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__label__wiki	0.750371	0.750371	Praising the right way Focus on behaviour or effort when motivating children to build good character and self-esteem By Lea Wee, The Sunday Times, 29 Sep 2013 Ms Noorazlina Noraswad recalls that she was hardly praised as a child. "My parents didn't want me to think too highly of myself," says the 40-year- old staff nurse and a mother of three. When she became a parent, she was determined to be more encouraging. She has read about how praising children can make them more confident and motivate them to behave better - and believes it. Every opportunity she finds to praise her three daughters, aged three to eight, she does it: doing well in school, sharing things with one another and even looking pretty in a nice dress. She says: "I don't think it gives them an inflated sense of self." Her mother, housewife Mariyahma Zainal, 60, says she was stingy with praises for her five children because that was how her own parents brought her up. She says: "Their thinking was, if you praise too much, the children will think they are very clever and won't want to listen to their parents." Compared to previous generations, many Singaporeans today tend to be more generous when it comes to praising their children. But they have to be careful not to overdo it. While the merits of praise in improving children's confidence and motivation have long been recognised, in recent years, the dangers of overpraising has come under scrutiny in the West. Studies show that frequent and often empty praise could undermine a child's self-esteem. Overpraising children - especially those with lower self-esteem - for their personal qualities ("You're such a great person") rather than their efforts ("You must have worked hard for this") may cause them to feel more ashamed if they fail and further lower their self-esteem. But this is not a problem Singaporean parents need to worry about at the moment. Mr Brian Poh, a psychologist from the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Institute of Mental Health, says: "Anecdotal evidence in our clinic tells us that Singaporean parents are not too lavish with their praise." In fact, parents interviewed feel that they should be prudent with their praises, otherwise they would not be effective. Labels: Commentary, Education, Social Values Learning - the Finnish way No exams, no tuition, no streaming, minimal homework and lots of play. Yet Finland consistently produces top students in mathematics, science and literacy. How does the country do it? By Sandra Davie, The Sunday Times, 29 Sep 2013 Like Singapore, Finland, which has a population of 5.4 million, is an education superstar. Its students consistently do as well as top-performing Singapore pupils in international maths and science tests. But a recent study trip by The Sunday Times sponsored by Lien Foundation found that Finnish students take a completely different route to academic excellence. Before going to Primary 1 at age seven, all that Finnish children in pre-schools seem to do is play. And once in school, they do not undergo formal assessments or examinations until they are 18, when they sit for a matriculation examination to enter university. There is also little homework for primary and lower secondary students, and no nationwide standardised testing. And tuition? That is a concept foreign to most Finnish parents. Teachers say the equivalent of Singapore's gifted education scheme or Normal or Express streams would be illegal in Finland because its education policy calls for all children to be given the same opportunities. The only "streaming" allowed occurs at age 16, when students, after being graded by teachers, get to choose whether to take the vocational or academic route. And yet, the Finns have consistently performed in the top tier since the first Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) survey was conducted in 2000. This study compares 15-year- olds in different countries in reading, mathematics and science. So how does Finland do it without the intense pressure and competition that are so much a part of Singapore's system? Finnish educators list a combination of factors, from the strong reading culture - Finnish people borrow more books from libraries than anyone else in the world - to highly educated and well-trained teachers. Many also attribute the success of the Finnish education system to the strong foundation in learning laid in pre-school, where the focus is on cultivating intellectual curiosity and a love of learning in the young. The emphasis is on learning through collaboration, not competition. "All children are given equal opportunities. We put equity ahead of producing top students," says Dr Pasi Sahlberg, who wrote the much-talked-about book, Finnish Lessons, which details how the country improved its mediocre academic results and produced top-performing students. The 53-year-old director-general of CIMO (National Centre for International Mobility and Cooperation) at the Finnish Ministry of Education explains how Finns aim to have good schools for all students, echoing the Singapore Education Ministry's (MOE) recent slogan that "every school is a good school". Dr Sahlberg says Finnish parents really do believe that all Finnish schools are equal. That would explain the puzzled looks given by Finnish parents when The Sunday Times asked how they select a school for their children. The answer: They pick the one closest to home. Labels: Commentary, Education, Outside World, Pre-School, Question & Answer, Social Equity, Tax, Tuition, Welfare State So many varsities, so few students Hundreds of teachers in Taiwan may lose jobs By Lee Seok Hwai, The Straits Times, 28 Sep 2013 MANY of Taiwan's 120 universities are struggling to survive as enrolment numbers fall in tandem with declining birth rates. Experts worry that scores of tertiary institutions, most of them private, may be forced to close and leave hundreds, if not thousands, of teachers jobless. "It will become a very big social problem if such highly educated, mostly middle-aged teachers lose their jobs," said Professor Chou Chu-ing, an education expert at National Chengchi University. Earlier this month, two dozen teachers and students from the Yung-Ta Institute of Technology and Commerce in southern Pingtung county protested outside the Education Ministry in Taipei. The teachers said they had not been paid for eight months, while the students complained that class schedules were still up in the air just one week before the start of the new school year. They all wanted the ministry to take over the running of the private school. At least eight universities have been shortlisted for closure since last year, ministry officials told lawmakers this week. They were found to have poor enrolment of under 100 students and not to have paid teaching staff. The problem, officials and analysts agree, lies in Taiwan's declining birth rate. The number of newborns fell below 300,000 for the first time in 1998 and has since slipped to 234,000 by last year. The Education Ministry expects only 170,000 new undergraduates in 2024 compared with 270,000 in 2015. Some critics blame the glut of universities for exacerbating the problem and the government for not resolving it much earlier. The oversupply has its roots in an education reform in the 1990s that grew out of a civic movement calling for university education to be made accessible to all Taiwanese. This led the government to relax regulations so that the private sector can set up colleges and to allow polytechnics to be upgraded to university status. Meanwhile, the number of vocational training schools fell from 72 to 14. The result is that more than 90 per cent of high school graduates qualify to go to university now compared to 30 per cent 20 years ago. The starting salary of graduates is about NT$25,000 (S$1,060), just NT$2,000 more than that of vocational school graduates, who are now in short supply. Said Prof Chou: "As an ideal, the aspiration for everyone to have a degree is good. But it becomes a problem when we factor in the realities of the job market." Labels: Commentary, Education, Manpower, Outside World, Politics, Population Greening of Singapore not inferior I AGREE with Ms Maria Loh Mun Foong that the grid system of Manhattan's topography makes navigating around the city on foot very easy ("Take a leaf from New York City's book"; Monday). However, I find her observation that Singapore has sacrificed "what little pockets of greenery left in the city to the temples of commerce", in contrast to New York, very curious. The land occupied by Gardens by the Bay could have fetched billions in land revenue and other taxes, but the Government chose to set it aside for an eco-friendly and futuristic park that will blossom with age. Also, man-made Central Park opened in 1857, long before New York City became a bustling global city of skyscrapers, finance and commerce. Comparing a mature park that is more than 150 years old to one that is less than two years old makes little sense. Manhattan is about one-eighth the size of Singapore. Perhaps it would be more instructive to compare it to our core central region, from Buona Vista and Tanglin Village down to Pasir Panjang, Tanjong Pagar, Marina Bay and Kallang. If so, we can claim to have two world-class parks in Gardens by the Bay and the august Botanic Gardens, as well as a few smaller ones like HortPark, an urban reservoir in the form of Marina Barrage, various park connectors and walking trails, and so forth. In short, I do not see the greening of Singapore as inferior in any way to Manhattan's. In fact, I regard our evolving "City in a Garden" concept as among the leading models in the world. To take this vision to the next level, I hope the authorities can consider a world-class community-related park for vertical urban farming, housed in locally inspired eco-friendly architecture right in the heart of the city. There are two very suitable plots of land for such a project: The huge tract framed by Orchard Boulevard, Paterson Road and Grange Road, directly opposite Ion Orchard, or Bay East Garden or Bay Central Garden at Gardens by the Bay. I am confident that such a project will bolster Singapore's standing as a green city, and its substance as a leisure and cultural destination, as well as provide a shot in the arm for the emerging movement to eat locally grown food. Toh Cheng Seong ST Forum, 28 Sep 2013 Labels: Environment, Outside World, Question & Answer, Singapore Trust is a many-splendoured thing There's trust in competence, trust in integrity and trust in benevolence. Some Singaporeans are going through a state of trust-in-transition. What will move people to trust or not trust the Government? By David Chan, Published The Straits Times, 28 Sep 2013 TRUST enables citizens and the Government to work together to build a cohesive and adaptive society - one with good quality of life for all; where Singaporeans can call home. So when we examine the issue of public trust in the Government, it is ultimately about citizen well-being, not the survival of a political party. Trust affects how citizens think, feel and behave. It takes time to build, is easy to lose and once lost, is difficult to restore. Given how critical and complex the concept of trust is, research on trust perceptions may shed light on how and why the public trusts, or distrusts, the Government. Studies have identified three major dimensions of trust: competence, integrity and benevolence. - TRUST IN COMPETENCE: This is about people's confidence in the Government's ability to perform and solve problems. It involves the ability to address issues affecting quality of life and also effectiveness in managing crises. Efficient delivery of public services, low crime rates and a positive record in tackling economic and public-health crises contribute to trust in competence. On the other hand, issues of infrastructure, such as public transport lagging behind population growth, raise doubts relating to trust in competence. - TRUST IN INTEGRITY: This is about people's assessment of the Government's character or the extent to which they think it is not corrupt and is impartial. The focus here is on the integrity of public service officers and political leaders but it also involves the perception of how breaches of integrity are handled. The series of high-profile corruption and sexual impropriety scandals involving politicians and public officers erode trust in integrity. Vigorous action against those caught for corruption, regardless of who they are, may mitigate the erosion of trust to some extent and reinforce the Government's position on zero tolerance for such wrongdoings. - TRUST IN BENEVOLENCE: This is about people's belief in the Government's intentions and motivations - in what it says and does and in people's perceptions about the underlying reasons for a policy or government action. Trust in benevolence increases when people believe that the intention of policy and government action is to serve their interests and is motivated by genuine concern for citizen well-being, as opposed to being influenced by vested private or partisan interests. It gets eroded when people think that policies are formulated by an elite which is disconnected from ground sentiments, is unable to empathise, or does not care enough for the less fortunate or ordinary folk. There has been increasing emphasis on citizen well-being, social mobility, quality of public engagement efforts and humility and empathy in public service. There are also significant policy shifts in housing, health and education. If these emphases and policy shifts are sustainable and translated into intended outcomes that benefit citizens, trust in benevolence will increase. Labels: Active Citizenry, Commentary, Political Engagement, Politics, Trust Online comments: Kill them or fix them? By Alex Hern, Published The Straits Times, 28 Sep 2013 POPULAR Science is closing comments on its articles. Citing "trolls and spambots", the 141- year-old American magazine has decided that an open forum at the bottom of articles "can be bad for science". The decision was "not made lightly", said online content director Suzanne LaBarre - nor, appropriately, without some supporting scientific evidence. Citing research from a study by University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Dominique Brossard, the magazine argued that exposure to bad comments can skew a reader's opinion of the post itself. "Simply including an ad hominem attack in a reader comment was enough to make study participants think the downside of the reported technology was greater than they'd previously thought," Professor Brossard wrote in the New York Times. "If you carry out those results to their logical end," said Ms LaBarre, "commenters shape public opinion; public opinion shapes public policy; public policy shapes how and whether and what research gets funded - you start to see why we feel compelled to hit the 'off' switch." The reaction to Popular Science's announcement was mixed (though on their site, there was silence: comments weren't enabled on the post announcing comments were to be disabled). The Washington Post's Alexandra Petri argued that "it can't come soon enough", but Mr Mathew Ingram of paidContent echoed the sentiment of many, asking: "Why not try to fix comments instead of killing them?" That's what Google's trying to do. The company has announced a major change to the way comments on YouTube, widely seen as the worst of the worst, are displayed. Now, comments will be tied to a commenter's Google+ profile - which they will have to have to be able to comment. When viewing comments, you will be able to see posts from those who your Google+ circles show as friends and acquaintances, or who are "popular personalities" near the top of the thread; by contrast those from random passers-by are relegated further down the list. As already occurs, the video's creator will have a privileged place in the thread. But so too will popular personalities on YouTube. But hiding bad comments only solves part of the problem. For one thing, the person who moderates the comments still has to read all the abuse. It's preferable, surely, to focus on encouraging good comments? That's the approach the Huffington Post is taking, as it attempts to increase the accountability of its commenters. Starting this month, the site is asking new users to verify their identity when creating an account, in the hope that it will "reduce the number of drive-by or automated trolls". "Rather than participating in threads and promoting the best comments, our moderators are stuck policing the trolls with diminishing success," said Mr Jimmy Soni, the group's managing editor. Labels: Commentary, Outside World, Social Media, Social Values Being poor is more than having too little money An inclusive society must ensure the less advantaged are not marginalised By Lydia Lim, The Straits Times, 28 Sep 2013 EARLIER this year, a colleague and I went to a junior college to give a talk on Singapore politics. As I had a sneaking suspicion that this was a topic most 17-year-olds would find less than compelling, I cracked my head for a way to get their attention and to better connect with them. I decided that smartphones might just do the trick, and decided to use the rivalry between Apple's iPhones and the Android phones produced by companies such as Samsung as a way to get a discussion going on political competition. But unintentionally, I had also reminded my audience of the divide between students with smartphones and those without; and as it turns out, this is a difference poorer teens feel keenly. After the talk, an educator was kind enough to let me know my mistake. He said that in future, I should avoid asking students who had iPhones and who had Android phones. He told me that students without smartphones feel so excluded from their peer groups, they need to be counselled. That stunned me, and made me realise how little I know about the lives of fellow Singaporeans whose circumstances are different from mine. I was reminded of this incident when at a National University of Singapore forum on an inclusive society on Tuesday, Nominated MP Laurence Lien cited the lack of a smartphone as a mark of poverty in today's Singapore. Those who cannot afford such devices will not be able to join conversations that increasingly take place over smartphone applications such as WhatsApp, he said. He went on to argue that in measuring poverty, society needs to take into account what people need to spend on items (such as phones) or experiences (a night out) to feel they belong to a group and thus socially included. Mr Lien, who is also chief executive of the National Volunteer and Philanthropy Centre, used the example to illustrate an idea of poverty that has gained currency in Britain. This is the idea of the late British sociologist Peter Townsend that poverty is less about shortage of income and more about the inability of people on low incomes to participate actively in society. Townsend's insight was that poverty is both relative and multidimensional. Mr Lien's point was that Singapore needs better measures of poverty and a better understanding of the daily challenges that poor people face. This in turn relates to a larger question about what it means to be an inclusive society - one that embraces every one of its members and enables each to flourish, leaving no one out in the cold. Labels: Commentary, Income Inequality, Social Equity, Social Media The French can ban the veil but not the English By Andy Ho, The Straits Times, 28 Sep 2013 SINCE 2011, France has banned the niqab from all public spaces. The niqab is the full-face veil that leaves just a slit for the eyes, which some Muslim women wear. British Prime Minister David Cameron recently broached a niqab ban too. This is odd because a niqab ban may be consistent with French history and culture but not with English tradition. In the English media, the issue is portrayed in terms of an individual's right to express her religion. In French discourse, however, the issue is seen through the lens of laicite or "secularism". The free exercise of religion is guaranteed in France by the law concerning the separation of the churches and the state. Passed in 1905, it bears little resemblance to the separation of Church and state in the United States. In the US, the state adopts a hands-off approach to religion. Competition among a diversity of faiths in the religious marketplace is supposed to lead to a stable and peaceable religious pluralism. Not so in France, where the revolution that overthrew the regime of Louis XVI in 1789 was viciously anti-clerical. The revolutionaries perceived the Catholic Church as being in an alliance with the monarchy and smashed first the monarchy, then the Church. Setting up the Republic, they vowed never to let class or religion divide society again. So the republicans passed a law to confiscate all Church property in 1790, permitting the Church to use it only at the state's pleasure. To this day, the state owns and maintains all churches constructed before 1905, including the world-renowned cathedrals of Paris, Chartres, and Reims. In French society, the Church is thus kept reliant upon and subject to the state. French laws targeting Muslims arguably also aim to rein in Islam and make it subject to the state. (Earlier, in 2004, France also passed a law forbidding girls from wearing the hijab or headscarf in schools). Such state control of religion since the revolution is justified in terms of laicite. Enshrined in the Constitution, it is a doctrine of citizenship grounded in liberty, equality and fraternity. In this conception, faith-based diversity of views can be seen as a threat to social cohesion. A common school system tries to inculcate the national values of equality, non-discrimination and dignity. The French assimilationist project expects all, including immigrants, to give up their communal identities in public. In public spaces, French people are to express their common values, especially human dignity, by treating no one differently. This requires that there be no segregation on the basis of gender, ethnicity, religion, class, disability and so on. In particular, explicitly religious expression must be sequestered from public affairs. For example, proselytising in public is not permitted. Thus also the ban on wearing the niqab in public. There is apparently a wide consensus on all this - and that the state is the organ to enforce this laicite. This is evident from the fact that the senate, as elected representatives of the people, voted 335 to one to pass the 2011 law. But this avowedly illiberal doctrine of laicite would have no place in England, where religion occupies a much larger place in the public sphere. Despite very low church attendance today, the Church of England has a unique constitutional position afforded by the Act of Supremacy 1558. Labels: Commentary, Law & Order, Outside World, Religion Curb rising cost of health insurance, allow switch By Salma Khalik, The Straits Times, 28 Sep 2013 IN ITS current tweaking of health-care financing, the Ministry of Health (MOH) should give some thought to MediShield integrated plans and see how they can be better regulated. After all, 60 per cent of residents here have opted for this higher coverage, which sits on top of the basic MediShield plan that covers 92 per cent of residents. Five insurance companies now provide more than 20 different MediShield integrated plans. Coverage is typically grouped into three categories: the priciest plan covers treatment in private hospitals; another plan covers A-class patients in a public hospital; and a cheaper plan offers coverage up to B1-class rates in a public hospital. Policyholders may go to more expensive wards than their coverage allows, but top up the difference in rates themselves. At a quick glance, with more than 20 integrated plans to choose from, the Integrated Shield market appears to be highly competitive. But health insurance is very different from, say, car insurance, where drivers can switch companies to get the lowest premium rates. There are two issues that need addressing: people cannot easily change plans; and the premiums rise sharply. Stuck with a plan THE first problem occurs because once people enrol for a MediShield integrated plan, they are stuck with it - and its premium rises. This is because insurance companies provide full coverage only for people who are healthy at the time they join. It becomes almost impossible for someone over 60 - or even 40 - to switch plans without incurring hefty penalties. That's because a profit-driven insurer will reject those already deemed unhealthy, or cover them but exclude those conditions. By the age of 40, 12 per cent of people here have diabetes, 17 per cent have high blood pressure and 18 per cent have high cholesterol levels. Labels: Commentary, Health, Medisave/MediShield, Question & Answer Singapore Hainanese heritage explored in 2 new books Works address migration of dialect group here, along with prominent members By Leong Weng Kam, The Straits Times, 28 Sep 2013 FORMER MP and clan leader Chau Sik Ting, now 73, wants to promote the research of Hainanese culture and heritage, as well as the Chinese dialect group's contributions to modern Singapore. The general practitioner and MP for Thomson between 1980 and 1984 formed the Hainan Culture and Heritage Research Centre in 2011. The centre has just published its first two books - a two-volume set in Chinese - featuring nine top Hainanese in Singapore including economist Lim Chong Yah and former minister Mah Bow Tan, and a collection of essays on the history of Hainanese migration. Acting Minister for Culture, Community and Youth Lawrence Wong launched the centre and the books at a dinner attended by about 300 guests at the Marriott Hotel last night. Dr Chau, a former president of the Singapore Hainan Hwee Kuan, said the centre aims to leave "something" behind for the Hainanese community here which is about 200,000 strong. It is the fourth-largest Chinese dialect group here after the Hokkiens, Teochews and Cantonese. "We want them to know what their forefathers have done for Singapore and hope that their spirit of adventure, hard work and perseverance will inspire them," added Dr Chau who chairs the centre. The centre's secretary-general Foo Kok Pheow, 73, said it would also be linking up with Hainanese from all over the world with its programmes. The books' chief editor Lim Hong Too, 83, said the volume of essays comprises mainly papers from Chinese scholars who attended a seminar on Hainanese migration organised by the centre in China two years ago. Miss Vicky Han, 52, writer of the two-volume book of profiles, said it took her two years to complete the task. Other personalities she featured are the late Confucian scholar Wu Teh Yao, retired civil servant Ngiam Tong Dow, Great Eastern Holdings chairman Fang Ai Lian, real estate veteran Han Cheng Fong and SIM University chairman Cham Tao Soon. Also featured are Dr Chau's late father Chao Yoke San, a Chinese community leader and philanthropist, and Dr Chau's younger brother, Court of Appeal Judge Chao Hick Tin. Labels: Books, Community, Heritage, People, Population, Singapore Fast-ageing Singapore, fewer to support aged; Total population at 5.4 million as of June 2013 Experts fear this will exert pressure on economy, society and governance By Tessa Wong, The Straits Times, 27 Sep 2013 SINGAPOREANS are living longer and not having enough babies to replace themselves, meaning the swiftly ageing population has fewer working citizens supporting the growing pool of elderly. These worrying trends, which emerged from the latest population figures released yesterday, can exert significant pressure on Singapore's economy, society and governance in future, said experts. They added that those working may have to toil longer and pay more taxes, and the Government will need to invest more in elder-friendly facilities. These will be in demand by a growing number of Singaporeans, with those aged 65 and above forming 11.7 per cent of the citizen population this year, up from 7.8 per cent in 2002. This year's Population in Brief report also showed that the old-age support ratio - which is the number of citizens in the working age band of 20 to 64 needed to support one older citizen - is decreasing rapidly. It has fallen from 8.4 in 2000 to 5.5 today. But a better picture emerges when permanent residents are included, with the ratio at 6.4 this year, down from 8.7 in 2002. According to World Bank data, Singapore has the highest proportion of older residents and the fastest ageing population in South-east Asia. It is greying much faster than other developed nations such as Australia, the United States and most European countries, though the rate is on a par with Hong Kong's and slower than Japan's and South Korea's. Economists and demographers say this will mean greater demand for health care and eldercare services, and elder-friendly infrastructure such as barrier-free accessibility features in transport and housing. DBS economist Irvin Seah said that with the Government inevitably spending more, it will mean a "heavier financial burden on the working population, which in turn may mean higher taxes". But Ms Selena Ling of OCBC said that the state may continue with its redistributive tax model, where the rich pay more through wealth and asset taxes. "Singapore has been financially prudent, we can afford to draw down on our reserves as well," the economist added. An ageing population will also require a slight "reorientation" of the economy, she said. This would involve a greater focus on developing medical services and attracting more workers to the sector, as well as increasing productivity and the use of technology in jobs so that people can continue to work as they age. Labels: Ageing, Ageing-in-Place, Caregiving, Foreign Workers, Immigration, Population, Population White Paper, PR, Question & Answer, Singapore, Trade-Offs, Video Once China catches up - what then? By Lee Kuan Yew, Published The Straits Times, 27 Sep 2013 BARRING any major disruption, the speed at which China is growing in terms of total gross domestic product will enable it to catch up with the US by 2020. China will then go on to surpass America. During the 1978-2011 period, China's high average rate of growth - about 10 per cent annually - was the result of Deng Xiaoping's 1978 trip to Singapore and his subsequent decision to implement economic reforms and open the economy to international investment. During that period, the US economy's annual growth rate was 2 per cent to 3 per cent. Despite the financial debt crisis in Europe and the turmoil in US markets over the past few years, China's economy has continued to register strong growth. According to the World Bank, China's US$8.22 trillion (S$10.3 trillion) economy is now the second largest in the world, compared with the US$15.68 trillion US economy. China is the world's largest exporter and its second-largest importer. The recent global economic crisis has allowed China to close its economic gap with the world's top developed nations. In 2012, China's per capita GDP was US$9,233, compared with US$49,965 in the US. In 2020, China's per capita GDP is projected to reach US$10,000, one-fifth that projected for the US. China's population in 2012 was 1.4 billion, America's 316.5 million. In 2020, China's population will remain four times that of the US. China's economic growth rate will continue to increase at a much higher rate because the base upon which its economy will grow is enormous in comparison. Just as the US Interstate Highway System changed the way people and goods move across America, so China's National Trunk Highway System will facilitate economic development. China's highways have grown rapidly in total length, from 271km in 1990 to 85,000km in 2011, making this the world's longest national freeway system. The US Interstate Highway System - started in 1956 and considered complete in 1991 - totals 47,182 miles (75,932km). It is not expected to grow significantly going forward. China, on the other hand, continues to expand its expressways and is intent on connecting all provincial capitals and cities with populations over 200,000 residents. These new highways and the economic growth they will drive will help close the gap with the US. And when China does surpass America, the question then will be whether these two great major powers will cooperate or compete. I believe that during the next 30 years, the Chinese will have no desire to enter into a conflict with the US. They know they will continue to grow stronger, but they are also aware of how far behind they are technologically. They require continued access to American schools so their students can learn how to reinvent themselves. What is it that makes Americans so much more versatile and innovative? I believe the Chinese have come to the conclusion that the answer lies in the differing natures of the two societies. Innovation and creativity are a part of the American culture, a natural trait of an immigrant society. Labels: Commentary, Economics, Lee Kuan Yew, Outside World ST cartoon + maths formulas = PM's Facebook likes The Straits Times, 27 Sep 2013 PRIME Minister Lee Hsien Loong has shown a side of himself that many knew was there but few had seen in public for some time. Yesterday, the mathematics whiz was drawn to a cartoon by The Straits Times artist Miel Prudencio Rosales Jr on education resources going online by 2016 which included a complex, though apparently accurate, formula. Sharing the strip on Facebook, PM Lee wrote: "Was enjoying Miel's cartoon in Straits Times today, when I noticed, to my astonishment and delight, that the maths formulas in the pictures not only made sense, but were correct! "Usually such 'math formulas' drawn in cartoons are just gibberish." Apparently the formulas were for combinations and permutations that, as PM Lee pointed out, would be familiar only to those doing A-level maths. Miel said he picked the formulas as he was thinking of the kind of learning that would take place in the future. He added that he was honoured to have been mentioned by the PM but said: "If I think too much about it, I won't be able to come up with my next cartoon." The post picked up nearly 3,000 likes and 84 comments within four hours. One commenter named Larry Tan wrote: "Once a mathematician, always a mathematician." Mr Lee topped his class and graduated with a double first-class honours in mathematical statistics and mathematical economics from Cambridge University. Labels: Education, Humour, Lee Hsien Loong, People, Science, Social Media MOE Work Plan Seminar 2013: Big push to nurture all-round students Shift from exam focus will help them thrive in today's world: Swee Keat By Sandra Davie, The Straits Times, 26 Sep 2013 SCHOOLS will have to go beyond equipping students for examinations and prepare them for life, Education Minister Heng Swee Keat said yesterday as he spelt out new initiatives to make the shift happen. Speaking at the Ministry of Education's (MOE) annual workplan seminar at Ngee Ann Polytechnic, he took pains to explain why Singapore's education system - admired worldwide for producing top performers in maths and science - had to change course. The reason: A globalised world and a future marked by unpredictability. The education system, he said, needs to now produce all-round students who can work with people from different backgrounds and adapt to what companies term a "VUCA" environment - volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous. "To deal with the demands of a VUCA environment, good grades in school are not enough. In fact, they might not even be relevant." To thrive in such a world, students "need to have the confidence to deal with problems that have no clear-cut solutions", he said. "And they need to be able to work effectively with others across races and nationalities." The demands of the future are not just economic, he noted. "For a strong social fabric... our young must care for one another and be committed to our collective future," he said, before explaining how MOE plans to achieve this. He announced that by 2017, all secondary schools will offer two distinct schemes to stretch students beyond academics. One is an applied learning programme to help students grasp the relevance and value of their lessons, and to develop a love for learning. He highlighted several schools such as Hai Sing Catholic and Outram Secondary which are already doing this through robotics and entrepreneurship programmes. The second is the Learning for Life programme, which aims to get students to understand more about themselves and how they relate to others, through the arts, sports, outdoor adventures or volunteer work. All primary and secondary schools will have teams to plan and oversee the holistic development of students at every level. In both programmes, the idea is to have students learn beyond academics. The MOE will leave it to schools to design their own activities, but it will help them link up with industry partners or government agencies for advice. "When fully implemented, our student, whether his home is in Woodlands or Toa Payoh or Jurong or Tampines, will have a colourful landscape of distinctive schools to choose from," said the minister. As for the Primary School Leaving Examination scoring system and expansion of the Direct School Admission system to take into account a student's character and leadership skills, details will be released later, he said. But the changes will support MOE's plans to move away from an exam-based system. On concerns that the changes will move schools towards mediocrity, he disagreed, saying: "They will allow us to achieve excellence in a broader and more enduring sense." He concluded: "Will it make Singapore a better society? I believe so, if our students grow up not just smart, but with a heart." Labels: Education, Govt Action, Heng Swee Keat, IT, National Day Rally 2013, Pre-School, PSLE, Robots, Social Values, Speeches, Video, Youth 10 firms slammed for biased job ads Foreign hire ban after asking for specific nationality, gender or age By Amelia Tan, The Straits Times, 26 Sep 2013 TEN companies have been banned from hiring new foreign workers for six months after placing discriminatory job advertisements. The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) said yesterday that the 10, which included five employment agencies, were taken to task after they could not give valid justifications for the ads asking for specific nationalities, gender or ages. The companies, which have removed the offending portions from their ads and put up online apologies for 30 days, include PSC Biotech, Winshire Education Centre, Dr Ci:Labo, Modern Pak and Global Citizen Forum. Cosmetics firm Dr Ci:Labo, for instance, had wanted a Japanese or Singaporean, aged 30 to 50, for the position of general manager. Youbook, Accredit HR Consultancy, Stafflink Services, Sky Asia Consulting and Zingmi were also punished. MOM found that the employment firms had misinterpreted their clients' requirements. Sky Asia, for example, stated that female Chinese were preferred to fill administration coordinator and sales support roles. Meanwhile, Accredit HR Consultancy posted an ad for an assistant store manager, and it indicated: "Filipinos welcomed". A ministry spokesman told The Straits Times that MOM will continue to educate employment agencies, which play an important role in advising clients on how to comply with fair employment guidelines. Fair employment watchdog Tripartite Alliance for Fair Employment Practices said that in June, it organised a briefing, with MOM, for more than 300 employment agencies. This is the second time this year that companies have been hauled up for placing discriminatory ads. Labels: Foreign Workers, Gender, Govt Action, Law & Order, Manpower, Singapore, Video Most local residents give casinos a miss By Janice Tai, The Straits Times, 26 Sep 2013 THREE years after the two casinos opened, 7.7 per cent of adult local residents have made more than one visit to either. The "vast majority" of the remaining 92.3 per cent - both Singaporeans and permanent residents (PRs) - did not go at all, said the Casino Regulatory Authority (CRA) in its latest annual report. It did not give absolute numbers. Making these figures public for the first time, it said the number of visits by Singaporeans and PRs had also fallen since the casinos opened. They made a daily average of 17,000 visits last year, down from 20,000 in 2010. This is likely due to the novelty of the casinos wearing off, CRA chairman Richard Magnus said in his foreword. Stringent safeguards - particularly the $100 entry levy - were cited as another factor. A total of $174 million from both daily and annual entry levies was collected last year, a dip from $216 million in 2010. Gaming analysts pointed to the strong social safeguards in place that keep local residents away. "No other major gaming market has such a punitive entry levy - most have no levy - so it is not surprising that local visitation would decline," said analyst Grant Govertsen of Las Vegas-based Union Gaming Group. The analysts estimated that the percentage of local patronage is comparable to that of other gaming jurisdictions. For example, about 7 per cent of the adult population in Britain visited a casino in the past 12 months, said Global Betting and Gaming Consultants chief executive Warwick Bartlett. Labels: Gambling, Question & Answer Ex-offenders help ease labour crunch Number of employers listed on Score database rises to 3,800 By Lim Yan Liang, The Straits Times, 25 Sep 2013 AS THE manpower crunch bites, one group is reaping the benefits - former prison inmates. Bosses are increasingly turning to them as a way of coping with the shortage of workers. About 3,800 employers are now listed on the database of the Singapore Corporation of Rehabilitative Enterprises (SCORE). Last year, there were just 3,400, while the figure for 2011 was 2,800. Former offenders usually command relatively low starting salaries - from $1,300 a month for a cook or warehouse assistant. This makes hiring them a good way for companies to take on more Singaporeans, who may normally be too expensive to hire. And it saves firms from having to recruit foreign workers, which has been made more difficult by a slew of policy changes introduced throughout the year. Yesterday's figures were revealed at SCORE's annual Appreciation Awards at the National Community Leadership Institute. Sixty-five people and organisations were recognised for helping former offenders reintegrate into society via the workplace. Every year, SCORE trains about 5,000 inmates and matches 2,000 workers with employers. Acting Minister for Manpower Tan Chuan Jin, who was guest of honour at the event, said it was encouraging to see so many companies stepping forward to provide former offenders with job opportunities. Some make a special effort to help them reintegrate smoothly into society, providing structured orientation programmes and mentorship schemes. "The extra mile that might not seem hugely significant to us can mean all the world to the people you're reaching out to," said Mr Tan. "And it's not just the offenders that you help; in many instances, it's about their families as well." SCORE chief executive Teo Tze Fang said hiring former inmates was not just a way of beating the manpower crunch. He added that many employers put in place "progressive and supportive work systems" to keep them satisfied, such as on-the-job training. "I'm happy to note that increasingly... (firms) are also having regular HR feedback sessions in order to understand the needs of such new employees," said Mr Teo. He said SCORE had also been helping to make sure former offenders have a reasonable starting salary that allows them to survive in Singapore. Labels: Community, Law & Order, Manpower, Video Childcare centres get funds to open in more areas $40m over five years to help operators open in high-demand areas By Priscilla Goy, The Straits Times, 25 Sep 2013 PARENTS in areas where there are not enough childcare centres may soon find it easier to secure places for their children. A slew of new measures were unveiled yesterday to encourage childcare operators to open more centres in areas with high demand for such services. For instance, operators can get rental subsidies even when they set up centres in commercial buildings like malls. Currently, subsidies are given to eligible operators only for centres in Housing Board premises such as void-deck areas. To house these new centres, developers of commercial premises will be given incentives - in the form of additional floor area - when they set aside space for childcare facilities. The Government will set aside up to $40 million over the next five years to fund these schemes, in the latest round of measures to ramp up childcare places. The schemes unveiled yesterday were targeted at small and mid-sized childcare centres run by commercial and non-profit operators. These operators have found it hard to cope with rising rentals, and to compete with bigger players for space to expand. About 847 of the 1,070 childcare centres here are run by small and mid-sized operators. Under a scheme announced yesterday, these operators can apply from October for rental subsidies when they set up centres in commercial premises in areas where pre-school services are in high demand. The Government will subsidise 30 per cent of rental costs for commercial centres, and 60 per cent for those run by voluntary welfare organisations. Currently, commercial operators do not qualify for rental subsidies. Non-profit ones can apply for help, but only when they set up centres at HDB void decks. To get the subsidies, operators must meet affordability and quality criteria. For instance, fees must be capped at $850 a month for a full-day childcare programme over three years after their application for the scheme is approved. "We want to enhance our support to operators to expand their operations in these high-demand areas," Minister for Social and Family Development Chan Chun Sing said on the sidelines of a visit to Just Kids Learning Place, a childcare centre at Taman Jurong Shopping Centre. High-demand areas include Punggol, Sengkang, Jurong West, Woodlands and Tampines. Some of these areas are new estates with many young couples, and childcare centres in these places usually have long waiting lists. Labels: Govt Action, Pre-School, Video More help for couples trying to conceive By Grace Chua, The Straits Times, 25 Sep 2013 FROM Oct 1, couples trying for a baby using assisted conception procedures will be able to use their Medisave funds for more than the current three cycles, said the Health Ministry (MOH) in a statement yesterday. This is because the Government has co-funded up to three-quarters of each assisted reproduction cycle at public hospitals for eligible couples since January, so couples need to use less of their Medisave each time. The enhanced Marriage and Parenthood Package is intended to help Singaporeans have children. Previously, the Government paid for up to 50 per cent of each cycle, up to three cycles. "Since then, some Singaporeans have asked for more flexibility in the use of Medisave to complement the enhanced co-funding scheme," said a Health Ministry spokesman. But while MOH has lifted the three-cycle cap on Medisave claims, the cumulative Medisave use allowed remains at $15,000 to ensure couples do not deplete their Medisave prematurely. Assisted conception procedures include artificial insemination, in-vitro fertilisation and other techniques. Currently, Medisave can be used for these procedures at any public or private assisted reproduction centres. The current Medisave withdrawal limit is $6,000 for the first treatment cycle, $5,000 for the second and $4,000 for the third. The change will allow couples to use Medisave for the fourth and subsequent cycles, subject to a $4,000 limit each, up to a cumulative total of $15,000. Last year, a single cycle of IVF treatment here typically cost between $7,000 and $14,000. 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Kishore Mahbubani: I have a dream for Singapore Japanese expats volunteer to clean up parks, streets Invest in pre-schools to narrow the gap 'Value of multilingual skills is growing' Singaporeans' attitudes to race: IPS-OnePeople.sg ... New rules to curb credit card debt, unsecured loan... Human Capital Key to Business Performance Singapore is missing new software boat Disabled's new drive to tackle apathy Keeping pathways to success open to all Singaporeans S'pore and Vietnam take ties to new heights 7 habits of a Singaporean Reluctance to work abroad limits us: Prime Ministe... Survey: Too few go for regular colorectal cancer s... Social work veteran Abu Bakar Maidin dies, aged 86 Pre-school sector gets S$6m boost Bids not the highest but childcare centre operator... 17 overhead bridges to be fitted with lifts by 2016 COE system tweaked to factor in engine power from ... Why it’s still worth learning from Finland Shop for free at Taiwan's food banks CGH to expand home care support for needy patients A 12-year-old who prefers volunteering to gaming S’poreans must develop spirit of taking care of on... When Big Government gets even bigger MediShield Life to cover pre-existing illnesses, a... NUS online modules to give NSmen an early start Construction firms offer pay hikes to skilled workers	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line856
__label__cc	0.627159	0.372841	An interactive Web-based scenario analysis tool which allows the concurrent assessment of multiple energy objectives ©2011 iStockphoto LP The Energy Multi-Criteria Analysis (MCA) tool allows energy decision makers and planners to conduct a comprehensive and integrated assessment of the major energy challenges of the 21st century and, in so doing, to make more informed choices about the sustainable energy development pathways on which they will embark in the future. Swift action is required on sustainable energy; energy system vulnerability is increasing, especially in developing countries. The Energy MCA tool was developed to support the Global Energy Assessment (GEA), launched in 2012 The tool is designed to help decision makers interactively analyze, compare, and tackle energy's social, economic, and sectoral impacts in an integrated manner. About the Energy MCA interactive tool The Energy Multi-Criteria Analysis (MCA) tool was developed at IIASA in support of the Global Energy Assessment (GEA). Extensive collaboration within IIASA's integrated research environment helped to bring this software to fruition. A manual describing the tool and its functioning has also been prepared. The tool was populated with a broad and diverse (600+) ensemble of energy futures, each of which meets the different objectives for energy sustainability in a unique way. These energy futures were generated using IIASA's MESSAGE Integrated Assessment Modeling Framework. The tool provides a comprehensive and interactive overview to allow decision makers compare the various synergies and trade-offs involved when each of the four main energy sustainability objectives - climate, energy security, health, and costs - is prioritized over the rest. The possibility to personalize the priorities in the tool is particularly useful, as not all objectives are given the same priority by different policymakers. The tool allows users to see how alternative worldviews, in other words, different priorities, can lead to qualitatively different energy system futures. It also permits users to visualize the complex, and not always obvious, synergies and trade-offs of the different policy choices they are considering making. How the Energy MCA interactive tool works The MESSAGE-generated scenarios are individual energy and climate scenarios that represent unique future states of the world, in which energy sustainability objectives are satisfied to varying degrees. The four major objectives related to achieving energy sustainability - climate, energy security, health, and costs - can be assessed using the tool. Importantly, all the scenarios that populate the Energy MCA tool meet a global target of almost universal access to electricity and clean cooking fuels by 2030. Policies to achieve this target can be examined using the Energy Access Tool. The Energy Multi-Criteria Analysis interactive tool allows users select their priorities for energy sustainability by moving the interactive slider bars shown on the tool interface (upper left), and to assign a relative importance to each. Costs Policy costs, total energy investments, climate mitigation investments, pollution control costs, energy security investments, 2010–2030 Air pollution & health PM2.5 emissions, 2000–2100, DALYs [disability adjusted life years], 2030 Energy security Energy import dependence, energy diversity and resilience, 2000–2100 Climate change GHG emissions, CO2-equiv concentrations, temperature change, 2000–2100 Energy system development Primary energy, final energy, electricity generation, 2000–2100 Energy Multi-Criteria Analysis interactive tool ENE-MCA User Manual The Next Energy Transition: Transformative Pathways, Choices and Opportunities Global Energy Assessment (GEA) GEA Home Page GEA Chapter 17 Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line857
__label__wiki	0.519044	0.519044	5551 Kensington Ave 5551 Kensington Ave, Est. Value* : $81,890 5551 Kensington Ave is a single family home in Detroit, MI. This home was built in 1930 and includes three bathrooms and 2,578 square feet of living space. Additional features include a parking garage, fireplace, and hot water heating system. In 11/13/2014, this property sold for $13,000. Today, the estimated home value is around $81,890. Frequently asked questions about 5551 Kensington Ave and the surrounding community. How is the neighborhood? 5551 Kensington Ave is located in a community that is home to 56,226 residents, which has increased by 2.2% since 2000. 66.4% of the residents are families with children. The largest age group is between 45 to 54 (14.65%), while the second-largest age group is between 35 to 44 (13.64%). What is the cost of living? The average family living near 5551 Kensington Ave has a median household income of $40,096 and spends about $37,191 annually. What is the crime rate? The neighborhood surrounding 5551 Kensington Ave is relatively unsafe since the personal crime risk (including both violent and non-violent crimes) is 41%, which is higher than the state average of 11%. Property crime risk is 35.8%, which is higher than the state average of 10.7%. How are the schools? The state average SAT score is 1124. How’s the job market? About 50.2% of the residents near 5551 Kensington Ave have blue-collar jobs, while the remaining 49.8% have white-collar jobs. The unemployment rate is about 6.3%, which is higher than the state unemployment rate of 3.7%. What is the weather like year-round? The average temperature for 5551 Kensington Ave is about 22.6 degrees in January and 72.5 degrees in July. The average rainfall is around 34.7 inches per year. The average snowfall is around 30.4 inches per year. Is there a risk of a natural disaster? 5551 Kensington Ave resides in an area with low flood risk, low tornado risk, and low earthquake risk. Hi - I was searching on HomeFinder.com, and I'd like to chat with you about properties for sale near Detroit. Garage, Detached 11/13/2014 $13,000 Sold 7/29/2019 $14,500 Sold 10412 Merlin Street, - ERA Reardon Realty - 217066321 5558 BALFOUR RD, Nader Shariff - RE/MAX Leading Edge - DNH40074578 Matthew Bush - RE/MAX First - DNH40115837 11364 Lakepointe St, - CENTURY 21 Curran & Oberski - 218040024 10184 Roxbury Street, Tim Hillmer - CENTURY 21 Curran & Oberski - 2200085036 11032 PEERLESS ST, Anthony Bellanca - RE/MAX First - DNH40121271 3455 BUCKINGHAM AVE, Lyndsey Sass - RE/MAX Leading Edge - DNH40131350 20260 KENOSHA ST,, Harper Woods, MI 48225 Jessica Toomer - CENTURY 21 Today, Inc. - 2200098664 11559 Duchess Street, Patrick Czech - CENTURY 21 Curran & Oberski - 2200089326 2017 $2,322 $0 $0 $22,600 Earthquake Risk Earthquake Low Risk Earthquake Risk Grade: B+	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line858
__label__wiki	0.633602	0.633602	Dartmouth Idol 2020 Live with the Idols Hosted by Walt Cunningham Enjoy some of the highlights of the 2020 Dartmouth Idol Finals, and hear live chat by some of the contestants and director Walt Cunningham. Missed the live stream? Honoring one of Dartmouth's best-loved traditions—and recalling one of the last Spaulding performances of this academic year—Walt will be joined by this year's finalists to relive the 2020 Idol experience and introduce performances from the Finals. The Dartmouth Idol Finals show features some of Dartmouth's great new singing voices, singing classic and contemporary music of all types—with a big band, back-up singers and dancers, innovative staging, and that performance magic that director Walt Cunningham never fails to deliver. Started in 2008, Dartmouth Idol draws students from all corners of campus to engage in a friendly, inclusive, high-energy singing competition. Chosen from dozens of entrants, a group of semi-finalists compete in a karaoke-style Semi-Finals show, from which six contestants progress to the Finals a month later. In the intervening month, the Finalists work with Walt, each other, and other talented singers, dancers and musicians from throughout campus to fashion a spectacular culminating show. For technical assistance accessing the YouTube event, please call the Box Office at 603-646-2422, available on the night of the event from 6-8 pm. View Facebook Event Visit Information This event occurred as part of the 19/20 Hop@Home season. This is an archived view. Meet The Finalists of Dartmouth Idol 2020! At the Hop, winter term means one thing: it's Idol season. Now in its 13th year, Dartmouth Idol, directed by Walt Cunningham, is already in the works. The semi-finals on January 31 saw twenty-nine... The Hop's new season represents musicians that vault over the boundaries of genre and geography, stirring works by a new generation of dancers and theatre-makers, and conversations about the arts and...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line863
__label__wiki	0.813434	0.813434	Can Gays Be Outed By Their Vowels? Written by Kevin Farrell on May 25, 2011 Can somebody determine your sexual orientation just by listening to you say a single word? Sure can, according to a team of Ohio State University psychologists. HealthDay reports: For the average listener, the vowel sounds in an unfamiliar voice quickly give away the speaker’s sexual orientation, a new study finds. “I’m not sure what exactly the listeners are responding to in the vowel,” study lead author Erik C. Tracy, a cognitive psychologist at Ohio State University, said in a news release from the American Institute of Physics. “Other researchers have done various acoustic analyses to understand why gay and heterosexual men produce vowels differently. Whatever this difference is, it seems that listeners are using it to make this sexual orientation decision.” In order to understand how this process works, Tracy and a colleague focused on one characteristic — sexual orientation. They asked seven gay and seven heterosexual males to record single-syllable words (including “mass,” “food” and “sell”) and then played the recordings for listeners. The study participants were then asked to identify the sexual orientation of the speakers when hearing only the first letter sound of those words, the first two letter sounds, or the entire words. The listeners were unable to determine the sexual orientation after hearing the sound of the first letter in the spoken word, for example, just the “m” sound in the word “mass.” But, “when presented with the first two letter sounds [for example “ma”], listeners were 75 percent accurate,” Tracy said. “We believe that listeners are using the acoustic information contained in vowels to make this sexual orientation decision,” he explained. Food for thought, eh? (Featured Image via @wreckandsalvage Salvage) homosexuality mental health Researchers Are Studying the Science of Sexuality With Identical Twins, One Gay and One Straight Among Guys, Gay Men Run the Highest Risk of Prescription Opioid Misuse The Kids Are Not Alright: A Third of Teenage First Offenders Identify as LGBTQ The Largest Ever Study of Gay and Straight Men's DNA Revealed a Key Genetic Difference	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line864
__label__cc	0.58004	0.41996	Permission Instructions Individual Works HR Poets Online A Magazine of Literature and the Arts “Since the spring of 1948, when its first issue appeared, The Hudson Review has been a welcome voice of urbanity and sophistication in the world of American arts and letters.” — The New Criterion To read this article, purchase the Summer 2002 issue. Arts Review from the Summer 2002 issue. Save or Share © 2021 The Hudson Review site by sonnet media	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line870
__label__cc	0.669265	0.330735	The ultra-selective hydrogenation of Furfural on PtCu supported bimetallic nanoparticles and on Pt(111) under ultra-high vacuum Dr Martin Taylor Martin.Taylor@hull.ac.uk Georgios Kyriakou The selective transformation of furfural, a biomass platform molecule, was studied on Pt based heterogeneous catalysts and model single crystal surfaces. Hydrogenation reactions were carried out at pressures ranging from ultra-high vacuum to 20 bar. Temperature Programmed Desorption data in conjunction with Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy suggest that the decarbonylation of furfural on clean Pt(111) and the hydrogenation of furfural on hydrogen pre-covered Pt(111) is governed by surface crowding, molecular orientation and hydrogen bonding networks of the adsorbed molecules. Liquid phase experimentation on Pt nanoparticles, dispersed on a wide range of oxide supports, show that Pt is a very active hydrogenation catalyst even at very mild temperature and pressure conditions. The reaction was found to be highly dependent on the solvent used, while catalyst support is critical for maintaining thermally stable, monodisperse nanoparticles. The addition of Cu into Pt nanoparticles was investigated in a range of Pt:Cu metal molar ratios varying from pure Pt to pure Cu¬. This was achieved by using a modified polyol synthesis to generate colloidal nanoparticles, followed by thermal processing. Bimetallic particles synthesized using a sulphur free Cu precursor, were found to be beneficial for the suppression of CO adsorption, normally a poison for this reaction, which is formed from the decarbonylation of furfural. The alloying of these two metals had a profound effect on the overall catalytic activity by providing superior initial rates of reaction and catalytic turnover, as well as achieving high selectivities towards furfuryl alcohol, surpassing the behaviour of pure Pt catalyst across 3 different pressures. Finally, Single Atom Alloys (SAA), formed via the galvanic replacement of dispersed host Cu nanoparticles by Pt was investigated. Pt:Cu nanoparticles with atomic ratios ranging from 1:20 to 0.5:250 were synthesized and tested. After overcoming a brief induction period due to the reduction of surface CuO and possibly the reordering of the surface atoms, SAAs exhibit extremely high rates of hydrogenation, surpassing the catalytic turnover for monometallic and bimetallic catalysts. These cutting edge materials are at the frontier of catalyst research, proving to be ideal materials for the future of green chemistry due to both their activity and economic viability. Taylor, M. The ultra-selective hydrogenation of Furfural on PtCu supported bimetallic nanoparticles and on Pt(111) under ultra-high vacuum. (Thesis). Aston University. Retrieved from https://hull-repository...ribe.com/output/1356923 https://research.aston.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-ultraselective-hydrogenation-of-furfural-on-ptcu-supported-bimetallic-nanoparticles-and-on-pt111-under-ultrahigh-vacuum(1b8c07ec-88c9-44a2-b50f-0b461d70dae8).html A comprehensive experimental and theoretical study of the CO + NO reaction catalyzed by Au/Ni nanoparticles (2019) Monometallic and bimetallic catalysts based on Pd, Cu and Ni for hydrogen transfer deoxygenation of a prototypical fatty acid to diesel range hydrocarbons (2019) Effect of support oxygen storage capacity on the catalytic performance of Rh nanoparticles for CO2 reforming of methane (2018) In-situ hydrogen generation from 1,2,3,4-tetrahydronaphthalene for catalytic conversion of oleic acid to diesel fuel hydrocarbons: Parametric studies using Response Surface Methodology approach (2018) Cover Picture: Ann. Phys. 2'2018 (2018)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line871
__label__wiki	0.508781	0.508781	1933 Buick Series 60 Sport Coupe 1933 was the low point in Buick production during the Great Depression with only 40,620 cars built, but under the leadership of energetic and efficient Buick boss Harlow Curtice, the company was able to capitalize on admitted advantages such as the valve-in-head inline-eight that powered all Buick models and the new for 1933 X-braced frame to reinvigorate the brand and vault it to third place in the Detroit production race in just a few years. Listed in the factory brochures as the Sport Coupe with Rumbleseat, this 1933 example is remarkably rare, one of only about a thousand built in this coupe body style. Finished in cream with chocolate brown fenders, red painted wire wheels and a tan cloth interior, it also features whitewall tires, dual enclosed sidemount spares, dual chrome horns, aftermarket turn signals, rear-mounted trunk rack and rumble seat as well as a wood grain dash and window surrounds. Powered by Buick’s 273 cubic inch, 97 horsepower straight-eight, this Series 60 is a restored car that is very attractive with strong paint, chrome and an attentively detailed engine compartment. More importantly, however, it is the coupe body style, which is exceedingly rare and desirable compared to other Series 60s. Its rumble seat and roll-down rear window for communicating with the outside passengers also adds a fun factor not provided by most automobiles. It would be a fun, pretty, comfortable and exclusive tour car as well as a distinctive addition to any collection. For more information on acquiring a Buick Series 60 or on our car consignment program, contact us today. Our car specialists are here to help. Please have a salesperson contact me about this 1933 Buick Series 60 Sport Coupe	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line875
__label__cc	0.569722	0.430278	Tag Archives: Spanked on the Bed Belt, Intercourse, Oral, Over the Bed, Work Related Collections – Part 2 This is a continuation of the story started at Collections. The final part will be available on Friday. Ellie spent a restless night, tossing and turning in the king size bed while her mind wandered to what awaited her. The shackle locking her ankle to the footboard didn’t help, as it kept reminding her of her status. The sun was poking into the windows as exhaustion finally overtook her. She awoke to find Jerry unlocking the shackle around her ankle. Her head ached from the hangover starting to take hold along of her still exhausted mind. She covered her eyes, trying to focus on the man towering over the end of the bed. “We have one hour before we have to leave for the airport. You can take a shower if you would like, but the door remains unlocked.” Jerry told her. They had a short jump across the channel to Heathrow then a good nine hours to Atlanta and another short jump to Tampa. By the end of this long day he would be finishing up with this case, and earning a nice bonus also. Ellie gathered up every piece of clothing she had and stumbled to the bathroom. She started to lock the door, when a tingle of pain in her bottom made her think better of it. Instead, she stripped off her clothes, tossing them in a pile on the counter. In a ritual practiced by naughty young ladies for decades, she aimed her bottom at the mirror and twisted her torso to survey the damage. “Ouch.” Ellie mumbled to herself, running her finger over the red splotches decorating her bottom. “That was hmmm…hmm.., not something I expected,” she thought aloud. Her mind went back to last night, the expectations she had when returning to the hotel room, the sudden change in Jerry’s demeanor and then the incident. The mix of emotions filling her head confused her. Embarrassment seemed completely logical, but the curiosity seems, well, wrong. Why was she so interested in such a barbaric act? It was wrong to hit a lady, but now it seemed so exciting at the same time. What was wrong with her? BANG, BANG, BANG! “Hey, you better get moving; cause we are leaving in 45 minutes, no matter how you are dressed, or undressed!” Jerry yelled through the door. The disruption startled Ellie out of her thoughts. She went straight for the shower, hiding behind the frosted glass divider as she peered around the corner, watching for the door to open. Her legs started to feel weak as she waited for her capture to burst into the bathroom. Thousands of thoughts raced through her mind as stared at the door. What would he do? Would he yell at her? Would he haul her out? Would he spank her again? Would he let her get dressed or keep her naked? Would he try to force himself on her? Would he spank her? After what seemed like an hour to Ellie, but was only a few minutes, she relented that Jerry wasn’t coming in to the bathroom, at least in the near future. Turning on the hot water, she started in her daily routine, only to be reminded of the heat below when the hot water pulsated across her backside. Ellie made due with the hotel provided toiletries as she went through her morning routine, pronouncing herself ready minutes before Jerry’s deadline. They took a black Mercedes to the airport. Ellie found it curious they took a town car instead of the Aston Martin, but figured it was just a rental for show and he’d probably returned it before waking her up this morning. At the airport, Jerry led her to a side door inside the terminal. After winding their way through a few bleak hallways, they reached a VIP security checkpoint. Jerry handed over some papers, which the security officer read over, looked at him and Ellie then ushered them both past the metal detectors and into the waiting room. Ellie fell asleep almost immediately upon getting sitting in one of the overstuff chairs. Jerry was glad, because this was typically the time when his targets started negotiate their release. Sometimes he’d humor himself and led them on, and let them think he was actually considering letting them go, even though he never had lost a target. It was a record he was proud of, and the primary reason why he got this higher profile cases with their fatter paydays. The plane landed just long enough at Heathrow to allow a few dozen passengers to disembark and be replaced with new ones. Ellie had fallen back asleep after take-off and her slumber hadn’t been disturbed by the landing. Once they were back in the air, Jerry would be able to relax, and more important to him at the moment, use the bathroom. “Ahh,” Ellie let out a yawn, stretching her arms as she returned to the land of the living. “So, where are we at?” she asked “Over the north Atlantic, about 5 hours from Atlanta,” Jerry answered. The question was odd for a target. It was a perfectly normal question for a person waking up on vacation flight, but unusual for one of his targets. His targets were normally too scared for such a pedestrian question. “Anything good on the in flight movie?” she asked, picking up the headphones in the seatback in front of her. “Not really, just a rom-com and a Disney flick,” Jerry replied, looking at Ellie curiously. There was something wrong, but he wasn’t quite sure what it was yet. She couldn’t escape, even though he had removed the handcuffs after they took off from Heathrow. She plugged in the headphones and played with the dials until the romantic comedy started playing on the tiny TV in the headrest. Jerry looked out of the side of his eye, trying to figure out what she was up to, but for the life of him, he could not figure it out. The rest of the flight was uneventful, lulling Jerry into a false sense of peace. He was beginning to believe she accepted her situation and wouldn’t cause any more trouble as the plane touched down at Hartsfield-Jackson. Without any checked bags, the pair went straight for the customs line. The later arrival time meant there was almost no line. Jerry took the lead when they approached the customs officer. “Name?” the customs officer asked as Jerry handed over both passports. “Gerald Houston,” Jerry answered. The customs officer thumbed through one of the little books. “And your nationality?” “What was the purpose of your trip?” “Work,” Jerry said. Ellie immediately added, “yup, just blowing up airports.” Jerry spun around on his heels to face her but his six foot two inch frame did not stand a chance when the marine national guardsman collided with his lower back. “What?” Jerry cried out as he it the floor. A second and third guardsmen surrounded the pair, covering the with their M16s. Jerry attempted to get up but was summarily shoved prone. With his face crushed against the floor, he could hear Ellie giggling over the radio chatter of the soldiers and customs officers. The pair were detained individually for the next four hours as Jerry’s single suitcase was searched and they were interrogated by customs officers, a national guardsmen major, a TSA agent and a pair of gruff looking men from homeland security. Jerry kept repeating the same answers; “I am a bounty hunter. I a court order to retrieve the girl and bring her back to Florida.” And the biggest one, “No, I am not a terrorist.” Jerry was relieved when suddenly the Major entered the interrogation room with some paperwork, including his and Ellie’s passport. “Mr. Houston, your story checks out. You are free to go,” the major said, handing over the documents and passport. “Thank-you. And Elizabeth?” he had assumed the whole job was FUBAR now, but it couldn’t hurt to ask. “She is handcuffed and waiting at the door,” the Major said, holding open the door. “Thank-you,” Jerry said. He followed the officer out through the maze of hallways until he arrived at the exit, where Ellie and a TSA officer waited. Jerry brisked Ellie down the concourses to there next gate, hoping the plane would still be there by some miracle. As with this job so far, miracles were not on the side of Jerry. The waiting area was mostly deserted and lone gate attendant stood behind the counter, typing away at the computer embedded inside. “We are here for flight 169,” Jerry blurted out, slightly out of breath from 2 mile trek through the airport. “Sorry sir, the plane just left the gate. I can check to see if there any seats available on later flights,” the gate attendant said told him, before returning to the computer behind the gate counter. “Yes, please,” Jerry grumbled before glaring at Ellie. There was no question, he was mad and it was all Ellie’s fault. “Hmmm, I can get you on a flight at 9:30 tomorrow morning,” the attendant said after typing away at the computer. “No, that won’t work. It’ll be too late. What about other airlines?” “I doubt it. There was some bad weather come through this morning so everyone had to cancel a few flights. We are all booked solid until the morning.” Jerry growled at Ellie, who wilted under his stare. She knew missing their flight was all her fault and felt bad about it. “Well we are off to the rental car desk,” Jerry growled, yanking Ellie along by her arm. “You have the blue Accord. Have a nice trip,” the sales clerk told them handing the keys over to Jerry. He took them and stashed them in his pants pocket before doing the same with the paperwork before taking Ellie by the arm and walking her to the car. He summarily placed her in the passenger’s seat before locking the door and closing her in. A couple turns out of the parking lot and they were on the interstate, heading towards I-75 and it’s path to Florida. The lights of Atlanta faded in the distance as they took the interstate south. He had eleven hours to make the six hour drive and earn the bonus. A bonus that would go a long way in cleaning up some old debts. Worst case scenario, they missed the bonus deadline and he only got his regular retrieval fee. He was making good time, with light traffic and not a cop in sight. They were about an hour south of Macon when Ellie said her first words since the incident in the airport. “Jerry, why are you doing this?” Ellie asked. “Cause it’s my job,” he answered without really thinking about it. “So you are getting paid to take me back to Tampa? What if I doubled it? You know I have the money,” she asked. He let out a chuckle before saying, “How? Your accounts here in the states have been frozen since you fled.” “But I have friends and they’d loan me the money,” she responded with a little more attitude. “No. I think I’ll just take you back and make my fee.” He could only see a payoff ending poorly for him. “Then what could I give you that would make you change your mind?” she asked, pulling the side of her blouse low, exposing a portion of her right breast. “If that’s what you want.” “Na, I think I’ll just take you back.” Jerry tried keeping his eyes on the road, rather than the harlot in the passenger’s seat. She had caused him enough problems already. Ellie puffed out her lower lip while tilting her face downward slightly into a quintessential pouty face. “You don’t find me sexy?” Jerry let out a chuckle, keeping his eyes glued on the dark abyss of highway before the car. Ellie though notice a slight shift he had made in his hips, likely to relieve some tension she thought. Well she knew how to fix that. Jerry was too focused on concentration on driving to realize Ellie undoing her safety belt or twisting around in her seat. It took a second for him to realize what she was doing, allowing her to get his pants open and start fumbling with his boxers. “HEY!” Jerry yelled at her, slapping at her head with his right hand. She had already freed him when he hit the back of her shoulders. The light slap added to her downward momentum, encouraging her to take all of him on the first gulp. Her mouth was even better than he remembered. She held him tight, letting him tickle her tonsils for as long as she could stand. Pulling off for a quick breath, she played her tongue across his tip, never letting him free of her warm embrace. After the multiple sexual laced encounters between the two, Jerry found it amazingly difficult to resist her current attention. He was beyond rock hard and releasing the sexual tension was all he could think about. He would have better served to pay attention to the highway, for he completely missed the slight bend in the highway until the compact car was throwing gravel. Jerry immediately swung the wheel to the left, trying to return the car to the road. Braking would have been a better idea, especially in a car with narrow sideways on its tires. The right front tire caught on the edge of the pavement, separating the tire from its bead, deflating the tire instantly. “POOF! WHAP! WHAP! GREETCCHHH!” The flat tire hit the road, popping the car towards the left lane. Ellie flew upwards, knocking his left hand from the steering wheel and landing across his lap. His right hand grabbed the wheel, and pulled right just as they entered the left shoulder. Correcting the car, he slammed on the brakes. “WHAT THE FUCK WERE YOU THINKING!?” Jerry yelled at her. With a gruff pull of his right hand, he thrust her towards the passenger’s seat. “I’m sorry!” she cried, kneeling on the floorboards and resting her forearms on the passenger’s seat. “DON’T YOU FUCKING MOVE!” he commanded opening his door. He started to stand up when he realized his pants were open. Hastily he stuffed things back in place and got out of the car. With the lack of light, he couldn’t make out any damage on the driver’s side. Rounding the front of the car, the problem became immediately apparent. The right front tire was completely flat and wrapped around the steel rim. “Great,” he cussed. He made his way to the trunk, glaring at Ellie along the way. Getting to the trunk, he realized the keys were still in the ignition. This just irritated him more. Trudging to the driver’s side door, he ripped the keys from the ignition and hit the trunk release on the key fob. He started to toss the keys on to the seat, but rethought it when Ellie caught his eye. Jerry had gotten all the stuff to change the tire when he realized the lug nuts would not come off. This revelation just pissed him off more. He just shoved the jack, tire iron and spare into the trunk before returning to his seat, planning on calling the rental company for roadside assistance. He pulled out the rental paperwork before getting in the car. Unfolding the paper revealed a blurry mess of a document. Placing it in his rear pants pocket had caused it to slowly be impregnated by sweat over the last two hours. Calling the customer service would be impossible when he could only make out the first three numbers; 800. “Fuck! FUCK! FUCk!” Jerry cursed, tossing the rental paperwork onto the dash. “There looks to be an exit up there,” Ellie mentioned quietly. He looked forward, around the corner in the highway to notice a glow beyond the horizon. This part of the state, that amount of light should mean a town. He didn’t seem much other option and started the car and started the slow drive down the shoulder of the highway. A mile down the highway they come to a typical small southern town. Fast food restaurants and gas stations surrounded the exit. Jerry pulled into the largest station and went inside to ask the attendant about the tire. There was no one else in sight so didn’t bother with securing Ellie. “We are stuck here!” Jerry announced returning to the car. “What?” Ellie asked. “The only place in town that sells tires doesn’t open until noon tomorrow.” “OH!? Your little stunt cost me five grand!” “I’m sorry,” Ellie mumbled, trying to act as innocent as possible. “Just shut up and don’t try any more shit!” Jerry growled, backing up the injury car. He made the same slow, careful progress across the overpass to the only hotel in sight as he had down the shoulder of the interstate. Leaving Ellie in the car again, he checked in, explicitly requesting an end room. He quenched the night clerk’s curiosity with reference to Ellie being his new fiancé. Ten minutes later he was pulling the car around the back to the rear entrance. The room was of standard US flair. A small, tile lined full bathroom was situated next to the door leading from the hallway, while mid-height windows lined the far wall. Jerry was slightly annoyed with the single queen sized bed; through he couldn’t really go ask for a different room with two beds. “How deplorable,” Ellie commented, tossing the duff bag Jerry had made her carry in on the bed. “I bet they don’t even have room service.” “Zip it!” Jerry growled at her, pulling the blinds shut. “You’re the reason we are here.” “Whatever,” Ellie’s sassiness returned in full force. “I’m going to take a shower, OK?” “Fine,” Jerry hoped some soap and hot water would clean up her attitude and make the night at least tolerable. A little SportsCenter would also help. It had been nearly impossible to find highlights of good ol’ American Baseball in Europe. Jerry paid no attention to the extended period of crashing water coming from the bathroom. He had secured a pair of his cuffs around the doorbar, preventing the door from opening without first removing the handcuffs, and without an operable window in the entire room, his only worry now was her trying to kill him. Not a likely proposition when he had at least 100 pounds of muscle and a good 8 inches on her. The whoosh of the bathroom door opening pulled Jerry’s attention away from the TV. Ellie stepped into the room, carefully wrapped in a fluffy white towel. The white contrast to her lightly tanned skin, forming a band from mid breast to just below her hips. The darkened ambiance of the room hid most of the explicit details, but Jerry’s mind helped him fill in where his eyes missed. “You sure you don’t want to let me go?” Ellie cooed. She continued her slow prance towards the old man, stopping about four feet in front of him with a cock of her hips to the side. “Yes,” Jerry growled in response. “I’m not letting you go so quit it!” “Oh, quit being such a bitch!” “A bitch? You think I am being a bitch for doing my job?” “Yea,” Ellie responded flippantly. “You think I’m a bitch? You’re the idiot who thought she could run.” Jerry shifted his attention downwards towards the TV. Trailing his eyes down her neck to the towel, he caught a glimpse of a nipple poking above the towel line. Immediately, his mind went back to the events of the club and more recently the car ride. “Unless you’d prefer slut to idiot? It does go better with the stuff you did in the club and the car.” Jerry caught her right arm just short of her palm making contact with his left cheek. In a flash he was on his feet with, towering over the girl. “What are you going to do, spank me again?” Ellie let the words hang in the room for a moment before adding, “fucker!” Jerry pulled her left arm forward, causing her to crash over the end of the end of the bed. Her towel flared away, exposing her naked bottom to the cool room air. In an instant he pulled his belt free of its loops. WACK! The belt bit into her bottom, painting an exceptionally white band which was quickly replaced with an angry red. “Ahhh,” Ellie cried out. WACK! WACK! WACK! Jerry whipped the leather across her bottom, getting an alternating response of groans and insults. Each insult just prodded him into trying harder. Ellie’s bottom was scarlet and starting to blister when he finally dropped the belt. He was still mad, but his arm just refused to swing any more. A shiver of the upturn girl’s hips caused a visceral action in his loins. He dropped his pants and moved between her splayed legs, intend on giving her exactly want she had been asking for. Squatting, Jerry plunged forward, driving into her until his hips bump her cheeks. The sudden intruder forces the breadth from her lungs in a drawn out moan which is capped with a sharp squeal when he bumps into her bottom. He kept thrusting in fast, though long, hard strokes, causing her to squealed each time he hit home. At first it was all raw emotion driving him to fuck her as hard and rough as possible, but as the endorphins started to wan, and pleasure took over, he swore she was pushing her bottom back into him. The force of Jerry’s thrusts slowly pushed Ellie forward, onto the bed. It wasn’t long before he could only reach halfway into her from behind. He grabbed her hips, yanking her bottom into the air and dropped her on her knees. This higher position allowed him to stand up, giving him tremendously better leverage. Jerry wasted no time, and drove into her again while pulling her hips against his. The new angle tightened her pelvic muscles around him driving the sensation for them both to new levels. Ellie reached out, grasping two handfuls of comforter while biting a mouthful as Jerry started up again. Jerry used every bit of frustration, annoyance and residual to pound away at Ellie, but biology can only be held at bay for so long, and a massive orgasm overtook him. He pulled her into his hips as he started to cum deep inside her. This drove her wild, wiggling and squirming from side to side. The added stimulus at the height of his orgasm was too much for Jerry to handle. His vision started to fade, and motor skills failed. He slumped forward, onto her back before rolling to his right. In one last effort, he reached upwards, his left hand grabbing Ellie around the stomach while the other locked onto her left breast. As he rolled off the girl, he spun her around, ripping her grip on the comforter and landing with her in the reverse cowgirl position. With the new position, Ellie didn’t stop her squirming, bouncing about on him. This was all it took for him to fully lose it. Jerry woke a few minutes later to find Ellie slumped into a naked pile next to him on the bed. At first he thought she might be dead, but the clear rise and fall of the side of her chest alleviated those fears. After a quick piss, Jerry collapsed back onto the bed, hopping he would wake up alone. Bare Hand, Married, Over the Bed, Wives Indecision leads to mistakes – Spanket This is part of the Spanket series. The first part is “Joining the Competition“. March 25th, 10:47pm SWAT! “Owe!” Jessie cried out more from surprise than pain. She had been to focused on the little screen to notice Nate shuffling around in bed to give her a spank through the blankets. The spank sent her into overdrive, exiting the mail app and stuffing the offending device under her pillow. “What did I tell you about using you phone?” Nate asked, pulling the blankets down her back. “I’m sorry,” Jessie pleaded as she started to roll over. “Nut uh, I think you need a reminder,” he chided. “Awww, but it’s late!” Jessie pouted. WACK! Nate spanked her panty-clad bottom. “That’s why you shouldn’t be playing on your phone.” “Honneeyyy,” she whined. WACK! “Do I need to go over to the dresser?” “No,” she answered quickly. The dresser meant an implement and she did not think he had one currently within reach. Unless he wanted to use a pillow, which she would eagerly accept. “Then get those panties down and stop whining,” Nate commanded, sitting fully upright. “Yes, sir,” Jessie mumbled as she reached down to bare her bottom without getting up. They inverted themselves as she wiggled the undergarment as far down her thighs as her finger tips could reach. With his target exposed, she folded her arms under the pillow where she buried her head. She was in no mood for anything more than his hand, so she focused on holding in any yelps to prevent him from implementing one of their newer rules; making a fuss from a hand spanking automatically earned her the paddle. Nate started with a few quick, sharp swats, testing the coloration of her white mounds. The quick reddening told him exactly what he had guessed, she hadn’t been spanked enough lately. “Well I can fix that,” he thought to himself, slowing his rhythm to a steady pace of mild swats. Jessie growled into the pillow when she realized the reduction in intensity. She knew the softer spanks would allow him to keep up the pace forever. Well it would seem like forever to her, as the sting slowly compounded into a mountain. She was half tempted to start fussing about, and get him to give her the paddle or belt in stead. At least they would be over quickly, once he started with them. It was the logical choice, but logic had no room in Jessie’s mind at that moment as the fear of the burn from the paddle or belt filled up all the available space. Nate spanked away at his wife’s bottom, slowly covering every inch of it three times, before his hand hurt too much. He slapped it down hard in the center and held it in placed, absorbing the heat her skin was radiating. It was hot, though not as hot as he would have preferred. He briefly considered switching hands, but the clock caught his eye. 11:04 was late enough. “Are you going to play on your phone at night again?” “No,” Jessie mumbled, pulling her head from the pillow to try and look towards him. “Good, now lets get to bed,” Nate stated, pulling the blankets back over her bottom. He shifted the blankets on his side, sliding down low enough for her to easily hold him. He hadn’t figured out why, but after sex or a spanking, she loved cuddling up close to him and falling asleep. Jessie wiped the tears from her eyes before rolling on her side, facing Nate. She shimmied her hips backwards as she snuggled up to his chest. Two red cheeks poked out from the blankets, into the cool bedroom air, as the couple drifted off to sleep. The last thing Jessie thought was “I am not getting spanked again soon!” Belt, College, Fathers & Daughters, Over the Bed Just Your Everyday Spoiled Brat Party Boom! Boom! Boom! The over-sized speakers pumped the beat through the crowd. The song and lyrics didn’t matter, right now was just about the beat. A good, solid beat was at the core of any good party. Without a good beat, there was no dancing and without dancing, getting the attention of the hotty across the room was hard. Everyone at the party wanted attention, preferably from a sexy vixen like Becky. Boom Boom Boom! Becky could feel the bass generating the spirit guiding her hips. Eyes closed and hands keeping her chestnut locks in the air, she was the image of sensuality. “Becks! Everyone’s going in the pool!” Kim yelled into her friend’s ear before pulling her towards the deck. Becky hadn’t realized how hot she had gotten dancing and felt she could use a break to cool off. She stumbled behind her friend as they weaved through crowd. The Patron shots were making her feel real good. The cool water looked to refreshing to Becky, she knew she just had to get in. She pulled the tank-top over her head before shimming off her shorts to reveal her make-shift bathing suit. The dark-blue lace bra and panty set attracted some hollers from the nearby guys, making Becky feel good about herself. She put a finger to her lips as she looked over her shoulder at a couple of the louder guys. A shy smile and she was feeling sexier than when she had been grinding in the mosh pit. She couldn’t blame them for wanting her, she knew she was drop dead gorgeous. High firm breast accentuated her flat tummy while her long tanned legs lead straight up to her full, and perk booty. She was a fuckin’ goddess, she thought as she took the three steps to the edge of the pool. She was just about ready to gracefully slip into the water when saw Freddie in the middle of the pool. He is the son of some English lord, built like a GQ model and the target of Becky’s attention all summer long. “Tonight he would be mine!” she thought as she flashed him her legendary bedroom eyes. No one had resisted them and Freddie would just be their next victim. He smiled back when cat-calls from across the pool pulled Freddie’s attention away. Annoyed, Becky glance in the direction of the commotion to see Gwen standing at the edge of the pool. “That bitch!” Becky thought as she watched Gwen toss her bra aside then pop her hips from side to side as she made her way down the pool ladder. Gwen and Becky had been rivals since freshman year of High School. Gwen had just moved from New York City and no problem fitting in among social elites of Malibu. Becky accepted Gwen into her clique and welcomed her. Gwen wasn’t as pretty, as wealthy or as smart as Becky, so Becky saw a new friend, not a rival. They became instant BFFs, until homecoming when Becky walked in on Gwen servicing the star middle linebacker, and Becky’s boyfriend, at half-time. One blowjob had created an epic six year rivalry. Becky had tried to play the slut card on Gwen, but a rumor about being a slut coupled with her innocent, girl-next door looks just attracted more attention from the guys. Becky was not one to be outdone, and tonight was her night to rule. “I can do topless,” she thought to herself. Two fingers and her bra was flying towards a lounge chair. Her bravado earned her more catcalls and more general attention than her rival. She ate up the attention, even though it came from such an immoral reason, before she slipped into the water. “Hey Freddie,” Becky said, taking hold of his right hand underwater and planting squarely on her bare breast. Gwen saw his hand grasp the brunette’s breast in the blue mood lighting of the pool. She could do better than a little second base action. Gwen whispered into Freddie’s left ear, instantly garnering his attention away from Becky. Gwen took a deep breath before slipping below the surface. In an instant she had his boxers down and engulfed him. Bubbles escaped her lips as she attempted her first underwater blowjob. Becky didn’t realize want Gwen was doing until the mood lighting cycled back on, casting a red shadow over the exhibitionistic coupling. The initial shock of such a brazen act quickly gave way to pure anger. Becky took hold of the back of the girl’s head and shoved it downwards, forcing the hard shaft deep into her throat. The unexpected invasion, mixed with her already hypoxic state, panicked Gwen. The gut shove sent Freddie sprawling backwards, off his feet and under the water. A moment later Gwen surfaced, gasping for air. “Take a little too much?” Becky ridiculed. “He’s too much of a man for a little girl like you?” Gwen spurted a few more times. “COPS! RUN!” a guy yelled running out of the house. Seconds later the entire yard erupted into anarchy. Police swarmed from the back gate and around the side of the house, cutting off all the exits to the walled compound. Underage teenagers were ditching beer filled cups while scurrying for any possible exit through the darkness. The party-goers had only a minute of semi-darkness before an officer found the switch to the security lights. Becky’s tequila haze parted in an instant. Avoiding the police was her second highest priority; first she had to find her clothes. The only thing worst than being caught by the police at a party like this would be caught half-naked. She half-swam, half-wadded straight to the edge of the pool where she had entered. The security flood lights provided her more than enough light to see the lounge chairs where she had tossed her top clothes a mere fifteen minutes earlier. Poking her head over the edge, she quickly scanned the pool deck. Her bra and shorts were no where in sight, but she spotted her top only five yards away. Coverage was only five yards away. Only fifteen feet. Only one hundred eighty inches. She only had to get past three cops and six drunks standing in her path. “Come On! Out of the pool!” a darkly dressed man yelled at Becky from the deck. “Oh fuck” she mumbled as a large hand reached down for her shoulder. The next two hours were an agonizing slow whirlwind of events for Becky. The officer who caught her didn’t realize her state of undress until her wrists were firmly secured behind her back with a zip-tie. Having her arms pulled back, increased the prominence of her breasts. The male officer then then set her down next to her shirt while he found a female officer to assist in redressing the girl. Her shorts and bra couldn’t be quickly found so her top was just quickly pulled over her head and arms. Then into the back of a squad car with three other girls and off to station where she was booked, photographed and sent to a holding cell primarily full of half drunk girls from the party. Becky was just starting to become sober when an officer called out her name. She had been bailed out and was to be released into her parents custody. Her father’s custody actually, since her mom was in New York for the week. Her father didn’t say a word to her when Becky rounded the corner and told to wait a minute behind the counter. He didn’t need to say anything, his expression told her everything she needed to know. He was utterly disappointed, angry and hurt by his little girl all at the same time. It was the one look that always made her feel plain naughty. Like she was a bad girl, not a grown woman looking forward to her senior year of college. “I’m sorry” Becky mumbled, staring downwards to avoid his glare. “Everything is in order. She is released into your custody. Someone from the district attorney’s office will be in touch about any charges. Have a good night.” The desk sergeant told her father before pressing a button and releasing the half-door dividing Becky’s location from the lobby. Becky looked up just long enough to see her father shake his head then turn for the door. She quickly made to follow him to the waiting car. Becky was surprised to see her mother’s Land Rover in the parking lot. Her dad hated driving it, but she had taken his Mercedes to the party. Well, he had allowed her to take it to Kim’s, and it was now parked three blocks away from the party’s location. Hopefully it was still parked there, she thought. Sixteen silent minutes later, Ivan pulled the SUV into their garage. Becky had not dared to speak out of fear of angering her father more. She had just stared at her lap, thinking about how foolish she had been. That tonight’s events might have permanently ruined her future. Her plans of going to law school and becoming a federal judge. All of it would be gone with her arrest record. Georgetown law wouldn’t accept a felon. She’d be lucky if she John Marshall accepted her now. Everything ruined over a dumb little party. Her father getting out of the SUV broke her from the speculations. Becky’s attention refocused upon her nakedness and the enviable trip she would have to make past her father on the way to her room. For some reason her current tank-top and bikini panties felt considerably more revealing than even the string bikini’s she had worn this summer. The swimsuits had covered considerably less, so why did she feel so embarrassed right now? She waited until he exited the garage before slipping out of the car and scampering, barefooted, over to the door. Peaking into the kitchen, she didn’t see anyone. “Hopefully everyone’s asleep” she mumbled as she tip toed onto the tiled floor. She had made to the back stairs when a gruff voice stopped her dead. “You better be going straight to your room because we will be talking about tonight,” Ivan barked from behind her. “Yes daddy,” she muttered before taking the slow walk up to her room, pouting the entire trip. She closed the door behind her though paid special attention not to lock it as was her habit. Waiting would make Daddy more upset. She sulked over to her bed. Sitting down, he realized she might as well put on some pjs while she waited. At least she wouldn’t be half naked while getting yelled at. “What the hell do you think you were doing?” Ivan yelled as he barged into his daughter’s room. Becky dropped the pjs back into the drawer and turned to face her father for the tongue lashing she was sure to receive. “I’m sorry Daddy,” was all Becky could say as Ivan ripped into her for her irresponsible, indecent, and reckless behavior. The lecture seemed to last forever, as Becky stood before her father, starring at the floor and occasionally offering apology when prompted. “I seriously do not believe you want to be a lawyer and think my money for your tuition is being wasted. Well, I’m not wasting any more. You can figure out how to pay for your own tuition.” “No daddy! Not college. I won’t be able to finish!” Becky pleaded. “You should have thought about the potential consequences before you got drunk and stripped half naked!” “I’m soo sorry. Anything else. Ground me, take away my car, spank me, anything but don’t cut off my tuition,” Becky cried. His daughter’s large puppy dog eyes always got to him. This time it was enough to soothe some of his anger and allow consider the situation more rationally. Cutting off her tuition was drastic and would send a major point, but would damage her long-term success, and he did not want her becoming one of those Paris Hilton-esque daughters. The country club had too many already. She had to be punished though, and her three suggestions sounded like a great starting point. “Fine! We’ll start with all three! Get on your bed while I get my belt!” Ivan storm out of the room, trying to demonstrate more anger than he actually felt. Ivan returned to find Becky in the prescribed position, with her bare bottom pointing towards the ceiling and exemplified by a pair of pillows under her hips. “You are grounded until further notice, which includes using your car to go anywhere except work. This spanking and the grounding is only part of your punishment, until your mother and I have a chance to talk. Understand me?” “Yes daddy,” Becky already was starting to cry. Ivan brought the belt down across the crowns of his daughter’s bottom. The force of the leather set the blood temporarily fleeing from a the white band on her bottom. Its return marred her behind with an angry redness and the accompanying burning sensation. Over and over, Becky felt the leather paint her bottom its evil color. She couldn’t do anything but hold on and let the tears flow. “This was all Gwen’s fault, and she would pay!” Becky thought as the leather tore up her bottom. Stroke after stroke rained down until both cheeks were a deep maroon with splotches of purple. “I hope this imparts the seriousness of your actions.” Ivan stated as he took a deep breath. “Now get to sleep, sweetie.” Becky cried into her pillow for half an hour before getting up to check out the damage. She used only her desk lamp to light the darkened room, worried that the room light would draw unwanted attention. Her bottom looked exactly like it felt, painful. She was red from her tailbone to the top of her thighs, with the darkest coloring in the center. Ouch! she thought making her way back to bed. Gwen would pay royally for this and she knew exactly how.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line880
__label__cc	0.609235	0.390765	Faculty and Staff Portraits (9) + - Alumni (16) + - Faculty (x) Alumni, Faculty, Office of the President (L to R) Dr. Emily Tweed Northwestern Health Sciences University's College of Chiropractic alum and administrator, Dr. Chuck Sawyer College of Chiropractic alum and administrator, Trevor Foshang, Dean of the College of Health and Wellness and Jeff Rich, Director of Markeing. Alumni, Faculty Northwestern Health Sciences University's College of Chiropractic alum and faculty member Dr. John B. Wolfe, Jr. and an unidentified woman, 2011. Northwestern Health Sciences University faculty member Christie Weibel Mannum Alumni, College of Chiropractic, Faculty Northwestern Health Sciences University's College of Chiropractic alum and faculty member Christie Weibel Mannum. Northwestern Health Sciences University community member Tim Stark College of Chiropractic, Faculty, Alumni College of Chiropractic alum and Human Performance Center Director Dr. Tim Stark talking with a graduate during the graduation luncheon, 2018-04. Northwestern Health Sciences University faculty member Faculty Staff Portraits Alumni, Faculty, School of Massage Therapy Northwestern Health Sciences University’s School of Massage Therapy alum and faculty member Sarah Zamastil. Northwestern College of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine White Coat Ceremony White Coat ceremonies Alumni, College of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine, White Coat ceremonies, Faculty Northwestern Health Sciences University's College of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine alum and faculty member Sheryl Cota speaking during a White Coat ceremony, 2018-04. Alumni, Faculty, College of Chiropractic Northwestern Health Sciences University's College of Chiropractic alumni and faculty members Dr. Mary Tuchscherer and Joe Muldoon on Halloween, 2019. Faculty and Staff Portraits Northwestern Health Sciences University's College of Chiropractic alum and faculty member Dr. Katie Burns Ryan, 2007. Northwestern Health Sciences University's College of Chiropractic alum and faculty member Dr. Linda Bowers, 2011. Northwestern Health Sciences University's College of Chiropractic alum and faculty member Dr. Brad Finer, 2001. Northwestern Health Sciences University's College of Chiropractic alum and faculty member Dr. Link Larson. Office of the President, Alumni, College of Chiropractic, Faculty Northwestern Health Sciences University's College of Chiropractic alum, faculty member and administrator Dr. Chuck Sawyer, 2011. Northwestern Health Sciences University's College of Chiropractic alum and faculty member Dr. Chris Major. Northwestern Health Sciences University's College of Chiropractic alum and faculty member Dr. Don Eggebrecht, 2011. Northwestern Health Sciences University clinic member Clinics, Faculty, Alumni, Bloomington Clinic Northwestern Health Sciences University's College of Chiropractic alum and Bloomington Clinic practitioner Dr. Anne Packard-Spicer, 2011. Northwestern Health Sciences University's College of Chiropractic alum and faculty member Dr. Mary Tuchscherer, 2014.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line882
__label__wiki	0.940872	0.940872	‘Martial Law has not vanquished extremists in Marawi,’ and other Sept 21 statements PUP students have been active in anti-government protests, such as this one in Mendiola on Sept. 21, showing 'Rudy's Cube,' an effigy with the faces of President Rodrigo Duterte, the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos and a puppy (File photo by Romeo Ranoco, Reuters) MANILA, Philippines — Various advocacy groups have issued statements on September 21, which has been declared a National Day of Protest, including a Davao-based organization calling for an end to martial law in Mindanao. “Violent extremism poses a complex set of challenges that cannot be met by a failed 45-year old formula,” said Konsyensya Dabaw in a press release. “Konsyensya Dabaw stands with fellow Dabawenyos who believe that regardless of how we voted last May 2016, we should not shirk from exacting accountability from public leaders that have been part of our city’s history for the past three decades,” they stressed. They pointed out that almost four months after Martial Law was declared in Mindanao, the Maute group had still not been vanquished. Rather, “airstrikes and sustained artillery attacks have done so much damage to the (Marawi) City.” They warned that such destruction might trigger even more resistance in the coming years, even as Martial Law tapped “into the sense of fear of many urban Mindanaoans, and convinced them that it takes no less than ‘military supremacy’ to ensure stability and order.” This would affect the people’s exercise of their civil and socioeconomic rights, they pointed out. Konsyensya Dabaw said that it was not yet too late for President Rodrigo Duterte to lift martial law in Mindanao lest Proclamation 216 become “a self-fulfilling prophecy of terror, death, and damage the way Proclamation 1081 (of former President Ferdinand Marcos) ended up becoming.” Martial law under Marcos, they reminded, “created the conditions that intensified human rights abuses, exploitation, and underdevelopment in Mindanao.” Meanwhile, the Movement Against Tyranny, the organizers of the rally at Luneta Park, said the people would “not be intimidated or cowed into silence and inaction.” They were ready to fight for human rights and justice, said Raoul Manuel, one of the youth who help convene the alliance in the wake of the killings of 17-year-old Kian delos Santos and other minors by the police. Karapatan Alliance for the Advancement of People’s Rights, also part of the network of Movement Against Tyranny, observed the similarities between the Duterte and Marcos regimes, especially since Duterte was aiding “the political rehabilitation of the Marcoses” and had mentioned considering re-imposing nationwide martial rule over the whole country. “Marcos’ Martial Law was used as a tool to plunder public funds, plunge us into debt, restrict forms of protest, and completely do away with civil and political rights. We now have martial law in Mindanao and it has expectedly followed the same trajectory of escalating rights abuses,” Karapatan warned. Karapatan secretary general Cristina Palabay also criticized Duterte’s protection of the police and the military. “Akin to martial law during the Marcos regime, Duterte’s martial law unfolded with guarantees and protection for State security forces who are at the front line of committing rights violations. There has not been a change in the framework of the military and the police, thus continuing with their atrocities in indigenous and peasant communities,” she said. Marcos-era survivors SELDA (Samahan ng Ex-Detainees Laban sa Detensyon at Aresto), meanwhile, declared their intention to keep fighting for the generations of Filipinos who came after them. “Habang buhay kaming mga naglamay noong diktadurang Marcos, hindi namin patatahimikin itong presidenteng hibang sa martial law at gusto ring maging diktador (As long as we who kept vigil under the Marcos dictatorship are alive, we will not stand down with a president who’s obsessed with martial and wants to become a dictator himself),” said SELDA‘s newly-elected chairperson Trinidad Repuno. She warned of Duterte’s “obsession” with martial law, believing he would “grab every opportunity to justify a dictatorship.” His regime, she said, “postures as a strong government with the people’s support, but is weak and insecure because it has failed to deliver the much-needed change for the people.” Despite many of them being old and of fragile health, SELDA members joined the protests. “No military solution was ever successful, because the people who are aware of their hard-earned rights rise up and resist. We call on the people not to allow a comeback of tyranny, and come together to fight for change, a change that was not simply abandoned by the current regime, but used and exploited in furtherance of their own interests. We are challenged again to fight tyranny, and say a million times, never again!” Repuno said. Migrante also issued a statement, saying protests were also held in Hong Kong, Japan, Qatar, Italy and South Korea. They condemned the war on drugs and the killings associated with this, and promised to “frustrate any and all moves by Duterte to install himself as a fascist dictator like his idol Marcos.” Bayan Muna Representative Carlos Zarate, meanwhile, said Duterte must not belittle the strength and indignation of the rallyists. “Higit sa lahat, ang Luneta rally ay pagpapakita na hindi takot ang mamamayan na labanan ang banta ng batas militar sa buong bansa tulad ng ginawa natin dati laban sa diktadura ni Marcos (More than anything, the Luneta rally is proof that people are not afraid to stand up against the threat of nationwide Martial Law, just like what they did against the Marcos dictatorship),” the lawmaker said. Finally, the lawyer’s group Artikulo Tres Human Rights Alliance, said: “There can be no doubt that extrajudicial killings is now a State policy. For over a year, the authorities duly tasked to protect the people have blatantly disregarded human rights. The body count continues to pile up in a drug war that President Duterte himself admitted he cannot win.” Enough is enough, they stressed. “President Duterte has singled out human rights lawyers and advocates in his many tirades, to the point of encouraging the police to shoot us. But we will not be silenced nor will we be cowed into submission and blind obedience. We draw strength from the late Senator Jose W. Diokno, who said these immortal words: ‘It is extremely dangerous to defend our rights. But it would be infinitely worse not to do so. If we do not struggle with all that we have and do all that we can to vindicate our rights, we not only condemn our rights to death; we also condemn our hopes and our dreams, our present, and our children’s future’,” the group said. Brazil’s Bolsonaro sabotaged anti-COVID-19 efforts, says Human Rights Watch ‘Biggest revisionist’: Senate panel’s endorsement of ‘Marcos Day’ bill earns flak FLAG’s ‘Know Your Rights’ app informs Filipinos on basic rights ‘Never forget’ speech from ‘Alone/Together’ film goes viral on Martial Law anniversary NUJP launches ‘Masked Media’ movement to raise defense fund for Filipino journalists How some of the country’s top universities are commemorating Martial Law anniversary	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line884
__label__wiki	0.760907	0.760907	Intriguing History Map your history, make new connections and gain insights for family, local or special interest projects Historic Themes Knowledge Search Knowledge Base FAQ Timelines IO Test Timelines IO Data Entry Database St Cross Browse List Demo Database St Cross IO Data Entry Demo Tariff Reform League Nov 2, 2016 / Comments Off on Tariff Reform League The tariff reform league – what can we learn from history as we enter negotiations for trade deals to come? Our present government faces a new reality as the Brexit negotiations get underway and new trade deals are sought both inside and outside the EU. Trade deals and tariffs have always been the backbone of the UK’s economic success or otherwise and the establishment of Joseph Chamberlains Tariff Reform League in the first decade of the 20th century, was an interesting idea and adjunct to the free trade position of the previous century under the hand of Peel and then Gladstone. In an overview of the Edwardian era we discussed the importance of this short period of history as being the divide between the old and the modern and politics in particular faced a shift in both expectation and action. Joseph Chamberlain and why he set up the tariff reform league. Joseph Chamberlain had been at the forefront of British politics since he entered the house of commons in 1875. He was first a Liberal and then a LiberalUnionist who played the part of the Radical politician with all his heart. His background as a self made man in industrial manufacturing meant he knew what was needed if British industrialists were to remain at the forefront of global trade. Once a politician, Chamberlain found it difficult to totally line up with any political party. He was a charismatic man who held strong views, he appealed to the public and because of this he could either a tricky ally or dangerous enemy. This had the effect of setting Chamberlain apart from his fellow members of parliament and led to him being a politician whose strong principles were often condemned. As the Victorian period came to its close, Britain was already in a weaker position regarding its position as the leader in world trade. However it seemed as if success in the Boer War was a foregone conclusion and on the back of selling a victory to the British public, the ‘Khaki Election’ of 1900 delivered a Conservative – Unionist party, eventually led by Arthur Balfour. He was a skillful politician but he was accused of filling his cabinet with aristocrats and relatives. The one man who was neither of these things was Joseph Chamberlain. The Birmingham screw manufacturer was adept at stirring up radical opposition and dealing with the outfall. Joseph Chamberlain wanted to support British manufacturing industry. Trade after the Boer War. The damage done to Britains standing in the world following the disaster of the Boer Wars, was the beginning of the end of Imperial Britain. The Unionists were quick to exploit the situation in South Africa, encouraging the use of migrant workers to work the mines. The Liberals could not stomach the idea of what it termed ‘slave labour’ in South Africa and rocked Balfours Government with accusations of slavery. It was a difficult time in politics but Chamberlain had strong views about Britain’s role in the world and was not going to see all that had been achieved by Queen Victoria’s Britain, lost. His position of Colonial Secretary in the previous administration continued to enforce his ideal that an imperialistic Britain was the future. He believed that trade would save Britain from an uncertain future and he sought alliances all over the world, trying to tie Britain closely to other major trading partners. In the aftermath of the Boer War he sought an Anglo-Afrikaner conciliation and worked hard to ensure that Britain had a major role in the newly emerging South Africa, he travelled extensively, forming pacts with those who would agree to enter into lucrative trade deals. All done to damp down the strength of both the US and the German economy. Chamberlain desperately wanted to be part of the Triple Alliance but did not want to lose sight of the Empire. Just as now as politicians seek to form new alliances post Brexit, so did Chamberlain at the start of the new century. He saw the need to strengthen Britain on all fronts, domestic politics, economic problems as Britain lost its foothold as the industrial engine of the world and internal part politic stresses. The Chamberlain Clock erected in commemoration of the 1903 visit to South Africa by Joseph Chamberlain. Chamberlain starts to voice his ideas on tariff reform. Chamerlain was, at first, a voice in the wilderness. He had one staunch ally though, in the figure of the Conservative, Lord Randolph Churchill. Both men were charismatic individuals who took on the establishment however when Churchill resigned, Chamberlain found himself a radical on his own and his dream of a cross party group of radicals fell away. Chamberlain saw a Britain at the heart of a global trade, the puppeteer with all the other nations dancing to the British imperialistic tune. At a dinner at which Winston Churchill was present he would later recall Chamberlains passion for tariffs. “You young gentlemen have entertained me royally, and in return I will give you a priceless secret. Tariffs! They are the politics of the future, and of the near future. Study them closely and make yourself masters of them, and you will not regret your hospitality to me.” What did he mean by tariff reform? His idea was to reject the free trade movement of the previous fifty years and introduce his campaign for tariff reform that would favour Britains Imperial ties. The reasons behind the adoption of free trade have their roots in the Corn Laws and the economic depression that arose in the 1840’s. The formula would be for imperial preference in trade and tariffs. He would achieve this by imposing a tariff upon on certain foreign goods, in essence exclude them from exporting to Britain but then to waive this tariff in the case of imperial products. He proposed to impose tariffs on grain imposts, under the new rules the Canadians would benefit, being exempt from the tariff. Such a measure was contentious and Chamberlain was urged by the Liberals to think again. Chamberlain was thinking of the industrial heartlands of Britain which were losing out to cheaper imported goods, he was at heart still a manufacturer from Birmingham and he was not prepared to see the manufacturing base of Britain collapse under the threat of cheaper goods flooding the market from all corners of the earth under free trade. But free trade was also something the Conservatives understood, the City of London thrived in the free market as did those in the textile industry whose raw import, cotton could be freely negotiated. Therefore they were cautious of his ideas and unwilling to offer him much support. The Prime Minister Arthur Balfour would not commit himself either way and when it became apparent that the Cabinet were not willing to cast free trade adrift, Chamberlain resigned. The Tariff Reform League. In May 1903 Chamberlain stepped away from the Government and put his entire intellect and personality behind the Tariff Reform League. It was an immense propaganda effort, the determination of the reformers was felt by every working man and woman in the country. Some in the Conservative Unionist party threw their support behind him but the Liberals and the newly evolving Labour party rejected the idea. Balfour lost control and tendered his resignation in December 1905. The Liberals seized their opportunity and swept into power in January 1906. Chamberlain suffered a stroke in the same year and was unable to take the campaign forward. The debate continued to rage but it was an uphill job to present the new tariff deal to the public. Chamberlain had wanted to use the income from tariffs to pay for a workers old age pension and for other workers reforms but it was hard to argue the case when exports were increasing and unemployment falling, how could it get any better? The Liberals and in particular Herbert Asquith used an image of a ‘big loaf’ secured by free trade as opposed to a ‘small loaf’ representing the small gains for the people under tariff reform, support for the campaign waxed and waned over the next few years. Read Joseph Chamberlains speeches on the subject. Then in 1909, Lloyd George introduced the People’s Budget, the ensuing controversy which ensued culminated in the Parliament Act of 1911 and the issue of Tariff Reform lost ground. Free trade was allowed to continue and the market forces that resulted were laid bare in the turmoil in the tumultuous international politics that evolved pre World War I. Joseph Chamberlain died in 1914 and so did his ideas of Britain rising as an imperialistic trading giant, creating a global trading hub with Britain at it’s centre. Chamberlain had shown a different way of doing trade and spoke of tariffs as something that could be harnessed to create a new society but society at that time rejected tariffs and it would take another decade and a half before tariffs were once more brought to the political table. The grittiest part of the Brexit negotiations will be over trade. Brexiteers will argue that you do not need a trade deal to trade and this is apparent when we consider America who does not at present have a trade deal with the European Union. But without a liberal and comprehensive free-trade deal with the EU, British exporters could face tariffs and, especially, non-tariff barriers, where it currently faces neither. Tariff reform will affect all who reside in the UK but are we in danger of not understanding the implications? 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__label__wiki	0.758162	0.758162	byMatthew Murray Feb 28, 2011 Excellent (4.5) The Corsair 600T PC case may not be bursting with exotic features, but it makes so much of everything it has that it ends up as a midtower case just right for style-conscious DIYers. Attractive. Very roomy. Excellent for routing interior cables. Easy-open doors. Mostly tool-free construction. Very wide. No side-panel fan. Hard drive bays potentially inconvenient. Expensive given feature set. Cases usually fall into one of three categories: the ostentatious, the bizarre, or the bland. Hardest to find, however, are those that make a strong statement quietly, bolstered not by gimmicks but by rigorous attention to quality. The Corsair Graphite Series 600T midtower ($159.99 list) is just this kind of case. It doesn't boast a single amenity you haven't seen before, yet makes you look at many of them in new or more approving ways. With emphatic construction and a no-nonsense design, it allures with its intricate devotion to every detail, both inside and out. Considering what you get, it's not an outstanding bargain, but if elegant appeal is important to you, the 600T has it in spades. For these reasons, the Corsair 600T wins an Editors' Choice for PC cases. The first things you notice about the 600T are its curves, which in some way or other define almost all its edges. At its top and bottom the front panel bears distinct convex lines, which grant the appearance of authority and stability respectively. Both side-panel doors have contoured corners that give them a smarter look than you'll see on most cases with sharp, rectangular sides. Though the top and bottom of the back side of the case are flat, they outline the rear panel, which also has a pleasing arc along the edges. Even the 600T's top isn't flat: The left and right sides slope slightly downward. View All 5 Photos in Gallery This sweeping shaping comes courtesy of the plastic panels that have been affixed to the outside of the steel case which, because of their shiny, off-black color, also brand the 600T as part of Corsair's 600T series. Complementing all this are tight mesh panels on the top and front; press on them to release them and reveal one 200mm fan in each location and, on the top, a barrel lock for the side panel. You may want to use that, too, as the side panel doesn't screw on: You simply push down two latches, and off it comes; this is one of the most convenient doors ever. There's no fan in the side-panel door, which is too bad, but understandable if Corsair didn't want to tarnish the pristine aesthetics. Even easier on the eyes is the 600T's interior. Though many cases provide pre-cut holes in the motherboard tray for cable routing, few do so this elaborately: There are eight, 3.5-by-2.75-inch grommeted openings scattered about the tray, in addition to another non-grommeted one measuring 3 by 2.4 inches in the lower-right corner. Still another extra-large (5.8-by-7.5-inch) hole expedites the process of adding aftermarket coolers. Want still more? There are nine built-in standoffs for installing an ATX motherboard, and an adjustable bracket on the case's floor that lets you support any size power supply. The 600T's tool-free philosophy extends to its eight expansion slots and its drive bays. The four 5.25-inch bays have one of the best schemes we've seen yet: Just push in a drive until it clicks, and you're done. You can release the drive later by lifting the plastic restraining clip on the side. We had a little bit of trouble pushing our drive out again after doing this, but it's still an excellent system. The six 3.5-inch bays are a bit more problematic. There are six removable plastic caddies in two cages; you can secure a full-size hard drive merely by aligning the caddy's support posts with the drive's screw holes, but to use a 2.5-inch drive, you'll need to screw it in to the caddy. You'll want to keep your Phillips handy, too, for reconfiguring the cages themselves: Removing either requires undoing thumbscrews on both, and removing the bottom one also requires unscrewing it from a support platform just below it. If you want to remove the support platform as well, you'll also need to unscrew it from beneath. We like such a high level of customization—you can even mount one of the cages closer to the center of the case, if you want—but most cases let you deal with cages individually. Still more features round out the 600T's functionality. Front-panel connectors (located on the top front of the case) offer headphone and microphone jacks, four USB 2.0 ports, one USB 3.0 ports (which must be connected to a rear-panel USB 3.0 port via an included pass-through cable), and one FireWire port. There's also a fan speed adjustment dial that lets you balance cooling and noise for up to four fans with just a twist of your wrist. On the rear panel, you'll find a 120mm exhaust fan and two grommeted holes for routing liquid-cooling piping into and out of the case; there's even enough room to remove the top case fan and replace it with a dual radiator. Dust filters grace the full front panel, and the vent beneath the power supply bay. All this increases usability, but how is the case to build in? Terrific. With all the routing channels and over 1.5 inches between the motherboard tray and the opposing side of the case, there's plenty of room for keeping cables well out of the way. And between the rightmost edge of an ATX motherboard and the leftmost edge of the drive bays, you have an unthinkable four inches of horizontal space, more than enough to accommodate even the ultra-long ATI Radeon HD 5970 video card. The 600T was not quite flawless. Measuring 20 by 23.3 by 10.4 inches, it's definitely on the big side for a midtower, especially in terms of width (it's nearly 2.5 inches wider than the Thermaltake Dokker, for example), and that could wreak havoc on certain desk setups. And as much as we like the 600T, its $159 price will be pushing it for some people. Basic cases of this size and general configuration can go for quite a bit less—the Dokker rings in at just $65, for example—which means you'll be paying a lot for the added plush and prestige. For gamers and luxury DIY hounds (at least those who can't afford to spend five times as much on a Thermaltake Level 10), this case's price may not be too steep. Such people are likely to believe that strong craft and suaveness that are integral parts of the package will be worth a few additional bucks. In those areas—and most others—the Corsair Graphite Series 600T does not disappoint. More Case Reviews: • EVGA DG-77 • NZXT H700i • Be Quiet Dark Base Pro 900 • SilverStone Raven RVZ01-E • NZXT S340 Elite • more Bottom Line: The Corsair 600T PC case may not be bursting with exotic features, but it makes so much of everything it has that it ends up as a midtower case just right for style-conscious DIYers. Corsair iCue 5000X RGB SilverStone Sugo 14 Corsair 4000D Airflow NZXT H710i About Matthew Murray Matthew Murray got his humble start leading a technology-sensitive life in elementary school, where he struggled to satisfy his ravenous hunger for computers, computer games, and writing book reports in Integer BASIC. He earned his B.A. in Dramatic Writing at Western Washington University, where he also minored in Web design and German. 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__label__wiki	0.929228	0.929228	INDIA NOW ONLINE Exploring India..Its Trends and Times.. From Near & Far… indianow999@gmail.com NITISH AGAIN … NDA legislators’ meet elects Nitish Kumar as CM; swearing in on Monday Prem C November 15, 2020 November 15, 2020 Uncategorized NEWS NDA CM PATNA: JDU leader Nitish Kumar was re-elected as Chief Minister nominee by the National Democratic Alliance(NDA) at its meeting here on Sunday. He would be sworn in as Chief Minister for a fresh term on Monday. Nitish, who ruled the state as CM for fifteen years through seven terms will lead a BJP-JDU team of ministers in the next government. The alliance won a total of 125 seats in the 243-member assembly, with the JDU winning 43 and the BJP raising its tally this time to a remarkable high of 74 seats. The BJP, having come this far, is likely to draw in a section of the MLAs from the Congress too, as it did in Madhya Pradesh, to solidify the alliance and put Nitish Kumar under a tight leash. The RJD, the principal opposition with 73 seats in the new assembly, too might be exposed to poaching by the BJP as time progresses. The aim of the BJP central leadership seems to be to sooner or later acquire a majority of its own in the assembly and ease out Nitish Kumar, after drawing a section of his MLAs to the saffron side. For Nitish Kumar, the present assembly poll exercise was in part a washout, as its assembly tally came down sharply from 71 to 43. The 69-year-old Nitish Kumar has been chief minister since 2005, with a break too, till 2020 — and he would now rule for more time, if nor more years. The JDU had contested the 2015 assembly polls as part of the Mahatbandhan involving the RJD, but switched sides two years later to the NDA and resumed cohabitation with the BJP. In the new ministry, to be sworn in this week, the BJP will have a huge upper hand and will corner most of the important portfolios. Nitish Kumar belongs to the backward (BC) Kurmi agriculturist community that has a four per cent strength in the state’s population chart. His father was a traditional herbal medicine practitioner. Nitish was actively involved since his student days with the Socialist movement nurtured by Sarvodaya and Total Revolution leader Jaya Prakash Narain, Karpoori Thakur and others. Through JP movement, he ended up in the Janata Party, which was a mix of Jan Sanghiis, anti-Indira Congressmen and Socialists. Nitish Kumar was railway minister in the AB Vajpayee government. He resigned following the Gaisal train mishap which took many lives. He later returned to the government as Agriculture minster. In year 2000 he was named by NDA as chief minister of Bihar but resigned after while as he could not prove his government’s majority support in the assembly. Kumar has been CM since 2005. While Kumar became CM in 2015 after the Mahagatbandhan of RJD and JDU won the polls, edging out the BJP and the Congress, Kumar resigned briefly after RJD leader Lalu Prasad’s son Tejashwi Yadav, a minister then, came under accusations of corruption. Kumar asked him to resign, but Tejashwi and the RJD refused. Kumar quit the alliance, resigned as CM and soon formed an alternative ministry with the support of the BJP. Also, in May 2014, after the Lok Sabha polls, Kumar had resigned as CM, taking moral responsibility for the poor showing of his party in the polls. He put his trusted aide Jitanram Manjhi, a dalit leader, as CM, for some time. Kumar returned as CM after the 2015 polls. IHN-NN INDIA HERE AND NOW http://www.indiahereandnow.com email:indianow999@gmail.com Previous DEMISE … Veteran actor Soumitra Chatterjee is no more; death due to Covid Next LDF PROTESTS … State-wide protest show by LDF against probes by central agencies into Kerala cases	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line895
__label__cc	0.665724	0.334276	Bangladesh Bhutan Cambodia Kyrgyz Republic Laos Maldives Mongolia Myanmar Pakistan Philippines Republic of Kenya Sri Lanka Tajikistan Timor-Leste Uzbekistan Viet Nam About JDS Republic of Kenya Selection Step Past Math Test Sample Accepting University Kyushu University (Agricultural and Rural Development) 1-1 Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment - Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine - Kyushu University 1-2 Disaster Risk Management - Nagoya University 1-3 Health Administration/ Policy - Nagasaki University 2-1 Law 2-2 Public Policy / Administration - Meiji University - National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies - International University of Japan (IUJ) 2-3 Economics/ Business Administration - Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (APU) - Hiroshima University 2-4 International Relations - International Christian University (ICU) 2-5 Educational Development/Planning 3-1 ICT - Kobe Institute of Computing (KIC) 3-2 Transportation/ Traffic - Yokohama National University - Saitama University 3-3 Electric Power/Energy - Kanazawa University - Kumamoto University 3-4 Urban Development Planning Framework of Study Kyushu University (National) Graduate School of Bioresource and Bioenvironmental Sciences Credit and years needed for graduation: 30 credits, 2 years Compulsory subjects consist of 3 subjects out of 9 core subjects; 2 subjects out of 9 advanced subjects; 2 PBL subjects; thesis (12 credits) and laboratory seminars(4 credits) 744 Motooka Nishi-ku Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan Features of University Features of Graduate School Features of the Program Necessary Curriculum to Obtain the Degrees List of faculty members capable of guiding JDS Fellows Message for Applicants The Faculty of Agriculture at Kyushu University (formerly Kyushu Imperial University) was established in February 1919 and has since then been remarkably progressed in the academia while making great strides in the fields of agricultural science and technology research and education. The Graduate School of Bioresource and Bioenvironmental Sciences is aimed at conducting researches and education related to the maintenance of a stable supply of food and food-oriented materials indispensable to life, machinery and facility development, the preservation of wildlife and the environment, and the health and welfare of mankind in the world. Location: 744 Motooka Nishi-ku Fukuoka 819-0395, JAPAN The number of teaching staff at the entire University is 2,074 and the administrative 2,332 Student enrollment: Bachelor 11,647, Master 4,011, Doctor 2,660 and Specialized 301 Nyo Me Htun (Myanmar) The Graduate School of Bioresource and Bioenvironmental Sciences consists of 4 departments, each of which comprises 2 to 3 divisions including over 70 laboratories covering various fields of agriculture, forestry, fishery, animal science, and agricultural economics(https://www.agr.kyushu-u.ac.jp/english/education/graduate/igp/) . The current enrollment of the students is 1,656, of which 995 are undergraduate and 661 graduate students (as of May, 2019). More than 250 international students, mostly graduate students, have come to study from various countries. Currently, the total number of the faculty members and staff members is 258 of which the number of full-time academic researchers is 172 including 53 full-professors, 67 associate professors, 49 assistant professors. In addition, a number of institutes in Kyushu University, but independent from the Faculty of Agriculture, have also merged with the Graduate School of Bioresource and Bioenvironmental Sciences; namely, the Biotron Institute, the Institute of Tropical Agriculture (in part), and the Bio-Architecture Center. The Graduate School of Bioresource and Bioenvironmental Sciences, Kyushu University, is proud of its global top level of international education system for agricultural sciences, and the International Graduate Program (IGP) for the Master students has been in service in the Graduate School since 1991. In this Course, all the classes and theses are conducted in English. The JDS Program for the Master’s has been with us in the Course since 2001. The faculty consists of specialists in agriculture such as in production, infrastructural development of farmland, organization of various facilities, conservation of environment, and management of forest resources. At our School, we have had a few JDS Fellows from Myanmar every year since the 2002 program, and our professors have been working hard to provide them with affluent academic knowledge and pragmatic experiences, so that the JDS Fellows can contribute for further development of Myanmar when they go back home after their graduation. 1) Common features of the program Nay Myo Win (Myanmar) at Forest Management Lab. IGP aims to build on the capacity of the various individual fields for international students from developed and developing countries whose aim is to contribute to worldwide sustainable development in overall food, agriculture, and environmental sciences. The Master’s program emphasizes the　acquirement of synthetic and practical abilities. IGP is conducted under a 2 semester system, starting in October with the autumn term and followed by the spring term. On completing the courses, students will be awarded a Master of Science (M.Sc.) degree. The common features of the Master’s programs are as follows: (1) All the thesis works are conducted in English. A research topic for the thesis is determined over the discussion with your major supervisor. (2) In the end of their course work, specifically in the spring term of their second year students are required to present their research results and submit their master theses to the examination committee of the Graduate School of Bioresource and Bioenvironmental Sciences. The committee evaluates overall performance, and the students with satisfactory performance are awarded the Master of Science (M.Sc.) degree. 2) A Special program for JDS fellows In addition to the Master’s Program, a special coursework is prepared for JDS Fellows to enhance their knowledge on both academic and cultural experience at Kyushu University. It filled with a number of academic activities that inspire you academically while allowing you to explore Japanese culture and to enjoy campus life during your study. I. International Seminar 2017 JASID Western Japan Research Meeting, Kumamoto, Kyushu We invite well-known researchers from all over the world. This is a great opportunity to hear about their research, and also a good chance to discuss it with them personally. Since 2017, IGP of Graduate School of Bioresource and Bioenvironmental Sciences, Kyushu University and International Development and Cooperation (IDEC), Hiroshima University with other development programs in western Japan have formed a partnership in hosting annual JASID Western Japan Research Meeting. This provides an opportunity for JICA scholars across disciplines to share ideas and grasp lesson learnt from their peers who are future leaders of their countries. Last year, it took place at Kumamoto University, Kyushu on August 29, 2017, held at Hiroshima University in 2018 and Kyushu University hosted the academic meeting in 2019. II. Research Skills Seminar Many of the new JDS Fellows are just starting their research. We will help you get started on your research as smoothly as possible. We have several research seminars such as survey methodology, writing skills, and presentation practice. III. International Agricultural Frontier Education Program We are also a partner program of JICA Program with Universities for Development Studies (JProUD), and offer two subjects of Japan development model on agro-technological innovation and system. The program to offer participants programs to learn both (i) good lessons and challenges of the Japan’s modernization (in the regional and other countries’ context), and (ii) experience including lessons from both success and challenges of Official Development Assistance (ODA) of Japan’s government to the world. These programs are basically managed in the part of existing master/doctor courses of universities. The above “Partnership” expect participants to be future top leaders in the respective fields/sectors and contribute significantly to development in countries, after completion of programs. IV. Research Trip Based on the student requests, we organize research trips and visit research centers or farmers. We have visited the marine product and research center, a strawberry farm, rice farmers and an agricultural engineering site. This is an exciting opportunity to get to know and see the leading technology in agriculture or marine production as a future technological leader in your home country. Ex.) April: Ooki circulation center (biomass energy plant) May: Planting rice in terraced paddy fields (Ukiha town, Fukuoka) July: Integrated rice and duck farming (Mr. Takao FURUNO’s farm, Keisen town, Fukuoka) A two-day trip to Aso Volcano areas to learn about agricultural activities. V. Follow-up Seminar Another two years of hard work, your supervisors will be your important research co-workers. We organize follow-up seminars in your home country, where you can have another opportunity to discuss and inspire your further research. Follow-up seminars were held in Viet Nam in 2016, Laos in 2018, Myanmar in 2019. VI. Life in Kyushu University Volleyball competition organized by FUKSA Kyushu University enjoys its international academic atmosphere; more than 10 per cent of the students are from overseas. Academic life is intense as well as warm and welcoming. One of the best experiences of your two years academic life will be the farewell party held by the Agricultural Faculty, including your supervisors, at the end of your program. JDS Fellows celebrate their hard work, and enjoy the last BBQ at Kyushu University. VII. Post program activities Guidance of the journal article submission Supervisors will continue to guide you and support you to submit a journal article based on data and analysis conducted during the program. Network building The graduate of JDS Project at Kyushu University continue to get updated information of activities as well as that of alumina via JDS Kyushu University homepage (http://www.agr.kyushu-u.ac.jp/international/graduate/jds/) and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/JDS-at-Kyushu-University-441849815879864/) https://www.agr.kyushu-u.ac.jp/english/education/graduate/igp/curriculum/ -Compulsory subjects Master’s Thesis Research I Master’s Thesis Research II -Core Subjects Biological Resources: Utilization and Conservation Soil and Water Environment International Rural Development Advanced Technology in Agriculture Food Science and Food System Fundamental Research Skills Rural Survey Research Methods -Advanced Subjects- Agrobiological Science Advanced Animal & Marine Biosciences Forest and Forestry Sciences Bioproduction Environmental Sciences Sustainable Bioresources Science Advanced econometrics Molecular Bioscience I Advanced in Bioresource Technology Advanced Food Quality -PBL Subjects- Agricultural Problem-Based Learning I Agricultural Problem-Based Learning II -Practicum Subjects- Seminar in a Specified Field I Seminar in a Specified Field II Presentation skill for academic meeting _International Frontier Program in Agriculture (Minor program) English for AgriBio Leaders I English for AgriBio Leaders II Construction of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, and Development of Asian Agriculture AgriBio Advanced Technology and International Contribution Current Topics in Agriculture and Biotechnology AgriBio Global Exercise I AgriBio Global Exercise II AgriBio Global Exercise lll AgriBio Overseas Short-term Program AgriBio Overseas Program In principle, all professors and associate professors are capable of supervising JDS Fellows. Here is a list of professors and associate professors who are capable of supervising JDS Fellows. https://www.agr.kyushu-u.ac.jp/english/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/FacultyMembers202006最新版_200909_forHP201003HM.pdf The supervising professors for JDS Fellows are determined in April. We read their report and discuss which laboratory is suitable for each JDS Fellows and decide his/her laboratory and supervising professor. 1st year Fall, Winter (October – March) Entrance ceremony (October) Welcome party Fall core subjects Academic English Writing Skills module 1st year Spring, Summer (April – September) Spring core subjects 2nd year Fall, Winter (October – March) International Seminars 2nd year Spring, Summer (April – September) Defending your master's thesis Oral presentation (July) Graduation ceremony (September) -Departments- Bioresource Sciences, Agro-environmental Sciences, Agricultural & Resource Economics, Bioscience & Biotechnology, Innovative Science & Technology for Bio-industry -Attached Institutes- Center for Promoting International Education and Research of Agriculture, University Farm, University Forest, Fishery Research Laboratory, Institute of Biological Control, Institute of Genetic Resources, Kuju Agricultural Research Center -Relating Institutes- Biotron Application Center, Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Bio-Architecture Center -Other Facilities- University Central Library Counseling & Health Center Kyushu University International Students House -International Student and Research Support Center- When you need to prepare documents and submit them to public offices in order to study in Japan, including those needed for the Immigration Bureau, want to rent an apartment, or need help with any other documents or procedures, the International Student and Researcher Support Center located on each campus always stands by to help you. Please visit the International Student and Researcher Support Center website for more information: http://www.isc.kyushu-u.ac.jp/supportcenter/en/ -Student support tutoring system A team of Kyushu University students is assigned to new international students as supporters. This team will be your guide to your new environment and will support you in adjusting to life in Japan. The supporters will meet you at the dormitory when you arrive in Kyushu, take you shopping, show you around the campus and the city, introduce you to friends and teachers, and teach you basic information about Japanese living. They will serve as your personal advisers. -International Student Association (KUFSA) The Kyushu University Foreign Students Association (KUFSA) is an organization that represents all foreign students enrolled at Kyushu University (Kyudai). Through KUFSA, students can take part in excursions, sports, and other fun activities. Join KUFSA’s page on Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/KUFSA/photos_stream?tab=photos -University Central Library- The University Library consists of three general libraries, the largest of which is located right across the road from the International Student Center. The International Salon on the second floor is equipped with 40 personal computers for the use of students and staff use. In the International Corner on the third floor, satellite broadcasting in Chinese, Korean and English is also available. Computers and Internet access is possible from 9:00am to 5:00pm on weekdays in the computer room. Computer facilities are also available in the Central Library. https://www.chc.kyushu-u.ac.jp/~webpage/english/ -Center for Health Sciences & Counseling- Counseling & Health Center offers physical and psychological care service, the counseling and guidance of all students and staff members of Kyushu University. -Accommodation- Students enrolled in on the Course are guaranteed a furnished single room with a private bathroom and balcony at the Kyushu University International Students House (KUISH) or rooms provided by other institutions, with whom the university has an accommodation agreement, for the first 6 months after arrival at Kyushu University. More detailed information on housing is available at the following website: http://www.isc.kyushu-u.ac.jp/supportcenter/en/housing From University: More than 40 students from Myanmar have been chosen through highly competitive selection procedures and enrolled in our Master’s degree since 2002. In this Program, some scientific tours for JDS Fellows have been offered from time to time during the two year Master course period for each fellow. The aims of these tours are to promote a greater understanding of policies, circumstances, and technologies in Japanese agriculture. Our program has proven successful and has been acknowledged by the academic and research institutions of our students’ home countries. Research in the individual laboratories in our graduate school as well as opportunities of exploring fields and of presenting their research at international conferences enrich their experiences. Our educational excellence is also evidenced by the fact that our graduates are highly sought after by academic institutions and industries alike. Also, at Kyushu University, students are given opportunities for presenting their research finding at both national and international conferences and publishing articles in academic journals. Also, they enjoy expanding their national network. The following message from our former JDS Fellow, Mr Thant Sin Kyaw from Myanmar depicts such a story. “Two years in Kyushu University made important turning point of my life. It gave me a lot of new experiences for both academic and daily life. Also I had some opportunities to take a glance at Japanese culture and history through festivals and study tours. I was very happy during these two years and I will never forget these days. During the second year master, I spent most of the time for research work. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Professor Dr. Kazuo OGATA and Associate Professor Dr. Kimihiko HYAKUMURA for their valuable guidance, patience, motivation, and continuous support to my research work and writing master thesis. Also I would like to appreciate the support of all my friends, lab mates, as well as JICE coordinators.” From Returned Fellow: Daw Yee Myint Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation JDS 8th Batch (Returned in 2011) There has been a great deal of sweet memories in my life during my study in Japan. The university offers varieties of specialized courses with sufficient facilities for all students. I am proud of being a “Kyu Dai” (Kyushu University) Fellow because the university not only has state-of-the-art technologies but also employ environmental friendly practices which are worthwhile and interesting. Lectures provided by Japanese professors make me widen my horizon and it was a great opportunity to learn from visiting foreign professors as well. Furthermore, we were encouraged to join Kyushu University Foreign Students Association (KUFSA) that invites students from every corner of the world to participate in multicultural exchange program and also to perform in Japanese Festivals and Celebrations such as Cherry Blossom Festival, Fire World and Hakata Dontaku. The international students are also encouraged to get involved in social activities and campaign such as relief program for natural disaster. While staying in Japan, I devoted my times in academic life as well as learnt Japanese language and culture as a citizen of Fukuoka. I really enjoyed Japanese culture and food. While studying in Japan, I really had a time of my life. The experience I gained and the challenges I overcame make me a better person. It was difficult to say good bye in my heart when we had to leave Japan after completion of studies. I really miss all the professors, lab members, friends and my university. Last but not least, I would like to express my special thanks to JDS for this brilliant opportunity. JICE's "Policy for Personal Information Protection" Terms and Conditions of Use / Privacy Policy / Social Media Policy Copyright © 2020 JICE All Rights Reserved.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line898
__label__cc	0.597409	0.402591	Asia, Layovers, Taipei, Taiwan Tea Tasting In Taiwan Posted by Jessica's Journey With Emirates on January 19, 2019 January 19, 2019 Another early morning start out of Dubai at 4:50am and it was 7 hours and 10 minutes over to Taipei in Taiwan. Last time I was here it was over two and a half years ago, so I was excited to be heading back and exploring more of what Taiwan has to offer. Landing around 16:30, we made our way over to the hotel and a few crew had arranged to meet at 7pm to go for dinner. I was craving Din Tai Fung but the majority of people wanted to go to the night market at Shihlin which I was happy to go to as I’d not been before. We jumped in three taxis and wandered into the depths and bright lights of the night market. It was filled with people bartering over goods, picking up items for their dinner or debating over the abundance of food to go items that were readily available. We weaved in and out of the different side streets picking up different goods. There were major brands such as Nike, Miniso and Adidas slotted in between market stalls which was quite odd but meant you really could get anything and everything here. The thing with eating out with a large bunch of crew is no one can EVER decide where to eat. In the end myself and two of the girls stumbled across an incredibly busy restaurant compared with the empty ones surrounding which gave me a more safe eating feeling and we joined the queue to get a table and said anyone was more than welcome to join us. I opted for the pork katsu cutlet with rice and vegetables for only $100 Taiwanese dollars (£2.50) what an absolute BARGAIN. This included unlimited cold drinks such as iced green tea which we had a few refreshing glasses of! It doesn’t look overly appetising but it tastes great and they even offered free extra rice as the kitchen was closing and they had an abundance left. We then weaved our way throughout the market to the exit and called for a sugar glazed strawberry stick which is a traditional sweet treat eaten around the Chinese New Year which is approaching at the beginning of February. In the UK around Halloween/Bonfire night we eat toffee apples on a stick which are great and so tasty, and my mum buys me one every year. But the apple always goes a little mushy which ruins it a little for me. But with a strawberry, it doesn’t matter that it’s a little mushy and works really well. Absolute game changer in my eyes, I think the UK needs to catch on! The only weird thing was is that the last fruit was not actually a strawberry but a tomato?! We had a shock when we bit into the last one expecting the sweetness of the strawberry but experienced the tang of a tomato. Still very enjoyable none the less! We jumped in a taxi and made our way back to the hotel where I climbed into bed ready for an early start of exploring once more. I had booked a tour to the tea plantations through the hotel concierge. I’d seen a few crew recommend it on our layover tips facebook page and the timings were great so I could sleep before the flight back to Dubai. I was picked up at 7:40am and we picked up another couple of guys visiting from Singapore from another hotel before we made our way out of Taipei towards New Taipei City. As we veered up the windy mountain roads and out of the busy city we were welcomed with the most incredible views. With it being mid week and very early we were able to jump out of the car on the road side to take in the breath taking view stood before us. The early morning mist made me feel like I was in the depths of the jungle, just call me Jungle Jessica from now on? We headed further up the mountain side to a place called a Thousand Island Lakes. The water paired with the lush green back drop of the tea plantations was incredible. We walked in and out of the spaces in between the tea plants whilst the tour guide told us all about the area and how the young people don’t want to pick tea leaves as did many years ago, and that’s why we’re able to wander in and out of the strips of tea leaves. Myself and the two guys also on the tour got talking and we discovered he was ex crew for Singapore Airlines and we were chatting away about crew life as we moved across to the tea tasting part of our day (ie what I’d been looking forward to as I drink copious amounts of tea daily). A local tea producer brought us into his shop for a tasting session of three locally produced teas: Baozhong Oolong Tea, honey black tea and lower altitude green oolong tea. Each tea we participated in a small ceremony where we poured the tea from different cups and massaged the porcelain to enhance the smell and lower the temperature for optimum drinking before we held the tea in our mouths for five seconds before finally drinking. A different tea drinking experience to when I pop the kettle on, but an enjoyable one albeit! I felt very refreshed. The teas were delicious and at the end he served us a peanut sugar treat after the slight bitterness of the three different teas which tasted so good I bought myself a bag for $200. We then moved across to the Pinglin Tea Museum which told us all about the different tea making processes throughout the years and the differences in tea all around the world. I learnt a lot about tea and there was a lot of interactive and virtual reality learning which was very different but also good if you have children with you! I even learnt this about UK tea drinking which I’ll be able to share on board when I get asked by crew “why are British crew so obsessed with tea?”. “In the 16th century, tea was introduced into Portugal from China. It was called chà. In the 17th century, Portuguese princess Catherine of Braganza was married to the King of England Charles II. Tea was one important item in her dowry, and thus was introduced into the lives of English royalty and nobles as a luxury enjoyed by the upper class. In the 18th century, as tea imports increased, the public began to imitate the nobility to buy tea, and tea drinking became a symbol of affluence and fashion. In the 19th century, Britain began massive tea growth in India and Sri Lanka, and the price of tea declined. During the industrial revolution, factory workers worked long hours, so the employers provided tea to the workers during morning and afternoon breaks to boost work morale, and “tea drinking” became popular and a part of life in Britain. Around 1840, Anna Maria, Duchess of Bedford would feel hungry in the afternoon because of a small lunch, and the elaborate dinner ritual wouldn’t start until 8pm, so she often invited good friends to have tea together in the afternoon and had delicate refreshments to satisfy the hunger. Surprisingly, such afternoon tea became popular amongst aristocrats and evolved into English afternoon tea culture that is still popular all over the world today” (Pinglin Tea Museum) From here the tour ended and as it approached lunchtime, we were taken back to our hotels. As I’d not eaten I was so hungry, and when I got to the hotel I googled the location of Din Tai Fung. With it only being a fifteen minute walk away, I put in my headphones and walked through the busy streets of Taipei ready for food. It was only a twenty minute wait when I got to the restaurant and I sat scouring the menu whilst I waited opting for the pork xaoi long bao, pork and shrimp wonton noodle soup and a side of water spinach. The food was incredible as always, and I walked back to the hotel feeling full and content ready to crash for five hours before our wake up call to venture back to Dubai. I had such a fun trip to Taipei and theres a lot more I want to explore here too! 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__label__wiki	0.734645	0.734645	Josephine County Democrats About JCDP Our Democratic Principles Inside the JCDP JC Precinct Map Be a JC PCP Stonewall (LGBTQ) Caucus Committee Business Art Robinson Worked With Unregistered Foreign Agent 0 Comments September 3, 2018 Who is Samuel Patten? Eugene, Oregon–Art Robinson’s deeper connections to illegal activity were revealed in a photo of political operative W. Samuel Patten and Robinson at his home in Cave Junction, Oregon in 2014. As part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, Samuel Patten pled guilty on Friday to working as an unregistered foreign agent for Ukraine and funneling $50,000 of illegal foreign money to Donald Trump’s presidential inaugural committee. Additionally, prosecutors argue that Patten’s business partner, a Russian national, has ties to Russian intelligence. Patten worked in Oregon in 2014 for Cambridge Analytica, the corrupt political data company that illegally harvested data from 50 million Facebook users and interfered with elections around the world. The company admitted to, “effectively managing Robinson’s (2014) campaign in its entirety” and Robinson was Cambridge Analytica’s first federal political client. Patten posted a photo on his personal Facebook page with Art Robinson in 2014 at Robinson’s home in Cave Junction, Oregon. In March 2018, The Washington Post and Willamette Week interviewed Robinson about his engagement with Cambridge Analytica. Robinson did not disclose his relationship to Samuel Patten. Cambridge Analytica is partly owned by hedge fund billionaire and right-wing political extremist Robert Mercer. Mercer first began meddling in Oregon elections in 2010 when he funded a super PAC aimed at electing Art Robinson and attacking Congressman Peter DeFazio. DeFazio was the first Member of Congress to be attacked by a Wall Street-backed super PAC. Since then, the Mercer family has spent $1.7 million on Robinson’s failed congressional campaigns. Mercer also funds Robinson’s institute, the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, which Robinson runs from his sheep farm in Cave Junction, Oregon. Since 2005, Mercer has given Robinson’s institute $1.77 million dollars including a $150,000 donation at the start of 2018. Robinson is making a fifth attempt at Oregon’s 4th Congressional District. Oregon voters deserve to know the extent of Robinson’s relationship to Samuel Patten, Robert Mercer, and work with Cambridge Analytica. HotOffPress / The Election is Over. Now what? 2021 – WATCH US GROW! Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Under Siege ‹ 9/13 A Civil, Local Discussion of Forest Management & Wildfire › Abortion Rights Group Targets McMorris Rodgers, Walden on Family Separations Support Your Local Party 01/20/2021 Celebrating America – Prime Time Inauguration Special 01/20/2021 Inauguration of 46th President of the United States 01/19/2021 Tribute to Remember and Honor the Lives Lost to COVID-19 02/09/2021 Monthly General Mtg 514 NE 7th St (corner 7th and C) CURRENTLY CLOSED DUE TO COVID RESTRICTIONS. Call for an appointment. Join Rapid Response Messaging Get text notifications of rallies, meetings, unexpected visitors. Text JOCODEMS to 24587. Remember that you may be charged for text by your cellular company depending upon your plan! Our Democrats PCPs \|\| Neighborhood Leaders © Josephine County Democrats 2021 Authorized and Paid for by the Josephine County Democratic Central Committee	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line908
__label__wiki	0.880403	0.880403	i think i better follow you around Follow us if you like good music Pallbearer – The Making Of Forgotten Days Pallbearer celebrated the release of Forgotten Days (Nuclear Blast; https://www.pallbearerdoom.com/forgotten-days) with the release of “The Making of Forgotten Days”, a deep dive into the making of the eight-song album. The new album Forgotten Days was released on October 23rd via Nuclear Blast. Tracklist: 1. Forgotten Days 2. Riverbed 3. Stasis 4. Silver Wings 5. The Quicksand Of Existing 6. Vengeance & Ruination 7. Rite Of Passage 8. Caledonia “It’s been inspiring creatively, I think we’ve written so much more material over the past year than ever before,” bass player/songwriter Joseph D. Rowland explains in the first moments of the interview. “We were able to really let some of the lyrics develop earlier in the process than we have in the past. We were able to really focus in on ideas, develop riffs, with lyrical patterns in mind, themes in mind… this time there was so much more opportunity to tightly hone in on those things.” Here’s the video that was released for “The Quicksand Of Existence”, directed by Ben Meredith: The Randall Dunn (Sunn O))), Earth, Johan Johannson) produced album was recorded at Sonic Ranch Studios in West Texas. Forgotten Days (https://www.pallbearerdoom.com/forgotten-days) is available in a number of limited edition vinyl variants with physical bundles available via both the Nuclear Blast and Pallbearer webstores, as well as digitally and on CD/cassette. Tindersticks – You’ll Have To Scream Louder Tindersticks have released a new song. Yes the song, “You’ll Have To Scream Louder”, is a cover from the band Television Personalities and it will be included in their upcoming album “Distractions” due out in February via City Slang. Stuart Staples said this in a statement: Late may, early June, 2020 was a twitchy and angry time for many of us. There was a growing agitation inside of me. I woke on a Saturday morning with no plans but just this fucking Television Personalities song going round in my head, it pushed me into the studio. 4 or 5 hours later I had made the basis of this recording, though I had to wait for windows of opportunity within our confinement to work with the band to bring it to a conclusion. I have loved the TVPs since buying the Bill Grundy e.p. with its photocopied sleeve on one of my regular after school bus trips to the Virgin record shop in a basement on King Street, Nottingham. Some years later, 1984, I was living around the corner on the 17th floor of Victoria Centre flats, they swayed in the wind. I was working a few days at a local record shop and The Painted Word was released. It became at the soundtrack to that semi-slum, those times. I was 19. To be young in the early 1980’s there was much to be angry about, battles to be fought – Thatcher, racial and gender injustice – and (one of the motivations for this song) nuclear disarmament. Although we may not have thought those battles were ever won, we believed we had helped push things in a different direction, that changes were made. In the spring of 2020 we were shown painfully that these battles are ongoing. Quakers II: The Next Wave After 8 years Quakers are back with Quakers II: The Next Wave. Quakers is Supa K (Katalyst), 7STU7 and Fuzzface (Geoff Barrow) as executive producer, along with an ever-expanding cast of MCs they invite along on the adventure. Quakers II: The Next Wave was released via Stones Throw November 13th. The tracklist: 1. Electrify 2. Start It Like This (feat. Phat Kat) 3. One Of A Kind (feat. Guilty Simpson) 4. Sell Your Soul 5. Bare Essentials (feat. The Niyat) 6. A Myth (feat. Sageinfinite) 7. This Station (feat. Jeremiah Jae) 8. Alive 9. Heat On It (feat. Grandmilly) 10. Double Jointed (feat. The Koreatown Oddity) 11. Who Dat (feat. Chester Watson) 12. Radiola (feat. Radioactivists) 13. Gun Control (feat. The Black Opera) 14. We Tried 15. Duck & Cover (feat. Guilty Simpson, Cysion) 16. Morphine (feat. Bob Banner) 17. Approach With Caution (feat. Sampa The Great) 18. The Streets 19. Looking For Love (feat. Denmark Vessey) 20. Fa Real (feat. Jeru The Damaja) 21. A Quick Fix (feat. YC, Super Vic) 22. Test My Patience (feat. Jonwayne) 23. Too Many To Count 24. Greatness (feat. Nolan The Ninja) 25. Hit List (feat. Cazeaux O.L.S.O) 26. Another Kind Of War (feat. Jeremiah Jae) 27. Leaflet Drops 28. One O’clock 29. All Of It (feat. Boog Brown) 30. Machine Room (feat. Fat Ray) 31. Pain (feat. Sav Killz) 32. The Line (feat. Cavalier) 33. Blocks (feat. Dionté Boom) Quakers via Stones Throw: “Since the 2012 release of Quakers’ debut LP, “Katalyst has evolved into Supa K, 7STU7 has taken up intergalactic smuggling, and Fuzzface only communicates telepathically, silently overseeing the Quakers operation from afar.” True to the group’s collaborative spirit, the three producers invite over thirty rappers from the Stones Throw stable and beyond to contribute to Quakers II: The Next Wave. The new wave of Quakers MCs includes The Koreatown Oddity, Guilty Simpson, Sampa the Great, Jonwayne, Jeremiah Jae, Chester Watson, Boog Brown, and many more. All adding their weight to the sonic arsenal. Much like Quakers’ self-titled debut, The Next Wave is loud, unapologetic and blunted. It’s also more explicitly political, with songs that speak directly to systemic corruption, racism, and the climate crisis. The artwork for The Next Wave, created by graphic novel artist Joe Currie, reflects this renewed focus on “interplanetary eco battles.” “The project has evolved organically, similar to last time,” explains Supa K, but “the world has changed and the music reflects that. We’ve all had enough of the global corruption and all those profiting from it.” Quakers leave us with this quote from the late, great Left Rev McD: “We have killed the very earth beneath our feet, yet we still kill each other and talk of the future.” The time for change is now. They also released these promo videos: Approach with Caution (feat. Sampha The Great): This Station (feat. Jeremiah Jae) Double Jointed (feat. The Koreatown Oddity) Mr. Bungle – Sudden Death (directed by Derek Cianfrance) Mr. Bungle, who recently released their first album in over two decades, The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny Demo (Ipecac Recordings, https://lnk.to/MBWrath), have partnered with acclaimed Director Derek Cianfrance (“The Place Beyond The Pines,” “Blue Valentine”) for the band’s “Sudden Death” video. “If you lived in Lakewood, Colorado, during the early 1990s, there’s a slim chance you would have seen and heard a 16 -year-old boy driving slowly around town in a white, 1974 Mustang II, with his windows rolled down, disrupting the neighborhood by blaring the music of Mr. Bungle. That 16-year-old kid was me, and that music that I listened to, over and over and over again, set the bar for my life as an artist,” explained Cianfrance. “So, 30 years later, when I got a call from Mike Patton asking me to direct a music video for one of the songs on their new album, The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny Demo, I questioned whether my life was really a dream… I informed Mike that I had never directed a music video before, but he wasn’t dissuaded. I listened to the album and asked if I could work with the song “Sudden Death.” It reminded me of the feelings of angst I carried throughout my youth while growing up in the shadow of a looming, forbidding thermonuclear war. I decided I could make a short film (well, not so short – the song is almost 8 min!) about these fears that haunted me. I was also interested in meditating on the theme of desensitization in modern society, where citizens are gradually and systemically numbed to the possibility of cataclysmic consequences. Since the song was written in the mid-‘80s, I determined that the video should feel like it was made during that time and imagined it as some sort of rediscovered relic. Shooting during a global pandemic proved a fitting backdrop to the malaise of the song. It also presented a unique challenge as I was too nervous to work with actors – so I had to come up with another solution. making this video with a small team of trusted collaborators, and working with my life-long heroes, was nothing short of a total dream come true.” Cianfrance and Patton came to know one another after working together on the 2013 film “The Place Beyond The Pines.” Cianfrance said, in an interview with Pitchfork, that once he shot the film, he knew the only person who should compose its score was Patton. Cianfrance has also incorporated music from Patton’s discography into his current project, HBO’s “I Know This Much Is True.” “When we first worked together, he told me he was a fan, and I didn’t believe him,” said Patton. “Years later, he told me he gravitated to the most difficult tunes on Bungle records (“Dead Goon,” “Merry Go Bye Bye,” “Goodbye Sober Day”) so him choosing “Sudden Death” for this iteration of Bungle actually made perfect sense. The least commercial and longest song? That’s where his ears and eyes go.” Chester Watson – A Japanese Horror Film Chester Watson has released his latest album “A Japanese Horror Film”. 01 – Life Wrote Itself 02 – Transportation Interlude (feat. Kiminori Chiba) 03 – Taxi Ghost (feat. Ria and Sima Itayim) 04 – Porcelain Geisha (feat. FIfi Rong) 05 – Yokai (feat. Psymum, Kanisono, Fifi Rong & Kent Loon) 06 – Witch Hunter (feat. K Raydio) 07 – Kushiro (feat. K Raydio) 08 – Camp (feat. Kent Loon and SIma Itayin) 09 – Teleportation (feat. K Raydio) 10 – Nujabes 11 – Atlantic Interlude (feat. Manijanai) 12 – Atlantis (feat. Salami Rose Joe Louis) 13 – Hypnagogic Interlude (feat. Manijanai) 14 – Ronin 15 – Sunken Place (feat. Max Wonders and Sima Itayin) 16 – Fog (feat. Dua Saleh) 17 – Daydreams (feat. Dua Saleh) We saw Chester Watson last year, when touring was still a thing, he supported Puma Blue at the Casbah in San Diego. And while we spoke briefly about the influence from Flying Lotus and the Brainfeeder label he mentioned that his forthcoming album did have additional inspirations and that it was something that he was really excited to release. With his earlier releases the influences from Earl Sweatshirt and MF Doom were palpable and easy to see and now with his “A Japanese Horror Film” it would be kind of easy to think of some members from the Wu-Tang, from the fists of RZA to the swords of GZA. The album, for lack of better terms, is a trip. An astral trip. A projection. It’s an album that needs to be listened from beginning to end, don’t skip a moment and ride the album out. It’s an album that feels researched and that it takes the Japanese culture seriously, it’s not just kitsch or chic for the sake of being it, there’s an implied reverence to the samurai because there’s a care for it. The album feels like a soundtrack. Maybe, like an alternate score to Ghost Dog or a follow up to The Bride. Here’s a video for the opening song “Life Wrote Itself”: Puscifer – Existential Reckoning TO: [REDACTED] DATE: SEPT. 18, 2020 FROM: Special Agent-in-Charge (SAC) Mat Mitchell, Special Agent-in-Charge Carina Round (SAC), and Special Agent-in-Training Maynard James Keenan SUBJECT: Existential Reckoning (Oct. 30, Alchemy Recordings / Puscifer Entertainment / BMG; https://Puscifer.lnk.to/ExistentialReckoning), “The Underwhelming” (https://Puscifer.lnk.to/TheUnderwhelming), and Billy D. disappearance Reports out of Jerome, Ariz. confirm the impending arrival of Existential Reckoning, a 12-song album from the special agents operating under code name Puscifer. The release is scheduled for an Oct. 30 arrival via Alchemy Recordings/Puscifer Entertainment/BMG. The agents, Mat Mitchell (guitar, bass, keys) and Carina Round (vocals, keys), with agent-in-training Maynard James Keenan (vocals, stories) a.k.a. Dick Merkin, preview the forthcoming release with “The Underwhelming”: https://youtu.be/M_gHgTkbdyg In a report to commanding officers, the trio said: “In the Summer of 2016, we received a call from Hildy Berger, Billy D’s loving wife. [REDACTED]. Billy D, rumored to have been carrying nothing but a bottle of wine and a mysterious briefcase, had disappeared without a trace somewhere in the high deserts of the Southwestern United States. Rumors of alien abduction were at the forefront throughout the dark web chatter. Therefore traditional methods of tracking a lost and hopeless drunkard in a dirty leisure suit were not an option. [REDACTED]. We hypothesized the only way to locate the subject was to [REDACTED] construct traversable bridges between intuition and technology, requiring us to explore the metaphorical mycelium between Math and Passion, Art and Order, and Hope and Proof. Through these methods [REDATED] we are able to pinpoint the exact location of both Billy D and the mysterious briefcase.” The agents recruited back-up: Greg Edwards (an experienced Agent having worked in operations classified as Failure and Autolux; bass, guitar, keys), Gunnar Olsen (drums) and Sarah Jones (drums). Existential Reckoning was produced by Mat Mitchell and Puscifer. The album was recorded and mixed by Mat Mitchell at Puscifer Studios in North Hollywood, Calif. Existential Reckoning track list: 1) Bread and Circus 2) Apocalyptical 3) The Underwhelming 4) Grey Area 5.1 5) Theorem 6) UPGrade 7) Bullet Train To Iowa 8) Personal Prometheus 9) A Singularity 10) Postulous 11) Fake Affront 12) Bedlamite Album pre-orders (https://Puscifer.lnk.to/ExistentialReckoning) include a number of limited edition vinyl variants including pure clear (indie retail exclusive), high dispersion gold, a wine & vinyl bundle featuring “oakwood” and trans red with black swirl versions as well as translucent tri-color clear blend (Revolver exclusive). Digital pre-orders include an instant download of both “Apocalyptical” (https://youtu.be/Hj_bTbfAEsc) and “The Underwhelming.” Born somewhere in the Arizona desert, Puscifer is an electro-rock band, multimedia experience, traveling circus, and alien abduction survivors. The group’s catalog consists of three full-length studio albums—“V” is for Vagina [2007], Conditions of My Parole [2011], and Money Shot [2015]—in addition to a series of EPs and remixes. Beyond the core trio of Maynard James Keenan [vocals], Mat Mitchell [guitar, production], and Carina Round [vocals, songwriting], the group’s ever-evolving ecosystem encompasses a cast of characters such as Billy D and his wife Hildy Berger, Major Douche, Special Agent Dick Merkin, and many more. Meanwhile, the moniker’s origins can be traced to a 1995 episode of the HBO classic Mr. Show where Keenan first utilized the name “Puscifer.” Entertainment Weekly christened them, “Exceptionally groovy,” and Revolver fittingly described them as “indescribable.” Renowned for an immersive live show, the group’s performances blur the lines between concert and theater, traversing the dusty American Southwest with Billy D and Hildy or the sweaty squared circle with Luchadores. They’ve brought this to life everywhere from Coachella to Bonnaroo. On their 2020 debut for Alchemy Recordings/BMG, entitled Existential Reckoning, Puscifer track Billy D back to the desert and, just maybe, uncover the truth about aliens once and for all. The Kills – Little Bastards The Kills have announced the release of a new album consisting of B-Sides, demos, rarities and covers titled “Little Bastards” out on Domino Records. The songs date back from the band’s first 7-inch singles in 2002 through to 2009. 01. ‘Superpowerless’ (from ‘Last Day Of Magic’ 7″, 2008) 02. ‘Passion Is Accurate’ (from ‘Love Is A Deserter’ CD single, 2005) 03. ‘Kiss The Wrong Side’ (from ‘Cheap And Cheerful’ 7″, 2008) 04. ‘Raise Me’ (unreleased demo, 2009) 05. ‘Night Train’ (‘Midnight Boom’ digital bonus track, 2008) 06. ‘Half Of Us’ (from ‘No Wow’ 7″, 2005) 07. ‘London Hates You’ (from ‘Tape Song’ 7″, 2005) 08. ‘I Call It Art’ (from ‘Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited Compilation’, 2006) 09. ‘Forty Four’ (from ‘Black Balloon’ 7″, 2009) 10. ‘Love Is A Deserter’ (recorded for XFM, 2005) 11. ‘The Search For Cherry Red’ (from ‘Pull A U’ 7″, 2003) 12. ‘Magazine’ (from ‘Love Is A Deserter’ 7″, 2005) 13. ‘Blue Moon’ (from ‘Future Starts Slow’ 7″, 2009) 14. ‘Jewel Thief’ (from ‘Fried My Little Brains’ 7″, 2002) 15. ‘Baby’s Eyes’ (from ‘The Good Ones’ 7″, 2003) 16. ‘I Put A Spell On You’ (Screamin’ Jay Hawkins cover, 2009) 17. ‘Run Home Slow’ (from ‘The Good Ones’ CD Single, 2005) 18. ‘Weed Killer’ (from ‘Black Balloon’ 10″, 2009) 19. ‘The Void’ (from ‘No Wow Expanded Edition CD’, 2005) 20. ‘Sugar Baby’ (from ‘Fried My Little Brains CD single, 2003) They’ve shared the video for ‘Raise Me’ which was a previously unreleased demo from the Midnight Boom era. The video was directed by the Kills themselves, Jaime Hince and Allison Mosshart: Jamie Hince explained that the album’s title comes from the nickname he and Allison Mosshart gave a drum machine they used during their early days: “It was a Roland 880, which isn’t strictly a drum machine – it’s a sequencer, and an eight-track recorder, with its own drum machine built in, and that’s what we’d record all our beats on,” he said. LNZNDRF – Aguas Frescas LNZNDRF is Bryan & Scott Devendorf and Ben Lanz. The Davendorf brothers are of course the rhythm section of The National and Lanz is a touring member of the National and of Beirut. They’ve previously released their self titled album on 4AD back in 2016. They’ve just released an EP ‘To A Lake’ with an accompanying video for the song “Aguas Frescas” directed by Indira Dominici. https://youtu.be/Kj8CWMWnUNw “It is difficult in the moment of free-form, group composition to parse out where inspiration is coming from, but then in hindsight, under the editorial “knife”, as these musical things take shape, it becomes clear, as is especially the case with this EP and specifically the song and film “Aguas Frescas”. Our band obsession with Indira Dominici photographic examinations of water, which we had decided needed to be involved in the artwork for our next release, long before these writing/recording sessions, were clearly inspiring us in the studio. Her introspective, heartwrenchingly humanistic Super 8 film capturing of water, from her childhood home in Brasilia, to the saturated color of the coastline in Sicily, to scrambling rocks in Iceland along with our daily, early evening recording swim breaks in Barton Springs, the naturally spring fed “pool” in Austin, TX, where we were holding these sessions with engineer Bella Blasko, were clearly guiding our sonic journey. Barton Springs in the autumnal dusk was our’s, as free of crowds, we could fully give ourselves to its motions, dropping our overly sonically stimulated bodies into the seemingly bottomless swirl of dark colors in the early evening’s low light. From these syncronistic energies, our recording sessions and Indira’s work, it was only natural to collaborate with her towards a film; our water inspired music with her immersive depictions of water and the frontiers between dry land and immersion” said the band. Mr. Bungle – Sudden Death Mr. Bungle, who are mere days away from the release of The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny Demo (Oct. 30, Ipecac Recordings), have shared a third and final single ahead of the 11-song release, streaming “Sudden Death”. The song’s arrival comes as the Bay Area-born band, which features core Mr. Bungle members Trevor Dunn, Mike Patton and Trey Spruance with Scott Ian (Anthrax, S.O.D.) and Dave Lombardo (Dead Cross, Slayer, Suicidal Tendencies), prepare for the Halloween virtual live concert experience dubbed “The Night They Came Home!” The online event screens at 12 noon pacific/3 pm eastern on Oct. 31 with the on-demand program available for the following 72 hours. Tickets and exclusive merchandise are available now via http://www.mrbungle.live. As Rolling Stone said in their Fall music preview: “musical curveballs are encoded in Mr. Bungle’s DNA” so fans can, and should, expect the unexpected. “Mr. Bungle is featured on the current cover of Revolver. The magazine, in partnership with Ipecac Recordings, released a highly limited variant (400 copies) of The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny Demo yesterday: https://shop.revolvermag.com/products/mr-bungle-x-revolver-limited-edition-2lp-piss-yellow-collaboration-only-400-made Mr. Bungle announced the forthcoming release of The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny Demo to great fanfare. The album news followed a spate of early 2020 live performances that sold out immediately and saw the band playing to some of its biggest audiences ever. The album, which is a proper recording of Mr. Bungle’s much traded, yet unreleased, 1986 demo cassette, has been previewed with singles and videos for “Eracist” (https://youtu.be/Cug4UPwcvlo) and “Raping Your Mind” (https://youtu.be/3U5ZKKxqUzY). 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__label__wiki	0.745848	0.745848	The Source IWA Connect IWA Publishing Dr Mark Fletcher Director and Global Water Business Leader, Arup Mark is responsible for all water and flood risk related business activity across Arup and has advised at a regional, national and trans-national level. He has delivered keynote speeches at Stockholm World Water Week, International Water Week in Amsterdam, CoP21 in Paris and at WATEC in Israel. He was appointed by the RAEng as Visiting Professor in Engineering Design for Sustainable Development until 2008. In 2014 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Bradford University for his work promoting sustainable water management. Mark is on the Leadership Council of UK Water Partnership. He was also Project Director for the BCIA Award Winning Bradford City Park. He has been responsible for Amp Frameworks with UK water companies from Amp2-Amp6 as well as national frameworks with the Environment Agency. He is also a Board Director of the Water Industry Forum and is on the Policy Group for the Alliance of Global Water Adaptation (AGWA). AGWA includes the US State Department, the Government of the Netherlands, the World Bank, Rockefeller Foundation, UNFCCC and Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) amongst its members. He won the Engineering Council Natural Environment Award and the Leadership Award for Outstanding Contribution to Water Efficiency from the World Water Leadership Congress. He has presented to senior executives across the Australian water sector on the issue of public and private governance around water. He is also actively engaged in the shaping and messaging of adaptation implementation around the CoP22 agenda. Connect to the world’s leading water professionals. More from IWA: Basins of the Future Cities of the Future Water and Sanitation Services Water Policy and Regulation Discover our Specialist Groups Organise an event with IWA Become an IWA member World Water CongressDevelopment CongressList of all eventsLatest VideosWork with us! IWA Connect Photos FAQ IWA WeChat QR Code Export Building, First Floor London E14 2BE Email: water@iwahq.org Terms and Conditions Privacy Notice Latest tweets from IWA Tweets by @IWAHQ © All Rights Reserved, Copyright 2019, International Water Association Website by P/Q We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. By continuing to use the website you are consenting to the use of cookies. I AGREERead more	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line914
__label__cc	0.675186	0.324814	Giant Spools of Wire Attack Houston Highway Three Times in Two Months A giant industrial spool for fiber optic cable fell off a truck and went cruising down the Houston highway yesterday. Strangely, it’s the third time a spool has fallen off a truck in the last two months, so get your conspiracies ready. Houston's Roads Are the Deadliest in the U.S. I was on the road a lot this week. I had an eight-hour round trip to Dallas on Tuesday, then a… The first spool incident in Houston occurred on Oct. 25, followed by two spool simultaneously attacking traffic again on Nov. 12. This third spool fell off an 18-wheeler and when tumbling towards traffic, including a school bus full of children, the Kansas City Star reports. Here’s video of The Spool: In the previous two incidents, police cited the truck drivers for not knowing the height of their loads, as well as having overweight loads. Both of the previous incidents occurred when the trucks hit the same railroad bridge on I-10. Police indicated the driver in yesterday’s incident will also likely be ticketed. Luckily, the children and everybody else avoided injury yesterday. One woman, driving a VW Beetle, didn’t even realize the spool had hit her car until later. Here’s more on her experience from the Star: When Marie Cervantez saw that behemoth spool of fiber optic cable rolling toward her on the highway in October, she thought she was going to die. “Luckily, nobody got hit from that. Everybody stopped. But I kept going! Because I didn’t know it hit me, until I noticed it,” she told the TV station. “I’m not afraid to die, but I don’t want to die like that.” Good for you, Marie. I am most certainly afraid to die from taking a giant spool of wire to the face on my daily commute. Truck drivers, do better. A. Barth A giant industrial spool of fiber optic cable fell off a truck and went cruising down the Houston highway yesterday. That may be a spool for fiber optic cable, but it is not a spool of fiber optic cable: the spool is empty. Police indicated the driver in yesterday’s incident will also likely be ticketed. The spool should be cited for going so slowly in the left lane, the jerk.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line917
__label__cc	0.522667	0.477333	Kate Shrewsday A thousand thousand stories Let Me Tell Your Story: Audiobook Narration by Kate Shrewsday Quirks of History Macaulay The Dog stories The Poet at World’s End August 21, 2013 August 22, 2013 • kateshrewsday There is nothing like an English wilderness. For even in the midst of barren flatlands, there is something of the Shire about it. Norfolk is on the way to nowhere, though once it was the gateway to everywhere. Few world travellers venture to this extraordinary outpost of England, which really is the way things once were here. Here, just outside the Georgian town of Holt, everyone lives in picture-box villages with cobble-dash houses; the timeline has simply ambled on from mediaeval times until now with little interruption. Times jostle together to create a companionable timelessness. One of the nearest coastal points for us is Cley-Next-The-Sea, which hasn’t been since the 17th Century. It is a strange little end of the world. The waves which lapped against the harbour walls have been stultified by sand and silt, but the buildings of the harbour are still there. It was once one of the busiest ports in England: for there the merchants from the low countries would dock their ships and exchange grain, malt, fish, spices, cloth, barley and oats. And it has the most outlandish of charm. Each building is cobble-dash, with Dutch gable roofs everywhere. Impossibly characterful cottages jostle their neighbours, setting puzzles for the passing tourist: how does a mediaeval stone arch remain in what appears a Georgian fascia? Why are there everywhere references to St George and the Dragon? Did they build the huge picture windows to match the big skies? The main road to Kings Lynn winds chaotically through the centre but it cannot rob Cley of its end of the worldishness. For it faces the great salt marshes, wild and wet, and beyond them the North Sea. Standing sentry over the village is a 19th century windmill for grinding corn. Five storeys, with four sails driving three relentless pairs of millstones using the wind which tears in off the sea. And it is this England, the little wild kind, where a poet sat on the day war was declared in August 1914. Rupert Brooke: whom WB Yeats had dubbed ‘the handsomest man in England’, a member of the Bloomsbury set who had skinny dipped with Virginia Woolf. He was staying in Cley with friends, the poet Frances Cornford and her husband. And rather horrifyingly he had dreamt about the war, and woke to find it all not a dream, but real. He did not speak to the Cornfords all day; until Frances said to him: “But Rupert, you won’t have to fight?” And Brooke replied, simply:”We shall all have to fight.” The war took him away from this strange little England, across the seas to the Aegean, on his way to Gallipoli. The Times Literary Supplement carried a couple of his war poems in March and April 1915, and he was becoming famous. But in late April 1915, he was bitten by a mosquito, and contracted sepsis, and died one day at about teatime off the Greek island of Skyros. It was a brilliant day with a wonderful cool sea breeze, but it was not home. Brooke was buried the same day – the expeditionary force had orders to leave immediately. And now he sleeps in an olive grove, on a Greek island. I wonder if he would rather have slept at home? Like others to read this? Posted in UncategorizedTagged Cley-Next-The-Sea, poetry, Rupert Brooke, war poetsBookmark the permalink. 16 thoughts on “The Poet at World’s End” elspethc says: A haunting post Kate. I didn’t know this about Brooke and it makes me feel that his famous ‘corner of a foreign field’ was so very prescient. Maybe most of those young men knew they would not live long, which is very sad. kateshrewsday says: It is. It must have made life almost unbearably precious, Elspeth. jmgoyder says: That is a wow! Goosebumps. Strange story to find here at the end of the world, Julie! galealbright says: I’m sure he would rather have been buried at home, but a Greek island in an olive grove sounds like a lovely place to spend eternity. Cley-next-the-Sea must be an enchanting place. The windmill was cutting edge technology in its heyday and now we’re borrowing what worked for energy in the past and putting up wind farms to make some energy for the present. Everything in life always seems to recycle. I bet the old grindstones were pretty noisy, yes? I haven’t heard them there, Gale: my chief experience has been with watermills which make a hell of a din. nrhatch says: Your recent posts seem centered on death ~ a prick from a needle, the sting of a mosquito, and the bequeathing of family jewels. I suppose that history and her story all end the same way . . . gravely in the grave. Indeed. Though history always seems to find ways of reinventing itself, Nancy… Tom Merriman says: Those Norfolk towns, Kate, are always new to me, even after working for almost a hundred years on Directory Enquiries. Never heard of Holt or Cley-next-the-sea, but they also have an olde familiar rynge to them. They do, don’t they? Like you had known them all your life. bluebee says: How sad for Rupert. A rather unexpected death. It was. What a strange thing to be just beginning to be a recognised poet, and to have to leave just as the party was starting. Still, if the alternative was Gallipoli, where he was headed…. I always think the stories that surround someone dying from some small and ordinary event disturb me the most. A mosquito bite! I read that President Calvin Coolidge was depressed and slept much of the day. The story is that his son died from sepsis from a blister developed during a tennis game. Rupert seemed to be a very thoughtful and deliberate man…felled by an insect! Makes me think! Poor President Coolidge. The loss of a son is such an unbearable thought. What a burden to have to carry, and with such an innocent beginning. lifeonthecutoff says: What a dashingly handsome man Rupert was. I just spent some time investigating him and his work, Kate, and wonder how I missed this English poet. You really did “spray the mist” with this post, making me yearn to read more of Rupert (and Colin Firth would play him well, don’t you think?) and to investigate his poetry, not to mention visit Cley-next-to-sea. Thank you. Penny, I am so pleased to hear it! The handsomest man in England, and with bags of charm, but a rather prescient sense of what was to come. Very sad to lose him. Leave a Reply to bluebee Cancel reply Selling The Family Jewels The Creeping Land	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line921
__label__wiki	0.597903	0.597903	The Never-Ending Threat of Utopia Nov 8, 2020 \| Reviews, Slider The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class by Joel Kotkin. Encounter Books, 2020. Hardcover, 288 pages, $29. Reviewed by Robert Grant Price Feudal times are here again. This is a thesis Joel Kotkin hammers to a fine point in The Coming of Neo-Feudalism, a clarifying study-of-the-moment presented as sweeping history. The idea behind the book is simple: Kotkin says the social hierarchy of the Middle Ages closely traces the lines of today. If our society continues down the current path of economic disparity and social disintegration, the feudalism we left behind will return. With force. And it will be the middle class, the benefactors of liberal capitalism, who will suffer most. Oligarchs sit atop Kotkin’s neo-feudal order. No Charlemagnes among this crowd, the new kingly class is composed of technology-obsessed nerds—the Mark Zuckerbergs and Jeff Bezoses of our age who hold a disproportionate percentage of the world’s wealth and who will grow wealthier in the coming decade. According to Kotkin, these elites—“long on brilliance, but short on hardship”—want to shape the world to reflect their progressive politics. They have the resources to accomplish these dreams, with plenty left over to spend on their extracurricular ambitions, like the transhumanist dream to upload human consciousness into the cloud. The chokehold tech oligarchs have on the fortunes of others distinguishes them from industrial oligarchs of the past century. In the future, upward mobility will be harder to achieve, contrary to the claims of the techno-utopians and extreme capitalists. Instead of creating opportunities for the underclasses to gain wealth and compete with them, the tech oligarchs favor what Kotkin calls “oligarchic socialism”: schemes like Universal Basic Income that secures this self-dealing overclass from having to pump their vast fortunes into creative capitalism—or employees’ paychecks. Taxes collected from the lower classes will be redistributed to give the most basic support to the lower classes. Get ahead? No, we’re just getting by. With their commitment to technological determinism, a growing comfort with surveillance of everyone but themselves, and a spiritually vacuous view of humanity, the oligarchs make fine villains, for Kotkin. So do the clerisy, “the new legitimizers” of Kotkin’s neo-feudalism. Where the Middle Ages had the Church to teach social values and shape culture, neo-feudal times have academics, teachers, bureaucrats, and consultants to build a stairway to a new and better heaven. Up, up these stairs we travel by redefining words, standards, and sin to suit the oligarchic mindset, repressing intolerance in the name of tolerance, and evangelizing a new, green, corporate-approved catechism. Kotkin offers the inversion of popular culture as one striking bit of evidence for how the clerisy spreads its gospel: “Cultural creators are inclined to gear their products not so much to the tastes of the mass market as to the particular concerns of the clerisy.” These new clerics serve the masters, but there is no separate “church” to which both oligarchs and commoners need to orientate their conduct, no sense that each will be judged, even if only in the next life. Here, an external standard of judgment is harder to find, other than perhaps “efficiency” or “freedom,” standards whose definitions are in the hands of the oligarchs themselves. Here, the new church is everywhere. Below the clerisy toil the yeomanry (the middle class) and the serfs (today’s jobbers in the gig economy). The decline of homeownership—in some cities, the impossibility of home ownership for anybody but the wealthy—and the discrediting and dissolution of the nuclear family condition today’s yeomen for serfdom. Despair awaits the middle class, should they find their jobs automated, their debts unserviceable, and their cities unaffordable. Despair always lurks at the edges of fortune, but in the future Kotkin envisions, escape from despair is impossible. Class divisions will look more like strata in a caste system than rungs on a ladder. Clinging to the lowest rung are the working class, the serfs in the neo-feudal world. Like serfs of the old feudal order, they will live lives fleeced of fortune and certainty. The difference is that today’s serfs have better drugs to dampen despair. Ultimately, The Coming of Neo-Feudalism warns about the never-ending threat of utopia. This fact makes Kotkin’s disquieting volume automatically prophetic, regardless of whether his prophecy is fulfilled. Utopia will always fail. Last century’s utopians failed to perfect humanity in experiment after bloody experiment. This century’s utopians have already failed. The technophilic gurus who preached a new age of democratized knowledge (so put a tablet in every kid’s hands, already) got it wrong. Broadband paradoxically narrowed the arteries of commerce, birthed the most magnificent disinformation system ever imagined, and diced people into data to be sorted and snorted by advertising firms and governments. Rather than create opportunity, the “sharing economy” steals from creators. The “gig economy,” sold as a path to independence, is a dead-end with a clever name. “Gigging” sounds cool if you’re in a rock band, but if you’re delivering pizza on a bike to support a family, it’s a jig. Few stable families, fewer children, ever fewer jobs—this is our trajectory, and without a course correction, this is destiny. This future is a failed future, one that is already failing, but given the advantage bestowed on the oligarchs and clerisy, it is a future they will try to realize. For unlike utopians of times past, technoligarchs have the means to impose their demented vision of humanity without resorting to direct violence. The problem of tyranny was always an engineering problem, and the techno-kings are among the best engineers society has ever produced. Words like “dystopia,” “totalitarianism,” and “serfdom” make an appearance in Neo-Feudalism, but by the last page, I wonder how many readers will accuse Kotkin of hyperbole. The data (the book has ninety pages of sources for 172 pages of text in the hardcover), the persuasiveness of Kotkin’s logic, and the realism of the story he tells strikes truer with every page. Is Kotkin pessimistic? Maybe. But nobody listens to optimistic warnings. And as we have seen, the COVID lockdowns support Kotkin’s line of reasoning. The lockdowns have been good for monopoly people like Jeff Bezos, whose net worth has ballooned to $200 billion at a time when governments around the world have forced small and medium-sized businesses to close, many forever. In this regard, Neo-Feudalism fits in a growing literature among conservative and liberal writers who now question the “greed and globalism is good” logic of the last several decades. The power differentials are too stark to ignore much longer. The stand-out chapter is “The New Geography of Neo-Feudalism,” a study of the decline of great cities, written of course even before the pandemic controls have emptied the business centers of places like New York and Chicago. As Kotkin makes plain, a propertied class sustains urban centers and the middle class. As increasingly unaffordable cities empty, so do the ranks of the middle class. Gorgeous neighborhoods still exist, but those gated communities belong to the few. Imagine a world comprised of San Franciscos. Heaven inside the gates; human feces smearing the roads outside. As Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University in Orange, California and executive director of the Center for Opportunity Urbanism, Kotkin is the right person to make this argument. This chapter proves the most convincing in transforming his neo-feudal vision from clever thought experiment to documentary photography of life in today’s large cities. What can society do? Kotkin warns against substituting one utopia for another. The next utopia on the horizon—luxury communism, the fantasy that technology will provide endless plenty for all—will surely sunset in blood like every other utopia humanity has ever imagined. Kotkin’s unfortunately brief “Manifesto for the Third Estate,” the closing chapter of his book, hints at solutions. The multifaceted problems he outlines demand solutions that defy reduction and slogans. Instead of offering practical solutions, Kotkin reveals sources of hope and strength: peasants, who wield significant power, should they choose to rebel as in yesteryear; yeomen, the propertied middle class who are still wealthy and populous enough to steer society away from neo-feudalism; and families, an oasis in the loneliness of our technologic future. Robert Grant Price lectures at the University of Toronto at Mississauga. NEH Support The University Bookman has been made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this article do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line926
__label__wiki	0.592462	0.592462	Pre-Travel Forms Travel Quiz London, Just Like In The Movies Leave a Comment / Travel Tips / By shamicadavisjtsvacationscom When did you first fall in love with London? I honestly didn’t have a desire to visit this destination until I started planning a girls trip for a client of mine and I saw all of the exciting things there is to do. There are so many movies that focus heavily on this must visit location. Movies have such a powerful effect on our imagination and no doubt they have influenced many people by inspiring them to travel to their favorite movie or television locations. If London is on your travel bucket list be sure to check out these movies to get you and your travel companion in the mood. Trying to convince a group of friends to go with you? These movies will help! What’s your favorite movie set in London? Comment below. Ps. My favorite is 28 Days Later! Floppy-haired Charles (Hugh Grant) is looking for The One in Richard Curtis’s sweet, soppy movie. The capital provides a picture-perfect backdrop as Grant and his band of twenty-something aristo Londoners date, flirt and consider settling for sub-standard partners in an effort to get down the aisle. Proof that spending every sunny Saturday at a friend’s wedding is not a modern affliction. London location: Charles lives (and has that romantic, rainy reunion) on Highbury Terrace in Highbury Fields, the lucky sod. He also wanders along the South Bank and has a matrimonial meltdown at Smithfield’s St Bartholomew the Great. A Fish Called Wanda John Cleese hauled Ealing comedy legend Charles Crichton out of retirement to co-write and direct this acid-tongued shout-out to the classic comedy crime caper. Cleese plays a barrister swept up in a robbery plot; Michael Palin outraged stutterers worldwide as an animal-loving getaway driver; and two Yanks, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Kevin Kline offer scathing observations on British life. London location: The iconic scene where Kline dangles Cleese out of a window was shot at New Concordia Wharf in Bermondsey. TH Sir Conan Doyle’s sleuth gets a post-modern update, with Robert Downey Jr playing a beefed-up version of Holmes. London location: Shot in and around London (as well as Liverpool and Manchester), Ritchie’s London of yesteryear is a romantic place of heaving bosoms and ridiculously cool heroes. It’s from the same makers as out Love Actually, but Notting Hill is a funny, light-hearted fantasy romance that has its tongue pressed enough into its cheek just about enough. Only In London: Notting Hill is one of London’s most multicultural hot spots, which means it’s odd that Curtis’ film doesn’t reflect that. Still, the area looks the best it ever has – though Portobello Road is where you’ll find Grant’s bookshop. Renée Zellweger stars as the perpetually-single Bridget in this canny update of Pride & Prejudice. Only In London: Visit Borough Market and you’ll easily spot Bridget’s little flat near the pub, not to mention the restaurant that’s the setting for Firth and Grant’s hilarious dust-up. Bend It Like Beckham Two 18-year-old girls aspire to become professional football players in Gurinder Chadha’s gentle comedy. Only In London: Chadha captures the city’s cultural diversity beautifully as Parminder Nagra rebels against her orthodox Sikh upbringing – with Hounslow providing the perfect suburban backdrop. Oliver! Carol Reed’s classic musical in which young orphan Oliver (Mark Lester) falls in with a gang of street urchins who’ve been trained as pickpockets. Only In London:The city’s a smoggy place filled with danger in this movie adaptation of Dickens’ novel – you definitely believe somebody like Fagin could live here. Sci-fi horror from Danny Boyle in which an incurable virus sweeps the UK, transforming people into ravenous zombies. Only In London: Trust us, it’s never this empty in London – not even at 4 am when the clubbers are all tucked up in bed. Which makes the sight of a deserted central London all the creepier… Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) continues his hunt for answers while dodging the CIA. Only In London: Waterloo Station is a battlefield at the best of times, but it becomes a hustle-bustle setting for a fantastically tense action scene in Damon’s last Bourne film, as he attempts to protect Paddy Considine’s journalist. Joyous musical romp starring Julie Andrews as the titular nanny, who’s hired to look after two very unhappy children. Only In London: This is London as envisioned by Walt Disney Pictures, where everybody’s smartly dressed, the townhouses are towering and gorgeous, and there’s not so much as a single turd in the parks. Dare to dream, Disney… A Bangladeshi woman arrives in London, leaving behind her family and friends. Only In London: Cultural diversity is all part of London’s charm, and here we get a look at the East End’s Bangladeshi community, where the aftershock of 9/11 is strongly felt. Eight films adapted from JK Rowling’s bestselling book series, with Daniel Radcliffe as the lightning-scarred boy wizard. Only In London: Sad to say, Diagon Alley doesn’t actually exist in our beloved capital. That doesn’t stop Columbus, Yates et al from lavishing the city with adoring screen time, whether it’s the Millennium Bridge getting destroyed in Half-Blood Prince or those gorgeous over-city shots in Phoenix. And, of course, there’s King’s Cross station… Oscar-nabbing historical drama starring Colin Firth as King George VI, who struggles with a debilitating stammer. Only In London: Rush’s Harley Street practice should look familiar – it’s a Georgian townhouse 33 Portland Place, a popular location used in everything from Amy Winehouse’s ‘Rehab’ video to some less-well-known gay porn films… A 1998 British-American romantic drama film written and directed by Peter Howitt and starring Gwyneth Paltrow and John Hannah, while also featuring John Lynch, Jeanne Tripplehorn, and Virginia McKenna. The film alternates between two parallel universes, based on the two paths the central character’s life could take depending on whether she catches a train, and causing different outcomes in her life. Only In London: The bridge featured is the Albert Bridge between Battersea and Chelsea. The late-night scene when Paltrow and Hannah walk down the street was filmed in Primrose Gardens (formerly Stanley Gardens) in Belsize Park. Travel Local Post-Lockdown 5 Things You Need To Know Before Going to Jamaica 5 Reason Why Cruise Vacations Are Amazing Ultimate 8 Island Getaway 5 Fantastic Things To Do In Los Cabos, Mexico Copyright © 2021 JTS Vacations	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line928
__label__cc	0.666302	0.333698	About Justin Justin Spizman Book Collaboration Conceptualization Book Projects Turn Your Manuscript Into a Professionally Edited Book Ready for Publication “No doubt, Justin Spizman has a way with words – the kind of words and direction I desperately needed. I can honestly say that Justin Spizman made me a better writer. He’s a total rock star!” Jim Knight Author of Culture that Rocks For most manuscripts, the editing process is where a book really takes shape. Early drafts serve as raw materials to sculpt and mold during editing, applying critical thought to a draft and working to bring out its central message. Book editing services are therefore one of the most important parts of the success of any manuscript. As an experienced book architect, ghostwriter, author, and developmental editor, Justin Spizman can provide indispensable insight, and his highly perceptive eye to help your book become as good as it can possibly be. 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__label__wiki	0.530324	0.530324	Home Municipality “Why is no one arrested?” deputy minister asks after investigating Brits’ water... “Why is no one arrested?” deputy minister asks after investigating Brits’ water pollution Deputy minister David Mahlobo “Why is no one arrested? This water will kill people,” the deputy minister of water and sanitation told representatives of the Madibeng municipality on Thursday. Deputy minister David Mahlobo visited Brits after social media posts on the town’s dirty water, as well as lack of water, during the Covid-19 pandemic went viral on social media. “It will kill people, especially children. If someone pollutes, we take actions. The law is the law and you should be arrested,” the minister told the Madibeng acting municipal manager and director technical services during an urgent meeting at the municipal offices. He said the water situation in Brits was unacceptable and despite the financial support of the department of water and sanitation in the past, the situation has not improved. Mahlobo refused to watch Madibeng’s presentation on plans to address the situation and instead insisted that everyone attending the meeting immediately visit the Brits raw water as well as waste water (sewage) purification plants. During the visit to the respective plants, Mahlobo, a qualified biochemist, interviewed workers, managers and laboratory staff and inspected the facilities. Some serious issues discovered were: Untreated sewage is being released into the Crocodile River The sewage purification plant is barely functioning The municipality has whopping 53% water losses Serious system failures at both plants Water tests are seemingly not conducted according to national standards Upon Mahlobo question whether the municipality regarded the water supply as fit for human consumption, acting municipal manager, Neo Maape, replied affirmative, upon which the deputy minister accused him of lying. “I hate lies. Why are you telling lies on record? If you want to solve the problem, you have to acknowledge it. What you are doing is not okay.” Mahlobo then forced Maape to admit on record that the drinking water in Brits and surrounding areas is not fit for human consumption. Mahlobo said the department could not allow water to kill people. “You should be arrested but we (the department) want to help. “We know you are broke and I will report to the minister and director general to see where money can be raised. However, we want to see where the government’s infrastructure grant to Madibeng goes.” He said specialists from the department will be sent to Madibeng to investigate certain factors like groundwater quality. Regarding the deployment of water tankers, he told the municipality that he hoped that none of the tankers belong to politicians. “You have a total infrastructure failure and your losses are too much.” He also expressed his dismay at the condition the facilities are in. It is is hazardous for people to work at these facilities. It must be cleaned up.” A follow-up media briefing was scheduled but postponed due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Previous articleGestremde dogter glo in puttoilet, hondehok aangehou Next articleHAWS receives the gift of a home!	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line934
__label__cc	0.698349	0.301651	Sword Art Online Fatal Bullet Review – PC Gaming Steam Review Gaming, PC Gaming, Reviews, Steam Game Review / By Smango This Fatal Bullet Review on Steam is a game based off the Anime show known as Sword Art Online. I’ve been a fan of the show for quite some time. I’ve tried other SAO titles and found them underwhelming. For whatever reason, this is the first Sword Art Online I’ve truly enjoyed. There are several I’ve tried on the inferior gaming machcines such as the PS4. I’m more a fantasy person whenever it comes to JRPGs or MMORPGs. Fatal Bullet is a very fun experience and I hope you enjoy this SAO Fatal Bullet Review. SAO Fatal Bullet Review DEVELOPER: DIMPS DIMPS is a developer I thought I had never heard of but apparently, I’ve played a ton of their games on PC. Some of the most notable games on PC are games such as Dark Souls III and another hit Jump Force. So with those 2 fantastic games, you can imagine that Fatal Bullet should be great as well. Namco, of course, is the company who brought us all PAC-MAN so unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last 30+ years you should’ve heard of their name. You know I would’ve never in a million years would’ve put PAC-MAN and Sword Art Online in the same sentence. Yet, here we are. 2 great IPs underneath the same roof. For those who don’t know what Sword Art Online is. It is an Anime about a Virtual Reality Massive Multiplayer Online Role Play Game. That went completely wrong and everyone got trapped into the game until it was finally beaten. The story, of course, continues onto another game and the Anime season is called SAO Fatal Bullet. This is the game adaptation of the Anime Series. I will say that you don’t have to have seen the anime or even the first season of Sword Art Online to enjoy this game. However, there are certain main characters and stuff you will be confused about why they are even there. I think that you would enjoy this game more if you have seen the show compared to if not. You can still enjoy the grind of this game though. After you create your avatar you are introduced into the game as a newbie because of course, you are. It’s an MMO. For whatever reason you meet up with your childhood friend who lives down the street? You eventually end up teaming up with your friend female lead character and eventually unlock one of the rarest items in the Gun Gale Online Universe. An Arafa-sa unit. This is basically an NPC that follows you around and does quests with you this is also how you are introduced to the main characters of the Sword Art Online universe as they have been hunting this down. Fatal Bullet’s art style is fantastic and keeps true to the anime with the use of cel-shaded graphics. Monsters after killing them explode into digital triangle bits and it is very satisfying. The only issue I’ve ever known with cel-shaded games is that they don’t hold up as well as you would think. Perhaps the technology has gotten better and because of the higher resolutions these days. The framerate is locked at 30 Frames Per Second unless you go to the settings at the BEGINNING MENU. Check out the Smango TV Youtube Channel for some Quality PC Gaming gameplay on Steam. https://youtu.be/DHDD-JBqiDY You cannot change video graphics during gameplay which is very annoying. After unlocking the framerate to a smooth 60FPS. I could really tell a big difference in the fluidity of the game. The in-game movies actually do run at 60fps no matter what because I didn’t notice until I got into the game. Playing the game at the 1920×1080 everything on high-ultra settings, I didn’t have to turn anything down that I’m aware of. If you want to know my setup you can always visit Smango’s Corner on my current hardware and setup. This game doesn’t have high requirements as my EVGA 1070 destroyed it alongside my AMD Ryzen 2700x. Please be sure to check out Smango’s Corner to check out my latest setup. The biggest downfall of the game is there is no English dubbed option at all or that I’m aware of. I’m not saying the audio isn’t quality, I’m just saying I don’t speak Japanese. I’ve always enjoyed JRPGs since I was a tike. It’s just not pleasing to my ears to hear all the characters keep saying stuff that I have no clue what is being said. Even during the heat of the moment, all the characters will scream out sayings. I mean you can read it if you can read subtitles and aim at the same time which is not a good thing. Finally figured out you have to go to the MAIN MENU OPTIONS at the very beginning to turn off voice sounds. This was a much better experience for me I end up having to read everything anyways without a language that I don’t understand. The music and other sounds are fantastic though and it gives you a wonderful feeling that you are actually into the game. The weapon sounds are pretty much on point throughout every single weapon I’ve used. I believe that this is the strong point of the game. After you get past all the talking, and nonsense that no one truly cares about. Possibly the hardest hardcore of Sword Art Online fans might care. You finally get to dive into the GGO universe. You are completing quests, unlocking different outfits, random weapon drops and progressing through the story. This is the greatest strength this game has by far, you can even do online co-op and PvP that I’m aware of. Don’t worry SAO fans you do get to play with some of the main characters and do speed runs on certain character specific quests. If I had to compare the gameplay to any game in the last century I’d compare it to a game like Borderlands more than anything else. While this is a PC review you do have the option to play with a controller with the game will naturally put Aim-Assist on. Aim Assist on this game is pretty much broken and you don’t have to aim at all, even with a MOUSE. I highly suggest taking this off unless you are playing with a controller and want some extra assistance trying to aim with joysticks. The Aim Assit doesn’t give you the critical hits though so you deal normal damage. For example you are not going to produce tons of headshots using the in-game Aim Assistance. Sword Art Online Fatal Bullet on Steam is a very Solid game. It really doesn’t do anything game changing or new that is going to change gaming. If you are a fan of the series at all you will no doubt enjoy this game. Unlocking the framerate to 60 FPS does help the experience on PC as well. After getting passed the inital startup. Meeting and greeting everyone from the SAO universe. You finally get to enjoy a solid game which allows you to Co-Op with some of your buddies. The downfall of playing on PC is the awful User Interface. Which requires you to use a keyboard to navigate. This tells me that this was a direct port from console. Ports like this do hurt the PC experience which is why I have to give this game a medicore score. Be sure to follow me on Twitter – @realkynerd Also don’t forget to follow the Kentuckynerd Curator on Steam!	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line939
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__label__wiki	0.914781	0.914781	I’m A Celeb 2021: Alli Simpson joins the camp Cody’s sister spills on Miley relationship by Andrew Bucklow Alli Simpson has opened up about her brother's high-profile relationship with Miley Cyrus. Alli, who yesterday was unveiled as the latest I'm a Celeb contestant, was quizzed about Miley by fellow camp mate, Toni Pearen. "I'm a protective sister but I also met her a bunch of times and she's been nothing but beautiful to me," Alli said. Cody and Miley split last August after 10 months of dating. Alli Simpson. Cody and Alli. Picture by Damian Shaw "I'm not going to judge on what I read or see," Alli continued. "I'm only going to go off what Cody says and he loved what they had." Alli, 22, added that Miley and Cody hated the fact their relationship was often the subject of gossip magazines. "They used to get so annoyed," she said. "It got to the point where they were like, 'we just can't look at it anymore.'" I'm a Celeb contestant Grant Denyer asked Alli if Miley and Cody were in a "real relationship" or if it was "just a bit of fun". "Um, it was a real relationship, definitely a real relationship," Alli replied. "They were serious. "They were practically living together during COVID because they started dating and then two months later it was lockdown." Miley Cyrus gives Cody Simpson a racy haircut. Picture: Instagram Alli visited the couple in LA last March and said: "She's super fun. We were playing music, watching a lot of reality TV. "Cody never watches reality TV and since COVID happened he's like, 'I love it!' They were just binge watching it all." Denyer asked Alli if Cody would be watching I'm a Celeb given she's on it, to which she replied, "Yeah, he'll watch this one, he'll watch it just to laugh at me". MILEY AND CODY'S SPLIT Miley confirmed she had split from Cody in an Instagram Live last August. "A year ago, almost to this exact date, the media tried to tell my story for me and control my narrative, and I'm just not accepting that," she said at the time. "So today, it came out that me and my boyfriend have broken up. "It was confirmed by a 'reliable source' even though no one is reliable in a relationship, except the individuals who are participating in it. "But right now, two halves can't make a whole and we're individually just working on ourselves to become the people that we wanna be, like everybody else at this age," the singer added. "We are just deciding who we wanna be in our lives, what we wanna do, and so, don't make it some drama story if next week we're hanging out, getting pizza. "We've been friends for 10 years and we're going to continue to be friends, so just don't make it something that it is not," Miley concluded. Miley Cyrus and Cody Simpson share racy selfie You can check out all of Alli's comments about Miley on I'm a Celeb which continues tonight on Channel 10 at 7.30pm Originally published as Cody's sister spills on Miley relationship Actor’s bizarre Prince Harry claim Pete Evans’ podcast dumped from Spotify Rebel Wilson reveals gunpoint kidnap ordeal Toni Pearen stuns in a bikini at 48 celebrity cody simpson miley cyrus Environment He is calling upon Ipswich Council to review its earlier promises of free vouchers.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line945
__label__wiki	0.526369	0.526369	About this humble little website Football: Wherever it may be ~ Laurence's football travels Posted by laurencereade in S danmark, Denmark, Friends Arena, groundhopping, International, Programme, Solna, Stockholm, sverige, Sweden, World Cup Saturday 2nd June 2018 ko 19.45 Att 41,558 at Friends Arena, Solna Entry 100 sek (approx £8.62) Programme 20 sek* When I was putting this year’s trip to Sweden together this fixture was an obvious one to consider. The time of arrival for Robyn, Sim, Adrian and I had been set in stone, and once Swedish Groundhop organiser Kim Hedwall offered to hire a car and collect us from the airport and drive us from there to Kristinebergs IP then to our hotel, and finally to Solna the cards rather fell into place. On one had Sim and I had already visited the Friends Arena, but Robyn and Adrian hadn’t. It made a long day still longer, we’d all been up since 2am Swedish time, but Kim rather made our minds up for us. At a tenner a ticket I’d been massively overthinking the whole idea! We ended up having an evening meal at the Max burger chain, adjacent to Solna Centrum tram stop. The irony of that place is that the line opened in 2013, a year after the former national stadium, the Råsunda Stadium closed. The stop is 50 yards from the southern end of where the ground used to be, and the northern end of the tram line at Solna station is still a 10 minute walk from the new National Stadium, sponsored by Swedbank who chose to name it after an anti-bullying charity it supports. Once there, access was as easy as you’d expect from a modern stadium, although the stadium is now cashless, you have to everything beyond the turnstiles by credit card or by Swish, a mobile phone payment App. The matchday programme could only be bought via Swish, and since none of the 5 of us had the App, if anyone could supply me with the magazine I’d be grateful! Now the beauty of writing about a warm-up game for the World Cup after the World Cup, is I get the benefit of hindsight. The fact of the matter was that this game was lousy, neither side managed to create much and the Swedes failed to muster a single shot on target. That is so often the case in pre-World Cup friendlies, there isn’t any player who’d want to risk injury and so the game ends up being a poor spectacle. Nevertheless I was surprised at how low-key this game was, it was a Scandanavian derby at after all! The tickets discounted so anyone who wanted to go could, but even then the Danish support was minimal, perhaps they knew that the game would be a poor spectacle and so opted to forget the natural rivalry for this game. When the 4 of us were sat on the tram heading back to our hotel our thinking was all the same. Sweden were well-drilled but lacked a creative talisman, a Larsson, a Brolin or of course the destroyer of England at the first ever game at the Friends Arena, Zlatan Ibrahimovic. The idea that both sides would clear the group stages at that stage seemed fanciful to us. Of course the Danes made it to the 2nd Round, and we all know what happened when Sweden got to the quarter-finals! Which of course was exactly the fixture I didn’t want. I accepted the likelihood that both England and Sweden would depart the World Cup before the final, I just didn’t want my home country to be the team that sent my friends home, or for that matter vice-versa! England beat Sweden 2-0 and the elation of making the semi-finals was obvious to anyone Engliash. For me though elation was tinged with the regret of knocking out the country of so many of my friends. I’ll be buying beers for some of my Stockholm-based friends for sure, but in the end I suspect that Sweden were happy to have got as far as the did. As this match proved, Sweden were supremely well organised at the competition in Russia but lacked that vital spark. Just like England I’m sure they were pleased at how far they got in the competition, and will treat that success as a springboard for the future. Just one thing though my Swedish friends… can we avoid each other in the future? Råsta Strandväg 1, 169 79 Solna, Sweden Look for stuff here folks! Damage In The Box Chris Powell’s travels across the UK and Europe. The artist must frequently seen in the pub 0 FA Cup Factfile Phil Annets on all things to do with the World’s greatest cup competition 10 Football Club History Database Want to know where a club finished in what league and in what year? 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__label__wiki	0.602749	0.602749	Lakers News: Luke Walton Confident 4 Days Off, Competitive Practices Have Team In Strong Position Lakers News: Luke Walton, Lonzo Ball Discuss Biggest Adjustments For NBA Rookies The Los Angeles Lakers reached a rare point in their schedule over the weekend, with four consecutive off days before returning to the court Monday night as the designated road team against the Clippers. Players were allowed to rest and relax with their families on Thanksgiving, plus they received an additional off day. The Lakers reconvened at the UCLA Health Training Center for back-to-back days of practices. Head coach Luke Walton noted there was room for improvement in the team’s first day back, which he saw Sunday. More importantly, however, Walton believed the time off suited the Lakers well. “I think we accomplished what we wanted with this break, which was physically and mentally giving these guys time off,” he said. “A lot of them are young and not used to the grind of what this is. Even some guys that have been here, they’re playing big-time minutes right now. “It was nice to be able to have a little break in the middle of the season. Hopefully we’ll get back to what we were doing well before.” “For us, that’s our defensive intensity, how we compete on that end, transition defense and our individual defense, and getting out and running. We’re starting to fall in love with the jump shot, which is not the strength of our team.” The Lakers rank sixth in the league with a 101 defensive rating, but are just 28th in offense (99.2 rating). “We were able to come in and really get after it for two straight days, which I think is how you stay sharp,” Walton said. “You get chippy in practice, you push each other, talk a little trash and go all out. We did that for two straight days. I think overall it was a nice four-day break we were able to take advantage of.” The intense practices culminated with Larry Nance Jr. taking an inadvertent elbow from Andrew Bogut on Sunday. Nance was forced to an early exit and received stitches. He’s still expected to return against the Clippers. Beginning Monday, eight of the Lakers’ next 11 games are on the road. WANT TO PARTICIPATE IN THE DISCUSSION? CHECK OUT THE NEW FORUM CLUB Lakers News: LeBron James Explains Mindset When Facing Sub-.500 Teams During 2019-20 NBA Season LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers closed out the month of November on a high note as they beat the Washington… Lakers Vs. Nuggets Preview: Lakers Look For Second Straight Win On Friday night, the Los Angeles Lakers snapped their six-game losing streak… Julius Randle Says Lakers Have Worked Hard To Re-Gain Respect Around NBA The Los Angeles Lakers haven’t made the playoffs since the 2012-13 NBA season, a full year before Julius Randle… Charles Barkley Does Not Believe Kobe Can Return to Dominant Player Whenever a player faces a season ending injury there is growing concern…	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line953
__label__wiki	0.605952	0.605952	South Division Police Officer Roles Police Staff Roles Police Volunteer Roles Property Safety Stop and Search Protecting Rural Communities Keeping Your Business Safe Contact an Officer How do I report a crime? Lost and Found Property Minor Motoring Offences Say Thanks or Make a Complaint Firearms Licensing Hate Crime and Third Party Reporting Centres Our Policing Approach: The Health Protection Regulations COVID-19: Crime Prevention Advice Report a breach of COVID-19 COVID-19: How you can help Lancashire Police Let's do it for Lancashire National lockdown: what you need to know Tackling knife crime on Lancashire’s streets Lancashire Constabulary is supporting a week of action aimed at reducing knife crime. Operation Sceptre, running from 17 to 23 July 2017, is a national campaign targeting knife crime and those who carry knives. While knife crime in Lancashire is no worse than many other parts of the country, we are keen to stress that any incident involving a knife could have tragic consequences and destroy lives. Chief Inspector Mark Baines, of Lancashire Police, said: “Too many families have been affected by knife crime with even one person being stabbed being one too many. The consequences of carrying and using a knife can be devastating and potentially life-threatening. “I would appeal directly to people that if you know someone who is carrying a knife, don't keep silent. Report it. “The law is simple - it is illegal to carry a knife, even if it belongs to someone else. “Anyone who is found carrying a knife and is intending to use it as a weapon – even in self-defence can be arrested, go to court and receive a police record or even a prison sentence of up to four years and an unlimited fine.” “Knife bins are being used at eight police stations in Blackpool, Burnley, Preston, Skelmersdale, Morecambe, Greenbank Blackburn, Chorley, Fleetwood and Colne, during the surrender where people can hand in any knives. If anyone is in possession of a knife and is unsure what to do about it, I would urge them to take this opportunity to dispose of it anonymously and safely.” Officers will also continue to carry out test purchase operations to ensure that retailers are not selling knives to people under the age of 18. CI Baines added: “Lancashire Constabulary has a zero tolerance policy toward possession of knives in public and we take reports of knife crime very seriously. We will act on all intelligence received in a bid to prevent people losing loved ones and to detain those who intend to commit acts of violence using knives. “If you have information about the possession of knives or offensive weapons or criminal activity relating to this type of crime, make a report online via the Lancashire Constabulary website. “You can also anonymously report information to the independent charity Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.” Lancashire Police and Crime Commissioner Clive Grunshaw added: “Knives are deadly weapons and time and again we have seen the tragic impact on people’s lives as a consequence of them being used. "I completely back Lancashire Constabulary's involvement in keeping our streets safer during national knife surrender week. Carrying a knife is illegal and you will be arrested and prosecuted if you are caught with one. If you own a dangerous knife please take this opportunity to get rid of it safely and anonymously. “Reducing crime and re-offending is a key priority in my Police and Crime Plan and national drives like this can help us achieve this here in Lancashire. When rolled out across the county the knife surrender week will help make Lancashire's streets safer and this has to be a good thing.” UPDATE: Prisoner wanted by police \| October 11, 2017 Police officer charged with Misconduct in Public Office \| July 19, 2017 FOUND: Concern is growing for a missing man \| July 18, 2017 Sex Offender jailed for almost two years for breaching Prevention Order \| July 11, 2017 Woman suffers serious head injury in Blackpool \| July 09, 2017 Link to knife crime page No knives, better lives Surrender Your Knife Lancashire Victim Services If you have been a victim or have witnessed a crime, even if you have not reported it, we are here to help. Nest Lancashire Give us your feedback on this page How can this page be improved? If you wish us to reply please provide your email address Mounted Branch Lancashire Talking Blackburn and Darwen Police Burnley Police Blackpool Police Lancaster Police Preston Police Contact an Officer Direct Report a Crime or Incident Say Thanks National Fraud Initiative Copyright © Lancashire Constabulary 2021. All rights reserved.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line954
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Dynamics of Coronavirus Spread in Colfax, NM All Time Last Month Last Two Weeks Last Week A coronavirus is a virus belonging to a large family of viruses that cause respiratory problems in humans, ranging from the cold to other more severe diseases. Its name originates from the Latin word for “crown” and the Ancient Greek korōnè, wreath, and refers to the appearance of the viruses. The most well-known coronaviruses are SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome), MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome or camel flu) and SARS-COV-2 (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2). These viruses are also present in animals such as camels, cattle, cats, and bats. Covid-19: Brief Covid-19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019) is an infectious disease caused by SARS-CoV-2. This virus made its first appearance in Wuhan, China on 31 December, 2019. Several of those infected worked at a seafood market where livestock alongside other animals such as bats and snakes were present. This suggested that the virus was spread from animal to person. It emerged later that a large number of patients had been not been exposed to animals which indicates a person-to-person spread. Pandemic: Since the outbreak in China, every country on the continent except Antarctica has been fighting to contain the virus. Cases are increasing daily, despite mandated measures such as lockdowns or contact bans. Europe is considered to be at the heart of the spread with countries such as Italy and Spain reporting thousands of fatalities daily. Vaccines or anti-viral drugs have yet to be discovered to stop the increasing number of fatalities worldwide Via respiratory droplets, e.g. coughing, sneezing, talking, breathing Via dust Via close contact, e.g. handshakes, surfaces (the virus can live on surfaces for up to 72 hours) The most common way that this disease spreads is through close contact with a person who has the infection. Every time a person coughs or sneezes, they produce droplets – a single cough can emit as many as 3,000 while a sneeze 10,000. Close contact is within around 6 feet. Although COVID-19 symptoms may vary from person to person, WHO has provided certain indicators. People who are fit and healthy with no underlying symptoms are most likely to experience the following symptoms: Fever – if you feel hot to the touch and have a temperature higher than 100.4 F (38.0 C). Shortness of breath – as COVID-19 is a respiratory disease, this is a symptom to be monitored carefully. A dry cough The best way to prevent virus affecting you is to keep up with simple but vital recommendations. Wash your hands thoroughly: After you’ve been to the bathroom, before preparing food and regularly at all other times. Use soap and water, or if not available, an alcohol-based solution. Sing or hum your favorite melody to make sure you wash your hands for the recommended length of 20 seconds. 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Have you been in close contact with another person who has tested positive for COVID19? Arranging a test: Don’t travel to your doctor’s surgery or local hospital. If you suspect you have coronavirus, you risk infecting others Call your GP who will arrange for you to go to a dedicated test center where they will take a mouth or nose swab Results from the test lab will usually be available in 24-72 hours Doctors Say HHS Announces $22 Billion in Funding to Support Expanded Testing, Vaccination Distribution Media Statement from CDC Director Robert R. Redfield on Signing the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ recommendation to use Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine in people 16 and older Transcript for CDC Telebriefing on the COVID-19 Outbreak CDC Media Telebriefing Transcript on Operation Warp Speed HHS Secretary Alex Azar and CDC Director Dr. Robert R. Redfield to give update on COVID-19 response, Operation Warp Speed Have a story to share? 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__label__wiki	0.94128	0.94128	How to Locate Steam Play game Files in Linux by Nitesh Kumar “Steam Play” (also known as “Proton”) is a compatibility layer built into the official steam client for Linux. It allows you to play Windows compatible games on Linux without any additional software. Steam Play is based on free and open-source Windows compatibility software called “WINE”, and it comes with many compatibility patches, new features and quality of life improvements to make game installation and gameplay smooth and seamless. WINE has been in development for over two decades, and both these projects have been contributing code to each other. This article will explain how to locate game files in the file manager after a Windows game has been installed through Steam Play. Users may want to access game files to fix compatibility issues, tweak settings or install mods. Enabling Steam Play in the Steam Linux Client Steam Play, by default, is enabled for only a handful of games tested by Valve. However, many other games are working fine, as evident from the ProtonDB database. To enable Steam Play for all Windows compatible games, go to steam settings and click on “Steam Play” tab. Check two checkboxes named “Enable Steam Play for supported titles” and “Enable Steam Play for all other titles”. Make sure that “Run other titles with:” dropdown menu has the latest version of Proton selected. Restart the Steam client after changing the options for the settings to take effect. You can also force a native Linux game to run as a Windows game in Steam Play. To do so, right-click on any installed Linux game in your steam game library, click on “Properties” menu entry and check the “Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool” checkbox. Finding the Game ID To locate the game files installed under the Steam Play compatibility tool, first, you will have to find the correct identification number (ID) of a steam game. To do so, visit the game listing on the official Steam website. In the browser address bar, you will see a URL in the following format: https://store.steampowered.com/app/435150/Divinity_Original_Sin_2__Definitive_Edition/ The number just next to “app/” is the game ID. In the quoted example, ID is 435150. You can also find game ID through the official Steam client without opening the store page in a web browser. Go to steam settings, click on “Interface” tab and check “Display Steam URL address bar when available” checkbox. Next, visit the store page of a game within the steam client itself. You can visit the landing page of a game by clicking on the “Store Page” button if the game is already installed, otherwise manually locate the game in the steam client. At the top of the game listing, you will find the URL of the game page. From the URL, you can find the ID of the game as explained above. In the screenshot below, the game ID would be 377160. Getting into the Game Installation Folder You can directly access installed game files by right-clicking on a game and clicking on “Properties…” menuentry. In the newly launched properties window, go to the “LOCAL FILES” tab and click on “BROWSE LOCAL FILES” button. A new file manager window will open, showing the full path to game files. Pressing <CTRL+L> will give you the full game path in a readable form. You can now make changes to the game files as per your requirements. Since these files are not meant for native Linux games, any changes made should be in accordance with file system standards in Windows and mod rules allowed by the game (if any). Finding the Steam Play Game Prefix Sometimes changing files in the installed game folder is not enough as save files or other game settings may be stored in “My Documents” or other such folders. In such cases, it becomes necessary to access the Steam Play prefix folder to find these files. Each game installed under Steam Play is assigned a numerical prefix, same as the game ID number. Steam Play creates a new directory with this prefix number when a game is first installed. The prefix folder contains a “pfx” directory which emulates a typical Windows file system. You will find a “drive_c” directory inside the “pfx” folder. All Steam Play prefixes are located in the “$HOME/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata” directory. Inside the “pfx” directory, you can find a “steamuser” folder where all user data is stored as per standard Windows file system layout specifications. You can now access save games or similar files from this “steamuser” folder. The exact location of the game files in these folders differs from game to game. You will have to find the exact path from game manuals, steam community forums for from search engines. Alternative Location for Save Game Files Certain games store their save files in the “userdata” folder, in accordance with the official Steam API for cloud saves. You can find this userdata folder located at “$HOME/.local/share/Steam/userdata” directory. Inside the userdata folder, you will find a folder associated with your steam profile. This folder contains various game directories named by their ID numbers. You can access these folders to find save game files. Steam Play has improved leaps and bounds since it was first launched. You may have fewer compatibility issues these days, eliminating the need to access the main game files. However, if you love to install mods, you can use the methods explained above to locate game files spread across multiple folders. Nitesh Kumar I am a freelancer software developer and content writer who loves Linux, open source software and the free software community. Install and start steam on Arch Linux How to Install and Use Steam on Linux Mint How to Install and Use Steam on Arch Linux How to Install Steam on Ubuntu How to Install STEAM to Play Games on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line959
__label__cc	0.740032	0.259968	Incense – you have been warned Apr 15, 2010 \| liturgy \| 9 It is always fascinating to pore over church service advertisements. Especially the way a community perceives itself, what it thinks it is important, and how it expresses itself to visitors and seekers: a devotional service Festival Eucharist with Easter Hymns Traditional Holy Communion (BCP) with hymns Informal lively service with communion But the prize in Holy week’s advertising goes to: “Sung Festival Eucharist with incense” I am not sure if the phrase, “with incense” is there as a warning or as an invitation! Possibly a warning as recently the Chichester District Council sent an Environmental Health Team to St Paul’s, Chichester, after a complaint that incense fumes made a parishioner unwell. The Rector, the Revd Richard Hunt, said that he would put up a notice about the use of incense. A council spokeswoman said: “The investigation carried out by our team concluded that there is insufficient evidence to show that the occasional burning of incense, within St Paul’s Church, represents any significant hazard to health.” The church was large and airy; so the smoke would be “significantly dispersed”, it was well ventilated, and the blown-air heating system would “dilute” any smoke. An interesting doctoral thesis (please credit me): correlating incense health issues and theological/liturgical perspectives. Remembering incense has been shown to cause antidepressive behaviour in mice. It also activates the poorly understood ion channels in the brain alleviating anxiety and depression. When asked: what is incense for? The answer is: for the nose. Remember in the afterlife the Bible speaks of there being two alternative smells: one is incense, the other… which do you prefer getting used to? Incensing Bishops incense (part 2) more than a million at Mass? Illegally Incensed Lectionary logic? PreviousWhat Christ did not die for Nextincense (part 2) Veronica wipes Jesus’ face Resources for Easter Seven Saint Luke Catches Out Anglican Church of Or? Brother Roger of Taizé Rev Sharon Dyson on April 15, 2010 at 9:56 am I’ve come across this article before. At the Cathedral in Bathurst, NSW, we advertise “with incense” due to people’s complaints that they could not breathe/it brought on asthma, etc, so people are not surprised by incense or have it inflicted on them. Personally, I find it something of an invitation, and some do take it as such. Bosco Peters on April 15, 2010 at 10:07 am Thanks Sharon. I’m a little unclear what you mean when you say, “I’ve come across this article before” – do you mean my quote, or my reference to the research? As it reads, you may give the impression the blogpost may not be original, which I assure you it is. Brian McKinlay on April 15, 2010 at 9:58 am In our Parish, it’s definitely a warning. A few people stay away because of physical discomfort when incense is used, and are very vocal if it is used without some weeks’ notice. davanna on April 15, 2010 at 10:08 am Recently at a special anniversary Mass for the founding of the original (or one one of the)church(es) in my hometown, the priests were swinging that censer round. We were right up front and got a face full. Doesn’t bother me, since my lungs are well coated with all manner of foreign material. But my ten-year-old son had to ask (rather loudly during a quiet interval) “Mom, why are they spraying that stuff on us?” Bob Chapman on April 15, 2010 at 10:53 am Do Orthodox priests have a higher incidence of COPD than other priests? Evangelicals in general? I would appreciate links to those studies you mention. Oops. Reading this on my BlackBerry meant I missed the link. Sorry. Frugal Dougal on April 15, 2010 at 11:23 am In the Rc church, I remember that the people who complained about incense also had liturgical issues with its use. On the other hand, my younger daughter, who has asthma, had no problems with it… Ernest on April 15, 2010 at 10:23 pm Having been brought up a Catholic and served as an Alter Server, incense was part of my young life. Now as an Anglican I only rarely see incense in use. But than I do not normally attend Anglo-Catholic services. I have no issues with its use, if it adds to the experience of those attending worship, all to the good. I know that sometimes the ‘smells and bells’ type of service in Anglican Churches gets a bad press – I can’t think why? If someone has an allergy to incense, than avoid the services where it is used. Jonathan on April 16, 2010 at 2:31 am My Mother is deathly allergic…..to EASTER LILLIES! I can remember a choir director with the same problem — at Easter his face would swell, his tear ducts would go into overload and he was sick as a dog. It’s always something. Epiphany Chalk House Blessing	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line962
__label__wiki	0.962002	0.962002	HomeCALGARYMEN’S VOLLEYBALL: SAIT Trojans open the season with win over Ambrose University MEN’S VOLLEYBALL: SAIT Trojans open the season with win over Ambrose University Trojans start slow, finish strong in season opening match October 9, 2018 SAIT Athletics CALGARY 0 The SAIT Men's Volleyball team opened the season with a win over Ambrose University. SAIT ATHLETICS CALGARY, ALTA., (Oct. 4, 2018) — After a bit of a slow start, the SAIT Trojans men’s volleyball team got things going in the right direction. The Trojans opened their 2018/19 Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference (ACAC) season at home on Thursday night with a victory, beating crosstown rival Ambrose University 3-1 (20-25, 25-21, 25-16, 25-15) at SAIT’s Campus Centre. “We were a little sloppy coming into the game; some guys looked to be a little nervous out there,” said veteran setter, Nathan Goss (5th year, Cochrane, Alta., Business Administration). “When it comes down to it, we can’t take any team for granted because we play in a good league. But hey, we turned it around thanks to the leadership on this team and got the job done.” SAIT moves to 1-0 on the season, while Ambrose falls to 0-1. “It’s nice to just ease into the season with the one game, and getting the ‘W’ was even more nice,” Goss added. After dropping Set 1, the Trojans’ body language told the story of a team whose errors dug them an early hole. Set 2 had Trojans fans a bit worried, as the teams traded leads for the first half of the set. SAIT however, was able to pull away at the end and tie the match up. The win seemed to spark the Trojans, who then cruised to lopsided wins in Sets 3 and 4 to seal the victory in front of a loud home crowd. Leading the way for the Trojans was the very big Brennen Willis (3rd year, Cochrane, Alta., Welding Engineering Technology). At 6-foot-11, the team’s new middle wreaked havoc at the net on both sides of the ball, recording nine kills and five blocks. The transfer from Mount Royal University impressed Goss in his first regular season game in Trojans silks. “Being as big as he is, he brings such a huge part to our offense,” Goss explained. “He’s a really hard guy to stop; you can pretty much feed him anywhere. That really opens things up on the outsides for our guys.” Fellow newcomer Jarett Noel (2nd year, Calgary, Geographic Information Systems) led the Trojans with 14 kills, while Goss himself had 35 assists and four service aces. Brodie Juul-Hansen paced the Lions with eight kills. The Trojans will return to action on Oct. 12 and 13 when they play hosts to the Briercrest College Clippers for a pair of home games inside SAIT’s Campus Centre. MEN’S HOCKEY: SAIT Trojans drub Portage College in their own barn, stay undefeated WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL: SAIT Trojans sweep Ambrose University Lions in season opener	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line964
__label__wiki	0.677607	0.677607	Home Blogs 30 Bands who are allowed to exist- the only bands that matter? 30 Bands who are allowed to exist- the only bands that matter? Sid Life Crisis All women line up for Ivor Novello Awards for first time ever “If we had a kind of rock n roll year zero, which great bands from history would you keep to restart the whole thing again?”Â I am Sid Life Crisis, I’m the singer in Punks Not Dad, I am pushing fifty and, Like most people my age, I like a nice sit down and a cuppa, the antiques roadshow and Rock N Roll. Music is great. I believe in its power. Sadly, it seems to have temporarily lost the ability to land disorganised blows upon the noses of the likes of Cowell and Cameron. With tossers like them in charge, the notion of ”ËœChanging the world’ through music has never been more necessary than it is now. One of the reasons interesting music doesn’t cause a stir in the mainstream anymore has got to be the sheer number of bands! I don’t want to devote my entire life to listening to other people’s music in order to ever hear anything good, but increasingly that’s what you have to do. I can’t be the only one who feels lost in the jungle. I used to record the top 40 and hear good stuff as well as the shxte. This week however the entire top ten apart from Lana Del Ray was all that unlistenable vocoder pop. I listen to 6 music and the new bands on there are mostly dull too. However I know there are good bands all over the place because I see them at gigs and festivals. “What if there were only 30 bands from the whole of rock n roll history allowed?”Â I mused on twitter. “If we had a kind of rock n roll year zero, which great bands from history would you keep to restart the whole thing again?”Â to inspire a reconnection between the spirit of rock and the mainstream. 10 seconds later Louder Than War appointed me to decide who they would be. (Actually 31 bands will be allowed, I’m not stopping playing with the PND at the very moment I can guarantee a full house, plus think of the supports we’ll get to play!) The bands chosen will be operating at their peak, they will not be revival tour imitations of themselves, they will have their best known line-up playing at the age they were then. They’ll be artists that seemed to believe that what they were doing might change something, throw a mirror on something real or just be more exciting than the previous most exciting thing. It is not a chart for lovers of lost obscurity. I will expect most readers to have heard of most bands on the list. I have kept my choices, except number 30, to those who tried to achieve mainstream success in Britain and The US rather than those who created markets in other countries and continents or those who remained underground or in their genres by choice. I know the lack of modern bands will raise comment, it honestly isn’t that I don’t like them, I love the Black Keys and Vampire Weekend. I tried very hard to include a grime artist and Dizzee would make my individual list. Locally to me in South Wales there are some brilliant young bands (check out Islet, Fjords, Inconsiderate Parking and Town). The reason only 2 artists from this century got in was really that 1) we are still waiting for the dust to settle 2) I’ve really gone for bands who have wanted the mainstream rather than alt success and in most cases achieved it. 3) I love music from the period 76-82 cos it seemed to be a period where the bands themselves made the running. At the end of the day, like all these things it’s my list, it reflects what I like and I could be bothered to make it. So there! Please spit fury or laugh knowingly at my obvious and frankly poor choices. No Stones and no Roses? Its not that I don’t quite like them, they are on my i-pod but I chose the bands for the impact they had on me when I first heard them. I also put a couple in cos they are a bit underrated or for social reasons and generational impact. Also its bands only, no Bowie, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson, Kate Bush or Olly Murs are allowed. I’ll do another crap list for them if you want! So in roughly chronological order here we go. The only Thirty bands in history I’d allow to exist are… ”Â¢ Lonnie Donegan skiffle group . Without the king of skiffle there may have been no British guitar music at all. Lonnie inspired a generation of austerity hit teenagers to buy guitars and those teenagers went onto become The Beatles, Led Zepplin, Van Morrison and the Kinks. Also, the speed and edge of songs like Cumberland Gap was to have echoes in merseybeat, glam, punk and brit pop. ”Â¢ Gene Vincent and the Bluecaps. Cool and malevolent, Gene’s voice was as sweet and blue as the smoke from Virginia tobacco and he said ”Ëœdon’t try push me around because I’m mean and bad’. He sang songs about fighting, racing the devil and grabbing girls which the Bluecaps sparse tight sound complimented. Later touring Britain he helped to define our idea of what an rock n roll anti-establishment figure should be. ”Â¢ The Isley Brothers- From Twist and Shout through Behind the Painted Smile and Summer Breeze to Fight the Power, the Isley Brothers hit just about every trend in gospel, r and b and soul over their massively long career whilst continuing to sound like themselves. ”Â¢ The Beatles. Do I have to justify this decision? No! lets move on. ”Â¢ The Shangri Las. I got nothing against girl pop groups but so many of them are poorly conceived and unconvincing. But adolescent street tragedies such as ”ËœWalking in the Sand’ and ”ËœLeader of the Pack’ show the modern stage school moppets pretending to be tough the way. ”Â¢ The Kinks. The Kinks invented a proto-heavy metal sound on their early singles but then found it wasn’t a subtle enough tool to contain Ray Davies’ wit and songcraft and went off to do Something Else. The result was a classic run of witty, tongue in cheek hit singles that told a story of change in 60s London. ”Â¢ The Jimi Hendrix experience- Jimi and his band were massive show offs who wore ridiculous clothes while providing the link between the blues and metal. Don’t let the boring guitar freaks claim Jimi Hendrix, he was a popstar in a costume and a one off and he was all the better for it. ”Â¢ Toots and the Maytals- As well as being uplifting and tough, the band who invented the word Reggae, had a soulful almost spiritual sound on songs like Bam Bam, Pressure drop, Sweet and Dandy, Monkey Man and 5446 whch, of course, was Toots Hibbert’s number when he was wrongly incarcerated. Try to keep dancing to Toots on a sweltering day in Glastonbury aged 46 and full of strawberry cider. I have and it nearly killed me. ”Â¢ (Iggy and) The Stooges– agreed? It better be- Overblown stadium rockers should be forced to abandon props and sets and instead choose one mundane item, such as a jar of peanut butter, to try and make exciting. ”Â¢ Black Sabbath- defined the way hard rock would sound for years and introduced many of metal’s staple themes. Plus we still need someone who bites the heads off bats and gets given briefcases full of money by record companies to buy drugs with. ”Â¢ Slade- COZ I LUV SLADE ”Â¢ Bob Marley and the Wailers- I don’t think you can leave them out and this is definitely not a solo act, Bunny Wailer and Peter Tosh were incredibly important as well as Bob himself. they began to change attitudes to third world music and recorded a great catalogue of songs. ”Â¢ The Sex Pistols– I must have heard their four main singles about a thousand times each and they never fail to make me excited, they sounded as though something amazing was about to happen. Ok they never quite bought down the establishment but there was a moment when it seemed to be at a loss to know what to do about them. ”Â¢ X Ray Spex– Poly Styrene’s voice was very strange, somewhat like a tuneful klaxon. She went out her way not to look a popstar and the sax made them sound different to anyone else. Songs like oh bondage up yours, Identity, The Day the world turned Dayglo and Germfree Adolescents seem even more relevant than they did in the late 70s to me. It was a crying shame Poly’s death was glossed over so quickly by the mainstream media last year because she was brilliant. ”Â¢ The Clash- They would be in on their first album alone (and the singles around that time that weren’t on it) which repeated exhorted young listeners to grab anything they could, guitars, bricks or bottles and do something with them to overthrow the man. They also seemed the perfect band. A fantastic front man, a really creative lead guitarist, a cool bassist and a great drummer”Â¦. And they looked good in pictures. ”Â¢ The Adverts. one chord wonders who didn’t care and didn’t give a damn about the history or the future of music, or their ability to play. Nowadays managers might have told them to tour for two years before making a record and we would never have got to hear the succession of absolutely brilliant songs TV Smith wrote. Would be close even if they hadn’t contained my biggest teenage crush, no not Lawrie Driver, the other one,”Â¦ the bassist ”Â¢ XTC- You hear XTCs jerky, quirky, jingly-jangly style everywhere in modern guitar bands. They also wrote great songs that, unlike many of their imitators, were full of heart and made a wistful soundtrack for vanishing Britain without being jingoistic. ”Â¢ The Only Ones-The only ones were not a punk band, in fact, some of their stuff sounded almost prog-rock (shudder), but Peter Perrett had a great punk voice. They made a punky single that should have been a hit but was banned and a wonderful, spiteful/kind, album called Even Serpents Shine that had the worst album cover that I have ever seen. ”Â¢ Ian Dury and the Blockheads- For the pub rockers who have struggled round the circuit for years. For the misfits and ne’er do wells and losers who Dury immortalised. Like the man himself, the Blockhead’s music was confusing. Half contrary punky toerag and half joyous funky celebration. ”Â¢ The Specials -were not just an inspired fusion of ska and punk, The disparate nature of the members, the relationship between the band and its mostly very young following, their incredible live energy, their danceability and their political awareness also made them special. They also did it for themselves, made up their own movement, their own label and took Britain by storm. ”Â¢ Talking heads-“Singing is a trick to get people to listen to people to listen to music for longer than they would ordinarily. There is no music in space. People will pay to watch people make sounds. Everything on stage should be larger than in real life.”Â ”Â¢ Blondie- They had the tunes and the words and could add exactly the right amount of punk, disco, rap, pop and rock to keep them interesting whilst still sounding like themselves. Even the guys exuded a slinky cool, plus, of course, they had Debbie Harry. ”Â¢ The Smiths– After punk they tried to clear all remnants of dissent away into the underground, luckily there were The Smiths to confuse them, boastful yet shy, alternative and yet poppy and funny yet miserable. Marr and Morrissey’s incredible songs seem even better the further we get from their release. ”Â¢ Public enemy- Chuck D’s Brilliant uncompromising attacks on the institutional culture of white America finally knocked the door down for hip hop and black culture to become a mainstream voice in America and I like people who wear clocks round their necks. ”Â¢ Nirvana- Represented the moment the dam broke in American (therefore world) rock music in the same way as punk did in Britain as well as being a very odd and unique sounding band despite having a lot of unbelievably boring imitators (see nearly all American rock bands since). ”Â¢ The Prodigy– First time I felt lost and left behind by music was when I experienced the prodigy for the first time. It wasn’t keith flint that frightened me, it was the noise they made and the subject matter of their songs and the feeling that my generation and its visions of society and love of guitar music seemed quaint by comparison. ”Â¢ TLC- They had great popsongs that said things that helped empower girls and women, they had attitude, they imploded, the best one died, how rock n roll is that? They influenced all female pop artists that followed from the spice girls to destinys child (neither of whom I disliked). They sang and rapped about real subjects rather than just spouting off the peg platitudes. ”Â¢ Pulp- Britpop wasn’t self-critical and it was by and large fuelled by a belief that Britain was becoming a pretty great place to be with all its drugs, new labour and football money. What was good about pulp and in particular the album Different Class was that it was actually an antidote to all that chest beating that sounded just as triumphant. ”Â¢ arctic monkeys- Alex Turner sings like John Noakes and cant have been alive in 1984 to know what robots danced like. Which led people to guess that his lyrics had been written by someone else, which of course was rubbish. That a young band who write proper lyrics about real things and be popular should be suspected says how ashamed the mainstream British music industry is of its glorious past. ”Â¢ Marjinal– Indonesian punk band who have got the street kids playing their songs on ukes all over the country sometimes at risk of forced rehabilitation and haircuts as a way to foster independence from begging. This is true Rock n Roll for me. Previous articleJamie Oliver finds New Order and Joy Division tapes in his cellar Next articleGeek Chic and the Comic Book Soul: Jeffrey Lewis – A Turn in the Dream Songs Sophie February 14, 2012 At 23:36 I love this list. it is a bit weird in parts (slade and tlc) but i love how you justify it. well done you. xxx Johnny English February 15, 2012 At 00:57 Whilst interesting, this list is incredibly anglo-centric and clearly written from the perspective not of someone whose interest in music, but someone whose interest is punk. Seriously, Pulp? The Arctic Monkeys? Ian Durie? Slade? This is bands that have made a mark on British music culture, not rock and roll history. I could and do take issue with probably all but about five of those that you have listed, and even if you were aiming for an entirely British-focused list, you haven’t even managed to get those right. No Radiohead, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Joy Division, Stone Roses, Pink Floyd? Good try, sir, but your list is miles off. Joe Strimmer February 15, 2012 At 11:30 It’s Sids list, and he hates Pink Floyd. daveoto February 15, 2012 At 01:30 Interesting list! Whilst i agree with some of your controversial selections..Slade are massively underrated & critics probably only know “that” festive single…there are some selections i find puzzling… whilst i love TV Smith..i do feel Buzzcocks are far more deserving of a place in this list…they provided that bridge between punk & post punk/new wave, made an almost perfect run of singles, as well as displaying a more experimental edge on their albums…AND are still going strong! Led Zep..Pink floyd…Stones…T Rex…Velvet Underground…REM….you can’t seriously leave these out & give us TLC, Ian Dury (even though i’m a fan) & The Prodigy (one dimensional wonders). And whilst i adore X Ray Spex…they really only made 1 great album…i would rather see Magazine, Wire or Siouxsie…all made several great albums. Nice to see The Only Ones though…another massively underrated band, who are surely due a critical re-appraisal. Norm February 15, 2012 At 11:38 Good point well made, sir! john kwock February 15, 2012 At 03:21 there is only one…one “only band that matters”. julian the apostate February 15, 2012 At 06:05 yes obviously the velvet underground should not have existed and johnny lydon didnt invent punk and new wave and blondie and the talking heads were much better than the ramones Richie February 15, 2012 At 07:52 Interesting list, would agree with most of it. Although like it says above, would have had Siouxsie and Magazine. Can’t believe people disagree with SLADE. Would dispute The Beatles, as a scouser I get sick of hearing about em, Stones were far better, but because they ripped off obscure blues songs and not Buddy Holly or the later Frisco sound they were seen as strange. Frankly The Beatles were shite, I understand their importance to some people, but not to me. And anyway, like a poster said above, there was only one band that mattered. THE CLASH!! Go Sid!!! I knew you’d manage to rile a few Floyd fans… Scott February 15, 2012 At 11:34 Beatles fucking suck. Maxwell’s Silver Hammer my arse. Gary February 15, 2012 At 12:01 Careful making lists you will end like Q magazine every issue is now a list! punkasfuck February 18, 2012 At 00:38 I wholly concur-lists only seek to reify the narrow popular music histories we are presented with through the media which has a tendency to dismiss or ignore the different or avant-garde. Put an end to this reductive behaviour NOW!! Steve February 15, 2012 At 14:32 Replace the Beatles with Half Man Half Biscuit and your there. Glenn February 15, 2012 At 16:36 I’d have to vote for Roxy Music too – MAJOR influence on tons of bands in the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s. Plus, without them, there’d be no Radiohead, Smiths, Siouxsie, and a ton of other bands. Also would be no Chic, U2, Scissor Sisters, Icehouse, The Fixx, Moby, Duran Duran, etc. etc. etc. (Argue amongst yourselves which ones we’d be better off without, but Roxy Music were majorly influential.) No Crass?! No anarcho-punk at all!! and then you have the audacity to include the Beatles? Shame on you and your predictable choices! If there was a rock and roll year zero-which in itself is a crap concept you would not be invited. Your P45 is in the post. It feels like there should be 2 lists. 0ne for artists that we really couldnt exist without & on that list, whether you like them or not, would be the likes of the beatles, the stones, the who, sex pistols, clash, bob marley, bowie etc etc. And on the other list should be 30 “punk” bands we couldnt exist without….this one being perhaps more open to varying views here!!… So here’s my list of 30 most essential punk bands. 1. sex pistols (of course), 2. the Clash. 3. Buzzcocks. 4. Ramones. 5. The Stranglers. 6. PIL. 7. Magazine. 8. X Ray Spex. 9. The Adverts. 10. The Damned. 11. 999. 12. SLF. 13. The Vibrators. 14. The Undertones.. 15. Siouxsie & The Banshees. 16. The Only Ones. 17. Blondie. 18. Generation X 19. Skids. 20. The Ruts. 21. The Saints. 22. Richard Hell & the Voidoids. 23. The Jam. 24. Wire. 25. Television. 26. Penetration. 27. Adam & the Ants. 28. The Fall. 29. Elvis Costello(the early years!!). 30. The Rezillos. LIST NO.2: “ESSENTIAL ARTISTS” OF THE PAST 50 YEARS. 1. The Beatles (of course). 2. Rolling Stones. 3. The Who. 4. the Kinks. 5. The Small Faces. 6. Velvet Underground. 7. Pink Floyd. 8. jimi Hendrix Experience. 9. the Doors. 10. Led Zeppelin. 11. Slade. 12. T Rex/Bolan. 13. david Bowie. 14. Iggy Pop/Stooges. 15. Neil Young. 16. Toots & the Maytals. 17. Bob Marley. 18. Roxy Music. 19. New York Dolls, 20. Kraftwerk. 21. SEX PISTOLS. 22. The Clash. 23. Buzzcocks. 24. Joy Division. 25. The Smiths. 26. Stone Roses. 27. Talking Heads. 28. REM. 29. The Specials. 30. Radiohead. 6 hours ago Â· Like Pete McCroray February 28, 2012 At 21:34 Hello there, Im sorry but you haven’t even mentioned QUEEN! What an idiot. Dave Cooper May 11, 2012 At 00:38 What about Eddie Cochran and the Pixies peter craven May 11, 2012 At 04:33 1 the jam and the fall bits and bobs of loads of other stuff Mike May 6, 2013 At 23:07 Pulp and Arctic Monkeys on a list on LTW. I feel it’s like the end of Rocky (The one where he fights Drago) “I guess what I’m trying to say is, if I can change, and you can change, everybody can change.” Love both bands, for exactly the reasons they are included in the list. Matty Doherty May 23, 2013 At 23:50 I’ll agree with a hell of a lot of this list…. Music should move you…. most of these bands fuckin’ really mooooved me! Nigel Carr May 24, 2013 At 00:09 I agree in part but it’s all if an era – for me Frankie Goes to Hollywood, KLF, Aphex Twin, dead Kennedys, Palma Violets, Buddy Holly, Daft Punk, Tame Impala – all bands/individuals that have fired me up – you need to slosh it about a bit John, Specials were OK but not groundbreaking – MC5 Cheers – Nigel And of course Wire ;) arrantjohnnyhow May 24, 2013 At 06:45 Without Dr feelgood half your list would be missing Baby Peter January 15, 2014 At 20:34 What about Emerson, Lake & Palmer, who, as Danny Baker observed, achieved way more than The Clash or the Pistols? Btw BLANDIE were fucking awful, imho; annoying bubblegum shite best left to charity shops. Nigel Carr March 19, 2014 At 23:26 arrantjohnnyhow – even at the time Dr Feelgood were just rated as an average pub rock band – speeded up speed freaks’ 12 bar blues – hardly groundbreaking – sorry. ArrantJohnnyHow August 15, 2014 At 14:25 Okay, but if the UK punk bands had not seen the Feelgood’s or listened to Down by the Jetty they would all still be listening to Ummagumma. Nothing wrong with that but the Clash and Pistols chose to be 12 bar blues speed freaks too. They might well have been an average pub rock band at the time, I don’t know I was not there, but looking at them on the cover of NME from 1975 and it looks a lot more interesting than that.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line979
__label__cc	0.62909	0.37091	Economic Human Rights, Not Tough Policy Tradeoffs By Martha McCluskey Martha McCluskey is Professor of Law and William J. Magavern Scholar at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. According to conventional law and economics wisdom, problems of economic inequality are best solved with targeted redistributive spending, not universal human economic rights. A political economy perspective suggests the opposite: that legal rights are crucial for economic justice. Orthodox law and economics tellsus: all rights have a cost. Law allocates economic gain, but cannot generate it, in this view. From this premise, any new economic rights aimed at supporting those who are disadvantaged must come at the expense of some other economic gain. For example, a universal right to affordable health care would simply mask an inevitable tradeoff in public and private spending: fewer resources for education or jobs. In addition, in this logic, an economic entitlement to receive basic human support will replace market discipline with incentives for waste, reducing economic resources overall. What orthodox law and economics doesn’t tell us: all costs have a right. That is, any costs associated with new economic rights arise not from essential economics, but instead from contingent legal and political arrangements. Particular legal and political regimes produce, organize and limit access to human needs like education or health care. Law itself shapes the economic forces that appear to be disrupted when law re-allocates rights to advance general human needs. On the question of health care, for example, a complex system of legal rights and institutions already protects economic gain for some at the expense of health and economic security for others. Legal systems distributing risks and rewards in health care include patent rights, insurance regulation, corporate governance rules, antitrust law, criminal law, and tax policy. Moreover, these legal rights are not firmly settled or self-evident, but instead are continually questioned and modified, especially in response to lobbying, litigation, and advocacy by industry interests. New rights to egalitarian economic support can similarly re-arrange economic gain and loss as a legitimate and beneficial function of democracy. Further, we should not presume human economic rights amount to zero sum transfers or costly economic distortions. That conventional law and economics thinking rests on the myth of an essential market order that transcends law and politics, thereby closing off analysis of how re-structuring the market could generate far better economic conditions. But a more complete law and political economy view recognizes that entitlements do not come at the expense of naturally productive market activity; instead, entitlements generate and govern market production. New legal rights can give people new power to resist existing market constraints, and that transformative power can lead the economy to new levels of prosperity and stability. Like traditional property rights, or the right to incorporate businesses, economic human rights can enhance security and liquidity, encouraging investments that improve productivity for those who hold specific rights as well as for society overall. The existing market operates through legal rights designed to structure economic incentives and protect against certain forms of market pressure. These rights enable firms and individuals to make different, and potentially better, economic choices than would exist without those particular rights. In standard law and economics theory, for example, economic rights like limited liability for corporate investors offer protection against the risks associated with large scale coordination and planning, so that firms and investors will have opportunities for higher gains at lower costs. This enabling capacity may lead to general economic growth. A broad legal right to free health care similarly can insulate people from existing costs that limit their opportunities for productive activity likely to benefit society overall. For example, at the microeconomic level, if people can count on access to good health care, they are insulated from the risk of losing their homes, their credit, or their retirement savings. That protection can open up flexibility and opportunity that encourages greater individual achievement. Without medical debt and costly insurance, or without being tied to an insurance-providing job or spouse, individuals may be freer to invest in advanced education, new business ventures, or in moving to better jobs or communities. Businesses may be freer to compete and invest in developing high quality products and personnel without unpredictable and burdensome employee health care costs. Similarly, at the macroeconomic level, encouraging societal investment in broad access to health care may lead to overall economic growth by fostering healthier and happier children, workers, and citizens able to perform better at school and on the job and who can otherwise better contribute to the well-being of their families and communities. More generally, a universal right to health care may produce indirect economic benefits by supporting social and political solidarity, trust, and confidence. Those intangible qualities are likely to be undermined in a society that presses individuals and families to make tough choices between the risk of losing life-saving health care and the risk of financial devastation. Even more so if they perceive their own families’ and firms’ choices will be tougher because limited protections are reserved for a select group of seemingly less deserving others. Economic human rights can not only induce greater productivity, but can also work to reduce the wasteful administrative costs and controls involved in systems that distribute basic human needs as market commodities supplemented by targeted redistributive subsidies. A universal individual right to health care, for example, could streamline and simplify delivery of U.S. health services, encouraging economies of scope and scale and equalizing bargaining power, while also giving patients increased flexibility, freedom, and predictability to enhance individual control over care. In contrast, the current market approach to U.S. health care is propped up by a massive and costly regulatory structure, as health law scholar Allison Hoffman explains in recent work. Even though human economic rights can lead to transformative improvements in overall economic and social well-being, it nonetheless is true that the immediate political-economic context includes costly barriers to such beneficial transformation. But those costly barriers are fundamentally a matter of legal and political design and ideology, not natural or necessary economics. For example, in the U.S., a candidate campaigning to expand the Medicare program’s right to health care will confront not only simplistic economic thinking, but also an electoral system skewed by lavish campaign spending aimed at preserving the right to profit from scarce and costly health care. That campaign finance system is not natural or inevitable, but rather results from particular recent judicial rulings. To resist the existing structures that make broad economic security scarce and unequal, efforts to expand substantive economic human rights will depend on concurrent efforts to support and improve other general and procedural rights and institutions that uphold principles of democracy, fairness and expansive well-being. In the U.S., for example, a broad human right to free health care need not come at the price of federal funding for education or jobs, if we also confront limits on democratic government designed to enforce unequal tough tradeoffs. A wide range of legal reforms could contribute to undoing the barriers to democratic economic rights, such as: changing monetary policy and deficit spending rules designed to keep public capital scarce; defending expansive Congressional spending powers; lifting constitutional constraints on political campaign spending; re-districting gerrymandered electoral districts; or prohibiting state suppression of voting rights. As long as healthcare is viewed as a costly and confusing tradeoff due to natural scarcity rather than misguided law and politics, then individuals, businesses, medical providers, and governments will be forced into a destructive competition driven by arbitrary and risky bets on human lives. But if there were a universal right to high quality health care, competitive expertise and societal resources could be re-routed toward improving health and prosperity instead. To solve problems of inequality and insecurity, we need to advance universal human economic rights as fundamental to building a sound and successful economy as well as for democracy and social justice. A modified version of this post will be published under the title All Costs Have a Right, as part of the article, Eleven Things They Don’t Tell You About Law & Economics: An Informal Introduction to Political Economy and Law, forthcoming in Volume XXXVII of Law and Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice (Law & Ineq.) of the University of Minnesota. Yearly Roundup: Editors’ Picks, Part 2 By Editors Weekly Roundup: January 8, 2021	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line990
__label__cc	0.52204	0.47796	Book ReviewsWorld HistoryPolitical Theory "These days most people tend to equate freedom with the possession of inalienable individual rights, rights that demarcate a private sphere no government may infringe on. But has this always been the case?" The taxpayer is backstopping more credit risk than ever. The Post reported that nearly 30 percent of the loans Fannie Mae guaranteed were to borrowers whose house payment exceeded half of their monthly income, up from 14 percent in 2016. The "War On Terror" Comes Home Blog01/12/2021Ron Paul It is partly an attempt to erase the Trump movement from the pages of history, but it is also an attempt to silence criticism of the emerging political consensus in the coming Biden era that may come from progressive or antiwar circles. When "Free Trade" Agreements Are a Polite Form of Protectionism Blog01/12/2021Lipton Matthews With the Caribbean trade bloc Caricom, we find an international "free" trade agreement being used by a Dominica-based company to demand more limits on trade between Jamaica and a country outside the bloc. This isn't about free trade. Blog01/12/2021Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. What can be done now? President Trump should not urge us all to “come together.” Instead, he should support secession. There is only one way to strengthen the recovery: To reduce structural imbalances by regaining budgetary sanity and implementing serious measures to attract capital. To fall back into propagandistic optimism would be a mistake. Randall G. Holcombe Randall G. Holcombe is an Associated Scholar of the Mises Institute, DeVoe Moore Professor of Economics at Florida...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line996
__label__wiki	0.724076	0.724076	Mission Services of London Community Mental Health Programs Men's Mission Mission Store Quintin Warner House Rotholme Family Shelter Curb Notes May 2, 2011News New Environmental Initiative Announced The City of London today announced a new environmental initiative designed to reduce the amounts of fats, oils and greases (FOG) entering our sewer system. The W.I.P.E. program targets restaurant and food service establishments, encouraging best practices when disposing of food wastes. Statistics show that over 40 percent of sewer main blockages in London are caused by improper disposal of FOG and stem from both commercial and residential origins. “Putting fats, oils and grease down sinks and drains is one of the main contributors to sanitary sewer backups and basement flooding,” says Barry Orr, Wastewater Operations for the City of London. “We need to be more aware of the impact of our own actions – both on the environment and on our infrastructure.” Currently, the City of London is spending over $600,000 annually to flush sewers. The W.I.P.E. program aims to have direct impact on this cost by educating and informing restaurants and food service providers on how to properly divert FOG and solid food waste from our sanitary sewers. Components of the educational program include removing food waste prior to dishwashing and the use of grease containment units, known as grease interceptors, to protect the drainage system. “The City of London is pleased to spearhead this much needed environmental initiative,” says Mayor Joe Fontana. “Sometimes education is all that is needed to change behaviours and outdated practices.” By committing to the training and best practices outlined in the W.I.P.E. program, restaurants and food service providers can help reduce 90 percent of fats, oils and greases entering our sewer system. It costs $400 per ton for the City to remove and treat food waste at our Wastewater Treatment Facility that has been disposed of down the drain. The same food waste could be composted for considerably less cost. A food preparation facility could dispose as much as 1 kg of food waste down the drain a day. With over 2,500 locations in London, this could amount to over 1,000 tons of food waste entering the wastewater treatment facility per year and the treatment cost would amount to over $365,000. By simply using a food strainer to capture food waste the cost savings are substantial. Mission Services of London loses a life-long friend. Mission Services of London celebrates the life of Fred Hagglund Curb Notes Archive Everybody Has A Story What's Peter Thinking? I want updates Receive inspiring stories, event invites, giving opportunities, and volunteer openings 519-433-2807Email Us4-797 York St, London, Ontario N5W 6A8 I want to make a donation $248.80 $500.00 $ Other Charitable Registration Number:11930 2578 RR0001 Copyright © 2021 Mission Services of London Link to Follow us on TwitterLink to Like us on FacebookLink to Subscribe to us on YouTube	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line997
__label__wiki	0.602134	0.602134	Home › Historic Preservation › Some preservation changes at MDAH Some preservation changes at MDAH By ELMalvaney on July 9, 2018 • ( 3 ) As you may have seen in a few news articles around the state (such as Rufus Ward’s tribute in the Commercial Dispatch) and here on MissPres, Mississippi preservationist Ken P’Pool is retiring from the Mississippi Department of Archives and History after 40 years of service. The MDAH Historic Preservation Division posted this announcement on their Facebook page last week, inviting one and all to celebrate at MHT’s Lowry House in Jackson this Friday, July 13, beginning at 5:00. After 40 years of fighting for Mississippi’s irreplaceable historic treasures, Ken P’Pool is stepping down as Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Please join the Mississippi Heritage Trust and the Mississippi Department of Archives and History on Friday, July 13 at 5:00 p.m. at the Lowry House, 1031 North Congress Street, Jackson, to raise a glass in honor of Ken. We will share delicious food (with lots of sweets in honor of the honoree), fun music and many, many stories of historic places throughout Mississippi that have benefited from Ken’s constant, strong and knowledgeable support. To commemorate Ken’s legacy of thoughtful advocacy that has helped so many communities achieve positive preservation results, Ken has asked that his friends join him in raising funds to retire the debt on the Lowry House, once endangered and now headquarters for the Mississippi Heritage Trust. Our goal is to raise $40,000 in honor of 40 years of service. To make a contribution in honor of Ken’s gift of public service to Mississippi, please send a check to MHT, P.O. Box 577, Jackson, MS 39205 or email MHT at preservation@mississippiheritage.com. We hope to see you at 5:00 p.m. Friday, July 13 as we honor Ken and wish him every good thing for his next chapter. To RSVP, please email preservation@mississippiheritage.com or call MHT at 601 354 0200. On a related note, MDAH has posted a job opening for Division Director of the Historic Preservation Division, closing on July 30. The incumbent in this position will serve as the Director of the Historic Preservation Division at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History and will have overall strategic and operational responsibility for areas including archaeology, architectural history, technical assistance, and review and compliance. Work involves developing, controlling, and directing operations through various highly specialized professional and technical staff. The incumbent exercises authority in establishing objectives, standards, and control measures within the context of broad, general policy guidelines for large programs having significant impact to the public. The incumbent also determines major departmental policy and provides input into other significant agency operations at the direction of the Executive Director. Applicants may apply online through the Mississippi State Personnel Board website or mail State of Mississippi Applications to: Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Attn: Human Resources, 200 North Street, Jackson, MS 39201. Read more at the Mississippi Personnel Board’s website . . . ‹ Happy 130th Birthday, N.W. Overstreet! Ralph Lembo’s Music Store: Early Blues in Itta Bena › Categories: Historic Preservation, MS Dept. of Archives and History, Preservation People/Events ed polk douglas July 9, 2018 • 11:54 pm i have enjoyed knowing ken for all of his years at mdah; he has done a great job in the variety of positions he had held there; i hope he continues to ‘be active’ in the preservation field in ms. southside preservationist Perhaps Ken could return to Columbus and help them revamp their Preservation ordinances? ELMalvaney Great idea! If they’ll let him!	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line998
__label__wiki	0.892711	0.892711	Vote for 5 of 8 candidates running for ASNE Board of Directors In: ASNE elections As we announced last week, the 2014 ASNE Board of Directors election is now open atasne.org. Eight candidates are running for five seats (five three-year terms). As we announced last week, the 2014 ASNE Board of Directors election is now open at asne.org. There are eight candidates running for five seats (five three-year terms): David Callaway, editor-in-chief, USA TODAY Alan Miller, CEO/president, News Literacy Project Emily Ramshaw, editor, The Texas Tribune Mark Russell, managing editor, The Memphis Commercial Appeal Debra Adams Simmons, vice president of news development, Advance Local George Stanley, managing editor, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Joyce Terhaar, executive editor/senior vice president, The Sacramento Bee Robyn Tomlin, chief digital officer, Pew Research Center Ramshaw, Simmons, Stanley and Tomlin are incumbents running for their second terms on the board. Only members of ASNE are eligible to vote. If you are an ASNE member, click here to review each candidate's bio and statement, and cast your ballot by 11:59 p.m. CDT, Friday, Sept. 12. Remember, you must vote for five and only five of the candidates. Members who do not vote online can vote in person Sept. 15 and 16 at the ASNE-APME conference in Chicago. The election will close at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 16, and the winners will be announced Wednesday, Sept. 17.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line1004
__label__wiki	0.527636	0.527636	German Chancellor Calls for Tighter COVID-19 Restrictions as Nation Sets New Daily Death Record German Chancellor Angela Merkel Tuesday called for tougher COVID-19 restrictions as the nation set daily record for deaths from the virus and infection numbers continue to rise.Speaking in the Bundestag – the lower house of the German parliament – a sometimes-emotional Merkel told lawmakers the nation was in a decisive period of fighting the pandemic, with the second wave far more demanding than the first. Germany’s Robert Koch Institute for Infectious Diseases reported Wednesday 590 deaths related to COVID-19 in the past 24 hours – more than 100 higher than the week-old previous record – and 20,815 new daily infections, compared with 17,270 a week earlier.Chinese-made COVID-19 Vaccine Nearly 90% Effective, UAE Says Gulf Arab state participated in late-stage clinical trial of vaccine developed by state-owned pharmaceutical company Sinopharm Germany is gradually moving toward a tighter lockdown, at least for a limited period after Christmas, as new coronavirus cases remain high and continue climbing. This despite a partial shutdown that started in early November, in hopes of allowing a more normal Christmas holiday.While families will be allowed to gather for Christmas, Merkel is calling for all but the most essential shops to close from Christmas Eve until at least January 10, and for people to work from home and schools to remain closed during that time as well.The idea is to use the festive period to keep people at home and break the chain of infections. Merkel emphatically urged people to limit their social contacts whenever possible. She said, “If we have too many contacts before Christmas and it ends up being the last Christmas with the grandparents, then we’d really have failed.”Merkel has consistently advocated decisive action but has often had to move more slowly because, in highly decentralized Germany, the country’s 16 state governments are responsible for imposing and lifting restrictions.Germany managed to avoid the high number of infections and grim death tolls seen in other large European nations early in the pandemic and continues to have a much lower overall fatality rate than countries such as Britain, France and Spain.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line1006
__label__wiki	0.93096	0.93096	Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine Begins Rollout as US Races to Broaden Injection Campaign U.S. distribution of Moderna Inc.’s COVID-19 vaccine began Saturday, with more than 3,700 sites scheduled to start receiving and administering shots as soon as Monday, vastly widening the rollout started last week by Pfizer Inc.Amid record coronavirus infections and deaths, Moderna has moved vaccine supplies from its manufacturing plants to warehouses operated by distributor McKesson Corp.Workers on Saturday were packing vaccines into containers and loading them onto trucks, U.S. Army Gen. Gustave Perna said during a news conference. Trucks will set out Sunday and shipments will start reaching health care providers as soon as Monday, he said.Doses of vaccine must travel with security guards, including U.S. Marshals, and will be stored in locked refrigerators. U.S. plans call for at-risk groups, such as elderly people in nursing homes and medical workers, to receive injections first.The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved an emergency use authorization for Moderna’s vaccine, the second COVID-19 vaccine to receive approval.Moderna said a panel of outside advisers to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted Saturday to recommend its vaccine for use in people age 18 and older. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices panel voted 11-0 in favor of the vaccine.The shot developed by Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech SE was authorized Dec. 11.Pharmaceutical services provider Catalent Inc.’s facility in Bloomington, Indiana, is filling and packaging vials with Moderna vaccine and handing them to McKesson. The company is shipping them from its facilities, including those in Louisville, Kentucky, and Memphis, Tennessee, which are close to air hubs for United Parcel Service Inc. and FedEx Corp.Pfizer organized its own distribution system. The U.S. government’s vaccine program, dubbed Operation Warp Speed, is in charge of logistics for Moderna’s distribution under Perna.Reduced number of dosesPerna apologized to U.S. governors for confusion on the vaccine’s availability after the U.S. government reduced the number of doses states would receive in the upcoming week.States including Oregon and Washington, which are ramping up to get front-line health care workers vaccinated as quickly as possible, said their allocation had dropped by as much as 40%.Perna said he made an error estimating the number of doses that would actually be cleared by regulators for shipment, which was fewer than the number of doses produced.A spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said 7.9 million doses of Pfizer and Moderna vaccines would be delivered nationally this week.The Moderna delivery system will have some of the same players as Pfizer’s but will differ in ways.Transportation companies UPS and FedEx are giving priority to vaccines on planes and trucks that are moving holiday gifts and other cargo. Their drivers will handle the bulk of the last-mile Moderna vaccine deliveries. They are going directly to vaccination sites, unlike Pfizer’s, which was sent to large hubs and redistributed.“We added a lot of aircraft, a lot of temporary workers. (Vaccines) are a very small fraction of total volumes,” said Wes Wheeler, a UPS executive in charge of vaccine shipments.Moderna’s vaccine is available in quantities as small as 100 doses and can be stored for 30 days in standard-temperature refrigerators, while the inoculations from Pfizer come in boxes of 975 doses, must be shipped and stored at -70 Celsius, and can be held for only five days at standard refrigerator temperatures. Initial doses were given to health professionals.Programs by pharmacies Walgreens and CVS to distribute the Pfizer vaccine to long-term care facilities are expected to start Monday. A CDC advisory panel Sunday will consider which groups should get vaccinated next.Perna said the United States is on track to have enough doses of Pfizer and Moderna vaccines by the end of the year to inoculate 20 million people, as the government projected, but deliveries of those doses may continue into first week of January. Health care experts forecast it will take well into 2021 for a significant portion of Americans to be inoculated.Both vaccines were about 95% effective at preventing illness in clinical trials that found no serious safety issues. COVID-19 Threat Will Likely Keep Border Closed in 2021, Australia Says	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line1007
__label__cc	0.702569	0.297431	13 Comments / January 20, 2011 February 23, 2017 / By Tracy McGill The past year has seen an abundance of bike manufacturers entering into the electric bike arena with slick, lightweight and powerful bikes. Despite misconceptions, electric bikes allow commuters to increase their range safely and arrive to the office smelling fresh, while still getting exercise (yes, you still have to pedal an electric bike) and reducing their carbon footprint. They also continually beat cars in commuter races. An efficient electric bike may be just the push one needs to make the decision to give up the car and commute by bike. Electric bikes are also efficient for running errands, towing things (like kids), and for the elderly or for those with physical ailments. It can be difficult to navigate your way through all the options and styles available in an electric bike so we’ve done it for you. By studying forums and sites such as NYCeWheels, A to B Magazine, BikeForums.net, and Electric Bike Report, we’ve come up with a list of the best electric bikes for 2012. What To Look For In An Electric Bike The choice of an electric bike is quite personal, depending upon budget and the intended use. In it’s simplest definition an electric bike is a basic traditional bike with 3 things added to it: a motor, a battery, and a controller that administers the power. There are 2 different types of controllers: throttle and pedal-assist. The throttle-based system will give you the option to ride without pedaling. The pedal-assist is activated by pedaling, but you can control the level of assistance you get through a control panel on the handlebar. Some people find the pedal-assist more simple to use and more true to being a bicycle, while others prefer the throttle and like the idea of having moments where you don’t have to pedal. The best advice is to try each one out at your local bike shop to see which type you prefer. When it comes to price the thing to keep in perspective is what you’ll be using it for. If you’re looking for an efficient commuter, then in comparison to a car, an electric bike is a bargain, not to mention all you’ll save in gas. If you’re looking for something strictly for recreation, then cost may be more of a consideration. It is also suggested that you purchase a high quality lock or three if you’ll be leaving it out and about and if the battery is removable bring it with you though some come with their own battery locks. Kalkhoff Electric Bikes Kalkhoff Pro Connect Sport 300 Made in Germany, Kalkhoff Bikes are perhaps the Mercedes of electric bikes. Kalkhoff has been providing European cyclists with high quality bikes for years and now they are available in the U.S. NYCeWheels says the Pro Connect is “one of the most efficient electric bikes on the market”. Kalkhoff uses the Panasonic Pedelec brushless motor, the highest rated electric motor currently available. A to B gives the Kalkhoff 5 out of 5 stars. The integrated maintenance-free motor offers 3 levels of pedal-activated assistance using 300 watts with a top speed of 25 mph. At the moderate setting, you can expect to get 50 miles from a full charge. Bicycle purists like that the Kalkhoff looks like a regular bike. With a lightweight aluminum frame, Shimano components, and Continental puncture-resistant tires, the motor isn’t the only thing that’s top notch about this bike. Other features include a hydraulic braking system, on-board computer with speedometer, and front and rear integrated lighting. So what’s not to like about the Kalkhoff? How about the price. A true case of if you want the best, you’re going to pay for it, the Pro Connect Sport 300 is listed at $3,899.00. However, this is their most expensive model. Other e-bikes in the Kalkhoff fleet go for around the $3,000 mark and the Pro Connect Sport 250 2009 model is currently on sale for $2,899.00. Kalhoff does offer free shipping and a 2 year warranty. Check out the Kalkhoff line of electric bikes here or for information on trying one out click here. eZee LiV Electric Bike The eZee LiV offers an affordable, yet reliable option for a lightweight, simple to operate electric bike. It has a range of 15-30 miles and a top speed of 20 mph. With a 200 watt brushed motor, it may not be the most powerful machine on the electric bike block, but it beats the others at a price of $1,199.00. NYCeWheels recommends this bike as best value for commuting or recreational riding if you have moderate hills and don’t plan on pulling anything or carrying a large load. eZee has a full line of throttle activated electric bikes priced under $2,000. The eZee LiV uses more basic components than the other bikes in the eZee line. It features a 3 speed drivetrain, front and rear lights, and mudguards. Check out eZee bikes here. 2011 Kona Electric Ute Cargo Bike Kona has added a 250 watt Pedelec motor with a 24 volt Samsung Lihium-Ion battery to it’s popular Ute cargo bike offering up one of the first electric-assisted bikes for utilitarian use. This would make a great bike for long distance touring, those who want to ditch the car to run errands, or family bike rides. In full power mode the Kona Electric Ute supplies an 18 mile range, 35 miles in normal mode, and 62 miles in economy mode. It offers quality Shimano components, an acacia wood deck, Kona pannier bag, fenders, and a lifetime warranty on the aluminum butted frame. For a detailed review see MyCargoBike.net where criticisms include the use of a front v-brake as opposed to a disc brake and a small, but continuous electric whine of the motor. Pros included a well-proportioned, lightweight design and a conveniently integrated battery that can be removed for charging. At $2599.00, the Kona Electric Ute is considered to be competitively priced for an electric cargo bike. For a Kona dealer near you, click here. Schwinn Electric Bike: Tailwind The Schwinn Tailwind flaunts a feature that the other electric bikes don’t have: the Toshiba battery designed specifically for this bike can recharge in an astounding 30 minutes as opposed to the usual 4 hour recharging time. The 6 pound battery can be removed easily from the rear fender rack and features the latest in lithium polymer technology. According to NYCeWheels, the lithium polymer Schwinn battery pack has about 1.4 times the power to weight ratio than lithium ion, discharges at a more consistent voltage, and has a longer life expectancy. It offers a range of 25-30 miles, depending on riding style and conditions. The sophisticated brushless motor is designed to assist the rider, not take over. The motor kicks in after pedaling begins and shuts off when the brake is applied. Schwinn designed the Tailwind to offer a longer range for the traditional bike rider, yet still remaining true to the classic bike design. It does not offer regenerative braking, but it may be the perfect transition for those who prefer the old school look as opposed to the futuristic appearance of some of the other electric bikes. The Schwinn Tailwind MSRP is $2,679.00. For a Schwinn dealer near you, click here. Sanyo Eneloop Electric Bike An entry from last year’s list, the Sanyo Eneloop continues to be a solid entry for a high-tech electric bike. Eneloop means that the regenerative brake system recharges the battery, so pressing on the rear brake lever actually generates energy. The 250 watt brushless motor supports 2 modes of pedal-assist plus an auto mode. Standard mode output matches the energy output of the rider. Power-Up mode doubles the energy output (for hills), while the auto mode automatically switches between these 2 modes depending upon riding conditions. The Sanyo Eneloop may appeal more to the female commuter because it’s, well… pretty. Similar to the styling of a Dutch city bike, the step-through frame makes it easy to get on and off. Range is 17-35 miles depending on the mode. Customer reviews on the Sanyo Eneloop are glowing, raving that the bike is quiet, smooth, and doesn’t feel like you’re riding an electric bike. Check out NYCeWheel’s review here. The Sanyo Eneloop currently sells on Amazon for $1,499.99. Dahon Boost Folding Electric Bike For commuters who need to lug their bikes up stairs or maneuver it onto public transportation, a folding electric bike such as the Dahon Boost would be a good choice. It offers all of the advantages of an electric-assisted bike at a weight of only 43 pounds. Dahon is a leader in high quality folding bikes. The Boost folds down to the same size as their 20″ folding bike in 15 seconds. The 250 watt brushless motor offers up 3 pedal-assist modes. Features an integrated rear rack, front and rear lighting, and a control panel on the handlebar. It can go about 30 miles on a charge. With a step-through frame and adjustable seat and handlebars, this bike serves as a versatile commuter bike. The Dahon Boost sells for $2,499.00 on Amazon or at NYCeWheels. Trek Valencia Trek has thrown it’s hat into the electric bike ring and maybe just the catalyst to bring the lycra set and the commuters together. They’ve turned their standard Valencia commuter bike into a electric assist hybrid with a 350 watt brushless BionX rear hub motor and regenerative braking. Trek has added electric motors to some of their other bikes as well, such as the FX and the Transport- you’ll notice a plus sign next to these to indicate the hybrid model. Four different pedal-assist modes vary from 25% assistance to 200% assistance. In regenerative mode, you can add on average a 10% increase in battery capacity. There aren’t many reviews out yet on the Trek e-bikes, but you can read specs about them here and some first impressions by users at bike forums here. A2B Electric Bikes by Ultra Motor A2B Metro Electric Bike Don’t be fooled by it’s size. The A2B electric bikes by Ultra Motor pack a powerful punch with a 500 watt motor, 7 speeds, and high torque for hill climbing. Treehugger says it has “the heart of a bicycle and the soul of a scooter”. You can read their full review here. The lithium-ion battery is fully integrated into the downtube. The range is 20 miles on a single charge, but that can be extended to 40 miles with the purchase of an optional second battery. Top speed is 20 mph. The throttle is on the handlebar, meaning you can pedal or not. It does weigh in at a hefty 72 pounds so it may be better for short commutes, recreational fun or a cool option for college students to get around campus. The A2B Metro sells for around $2,700.00. The A2B is available from Amazon. IZip Metro 2011 IZip Metro Electric Bike Now wouldn’t this be fun to zip down to the grocery store? It features a 500 watt brushless hub motor and lithium-ion battery with a top speed of 20 mph and a range of 20-35 miles. It uses both pedal-assist and throttle power and weighs in at 55 pounds. The IZip Metro retails for $2,299.00. Other Electric Bike Manufacturers We Like: Ohm Cycles– pictured at the beginning of this article, Ohm Cycles is a Canadian company that makes high end electric bikes. Giant– Giant made the ever classic Lafree electric bike, which has since been discontinued, but they continue to make the Twist Freedom and Twist Express. EcoBike– Using both a pedal-assist and manual throttle, the EcoBike is one of the easiest electric bikes to operate. They offer 3 models around the $1,500 range. You can also purchase electric conversion kits, which is especially helpful if you already have a bike that you’re comfortable with. The BionX conversion kit is considered to be the highest in quality and can be purchased at Amazon. 13 thoughts on “Best Electric Bikes” Frank Dall Electric bikes are great fun, and really useful too! Whether you’re looking to get outside more but you don’t like the hills, or just want a practical way of getting to work and the shops without getting sweaty, an electric bike can be the perfect choice Wendy Zhu How are you? This is Wendy from MYWAY China. We are a manufacturer of folding electric scooter, and launched a new model called Inokim Quick. I learnt you are in the market of similar product and expect to cooperate with your company. If there is any interests, pls feel free to come to me. Thanks in advance. Waiting for your good news. Sarah Wales Has anybody tried Juiced Riders? We think they are very well thought out with great attention to detail the new wiring harness and the throttle look particularly impressive. They also have some great features in common with our own UK based Juicy Bikes http://www.juicybike.com We too are fans of Tektro Hydraulic brakes and find they perform splendidly in all weathers.. Sam Wonderly “Best” e-bikes? The Charger e-bike offers the most bang for the buck, considering other mid-mount motors running through an internal gear cost upwards of $2000 and the Chargers are now only $800 plus shipping and final out of carton assembly. For local SF Bay Area customers, fully assembled they’re $875 plus tax. I’m glad you gave OHM cycles a mention. The commuter e-bike model is great, but I like the all-terrain electric mountain bike best. what about the Swiss-made Stromer Electric bike? The YouTube video in which the salesman rides it, is very persuasive. How about Busettii electric bikes?! Made in the USA, 50-86 miles per charge, 3 year warranty and ALL OF THEM are under $2000! Not to mention better stock components and the ability to customize your bike with whatever mix of high end bits you wish… Check out http://www.busettiioutlet.com and get a great bike for your money Dave – Thanks for the info and link to the Busettii Electric Bikes! They ROCK! These bikes rock Where does the Swiss bike Flyer feature in this report? Almost everyone has this mark and with a replacement battery when touring in Switzerland this makes it a very attractive option. Only draw back is the Swiss price, but it is made in Switz and not in China …. Bionx is a highly reputable manufacturer making some of the best designed electric bike components. You are wrong to use the phrase “flat out lie.” What you and your watts up meter have discovered is that regen on any bicycle will not provide alot of energy. It typically runs at 5 to 10 percent depending on riding style and conditions. If you are interested and understand basic physics you should read up on why this is, it is quite interesting. You forgot the Pedego electric bike. For style, comfort and price, it should be one of the top picks. David Buckler I have a Bionx, Crystalte and a E-Bike kit (nine continents) on various bikes. My wife and I both ride Ampedbikes conversions and like them more than the other kits we have.. BTW we are selling the others on Craigslist in oregon. In my humble opinion the Amped Kits are the best out there. They have worked out all the bugs with the other kits. It also bothered be that the Bionx and Crystalytes both say they have regenerative braking but the most you can get from regen braking is 4% in our hilly area. It seems like a flat out lie from Bionx and Crystlytes. They show zero statistics on this but I use a watts up meter and found that the max we recieved is 4% in our killy area. I read this on the Amped FAQ page and it is true and a simple sales gimmick. So be aware and do not believe everything you read. I was disapointed to say the least at the amount of regen. When the Bionx website has it on the front page. David B	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line1010
__label__wiki	0.511696	0.511696	Mobility Arena News » There are 38 million smartphones in the hands of 25 million users in Nigeria (Q4 2017) There are 38 million smartphones in the hands of 25 million users in Nigeria (Q4 2017) July 11, 2018 Mobility Arena News If you are looking for hard facts and figures about smartphone users in Nigeria, here it is: Nigeria had 25 million smartphone users as at the end of 2017. It is no news that the four mobile networks, MTN Nigeria, Airtel Networks, Glo Mobile, and 9Mobile, together account for a huge chunk of mobile internet subscriptions in Nigeria. 99%, as a matter of fact, says Asoko Insight. Quick question for another day: How will Smile, ntel, Swift and Spectranet (altogether with a 1% market share) compete with the big four? But the Asoko Insight report sheds more light and says, “Of those subscribing to the four major operators, just 38 million are smartphone users, with MTN accounting for more than one third of the total. Airtel and Glo have almost equal number of subscribers falling into this segment.” The report says 38 million smartphone users. So, how did we arrive at 25 million smartphone users in Nigeria? 1 Smartphone Users In Nigeria vis-a-vis Multiple SIMs 2 Nigeria’s Addressable Internet Market Smartphone Users In Nigeria vis-a-vis Multiple SIMs But Asoko Insight also has this to say: “However, the penetration figure can be misleading: as is common across the continent, subscribers will often hold multiple SIM cards on different networks to take advantage of price differentials and variations in network quality. Subscriptions cannot, therefore, be conflated with subscribers.” Exactly the same thing I have said for years. So, we need to factor in dual SIM smartphones to arrive at a more accurate figure for smartphone users in Nigeria. According to OpenSignal, dual-SIM Android devices account for 66% of the Android market in Nigeria. That means that it is likely that 66% of those 38 million subscribers are using a dual SIM smartphone. In other words, we are looking at 25 million unique subscribers with smartphones. So roughly 60% of the said 38 million smartphones house two active SIM cards. That brings the number of smartphone users down to 25.46 million. That is the more accurate number of smartphone users in Nigeria, and it is incredibly close to my 2016 smartphone penetration figure of 22 million. We can assume that between 2016 and 2017, the country added about 3 million more smartphones. You are welcome. Also, some people have more than two active SIM cards. But they are in the minority and we can ignore them and allow for a small margin of error. Nigeria’s Addressable Internet Market Tekedia reports that Nigeria has about 32 million unique bank customers, based on Dec 2017 BVN data and “made a case that Nigeria has only 30 million-person addressable core market (for mainly tech services) despite the 198 million people in the nation”. That is an accurate case made. Also, if we factor that many of those bank accounts are empty or have less than N10,000 in them most times during the year, the realities tally with the 25 million smartphone users figure that I have come up with. You do not have to grope in the dark about Nigeria’s addressable internet market any more. Entrepreneurs and investors who want to play in Nigeria’s digital technology market have hard figures to use in their projections. You can access the full report from Asoko Insights HERE. Thanks to Tekedia for the tip-off about the Asoko Insight report. Update: Here is fresh info. In May 2018, Facebook revealed that it has 26 million users in Nigeria, and that about 25 million of those access Facebook from their mobile devices. Nigeria smartphone penetrationsmartphone userssmartphone users in nigeria Exodus, an HTC blockchain phone, is on the way too	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line1012
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__label__cc	0.553113	0.446887	Rapid method to detect BRAF mutations in cancer tissue samples by American Association for Cancer Research A new diagnostic platform to detect BRAF mutations in melanoma and other cancer types is faster and more accurate compared with the standard method currently used in clinics, and this could help accelerate diagnosis and treatment, according to results presented here at the AACR-NCI-EORTC International Conference on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics, held Oct. 19-23. About 50 percent of melanomas, and less frequently other cancer types, harbor mutations in the BRAF oncogene. To date, more than 30 different cancer-associated BRAF mutations have been identified. The most common are the BRAF V600 mutations. The new molecular diagnostics (MDx) prototype platform developed by Biocartis in Mechelen, Belgium, can detect BRAF V600 mutations in about 90 minutes, requires no sample preparation, and is 95 percent in agreement with the standard method approved by clinical laboratory improvement amendments (CLIA). "When you do molecular testing for BRAF mutations the way it is done in the clinic, it often takes three to four weeks to get the results back. A lot of that time is spent preparing the sample, including laser microdissection to isolate DNA from the tumor cells," said Filip Janku, M.D., Ph.D., an oncologist at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. "With the MDx platform, it takes about two minutes to add fresh, frozen, or paraffin-embedded tumor samples to the sample cartridge and less than 90 minutes to get the results. This platform is capable of giving you an answer in an absolutely unprecedented time frame. "We used MDx to detect BRAF mutations as a proof of principle. This new platform will be capable of detecting a variety of mutations, including KRAS, EGFR, and others for which there are FDA-approved targeted therapies," he added. "Unfortunately, we are still not in a position to offer targeted therapies to patients as soon as they come to the clinic, because it takes time to do molecular testing. Identifying the right treatment for patients early is crucial in cancer care. We need to invest more in developing assays and diagnostic platforms." Janku and colleagues used 79 archival tumor samples to test the MDx platform. BRAF mutation status obtained using the CLIA-approved method was available for all these samples. The results generated using the MDx platform and CLIA-approved method were in agreement for 75 of the 79 samples. Of the four samples with discrepancies, the MDx platform but not the CLIA-approved method detected a BRAF V600E mutation in a colon cancer sample, and the MDx platform did not detect BRAF mutations in the remaining three samples that were reported to be BRAF-mutation positive by the CLIA-approved method. Of interest, two of the three patients whose tumor samples tested positive for BRAF mutations by the CLIA-approved method but not the MDx platform were treated with BRAF/MEK inhibitors based on the CLIA results, and they did not respond to treatment. More information: Abstract Number: C198 Presenter: Filip Janku, M.D., Ph.D. Title: BRAF mutation testing of archival tumor samples with a novel, rapid, fully-automated molecular diagnostics prototype platform Background: Novel, fast, and accurate diagnostic systems are needed for further implementation of personalized therapy. Mutations in the BRAF gene can provide actionable targets for cancer therapy in melanoma and other tumor types. Methods: The molecular diagnostics (MDx) prototype platform (Biocartis, Mechelen, Belgium) is a fully integrated real-time PCR-based system with high sensitivity (1%) and quick turnaround time (< 90 minutes), which requires no sample preparation and <2 min hands-on time. Archival formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tumor samples (1x to 5x of 10 µm shavings) from patients (pts) with advanced cancers previously tested for V600 BRAF mutations in a CLIA-certified Molecular Diagnostic Laboratory (PCR-based sequencing, Sequenom MassARRAY) were tested for BRAF V600 mutations using the MDx prototype platform. MDx prototype platform and the BRAF V600 mutation prototype assay were used for research purposes only. Concordance between different methods and treatment outcomes with BRAF/MEK inhibitors were analyzed. Results: Seventy-nine pts (melanoma, n=34; colorectal, n=20; papillary thyroid, n=6; ovarian, n=4; other cancers, n=15) with available tissue and CLIA laboratory BRAF results were identified (BRAF V600 mutation, n=49; wild-type BRAF, n=30). Of the 70 pts for whom the same tissue block was used for MDx and CLIA, BRAF results (V600 mutation yes/no) were concordant in 67 of them (96%; kappa 0.91; 95% CI 0.81-1.01; discrepancies: V600E mutation from CLIA only in prostate cancer, V600E mutation from CLIA only in melanoma, V600E mutation from MDx only in colon cancer). In addition, BRAF results by MDx were discrepant with CLIA in one case (melanoma) in the mutation subtype (V600K vs. V600E). In all 79 pts (including 9 patients with different blocks tested) MDx and CLIA BRAF results (V600 mutation yes/no) were concordant in 75 (95%; kappa 0.89; 95% CI 0.79-1.00) of them (additional discrepancy: V600K mutation from CLIA only in colon cancer). Of 49 pts with BRAF mutations detected by MDx, 30 were treated on protocols (on the basis of the CLIA lab results) with BRAF/MEK inhibitors and 8 (27%) had a partial response. Of interest, 2 of 3 pts with BRAF mutations from CLIA, but not MDx, received a BRAF/MEK inhibitor and did not respond. Detailed patient characteristics, mutation types and discrepancy analysis will be presented. Conclusions: The BRAF V600 mutation MDx prototype platform is a fast (turn-around time about 1.5 hours) and simple (<2 minutes hands-on time) test for determining BRAF mutation status, having 96% concordance with CLIA laboratory results in identical tissue blocks. 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__label__wiki	0.581326	0.581326	New study eases fears of airborne Ebola by University of Florida The Ebola virus, isolated in November 2014 from patient blood samples obtained in Mali. The virus was isolated on Vero cells in a BSL-4 suite at Rocky Mountain Laboratories. Credit: NIAID At the peak of the Ebola epidemic last fall came a frightening new possibility: a mutation that could allow the disease to spread through the air. Now University of Florida researchers have dispelled this concern using data from current and past Ebola outbreaks. The team—led by associate professor Marco Salemi of UF's Department of Pathology and Emerging Pathogens Institute, in collaboration with the Italian Institute of Health—revealed its findings in a study published today in Nature's Scientific Reports. In August, an international research team found that genetic changes in the virus were occurring twice as fast as previously seen. In September, a U.S. researcher caused a stir by suggesting that the virus could mutate to become transmissible through the air. In the current study, the research team looked at samples from patients and great apes collected during Ebola epidemics from 1976 through 2014. They discovered that most genetic changes are lost between epidemic waves and found little evidence to support the evolution of a more powerful or transmissible virus. That's good news not only for Central and West Africa, but for researchers developing tests, vaccines and treatments for Ebola. While concern about airborne Ebola may persist, the likelihood of the virus becoming an airborne infection is extremely low, says Taj Azarian, the lead author of the study. "We know of no virus that has radically changed its mode of transmission due to genetic mutations," he said. "It seems the Ebola virus is more stable than earlier studies suggested." Ebola virus has mutated less than scientists feared, study finds More information: "Impact of spatial dispersion, evolution, and selection on Ebola Zaire Virus epidemic waves." Scientific Reports 5, Article number: 10170 DOI: 10.1038/srep10170 Journal information: Scientific Reports Provided by University of Florida Citation: New study eases fears of airborne Ebola (2015, May 15) retrieved 19 January 2021 from https://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-05-eases-airborne-ebola.html Exploring the role of competitive brain processes in artistic cognition Inhibiting KGA-dependent glutaminolysis in mice found to eliminate senescent cells Study shows Ebola virus in Sierra Leone mutated at a normal rate Scientists find Ebola virus is mutating Study shows how Ebola becomes lethal as it spreads Providing better data on the Ebola virus Researchers develop Ebola vaccine effective in a single dose Early-warning alerts for acute kidney injury fail to reduce patient risks Your email address is used only to let the recipient know who sent the email. Neither your address nor the recipient's address will be used for any other purpose. The information you enter will appear in your e-mail message and is not retained by Medical Xpress in any form.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line1018
__label__wiki	0.914918	0.914918	Morán Morán Menu Tunji Adeniyi-Jones Diana Al-Hadid Chelsea Culprit Keltie Ferris Eve Fowler Michael Genovese Luis Gispert Eric N. Mack Estate of Robert Mapplethorpe RJ Messineo Anders Ruhwald David Benjamin Sherry Agathe Snow Estate of Dash Snow Willie Stewart Soil Thornton Kon Trubkovich Will Perkins on Cajsa Von Zeipel Coercive Beliefs by Matt Kenny Nate Lowman on Leo Fitzpatrick Glenn Adamson on Anders Ruhwald Tom Burr on Kiko Kostadinov Andrew Durbin on Jacolby Satterwhite ©2008-2021 Morán Morán Author: RACHEL SPENCE At the Fondation Cartier, a generation of artists shaped by European crises comes of age A Paris show of groundbreaking work from across the continent tells stories of brutal division but exudes a sense of optimism 'Metamorphosis: Art in Europe Now' © Thibaut Voisin With a cast of sinking people, abandoned rowing boats, derelict houses, makeshift furniture, human figures salvaged from scraps of clothing and abstract sculptures assembled from empty life-jackets, a new show of young European artists in Paris appears to pile up reasons not to be cheerful for the future of the continent. In truth, glimmers of light are threaded through the gloom. Metamorphosis: Art in Europe Now at the Fondation Cartier centre for contemporary art in Paris brings together 21 artists from 16 European nations, including countries beyond the Union, born since 1980. This is a generation stamped by the tumultuous changes wrought by the collapse of the Berlin Wall, the war in the former Yugoslavia and the waves of migration that have transformed the continent’s social landscape. The first note of joy is sounded by the building itself. Designed by Jean Nouvel in 1994, it has a glass-and-steel frame that is an airy foil to the tree-dotted garden that surrounds it and the luxuriant wall of plants designed by French botanist Patrick Blanc. The ferny flourish of the latter rescues from morbidity the soundtrack that greets visitors before they enter the building. Devised by Magnus Andersen, who was born in Denmark but lives in Brussels, the song is part of his series “Regional Education”. Chanted by children in different languages, it is a collage of extracts from European treaties, free trade agreements and national anthems. The marriage of their reedy voices and the repetitious rhythm conveys that this is a bittersweet welcome from a vulnerable, fractured people. So it proves. In the two ground-floor galleries, a group of large-scale works have been made, we are told, “in close relation with the building around them”. Certainly the glass walls, which give an unfettered view of the garden beyond, create a porous realm that is a soothing alternative to the stories of brutal division narrated by the art within. Nevertheless, in the way it has been curated the overall installation feels a little cramped. Such serious-minded and physically imposing works require room to breathe. Charlie Billingham © Edouard Caupeil The most affecting works leaven the sadness with visual allure. Born and based in Stockholm but with Chinese heritage, Lap-See Lam and her cousin, the director Wingyee Wu, have used a 3D scanner to record the interior of several Chinese restaurants in Stockholm, then employed animation techniques to transfigure these doomed eateries — most have been marked for closure — into radiant, tattered palimpsests that dissolve into each other like dream sequences. Accompanied by female voices that whisper of familial disconnections, “Mother’s Tongue” is a triumphant example of an artist channelling high-tech methods to reilluminate the commonplace theme of diaspora. By contrast, British artist Charlie Billingham reaches back to the past. On show in the other upper gallery, his unusual installation yokes Regency-style iconography into a domestic setting. Complete with folding screen, urns and a mural covered with small paintings of corpulent, dissolute aristocrats, Billingham’s vision draws on 18th-century caricaturists such as James Gillray to gesture at a world where, then as now, those in power are out of touch with ordinary people. Particularly intriguing is Billingham’s decision to create such a homely ambience. This decision puts him among a growing number of younger artists, inspired perhaps by the older British artist-cum-designer Marc Camille Chaimowicz, who create quirky environments for their works. Downstairs, a spectacular example of this approach is by Czech-born, Berlin-based Klára Hosnedlová. Her surreal boudoir, “Hair From No Man’s Land” (2019) encompasses velvety, two-tone sofas and stools with faux-hair fringes, small portraits in kooky ceramic frames and a rail of silky, feather-light costumes in delectable ice-cream shades on loan from Prague’s National Theatre. In part, such artist-made interiors serve to question the effectiveness of displaying individual works of art in galleries and museums. Nowhere is this generation’s lack of faith in orthodox institutions clearer than in “A Brief History of Princess X” (2016), a film from US-born, Lisbon-based Gabriel Abrantes, which recounts the story of Constantin Brancusi’s eponymous bronze sculpture which saw the Romanian transfigure Princess Marie Bonaparte as a male phallus. Laced with Bonaparte’s graphic observations on female sexuality — she was a pioneer of psychoanalysis — and narrated in Abrantes’ laconic tones, the film’s chill glitter forecasts Abrantes’ final sceptical observation that the sculpture has ended up “impotent, as so much art is, very misunderstood, alone in a museum, an object of ridicule”. The paintings of Miryam Haddad, however, would be taken seriously in any setting. Born in Damascus in 1991, Haddad had always planned to study at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, but the war in Syria obliged her to leave her country earlier than she had planned in 2012. That trauma, surely, intensifies the drama of canvases that are built up into incandescent ecstasies of pigment lent jewel-bright hardness by fragments of stained glass and ceramic. Her large painting of a lake, tortured though it is by drowning bodies, retains a defiant beauty that suggests that humanity, even at its most devastated, will find a way to rise from the depths. At a time when we are hard pressed to find our inner lifebuoy we must be grateful to those, like Haddad, who maintain their belief in art’s capacity to give us hope. 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__label__wiki	0.571198	0.571198	Middle C Classical Music Reviews, Wellington, New Zealand Supported by generous help from the Turnovsky Endowment Trust Wellington classical music: coming events JS Bach since the time of Bach – brought to life by Michael Houstoun Cynthia and Gertie – going for Baroque with Purcell at Circa Theatre Too important to let it go – Ashley Brown and a new-look NZTrio play music by women composers From darkness to light – soundscapes of the mind from the NZSO By Peter Mechen, 18/09/2010 BRITTEN – Four Sea Interludes from “Peter Grimes” MacMILLAN – Veni, Veni, Emmanuel RAVEL – Pavane for a Dead Princess R.STRAUSS – Death and Transfiguration Colin Currie (percussion) Alexander Shelley (conductor) New Zealand Symphony Orchestra Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington I liked this programme because it broke the mould – it didn’t follow the concert format which the NZSO seems to visit more often than not, to the detriment of pieces such as Ravel’s enchanting Pavane pour une Infanta défunte (or, Pavane for a Dead Princess). The common concert layout (overture, concerto, interval, symphonic-type work) is obviously favoured by orchestral managements because it provides variety over the course of an evening, and enables the appearance of a prominent soloist in the concerto, who will hopefully bring in the crowds. But to repeat this formula almost ad nauseam is counter-productive, as it negates in the longer term the variety that a single concert seeks to provide, as well as reducing the opportunity for concertgoers to hear “live” many delectable orchestral pieces of only moderate length. The present concert, perhaps due to its matinee status certainly had its “star soloist” in the first half, but then featured two shorter works after the interval, the aforementioned Ravel and a tone-poem by Richard Strauss, Tod und Verklarung (Death and Transfiguration). Ravel and Strauss certainly provided a contrast, though I wonder how many people would agree with me that some music “feels” better if heard in the evening, as opposed to the morning or afternoon? – somehow, Strauss’s Death and Transfiguration seemed diminished by the daytime ambience, whereas the Ravel was perfect – perhaps more of the same composer’s music would have been preferable, the gorgeous ballet Ma Mere L’Oye (Mother Goose) immediately coming to mind as a different kind of darkness-to-light experience. I was interested to hear Alexander Shelley conduct, being the son of one of my favourite pianists, Howard Shelley (such connections, made helpfully or otherwise, always add interest to a performer’s aura and music-making abilities). An extremely elegant-looking young man, he brought a brisk, certain focus to his music-making throughout, beginning with the first of Britten’s Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes, a Dawn whose streaks of light across the sky and answering shimmers of reflection from the water were clearly and bracingly articulated in this performance, precise rather than long-breathed and atmospheric. Surprisingly, I fancied the strings’ off-beat syncopations weren’t as clear as I thought they might be at the outset of Sunday Morning, the rhythms taking a while to “settle”; but amends were made with the next piece Moonlight, the playing catching the piece’s deep-toned “hymn to the night” aspect splendidly and sonorously. The concluding Storm’s fury burst upon us vehemently, with properly baleful brass and wonderful tuba notes, though I felt the side-drum a bit glib-sounding (not enough “flail” to really sting); and though the “running frightened” scherzandi passages towards the end had plenty of energy, I wanted more tension in the build-up towards the apocalyptic downward cascade that concludes the piece. So, a good performance, but I thought a trifle wanting more of the knife-edge in places (perhaps more difficult to achieve during the afternoon!). James MacMillan’s Veni, Veni, Emmanuel is, in effect, a percussion concerto, able to stand as an abstract piece of music in its own right, but illuminated from within by the composer’s intention for the work to represent “the human presence of Christ” and the accompanying liberation of humankind “from fear, anguish and oppression”. Its title forms a direct link with the 15th Century French plainchant of the same name, regularly sung by choirs during the Christian season of Advent. In fact, the composer apparently began working on the piece on the first Sunday of Advent, and completed it on Easter Sunday of the following year, dedicating the work to his parents. This concert featured percussionist Colin Currie, like his fellow-Scot Evelyn Glennie (who premiered this work) one of the world’s foremost instrumentalists, who’s helped to develop amongst both audiences and composers a new appreciation of percussion and its expressive potential. Very much on show throughout this piece, Currie revelled in the diversity of sounds which colour the opening sequences of exchange – amid orchestral fanfares all the percussion families were introduced, the soloist underlining the variety of texture, colour and spatial depth of sound by physical movement whose fluidity and energy defined the spaces between the instruments and suggested a journey paralleling the course of the music. Then there’s a “heartbeat” section, where pulses of varying metricality play, propelling and colouring the music, the soloist’s patternings punctuated with sharp, coruscating comments from the orchestra. After building towards frenetic rhythmic passages which suggested we’d reached the “Dance” section of the work, Colin Currie was able to show us a more deeply-felt, poetic aspect to his musicianship with the central “Gaude” section (the title taken from the refrain of the plainsong) – marimba figurations gently danced over prayer-like murmurings from the orchestra, as if revealing for listeners the spiritual calm at the centre of a believer’s universe. There was more dancing, brilliantly characterised by a virtuoso stint from the soloist on the vibraphone, great chorale-like fanfares from the brass, and antiphonal percussion effects, with the timpanist matching the soloist and the orchestral musicians producing triangles, spreading the scintillations throughout the soundscape (a pity about the noisy children in the gallery!). And what wonderful resonances Currie achieved with the tubular bells at the end, the resonances seeming to last for an eternity (I didn’t think the sounds of burbling children at that point entirely inappropriate – wasn’t it Christ who said “Suffer the little children to come unto me, for theirs is the kingdom of Heaven”, or words to that effect? – but some people who spoke to me during the interval were very angry about the disturbance!). Fortunately, not one extraneous post-interval warble from the auditorium spoiled the limpid beauty of Ravel’s homage to the painter Velázquez, Pavane pour une Infante Défunte (in the printed programme both attempts at reproducing the French title came unstuck). The composer’s point about the music being an evocation of a dance rather than a funeral lament was nicely realised by conductor and players. Before the Strauss work, Death and Transfiguration, Alexander Shelley spoke to the audience concerning the programme of the music, explaining the composer’s intentions and tracing the music’s course throughout – so we were fully prepared for the fray, as it were, though some of the audience would have been at last year’s performance of the same work by the Wellington Orchestra, so it wouldn’t exactly have been an unknown quantity. On that occasion I thought the Wellington Orchestra surpassed themselves, with committed, full-toned and fiery playing under Marc Taddei’s direction; so I was interested to hear what the NZSO would make of it, albeit in a different venue and with another conductor. Only with the first arrival of the “Transfigured” theme did I markedly prefer the earlier performance – somehow (and probably aided by a more ample and resonant acoustic in the Town Hall) Taddei and his orchestra managed to “fashion” the theme from those preparatory gesturings more convincingly and organically, as if it was all the time growing into the shape and form of its first appearance; whereas with Shelley and the NZSO the warmth and radiance of it all seemed like a new idea, fetched up from somewhere else. Perhaps it was that Taddei’s reading seemed longer-breathed than Shelley’s, just that bit more boldly and deeply conceived; though in other respects, the NZSO’s playing for Shelly sounded truly resplendent in all departments, the winds in particular covering themselves with glory. The performance certainly had a sheen and burnished splendour of its own, the NZSO’s greater weight and refinement of tone imparting, if not the whole truth, a Brucknerian radiance at the very end that was well worth the waiting for. 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__label__cc	0.713865	0.286135	Free Brand Analysis Get a free brand analysis today. Just tell us who you are along with your website address, or social media channels, and we’ll send you a detailed analysis of your brand in 48 hrs. Did we mention it was free? Complete this form to get started. Reputation Monitoring SEO/ASO Services What is a buyer’s journey? Mighty Leap / Attract / What is a buyer’s journey? Mighty Leap What is buyer’s journey? The buyer’s journey represents the different stages the consumer (buyer) goes through when looking for a way to satisfy his/her needs and wants. Depending on the product, service, niche, etc. it consists of 4 stages (awareness, research, decision, loyalty) The applications of buyer’s journey Although, the buyer’s journey is commonly known to represent the journey of a single consumer or segment, the same principle can be used to represent the location of different personas, and therefore, different stages can include/exclude different segments, and not necessarily represent one consumer from one particular segment. Example: The awareness stage of a bottled-water brand may include people who are interested in fitness and wellness, while the consideration stage may include people who are interested in home-delivery per se. This visual map of buyer’s personas aligned with journey stages can help construct a laser-sharp conversion funnel. Wherever there is a demand, there is a brand Represents the first stage of the buyer’s journey. Segments in this stage may/not be aware of the brand or their own wants and needs. Therefore, marketing messages during this stage should be focused on ways to increase brand awareness, and creating the demand for the brand. Research/Consideration Research shows that an average person is subject to over 500 K marketing messages everyday. Consumers now depend on A.I. for informed decisions, and often compare features, costs, and benefits of hundreds of products everyday without noticing. Segments in this stage are often looking for answers to their questions about the brand before making any decisions. Consumers now rely on search engines for fast, unbiased, and guidance when making a purchase decision At this stage the segment is ready to make a decision. The segment is aware of the demands (needs and wants), and is now familiar with available brands that could satisfy these demands. Not only that, the segment is at the stage where it will make the decision to choose a certain brand over the other. Therefore, marketing messages during this stage should be focused on the brand competitive advantage(s). Often overlooked but just as important, and should be included in any well-planned buyers journey. This stage determines the probability of a long-lasting consumer – brand relationship. Consumers and segments in this stage are often loyal to a certain brand and resistant to other brands’ marketing messages. buyer's journeydigital marketingdigital marketing in egyptdigital marketing strategy Ramy Moussa Author & Moderator. Frequently updated blog with articles covering a wide range of topics around digital marketing. Make sure to subscribe to our newsletter so don't miss our new articles What are the 3 types of competitive strategies? What is SWOT analysis and how to use it? Are Google’s algorithms changing? About Mighty Leap Mighty Leap is one of the leading digital marketing agencies in Egypt with a growing client list of successful partners. We offer: digital marketing, social media marketing, search engine optimization, reputation management, website development, and mobile app development Email: info@mightyleapeg.com Address: Heliopolis. Cairo. Egypt Copyright Mighty Leap 2018. Read our Privacy Policy	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line1041
__label__wiki	0.627542	0.627542	Registration Disclaimer Office Depot Savings Program Deadlines/Applications One Coast Awards Business & Tech Expo -POSTPONED Mississippi Power grants $80,000 to Coast Chamber Foundation for Minority Small Business Program CommunityGeneral News ArticleChamberEconomicPress Release The Mississippi Gulf Coast Chamber of Commerce Foundation has received an $80,000 grant from Mississippi Power. The grant will be used to establish the Shine A Light Minority Small Business Grant program and funds will be distributed over a five-year period as part of the program of work of the Mississippi Gulf Coast Chamber Diversity Council. “These grants will boost economic development in our community and support the small businesses that drive our economy. They’re a true win-win,” Mississippi Power Vice President of External Affairs Billy Thornton said. “We’re proud to partner with the Mississippi Gulf Coast Chamber and their Diversity Council to assist entrepreneurs who’ve taken the leap and opened their own business.” The grant application process will open on March 23, 2021, with grants awarded up to $1,000 for minority owned small businesses that are Mississippi Power customers and are a member in good standing with the Mississippi Gulf Coast Chamber of Commerce. The deadline to apply is May 5, 2021. “Adding minority small business grants to the Chamber’s program of work is truly an exciting next step in the growth of the Mississippi Gulf Coast Chamber’s Diversity Council,” said Gulf Coast Woman Magazine owner and President of the Board of Directors of the Mississippi Gulf Coast Chamber Dorothy Wilson. “As I wrap up my term as President, I am proud of the doors the Chamber has opened with its diversity and inclusion efforts.” The Mississippi Gulf Coast Chamber of Commerce currently awards small business grants from 7 divisions including a Women Owned business grant, a Veteran owned business grant, numerous grants for Biloxi, Gulfport, Pass Christian and Long Beach small businesses. In 2020, a total of $42,975 has been awarded. Mississippi Power recently was a recipient of the Community Partner Impact Award from the Center for Energy Workforce Development for its innovative and ongoing efforts to build a diverse workforce. The company, in partnership with the Southern Company Charitable Foundation, announced last month the awarding of $825,000 in technology grants to four historically black colleges and universities in Mississippi – Jackson State, Mississippi Valley State, Rust College and Tougaloo College. The Mississippi Gulf Coast Chamber’s Diversity Council was formed in 2010 as part of the Biloxi Chamber of Commerce. The mission is to connect, inform, and develop diverse businesses while advocating for their success through innovative programming curated by the council while increasing membership by communicating chamber benefits to minority owned businesses. The Council’s activities include a Breakfast of Business Champions that highlighted successful minority business owners and their best practices, and the presentation of a three-part virtual series sponsored by Mississippi Power titled Transforming Your Organization’s Culture: Building Blocks of a Belonging Workplace with over 365 hours of training delivered to the community. Mississippi Gulf Coast Chamber of Commerce, Inc. Connect. Inform. Advocate. Develop. 11975 Seaway Road Suite B120, Gulfport, MS 39503 info@mscoastchamber.com © Copyright 2021 Mississippi Gulf Coast Chamber of Commerce, Inc.. All Rights Reserved. Site provided by GrowthZone - powered by ChamberMaster software.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line1050
__label__wiki	0.807867	0.807867	Home Entertainment Miss Africa-USA Minnesota Preliminaries Miss Africa-USA Minnesota Preliminaries nelimap In 1999 the second M-Net Face of Africa beauty pageant made history, when for the first time in African television an event was broadcast live to 42 countries Africa. Since then African beauty pageants have sprung up everywhere, both on the continent and in the Diaspora. A Google search yields numerous results for various versions of Miss Africa beauty contests and in Minnesota alone there are usually 5 such pageants from various communities in a year, the most notable being the Miss Liberia Minnesota Pageant. On June 23rd at Central High School, Minnesota held preliminaries for what may be considered the most ambitious beauty pageant yet – The Miss Africa USA pageant. As with all beauty pageants, African beauty pageants have not escaped criticism from those who feel that such events exploit women and water down the definition of real beauty. Despite obvious shortcomings in the event organization, watching the seven ambitious ladies carry themselves with such dignity and intelligently speak about their dreams and hopes for Africa would have made any African proud. “I dream of an Africa that will be peaceful, I dream of an Africa that will be stable politically, socially and economically,” said Fri a nursing student from Cameroun. “My ultimate goal is to go back home and spread peace and understanding,” said 18-year old Tina from Sudan. The contestants whose ages ranged from 18 to 24 represented the peoples of Cameroun, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, Somalia and Sudan and came from various cities across Minnesota. With the exception of Caroline from Kenya, none of the other ladies had any experience in modeling. Some of the contestants admitted to being a bit intimidated by the event, but with encouragement from their families signed up for the pageant. “I heard about this event from my uncle who encouraged me to participate,” said the youngest participant, Rogiyo from Somalia. The talent section provided a great range of performances. Fri and Stella from Tanzania got serious with poetry dedicated to the continent. Rogiyo performed a Somali dance, Tina a dancehall piece and Korma from Nigeria energized the crowd with some smooth coupé decalé dance moves. Caroline beautiful vocals rang through the auditorium as she sang “Stand Up for Love” and Yvonne also from Cameroun had the audience laughing with her solo skit on why not to get pregnant before marriage. One special last minute addition to the show was a fashion show by 19 year old designer Namal Both. Namal was originally among the line up for the pageant, but dropped out on discovering that she was pregnant. She did however model one of her outfits along with two friends. Caroline, the Kenyan contestant also modeled one of her outfits for evening wear. Though only allowed to show three outfits, she captured the attention of the crowd who were greatly amazed at her talent. Exclamations like “Wow!” and “Oh my God!” rang through the crowd along with cheering from others. Namal, who is Sudanese was born in the Gambela region of Ethiopia and came to America alone at the tender age of seven. Life has not been a bag of candy for her and she ended up in foster care when she was 14. Her clothes are a fusion of African traditional designs and contemporary fashion. She currently attended Minneapolis Community Technical College, where she studies apparel technology and wants to attend a fashion school in New York thereafter. Also keeping the audience entertained were local artists Amanim dancers, RnB musicians V-Style and Crew and Somali sensation Ziigad. Towards the end of the night Makossa Super Star Emile Kangue sang a couple of ballads to calm everyone’s nerves as they awaited the results. The three judges who are well known in the African community were; Mr. Jackson K. George Jr, vice-president of the Organization of Liberians in Minnesota, Mrs. Melissa Nambangi, president of Minnesota African Women’s Association and Ms. Angela Nkem Asiegbu-Emelife, a member of Umunne Cultural Association. With so much great talent, it was difficult for judges to choose some as winners while leaving others out. Nonetheless in the end it was Fri from Cameroun who took home the Miss Spokes model award because of her eloquence, Stella from Tanzania nabbed Miss Culture on account of her sensitivity, the enthusiastic Korma from Nigeria got Miss Performance and Tina from Sudan cinched Miss Supermodel because of her look. The Minnesota preliminaries may be over, but the race for the title of Miss Africa USA is still going with preliminaries not done in other states. Founder Lady Kate Njeuma informed everyone that the four awardees would be informed on July 15th, after the conclusion of all the preliminaries in other states who will be attending the final pageant in Atlanta in November. For updated information on the national pageant, visit their website here. About Nelima Kerre Nelima is the founder of MinneAfrica, an online community where Africans and friends of Africans in Minnesota connect, reconnect and stay connected. Previous article A Celebration of Culture, History and Freedom Next article Women’s Political Caucus Recognizes Women Leaders Nelima is the founder of <a title="MinneAfrica" href="http://minneafrica.wordpress.com/">MinneAfrica</a>, an online community where Africans and friends of Africans in Minnesota connect, reconnect and stay connected. 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__label__wiki	0.968775	0.968775	Celebrating Richard Diebenkorn Up Close: One Painting Tours With Artists A project of the Anderson Collection at Stanford University Made possible by a grant from Stanford Arts and the Anderson Collection, we bring you the first episode of “Up Close: One Painting Tours with Artists.” Hosted by art historian and the associate director of ITALIC at Stanford, Kim Beil, the micro-video series focuses on a single object in the Anderson Collection, sparking dialogue with a guest artist. Kim spoke with San Francisco-based painter Rebekah Goldstein about Richard Diebenkorn’s “Ocean Park #60.” Three Things to Know About Richard Diebenkorn Experts share their perspectives on viewing the artist’s work at the Cantor and Anderson Collection. Diebenkorn in the Anderson Collection at Stanford University Explore the works of Richard Diebenkorn that are part of the Anderson Collection at Stanford University. Richard Diebenkorn at the Cantor American painter Richard Diebenkorn’s connection to Stanford is deep as well as broad. Richard Diebenkorn (U.S.A., 1922–1993), Drawing from Sketchbook # 15, 1943–93. Graphite on paper. © Richard Diebenkorn Foundation. Gift of Phyllis Diebenkorn, 2014.15.3 The Diebenkorn Sketchbooks Explore these books spanning 50 years of discovery and featuring the range of styles and subjects that Diebenkorn explored, from figuration to abstraction. Explore the Sketchbooks The Sketchbooks Revealed Throughout his long career, Richard Diebenkorn kept a sketchbook—a “portable studio,” as he called it—to capture his ideas. Remember to tune into our Instagram stories on April 22 to get all the answers to questions about Richard Diebenkorn and his art practice. More Diebenkorn	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line1055
__label__wiki	0.85615	0.85615	Democratic PAC under investigation ceases activities by admin \| Oct 26, 2014 \| Election 2018, News \| 0 \| By Glynis Kazanjian Glynis@MarylandReporter.com A super political action committee under review for possibly prohibited coordination between the campaign of Democrat Anthony Brown and his chief fundraiser transferred the bulk of its remaining funds — $250,000 — in mid-October to a federal super committee now running attack ads against Brown’s Republican rival. While state election officials would not confirm or deny the PAC “One State One Future” was temporarily required to halt campaign activities as a result of the investigation, One State One Future has not reported any major expenditures since late July. Allegations of potential coordination were first brought to light in June by Attorney General Douglas Gansler who was challenging Lt. Gov. Brown in the Democratic primary election. When asked if the state election board asked One State One Future to halt its campaign activities until the investigation had been completed, Jared DeMarinis, director of Candidacy and Campaign Finance for the Maryland State Board of Elections said, “I don’t think that’s a question I wish to answer.” DeMarinis said the only state agency that has the ability to order someone to stop conducting activities prior to or during an election is the office of the Secretary of State. $250,000 transferred to another attack PAC One State One Future transferred $250,000 to the super PAC America’s Families First Action Fund in mid-October. The federal super PAC also received another $250,000 from AFSCME, the largest union representing state employees. Multiple efforts to get an explanation from the office of Secretary of State John McDonough, a Democrat who is supporting Brown, were not returned. Requests made to One State One Future were also not returned. The Hogan for Governor campaign filed a complaint with the State Board of Elections Sept. 4 alleging Brown’s political fundraiser, Martin-Lauer Associates, and One State One Future PAC have been coordinating and cooperating on Brown’s behalf. Martin-Lauer is the chief political fundraiser for Brown and also received $20,000 in consulting fees from One State One Future for work conducted from January to May, 2014. Rules for super PACs According to the Center for Responsive Government, by law, super PACs must remain independent, and agents representing them are prohibited from collaborating directly with political candidates or agents of candidates. Unlike traditional political action committees, super PACs may not donate money directly to political candidates. Super PACs, technically known as independent expenditure-only committees, may raise unlimited sums of money from corporations, unions, associations and individuals, and can spend unlimited sums to overtly advocate for or against political candidates. DeMarinis said complaints that are beyond the scope of the State Board of Elections and warrant further investigation are referred to the state prosecutor. However, the state prosecutor’s office and the state elections office generally do not to comment or even confirm pending investigations. DeMarinis declined to comment on the status of the Hogan complaint only stating that the review was “still in the process” and there was no set time frame for its completion. Related story: http://marylandreporter.com/2014/09/24/major-complaints-of-violations-in-brown-hogan-race-unlikely-to-be-resolved-till-after-election/ PreviousRascovar: Brown’s hoax on Hogan NextDems urge African Americans to vote for Brown — ‘It’s our turn’ GOP candidate Herman Cain energizes Maryland crowd, moves up in polls Hogan names first four cabinet secretaries; Caret to become university chancellor Maryland’s Republican lawmakers say mail-in voting makes fraud more likely House of Delegates cheers on the Ravens (with video clip)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line1056
__label__wiki	0.82145	0.82145	How to Increase Facebook Engagement Using Custom Page Tabs By Meaghan Edelstein 2011-12-09 22:55:49 UTC Meaghan Edelstein has gained national media attention through her blog, I Kicked Cancer's Ass, which she started to document her battle with end stage cancer. She is an attorney, the founder of the non-profit organization Spirit Jump, and works for the Global Strategic Management Institute. The year 2011 brought exciting changes to social media marketing, especially when it came to Facebook. One such change is the ability to build customized landing tabs using iFrames, social plugins and geotargeting. These custom tabs open a world of opportunity for brands to increase Facebook engagement. Brands that invest in building the right types of tabs on their Facebook Pages are more likely to increase Likes and achieve real engagement growth. However, simply throwing a tab up will not suffice. There are certain considerations and important steps to take in order to significantly increase engagement through a Facebook tab. Understanding your audience is key to building a tab that will increase both Likes and engagement. “You should think about your audience and what interests them, then figure out how to build a relationship around those things,” advises Victoria Ransom, founder and CEO of Wildfire, one of the most widely used tools to build and manage Facebook tabs. Prior to building tabs, the Mexico Tourism Board (MTB) sought out audience input by launching a consumer survey on its primary website. The survey asked what types of information people would like to get from the MTB Facebook Page. “The over 15,000 responses contributed directly to the architecture of each of the four tabs: Highlights, Celebs, Attractions and Press,” says Lane Douglas, executive vice president of vantage strategy. MTB Page Likes increased from 6,000 to 70,000 within a three-week period, and its “People Talking About This” index raised to 14,000 daily. Audience-relevant tabs allow for delivery of on-point content and rich engagement. The great part about social media is that it eliminates the middle man. Each company can directly target and communicate with its customer base for inspiration. 2. Define Your Goals Not to overwhelm you, but there are limitless possibilities with tabs. With that in mind, it’s not recommended to have just one goal per tab. According to Stephanie Chaparro, senior account strategist for Wildfire, “Brands don’t want to use simple goals like ‘increase likes’ or ‘engage fans.’ Instead look into the strategy of the tabs and consider what audience to target and what end action is wanted, for example, Like the page, watch a video, share stories or leave a comment. Be as specific as possible in the goals you are setting.” Webroot software hired Wildfire to build tabs for the company’s Facebook Page. Their goal was to deliver personalized content, build brand awareness and increase engagement on a Page that was, for the most part, stagnant and passive. Five months after launching Wildfire’s tabs, Webroot Software saw Likes increase by 40,906, a 523% improvement. 3. Build a Cool Tab Once you’ve done the research and determined the optimal strategy, it’s time to build an effective tab. Focus on including these features: a hook, fresh content and a rich experience. “The best tabs are the ones that have a hook to get people to come back to the page on regular basis, but at the same time, provides a real opportunity for them to engage with the product and share,” says Ransom. Blowfish Shoes implemented a Shoe-A-Day Giveaway tab, a year-long campaign in which the company gives away a different pair of shoes daily. At the end of the year, Blowfish found its Facebook Page Likes had increased by 2,488%. The giveaway tab was so successful, in part, because it contained all the key aspects of the most successful tabs. With a new pair of shoes to feature every day, Blowfish was able to constantly stream fresh content in the form of photos and videos. And by announcing new winners every day, Blowfish gave people another reason to check back. Finally, through strategically placed links, the tab provided an opportunity for product engagement. Sixty-four percent of entrants actually went on to browse the Blowfish Shoes website, and nearly half of all sales during the promotion came from contestants. Through a single tab, Blowfish was able to build brand awareness, grow its Facebook community and increase overall engagement and sales. 4. Manage Tabs By implementing a clear strategy around tabs, organizations can benefit on an ongoing basis. But in order to sustain growth, there must be a strategic plan in place. “Companies that do the best are those who have a regular plan around their social media (including their Facebook tabs) and who take advantage of opportunities like holidays and events,” says Ransom. Part of the strategic plan should include how to handle multiple tabs. “It’s important to be strategic in implementing and running multiple tabs simultaneously. We see a lot of brands put up multiple tabs, each requiring different actions. This can overwhelm the user, “ says Chapparo. If you want to increase overall engagement, do not overwhelm users by requiring multiple actions on tabs. Instead, focus on keeping the wall engaging and fresh, while simultaneously providing tabs for a richer experience. Ideeli, a multi-retail channel, never runs multiple tabs that require actions. “We prioritize our tabs and realize we can only drive people away from our wall so many times,” Sarah Conley, social media manager at ideeli. Over the last year ideeli saw its Facebook Page Likes increase by 291%. The company also increased wall engagement by 48%. 5. Support Your Tabs Facebook tabs cannot exist in a void. “Businesses need to realize the point is not to create a tab and expect to get tons of traffic spontaneously. Tabs can fail when businesses don’t have a plan for getting people to the tab,” says Ransom. There are a variety of ways to drive traffic to tabs including Facebook ads, sponsored stories, Wall posts, email blasts, newsletters and share buttons. Webroot Software used video to drive traffic to its tabs. “With our marketplace in mind, we created three humorous videos that each ended with a promotional link to our Facebook Page. These videos have received over 32 million views and counting,” shares Chris Benham, chief demand officer at Webroot. As traffic to the Facebook Page increases, so do Likes and community engagement. Community management will become ever-more important to handle the influx of Facebook activity. “Fans of Mexico came out of the woodwork. As the community began to grow and move through the tabs, they posted stories and photos of their best Mexico vacation experiences on the wall,” says Douglas of Mexico Tourism Board. As Facebook’s popularity grows, it becomes more and more imperative to stand out from the crowds by offering valuable content and a thriving community. By executing on-point Facebook tabs, any organization, no matter its size, industry or age, can build a living, breathing Facebook community. Topics: Business, community, contributor, Facebook, How To, Marketing, social engagement, Social Media	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line1057
__label__wiki	0.884466	0.884466	Chennaiyin vs Mumbai City Prediction ISL 1st Dec 2015 Chennaiyin vs Mumbai City Prediction ISL 1st Dec 2015, Chennaiyin FC vs Mumbai City FC Tuesday 19:00 IST Match 51 Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Chennai Expecting to win their last two recreations to fit the bill for the play-offs, Chennaiyin FC will be looking for full focuses when they bolt horns with Mumbai City FC in an essential Indian Super League (ISL) football apparatus here on Tuesday. From among the four groups jarring for the solitary accessible semi-last opening in second version of Hero ISL, Chennaiyin FC are without further ado better-put on the class table in front of FC Pune City and NorthEast United FC – with a higher shot of making the knockout stage. Chennaiyin FC will be ensured of a spot in the semi-finals in the event that they can put it over their next two rivals – Mumbai City and FC Pune City. They can likewise qualify with four focuses, if NorthEast United FC don’t win by more than 13 objectives in their finishing up conflict against FC Pune City in Guwahati on December 2. It’s very something for a group that was put at the base of the ISL table at some point prior, however mentor Marco Materazzi knows his group still has a lot of work to do as they plan to face Mumbai City FC in the terrifically imperative thirteenth round conflict at home. “We have not qualified up ’til now. Tomorrow will be the most essential amusement,” Materazzi said at the pre-match preparation. “As I said after the ATK amusement, everything relies on upon us. Our folks have done well to make two triumphs and now we have to win another two diversions. The players have the effect,” said the Italian World Cup champ. Chennaiyin’s resurgence has been down to two major triumphs in succession against Kerala Blasters (4-1) and Delhi Dynamos (4-0) on account of their objective scoring Colombian striker Stiven Mendoza, who is driving the race for Golden Boots Award with 10 objectives. Numerically there is still a probability that Mumbai City FC can meet all requirements for the play-offs yet they will need to think of a close unthinkable execution of winning their next two amusements as well as appeal to God for different diversions to go to support them. “We came here to play a decent amusement. Numerically it’s still conceivable and we know we need to win this amusement. The players ought to have confidence in it since in football anything is conceivable. We need to do our best on the field,” said Mumbai’s marquee supervisor player Nicolas Anelka.The Indian Super League (ISL) 2015 is nearing its business end and none knew which groups would make it to the semi last until a couple of days prior. Atletico de Kolkata, Delhi Dynamos and the most recent to join the temporary fad, FC Goa, have effectively fit the bill for the semi finals. Presently one spot is up for gets and, think about what, there are four groups engaging for it. Chennaiyin FC, FC Pune City, Northeast United FC and Mumbai City FC are the four groups who will be peering toward that one spot in the semis. The Super Machans have the most obvious opportunity with regards to making it to the semi last of the ISL 2015. They have 16 focuses from 12 diversions. On the off chance that they win both their remaining recreations against Mumbai City FC and FC Pune City, they will serenely make it to the semis. Additionally in the event that they can oversee one win and a draw from these two matches, that will likewise control them to the semi finals of the ISL 2015 as they have best objective contrast among the other three groups. FC Pune City: The Stallions have 15 focuses from 12 coordinates in this way. Keeping in mind the end goal to secure that void opening in the semi last of the ISL 2015, they will need to search for two straight wins against Chennaiyin FC and Northeast United FC. The way they began their battle, one would have imagined this group will make it to the semi finals rather effectively. Their away matches hurt them gravely all through the competition and that expelled them from the highest point of the table also. Indian Super League 2015 Points Table, Indian Super League 2015 who will win, isl 2015 match prediction Related Topics:Indian Super League 2015 Points TableIndian Super League 2015 who will winisl 2015 match prediction Wellington vs Canterbury Prediction WEL vs CAN 2nd December BPL 16th Prediction Barisal Bulls vs Dhaka Dynamites Who Will Win Goa vs Chennaiyin Prediction ISL Final Match Who Will Win Atlético de Kolkata vs Chennaiyin Prediction ISL Semi-Final 2 (2nd Leg) Goa vs Delhi Dynamos Prediction ISL Semi-Final 1 (2nd Leg) 15th December 2015 ISL Semi Final Prediction Chennaiyin vs Atletico De Kolkata Semi-Final 1 (2nd Leg) ISL Semi-Final 1 Prediction (1st Leg) Delhi Dynamos vs Goa 11th Dec Delhi Dynamos vs FC Goa Prediction ISL 6th Dec 2015	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line1058
__label__wiki	0.635395	0.635395	gas steam boiler Agents rankings NFL.com - Official Site of the National Football Leagu The official source for NFL news, video highlights, fantasy football, game-day coverage, schedules, stats, scores and more. Types of Heating Systems \| Smarter Hou Hot water systems are often called hydronic systems. Residential boilers generally use natural gas or heating oil for fuel. In steam boilers, which are much less common in homes today, the water is boiled and steam carries heat through the house, condensing to water in the radiators as it cools. Oil and natural gas are commonly used. News \| GE.com Ind GE Power to supply Wet Flue Gas Desulphurization (Wet FGD) technology for four NTPC coal plants in a deal worth INR 1783 crore (USD 247 million) With these new contracts, GE's technology for SO2 emission control will help NTPC remove more than half a million tons of Hartford Steam Boiler (HSB) Archives - Insurance Journ 2019-8-28 · Hartford Steam Boiler (HSB), part of Munich Re, announced the close of the acquisition of relayr, Inc., the Berlin-based industrial internet of things technology company. HSB acquired 100 percent NBA - National Basketball Association Teams, Scores The absolute best shooters of this NBA decade. In a decade obsessed with shooting efficiency, these 10 players reformed the ways we look at scoring in pro basketball. Best and worst energy companies 2018 revealed � 2018-1-17 · Best gas and electricity firms. Utility Warehouse is ranked top this year, regaining the position it last held in 2011. It's closely followed by Flow Energy, Octopus Energy and PFP Energy.. The best energy companies in our survey are also rated very highly by customers for value for money and how accurate and clear their bills are. IHS Markit \| Leading Source of Critical Informati 2019-9-18 · IHS Markit is the leading source of information and insight in critical areas that shape today's business landscape. Customers around the world rely on us to address strategic and operational challenges. Executive Management. The experts and leaders who set the course for IHS Markit and its thousands of colleagues around the world. Customer Find a Lennox Dealer \| HVAC Dealers \| HVAC Servi Lennox technicians have the experience necessary to get the job done right the first time. Find a local Lennox air conditioner and furnace dealer near you. Where to Buy A. O. Smith Water Heate Shop water heaters from A. O. Smith: Gas and Electric water heaters, Tankless water heaters, Hybrid water heaters and Solar water heaters. InterNACHI's Standard Estimated Life Expectanc 2019-1-23 · The following chart details the predicted life expectancy of appliances, products, materials, systems and components. (For homes located in Florida and the surrounding coastal region, please refer to InterNACHI's Florida Estimated Life Expectancy Chart for Homes.) Viessmann - Heating Systems, Industrial System 2019-9-13 · The Viessmann Group is one of the world's leading manufacturers of heating, industrial and refrigeration systems. Viessmann's comprehensive range offers individual solutions and efficient systems for all application areas and fuel types.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line1063
__label__cc	0.687019	0.312981	Greeley Community Petitions to Shut Down Nearby Fracking Sites Alex Keenan David McNew, Getty Images The Bella Romero Academy is about 1,200 feet away from an industrial pad owned by Extraction Oil and Gas, which helped produce the 957,344,360 thousand cubic feet of natural gas and 169,034,823 barrels of oil that came out of Colorado in 2019. But the parents and teachers of Bella Romero are less interested in the oil produced from the site than in how the wells’ proximity is affecting their kids, who sit roughly 4 football fields away. In fact, the community of Bella Romero has submitted a petition bearing over 1,000 signatures to Governor Polis, calling for the closure of the site. According to the Denver Post, Patricia Nelson, whose son attends school in Greeley, began the petition after the results of a study by 350 Colorado were released in February. The study examined the amounts of benzene, a chemical which is known to cause cancer, in the air from a mobile lab erected near the academy. 350 Colorado worked with Barrett Engineering to produce their conclusions, which reported that Bella Romero had been exposed to unsafe levels of benzene 113 times over the course of an 8-hour period, 4 of which occurred during school hours. Patricia Garcia Nelson on playground of Bella Romero Academy with operational fracking facility in background. #patricianelson #patriciagarcianelson #bellaromerofrackingfight #protest #coloradorising @coloradorising #bellaromeroacademy #🙏 @thedailyshow #thedailyshow A post shared by @ ibechowen on Aug 11, 2019 at 3:23pm PDT However, an additional study done by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, which took place 4 months after the research done by 350 Colorado, reported that emissions were low enough as to avoid causing health problems. The state’s findings also added that levels of volatile organic compounds found in the area were below the Environmental Protection Agency’s limits. In response to the community’s petition, which reached the governor’s office on Father’s Day, press secretary Conor Cahill said “Protecting the air we breathe is a top priority for the governor, especially for those Coloradans disproportionately impacted by air pollution.” A post shared by @ibechowen on Aug 11, 2019 at 12:16pm PDT Meanwhile, Brian Cain, a spokesperson for Extraction Oil and Gas, has stated that if there are unsafe compounds in the air, they cannot be pinpointed to the company’s current work location: “Due to the placement of our monitors, we can be sure that no unsafe levels of emissions have come specifically from our site.” Still, the parents and teachers of Bella Romero maintain that when it comes to children, one can never be too careful, claiming that there’s “no telling what the long-term effects [of the wells] may be.” For local news, alerts, contesting and more download our app! Colorado Kids Missing Since April 1 Filed Under: Bella Romero Academy, Co., Colorado, Fracking, Greeley, oil, petition Categories: Alex Keenan's Blog, Colorado News, Greeley News, Local News	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line1067
__label__cc	0.502997	0.497003	Vietnam Airlines launches new services on Hanoi-HCM City route » Ca Mau to open sea route to Nam Du Archipelago, Phu Quoc Island » Bamboo Airways to open new routes to Con Dao National flag carrier Vietnam Airlines has introduced new services on the Hanoi-HCM City route with a view to improving its domestic market share in the context of international flights being affected by COVID-19. Wide-body aircraft is used on the Hanoi-HCM City route (Photo: VNA) Hanoi-HCM City - world’s second busiest route According to the Centre for Asia-Pacific Aviation (CAPA), the Hanoi-HCM City is the world’s second busiest route in terms of seat capacity, just after Seoul-Jeju in the Republic of Korea. Connecting Vietnam’s two economic hubs, the route has played an important role in the business operations of the Vietnam Airlines Group (comprising Vietnam Airlines, Pacific Airlines, and the Vietnam Air Services Company) as well as the country’s political, economic, cultural, and tourism events. Twenty-five percent of the Vietnam Airlines Group’s passengers this year flew on the Hanoi-HCM City route. The Group provides some 104,000 seats on the route, transporting 92,000 passengers each week, accounting for 98 percent of the figures recorded at the same time last year and 57 percent of the aviation market. New services launched Noting the strategic role the route plays, Vietnam Airlines has worked to improve products and services to provide the most comfortable experience to passengers. It has developed its wide-body aircraft fleet by adding 14 Airbus A350-900, 11 Boeing 787-9, and three Boeing 787-10 aircraft to serve the Hanoi-HCM City route and international flights to Europe and Australia. A “dual brand” has been built between Vietnam Airlines and Pacific Airlines to diversify products and services. “Their coordination contributes to maintaining the Vietnam Airlines Group’s market share at over 50 percent on the Hanoi-HCM City route, as well as in the domestic market,” a leader from the national flag carrier said. An airplane of Vietnam Airlines (Photo: VNA) The Group has recently upgraded the Hanoi-HCM City route into a specialised product called the VNAXPRESS - HCM City air route to bring exciting experiences to customers. A representative from the Group said the service allows customers to buy tickets 60 minutes before flights instead of 180 minutes as usual. If they arrive at the airport early, they can be on board a flight with earlier departure time if there are vacant seats. All flights on the route have boarding bridges while check-in counters are near the security gates to help passengers save time. Passengers on Hanoi-HCM City flights will also have the opportunity to experience four-star quality services, including wireless streaming, WIFI, VNA-FPT Play entertainment, E-reader, and food such as Vietnamese cha ca (grilled fish) and ca kho (stewed fish), Russian salad, and cheese egg rolls, among others, served from 5am to 8am, 11am to 1pm, and 5.30pm to 10pm. Excellent food is served on Vietnam Airlines flight. (Photo: VNA) The Vietnam Airlines Corporation operates nearly 40 flights between Hanoi and HMC City each day to meet the increasing travel demand of customers. All flights depart on the hour from 6am to 9pm. The national flag carrier has used wide-bodied aircraft on flights every second hour on the route, to ensure that passengers have the opportunity to experience the world’s most modern planes./. Hanoi-HCM City RouteVietnam AirlinesCAPAStrategic RoleWide-Body Aircraft FleetVNAXPRESS - HCM City Air RouteDeparture TimeSecurity Gateslong an	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line1068
__label__wiki	0.772273	0.772273	Home » Football » Premier League » Coral’s north London XI: Arsenal and Spurs selections Coral’s north London XI: Arsenal and Spurs selections Matt Haynes \| 26.09.2014 North London derbies have thrown up some invariably high-scoring surprises over the years, so with Arsenal set to entertain Tottenham for the first time this season, Coral compile an all-star combined XI featuring fit and available players from both teams. That’s fit and available players. Goalkeeper: Hugo Lloris The captain of the French national team is arguably, on his day, one of the best custodians in the world and marshals his rearguard well. Also quick off his line, and a master in one-on-one situations, he is more of a ‘sweeper keeper’. Right back: Calum Chambers This lad has talent; no question about it. There is a reason Arsene Wenger paid Southampton £16m for the 19-year-old, who could become a prominent figure for England over the next few years. Showing versatility, he is also starting to show signs that he can, in time, do a job at centre back, while long term, Wenger may also see him as a potential defensive midfielder. Centre back: Eric Dier A credible goal threat, since returning to England from Sporting Lisbon, Dier got off to a flier scoring twice in Tottenham’s first two Premier League games. Comfortable on the ball, with the ability to read the pattern of play, and can also finish with the panache of a striker. Centre back: Per Mertesacker A crucial component of Arsenal’s defence for the last couple of seasons, he marshals his team with as much effect as a captain. Adding steel and organisation to the defence, the German is also a threat from set pieces, and will once again be key to the Gunners’ campaign. Left back: Jan Vertonghen Versatile, intelligent, and adept with the ball at his feet, the 27-year-old has been a revelation since joining from Ajax, and it was thought Arsenal were chasing him initially. His cool head and composure on the ball, has been key to Spurs’ play, though under Mauricio Pochettino there is competition for places. Defensive midfield: Etienne Capoue The Frenchman has returned to favour under new boss Pochettino this term, and the 26-year-old may be handed the chance to prove just how good he is up against the likes of Jack Wilshere and Mesut Ozil. Tough in the tackle, with a relentless style of play, Capoue has an opportunity to really make his mark this term. Centre midfield: Aaron Ramsey Probably, on his day, one of the best box-to-box midfielders in the world, and when he plays well, Arsenal generally win. He had a breakthrough season last term, despite sustaining an injury, and will be looking for more of the same, as the Welshman chases more silverware with the Gunners. Right wing: Alexis Sanchez Chile attacker Sanchez has shown signs he is finally adjusting to the English game after scoring twice in four Premier League appearances. Wenger will be hoping he can be the difference in the local derby. Attacking midfield: Christian Eriksen This live-wire is a prodigious talent. At just 22 years old, he has the world at his feet, and Spurs could struggle to keep hold of him if they fail to finish in a European place. A free-kick specialist, and an eye for a pass, the Dane can unlock even the toughest of defences. Left wing: Nacer Chadli Another player who has enjoyed a transformation under Pochettino, the Belgian has discovered his scoring touch. With three goals in four Premier League appearances, Chadli looks a credible goal threat every time he gets on the ball, and Spurs may have a gem in their ranks. Striker: Emmanuel Adebayor We couldn’t pick a north London XI without current Spurs and ex-Arsenal frontman Adebayor. The Togo striker is never far from controversy, though has mellowed somewhat recently. With a goal and an assist so far this season, he is always a handful for defenders. « Koeman courting Clyne cap for Roy Hodgson’s England Coral present Tweets of the Week » Matt Haynes A long-suffering Leeds fan, Matt studied Sports Journalism at university, and has a plethora of multi-industry experience. Having worked on behalf of multiple hedge funds and top-tier investment banks in executive search, he has also had a stint with the BBC and the Press Association. Outside of work, he pursues entrepreneurial activities and likes to keep fit. Although he has interviewed current England manager Roy Hodgson as well as Rafa Benitez and a number of other names, he is honoured to have spent time in the company of Gordon Banks. Matt enjoys cultivating long-lasting professional and personal relationships, is solution orientated, and supports Coral’s sports content provision. Michael Johnson \| 26.11.2020 Champions League Quiz: 11 Top-scoring South Americans Preston play host to Middlesbrough upon Championship return Dave Burin \| 02.01.2019 West Ham 11/10 favourites to snap up Shelvey from Newcastle	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line1069
__label__cc	0.528118	0.471882	Vail Resorts Corporate Winter News Summer News Okemo Winter Fast Facts Vail Resorts Hospitality Hospitality Home Grand Teton Lodge Company Epic Mountain Express Iconic Weddings Vail Resorts Retail Vail Resorts Development Co. Mountain News Corporation Ski Rex Pre-Season Ski & Snowboard Sale Kicks Off Friday, Aug. 31 The nation’s largest ski and snowboard sale is now Epic Discounts of up to 60 percent off last year’s equipment at six Front Range Epic Mountain Gear locations (formerly Colorado Ski & Golf) Epic Passes will be on sale offering access to 20 new resorts including Telluride and Crested Butte along with Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Keystone, and A-Basin, for a total of 65 resorts throughout eight countries for $899. Other options include the Epic Local Pass for $669, the Keystone A-Basin for $349, and the Keystone A-Basin 4-Pack for $219 through Sept. 3 at these prices Junior Trade Program offers savings of 50 percent on new or used junior equipment after first years’ trade in The Epic SchoolKids Colorado Pack provides free skiing and snowboarding for kids in kindergarten through fifth grade Broomfield, Colo., Aug. 9, 2018—Long recognized as the unofficial kickoff for the upcoming ski and snowboard season, Ski Rex launches its annual pre-season sale beginning Labor Day weekend. Colorado Ski & Golf’s six Front Range locations in Aurora, Boulder, Colorado Springs, Littleton, Lone Tree, and Westminster were all recently re-branded to Epic Mountain Gear and will have closeout deals of up to 60 percent off on skis, snowboards, boots, outerwear, and accessories. The big, air-conditioned tent at the Aurora store location will be packed with close out deals, and for the first time, the newly renovated Westminster location is adding a tent in its parking lot to handle all of the inventory from top brands. Pricing will be the same at all locations. Ski Rex loyalists will also notice an updated look and new sunglasses on the beloved Ski Rex icon to complement the new brand. This year’s Ski Rex sale kicks off on Friday Aug. 31 at 8 a.m. at all locations with discounted pricing available through Sunday, Sept. 16. Serious bargain hunters looking for first choice on top sale items can register online at www.epicmountaingear.com to join the preferred customer program, which allows preferred customers and 2018/2019 Epic Pass holders to attend the early access sales event on Thursday, Aug. 30 before it opens to the general public. A Sale…and More Ski Rex is also the ideal time for families to sign up for the Junior Trade Program to choose from the widest selection. The Junior Trade Program allows families to save 50 percent on kids’ new or used skis and snowboards. Families can purchase used gear starting at $99, or new gear for $199, plus $15 for a mandatory binding safety check and then bring it back the following season to trade for larger sizes starting at just $49. The process can be repeated season after season as long as the child can be fitted in youth-sized equipment. Junior Trade is a Colorado tradition and has been making equipment more affordable for young skiers and riders since 1983. “Junior Trade remains a cornerstone program for many Colorado families so we have nearly doubled our supply of kid-sized equipment in recent years to better meet the growing demand for this affordable and flexible program,” explains Dustin Hunt, director of operations for Epic Mountain Gear. “Parents can opt for new or used equipment based on their budget and preferences while getting a great price on gear for their growing kids,” he added. New this year, customers can show off their new gear for a chance to win a $200 Epic Mountain Gear gift card by sharing their photos on social media using the hashtag #IGotRexed. Photo opportunities available at all Front Range locations during Ski Rex. For complete contest rules, visit www.epicmountaingear.com/ski-rex/igotrexed-rules. All Ski Rex purchases include the Epic Mountain Gear guarantee of complete satisfaction. Ski Rex prices are guaranteed to be the lowest in the nation. If shoppers find a lower price on a sale item anywhere else, Epic Mountain Gear will beat it. Epic Pass Sales at all Locations The Epic Pass, Epic Local Pass and Keystone A-Basin Pass are on sale for the 2018-2019 season, offering variety and flexibility for skiers and riders across North America to enjoy world-class skiing both near home and at legendary destinations, all on the same pass. The Epic Pass, available for $899, remains the best overall value in skiing, offering skiers and snowboarders unlimited, unrestricted access to 19 mountain resorts plus additional access to 46 more throughout the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, France, Switzerland, Italy, and Austria. The Epic Local Pass is available for $669 and the Keystone A-Basin Pass is available for $349. A variety of pass options are available at EpicPass.com and at all Epic Mountain Gear locations. Guests must purchase by Monday, Sept. 3 to receive the guaranteed lowest price. Epic School Kids All Colorado kids from kindergarten through fifth grade can also take advantage of the free 2018-2019 EpicSchoolKids Colorado Pack returning for a limited time that includes four FREE days each (totaling 16 free days) at Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge and Keystone, as well as one free first-timer ski or snowboard lesson with free equipment rental in December or January. Registration is only open for a limited time, so families with eligible children are encouraged to get their free EpicSchoolKids Pack at any Epic Mountain Gear location while enrollment period remains open. For details, visit www.epicschoolkids.com/colorado. Ski Rex Labor Day weekend hours at all locations: Friday, Aug. 31 from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 1 from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 2 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Labor Day Monday, Sept. 3 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. After Labor Day weekend, all store hours will return to normal operating hours. Ski Rex sale prices remain in effect through Sunday, Sept. 16 at all these Epic Mountain Gear stores: 2650 S. Havana, Aurora 2525 Arapahoe Avenue, Boulder 2454 Montebello Square Drive, Colorado Springs 8100 W. Crestline, Littleton 8691 Park Meadows Center Drive, Lone Tree 9170 Wadsworth Parkway, Westminster For additional details, visit www.epicmountaingear.com or www.skirex.com. About Vail Resorts Retail Vail Resorts Retail operates more than 220 specialty stores in and around owned and operated Vail Resorts mountain resorts and urban ski areas, including Vail, Beaver Creek, Whistler Blackcomb, Breckenridge, Keystone, Heavenly, Northstar, Kirkwood, Afton Alps, Mt. Brighton, Wilmot, and Stowe. Shops are also located in select non-Vail Resort’s destinations in Aspen, Telluride, and Winter Park. In addition to these mountain resort locations, Vail Resorts Retail also operates in Colorado’s Front Range, Northern California and Minneapolis. These stores focus primarily in winter recreation of ski and snowboard for both retail and rental but also offer gear and services for a variety of outdoor recreational activities, including hiking, camping, biking and more. Joan Christensen Email: joanccommunications@gmail.com © 2007-2021 Vail Resorts Management Company. all rights reserved • 390 Interlocken Crescent • Broomfield, CO 80021 • 303-404-1800 • Privacy Policy	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line1070
__label__cc	0.523109	0.476891	Digital Compass uses magnetic field measurement principle. Bosch Sensortec Nov 03, 2011 Housed in 3 x 3 x 0.95 mm LGA package, Model BMC050 integrates triaxial geomagnetic sensor for measuring Earth's magnetic field and triaxial acceleration sensor for tilt compensation. Device features 0.3 ÂµT sensitivity with power consumption of 0.54 mA during normal operation. Using FlipCore measurement principle, Model BMC050 achieves 0.5Â° angular resolution at 1,000 ÂµT measurement field. Integrated MEMS sensors are suited for compass-based functions in cell phones and navigation devices. BMC050 - the First Digital Compass Featuring the New "FlipCore" Magnetic Field Measurement Principle Triaxial geomagnetic sensor plus triaxial acceleration sensor 6-axis sensor in 3 x 3 mm LGA package Low power consumption, low noise Complete solution for device manufacturers New, robust technique for measuring the Earth's magnetic field "Individual, specific sensors from manufacturers of mobile devices are not the only types of sensor that will be used in the future in the highly competitive consumer electronics market. Rather, the aim is to fuse different sensors into one component which, in conjunction with intelligent software, represents a system solution and therefore means significant added value for the customer", said Dr. Frank Melzer, CEO of Bosch Sensortec. With the digital compass BMC050, the Bosch subsidiary launches a new series of high-precision MEMS sensors for compass-based functions in cell phones, navigation devices and other mobile devices. With an edge length of just 3 millimeters and a height of 0.95 millimeters, this component is the smallest mass-produced "eCompass" in the world. Sensor fusion has been used in the LGA housing: Two sensors are integrated into a very small space - a triaxial geomagnetic sensor for measuring the Earth's magnetic field and a triaxial acceleration sensor for tilt compensation. The magnetic sensor utilizes the new "FlipCore" measurement principle developed by Bosch. Compared with currently available Hall-based measurement techniques, this sensor only requires around a third of the power, while the noise has also been reduced by almost a third. The six-axis BMC050 features high sensitivity of 0.3 microtesla and low power consumption during normal operation at 0.54 milliamps. Complete solution from one single source Bosch is the only supplier on the market that produces all MEMS sensors itself and therefore is not reliant on components from external suppliers. The sensor developers have provided the eCompass component with sophisticated evaluation algorithms that are perfectly coordinated with the BMC050 for calculating direction reliably and precisely from the sensors' raw data - precision is a key criterion for the developers of consumer electronics. Also included is the software for integrating the eCompass into the host application. It is available for all conventional cell phone operating systems, keeping device manufacturers' costs and the effort relating to programming and development to a minimum. Moreover, the engineers from Bosch Sensortec provide support with regard to the integration work of the BMC050 and its software. Know-how: the new FlipCore measurement principle To calculate the direction, the BMC050 measures the strength of the Earth's magnetic field as a vector along the three spatial directions. In the new FlipCore measurement principle, a magnetic layer of just a few millionth of a millimeter thickness is magnetically reversed periodically. At the time of each magnetization reversal a detector coil, also manufactured in MEMS thin-film technology, outputs a voltage pulse. This pulse train is the sensor's raw information, since the temporal distance between applied and detected signal depends on the strength of the operating terrestrial magnetic field. Approximately 0.5 degree angular resolution at 1000 microtesla measurement field is attained with this measurement method. The new measurement technique is based on the many years of experience that Bosch has in the development of MEMS and magnetometer technology. The new FlipCore sensors are manufactured at Bosch's wafer fabs in Reutlingen using tried-and-tested semiconductor manufacturing processes. eCompass makes new mobile applications accessible This digital compass provides new services to mobile consumer electronics, and these go far beyond merely displaying the direction. With eCompass, a pedestrian navigation system at any location can accurately record any body rotation straight away. There is no need to branch off for short distances, which is necessary for map alignment when using the GPS. Augmented Reality is supported by the sensor too: If a traveller points at a place of interest with his cell phone, for example directly in front of him, then relevant background information can automatically be imported into the device. While in the past the acceleration sensors inspired the ingenuity of device developers, now eCompass functions also guarantee that there will be new and surprising innovations in the future. Bosch Sensortec GmbH is a fully owned subsidiary of Robert Bosch GmbH. It develops and markets micro-mechanical sensors for consumer electronics, mobile phones, safety systems, industrial technology and logistics. The product portfolio includes triaxial acceleration sensors, barometric pressure sensors and a comprehensive software portfolio for various applications. Since its foundation in 2005 Bosch Sensortec emerged as the technology leader in the addressed markets. The Bosch Group has been the global market leader for MEMS sensors since 1998 and has to date sold more than 1.6 billion MEMS sensors. For more information, go to www.bosch-sensortec.com The Bosch Group is a leading global supplier of technology and services. In the areas of automotive and industrial technology, consumer goods, and building technology, some 285,000 associates generated sales of 47.3 billion euros in fiscal 2010. The Bosch Group comprises Robert Bosch GmbH and its more than 350 subsidiaries and regional companies in over 60 countries. If its sales and service partners are included, then Bosch is represented in roughly 150 countries. This worldwide development, manufacturing, and sales network is the foundation for further growth. Bosch spent 3.8 billion euros for research and development in 2010, and applied for over 3,800 patents worldwide. With all its products and services, Bosch enhances the quality of life by providing solutions which are both innovative and beneficial. Additional information can be accessed at www.bosch.com, www.bosch-press.com, and www.125.bosch.com Digital Compass features RS232 and USB connectivity.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line1071
__label__cc	0.714339	0.285661	Edmonton Journal: Plan to educate all Alberta teachers about indigenous history first of its kind in Canada As the Edmonton Journal reports: The initiative was sparked by calls to action from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which recommended education ministers add indigenous history and the legacy of residential schools to the K-12 curriculum, share best practices on teaching those lessons, and identify what help teachers need to impart the information. Providing archival material and teams to help teach the teachers will be the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation at the University of Manitoba. Staff from the centre will highlight information and resources from Alberta in particular, said director Ry Moran. It’s important students understand what transpired in their own backyard. Indigenous, National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation CBC Manitoba: Banned art project depicting Winnipeg as a queer paradise revived 23 years later Posters heralding Winnipeg as "One Gay City" have been plastered on three bus shelters in the downtown, as part of a new art project from the University of Manitoba School of Art Gallery School of Art, School of Art Gallery 'Thank you to faculty, students, staff and everyone for your continued resilience and commitment to UM’s mission and vision' New Academic Jobs – January 13, 2021 New Academic Jobs - January 13, 2021	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line1072
__label__cc	0.712753	0.287247	Norah L. A. Gharala Research and CV Graffiti Grand Tour Tag: African diaspora Using Biography and Technology to Teach Global Africa Screenshot of Skype call with Dr. Omar H. Ali, Dean of the Lloyd International Honors College at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and Georgian Court students. For Spring 2019, I’m teaching a broad survey of African history, and I wanted to invite students to think about African diasporas across the world. As we have discussed African societies and African leaders in the increasingly connected world of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, we read Linda Heywood’s study of Queen Njinga (c. 1583 – 1663) alongside another new work by Omar H. Ali on Malik Ambar (c. 1548 – 1626). These two books drew the students into the lives of African leaders who were instrumental in shaping the worlds of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Queen Njinga ruled Ndongo-Matamba, in what is now Angola, negotiating with and resisting Portuguese demands as Atlantic slave trading and civil war continued to fuel instability in West Central Africa. Malik Ambar, originally from Ethiopia and once enslaved himself, prevented Mughal dominance in the Deccan while in power. Skilled military leaders, tacticians, and diplomats, Njinga Mbande and Malik Ambar have inspired wide-ranging discussions among my students about gender, race, leadership, movement, and slavery. Likewise, Njinga of Angola: Africa’s Warrior Queen and Malik Ambar: Power and Slavery across the Indian Ocean are solid guides in the undergraduate classroom. Portrait of an African courtier, possibly Malik Ambar. Early 17th cen. India, Ahmadnagar. Ink, opaque watercolor, gold on paper. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Malik Ambar: Power and Slavery across the Indian Ocean, part of The World in a Life Series with Oxford University Press. As a special opportunity, my class met via Skype with Omar H. Ali, PhD, Dean and Professor in the Lloyd International Honors College at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Students in an introductory survey read Malik Ambar: Power and Slavery across the Indian Ocean the week before and prepared questions ahead of time, with my guidance. I highly recommend this type of activity wherever possible! Not only did it bring new voices and spaces for discussion, it also brought out a renewed sense of initiative and confidence in the class. Students asked about methodology, sources, motivations, and purposes in the book. How did the author theorize Malik Ambar’s motivations? How does one write the history of a person who left few records behind, compared to some other world leaders? What kinds of legacies did Malik Ambar’s policies leave for future administrations in the Deccan? Dr. Ali’s answers were open and thoughtful, and I believe the students were able to get a better understanding of what it means to be a historian and a scholar. While Skype visits from authors are a rare privilege, they matter in particular for undergraduates at smaller institutions. I am very happy with how the lesson unfolded and with the investment of my students in an excellent conversation. Jahangir Shooting the Head of Malik Ambar. 19th century copy of work attributed to Abu’l Hasan, c. 1616. Opaque watercolor, ink, gold on paper. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Author Norah L. Andrews GharalaPosted on March 6, 2019 March 6, 2019 Tags African diaspora, Deccan, Gender, India, Skype, Slavery, UNC Greensboro Interdisciplinary Teaching: “Music and Race in Latin America” Seminar Course This interdisciplinary topics course brought together my training as a historian and my study as a musician. Though I am not an expert in music history, I found using works from this field very effective in engaging students from Latin American Studies, History, and History Education programs. The course explored how people have deployed, defined, or deemphasized race through music in Latin America. Examining processes of migration and exchange, we compared the influences of musics with roots in Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe on present and past understandings of race in the region. The format of the class prioritized a group experience of the music and an analysis of the readings and other primary sources. We started each class by listening to some of the assigned musics, like politically charged calypsos by Sparrow, Indian fiddle music published through the Smithsonian, or popular tracks by Tego Calderón, Ivy Queen, and Calle 13. The books for the course included Bryan McCann’s Hello, Hello Brazil: Popular Music in the Making of Modern Brazil and Zoila Mendoza’s Creating Our Own: Folklore, Performance, and Identity in Cuzco, Peru, along with titles from Temple’s Studies in Latin American and Caribbean Music, edited by Peter Manuel. Some of the other works I used proved overly theoretical, but most were accessible and pushed our discussion in interesting directions. Short documentaries (around 30 minutes) worked well in the classroom, among them Chutney in Yuh Soca: A Multicultural Mix and Waila! Making the People Happy: Contemporary Dance Music of the Southern Arizona Indian Tribes (available on Kanopy). The assignments resulted in some very cool projects by undergraduates. They produced reviews of archives and library collections, podcasts, and an online exhibit. The online project was especially useful in promoting students’ analyses of the nonverbal and musical texts. The students posed their own questions for podcasts and web sites: Do distinct genres of “Latino rap” or “Chicano rap” exist, and how have Latinx musicians influenced rap? What are the purposes of obscenity in the baile funk music scene? How are gendered roles and expectations in reggaetón and rap changing? Students used the flexibility in the assignment to make challenging and insightful presentations. I am happy to share some of the work (with permission) on race and ethnicity in rap music, Latina rappers and women in rap, and the politics of Rio de Janeiro’s funk scene. Below you can see screenshots from some of the web pages created for the course. Author Norah L. Andrews GharalaPosted on December 31, 2018 December 31, 2018 Tags African diaspora, Digital Humanities, Hip Hop, Music, Teaching Teaching Atlantic Slavery in World History with Digital Student Projects One of my ongoing teaching and research questions concerns situating the Atlantic and Atlantic slavery in world history. To bring these topics to the attention of undergraduates, I have designed and implemented assignments that allow students to directly address comparative questions related to legal personality, indenture, slave trading, and transculturation. For a final assessment in an undergraduate seminar on comparative slavery, students created individual online exhibits to complete a project involving two case studies. The goals were a) to contextualize digital sources in historical ways b) to distill information for an online reader and c) to integrate and discuss two cases of slavery to form a coherent argument. The sites had to contain a minimum of three pages or sections incorporating images, text, and other media. The basic requirements for the project included comparative analysis with supporting multimedia items; use of appropriate secondary sources from class or other academic texts; complete captions for all media; and a minimum of 2,000 words in the three combined pages. I graded the project on a rubric for its historiographical engagement, original arguments, comparative analyses, item captions, primary source use, and design. Partial screenshot of an opening page from a student project on nineteenth-century Cuba. Partial screenshot of a student project using of primary sources to discuss labor in Cuba. Using a range of scholarly works, including Lisa Yun’s The Coolie Speaks: Chinese Indentured Laborers and African Slaves in Cuba, James Sweet’s Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World, and Kristin Mann’s Slavery and the Birth of an African City: Lagos, 1760-1900, students explored transregional approaches to study slavery. These methods were then intended to help students create accessible projects linking or comparing the experiences of historical subjects in the worlds of Atlantic slavery. Author Norah L. 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__label__cc	0.68011	0.31989	The effect of educational games on medical students’ learning outcomes: A systematic review: BEME Guide No 14 Research study, Systematic review Background: An educational game is ‘an instructional method requiring the learner to participate in a competitive activity with preset rules.’ A number of studies have suggested beneficial effects of educational games in medical education. Aim: The objective of this study was to systematically review the effect of educational games on medical students’ satisfaction, knowledge, skills, attitude, and behavior. Methods: We used the best evidence medical education (BEME) collaboration methods for conducting systematic reviews. We included randomized controlled trials (RCT), controlled clinical trials, and interrupted time series. Study participants were medical students. Interventions of interest were educational games. Results: The title and abstract screening of the 1019 unique citations identified 26 as potentially eligible for this article. The full text screening identified five eligible papers, all reporting RCTs with low-to-moderate methodological quality. Findings in three of the five RCTs suggested but did not confirm a positive effect of the games on medical students’ knowledge. Conclusion: The available evidence to date neither confirm nor refute the utility of educational games as an effective teaching strategy for medical students. There is a need for additional and better-designed studies to assess the effectiveness of these games and this article will inform this research. Akl, E. a, Pretorius, R. W., Sackett, K., Erdley, W. S., Bhoopathi, P. S., Alfarah, Z., & Schunemann, H. J. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.3109/01421590903473969 About the resource Medical Teacher Journal Level of Evidence: Last NRIC review: Tweets by @iNRIC_Global Sign up for a monthly newsletter Our newsletter delivers up to date information on recent additions to the site, upcoming conferences and more, straight to your inbox. © 2006 - 2020 iNRIC	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line1083
__label__wiki	0.982432	0.982432	Discovery’s reality-heavy streaming service launches in Jan. December 5, 2020 The Associated Press Article, Business FILE - In this July 31, 2017, file photo, the Discovery Communications logo sits atop its headquarters in Silver Spring, Md. Discovery is joining the increasingly crowded streaming fray with its own reality-focused service Discovery Plus that will include shows from the Food Network, HGTV, TLC and its other networks. It launches Jan 4. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File) Discovery is joining the increasingly crowded streaming fray with its own reality-focused service Discovery Plus that will include shows from the Food Network, HGTV, TLC and its other networks. It launches Jan 4. The service will cost $5 a month with ads and $7 a month without ads. By comparison, the ad-free Disney Plus costs $7 a month and Netflix’ most popular plan costs $14 a month. Each account will include up to five user profiles and support four concurrent streams. Discovery said the service will be available on “major platforms,” connected TVs, web, mobile and tablets, but it didn’t specify which services would carry it. Discovery CEO David Zaslav first announced the streaming service in late 2019, but did not provide details until now. Discovery has built a reality-TV empire with popular channels that feature reality programming, including the Discovery Channel, HGTV, Food Network, TLC, Investigation Discovery and others. Hit shows have included TLC’s “90-Day Fiance,” HGTV’s “Fixer-Upper” and Guy Fieri’s “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives” on the Food Network. The service will offer some originals like “90-Day Fiance” spinoff “90-Day Diaries” and “Long Island Medium” spinoff “Long Island Medium: There in Spirit.” Verizon customers will get a year free of the service, similar to the deal that Verizon did when Disney Plus launched in late 2019. Discovery Plus joins a slew of new streaming services started to challenge traditional TV providers and dominant streaming services like Hulu and Netflix over the past year, including Disney Plus, Apple TV Plus, HBO Max and Comcast’s Peacock service. CBS recently rebranded its CBS All Access service as Paramount Plus, relaunching in 2021. The service will role out in 25 countries in 2021 including Italy, Spain, U.K. and Ireland as well as India. Six vice presidents talk about job once considered invisible App State can’t capitalize on Cajuns’ mistakes, loses to La.-Lafayette Archaeologists discover ‘massive’ ancient building in Egypt September 26, 2018 Donna King Article CAIRO — Egypt says archaeologists have discovered a “massive” ancient building in the town of Mit Rahina, 12 miles south of Cairo. The Antiquities Ministry says Tuesday archaeologists also uncovered an attached building that includes […] Too much TV? Enter HBO Max, the latest streaming wannabe May 27, 2020 Tali Arbel, Associated Press Features Is a pandemic the perfect time to launch a new and relatively expensive streaming service? AT&T sure hopes so. The phone company is investing billions in HBO Max, its first big entertainment venture since it […] Drake on course to smash streaming records with ‘Scorpion’ June 29, 2018 Jill Serjeant \| Reuters Features LOS ANGELES — Canadian rapper Drake, the world’s best-selling artist of 2016, looked on course to set records tumbling again on Friday with his soul-baring new album “Scorpion,” in which he reveals he is a […]	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line1084
__label__cc	0.684228	0.315772	OFTaiwan More than bubble tea and nightmarkets Taiwanese Indigenous People Double Ten Day Ghost Festival Ai Yu – Ice Jelly Beef Noodle Soup Rice Dumpling/ZongZi Taiwan Lunar New Year Traditions (Chinese New Year) Where to go for Chinese New Year What to do for Chinese New Year 11 Foods You Must Eat During Chinese New Year Taiwan History Founding of the Republic of China Sun Yat-Sen White Terror 228 Massacre Formosa Incident Civil Movements LGBTQ Movement in Taiwan Sunflower Movement Taiwanese Cultural Association Wild Lily Student Movement One China Policy Third Taiwan Strait Crisis US-Taiwan-China Relations Taiwan Travel Act Come Play East of Taipei Posted on June 14, 2016 November 2, 2016 by czchaung As we always say, Taiwan is more than just bubble tea and nightmarkets! Usually when I visit Taiwan, I spend most my time visiting relatives, so I end up planning my activities near on their locations. On my last visit, I was determined to check out new places I hadn’t seen before and discovered quite a number of interesting and enjoyable locations just east of Taipei. History of the northeast coast Historically, the northeast coast of Taiwan was known for ocean access and mining, and because of these two factors, it was heavily developed and lays claim to having the first railway system in Taiwan. The Qing Dynasty began construction on the first railway system in 1887 in order to link Taipei to Keelung’s harbor, and Japan continued the its development to facilitate the transportation of the mined resources. Houtong was a coal-mining town while Jiufen was a gold-mining area. However, the mines were exhausted within the past 40 years, leading to a dramatic transformations in the towns that only knew of mining. Taipei County? New Taipei City? Similar to how “Upstate New York” refers to the entire state of New York except for New York City and Long Island, New Taipei City is not a city but a special municipality that covers “everything else” in the greater Taipei area outside of Taipei City and Keelung City. It used to be plainly called “Taipei County” but was changed to its present name at the end of 2010. With that being said, you will see New Taipei City in many addresses, but it’s more important to know the town and district you want to visit. Ruifang District Sandiaoling Sandiaoling (三貂嶺) is located along the Keelung River and offers a mountain backdrop, which isn’t uncommon in Taiwan, but adds to the beautiful scenery. Due to time constraints and not enough about the area ahead of time, I could not walk the namesake trail; I only walked around the entrance area that includes the train station (platform would be a better way to describe the stop), a bridge, and a few residencies. Sandiaoling itself is a trail known for its 3 waterfalls and takes approximately 2 hours to hike through. However, this area is absolutely serene. The train runs along the river and is a great place to spend a day if you want to practice photography or just want some time away from the bustling cities. I plan on coming back in the future to check out the trail and perhaps walk along the river. To find out more about the trail, check out these sites: Hiking Taiwan Taiwanswaterfalls.com Houtong The village of Houtong (猴硐) translates to “Monkey Cave,” because there was actually a group of monkeys living in a nearby cave. Nowadays it’s famous for being the stomping ground (“napping ground” would be more accurate) of approximately 100 stray cats! Houtong was a booming coal-mining town until the 1990s and was mostly abandoned after the mines were depleted, leaving behind pets such as cats. In 2008, a local cat-lover organized volunteers to give the abandoned cats a better environment, and the pictures they took went viral, making Houtong an instant unique tourist attraction. When you arrive at Houtong, you will see the remnants of the coal factory and a modern train station with a “cat walk” overpass. The overpass is used to reach the down from the station and is decorated with large painted “cat bells”–I did mention this is a cat-themed town, right? When you reach the town, you’ll suddenly feel an overwhelming sense of duty to look under every chair and in every corner for catizens. Read more about the village and see more cat pics: Gongliao District Fulong Beach I took the train to Fulong (福隆) with my father to check out the annual International Sand Sculpture Art Festival, which takes place this year May 7-July 10. My dad ended up telling me about going to Fulong Beach when he was in college–it was a popular destination for students, kind of like how Florida is the destination for Spring Break. The sand sculptures are quite impressive: some are massive in size but still exquisitely detailed, and nearly all of them have designs from multiple sides, so be sure to walk around and don’t feel obligated to stay on the wooden path! During the period of Japanese occupation, Taiwan was introduced to Japanese lunch boxes called bento, which became known as biandang (便當). These lunch boxes became a staple throughout train systems and mining towns; today, it’s a popular tourist meal to try at the aforementioned locations. Just outside of Fulong’s train station on the way to Fulong Beach, there is massive competition among stores to sell so-called famous Fulong Biandang (Bento Box); even storefronts that were clearly once residencies or offices for other functions are now selling them. I did not find my biandang particularly special, but it was certainly cheap and filling–Dad approved. Fulong Beach is one of the few beaches with golden sand in Taiwan and hosts the International Sand Sculpture Art Festival (pictured) and Hohaiyan Rock Festival. The beach can be used for a variety of watersports such as surfing, kayaking, and canoeing (rentals are available), and the Caoling Historic Trail (草嶺古道) offers views of the Pacific Ocean. Find more information about Fulong Beach and it s activities here: Taiwanese Secrets: Travel and Living Guide Fulong International Sand Sculpture Art Festival Hohaiyan Rock Festival (Wikipedia) Calong Historic Trail (Lonely Planet) Yilan County and City The city of Yilan was established by the Qing dynasty in 1810-1811, but due to being isolated by mountains, Yilan County as a whole had a fairly uneventful history. In the recent years, a major highway tunnel system was completed, improving travel between Taipei and Yilan, and King Car Beverage Company’s Kavalan whisky, whose distillery is located in Yilan County, has taken the whisky world by storm. My one and only stop in Yilan this trip was the Red Lantern Restaurant in the Silks Palace Hotel so I could try the famous “roasted cherry valley duck.” Reservations are highly recommended, especially if you want to go on a weekend. Red Lantern carves up a beautiful roasted duck tableside and proceeds to serve it multiple ways. The most memorable was duck skin sushi/nigiri: the crispy, succulent duck skin is wrapped around sushi rice and sauce–after the first bite, I immediately proclaimed it was worth the visit. Yilan also takes pride in its scallions, so many dishes include it. Yilan is also famous for a cookie that translates to “cow tongue cookie,” niu she bing (牛舌餅), and yes, as you should expect of a Taiwanese city, there is a nightmarket: Dong Men Night Market (東門夜市). Yilan also offers plenty of other activities and sights, which is why Taipei-ers enjoy visiting on the weekend: museums, waterfalls, lakes, mountains, hot springs, and even a cold spring. More on Yilan: I just shared the sites that I visited over the span of 2 days while staying in Taipei, but there are many more attractions in the northeast coast that I have enjoyed before or piqued my interest. Keelung City in Taipei County Miaokou Nightmarket: famous nightmarket featuring seafood-based dishes uncommon in other areas of Taiwan Peace Island: rock formations and the site of the historic fort used by the Spanish, Dutch, French, and Japanese Ruifang District, New Taipei City Jiufen: one of the most popular day-trips from Taipei, the town is overflowing with all kinds of food and teahouses; inspiration for the anime Spirited Away Golden Waterfall: a unique waterfall flowing over gold-colored stone Wanli District, New Taipei City Yehliu Geopark: an area of land preserved for its naturally formed rock formations, including the famous “Queen’s Head” Pingxi District, New Taipei City Pingxi Old Street: the center for the Pingxi Sky Lantern Festival and historic area Shifen Old Street: historic streets with a marketplace with train tracks running straight through the town Shifen Waterfall: Taiwan’s broadest waterfall, regarded as the most scenic due to its cascades Finally, you can check out a Google Map of all locations mentioned in this article. Posted in See TaiwanLeave a comment ← Wawa no Cidal: What is in a Name? Explored from an Taiwanese Aboriginal Experience Fast Food in Taiwan: Impacting Everyone → 11 Foods You Must Eat During Lunar New Year Taiwan Lunar New Year Traditions La Grande Chaumière Violette (紫色大稻埕) Taiwanese Hokkien (Tâi-Gí） Read more about Taiwan BBC – The Forum – History of Taiwan Ilha Formosa – Alt om Taiwan Island Folklore Focus Taiwan Ketagalan Media New York Times – Taiwan Taiwan Gazette Taiwanese American Organizations Intercollegiate Taiwanese American Student Association Strait Talk – Berkeley Strait Talk – Brown Taiwanese American Next Generation Taiwanese American Professionals Taiwanese American.org Outreach for Taiwan strives to educate others about Taiwan by providing information and understanding about the political atmosphere, current events, and historical relevance of Taiwan. OFT is not connected to any political party, nationality, or ethnicity.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line1086
__label__wiki	0.571361	0.571361	Sometimes we get so excited about the ecosystem services of Studenchishte Marsh like carbon lock-up and water filtration, we forget just how amazing it is for biodiversity too. From charismatic animals to carnivorous plants, the wetland doesn’t just do logistics for the Lake Ohrid party. In many ways, it’s the star of the show. Stroll by Studenchishte as the evenings get warmer, and the soundtrack to your steps will doubtless be sung by a jovial frog choir–perhaps not your first choice for beauty, but certainly one of the most enthusiastic songs you’re ever likely to hear. It’s a different kind of tunefulness, whose harmony goes way beyond music. It’s the signature of the wetland. By Benny Trapp – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, link And the wetland has many surprises. Take the Macedonian crested newt, a punky amphibian that can only be found in the central Balkans. Recently raised to species level, it’s a neat metaphor for the spicy mix of natural and cultural life in South East Europe, and a proud resident of Studenchishte, where its neighbors include the fire salamander, a species that can regrow a leg if it carelessly loses one! If amphibs are not your thing, you may find the wetlands’ 50 species of birds more eye-catching. Herons, ibises, godwits, warblers, grebes, ducks, cormorants, swans and kingfishers all make up the mix at various times of year, and share the skies with a glittering array of butterflies, dragonflies and damselflies, some of which are of international conservation interest. Glossy Ibis photographed at Studenchishte These winged wizards swoop and soar among wily and playful mammals such as otters, foxes, polecats and pine martens, while rare reptiles like the four-lined snake slither on their solitary hunting paths and the occasional European pond turtle plods past in search of worms, frogs, insects and fishes for a tasty meal. On its journey, perhaps it will even meet one of the mysterious beetles that have been discovered in this location, yet nowhere else in Macedonia. Diving with the turtle into Studenchishte’s waters sadly reveals far fewer fish than it would have done 100 years ago. Disruption of water channels prevents species such as carp from breeding in the wetland nowadays and restricts entry to the famed Ohrid trout, which once used to journey here. Nonetheless, the channel that borders the marsh to the north still reports many native Lake Ohrid fish, some of which are found nowhere else on Earth. Such uniqueness is mirrored in the invertebrate world of Studenchishte, which hosts several more Ohrid exclusives. Whether feathered or furry, slimy or scaled, all of Studenchishte’s myriad animals are weaved within a floral pastiche that continues to support populations of plants that have died out elsewhere in the region. These are under huge pressure, yet one or two refuse to give up on their right to live. They prove the power of this enduring Lake Ohrid wetland. Previous The Great Purifier Next Butterfly Garden	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line1087
__label__wiki	0.5017	0.5017	Demographic Dividend: Experts Charge Private… In an attempt to overturn the economic situation of the country, experts have charged members of the private sector (organizations and businesses) to invest in Nigerian youths so as to help turn around the economy. The experts who double as high-level stakeholders spread across National Population Commission, UN agencies led by the United Nations Population Fund [UNFPA], HACEY Health Initiative, GBC Health, Population Council and ONE Campaign recently held the first ever Private Sector Conference which bothers on how private sector can invest in young people to harnessing the Demographic dividends in Nigeria, at Four points by Sheraton, Lagos. According to the Director of Research & Development, Hacey Health Initiative, Paul Ojajuni, empowerment and education of young people is vital to the promotion of accelerated economic growth, urging the concerned parties to tap into the resources of the youths of Nigeria so as to develop the economy. He said that the Nigerian population is really young, so, we consider that an untapped resource and then we believe that if investment is made in that population, there will be returns on investment which will lead to accelerated economic growth. The concept of Demographic dividend is having a very young, healthy and productive young population that can actually contribute to the society, he added. Furthermore, Ojajuni urged the Nigerian youths to value opportunities and advised them to hold the bull by its horn so as to tap into the opportunities that are available and will arise as a result of this initiative. “The youths need to be proactive regarding things that they need to do, secondly, they need to be able to create opportunities rather wait for the government to create opportunities for them,” Ojajuni added. “The population of Nigeria is increasing rapidly and we need to control the size at which the population is increasing and improve our life expectancy. The government cannot do it alone; the development partners cannot do it alone ,” Sylvia Adebajo, country director, Population Council said at Nigeria’s first Private sector Conference on Demographic Dividend in Nigeria held yesterday in Lagos. “We need to engage the private sector to contribute to the development of our human capital to achieve demographic dividend,” Adebajo said. “The shape of the population of any nation determines its level of development and demographic dividend is not automatic, it has to be planned for,” Osaretin Adonri, assistant representative, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) representing Diene Kieta, country representative, said. “We must create the population structure that we want and that structure must be the one that has more of our population working than the percentage that is dependent. “To be able to increase the population that is working and reduce the dependent population we must start from planning the population and that is where family planning is very important,” Adonri said. One of the aims of the conference is to ensure government and private sector collaborate to invest in the youths of the country so that the can both, as one, work towards the common good of all by harnessing the Demographic dividends in Nigeria. As such, Ojajuni, urged the government to join the train by putting in place some workable policies to grease the engine of the new train. “We expect there to be certain policies in the country that will enable young people reach their full potentials. “Such are policies regarding health, policies regarding entrepreneurship, policies regarding education and not just enacting policies but policies that are well translated at all levels to action. He also added that, “to harness demographic dividend the private sector to play huge role. We’ve seen the private sector over time (such as Access Bank, Microsoft, etc), initiate programmes and projects across sectors which have been successful in health, financing and others. “The private sector is a huge partner in this and that’s why we are doing this for the private sector and all Nigerians. “We strongly believe that Nigerian youths are not lazy but very productive people, he concluded. Category: EventsBy nixxhash.com 06/06/2018 1 Comment Tags: HACEY Health InitiativeNixxHash CommunicationsONE Campaign. Demographic DividendPrivate Sector ConferenceUNFPA Author: nixxhash.com NextNext post:PROJECT ENABLE Africa Launches Her Disability-Friendly Hub and wanted to say that I have truly enjoyed browsing your blog posts. After all I will be subscribing for your rss feed and I hope Leave a Reply to Cialis Cancel reply	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line1096
__label__wiki	0.927965	0.927965	Sparrows and Camellia in Snow CC0 Public Domain Designation c. 1831/33 Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重 Japanese, 1797–1858 Of the two versions of this design in the Art Institute’s collection, this image is accepted as the earlier printing of this famous design. The poetry appearing on both impressions has been identified by the scholar Suzuki Juzo as the first two lines of an unsigned Chinese poem entitled “Inquiry of a Stork” by Hakurakuten (772–846). It reads: Crows and storks fight over something to eat and sparrows over where to sleep, You stand there all alone by the pond, the wind blows and snow piles up. Color woodblock print; o-tanzaku Gift of H. R. Warner Japanese (culture or style) Hamamatsu, from the series “Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi),” also known as the Tokaido with Poem (Kyoka iri Tokaido), c. 1837/42 Mitsuke: Ferries Crossing the Tenryu River (Mitsuke, Tenryugawa funawatashi), from the series “Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi),” also known as the Tokaido with Poem (Kyoka iri Tokaido), c. 1837/42 Mishima: Morning Mist (Mishima, asagiri), from the series “Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido gojusan tsugi no uchi),” also known as the Hoeido Tokaido, c. 1833/34 Arai, from the series “Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi),” also known as the Tokaido with Poem (Kyoka iri Tokaido), c. 1837/42 Maisaka: The Ferry at Imagiri (Maisaka, Imagiri funawatashi), from the series “Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi),” also known as the Tokaido with Poem (Kyoka iri Tokaido), c. 1837/42 No. 37: Miyanokoshi, from the series “Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaido (Kisokaido rokujukyu tsugi no uchi)”, c. 1835/38 No. 32: Seba, from the series “Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaido (Kisokaido rokujukyu tsugi no uchi)”, c. 1835/38 Snow at Benzaiten Shrine in Inokashira Pond (Inokashira no ike Benzaiten no yashiro yuki no kei), from the series “Snow, Moon, and Flowers at Famous Places (Meisho setsugekka)”, c. 1844/45 Kanbara: Evening Snow (Kanbara, yoru no yuki), from the series “Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi no uchi),” also known as the Hoeido Tokaido, c. 1833/34 Shirasuka: Shiomi Slope (Shirasuka, Shiomizaka)—No. 33, from the series “Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi),” also known as the Reisho Tokaido, c. 1847/52 Oumayagashi, from the series “One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)”, 1857 Snow at Akabane Bridge in Shiba (Shiba Akabane no yuki), from the series “Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Toto meisho)”, c. 1843/47 Macaw on a pine branch, c. 1835	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line1097
__label__wiki	0.904935	0.904935	21 Legendary Details You Never Noticed On How I Met Your Mother! Onedio > Listicle- Added on 22 March 2017, 16:51, Updated on 24 March 2017, 18:25 Here’s another reason to rewatch the whole series, the amazing, legendary little details from How I Met Your Mother! Sometimes a tiny sign in the background, and sometimes a countdown that lasts for a whole episode, here are more of those little things you totally missed on How I Met Your Mother. 1. Zoey is seen with the same wishbone necklace Lily wore in Season 1. Perhaps she bought it at lilyandmarshallselltheirstuff.com, as she mentions having purchased Lily's paintings online. 2. This couple in the background, who went from talking to getting engaged, to making a baby, to celebrating their kid's graduation, to the husband passing away, all in one scene. 3. In Barney's flashback to Moscow in 1807, he's drinking a White Russian, while James is drinking a Black Russian. 4. Sometimes How I Met Your Mother injects current-day ads into the background of old episodes — for example, this episode from December 2012 advertising the 2016 film Why Him? 5. In the episode where Marshall's father dies, there is a hidden countdown throughout the episode that leads up to the news. 6. Conan O'Brien was once an extra at MacLaren's Pub and didn't have a single line. 7. The clock in Lily and Marshall's apartment always reads 4:20. 8. The kid who played Ted's nephew in "How Lily Stole Christmas" also played Barney's fake son, Grant, in "The Stinsons." 9. In the episode, "Disaster Averted," Marshall uses some slaps on Barney, saying he'll save the last of 'em "for a rainy day." On "End of the Aisle," when he uses his final slap on Barney, it's raining. 10. The name of the play Barney puts on in the Season 2 episode "Stuff" is Suck It Lily. 11. The club Ted goes to on St. Patrick’s Day — when he regretfully behaves like a jerk — is called “Low Point,” a reference to the way he’s feeling at the time. 12. Even when attending a rave in Season 4's "Murtaugh," Barney still wore a tie. 13. Even Barney's Christmas tree is decorated with ties. 14. In the episode "Murtaugh," Marshall is coaching a children's basketball team. In one scene, one kid appears to blow or spit in the eye of another kid who tried to scoot him out of his seat. 15. The spaceship on Robin's old show, Space Teens, is a curling stone. 16. Season 9's episode "Mom and Dad" shows a Rastafarian hang glider "eating a sandwich." 17. This sign that says "DUK TAI" is a reference to Barney's duck tie. 18. The framed headline in a flash-forward to 2029 reveals that Marshall captured the Loch Ness Monster. 19. Robin can be spotted in the back of Tracy and Louis's photo. 20. All these women slept with Barney according to their baggage. 21. This grave that reads "Mother" may've been foreshadowing the series' ending. media.giphy.com	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line1100
__label__cc	0.719863	0.280137	one twenty seven a data mirror on the hill Write with us! Straightjacketed by Gender Roles? Posted by Paul A. Djupe on February 20, 2020 February 26, 2020 By Max Dehon, Paul A. Djupe, and Maggie Miller (in alphabetical order) A cornerstone principle of a liberal arts education is that individuals are encouraged to take ownership of their own success through the freedom to develop and shape their own futures. One might say that this fosters an environment where no individual’s future is straightjacketed by predetermined roles. However, we recently found out how tightly tied gender is to gender role identity – men describe themselves to be masculine and women as feminine. In this post, we dig a bit further to examine just what Denison students mean by masculine and feminine, to understand how they see themselves through the lens of commonly used traits. Traits traditionally linked to masculinity in Western society include courage, independence, assertiveness, and leadership. Femininity traditionally includes empathy, gentleness, humility, and sensitivity. How do Denison students line up? In order to answer this question, we used March 2019 survey data in which the Denison student body was asked to assess how various traits describe themselves on a 1-7 scale (1 = never or almost never true for you, to 7 = always or almost always true for you). The figure below shows how Denison students identify themselves on the list we used, on average (the bars), as well as how men and women might differ (labeled dots). It’s almost like the student body has been reading Denison’s marketing materials. Or, and this is a radical notion, maybe the marketing materials accurately describe Denison students. Students most strongly identify as compassionate, independent, risk takers. They identify least as aggressive and dominant, which is surprising given the sporting prowess of varsity athletics. (Ahem, varsity athletes actually are more likely to identify with those two traits, but not more or less of the others.) The differences between men and women are not large. Half of the traits show a gender gap on traits that are traditionally labeled feminine: compassionate, affectionate, sympathetic, and warm. But women are also more likely to identify as risk takers, which is not traditional at all. In fact, higher risk aversion among women has been attributed as the cause for higher levels of religiosity among women across the world as well as in the US. Interestingly, the only traits where Denison women identified less strongly than men were “aggressive” and “understanding,” though the gaps were not statistically significant. Denison students are not deeply divided by gender in how they represent themselves, but perhaps it is their gender roles that more closely align with traits. That evidence is shown below. The dots represent the difference between the most masculine versus the most feminine identifiers. On the left side of 0 means that masculine identifiers are less of that trait, while on the right side of 0 means that masculine identifiers are more of that trait compared to feminine identifiers (a gap the size of +/- 1 point means about a 15% difference in the trait scale). Here we get sharper definitions. Masculinity is more closely associated with dominance and aggression, while femininity is more closely linked to “relationship” traits – sympathy, compassion, affection, warmth, and gentleness. Again, the outlier in that group is risk taking. Do these traits matter? Yes, they sure do. One thing we care deeply about is exercising leadership. It is not impossible to make a difference in the world without organizing, but it sure is more difficult. We asked a series of questions about leadership-type activities: lead or plan a meeting, speak in public, lead discussions, and put on major events. Most students do something on this list, about 50% do 4 or 5, and 25% do 0 or 1. Some of these traits are linked to exercising leadership. Being more assertive, dominant, understanding, and taking stands are all linked to exercising more leadership skills. Of course, these are also the most traditionally masculine traits, though “taking a stand” shows no gender role split. The others have no relationship with leadership. The traits are also linked to feelings about important public figures like Jennifer Garner. Denisonians like their famous alumna; she gets a score of 68 on a 0-100 ‘feeling thermometer’ (0=cold, 100=warm). For comparison, only President Weinberg gets a higher score (74), though democracy gets the highest score (77) in the list. Do feelings for Jennifer Garner shift depending on these traits? The following figure shows that 2019 students just don’t understand the Jennifer Garner that Djupe does. He associates Garner with the aggressive, independent figure in “Alias” and students must be thinking about the Garner in “Miracles from Heaven.” Anyway, those who are more affectionate, warm, gentle, and sympathetic feel warmer toward Garner (positive slope = warmer feelings). More aggression, independence, and dominance predict somewhat cooler feelings. Yes, that suggests that women like her more than men, but remember that these traits are not tightly linked to gender. Denison students share much in common regarding these traits and, on the main, they sound ideal for our college on the hill. Who doesn’t want to associate with independent, compassionate risk takers? Some of these traits show gender differences and stronger associations with gender roles – mostly in the traditional ways. To get back to the title, they don’t seem to be straightjackets, but they are linked to the roles we inhabit in society (e.g., leadership) and the way in which we view public figures. That is, these lightly gendered traits are living, active concepts, stratifying our society and our minds. Max Dehon is a senior Political Science Major from Kansas City who will be celebrating the Super Bowl all semester. When not writing for 127, he can be found working on his 5-Iron and chasing foul balls at Big Red Field. Maggie Miller is a senior with mixed feelings about graduation who studies political science and philosophy. She has worked in the First-Year Office and for the Denison Athletic Department. She is excited to spend her last semester studying all things Denison. Paul A. Djupe is a local cyclist who coincidentally has taught social science research methods and political science at Denison for millenia. He started onetwentyseven.blog a few years ago in a bid to subsidize collective action. He’s on Twitter and you should be too. civic skillsDenisongendergender rolesJennifer Garnerleadership Previous Post Are Certain Groups More Masculine or Feminine? Next Post Partisan Polarization on Campus Too? Pingback: How feminine is drinking a latte? – one twenty seven Socially isolating before it was cool November 19, 2020 Their Covid-19 Policy Worked: Do Students Trust the Administration? November 18, 2020 Is the Holocaust Already a Faded Memory? November 17, 2020 Campus Safety in the Time of the Novel Coronavirus November 16, 2020 When the Mask Comes Off November 10, 2020 Ideological Tensions on Campus? November 5, 2020 Can You Social Shame Without an Instagram? 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__label__cc	0.512614	0.487386	Iceberg Interactive, Shining Pixel Studios Available on:PCSep 14, 2017 Developer: Shining Pixel Studios Publisher: Iceberg Interactive Genres: Simulation, Strategy Step into the world of the ancient Orient. Control a city or tribe from the dawn of Chinese history, and turn it into a great empire. Develop your land, create great cities, raise huge armies and fight epic wars. Advance your technology, culture and religion to create one of mankind’s great civilizations. All the action takes place on one spectacular game map that brings to life the mountains, forests, plains and deserts of China. Zoom in close to review your troops and see your peasants toiling, or zoom out for a strategic overview. Plan your battles, end your turn, and then watch as your armies obey your orders, with hundreds of soldiers battling right on the game map. FEATURES Start out as a single nation or tribe, starting from humble beginnings with a single settlement and expand your empire and develop your culture with the aim of becoming the universally recognized Son of Heaven and ruler of the world. Persuade the other factions to recognize you as such by either military force, or by diplomatic persuasion. Play as one of 16 different factions each with their own special bonuses or penalties. Vast beautifully rendered map featuring an attractive and authentic depiction of the landscape of China and Mongolia. Large scale battles with hundreds or thousands of soldiers, depicted in detail right on the game map. Watch skilled armies and reinforcements go to battle, according to the battle orders and formations set by the player. Fully animated 3D models, with variations in face and clothing for each model, including infantry, cavalry, chariot and artillery units, as well as naval forces. Long seamless zoom range lets you step right into the game world or zoom out for a strategic overview. Develop your settlements by constructing buildings and developing the landscape around them, build markets and ports to enable trade by land and water. Elaborate research tree including technology as well as cultural, philosophical and religious developments. Many other elements will determine the outcome of you quest for dominance such as Leaders, Sieges, Unrest and Rebellion, and Authority and Culture ratings. As Emperor, set edicts, laws and decrees to balance power and move into a glorious new Era, with new technologies and military units that change the game! Oriental Empires Critic Reviews A perfectly good 4X game with an innovative combat system that feels a bit bland when framed against the richness of its setting. Aran Suddi Oriental Empires is a very well made strategy game that allows you to get through a campaign in a few hours instead of having saves that span days, though that is an option as well if you wish. Despite its smaller scope focusing on Ancient China instead of the globe, the stakes actually feel higher due to the limited resources and high number of factions fighting for them. While some of the systems require a lot of getting used to Oriental Empires is well worth persevering with. Ronald Goncalves Oriental Empires is a title that is worthy of being called 4X. Yes, it has a good amount of flaws that pushes it away from the greatness, but it still can give to the fans of strategic adventures a great experience. Review in Spanish \| Read full review Taylor Menke Oriental Empires is a solid, detailed first effort from Shining Pixel Studios that fans of the 4X strategy genre will enjoy. Unfortunately, newcomers and veterans alike might be disappointed by the unwieldy UI, unpredictable systems and lack of in-game tutorials or explanations. Voidu Oriental Empires - Extended Trailer Oriental Empires - HD Trailer	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line1107
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With his leadership, the group is poised to attain newer heights. Besides numerous accolades he is also the recipient of “BEST CITIZES OF INDIA AWARD 2009’ conferred on him by International Publishing House, New Delhi.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line1111
__label__cc	0.65132	0.34868	Kinky life · Vicky Doing cunnilingus the right way 05/23/2017 09/16/2017 Vikky from ourkinkyblog.com A great feature at Nerve.com caught my eye this morning, called Gimme Shelter. It’s one man’s personal essay about cunnilingus – why he loves it. Thought-provoking and hugely fascinating read. Here it is: As a bipolar manic depressive, I carry around a weird mixture of hubristic entitlement and wretched guilt. It’s as if I own the whole planet, only none of the air is mine and I keep stealing it by the lungful. My favorite way out — or deeper in, depending on how you see it — is cunnilingus. When I go down on a woman, and she’s coming, I’m glowing with quiet glee; having involved my whole face, I’m in there all the way, stealing air by the lungful. Despite the physical constraint, I find this so weirdly liberating. I’m starting to think it has something to do with my ambivalence about being a man. Getting another human being to buzz around the ceiling with nothing more than my mouth is the best way I’ve found to ease my doubts about my place in the world. It’s also the way I keep myself inwardly androgynous at the level I like. With no brothers, and two very brilliant older sisters, I grew up painfully conflicted about being a man. Apparently, we take too much of everything (especially social space); we lack style, openness and manners; ourkinkyblog-ageand our privileged social position demands a special vigilance about incurring women’s resentment. If only I were gay, I used to imagine, I could easily distance myself from that unflattering predicament. But, for all my snazzy trousers and posters of Bowie, I never once got a hard-on in a locker room, and my sexual adventures with guys were never as exciting as I had hoped. There’s something to be said for two lonely people jerking each other off, but for me, it’s not quite the real thing, and I’ve never gotten beyond that with a man. Much of a man’s life is about avoiding being taken for the villain. When I’m industriously going down on a woman, there’s pretty much no way that I’m any of the things we all secretly suspect most men to be: a solipsistic, consumerist moron obsessed with himself, or an angry, date-raping moustache-post tooling for a fight. And all that tiresome clarification really is socially necessary, because plenty of guys do deserve those labels. I love life as a man, but it’s important to me that I also hate it. My favorite sexual partners have been women who were equally conflicted, equally suspicious of this genetic fiat whereby each of us only gets to experience half of what the human body can be and do sexually. Cunnilingus is the wedge that nudges open that impasse for me: as I please my partner, I round out my nature, vicariously reaching a missing part of me that is a woman, has a cunt and understands everything I’m doing from the other side. Of course, there’s a practical side to my proclivity for giving head. Fucking can be glorious, but somebody has to be hard to do it, and that can get difficult: condoms restrict sensation, and they also mean something that’s more than unexciting — it’s terrifying. I take a condom out of its little paper house, and it says, “Good thing you remembered, because without me you’re potentially dead, and she’s potentially pregnant. Put the two together, and you could be a dying, baby-making microbe warehouse, flooded with oceanic regret. Now suit up and have a good time!” Despite this vertiginous pep talk, I often manage to enjoy myself, and sometimes there’s even a return of the good old days, when my college girlfriend and I used to go on endless sweat-pouring voyages deep into the next afternoon, hour after borderless hour. But now that I’m thirty-two, screwing is not quite that central, all-important vanishing point of desire. And with a condom I’m neither as vulnerable nor quite as exhilarated. No wonder I find myself sometimes wanting something else, with no condom, less physical exertion and a different range of feelings. With my face between a woman’s legs, I get into a logy, doped-out state, despite my rational attention to the actions of my tongue and lips and jaw. If I’m only messing around, and not in love, my mood slides into something aloof and private and I feel like I’m elsewhere, watching this happen. But if I’m in love, it’s very different: I feel abundantly welcome, content to stay. My entire face gets glazed, eyes to chin, both nostrils hidden in her vagina, and after a long time of having the alphabet licked onto it, her clitoris starts skiing up and down the bridge of my nose. One person insisted on having her clit relentlessly mauled (“a bite as hard as lips can make it,” wrote Keats in a letter); another couldn’t stand direct contact till close to the end. Figuring out who likes what is intuitive and fun (unless she talks about it, which is even more fun — and just as intuitive, as you try to simultaneously follow and bloom unpredictably beyond her instructions). Cooling down from all the action at headquarters, the curve at the bottom of the vulva becomes incredibly dear. In fact, I find myself ministering to these different areas as though I were rescuing each of them from boredom, from loneliness, from being left out. You too, right outer labia! Urethral sponge, you will not be abandoned! Using my tongue but not saying a word, I’m distributing both acknowledgement and pleasure. The human face is full of sense organs that are always gathering information and distracting you from the deep, silent slab of self-consciousness. Buried, I feel my face shut down, my eyes go black and my nose and tongue close in on one thing. That there is a world at all, rather than nothingness, is a lot easier to appreciate when you can only perceive one thing in it. Maybe that mystical feeling is just the blush of arousal, but something about wetting my cheeks at the body of my lover gives me a thrill that seems almost religious. Maybe I’m trying to abject myself, or exalt myself, or save the world. But none of these explanations rings true. Neither does the notion that I’m out to make amends: I know that giving a woman head isn’t going to end misogyny or create equal pay for equal work. But however small the scale may be, I think by demonstrating, over and over, that someone can do something orgasmic for someone else, I’m healing some of the cynicism all around us (or at least within me). I’m warding off self-hatred, and the misanthropy that, in the words of Philip Larkin, “runs just under all we do.” When I’m in love and going down on someone, my motives and anxieties dissolve; nobody’s mad at anybody and everything’s temporarily okay. Eating pussy looks like bottoming because you’re servicing the Queen, but it’s also topping because you’re gradually turning her into a big spaz. With the control traded back and forth until it gets lost between the two of us, I get to join her beyond the biology that we inherited by accident, and beyond its social significance. From my perspective, fucking is the way to get into being male and have a blast with it, building towers and launching rockets. Cunnilingus is less of a thing to do and more of a place to go; a shelter from the gender-storm, built far beyond its limits and always receiving pilgrims. Frankly, I love to read stories like this – partly because it always helps to ease my mind about men’s feelings on the subject, and partly because it’s an illuminating glimpse into how men think about sex. Men surprise me sometimes, and delightfully so.If you’re like me and enjoy reading about men’s feelings on this intimate and pleasure-giving act, I’ve got a couple more links to share with you: :: Snacking (Salon) :: The Cunnilingus FAQ (Everything.com) If you know of other opinion articles on cunnilingus (not so much how-to’s, per se), drop me a line. Changing the subject: just when you think you’re all over it, that you’re a 29 year old woman who’s finally beaten down the demons of your early twenties, something always comes along to smack you upside the face and prove that you are still in thrall to the bad habits and choices about men that plagued your early years. I’ve waxed poetic here often enough about the fact that women don’t love men who treat them like crap (you’ll have to scroll down a bit, the entry is called the problem with men) and I, in particular, am so over that little problem. Then I stop by Salon for my daily dose, skim through Falling for the bad boy and realize that there are some uncomfortable parallels to my own life. Heh. An illumination I could have done without. Clit cunnilingus relationships Sex life sex positions Sex positivity Previous Post Toys for boys Next Post The clock	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line1114
__label__wiki	0.510767	0.510767	By Kevin Wright Photos by the author. Sitting by the edge of a marsh lake, winds calm, air cool and the sun yet to rise, I am in my photo blind waiting for the wood ducks to hopefully swim near my location. Concentrating on some distant woodies, now swimming in my direction, I catch movement out of the corner of my eye. It works the shoreline patiently and with purpose. It is a mink. The rich dark brown coat and white chin are visible even in the early morning light. This particular mink is pushing its nocturnal habits. Soon it will be heading to its daytime hideout, possibly an old abandoned muskrat burrow, waiting for night to fall once again. While early morning sightings like this are possible, the mink, a member of the weasel family, would rather do all its handy work under the cover of darkness. Mink can be found in every county in the state, but numbers are not like they once were. Like many species of wildlife in the state, habitat loss has contributed to the decline in mink numbers. You might not think that so, mink being lovers of water, but human encroachment upon those vital waterways have pinched mink numbers. Mink seldom travel far from a water source. Creeks, rivers and marshy habitats, like the one I am in, are favorites. Mink can also be found along lakes and local ponds. It is in these places, in the water and throughout the tall grasses that surround water sources, that mink search out their prey. Small fish, frogs, birds, crayfish and mice are targeted food subjects. Mink, however, are most fond of muskrats and undoubtedly are the muskrats worst enemy. The mink’s nocturnal habits often suggest to folks that there are not many around. If, however, the right habitat exists they are more than likely there. Mink are most likely to make their presence known during the breeding season which occurs in February and March. Male mink, called bucks, can cover an expanse of territory looking for females (does) to mate with, of which they can mate with several. It is during this time that you might find a mink wandering about well past sunrise. Once the female has become pregnant, she gives birth in a den of some sort. Dens can be in abandoned muskrat burrows, exposed tree roots, rocky outcroppings, abandoned burrows of other creatures or burrows of their own making along a water source. Like other members of the weasel family mink can experience delayed implantation. This especially occurs with young females, but also with adults that mate very early in the season. Pregnancies can be delayed until the right environmental conditions suggests an appropriate time to give birth which could be up to 75 days after mating. Mink kits are typically born early in May. Most litters will be from two to seven young with four being the average. Mink kits grow quickly and will begin to hunt by the age of just eight weeks. Other Mink Facts Mink can climb trees. Mink can swim up to 50 feet underwater. While mink do not really “run” they can bound up to 4 miles per hour. In warm water mink can swim up to three hours without stopping. Mink begin breeding before they reach a year of age. Male mink can weigh up to four pounds while females will weigh less than two. Mink kill most of their prey with a bite to the neck. Learn more about the American mink at Wildlife Illinois. Kevin Wright is an award winning outdoor writer and wildlife photographer whose work has been published in a number of publications and websites throughout the country. He lives and works out of central Illinois.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line1116
__label__wiki	0.842538	0.842538	Pee Dee GIS Users Group SC GIS Professionals in the Pee Dee Area Forms and Contact Grants for Non-profits from Esri Esri has announced a new global grants program for non-profit groups called the “ESRI nonprofit program”. You can find out more information by going to http://www.esri.com/nonprofit/. This new program is designed to be a streamlined way for Non-profits to obtain a cheap 1-year license of Esri’s ArcInfo Desktop GIS software. All of their existing grant programs, like ECP and Techsoup, continue in full force. As I understand it participating in grants from one program doesn’t exclude you from eligibility for other programs. Esri has created a new site (www.esri.com/grants) which summarizes all of their grant programs. ARCGIS 10.0 and 10.1 Deprecation Document ESRI has released this deprecation document. If you haven’t already seen it this will inform you of the items that ARC will be discontinuing in the current and future releases of their products. ARCGIS 10 ARCGIS DESKTOP 10.0 ArcGIS 10.0 is the last release of Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA); we will no longer support VBA beyond the ArcGIS 10.0 release. Microsoft no longer promotes or updates VBA. ESRI strongly recommends that no further development occur on this platform. Beyond ArcGIS 10.0, ESRI will no longer be able to support VBA as a development platform. Users who have custom functionality built using VBA should actively plan strategies to rewrite their applications using a supported development language such as Python, VB.NET, or C# so their applications continue to be operational and supported in future releases of ArcGIS. ArcGIS 10.0 is the last release of Solaris support for ArcReader and ArcGIS Engine; we will no longer support the Solaris platform for this functionality beyond ArcGIS 10.0 due to limited demand for this platform. ARCINFO WORKSTATION 10.0 ArcGIS 10.0 is the last planned release of ArcInfo Workstation. However, ArcInfo Workstation 10.0 can be used in conjunction with newer versions of ArcGIS Desktop; known issues are that ArcDoc will not open in Windows versions that do not include legacy Windows Help support, and that the SDE layer and DBMS connect functionality will not be upgraded beyond the versions supported at ArcGIS 10. Users will continue to be able to use their existing ArcInfo Workstation 10 version as the rest of the ArcGIS products and technologies evolve, but we will not release newer versions of ArcInfo Workstation. ARCIMS 10.0 ArcGIS 10.0 is the last release of ArcIMS on Solaris; we will no longer support ArcIMS on the Solaris Platform after ArcGIS 10.0. We feel the demand for the Solaris platform has diminished significantly and plan on ArcGIS 10.0 being the final release of Solaris support for all products, with the exception of SDE technology, which will continue to be supported on this platform. ArcGIS 10.0 is the last release of the ArcIMS Metadata Server; we will no longer support this functionality after ArcGIS 10.0. With the advent of the new search technology in the ArcGIS Geoportal Extension 9.3.1, and in ArcGIS Server 10.0, we no longer see a need to maintain this technology. The next major release after ArcGIS 10.0 will be the last planned release for ArcIMS. Users can continue to use existing versions of ArcIMS after this time; however, we will no longer provide new releases. ARCGIS SERVER 10.0 ArcGIS 10.0 is the last ArcGIS Server release with support for Solaris (with the exception of the ArcSDE technology component); we will not support this platform after ArcGIS 10.0 due to limited demand for the Solaris server platform. We will continue to support the ArcSDE component of ArcGIS Server on the Solaris platform beyond the ArcGIS 10.0 release. ArcGIS Server 10.0 is the last ArcGIS Server release with support for local connections from Web ADF applications. The 10.1 Web ADF applications will only support local connections to Server versions prior to 10.1. We recommend developers using local connections for accessing fine-grained ArcObjects migrate their business logic to Server Object Extensions. For Web ADF based editing applications (all of which use Local connections), we urge users to look at alternative web editing tools based in the ArcGIS Web Mapping APIs. ArcGIS Server 10.0 is the last release with support for 32-bit operating systems. The next release of ArcGIS Server (10.1) will run natively as a 64-bit application, requiring 64-bit operating systems. ArcGIS Server 10.0 is the last release with support for VBScript or JScript on ArcGIS Server for Linux. VBScript and JScript will continue to be supported on ArcGIS Server for Microsoft Windows. Python scripting will be added as a replacement for these scripting languages and ArcGIS Desktop will support authoring Python scripts in areas where VBScript and JScript are presently used. ArcGIS Server 10.0 is the last release supporting publishing non-optimized map documents (MXD files). The next major release will only support publishing optimized maps (MSDs) as that is the best practice for map publishing. ARCGIS IMAGE SERVER 10.0 ArcGIS 10.0 is the last release of the stand-alone ArcGIS Image Server product. This product has been replaced with the ArcGIS Server Image Extension. Any existing users of the stand-alone Image Server product or technology (using ISDef files), should plan their migration to the ArcGIS Server Image extension. Existing ArcGIS Image Server users should migrate from using ISDef file to using the Mosaic Datasets, a new data model in the geodatabase for managing collections of imagery and rasters. Mosaic Datasets are created and edited with ArcGIS Desktop (ArcEditor and ArcInfo) and published using ArcGIS Server with the Image Extension. Existing ISDef files can be added to Mosaic Datasets for conversion. ARCGIS 10.1 ArcGIS 10.1 will no longer support Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). ArcGIS 10.1 will no longer support the Solaris versions of ArcReader and ArcGIS Engine. ArcGIS 10.1 will be the last release supporting ArcReader for Linux. We will no longer support ArcReader on Linux after the ArcGIS 10.1 release. There are no plans to release a new version of ArcInfo Workstation at ArcGIS 10.1. However, ArcInfo Workstation 10.0 will be able to be used in conjunction with newer versions of ArcGIS Desktop. Users will continue to be able to use their existing ArcGIS 10.0 version, but we will not release newer versions. ArcGIS 10.1 will be the last planned release for ArcIMS,. At ArcGIS 10.1 ArcIMS will more to the “Mature” phase in the Product Lifecycle. Users can continue to use existing versions of ArcIMS after this time; however, we will no longer provide new releases. Users should develop a plan and migrate to the ArcGIS Server and Web API technology. ArcGIS Server 10.1 will be the last planned release for the ArcGIS Server Web ADFs (Application Developer Framework) for both Microsoft .NET and Java. ESRI will continue supporting the Web ADFs during the 10.1 release cycle but only fixes to critical issues will be addressed. No new functionality or enhancement requests will be addressed for the Web ADFs. Web application developers are encouraged to move to a web services based pattern with the ArcGIS Web Mapping APIs for JavaScript, Flex, or Silverlight. ArcGIS Server 10.1 will no longer support local connections (DCOM connections) from Web ADF applications. ArcGIS Server 10.1 will be a web services (REST and SOAP) server only. This will have an impact on: The web editing functionality of default Web ADF will no longer be supported. ArcGIS 10.1 will continue evolving and enhancing its web editing capabilities on top of the new ‘Feature Service’ (new in ArcGIS 10) and the ArcGIS Web Mapping APIs. Custom developed applications from business partners and users using fine grained ArcObjects will not be supported. Thanks to the recent enhancements in Server Object Extensions, developers can now migrate custom business logic written at the web application (Web ADF) level to custom ArcGIS Server services. Developers will need to migrate existing application logic to this web services based pattern. ESRI has been recommending this approach for some time already, due to its simplicity and improved performance. Web ADF applications using non-pooled services will not be supported. Over the years, some customers have adopted a pattern for their ArcGIS Server applications that use non-pooled services. This pattern has been shown not to scale. ArcGIS Server 10.1 will be the last planned release for the ArcGIS Server Manager Web Mapping Application (Microsoft .Net and Java). ArcGIS Server Manager includes a wizard for configuring out of the box web mapping applications based on Web ADF technology. ArcGIS Server 10.1 is the last release of the Web Mapping Application wizard in Manager. ESRI will continue supporting the ArcGIS Server Manager Application Wizard and Web Applications created with it during the 10.1 release cycle, but only fixes to critical issues will be addressed. New out of the box applications based on the ArcGIS Web Mapping APIs, as well as a new experience for configuring them, will be offered as part of the ArcGIS Server 10.1 release. ArcGIS Server 10.1 will no longer support 32-bit operating systems. ArcGIS 10.1 will exclusively support 64-bit operating systems. Support for 64-bit native execution across all the tiers of ArcGIS Server has been a long awaited feature by many of our customers. 64-bit hardware is the norm in today’s market and most modern ArcGIS Server deployments do in fact run on 64-bit hardware. ArcGIS Server 10.1 will run as a native 64-bit application exclusively requiring 64-bit capable hardware. ArcGIS 10.1 will no longer support the Solaris versions of ArcGIS Server (with the exception of the ArcSDE technology component). We will continue to support the ArcSDE component of ArcGIS Server on the Solaris platform beyond the ArcGIS 10.1 release. ArcGIS Server 10.1 is no longer support VBScript or JScript on ArcGIS Server for Linux. VBScript and JScript will continue to be supported on ArcGIS Server for Microsoft Windows. Python scripting will be added as a replacement for these scripting languages and ArcGIS Desktop will support authoring Python scripts in areas where VBScript and JScript are presently used. ArcGIS Server 10.1 will no longer support publishing non-optimized map documents (MXD files). ArcGIS 10.1 will only support publishing optimized maps (MSDs) as that is the best practice for map publishing. At ArcGIS Server 10.1, optimized map services (MSDs) will be enhanced to support many of the capabilities that are currently only available through MXD-based map services. ArcGIS 10.1 will no longer support a stand-alone ArcGIS Image Server product. This product will be replaced with the ArcGIS Server Image Extension. The official ArcGIS 10 and 10.1 Deprecation Plan is available for download as well.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line1122
__label__cc	0.628863	0.371137	The Podcast App The Future of Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Roundtable ALL-192 01.15.2018 - By FBA ALLSTARS Download our free app to listen on your phone The Syndicate hosted The Future of Cryptocurrencies/Blockchain Live Streamed Round Table on 11/28/17 Our expert panelists include: Gil Penchina, Andy Bromberg, Lou Kerner and Joey Krug Gil Penchina’s one of the top super angels of all time, with investments in Ripple, Brave, Polychain, Paypal, Filecoin, Civic, Linkedin, Cruise Automation, Dollar Shave Club, Wealthfront, Discord, Fastly and a name as good as gold. Prior to that he worked at Ebay through the IPO process and now he runs 20+ syndicates on Angellist with millions in backing. And today he’s venturing to the other side of the table with Pryze, a decentralized sweepstakes system working on an ICO pre-sale. For more on Gil, check out his interview on The Syndicate podcast where we discuss How Gil Tried to Lose Money and Hit 5 Unicorns and the Future of Cryptocurrencies Joey Krug got involved in Bitcoin mining in 2011 before building Bitcoin point of sale system in 2013. In 2014, he dropped out of Pomona College to cofound one of the first projects on ethereum called Augur, and in 2015 they did the first crowdsale on Ethereum. Then this year he joined Pantera Capitalas Co-Chief Investment Officer managing their digital asset funds… oh, and he also run one of the top 10 (by backing) AngelList syndicates. To learn more about Joey, listen to our interview (the 1st of the podcast), on Cryptocurrencies, ICOs and the Future of Public Markets. Andy Bromberg is the CEO of CoinList, an innovative ICO launch platform and compliance company responsible for the Filecoin’s $205M ICO success. Spun out of Angellist, Coinlist is already a leader in the token space and has built the trust and success to fuel legitimate, world changing ICOs. Prior to Coinlist, Andy co-founded Sidewire, a startup which raised ~ $5M to connect experts for thought provoking conversations on politics on more. Lou Kerner is the founder and managing partner of Flight.vc’s Israeli Founder fund and the Social Internet fund. Before that, Lou pioneered social media with Bolt, the largest social media company of its time before being conquered by Myspace. Since then Lou has invested in the likes of Palantir, Facebook, Meetup, Klout, Plated and more. And if you missed Lou’s conversation on the podcast, it is a must. Offered 1/4 of Facebook for $5M – Plus Israel, Social Media, Cryptocurrencies and Future of Monopolies We will cover a wide range of topics from ICOs, the future of cryptocurrencies, the implications and disruptions of blockchain and much much more. Plus there will be a live Q&A; session at the end with all our esteemed guests. Want more great round tables and investor interviews. Subscribe today to never miss a thing! Gil Penchina’s one of the top super angels of all time, with investments in Ripple, Brave, Polychain, Paypal, Filecoin, Civic, Linkedin, Cruise Automation, Dollar Shave Club, Wealthfront, Discord, Fastly and a name as good as gold. Prior to that he worked at Ebay through the IPO process and now he runs 20+ syndicates on Angellist with millions in backing. And today he’s venturing to the other side of the table with Pryze, a decentralized sweepstakes system working on an ICO pre-sale. For more on Gil, check out his interview on The Syndicate podcast where we discuss <a href="http://thesyndicate.vc/ts-how-gil-penchina-tried-to-lose-money-and-hit-5-unicorns-and-the-fut... More episodes from FBA ALLSTARS	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line1131
__label__cc	0.639744	0.360256	Book: ‘300 Days of Sun: A Novel’ by Deborah Lawrenson – Editor’s Note Posted on 19 April 2016. Combining the atmosphere of Jess Walter’s Beautiful Ruins with the intriguing historical backstory of Christina Baker Kline’s Orphan Train, Deborah Lawrenson’s mesmerizing novel transports readers to a sunny Portuguese town with a shadowy past — where two women, decades apart, are drawn into a dark game of truth and lies that still haunts the shifting sea marshes. Traveling to Faro, Portugal, journalist Joanna Millard hopes to escape an unsatisfying relationship and a stalled career. Faro is an enchanting town, and the seaside views are enhanced by the company of Nathan Emberlin, a charismatic younger man. But behind the crumbling facades of Moorish buildings, Joanna soon realizes, Faro has a seedy underbelly, its economy compromised by corruption and wartime spoils. And Nathan has an ulterior motive for seeking her company: he is determined to discover the truth involving a child’s kidnapping that may have taken place on this dramatic coastline over two decades ago. Joanna’s subsequent search leads her to Ian Rylands, an English expat who cryptically insists she will find answers in The Alliance, a novel written by American Esta Hartford. The book recounts an American couple’s experience in Portugal during World War II, and their entanglements both personal and professional with their German enemies. Only Rylands insists the book isn’t fiction, and as Joanna reads deeper into The Alliance, she begins to suspect that Esta Hartford’s story and Nathan Emberlin’s may indeed converge in Faro — where the past not only casts a long shadow but still exerts a very present danger. “With its lush settings, high-stakes suspense, and novel-within-a-novel, 300 Days of Sun delivers a labyrinth of complex relationships the reader is both breathless to solve and eager to return to upon completion. I lost sleep reading this fabulous, haunting novel.” — Erika Robuck, author of Hemingway’s Girl and The House of Hawthorne Deborah Lawrenson is the author of eight novels. Since childhood she has travelled the world with her family at various times in Kuwait, China, Belgium, Luxembourg and Singapore. She studied English at Trinity College, Cambridge (UK). Trained as a journalist on a weekly South London newspaper she has worked on several national newspapers and magazines. Her latest novel, 300 Days of Sun is set in Portugal, opening on the Algarve coast around Faro. It’s another “vivid escape to an intriguing place” (as the Washington Post kindly said about The Lantern) and the story turns on the dark games of truth and lies played out when Lisbon was a center of espionage during the Second World War. Currently she divides her time between rural Kent, UK, and a crumbling hamlet in Provence, France, which is the atmospheric setting for The Lantern. Title: 300 Days of Sun: A Novel Author: Deborah Lawrenson Paperback: 384 pp. Source: Author. Book: ‘300 Days of Sun’ by Deborah Lawrenson – Review Book: ‘The Mystery of the Sintra Road’ by Eça de Queiroz – Editor’s Note Book: ‘The High Mountains of Portugal’ – Editor’s Note Book: ‘Happy People in Tears’ by João de Melo – Editor’s Note	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line1133
__label__cc	0.619656	0.380344	Asian Philosophy > Asian Philosophy, Misc Asian Philosophy, Misc View topic on PhilPapers for more information Arabic and Islamic Philosophy (167 \| 37) Chinese Philosophy (419 \| 20) Japanese Philosophy (108 \| 1) Indian Philosophy (576 \| 36) Tibetan Philosophy (28) Korean Philosophy (5) Filipino Philosophy (35) Umeå University Associate Senior University Lecturer in Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (AI) Philosophy Professor - Tenured / Tenure-Track (Open Rank), Division of Arts and Humanities Lecturer Pool - Department of Rhetoric - UC Berkeley Jobs from PhilJobs Listing datebook priceFirst authorImpactPub yearDownloads Order Buddhist Ethics as a Path: A Defense of Normative Gradualism.Javier Hidalgo - forthcoming - Philosophy East and West.details This essay defends a new interpretation of Buddhist ethics: normative gradualism. According to normative gradualism, what we have normative reason to do depends on our stage along the Buddhist spiritual path. The essay shows how normative gradualism can justify distinctive features of Buddhist ethics and reconcile consequentialist and eudaimonistic interpretations of Buddhist moral thought. Remove from this list Download A Pluralist Account of Spiritual Exemplarity.Ian James Kidd - forthcoming - In Tyler McNabb & Victoria S. Harrison (eds.), Philosophy and the Spiritual Life. Routledge.details This Chapter sketches a pluralist account of spiritual exemplarity. Starting from recent work by Linda Zagzebski, three main kinds of spiritual exemplarity are described, distinguished by their underlying aspiration. I name these the aspirations to allegiance, enlightened insight, and emulation, illustrated with examples from the Western and South and East Asian spiritual dispensations. The Chapter concludes by warning against tendencies either to occlude this plurality or to illicitly privilege one of these aspirations by nominating it alone as the 'authentic' form (...) of spiritual life. (shrink) Political Meritocracy and its Betrayal.Franz Mang - 2020 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 46 (9).details Some Confucian scholars have recently claimed that Confucian political meritocracy is superior to Western democracy. I have great reservations about such a view. In this article, I argue that so lo... Mindfulness Changes Construal Level: An Experimental Investigation.Eugene Y. Chan & Yitong Wang - 2019 - Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 148 (9):1656-1664.details Mindfulness involves paying attention to the present moment and accepting any thoughts or feelings that might arise without judgment. Mindfulness can influence a number of outcomes. Currently, we are interested if it influences people’s level of mental construal. Two central dimensions of mindfulness (focusing on the present, and Openness to Experience) can lead to diverging predictions. While focusing on the present may produce a concrete construal level, openness to experience may facilitate an abstract construal level instead. We conducted 2 experiments (...) to test the effect of a brief mindfulness induction on construal level. Mindfulness prompted participants to think more abstractly (Experiment 1), which was mediated by Openness to Experience (Experiment 2). Thus, mindfulness may prompt how people process information more broadly. We situate our research in the broader literature on mindfulness and reconcile our findings with previous work. (shrink) Study of Islam.Andi Herawati - 2019 - Prajna Vihara 20 (2):32-47.details Even within religion, the creativity of imagination offers an invaluable defense against the tendencies towards dogma and absolutism. It also provides spaces living and experiencing life in diverse ways. This paper discusses the different facets of creative imagination in religious art and literature forms by comparing Isaac Bashevis Singer’s In My Father’s Court with Wayang shadow theater in Indonesia. I will show that they possess similar features demonstrating a reflection on religious law, creativity and everyday life. In Singer’s work, the (...) synagogue is a theater, and Singer’s father functions in the same way the puppet master, or Dalang. operates in Wayang theater. This allows for the negotiations between religious law and the living community. (shrink) Contradiction and Recursion in Buddhist Philosophy.Adrian Kreutz - 2019 - In Takeshi Morisato & Roman Pașca (eds.), Asian Philosophical Texts Vol. 1. Milano: Mimesis International. pp. 133-162.details Early Pyrrhonism as a Sect of Buddhism? A Case Study in the Methodology of Comparative Philosophy.Monte Ransome Johnson & Brett Shults - 2018 - Comparative Philosophy 9 (2):1-40.details We offer a sceptical examination of a thesis recently advanced in a monograph published by Princeton University Press, entitled Greek Buddha: Pyrrho’s Encounter with Early Buddhism in Central Asia. In this dense and probing work, Christopher I. Beckwith, a professor of Central Eurasian studies at Indiana University, Bloomington, argues that Pyrrho of Elis adopted a form of early Buddhism during his years in Bactria and Gandhāra, and that early Pyrrhonism must be understood as a sect of early Buddhism. In making (...) his case Beckwith claims that virtually all scholars of Greek, Indian, and Chinese philosophy have been operating under flawed assumptions and with flawed methodologies, and so have failed to notice obvious and undeniable correspondences between the philosophical views of the Buddha and of Pyrrho. In this study we take Beckwith’s proposal and challenge seriously, and we examine his textual basis and techniques of translation, his methods of examining passages, his construal of problems and his reconstruction of arguments. We find that his presuppositions are contentious and doubtful, his own methods are extremely flawed, and that he draws unreasonable conclusions. Although the result of our study is almost entirely negative, we think it illustrates some important general points about the methodology of comparative philosophy. (shrink) Decolonising Philosophy.Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Rafael Vizcaíno, Jasmine Wallace & Jeong Eun Annabel We - 2018 - In Gurminder K. Bhambra, Dalia Gebrial & Kerem Nişancıoğlu (eds.), Decolonising the University. London: Pluto Press. pp. 64-90.details Based on Maldonado-Torres’s formulation of the term, we conceive the decolonial turn as a form of liberating and decolonising reason beyond the liberal and Enlightened emancipation of rationality, and beyond the more radical Euro-critiques that have failed to consistently challenge the legacies of Eurocentrism and white male heteronormativity (often Eurocentric critiques of Eurocentrism). We complement Maldonado-Torres’s account of the decolonial turn in philosophy, theory and critique by providing an analysis of the trajectories of academic philosophy and clarifying the relevance of (...) decolonising philosophy and of the decolonial turn for current efforts in transforming philosophy in face of the challenges of social movements such as the Third World Liberation Front and Black Lives Matter in the United States, and Rhodes Must Fall in South Africa and England. After a brief analysis of the trajectory and current status of philosophy as a discipline in the modern Western research university, we provide examples of the decolonial turn and of decolonising philosophy in three areas: the engagement with (1) Asian and (2) Latin American philosophies, and (3) debates in the philosophy of race and gender. (shrink) The Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) and ABS-CBN Through the Prisms of Herman and Chomsky's "Propaganda Model": Duterte's Tirade Against Media and Vice Versa.Menelito Mansueto - 2018 - Social Ethics Society - Journal of Applied Philosophy 4 (No. 3, December Special Issue):181-206.details This paper is an attempt to localize Herman and Chomsky’s analysis of the commercial media and use this concept to fit in the Philippine media climate. Through the propaganda model, they introduced the five interrelated media filters which made possible the “manufacture of consent.” By consent, Herman and Chomsky meant that the mass communication media can be a powerful tool to manufacture ideology and to influence a wider public to believe in a capitalistic propaganda. Thus, they call their theory the (...) “propaganda model” referring to the capitalist media structure and its underlying political function. Herman and Chomsky’s analysis has been centered upon the US media, however, they also believed that the model is also true in other parts of the world as the media conglomeration is also found all around the globe. In the Philippines, media conglomeration is not an alien concept especially in the presence of a giant media outlet, such as, ABS-CBN. In this essay, the authors claim that the propaganda model is also observed even in the less obvious corporate media in the country, disguised as an independent media entity but like a chameleon, it camouflages into an invisible creature leaving predators without any clue. Hence, the reason to analyze and scrutinize a highly reputable news organization in the country, namely, the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) in relation to their portrayal of the Duterte presidency. (shrink) Invisible Women in Reproductive Technologies: Critical Reflections.Piyali Mitra - 2018 - Indian Journal of Medical Ethics 3 (2):NS: 113-9.details The recent spectacular progress in assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) has resulted in new ethical dilemmas. Though women occupy a central role in the reproductive process, within the ART paradigm, the importance accorded to the embryo commonly surpasses that given to the mother. This commentary questions the increasing tendency to position the embryonic subject in an antagonistic relation with the mother. I examine how the mother’s reproductive autonomy is compromised in relation to that of her embryo and argue in favour of (...) doing away with the subject-object dyad between them, particularly in the contexts of surrogacy and abortion. I also engage with the Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2016. A critical discussion of the privacy judgment passed by the Supreme Court of India helps examine how personal autonomy of the body and mind extends to include the reproductive autonomy of women as well. (shrink) Politically Correct: Von Philosophischen Entgleisungen Zu Einer Gereinigten Philosophie.Viatcheslav Vetrov - 2018 - Minima Sinica 2017 (1):1-26.details Fully in accord with the Aristotelian confidence in things that are probable (even if not really likely to happen in the near future), the essay anticipates an interplanetary critique against geocentric ways of thinking peculiar to most humans on Earth: Japanese, Chinese, English, Germans, Russians, etc. who insist on using expressions like sunset and sunrise and thus heavily offend the feelings of anyone coming from planets that do not enjoy Earth’s proximity to the Sun. As this critique would not be (...) significantly different to what currently is going on in intercultural studies (the central issue of the essay), the essay may be regarded as illuminating the ways to secure a peaceful future of interplanetary relations. (shrink) Buddhist Idealism.Bronwyn Finnigan - 2017 - In Tyron Goldschmidt & Kenneth Pearce (eds.), Idealism: New Essays in Metaphysics. Oxford University Press. pp. 178-199.details This article surveys some of the most influential Buddhist arguments in defense of idealism. It begins by clarifying the central theses under dispute and rationally reconstructs arguments from four major Buddhist figures in defense of some or all of these theses. It engages arguments from Vasubandhu’s Viṃśikā and Triṃśikā; Dignāga’s matching-failure argument in the Ālambanaparīkṣā; the sahopalambhaniyama inference developed by Dharmakīrti; and Xuanzang’s weird but clever logical argument that intrigued philosophers in China and Japan. It aims to clarify what is (...) being argued and motivate these arguments in terms of their presuppositions. These presuppositions range from views about the nature of mind and metaphysics to epistemology and logic. By making this context explicit, this article introduces central ideas in Buddhist philosophy and suggests ways in which they were mobilized in support of an idealist conclusion. (shrink) Beautiful Bodhisattvas: The Aesthetics of Spiritual Exemplarity.Ian James Kidd - 2017 - Contemporary Buddhism 18 (2):331-345.details The world’s spiritual traditions incorporate a variety of types of exemplar, persons who exemplify a life of aspiration to, or attainment of, spiritual goods. Within Buddhism, the range of exemplars includes monastics, boddhisattvas, the Zen masters, and the Buddha himself. Spiritual exemplars are typically described as having a distinctive form of bodily beauty, closely related to their ethical and spiritual qualities, that manifests as a form of radiance, luminosity, or charisma. Drawing on recent work on beauty, virtue, and the body (...) in the Buddhist tradition, I propose an aesthetics of spiritual exemplarity, arguing that certain spiritual traditions – including Buddhism – are kaligenic, able to generate new forms or experiences of embodied moral beauty. (shrink) The Khache Phalu: A Translation and Interpretation.Bommarito Nicolas - 2017 - Revue d'Etudes Tibétaines 39:60-132.details A translation and analysis of a short ethical treatise written in Tibet in the late 18th or early 19th century. The Khache Phalu includes references to both Buddhist and Islamic thought in providing ethical and spiritual advice. The analysis gives an overview of the secondary literature in both Tibetan and English that is accessible to non-specialists and defends the claim that many passages are deliberately ambiguous. The translation was done with Tenzin Norbu Nangsal and also includes the full Tibetan text. Religious Practices and Democratic Values in India: A Search for Interreligious Dialogue.Sirswal Desh Raj - 2017 - In Proceedings of National Seminar on World Religions: A Step Towards Inter Religious Dialogue.details India has a long, rich, and diverse tradition of philosophical thoughts, spanning some two and a half millennia and encompassing several major religious traditions. India’s democracy can be said to rest on the foundation of religious practice due to the practice of multi-religions and different sects in its continent. Religious practices ties among citizens that generate positive and democratic political outcomes if we see it from the ideals of any religious doctrine as per their written scripture. But in society religious (...) practices (not religious doctrine) do not show equality and usually go against their own religious doctrine as preached in their religious places. It is also evident that religious denomination (Catholic, Hindu, Muslim, Sikh etc.) comes as a barrier when we practice democratic ideals in society and make social situation worst. How these religious practices contribute for a society where we can discuss the ideals of freedom, equality and brotherhood for a Just Society and become mean of interreligious dialogue in multi-religious society? this is a big question to think . The objective of this paper is to study the dimensions of religious practices in Indian society and how these practices can contribute in interreligious dialogue to make atmosphere of peace, understanding and harmony in the society. (shrink) The Western and Eastern Thought Traditions for Exploring the Nature of Mind and Life.Plamen L. Simeonov, Arran Gare, Koichiro Matsuno, Abir U. Igamberdiev & Denis Noble - 2017 - Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology 131:1-11.details This is the editorial to the special edition of Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology on the role engagement with Eastern traditions of thought could play in the advancement of science generally and biology and the science of mind in particular. Logical Criticism of Buddhist Doctrines.Avi Sion - 2017 - Geneva, Switzerland: CreateSpace & Kindle; Lulu..details Logical Criticism of Buddhist Doctrines is a ‘thematic compilation’ by Avi Sion. It collects in one volume the essays that he has written on this subject over a period of some 15 years after the publication of his first book on Buddhism, Buddhist Illogic. It comprises expositions and empirical and logical critiques of many (though not all) Buddhist doctrines, such as impermanence, interdependence, emptiness, the denial of self or soul. It includes his most recent essay, regarding the five skandhas doctrine. Mindful Therapy: A Guide for Therapists and Helping Professionals. [REVIEW]Subhasis Chattopadhyay - 2016 - Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 121 (5):480-82.details This is a study in Buddhist psychoanalysis, especially the care of the care-giver. sLob Dpon Gyis Bśad Pa: Explanation by the Master The Teachings on Meditation of an Unknown Byaṅ-Cub-Klu-Dbaṅ.Krishna Del Toso - 2016 - Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie Orientale 52:99-144.details In the Dunhuang manuscript IOL Tib J 709, which is a collection of writings concerning meditation, we come across a short text attributed to a Tibetan master called Byaṅ-cub-klu-dbaṅ (allegedly eighth-ninth centuries CE). In his work, Byaṅ-cub-klu-dbaṅ exposes a method of meditation that seems to be strongly indebted to Indian Mahāyāna scriptural sources. Besides, also a Chinese Chan influence is here detectable. Therefore, the method of meditation taught by Byaṅ-cub-klu-dbaṅ seems to represent a commingling of different elements from different contexts. (...) After a general introduction to the manuscript IOL Tib J 709, this study focuses on Byaṅ-cub-klu-dbaṅ’s text, discussing and analysing the following topics: its author and date, the Indian Mahāyāna possible sources, Chinese Chan elements, the meditational path described. An annotated translation of the text, along with its transliteration and the reproduction of the fac-simile of the corresponding portion of the manuscript, concludes the study. (shrink) Knowledge and Belief in the Letter of Paul the Persian.Said Hayati - 2016 - In Dietmar W. Winkler (ed.), Syrische Studien. LIT Verlag. pp. 63-73.details Gdzie spotykają się filozofowie Wschodu i Zachodu? Refleksje o filozofii porównawczej i konferencji w Honolulu „11th East-West Philosophers’ Conference”.Marzenna Jakubczak - 2016 - Argument: Biannual Philosophical Journal 6 (2):519-528.details The paper presents the idea of cross‐cultural philosophy, which have inspired the organizers of the cyclic global conferences held at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, USA, since 193 First, the author discusses some definitions of the comparative method applied in contemporary philosophy and promoted, among others, through the project of the “East‐West Philosophers’ Conference”. Then, she reports the major themes and panel topics raised during the eleventh conference organized in Honolulu, May 25–31, 2016. Aristotle's Logic.Paul The Persian - 2016 - Tehran: Parsi Anjoman.details Review of Drifted in the Deeper Land by Adi Da (Franklin Jones) (2014).Michael Starks - 2016 - In Suicidal Utopian Delusions in the 21st Century: Philosophy, Human Nature and the Collapse of Civilization-- Articles and Reviews 2006-2017 2nd Edition Feb 2018. Henderson,NV, USA: Michael Starks. pp. 523.details Another spiritual adventure from a modern master. Adi Da is certainly one of the most powerful enlightened beings of modern times and his spritual autobiography ``The Knee of Listening`` (1978 originally, but revised and enlarged continually-see my review) is probably the most detailed and fascinating personal account there is of the process of enlightenment. He is a very smart and a good writer with a substantial output. However when speaking he is far less interesting as can be seen here or (...) in any of the videotapes available from the Adi da web page. This book is mostly transcribed from his talks to the small group of devotees with whom he lives on a small island in Fiji. It will mostly be valuable only to those who have followed him for many years and know his jargon and style and who practice his meditation or sit in his presence. Others will find it very tough going if not downright boring as he tries to convey the ineffable state of enlightenment). -/- Those wishing a comprehensive up to date framework for human behavior from the modern two systems view may consult my article The Logical Structure of Philosophy, Psychology, Mind and Language as Revealed in Wittgenstein and Searle 59p(2016). For all my articles on Wittgenstein and Searle see my e-book ‘The Logical Structure of Philosophy, Psychology, Mind and Language in Wittgenstein and Searle 367p (2016). Those interested in all my writings in their most recent versions may consult my e-book Philosophy, Human Nature and the Collapse of Civilization - Articles and Reviews 2006-2016’ 662p (2016). (shrink) The Doubt-Removing Book of Mardānfarrox (شکند گمانیک ویچار یا گزارش گمان‌شکن ).Raham Asha (ed.) - 2015 - Alain Mole.details he name of he author of treatise Mardānfarrox son of Ohrmazddād He make him know suiter or and researcher of truth who does not like to follow a religion by inheritance, but he seeks that which is more reliable and acceptable before the philosophy and logic. The Philosophical Foundations of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Stoicism, Buddhism, Taoism, and Existentialism.Kim Diaz & Edward Murguia - 2015 - Journal of Evidence-Based Psychotherapies 15 (1):39-52.details In this study, we examine the philosophical bases of one of the leading clinical psychological methods of therapy for anxiety, anger, and depression, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). We trace this method back to its philosophical roots in the Stoic, Buddhist, Taoist, and Existentialist philosophical traditions. We start by discussing the tenets of CBT, and then we expand on the philosophical traditions that ground this approach. Given that CBT has had a clinically measured positive effect on the psychological well-being of individuals, (...) it becomes important to study the philosophical foundations on which this therapy is based. (shrink) Saiva Siddhantham - a Hermeneutic and Psycho Analytic Interpretation.Ramanathan Gandhibabu (ed.) - 2015 - manibarathi.details The SAIVA SIDDHANTHA sastra texts are not studied in debth and the interpretation varies from author to author on many issues. Besides the contemporary trends like hermeneutical and psycho-analytical interpretation are not done yet in the sastra texts. -/- A scientific study of the philosophy of the saiva doctrines especially the core philosophy is my aim. Traditional way to describe them would be to take up the three core issues of the saivite ontology that are the pathi, pasu and pasam. (...) -/- I have taken up the psychological analysis of these core issues. In addition the iruvinai oppu,malaparibaham and sakthinibatham aspects were compared with analytic connotations. The nittai theories and the sadhana aspects were compared with the modern insight and psychotherapy. The dheekai methods which are very much close to the psychotherapist’s style is also disussed in the last. -/- I have taken thiruvasagam,thirumandhitam and periyapuranam among the thirumurai texts. As for as the sandhana texts I have taken sivagnanabodham and sivagnanasiddhiyar. Among the pandara texts I have studied dhaskariam,panchkra pahrodai and nittai vilakkam. Besides these I have taken a few quotes from vallalar’s thiru-arutpa. -/- . (shrink) Introduction to Nakamura Yūjirō and His Work.John W. M. Krummel - 2015 - Social Imaginaries 1 (1):71-82.details In Social Imaginaries, vol. 1, nr. 1 (Spring 2015) due out in May 2015. Book Review Sir John Woodroffe, Tantra and Bengal: An Indian Soul in a European Body? By Kathleen Taylor. [REVIEW]Swami Narasimhananda - 2015 - Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 120 (3):294-5.details The result of the doctoral work of the author, this volume reflects well her painstaking eff orts of the investigative trail into the life of Sir John Woodroffe. This book gives a concise yet overall view of the large and multifarious canvas of the personality that Woodroffe was. Including rare photographs, facsimiles of letters and notes, an elaborate bibliography and index, this book fills a void by fulfilling the long-felt need of a good biography of a soul, who preferred to (...) remain anonymous and speak to the world only through this writings under his pen name, Arthur Avalon. (shrink) Ecstatic Language of Early Daoism: A Sufi Point of View.Esmaeil Radpour - 2015 - Transcendent Philosophy Journal 16:213-230.details Various esoteric traditions apply different modes of expression for the same metaphysical truths. We may name the two most known esoteric languages as ecstatic and scholastic. Early Daoist use of reverse symbolism as for metaphysical truths and its critical way of viewing formalist understanding of traditional teachings, common virtues and popular beliefs show that it applies an ecstatic language, which, being called shaṭḥ in Sufi terminology, has a detailed literature and technical description in Sufism. This article tries, after a short (...) survey of the concept of shaṭḥ in Sufism, to consider some early Daoist teachings such as wuwei, disparagement of moralism, and disparagement of rationality from an Eastern Sufi point of view regarding shaṭḥ to achieve a clearer insight into the gnostic aspects of the tradition, and to avoid certain possible misunderstanding of the teachings. (shrink) Jay L. Garfield, Engaging Buddhism: Why It Matters to Philosophy. [REVIEW]Rick Repetti - 2015 - Science, Religion and Culture 2 (2):1-6.details Book review of Jay Garfield's Engaging Buddhism: Why It Matters to Philosophy. A Genealogical Study of De: Poetical Correspondence of Sky, Earth, and Humankind in the Early Chinese Virtuous Rule of Benefaction.Huaiyu Wang - 2015 - Philosophy East and West 65 (1):81-124.details Zurvanism.Albert de Jong - 2014 - In Encyclopædia Iranica.details A Psychological Perspective Comparing the Views of Dai Zhen (戴震) and Zhu Xi (朱熹) On Human Nature.Ali Far - 2014 - GSTF Journal of Psychology 1 (2).details The objective of this paper is to provide a psychological perspective on Zhu Xi (ZX) and Dai Zhen (DZ) views about human nature, by comparing the potential implications of their views on an agent's moral cultivation. To help frame this objective, I will ask and answer the following question: if one commits to ZX who holds the view that human nature is innately good, although obscured, versus if one holds DZ's view that while human nature has the potential for good (...) but it is unformed or unknown (i.e., no original nature) then what are some of the possible implications for self love, sympathy, hope, forgiveness, and spontaneity that are relevant considerations, some of which have been noted by ZX and DZ, for the advance of an agent's moral cultivation. The implications of ZX's commitment to human nature being innately good could entail the following: despite an agent’s obscurities, because his nature is good, he is lovable and he can be hopeful that he can shed off his obscurities via proper moral cultivation. Spontaneity is encouraged as an integral part of an agent's moral self-cultivation. His self-responsibility, hinges on his ability to use the instrumentality of moral cultivation, for which he would need the assistance of a moral teacher. There is a greater capacity for forgiveness because of the presumption that the human nature is inherently good. He can sympathize and extend concern for others, in part, because others' nature is also good. ZX's view may potentially carry a risk of excess and a risk of expecting mainly the good, but not the unknown. Alternatively, implications for DZ's commitment to no original human nature, entails the following: DZ's view is likely more conducive to expecting and embracing the unknown, which potentially makes DZ's philosophy more practical, because we live in a world where we often encounter unknowns and unfamiliar people. Self-love is a prerequisite to know love before one can love others. A moral agent can be hopeful because his potential is good, and it will not be a lost opportunity in light of the constitutive essence of moral cultivation. Despite DZ appearing to be against spontaneity, he is only against the kind of spontaneity that could be hurtful to others as does ZX. Lastly, I argue that DZ's view could result in a broader and more practical commitment to sympathy. Compared to ZX, I argue that DZ’s view could have a potential risk of lower self-responsibility and risk of resistance to self-forgiveness, which does not arise out of DZ’s views about the human nature per se, but rather stems from DZ's bias towards externalized morality. (shrink) Introduction to the Issue: Comparative Study of Religion: Methods & Applications.Marzenna Jakubczak - 2014 - Argument: Biannual Philosophical Journal 4 (1):5-8.details A comparative perspective in the study of religion has recently been taken up more and more often. It goes along with a growing awareness of cultural and religious plurality as well as of the importance of religion in terms of its role in the social, political, and economic processes of the contemporary world. This also gave an impulse to organize the two-day international seminar on “Comparative Methodology in Religious Studies” held in Kraków on 23–24 May 2013, at the Pedagogical University (...) of Cracow, Department of Philosophy and Sociology, in co-operation with the Editors of Argument: Biannual Philosophical Journal. During the seminar a variety of methods applied in the comparative study of religion were discussed. The participants considered which of them seemed to be most beneficial or useful for a better understanding of the subject matter, and for capturing the uniqueness and divergence between Abrahamic, Indian (Dharmic), and other religious traditions. Some criteria for a proper comparison in the field of religion were defined and justified during this discussion. The presenters took into account both the sociological context of the analysis and philosophical consideration of the most fundamental questions within comparative methodology. (shrink) Nagarjuna and Quantum Physics. Eastern and Western Modes of Thought.Christian Thomas Kohl - 2014 - Chinese Buddhist Encyclopedia.details Nagarjuna and Quantum Physics. Eastern and Western Modes of Thought. Based on E.A. Burtt. A.N. Whitehed. H.-G. Gadamer. Iranian Philosophy of Religion and the History of Political Thought.Ahmad R. Motameni - 2014 - Dissertation, University of California, Riversidedetails Book Review Management A New Look—Lessons From Sarada Ma’s Life and Teaching by Dr Abani Nath Mukhopadhyay. [REVIEW]Swami Narasimhananda - 2014 - Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 119 (9):552.details The present book attempts to look out for management lessons in Holy Mother’s life. The author is a disciple of Sri Akshaya Chaitanya who was himself a disciple and biographer of Holy Mother. This book is thus a product of inspired effort. Various facets of the Holy Mother’s personality have been traced through incidents from her life and these have been classified into different sections such as planning, organisation, motivation, leadership, decision-making, communication, and inspiration. ĐẠO ĐỨC, NGHIỆP VÀ SỰ PHÁT TRIỂN BỀN VỮNG.Eric S. Nelson - 2014 - In PHẬT GIÁO VỀ PHÁT TRIỂN BỀN VỮNG VÀ THAY ĐỔI XÃ HỘI. pp. 19-31.details “A Discussion of Alex Watson’s The Self's Awareness of Itself. With an Addendum About the Transmission of Dharmakīrti’s Pramāṇaviniścaya”.Cristina Pecchia - 2014 - Rivista Degli Studi Orientali 87:107-119.details Prólogo al tercer número de la revista Asiadémica.Montserrat Crespin Perales - 2014 - Asiadémica 1 (3):9-12.details The Philosophy of Dalit Liberation.Desh Raj Sirswal (ed.) - 2014 - Centre for Studies in Educational, Social and Cultural Development (CSESCD), Pehowa (Kurukshetra).details In this short title, we are presenting three essays on the philosophy of Dr. B.R.Ambedkar which discussed his ideas on casteism, social change, education, social justice, education, women issues, and democracy etc. These essays are the revised version of papers presented in the National Seminar on “Ambedkarite Quest on Egalitarian Revolution in India” (26th & 27th November, 2013) organized by the Centre for Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Studies, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, Haryana. In the end of this book I included a (...) chronology of life events of Dr. B.R.Ambedkar as an annexure. Hope this book will be helpful to understand his intention of social revolution and motivate us to be conscious about our duties and work for the higher goal rather than follow personal pleasure. I am thankful to all the members of Milestone Education Society (Regd.), Pehowa (Kurukshetra) for their continuous effort to propagate Dr. B.R.Ambedkar’s ideology as well as their positive efforts to provide quality and fruitful education to the weaker section of society. (shrink) In Search of the Semantics of Emptiness.Koji Tanaka - 2014 - In JeeLoo Liu & Douglas Berger (eds.), Nothingness in Asian Philosophy. London: Routledge. pp. 55-63.details On Self-Awareness and the Self.Koji Tanaka - 2014 - In Graham Priest & Damon Young (eds.), Philosophy and Martial Arts. London: Routledge. pp. 127-138.details Some philosophers of mind, cognitive scientists, phenomenologists as well as Buddhist philosophers have claimed that an awareness of an object is not just an experience of that object but also involves self-awareness. It is sometimes argued that being aware of an object without being aware of oneself is pathological. As anyone who has been involved in martial arts, as well as any sports requiring quick responses such as cricket and tennis, can testify, however, awareness of the self at the time (...) of acting becomes problematic: you would not be able to respond to the slight movement of your opponent if you were aware of yourself responding to it. This suggests that it must be possible for us to be aware without being aware of ourselves. The aim of this paper is to clarify the notion of self-awareness and its relation to the self by investigating the phenomenology of the martial artist who is ‘in the act’. I shall argue that we can make sense of self-awareness without invoking awareness of oneself. (shrink) Tradition in Seyyed Hossein Nasr and Dariush Shayegan’s Thought.Ehsan Shakeri Khoei and Zohreh Arabshahi - 2013 - International Research Journal of Applied and Basic Sciences 7:398-404.details Dzogchen as Presence.Rudolph Bauer - 2013 - Transmission 6.details This paper focuses on the essence of dzogchen as Presence. Winnicott and Lacan and The Lack Within Subjectivity In the Context of Dzogchen.Rudolph Bauer - 2013 - Transmission 6.details This paper focuses on Winnicott and Lacan and the lack within subjectivity in light of dzogchen. Heidegger: On Becoming Self Liberated Through the Manifestation of Appearance.Rudolph Bauer - 2013 - Transmission 6.details This paper focuses on Heidegger's presentation of becoming self liberated. Dzogchen as Self Liberation Through The Ground of Wisdom Awareness.Rudolph Bauer - 2013 - Transmission 6.details This paper focuses on Dzogchen and self liberation. The Realm of Omnipotence and The Power of Awareness: Lacanian Phenomenological View.Rudolph Bauer - 2013 - Transmission 6.details This paper focuses on the realm of omnipotence from a Lacanian viewpoint. How to Read a Text, How to Hear a Text.Rudolph Bauer - 2013 - Transmission 6.details This paper focuses on the hermeneutic of reading text and hearing text.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line1141
__label__wiki	0.705788	0.705788	Name that ant! New online tool helps identify alien ant invaders by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Antkey’s distinctive photographs make it easy to identify an ant’s most obvious features, like the mandibles of this Monomorium desctructor. Credit: Eli Sarnat (Phys.org)—Researchers have created an interactive website, called Antkey, which includes more than 1,150 images and 70 video clips to help users determine an ant's identity from more than 100 invasive and commonly introduced global species. According to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, $1 billion in cross-border commerce between the United States and Mexico takes place each day. And as goods flow into the U.S., pests can hitch a ride, setting up house and harming the agricultural economy. The U.S. Department of Agriculture inspects cross-border commerce for pests. If an ant infestation is detected, the current protocol calls for sending a sample to the U.S. Entomological Collection in Washington, D.C., where curators decide if the ants pose a threat. The process takes time and costs money, but the economic costs are high if items carrying known pests cross into the U.S. Professor Andy Suarez facilitated the creation of the Antkey website, pictured behind him, which makes ant identification easier for non-specialists. Credit: L. Brian Stauffer Andy Suarez, a University of Illinois professor of entomology and of animal biology, developed Antkey with postdoctoral researcher Eli Sarnat. Their goal was to help non-specialists in quarantine and border facilities around the United States make the process of ant identification faster and more efficient. Because typical taxonomic keys made for specialists use scientific jargon and specify features that can only be seen under a microscope, it is often hard for non-specialists to identify ant species. Antkey photographs, like this one of the Paratrechina longicornis worker with a larva, help viewers identify the ants they encounter. Credit: Eli Sarnat However, Antkey uses a more interactive system called a "lucid key" to make the process easier. "With a lucid key, you could put in two or three different descriptive pieces of information and then all of the species in the key that don't match that description are removed and the key changes to show only what's left," Suarez said. The key then asks specific questions that help users differentiate between the remaining species. As researchers learn more about the invasive ant species becoming established in the U.S., Antkey will continue to grow and make it even simpler for users to identify the ant invaders. "In the future, by incorporating more resources like video and pictures and making the key simpler, in theory, anyone who is an enthusiast or a concerned farmer or homeowner can actually figure out what all the ants that might be infesting their property are," Suarez said. Invasive 'Rasberry Crazy Ant' in Texas now identified species Provided by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Citation: Name that ant! New online tool helps identify alien ant invaders (2012, November 28) retrieved 19 January 2021 from https://phys.org/news/2012-11-ant-online-tool-alien-invaders.html Common house ants form supercolonies, prosper in urban settings New red imported fire ant enemies in place for combat New research shows ants able to discern difference between threat levels Unpeaceful co-existence: How strengths and weaknesses maintain biodiversity in an ant community Ants get their place in Smithsonian exhibit How drain flies dodge a washout 'Babysitters' provide boost to offspring of elderly birds Parrots pushed to extinction despite protection policies Well-built muscles underlie athletic performance in birds Better diet and glucose uptake in the brain lead to longer life in fruit flies	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line1144
__label__wiki	0.961124	0.961124	Fade to Mind "Bank Head" Kingdom and Kelela's "Bank Head" was on no fewer than three EPs, albums, or mixtapes last year, and that's not counting the instrumental version. That each record was excellent is probably not a coincidence. The Los Angeles-based underground bass impresario once used vocals as just another percussive element to mangle with electronics, as can be heard on both sides of his still-vital 2010 "Mindreader"/"You" 12" single. When the Kelela-fronted "Bank Head" first surfaced, ahead of Kingdom's Vertical XL EP, it made clear this D.C.-bred, L.A.-based singer was an artist too formidable to fade into the backdrop; "Bank Head" later showed up on her own head-turning Cut 4 Me and Solange's #BrandyDeepCuts-realizing Saint Heron compilation. So we're left with that Cassie-esque tendril of a voice, wispily curling upward like cigarette smoke, and a UK house-minded futurist's sleek, pillowy interior decorating. Plenty of songs these past several years have been based around a steady handclap. In a dynamic that's similar to the one animating her near-contemporary FKA twigs, when Kelela coos that "I need to let it ... out," the applause doesn't express release. It's just more rising tension. Like the potential new love the song haltingly describes, this one's an across-the-room infatuation that turns out to be a keeper. —Marc Hogan Kelela: "Bank Head" (via SoundCloud) AraabMuzik "Streetz Tonight" Over the last five years, AraabMuzik has never stopped adapting. In 2010, he was best known for his work with Cam’ron and Vado—remember that duo?—and for producing what was thought to be the Diplomats’ comeback track, “Salute”. Then in 2011, with the release of Electronic Dream, an album that subsumed 90s trance into chill-out fodder, he not only pulled a 180, but somehow got the car airborne. “Streetz Tonight” moves from the dozen-car-alarms-going-off-at-once freak-out of AraabMuzik’s early production and samples Kaskade’s “4AM (Adam K & Soha Remix)” to create pure unencumbered bliss. True to form, AraabMuzik didn’t stick with this style; he went back to rap production and even tried his hand at both dubstep and trap. But “Streetz Tonight” found him connecting dots once assumed to be on different planes. —David Turner AraabMuzik: "Streetz Tonight" (via SoundCloud) Taylor Gang / Atlantic "Paranoid" [ft. Joe Moses] Ty Dolla $ign records often seem to exist in a world where the mood doesn't necessarily run in parallel with the lyrics, where the song's spirit isn't always captured by the transcript. "Paranoid" is simple at first, and more inscrutable as you look closer: we see a scenario where two women are in the club trying to set him up. Is he being paranoid? Or is it a figure of speech? Less a story than a situation, a thought flickering through his mind, "Paranoid"'s lyrics, like a game of dozens, seem improvised and free-associative, cheekily disrespectful: "Both of my bitches drive range rovers/ None of my bitches can stay over." Guest rapper Joe Moses—replaced by B.o.B for the official Atlantic version, but c'mon—only adds to the record's tonal ambiguity, stunting about his car full of women but ending the record wishing his girl would give him a call while singing the Five Heartbeats. —David Drake Ty Dolla $ign: "Paranoid" [ft. B.o.B.] (via SoundCloud) "Passing Out Pieces" The recording process for Mac DeMarco’s second full-length wasn’t wildly different from that of 2, his breakout 2012 LP. For both records, he chain-smoked while writing and self-recording every instrument in a small room. But while 2 had him writing about about being in love—with girls, cigarettes, and otherwise—he sounds beaten down in the lyrics of “Passing Out Pieces”. After returning from a huge year of near-constant touring, he sat on the floor of his tiny Brooklyn room and took a minute to assess the consequences that come from life on the road and, perhaps more notably, having a meme-worthy public persona. “Seems that every time I turn, I’m passing out pieces of me, don’t you know nothing comes free?” As rhetorical questions go, that’s a pretty heavy one. —Evan Minsker — Via "Running (Disclosure Remix)" When "Running" first appeared in early 2012, Jessie Ware was still best known for her appearances on records by Joker and SBTRKT, so it was something of a shock to hear her voice not framed by brittle electronic minimalism. Co-produced by Julio Bashmore and the Invisible's Dave Okumu, "Running" presented Ware as a neo-neo-soul artist, essentially, her languorous voice practically melting into a reverb-heavy pool of live funk drums and electric guitar. It fell to the then-unknown duo of Disclosure to flip the song into a bumping, flexing UK garage tune, all pumping chord stabs and sped-up vocals, sounding like it came straight out of 2-step's millennial heyday. It's still one of the best things the brothers have done. —Philip Sherburne "Far Nearer" In 2011, UK-based electronic music wasn't much fun. The weight of Burial’s influence, as well as the abstractions found in James Blake’s genre-shattering series of 2010 EPs, blended into a nebulous sub-genre that initially kept listeners at a distance befitting an academic lecture. At first, Jamie Smith didn’t seem like the type to yank the scene out of its bookish, serious torpor—there’s the all-black attire, the legacy-artist remix project, the fact that he and his bandmates only recently started (sort of) smiling in promo photos—but with “Far Nearer”, that’s exactly what the xx’s percussionist-cum-beatmaker did. With splashy steel drums, a bouncy-ball rhythm, and a forcefully twisted vocal sample of Janet Jackson’s “Love Will Never Do (Without You)”, the beaming, benevolent tumble of “Far Nearer” smashed post-dubstep’s gray-tinted windows and, for seven ecstatic minutes, finally allowed some light to shine through. —Larry Fitzmaurice "Reflektor" Of all the musical technophobes to flourish in this digitally fraught era, Arcade Fire are perhaps the only act to condemn futurism while simultaneously embracing its trappings. As Lindsay Zoladz aptly noted in her review of their glitteringly fretful fourth album Reflektor, there is irony laced throughout the record's very existence, considering it streamed on YouTube before receiving a physical release. On the title track, vocalists Win Butler and Régine Chassagne are practically exuberant in their fruitless search for "a connector" to truly bridge the gap between people, lamenting our digital lives for the alienation they breed while simultaneously making an impact because of them. It's a love-hate thing. "Reflektor"'s contradictions—much like the social tech it criticizes—embody the existential anxiety that has come to define this generation as it struggles to distinguish good from evil in the cloud-based darkness. It's not a spiteful rejection or a superior warning, but an apprehension: We don't know yet whether our Internet-fuelled fears of isolation, abandonment, and insincerity will truly amount to anything. They probably won't destroy us, or our ability to find one another entre le royaume, des vivants et des morts—in fact, future generations will surely regard this fear as quaint. But the worry is essential to understanding ourselves right now. —Devon Maloney Arcade Fire: "Reflektor" "Song for Zula" “Some say love is a burning thing, that it makes a fiery ring,” Matthew Houck sings by way of introducing “Song for Zula”, the beating, aching heart of his career-best LP Muchacho. In two short lines he alludes specifically to Bette Midler’s “The Rose” and Johnny Cash’s “Ring of Fire”, two love songs famous for not sugarcoating the dark and torturous aspects of romance. Houck isn’t trying to join their ranks (he is as reverent toward his heroes as he is ambitious in his music). Instead, “Zula”, with its fiddle eddies and synth smears that sound like pedal steels floating in space, uses heartache and despair as a jumping off point for a tender-hearted rumination on the efficacy of pop music: Can a song express the infinite gradations of heartache and despair? Or are even the best and most popular love songs simply inadequate vessels? Expecting no clear answers, Houck finds none. But he doesn’t let the song end until he implicates his listener: “O and all you folks, you come to see, you just stand there in the glass looking at me,” he sings, pouring what he can of his heart out. —Stephen M. Deusner Phosphorescent: “Song for Zula” (via SoundCloud) self-released "Earl" At some point I have to believe that what bothered people about the violence in Earl’s music wasn’t how serious it sounded but how casual. Blasphemy, necrophilia, cannibalism, date rape, intravenous drug use, playing a trumpet after jamming it into someone’s butt and trying to catch fish with clumps of your own vomit—it’s all here, rapped in the bureaucratic hum of someone ordering an omelet. If only he seemed actually capable of hurting someone. Instead, he was what he was—a smart suburban kid playing games, collecting his offenses like they were trading cards. “I’ve seen a three-year old who didn’t really know how to speak but who fully knew how to use an iPad,” he said in a subsequent video for the New Yorker’s website, going on to lament “how socially retarded kids are about to be… because of all the shortcuts there are.” Maybe he wasn’t the problem after all, just someone around to document it. And if you took a double take at the word “retarded”, note that he’s using it correctly. —Mike Powell Earl Sweatshirt: "Earl" Bad Boy / Wondaland Arts Society "Tightrope" [ft. Big Boi] James Brown, Atlanta hip-hop, Prince, politics, dancing robots: Janelle Monáe’s bricolage knows no bounds on the feverish funk of "Tightrope". It's a tour de force in which those disparate sounds and ideas join forces to shatter the fourth wall of her cinematic, post-apocalyptic cyborg plotline with astonishing impact. As Monáe scales back the lush orchestration and cinematic flourishes to reveal the brassy heart beating inside, the struggles of The ArchAndroid protagonist Cindi Mayweather transcend those of an afrofuturistic heroine if only for a moment, and become synonymous with pure R&B bliss, all "classy brass" with a little bit of voodoo, too. —Zoe Camp Janelle Monáe: "Tightrope" [ft. Big Boi] "Sleeping Ute" Grizzly Bear could have coasted on the success of Veckatimest and its gentle, lovely hit single, “Two Weeks”. Instead, they roughed up their sound, challenging themselves and their listeners, moving beyond the narrowness of chamber pop. “Sleeping Ute” was the first salvo, percussive explosions from Chris Bear causing ripples in Dan Rossen’s aggressive guitar, before swelling over into a shaky calm. Suddenly, this tasteful four-piece dabbled in psychedelia, and the pathos was no longer left to the lyrics, but leapt out of the music itself. There was darkness. We weren’t surprised to learn, eventually, that “Sleeping Ute,” was one of only two songs salvaged from an early Shields session that went awry. There’s a chaos here that seems barely-harnessed, and nearly foreign to the docile Grizzly Bear we knew before. Great bands evolve or they dissolve: Grizzly Bear used “Sleeping Ute” to show which way they were going. —Jonah Bromwich Grizzly Bear: "Sleeping Ute" Big Machine "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" Though Taylor Swift’s 2012 hit “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” contained the most artistic uses of “What?!” and “Like, ever” in recorded history, it’s notable for plenty of other reasons. Serving as the centerpiece of Red—Swift’s best, most balanced record to date—“We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” signified Swift’s bid for universal domination, enlisting golden-touch pop producers Max Martin and Shellback to gild her bratty bombshell. Though it’s a cupcake of a single—and don’t mind me getting a little self-conscious here—Swift aimed for the jugular: “I'm really gonna miss you picking fights/ And me falling for it screaming that I'm right/ And you would hide away and find your peace of mind/ With some indie record that's much cooler than mine.” Other songs on Red successfully channeled contemporary sounds far from the traditional textures of previous, CMT Awards-dominating outings—think the dubstep drops on “I Knew You Were Trouble” or the surging jolt of “22”—but “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” exhibits the pure terror of Swift’s towering talent as a songwriter. A couple years out, it’s easy to see that few have landed the crossover leap like Swift did with “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together”. Like, ever. —Corban Goble Taylor Swift: "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" BasedWorld “Hop up out my car (swag!). Then I drop my roof...Then I park my car. Then I fuck your bitch.” If it's possible to get to the point of a rap song more succinctly, it hasn't been done yet. Then again, it's only in a post-Lil B world that doing so would matter. For an artist who has so resolutely rejected the idea of what a rapper or a rap career has to be, Lil B's influence this decade has been considerable. And besides introducing the world to the idea of swag, he's spent a lot of time turning rap's values—from traditional ideas of lyricism to familiar lyrical expressions of success—inside out. Lil B approaches the world as a limitless realm of possibilities, each to be explored with equal care and fascination—and this allows for a song about making soup and boasts about being like a children's book author (“bitches suck my dick 'cause I look like J.K. Rowling”). Eat that wonton soup: With ideas that simple, stunting is no longer just a habit; it's a mantra. —Kyle Kramer Lil B: “Wonton Soup” House Anxiety Zoo Kid "Out Getting Ribs" When Archy Marshall—now known as King Krule, once known as Zoo Kid—released “Out Getting Ribs” he was a meek-looking 15-year-old with violent red hair, big ears, and a voice that sounded like it had been submerged in warm beer, raked over coals, and then dragged through a bunch of sawdust. It was a shock hearing that come from someone who was only a teenager and looked even younger. What was even more shocking, though, was how Marshall integrated his influences: some of Elvis’ swagger, dank dubby echoes, and a fractured, laconic guitar lick that tangles and splays out around Marshall’s bile-filled yelp, which occasionally slinks into a defeated mutter. Since that song’s release, Marshall’s expanded his world: injecting jazzy flourishes into his music and collaborating with rappers, but even with all that new context, “Out Getting Ribs” still sounds like the work of a lonely old soul tapping into something ominous and true. —Sam Hockley-Smith "Falling" “I can feel the eyes are watching us so closely,” Danielle Haim coos on the first song of her eponymous sister act’s first proper album, which arrived after a solid year of blog-brewed buzz, and the predictably attendant skepticism over their prefab kinder-pop past and Hollywood connections. The only rational response to such intense scrutiny? Dance like no one’s looking. For all its studio-sculpted precision, “Falling” is ultimately about the messy maelstrom of emotions that the best pop music readily elicits: the heart-racing hot flashes, the weak-kneed elation, the dizzying weightlessness. And as the song piles on all manner of pleasure principles—punched-in string fills, ’80s cop-flick guitar squeals, resort-band drum rolls, ping-ponged harmonies—“Falling” becomes its own proof of concept. “Nothing’s gonna wake me now, 'cause I’m a slave to the sound,” Danielle declares just as the song reaches lift-off, an open invitation to join her for a tango in the night. —Stuart Berman "Childhood's End" Because of his intimate first-person lyrics and compelling stage presence (imagine a sensitive, strong hardcore guy into Leonard Cohen), it's natural to think of Majical Cloudz as one person, vocalist Devon Welsh. It's his diary we're hearing, and his manly baritone delivering it. That feeling's amplified by the video for "Childhood's End", which stars Welsh's father, Kenneth Welsh, the actor who played the villain Windom Earle on "Twin Peaks". In the clip, Welsh, playing a melancholic Henry Darger figure, is older than you remember him, and more fragile. And the song discusses a father's death, childhood ending, mortality ("Our fate, it is sealed/ At birth we made a deal"), and feeling all that weight but accepting it. On its own or with the visual, it’s the perfect example of Majical Cloudz's ability to make the personal universal. —Brandon Stosuy "Queen of Hearts" Fucked Up's ideological bent insists equally on rulemaking and rule-breaking. They smash through the formal constraints of hardcore punk so easily that they build extra sets of restrictions for themselves just to make it more of a challenge. Like all the other songs on their mammoth punk opera David Comes to Life, "Queen of Hearts" has a three-word title, the weight of plot and character and setting and concept to carry, and lyrics delivered on the business end of Damian Abraham's battering-ram scream. (In this case, they're about an exhausted factory worker falling in love with a political activist.) But when Cults' Madeline Follin turns up to sing (sing!) the part of the activist, Veronica, a whole other thing is happening. The band's instrumental attack remains stalwart and unbowed, but Follin's voice turns "Queen of Hearts" into luminous pop--the same kind of instant, complete transformation the song describes. —Douglas Wolk Fucked Up: "Queen of Hearts" "Danny Glover" Young Thug feels like an end point. The eccentric Atlanta rapper’s vocal manipulation and disregard for basic rules of hip-hop makes a Lil Wayne even at his most out-there feel dangerously close to normal. “Danny Glover” thrives on its delivery as Young Thug’s cadence hops across a dozen different lanes, never simply settling on one. The unresolved tension when his voice is placed on the blown bass of an 808 Mafia beat causes an almost immediate reaction. The inclination isn’t to bob your head; it’s to jump, flex, and swing every way your body allows, following each ad-lib as it opens a portal into another world. —David Turner Young Thug: "Danny Glover" (via SoundCloud) LaFace "Shine Blockas" [ft. Gucci Mane] Daddy Fat Sax couldn't catch a break. Around the turn of the decade, as OutKast's prolonged post-Idlewild hiatus started to look an awful lot like a permanent split, Sir Lucious Left Foot—Big Boi's long-promised solo debut—sat gathering dust in major-label purgatory. After floating a string of increasingly spectacular singles onto the internet, Big Boi tweeted out "Shine Blockas", in which he and a near-peak-era Gucci Mane just float over Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes for four solid minutes. "Blockas" remains one of the young decade's most powerful mood-enhancers; while La Fleur shouts out Madea and hastily rolls 150 kush blunts, a 'lac-riding, safe-stuffing Big Boi—one of the greats, past and present—employs his perennially legit penmanship to big-up himself. The breezy, utterly beauteous "Shine Blockas" is a song about doing what you do, and doing it damn well, an utterly effortless performance from just about the last guy in the world anybody should've counted out. It wasn't long after "Shine Blockas" arrived to near-universal raves that Lucious Left Foot finally got itself a release date. You might almost say he called it: "tryna block my shine just ain't gon' happen, so don't try." —Paul Thompson Big Boi: "Shine Blockas" [ft. Gucci Mane] "Solitude Is Bliss" Fuckin' stoners, man. "Solitude Is Bliss"? Going full Spicoli on a first impression is risky, but for Perth psych saviors Tame Impala, the pizza was already on its way to the classroom. As the lead single from their voluminous debut full-length Innerspeaker, "Solitude Is Bliss" could've easily been dismissed as the sound of another group of young dudes rifling through their parents' record collections. All the warning signs were proudly on display: Innerspeaker's infinity mirror cover art, the tubular, delay-drenched guitars, the chunky, tumbling drums. At one point, those drums cool out for a second as frontman Kevin Parker actually sings, "There's a party in my head, and no one is invited." But wait a minute now. In the hands of a lesser band, all this black-lit bong-rattling would have scanned as regurgitation, leaving Tame Impala to be tossed on the heap with every other acid damaged late-’60s revival act. In the hands of Parker and co., however, "Solitude Is Bliss" is an exercise in constraint and precision, a rare rock song that's both melty and invigorating. Tethered to the insistent charge of its central hook, Tame Impala never had a chance to float too far away from that rocket-powered ship. It's a little beheaded and bloodshot, sure, but still makes for one hell of an introduction. —Zach Kelly Pitchfork Music Festivals: Chicago / Paris / Berlin Follow Pitchfork on Facebook Follow Pitchfork on Twitter Follow Pitchfork on Instagram Follow Pitchfork on Tumblr Follow Pitchfork on Snapchat © 2018 Condé Nast. All rights reserved. Use of and/or registration on any portion of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement (updated as of 1/1/21) and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement (updated as of 1/1/21). Your California Privacy Rights. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with prior written permission of Condé Nast. Ad Choices. CN Entertainment.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line1149
__label__cc	0.63542	0.36458	America Under Attack Finally … An Admission It Is All About Trump Hate Jan 18, 2021 \| America Under Attack The Rise of the Tech Oligarchy – The First Overt Collusion of Big Tech White House Officials Resign Over Capitol Siege by Alice Green \| Jan 11, 2021 \| 1 News Media Must Stop Promoting Death Threats by Larry Horist \| Dec 7, 2020 \| 0 NYC: Crime Spikes After Police Reform by Alice Green \| Dec 3, 2020 \| 0 The Dangerous Policy of Ruling by Executive Orders Jan 18, 2021 \| Politics and Elections Republicans Who Voted for Trump's Impeachment Trump’s Personality Finally Did Him In by Larry Horist \| Jan 13, 2021 \| 12 Amazon Ends Relationship With Parler After Capitol Protest Another Meaningless Impeachment? by Larry Horist \| Jan 11, 2021 \| 1 Who Engages in Real Sedition? Jan 19, 2021 \| Propaganda Nancy Pelosi and Her Dangerous Tactic of Provoking Civil Unrest Parler Suing Amazon for Contract Breach Joe Biden's Campaign Fueled by Dark Money CNN and MSNBC Have Become Anti-News Networks Sheldon Adelson Dies at Age 87 Jan 14, 2021 \| World The World is Growing More Concerned About China Jan 4, 2021 \| World Trump Withdraws from Open Skies Treaty Dec 2, 2020 \| World NRA Files for Bankruptcy; Moves to Texas Jan 18, 2021 \| Individual Liberty Message to Rioters and Looters World Leaders Oppose President Trump Twitter Ban Is Big Tech Censorship Legal? Radio Hosts Banned From Talking About Election Fraud by Alice Green \| Jan 11, 2021 \| 19 Democrats to Betray Silicon Valley Posted by Alice Green \| Oct 5, 2020 \| 8 Democratic lawmakers are pushing to break up Big Tech companies following the completion of an investigation by the House Antitrust Subcommittee. The 15-month investigation involved more than 1 million documents and a hearing with the CEOs of Google, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook. Investigation lead Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI) is expected to propose a sort of “Glass-Steagall for the Internet” that would force Big Tech companies to separate their platforms from other businesses. For example, Amazon could be banned from competing with sellers on its own website and Google could be forced to stop advertising its services alongside search engine results. “You can’t set all the rules, control the marketplace, and also sell on it, in the way that Amazon does,” argues Cicilline. Republicans largely agree with Cicilline’s concerns, though they worry how the subcommittee’s proposal could affect Big Tech’s power in digital markets as well as other industries that operate online. “I don’t think there’s any doubt that both sides think there is a problem,” says Rep. Kelly Armstrong (R-ND). “We would be better served by attacking very narrow problem sets and seeing if we could come up with a solution.” Critics insist that consumers should be responsible for their own choices and that platform separation would make it harder for companies to make a profit. “The consumer is the one ultimately making the decisions,” argues Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. “They’re making the decisions about what to buy, what price to buy it at, who to buy it from.” It’s true that consumers are making their own decisions, but the way Amazon prioritizes its own products in search results can make it difficult to find third-party sellers. “One feature dominant digital platforms share is that they have integrated across business lines such that they both operate a platform and market their own goods and services on it,” argues Lina Khan, a top staffer for Mr. Cicilline. “This structure places dominant platforms in direct competition with some of the businesses that depend on them, creating a conflict of interest that platforms can exploit to further entrench their dominance, thwart competition, and stifle innovation.” In the meantime, the Trump Administration continues to investigate Google and Facebook for antitrust violations and could bring lawsuits against those companies. Neither Trump nor Biden have called to break up Big Tech companies. Author’s Note: Ironic that the Dems are encouraging competition (i.e. capitalism) in an industry fiercely loyal to the Democratic Party. House Democrats to call for Big Tech Breakups PreviousThrowing Mueller under the bus NextPresident Trump to Ban Communists from Entering US The 100(?) day election countdown Pelosi: ‘We’re already working on CARES 2’ Michael Avenatti Found Guilty on all Counts in Nike Scheme General Michael Flynn Free – All Charges Dropped Tommie on October 5, 2020 at 11:43 am LMBO!!!!! Connie on October 5, 2020 at 12:00 pm Critics say it will be harder for companies to make a profit. Aren’t these critics the same people who hate corporations – hate big business – hate rich people? The critics of breaking up the tech companies are the ones pushing for socialism….including Bezos. They all fall into the “Do as I say, not as I do” Democratic party. Alice Green on October 6, 2020 at 2:00 pm I agree. Once again, the Dems are showing us the definition of hypocrisy. RedBull on October 5, 2020 at 2:43 pm Yea, right, Bezos is a critic of anybody who would upend his power. Who’d a thought it?! This is just ridiculous that they control the flow of information and then try to tell us that based on the flow of that information we’re making decisions for ourselves. What a lie. They need to be broken up, all of them. – Fix the big tech monopolies – Stop the lying media – Fire the deep state scoundrels And then let America breathe again! Steve Ford on October 6, 2020 at 12:08 pm Every so often a farmer/rancher has to drain his stock ponds to scrape the bottom and muck it out. Toxins and chemical debris will at times buildup across the bottom and it has to be cleaned out. Mucking out a pond is a nasty business, but is necessary to do. Our President Trump is just such a man we voters made responsible for “mucking out the swamp.” A nasty business, and what the normal mostly Democrat out there does not understand that when in the bottom of the pond, one does not quit the mucking till the job is finished. No one can come for a cool and clean drink of water till the job is done. A rough analogy perhaps, but the bottom line is that nothing can survive if we all continue to drink from a toxic and dirty pond, ie; swamp. So back your ears folks, and get into the swamp and do your part to muck out the toxicity that has built up over the past 75 years. Washing DC is a stinking, toxic place and needs to get a mucking like we never seen before. Proud American on October 6, 2020 at 2:30 pm Boy, do I agree with you!! That swamp has existed and grown for decades and is now toxic to the people of America and needs to be cleaned out as soon as possible! demon rats don’t want it exposed as too many will probably face legal charges and pay the price for their crimes! Trump is not a play the game politician, but a businessman who saw what needed to be done and won the election to the great horror of Demon rats. There is so much crime and debauchery in DC that it makes the Mafia and crime cartels look like PTA a meetings! Hooray Trump, keepcleaning,the swamp creatures are being exposed and fighting back, but together we can win! Proud American Bessie bragg on October 6, 2020 at 2:32 pm KenM on October 7, 2020 at 6:27 pm I do believe something needs to be done about the big tech monopoly, but every time the Democrats come up with some comprehensive program to deal with a situation, it is fraught with unforeseen consequences. Why is it that Congress can never pass legislation that deals only with a single issue and that all programs once enacted are set in stone never to be undone?	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line1157
__label__wiki	0.642337	0.642337	Quaterra’s Story Why Yerington Cautionary note and forward looking statement Quaterra’s Yerington Copper Projects Groundhog Project 2020 Shareholder Materials Financials and Forms Why Copper? Quaterra’s JV Partner Grande Portage Announces 6.46 Meters Of 21.55 Grams Per Tonne Gold At Herbert Glacier Project, Alaska Earlier results have been upgraded with receipt of new metallic screened assays VANCOUVER, B.C. — Quaterra Resources Inc. today announced its joint venture partner Grande Portage Resources Ltd. has released new assay results from three additional diamond drill holes from the Deep Trench vein and one from the Main Vein on its Herbert Glacier gold project located 30 kilometers north of Juneau, Alaska. Hole 311D intersected high grade mineralization in the Deep Trench vein consisting of 6.46 metres (3.42-meters true thickness) of 21.55 grams per tonne gold (0.629 ounces per ton) in a quartz vein showing visible flakes of gold. Another intercept 9.6 meters deeper in the same hole returned 2.32 meters (1.23-meters true thickness) of 4.18 grams per tonne (gpt) gold. Results from other 311 Platform holes include an intercept in 311C of 2.25 metres (1.98-meters true thickness) of 21.22 gpt gold. The strong gold mineralization seen in the 311 Platform holes is located in the shallower portion of the high-grade zone intersected by some of the G Pad holes reported in earlier releases. A map at the end of this release shows the hole locations. The map is also available on the Quaterra website. Bonanza results from hole 311A, reported in the previous release, have been upgraded by the receipt of new metallic screened assays. The 8.08-metre interval from 36.06 meters to 44.14 meters (5.66-meters true thickness) now shows 59.91 gpt (1.749 opt) which includes a 3.58-meter interval of 117.54 gpt (3.432 opt). The best intercept within this zone was a 0.53-meter sample from 37.45 meters to 37.98 meters which returned 365 gpt (10.658 opt) gold. The first results of drilling this season on the Main Vein from the O Platform include an intercept of 3.12 meters (2.84-meters true thickness) showing 13.85 gpt gold. Results from the other 10 holes from this platform are pending and visible gold was seen in several of these holes. Grande Portage’s larger drill rig is now drilling the Goat Creek vein which is the northernmost of the three drill-tested parallel mesothermal veins that make up the Herbert Glacier project. All five holes drilled to date have intersected well-mineralized structures with the third hole having two intercepts showing flakes of visible gold. The deepest gold bearing zone is a 1.2-meter quartz vein with galena, arsenopyrite and particles of free gold throughout. These strong early results of drilling on the Goat Vein are encouraging. The following table summarizes the new results which have been received since the last news release: True, m Gr/t Oz/ton 12O-1 One of the new vein targets which occurs near the western end of the Deep Trench vein is currently being drilled with the smaller rig. Strong visible gold encountered in core from this platform occurs in a steeply-dipping, northeast-striking vein which may be a splay of the Deep Trench vein. Core logging and processing of the core for sampling and storage is done at a secure location in Juneau. Analytical testing of the core samples has been conducted by ALS Canada Ltd., with the sample preparation being done in Anchorage, AK, and analysis of the samples by the Vancouver, B.C., laboratory. Methods include metallic screening for coarse gold, fire assays, and multi-element ICP analysis. The Herbert Glacier prospect is in the historic Juneau Gold Belt, formerly a world class district with producers such the A-J and Treadwell mines and many smaller gold mines and prospects. The district has been reactivated by the reopening of Couer Alaska’s Kensington gold mine located northwest of the Herbert Glacier property. Strong community support has also been demonstrated for the Green’s Creek Mine, a massive sulfide deposit containing silver, gold and zinc located in a parallel trend 20 kilometers to the west. Grande Portage and Quaterra Resources have formed a 65/35 joint venture for the further exploration and development of the property with each party bearing their proportionate costs. This news release has been prepared and approved by Carl Hale, CPG, a geologist with more than 40 years’ experience and a Qualified Person as defined under NI43-101. Mr. Hale is supported by C.C. Hawley, Ph.D., CPG, of Hawley Resource Group, Inc. and Alaska Earth Sciences, Inc. of Anchorage, Alaska. Shares issued Quaterra has issued 22,727 shares to Roman Friedrich & Company Ltd. at a deemed price of $0.33 per share in consideration of certain financial and advisory services provided to the Company pursuant to an agreement dated April 15, 2011. Quaterra Resources Inc. (NYSE Amex: QMM; TSX-V: QTA) is a junior exploration company focused on making significant mineral discoveries in North America. The Company uses in-house expertise and its network of consultants, prospectors and industry contacts to identify, acquire and evaluate prospects in mining-friendly jurisdictions with the potential to host large and/or high-grade base and precious metal deposits. “Thomas Patton” Dr. Thomas Patton, President and CEO, Quaterra Resources Inc. Lauren Stope, Manager Communications Quaterra Resources Inc. Should you wish to receive news releases by fax please provide your contact details to Quaterra at 604-681-9059 (direct), 1-855-681-9059 (toll free) or email info@quaterra.com. Some statements contained in this news release are forward-looking statements within the safe harbor of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements generally are identified by words such as the Company “believes”, “expects”, and similar language, or convey estimates and statements that describe the Company’s future plans, objectives or goals. Since forward-looking statements are based on assumptions and address future events and conditions, by their very nature they involve inherent risks and uncertainties. Further information regarding risks and uncertainties which may cause results to differ materially from those projected in forward-looking statements, are included in filings by the Company with securities regulatory authorities. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date thereof. The Company does not undertake to update any forward-looking statement that may be made from time to time except in accordance with applicable securities laws. References may be made in this press release to historic mineral resource estimates. None of these are NI 43-101 compliant and a qualified person has not done sufficient work to classify these historic estimates as a current mineral resource. They should not be relied upon and Quaterra does not treat them as current mineral resources. Expanded information on the Company’s projects is described on our website at www.quaterra.com or contact Lauren Stope at 604-641-2746 or email: info@quaterra.com The TSX Venture Exchange and the American Stock Exchange have not reviewed and do not accept responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of the contents of this news release, which has been prepared by management. 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__label__wiki	0.552983	0.552983	Religion Dispatches Christians Must Confront the Lies at the Heart of Whiteness Attack on the US Capitol Has Many Journos Finally Taking White Evangelical Authoritarianism and Christian Nationalism Seriously It’s Time to Put an End to Virginia’s Racist Death Penalty Politics/Law We Can’t Have Religious Freedom Without Reproductive Freedom As We Survey the Damage of Yesterday’s Violence, What Will Christian Nationalist Politics Look Like in 2021? New Report Offers Clues Rep. Cleaver’s ‘Awoman’ Prayer Enrages Christian Nationalists Who Taste Their Own Medicine and Still Miss the Point Sex/Gender/Justice It’s Time for Democrats to Read the Bible Verses on the Wall and Stop Courting White Evangelicals We Can Finally Put the Lie to Trumpism: 5 Myths Debunked By a Biden Victory 11 Election Tweets to Amuse, Infuriate, Enlighten, and Amuse You Watch: Is The Religious Left a Mirage or Are Journalists Just Missing the Story? Pulitzer-Prize Winning Historian’s Latest Reveals the Problem with Today’s ‘Religious Freedom’ ‘God Made Them Male and Female…and Eunuch’: Why the Biblical Case For Binary Gender Isn’t So… Biblical By Becky Garrison (A)theologies, Politics/Law June 22, 2009 Reports of the Death of the Episcopal Church are Greatly Exaggerated “The Lord is displacing the Episcopal Church.” This pronouncement was made back in December by Bishop Bob Duncan, of the newly formed Anglican Church in North America (ACNA). A quick scan of the media coverage of the new church reveals that the press has by and large bought this line, and gone along with the story that a select group of missional mavericks have ridden into crumbling church buildings as the white knights destined by God to preserve the “one true Episcopal church.” While the media seems snookered by the idea that the US Episcopal Church has become moribund, one should not make the mistake of extrapolating from trend to the end. While ongoing Anglican antics by select liberals and conservatives representing the more polar extremes of Anglicanism make Monty Python’s Bishop sketch pale by comparison, the US Episcopal Church “is not dead yet.” When I interviewed author Phyllis Tickle, she placed this current crisis into a much-needed historical perspective: As Bishop Mark Dyer has observed, about every five hundred years, the church feels compelled to have a giant rummage sale. During the last such upheaval the Great Reformation of five hundred years ago, Protestantism took over hegemony. But Roman Catholicism did not die. It just had to drop back and reconfigure. Each time a rummage sale has happened, in other words, whatever held pride of place simply gets broken apart into smaller pieces, and then it picks itself up and to use Diana Butler Bass’ term, “re-traditions.” Such historical nuances are notably absent in the current coverage of this Anglican “crisis.” Granted Henry VIII’s Tudor tirades presented a rather dubious background to the founding of the Anglican Communion—not to mention Bloody Mary’s BBQ of Archbishop Cranmer and Bishops Latimer and Ridley, as well as the role the Anglican Church played in the global colonization of the British Empire. When Christianity Today reported that for the past ten years, the Anglican Communion had been embattled due to controversies over sex, power, theology, and money, they were only off by about five hundred years. Moving back to the other side of the pond, we must remember that the crises arising in American Episcopal circles following the Revolutionary and Civil Wars presented far greater hurdles than this current Bible battle. This is hardly the “biggest” split and challenge for Anglicans, as reported by the Washington Post and the New York Times, respectively. Moreover, when the Wall Street Journal terms this debate a “schism,” it brings to mind a Christian catastrophe like the Great Schism of 1064 that separated Roman Catholics from their Eastern Orthodox brethren. In comparison, a group of 100,000 Anglicans defecting from the 80 million member Anglican Communion resembled a case of the spiritual sniffles. Furthermore, those who choose to interpret Anglicanism through contemporary evangelical eyes fail to see the full polity picture. Historically, while Anglicans do not reach a universal consensus on a number of social and political issues, they come together through their common worship as found in The Book of Common Prayer. Having found unity in communion, they return to the pews to continue their disagreements. Such an ethos informed the Lambeth Conference, a gathering of bishops every ten years. Lambeth functions more like a gathering of international church councils to discuss common concerns than a group formed to enact doctrine that must be followed by all Anglicans. (Those wishing a more detailed analysis of Anglican polity can start by checking out Garret Keizer’s article in Harper’s.) A meeting such as the GAFCON (the Global Anglican Future Conference), arranged in Jerusalem by these breakaway bishops, demonstrated a clear Anglican gaffe that was largely ignored by media reports. For instance, the Jerusalem Post reported that it was “a meeting for ‘orthodox’ Anglicans to be getting on with things, doing the work of the church.” Such analysis is refuted by Dr. Tom Wright, Bishop of Durham, who observed, “The rationale of GAFCON is: ‘The Communion is finished; nothing new can happen; it’s time to split.’ No mention is made of the Windsor report, the proposed Anglican Covenant, or, indeed, the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Advent letter, insisting as it does on scriptural authority, which GAFCON seems to regard as its monopoly.” The effectiveness of this gathering appears to be exaggerated by the organizers. While some bishops chose to attend GAFCON in lieu of Lambeth, a much greater percentage of traditionalist and conservative bishops chose to remain within the Anglican Communion. In an Archbishop’s Pastoral Letter to Bishops of the Anglican Communion, Dr. Rowan Williams offered his personal reflections on the Lambeth Conference. In this letter, he emphasized the need for bishops to remain in communion while debating their differences: There was much support for the idea of a “Pastoral Forum” as a means of addressing present and future tensions, and as a clearinghouse for proposals concerning the care of groups at odds with dominant views within their Provinces, so as to avoid the confusing situation of violations of provincial boundaries and competing jurisdictions. This letter seems to make it unlikely that this breakaway province will be welcomed as full members during Lambeth 2018. When these renegade bishops sounded the shofar, as reported by Jeff Sharlet, they engaged in yet another gesture that proved how beneath their cassocks, these Anglican reformers are actually reformed evangelicals. Perhaps a bit of digging might have unearthed the real reasons why evangelical Wheaton College was chosen as the site to announce this split instead of a more Episcopal setting. In particular, these bishops’ evangelical focus on sola scriptura topples the three-legged stool of scripture, tradition, and reason which forms the basis for Anglican theology. Such a theological shift raises far more concerns than questions about consecrating women bishops or openly gay clergy. (Emphasis on the word “openly” for homosexuals have always been present among the ranks of the ordained clergy.) Also, one must take into account the pressure the increasingly powerful Global South, and the role select conservative bishops played in the formation of this province. Since the 1960s, church membership has grown by unprecedented amounts in the Global South. The Province of Nigeria now constitutes some 18 million members, making it the second largest province of the Anglican Church. Such statistics can give these archbishops considerable clout in pushing their agendas. One does have to question why select bishops chose to exert their influence around issues pertaining to homosexuality. Wouldn’t their provinces be better served if they had directed their efforts toward another resolution raised at Lambeth 1998 that called for international debt relief? Or lauding Lambeth 2008 for making the Millennium Development Goals one of the Anglican Communion’s top priorities? (To to be fair, the extreme liberal wing of the US Episcopal church managed to keep homosexuality at the forefront during church conventions, often to the expense of other key social issues.) Lost in this entire debate are initiatives endorsed by the Archbishop of Canterbury that seem to be moving the Anglican Church forward as it remembers its past. For example, the Archbishop of Canterbury joined 500 pilgrims for a day of devotion and worship that brought together fresh expressions of the church and the Catholic tradition of the Church of England. Also, the Archbishop is an official patron of Greenbelt UK, an international social justice and arts festival that draws close to 20,000 international visitors each year. Such developments point to a phoenix rising from the Anglican ashes. One has to wonder why the media ignores initiatives endorsed by the Archbishop of Canterbury—choosing instead to profile a group of errant evangelicals, who are riding roughshod over centuries of church history. anglicananglican church in north americaepiscopalianevangelicalleadership strugglesphyllis ticklerowan williams Becky Garrison Becky Garrison contributes to a range of outlets including The Humanist, Killing the Buddha, American Atheist, Beverage Master, Grapevine, and Fresh Toast. Her eight books include Roger Williams’s Little Book of Virtues (Wipf & Stock, 2020), and Red and Blue God, Black and Blue Church (Jossey-Bass, 2006). Latest Posts By Becky Garrison Books to Give this Holiday Season to Help Understand the World We’ve Found Ourselves in (and to Help Reimagine a Better One) Will the US Naval Academy Grant The Satanic Temple Equal Rites? ‘High Church’ Chronicles: Will Anglican Blessing of Medical Marijuana Open the Door to a Royal Strain? Previous articleI Owe, Therefore I Am: Why Struggling Against the Banks is a Holy Obligation Next articleO(Pinn)ion: God’s Little Soldiers: Procreation as a Weapon How a Catholic-Majority SCOTUS Fulfilled an Evangelical Dream The ‘Pro-Family’ Movement Has Little to Say About Family Separation Is #MeToo Misogyny ‘Unbiblical’? Southern Baptist Women Test Limits of Biblical Inerrancy #RDISPATCHES @AmarAmarasingam: 1. There has been a lot of talk about QAnon and a well-known body of work in the sociology of religion/social psychology called the “failure of prophecy”. A new piece by me and @_MAArgentino for @RDispatches, and a short thread: https://t.co/EhHl5eqgcd Tomorrow is #ReligiousFreedomDay, a good time to recall that there is no #ReligiousFreedom without #ReproductiveFreedom. @RewireNewsGroup @FFRF @seculardotorg https://t.co/mLopHtUC2e @mervatim Zoomatism. Zoomatic Fever. Follow @RDispatches GET THE WORD \| RD Newsletter in Your Mailbox Our newest stories, in your inbox. How Frequently? Religion Dispatches is your independent, non-profit, award-winning source for the best writing on critical and timely issues at the intersection of religion, politics, and culture. © Religion Dispatches	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line1166
__label__cc	0.734781	0.265219	Øster Voldgade 10, 1350 København K, 03, Building: 03.1.361 ln@ign.ku.dk https://ign.ku.dk/ Phone: +45 35 32 24 54Mobile: +45 24 42 47 06Fax: +45 33 14 83 22 Evolution of the Rømø barrier island in the Wadden Sea: Impacts of sea-level change on coastal morphodynamics Clemmensen, Lars B, Andersen, Thorbjørn Joest, Johannessen, P., Nielsen, L. H. R., Nielsen, Lars & Pejrup, Morten, 2010. 1 p. Internal architecture of a raised beach ridge system (Anholt, Denmark) resolved by ground-penetrating radar investigation Clemmensen, Lars B & Nielsen, Lars, 2010, In : Sedimentary Geology. 223, p. 281-290 Green, A., Nielsen, Lars & Juhlin, C., 2010, In : Journal of Applied Geophysics. 70, 4, p. 267 1 p. Monitoring three-dimensional moisture content development in the unsaturated zone using cross-borehole geophysical methods: Exploring the lateral flow Haarder, E. B., Zibar, Majken Caroline Looms, Nielsen, Lars, Jensen, Karsten Høgh & Binley, A., Dec 2010. Architecture of an Upper Jurassic barrier island sandstone reservoir, Danish Central Graben: Johannessen, P. N., Nielsen, L. H., Nielsen, Lars, Møller, I., Pejrup, Morten & Andersen, Thorbjørn Joest, 2010, In : Petroleum Geology Conference series. 7, p. 145-155 7 p. How a barrier island may react on a sea-level rise: The Holocene to Recent Rømø barrier island, Danish Wadden Sea Johannessen, P. N., Nielsen, L. H., Møller, I., Nielsen, Lars, Pejrup, Morten, Andersen, Thorbjørn Joest, Madsen, A. T., Clemmensen, Lars B & Murray, A. S., 2010. 1 p. Sedimentary architecture of a Holocene to Recent micro-tidal barrier island in the Danish Wadden Sea area based on morphology and processes, cores, GPR sections and OSL datings Johannessen, P. N., Nielsen, L. H., Møller, I., Nielsen, Lars, Pejrup, Morten & Andersen, Thorbjørn Joest, 2010. 1 p. Geostatistical inference using crosshole ground-penetrating radar Zibar, Majken Caroline Looms, Hansen, T. M., Cordua, K. S., Nielsen, Lars, Jensen, Karsten Høgh & Binley, A., 2010, In : Geophysics. 75, 6, p. J29-J41 Characterisation of carbonate rocks from near-surface cross-hole and reflection GPR investigations - A case study from southeast Zealand, Denmark Nielsen, Lars, Zibar, Majken Caroline Looms, Hansen, Thomas Mejer, Cordua, K. S. & Stemmerik, L., 2010. 1 p. Estimation of Chalk Heterogeneity from Stochastic Modeling Conditioned by Crosshole GPR Traveltimes and Log Data Nielsen, Lars, Zibar, Majken Caroline Looms, Hansen, T. M., Cordua, K. S. & Stemmerik, L., 2010, Advances in Near-surface Seismology and Ground-penetrating Radar. D. Miller, R., H. Bradford, J. & Holliger, K. (eds.). Tulsa, OK USA, Vol. 15. p. 379-398 20 p. (Geophysical Developments Series, Vol. 15). Zibar, Majken Caroline Looms, Hansen, Thomas Mejer, Cordua, K. S., Nielsen, Lars, Jensen, Karsten Høgh & Binley, A., 2010, In : Geophysics. 75, 6, p. J29-J41 Holocene relative sea level variations at the spit system Feddet (Denmark) resolved by ground-penetrating radar and geomorphological data	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line1171
__label__wiki	0.675767	0.675767	Our Work – မိမိတို့၏အလုပ် ABOUT PROGRESSIVE VOICE – ရှေ့ပြေးအသံအကြောင်း RULE OF LAW – တရားဥပဒေ စိုးမိုးရေး GOVERNANCE REFORMS – အုပ်ချုပ်ရေး ပြုပြင်ပြောင်းလဲမှု SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT – ရေရှည်တည်တံ့ခိုင်မြဲသည့် ဖွံ့ဖြိုးတိုးတက်မှု MYANMAR NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION – မြန်မာနိုင်ငံအမျိုးသားလူ့အခွင့်အရေးကော်မရှင် Resources – မှီငြမ်းစရာများ PRESS RELEASES – သတင်းထုတ်ပြန်ချက်များ STATEMENTS – ထုတ်ပြန်ကြေညာချက်များ REPORTS – အစီရင်ခံစာများ BLOG POSTS – ဘလောဂ့် PV in the News – သတင်းများထဲမှ ရှေ့ပြေးအသံ Contact us – ဆက်သွယ်ရန် Mailing List Sign-up – နောက်ဆုံးသတင်းအခြေအနေလက်ခံရယူရန် Posted February 18th, 2017 • Posted in Statements • Author: ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights APHR: International investigation still needed to address alleged atrocities in Myanmar’s Rakhine State ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR) today welcomed reports that the Myanmar military had halted its brutal counterinsurgency campaign in northern Rakhine State, but stressed that an independent inquiry is still needed to investigate alleged atrocities in the context of its operations. “Declaring an end to the crackdown does not absolve the Myanmar government of its responsibility to protect its people and ensure that they are not subjected to abuse. We’re talking about possible crimes against humanity here. This is not business as usual in ASEAN,” said APHR Chairperson Charles Santiago, a member of the Malaysian Parliament. On 15 February, Myanmar’s newly-appointed National Security Advisor, Thaung Tun, announced that the Myanmar military had ended its to so-called “clearance operations” in northern Rakhine State, which were launched over four months ago in response to a 9 October attack on police outposts there. “The regional and international pressure that led to this outcome must be sustained,” Santiago said. “Our job is not done. We must ensure that there is no impunity for rights violations. This task demands a credible, independent investigation—one which Myanmar authorities have thus far demonstrated they are unwilling or unable to carry out.” A 3 February report by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) asserted a high likelihood that crimes against humanity and possibly ethnic cleansing were taking place in Rakhine State. Based on interviews with around 200 of the nearly 70,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, who fled their homes in Rakhine State since the start of the crackdown, the report documented devastating accounts of killing, torture, and sexual violence. “The UN’s exhaustive first-hand reporting further corroborates the claims human rights organizations and independent media have been making for months: possible ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. These are serious, credible allegations, and the stakes are enormous. They further confirm the need for a thorough, independent investigation. And international assistance in this process is vital, as the Myanmar government has consistently demonstrated its inability to act alone,” Santiago said. “The Myanmar government’s repeated denials of rights violations demonstrate that Naypyitaw has no interest in resolving the situation or addressing underlying issues. The fact that security forces have been tasked with investigating themselves and rooting out abusers in their own ranks speaks for itself. There isn’t even a half-hearted attempt at impartiality or independence.” On 14 February, members of the Myanmar government’s Rakhine Investigation Commission, headed by Vice President and former army general Myint Swe, flatly rejected allegations by the United Nations of grave rights violations. These comments echoed previous statements and reports from the Commission, as well as from other government bodies. In recent days, the military and police have also set up separate teams to investigate allegations of human rights abuses by their own members. APHR urged regional governments to assume a larger role in pressing Myanmar to address rights concerns. MPs also supported calls for further UN action, including the formation of a commission of inquiry, following the release of the 3 February report. Parliamentarians called on ASEAN governments to support such an investigation and push for improvements in conditions for Rohingya, arguing that the Myanmar government’s actions in Rakhine State have a direct impact on other member states and the region as a whole. “ASEAN governments need to work together to resolve this situation before it’s too late. That doesn’t mean playing the usual ASEAN game. It means stepping up and pushing for change,” Santiago said. “It is disappointing to hear some ASEAN leaders lament the ‘internationalization’ of this issue. This is undeniably a regional issue—not an internal affair—and it demands a regional response.” Download the statement in English HERE. Human Rights Watch’s World Report 2018: Burma Events of 2017 2017 in History as Watershed Year for Human Rights Situation in Myanmar Myanmar Must Act to Prevent Violence Against Women in Conflict and Provide Justice for Victims Experts of the Independent International Fact Finding Mission on Myanmar conclude visit to Bangladesh Crisis in Rakhine State Progressive Voice is a participatory rights-based policy research and advocacy organization rooted in civil society, that maintains strong networks and relationships with grassroots organizations and community-based organizations throughout Myanmar. It acts as a bridge to the international community and international policymakers by amplifying voices from the ground, and advocating for a rights-based policy narrative. 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__label__cc	0.746306	0.253694	EU should focus assistance to Egypt on population and education Three years after the “Arab Spring” Egypt is much worse off than during the Mubarak era. The Military are firmly in control and prepare for being “legitimised” by the forthcoming Presidential elections. Democracy and rule of law are farther away than ever. The economy is in shambles. Tourism has been severely hurt and energy supply depends on emergency oil supplies from the Gulf countries. Necessary short-term actions must not blind the actors against the structural burdens the country faces; and Europe should offer its help tackle them. These burdens are largely linked to its population explosion which is bound to provoke rising social frustration. Egypt’s population has almost doubled since 1975, from 45 million to 85 million people in 2013, becoming the biggest country in this part of the world, exceeding the populations of both Turkey and Germany. With some 120 million projected for 2050 it is expected to overtake also Russia and Japan. The population bulge will confront Egypt with four major issues: job creation: how to find jobs for a young population that already suffers from more than 13 per cent registered unemployment in an unattractive business environment; social services: how to finance schools, hospitals, water/energy supply and housing for a rising population concentrated in crowded urban areas; resources: how to provide more than 100 million citizens with water, food and energy, which proves already difficult for the present population; de-concentration: Egypt will have to “colonise” the desert to relieve the demographic concentration in the fertile plains along the Nile, an expensive and long-term process that has begun. The rapid population increase will become very costly and require huge private and public investments. In the last few years per capita income has stagnated, the growth of the economy not exceeding that of the population of almost two per cent, hampering job creation and urgently required investments for energy, infrastructure and water supply. Without multi-billion dollar assistance by the Gulf countries the socio-economic situation of the country would be even more precarious. During the 1980-90`s Egypt had actively tackled population growth; but due to the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood during last few years population growth has surged again. The secular military regime is likely to be more open for an active population policy, especially in the country side where women lack the knowledge and willingness to restrain their offspring. That is why the EU should explore the government`s readiness for a long-term population programme, which should combine education and distribution of contraceptives, in particular to women in the countryside. Having already been involved in financing female school programmes in rural regions the EU would only have to add a birth control dimension to these programmes, which might be entrusted to the Egyptian National Population Council (NPC), a well-established institution. This would be more sustainable than financing infrastructure for which loans and private investors are better suited than grant financing. Engaging with women and primary education would be an opportunity to return to a field of financial assistance that the EU has almost completely abandoned. This would be more than necessary as the USA and many other countries have withdrawn from what is unfortunately being considered a delicate mission with no short-term visible results. Eberhard Rhein, Brussels, 6/5/2014 Author : Eberhard Rhein Abigail Breslin says: Absence of education and high unemployment in these native groups tend to prompt liquor addiction and medication manhandle similarly as in internal city America. 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__label__wiki	0.953954	0.953954	Listeners of the World, Unite! Stressed Out Students are Flooding Streaming Sites with Revolutionary Songs 3 Movies to Watch by Chinese Queer Film Pioneer Fan Popo The Princess Butterfly Effect: Meet the Face of “Too Cool” China Is Kuaishou Still China’s Short Video “Platform for the People?” The Future is Here: Introducing RADII.co Virtual Idol Variety Show “Dimension Nova” is a Bizarre Digital Pop Star Battle Here are the Big Brand Drops for the Year of the Ox Cross x Talk Recap: LUCKYRICE Founder Danielle Chang on Chinese Food Going Global The (Very Quiet) Rise of China’s Young Introverts How Women in Entertainment Fought to Bring Female Narratives to the Fore in 2020 Watch: Haters Gonna Hate, But Here’s How to Call Them Out Watch: Why are Chinese People “Inhaling Cats”? Watch: How to Say “Will You Shut Up Man?” in Cantonese Watch: Why are People Fighting for the C-Spot? CHINA EXPLAINED RADII VOICES SLANG DYNASTY WE TRIED Wǒ Men Podcast: How Porn Helped Me Through Lockdown Wǒ Men Podcast: How Covid-19 has Changed Chinese People’s Attitudes to Personal Finance Wǒ Men Podcast: The Unsung Heroes of International Media’s China Coverage Wǒ Men Podcast: Has Covid-19 Ended China’s Consumption Boom? B-SIDE CHINA DIGITALLY CHINA WǑ MEN China’s Asian Cup Exit to Iran Prompts Soul Searching Marcelo Lippi has left his role in charge of the Chinese men's team as the country's football fans start an inquest into their side's perennial underachievement By Jake Newby January 25, 2019 Home > Daily Drip > China’s Asian Cup Exit to Iran Prompts Soul Searching In a result that shocked pretty much no one, China’s men’s football team crashed out of the Asian Cup last night at the quarter-final stage to a vastly superior Iran side. Some woeful defending and stodgy attack play led to coach Marcello Lippi resigning immediately and stating, “I thank my players for their efforts, but not for what they did tonight.” China’s exit was widely expected, as was that of their Italian manager. But that’s not stopped the country’s long-suffering fans from starting an inquest into why China repeatedly fails to find a men’s squad capable of competing at the top level from a population of 1.4 billion, as smaller nations consistently outplay them. The top-rated comment under a Weibo post of the “highlights” from People’s Daily reads, “Thank you Lippi for confirming that the problem with Chinese football is not the manager.” Lippi led Italy to World Cup glory in 2006, and though he was never likely to repeat that feat with China’s squad, it’s hard not to sympathise with his frustration at how little progress has seemingly been made under his tenure. His job hasn’t been made any easier by the Chinese football authorities and decisions like this one: “The Death of Chinese Football”: Young Players Will Miss Rest of Season for Military Training As if robbing their best young players of vital experience in favor of giving them military training wasn’t bizarre enough, China then sent a squad to the Asian Cup in UAE with the oldest average age in the tournament. That kind of decision-making, plus a set up that until yesterday employed Marcello Lippi as head coach and Guus Hiddink as under-21 manager despite their different playing styles, are among the reasons Chinese football fans are once again feeling fed up. “Those who agree with disbanding the national football team and instead spending the money on national defence so that our soldiers can live more comfortably, please raise your hand,” says another highly-rated comment on Weibo. At time of writing it’d been “liked” over 15,000 times. Weibo user Gaoyang de Luoyang wrote, “What’s the problem? It’s worth pondering! Don’t always take pride in the fact that the Chinese Super League ranks first in Asia. It’s all money! The key to Chinese football lies in the youth training and the recognition of football from childhood. Although football is now being promoted in schools, there are other aspects that need attention. When we were young, we played football in the street. Now? How many children take part in football, even for exercise? Very seldom!” It’s been two years since China’s paramount leader Xi Jinping unveiled a plan to turn the country into a footballing superpower by 2050. By 2020, the initiative aims to have 50 million people playing football. That plan was never going to change anything overnight, but without a more thorough look at all levels of the game and an honest assessment of what might be holding China back from success, we can expect plenty more limp exits from future tournaments. But before the country’s football fans get too depressed, it’s well worth remembering that China’s women’s team were the first to qualify for this summer’s World Cup in France. Roll on France 2019 — the women’s team are likely to be the country’s only realistic chance of World Cup glory for quite some time. Cover photo: AFC Meet MoreFree, the Chinese Streetball Pioneer Who Can’t Stop Battling NBA Stars China Will be a Global Football Powerhouse by 2033 Does China’s New Football Shirt Beat Nigeria’s in the Style Stakes? Jake Newby Jake Newby is a Shanghai-based writer and editor with more than a decade's experience living and working in China. Previously managing editor of Time Out Shanghai, he's also written for publications such as South China Morning Post and the Financial Times. 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__label__wiki	0.584591	0.584591	Commentary, Human Interest, RI Events, School Life, Student Features 29 February 2020 1 March 2020 A Level 2020 Student Features: Let Our Hearts Be Stirring By Gabrielle Ng (20A01E), Valerie Tan (20A01E), Max Chwa (21A01B), and Faith Wei (21S03C) This year, Raffles Press invited four Year 7s who have invested their time and energy into their respective sports, instruments and other pursuits to share about their JC experience, and any advice they may have for juniors. Read on to learn more about the holistic side to these Rafflesians, and what they get up to when they’re not busy studying! This is Part 1 of our A Level 2020 Student Feature. Marsha Shahrin While most of her peers prefer to spend their time indoors, Marsha has always had a second home among the waves. Marsha was a member of the national sailing team from Primary 5 to Year 2 before she transitioned to windsurfing in late 2015. Since then, she has gone on to represent Singapore in multiple international competitions, including the Techno 293 World Championships in Italy and the third Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires. “My favourite part about doing competitive sports and representing the country is the opportunity to travel around the world,” she says. “I enjoy being in other countries / states that one wouldn’t even think of planning a holiday to like Helsinki, Bodrum, Hungary, and Buenos Aires […] Observing the culture and the way of life in a different country is very interesting and I feel very fortunate to be able to do so.” However, the life of an outstanding athlete isn’t always smooth-sailing. When she’s overseas, Marsha constantly feels the need to do her country proud, whether by excelling in sporting events or ensuring that she behaves with the proper decorum. “As a representative of something, be it school or a country, there will always be a sense of fear, anxiety and self-doubt,” she confides. “For example, going to the Youth Olympic Games in 2018 and doing press and interviews for various media outlets made me feel very pressured and anxious, because it made me feel that I had to give it my best, or else I am letting the country down.” Her struggles weren’t just limited to those she faced in international competitions: back in Singapore, Marsha spent most of her first year and part of her second year in RJC training and competing while balancing her academics at the same time. Her secret? Time management. “Like anything in life, the more you practise it, the easier that thing gets,” Marsha shares. “It also helps that I lower my expectations and set realistic goals for both sports and school because having too high standards often puts people in a state of stress which ultimately would affect how well we perform at the end of the day.” As a result of her training sessions and competitions, Marsha often misses out on opportunities to spend time in RI with her friends and classmates. “I probably didn’t experience much of RI as most people, which is a shame because most of my friends really had a blast.” And yet, that doesn’t mean that she didn’t enjoy herself as well. Marsha cites her class as being one of the best parts of RI: “Everyone in my class is truly unique and our differing personalities makes it so easy to fit in and just be yourself. My class is also super hardworking so it really pushes me to keep doing my best.” Even though she had to sacrifice some time in school, Marsha still doesn’t regret the path she’s chosen. “I never really regret making myself busy with all the balancing I have to do because it feels far more rewarding being able to achieve something.” To this day, she still recalls winning her first international event at the Bodrum International Optimist Regatta 2013 with pride. “I finished 1st in the Girl’s category and I remember taking home so many trophies for that event. I think winning, under the Singapore flag, is most rewarding because you see all your hard work translate into something tangible and it allows you to see that every bad thing about being a national athlete will never outweigh the great things about it.” When asked what advice she has for juniors who are also national athletes, Marsha encourages them to remain hopeful: “I know how hard it is for one to not give up on something that isn’t working out. I have more lows than highs in my sporting career and I can’t lie and say that I[‘ve] never thought of giving up. When something isn’t going right today, you have to pick yourself up and learn from the mistakes you made […] because from failure, there are thousands of things we can learn and we can use those things to constantly improve ourselves.” Marsha plans to continue her windsurfing journey in the future, aiming to qualify for the Asian Games in 2022. She would like to thank her teachers, particularly her CTs Ms Angela Mi and Mr Michael Seah, for always looking out for her class. She would also like to thank her class for their kindness, and the aunties and uncles in the canteen for making great food. Sudarshan Thirumalai Meet Sudarshan Thirumalai: the student delegate with a heart of gold. Inspired by the unique rigour and protocol of his very first Model United Nations (MUN) conference attended in secondary school, Sudarshan Thirumalai did not hesitate to join the Raffles History and Strategic Affairs Society (HSTA) upon entering RI. Hereafter began his fruitful journey of both participating in and organising annual MUN conferences. Not a single meeting left him empty handed—from managing conflicting viewpoints to humbly taking failure in his stride, the takeaways he gleaned from MUNs were numerous and priceless. On top of his MUN pursuits, Sudarshan was a devoted volunteer for and eventually spearheaded the community project Empowering Generation Z (EGZ), a tuition programme for primary school children from disadvantaged backgrounds. Besides mere tutoring, Sudarshan shared that a key mission of the programme is for tutors to “strive to connect emotionally with their tutees”, forming genuine friendships with them. It was precisely this poignant bond that led him to join the forefront of the project. “Although I wasn’t too keen on being in the organising committee at first, I had grown attached to my tutees and felt that I could be able to greatly contribute to the project to improve their experience and help them more than I already was,” he explained. Under his steadfast leadership, EGZ took a leap of faith to begin enlisting the help of students from other schools. The move was met with significant success, quickly achieving a larger volunteer network and a smaller tutor-to-child ratio. Yet, no journey comes without trials and tribulations. “There was a shortage of tutees in some centres and we were having difficulties in promoting the project,” Sudarshan recalled, admitting that “it was easy to lose motivation”. Sudarshan’s personal life certainly took a toll from juggling both schoolwork and extracurriculars. Acknowledging that it is “always difficult” to balance the two, he shared that he had to “sacrifice a lot of [his] hobbies to remain on track for my studies, my CCA and to plan sessions for EGZ”. Often, his hefty workload did not even allow him the time to watch Youtube, the most ubiquitous leisure activity many teens would not dare to imagine missing out on. Fortunately, Sudarshan’s troubles were not ones that he grappled with alone, but rather ones that his teachers and friends played a big part in ameliorating. The faithful receptiveness of his teachers towards academic queries and mutual support his study groups with friends provided were crucial pillars of support that Sudarshan humbly credits for his present achievements. Regardless of the many challenges faced along the way, Sudarshan gleaned invaluable lessons from his experiences. He shared that hard work and unwavering perseverance in tutoring occasionally unwilling students were crucial in his line of volunteer work. Eventually leading to one of his most inexplicably warm moments when the students expressed they would miss him once he left, these universal values are surely etched in stone for Sudarshan. With an evidently genuine heart for the community and ardent passion for service, Sudarshan’s dedication to giving back extends beyond his experiences thus far. When asked his aspirations for the future, he shared: “I hope [to] select a university course that I enjoy and find meaningful ways to give back to society. Moreover, I want to be involved and committed in any community that I am a part of as JC moulded me to be.” His advice for juniors? “Make the most of your time in JC,” he encourages. “You wouldn’t want to graduate wondering about what could have been, so you should seize the opportunities that come your way.” "A Level 2020 Student Features: Let Our Hearts Be Stirring", 5 out of 5 based on 1 ratings. Raffles Science Symposium 2020 A Level 2020 Student Features: Whate’er The Test	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line1188
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Shameless Year: 2011-2021Rated: TV-MASeasons: 11 What it's about: Chicagoan Frank Gallagher is the proud single dad of six smart, industrious, independent kids, who without him would be... perhaps better off. When Frank's not at the bar spending what little money they have, he's passed out on the floor. But the kids have found ways to grow up in spite of him. They may not be like any family you know, but they make no apologies for being exactly who they are. Where to Watch: 1 episodes (1%) are available to watch free online (Showtime). 129 episodes (100%) are available to stream on a popular subscription service (Netflix, fuboTV & Showtime). 127 episodes (98%) are available to stream on a popular TV everywhere service (Showtime). 122 episodes (95%) are available to rent or buy from $1.99 on 6 services (iTunes, Google Play & 4 others). 21. Platoon Drama, Action & Adventure What it's about: As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man. Where to Watch: Available to stream on a popular subscription service (Netflix) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 6 services (iTunes, Google Play & 4 others). 22. Ozark What it's about: A financial adviser drags his family from Chicago to the Missouri Ozarks, where he must launder $500 million in five years to appease a drug boss. 23. Requiem for a Dream What it's about: The hopes and dreams of four ambitious people are shattered when their drug addictions begin spiraling out of control. A look into addiction and how it overcomes the mind and body. 24. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels What it's about: A card shark and his unwillingly-enlisted friends need to make a lot of cash quick after losing a sketchy poker match. To do this they decide to pull a heist on a small-time gang who happen to be operating out of the flat next door. Where to Watch: Available to stream on a popular subscription service (Prime Video) & rent or buy from $3.99 on 6 services (iTunes, Google Play & 4 others). 25. Almost Famous What it's about: In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller's unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journalist lands him an assignment from Rolling Stone magazine to interview and tour with the up-and-coming band Stillwater—fronted by lead guitar Russell Hammond, and lead singer Jeff Bebe. Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Plex, PopcornFlix & Crackle) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 6 services (iTunes, Google Play & 4 others). 26. Superbad What it's about: Two co-dependent high school seniors are forced to deal with separation anxiety after their plan to stage a booze-soaked party goes awry. Where to Watch: Available to stream on a popular subscription service (Netflix & Hulu) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 5 services (iTunes, Google Play & 3 others). 27. The Town What it's about: Doug MacRay is a longtime thief, who, smarter than the rest of his crew, is looking for his chance to exit the game. When a bank job leads to the group kidnapping an attractive branch manager, he takes on the role of monitoring her – but their burgeoning relationship threatens to unveil the identities of Doug and his crew to the FBI Agent who is on their case. Where to Watch: Available to stream on a popular subscription service (Prime Video & TVision) & rent or buy from $3.99 on 3 services (iTunes, Microsoft & Vudu). 28. Casino What it's about: In early-1970s Las Vegas, low-level mobster Sam "Ace" Rothstein gets tapped by his bosses to head the Tangiers Casino. At first, he's a great success in the job, but over the years, problems with his loose-cannon enforcer Nicky Santoro, his ex-hustler wife Ginger, her con-artist ex Lester Diamond and a handful of corrupt politicians put Sam in ever-increasing danger. Where to Watch: Available to stream on a popular subscription service (Peacock Premium) & rent or buy from $3.99 on 6 services (iTunes, Google Play & 4 others). 29. Boogie Nights What it's about: Set in 1977, back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, idealistic porn producer Jack Horner aspires to elevate his craft to an art form. Horner discovers Eddie Adams, a hot young talent working as a busboy in a nightclub, and welcomes him into the extended family of movie-makers, misfits and hangers-on that are always around. Adams' rise from nobody to a celebrity adult entertainer is meteoric, and soon the whole world seems to know his porn alter ego, "Dirk Diggler". Now, when disco and drugs are in vogue, fashion is in flux and the party never seems to stop, Adams' dreams of turning sex into stardom are about to collide with cold, hard reality. Where to Watch: Available to stream on a popular subscription service (Hulu) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 4 services (iTunes, Google Play & 2 others). 30. Moonlight What it's about: The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality. Where to Watch: Available to stream on a popular subscription service (Netflix, Hoopla & Kanopy) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 6 services (iTunes, Google Play & 4 others). 31. Palm Springs Comedy, Romance What it's about: When carefree Nyles and reluctant maid of honor Sarah have a chance encounter at a Palm Springs wedding, things get complicated when they find themselves unable to escape the venue, themselves, or each other. Where to Watch: Available to stream on a popular subscription service (Hulu). 32. For a Few Dollars More What it's about: Two bounty hunters are in pursuit of "El Indio," one of the most wanted fugitives in the western territories, and his gang. 33. Looper Action & Adventure, Crime What it's about: In the futuristic action thriller Looper, time travel will be invented but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past where a looper, a hired gun, like Joe is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good until the day the mob decides to close the loop, sending back Joe's future self for assassination. Where to Watch: Available to stream on a subscription service (Starz), stream on a popular TV everywhere service (Starz) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 6 services (iTunes, Google Play & 4 others). 34. In Bruges What it's about: Ray and Ken, two hit men, are in Bruges, Belgium, waiting for their next mission. While they are there they have time to think and discuss their previous assignment. When the mission is revealed to Ken, it is not what he expected. Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Peacock) & rent or buy from $3.99 on 6 services (iTunes, Google Play & 4 others). 35. Once Upon a Time in America What it's about: A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life. 36. True Romance What it's about: Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it. 37. 13th Documentary, Crime What it's about: An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality. Where to Watch: Available to stream on a popular subscription service (Netflix). What it's about: American expat Mickey Pearson has built a highly profitable marijuana empire in London. When word gets out that he’s looking to cash out of the business forever it triggers plots, schemes, bribery and blackmail in an attempt to steal his domain out from under him. 39. Sicario Thriller, Action & Adventure What it's about: An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by a government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico. Where to Watch: Available to stream on a subscription service (fuboTV) & rent or buy from $3.99 on 7 services (iTunes, Google Play & 5 others). What it's about: A group of high school students navigate love and friendships in a world of drugs, sex, trauma, and social media. Where to Watch: 8 episodes (100%) are available to stream on a popular subscription service (HBO MAX & HBO). 8 episodes (100%) are available to rent or buy from $1.99 on 3 services (Google Play, Vudu & YouTube). Episodes coming soon to HBO on January 23rd, 2021 (PST). 41. BoJack Horseman Animation, Comedy What it's about: Meet the most beloved sitcom horse of the 90s - 20 years later. BoJack Horseman was the star of the hit TV show "Horsin' Around," but today he's washed up, living in Hollywood, complaining about everything, and wearing colorful sweaters. Where to Watch: 76 episodes (99%) are available to stream on a popular subscription service (Netflix). 42. The Hangover What it's about: When three friends finally come to after a raucous night of bachelor-party revelry, they find a baby in the closet and a tiger in the bathroom. But they can't seem to locate their best friend, Doug – who's supposed to be tying the knot. Launching a frantic search for Doug, the trio perseveres through a nasty hangover to try to make it to the church on time. 43. Rocketman LGBTQ, Drama What it's about: The story of Elton John's life, from his years as a prodigy at the Royal Academy of Music through his influential and enduring musical partnership with Bernie Taupin. Where to Watch: Available to stream on a popular subscription service (Prime Video, Hulu & Epix), stream on a popular TV everywhere service (Epix) & rent or buy from $12.99 on 5 services (iTunes, Google Play & 3 others). 44. Annie Hall Released: 1977Rated: PG Comedy, Stand-up & Talk What it's about: New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall. Where to Watch: Available to stream on a subscription service (Hoopla) & rent or buy from $3.99 on 5 services (iTunes, Google Play & 3 others). 45. Halloween What it's about: On a black and unholy Halloween night years ago, little Michael Myers brutally slaughtered his sister in cold bold. But for the last fifteen years, town residents have rested easy, knowing that he was safely locked away in a mental hospital – until tonight. Tonight, Michael returns to the same quiet neighbourhood to relive his grisly murder again…and again…and again. For this is a night of evil. Tonight is Halloween! Where to Watch: Available to stream on a subscription service (Shudder & Hoopla) & rent or buy from $3.99 on 3 services (iTunes, Prime Video & Vudu). 46. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) What it's about: A fading actor best known for his portrayal of a popular superhero attempts to mount a comeback by appearing in a Broadway play. As opening night approaches, his attempts to become more altruistic, rebuild his career, and reconnect with friends and family prove more difficult than expected. 47. Archer Action & Adventure, Comedy What it's about: Sterling Archer is the world's most daunting spy. He works for ISIS, a spy agency run by his mother. In between dealing with his boss and his co-workers - one of whom is his ex-girlfriend - Archer manages to annoy or seduce everyone that crosses his path. His antics are only excusable because at the end of the day, he still somehow always manages to thwart whatever crises was threatening mankind. Where to Watch: 118 episodes (99%) are available to stream on a popular subscription service (Hulu & fuboTV). 14 episodes (12%) are available to stream on a popular TV everywhere service (FX). 119 episodes (100%) are available to rent or buy from $1.99 on 7 services (iTunes, Google Play & 5 others). 48. Gone Baby Gone What it's about: When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt, Beatrice McCready hires two private detectives, Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. The detectives freely admit that they have little experience with this type of case, but the family wants them for two reasons - they're not cops and they know the tough neighborhood in which they all live. As the case progresses, Kenzie and Gennaro face drug dealers, gangs and pedophiles. When they are about to solve the case, they are faced with a moral dilemma that tears them apart. 49. American Gangster What it's about: Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East Asia and he comes up with a unique way of importing the drugs into the United States. Partly based on a true story. 50. The Cabin in the Woods Horror, Mystery What it's about: Five college friends spend the weekend at a remote cabin in the woods, where they get more than they bargained for. Together, they must discover the truth behind the cabin in the woods. Where to Watch: Available to stream on a popular subscription service (Prime Video, Hulu & Epix), stream on a popular TV everywhere service (Epix) & rent or buy from $3.99 on 5 services (iTunes, Google Play & 3 others). Find the perfect movie or tv show with the Reelgood mobile app. Roulette RandomizerSwipe with Friends Popular MoviesPopular TVFree TV & MoviesBrowse All Content What's Streaming What's On NetflixNew What's On HuluNew What's On HBONew What's On Prime VideoNew About ReelgoodFor Business Terms & PrivacyOur BlogFAQ What is Reelgood? Reelgood is the most extensive streaming guide in the US and UK, with every TV show and movie available online. 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__label__wiki	0.72577	0.72577	Movies About Viruses & Pandemics Movies About Viruses & Pandemics, In Case You Want To Watch Kaitlin Reilly Photo: Barry Wetcher/Warner Bros/Kobal/Shutterstock. The deadly coronavirus spreading rapidly around the globe has led to a reevaluation of daily life. It’s no longer just about washing your hands to the tune of “A Little Bit Alexis” and avoiding touching your face. Society has shifted in order to manage this crisis. Many large-scale events, such as festivals South by Southwest, Miami’s Ultra Music Festival, and Coachella have been cancelled or postponed. Some offices are encouraging employees to work from home, leading to lots of Skype meetings. (And, okay, lots of time in pajamas.) Certain schools have shut down temporarily to contain potential spread. There is no doubt that life under the coronavirus can be stressful and yes, at times, very scary. In a strange twist, however, some people are seeking out films about pandemics to watch while more news about the coronavirus unfolds. Case in point: Contagion, a 2011 film by Steven Soderbergh, became one of the most-rented films on iTunes in the wake of the coronavirus. Why, exactly, Contagion became something people wanted to watch given the circumstances may be a mystery to you — or maybe not. Perhaps you want to watch something that reflects the most extreme version of what the world is dealing with right now, if only to see how film characters manage during these difficult times. Maybe you’re just curious about how accurately these movies depict an outbreak or pandemic. (Spoiler: Few do.) No matter your reason for seeking these films out, it’s important to remember that they’re just that: Movies, and not a real-life look into the future, nor a guidebook for how to deal with coronavirus stress. Wash your hands, stop touching your face, and if you think these movies will provide solace, check them out. Movies About Virus Outbreaks Pandemic Coronavirus Entertainment • Movies • Pop Culture written by Kaitlin Reilly More from Movies Let’s Talk About Promising Young Woman’s Ugliest Scene It would have been easier to make the heroes and the villains clear cut in Promising Young Woman. The dark comedy, written and directed by Emerald Fennell, All The New Movies Coming Out On The First 3-Day Weekend Of 2021 Everyone Getting In On The Action In Netflix’s Outside t... by Joyce Chen Every Angsty Song From The Ultimate Playlist of Noise Soun... One Night In Miami’s Secret Ingredient Is Its Elec... It only takes moments into Regina King’s directorial debut before you realize — like really start to understand — what the term “actor’s director 6 Movies That Take You Deeper Into The Vicious World Of Promising... My Respectful Thirst For Malcolm X Was Reinforced By One Night... One Night in Miami, an emotional journey presented to us by first-time director Regina King, gathers together four of Black American history’s most promi The Turmoil In Tom Holland’s New Movie Is Based On A True S... In 2019, Tom Holland shaved off his signature locks for a role in a new project, stunning fans everywhere with the sight of his freshly buzzed head. Two ye Armie Hammer Responds To Alleged DMs After Stepping Away From J.L... Actor Armie Hammer will “step away” and no longer take part in the upcoming action comedy movie Shotgun Wedding. The film, which also stars Jen Judas & The Black Messiah Is A True Tale Of Black Power & ... In the upcoming political drama Judas & the Black Messiah, the story of Fred Hampton’s storied bad blood with the FBI takes center stage. The fil Netflix Teases Lara Jean & Peter’s Fate In Emotional To All T... The Super Bowl is officially within sight next month — no, not that one. We obviously mean the Love Super Bowl, in which we’ll finally (hopefully!) fin Now That Bridgerton‘s Got All Us All Horny For His...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line1206
__label__cc	0.509297	0.490703	Cuomo goes for broke, threatens $100,000 fines on NY hospitals that don’t use all their vaccines in seven days New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is prepping his broken, dilapidated medical police state for the next round of medical tyranny. Under Cuomo’s new “Use it or Lose it” vaccination distribution plan, hospitals will be fined $100,000 if they do not use up all their coronavirus vaccines in seven days. Any hospital provider that does not meet the government’s quota for “shots in arms” can be disqualified from future distribution and be subject to “more serious sanctions.” Suddenly operating under a dictator, New York hospitals will also be fined if they vaccinate in an “inequitable” fashion. The state desires that certain groups of people be vaccinated first, and each herd of people are to be vaccinated in the correct order, or the hospital will be fined. Should a clinic administer the vaccine to somebody before their turn, they could face a fine of up to $1 million. Dictator Cuomo incentivizes hospitals to force vaccines and treat people as if they belong to herds The safest way for hospitals to navigate this medical tyranny is to NOT order the vaccines at all. If they order too many and people don’t want them, then the state will fine them $100,000 for every week that the hospital fails to force the shots into people’s arms. If the hospital rushes to get as many people vaccinated as possible, they run the risk of vaccinating people in violation of Cuomo’s equitable distribution orders, leading to even more heinous fines. Cuomo’s medical tyranny incentivizes hospitals to secretly destroy the vaccines they do not use, so no fines are issued to them. Alternately, this force of government also incentivizes the hospital to engage in unlawful tactics in order to force vaccines into people’s arms. Hospitals are already promising healthcare workers a financial incentive if they get the shots. Some public health officials want to allow vaccine recipients to get just one shot out of the two-shot protocol, even though this circumvents the scientific process laid out by the drug companies. In order to get as many people vaccinated as possible, hospitals will have to use aggressive marketing campaigns and coercive tactics. Cuomo’s medical tyranny is pushing hospitals to abandon informed consent. His actions are pushing New York one step closer to mandatory vaccinations. Vaccination is an individual choice, not a government mandate Throughout 2020, hospitals received financial incentives from the government for every covid-19 diagnosis. Now the broke, shutdown state of New York looks to get that money back from the hospitals by fining the hospitals if they don’t force the vaccines into the population fast enough. Government officials should not be telling hospital CEOs, directors and medical professionals how to run their facilities and how to care for patients. Vaccination is a person choice, especially when the vaccines are an experimental new operating system that modifies the RNA of the recipient. Hospitals should be providing patients with comprehensive, informed consent about these vaccinations, instead of operating out of fear and coercion. Doctors must follow the American Medical Association’s code of medical ethics, of which, informed consent is essential to any medical intervention. By rushing to get “shots in arms,” medical professionals are forced to betray their code of medical ethics. This forceful culture of vaccination will inevitably maximize vaccine injury and bring about a new wave of hospitalizations. If history has shown us anything, Cuomo’s forceful culture of medical tyranny has led to widespread medical malpractice, medical error and wrongful death. Cuomo’s berserk policies pushed sick patients back into nursing homes, only to rapidly infect the most vulnerable populations. He refused federal Navy assistance, leading to overcrowded hospitals. In the process, inner city New York hospitals betrayed viable treatments for sick patients and pushed scores of people onto ventilators, destroying their lungs and causing nosocomial infections. The patients were treated less than human, and their family members were denied the right to be by their side. Victims were sedated and isolated until they were pronounced dead on the machines. Cuomo’s medical tyranny continues to prolong the genocide masked as covid-19. Tagged Under: Andrew Cuomo, broken state, coercion, dictatorship, forced vaccination, forceful, genocide, health freedom, hospitalization, Hospitals, medical ethics, medical malpractice, Medical Tyranny, New York, vaccine wars, vaccines Portuguese nurse dies after receiving coronavirus vaccine Blue light found to accelerate aging and damage retinal cells 01/08/2021 / By Michael Alexander Here it comes: If you want to board a plane or travel internationally, you’re going to have to have a COVID “vaccine passport” Health professional dies two days after COVID-19 vaccination 01/08/2021 / By Nolan Barton Signs of alien civilization: Did astronomers detect “technosignatures?” India’s fossil fuel minister says people who don’t have “faith” in coronavirus vaccines are “mentally challenged” Researchers look into developing periodic tables for molecules New York legislator wants to put coronavirus “carriers” in concentration camps Fauci says forced coronavirus vaccination “on the table” as requirement for travel, education Russia developing coronavirus antidote with a reported 99% efficacy rate Study on coronavirus mouth infection may explain patients’ loss of taste Musk mallow seeds can protect the brain against degeneration caused by fluoride toxicity Researchers examine the anti-inflammatory properties of blueberry polyphenols Assessing the antimicrobial activity of flaxseed	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0033.json.gz/line1221

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