick thinking if they're going to pass this assignment!... TV Series 3/12 Finished DUB Happy Sugar Life [DUB] Genre: Drama, Horror, Psychological, Shounen Summary: Satou Matsuzaka is a beautiful high schooler who has a reputation for being permissive with men. However, a chance encounter with a young girl named Shio Koube makes Satou realize that this is her first and only true feeling of love. Telling others that she lives with her aunt, Satou secretly shares an apartment with Shio. Despite her innocent appearance, Satou is willing to do anything to... Le Cirque de Karakuri Karakuri Circus (TV) Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Shounen Summary: Narumi Katou is a middle-aged man who suffers from the bizarre ZONAPHA Syndrome: a rare and inexplicable disease that causes its victims to endure severe seizures at random, with the only cure being to watch someone laugh. One day, during Narumi's part time job, a young boy with a giant suitcase fleeing from three adults runs into him. The boy introduces himself as Masaru Saiga, the new owner of... JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken Part 5: Ougon no Kaze Genre: Action, Adventure, Shounen Summary: In the coastal city of Naples, corruption is teeming—the police blatantly conspire with outlaws, drugs run rampant around the youth, and the mafia governs the streets with an iron fist. However, various fateful encounters will soon occur. Enter Giorno Giovanna, a 15-year-old boy with an eccentric connection to the Joestar family, who makes a living out of part-time jobs and pickpocketing.... Smile Down the Runway [DUB] Genre: Drama, School, Shounen, Slice of Life Summary: Being the daughter of a modeling agency owner, Chiyuki Fujito aspires to represent her father's agency in the prestigious Paris Fashion Week, shining under the spotlight as a runway model. However, although she is equipped with great looks and talent, she unfortunately lacks a key element in becoming a successful model—height. Stuck at 158 cm even after entering high school, her childhood dream... As Miss Beelzebub Likes. Beelzebub-jou no Okinimesu mama. Genre: Comedy, Demons, Fantasy, Romance, Shounen Summary: According to legend, Beelzebub, one of the seven princes of Hell, betrayed God and was banished from Heaven for eternity. Beelzebub now leads the kingdom of Pandemonium, where all former angels roam and work every single day of their immortal lives. A devil like him would give people chills at the mere mention of his name, but… What if Beelzebub is not as evil as initially thought? What if he... Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun [DUB] Genre: Comedy, Demons, Fantasy, School, Shounen, Supernatural Summary: Fourteen-year-old Iruma Suzuki has been unfortunate all his life, having to work to earn money for his irresponsible parents despite being underage. One day, he finds out that his parents sold him to the demon Sullivan. However, Iruma's worries about what will become of him are soon relieved, for Sullivan merely wants a grandchild, pampering him and making him attend the demon school Babyls. At... Hinomaru Sumo [DUB] Genre: Martial Arts, Shounen, Sports Summary: In professional sumo, there are no weight classes. 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__label__wiki	0.857532	0.857532	J-Si kPod Staff Podcasts KiddTV KiddNation App Show Bits Showbiz Top 5 Love Letters to Kellie Flush the Format Behind The Mic Viral Vids Canalside Lounge Kidd’s Kids 800-KIDD-LIV / 800-543-3548 Liam Payne “Calls” Harry Styles Over FaceTime In New TikTok Beavis and Butt-Head’ reboot… Vanilla Ice will perform for thousands in Texas… Chromatica Ball is moving to Summer 2021… Friends reunion special will likely start before the end of summer… and Something is happening with One Direction Mike Judge said, “It seemed like the time was right to get stupid again.” Comedy Central has ordered two seasons of “Beavis and Butt-head,” and Mike Judge is back to write, produce and do both voices, just like he did when the show debuted on MTV in 1992. Part of the bit is these guys sitting on the couch watching and commenting on music videos, and Billboard.com has a poll asking whose videos Beavis and Butt-Head should review in the new season. The choices they give us are BTS, The Weeknd, Bad Bunny, Ariana Grande, Blackpink, Beyoncé, Harry Styles, and Lady Gaga. Comedy Central orders two seasons of a ‘Beavis and Butt-Head’ reboot headed by Mike Judge 🛋 The deal includes potential spin-offs and specials (via @Variety \| https://t.co/jn71VpsGlx) pic.twitter.com/oQRmqT5cCs— Fandom (@getFANDOM) July 1, 2020 Vanilla Ice is getting blasted for throwing his “Independence Day Throwback Beach Party” tomorrow night at a venue on Lake Travis, just outside of Austin. He promoted it on his Instagram page, saying, “I can’t wait to get back to this. The 90s were the best. We didn’t have coronavirus, or cell phones, or computers. we had 5.0’s, blockbuster, Beavis and Butthead, Wayne’s world, Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan. And Mortal Kombat is still better than fortnight but we got out of the house, We danced, we invented house parties in the 90s. The last of the great decades. #IMissThenineties.” The venue is selling up to 2500 tickets priced between $25-$300. Ice cold: Vanilla Ice will perform for thousands in Texas, where coronavirus cases are surging. “We didn’t have coronavirus” in 1990s, the rapper said. https://t.co/9S4LlZZZgo— Entertainment Weekly (@EW) July 1, 2020 Jay-Z has canceled his annual “Made in America” festival, which was supposed to take place over Labor Day weekend in Philadelphia. This is the first time the festival’s been canceled since Jay-Z started it in 2012. They’ll just pick back up in 2021 and honor any tickets bought for 2020. And Lady Gaga’s is moving her Chromatica Ball stadium tour to the summer of 2021. .@ladygaga announced #Chromatica Ball is officially moving to Summer 2021. https://t.co/cWV2x2aHpi— billboard (@billboard) June 26, 2020 The “Friends” reunion we were promised when HBO Max debuted in May didn’t happen. But if things go according to the current plan, filming will take place next month on the same stage where the show was filmed — Stage 24 of the Warner Bros. Studio lot in Burbank. All six cast members and the show’s co-creators, Marta Kauffman and David Crane, are expected to be there. The original plan was to film the reunion in front of a studio audience. No word on if that has changed. HBO Max is currently running all 236 episodes of “Friends.” ‘Friends’ co-creator Marta Kauffman said shooting on the reunion special, originally due out when HBO Max debuted and delayed due to COVID-19, will likely start before the end of summer. https://t.co/3qFtEVAcdk— Captivate (@Captivate) June 24, 2020 Three weeks from today — July 23, 2020 — is One Direction’s 10th anniversary. Yes, it was 10 years ago when five young lads dreaming of solo stardom competed on “The X Factor” only to be put together as a group. The rest is history. One Direction has been “on hiatus” since 2016, and anticipation is building that they will finally reunite to mark the day the boy band was born. Just a few days ago, Harry Styles was seen walking around London with Ben Winston. He produced and directed a bunch of 1D projects and music videos, and he’s now an executive producer on James Corden’s “The Late Late Show.” We all know how close James is to the guys in 1D, so if there is a reunion, it’s assumed he’ll be involved. And then yesterday, Liam Payne posted a TikTok video that got Directioners all giddy. It starts with him FaceTiming a contact listed as “H.” Harry answers, but it’s just a video loop of him giggling. After Liam tries to make conversation, he says, “All right, it’s getting weird now” and hangs up. 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__label__wiki	0.592603	0.592603	Jack.org Nominated for Champion of Mental Health Award May 12, 2016 Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Congratulations to our students who run Jack.Org at King’s on being nominated for a Champion of Mental Health Award. Six King’s students, Samantha Radley, Nicole Off, Nicole Turner, La-Keasha Moore, Heather Steinmann and Colleen Dolliver were recognized for their work at the 10th Annual Breakfast of Champions in London, before a crowd of 1000 guests. The event is organized by St. Joseph’s Health Care Foundation in collaboration with the Canadian Mental Health Association Middlesex. Jack.Org at King’s is part of a national network of students working to change the way people think about mental health on campuses. At King’s, Jack.Org has been involved in many initiatives to shift negative attitudes, beliefs and behaviours around mental health to create a safer, more supportive community for all. On campus, Jack.Org had several public events including their popular pumpkin smashing last fall and the Jack Summit King’s which is a day-long event to reduce stigma experienced by people with mental illness. The students were nominated, along with two other organizations, London Hydro and First Episode Mood and Anxiety Program (FEMAP), as an organization which has made a significant contribution to mental wellness in London and Middlesex. London Hydro was the recipient of the award. Everyone at King’s is so proud of the nomination for Jack.Org at King’s. Well done! #wellnessatkings Also at the event were King’s alums, Katie Hart and Adam Newton, recipients of the award last year for their project, PEARS. Several King’s faculty and staff were at the breakfast including professors Chris Roney, Wendy Ellis, Peter Ibbott, Joe Michalski and Cathy Chovas along with Erin Lawson Executive Director of Development and Alumni Affairs and Joe Henry, Dean of Students, and Kendra Hardy from King’s KAMP program. You can find Jack.Org at King’s on Facebook or on the Wellness at King's page.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1962
__label__wiki	0.54605	0.54605	You are here: Home / Erotica / No Bed Required – A Tiny Taste of Peeper Indomitable July 13, 2019 By Dame TylerRose. 2 Comments She dropped her skin dress to the floor, stepping over to Moray and his thick, dark layer of fur. She ran her fingers over his chest, watching the hair disappear under her hand. It was soft, like nothing she’d felt before. Thinking back over it, almost none of the men she’d been with had much body hair. She liked how it felt against her breasts when he pulled her closer. “How about we just take turns with you,” he suggested, a hand sliding down to grip her buttock. “Until you’re ready for a double ride.” “That sounds like a terrific idea,” she smiled. “Working in tandem means I get more for longer.” Moray grinned, lifting her by the back of her head and his grip on her ass to turn around and stand her on the bed. She was eye to eye with him but feeling herself small in the hugeness of his arms and chest. She felt like that skinny waif all over again, when everyone seemed so much larger than she. “I like it when—” He made a sharp SHH noise, stopping her. “I don’t take direction.” Words that made her heart skip a beat. He lowered to his knees on the floor, taking her down to the bed. He put her on her back with her bottom at the edge of the bed platform and bent over her there. Arms braced on both sides of her, he had the right angle but didn’t crush her with his bulk. Her own size was nothing to him. He pulled her toward him, eventually flipped her over, and generally threw her around the bed like a ragdoll. If he wanted her in a place, she was in that place for as long as he wanted her there. She gave herself up to him as she did Preece and Parin, needing the release of it. Moments like these were the only time her guard wasn’t up, were the only time she could let go all her worries. She lost track of time through her string of orgasms. He flipped her over onto her belly again and she screamed a burst of shock and distress as his cock head thrust fully into her anus without warning or preparation. “You don’t have to put your face in the skins,” he said a few minutes later when she was trying to stifle her noise for the neighbors. “I like for the village to hear you scream and think I’m doing horrible things to you. Truth is you love every second of it, don’t you?” “Yes, I do,” she huffed through a breath. “So you go on and make all the noises. Just don’t ever tell me how to fuck you,” he said, and lifted her hips to bring her up higher. The change of angle was like starting all over again, bringing that full volume moan that was so totally out of her control. Her arms went weak. She needed to lay her head down and rest her upper body, surrendering to his physical power. Another few minutes and he grunted his orgasm and pulled out to spurt his hot liquid over her back. Without wiping her off first, Kaimen took his place at the side of the bed and took his sweet time riding her slow and deep. He took so long that Moray was ready again. Kaimen pulled out and lifted her while Moray moved in to lie on his back across the bed. “Did you wash?” she asked Moray. A truth, she could see clearly enough, and allowed herself to be lowered onto his cock. Kaimen lifted her feet onto the bed, putting her into a modified frog position. She was filled as full as when Dohan and Preece did this to her. But Moray held her tighter by the hair to pin her down onto his chest, and spoke all manner of things Dohan never did. “Greedy cunt takes it well,” he said, and immediately felt what it did to her. She flooded wet and slick. “Wet pussies get fucked harder,” he said, Kaimen taking that cue to do just that. “I should get three more men,” Moray teased her. “Make sure you’re good and ruined.” Kaimen suddenly pulled out and she was given a second coat of hot semen over her back. “Hold her up off me,” Moray said. Kaimen lifted her and Moray took cock in hand to squirt upward. His velocity was enough to shoot onto her tits. “Let’s go to the stream to wash off,” Moray said. A stream that was only about fifty feet to the north east from his hut. The late hour and dark made for its own privacy. Rinsed off and enjoying the knee high cool water, Reah sank to her knees for a moment. Soon as she stood up, Moray had her around the waist against himself with two fingers going up into her puss. He fucked her fast until she was groaning her pleasure and her cum was splashing around his fingers and onto his hand. With a nod and a gesture, Moray indicated Kaimen should turn around. On a knee and slightly bent over, his back became the surface for her to be placed on. Moray lifted her legs with his forearms under her knees and had her again. Her arms flailed a bit. Kaimen caught them with his own, hooking her at the elbows. Feeling more secure, she stopped trying to find a way to brace herself. Warm skin at her back, solid and strong, calmed her. They may have lived in a primitive society, but they were certainly inventive when it came to the fucking. When Moray had finished with another set of jets over her belly, he let her down and took Kaimen’s place. She’d almost forgotten what it was like to be used over and over again, receiving a third round as soon as they returned to the hut. When one spent, the other was recovered. When that one spent, the first was recovered again. Between the two of them, she was fucked ten times before they finally let her sleep. Her gut was so sore the next day, from coming so much and so hard, that she was slightly bent over whenever she tried to walk. Her hips didn’t want to work right. Her arms had no strength. “If you can walk, then I can still fuck you some more,” Moray said rather than tell her for the twentieth time to lie still. The result was the same. She remained on her side in his bed, resting, most assuredly not prepared to take another four or more rounds. TylerRose. is known as Dame Tyler in the NYC public SM/Fetish scene. She is an award-winning author who has written two “lifestyle”, four cartoon, and twentysomething fiction books. Read the Peeper saga —https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B076657ZQW — to catch up on what you’ve been missing! Twitter — https://twitter.com/DameTyler or @DameTyler FB Fan Page — https://www.facebook.com/TylerRoseGethis/ FB Regular page — https://www.facebook.com/TylerRoseAuthor Amazon page — https://www.amazon.com/TylerRose./e/B00HCPLSP2 You can also find more of her work in Fetlife: https://fetlife.com/users/305828 Erotica: The Smell, Taste and Love of Chocolate Silly Dirty Talk (A tiny piece of Arlyn: Adjutant & Apostle) oneofakind says littleone says Leave a Reply to littleone Cancel reply A fun little flogger with just the right amount of zing	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1963
__label__wiki	0.607433	0.607433	The Black Blogger Provoking Images Thoughts, Thoughts Hometown Notes Welcome Nation Got Thoughts So Do I Inquire? PROVOKED THOUGHTS FROM A BLACK MAN WHO BLOGS The Blackman Reads Aloud Project (FLORIDA EDITION) I Loved Muhammad Ali More Than Just A Myth A Man I have been listening to Sirius Radio today as America pays tribute to the greatest of all-time my hero Muhammad Ali. As I listen to these white columnist and reporters discuss Muhammad Ali I feel a tinge of disgust. This man, this brother, was reviled by White America from the time that he stepped into the limelight with his historic victory over Sonny Liston on that night in 1964 in Miami Beach, Florida he pronounced his claim as the greatest of all-time. The fact that he changed his name from Cassius Clay to Muhammad Ali was a dishonor to the nation that supposedly gave him the opportunity to be in a position to be crowned champion of the heavyweight division. The fact that he had the audacity to visit the streets of Miami with Malcolm X was reason enough for white America to shut him down period without provocation. That this man after his historic win visited Harlem with Malcolm X was enough to place him on the J. Edgar Hoover FBI's most wanted list as direct threat enemy of this country. White America came after Ali with the might of entire United States Government when he refused to accept his induction into this country's armed forces. They despised him, I mean they hated him they refused him the opportunity to earn a living in his chosen profession for nearly 5 years. I mean he had to live on the scraps of a nation that desired only the worst for him. He had to beg and plead just to be licensed to enter a ring and make a decent dollar. It was only by the grace of God that Atlanta, Georgia had a black political system that allowed him re-entry into the ring. Heck, white America hated everything that black America found incredible about Muhammad Ali. He was brash, rash and talked much trash and refused to bow down to those who sought to break him. We in the black community loved Muhammad Ali while White America could hardly even tolerate him. Once he returned to the ring I think that every fight he had became a racial confrontation as the brother and sisters stood by the champ while White America stood by whoever Muhammad Ali was opposed by. When Ken Norton broke the jaw of Muhammad Ali in the first fight White America was ecstatic that Muhammad Ali was silenced for once. They loved his opponents who attempted to defeat him. Yet he stood firm in his convictions that he was not meant to bow in shame but stand tall in pride for everyone who believed in the power of his beliefs. When Ali stayed in the game too long and eventually did enormous physical damage to his once beautiful mind and body. When Muhammad Ali no longer had that remarkable gift of gab, defiance, and boldness suddenly he was demystified to those in the White Community. Heck, they even worked to de-Islam the Prince of Peace, the Greatest of Time was a physical shell of himself. That's when he became acceptable to those who despised him so greatly when that shell was full of life, vigor and strength. Muhammad Ali who tossed his gold medal he won in Rome in 1960 into a Kentucky river because he understood that medal didn't gain him any semblance of human or civil rights. Ali was chosen to light the Olympic Flame in the Atlanta Games. He wasn't deemed an enemy of the state any longer. You see now that Ali couldn't truly express his defiance and demand justice for Black America because Parkinson's had ravaged his abilities to communicate became what he never ever wanted to be "an acceptable black man" to a world ruled by racists who deplored black justice for our brothers and sisters. Muhammad Ali was never going to be acceptable in my world he would always defy those who sought injustice and lead the way to truth. He wasn't a threat because he had been forced to earn a living in the ring far longer than he should have due to the racist intents of those who had denied him the opportunity to earn a living while in the prime years of his life. So when I hear all these words of worship coming from some of those whites who state uncontrollable love for his greatness. I understand the reality is they talk of loving Muhammad Ali when in reality most of their friends, parents and colleagues hated this man. He stood for everything that they opposed and Muhammad Ali stood proudly when no one of those whites would have dared stand with him. So I as I conclude my essay on the imaginary love of Muhammad Ali by White America. I would like all the young black brothers and sisters who never really got a chance to live in the world of the vibrant, defiant, messenger of peace and justice to go do your homework. You must not allow White America to make this man what he wasn't or ever wanted to be "acceptable". Our Muhammad Ali would never want to be deemed acceptable until each and every one of us was deemed acceptable. Whether you were jailed in a penal institution or living in the dregs of society if White America could turn its backs on these people of color then White America was turning their backs on justice and peace. So, please let have a reality check please understand that Muhammad Ali was more than what they want to you to remember him as. They would like to have you see a gracious Ali who was demure and respectful but the Ali that we had was lost to the ravages of sport of boxing that he was forced to continue in past his prime. Had that Muhammad Ali continue to thrive I wonder what these latter-day lovers of Muhammad Ali would be saying today? I know that this is a long post but I simply had a great deal on my mind. You cannot allow White America to take away all that was incredibly wonderful about the defiance and power that was displayed by Muhammad Ali. I have had Simple Sites since December 2015 with efficient, and unparalleled ease of use. I would recommend anyone interested in creating a totally functioning website to contact them. Since a client of Simple Sites, I was able to build a growing site that will indeed be productive and more powerful with each passing day.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1967
__label__cc	0.693614	0.306386	Young Salesman A married woman is having an affair. Whenever her lover comes over, she puts her nine year old son in the closet. One day the woman hears a car in the driveway and puts her lover in the closet, as well. Inside the closet, the little boy says, "It's dark in here, isn't it?" "Yes it is," the man replies. "You wanna buy a baseball?" the little boy asks. "No thanks," the man replies. "I think you do want to buy a baseball," the little extortionist continues. "OK. How much?" the man replies after considering the position he is in. "Twenty-five dollars," the little boy replies. "TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS?!" the man repeats incredulously, but complies to protect his hidden position. The following week, the lover is visiting the woman again when she hears a car in the driveway and, again, places her lover in the closet with her little boy. "It's dark in here, isn't it?" the boy starts off. "Yes it is," replies the man. "Wanna buy a baseball glove?" the little boy asks. "OK. How much?" the hiding lover responds, acknowledging his disadvantage. "Fifty dollars," the boy replies and the transaction is completed.. The next weekend, the little boy's father says "Hey, son. Go get your ball and glove and we'll play some catch." "I can't. I sold them," replies the little boy. "How much did you get for them?" asks the father, expecting to hear the profit in terms of lizards and candy. "Seventy-five dollars," the little boy says. "SEVENTY-FIVE DOLLARS?! That's thievery! I'm taking you to the church right now. You must confess your sin and ask for forgiveness", the father explains as he hauls the child away. At the church, the little boy goes into the confessional, draws the curtain, sits down, and says "It's dark in here, isn't it?" "Don't you start that crap in here," the priest says. Quick Jokes - Jokes Some Things You Can't Explain Jokes, Adult, Funny, Humor!	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1970
__label__cc	0.65543	0.34457	Ken Gilmour Curated News Feeds Strategic Threats Economic Threats Free Cyber Tools! Home>CERT-LatestNews>More Companies Must Comply with the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, But Don’t Know It. Are You One of Them? More Companies Must Comply with the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, But Don’t Know It. Are You One of Them? CERT-LatestNews ThreatsCybercrime ThreatsStrategic 10Comments Off on More Companies Must Comply with the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, But Don’t Know It. Are You One of Them? When the topic of data privacy and cyber security comes up, most people automatically think of data breaches, especially given the high-profile nature of so many of them. Breaches and hacks are certainly an issue about which to be concerned, but there are other issues concerning data privacy and cybersecurity that businesses should be cautious regarding as well, such as regulatory compliance. A lot of confusion arises around this area because many businesses do not fully appreciate the specific laws and regulations with which they are required to comply or how to best do so. For those in the healthcare field, compliance requirements are easily identified. Entities in the healthcare space typically have to comply with HIPAA/HITECH, which means complying with the Privacy Rule and the Security Rule. Entities in the education field have to comply with FERPA and, sometimes, COPPA. But what about other compliance obligations in other industries? Take, for example, those in the financial industry, such as banks that have to comply with the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA). Many businesses assume that “financial institution” for purposes of GLBA compliance means a bank and assume that GLBA does not apply to them. This, however, may not be correct. GLBA applies to far more businesses than just banks. The misunderstanding seems to come from two main sources. First, many business simply do not understand they are considered to be a “financial institution” under GLBA. Second, many businesses believe they are simply too small to warrant such federal regulatory oversight. What businesses does GLBA cover? Businesses that must comply with GLBA are “financial institutions,” but what is considered a “financial institution” goes much further than banks under GLBA. Under GLBA, a financial institution includes businesses that are “significantly engaged” in providing financial products or services, including: Check-cashing businesses Payday lenders; Mortgage brokers; Non-bank lenders; Personal property or real estate appraisers; Professional tax preparers such as CPA firms; and Courier services. As for the business size requirement, there is none. So, if you are in one of those businesses, there are some things about GLBA you need to know. Step 1: Complying with the Safeguards Rule The first compliance hurdle under GLBA is complying with the Safeguards Rule, which was issued by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and requires financial institutions to have measures in place to protect and keep secure the consumer information they collect. Interestingly, the Safeguard Rule also applies to credit card reporting agencies and ATM operators that receive information about customers of financial institutions. Requirement 1: Written Information Security Plan The first requirement of the Safeguards Rule is that financial institutions must have a written information security plan (WISP) that describes the company’s processes for protecting customer information. The WISP should not be one-size-fits-all because it has to include administrative, technical, and physical safeguards appropriate to the business’ size, the nature and scope of its activities, and the sensitivity of the customer information at issue. For example, companies have to conduct an assessment of how customers’ information could be at risk and then implement safeguards to address those risks. As part of its WISP, each company must do all of the following: Designate one or more employees to coordinate its information security program; Identify and assess the risks to customer information in each relevant area of the company’s operation, and evaluate the effectiveness of the current safeguards for controlling these risks; Design and implement a safeguards program, and regularly monitor and test it; Select service providers that can maintain appropriate safeguards, make sure your contract requires them to maintain safeguards, and oversee their handling of customer information; and Evaluate and adjust the program in light of relevant circumstances, including changes in the firm’s business or operations, or the results of security testing and monitoring. The requirements are flexible, but they are nevertheless requirements. Requirement 2: Securing Information The Safeguards Rule also requires companies assess and address risks to customer information in all areas operation, including three areas that are particularly important to information security: Employee Management and Training; Information Systems; and Detecting and Managing System Failures. There are many different ways to assess and address these various risks, including employee confidentiality agreements, reference checks, need-to-know-only access, password protection, screen locks, ensuring physical security, and other physical and technological safeguards. Step 2: Complying with the Privacy Rule Financial institutions must also comply with the Privacy Rule which requires they give their customers a “clear and conspicuous” written notice describing their privacy policies and practices. When the notice is provided and what the notice says depends on what the financial institution does with the information. The reason this information matters is because the FTC, which enforces GLBA, is doing just that…it is enforcing it, especially in the context of data privacy non-compliance issues. In fact, this issue very recently came up when the FTC settled with TaxSlayer after taking action affecting the company, which offered its customers tax preparation and filing services through its online application. As with all taxes, to prepare and file them, TaxSlayer collected a significant amount of customer data, which essentially rose to the level of personal protected information (PII) under every state’s data beach notification statute. What happened was that in 2015, TaxSlayer was subject to a validation attack wherein a remote attacker gained access to 8,800 TaxSlayer users. The hackers filed fake tax returns based on the information they collected and had the various tax refunds direct deposited to altered routing numbers. The FTC investigated the matter and filed a complaint against TaxSlayer for allegedly violating GLBA in a number of ways. First, the FTC alleged TaxSlayer violated the Privacy Rule by failing to provide customers with the required privacy notices. Second, the FTC alleged that TaxSlayer violated the Safeguards Rule by failing to have a WISP in place, by failing to conduct the necessary risk assessment, and by failing to put safeguards in place to control the risk of remote attackers using stolen credentials to steal customer information. The complaint also alleged that TaxSlayer: Failed to require customers to choose a strong password, “which is a standard practice for accounts containing sensitive personal information,” instead allowing any password between eight and 16 characters; Failed to conduct a risk assessment that would have identified reasonably foreseeable security risks, including those associated with in adequate online identity authentication; Failed to use risk-based authentication measures, which allowed hackers to try logging onto multiple different accounts from a remote computer; and Failed to validate an email address when the account was first created, meaning they had no reliable way of communicating with customers. As part of the settlement with the FTC, the company is prohibited from violating the Privacy Rule and the Safeguards Rule of the GLBA for 20 years. Consistent with several past cases involving violations of GLBA, TaxSlayer is required for 10 years to obtain biennial third-party assessments of its compliance with these rules. The FTC’s complaint against TaxSlayer provides a good roadmap of the level of security the FTC expects financial institutions to have under GLBA and what will be expected. What to do now? If you are a financial institution, or just discovering that you are one under GLBA, and are not in compliance with the Safeguards Rule and/or the Privacy Rule, whether it be because you don’t have a WISP or proper notices, or you are just unsure as to your level of compliance in line with the FTC’s standards, please consult one of our data privacy attorneys who can help you review your current compliance status and assist you in checking-off the compliance requirements you must meet. http://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/more-companies-must-comply-with-the-16555/ Tagged CERT-LatestNews ThreatsCybercrime ThreatsStrategic The Dark Web: How Does The Internet’s Underbelly Work And What Does It Really Hide? How to Remove Farelam.online Virus (Chrome/Edge/Firefox) \| Updated Auto Bot September 10, 2020 Auto Bot Hong Kong Protesters Are Using This ‘Mesh’ Messaging App — But Should They Trust It? 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__label__wiki	0.593034	0.593034	The Dream of a Soldier Realized Posted on August 28, 2014 by Official USA Delegate Story of the Dream of the Youngest Soldier of Our Company This is the title of a pencil picture carried on the daily “Rodong Sinmun” published in Korea on July 24, Juche 94 or 2005. Readers could not take their eyes off the picture. They saw in the picture a young soldier smiling happily in his nap, his head on his arm laid on a hammer and in his dream, soldiers shouting: “General Kim Jong Il has come!”. It was a picture drawn not by a professional, but by an ordinary soldier. But the simple pencil picture, not a painting of national significance, was known to all people through the newspaper. Here is a meaningful story about it. Hwang Chol Jin drew more than ten pencil pictures when he was a soldier in his company. The pictures were bound into an album titled: “Soldier´s Life”. The “Story of the Dream of the Youngest Soldier of Our Company” was one of them. The “Soldier´s Life” was like soldier Hwang´s biography in his fruitful youthful days when he learned about the revolution along with rifle and mastered revolutionary soldier´s faith and ethics and sentiments under the guidance of the brilliant Songun commander. The picture album is associated with the warm love of the great Kim Jong Il and respected Kim Jong Un who valued the talents of a soldier. In his march of Songun leadership, respected Marshal Kim Jong Un received a report of a commanding officer that the pencil pictures drawn by a soldier were preserved in a company under his unit. Marshal Kim Jong Un was very pleased, had the pictures fetched and saw them one by one. General Kim Jong Il is most pleased when he sees pictures vividly depicting the soldiers´ life. Let us show the soldier´s pictures to him. The pencil pictures are not mere sketches, but art works of instructive and agitative significance. Today our times want such militant art works. Later the soldier´s simple pencil pictures gave a great pleasure to Kim Jong Il. Marshal Kim Jong Un was greatly satisfied with soldier Hwang Chol Jin who gave pleasure to the great Kim Jong Il. He said the pencil pictures of the soldier are good works truly representing the noble mentality of the soldiers of the People´s Army. Especially the work “Story of the Dream of the Youngest Soldier of Our Company” vividly and impressively reflected the dream and desire of the soldiers of the People´s Army who want to meet Kim Jong Il, he praised. Kim Jong Un said, fine art, too, along with music, must be militant art touching the heartstrings of the people with the bugle of general march and proposed making an album of the pencil pictures of the soldier. And he titled the album “Soldier´s Life”. The pencil pictures representing the precious experiences of an ordinary soldier in his military service were so simple that the drawer himself could not think that they would be printed as a picture album. But in the pencil pictures the great Kim Jong Il and respected Marshal Kim Jong Un saw the patriotic faith and optimism of the soldiers and found a bud of talent germinating on the soil of revolutionary soldiers´ culture. On the day the picture album was completed and published under the concern of Marshal Kim Jong Un, Kim Jong Il received the album presented by officials and wanted to meet soldier Hwang Chol Jin. But unfortunately, the soldier was far away, though his desire was to meet Supreme Commander Kim Jong Il. All regretted it. Seeing them, Marshal Kim Jong Un meaningfully said, they should not be too regrettable. The works of the drawer represent himself. Kim Jong Il saw his works many a time and talked about him on several occasions. Through the drawings permeated with his soul, he met the great Kim Jong Il. The dream of the soldier drawer who wanted to meet Kim Jong Il was realized through his picture album amid the meticulous concern of Marshal Kim Jong Un. Later Marshal Kim Jong Un sent him to a professional fine art organization to fully develop his talents. Kim Jong Il and Kim Jong Un saw that Hwang Chol Jin´s pencil pictures were printed in an album, saying with great pleasure that jewels are not on the ground, but underground and many talents are among the soldiers. Indeed, their bosom is the great father´s bosom embracing all the soldiers. This entry was posted in Kim Jong Un and tagged DPRK, Drawings, Kim Jong Il, Kim Jong Un, North Korea. Official USA Delegate A Message from the KFAUSA Official Delegate "We ultimately strive for peace and reunification in the Korean peninsula and love providing correct and accurate information from the DPRK to you. We hope you enjoy your time here and be sure to visit our Facebook page to meet other supporters and friends of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea." Kim Jong Un Guides Actual Parachuting and Striking Drill of Paratrooper Units of KPA True Way to Economic Self-sufficiency	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1976
__label__cc	0.703556	0.296444	Oneota Co-op Now Features Double Up Food Bucks The health food incentive program Double Up Food Bucks (DUFB) began at Iowa farmers markets in 2016 to help low-income families eat more fruits and vegetables while supporting farmers and growing local economies. In 2018, Double Up Food Bucks was available at 14 locations across Iowa, including 11 farmers markets and three grocery stores. In 2019, Double Up Food Bucks is expected to reach as many as 150,000 residents in 14 famers markets and 19 grocery stores in 12 counties across Iowa – including the Oneota Community Food Co-op and Winneshiek Farmers Market. Double Up Food Bucks provides participants in the SNAP program with a one-to-one match to purchase healthy, locally grown fruits and vegetables. (SNAP stands for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program formerly known as food stamps.) Visit participating locations (Oneota Community Food Co-op, Winneshiek Farmers Market, Fareway Decorah). Pick out your favorite fresh fruits and vegetables. For every $1 you spend on fresh produce with your SNAP EBT card you will earn $1 in Double Up Food Bucks. Earn up to $10 in Double Up Food Bucks per day. Use your Double Up Food Bucks to buy LOCALLY-GROWN, fresh produce at the Co-op and Winneshiek Farmers Market. Use them immediately, or save them for later. Double Up Food Bucks can be obtained and redeemed at any participating location in Iowa! For more information visit iowahealthieststate.com/double-up-food-bucks. About Oneota Community Food Co-op Located in downtown Decorah, Oneota Community Food Co-op is a cooperatively-owned grocery store specializing in local, organic, and sustainably produced products since 1974. For over four decades, the Co-op has been the leading provider of whole foods at a reasonable cost, with an emphasis on organic, local and bulk foods. Roughly $.45 of every dollar spent at the Co-op stays within 100 miles of the store. Stop in and see us at 312 West Water Street in Decorah, or online at www.oneotacoop.com. Waucoma Fire Pork Chop Dinner October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month CIA Insurance, CUSB Bank, CUSB Wealth Management Solutions donates 6,700 masks and shields to area school districts 2020-21 Iowa Dairy Princess to be Crowned August 6 New signage and continuing exterior restoration efforts are visible at the local Historical Society’s Winneshiek County Heritage Center Welcome to this Unique Swim Season!	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1977
__label__cc	0.694593	0.305407	Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut Rome Reale Istituto Neerlandese di Roma Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome Bursalen Wetenschappelijke adviesraad Nederlandse universiteiten Vrienden van het KNIR Valle Giulia Bezoek onze bibliotheek Verblijf & beurzen Studiebeurzen Stages & Traineeships Individueel verblijf Groepsverblijf Masterclass Birgit Meyer KNIR-curriculum Cursusaanbod 2020-2021 BA School Roma Caput Mundi Minor Program Rome-Florence Summer Schools 2020 Archief cursussen Religions and the Image Question Date: 20 – 27 May 2019 Deadline for applications: 1 March 2019 Religion arguably involves an awareness of a professed unseen that is taken to be existent and yet requires special forms to become manifest to common human sensation. While images are particularly powerful media to achieve this manifestation because they ‘promise’ to evoke the represented and render it present, their use for imagining and representing the unseen may be heavily contested, and even dismissed as idolatry. The value and use of images is authorized through religious sensational regimes. These regimes are not only expressed via doctrines, beliefs and aesthetics, but are also incorporated in the habitus of religious practitioners. In the Abrahamic spectrum, in particular, the legitimacy of using images to represent the unseen – the image question – has fuelled debates and contestations within and between Judaism, Christianity and Islam, as well as with regard to ‘pagan’ others. And in current religiously and culturally plural modern societies, in which religious and secular sensitivities and values co-exist and often clash, practices of visual representation and image use have become a major bone of contention. This challenges an idea of modernity as simply entailing the decline of religion, and raises questions about the complex and complicated relation between religion, art and visual culture in current plural societies. This masterclass will address negotiations and contestations of the legitimacy of using images within religious traditions and dominant secular politics of representation. One, calling upon insights from art history and visual culture studies, we will problematize the textual bias in the study of religion as well as lingering ideas about the Bilderverbot that still inform modern philosophy and social-cultural sciences. Second, we will pay close attention to the negotiations of images and visual representations as (un)suitable media to convey the presence of the unseen within the Abrahamic traditions. Particular attention will be paid to Catholicism, with Rome being the venue par excellence to study interfaces between religion and art in concrete settings. Third, we will focus on conflicts and tensions with regard to a presumed illicit use of images, as in charges of idolatry and blasphemy. The overall aim of the masterclass is to gain a deeper understanding of past and present attitudes towards images in Christianity – and to some extent Judaism and Islam – and to develop competence in analysing how the image question plays out on multiple levels in current modern societies and in the past. We will work through grounded case studies, which also involve various site visits to museums and churches with religious art in Rome. Dr. Annalisa Butticci (UU), Prof. dr. Birgit Meyer (UU, convenor), Prof. dr. David Morgan (Duke University), Dr. Pooyan Tamimi Arab (UU), Prof. dr. em. Jojada Verrips (UvA). Course language The study load is the equivalent of 5 ECTS (140 hours) and comprises eight days of study in Rome. Each student should arrange with his/her university whether the course can be part of the existing curriculum. Upon successful completion of the course, the KNIR will provide a certificate mentioning the study load and evaluation tools. Active contribution to discussions based on readings, and a final essay, to be submitted within one month after the stay in Rome. The masterclass is open to a maximum of 15 selected participants from all relevant disciplines (particularly religious studies, anthropology, art history, cultural history, visual culture studies) at (R)MA or PhD-level, as well as to early career academics. Prospective participants from all over the world may present their candidature. Fees and Bursaries Selected participants from KNIR partner universities (Universiteit van Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit, Universiteit Leiden, Universiteit Utrecht, Radboud Universiteit, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) will receive full KNIR bursaries, comprising all expenses related to the masterclass (tuition, lodging in Rome, conference fees, etc.). Additionally they receive a €100,- reimbursement of their expenses for travelling to Rome after submission of their final essay. Personal expenses, including meals, are not included. Selected participants from other institutions need to cover their own expenses, but will be housed at the KNIR at a reduced rate of € 200,- for the duration of the Masterclass. Applications are welcome until 1 March 2019. Notice on acceptance will follow before 15 March 2019. Candidates can apply by filling out the application form via the link below, submitting a motivation letter, a recent CV and an updated overview of study results. Facilities in Rome All participants will be housed at the Royal Netherlands Institute, situated in Rome’s Villa Borghese Park. From there, it is only a short walk to the historical centre of Rome. The KNIR accommodation consists of shared bedrooms and bathrooms, and includes a living and dining space, a large kitchen, washing machine and wireless internet. All residents have 24/7 access to the library and gardens of the Royal Netherlands Institute. E-mail: secretary@knir.it website: WebNexus Cookies help us deliver our services. By using our services, you agree to our use of cookies. Learn more Close	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1979
__label__wiki	0.84868	0.84868	Trump says shutdown will last 'as long as it takes' to get border wall funding He rejected his own administration's offer to accept $2.5 billion Updated: 8:27 AM MST Jan 3, 2019 President Donald Trump said Wednesday the partial government shutdown will last "as long as it takes" as the closure entered a 12th day over his demands for billions of dollars from Congress to build a border wall with Mexico."Could be a long time or could be quickly," Trump said during lengthy comments at a Cabinet meeting at the White House, his first public appearance of the new year.The president said his Department Homeland Security officials would "make a plea" for the border wall during a briefing for congressional leaders later Wednesday at the White House.But Trump also rejected his own administration's offer to accept $2.5 billion for the wall. That offer was made when Vice President Mike Pence and other top officials met with Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer at the start of the shutdown. Instead, Trump repeatedly pushed for the $5.6 billion he has demanded.Trump made his case ahead of the afternoon session with Democratic and Republican leaders about the migrants arriving at the border in recent days. He said the current border is "like a sieve" and noted the tear gas "flying" overnight to deter arrivals. He called the border "very tough" at keeping immigrants out."If they knew they couldn't come through, they wouldn't even start," Trump said at the meeting, joined by Cabinet secretaries and top advisers, including Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump.The meeting came as the shutdown dragged through its second week, closing some parks and leaving hundreds of thousands of federal employees without pay.Trump complained that he had been "lonely" at the White House during the holiday break, having skipped his getaway to Mar-a-Lago in Florida. He claimed his only companions were the "machine gunners," referring to security personnel, and "they don't wave, they don't smile." He also criticized Nancy Pelosi, the House Democratic leader, for visiting Hawaii.At the Capitol on Wednesday, Pelosi said she hoped Republicans and the White House "are hearing what we have offered" to end the shutdown.So far, the administration has rejected a proposal from Democrats to reopen government without money to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.Trump contended the Democrats see the shutdown fight as "an election point" as he celebrated his own first two years in office. He promised "six more years of great success."The partial government shutdown began on Dec. 22. Funding for the wall has been the sticking point in passing funding bills for several government departments.The Wednesday afternoon briefing with the congressional leaders is taking place the day before Democrats are to assume control of the House and end the Republican monopoly on government.The session will be held in the high-security Situation Room at the White House, which is typically used to handle sensitive information. The location means the conversation will not be televised, unlike the volatile sit-down during which Democratic leaders talked back to Trump last month.Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and the top incoming House Republicans — Kevin McCarthy of California and Steve Scalise of Louisiana — planned to attend, according to aides. The departing House speaker, Paul Ryan, of Wisconsin was not expected.Pelosi, who is expected to become speaker Thursday, and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer planned to attend. Pelosi said Tuesday that Democrats would take action to "end the Trump Shutdown" by passing legislation Thursday to reopen government."We are giving the Republicans the opportunity to take yes for an answer," she wrote in a letter to colleagues. "Senate Republicans have already supported this legislation, and if they reject it now, they will be fully complicit in chaos and destruction of the President's third shutdown of his term."The White House invitation came after House Democrats released their plan to reopen the government without approving money for a border wall. They planned to pass them as soon as the new Congress convenes Thursday.Trump spent the weekend saying Democrats should return to Washington to negotiate, firing off Twitter taunts. Aides suggested there would not necessarily be a traditional wall as Trump has repeatedly insisted since his presidential campaign, but he contradicted them.On Tuesday morning, after tweeting a New Year's message to "EVERYONE INCLUDING THE HATERS AND THE FAKE NEWS MEDIA," Trump tweeted: "The Democrats, much as I suspected, have allocated no money for a new Wall. So imaginative! The problem is, without a Wall there can be no real Border Security."But he seemed to shift tactics later in the day, appealing to Pelosi. "Let's make a deal?" he tweeted.Whether the Republican-led Senate would consider the Democratic funding bills — or if Trump would sign either into law — was unclear. McConnell spokesman Donald Stewart said Senate Republicans would not take action without Trump's backing.Even if only symbolic, passage of the bills in the House would put fresh pressure on the president. At the same time, administration officials said Trump was in no rush for a resolution to the impasse, believing he has public opinion and his base on his side.The Democratic package to end the shutdown would include one bill to temporarily fund the Department of Homeland Security at current levels — with $1.3 billion for border security, far less than Trump has said he wants for the wall — through Feb. 8 as talks continued.It would also include another measure to fund the departments of Agriculture, Interior, Housing and Urban Development and others closed by the partial shutdown. That measure would provide money through the remainder of the fiscal year, to Sept. 30.___Associated Press writers Laurie Kellman, Kevin Freking and Jill Colvin contributed to this report. President Donald Trump said Wednesday the partial government shutdown will last "as long as it takes" as the closure entered a 12th day over his demands for billions of dollars from Congress to build a border wall with Mexico. Pay raises frozen for Pence, Cabinet members until shutdown is over "Could be a long time or could be quickly," Trump said during lengthy comments at a Cabinet meeting at the White House, his first public appearance of the new year. The president said his Department Homeland Security officials would "make a plea" for the border wall during a briefing for congressional leaders later Wednesday at the White House. But Trump also rejected his own administration's offer to accept $2.5 billion for the wall. That offer was made when Vice President Mike Pence and other top officials met with Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer at the start of the shutdown. Instead, Trump repeatedly pushed for the $5.6 billion he has demanded. Trump made his case ahead of the afternoon session with Democratic and Republican leaders about the migrants arriving at the border in recent days. He said the current border is "like a sieve" and noted the tear gas "flying" overnight to deter arrivals. He called the border "very tough" at keeping immigrants out. "If they knew they couldn't come through, they wouldn't even start," Trump said at the meeting, joined by Cabinet secretaries and top advisers, including Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump. The meeting came as the shutdown dragged through its second week, closing some parks and leaving hundreds of thousands of federal employees without pay. Trump complained that he had been "lonely" at the White House during the holiday break, having skipped his getaway to Mar-a-Lago in Florida. He claimed his only companions were the "machine gunners," referring to security personnel, and "they don't wave, they don't smile." He also criticized Nancy Pelosi, the House Democratic leader, for visiting Hawaii. At the Capitol on Wednesday, Pelosi said she hoped Republicans and the White House "are hearing what we have offered" to end the shutdown. So far, the administration has rejected a proposal from Democrats to reopen government without money to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Trump contended the Democrats see the shutdown fight as "an election point" as he celebrated his own first two years in office. He promised "six more years of great success." The partial government shutdown began on Dec. 22. Funding for the wall has been the sticking point in passing funding bills for several government departments. The Wednesday afternoon briefing with the congressional leaders is taking place the day before Democrats are to assume control of the House and end the Republican monopoly on government. The session will be held in the high-security Situation Room at the White House, which is typically used to handle sensitive information. The location means the conversation will not be televised, unlike the volatile sit-down during which Democratic leaders talked back to Trump last month. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and the top incoming House Republicans — Kevin McCarthy of California and Steve Scalise of Louisiana — planned to attend, according to aides. The departing House speaker, Paul Ryan, of Wisconsin was not expected. Pelosi, who is expected to become speaker Thursday, and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer planned to attend. Pelosi said Tuesday that Democrats would take action to "end the Trump Shutdown" by passing legislation Thursday to reopen government. "We are giving the Republicans the opportunity to take yes for an answer," she wrote in a letter to colleagues. "Senate Republicans have already supported this legislation, and if they reject it now, they will be fully complicit in chaos and destruction of the President's third shutdown of his term." The White House invitation came after House Democrats released their plan to reopen the government without approving money for a border wall. They planned to pass them as soon as the new Congress convenes Thursday. Trump spent the weekend saying Democrats should return to Washington to negotiate, firing off Twitter taunts. Aides suggested there would not necessarily be a traditional wall as Trump has repeatedly insisted since his presidential campaign, but he contradicted them. On Tuesday morning, after tweeting a New Year's message to "EVERYONE INCLUDING THE HATERS AND THE FAKE NEWS MEDIA," Trump tweeted: "The Democrats, much as I suspected, have allocated no money for a new Wall. So imaginative! The problem is, without a Wall there can be no real Border Security." But he seemed to shift tactics later in the day, appealing to Pelosi. "Let's make a deal?" he tweeted. Whether the Republican-led Senate would consider the Democratic funding bills — or if Trump would sign either into law — was unclear. McConnell spokesman Donald Stewart said Senate Republicans would not take action without Trump's backing. Even if only symbolic, passage of the bills in the House would put fresh pressure on the president. At the same time, administration officials said Trump was in no rush for a resolution to the impasse, believing he has public opinion and his base on his side. The Democratic package to end the shutdown would include one bill to temporarily fund the Department of Homeland Security at current levels — with $1.3 billion for border security, far less than Trump has said he wants for the wall — through Feb. 8 as talks continued. It would also include another measure to fund the departments of Agriculture, Interior, Housing and Urban Development and others closed by the partial shutdown. That measure would provide money through the remainder of the fiscal year, to Sept. 30. Associated Press writers Laurie Kellman, Kevin Freking and Jill Colvin contributed to this report.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1980
__label__wiki	0.669744	0.669744	'It's a violation': Neighbors say man is using drone to peer into bedrooms, bathrooms in homes By Kelsie Hoffman dusanpetkovic file photo SOURCE: dusanpetkovic file photo People who live in a Colorado town say they feel that their privacy is being violated by a neighbor.According to KDVR, neighbors say a man has been flying his drone outside of homes and looking into the bedrooms or bathrooms.Jane Worthing is one of nearly a dozen people who complained after she saw the drone looking into her bathroom before bed."It's a violation," she said. "You feel like you're under surveillance. Your privacy is invaded. No one needs to be listening to me or peeking in my second-story bathroom at 10:30 at night."KDVR went to the man's home. He said he is not using his drone to look inside peoples' homes and his neighbors are lying.Some neighbors have gone to the local City Council to voice their concerns. A group of 10 want to change Centennial city ordinances when it comes to flying a drone.They told KDVR they don't have an issue with the man's drone, but with the invasion of privacy.The man has not been charged with anything but the news outlet reports police have been called to his house. CENTENNIAL, Colo. (Video by KDVR via CNN) — People who live in a Colorado town say they feel that their privacy is being violated by a neighbor. According to KDVR, neighbors say a man has been flying his drone outside of homes and looking into the bedrooms or bathrooms. Jane Worthing is one of nearly a dozen people who complained after she saw the drone looking into her bathroom before bed. "It's a violation," she said. "You feel like you're under surveillance. Your privacy is invaded. No one needs to be listening to me or peeking in my second-story bathroom at 10:30 at night." KDVR went to the man's home. He said he is not using his drone to look inside peoples' homes and his neighbors are lying. Some neighbors have gone to the local City Council to voice their concerns. A group of 10 want to change Centennial city ordinances when it comes to flying a drone. They told KDVR they don't have an issue with the man's drone, but with the invasion of privacy. The man has not been charged with anything but the news outlet reports police have been called to his house.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1981
__label__wiki	0.846338	0.846338	Best Reference Prepub GovDocs Indie Press Travel & Geography YA Crossover Cataloging & Metadata Best Nonfiction Best Poetry & Lit Reviews Only Specific Author Specific Publisher Best Feature Videos of 2020 Jeff T. Dick, Jan 04, 2021 This list features an even split between reissued classics and recent feature films that stand the test of time. Stephanie Klose & Terry Hong, Jan 04, 2021 This year’s top audiobooks, selected by LJ’s audio editor and reviewers, represent the best recorded literature published between November 2019 and December 2020. In a year that’s been like no other, these picks moved us, provided escape, and made us think critically and reflect upon the society in which we live. We hope these lists provide a means for readers’ advisory and (socially distanced) conversation. Best Documentaries of 2020 Joshua Blevins Peck, Jan 04, 2021 These Best Documentary selections include films newly available to libraries that are both important and intriguing. We hope these picks provide a means for readers’ advisory and (socially distanced) conversation. Audiobooks: A Sensory Treat for All Readers Gillian Seely, Sep 22, 2020 Audiobooks have enjoyed major gains in popularity in recent years, as the public has grown increasingly aware of the convenience and pleasure of consuming audio-based content. According to the Audio Publishers Association, U.S. audiobook sales rose 16 percent from 2018 to 2019, continuing an eight-year trend of double-digit growth. The Latest from Tana French, Alix E. Harrow & Juan Felipe Herrera—plus 42 other exceptional titles LJ Reviews, Aug 27, 2020 Essential titles reviewed in our September 2020 print issue, spanning mystery & suspense, sf/fantasy, romance, fiction, social sciences, and more. Ruth Ware's Homage to an Agatha Christie Classic, Rebecca Roanhorse's Pre-Columbian-Inspired Fantasy, & 54 Other Superb New Books LJ Reviews, Jul 09, 2020 Essential titles reviewed in our July 2020 print issue, spanning mystery & suspense, sf/fantasy, romance, fiction, social sciences, and more. Amazing Audiobooks Announced by ALA's Listen List Council \| The Reader's Shelf, June 2020 Each year, the American Library Association’s Listen List Council publishes a list of outstanding audiobooks. The eight librarian experts from this year’s council had many favorites, some of which didn’t make the final list. Below, council members share their top runners-up from the past year. June Audio Reviews: A Wildly Exciting Police Procedural, a Life Out of Order, & a Trip to the End of the Known Universe LJ Reviews, Jun 30, 2020 An intense police procedural, a delightfully inventive journey through Oona's out-of-order life, and Brian Greene's latest exploration of the beginnings and end of our universe earned starred reviews in our June issue. A Comic Biography of Jack Kirby, a Heart-Pounding Slasher from Stephen Graham Jones, & 53 Other Standout New Books \| Starred Reviews, Jun. 2020 Essential titles reviewed in our June 2020 print issue, spanning mystery & suspense, sf/fantasy, graphic novels, fiction, social sciences, and more.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1984
__label__wiki	0.987878	0.987878	Leeds United morning headlines: Whites' defender on his most difficult spell, Harrison talks social media abuse A round-up of the very latest Leeds United news from Elland Road Ricky Charlesworth Elland Road. Here are your Leeds United headlines on this Easter Sunday morning. Bamford stats may surprise you Patrick Bamford. (Image: George Wood/Getty Images) It's been an easy stick for pessimistic Leeds fans to beat Patrick Bamford with all season. "You don't score enough" is the premise of their groans. Bamford, who has scored 13 times this season, is fully aware of the abuse from a small section of fans and has recently spoken about it. Now, data has revealed who is the most profligate member of Marcelo Bielsa's side. And it may come as some surprise that it isn't Bamford - click here to find out exactly who it is Whites' defender opens up on injury torment Barry Douglas has spoken about the psychological strain of working his way back from injury. A year ago, the Leeds United full-back suffered a ruptured medial ligament in his knee towards the end of his first season at the club. He worked his way back to full fitness over the summer but this campaign has seen him restricted to a handful of appearances. In an insightful interview, the Scot has spoken of the struggles to return to fitness. "For me, it's probably been the most difficult time in my career," said Douglas. Click here to read more from Douglas, including which teammate he singled out as having plenty of character Club could face three games a week upon restart Leeds' players will be ready to play three-matches-a-week to get the Championship season done in one month if necessary. That’s the view of former Newcastle United midfielder Rob Lee, who does not believe it’s fair on the Whites if the campaign ended now. Speaking to The Journal newspaper, Lee said he saw no problems for anyone in the game getting the rest of 2019/20 campaign done that intensely to see a conclusion. “The players I speak to are missing football so I can't see anybody complaining about playing two or three games in a week,” he said. "I wouldn't want managers moaning. Two or three games a week? So what - you have big squads and you could get it done in a month." Harrison opens up on social media abuse Jack Harrison. Abuse was so intensely fired at Jack Harrison he had to delete Twitter in his first season with Leeds United. The midfielder, on loan from Manchester City for a second straight season, made the admission during an interview with ESPN. Harrison spent a portion of his early career in the US before returning to England to join City. And he says the social media abuse he would receive, especially after he joined the Whites last season, hit him hard. Harrison said: "Once I came here, I was on social media, some of the things you see it’s just ruthless. “I had to delete Twitter. Too many people coming at me. "That was something new for me I had to adjust to." Click here to read more of Harrison's interview	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1990
__label__wiki	0.709431	0.709431	EntertainmentTV And StreamingReviews Netflix’s ‘The Claudia Kishi Club’ Review: Short and Sweet Anushmita Samal Streaming on Netflix, The Claudia Kishi Club is a documentary by Sue Ding and is an honour to our favourite character of The Baby-Sitters Club. I have always adored and admired Claudia Kishi and she still remains as my favourite character from the series (adapted from the novels). This documentary is all about celebrating all that Claudia Kishi is and has been for readers and watchers of The Baby-Sitters Club. Through DIY-stop motion with the help of picture collages, this documentary talks about how impactful Claudia Kishi’s character has been to the Asian-American audience. If you have grown up reading The Baby-Sitters Club or even watched the series streaming on Netflix, you will need no introduction to the character. You exactly know why there is a whole separate documentary dedicated to the Claudia Kishi lovers! Claudia Kishi is hands-down the most interesting character of The Baby-Sitters Club. She is clever, amusing, humorous and all-in-all an absolute badass! The Claudia Kishi Club has shown how big of an icon she was through not being the stereotyped Asian-American Kid. This valuable representation of an Asian-American during the ’80s and ’90s portray the nuanced and layered character that Claudia Kishi was, rather, still lives on to be! Claudia, the coolest! She has broken the glass ceiling, swiftly moved past stereotypes and archetypes that inspired many Asian-American children and teenagers. The Claudia Kishi Club speaks volumes about the profound impact that this Japanese-American girl has had in steering the narrative towards a direction that has flouted how a typical nerdy Asian-American is expected to be. Momona Tamada in “The Baby-Sitters Club”. Miss Kishi is not great at academics, almost struggles with Mathematics but is brilliant and dedicated to what she loves to do! During the 80s and the 90s, this shift in the whole idea and to portray that on-screen had to be a brave thing to do. Claudi Kishi has aced being the character that refuses to cave in to this nerdy cliche. Claudia Kishi is an inspiration to so many artists! The Claudia Kishi Club has brought many such Asian-American artists in to feature in the documentary. The whole idea is to have these artists talk about how Claudia Kishi’s character has helped them believe in themselves. Artists like Yumi Sakugawa, Sarah Kuhn, and Phil Yu have come together and read out portions from the book. They fondly spoke with personal recollections of their favourite Claudia Kishi moment. These artists have discussed the importance of such a character and also her representation in the mainstream media. If you are not a Claudia Kishi fan, you’ll soon become one… We’ve spoken in ample how Kishi has been a powerful representation of a race and the character that has defied being a “model minority” and went on to become celebrated. However, many have also suggested that the novels especially don’t speak adequately or does not quite completely do justice to the nuanced and layered character of Claudia Kishi. Netflix, just a couple of days back, started streaming The Baby-Sitters Club which is the adaptation of the novel with a few tweaks here and there. However, holding on to the original essence of the novels. In The Claudia Kishi Club, the whole narrative comprises of Claudia-centric stories where she is this particular real character who is no less than a heroine. In the case of The Baby-Sitters Club, she was a supporting character, but even then her personality stood out the most because of how uniquely quirky Kishi was (still is). Head over to Netflix to watch the series, followed by The Claudia Kishi Club documentary. Let us know in the comment section down below about your favourite character from The Baby-Sitters Club. The Claudia Kishi Club on Netflix is a documentary that celebrates Claudia Kishi and how iconic a character she is by defying all stereotypes! Previous articleNetflix’s Stateless Review: The Plight of Immigrants Next articleRelic Review: Mental Health Can Be Very Scary Disney+ Hotstar’s PariWar Review: A Light-Hearted Family Drama Tannavi Sharma - September 27, 2020 0 PariWar is a light-hearted family drama featuring a stellar cast and the same old formula twisted with the colors of comedy starring Gajraj Rao, Ranvir Shorey, and others. Stream It or Skip It? Read Here. 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__label__wiki	0.602199	0.602199	Details make a difference. We got out some old pictures a while ago. Like so many old pictures, the prints had no date, no captions. A picnic table, with a broad river in the background; beyond it, a range of snow-capped peaks. Two young children, so swaddled in their bulky sweaters that it was hard to tell their age. “That’s along the Skeena,” said Joan. “When we were in Prince Rupert. But which year?” “There’s a yellow car,” I noted. “We sold the Valiant in 1967.” “And I knitted those Cowichan sweaters our first winter,” Joan added. “So this has to be 1966.” The rest of the story fitted around those details. It’s the details that trigger people’s memories. Once, Joan and I were trying to get her mother to remember a different picnic, a family re-union at a park where Summit Creek dumps into the Kootenay River. “Nope,” Mom kept saying, “I don’t remember it at all.” “It was the first time you put curry into your potato salad,” Joan prompted. Whoosh! The memories came flooding back. Mom rhymed off all the relatives who had attended, what we had talked about, who had brought what food…. All her memory needed was the right detail. As a writer, I always encourage people to include some telling details in their stories. What colour was her coat? Did he have stubble on his face? How big were the puppy’s paws? Don’t be satisfied with what might be called the “official record” — date, place, purpose. Organization minutes provide that information. But they rarely mention that this was the last meeting of the Women’s Institute that Nellie B. attended before her death. Or that Amelia J. dared to wear pants. Or that lifelong spinster Eunice W. announced her engagement. The Lake Country Museum and Archives has a selection of artifacts related to the legendary Brian Cooney. But you have to talk to an old-timer to hear about Northcote Caesar rowing across the lake in a wild storm, with Brian lying in the bottom of the boat hoping it would sink and put him out of his misery. No doubt Northcote Caesar kept a record of his purchases and his sales. But who cares about those? It’s the human stories that matter. Pictures help, of course. Pictures always consist of details — if you know what to look for. “That was taken on the front steps of the school,” someone can say. Someone else might add, “Before 1955, before they tore down the outhouses.” A third person will see the old school hanging by the door. Still another will recognize the rose bush planted in honour of a favourite teacher…. Photographers now like to get in close, to eliminate all the extraneous details. Fine. But take a long shot too, showing the surroundings, the environment, the context. It may prove more valuable to future generations than a row of stony faces in black suits. Even if the faces have names. Look for the telling details. They tell the story for you, if you have them. By Jim Taylor Share this post on Google Plus Share this post on Pinterest Joan Taylor Northcote Caesar Sir Edward Simons Ward of Okanagan House The Strangers in the Box Sonja MacCrimmon November 25th 2016 3:36 PM With current photos, there is often metadata included but not visible. Might be helpful in the future. Good article though. November 27th 2016 9:32 AM Thanks Sonya. As always, your comments are pertinent. November 28th 2016 10:32 PM Nice website! That is all. =) Cheers, John Notice: It seems you have Javascript disabled in your Browser. In order to submit a comment to this post, please write this code along with your comment: 472ec56452c40dc39a48ad13721cf328	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line1993
__label__wiki	0.942396	0.942396	Dulquer Salmaan Birthday Special: From Ustad Hotel to Varane Avashyamund, 11 Malayalam Films of the Dynamic Star We Highly Recommend to His Non-Mallu Fans (and Where to Watch Them Online) The prodigal son of eternally handsome superstar Mammootty, Dulquer Salmaan made his acting debut in the 2011 crime film, Second Show, after completing a Business Management from Purdue University. While the film was an average grosser, Dulquer's performance was noticed. South Sreeju Sudhakaran\| Jul 28, 2020 04:10 AM IST Dulquer Salmaan Birthday Special: 11 Malayalam Films Of The Dynamic Star That Are Recommended Nepotism in any industry, forget cinema, is definitely not recommended but occasionally it delivers us some really amazing actors. Malayalam Cinema has never been under the scanner for this practice. Maybe more so, because most of the talent that comes out of nepotism are some truly good actors (and that it allows star-kids and outsiders to co-exist in the nearly same ground). Like for example, the Sukumaran brothers - Prithviraj and Indrajith. Or Fahadh Faasil. Or Keerthy Suresh. Why, the crush-worthy Dulquer Salmaan is also a prime example of nepotism gone right. Did You Know Dulquer Salmaan Was the First Choice For Premam And Not Nivin Pauly? He gained stardom with his second film, Ustad Hotel, that not only impressed the critics but was also a hit. The successes of his subsequent films like ABCD, Bangalore Days, Vikramadithyan, Charlie etc turned him to a superstar and the darling of the classes and the masses. Despite both father and son reigning in Malayalam Cinema, Mammootty and Dulquer never took the gimmick of starring together in a film, though Dulquer sang a track in his father's film, Manglish. Mani Ratnam Birthday: From Kamal Haasan’s Nayakan to Dulquer Salmaan’s OK Kanmani, 6 Times Bollywood Looked to the Director’s Amazing Films for Inspiration! While already a popular actor for his looks, Dulquer's pan-India appeal increased with the success of his Tamil film, Mani Ratnam's OK Kanmani. Bollywood beckoned, and like with his predecessors from Malayalam Cinema, Dulquer didn't find a favourable box office fate there. But he was appreciated for his performances in both his Hindi outings, Karwaan and The Zoya Factor. Whether Bollywood deserves a fine actor like Dulquer or not, is a debate for another day. But if you have a non-Mallu friend who is a DQ fan, and he/she wants you to recommend some good Mallu movies of his, why not go for the below recommendations, to show his range has an actor. Also, yeah, dear DQ, wishing you Many Many Happy Returns of the Day, on your 34th birthday! Ustad Hotel Dulquer Salmaan and Thilakan in Ustad Hotel DQ was quite raw in his first film, Second Show. He was far more polished in his sophomore outing, the highly enjoyable Ustad Hotel, where he plays a hotel management student with an identity crisis. Benefitting from Anwar Rasheed's slick direction and Anjali Menon's entertaining script, Ustad Hotel will be loved by many for the scenes involving Dulquer with the late, great Thilakan. And if you are an avid food lover. Watch Ustad Hotel on Disney+ Hotstar. ABCD: American-Born Confused Desi Dulquer Salmaan and Jacob Gregory in ABCD: American-Born Confused Desi Martin Prakkat's satirical comedy has Dulquer and Jacob Gregory play two irresponsible NRI brats, whose antics create headaches for their family. They are fooled into being sent to Kerala to study, with the intention of teaching them humility. But as the adage goes, a dog's tail can never be straight, can it? ABCD allows you to admire Dulquer's comical skills, while he forms a terrific duo with Gregory. Also watch out for Tovino Thomas making a mark as an unlikely antagonist. Watch ABCD: American-Born Confused Desi on Disney+ Hotstar. Neelakasham Pachakadal Chuvanna Bhoomi Dulquer Salmaan in Neelakasham Pachakadal Chuvanna Bhoomi This Sameer Thahir movie has Dulquer play a determined youngster who defies his strict father's orders to take a cross-country road trip and unite with his girlfriend in Nagaland. The movie reunites him with his Second Show co-star Sunny Wayne, and has some really beautiful visuals and locales and good performances from the cast. Watch Neelakasham Pachakadal Chuvanna Bhoomi on Disney+ Hotstar. Bangalore Days Dulquer Salmaan, Nivin Pauly and Nazriya Nazim in Bangalore Days Anjali Menon's coming-of-age romantic drama is perhaps the most watched Mallu film of Dulquer's by his non-Mallu fans. It is a perfectly enjoyable entertainer with enough humour, sentiments, lovely music and some amazingly scripted scenes. Dulquer, Nivin Pauly and Nazriya Nazim share incredible chemistry as the three cousins, while Fahadh Faasil, Parvathy and Kalpana are too good in their supporting roles. Watch Bangalore Days on Disney+ Hotstar. Vikramadithyan Dulquer Salmaan in Vikramadithyan Lal Jose's coming-of-age drama pits two friends, divided by their circumstances, against each other in a game of career and romance, but without going the usual route. While Unni Mukundan plays a character that comes from a privileged family, Dulquer plays a character from a poorer background and growing up with a stigma of being a thief's son. Lal Jose allows his narrative to enjoy their friendly rivalry as they compete to win the same girl and the same job in the police department. Also boasts of a terrific climax, featuring cameo from Nivin Pauly, that will leave you pleased for sure. Watch Vikramadithyan on Amazon Prime Video. Dulquer Salmaan in Charlie If you are someone seeking a Bohemian lifestyle, maybe Dulquer Salmaan's Charlie could inspire you a lot. Charlie is a wanderer with a good heart, who cannot be reigned in with mere Earthly responsibilities. And despite having never seen him before, the new occupant of his once-rented house, played by Parvathy, becomes truly obsessed with him. And so are most of the characters whose lives have been touched by Charlie. Charlie, directed by Martin Prakkat, has an interesting narrative, good music and striking visuals, and superb performances from both Dulquer and Parvathy. Both of them won the Best Actor awards at Kerala State Film Awards in 2016. Watch Charlie online on Amazon Prime Video, MX Player and Jio Cinema. Dulquer Salmaan in Kali Kali, directed by Sameer Thahir, may give you an idea that you are watching a romantic drama between a bank employee with anger management issues and his patient wife. Mid-way, though, the movie takes an unexpected twist, entering into thriller territory that is influenced by Steven Spielberg's Duel. Dulquer is fabulous as the angry, young man, and he shares amazing chemistry with Sai Pallavi. Also, Chemban Vinod Jose makes for a formidable villain, a truck driven controlled by his hurt ego. Watch Kali on Disney+ Hotstar. Kammatipaadam Dulquer Salmaan in Kammatipaadam Rajeev Ravi's sprawling crime drama sprawls over decades and sees the rise of Kochi, while criminal kingdoms rise and fall in the interim. The movie, taking a page out of Sergio Leone's Once Upon A Time in America, follows three friends from their childhood to being young criminals to their falling out, as they deal with love, death, betrayal and reconciliation. While Dulquer does good as the straighter man in the trio, Vinayakan and Manikandan R Achari are brilliant as his friends. Watch Kammatipaadam on Disney+ Hotstar. CIA - Comrade in America Dulquer Salmaan in CIA - Comrade in America Watch the opening sequence of the film as Dulquer makes his entry to the beats of "Kerala Manninayi", and you can't deny this is one of the best massy intro scenes for a hero in recent times. In this Amal Neerad film, Dulquer plays a hot-headed Communist who has to go the States through illegal ways to be with his girlfriend there. While a decent thriller, if a bit overstretched, CIA does impress you with its ambitious turn and Dulquer's gallery-pleasing performance. Watch CIA - Comrade in America online on Netflix. Dulquer Salmaan in Solo Bejoy Nambiar's four-part anthology, based on Lord Shiva's moods, was shot simultaneously in both Tamil and Malayalam. In a couple of segments, there is even a change in the cast depending on the language. What's common in both the languages and in all the segments is Dulquer Salmaan. While Solo leaves you with mixed feelings - a couple of segments are decent, others just about okay - what you can take away from the film is the range of DQ as an actor. Be it being a meek but vengeance-seeking doctor, a hot-headed collegian with a stammer, a silent gangster or a dashing soldier - Dulquer impresses in all the four roles. Watch Solo on Amazon Prime, MX Player and Jio Cinema. Varane Avashyamund Dulquer Salmaan in Varane Avashyamund This Anoop Sathyan romantic comedy was produced by Dulquer Salmaan, though he takes a more supporting role in the film. While the spotlight is on the characters of Shobana, Suresh Gopi and Kalyani Priyadarshan, DQ is content playing their happy-go-lucky neighbour who has his own romantic struggles. But he scores towards the end of the film, where the movie unravels his character's tragic upbringing and making him more sympathetic. Watch Varane Avashyamund on Netflix. Honourable Mention - Parava Dulquer Salmaan in Parava Actor Soubin Shahir's impressive directorial debut is set around the lives of people living in Mattancherry, and follows two teens who indulge in the activity of pigeon taming. Parava doesn't stick to a particular narrative, instead relying on the moments and the performances of its talented cast. There is also Dulquer in a very memorable cameo, who is very much likeable in his limited screentime and whose departure from the film is bound to break your hearts. You can watch Parava on Disney+ Hotstar. (The above story first appeared on LatestLY on Jul 28, 2020 12:01 AM IST. For more news and updates on politics, world, sports, entertainment and lifestyle, log on to our website latestly.com). 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__label__cc	0.598691	0.401309	Ethereum: USD/ETH (ETH=) tests $145 level following 15% upswing By HEFFX on January 8, 2020 Ethereum, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, has tested the $145 level of resistance following a 15% rally over the past five days. The move to the upside hasn’t been limited to Ethereum either, with Bitcoin and a number of top cryptocurrencies all experiencing significant gains since the turn of the year. Following a test of the $145 level, Ethereum has suffered a minor correction, falling by 3% to $141 before forming a new level of support. A breakout from here will likely trigger a move towards $160, with a key level to the upside remaining at $219. The exponential moving average (EMA) death cross on the daily chart came to fruition on August 23, with the cross forming adjacent to $219. If the price of Ethereum gets rejected at $145, levels of support remain at $133, $128, and $122, while the psychological level of $100 is also worth keeping an eye on. Ethereum as a project has endured a turbulent past three years, with the cryptocurrency space falling head over heels for Vitalik Buterin’s smart contracts platform during its run to $1,420 in 2017. However, as price began to dwindle, so did support for the project, which was made worse by its numerous vulnerabilities including the lack of scaling solutions and failed hard forks. Overall, the bias in prices is: Downwards. The projected upper bound is: 157.37. The projected lower bound is: 131.37. The projected closing price is: 144.37. A white body occurred (because prices closed higher than they opened). During the past 10 bars, there have been 7 white candles and 3 black candles for a net of 4 white candles. During the past 50 bars, there have been 25 white candles and 25 black candles. Three white candles occurred in the last three days. Although these candles were not big enough to create three white soldiers, the steady upward pattern is bullish. One method of interpreting the Stochastic Oscillator is looking for overbought areas (above 80) and oversold areas (below 20). The Stochastic Oscillator is 86.2621. This is an overbought reading. However, a signal is not generated until the Oscillator crosses below 80 The last signal was a buy 34 period(s) ago. The RSI shows overbought (above 70) and oversold (below 30) areas. The current value of the RSI is 60.57. This is not a topping or bottoming area. A buy or sell signal is generated when the RSI moves out of an overbought/oversold area. The last signal was a buy 21 period(s) ago. The CCI shows overbought (above 100) and oversold (below -100) areas. The current value of the CCI is 175.This is an overbought reading. However, a signal isn’t generated until the indicator crosses below 100. The last signal was a sell 8 period(s) ago. The Moving Average Convergence/Divergence indicator (MACD) gives signals when it crosses its 9 period signal line. The last signal was a buy 15 period(s) ago. FOREX ETH= closed up 2.540 at 144.960. Volume was 57% below average (consolidating) and Bollinger Bands were 29% narrower than normal. 142.410 147.940 141.230 144.960 24,540 Short Term: Overbought Long Term: Bearish Close: 135.04 140.65 189.60 Volume: 65,580 64,535 65,463 FOREX ETH= is currently 23.5% below its 200-period moving average and is in an upward trend. Volatility is extremely low when compared to the average volatility over the last 10 periods. There is a good possibility that there will be an increase in volatility along with sharp price fluctuations in the near future. Our volume indicators reflect volume flowing into and out of ETH= at a relatively equal pace (neutral). Our trend forecasting oscillators are currently bullish on ETH= and have had this outlook for the last 2 periods. #eth news, #ethereum, #ethereum forecast, #ethereum news, #ethereum techncial analysis, #investing, #shayne heffernan, #trading, #usd/eth Ethereum: USD/ETH (ETH=) tests $145 level following 15% upswing added by HEFFX on January 8, 2020 Ethereum: USD/ETH (ETH=) Set To Breach Key Resistance Against BTC As Golden Cross Forms Ethereum: USD/ETH (ETH=) Could End Its Seven Month Downward Trend	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line2002
__label__cc	0.504295	0.495705	Ian Margol, Reporter Published: July 15, 2020, 12:23 pm Updated: July 15, 2020, 6:21 pm Tags: Fort Lauderdale, Broward County, Crime Video shows passengers attack airline workers at Fort Lauderdale airport 3 women arrested after police say they punched, kicked and threw items at Spirit employees FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Three airline employees were injured during an attack by three women that was captured on video Tuesday night at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. According to Spirit Airlines, the three employees suffered minor injuries when three guests “became combative following a delayed flight.” According to Broward Sheriff’s Office arrest reports, the three women hit the airplane employees “with miscellaneous items, such as phones, shoes, full water bottles, metal boarding signs and fast food.” It happened outside the gate of a flight to Philadelphia in Terminal 4, and you can see women on the video throwing things at Spirit employees and then, eventually, going back to the counter and physically attacking at least one of the employees. “The victims were also punched and kicked in different sections of their bodies numerous times,” the arrest documents say. The three women arrested are all from Philadelphia: Tymaya Wright, 20, was arrested on charges of touch or strike battery and petit theft for allegedly taking a Spirit employee’s phone. Danaysha Dixon, 22, was arrested on charges of or strike battery. Keira Ferguson, 21, was arrested on charges of touch or strike battery. Tymaya Wright (left), Danaysha Dixon (center) and Keira Ferguson (right) were arrested after a violent scene was captured on video Tuesday at Fort Lauderdale's airport. (Broward Sheriff's Office) They were taken to the Broward County Jail, where they were released on bond Wednesday morning. The women declined to share their side of the story to Local 10 News but said they were trying to get back home to Philadelphia. Miramar-based Spirit Airlines released the following statement: “We thank our Team Members for their professionalism and quick actions, and we also thank the Broward Sheriff’s Office for their assistance at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport yesterday. Three Guests became combative following a delayed flight, and they were arrested for physically assaulting our Team Members. Three of our Team Members sustained minor injuries. This violent behavior is completely unacceptable and has absolutely no place in airports or any other place of business. We will not tolerate abusive behavior of any kind. Further questions about this incident should be referred to law enforcement.” The Broward Sheriff’s Office says that their investigation is ongoing and that the women could face additional charges. Ian Margol Ian Margol joined the Local 10 News team in July 2016 as a general assignment reporter. Born in Miami Beach and raised in Broward County, Ian is thrilled to be back home in South Florida.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line2004
__label__wiki	0.741447	0.741447	Android 10 is the tenth version of the most popular operating system in the world. Amongst its new features, there's a dark mode and privacy improvements Android has gone a step further in its overhaul with Android 10. The tenth version of the most used mobile operating system in the world is full of new features regarding Android 9 Pie, improving different aspects of its functionality. In turn, it deserts the sweet names that were used to appoint previous versions. A dark mode and privacy improvements In this new version of the operating system, that will be first available for Pixel, Nokia, OnePlus, Samsung, Xiaomi or Sony smartphone models (no news about Huawei yet), we can find several new features. These are some of the most noteworthy improvements to the operating system that was meant to be called Android Q: Privacy: its management has been improved on behalf of the user who now has more power of decision regarding and what information is shared with certain apps and when it is shared. Focus mode: users can mute those apps that distract them the most. Gesture control: gesture controls have been improved to be able to carry out actions much more intuitively, such as switching between apps by simply swiping the screen. Accessibility: functions for deaf users or users with hearing disability have been improved. Dark mode: we can set this mode for the entire operating system to rest our eyesight and optimize the battery usage. Sound amplifier: users can improve the sound of their device when carrying out certain actions. Updates: possibility to enable system updates from Google Play. Family Link: includes functions to connect to family members. The installation is carried out manually. Only available for Google Pixel phones. Google App 11.43.3.23 Android app for Google's search engine free English 156 MB 01/14/2021 Android Carrier Services 50.0.343588573 The app that allows your device to make the most of the network free English 7.3 MB 12/03/2020 Android Sync your phone's apps and functions with Google's ecosystem free English 72.5 MB 01/15/2021 Android Google Play Services for AR 1.22.203220523 The SDK that offers support for augmented reality Chat Partner microG	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line2005
__label__wiki	0.897225	0.897225	Volleyball: Meet lohud's 2019 Super 7 Mike Zacchio Rockland/Westchester Journal News With the new season comes a host of new names and faces that grace the lohud volleyball Super 7 this year. Just like last season, there is only one returning player on this elusive list of talent. Let's meet the selections... Emily Kubicsko School: Lakeland Position: Outside hitter What makes Emily super? Lakeland has been on the cusp of putting together something special, and Kubicsko is at the core of the team's success. A two-time all-section selection, Kubicsko has a well-rounded repertoire that makes her a threat at virtually any position on the court. If you don't know her name by now, you will by the end of the season. Alanna Mansell School: Panas What makes Alanna super? The youngest member of the Super 7, Mansell is arguably the top player in her graduating class throughout the section. The powerful hitter blossomed during a breakout campaign last year, taking on the bulk of the offensive load when one of the team's seniors got injured. Annie McCarthy School: North Rockland What makes Annie super? Few people expected the Red Raiders to have the kind of success they did last year. North Rockland reached the Section 1 Class AA final behind McCarthy, who emerged as one of the top players in Rockland County and earned a third team all-state nod. The 5-foot-10 hitter posted a team-high 336 kills in 70 sets played last year. She is expected to lead a strong senior class to another deep playoff run. Callie Pidoriano School: Hen Hud Position: Setter What makes Callie super? Any volleyball aficionado knows that even the most high-powered offense is nothing without a reliable setter, and Pidoriano is the best setter Section 1 has to offer. The two-time all-section honoree helped lead the Sailors to the Class B sectional title last year, and was rewarded with a fourth team all-state selection for her efforts. Pidoriano is the heart of the Sailors' offense, and is undoubtedly a talent worth watching on the court. Lily Preis School: John Jay-Cross River What makes Lily super? It's hard to find a player who had a bigger breakout year than Preis, who earned two lohud volleyball Player of the Week honors. The hard-hitting junior dominated almost every match she played and led the Indians to the Class A sectional semifinals despite missing some time with an injury. Preis will lead a deep veteran squad this year that is considered a favorite to win the Class A sectional title. Linda Rossi School: Valhalla What makes Linda super? It can be confidently said that nobody expected Valhalla to string together an undefeated season last year. The Vikings, led by Rossi and her lethal serve, captured the Section 1 Class C crown and are considered the overwhelming favorites to repeat. The second team all-state honoree is expected to miss the first half of the season due to injury, but given that she is expected to be back before the playoffs — where Valhalla will try for a state title — it is safe to put Rossi on this list. Mychael Vernon School: Ossining What makes Mychael super? If you feel like Vernon has been in Section 1 volleyball forever, you're not alone. The senior will enter her sixth and final season with the Pride, where she is expected to eclipse the 2,000-kill mark for her career. The reigning Journal News/lohud Westchester/Putnam player of the year is the only active player who is a finalist for Player of the Decade, and her credentials make it easy to understand why. With Vernon on the floor, the Pride have a chance to win every match it plays; and as the reigning Section 1 Class AA champs, there should be an awful lot of winning going on in Ossining. Second 7 Megan Bruno, So., Ardsley Mackenzie Calhoun, So., Hen Hud Rachel Chan, Sr., Nanuet Julia Costa, Sr., Kennedy Catholic Jasmine Grant, Sr., Valhalla Karleighana Jones, Sr., White Plains Rory McNerney, Jr., Ardsley Follow Mike Zacchio on Twitter and Instagram at @Zacchio_LoHud. Not a subscriber yet? Make sure you have access to our upcoming coverage of the fall high school season! Please click here to review our special offers.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line2010
__label__wiki	0.863564	0.863564	Minh-Tuan Nguyen Minh-Tuan was raised in Cupertino, California. He trained under Diane Lauridsen and Alicia Head, who have trained notable alumni such as Misty Copeland and Ashley Ellis. He attended California State University of Long Beach for their dance program. There he trained in modern dance under Keith Johnson, former Bill T. Jones company member, and Jeff Slayton, former Merce Cunningham company member. At the university Lorin Johnson, former ABT member, trained him in ballet. He danced with Milwaukee Ballet II under the direction of Rolando Yanes. He joined Missouri Contemporary Ballet under Karen Grundy. He has had the pleasure to work with contemporary choreographers such as Petr Zahradnicek, Tiffany Billings, Christian Denice, Lindsey Matheis, Bryn Cohn, Joel Hathaway, Karen Grundy. He’s performed classical principal and soloist roles such as Ali in Corsaire, Cavalier in The Nutcracker, Bronze Idol in La Bayadere, Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Great Big Little Panther in Peter Pan. He has danced under full scholarship for two summers intensives at Milwaukee Ballet and two summers as a counselor at Burklyn Ballet. As a student he received Honors at the 2014 RDA festival. He staged his piece Apex: Primal at Burklyn in 2016. At Lexington Ballet he’s performed as Cavalier in The Nutcracker, Ali in Corsaire, Bernardo in West Side Story, and Shere Khan in The Jungle Book. Minh-Tuan joined Louisville Ballet in 2018.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line2011
__label__cc	0.702513	0.297487	7 Stillwell Book Wish List Feminism, Reviews, The Daily Communiqué The Daily Communiqué – 24 April 2019 – Eurydice April 24, 2019 Clio Leave a comment Sarah Ruhl‘s Euirdyce is a fabulous retelling of the myth. The original tells of Orpheus and Eurydice and the story of her death, but focuses on Orpheus and his efforts to locate her and bring her back to the world of the living. Sarah Ruhl‘s Eurydice focuses on what happens to Eurydice in the Underworld. She dies on her wedding day, kidnapped by the Lord of the Underground who promises her a letter from her dead father. She arrives, confused and with no memory of life among the living. Her father, who has never forgotten her, finds her and together they rebuild her memories. Meanwhile, Orpheus tries everything he can think of to get to the Underworld to rescue his beloved wife. His music makes the gatekeepers weep, and he is let in to bargain for her return. There’s a condition for her departure, Orpheus mustn’t turn back. Turning in response to hearing his name called, Eurydice is sent back to the Underworld, where she dies a second time. San Jose’s City Lights Theatre Company’s bilingual performances in American Sign Language and English provided an exquisite twist to the usual theatre production. Each character was portrayed both by an English and an ASL speaker. The ASL actors made it a sort of play within a play, interacting with their English speaking counterpart and each other. CLTC’s intimate setting is a perfect place to see small productions like this. It’s been about a week since I attended and I’m still struggling with how to write about it. The theme of love, both filial and romantic made me tear up in unexpected ways. As did themes of memory and communication. To be loved that much, to be cared for that deeply, to be led back to memories and learn better communication … I found it moving, unsettling, challenging, and thought-provoking. Most memorable for me is Lauren Rhodes as the English speaking Eurydice, whose shouted, “I’m very angry at you!” made me proud. Women are so rarely allowed to show their anger, that to allow Eurydice to express hers is a high note. It’s one that sticks with me even now. And I must mention Erik Gandolfi (English) and Dane K. Lentz (ASL) who perform the Lord of the Underworld with unhinged glee. Gandolfi’s costume in the underworld features a school boys’ uniform with short pants and a bright red jacket. The eerie little boys’ voice made this performance all the more chilling. After Orpheus loses Eurydice the second time, he stands at the threshold to the world of the living expressing his anguish and grief. In a cross talk dialogue, he says, “Your timing was always off! I would tell you that if you didn’t come in on the downbeat, you’d lose everything.” Meanwhile, Eurydice stands in the Underground shouting, “I’m sorry!” Stephanie Foisy (ASL) added a poignant dimension to the already distraught Orpheus, portrayed by the English speaking Robert Sean Campbell. As I left, tears in my eyes and my heart filled with unprocessed emotion, I walked past a table with pieces of paper and pens made available for anyone who wanted to write a note to someone who’d died. It occurred to me that I didn’t really get to say a proper goodbye to the friend I’d known for over 30 years who died from cancer nearly five years ago. So I stopped and wrote a little note to him. Out into the bright Sunday afternoon light, I tried to make sense of how such a performance could have a profound effect on me. A week later, I’m still sorting it out but no longer hurting as deeply as I was then. Emotions wax and wane, it’s their nature. We just gotta hold on for the roller coaster ride. ASLCity Lights Theatre CompanyEurydiceOrpheusThe Daily Communiqué:Theatre Previous PostThe Daily Communiqué – 23 April, 2019 – Pauline TheologyNext PostThe Daily Communiqué – 25 April 2019 – Batman Search 7Stillwell Categories Select Category Feminism (32) Hugo (6) New to the Stacks (46) On Reading (3) Otherwise (8) Reviews (136) The Daily Communiqué (29) The Drink Tank (11) What’s Auntie Reading Now? (76) Writing (24) Review: The Women’s Revolution Review: Fiyah Lit Magazine #13 – Ozzie M. Gartrell Writing: Life Gets in the Way On Writing: The Drink Tank #421 We’re Still Here Feminism: Something Like a Rant	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line2013
__label__cc	0.509223	0.490777	Prestigious European research grant for Beatrice de Gelder How do our brains process other people’s body language? To answer this question, Professor Beatrice de Gelder (FPN, Cognitive Neuroscience) and two colleagues from Germany and Belgium will take a fresh look at how the brain deals with biological information. The European Research Council (ERC) is to award 8.7 million euros to this ambitious research project today. Professor De Gelder will receive a grant of almost three million euros. It is the first time that an ERC Synergy Grant has been awarded to a researcher at Maastricht University (UM). Other people’s physical behaviour, or body language, is often our most important source of information to prepare adaptive responses, and it is essential for our survival. How have our brains evolved to process such socially relevant behaviour? In order to discover how the brain processes the physical behaviour of others and how it uses this information to understand intentions, actions and emotions, Professor De Gelder and her colleagues aim to develop a new biological and computer model. The project brings together advanced methods from multiple disciplines, such as the use of virtual reality in combination with fMRI scans, neural and computer modelling, psychophysics, and neurophysiological research. Ultimately, the researchers hope the project will also lead to new knowledge on the nature and diagnosis of certain neuropsychiatric disorders, and breakthroughs in the way computer and robot systems process socially relevant information. ERC Synergy Grants are the largest and most competitive grants in the prestigious funding programme of the European Research Council (ERC). The grants are awarded to groups of two to four researchers who collaborate closely and use a wide variety of expertise and resources to tackle ambitious research problems. Professor Beatrice de Gelder is to receive the grant jointly with her colleagues Professor Rufin Vogels (KU Leuven) and Professor Martin Giese (University of Tübingen). KU Leuven will coordinate the project. Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience UM Press Office Go to UM Press Office page +31 43 388 5071 / 5230 / 5243 pers@maastrichtuniversity.nl By: Loraine Bodewes (photography) Two UM science communication projects awarded NWO funding Mask certification via new lab at UM institute AMIBM Researchers discover important cause of high blood pressure An international team of scientists has discovered one of the causes of primary hypertension or high blood pressure. In addition, the team, led by researchers from Maastricht University (UM), discovered that this cause could be treated with existing and already registered drugs. from Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience from Press release Corona at UM: looking back and forwards	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line2019
__label__wiki	0.814305	0.814305	About Men's Health MVP Exclusives Technology & Gear The 2021 Men's Health Home Gym Awards Train Yourself to Be More Optimistic in 5 Days How Busta Rhymes Lost 100 Pounds in 12 Months 6 Moves for Next-Level Arm Muscle 26 New Shows We Can’t Wait to See This Year Our product picks are editor-tested, expert-approved. We may earn a commission through links on our site. The Best American Muscle Cars at Pebble Beach Car week's here and it's brought some proper Detroit steel along By Brett Berk The Quail Most people think of Monterey Car Week as a showcase for expensive and obscure foreign cars. This makes sense. Its signature events like The Quail Motorsports Gathering, the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, and the prime collector car auctions, tend to draw literal fields of the most esteemed seven- and eight-figure automobiles, and these days, these tend to be post-war and Italian, or at least European. Even side events like the Concourso Italiano and the Legends of the Autobahn feature classics from the Continent. But there is a countervailing force at work in Northern California in mid-August, and it revolves around American Muscle. In fact, because the focus is so much on overseas vehicles, the domestic iron on display at the region’s concours, auctions, and racetracks may very well be overcompensating just a bit, in featuring what are perhaps the premier examples of the species. You just need to know where to look. Here is our guide to the ten best specimens of the genus Musculus Americanus, and where to see them. 1971 Plymouth Hemi Cuda Let’s get this out of the way. The 1971 Hemi Cuda is arguably the most muscular muscle car, ever, the icon that acts as a stand in for the entire category. A bombastic 7.0-Liter V8 connected to a pistol-grip 4-speed, surrounded by a leering prow and a coke bottle fuselage, all wrapped in cherry red paint, a spartan black interior, and ridiculous graphics and louvers. When someone says Muscle Car, this is the vehicle that pops into most people’s mind eye. [Mecum Auctions] Chevrolet didn’t want to challenge the dominance of its big-block Corvettes in the 1960s, so the brand intentionally limited power in their more affordable pony car, the Camaro. But with Ford and Mopar stuffing huge engines into their competitors, some enterprising dealers convinced Chevy to use an internal workaround, the Central Office Production Order (COPO) program, to insert the Vette’s 425 hp 427 engine into the Camaro. This is the perfect spec mean, green COPO car. [Mecum Auctions] 1968 Chevrolet Corvette L88 Convertible Arguably the C3 Corvette, the L88 was a race car for the street, including a massaged 430 hp 427 V8, a four-speed manual, and red line tires, and excluding a heater and a radio (allegedly to discourage the owner from driving it on the street.) Only 20 convertible L88s were made in 1968, and if we were choosing, we’d pick one outfitted in British classic dark green and saddle. It’s a keen way of making a rather unsubtle car a bit subtler. [Mecum Auctions] 1963 Studebaker Avanti R2 Most people don’t think of the Avanti as a muscle car, but the R2 version, with its supercharged, 290 hp 289 ci engine, and its radical aerodynamic shape and lightweight Fiberglas body, was one of the fastest vehicles on the road at the time, able to hit 170 mph in stock form. This one, owned by famed car restorer Colin Comer, is equipped with the perfect period correct turquoise paint, Halibrand spinner wheels, and extremely rare four-speed manual transmission. [Mecum Auctions] 1957 Chevrolet Corvette Fuel-Injected Roadster Gooding & Company, Photos by Mike Maez The Corvette got serious about performance in the mid-50s. This C1 is from the first year that the car was offered with fuel injection, a limited-take option that appeared on less than 15% of the Vettes that year, even though it raised the output of the 283 ci V8 to 283 hp. A 3-speed manual, big drum brakes, a rare shade of Arctic Blue, and especially the sleeper “dog dish” hubcaps, make this a proper muscular pick for lovers of America’s first gen Plastic Fantastic. [Gooding & Company Auctions] 6 Stupidly Quick Cars From The New York Auto Show: 1964 Shelby 289 Cobra RM Sotheby’s Auctions Carroll Shelby’s winning recipe was to combine massive Ford power with a lithe British body. Here is one of the world’s most original Cobras, owned from new by a single family, and driven less than 15,000 miles total. Bought by a Florida NASA Apollo engineer, the car was meticulously maintained for its entire life by the original owner and his son, who have rare equipment and ephemera dating back to the car’s purchase. A seven-figure vehicle, and deservedly so. [RM Sotheby’s Auctions] 1953 Allard J2X The Quail, a Motorsports Gathering The Allard was another British-bodied, American-powered sports car, but from a decade earlier. Though it was built in Europe, its beating New World heart—in this case, a classic hot rodder’s Cadillac V8—gives it pride of place in our category. This particular car was raced by none other than Carroll Shelby at the start of his racing career. Shelby credited his work on this fantastic J2X with influencing his work on the famed AC-bodied, Ford-powered Shelby Cobra a few years later. [The Quail, a Motorsports Gathering] 1954 Cunningham C-3 Briggs Cunningham was a playboy, the scion of a wealthy family, who spent lavishly on his pursuit of speed, on land and on the sea. So great was his passion, and his fortune, that he established a car company to try to win for America the famed endurance race at Le Mans. He favored potent Chrysler Hemi V8s in his racecars, and followed that practice in this handsome road-going GT, though the lovely body was built by the master Italian coachbuilders at Vignale. [The Quail, a Motorsports Gathering.] Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion Back in the late Fifties, Ford built a pair of souped-up versions of its grand touring boulevardier, the Thunderbird, meant to compete at the Daytona Time Trials on the beach. These cars were known as Battlebirds. Employing aluminum body panels, mag wheels, and a stripped out interior to save weight, and a supercharged Ford V8 backed by a Jaguar transmission to put down massive power, it allegedly made a 200 mph run, but couldn’t repeat the speed on the return run. [Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca] 1991 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme Pour some bubbly out for Oldsmobile. The brand sought an identity, nearly every identity, throughout its tortured life: entry-level luxury, people’s car, sport sedan, import fighter. This included a sporadic racing history, especially toward the end of the marque’s life. In 1991 this Cutlass Supreme was driven to victory by Peoria’s own Irv Hoerr. We applaud his audacity as much as we miss Olds. [Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca] Who's Performing at the Biden Inauguration? This Birthday Cake Candle Setup Stops Germ Spread Crocodiles Haven't Aged in 200 Million Years 40 Perks of Being P.O.T.U.S. 18 Crazy Facts About the Royals' Eating Habits 40 Celebs Who Started Off As Dancers 31 Celebrities Who Have Acted With Their Kids 57 Celeb Headshots From Before They Were Famous 42 Celebrities Who Quarantined Together These 9 Muscle Cars Are Smart and Powerful Investments The Ford Mustang Shelby GT350R Is the Best Sounding Muscle Car The 10 Most Expensive Sports Cars for Sale at Pebble Beach 10 All-American Summer Essentials The 100 Best Car Tips For Men The 10 Most Toxic Cars on the Road E-prints, Reprints A Part of Hearst Digital Media Men's Health participates in various affiliate marketing programs, which means we may get paid commissions on editorially chosen products purchased through our links to retailer sites.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line2022
__label__wiki	0.619075	0.619075	Listening to Yourself Eat May Help You Lose Weight BY Autumn Spanne Trying to lose weight? Turning off the television and paying closer attention to the sound of your own chewing and crunching may help you reach your goal. Researchers at Brigham Young University and Colorado State University have just published a study in the journal Food Quality and Preference concluding that people are more likely to consume less when they are aware of the sound their food makes as they eat. They call it the “Crunch Effect.” The researchers conducted a series of three experiments examining what is known as “food sound salience”—the sounds we make when we eat—to see how they affect consumption. "For the most part, consumers and researchers have overlooked food sound as an important sensory cue in the eating experience," study co-author Gina Mohr, an assistant professor of marketing at CSU, said in a press statement. The researchers conducted the experiments on groups of undergraduate students—about two-thirds male, on average—ranging in size from 71 to 182 participants. In one experiment, participants ate pretzels while wearing headphones that played either loud white noise or quiet white noise. Those listening to the loud white noise ate slightly more than four pretzels on average as compared to the 2.75 pretzels eaten by participants listening to softer sounds. In another experiment, participants were given Famous Amos mini cookies (which are famously crunchy). One group was told to eat them as loudly as they could, another was instructed to eat them as quietly as possible, and a third control group was told to eat normally. This time, both the loud and quiet eaters consumed less than the control group: an average of 2.61 cookies compared to the 3.38 average of the control group. The researchers concluded that simply making participants more conscious of how loudly they ate the cookies led to eating less. In a third experiment, researchers noted that just having participants read a marketing description of pita chips that emphasized their sound—crunchy, crispy—resulted in significantly less consumption compared with participants who read a description emphasizing taste: an average of 4.79 compared to 5.86. Mealtime activities like watching television and listening to loud music can drown out the sound of eating, causing people to consume more than they otherwise would, according to co-author Ryan Elder, an assistant professor of marketing at BYU’s Marriott School of Management. There’s already a significant body of research about how visual cues influence consumption. For example, a heap of chicken bones on your plate could serve as a visual reminder of how much you’ve eaten. So, too, might making one out of every few chips red in a tube of Pringles to signal when you’ve consumed a single portion. Similarly, the taste and texture of food are powerful sensory cues that can influence how much we eat. But much less is known about auditory cues. “We’re proposing that sound operates in a similar manner,” Elder tells mental_floss. “When I hear the sound [of my eating], it’s reminding me that I am eating something. This reminder of sound brings greater attention and mindfulness to what I’m eating and that ultimately reduces consumption.” This phenomenon is different from ambient food sounds, like listening to eggs frying or your uncle across the table at Thanksgiving loudly smacking his mashed potatoes and gravy. In fact, the sounds of other people eating can trigger a disgust reaction sometimes called misophonia (and yes, possibly cause you to lose your appetite). Mindful eating is something quite distinct—and potentially powerful if applied to regulating the amount you eat. “Is this more significant than a visual monitoring cue? We don’t know, but it’s another tool someone could utilize in controlling consumption,” says Elder. Food food science Health science Live Smarter	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line2025
__label__wiki	0.72295	0.72295	by Tim Horvath 1. A dog stripped of his consonants is far more pitiable than one robbed of his testes. Even without the latter, she thinks, a mastiff can do a pretty good impersonation of a descendent of roaming wolves, cling to his virility like the ghost limbs that so many of the khaki boys came back with. But without the makings of growling — the thuggish “ccch,” the throat-rending “rrhhh,” the simple, ominous “grrrrr” — a dog is a helpless lawn-jockey, a prop, a puppet. And which of these, she wonders, best describes her Woodrow, her bedbound and beloved? 2. Surly curtains banish sunlight as she does visitors. Only she and Dr. Grayson, he at the pulse and she at the other arm, feeling some other pulse — of what she’s not sure — less palpable than blood but no less real. 3. Like everyone else, she first mistook the stroke for exhaustion, with the locomotive’s eye always rushing ahead to the next town, state, coming himself eye to eye with his boosters and enemies. With megaphones and telephones this-phones and that-phones, his brand of politicking isn’t long for this world, she knows. But what a swan song he gave them! Arias the likes of which even she hadn’t known him capable, leaving him in post-coital quivers, staggering his way back to his berth on the Mayflower and lying railsick, somehow springing back every time. Somewhere between Colorado and Kansas, he didn’t, though. So they’d cleared the tracks all the way back to Washington, the crowds amassing en route like mourners to a funeral train, while the whole time he’d fretted, barely audible above the rattle, that they’d call him the worst he can think of, quitter. 4. For him, for History, she will wear a mask, will play her part. Neither he nor the country can know what straits he’s in. The craft of her performance will cure both or neither. 5. Of course they want to come behind the curtain — royalty and rogues alike. But the man’s spattering his urine into a pan, for crying out loud. She recalls their first trip to Europe after the War, how Churchill and Clemenceau thought him too removed from the trenches to appreciate what had taken place there. But they’d seen enough. The bombed-out cathedral in Reines, its roof mainly sky as they gazed together at the snow falling right through it, at the priest’s red-gloved fingers tracing its downward drift — that was enough. 6. And now the Great War has leveled him like any casualty, like some poison gas belatedly finding its way into his bloodstream. His mind, too? What is a mind? she wonders, as she shaves him like she imagined she would her father one day, till he gleams like an infant—a motherly connection, except futureless. She can’t ignore the left arm beneath the sheets, flopped like a chicken carcass or a paratrooper’s chute caught on a branch somewhere across enemy lines. 7. All these years she’s spent at his side have finally come to this, an education not only in statesmanship but in himship. She can joke like him, think like him, smirk like him, even feel like him, more him than him since she still has feeling in the places he’s gone numb. 8. She does not guide his hand, but follows it where it leads, unfolding his words and vision. Like one of those Ouija boards that are all the rage. She’s not naïve enough to believe in them, really, but some ambassador’s wife had one on a ship, and one night while he was resting she’d watched several gathered around one in a corner. Could you do a proper Ouija reading at sea? She pictures spirits vomiting over the rail. The woman, plainly a frustrated actress, had contacted the drowned captain of a vessel that went under somewhere in these longitudes. Afterward, Edith had conveyed it to Woodrow. Can’t you ladies stick to shuffleboard? he’d snorted. Now, as she conveys his ideas to the world, she wonders whether she is channeling a spectral self, whether he himself sank into the cold murk of some abyss while her head was turned. 9. Or maybe he’d drowned earlier, even, on that Caribbean island, in the depths of Mary Peck, that woman with whom he swore he’d never consummated anything, anything, that is, but endless conversations under fronds, against brokenyolk sun and the steady surf. Poor wretched woman. But then? Ripe, free, and available. She wouldn’t have blamed him. 10. But she trusted him, as they never would her. Even something as inoffensive as her speckling the White House lawn with sheep to free up more khaki boys made them scoff that she was turning it to pasture, making a minefield of dung. How could they have understood her attachment to those sheep, how she’d watch them shuffle around, clumped as if it made them less, rather than more, conspicuous. As if they knew this city was teeming with wolves. 11. She adored the creatures, but the same in a man — a certain cowering, shambling herd instinct, a wooliness — she found repugnant. Secretly she’d named them after those she didn’t fancy, House, for instance, her husband’s advisor, the sheepiest of them all, he who gimped along at the pack’s rear; she had to make sure it didn’t starve. Abandoned to a state of nature, House would have been devoured, she was certain, inside a Washington week. She loved to crouch down, sniffing his grungy dander. She’d blow loving words in his ear, her cheek grazing the soft fold of flesh at the neck where a knife could have eased in to the hilt. 12. She misses violet gowns and matching hats. She misses the first taste of victory. She misses the sheep, even House. She misses her first husband. She misses her grandmother, and her father, who brought her Shakespeare. She misses the fat watchman on the Chain Bridge, with his weird salute. 13. Once they had talked about taking a bike tour of Europe. No room for bikes in the cramped shacks of her youth, so she’d never learned to ride, and had stolen lessons in secret in the White House basement, sure that one day they’d cycle through Avignon and ascend the Alps, though first she needed to learn to effect a simple turn and stop. Again and again, she’d wobbled and crashed and giggled, matching that bike’s enamel bruise for bruise and pedaling on. 14. What is a body? What is a mind? What is a voice? What is a stroke? What is a war? What will endure? What will matter? Who will remember? Tim Horvath (www.timhorvath.com) is the author of Understories, published by Bellevue Literary Press (2012), as well as Circulation, published by sunnyoutside (2009). His stories appear in places like Conjunctions, Fiction, and The Normal School, and he is a Prose Editor for Camera Obscura. He teaches creative writing at the New Hampshire Institute of Art and works part-time as a psychiatric counselor. Read the next story, WARREN G. HARDING, here.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line2029
__label__wiki	0.831796	0.831796	Executive Power Showdown: Congress and White House Quarrel over Immigration Spending By Muzaffar Chishti, Sarah Pierce, and Randy Capps Explainer: Illegal Immigration in the United States By Jessica Bolter Caribbean Immigrants in the United States By Jie Zong and Jeanne Batalova The Travel Ban at Two: Rocky Implementation Settles into Deeper Impacts Going to the Back of the Line: A Primer on Lines, Visa Categories, and Wait Times By Claire Bergeron Immigration Enforcement in the United States: The Rise of a Formidable Machinery By Doris Meissner, Donald M. Kerwin, Muzaffar Chishti and Claire Bergeron In the Lurch between Government and Chaos: Unconsolidated Democracy in Mexico By Luis Rubio The Economic Value of Citizenship for Immigrants in the United States By Madeleine Sumption and Sarah Flamm Relief from Deportation: Demographic Profile of the DREAMers Potentially Eligible under the Deferred Action Policy By Jeanne Batalova and Michelle Mittelstadt Contested Ground: Immigration in the United States By Michael Jones-Correa More than 653,000 immigrants became U.S. citizens in fiscal year 2014, bringing the total number of naturalized U.S. citizens to 20 million—nearly half the overall immigrant population of 42.4 million. Over the past decade, naturalizations have ranged from about 537,000 yearly to just more than 1 million. Learn more about naturalization trends in the United States with this Spotlight article. Chasing Growth: The Role of National Economies in U.S. Visa Refusal Rates As many as half of all unauthorized immigrants in the United States entered legally and overstayed a visa. This article explores a possible way to refine visa policies: Examine the economic growth of travelers' home countries. The author examines the correlation between economic growth and the rate at which a country’s nationals are denied visas, and explores how this might inform visa policy. Supreme Court DAPA Ruling a Blow to Obama Administration, Moves Immigration Back to Political Realm A split ruling by the Supreme Court in United States v. Texas has dealt a hard blow to the Obama administration's signature deferred action programs. While the decision makes it unlikely the DAPA program and DACA expansion will be implemented in their current form, the outcome at the high court may have opened a path for renewed movement on immigration policy changes in Congress, as this article explores. Controversial EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program Faces Possibility of Overhaul While the EB-5 investor visa program from inception has had its share of critics, its sharp expansion over a short period of time—combined with the emergence of several high-profile controversies—has markedly increased scrutiny, and thus the possibility of legislative reform. This Policy Beat outlines the debate surrounding the EB-5 program and possible changes awaiting the program in Congress. The Global Boom in Investor Immigration: What Are the Lessons For Policymakers? A discussion on the extraordinary boom in investor immigration, including the rapidly expanding EB-5 visa in the United States, Malta’s controversial “cash for citizenship” policy and a host of programs across Europe and the Caribbean. This conference, keynoted by USCIS Director León Rodríguez, featured panels on local immigrant integration policies; expected executive action on immigration; the treatment of unaccompanied children from Central America; and innovations in government-funded legal counsel and accelerated court cases. The U.S. Deportation System: Trends from a Decade of Data MPI researchers, along with analysts from the Government Accountability Office and American Immigration Council, discuss the findings from an MPI report that examines the 3.7 million deportations that have occurred in the United States since establishment of the Department of Homeland Security in 2003, as well as lessons that can be learned for future policy and possible administrative action. U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Discusses His Vision for the Agency U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner R. Gil Kerlikowske, who assumed his duties in 2014, lays out his vision and discusses his priorities for the agency as part of MPI's Leadership Visions series. Realizing the DACA and DREAM Promise: Actions to Support Educational Attainment of Potentially Eligible Immigrant Youth A discussion and report release on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, how its educational requirements may be impacting application rates, and recommendations for overcoming the education-success challenges that key subgroups of DACA-DREAM youth face. As the U.S. workforce ages and the economy becomes ever more knowledge-based, policymakers face a key question: Do workers have the skills to meet tomorrow's demands? This report examines how immigrants and their children—the primary source of future labor-market growth—fit into the discussion. The report offers a first-ever profile of the 30 million immigrant-origin adults without a postsecondary credential. Though a faceoff between the U.S. executive and legislative branches is now in the courts, with President Trump's decision to declare a national emergency so he can allocate more money for construction of a border wall, a less-noted dispute has been taking place over the Department of Homeland Security's decision to add thousands more immigration detention beds than Congress provides annually, as this article explains. How has the size of the unauthorized population in the United States changed over time? How is illegal immigration changing, and where do unauthorized immigrants come from? This explainer answers basic questions about illegal immigration, the changing patterns from Mexico, and more. Caribbean immigrants represent 10 percent of the 44.5 million immigrants in the United States, with the vast majority coming from just five countries: Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Haiti, and Trinidad and Tobago. Depending on their origin country and period of arrival, immigrants from the Caribbean have varying skill levels, racial composition, language background, and motivations for migration, as this article explores. Two years after the Trump administration’s much-litigated travel ban was created, the policy has demonstrated a significant impact on the admission of foreigners from the banned countries, while also reshaping U.S. security vetting procedures and the refugee resettlement process in enduring ways, as this article explores on the second-year anniversary. Enfrentados con la llegada de más de 3 millones de venezolanos huyendo de una economía colapsada y conflictos políticos, los países latinoamericanos han respondido con creatividad y pragmatismo. Pero, a medida que la crisis venezolana y la migración que ha impulsado se extienden, es necesario examinar más allá de la facilitación de la entrada legal y la otorgación del estatus temporal para planificar a largo plazo. Faced with the arrival of more than 3 million Venezuelans fleeing economic collapse and political upheaval, Latin American countries have responded with creativity and pragmatism. But as the migration spurred by the crisis stretches on, there is a need to look beyond facilitating legal entry and granting temporary status to plan for the long term. This brief explores the policy response thus far and challenges ahead.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line2037
__label__cc	0.62084	0.37916	Bottoms Up With New York's Hottest Party Photographer Party down with 30 frisky photos of celebratory supermodels and sexy celebrities courtesy of NYC's Billy Farrell Agency. Maxim Staff In New York City, fabulous parties are practically a nightly occurrence for the rich, the famous, the beautiful and the even remotely well-connected. They range from movie premieres to fashion shows to product launches and restaurant openings, as well as anything else that serves as an excuse to throw a fete with free-flowing sponsored booze and crappy hors d'oeuvres. But equally as important as the door person, the bartenders, the deejay, and the publicists are the party photographers hired to document the festivities. Manhattan's Billy Farrell Agency ranks at the top of this uniquely New York tradition, which has been practiced for decades by everyone from a Polaroid-snapping Andy Warhol to Farrell's former boss, Patrick McMullan. To mark BFA's 5th anniversary, let's have a moment of slideshow silence, and party down with thirty of the agency's sexiest photos. Photos by All photos by Billy Farrell Agency Billy Farrell AgencymodelsVictoria's SecretWomenParties	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line2038
__label__wiki	0.544644	0.544644	Innovative Pressure Sensor Platform and Its Integration with an End-User Application Occupancy Grid Mapping in Urban Environments from a Moving On-Board Stereo-Vision System Normalized GNSS Interference Pattern Technique for Altimetry Sensor Systems for Vehicle Environment Perception in a Highway Intelligent Space System 10.3390/s140610258 Kassabian, N. Lo Presti, L. Rispoli, F. Augmented GNSS Differential Corrections Minimum Mean Square Error Estimation Sensitivity to Spatial Correlation Modeling Errors Nazelie Kassabian 1,*, Letizia Lo Presti Francesco Rispoli Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Politecnico di Torino,Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Turin, Italy Ansaldo STS, S.p.A, Via Paolo Mantovani 3-5, 16151 Genoa, Italy Sensors 2014, 14(6), 10258-10272; https://doi.org/10.3390/s140610258 Received: 17 April 2014 / Revised: 4 June 2014 / Accepted: 5 June 2014 / Published: 11 June 2014 (This article belongs to the Special Issue Positioning and Tracking Sensors and Technologies in Road Transport) Browse Figure Railway signaling is a safety system that has evolved over the last couple of centuries towards autonomous functionality. Recently, great effort is being devoted in this field, towards the use and exploitation of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals and GNSS augmentation systems in view of lower railway track equipments and maintenance costs, that is a priority to sustain the investments for modernizing the local and regional lines most of which lack automatic train protection systems and are still manually operated. The objective of this paper is to assess the sensitivity of the Linear Minimum Mean Square Error (LMMSE) algorithm to modeling errors in the spatial correlation function that characterizes true pseudorange Differential Corrections (DCs). This study is inspired by the railway application; however, it applies to all transportation systems, including the road sector, that need to be complemented by an augmentation system in order to deliver accurate and reliable positioning with integrity specifications. A vector of noisy pseudorange DC measurements are simulated, assuming a Gauss-Markov model with a decay rate parameter inversely proportional to the correlation distance that exists between two points of a certain environment. The LMMSE algorithm is applied on this vector to estimate the true DC, and the estimation error is compared to the noise added during simulation. The results show that for large enough correlation distance to Reference Stations (RSs) distance separation ratio values, the LMMSE brings considerable advantage in terms of estimation error accuracy and precision. Conversely, the LMMSE algorithm may deteriorate the quality of the DC measurements whenever the ratio falls below a certain threshold. Keywords: GNSS; augmentation system; reference station; differential correction; linear MMSE; correlation distance GNSS; augmentation system; reference station; differential correction; linear MMSE; correlation distance Railway signaling, a baseline safety system to control the movement of trains, has emerged years after the dawn of the first steam engined powered locomotives. The motivation behind this safety system for railways is the need of a much greater distance to stop than on road due to tenuous contact between steel wheel and steel rail. In the early days of railways, a simple time interval system was the rule of thumb to avoid train collisions due to the absence of any communication or signaling between trains. In fact, trains used to wait for 10 min, known as “headway” before being given the green light to depart from the station. This obviously decreased line capacity. Railway signaling has come a long way ever since, evolving to fixed mechanical signaling and later in the beginning of the twentieth century, to automatic signaling by means of electronic track circuits and transponders also known as balise. These transponders give the exact position of the train as it passes through it, and are named Eurobalise if they comply with the European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS)/European Train Control System (ETCS) specification. Nowadays, satellite localization and navigation systems coupled with telecommunication systems are considered to be an efficient solution to significantly reduce costs related to railway track equipments and their maintenance, as well as to increase line capacity and provide more reliable railway services [1]. It is important however to verify that Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) can offer the safety requirements imposed by the ERTMS/ETCS specification. It is shown in [2] that the Galileo safety of life service, which was mainly designed for aeronautical operations, but is also applicable to railway applications with a different safety philosophy, can be assessed through quality attributes specific to railway signaling, that is Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety (RAMS). The ETCS specification, is a de-facto standard widely accepted in the world for signaling and speed-control applications. In the Memorandum of Understanding signed in 2012 between the European Commission, European Railway Agency (ERA) and the rail stakeholders it is foreseen that the next generation of ERTMS will be upgraded with additional functionalities including GNSS technology. In Europe, the ERTMS solution with satellite tracking is motivated by the needs of modernization of local and regional lines, which represent about 50 percent of all lines and carry a total number of passengers twenty times higher than the number of passengers transported by aircraft. The adoption of the GNSS represents an unprecedented innovation backed by the important economical benefits and the contribution to improve the safety especially on the local and regional lines where no protection systems are employed and human errors may be fatal, as in Figure 1. The main challenge is the elimination of track-side equipments along the lines with the safe localization of the train by the GNSS that will imply the use of augmentation networks with proper algorithms to assure the correctness and liability of the train position. In fact, given that the positioning accuracy of standalone GNSSs is of the order of a few meters, it is important to make use of augmentation systems and differential techniques to drive the accuracy down as low as a couple of meters and maximize continuity and integrity [4,5]. Aviation applications do so by making use of Ground Based Augmentation Systems (GBASs) such as Local Area Augmentation Systems (LAASs) and Space Based Augmentation Systems (SBASs) such as the Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) and the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay System (EGNOS). These SBASs employ geostationary satellites and a network of terrestrial receivers scattered over large distances such as continents and countries. In this way, a SBAS mitigates a wide variety of GNSS error sources like ionosphere, troposphere and satellite clock errors [6]. In a similar way, GBASs and/or SBASs can serve the railway signaling and protection systems to increase accuracy, continuity and integrity of position and velocity GNSS measurements. For railway applications, the integrity of the elaborated train position is crucial to meet the safety requirements. In addition to integrity, the user differential corrections generated by the set of Reference Station (RS) play an important role to assure that the train can be stopped behind critical points and in some cases, respect the railway traffic lights or signals as shown in Figure 2. Normally, these signals are placed at the beginning and end of each block, which is a section of the track between two fixed points, and are preceded by transponders to detect the train position as it passes nearby. This is basically a fixed block setting where train positions are only known at the balise locations, and therefore display a constant worst-case headway based on a discontinuous location monitoring. The moving block setting on the other hand, does not make use of fixed points, but rather is based on a continuous, precise and timely information on the location of the front and rear of each train. This in turn increases line capacity. GNSS is an enabling technology of such a setting, and can be used together with other types of sensors to maximize continuity and integrity. This paper explores the differentially corrected pseudorange accuracy that can be reached by harnessing the existence of several communicating RSs in the vicinity of railway tracks. In fact, the complexity and cost of the augmentation network depends on the number of reference stations. Although this study is inspired by the railway application, it is not limited to it and the problem that is dealt with is of great concern to all transportation system applications that need an augmentation system in order to deliver more accurate and reliable positioning with integrity specifications. A handful of such examples can be found in the road sector for safety critical and commercial services, such as management of hazardous goods transport and electronic toll collection systems [7,8]. Moreover, a dedicated augmented network is proposed in [1,9], to provide augmentation data for railway applications, making reference to the ERTMS system supported by the GNSS localization. Figure 3 shows the general architecture of the ERTMS system with the GNSS solution. The dedicated augmentation network is equipped with ranging and integrity monitoring RS, communication base stations, location determination systems, and a track area location determination system safety server which processes the outputs sent by the RSs [1,9]. In this paper, a general study of the minimum distance separation between RSs is carried out indirectly by considering different values of the correlation distance, the distance that separates two points characterized by correlated error sources. This is due to the inverse proportionality relationship that exists between the correlation distance and the distance that separates RSs. In conclusion, the Linear Minimum Mean Square Error (LMMSE) algorithm is a classical estimation method widely used in augmented GNSS applications [10,11]. It is based on spatial correlation models, that are often defined for each error source, such as ionosphere, troposphere and satellite ephemeris. The contribution of this paper resides in assessing the sensitivity and robustness of the LMMSE algorithm to modeling errors in a typical railway scenario. The methodology of this study can be applied to any augmentation based system, as long as the spatial correlation models take into account the geometry of the application and the dedicated augmentation network. In the following, the spatial correlation model is considered to encompass all error sources. The paper is organized as follows. Section 2 introduces the pseudorange Differential Correction (DC) expression generated by these RSs together with its second order statistics model. In addition, it introduces the linear LMMSE algorithm to estimate the true DC from the vector of noisy measurements relative to these RSs. Section 3 on the other hand, describes the pseudorange DC simulation process for a number of correlation distance values, and shows the sensitivity of the estimation algorithm to different modeling errors. 2. LMMSE Estimator within GNSS Augmentation Systems Similar to aviation applications of local area and wide area differential GNSS, the railway scenario can take advantage of well surveyed GNSS reference stations to generate differential corrections for pseudorange measurements obtained by a standard GNSS receiver. In the vicinity of railway lines, every GNSS equipped RS is able to derive pseudorange measurements between itself and each individual Space Vehicle (SV) in view. On the other hand, these RSs have well known positions as part of an augmentation system infrastructure. Differential corrections are hence generated, which are fairly accurate but affected by noise. 2.1. Pseudorange Measurement Error Modeling The pseudorange DC or measurement error for each satellite i and RS j at every epoch n can be written as [12]: η i , j = c ( δ t j − δ t i ) + E i , j + I i , j + T i , j + ϵ i , j where c is the speed of light, δtj and δti are the reference station and satellite clock bias from a standard time reference as GPS Time (GPST), Ei,j is the ephemeris error, Ii,j is the ionosphere delay bias, Ti,j is the troposphere delay bias, and ϵi,j is the error in unmodeled effects, modeling errors, and measurement errors. The pseudorange measurement error is the result of several independent error sources, which are individually modeled by an overbounding zero mean normal distribution characterized by a standard deviation σCE for satellite clock and ephemeris errors, σI for ionosphere errors, σT for troposphere errors and σw for unmodeled noisy errors. Due to the noisy term ϵi,j in the expression of the pseudorange DC, it is possible to separate the expression in two terms, that is η i , j = ξ i , j + ϵ i , j where ξi,j = cδtj + Ei,j + Ii,j + Ti,j is the true total correction to be estimated. It is modeled by a normal distribution with zero mean and a variance of σ ξ 2 = σ C E 2 + σ I 2 + σ T 2. Considering a number of RSs of known position, performing pseudorange measurements along the railway line, at each epoch n, and for each satellite i, the sequence of ξi,j can be written in vector form as ξ = [ ξ i , 1 , ξ i , 2 , ⋯ , ξ i , N R S ], where NRS is the number of RSs (in ξ the symbol i is omitted to simplify the notations). To take into account the spatial correlation among ξi,j and their random nature, ξ is modeled as a stochastic vector defined by a Probability Density Function (PDF) as ξ ∼ (μξ,Rξ). The modeling and measurement errors which make up the noisy term are independent of time and space and other RSs. Therefore, the vector of noisy terms relative to each RS is modeled by a zero mean jointly Gaussian random process with uncorrelated components in time and a diagonal covariance matrix in space, defined by a PDF as ϵ ∼ (0,Rw) and R w = σ w 2 I, where I is the identity diagonal matrix. The resulting pseudorange DC is then represented by vector η. 2.2. Estimating True Total DC The true total DC vector ξ, characterized by a covariance matrix Rξ, can be estimated using a classical LMMSE algorithm, as in [13]. It is worth noting that a similar approach is applied in [11], where the LMMSE algorithm is applied to estimate vertical ionospheric delays at the considered user position starting from vertical ionospheric delays measured at various WAAS RSs. In this paper, the user is not taken into consideration, but only the network of RSs. This study intends to explore the quality of the true DC estimates that can be reached by harnessing the pseudorange DC generated by this network of RSs with fixed surveyed positions and a-priori knowledge of their mutual second order statistics. In fact, the approach in [11] makes a key assumption, mainly that the correlation of the vertical ionospheric delay between two points of the ionospheric grid depends only on the distance between these two points. The same is true for satellite ephemeris errors and propagation errors such as troposphere delay [6]. By noting that the different error sources acting on the true total DC are independent, the corresponding total covariance matrix can be written as the sum of the individual covariance matrices: R ξ = σ C E 2 exp ( − x / D E ) + σ I 2 exp ( − x / D I ) + σ I 2 exp ( − x / D T ) where DE, DI and DT are the correlation distances relative to the correlation functions characterizing the satellite ephemeris, ionosphere and troposphere corrections at different RSs respectively. The satellite clock error is the same for all users and thus is discarded in the covariance matrix. The spatial decorrelation value or the ionosphere gradient, is reported to be in the range of 1-4 mm/km in active but not stormy ionosphere conditions where it can go up to 400 mm/km [6]. The ionosphere correlation distance, which is the reciprocal of the spatial decorrelation, can thus be deduced to be in the range of 250-1000 km in normal conditions and go down as low as 2.5 km during large geomagnetic storms. Likewise, the ephemeris gradient is lower than 0.5 mm/km while the worst-case tropospheric decorrelation value is reported to be around 5 mm/km in [6]. Going back to Equation (2), the LMMSE estimate of a vector of random variables buried in noise is [13]: ξ ^ = μ ξ + R ξ ( R ξ + R w ) − 1 ( η − μ η ) where it is assumed that the modeling errors and the true DC are uncorrelated and independent Gaussian Random Variable (RV). Given that the outcome of the estimation algorithm is most adversely affected by the narrowest correlation function, the sum of the three correlation functions can be approximated to be equal to one correlation function considering the lowest correlation distance, and with a variance coefficient equal to the sum of the three variances. This motivates the fact that it is commonplace to model the true total DC covariance matrix by a single exponential function characterized by a constant correlation distance D and a pseudorange DC standard deviation σ [10,11] as: R ξ = σ 2 exp ( − x / D ) where x is a 2-Dimensional matrix considering all distance combinations between RSs spread along the rectilinear railroad track. The behavior of this spatial correlation for a fixed distance separation and a variable correlation distance is shown in Figure 4. It can be concluded that, for a fixed distance separation, the spatial correlation value increases with the correlation distance following a horizontal asymptote. However, the LMMSE estimation method can also be applied considering the sum of individual covariance matrices as shown in Equation (3). In fact, in this case, the parametric analysis involves six modeling error parameters, i.e., the three error sources ephemeris, ionosphere, troposphere, each of which modeled by two parameters, the variance and the correlation distance. This case will be further discussed in the following section. 2.3. Estimation Algorithm Considerations In order to use Equation (4), the following vector and two matrices have to be known: μξ approaches μη after a certain initialization time where a considerable amount of measurements is performed to assume that the average operation drives the contribution of ϵ to zero. Rw depends on the quality of the GNSS receiver and is intrinsic to it. In fact, σ w 2 can be estimated offline and is considered to be a known vector. Rξ is the most critical estimate, and is defined by two variables, the pseudorange DC standard deviation σ and the correlation distance D as seen from Equations (3) and (5). These two variables have to be estimated by surveying campaigns beforehand (two methods are described in [10]) and depend on the environmental conditions which can vary in time. Therefore, it is important to assess the situation when the modeling parameters diverge from true values due to several reasons, such as geometric changes and severe ionospheric storms or sudden atmospheric changes [10]. The objective of this paper is thus to analyze the sensitivity of the LMMSE algorithm to variations of σ and D. 3. Simulation Results Monte-Carlo simulations are carried out in order to assess the performance of the LMMSE algorithm in estimating the true total DC from a set of measurements available at RSs and testing its sensitivity to modeling errors. It is assumed that five RSs are distributed along a railway track of 400 km, i.e., separated by 80 km. In [9], the same number of RSs are distributed over a railway track of 300 km and considered to be separated by a distance less than the decorrelation distance. In the following, three cases will be considered: the case where the true total DC is simulated and modeled according to a correlation function that is a single exponential function as in Equation (5), or the sum of multiple exponential functions with different correlation distance as in Equation (3) or the sum of multiple exponential functions with the same correlation distance. 3.1. Simulating the True Total DC The true total DC vector ξ is simulated considering a first order Gauss-Markov process with a decay rate parameter of 1/D and process variance equal to the sum of the individual variances σ C E 2 = 0.85 2 m 2, σ I 2 = 9 2 m 2 and σ T 2 = 1 m 2 taken to be representative of worst-case values [7]. This is equivalent to generating different values of the error sources at each RS. Moreover, the simulated vector as such yields the exponential decay rate function that characterizes the true total DC covariance matrix as in Equation (5). The mean of the simulated vector as such is zero, however the pseudorange DC for a standard user is around 3-10 m, reflecting the ionosphere, troposphere, unmodeled effects and modeling/measurement errors. Therefore, a constant error of σξ m is manually added to the simulated DC vector to take into account biases such as satellite ephemeris and clock errors, as well as propagation errors (ionosphere and troposphere), while keeping the structure of the correlation matrix Rξ. It is worth noting that adding a bias to the simulated process vector ξ as such maintains the diversity of the errors at each RS. Alternatively, the true total DC vector ξ is simulated as a sum of three first order Gauss-Markov processes having the same decay rate parameter value of 1/D but different process variances σ C E 2, σ I 2 and σ T 2. In this case, ξ can be seen as the output of the sum of three white noise signals Wi ∼ (0,σwi) passed through a low pass filter H(z): H ( z ) = d 2 α 1 + α d − z − 1 = a 1 − b z − 1 with a = d 2 α 1 + α d, b = 1 1 + α d α =1/D, d = 80 km which represents the RS distance separation and σwi represent the aforementioned variances relative to the satellite clock and ephemeris error, the ionosphere and troposphere errors. The sum of the output of these three filters can then be written as: ξ [ n ] = ∑ l = − ∞ ∞ h [ l ] ∑ i = 1 3 w i [ n − l ] = ∑ l = − ∞ ∞ h [ l ] w [ n − l ] with h[n] = abn is the Z inverse transform of H(z) and w[n] a white noise signal with a normal distribution N ( 0 , ∑ σ w i 2 ). This proves that the true total DC vector generated as such is still a Gauss-Markov process, with the same decay rate parameter and variance σ ξ 2 = ∑ σ w i 2. On the other hand, as previously mentioned, the vector of noise terms ϵ is modeled as a zero mean jointly Gaussian random process with a diagonal covariance matrix defined by R w = σ w 2 I with σ w 2 = σ m 2 + σ r 2 and σm = 1.5 m and σr = 0.35 m as approximate maximum 1-Sigma error values on code phase measurements. The aforementioned error values σm and σr are due to multipath and receiver noise respectively considering a stand-alone user (not using Differential GNSS (DGNSS) corrections) [6]. It is worth noting that such values are independent between user and reference receivers and correspond to clean or moderate reflecting source conditions around user and reference receivers. Moreover, it is assumed that a default level of carrier smoothing is present. Finally, a vector of correlation distance D values and variance values σ2 is considered in generating the true total DC. 3.2. Estimating the True Total DC Assuming that one has a simultaneous access to the corrections generated at each RSs, the true total DC vector ξ is estimated using the LMMSE as in Equation (4). It is assumed that μξ = μη as previously mentioned, and that a relatively good estimate of the true total DC covariance matrix R̂ξ modeled as a single exponential function is obtained. However, it is essential to assess the impact of the spatial correlation matrix modeling errors on the true total DC estimation quality. For that end, a range of modeling errors ΔD = 0 to 2000 km are added to the vector D which holds the true correlation distance values considered in simulating the true total DC vector. Moreover, a range of true total DC variance modeling errors Δσ2 = 0 to 25 m2 is added to the true value σ2 which in these simulations coincides with σ ξ 2. The results presented herein are relative to a simulated true total DC. In order to assess the LMMSE estimation quality, a Monte-Carlo simulation of 500 runs has been carried out: the true total DC vector is simulated 500 times, the corresponding LMMSE estimates are generated, and the estimation error is computed. Figure 5 shows on the same plot, the histogram of both the estimation error distribution and the true noise distribution for two individual cases: (a) a true distance correlation of 100 km and a modeling error ΔD = 200 km in Figure 5a and a corresponding (b) 900 km and a modeling error of 1800 km in Figure 5b. Both the estimation error and true noise refer to all RSs which are separated between themselves by a constant distance d = 80 km. It can be concluded from these two histograms that the LMMSE estimation yields no bias errors and generally reduces the noise affecting the true total DC, as the probability of estimation error lying around the 0 bin is higher than that corresponding to the true error. Furthermore, this probability is slightly higher for a larger correlation distance value of 900 km as seen in Figure 5b compared to 100 km Figure 5a. This is further demonstrated in Figure 6 where the probability of the estimation error lying below half a meter is plotted with respect to various combinations of correlation distance and corresponding modeling error. The DC variance modeling error is taken to be 25 m2. It can be seen that this probability is higher as the correlation distance increases irrespective of the modeling error magnitude. After this initial test on the estimation quality, the variance of the estimation error is numerically computed from the Monte-Carlo simulations, and is plotted as a function of the ratio between correlation distance values and a constant distance separation of 80 km. Multiple curves are overlayed on the same figure to indicate the behavior of the various modeling errors. Figure 7 shows that although the estimation error variance decreases with increasing ratio of correlation to separation distance values, it does not change much after a certain ratio value. This is true for all cases of correlation distance modeling errors. The true error or noise is also plotted, and it can be seen that for correlation distance modeling errors ranging from 0 to 2000 km, the estimation error variance is always lower than the true error variance as long as the ratio D/d is greater than 5. The important and unusual conclusion to draw here, is that within the range of the considered modeling errors, the LMMSE algorithm might even deteriorate the quality of the pseudorange DC estimate. In fact, the estimation error variance considerably increases as the ratio D/d drops below 5, and modeling errors rise above 500 km. In addition, Figure 8 shows the decreasing behavior of the estimation error variance with increasing correlation distance and ratio D/d. The various curves indicate different variance modeling error values relative to the true total DC. There is a slight vertical shift between these curves, and as noticed previously, the estimation error variance decreases even more slowly with large correlation distance values. 3.3. Further Analysis of True Total DC Estimation This section presents results of estimating true total DC with the alternative method of summing three Gauss-Markov processes with the same or different correlation distance values for the different error sources. Similar results as presented in the previous section, are achieved in case the correlation distance is assumed the same for satellite ephemeris, ionosphere and troposphere error correlation functions. The focus herein is the case where the true total DC is simulated as the sum of three Gauss-Markov processes with different correlation distance values: ξ [ n ] = ∑ l = − ∞ ∞ ∑ i = 1 3 h i [ l ] w i [ n − l ] = ∑ l = − ∞ ∞ ∑ i = 1 3 a i b i l w i [ n − l ] with a i = d 2 α i 1 + α i d, b i = 1 1 + α i d, and αi = 1/Di. In this case, the true total DC covariance matrix is the sum of three covariance matrices with different correlation distance values as in Equation (4). As concluded from the previous section, the higher the correlation distance for a fixed value of the distance separating RSs, the lower is the impact of the modeling errors. Therefore, at a first thought, only the variance and correlation distance relative to the most narrow correlation function that is characterized by the lowest correlation distance ought to be taken into consideration. However, the ionosphere error is characterized by the largest variance as compared to the other error sources and so determines the correlation value in Equation (3). Therefore, only the variance and correlation distance of the ionosphere error correlation matrix ought to be considered herein. It is thus safe to say that this analysis is based on varying two parameters instead of the six aforementioned parameters. The estimation error variance plotted in Figures 9 and 10, is computed numerically as described in the previous section. As expected, Figures 9 and 10 are very similar to Figures 7 and 8 because the impact of the troposphere, clock and ephemeris error correlation matrices on the total DC estimation is marginal with respect to the ionosphere error correlation matrix. The same conclusion holds, mainly that as the correlation distance and variance modeling errors increase, the performance of the LMMSE algorithm equals or is better than the true error variance for higher values of the correlation distance. The adoption of the GNSS for railway signaling applications requires a safe and liable determination of train position and this paper has analyzed one of the core algorithms of the augmentation network. A study of the sensitivity of the LMMSE algorithm to modeling errors regarding the a priori spatial correlation of the true total pseudorange DC is undertaken. The impact of the correlation distance modeling errors decrease with the increase of the true correlation distance to RS distance separation ratio, and converges to an asymptote beyond a certain threshold. On the other hand, noise variance modeling errors have a low impact on the estimation error variance. It is shown that for fairly high correlation distance to RSs distance separation ratio values, and for a wide range of modeling errors, the LMMSE algorithm further decreases the noise inherent in pseudorange DC measurements generated at each RS for every satellite. Conversely, for very low ratio values, and for some correlation distance modeling errors, the LMMSE algorithm increases the noise inherent in pseudorange DC measurements. In this sense, this paper has presented a methodology to assess the required distance between RSs that make up a GNSS augmentation system given a specific correlation distance that characterizes a certain environment. Furthermore, this impacts on the costs for deploying and maintaining the augmentation network. The work presented in this paper was carried out in collaboration with all authors. Nazelie Kassabian carried out a literature survey, conceived the Matlab code to perform the simulations, and wrote the paper. 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__label__wiki	0.547327	0.547327	Supplementation with Resveratrol, Piperine and Alpha-Tocopherol Decreases Chronic Inflammation in a Cluster of Older Adults with Metabolic Syndrome Association of Plasma Total Cysteine and Anthropometric Status in 6–30 Months Old Indian Children 10.3390/nu12103148 Wu, Y. Wang, J. He, Q. Yu, L. Pham, Q. Cheung, L. Zhang, Z. Kim, Y. S. Smith, A. D. Wang, T. T. Y. Dietary Indole-3-Carbinol Alleviated Spleen Enlargement, Enhanced IgG Response in C3H/HeN Mice Infected with Citrobacter rodentium Yanbei Wu 1,2,3,4, Qiang He Liangli Yu Quynhchi Pham Lumei Cheung Zhi Zhang Young S. Kim Allen D. Smith 2,* and Thomas T. Y. Wang 2,* China-Canada Joint Lab of Food Nutrition and Health (Beijing), Beijing Technology & Business University, Beijing 100048, China Diet, Genomics, and Immunology Laboratory, Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center, USDA-ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705, USA Department of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA College of Biomass Science and Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China Nutritional Science Research Group, Division of Cancer Prevention, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA Nutrients 2020, 12(10), 3148; https://doi.org/10.3390/nu12103148 Received: 6 September 2020 / Revised: 6 October 2020 / Accepted: 11 October 2020 / Published: 15 October 2020 (This article belongs to the Section Nutritional Immunology) Enteropathogenic and enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli are important enteric pathogens that induce hemorrhagic colitis or even fatal hemolytic uremic syndrome. Emerging evidence shows that some bio-actives derived from fruits and vegetables may serve as alternatives to antibiotics for overcoming multidrug resistant E. coli infections. In this study, the Citrobacter rodentium (Cr) infection model was utilized to mimic E. coli-induced acute intestinal inflammation, and the effects of a cruciferous vegetable-derived cancer protective compound, indole-3-carbinol (I3C), on the immune responses of Cr-susceptible C3H/HeN mice were investigated. Dietary I3C significantly inhibited the loss of body weight and the increase in spleen size in Cr infected mice. In addition, I3C treatment reduced the inflammatory response to Cr infection by maintaining anti-inflammatory cytokine IL-22 mRNA levels while reducing expression of other pro-inflammatory cytokines including IL17A, IL6, IL1β, TNF-α, and IFN-γ. Moreover, the serum cytokine levels of IL17, TNF-α, IL12p70, and G-CSF also were down-regulated by I3C in Cr-infected mice. Additionally, dietary I3C specifically enhanced the Cr-specific IgG response to Cr infection. In general, dietary I3C reduced the Cr-induced pro-inflammatory response in susceptible C3H/HeN mice and alleviated the physiological changes and tissue damage induced by Cr infection but not Cr colonization. Keywords: indole-3-carbinol; C3H/HeN mice; Citrobacter rodentium; colitis; immunoregulation indole-3-carbinol; C3H/HeN mice; Citrobacter rodentium; colitis; immunoregulation Enteropathogenic and enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EPEC and EHEC) are some of the most common pathogenic bacteria that contribute to clinical infections in both animals and humans [1]. EPEC/EHEC exist as normal microbes in the gastrointestinal tract of ruminant animals, such as cow and sheep, but are asymptomatic, while causing severe disease in humans [2]. The symptoms in humans include abdominal cramps, vomiting, and/or diarrhea, which may progress to hemorrhagic colitis [3,4]. About 30% of confirmed cases require hospitalization, and about 10% of cases develop into hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) that is characterized by anemia, kidney failure, and low platelet counts [5,6]. Antibiotics are commonly prescribed for bacterial infections but their overuse on farms and in hospitals has increased the incidence of multidrug resistant (MDR) E. coli infections, which have become a significant threat to human health [7]. The development of alternative strategies for controlling the spread and treatment of EPEC and EHEC are necessary to protect public health and minimize the economic costs associated with outbreaks of these bacteria. The study of EPEC and EHEC is limited by the inability of these bacteria to mimic human infections and disease when using a rodent model. Citrobacter rodentium (Cr) is a gram negative microbe that naturally infects mice, causes diarrhea and shares 67% of its genes with EPEC and EHEC, including genes associated with pathogenicity and virulence [1]. Cr infection in mice causes attaching and effacing (A/E) lesions and a potent TH1/TH17 inflammatory response similar to those observed in human EPEC/EHEC infections. Therefore, it has become a standard small-animal model to study infectious colitis [8,9]. Cr infection results in various changes to the colon of mice, including epithelial cell proliferation, crypt hyperplasia, an uneven apical enterocyte surface, crypt dilation, and mucosal thickening [10]. Except in highly susceptible mouse strains such as C3H/HeN, colonization of Cr is limited to the colon, with few bacteria reaching systemic organs and the bloodstream [11,12]. Following oral administration, Cr initially colonizes the cecal patch and then migrates to the colon by day 3 post-infection. Bacterial load in the distal colon peaks by day 7 and remains at high levels through day 12, and is typically cleared by day 21 [13]. In general, Cr infection can serve as a useful model for studying compounds that may prevent or mitigate the effects of EPEC or EHEC infections. Indole-3-carbinol (I3C) is a dietary compound (Figure 1) derived from glucobrassicin, a glucosinolate found in cruciferous vegetables cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower. The concentration of I3C from cruciferous vegetables can be inferred from the content of glucobrassicin which varies in different kinds of cruciferous vegetables, ranging from 0.24 μmol·g−1 DW to 6.2 μmol·g−1 DW [14,15]. I3C and its derivatives have attracted increased attention due to their important role as anti-inflammatory, anti-tumor and immune modulating agents [16,17]. Substantial evidence indicates that the anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer effects of I3C and its metabolic derivatives are attributed to their ability to modulate several nuclear transcriptional factors including the estrogen receptor (ER), nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB), and the aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR), which contribute to maintaining hormonal homeostasis, inhibiting cell cycle progression/apoptosis, inducing DNA repair, and enhancing carcinogen metabolism [17,18]. Although the potential value of I3C and its derivatives in cancer prevention and therapy are well known, the exact underlying mechanisms are still unclear. Infection-induced inflammation is a common risk factor for certain types of cancer. Cr infection induces both innate and adaptive immunity, involving the recruitment of immune cells and the release of multiple cytokines and antimicrobial peptides that, are required for clearance of Cr [19,20,21]. It is well known that IL-22 producing CD4+ T cells are essential for controlling Cr infection; however, the T cell-derived cytokines (IL17A, IFN-γ and TNF-α) contribute to intestinal tissue injury either directly or indirectly [22,23]. In addition to CD4+ T cells, the group 3 innate lymphoid cells (ILC3s) also produce IL22, which is crucial for clearance of Cr [24]. AhR-deficient mice lack IL-22-producing ILC3 in the intestinal lamina propria, and have increased mortality when infected with Cr, suggesting that AhR-dependent signal pathways are important in controlling and clearing Cr [25]. I3C is a powerful AhR activator, which helped suppress Cr-induced inflammation by enhancing AhR activation [26]. Although the protective effect of I3C against Cr infection is known, little information is available related to effects of I3C on the immune response to Cr infection in Cr-susceptible mice. Hence, further study of the mechanism of action of I3C and/or cruciferous vegetable consumption on the immune and inflammatory responses to Cr infection is warranted. To address these questions, we focused on characterizing the effects of dietary I3C on the immune response to Cr infection in inflammation-susceptible mice (C3H/HeN strain) to gain further insight into the immunomodulatory properties of dietary I3C. We found the protective effects of dietary I3C against Cr infection occur by down regulating the proinflammatory response while maintaining IL-22 production. 2.1. Animals and Diet C3H/HeN and C57BL/J6 (5-week-old male) mice were purchased from Charles River (Frederick, MD). Mice were housed in ventilated filter-top cages at the USDA BHNRC animal facility under 12-h light/dark cycle. One week of acclimation on chow diet was conducted prior to the dietary treatments. Mice were then, randomized into four experimental groups (n = 8 per group): (1) Uninfected mice on control diet, (2) infected mice on control diet, (3) uninfected mice on treatment diet, and (4) infected mice on treatment diet. Mice were treated for two weeks prior to Cr infection and remained on their respective diets until the end of the experiment. Body weights and food consumption were recorded weekly. All experiments were approved by the USDA-ARS Beltsville Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (18-027). Mice were fed an AIN-93M diet with or without 1 µmol I3C/g diet. I3C was purchased from Sigma Chemical Company (St. Louis, MO, USA). A dose of 1 µmol I3C/g diet (147 mg/kg) in mice is roughly equivalent to a dose of 11.4 mg/kg in average adult human. In a clinical study, consumption of I3C was tolerated in doses up to 1200 mg/day in male and female cancer patients. Our selected concentration of I3C for this study was in the range achievable through dietary consumption as well as in a low dose chemo-preventive range [27,28,29]. 2.2. Cr Infection Mice were infected with Cr using established protocols [26,30,31]. The Cr strain used in this study was a nalidixic acid-resistant mutant of strain DBS100 (ATCC 51459). A frozen stock of Cr was streaked out on a Luria-Bertani (LB) agar plate and grown overnight at 37 °C. An overnight LB culture grown at 37 °C was started by picking one well-isolated colony. The culture was then expanded and grown to an OD600 nm of ≈1.5, the bacteria were collected and re-suspended in LB medium to a concentration of 1.25 × 1010 CFU/mL. After fasting 4–6 h, mice were infected by oral gavage with 0.2 mL of the bacterial suspension (2.5 × 109 CFU). To serve as uninfected controls mice on either diet were given only LB medium. The dose was confirmed by retrospective plating on LB agar plates containing 50 µg/mL nalidixic acid. 2.3. Sample Collection On days 4, 7, 11, 14, 17, and 20 post-infection, fresh fecal pellets of mice were collected for determining the Cr load in feces. The pellets were homogenized in LB broth, serially diluted, and then plated on LB/agar plates containing 50 μg/mL nalidixic acid, incubated at 37 °C overnight. The colonies were enumerated the following day. Mice were weighed and then euthanized on day 12 and 21 after infection. Blood samples were collected, the serum separated and stored at −80 °C. The spleen, cecum and the distal 5 cm of colon (without fecal pellets) were removed aseptically and weighed. 1cm portions of the distal colon were fixed in 4% formalin for histology or snap frozen in liquid nitrogen for gene expression analysis. The remainder of colon was homogenized and used to measure the tissue Cr load by plating serial dilutions on LB/agar plates containing 50 μg/mL nalidixic acid. Results are expressed as CFUs per gram of colon. 2.4. Histological Analysis Approximately 1 cm sections of distal colon tissue in each group of mice were fixed in 4% formalin and embedded in paraffin, 5-μm sections were cut and stained with hematoxylin and eosin (H&E). The histological grading of coded sections was evaluated for the degree of edema (0–3), surface of epithelium (0–4), loss of crypt architecture (0–4), degree of hemorrhaging (0–4), and the presence of an inflammatory cell infiltrate (0–4). Crypt depth was measured using a Nikon Eclipse E800 microscope and Nikon NIS-Elements software V4.6. Only well-oriented crypts were measured, and 12 or more individual measurements were averaged for each mouse. 2.5. Gene Expression Analysis To determine the gene expression in spleen and colon samples, total RNA was harvested from splenic and colonic tissue using RNeasy Mini kit (Qiagen, Valencia, CA, USA) and TRIzol reagent (Life Technology, NY, USA), respectively. The concentration and integrity of RNA were measured using a Bioanalyzer (Agilent 2100 Bioanalyzer, Santa Clara, CA, USA). RNA with an integrity number above 8 was used for real-time qRT-PCR. The Affinity Script Multi-temperature cDNA Synthesis kit from Agilent was used to reverse-transcribe mRNA to complementary DNA. Real-time PCR was performed on Applied Biosystems ViiA7 Real-Time PCR System using TaqMan® Gene Expression Assay (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA, USA). To evaluate the effects of treatment, genes of interest were normalized to the housekeeping gene TATA box binding protein (Tbp) and analyzed using the ∆∆Ct method. The primers/probes for gene expression analysis were purchased from Life Technology are as follow (Table 1): 2.6. Serum Cytokines Analysis Serum cytokines profiles of mice (12 days post-infection) were assessed by using a Bio-Plex Pro™Mouse Cytokine 23-plex assay (Bio-Rad, Hercules, CA, USA) that was performed on a Luminex 200 system and Bioplex HTF in accordance to the manufacturer’s instructions. The results were analyzed using Bio-plex Manager™ software (Bio-Rad, Hercules, CA, USA). 2.7. Immunoglobulin Analysis Nunc Maxi-Sorb plates (Corning, NY, USA) were coated with Cr antigen (10 μg/mL; 50 μL per well in 1X PBS), overnight at 4 °C. After washing with PBS mixed with Tween 20 0.05% (PBS-T), the plates were blocked with 3% nonfat dried milk in D-PBS (100 μL/well) for 2 h at room temperature. Plates were washed 3 times with PBS-T and then 50 μL of mouse serum (12 days post-infection) diluted (1:300 for IgG, M and 1:20 for IgA) in PBS-Tween was added to each well, incubate at 37 °C for 30 min. After incubation, the wells were washed 4X using PBS-T and 50 μL of 1:300 diluted Biotinylated anti-mouse IgG/IgM (Vector Laboratories, Burlingame, CA, USA) was added to each well. After 30 min of incubation at 37 °C, the plates were washed 4X with PBS-T and 50 μL/well streptavidin-HRP (1:1000 dilution from stock) (Vector Laboratories, Burlingame, CA, USA) was added. The plates were then incubated for 30 min at 37 °C, followed by the addition of TMB substrate (preheated at 37 °C, mix before using) for colorimetric detection. The reaction was stopped by adding 50 μL of 4N H2SO4 and the absorbance at 450 nm was measured immediately using a microtiter plate reader (Molecular Devices, Sunnyvale, CA, USA). Data is expressed as either the OD450 nm or the ratio of infected OD450 nm/uninfected OD450 nm. 2.8. Statistcal Analysis Results are expressed as the mean ± standard deviation (SD). Statistical analysis of this study was conducted by using GraphPad Prism 7 (2018, GraphPad Software, San Diego, CA, USA). Significance of differences between the mean of each group were analyzed using Student’s t test or one-way ANOVA followed by Fisher’s LSD test. In figures where more than two treatment groups are compared, groups with different letter are statistically significantly different (p value < 0.05). 3.1. Effect of Cr Infection and I3C Supplementation on Food Intake and Body Weight Figure 2A illustrates the temporal changes in body weight of uninfected and infected C3H/HeN mice fed control or I3C diet. In comparison with the control uninfected group, Cr infection resulted in weight loss in mice fed either diet. Infected mice fed the control diet lost a significant amount of body weight, while the body weight of infected mice on the I3C diet only decreased slightly. The weights of infected mice on the control diet were significantly lower than that of infected mice on the I3C diet at various days’ post-infection (4, 9, 10, 11). Additionally, there was a significant drop in food consumption after the infection (Figure 2B), but it was recovered by the end of the experiment, and there were no significant differences in food consumption between the four experimental groups. 3.2. Effects of Dietary I3C on Cr Colonization in Feces and Colon Tissue In both diet groups, mice had significant levels of Cr in the feces by day 4 post-infection that was substantially cleared by day 20 (Figure 3A). There were no differences in fecal Cr load between the two dietary treatments during the infection. Moreover, there were no significant differences in colon Cr colonization on day 12 post-infection between mice fed the control or I3C diet (Figure 3B). 3.3. Effects of Dietary I3C on Colon and Cecum Weight in Mice After oral gavage with Cr, mice develop colitis, leading to a thickened and often shortened colon, and less well-formed stools. As shown in Figure S1, the weight of colon and cecum were significantly increased in infected mice compared to uninfected mice on both days 12 and 21 post-infection. However, there was no effect of I3C on colon and cecum weights when comparing infected groups. 3.4. Effects of Dietary I3C on Histologic Changes in Colon of Mice Colon tissues obtained on day 12 and day 21 post-infection were processed for H&E staining (Figure S2). The degree of colon pathology in mice on each diet was determined by assessing colon sections. Cr infection resulted in colonic mucosal damage, including increased mucosal thickness, loss of crypt architecture, crypt abscesses, and erosions. Specifically, infected mice fed the I3C diet had significantly lower mucosal thickness on day 12 post-infection compared to the infected mice fed the control diet (Figure 4). On day 21, when the Cr infection was essentially cleared, mucosal thickness in infected mice was reduced compared to day 12. However, there was no significant differences in the mucosal thickness between infected mice fed control and I3C diet on day 21 after infection (Figure 4). In general, there appeared to be little differences in pathology of colon tissues between the diet groups. 3.5. Effects of Dietary I3C on AhR and Immune Markers in Colonic Tissues Molecular changes related to AhR and immune pathways were analyzed to help elucidate potential mechanisms of action for I3C (Figure 5). Intake of 1 µmol I3C/g diet significantly induced the expression of the AhR-responsive gene cytochrome P450 1A1 (Cyp1a1) in colonic tissue as compared to animals on control diet. Cr infection significantly attenuated I3C-induced expression of Cyp1a1 mRNA. As expected, mice infected with Cr had increased colonic tissue expression of several cytokines associated with a pro-inflammatory Th1/Th17 immune response including IL-17A, IL-22, IL-6, IL-1β, TNF-α, and IFN-γ on day 12 after infection. Cr-induced expression of IL-17A, IL-6, IL-1β, TNF-α, and IFN-γ mRNA were significantly attenuated in infected mice fed the I3C diet. In contrast, I3C did not affect Cr-induced increase of IL-22 mRNA as compared to control diet. In addition, we also determined gene expression of several markers for CD8+ cell including cd8a, cd8b and FasL. As shown in Figure S3, these markers were upregulated by Cr infection but were not affected by dietary I3C. 3.6. Effects of Dietary I3C on Cytokine Levels in Serum Circulating cytokines levels in mouse serum were also assessed. Cr infection triggered an increase in serum cytokines in Cr-infected mice fed the control diet, especially increasing the levels of IL17, TNF-α, IL12 (p40, p70) and G-CSF (Figure 6). Overall, the levels of serum cytokines in uninfected mice were not affected by diet. More importantly, in comparison to Cr-infected mice fed the control diet, significant reductions in serum levels of IL17, TNF-α, IL12 (p40, p70) and G-CSF were observed in the Cr-infected mice fed the I3C diet, decreasing them to levels near those observed in uninfected mice fed either diet. 3.7. Effects of Dietary I3C on Spleen Size and Immune Cell Molecular Markers We found Cr infection led to a significant increase in spleen size only in the Cr sensitive C3H/HeN mice, while Cr infection did not affect the spleen size of Cr-resistant C57BL/J6 mice (Figure 7). Consumption of dietary I3C led to a significant attenuation of the Cr-induced increase in spleen size in C3H/HeN mice. The effect of Cr and I3C on spleen size was still observed even at 21 days post-infection. The molecular effects of spleen enlargement were further assessed using specific markers for immune cells (Figure 8). We observed an increase in macrophage makers such as Itgam and F4/80 in the Cr-infected mice. The induction of macrophage markers by Cr-infection was significantly attenuated in the I3C-fed group. Consistent with cytokine expression in the colon, proinflammatory cytokines such as IL-1β and IL-6 were induced by Cr and attenuated by dietary I3C in spleens of Cr-infected mice. However, Cr-infection significantly decreased expression of B- and T-cell markers (CD19, CD45R; CD4, CD8a) in the spleen. 3.8. Effects of Dietary I3C on Cr-Specific Antibody Levels in Serum To further investigate potential mechanisms by which I3C elicits protective effects, we also determined the influence of I3C on Cr-specific serum antibody production by using ELISAs. Considerable variations in antigen-specific IgA, IgG, and IgM production were noted among C57BL/J6 and C3H/HeN mice in each dietary group on day 12 after infection. The data when expressed as OD values (Figure S4) indicates that I3C attenuated the antibody response in resistant C57BL/J6 mice but not in susceptible C3H/HeN mice but similarly reduced the IgM response in the two strains. Serum IgA responses were lower and not affected by diet in either strain. However, it was consistently noted that the background levels of reactivity were lower in I3C treated mice. The reason for this is not clear. But when the data was expressed as fold induction over background dietary I3C treatment led to an enhanced Cr-specific IgG response in Cr-infected C3N/HeN mice but not in C57BL/J6 mice (Figure 9). The effects of Cr infection on Cr-specific IgM and IgA were similar in control- and I3C-fed mice. In contrast, the IgG and IgA responses to Cr infection were similar in Cr-resistant C57BL/6 mice on control and I3C diet, while I3C-fed mice’s IgM responses was significantly attenuated, as compared with that of infected control group. E. coli infections in humans have become an increasing serious global public health issue due to emergent MDR E. coli strains [32]. Developing sound strategies and means to inhibit E. coli infections would be beneficial for promoting human health and containment of health care cost. I3C derived from cruciferous vegetables, exerting anti-microbial, anti-inflammatory, and anti-tumor properties [17,33], may serve as an alternative to antibiotics for prevention and therapy of E. coli infection. In the present study, the effects of dietary I3C consumption on Cr infection of Cr-sensitive C3H/HeN mice was examined as a model for human E. coli infections. Our study demonstrated dietary consumption of I3C was able to reduce the pro-inflammatory response to a Cr infection and highlights the potential use of dietary regimes to help protect against a common intestinal infection. The amount of I3C administrated in these studies was in the range achievable through dietary consumption, and therefore, is applicable to humans [29,34]. Mice infected with Cr often develop acute colitis accompanied by an overgrowth of Cr and self-limiting inflammation in murine intestinal lumen [10,35]. Dietary I3C alleviated Cr-induced weight loss and suppressed colonic and splenic inflammation in C3H/HeN mice. However, there were no differences in colon and fecal bacteria load between the Cr-infected mice fed control or I3C diet, suggesting that the main effect of I3C consumption was on modulation of the host immune response rather than a direct effect on clearance of Cr. Our results showed that spleen appeared to be one of the main target organs that benefited from dietary I3C. The spleens of C3H/HeN mice were enlarged due to Cr infection and I3C attenuated the Cr-induced splenomegaly in mice. The spleen enlargement is probably due to an increase in macrophages as indicated by the increase in macrophage marker expression and macrophage-associated cytokines in infected control-fed mice compared to I3C-fed mice. This finding was consistent with Maaser et al. who found that the normally narrow marginal zone of spleen in mice was widened, with numerous macrophages, at 2 weeks after infection [36]. In addition, CD4+ T cells and B cells are essential for the development of immunity and clearance of the pathogen [19,22]. We found that Cr-infection appeared to lower expression of T-cell and B-cell markers in the spleen regardless of diet. These data support a depletion of these immune cells in the spleen in response to Cr infection. However, this effect was not modulated by dietary I3C. The decrease of spleen size in Cr-infected mice fed I3C correlates with the reduced levels of circulating pro-inflammatory cytokines and chemokines. The colon is the primary tissue affected by Cr infection. The infection of mice with Cr induces a robust innate and adaptive mucosal immune responses, and causes various changes to the colon that include epithelial cell proliferation, crypt hyperplasia, crypt dilation, an uneven apical enterocyte surface, and mucosal thickening [22,24,37]. Infected I3C-fed mice appeared to have similar colonic pathology as the infected control diet-fed mice. However, our data showed that dietary I3C significantly reduced the increase in the mucosal thickness in response to Cr infection on day 12 but not on day 21 post-infection. The I3C-induced reduction in mucosal thickness is associated with a decreased pro-inflammatory response in I3C-treated mice at day 12 post-infection. By day 21, the infection is essentially cleared in both control and I3C-treated mice. Substantial healing of the mucosa had occurred by day 21 and no differences mucosal thickness were observed between infected control and I3C-treated mice. Most cytokine markers of Cr-induced inflammation were attenuated in colon tissue from Cr-infected mice on I3C diet compared to the infected mice on control diet, suggesting an anti-inflammatory effect of I3C on pathogen-induced acute colitis. The effects appeared to be selective as IL-22 mRNA levels that are closely associated with protection against Cr were unaffected by I3C treatment, while the cytokines associated with pathogenicity, such as IL17A, IL6, IL-1β, TNF-α, and IFN-γ, were decreased by feeding I3C. Furthermore, the anti-inflammatory effects of I3C appeared to be systemic as serum cytokines and chemokines markers (IL17, TNF-α, IL12 (p40, p70) and G-CSF) induced by Cr infection were all significantly attenuated in infected animals fed I3C diet. In addition to the suppression of pro-inflammatory cytokines, the protective effects of I3C may be due, at least in part, to maintaining IL-22 levels. IL-22 was demonstrated to be protective against Cr infection and is a potent inducer of antimicrobial peptides, including β-Defensin, Lipocalin-2, RegIIIg and mucins [23,38]. Many types of immune cell, such as CD4+ T cell and ILC3 cell, secrete the anti-inflammatory cytokine IL-22 [24,39]. Production of IL-1β and IL-17A and the AhR receptor pathway have been reported to modulate the production of IL-22 [40,41,42]. Additionally, I3C may stimulate IL-22 production via the gut microbiota [43]. Given the systemic inhibitory effects of I3C consumption on IL-1β, IL-17A and its known action as an AhR agonist, it is likely that I3C is acting through AhR to maintain IL-22 expression and while repressing expression of pro-inflammatory cytokines. The precise target cells for I3C will require further validation. The spleen has two critical functions in host defense against Cr infection, one is removing bacteria from bloodstream, another is producing antibodies for clearance of Cr [44]. A possible mechanism that may explain effect of I3C on spleen and systemic immune responses is related to Cr-driven IgG production. IgG antibodies are required for mediating protective immune against Cr infection [36]. Mice fed I3C seemed to elicit an enhanced Cr-reactive IgG response due to the Cr infection. The enhanced response may aid the removal of bacteria, and thus attenuate inflammation in spleen and the host’s immune system as a whole. The effect of I3C seems to be specific to IgG and not observed for IgM or IgA. Additionally, the effect of Cr-infection on immunoglobulin appeared to be very different between sensitive C3H/HeN mice and the resistant C57BL/J6. The resistant mice elicit relatively small immunoglobulin response upon Cr-infection and I3C-fed animals exhibited lower IgM levels. This observation is consistent with I3C preventing Cr attachment and growth in colonic tissue in resistant C57BL/J6 mice [26]. One of our initial hypotheses was that I3C may act through CD8-dependent cytotoxic responses. However, our data indicates otherwise. Cr infection induced up-regulation of CD8+ T cell markers such as Cd8a, Cd8b, and FasL, suggesting involvement of CD8-mediated pathways in Cr infection. However, there were no difference in CD8-related markers between control-fed and I3C fed infected mice. Hence, the role of I3C appears relatively specific to its effect on cytokine and chemokine expression. In summary, the data presented here indicate that the cruciferous vegetable-derived compound I3C can provide an overall anti-inflammatory effect on the host. I3C acts by protecting the host against Cr-infection by maintaining IL-22 levels and reducing expression of other pro-inflammatory cytokines, likely through an AhR-dependent pathway. A protective effect on spleen enlargement and attenuated systematic immune response were also observed and may be related to enhanced IgG response in I3C-fed mice. Hence, it is possible that the host response to E. coli infection may be modified by consumption of I3C or cruciferous vegetables. The following are available online at https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/12/10/3148/s1, Figure S1. I3C has no impact on increased colon and cecum weight of infected mice. The colon and cecum weight of uninfected and Cr-infected mice fed control and I3C diet were measured on day 12 (A) and 21 (B) post-infection. Results were expressed as mean +/− SD (n = 8). Significant differences (p < 0.05) between groups are identified by different letters. Figure S2. Representative images of H&E stained colon sections of uninfected and Cr-infected mice fed control or I3C diet. The colon tissues were harvested on day 12 (a, b, c, d) and day 21(e, f, g, h) post-infection. (a, e): Uninfected mice fed with control diet; (b, f): Infected mice fed with control diet; (c, g): Uninfected mice fed with I3C diet; (d, h): Infected mice fed with I3C diet. The Cr- infected mice fed control diet had crypt hyperplasia, loss of crypt architecture, crypt abscesses and erosions (panel b). I3C, to a certain extent, could ameliorated the colonic damage caused by the infection on day 12. Original magnification × 10. Figure S3. Cr infection significantly increased mRNA levels of CD8+ cell markers (Cd8a, Cd8b and FasL), while I3C has no effect on gene expression of these markers in infected mice. RT-PCR was performed on total RNA isolated from colon tissues harvested on day 12 post-infection. Results are expressed as the mean +/− SD fold-change (n = 8). Different letters indicated significant differences between groups for each tissue (p < 0.05). Figure S4. Effects of I3C on Cr-triggered IgG response in Sensitive (C3H/HeN mice) and Resistant (C57BL/J6 mice). T.T.Y.W., A.D.S. designed the experiment; Y.W., A.D.S., L.C. and Z.Z. performed the animal experiment; Y.W. performed the data analysis; Y.W., J.W., Q.P., Q.H., L.Y., Y.S.K. and T.T.Y.W. participated in the writing, review, and/or revision of the manuscript; T.T.Y.W. and A.D.S. supervised this study. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript. 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[Google Scholar] [CrossRef] [PubMed] Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Figure 1. The chemical structure and pharmacological activities of indole-3-carbinol (I3C). Figure 2. I3C ameliorates the loss of body weight caused by Citrobacter rodentium (Cr) infection but has no effect on food consumption in mice. (A) Body weight, the body weight of mice on different days was normalized to each animal’s body weight on day 0. (B) Food consumption, infection with Cr was initiated on day 15 after start of the diet. Results were expressed as mean or mean +/− SD (n = 8), * indicates significant difference between the Ctrl-Cr and I3C-Cr groups (p < 0.05). Only within-day comparisons were made. Ctrl: control diet; Ctrl-Cr: control diet, Cr-infected; I3C: I3C diet; I3C-Cr: I3C diet, Cr-infected. Figure 3. I3C has no impact on Cr burden in feces and colon of Cr-susceptible C3H/HeN mice. Mice were infected orally with approximately 2.5 × 109 CFU of Cr. (A): Fecal excretion of Cr. The fecal pellets of mice were collected on different days after infection and the Cr load in feces (cfu/g feces) were determined. (B): Colonic colonization of Cr. Mice were sacrificed on day 12-post-infection and the amount of colon tissue associated Cr was determined. Results were expressed as mean +/− SD (n = 8). Ctrl: control diet; Ctrl-Cr: control diet, Cr-infected; I3C: I3C diet; I3C-Cr: I3C diet, Cr-infected. The dashed line indicates the limit of detection of the assay. Significant differences (p < 0.05) between groups are identified by different letters. Figure 4. I3C reduces mucosal thickness at day 12 but not day 21 post-infection. Colon tissue was collected on day 12 and day 21 after infection and processed for H&E-staining. Mucosal thickness was measured on well-oriented crypts and 12 or more individual measurements were averaged for each mouse. Results were expressed as mean +/− SD (n = 8). Ctrl: control diet; Ctrl-Cr: control diet, Cr-infected; I3C: I3C diet; I3C-Cr: I3C diet, Cr-infected. Significant differences (p < 0.05) between groups are identified by different letters. Figure 5. I3C significantly increased xenobiotic metabolizing enzyme genes (Cyp1a1), and attenuated inflammatory markers (IL17A, IL6, IL-1β, TNF-α and IFN-γ) and immune checkpoint inhibitors (PD-1 and PD-L1) gene expression in the colon of infected mice, while it has no effect on Cr-induced increase of IL-22 mRNA. RT-PCR was performed on total RNA isolated from colon tissues harvested on day 12 post-infection. Results are expressed as the mean +/− SD fold-change (n = 8). Ctrl: control diet; Ctrl-Cr: control diet, Cr-infected; I3C: I3C diet; I3C-Cr: I3C diet, Cr-infected. Significant differences (p < 0.05) between groups are identified by different letters. Figure 6. I3C significantly decreased Cr-induced levels of IL17, TNF-α, IL-12, and G-CSF in serum of infected mice fed control diet. Results are expressed as the mean +/− SD (n = 8). Ctrl: control diet; Ctrl-Cr: control diet, Cr-infected; I3C: I3C diet; I3C-Cr: I3C diet, Cr-infected. Significant differences (p < 0.05) between groups are identified by different letters. Figure 7. Cr infection resulted in a significant increase in spleen size of C3H/HeN mice while having no effect on the spleen size of C57BL/J6 mice. I3C significantly attenuated Cr-induced increase in spleen size in C3H/HeN mice. Ctrl: control diet; Ctrl-Cr: control diet, Cr-infected; I3C: I3C diet; I3C-Cr: I3C diet, Cr-infected. Significant differences (p < 0.05) between groups are identified by different letters. Figure 8. I3C significantly attenuated Cr-induced increases in mRNA levels of macrophage makers (Itgam and F4/80) and proinflammatory cytokines (IL-1β and IL-6) in the spleen. Results are expressed as the mean +/− SD fold-change (n = 8). Ctrl: control diet; Ctrl-Cr: control diet, Cr-infected; I3C: I3C diet; I3C-Cr: I3C diet, Cr-infected. Significant differences (p < 0.05) between groups are identified by different letters. Figure 9. Effects of I3C on Cr-induced IgG response in sensitive (C3H/HeN) and resistant (C57BL/J6) mice. Cr-specific serum antibody levels were calculated as fold change between uninfected controls and infected mice on each diet. Results expressed as the mean +/− SD fold-change (n = 8). Ctrl: control diet; Ctrl-Cr: control diet, Cr-infected; I3C: I3C diet; I3C-Cr: I3C diet, Cr-infected. Significant differences (p < 0.05) between groups are identified by different letters. Table 1. The list of PCR primers used in this study. TBP Mm00446971_m1 IL-1β Mm00434228_m1 Cyp1a1 Mm00487217_m1 TNF-α Mm00443258_m1 IL-17A Mm00439618_m1 IFN-γ Mm01168134_m1 IL-22 Mm01226722_g1 Cd8a Mm01182108_m1 IL-6 Mm00446190_m1 Cd8b Mm00438116_m1 Foxp3 Mm00475162_m1 FasL Mm00438864_m1 Cd4 Mm00442754_m1 Cd5 Mm00432417_m1 Cd19 Mm00515420_m1 Cd45 Mm01293577_m1 Itgam Mm00434455_m1 F4/80 Mm00802529_m1 PD-1 Mm00435532_m1 PD-L1 Mm03048248_m1 © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line2043
__label__wiki	0.924666	0.924666	Topics:Indic Languages, Internet, Mobile, Network18, news18 News18’s website is live with Bengali, Urdu, and Gujarati Shashidhar KJ News18’s website is now live in Bengali, Urdu and Gujarati languages as it starts its push into other vernacular languages. News18 went live in Hindi at the end of December 2016 (Q3FY17) as it rebranded the earlier website khabar.ibnlive.in.com. In the following quarter (Q3FY17), parent company Network18 said that it would merge Pradesh18.com, the vernacular language website, into News18 umbrella. At the time, it said that it would content from ETV regional news content from across 14 languages. In the current quarter (Q2FY17), News18 said that the vernacular vertical saw users increasing by 150% on desktop versus the previous quarter, and by 26% on mobile. MediaNama has written to Santhosh Menon, Network18’s chief content officer, about the website’s plans and other Indic languages. We will update once we hear from him. Update: A spokesperson for Network18 replied that the company will be expanding to Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Assamese, and Punjabi. Network18 added that it has 17 reporters from both News18 and ETV and that their content team’s size was 115. The Gujarati website allows users to look for local news in different regions of Gujarat. Readers can look for news from Ahmedabad, North Gujarat, Central Gujarat, South Gujarat and the Kutch-Saurashtra region. Similarly, the Urdu website allows users to look for regional news in North India, East India, Central India, West India and South India. The Bengali website allows readers to find local news in Kolkata, North Bengal and South Bengal. Interestingly, the Bengali website has a separate news section for Bangladesh as well. Other Indic language websites Network18’s push for Indic languages is understandable. A Google and KPMG report on Indic languages showed that around 180 million Internet users could be added by 2021 for pushing news in local languages. With more users coming on the Internet and consuming content in their languages, it would allow for better monetization in the future. News18 joins a number of other media houses which are starting websites in vernacular languages. In September, Online news portal The Wire announced its launch of Urdu website. The news portal initially launched an English version and then a Hindi version in February 2017. In January, Indian Express Digital, the Indian Express group’s digital arm, launched IEmalayalam.com, operating out of Kerala. This is in addition to its existing Hindi and Marathi publications. The publication plans to launch sites in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Bangla next. Catch News also has Hindi website. In October 2015, Times Internet launched a regional language news and entertainment portal called Samayam in Tamil, Malayalam, and Telugu. The same month, the Quint launched a Hindi version of its website. In this article:Indic Languages, Internet, Mobile, Network18, news18 With 750 million monthly visits, India is Wikipedia’s fifth largest audience Indians visit Wikipedia over 750 million times every month, making the country the fifth largest audience for the website. The 20-year-old online encyclopedia is... Trisha Jalan14 hours ago Govt amends internet shutdown rules to restrict validity of orders to 15 days The Indian government has amended the internet shutdown rules, formally known as the Temporary Suspension of Telecom Services Rules, to restrict the validity of... Trisha JalanNovember 12, 2020 Network18’s digital news properties see revenue growth, but BookMyShow continues to struggle Network18’s digital news properties, which includes websites like moneycontrol.com and News18.com, saw a 38% year-over-year growth in terms of revenue, as the company said... Aditya ChunduruOctober 28, 2020 Mobile Number Portability requests increased by 28.7% in July 2020: TRAI Mobile number porting requests increased by 28.7% to 7.53 million requests in July 2020, compared to 5.85 million porting requests reported in June 2020.... Sandeep VermaOctober 26, 2020	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line2044
__label__wiki	0.615391	0.615391	Why MIS Choice? Disaster Recovery & Data Backups Wireless Network Support IT Relocations Citrix Consulting & Support Partner IT Helpdesk Services Strategic Procurement Cloud Computing Consulting ISV Solutions Choice IT Which is better, Microsoft Teams or Google Meet? November 25th, 2020 MIS Choice, Inc VoIP 2020november25voip_c, google, google meet, google workspace, microsoft, microsoft 365, microsoft teams, video calling, video conferencing, voip If your business hasn’t already found the right platforms to support your remote workforce, it’s high time you did so. When it comes to business communications, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet are among the best. Both come with audio and video call functions, but you may prefer one over the other once you get to know what each offers on top of these. Microsoft Teams and Google Meet both offer enterprise-grade security, 1080p HD-quality video, and screen sharing capabilities, but there are some slight differences. In the free version of Microsoft Teams, there is no limit to the number of people who can use its chat and document collaboration functions. Meanwhile, up to 20 users can join an audio or a video call. This number increases to 250 in the paid version. What’s great about Microsoft Teams is it supports meeting and group call recording, and even has captions and transcription features. It also has an inline message translation feature that translates messages into the language specified in a user’s settings. On the other hand, Google Meet’s free version supports up to 100 participants in a video call. What’s more, it has intelligent built-in features like muting and auto screen focus, which automatically switches the screen to the person who is currently talking. It also lets people join meetings even without Wi-Fi or data through unique dial-in phone numbers. Integrations and add-ons Microsoft Teams is, first and foremost, a unified platform that allows users to communicate and collaborate on a single platform. It comes with powerful content collaboration on Microsoft 365 apps (e.g., Word, PowerPoint, Excel) and easily integrates with hundreds of other productivity and collaboration platforms. Meanwhile, being a Google product, Google Meet fully integrates with Google Workspace (formerly G Suite). For instance, users can schedule appointments and set call reminders within Google Meet using Google Calendar. Users can even broadcast their presentations live on YouTube. Both Microsoft Teams and Google Meet have free versions but with limited features. With the free version of Microsoft Teams, users can join a meeting and use its screen and file sharing features even without an account. However, they cannot record and save meetings. They also cannot take advantage of call encryption and call-in features if they do not have a Microsoft 365 account. The most affordable subscription is $5 per month per user, and an additional $4 per user is needed for the call-in capabilities. Adding webinar features is also an additional cost if users want to livestream events to hundreds of people. Meanwhile, users can use Google Meet for free with their personal Gmail accounts, but also with limited capabilities. A subscription that starts at $6 per month per user, however, lets users get Google Meet along with all the other powerful Google business apps and tools. Knowing the similarities and differences between the two platforms, it should be easy for you to decide which suits your business the best. Google designed Google Meet for startups and small companies that need a low-cost communications solution, while Microsoft Teams, with its robust features, is suitable for small and large businesses alike. If you’re still unsure about either product, you can opt for a free trial to help you in making the decision. Otherwise, you can contact our team today so we can recommend a VoIP solution that’s perfect for your business. Protect your network against VoIP theft of service Categories Select Category Apple Business Business Continuity Business Intelligence Business Value Google Hardware Healthcare Internet Social Networking and Reputation Management Office Security Social Media Social Media – Facebook Uncategorized VoIP Web & Cloud Windows 300 N Martingale ©2021 MIS Choice, Inc All Rights Reserved. Areas Served	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line2047
__label__wiki	0.98776	0.98776	All Goss OMG John Key's Daughter Nude Mr Key said he was very proud of his daughter's art. But the Prime Minister will most likely shy away from starring in his daughter's latest efforts. Next month she will be debuting a series of provocative self-portraits at Paris Fashion Week. The image include one of the 20-year-old covering her breasts with hamburgers... John Key 'planked' in support of his son. Key's daughter Stephanie, 20, studies at the Paris College of Art. "The photographs were part of her curriculum work, and we are very proud of the work she is doing." John Key's daughter nude for photo exhibition He "planked" in support of his son, but Prime Minister John Key will probably shy away from starring in his daughter's latest efforts. Stephanie Key, 20, is creating a buzz after posing partially nude for a series of self-portraits as part of a French art exhibition debuting next month. "The photographs were part of her curriculum work, and we are very proud of the work she is doing," John Key says. Source: 3News Todays best music mix Standard Competitions / Promotion Terms and Conditions Web Access Policy	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line2050
__label__cc	0.725905	0.274095	NanoDays with a Quantum Leap 2020 This event has been cancelled. An alternative date may be selected for Fall 2020. Ever wondered about the weird world of quantum mechanics? Spooky action at a distance? Wave/Particle Duality? Quantum computing? Well, dive right in at the Museum’s 2020 NanoDays with a Quantum Leap celebration! Explore worlds too small to see: nano science plus quantum science and their latest applications, with hands-on activities, guest researchers from our community, and The Amazing Nano Brothers Juggling Show. Museum of Science NanoDays with a Quantum Leap is brought to you this year with support from the National Science Foundation through the Center for Integrated Quantum Materials. (Award #1231319). Professor Jenny Hoffman \| 12:30 pm – 12:50 pm Location: Gordon Current Science and Technology Center Stage, Blue Wing, Level One Jenny Hoffman is not only a 3x National Champion 24-hour ultra-marathoner, she is also a world-renowned Harvard physicist conducting ground-breaking research in quantum materials. Learn about both of these challenges as Jenny fashions analogies from the sport of running to help explain the weird world of wave-particle duality. Just in time for Boston Marathon season! Professor Pablo Jarillo-Herrero \| 2:30 pm – 2:50 pm Pablo Jarillo-Herrero is a multi-award winning MIT physicist whose 2018 discovery of superconductivity in “magic-angle” double-layer graphene won Physics World’s “Breakthrough of the Year,” setting off a worldwide surge of research into 2D quantum materials. In this presentation, Pablo will share the story of this exciting discovery and why it matters. Hands-On Fun! \| 11:00 am – 3:00 pm Location: Blue Wing, Level One Meet nano and quantum researchers and explore hands-on activities. Enter a Virtual Crystal World \| 11:00 am – 3:00 pm Put on a Virtual Reality headset and jump right into the hidden world of crystals. Suddenly their atomic structure surrounds you! MIT Professor Joe Checkelsky and his expert team serve as your guides. The Amazing Nano Brothers Juggling Show \| 1:00 pm – 1:40 pm and 3:00 pm – 3:40 pm Location: Cahners Theater, Blue Wing, Level Two They’re at it again! World-class jugglers Dan and Joel introduce the whole family to atoms, molecules, and the birth of nanotechnology, with hilarious props and a seven-foot unicycle, juggling everything from zooming electrons to the ‘ones and zeros’ of computer code. This 40-minute comic theatrical performance will knock your socks off.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line2051
__label__wiki	0.618084	0.618084	Jinn (2019) Hindi Dubbed Season 1 Complete Jinn (2019) Hindi Dubbed Season 1 Complete An Arabic-language coming-of-age series with elements of the supernatural. Jinn (2019) Hindi Dubbed Season 1 Complete Watch Online Free Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Web Series Hindi Dubbed Director: Netflix Originals Actors: Hana Chamoun, Sultan Alkhail, Yasser Al Hadi Country: Jordan, Lebanon Boss (2013) Hindi Disowned by his father as a boy, Surya is taken in by a crime boss. When his brother Shiv is wrongly imprisoned, his father pleads for Surya’s help. Boss (2013)… Genre: 2013 Movies, Action, Comedy, Drama Moondraam Ullaga Por (2016) Hindi Dubbed A patriotic Indian soldier is captured by the rival army, struggles to fight against the torture of his enemies and escape captivity. Moondraam Ullaga Por (2016) Hindi Dubbed Movie Watch… Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War Rajjo (2013) Hindi Rajjo is a 2013 Indian romantic musical produced by Four Pillars Entertainment and directed by Sahitya Akademi Award winning writer Vishwas Patil. It stars Kangana Ranaut and newcomer Paras Arora… Raajneeti (2010) Hindi It is the story of a fiercely fought election campaign, where money power and corruption are the accepted norms, and where treachery and manipulation are routinely used weapons. As the… Genre: 2010 Movies, Drama, Thriller Love, Sleep, Repeat (2019) Hindi Season 1 Complete Love, Sleep, Repeat (2019) Hindi Season 1 Complete is a ZEE5 Original starring Anshuman Malhotra, Priyal Gor, Raima Sen, Priya Banerjee, Harshadaa Vijay, Teena Singh and Puneesh Sharma. The story… The Echo (2008) Hindi Dubbed The Echo (2008) Hindi Dubbed An ex-con moves into an old apartment building, where he encounters a domestic problem involving a police officer, his wife, and their daughter. When he… Genre: Drama, Hollywood Hindi 2008, Horror, Mystery, Thriller Janani (2006) Hindi Janani (2006) Hindi Film about a young heir to a toy company who has gotten a young lady pregnant. But were they unknowingly related to one-another? Janani (2006) Hindi Watch… Gutterbug (2019) Hindi Dubbed Gutterbug (2019) Hindi Dubbed Homeless and addicted, a crust punk named Bug resolves to go back home, a decision that leads him and his misfit crew down a dangerous path…. Genre: Crime, Drama, Hollywood Hindi 2019 Half Girlfriend (2017) Hindi Half Girlfriend (2017) Hindi Madhav Jha, a rustic boy from Bihar who is drawn to his college-mate, Riya Somani, an affluent English-speaking girl from Delhi. There’s just one hitch here…. Andolan (1995) Hindi Adarsh (Sanjay Dutt) and Aniket (Govinda) are brothers. Aniket is the elder, while Adarsh is the younger one. Both go to the same college, where beautiful Guddi (Mamta Kulkarni) has… Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Older Movies Yeh Dillagi (1994) Hindi Yeh Dillagi (1994) Hindi Sapna, the daughter of the Saigal family’s driver is a simple fun-loving girl, but her dreams are not as simple. She dreams about riches and day-dreams… Genre: Comedy, Drama, Older Movies Sons of the Soil: Jaipur Pink Panthers (2020) Hindi Season 1 Complete Sons of the Soil: Jaipur Pink Panthers (2020) Hindi Season 1 Complete A sports documentary series that follows the journey of Bollywood star Abhishek Bachchan owned Kabaddi team – Jaipur… Genre: Documentary, Drama, Sport	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line2054
__label__wiki	0.983764	0.983764	Church dedicated in Belarus By Greg YoderMay 21, 2012 Belarus (MNN) — Despite lack of religious freedom in Belarus, a church building was dedicated in the last dictatorial nation in Eastern Europe. It was also dedicated in honor of two men, father and son: Peter Deyneka, Sr. — founder of Slavic Gospel Association, and Peter Deyneka, Jr. — founder of Russian Ministries. President of Russian Ministries Sergey Rakhuba was there. "It was a great opportunity to participate in a dedication service where we were able to travel back in history and remember and honor the lives of those two servants of Christ." Peter Deyneka, Sr. moved to the United States from Belarus in 1914. He became a dynamic preacher of the Gospel after he came to Christ at Moody Church in Chicago. While the Soviet Union is no more, Rakhuba says Belarus is not an easy place to be a Christian. He says this celebration was marred by interference. "When we finished our dedication service, police called the pastor and were asking all kinds of questions — 'Who was there? Why did you do this? We did not [permit] you to do this' — although we didn't do anything wrong." Rakhuba continues, "If there's an evangelistic service [Christians] would like to hold in the community, nobody would have the permission to do it on public ground. You have to do it within your walls [of the church]. You cannot share your faith publicly. That's already a constitutional law there." Churches have a lot of restrictions, says Rakhuba. "They aren't allowed to visit orphanages. They are not allowed to do any social Christian service to help those who are in need." Even though there are restrictions, Russian Ministries isn't giving up on the region. "We really hope it will become a center for evangelism in that area, and ministry will continue in spite of all those limitations." That means Russian Ministries next generation church leader training School Without Walls (SWW) will be a part of this church outreach. Your support is needed for this. "It takes $480 to train one person through the cycle of different seminars. We provide resources for them. We provide resources for practicum [training]. They will be able to, on behalf of their churches, continue reaching [out] to their communities." If you'd like to help Russian Ministries SWW ministry, click here. belaruschurcheuropepeter deynekarussian ministriesschool without walls Help us get the word out: Audio Broadcast 4-5min About Belarus Primary Language: Belarusian Evangelical: 1.3% More News About Belarus Info About Belarus Data from the Joshua Project Other Stories On This Day 46 years after the Cultural Revolution, China is seeing a different kind of revolution Ministry explore life 'for better or for worse' in the Middle East Mission India has a fun, free opportunity for your summer Hindu priest, 300 others turn away from 'death goddess,' toward Christ Get the latest news directly to your inbox Subscribe OneWay Ministries Prayercast © 2021 Mission Network News.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line2058
__label__cc	0.724802	0.275198	Advisories on COVID-19 Home Advisories on COVID-19Advisory to employers on providing upkeep and maintenance of foreign workers living in dormitories Advisory to employers on providing upkeep and maintenance of foreign workers living in dormitories Issued on 30 August 2020 The Ministry of Manpower has received feedback about employers who failed to pay for rental and arrange for meals for their foreign workers living in dormitories. We would like to remind employers that they are responsible for the upkeep and maintenance of their foreign workers in Singapore even after their Work Permits have been cancelled. They must continue to provide the workers with acceptable accommodation, medical treatment, food and access to daily supplies. Employers are to pay rent promptly to their dormitory operators and landlords according to the rental contracts or tenancy agreements. If the rental contracts or tenancy agreements are expiring soon, employers should renew the existing contract or arrange to re-house their workers in other acceptable accommodation. Employers who have hired caterers to provide food should ensure that the cooked meals are safe to eat and sent to the workers on time. In cases where the dormitory operators are providing food to the workers on the employers’ behalf, employers must pay the dormitory operators accordingly. Employers who fail to fulfil these responsibilities would be in breach of the Employment of Foreign Manpower (Work Passes) Regulations 2012. The Controller of Work Passes can disallow them from hiring new or renewing existing foreign workers. They may also have their security bonds forfeited.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line2061
__label__wiki	0.949965	0.949965	news, local-news, It's been the dream of train enthusiasts for decades. But a Melbourne-based think tank has crushed the idea of building a high-speed train in Australia, saying it would be too costly for a small population and would not have the promised environmental benefits. In an analysis by the Grattan Institute, it also questions the Morrison government's more modest upgrades to existing services including from Newcastle to Sydney at a time when the full fallout from COVID-19 pandemic is not yet known and what people's future travel and work plans will look like. Federal Labor has a plan for a bullet train linking Melbourne, Canberra, Newcastle, Sydney and Brisbane. Data in the report shows Newcastle is second only to Canberra in the longest rail journey to the nearest state capital, a status unlikely to change if proposed two-hour journeys through renovation of the existing rail infrastructure was to become a reality. A detailed study into speeding up existing train services, as opposed to a bullet train, won government support earlier this month in what the Hunter Business Chamber dubbed a "stepping stone". The Grattan Institute report recommends upgrades like a faster link between the Hunter and Sydney be subject to rigorous cost-benefit analysis and abandoning the the bullet train concept altogether. It argues that strong demand in both directions and clustered population, like those in Europe and Asia, are necessary to justify high-speed rail. Co-author Marion Terrill said regions were unlikely to reap the benefits associated with the concept. "Very few city residents would move to the regions; regional cities may actually lose out if their residents can get to the capital more quickly; and many regions have more pressing infrastructure needs than faster trains, including better schools, hospitals, and internet and mobile connections," she wrote. The institute says while a bullet train may be a "captivating idea", it says Australia's population is small and spread over vast distances, and notes similar countries like the US and Canada don't have one either. "Even at the best of times, it's a big ask for every taxpayer in the land to stump up $10,000 primarily for the benefit of business travellers between the east-coast capitals," it says. Nor would a bullet train be the climate saver people believe. "Yes, once it is up and running it would emit far less than today's planes," it says. "But construction would take nearly 50 years and be enormously emissions intensive, hindering rather than helping efforts to reach net zero emissions by 2050." The analysis found that while the government's proposal for rail renovations and upgrades to existing regional lines may make more sense, they are unlikely to fulfil the "overblown claims" that they would take pressure off crowded capital cities and boost struggling regions. "When the French TGV sped up connections between Paris and Lyon, it was Paris that benefited most," the report says. "Australia's regional towns have more pressing infrastructure needs than faster rail, including better internet and mobile connectivity and freight links." While it is argued that with unemployment rising this is an ideal time to create jobs by building rail infrastructure, the institute says any money should be spent for the future the nation now faces rather than the one imagined before the crisis. "When we simply don't know whether the population will be growing or what future travel and work patterns will be like, it's smart to keep our spending options open." it says. "Every proposed rail renovation project in Australia should be reviewed in the light of the COVID crisis. The costs and benefit of each one should be rigorously assessed, and those that don't stack up should be abandoned.". While you're with us, did you know the Newcastle Herald offers breaking news alerts, daily email newsletters and more? Keep up to date with all the local news - sign up here IN THE NEWS: /images/transform/v1/crop/frm/janene.carey/26927cdc-1c4f-4a36-8b5f-f9e77cec6f81.jpg/r4_0_1916_1080_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg May 25 2020 - 7:56AM High-speed rail linking Newcastle to Sydney, Brisbane and Canberra slammed in Grattan Institute report COLIN BRINSDEN and MATT CARR It's been the dream of train enthusiasts for decades. But a Melbourne-based think tank has crushed the idea of building a high-speed train in Australia, saying it would be too costly for a small population and would not have the promised environmental benefits. In an analysis by the Grattan Institute, it also questions the Morrison government's more modest upgrades to existing services including from Newcastle to Sydney at a time when the full fallout from COVID-19 pandemic is not yet known and what people's future travel and work plans will look like. Federal Labor has a plan for a bullet train linking Melbourne, Canberra, Newcastle, Sydney and Brisbane. Data in the report shows Newcastle is second only to Canberra in the longest rail journey to the nearest state capital, a status unlikely to change if proposed two-hour journeys through renovation of the existing rail infrastructure was to become a reality. A detailed study into speeding up existing train services, as opposed to a bullet train, won government support earlier this month in what the Hunter Business Chamber dubbed a "stepping stone". The Grattan Institute report recommends upgrades like a faster link between the Hunter and Sydney be subject to rigorous cost-benefit analysis and abandoning the the bullet train concept altogether. It argues that strong demand in both directions and clustered population, like those in Europe and Asia, are necessary to justify high-speed rail. Co-author Marion Terrill said regions were unlikely to reap the benefits associated with the concept. "Very few city residents would move to the regions; regional cities may actually lose out if their residents can get to the capital more quickly; and many regions have more pressing infrastructure needs than faster trains, including better schools, hospitals, and internet and mobile connections," she wrote. The institute says while a bullet train may be a "captivating idea", it says Australia's population is small and spread over vast distances, and notes similar countries like the US and Canada don't have one either. "Even at the best of times, it's a big ask for every taxpayer in the land to stump up $10,000 primarily for the benefit of business travellers between the east-coast capitals," it says. Nor would a bullet train be the climate saver people believe. "Yes, once it is up and running it would emit far less than today's planes," it says. "But construction would take nearly 50 years and be enormously emissions intensive, hindering rather than helping efforts to reach net zero emissions by 2050." The analysis found that while the government's proposal for rail renovations and upgrades to existing regional lines may make more sense, they are unlikely to fulfil the "overblown claims" that they would take pressure off crowded capital cities and boost struggling regions. "When the French TGV sped up connections between Paris and Lyon, it was Paris that benefited most," the report says. "Australia's regional towns have more pressing infrastructure needs than faster rail, including better internet and mobile connectivity and freight links." While it is argued that with unemployment rising this is an ideal time to create jobs by building rail infrastructure, the institute says any money should be spent for the future the nation now faces rather than the one imagined before the crisis. "When we simply don't know whether the population will be growing or what future travel and work patterns will be like, it's smart to keep our spending options open." it says. "Every proposed rail renovation project in Australia should be reviewed in the light of the COVID crisis. The costs and benefit of each one should be rigorously assessed, and those that don't stack up should be abandoned.". While you're with us, did you know the Newcastle Herald offers breaking news alerts, daily email newsletters and more? 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__label__wiki	0.830894	0.830894	Real news. With snark, invective, and lots of links. Guaranteed behaving badly. Top Charge Dismissed For Cop Who Killed 7-Year-Old Girl During Raid By D.B. Hirsch October 3, 2014 2:33 pm - NewsBehavingBadly.com In a surprise development on Friday, a judge dismissed the most serious charge against a Detroit police officer who fatally shot a 7-year-old girl during a raid. The trial was also halted in order to give prosecutors an opportunity to immediately appeal. [su_center_ad]Wayne County Judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway’s decision came after prosecutors finished presenting their case against Joseph Weekley, who mistakenly pulled the trigger and killed Aiyana Stanley-Jones during a chaotic search for a murder suspect in 2010. Detroit Police Officer Joseph Weekley CBS reports: Defense attorney Steve Fishman said an involuntary manslaughter charge should be dismissed because prosecutors had failed to show that Weekley intentionally created a danger that caused Aiyana’s death. “There is absolutely no evidence, none, that’s in the least bit credible,” Fishman argued. Wayne County Judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway agreed. “If I’m going to err, I’m going to err on the side of the defense,” she said in dismissing the manslaughter charge, a felony. Weekley still is charged with reckless discharge of a firearm, a misdemeanor. It’s his second trial after a jury last year couldn’t reach a verdict. Weekley, a member of an elite police unit, insists he accidentally pulled the trigger when Aiyana’s grandmother, Mertilla Jones, grabbed his gun as officers burst through the door of her home. Jones denied any interference. The prosecutor’s office said it planned to appeal Hathaway’s decision. The trial on the lesser charge resumes Monday Following Friday’s ruling, Mark Diaz, president of the Detroit Police Officers Association, released a statement saying they are “very pleased” with the judge’s decision and that they are “confident” Weekley will be exonerated of the remaining charges, reports CBS Detroit. “This is a tragedy no matter how you look at this; and, with regard to officer Weekley and what he has experienced — obviously the family has experienced a great deal of pain — but what everyone needs to recognizes is that Officer Weekley, and everyone involved, has experienced a great deal of pain,” Diaz said. While Weekley still faces a misdemeanor charge of “discharge of a weapon,” Legal Analyst Charlie Langton said that charge would not likely result in jail time if Weekley is convicted. H/T: The incomparable @CarlaAkins with thanks.[su_csky_ad] D.B. Hirsch D.B. Hirsch is a political activist, news junkie, and retired ad copy writer and spin doctor. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. 9 responses to Top Charge Dismissed For Cop Who Killed 7-Year-Old Girl During Raid tracey marie October 3rd, 2014 at 3:42 pm Nonsense, weekly suffered nothing but time off with pay. He had a vacation and will continue to be allowed to recklessly be a killer under the guise of a police officer searching for killers. whatthe46 October 3rd, 2014 at 6:51 pm “…under the guise of a police officer searching for killers.” they have to look no further than their own police stations. let the arrests begin. rg9rts October 4th, 2014 at 2:16 am Cosmic_Surfer October 3rd, 2014 at 3:58 pm Nah, America isn’t a Police State….much Red Eye Robot October 3rd, 2014 at 6:08 pm ” In a surprise development on Friday” Surprise? Really? here is an account of the stunt the prosecution’s prime witness pulled tuesday. http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2014/09/29/weekley-trial-resumes/16404205/ crc3 October 3rd, 2014 at 6:30 pm Another cop gets away with killing innocence… lois patuto October 3rd, 2014 at 8:25 pm legally I think the judge was correct Why was his finger on the trigger fahvel October 4th, 2014 at 2:46 am goodness, how can an elite cop accidentally fire his weapon? Kid’s dead and he did it – where is the confusion? < News Behaving Badly home All rights reserved. Published by NewsJones.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line2067
__label__wiki	0.862534	0.862534	Clay Waters New York Times Slaps Mollie Hemingway, Ben Shapiro for Precisely Picking Apart the Left August 5th, 2020 12:32 PM New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters has developed a beat of targeting conservative media. On Tuesday, he went after The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway, as well as personalities Ben Shapiro and Allie Beth Stuckey, in “An Outlet for the Outrage Against Trump’s Enemies.” Peters focused predominantly on The Federalist, whose influential commentary has angered liberals since 2013. Ms. Hemingway is part of a group of conservative commentators -- who have large social media followings, successful podcasts and daily Fox News appearances -- that has helped insulate the president and preserve his popularity with his base, even as many Americans say they are likely to vote against him in November. What these writers and pundits don’t tend to do is make the doggedly pro-Trump defenses that appear on Breitbart and erupt from the mouth of Sean Hannity. Often, they don’t bother at all with the awkward business of trying to explain away Mr. Trump’s latest folly. Instead, they offer an outlet for outrage against those the president has declared his enemies, often by reducing them to a culture war caricature of liberalism. ….This almost entirely white cohort of conservative commentators can spend ample time mocking the mainstream and liberal media for focusing on Mr. Trump’s racist and divisive messaging without giving nearly as much consideration to the harm caused, for instance, when he promotes a video of someone shouting “white power.” Through this lens, Mr. Trump’s transgressions seem irrelevant compared with the manifold misdeeds of everyone from the Clintons to CNN….. For a "culture war caricature of liberalism," just consult the internal PC squad in the Times newsroom. Peters sketched in profiles of two other conservative personalities, Ben Shapiro and Allie Beth Stuckey, then hurled this charge. Some media scholars see the desire to pick apart Mr. Trump’s critics as a form of entertainment disinformation. “They try to get you not to believe other kinds of information that you might hear in the larger media sphere, and it’s just fun,” said Khadijah White, a professor at Rutgers University who studies race, gender and the media…. [The Federalist’s] sweet spot is with stories that feature conservatives battling liberal politicians and journalists in a clash where questions of privilege, gender and race reveal starkly different worldviews, like Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh’s confirmation. (Ms. Hemingway, who wrote extensively about the Kavanaugh confirmation and co-authored a best-selling book on the hearings, did not respond to multiple requests for comment.) Naturally, Peters managed to skip Hemingway’s Kavanaugh-related triumph for truth over the Times. Two Times reporters, Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly, co-wrote a hit piece of a book about the Kavanaugh nomination, declaring Brett Kavanaugh unfit for the Supreme Court for not admitting he’d been drunk all the way through school. Hemingway secured an advance copy of their book and found that a piece from the book, adapted for the newspaper, deleted a vital piece of exculpatory evidence that reduced the piece’s major charge to third-hand hearsay. Hemingway’s evidence of the paper’s lack of integrity troubled even the mainstream press. Deborah Ramirez’s uncorroborated sexual allegation against Kavanaugh (from a dormitory party at Yale) were part of the frenzy of the Kavanaugh hearings. But under pressure, the Times was forced to update the story with facts from the book: “…the female student declined to be interviewed and friends say she does not recall the episode.” Peters piled on the unflattering adjectives (“fuming commentariat, “aggrieved opposition party”) and threw in one last laugh line: All those protests, some featuring fires set in courthouses and police stations, weren’t just “mostly peaceful,” but “overwhelmingly peaceful”! Forget all the people who have died since the violent Floyd protests began. Republicans and the Trump campaign are pushing those themes again today, focusing on images of unrest from protests in Portland, Ore., and Seattle. But there are signs that this messaging is out of step with the majority of Americans who support the overwhelmingly peaceful demonstrations nationwide against racism that followed the killing of George Floyd. Jeremy Peters Mollie Hemingway Media Bias Debate NY Times Attacks Fox News on Front; MSNBC Nuts, Bigots Get A Pass Too Bad, So Sad: NYT Triggered a Conservative Was Pence Pool Reporter Curtis Houck Right, Left Clash in Reaction to Big Tech Censorship of Trump Video WashPost Columnist Rants Over 'Sexism and Racism' Against Biden Veep P.J. Gladnick Shorter NY Times: America, Your 'Individualism' Is to Blame for Corona NY Times Blind to Racial Discrimination at Yale, Sees It in Improv MSNBC Touts Ex-Trump Voter Who Wants Trump 'Nightmare' Over Brad Wilmouth WashPost Tries To Make Rioting Cool With Antifa Puff Piece Kristine Marsh NewsBusters Reader, The media has abandoned all pretense of objectivity to become a pro bono ad agency for the progressive movement, infusing left-wing talking points into every issue, from the pandemic to the “cultural revolution.” “Truth in journalism,” once a reporter’s credo, is now a relic of a bygone era. 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__label__cc	0.702172	0.297828	Roll and stroll By Ngaio Bealum Ngaio Bealum is a Sacramento comedian, activist and marijuana expert. Email him questions at ask420@newsreview.com. I like taking my medicine in the form of a joint while walking around the block. It gets me thinking, though: Is it legal to do that as long as I’m a patient? Where are places I can smoke if I can’t smoke at my apartment? —Juan DeRoor A little exercise, a little medicine. You sound like a health-minded person. According to California law, medical cannabis patients are allowed to consume cannabis anywhere tobacco consumption is allowed, except for a moving vehicle, so a walk around the block is a great idea. Be aware that some cities have designated entire areas as “smoke-free zones,” mostly in the chichi downtown spots (looking at you, Walnut Creek), so if you aren’t paying attention, you could get a ticket. But in general, although you may get a few odd looks and maybe a knowing smile or two, a good walk and a good weed go a long way toward creating a good day. I hear the DEA has a new leader. What can you tell us about him? —Nan Cour d’Leon Not much. Chuck Rosenberg is the new guy. He was in the FBI and he worked for the U.S. Department of Justice. All the reports say he’s cool. We shall see what happens. I have many problems with the way the DEA goes about its business. Duh. Remember, if the DEA had heeded the advice of their own administrative judge, Frances Young, in 1988, we wouldn’t be dealing with a lot of the bullshit we are dealing with today. Young’s advice back then? “Marijuana, in its natural form, is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man. By any measure of rational analysis marijuana can be safely used within a supervised routine of medical care. … It would be unreasonable, arbitrary and capricious for DEA to continue to stand between those sufferers and the benefits of this substance in light of the evidence in this record.” Drug abuse is a social-health issue, not a criminal issue, and the DEA doesn’t have the desire nor the temperament to do anything other than throw people in jail to justify its $2 billion budget. I don’t think Mr. Rosenberg, in his position as interim director (he is expected to serve until Obama leaves office) will be able to affect any great changes in the DEA’s policy, although he is expected to ease up on cannabis law enforcement. If Mr. Rosenberg can get the DEA to stop going after medical cannabis patients, end the racial disparities in drug arrests and prosecutions and keep the DEA from obstructing medical cannabis research, I will buy him a beer. He will be in charge for about 18 more months. I wish him luck. There’s been a lot of talk about movies, but what about music? What albums do you love to smoke with? —Ant See All of them. Come on. Good weed makes good music great, and bad music funny. I like Schubert’s 8th. Heh. More Cannabis Guide » The 420 Oily goodness Ngaio weighs the differences between oils and flowers, along with revisiting job discrimination against patients and top stoner films. Medicinal monopoly Washington and Oregon are seeing new laws that could force out dispensaries, and Ngaio isn't having it. No-heart Leonhart Ngaio sends his worst regards to the outgoing chief of the DEA. Time to reschedule Ngaio goes over a bipartisan attempt to reschedule marijuana, the CARERS Act. The 4/20 issue The ultimate resource for Sacramento’s new and existing cannabis-dispensary patients.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line2069
__label__cc	0.637593	0.362407	More news: Web Design / Digital Arts Written by / Agency / Source: Gin Lane Media New York Digital Company Creates Innovative Campaign for Stella McCartney L.I.L.Y. Launch NewswireToday - /newswire/ - New York, NY, United States, 2012/01/26 - All 360º social and digital innovation for this high-profile campaign was created by New York company, Gin Lane, led by Emmett Shine and Dan Kenger, who were handpicked to launch a unique project from start to finish introducing the world to L.I.L.Y. Your Banner Ad Here instead - Showing along with ALL Articles covering Web Design / Digital Arts Announcements Emerging technology agency Gin Lane Media, led by Emmett Shine and Dan Kenger, is pushing the limits of interactivity and redefining 360-degree social and digital innovation. The company has been handpicked by big name, global clients such as Stella McCartney, AOL, Helmut Lang and adidas, helping these companies engage their audience further in the online and in-store space by creating immersive integrated digital campaigns. Gin Lane has most recently constructed a digital online and experiential campaign for L.I.L.Y, the new fragrance from Stella McCartney, and the luxury brand’s first in almost a decade, to be launched on January 26 exclusively to Selfridges Department Store, Oxford Street. For the high-profile project, designed and produced by Gin Lane, the company is introducing: a mobile application [1] with user- generated photo content, a geo-targeted UK Facebook tab, an online giveaway, a contest to win Stella McCartney merchandise, and behind the scenes video content [2]. There will be an augmented reality experience created with partner Aurasma, which blends the real-world with rich interactive content such as videos and animations called “auras.” To ensure shoppers without smartphones are able to utilize the app’s advantages, three iPads will be available in-store, also equipped with the Aurasma augmented reality experience. Also presented in Selfridges are [3] two large 85” TV’s [4] in the windows, featuring HD videos that contain a top layer, gently removed to reveal the bottom layer video--all based on passerby movement and motion, creating a unique interactive art installation [5]. Based on distance and motion along with the use of state-of-the-art gesture technology, users can control the interplay between the two videos from Oxford Street. “Stella McCartney is one of the most progressive luxury fashion brands today in terms of materials, technology and brand communication. Selfridges is one of the premier department stores in the world and constantly raising the bar for avant-garde window displays. Naturally, we wanted to come up with a concept that was beautiful, progressive and utilized new technology in an interactive manner.” – Emmett Shine, President of Gin Lane. Additionally, Gin Lane provided social strategy and content for Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare and Instagram for this project. Along with creating imagery for stellamccartney.com, their fragrance website, they are also integrating content onto the existing Stella McCartney iPad application. Gin Lane has made recommendations for blogger outreach and to promote the multifaceted perfume project, three dedicated newsletters will be distributed. From start to finish, this company has put into effect ideas that will be landmarks in social media and digital aspects for the industry. The world is expected to take notice of the interactive installation specifically, since it is so innovative, diverse and elevated from comparable fashion brands and similar new product launches. [1] Mobile app capabilities: - Watch and interact with the campaign videos via a uniquely created touch-responsive “reveal” effect - Fans are able to create their own L.I.L.Y collages using beautiful original imagery from the campaign videos. The multi-layered collages can be shared through Twitter, Facebook, email and are uniquely formatted for Instagram, enhancing the user experience - In London, a user in the geographic area around Selfridges will be able to activate the interactive “tab” of the app - Using Aurasma technology, the user will be able to use their smartphone at the L.I.L.Y interactive display in-store to activating an 3D video of either the behind-the-scenes video and/or a large animation of the L.I.L.Y bottle as an augmented reality experience. More information on the Aurasma platform is available, including quotes. [2] Shot by photographer Dan Tobin Smith (known for shooting the Jay-Z’s The Blueprint 3 album cover) using a Phantom HD camera; model Małgosia Bela [3] “The World’s Best Department store” and the windows are considered the most prominent department store windows in the world [4] Panasonic 1080p HD 85" Plasma Display, Model: TH-85PF12U, Specs/Dimensions: 74.4” x 41.8” (width x height) [5] The video is powered by a Macbook Pro and is paired with two hacked Microsoft Kinects. Distribution / Indexing: [+] Web Design / Digital Arts articles, Publisher Contact: Mallory - GinLaneMedia.com 732-492-7416 mallory[.]ginlanemedia.com IMPORTANT INFORMATION: Issuance, publication or distribution of this press release in certain jurisdictions could be subject to restrictions. 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__label__wiki	0.78351	0.78351	Tech-Hub Home Hollywood ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ Loses Certified Fresh Rating at Rotten Tomatoes After HBO... ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ Loses Certified Fresh Rating at Rotten Tomatoes After HBO Max Debut DCEU followers cheered when it was revealed that Wonder Woman 1984 had been “certified fresh” on Rotten Tomatoes inside just a few hours of its launch, racking up a formidable 89% rating. While that score was among the finest ever scored by a DCEU film, later opinions weren’t as form to Wonder Woman 1984, inflicting it to lose its “certified fresh” score. At the time of writing this text, the movie has a Tomatometer rating of 65%, which is a major drop in score. While the viewers rating is healthier at 73%, it’s nonetheless not akin to the preliminary 89%. On the one hand, in right now’s day and age, Rotten Tomatoes is the preferred evaluation web site on the earth, so a non-fresh score is unquestionably not excellent news. RELATED: Wonder Woman 1984 Wins Christmas Weekend Box Office with $85M Worldwide Launch But alternatively, earlier DCEU movies that scored as low and even decrease than Wonder Woman 1984, specifically Aquaman and Suicide Squad, had been capable of overcome the destructive opinions to make a killing on the field workplace. With franchise movies, an enormous a part of the earnings come from model loyalty. Considering that the unique Wonder Woman launched in 2017 was a giant hit, it must be sufficient to persuade followers to take a look at the sequel for themselves as a substitute of counting on the Tomatometer. The massive query is, how will the Rotten Tomatoes rating have an effect on the movie’s earnings? Wonder Woman 1984 has already underperformed on the worldwide market, the place it was launched earlier than the U.S, hauling in round $38.5 million, which was effectively under the $60 million that the business had forecast. Shawn Robbins, chief analyst at Boxoffice.com believes a $15 million box office debut within the U.S. could be an optimistic determine to hope for. “We’re seeing ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ drive the strongest ticket pre-sales of any film in the pandemic era thus far, but I’m leaning cautiously toward over $10 million for the weekend given the number of movie theater closures, audience caution, and a simultaneous streaming release. A figure closer to $15 million could be achievable but there’s a great deal of unpredictability to factor in right now.” Of course, a giant a part of the success of Wonder Woman 1984 is tied into not simply how a lot cash it earns, however what number of new subscribers it brings to HBO Max, the place it is going to stream in the course of the first month of its launch. There once more, model loyalty is prone to play a much bigger function than important opinions. Jenkins had beforehand hinted that the success of Wonder Woman had prompted Warner Bros. to present her free rein whereas making the sequel. Now, that free rein will doubtless finish, if the filmmaker chooses to return again to the franchise in any respect. Directed and co-written by Patty Jenkins, Wonder Woman 1984 stars Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Kristen Wiig, Pedro Pascal, and Natasha Rothwell. The movie arrives in theaters and HBO Max on December 25, whereas debuting theatrically in worldwide markets beginning on December 16. This information is confirmed at Rotten Tomatoes. Topics: Wonder Woman 2, Wonder Woman Neeraj Chand Writer with a eager curiosity in know-how and popular culture. Previous articleWest Ham come again twice to earn 2-2 draw towards Brighton Next articleNY healthcare supplier beneath investigation after acquiring doses ‘The Matrix 4’ Logo Reveals New Title for Keanu Reeves’ Anticipated Sequel? Leaked ‘Eternals’ Art Reveals Full MCU Superhero Team in Costume Walking Onto ‘Avatar 2’ Set Was a Real ‘WTF’ Moment for Marc Maron & Kate Winselt Quantity with Quality is our first priority. Newszada is the name of TRUST. Copyright © 2020 NewsZada.com	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line2071
__label__wiki	0.682156	0.682156	The Musicians of the NHMF Personnel Agreement 2018 Permanent Roster Personnel Policy 2013 Personnel Policy Amendments 2015 Signed Roster 2015 1991/1992 Personnel Policy 1985 Personnel Policy 10/8/09 – Ella Gray Letter to the editor: The personnel policy that the NHMF Orchestra has been working under since 1992 holds protection for the musicians, such as rights of contract renewal (tenure), allowance for personal leave and a dismissal process that includes peer review. These are all usual terms found in any Orchestral collective bargaining agreement, and rightly so. They are there to protect single musicians or groups of musicians from arbitrary or capricious decisions that reflect the self-interest of an individual or group. Management’s continued insistence that all incumbents are reinvited for the 2010 season is misleading, since they use the term “incumbent” to mean only those musicians who will be given contracts. In fact Management is attempting to put a new personnel policy in place for the 2010 season which would allow them to permanently replace 30 of us with 20 outside professional musicians and 10 students of Management’s choosing. This represents a loss of half of our Orchestra. They have removed rights of renewal and peer review. There is no cap on further dismissals. The half of our Orchestra who is invited back for 2010 could be dismissed in its entirety following next summer’s Festival. Newly appointed Artistic Director, Jonathan Gandelsman, is expected to review, within a few weeks time, the players left in the orchestra next summer, with an eye on who to dismiss. His decision to dismiss will be final. No appeal. This represents a huge departure from sound orchestral management, and is unheard of in the music world. It is a thinly disguised attempt to replace this orchestra with another one of Management’s choosing. Add to that the icing on the cake. Management recently inserted new language into the policy that would further reduce the incumbent musicians, due to a lack of funds. The Orchestra committee agreed on August 14 to Management’s final offer BECAUSE we were told that next year’s season would be funded through an anonymous donor. If the Board of the NHMF is naive enough to believe, as Rusty McLear has stated, that “We are baffled that the musicians would reject a personnel policy simply because it is grounded in sound fiscal principles”, then they are really in the dark about what they are doing. Doesn’t a rejection vote of 59-3 tell them anything? We also wonder what Mr. McLear could mean by “shared interests and common ground”, lofty words indeed, when set against a backdrop of an entire management that has failed to take the pulse of its orchestra, chorus or the members of its own audience. Ella Marie Gray, Orchestra Committee Chair	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line2072
__label__wiki	0.576736	0.576736	LG G6 display may feature 18:9 aspect ratio and no bezels LG's upcoming G6 may feature a unique 18:9 aspect ratio. (Source: LG) The upcoming flagship may feature a new 2880x1440 display produced by LG Display. Sam Medley, 01/10/2017 Android Business Phablet Rumor Smartphone Touchscreen In the deluge of smartphones that flood the market every year, it can be difficult for a device to stand out. LG is known for producing some physically interesting smartphones, from the (failed) modular design of the G5 to the secondary display on their flagship V10 and V20 phones. The Korean tech giant continues to push smartphone design with the upcoming G6, which is rumored to pack a unique 18:9 (or 2:1) aspect ratio. LG Display, the subsidiary department responsible for developing LG’s display technologies, announced earlier today that they’ve created a 5.7 inch, 2880x1440 LCD panel. LG Display is saying that this screen will be used in LG’s next flagship smartphone, assumed to be the upcoming G6. This 18:9 aspect ratio will be sure to stand out in a crowd of 16:9 phones, although the reasoning behind the design choice is still not known. Rumors also abound that LG’s next flagship will focus on reducing bezels as much as possible. This is nothing new for the company, as even older devices like the G2 (from 2013) featured incredibly thin bezels and a high screen-to-body ratio. LG Display has said that their new panel can accommodate bezels that are 10 percent thinner on the sides and 20 percent thinner on the top. Additionally, the new panel will reduce power consumption by 30 percent and will be bright in outdoor conditions. LG could withdraw from Chinese market in near future News @ 03/14/2017 Xiaomi says a Mi Mix successor is in the works News @ 02/18/2017 More details and leaks suggest higher starting price for the LG G6 News @ 02/05/2017 LG G6 to feature Google Assistant News @ 01/21/2017 MWC 2017 \| LG G6 to be unveiled on February 26 News @ 01/19/2017 LG G6: Integrated heatpipe will keep battery from overheating News @ 01/15/2017 MWC 2017 \| LG G6 confirmed to arrive at MWC News @ 01/12/2017 CES 2017 \| LG intros Stylo 3 mid-range phablet News @ 01/10/2017 LG V20 S coming soon to Europe News @ 11/10/2016 LG V20 hits major carriers and retailers in the US News @ 10/31/2016 LG G5 Smartphone Review Review @ 05/11/2016 LG V10 Smartphone Review Review @ 02/09/2016 Review LG G2 Smartphone Review @ 09/24/2013 Samsung Pay Mini and Bixby spotted ... HP ProBook 600 G3 series coming wit... > Notebook / Laptop Reviews and News > News > News Archive > Newsarchive 2017 01 > LG G6 display may feature 18:9 aspect ratio and no bezels Sam Medley, 2017-01-10 (Update: 2017-01-10) Sam Medley - Review Editor - @samuel_medley I've been a "tech-head" my entire life. After graduating college with a degree in Mathematics, I worked in finance and banking a few years before taking a job as a Systems Analyst for my local school district. I started working with Notebookcheck in October of 2016 and have enjoyed writing news articles and notebook reviews. My areas of interest include the business side of technology, retro gaming, Linux, and innovative gadgets. When I'm not hunched over an electronic device or writing code for a new database, I'm either outside with my family, playing a decade-old video game, or sitting behind a drum set.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line2076
__label__cc	0.645887	0.354113	Auckland Santa parade: What roads are closed and what time does it start? 23 Nov, 2019 08:00 PM 2 minutes to read Many roads in the central city, including Queen and Victoria Streets, will be closed for today's parade. By RNZ Auckland's biggest Christmas parade will take place today. Thousands of people are expected to attend Farmers annual Santa parade, which is in its 86th year. All inner-city roads, including Queen, Wellesley and Victoria Streets, will be closed between 11am and 5pm for the event, which starts at 1pm. After the parade, Santa's Party will take place in Aotea Square from 2.30pm with food, stalls, headliners PJ Masks and entertainment for the whole family. Please check carefully how buses will be diverted and which bus stops will be closed for the Farmers Santa Parade today. More info: https://t.co/4yCUlyIkpd pic.twitter.com/mxj1gUEpJA — Auckland Transport (@AklTransport) November 23, 2019 The weather forecast is for bright sunshine, light winds and a humid 20C. This year's parade will also be last for the city's five-storey-high Santa that stands on the corner of the Farmers building. If you're taking the train to the Farmers Santa Parade today please do not take any balloons on board or at stations due to the overhead lines. pic.twitter.com/hKSz6Nc9YH It was announced earlier this year that after 60 years, the giant Santa would head into retirement. • Farewell Father Christmas: Auckland's giant Santa is retiring after this year • Ho, ho, no - Controversial Santa won't feature at Auckland parade this year • Good riddance to Auckland's 'creepy' Santa? • Outrage at decision to sack Santa from tomorrow's Christmas Parade in Auckland Its owner, business association Heart of the City, said restoration work was needed and there were also challenges around the large structure's storage. If your whanau are travelling to the Farmers Santa Parade today, be sure to take advantage of free child weekend fares. With a registered AT HOP card, children aged 5-15 years travel FREE. Learn more: https://t.co/8OZa4mgfjU pic.twitter.com/rcMg5Ls1P1 Auckland council's tourism and events company, ATEED, decided last year that the parade did not meet its funding criteria of bringing overnight visitors to the city. Elected councillors voted to overturn the decision. About 95 per cent of the parade is funded by commercial sponsorship. Last year's parade was postponed due to bad weather for the first time in 20 years. Have you spotted one in your backyard? Aussie spider establishing in Christchurch Whareama fire: 30 years gone in under 30 minutes Diver unaware of search operation trying to find him	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line2079
__label__cc	0.748328	0.251672	About SPE Offshore Europe Share your experiences and insights with upstream industry experts. We bring together new and innovative ways to move the upstream industry forward at SPE Offshore Europe. This is the platform to expand your technological knowledge in these areas with access to educational seminars, workshops and the SPE Conference. Benefit from this cross pollination of ideas and ultimately gain the skills to keep your business competitive moving into the future. The current transition period within the oil and gas industry involves lowering the carbon footprint with less environmental impact. We stand in line with these changes and will continue to showcase the latest technology and strategy as this transition evolves. From decommissioning to digitisation, oil extraction to carbon capture, and everything in between, we are dedicated to helping you make game-changing progress. We are recognised by offshore energy professionals as Europe’s leading event, and we can help you expand your technical knowledge, gain exceptional insight and best practice in the industry’s largest free to attend conference. By joining us at SPE Offshore Europe, you will be exposed to a network of over 38,000 attendees, from international market leaders to innovative technology companies. At SPE Offshore Europe, we aim to align our exhibitors and visitors according to the industry’s core areas of interest and development. We understand the importance for production and operations technology, innovation in drilling and completions, and the preparation of facilities and construction. Our aim is to provide a platform that unites these key areas by dividing them into zones to help you make the right business decisions and the best networking opportunities. These zones are: Energy Transition Hub Launched in 2019, the Energy Transition Hub brings operators, associations and technology companies together to share insight over three days, highlighting the efforts they are making to prepare the oil and gas sector for transition to a lower carbon future with less environmental impact. To help new UK and International companies showcase their latest technologies, products and solutions, and make these innovations easy to find for attendees, we launched the StartUp Village in 2019. ENGenious Zone We drive towards radical digital transformation across the upstream oil and gas industry at the ENGenious Zone. Tying in perfectly with our focus on data analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence, this zone will give digital companies a platform to demonstrate their capabilities to a wider exploration & production (E&P) audience. Late Life and Decommissioning Zone Our Late Life and Decommissioning Zone highlights decommissioning technology and service providers, and has a conference theatre programme in partnership with key associations. It will bring together more than 11,000 highly targeted technical, business and government industry professionals. With its proximity to the North Sea Production Hub, Aberdeen in Scotland has been the perfect location for SPE Offshore Europe for nearly 50 years, and in 2019 we moved to the new state-of-the-art venue, P&J Live. Aberdeen is the energy capital of Europe and has cemented itself as a leading centre of research and development for subsea technology and expertise. Production techniques and operations technologies developed in Aberdeen are used in oil and gas fields all over the world, setting a global standard. Thinking about exhibiting? Promote your company’s innovative products and services by taking your place on the platform for progress. Gain exposure at SPE Offshore Europe What do visitors gain? Discover new technology, meet industry leaders and grow your business capabilities all under one roof. Attend SPE Offshore Europe	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line2081
__label__wiki	0.860862	0.860862	Scheduled roadworks COVIDSafe Travel Choices Hit return to start search UPCOMING ROAD CHANGES IN ROZELLE VICTORIA ROAD ACCESS ROAD ANZAC BRIDGE ACCESS ROAD The Rozelle Interchange and Iron Cove Link The Rozelle Interchange and Iron Cove Link is a new underground motorway interchange which will provide connectivity to City West Link and the new M4 and new M5 (also known as the M8) Tunnels, bypassing Victoria Road between the Iron Cove Bridge and the Anzac Bridge. Construction will be carried out in phases, with a number of important changes taking place along Victoria Road, City-West Link, The Crescent and James Craig Road from September 2020. This includes the opening of two new access roads: From 26 September – the Anzac Bridge Access Road From 31 October – the Victoria Road Access Road These roads will remain open for around two years while the project is being completed. The Beatrice Bush Bridge was closed on 21 August 2020 and has now been removed to allow for the construction of the future tunnel portals. For updates on the project, sign up to the mailing list via Rozelle Interchange For the latest conditions on the road network visit livetraffic.com For more information on the Rozelle Interchange and Iron Cove Link, visit westconnex.com.au How you access the city from Rozelle has changed. If you’re travelling from Victoria Road towards the Anzac Bridge you will need to use a new temporary road known as the Anzac Bridge Access Road. The entry point to the new road is just past Robert St on Victoria Road, as shown on the map below. These changes will be in place for around two years while the intersection is being upgraded. Visit livetraffic.com for real-time updates on traffic conditions. From 31 October 2020, if you’re travelling from City-West Link, The Crescent or James Craig Road to Victoria Road you will need to use a new temporary road known as the Victoria Road Access Road. Please refer to the map below for details on accessing Victoria Road from: City-West Link – use the left two lanes to turn left onto the Victoria Road Access Road. The Crescent – use the left two lanes to turn right onto the Victoria Road Access Road. James Craig Road – use the left hand lane to turn right onto the Victoria Road Access Road. Note: To access the Anzac Bridge, continue straight in the middle lanes through the underpass toward the city. The new Victoria Road Access Road will also affect access to Lilyfield Road. There will be: No left turn permitted onto Lilyfield Road from Victoria Road Access Road No left or right turn from Lilyfield Road onto Victoria Road Access to Lilyfield Road from the Anzac Bridge will be permitted Interactive map of Rozelle Interchange Urban Design and Landscape Plan WestConnex M4-M5 Rozelle Interchange website footer main menu Copyright 2018 © Transport for NSW Close \| ✕	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line2083
__label__wiki	0.688934	0.688934	United States Philippines Canada India United Kingdom Afghanistan Albania Algeria American Samoa Andorra Angola Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Aruba Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bermuda Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Brazil British Virgin Islands Brunei Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burma Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Canada Cape Verde Cayman Islands Central African Republic Chad Channel Islands Chile China Colombia Comoros Congo, Republic of the Cook Islands Costa Rica Cote d'Ivoire Croatia Cuba Curacao Cyprus Czech Republic Democratic Republic of the Congo Denmark Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic East Timor Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia European Union Faeroe Islands Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) Faroe Islands Federated States of Micronesia Fiji Finland France French Guiana French Polynesia Gabon Gambia Gaza Strip Georgia Germany Ghana Gibraltar Greece Greenland Grenada Guadeloupe Guam Guatemala Guernsey Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Holy See (Vatican City) Honduras Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iran Iraq Ireland Isle of Man Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Jersey Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Kosovo Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Libya Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macau Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Malta Marshall Islands Martinique Mauritania Mauritius Mayotte Mexico Moldova Monaco Mongolia Montenegro Montserrat Morocco Mozambique Namibia Nauru Nepal Netherlands Netherlands Antilles New Caledonia New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Niue Norfolk Island Northern Mariana Islands North Korea Norway Oman Pakistan Palau Palestine Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Qatar Republic of Macedonia Republic of the Congo Reunion Romania Russia Rwanda Sahrawi Saint Helena Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Pierre and Miquelon Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Samoa San Marino Sao Tome and Principe Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Serbia and Montenegro Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Sint Maarten (Dutch part) Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands Somalia South Africa South Korea South Sudan Spain Sri Lanka Sudan Suriname Svalbard Swaziland Sweden Switzerland Syria Taiwan Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand The Bahamas The Gambia Togo Tokelau Tonga Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Turks and Caicos Islands Tuvalu Uganda United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States Uruguay Uzbekistan Vanuatu Venezuela Vietnam Virgin Islands Wallis and Futuna West Bank Western Sahara Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe Catholic countries Christian countries Cold countries Densely populated countries East Asia and Pacific Eastern Europe Emerging markets Europe European Union Eurozone failed states Former British colonies Former French colonies Former Soviet republics Former Spanish colonies Group of 7 countries (G7) Heavily indebted countries High income OECD countries Hot countries Landlocked countries Latin America and Caribbean Middle Eastern and North Africa Muslim countries NATO countries Non-religious countries OPEC countries Potential Future EU Members Religious countries South and Central Asia South Asia Sparsely populated countries Sub-Saharan Africa Tourist destinations Western Europe World Ukraine Health Stats Birth rate > Crude > Per 1,000 people: Crude birth rate indicates the number of live births occurring during the year, per 1,000 population estimated at midyear. Subtracting the crude death rate from the crude birth rate provides the rate of natural increase, which is equal to the population growth rate in the absence of migration. Births and maternity > Average age of mother at childbirth: Average age of mother at first childbirth. Births and maternity > Future births: Mid-range estimate for country's population increase due to births from five years prior to the given year. For example, from 2095 to 2100, India's population is expected to rise by 16,181 people due to births. Estimates are from the UN Population Division. Births and maternity > Total fertility rate: Total fertility rate. Hospital beds > Per 1,000 people: Hospital beds include inpatient beds available in public, private, general, and specialized hospitals and rehabilitation centers. In most cases beds for both acute and chronic care are included. Life expectancy > Men: Life expectancy for men. Life expectancy at birth > Total population: The average number of years to be lived by a group of people born in the same year, if mortality at each age remains constant in the future. Life expectancy at birth is also a measure of overall quality of life in a country and summarizes the mortality at all ages. It can also be thought of as indicating the potential return on investment in human capital and is necessary for the calculation of various actuarial measures. Life expectancy at birth, female > Years: Life expectancy at birth, female (years). Life expectancy at birth indicates the number of years a newborn infant would live if prevailing patterns of mortality at the time of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life. Life expectancy at birth, male > Years: Life expectancy at birth, male (years). Life expectancy at birth indicates the number of years a newborn infant would live if prevailing patterns of mortality at the time of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life. Life expectancy at birth, total > Years: Life expectancy at birth, total (years). Life expectancy at birth indicates the number of years a newborn infant would live if prevailing patterns of mortality at the time of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life. Physicians > Per 1,000 people: Physicians are defined as graduates of any facility or school of medicine who are working in the country in any medical field (practice, teaching, research). Probability of not reaching 60: Probability at birth of not reaching the age of 40. Probability of reaching 65 > Male: Probability at birth of reaching the age of 65. Quality of health care system > Cost: Cost to you. Based on 0-50 contributions for Albania, Argentina, Austria and 69 more countries and 50-100 contributions for Australia, Brazil, Germany and 7 more countries and over 100 contributions for Canada, India, United Kingdom and 1 more country. The surveys were conducted by numbeo.com from October, 2010 to February, 2014. See this sample survey for the United States, respondents were asked "Cost to you". The higher the value, the more survey respondents believe it is high in their country. Quality of health care system > Health care system index: Health Care Index is an estimation of the overall quality of the health care system, health care professionals, equipment, staff, doctors, cost, etc. Select year 1955 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2020 2025 2030 2035 2040 2045 2050 2055 2060 2065 2070 2075 2080 2085 2090 2095 2100 Top stats 15 All stats 67 Birth rate > Crude > Per 1,000 people 9 per 1,000 people 2005 173th out of 181 Births and maternity > Average age of mother at childbirth 26.3 2007 30th out of 30 Births and maternity > Future births 271.97 2100 70th out of 196 Births and maternity > Total fertility rate 1.86% 2100 109th out of 196 Hospital beds > Per 1,000 people 8.8 per 1,000 people 2003 4th out of 60 Life expectancy > Men 64 years 2013 90th out of 99 Life expectancy at birth > Total population 68.58 years 2011 146th out of 216 Life expectancy at birth, female > Years 75.88 2011 101st out of 196 Life expectancy at birth, male > Years 65.98 2011 126th out of 196 Life expectancy at birth, total > Years 70.81 2011 112th out of 196 Physicians > Per 1,000 people 2.95 per 1,000 people 2003 26th out of 53 Probability of not reaching 60 26.3% 2050 5th out of 48 Probability of reaching 65 > Male 51.8% 2050 112th out of 159 Quality of health care system > Cost 55.83 2014 36th out of 46 Quality of health care system > Health care system index 48.61 2014 42nd out of 46 SOURCES: World Development Indicators database; United Nations Population Division. Source tables; United Nations Population Division. Source tables; United Nations Population Division. Source tables; British Broadcasting Corporation 2014; CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 28 March 2011; (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; Derived from male and female life expectancy at birth from sources such as: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; calculated on the basis of survival data from UN (United Nations). 2001. World Population Prospects 1950-2050: The 2000 Revision. Database. Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. New York; UN (United Nations). 2001. World Population Prospects 1950-2050: The 2000 Revision. Database. Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. New York; health care Ukraine Health Profiles (Subcategories) Births and maternity 47 Life expectancy 8 Death rates 6 Life expectancy at birth 9 Deaths 24 Nutrition 14 Disease prevention 9 % of population using adequate sanitation facilities 3 Diseases 43 % of population using improved drinking water sources 3 Expenditure 3 Public health spending 3 Health services 7 Quality of health care system 9 Healthy life expectancy at birth 3 Reproductive health 7 HIV AIDS 8 Risk factors 5 Hunger and malnutrition 3 Sanitation 3 % immunized 1-year-old children 5 Spending 3 Improved sanitation facilities 3 Suicide rate 3 Improved water source 3 Tobacco 4 Infant mortality rate 3 Ukraine categories Agriculture Environment Military Background Geography People Conflict Government Religion Cost of living Health Sports Crime Import Terrorism Culture Industry Transport Disasters Labor Travel Economy Language Weather Education Lifestyle Energy Media One in three Italian babies is born by caesarean section.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line2089
__label__wiki	0.977696	0.977696	DI DII DIII Home Scores Bracket Super Regional brackets Rankings Stats Video History West Chester Athletics \| May 18, 2014 DII SOFT: Murl leads West Chester to national finals WEST CHESTER, Pa. -- Senior right-handed pitcher Kim Murl scattered five hits in seven innings to lead host West Chester to a series-clinching 3-1 victory against visiting West Virginia Wesleyan in a decisive Game 3 of their Atlantic Super Regional series on Sunday afternoon. West Chester (41-20) advances to the NCAA Division II national finals for the first time in school history after taking the regional series two games to one. West Virginia Wesleyan (45-16), who had staved off elimination in the regional tournament four times prior to Sunday, could not overcome Murl's determination in the later innings. "In the fourth inning, [Murl's] stuff really began to move," West Chester head coach Diane Lokey said. "As soon as I saw her stuff start diving, I knew a two-run lead was enough." From the fourth inning on, Murl retired 13 of the last 15 batters she faced, yielding only a pair of scratch singles. Four of the last five outs recorded were groundouts while Murl also struck out a batter. "I felt more fluid, and my pitches began to break more," Murl explained. "I just made sure my pitches were off the plate. That's what helped me get through the last few innings." "I think she just hit her groove," West Chester catcher Erin Quense said. "Everything was working after that. She stayed strong all weekend." West Virginia Wesleyan jumped on the board first with a sacrifice fly in the second inning. However, West Chester answered right back in their bottom half. Quense began a two-out rally with a single to left. Kim Begley then doubled down the left-field line to put two runners in scoring position. Megan Kelly then hit a grounder to third, but the throw over to first pulled West Virginia Wesleyan's first baseman off the bag, allowing Quense to tie the game. In the third, Kelly Anderson led off with a triple to right-center, and Jess Schuck followed that with a double to left-center, scoring Anderson, and chasing West Virginia Wesleyan starter Jacqui Omichinski. Janessa Rios came on to run for Schuck at second base. She would eventually score on a pair of wild pitches. Bobcats' reliever Jessica Griffin retired the first 11 batters she faced, and only allowed a double in the seventh to Jill Murray the rest of the way. She settled down following the two wild pitches and kept the Golden Rams off the scoreboard. However, Murl kept West Virginia Wesleyan's bats silent. "We are super excited. This just goes to show you how hard work can pay off," Lokey added. "We had a 'Road To Salem' checklist all year. We had these measurable tasks to accomplish, and here we are. We are going. "This could not have happened to a better group of seniors. I can't really put into words what they have meant to this program. But, part of it is just staying focused. All the seniors said, 'Now we have something else to check off our list.'" Anderson finished 1-for-2 at the plate with a triple and a run scored. She was a combined 5-for-10 with four runs scored and a RBI in the three-game series. "I changed my mental preparation, and I just tried to enjoy my last postseason and these last few games," Anderson said. "This is an unbelievable feeling. The first day of practice, we all said that the road to Salem begins here. But, we never really gave it much of a thought during the regular season. Now, here we are" Begley went 1-for-2 on Sunday and finished the three-game series 3-for-8 with a pair of doubles. She also made two spectacular catches in right field during Saturday's doubleheader. The Golden Rams will play Armstrong Atlantic (35-13) out of the Southeast Region on Thursday at 12 p.m. ET in their first game in Salem, Virginia. The double-elimination tournament will be held May 22-26 with the national champion being crowned next Monday afternoon.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line2091
__label__cc	0.543752	0.456248	Delaware Area Career Center South Campus School Serves grades 9 - 12 Powell, OH Methodology: Only NeighborhoodScout gives you nationally comparable school ranks based on test scores, so you can directly compare the quality of schools in any location. Read more 4565 Columbus Pike Type of School Vocational/technical School Quality Ratings School Quality Compared to Ohio Better than ×% of OH schools. School Quality Compared to U.S. Better than ×% of U.S. schools. Delaware Area Career Center South Campus School Test Scores (No Child Left Behind Tests) Grade total Class Size (number of students per classroom teacher) AVG FOR THIS SCHOOL AVG FOR DISTRICT AVG FOR STATE AVG FOR NATION School enrollment by group White (non-hispanic) UNREPORTED UNREPORTED 72.8% Black UNREPORTED UNREPORTED 17.9% Hispanic UNREPORTED UNREPORTED 6.4% Asian Or Pacific Islander UNREPORTED UNREPORTED 2.7% American Indian Or Native Of Alaska UNREPORTED UNREPORTED 0.2% ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED UNREPORTED 24.6% FREE LUNCH ELIGIBLE UNREPORTED 20.5% REDUCED LUNCH ELIGIBLE UNREPORTED 4.2% DISTRICT FOR THIS SCHOOL POPULATION UNREPORTED 11,689,100 POPULATION DENSITY (per sq. mile) UNREPORTED 285 POPULATION DISTRIBUTION BY AGE 4 YEARS OLD AND BELOW UNREPORTED 6.0% 5-19 YEARS OLD UNREPORTED 19.2% 20-44 YEARS OLD UNREPORTED 31.6% 65 OR OLDER UNREPORTED 16.3% HOUSEHOLD CHARACTERISTICS Number Of Households UNREPORTED 4,653,938 Single Parent Households With Children UNREPORTED 11.0% Adults With At Least A High School Diploma UNREPORTED 90.1% Adults With At Least A Bachelor's Degree UNREPORTED 27.8% HOUSEHOLD INCOME DISTRIBUTION $150,000 or more UNREPORTED 9.4% $100,000 - $149,999 UNREPORTED 13.6% $75,000 - $99,999 UNREPORTED 12.6% $15,000 or less UNREPORTED 12.0% Education Expenditures Instructional Expenditures UNREPORTED UNREPORTED 25.9% Student UNREPORTED UNREPORTED 4.5% Staff UNREPORTED UNREPORTED 5.4% General Administration UNREPORTED UNREPORTED 3.6% School Administration UNREPORTED UNREPORTED 3.3% Operation UNREPORTED UNREPORTED 6.1% Transportation UNREPORTED UNREPORTED 0.1% Other UNREPORTED UNREPORTED 4.3% Total Support UNREPORTED UNREPORTED 27.2% Non-instructional Expenditures UNREPORTED UNREPORTED 46.9% Total Expenditures UNREPORTED UNREPORTED 100.0% For The State Instructional Expenditures $6,885 $11,675,377,079 49.5% Student $706 $1,197,797,522 5.1% Staff $406 $687,848,134 2.9% General Administration $329 $557,606,671 2.4% School Administration $654 $1,109,670,988 4.7% Operation $1,032 $1,750,061,637 7.4% Transportation $587 $995,690,600 4.2% Other $509 $863,480,400 3.7% Total Support $4,223 $7,161,883,305 30.3% Non-instructional Expenditures $2,813 $4,769,348,416 20.2% Total Expenditures $13,921 $23,606,673,322 100.0% For The Nation Instructional Expenditures $6,838 $346,122,956,267 50.6% Student $679 $34,352,975,349 5.0% Staff $546 $27,656,793,506 4.0% General Administration $224 $11,359,077,651 1.7% School Administration $657 $33,237,901,128 4.9% Operation $1,054 $53,333,273,914 7.8% Transportation $473 $23,948,272,674 3.5% Other $420 $21,254,923,139 3.1% Total Support $4,053 $205,142,872,671 30.0% Non-instructional Expenditures $2,612 $132,190,575,207 19.3% Total Expenditures $13,503 $683,455,649,655 100.0% Popular neighborhoods near Delaware Area Career Center South Campus School Columbus, OH (Mount Air) Columbus, OH (W Dublin Granville Rd / Olentangy River Rd) Dublin, OH (Bellaire Ave / Brandonway Dr) Dublin, OH (Jerome) Dublin, OH (Lido Ct / Tullymore Dr) Dublin, OH (Scioto Village) Powell, OH (City Center) Powell, OH (Olentangy River Rd / Home Rd) Riverlea, OH Worthington, OH (City Center)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line2092
__label__wiki	0.784519	0.784519	Ram Charan tests Covid negative, is 'back in action' Hyderabad \|Tuesday, 2021 11:15:06 PM IST Telugu star Ram Charan has tested negative for Covid-19. The actor, who had been diagnosed with the virus at the end of December, tweeted his latest health update on Tuesday. "Tested negative! I'm back in action," Ram Charan wrote. Ram Charan had shared the news of being diagnosed with coronavirus with a social media post on December 29, writing: "I have tested positive for Covid-19. No symptoms and quarantine at home. Hope to heal soon and come out stronger. Request all that have been around me in the past couple of days to get tested. More updates on my recovery soon." The actor will be next seen in the upcoming period drama "RRR". The ambitious SS Rajamouli directorial also stars Jr. NTR, Alia Bhatt, Ajay Devgn and Olivia Morris. The highly anticipated film will be released in Telugu, Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada, besides other Indian languages. --IANS abh/vnc More Entertainment News 'Aashish Chhathi Maiya Ke' to air from January 18 B-Town sports drama in 2021: Not just about cricket Dr Dre resumes work post release from hospital Ananya Panday turns 'wannabe Kendall Jenner' Adnan Sami turned 'hugely fat person' due to excessive eating Ammy Virk-Sonam Bajwa's 'Puaada' to hit theatres in March	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line2094
__label__wiki	0.719857	0.719857	Paulo Goldstein with his elaborately repaired headphones and iPod Shuffle\|Bolted-on wood patches up a broken Anglepoise\|Goldstein hacks objects to add value and create emotional attachment\|”A vicious cycle of problem solving” is how Goldstein describes his work\|\| Animator-turned-designer Paulo Goldstein Words by Jenny Brewer anglepoise, Brazil, design, Desso, Paulo Goldstein Animator-turned-designer Paulo Goldstein repairs broken objects to express the socio-economic effects of the financial crisis. onoffice caught up with the young Brazilian at his exhibition in Desso’s showroom. Paulo Goldstein’s bizarre designs (his words, not ours) give new slant to the psychology of hacking. His Repair is Beautiful project has seen him fix items like a chair, a lamp, headphones and an iPod Shuffle using highly unusual techniques and materials – but unlike many others under the ‘hacking’ umbrella, this project is not about sustainability or postmodernism. Instead, Goldstein explains, it’s about taking back control after the effects of the recession. After studying fine art in Brazil, Goldstein moved to the UK in 2006, living in Manchester to work in stop-motion animation. He worked as a sculptor and model-maker for films like Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr Fox and Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie, until in 2008 the financial crisis rendered him unemployed. Creatively frustrated, he went to study a masters degree at Central Saint Martins, where his final project was the first iteration of this collection. “I was using broken objects as a comparison with the broken financial system,” Goldstein says. “The crisis affected my whole life and I felt complete lack of control so I decided to channel that into a design project. I learned about these complex objects – the headphones, for example – and how they worked, and tried to repair them.” One earpiece on the headphones was broken, so he attached a new speaker to the back. That made it too heavy, so he added a shoulder support. That restricted their movement, so he created an articulated frame. The result was a convoluted pile-up of repairs, which made Goldstein realise something. “Within a complex system there are thousands of parts that interact and influence each other, therefore one cannot be fixed or changed in isolation because it could collapse the whole thing. In the financial crisis it was the housing problems in the US,” he says, “and in my headphones it was the earpiece. I worked around the problem and, in doing so, caused more problems. It was a vicious cycle of problem solving.” He also fixed an iPod Shuffle clip using a spare rib bone, and an Anglepoise lamp using wooden bolt-ons. By his own admittance, the objects are odd, but they are intended as a physical metaphor for bigger issues. Hacking is a trendy word, which he doesn’t use to describe his work. “There are bad connotations with hacking that it’s about destroying; but there are good sides too,” he says. “When you’re hacking, you’re engaging with that thing. You have the opportunity to give more value and create an emotional attachment. Traditionally, repairs are meant to disappear, but what I do is the opposite. I celebrate the repair.” Ste. Marie’s Onni Group HQ prioritises movement and flexibility Open Society Foundations’ new workspace focuses on a holistic approach to wellbeing From the Archive: A look inside Louis Poulsen’s Copenhagen headquarters Workplace providers must do more to support tenants in these difficult times Studio Besau-Marguerre teams up with Vitra to design WorkLifeSpace in Hamburg’s Apartimentum Tarkett’s iQ Surface adds to the creative flair of AD Spain’s Madrid office The design-led hotels to bookmark for remote working in 2021 3 simple ways to stay connected to your coworkers while working from home Pallavi Dean’s Roar studio puts wellness and digital features at the core of McKinsey & Company’s new office in Doha	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line2095
__label__wiki	0.663817	0.663817	Our NHS is being dismantled for transnational corporations As a key part of the EU-US trade deal currently being fleshed out, the Conservatives are making good on a decades old fantasy of theirs - breaking up the NHS and opening it to global business. This is the reality and it's happening now. Lucy Reynolds On April Fool’s Day the 2012 Health and Social Care Act (HASCA) came into force. Its enactment divests our government of responsibility to ensure a comprehensive healthcare service available to everyone. Henceforth government need only “promote” universal comprehensive care, perhaps through tax-funded advertising of privately-owned services franchised to use the NHS logo. Successive governments, assisted by the City’s privatisation industry, have gradually reorganised the NHS into a business investment opportunity for the transnational healthcare, health insurance, pharmaceutical, construction and outsourcing industries. If the government manages to complete the legal process now underway, almost the entire NHS budget will pass through competitive markets. This arrangement awards compensation to companies ejected from the markets by any subsequent renationalisation or reinstitution of “preferred providers”. The mechanism for this is in procurement regulations which are currently under challenge in Parliament, as experts advise that they will enable the private sector to cherry-pick from the NHS budget, divert money from frontline services and destabilise traditional NHS hospitals. If these regulations are applied to the NHS they will gradually privatise it, within a legal framework that would permanently block later renationalisation by triggering huge compensation entitlements for ejected companies. They can enforce these financial claims through UK and EU Courts against our government. This mechanism is known as the “privatisation ratchet”: the compensation mechanism stops governments from reversing the direction of change by renationalising services after the private sector has been allowed to compete to provide them. Once NHS privatisation takes hold, we can evade such costs and renationalise it only by leaving the EU and the World Trade Organisation. If we allow this privatisation to go through as planned, it is not the Labour Party that will sweep to power in 2015: it will be UKIP. The new system will make it easy for foreign corporations as well as home-grown outsourcers and private equity groups like Circle to cherry-pick contracts for whatever NHS services they wish. They will select activities, locations and patient groups that they predict to be profitable or strategic for developing their market share within the US-style profit-driven healthcare system that is the end state of this reform (see Oliver Letwin MP and John Redwood MP, “Britain’s Biggest Enterprise”, 1988). As big business uses competition law to siphon profits from the NHS budget, traditional NHS providers at every level from GP to teaching hospital will be left to look after the most challenging services and medical complications from a diminishing share of the budget. The Coalition government surely understands the outcome of introducing these regulations perfectly well: partners of two leading global competition law practices are linked to the highest levels of the Liberal Democrat Party (see here and here). The trade and competition law departments of these partnerships cater to transnational corporations seeking to tap our public services budgets, and they will rake in money from the carve up of the NHS. Meanwhile, David Cameron tasked Oliver Letwin (still an MP) with supervising the NHS reform that implements his 1988 plan. Earl Howe and Norman Lamb have announced that the Coalition had “accidentally” introduced privatising competition law regulations. If the Coalition can’t or won’t give a credible reason for having done this following their myriad reassurances that the NHS was not being privatised, what is the true explanation? And why did they withdraw SI 257 only to issue a near-clone, SI 500, which will have precisely the same effect of forcing wholesale privatisation (here and here)? The story that the content of the NHS privatisation regulations tells is one of the City selling out the NHS to the US trade lobby for privatisation, through the collaboration of certain members of our Parliament and their associates. Their betrayal is about to be cemented by the upcoming US-EU trade treaty which will require the privatisation of all our public services. The NHS privatisation regulations were brought to us via a Washington-mandated process of EU “harmonisation” of the legal frameworks, financing and organisation of all European national public services with the legal and organisational frameworks of the US private sector. David Cameron announced in January that his goal for the first six months of 2013 was to seal the deal on this trade treaty. The goal of the services provisions of trade treaties is to open up public service budgets to the private sector. Canada is part of the North American Trade Treaty (NAFTA) with the USA and Mexico, but has so far managed to preserve its national health service from privatisation by establishing and then defending a claim to an exemption which has so far succeeded at each round of Canada’s treaty negotiations. To protect the NHS, we need an exemption from this lock-in to the US economy of the type that Canada has fought for and won if we are to save the NHS from commercial pillage and destruction. (You can sign a petition to that effect here.) Our rulers have become far too close to the City of London and its clientele of expansionist transnationals. The Coalition in Westminster is trying any way it can to hand the NHS over to new commercial owners. The UK government is running a secretive unit inside Michael Gove’s Cabinet Office that’s accused of ‘blacklisting’ journalists and hiding ‘sensitive’ information from the public. Experts say they’re breaking the law – and it’s an assault on our right to know what our government is doing. We’re not going to let it stand. We’re launching a legal battle – but we also need a huge public outcry, showing that thousands back our call for transparency. Will you add your name? Democracy and government EU/US Free Trade	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line2097
__label__wiki	0.870016	0.870016	25th Street Recording, Baby! By Eugene S. Robinson Because music made in places other than a laptop sounds symphonic by comparison. If you blinked, you might just have missed it. Traversing the space across an empty Oakland, California parking lot, just down from a Gold’s Gym copycat named God’s Gym, sits what appears to be an automotive shop. The sign even says something about specializing in British automobiles. But the number matches the one scribbled on the piece of paper we have, and so after a tentative ring of doorbell, we’re buzzed into 25th Street Recording. High ceilings, exposed brick … a studio that looks like Battlestar Galactica. And then there’s that Snoopy’s Dog House moment where it’s revealed that what’s inside is not at all what you expected based on the outside, since inside is nothing short of fantabulous. Not just because it’s a studio in the age of ProTools laptop setups and people recording overdubs in their apartments, but because it’d be nice even if it was just an auto shop. High ceilings, exposed brick, soft skylight filtered light and finally … a studio that looks like Battlestar Galactica. If you’re just a casual music listener and never give it much thought beyond the Play and Pause buttons, let us spell it out for you: Big studios are a dying breed. Even labels can’t float big budgets, people can record really cheaply and almost everything can be fixed post-production with apps. And yet 25th Street Recording exists. ”Our decision to do this was a lot deeper than any business decision or competitive analysis,” says studio manager John Schimpf. ”From kids at some of the local inner-city schools with lots of talent and nowhere to go, to the rich tradition of local music that we have here, we needed a resource that let wonderful artists be able to do what they do.” People need music, they needed a place like this to make music in and to build a scene to make art. Which is how the studio got started. It was birthed by Dave Lichtenstein, son of pop-art pioneer Roy and a quiet giant in his own right, from drumming for John Cale to getting a degree in electrical engineering and delving deep into software development. 25th Street Recording was under construction in 2010 when Lichtenstein ran into multi-Grammy-Award-winning producer Joe Chiccarelli at San Francisco’s AES show. “Dave was a big fan of Joe’s work, and having input from a great producer helped quite a bit,” Schimpf says. Especially if by “quite a bit” you mean a “whole hell of a lot.” The studio has great classic gear, Richard Serra originals hanging on the walls — “He was a family friend, and Dave fixed his computer once, and he paid him with a painting,” laughs Schimpf — and a steady stream of musical artists, both famous and not so much, from Sheila E to local folk heroes The Lady Crooners and whoever else the star producer clientele brings in. “It’s really central to our vision here,” Schimpf says. “People need music, they needed a place like this to make music in and to build a scene to make art, one of the richest resources in the world. So we’re glad to be able to give it.” Or to put a finer point on it, as Ruminator Audio chief and audio engineer Monte Vallier said while sitting in on a session, ”Studios are better places to make music than your apartment because it’s purpose-built for this. So that leaves ‘vibe,’ and the vibe here is really comfortable. And there are more professionals here to help than you’ll ever have at home. Unless you live in a great place like this.” Which we’re seriously considering. Eugene S. Robinson, Editor-at-Large Follow Eugene S. Robinson on Twitter Follow Eugene S. Robinson on Facebook Contact Eugene S. Robinson Your Next Vacation: Hand-Rearing Baby Penguins It’s an opportunity to make a real difference to the future of a species. 4 San Francisco Guilty Pleasures Adult dodgeball, Madonna, Julie Andrews and big-ass hats — this city knows how to do camp. The Future of Longboarding Is Foldable You ever want a longboard but didn’t want to be the ass toting around a longboard? To the rescue: a self-folding longboard. Too Hard-Core for Metallica? Here's a Magazine for Serious Metalheads If black T-shirts and sounds that could kick ass are your thing, how could you not love the black T-shirt and ass-kicking sound sacrament?. 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Cyndi Lauper: Timeless, Tireless From Grammys to Tonys, the singer-songwriter-activist has kept the ”unusual” movement going for 30 years. Shake Your Rumba In the far southeast of France, amid a mix of Spanish, French, Romany and Arabic cultures, there’s a sound that’s equal parts flamenco, afro-cubano music and American hip-hop. Letting the Freak Flag Fly In France, a local and an ex-pat have created the coolest, most unique international music festival around.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line2103
__label__cc	0.530099	0.469901	Sale 717: Comic Books (#717) 12/10/2020 11:00 AM PST CLOSED! View full catalog for Sale 717: Comic Books Lot 431 of 500: Set of 6 MARVEL POSTERS Sealed in Original Packaging * 1960s Marvel Posters: Set of Eight "Personality Posters" [Marvel Merchandise] Personality Posters Mid-to-Late 1960s Complete set of eight color posters, measuring 12x16⅕". Excellent condition, still sealed in the original clear plastic bag with illustrated cardstock header card. Eight posters of Marvel heroes: Captain America, Spider-Man, Thor, Hulk, Iron Man, Sub-Mariner, Doctor Strange, Human Torch. Sold through ads in old Marvel mags, circa mid-to-late 1960s. Very difficult to find still sealed in the original packaging with header card intact. The likenesses are redrawn from classic Marvel poses by an unknown commercial artist. The header card bears the inevitable "POW," "ZAP,' and '"SPLAT" that were the legacy of the 1966-68 "Batman" TV show. A limited edition of 100 softcover and 15 hardcover catalogues are available. Over 200 pages, fully illustrated. Fun reference, great keepsake. Softcovers $40, dust-jacketed hardcover with limitation plate $200. To order, contact [email protected] or visit: https://www.pbagalleries.com/content/comics/. R. Crumb says, "I found [PBA's catalogue] so interesting that I am saving it for the texts that accompany the comics which were put up for auction. This is some of the best commentary I’ve yet seen on the quality of the content of comic books. I especially enjoyed the reviews of the post-war horror comics. Great. Priceless." Consignments welcome for PBA's Spring 2021 Comic Book sale. Pre-Code Horror, Golden Age and Silver Age comics, original art and ephemera sought. Send inquiries to [email protected]. X-MEN No. 4 Lot of Ten DC Character Rings: Five Sterling Silver and Five Limited Edition Green Lantern Versions ZAP 12 Show Poster: Rotten to the Core. Signed by Seven Artists Including R. Crumb	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line2105
__label__wiki	0.984715	0.984715	PCMag editors select and review products independently. If you buy through affiliate links, we may earn commissions, which help support our testing. Learn more. 5 Reasons to Love and 5 Reasons to Hate the TWC, Comcast Deal Comcast wants to buy Time Warner Cable. Will it be a "pro-consumer" move or a huge nightmare? By Chloe Albanesius https://www.pcmag.com/news/5-reasons-to-love-and-5-reasons-to-hate-the-twc-comcast-deal Time Warner Cable and Comcast kicked off their Thursday by announcing a $45.2 billion merger. The press release is full of buzzwords and phrases like "synergy," "pro-consumer," "maximum value," and "leveraging a national platform." But what are they actually talking about? Naturally, Comcast chief Brian Roberts and TWC CEO Robert Marcus are super jazzed about the deal. Accelerated innovation! Comprehensive video experience! Industry-leading ... things. But this deal is not closing without a fight. Consumer groups are already up in arms. And Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Mike Lee, chair and ranking member of the Senate Judiciary antitrust subcommittee, promised "to hold a hearing to carefully scrutinize the details of this merger and its potential consequences for both consumers and competition." But what are both sides saying? Here's a quick rundown of what the Comcast/TWC camp believe will be some of the consumer benefits of the deal and why detractors think it's the Worst Thing Ever. 5 Reasons It's Awesome Broadband: Comcast talked up its broadband service, saying it has increased speeds 12 times over 12 years. In PCMag's most recent Fastest ISP tests, Verizon FiOS was the top U.S. provider, but it has a relatively small footprint and has no plans for growth. Comcast came in No. 3, while Time Warner Cable was at No. 10 in our tests. Net Neutrality Lives: As part of the 2011 Comcast-NBC Universal deal, Comcast agreed to abide by the FCC's net neutrality rules. Even though a court recently struck down those rules, Comcast is bound to follow them until at least 2018. Comcast's Roberts today declined to say if his company would extend that beyond 2018, but said purchasing Time Warner Cable effectively extends net neutrality rules to Time Warner Cable, making Comcast and TWC the only two ISPs to officially comply. Xfinity On-Demand for TWC: Comcast pointed to its library of 50,000 on-demand movies and TV shows, 300,000+ streaming choices on XfinityTV.com, Xfinity TV mobile apps that offer 35 live streaming channels and the ability to download to watch offline later, as well as its X1 cloud DVR. Time Warner Cable offers similar services, though its on-demand library currently sits at 18,000, according to its website. Start Over/Wi-Fi hotspots: As for what TWC brings to the table for users, Comcast highlighted TWC's StartOver, which allows customers to restart a live program from the beginning, and LookBack, which allows customers to watch programs up to three days after they air live, all without a DVR. Time Warner Cable will also combine its more than 30,000 hotspots, primarily in Los Angeles and New York City, and its in-home management system, IntelligentHome, with Comcast's offerings. No overlap: Competition? What competition? That's what Comcast and TWC had to say this morning, at least, arguing that the Comcast and TWC footprints do not overlap, so there's no problem, right? Right? Bueller? Forrester analyst James McQuivey argued that the move is necessary for Comcast and TWC to compete with the likes of Apple, Google, and Amazon. "The future belongs to the digital platforms, not the telcos, and by making this investment today, Comcast is signaling its intention to become one of those massive -- ultimately global -- companies like Microsoft or Facebook," he said. 5 Reasons It Will Destroy Us All Comcast Becomes the Gatekeeper: Comcast "is already the nation's largest ISP, the nation's largest video provider, and one of the nation's largest home phone providers," said John Bergmayer, a senior staff attorney with Public Knowledge. "It also controls a movie studio, broadcast network, and many popular cable channels. An enlarged Comcast would be the bully in the schoolyard, able to dictate terms to content creators, Internet companies, other communications networks that must interconnect with it, and distributors who must access its content." Higher Bills: Free Press President and CEO Craig Aaron argued that the transaction will lead to higher bills thanks to decreased competition, a common concern when two major firms merge, no matter the industry. Bergmayer agreed. "By raising the costs of its rivals and business partners, an enlarged Comcast would raise costs for consumers, who ultimately pay the bills," he said. Customer Service Nightmares: Cable companies are not known for their stellar customer service, whether it's technicians falling asleep at your house or failing to show up at all. As Business Insider notes, TWC didn't exactly knock it out of the park on a recent American Consumer Satisfaction Index, while Comcast's Internet service tied for the second-worst score among national companies. So Long Innovation: Though Comcast and TWC argue that a merged company is an innovative company, Bergmayer is skeptical. "It would be able to keep others from innovating, while facing little pressure to improve its own service. New equipment, new services, and new content would have to meet with its approval to stand any chance of succeeding," he said. Layoffs: Comcast and TWC declined to elaborate, but their release contains he dreaded "operating efficiencies" phrase, while there was talk of "duplicative areas" on today's media call. Naturally, there's going to be some crossover. 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__label__wiki	0.674021	0.674021	Back to Customer Story Resources Restaurants Working Towards Recovery: Cuisine by Claudette By Katie Tregurtha Frontline Foods We recently caught back up with Yarden Elkaïm-Flatow, general manager of Cuisine by Claudette, a local Queens favorite for healthy and delicious food. Like many local businesses, the restaurant had seen a pretty big downturn in March and April. “We’ve tried to make the best out of the current situation,” said Yarden. However, having pivoted operations earlier in the year to focus more on delivery and takeout, Cuisine by Claudette was ready to meet the increased demand of the summer months and since then, seen some recovery. The restaurant had also developed its own food ordering app, which helped it avoid the high transaction costs of major food delivery platforms. “We’re lucky,” said Yarden, who remains optimistic about the months ahead and proud to continue being a “local staple” in the Rockaways. In May, 2020, OnDeck highlighted the stories of customers who have adapted to COVID-19 and how Frontline Foods, a national non-profit organization, helped local restaurants like Cuisine by Claudette survive and keep their employees working. Continue reading below for the full story. Small businesses across the country are suffering due to the impact of COVID-19, and local restaurants are among the hardest hit. For OnDeck, our mission has always been to support and empower small business owners. That’s why we are proud to spread the word about Frontline Foods, a non-profit in partnership with Jose Andres’ World Central Kitchen that is fueling the fight against COVID-19. Frontline Foods is a grassroots organization that takes action during crises to provide food from local restaurants to frontline workers and impacted communities. The program helps restaurants keep their kitchens open and workers employed to prepare meals, while showing frontline workers that they appreciate and support them. One hundred percent of proceeds go directly to the restaurants participating. We recently spoke with the owner of Cuisine by Claudette, a restaurant operating in New York City and an OnDeck customer, on how they’ve adapted to COVID-19 and how Frontline Foods is helping them keep their employees working. Tell us about your background and the origin of your business. Cuisine by Claudette is an upscale deli and grocer with four different locations in Queens, NY. Claudette and her husband started the business in 2012, and brought their children into the business as well. According to Claudette’s son Yarden, Claudette’s cooking classes kicked off the original idea: “She would host 3 classes of about 10 people a week and would do the whole shebang. An appetizer, a main, and a dessert. Everybody would bring wine and liquor and it was like a mid-week party for everybody. After a couple of years, her students started telling her to open a restaurant. Once we opened Cuisine by Claudette, I started working there immediately (my brother joined a few years later). Today, we’re more of a fast-casual takeout and delivery restaurant. We’ve invested even more in takeout and delivery after restaurants were shut down during the pandemic.” How did you get involved in Frontline Foods? What led you to join the program? “We heard about Frontline Foods from two different contacts. First, a regular customer of ours happens to be involved in FLF, and she recommended we look into the program. Separately, a neighbor and friend of ours who manages a local brewery participates in the program and recommended we join.” Has your business benefitted from working with Frontline Foods? “Absolutely. The extra cash flow helps us keep our workers employed in this time of uncertainty. Plus, we find it really rewarding to help feed our local healthcare workers, many of whom are also regular customers outside of work.” Did you have to make changes to your existing business to work with Frontline Foods? “Very little. Fortunately, our business was already set up for bulk, individually packaged takeout food. We were already selling to-go meals, as well as meal kits. We didn’t have to change much. Beyond that, it’s been very easy and convenient to work with Frontline.” How are you thinking about the future of your business in light of COVID-19? Do you have long term plans to adapt to our new normal? “We’ve always tended towards encouraging people to deliver and take-out, and this has just strengthened that. We’re continuing to focus on those options and making food delivery and takeout as easy, streamlined, and convenient as possible for our customers.” What do you love about being a business owner? “Honestly, it’s a whole mix of things. Personally, I just love seeing projects come to fruition. It’s so rewarding to make a plan, set a goal, get people on board, work on it, and just realize one day that you’ve succeeded. At the same time, it’s like a catch-22 because the moment you meet one metric, a dozen new ones pop up and you’ve got your sight set on the next project. That’s the fun in all of it.” OnDeck is here to support small businesses – check out our COVID-19 Resource Hub for more helpful information for small businesses impacted by COVID-19. Next: 4 Ways to Manage Customer Expectations as you Reopen your Small Business Author Katie Tregurtha Katie leads Content Marketing at OnDeck. She's passionate about supporting and advocating for small businesses. Her first job was scooping ice cream at a family-owned sweet shop while in high school, where she learned firsthand how important small businesses are to their local communities. 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__label__wiki	0.928088	0.928088	Grade 12 student Spencer Hancock sits on the front desk of the Ballenas Secondary School office with principal Rudy Terpstra. Hancock is the school’s third winner of a prestigious Schulich Leader Scholarship in seven years — its second winner in two years. His award is for $100,000 to attend UVIc. — Adam Kveton Photo Third Ballenas student earns Schulich scholarship Spencer Hancock headed to UVic with $100,000 award Adam Kveton For the second time in two years, and the third time in seven, a Ballenas student has earned a Schulich Leader Scholarship worth tens of thousands of dollars. This year’s recipient is Spencer Hancock, a prolific volunteer and hard-working student who said it’s his competitive nature and a few key people in his life that have helped to lead him towards earning a $100,000 award toward a mechanical engineering degree at the University of Victoria. He also gives a lot of credit to the educators at Ballenas. “Our school plays a pretty big role,” he said. While good grades and participation in a very wide variety of clubs and extracurricular activities may be what Hancock is known for now, he said he hasn’t always been the overachiever he is today. But he has always been highly competitive. “This year, I was given the opportunity to help build a 10×23-cm cube satellite, compete in an international rocket competition, write several math competitions, go to provincials in a French speech competition, and much more,” he said. The “much more” includes taking part in and being chosen as Best Delegate at two model UNs, being a leader for local initiatives with the school’s Interact Club, being a member of the jazz band, concert band and concert choir, and taking many pies to the face as a fundraiser at a recent spring carnival. He credits much of that participation to knowing people who happen to be in those clubs or who run them, and being open to trying out new things. The drive to get good grades came from his Grade 8 French Immersion teacher, Sophie Preston. “I owe her all of my motivation, because she really inspired us in French Immersion to excel,” said Hancock. She had high expectations and gave plenty of homework, but would go above and beyond herself, teaching Hancock Latin when he showed an interest in languages. With a lot of hard work, Hancock said he got reasonable grades that year (a feat as Preston is notoriously difficult to please, he said) and kept up that work ethic. Going on a variety of exchanges to places such as Quebec and France (arranged with the help of his mom), and then participating in SD69’s Rivers, Oceans, and Mountain School (an outdoor leadership program which focuses on career preparation, work experience, adventure education and community leadership) in Grade 11 were other important points in Hancock’s school career, he said. “When I came back from ROAMS, I really drove myself to do well,” he said, and began aiming for scholarships. A Schulich Leader Scholarship was perhaps one of the more remote possibilities, but one that he pursued nonetheless with a nomination from Ballenas counsellor Gregory Meredith. Finding out on April 12 he’d won the scholarship to UVic was a thrill, both personally and for the school, he said. “I freaked out a little bit and gave Mr. Meredith a big old hug,” said Hancock. “We were all pretty excited, I think. Two in a row is exciting… and three total,” he said, some of that competitive streak showing through. Those previous winners are Gibson Clark in 2017 and Kyle Wamer in 2012. Hancock noted that much of his learning is due to taking advantage of what is made available through his school, and the passion of teachers. “The award shows how students in a public school are provided a rich variety of learning opportunities,” said Ballenas principal Rudy Terpstra. “While the award does consider academic merit, it is the leadership and learning opportunities that make this award that much more prestigious… (Clark and Hancock) have gone well beyond just top grades: they have taken advantage of all the learning and leadership opportunities available to them through the school, the community and beyond.” “We’re not the most privileged school by any means,” noted Hancock. “But the teachers here wouldn’t let you know that… except the track and field teachers. They complain constantly about our track… give our track more funding!” For others pursuing lofty scholarship goals, or seeking to have a better high school experience in general, Hancock said everyone’s educational emphasis is different, but suggested getting involved in clubs and leadership groups to get a broad spectrum of experience. Clearly, that will remain a focus of his. Hancock said he plans to work as a junior wildfire fighter with the Errington fire base this summer. Stolen golden eagle not worth $7M B.C. model in running to appear on Maxim cover	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line2116
__label__wiki	0.825842	0.825842	‘Gain first-hand experience from Odisha’s robust sports ecosystem’ Bhubaneswar, Nov 30: XEBS Ahluwalia Centre of Excellence in Sports Management, Bhubaneswar, the first and only such Indo-French collaboration in the country and a High-Performance Centre of the Department of Sports and Youth Services, Government of Odisha, on Monday rolled out its second Certificate Program in Sports Management. Unveiling the course in a virtual event, Minister for Sports and Youth Services, Government of Odisha Tusharkanti Behera extended a warm welcome to the students. “I welcome you to learn and experience sports and its different dimensions through the thriving sports landscape in Odisha, that has over the recent years, emerged to be the Sports Hub of the country and a name to reckon with in the global sports fraternity, for its unique initiatives,” said Mr Behera. He urged the students to gain first-hand experience of Odisha’s robust sports ecosystem. The Certificate Program will offer a crucial mix of economics of sport, marketing management, IT, data analysis, e-sport, CSR, sponsorship strategies and legal as well as ethics of sports through its seven modules. Xavier Emlyon Business School (XEBS) is a unique collaboration between two academic leaders from India and France, Xavier University, Bhubaneswar and emlyon business school. For Certificate Program in Sports Management, it has brought in the best of international and Indian faculty and industry experts to make the program engaging and enriching through its teaching, mentoring and webinars spread across seven modules. The program has received overwhelming response from candidates from all across the country. With 35 students, the batch comprises eminent sportspersons, coaches, entrepreneurs, professionals and sports enthusiasts from all across the country, starting from Nagaland to Tamil Nadu. International sportspersons such as cricketers Rudra Pratap Singh, Piyush Chawla, hockey player Rashanpreet Kaur, Odisha’s very own shuttler Rutuparna Panda, CEO of Gokulam Kerala FC Dr B Ashok Kumar, Vice President of Table Tennis Federation of India Rabindra Parida, sports and travel writer Rajesh Mishra, noted sports consultant Karthik Yanamadra and former national swimmer and Head Coach at JSW Sports-Swimming HPC Sharath Chandra Bellave, former football coach, Indian National team Indranil Chakraborty, Manager, Tata Steel Adventure Foundation Varun Sharma are among the few names that would form the classroom of XEBS’ Second Certificate Program. Addressing the occasion, President of Indian Olympic Association and International Hockey Federation and member IOC, Dr Narinder Dhruv Batra complimented XEBS Ahluwalia Centre of Excellence in Sports Management for an impressive draw of students for the second batch in the midst of a pandemic year. Emphasising the importance of Sports Management as an academic program, Dr Batra lauded Odisha Government for promotion of sports and hoped students would get the chance to tap into the wealth of opportunities it would offer in the years to come. In her speech, Consul General of France in Calcutta, Mrs. Virginie Corteval greeted the students and wished them an engaging learning experience during the program period. Shri Vishal Kumar Dev, Commissioner-cum-Secretary, Sports and Youth Services Department, Government of Odisha, said the different facets of State’s sports sector form a model and has earned wide recognition, set benchmark for others to emulate and will offer apt case studies that will enhance and enrich learnings at this program. “Some amongst you may have already experienced the sports phenomenon in the State and can share their learnings and add to exchange of ideas amongst peers,” he added. In his address, Chairman XEBS Ashley Fernandes, the 2nd Certificate Program, keeping with the early maker spirit of emlyon business school, is part of the quest to bring globally recognized academic program in sports management to India in the heart of its new sports hub: Odisha. He also announced that XEBS Ahluwalia Centre of Excellence in Sports Management has set in motion the launch of its Degree Program in India in 2021 which will offer students an international curriculum & faculty; and it will provide them with learning by doing pedagogy, industry exposure and multi-campus experience.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line2119
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Hello, and welcome to a new addition of Powerful Insights from Protiviti. This is Kevin Donahue, a senior director with our marketing group, and I’m pleased to be joined today by Tom Lemon, Protiviti managing director with our Technology Consulting group. Tom and I are going to be chatting a little bit today about the new General Data Protection Regulation, which has just gone into effect in the European Union. Tom, thanks for joining me today. So, Tom, we’ll dive into a couple specific topics in a minute, but first, give me your take on this new regulation in terms of what it is and, more important, its impact on companies that are operating in the European Union. Sure. It’s really a step change in the rights that individuals have in Europe around the personal data that they own, and companies are having to react to that. We’re working with a lot of organisations in the UK and Europe who have joined to respond to the GDPR to achieve clients. At this stage, now that we’ve passed the effective date of May 25, it’s really about establishing a defensible position. A lot of companies are still recognising that they have work to do to achieve compliance, and they’re trying to prioritise how they would tell the story to the authorities, should they come knocking around, the position that they got to – what they might have left to do in order to show that they are taking data protection of personal information very seriously. Tom, what are some of the most frequent questions you’re getting from clients and companies right now with regard to GDPR? One of the most common questions is, “We’re not complying. What do we need to do right now to achieve that defensible position?” which I referred to earlier. One of the things that we encourage our clients to really focus on initially, if they are in an early stage of their compliance journey, is establishing a really robust record of processing activities through a data-mapping exercise. The reason we do that is because one of the first things that the authorities would be asking for if they do come knocking is, “Show me your record of processing.” It is a mandatory artifact that the GDPR requires, and it really forms the foundation of everything that an organisation should be doing in order to protect the personal data that they process. It’s all about knowing your data, knowing the personal data-processing activities that an organisation holds. If you can’t achieve that, then you’re going to be struggling to demonstrate that you’re protecting that information effectively enough. That is a very common question. It’s a common area focused still at this stage of the compliance journey, and it is something that we’re working with companies on a lot at the moment. Now, Tom, speaking of understanding and managing your data as a company, there’s this whole realm in that space around cross-border data transfers. First off, what exactly does that mean? Sure. In simple terms, the GDPR mandates that organisations can transfer personal data only to another jurisdiction that has either been deemed adequate by the European Commission itself or that is using an adequate and legally effective data-transfer mechanism to do that. Really, it’s all about just making sure that the jurisdiction and the company that that data is being transferred to will have the same level of protection measures that are required of companies that are in the EU itself. Is this an area, in your opinion, that organisations already are prepared for, or is this what I would call a key area of growth and development that’s going to be needed quickly? It can get quite complex. If your organisation is based in Europe, and really there, transferring information around Europe, it’s not an issue. Any data transfers within the European Union itself, even if they are crossing between other European countries, they don’t require any particular action, because the entirety of UK comes under the GDPR. It’s when you start to need to transfer data outside of the European Union that it gets more complex. Those data transfers could be within your own company. If you think about the global organisation, typically, that would be based in many jurisdictions across the world from the EU and some outside. For those companies that are transferring data around their own group, they still need to go through the process of putting in place legally effective data-transfer mechanisms to ensure the right safeguards are in place around the personal data that they’re transferring within their company. The same applies when you’re working with third parties. A very common example nowadays is that a lot of people will use a cloud provider to support some of the processing activities in their business operations, and that cloud provider could have infrastructure in multiple jurisdictions across the world. Companies need to, when they’re using third parties like this to support some of the data-processing activities, make sure that appropriate safeguards and legally enforceable safeguards that are aligned to the GDPR requirements are based into the contractual arrangements that they have with those organisations. Tom, let me ask you one more question about this. What are some of the specific cross-border data-transfer mechanisms that GDPR allows? Sure. I’ll list a couple of options that companies can take into consideration. First, that there are some countries outside of the European Union that have been deemed adequate by the European Commission. These are countries and other political entities like Guernsey, the Isle of Man, Israel, Jersey, New Zealand, Switzerland, Uruguay, Andorra, Argentina and, to some degree, Canada as well, specific to commercial organisations in Canada. When data is being transferred to those jurisdictions, there’s nothing else that companies need to do, because the European Commission has deemed that there’s an adequate level of data protection that’s enforceable that’s equivalent to the GDPR in those countries. In the US, I’m sure many people that are listening to this podcast are familiar with the Privacy Shield Framework. The Privacy Shield Framework allows organisations to basically self-certify to the U.S. Department of Commerce, which, in a sense, is a public commitment that they will put in place a level of protection measures equivalent to that the GDPR. Once again, those companies that have aligned themselves to the Privacy Shield Framework are allowed to transfer data outside of the E.U. into the U.S. There are other mechanisms as well. For example, if you’re working with other third parties or, indeed, if you’re putting in place contracts with your own legal entities outside of Europe, a very common mechanism that you use is what’s known as model clause contracts, which are essentially a set of contract clauses that the European Commission has endorsed. That allows for equivalent protection measures within a company or with third parties that a company is doing business with. Once again, if that legal framework is put in place, then that allows for data to be transferred outside of the European Union as well. The various others – this is an area where companies would typically take – I would encourage them to take legal advice, but there are a couple of other options for considerations as well. Hopefully, that gives yourself and the listeners a sense of the options that are available to them when they’re thinking about cross-border data transfer. Tom, I want to thank you very much for joining me today to discuss some of the many aspects of the General Data Protection Regulation. I want to inform those of our audience who are interested that Protiviti in partnership with Baker McKenzie and Robert Half, which have produced a comprehensive resource guide on GDPR. This, and other information, is available on our website, specifically at protiviti.com/GDPR. SUBSCRIBE TO PODCASTS: Find an office near you ©2021 Protiviti Inc. All Rights Reserved. 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__label__wiki	0.986275	0.986275	Right to Information Act,Indian Constitution - 03 Indian Constitution No comments 1. Central Information Commission was came into force on ? 2. The Right to Informmation is associated with which fundamental right ? 3. Right to Information Act was passed on ? 4. Right to Information Act came into force on ? 5. The first country to pass Right to Information Act was ? 6. The first State in India to pass RTI Act ? 7. The organisation which was struggled for the demand for the RTI Act in India ? 8. The RTI Act is applicable to all States except ? 9. The founder of Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan in Rajastan ? 10. The application fee for getting Information under Right to Information Act was ? 11. To get an information, An application should be given to ? 12. In normal case applicant can obtain information within __ days ? 13. In a matter of Life or Liberty of a person applicant can obtain information within __ hours ? 14. The first appeal should be filed with in ___ days from the decision of the PIO ? 15. The second appeal should be filed with in ___ days from the decision of the PIO ? 16. Head Quarters of Central Information Commission is situated at ? 17. Term of the Central Chief Information Commissioner ? 18. The first Central Chief Information Commissioner of India ? 19. The Second Central Chief Information Commissioner of India ? 20. The first woman Central Chief Information Commissioner of India ? 21. The Second woman Central Chief Information Commissioner of India ? 23. Main Organisations Exempted from RTI Act are ? 24. The Central Chief Information Commissioner and Commissioners are appointed on the recommendation of a committee, the committee consisting of ? 25. 25. The Central Chief Information Commissioner and other Central Information Commissioners to be appointed by ? 26. Kerala State Information Commission has been constituted by under section __ of the RTI Act ? 27. Kerala State Information Commission was formed on ? 28. The State Chief Information Commissioner and other State Information Commissioners to be appointed by ? 29. The first Chief Information Commissioner of Kerala ? 30. The Present Chief Information Commissioner of Kerala ?	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line2131
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Victorville - Urgent Care 12550 Hesperia Rd., Suite 100 (Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day) Wed., Nov. 25: 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.; Thu., Nov. 26: 8 a.m. - 8 p.m.; Fri., Nov. 27: 9 a.m. - 9 p.m. Thu., Dec. 24: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m., Fri., Dec. 25: 12 - 4 p.m. Tue., Dec. 29: 9 a.m. - 9 p.m., Wed., Dec. 30: 9 a.m. - 9 p.m., Thu., Dec. 31: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m., Fri., Jan. 1: 12 - 4 p.m. Fullerton - Urgent Care 2251 N. Harbor Blvd., Open daily including weekends: 9 a.m. - 9 p.m. Note: Beginning Friday, December 11, this urgent care location is only serving patients with COVID-19 symptoms. For non-COVID-19 urgent care needs, please visit our Orange location. Windsor - Urgent Care 6580 Hembree Ln., Suite 270 Petaluma - After Hours Care 905 E. Washington Street,  Due to the events of the Kincade fire, many of our primary care and specialty clinics in Sonoma, Mendocino and Lake Countries will be closed on Wednesday, October 30. We will work to reschedule all appointments and appreciate your patience. 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__label__cc	0.685708	0.314292	Battambang: Cliffs, Caves and Homestays We had a quick breakfast and checked out of the hotel at 6.30am. Luckily there weren’t too many questions about our destination, unlike those we got last night from the night manager, who pegged to the fact that the bus to Battambang didn’t leave from the supermarket! We were dropped off by a driver, got some money from an ATM, and met by reliable Chheab. He first dropped us at Angkor Wat for a last look around the incredible monument. There was no queue to speak of this time, so I zipped back up to the top level for a last look from the summit. It was a bit over 3 hours to Battambang. A drive along back roads, then a stretch of a new highway still under construction (by a Japanese company) which was pretty bumpy, rough and dusty. In between chatting to Chheab, both of us dozed some of the way. Battambang city is a busy little metropolis. After some confusion we organised to meet our new host at the bus station, and Chheab dropped us off; we’ll meet him again the day after tomorrow for the trip back, and in the meantime he’s staying with some friends. Eventually we were picked up by Saro, a very nice, laid back guy at whose homestay (called the Family Bat Cave) we were staying. He had an English couple with him, and he drove them to the ‘bamboo railway’, a place where locals used to use simple flatbed carts on the old railway tracks before motorcycles became common, and now sell the experience of riding on them to tourists. As the couple did that for an hour, Carol and Saro and I sat in a shed, had some lunch of rice, soup with chicken, bamboo shoots and fish, and chatted. He told us the story of how when he was a tuk tuk driver, a female traveller who had recently broken up with her partner pretty much forced herself to stay with his family (“I was scared” he said), and then encouraged and supported this whole idea of him starting a homestay operation. Amazing story. It was really nice to sit in this local shed in the Cambodian countryside, drinking out of a big coconut and swapping stories. I love seeing incredible archaeological sites, but there’s something special about sitting around chatting with locals. The English couple returned, and we headed for Saro’s house, where he lives with his wife, two kids, and extended family. We have a little room above the outdoor kitchen and right next to Saro and his wife’s room—the mosquito net will be essential tonight! After a brief rest, we and the English couple climbed up on the back of a 4WD truck and we were driven to nearby Phnom Sampeau, a huge limestone outcropping on the plain, in the side of which is the famous bat cave. And next to the bat cave (a giant vertical opening in the cliff face) scaffolding and sheets covered where people were carving a monumental Buddha out of the cliff; only his finished head peeped over the top of the scaffolding. Not sure how the bats feel about that! We drove the steep road to the summit, stopping first at a Buddhist temple, built in 1964 and used by the Khmer Rouge as a prison. Nearby was the ‘killing cave’, where 10,000 Cambodians were bludgeoned to death and thrown into the darkness. A very grim place indeed. At the top were several Buddhist temples, a very surreal small, smoky gorge where there were several gold Buddhas, a very large reclining Buddha in a building, creepy little caves, and skittering monkeys. There was an incredible view over the countryside at the very top of the hill. I bought a Coke can and set it down briefly to take a photo, and a monkey grabbed the can, ran a few steps away, tipped it over and lapped up the Coke. I felt very guilty seeing him drink that sugary muck! The whole place was quite weird and had a strange atmosphere; a few travellers milled about, temple music played, monks sat in front of shrines; litter was everywhere. Back down the mountain and we took a table at a rooftop bar across the road from the huge vertical gash of the cave. I had a beer, and at about 5.30pm millions of tiny bats began pouring out of the cave mouth and streaming across the sunset sky in a twisting horizontal column, looking like a 3D particle simulation. The bats were still flying out of the cave when we left half an hour later. Back to Saro’s place. The English couple left for Siem Reap, and we had dinner with Sao, his wife, and another couple Ronan and Brea, very nice and switched on young travellers from Denver, Colorado who both work in the not-for-profit sphere. It was really refreshing to meet such intelligent, socially aware young Americans. We talked about subjects covering indigenous peoples in NZ, Australia, and America, the effects of colonisation in general, India and the East India Company, and politics in general. There was a brief rainstorm before we went to bed, but it only increased the humidity. We went to bed in our little hand-built room, under a mosquito net, and thankfully also under a roof fan; sweaty and covered in sun lotion and DDT spray. A slightly restless night but not too bad. Tags: Battambang Battambang: Bicycling and Walking Angkor Thom, Ta Nei, Ta Keo, Pre Rup sunset	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line2138
__label__cc	0.697628	0.302372	Nortel Networks Takes Majority Ownershipin German, French Joint Ventures LONDON, Apr. 3 -- Nortel Networks has increased its ownership in Nortel Dasa Network Systems GmbH and Co. KG (Nortel Dasa), its German joint venture with DaimlerChrysler Aerospace, and in Matra Nortel Communications SAS (MNC), its joint venture with France's Aerospatiale Matra. Nortel Networks said it would increase its 50-percent ownership in both Nortel Dasa and MNC to 58 percent and 55 percent, respectively. Our increased ownership in Nortel Dasa and MNC underpins Nortel Networks' commitment to delivering high-performance Internet capabilities to carriers, service providers and enterprises across Europe, said Clarence Chandran, president of Nortel Networks' Service Provider and Carrier Group. We are a global leader in the optical, wireless and IP markets and will seek to expand this through our increased ownership in Germany and France -- countries that are experiencing unprecedented demand for the best-of-breed high-performance Internet solutions that Nortel Networks delivers. CommunicationsNews & Features The ability to post comments on Photonics.com is one benefit of a FREE Photonics.com membership. Please login or register, for FREE, to post comments: PHOTONICS MARKETPLACE Search more than 4000 manufacturers and suppliers of photonics products and services worldwide: Infrared Imaging Systems Optical Pellicles Optiforms Inc. Rocky Mountain Instrument Co. (RMI) Airy Optics Inc. A broad resource on optic and photonic technologies in defense and aerospace “When it... x We deliver – right to your inbox. Subscribe FREE to our newsletters.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line2142
__label__cc	0.635808	0.364192	Poperinge to Brussels by train © Ron Sumners Travelling from Poperinge to Brussels by train Fast trains from Poperinge to Brussels take around 1 hour and 52 minutes, covering a distance of approximately 112 kilometres. There are frequent services on the rail route between Poperinge and Brussels. 1. Are there direct trains from Poperinge to Brussels? Journeys between Poperinge and Brussels usually involve one change of train. We usually find around 13 departures on the route from Poperinge to Brussels every weekday that leave enough time to change trains without waiting around for longer than necessary. 2. How long is the train journey from Poperinge to Brussels? The Poperinge to Brussels train travel time is normally about 1 hour and 52 minutes, whatever time you make the journey. 3. What are the Poperinge to Brussels train times and schedule? On weekdays the earliest train to Brussels is usually scheduled to depart Poperinge around 04:08 and the last train is around 22:08. At weekends the first train of the day leaves Poperinge around 05:08, and the last at 22:08. When to book Poperinge to Brussels train tickets? Trains in Belgium usually open for booking around 3 months in advance. If booking is not yet open for your dates then you can set a booking alert to receive an email on the day that the cheapest tickets are released for your journey from Poperinge to Brussels by train. Which train companies operate between Poperinge and Brussels? More than one train company operates on the route from Poperinge to Brussels, so you’ll be travelling with one or more of the following rail operators: Regional Commuter Train Brussels to Poperinge by train Other journeys to Brussels View all journeys to Brussels From Amsterdam From $33.25 From Birmingham From $77.35 From Edinburgh (Waverley, city centre) From $141.14 From Cologne From $19.00 From Rotterdam From $22.39 From Marseille From $132.99 From Hamburg From $50.89 Blog posts featuring Poperinge or Brussels Cycling trails in the Netherlands Cycling around Amsterdam is one of those things you just have to do as a visitor. However, there are so many quieter cycling trails to discover in the Netherlands, all of which are accessible by train.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line2146
__label__wiki	0.991265	0.991265	School district forced to cut routes, change start times due to shortage of bus drivers By Tatevik Aprikyan KIRKLAND, Wash. -- A national school bus driver shortage is affecting local districts in Western Washington. The Lake Washington School District says they’ve had last-minute bus driver resignations just before school started and they’ve had to cut routes and change start times to preschools. Parents who have children in preschool say they’ve been left scrambling to make changes to routines that were planned out months in advance. Bus shortage affects families Jumping on the trampoline with her family, stay at home mom Carissa Robinson says it’s moments like this that are a break from her days. “We do about 60 miles a day to get him where he needs to be,” Robinson says of her 4-year-old son, Caleb, who has a rare genetic disorder and autism requiring hours of daily therapy. “He’s non-verbal, he’s tube-fed, he’s so, so fun to be around but he requires a lot of help and assistance,” said Robinson. She says on August 23, just three weeks before the September 14 start to preschool in the Lake Washington School District, she received an email stating preschool times have been pushed back by 90 minutes because of a school bus driver shortage. “It went from starting at 8:30 a.m. to starting at 10 a.m. and not getting out until 12:30 p.m.,” said Robinson. She says the 90-minute shift for her son’s therapy schedule "rocks our whole reality.” Robinson says the change has impacted her fall schedule that has been filled with critical appointments for Caleb. “We have the big bones of it worked out but we had to drop three therapists that we’ve seen for years,” says Robinson. Robinson says she understands the district’s problem but feels frustrated with such late communication about preschool that is critical for her child. “He loves school and we have the most phenomenal teachers, and it’s what’s heartbreaking about this, he’s grown tremendously in the last year he’s been in this program, but this left us making a choice of private therapy or sending him to school,” said Robinson. “We’re having to fight for something that I think in their eyes was the lesser of evils to impact,” said Robinson. Beth Pendergrass with the Lake Washington School District says it was not an easy decision. “It wasn’t something anyone took lightly, or anyone wanted to do, it had to be done,” said Pendergrass. She says this year’s bus driver shortage is the worst they’ve seen, and that not only did it affect start times but the ripple effect meant the district had to cut bus routes from 101 to 87. Pendergrass says a better economy makes recruiting drivers tougher and last-minute resignations created a dire situation. “Those last-minute resignations, you get to that point that there are no other options. It wasn’t about waiting for the end of the summer, it was literally about that emergency situation that people are resigning at that last minute and you can’t fill those positions, we need to transport students that qualify for bus transportation,” said Pendergrass. Robinson says she doesn’t know what the solution is, but better communication is a good place to start. “It just would’ve given us some heads-up to retain therapist that built up years of rapport with our kids,” said Robinson. The Lake Washington School District says they’ve heard from frustrated parents and advise that parents should contact the special services department to work with the district on each family’s needs to accommodate changes in start times. The district is also still hiring for those open bus driver positions. FBI worries of insider attack at Inauguration, vets Guard troops	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line2152
__label__cc	0.662979	0.337021	[kw-ah’sh] verb. To discover the best people in a challenging landscape. Executive Search is the process you use when you reach out to target specific individuals as potential recruits for your organisation. Search differs from other forms of recruitment in that you have no idea whether the individual knows your organisation or if they might consider making a career move. So you have to do your research, identify your targets and then make your approach. Our Executive Search team trained with some of the biggest names in search, and we’ve taken the best bits to develop our service. Executive Search isn’t easy. You need to conduct original research covering as much ground as you can, and then to make approaches to individuals with limited insight into their interest in your position. That’s why some providers fall back on databases and job boards. It’s easier, but you are limiting your search to the low hanging fruit. From our understanding of the client and the informative brief that we prepare to the individual approaches that we make and the regular reports that we send our clients, it’s our thoroughness and our time-served experience that allow us to deliver a strong shortlist on every assignment. We pursue clear targets and use our imagination to find a few wild cards. Every week, you have a progress report, and we’ll talk about our findings from the market. By the time you receive the shortlist, you’ll feel as though you’ve been part of the research phase. Do it properly, do it well. No surprises. Just great Search. Did you know that the industry standard for search is 40% of roles aren't filled? I have met few, if any, businesses in the recruitment space that I would consider using, let alone recommending. Quarsh are the exception. If you are considering ‘head hunting’ or a senior level recruitment campaign these guys are the best. Executive Chairman, Paragon Electronic Components Ltd/JJS Manufacturing We believe in intelligent Executive Search. To us, this means that the people you bring in make a difference to your business. Two years on, 94% of our appointees have either been promoted or are still in role; they add new revenue streams, move your strategy forward, bring in new practices that change how you do things for the better. That's why we tend to work with companies who need support in defining what they need, and why we're valued as strategic partners who move your thinking forward. Taking a brief and executing it is part of the picture, contributing to your business is what excites us. At Quarsh we have a true vision to be the best HR and staffing solutions provider available, which is why we won't just meet your needs, we'll exceed them. Meet The Quarsh Team At Quarsh, we're proud to be generalist headhunters, although we all have our own areas that we enjoy more than others. As generalists, each search is approached afresh, with you as our partner. We don't make assumptions or rely on our little black books. This means that you get the most current information about competitors in your sector, and we'll know where you can look to find transferable skills. Lucy James Co-Founder & Managing Director Jason Collings Executive Search Director Lucy James has been a headhunter since 2005. Over her search career, she has handled appointments across almost all disciplines, at all levels, and for businesses as diverse as beauty and cosmetics, financial services, aerospace and security technology. She handles Foundry Director roles with as much pleasure as Product Directors for luxury cosmetics. A Midlander born and bred, Lucy's heart lies in manufacturing, and she loves a good factory. Lucy trained as a headhunter with Norman Broadbent, then set up a boutique search firm before establishing Quarsh in 2010. "I love getting to the heart of how someone has made a strategic impact and watching people light up when they talk about things that excite them. It's a great indicator of how they'll make a difference." Jason started his career in management consulting before focusing on HR and search. He has been an MD/Chief Exec of a number of major UK and international executive search firms including Korn/Ferry, Norman Broadbent and Penna Group. He has well over twenty year's experience in the industry and has worked in pretty much every industry there is, from pharmaceutical to technology, fashion to security services. Regardless of industry good recruitment always demands a commitment to best practice process and the best possible solution for the client. That was the essence of Quarsh when Jason and Lucy founded it and remains it today. "Having worked for some of the 'biggest and best' in the industry I knew it could be done better: better for client, candidate and ultimately for us. How do we do this better is always our first question, and the results speak for themselves." Adrian Hill has been a headhunter for almost thirty years. In that time he has managed assignments across just about all executive functions and many sectors, including power, oil & gas, telecoms, electronics, manufacturing and government. He has also worked for both huge corporations (such as BT, Rolls-Royce and GE/Alstom) and VC-funded micro businesses. The key to the hires that he has made across five continents are the steps that we take to understand the candidate profile and identify the few critical points that will guide our selection decisions. Then we diligently apply our candidate generation process using a mix of technology tools and human experience to build and engage with a pool of potential candidates. The other thing that we strive to get right - and which our clients tell us we do - is to communicate regularly with you. 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__label__wiki	0.804085	0.804085	Graphic video of suicide spreads from Facebook to TikTok to YouTube as platforms fail moderation test Adiantku September 14, 2020 6 min read A graphic video of a man committing suicide on Facebook Live has spread from there... A graphic video of a man committing suicide on Facebook Live has spread from there to TikTok, Twitter, Instagram and now YouTube, where it ran alongside ads and attracted thousands more views. Do what they will, these platforms can’t seem to stop the spread, echoing past failures to block violent acts and disinformation. The original video was posted to Facebook two weeks ago and has made its way onto all the major video platforms, often beginning with innocuous footage then cutting to the man’s death. These techniques go back many years in the practice of evading automatic moderation; By the time people have flagged the video manually, the original goal of exposing unwitting viewers to it will have been accomplished. It’s similar in many ways to the way in which COVID-19 disinformation motherlode Plandemic spread and wreaked havoc despite these platforms deploying their ostensibly significant moderating resources towards preventing that. Platforms scramble as ‘Plandemic’ conspiracy video spreads misinformation like wildfire For all the platforms’ talk of advanced algorithms and instant removal of rule-violating content, these events seem to show them failing when they count the most: In extremity. The video of Ronnie McNutt’s suicide originated on August 31, and took nearly three hours to take down in the first place, by which time it had been seen and downloaded by innumerable people. How could something so graphic and plainly violating the platform’s standards, being actively flagged by users, be allowed to stay up for so long? In a “community standards enforcement report” issued Friday, Facebook admitted that its army of (contractor) human reviewers, whose thankless job it is to review violent and sexual content all day, had been partly disabled due to the pandemic. With fewer content reviewers, we took action on fewer pieces of content on both Facebook and Instagram for suicide and self-injury, and child nudity and sexual exploitation on Instagram. The number of appeals is also much lower in this report because we couldn’t always offer them. We let people know about this and if they felt we made a mistake, we still gave people the option to tell us they disagreed with our decision. McNutt’s friend and podcast co-host Josh Steen told TechCrunch that the stream had been flagged long before he killed himself. “I firmly believe, because I knew him and how these interactions worked, had the stream ended it would’ve diverted his attention enough for SOME kind of intervention,” Steen wrote in an email. “It’s pure speculation, but I think if they’d have cut his stream off he wouldn’t have ended his life.” When I asked Facebook about this, I received the same statement others have: “We are reviewing how we could have taken down the livestream faster.” One certainly hopes so. But Facebook cannot contain the spread of videos like this — and the various shootings and suicides that have occurred on its Live platform in the past — once they’re out there. At the same time, it’s difficult to imagine how other platforms are caught flat-footed: TikTok had the video queued up in users’ “For You” page, exposing countless people by an act of algorithmic irresponsibility. Surely even if it’s not possible to keep the content off the service entirely, there ought to be something preventing it from being actively recommended to people. TikTok is trying to remove a disturbing video showing up on people’s For You pages YouTube is another, later offender: Steen and others have captured many cases of the video being run by monetized accounts. He sent screenshots and video showing ads from Squarespace and the Motley Fool running ahead of the video of McNutt. It’s disappointing that the largest video platforms on the planet, which seem to never cease crowing about their prowess in shutting down this kind of content, don’t seem to have any serious response. TikTok, for instance, bans any account that makes multiple attempts to upload the clip. What’s the point of giving people a second or third chance here? Facebook couldn’t seem to decide whether the content is in violation or not, as evidenced by several re-uploads of the content in various forms that were not taken down when flagged. Perhaps these are just the ones slipping through the cracks, while thousands more are nipped in the bud, but why should we give a company like Facebook, which commands billions of dollars and tens of thousands of employees, the benefit of the doubt when they fail for the nth time on something so important? “Facebook went on record in early August saying they were returning back to normal moderation rates, but that their AI tech actually had been improved during the COVID slow downs,” Steen said. “So why’d they totally blow their response to the livestream and the response time after?” “We know from the Christchurch Live incident that they have the ability to tell us a couple of things that really need to be divulged at this point because of the viral spread: how many people in total viewed the livestream and how many times was it shared, and how many people viewed the video and how many times was it shared? To me these stats are important because it shows the impact that the video had in real time. That data will also confirm, I think, where the viewships spiked in the livestream,” he continued. On Twitter and Instagram, entire accounts have popped up just to upload the video, or impersonate McNutt using various transformations of his username. Some even add “suicide” or “dead” or the like to the name. These are accounts created with the singular intent of violating the rules. Where are the fake and bot activity precautions? Videos of the suicide have appeared on YouTube and are indifferently taken down. Others simply use McNutt’s image or the earlier parts of his stream to attract viewers. Steen and others who knew McNutt have been reporting these regularly, with mixed success. Yes, @YouTube is still allowing videos of Ronnie to be uploaded, and some now feature ads. Profiting from tragedy. We reached out to @TeamYouTube for help in removing this content, and 8 hours later we are still waiting on answers. It's time for reform. #ReformForRonnie pic.twitter.com/pgml1UXX10 — JustUs Geeks #ReformForRonnie (@JustUsGeeks) September 11, 2020 One channel I saw had pulled in more than half a million views by leveraging McNutt’s suicide, originally posting the live video (with preroll ad) and then using his face to perhaps attract morbid users. When I pointed these out to YouTube, they demonetized them and removed the one shown above — though Steen and his friends had reported it days ago. I can’t help but feel that the next time this happens — or more likely, elsewhere on the platform where it is happening right now — there will be less or no accountability because there are no press outlets making a fuss. The focus from these platforms is on invisible suppression of the content and retention of users and activity; if stringent measures reduce those all-important metrics, they won’t be taken, as we’ve seen on other social media platforms. But as this situation and others before it demonstrate, there seems to be something fundamentally lacking from the way this service is provided and monitored. Obviously it can be of enormous benefit, as a tool to report current events and so on, but it can be and has been used to stream horrific acts and for other forms of abuse. “These companies still aren’t fully cooperating and still aren’t really being honest,” said Steen. “This is exactly why I created #ReformForRonnie because we kept seeing over and over and over again that their reporting systems did nothing. Unless something changes it is just going to keep happening.” Steen is feeling the loss of his friend, of course, but also disappointment and anger at the platforms that allow his image to be abused and mocked with only a perfunctory response. He’s been rallying people around the hashtag to put pressure on the major social platforms to say something, anything substantial about this situation. How could they have prevented this? How can they better handle it when it is already out there? How can they respect the wishes of loved ones? Perhaps none of these things are possible — but if that’s the case, don’t expect them to admit it. If you or someone you know needs help, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-TALK (8255) or text the Crisis Text Line at 741-741. International resources are available here. 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__label__cc	0.729499	0.270501	Bybertigreen Why’s the business world so aggressively woke-progressive? Why is corporate media polarized into lowest common denominator identity politics? Why is corporate media either 100% super-woke or 100% anti-woke but never sincere or nuanced? Why all the #metoo virtue signalling? Why’s Burger King wasting time on #woke statements? Why does Pepsi publish an opinion on Trans Rights? Why all the renaming buildings? Why is big business letting itself be weaponized by #woke mob justice (i.e. gossip) to end careers and professional lives, without due process or respect for the individual’s years of devotion? Why does Big Tech algorithm our feeds into echo chambers? Why does everything in the mainstream media have to be on-message? CNN is always Clinton-neoliberal, Fox is all GOP-neocon; and never the twain shall meet (or mix)? Why is nuance bad? What’s wrong with complexity? Why are our institutions enforcing public submission to orthodoxy, often over honest debate and real-world truth? Creativity and autonomy is fuelled by cross-pollinating diversity of opinion. Why has the so-called “cathedral” of media, political authority, and institutional education become a world of one right answer, everything else thought-crime? We live in a real-world of consumer capitalism. Money on the one hand, consumption on the other. Products and services, good value, poor value. Fifty years ago it would’ve been unthinkable to talk in terms of a National Health Service offering value for money. Value for whose money? Taxpayers? Do people get a refund on bad value years? In any case, it’s 2020 and public services are part of the consumer capitalist economy. Let’s get back to the opening questions. Everything in the media, everything in the papers is ultimately subordinated to the advertising imperative. Advertising typically places itself in-between content (else we wouldn’t watch) but the content serves the advertising, make no mistake. Marketing is the big money spigot for big tech and the biggest money is in Big Data. Advertising needs expert psychology, too. It wants its message absorbed by the audience. It wants brand recognition. It wants to parse desire into products and services. It succeeds when it turns ambition into greed. Advertising has analyzed the Big Data. It predicts your viscera better than you predict it yourself. Advertising knows desire is parsed into product and absorbed as brand recognition best when your mind is passive, non-resistant to the advertising. Advertising has studied human biology. It knows the human brain uses conscious problem solving to deal with the world when it’s serving up problems; when the limbic mindful moment is in discord. Disagreement is a problem. Encountering disagreement wakes the pro-active conscious mind, fuelled with feel-bad emotions, the first reaction being to resist. Advertising doesn’t want you to resist. Advertising knows an active conscious human being is a whole different animal to a passive one. Advertising wants you passive. Accord is navigated unconsciously, passive. Advertising wants to offer you the path of no resistance in a complex world, and advertising regulates the media, content included. Entertainment needs to be in accord, more mainstream, greater accord. Make it anodyne. Make it homogenous. News needs somehow to present its clickbait fear-porn without it being discord. How? Confirmation bias, audience selection by demographics, echo chambers. Confirmation bias rules the roost. Off-demographic dissonance within the echo chamber is purged. News reports truth, albeit cherry-picked to suit the echo chamber. If it can’t be cherry-picked into accord with the confirmation bias, truth goes bye-bye. Demographics ensure the best response for best-suited products. Woke identity politics and conspiracy theory Luddite individualism are two sides of the same campaign, the most ambitious advertising campaign in history. The campaign is advertising orthodoxy. Two teams – red team blue team – polarizing the population, both poles selling orthodoxy that aligns with the business needs of corporate oligarchy and the directives of governments it controls. What is the orthodoxy? In a word: consumerism. Consumerism is an innocuous, ambiguous word in most people’s vocabulary. But the ambiguity is part of the conditioning. Consumption is not a mix of positives and negatives. The orthodoxy we’re sold is the reality of billions of human lives committed to consumer capitalism and its need for a population of perpetual consumption. Consumerism demands consumers. It wants us unconscious, following the trends. Trending. It wants us conforming to our profile demographic data. Polarized consumers are the most docile – following ideology, suspending critical faculties, unconscious orthodoxy: these are the best-honed consumers. Big business is all-in on identity politics. It doesn’t care about nuance or uncontrollable voices – cancel them! It’s truth and fact and faith and opinion reduced to a worldview that’s all brand names. A renamed building is a rebranded building. A trans man identifying as a trans man is a human self-branding; training others to see people through a lens of identity branding. Consumers of identity. Consumers consuming branded virtue. Consumers consuming a branded world of brand name products and brand name people. The market is a macroeconomic engine perpetually seeking profit to exploit. Including exploitation of people, by people, for people. The oligarchs of the market have been well-served by the consumer capitalist system. It should be no surprise, once corporate wealth broke cover in its takeover of government (90s neoliberalism and denouement in the aftermath of the Financial Crisis 2007/2008) they used successful consumer capitalist model to ‘upgrade’ old-fashioned truth, fact, and integrity politics. We live in that upgrade. We get a plethora of new features: eye-catching branding, clear and urgent team orthodoxy, and a panoply of celebrity (and caricature) to guide our consumption. Good guys and bad guys. Buy this. Don’t buy that. Doesn’t matter which team you choose, so long as you choose one. Doesn’t matter which orthodoxy guides your consumption, so long as you keep consuming… These are the terms of the 21st-century social contract. It permeates every interaction outside your intimate circle. Maybe it wouldn’t matter that consumerism is anti-culture (except as costume and cuisine), maybe it’s old-fashioned to value knowledge above information. Individualism could be argued as an unnecessary risk in populations of millions happily snapchatting their selfies, working their rent-seeking jobs, saving and buying and creating debt, enriching creditors, cheering the confident team-values, voting the latest celebrity king-for-a-day, jeering the evil Eurasia or Eastasia or whoever is the enemy of the day. Maybe the world could carry on blithely from generation to generation, rulers and ruled sated by a never-ending cycle of consumables. Except it can’t. Consumption eventually exhausts the exploited resources. Perpetual growth is an unsustainable model. It sustains itself on forced money supply, institutionalized wageslavery, and – most of all – a calculated mortgaging of the future. To feed value into the present. The mortgaged future derives value from the evidence of the present (what is here, valuable, today) and the hope – optimism – for the future (what it’s value will be, years hence). Humans are an optimistic species, for the most part, but contrary to the words of Alexander Pope, hope does not spring eternal. As the exploitation of human resources needs to take more and more from people with less and less left to give, eventually even the docile consumers find their path of no resistance ends at the edge of a cliff. If human society is allowed to reach this point of no return – where consumer capitalism has run out of exploitation, used up all the hope and optimism that had been driving the appropriation of future ‘wealth and resource potential’, devoured the resources of the finite planet – it may be the docile consumers with nothing left to consume, at the edge of a cliff, caught between the burning lands and the deep toxic sea. By bertigreen politics pushback ubercynic HERO’S JOURNEY IS DISTRACT DISEMPOWER AND #neveraccountable Dec 14, 2020 mikeries	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line2159
__label__wiki	0.848017	0.848017	UCONN WOMEN: Huskies falter against Baylor Jim Fuller Feb. 18, 2013 Updated: Aug. 27, 2017 2:49 p.m. Connecticut's Bria Hartley, left, drives to the basket against Baylor's Brittney Griner during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in Hartford, Conn., Monday, Feb. 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)ASSOCIATED PRESS HARTFORD >> After an uncharacteristically quiet first half, Baylor's All-American tandem of Brittney Griner and Odyssey Sims awoke in time to lift the top-ranked Lady Bears to a hard-earned 76-70 win over No. 3 UConn before a sellout crowd of 16,294 at the XL Center on Monday. Griner had 21 points in the second half as the Lady Bears survived a stern test from the Huskies. "We are just not good enough to beat these guys yet," UConn coach Geno Auriemma said. UConn seemed to be control of the game with a 27-18 lead after a Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis layup with 3:29 to go in the half. However, the Huskies didn't have another field goal the rest of the first half. Baylor began to inch its way back with a pair of Jordan Madden free throws. Brooklyn Pope, who came off the bench for the first time since a Jan. 23 win over Iowa State, had a pair of baskets and Kimetria Hayden also had a hoop during the Lady Bears' 8-0 run which pulled Baylor within one point. Mosqueda-Lewis was fouled with 1.6 seconds to go and hit both free throws to give the Huskies the 29-26 lead at halftime. Mosqueda-Lewis, who came into the game with one double-double, had her second by halftime with 13 points and 10 rebounds. Mosqueda-Lewis finished with 26 points and 15 rebounds. Baylor took its first lead on a Griner putback early in the second half before Morgan Tuck hit a hook as the Huskies regained the advantage. Kelly Faris followed with a backdoor layup. UConn (24-2) seemed to catch its breath with back-to-back baskets by Faris and Hartley. When Hartley was racing up the floor following a Griner turnover, the Baylor All-American reached out and grabbed Dolson by the arm and pulled her to the ground. She was assessed a flagrant 1 foul and Dolson hit both free throws to put UConn up 41-34 with 15:34 to go in the game. Baylor promptly ripped off the next eight points. Hayden tied the game with a 3-pointer, while Destiny Williams put the Lady Bears in front by hitting one of two from the free-throw line beginning a stretch of six straight lead changes. That pattern ended when Sims hit a 3 and then set up Brooklyn Pope for a basket to give the Lady Bears the 54-50 lead. UConn got back within a point following a Mosqueda-Lewis 3-pointer before Griner had a pair of baskets and Sims a pair of free throws to stretch the lead to 63-56. A 3-pointer by Tuck and pair of jumpers by Mosqueda-Lewis got UConn back within two points. However, Mosqueda-Lewis forced a shot on the next possession. Griner scored on the other end to make it a four-point edge. Pope hit a layup to make a 71-65 lead. UConn was able to get as close as four points, but Griner had a pair of free throws, including one which gave her 3,000 career points, and Pope converted a steal into a layup to finish off the Huskies. Griner had 25 points, nine rebounds and four assists, Pope had 18 for Baylor (25-1). Hartley had 13 points while Tuck and Dolson added 11. Neither coach was thrilled at the timing of the game. Mulkey said it was the least important regular-season game the Lady Bears would play for the rest of the season. Auriemma wasn't about to go that far. "We are all trying to win conference championships, not everybody can but we are all trying to," Auriemma said. "I don't know how a game is going to affect one way or the other our ability to win the Big East championship that way. I never look at it that way. I am almost at the point where you win the Big East regular season championship and you lose in the second round (of the NCAA tournament) and they are going to have a parade for you because you won the conference championship?	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0026.json.gz/line2165

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