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__label__cc	0.642963	0.357037	Apatosaurus Barbara Alpert Describes how the Apatosaurus was discovered, how paleontologists study its bones, and what the fossil evidence tells us about dinosaur behavior. Describes how the Pterodactyl and other pterosaurs were discovered, how paleontologists study their bones, and what the fossil evidence tells us about these ancient flying lizards. Describes how the Stegosaurus was discovered, how paleontologists study its bones, and what the fossil evidence tells us about this plant-eating dinosaur with plates. Describes how the Triceratops was discovered, how paleontologists study its bones, and what the fossil evidence tells us about the behavior of this three-horned plant-eating dinosaur. Describes how the Tyrannosaurus Rex was discovered, how paleontologists study its bones, and what the fossil evidence tells us about the behavior of the largest meat-eating dinosaur. Describes how the Velociraptor was discovered, how paleontologists study its bones, and what the fossil evidence tells us about the behavior of this small, speedy meat-eating dinosaur. Digging for Dinosaurs If dinosaurs lived millions of years before humans, how do we know so much about them? This series examines the discovery of each featured species and later fossil finds that added to our body of knowledge, explaining how scientists interpret fossils to explain dinosaur behavior. READING LEVEL: GRADE 2 AND UP NSTA Recommends, “Digging for Dinosaurs is a great read for both the intended audience and adults because of the facts and writing style. It is also a good size format and has large type. Designed with almost photo quality drawings and pictures of the dinosaur bones, questions and answers, glossary, and and index, all work to round out the content to make it a good selection for library, class, or home. ”—Dutchie Riggsby “Combining dinosaur facts with basic paleontology, each title opens with a brief look at the featured animal in its time and then moves on to the first discovery of its remains. With clear, fairly simple language, the author describes how scientists built upon and corrected prior theories, such as the multiple errant attempts to match Apatosaurus to its proper skull. However, Velociraptors misleads readers by stating that velociraptors may have ‘hunted and lived in packs.’ Each book brings these reptiles up to the present day, with discoveries as recent as 2012. A question-and-answer feature encourages speculation in a nod to Common Core requirements. The illustrations, photographs, and reproductions show a mixture of fossils, paleontologists in the field, and images of the featured dinosaurs. The paleontologist viewpoint, coupled with more standard facts about behavior and physical features, makes a fairly engaging angle into dinosaur study. ”—Series Made Simple Library Media Connection, “This series of books presents easy-to-read yet informative texts. Each one begins with a short story about the named dinosaur, then offers information about how and where the dinosaur’s fossils were first discovered, more recent discoveries about the animal, and what research is being done today. There are photos of fossils, locations, and scientists and discoverers; paintings and computer graphic drawings of dinosaurs. Short, interesting ‘Question and Answer’ pairs on facing pages are sprinkled throughout. The series is plainly written and explains the most up-to-date information about dinosaurs. Recommended. ”—Jolene C. DeFranco, Librarian, Harmony School of Fine Arts and Technology, Houston, Texas	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line1
__label__cc	0.713406	0.286594	Rabidly anti-gun 'Mike the Gun Guy' wants to empower doctors to disarm patients Weisser is hopeful, though. Now that the Obama administration has unilaterally authorized the federal government to once again engage in anti-gun junk "science," maybe more doctors will be emboldened to do their part for forcible citizen disarmament. Doctors are supposedly guided by the fundamental principle, "First, do no harm." How would they reconcile that noble principle with the practice of stripping the most vulnerable people of their ability to defend themselves in a dangerous world? [More] That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend--and Facebook "likes" and "shares" are hugely appreciated. Posted by Kurt '45superman' Hofmann at 1:30 AM 0 comments JPFO Alert: Author Claims Democrat "Gun Control" Timidity Undermines Constitution Today's JPFO Alert notes that one "gun control" zealot advocates measures that would start a civil war, apparently without realizing it. Meanwhile, another one does realize that, but doesn't have a problem with it. Perlstein exhibits a fundamental misunderstanding of the situation. "Gun nuts" (that's you, me, and everyone else who will fight to keep the palladium of liberty) will not be pacified by more aggressive forcible citizen disarmament efforts. Such efforts will indeed be the most efficient way of forcing today's cultural cold war to go hot. Presumably, that's not what he wants. Interestingly, Susie Madrak, writing for "Crooks and Liars" (which sounds like a good place for her), does seem to see the civil war implications of Perlstein's position--and seems to think he's onto something anyway . . . And as always, if you haven't seen all the great JPFO Alerts written by David, Nicki, and Claire, you owe it to yourself to fix that. Al Jazeera tells hunters not to fight for gun rights From the above mentioned attempts to define "armor-piercing" ammunition in such a way as to net all centerfire rifle ammunition, to the Violence Policy Center's efforts to have accurate bolt-action rifles banned as "sniper rifles," to the International Action Network on Small Arms' (IANSA) call for a ban of all rifles that can kill at 100 meters (all rifles, in other words), hunting guns may be toward the end of the list of gun ban zealots' ambitions, but they are on it, and if we gun rights advocates have been taken out of the picture, who will speak for you, hunters?. [More] Judge acknowledges Second Amendment has nothing to do with hunting The intent here is not to antagonize hunters, or to be anything less than welcoming to their participation in the fight for gun rights. The point is that we are continually told that banning so-called "assault weapons," or .50 caliber rifles, or "high capacity" (gun ban jihadist-speak for "standard capacity") magazines is perfectly legitimate, because "no one needs those for hunting." Any restriction on guns, ammunition and accessories justified by their failure to meet the government's idea of "sporting purposes" is very clearly a violation of the rights guaranteed by the Second Amendment, as the court ruling in Pennsylvania helps illustrate. [More] St. Louis police chief, others sue to make Missourians' gun rights 'alieanable' The right to keep and bear arms is fundamental, under the constitutions of both Missouri and the United States, and laws that restrict it must be required to withstand the very strictest of scrutiny. When Chief Dotson and the rest claim that voters lack the wit to realize that "unalienable" implies just that, they inexcusably insult Missourians' intellect. And if Judge Beetem decides to invalidate votes cast by voters to whom the state did not first spoon-feed a state-written "SJR 36 for Dummies" explanation of the amendment, he will have committed an unforgivable atrocity against those voters, and indeed against the entire state. [More] Glaze's confession will not slow anti-gunners' exploitation of mass shootings The "gun control" movement requires mass shootings--horrifying, indescribably evil slaughter of innocents, just to gain any public support. When those shootings occur, there is a "playbook" instructing the gun ban lobby on how to exploit them. When asked about the chances of new infringements on that which shall not be infringed, the gun ban jihadists say it depends on how effectively they exploit--their word--the blood of the innocent victims. Glaze--no longer on the payroll of an organization hoping to make the most of such exploitation--could afford his brief moment of honesty. The anti-gun groups, though, cannot. The lie is all they have. [More] Clinton perpetuates full-auto/semi-auto conflation, endorses thought control And now we know what she means by "more thoughtful conversation" about guns. For the conversation to be "more thoughtful," the public needs to be kept unaware that semi-automatic "assault weapons" are not machine guns. In fact, "more thoughtful" means that viewpoints that "the majority" find terrifying are not permitted--only "approved" thoughts are authorized. Orwell might have been an optimist. [More] JPFO Alert: Supreme Court Ruling is About Registration, not Crime Control Today's JPFO Alert notes that Justice Kagan admits that the most important aspect of any gun sale is that the federal government knows who has the gun. In 2012, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives added a new question to ATF Form 4473--the form that must be filled out when purchasing a firearm, and the form on which Abramski admittedly lied. Now, every gun purchaser must answer whether or not he or she is of "Hispanic or Latino" ethnicity. As attorney and firearms law expert Evan Nappen notes, there is no real difference between that question, and a demand--backed up by federal law, and enforced with the full power of the U.S. government--that the purchaser answer whether he or she is a "Jew or Not a Jew." And now, the Supreme Court has ruled that this is just fine. VPC no longer trying to hide yearning for ban of all semi-automatics The campaign to outlaw all semi-automatic firearms is gaining new adherents every day. When those are banned, count on bolt-action rifles to be demonized as "sniper rifles, with no place in civilized society." They want us disarmed. Every gun in private hands is "too deadly," for us mere citizens to own, and if they have their way, the government's hired muscle, armed with just the kinds of guns we cannot be trusted with, will come to take them from us, and kill us if we resist. Well, they can try. [More] Oregon teacher proposes to end school shootings by disarming self-employed Perhaps the most disturbing facet of this is that Needler, a "gun control" cultist, is paid as a science teacher for our youth. This does not bode well for the future of our nation's scientific capability. [More] 'Progressive' gun rights foe announces plan to foment 'gun violence' At least we now have a pretty good idea as to why Malloy is so insistent on restrictive gun laws. Being so consumed himself by hate and rage, it's hardly surprising that he projects those qualities even onto the vast majority of gun owners who are not inclined to kill those with whom they disagree, and to therefore believe they should not be armed. If he wants to purchase any more guns, though, he might be well advised to not push so hard for mental health checks of prospective gun buyers. [More] Another Chicago blogging mom wants to 'intimidate' Congress into gun bans So she claims to have formed an unarmed "militia," and Congress should fear it, and not those of us who will fight and die for our freedom. Good luck with that. And Congress, when deciding which "militia" should "intimidate" you more, remember the words of the late Andrew Breitbart: "we have the guns." [More] Blogger demands justification for NOT banning so-called 'assault weapons' But it's not that easy, J.A. You can't just dismiss the Constitutionally guaranteed, fundamental human right of the individual to keep and bear arms because you're tired of hearing about it, any more than someone who demands you justify the societal benefits of your blog, or he'll ban it, can dismiss your First Amendment rights, because he "so got that there's a right to" free speech, and doesn't want to hear about it. J.A. repeatedly asks, "What am I missing?" Well, rather a lot of things, J.A., chief among them being that no one owes you any justification of our right to own militia-appropriate "regime change rifles." [More] JPFO Alert: "Gun Control" Advocates Respond to Las Vegas Killings by Advocating Tyranny Today's JPFO Alert notes that those attacking the Second Amendment are just the ones who make it necessary. All these "progressives" argue that the United States government is not tyrannical, and that armed resistance to against it is treason. Fair enough. Why, though, do they seem in such a hurry to make it tyrannical? Obama's greatest 'frustration' is his failure to trample 2nd Amendment enough The problem is that Americans "can stack up a bunch of ammunition in their houses"? Is that what he has in mind--an executive order capping ammunition purchases? Maybe, maybe not. We'll presumably know soon. Whatever he has in mind, remember that our freedom is his "biggest frustration." [More] Miss USA recommends self-defense against campus rape; enrages 'feminists' Of course the best "solution" to sexual violence is that those who perpetrate it stop. Unfortunately, that will not happen until someone stops them, and that will not happen without force. Universities and politicians refuse to allow women to defend themselves with firearms, and others are offended by the idea of them defending themselves with fists and feet. If there is a "war on women," these people would appear to be on the wrong side of it. [More] Columnist compares open carry activists to child rapist/murderers The far-left Daily Kos, astonishingly (or perhaps not), has taken the silly meme of "firearms as substitute for inadequate sexual anatomy" even further than Marcotte did, to the bizarre extreme of repeatedly referring to semi-automatic rifles as "giant metal death penises," indicating an astounding--and rather alarming--level of ignorance of the purpose of both firearms and penises. Again, the wisdom of the approach to activism taken by Open Carry Texas is open to very legitimate question, but if anyone in this discussion can be fairly described as dangerously consumed by hatred, it ain't OCT.. [More] JPFO Alert: SWAT Team Baby Burning -- More Police Militarization? Today's JPFO Alert notes that the government's "War on Babies" puts it on the wrong side of a great many armed parents. There cannot fail to be consequences from the discovery on the part of every parent in America that the government's hired muscle can kick down their doors, set their children on fire, and the official response will be a shrug, and maybe an "oops." Inevitably, some parents will refuse to tolerate the intolerable. Some, even knowing the vanishingly small likelihood of their own survival, will fight back with every weapon they possess. Private citizens defending their homes and families will doubtless do the bulk of the dying, but they will not do all of it. New book will confound purveyors of 'gun rights advocacy is racist' myth Oppressors don't change their evil, tyrannical ways because they are persuaded by the eloquence and righteousness of the oppressed. They change because they harbor a very personal fear of the consequences of continuing their old course. [More] Sen. Boxer displays serial hypocrisy on state sovereignty and guns The point is that Boxer is generally an enthusiastic backer of federal government über alles, particularly when draconian federal gun laws are proposed. When federal law would interfere with states' oppressive gun laws, however, she suddenly turns into an Anti-Federalist for a day. Let's hope that the cognitive dissonance is physically painful. [More] Sen. Boxer threatens Americans with 'Pause for Safety Act' Wow. A need-based "may issue" system, for gun purchases, rather than for carrying a firearm in public, which even the notoriously "progressive" 9th Circuit Court of Appeals--whose jurisdiction includes California--has deemed unconstitutional. And Boxer calls such a system a "commonsense step." Boxer wants us to prove we "need" a gun? The fact that people like her presume to write the laws by which the rest of us would be required to live is all the proof necessary. [More] ATF's purchase reporting requirement gives lie to 'military features' test The only "military feature" that gun ban groups really care about is that military arms are expected to fire when the trigger is pulled. That's what they want banned, and the BATFE stands ready to enforce that ban. [More] St. Louis PD selling machine guns, but don't worry--only to rich people Ah, yes--with prices of fully-automatic firearms vastly and artificially inflated by the Hughes Amendment's prohibition of private ownership of post-1986 machine guns, only the wealthy will be buying the department's Tommy guns. So don't worry--with the feds' gun equivalent of the poll taxes of post-Civil War infamy, we can rest assured that the riffraff will be kept out of the Tommy gun club. [More] Rabidly anti-gun 'Mike the Gun Guy' wants to empow... JPFO Alert: Author Claims Democrat "Gun Control" T... Judge acknowledges Second Amendment has nothing to... St. Louis police chief, others sue to make Missour... Glaze's confession will not slow anti-gunners' exp... Clinton perpetuates full-auto/semi-auto conflation... JPFO Alert: Supreme Court Ruling is About Registra... VPC no longer trying to hide yearning for ban of a... Oregon teacher proposes to end school shootings by... 'Progressive' gun rights foe announces plan to fom... Another Chicago blogging mom wants to 'intimidate'... Blogger demands justification for NOT banning so-c... JPFO Alert: "Gun Control" Advocates Respond to Las... Obama's greatest 'frustration' is his failure to t... Miss USA recommends self-defense against campus ra... Columnist compares open carry activists to child r... JPFO Alert: SWAT Team Baby Burning -- More Police ... New book will confound purveyors of 'gun rights ad... Sen. Boxer displays serial hypocrisy on state sove... Sen. Boxer threatens Americans with 'Pause for Saf... ATF's purchase reporting requirement gives lie to ... St. Louis PD selling machine guns, but don't worry...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line7
__label__cc	0.705498	0.294502	Auto Racing Memories \| Vintage Race Cars > Auto Racing Memories > New Members Post Here First! Reminiscing... Hello From Colorado New Members Post Here First! After you register on the AutoRacingMemories.com forums please make a thread here first and introduce yourself! Johnny Calvaresi Location: Highlands Ranch, Colorado Happy to have this great opportunity to associate with folks who remember the "good old days" of racing in and around Denver, Colorado. I was attending Lakeside Speedway's midget auto races when I was still in my mother's womb. I won't say when that was, but suffice it to say that when I was old enough to have a favorite driver, it was Lloyd Axel....does that give you a hint? Although I can only remember vague images of the tragedy (being about 3 yrs.old at the time) I was at the track with my mom while my dad was in the pits the night my God-Father Mike Stefferi died as a result of getting upside down in the south turn. I continued to attend the races at Lakeside all the way up until I was a teenager and was let into the pits by being able to ride on Joe Giba's trailer when I was just 16. Joe would buy me a pit pass and I would ride on the trailer, acting like I was real busy doing something in the cockpit, as we went through the gate and then, once we were inside the pits, he would give me my pass...what a great guy, and what a great thrill it was for me at that time. I continued to hang out in the pits and after a while I came to know Eddie Jackson, the six time RMMRA champion. I would also stop in at Eddie's garage behind his house on 23rd and Sheridan in Denver whenever I would see him in there working. He finally began to let me help polish wheels and clean tools. I would also show up at the garage on race night and help them load the car, the extra wheels and the tools onto the trailer to head for the track. He made me extremely happy the night he invited me to go with him and the car to be part of his pit crew at the track!...even MORE thrilling than the first night Joe Giba sneaked me in! Ed was a real "shoe", and I loved to watch him drive! I can't even express to you what a thrill it was for me to get to be one of the guys who pushed that beautiful number 5 out for the trophy dash or for the main event...and an even greater thrill when I was allowed to STEER the car....WOW! During this same time (my teenage years) I began to race twin engine go-karts, and was fortunate enough to use some of what I'd been watching Eddie and our pit partner Frank Mantello do on the track, to win the state championship in twin engine go-karts three times. I then went on to race Formula Fords on the SCCA circuit and was thrilled to be able to race in what was known at the time as the Mini-Indy Series at Englewood Speedway on Wednesday nights. The culmination of that experience was the two nights that I had the privilege to race and win at none other than my home away from home...Lakeside Speedway!! A great great thrill that I will never forget. All those hours of watching all those great drivers of old paid off! Oh...and by the way...guess what my racing number was on every vehicle I ever raced...you guessed it...number 5. Yes...I have been truly blessed with many wonderful auto racing memories which makes being part of this site a heart felt honor. Last edited by Johnny Calvaresi; 07-08-2016 at 12:01 AM. Send a private message to Johnny Calvaresi Find More Posts by Johnny Calvaresi Mitch G. Location: Ponte Vedra Beach, FL Re: Hello From Colorado Great to have you hear John, Facebook has taken most of the traffic from most of the smaller auto racing websites. This site is still a great resource, lost of fun stuff and important history. Me my dad and brother (web master of this site, and its creator!) hardly missed a midget show from 1960 till the mid 80's. We remember the Formula Fords at Englewood, Mitch Miller was trying everything to get crowds back to the midgets, Wednesday was one of his experiments. I got in a argument with a guy on Facebook who used to race Formula Fords at Englewood as well. He claimed the Fords were 1/2 to a full second quicker around Englewood than the midgets. I could not find a lap time or lap record for the Formula Fords, the midget track record for that era was 15:20 set by Ed Jackson in Chuck Mauro's Edmunds VW. Do you have any recorded lap times for the Formula Fords at Englewood? Welcome aboard! Send a private message to Mitch G. Find More Posts by Mitch G. bobbyc1 Say hi to Dean Brancucci, Bob Corrado Send a private message to bobbyc1 Find More Posts by bobbyc1 No Mitch I dont, very sorry, I remember Mitch Miller really well, USAC use to race there once a year, and Eddie Jackson won a few times, Joe Giba with the an outboard engine i think, he sure could make that baby hum.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line11
__label__wiki	0.532949	0.532949	el3ctron (el3ctron@loadaverage.org)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2020 16:26:43 PST el3ctron en Chile, las personas afirman que se sienten más seguras al lado de los encapuchados, que al lado de la policía, EL MOVIMIENTO SOCIAL EVOLUCION? y Colombia no es la excepción. https://www.elespectador.com/noticias/educacion/que-es-la-primera-linea-los-manifestantes-que-ponen-el-pecho-en-las-protestas-articulo-894314 In conversation about 3 hours ago from loadaverage.org permalink File without filename could not get a thumbnail source. ?Qué es la primera línea? Los manifestantes que ponen el pecho en las protestas \| ELESPECTADOR.COM from ELESPECTADOR.COM Cargados de metales que usan como escudos, máscaras antigases, gafas y pa?uelos, los miembros de la primera línea son quienes resisten al frente de la movilización y la defienden de enfrentamientos con el ESMAD. En Colombia la Guardia Indígena también ha desempe?ado ese papel en el marco de las marchas del Paro Nacional. Funky Astronu likes this. Protestation (English) (protestation@gnusocial.no)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2020 19:26:19 PST Protestation (English) Lenin: The Campaign for the Elections to the Fourth Duma #ClassWarfare https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1911/ce4thd/index.htm In conversation about 17 minutes ago from api permalink Po Kamnuandej (kamnuandej@gnusocial.no)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2020 06:26:22 PST Po Kamnuandej Now that Windows 7, the last good version of Windows, is officially dead, and Windows 10 is now officially known as a huge spyware...and all Apple products are non-free and malicious...you have only two choices left. Linux or BSD. In conversation about 2 days ago from web permalink Jonathan repeated this. Jonathan (jmgresham@gnusocial.no)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2020 13:14:59 PST Jonathan GNU+Linux or BSD In conversation about 6 hours ago permalink Po Kamnuandej (kamnuandej@gnusocial.no)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2020 18:23:21 PST Po Kamnuandej Ah yes. I forget to do that. It should be GNU/Linux In conversation about an hour ago permalink Jonathan likes this. forgot The Social-Democratic Deviation in Our Party #ClassWarfare http://marx2mao.phpwebhosting.com/Stalin/SDD26.html Capitalism and Desire: In Dialogue with Psychoanalysis #ClassWarfare http://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/capitalism-and-desire-in-dialogue-with-psychoanalysis Revolutionary Left Radio: Capitalism and Desire: In Dialogue with Psychoanalysis Prof. Todd McGowan, author of "Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Costs of Free Markets" and co-host of "Why Theory", returns to the show to talk with Breht about Marxism and Psychoanalysis, Freud, Lacan, Death Drive, Desire, the fundamental sense of Lack at the core of our psyches, and much more!?Check out Todd's book here: Check out Todd's podcast Why Theory here:Outro music: 'Bowl of Oranges' by Bright Eyes Find more of this music here:------- LEARN MORE ABOUT REV LEFT RADIO:SUPPORT REV LEFT RADIO:? Our logo was made by BARB, a communist graphic design collective: @Barbaradical Intro music by DJ Captain Planet. --------------- This podcast is affiliated with: The Nebraska Left Coalition, Omaha Tenants United, FORGE, Socialist Rifle Association (SRA), Feed The People - Omaha, and the Marxist Center. Kentucky Miners Illustrate Worker Power With Spontaneous Act of Resistance #ClassWarfare https://gnusocial.no/url/1793305 Kentucky Miners Illustrate Worker Power With Spontaneous Act of?Resistance By L.Zorfass from The Red Phoenix On January 13, 2020, a group of miners from the Quest Energy, company in Pike County, Kentucky blocked the railways carrying a heap of mined coal. Over 50 workers have been denied pay for the past three weeks totaling between $2,000-$3,000 a worker. The companies gave little reasoning for the delay in payment, stating only that the company faces “challenging markets.” The miners who had been denied pay blocked up the railways, stopping a train of 120 cars, 100 of which were carrying already mined coal. The miners were joined by their fellow workers and members of the community who brought food and blankets in a great showing of solidarity. The company caved rather quickly, issuing checks which prompted the miners to allow the train to pass. The significance of this action on the part of the miners illustrates much more than what was seen on the surface of this particular struggle. At a glance, one could say what was seen as a group of disgruntled workers standing up to management; something that happens every now and then and nothing more. But a slightly deeper look at the situation reveals quite a lot about the practical education of working people working everyday to support themselves and their families. To leverage their demands against the bosses, the miners stopped the circuit of capital from completing itself. They prevented the value of coal, created by the miners themselves, to be transformed into profit, money through its sale and delivery. While none of the miners in their statements put their actions into terms of political economy or stated whether or not they had formally studied economics they acted in a manner which perfectly shows how the worker, simply by the experience of their exploited lives, understand the system well enough to knock the wind out of it at a moments notice. The miners had been denied upwards of $30,000 of pay which the company clearly had, as it has now paid it out to the workers. This act shows how wages are not made by current work, but by past work. The value created by workers previously has already been transformed from coal to money, and thusly can be paid out to workers. When the miners stopped the train from carrying its payload of coal to sale, the miners then directly shut down the circuit of capital. The coal, which is mined by miners and not touched by corporate officials, must be sold so that the value of that coal can be realized as money. It is the workers who generate the value, the money, of their own wages while the bosses, capitalists, etc. manage this money, taking as much for themselves paying the workers as little as they can get away with even though the pay originates from the labor of the worker. By denying the workers pay, the company has shown quite clearly that wages come from capital that is already on hand to the company and advanced for the worker’s wage. When withheld from the worker, this money becomes a direct profit for the company; this is where the profit of the board of directors, the CEO, the foreman, and the various managers comes from. This situation is not unique to the miners of Pike County or the field of mining. This is the general condition of capitalism of which all wage workers face, to have the value of their work stolen from them by their bosses. While actions taken by the miners in Pike County gained a victory in this particular case, the day to day exploitation continues. We have seen over the past year a great many strikes of various groups of workers, mining, steel production, teachers, auto production and the like. And while victories are found in these actions they have not been able to prevent the conditions for their necessity. It will only be when the working class comes together in a unified directed movement that the conditions of exploitation can be removed. The spontaneous uprisings of this and that group can attain only temporary victories. For the livelihood of the majority of Americans to no longer be in the hands of a few hundred business owners, American workers must come together as a class to defeat the capitalist class which every day, holds the flame of life and death over us all. Richard M. Stallman (rms@gnusocial.no)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2020 18:55:28 PST Richard M. Stallman arescorpio nepesh Malwares in malwares https://stallman.org/archives/2019-nov-feb.html#16_January_2020_%28Malwares_in_malwares%29 In conversation about 48 minutes ago from RSS (see mattl.io) permalink ive been playing alot of runescape lately. haven't had any intake of anything intellectual except for probably 5 minutes of reading a novel before bed. I hate it when I get into it and then have to put it away because I can't stay up all night. In conversation about an hour ago from web permalink Winston Churchill: Relief would do no good. Indians breed like rabbits and will outstrip any available food supply. https://protestationblog.wordpress.com/quotes8/#quotenr6317 In conversation about 2 hours ago from api permalink By Protestation from Protestation If you must break the law, do it to seize power; in all other cases observe it. (Julius Caesar) [Israel will] create in the course of the next 10 or 20 years conditions which would attract natural and voluntary migration of the refugees from the Gaza Strip and the west Bank to Jordan. To achieve this we have to come to agreement with King Hussein and not with Yasser Arafat. (Yitzhak Rabin) The natural scientist must be a modern materialist, a conscious adherent of the materialism represented by Marx, i.e., he must be a dialectical materialist. (Lenin) If the war is lost, the nation will also perish. This fate is inevitable. There is no necessity to take into consideration the basis which the people will need to continue even a most primitive existence. On the contrary, it will be better to destroy these things ourselves, because this nation will have proved to be the weaker one and the future will belong solely to the stronger eastern nation (Russia). Besides, those who will remain after the battle are only the inferior ones, for the good ones have all been killed. (Hitler) The proof of Communism does not lie in a theory; it lies in the facts of the world around us. (R. Palme Dutt) Struggle against imperialism that is not closely linked with the struggle against opportunism is either an empty phrase or a fraud. (Lenin) Leninism grew up and took shape under the conditions of imperialism, when the contradictions of capitalism had reached an extreme point, when the proletarian revolution had become an immediate practical question, when the old period of preparation of the working class for revolution had arrived at and passed into a new period, that of direct assault on capitalism. Lenin called imperialism “moribund capitalism.” Why? Because imperialism carries the contradictions of capitalism to their last bounds, to the extreme limit, beyond which revolution begins. Of these contradictions, there are three which must be regarded as the most important. The first contradiction is the contradiction between labour and capital. Imperialism is the omnipotence of the monopolist trusts and syndicates, of the banks and the financial oligarchy, in the industrial countries. In the fight against this omnipotence, the customary methods of the working class-trade unions and cooperatives, parliamentary parties and the parliamentary struggle-have proved to be totally inadequate. Either place yourself at the mercy of capital, eke out a wretched existence as of old and sink lower and lower, or adopt a new weapon-this is the alternative imperialism puts before the vast masses of the proletariat. Imperialism brings the working class to revolution. The second contradiction is the contradiction among the various financial groups and imperialist Powers in their struggle for sources of raw materials, for foreign territory. Imperialism is the export of capital to the sources of raw materials, the frenzied struggle for monopolist possession of these sources, the struggle for a re-division of the already divided world, a struggle waged with particular fury by new financial groups and Powers seeking a “place in the sun” against the old groups and Powers, which cling tenaciously to what they have seized. This frenzied struggle among the various groups of capitalists is notable in that it includes as an inevitable element imperialist wars, wars for the annexation of foreign territory. This circumstance, in its turn, is notable in that it leads to the mutual weakening of the imperialists, to the weakening of the position of capitalism in general, to the acceleration of the advent of the proletarian revolution and to the practical necessity of this revolution. The third contradiction is the contradiction between the handful of ruling, “civilised” nations and the hundreds of millions of the colonial and dependent peoples of the world. Imperialism is the most barefaced exploitation and the most inhumane oppression of hundreds of millions of people inhabiting vast colonies and dependent countries. The purpose of this exploitation and of this oppression is to squeeze out super-profits. But in exploiting these countries imperialism is compelled to build these railways, factories and mills, industrial and commercial centers. The appearance of a class of proletarians, the emergence of a native intelligentsia, the awakening of national consciousness, the growth of the liberation movement-such are the inevitable results of this “policy.” The growth of the revolutionary movement in all colonies and dependent countries without exception clearly testifies to this fact. This circumstance is of importance for the proletariat inasmuch as it saps radically the position of capitalism by converting the colonies and dependent countries from reserves of imperialism into reserves of the proletarian revolution. (Stalin) Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life. (Karl Marx) Long-haired preachers come out every night,\ Try to tell you what’s wrong and what’s right;\ But when asked how ’bout something to eat\ They will answer with voices so sweet:\ You will eat, bye and bye,\ In that glorious land above the sky;\ Work and pray, live on hay,\ You’ll get pie in the sky when you die. (Joe Hill) I die like a true blue rebel. Don’t waste any time in mourning. Organize! (Joe Hill) Any fool can know. The point is to understand. (Albert Einstein) Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value. (Albert Einstein) Governments in capitalist society are but committees of the rich to manage the affairs of the capitalist class. (James Connolly) I am not only the conqueror but also the executor of Marxism. (Hitler) We thank Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin for giving us a weapon. This weapon is not a machine-gun, but Marxism-Leninism. (Mao Zedong) The bank mania… is raising up a moneyed aristocracy in our country which has already set the government at defiance, and although forced at length to yield a little on this first essay of their strength, their principles are unyielded and unyielding. These have taken deep root in the hearts of that class from which our legislators are drawn, and the sop to Cerberus from fable has become history. Their principles lay hold of the good, their pelf of the bad, and thus those whom the Constitution had placed as guards to its portals, are sophisticated or suborned from their duties. (Thomas Jefferson) Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. (Aristotélēs) Thus if the First Amendment means anything in this field, it must allow protests even against the moral code that the standard of the day sets for the community. In other words, literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor. (First Amendment) A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government. (Goethe) The history of the human race always has been, and most likely always will be, that of evolution and revolution. (Lewis F. Korns) Let the welfare of the people be the ultimate law. (Marcus Tullius Cicero) If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. (Desmond Tutu) Workers of the world you have nothing to lose but your chains nothing to gain but your freedom. Workers of the world unite. (Karl Marx) Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying. (Bakunin) The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man… (Jean Genet) The revolution is not a moment or a day, the revolution is a way of life. (Tupac Shakur) Revolution is the larva of civilization. (Victor Hugo) Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order. (John V. Lindsay) You cannot buy the Revolution. You cannot make the Revolution. You can only be the Revolution. It is in your spirit or, it is nowhere. (Ursula K. Le Guin) Advance, and never halt. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood. (Khalil Gibran) Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power. (Malcolm X) My children can live without me, but not without dignity. (Aminatou Haidar) Capitalism has now it has become more cowardly, like the vulture, and it can only suck the blood of the helpless. (Malcolm X) There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by sword. The other is by debt. (John Adams) There is no peace but the Pax Romana, a “peace” maintained by violence and threat of violence, by the greed of the privileged and the oppression of the weak and the lowly. … The people of God knew, however, that this was no true peace. The peace and prosperity of the Roman empire depended on the continued oppression and enslavement of almost 95 percent of the population of the known world. The “peace” was meant for the privileged, the top 5 percent who dwelt in the palaces and courts of Rome. (Allan Boesak) Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. (Henry David Thoreau) The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution. (Huey P. Newton) Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. (Edward Everett) When I refuse to obey an unjust law, I do not contest the right of the majority to command, but I simply appeal from the sovereignty of the people to the sovereignty of mankind. (Alexis de Tocqueville) You only have the freedoms you are willing to fight and die for. (Thomas Jefferson) Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear. (Harry Truman) Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. (Albert J. Beveridge) We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. (Thomas Jefferson) All just power is derived from the consent of the governed. (John Locke) No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. (Edmund Burke) Those who cast the votes decide nothing, Those who count the votes decide everything. (Stalin) The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people. (Frank Kent) Those who already walk submissively will say there is no cause for alarm. But submissiveness is not our heritage. The First Amendment was designed to allow rebellion to remain as our heritage. The Constitution was designed to keep government off the backs of the people. The Bill of Rights was added to keep the precincts of belief and expression, of the press, of political and social activities free from surveillance. The Bill of Rights was designed to keep agents of government and official eavesdroppers away from assemblies of people. The aim was to allow men to be free and independent and to assert their rights against government. (Justice William O. Douglas) With terror, tyranny came to power, and with terror, it holds onto its power. The sciences have been subordinated to authoritarian rule. Biology has been falsified, in order to externalize the privileges of the propertied classes. (Manifesto) The great masses of people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one. Especially if it is repeated over and over. (Hitler) Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. (Nietzsche) Every ambitious would-be empire, clarions it abroad that she is conquering the world to bring it peace, security and freedom, and is sacrificing her sons only for the most noble and humanitarian purposes. That is a lie, and it is an ancient lie, yet generations still rise and believe it. (Henry David Thoreau) Where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. (Lord Acton) Fellow workers and peasants, this is the socialist and democratic revolution of the working people, with the working people, and for the working people. And for this revolution of the working people, by the working people, and for the working people we are prepared to give our lives. (Fidel Castro) I am not Christ or a philanthropist. I fight for the things I believe in, with all the weapons at my disposal. (Che Guevara) We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels. (Henry A. Wallace) The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities. (Zbigniew Brzezinski) The mistakes of the Iraq war are not only tactical and strategic, but historical. It is essentially a war of colonialism, attempted in the post-colonial age. (Zbigniew Brzezinski) Power is the great aphrodisiac. (Henry Kissinger) Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class. (Al Capone) The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships, the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas; hence of the relationships which make the one class the ruling one, therefore, the ideas of its dominance. The individuals composing the ruling class possess among other things consciousness, and therefore think. Insofar, therefore, as they rule as a class and determine the extent and compass of an epoch, it is self-evident that they do this in its whole range, hence among other things rule also as thinkers, as producers of ideas, and regulate the production and distribution of the ideas of their age: thus their ideas are the ruling ideas of the epoch. For instance, in an age and in a country where royal power, aristocracy, and bourgeoisie are contending for mastery and where, therefore, mastery is shared, the doctrine of the separation of powers proves to be the dominant idea and is expressed as an “eternal law.” (Karl Marx) I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. (Benjamin Franklin) All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia. (George Orwell) Against the workers the capitalists of all nations and religions are united, but they strive to divide and weaken the workers by national strife! (Lenin) Relief would do no good. Indians breed like rabbits and will outstrip any available food supply. (Churchill) Politicians are the lowest form of life on earth. Liberal Democrats are the lowest form of politicians. (George Patton) The dialectics of history were such that the theoretical victory of Marxism compelled its enemies to disguise themselves as Marxists. Liberalism, rotten within, tried to revive itself in the form of socialist opportunism. They interpreted the period of preparing the forces for great battles as renunciation of these battles. Improvement of the conditions of the slaves to fight against wage slavery they took to mean the sale by the slaves of their right to liberty for a few pence. They cravenly preached “social peace” (i.e., peace with the slave-owners), renunciation of the class struggle, etc. They had very many adherents among socialist members of parliament, various officials of the working-class movement, and the “sympathising” intelligentsia. (Lenin) For the bourgeoisie, freedom of the press meant freedom for the rich to publish and for the capitalists to control the newspapers, a practice which in all countries, including even the freest, produced a corrupt press. (Lenin) Einstein’s relativity work is a magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people take for a king… its exponents are brilliant men but they are metaphysicists rather than scientists. (Nikola Tesla) The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson. (Franklin D. Roosevelt) The Marxist doctrine is omnipotent because it is true. It is comprehensive and harmonious, and provides men with an integral world outlook irreconcilable with any form of superstition, reaction, or defence of bourgeois oppression. It is the legitimate successor to the best that man produced in the nineteenth century, as represented by German philosophy, English political economy and French socialism. (Lenin) The opportunists are a section of the petty bourgeoisie and of a certain strata of the working class who have been bribed out of imperialist superprofits and converted to watchdogs of capitalism and corruptors of the labour movement. (Lenin) Joseph Stalin was a great man; few other men of the 20th century approach his stature. He was simple, calm and courageous. He seldom lost his poise; pondered his problems slowly, made his decisions clearly and firmly; never yielded to ostentation nor coyly refrained from holding his rightful place with dignity. He was the son of a serf but stood calmly before the great without hesitation or nerves. But also – and this was the highest proof of his greatness – he knew the common man, felt his problems, followed his fate. (W. E. B. Du Bois) The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil. We see before us a huge community of producers the members of which are unceasingly striving to deprive each other of the fruits of their collective labour…I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals. (Albert Einstein) Powerful people in the American ruling class fear democracy. (Tim Robbins) In Germany they first came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up because I was a protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time there was nobody left to speak up. (Martin Niem?ller) It is the function of the CIA to keep the world unstable, and to propagandize and teach the American people to hate, so we will let the Establishment spend any amount of money on arms. (John Stockwell) I want to tell you something very clear, don’t worry about American pressure on Israel, we, the Jewish people control America, and the Americans know it. (Ariel Sharon) We Jews regard our race as superior to all humanity, and look forward, not to its ultimate union with other races, but to its triumph over them. (Goldwin Smith) I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in ’47, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo. (Harry Truman) We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world – no longer a Government of free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men. (Thomas Woodrow Wilson) All over the world, people need change. The change? Getting control over the power and resources they need to solve their problems. (Jeremy Brecher) We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories. (Cecil Rhodes) We have a single system, and in that system the only question is the price at which the proletariat is to be bought and sold, the bread and circuses.” ” The whole fabric of society will go to wrack if we really lay hands of reform on our rotten institutions. From top to bottom the whole system is a fraud, all of us know it, laborers and capitalists alike, and all of us are consenting parties to it. (Henry Adams) If you liked El Salvador, you’re going to love Colombia. It’s the same death squads, the same military aid, and the same whitewash from Washington. (Carlos Salinas) Today, the United States and Somalia are the only two countries in the world which haven’t ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. And since Somalia is a country with no internationally recognized government, the United States essentially stands alone as the last holdout to legally guarantee children the same full range of human rights … agreed to by 191 other sovereign states. (Catherine Langevin-Falcon) America is today the leader of a world-wide anti-revolutionary movement in the defense of vested interests. She now stands for what Rome stood for. Rome consistently supported the rich against the poor in all foreign communities that fell under her sway; and, since the poor, so far, have always and everywhere been far more numerous than the rich, Rome’s policy made for inequality, for injustice, and for the least happiness of the greatest number. (Arnold Joseph Toynbee) All the emphasis on crime and drugs and pornography used to justify the suppression of the internet is really aimed at suppressing knowledge of the radical politic alternatives that are now available. (Tony Benn) This antagonism is artificially kept alive and intensified by the press, the pulpit, the comic papers, in short, by all the means at the disposal of the ruling classes. This antagonism is the secret of the impotence of the English working class, despite its organisation. It is the secret by which the capitalist class maintains its power. And the latter is quite aware of this. (Karl Marx) Fascism is a reactionary force which is trying to preserve the old system by means of violence. What will you do with the fascists? Argue with them? Try to convince them? But this will have no effect upon them at all. Communists do not in the least idealise the methods of violence. But they, the Communists, do not want to be taken by surprise, they cannot count on the old world voluntarily departing from the stage, they see that the old system is violently defending itself, and that is why the Communists say to the working class : Answer violence with violence; do all you can to prevent the old dying order from crushing you, do not permit it to put manacles on your hands, on the hands with which you will overthrow the old system. As you see, the Communists regard the substitution of one social system for another, not simply as a spontaneous and peaceful process, but as a complicated, long and violent process. Communists cannot ignore facts. (Stalin) The Deep State not only holds the nation’s capital in thrall, but it also controls Wall Street (“which supplies the cash that keeps the political machine quiescent and operating as a diversionary marionette theater”) and Silicon Valley. This is fascism in its most covert form, hiding behind public agencies and private companies to carry out its dirty deeds. It is a marriage between government bureaucrats and corporate fat cats. (John W. Whitehead) Real liberty can exist only where exploitation has been abolished, where there is no oppression of some by others, where there is no unemployment and poverty, where a man is not haunted by the fear of being tomorrow deprived of work, of home and of bread. Only in such a society is real, and not paper, personal and every other liberty possible. (Stalin) In one way or another, all official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery. (Lenin) All that modern nations have achieved is to disguise slavery at home and import it openly into the New World. (Karl Marx) Trotsky groups all the enemies of Marxism. (Lenin) The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do. (Samuel P. Huntington) Of course, I am against fascism with its spread of color prejudice and race hatred and working class oppression. How could any sensible Negro be otherwise? (Aldous Huxley) Fascism presented itself not only as an alternative, but also as the heir to socialism. (J.L. Talmon) The laws of social development are not identical with the laws in the natural sciences. The content of the social laws is not nature but second nature: coagulated history. They are manmade, but they also make men; they are dialectical, at once subject and object. (Russell Jacoby) Since those who rule in the city do so because they own a lot, I suppose they’re unwilling to enact laws to prevent young people who’ve had no discipline from spending and wasting their wealth, so that by making loans to them, secured by the young people’s property, and then calling those loans in, they themselves become even richer and more honored. (Plátōn) There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people. (Howard Zinn) A party is the vanguard of a class, and its duty is to lead the masses and not merely to reflect the average political level of the masses. (Lenin) The rich have grown richer, but their tax rate has declined. The poor have grown poorer, but their taxes have increased. (Michael Parenti) There is no escape for capitalism save the escape of death. Do what they may, they cannot get out of the continual circle of ever-rising prices, piling debts, unemployment, war and threats, of war, and all the time the rising tide of the anger of the people at home and in the subject countries abroad. It is their knowledge of this which inspires their panic fear of Bolshevism, even when the actual movement is as weak as a child; until by the very noise of their panic they help to create what they are seeking to destroy. It is their knowledge of this which is making them fight with all the ferocity and violence of a trapped animal. They are in panic because they know their failure; they are violent because they know they are not strong. And it is this same knowledge, which gives the confidence of absolute assurance to the Communist struggle. (R. Palme Dutt) The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention. (Khalil Gibran) Of course, in the United States of America, in Britain, as also in France, there are aggressive forces thirsting for a new war. They need war to obtain super-profits, to plunder other countries. These are the billionaires and millionaires who regard war as an item of income which gives colossal profits. (Stalin) Only Socialism can finally end imperialist wars by ending their cause—the class system of society. The victory of Socialism in the leading countries of the world means the end of war, because it ends the jungle-fight of the exploiters over the spoils; it ends the fight for profits, spheres of influence, colonies, markets and monopolist domination. Socialism means the freedom and brotherhood of all nations without distinction of race or colour. Socialism means that all peoples freely organise their production for use, for common advantage. (R. Palme Dutt) Compared to feudalism, capitalism was an historical advance along the road of “liberty”, “equality”, “democracy” and “civilisation”. Nevertheless capitalism was, and remains, a system of wage-slavery, of the enslavement of millions of working people, workers and peasants, by an insignificant minority of modern slave-owners, landowners and capitalists. Bourgeois democracy, as compared to feudalism, has changed the form of this economic slavery, has created a brilliant screen for it but has not, and could not, change its essence. Capitalism and bourgeois democracy are wage-slavery. (Lenin) Let her sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world. (Napoléon Bonaparte) Two basic steps are thus required: first to identify the geostrategically dynamic Eurasian states that have the power to cause a potentially important shift in the international distribution of power and to decipher the central external goals of their respective political elites and the likely consequences of their seeking to attain them; […] second to formulate specific U.S. policies to offset, co-opt, and/or control the above. (Zbigniew Brzezinski) If the American people ever find out what we have done, they would chase us down the street and lynch us. (George H. W. Bush) Any country that has Milton Friedman as an adviser has nothing to fear from a few million Arabs. (John Kenneth Galbraith) There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones. (Bertolt Brecht) Stalin is the savior of all the oppressed. (Mao Zedong) I am a Communist and my painting is Communist painting. (Picasso) The colonists usually say that it was they who brought us into history: today we show that this is not so. They made us leave history, our history, to follow them, right at the back, to follow the progress of their history. (Amilcar Cabral) The state is a special organization of force: it is an organization of violence for the suppression of some class. What class must the proletariat suppress? Naturally, only the exploiting class, i.e., the bourgeoisie. The working people need the state only to suppress the resistance of the exploiters, and only the proletariat can direct this suppression, can carry it out. For the proletariat is the only class that is consistently revolutionary, the only class that can unite all the working and exploited people in the struggle against the bourgeoisie, in completely removing it. (Lenin) All over the world, wherever there are capitalists, freedom of the press means freedom to buy up newspapers, to buy writers, to bribe, buy and fake “public opinion” for the benefit of the bourgeoisie. (Lenin) The state is a machine for the oppression of one class by another, a machine for holding in obedience to one class other, subordinated classes. There are various forms of this machine. The slave-owning state could be a monarchy, an aristocratic republic or even a democratic republic. In fact the forms of government varied extremely, but their essence was always the same: the slaves enjoyed no rights and constituted an oppressed class; they were not regarded as human beings. We find the same thing in the feudal state. (Lenin) Capitalism reveals itself in fact, with the increase of concentration and the power of production, not as a growingly harmonious and organised system of world production, but as a growingly violent system of antagonisms. (R. Palme Dutt) The old ignorant Malthusian notions of absolute “overpopulation,” or the modern lugubrious chants of birth-control as the necessary solution of poverty, are thus abundantly exploded by facts. It is worth noting that this reactionary propaganda is still maintained, not only in clerical and con- servative quarters, but also by the would-be “progressive” (actually, as we shall have occasion to see, one of the real bulwarks of conservatism in England) Labour Party. (R. Palme Dutt) Fascism accordingly requires for its full realisation the “totalitarian” terroristic class-State. Social Democracy controls the workers most favourably and successfully in the liberal-parliamentary class-State, utilising its own “internal” methods of discipline, and occasional State coercion, for the suppression of all militant struggle. Fascism operates primarily by coercion alongside of deception. Social Democracy operates primarily by deception, alongside of coercion. It is this combined relationship of difference in method and parallelism in basic aim and role that underlies Stalin’s definition, given already in 1924 (“Main Factors of the Present International Situation,” Communist International, English edition 1924, No. 6), that “Social Democracy objectively represents the moderate wing of Fascism.” (R. Palme Dutt) Fascism by all the above tests is economically identical with Capitalism, representing only a special method to maintain its power and hold down the workers. Fascism is profit-making society, is class-society, is society based on exploitation. Alike in Italy and in Germany, production is carried on for profit; the means of production are the property of a small minority, the upper strata of whom draw large incomes through their ownership; the mass of the workers are cut off from ownership, and work for a wage, producing surplus-value for the owners, or are left unemployed, if it is not profitable to employ them. All these are the familiar characteristics of capitalism in all countries, as are equally the crisis, depression, decline of production and mass unemployment. The Fascist countries show no difference from the other capitalist countries in any of these respects. Fascist Italy and Fascist Germany are no better off than non-Fascist France and non-Fascist Britain (in fact worse off, but for reasons not necessarily connected with Fascism); they are all economically in the same boat, in the capitalist boat. The only contrast is provided by the land of socialist construction, the Soviet Union, with its ending of unemployment and gigantic rise of production alongside the decline in all Fascist or other capitalist countries. (R. Palme Dutt) Principle of the transfusion. As a rule propaganda always operates from a preexisting substrate, be it a national mythology or a complex of traditional hatreds and prejudices; It is a matter of spreading arguments that can be rooted in primitive attitudes. (Joseph Goebbels) I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in anyway the social and political equality of the white and black races – that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race. (Abraham Lincoln) The owners of the Washington Post long ago acknowledged that the Post is the government’s voice to the people. In 1981, Katherine Graham, who owns the Post and Newsweek announced that her editors would “cooperate with the national security interests.” National security in this context means “CIA.” (John Stockwell) The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all … The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor. The majority of mankind are working people. So long as their fair demands – the ownership and control of their livelihoods – are set at naught, we can have neither men’s rights nor women’s rights. The majority of mankind is ground down by industrial oppression in order that the small remnant may live in ease. (Helen Keller) Marxism differs from all primitive forms of socialism by not binding the movement to any one particular form of struggle. It recognises the most varied forms of struggle; and it does not “concoct” them, but only generalises, organises, gives conscious expression to those forms of struggle of the revolutionary classes which arise of themselves in the course of the movement. Absolutely hostile to all abstract formulas and to all doctrinaire recipes, Marxism demands an attentive attitude to the mass struggle in progress, which, as the movement develops, as the class-consciousness of the masses grows, as economic and political crises become acute, continually gives rise to new and more varied methods of defence and attack. Marxism, therefore, positively does not reject any form of struggle. (Lenin) Pre-Marxist socialism has been defeated. It is continuing the struggle, no longer on its own independent ground, but on the general ground of Marxism, as revisionism. (Lenin) The traitors, blockheads and pedants of the Second International could never understand such dialectics; the proletariat cannot achieve victory if it does not win the majority of the population to its side. But to limit that winning to polling a majority of votes in an election under the rule of the bourgeoisie, or to make it the condition for it, is crass stupidity, or else sheer deception of the workers. In order to win the majority of the population to its side the proletariat must, in the first p]ace, overthrow the bourgeoisie and seize state power; secondly, it must introduce Soviet power and complete]y smash the old state apparatus, whereby it immediately undermines the rule, prestige and influence of the bourgeoisie and petty-bourgeois compromisers over the non-proletarian working people. Thirdly, it must entirely destroy the influence of the bourgeoisie and petty-bourgeois compromisers over the majority of the non-proletarian masses by satisfying their economic needs in a revolutionary way at the expense of the exploiters. (Lenin) Lev Parnas and Rachel Maddow blow the lid off Trump’s coverup #ClassWarfare https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/lev-parnas-and-rachel-maddow-blow-the-lid-off-trumps-coverup/ Lev Parnas and Rachel Maddow blow the lid off Trump’s coverup By Blake Deppe from People's World Lev Parnas, in his bombshell interview Wednesday night with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow literally blew the lid off the entire conspiracy surrounding the scandal for which President Trump has been impeached and for which he is now on trial before the U.S. Senate. Sports fans against face recognition https://gnusocial.no/url/1793292 In conversation about 2 hours ago from RSS (see mattl.io) permalink Planned picket line against CNN would have stopped Des Moines Democratic debate #ClassWarfare https://gnusocial.no/url/1793288 Planned picket line against CNN would have stopped Des Moines Democratic debate DES MOINES, Iowa (PAI)—The Jan. 14 debate between six Democratic presidential hopefuls in Des Moines, Iowa, almost fell through. The reason it didn’t was pressure on its broadcaster, the Cable News Network (CNN), by Democratic National Chairman Thomas Perez, a former Obama administration Labor S... Rep. Duncan Hunter pleads guilty, resigns, goes to prison, collects lifetime pension #ClassWarfare https://gnusocial.no/url/1793287 Rep. Duncan Hunter pleads guilty, resigns, goes to prison, collects lifetime pension One of these centuries soon—but really, soon—Congress has got to come to grips with the problem of its errant members. So far, for the crimes you commit, you can be ordered to stop voting on bills, you can be deprived of all committee assignments, and of course you won’t be held accountable fo... Winston Churchill: (To Benito Mussolini:) If I had been an Italian, I am sure I would have been entirely with you from the beginning to the end of your victorious struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism. https://protestationblog.wordpress.com/quotes7/#quotenr6316 English quotes 7 Since 1845 Marx and I have held the view that one of the ultimate results of the future proletarian revolution will be the gradual dissolution of the political organisation known by the name of state. The main object of this organisation has always been to secure, by armed force, the economic oppression of the labouring majority by the minority which alone possesses wealth. (Friedrich Engels) Debt is the prolific mother of folly and of crime. (Benjamin Disraeli) The revolutionary proletariat cannot be victorious unless this evil is combated, unless the opportunist, social-traitor leaders are exposed, discredited and expelled. That is the policy the Third International has embarked on. (Lenin) For me the Jewish religion like all others is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions. (Albert Einstein) Because they didn’t know better, they called it “civilization, ” when it was part of their slavery. (Cornelius Tacitus) In those countries, it is actually capital that rules; that is, nothing more than a clique of a few hundred men who possess untold wealth and, as a consequence of the peculiar structure of their national life, are more or less independent and free. They say: ‘Here we have liberty.’ By this they mean, above all, an uncontrolled economy, and by an uncontrolled economy, the freedom not only to acquire capital but to make absolutely free use of it. That means freedom from national control or control by the people both in the acquisition of capital and in its employment. This is really what they mean when they speak of liberty. These capitalists create their own press and then speak of the ‘freedom of the press.’ In reality, every one of the newspapers has a master, and in every case this master is the capitalist, the owner. This master, not the editor, is the one who directs the policy of the paper. If the editor tries to write other than what suits the master, he is ousted the next day. This press, which is the absolutely submissive and characterless slave of the owners, molds public opinion. (Hitler) The Chinese Trotskyists (like the Trotskyists of other countries) do not represent a political group, much less a political party. They are nothing but a band of evil-doers, the running dogs of Japanese fascism (and of international fascism). (Ho Chi Minh) The process of revolution is — on a historical scale — synonymous with the process of the development of proletarian class consciousness. (Gy?rgy Lukács) In Marx the dialectical method aims at understanding society as a whole. Bourgeois thought concerns itself with objects that arise either from the process of studying phenomena in isolation, or from the division of labor and specialisation in the different disciplines. (Gy?rgy Lukács) From a very early stage the ideological history of the bourgeoisie was nothing but a desperate resistance to every insight into the true nature of the society it had created. (Gy?rgy Lukács) In our progress toward a resumption of work we require two safeguards against a return of the evils of the old order; there must be a strict supervision of all banking and credits and investments; there must be an end to speculation with other people’s money, and there must be provision for an adequate but sound currency. (Franklin D. Roosevelt) How small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem at a distance of a few million miles. (H. G. Wells) Revolutions are not push button affairs; rather, they evolve only if there exists a reservoir of hope and grievance that can be galvanized into popular action. (Michael Parenti) A nation is not a racial or tribal, but a historically constituted community of people. (Stalin) It doesn’t matter whether the cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice. (Deng Xiaoping) Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line. (Cornelius Tacitus) The progressive historical role of capitalism may be summed up in two brief propositions: increase in the productive forces of social labour, and the socialisation of that labour. But both these facts manifest themselves in extremely diverse processes in different branches of the national economy. (Lenin) Goebbels […] was using my book Crystallizing Public Opinion as a basis for his destructive campaign against the Jews of Germany. This shocked me. (Edward Bernays) The Nazi state was created by the same oligarchical financial and political interests who today control what we call the mass media and television. Forget about whatever stories you have seen on television about how Hitler came to power: His path to power was cleared by the same oligarchs who employ the brainwashers that program your television. Over a period of years, following the First World War, Germany was brutalized by the economic policy of this international (ETK: Jewish) elite. Hitler’s Nazis were funded and promoted as a political option, and then steered into power in 1932-1933. Once in power, the Nazis maintained their hold through the use of terror as part of mass brainwashing. In many ways it were proper to view the Nazi period as an experiment in methods of mass brainwashing and social control. (Lonnie Wolfe) Is that to say we are against Free Trade? No, we are for Free Trade, because by Free Trade all economical laws, with their most astounding contradictions, will act upon a larger scale, upon the territory of the whole earth; and because from the uniting of all these contradictions in a single group, where they will stand face to face, will result the struggle which will itself eventuate in the emancipation of the proletariat. (Karl Marx) The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and too often by the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in step and obey in silence the tyrannous word of command. Then, more than ever, it is the duty of the good citizen not to be silent. (Charles Eliot Norton) A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets. (Napoléon Bonaparte) Revolutions never go backwards. (Wendell Phillips) The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. (Camus) Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. (JFK) The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I. (Karl Liebknecht) Capitalist states can maintain themselves only by crime. (Bakunin) Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people! (Malcolm X) Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. (Martin Luther King, Jr.) Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind. (C. C. Colton) A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves. (Bertrand de Jouvenel) Revolutions are the locomotives of history. (Karl Marx) Fight the power that be. Fight the power. (Spike Lee) A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything. (Malcolm X) An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere. (Samuel Johnson) The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams. Wake up! (Tupac Shakur) The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. (Aristotélēs) They that start by burning books will end by burning men. (Heinrich Heine) I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world. (Eugene V. Debs) When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect. (Thomas Paine) When I was asked about any weapon capable of surpassing the power of the atomic bomb, I suggested the best of all: Peace. (Albert Einstein) Experience has proved that, on certain very important questions of the proletarian revolution, all countries will inevitably have to do what Russia has done. (Lenin) The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. (Thomas Jefferson) Find out just what the people will submit to and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. (Frederick Douglass) Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death. (Hitler) During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. (George Orwell) The Struggle of Guevara against the US was the struggle of the Spirit against Matter. (Ernesto Sábato) No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. (Edmund Burke) The first stage of fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of State and corporate power. (Mussolini) But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. (The Declaration of Independence) Hegel remarks somewhere that history tends to repeat itself. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. (Karl Marx) Behind the visible government there is an invisible government upon the throne that owes the people no loyalty and recognizes no responsibility. To destroy this invisible government, to undo the ungodly union between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the task of a statesman. (Theodore Roosevelt) You let men in power assume power “for the Little Man”. But you yourself remain silent. You give men in power or impotent people with evil intentions the power to represent you. Only too late do you realize that again and again you are being defrauded. (Wilhelm Reich) Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. (James Madison) The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. (Thomas Jefferson) The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust [our own] government statements. (James W. Fulbright) There is no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war… Except its ending. (Albert Einstein) Ignorance and obscurantism have never produced anything other than flocks of slaves for tyranny. (Zapata) With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power. (Henry A. Wallace) We have a large public that is very ignorant about public affairs and very susceptible to simplistic slogans by candidates who appear out of nowhere, have no track record, but mouth appealing slogans. (Zbigniew Brzezinski) …foreign policy of a pluralistic democracy like the United States should be based on bipartisanship because bipartisanship is the means and the framework for formulating policies based on moderation and on the recognition of the complexity of the human condition. That has been the tradition since the days of Truman and Vandenberg all the way until recent times. (Zbigniew Brzezinski) You can’t make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can’t make peace without Syria. (Henry Kissinger) Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don’t understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn’t like a Sunday suit to be brought out and worn only for parades. It’s the kind of a life a decent man leads, it’s something to live for and to die for. (Dalton Trumbo) The problem with capitalism is that it best rewards the worst part of us. (Michael Parenti) The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism. (Karl Marx) Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. (Benjamin Franklin) We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace: business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob. (Franklin D. Roosevelt) Today’s Conservatives Are Fascists: Torture, dictatorship, phony `elections, ‘ and endless war – it’s fascism with a `democratic’ face. (Justin Raimondo) It is well known that the black race is the most oppressed and most exploited of the human family. It is well known that the spread of capitalism and the discovery of the New World had as an immediate result the rebirth of slavery which was, for centuries, a scourge for the Negroes and a bitter disgrace for mankind. What everyone does not perhaps know, is that after sixty-five years of so-called emancipation, American Negroes still endure atrocious moral and material sufferings, of which the most cruel and horrible is the custom of lynching. (Ho Chi Minh) (To Benito Mussolini:) If I had been an Italian, I am sure I would have been entirely with you from the beginning to the end of your victorious struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism. (Churchill) We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false. (William Casey) The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes. (Benjamin Disraeli) Since there can be no talk of an independent ideology formulated by the working masses themselves in the process of their movement, the only choice is — either bourgeois or socialist ideology. There is no middle course (for mankind has not created a “third” ideology, and, moreover, in a society torn by class antagonisms there can never be a non-class or an above-class ideology). Hence, to belittle the socialist ideology in any way, to turn aside from it in the slightest degree means to strengthen bourgeois ideology. There is much talk of spontaneity. But the spontaneous development of the working-class movement leads to its subordination to bourgeois ideology, to its development along the lines of the Credo programme; for the spontaneous working-class movement is trade-unionism, is Nur-Gewerkschaftlerei, and trade unionism means the ideological enslavement of the workers by the bourgeoisie. (Lenin) The obliging Trotsky is more dangerous than an enemy! (Lenin) I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy. (Stalin) Wealthy men can’t live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance. (Ayrton Senna) The common elements of fascism — extreme nationalism, social Darwinism, the leadership principle, elitism, anti-liberalism, anti-egalitarianism, anti-democracy, intolerance, glorification of war, the supremacy of the state and anti-intellectualism — together form a rather loose doctrine. Fascism emphasises action rather than theory, and fascist theoretical writings are always weak. (Ian Adams) In fascist countries capitalism only survives as Fascism, and Fascism can only be resisted as capitalism, as the most naked, brazen, offensive, and deceitful form of capitalism. (Bertolt Brecht) But what counter-insurgency really comes down to is the protection of the capitalists back in America, their property and their privileges. US national security, as preached by US leaders, is the security of the capitalist class in the US, not the security of the rest of the people. (Philip Agee) We now live in a state of permanent war – a global arms industry, apparently the largest single international business, must have its products used up so more can be sold. There must be profits for the capitalists and jobs for the proles… Are we not still in Caligula’s Rome? (David Watson) … the media in the United States effectively represents the interests of corporate America, and … the media elite are the watchdogs of what constitutes acceptable ideological messages, the parameters of news and information content, and the general use of media resources. (Peter Phillips) A considerable proportion of the developed world’s prosperity rests on paying the lowest possible prices for the poor countries’ primary products and on exporting high-cost capital and finished goods to those countries. Continuation of this kind of prosperity requires continuation of the relative gap between developed and underdeveloped countries – it means keeping poor people poor. Increasingly, the impoverished masses are understanding that the prosperity of the developed countries and of the privileged minorities in their own countries is founded on their poverty. (Philip Agee) All national institutions of Churches appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and to monopolise power and profit. (Thomas Paine) Don’t be deceived when they tell you things are better now. Even if there’s no poverty to be seen because the poverty’s been hidden. Even if you ever got more wages and could afford to buy more of these new and useless goods which industries foist on you and even if it seems to you that you never had so much, that is only the slogan of those who still have much more than you. Don’t be taken in when they paternally pat you on the shoulder and say that there’s no inequality worth speaking of and no more reason to fight because if you believe them they will be completely in charge in their marble homes and granite banks from which they rob the people of the world under the pretence of bringing them culture. Watch out, for as soon as it pleases them they’ll send you out to protect their gold in wars whose weapons, rapidly developed by servile scientists, will become more and more deadly until they can with a flick of the finger tear a million of you to pieces. (Jean-Paul Marat) The U.S.A. has supplied arms, security equipment and training to governments and armed groups that have committed torture, political killings and other human rights abuses in countries around the world. (Amnesty International) [Nationalism is] a set of beliefs taught to each generation in which the Motherland or the Fatherland is an object of veneration and becomes a burning cause for which one becomes willing to kill the children of other Motherlands or Fatherlands. (Howard Zinn) There is …a huge tacit conspiracy between the U.S. government, its agencies and its multinational corporations, on the one hand, and local business and military cliques in the Third World, on the other, to assume complete control of these countries and “develop” them on a joint venture basis. The military leaders of the Third World were carefully nurtured by the U.S. security establishment to serve as the “enforcers” of this joint venture partnership, and they have been duly supplied with machine guns and the latest data on methods of interrogation of subversives. (Edward Herman) Freedom of the Press belongs to the man who owns one. (A. J. Liebling) In many respects, we now live in a society that is only formally democratic, as the great mass of citizens have minimal say on the major public issues of the day, and such issues are scarcely debated at all in any meaningful sense in the electoral arena. In our society, corporations and the wealthy enjoy a power every bit as immense as that assumed to have been enjoyed by the lords and royalty of feudal times. (Robert McChesney) The actual state of violence composed of the malnutrition, ignorance, sickness and hunger of the vast majority of the Guatemalan population, is the direct result of a capitalist system that makes the defenseless Indian compete against the powerful and well-armed landowner. (Thomas Melville) Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship. (William Blum) … several of the greatest American corporate leaders were in league with Nazi corporations before and after Pearl Harbor, including I.G. Farben, the colossal Nazi industrial trust that created Auschwitz. (Charles Higham) How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again! (Mark Twain) Nor will there be planned economy. What is planned economy? What are some of its attributes? Planned economy tries to abolish unemployment. Let us suppose it is possible, while preserving the capitalist system, to reduce unemployment to a certain minimum. But surely, no capitalist would ever agree to the complete abolition of unemployment, to the abolition of the reserve army of unemployed, the purpose of which is to bring pressure on the labour market, to ensure a supply of cheap labour. You will never compel a capitalist to incur loss to himself and agree to a lower rate of profit for the sake of satisfying the needs of the people. (Stalin) The slave is sold once and for all; the proletarian must sell himself daily and hourly. (Friedrich Engels) A learned man is not one who uses complicated and difficult words in spoken and written language, but one who uses words that are easily understood by ordinary people. (Kim Jong-il) Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists. (Nikola Tesla) There’s a class warfare, all right, but it’s my class that’s making war, and we’re winning. (Warren Buffett) I was in the East End of London (a working-class quarter) yesterday and attended a meeting of the unemployed. I listened to the wild speeches, which were just a cry for ‘bread! bread!’ and on my way home I pondered over the scene and I became more than ever convinced of the importance of imperialism…. My cherished idea is a solution for the social problem, i.e., in order to save the 40,000,000 inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, we colonial statesmen must acquire new lands to settle the surplus population, to provide new markets for the goods produced in the factories and mines. The Empire, as I have always said, is a bread and butter question. If you want to avoid civil war, you must become imperialists. (Cecil Rhodes) [Fascism is] a genuinely revolutionary, trans-class form of anti-liberal, and in the last analysis, anti conservative nationalism. As such it is an ideology deeply bound up with modernization and modernity, one which has assumed a considerable variety of external forms to adapt itself to the particular historical and national context in which it appears, and has drawn a wide range of cultural and intellectual currents, both left and right, anti-modern and pro-modern, to articulate itself as a body of ideas, slogans, and doctrine. In the inter-war period it manifested itself primarily in the form of an elite-led “armed party” which attempted, mostly unsuccessfully, to generate a populist mass movement through a liturgical style of politics and a programme of radical policies which promised to overcome a threat posed by international socialism, to end the degeneration affecting the nation under liberalism, and to bring about a radical renewal of its social, political and cultural life as part of what was widely imagined to be the new era being inaugurated in Western civilization. The core mobilizing myth of fascism which conditions its ideology, propaganda, style of politics and actions is the vision of the nation’s imminent rebirth from decadence. (Roger Griffin) If the Fascist ideology cannot be described as a simple response to Marxism, its origins, on the other hand, were the direct result of very specific revision of Marxism. It was a revision of Marxism and not a variety of Marxism or a consequence of Marxism…It was the French and Italian Sorelians, the theoreticians of revolutionary syndicalism who made this new and original revision of Marxism, and precisely this was their contribution to the birth of the Fascist ideology. (Zeev Sternhell) Existentialism is bourgeois ideology in the hour of its defeat. (Russell Jacoby) The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable. (Thucydides) If you live, live free or die like the trees, standing up. (Mahmoud Darwish) The dictatorship of the proletariat, i.e., the organization of the vanguard of the oppressed as the ruling class for the purpose of suppressing the oppressors, cannot result merely in an expansion of democracy. Simultaneously with an immense expansion of democracy, which for the first time becomes democracy for the poor, democracy for the people, and not democracy for the money-bags, the dictatorship of the proletariat imposes a series of restrictions on the freedom of the oppressors, the exploiters, the capitalists. (Lenin) It is ironic that people of modest means sometimes become conservative out of a scarcity fear bred by the very capitalist system they support. (Michael Parenti) Radical simply means ‘grasping things at the root.’ (Angela Davis) So long as wage-slavery exists, inevitably prostitution too will exist. All the oppressed and exploited classes throughout the history of human societies have always been forced (and it is in this that their exploitation consists) to give up to their oppressors, first, their unpaid labour and, second, their women as concubines for the “masters”. Slavery, feudalism and capitalism are identical in this respect. It is only the form of exploitation that changes; the exploitation itself remains. (Lenin) Today literature, even that published “legally”, can be nine-tenths party literature. It must become party literature In contradistinction to bourgeois customs, to the profit-making, commercialised bourgeois press, to bourgeois literary careerism and individualism, “aristocratic anarchism” and drive for profit, the socialist proletariat must put forward the principle of party literature, must develop this principle and put it into practice as fully and completely as possible. (Lenin) Develop the class struggles. Organize the proletariat. Start the armed resistance! (Gudrun Ensslin) Thus, this war is a war of one set of exploiters against another set of exploiters. It is a war of rival capitalist Great Powers, like the last war: a war for world domination : for the largest share in the exploitation of the world; for possessions, profits, markets and spheres of influence; for the new division of the world. The interests of the working people in all countries are wholly opposed to this conflict of imperialist Powers for world domination, in which the people are sacrificed for the profit of the exploiters. (R. Palme Dutt) This type of struggle provides us with the opportunity to become revolutionaries, the highest level of the human species. At the same time, it enables us to emerge fully as men. (Che Guevara) The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt. (John Kenneth Galbraith) You speak of your “devotion” to me. Perhaps it was just a chance phrase. Perhaps. . . . But if the phrase was not accidental I would advise you to discard the “principle” of devotion to persons. It is not the Bolshevik way. Be devoted to the working class, its Party, its state. That is a fine and useful thing. But do not confuse it with devotion to persons, this vain and useless bauble of weak-minded intellectuals. (Stalin) He (Stalin) established unity in the Soviet Union. He consolidated what Lenin had begun: party unity. He gave the international revolutionary movement a new impetus. The USSR’s industrialization was one of Stalin’s wisest actions. (Fidel Castro) Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories. (Amilcar Cabral) The state is, therefore, by no means a power forced on society from without; just as little is it ’the reality of the ethical idea’, ’the image and reality of reason’, as Hegel maintains. Rather, it is a product of society at a certain stage of development; it is the admission that this society has become entangled in an insoluble contradiction with itself, that it has split into irreconcilable antagonisms which it is powerless to dispel. But in order that these antagonisms, these classes with conflicting economic interests, might not consume themselves and society in fruitless struggle, it became necessary to have a power, seemingly standing above society, that would alleviate the conflict and keep it within the bounds of ’order’; and this power, arisen out of society but placing itself above it, and alienating itself more and more from it, is the state. (Friedrich Engels) The state is a machine for maintaining the rule of one class over another. When there were no classes in society, when, before the epoch of slavery, people laboured in primitive conditions of greater equality, in conditions when the productivity of labour was still at its lowest, and when primitive man could barely procure the wherewithal for the crudest and most primitive existence, a special group of people whose function is to rule and to dominate the rest of society, had not and could not yet have emerged. Only when the first form of the division of society into classes appeared, only when slavery appeared, when a certain class of people, by concentrating on the crudest forms of agricultural labour, could produce a certain surplus, when this surplus was not absolutely essential for the most wretched existence of the slave and passed into the hands of the slave-owner, when in this way the existence of this class of slave-owners was secure—then in order that it might take firm root it was necessary for a state to appear. (Lenin) Labor is a commodity, like any other, and its price is therefore determined by exactly the same laws that apply to other commodities. In a regime of big industry or of free competition – as we shall see, the two come to the same thing – the price of a commodity is, on the average, always equal to its cost of production. Hence, the price of labor is also equal to the cost of production of labor. But, the costs of production of labor consist of precisely the quantity of means of subsistence necessary to enable the worker to continue working, and to prevent the working class from dying out. The worker will therefore get no more for his labor than is necessary for this purpose; the price of labor, or the wage, will, in other words, be the lowest, the minimum, required for the maintenance of life. (Friedrich Engels) Working class women have more in common with working class men than they do with women like Margaret Thatcher and Edwina Currie, because their oppression as women stems from the exploitation which all the working class suffers. Thatcher and Currie are representatives of the exploiting class, whose interests are in direct conflict with the interests of working class men and women. (Eleanor Leacock) Fascism cannot be interpreted in terms of its own alleged political “theories,” but only in terms of its service to finance-capital. (R. Palme Dutt) Principle of the silencing. To silence on the questions on which there are no arguments and to disguise the news that favors the adversary, also counterprogramando with the aid of related media. (Joseph Goebbels) To pay for the arms race the nation has to cut thousands of social programs, … The nation cannot go wild on military expenditures and also afford to care for old people, poor people, disabled people, farmers, or students. (John Stockwell) Official Washington cannot tell the American people that the real purpose of its gargantuan military expenditures and belligerent interventions is to make the world safe for General Motors, General Electric, General Dynamics, and all the other generals. (Michael Parenti) Either materialism consistent to the end, or the falsehood and confusion of philosophical idealism. (Lenin) The bourgeoisie needs hirelings who enjoy the trust of a section of the working class, whitewash and prettify the bourgeoisie with talk about the reformist path being possible, throw dust in the eyes of the people by such talk, and divert the people from revolution by giving glowing descriptions of the charms and possibilities of the reformist path. (Lenin) Grenfell: Johnson appoints engineer with links to the firm that made the tower's cladding to the inquiry #ClassWarfare https://gnusocial.no/url/1793285 Grenfell: Johnson appoints engineer with links to the firm that made the tower's cladding to the inquiry from Morning Star Former Labour MP Emma Dent Coad tells the Star that the PM has driven the ‘final nail in the coffin’ of justice Momentum confirms it's backing Long Bailey for the Labour leadership #ClassWarfare https://gnusocial.no/url/1793284 Momentum confirms it's backing Long Bailey for the Labour leadership PUERTO RICO: Trump Finally Releases Aid with Restrictions After Major Earthquakes #ClassWarfare https://gnusocial.no/url/1793282 PUERTO RICO: Trump Finally Releases Aid with Restrictions After Major?Earthquakes By incendiarynewsservice from Incendiary Photo: Rubble from a church destroyed by the ongoing wave of seismic activity in Puerto Rico By Joseph Magyar and Ben Robinson On Wednesday, US President Donald Trump finally announced he would lift a block on $8 billion of previously allocated disaster aid meant for Puerto Rico after months of withholding the money, but it came with several restrictions which could further delay its release. On January 7, a 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck the southern coast of Puerto Rico, the second major earthquake in the course of two days, compounding the dire situation in the country, which has still never fully recovered from the devastation of Hurricane Maria in 2017. Puerto Rico has been hit by hundreds of earthquakes of varying intensity over the past two weeks. Source: US Geological Survey Over the past month, the island has seen a consistent string of seismic activity. On January 11, a 5.9 magnitude earthquake hit the island, and hundreds of foreshocks and aftershocks have occurred since December 28, leading to the displacement of at least 2,000 people. Following the January 7 earthquake, which left one man dead and hundreds of thousands without water or electricity across the island, Trump and Puerto Rican Governor Wanda Vázquez declared a state of emergency. Thousands of people have been displaced by the earthquakes as aid has been withheld The major earthquakes and the hundreds of seismic shocks have caused an estimated $110 million in damages, with analysts predicting a $3.1 billion in economic loss. Governor Vázquez also announced that $130 million in emergency aid would be allocated to emergency relief, but the actual amount that will reach those affected remains to be seen. Governor Vázquez’s disaster declaration comes as reconstruction efforts are still underway after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico in September 2017, causing thousands of deaths and over $91 billion in damages. The federal government’s response to Maria was slow and inefficient, greatly increasing the number of casualties. As part of a larger issue with corruption in Puerto Rico, multiple instances of fraud and embezzlement of hurricane relief money were also reported. The Trump administration relied on the claims of corruption to withhold aid for months, and it appeared it would maintain this stance despite the damages of the most recent earthquakes. The indifference and neglect of the administration was clear this past Fall as well, when the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) neglected to inform Puerto Rico of a deadline that would have allowed further access to $43 billion worth of aid allocated to hurricane recovery. Of the $20 billion congress allocated in aid to the island since Hurricane Maria, up until Wednesday, only $1.5 billion had officially been released by HUD. HUD officials had defended this, stating, “Given the Puerto Rican government’s history of financial mismanagement, corruption and other abuses, we must ensure that any HUD assistance provided helps those on the island who need it the most: the people of Puerto Rico.” Since the removal of the corrupt US lackey Governor Ricardo Rossello in August 2019 due to pressure from popular protests, there has been a rotating line-up of comprador politicians (those who sell out their own people’s interests in favor of US imperialism) moving through the governor’s seat. Despite the appearance of a dispute between the Trump administration and the island’s government over corruption, this corruption is in the direct service of US imperialism, ensuring that policy always reflects their agenda. Trump only uses the excuse of corruption, which he and the US government practice in the same hypocritical fashion as any bourgeois state, as yet another way to bludgeon the island’s people and enforce their dependent status. Wednesday’s announcement that the other $8 billion would be made available may seem like a rare act of recognizing Puerto Rico’s needs, but it too comes with imperialist stipulations. Trump has tied the release of funds to lowering the wages of relief workers to below $15/hr, countering a 2018 executive order by then-Governor Rossello. The stipulations also seek to give greater authority to the federally mandated Fiscal Control Board. Known pejoratively to Puerto Ricans as ‘La Junta,’ the colonial nature of the board was a primary target of the protests which ousted Rossello. The funds are also conditionally tied to Puerto Rico agreeing to a new system of tracking property deeds and they cannot be used to repair the island’s crumbling electrical grid, which has seen further damage from the recent earthquakes. Rather than unconditional help, this aid simply seeks to strengthen Puerto Rico’s status as a US colony. More than any force of nature, the masses of Puerto Rico face a crisis which is the making of US imperialism. But the nation has a long history of resistance to foreign domination, and the failure of the comprador and bureaucratic bourgeoisie to adequately respond to the recurring natural disasters present an opportunity to stoke the fires of rebellion against the hand of US imperialism propping them up. DELAWARE: Fascist Attacks and Vandalizes Planned Parenthood #ClassWarfare https://incendiarynews.com/2020/01/16/delaware-fascist-attacks-and-vandalizes-planned-parenthood/ DELAWARE: Fascist Attacks and Vandalizes Planned?Parenthood Photo: Newark, Delaware Planned Parenthood vandalized by Samuel James Gulick By Ben Robinson Samuel James Gulick, 2018 Earlier this month, 18-year-old Samuel James Gulick was arrested for vandalizing a Newark, Delaware Planned Parenthood with fascist graffiti and throwing an incendiary device through its window. The explosive device started a fire but burned out on its own after causing minor damage. For this, Gulick was charged with maliciously damaging a building and intentionally damaging a reproductive health services building. Additionally, he was charged with possessing an unregistered destructive device. Gulick’s graffiti featured crude religious imagery co-opted by fascists and the slogan “deus vult,” Latin for “god wills it.” Originally used by Christians during the First Crusade, the phrase along with Crusader imagery is now used by many within the ‘alt-right’ to encourage violence against Muslims and is also associated with Christian fascists generally. Gulick targeted Planned Parenthood specifically due to his far-right beliefs. On his since-deleted Instagram page, he compared abortion to the holocaust, among other anti-woman and white nationalist sentiments consistent with his brand of Christian fascist ideology. He also voiced support for those killed during the Waco and Ruby Ridge sieges, both far-right Christian separatists who have been hailed by white nationalists and more traditional rightwing militia movements to this day. Fascist Graffiti on front of Delaware Planned Parenthood Young white men such as Gulick are radicalized online by fascists who blame various oppressed groups for the problems caused by imperialism and assert white nationalism and reactionary violence as the solution. Gulick faces up to 20 years in prison and up to $250,000 in fines if found guilty, but his punishment will not change the conditions that gave rise to the fascist movement of which he is a part. Only a centralized, organized, and disciplined antifascist movement can combat fascists like Gulick and the ideology he represents. Self-identifying ‘communists’ blame Iran #ClassWarfare https://gnusocial.no/url/1793278 Self-identifying ‘communists’ blame Iran By Joti Brar from CPGB-ML Self-defence is no offence; those who really want to stop war must stand with the resistance. Car industry crisis pushes Peugeot-Fiat merger #ClassWarfare https://gnusocial.no/url/1793276 Car industry crisis pushes Peugeot-Fiat merger Workers rightly fear for their jobs as another round of ‘cost-cutting’ looms. classwarfare miterunau qvitter Moomin Official (moonman@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2020 09:39:31 PST Moomin Official Elizabeth Warren's Cherokee recipe for oyster omelets wasn't authentic, genius discovers In conversation about 10 hours ago fromshitposter.club permalink Chinese Dad (noyoushutthefuckupdad@shitposter.club)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2020 02:13:39 PST Chinese Dad Get ready for a Joker/Cuck double feature this Sunday for Shitposter.Club Movie Night! 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OEH! and if you're really lucky, they be thinking that they need new monitors too, because of win10 :blobcatgooglytrash: In conversation about 2 days ago fromhackers.town permalink Your New SJW Waifu :verified:(sjw@neckbeard.xyz@neckbeard.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2020 15:19:46 PST Your New SJW Waifu :verified: #doggirl Roma_1579043977837_J9ERACUCJ8.p… In conversation about 2 days ago fromneckbeard.xyz permalink God I wish that were me #ExplosionLoli Roma_1579045364281_YVTY7YHZXL.j… Moomin Official (moonman@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2020 04:37:23 PST Moomin Official the same student for writing class every day would just write the previous days episode of ducktales in story form and the teacher just thought he was really creative GNUsocial.no is a social network, courtesy of peers.community. It runs on GNU social, version 1.20.5-release, available under the GNU Affero General Public License. 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__label__cc	0.719268	0.280732	About A2D Together The A2D Folder A2D in Easy English For Disability Support Workers Home/Training Training The A2D Together team 2017-09-27T09:09:28+00:00 There are many online education opportunities for anyone who is interested in learning more about providing person-centred care and support for people with a disability. More details below. For all staff For Health Staff For Disability Staff The Family and Community Services (FACS) Disability training site is available free to all health and disability staff through the online training Portal. The Good To Great Program, provides a number of modules which can be undertaken in your own time, and gain a certificate of completion. The program aims to educate staff to provide quality person centred support. There are many topics to consider, have a look today! Click here to enter the portal. Then use the following to log in, these are case sensitive. Login: adhc Password: goodtogreat Idmh e-learning The Department of Developmental Disability Neuropsychiatry (3DN) at UNSW Sydney have developed free eLearning resources about intellectual disability for professionals, carers, and consumers. Their goal is to improve your knowledge, skills and confidence, leading to better mental health and wellbeing for people with an intellectual disability. This site was designed to be an interactive education resource for everyone with an interest in intellectual disability mental health.There are a number of modules available, covering topics such as: Introduction to intellectual disability Living with an intellectual disability Intellectual disability – changing perspectives Mental disorders in intellectual disability Communication: the basics Improving your communication Assessment of mental disorders Management of mental disorders Equality in mental health care – a guide for clinicians Consent, decision-making & privacy – a guide for clinicians A one hour Power Point presentation, including facilitators notes, has been developed for Health and Disability Staff to co-facilitate an education session for clinical staff. DOWNLOAD TRAINING PRESENTATION (2Mb .pptx) The NSW Health and ADHC Joint Guideline (GL2013_001) was developed in 2013 to ensure that staff in hospitals and disability accommodation support services are aware of their respective roles and responsibilities for people with disability before, during and after transfer of care from hospital. DOWNLOAD JOINT GUIDELINE (220Kb PDF) A hospital admission for a person with an Intellectual Disability can be a confusing and frightening experience resulting in behaviours that are difficult to interpret and manage by staff who don’t know the person. This increases the risk that the patient’s presentation could result in missed diagnosis, escalation of behavioural problems, inefficient use of resources, and increased length of stay, miscommunication between multidisciplinary teams and disjointed discharge planning and disconnection with community resources that could lead to unplanned readmission. To improve your understanding and awareness about Disability complete an online module. My Health Learning has developed a number of modules about disability as well as partnering with carers. You can access the My Health Learning site here then login using your stafflink details. Select catalogue from the top menu, and then search. Enter disability into the search box to access a range of modules. Let’s Talk Disability Partnering with Carers Intellectual Disability and Mental Health Cognitive Disability and the Criminal Justice System MHPOD: Dual Disability MHPOD: The Broad impact of Mental Illness and the need for Partnership The Interviewer Going to Hospital Training Package Contains information about the NSW Ombudsman’s report into preventing deaths of people with disability in care, the principles of the NSW Health and FACS (Disability) Joint Guideline 2013, the purpose of the A2D Together Folder and how to develop one as well as the roles and responsibility of disability support staff when a person is admitted to hospital. How to assemble an A2D Together Folder This includes instructions for disability service providers to make up an A2D Together Folder for a client. How to write a TOP5 This provides helpful hints about completing a TOP 5 for a client. The A2D Going to Hospital poster A Going to Hospital poster has been developed to display in supported accommodation, to remind Disability Support Workers of the process to follow when there is a medical emergency. It can be printed as an A3 or A4 size poster and displayed to support the Going to Hospital training package. Click on the poster image at right to download. Providing detailed information about the following issues Person responsible Guardianship Division NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal 2016 Consent to Medical or Dental Treatment Preventing deaths of people with disabilities in care Information for staff of disability services – Ombudsman NSW 2013 Consent to Special Treatments Improving the hospital journey for a person with an intellectual disability. A2D Together Folder templates and guide to assemble The Admission2Discharge (A2D) Together Project was developed to improve the hospital experiences of people with a cognitive impairment, their carers, families and disability support staff. Through improved communication and sharing of relevant and current information, hospital staff are better equipped to meet the needs of people with a cognitive impairment. If you want more information about the A2D Together Project contact us here. Copyright 2017 A2D \| All Rights Reserved	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line17
__label__cc	0.506681	0.493319	Golden Sun: Dark Dawn - Wikipedia. Golden Sun: Dark Dawn is a 2010 Eastern RPG developed by Camelot Software Planning for the Nintendo DS, a sequel to the Golden Sun duology that was released for the Game Boy Advance in 2001 and 2003. It was announced at Nintendo's E3 2009 conference as Golden Sun DS, then promptly disappeared off the radar for a year before resurfacing at next year's E3 as with the Dark Dawn subtitle and was. Golden Sun (known as Golden Sun: The Broken Seal in Japan) is a 2001 RPG from Nintendo and Camelot Software Planning for the Game Boy Advance, who you may recall also made Mario Golf and Tennis as well as Sega's Shining series. The sequel, Golden Sun: The Lost Age, was released in 2003, while the third game, Golden Sun: Dark Dawn, was released in 2010 for the Nintendo DS. Golden Sun Djinn Quiz Stats. by paavot Plays Quiz not verified by Sporcle. Rate 5 stars Rate 4 stars Rate 3 stars Rate 2 stars Rate 1 star. Popular Quizzes Today. Norwegian Borders Minefield 1,841; 1-10 Letter G Words II 1,724; Picture the Song VII 1,486; Find the US States - No. This game will be a joy and a curse to all those who remember the old games. You'll love it because it's Golden Sun again - with added 3D This game will be a joy and a curse to all those who remember the old games. You'll love it because it's Golden Sun again - with added 3D battles and animations, some of the old characters returning, and many references to the original games on the Advance. The Vampire Diaries ended in 2017, giving most of the main characters a happy ending, if not the ending they deserved. But the story of the Salvatore brothers destined to love the same woman not just once, but twice, remains a fan favorite. We can't get enough of the doomed love triangles, tragic deaths, witchy loopholes, good guys doing bad things and bad guys doing good things. Golden Sun: The Lost Age follows Felix and his crew's mission to restore Alchemy to the world; a potential catastrophe that the original game's characters were trying to prevent. As a new band of adventurers, unleash new Summon spells and employ powerful Djinn elemental spirits. Honestly, Golden Sun and Golden sun: The Lost Age were some of my favorite Gameboy games! They are lots of fun and the story is great! Golden Sun: Dark Dawn on the DS was great too! I really hope they bring it back for the 3DS. Such a good hidden gem! Edit: Wow! This blew up unexpectedly. lol. Glad to know you guys enjoyed the games as much as me! Weyard is revealed by the game's sequel, Golden Sun: The Lost Age, to be a setting modeled off the flat Earth ideal of the world; it is a flat, vaguely circular plane whose oceans perpetually spill off the edge of the world's entire perimeter into an endless abyss. 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It was followed by a sequel, Golden Sun: The Lost Age on April 14, 2003, which picks up right where the original Golden Sun left off and let players carry over their character data and items via system link or a password. A third game in the series Golden Sun: Dark Down came out in 2010 for the Nintendo DS. If you are scratching your head at the name, Golden Sun: The Lost Age wondering if you missed a game in the Game Boy Advance Golden Sun series do not worry. This is the second game in the series and in some regions, it was simply called Golden Sun 2. This is a popular RPG series and many people rank this one as the very best. Golden Sun is a 2001 Japanese role-playing video game developed by Camelot Software Planning and published by Nintendo.It was released in August 2001 for Nintendo's Game Boy Advance, and became the first installment in the Golden Sun series.The game is notable for certain distinctive game elements, such as the use of special Djinn that empower the player and can be used against enemies. This game expands on the story, the characters, the djinni system and usable psyenergy. It also features really hard puzzles and several sidequests. What makes this game amazing is that you can connect with the previous Golden Sun and trade all your progress on levels and items to the sequel. Abilities, Story, Skins, Mastery Code, Quotes, Guide, History, Gallery, Trivia, Magic Chess. Jun 26, 2017 - This Pin was discovered by Daniel Brower. Discover (and save!) your own Pins on Pinterest. Golden Sun (known as Golden Sun: The Broken Seal in Japan) is a 2001 RPG from Nintendo and Camelot Software Planning for the Game Boy Advance.It is the first game in the series of the same name. Golden Sun tells the story of Isaac, a teenager from the village of Vale, gifted with the power of Psynergy, and his journey to stop a dangerous group of antagonists from releasing the ancient power. Golden Sun If you don't get the Orb of Force, and inspect the log in the Altin Mines. Garet gets to run with you when the boulder comes crashing down :) I don't remember the dialogue Garet says unfortunately. Golden Sun 2 (Video Game 2002) Quotes on IMDb: Memorable quotes and exchanges from movies, TV series and more. Anyway, as the game begins, we see Felix, Jenna, and Kraden in Venus Lighthouse. Felix Moves a statue onto a button, lowering a neaby forcefield, then leaves. 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__label__cc	0.747179	0.252821	Connecticut Health Investigative Team (http://c-hit.org/tag/rachael-petitti/) Rachael Petitti Drug Treatment Centers Cited For Unsanitary Conditions, Fined By Kate Farrish \| May 20, 2015 A Bridgeport company has been fined $3,000 by the state Department of Public Health for multiple violations, including poor supervision of medication and unsanitary conditions, at two substance abuse treatment centers it operates in Waterbury. On May 6, Connecticut Renaissance Inc. signed consent orders with DPH agreeing to a $1,000 fine in connection with violations at Renaissance East at 31 Wolcott St. and $2,000 in connection with violations at Renaissance West at 466 W. Main St., both in Waterbury. Connecticut Renaissance also must hire independent licensed practitioners to oversee each of the treatment centers for at least four months to ensure proper patient care and compliance with all state and federal regulations, the consent decree said. The violations were found by DPH during unannounced inspections at the two centers in January.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line24
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As a family car travels through a green American landscape, the earth itself seems to be speaking to the characters, and through them, to us. It is a classic immigrant story with specific, often unique new details. A Korean American family headed by a father, Jacob (Steven Yeun) and mother Monica (Yeri Han), came from Korea in the 1980s and spent time in California working as chicken sexers, separating baby chicks by gender. Now they have moved with their two American-born children, a serious and mature girl named Anne (Noel Kate Cho) and a six-year-old named David (newcomer Alan S. Kim), hoping to start a 50-acre farm in a small Arkansas town. Culture clash is the unifying subject here, though not the only one. Chung, who waited to make this autobiographical drama until he had several acclaimed films under his belt, knows exactly the story that he wants to tell and how he wants to tell it. Monica and Jacob fight over their shared goals as a couple and their ambitions for their children. The tension of assimilation versus independence underscores every exchange, whether it’s intimate and private or connected to the larger community that they are tentatively getting to know. It’s clear that Jacob has bought into some version of “the American dream” and carries himself like a prototypical mid-20th-century white American farmer, complete with gimme cap, terse speech, breast pocket cigarette pack, and ambling gunfighter walk. Monica seems more torn, and it is obvious from seeing the two of them interact that she comes from a higher social class and is more comfortable in the cities. As the story goes on, we begin to wonder if she regrets having moved to America in the first place. Even though she’s game, it’s a tough road that never seems to get easier. Ordinary rituals become fresh and alive when a different frame is put around them, and this is the case in Chung’s film. The couple talks about whether to get a small farm in a community with a larger Korean American population or stick where they are and tough it out in relative isolation, a conversation many couples might have in a similar situation, here it is with all sorts of secondary challenges. What church do we go to? Should we go to church at all? How forward should we be in trying to make new friends with people who do not share our cultural heritage? These are problems that individuals raised in a monoculture don’t think about often, or at all. The movie loses tension at certain points, relying a bit too strongly on atmospheric nature shots and a haunting score that seems to be performed on a slightly out-of-tune upright piano, and sometimes punting conflicts down the timeline when the viewer may want a bit more examination of them at that moment. But Chung’s grip as a storyteller remains sure. There is a ring of truth to every moment and conversation. The best of these are imbued with a complexity and contradiction that suggests that there’s more to human interactions than whatever advice we were given as kids. A moment after church when young David is casually racially insulted by a young white boy who then immediately speaks to him as a friend, and invites him over to a sleepover, will ring true to anyone who has been on the receiving end of that type of behavior. Everyone in this movie is still learning the right way to behave, including the adults. The supporting characters are vividly drawn. The great American character actor Will Patton is superb as an evangelical Christian farmer who praises Jesus every minute and is glimpsed in one scene carrying a big wooden cross on his back as he walks along the country road. (Jacob asks if he wants a ride and he says no, he’s got this.) But the best performance belongs to Yuh-Jung Youn as Soonja, Jacob’s grandmother, who is brought in from the old country to provide advice and childcare help. She is a live wire—a cosmopolitan who always speaks her mind and is at ease with profanity, practical joking, and making moral/ethical decisions that could have major repercussions without consulting Jacob or Monica. (When Monica puts a $100 bill in the church collection plate, presumably to make a big impression during their first visit, grandma deftly removes it.) Chung has a knack for capturing those moments when people behave according to their own internal compass, in ways that may not make sense to an outside observer. And it’s impossible not to appreciate the deep understanding of human behavior, as well as the way that ordinary objects and situations acquire symbolic meaning when we think about them in relation to the characters. This is a lovely, unique film. 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__label__wiki	0.585855	0.585855	Image by James H. Miller, USDA Forest Service, Bugwood.org Image by Chris Evans, Bugwood.org Image by Terry English, USDA APHIS PPQ, Bugwood.org Giant Hogweed in bloom Image by David Cappaert, Michigan State University, Bugwood.org Garlic Mustard Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest> What is an Invasive Species? Invasive species are non-native species that can cause harm to the environment, the economy or to human health. Invasives come from all around the world. As international trade increases, so does the rate of invasive species introductions. Invasive species are one of the greatest threats to New York's biodiversity. They cause or contribute to: habitat degradation and loss; the loss of native fish, wildlife and tree species; the loss of recreational opportunities and income; and crop damage and diseases in humans and livestock (from the New York Dept. of Environmental Conservation). Exotic Bush Honeysuckles Giant Hogweed Disposing of Invasive Plants Guidelines for Disposal of Terrestrial Invasive Plants (2011) is a 4-page PDF (1422kb) that covers methods for disposing of woody & non-woody plant materials, grasses and sedges, and includes a list of invasive plants that should not go into your compost pile. Cornell InvasivePlants.net	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line38
__label__cc	0.62115	0.37885	The TaoTronics SoundLiberty 53 Wireless Earphones Sound Decent for $45 Leslie Shapiro \| Aug 5, 2019 They say you get what you pay for. With budget audio products, that’s rarely a good thing. Finding a pair of true wireless earphones for under $50 is a rare thing, and finding ones with acceptable sound quality is even rarer. I had a chance to check out the TaoTronics SoundLiberty 53 earphones that retail for $45. Let’s see what just under fifty bucks gets you these days. The SoundLiberty 53 are true wireless earphones that come with a charging carrying case. The earphones themselves will play for up to 5 hours on a single charge, but the carrying case supplies an additional 36 hours; TaoTronics claims a total of 40 hours. It has fast-charge capability, and requires 2.5 hours for a complete charge. They have touch controls that will access Siri and/or Google Assistant in addition to taking/making phone calls and controlling volume and track playback. The SoundLiberty 53 earphones feature Bluetooth 5.0 but lack audio features such as aptX. They turn on and pair automatically when removed from the charging case. They will connect as a stereo pair, or they can be used individually. One nit-pick: they do not turn off automatically when removed from your ears; they must be returned to the charging case or disconnected from the Bluetooth source, in which case they’ll turn off after 10 minutes. TaoTronics claims the earphones are rated for IPX7 water-resistance, so while they’re not really suitable for swimming, they are waterproof for up to 30 minutes in less than 1 meter of water. What this means for me is that with their price and that rating, I have no fear in taking them to the gym and getting in a strenuous workout. Sunday mornings at the gym are quite quiet, so I thought it was a good place to audition the SoundLiberty 53. I warmed up listening to Sigrid’s “Raw”, which is always a challenge for bass response. The plucked strings that open the song had a nice solid sound, but the deeper bass notes lacked impact and definition. In addition, the earphones had a very slight vibration on deep, low notes that was mildly uncomfortable. Sigrid’s voice had a slightly harsh tone that was more pronounced at louder listening levels. To cool down, I listened to “The Rains” by Henry Jamison which has a gorgeous tight kick drum sound. Again, there was a slight “tickle” from the earphones on the impacts. Jamison’s voice had a slightly veiled sound, lacking upper high-end sparkle. Back home, I connected the earphones to my laptop to watch some YouTube videos. I noticed a very slight lag in the audio sync, but it wasn’t significant. In general, they weren’t as transparent and natural as some other headphones, and lacked an accurate deep bass. However, all in all, they delivered acceptable sound for the price. For an economical wireless earphone, the SoundLiberty 53 earphones were much better than I was expecting. They’re not nearly as good as some high-end earphones, but then again, I wouldn’t bring an expensive set of 'phones to the gym. For workouts or rainy commutes, the TaoTronics SoundLiberty 53 are more than adequate. It turns out that you get quite a lot for under fifty bucks. Review: ZVOX AV50 Noise-Cancelling Bluetooth Headphones with AccuVoice SiriusXM Blurs the Line Between Satellite and Streaming Review: Cleer Ally Wireless Earphones Review: Sony WH-1000XM3 Wireless Noise-Cancelling Headphones Dirac Research Releases Dirac 3D Audio Solution for Headphones Hands On: Jabra Elite 85h Wireless ANC Headphones What's Hip? Hands On with Denon's DP-450USB USB Turntable Peloton Sued for Not Licensing Workout Music Pandora NOW: First Shared Station from SiriusXM and Pandora PreShow: The Coolest yet Creepiest Free Movie App Launching on Kickstarter TIDAL Announces Million Dollar Grant for New Talent in Detroit IKEA and Sonos: Perfect Together? The Stradivarius Sound Bank: Capturing a Stradivarius Before It Sleeps Monster 2019: The End of an Era China’s Edifier Debuts Impressive Array of Speakers BOSEbuild Headphones and Speakers: What Your Kids Need for Christmas	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line40
__label__cc	0.67713	0.32287	‘Workarounds’ Galore: How Real Americans Deal with... The Erosion of Everyday Life There Are Two Little Problems with "Taxing the Ric... This Is the End of the Cycle Push Them Hard Enough and the Productive Class Wil... The Feedback Loop of Doom: When Mobile Creatives a... If "Getting Ahead" Depends on Asset Bubbles, It's ... America's Forced Financial Flight: Fleeing Unaffor... How Empires Fall: Moral Decay The Next Financial Crisis Won't Be Caused by Fraud... The World's Hypocritical Silence as China Imprison... Notre Dame and the Identity of France No Fix for Recession: Without a Financial Crisis, ... Fitness without the Long, Grueling Workout Assange and the Unforgivable Sin of Disemboweling ... Blind Faith vs. the Bottom Line Beneath the Surface of Brexit Here We Go Again: Tech Bubble 2.0 but "This Time I... Trade Deal Follies: The U.S. Has Embraced the Worl... Here's What It's Like To Be a Bear in a Rigged Market The Japanification of the World Are the Rise of Social Media and the Decline of So... The Hidden Cost of Losing Local Mom and Pop Busine... Dear Stock Market: You Can't Have It Both Ways The World's Hypocritical Silence as China Imprisons its Ethnic Muslims En Masse The entire world's ruling elites are silent because they're terrified that even mild murmurings might limit the blood-soaked billions they want to reap from trade with China. Imagine the reaction in the global Muslim community if a western nation imprisoned hundreds of thousands of Muslims solely for being Muslim and subjected them to torture, "re-education" that amounts to treating their religious faith as a pathological mental illness, forcefully separating parents and children, incarcerating the children in state-run orphanages, and on and on in a ruthlessly efficient Nazi-like systemic oppression. The Muslim "street" would erupt in mass protests, burning flags and calling for the downfall of The Great Satan, and the Muslim nations would cancel energy and trade contracts and lodge diplomatic protests. But the global Muslim community, and indeed, the entire global community, is strangely silent as China pursues a high-tech suppression of its ethnic Muslims. This silence might be the one thing Tehran, Moscow and Washington have in common: a complete and utter disregard for China's Muslim-only gulags. While America's ruling elite greedily rubs its hands over the wealth that will flow from a "trade deal" with China, where is America's vaunted concern with human rights? Nowhere to be found. Where are the canceled energy and trade contracts between China and Iran, Turkey, Pakistan, Egypt, Indonesia, Malaysia, Iraq, Syria, Saudi Arabia, the Persian Gulf States and other Muslim-majority nations? The entire world's ruling elites are silent because they're terrified that even mild murmurings might limit the blood-soaked billions they want to reap from trade with China. That is the source of the world's hypocritical silence about China's Muslim-only gulags: the endless, insatiable, boundless greed of the ruling elites. There's a funny little thing called karma, or blowback if you prefer a secular label, and both China and its vast host of global ruling-elite enablers will eventually reap what they are sowing. China employs vast armies of propagandists in the West whose favorite word is "debunked." You can easily identify a Beijing-propaganda proxy by their use of "debunk" to counter any criticism of China's Muslim-only gulags. Meanwhile, the alarming reality has been covered in depth by what little remains of the global free press. If you look at only one article, start with this photo-essay: How China Turned a City into a Prison (New York Times) Satellite Shows Sprawling 'Re-education Camps' For Chinese Muslims In Xinjiang Region(Zero Hedge) China’s Uighur Camps Swell as Beijing Widens the Dragnet (WSJ.com) Satellite images show expansion of ‘re-education’ centers in China’s Xinjiang region China has sharply expanded an internment program that initially targeted ethnic Uighur extremists but is now confining vast numbers of the largely Muslim minority group, including the secular, old and infirm, in camps across the country’s northwest. Up to one million people, or about 7% of the Muslim population in China’s Xinjiang region, have now been incarcerated in an expanding network of 'political re-education' camps, according to U.S. officials and United Nations experts. Tracking China’s Muslim Gulag (Reuters) China’s Detention Camps for Muslims Turn to Forced Labor (NYT.com) Internet Sleuths Are Hunting for China’s Secret Internment Camps for Muslims(TheAtlantic.com) China Is Treating Islam Like a Mental Illness The country is putting Muslims in internment camps—and causing real psychological damage in the process.(TheAtlantic.com) THREE NOTES OF NOTE: 1. I just added a new benefit for all subscribers/patrons: a monthly Q&A where I respond to your questions/topics. You get other exclusive benefits with a $1, $5 or $10/month patronage via patreon.com. 2. Resistance, Revolution, Liberation: A Model for Positive Change is on sale this month: $4.95 Kindle edition, $9.95 print edition, a 33% discount. 3. Did you know there are 3 new audiobooks available now? Pathfinding our Destiny: Preventing the Final Fall of Our Democratic Republic ($6.95 ebook, $12 print, $13.08 audiobook): Read the first section for free in PDF format. 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__label__wiki	0.517915	0.517915	CRPD committee UN projects Our submissions "Right to serve in the Army" (contribution to OHCHR study on 'work and employment of persons with disabilities', HRC 22nd session, March 2013) Shadow report on Paraguay (contribution to CRPD 8th & 9th sessions, 17-28 Sept 2012; 15-19 April 2013) Supplementary shadow report on Paraguay (contribution to the CRPD 9th session, 15-19 April 2013) UN treaty body reform (contribution to a consultation with NGOs, Intergovernmental process on the strengthening of human rights treaty bodies, letter of 9 August 2012) Shadow report on Australia Our submission for the CRPD Day of General Discussion on "Women and Girls with Disability", (17 April 2013) Shadow report on El Salvador Shadow report on Austria (contribution to the CRPD 10th session, 2-13 September 2013) Shadow report on Azerbaijan Shadow report on Costa Rica Shadow report on Sweden (contribution to the CRPD 11th session, 31 March -11 April 2014) Shadow report on Mexico (contribution to the CRPD 12th session 15 September -3 October 2014) Shadow report on Mongolia (contribution to the CRPD 12th session and pre-session working group 7-10 October 2014) Shadow report on Cook Islands Shadow report on Turkmenistan Shadow report on Brazil (contribution to the CRPD 13th session and pre-session working group 20-24 April 2015) Shadow report on Gabon Shadow report on Mauritius Shadow report on Portugal (contribution to the CRPD 14th session and pre-session working group 17 August - 11 September 2015) Shadow report on Serbia Shadow report on Thailand 1. POLICY STATEMENTS UNSG Message on International Day of Persons with Disabilities (3 December 2019) Message on the International Day of Persons with Disabilities - UNSG (3 December 2018) Everyone has a 'moral imperative' to uphold the rights of persons with disabilities, says UN Secretary General at 11th session of the Conference of States Parties (12 June 2018) Secretary-General, in World Autism Day Awareness Message, Calls for Speaking Out against Discrimination, Ensuring Gender Equality Reaches All Women, Girls (2 April 2018) Secretary General Urges to Remove All Physical, Cultural Barriers to Persons with Disabilities in Message for International Observance (1 December 2017) Secretary General says Equal Opportunity for Self-determination Would Empower Persons with Autism to Make Stronger Positive Impact in World Observance Message (30 March 2017) Secretary-General Calls for Inclusive World Embracing All Humanity's Diversity, in Message on International Day of Persons with Disabilities (1 December 2016) "We Can Move World Forward by Leaving No One Behind", says UN Secretary-General in Message for International Day of Persons with Disabilities (25 November 2015) "Dignity Integral to Healthy, Fulfilling Lives for Persons with Mental Disabilities", says UN Secretary-General in World Mental Health Day Message (8 October 2015) "Disabilities are Part of Human Diversity", says UN Secretary-General in Message to World Federation of Deaf (28 July 2015) "Employ Enormous Potential of People with Autism" , urges UN Secretary-General in Message for the World Awareness Day (30 March 2015) "Sport for All" lauds UN Secretary-General in Video Message to Deaflympics (28 March 2015) "The new sustainable development goals must address equality and help build a life of dignity for all, including persons with disabilities" says UN SG in Message for the World Down Syndrome Day (20 March 2015) "Inclusive Technology Can Aid Persons with Disabilities in Reaching Their Potential", says UN Secretary-General in Message for the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (28 November 2014) "Inclusion Critical for Equal Participation and Contribution of Persons with Disabilities" says UN Secretary-General in Message to Asia-Pacific Countries on Initiative for Persons with Disabilities(10 November 2014) "Disability is Part of the Human Condition" says UN Secretary-General at UN General Assembly High Level Meeting on Disability and Development (23 September 2013) "We Need to Bridge Gap Between Well-Meaning Commitments and Long Overdue Actions" says UN Secretary-General in Message for the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (27 November 2012) "More Work Needed to Build Inclusive, Accessible Societies" says UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (New York, 19 November 2012) UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the proclamation of the third Asian and Pacific Decade of Persons with Disabilities 2013-2022: "Empowering Persons with Disabilities Strengthens Human Solidarity for Everyone" (South Korea, 30 October 2012) 2. RATIFICATIONS Sao Tome and Principe accedes the CRPD Convention (November 2015) Bahamas and DRC ratify/accede the CRPD Convention (September 2015) Gambia accedes the CRPD Convention (July 2015) Madagascar and Trinidad and Tobago ratify the CRPD Convention (June 2015) Kazakhstan ratifies the CRPD Convention (April 2015) Marshall Islands accede the CRPD Convention (March 2015) Viet Nam ratifies the CRPD Convention (February 2015) Congo, Guinea-Bissau and Guyana ratify the CRPD Convention (September 2014) Grenada ratifies the CRPD Convention (August 2014) Angola and Burundi accede/ratify the CRPD Convention (May 2014) Palestine and Switzerland accede the CRPD Convention (April 2014) Andorra and Georgia ratify the CRPD Convention (March 2014) Côte d'Ivoire and Japan ratify the CRPD Convention (January 2014) Tuvalu accedes the CRPD Convention (December 2013) Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, Venezuela and Zimbabwe accede/ratify the CRPD Convention (September 2013) Kuwait accedes the CRPD Convention (August 2013) Singapore ratifies the CRPD Convention (July 2013) Norway and Palau ratify the CRPD Convention (June 2013) Iraq ratifies the CRPD Convention (March 2013) Albania and Barbados ratify the CRPD Convention (February 2013) Cambodia ratifies the CRPD Convention (December 2012) Dominica and Malta ratify the CRPD Convention (October 2012) Israel, Poland and Russia ratify the CRPD Convention (September 2012) 3. CRPD AFFAIRS CRPD States Parties Reporting Status Update (January 2017) CRPD States Parties Reporting Status Update (April 2015) CRPD adopts General Comment 1 (on Art 12) and General Comment 2 (on Art 9),Guidelines on Article 14 (liberty and security of persons with disabilities) and Guidelines on interaction with DPO/NGOs. The CRPD also adopts new views on individual petitions (October 2014) CRPD Committee concludes its 9th session and schedules a meeting with States parties for September 2013 (19 April 2013) CRPD Committee concludes its 8th session, and schedules day of general discussions on 'women and girls with disabilities' (28 September 2012) New 9 Members elected to the CRPD Committee (CSP, 10-12 June 2014) 4. CRPD CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS CRPD adopts Concluding Observations on the initial reports of Haiti (February 2018) Nepal (February 2018) Oman (February 2018) Russian Federation (February 2018) Seychelles (February 2018) Slovenia (February 2018) Sudan (February 2018) Latvia (September 2017) Luxembourg (September 2017) Montenegro (September 2017) Morocco (September 2017) Panama (September 2017) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (September 2017) Armenia (April 2017) Bosnia and Herzegovina (April 2017) Canada (April 2017) Cyprus (April 2017) Honduras (April 2017) Iran (Islamic Republic of) (April 2017) Jordan (April 2017) Republic of Moldova (April 2017) Bolivia (September 2016) Colombia (September 2016) Ethiopia (September 2016) Guatemala (September 2016) Italy (September 2016) United Arab Emirates (September 2016) Uruguay (September 2016) Chile (April 2016) Lithuania (April 2016) Portugal (April 2016) Serbia (April 2016) Slovakia (April 2016) Thailand (April 2016) Uganda (April 2016) Brazil (August 2015) European Union (August 2015) Gabon (August 2015) Kenya (August 2015) Mauritius (August 2015) Qatar (August 2015) Ukraine (August 2015) Cook Islands (April 2015) Croatia (April 2015) Czech Republic (April 2015) Dominican Republic(April 2015) Germany (April 2015) Mongolia (April 2015) Turkmenistan (April 2015) Belgium (September 2014) Denmark (September 2014) Ecuador (September 2014) Mexico (September 2014) New Zealand (September 2014) South Korea (September 2014) Azerbaijan (April 2014 Costa Rica (April 2014) Sweden (April 2014) Australia (September 2013) Austria (September 2013) El Salvador (September 2013) Paraguay (April 2013) Argentina (September 2012) China (September 2012) Hungary (September 2012) Peru (April 2012) Spain (September 2011) Tunisia (April 2011) 5. CRPD LIST OF ISSUES CRPD adopts the List of Issues on Nepal, Oman, Russian Federation, Seychelles, Slovenia, Sudan and schedules the constructive dialogue with these States for the upcoming 19th session (14 February - 9 March 2018) CRPD schedules adoption of List of Issues on Algeria, Cuba, Malta, Philippines, , Poland, South Africa, and The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia for the meeting of the pre-sessional working group and upcoming 19th session (14 February - 16 March 2018) CRPD adopts the List of Issues on Chile, Lithuania, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Thailand, and Uganda, and schedules the constructive dialogue with these States for the upcoming 15th session (29 March 2016 - 21 April 2016) CRPD schedules adoption of List of Issues on Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Colombia, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Italy, Republic of Moldova, United Arab Emirates, and Uruguay for the meeting of the pre-sessional working group and upcoming 15th session (21 March 2016 - 21 April 2016) 6. OTHER TREATY BODIES The Committee against Torture shares the CRPD concerns at possible practices of ill-treatment against persons with disabilities in Peru (November 2012) 7. UNIVERSAL PERIODIC REVIEW UPR of Peru insists on the implementation gaps found by the CRPD Committee (November 2012) UPR of Argentina insists on the implementation gaps found by the CRPD Committee (October 2012) UN Special Rapporteur Rashida Manjoo: Report to the UN General Assembly on violence against women with disabilities (October 2012) OHCHR study on violence against women and girls, and disability (HRC, 20th session, June 2012) Millennium Development Goals: a disability-inclusive development agenda towards 2015 and beyond (Report of the UN Secretary-General to the 67th session of the UN General Assembly, October 2012) A World Report on Disability published by the World Health Organization in 2011 indicates now that an estimated more than one billion people, or 15% of the world population, live with some form of disabilities around the world! With the adoption of the UN International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD Convention), persons with disabilities worldwide have an instrument that allows them to no longer just aspire to charity and condescendence, but to full inclusion in their respective societies. The CRPD Convention and its Optional Protocol were adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 13 December 2006 and entered into force on 3 May 2008. The CRPD Convention establishes monitoring mechanisms both at the international and national levels. At the international level the central monitoring mechanism is the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD Committee). At the national level the CRPD Convention encourages States to establish a number of institutions in order to facilitate implementation and monitoring. A closer work with civil society organizations including national organizations of persons with disabilities is encouraged. States parties are obliged under the terms of the CRPD Convention to respect, to protect and ensure the equal enjoyment of all human rights by persons with disabilities on equal footing with other citizens. However, ensuring the promotion, protection and implementation of the rights of persons with disabilities is not an easy task and will not be achieved without the contribution and collective efforts of civil society organizations both nationally and internationally based. It is in this connection that DISABILITY COUNCIL INTERNATIONAL (DisabCouncil) is positioned as an innovative non-profit organization working to promote the full realization of the rights of persons with disabilities. Far too often disability is viewed as a health or charity issue. Disability Council International believes that persons with disabilities should be seen as an asset for the future of their countries rather than a burden to avoid. It is not so much a question of curing the impairments of persons with disabilities as it is a question of removing society made barriers (stereotypes, inaccessible environment, lack of reasonable accommodation) preventing the full and productive inclusion of persons with disabilities in absolutely all areas and forms of society life. It is a matter of putting ability and human dignity first. In this regard, Disability Council International is an international NGO, universal in membership (it is open to persons with all forms of disabilities, but it appeals equally to persons without disabilities, who are invited to work, as active partners, for the promotion of the equal human rights of persons with disabilities). Disability Council International is also universal in its territorial ambit (its activities extend to all countries of the world). Disability Council International is based in Geneva and works to encourage the universal ratification and implementation of the CRPD Convention through advocacy and capacity building programs of support to States and to the UN monitoring body (the CRPD Committee), the UN Offices and Agencies dealing with disability issues, civil society organizations, and national human rights institutions. It also develops projects directly benefiting concrete individual persons with disabilities and communities of those persons in all countries of the world. Disability Council International also contributes to the implementation of the Convention by disseminating best practices in the realization of the human rights of persons with disabilities and fostering international cooperation in the exchange of technical innovations. Dear Friend, if you share the desire of Disability Council International to make the world a better place for all to live in, without discrimination and inclusive of persons with disabilities, this is YOUR ORGANIZATION! Please join us as a member or otherwise become a sponsor for the cause of disability rights worldwide! Let us make our SOCIETIES fully INCLUSIVE and ACCESSIBLE to Persons with Disabilities! CRPD Jurisprudence A. Case Ms H.M. vs. Sweden (April 2012) The CRPD Committee reviews its first individual petition and finds Sweden in violation of its treaty obligations for denying reasonable accommodation to a person with disabilities (Case of Ms H.M. vs. Sweden, April 2012) 1. Case no. 3/2011 (H.M. vs. Sweden) (Views were adopted in April 2012 during the 7th session of the Committee) is the first one ever decided by the CRPD on the basis of its competence under the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. I. The facts of the case 2. The case reports to events that happened back in 2009/2010, more precisely between December 2009 and August 2010.During this period, Ms H.M., a Swedish national resident in the city of Örebro (Sweden) and a person suffering from multiple forms of disability, including the so-called Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, tried unsuccessfully to secure permission from local municipal authorities for the building of an indoor hydrotherapy pool in her own plot of land, as recommended by her treating doctors. Orebro municipal authorities rejected her request for permission to build the indoor hydrotherapy pool, relying on local Swedish land use regulations that prohibited such buildings in that parcel of land. The petitioner went through the chain of administrative courts up to the Supreme Administrative Court of Sweden, which refused her appeal. 3. Having exhausted all possible local remedies, on 6 December 2010, Ms H.M. applied to the CRPD Committee seeking a redress of her situation under the CRPD Optional Protocol. In her claim to the Committee, H.M. essentially raised two issues: first that she considered that by failing to take account of her specific needs and her equal right to rehabilitation and improved health, Sweden has discriminated against her; and second, since without the hydrotherapy pool she would be left with the only option of joining an institution, her right to an independent life in the community would also be violated. The petitioner relied on a number of the substantive provisions of the Convention, in particular articles 5 (non- discrimination), 19 (life in the community), 25 (health) and 26 (rehabilitation). II. The Committee’s position and reasoning 4. The Committee essentially agreed with the petitioner and found Sweden in violation of its obligations under the mentioned relevant articles (Sweden’s obligation to ensure the realization of the right of the petitioner not to be discriminated against, and her equal right to independent life in the community). The Committee recommended Sweden to consider authorizing the petitioner’s request for a building permit, and ensure that such violations are prevented in future including by ensuring that the interpretation of its legislation does not have the effect of nullifying the exercise of the rights of persons with disabilities on equal basis with others. 5. In coming to its conclusion, the Committee considered the following arguments: There is discrimination contrary to relevant provisions of the Convention (arts 4, 5) when laws are applied in a neutral manner without taking into consideration the particular circumstances of the individuals to whom they are applied; accordingly the right not to be discriminated against is violated if a State, without objective and reasonable justification, treats equally, persons in different situations; Making necessary and appropriate modification and adjustments not imposing a disproportionate or undue burden, where needed in a particular situation is a requirement under the Conventional principle of reasonable accommodation, and denying such accommodation is considered a form of discrimination in the Convention (arts 2, 5). The Committee noted that the State never argued that providing the petitioner with such accommodation (departing from the official policy) would occasion a disproportionate or undue burden on the State; The Convention (arts 25, 26) also requires States parties to undertake measures to ensure access for persons with disabilities to health services that are gender-sensitive, including health-related rehabilitation to allow such persons to attain maximum independence and full inclusion in all aspects of life. The Committee also noted that the Convention requires such rehabilitation programs and services to be based on the multidisciplinary assessment of individual needs and strengths; The Committee concluded that denying the building permission due to purported general public interests protected by the said law of Sweden, was a disproportionate and discriminatory measure adversely affecting the petitioner’s right to the healthcare and rehabilitation required for her specific health condition; The Committee further concluded that by denying the building permission and leaving the petitioner with no other alternative but joining an institution, Sweden was also violating the petitioner’s right to life and inclusion in the community, which could only be supported with the indoor hydrotherapy pool. The Committee reminded that under the terms of the Convention (art 19), Sweden was obliged to provide persons with disabilities with a range of community-based supporting services and programs in order to prevent their isolation or segregation from the community. 6.The Committee requested Sweden to report back within 6 months on the measures undertaken to implement its Views and recommendations. Download full text [WORD] B. Case Kenneth McAlpine vs. UK (September 2012) The CRPD Committee was seized of its second individual petition and declined to review it for lack of jurisdiction ratione temporis(Case of Kenneth McAlpine vs. UK, September 2012) 1. Case no. 6/2011 (Kenneth McAlpine vs. UK) (Decision adopted in September 2012 during the 8thsession of the Committee). This is the second case on which the Committee took a decision on the basis of its competence under the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. 2. The case relates to events that happened back in 2005/2010, more precisely between December 2005 and February 2010.During this period, Kenneth McAlpine a British national and a person with diabetes mellitus (type 1 diabetes) was an employee of a private company. In December 2005 after a discussion with his supervisor related to his unavailability for a meeting at work, the supervisor was informed for the first time that the employee was a person with disabilities. The discussion resulted in a reasonable accommodation of Mr. McAlpine, who saw his duties at work reduced as he wished. In January 2006, a reorganization in the petitioner’s company resulted, this time against his specific will, in further, more substantive reduction of his duties. In February 2006 the petitioner was put on a confidential provisional list for redundancy. In May of the same year he was publicly informed of that decision, with the explanation that the reorganization made his specific duties no longer needed in the company. The petitioner then tried on his own to find an alternative occupation in the same company, but was unsuccessful, until the dismissal took effect in July 2006. 3. In August 2006, the petitioner lodged a complaint with the UK’s Employment Tribunal Service alleging discrimination. He claimed that he was dismissed because he had requested a reduction of his workload because of his disability. In support of his position he relied in particular on an exchange of messages available in the files of the Tribunal where his immediate supervisor had indeed proposed him for redundancy on account of his disability. However, the Tribunal noted that the exchange of messages happened after the petitioner had been included in the redundancy list by the direction of the company, of which the supervisor was allegedly unaware, and dismissed his complaint in August 2007. 4. In October of the same year the petitioner appealed the decision to the UK’s Employment Appeals Tribunal. In December 2007 the Appeals Tribunal dismissed the appeal alleging lack of “reasonable grounds” for a valid appeal. 5. The petitioner filed another application for leave to appeal these decisions to the highest Court of Session in the UK. In February 2010 the Court of Session (last available local remedy) also refused his application alleging the same lack of reasonable grounds for the appeal (matters of facts were within the purview of the lower Employment Tribunal, and the Court found “no errors of law” in the qualification of the facts by the lower courts). 6. In May 2011, having thus exhausted all the local remedies, the petitioner applied to the Committee. In his application, the petitioner raised issues of violation of his rights granted by the Convention, among others under the following articles: 4 (denial of reasonable accommodation), 5 (non-discrimination), and 27 (non-discrimination in employment). 7. The UK asked the Committee to declare the case inadmissible on the following ground, among others: lack of jurisdiction ratione temporis (alleging that the facts happened in 2006, whereas the State party ratified the Convention and the Protocol only in 2009). 8. The Committee essentially agreed with the UK and found that it lacked jurisdiction ratione temporis to entertain the case on its merits. On the key matter of ‘date of the alleged violation’ by the UK (before or after its ratification of the Convention in 2009), the petitioner asked the Committee to consider this date as 2010, when the highest Court of Session’s decision was taken, but the Committee found that the 2010 highest Court of Session’s decision “by its very nature, did not in itself constitute an act that reiterated the content of the judgments of the lower courts in their rulings on the question of discrimination raised by the author, and that, consequently, the decision did not violate the author’s rights under the Convention.” (para. 6.5). Therefore the Committee appears to have considered the UK’s Appeal Tribunal’s decision of December 2007 as the critical date of the alleged violation by an organ of the State, as it concluded in agreement with the UK that “the alleged violations took place before the entry into force for the State party of the Convention and Optional Protocol” in 2009 (para. 6.5). 23rd session of the CRPD Committee (09 March - 27 March 2020) A. Dialogue with Governments and Adoption of Concluding Observations I. Bangladesh SP report Contributions from civil society DPOs Global Initiative to end corporal Punishment Leprosy Mission et al Bangladesh II. Djibouti World Policy Analysis Center III. Estonia Reply to the List of Issues Contributions from stakeholders NHRIs Estonian Chamber of DP IV. Hungary LoIPR SP report under the LoIPR 1, 2 Child Rights NGO coalition EFOESZ DPOs and CSOs MDAC HAPID V. Lao People's Democratic Republic ILEP VI. 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__label__cc	0.589788	0.410212	Disk Space Guide Size units Cluster size and slack NTFS-specific features Disk space visualization software Automated disk cleanup software Disk space usage in RAID Host Protected Area (HPA) Size units in data storage In software, the kilobyte equals 1024 bytes, which is 2 to the power of 10. The megabyte (1024 KB) is then equal to 1,048,576 bytes, and the gigabyte is 1,073,741,824 bytes. On the other hand, hardware vendors (specifically a hard drive vendors) use decimal scale, in which 1 gigabyte equals 1,000,000,000 bytes. This amounts to about seven percent difference in a gigabyte capacity between what is written on the hard drive itself and what Windows tells you. The useable capacity is even less than that, because certain amount of space is reserved for a system's own purposes. This accounts for certain limits having "unusual" values. For example, older computers may be unable to recognize drives larger than 137 GB. This is due to the software limit on a number of 512-byte sectors it can see on a drive. The actual limit, however, amounts to 128 "binary" gigabytes. Taking into account the above difference, we arrive at 137.4 "decimal" gigabytes as a limit value. To clear the confusion, a special term was introduced, "kibi-" instead of "kilo-" to denote 1024 units. Similarly, "mebi-" is proposed for 220, and "gibi-" for 230, to be used instead of "mega-" and "giga-", respectively. However, these terms have no widespread use as of this writing. Continue to Cluster size and slack. Home \| Contact Us \| About Us and this Guides series Copyright © 2009 - 2021 ZAR team	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line54
__label__wiki	0.925371	0.925371	Jump to . . . Front Page (News) Features Fiction Reviews Lists Eidolon Books Eidolon Magazine Markets Author/Artist sites SF&F in Australia Coming Soon! PREVIOUSLY IN THE NEWS < News after 19-Jan-03 18:24 News before 02-Dec-02 11:32 > Canberra Fires Exact Heavy Toll Australia's 78 year old National Observatory at Mount Stromlo was all but completely destroyed as some of the country's worst bushfires claimed more than 400 homes and four lives in Australia's "bush capital" this weekend. Many residents of Canberra's suburbs, including artist and illustrator Les Petersen and his family, were evacuated as fires threatened thousands of homes across the heavily-wooded capital city. In addition to the deaths, 68 people were admitted to local hospitals and four with serious burns were sent to Sydney as fires continue to burn on a number of fronts. Initial reports indicate the material losses at Mount Stromlo (website formerly at http://msowww.anu.edu.au/) are almost entire, with the three major telescopes, domes and workshops lost, and offices and auxiliary buildings extensively damaged. Not least amongst the irreplaceable artefacts lost was a NASA-style spacesuit designed and made by Sydney special effects artist Lewis Morley. More Votes for the NatCon Nomination forms for Swancon's WA-focussed convention award "The Tin Ducks" were made available online recently, and the 2003 Down Under Fan Fund (DUFF) race is now underway. GenghisCon 2 Tickets On Sale Tickets for the second instalment of Western Australia's newest genre-oriented convention GenghisCon (31-Jan to 02-Feb 2003) went on sale earlier this month. The weekend convention, which positions itself specifically as both "cool, fun [...and] affordable", will take place as St. Catherine's College, UWA (across the highway from the main campus) and begins at 12:00pm (noon) on the Friday. The venue promises on-site cafe facilities, a swimming pool and Tennis Court, but although the venue is air conditioned the guest rooms are not. The program features Gaming, Panel, Video and "Insomniac" streams. GenghisCon Ticket Prices: $10 for one day $25 for three days $45 for one night accommodation (plus one breakfast) $80 for two nights accommodation (plus two breakfasts) Contact Michael Fineberg (Mb. 0411-689-776; ICQ #4382561) for tickets or see the website additional details. Abhorsen's Tops Abhorsen, the concluding chapter in Garth Nix's Old Kingdom trilogy, will debut at #3 on the New York Times children's bestseller list on 26-January, and will be #2 on the Booksense children's list from 20-January. Ditmar Curse Strikes Again Continuing a long if involuntary tradition of hiccups and drama accompanying Australia's Hugo-equivalent Australian SF ("Ditmar") Awards, the 2003 awards subcommittee this week published a PDF Nomination Form and an Online Nomination Form, each with its own little gremlins. The original PDF form: Incorrectly printed the name of the Awards Incorrectly printed the Rules preamble regarding the name Failed to include the "Best Novella or Novelette" category Inaccurately printed the names of two Awards The simple explanation is that the PDF was based on the nomination form for the 2002 awards, produced prior to changes made at the 2002 "NatCon Business Meeting". (Rules for the Awards can be read online.) By contrast, the online form was very nearly correct, although it split the "Novelette and Novella" category. Within 24 hours of publication, the PDF form had been updated to the state of the online form, and it seems likely that the remaining error will be corrected shortly. Nominations are open to Australians and Australian residents "active in fandom" or members of Swancon 2003, and must reach the subcommittee by 14-February. 18-Jan-03: As predicted, the subcommittee (in the person of NatCon co-chair Brett Griggs) was able to correct the remaining problems with the online versions of the nomination form within hours. Far-Flung Festivals Early 2003 will see Writers' Festivals in both Perth and Tasmania, with strong genre showings at both. Perth's Festival, Beyond the Page: A Celebration of Thought, is part of the annual International Arts Festival and will take place on two consecutive weekends February 08�09 and February 15�16. Interstate visitors including Sean Williams will join Western Australians including Tess Williams, Grant Stone and John Long at a variety of locations around the Perth Cultural Centre for four days of discussions, panels, workshops and readings. The Tasmanian Readers' and Writers' Festival, organised by the Tasmanian Writers' Centre, will take place between 23-March and 06-April, and involve events "in Bridport, Burnie, Hobart, Launceston, Meander Valley, St Helens, the westcoast, Wynyard, and more". Guests include the continent-spanning Sean Williams, Maxine McArthur, Kate Forsyth, Dirk Flinthart, Marianne de Pierres, Marele Day, Cory Daniells and Tansy Rayner Roberts. Nix Up For A Virgin Newcomer Nibbie? Garth Nix's Sabriel has been shortlisted in the 2003 British Book Industry Awards, aka "the Nibbies", in the Newcomer of the Year category (sponsored by Virgin) and shortlisted in the WHSmith People's Choice Awards. KSP Centre Plans Master Class The Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers Centre is planning "Crafting the Fabulous", a two day Master Class taught by veteran writer and editor Jack Dann, for July 2003. The class will cover topics ranging from technical and thematic aspects of fantastic fiction to determining the best market for a particular novel or story. The approximate cost for the two-day class (26th and 27th July) will be $350. Jack will require prospective participants to submit story samples prior to the Master Class in order to determine who will be admitted. Admissions will be based on talent and level of writing craft. The KSP Centre are currently seeking serious expressions of interest. If you're interested, contact the Centre to register: Margot Lowe, Coordinator Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers Centre 11 Old York Road GREENMOUNT WA 6056 Manga Anthology Launches New Issue Xuan Xuan, Perth's new manga-inspired comics anthology, is about to launch a new issue. The new issue, the fledgling magazine's second, will launch at the January 11th meeting of JAFWA, Western Australia's long-running anime fan club. Stories included in the second issue are: "Last Wish, chapter 2" by Cyber Hell "Prelude To Hi-Nako, part 2" by Steven Choy and Benedict Chau "Biohunters" by Baku "Toy" by Melanie Tregonning "Blue Sky" by Blue Sky "Aberdeen, part 2" by Colin Sharpe and Kate Langford "Destiny Foretold, chapter 1" by Habeeba "History Of The Muffin" by MK13 The debut issue of Xuan Xuan was launched at Borderlands in November 2002 and sold out of its entire print run. It has since been reprinted and is available from retail outlets around Perth. Stromatolights' Possession Cancelled WA writers' group the Stromatolights have reluctantly cancelled their recently announced anthology project Possession due to a paucity of submissions. MirrorDanse Online Sydney-based MirrorDanse Books, founded by Bill Congreve in 1994, has a new website. 2002 Aurealis Shortlists Announced The shortlists for the 2002 Aurealis Awards were announced on 17 December, and have raised less discussion over what they include than over what they don't. The short fiction categories in two divisions�Fantasy and Young Adult�have been declared "No Award", and as such no shortlist exists in those categories. In addition, according to the announcement, "the shortlist for the SF short story category caused a great deal of trouble", and its ultimate composition is not the result of a consensus decision but of a majority vote. The complete shortlists are as follows: Division A: Science Fiction Best Novel Blue Silence by Michelle Marquardt (Bantam) Transcension by Damien Broderick (Tor) Echoes of Earth Sean Williams and Shane Dix (HarperCollins) "Lucy Lucy" by Shane M Brown (Aurealis #29) "Walk to the Full Moon" by Sean McMullen (Fantasy and Science Fiction Dec 02) "Late Returns" by Shane M Brown (Redsine #9) "The Imperfect Instantaneous People Mover" by Geoffrey Maloney (Agog! Fantastic Fiction) "Within Twilight" by Chris McMahon (Redsine #8) (Judges: Rowena Cory Lindquist (c), Justin Ackroyd, Russell Farr) Division B: Fantasy The Novice by Trudi Canavan (HarperCollins) The Gift by Alison Croggan (Penguin) Hades' Daughter by Sara Dougless (HarperCollins) The Crippled Angel by Sara Dougless (HarperCollins) Blood by Tony Shillitoe (HarperCollins) The Storm Weaver and the Sand by Sean Williams (HarperCollins) No Award (Judges: Ben Payne (c), Rob Bleckly, Denise Lines, Marian Foster) Division C: Horror The White Body of Evening by A L McCann (HarperCollins) Shadows Bite by Stephen Dedman (Tor) Daughter of the Dark by Louise Cusack (Simon & Schuster) "What The Tide Brings" by Claire McKenna (Fables and Reflections #2) "Oracle" by Kim Westwood (Redsine #9) "Wastelands" by Stephen Dedman (Agog! Fantastic Fiction) (Judges: Dianne de Bellis (c), Rob Stephenson, Kim Wilkins, Marianne de Pierres) Division D: Young Adult Fireworks and Darkness by Natalie Jane Prior (Angus & Roberston/ HarperCollins) The Hand of Glory by Sophie Masson (Hodder Headline) Mum, Me, the 19th C by David McRobbie (Angus & Roberston/ HarperCollins) The Starthorn Tree by Kate Forsyth (Pan) (Judges: Keith Stevenson (c), Helen Patrice, Mike Slusher, John Cohen, Ursula Dubosarsky) Division E: Children's Eglantine by Catherine Jinks (Allen & Unwin) Rhianna and the Dogs of Iron by Dave Luckett (Scholastic) In the Garden of Empress Cassia by Gabrielle Wang (Puffin) Lily Quench and the Treasure of Mote Ely by Natalie Jane Prior (Hodder) Astrid Spark, Fixologist by Justin d'Ath (Allen & Unwin) "The Golden Udder" by Terry Denton (Allen & Unwin) "Tashi and the Haunted House" by Anna Fienberg and Kim Gamble (Allen & Unwin) "The Two Natalies" by Justin d'Ath (Reel Trouble) "In the Blink of an Eye'" by Andrew Chapman (Spellbinders) "Old Ridley" by Gary Crew and Marc McBride (Hodder) (Judges: Sophie Masson (c), Wendy Shepherd, Linsay Knight) Shortly after the shortlist was published, the convenors issued a statement withdrawing a story from the Horror shortlist because it was originally published outside the eligibility period. No Convener's Award shortlist was announced this year. Winners will be announced at the Awards Ceremony in Melbourne on 28th March, 2003. SF Comes to Canberra Radio Canberra will gain a new speculative fiction radio programme in early February, including interviews, reviews, news and other related information. Speculation, which will air on ArtSound FM 92.7, has been developed by the makers of OzWrite, a regular Australian writing programme that is broadcast on the same radio station. Speculation claims to include a more international focus than its parent programme. Plans are also in place to make Speculations available on CD to listeners outside of the Canberra area. Periodical, magazine and journal producers are invited to submit their publications to Speculations for review and other coverage. They may be sent to the programme at: Blackford and the Attack of the Cloners Writer, academic and critic Russell Blackford has an op-ed piece about the ethics of cloning entitled "There's Madness in the Raelians' Method " on The Australian's website. Elsewhere Opens The third Canberra Science Fiction Guild anthology Elsewhere: An Anthology of Fantastic Places is now open for submissions. Elsewhere, edited by Michael Barry, encourages submissions from new and emerging writers, including young writers. All submissions will, however, be assessed the same criteria: quality, innovation and reader engagement. The short fiction anthologies Nor Of Human, Machinations and Agog! Fantastic Fiction are a good guideline to the kind of stories they're looking for. Short stories accepted will be up to 7,000 words and in the speculative fiction genres. Payment on publication will be $A25, plus a contributor's copy, for first Australian serial rights. Stories should be original, unpublished works, and not under submission to any other publication. Manuscripts must be in Rich Text Format(RTF), and submitted one story at a time to the editors via email before 15 April 2003�earlier submissions will be appreciated. (Further details on formatting manuscripts are similar to the ASIM submission guidelines). As an afternote the editor informs potential contributors that sword-and-sorcery clones, gee-whiz gadgetry space opera and serial-killer gore-fests are unlikely to be accepted, unless your treatment is very clever and original. The editors also suggest checking out The Turkey City Lexicon, an amusing list of common blunders to avoid when writing. Australia's largest genre bookstore, Sydney's Galaxy Books, will move to larger premises this month. After almost a decade at their current Clarence Street location, Galaxy are moving to 143 York Street. No specific date has been set for the move, but it will occur overnight some time in December. As a result, exactly where Sara Douglass will be conducting an in-store signing of her latest, Hades' Daughter, at 5.30pm on December 10th, is not entirely clear.) Offshore Success Australian authors including Jack Dann, Marianne de Pierres, Dave Luckett, Sean McMullen, Anthony O'Neill, Natalie Jane Prior, Sean Williams and Shane Dix have sold or resold novels to US and UK publishers in the last few months. Jack Dann has sold an as-yet-untitled short story collection to Thorndike Press for its new Five Star imprint. The collection, which will feature an introduction by Barry Malzberg and about a dozen stories, is due for publication in 2003. Natalie Jane Prior has sold US rights to four books in her "Lily Quench" series of children's fantasy novels featuring a young dragon-slayer to Shannon Dean at Puffin Books, via agent Catherine Drayton at Arthur Pine Associates. The first three volumes in the series, Lily Quench and the Dragon of Ashby (1999), Lily Quench and the Black Mountains (2001), and Lily Quench and the Treasure of Mote Ely (2002) were first published in Australia by Hodder Headline. Dave Luckett has sold US rights to the first three books in his "Rhianna" children's fantasy series to Scholastic US, with the third book, Rhianna and the Castle of Avalon due from Omnibus Australia in December. Sean Williams and Shane Dix have delivered the third Star Wars: The New Jedi Order book Force Heretic III: Reunion to Shelly Shapiro at Del Rey for a mid-2003 publication. The first book in the series, Force Heretic I: Remnant, is due in January 2003. Sean McMullen has sold new fantasy novel The Glass Dragons, second in his "Moonworlds" series after Voyage of the Shadowmoon, to Jim Minz at Tor for a 2003 publication. Anthony O'Neill, whose debut Scheherazade (HarperCollins, 2001) has been republished in the UK and is currently being translated for publication in five languages, has sold second novel The Lamplighter, a dark psychological fantasy set in Victorian Edinburgh, to both Scribner in the US and Hodder Headline in the UK. Finally, new novelist Marianne de Pierres has sold science fiction novel Nylon Angel and two untitled sequels to Tim Holman at Orbit UK via agent Tara Wynne of the Curtis Brown Literary Agency. (Thanks to The Coode Street News for much of the above information.) Fables and Reflections Online WA-based fanzine Fables and Reflections has a new website. The website features cover-art and tables of contents for the first three issues of Fables, details about the zine, places where it's available for purchase, submission guidelines and a links page. 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__label__cc	0.575782	0.424218	Fiction to Fruition Where fiction becomes reality Book Feature: A Penny For Your Thoughts by Penny Johnson Book Blast: The Weapons of Light by Lairyck Beliveau Inside the Book: Title: The Weapons of Light Author: Lairyck Beliveau The Weapons of Light is a composition of sixteen interlocking poetic essays, five poems, and three short stories. The purpose of this book is to shed light on the condition and state of the fighting spirit within us all. This book is also a unique inspirational guide that combines poetry, spirituality, and fantasy to maintain the reader’s interest in an atmosphere of both fidelity and mysticism. The book is kept short with the rigors of daily labor in mind for those who like to read but are now unable to find time. The prerogative of any poet is to capture the times as best as they can: the feeling, the atmosphere, and the surge of human emotion. The author, Lairyck Beliveau, utilizes a method of combining poetic license and academic article writing to bring you a very deep and entertaining perspective of life and its emotional struggles Lairyck is giving away a $25 Gift Card! By entering the giveaway, you are confirming you are at least 18 years old. One winner will be chosen via Rafflecopter to receive one $25 Gift Certificate to the e-retailer of your choice This giveaway begins July 15 and ends on July 26. Winners will be contacted via email on July 27. Winner has 48 hours to reply. A Title Wave All Inclusive Retort The Literary Nook Voodoo Princess C'est La T The Revolving Bookshelf The Zen Reader I'm Shelf-ish The Hype and the Hoopla Write and Take Flight Harmonious Publicity Book Cover Junkie From Paperback to Leatherbound The Book Refuge The Book Czar A Book Lover My Bookish Pleasures Book Blast: The Apocalypse Revisited by Dr. Reginald O. Crosley Title: The Apocalypse Revisited Author: Dr. Reginald O. Crosley After two thousand years of history in which we have faithfully expected the Second Coming of Christ, we have met with recurrent disappointments. Why is that? At the beginning of the end of the ages that is the first century of the Christian era, the apostles and the early Christians were living with the expectation of an imminent return of Christ. Jesus himself was expecting a quick return, but the Father had a different planning. At the end of the first century, the Father revealed to John the content of a scroll with Seven Seals. That scroll outlined the main events that will occur in every century of the Christian era. A thorough review of the manifestations of the Seven Seals in every century is exposed in my book. We also call attention to Godâ€™s judgments upon the whole creation in the visible and the invisible worlds. The Apocalypse Revisited introduces us to two realms of reality . It is written to make the symbols , the visions, the personalities and the time-table of historic events accessible to the readers. We should no longer establish dates for events that are kept secret by the Creator . Also some events described in the Apocalypse are already occurring in history. The very end of the cosmos and the earth is not around the corner. It is in the future probably after a thousand year following Armageddon. DR. REGINALD IS GIVING AWAY A $25 GIFT CARD! The Prison Planet Handbook by Denis Goodwin Book Blast Title: The Prison Planet Handbook Author: Denis Goodwin Genre: Reference Who are we, and where did we come from? When we turn to the information provided to us, we find a mud pool of possibilities. Is this intended to subvert our built-in guidance systems? We also discover that people who are adept at researching big-picture science are offered special jobs conditional on being sworn to secrecy. What is behind this strategy? Sometimes, the reality prescribed to us doesnâ€™t fit with or explain what we experience. So if you too know something is not quite right, wonder what else is out there, what the bigger picture is, who benefits with us excluded from it, and are ready for changes on earth, the bottom line is here. DENIS IS GIVING AWAY A $25 GIFT CARD! This giveaway begins May 20 and ends on May 31. Winners will be contacted via email on June 1. Book Blast: Infertility Caused by Decreased Oxygen Utilization and Jinn (Demon) by Dr. Mira Bajirova Title: Infertility Caused by Decreased Oxygen Utilization and Jinn (Demon) Author: Dr. Mira Bajirova Publisher: Partridge Publishing There are two main causes of Infertility: Decreased Oxygen Utilization and Jinn (Demon). When the environment or body has too many Positive Ions, the result is Decreased Oxygen Utilization. Positive Ions are produced by the manmade atmosphere, and they increase the acidity and inflammation in the body. These Positive Ions can affect the body in numerous ways, including decreased fertility. Many times, medicine cannot solve the problem—what people must do is to expose themselves to the Negative Ions. Dr. Mira Bajirova, an Associate Professor, Obstetrician-Gynecologist, and In Vitro Fertilization Consultant from Paris, explores what this means to those suffering from Infertility. She also highlights how Evil Jinn—through Jinn Possession, Black Magic and Evil Eye—can lead to disastrous consequences including the Infertility. Filled with insights from the Quran and medicine, this is an informative guide for anyone seeking to improve their health and expand their family. Mira is giving away a $25 Gift Card! Inkslinger's Opus Lover of Literature Straight From the Author's Mouth Confessions of an Eccentric Bookaholic A Taste of My Mind Book Feature: Helping Hands by Ken Saik Title: Helping Hands Author: Ken Saik Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Fiction/Romance Jill Kreshky is recently divorced. She is doing her best to reclaim her life. After an accident causes her to spend six weeks alone in a hospital, she is haunted by the awareness that she must find a way to once again become part of her children’s lives. Unfortunately, Jill doesn’t have a car, her job is temporarily on hold, her bank account is empty. There is no question that Jill needs encouragement from someone she can trust. After she learns that a church friend, Bill Wynchuk, has been more loyal to her than she ever realized, Jill decides to invite him for supper. As he relies on his faith and skills as a psychologist to lovingly lead Jill to appreciate her inner strength and need for the Lord, she gains insights that propel her down a path of reconciliation that helps her mend relations with her son and return to Ontario to face her greatest fears about her family and unveil a deeply buried secret. In this inspirational story, a woman attempting to reclaim her life is led on an emotional journey, with help from a devoted friend, that ultimately reveals the truth and prompts her to seek forgiveness. Ken Saik is a committed Christian who retired after thirty-one years of teaching social studies to pursue writing fiction and poetry. To date, he has published three novellas and a novel, Baggage Burdens. Saik currently resides in Spruce Grove, Alberta, Canada. Book Feature: Good Intentions Bad Consequences by Phillip Nelson Title: Good Intentions Bad Consequences: Voters' Information Problems Author: Phillip Nelson Genre: Social Science/Sociology A new approach to understanding voter choice with important implications. There is a substantial class of voters who would like to do “good” but ignore important consequences of their attempts to do so—naïve altruists. The book both shows why such a class exists and tests the implications of that group’s behavior in a setting where other voters are self-interested, others are traditionalists, and imitation plays a big role in voter choice. The book also looks at the policy implications of such behavior accepting as desirable, but not fully achievable, the democratic ideal in which sufficiently informed citizens are given equal weight in political choices. Naïve altruists ignore the anti-growth consequences of redistribution from the rich as a class to the poor as a class. That ignorance produces too much of that redistribution in terms of the democratic ideal. Phillip Nelson has specialized in two fields. The first is information economics in which he has produced seminal work in consumer economics. The second is public choice in which he has written many articles and the book, “Signaling Goodness.” This book melds these two fields producing new insights about voter information problems. He has spent a lifetime teaching graduate courses in these specialties and microeconomics theory at Binghamton University, Columbia University, and the University of Chicago. Book Blast: Mike Honeycutt's World of Hunting and Fishing Title: Mike Honeycutt's World of Hunting and Fishing Author: Mike Honeycutt Publisher: Trafford For author Mike Honeycutt, there’s nothing more exciting than a remote trip with great scenery. In Mike Honeycutt’s World of Hunting and Fishing, he shares a travelogue that speaks to his passion for traveling the world to exotic locales to hunt and fish for unusual animal species. Based on his extensive travel experiences, Honeycutt narrates stories from all over the world on all continents. From the savannas of northern Cameroon to the jungles of southern Cameroon, and from the mountains of the Rocky Mountains in the United States, to a Himalayan tahr hunt in the mountains of New Zealand, he describes an array of real-life experiences and excursions. He tells about bird hunting in Argentina, turkey hunting in Old Mexico, and looking for the Gobi Argali Sheep in Mongolia. From airplanes to snowmobiles, to boats, horses, jeeps, four-wheelers, and pickups, Honeycutt has traversed the world experiencing an array of terrain, cultures, religions, food, and personalities. He offers insights into his travel in Mike Honeycutt’s World of Hunting and Fishing. Mike Honeycutt enjoys traveling around the world looking for exotic trophies and spectacular scenery. He lives in remote South-Central Missouri near a national forest with his dog and a cat. Mike is giving away a $25 Gift Card! This giveaway begins December 17 and ends on December 28. Winners will be contacted via email on December 29. Book Bloggin Princess Review From Here Comfy Chair Books Book Blast: Thaddeus Lamb Or, Taking America Back by P.G. Smith Title: Thaddeus Lamb or Taking America Back Author: P.G. Smith Genre: Satire Rev. Thaddeus Lamb is in a world of trouble. A true believer and a man of God, he is having a terrible time protecting his small town, family, and church from the ravages of social change in the sinful ’70s. But like the mighty Don Quixote de la Mancha, he dares to dream the impossible dream: that a man of sufficient faith and fortitude can reverse the march of time. This, he believes, is his mission from God. Alas, it is a daunting quest. Satanic Steve, the station manager, torments him about his low TV ratings. His church is facing bankruptcy. His daughter is turning into a liberal feminist before his fundamentalist eyes, and then he is sorely tempted by a man on a crusade of his own. Roger Wright is a brilliant political strategist who intends nothing less than to reverse the direction of politics in America. Hilarious and heartbreaking, this meditation on the turbulent decade of Nixon and Carter examines forces that divide our nation today and provides a fictionalized account of the right-wing campaign to recruit evangelical ministers into politics. P. G. Smith is a retired college professor who taught philosophy and jurisprudence for 26 years. She published five books and numerous journal articles all best sellers with the 247 other people in her field. She has always been fascinated by what people believe and why they believe it. Given how depressing that hobby has become in recent years, she also goes jogging and practices yoga a lot. After residing in Detroit, Florida, Arizona, Kentucky, Ohio, and New York City she retired to the shores of the Ohio River in Indiana not far from most of her children but not too close either. P.G. is giving away a $25 Gift Card! Thursday, December 27The Book Refuge Book Blast: Place of Crying by Judy Witt Title: Place of Crying Author: Judy Witt Publisher: XLibrisAU Genre: Historical Fiction INKABA YAKHO IPHI? (WHERE IS YOUR NAVEL?) Three stories—those of the Xhosa and the Khoikhoi tribes, the British soldiers and the settlers, and the burghers and the Boers—are told in parallel. Her Khoikhoi mother, had named her Coti after the wife of Cagn, the supreme god of the San people. Her skin shone like gold, the skin of the San. He had been watching as she bathed in the lagoon, blinded by her sleek beauty as she stepped out. The fading sunlight on the water drops covered her golden skin like jewels. Coti gasped when she saw him. He was Tshane, great-great-grandson of a Xhosa chief and named after one of the first Rharhabe Xhosa kings or paramount (supreme) chiefs. His mother was from the Gcaleka Xhosa clan. Tshane represented the amaXhosa, the fierce people of Xhosa. He was magnificent as he stood still and tall—a warrior, black as ebony; his toned muscles rippled. He was nervous. She was not afraid of him. She prayed now to the wise and powerful Tsui-Goab, the Khoi supreme god, to protect her from Guanab, the cunning god of evil. Her grandmother had warned that this was an evil love, brought about by the trickster god, Haitsa-Aibib. Haitsa-Aibib could change his form at will. Was he the fish eagle that had thrown the cloud over her? Lt. Ian Bentley sat his horse on a hill overlooking the coastal foothills of the Amatola Mountains. From his position, he had a good view of the sea and also the Xhosa village below him. It was baking hot under the African sun, and he looked forward to the cool evening. He sweated in his thick red tunic, made for cooler climates, and his horse fidgeted from the flies. Taking his eyeglass from his tunic, he focused on the village below. Conraad du Randt, the burghers’ leader, raised his arm for silence. ‘Yes, my people. First, they free the slaves and tell us to pay them. Now they have equality before the law? These heathens are our subordinates, damned in the eyes of God! Given to us to teach them Christian ways! Our land! Our lifestyle! Is God-given and earned by conquest!’ Judy Witt was born in Natal in South Africa on January 1944. She was raised by Zulu women and then Xhosa women when the family moved to Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape. The family later moved to Southern Rhodesia and Northern Rhodesia during the years those countries were fighting for freedom and independence. Caught up in the violence and terror that evolved and the Congo Revolution spillover, they returned to South Africa the day before Zambia’s independence. Judy now lives in Sydney Australia with her husband, four married children, nine grandchildren, and one great-grandchild. 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__label__cc	0.640088	0.359912	Tropical Storm Laura Intermediate Advisory Number 15A 200 PM EDT Sun Aug 23 2020 ...LAURA HEADING TOWARD EASTERN CUBA... ...HEAVY RAINFALL AND LIFE-THREATENING FLASH FLOODING CONTINUES OVER PORTIONS OF THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC AND HAITI... SUMMARY OF 200 PM EDT...1800 UTC...INFORMATION ABOUT 55 MI...90 KM S OF THE EASTERN TIP OF CUBA ABOUT 80 MI...130 KM SE OF GUANTANAMO CUBA The government of the Dominican Republic has discontinued the Tropical Storm Warning along the south coast of the Dominican Republic and has discontinued the warning along the north coast of the Dominican Republic east of Samana. * The northern coast of the Dominican Republic from Samana to the border with Haiti * Entire coast of the Haiti * The southeastern Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands * Cuban provinces of Camaguey, Las Tunas, Holguin, Guantanamo, Santiago de Cuba, Granma, Ciego De Avila, Sancti Spiritus, Villa Clara, Cienfuegos, Matanzas, Mayabeque, La Habana, Artemisa, Pinar del Rio, and the Isle of Youth * The central Bahamas * Andros Island * Florida Keys from Ocean Reef to Key West and the Dry Tortugas * Florida Bay The Tropical Storm Warning means that tropical storm conditions are expected somewhere within the warning area, in this case within the next 12 to 24 hours. possible within the watch area, in this case within the next 24 hours. For storm information specific to your area in the United States, including possible inland watches and warnings, please monitor products issued by your local National Weather Service forecast office. For storm information specific to your area outside of the United States, please monitor products issued by your national meteorological service. At 200 PM EDT (1800 UTC), the center of Tropical Storm Laura was located near latitude 19.4 North, longitude 74.3 West. Laura is moving toward the west-northwest near 21 mph (33 km/h), and this general motion with some decrease in forward speed is expected over the next couple of days. A turn toward the northwest is foreast on Wednesday. On the forecast track, the center of Laura will move near or over Cuba tonight and Monday, and move over the southeastern Gulf of Mexico Monday night and Tuesday. Laura is expected to move over the central and northwestern Gulf of Mexico Tuesday night and gusts. Little change in strength is forecast while Laura moves near Cuba. However, strengthening is forecast after the storm moves over the Gulf of Mexico, and Laura is forecast to become a hurricane late Tuesday or Tuesday night. Tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 140 miles (220 km) from the center. The estimated minimum central pressure is 1004 mb (29.65 inches). RAINFALL: Laura is expected to produce the following rainfall accumulations through Tuesday: Dominican Republic, Haiti and Cuba: 4 to 8 inches, with maximum amounts of 12 inches. Jamaica: 2 to 4 inches, with maximum amounts of 6 inches. This heavy rainfall could lead to life-threatening flash and urban flooding, and the potential for mudslides across the Greater Antilles. Florida Keys, Turks and Caicos and southeast Bahamas: 1 to 3 inches. WIND: Tropical storm conditions are expected within portions of the warning area in the Dominican Republic and Haiti through this evening. Tropical storm conditions are expected within portions of the warning area in Cuba later today through Monday. Tropical storm conditions are possible within portions of the watch area tonight through Monday evening. SURF: Swells generated by Laura are affecting portions of Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, eastern Cuba, the southeastern Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands. These swells are expected to spread across central and western Cuba, the central and northwestern Bahamas, and the Florida Keys during the next couple of days. Please consult products from your local weather office. Next complete advisory at 500 PM EDT. Forecaster Brown	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line72
__label__wiki	0.55385	0.55385	Forgotten Yesterdays Home Updates Search Tributes About Home 1970s 02/14/1974 Uniondale, New York Thursday, February 14, 1974 (46 years, 11 months and 5 days ago) Uniondale, New York, United States Of America Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum (18,509 capacity) Jon Anderson (Vocals) Steve Howe (Guitars) Chris Squire (Bass) Rick Wakeman (Keyboards) Alan White (Drums) Firebird Suite Siberian Khatru (Close To The Edge) And You And I (Close To The Edge) Close To The Edge (Close To The Edge) Revealing Science Of God, The (Tales From Topographic Oceans) Remembering, The (Tales From Topographic Oceans) Ancient, The (Tales From Topographic Oceans) Ritual (Tales From Topographic Oceans) Roundabout (Fragile) Yours Is No Disgrace (The Yes Album) 'Wakeman Solo' dropped Martyn, John Yes Live: 2/14/74 - Uniondale - Album Introduction by Jon Anderson Yes Live: 2/14/74 - Uniondale - Comments by Jon Anderson Mark O'Keeffe: Finding this site was a bit of a mind blower because this concert was the first concert I ever attended. I recall a fantastic stage set designed by Roger Dean and how the group was able to play all of this music from memory AND they sounded exactly like the record, an opinion I would later be chastised for...... As a huge Wakeman fan, my focus was on him. I was in section 221, row H, seat 8 and there was some good weed going around there. Ticket cost a whole $6.50. One of the best experiences of my life. Thanks so much for posting the set list. Chip Simmons: My first yes show, what a rush. Had been a long time coming...three years of being a devoted fan before actually seeing the band, was a long time to wait, and the two plus hour drive from Connecticut did little to dampen the anticpation...Me and 3 of my closest buddies from high school, gettin' ripped on the way to the show, groovin' to Scott Muni on the way out to the show and Alison Steele the Nightbird taking us home. Sandwiched in between, was a great show. After the opening by Larry Coryell...somebody with a lot of talent, but someone, who I have yet to truly dig, but yet respect. Anyway, we didn't come to hear Larry, no disrespect intended. The setlist was basicaly the same as previous nights...Close to the Edge played in reverse order of the LP layout followed by the entire Tales performance...These two recordings have always been among my favorite recordings of any band let alone YES. They had been cassette staples for any road cruise so we had all memorized every note, and were sure, with the little assistance we were getting from the artifical substances, we could get up on stage and fill in at any point. The band was in incredible form...in true YES fashion, they hit every note of every song just as it had been put down on vinyl. Revealing Science and Ritual were among my favorites from the night. Ritual, from its meodlies to the loud, high intensity of the drum break back to its crystal clear finale were just what the doctor ordered. During the course of the night Rick had been commanding quite a lot of attention. His roadies had to make at least a dozen trips out to the stage with new Heinekens...By the end of the evening, he had two dozen empties lined up across his grand piano. After wrapping up the main set, the band took the obligatory 5 minute break, and returned for a show closing version of Roundabout. Too much airplay has burned this song out over the years, but in February '74 it was still a much anticipated and expected show closer. Jon was on all night, and Steve (one of my favorite gutiarists of all time)could not have had any more fun....and as the band gathered to take their 'final' bow, they band turned back to their instruments, all except for Rick, who in gold lame cape was drunkenly weaving his way offstage. Chris and Alan, caught up with him just as he was disappearing from sight, and picked Rick up, firemen style, and toted him back over to stage left and plunked him down unceremoniously behind his bank of keyboards. What followd was a wonderful surprise. The song that had turned me onto this band in 1971, was about to be delivered as a surprise second encore. Steve, really gave it his own touch(similar to that on Yessongs), with a 2+ minute introit before the band joined in behind him and finally took "Yours is no Disgrace" to its rightfull place as one of bands masterpieces. Fan Recordings Audience 135 min (Audio) Steve Sullivan Forgotten Yesterdays © 1996-2021. All rights reserved.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line74
__label__wiki	0.536971	0.536971	Home People Today Is The 4 Year Anniversary Of The Pulse Nightclub Massacre: 49... Today Is The 4 Year Anniversary Of The Pulse Nightclub Massacre: 49 People Killed The Orlando community is joining together to remember the victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting on its four-year commemoration. In the early morning hours of June 12, 2016, the Orlando community suffered a horrible tragedy, as gunman Omar Mateen opened fire inside the gay nightclub, killing 49 people and wounding another 53. While devastated and mourning, Orlando pulled together and stood united in the face of adversity. Citizens joined first responders and officials in aiding the surviving victims. Dozens were saved thanks to the quick actions of those first responders and medical professionals. Just hours after the shooting, vigils and memorials arose in every corner of the city, as people paid their respects. One of the most remarkable moments was the Lake Eola vigil, which almost 50,000 people attended. It did not take long for the rest of the world to follow, as more memorials and vigils popped up around the globe. Even hashtags like #LoveWins and #OrlandoStrong trended internationally. On the one-year anniversary of the shooting, Orlando held “Orlando United Day.” This citywide event gave people an opportunity to join with others in acts of love and kindness, further continuing the unity that followed the tragedy. A whole day of events throughout the city ended with a “Remembering Our Angels” commemoration at Lake Eola. Onward to the spring of 2018, Noor Salman, Matteen’s widow, faced a jury after being accused of aiding and abetting her husband. However, she was acquitted of the charges after an emotional and intense three-week trial. Then in May of 2018, an interim memorial for the 49 victims of shooting opened to the public at the site of the Pulse Nightclub. The club’s sign was improved and a new fence was placed around the nightclub’s perimeter with images from Pulse and tributes to the victims and survivors. This memorial provides a place for visitors to pay their respects and leave messages until the permanent Pulse memorial is completed. The permanent Pulse memorial is expected to open in 2022. The design for the memorial was chosen in October 2019 and features a reflecting pool encircling the Pulse building. Forty-nine colors line the basin and shine toward a peaceful garden with 49 trees. There will also be an Orlando Health Survivors wall that will trace the three-block journey many victims and first responders took the night of the tragedy. On this anniversary of a tragic event that forever changed our city, our hearts still mourn the loss of the 49 victims lost. However, Orlando still stands united. The city works continuously to honor and remember all the lives lost, the families affected, and the hearts that are broken. Governor Ron DeSantis has ordered flags to fly at half-staff on Friday, June 12th, “as a mark of respect for the victims.” The OnePulse Foundation is holding its Annual Remembrance Ceremony online this year to minimize the risk of contracting coronavirus. Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer, Orange County Mayor Jerry L. Demings, onePULSE Foundation Board Chair Earl Crittenden, and onePULSE CEO Barbara Poma will give remarks. An online tour of the interim Pulse memorial is also available on the OnePulse Foundation website. CBS Miami: Remembrance Events Friday For Victims Of Pulse Nightclub Massacre Four Years Ago Fox: Governor DeSantis orders flags to fly at half-staff on Friday in honor of Pulse shooting victims ABC: Changes made for this year’s ceremony in honoring Pulse victims, survivors Previous articleSobel Promotions Drops ‘Fighting For The Soul Of America’ (A Charity Record For The Lincoln Project) Next articleEEDB Go Against The Status Quo With New Anti Isolation Release Song And Video Coronavirus Patient In California Kills Hospital Roommate With Oxygen Tank Dr. Fauci Turns 80! His Wife Surprises Him With A Birthday Surprise Which Obeyed Covid Rules Fauci Awarded Lifetime Achievement Award for HIV/AIDS Work By Elton John Dr. Fauci named among People Magazine’s ‘2020 People of the Year’ Dr. Fauci And Governor Cuomo Amongst Those Nominated For Time Magazine Person Of The Year Tenants Sue Refusing To Pay Rent Until ‘Dangerous Living Conditions’ At Apartments Owned By Kushner Are Fixed	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line75
__label__cc	0.743079	0.256921	Two Trees' Land Use Counsel's Response to CB2 Land Use Committee Member’s Open Letter The following is a response from Kenneth Fisher, the Two Trees’ Land Use Counsel, who emailed us the below letter in response to Andrew Stengel’s open letter about the Dock Street Dumbo development posted earlier this week. As a forum to provide all sides of Dumbo-related issues, we’ll post the letter in full, but as stated in the earlier post, the content and opinions expressed in the letter do not necessarily reflect the views of nor are they an endorsement against (or for) the project by DumboNYC. Thank you to all sides for providing their take on this controversial topic. We hope they provide the community with various viewpoints allowing us to have an objective take on Dock St Dumbo. As Two Trees’ Land Use Counsel, one of the consultants to whom Andrew Stengel refers in his open letter, I’m surprised he didn’t share any of these concerns when he came over to say hello to me at the City Council hearing on the Dock Street plan. It’s not that I don’t understand the opponents’ frustration with the approval process. What I don’t appreciate is the attitude that their failure at every step leading up to the City Council means that the process is flawed – the fact is that their argument is unpersuasive because other people who review the actual, accurate, proposal consistently don’t see things their way. [Please click the link to view full letter.] Here’s what led up to the Council hearing: The Community Board approved the project 30-7, the first time they have ever supported a Two Trees zoning application in 25 years. The Borough President approved the proposed zoning although he recommended a different building form which would have been even taller than the Walentas proposal. The City Planning Commission approved the plan with a small reduction in height by a vote of 9-2; even the two ‘no’ votes supported a building twice the height of what Andrew had proposed at the community board. The reason for this was captured by the Observer’s Eliot Brown in his report on the public hearing: “At the City Council on May 21, members had to interrupt the Walentas family’s architect midway through a presentation to find just which building on a 3-D model was being proposed” because the building is entirely contextual and reflects the right relationship between the Brooklyn Bridge and the massive Gair-Sweeney buildings which surround it. politickerny.com/3714/dock-street-turns-council-inside-out Having had their inaccurate renderings and arguments debunked by the Brooklyn Paper and the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, opponents are like Chico Marx in Duck Soup, crying out, “Who you gonna believe, me or your own eyes?” So, desperate opponents have now taken to throwing mud at Two Trees, the School Construction Authority and the City Council. But they can’t obscure that fact that their opposition campaign is funded and led by many (not all) who care mostly about losing their private views or that the school space being donated by Two Trees would otherwise cost the City millions of dollars to acquire and build. Whatever the flaws in the process, they aren’t enough to justify depriving the neighborhood of additional housing (including some for low income families), a middle school for 300 students, jobs, more retail activity, and parking for residents and visitors to Brooklyn Bridge Park. Dock Street DUMBO should be judged on its merits – and the fact that project opponents have gone so ruthlessly negative tells me only that they know the merits favor approval. Kenneth K. Fisher Tonight's Events in Dumbo (Thu, 28May2009) New Water Street Mural Sends Positive Message Leave a Reply to Anon Cancel reply Pingback: Dumbo NYC, Brooklyn » Archive » CB2 Land Use Committee Member’s Open Letter About Dock St Dumbo (DumboNYC.com) 2cent May 27, 2009 at 6:56 pm I thought Two Trees was providing (although not in writing) the shell for a school. Not a school. Won’t it still cost the city millions to build the school? I’ve heard quotes like $48 million? 12,000 people are losing their private views? Please. More retail activity? They can’t even fill the space they have on Front St. now. More parking? With all the new residents that would be filling the building? Which is being built on an existing parking lot? Let me check the math… No one can see the merits. There are none. Enough BS. Mr. Fisher, you want me to buy some of that Brooklyn Bridge your selling? Publius May 27, 2009 at 7:29 pm In the above missive Super-lobbyist can barely contain his contempt for the vast majority of New Yorkers who oppose Dock St Dumbo as currently designed to diminish the Brooklyn Bridge. Another pathetic attempt to paint the overwhelming popular opposition to this project as 70 Washington owners. We can expect more of these prior to the June 10th vote. Straight from Jeb’s play book. Oh wait, likely Super Lobbyist wrote the play book for Jeb! But everyone knows that. When you’re paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to jam through a painful screwing to the people of New York, you have to add value by being both strategic and tactical. Super Lobbyist and Jeb pray that a few distracted or “malleable” City Councilmembers will fall for their ploy. They’ll be working the phones and propaganda machine overtime and Jeb’s gotta get out the checkbook again. anon May 27, 2009 at 7:49 pm Uh, this retail space he’s talking about… isn’t that supposed to be a school? NYC Native May 27, 2009 at 8:30 pm Dear Mr. Fisher. I am simply a worried NYC resident. First, the bridge is one of our Nations last standing monuments and the building will in FACT completely destroy its view from every angle, that is a simple fact. Depriving the neighborhood of additional housing? I do believe that it is only depriving Two Trees of more income, there is plenty of housing in Dumbo. A middle school for 300 students? There are maybe 10 kids in that age range living in Dumbo and we all know that the school is simply a tool for Two Trees to look like they are humanitarians. More retail activity? Seriously? Two Trees has been trying to lease spaces for a good five years with no success and more empty spaces are a good thing? Parking for residents and visitors to Brooklyn Bridge Park? Everyone that I know that lives in Dumbo has a space and the parks are always full on weekends with no traffic so this simply sounds like more greed. The building is wrong sir, you are obviously being paid a great deal of money to work on this but you would also be a part in the destruction of a landmark and a landmark area. Shame on you all. No2Walentas2Trees May 27, 2009 at 8:54 pm Mr Fisher, how come Two Trees had to collude with the SCA if this is such a great idea? Mr Fisher, how come you don’t make mention of the local neighborhood associations who oppose the project, but rather mention rubber-stamping city agencies and ‘boards’ that aren’t elected? Oh, don’t both answering, you are a PAID lobbyist working for Two Trees. anon, Children are now seen as a product which can be used to buy things like zoning changes. No One Of Consequence May 27, 2009 at 9:17 pm I’m tellin’ ya… these responses/letters/spams directly from TT and associates are really starting to piss me off. NOOC: It’s been from the hired Chief Minister of Propaganda all along. The entire play book. Played the system/pols like a Stradivarius. That’s what you get for several hundred thousand dollars. But they must be a bit worried that they don’t have the votes for Super Lobbyist to step out from behind the curtain at this point. Could also be some self-advertising/chest pounding now that the process will be concluding soon. Rent-a-gun again available. A. Stengel May 27, 2009 at 10:12 pm It is no surprise that you have taken the same tack as to manner in which the Dock Street Dumbo project was presented to the public, i.e., you have stated fact, added fiction and subtracted by omission. Or, as a popular late-night fake news host would say: truthiness. It is true that I saw you at the City Council hearing. You walked by me—I did not approach you—and I indeed shook your hand and said hello. So, don’t be surprised—when you pass by me next—if I say hello again. It is no matter to me you are the pack leader of the high-priced lawyer-lobbyist-public relations retinue. I believe civility is important. There is nothing negative in my presentation of the facts around the lack of full disclosure around the site selection process for Dock Street Dumbo. You seem to suggest that the products of a FOIL request and disclosure of campaign fundraising are negative. I am sorry you feel threatened by open government and disclosure fundraising activity. In the interest of openness, I offer the readers of dumbonyc the story of our interaction at the Borough President’s public hearing. It is more evidence of the disingenuous posture of the developers and their representatives. I approached you at that hearing to ask what bound you to build a school at the Dock Street site. You said that your clients would be glad to sign a restrictive covenenat binding them to build a school at the site if the opposition gave up. As I said that night, if it is your clients’ intention to build a school, why not just sign such an agreement? Instead of our virtual Lincoln-Douglas-style good government debate, I suggest the real thing. Let’s debate Dock Street Dumbo in public. You and a high-ranking official of SCA against me and soon. I have three conditions: (1), make public all records of negotiations with SCA prior to May 20, 2008; (2), disclose all intermediary or bundling activity by your clients, David and Jed Walentas, on behalf of members of the New York City Council from 2007 to present; (3) disclose all contributions by Two Trees or by its principles to 501(c)3-desginated organizations based in New York City from 2007 to present. If Dock Street Dumbo is so wonderful, why do your clients need to spend untold sums of money to try to convince us? Andrew Stengel Publius May 27, 2009 at 10:56 pm Andrew: Much respect to you my brother. You have both the cojones, the logic and the facts to stand up against the corrupt proce$$–including the excellent speech you gave at the disgraceful CB vote when Councilwoman James’s appointees rubberstamped her highly questionable/suspect Two Trees cheerleading. I’d love to see Councilwoman NIMBY James support such a project in her own district. Super Lobbyist won’t have the same cojones to meet your conditions for a debate. He’s sticking to his playbook hoping to hoodwink/influence/”incentivize” a few wavering City Councilmembers to come over to the dark side. davoyager May 28, 2009 at 12:57 am Andrew, why do you ignore the untold sums of money being funneled into Yassky’s campaign by the uber rich residents of 70 W. and 30 M. to name a few. Is it because Yassky is your boss and patron? Why do you ignore the overwhelming vote in favor by your own community board. Why do you and your rather loud com padres find your selves at odds with the best interest of Brooklyn. What makes you right and all your fellow board members and the people they represent wrong. I think I remember you from the Community board hearing and if I’m not mistaken you said: if Walentas says he’s going to build a school you had faith that he would do so. You said that several times. Most of your fellow loud voices of the wrongheaded opposition are forcing the idea that TT is engaged in a bait and switch. This is another example of the kind of tactics being used in this campaign of smear and lie against this project and the public good it brings. I’ve grown quite familiar with the tone of the rhetoric over this past year. It’s been a real spectacle. Spewing out things you all know are ridiculous on their face and now you slander with the innuendo of wrong doing the hard working public servants at the SCA who knew a good deal when they saw it. They told us from the beginning the reason we were getting this school was because it was being given to us. Otherwise they have no money for us. I believe the term used was “zero dollars.” And although Yassky had years to find a way to provide the neighborhood in which he resides with a school, he failed to do so despite numerous opportunities. This is what leads most of us to the conclusion that he was never serious in his efforts and that his promises were empty. His bosses (contributors) do not want a school with all those loud smelly middle school kids on their streets. For some reason however private schools are ok. In my opinion and in the opinion of many many people who have studied this project: the building is perfectly in context, quite reasonable and in fact the only views lost are strictly private views. While a great loss both financial and “emotional”, let these private citizens seek remedy in court, but this issue should not shape public policy. As public servants, Andrew and David, I would expect you to understand the importance of the distinction between public and private. Views from the bridge are not protected and as I have walked over and driven over that bridge millions of times in the lingo of my 4 year old, I would deeply dispute the way the impact of the taller portion is being characterized by the same people who have shown all thru this process that they will say …anything…to stop this project. The change ain’t that bad and in fact some would argue the vista from the bridge from some angles is improved. People are entitled to their opinions and nobody made you guys the keepers of the absolute truth. davoyager May 28, 2009 at 3:39 am Yo, yo, this is my open letter ya’ll: http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/9927#comment-186963 No2Walentas2Trees May 28, 2009 at 6:26 am DaVoyager, In all fairness, please provide the evidence of the ‘untold sums of money’, you keep repeating this claim and IMHO it makes you look bad without any evidence. I understand you want a school, you should just stick to that point, unless you have evidence about the money claim. The opposition did their homework. nick gerz May 28, 2009 at 8:13 am i hope they build a resturant actually worth eating there. dumbo dining choices suck. Carlo Trigiani May 28, 2009 at 9:12 am Can you give us all a brief summary of how you came to be appointed by Councilman Yassky to the CB #2? Are there any connections we should know about? Have you or your family members contributed to Mr. Yassky’s current campaign or in the past? What are you aspiring to? Fixing public schools in our neighborhood or higher office? As an example of conflicts with the opposition that haven’t been fully disclosed – [name redacted], who waved the 12,000 signature petitions at the various hearings, has had his viewed apartment at 30 Main Street on the market for a year and half for $. Public records show he paid $ for is less than 4 years ago. The same [name redacted] was listed as a sponsor for a Yassky fundraiser last month. Any appearance of conflict here? There is more conflicts to disclose. Shall I provide more details? Let’s be fair Andrew. You were recently hired by Albany politicians to clean up their corrupt system. They are paying you $$ to clean up their mess. How independent will/can you be? Are you part of the machine or going to clean it up? A reply would be appreciated. epc May 28, 2009 at 9:26 am I call bullshit on the notion that Yassky has received from DUMBO residents anywhere near the amount of money Quinn has received from the Walentas family. The data is all at nyccfb.info. A long post I wrote to this effect disappeared from the comment queue at BHB and I did not save a backup. Seriously, davoyager, go to nyccfb.info and post the names and amounts of money from the residents you allege have somehow acted illegally (as opposed to the donations from Two Trees/Walentas?) I don’t know any of the people directly involved with the project, and generally support development in the neighborhood (and was widely assailed for opposing the landmark district last year), but this sort of character assassination has to stop. As far as I can tell, Yassky has received the largest amounts of money in 11201 from people living on Willow Place and Columbia Heights. Quinn? From 1 Main Street and the offices of Two Trees LLC. davoyager: post the names and amounts or drop this attack. dumbostreets May 28, 2009 at 9:26 am There are people that have interests on both sides – and I will concede that there are fair points raised on both sides. I will say that most of the opposition would be fine with Dock Street if it were not so tall. Is that really so hostile? Carlo says we should try to negotiate the best deal we can, that the estimates seem high to him, but how can we do that when TT, SCA and DOE are making this impossible? TT’s says it needs this height to cover the costs of the school. Can this be demonstrated. It is not appropriate, in my opinion, for a private interest to make massive returns by leveraging a public school. The reason why this current proposal has a school in it all is due to the opposition in the first place, and wanting an open public process is not asking too much. It’s responsible and necessary to bring this proposal somewhere better. liz May 28, 2009 at 10:33 am I don’t understand why people are in opposition to this project – affordable housing & a middle school sounds good to me. I think people need to reevaluate their priorities and not get so worked up about something that will be a positive addition to our community. Anon May 28, 2009 at 12:37 pm Do your homework. You’re getting in pretty late in the game to make such a naive statement. Boyo May 28, 2009 at 1:02 pm I’m with Liz. I came across this site and have to say the project sounds great; though controversial to say the least. Why so much vitriol and hate? Especially when it’s been approved by the Community Board (resoundingly, no?), the Boro President and the Planning Board. dumbostreets May 28, 2009 at 1:37 pm Liz and Boyo, are you asking someone to summarize all the issues for you? There is a ton of information out there, NYTimes articles, on this blog you are posting to, and etc.. This is kind of off topic… If you get Liz and Boyo together you get Bozo! Here come the sock puppets!! Yay! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sockpuppet_(Internet) Lisa May 28, 2009 at 4:09 pm I don’t understand why people are in favor of this project – affordable housing & a middle school sounds like a deception to me. I think people need to reevaluate their priorities and not get so worked up about something that will be a eyesore to our community. nyer4ever May 28, 2009 at 8:53 pm I’d love to know Carlo (and his Real Estate association) to TT and their paid machine. This whole project is murky, suspect and in the best interests of TT. Let’s be clear, even Jed described it as providing a group of “below market rate” apartments in the area. That is such a big favor and sacrifice for NYC that allows them to desecrate our Landmarks????? Paid-for support is fairly transparent and the “supporters” of this project are marched out to shamelessly recite scripted soundbites. For the record, I am a long time public servant who has worked with the most vulnerable populations of children in this city- I am appalled that davoyager would sink to describe ANY child as “smelly” and try to link that to those citizens who question or disagree with this fraud and abuse. Ken Fisher’s response is equally unprofessional, and weak mudslinging. If you don’t have the facts or law on your side, I guess you just throw mud at the local constituents who oppose this unconscionable porkbelly project. Give $44Mil to a neutral group instead of TT and I bet MANY high quality school projects can be created for our children. SCA and others are apparently selling our schools to their pals. Just for the record nobody is giving TT millions of dollars. Rather it is TT who is giving the city (us) a $40-$50 million gift of real estate to do with what we will. As I’ve said elsewhere, if this were the Guliani administration we would get a swine flu preparedness center. Went to nyccfb.info and there are no addresses so your assertions, epc, are without merit. Carlo, they totally censored your entry removing names and numbers I would guess under threat of lawsuit, so guys, don’t ask for evidence of campaign moneys flowing from the financially powerful opposition because the censors will not allow that information to be released. Just accept the logic that together the entrenched opposition to this worthy project control a vast pool of wealth rivaling any billionaire’ clout but far more diffuse and so difficult to identify. But do not doubt that in the quiet of their living rooms with this incredible vista in front of them that they would write a check to the politicians who are fighting for their financial interest. Robbie May 29, 2009 at 1:13 am Note the use of the new buzz word, “context”. Yes, there are other tall buildings nearby, but another one even closer to the bridge is problematic, or at least highly controversial. Build a short building close to the bridge, or build a tall building away from the bridge. Anything that comes with a $40mm-$50mm gift is suspect. Da, are you seriously making this assertion? Absence of evidence is not evidence. That is like saying, well the government says no UFO’s were recovered at Roswell, so therefore, the government is hiding something. “Extraordinary Claims demand Extraordinary evidence”-Carl Sagan. Your making yourself look bad, DA. Stick with the school, I like your ‘open letter’. This “The opposition is rich” theory of yours is without any merit. You can’t make the claim unless you have the evidence. The opposition, has done it’s homework. Stick with what you have a point on, not what you cannot prove. davoyager: since you seem incapable of doing the research to back up your assertions and since a post I did showing just who’s donated to whom has apparently disappeared into the BrooklynHeightsBlog comment filter, I’m going to redo the work, but instead of posting it here, just send it to a few reporters. Seriously, you’re accusing your fellow citizens of doing something illegal (donating money to politicians). Back it up or retract it. Publius May 29, 2009 at 9:00 am DuhVohager at May 29th, 2009 writes: Carlo, they totally censored your entry removing names and numbers I would guess under threat of lawsuit, so guys, don’t ask for evidence of campaign moneys flowing from the financially powerful opposition because the censors will not allow that information to be released. Hey, Duh: How do you know Carlo’s entry was censored? You guys send emails back and forth comparing your brilliance? Does Carlo/Super Lobbyist write your emails? Or just correct your grammar? I’ve noticed lately you’ve started using its/it’s correctly. Stay on message, boys, stay on message! Remember Jeb’s playbook that he spent so much to develop. That’s a good boy. Peformance bonus at the end–but not in writing just like the promised 9 classroom school or the “affordable housing.” fulton ferry res May 29, 2009 at 11:58 am To be fair, the name and the amounts were redacted, but for good reason. It is one thing to publicize campaign donations by Two Trees and their affiliates, or the names of city officials/public servants who appear on the FOIL emails. But it is totally in bad form to name a private citizen and his real estate history on this blog. Yes, the “for sale” may be available on the web, and all real estate transactions are available on ACRIS, but the degree of exposure has to be weighed, as does the malicious intent of Carlo in naming the individual in the first place. As for the “gift” of the school, at City Council, when Ross Holden of the SCA was unable to provide any answers as to the worth of said gift, or how much the city would save by siting the school at Dock Street, Boy Wonder (Jed) started to rise and answer. But SuperKen practically pushed him down in his chair and suggested that the land was worth $100-200 per sq ft. So, am I incorrect to be under the impression that at @45,000 sq ft, the savings are merely $4.5-9 million, and the city would still need $35-39 million in the budget to build out the school? davoyager May 29, 2009 at 12:42 pm epc, since when is donating money to politicians illegal? I never used that word. Publoser, up to you usual bile spewing tricks. Stow it. Nobody is listening to you. You are attempting to drag us all down to your level but it’s way too stinky in the sewer for me. I prefer, and I think most people here prefer civilized discourse. jen May 29, 2009 at 1:01 pm In my opinion, “civilized discourse” is the problem. It allows slime balls like Fisher and the people he represents to navigate unimpeded. What they say may appear to be civil, but what they do is anything but. fulton ferry res May 29, 2009 at 4:09 pm Dock Street DUMBO press conference tomorrow 1130AM at Main/Plymouth w Councilmen Eric Gioia and David Yassky regarding questionable dealings b/w DOE/SCA & Two Trees. See http://tinyurl.com/m3oeto for more detail No One Of Consquence May 29, 2009 at 9:03 pm Fulton Ferry Res reminds me of a point I wanted to make… Why is it that Holden did not have an answer when pressed for more information? Is it because he’s incompetent? Or is he hiding something? Or does he truly not know? Look, this is supposed to be his JOB, right? How would your boss react if he asked you about a budget for your project and you had nothing to say? Did he not think that this issue would be raised? And therefore came unprepared? Incompetent. Did he think that if he said he’d have to check that it would be forgotten? Hiding something. Does he really not know? Incompetent AND hiding something. What’s to be hidden? The fact that they never researched anything because they have a sweetheart deal with Two Trees. @Jen, I’m with you… UP YOURS Fisher, Holden, T. James and Walentas. You’ve pushed it and now there’s nothing you can do to save face regardless of the outcome. NofC: I agree… a lot of the supporters, you ask them very basic questions about budgets / logistics and they act as if you are being so unreasonable. You are correct. Real change comes from not being polite, but from calling out the corrupt. They are the same ones who cry about compromise, when their definition of compromise is “My way or the highway”. Regardless of outcome, IMHO, this issue should be looked at by the attorney general’s office. The back room deals should have their consequences or else we will shortly find ourselves in a different Brooklyn and City for that matter. If approved, then perhaps these people should be made to go bankrupt by defending themselves from their actions. someone of consequence June 1, 2009 at 11:07 am No One, to answer your question, SCA builds schools and as construction finishes, DOE makes decisions about how to “zone” them, what grades to house, etc. In is fairly common for SCA to not be able to answer questions with more than generalized answers, or for the answers to turn out to be incorrect once DOE makes its decisions. Of course, in light of the correspondence made public through FOIL, Holden looks like he is obfuscating, but these types of answers are usually what you get at this stage of the game. No2Walentas2Trees June 1, 2009 at 11:59 am Someone, Could the DOE come back and say either, the space is insufficient, or even that the space would better house DOE administrative offices, then a school? Is there a guarantee that the DOE even has to put a school in the space? Matt June 1, 2009 at 12:38 pm Attorney General? Ok…take a deep breath and find the # for your therapist. Sorry you people are going to lose the views from your apartment, but you are, so get over it. People who dont have a stake in this know that is what its about. Its obvious. If I lived there I wouldnt want it either. Unfortunately, you dont own the bridge, or the land near it. BrooklynLove June 1, 2009 at 12:47 pm bunch of BS. all this whining has nothing to do with the school. you don’t want a building there b/c you think it will look less pretty with the building than without. you could care less about alleged corruption in the system or a school. and this selfish, inflexible, unreasonable and impractical thinking is why you are tolerated but not listened to. No One Of Consequence June 1, 2009 at 12:53 pm Someone, I accept that, except that this project is so highly controversial and already under scrutiny that to not even have a ballpark or gross range, or a “don’t quote me on this” is quite lame. No2Walentas2Trees June 1, 2009 at 5:20 pm Matt, yes, the Attorney General’s job is to investigate corruption. FYI, my therapist told me so. And since you don’t live here, thank you for your input. Ken Fisher July 10, 2009 at 7:58 am I’ve had occasion to re-read the Borough President’s report and realized my phrasing was imprecise. I should have said: The Borough President recommended a different building form, although his zoning solution could have permitted a building even taller than the Walentas proposal. anon September 24, 2009 at 12:03 am Uh, this retail space he's talking about… isn't that supposed to be a school? 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__label__cc	0.606767	0.393233	PROCEDURE FOR ADMISSION & ELIGIBILITY : Admissions are open to all without any consideration of caste, colour or creed, subject to qualifying the admission test and availability of seats. The Registration for admission starts with the declaration of date for registration i.e. in the first week of January of the admission session. The school prospectus contains the Registration form. This has to be filled in and submitted for registration. The eligible age for the admission to Nursery class is 3+ as on 1st April of the year. Age for the admission to class-I should be 5+ as on 1st April in the year of admission. The age for subsequent classes will be calculated on the same basis. A formal test in all the main teaching subjects will be taken for all the classes from 1st onwards. No test is conducted for admission in Nursery and K.G. classes. Registration does not ensure admission. The decision of the Principal shall be final. DOCUMENTS REQUIRED FOR ADMISSION: For the admission in Nursery and K.G., photocopy of Birth Certificate issued from a competent authority like the Municipal Corporation or Village Panchayat must be submitted along with the Registration Form. Latest passport size three photographs of the child has to be fixed on the Admission Form. Latest Passport size three photographs of the child along with his/ her Parents. The original Birth Certificate has to be submitted at the time of admission along with the Admission Form duly filled in. Photocopy of Aadhar Card has to be submitted at the time of Admission. For the admission in class 1st onwards, Transfer Certificate issued from the previous school duly counter signed by the Education Officer has to be submitted at the time of admission. Report card of the previous class has to be shown at the time of Admission to the next higher class. Scheduled Caste/Tribe Certificate has to be submitted at the time of admission along with the Admission form duly filled in. Direct admission in class X /XII shall be considered on producing Transfer Order of the Parents or the Proof of the shifting of the family. In such cases registration card of class IX/XI issued by the Board along with T.C. of the school has to be submitted in the school. Regarding direct admission in class X/XII, the decision of C.B.S.E. shall be final. MODE OF PAYMENT OF FEES: Students will not be allowed to appear in any of the examinations until the clearance of all the dues. Fee is a subject of revision at the discretion of the management. Fees and other charges once paid are not refundable. A fee Booklet is issued for depositing the fees. This Fee Booklet is required to be collected personally by the parents/guardians from the School office at the time of admission. Fee is paid through cheque only. 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__label__cc	0.609604	0.390396	Hades speech. Speech on The Underworld in Greek Mythology :: Ancient Greece Greek History 2019-02-22 Hades speech Rating: 7,5/10 1331 reviews Hades Speaks!: A Guide to the Underworld by the Greek God of the Dead by Vicky Alvear Shecter Hades' final battle Hades then creates Demons from the rubble and Team Natsu is shaking in fear from the overwhelming power they are emanating. He's gotta do it on his own. Lightning Bolts, read me a book, will ya'. I have died as a god. So maybe you could put in a word with him and he'd kinda blow this whole thing off, you know? Save me now, as you once saved me from Atlas, and I promise to repay you in full. It was that wonderboy, Hercules. free essay on Essay on the Greek God Hades He punished Adam and Eve for disobeying Him. This accounts for the name given him by the Romans, who called him Pluto. Panic as boy : Help! You sold your soul to me to save your boyfriend's life. Luckily, Hercules showed up and defeated the centaur in a fight. They soon encountered an old man who told them that Magnolia's dilapidated state was due to the presence of Blue Skull in the city, but before he could continue he was killed by Blue Skull members, who also turned their attention on the group; Precht, Warrod, and Yuri easily defeated them but the noise attracted a much larger force. The Forgotten Tale of Hades and Persephone Chapter 10, a greek mythology fanfic What more will you destroy? Will you come down here and listen? I trained all those would-be heroes. Phil Getting angry Watch it pal! I am impressed when an author instead of dashing something off, puts in the work to make sure it is right! What are you gonna do? Gaia manages to grab a ledge. So I would be eternally grateful if you would just. When one of these prophetic trances overcome her, she becomes immobile and her eyes spin. If you're looking to talk to the dead while visiting Greece, turn to the legend of Hades. She is also seen among the gods congratulating Hercules. Orpheus and Eurydice Summary A wide variety of underworld related material is included: Greek burial rites, the story of Persephone, descriptions of Hades realms and the monsters therein, and lots of stories. You brought me here to do this! While training Hercules or watching him fight, Phil would constantly utter at least one of his 101 rules. I will see you suffer as I have suffered! However, Hades was considered the enemy to all life and was hated by both the gods and men; sacrifices and prayers did not appease him so mortals rarely tried. However, the arrival of two mortals, and , causes Hercules to miss the final drop of the potion, causing him to retain his godly strength. Readers will be both entertained and come away with a smattering of knowledge about the greats of the Greek and Roman world. Greswell on the Parables, Appendix, chapter x, vol. Statements about an everlasting hell ; must be interpreted in their proper context in the light of , which defines eternal and endless punishment. Hades: Which is exactly why I got a feelin' you're gonna leap at my new offer. Hades called him in to strike Icarus so that he won't kiss Cassandra because she sold her soul to him to make sure he doesn't kiss her , but his bite wore off quickly. She meets Hercules, offering a chance to prove himself as a hero. He barely gets nicked there once and - kaboom! Fairy Law While his subordinates are all in shock and intimidated, Hades laughingly says Makarov's name, despite the colossal being before him. There's the little sunspot, little smootchie. Greek mythology is the arguably the most popular region of study. Since the days when man lived in caves and struggled to survive, wondering about the world that surrounds him. In most articles that I have read it is said that he turned evil when he was chastised for capturing Persephone without her consent. Megara: I've done my part. The third judge is Aeacus, the son of Zeus and the nymph Aegina, assisted Poseidon and Apollo build the walls of the city Troy. And we want to keep it an even number. Olympus would be that way. He permitted new spirits to enter, but never one to leave. Phil: Okay, escape plan beta Hercules: Gotcha. Phil: I thought you were gonna be the all-time champ. List of Disney's Hercules characters The world stands in ruin!. Say, the next 24 hours and Meg here is free as a bird and safe from harm. Essentially, he wanted to return to the tradition of character drawing. Phil becomes a personal manager to the celebrity Hercules has become. Nonetheless, he is supportive of his son's decision to remain with Meg. Speech on The Underworld in Greek Mythology :: Ancient Greece Greek History To destroy the King of the Gods, you must seek the source of his strength: the Flame of Olympus. The third and final place you could go to was the lowest region of the world, called Tartarus. Hercules: Gee, i-i-it's great to see you. But you have your own sense of honor, right, Kratos?! I knew that dame was trouble. He is sarcastic and funny and very informative. Hercules: Aw, how can I come down there when I'm feeling so up? I'll go to the temple of Zeus and-- Ma, Pop, you're the greatest parents anyone could have, but.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line89
__label__cc	0.688745	0.311255	Track Us 2018 Summer Voyage Art of Sail 100 miles up the Hudson River; A small town embraces the Dream Posted on October 2, 2018 October 3, 2018 by ImpossibleDream Nearly one hundred miles from New York City is a small town at the base of the Catskill Mountains that is very close to our hearts. The Impossible Dream has been winding her way up the mighty Hudson River to Kingston, NY for the past three years. What keeps bringing us back is simple, a community that is passionate about getting people on the water and making it accessible to everyone. Exiting the mouth of the Rondout Creek in Kingston The Impossible Dream was first drawn to Kingston in 2016 where she began her relationship with the Hudson River Maritime Museum, a small community-based organization located on the banks of the Rondout Creek, a tidal tributary of the Hudson River. In the past three years, the Dream has seen the museum enthusiastically expand to offer many opportunities for members of the community to access the water. From a thriving all-woman sailing group called Woman on the Water, a new sailing school, active rowing and sailing clubs, to an after-school program that teaches disadvantaged area youth boat building and rowing, the Hudson River Maritime Museum impresses us every year with a new offering. This year was no different as we were surprised by a newly built accessible ramp to the museum’s docks. The permanent aluminium ramp was installed to specially coincide with our arrival so that our passengers, guests, and crew would have safe and independent access to the Impossible Dream. Not only was this a wonderful gift to us but, it will positively affect the lives of many disabled people in the area, a truly meaningful addition to Kingston’s waterfront for many years to come. It is this kind change in communities, however seemingly small, that we strive for in all ports that we visit. We give the museum and its staff a big nod of gratitude for recognizing and making this transition. Moonrise over many happy friends and family Eager to break in the new ramp, the Impossible Dream began its week of sailing in Kingston with a memorable family and friends cruise on the Hudson. Our loved ones came aboard for a gorgeous night drifting past historic lighthouses with the peaks of the Catskill Mountains looking over us. One of our guests, who is a talented photographer, took advantage of the perfect lighting as the sunset and the moon rose above us to capture the moments on his camera. Take a look below! The next morning, mother nature gave us overcast skies and rain. But, a little-wet weather could not deter the super fun group from Helen Hayes Rehabilitation Hospital. The coordinator of the Adaptive Sports and Recreation Program at Helen Hayes, Peter Giraldi, brought a group of past and present patients onboard who seemed unphased by the rain and lounged on the bow the entire sail! We were amazed to learn about the variety of sport and recreation opportunities Helen Hayes makes possible for its patients. Offerings included adaptive video gaming, fishing, hockey, yoga, and even glider flying to name a few! All smiles with our Helen Hayes Rehabilitation Hospital group sail despite the rain We started the following day with an ebullient crew from The ARC of Ulster-Greene, a non-profit community organization devoted providing support and opportunities to local individuals with varying disabilities. Another cloudy and damp morning had no apparent effect on the ARC group’s ability to produce smiles and laughter the entire sail. That afternoon, the sun finally broke through the grey skies in time for our first of two sails with Cerebral Palsy of Ulster County. With the sun, came a fresh breeze allowing the crew to set the jib with the wind at our backs for a nice and smooth run down river. The collective quietness and expressions on our passenger’s faces never get old when we turn off our engines and let the Dream do her thing. It is easy to see in moments like these how sailing on the Dream can be universally freeing to everyone, regardless of a person’s abilities. Our final sail was topped off with the lively ladies from W.O.W., the all women’s sailing group, Women on the Water. Captain Will hardly had to do any work due to the number of eager sailors itching at a turn on the wheel! Only in it’s the second year, the WOW fleet has grown to include over a dozen keelboats and over sixty sailors. It has been simply amazing to watch the growth of sailing and passion for access to the water grow in this small community. Big fans of the boat from the ARC of Ulster-Greene We look forward every year to returning to Kingston to witness more positive growth in accessibility and access to the water for its residents. When departing the docks to head back south we always feel like a little part of us is left behind. But, leaving this time around we are comforted to know there is a new accessible ramp and supportive community behind it to continue changing the world for the better! The Dream is headed back south towards Miami after nearly four months voyaging the entire East Coast. We have a couple of pit stops on the way back, so stay tuned for our facebook page and website for our latest happenings. Please reach out if you are in town and want to visit. And like always, to help us keep sailing and making differences in people’s lives, please donate to Impossible Dream here. We hope you enjoyed our stories from Kingston and do not forget to scroll further down to see more pictures from our time in the Hudson Valley. Passengers from CP Ulster County and Lola the dog enjoying the breeze on their faces A long line for a turn at the helm during our sail with Kingston’s Women on the Water group Captain Will showing a passenger how to steer the Dream A new way to dry wet ponchos! Another captain in training Posing on the Hudson River in Kingston with some of the passengers from Cerebral Palsy of Ulster County Winter taking a swim break at the Esopus Light House Friends and family taking in the sunset behind the Catskill Mountains Friends and family taking in the sunset on the Hudson This entry was posted in Our Journey. Bookmark the permalink. ← Back to our roots: Sea shanties and old friends in Mystic and Newport Volvo Penta to the Rescue! → #impossibledream Volvo Penta to the Rescue! 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__label__cc	0.537309	0.462691	Archive for March 2nd, 2011 InlandPolitics: Crude oil and gold continue rise Wednesday, March 2, 2011 – 03:20 p.m. Crude oil and gold prices continued their march higher today. West Texas Intermediate Light Sweet Crude closed at $102.46 per barrel ,up $2.83 (2.84%), while gold closed at a new all-time high at $1,437.20 an ounce. Filed under: Economy, Finance, Investments InlandPolitics: S.B. County union leader to resign (Update) Last Modified: March 2, 2011 – 04:30 p.m. The President of the San Bernardino County Safety Employees Benefit Association (SEBA) is expected to have tendered his resignation within the past hour. The Board of Directors convened at noon today to take up the matter on its agenda. Filed under: County of San Bernardino, Law Enforcement, Legal, Politics, Unions DailyBulletin: Upland hit with claim Pomierski President of marijuana co-op alleges extortion Sandra Emerson, Staff Writer Created: 03/01/2011 08:36:04 PM PST UPLAND – The president of a medical-marijuana cooperative shut down by the city filed a claim this week accusing former Mayor John Pomierski of demanding money to keep it in business. Filed under: Cities, In the News, Legal, Politics, Upland The PE: RIVERSIDE COUNTY: DA faces deficit, blames Pacheco Pacheco and Zellerbach 10:16 PM PST on Tuesday, March 1, 2011 By RICHARD K. De ATLEY Former Riverside County District Attorney Rod Pacheco knew his office faced a multi-million-dollar shortfall, misled county supervisors about it, and increased costs by $4.9 million with unchecked spending, his successor said Tuesday. 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Filed under: County of San Bernardino, Courts, In the News, Legal, Politics, State Superior Court The PE: Negrete McLeod gets budget committee post Negrete-McLeod By PE Politics on March 1, 2011 1:55 PM The relationship between Inland state Sen. Gloria Negrete McLeod and Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg hit a rough patch in December after Steinberg dumped the Chino Democrat as chairwoman of the Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee. There was no warning and no explanation. Filed under: Budget, Democrats, Finance, In the News, Politics, State of California, State Senate The PE: RIVERSIDE: County-city deal would provide quick redevelopment funds By DUANE W. GANG and ALICIA ROBINSON In what could be a first in the state, Riverside County and the city of Riverside are considering loaning each other money — rather than going to the municipal bond market — to pay for redevelopment projects. 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Filed under: Budget, Economy, Finance, In the News, Jerry Brown, Politics, Republicans, State of California, State Senate The Sun: Employees oppose cuts SB City Unified board discusses budget hit of $25 million Mike Cruz, Staff Writer Posted: 03/01/2011 09:37:08 PM PST SAN BERNARDINO – Scores of employees of the San Bernardino City Unified School District came out to the school board’s meeting Tuesday night to oppose millions of dollars in proposed cuts. Filed under: Budget, Cities, Economy, Education, Finance, In the News, San Bernardino The Sun: County agencies won’t be merged Joe Nelson, Staff Writer Reversing course, the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors opted Tuesday to keep the county’s Land Use Services and Environmental Health departments separate agencies. Citing state funding concerns, the supervisors voted to rescind their approval of the merger. Filed under: Board of Supervisors - San Bernardino County, County of San Bernardino, In the News, Real Estate, Redevelopment DailyBulletin: Musser is now Upland’s mayor Council makes vote in sudden move UPLAND – In a move that came as a shock to some, the City Council appointed Councilman Ray Musser to finish John Pomierski’s term as mayor. Musser was appointed Monday after the council discussed its options for filling the vacancy left when Pomierski resigned last week. Filed under: Cities, In the News, Politics, Upland DailyBulletin: LAWA gets 10 inquiries to manage ONT Liset Marquez, Staff Writer LOS ANGELES – Several national and international firms have expressed interest in managing L.A./Ontario International Airport. Officials at Los Angeles World Airports, which operates ONT, received 10 inquiries since the submission process opened Jan. 4 for “expressions of interest.” Filed under: Cities, In the News, Los Angeles, Ontario, Transportation LATimes: Gov. 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Burnett established Genoa in 1892; Burnett gave the community the name "Genoa" because he believed that the climate was similar to the climate of Genoa, Italy. The post office opened during that year. The founder built a railroad depot serving the Galveston, Houston and Henderson Railroad, five houses, one hotel, and one store. The community was located along a main street that is now known as Almeda Genoa Road (the road from Almeda to Genoa). The east end of the community was the Old Galveston Road (Texas State Highway 3) and the Galveston, Houston, Henderson Railroad. The western edge was Freestone Street and the railway just to the west. Where the main street continued on east from Old Galveston Road became known as Genoa Redbluff (the road from Genoa to Redbluff). The Handbook of Texas stated that Genoa "grew slowly." By 1905 a school with one teacher and thirty students appeared. In 1914 the community had 200 people and several businesses, including a general store, a dairy, a nursery, a blacksmith shop, and a carpenter. By 1925 the community had 100 people; the population remained at this level until around 1941. During that year Genoa had 400 people and fifteen businesses. The population remained at that level until Houston annexed Genoa in the mid-1960s.[1] Government and infrastructure Houston City Council District E serves Genoa.[2] As of 2008 Mike Sullivan represents the district.[3][4] County, state, and federal representation Genoa is located within Harris County Precinct 2; as of 2008 Sylvia Garcia heads Precinct 2.[5] Genoa is located in District 144 of the Texas House of Representatives. As of 2008, Robert E. Tarlton represents the district.[6] Genoa is within District 11 of the Texas Senate; as of 2008 Mike Jackson represents that district.[7] Genoa is in Texas's 22nd congressional district. The United States Postal Service operates the Genoa Post Office at 10935 Almeda Genoa Road.[8] File:PasadenaMemorialHighTexas.JPG Pasadena Memorial High School Children in the Genoa neighborhood attend school in the Pasadena Independent School District. The area is zoned to Genoa Elementary School in Houston, Lomax Middle School in Pasadena, Elmer Bondy Intermediate School in Pasadena, and Pasadena Memorial High School in Pasadena.[9][10][11][12] Despite being located in Houston, it is not served by the Houston Independent School District. Saburo Arai, a Houston-area Japanese American entrepreneur who lead the Japanese Association and exempted Japanese already living in Texas from a law which banned ethnic Japanese from owning land[13] 32x28px Houston portal ^ Genoa, Texas from the Handbook of Texas Online ^ City of Houston, Council District Maps, District E." City of Houston. Retrieved on November 5, 2011. ^ "COUNCIL DISTRICT MAPS > DISTRICT E." City of Houston. Retrieved on November 3, 2008. ^ "City Council." City of Houston. Retrieved on November 3, 2008. ^ Precinct 2 Map." Harris County. Accessed November 3, 2008. ^ "District 144." Texas House of Representatives. Retrieved on November 3, 2008. ^ "Senate District 11" Map. Senate of Texas. Retrieved on September 28, 2008. ^ "Post Office Location - GENOA." United States Postal Service. Retrieved on November 28, 2008. ^ "Elementary Schools." Pasadena Independent School District. Accessed November 3, 2008. ^ "5th Grade Centers and Intermediate Schools." Pasadena Independent School District. Accessed November 3, 2008. ^ "Intermediate Schools." Pasadena Independent School District. Accessed November 3, 2008. ^ "High Schools." Pasadena Independent School District. Accessed November 3, 2008. ^ "Japanese Texans." Texas Almanac. Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved on May 14, 2015. 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The 1 NEWS Colmar Brunton poll found that only 35% of respondents said they supported the bill, up from 40% in the June poll. Those who said they did not support the bill were 53%, down from 49% in June. Another 11% either didn’t know or refused to answer. Other polls had previously shown close voting, neck to neck, too close to be called. National Chair Judith Collins says the party conference will vote no in the referendum. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has categorically denied her election intentions despite admitting that she smoked cannabis “a long time ago”. If you’re not sure, you have less than a month to go to the vote. Here is a list of the pros and cons of the possible consequences. Pros: take control 1. Economic growth Building a legal cannabis industry creates a number of skilled and unskilled jobs. It could generate over NZ $ 640 million in tax revenue for the New Zealand government. The cannabis industry is one of the fastest growing labor markets in the United States. In a year, the Massachusetts cannabis retailers had gross sales of $ 393 million. Two years after establishing a legal cannabis market, California has topped tax revenues of over $ 1 billion. 2. Health not handcuffs The ban hasn’t stopped New Zealanders from using cannabis. Research shows that 15% of men and 8% of women in New Zealand used cannabis over a 12-month period in 2012-13. Legalizing cannabis could save the New Zealand judicial system a staggering NZ $ 11.4 million a year. Not to mention the social benefit of no longer having to imprison non-violent, otherwise law-abiding citizens who then have to keep a lifelong criminal record. Māori have a higher rate of cannabis use than non-Māori. Research has shown that Māori are more likely to be convicted of cannabis charges than non-Māori, despite higher consumption rates. Legalizing cannabis makes its use a health and social welfare issue rather than a criminal one. 3. Improves access for health patients Cannabis is used as therapy for a number of health uses. It has been legally available for medical use in New Zealand since April 2020. Cannabis is used to treat nausea and vomiting, the most common side effects of cancer treatment. It can be therapy to treat epileptic seizures. It was used to treat muscle spasms in people with multiple sclerosis. It has also helped people relieve chronic pain, headaches, and anxiety. When cannabis is legalized for recreational use, those who use it for medicinal purposes will have better access at a cheaper price. 4. Regulated for reasons of consumer safety A standard requirement for legalized cannabis markets includes product testing, which means that consumers should know more about the products they use. Street-bought cannabis can contain fungi, pollutants, mold, and pesticides. Mandatory tests ensure that the cannabis is free of toxins. To protect children in the United States from exposure to cannabis, Alaska, Colorado, Oregon, and Washington all have child-safe packaging regulations in place. Following the New Zealand referendum, retailers selling cannabis to anyone under the age of 20 would face severe penalties. To further deter youth, the NZ Drug Foundation, who voted yes, is clearly backing the referendum to include advertising bans. 5. Takes money away from street gangs In the past two and a half years, New Zealand street gangs have grown by more than 30%. The illegal cannabis market, estimated to be worth NZ $ 1 to 3 billion, may fund these gangs to some extent. In Colorado, USA, 90% of the cannabis market is supplied according to regulations. In the past decade, cannabis seizures from border controls have been lowest, and their value has decreased by millions of dollars. With cannabis legalization, control of the market is more in the hands of the government than the criminals. Disadvantages: social and tax 1. Unknown costs to society and taxpayers The long-term health effects are not fully understood. Similar to tobacco, the negative health effects of cannabis may go unrecognized for decades. Also in Colorado, for every dollar of cannabis tax collected, citizens are spending $ 4.50 to offset the negative effects of legalization. 2. It will turn New Zealand’s youth into other drugs A Christchurch Health and Development study shows adolescent weekly cannabis users are 100 times more likely to use other illicit drugs. Concerns have been raised about the influence of the cannabis industry on the formulation of legislation, as its motivation is profit maximization rather than public health. 3. Safety and productivity in the workplace A 25-year study in Norway shows that workers who use cannabis are less dedicated to their work than those who do not. In the United States, employee cannabis use leads to an increase in absenteeism, accidents, fluctuation and claims for damages. 4. Bad for the environment Cannabis plants require twice as much water to grow grapes. Growing cannabis can lead to deforestation, habitat destruction, river diversion, and soil erosion. When grown hydroponically, the US has annual greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to 3 million automobiles. 5. House prices could go up or down In Colorado, USA, legalization of cannabis has again been found to increase the value of property prices by up to 6%. A separate study in Colorado found that property prices could rise as much as 8.4% if they are within 160 meters of a retail cannabis store. But 42% of Canadians believe a cannabis retailer will negatively impact their home values. The median property market price in New Zealand recently rose 12% in a year. Further strong growth could force many out of the market. Still undecided? There are just over two weeks before New Zealanders vote on the cannabis referendum. If you still can’t decide, visit the Prime Minister’s Science Advisor website for more information. Young Australians would use cannabis if it were legal This article is republished by The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Quote: Cannabis Referendum Tied: 10 Pros And Cons Of Legalizing The Drug (2020, October 1) Retrieved October 1, 2020 from https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-10-undecided-cannabis-referendum -pros-cons. html This document is subject to copyright. Except for fair trade for the purpose of private study or research, no part may be reproduced without written permission. 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__label__cc	0.719939	0.280061	We welcome your comments. "Our Ancestors and Their Descendants" Susan and Barry Reynolds. Photographs of our Ancestors Contact Susan and Barry Reynolds Matches 1 to 50 of 366 for Last Name equals DRY AND Tree equals Reynolds-Lake Genealogy 1 2 3 4 5 ... 8» Next» \| Heat Map Dry I101000 b. 31 Jul 1864 Driffield, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom Dry I98817 b. 1888 Dry, A.D. I107366 Dry, A.C. I101931 Dry, Ada I64894 Dry, Ada I42306 b. 1884 Dry, Ada Elizabeth I42308 b. 1885 Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom Dry, Ada Gertrude I42314 b. 1 Nov 1878 Driffield, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom Dry, Ada Gray I42322 Dry, Adella I45360 b. Sep 1863 Beverley, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom Dry, A.S. I100939 Dry, Agnes I88342 Dry, Agnes I45298 b. Abt 1849 , Greater London, England, United Kingdom Dry, Alan Laws I43832 b. 5 May 1913 Kingston Upon Hull (Hull), Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom Dry, Alban John I45271 b. Sep 1864 Owthorne, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom Dry, Albert I119660 b. 1879 , Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom Dry, Albert I45501 b. Abt 1900 Kingston Upon Hull (Hull), Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom Dry, Albert Edwards I101001 b. 24 Jul 1866 Driffield, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom Dry, Albert H. I45505 b. Abt 1890 Withernsea, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom Dry, Alfred I42311 b. Driffield, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom Dry, Alfred I45274 b. 1834 Hollym, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom Dry, Alfred Gladstone I42342 b. 18 Jan 1869 Driffield, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom Dry, Alfred Leonard I42320 b. Abt 1897 , Greater London, England, United Kingdom Dry, Alice I45282 b. Abt 1880 Kingston Upon Hull (Hull), Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom Dry, Alice G. I45503 b. Abt 1887 Withernsea, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom Dry, Amelia I119655 b. Apr 1867 , Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom Dry, Amelia I119687 b. 1884 Beverley, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom Dry, Amy I45499 b. Abt 1895 Mexborough, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom Dry, Ann I119700 b. 22 Mar 1829 Kingston Upon Hull (Hull), Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom Dry, Annie I45351 b. Oct 1855 Beverley, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom Dry, Annie I43732 b. 1870 Driffield, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom Dry, Annie Elizabeth I45895 b. Abt 1877 York, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom Dry, Annie Emma I43740 b. Apr 1894 Walsall, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom Dry, A.B. I101910 Dry, Archibald I107398 b. 17 Jan 1902 Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom Dry, Archibald Ronald I107402 b. 19 Mar 1929 Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom Dry, Arnold I45241 b. Abt 1888 Halifax, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom Dry, Arthur I119657 b. 1873 , Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom Dry, Arthur I43734 b. Cal 1875 Driffield, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom Dry, Arthur I45252 b. 23 Oct 1891 Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom Dry, Arthur Edward I45892 b. Abt 1872 Beverley, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom Dry, Arthur Thomas I43757 b. Abt 1869 Halifax, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom Dry, Athline I45243 b. Abt 1894 , , England, United Kingdom Dry, Avis Mary I45125 b. 29 Apr 1922 Leeds, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom Dry, B.D. I107387 Dry, B.N. I107373 Dry, Beatrice I119508 b. 14 Dec 1898 Walsall, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom Dry, Beatrice M. I45244 b. Abt 1898 Govan, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom Dry, Benjamin I45280 b. 12 Sep 1846 Holly, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada Dry, C.W. I107382 Many thanks to all who have contributed names, dates, photographs and stories. Corrections are always welcome. Our research is ongoing and the validity of the information presented should be judged by the quality of our sources. Our study includes our ancestors and their descendants (our cousins) and our cousins' spouses and their parents. The parents of our cousins' spouses will show as "A descendant is related to Susan or Barry" and their other children will not be included unless they are connected to our family. This site powered by The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding (TNG) © 13.0.2 written by Darrin Lythgoe 2001-2021 and modified by Barry Reynolds. Information is stored in MYSQL database tables and dynamically displayed. Genealogy Database Maintained and Relationships Calculated by Legacy 9.0 Hosted by SimplyHosting	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line128
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__label__wiki	0.945514	0.945514	Germany discovers a brand new Covid variant amongst 35 hospital sufferers Are you simply distracted and the hours go by? Flip your time into productiveness with these 10 habits The Moneyist: I’m a single mom. I take my youngsters with me on journeys. My mom says I ought to save up for a home. What do you assume? Pure fuel costs in Asia might have peaked after current highs, says the Eurasia Group Foreigners poured cash into China because the world struggled with the coronavirus pandemic Why are mortgage charges rising? 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__label__wiki	0.692919	0.692919	Covid-19 vaccines expected to begin arriving in Washington State in December Coronavirus image courtesy of Centers for Disease Control. From a November 25, 2020, Washington State Department of Health press release. The Washington State Department of Health (DOH) continues to make progress with our COVID-19 vaccine distribution planning efforts. Vaccine Authorizations and Approvals The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) received its first Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) application from a COVID-19 vaccine manufacturer on November 20. This is encouraging news about the potential for vaccines to be used as a prevention tool to control the pandemic. An EUA allows the FDA to make a product available during a declared state of emergency before it has a full license. The FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee will meet December 10th to review the EUA application. We know vaccine safety is of the utmost importance to our communities in Washington. If the EUA is approved, the vaccine will then be vetted by the western states’ Scientific Safety Review Workgroup. This workgroup will provide another layer of scrutiny and expert review to this process and should take about one to two days. This will be done while the vaccine is still being processed and shipped, so it should not cause any delay in making vaccine available to people in Washington. First Vaccine Arrival We are hopeful we will have a vaccine to begin administering by mid-December. The federal government has given us an estimate of 62,400 doses of the Pfizer vaccine for our initial allocation. They have also told us we should receive an estimated total of around 200,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine by the end of December. Regular weekly shipments should begin in January. We do not have an estimate yet on the Moderna vaccine; we expect to learn more after they submit their application for an emergency use authorization. The first people eligible to receive vaccine are high-risk workers in health care settings. This is called phase 1A. We will share more information about vaccine phases in the coming weeks. The vaccine candidate made by Pfizer must be stored at ultra-cold temperatures. Fortunately, locations that do not have ultra-cold storage capacity can still store this vaccine in the special thermal shipper the vaccine comes in. This allows additional sites to receive the vaccine as long as they can vaccinate at least 975 people in 20 days. We are also working on a policy that will allow hospitals who don’t expect to vaccinate 975 people to transfer extra vaccine to other enrolled facilities. This will reduce wasted vaccine. Providers who have fully enrolled in the COVID-19 Vaccine Program by December 6 will be eligible to receive part of the first shipment. As of November 25, we had 54 providers fully enrolled, with many more applications partially completed or pending approval. We encourage clinics, pharmacies, and hospitals to enroll in the program soon to make the deadline. Enroll at www.COVIDVaccineWA.org. We will coordinate with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to ship vaccine directly to enrolled providers once vaccine is available. Providers will then be responsible for storing and administering the vaccine. We are meeting with enrolled and interested providers regularly to provide updates and technical assistance. We won’t know until early December which facilities will get vaccine first. Snohomish County COVID-19 case rate per 100,000 for two-week rolling period. Image courtesy of Snohomish Health District.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line133
__label__wiki	0.807596	0.807596	rishi sunak salary It is a long-established scheme, but it has been revised during the pandemic. Let us know how we have done in our 2020 Membership Satisfaction Survey, Euralarm presents position on internet-connected radio equipment and wearables, Raising the Bar - Competence for Building a Safer Future, Sunak considers a new scheme to subsidize worker's pay. https://www.financialexpress.com/world-news/rishi-sunak-unveils-job-support-boost-to-cover-covid-hit-wages/2102122/. Celebrities more often then not want to keep their love affairs secret, if you happen to know the name of Rishi Sunak's partner, please leave a comment in the section below. He has been a member of the Conservative Party since the general elections in 2015 and has served as the MP for Richmond (Yorks). Unfortunately, only time will tell what scheme, if any, companies and individuals can expect after the government's furlough scheme ends. He has been a member of the Conservative Party since the general elections in 2015 and has served as the MP for Richmond (Yorks). My speech in the House of Commons saying we will significantly increase the generosity and reach of its winter support schemes to ensure livelihoods and jobs across the UK continue to be protected in the difficult months to come, supporting jobs and helping to contain the virus. Sunak and his wife have a wealth of £ 10 million in the United Kingdom and America. After graduating, he worked for investment bank Goldman Sachs and later as a partner at hedge fund management firm The Children's Investment Fund Management. The latest breaking coronavirus news and updates including deaths in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, plus UK lockdown changes, shielding guidance and daily deaths confirmation. 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But what are the options? A GRAPHIC designer has invoiced the Chancellor Rishi Sunak his entire student debt - so that he can pay his retraining costs. My annoucement (09/10/20) that I’m expanding the Jobs Support Scheme. Rishi Sunak answers questions from Linkedin users on the Winter Economy Plan, furlough scheme and stamp duty. Where the coronavirus restrictions legally require business premises to close, in any region or nation of the UK, we will help pay employees’ wages. Rishi Sunak is said to be considering a salary top-up scheme similar to ones already in place in Germany and France. As part of the Government's Plan for Jobs we announce a new Green Home Grants Scheme covering two-thirds of the cost of eligible green improvements, up to a maximum government contribution of £5,000. It can now run for up to 21 months and the percentage of lost wages paid by the government can now be as high as 80%. We are the UK’s largest trade association for the fire protection industry, Covering 17 different subjects at 16 venues around the UK, The FIA is involved with a broad range of organisations which have an impact on the fire protection industry, however small, © Copyright 2020 Fire Industry Association, Tudor House, Kingsway Business Park, Oldfield Road Hampton, Middlesex, TW12 2HD Phone: 020 3166 5002 Email: [email protected]. France's "chômage partiel": The French scheme, known as "partial unemployment" or "partial activity", also pre-dates the coronavirus pandemic. According to internet, Rishi Sunak's height is 1.75m. Once you figure out how much money Rishi Sunak is making everyday, it is much easier to estimate Rishi Sunak's Youtube net worth! Olly Murs tears into 'idiot' Rishi Sunak in stinging rant as musicians are urged to look for different jobs. Published 2nd October 2020. The party says jobs in industries such as festivals and nightlife have been forced to close and so are unable to access the job support scheme. RISHI Sunak has revealed a fresh bumper furlough package today which will pay even more wages to save the nation’s boozers and restaurants – splashing out an … It's actually not that hard to estimate the salary income figure. Chancellor Rishi Sunak explains how it works and where to get one. Rishi Sunak is said to be considering a salary top-up scheme similar to ones already in place in Germany and France. According to the latest Youtube stat on 2020-10-23, Rishi Sunak has a total video view count of 287 Thousand on the Youtube channel and Rishi Sunak has subscribers on the same Youtube channel. Rishi Sunak responds to the shadow chancellor on opposition day 16/10/20. Many people ask about the amount of money Rishi Sunak makes from Instagram. London is a mews house in Kensington, with five bedrooms valued £ 7 million. He then progressed to working in the hedge fund sector and eventually launched his own firm called Theleme Partners in 2010. Rishi Sunak (born 12 May 1980) is a British politician who has served as Chancellor of the Exchequer since February 2020. Marvelous Merchandise Genshin Impact Location. The Chancellor of the Exchequer is thought to be looking at alternatives to the furlough scheme that is set to finish at the end of October. To be eligible for the Jobs Support Scheme, employees in "viable" jobs must work a minimum of 33% of their hours. UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak on Friday unveiled a booster shot to his previously announced 'Job Support Scheme' to cover a chunk of the wages of businesses legally required to … They also own, among other properties, a 12-acres Georgian house, located in North Yorkshire district of Sunak. Germany's Kurzarbeit: The employer cuts workers' hours and the government pays them a percentage of the money they would have lost as a result. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Richmond (Yorks) since the 2015 general election. His firm had an initial fund of £557m ($700m). We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. "In addition to the package I set out yesterday, there will be creative and imaginative measures from the chancellor to help people through this crisis."'. Please only use it for a guidance and Rishi Sunak's actual income may vary a lot from the dollar amount shown above. Blue Collar Conservatism Conference 2020: Chancellor Rishi Sunak speaks to Esther McVey as part of the BCC Conference in association with the Daily Express. The coronavirus job retention scheme … Employees still receive nearly all their normal salary, with the government paying a percentage of the cost. Many people ask this question about the money Rishi Sunak makes from Facebook. Friday 2nd October 2020. The pressure is mounting on the Government to prevent a 'tsunami of job losses'. The subsidy would last up to a year. Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced a new wage scheme that will replace furlough support for workers. Normally the ad cost for an Instagram ad post is based on the number of followers on the account. If you think Rishi Sunak's age is not correct, please leave a comment about Rishi Sunak's real age and Rishi Sunak's actual birthday below. Firms are allowed to cut employees' hours by up to 40% for up to three years. What are the possible options? A member of the Conservative Party, he previously served as Chief Secretary to the Treasury under Chancellor Sajid Javid from July 2019 to February 2020. Sunak subsequently studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at Lincoln College, Oxford, and later gained an MBA from Stanford University as a Fulbright Scholar. Born in Southampton, Hampshire, to a Punjabi Indian-East African Hindu family, his early education was at Winchester College. 5th Ocotber 2020. To which the Prime Minister acknowledge the '"very difficult circumstances" and although an "indefinite extension" of the furlough scheme was out of the question, further support was being worked on. According to wikipedia, Rishi Sunak was born on August 15, 1990. The CBI's suggestion: A wages top-up from the government should be available provided that employees can work at least 50% of their normal hours. 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__label__wiki	0.706097	0.706097	Is there anything more frustrating than coaches who overthink? Published: Tue, June 2, 2015 12:00 AM Updated: Tue, June 2, 2015 10:05 AM Florida's Coach Tim Walton celebrates a win behind his team during Game 1 in the championship series of the Women's College World Series between Florida and Michigan at ASA Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City on Monday June 1, 2015. Photo by Jackie Dobson, The Oklahoman. By all accounts, Tim Walton and Carol Hutchins are great coaches. Their names may not be widely known in the sports world, but Walton is the head coach of the Florida softball team and Hutchins is the head coach of the Michigan softball team. Both have won national championships. Both are going for another this week as the two teams playing in the best-of-three series at the Women’s College World Series. And both have built powerhouse programs at places that had little softball tradition before them. Those are some pretty stout resumes. But Monday night during the opening game of the championship series, it was all I could do not to run out on the field and strangle them both. The reason? Overthinking. Hutchins decided to start Megan Besta in the circle, even though she had been replaced early in each of Michigan’s last three games. The Wolverines managed to overcome her rocky starts with some powerful offense, but still, it was pretty clear to everyone who was paying attention that she is struggling. And she struggled again Monday, giving up three runs in the first three innings and being replaced again by Haylie Wagner. Wagner has been solid every time she’s replaced Besta in the WCWC, and she was again Monday, shutting out Florida the rest of the way. But those three runs Besta gave up would be all that Florida would need. Why not go with your hot arm? Why not start the pitcher everyone in the place knew was pitching best? Hutchins overthought it. Thing is, Walton almost made up for Hutchins’ mistake with his own. He decided to start freshman Aleshia Ocasio in the circle instead of national player of the year Lauren Haeger, who had made every pitch for the Gators thus far in the WCWS. He was walking towards Overthinking Way, but he got a bit of a pass. Ocasio had beaten Michigan not once, but twice in the regular season. Starting her didn’t seem like a horrible idea. But after Ocasio gave up two runs in the sixth inning, Walton replaced her. Not with Haeger. But with sophomore Delanie Gourley. And it nearly cost him. Gourley issued a walk, then had a passed ball. A single put runners on the corners with no outs. Then it took a great play by Florida shortstop Kathlyn Medina to keep the ball in the infield and get a force out at second. Miraculously, the runner at third didn’t head home. A strikeout and a groundout ended the Michigan threat and wrapped up the Florida victory, but geez, a game that Florida had dominated was about this close to being a total disaster. All with the player of the year standing in the dugout. Nothing galls me more than coaches who overthinking. Yes, getting Haeger some rest was a good notion, but when you are three outs from taking the early lead in a championship series, why futz around? Walton and Hutchins aren’t alone in this, of course. We see it all the time. Pete Carroll throwing instead of running Marshawn Lynch at the goal line in the Super Bowl. Josh Heupel deciding to abandon the run and Samaje Perine entirely in the second half against Baylor. But my favorite example is from my favorite sports movie, “Hoosiers.” The boys basketball team from tiny Milan, Ind., is playing for a state title, and in the movie, they call timeout with one last chance to win the game. Gene Hackman’s character, coach Norman Dale, huddles the boys and tells them that they’re going to use their best player, Jimmy Chitwood, as a decoy on the final play. The boys all look around like “Oh, man, what is Coach thinking?” Hackman asks what’s wrong with them, and Chitwood calmly says, “I’ll make it, Coach.” The boys save him from overthinking. Not sure the gals from Florida or Michigan could do the same for their coaches — this ain’t Hollywood, after all — but sometimes, the truth is simple. The most obvious answer is the best answer. CommentsIs there anything more frustrating than coaches who overthink?	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line157
__label__cc	0.558328	0.441672	Family’s Wrexham park crowned by AA as Britain’s best John Brookshaw (left) with some of the park’s team members who helped Plassey seize the AA’s top accolade PLASSEY HOLIDAY PARK in Wrexham, North Wales, has been named by the AA as the UK’s top destination for campers, glampers, caravanners and motorhome owners. The family business beat thousands of other eligible parks to take both the Wales and the overall British Campsite of the Year title in the AA’s 2019/20 Caravan and Camping Awards. Awards given by the AA – based on guest reviews and a “secret shopper” visit by inspectors – are regarded as the Oscars of the holiday parks industry. The park’s facilities, services and levels of hospitality all went under the microscope – and each was found to meet or exceed the platinum standard on every level. The park’s owners, John Brookshaw and his wife Sarah, say they were “absolutely overwhelmed” when news came through that they had clinched two major honours: Plassey’s Shippon Restaurant also drew praise from the AA inspection team “This has to be one of our family’s proudest moments since we first started welcoming visitors to Plassey over fifty years ago,” said John. “What makes these AA awards particularly special to us is that they are based not just on our quality standards, but the experience which guests enjoy. “Providing happy holidays has always been our family’s main priority, and our friendly and helpful team deserve a big vote of thanks for helping us deliver this,” he added. The citation from the AA’s award judges noted that Plassey “is a truly lovely park set in several hundred acres of quiet farm and meadowland in the beautiful Dee Valley. There is so much here to entertain all age groups and to create lovely holiday memories, from a swimming pool to free fishing and use of the golf course.” Inspectors also highlighted the first-class amenities, the acclaimed Shippon Restaurant, and the artisan craft village on the park which is home to 20 Wales-based retailers. They went on to praise Plassey’s super-luxury glamping facilities which include lodges with private hot tubs and views over the park’s 250 acres of well-kept grounds. Not that Plassey is any stranger to awards, and its other recent honours include the title of Best Go Caravan, Camping & Glamping site for all of North Wales from Go North Wales Tourism. In addition, botanist David Bellamy presented Plassey this autumn with his top award for environmental care, and it is also a member of the Best of British group of top-rated UK parks. John Brookshaw said: “The new AA awards have provided an amazing finish to the 2019 season, and I hope they also help spotlight North Wales generally as a fantastic holiday destination.” More information about the park is available at www.plassey.com Ways to stay at Plassey include these highly praised glamping lodges with their own private hot tubs	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line158
__label__wiki	0.917176	0.917176	ByteDance launches its first gadget in a big education push ByteDance on Thursday unveiled its first consumer hardware product, a smart light lamp with a display, that it says is part of its education technology portfolio as the Chinese internet giant continues to expand to categories beyond social video. The Dali smart lamp features a display, camera, and a built-in digital assistant. The Dali smart […] ByteDance on Thursday unveiled its first consumer hardware product, a smart light lamp with a display, that it says is part of its education technology portfolio as the Chinese internet giant continues to expand to categories beyond social video. The Dali smart lamp features a display, camera, and a built-in digital assistant. The Dali smart lamp (in Chinese), which starts at $119, is aimed at school-going children who can use the device to finish their homework, ByteDance said (in Chinese) at a press conference. The camera will enable parents to tutor their kids and check in remotely via a mobile app. The smart lamp could prove successful in China where, like many other markets, a large number of parents struggle to find a balance between their work and personal lives, and engage better with their kids. ByteDance said the smart lamp is part of the company’s push into its education category, which it is now calling Dali Education (Dali is Chinese for big force). The Chinese giant, which owns viral short-video app TikTok, forayed into the education category several years ago. The company today runs a range of education services including GoGoKid, which teaches kids English classes, and Qingbei, which replicates classroom experience. All of these products, including Guagua Long and Open Language, are now part of Dali Education umbrella. Last year, ByteDance’s TikTok also expanded its education offerings in India, which until New Delhi banned the app in the country in late June this year was its biggest market outside of China. The company said more than 10,000 employees are already working on its education arm. No word on whether ByteDance plans to launch the Dali smart lamp outside of China. Rita Liao contributed to this report.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line159
__label__wiki	0.552858	0.552858	Carlos Guevara V Carlos Guevara V (San Fernando, Chile) Twitter / Facebook / 500px / Website A Chilean native engineer, mountaineer and professional photographer currently exploring nature and landscapes through the medium of photography. His works are exhibited on several sites: www.carlosguevarav.com, Worldclass Landscape Photographers Facebook, 500PX and 1x. Recipient of the 2014 FOTONAT Argentina Competition´s first prize award, 2016 Andesgear Competition´s first prize award category best artistic photo, 2017 Wikiexplora Competition´s first and second prize award, 2017 Finalist in Siena International Photo Awards, he also has been invited to participate as jury member of several specialized photography contests in Argentina. Founder of “Arte & Luz Foundation”, he has been in charge of the Natphoto Mountain Expeditions Program since 2014 (Natphoto.cl). Constantly researching and training, he is currently pursuing special photography studies at the NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF PHOTOGRAPHY (NYIP). “For me a photo becomes an image when it is able to convey a message, emotions, when what the viewer observes makes you think, get excited.For many years I dreamed of being able to develop myself in photography, today I feel that I still have an infinite path to go, because one never finishes learning and improving, but the path already exists and is initiated. When one feels a passion for something it is impossible to stop, I think it is my case, photography occupies a very important place in my life and it is really a passion and I want to live it as such, always improving, it will depend on the work I can do as far as I can arrive”. Recent chilean photography projects include: Chungará Lake; San Pedro de Atacama; Nevado de 3 Cruces National Park; The Andes Mountains of Santiago (Chile´s capitol); Siete Tazas National Reserve; Southern Andes sites such as Conguillío National Park, Araucanía Andina, Corralco-Malalcahuello/Nalcas National Reserve and Nahuelbuta National Park; Tagua Tagua Private Reserve, Greater Island of Chiloé; Cape Horn, the Southernmost headland of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago, and Torres del Paine, a national park encompassing mountains, glaciers, lakes, and rivers in southern Chilean Patagonia; Estrecho de Magallanes and Southern channels. By Andre Liebenberg on 12 December 2019 Altaf Qadri -Highly Respected and Award Winning Documentary Photographer By Snaptured on 07 July 2018 Fresh from the Blog Top 10 Photos of August 2017 By Snaptured on 09 September 2017 Top 10 Photos of July 2017 By Snaptured on 08 August 2017 What are the best lenses for portraits? By Snaptured on 06 June 2017 Newest Photographers Gianfranco Siguas Jessica Dudley Cedar Island NC Cedar Island NC Follow James Kelada Bernard Posniak Swapnil Shirali Indian Travel Destination	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line162
__label__wiki	0.920198	0.920198	Destructo "4Real" (ft. Ty Dolla $ign & ILOVEMAKONNEN) By Josiah Hughes Destructo is an EDM producer who also definitely knows how to throw a party — he is, after all, the founder of HARD Events. Now, he's dropped a new single featuring the excellent, inimitable ILOVEMAKONNEN and Ty Dolla $ign. The song's hardly a skull-crushing monster at first, instead building a groove with minimal synths and layered drums. The track still cooks, however, thanks in no small part to excellent performances from both vocalists. Stream Destructo's new single below, where you'll also find his upcoming tour dates. 01/14 Austin, TX - Kingdom 01/15 Houston, TX - Stereo Live 01/16 Chicago, IL - The Mid 01/17 Boston, MA - Bijou 01/21 Denver, CO - Beta 01/22 Portland, OR - Evergreen 01/23 Los Angeles, CA - Avalon 01/24 San Diego, CA - Quartyard 01/28 San Francisco, CA - Audio 01/29 Seattle, WA - Foundation 01/30 Phoenix, AZ - Monarch Theatre 02/03 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club 02/05 Toronto, ON - The Hoxton More Destructo	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line172
__label__cc	0.590207	0.409793	ViacomCBS Vows $250 Million for Diversity at MTV Dec 4, 2020 \| Companies, Entertainment, Video \| Associated Press: MTV Entertainment Group says it’s making a $250 million commitment to spur reality production over the next three years by companies owned and operated by women and people of color. MTV will provide funding, staff and other support.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line173
__label__wiki	0.800126	0.800126	Looking beyond Lockdown : all the big Lockdown stories and news 19th Dec 20 stevecubbins 2020, Lockdown, NEWS3 As Squash starts to emerge from the Coronavirus lockdown, we’ll be collecting news from across the globe … Read on to check out the news and guidelines they come available … England Squash Back to Squash \| Scottish Squash Toolkit \| US Squash Roadmap \| WSF Guidelines 18-Dec : 2021 US College (CSA) events cancelled With recent COVID-19 trends continuing to raise concern, causing several College Squash Association (CSA) member institutions to significantly limit or cancel their season plans, the CSA Board of Directors voted on Thursday to cancel the 2021 CSA national championship events. This cancellation includes the Women’s Team Championships, the Men’s Team Championships, and the Individual Championships for the current season. The Board’s vote followed a thorough review of the logistics and resources required to stage these events safely, as well as a comprehensive assessment of CSA teams’ operations, including their respective clearances to train, travel, host competitions, and gather in large groups. Like its member institutions and conferences, CSA has exercised caution to protect the health and wellbeing of its student-athletes, coaches, and other constituents. “It is heartbreaking to deny student-athletes the championship playing experiences they would normally have had,” said David Poolman, Executive Director and League Commissioner of the CSA. “The current unprecedented circumstances caused by COVID-19 create too many obstacles which prevent our safe and desired execution of the championships this season.” Maximizing the student-athlete experience remains a top priority for CSA. Even without the championship events, CSA still intends to support all institutions which allow their teams to train and compete in dual matches in a medically-approved manner. In consultation with US Squash and NCAA return-to-competition guidelines, CSA will publish minimum testing strategies and match protocols soon, which teams should use to create safe playing opportunities. CSA is also committed to honoring graduating seniors and recognizing the typical end-of-season academic and athletic award winners. While the cancellation is certainly disappointing, CSA is eager to engage the college squash community in new and creative ways throughout this season. 04-Dec: Allam British Open scheduled for June The 2021 Allam British Open has been provisionally scheduled for June, 2021, subject to restrictions put in place by the UK government. This comes following the cancellation of the 2020 Allam British Open, which had originally been postponed from its original May dates of May due to the pandemic. The PSA, together with England Squash and title sponsor Dr Assem Allam, will now focus on staging the 2021 edition of the sport’s longest-running tournament next summer at the University of Hull Sports and Fitness Centre. “While running the 2020 event in the next few months just isn’t possible at this time, we are hopeful that we will be able to stage the 2021 edition in June,” said PSA Chief Executive Alex Gough. “The British Open is one of the most distinguished tournaments in squash and the decision to change the status of the 2020 edition from postponed to cancelled is one that we have not made lightly. “The COVID-19 pandemic and the ever-changing restrictions and protocols that come with it means that there are a number of hurdles involved when running a world-class sporting event. We will stay in close contact with England Squash and Dr. Allam in the coming months as we look to stage the event next summer.” More on our British Open minisite 01-Dec, Hong Kong’s Chairman Cup cancelled The PSA Challenger Tour was due to resume in Asia this week, but the Chairman Cup, men’s and women’s $12k event set to take place at Hong Kong Squash Centre, has been cancelled. Top men’s seeds in the all-HK draws were Tsz Fung Yip and Henry Leung, with Ho Tsz-Lok and Liu Tsz-Ling topping the women’s draw. 25-Nov, ToC Cancelled Promoter John Nimick has announced that the J.P. Morgan Tournament of Champions, a PSA World Tour Platinum event, will not take place in 2021 due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. The Tournament of Champions first took place in the Vanderbilt Hall at New York City’s iconic Grand Central Terminal in 1995 and has been staged there annually since 1999, with hundreds of thousands of commuters watching world-class squash up close and for free. The health and safety challenges arising from the COVID-19 pandemic mean that it is not viable to host a professional sporting event in Grand Central Terminal at this time, resulting in the difficult decision being made to cancel the 2021 edition of the tournament. PSA, J.P. Morgan and tournament promoter Squash Engine Inc. remain fully committed to staging the Tournament of Champions in 2022, when J.P. Morgan’s renewed three-year title sponsorship of the prestigious tournament will commence. 09-Nov, Back-to-Back Men’s and Women’s CIB Black Ball Open events to be held in December Cairo, Egypt will host back-to-back men’s and women’s PSA World Tour Gold events between 7th and 18th December when the CIB PSA Black Ball Open takes place at the Black Ball Sporting Club. A women’s event will take place from 7th to 12th December, with a men’s event beginning the following day and drawing to a close with the final on 18th December. Prize money of $100,000 will be on offer at both events. 16-Oct, Qatar Classic confirmed The PSA has confirmed that the Qatar Classic – announced as part of the provisional PSA World Tour calendar – will go ahead as scheduled from 1st to 7th November in Doha, Qatar. The Qatar Classic will be the second men’s PSA World Tour Platinum tournament of the 2020-21 season and will adhere to the same COVID-19 protocols in place at all three previous PSA World Tour events since the restart. It will be shown live on SQUASHTV (rest of world), the official Facebook page of the PSA World Tour (rest of world) and the channels of contracted broadcasters. 14-Oct, Hong Kong Open postponed, PSL season cancelled 02-Sep, Women’s World Teams postponed The WSF has announced that the 2020 WSF World Women’s Team Championships have been postponed due to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic. The 22nd edition of the biennial event was scheduled at the 10-court Bukit Jalil National Squash Centre in Kuala Lumpur from 15th to 20th December 2020 but due to the health and safety concerns during this global pandemic, the Malaysian government announced that they have extended their ‘Recovery Movement Control Order’ until 31st December 31 and therefore no events allowing international participation will take place in the country until 2021. The WSF will continue to work with SRAM for the rescheduling of the World Women’s Team Championships and the possibility to host the 2020 WSF World Junior Championships in the 1st quarter of 2021 will be also discussed at the upcoming Executive Committee and Board meetings. 01-Sep, British Junior Open Cancelled England Squash has announced the British Junior Open 2021, scheduled to take place in Birmingham from 2-6 January, has been cancelled due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The prestigious major event attracts more than 600 of the world’s finest junior athletes from 55 different nations as far as New Zealand and Japan. “It is with great regret that we announce the cancellation of next year’s British Junior Open,” said Keir Worth, CEO at England Squash. “The ongoing pandemic and the restrictions on international travel pose a major risk, and the health and safety of athletes, spectators and all those involved is paramount in these unprecedented times. “This decision was not made lightly and the organising committee has explored all viable options to safely host this historic tournament but the unpredictability of COVID-19 makes it logistically untenable. “We look forward to hosting the event in 2022 when the Commonwealth Games comes to Birmingham and to provide a spectacular showcase for squash.” Meanwhile, Scottish Squash has confirmed the cancellation of the Scottish Junior Open, which was scheduled to be held in the buildup to the BJO from 28-30 December. 25-Aug, looking forward in England Fed up with ‘sides’ ? England Squash are fleshing out what happens next … 10-Aug : Women’s World Teams ‘not looking promising’ … The Women’s World Team Squash Championships, scheduled in Kuala Lumpur on Dec 15-20, will likely be cancelled or postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, writes Kng Zheng Guan in the New Straits Times. India are the first country to withdraw from the tournament and other nations are expected to follow suit. Several top nations such as England, France, the United States and Hong Kong are facing uphill struggles to contain the pandemic. Egypt won the title in 2018 in China Squash Racquets Association of Malaysia (SRAM) director Major (Rtd) S. Maniam admitted that the situation does not look promising. “One of the stumbling blocks is that our government has not given us the green light to organise an event of that magnitude,” said Maniam. “The World Squash Federation (WSF) will give us the full list of entries by Aug 15. We will decide by the end of this month.” Maniam also added that the Covid-19 situation has made it rather difficult to plan for events too far ahead. 31-Jul : Scotland prepares for return While English courts have been open for a week – despite further restrictions being imposed on some Northern areas this weekend – Scotland is looking forward to a resumption of Squash. Scottish Squash ‘prepare for return’ 24-Jul : US Open Cancelled US Open Cancelled 14-Jul : Guidelines for return to court on 25th in England England Squash has published full guidance and resources for clubs, venues and coaches for the return to play ahead of courts opening in England on 25 July. 14-Jul : Setback in Hong Kong Courts have been open for several weeks in Hong Kong, but a recent rise in cases – a “third wave” – has seen restrictions reimposed which mean that courts will close for a week or more. Latest news from HK Asian Squash Map (from May) HK Squash statement 12-Jul : Opening up in South Africa Having successfully appealed against Squash’s designation as a ‘contact sport’, Squash South Africa is ready for training and matches to commence … 11-Jul : Malaysia gears up for competition 09-Jul : Hope emerges in UK As the UK lockdown eases, English and Scottish squash players finally got some good news today as the government announced the reopening of Gyms, Leisure Centres and some Indoor Sports from 25th July (Scotland and Wales may differ). Whether this actually covers squash is still to be confirmed, but England Squash and Scottish Squash are on the case, and further news and detailed guidance will be coming out shortly … stay tuned ! 06-Jul: Local Leagues resume in Isle of Man 03-Jul: Mauritius cancelled as to leave August empty The PSA has confirmed that the Necker Mauritius Open 2020 has been cancelled due to the global COVID-19 pandemic – not a surprise, but still disappointing. The PSA Gold tournament – which had been rescheduled to take place from 18-22 August, would have been the first PSA event to take place on the picturesque island. The PSA had been working closely with the tournament promoters in order to hold the tournament following the disruption to the Tour, but border restrictions in place in Mauritius mean that a decision has been made to cancel the tournament, with the intention of holding the inaugural Mauritius Open in June 2021 instead. “We have explored all possible alternatives but restrictions currently in place following the global outbreak of COVID-19 has left us with no choice but to cancel the 2020 edition of the Mauritius Open,” said Necker Gestion Privée Chief Executive, Rémy Mabillon. “While we are naturally disappointed not to be able to invite the world’s leading players to Mauritius at this time, we are confident that we will be able to put on a real show in 2021 and look forward to unveiling our plans for the tournament in due course.” 25-Jun: Holland and France opening up … The Dutch are looking forward to clubs reopening on 1st July, while France moved into full competition mode yesterday !! 24-Jun: South Africa sets out their ‘Return to Play’ plans Check out the full South African plan (43-page pdf) 23-Jun: No UK movement in UK for now UK squash players still have no end in sight – Scotland Squash reports that we must wait for “phase 3” at least, while in England Hotels, Pubs, Restaurants, Cinemas and Hairdressers (among others) can open in early July, but gyms, fitness clubs, most leisure centres and squash clubs (among others) remain closed for now. Update 24-Jun: UK government looking at possible mid-July start for indoor fitness sector 18-Jun: Coming out in Canada With restrictions easing, Squash Nova Scotia has updated their guidelines to allow limited match play, while Squash Canada has cautiously published a provisional calendar for their cancelled events, starting in early October. 16-Jun: Egypt opening up (for training) 15-Jun: PSA shutdown extended The PSA has extended the suspension of the PSA Tour following the global COVID-19 pandemic has been extended and all World Tour, Challenger Tour and WSF & PSA Satellite Tour events originally planned to take place in July and at the start of August have been postponed. The Tour has been on hold since March 13, and following regular communication with tournament organisers and players, and with the health and safety of all players, promoters, fans and tournament staff in mind, the decision has been made to extend the suspension until mid-August. Affected tournaments: Victoria Open \| Indian Tour – Noida Leg \| Shepparton International \|Squash Melbourne Open First tournament left on the Calendar : $100k Mauritius Open, 18-22 Aug (we have our doubts!) “There are a number of uncertainties surrounding international travel, social distancing guidelines and potential quarantine measures for players and staff travelling internationally, which means that resuming the tour in the next six to eight weeks isn’t feasible at present,” said PSA Tour Director Hannah Ridgard-Mason. “This is a difficult, but necessary, decision and we are naturally disappointed that we are not yet in a position to resume the PSA Tour following this global pandemic. “However, the health and safety of all of our players and everyone involved in running an event is paramount. We continue to explore all available options as we look to outline a roadmap for the return of professional squash.” San Francisco cancelled The 2020 Oracle NetSuite Open – originally scheduled for September 22-28 – has been cancelled due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. The event has been held annually since 2011, with the latter rounds of the tournament being staged on San Francisco’s Embarcadero Plaza in front of the famous Ferry Building. “Unfortunately, the challenges arising from the COVID-19 outbreak have made it impossible to hold this year’s Oracle NetSuite Open,” said Tournament Promoter John Nimick.” Both Evan [Goldberg, Founder and EVP of Oracle NetSuite] and I would like to thank all of our partners and supporters over the past eight years for their support in bringing the world’s best players to the Bay Area. Our tournament has become a major stop on the PSA World Tour and was one of the first Gold level events in the world to offer prize money parity. “It is because of our partners that the Oracle NetSuite Open has made a positive impact on the world of squash. I am hopeful we will be able to showcase the world’s best in San Francisco once again next year and look forward to sharing our plans for the next instalment with all supporters in 2021.” World Masters moves to 2021 The World Masters Squash Championships – originally postponed from August 2020 due to the global COVID-19 pandemic – has been rescheduled to 15-21 August 2021. Additionally, the WSF has approved the qualifying age for the postponed event, which will remain as per the original start date of the event on 23 August 2020. This ensures that those who entered this year’s event still qualify for the same age group on the new dates. The world’s biggest squash club, Hasta la Vista, will host the world’s leading Masters players, with a number of nationalities represented throughout all draws, while ages range from 35 to over 80 years old. Hasta la Vista is renowned for the the number of courts in one place (33 courts including two glass courts), by impressive facilities for players (such as a restaurant, spacious gym, fitness and physio facilities in total area of over 10,000 m2) and by its location in the beautiful and historic Polish city of Wroclaw. UK : What might the ‘new’ squash be ? Nice little article from Rob Ellis of SquashGear … What might Coronavirus mean for squash in the UK? Australia : June update France : Confinement Guide French Squash has issued a detailed guide for returning to squash activities as clubs in their ‘Green Zone’ begin to reopen … Read the Guide (14-page pdf) Australia : NSW clubs remain closed for now … Egypt : Clubs reopening in June – with restrictions WSF : Getting back to Squash The World Squash Federation has published guidelines on how to get back to ‘normal’ in various stages … WSF Covid-19 Recommendations New Zealand moves to Level 2 New Zealand has reportedly contained and coped with the outbreak better than anyone, and on 13th May moves to “Level 2” (4 was ‘Eliminate, 3 was ‘restrict’ and 2 is ‘reduce’) which means the reopening of facilities within some fairly strict guidelines. More on the Squash NZ Covid response \| Club Activity Toolkit (very useful) Turin “Coni Dossier” puts Squash in ‘Very High Risk’ category With some countries publishing guidelines for when squash gets back, and others actually starting play, hopes of a quick and full return are possibly premature, with a report from the Polytechnic University of Turin suggesting more caution may be needed. Called “Restarting Sport Safely”, the 400 page report was commissioned by the Italian National Olympic Committee and looks at the potential to spread the virus in over 300 sports. Sports governing bodies each completed a questionnaire covering all the risk factors, and the findings were used to produce a ‘league table’ with a risk score (0 to 4) allocated to each sport. Report from IiFattoQuotidiano Factors at the bottom – how’s your Italian ? The amount of contact between players, the distances between them and the protection measures likely to be put in place had a significant bearing on each sports’ score, and squash fared badly … example scores : 0, no risk : golf, tennis, horse riding, fishing, sailing. 1, low risk : swimming, cycling, 2, average risk : water polo, beach volleyball 3, high risk : football, fencing. 4, very high risk : rugby, boxing, volleyball, basketball, squash Other sports on the list have reacted – Water Polo claiming to be the least dangerous team sport, and Volleyball dismayed to be in the ‘most dangerous sports’ category. The confined space, the proximity of the players to each other, heavy breathing and sweating helped to contribute to squash’s rating, but that won’t be much consolation to squash if governments and authorities use the list to help decide when to allow sports out of lockdown … Malaysia – restrictions eased in Sabah Hong Kong – squash centres open, plus limited competitions No change in England … yet Swiss Squash Clubs to reopen on 11th May !! It’s a great headline, but as countries such as Switzerland, Germany and USA start looking at easing restrictions and what might this mean for Squash Clubs and Players, the Swiss, US and Canadian guidelines make it certain it’s not going to be squash as we know it for a while yet … Meanwhile in Israel, Arthur Caplan reports on 7th May : I am pleased to tell you that Israel’s two largest squash clubs, the ones in Herzliya and Ra’Anana, renewed activity today. Health precautions were in force but play was possible and demand was most encouraging. Less encouraging news from the Netherlands via Milou van der Heijden : Read on to check out the guidelines – we’re adding as they come available … In Switzerland they’re looking at reopening sports clubs, with the guidelines adapted for a specific club, SIHLSPORTS. In Germany the association is getting ready to publish their guidelines, and US Squash has developed a four-stage plan. In brief, we’re looking at pre-booking visits to the club to control numbers, temperature checks and hand sanitisation on entry, restrictions on the types of play that is allowed, no showers and no bar/socialising, with departure from the club very shortly after ‘playing’. Here’s some extracts from the SIHLSPORTS implementation … Full Swiss Document (German) Swiss Squash-specific Guidelines Report from SquashNet (German) Meanwhile, US Squash has also issued guidelines for clubs when the time comes to reopen – here’s extracts from that … Full US Squash report and Document Swiss on court routines – video examples of what you can do Squash Canada issues Guidelines for Clubs and Players Here’s hoping we can all get back on court as soon as it’s safely possible ! We’ll update this with new guidelines and openings as we see them … Previous Post:CIB Black Ball Men’s Gold : It’s Dessouky Next Post:Zena Wooldridge : Q&A with the new WSF President Sep/Oct PSA Calendar Confirmed Squash is coming back : PSA sets out return to Tour plan 6th Aug 20 Luxembourg – First step back! 21st Jul 20 LOCKDOWN BLESSINGS FOR REINVIGORATED CLYNE 20th Jul 20 Getting hot under the Coronavirus collar in the UK Coping with containment : Jazz Hutton 13th May 20 Coping with Containment : Sarah-Jane Perry Coping with containment : Nour El Sherbini	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line175
__label__wiki	0.547926	0.547926	Category: Bert van Aalsburg Theatre Makers is pleased to present a video collection of the 20/20 play as performed at the 2019 San Francisco Fringe Festival. The collection starts with the Prologue / Act I / Decision Point video. At the Decision Point, viewers may choose to view one of the eight scenario videos or the Coda / End Credits video. See the Assassination Disclaimer below. You can choose the 20/20 Video playlist: 20/20 Video Playlist Or you can choose the videos of the eight scenarios and Coda / End Credits one by one below: Prologue / Act I / Decision Point Decentralized Revolution Scenario Assassination Scenario General Strike Scenario Impeachment Scenario Military Coup Scenario Corporate Coup Scenario Electoral Progress Scenario Do Nothing Scenario Coda / End Credits Assassination Disclaimer: The writers expressly denounce the assassination of political figures and intend the fictional Assassination scenario in the “20/20” play to discourage any such actions. During these politically polarized times, we have noticed a trend on left and right to direct animus toward individual figures and to imagine that violence against individuals would solve shared political woes, when the truth is that such strategies or tactics would only cause a strong reaction of repressive laws and human rights abuses, rather than constructive political change. Out of concern for human life and for our collective power, we oppose true-life assassinations and present them here merely in the context of fiction to channel those impulses harmlessly in a sort of catharsis for those daydreaming about such possibilities. Author adminPosted on May 5, 2020 Categories 20/20, Bert van Aalsburg, David-Henry Bennett, Dennie Warren, EXIT Theatre, Geeta Rai, Hima Menon, Jess Thompson, Kari Barclay, Matt, Nadeem Anjum, Ryan Samarakoon, San Francisco, San Francisco Fringe Festival, Stardust Doherty, theater, Theatre Makers, Tyler MannLeave a comment on 20/20 Video 20/20 Cast & Crew at EXIT Theatre 20/20 Cast & Crew in front of the EXIT Theatre in San Francisco Last chance to see “20/20” at the SF Fringe Festival is 5:00pm on Saturday, September 14, 156 Eddy Street, San Francisco. Tix: https://20-20.brownpapertickets.com (or 30 minutes before showtime at the door) It’s the year 2020. The President has been re-elected, the climate is heating up, and the economy is in meltdown. Now, it’s up to all of us to figure out what happens next. In this 60-minute satirical participatory performance, audience members choose from a list of possible scenarios they want staged: impeachment? a coup? a revolution? “20/20” asks what people power looks like in a time of vast uncertainty when even choosing to do nothing at all has its consequences. “20/20” will have four performances at the San Francisco Fringe Festival, September 7-14, plus a possible bonus performance on September 15, 2019. Show info and tickets: http://www.ritualart.org/2020 Author adminPosted on September 13, 2019 September 13, 2019 Categories 20/20, actors, Bert van Aalsburg, David-Henry Bennett, EXIT Theatre, Geeta Rai, Hima Menon, Jess Thompson, Kari Barclay, Matt, Nadeem Anjum, Ryan Samarakoon, San Francisco, San Francisco Fringe Festival, Stardust Doherty, theater, Theatre Makers, Tyler MannLeave a comment on 20/20 Cast & Crew at EXIT Theatre 20/20 Cast & Crew Photo 20/20 Play Cast and Crew Photo Show info: http://ritualart.org/2020/ Buy tickets: https://20-20.brownpapertickets.com Author adminPosted on August 21, 2019 August 21, 2019 Categories 20/20, actors, Bert van Aalsburg, crew, David-Henry Bennett, Dennie Warren, Geeta Rai, Hima Menon, Jess Thompson, Matt, Nadeem Anjum, Ryan Samarakoon, theater, Theatre Makers, Tyler MannLeave a comment on 20/20 Cast & Crew Photo 20/20 Photos and Videos 20/20 Play Cast & Crew Photo Actor David-Henry Bennett shares thoughts and feelings in this video about the 20/20 play from the Theatre Makers project of the Ritual Art Troupe. Co-writer and director Stardust shares thoughts and feelings in this video about the 20/20 play from the Theatre Makers project of the Ritual Art Troupe. Actor Geeta Rai shares thoughts and feelings in this video about the 20/20 play from the Theatre Makers project of the Ritual Art Troupe. Actor Hima Menon shares thoughts and feelings in this video about the “20/20” play from the Theatre Makers project of the Ritual Art Troupe. Actor Jess Thompson shares thoughts and feelings in this video about the 20/20 play from the Theatre Makers project of the Ritual Art Troupe. Actor Nadeem Anjum shares thoughts and feelings in this video about the 20/20 play from the Theatre Makers project of the Ritual Art Troupe. Actor Matt shares thoughts and feelings in this video about the 20/20 play from the Theatre Makers project of the Ritual Art Troupe. Actor Ryan Samarakoon shares thoughts and feelings in this video about the “20/20” play from the Theatre Makers project of the Ritual Art Troupe. Co-writer Kari Barclay shares thoughts and feelings in this video about the 20/20 play from the Theatre Makers project of the Ritual Art Troupe. 20/20 Play Character Anna with pussy hat, trench coat, and rocket launcher 20/20 Play Actors Jess Thompson, Hima Menon, Ryan Samarakoon, and Nadeem Anjum, on a well-deserved vegan meal break from rehearsals 20/20 Play: Rehearsal of Assassin Choking President Author adminPosted on July 31, 2019 September 27, 2019 Categories 20/20, actors, Bert van Aalsburg, crew, David-Henry Bennett, Dennie Warren, EXIT Theatre, Geeta Rai, Hima Menon, Jess Thompson, Kari Barclay, Matt, Nadeem Anjum, Ryan Samarakoon, San Francisco, San Francisco Fringe Festival, Stardust Doherty, theater, Theatre Makers, Tyler MannLeave a comment on 20/20 Photos and Videos 20/20 Play Actor & Crew Bios Actors Crew / Personnel Nadeem Anjum Kari Barclay David-Henry Bennett Stardust Doherty Matt Bert van Aalsburg * Hima Menon Tyler Mann Geeta Rai Peter Menchini (Videography) Ryan Samarakoon Tyler (Fringe Tech) Jess Thompson Dennie Warren Nadeem Anjum (SOCHE) Nadeem (he, his, him) is from Calcutta and first started acting in college. Since then, Nadeem has focused on improv with the South Bay Improv group and had his U.S. acting debut with the Theatre Makers as Gorilla in “Animal Factory Farm” (2018) and as a wealthy entrepreneur in “Ecopocalypse” (2018). David-Henry Bennett (ELLIS) David-Henry (he, his, him) is a native of Atlanta who started acting at the age of 3. He has acted in many roles, both comedic and dramatic and is currently studying his final year for an MFA in Acting at Academy of Art University. He plans to work in television and stage after graduation. David-Henry is also a dancer and writer. He also want a career in education as a means of giving back. He feels that acting is a way of expressing things we don’t normally get to express and allowing ourselves to be in harms way as a way of sharing with people how they can heal. David-Henry first appeared with Theatre Makers as Cow in “Animal Factory Farm” (2018) and as a wandering indigent in “Ecopocalypse” (2018). Matt (ENSEMBLE) Matt (he, his, him) first performed at a Fringe Festival in Edinburgh at the age of 16 and is happy to be back, this time in San Francisco. Matt also acted in the Theatre Makers productions of “Animal Factory Farm” (2018) and “Ecopocalype” (2018). Matt is a multimedia artist and virtual reality developer. He co-founded Virtual Bytes, an art, education and research collective creating virtual reality experiences and research that utilize neuroscience concepts to explore the mind/body connection. He is passionate about using his background in creative media and technology to develop virtual reality experiences that challenge our preconceptions about the world around us, and help us connect to each other in new ways. Matt also serves on the Board of the Ritual Art Troupe. Hima Menon (TV NEWS HOST) Hima (she, her, her) is very happy to be part of Theatre Makers. She is from the San Francisco Bay Area where she is currently training with The Meisner Technique studio. She is passionate about art in any form and loves to be part of theatre productions as much as possible. She is a software engineer by the day but strives to complete her training one day and submit more of herself to art. She has been part of a few art projects around the Bay Area and hopes to be able to contribute more as time progresses. “20/20” is Hima’s debut with Theatre Makers. Geeta Rai (MASTER OF CEREMONIES) Geeta (she, her, her) is a Bay Area Theater and Film Actor whose recent theater credits include Naatak’s “Rabbit Hole” and “EnActe Arts, Go to Your Room, Mother!”. Her theater education includes the Trinity College of London’s Speech and Drama Curriculum and Foothill College Acting Coursework. When she is not on stage/set/auditioning, she helps manage a theatre non-profit that promotes South Asian themed theater and children education programs. She is excited to perform at the Fringe Festival in San Francisco. “20/20” is Geeta’s debut with Theatre Makers. Ryan Samarakoon (President) Ryan (he, his, him) is from London, was raised in the midwest, and has now lived in the Bay Area for 3 years. He is excited to get back into acting after a hiatus during his neuroscience studies. He has had a passion for the arts since he was 6 years old when he began singing, acting, and playing violin. He will be training at the American Conservatory Theatre in the fall. Ryan is thrilled about his debut role with Theatre Makers in “20/20”. Jess Thompson (ANNA) Jess (she, her, her) studied Social Work in her graduate program and Acting and Psychology in her undergraduate program. Jess currently works as a therapist with low-income high school students. She is excited to merge her passions for theatre and social justice. “20/20” is Jess’ debut with Theatre Makers. Dennie Warren (OCTAVIA, VP) Dennie (she, her, her) has appeared in a wide variety of films, television series, and plays, as a featured actor and as an extra. Dennie is excited for her theatrical debut to be a role in “20/20” with Theatre Makers. Crew / Personnel Kari Barclay (CO-WRITER) Kari (he, his, him) is a director, playwright, and researcher completing his PhD in Theater and Performance Studies at Stanford University. Originally from Washington, DC, he has made work regionally and in New York at venues including the San Francisco Mime Troupe Studio, Round House Theater, and Manbites Dog. His original play, “Can I Hold You?”, was one of the first plays about asexuality performed in the U.S. and enjoyed runs in San Francisco and Brooklyn. Kari is a co-writer of the Theatre Maker play “20/20”. More at kari-barclay.com Stardust Doherty (DIRECTOR/CO-WRITER) Stardust (ze/per/herm) is a playwright, composer, musician (oboe and English horn), and English teacher. Stardust is focused long-term on the True of Voice musical dance theatre production and is a co-organizer of the Theatre Makers Meetup, as well as other playwrighting and composing projects. Stardust serves on the Board of Ritual Art Troupe, as well as two other non-profit organizations, the Online Policy Group and the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra. Stardust formerly worked at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Verified Voting Foundation, and at various high-tech companies during a prior career. Stardust began directing plays with per Shakespeare adaptation “A Midwinter Afternoon’s Nightmare” and the original “Bush Faeries: The Musical” (2018) staged at Breitenbush Community Hot Springs winter radical faerie gatherings. Along the way, there was an agit prop production of “Occupy San Francisco Employee Retirement System” (2013) in response to the bankster housing crisis. Stardust is a co-writer with Iryna Lymar and director of the Theatre Maker plays “Animal Factory Farm” (2018) and “Ecopocalypse” (2018) and co-writer with Iryna Lymar of “You Too” (planned 2019) and the director of and a co-writer with Kari Barclay of “20/20” (San Francisco Fringe Festival 2019). Bert van Aalsburg (Stage Manager)* Bert (he, his, him) embarked on a full-time theater career in the mid-70s as the technical director and utility player for the Red Barn Theater in Saugatuck, Michigan. In 1987, he came west as technical director for the Great American Melodrama in San Luis Obispo. After a season with the Melodrama, Bert moved to the Bay Area. In 1999, he joined the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre to stage manage their first production of Black Nativity. He continued as their SM of choice and recently stage managed their productions of How I Learned What I Learned and Urban Retreat this past spring. Other notable productions include the premieres of Stones in His Pockets at Magic Theatre and Mission Magic Mystery Show with Culture Clash. The list also includes Godfellas with SF Mime Troupe and The Thomashefsky’s at SF Symphony. When not stage managing, Bert keeps busy in other areas of theater where he has earned critical acclaim as a lighting and scenic designer. Additionally, Bert is an active member of Actors’ Equity. * These Actors and Stage Managers appear with the special permission of Actors’ Equity Association. Author adminPosted on June 18, 2019 September 13, 2019 Categories 20/20, actors, Actors' Equity Association, Bert van Aalsburg, bios, crew, David-Henry Bennett, Dennie Warren, Geeta Rai, Hima Menon, Jess Thompson, Kari Barclay, Matt, Nadeem Anjum, Stardust Doherty, Theatre MakersLeave a comment on 20/20 Play Actor & Crew Bios	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line176
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__label__cc	0.554223	0.445777	Instructional Books and Videos from Amazon The Waltz is among the oldest of the dance rhythms. It began among the peasants of Europe at least as early as the 1500s. The waltz was the first dance to use the closed position for any extended period of time, and that, coupled with its “wild” turning and other actions, kept it from the “gentry” for a long time. But by the early 1800s, the dance had taken hold in Vienna and composers such as Mozart and Josef and Johann Strauss made the “Waltzen” even more popular. It was just too much fun to remain widely condemned. It spread throughout Europe and was brought to English ballrooms around 1816. By 1825, the Waltz became known as the “Queen of the Ballroom”. In America, the Waltz was first exhibited in Boston in 1834. Later the tempo was slowed and the dance evolved with more elaborate figures fitting the slower tempo. The waltz is done to music that has three beats in each measure. It is the “Oom pah pah” or “1, 2, 3” rhythm. It characteristically is danced with “rise and fall” where generally you lower on step one, begin to rise on step two, rise to full height by the middle of step three and begin lowering by the end of step three. The waltz is a “smooth, flowing, graceful, and traveling” dance, and thus the couple will move quite a ways around the dance floor. The waltz is the only rhythm in Round Dancing that has defined figures in all six phases. A Few Figures -- BALANCE LEFT & RIGHT – Don’t “pop” up and down. A common error is to rise too quickly and lower too quickly instead of doing so smoothly in a flowing manner. FORWARD WALTZ – Step diagonally side on step 2. Don’t simply go forward three steps. Take a long low forward step, then start to rise while stepping diagonally on two, and finally close on step three. THRU CHASSE – Syncopate the 2nd and 3rd steps. Begin in semi-closed position (SCP) and end in either banjo (BJO) or SCP; the cuer should tell you which. In either case, the first step is with the trail foot (man’s right and lady’s left) coming through in SCP and taking weight. Then you do the chasse (side/close, side). According to Roundalab the timing for Foxtrot is SQ&Q (slow,,quick/and, quick;) and the timing for Waltz is 1,2&,3. However, you can make this figure more elegant by rushing the side close and for a moment “hover” before taking the last step. The timing thus becomes Sa, Sa in Foxtrot and 1,a2, 3 in Waltz. This hovering action adds a nice feel to what would otherwise be a routine sideways movement. It also helps to emphasize the rise and fall within the figure especially for Waltz. OUTSIDE CHECK – Don’t turn much. Start in closed position or SCAR with the trail foot free. In 3 steps (back, side, cross in front checking), end in contra BJO (use contra-body movement). Don’t turn more than about 1/8 LF turn. JETE POINT – Spring forward then lower and point trail foot to side. Look toward trail foot. There is only one weight change. The difficulty is to do this spring action quickly and still keep close to partner. LINK TO PROMENADE – Man doesn’t turn. Start in BJO, then step forward, brush, step forward (lady turn) to SCP. Tim Eum originally prepared these Tips for Calls 'n' Cues, (WASCA); reprinted in the Dixie Round Dance Council (DRDC) Newsletter, March and April 2011. If you are not a member of DRDC, do consider joining. The group sponsors quarterly weekends with great dancing and teaching, and the newsletter is one of the most informative available. Past DRDC Educational Articles by Jim & Barbara German, ca. 2000-2001 Chris & Terri Cantrell, 2001-2005 Harold & Meredith Sears, 2005-present Some articles and dance helps by Sandi & Dan Finch Gert-Jan & Susie Rotscheid Go beyond this site. Good instructional books and videos, both new and used, are available at low prices from Amazon. Find other references on our Sources and Links pages.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line180
__label__wiki	0.920645	0.920645	Home / International / Hagel resigns as U.S. defense secretary Hagel resigns as U.S. defense secretary nhung International 946 Views U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has resigned, the first major change to President Barack Obama’s Cabinet since his Democrats were routed in midterm elections three weeks ago. Hagel was appointed less than two years ago as Obama pushed his signature program of winding up wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, a process that is being upended this year with U.S. re-engagement in Iraq and greater military cooperation with Kabul. “The Secretary was brought in to manage a period of transition for the Pentagon,” a U.S. defense official said, suggesting that period had closed. Obama was to announce Hagel’s resignation at a White House event at 11:10 a.m. (1610 GMT) on Monday. Hagel, who had struggled to improve his ties with Congress after a contentious 2013 confirmation hearing, submitted his resignation letter after lengthy discussions with Obama that began in October, officials said. “A successor will be named in short order, but Secretary Hagel will remain as Defense Secretary until his replacement is confirmed by the United States Senate,” a senior Obama administration official said. Hagel had raised questions about Obama’s strategy toward Syria in a two-page internal policy memo he wrote that leaked. In it, he warned that Obama’s policy was in jeopardy due to its failure to clarify its intentions toward Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Obama has insisted that the United States can go after Islamic State militants without addressing Assad, who the United States would like to leave power. FRESH LEADERSHIP NEEDED Officials said Obama wanted fresh leadership during the final two years of his administration. “What I can tell you is there are no policy differences in the background of this decision,” a senior U.S. defense official said. “The secretary is not resigning in protest and he’s not being ‘fired’,” the official said. Top potential candidates to replace Hagel include Michele Flournoy, a former under secretary of defense, and Ashton Carter, a former deputy secretary of defense, who were rumored to be contenders for Hagel’s job before he was named. Senator Jack Reed, Democrat of Rhode Island, is another possible contender. Outside groups waged one of the biggest campaigns ever against a cabinet nominee when Obama, a Democrat, named the former Republican senator to the defense post. Republicans objected because Hagel opposed the 2007 Iraq war ‘surge’ of troops, which eventually helped defeat al Qaeda and other militants and opened the way for a U.S. troop withdrawal. Hagel, who became an outspoken critic of the administration of George W. Bush, had also upset many in his party by endorsing Obama in his presidential race against Republican Senator John McCain in 2008. Hagel was seen as poorly prepared and hesitant during his confirmation hearing, including refusing to answer ‘yes’ or ‘no’ when McCain demanded he judge whether he was wrong to oppose the surge strategy. Previous Female artists keep tradition alive Next Busking enlivens Ha Noi’s old quarter Hackers are using the global telecommunications system to spy Prime Minister: Clarify violations by Asanzo, strictly punish by law Korean intelligence: The sister of Kim Jong Un has just been promoted Fishermen associate on the sea, do not ship China Oppose Chinese hangers to ship fishermen Gold prices peaked for nearly 6 years, US stocks set a record The US banned airlines from flying over Iran after the plane crash Trump’s reaction after Iran shot down American planes Even Facebook employees no longer believe Mark Zuckerberg New York doctor tests positive for Ebola: NY Times Nearly 100 sets of US army uniforms found being smuggled into Vietnam Canadian warship to make port call in Vietnam 77 smuggled elephant tusks seized Vietnamese researchers chosen as world’s most influential scientific minds Obama: ‘I’m a good, fun dad’ Quartet enthralls Ha Noi audience First Vietnamese literature museum opens to public	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line185
__label__wiki	0.741651	0.741651	Add 26Magazine.com Bizzare Facts (9) Celebrity News (12) Game Industry (4) Controversial Medicine (5) Diet & Fitness (3) Heart & Circulatory System (2) Pregnancy & Child Care (3) Home & Lifestyle (43) Controversial News (16) Love & Relationship (2) Travel & Leisure (4) Internet Business (6) Blogging & Social Networking (3) Politics & Economy (19) U.S. Government (9) War in the Middle East (1) World Politics (3) Environmental News (5) Scientific Discoveries (3) Debbie Rowe wants the Jackson Three I love how AOL News reported the latest on Debbie Rowe – M.J.’s ex-wife (1996-1999) and ex-nurse (he met her in a dermatologist office where she was a nurse) – as being “back in the spotlight.” My question: when did the ex-Mrs. King of Pop, and more importantly, the mother of two of Jackson’s children, ever leave the spotlight? With M.J. dead, questions regarding custody of Jackson’s three children are flying high. I think that makes Ms. Rowe pretty spotlight worthy, at least at the moment. According to the article on AOL News, Rowe popped out of her shell, rather, busted out of her shell on Sunday when leaving a restaurant in Lancaster, Calif. Rowe recoiled from questions and prodding about the custody of the Jackson kiddies from a reporter who repeatedly asked her “Are you ready to fight for your children?” Rowe lashed back with an anything but meek response, “Are you ready to get your butt kicked? Don’t f—-in’ touch me!” Gotta love it. At least the woman’s keeping this Jackson story interesting. I was beginning to get sick of the local radio stations playing his music more often than they used to, and the TV news every five seconds posting a picture or two of the recently deceased pop king. As of last week, we weren’t really sure whether Rowe was going to step up to the plate and fight for her children, at least the two that are biologically hers: Michael Joseph Jr., 12, and Paris Michael Katherine, 11. I think now, after that little feisty display at the California restaurant, we know where Rowe stands, and if I inferred the context and tone correctly, that stance is pretty firm. Let me not forget to mention that Rowe’s planning on getting a restraining order against M.J.’s father, Joe Jackson. I guess “pretty firm” was a bit understated. Rowe told an NBCLA reporter last week, as AOL reported, “I am stepping up. I have to.” Well, we all know she doesn’t absolutely have to. Sure, she’s the biological mother to two of the little Jackson’s, and we all know how deep a mother’s love runs, but the children could easily be supported by Michael’s parents and siblings. God knows they have the money to do it. Not to mention, what about splitting them up? Only two have biological ties to Rowe. Where would that leave Prince Michael II? Apparently, Rowe’s planning on fighting for all three. Unless the judge is sympathetic to my last query and sympathetic to Rowe herself, I doubt she’ll get Prince Michael II, too. As various news reports have said, Rowe, who is now 50, gave up her parental rights in her divorce from Jackson in 1999. No one heard her crying (or cussing at reporters outside of restaurants) then. I guess that nice $8.5 million settlement she received back in 2000 when the divorce became final shut her up pretty good. And AOL reports is wasn’t even six months later that she stopped visiting the children. Tsk, tsk, tsk Ms. Rowe. Sounds like a big publicity deal to me. How can a mother want to see her children and suddenly not? Did Michael pay her off for the whole thing? We can’t forget to remember to the whole “Jackson is not the biological father” thing. And what about that interview Rowe did with Fox back in 2003 when she admitted that the children don’t even think of her as their mother. She said her whole goal in giving birth to them was to give M.J. the chance at being a father. “I believe there are people who should be parents,” she said, “and he’s one of them.” So Rowe takes several million dollars from Michael, ditches the kids, tells a reporter in an interview that she basically only had Jackson’s children because she wanted to make him a father, and now, all of a sudden, she wants to take them back. Something’s just not adding up here. M.J.’s 2002 will specifically requests that his mother be named guardian of the children, and goes even further to state (more or less) that Rowe should not receive a dime in inheritance. “I have intentionally omitted to provide for my former wife, Deborah Jean Rowe Jackson,” Jackson’s will states. 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__label__cc	0.61571	0.38429	Home Newsletter News – 15 Oct 2020 15th October 2020 18th October 2020 Newsletter This message come from The Church Board of ‘The Village’ MCC Last Monday the 12th of October the church board met with representatives from MCC. This was to look at how we progress the church forward whilst Reverend Michael is on a leave of absence. There was much discussion about where we are, and it was felt and agreed that we should move forward as soon as possible with restarting our online worship on zoom and Facebook. The board will look at how best to facilitate this. It was a clear point in the discussions that this period of transition is for the duration of Reverend Michael’s leave of absence, and that when his health allows him to return, he will be able to once again pastor The Village, but that could be some time. In the meantime, we need to keep things going as near to normal as possible. During this period of transition, there will be no dramatic or permanent changes to how the church works. Support in constructing worship will be offered by Rev Peta from MCC North London, and Reverend Kate Harmer who has preached on a number of occasions at The Village. This involvement will be for worship only and no other role. They will not be pastoring the church. They will help by recording sermons and celebrating communion, other roles in services will continue to be provided by the congregation as at present. In order to continue with our worship online, we do need more people willing to step forward to help with organising services, by contacting people to ask them to record sections and others to work on the technical side of ‘stitching’ the services together digitally, so that they can be shown online. We would like someone to take overall responsibility for overseeing the work of the worship team and if you feel that you can offer some help in any way, please get in contact with the board by email thevillagemcc@outlook.com. We are still able to access the services from MCC North London on Facebook and zoom, using the links below. Looking a little further ahead, at the end of October we come to the end of our church year. Our AGM is held in early December each year and at this we review the past year, approve accounts & the next years’ budget and elect new members of the church board. At this years’ AGM, three of the current board are due to end their terms and we need more members who are willing to step forward to serve on the church board, to take us forward until the return of Rev Michael and beyond. If you are willing to put yourself forward to be considered for the church board in any capacity, please again email the board as above. If we are unable to find enough people to stand for office on the church board, then it will become extremely difficult for the church to function on into the future. Please therefore consider carefully what you can offer to your church community. If you have any questions about these matters, please send them to the Board at the email above. Until we are able to get services up and running again, MCC North London have invited us to join with them on Sundays at 7pm Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/2903974243016121/ Or on Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/77243670008?pwd=dG5BYlB6aEZOWENTOTVMNStyM280Zz09 please email for the passcode. Please take time to Pray for Rev Michel and Chris, and for the Church Board as we move into this period of transition. If you have any questions, please email, thevillagemcc@outlook.com and a member of the board will get back to you. Keith Fish Treasurer and Temporary Chair of the Church Board. Keeping up to date with MCC Internationally Do you receive emails from the MCC denomination? There are updates on the way churches around the world are meeting this crisis, along with prayers, support, and much much more. If you would like check out what newsletters are available then please email: Communications@mccchurch.net A little note from Keith – The Village MCC treasurer Giving to The Village MCC ‘The Village MCC’ is self-financing, we do not receive any central funding. If you would like to support the work we do, there are a number of ways to do so. Regular giving: If you would like to set up a regular monthly Payment to The “Village’ Church, which is the best way for us to budget for our work, Please email the treasurer at; thevillagemcc@outlook.com, you will then be sent the details of how to do this. Single donation If you wish to make a single donation You can send a direct payment from your bank account using the following details From the UK: • Lloyds Bank • sort code 77-91-29 • account number 40361660 • account name The Village MCC • Please use the reference ‘Collection’ • Please also email the Treasurer at thevillagemcc@outlook.com to let them know to expect a payment. • There is also a donate button on the Church Website at thevillagemcc.org if bank transfer is not possible. If you do not have access to the internet, you can still make a donation with your debit card. Please email the Treasurer at; thevillagemcc@outlook.com to arrange a phone call to make this payment.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line192
__label__wiki	0.524158	0.524158	primary/ V3 LARGE PAIS PATH https://embed.cdn.pais.scholastic.com/v1/products/identifiers/isbn/9781338180619/primary/renditions/400 V3 XLARGE PAIS PATH https://embed.cdn.pais.scholastic.com/v1/products/identifiers/isbn/9781338180619/primary/renditions/1000 SEE LARGER Baby Monkey, Private Eye by Brian Selznick, David Serlin, Illustrated By Brian Selznick Ages 4 – 8 . Grades PreK – 3 A New York Times Bestselling Book An Amazon Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year Parents Magazine Best Early Reader of the Year "A marvel." --The New York Times "Inventive... fabulously expressive..." --San Francisco Chronicle Who is Baby Monkey? He is a baby. He is a monkey. He has a job. He is Baby Monkey, Private Eye! Lost jewels? Missing pizza? Stolen spaceship? Baby Monkey can help... if he can put on his pants! Baby Monkey's adventures come to life in an exciting blend of picture book, beginning reader, and graphic novel. With pithy text and over 120 black and white drawings accented with red, it is ideal for sharing aloud and for emerging readers. Hooray for Baby Monkey! Brian Selznick's books have garnered countless accolades worldwide, and have been translated into more than 35 languages. He is the Caldecott Medal-winning creator of the #1 New York Times bestsellers The Invention of Hugo Cabret, adapted into Martin Scorsese's Oscar-winning movie Hugo; and Wonderstruck, adapted into the eponymous movie by celebrated filmmaker Todd Haynes, with a screenplay by Selznick; as well as the New York Times bestsellers The Marvels and Baby Monkey, Private Eye. Most recently, he illustrated the 20th anniversary paperback edition covers of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. David Serlin David Serlin is a writer, editor, and historian who teaches at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author or editor of numerous books and articles for adults, as well as the co-author of the highly acclaimed Baby Monkey, Private Eye. Brian and David divide their time between Brooklyn, New York and San Diego, California. TODO - RELATED RESOURCES Beginning Reader Book Comedy and Humor 192pp. \| 5-¼ x 7-¾ ADDITIONAL FORMATS: My Dog Is Better Than Your Dog (Crimebiters! #1) Series: Crimebiters by Tommy Greenwald, Illustrated By Adam Stower Losing Joe's Place by Gordon Korman Secrets of a Lab Rat #2: Mom, There's a Dinosaur in Beeson's Lake - Audio Library Edition Mom, There's a Dinosaur in Beeson's Lake Series: Secrets of a Lab Rat by Trudi Strain Trueit, Illustrated By Jim Paillot The Dodgeball Chronicles (Knights of the Lunch Table #1) Series: Knights of the Lunch Table by Frank Cammuso, Illustrated By Frank Cammuso 13 Gifts: A Wish Novel A Wish Novel by Wendy Mass Slappy New Year! (Goosebumps Horrorland #18) Series: Goosebumps HorrorLand	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line198
__label__cc	0.684179	0.315821	Adrian Spencer Educational Philosophy > Theorists Classroom Management > Classroom Design > Minimum-Maximum Subject Integration > Health & PE > Psychosocial Health Creative Arts > Dance & Kinesthetic Arts Theatrical Arts Sample Schedules Family and Community Outreach Skill Practice > Primary Skill Practice > Primary YouTube Primary WebQuests Elementary Skill Practice > Elementary YouTube Elementary WebQuests Intermediate Skill Practice > Intermediate YouTube Intermediate WebQuests Secondary Skill Practice > Secondary YouTube Secondary WebQuests Recommended Reading > Frances Benjamin Johnston [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons The theatrical arts, a sub-type of performing arts and sometimes grouped with dance and the kinesthetic arts, include expression such as drama/theatre, musicals, and other dramatic arts (Jensen, 2001). The imagistic elements that are the foundation of theatre are likely innate, and the formation of language then allowed for the establishment of what became theatre as we know it today and for its success in human culture (Rozik, 2002). The effects of theatre on culture can be as obvious as a political performance piece, or more subtle, as theatre provides people the opportunity to safely explore different norms, themes, and ideas (Kershaw, 1992, p. 24). Drama and roleplay can be a fun way for children to learn and practice social skills (Wright, n.d.). CC by 2.0 via Tup Wanders Benefits Sociodrama, which combines theatre techniques and social relationships in specific and goal-based activities, can: Improve self-expression Encourage caring relationships (McLennan, 2007) Shadow-puppet theater can improve: Literacy (fluency and comprehension) Oral reading confidence Social negotiation Student engagement and motivation Problem-solving skills (Peck & Virkler, 2006) By Staff Sgt. Robert Barnett (https://www.dvidshub.net/image/638929) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Classroom Implementation Theatre can be incorporated into the classroom by having students retelling a story or an event (with their own bodies or with something such as shadow-puppet theatre), through the use of tableaux, by having students improvise based on a character (see sample lesson plan) or historical figure, and many other methods. Sample Lesson Plan Back to Creative Arts Jensen, E. (2001). Arts with the brain in mind. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. Kershaw, B. (1992). The politics of performance: Radical theatre as cultural intervention. New York, NY: Taylor & Francis. McLennan, D. (2007). The Benefits of Using Sociodrama in the Elementary Classroom: Promoting Caring Relationships Among Educators and Students. Early Childhood Education Journal, 35, 451-456. doi:10.1007/s10643-007-0195-2 Peck, S., & Virkler, A. (2006). Reading in the Shadows: Extending Literacy Skills Through Shadow-Puppet Theater. The Reading Teacher, 786-795. doi:10.1598/RT.59.8.6 Rozik, E. (2002). The roots of theatre: Rethinking ritual and other theories of origin. Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press. Wright, L. (2014, April 28). 4 Social Situations to Role-Play With Your Grade-Schooler. Retrieved December 10, 2015,	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line203
__label__cc	0.567326	0.432674	Boynton Beach Historical Society » Tag » Janet DeVries Tag Archives: Janet DeVries A Secret from the Past is Revealed By Ginger Pedersen \| August 21, 2014 - 3:32 pm \| April 16, 2016 Citizens, Landmarks In the great adventure that has been the story of Byrd Spilman Dewey and husband Fred S. Dewey, who filed the plat for the Town of Boynton in 1898, a few mysteries remained, nagging for an answer. We had wonderful photographs of the grand house they built in West Palm Beach called Ben Trovato (meaning “well invented” in Italian), but we knew there was another Ben Trovato, and that home stood somewhere in Boynton. Ben Trovato in West Palm Beach, 1896 We didn’t know where the house was, nor how it looked. Not one person living in Boynton today had any recollection of the house. We had a few clues. When Judge Earl Hoover researched Mrs. Dewey in 1966, he had a letter from prominent Boyntonite Bertha Williams Chadwell, who had moved to Boynton in 1907 and was friends with the Deweys. Mrs. Chadwell wrote: “The Dewey home stood at the corner of Second Avenue [Boynton Beach Boulevard] and the Dixie Highway [Federal Highway]. It was a big two-story house facing east. It is no longer in existence. It stood where the Cities Service Station now stands. The house was destroyed by fire later when owned by a succeeding owner, about 1920.” Bertha W. Chadwell That was our only clue as to the house’s location and how it looked. We combed through old pictures of Boynton from books, pamphlets, historical society newsletters, and other archival collections, but none seemed to match the location and the description. In July, a postcard with a lovely frame vernacular Boynton house owned by A.P. Lynch appeared on the eBay auction website. A.P. Lynch House We checked land records and noted that the Deweys had sold their seven-acre citrus grove to Mr. Lynch in 1912. The Lynch house was two-story, but located on the east side of Federal highway at the corner of Ocean Avenue and Federal. We saw the Lynch house noted on the well-known 1910 “Boomer” map of Boynton, and a portion of the house is visible on an old snapshot from Cindy Lyman Jamison. Lynch house location In August we pulled all the lot sales records from the original Town of Boynton at the Palm Beach County Courthouse for careful inspection of the lot buyer’s names and lot locations. We found that in 1912, the Deweys sold lots 1 through 5 in Block 1 of the original Town of Boynton to Charles T. Harper, which according to Mrs. Chadwell, is where the Dewey house stood. This information would also coincide with the year Mr. Dewey reentered the Soldier’s hospital in Johnson City, Tennessee and the Deweys left Boynton. Harper and wife Cora Stickney Harper would have lived in the house until they moved to Fort Pierce in 1913 when Charles was transferred to the Florida East Coast Railway station as head agent. In 1923, Charles sold the five lots to the Austin family. The 1924 Sanborn Fire Insurance map shows no structures on lots 1 and 2, where the house had stood. It could be that the house had burned down by the time the map was drawn. This supports Mrs. Chadwell’s report of the house burning down in about 1920. Without further evidence we were left with only the probable location, and no idea what the house was like, other than it was two-story. Then something very strange happened. Last week I was searching through the old Florida East Coast Homeseeker magazine, which was a sales tool for selling off Henry Flagler’s vast land holdings he had gained from the state of Florida for building the railroad. Several copies of this publication are scanned online in the HathiTrust archive, and once in a while I like to scroll through the pages and clip old photographs of areas long since developed. As I was looking through the Homeseeker late one evening, Janet DeVries texted me about the Dewey house – would we ever really know what it looked like – could it be the Lynch house after all? I answered back that I doubted we could ever know what it looked like. I continued to scroll through the Homeseeker issue, which featured the Everglades drainage project. Some interesting pictures of dredges and such, then a picture of a Delray house with a wooden cistern that looked like a scene from the 1960s television show Petticoat Junction. Then I scrolled to the next page—and saw a rather imposing two-story house in the woods—and the words “Ben Travato” [sic] sprang out from the page…and Dewey…and Boynton. It was as if I was guided to that page, that one page among the millions of books scanned online and their billions of pages, the one page that had a picture of the Dewey house in Boynton, at the exact moment we wanted to solve that mystery. Ben Trovato in Boynton, 1910 There it stood—in the wilderness of pine trees that was Boynton—the big two-story house, with a wonderful deck and unusual windows that is reminiscent of a Frank Lloyd Wright design. A shingled frame vernacular design with high ceilings and screened porches. There stood Fred and Byrd, she in her signature white dress with parasol, and Fred looking down from the deck with his familiar grey hat. The design was probably Byrd’s; from a 1936 letter: “I’ve built nearly a dozen cottages, and several big houses. My biggest ‘job’ is doing that sort of thing, as I’m my own architect, as well as landscaper, and it PAYS when we’ve needed nice sums in a hurry, and my husband was unable to work.” The photograph is not sharp, having been scanned from the original lithographed magazine page. The photographer was listed as the “Florida Photographic Concern” and “Fort Pierce.” The company was based in Fort Pierce and run by Harry Hill, who was a bee-keeper and avid photographer. Many of his glass negatives have been preserved by the St. Lucie County Regional History Center; we contacted them to see if an original photograph exists in their archives. Hill did much photography for Flagler’s businesses, so he was probably hired to photograph the Dewey house. I will leave the reader to draw conclusions as to how this happened as it did. A parable written by Mrs. Dewey, “Who Seeks Finds,” certainly fits what occurred in the rediscovery of the Dewey house in Boynton. The joy and triumph of finally seeing that wonderful home in Boynton still lingers. If spirits do return… UPDATE 4/16/2016: The newly updated Palm Beach Post archive at Newspapers.com revealed that the Dewey house burned May 16, 1916 in the early morning hours. No cause was given. Tagged architecture, Atlantic Ocean, beach, Bertha Chadwell, Boynton Beach, Byrd Spilman Dewey, citrus groves, dixie highway, FEC railroad, Florida Photographic Concern, frame vernacular, Fred S. Dewey, Ginger Pedersen, Harry Hill, Henry Flagler, historical research, History, Janet DeVries, Major Nathan S. Boynton, maps, orange groves, palm beach county, Palm Beach Farms Company, pioneers, south florida	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line210
__label__wiki	0.573459	0.573459	2nd Convocation Offered Degrees academic Policy Course & Tuition Fees Mobile Payment Process Faculty of Science, Engineering & Technology Electrical and Electronics Engineering (EEE) Faculty of Arts, Social Science & Law Faculty of Business Administration & Economics the Controller of Examinations the Accounts & Audit the IT Section Notice-BU 2nd Convocation Date Apply Manually - Download the Form Below and Submit it at BU Office. Convocation Registration Form in PDF Sample Bank Slip(filled-Up) Bank Slip(blank) 2nd Convocation of Bangladesh University held Bangladesh University (BU) held its 2nd Convocation on 27 December, 2017 (Wednesday) at Bangabandhu International Conference Center (BICC), Sher-E-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka. Mr. Nurul Islam Nahid, MP, Honorable Minister for Education, as the representative of the Honorable President of Bangladesh and Chancellor of Bangladesh University Mr. Mohammad Abdul Hamid presided over the Convocation. Advocate Jahangir Kabir Nanak, MP, Dhaka-13 was present as Special Guest. Professor, Emeritus, Department of History, and Ex. Vice Chancellor of Chittagong University Dr. Alamgir Mohammad Serajuddin was the Convocation Speaker. Vice Chancellor Prof. Dr. Anwarul Haque Sharif delivered the welcome addresses while the Chairman, Board of Trustees, Bangladesh University delivered vote of thanks. Honorable Education Minister conferred degrees upon 4804 graduates of three faculties. Honorable Education Minister expressed satisfaction with the standard of modern technology based education BU imparts to its students and hopes it would be a role model for private universities in future if it continues its efforts in this way. He mentions, he finds no difference between the students of Private and Public Universities. They are all our sons and future of our nation, he added. He reassures the commitment of Govt. to enhance the standard of education at all levels and to create the opportunity for all irrespective of class and sects. He speaks, the government wants to ensure quality education to face the challenges of the 21st century. But a few private universities fail to fulfill the minimum requirements needed for running a university: they will not be able to continue it for an unlimited time. They have to face the consequence who are running more than one campus and did not shift their academic activities at the permanent campus as yet. It is not fair to run a university aiming at personal gain and not to comply with the instruction of government, he added. The Speakers of program advise the graduates to take lessons from the history to avoid any kind of mistake and to pay the legacy back to the nation. They must have to be human being first and then devote them to do good for the community, society and nation as well. 1225 students were conferred degrees in the 1st Convocation. In the 2nd Convocation 4804 graduates from three faculties were conferred degrees. Among them, 1908 are from the faculty of Business and Economics, 1477 are from Science, Engineering & Technology and 1419 from Arts, Social Science & Law. 19 graduates are awarded Gold Medals for their outstanding feat in their academic performance. Rizwana Edris Jyoti becomes the Valedictorian and was awarded Chancellor Gold Medal. One received the Quazi Azher Ali Gold Medal, 4 Vice Chancellor Gold Medal and 13 Dean Gold Medal. Bangladesh University set out its dream journey in 2001. It was founded by the eminent educationist, Former Secretary Quazi Azher Ali. Bangladesh University has got its own campus at the heart of the metropolis at Iqbal Road, Mohammadpur, Dhaka. So for more than 6 (Six) thousand have graduated from this university and more than 5800 students are studying in 10 departments under 3 faculties. BU carries many research works and studies. BU Urban Lab, the 1st Urban Lab in the country, earns reputation by carrying out two important research studies. One on the Impact of Air Pollution in Dhaka city on Human Health and another on Sustainable Low Cost Housing for Garment Sector Workers. This Urban Lab Also launched 2 apps. Nagar app for providing rapid and ready service to the people of DNCC and e-Heart app for the Heart disease patients. BU Innovation Lab, the 1st Innovation Lab in Bangladesh, has already started innovative work on robotics. The students of BU are engaged in research works along with their formal education inside the four walls of the classroom. Information Desk: +88 01744-291258, Admission Section: (Admission Info Only) Main Campus: 15/1,Iqbal Road, Mohammadpur, Dhaka–1207 5/B, Beribandh Main Road, Adabar, Mohammadpur, Dhaka Research See our latest innovation in reasearch DEC Digital Education Center Campus LIfe Get a virtual tour at our campus life Welcome to Bangladesh University 15/1, Iqbal Road,Mohammadpur, Dhaka–1207 5/B, Beribandh Main Road, Adabar, Mohammadpur, Dhaka +88 01744-291258 Admission Section: (For Admission Info Only) Phone: +88 01755-559301, +88 01755-559320, Email: admission@bu.edu.bd	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line215
__label__wiki	0.529901	0.529901	Services/Policy What Authors say.. Author Spotlight J S Scott J. S. SCOTT SPOTLIGHT Mine For Tonight currently FREE ON AMAZON http://www.amazon.com/Mine-Tonight-Book-Billionaires-Obsession-ebook/dp/B009GKU2DU/ref=sr_1_1_ha?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1402704095&sr=1-1&keywords=mine+for+tonight Down on her luck, nursing student and full-time waitress Kara Foster gets a massive blow to her already desperate financial situation that will surely find her living on the streets. Needing nothing less than a miracle to save her, Kara gets rescue from an unknown, unlikely and overwhelming source. Billionaire Simon Hudson makes her an offer that is impossible to refuse, but terrifying to accept from a man that she's never met. Will the handsome, alpha billionaire really be a solution to her problems, or will he end up being a major complication and a danger to her emotional sanity? Reclusive billionaire Simon Hudson would rather be behind a computer creating computer games than rubbing elbows with the elite and he knows exactly what he wants...until he meets Kara Foster. Something about Kara touches Simon in ways he's never experienced and definitely doesn't like. For over a year, Simon watches over Kara, but stubbornly refuses to admit his desire to possess her, not even to himself. But when she ends up in a situation that could very well be her destruction, Simon steps up to help her, not realizing that in saving Kara, he might very well be salvaging his own soul. "Mine For Tonight" is book one of "The Billionaire's Obsession" . Books in this trilogy do not stand alone and need to be read in order. They include: Mine For Tonight - Book 1 "The Billionaire's Obsession" Mine For Now - Book 2 "The Billionaire's Obsession" Mine Forever - Book 3 "The Billionaire's Obsession" and Mine Completely - a Valentine's Day romance featuring Simon and Kara This is a steamy romance and is not intended for YA readers. It contains steamy love scenes, explicit language and adult emotion not appropriate for YA readers. http://www.amazon.com/The-Billionaires-Obsession-Collection-Completely-ebook/dp/B00BMHUDP2/ref=pd_sim_kstore_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=11YX4HVH200HK1Y1VZ81 Heart of the billionaire http://www.amazon.com/Heart-The-Billionaire-Billionaires-Obsession-ebook/dp/B00BZAUCIO/ref=pd_sim_kstore_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=11YX4HVH200HK1Y1VZ81 Sam and Maddie are here! Billionaire Sam Hudson has pretty much lived his life with no apologies because he tries never to do anything that he’s sorry about…except for what he had done in the past to Dr. Madeline Reynolds. Many years and regrets later, Sam meets up with Maddie again by chance; his brother Simon is marrying Maddie’s best friend and the two of them are forced to be civil. But Sam wants to be more than polite, and he wants another chance to make things right, so he offers Maddie a bold proposition, an offer he knows she’ll have a very hard time declining even though she hates him. Dr. Madeline Reynolds adores her best friend Kara and her fiancé Simon, but being forced into the company of Sam Hudson, because they are both in Simon and Kara’s wedding, is pure torture. She’s hated Sam for years, but when he offers her a bargain, something near and dear to her heart, she’s torn between her dislike for the man and the offer of something she’s always desperately wanted. Once, Sam Hudson nearly destroyed her, but Maddie discovers that sometimes things aren’t always what they appear to be. Is Sam really a devious heartbreaker, or is there something more to him beneath the surface? Can two people with so many years of hurt between them learn to trust each other again? Please note: This is an erotic romance and not appropriate for YA readers. The book contains graphic sex, language and situations not appropriate for YA readers. The Billionaire Salvation http://www.amazon.com/The-Billionaires-Salvation-Obsession-Max-ebook/dp/B00EVVOT1K/ref=pd_sim_kstore_3?ie=UTF8&refRID=11YX4HVH200HK1Y1VZ81 He'd been reunited with a sister he hadn’t realized existed. Finally he had family again, a reprieve from the pain and loneliness that had haunted him since his devastating loss. Yeah…he was as happy as a man could be, considering he had lost the other half of his soul and most of his heart when fate had torn his wife away from him. Or so he believed…until the day he rescued a mysterious woman in the park, a female who somehow had managed to reignite a part of him that he thought was long dead... Suddenly, Max's protective, dominant, possessive male instincts flare to life, leaving him at a loss as to how lightning could possibly strike twice in one lifetime. Is he truly being given another chance at real happiness, or would it be dangled in front of him, only to be taken away once again? Find out by reading The Billionaire’s Salvation, Book 3 in The New York Times Bestselling series, The Billionaire’s Obsession. This is a complete contemporary erotic romance novel with no cliffhangers! Book four The Billionaire Game http://www.amazon.com/The-Billionaires-Game-Obsession-Kade-ebook/dp/B00H3RP8KA/ref=pd_sim_kstore_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=02K7FXQXF4JXJGCBQP7R The Billionaire's Game - The Billionaire's Obsession ~ Kade Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnUEf5U_guc With his professional football career over due to a tragic accident, billionaire Kade Harrison takes on the task of solving a mystery for his brother-in-law and friend, Max Hamilton. Without his former career to fill every minute of the day, Kade's looking for something to challenge him--now that he's lost the career that had meant everything to him. But what starts out as a simple favor soon becomes a whole lot more than he bargained for when the woman he's seeking slips away from him every time he gets close to finding her. When Kade does finally corner her, things start to get even more complicated. Asha Paritala is nothing like he expected, and the female he had tracked down as a favor for Max soon becomes a woman he wants for his very own, a woman who makes protective and highly predatory instincts he didn't know he had flare to life inside him. Kade soon discovers that he wants Asha's total surrender to the desire and passion that vibrates intensely between the two of them, but he also wants her trust, the one thing Asha's history makes it difficult for her to give. Can Kade convince her that some things are worth risking it all? Caught between two worlds, Asha Paritala is homeless, broke and damaged from a life of abuse and neglect. Born of an American mother and an Indian immigrant father, Asha was raised as an Indian woman by a foster family after the death of her natural parents when she was little more than a baby. She's spent her entire life under the control of others until finally breaking free two years earlier, and she's determined to keep her freedom, even if it means she has to struggle to survive. But when she meets Kade Harrison, her resolve is tested. After Kade helps her through a bad situation, she finds herself beginning to trust Kade as she's never trusted a man before. Kade is everything she always thought a man should be, but can she lose herself in him completely when she knows she's damaged and confused. And is it really possible that she could be a lost sibling to two people like Max Hamilton and Maddie Hudson? Asha is tempted by the possibility of family, and the irresistible lure of a man like Kade Harrison. Can a woman caught between two cultures, so flawed and so backward, really reach out and take what she wants, or will the instinct to run from the pain of her past destroy the hope of happiness for her future? Find out if two broken souls can heal each other in The Billionaire's Game, book 4 of The Billionaire's Obsession series!! This is a complete novel with no cliffhangers. 18+ due to sexual situations and graphic language. Book five Billionaire Undone http://www.amazon.com/Billionaire-Undone-Billionaires-Obsession-Travis-ebook/dp/B00K0WG8G8/ref=pd_sim_kstore_3?ie=UTF8&refRID=02K7FXQXF4JXJGCBQP7R Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfsxTbNy4_c After four years of working for “the billionaire boss from hell” Ally Caldwell thinks she finally has her life on the right track. Her fiancé is out of dental school, ready to go to work at a thriving practice, and it would finally be her turn to go back and finish her college degree. Unfortunately, her carefully planned future crumbles when she finds out that her fiancé, the man she’d nearly killed herself to help get through school, has been cheating on her. With her wedding looming in the near future, Ally’s blindsided, realizing she’d never even knew the man she’d been planning to marry. Suddenly, her carefully organized life is turned upside down, and not one single thing is turning out the way it was supposed to happen. Even her boss, Travis the Tyrant, is beginning to act differently, throwing Ally into an even more confused and chaotic state of mind. Travis, the one man who she’d always counted on to be a jerk, was now the guy who actually steps up to try and help her straighten her life out again. Unfortunately, she doesn’t much care for his highhanded arrogance or his methods of “helping.” Ally wants to hate Travis. It makes her life so much simpler to fight with him than to admit to the combustible chemistry growing between the two of them. But as she begins to see more and more of the real Travis beneath his dark façade, she can’t seem to resist the dangerous lure of their unlikely attraction. Billionaire Travis Harrison does everything he possibly can to repair the Harrison name after a scandal nearly destroyed his family years ago. He makes sure he keeps himself and his actions in check, his emotions buried under a thick layer of ice. Only his secretary and assistant, Alison Caldwell, makes him come close to losing his carefully constructed image. The obstinate female keeps shoving him closer and closer to the edge of sanity every single day. But when he finds out about her fiancé’s betrayal, his protective instincts roar to life inside him, making him want to ensure she’s never hurt again. The only problem is…Ally doesn’t want his help, and the infuriating woman does everything she can to push him away, even as the two of them are swept into an undeniable passion that neither of them can possibly ignore. Before long, Travis finds himself in ruthless pursuit of something much more important and elusive than just a business deal. Can these two very different, very stubborn people actually be meant to be together? Find out if Travis and Ally can let down their defenses and surrender to a love so powerful it will rock them to the depths of their souls in Billionaire Undone, Book Six of The Billionaire’s Obsession series. Pre Order Link for Billionaire Unmasked coming August 26th Amazon Pre Order -http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00L8GDPSO Amazon UK - http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00L8GDPSO Apple/iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/billionaire-unmasked/id892503222?mt=11 Kobo: http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/billionaire-unmasked FULL SERIES TRAILER http://animoto.com/play/UjMm31snbavBE1IXN58ioQ https://www.facebook.com/authorjsscott?ref_type=bookmark Mine For Tonight: Amazon: http://amzn.com/B009GKU2DU Itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/mine-for-tonight-book-one/id627390411?mt=11 Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/books/details/J_S_Scott_Mine_for_Tonight?id=eDCME9EBvdYC B&N: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/mine-for-tonight-book-one-j-s-scott/1114973105?ean=2940044400993 Ethan's Mate: Amazon: http://amzn.com/B007YJ3JV2 Itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/ethans-mate-book-one-vampire/id601177033?mt=11 Google: https://play.google.com/store/books/details/J_S_Scott_Ethan_s_Mate_Book_One_The_Vampire_Coalit?id=efk1zm5MDPIC B&N: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/ethans-mate-j-s-scott/1112320597?ean=2940044296541 Mate Of The Werewolf: Amazon: http://amzn.com/B00817F90U Itu nes:https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/mate-werewolf-changeling-encounters/id601182345?mt=11 Google:https://play.google.com/store/books/details/J_S_Scott_Mate_of_the_Werewolf_Changeling_Encounte?id=uUJWDipF18kCB&N: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/mate-of-the-werewolf-j-s-scott/1112596751?ean=2940044295315 The Curve Ball: Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0084U9KWW/ref=cm_sw_su_dp itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/curve-ball-big-girls-bad-boys/id627339718?mt=11 Google: https://play.google.com/store/books/details/J_S_Scott_The_Curve_Ball_Big_Girls_and_Bad_Boys?id=UnwDpjcLqwEC B&N: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-curve-ball-j-s-scott/1114971936?ean=2940044385825 Riding With The Cop: Amazon: http://amzn.com/B007SPPH1M itunes:https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/riding-cop-pleasure-his-punishment/id556097682?mt=11 Google:https://play.google.com/store/books/details/J_S_Scott_Riding_with_the_Cop_the_Pleasure_of_His_?id=5qtk73fZoAAC B&N:http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/riding-with-the-cop-j-s-scott/1112035309?ean=2940044286252 The Rough Mating Of A Vampire: Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007YIZ2YA Posted by Wendy Shatwell at 20:43 Love these books and JS Scott! barenakedwords@gmail.com	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line216
__label__cc	0.571367	0.428633	Cross Border Strategy Finance Concierge Chinese Specialists Managing Tax Risk and ATO Disputes Your Wealth Investment Structures Superannuation & Retirement Estate Planning & Succession Taxation Compliance Taxation Advice Setting up Business in Australia Cross border human capital management Relocating to Australia Property Development & Investment Home > News > Archives > 2018 > Updated property development guidance Updated property development guidance The ATO has published draft guidance to help determine whether the sale of a property is the mere realisation of a capital asset or a disposal in the course of carrying on business or a one-off profit-making venture. Recent guidance from the Australian Tax office has confirmed that whether a property sale is 'mere realisation' or something more is determined by examining and weighing all facts and circumstances around the sale. Whether it's a mere realisation of a capital asset (taxable as a capital gain) or a disposal in the course of carrying on a business or one-off profit-making venture (both taxable on revenue account), the ATO indicates that taxpayers should refer to an extensive list of factors, including but not limited to: Whether the landowner has held the land for a considerable period prior to the development and sale Whether the landowner has conducted farming, or other non-development business activities, on the land prior to beginning the process of developing and selling the land Whether the landowner originally acquired the property as a private residence or for recreational purposes Whether the landowner originally acquired the property as an investment, such as for long-term capital appreciation or to derive rental income The landowner was unable to find a buyer for the land without subdivision The landowner applies for rezoning and planning approvals around the time or sometime after the acquisition of the property, but before undertaking further steps that might lead to a profitable sale or entering into development arrangements The landowner has registered for GST on the basis that they are carrying on an enterprise in relation to developing the land The landowner has registered a related entity for GST that will participate in (or undertake) the development of the land The landowner has a history of buying and profitably selling developed land or land for development The operations are planned, organised and carried on in a businesslike manner The landowner has changed its use of the land from one activity to another (e.g. farming to property development) The scope, scale, duration and degree of complexity of any development The level of active involvement of the landowner in any development activities The level of financial risk borne by the landowner in acquiring, holding and/or developing the land The value of the development or other preparatory costs relative to the value of the land The draft guidance includes a range of examples dealing with different types of property activity and how the ATO would treat the activities from a tax point of view. The guide also discusses different types of property development agreements that landowners typically enter into with other parties and explains how to determine whether the arrangement gives rise to a partnership, a joint venture or some other contractual arrangement. If you're currently involved in property development or selling land, it is important you speak to your accountant to discuss how this review may impact your property sale and how it may be taxed. Contact us on 02 9957 4033 for more information. Follow Bates Cosgrave on Linkedin, Facebook or Twitter This article is provided for information purposes only and correct at the time of publication. It should not be used in place of advice from your accountant. Please contact us on 02 9957 4033 to discuss your specific circumstances. Get Small Business News each month 2021 Risks & Opportunities Last chance to access COVID-19 early access to super Transfer pricing and JobKeeper payments Sign up to our monthly client bulletin. Case Studies Tax Facts Fact Sheets Super Necessities Tax Tips and Traps Calculators The material and contents provided on this website and in our print, email or downloadable publications are informative in nature only. It is not intended to be advice and you should not act specifically on the basis of this information alone. If expert assistance is required, professional advice should be obtained. Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standard Legislation. Copyright Bates Cosgrave © \| Privacy \| Terms of Use \| Site Map \| Online software for accountants by Wolters Kluwer	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line217
__label__wiki	0.541512	0.541512	HomepageCompany BCN is a privately held technology solutions provider with corporate headquarters in Morristown, NJ. Proudly servicing business clients domestically and internationally. BCN offers a robust product and service portfolio accessing over 75 unique wholesale network partners and combining them into a single source technology solution. The Company is recognized by both agent partners and customers for an overall ease of doing business, the accessibility and responsiveness of the entire team, and our superior service and support. BCN Expands to Larger Operations Center The company expands their South Florida Network Operations Center with a move to the historic Boca Raton Innovation Campus. A new state-of-the-art 12,000 plus sq. ft. office to accommodate growth in their Operations teams for 2020 and beyond. BCN Partners with Telarus The addition of Telarus to the BCN Master Agent relationships now provides access for partners to place their BCN business through any of the top U.S. Master Agencies. Ryan Kelly Joins BCN as VP Partner Development The role will include and encompass a laser focus on BCN’s partner relationships as an important element in BCN’s growth strategy. BCN Executive Recognized 3rd Year Running CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Michael Ginsburg, Vice President of Sales, to its prestigious list of 2019 Channel Chiefs. This is the third consecutive year that Ginsburg has achieved this recognition Partners with TELUS for DSL, Wavelength, and Switched Ethernet Access services BCN's partnership with TELUS across their entire Canadian footprint significantly enhances our ability to satisfy the diverse geographic needs of our multi-location customers New Roles Will Fuel Effectiveness and Growth Richard M. Boudria, Jr. named Chairman & CEO to drive innovation and excellence in all facets of the business with a particular focus on business strategy, corporate financial oversight, capital management, and oversight of the corporate board. Julian Jacquez named President & COO and is responsible for all sales, marketing, offer-management and operations of the business. CRN® Recognizes Leadership in Sales and Marketing CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Michael Ginsburg, Vice President of Sales, to its prestigious list of 2018 Channel Chiefs and Jeanne Duca, Vice President of Brand, Enablement & Experience has been recognized as one of CRN's 2018 Women of the Channel. BCN Partners with Master Agent WTG BCN announces partnership with WTG, one of the world’s largest telecom, internet, wireless and cloud Master Agents. BCN Receives CRN 2017 Channel Chief and CRN 2017 Women of the Channel Awards CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Michael Ginsburg, Vice President of Sales, to its prestigious list of 2017 Channel Chiefs and Jeanne Duca, Vice President of Marketing has been recognized as one of CRN's 2017 Women of the Channel. BCN Adds VeloCloud-based SD-WAN solution to portfolio BCN delivers a truly agnostic SD-WAN solution with full support for static IP requirements Dedicated resources focus on key regions nationwide New additions align with Master Agent and sales partner concentration New partners. New solutions. New brand. With more new master agent agreements, the BCN nationwide network of partners grows even larger. Expanded carrier coverage and new wireless solutions add strength to the portfolio. The Company launches a major rebranding initiative for enhanced market impact and awareness. A nationwide network of partners. BCN Telecom signs new master agent agreements and expands partner reach. Announces Executive Team realignment and new VP Sales. Distribution channels grow nationwide. BCN Telecom acquires the telecom assets of AMI Communications, a privately held telecommunications company located outside Chicago, Illinois. The Company announces new corporate headquarters in Morristown, NJ to house the expanding agent partner support group and major accounts team, and continues to expand its product and distribution channels nationwide. More to choose from. BCN Telecom continues to expand its offerings adding wireless and additional cloud services. Adding operating and financial strength. BCN Telecom strengthens its operating infrastructure, expands long term agreement for funding of acquisitions and complements carrier portfolio with cable and cloud company agreements. Strategic partnerships add new services. BCN Telecom enters VoIP, Hosted PBX and Cloud services sector through strategic partnerships. BCN also goes to a virtual office environment. Adding strength through acquisition. BCN Telecom acquires the assets of Groveline, LLC More acquisitions. More partners. BCN Telecom restructures the organization to become more focused on its acquisition activity and ever expanding Agent Sales Channel. Management owned and run. BCN Telecom Chairman/CEO along with management group buys out the majority ownership of company from earlier group of non-strategic investors. BCN expands to Florida. BCN Telecom opens a new Operations Center in Boca Raton Florida to provide centralized IT, provisioning, trouble & repair, and billing to its expanding Agent Sales Channel. Goodbye International. Hello domestic expansion. BCN Telecom sheds network assets, wireless business and International divisions to refocus on domestic expansion of voice and data services with nationwide coverage. Hello BCN Telecom. Boudria and a small group of strategic investors re-acquire the Company from NUI Corporation and form BCN Telecom; once again a privately held corporation. More Carriers. More Coverage. NUI Telecom expands it Carrier Portfolio, product depth and coverage areas (to all 50 states), while continuing to do accretive transactions. Reach goes International. ITG, now renamed NUI Telecom, as part of a parent corporation branding strategy, expands as an International carrier and deploys switches in New York, Miami and London. Partnerships and acquisitions. ITG partners with energy-affiliated NUI Corporation (NYSE:NUI), as a subsidiary. ITG continues growing through accretive acquisitions of assets and stock of Telcorp, Norcom, NAS and other communications providers. A growing solution portfolio ITG offers fully bundled local, LD, Data and wireless services with custom billing options to its customers. More services in more places. ITG expands its product line to include local dial tone, custom features and wireless mobile services in a 24 state region through agreements with BellSouth and Verizon. The journey begins. Richard M. Boudria founds International Telephone Group (ITG), a reseller of telephone service through Tier 1 carriers. 26 years of growth and success BCN Expands Operations Center to Historic South Florida Office Park BCN Expands Master Agent Reach Growth of Executive Team Focuses on Partner Development BCN VP Sales is Named a CRN 2019 Channel Chief BCN Offers Customers More Reach in Canada BCN realigns top leadership for future growth The BCN Executive Team is recognized for channel leadership and experience. BCN continues 100% channel go-to-market strategy with new Master Agent relationships BCN excellence in executive roles is recognized across the industry BCN continues to enhance service portfolio with leading technology solutions BCN enhances nationwide sales coverage BCN signs new master agent agreements and focuses on enhanced brand and market awareness to support partners New master agent agreements and a realignment of the Executive Team to support sales BCN Telecom acquires AMI Communications and announces move to new Corporate Headquarters in Morristown, NJ BCN adds wireless and new cloud services BCN adds operational, financial, and portfolio strength BCN Telecom offers VoIP, HPBX and Cloud services BCN adds assets of Groveline, LLC to the Company BCN focuses even more on acquisition and expanding Agent Sales channel Management group now has majority ownership of BCN Telecom New Operations Center streamlines agent support The Company refocuses on domestic expansion of voice and data BCN Telecom is formed and privately held once again Expansion of portfolio and coverage areas The Company deploys switches in New York, Miami, and London ITG partners with NUI Corporation and makes asset acquisitions of Telcorp, Norcom, NAS and more ITG offers fully bundled services ITG expands product line and footprint Richard M. Boudria founds International Telephone Group Richard M. Boudria, Jr. As Chairman & CEO, Boudria drives innovation and excellence in all facets of the business with a particular focus on business strategy, corporate financial oversight, capital management, and leadership of the corporate board. His strategic financial, industry, partner, and client relationships are the foundation for empowering his teams to capitalize on opportunities for the Company to succeed and grow. His vision for the Company delivers a set of guiding principles designed to maximize the potential of BCN employees and the partner community through which the company exclusively goes to market. Prior to becoming Chairman & CEO, he served the Company as Vice President of Sales, Executive Vice President, President, and most recently President & CEO. Boudria joined the company full-time in 2006. Boudria is also the founder and Chairman of The Ducatus Foundation. The mission of The Ducatus Foundation is to promote the health of children living in undeserved conditions, by providing after-school educational and sports driven activities. Boudria received his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science from Trinity College and participated in Graduate Studies at Columbia University. Julian Jacquez With 15 years of experience and tenure with BCN, Julian Jacquez continues to provide senior executive leadership and strategic guidance at BCN. Jacquez joined the company in 2004 following the successful completion of an acquisition-based transaction with BCN. In June 2018, Mr. Jacquez was promoted to President of BCN and will continue to maintain his role as Chief Operating Officer of the Company. Prior to his current combined role, Jacquez served as an executive vice president at BCN serving in various areas of leadership across the business. In his expanded role, Jacquez is responsible for all sales, marketing, offer-management and operations of the business. His organizational responsibilities also include the Company’s CRM/billing system, business support systems and corporate IT infrastructure. Jacquez is actively involved in the development and management of the Company’s nationwide partner based distribution channel as well as creating the related alignment of the compensation and reward programs of the employee groups at BCN. Prior to joining BCN, Jacquez was involved with other telecom service providers in various financial, management and ownership capacities. Prior to his career in the telecommunications and technology industry, he was a CPA with PricewaterhouseCoopers providing auditing and business advisory services for a client portfolio that ranged from closely held emerging market companies to publicly held multi-national corporations. Jacquez holds a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Accounting from West Virginia University. Richard G. Schmeling Treasurer & CFO Richard G. Schmeling joined BCN Telecom in 2003 as Chief Financial Officer. Immediately prior, thereto, Schmeling worked with Getzler Henrich Associates, LLC, a management consulting firm specializing in turnaround management services with a focus on middle market companies. Schmeling also served five years as CFO at Environmental Technologies Corp and was an investment banker for Investcorp International Inc. and Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc., where he was responsible for general investment banking assignments, including private placements, mergers and acquisitions and general corporate development. Schmeling received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Columbia College and his MBA in finance and accounting from the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University. Michael Ginsburg Vice President of Sales As Vice President of Sales, Michael Ginsburg is responsible for managing all of BCN’s Channel Sales and Sales Support teams across the country. His role includes overseeing the building of new strategic relationships and the overall growth of existing partnerships, contract negotiation, and partner support. Ginsburg was recognized as a CRN Channel Chief in both 2017 and 2018 based of his professional achievements, standing in the industry, dedication to the channel partner community, and strategies for driving future growth and innovation. Ginsburg joined BCN Telecom in 2013 bringing over 16 years of channel sales experience working for both wireline and wireless carriers including Coast To Coast Cellular, Trans National Communications, and Westinghouse Communications. Ginsburg holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Management from The Pennsylvania State University. Andrew Rosen Vice President of Operations & IT Services As Vice President of Operations & IT Services, Andrew Rosen, who joined BCN Telecom in 2002, is responsible for order processing, account provisioning, and end user billing and payment processing as well as maintenance and repair. His role also includes the functionality of the company’s back office system (OSS) and the operation of BCN’s customer and agent web portals, as well as the company’s corporate IT infrastructure. Rosen is also responsible for the management of BCN’s Managed IT Services and VoIP Engineering departments. Prior to joining BCN, Rosen served as Vice President of Operations at ISN Communications and as Vice President of Network Operations at Ursus Telecom. His 28 year telecom career brings broad management experience in IT, billing, provisioning, network operations, maintenance and repair, and customer service. Rosen holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Lehman College. Jeanne Duca Vice President of Brand & Experience As Vice President of Brand & Experience, a key focus for Duca remains the ongoing development and nurturing of the BCN brand. Additionally, her organizational focus includes the development and execution of pre- and post-sale enablement programs in the areas of marketing, quoting solutions and pricing, major accounts, and customer experience. Duca joined BCN in 2016 as Vice President of Marketing and brings a wealth of brand management experience and a deep understanding of the channel honed over more than 15 years. Duca was recognized as one of CRN’s Women of the Channel in both 2017 and 2018 for her outstanding leadership, vision and unique role in driving channel growth and innovation. Before joining BCN, Duca led the Channel Marketing team at XO Communications. Duca holds a B.S. in Advertising from the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Vice President of Partner Development Ryan Kelly is Vice President of Partner Development, reporting to Julian Jacquez, BCN President & COO. In his role, Ryan will have a laser focus on BCN’s partner relationships as an important element in BCN’s growth strategy. Ryan brings a tremendous depth and breadth of experience to the team. He is fully empowered to drive greater opportunity for BCN within the Master Agent and sales partner community, helping to enable the Company’s continued growth and success. Prior to joining BCN, Kelly spent over sixteen years at NetWolves where he held multiple leadership positions. Most notably, he spent approximately 10 years leading their Channel Program, creating and significantly growing relationships with many of the leading Master Agents including Intelisys, AVANT, Telarus, Microcorp, TBI, WTG, and PlanetOne, among others. Throughout our history we have been active in supporting the communities in which we provide service to our customers and agent partners. BCN Launches New Geo-Redundant, High Availability Cloud Voice Platform BCN’s Michael Ginsburg is a CRN® 2020 Channel Chief	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line218
__label__wiki	0.973384	0.973384	App Post Content Template Category Archives: Music News Diana Ross to launch year-long 75th birthday celebration in 2019, starting with special film screening in March December 13, 2018 Music News Courtesy of Fathom EventsDiana Ross turns 75 in 2019, and the former Supremes singer and legendary solo artist plans to mark the milestone with a yearlong commemoration called the Diamond Diana Celebration. The festivities will launch on CCR's Doug “Cosmo” Clifford says remastered LPs in band's new vinyl box set sound “a lot cleaner [and] warmer” Craft RecordingsIn celebration of the 50th anniversary of Creedence Clearwater Revival‘s debut album this year, the band recently released a vinyl box set called The Complete Studio Albums featuring remastered versions of all seven of the influential roots-rock Keith Richards reveals he’s almost completely stopped drinking: “I got fed up with it” Credit: Dave HoganFor much of his life, The Rolling Stones‘ Keith Richards has been known as one of rock ‘n’ roll’s hardest partiers, but the legendary guitarist, who turns 75 next Tuesday, admits in a new interview Jackson Browne announces four-night stand at NYC’s Beacon Theatre in June 2019 Credit: Brandise DaneswichJackson Browne has lined up four shows at New York City’s famous Beacon Theatre next year on June 23, 24, 26 and 28. Indie-pop act Lucius, whose co-lead singers Holly Laessig and Jess Wolfe served Neil Young’s joint concert with Bob Dylan in London next July moving ahead without Barclays as sponsor Daryl Hannah; William ClaxtonNeil Young has announced that he’s resolved the issues he had regarding his July 12, 2019, co-headlining concert with Bob Dylan at London’s Hyde Park as part of the British Summer Time Hyde Park Queen biopic “Bohemian Rhapsody” scores two SAG Awards nominations 20th Century FoxAfter scoring two nominations for 2019 Golden Globe Awards, the Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody has now garnered a pair of nods for the 25th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. The film’s cast will vie for New Brian Wilson documentary due in 2019 to feature Bruce Springsteen, Elton John, other stars ABC/Randy HolmesA new documentary about founding Beach Boys mastermind Brian Wilson — featuring interviews with Bruce Springsteen and Elton John — is expected to be completed by January 2019, Variety reports. The as-yet-untitled film is being directed Turn back time: Cher is writing her life story Slaven Vlasic/Getty ImagesIt’s been quite a year for Cher and her fans: the 72-year-old living icon co-starred alongside Meryl Streep in the hit sequel Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again. She was also the subject of a Broadway musical that Lindsey Buckingham not ruling out reuniting with Fleetwood Mac: “Anything's possible” Credit: John RussoOn a recent CBS This Morning appearance, Lindsey Buckingham revealed that he’d settled the lawsuit he’d launched against Fleetwood Mac over his dismissal from the band earlier this year. Now, in a new interview with Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye classics part of new Motown playlist inspired by Michelle Obama's memoir, “Becoming” Courtesy of Motown/UMeAs part of her ongoing book tour to promote her new memoir, Becoming, Michelle Obama paid her first-ever visit to Hitsville U.S.A., the home of Detroit’s Motown Museum, located at the site of Motown Records’ MYCENTRALOREGON.COM NEWS TIP HOTLINE 105.7 KQAK KBNW-AM/FM KRCO-AM/FM FCC/Public File © 2021 95.7 FM Powered by OneCMS™ \| Served by InterTech Media LLC fe5e3c1dab6f92aecb47f3e29b4de61b0250ab15	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line220
__label__cc	0.719776	0.280224	Saint October 27 : St. Frumentius : Bishop of #Ethiopia St. Frumentius Feast: October 27 Tyre (modern Sur, Lebanon) 380 in Ethiopia Abyssinia, Ethiopia Saint Frumentius, Amharic Abba Salama (flourished 4th century, feast day October 27 in the Roman Catholic Church; November 30 in Eastern Orthodox churches; December 18th in the Coptic Church), Syrian apostle who introduced Christianity into Ethiopia. As first bishop of its ancient capital, Aksum, he structured the emerging Christian church there in the orthodox theology of the Alexandrian school during the 4th-century controversy over Arianism. A student of philosophy from Tyre, Frumentius and a colleague, Aedesius, were captured by Ethiopians in about 340. They became civil servants at the court of the Aksumite king Ezana, whom Frumentius converted. On the death of the monarch, Frumentius became the royal administrator and tutor to the crown prince and was empowered to grant freedom of religious expression to visiting Christian merchants from the Roman Empire. After fulfilling his regency Frumentius visited Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria, in about 347. Athanasius ordained Frumentius bishop and commissioned him to initiate the cultural adaptation of Greek Christianity’s biblical-liturgical texts to Ethiopic symbols and language. The link between the Egyptian Coptic and Ethiopian churches having thus been established, Frumentius, despite the enmity of the Byzantine Roman emperor Constantius II (337–361), repudiated the Arians. The 4th-century church historian Rufinus of Aquileia, by meeting Aedesius later at Tyre, was able to document Frumentius’ achievements, noting that the Ethiopians addressed him as abuna, or “Our Father,” a title that is still used for the patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.SOURCE Encyclopedia Britannica Image Google #PopeFrancis "Astronomy makes us contemplate the endless horizons of the universe..." to #Astronauts in Space - FULL TEXT + Video The Holy Father’s Conversation with the Astronauts Good morning <to> you all! Paolo Nespoli: Good morning, Your Holiness. Welcome to the International Space Station, <welcome> among us, among the crew of expedition 52 and 53. Holy Father: Good morning! . . . or Good evening . . . because, when one is in space, one never knows! Dear Dr. Nespoli, dear astronauts, I think that there, in the Space Station the days flow in a different way, no? I thank you and all those who organized this connection, which gives me the possibility to “meet” you and to ask you some questions. I begin immediately with the first question. (Question 1) Astronomy makes us contemplate the endless horizons of the universe, and arouses in us the questions: where do we come from? Where are we going? I ask you, Dr. Nespoli: in the light of your experience in space, what is your thought about man’s place in the universe? Paolo Nespoli: Holy Father, this is a complex question. I feel myself a technical person, an engineer, I feel at ease among machines, among experiments, but when there is talk of these much more internal things – – “where do we come from. . .” I am also perplexed. It’s a very delicate discourse. I think our objective is to know our being, to fill <our> knowledge, to understand what’s around us. And among others, it’s an interesting thing, because the more we know the more we realize we know little. I would very much like persons like you — not only engineers, not only physicists –, but persons like you — theologians, philosophers, poets, writers . . . could come here in space, and this will surely be the future; I would like them to come here to explore what it means to have a human being in space. Holy Father: What you say is true. (Question 2) In this hall from which I’m speaking to you, there is — as you can see — an artistic tapestry inspired by the famous verse with which Dante ends the Divine Comedy: “The Love that Moves the Sun and the Other Stars” (Paradise, XXXIII, 145). I ask you: what meaning does it have for you — who are all engineers and astronauts, as you well said –, what meaning does it have for you to call the force that moves the universe “love”? Paolo Nespoli: Holy Father, I would like to give the floor to my Russian colleague Aleksandr Misurkin, who will address you in Russian. [Misurkin answers in Russian] Paolo Nespoli: Holy Father, I hope we haven’t surprised you with Russian: Do you have the ability to have a translation there, or should we summarize it quickly? It’s better to summarize it quickly. Paolo Nespol translates: Colleague Aleksandr gave a very beautiful answer in Russian, which I will now translate somewhat like this, quickly. He made reference to a book he is reading these days up here, to reflect, “The Little Prince” of Saint Exupery. He makes reference to the story that he gives gladly – or would give gladly – his own life to return and save the plants and animals on earth. And, essentially, love is that strength that gives you the capacity to give your life for someone else. I like this answer. It’s true, without love, it’s not possible to give one’s life for someone else. This is true. One sees that you have understood the message that Saint Exupery explains so poetically and that you, Russians, have in the blood, in your very humanistic and very religious tradition. This is beautiful. Thank you. (Question 3) This one is a curiosity. They say that women are curious, but we men are also curious! What motivated you to become astronauts? What in the main gives you joy in the time you spend in the space station? Paolo Nespoli: Holy Father, I will give the microphone to two colleagues: the Russian colleague Sergey Ryazanskiy and the American colleague Randy Bresnik. [Ryazansky answers in English] Paolo Nespoli translates: [Bresnik answers in English Paul Nespoli translates: [Bresnik continues in English] Paolo Nespoli translates: He said that his inspiration was his grandfather: his grandfather was one of the first pioneers of space; he worked on the Sputnik satellite, the first satellite to fly over the Earth; he was one of those responsible for the construction of the satellite, and he took his inspiration from his grandfather, he wanted to follow in his footsteps, because in his opinion, space is interesting and beautiful, but also very important for us, as human beings. What I see from here is an incredible perspective: it’s the possibility of seeing the Earth somewhat with God’s eyes, and to see the beauty and incredibility of this planet. In our orbital speed of 10 kilometers per second, we see the Earth with different eyes: we see an Earth without borders, we see an Earth where the atmosphere is extremely fine and fleeting, and to look at this Earth in this way enables us to think how human beings, how we human beings should work together and collaborate for a better future. I was very pleased with what the two of you said in this answer. You, the first, went to the very roots to explain this: you went to <your> grandfather. And you, who come from America, were able to understand that the Earth is too fragile, it’s a moment that passes: 10 kilometers per second, said Dr. Nespoli . . . The atmosphere is a very fragile, subtle reality enough to destroy us. And you went to look, in fact, with God’s eyes — <your> grandfather and God: the roots and our hope, our strength. Never forget the roots: and it does me good to hear this, and to hear it from you! Thank you. (Question 4) I would like to ask you another question: to travel in space modifies so many things that are taken for granted in daily life, for example the idea of “up” and “down.” I ask you: was there something in particular that surprised you living in space? And, on the contrary, is there something that struck you precisely because it was also confirmed there, in such a different context? Paolo Nespoli: Thank you, Holy Father, for this question. I will give the floor to the American colleague Mark Vande Hei. [Vande Hei answers in English] Paolo Nespoli translates: Mark says that what surprised him is that in space you find things that are completely different, which seem the same but <are> not recognizable. Every now and then I approach something from a completely different angle and at first I’m a bit disconcerted, because I am unable to understand where they are, to understand what it is. Instead, what has not changed is that here also where there is no “up” and “down,’ to be able to understand where I am and to find myself in this situation I must decide where “up” is and where “down” is. And, therefore, establish my micro-cosmos, my micro-universe with my sense and my systems of reference. And this is something very human: the capacity to decide, of decision. The answer seems interesting to me because it also goes to the human roots. (Question 5) And now, if you have the courtesy to listen, I’ll ask another question. Our society is very individualistic and in life, instead, collaboration is essential. I think of all the work that is behind an enterprise like yours. Can you give me a significant example of your collaboration in the Space Station? Paolo Nespoloi: Holy Father, an optimal question. I’ll leave the question to the American colleague Joseph Acaba who is of Puerto Rican descent. Joseph Acaba: Holy Father, it’s a great honor to speak with you . . . [he continues in English] Paolo Nespoli translates Joe recalled that for this Station there is cooperation between several nations of the world: there is the United States, there is Russia, Japan, Canada, nine European nations . . . And he recalled how these nations work together to obtain something that is beyond each one of them. However, one of the important and interesting things that he said is the fact that each one of us bears a difference and these differences put together make a much greater whole than an individual person could be; and working thus together, in this collaborative spirit to go beyond, this is the way for us as human beings, to go out of the world and continue this voyage in knowledge. Your are a small “Glass Palace!! The totality is greater that the sum of the parts, and this is the example that you give us. Thank you so much, dear friends, I would like to say: dear brothers, because we feel ourselves representatives of the whole human family in the great project of research that is the Space Station. My heartfelt thanks for this conversation, which has enriched me very much. May the Lord bless you, your work and your families. I assure you: I will pray for you and you, please, pray for me. Thank you! Paolo Nespoli: Holy Father, on behalf of all I want to thank you for having been with us today, on the International Space Station. This is a place where we do much research, where we go to seek the things of every day. We thank you for having been with us and for having led us higher and having pulled us out of this daily mechanicalness, and making us think of greater things than ourselves. Thank you again! Blogger SHARE of ZENIT translation from Italian by Virginia M. Forrester #PopeFrancis “Only the Holy Spirit,” can give “that peace of the soul that gives strength to Christians.... help the Holy Spirit,” by “making space in our hearts.” (Vatican Radio) “Jesus calls us to change our lives, to change paths, calls us to conversion.” And this means fighting against evil, even in our own hearts, “a struggle that does not give you ease, but gives you peace.” That was the message of Pope Francis in his reflection during the morning Mass at Casa Santa Marta. Inspired by the day’s Gospel, Pope Francis explained that this is the “fire” that Jesus sets on earth – a fire, he said, that calls for change: “Changing our way of thinking, changing our way of feeling. Your heart, which was worldly, pagan, now becomes Christian with the strength of Christ: to change, this is conversion. And changing your manner of acting: your works must change.” It is, he continued, a conversion that “involves everything, body and soul, everything.” Pope Francis emphasized: “It is a change, but it is not a change that is made with make-up. It is a change that the Holy Spirit makes, within. And I have to make it mine so that the Holy Spirit can act. And this means a battle, fighting!” “Easy-going Christians, who don’t fight, don’t exist,” the Pope added. “Those are not Christians, they are lukewarm.” The tranquility necessary for sleep can be found “even with a pill,” he said, “but there are no pills” for inner peace. “Only the Holy Spirit,” can give “that peace of the soul that gives strength to Christians.” And, he said, “we must help the Holy Spirit,” by “making space in our hearts.” A daily examination of conscience “can help us in this,” the Pope said. It can help us “to fight against the maladies the enemy sows,” which he called “maladies of worldliness.” “The fight Jesus wages against the devil, against evil, is not something old, it is a modern thing, a thing of today, of all days,” Pope Francis said, because “the fire that Jesus has come to bring us is in our hearts.” And so we must allow Him to enter, and must “ask ourselves, each day: how have I passed from worldliness, from sin, to grace? Have I made room for the Holy Spirit, so that He could act?” “The difficulties in our lives are not resolved by watering down the truth. The truth is this: Jesus has brought fire, and struggle. What am I going to do?” For conversion, Pope Francis concluded, “a generous and faithful heart” is needed: “generosity that always comes from love,” and “is faithful, faithful to the Word of God.” Posted by Jesus Caritas Est at 7:38 AM Today's Mass Readings and Video : Thursday October 26, 2017 - #Eucharist Thursday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 476 Reading 1ROM 6:19-23 I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your nature. For just as you presented the parts of your bodies as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness for lawlessness, so now present them as slaves to righteousness for sanctification. For when you were slaves of sin, you were free from righteousness. But what profit did you get then from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. But now that you have been freed from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit that you have leads to sanctification, and its end is eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Responsorial PsalmPS 1:1-2, 3, 4 AND 6 R. (Ps 40:5) Blessed are they who hope in the Lord. Blessed the man who follows not the counsel of the wicked Nor walks in the way of sinners, nor sits in the company of the insolent, But delights in the law of the LORD and meditates on his law day and night. R. Blessed are they who hope in the Lord. He is like a tree planted near running water, That yields its fruit in due season, and whose leaves never fade. Whatever he does, prospers. Not so the wicked, not so; they are like chaff which the wind drives away. For the LORD watches over the way of the just, but the way of the wicked vanishes. AlleluiaPHIL 3:8-9 R. Alleluia, alleluia. I consider all things so much rubbish that I may gain Christ and be found in him. GospelLK 12:49-53 "I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already blazing! There is a baptism with which I must be baptized, and how great is my anguish until it is accomplished! Do you think that I have come to establish peace on the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division. From now on a household of five will be divided, three against two and two against three; a father will be divided against his son and a son against his father, a mother against her daughter and a daughter against her mother, a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law." Saint October 27 : St. Frumentius : Bishop of #Eth... #PopeFrancis "Astronomy makes us contemplate the e... #PopeFrancis “Only the Holy Spirit,” can give “th... Today's Mass Readings and Video : Thursday October...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line226
__label__cc	0.710223	0.289777	Teeneager’s Swap Technology for Drugs and Alcohol by admin \| Aug 15, 2017 \| news, technology We’re quickly getting technology addicts – and the habit begins early. For years parents have been worried about their children developing drug or alcohol problems. However recent studies have revealed that for many the problem is in a much more benign form – technology. Research indicates teens may be so glued to their telephones, televisions and tablets which they no longer have time to get alcohol and drugs. The tendency has been building for a decade and specialists think that technology can offer young people with a similar kick to experimentation with drugs. Teens’ use of drugs, tobacco and alcohol in america has diminished considerably and prices are at their lowest since the 1990s, based on results from the annual Monitoring the Future study. Considerably fewer adolescents reported using any illicit drug aside from marijuana in the previous 12 months – 5 percent, 10 per cent and 14 percent in 14, 15 and 16-year-olds respectively – compared anytime since 1991, according to the report. The percentage of secondary school pupils in the US who used any illicit drug in the previous year dropped appreciably between 2015 and 2016. Anti-drug campaigns are mostly deemed a failed venture that has led investigators to think that mobiles are currently giving teens so much stimulation they are not as inclined to find alcohol and drugs. This has been helped by some developments in treatments for both drug problems and alcohol abuse. Some Norwegian clinical trials of The Sinclair Method which uses a drug called Selincro – read about it here, have reported successful results of nearly 80%. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse expects to learn more about the connection between the decrease in medication and the increase of technologies to find whether there’s causation – rather than only correlation – between the two. ‘Something is happening,’ she told New York Times. ‘Teens can become actually high when playing with these matches’, she explained, describing interactive websites as ‘a different reinforcer’. Smartphones are so brand new to our own lives investigators are only beginning to understand how they’re altering our brains. Dr Nicholas Kardaras is a major psychotherapist, dependence expert and senior clinical adviser at the Dunes East Hampton, among the world’s leading rehab components. He explained: ‘Screen timing is “electronic heroin” for kids — especially those below ten. ‘Some accuse me of scaremongering for comparing it to addictive substances like drugs and tobacco. However, I have treated patients using crystal meth issues and will tell you it is more difficult to find someone on a digital dependence. Unlike illegal drugs, displays are everywhere. ‘It is not only kids, however. The normal age for a video game enthusiast is 35. But children are especially at risk from displays since the pre-frontal cortex — our character centre — does not finish developing until their early 20s’, ” he explained. A research by Indiana University asked teens who did not normally play video games to perform to get a fortnight. ‘In this brief time period, mind pictures before and after revealed changes in the frontal cortex which mirrored chemical dependency’, said Dr Kardarassaid http://cipec.org/	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line227
__label__wiki	0.929318	0.929318	MyFriend - Welcome to Us! MyFriend UK clamps ease up as Europe response shifts DOVER, England－Europeans on Wednesday began lifting travel bans on Britain put in place to contain a fast-spreading COVID-19 strain in actions that came ahead of talks by World Health Organization experts on the coronavirus variant. NHS Test and Trace staff members start to test the passengers at the Port of Dover, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Dover, Britain December 23, 2020. REUTERS/John Sibley The variant has swept the UK and spurred global panic just as vaccines are being rolled out. But the European Commission on Tuesday urged EU nations to lift travel bans imposed on Britain in recent days. The new strain appears to spread more easily than other types. But experts say there is no evidence it is more lethal or resistant to vaccines. The discovery unleashed panic that led to more than two dozen countries suspending flights from the UK, threatening travel chaos during the holiday season. The European Union instead urged virus tests be carried out on passengers within 72 hours of travel. "Flight and train bans should be discontinued given the need to ensure essential travel and avoid supply chain disruptions," the European Commission said. The WHO in Europe said its experts were due to meet on Wednesday to discuss how to handle the outbreak, saying "limiting travel to contain spread is prudent until we have better info". WHO's Europe director Hans Kluge wrote on Twitter that the organization would "discuss strategies for testing, reducing transmission& communicating risks". France and Britain reopened cross-border travel on Wednesday after a snap 48-hour ban to curb the spread of the virus variant threatened UK supply chains. Early in the week, much of Europe swiftly banned British travelers and UK freight entering their nations after the discovery of the more variant. On Tuesday, dramatic images showed hundreds of lorries backed up in Dover, with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson facing pressure to resolve the deadlock. Transportation of goods Many were in the country to deliver goods to companies who are stockpiling parts before Britain finally leaves the EU on Dec 31, a move that is expected to cause further disruption in January when a full customs border comes into force. UK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps announced late on Tuesday that Britain and France had settled on a protocol that "will see the French border reopen to those traveling for urgent reasons, provided they have a certified negative COVID-19 test". Truck drivers with a recent negative COVID-19 test began arriving in France after Paris lifted the blockade on Wednesday morning. British Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick said around 4,000 trucks may be waiting in the southern county of Kent and urged truckers not to head there until the backlog is cleared. It will take "a few days" to test all the drivers before they can travel to France. French Transport Minister Jean-Baptiste Djebarri confirmed that air travel, boats and Eurostar trains would be also resuming service. The Netherlands also said it was lifting its ban beginning on Wednesday but noted that all passengers must have a negative test to enter. In the nation hardest hit by the virus, US President Donald Trump on Tuesday lashed out at lawmakers over a newly approved $900-billion COVID-19 relief package that includes money for individuals, threatening not to sign the bill if changes are not made to make the stimulus checks more generous. "The bill they are now planning to send back to my desk is much different than anticipated," the president said in a video posted on Twitter. "It really is a disgrace," said Trump, arguing that the 5,000-plus-page bill contains many measures that almost have nothing to do with COVID-19. However, accusing lawmakers of allowing "wasteful spending", the president said the amount of direct payments to individuals is too low, and not enough money is given to small business.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line236
__label__wiki	0.920317	0.920317	Fire demolishes Riverside Inn in Cambridge Springs Wednesday, May 3rd, 2017 at 6:30 PM By Dakota Palmer Published in: Vol. 116, No. 26 Photo: Dakota Palmer At approximately 1 a.m. on Tuesday morning, a destructive fire broke out at the Riverside: The Inn at Cambridge Springs. According to GoErie, an employee called the general manager, Jeremy Ball, after hearing the smoke alarm go off and smelling smoke. Employees and residents of the inn were evacuated, as the 132-year-old building was engulfed in flames. Various news sources reported a firefighter and pedestrian were injured, but there has been no update on the extent of their injuries. Approximately 20 fire departments from surrounding counties helped battle the fire, which was still partially burning as of 10:30 a.m on Tuesday. According to Erie News Now, evidence leads the investigators to believe the accidental fire began in the kitchen and spread to the rest of the building. However, the official cause of the fire is still undetermined. Dakota Palmer is the news editor for The Spectator. She can be reached at eupnews.spectator@gmail.com. Tags: fire, news, cambridge springs EU's 'Intelligent Enterprise' concentration aims to give business students critical SAP skills By Nicholas Constantino “The fact that they will have all of this experience on an enterprise platform, specifically SAP, that will give them a significant advantage when looking for positions in organizations." EU, Clarion, Cal launch integration webpage, FAQ By The Spectator “Late nights spent creating art will go on. Reflections of fall, in all of its splendor, will be seen in the ripples of Edinboro Lake in the years ahead. And yes, the sounds of bagpipes will linger.” Provost Office now accepting faculty award nominations By Julia Carden Edinboro is asking for nominations for outstanding faculty members. Selections and completed forms are due by Dec. 4. EU holds virtual Academic Honors Convocation for December grads By Emily Anderson Student speaker Nathan Brennan congratulated his peers, the “strivers” as he called them, who proved themselves to be true Fighting Scots. COVID-19, Nov. 23: Edinboro has highest case count week at 16 By Emma McNeeley COVID-19 cases continue to rise around the region, including 944 logged in a 7-day period in Erie County. Interview: Interim President Dr. Dale-Elizabeth Pehrsson talks integration, COVID-19 and more By Kimberly Firestine “Our hope is to really keep the traditions that are sacred, the campuses that have their beauty and their pride, but also create something for the future. That is going to be kind of a tricky balance to figure out. I think we can do it.” Vol. 119, No. 18 « Past Issues Inside This Issue » Interview: Upcoming Interim President Dr. Dale-Elizabeth Pehrsson talks integration, COVID-19 and more By… https://t.co/QGGNnIwsqE EdinboroNow on 11/19/2020, 7:33 PM Album Review: Oneohtrix Point Never — Magic Oneohtrix Point Never Read Now: https://t.co/kRQ9GJ0frK https://t.co/DWKOriERdO Album Review: Nothing But Thieves — Moral Panic https://t.co/lzWtrq4tIC https://t.co/g0RuiSBw5D 2021 © Edinboro Campus Media. All Rights Reserved. Powered by Epic Web Studios, LLC	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line237
__label__wiki	0.857923	0.857923	Covas, R. 2002. Life histories and sociality in the Sociable Weaver. PhD Thesis, University of Cape Town. Supervisor: Morné du Plessis. Muchai, M. 2002. Going through the motions: The impacts of frequent fires and grazing pressure on reproduction by montane grassland birds. PhD Thesis, University of Cape Town. Supervisor: Morné du Plessis. Nel, D. 2002. The impact of longline fishing on the seabirds breeding on Marion Island. PhD Thesis, University of Cape Town. Supervisor: Peter Ryan. Prendini, L. 2002. The taxonomy, phylogenetics, biogeography and functional morphology of the Southern African burrowing scorpions, Genus Opistophthalmus C.l. Koch (Scorpiones: Scorpionidae). PhD Thesis, University of Cape Town. Supervisor: Tim Crowe. Bento, C. 2002. The status and prospects of Wattled Cranes Grus Carunculatus in the Marromeu complex of the Zambezi Delta. MSc Thesis, University of Cape Town. Supervisor: Phil Hockey. Wanless, R. 2002. The reintroduction of the Aldabra Rail Dryolimnas Cuvieri Aldabranus to Picard Island, Aldabra Atoll. MSc Thesis, University of Cape Town. Supervisor: Phil Hockey. Masters mini-theses Amutete, G. 2002. The effects of land-use and grazing management practices on bird species assemblages and guilds in the semi-arid Laikipia district, central Kenya. MSc mini-thesis (Conservation Biology), University of Cape Town. Supervisors: Morné du Plessis, Richard Dean and Leon Bennun. Anderson, P. 2002. The role of Cephalophyllum inaequale in the restoration of degraded arid landscapes. MSc mini-thesis (Conservation Biology), University of Cape Town. Supervisors: Timm Hoffman and Pat Holmes. Angel, A. 2002. Biotic and abiotic factors limiting the distribution of the endemic limpet Siphonaria compressa, on seagrass Zostera capensis beds in Langebaan Lagoon. MSc mini-thesis (Conservation Biology), University of Cape Town. Supervisor: George Branch. Bragg, C. 2002. Porcupine-geophyte interactions in a hotspot of geophyte diversity. MSc mini-thesis (Conservation Biology), University of Cape Town. Supervisors: John Donaldson and Peter Ryan. Cizek, A. 2002. Patterns of distribution of Zimbabwean birds - implications of a land reform process. MSc mini-thesis (Conservation Biology), University of Cape Town. Supervisors: Morné du Plessis, Dean Fairbanks and Peter Frost. Coetzee, C. 2002. The nitrogen stable isotope ecology of a natural rangeland system: Hluhluwe-Umfolozi Park. MSc mini-thesis (Conservation Biology), University of Cape Town. Supervisors: Will Stock and Nic van der Merwe. Egoh, B. 2002. Spatial pattern of natural resource use in eastern Caprivi. MSc mini-thesis (Conservation Biology), University of Cape Town. Supervisor: Jane Turpie. Foden, W. 2002. A spatial analysis of population health of Aloe dichotoma and Euphorbia mauritanica in the arid regions of southern Africa: are the impacts of climate change already apparent? MSc mini-thesis (Conservation Biology), University of Cape Town. Supervisors: Willaim Bond and Guy Midgely. Hughes, C. 2002. Wine and conservation in the Cape Floristic Region: A preliminary economic and environmental assessment of the impact of viticulture expansion based on predictive models. MSc mini-thesis (Conservation Biology), University of Cape Town. Supervisors: Jane Turpie and Dean Fairbanks. Kisamo, E. 2002. The impact of Community Conservation Initiatives in Tanzania: a case study around Udzungwa Mountains National Park. MSc mini-thesis (Conservation Biology), University of Cape Town. Supervisors: Jane Turpie and Timm Hoffman. Kuria, A. 2002. Spatio-temporal distribution patterns of nectar-feeding birds in relation to their food plants' flowering phenology and land-use in the fynbos biome, Western Cape, SA. MSc mini-thesis (Conservation Biology), University of Cape Town. Supervisors: Dean Fairbanks, Morné du Plessis and Anthony Rebelo. McCallum, S. 2002. 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__label__wiki	0.535744	0.535744	Home>Antics> Kenny Beats Left Speechless After His Name Becomes Viral Trend Kenny Beats Left Speechless After His Name Becomes Viral Trend FilmMagic/FilmMagic/Getty Images People couldn't help themselves when rhyming Kenny's name. Kenny Beats is one of the most sought-after producers in the entire world and it is easy to see why. He is extremely versatile when it comes to his production and he has helped provide hits to various artists in hip-hop. The artist has been able to maintain a large presence on social media, especially when it comes to his Twitch channel where he can be found making beats in a live show format. In addition to this, he has also helped raise money for various causes using his platform on Twitch. When Kenny trends on Twitter, it's typically because of his production, or a new hilarious song with Zack Fox. Today, however, the producer began to be flooded with puns related to his name. While the origins of it all seem unknown, thousands of people began to make puns and rhymes based on Kenny's producer name. At one point, Kenny became aware of the trend and was left speechless, as well as annoyed at what he was seeing. Of course, his annoyance at the tweets only prompted even more jokes, as fans and friends of the artist tried to one-up themselves. Overall, it was some harmless fun to enjoy while secluded during the pandemic. You can see some of the most creative tweets, below. Antics News Kenny Beats trending viral trend rhyming name Rare Michael Jordan x "UNC" x Converse Pack Hits Auction Block JR Smith Chooses Between 2020 Lakers & 2016 Cavs ANTICS Kenny Beats Left Speechless After His Name Becomes Viral Trend	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line258
__label__cc	0.523449	0.476551	The Affair Ch. 05 Curtis walked into the room and saw Maggie like he had never see her before. Her fingers were buried in her pussy, her big round breasts heaving up and down. He felt his cock harden instantly. He was in shock. Maggie knew Curtis had never seen her masturbate, not like this. She had masturbated for him during foreplay before, but nothing like this. Quickly she thought to herself. How could she cover this up? “I’m so fucking horny, Curtis. My fingers aren’t doing anything for me, please fuck me”, she said. Instantly, Curtis was swimming out of his clothes. Maggie opened her legs as she felt the weight of her husband land her. His cock found it’s place in her and he began pounding into her. She felt so dirty. It wasn’t Curtis that was making her horny, it was Randal. Yet it was her husband buried deep her pussy, not her lover. She could still feel his hot cum in there. Curtis kissed Maggie deeply, like a man possessed as he fondled her breasts. He hadn’t kissed her like that since they were in college, fucking for the first time in his college dorm before his roommate came back. Both were so turned on, it didn’t take long before they exploded in matching orgasms. Maggie came first, her breathing too much for her body to take. Moments later, she felt Curtis’ cum exploding deep inside her. He slowly rolled off her, panting for air. “What got into you tonight?”, he asked. “I don’t know. I’ve just been really horny lately. I don’t know what’s gotten into my lately”, she smirked. She knew what had been getting into her lately, Randal’s hard cock. She felt so dirty, two men cumming in her pussy only an hour apart. “Well, there is something I want to talk to you about. This is kind of serious, Maggie”. Curtis looked her deep in the eyes. “What is it dear?”. “Listen, you know I love you. And I think it’s time we start…. a family”. Maggie’s jaw dropped. Never in a million years did she expect that from Curtis. “I want you to have my baby”. The words echoed güvenilir canlı bahis siteleri in her ears until the next day. Of course she said she would. Despite everything that was happening with Randal, she loved her husband. And she always wanted a child for them. Maggie knew that if she were going to start a family, she would need to stop the affair with Randal. She never wanted to wonder who the father of her baby was. She waited for Randal to come into work, he had a later shift then she did. They had managed to be professionals at work. The only time they had acted out was the first time in the car. She pulled him a side and broke the news. “Curtis and I have decided we want a family. And, that means that, as much as I don’t want to…”. Randal looked in her the eyes. “Say no more, Maggie. I understand”, he took a deep breath. She was the best fuck he ever had, and the last the thing in the world he wanted to do was end it with her. But he did understand. “I’m sorry. He just surprised me with it when he got home last night. I had no idea how he felt”. She tried to explain it to Randal. He just shook his head. “Trust me, Maggie. There is no need to explain. I wouldn’t want to come between a family. It was good while it lasted”, he said. “Yeah, it was good. Real good”, she smiled at him. She could feel her pussy starting to get moist as she thought about it. She knew she shouldn’t, but she started to think about it again. Randal didn’t know how to end it. Should he hug her before he leaves? Shake her hand? He shrugged as he walked out of the room. A loud knocking sound woke Randal up. He looked at the clock, it was 1:30 in the morning. First he tried to ignore it, figuring it was probably the next door neighbors. But the knocking continued and then the doorbell. Randal rose from his bed and walked to the door. He looked in the peep hole. He couldn’t believe it. It was Maggie. He glanced down, realizing he was only wearing a pair of boxers. güvenilir illegal bahis siteleri Slowly he opened the door. “Maggie? What’s going on? It’s 1:30? Is everything all….”, he started to say before Maggie jumped into his arms, kissing him aggressively. He pulled her into the room and pushed the door closed with his foot. She could feel his cock getting hard through his white striped boxers. She pulled at her clothes as they made their way to the bedroom, first taking off her shirt. Her round breasts flopped out, she wasn’t wearing a bra. “I know it’s wrong, Randal. But I had to feel you inside me one last time.”, she whispered as she pulled down her jeans. She climbed up on his bed, kneeling on all fours. “I want you to fuck me in my asshole. Don’t make me beg for it. I can’t have you fuck my pussy, but you can fuck me in the ass.”, she whispered. Randal peeled off his boxers. “You don’t have to if you don’t want to”, she said, unable to see him. Randal responded by grabbing her panties and tearing them off her body. He threw the shedding clothing down as he climbed on the bed, groping her tits from behind. Maggie started breathing heavier as she felt his hands on her body. She had never been fucked in the ass. It was a fitting end to the affair. Randal rubbed his hard cock against the crack of her ass. She leaned back, pressing her body against his. He started to kiss her neck as he felt her body press against him. He positioned his cock against her ass, pushing slowly. She was so tight, he could only fit the first two inches in. Maggie screamed out in pain at first, but she kept thrusting her hips against him. He knew she was enjoying it. He pushed a little farther. Randal pushed her head down against the bed, exposing more of her ass to him. He entered her some more. Maggie bit down on the pillow as she felt his hard cock enter her from behind. She reached back and cupped his balls, playing with them. Her head was buried in the pillow in front of güvenilir bahis şirketleri her. She could feel his hands on her tits, pinching her nipples against her chest. Maggie started panting as she felt his cock inside her ass. She never thought it could be so good. With one of his hands still on her tits, the other slipped to her pussy, fingering her hard. She wanted to keep fucking him, even after tonight. But she knew it was for the best that they didn’t. “You’re pussy is so wet for me, Maggie. I love it”, he whispered in her ear. She felt so dirty when he talked like that. It made the fuck that much hotter. She started rubbing her ass against his hard cock even faster. “It’s wet for you, Randal” she moaned back. He continued to rub her body all over as he fucked her hard from behind. She moaned incoherently as she felt him deep inside the most private of areas. She knew Curtis would never fuck her there, so it was okay to give herself to Randal there just one more time. “I’m going to cum, baby”, he moaned as he grabbed her hair, pulling her neck back. She loved he was being rough with her. “Do it. Fill my asshole with your cum.”, she screamed back. Before she could even finish, she felt the rush of cum in her bowels. He slid out of her and crawled under her legs. He began to lick her wet pussy, sucking her clit into his mouth. Maggie sat back and stared down as his tongue disappear into her. She started playing with her nipples as she felt her pussy get tongued. Maggie began humping his face as he ate her out. It didn’t take long before an orgasm racked Maggie’s body. She moaned, talking about the feeling of his tongue deep inside her, where his cock once was. Her pussy leaked onto Randal’s face. He quickly lapped it all up. She slid off his face and looked at him. “I wish it didn’t have to end like this”, she said. “I told you, Maggie. It’s fine. We both know we shouldn’t have started this. It had to end sometime. We both admit it was good while it lasted, but Curtis wants you to start a family. And I can’t say I blame him. It was great while it lasted”, he whispered as he gave her one soft kiss. Maggie gathered her clothes and kissed him again, one last time before leaving the room. Seven weeks later, Maggie announced she was pregnant.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line260
__label__cc	0.639999	0.360001	inurl:"https://vdi" Find VMware Horizon Logins inurl:/portal/webclient/index.html#/warning inurl:"https://mydesktop-" inurl:"https://view" inurl:"https://mypc" What is VMware Horizon ? VMware Horizon View or VMware View VMware View is a commercial desktop-virtualization product developed by VMware, Inc. Its first two releases (2.0.0 and 2.1.0) sold under the name VMware VDM, but with the 3.0.0 release in 2008. VMware Inc. changed the name to "VMware View". "VMware View" became "Horizon View" with the launch of Horizon 6 in April 2014. VMware View provides remote-desktop capabilities to users using VMware's virtualization technology. A client desktop operating-system - typically Microsoft Windows 7, Vista or XP - runs within a virtual environment on a server. The VMware View product has a number of components which are required to provide the virtual desktops. Libellés : Login, Portal, Vmware, Vmware Horizon, VMware Horizon View, VMware View	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line264
__label__wiki	0.744275	0.744275	The Secret is out! Due to its incredible popularity and walkers' astonishment of how action packed the tour is, we are pleased to announce that we have added two 7.15 pm evening Secret London walking tours to our schedule, every Monday and Wednesday. Prepare to be spooked, amazed and thoroughly entertained on London's most action packed walking tour. London Premier Walking Tours....... where London goes walking and we do the talking! All the world is a stage..... As William Shakespeare once wrote.... "All the world is a stage and all men and women are merely players." Well, our tour guides are playing an absolute blinder, because on most tours at the end of the tour our tour guides are receiving a spontaneous round of applause from the walkers. London Premier Walking Tours........ where London goes walking and we do the talking! "Hello Scott, this is great information and I do appreciate the level of detail. You are the best!" Roseana and family. Philadelphia, USA. July 24th 2012. Yes, we at London Premier Walking Tours go above and beyond others when it comes to customer service. Our superstar bookings guru Scott was asked for a suggestion for a London activity before our Saturday Kings, Queens, Politics & Power tour at 4 p.m. Scott suggested a visit to London's Portobello Market and provided travel information, descriptions of the market and web links. Now that's what I call customer service. London Premier Walking Tours......... where London goes walking and we do the talking! "I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination." The great romanticist poet John Keats wrote these moving words and we visit the house he lived in before his tragic death at the age of 25. This and a whole lot more is on our Tower Bridge & Thames River Tour every Thursday and Friday at 2.30 pm. Anyone for Jellied Eels?! For many years Jellied Eels have been a sought after delicacy served up hot or cold in the outdoor street markets of London's East End. Nowadays very few Jeelied Eels sellers remain, but on our Secret London Tour we visit Tubby Isaac's world famous Jellied Eeels stall where if you are brave enough you can have a taster. On Tuesday's tour Pete from Bristol was brave enough to try a piece and after some initial trepidation he chewed and swallowed and said that it was actually rather nice! London Premier Walking Tours...... where London goes walking and we do the talking! Karl Marx in Soho "Sell a man a fish and he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity!"............. One of the founders of Communism and Socialsm Karl Marx once said this as a way of questioning the ideals of Capitalism. See the appartment where Karl Marx lived and worked for 5 years on our West End & Soho Tour. On today's Secret London Tour we will be learning about Jack The Ripper, Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists, Dietrich Boenhoffer the German East End preacher who plotted against Hitler and much, much more! The Missing Princes in The Tower On yesterday's Tower Bridge & Thames River Tour we learned about the mysterious disappearance of 12 year old King Edward V of England and his younger brother who were held for "safe keeping" in the Tower of London but then vanished into thin air, allowing the scheming Duke of Gloucester to become King. The Invention of The Postage Stamp How did people post letters and parcels before the postage stamp existed and who and where was the stamp invented? All is revealed on The Secret London Tour every Monday, Tuesday & Friday. London Premier Walking Tours........... where London goes walking and we do the talking!	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line271
__label__cc	0.724206	0.275794	It's time for a Chinese new year. Many sales happen on mobile devices, especially in-app. As usual, businesses everywhere are trying to cash in on the festivities. Oh baby, you slept a lot. Chinese New Year Sales. I'll see you at the movies / I'll see you with your lipstick on / I'm looking out for cosmos / I'm hoping that we'll get along / It's time for renovation And I bared a lot. Chinese New Year. Check out all Chinese New Year deals and specials in the Canadian stores on Rabato chinese new year // SALES. Chinese New Year is the third single for SALES debut Self Titled EP released on January 31, 2014. Click for Free Coupons! Maruyama told us: âBottle sales for the month of January dropped 2% to reach 98.0% year-on-year. And I. Cuco & Dillon Francis - Fix Me. Loved by more than 50,000 Singaporeans Best Tasting Award-Winning Recipes Chinese New Year 2020. Credit to Henry & Co. 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__label__wiki	0.835937	0.835937	Home > News > Korea > Korean webtoons go viral through Tapastic Korean webtoons go viral through Tapastic Kim Chang-won, CEO of Tapasmedia, which is the first online platform for web comics in the North American market, points out scenes of a webtoon displayed on a tablet PC. (Courtesy of Tapasmedia) By Chung Hyun-chae The nations portal giant Naver held their first publishing-related exhibition at the 2013 Frankfurt Book Fair in Frankfurt, Germany last month. During the five days of the fair that begun Oct. 9, Naver arranged a webtoon exhibition where visitors could appreciate Korean webtoons, or web comics, which were displayed on mobile handsets and a huge screen. More than 20,000 people visited the exhibition while a number of publishing insiders actively dealt with the publication rights of Korean webtoons, most of which garnered more than three million viewers. Sohn Jae-ho, the writer of the webtoon Noblesse, based on a Korean version of a vampire story online, told Naver that he realized the popularity of Korean webtoons in foreign countries. We witnessed the competitiveness of Korean webtoons through this exhibition, not only for the domestic market, but also abroad, said Kim Joon-goo, head of the Webtoon Business Division of Naver. Two years ago, Kim Chang-won, currently CEO of Tapasmedia, predicted how internationally competitive Korean webtoons would be. Tapasmedia is the first online platform for comics in the North American market. He once ran Blogger at Google and was co-CEO of TNC, a blogging software company that was one of the first Google acquisitions in Asia. Prior to that, he worked at Samsung Mobile. Kim, formerly a successful businessman, went into a new line of business while questioning why Korean internet business models are not global. “I always wondered why Cyworld and Dialpad, which were years ahead of comparable global services, didnt become global hits. This led me to think that, when I do my next business, Ill look at the Korean Internet market, spot something interesting, and take it out of the Korean market. As I researched the Korean Internet/content market, Webtoons success became immediately noticeable. I researched the market extensively for both Korea and the U.S. and discovered theres enough market potential for launching a webtoon service in the United States,” said Kim. He went on to set up Tapastic which he calls YouTube for comics. Their target audience is mainly aimed at people between 18 to 34 interested in webcomics for the short term. In the long term, the target becomes those interested in consuming stories in a visual format. “Imagine a world without YouTube, where all the video content creators need to set up and manage their own website does not exist.That would be terrible for both the content creators and consumers — the webcomic industry is currently in that state,” said Kim. Of course everything did not go as smoothly as planned when he started Tapastic. Although the webtoon model is something Korean consumers are used to, it is a totally new service model in the U.S. Even finding investors who are aware of the success of webtoons in Korea, and understanding its enormous potential in the U.S. market, is a pretty big challenge, Kim said, adding that the webtoon business in the U.S. is rapidly growing now, however. For example, individual sites like The Oatmeal (theoatmeal.com) are very popular, especially among a younger audience. What makes Tapastic stand apart from other rising competitors such as The Oatmeal is its open publishing platform where anybody can publish their comics on the web, according to Kim. In addition, it builds up a community of web-comic artists in the U.S., and is also helping Korean webtoonists to globally launch and build a community with a global audience. “We also have pretty good expertise in seeing which Korean series has the potential to become popular with the U.S. audience, and for some series with high potential, we translate and help with marketing,” said Kim. He believed that Korean webtoons have great potential to become global brand names. Main page of Naver Webtoon. The number of webtoons ranges from 20 to 28 per day. / Captured from Naver webtoon section There are many Korean webtoons that can work very well in the international market. Comics are unique in that readers are much more culturally tolerant. Also, some of the Korean webtoons, such as Tower of God or Noblesse, are already one of the most popular comic titles on illegal translation sites (Scanlation or scanning, translating, and editing work from one language into another language). Worries for Korean Webtoons Kim understood the marketability of some webtoons over others in the global market, as well as the limitations of the Korean marketplace in distributing profitable content. Obviously there are many Korean webtoon series that are too Korean and probably work only among the Korean audience. Theres so much Korean webtoon content that we think has great potential among the international audience but cant go outside of Korea due to a number of reasons such as the license agreements that are unnecessarily tight. As a result, everyone is fighting for the smaller Korean market, while a vast amount of good Korean webtoon content is just sitting there in the cabinet, doing nothing and not being discovered by an international audience, said Kim. Due to its gaining popularity, some Korean webtoons are distributed illegally with unofficial translations through certain websites, causing the possibility of incorrect translations, and diminishing the experience of the story. However, Kim said that going head to head with those that support illegal distribution and translations is unproductive. Instead, the role of the original creator is crucial, according to Kim. In order to improve the quality of the translations, They need to work with legitimate channels (like Tapastic), and point the Scanlators (fans who scan and translate comics) to the legitimate channels. They can also post the newest episodes on the legitimate channel first, or form a reader/translator community within the legitimate service. Do enough of that, and readers and translators will naturally come to the legitimate channel, said Kim. Corporate aspirations Asked what he or Tapastic hopes to become, Kim said that it is to become a leader in bite-sized stories on the web and on mobile devices. Tapas, from which their name derives, refers to finger food in Spanish. Like companies such as Zynga and Cheezburger, we also like to deliver five-minutes of happiness to users, not through meaningless gold-digging games or cat photos, but through stories that make you laugh, cry, (and) learn, said Kim CheezburgerCyworldDialpadKorean webtoonsNaverNaver WebtoonSohn Jae-hoTapasticthe 2013 Frankfurt Book Fairweb comicswebtoon exhibitionZynga Naver hatches up plan to topple YouTube in S. Korea Naver’s LINE app becomes world’s second-most profitable app on iOS Number of Line app users to top 700 mil. this year Naver rolls out LINE Pay in Japan before S. Korea, China	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line276
__label__wiki	0.717237	0.717237	Flood Cars for Cash Google Adsense and the DoubleClick DART Cookie Google, as a third party advertisement vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on this site. The use of DART cookies by Google enables them to serve adverts to visitors that are based on their visits to this website as well as other sites on the internet. To opt out of the DART cookies you may visit the Google ad and content network privacy policy at the following url http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html Tracking of users through the DART cookie mechanisms are subject to Google’s own privacy policies. Other Third Party ad servers or ad networks may also use cookies to track users activities on this website to measure advertisement effectiveness and other reasons that will be provided in their own privacy policies, Call Us Now has no access or control over these cookies that may be used by third party advertisers. When visiting Call Us Now, the IP address used to access the site will be logged along with the dates and times of access. This information is purely used to analyze trends, administer the site, track users movement and gather broad demographic information for internal use. Most importantly, any recorded IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information. We have included links on this site for your use and reference. We are not responsible for the privacy policies on these websites. You should be aware that the privacy policies of these sites may differ from our own. The contents of this statement may be altered at any time, at our discretion. If you have any questions regarding the privacy policy of Call Us Now then you may contact us at [email protected] Last updated Tue, 19 Jul 2011 21:39 Cash for Cars Program NYC, Bronx, Brooklyn, Long Island, Queens \| Blog \| Privacy Policy Copyright © 2021 NewYorkCityCashForCars.com 1371 Spofford ave Bronx NY 10474 All Rights Reserved. New York City Cash for Cars \| (844) 267-9576	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line278
__label__cc	0.678522	0.321478	Groundwater management in low-lying coastal zones Groundwater is an important resource for drinking water and irrigation. However, groundwater extraction in low-lying coastal zones is highly problematic. It raises the salinity of the groundwater and causes the land to sink. Therefore, groundwater management is a major issue in many low-lying coastal areas. This article focuses on shallow coastal aquifers connected to the sea. 1 Threats of groundwater extraction 2 Salt intrusion processes 2.1 Marine transgression 2.2 Seawater intrusion via estuaries 2.3 Groundwater extraction 2.4 Saline seepage 2.5 Irrigation practices 3 Groundwater management 4 Measures to reduce soil and groundwater salinization 4.1 Horizontal wells 4.2 Fresh water storage by artificial infiltration 4.3 Fresh water storage by injection 4.4 Aquifer barriers to prevent seawater intrusion 4.5 Isolating saline areas 5 Dealing with brackish groundwater 6 Groundwater modelling and observation 7 Appendix: The SeepCat system 7.1 Theoretical background 7.2 Description of SeepCat Threats of groundwater extraction Fig. 1. World water distribution. Source: pbslearningmedia [1]. Fig. 2. Agricultural groundwater usage for selected countries in [math]\small 10^9 \, km^3/year[/math]. Source: UN World Water Development Report, 2015[2]. Fresh water represents only a small fraction of earth's water resource – less than 1%, ice excluded (Fig. 1). Groundwater is by far the most important fresh water resource available for human use. More than 50% of world’s population lives in coastal areas and is largely dependent on fresh groundwater resources for domestic, agricultural and industrial purposes. The exploitation of fresh groundwater resources is sharply increasing as a consequence of population growth, economic growth, intensified agricultural development, and the degradation of surface water resources due to contamination (Fig. 2). Worldwide, many large coastal cities have expanded into low coastal plains during the past decades, especially in Asia and Africa (see Coastal cities and sea level rise). Most of these plains emerged after the Holocene marine transgression, when the seabed was raised above sea level by sedimentation behind a sheltering coastal barrier. These deposits form a top soil layer of a few meters up to several tens of meters thick, and contain a high fraction of fine sediments of fluvial and marine origin (and peat, in humid climatic zones). On these poorly draining soils, which are highly susceptible to compaction, extensive urban and industrial development has taken place[3]. The land elevation is generally close to the mean high sea level. However, in many areas it is lower and still subsiding, mainly as a result of drainage and groundwater extraction[4]. Intensive groundwater extraction from underlying water-bearing layers (aquifers) stimulates the intrusion of seawater, leading to increased groundwater salinity[5]. In the lowest areas, brackish groundwater may reach the surface by upward groundwater flow through the confining top layer, so-called 'saline seepage'. The threats of uncontrolled groundwater extraction can remain unnoticed for many years because groundwater flow is a slow process. However, in the long run they are considerable [6]: unsuitability of groundwater for drinking water, reduced usability of groundwater for irrigation, soil salinization detrimental to crop growth, soil subsidence and increased vulnerability to flooding, deterioration of the foundation of buildings by corrosion of concrete, reinforcement and bricks, danger of collapse of buildings due to soil instability. In addition, the anticipated sea level rise and the decrease of recharge, due to climate change and increased water demand in the upstream catchment areas, will further exacerbate the pressures on coastal groundwater systems. Salt intrusion processes Fig. 3. A small level difference is sufficient to keep a large fresh water column in balance with a salt water column, according to the BGH principle (similar to the iceberg principle). If the groundwater consists of seawater with density 1025 kg/m3, a fresh water column that exceeds the ground level by 1 m can penetrate 40 m into the underground. Seawater intrudes into the underground of the coastal plain through aquifers, permeable soil layers consisting of medium / coarse granular material or porous / fissured rock. Due to its greater density, seawater enters like a wedge that pushes fresh water inshore, see Fig. 4. A counter-pressure is exerted by the inshore fresh water table. Due to the small density difference, a small elevation of the fresh water head is sufficient to keep the seawater intrusion in balance, see Fig. 3. This principle was first discovered by Badon-Ghyben and Herzerg and is commonly referred to as the BGH principle. In Fig. 4 it is assumed that the permeability of the underground is the same everywhere. In reality, however, this is never the case due to the presence of poorly permeable layers (aquitards); Fig. 5 shows a still much simplified but slightly more realistic image. A rough estimate of the intrusion length [math]L[/math] of the seawater wedge into a shallow confined aquifer is given by [7], [math]L \approx \alpha k D^2 / (2 Q) , \qquad (1)[/math] where [math]\alpha \approx 1/40[/math] is the relative density difference, [math]k[/math] is the hydraulic conductivity (related to the permeability), [math]D[/math] is the aquifer depth and [math]Q[/math] is the groundwater discharge to the sea per unit width. This formula applies to a homogeneous confined aquifer of constant depth. The groundwater discharge [math]Q[/math] is related to the gradient in the piezometric head [math]dh/dx[/math] according to Darcy's law: [math]Q=-k D dh/dx[/math]. A relationship for the seawater intrusion length similar to Eq. (1) holds for shallow unconfined aquifers in case of sufficient freshwater recharge (precipitation, river water infiltration, …)[8]. Fig. 4. Schematic representation of seawater intrusion into a homogeneous coastal aquifer. Fig. 5. Schematic representation of seawater intrusion into a multi-aquifer system. Equation (1) shows that seawater intrusion depends on aquifer properties ([math]k, D[/math]), and via the groundwater discharge [math]Q[/math] , on the elevation difference between the inland freshwater hydraulic head and the water sea level at sea. The sea level is variable due to tidal motion and wind set-up / set-down and the inland fresh water table varies over the seasons in response to variable fresh water runoff, evapotranspiration and extractions. These fluctuations in the groundwater pressure gradient, together with spatial inhomogeneities in the geologic structure, contribute to mixing across the fresh-salt interface [9]. The rise of the relative sea level is an ongoing trend that gradually increases the seawater intrusion into the aquifer. Shoreline retreat associated with sea level rise can also play a role. Seawater intrusion is further enhanced in case of a trend-wise decrease of the flux of fresh groundwater to the sea, for example as a consequence of groundwater abstraction near the coast. Several other processes contribute to salinization of coastal aquifers. Marine transgression Many coastal areas, especially river deltas, were flooded by the sea during the Holocene transgression, before sedimentation raised the seafloor above mean high water level and before fluvial processes became dominant. The present saline groundwater was largely formed during this period. Saline intrusion in coastal aquifers by marine flooding occurs today only incidentally under extreme storms. Such extreme conditions are rare, but they are expected to become much more frequent in future as a consequence of sea level rise (see Sea level rise) and land subsidence. The process of seawater infiltration in a fresh aquifer resulting from a marine flood is shown in Fig. 6. Increased groundwater salinities may persist many years after such flood events[10]. Floods caused by tsunamis and flooding in the context of depoldering projects have similar effects on the salinization of groundwater. Seawater intrusion via estuaries Coastal aquifers are not only in contact with salt water at the land-sea boundary but often also with salt water of estuaries. In this way, intrusion of saline surface water into shallow groundwater can take place further inland (Fig. 7). The intrusion of seawater in estuaries is discussed in the articles Seawater intrusion and mixing in estuaries and Estuarine circulation. Seawater intrusion in estuaries has strongly increased during the past century due to channel deepening (dredging) for navigational purposes and the decrease of river discharges into estuaries. The greatest incursion of high salinity seawater occurs in periods of low fluvial runoff, especially in microtidal estuaries (see Salt wedge estuaries). Fig. 6. Infiltration of marine flood water into the underground by so-called 'fingering'. Fig. 7. Intrusion of seawater from a salt-wedge estuary into the underground. Groundwater extraction Intensive groundwater extraction can increase the intrusion of seawater into the coastal aquifer by decreasing the freshwater pressure head; this will reduce the groundwater discharge [math]Q[/math] to the sea (see Eq. 1). This intrusion is a slow process, but with a long-lasting impact. The most immediate effect of pumping up groundwater is the rise of the fresh-salt transition under the well, a phenomenon called 'saltwater upconing', see Fig. 8. When a critical limit of the extraction rate is exceeded, deeper and salt water is extracted, and the fresh-salt transition rises up to the well mouth and the pumped water becomes brackish. The rise of the fresh-salt transition is strongest in cases where the hydraulic conductivity [math]k[/math] of the aquifer is small (low conductivity limits the horizontal groundwater flow towards the well)[11]. For aquifers with a low permeability (small [math]k[/math]), only small abstraction rates are possible. Saline seepage In areas situated below sea level, groundwater can move upwards to the soil surface if the upper soil layer is semipermeable, see Fig. 9 and 10. The upward moving saline seepage water may (1) discharge directly in lakes, canals, ditches or subsurface drain tiles leading to the salinization of surface waters, (2) mix near the surface with shallow fresh groundwater, or even (3) reach the root zone affecting crop growth and natural vegetation. Where rainwater or fresh surface water supplies are limited, saline seepage leads to salinization of surface water and shallow groundwater - a process known as internal salinization. The seepage flow depends on the surface soil level and on the thickness and permeability of the top soil layer (Fig. 9). Seepage flow is enhanced at places where ancient sandy deposits are close to the surface or where cracks exist in the top clay layer, giving rise to so-called 'boils' through which preferential saline seepage occurs at high fluxes[12]. Seepage in deep polders is increased when the top soil is drained for agricultural purposes, creating lower phreatic water levels (Fig. 10). Compaction of clay and peat soils is another serious consequence of drainage. The effect of seepage on seawater intrusion is similar to the effect of groundwater extraction; it causes upconing of brackish groundwater and increases the intrusion of seawater into the coastal aquifer. Fig. 8. Upconing brackish water under a pumping well. Fig. 9. Groundwater seepage into a polder and associated rise of the salt-fresh interface. Fig. 10. Drainage of a polder causing upconing of brackish water into the ditches. Irrigation practices In arid coastal plains where the groundwater salinity is too high, crops must be irrigated with water that is supplied from elsewhere. Due to water scarcity, the infiltrated irrigation water is collected in special drains and re-used for irrigation. Such an irrigation system exists, for example, in the Nile Delta [13]. Because the irrigation water is mixed with brackish groundwater, re-use can cause, in combination with evapotranspiration, a net salt flux to the land surface. Fig. 11. Factors that influence the groundwater system. From Post (2018)[10]. Groundwater management requires an integrated approach based on insight into the multiple factors that influence the groundwater system, see Fig. 11. This insight is usually fragmentary due to the complexity of the groundwater system. Groundwater flow models are crucial for estimating the influence of abstractions on the groundwater status, see section Groundwater modelling. Permits, metering of wells, quotas and water taxes are the legal instruments on which sustainable groundwater management can be based, together with obligations of monitoring and reporting. Polluting substances from point sources (industrial effluents, household sewage) and from diffuse sources (agricultural effluents containing pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers) are a major danger for groundwater contamination. Adequate environmental policy, agricultural policy, and spatial policy that tackle the pollution issue are prerequisite for sustainable groundwater management. The effectiveness of groundwater management can be increased by involving local stakeholders, due to the strong link between use and usability of the groundwater resource. Understanding and support from stakeholders makes it easier to enforce legal rules and provisions. Without support of stakeholders, enforcement is usually difficult to achieve [14]. Monitoring aquifers for protection against depletion and pollution is a technically demanding and costly exercise so that information about aquifers is often incomplete. The costs for setting up a monitoring network, collecting data regularly, processing, interpreting, and storing it in databases, including unified databases at the national level, are one of the reasons why in developed and developing countries alike water rights and monitoring obligations, especially with respect to groundwater, may remain unimplemented [14]. Measures to reduce soil and groundwater salinization Different types of measures are possible to reduce soil and groundwater salinization, which can be applied depending on the geological setting and the causes of salt intrusion. Horizontal wells The risk of upconing of the salt-fresh interface due to groundwater exploitation can be reduced by 'skimming' the fresh water lens with a horizontal well, see Fig. 12, instead of using vertical wells. In this way it is possible to exploit a brackish aquifer with a relatively thin fresh water lens. Periodically, natural (or artificial) recharge of the fresh water lens is necessary to get the salt-fresh interface back to its former position. Fresh water storage by artificial infiltration According to the principle shown in Fig. 3, a large fresh water reservoir can be created in the subsoil by raising the fresh water table. This principle can for example be applied in coastal zones protected by a dune belt, but every higher elevated area in a coastal setting could be suitable. For example, Pauw et al. (2015)[15] artificially recharged a freshwater lens below a slightly elevated sandy creek ridge following the principle of Badon-Ghyben Herzberg. By infiltrating fresh water in the dunes – rain water or fresh water from other sources – the fresh water table can be raised such that a large column of fresh water in the subsoil is kept in hydrostatic balance with the seawater, due to the small density difference (Fig. 13). Increasing the freshwater storage capacity of coastal dunes by artificial infiltration is widely used in the Netherlands to supply drinking water to coastal cities (for example, Amsterdam, The Hague). Fig. 12. Horizontal skimming well. The upconing effect is limited by spreading the extraction over a broad zone. Fig. 13. Large fresh water reservoir created by dune infiltration. Fresh water storage by injection Collected rainwater – or fresh water from other sources – can temporarily be stored in the subsoil for later re-use. Fresh water is injected into the deeper part of the aquifer and collected later from a higher pumping well, as shown in Fig. 14. A larger volume of fresh water can be stored by lowering the salt-fresh interface. Salt groundwater is pumped away from greater depth to reduce the hydrostatic pressure on the surface layer. This will prevent an existing freshwater lens from being pushed out[16]. The brackish/salt water has to be discharged to the sea or it can be treated in a desalination plant for re-use[17]. The extraction-injection is adjusted by a so-called automatic 'freshmaker system'[16]. The principle is shown schematically in Fig. 15. Another option (if technically and economically feasible) is to pump the brackish/salt water through the underlying aquitard to a lower aquifer ('freshkeeper system'[16]), see Fig. 16. Fig. 14. Temporary storage of rainwater. Fig. 15. Principle of the freshmaker system: withdrawal of brackish groundwater to make room for a thick fresh water lens. Fig. 16. Principle of the freshkeeper system: removal of brackish groundwater to a lower aquifer to make room for storage of fresh water. Aquifer barriers to prevent seawater intrusion Two types of barriers have been implemented in practice: hydraulic barriers and physical barriers. The usual principle of a hydraulic barrier is shown in Fig. 17. Fresh water (for example, purified sewage water) is injected into the aquifer close to the seaward boundary to create a pressure head that prevents the intrusion of seawater. Further inland, freshwater can be extracted (to a limited extent) in periods of drought from the fresh aquifer. A practical example is the hydraulic barrier installed in California near Los Angeles [18]. The effectiveness of this solution depends on the availability of fresh water during sufficiently long and frequent periods. Another principle is based on extraction of intruding seawater, as shown in Fig. 18. Drawbacks of this principle are the disposal of the extracted saline or brackish groundwater and the lowering of the piezometric heads, especially in shallow coastal aquifers[19]. This latter issue can be mitigated by fresh water injection further landward[20]. This principle was implemented at a coastal area of the Netherlands (Perkpolder) to protect a freshwater lens from the impact of a managed realignment project[21]. This self-flowing seepage system called 'SeepCat' is thought to be also applicable for small oceanic islands to protect vulnerable underground freshwater reserves from sea level rise, climate change and overexploitation, see the appendix for a more detailed description. Physical subsurface barriers have been constructed in several countries, especially in Japan[22] and China [23]. The barriers are generally built of concrete using grouting techniques or mixed-in-place slurry-wall methods[24]. The dams serve as a barrier for seawater intrusion, and also create underground fresh water storage in periods of strong precipitation (Fig. 19). However, the costs are high and the solution is only applicable in shallow aquifers[19]. Fig. 17. Hydraulic injection barrier at the seaward entrance of an aquifer. The marine salt wedge is expelled in periods of abundant fresh water. Inland abstraction wells can be exploited in periods of drought. Fig. 18. Hydraulic abstraction barrier at the seaward entrance of an aquifer. The marine salt wedge is expelled in periods of abundant fresh water. Piezometric levels condition the use of inland injection/abstraction wells. Fig. 19. Physical subsurface barrier at the seaward entrance of an aquifer. Isolating saline areas Saline seepage due to local boils – a major salinization mechanism in the deep polders in the Netherlands – is combated by building a bypass around the saline areas. The temporary isolation (during dry periods) of saline areas with a significant number of boils is controlled by automatic weirs[25]. The temporarily stored salt water is discharged during rainstorm events when salt concentrations are low. Boils that arise from the removal of structures, such as level filters or sheet piles, or from the sealing of old gas wells, can be sealed. This can be done through injection of expanding and persisting fluids or through biosealing; the latter option is the most environmentally friendly. Dealing with brackish groundwater In arid coastal zones with endemic freshwater shortages, there are no good options for preventing salt intrusion into the groundwater. Strict regulation of groundwater abstraction is necessary to make land use possible. Agriculture has to make use of salt-tolerant crops. Fortunately, ever better crops are being developed for saline conditions, including by genetic modification techniques[26][27]. In addition, infrastructure must be protected against corrosion by saline groundwater, including the use of salt-resistant concrete. Groundwater modelling and observation Fig. 21. SkyTEM team recording Time Domain Electromagnetic Data. Source: G. Oude Essink, https://publicwiki.deltares.nl/ Groundwater flow can be described with Darcy's law that couples the flow rate linearly to the gradient in the hydrostatic groundwater pressure. For an introduction to groundwater flow modelling, see for example the downloadable lecture notes of Oude Essink (2000)[28]. Application of Darcy's law requires knowledge of the soil permeability (generally expressed in terms of hydraulic conductivity). The permeability is different for each soil type. The structure and composition of the substrate is generally very complex. It is a reflection of the geological history in which a large number of processes on very diverse space and time scales play a role. The reliability with which groundwater flows can be simulated therefore depends primarily on the extent to which the structure and composition of the subsoil are known. This knowledge usually has large gaps, since sampling the subsurface over great depth requires a great deal of effort and is very expensive. In addition to knowledge of the subsurface structure, knowledge is needed of the position of the salt-fresh transition zones in the underground. Missing knowledge can be partially overcome by model calibration based on data from wells (quantity and quality of abstractions), piezometric surveys (groundwater pressure) and observations based on geophysical techniques. Fig. 20. Electrical resistivity measurement by continuous vertical electrical sounding. Credit: P. de Louw. In recent decades, a large number of geophysical measurement methods have been developed that indirectly provide information about the subsurface soil structure and groundwater salinity and distribution[29]. Seismic techniques, such as Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR [30][31]) can be used for detecting and mapping structures in the underground. Unfortunately, this technique is less suitable for saturated soils with a high clay content. Nuclear Magnetic techniques, such as Magnetic Resonance Sounding (MRS [32]) and Time Lapse Gravity (TLG [33]) can provide information on aquifer properties, such as moisture content, porosity and hydraulic conductivity. Electrical resistivity (Fig. 20) and electromagnetic techniques (Fig. 21) make use of the large electrical resistivity contrast between seawater and freshwater for detecting and mapping the subsurface salinity distribution [34]. Examples are Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT [35]), Time-Lapse Resistivity (TLR[36]), Time Domain Electromagnetic sounding (TDEM [37]), Frequency Domain EM and Induced Polarization (IP [38]). Airborne EM (time or frequency domain) using a helicopter to acquire EM-data of the subsoil has recently showed to be very promising in mapping the fresh-salt interface of large coastal areas in The Netherlands, Germany, Denmark and Belgium[39][40]. Together with information from wells, bore holes and model calculations these data enable reasonable estimates of the effect of interventions in the groundwater system. However, the design of groundwater models and the interpretation of model results still require highly specialized knowledge and experience of geohydrological processes. Appendix: The SeepCat system SeepCat is a saline groundwater discharge system that can protect limited freshwater resources on small islands against salinization and increases the availability of freshwater. Sea levels area expected to rise up to 0.7 m in 2100 AD and will increase the saline groundwater pressure and therefore reduce the size of coastal freshwater lenses. The saline groundwater discharge system SeepCat is able to compensate the effects of sea level rise by lowering the salt water pressure for enlargement of the freshwater lens. Usually, there is much more space in the subsoil to store fresh water than by storing it on the surface e.g. in basins. Also, losses by evaporation and contamination are much less when water is stored in the subsoil. However, it is difficult to increase groundwater stocks in coastal areas because of the presence of saline groundwater. The lighter fresh groundwater is pushed upward by the buoyancy force of the denser saline groundwater beneath. The thickness of the freshwater lenses in coastal areas area therefore limited. The thickness can be estimated by the theoretical relation derived by Badon-Ghyben Herzberg (BGH) (see Figs. 3 and 13). From this BGH-relation it can be derived that the thickness of a freshwater lens (in a theoretical homogeneous case) is about 41 times the groundwater level above sea level. From this relation it can also easily be seen that a freshwater lens is able to grow when: (1) the groundwater level is increased, e.g. by artificial recharge (injection system), and (2) the water pressure of the saline groundwater is reduced, in the present case by SeepCat. Description of SeepCat Fig. 21. SeepCat system, consisting of vertical pipes that abstract saline groundwater around the freshwater lens on a small island and pump the saline groundwater to the sea via a horizontal collector pipe. The purpose of this saline groundwater discharge system is to reduce the water pressure of the saline groundwater surrounding the freshwater lens. This is analogous to a drop of the sea level, resulting in a new equilibrium stage in which the freshwater lens is able to grow. The discharge system consists of vertical perforated tubes between the freshwater lens and the ocean side. The vertical tubes are connected to a horizontal tube with a pump. The extracted saline groundwater is discharged to the sea. A schematic diagram of the implementation of the system on an island is shown in the Fig. 21. The SeepCat system is applied in the Netherlands (Perkpolder) to protect a freshwater lens used for irrigation from salinization caused by an adjacent 'managed realignment' project. This depoldering project for tidal flat restoration in the Western Scheldt estuary has a similar impact on the groundwater of the adjacent land as a local sea level rise of about 1.5 m. 61 vertical discharge tubes were installed over a total length of 1 km. A total of 400 m3 of saline groundwater is discharged every day. The results of this project were presented at the Salt Water Intrusion Meeting in Cairns (Australia), July 2016 [21]. For a short movie of the pilot project at Perkpolder choose 'View highlight' at [1]. Submarine groundwater discharge Coastal cities and sea level rise Anderson, D.J. 2017. Coastal Groundwater and Climate Change. 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__label__cc	0.707928	0.292072	Globe to Globe: Hamlet in Lithuanian (Lithuania) So it turns out I don’t really get on with Eastern European theatre. This is a shame, because it’s The Next Big Thing in London theatre apparently (as everyone who saw Three Kingdoms will tell you) and I’m sure it’s very exciting if you are into it, but it gets a big old ‘meh’ from me, which is unfortunate because I am SO INTO weird pretentious experimental theatre in theory, I just find it a bit difficult in practice. This may be the result of a module I took as a drama studies major, where a European artist collective led us in a “devised theatre practice” in which I pretended to hang myself with a keyboard cord to Daft Punk and a classmate dropped trou and mimed sexual intercourse with a watermelon, which we then smashed on the stage and consumed while I played an Irish polka on the fiddle. (For the record, I received a first-class mark in the module.) Photo by Dmitri Matvejev The lesson I learned in those heady days of autumn was that devised theatre is cheerful, silly and an easy way to get a good grade. And while I know that’s probably untrue, it has left me unable to really Do experimental Eastern European theatre, or at least take it seriously as art instead of something my 19-year-old friends and I did before heading to the Elephant & Castle Wetherspoons at 3pm. So, this Hamlet! Some images were brilliant. The ghost’s revenge was envisioned as ice, which he rubbed on shivering Hamlet’s feet until he submitted and agreed. Later, Hamlet smashed a block of ice and found a rusty knife inside: sharp, piercing, freezing, ancient, in all ways like his father’s spirit. Or like his memory of his father’s spirit, or of something that, more believably in this production than in any other I’ve seen, might have actually been a devil. It’s been touring for decades and I agree with Blogging Shakespeare, who said it seemed oddly unsuited to the Globe stage, as well as John Morrison, who walked out after 25 minutes. The set and props were interesting, made of found objects and rubbish from Lithuania including a giant rusty buzzsaw wheel and head-sized wineglasses. The design was ice and fur, fire and metal – aggressively raw. Ophelia, in contrast, was in a dyed-green silk and lace dress; while Gertrude’s fur coat looked like it could have been ripped straight off the back of the bear, Ophelia’s could not have been made without settlement, cultivation and a complex process of production and artifice. And I thoroughly agree with the process behind casting a rock musician as Hamlet. But in the end, Meno Fortas’ Hamlet just didn’t work for me. It was intellectually interesting in two or three places but it never connected; and while I get that Eastern European theatre leans heavily on alienation, there needs to be more than that, and the occasional good imagery wasn’t enough. I saw Globe to Globe’s Hamlet at Shakespeare’s Globe on June 3, 2012. Posted in Shakespeare, Theatre Tagged Tragedies, Globe to Globe, Hamlet, Shakespeare's Globe, published Globe to Globe: The Comedy of Errors in Dari Persian (Afghanistan) → ← Globe to Globe: Much Ado About Nothing in French (France)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line289
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__label__cc	0.581514	0.418486	2020-2021 Season FAQs What is The Rep’s plan for the 2020-21 Season? We must delay our traditional 2020-2021 season due to continuing risks associated with the coronavirus. This spring, we’re delighted to invite you to join us for two in-person Mainstage performances, along with new, innovative performing arts programming along the way. March 2021: Little Shop of Horrors - POSTPONED Loretto-Hilton Center for the Performing Arts. Join us for this musical comedy joyride for the whole family, where girl meets boy, boy meets carnivorous alien plant, carnivorous alien plant develops an insatiable taste for blood. May 2021: Mlima’s Tale Catherine B. Berges Theatre at COCA — Center of Creative Arts Written by Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage, follow along as we travel the path of Mlima’s tusks on a captivating and haunting journey through the dark world of the international ivory trade. Throughout this fall and winter: We’re inspired to bring you innovative performing arts programming like you’ve never seen before. Experience theatre through a hybrid of interactive, site-specific and virtual experiences that are sure to delight your senses and your sense of adventure. Please stay tuned for the exciting details! The first virtual event of the 20-21 season is a free staged reading of an exciting new play, BLACK LIKE ME by Monty Cole, based on the memoir of the same name by John Howard Griffin. This noir docu-drama tells the true story of a white journalist in 1959 who temporarily dyed his skin in an effort to experience life as a Black Man. Playwright/Director Cole created modern-day Black characters to reenact the story, respond in real time to the events of the play and wrestle with their own concepts of equality and social justice. The one-night-only staged reading of BLACK LIKE ME is free and available for online streaming anywhere in the world on September 10 at 7:30 p.m. CST. Reserve your free virtual “seat” by filling out the registration form HERE. Why have you made this decision? Our number one focus has been, and will always be, the health and safety of our community, staff and performers. We have been in deep discussions with our board, community members, theatre patrons, local and national arts organizations and public health professionals. The current consensus is that by spring we should be able to share the magic of live, in-person theatre safely, but rest assured that we are monitoring the situation and will follow public health guidelines. I subscribed to the 20-21 season. What do I do now? First and foremost, thank you for being part of The Rep family. To give you more choices about when you visit the theatre, we’ve adjusted our ticketing model to a Flex Pass. You’ll get the same number of tickets you purchased in your subscription, but now you get to choose which productions, dates and times you prefer - in both the 2020-21 season and the 2021-22 season! Revel in the laughter of Little Shop of Horrors, experience the mystic journey of Mlima’s Tale, experience our virtual programming this fall and winter, save some of your tickets for an exciting slate of live performances in our 2021-22 season or give the gift of theatre by sharing your tickets with friends and family. It’s completely up to you! Mainstage 6-Play Subscription: You now have 6 Flex Pass Tickets Pick 3 Subscription: You now have 3 Flex Pass Tickets Studio 3-Play Subscription: You now have 3 Flex Pass Tickets Redemption of your Flex Pass tickets is easy! Starting January 19, just call our Box Office at (314) 968-4925 Monday through Friday between 10:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. We’ll work with you to select the best available seating in the section you purchased for the productions, dates and times you prefer. You don’t need to know how you want to use all of your Flex Pass tickets by this date. We’ll keep track for you, and you can schedule your theatre-going whenever you like, in 2020-21 and 2021-22. If a Flex Pass doesn’t work for me at this time, what are my options? We understand. These are ever-changing times, and we want to do everything we can to make your life easier, so we are also offering two additional options: Donate to the Arts Your support now is more vital than ever. Please consider converting the value of some or all of your tickets into a tax-deductible donation. You will invest in The Rep’s future, assist with our season programming and aid our continued efforts to provide educational resources to local schools. Full or partial subscription refunds will be provided upon request. Please allow 4-6 weeks for processing. Please contact our Box Office at (314) 968-4925 Monday-Friday 10:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. if you wish to choose one of these two options or get more information. Will I get my usual seats? Until further notice, we must employ social distancing for all of our events. This allows us to best protect the health and safety of our patrons, artists and staff, while also complying with local government directives. For every performance, our team will assign seats on a first-come, first-served basis in each section, leaving seats around you empty for adequate social distancing. We know it may be disappointing not to sit in the seats that you have grown fond of over your years at The Rep, but we are grateful to have found a way in which we can have an in-person production while keeping you, as well as our staff and artists, safe. Why did you choose these shows for the 2020-21 season? With audience and artist health top of mind, we had to re-envision the experience of live theatre for the 2020-21 season, and that includes choosing productions that will protect our artists, as well as provide you the safest and most enjoyable theatrical experiences. We love all of the plays that were originally selected for the 2020-21 season, and we wish that we could bring them all to life for you this year. However, because of the pandemic we had to narrow our focus to just two performances. Little Shop of Horrors will be a family-friendly comedic musical that we hope brings joy to you and your family in these trying times. Mlima’s Tale, by Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage, will offer a more lyrical and poetic story that will be brand new for most audiences. We’re thrilled for its Rep debut at the new state-of-the-art Berges Theatre. What about A CHRISTMAS CAROL and The Rep's partnership with COCA? Though A Christmas Carol will not be produced in 2020 due to continuing risks associated with the coronavirus, we are excited to launch this annual holiday tradition in 2021. The Rep and COCA are still committed to and excited about our partnership. We believe that developing the next generation of artists and art lovers is integral to our missions and important for our communities. There will be many opportunities for COCA students to learn directly from Rep staff and guest artists in the 2020-21 season and beyond. Will it be safe to come back into the theatre in March? We are communicating with public health professionals and will take safety precautions to ensure you, our staff and our artists are as safe as possible. We will update you on the plans as we get closer to opening, but all in-person performances will implement health protocols including, but not limited to, social distancing, masks, enhanced sanitation, temperature screenings, contact tracing and contact-less navigation. Please know we will always do what is responsible and safe, and if health conditions change, we will adapt. Additionally, for the 2020-2021 season, we have instituted an exchange/refund policy for an up to one-hour before curtain call for anyone who feels unwell or unsafe attending the theatre. You can subscribe without worrying about making last-minute changes. I am unsure if I’ll be ready in March to come back into group settings. What are my options? We want you to have the freedom to choose when you’re comfortable attending theatre. The Flex Pass allows you to join us in both the 2020-21 and 2021-22 seasons. You may also contact our Box Office to request the alternate options of donating the value of your tickets or obtaining a refund. When are you mailing tickets? We will begin mailing tickets after you pick your shows and dates on or after January 19. When you call 314-968-4925 Monday through Friday, our box office team will outline all your choices. To keep you as safe as possible, we encourage you to consider a contactless email option for your tickets. What interactive, site-specific and virtual performing arts programming will we be offered this fall and winter, and how do I see it? The one-night-only staged reading of BLACK LIKE ME is free and available for online streaming anywhere in the world on September 10 at 7:30 p.m. CST. Reserve your free virtual “seat” by filling out the registration form HERE. We’ll bring you more exciting details about our virtual season as they become available. I haven’t subscribed yet. Is it too late? It’s never too late to join The Rep family! Please call our box office to arrange your subscription. I’m not able to subscribe, but I would like to see these productions. When will single tickets go on sale? Single tickets will be available for purchase beginning February 15 by calling our Box Office at (314) 968-4925 or by purchasing online at repstl.org. What safety measures will you be implementing, if needed, when live theatre returns? We will stay in touch with public health professionals about safety guidelines and protocols and update you as we get closer to March, but all in-person performances will implement health protocols including, but not limited to, social distancing, masks, enhanced sanitation, temperature screenings, contact tracing and contact-less navigation. I already converted tickets from the 2019-20 season to a gift card. What happens to my gift card? You can use your gift card for any ticketed events we produce during our 2020-21 and 2021-22 seasons, so you have plenty of time to turn your gift card into an exciting theatrical adventure! We would be grateful for your support as we continue to create theatre that excites and engages. Thank you for giving the gift of the performing arts to your community. I still have questions. Who do I ask? Please contact our Box Office at (314) 968-4925. Our dedicated staff is there to help you Monday-Friday 10:30-5:00. Will the Café be open in March? While we will not be serving meals in the lobby, in order to best protect our patrons, staff and artists, we will share updates on concessions as we get closer to March. What about Parking/Parking Passes? Due to social distancing, rest assured that there will be more parking than in past seasons, so you will have plenty of safe parking options. We’ll share details in 2021, well in advance of the start of our in-person season. 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__label__wiki	0.628998	0.628998	Browse > Home / Fan News / As 2009 Rolls Around, the Philadelphia Phillies Still Talk Mighty with Stick As 2009 Rolls Around, the Philadelphia Phillies Still Talk Mighty with Stick May 8, 2009 by scott eisenlohr Filed under Fan News The keys to the Philadelphia Phillies successful run for the 2008 World Series was an explosive offense and a lights-out bullpen. Closer Brad Lidge blew his first game since 2007 early in the 2009 season and has been hampered by a knee injury. The offense, however, has been dangerously good. As evidence, of the Phillies first 10 wins of the year, nine were come from behind. The team’s formula for success this year, which finds them in first place in the east on May 8 with a 14-12 record, seems to keep a team to five runs, catch up and hold the lead for Ryan Madison and Lidge in the eighth and ninth, respectively. And the most glaring offensive stat is that the Phillies are hitting .517 (15-for-29) with the bases loaded this season. They rank eighth in offense among Major League teams and their 37 home runs tie them with Colorado for tops in the National League. Ryan Howard, Shane Victorino and newcomer Raul Ibanez all have hit grand slams this year. Most impressively is Howard’s recent slam in St. Louis tied him with Phillies Hall of Famer Mike Schmidt with seven career grannies. Howard, however, has done it in 2,164 at-bats while Schmidt did it in 8,352 at-bats. Here are this year’s top Phillie performers and the rest of the lineup: Jimmy Rollins: Rollins has started the year slowly .211 in 109 at-bats. As the leadoff hitter he needs to get on base more. When Rollins hit a home run to start the game last year, the Phillies usually won. Grade: C Shane Victorino: Victorino showed a flair for the dramatic in last year’s World Series. He recently duplicated his playoff grand slam with a grannie recently against Washington. He is riding a 16-game hitting streak going into Friday’s game and I only see greater things for “The Flying Hawaiian.” He is hitting .304 in 112 at-bats. A – Chase Utley. Utley without a doubt is the best all around player on the Phillies. They would not have won the World Series without two key fielding plays. He seems recovered from off-season hip surgery. He is hitting .318 in 85 at-bats with eight home runs. A Ryan Howard. Some say he strikes out too much and should hit for a better average. Poppycock. He gets paid to hit home runs, not singles. He has shed25 pounds and playing much better defense this year. He is a hot streak hitter but absolutely has owned September the past two years. And June. He is hitting .291 with 6 home runs and 22 RBI. Grade A. Jason Werth. Werth won the full-time right field job last year and has not proved manager Charlie Manuel wrong in the move. He hit a third-level home run in St. Louis, his fifth of the year. He is hitting a respectable .284. Grade B. Raul Ibanez. What a find! In his first year with the Phillies, in just over 100 at bats, Ibanez is hitting .343 with 8 home runs, 8 doubles and 22 RBI. With Manny Ramirez out for 50 games due to an illegal substance infraction, Ibanez will be the best free agent player in the first two months of baseball. Grade A+. Pedro Feliz. In his second year with the Phillies, his rep has been a stellar defense and an inconsistent offense. He has been better this year, with a .311 batting average. Grade A. Carlos Ruiz. His handling of the pitching staff and play at the plate is among the best in the league. His hitting could be better. He is hitting .185 in a season marked by injury. Grade D or incomplete. The bench: Matt Stairs is enough to drive fear into any manager with men on base late in the game. He has 2 home runs. Greg Dobbs is not his usual steady sub this year, hitting .136 in 22 at-bats. He should come around. Eric Brunlett and Miguel Cairo are adequate to good utility players. Chris Coste, the backup to Ruiz, is off to a slow start, but should come around. Phillies fans drooled at the chance to get Garry Sheffield. But only as a right handed bat off the bench to compliment Stairs. The Mets can have him. Bench grade B. Even if Lidge blows a few games this year, as long as he saves 3/4 of the games he pitches in, the rest of the bullpen will follow suit and have a good season. To gain momentum this season, the starting pitching has to be more consistent. Because, one thing for sure. The only thing that separates this Phillies offense with the Big Red Machine of the 1970s, is two consecutive World Series titles. The first part has been completed. This Phillies offense simply is that good. 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__label__cc	0.649919	0.350081	SCP-1641 / Discussion Forum » Per Page Discussions / Per page discussions » SCP-1641 Started by: Wikidot Date: 15 Aug 2013 18:35 Number of posts: 33 RSS: New posts This is the discussion related to the wiki page SCP-1641. Unfold All Fold All More Options Lock Thread Move Thread Vincent_Redgrave 15 Aug 2013 18:36 Special thanks to Roget, Aelanna, Photosynthetic, Meserach, Anborough, Gaffney, and the dozens of others who reviewed and helped me rewrite this until it was satisfactorily done, to me at least. Hope you enjoy it. Last edited on 15 Aug 2013 18:40 by Vincent_Redgrave Show more Reply Options Unfold by Vincent_Redgrave, 15 Aug 2013 18:36 RJB_R 15 Aug 2013 23:32 Glad that my idea helped spark this cool article. Upvotes for you. Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you! Unfold by RJB_R, 15 Aug 2013 23:32 HammerMaiden 15 Aug 2013 18:49 I still think the Ecoterrorist sounds a little flat for some reason, but I love the concept now as much as I did when I first read it in Brainstorming. Unfold by HammerMaiden, 15 Aug 2013 18:49 DrSevere 15 Aug 2013 18:50 First off, I liked it. Upvoted. Now for the criticism: I didn't really like the backstory. It felt extremely generic. "Some random guy does some weird mysterious ritual to summon them for an unexplained reason". I'll give you credit for partially averting the trope by including the fact that A) he didn't commit suicide after and B) motives are hinted at, but that wasn't enough to make me like it. Shouldn't the Foundation have leaned on him a little more, to understand how he pulled it off? EDIT/UPDATE: After re-reading it, I've realized that I really dislike the interview log the most. The dialogue just doesn't feel natural; all the "man"s and "ain't"s just came across as a weak attempt to make him sound like a real character.Combine that with an uninspired story it's just all-around mediocre. Still upvoted. It isn't that that it completely ruins, it's just that the SCP works for me in spite of the log/backstory, instead of because of it. Also, I actually laughed out loud at each individual breeding pair is to be placed inside a separate blast chamber Just the entire imagery of their mating is fantastic. Reminds me of the scene from Futurama where Lur, Ruler of Omicron Persei 8 is about to mate with his wife. EDIT #2: I just realized another (somewhat fixable) issue I have with the interview log is: Richard is way to relaxed and confident. I mean, even if you are capable of creating these things, shouldn't he be a bit unnerved that he was caught? Doesn't the fact that the Foundation is acting extremely relaxed and confident make him a bit uneasy? I mean, he literally created an impossible creature, and here this Commander Ortiz guy is talking about it like it isn't a big deal. Interviews are scary, intimidating. Ever talk to the police? Even if you haven't done anything wrong, it's nervewracking. Last edited on 15 Aug 2013 19:12 by DrSevere Show more Unfold by DrSevere, 15 Aug 2013 18:50 Dearheart 15 Aug 2013 19:48 After re-reading it, I've realized that I really dislike the interview log the most. The dialogue just doesn't feel natural; all the "man"s and "ain't"s just came across as a weak attempt to make him sound like a real character. This is very much the case. In both behavior and speech, it doesn't sound like a real person, it sounds like someone trying to sound like a real person. Overly relaxed and familiar tone, forced "natural" speech mannerisms and slang…pretty much the standard Interviewed. I'm surprised the interviewer wasn't a doctor, so that he could be repeatedly referred to as "doc". Unfold by Dearheart, 15 Aug 2013 19:48 I suck at writing dialogue in a clinical format… I can't even begin to describe how terrible I am at it. Have any suggestions for improvement? Ten Second Chicken 15 Aug 2013 18:59 I was all set to upvote until I read the interview log. That kinda killed it for me. I'm tired of anything involving people's respective god(s), and the interview didn't really make me think about much, except for the fact that apparently some random guy was able to create combustible butterflies. Someone get to work on a lemon version of this ASAP. Unfold by Ten Second Chicken, 15 Aug 2013 18:59 "Lemon version"? And yeah, I went through about six different versions of the interview log before I got to this point, and was comfortable with the information revealed. DrNietzsche 15 Aug 2013 19:10 Do you know who I am!? I AM THE MAN WHO'S GONNA BURN YOUR HOUSE DOWN! WITH THE LEMONS! I'M GONNA GET MY ENGINEERS TO INVENT A COMBUSTIBLE LEMON, THAT BURN YOUR HOUSE DOWN! Last edited on 15 Aug 2013 19:11 by DrNietzsche Show more Unfold by DrNietzsche, 15 Aug 2013 19:10 FuzzyBoots 16 Aug 2013 20:30 Thank you for explaining… I was assuming they meant "lemon" as in the fanfiction term indicating an adult story. Unfold by FuzzyBoots, 16 Aug 2013 20:30 That was also my first thought. Sparks ain't flying in /that/ way in this story lol E:… Well, maybe for the butterflies. But I ain't travellin down that path :\| Dr Poke 12 Dec 2013 19:04 …really? I was the only one to get that on the first try? Unfold by Dr Poke, 12 Dec 2013 19:04 Liberonscien 02 Sep 2016 16:09 I was thinking lemon in terms of being bad. Unfold by Liberonscien, 02 Sep 2016 16:09 Murklins 15 Aug 2013 19:49 As I said in the chat, I like this version, and I think it's better with the interview than without in. However, I'm going to have to agree that the creator's dialogue in the interview feels a bit wooden and unnatural, and he just doesn't feel like a believable character. Still, it got a solid +1 from me. Unfold by Murklins, 15 Aug 2013 19:49 Salman Corbette 15 Aug 2013 19:53 Richard: Well, I ain’t gonna give you any runaround, Cap. mfw steve mcqueen is a new person of interest Unfold by Salman Corbette, 15 Aug 2013 19:53 TL333s 15 Aug 2013 22:18 A fun concept, and I liked the interview. I almost typed "internet". I still like the internet. Unfold by TL333s, 15 Aug 2013 22:18 Accelerando 15 Aug 2013 22:34 I actually like how Richard Blackbox was handled at the end. +1. Unfold by Accelerando, 15 Aug 2013 22:34 Horologer 15 Aug 2013 22:41 I liked the idea. Upvoted. The interview was nice, but it doesn't sound like he's under any duress, which I think needs some editing. Don't get me wrong, the man sounds fairly natural, but it sounds like it's a casual conversation as opposed to an interview interrogation. EDIT: Oops. About five people already said what I did. Sorry for dogpiling. Last edited on 15 Aug 2013 22:42 by Horologer Show more Unfold by Horologer, 15 Aug 2013 22:41 No, no, don't apologize. You're just reinforcing what others have said, and pointed out a way I could fix it lol, which is cool for me. I'm going to try to work on a better way to handle the interview over the next couple days. Mulciber 16 Aug 2013 00:20 I really enjoyed the article, but you may not need the "creator" and his interview at all. I find it much more interesting personally if they have no constructed origin. Unfold by Mulciber, 16 Aug 2013 00:20 Communism will win 15 Aug 2013 23:58 I like it. My personal headcanon has Srqnabotf behind this for… some reason. if your reading this your gay Unfold by Communism will win, 15 Aug 2013 23:58 /forum/t-683775/scp-1641#post- Edit Tags Discuss (42) History Files Print Site tools + Options Direito da Informática - FBV Informática Jurídica e Juscibernética SCP繁體中文沙盒發現，發掘，發佈 Learn Java! No... it's not coffee. 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__label__cc	0.546294	0.453706	www.710.com[线路检测]-欢迎您 White "Guan mark" porcelain with hidden designs At auction last week I purchased two white vases that have a hidden design visible from the inside of the vase when held to the light, but invisible when viewed from the outside of the vase. The porcelain is very thin and delicate. A label on the vases indicated that they were 19th century, "Hidden Design" vases, but said no more. A recent ware Regarding your hidden design vases I think they are rather recent. The pointed finial on the lid is typical for late 20th century porcelain even if I can't completely rule out the late 19th century as a possibly date. The mark on the base says "Guan" which means "Imperial". Several of these items have surfaced recently so there is a reason to think they are all of a recent make intended for the gift or souvenir market. Jan-Erik Nilsson Comment by Oliver Watson: I have an unusual white revolving bowl with a similar relief decoration with dragon, phoenix, waves clouds and flaming pearl. When held up to the light, or filled with water with a light shining down on it, a dragon and phoenix finely drawn in blue with clouds and the pearl in red can be seen within the body. The bowl have a molded "Guan" mark on its base. It is not eggshell but otherwise very similar to the vase above. I know that they are making them today but some also seems to be late Qing to early Republic but I think it is difficult to tell the difference. The interior color does not follow the exterior molding and the fixed-on but freely rotating base is quite a feat in itself. The body and biscuit on this to me suggest a late Qing date which is supposedly the earliest at which these were made, although Bushell in "Oriental Ceramic Art" mention something which sounds very similar, made during the Ming.<> This is regardless of its age an extraordinary feat of the potters art. Diameter 13,3 cm(5.25"). In September 27, 2000 the following message arrived from a reader living in Shanghai: In regards to the article about "White porcelain with hidden design" under your Antique Chinese Porcelain Questions and Answers section. I am still living in Shanghai and see these two pieces, along with various vases of the same, quite frequently in the markets here. One of the dealers who I stop to see often has gallantly (and hopefully honestly) answered several questions about Chinese porcelain for me. I asked him about the bowl on the revolving base (that just happened to be in the shop next door) and he told me not to buy it for the 100 Yuan (US $12.50) the shop owner wanted for it, but that he could pick up the same thing for me from the factory for 30 Yuan (US $3.75). He says he has dealt in selling for many, many years and has never seen an original of this porcelain. Just thought I'd pass it along for whatever it's worth. I would like to say thank you to all participants in this thread. Back to Gotheborg.com Home Page This is one of currently about 2,500 Gotheborg.com GLOSSARY, Q&A, Exhibition or other INFO pages. All information provided tries to reflect the general understanding among collectors and arts historians on the topics at hand. For travelogues and similar pages, thoughts and opinions reflects the personal view of the author. For personal help and far more information join our Discussion Board, online since 27th of June 1999, or submit a personal consultation question to Ask a Question, for a quick email answer. A larger screen allows larger images and better navigation. Copyright © Jan-Erik Nilsson, Gothenburg, Sweden 1998-2019	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line307
__label__cc	0.724894	0.275106	Home / Recreation / Games / Mombasa Board Game Overview Mombasa Board Game Overview Growing up in Iowa in the 70’s and 80’s, I had limited interaction with people from foreign countries. The few exchange students who happened upon our small Catholic high school were an absolute novelty and I enjoyed hearing about how things were different where they lived. College offered more opportunities to meet individuals from other places – both within the United States as well as other countries. As a member of the student government, I worked with a student who came from Kenya. As one of the responsibilities, we represented our school at a leadership conference in Minnesota which presented us with several travel hours of time to kill. I heard all about his home, their traditions and his family, including a sister who happened to be attending another small Iowa college. On our return trip from the conference, we stopped to say hello to her. Despite having just met me, she gifted me a packaged of tea from her home country. That was what seems like a lifetime ago. I remember very little about either of them, but I always think about them (and the tea) whenever I hear about Kenya. So when we started playing Mombasa from R&R Games, part of me hoped it would include some reference to tea. Unfortunately, it doesn’t but the inclusion of coffee as a game commodity is a welcome substitute. Cotton and bananas are other goods available that set the stage for the chartered companies setting up trade across the region. As a good business person, your goal is to invest in the goods and the companies as you assist in setting up their trading posts. How do you do that? As in real life, there are many paths to earn money and I think that’s what I like about Mombasa. Different people have different play styles and some games benefit players who play certain ways. There are so many paths to victory in this game that it allowed me to focus on my own game and not worry (too much) about what other people were doing. The game consists of multiple play areas and action types including trading goods for additional actions and bonuses, working on bookkeeping or expanding into new territories. The primary focus of Mombasa is to maximize your investments. The person with the best portfolio at the end of the game wins. Players can invest all their money in one company and hope those stocks take off or they can invest a little in multiple companies. The value of each company fluctuates depending on what goods are traded, how many trading posts they have and more. As each player takes a turn, their actions directly impact the various companies. The game takes place over seven rounds of three phases each. The first phase of each round involves planning. Much like the planning phase in La Isla, players work simultaneously to decide what actions they want to take that round from their handful of available cards. Those cards will be locked to a resting place and unavailable to use again until they are recovered. Only one stack is recovered each round though. For this reason, it’s important to plan each stack for future use. The next phase involves the cards each player selected during the planning phase. Starting with the first player, one action is taken then play continues clockwise until all actions have been made. Players can opt to spend goods to purchase additional cards that are added to their hand. This is achieved by utilizing matching goods cards with an equivalent value to the price of the cards for sale. As an alternative, they can focus on diamond merchants or bookkeeping to earn bonuses on their individual bookkeeping and diamond boards. The bookkeeping track is a tricky action because it requires that a specific bookkeeper card be used in conjunction with whatever random requirements are shown on the player’s individual track. A player can move one space per turn and take advantage of all the bonuses or may choose to jump multiple spaces to land on a specific reward. Reaching certain levels also allows a player to increase the number of cards they can play in the planning phase. Another option is to explore the countryside and set up trading posts, spending exploration cards that allow the player to move up to the number of spaces displayed on the explorer hats. Exploring the lands rewards the player with various bonuses. In lieu of the previously mentioned actions, a player may opt to use their bonus marker to earn special rewards, bonuses or claim first player. The final phase of each round involves preparing for the next round including refilling the cards for sale, returning bonus markers to players and adjusting the round markers. Mombasa has a lot going on, but can still be won by a player new to the game. It takes some strategy, a bit of luck and the opportunity to work together with opponents to boost company values. If you’re ready to invest your time, copies of Mombasa are available on Amazon for under $38 or direct from R&R Games. Learn what other game investments R&R has in the works by checking out their Twitter and Facebook feeds. Have you ever visited Africa? Plundering Can Be a Good Thing Almost Perfect, So We Made It Perfect Tags: R&R Games, strategy, strategy games Mar 1, 2017 Games 12 comments on «Mombasa Board Game Overview» I love games like this. We’re going to have to check this out for our game nights. I love the idea of this game and had never heard of it before. I will have to check it out! Kari Ann says: Wow I never heard of Mombasa, thanks for sharing! I am needing a game night now. Jodie Whitham says: Never heard of this, but love playing board games. I haven’t played any in a while, so this might be good! Dana Vento says: This game is sounds like really fun to do with a family! Will check it out. Love board games and my family are huge fans too. This is one that I haven’t heard of but we all love trying new ones so ill have to check it out. I learned to play GO many years ago in college. I have played it here in Korea and in a park in China when I visited– surprising all that witnessed that not only was I familiar but knew how to play it making instant friends. I am glad you had some opportunity to meet and relate to foreigners. I believe if more people traveled or left their comfort circles the world would be a better place. I would have wanted the reference to tea too! This game looks super interesting! I think it would teach things like investment to whoever played it. I love playing board games! Thank you for your sharing! You really are the greatest resource on games on the Internet. I swear I learn about a new game every day here and I often and interested and happy to contemplate adding the game to our collection for games night. Thanks for all your hard work on this site. Pingback: Pluckin' Pairs Card Game Overview - SahmReviews.com FlightsDaddy says: I love playing board games. This game looks interesting.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line312
__label__cc	0.638282	0.361718	From Wild Lilies to Sunflowers: Discovering Taiwan’s Democracy Posted on Monday, March 18th, 2019 at 6:30 pm. Written by Eric Tsai From fist fights in the parliament to protests that seem to rotate through Taipei every few months, Taiwan’s democracy is oftentimes placed under intense scrutiny. “Look at how messed up Taiwan’s government is,” I’d hear often. But critics often forget this obvious precursor to democratic maturity: age. Taiwan is known as the beacon of democracy in Asia, as the only Han society to know freedom today. However, people also forget how young this fragile democracy is, or how recent its birth from the Wild Lily Movement was. The year is 1990, the same year I was born. Martial law was lifted just three years ago. The government is still under singular control by the Chinese Nationalist Party, or the Kuomintang (KMT). Students, dissatisfied with what continued to be an authoritarian regime, started a protest at the very place meant to memorialize its leader, the Chiang-Kai Shek Memorial Hall. The actions of one student body stirred another; from one school to another, thousands of students organized grassroots movements against the government. Over a decade later, a new wave of students would similarly ignite the Sunflower Movement. On the third day of these protests, known as the Wild Lily Movement, then-President Lee Teng-Hui invited these student leaders to the presidential office to discuss their demands. If ever asked to pinpoint a singular event of democratic leadership, I would refer to this moment. President Lee listened to these students and their demands for democratization. While he represented the oppressive government that these students had protested against, during the first direct presidential election in 1996, he was elected with 54% of the votes and became a spiritual symbol for Taiwanese independence. I’m not saying the Wild Lily Movement led to any sort of happy ending for Taiwan, or that contemporary Taiwan is infallibly prosperous. What I want us to remember, though, is that Taiwan’s democracy is young. It is younger than me, yet often drawn in comparison to America’s democracy, which even in maturity proves to be deeply flawed. Taiwan is also held up to its former companions of the other three Asian tigers – Hong Kong, Singapore, Korea – and berated for poor economic growth. What simple comparisons neglect is the intersection of democratic growth and economic aggression. What Taiwan gave up in economic leadership, it invested in freedom of speech. How do I know all this? I’m the founder of Outreach for Taiwan, an organization that leads collegiate workshops to encourage dialogue and education centering around all things Taiwan including the-hard-to navigate political atmosphere, current events, and historical relevance of Taiwan. I learned about the Wild Lily Movement when researching for my first Taiwan workshop. This is one of my favorite topics to discuss purely due to the resounding relevance of student activism. As I’m giving workshops and talking to Taiwanese American undergraduates, I tell them that “Taiwan’s first election was in 1996. How many of you were born around then?” Many students would raise their hands and, in reflection, understand how young and fragile a twenty-something might be. On the other hand, students in Taiwan are reaching adulthood alongside Taiwanese democracy. Many of them only know a Taiwan where political squabbles are on the news everyday, and where protests are not just possible, but a healthy and necessary part of politics. Today, social and political activism centers around the betterment of the Taiwanese people, whether these take form in indigenous rights or same-sex marriage. The legacy of the Wild Lily Movement is that young people believe in their infinite ability to demand and affect change. From the Sunflower Movement to the LGBTQ Movement to the Women’s Day Marches to the Keep Taiwan Free demonstrations in the United States, students here and overseas have inherited the fighting spirit. What does this mean for young Taiwanese Americans? For one, we have cousins and friends forming a radically different political landscape in Taiwan than the ones our parents remember. For another, we have their courage to remind us that Taiwanese democracy is worth protecting and advocating for on the global stage. We can insist on its inclusion in conversations about healthcare, student activism, and LGBTQ rights. We can incorporate Taiwan into curricula where it is otherwise missing. Lastly, we can emulate our Taiwanese counterparts and exact change in the society we care about. No longer do we have to be the silent model minority, but activists — Taiwanese American activists. Eric Tsai grew up in Taiwan and graduated with a BS in Computer Science from Rutgers University. He was Vice President of the Rutgers Taiwanese American Student Association. After graduating, he was involved in Formosan Association for Public Affairs (FAPA) workshops and helped organize multiple UN4Taiwan/Keep Taiwan Free rallies. He co-founded OFTaiwan as a way to help Taiwanese Americans learn more about Taiwan. Through the organization, he has spoken to multiple college Taiwanese American Associations and has been invited to hold workshops at ITASA conferences. He is fluent in Taiwanese, Mandarin, and English. He is currently based in Boston but is hoping to move back to Taiwan soon. The 228 Inheritance: Taiwan’s Revolution Is Here\| Catherine Chou What Taiwanese Americans Can Learn from Taiwanese Politics \| Leona Chen Rally for United Nations Membership for Taiwan 228 and the Power of Storytelling Blacklist: A Film by Christina Hu I’m Taiwanese American. Here’s Why I Stand by Hong Kong. Tags: democracy Outreach for Taiwan student activism sunflower movement wild lilies movement RT @catielila: I had the pleasure of speaking to @grrtt for the @newbloommag podcast, on misinformation in Taiwan about the US ele… https://t.co/Y4YkemkTBc 4 weeks ago "When my mom was twenty, she moved from Taiwan to the United States. Now I’m twenty, and I’m doing everything I can… https://t.co/2jfrO7TDRD 4 weeks ago	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line314
__label__wiki	0.868777	0.868777	Stage Review Royal Shakespeare Company returns to history favourite with Henry IV Anne Cox \| April 12, 2014 \| What's On \| No Comments Antony Sher returns to the RSC this week for the opening of Henry IV. The production has its opening on Wednesday and plays at Stratford-Upon-Avon until September. It then tours to Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Norwich, Salford, Bradford, Bath and Canterbury before taking up residence at The Barbican, London between November 29 and January 24. Cinema audiences can see a live screening on May 14. Henry IV Parts I & II are directed by the RSC’s artistic director Gregory Doran and sees Sher playing Falstaff, Jasper Britton as Henry IV, Alex Hassell as Prince Hal and Paola Dionisotti as Mistress Quickly. Knighted for his services for acting and writing, Antony Sher first worked for the RSC in 1982. He last appeared with the RSC in the 2009 Baxter Theatre Centre/RSC production of The Tempest. Said Doran: “Henry IV, Parts I and II were chosen to open the Elisabeth Scott Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1932. “We presented them as part of the celebrations for the Festival of Britain in 1951, with Richard Burton as Hal; and for Shakespeare’s tercentenary in 1964 directed by Peter Hall. “They are great plays to celebrate a big occasion and I am delighted to be mounting them again to mark Shakespeare’s 450th birthday, and taking them on the road. “I’m thrilled to be working with a cast that includes Antony Sher as Falstaff, Jasper Britton as Henry IV, Alex Hassell as Hal and Paola Dionisotti as Mistress Quickly. “With their mixture of comedy, history and pathos, Henry IV Parts I and II have always had a broad appeal. “I hope audiences will join us to experience what are, arguably, two of Shakespeare’s greatest plays.” Small Nose sniffs out comedy in Black Dog book Swinging sweethearts Pete ‘n’ Keely come to Tristan Bates Theatre Electra with punk-rock score wreaks bloody revenge at The Bunker Theatre John Godber’s April In Paris starts national tour Stage Social Copyright © 2021 Stage Review.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line319
__label__wiki	0.597348	0.597348	Stardom Style 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Tom Ford The man is in demand for a reason. Photo: WENN Few people actually live up to all their hype, but after meeting him at his beauty launch and watching him get interviewed by Fern Mallis two years ago, we can confirm that Tom Ford is, in fact, a God. Despite his OCD, he’s actually very funny! Here’s a look at 10 other things you may not have known about the designer. There’s a reason that he was able to run both Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent at one point; Ford has said that he works non-stop. “If I’m awake, I’m working.” The one exception is when the designer is taking a bath, which he does at least three times a day. On days where he is particularly stressed, he admits to taking a bath every hour. No wonder he has such a fantastic bath and body line. He joined designers like Jean Paul Gaultier, Victoria Beckham and Donatella Versace by filming his own ALS Ice Bucket Challenge video. Ford, who admits to having a terrible low after leaving the Gucci Group, has said that he often finds himself struggling because while he’s attracted to beautiful things, he knows that inherently they are not valuable. Your connection to other people, the designer says, is what ultimately brings you happiness. On average, a customer leaving one of Ford’s boutiques will spend around $1,797. Ford wanted to be a cosmetic surgeon. “It’s like fashion; they’re architectural, you have to figure out where the seams go,” he has said. Ford has also admitted to secretly wanting to be an actor when he was at New York University. He is very involved in everything that he does, whether it’s beauty or fashion. John Demsey, group president at Estée Lauder, which owns his beauty range, explained that everything comes from Tom. “With someone like Tom, it comes from his point of view, and he is very, very involved. He knows a lot about the beauty business, more so than anybody quite honestly I’ve ever met.” Tom Ford was 25 when he met his now husband Richard Buckley and he admits to knowing he wanted to marry him after one elevator ride. “The first night I ever had drinks with Richard I felt I knew everything about him.” The two have been together for over a quarter century. The designer stopped getting Botox after having his son, telling WWD, “I’ve decided to age. Since we’ve had Jack I haven’t had a Botox injection or a filler. I haven’t had time.” Remember when he launched his first namesake ready-to-wear collection and had all the looks modeled by famous women? It turns out that while he has a slew of A-list friends, Ford doesn’t actually like dressing celebrities for the red carpet. “I don’t necessarily love the process. It’s not a creative process really usually, dressing actresses for the Oscars because, you know, when you’re designing you’re able to kind of figure out what you believe in and what you think the world needs right now or what women need right now. You’re literally a voice in contemporary culture with what you design,” he explained on Jimmy Kimmel Live! “What’s worn on the red carpet has nothing to do with what’s going on in contemporary fashion. It’s really a kind of bubble of 1950s Barbie clothes. It’s quite different than what real people are really wearing.” He may be a perfectionist, but he is level-headed and knows that fashion is not about needs, but rather desires. “Remember that our customers do not need our clothes. They don’t need another pair of shoes or a new jacket. We have to create that need by creating desire,” he remarked at a CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Awards dinner. Posted by StarDomStyle Newer PostWatch: Favorite Spring 2015 Collections from NYFW [theFashionDish] Older PostDita Von Teese Talks Underwear as Outerwear, Her Weirdest Piece of Lingerie Aesthetic, Makeup Looks, Art, Hair Beauty, Hair Makeup, Make Up 0February 14, 2017 Grey Jeans Outfit Winter, Black Turtleneck Outfit 0December 22, 2016 Natural PERFECTION! We love the #Frenchbraids paired with #freckles and neutral lip 0September 19, 2017 Get the Celeb Look: Light and Casual Get the Celeb Look: Streamlined Outerwear Mesmerizing Beauty Honey Bath 0June 18, 2019 Pink and Purple Eye Makeup Looks Georgette Backless Gown 0June 7, 2018 Natalie Martin Nico Maxi Dress Prom Ideas, Evening Dresses, Classy, Fashion essayforme on Antonina Vasylchenko – Messy Hairstyle, Fashion Images Sure Wedding Beauty Diary: Warren-Tricomi Co-Founder Edward Tricomi One Minute With … Honor Designer Giovanna Randall Backstage at NYFW: Zoya Manicures at Creatures of Comfort Minimalism Falls by the Wayside in This Week’s Celebrity Best Dressed List Polished Outfits for the 2014 InStyle Men of Style Party backstage beauty beauty beauty get the look beauty product beauty tips celebrity beauty fall 2014 Fashion Week fashion week beauty Fashion Week Slideshow Copyright © 2021 Stardom Style All rights reserved.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line320
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__label__wiki	0.703724	0.703724	Karen Ford: On "Stings" You are here: Home » Karen Ford: On "Stings" The third poem of the Bee sequence, "Stings" (214-15) fulfills this prediction. Not only have the bees been set free (they now dwell in and around their hive) but the speaker, too, we learn in the first word of the poem, is "bare-handed." In some ways, "Stings" is another bee meeting, but this time the speaker and the bee seller are equals--working together and similarly attired for the job: "Bare-handed, I hand the combs. / The man in white smiles, bare-handed." The short fifth line, containing only the pronouns "he and I," and the stanza break that follows it with a gulf of white space, suggest the insularity and detachment of the two workers. The basis of their relationship appears to be the orderliness of their work. There is something sterile in their association yet also something undeniably tender: Bare-handed, I hand the combs. The man in white smiles, bare-handed, Our cheesecloth gauntlets neat and sweet, The throats of our wrists brave lilies. He and I Have a thousand clean cells between us, Eight combs of yellow cups, And the hive itself a teacup, White with pink flowers on it, With excessive love I enameled it Thinking ‘Sweetness, sweetness’. The imagery makes clear that there are no more battles, even parodic ones, as there were in "The Bee Meeting." Taking up an image of armor from that poem, "Breastplates of cheesecloth knotted under the armpits," "Stings" reworks it, infusing it with the tender tidiness that characterizes these opening stanzas, "Our cheesecloth gauntlets neat and sweet." Similarly, the ghastly image of feeling "nude as a chicken neck" finds its delicate counterpart here in "The throats of our wrists brave lilies." The inside and the outside of the hive alike exude domestic refinement and charm when they are compared to china teacups that are "yellow" and "white with pink flowers." Everything about this passage is "sweet"--the relationship between the workers, the honey, the hive, the paintings, and, most of all, the speaker’s former love. "Stings" is so renowned for its ferocity that it is easy to forget this painfully tender opening. The aspects that are said to give it vehemence--the speaker’s refusal to remain a drudge (and the jealousy among the female figures this decision supposedly sets off), the drudges’ attack on the scapegoat, and the queen’s "violent" bride flight--are simply not enough to negate this gentle beginning. Plath drafted and finalized "Stings" on the backs of her husband’s own writing work sheets. She began the poem two months before the burst of writing in October that produced the Bee sequence when the pain of losing Hughes was probably sharpest. Further, the earliest drafts of the poem were written on the reverse sides of several Hughes’ poems about the birth of their first child (Van Dyne 159); these were pages that documented their lost happiness. Thus, she began the poem in a period of acute pain and on the very papers that could only serve to intensify her misery. The threat of stings in this passage comes less from the bees than from the evocation of the "excessive love" the speaker recalls as she performs her beekeeping tasks. The stings the scapegoat receives from the bees can be nothing compared to the stings the poet experiences in writing under these conditions or those the speaker evokes in remembering her former relation to the hive. At the very least, the sensitive opening must give another resonance to the title that readers of the poem seem reluctant to acknowledge. Additionally, that resonance ought to inform the other aspects of the poem. For example, the speaker’s attitude toward other women, represented by the beekeeper’s relationship to the queen and the drudges, is not at all condescending or competitive. Though she makes the important disclaimer, "I am no drudge," she clearly has been acting the part of one for years. She is sympathetic with the "women who only scurry" and worries that they will hate her for refusing to continue scurrying herself. Virtually every critic who discusses the speaker’s relationship to the drudges quotes the paradoxical line that describes them but invariably misses the paradox (or avoids it by eliding part of the line). The speaker says, "I stand in a column // Of winged, unmiraculous women." At least half the quotations of this passage omit the word "winged"; the rest treat the line as though it read "wingless unmiraculous women." "Winged, unmiraculous women" is paradoxical because a woman with wings would be miraculous; "winged" suggests flight, transcendence, loftiness. The drudges, then, are not inherently ordinary; rather they represent women whose strangeness has evaporated in the service of others, here of the hive and the queen, elsewhere of husbands and children, women whose energies have been "pour[ed] . . . through the direction and force" of others. Their attack on the scapegoat verifies that they are not utterly servile. The speaker recognizes this. Even the description of the scapegoat is affected by the tone of the opening. The key word from the first two stanzas, "sweet," unexpectedly appears again here: "He was sweet, // The sweat of his efforts a rain / Tugging the world to fruit." There is an initially negative connotation in the "sweat of his efforts," some sense that he has encouraged the world to fruit (probably best read as having fathered her children or more generally having made her blossom) and then left it in a state of vulnerability to suffer. Yet "sweet" and "sweat" associate themselves through sound for a much more positive effect and reveal that the speaker recalls him with tenderness. Further, she alludes to the Cinderella story in her description of his disappearance: "Here is his slipper, here is another, / And here is the square of white linen / He wore instead of a hat." These lines acknowledge his vulnerability by feminizing him; he is Cinderella who leaves behind her slipper or the coy woman who drops her hankie in an attention-seeking gesture. It is not surprising that such descriptions are followed by the conciliatory phrase, "He was sweet." It appears that she delegates revenge to the bees--"Molding onto his lips like lies, / Complicating his features"--yet this simile hints that his own evils are his undoing. The bees merely dramatize his crimes. His deceptions have complicated his features, have made him seem altered. However, even his change is qualified by the Cinderella allusion, another tale of personal transformation. Further confusing the purpose of the allusion is the speaker’s own implication in it; she, too, is a Cinderella figure: "for years I have eaten dust / And dried plates with my dense hair." (These lines are laden with other allusions as well. The serpent’s punishment for tempting Eve was to eat dust; Mary Magdalene washed Christ’s feet with her tears and dried them with her hair.) Finally, calling him "a great scapegoat" overtly acknowledges that she is transferring her own guilt to him. When he is chased off by the bees, he carries away her sins as well as his (we recall from "The Bee Meeting" that her black veil "mold[ed] to her face" like the bees here have molded to his); this is perhaps the source of the feminine imagery.25 Though some of these lines seem to establish a connection between the speaker and the scapegoat, the passage is framed by the speaker’s detachment. First she says, "A third person is watching. / He has nothing to do with the bee-seller or with me." After the bees sting him, an act which assures their death, she asserts, "They thought death was worth it, but I / Have a self to recover, a queen." Her detachment is clearly a much more significant victory for her than revenge would have been. If "Stings" is a vengeful poem, it is only ambiguously so. The drafts of "Stings," however, disclose a much more brutal treatment of the scapegoat. The speaker’s self-possession in the final version is shown to be hard won as the scapegoat enters the poem a stanza earlier and cuts a quite different figure: He was sweet, The sweat of his efforts a rain [On the world that grew under his belly] Tugging the world to fruit. Now he peers through a warped silver rain drop; Seven lumps on his head And a [great] big boss on his forehead, Black as the devil, and vengeful. (Original Drafts 14) In this version, he begins to look more like the ominous male figure in "Daddy," a later poem that indulges its speaker’s resentment. That resentment surfaces here in the evidence that the scapegoat has been recently beaten--he has bumps on his head. The drafts confirm that Plath edited out a more vicious caricature of the scapegoat. Likewise, she deleted many elements from the drafts that added tension and hostility to the poem--gagging repetitions, the idea of desertion, and the specters of dead men. Noticeably, these are the kinds of elements that she emphasized in "The Bee Meeting." "Stings," then, is a poem that self-consciously suppresses excess; yet it is still a poem of tremendous energy and "terribleness." Here the speaker, like the queen, is "more terrible than she ever was" because she confronts tenderness, loss, anger, resignation, and release bare-handed--as the first word of the poem asserts. And despite the way we generally read it, "Stings" is neither obsessed with maiming the male figure nor with the violence of the queen’s flight. She is, after all, a "red / Scar," not a bleeding gash; thus, she embodies a wound that has already begun to heal. And even the "red comet" that leaves such a fierce impression is nevertheless ambiguous--potentially (and historically) a sign of good luck. (Like the red meteor in The Scarlet Letter, this comet is susceptible to multiple readings, an intertextual resonance that Plath’s poem exploits.) It would be foolish to deny that the lion-red queen is the precursor of a group of terrifying female images that Plath will create in the next few weeks and days. As the material miseries of her solitary life bear down on her, her anger justifiably explodes. In "Fever 103o" (231-32) the woman is the lantern "going up" as "The beads of hot metal fly, . . . a pure acetylene / Virgin / Attended by roses"; in "Ariel" 239-40) she is "the arrow, The dew that flies / Suicidal, at one with the drive / Into the red / Eye, the cauldron of morning"; in "Purdah" (242-44) she is "The lioness, / The shriek in the bath, / The cloak of holes"; and, most famously, in "Lady Lazarus" (244-47) she is the phoenix figure who rises "with [her] red hair / And . . . eat[s] men like air." Though these poems postdate the Bee sequence and may articulate Plath’s final emotional perspective, they cannot be considered her concluding poetic statement. Around Christmas 1962, after all the Ariel poems were written, Plath carefully arranged them for the book placing the Bee poems last. "Stings," with its contradictory emotional swings, is therefore a crucial part of her culminating poetic vision. Finally, it is the sweetness that causes the sharpest pain in "Stings." Remembering lost tenderness and "excessive love," catching a glimpse of the man who "tugg[ed] the world to fruit," putting the hives in perfect order with another man, even standing with the honey-drudges, watching the honey-machine, and witnessing the queen’s ascension--each of these has an element of sweetness that she cannot ignore. The breakthrough of "Stings" is that it is intensely personal in its themes yet not excessive in its final style. This new relationship between subject and style enables the poem to articulate complex and ambivalent emotions without attempting to depict them as monolithic and overwhelming. In this, it anticipates "Wintering," where the speaker adds resignation and hope to the emotional range she has been developing throughout the sequence. In "Wintering," the speaker faces the most difficult confrontation of all--that with herself. At this point, however, having assessed her relationship to the community in "The Bee Meeting"; to her art in "The Arrival of the Bee Box"; to her husband, children, other women, and her own contradictory fictional selves in "Stings"; she next addresses her relation to history in "The Swarm." From Gender and The Poetics of Excess: Moments of Brocade. Copyright © 1997 by University Press of Mississippi. Reprinted by permission of the author. Title Karen Ford: On "Stings" Type of Content Criticism Criticism Author Karen Ford Criticism Target Sylvia Plath Criticism Type Poet Originally Posted 29 Jan 2014 Publication Status Excerpted Criticism Publication Gender and the Poetics of Excess: Moments of Brocade Contexts No Data Tags Stings, Ford, Wintering Item Title Karen Ford: On "Stings" Item Type Criticism Sneha ShastrySneha Shastry has added Karen Ford: on "Stings"_type Karen Ford: on "Stings"_title in Sylvia Plath.6 years ago	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line327
__label__wiki	0.584467	0.584467	French Film Festival Launches Veronica is driving on the highway in northwestern Argentina. She becomes distracted by the ringtone of her mobile phone and runs over something, but drives on. The story will revolve around her meltdown following the accident and the possible death of someone. The police confirm that there were no accident reports. But, she has doubts about what she had really hit. Was it an animal? A child? The 19th Cork French Film Festival will open in the Gate Cinema this Thursday, 28th February with the film ‘Water Lilies’, a film described as an intense study of female friendship, sexual awakening and… synchronised swimming. This year’s festival includes a variety of events, including feature films made in co-production with other countries and in many different languages; as well as new ways of looking at cinema with live audio-visual events, Cine-Concerts, Live Experimental Cinema and Film Installations with Live Sound Design. The festival will host Cannes Film Festival Residence director Slava Ross, who will attend the festival to present his debut film ‘Fat Stupid Rabbit’. Ross will also present a Screenwriters & Directors Masterclass for young filmmakers. The Cork French Film Festival runs from 28th Feb – 7th March. For further information visit www.corkfrenchfilmfestival.com or read our interview with the festival’s Artistic Director Paul Callanan HERE. European Film Awards 2020 – Final Winners New PREDATOR Movie Coming From 10 CLOVERFIELD LANE Director	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line329
__label__wiki	0.694076	0.694076	FACEBOOK I YOUTUBE I SOUNDCLOUD I INSTAGRAM I NEWS I BIO I CONTACT I SONIKCUTS "RED MOON" AVAILABLE ON ALL DIGITAL PLATFORMS NEW MIX "LOVECAST#2" "POWER MOVES" "Power Moves" is the new album by Brazilian dj and producer SonikCuts. Dj since the early 2000’s SonikCuts is know for his scratching skills, mixtapes and vinyl-released projects for turntablists such as the “Guarana Breaks” record series. For this studio album SonikCuts invited some of the best rappers of the independent hiphop scene such as Termanology, Skyzoo, Guilty Simpson, Homeboy Sandman, Supastition, Planet Asia among others, to be the voices of the project. In this album composed of 10 tracks of pure hiphop music, we find SonikCuts know-how as a producer through powerful instrumentals and guests of choice, but also as a dj with the countless scratches dotted around throughout the album. The project was mixed in Paris at “Haxo Studio” when SonikCuts used to live there, and mastered at "Elysian Masters Studio" in Los Angeles by Dave Cooley, the engineer who did the mastering of several albums like the classic ‘’Donuts’’ by J Dilla or more recently ‘’Bandana’’ by Freddie Gibbs and Madlib. "PowerMoves" is a hiphop album where DJ and MC join their forces to deliver fresh beats,rhymes and scratchs. ''SPACESHIP'' SONIKCUTS FEAT. PLANET ASIA After the release of tracks in collaboration with rappers like Guilty Simpson, Skyzoo or Termanology, SonikCuts returns with “Spaceship”, a new song featuring one of the most prolific Mc's on the independent hiphop scene, the rapper Planet Asia. Native of Fresno, California, Planet Asia is known among other things for his countless solo projects and collaborations alongside artists such as Kurupt, Evidence, The Alchemist, Rasco, Strong Arm Steady, GhostaFace Killah and many others... In this collaboration between North and South America, SonikCuts and Planet Asia demonstrate all their skills as MC and DJ and unite their talent to deliver a message of strength and contestation during this period of pandemic. Whether with rhymes, beats or scratchs, they excel in their art, and they demonstrate it in this new track called “Spaceship”. AVAILABLE ON ALL PLATFORMS "GRINDING" SONIKCUTS FEAT. SKYZOO The DJ and producer SonikCuts is back with a new track entitles « Grinding », with Brooklyn rapper Skyzoo by his side. «Grinding» is the third single from SonikCuts upcoming album «POWER MOVES». For this third single SonikCuts invites Skyzoo, who is well known for his multiple albums, mixtapes and collabs with artists such as Talib Kweli, Jill Scott, Apollo Brown or Pete Rock with whom he recently launched the project «Retropolitan». The track was mixed in Paris and the mastering was done in Los Angeles. This new single feels very film friendly with an upbeat bass line that fits Skyzoo’s keen flow and Sonik’s usual scratches. AVAILABLE NOW ON ALL PLATFORMS SONIKCUTS RADIO MIX BLACKTIE 93.9 FM ''SUPERSTAR'' SONIKCUTS FEAT. TERMANOLOGY For this second single extracted from his next album « Power Moves », SonikCuts invited the north-american rapper Termanology, well known for his mixtapes and projects featuring Statik Selektah and also for his collaborations with numerous artists such as DJ Premier,Joey Bada$$, Mac Miller,The Alchemist,Method Man and many others. Like the other tracks on ‘’Power Moves’’, the song ‘‘Superstar’’ was produced by SonikCuts who also made the scratches on the track, his speciality as a DJ. The song was mixed in Paris and the mastering was done at the Elysian Masters of Los Angeles by Dave Cooley, the engineer who did the mastering of several albums like ‘’Donuts’’ by J Dilla or more recently ‘’Bandana’’ by Freddie Gibbs and Madlib. In this new single, SonikCuts takes us with him around a bewitching jazzy rhythm, some well felt scratches and Termanology’s unique flow. ''BEWARE'' SONIKCUTS FEAT. GUILTY SIMPSON The DJ and producer SonikCuts is back with « BEWARE », the first extract of his new album « POWER MOVES ». For this first single, SonikCuts invited Guilty Simpson, well known for his collaborations with other artists such as J Dilla or Madlib. The project was produced and mixed in Paris when SonikCuts used to live there. The mastering was done at the Elysian Masters of Los Angeles by Dave Cooley, the engineer who did the mastering of several albums like ‘Donuts » by J Dilla or more recently « Bandana » by Freddie Gibbs and Madlib. « BEWARE » is available now on all platforms. 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__label__wiki	0.850917	0.850917	HomeUK Wrestling SceneUS Wrestling SceneInternational Wrestling SceneVideo GamesMMABlogsWrestling NewsMisc Contact \| Feedback \| About Us \| FAQ \| Advertising \| Bookmark Us \| Feeds UK Scene News UK Scene Blogs UK Scene Articles UK Scene Reviews UK Scene Interviews Read our latest Interviews below: Wrestling Interviews Wrestling Directory Cult Entertainment Discussion Forums WWE UK Tour UK: WWE at Butlins in 2010 TNA UK Tour MMA Reviews Wrestling Blogs News UK Scene News UWL Announce Card Change by Goldy on 28 April 2004 2:46 pm \| Feeds Spatch replaced by Ace Anderson Spatch, the former brawl heavyweight champion has dropped out of the submission tournament taking place at UWL�s Acts of Aggression event on May 29th. He has confirmed that due to conflicting interests with his band he will be unable to take part. 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__label__wiki	0.851699	0.851699	JFA Football:Gaibandha District beat Khagracchari District by 5-0 goal Gaibandha District earned a comfortable 5-0 goal victory over Khagrachari District in a final round match of the JFA U-14 Women's Football Championship at the Muktijoddha Smriti Stadium in Rajshahi on Sunday. Sagorika made a hattrick scoring four goals in the 16th, 18th, 49th and 60th minutes while Asma netted the other goal in the 68th minute for the winners Earlier in the day's first match, Rangpur District beat Kishoreganj district by 2-1 goal at the same venue. Rita Akhter netted both the goals for Rangpur in the 53rd and 56th minutes while Soma scored the lone goal for KIshoreganj in the 49th minute. Gaibandha District earned a comfortable 5-0 goal victory over Khagrachari District in a final round match of the JFA U-14 Women's Football Championship at the Muktijoddha Smriti Stadium in Rajshahi on Sunday. Sagorika made a hattrick scoring four goals in the 16th, 18th, 49th and 60th minutes while Asma netted the other goal in the 68th minute for the winners Earlier in the day's first match, Rangpur District beat Kishoreganj district by 2-1 goal at the same venue. Rita Akhter netted both the goals for Rangpur in the 53rd and 56th minutes while Soma scored the lone goal for KIshoreganj in the 49th minute. PM mourns death of Manikganj AL leader Khaleque Common people unlikely to get vaccine, says Fakhrul BNP pays homage to Zia on 85th birth anniversary Bangabandhu Bangladesh vs West Indies Cricket Series begins Wednesday	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line341
__label__cc	0.647279	0.352721	Unholy Black Metal BEST 2020 BLACK METAL ALBUMS (in alphabetical order): Afsky (Denmark): “Ofte jeg drømmer mig død” Akhlys (USA): “Melinoë” Auðn (Iceland): “Vökudraumsins fangi” Blaze of Perdition (Poland): “The Harrowing of Hearts” Cult of Fire (Czech Republic): “Moksha / Nirvana” Dark Fortress (Germany): “Spectres from the Old World” Elffor (Spain): “Unholy Throne of Doom” Enslaved (Norway): “Utgard” Faidra (Sweden): “Six Voices Inside” Fides Inversa (Italy): “Historia Nocturna” Gaerea (Portugal): “Limbo” Grafvitnir (Sweden): “Death's Wings Widespread” Grift (Sweden): “Budet” Häxanu (USA): “Snare of All Salvation” Hexenfluch (Germany): “Aradia” Horna (Finland): “Kuoleman Kirjo” Inquisition (Colombia): “Black Mass for a Mass Grave” Maeskyyrn (Canada): “Interlude” Magoth (Germany): “Invictus” Mesarthim (Australia): “The Degenerate Era” Mesarthim (Australia): “Planet Nine” Myrkur (Denmark): “Folkesange” Nachtlieder (Sweden): “Views from the North Vol. 1” Nawaharjan (Germany): “Lokabrenna” Nyrst (Iceland): “Orsök” Ossaert (Netherlands): “Bedehuis” Proselenvs (Russia): “Sublimatio Interiurivm Tenebrarvm” Raventale (Ukraine): “Planetarium II” Scáth Na Déithe (Ireland): “The Dirge of Endless Mourning” Selbst (Venezuela earlier; Chile later): “Relatos de angustia” Svartsyn (Sweden): “Requiem” Svarttjern (Norway): “Shame Is Just a Word” Temple of Decay (Poland): “Last Manifestation of Life” Tulus (Norway): “Old Old Death” Uada (USA): “Djinn” Urfeind (Germany): “Þurisabloþa” Vananidr (Sweden): “Damnation” Vredehammmer (Norway): “Viperous” Xalpen (Chile): “Sawken Xo'on” Subscribe here to the newsletter, so you will never miss a post. Just submit your email address below: Please, feel free to make a voluntary donation to support You can also follow here: MOST VIEWED ARTICLES IN DECEMBER 2020: Darkthrone to enter studio in 2021 None (USA): “Damp Chill of Life” Magoth (Germany): “Invictus” Split between Taake and Helheim coming soon: all the details Norwegian black metal band Mork reveal details on new album “Katedralen” / Peaceville Beastcraft at Trondr Nefas Memorial Concert, May 13 2016, Oslo Unholy Black Metal zine	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line342
__label__cc	0.728419	0.271581	North Korea, Trump ratchet up tension with threats of ‘fire’ hours apart admin / NEWS / Northern Korea and President Trump lashed out at each other within hrs on Tuesday, in both cases intimidating to hit the other side with a barrage associated with “fire. ” The threats, involving the North Korean Army and Trump, came shortly after a report — verified by Fox News — the regime has produced a compact nuclear warhead that could fit on a missile capable of reaching the United States. NORTH KOREA CONSIDERING SHOOTING MISSILES AT GUAM, PER CONDITION MEDIA Speaking at their Bedminster golf resort in Nj-new jersey, Trump vowed to unleash fireplace and fury. He said that Northern Koreas threats of nuclear battle will be met with fire, rage and frankly power, the likes of that the world has never seen before. He carried on, saying that North Korean dictator Betty Jong Un has been threatening above a normal state, and added the fact that communist country best not create any more threats to the United States. North Korea soon fired back with a risk of its own. The Korean Individuals Army claimed in a statement it turned out looking into a plan to hit Guam, the U. S. territory, with missiles that would create an enveloping fireplace around the island. The threat was released simply by state-run media, and said the objective of striking Guam would be to subdue the particular U. S. military bases generally there, particularly the Anderson Air Force bottom where nuclear-bombers are stationed. TRUMP: NORTH KOREA ‘WILL BE MET WITH OPEN FIRE AND FURY LIKE THE WORLD HAS NOT SEEN’ IF MORE THREATS ARISE A different statement released stated that the regime could carry out the pre-emptive operation if the United States demonstrated signs of provocation, according to a Reuters report. The threats from North Korea came days after the United Nations Protection Council voted unanimously to sanction the country. The resolution approved upon Saturday bans North Korean exports of coal, iron, iron ore, lead, lead ore and sea food — resources that are worth over $1 billion to the regime. « Day care driver expected to face charges after boy found dead in van » Australians to get vote on legalizing same-sex marriage, PM says	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line345
__label__cc	0.565505	0.434495	Recent manuscripts Archive Aims and Scope Editorial Board Open Access Indexing Contact us Authorship & COI Publication Ethics Supporting Diversity Instructions to authors (PDF) Manuscript Types Manuscript Formatting Professional Editing Service How to submit Supplements & Special Issues Preprints TID on Twitter Recent manuscripts Instructions to authors (PDF) Manuscript Types Manuscript Formatting Professional Editing Service How to submit Supplements & Special Issues Preprints TID on Twitter 17th World Conference on Tobacco or... Monitoring of compliance with the national tobacco advertising law in 11 cities in China Guihua Xu 1 Chinese Association on Tobacco Control, China Tob. Induc. Dis. 2018;16(Suppl 1):A189 DOI: https://doi.org/10.18332/tid/84028 WCTOH Download abstract book (PDF) China's revised national Advertising Law went into effect on September 1, 2015. It prohibits tobacco advertising to minors in any form and comprehensively bans tobacco advertising in public places, public transportation and outdoor areas. To assess compliance with the advertising ban at points of sale (POS), in public places and outdoor areas. During March to April, 2016, we conducted a survey in 11 cities in China (Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Kunming, Xi'an, Hangzhou, Wuhan, Lanzhou, Haerbin and Zhangjiakou), and visited POS (tobacco specialty stores, supermarkets, convenience stores and newsstands), public places (bus stops, bus terminals, train station, airports, hospitals, restaurants, bars and shopping malls), and outdoor areas. An observation form was developed to record the number, type, brand, size, other relevant tobacco advertising and promotion information, and the presence of minors in the selected places. POS (n=1,236): Tobacco advertising was observed in all 11 cities and in almost 47% of the observed places. The most prevalent was in tobacco specialty stores (78%). The most common type of tobacco advertising was pasted advertising (34%). 70% of the POS did not have the “No tobacco to Minors” sign and almost 18% stores had minors inside. POS tobacco promotion was found in 10 cities and in 4% of the POS. Public places (n=1,453): Tobacco advertising was found in 9 cities and in almost 4% of the observed places in these cities. Outdoor areas (n=149 major blocks): Tobacco advertising was observed in 4 cities and from 19% of the observed blocks in these cities. Despite implementation of the revised national Advertising Law, tobacco advertising and promotion is still commonly found at tobacco POS in China. Law enforcement agencies should increase inspection and enforcement measures on tobacco advertising and promotion. An assessment of metrics for progress in tobacco taxation in the WHO Global Tobacco Control Reports Affordability of cigarettes products in the WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic, 2017 Where do tobacco farmers live: association between Kenyan tobacco farmers' livelihood selection decision and their accessibility to nearby economic centers South African adult smokers perception of pictorial warnings on quitting behaviour Pattern of smokeless tobacco use and cigarette smoking among adult South Africans during 2007-2016 On behalf of the International Society for the Prevention of Tobacco Induced Diseases Website content copyright © 2021 European Publishing, unless otherwise stated. All articles are published however under a creative common license.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line347
__label__cc	0.746194	0.253806	Dawn Miller Lovett Died: March 26, 2015 Location: Newbern, Tennessee Johnson - Williams Funeral Home Dawn Miller Lovett, 47 of Newbern, Tennessee died on Thursday, March 26, 2015 at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital in Jackson,Tennessee. Born Saturday, June 17, 1967 in Dyersburg, Tennessee. She was the daughter of the late Ollie Bruce Miller and the late Melba Louise Hardin Miller. She was the former administrative assistant to the Registrar at Bethel University and was a member of West Dyersburg Church of Christ. Funeral services will be 3:00 PM Sunday, March 29, 2015 in the Chapel of Johnson-Williams Funeral Home. Officiating this service will be Bro. Austin Johnson and Bro. Jim Chamblee. Interment will follow in Fairview Cemetery in Newbern,Tennessee. Visitation will be Saturday, March 28, 2015 from 5:00 PM until 8:00 PM at Johnson-Williams Funeral Home. She is survived by one daughter; Brittany Walley (Ty) of Hornbeak, Tennessee, two sons; David Lovett (Stephanie) of Woodbury, Tennessee, Brett Lovett (Connie) of Newbern, Tennessee, three sisters; Diane Warren, Denise Butler (Joe), Demetris Hart Robert), all of Newbern, Tennessee, three grandchildren; Weston & Kara Lovett, and Jase Walley, In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by one brother-in-law, Jimmy Warren. Pallbearers will be Steve Warren, Shane Warren, Dustin Warren , Jason Butler, Derrick Butler, Jeff Hart, Darrin Holder and Brandon Rawlins. Online condolences may be made to the family at johnsonwilliamsfuneralhome.com. Johnson-Williams Funeral Home is honored to serve the family of Dawn Miller Lovett.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line349
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Yes, I Am (16%) 45% 49% 3% Yes, Someone Else Is (10%) 49% 46% 2% Yes, Both (2%) * * * No, No One Is (72%) 61% 35% 2% Yes (28%) 45% 49% 2% No (72%) 61% 35% 2% ARE YOU A UNION MEMBER? VOTE BY EDUCATION No High School (3%) 45% 49% 1% H.S. Graduate (14%) 55% 42% 2% Some College (31%) 59% 36% 2% College Graduate (31%) 58% 36% 2% Postgraduate (21%) 52% 45% 2% No College Degree (49%) 57% 39% 2% No College Education (17%) 53% 43% 2% College Educated (83%) 57% 38% 2% VOTE BY PARTY ID Democrat (40%) 22% 74% 2% Republican (35%) 93% 4% 1% Independent (25%) 59% 33% 5% VOTE BY IDEOLOGY Liberal (25%) 20% 74% 5% Moderate (44%) 58% 38% 2% Conservative (30%) 86% 10% 1% DO YOU HAVE CHILDREN UNDER 18? 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County (24%) 48% 48% 2% Southern California (27%) 65% 30% 2% Bay Area (20%) 46% 48% 3% Coastal California (11%) 55% 40% 4% Central Valley (19%) 66% 31% 2% VOTE FOR SENATE Feinstein (59%) 34% 63% 2% Mountjoy (36%) 93% 3% 1% VOTE FOR STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL Brown (57%) 31% 65% 2% Poochigian (39%) 92% 4% 1% • All Times Eastern Standard • CNN will broadcast a projected winner only after an extensive review of data from a number of sources. Details about CNN's projection process • Technical help and advice • Notes for individual races, by state • Poll closing times by state and time zone • The ZIP code lookup matches addresses to the current congressional district for the 109th U.S. Congress, which ends January 3, 2007. Due to redistricting, some districts may be different in the November 7 elections, which are being held to choose members of the 110th U.S. Congress. 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__label__wiki	0.546476	0.546476	Russia 2015 Stamp Issue Sergei Kapitsa - physicist :: RUSSIA :: THEME: Sergei Kapitsa :: NOMINAL VALUE: 15 RUB :: ISSUE DATE: 12 February 2015 :: STAMP DESIGN: S. Ulyanovskiy Sergei Kapitsa was born in 1928 in a family of prominent scientists. His grandfather Academician Alexei Krylov was a shipbuilding scientist, represented the intellectual power of the Russian Empire in the early twentieth century. His father Pyotr L. Kapitsa was a great experimental physicist, engineer and philosopher, Nobel laureate. His brother Andrei Kapitsa was a famous geographer, Professor Emeritus of MSU and Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Sergei Kapitsa was a professor, broadcaster, writer, chief editor of the magazine “In the world of science”, the vice-president of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. He owns the scientific work in the field of supersonic aerodynamics, terrestrial magnetism, applied electromagnetics, methods and theories of education, population and demography. In 1973, Sergei Kapitsa published a book "Life of Sciences", which served as a prerequisite to the appearance of the TV program “Obvious – unbelievable”. The program was aired almost 40 years, and Sergei Kapitsa was its permanent host. In 2008, Kapitsa was awarded a special prize "Taffy" for his personal contribution to the development of Russian television. March 5, 2014 President issued a decree of the Russian Federation No. 113 to perpetuate the memory of Sergei Kapitsa. NOMINAL VALUE: 15 RUB CIRCULATION: 352 000 STAMP DESIGN: S. Ulyanovskiy STAMP SIZE: 37 mm х 50 mm SHEET SIZE: - PERFORATIONS: 11 1/2 : 12 PRINTING PROCESS: offset RUSSIAN POST PRODUCT NUMBER: 1913 COLLECTORZPEDIA.com S. P. Kapitsa (1928-2012), physicist, winner of the State prize С.П. Капица (1928-2012), ученый-физик, лауреат Государственной премии Single Stamp PRICE: 15 RUB First Day Cover (FDC) Stamps Sheet First Day Postmark Etykiety: People, Physicists, Rusmarka, Rusmarka 2015, Russia 2015 Stamps, Russia Stamps, Russian Post Stamps, Russian Post Stamps 2015, S. Ulyanovskiy, Science and Technology, Scientists, Sergei Kapitsa Andorra (FR) Ross Dependency link to your website	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line357
__label__cc	0.719875	0.280125	The legal proceedings and the fight against corruption The participation in academic meetings where the two topics compliance and corruption (a word that refers to a serious kind of “nonconformity”) were discussed inspired me to write a few lines about the role that the legal proceedings can play in combating the latter. The subject is included on the agenda of jurists, and is, [...] By Flávio Luiz Yarshell\| 2018-03-19T12:13:19+00:00 05/03/2018\|Electoral Law\| The electoral process: a possibility of preventive control for ineligibility? The electoral process is traditionally considered as an example to be followed, due to its high effectiveness when confronted with other forms of jurisdictional actions. This happens because, in fact, it is fast and responds promptly to the claims for protection meant for it. To a large extent, this is because there is a timetable [...] By Yarshell e Camargo Advogados\| 2018-02-19T10:26:11+00:00 05/02/2018\|Electoral Law, Civil Procedural\| (Português) Repúdio a candidatos “ficha suja”: como e quando? Sorry, this entry is only available in Brazilian Portuguese. By Flávio Luiz Yarshell\| 2018-01-23T14:46:25+00:00 23/01/2018\|Electoral Law, Civil Procedural\| (Português) Lei da Ficha Limpa traz paradoxo sobre vontade popular nas eleições – FLÁVIO LUIZ YARSHELL ESPECIAL PARA A FOLHA By Yarshell e Camargo Advogados\| 2018-01-15T10:39:59+00:00 03/01/2018\|Administrative Law, Electoral Law\| © Copyright 2016 - BBDE Consultoria em Marketing & Comunicação	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line369
__label__wiki	0.891156	0.891156	Datree announces $8M Series A as it joins Y Combinator – TechCrunch Datree, the early stage startup building a DevOps policy engine on GitHub, announced an $8 million Series A today. It also announced it has joined the Y Combinator Winter 20 cohort. Blumberg and TLV Partners led the round with participation from Y Combinator . The company has now raised $11 million with the $3 million seed round announced in 2018. Since that seed round, company co-founder and CEO Shimon Tolts says that the company learned that while scanning code for issues was something DevOps teams found useful, they wanted help defining the rules. So Datree has created a series of rules packages you can run against the code to find any gaps or issues. “We offer development best practices, coding standards and security and compliance policies. What happens today is that, as you connect to Datree, we connect to your source code and scan the entire code base, and we recommend development best practices based on your technology stack,” Tolts explained. He says that they build these rules packages based on the company’s own expertise, as well as getting help from the community, and in some cases partnering with experts. For instance, for its Docker security package, it teamed up with Aqua Security. The focus remains on applying these rules in GitHub where developers are working. Before committing the code, they can run the appropriate rules packages against it to ensure they are in compliance with best practices. Datree rules packages. Screenshot: Datree Tolts says they began looking at Y Combinator after the seed round because they wanted more guidance on building out the business. “We knew that Y Combinator could really help us because our product is relevant to 95% of all YC companies, and the program has helped us go and work on six figure deals with more mature YC companies,” he said. Datree is working directly with Y Combinator CEO Michael Seibel, and he says being part of the Winter 20 cohort has helped him refine his go-to-market motion. He admits he is not a typical YC company having been around since 2017 with an existing product and 12 employees, but he thinks it will help propel the company in the long run.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line370
__label__cc	0.53532	0.46468	Home » The Third Aoi Hitomi no Shoujo (Dub) (2006) The Third Aoi Hitomi no Shoujo (Dub) (2006) Watch The Third: Aoi Hitomi no Shoujo full episodes online English dub kisscartoon. Synopsis: In the distant future, because of an interplanetary war that had continued on for centuries, civilizations were ruined. Human beings have lost everything, and only 1/5th of the population survived. A strange breed of humans, ”The Third” is said to have appeared just after the war. They possess a third eye, as their name suggests, that appear as oval-shaped red pupils called “space eyes” over their conventional two eyes. Using them, they can control computer systems and so on, and as such, rule the world by their superior power over technology. In this world, there is a young woman named Honoka; she is a “jack-of-all-trades” sellsword, and she accepts any job except murder. One day, she happens to find and rescue a young man named Ikus in the desert. Entering his world, and accepting a job from him, the adventure begins for Honoka and Ikus. Genres: ActionAdventureSci-FiSeinen The Third Aoi Hitomi no Shoujo (Dub) (2006) Episode List: The Third Aoi Hitomi no Shoujo (Dub) (2006)-episode-1- The Third Aoi Hitomi no Shoujo (Dub) (2006)-episode-2- The Third Aoi Hitomi no Shoujo (Dub) (2006)-episode-3- The Third Aoi Hitomi no Shoujo (Dub) (2006)-episode-4- The Third Aoi Hitomi no Shoujo (Dub) (2006)-episode-5- The Third Aoi Hitomi no Shoujo (Dub) (2006)-episode-6- The Third Aoi Hitomi no Shoujo (Dub) (2006)-episode-7- The Third Aoi Hitomi no Shoujo (Dub) (2006)-episode-8- The Third Aoi Hitomi no Shoujo (Dub) (2006)-episode-9- The Third Aoi Hitomi no Shoujo (Dub) (2006)-episode-10- The Third Aoi Hitomi no Shoujo (Dub) (2006)-episode-11- The Third Aoi Hitomi no Shoujo (Dub) (2006)-episode-12- The Third Aoi Hitomi no Shoujo (Dub) (2006)-episode-13- The Third Aoi Hitomi no Shoujo (Dub) (2006)-episode-14- The Third Aoi Hitomi no Shoujo (Dub) (2006)-episode-15- The Third Aoi Hitomi no Shoujo (Dub) (2006)-episode-16- The Third Aoi Hitomi no Shoujo (Dub) (2006)-episode-17- The Third Aoi Hitomi no Shoujo (Dub) (2006)-episode-18- The Third Aoi Hitomi no Shoujo (Dub) (2006)-episode-19- The Third Aoi Hitomi no Shoujo (Dub) (2006)-episode-20- The Third Aoi Hitomi no Shoujo (Dub) (2006)-episode-21- The Third Aoi Hitomi no Shoujo (Dub) (2006)-episode-22- The Third Aoi Hitomi no Shoujo (Dub) (2006)-episode-23- The Third Aoi Hitomi no Shoujo (Dub) (2006)-episode-24- Enen no Shouboutai (Dub) (2019) Shingeki no Kyojin Season 3 Part 2 (Dub) (2019) Ultraman (Dub) (2019) Yumeria (Dub) (2004) Sword Art Online II (Dub) (2014) Moldiver (1993) Grappler Baki Season 1 (Dub) (2001) A Sister’s All You Need (Dub) (2017) Glass Fleet The Legend of the Wind of the Universe (Dub) (2006) Dimension W (Dub) (2016) Bless The Harts Season 1 (2019) The Silver Guardian (Dub) (2017) Kino’s Journey (Dub) (2003) Gurren Lagann (Dub) (2007) Zeke and Luther Season 2 (2010) Licensed by Royalty (Dub) (2003) Just Because! (Dub) (2017) Uchuu Senkan Tiramisù (Dub) (2018) Kurozuka (Dub) (2008) Mob Psycho 100 Season 2 (Dub) (2019) Wizard Barristers (Dub) (2014) Joe vs Joe (Dub) (2003) Big Time Rush Season 1 (2009) My First Girlfriend is a Gal (2017) Cardfight!! Vanguard G Stride Gate (Dub) (2016)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line373
__label__wiki	0.700149	0.700149	24 Hours in the Valley Photo courtesy of Fiftystars, Flickr As home to the world’s major movie studios, the San Fernando Valley is where celebrities live, work and play. Here’s a 24-hour, behind-the-scenes itinerary of the Valley’s sizzling attractions, restaurants and nightspots. Have breakfast at Jerry's Famous Deli on Ventura Boulevard. It's the flagship location and a celebrity favorite. Throughout his professional career, Andy Kaufman kept a day job here bussing tables (as seen in the movie Man on the Moon). 9 a.m.–noon Shop to your heart’s content. Stretching from Universal City to Studio City to Sherman Oaks, Ventura Boulevard is boutique shopping at its best, with pockets of concentrated stores that thrill visitors in search of off-the-beaten-path finds. Be sure to check out Mimi & Hy and Stacey Todd, among the dozens of stores that line both sides of the street. A complete entertainment experience waits at the Glendale Galleria. Anchored by Nordstrom and Macy’s, the mall features top name boutiques, spas, salons, a children’s play area and a food court. Westfield Topanga mall in Canoga Park gleams with three-story atriums, elaborate water features and six different precincts, each with its own distinct feel and retail focus. Need more? The mall also boasts a 120,000-square-foot Neiman Marcus. For even more shopping adventures, visit Universal CityWalk Hollywood, the $400 million shopping center Americana at Brand, the Sherman Oaks Galleria and Westfield Fashion Square (with Bloomingdale’s) in Sherman Oaks. Noon–2 p.m. Have lunch at one of the stylish eateries along Ventura Boulevard. Universal CityWalk Hollywood also has a host of dining options. The choices are endless! In the mood for South of the Border fare? Enjoy Mexican food and margaritas at the longstanding Camacho's Cantina. And the menu is as lively as the crowd at Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. Restaurant & Market in Universal CityWalk. Visit Universal Studios Hollywood and experience Transformers™: The Ride-3D, an immersive, next generation thrill ride that blurs the line between fiction and reality. Fusing HD 3D media and flight simulation technology, this epic ride creates an experience unlike anything this planet has ever seen. There's also the mega-thrilltacular, The Simpsons Ride, based on the critically acclaimed TV series and movie. You’ll rocket through “Krustyland,” a new fantasy theme park created by the show’s cantankerous Krusty the Clown, and be fully immersed with Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie Simpson on “Krusty’s Thrilltacular Roller Coaster” as you rip at faster-than-lightning-speeds on a hysterical, almost unimaginable adventure. After enjoying Universal Studios Hollywood’s multitude of rides and attractions, walk over to Universal CityWalk Hollywood and experience the thrill of skydiving — without the plane. The iFLY Indoor Skydiving experience is like no other, and you might just share the experience with a movie star. Robert Downey Jr. once did the iFLY skydive while being interviewed for a GQ article. Or take the Warner Bros. Studios VIP Tours, where you might see film or television productions in progress. As the sun goes down, dining in the Valley truly shines. Zagat has named Leila’s (American dishes with Asian accents) and Saddle Peak Lodge (game-centric, New American cuisine) among the top food picks in Los Angeles. Ventura Boulevard is nicknamed “sushi row” for its noteworthy Japanese restaurants. Try Katsu-ya, a favorite with the entertainment industry. The upscale Italian cuisine at Panzanella draws a chic crowd, and film industry heavyweights frequent Black Market Liquor Bar for its seasonal small plates and stellar cocktails. 8–11 p.m. Now it’s time for entertainment. Head to NoHo — that’s local-speak for North Hollywood — and its cornucopia of live theaters featuring performances from the classics to improv and everything in between. Among the favorites is El Portal Theatre, which was built in 1926 as a Vaudeville theatre. For live theatre that pushes the envelope, grab a ticket to Zombie Joe’s Underground Theatre. Don’t be surprised if you see celebrities in the audience. And remember, here in LA, the “unknowns” you’re seeing on stage tonight are the stars of tomorrow. 11 p.m.–2 a.m. Located walking distance from each other in Studio City, the always-hopping gastropub Laurel Tavern is popular among big groups out for a good time, while Page 71 has more of a slick ultra-lounge vibe. Also, be sure to drop by Universal CityWalk Hollywood and pick your hot spots including Howl at the Moon, with its outrageous dueling piano bar; Infusion Lounge dance club; and the iconic Hard Rock Café. 2 a.m.–7 a.m. Iconic diner Bob's Big Boy in Burbank is open 24 hours. Built in 1949, this landmark eatery's Googie architecture hasn't changed since the days when Bob, Hope, Debbie Reynolds and Mickey Rooney were regulars. Or drift off to dreamland in one of the Valley’s excellent hotels: AIRTEL PLAZA HOTEL & CONFERENCE CENTER BEVERLY GARLAND'S HOLIDAY INN UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HILTON LOS ANGELES NORTH/GLENDALE & EXECUTIVE MEETING CENTER HILTON LOS ANGELES/UNIVERSAL CITY MARRIOTT BURBANK AIRPORT HOTEL & CONVENTION CENTER SHERATON UNIVERSAL SPORTSMEN'S LODGE HOTEL WARNER CENTER MARRIOTT HOTEL Get up and do it all again — but this time in one of LA’s other breathtaking regions.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line376
__label__wiki	0.543696	0.543696	Championship, Derby County, HOME, Nottingham Forest Derby County Vs Nottingham Forest PREVIEW July 3, 2020 karlord32 1 Comment The race for the play-offs heats up with The East Midland’s Derby between Derby County and Nottingham Forest. Indeed, in my opinion, there is no bigger Derby match as both sides from the A52 go head to head once again for the prize of three points. For both teams a win will surely cement their place in the play-offs at the end of the season. Matches between the two sides have produced lots of strange things in the past. Early Goals, Red cards, Manager’s fighting on the touchline etc etc. But this match will be even more strange. As this will be the first time this fixture will take place without fans. But both sides have to get on with it as best as they can. Forest will certainly relish the opportunity of playing without the roarkus Derby home support. Both sides come into this fixture in good form since the season restarted. Forest have picked up seven points from their three games. Derby, meanwhile, have taken the maximum nine on offer from their three matches. Forest currently sit in 4th place on 67 points from 40 games, while Derby are lying in 7th on 60 points, one point off the final play-off position that is currently occupied by Cardiff City. The teams have already met twice this season, once in the League, while the other match took place in the League Cup early in the season. Subsequently, Forest came out on top in both matches. In the League Cup, Forest won 3-0 thanks to goals from Sammy Ameobi, Joe Lolley and Joao Carvalho. While in the League, Lewis Grabban scored the only goal of the game as he latched on to a shocking mistake in the Derby backline. As mentioned previously, both sides have good form coming into this game, with Forest beating Bristol City 1-0 in midweek and Derby winning by the same score line at Preston North End. Derby’s form has improved significantly since Wayne Rooney has got into the swing of things which has transformed them from midtable to play off contenders. Lewis Grabban is Forest leading goal scorer on 19 for the season and will be looking to be the first Forest Player to hit 20 in a season Since David johnson and Marlon Harewood did it in the 02/03 Season. The final run of games will certainly have a big say on where both clubs will finish. Forest’s Remaining Matches are: Fulham (H), Preston (A), Swansea (H), Barnsley (A) and Stoke (H) Derby Remaining Matches: West Brom (A), Brentford (H), Cardiff (A), Leeds (H) and Birmingham (A) One thing is for certain, this game is sure to be a cracker! Referee for this Match is Darren England Karl’s prediction: 2-1 Forest win This Match is Live on Sky Sports and BBC Radio Nottingham from 12 noon KO 12.30 Lewis GrabbanWayne Rooney Previous PostMoroccan Right Back Achraf Hakimi Signs for Inter MilanNext PostChelsea bounce back from mid-week disappointment to defeat Watford One thought on “Derby County Vs Nottingham Forest PREVIEW” Pingback: Sky Bet Championship Weekend Review \| 24/7 Football	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line378
__label__wiki	0.514532	0.514532	Season Two Episode 1 On the night of the 2012 NBA All-Star Game, Florida teenager Trayvon Martin was shot and killed. Five weeks later, his hometown team the Miami Heat took a photo wearing hoodies to protest his killing. Hoodies Up tracks how the photo came together, and its impact on our current era of athlete activism.. Duration: 31mins JODY AVIRGAN: From ESPN Films and ESPN Audio, you’re listening to 30 for 30 podcasts, presented by the Mini Countryman. Today, the story of a photograph taken in a hotel ballroom by the NBA’s Miami Heat. It’s a photo that can be seen as the opening bracket of a new era of athlete activism. But more than that, the behind the scenes story of how and why this photo came to exist tells us a lot about our current moment in history and what happens when celebrity, politics and sports come together in a single image. And now, Hoodies Up. [THE DECISION, JULY 2010: JIM GRAY: Do you have any doubts about your decision? LEBRON JAMES: Um no, I don’t have any doubts at all. JIM GRAY: Would you like to sleep on it a little longer? Or are you ready to make this decision? LEBRON JAMES: No I’ve slept enough… or the lack of sleep.] JODY AVIRGAN: The decision. July 8th, 2010. LeBron James, a native of northeast ohio, announces that he is leaving the Cleveland Cavaliers. JIM GRAY: The answer to the question that everyone wants to know. LeBron, what’s your decision? LEBRON JAMES: Man, this is very tough and this fall I’m going to take my talents to South Beach and play with the Miami Heat… JIM GRAY: The Miami Heat?] JODY AVIRGAN: Cavs fans felt a deep betrayal. [FAN #1: “Honestly, I think it was very arrogant and I think it was a slap in the face to this city who supported him and been behind him since he was in High School.”] FAN #2: “I hope he never wins any championships wherever he’s at, because he’s a loser he’s not a winner.” FAN #3: “If you decided that you wanted to go play in Miami, you could’ve did it in private.”] JODY AVIRGAN: Then, two days later, Chris Bosh announced he was headed to Miami to join LeBron and Dwyane Wade. The decision was widely seen as a clumsy announcement of a cynical choice — three stars joining up to form a super team. [MIAMI HEAT WELCOME PARTY, JULY 2010: LEBRON JAMES: We gone make the world know, not just league, we gone make the world know that the Heat is back.] JODY AVIRGAN: Bomani Jones and Wesley Morris, who both write about sports and culture. BOMANI JONES: We can’t forget that they were kind of the villains of the NBA at this point. WESLEY MORRIS: They were the villains of the league at the time. Everybody hated them and they were dominant and they knew it and the means by which that team came together was just so loathsome and tasteless. CROWD NOISE HOST: We also know you three kings came down here to win championships. Not one, CHAMPIONSHIPS. LeBron tell us about that. LEBRON JAMES: Not two. Not three. Not four. Not five. Not six. Not seven.] JODY AVIRGAN: But that first year, the heat didn’t bring home a championship. [2011 NBA FINALS: COMMENTATOR: Shawn Marion dribbles it out and the celebration will begin, the Dallas Mavericks are NBA Champions” COMMENTATOR #2: As you can see from the Miami Heat, a stunning ending to one of the more compelling seasons in NBA history. A bitter finish…] JODY AVIRGAN: After that loss in their first year, the Heat and their big three of LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, and Chris Bosh started to figure it out. By the 2012 All-Star Game, the Heat were tied for the best record in the league. [2012 NBA All-Star Game: COMMENTATOR: TNT’s COVERAGE OF ALL-STAR WEEKEND CONTINUES ON THIS 67º OVERCAST DAY…] JODY AVIRGAN: James, Bosh and Wade were all scheduled to play in that All-Star Game. COMMENTATOR: The east all-stars include the big three of the Miami Heat and they’ve been playing at a different level.] JODY AVIRGAN: Since the game was in Orlando, a lot of their followers had made the trip up from south Florida to watch. One of them, was a 17 year-old heat fan named Trayvon Martin. His father is Tracy Martin. TRACY MARTIN: Everybody knew me as big Trey and him as little Trey. We shared something. He wasn’t a Junior but, you know, you couldn’t tell him he wasn’t a Junior. JODY AVIRGAN: Trayvon had recently been suspended from school. His father Tracy had sent him from Miami to Orlando to stay with Tracy’s girlfriend for a few days. Tracy thought, since the all star game was in town, it would be okay for Trayvon to go to some of the festivities. TRACY MARTIN: I just, I just didn’t want him sitting at home. While he was suspended, so for Trayvon to go and experience being around the NBA players, being around that atmosphere, being around a lot of professional people; I think I just thought that that would give him a sense of humbling himself as far as his school work and getting back, and getting back on the right page. JODY AVIRGAN: Trayvon and his family did what they could to see their favorite athletes in person. TRACY MARTIN: They had did a few events. We went to a couple of practices, a couple of press conferences and things of that nature just for them to get a chance to see players from across the league the best players from across the league… That was some special to them. JODY AVIRGAN: That Sunday night, Trayvon didn’t have tickets to the all star game itself, so he watched on TV from 22 miles away at his father’s girlfriend’s house in Sanford. TRACY MARTIN: He had been watching the pregame festivities and he decided to get him some snacks from the store before the game actually came on. ANNOUNCER: And now the eastern conference starters… From the Miami Heat, LeBron James.] TRACY MARTIN: And so Trayvon was.. He was just downstairs just preparing himself to watch the game. He ended up leaving the house going to the to the 7-Eleven never to return again. [WFTV REPORTER: You can see from Sky Witness 9 HD, this was the scene at the Retreat at Twin Lakes Townhomes in Sanford Sunday night. Residents heard loud yelling and called 911 for the Sanford Police. Moments later, more 911 calls about a gunshot being fired….] [WTVJ REPORTER: It was in Sanford where the 17 year old Kropf High student was killed while visiting his father and stepmother.] [WFTV REPORTER: Killeen Evans’s son lives here and heard the shot. Killeen: I was sitting on the couch and then, uh Boom!] [WTVJ REPORTER: Neighborhood watch captain Zimmerman says he shot Martin in self-defense after confronting the teen who was not armed.] [WFTV REPORTER: Police got here within a minute and found 17 year old Trayvon Martin shot dead. Paramedics could not bring him back.] [WTVJ REPORTER: Sanford Police maintain there is not enough information to make an arrest.] [WTVJ REPORTER #2: Baby-faced Trayvon Martin was carrying Skittles and Iced Tea when he was shot by George Zimmerman.] MICHAEL SKOLNIK: In 2009, there was a young man who was killed in Chicago named Derrion Albert. He was 16 years old. JODY AVIRGAN: Michael Skolnik is a civil rights activist. MICHAEL SKOLNIK: Derrion had been hit over the head with a two-by-four in a schoolyard fight, or after school fight, outside the school: Fenger High School in Chicago. JODY AVIRGAN: Along with hip hop mogul Russell Simmons. Skolnik helped run the website Global Grind. The website covered pop culture, but also serious social issues. MICHAEL SKOLNIK: Someone had sent me a cell phone video of this young man’s death. When I saw the video and reminded me of a conversation that I had about what happens when a young black or brown kid dies in America, and what happens when a white kid dies? For years we had memorialized and rightfully so so many white children who had been killed and remembered their names. JonBenét Ramsey was killed almost 20, 20 years ago and we still know her name Natalee Holloway at the time and killed over a decade ago we still knew her name. And when black kids were killed they were statistics there were numbers they were barely ever even mentioned. And so when I got this video of Derrion Albert this idea hit me that we should create a series of Global Grind he has a name, ultimately became she has a name as well. We published an article in 2009 called ‘He Has a Name: Derrion Albert’ and that was it. JODY AVIRGAN: It wasn’t long before Skolnik got a phone call from a woman in Queens, New York. She told him about her 13 year old son, who’d been hit by a stray bullet, walking home from school. Her son’s name was Kevin Miller. MICHAEL SKOLNIK: And I wrote an article: ‘He Has a Name: Kevin Miller.’ Then Ayana Jones gets killed in Detroit… A seven year old girl sleeping in her bed with her grandmother. And we wrote an article, ‘She Has a Name: Ayana Jones.’ When a mother calls you, or father calls you crying on the phone and saying ‘I can’t even afford the funeral,’ ‘I can’t even afford a headstone for my child,’ and they’re asking you just can you please just like tell the world my child existed. My child you know lived 13 amazing years are 17 amazing years. You don’t forget it. And there were hundreds and then thousands. And Trayvon was I don’t know Article 922… Article 874… Just ‘He Has a Name: Trayvon Martin,’ it was another death of another young black teenager in America that we covered. JODY AVIRGAN: Trayvon Martin’s death made the local news, and was then picked up by Global Grind and a few other national outlets. For weeks, there was no arrest in the case. Michael Skolnik’s he has a name series continued. But he couldn’t get the Trayvon Martin story out of his head. MICHAEL SKOLNIK: Somehow some way it felt different than the ones we had covered before. The ones we covered before many of them were you know, you know, violence in the community. Some of them were police violence. Some of them were sort of you know, mistaken identities. [WTVJ REPORTER: Members of the African American community left outraged.] [MAN: I see that white man, can I stop and detain that white man, start an argument, and shoot that white man to death? WTVJ REPORTER: What do you think? MAN: I’m saying no absolutely not. I would be in jail right now.] MICHAEL SKOLNIK: We had never heard of this thing… Stand Your Ground Law out of Florida and you could actually kill someone and say I thought I was being threatened therefore I’m innocent. [WOMAN (TO WTVJ REPORTER): It becomes racial, because Zimmerman thought that black males in hoodies were criminals.] JODY AVIRGAN: On Global Grind, Skolnik ended up writing a lot about Trayvon Martin. One of those articles went viral, and he was invited to do interviews on NPR and CNN… [CNN REPORTER: The editor in chief at GlobalGrind.com… MICHAEL SKOLNIK: We now have the ability to organize ourselves. We can go to Twitter, we can go to Facebook, we can go to Youtube and we can start talking to each other and saying look: We want to talk about this issue now.] [PROTESTERS: “What do we want? Justice. When do we want it? Now.”] JODY AVIRGAN: The Martin family continued to advocate for an arrest — in the press, and at a growing number of protests. [PROTESTERS: “Justice for Trayvon”] JODY AVIRGAN: They’d seen Michael Skolnik on TV talking about Trayvon’s death. Before long, they reached out. TRACY MARTIN: Michael Skolnik is a great friend of myself and Sybrina, our family. Mike, you know, he, he talked about a lot of the things, his vision of how he wanted to just keep this keep the Trayvon movement active in social media. JODY AVIRGAN: Skolnik arranged for Trayvon’s parents to meet with his boss, Russell Simmons. After that meeting, Skolnik pulled Simmons aside. MICHAEL SKOLNIK: Russell you and I need to pick up the phone and call every famous person we know and tell them to use the powers that they have. Any platform, Web site, social media, Print magazine interviews wherever they’re going… Red carpets. To talk about this young man who has been killed. JODY AVIRGAN: Skolnik and Simmons went to work and pretty quickly they started to hear back from their celebrity contacts. One of them was the actress Gabrielle Union, at the time best know for the movies Bring It On and Bad Boys II. GABRIELLE UNION: I’m Gabrielle Union. The first time I heard the name Trayvon Martin was probably on Twitter and then you know living in Florida it was on the news. JODY AVIRGAN: By the time Gabrielle Union and Skolnik and Russell Simmons spoke, Union had already been tweeting about the Martin story to her hundreds of thousands of followers. She was one of the first celebrities to do so. She was already all in. MICHAEL SKOLNIK: She calls and says how can I help. GABRIELLE UNION: What I remember is you know Michael and Russ reaching out to me, MICHAEL SKOLNIK: And the only thing we were looking for at the time was to tweet his name: ‘Justice for Trayvon.’ GABRIELLE UNION: As someone who’s raising children, as someone who is a global citizen, as someone who gives a shit… It was just it was just a no brainer. MICHAEL SKOLNIK: Please use your platform just to say his name just say his name. JODY AVIRGAN: As they talked, Union realized that whatever her own celebrity could do to call attention to Trayvon’s story, her boyfriend’s celebrity was even more powerful. GABRIELLE UNION: Being closely connected to one of the world’s biggest athletes… there could be a potential for a much bigger statement than just the girl from Bring it on. JODY AVIRGAN: Her boyfriend, now husband, is Dwyane Wade. DWYANE WADE: MY name is Dwyane Wade. At the time of the Trayvon Martin shooting I played for the Miami Heat. Me and my wife talk about, you know, everything. GABRIELLE UNION: He was a young boy, DWYANE WADE: So when this happened, this was no different, we set down and we talked about it… GABRIELLE UNION: I know that our boys in the same situation, it could have turned out exactly the same. DWYANE WADE: She understood the platform that we had. GABRIELLE UNION: I just implored my husband to, to take action and to talk to Bron, to talk to Chris Bosh. DWYANE WADE: Me and LeBron was on the phone, we talked. LEBRON JAMES: My name is LeBron James. Professional basketball player, father, husband, son, friend, philanthropist all that. We see our kids every day. You know leave the House to go to school or leave the house to go play at a basketball game, or a soccer game, or leave the house to go to the movies… For us to be like ‘Hey son,’ you know… ‘See you later,’ and then that doesn’t happen… It would just kill us, it would kill us all us fathers and we feel like we didn’t do what we had to do. We didn’t hold on up our end of the bargain by protecting our kids. And that’s why that’s why I hit home for us. And the first conversations happened with myself, DWade, Udonis Haslem. UDONIS HASLEM: Udonis Haslem, the Miami Heat, power forward. You know for me it really hit home. I am a Miami Kid. It could’ve been me. You know, I didn’t know him personally, but my family had some ties to his mother and father through church. JODY AVIRGAN: Wade, James and Haslem decided they would use their social media accounts to send a message to millions of people. The message would be a photograph. DWYANE WADE: The thing that we felt was probably most impactful was all of us getting together as the Miami Heat team and posing with our hoods on. LEBRON JAMES: We felt like it was the most powerful. We wanted to do it with the hoodies on, with our heads down, in memory of… JODY AVIRGAN: They took their idea to the rest of the Heat. Joel Anthony, a Center on that team, was there for the team meeting. JOEL ANTHONY: We made sure everyone was present so that you know we could we could talk about it. So those those guys could explain what was going on… DWYANE WADE: We asked all of our teammates, you know, do they want to be a part of this, would they be a part of it? JOEL ANTHONY: Bron, DWade, UD, those guys are some of the leaders on the court, but off of it as as well. DWYANE WADE: When you a team that’s a championship caliber team, you are very close, you guys know each other kids, each other wives, significant others, so if I’m hurtin and Bron’s hurting, everyone is because they know what this means to us and what this means to our family. LEBRON JAMES: They knew we was knowledgeable about the issue, they knew we wouldn’t bring nothing to the team that we didn’t feel passionate about. JOEL ANTHONY: Everyone was on board 100%. DWYANE WADE: Every player on the team. No one got out of it, no one said I can’t be a part of this, no matter what their background was, no matter what their race they was, everybody did it cause everybody understood how important it was. UDONIS HASLEM: So we had the support of everybody but, you know, sometimes it’s not gonna be that easy. Sometimes you might not have everybody’s support. You still have to stand up and do what you think is right. DWYANE WADE: We talked it over with our coaches before we did it, me and LeBron, we went in and went to our coaches and say hey this this what we gonna do. We didn’t ask. We said this is what we gonna do, we want you guys to be aware of what we’re doing, because it may be backlash. DWYANE WADE: And I think they understood. I think they understood that a moment like that was bigger than basketball. JODY AVIRGAN: The conversations took place throughout the third week of March, over a month since Trayvon’s death. Still no arrest had been made in the case. But the Trayvon Martin story was getting more and more national attention. On March 23rd Geraldo Rivera weighed in on Fox. [FOX NEWS HOST GERALDO RIVERA: I am urging the parents of Black and Latino youngsters, particularly, to not let their children go out wearing hoodies….] JODY AVIRGAN: That same morning, President Obama was asked about the incident. [PRESIDENT OBAMA: I think all of us need to do some soul searching to figure out how does something like this happen. You know, If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon.] JODY AVIRGAN: And that night, a Friday, the Miami Heat were scheduled to to play the Detroit Pistons. LEBRON JAMES: It was actually a game day. DWYANE WADE: We was on the road, we was in a hotel UDONIS HASLEM: We took it in Detroit, right before we played the Pistons. LEBRON JAMES: We had shootaround at the Palace at Auburn Hills, and the we got back to the hotel and had what we call our pregame brunch back at the hotel. DWYANE WADE: In like one of the ballrooms in the hotel. If you see the backdrop of it, you look at the picture you’ll see it’s in a ballroom JOEL ANTHONY: We’ve taken team pictures before so, you know, we have an idea of how to line up. DWYANE WADE: LeBron, he’s the coordinator, that’s what he does, he’s the quarterback. You know you’ve watched him play. So he’s directing it. We figured out hey you be here, you be here, you be here. So he definitely directed it, put everybody in their position. Obviously me and him being in you know in the front. JOEL ANTHONY: We’re all together, everyone had their hoodies. DWYANE WADE: And I think if I remember correctly, one of my teammates didn’t have his- didn’t come down in his hoodie and it was like we took a hoodie off one of the coaches who had it, like yo, we need a hoodie. JOEL ANTHONY: Got everyone lined up. And took it. But I can’t actually… actually remember who actually took the photo. JODY AVIRGAN: Wade and James posted on Twitter. As they got ready for their game with the Pistons, they knew the photo would start to go viral. DWYANE WADE: If I write it on my social media, if I put it on my Twitter, if I put it on my Instagram, if I say it on my snapchat… Oh, it gets across! You know people are watching it! [ESPN REPORTER #1: Last month a neighborhood watch officer shot and killed 17 year-old Florida teen, Trayvon Martin. ESPN REPORTER #2: Today attention to the story spread into the sports world.] JODY AVIRGAN: The photograph the Heat took featured 12 members of the team standing, in two rows, in front of the hotel ballroom wall. [ESPN REPORTER #1: As you can see here LeBron James took to Twitter – he posted a team photo of the Miami Heat clad in hoodies.] JODY AVIRGAN: Their hands are in their pockets, their hoods are up and their heads are down. It’s almost impossible to make out player is which. [ESPN REPORTER #2: In hoodies with the hashtag: We are Trayvon Martin ESPN REPORTER #1: It was accompanied by the hashtag: We are Trayvon Martin.] TRACY MARTIN: The first time I seen the photo of the Miami Heat with the hoods on, I was almost in tears. GABRIELLE UNION: I just remember just the immense pride that I had, not just for my husband and Bron and Chris, but that it was the whole team. TRACY MARTIN: Those guys never knew my son, but they were really willing to risk their reputation by wearing the same cloth that symbolized why Trayvon got killed MICHAEL SKOLNIK: It wasn’t just Dwyane. It wasn’t just LeBron… It was the whole team… And that shit hit home. TRACY MARTIN: Having the miami heat in those hoods, it did something to me. MICHAEL SKOLNIK: Here you have the biggest star in the world the biggest star on the planet standing up for a racial justice moment. BOMANI JONES: it is indicating that look this is getting to a point where even people who have something to lose feel that they have to say something about it. MICHAEL SKOLNIK: It becomes photograph that everybody has to look at, and everybody has to pay attention to — because of who it is. WESLEY MORRIS: I remember like having this rush of blood to my head and finding the image itself so devastating and also just really as a photograph… Perfect. JODY AVIRGAN: The week of the photograph, Wesley Morris wrote an article for the website Grantland. The title: “What We Talk About When We Talk About Hoodies.” WESLEY MORRIS: There’s no statement in the photograph. The photograph is a statement undo itself. There’s no press conference to explain why or what. It isn’t them all holding a sign that says, you know, we love you Trayvon. It is just this image. The hands in the pockets, to me, is the most devastating thing in the picture because there’s something about the way the heads are hung and the hands are in the pockets that just like… It just it connotes shame. [ABC WORLD NEWS TONIGHT DIANE SAWYER: Martin had gone out to buy candy wearing a hooded sweatshirt and all day long thousands and thousands of people have been posting pictures of themselves wearing hoodies.] WESLEY MORRIS: I was really hung up on the hoodies. That hoodie is such a character with such a character for me in in this in this fiasco. JODY AVIRGAN: Bomani Jones. BOMANI JONES: The one thing I remember about the image – they all looked so decidedly, for lack of a better term — regular. WESLEY MORRIS: I mean one of the glorious things about it and lots of things typically associated with black people it has been mainstreamed into meaninglessness. The hoodies shouldn’t mean anything because we all wear them. BOMANI JONES: That is, quietly, one of the few items of clothing that everybody wears. LEBRON JAMES: I don’t know anyone that doesn’t own a hoodie, and that’s just a form of attire. All of us athletes love putting on hoodies for comfort. WESLEY MORRIS: In the context of this story it is it’s a target. It is a symbol of, or a signifier of of of a threat if your hood is down and you put it up you have weaponized your garment at least according to certain spectators like the George Zimmerman’s of the world. And Trayvon of course is aware of this and the hoodie goes up as a defense. Right. Like I don’t want you to see me. DWYANE WADE: You know sometimes you have hoodie on because of you know people don’t ask for privacy when you do it because it’s late. You just said you look in the way you want to look or you’re tired. You put a hood on… At some point, everyone has put a hood on. WESLEY MORRIS: And yet it is still loaded garment for many other people and a lot of black people who wear it know that to be the case and if they didn’t know it in 2012, they definitely know it now. [PROTESTERS: “I AM TRAYVON MARTIN!”] TRACY MARTIN: I think Trayvon’s story was the story that. Woke America up not only black America, but America in general. [PROTESTERS: “Hands up! Don’t Shoot!”] TRACY MARTIN: All the meat was in the pot. All the potatoes were in the pot. It was just really you know that pot was just waiting for someone to turn it on and it just so happened when the killer of our son went home to sleep in his bed that night that turned the pot on that ignited the fire. [PROTESTERS: “Black Lives Matter!”] GABRIELLE UNION: The conversation just never ends because the the murder of black people never ends. So the photo was just one rock you know in a very long pathway [PROTESTERS: “We gone be alright!” ] JODY AVIRGAN: The photo helped push the Martin story – and the deaths of young black men – to a new level of cultural attention. It also resonated deeply in the sports world — sparking a conversation about when and how athletes should address political issues. Michael Wilbon, responding to the photo on Pardon the Interruption. [PARDON THE INTERRUPTION: MICHAEL WILBON: for decades now we’ve gone into this place, and I’m talking about famous black people, where there was a fear, particularly athletes, a fear of offending other patrons, their owners, the league… And at one point in time guys like Russell Alcindor, Chamberlain, Jim Brown, Oscar Robertson, and Muhammad Ali… They led the discussion of any cultural discussion whether it was political or not and then there was a fear of it. I’m glad the players weren’t afraid. TONY KORNHEISER: I want to focus a little bit on LeBron who’s obviously one of the organizers. His reputation throughout the country is as a very selfish person. This is not a selfish act. And I wonder if LeBron will be applauded for this.] JODY AVIRGAN: For Bomani Jones, the act of taking the photo was not necessarily a shift for LeBron James. In a way, it connected back to a moment two years earlier… The decision to leave cleveland and go to Miami in the first place. BOMANI JONES: And I wonder I mean I very often wonder if that had not gone over the way it did, how does it go? The Trayvon Martin situation? Because I think LeBron had developed an awareness by the time 2012 came around that all the affection he had gotten from people prior to that was pretty conditional. GABRIELLE UNION: And with that team in particular, from 2010 with Bron’s decision and the amount of scorn the man got for taking agency over his life, you realize people are going to talk but fuck them. LEBRON JAMES: You know for me I think you know I was just a sign of growth. And I don’t know if this if this was the moment that sparked some for me to speak upon social issues. This was one of the beginning of it, this was one of the things that sparked it. I know you know what I like to talk about. I have to be educated about issues. but I think it all starts from an individual being comfortable in their own skin and know who they are. MICHAEL SKOLNIK: As Harry Belafonte said when the movement is strong the music is strong. When the movement is strong. The music is strong. GABRIELLE UNION: When the fans start having conversations on social media or, you know, at the sports bar or in their own homes those are the conversations that we need to move the needle forward. MICHAEL SKOLNIK: At this point in America, on March 26, 2012, the movement was strong and the music had to respond to the movement and the music was that Miami Heat putting their hoodies up. We stand in solidarity with this young man and this family and that’s because the movement was strong and we hadn’t seen a movement this strong in 30 plus years. WESLEY MORRIS: I do think this I do think this photograph sits at the same table as the photo of Tommie Smith and John Carlos from the 68 Olympics where they’re on the podium raising their fists… It is a protest photo. It is a photo that at the same time. It is a photo that simultaneously embraces being American while criticizing a certain aspect of living in this country. LEBRON JAMES: I know Muhammad Ali and you know and Jackie Robinson and Oscar Robertson and you know Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bill Russell, Jim Brown… I know those guys spoke about a lot of stuff going on in their days and then I know after their reign, the conversation kind of stopped you know certain athletes didn’t speak upon things and that’s ok. I mean it’s is to each his own. If this his photo, and if this moment was the rekindle of the fire for athletes to speak upon things then I guess we did our job. Hoodies Up Jody Avirgan, Host and Senior Producer Taylor Barfield, Production Assistant Tony Chow, Kate LaRue, Louise Argianas, Jason Heilig, Paul Williard, Alex Bohen, Roger Jackson, Christopher Blank, Chloe Prasinos, Rose Eveleth. Adam Mendelsohn and Ben McGrath.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line381
__label__cc	0.742958	0.257042	Life With Adrian Tag: Docklands Adrian’s week off in London: Day 2 Post author By Adrian Post date 8 September 2015 Today’s adventure started off with a trip on the Overground… and then the Emirates Air Line… This was my first trip on the Dangleway and it was everything I expected from a not-very-popular tourist attraction. The in-cabin video wasn’t playing so I had a nice quiet ride across the Thames by myself. At the other end of the cable car, I arrived for the purpose of my outing, a tour of the Royal Docks as part of the Totally Thames festival. The tour was led by Gary, who was studying for a Masters in Heritage at nearby University of East London, and Matt, who works on a nearby historic boat. This was the first time the tour has been run so it was a little bit uncertain and read off the notes, but they had obviously researched the topics and knew what they were talking about. The tour covered the history of the docks, the recent (and ongoing) rejuvenation projects and the social history of the area. The tour was helped by audio samples from local residents (available here) and historic photographs. Original chimney (now standing in a roundabout) 1960s cranes at Royal Victoria Docks Dockworkers statue with EXCEL Arena behind Aircraft landing at London City Airport Original warehouses (now an Indian restaurant) There’s an airport nearby Millenium Mills At the end of the tour, Matt asked if anyone wanted to look round his boat, the SS Robin. This boat is the world’s oldest complete steamboat (from 1890). The boat is less famous than the Cutty Sark or HMS Belfast, although apparently of equal historical significance (it lacks the military history or the exotic routes – it just went around the UK). Boats don’t have the same heritage options as buildings, and therefore it is harder to preserve them or stop them from being scrapped. For example, there is the ethical heritage question of “is it better to keep a boat in the water but to have to replace large parts of the hull, or to keep the original structure but store the boat out of the water?”. In this case they went for out of the water (but then is it still really a boat?). Finally I headed off to get the DLR as my final mode of transport for the day. Food-wise, today I decided to cook Mexican food. I could have just used a pre-made pack, but I wanted the challenge so I followed Jamie Oliver’s chicken fajitas with homemade salsa and guacamole. It was a lot of effort to make the dips and they are slightly chunkier than they could have been, but it did feel worth it after. For a quicker meal I might consider buying some pre-made sauces (unless it was a special occasion). I was hoping I would be able to freeze half of the chicken mix, so I added an additional chicken breast, however I should probably have added an additional pepper too. In the end I just ate it all in one go (apart from the dips). Doing some nachos as well would probably help with this. All items put together Chicken mix cooking Homemade guacamole Tags Air Line, Cooking, Docklands, Holiday, London, Trains America Annual Review Arrested Development reference Battery Beard BlackBerry Boring story Calculations Car Christmas Churches of London Computer Cooking Coronavirus Family Film review Food GPS Holiday Ill Kebabs Laptop Lockdown London Maths Mistake Mobile phone Moon Museum Night Olden days Photography Playstation 3 Running Scotland Self-isolation Snow Star Wars Statistical analysis Statistics Summer 2014 Trains Transport Voting Vouchers January Habits: Exercise January Habits: Waking up early Christmas is cancelled Self-isolation, epilogue Tanya on January Habits: Waking up early January Habits: Exercise – Life With Adrian on January Habits: Waking up early Self-isolation, epilogue – Life With Adrian on Self-isolation Bake Off – Life With Adrian on Looking Forward Tanya on Looking Forward © 2021 Life With Adrian	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line387
__label__cc	0.603632	0.396368	Adventures in Whisky Land 'drink me' An Introduction to Whisky Whisky Events Scottish Whiskies Japanese Whiskies Whisky News Daily Archives: September 6, 2016 themadvatter Japanese Whiskies, Whisky Reviews Akashi White Oak Blended Whisky With the recent rise in popularity of Japanese whisky, it seems like a lot of Japanese expressions are now flooding the market. To the uninitiated, it can be difficult to distinguish the multitudes of bottles with calligraphic Japanese characters in bold accompanied by sparse descriptions in English. I remember attending an “Evening with the Blenders” event at the Scotch Whisky Experience where an excited patron held up a bottle of Yoichi NAS to me and said they won it in the raffle. “It’s collectible!”, they decreed. Well unfortunately for them, or fortunately for me, not all Japanese whiskies are collectible. The Akashi blended whisky is very much an expression whose value will not likely rise in the near future. Tis a drinking whisky. Aren’t they all? So what is this? Well Akashi is a brand which represents the Eigashima distillery in Japan (which is located in Akashi City). They started like many Japanese distilleries as a Sake and Shochu producer and have recently popped up on the European and American markets. However, this expression is a blend of whiskies from Japan and somewhere else. Sources suggest grain whisky from America. Apparently the Japanese version is quite different from the EU and American versions in that it contains molasses spirit. So that one is quite interesting but what we have here is basically an international blend. The marketing department probably thought making it look very Japanese would help boost sales in Europe and the States, and it probably has. Note that White Oak is another brand they use for their whiskies, so you might see people refering to this as Akashi or White Oak. They use these names on other expressions so it can get a bit confusing. Another cool tidbit about Eigashima, it is “technically” the oldest whisky distillery in Japan because they got their whisky license in 1919 (Yamazaki started in 1923), but they really didn’t start making whisky until much later. Distillery: Blend of whisky from Eigashima Distillery and American grain whisky. Cask: Unknown Price: £29.95 from the Master of Malt News: Kilchoman Sauternes Cask Matured General Release Announcement For a review of the Kilchoman Sauternes Cask Matured General Release click here. Kilchoman have just sent out an email about their first general release Sauternes cask matured whisky. It was a bit confusing because they claimed it to be their first Sauternes cask whisky ever but in fact they released a club version in the winter of 2015. I’m going to toot my own horn here; I totally called that they would release a general version of the Sauternes! Anyway here are the details: Aged for more than 5 years (fully matured) in a Sauternes cask from Bordeaux. Bottled at 50%. 6,000 bottles produced with a price tag of £73.50. This will be going on sale on their website tomorrow (Wednesday 7th September at 10am)! It will also be available in selected shops around the world. The club release was bottled at 60% and was one of my favourite releases from Kilchoman. So really looking forward to this one! As I have said of the club release, I think this is the only heavily peated Scotch whisky fully matured in Sauternes casks. Well I guess now there are two. Will definitely try to get at least a sample of this for tasting notes. I’ll add a link on this page to the tasting notes once I get them! Whisky Basics (3) Whisky Events (5) Whisky Information (1) Whisky News (10) Whisky Reviews (116) Canadian Whiskies (1) Japanese Whiskies (14) Other Spirits (1) Scottish Whiskies (100) Welsh Whiskies (1) Archive Select Month March 2017 (6) February 2017 (5) December 2016 (2) November 2016 (8) October 2016 (5) September 2016 (5) August 2016 (1) July 2016 (3) June 2016 (2) May 2016 (10) April 2016 (8) March 2016 (2) February 2016 (3) January 2016 (1) December 2015 (16) November 2015 (6) October 2015 (6) September 2015 (7) August 2015 (11) July 2015 (12) June 2015 (4) May 2015 (29) April 2015 (3) November 2013 (1)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0031.json.gz/line388

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