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__label__wiki	0.625772	0.625772	Volvo Trucks introduces its first pure-electric truck Volvo Trucks has introduced its first pure-electric truck for commercial use – the Volvo FL Electric for urban distribution and refuse operations, among other applications. Sales and series production of the new Volvo FL Electric will start in Europe next year. The first two Volvo FL Electric trucks will be operated by refuse collection and recycling company Renova and haulage firm TGM. The Off Peak City Distribution project studied the effects of goods transport at night in central Stockholm. By avoiding peak hour traffic the trucks were able to do their jobs in one-third of the time compared to daytime operation. “We’re immensely proud to present the first in a range of fully electrically-powered Volvo trucks ready for regular traffic. With this model we are making it possible for cities that aim for sustainable urban development to benefit from the advantages of electrified truck transports,” says Claes Nilsson, President Volvo Trucks. With better air quality and less noise in the city, it is possible to plan for housing and infrastructure more freely than at present. An electric truck without any exhaust emissions can be used in indoor terminals and environmental zones. Their low noise level creates opportunities for doing more work at night, thus reducing the burden on the roads during the day. There is considerable market interest in electric trucks. Many potential customers have questions about the opportunities generated by the new technology and how it can impact their operations. “In order to make the transition secure and smooth, we will offer holistic solutions based on each customer’s individual needs regarding driving cycles, load capacity, uptime, range and other parameters. Such a solution may encompass everything from route analysis and battery optimisation to servicing and financing. Volvo Trucks works closely with several suppliers of charging equipment. The aim as always is to offer customers high uptime and productivity,” says Jonas Odermalm, head of product strategy Volvo FL and Volvo FE at Volvo Trucks. Backing the Volvo Trucks offer is the Volvo Group’s accumulated expertise in electrified transport solutions. Sister company Volvo Buses has sold more than 4000 electrified buses since 2010. The technology used for propulsion and energy storage in the Volvo FL Electric has been thoroughly tried and tested from the outset and is supported by Volvo Trucks’ far-reaching network for sales, service and parts supply. “From experience we know how important it is that cities, energy suppliers and vehicle manufacturers cooperate in order for large-scale electrification to become a reality. With attractive incentives, agreed standards and a long-term strategy for urban planning and expansion of the charging infrastructure, the process can go much faster,” explains Jonas Odermalm. Volvo Trucks believes that it is essential to take a holistic view of electrification of the transport sector to handle the ongoing challenges in areas such as electricity generation and batteries. “For instance, in order to ensure that raw materials for the batteries are extracted in a responsible way, the Volvo Group works with the Drive Sustainability network, which has a special function that monitors this issue. The Volvo Group is also involved in various projects where batteries from heavy electric vehicles get a second lease of life, reused for energy storage. All the questions about handling of batteries have not yet been solved, but we are working actively both within the Group and together with other actors to drive development and create the necessary solutions,” says Jonas Odermalm. The first trucks in the Volvo FL Electric range are now entering regular operation with customers in Gothenburg, the home of Volvo Trucks. Volvo FL Electric specification – Fully electrically-powered truck for distribution, refuse collection and other applications in urban conditions, GVW 16 tonnes. – Driveline: 185 kW electric motor, max power/130 kW continuous output, two speed transmission, propeller shaft, rear axle. Max torque electric motor 425 Nm. Max torque rear axle 16 kNm. – Energy storage: 2-6 lithium-ion batteries, totalling 100-300 kWh. – Range: Up to 300 km (186 miles). – Charging: AC charging via the mains grid (22 kW) or DC fast charge via CCS/Combo2 for up to 150 kW. – Recharging time: From empty to fully charged batteries: fast charge 1-2 hours (DC charging), night charge up to 10 hours (AC charging) with maximum battery capacity of 300 kWh. Apr 13, 2018 Blagojce Krivevski BMW Group electrified sales total 26,858 in Q1, up 38.3%Enel Expands Partnership With Formula E As Official Smart Charge Technology Partner And Official Power Partner Volvo Cars aims for 25 percent recycled plastics in every new car from 2025 Electric truck startup Lordstown Motors prepares to go public April 13, 2018 Electric Car Newselectric truck, electric trucks, Volvo, Volvo electric truck, Volvo electric trucks, Volvo FL Electric, Volvo FL Electric truck, Volvo Trucks	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3107
__label__cc	0.543387	0.456613	Why We Miss Baseball Published in National Review Online on April 6, 2020 By Alexandra DeSanctis The coronavirus outbreak has taken many things from us. From most, it has taken freedom: to leave our homes, to visit our offices, to see whomever we want, to travel across or out of the country. From many, it has taken job security, retirement savings, or peace of mind. From some, it has taken health, the health of loved ones, and even lives. On a smaller scale, this widespread sickness has robbed us of the things we turn to in our free time. Restaurants and bars are closed, beaches and parks are gated for anything other than solitary or family walks. And we’ve lost sports. It is now, when we need more than ever the relief they bring, that they have been taken from us. Every major U.S. sport has canceled or postponed its season, as have several of the sports in other Western countries. Particularly disappointing, the summer Olympics have been pushed to next summer. Like many other Americans, I’m taking this loss rather hard. Though I’m not much a fan of basketball, I’d settle for a few rounds of March Madness or even an NBA contest to pass the time. Heck, I’d watch tennis or golf right now if I could. But what I really miss is baseball. Opening Day was slated for March 26, and now we have no way to know when or whether this year’s season will begin. In this time of uncertainty, what I miss most about baseball is the very thing that those who don’t understand the game so often malign. “It takes four hours, on a good day!” critics bleat. “There’s too much dead time between pitches,” others insist, “and too many trips to the mound.” These complaints mean little when we’ve got all the time in the world. It is precisely now that the timelessness of a baseball game — the only major team sport without a clock — would be a balm and a cure. What on a normal Friday night in June might be background noise would in this period of waiting become a place of absorption where we could focus intently on something other than the terror in the world. Baseball is an escape, in a sense, but different in every way from the normal things we turn to when we want to numb ourselves. The sportswriter Thomas Boswell makes the case: In contrast to the unwieldy world which we hold in common, baseball offers a kingdom built to scale. Its problems and questions are exactly our size. Here we may come when we feel a need for a rooted point of reference. In much the same way, we take a long hike or look for hard work when we suspect that what’s bothering us is either too foolish or too serious to permit a solution. Baseball isn’t necessarily an escape from reality, though it can be; it’s merely one of our many refuges within the real where we try to create a sense of order on our own terms. Reading this essay the other evening, as I prepared for an Opening Day that would pass without a game, it seemed to encapsulate why I, and surely many others, have taken this loss so hard. Former MLB commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti wrote in his essay “The Green Fields of the Mind,” “You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.” Giamatti meant the darkening evenings of late autumn, bleeding into winter. He might as well be talking about today. Though twilight comes later and later, spring doesn’t feel quite itself without baseball. In a line particularly poignant when read today, Boswell writes, “Baseball is always there when we want it — seven days a week, seven months a year.” Surely he never expected that Opening Day someday wouldn’t come. As it has been with so many things I took for granted before this crisis, these seemingly endless days without baseball have increased my gratitude for the rootedness, the timelessness that each game brings. When baseball returns, we will love it all the more, and, as Boswell puts it, our time can begin again. Alexandra DeSanctis is a staff writer for National Review and a visiting fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. Will Joe Manchin Remain Pro-Life? Major League Baseball Should Open Its Season With the All-Star Game Always see the latest from Alexandra DeSanctis and other EPPC Scholars. Sign up for EPPC Briefly!	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3114
__label__wiki	0.703364	0.703364	European governments complicit in horrific abuse of refugees, migrants in Libya: Rights Watchdog EAT News (December 12, 2017) Amnesty International said today that European governments are knowingly complicit in the torture and abuse of tens of thousands of refugees and migrants detained by Libyan immigration authorities in appalling conditions in Libya. The rights watchdog published an expose today in the wake of global outrage over the sale of migrants in Libya that was first exposed in a CNN investigative report. The report, ‘Libya’s dark web of collusion’ details how European governments are actively supporting a sophisticated system of abuse and exploitation of refugees and migrants by the Libyan Coast Guard, detention authorities and smugglers in order to prevent people from crossing the Mediterranean. “European governments have not just been fully aware of these abuses they are complicit in them,” the report said and added that “hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants trapped in Libya are at the mercy of Libyan authorities, militias, armed groups and smugglers often working seamlessly together for financial gain.” It said since late 2016, EU Member States – particularly Italy – have implemented a series of measures aimed at closing off the migratory route through Libya and across the central Mediterranean, with little care for the consequences for those trapped within Libya’s lawless borders. The report said that European governments have committed to providing technical support and assistance to the Libyan Department for Combating Illegal Migration (DCIM), which runs the detention centres where refugees and migrants are arbitrarily and indefinitely held and routinely exposed to serious human rights violations including torture. The Europeans have also enabled the Libyan Coast Guard to intercept people at sea, by providing them with training, equipment, including boats, and technical and other assistance, according to the report. “Libyan Coast Guard officials are known to operate in collusion with smuggling networks and have used threats and violence against refugees and migrants on board boats in distress. Footage, pictures and documents reviewed by Amnesty International indicate that a boat donated by Italy in April 2017, the Ras Jadir, was used by the Libyan Coast Guard during a horrific incident on 6 November 2017, where their reckless actions contributed to the drowning of up to 50 people.” The EU governments have also struck deals with Libyan local authorities and the leaders of tribes and armed groups – to encourage them to stop the smuggling of people and to increase border controls in the south of the country, it said. Amnesty International said so far in 2017, 19,452 people have been intercepted by the Libyan Coast Guard, taken back to Libya and immediately transferred to detention centres where torture is rife. #stoplibyanslavetrade amnesty International Engidu Woldie ESAT ESAT English ESAT News Ethiopia Ethiopian EU Libya TPLF 2017-12-12 ethsat 70 Ethiopians dead after boat capsizes in Red Sea Ethiopia: Police seize over 275,000 USD, 790 kg cannabis Ivanka Trump in Ethiopia in first leg tour to Africa Ethiopia: 59 heads of govt agencies, investors arrested on suspicion of corruption BREAKING: Ethiopia arrests terror suspects with links to al-Shabaab SUPPORT ESAT! አገር ወዳድ የኢሳት ደጋፊ የሆንን ሁሉ ዛሬ በድረ-ገጻችን ላይ ወይም በስልክ ቀጥር ‎‎1-888-772-3728 ext 4 በመደወል የ”ኢሳት ቋሚ ወርሃዊ ክፍያ አባል” በመሆን ይመዝገቡ! ወዳጆችዎንም ያስመዝግቡ!	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3116
__label__cc	0.61829	0.38171	CHORAL POWER IN LAUSANNE FOR ANNUAL SWISS FESTIVAL The traditional annual Swiss Archdeaconry Choir Festival was held in at Christ Church in Lausanne over the weekend of 6/7th May 2017. The joint choir of 40 singers from the chaplaincies in Basel, Berne, Geneva, Lausanne and Zürich led the choral Evensong on Saturday and the choral Communion Service on Sunday Morning. BBC RADIO BROADCASTS A FLAVOUR OF DIOCESAN SYNOD Listeners to the long-established BBC Radio 4 Daily Service, in Britain and around the world, have been given a flavour of the Diocese in Europe’s Synod which closed on Thursday evening in Cologne. SHARED CONVERSATIONS - SOUNDING OUT OPINIONS Members of Diocesan Synod have been shown the results of a day-long conversations in the wake of General Synod's debate on human sexuality and shared conversations looking to the future. MINISTRY EXPERIENCE INSPIRES SYNOD MEMBERS Diocesan Synod members have been inspired and encouraged by a series of reports from four interns on the Church of England’s Ministry Experience Scheme (CEMES). AL FRESCO - NEW IDEAS ON FACING THE FUTURE Discussions on a fresh approach to the Environment and a new form of ministerial development in the Diocese. OURSELVES AS OTHERS SEE US A keynote speaker at this week’s Diocesan Synod in Cologne was the Bishop of Antwerp, Monsignor Johan Bonny who offered a new insight into recent developments between the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches. BISHOP'S UPDATE FOR SYNOD MEMBERS In the first formal session of Diocesan Synod in Cologne on Monday evening 29th May 2017 Bishop Robert’s Presidential Address focused on issues affecting the church nationally and at diocesan level. HOT TOPICS ON DIOCESAN SYNOD AGENDA? Members of Diocesan Synod could be forgiven for expecting some hot topics on the agenda for this week. They arrived in Cologne to find temperatures of 32 degrees Celsius.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3119
__label__cc	0.585746	0.414254	Pawlet's Handicapped Decision December 4, 2009 § 2 Comments PAWLET— In a unique move yesterday the residents of Pawlet narrowly voted no on a measure to continue updates to the historic Pawlet Town Hall by matching a $105,000 handicapped access grant with a $50,000 loan. “Are you kidding me?” one unidentified voter explained, “In this economy, getting triple our initial investment is just not good enough. Heck- they could octuple our money and it wouldn’t be enough. For fifty-thousand dollars I want Donald Trump on his hands and knees sanding the floors in a three piece suit, and a deep tissue massage for every town resident from a Las Vegas chorus girl.” Varying degrees of this same sentiment were echoed at the town informational meeting held the night preceding the town-wide vote. “For that amount of money, couldn’t we just fix all the handicapped people in town?” Eunice Staunchbaum wondered that night. Longtime selectman Keith Mason replied that, in his opinion, fixing all the handicapped people was probably not a possibility, although in fact no one actually had the numbers with them at that moment to back this assertion up. Other matters discussed at the informational meeting included whether the money in question could actually be used to pay handicapped and otherwise disabled persons to move to neighboring Wells, and whether anyone present actually knew anyone who was handicapped, and if so, whether it was actually their own fault for doing something stupid like bungee jumping or something. “Shouldn’t the Town Hall be reserved for normal people?” Alice Askerslap wanted to know. Longtime Selectman Keith Mason replied that, in his opinion, the Town Hall could not legally be reserved only for non-disabled residents, although in fact no one actually had the numbers with them at that moment to back this assertion up. Several voters expressed doubts about the very existence of the Pawlet Town Hall, despite assurances from the Select Board that they do indeed meet there every other Tuesday night, and photographic evidence to the contrary. “The way I figure it, if I don’t see it, I shouldn’t have to pay for it,” declared resident Ernest Apple, who explained that he closes his eyes when he drives down School Street, and therefore has no obligations regarding the matter, except to pay for Ray Foster’s mailbox replacement every few weeks. Other residents in attendance wondered if in fact it wasn’t too late to bulldoze the Town Hall, replacing it with a more economical alternative such as a pup tent from Sears or perhaps a yurt. It would seem that the skeptics may have a point. Despite rumors that have spread throughout the community to the effect that the Pawlet Town Hall is 14,025 years old, in fact it is only 128 years old. Additionally, although it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, it is completely absent from UNESCO’s List of World Heritage Sites, the list of 1000 Places You Have to See Before You Die, and the American Film Institute’s list of the 100 Greatest American Movies of All Time. And then there is the difficulty of the location: inaccessibly tucked away behind a series of parking spaces on the remote Pawlet town green in the center of town. “I sure don’t know why we have been pouring so much money into a building that hardly ever gets used except for at tax time and by the Select Board and the Listers,” commented Shep Fredericks yesterday morning while getting a coffee at Mach’s General Store. “And by the Town Treasurer. And the Town Clerk,” added a voice from behind the donut rack. “Right,” said Fredericks. “And for voting. Everybody goes there to vote,” added a young woman from behind the cash register. “The town records are there,” interjected another unidentified customer, perusing the beef jerky selection. “And the church’s records. Going back to the church founding.” “I remember going to square dances there every weekend,” piped up an elderly customer seated on the bench by the deli counter. “Met my wife at one of those dances. True story.” “Okay! Okay. But besides for voting and taxes and records and permits and meetings and town history and title searches and marriage certificates and birth certificates and dog licenses and garbage tags, besides those things, what is the Town Hall really for anyway?” Fredericks asked. Longtime Selectman Keith Mason replied that he would be happy to tell him, however no one actually had the numbers with them at that moment to back this assertion up. Tagged: ADA, handicap vermont, public handicap access vermont, vermont a, vermont ADA § 2 Responses to Pawlet's Handicapped Decision Judy Cool says: Hi Eve: Reading this blog is a wonderful way to end my day. Keep up the good and entertaining work. Taxes are due in a couple of weeks–so the town hall will be getting some use for a while anyway!!! Judy- Thanks for confirming the existence of the Town Hall once and for all. I, for one, fully intend to deliver my taxes next month, with the assistance of thirty-seven of my closest handicapped friends, and a guide dog named Ernestina the Wonder Poodle. -E « When I Am 82, I Hope I Am Like Jane Rinck The Rules in Our House » You are currently reading Pawlet's Handicapped Decision at Eve O. Schaub.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3120
__label__cc	0.623429	0.376571	Steve Bannon RIPS Into Bush Dynasty, Trump Supporters Rejoice With What He Said Next by Doyle Alexander November 18, 2017, 7:38 pm 60 Comments Former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon tore into the Bush dynasty Friday, saying he has “no time for them” and explaining how they are an example of the “permanent political class.” Bannon spoke at a retreat at the David Horowitz Freedom Center in Palm Beach Florida, and he made reference to the recent book The Last Republicans, in which it is reported that neither President George H.W. Bush nor President George W. Bush voted for President Trump. He told the audience: When old man Bush, between grabbing women in the Oval Office (yeh I went there) when he says that he voted for Hillary Clinton and when Bush 43 — the most destructive president and the most destructive presidency in the history of our country, including James Buchanan, when he says he didn’t vote, he voted some write-in, or he didn’t vote for President Trump, that’s all you got to know about those guys. He said their inability to make a distinction between Trump and Clinton shows how they are fundamentally entwined with the permanent political class. “If they can’t see the basic fundamental difference between what the regime of the Clintons would be versus what President Trump offered, then I’ve got no time for them,” he said. Bannon went on to explain how their attitude is an example of what the economic nationalist movement is fighting against, and how that is also represented in the tax bill currently working its way through Congress. “At the end of the day, Bush goes around with Bill Clinton and says he’s the son he never had … because the permanent political class is inextricably linked with themselves and you see it with this current tax bill,” he said. “The donor, corporatist, lobbyist, consultant apparatus that runs Washington D.C.” Bush 41 has been under increasing scrutiny in recent weeks. Bannon’s remarks were a nod to mounting allegations that he has groped multiple women, both during his presidency and afterward. A woman came forward this week to allege that Bush groped her in 1992 – when he was still president – at a Michigan fundraiser during a photo opportunity. It brings the number of accusers to at least half a dozen. Bush DynastyBush FamilyGeorge W BushPolitical EstablishmentRinosSteve Bannon Previous article “He Didn’t Help Me Out”, Lavar Ball REFUSES To Thank Trump For Getting His Son Out of Chinese Prison Next article FLOODGATES OPEN: Why ‘Biden 2020’ Would Be The Biggest Sex Scandal Yet For Democrats… Steve Bannon Stirs Amazing Crowd Response, Reissues War Cry Against The ‘Elites In The Republican Party’ Steve Bannon DESTROYS Pelosi And Establishment Politicians, ‘You Have ZERO CHANCE To Impeach Him’ BREAKING: Giuliani Says Arizona Legislature Will Attempt To Certify Trump As Winner, Bypassing Electors Never-Trump RINOs Join Forces With Extreme Leftist AOC TERRIBLE! YUGE! RINO’s Susan Collins and Mitt Romney Want To Give In To Dems And Vote For Witnesses In Impeachment DON JR. – President Trump Reminded Americans How Powerful They Are, How Useless The Corrupt Establishment Is! “He Didn’t Help Me Out”, Lavar Ball REFUSES To Thank Trump For Getting His Son Out of Chinese Prison FLOODGATES OPEN: Why ‘Biden 2020’ Would Be The Biggest Sex Scandal Yet For Democrats…	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3125
__label__cc	0.530952	0.469048	Leo Madigan Leo Madigan (28 September 1939 – 25 July 2015) was a New Zealand author who settled in Fátima, Portugal.[1][2][3][4][5][6] 1 Early life and education 3.1 Non Fiction 3.2 Fiction 4 Prizes and awards Early life and educationEdit Madigan attended Saint Thomas' preparatory school in Naenae, Lower Hutt, New Zealand, run by the Sisters of Mercy, and the Sacred Heart secondary school in Auckland, run by the Marist Brothers. He went to sea as Catering Boy, MV Wendover, London, in 1956. From 1958–1960 he was a novitiate with the Trappist religious order (Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance). After work as a psychiatric nurse and a short spell in the Royal Horse Guards, Madigan appeared in minor roles on the London stage in 1963. From 1964–75 he was a rating in the British Merchant Navy. Madigan then attended Sidney Webb College and was awarded the BEd degree of the University of London in 1978. From 1979–81 he worked in the educational arm of The Marine Society, edited The Seafarer magazine and taught at Gravesend Sea School. He taught at Fatih Lisesi (Fatih High School) in İzmir, Turkey from 1981–82. He sailed to the Falkland Islands on MV Uganda for the Marine Society in 1982 before teaching in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets from 1983–88. In 1988, Madigan moved to Fuseta, in Algarve, Portugal, where he worked as a local journalist and published several books. He moved to the world-famous Marian apparitions city of Fátima, Portugal, in 1998, where he has published extensively about the Shrine (the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Fátima), about Blessed Alexandrina of Balazar and other Catholic-oriented works. Non FictionEdit Madigan has written short articles for The Seafarer, Blackwood's Magazine, Fairplay International Shipping Weekly and Catholic Life in the UK, Soul in the US and many English language publications in Portugal. His full-length works are: Random Jottings for Young Seafarers. 1978. Marine Society Safe or Sorry. 1980. Marine Society The Devil is a Jackass. 1996. Gracewing. (UK). ISBN 0-85244-251-3 The Catholic Quiz Book. 1996. Gracewing. (UK). ISBN 972-99941-0-2 The Fatima Handbook. 2000. Gracewing. (UK). ISBN 0-85244-532-6 What Happened at Fatima. 2000. CTS. (UK). ISBN 1-86082-091-3; Fatima-Ophel. 2000. (Portugal). ISBN 186-08209-1-3 Princesses of the Kingdom. 2001. Kolbe. (Cork, Ireland). ISBN 0-9529627-4-8; 2003. Fatima-Ophel. (Portugal). ISBN 972-95882-3-6 The Children of Fatima. 2003. Our Sunday Visitor. (USA). ISBN 1-931709-57-2 Why Fátima? 2004. Fatima-Ophel. (Portugal). ISBN 972-95882-7-9 Armchair Fátima. 2005. Fatima-Ophel. (Portugal). ISBN 972-99305-1-1 Alexandrina da Costa. 2005. Fatima-Ophel. (Portugal). ISBN 972-95882-9-5 The 2nd Catholic Quiz Book. 2006. Fatima-Ophel. (Portugal). ISBN 972-99941-0-2 The Fatima Guide. 2007. Fatima-Ophel. (Portugal). ISBN 978-972-99941-3-5 The Irish Monstrance. 2009. Fatima-Ophel. (Portugal). ISBN 978-972-99941-4-2 Exquisite Miniature. 2011. Fatima-Ophel. (Portugal). ISBN 978-972-99941-6-6 The Golden Book of Fatima. 2013. Fatima-Ophel. (Portugal). ISBN 978-989-8564-03-0 The Fatima Prayer Book. 2014 (9th printing). Fatima-Ophel. (Portugal). ISBN 978-972-99941-7-3 FictionEdit In addition to short stories appearing in The Seafarer and East End Magazine in the UK and The Algarve Magazine in Portugal, Madigan has written the following full length fictional works: Jackarandy. 1972. Elek. (UK), Quartet, 1974, ISBN 978-0-236-15442-5 The Bank of Infinite Reserves. 1987. Fatima-Ophel. (Portugal). ISBN 978-1-84024-032-0 The Weka-Feather Cloak. Bethlehem Books. (USA) 2002. ISBN 978-1-883937-68-3 Who Told You You Were Naked? Fatima-Orphel. (Portugal) 2008. ISBN 978-972-8981-07-5 Crystal Ball Cameos Fatima Books. 2014. ISBN 978-989-8564-10-8 Prizes and awardsEdit Jackarandy Arts Council Award 1974 The Will of Quintus Kirkwood 2nd prize Yeovil Short Story Competition 2010[7] shortlisted for Fountane Book Publishing 2010 competition 1st prize Dream Quest Writing Competition, Chicago, Il. USA 2010 (as Where There's a Will), 1st prize Moyama Competition 2010; Published in Moyama Annual Review 2011 (as Where There's a Will), 2nd place Calderdale Short Story Competition 2011 Those Gorgeous Ghosts (as Brighter Than New Coins) 1st prize Chudleigh Phoenix 2012 Short Story Competition[8] The Bogus Confession (as The Old Man From the Garden), Ashby de la Zouch Writers' Club 2010; 3rd place 3rd prize, Deddington Writing Competition 2011 The Seduction of Fausto Batista shortlisted, New Writer prose prize 2010. 2nd place The Kambala Buffaloes University of Plymouth Press Short Story Competition 2011 Eric Hoffer Awards finalist; published in Best New Writing 2013, Hopewell Publication, New Jersey, USA 2nd place William van Dyke Short Story Prize 2011 1st runner-up Colonnade Writing Contest 2011 The Protest of Able Highly Commended in The New Writer 2011 Prose & Poetry Prizes, Cranbrook UK The Siberian Swimmer Runner-up for The Fulton Prize, Adirondack Review 2011 The Other Two 1st prize, The Write Helper Story Contest 2011 ^ The Bookseller – Google Boeken ^ Faith of the Fatherless: The Psychology of Atheism – Paul C. Vitz – Google Boeken ^ Catholicism: A Journey to the Heart of the Faith – Robert Barron – Google Boeken ^ Fatima for Today – Andrew Apostoli – Google Boeken ^ La Virgen de Fátima – C. Barthas – Google Boeken ^ "Leo Madigan Home Page". Retrieved 15 January 2014. ^ The Judging Team. "2010 Results". Yeovil Literary Prize. Retrieved 4 December 2013. ^ Cook, Sharon (April 2012). "Meet the Winner" (PDF). Chudleigh Phoenix. Chudleigh Town Council. p. 5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 December 2013. Retrieved 16 December 2013. With a picture of Madigan. Interview: EWTN Bookmark – 2012-06-10 – Exquisite Miniature by Leo Madigan on YouTube Leo Madigan Books official website Leo Madigan Books on iBooks Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Leo_Madigan&oldid=950257218"	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3127
__label__cc	0.639761	0.360239	Da Nang to build horse racing centre The central city of Da Nang is planning to allocate 300ha for the development of a horse racing track and farm with total investment of 200 million USD. VNA Friday, February 22, 2019 20:35 Da Nang – Destination of 2019 Singaporean firms selected to design master plan for Da Nang Wednesday, February 20, 2019 19:50 Da Nang prioritises FDI attraction in high-tech fields Monday, February 18, 2019 17:17 Foreigners allowed house ownership in Da Nang Da Nang invites investment to public parking lots A development plan of Da Nang city (Photo: VNA) Da Nang (VNA) - The central city of Da Nang is planning to allocate 300ha for the development of a horse racing track and farm with total investment of 200 million USD. Deputy Director of the city’s Investment Promotion Agency (IPA) Huynh Thi Lien Phuong, said an investor – Maxtrix Holdings – had asked the city to allocate 100ha for a race track and 200ha for a farm and training facilities. Lien said the city had chosen an appropriate area for the project. The project has the biggest investment of 44 plans approved by the municipal People’s Committee last month. The city is also looking to develop the Da Nang Software Park No 2 on 5.26ha with an estimated 91.6 million USD, and the Pegasus University urban zone with an investment of 15 million USD. It said the project would include a software park, a 26-storey apartment building and offices. Da Nang will reserve land for building a financial centre, casino and resort projects along Vo Van Kiet and Vo Nguyen Giap streets in Spn Trà district. According to the IPA, Da Nang has granted 322 new licences for domestic investors worth 97 trillion VND (4.2 billion USD), and attracted 675 foreign direct investment projects worth 2.9 billion USD. The IPA said businesses from Singapore are eying Da Nang as a potential investment destination in central Vietnam, especially in the fields of health care, advanced technology and tourism.-VNA Da Nang city horse racing track in Da Nang horse racing centre in Da Nang Maxtrix Holdings investment in Da Nang foreign investment in Da Nang Da Nang Software Park No 2 updated Vietnam news Vietnamplus Vietnam News Agency Related stories Da Nang New stock trading system from RoK to be tested after Tet A trial run of a stock trading system from the Republic of Korea with securities companies will be conducted after the Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday, Tran Van Dung, Chairman of the State Securities Commission of Vietnam (SSC), told a press conference on January 19.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3128
__label__wiki	0.920063	0.920063	Tool (band) Tool (band): translation Infobox musical artist Name = Tool Img_capt = Tool performing live in 2006. Visible from left to right are: Adam Jones, Maynard James Keenan and Justin Chancellor. Img_size = 250 Landscape = yes Background = group_or_band Alias = Origin = Los Angeles, California, United States Years_active = 1990–present Label = Tool Dissectional Volcano II Associated_acts = A Perfect Circle, Children of the Anachronistic Dynasty, Green Jellÿ, Peach, Pigmy Love Circus, Puscifer, Tapeworm, TexA.N.S., VOLTO!, Melvins URL = [http://www.toolband.com/ toolband.com] Current_members = Danny Carey Justin Chancellor Past_members = Paul D'Amour Tool is an American rock band that was formed in 1990 in Los Angeles, California. The band has sold over 13 million records worldwide, and consists of drummer Danny Carey, bassist Justin Chancellor, guitarist Adam Jones, and vocalist Maynard James Keenan. Tool has hosted worldwide tours and produced albums which have performed well on international music charts.cite web \| url=http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:zq5a8qmtbtq4~T1 \| title=Tool Biography \| publisher=AllMusic.com \| accessdate=2006-04-28 \| last= Erlewine \| first= Stephen Thomas \| coauthors = G. Prato] The band emerged with a heavy metal sound on their first LP at a time when the genre was dominated by thrash metal, and later reached the top of the alternative metal movement with the release of their second LP, "Ænima", in 1996. Their efforts to unify musical experimentation, visual arts, and a message of personal evolution continued with "Lateralus" (2001) and their most recent album, "10,000 Days" (2006), gaining the band critical acclaim and success around the world. Due to Tool's incorporation of visual arts and relatively long and complex releases, the band is generally described as a style-transcending act and part of progressive rock and art rock. The relationship between the band and today's music industry is ambivalent,cite web \| date=2001-05-23 \| url=http://www.exclaim.ca/index.asp?layid=22&csid=1&csid1=685 \| work=Exclaim! \| title=Tool - Stepping Out From the Shadows \| accessdate=2006-09-17 \| last=Sokal \| first=Roman ] at times marked by censorship and the band members' insistence on privacy.cite journal url=http://toolshed.down.net/articles/index.php?action=view-article&id=February_1997--Livewire.html last = Gennaro first = Loraine title =Angry Jung Men! journal = Livewire Magazine volume = 7 issue = 3 accessdate = 2007-04-08] Early years (1988–1992) During the 1980s, each of the future members of Tool moved to Los Angeles. Both Paul D'Amour and Adam Jones wanted to enter the film industry, while Maynard James Keenan found employment remodeling pet stores after having studied visual arts in Michigan. Danny Carey performed as a drummer for Wild Blue Yonder, Green Jellÿ, and Carole King, and played in the Los Angeles area with Pigmy Love Circus. [cite news url = http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/tool/articles/story/6054684/tool_drummer_goes_to_circus title = Tool Drummer Goes to Circus author = Adem Tepedelen work = Rolling Stone date = 2004-04-30 Keenan and Jones met through a common friend in 1989.Kitts, pp. 1965–1969.] After Keenan played a tape recording for Jones of his previous band project, Jones was so impressed by his voice that he eventually talked his friend into forming their own band. They started jamming together and were on the lookout for a drummer and a bass player. Danny Carey happened to live above Keenan and was introduced to Jones by Tom Morello, an old high school friend of Jones and former bandmate of Electric Sheep.Newquist, pp. 11–15.] Carey began playing in their sessions because he "felt kinda sorry for them", as other invited musicians were not showing up. [Akhtar, C3.] Tool's lineup was completed when a friend of Jones introduced them to bassist D'Amour.cite journal url=http://toolshed.down.net/articles/index.php?action=view-article&id=May_1994--Circus_Magazine.html date= 1994-05-31 journal=Circus title=A Sober Look At Tool accessdate=2007-04-09 first=Katherine last=Turman ] Early on, the band fabricated the story that they formed because of the pseudophilosophy "lachrymology". [cite web \| url=http://www.toolarmy.com/toolband/lachrymology/lachrymology.php?key=fob \| title=Let Not My Tears Fall Unnoticed: Being the Secret Joys of a Lachrymist \| work=toolarmy.com \| accessdate=2007-05-06 \| first=Blair MacKenzie \| last=Blake] Although "lachrymology" was also explained to be an inspiration for the band's name, Keenan later explained their intentions differently: "Tool is exactly what it sounds like: It's a big dick. It's a wrench.... we are... your tool; use us as a catalyst in your process of finding out whatever it is you need to find out, or whatever it is you're trying to achieve." [cite journal \| url=http://toolshed.down.net/articles/index.php?action=view-article&id=April_1994--RayGun.html \| title=Tool Rules \| journal=Ray Gun \| accessdate=2006-08-27 \| month=April \| year=1994 \| issue=15 \| author=Zappa, Moon Unit \| format=transcription] hardware" in Tool's imagery. [cite news url = http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=BN&p_theme=bn&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EAF9A43141E0380&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D title = Over the weekend work = Buffalo News accessdate = 2008-02-02 format = fee required quote = Tool adds its own '90s twist to the genre with unpublishable lyrics, occult tendencies and a love of grotesque imagery -- burning eyeballs, phallic hardware, crippled people.] ] After only a few gigs, the band was approached by record companies, and only three months into their career they signed a record deal with Zoo Entertainment. In March 1992, Zoo published the band's first effort, "Opiate". Described by the band as "slam and bang" heavy metal [Akhtar, E8.] and the "hardest sounding" six songs they had written to that point,cite journal url=http://toolshed.down.net/articles/text/gsch.mar.94.html title = Tool Guitarist Adam Jones is a Master of Many Trades journal = Guitar School volume = 03 pages = 16 accessdate = 2006-04-07] the EP included the singles "Hush" and "Opiate". The band's first music video, "Hush", promoted their dissenting views about the then-prominent Parents Music Resource Center and its advocacy of the censorship of music. The video featured the band members naked with their genitalia covered by parental advisory stickers and their mouths covered by duct tape.cite video url = http://toolshed.down.net/articles/index.php?action=view-article&id=February_1997--Muchmusic.html people = Roncon, Theresa (Interviewer) title = Tool Muchmusic spotlight medium = TV publisher = MuchMusic location = Canada date = February, 1997] The band began touring with Rollins Band, Skitzo, Fishbone, and Rage Against the Machine to positive responses which Janiss Garza of "RIP Magazine" summarized in September 1992 as a "buzz" and "a strong start". [cite journal url = http://toolshed.down.net/articles/index.php?action=view-article&id=September_1992--RIP_Magazine.html title = Fresh Blood journal = RIP magazine first = Janiss last = Garza "Undertow" (1993–1995) The following year, at a time when post-Nirvana alternative rock was at its height, Tool released their first full-length album, "Undertow" (1993). It expressed more diverse dynamics than "Opiate" and included songs the band had chosen not to publish on their previous release, when they had opted for a heavier sound. The band began touring again as planned, with an exception in May 1993. Tool was scheduled to play the Garden Pavilion in Hollywood but learned at the last minute that the Garden Pavilion belonged to L. Ron Hubbard's Church of Scientology, which the band felt clashed with "the band's ethics about how a person should not follow a belief system that constricts their development as a human being". Keenan "spent most of the show baa-ing like a sheep at the audience".cite web \| url=http://www.blender.com/guide/articles.aspx?id=2002 \| title=33 Things You Should Know About Tool \| work=Blender \| accessdate=2006-09-18 \| first=Jon \| last=Dolan \| year=2006 \| month=August ] Tool later played several very successful concerts during the Lollapalooza road show, and were moved from the second stage to the main stage by their manager and the festival co-founder Ted Gardner. [cite news \| url=http://toolshed.down.net/articles/index.php?action=view-article&id=March_1997--Alternative_Press.html \| year=1997 \| title=Nobody's Tool \| work=Alternative Press \| accessdate=2007-04-08 \| first=Jason \| last=Pettigrew] At the last concert of Lollapalooza in Tool's hometown Los Angeles, comedian Bill Hicks introduced the band. Hicks had become a friend of the band members and an influence on them after being mentioned in "Undertow"'s liner notes. [cite journal \| url=http://toolshed.down.net/articles/index.php?action=view-article&id=April_1997--High_Times.html \| title=Hard rockers hail comic genius Bill Hicks. \| journal=High Times \| accessdate=2006-09-18 \| last=Garza\| first=Janiss \| year=1997 \| month=April ] He jokingly asked the audience of 60,000 people to stand still and help him look for a lost contact lens.cite web url=http://www.fadetoblack.com/interviews/billhicks/13.html title=Question & Answer with Kevin Booth work=Fade to Black presents: It's Only a Ride: Bill Hicks accessdate=2007-07-14] The boost in popularity gained from these concerts led "Undertow" to be certified gold by the RIAA in September 1993 and to achieve platinum status in 1995, [cite journal \| title =Tool Tool fact kit \| journal =Circus \| month = January \| year=1997 \| url =http://toolshed.down.net/articles/index.php?action=view-article&id=January_1997--Circus_magazine.html\| accessdate =2007-12-05] despite being sold with a censored album cover by distributors such as Wal-Mart.cite journal \| last =Griffin \| first =J.R. \| title =TOOL on Videos, Censorship, Art, And Why You Should Never Let A Guy Named Maynard Put You In A Cage \| journal=Axcess \| year =1994 \| accessdate =2007-05-13 \| url=http://toolshed.down.net/articles/index.php?action=view-article&id=Sometime_1994--Axcess.html \| pages=52 ] [Sherry, p. 176.] The single "Sober" became a hit single by March 1994 and won the band Billboard's "Best Video By A New Artist" award for the accompanying stop motion music video. With the release of Tool's follow-up single "Prison Sex", the band again became the target of censorship. The song's lyrics and video dealt with child abuse, which sparked controversial reactions; Keenan's lyrics begin with: "It took so long to remember just what happened. I was so young and vestal then, you know it hurt me, but I'm breathing so I guess I'm still alive." The video was created primarily by guitarist Adam Jones, who saw it as his "surrealistic interpretation" of the subject matter.cite journal \| last=Jenison \| first=David \| url=http://toolshed.down.net/articles/index.php?action=view-article&id=December_1994--Hypno.html \| title=Tool \| accessdate=2007-11-10 \| year=1994 \| month = December \| journal=HYPNO] And while some contemporary journalists again praised the video and described the lyrics as "metaphoric", the American branch of MuchMusic asked Keenan to represent the band in a hearing. It deemed the respective music video too graphic and obscene, and MTV stopped airing it after a few viewings. In September 1995, the band entered the studios to record their second album. At that time Tool experienced its only lineup change to date, with bassist D'Amour leaving the band amicably to pursue other projects. Justin Chancellor, a member of former tourmates Peach, eventually replaced D'Amour, having been chosen over competitors such as Kyuss' Scott Reeder, Filter's Frank Cavanaugh, Pigmy Love Circus's E. Shepherd Stevenson and ZAUM's Marco Fox. [cite journal url = http://toolshed.down.net/articles/index.php?action=view-article&id=October_1996--CMJ_New_Music_Report.html title = Sink or Swim - A Conversation With Tool's Justin Chancellor journal = Gavin Magazine first = Rob last = Fiend month = October \| year = 1996 accessdate =2007-05-09] "Ænima" (1996–2000) After Paul D'Amour left Tool, Justin Chancellor came on board, recording of the already-begun "Ænima" continued. The band enlisted the help of producer David Bottrill, who had produced some of King Crimson's albums while Jones collaborated with Cam de Leon to create "Ænima"'s Grammy-nominated artwork. The album was released in October 1996. The album was dedicated to satirist Bill Hicks, who had died two and a half years earlier. The band intended to raise awareness about Hicks's material and ideas, because they felt that Tool and Hicks "were resonating similar concepts".cite news http://toolshed.down.net/articles/index.php?action=view-article&id=May_1997--The_Austin_Chronicle.html title = Another Dead Hero first= Andy last=Langer work = The Austin Chronicle date = May, 1997 accessdate = 2007-05-29] In particular, "Ænima"'s final track "Third Eye" is preceded by a clip of Hicks' performances, and both the lenticular casing of the "Ænima" CD packaging as well as the chorus of the title track "Ænema" make reference to a sketch off Hicks's "Arizona Bay", where he contemplates the idea of Los Angeles falling into the Pacific Ocean. [cite web url = http://www.ucdadvocate.com/home/index.cfm?event=displayArticle&ustory_id=f13de017-3fd8-4f74-9abd-9f3f54482961 title = Dead 10 years, Hicks still makes us laugh first= John last= Zwick work = University of Colorado at Denver Advocate The first single, "Stinkfist", obtained limited and imperfect airplay: It was shortened by radio programmers, MTV (U.S.) renamed the music video of "Stinkfist" to "Track #1" due to offensive connotations,cite web \| url=http://toolshed.down.net/video/stinkfist/track1.html \| title=The "Track #1" Fiasco \| accessdate=2006-03-06 \| first=Kabir \| last=Akhtar \| publisher = toolshed.down.net] and the lyrics of the song were altered. [McIver, p. 137.] Responding to fan complaints about censorship, Matt Pinfield of MTV's "120 Minutes" expressed regret on air by waving his fist in front of his face while introducing the video and explaining the name change. A tour began in October 1996, only two weeks after "Ænima"'s release. Following numerous appearances in the United States and Europe, Tool headed for Australia and New Zealand in late March 1997. April 1 of that year saw the first of several April Fools' pranks related to the band. Kabir Akhtar, webmaster of the band's semi-official fanpage, The Tool Page, wrote that "at least three of the band are listed in critical condition" after a tour bus accident on a highway.cite web \| url=http://toolshed.down.net/news/aprilfools97.html \| title=Tool News: April Fools 1997 \| accessdate=2007-03-29 \| first=Kabir \| last=Akhtar \| publisher = toolshed.down.net] This hoax gained wide attention and was eventually exposed on radio and MTV. Akhtar later posted an apology, claiming that The Tool Page "will not indulge itself in such outlandish pranks in the future"—a claim that would be belied by later April Fools' pranks. The tour continued the next day as originally announced. Eventually returning to the United States, Tool appeared at Lollapalooza '97 in July, this time as a headliner, where they gained critical praise from "The New York Times": Notwithstanding a decline in popularity of alternative rock music during the mid-90s in the United States, "Ænima" eventually matched Tool's successful debut in sales. [cite journal \| url=http://toolshed.down.net/articles/index.php?action=view-article&id=August_1997--Circus.html \| month= August \| year= 1997 \| title=Never Wanted To Be Rock Stars But They Are \| journal=Circus \| accessdate=2006-06-25 \| first=Edward \| volume = 8 \| last=Fruchtman ] The progressive-influenced "Ænima" landed the band at the head of the alternative metal genre: It featured the Grammy Award-winning "Ænema" [cite web \| url = http://www.rockonthenet.com/archive/1998/grammys.htm title = 40th Grammy Awards work = Rockonthenet.com accessdate = 2007-05-26] and appeared on several "Best Albums of 1996" lists,cite web url=http://www.acclaimedmusic.net/061024/A3618.htm title=Tool - Aenima work=acclaimedmusic.net accessdate=2007-06-25] with notable examples being those of "Kerrang!" [cite web \|url=http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/kerrang.html \|title=Kerrang! End of Year Lists \|accessdate=2007-07-27 \|work=Kerrang! ] and "Terrorizer". [cite web \|url=http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/terroris.htm \|title=Terrorizer End of Year Lists \|accessdate=2007-07-27 \|work=Terrorizer ] A legal battle that began the same year interfered with the band's working on another release. Volcano Records—the successor of Tool's by-then defunct label Zoo Entertainment—alleged contract violations by Tool and filed suit. According to Volcano, Tool had violated their contract when the band looked at offers from other record labels. After Tool filed a countersuit stating that Volcano had failed to use a renewal option in their contract, the parties settled out of court. At the end of 1998, Tool agreed to a new contract, a three-record joint venture deal. [Akhtar, C15.] In 2000, the band dismissed their long-time manager Ted Gardner, who then sued the band over his commission on this lucrative agreement. [cite web url=http://toolshed.down.net/articles/text/allstar.nov.2000.html title=Tool Gets Sued By Manager For $5 Million work=CDNow.com first=Carrie \| last=Borzillo-Vrenna] During this time, Keenan joined the band A Perfect Circle which was founded by long-time Tool guitar tech Billy Howerdel, while Jones joined The Melvins' Buzz Osborne and Carey drummed with Dead Kennedys' Jello Biafra on other side projects.cite journal \| title=Home Improvement \| month= August \| year= 2001 \| accessdate=2007-05-12 \| journal=Classic Rock \| first=Rosanna \| last=Slater \| url=http://toolshed.down.net/articles/index.php?action=view-article&id=August_2001--Classic_Rock.html] Although there were rumors that Tool were breaking up, [cite web url = http://www.statenews.com/article.phtml?pk=13061 title = Breslin hosts heavier sound first= Scott \| last=Kline work = The State News accessdate = 2007-04-09 cite news url = http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=BT&p_theme=bt&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0F759C5DCBC49509&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D title = Innovative band playing Beaumont tonight wins new regard from critic work = The Beaumont Enterprise format = fee required] Chancellor, Jones and Carey were working on new material while waiting for Keenan to return. [cite news url = http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-7855169_ITM title = Rock band Tool is all about music, not image author = Alan K. Stout work = The Times Leader quote = Chancellor says Tool, through it all, never stopped working on new music. He says he, Jones and Carey were in the studio every day, experimenting with new sounds and musical ideas.] In 2000, the "Salival" box set (CD/VHS or CD/DVD) was released, effectively putting an end to the rumors. The CD contained one new original track, a cover of Led Zeppelin's "No Quarter", a live version of Peach's "You Lied", and revised versions of old songs. The VHS and the DVD each contained four music videos, plus a bonus music video for "Hush" on the DVD. Although "Salival" did not yield any singles, the hidden track "Maynard's Dick" (which dates back to the "Opiate" era) briefly found its way to FM radio when several DJs chose to play it on air under the title "Maynard's Dead". [Akhtar, H26.] "Lateralus" (2001–2005) In January 2001, Tool announced a new album, "Systema Encéphale", along with a 12-song tracklist containing titles such as "Riverchrist", "Numbereft", "Encephatalis", "Musick", and "Coeliacus".cite web \| url=http://toolshed.down.net/news/oldnews/old0101.html \| title=Old News. January - March 2001 \| publisher=toolshed.down.net \| accessdate=2006-03-06 \| first=Kabir \|last=Akhtar ] File-sharing networks such as Napster were flooded with bogus files bearing the titles' names. At the time, Tool members were outspokenly critical of file-sharing networks in general due to the negative impact on artists that are dependent on success in record sales to continue their career. Keenan had this to say during an interview with "NY Rock" in 2000, "I think there are a lot of other industries out there that might deserve being destroyed. The ones who get hurt by MP3s are not so much companies or the business, but the artists, people who are trying to write songs." [cite web \| url=http://www.nyrock.com/interviews/2000/apc_int.asp \| title=Interview with Maynard James Keenan of A Perfect Circle \| work=NY Rock \| accessdate=2006-04-28 \| month = September \| year=2000 \| author=Gabriella] A month later, the band revealed that the new album was actually titled "Lateralus" and that the name "Systema Encéphale" and the tracklist had been a ruse.cite web \| url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1439483/02152001/tool.jhtml \| title=Tool Tinker With Album Title, Set Track List \| work=MTV News \| publisher = MTV.com \| accessdate=2006-03-06 \| first=Joe \| last=D'Angelo] "Lateralus" and the corresponding tours would take Tool a step further toward art rockcite web url=http://web.archive.org/web/20031218003654/http://www.eonline.com/Reviews/Facts/Music/RevID/0,1107,2309,00.html title=Lateralus review \| year=2001 \| accessdate=2007-06-18 \| publisher=E! Online ] cite web \| url=http://www.vh1.com/artists/news/1446389/20010806/king_crimson.jhtml \| title=Tool Stretch Out And Slow Down In Show With King Crimson \| work=VH1.com \| accessdate=2007-07-19 \| year=2001 \| first=Laura \|last=Bond] cite web \| first=Milano \| last= Brett\| year=2006\| title=Power Tool: Maynard James Keenan and band craft epic art-metal \| format=HTML \| work=Boston Herald \| url=http://theedge.bostonherald.com/musicNews/view.bg?articleid=139842 \| accessdate=2006-05-27] and progressive rockcite web \| url=http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:bv851vg3zz9a \| year=2001\| title=Lateralus Review \| work=AllMusic \| accessdate=2006-04-28 \| first=Rob \| last=Theakston] cite web \| url=http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/_/id/211444?rnd=1145911827234 \| year=2001\| title=Lateralus Review \| work=Rolling Stone \| accessdate=2006-04-24 \| first=David \|last=Fricke ] [DeRogatis, p. 562.] territory. "Rolling Stone" wrote in an attempt to summarize the album that "Drums, bass and guitars move in jarring cycles of hyperhowl and near-silent death march... The prolonged running times of most of "Lateralus"' thirteen tracks are misleading; the entire album rolls and stomps with suitelike purpose." Joshua Klein of "The A.V. Club" in turn expressed his opinion that "Lateralus", with its 79 minutes and relatively complex and long songs—topped by the ten-and-a-half minute music video for "Parabola"—posed a challenge to fans and music programming alike. [cite web \| url=http://www.avclub.com/content/node/12709 \| title=Lateralus review \| work=The A.V. Club \| date=2002-03-29 \| accessdate=2007-05-25 \| first=Joshua \| last=Klein] The album became a worldwide success, reaching #1 on the U.S. "Billboard" 200 albums chart in its debut week. [cite web \| url=http://billboard.com/bbcom/discography/index.jsp?pid=19952&aid=473403 \| title=Discography Tool Laterlaus \| accessdate=2006-04-29 \| publisher=Billboard.com] Tool received their second Grammy Award for the best metal performance of 2001 for the song "Schism". [cite web url = http://www.grammy.com/GRAMMY_Awards/Winners/ title = Grammy Award Winners publisher = The Recording Academy accessdate = 2007-04-28] During the band's acceptance speech, drummer Carey stated that he would like to thank his parents (for putting up with him) and Satan, and bassist Chancellor concluded: "I want to thank my dad for doing my mom." [cite web \| url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1452651/02272002/u2.jhtml \| title=Alicia Keys Takes Five, 'O Brother' Gets Most At 44th Grammy Awards \| work=MTV News \| publisher=MTV.com \| accessdate=2006-08-07 \| year=2002 \| first=Joe \| last=D'Angelo] Extensive touring throughout 2001 and 2002 supported "Lateralus" and included a personal highlight for the band: a 10-show joint mini-tour with King Crimson in August 2001. Comparisons between the two were made, MTV describing the bands as "the once and future kings of progressive rock". Keenan stated of the minitour: "For me, being on stage with King Crimson is like Lenny Kravitz playing with Led Zeppelin, or Britney Spears onstage with Debbie Gibson." Although the end of the tour in November 2002 seemed to signal the start of another dormancy for the band, they did not become completely inactive. While Keenan recorded and toured with A Perfect Circle, the other band members released an interview and a recording of new material, both exclusive to the fan club. On April 1, 2005, the official Tool website announced that "Maynard has found Jesus" and would be abandoning the recording of the new Tool album temporarily and possibly permanently. [cite news url = http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/pop/268879_tool03ww.html title = Tool mesmerizes crowd author = Travis Hay work = Seattle Post-Intelligencer accessdate = 2008-01-18] Brian Welch (formerly of the band Korn), who made the same news some months earlier, was delighted. Kurt Loder of MTV contacted Keenan via email to ask for a confirmation and received a nonchalant confirmation. When Loder asked again, Keenan's response was simply "heh heh." [cite web \| url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1499613/20050405/tool.jhtml?headlines=true title = Maynard And Jesus Split: The Conclusion \| first = Chris \| last=Harris work= MTV News \| date = 2005-04-07 \| accessdate = 2007-02-14] However, on April 7 the official site explained, "Good news, April fools fans. The writing and recording is back under way." [cite web \| url=http://web.archive.org/web/20051024134948/toolband.com/news/ \| title=Tool: News \| publisher=Toolband.com \| accessdate=2007-03-30 \| year=2005 \| first=Blair MacKenzie \|last=Blake] The writing and recording proceeded for the follow-up to "Lateralus"; meanwhile, a "Lateralus" vinyl edition and two DVD singles were released, and the band's official website received a new splash intro by artist Joshua Davis. [cite web\|title=Joshua Davis - Projects - Web - Tool\|url=http://www.joshuadavis.com/\|format=FLASH\|accessdate=2007-04-02\|publisher=joshuadavis.com] The "double vinyl four-picture disc" edition of "Lateralus" was first released as a limited autographed edition exclusively available to fan club members and publicly released on August 23, 2005. On December 20, 2005, the two DVDs were released, one containing the single "Schism" and the other "Parabola", a remix by Lustmord, and the music video with commentary by David Yow and Jello Biafra, respectively. "10,000 Days" (2006–present) Fifteen years into the band's career, Tool had acquired what Dan Epstein of "Revolver" described as a devoted "cult" following,cite journal last = Epstein first = Dan title = Do What You Wilt journal = Revolver month = April \| year = 2006] and as details about the band's next album emerged, such as the influence of "Lateralus" tourmates Fantômas and Meshuggah,cite web \| url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1486242/20040407/story.jhtml \| title=Tool Hammer Away At New Album \| work=MTV News \| accessdate=2006-04-06 \| first=Jon \| last=Wiederhorn \| publisher=MTV.com] rumors surrounding new Tool again surfaced.cite web \| url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/music/is-anyone-listening/2006/05/03/1146335806864.html \| title=Is anyone listening? \| publisher=TheAge.com.au \| accessdate=2006-05-06 \| year=2006\| first=Patrick \| last=Donovan] The main controversy was the album title. After rumored titles such as "Teleincision" had been dismissed, a news item on the official Tool website announced that the new album's name was "10,000 Days". Nevertheless, speculation continued: it was alleged that "10,000 Days" was merely a "decoy" album to fool audiences until the day of release, which eventually proved false when a leaked copy of the album was distributed via filesharing networks a week prior to its official release. [cite web title =Tool Planning Summer Tour Around Keenan's Wine Harvest publisher =VH1.com url =http://www.vh1.com/news/articles/1531583/20060511/tool.jhtml accessdate =2007-06-15 first= Chris \| last=Harris] The album opener, "Vicarious", premiered on U.S. radio stations on April 17. The record followed on May 2, 2006 in the U.S. and debuted at the top spots of various international charts. "10,000 Days" sold 564,000 copies in its opening week in the U.S. and was number one on the "Billboard" 200 charts, doubling the sales of Pearl Jam's self-titled album, its closest competitor. [cite web title=Tool, Pearl Jam Claim Billboard Chart In The Name Of Rock (May 10, 2006) work=MTV.com url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1531452/05102006/tool.jhtml accessdate=2006-09-17] However, "10,000 Days" was received less favorably by critics than its predecessor "Lateralus" had been. [Metacritic calculated an average score of 68 for "10,000 Days" compared to 75 for "Lateralus". cite web year= 2006 publisher=Metacritic url=http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/tool/10000days?q=tool title=Tool: 10,000 Days (2006): Reviews accessdate=2006-09-17 cite web url=http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/tool/lateralus?q=tool title=Tool: Lateralus (2001): Reviews accessdate=2007-06-17] After the release of "10,000 Days", a tour kicked off at Coachella on April 30, 2006. The touring schedule was similar to the "Lateralus" tour of 2001; supporting acts were Isis and Mastodon. During a short break early the next year, after touring Australia and New Zealand, drummer Danny Carey suffered a biceps tear during a skirmish with his girlfriend's dog, casting uncertainty on the band's upcoming concerts in North America. [cite web url=http://www.toolband.com/news/index.html title=TOOL : NEWS - TOOL Newsletter February 2007, e.v publisher=Toolband.com accessdate=2007-05-10] Carey underwent surgery on February 21, and several gigs had to be postponed. Back on tour by April, Tool appeared on June 15 as a headliner at the Bonnaroo Music Festival with a guest appearance from Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello on "Lateralus". [cite web first =Jonathan \| last=Cohen title =Tool, All-Star Zeppelin Jam Highlight Bonnaroo Day One publisher =Billboard.com url =http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003599898 accessdate =2007-06-17 ] Meanwhile, "Vicarious" was a nominee for Best Hard Rock Performance and "10,000 Days" won Best Recording Package at the 49th Grammy Awards.cite web url=http://www.grammy.com/GRAMMY_Awards/49th_Show/list.aspx title=Awards Winners List work=49th Annual Grammy Awards year=2007 publisher=Grammy.com] The music video for "Vicarious" was released on DVD on December 18. In an interview conducted in May 2007, Justin Chancellor stated that the band would probably continue their tour until early 2008 and then "take some time off". He qualified this statement by adding that the band has already written new material and would surely release another album at some point down the road.cite web last =Pulsifer first =Eric title =Tool returns to Bossier on Thursday publisher =nwlanews.com date =2007-05-15 url = http://www.nwlanews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4170&Itemid=56 accessdate =2007-06-07] A possible project until a next album is to make a "band movie", a possibility the band has reportedly considered for a long time. The ideas range from "a narrative story in a surreal fashion with as much money and special effects as possible" to "pockets of all of that or something that's live or the band playing".cite web title =Tool movie in the works? first= John \| last=Benson] Although Carey stated that the necessary know-how was at hand due to the many relations to artists working in the movie business, Jones dismissed the idea saying, "It's just talk right now." [cite web publisher =The Rock Radio url =http://www.therockradio.com/2007/06/tool-movie-in-works.html work= The Rock Radio online] According to "Rolling Stone", after the 50th Grammy Awards, while attending a Sony BMG after party at the Beverly Hills Hotel, Keenan promised another Tool album." [Scaggs, Austin (2008-02-11). " [http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2008/02/11/smoking-section-at-the-grammys-wilco-foo-fighters-tool-more/ Smoking Section at the Grammys: Wilco, Foo Fighters, Tool, More] ". "Rolling Stone". Retrieved on 2008-02-11.] As of September 5, 2008, Tool have three songs featured on the Guitar Hero World Tour setlist; "Parabola", "Schism" and "Vicarious". Guitar Hero World Tour will also sport a venue inspired by the band's art style that has pervaded their music videos, shows, and album art. Musical style and influences Tool has gained critical praise from the "International Herald Tribune"'s C.B. Liddell for their complex and ever-evolving sound. [cite web \| url=http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200701120170.html \| date= 2007-01-12 \| title=In Sight/Music & Arts Tool frontman: 'I have not smashed up 1 hotel room' \| work=International Herald Tribune/The Asahi Shimbun \| accessdate=2007-05-25\|first=C.B. \| last=Liddell ] Describing their general sound, Allmusic refers to them as "grinding, post-Jane's Addiction heavy metal", and "The New York Times" sees similarities to "Led Zeppelin's heaving, battering guitar riffs and Middle Eastern modes". [cite web \| url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9903EEDF1738F937A25754C0A961958260 \| year=1997 \| title=Lollapalooza's Recycled Hormones: Rebellion by the Numbers \| work=The New York Times \| accessdate=2006-04-28\|first=Jon \| last=Pareles] Their 2001 work "Lateralus" was compared by Allmusic to Pink Floyd's "Meddle" (1971), but thirty years later and altered by "Tool's impulse to cram every inch of infinity with hard guitar meat and absolute dread". Musical style A component of Tool's song repertoire relies on the use of odd meter time signatures. For instance, bassist Justin Chancellor describes the time signature employed on "Lateralus's" first single, "Schism", as 6.5/8, and that it later "goes into all kinds of other times".cite journal \|last=Scott Shiraki & E.E. Bradman \|first= \|year=2001 \|month=05 \|title=Handy Man: How Justin Chancellor Frames Tool's Metal Madness \|journal=Bass Player \|url=http://www.basswriter.com/journalism/bpstories/Web-Chancellor.doc \|accessdate=2007-05-02 \|format=DOC] "Lateralus", the album's title track, also displays shifting rhythms, as does "10,000 Days'" "Wings for Marie (Pt 1)" and "10,000 Days (Wings Pt 2)".cite journal \|last=Micallef \|first=Ken \|year=2006 \|month=07 \|title=10,000 Days... and beyond \|journal=Modern Drummer \|url=http://www.musicdispatch.com/item_detail.jsp?itemid=77773078&refer=feature&featureCat=1280002&order=6 \|accessdate=2007-05-02 ] Beyond this aspect of the band's sound, each band member experiments within his musical scope. "Bass Player" magazine described Chancellor's bass playing as a "thick midrange tone, guitar-style techniques, and elastic versatility". As an example of this, the magazine mentioned the use of a wah effect by hammering "the notes with the left hand and using the bass's tone controls to get a tone sweep", such as on the song "The Patient" ("Lateralus" 2001). Completing the band's rhythm section, drummer Danny Carey uses polyrhythms, tabla-style techniques, and the incorporation of custom electronic drum pads to trigger samples, such as prerecorded tabla and octoban sounds. Maynard James Keenan's ability as a vocalist has been characterized more subjectively by the "Seattle Post-Intelligencer": After his performance during an Alice in Chains reunion concert in 2005, freelancer Travis Hay saw him as "a natural fit at replacing Layne Staley". [cite web \| url=http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/pop/212872_alice21q.html \| date= 2005-02-21 \| title=Alice in Chains owns stage in tsunami-relief show full of surprises \| work=Seattle Post-Intelligencer \| accessdate=2007-05-25 \| first=Travis \| last=Hay] Regarding his role in A Perfect Circle and Tool, "The New York Times" wrote that "both groups rely on Mr. Keenan's ability to dignify emotions like lust, anger and disgust, the honey in his voice adding a touch of profundity".cite web \| url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C03E1D6113EF931A1575BC0A9669C8B63 \| year=2002 \| title=Self-Confidence, and a Tattoo \| work=The New York Times \| accessdate=2007-05-02 \| first=Ann \| last=Powers] According to "Guitar Player" magazine, Adam Jones does not rely on any one particular guitar-playing technique but rather combines many techniques.cite web \| url= http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-10882659_ITM \| year=2001 \| title=Mysterious Ways \| month= June \| work=Guitar Player \| accessdate=2007-05-02 \| first=Jon \| last=Wiederhorn ] For example, Allmusic wrote that he "alternately utiliz [es] power chords, scratchy noise, chiming arpeggios, and a quiet minimalism" in "Sober".cite web \| url=http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=33:wxfexqrrldae \| year=\| title=Sober Song Review \| work=AllMusic.com \| accessdate=2007-05-02 \| first=Steve \| last=Huey] Additionally, the band uses forms of instrumental experimentation, like the use of a "pipe bomb microphone" (a guitar pickup mounted inside a brass cylinder) and a talk box guitar solo on "Jambi". [cite web \| last =Forlenza \| first =Jeff \| title =The Making of Tool's "10,000 Days" \| publisher =Mix \| date = 2006-07-01\| url =http://mixonline.com/recording/projects/audio_making_tools_days/ \| accessdate =2007-05-09 ] The band puts an emphasis on the sound of their songs and attempts to reduce the effect lyrics can have on the perception of songs by not releasing song lyrics with any album. Lyrical arrangements are often given special attention, such as in "Lateralus". The number of syllables per line in the lyrics to "Lateralus" correspond to an arrangement of the fibonacci numberscite web \| first = Christopher W. \| last=diCarlo \| title = Interview with Maynard James Keenan \| url=http://www.cdicarlo.com/paper_04maynard.htm \| accessdate = 2007-05-04 \|publisher=cdicarlo.com ] and in "Jambi" the metrical foot iamb is used.cite web \| first = Blair MacKenzie \| last= Blake \| publisher=Toolband.com \| title = Tool Newsletter, July 2006 \| url=http://www.toolband.com/news/letter/2006_07.php \| accessdate = 2006-08-03 ] The lyrics on "Ænima" and "Lateralus" focused on philosophy and spirituality—specific subjects range from organized religion in "Opiate", to evolution and Jungian psychology in "Forty-Six & 2" and transcendence in "Lateralus".cite web \| title =TOOL: New Album Title Revealed? \| publisher =Blabbermouth.net \| date = 2006-03-03 \| url =http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=49079 \| accessdate =2007-05-09 ] On "10,000 Days", Keenan wanted to explore issues more personal to him: the album name and title track refer to the twenty-seven years during which his mother suffered from complications of a stroke until her death in 2003.cite web \| first = Evan \| last=Serpick \| work= Rolling Stone \| title = 10,000 Days Review \| url=http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/tool/albums/album/10468655/review/10500551/10000_days \| year= 2006 \| accessdate = 2007-05-04 ] The band has named the Melvins [cite news \| url=http://toolshed.down.net/articles/index.php?action=view-article&id=March_1997--Alternative_Press.html \| year=1997 \| title=Nobody's Tool \| work=Alternative Press \| accessdate=2007-04-08 \| first=Jason \| last=Pettigrew] and Meshuggah among those that influenced their development, but the most-publicized influence are progressive rock pioneers King Crimson. [cite web \| url=http://www.toolband.com/news/letter/2001_09.php \| year=2001\| title=Augustember 2001 E.V. \| work=Tool Newsletter \| accessdate=2006-04-28 \| publisher=Toolband.com \| first=Blair MacKenzie \| last=Blake] However, longtime King Crimson member Robert Fripp has downplayed any influence his band had on Tool. In an interview with Tool, he touched briefly on how the two bands relate to each other: He also stated: In turn, Maloof and Newquists attribute to Tool an influence on modern metal in its own right in their book "The New Metal Masters". Sean Richardson of "The Boston Phoenix" sees System of a Down, Deftones, and Godsmack as examples of Tool's "towering influence" on the genre. [cite web \| first= Sean \| last=Richardson \| title =Perfect circles - Tool connect on Lateralus \| work =The Boston Phoenix \| date =2001-05-10 \| url =http://toolshed.down.net/articles/index.php?action=view-article&id=May_2001--The_Boston_Phoenix.html \| accessdate =2007-05-25 ] Moreover, Keenan's unique style of singing has been repeatedly seen as influencing artists such as Pete Loeffler of Chevelle. [cite web \| last =Assar \| first =Vijith \| title =Lucky 'Thirteen': Keenan bolsters potence \| work =The Cavalier Daily \| date = 2003-09-30 \| url =http://www.cavalierdaily.com/CVArticle.asp?ID=16988&pid=1052 \| accessdate =2007-05-09 ] [cite web \| last =Rich \| first =Robert \| title =Chevelle to play in Austin, remains unique despite criticism \| work =The Daily Texan \| date = 2007-05-09 \| url =http://media.www.dailytexanonline.com/media/storage/paper410/news/2007/05/09/LifeArts/Chevelle.To.Play.In.Austin.Remains.Unique.Despite.Criticism-2897640.shtml \| accessdate =2007-05-09 ] Part of Tool's work as a band is to incorporate influences of other works of art in their music videos, live shows, and album packaging. In particular, Adam Jones doubles as the band's art director and director of their music videos.cite web \| first = Jonathan \| last=Drew \| title = MUSIC MEETS ART Name the band Tool's fave artist \| work = The Associated Press \| url=http://asap.ap.org/stories/575717.s \| date = 2006-05-11 \| accessdate = 2007-05-26 ] Another expression of this is an official website "dedicated to the arts and influences" on the band, [http://www.dissectional.com dissectional.com] . :"See also: Tool discography"The band has released eight music videos but made personal appearances in only the first two, which the band states is to prevent people from "latching onto the personalities involved rather than listening to the music." With the exception of "Hush" and Vicarious, all of Tool's music videos feature stop motion animation to some extent. The videos are created primarily by Adam Jones, often in collaboration with artists such as Chet Zar,cite web \| last =Sandberg \| first =Marian \| title =Tool Time \| work =Live Design \| date = 2006-11-01 \| url =http://livedesignonline.com/concerts/tool_time/index.html \| accessdate =2007-05-09 ] Alex Grey, and Osseus Labyrint. [cite web \| url=http://web.archive.org/web/20020806185740/toolband.com/news/ \| work=Tool: News \| publisher=Toolband.com \| accessdate=2007-03-30 \| title=OSSEUS LABYRINT a laboratory of random mutuations... \| date=2002-10-17 \| first=Blair MacKenzie \| last=Blake ] The "Sober" music video in particular attracted much attention. Jones explained that it doesn't contain a storyline, but that his intentions were to summon personal emotions with its imagery. "Rolling Stone" described this imagery by stating that, in the video, "evil little men dwell in a dark dungeon with meat coursing through pipes in the wall" and called it a "groundbreaking", "epic" clip.cite news \| first = Greg \| last=Heller \| title = Weird Album Title for Tool \| publisher=Rollingstone.com \| url=http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/tool/articles/story/5931985/weird_album_title_for_tool \| date = 2001-01-12 \| accessdate = 2007-04-09 ] "Billboard" voted it "Best Video By A New Artist". The video for "Vicarious" was released on DVD on December 18, 2007. [cite web \| first = Blair MacKenzie \| last=Blake \| title = Tool: A WORKING STILL FROM VICARIOUS \| url=http://www.toolband.com/news/index.html \| publisher=Toolband.com \| year = 2007 \| month = October \| accessdate = 2007-10-24 ] The video is also notable because it is the first Tool video to be produced entirely through the use of CGI. Adam Jones is responsible for most of the band's artwork concepts. Their first album, "Undertow", featured a ribcage sculpture by Jones on its cover and photos contributed by the band members. Later albums included artwork by collaborating artists: "Ænima" [Akhtar, G4.] and "Salival" [cite web \| url = http://www.happypencil.com/store.phtml?itemId=22&gid=3 \| title=Salival Figure \| work=Happypencil Store \| publisher=happypencil.com ] featured works by Cam de Leon; "Lateralus" [cite web \| url=http://www.popmatters.com/columns/stephens/020508.shtml \| title= High Art: Alex Grey and the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors \| work=PopMatters \| accessdate=2007-06-12 \| date= 2002-05-08 \| first=Michael \| last=Stephens] and "10,000 Days" were created with the help of Alex Grey. The releases garnered positive critical reception, with a music journalist of the Associated Press attributing to the band a reputation for innovative album packaging. Both "Ænima" [Akhtar, D11.] and "10,000 Days" were nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Recording Package, but while the former failed to win in 1997, the latter did win in 2006. As art director, Adam Jones created packaging for "10,000 Days" that features a pair of stereoscopic lenses for viewing 3-D artwork and photos. Jones has been a lifelong fan of stereoscopic photography and expressed a desire for the packaging to be unique and to reflect the '70s artwork he appreciates.cite web \| publisher = Blabbermouth.net \| title = Tool Guitarist Wins Grammy For 'Best Recording Package' \| url=http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=66850 \| date = 2007-02-11 \| accessdate = 2007-04-09 ] Following their first tours in the early nineties, Tool has performed as a headline act in world tours and major festivals such as Lollapalooza (1997), Coachella (1999 and 2006), Download Festival (2006), Roskilde (2006), Big Day Out (2007), and Bonnaroo (2007). They have been joined on stage by numerous artists such as Buzz Osborne and Scott Reeder on several occasions; Tom Morello and Zack de la Rocha during their 1991 tour; Tricky, Robert Fripp, Mike Patton, Dave Lombardo, Brann Dailor of Mastodon, and experimental arts duo Osseus Labyrintcite web \| year=2002 \| url=http://www.blistering.com/fastpage/fpengine.php/link/1/templateid/4970/tempidx/5009/menuid/5 \| work=Blistering.com\| title=Tool, The Melvins, Osseus Labyrint - April 24, 2002 - Sydney, Australia @ Sydney Entertainment Centre \| accessdate=2007-05-25 \| first=Kev \| last=Truong ] during their 2001–02 "Lateralus" tour; and Kirk Hammett, Phil Campbell, Serj Tankian, and Tom Morello during their 2006–07 tour. They have covered songs by Led Zeppelin, Ted Nugent,Akhtar, D9.] Peach, Kyuss, and the Ramones. [cite web \| last =Rothman \| first =Robin A. \| title =Tool Take Radio City—"Rockers salute the Ramones during epic set" \| work =Rolling Stone \| date =2002-08-14 \| url =http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/5934876/tool_take_radio_city \| accessdate =2007-05-10 ] Live shows on Tool's headline tour incorporate an unorthodox stage setting and video display.cite web \| year=2001 \| url=http://flathat.wm.edu/October052001/reviewsstory5.shtml \| work=The Flat Hat\| title=Tool thrills audience \| accessdate=2007-04-07 \| first=Keith P. \| last=McManus ] Singer Maynard James Keenan lines up in the back with drummer Danny Carey on an elevated platform, while guitarist Adam Jones and bassist Justin Chancellor stand in the front toward the side edges of the stage.cite web \| date=2001-10-06 \| url = http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C01EFDB143CF935A35753C1A9679C8B63 \| work=The New York Times\| title=Flailing Wildly to Escape the Darkness \| accessdate=2007-06-09 \| first=Jon \| last=Pareles ] Keenan, despite being the vocalist, is known to face the backdrop rather than the audience. [cite news url = http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/republica/articles/story/5925031/tool title = Tool url = http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=BN&p_theme=bn&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EBC39624870EDAA&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D title = The circle is unbroken author = Andy Musial work = The Buffalo News quote = ...Keenan wasn't facing the audience the whole time. cite news url = http://media.www.dailytexanonline.com/media/storage/paper410/news/2002/07/29/Entertainment/Tool-In.Need.Of.Some.Repair-500533.shtml title = Tool in need of some repair author = Matt Dentler work = The Daily Texan quote = Lead singer Maynard James Keenan, as is customary for the enigmatic frontman, loomed in the background with his back facing the audience for most of the show. cite news url = http://www.msad54.k12.me.us/MSAD54Pages/SKOW/smokesignals/i2.pdf title = TOOL Concert 101 author = Gavin Engler work = Law Society Gazette quote = Keenan... wore an all-black leather outfit, had his face painted black and stood on a spinning platform some distance from the front stage; he never seemed to look at the crowd. format=PDF] No followspots or live cameras are used;cite web \|date=2006-10-16 \| url=http://www.plsn.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1316&Itemid=101 \| work=Projection, Light and Staging News\| title=700 Clips for 10,000 Days \| accessdate=2007-04-07 \| first=Rob \| last=Ludwig ] instead, the band employs extensive backlighting to direct the focus away from the band members and toward large screens in the back and the crowd. Breckinridge Haggerty, the band's live video director, explains that the resulting dark spaces on stage "are... for Maynard. A lot of the songs are a personal journey for him... and he feels more comfortable in the shadows."The big screens are used to play back "looped clips that aren’t tracked to a song like a music video. The band has never used any sort of timecode. They’ve always made sure the video can change on-the-fly, in a way that can be improvised... The show is never the same twice." During the "10,000 Days" tour, the video material consisted of over six hours of material, created by Adam Jones, his wife Camella Grace, Chet Zar, Meats Meier and Breckinridge Haggerty. Some of the material created by Chet Zar has been released on his DVD "Disturb the Normal".cite web \| year=2006 \| url=http://www.chetzar.com/dvdfiles/whatisit.html \| work=Disturb the Normal description\| title=What is it? \| accessdate=2007-04-07 \| first=Chet \| last=Zar ] tudio albums * "Undertow" (1993, Zoo/BMG/Volcano: USA, 2× platinum) * "Ænima" (1996, Zoo/BMG/Volcano: USA, 3× platinum) * "Lateralus" (2001, Volcano II/Tool Dissectional: USA, 2× platinum) * "10,000 Days" (2006, Volcano II/Tool Dissectional: USA, platinum) * "Tool" a.k.a. "72826" demo (1991, Toolshed) * "Opiate" EP (1992, Zoo/BMG/Volcano: USA, platinum) * "Salival" box set (2000, Volcano II/Tool Dissectional: USA) cite web\| url=http://toolshed.down.net/faq/faq.html \| title=The Tool FAQ \| publisher=The Tool Page \| date = 2001-07-16 \| first=Kabir \| last=Akhtar cite book \| last = DeRogatis \| first = Jim \| authorlink = Jim DeRogatis\| title = Turn on Your Mind: Four Decades of Great Psychedelic Rock \| publisher = Hal Leonard Corporation \| year = 2003 \| isbn = 0634055488 cite web \| url=http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:zq5a8qmtbtq4~T1 \| title=Tool \| publisher=AllMusic.com \| work = Allmusic \| accessdate=2006-04-28 \| authorlink = Stephen Thomas Erlewine \| last= Erlewine \| first= Stephen Thomas \| coauthors = Greg Prato cite book \| last=McIver \| title = Nu-Metal: The Next Generation of Rock and Punk \| first=Joel \| authorlink = Joel McIver \| publisher = Omnibus Press \| year = 2002 \| isbn = 978-0711992092 cite book \| last = Newquist \| title = The New Metal Masters \| first = Harvey P. \| coauthors = Rich Maloof \| publisher = Backbeat Books \| year = 2004 \| isbn = 978-0879308049 cite book \| last = Sherry \| first = James \| coauthors = Neil Aldis \| publisher = Chronicle Books \| title = Heavy Metal Thunder: Kick-Ass Cover Art from Kick-Ass Albums \| year = 2006 \| isbn = 0811853535 cite web \| date=2001-05-23 \| url=http://www.exclaim.ca/index.asp?layid=22&csid=1&csid1=685 \| work=Exclaim! \| title=Tool - Stepping Out From the Shadows \| last=Sokal \| first=Roman [http://www.toolband.com ToolBand.com] - Official Website * [http://www.toolarmy.com ToolArmy.com] - The Collective Unconscious - Official Fan Site * [http://www.dissectional.com Dissectional.com] - "Dedicated to the art and influences" * [http://www.myspace.com/censorshipisacancer myspace.com/censorshipisacancer] - Official Myspace of Maynard Keenan * [http://www.myspace.com/adamjonestv myspace.com/adamjonestv] - Official Myspace of Adam Jones * [http://www.dannycarey.org DannyCarey.org] - Official Website of Danny Carey * on LyricWiki The Six Million Dollar Man Tool (Band) — Tool … Deutsch Wikipedia Tool — sur scène en 2006. 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__label__wiki	0.555073	0.555073	Last edited by Sabar 1 edition of Faith of our fathers found in the catalog. selected short stories about Canada, Canadians and things of Canada. Published 1966 by News Express in Carberry, Man . Short stories, Canadian Other titles Around the cracker barrel LC Classifications PS8321 F32 Pagination 42p. May 03, · Bradley published the book about the events surrounding the photo in Titled “Flags of Our Fathers,” it was later made into a movie directed by Clint axendadeportiva.com: Thomas Gibbons-Neff. My boss asked me the other day if I knew anything about the hymn “Faith of Our Fathers.” Since I have been an organist in the Catholic Church for about 25 years now, I must have played the. Faith of Our Fathers will enrich and strengthen your spiritual life and walk with the Lord as you enjoy these inspirational devotions. 5 out of 5 stars; Faith of Our Fathers Volume 2 By In this book, James R. White offers a concise, understandable explanation of what the Trinity is and why it matters. The author of "Faith of Our Fathers", Frederick William Faber was born in Yorkshire, England, June 28, He entered Oxford in and while there came under the influence of John Henry Newman, the vicar of St. Mary's University Church. Newman later became the most prominent English Roman Catholic scholar of the 19th century. In , he published a popular book of music called Crown of Jesus Music in which his tune was set to a hymn called “St. Catherine, Virgin and Martyr.” In , James Walton adapted Henri’s tune and set it to “Faith of Our Fathers” in his book Plain Song Music for the Holy Communion. The hymn found its match and continues to be sung. Jan 05, · But there is one book that for me is a masterpiece of apologetics, a book that Catholics must have in their libraries. It’s a book that predates modern apologetics altogether. 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Faith of Our Fathers: Why the Early Christians Still Matter and Always Will. by Mike Aquilina and David Mills \| Nov 1, out of 5 stars 7. The Faith of Our Fathers book. Read 12 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Explains the basic tenets of the Catholic Faith and why we /5. The new edition of “The Faith of Our Fathers” has been carefully revised, and enriched with several pages of important matter. It is gratifying to note that since the first edition appeared, inup to the present time, fourteen hundred thousand copies have been published, and the circulation of the book is constantly axendadeportiva.com by: 6. Faith of Our Fathers, Vol 3: Through the Perilous Flight Volume three of the Faith of Our Fathers series journeys with the Birmingham family through time and place-The South, the North, and into the West, through a war that both tears them apart and brings them back together. Faith of My Fathers is a MUST read for every American (regardless of your political affiliations). John McCain discusses his family legacy (both his grandfather and father served high positions in the military), and the impact those men had on his own military career/5. The Faith of Our Fathers: A Plain Exposition and Vindication of the Church Founded by Our Lord Jesus Christ is a book published in by archbishop James Gibbons, which became a best-selling conversion manual in the United States, and by was in its th printing. Authoritative information about the hymn text Faith of our fathers, living still, with lyrics, PDF files, printable scores, MIDI files, audio recordings, piano resources, and products for worship planners. Oct 04, · “Faith of My Fathers may also appeal to those who flocked to Saving Private Ryan and kept Brokaw's The Greatest Generation near the top of the bestseller lists.”—Library Journal “Faith of My Fathers is the powerful story of a war hero. In it we learn much of what matters most/5. Faith of My Fathers is a bestselling non-fiction book by United States Senator John McCain with Mark axendadeportiva.comhed by Random House, it is part autobiography, part family axendadeportiva.com traces the story of McCain's life growing up, during his time in the United States Naval Academy, and his military service as a naval aviator before and during the Vietnam axendadeportiva.com: John McCain with Mark Salter. Jul 03, · Brief July 4th video from a Christian's perspective. Faith of our fathers, we will strive To win all nations unto thee; And through the truth that comes from God, We all shall then be truly free. Faith of our fathers, we will love Both friend and foe in all our strife; And preach thee, too, as love knows how By kindly words and virtuous life. Jul 19, · Book from Project Gutenberg: The Faith of Our Fathers Library of Congress Classification: BX Addeddate Call number gutenberg etext# Creator-alias Gibbons, James, Cardinal Identifier thefaithofourfatgut Identifier-ark. the prophetic faith of our fathers Download the prophetic faith of our fathers or read online books in PDF, EPUB, Tuebl, and Mobi Format. Click Download or Read Online button to get the prophetic faith of our fathers book now. This site is like a library, Use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. Faith of Our Fathers (subtitled Classic Religious Anthems of Ireland) is a compilation album of traditional Catholic/Christian English, Irish, and Latin hymns recorded by Irish artists in The album topped the Irish Albums Chart for two months, broke release records, and was certified fifteen axendadeportiva.com: Christian. Aug 29, · The memoir Flags of our Fathers, which spent 46 weeks on the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list by James Bradley, was, in my opinion, a great book. It is not a regular memoir in, but it is a snapshot of an important part of the lives of the people involved/5. Dec 07, · Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by Project axendadeportiva.com by: 6. Where does Faith of Our Fathers rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far. Within the religious books to which I have listened, it is high. The book is enjoyable. The material is historical relevant. The author writes in a style that is easy to understand for the lay person, and the style translates well into the audio format. Download The Faith of Our Fathers by James Cardinal Gibbons Online Book PDF PDF eBook. Name of writer, number pages in ebook and size are given in our post. Check here and also read some short description about The Faith of Our Fathers by James Cardinal Gibbons Online Book PDF. Oct 01, · This book is one of many TAN Books that have helped convert many to a strong Catholic Faith. In the case of "The Faith of Our Fathers," both Scott Hahn and Gerry Matatics mention it by name as having personally affected their Protestant axendadeportiva.com by: 6. The faith of our Founding Fathers was Christianity, not deism. In this regard, many secularists--and even some Christians--have been wrong in their assessment of our history. On the other hand, many Christians have also been mistaken in their application of the past to the present.With the Vietnam War raging intwo young fathers report for duty. A man of great faith and a doubtful cynic. A quarter-century later, their sons, Wayne and John Paul (David A.R. White and Kevin Downes), meet as strangers. Guided by handwritten letters from their fathers from the battlefield, they embark on an unforgettable journey to The Wall-the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington 5/5(2).Explains the basic tenets of the Catholic Faith and why we hold them. Delves into the historical background of virtually everything people find hard to understand about our Religion, such as priestly celibacy, sacred images, the Church and the Bible, the primacy of Peter, Communion under one kind, invocation of the Saints, etc/5. axendadeportiva.com - Faith of our fathers book © 2020	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3130
__label__cc	0.617256	0.382744	Distillery partners with breweries to turn spoiled beer into hand sanitizer by: Jaime Chambers Posted: Apr 17, 2020 / 11:18 PM PDT / Updated: Apr 17, 2020 / 11:36 PM PDT OCEANSIDE, Calif. — Pacific Coast Spirits is one of the very few success stories in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. When their restaurant was notified they were going to be forced to close, they initially did what all others did — they closed. “We had 25 employees. Unfortunately, we had to let all of them go because of the mandated state closure,” said Nicholas Hammond, owner of Pacific Coast Spirits. Local vodka distillery making hand sanitizer to address shortages Local distillery making hand sanitizer for hospitals Distilleries are making free hand sanitizer with their alcohol to combat coronavirus How to make your own hand sanitizer 7-Eleven owner arrested after homemade sanitizer burns 4 boys But just as they were winding down, they decided to pivot from distilling alcohol for cocktails to alcohol for hand sanitizer. “Hand sanitizer has really saved us,” Hammond said. After being featured on FOX 5, calls poured in and as Purell hand sanitizers disappeared from the shelves, demand skyrocketed. Now, they’ve secured contracts with Amazon for their shipping distributions centers. They’ve also supported fire houses and the courts in downtown San Diego. Now, the distillery is partnering with local breweries to use their spoiled beer for the starter of even more hand sanitizer. Hammond says he is trying to pay is community back for his luck in being well enough set up to make sanitizer. “Now we’re putting people back to work. It’s been pivotal for what we’re doing,” he said.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3139
__label__wiki	0.589558	0.589558	Home » News » Microsoft Reportedly Warned Companies Not To Offer Xbox Series X Upgrades As Paid DLC Microsoft Reportedly Warned Companies Not To Offer Xbox Series X Upgrades As Paid DLC 10/07/2020 Comments Off on Microsoft Reportedly Warned Companies Not To Offer Xbox Series X Upgrades As Paid DLC Microsoft has reportedly warned Xbox Series X developers against charging for DLC upgrades from the current generation to the next one. The move appears aimed at disincentivizing publishers from charging for a service that Microsoft is trying to make a major pillar of its platform with Smart Delivery. Microsoft wants a smoother transition between console generations with players able to keep their games, and get upgrades, when moving to Xbox Series X. Normally, that would cost quite a bit of money. VGC reports that the company is encouraging publishers to instead adopt a no-cost upgrade model, like either Smart Delivery or EA’s Dual Entitlement. The report doesn’t state definitively whether Microsoft has made a formal rule the practice of charging for upgrades on its platform. With EA’s program, you don’t have unlimited time to make the upgrade. However, with yearly releases like Madden, you’ll be able to get the Xbox Series X version for free as long as you buy it before the next year’s game releases. Despite that, the company is said to be leaving the door open to other mechanisms of allowing upgrades. Aside from free digital upgrades like the ones above, it hasn’t ruled out schemes like selling a next-gen version at a discount, or selling “cross-gen bundles” that include two versions of the game. We’ve already seen that in action this week with the announcement of NBA 2K21’s Kobe Bryant edition, which will sell both versions for $100. The regular edition on both platforms will cost $60 on current-gen and $70 on next-gen–which may become the new normal. The move makes sense. Microsoft is making Smart Delivery a major part of its approach to the new generation, even promising not to publish any next-gen exclusives for the beginning of the new lifecycle. The company appears to be aiming to make this a smooth transition, with less hard-and-fast distinctions between its consoles. If publishers were able to charge for upgrades, many might choose to do just that, undercutting part of Microsoft’s messaging. It’s a large departure from past generations, which typically didn’t offer any sort of discount when buying for the next generation. This was even true at the very beginning of the generation when many of the games featured on the two generations’ systems were almost identical. So far only about a dozen games have been announced for Smart Delivery, including all first-party games like Halo Infinite along with some notable third-party games like Assassin’s Creed Valhalla and Cyberpunk 2077. Sony has not committed to a similar policy for its next-gen PlayStation 5. It has already said that, unlike Microsoft, it will publish next-gen exclusives right from the start. NVIDIA's $399 RTX 3060 Ti Claims 2080 Super Performance Demon's Souls PS5 Remake Gameplay Debuts, PC Version Not Happening After All Minecraft Developer Read A Wikipedia Article For Inspiration On Crystals Accounting, Tax and Consulting Firm Cherry Bekaert Expands Footprint in Austin Offering Clients a Deeper Bench of Industry Expertise and Capabilities Watch Pokémon Sword & Shield DLC Stream Tomorrow CoMicrosoftreportedlyWarned Previous Post:PS Plus July 2020: Get 3 Free PS4 Games Now For 10th Anniversary Of PlayStation Plus Next Post:Final Fantasy 14's Delayed 5.3 Update Releases Next Month	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3140
__label__cc	0.614122	0.385878	© Forex Investments\|info@forex-investments.com Captial BP Exits Petrochemical Business in $5 Billion Deal Selling its petrochemicals business will help BP reach its divestment target of $15 billion of asset sales by mid-2021. arnd wiegmann/Reuters Energy giant BP PLC has agreed to sell its petrochemicals business to British chemicals company Ineos Ltd. in a $5 billion deal that will help reshape its business for the global transition to lower-carbon energy, the company said on Monday. The move separates BP from its peers, as Royal Dutch Shell PLC and Exxon Mobil Corp. have been growing their petrochemicals businesses. BP said it would have taken considerable investment to grow the division, which is smaller than its peers’ businesses. “This is another significant step as we steadily work to reinvent BP,” said Bernard Looney, Chief Executive of BP. Mr. Looney, who took the helm in February, had been crafting a yet-to-be revealed reorganization plan, due to launch in September. Ineos is one of the world’s largest chemical producers. It was founded in 1998 and is majority owned by British billionaire Jim Ratcliffe, one of the U.K.’s richest men. Last year, it bought two polystyrene plants in China from French energy giant Total SA. The Ineos deal will help BP reach its divestment target of $15 billion of asset sales by mid-2021. Among the major oil companies, the company has one of the highest levels of debt relative to its size. “The deal goes some way to fill the cash-flow deficit faced by BP,” said Irene Himona, managing director for oil-and-gas equity research at Société Générale. As part of the deal, Ineos will pay a deposit of $400 million and $3.6 billion upon completion, which is expected by the end of the year. The $1 billion remainder will be paid by the end of June 2021. Earlier this month, BP said it was cutting 14% of its global workforce, accelerating existing plans to reshape the company after the coronavirus pandemic’s crushing impact on oil prices. Write to Sarah McFarlane at sarah.mcfarlane@wsj.com By Tim Büchner\|2020-06-29T11:28:30+00:00June 29th, 2020\|Uncategorized\|0 Comments Comic-Con on the Couch: This Year It’s Online and Free Small Businesses Brace for Prolonged Crisis, Short on Cash and Customers U.S. Existing-Home Sales Rose 20.7% in June Merkel Lobbied for Wirecard Despite German Probe Pfizer, BioNTech Get $1.95 Billion Covid-19 Vaccine Order From U.S. Government This website is independent of of all forex, crypto and binary brokers featured on it. Before trading with any of the brokers, potential clients should ensure they understand the risks and verify that the broker is licensed. The website does not provide investment services or personal recommendations to clients to trade any financial instrument. Information on Forex-Investments.com should not be seen as a recommendation to trade CFDs or cryptocurrencies or to be considered as investment advice. Forex-Investments.com is not licensed nor authorised to provide advice on investing and related matters. The potential client should not engage in any investment directly or indirectly in financial instruments unless (s)he knows and fully understands the risks involved for each of the financial instruments promoted in the website. In case the potential client does not understand the risks involved, he/she should seek advice or consultation from an independent advisor. If the potential client still does not understand the risks involved in trading in any financial instruments, he/she should not trade at all. Potential clients without sufficient knowledge should seek individual advice from an authorized source. In accordance with FTC guidelines, Forex-Investments.comhas financial relationships with some of the products and services mention on this website, and Forex-Investments.com may be compensated if consumers choose to click these links in our content and ultimately sign up for them. CFDs and cryptocurrency trading entails significant risks and there is a chance that potential clients lose all of their invested money. Important notice for US traders: Not all brokers and offers are regulated in the United States of America. We don’t recommend, facilitate or encourage trading with products that are not regulated. Forex-Investments.com does not recommend any forex, crypto and binary brokers or exchanges to US traders besides NADEX, which is licensed by CFTC. Every trader is obligated to check the legal status in their respective jurisdiction on their own. Copyright © 2012-2020 - Forex Investments \| All Rights Reserved \| Powered by GoMarket NFC.SG HPQ	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3141
__label__wiki	0.769082	0.769082	Deaf people could get ‘almost perfect’ quality hearing with cochlear implant which rebuilds sounds Deaf people could get ‘almost perfect’ quality hearing with cochlear implant which breaks sound signals down and rebuilds them, scientists say University of Greenwich researchers are developing new cochlear technology They say they could recreate sound 90-100 per cent like what working ears hear Whereas current cochlear implants make things sound ‘metallic’, they claim By Sam Blanchard Senior Health Reporter For Mailonline Published: 16:25 BST, 19 July 2019 \| Updated: 17:06 BST, 19 July 2019 Deaf people could get ‘almost perfect’ quality hearing from a cochlear implant which deconstructs sounds as it hears them. Researchers are developing a device which they say could significantly improve the quality of what people hear through the hearing aids. In the UK around 1,200 people have cochlear implants – which essentially connect a microphone directly to the brain to recreate hearing – fitted each year. But the current technology ‘sounds metallic’ and needs a ‘significant’ amount of brain training to use, according to scientists who claim their device will be better. Around 11million people in the UK – one in six – are deaf or have a hearing loss and about 1,200 are fitted with cochlear implants each year (stock image of a boy with a cochlear implant) Researchers at the University of Greenwich say they’re developing a device which, instead of directly magnifying outside noises, rebuilds it to pick out key parts. It records multiple layers of sound in order to create something which sounds 90 to 100 per cent like what a normal ear would hear, they said. This would protect against bits being missed if the technology is overpowered – for example by background noises drowning out speech. ‘The signals created by current hearing implants sound very metallic to the user because they only a provide part of the full audio wave to the brain,’ said Dr Wim Melis. ‘This prevents a full reconstruction of the original signal. ‘We developed a method that breaks down the input signal in its analogue components, while introducing multiple versions in storage. ‘This means we can reconstruct the signal with very high accuracy, even if part of the system drops out.’ Dr Wim Melis (pictured) said: ‘Our system could be available commercially within about six years’ Current systems cannot distinguish between background noise and the speech people actually want to hear, Dr Melis said, because they amplify everything. But using technology to separate the different sounds, pick out the most important parts and put them together into something which sounds fine-tuned could overcome this. Cochlear implants are used in patients who are so deaf hearing aids don’t help. They work by bypassing the inner ear – the cochlea – of those with severe hearing losses. A microphone is attached to someone’s head behind their ear and a device inside the skull which connects to the microphone. Sound from outside is recorded and relayed to the internal device, which is directly wired to the auditory nerve which in turn sends noise signals to the brain. Cochlear implants (pictured) are electronic devices which perform the same action as the inner ear, or cochlea, and transmit sounds through the auditory nerve to the brain About 11million people in the UK – one in six – are deaf or have a hearing loss to some degree. Hundreds of thousands of people worldwide have cochlear implants to restore some of their hearing. Dr Melis added: ‘What we’re working on will be very low power, making it ideal for bio-medical use. ‘While the current technology could be improved to provide better outputs, they would be more difficult to make, as well as being bigger and using more power. ‘We envisage our system, which could be available commercially within about six years, to be the same size as current hearing implants, or possibly even smaller.’ HOW DOES A TRADITIONAL COCHLEAR IMPLANT WORK? Cochlear implants are small hearing devices fitted under the skin behind the ear during surgery. They have an external sound processor and internal parts, including a receiver coil, an electronics package and a long wire with electrodes on it (an electrode array). The external processor takes in sound, analyses it and then converts it to signals that are transmitted across the skin to an internal receiver-stimulator, which sends the signals along the electrode array into a part of the inner ear called the cochlea. The signal is then sent to the brain along the hearing nerve as normal. This means cochlear implants are only suitable for people whose hearing nerves are functioning normally. The implants cannot restore normal hearing but they can give a deaf person a good representation of sounds, helping them understand speech. Whereas hearing aids amplify sound so they can be detected by damaged ears, cochlear implants bypass damaged parts of the ear and directly stimulate the auditory nerve. Signals generated by the implant are sent via the auditory nerve to the brain, which recognizes the signals as sound. Hearing through an implant is different from normal hearing and takes time to get used to it. It allows people to recognize warning signals, understand their environment and enjoy conversations with people. If a cochlear implant is recommended, it will be inserted into the ear (or both ears) during an operation and switched on a few weeks later. 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__label__wiki	0.996927	0.996927	Lawyers for Johnny Depp tell Court of Appeal he ‘did not receive a fair trial’ Lawyers for Johnny Depp have told the Court of Appeal he ‘did not receive a fair trial,’ and say the ruling that he assaulted Amber Heard and left her fearing for her life is ‘plainly wrong’. The Pirates of the Caribbean actor, 57, sued The Sun’s publishers, News Group Newspapers, for libel over a 2018 column by its executive editor Dan Wootton which branded him a ‘wife beater’. After weeks of evidence, which saw both Depp and Heard testify at the High Court, Mr Justice Nichol dismissed Depp’s claim, finding NGN had proved the article’s contents to be ‘substantially true’. But, in documents filed with the Court of Appeal, Mr Depp’s lawyers claim Mr Justice Nicol’s ruling was ‘manifestly unsafe’ and say they will ask the court to ‘set aside the judgment and order a new trial’. His barrister also argued the judge ‘uncritically accepted at the outset that Ms Heard must have been correct in her allegations’ and ‘discounted evidence to the contrary’. Mr Depp’s barrister David Sherborne said the judge ‘just accepted everything Ms Heard said, however implausible and however inconsistent with the documents.’ Lawyers for Johnny Depp (pictured outside the High Court in July) have launched an appeal after a judge dismissed his claim against The Sun’s publishers after a column called him a ‘wife beater’ and referred to ‘overwhelming evidence,’ that he attacked Amber Heard, 34, during their relationship His legal team claim Mr Justice Nicol ‘failed to undertake any, or an adequate analysis, of Ms Heard’s shifting account, despite the importance of consistency as a consideration of a witness’s testimony’. In written submissions to the Court of Appeal, Mr Depp’s barrister David Sherborne said Mr Justice Nicol ‘concluded that the appellant was guilty of serious physical assaults without taking account of or even acknowledging that Ms Heard had been untruthful in her evidence, without testing her account against the documentary evidence and the evidence of other witnesses, and without making any findings that he disbelieved those witnesses’. Mr Sherborne added: ‘His uncritical acceptance of her account of events is manifestly unsafe.’ The judge found that Mr Depp assaulted Ms Heard on a dozen occasions and put her in ‘fear for her life’ on three occasions, including one the actress described as a ‘three-day hostage situation’ in Australia in March 2015. Appealing the decision, Depp’s lawyers warned Mr Justice Nichol’s ‘uncritical acceptance of Heard’s account of events is manifestly unsafe’ The barrister also argued: ‘The conclusion which flows from an overall assessment of the judgment is that (Mr Justice Nicol) decided to find for the ‘victim’ but failed to provide the necessary analysis to explain or justify that conclusion. ‘Also he excluded relevant evidence from his consideration, ignored or dismissed as irrelevant matters that substantially undermined Ms Heard, made findings unsupported by the evidence, and failed to assess whether her allegations could withstand proper scrutiny. ‘The judge failed to properly assess her credibility by reference to documentary evidence, photographs, recordings or otherwise.’ Mr Sherborne concluded: ‘This was a very public judgment, reached by a single judge, making devastating findings of extremely serious criminal offences having been committed, and where this has had wider ranging implications for the public at large, particularly victims, or those wrongly accused, of alleged domestic abuse. ‘It is important that in such circumstances, and especially where the flaws in this judgment are so many and so fundamental as to warrant a proper review, that there is an effective appeal process.’ In his judgment, Mr Justice Nicol concluded that 12 of the 14 alleged incidents of domestic violence relied on by NGN did occur. The judge found that Mr Depp assaulted Ms Heard on a dozen occasions and put her in ‘fear for her life’ on three occasions, including one the actress described as a ‘three-day hostage situation’ in Australia in March 2015. Mr Justice Nicol found Ms Heard was also in fear for her life during incidents on the Eastern and Oriental Express in South East Asia in August 2015 and again in Los Angeles in December of the same year. In his judgment, Mr Justice Nicol concluded that 12 of the 14 alleged incidents of domestic violence relied on by NGN did occur. The judge said he did not accept the ‘characterisation’ of Ms Heard as a ‘gold differ,’ who who had constructed a ‘hoax’ The judge said ‘a recurring theme in Mr Depp’s evidence was that Ms Heard had constructed a hoax and that she had done this as an ‘insurance policy’, and that Ms Heard was a ‘gold-digger’. But he added: ‘I do not accept this characterisation of Ms Heard.’ But Mr Depp’s legal team claim Mr Justice Nicol ‘failed to examine the competing accounts of each incident, or to explain whether he found them proved and, if so, on what basis’. They also argue that ‘the judge should have analysed the extent to which Ms Heard’s evidence undermined her credibility in relation to her allegations of physical assault/injury’. Mr Sherborne said Mr Justice Nicol ‘took little or no account of the striking examples of Ms Heard’s willingness to lie or commit wrongdoing’ Mr Depp announced just days after the ruling that he was asked by Warner Brothers to resign from his role in the Harry Potter spin-off franchise Fantastic Beasts, the very role which prompted Mr Wootton’s 2018 column, asking how JK Rowling could be ‘genuinely happy’ Mr Depp was cast in the film. In that statement, he said: ‘The surreal judgment of the court in the UK will not change my fight to tell the truth and I confirm that I plan to appeal.’ Mr Depp is currently embroiled in a separate libel battle in the US, having sued Ms Heard personally over a 2018 Washington Post opinion piece in which she claimed to be a victim of domestic abuse.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3155
__label__wiki	0.528795	0.528795	Man escapes his burning home in shower curtain A California homeowner was taking a shower on Thursday morning when his house burst into flames, forcing him to run for his life with only a shower curtain wrapped around his waist. The three-alarm inferno ignited inside 57-year-old Mike Pham’s home in the 9300 block of Royal Palm Boulevard in Garden Grove just before 9am on Thursday. It took multiple units of firefighters about two hours to extinguish the flames, which caused the roof to collapse and ultimately burned the entire home to the ground. All is lost: Mike Pham, 57, fled his burning Garden, Grove, California, home wearing nothing but a shower curtain; he was in the shower and had no time to get dressed Inferno: Pham’s friend recorded video showing the half-naked homeowner staring aghast at the flames consuming his home of 20 years Pham’s neighbor and friend Michael Fonseca rushed to his aid during the fire and recorded a cellphone video showing the homeowner, wearing only a white shower curtain to protect his modesty, staring aghast at the devastation. Pham suffered minor burns all over his body, but his tenants, a couple in their 20s, escaped the fire unharmed. Speaking to CBS Los Angeles, Pham explained that he was in the shower when the fire alarm went off, alerting him to the danger. Phan, an electrical engineer, turned off the water, ripped the curtain from the railing and darted out of the house. The man said he was in shock, watching his home of 20 years being consumed by scorching flames. It took firefighters two hours to extinguished the flames, which caused the roof to cave in Lovelorn: Pham, an electrical engineer, had just installed new kitchen appliances to try and win back his ex-wife Obstructions: A fire captain said hoarding conditions at the property have exacerbated the severity of the fire The homeowner said he lost all of his possessions, including the brand new, top-of-the-line kitchen appliances he had just installed to win back his ex-wife. ‘That’s what I wanted to woo my wife with,’ Pham said, while sitting in a friend’s van wearing borrower clothes. Despite being left with nothing in the wake of the blaze, Pham remained optimistic. ‘Life has a funny way,’ he waxed philosophical. ‘It turns you upside down. Who knows, maybe I’ll find a break in it.’ Pham suffered minor burns in the inferno, which consumed all of his possessions Pham’s tenant Daniel Battista described the heat radiating from the fire as ‘unbearable’ and told ABC7 that he grew scared when the windows started blowing out, sending shards of glass flying everywhere. Garden Grove Fire Department Captain Brad Spell said the severity of the fire was exacerbated by hoarding conditions at the property, which also made firefighters’ work more difficult. The underlying cause of the fire is still under investigation.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3156
__label__wiki	0.742749	0.742749	(0-0)- Redsox Vs. Orioles (0-0) Soxfan85 Game 1 : July 24th, at 7:30pm Nathan Eovaldi For the first time in his career, flame-throwing righty Eovaldi gets the honor of pitching on Opening Day. In nine career starts against the Orioles, Eovaldi is 3-1 with 5.62 ERA. Eovaldi is 5-2 with 4.81 ERA lifetime at Fenway Park. Tommy Milone John Means was tabbed for the O’s first game of the season, But he’s unable to go because of arm fatigue. Mione gets the call instead for what will be the first Opening Day start of his career Game 2: Saturday July 25th at 1:35 PM Redsox: TBD- Possibly Martin Perez Orioles: Alex Cobb Cobb is in his third season of four year, 57 million contract. He made just three starts in 2019, Missing most of the year to hip surgery. The veteran righty is 53-52 with 3.85 ERA across parts of eight MLB seasons Game 3: Sunday July 26th at 1:35 PM TBA: Possibly Ryan Webber A journeyman lefty, LeBlanc went 6-7 with 5.71 ERA last season for the Mariners, Pitching mostly as a starter and bulk pitcher after openers. Where is everyone? Baseball is back!!	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3169
__label__wiki	0.910917	0.910917	Vikings Abandoned Balance and the Hot Hand Home NFL NFC NFC North Minnesota Vikings by Sam Smith in Minnesota Vikings, NFC, NFC North Dec 10, 2017; Charlotte, NC, USA; Minnesota Vikings running back Jerick McKinnon (21) with the ball as Carolina Panthers cornerback Kevon Seymour (27) defends in the second quarter at Bank of America Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Bob Donnan-USA TODAY Sports Contrary to popular sentiment, the running game is still a vital factor in NFL offenses. Sure, teams are throwing the ball more than they ever have been. Fewer running backs are going in the first round of the draft. But a team that cannot run the ball allows defenses to sit back on the passing game fans love so dearly. Balance is key to offensive success, even today. Take a look at this table from teamrankings.com. Detroit has the highest pass play percentage at over 63 percent. But after that, a truly potent offense does not appear until Kansas City at number 10. In fact, the Chiefs are the only team in the top-10 of both pass percentage and yards per play. Only the Chiefs and the Lions are top-10 in pass percentage and scoring. More FromFPC Brady, Brees Meet For Third Time With NFCCG Trip On The Line The top-three scoring teams in the league, the Eagles, Rams and Saints, rank 26th, 24th and 19th, respectively in pass play percentage. Obviously, they have the luxury of elite running backs to go along with franchise quarterbacks. The Vikings are one of the better teams in the league at exhibiting said balance. They pass on 54 percent of plays (27th in the league) yet rank 10th in yards per play. This is without having their star rookie running back Dalvin Cook for the majority of the season, as well. And they are making it work by utilizing a “hot hand” philosophy with their running backs Latavius Murray and Jerick McKinnon. At the beginning of most games, Murray will get the majority of the carries. But then throughout the first quarter, offensive coordinator Pat Shurmur feels out how Murray and McKinnon are running. From there, he seems to make a decision as to who will be the primary ball-carrier for the rest of the game. For most of the first half of the season, it was McKinnon who shouldered the load both in the run and pass game. But for the last few weeks, McKinnon’s touches have taken a slight dip as Murray’s play improved dramatically. And it has paid off as the Vikings won four straight tough games coming out of the bye. Murray averaged 4.75 yards a carry over that stretch. But then this past week against Carolina, Shurmur went away from this feeling out strategy. It was clear early on that McKinnon was seeing the field exceptionally well in the first half; he had 46 yards on just seven carries. Murray, on the other hand, was looking more like the Murray of weeks one through six with just four lackluster carries. It looked like a great time to feed McKinnon. McKinnon finished with same line: seven carries and 46 yards. He had just one touch after halftime, a six-yard reception. Murray, on the other hand, carried five times for nine yards. All told, the Vikings ran five running plays as opposed to 28 passing plays in the second half. Shurmur not only abandoned the running back who was more likely to give him the best chance for balance, he abandoned balance altogether. It is not as if the Vikings were forced to pass, either. The widest margin of the game was 11 points, which the Panthers achieved on their second drive of the third quarter. in that time, Minnesota had six drives, only two of which resulted in points. Their only second-half touchdown was a 52-yard pass to Adam Thielen that was equal parts offensive execution and defensive miscue. There are two drives in particular that screamed McKinnon. The first started at the Carolina 30 after a long Marcus Sherels punt return. The next three plays were a negative run by Murray, an incomplete pass and a sack, forcing Kai Forbath to attempt a long field goal, which he missed. The second started, similarly, in Carolina territory, this time at the six. Then, lo and behold, Murray ran for no gain, Case Keenum incomplete and Keenum sacked and Forbath on for the field goal. Anything, a screen, a toss play, something to get McKinnon out in space where he thrives, could have meant more points. Of course, there are no guarantees it would have worked. But the fact that Shurmur did not even glance McKinnon’s way on six crucial play calls was unlike him. Yes, the Vikings scored 24 points in this game, right around average for this team. But on a day when Keenum was slippery but somewhat inaccurate, receivers were dropping passes and the line could not stop a runny nose, a little lightning in the running game could have helped immensely. Fall from Grace for the Once-Proud Minnesota Vikings Defense Vikings at Buccaneers: Preview and Prediction NFL Monday Night Football Odds: Vikings Favored to Claim Rare Win in Chicago Lions Commit Three Turnovers, Get Run Over in Loss to Minnesota Disappointing Vikings Poised for a Second Half Run –Sam Smith is the Managing Editor for Full Press Coverage Vikings and Full Press Coverage NFC North. Like and Follow @samc_smith Follow @fpc_vikingsFollow @fpc_nfcn Tags: Case KeenumfeaturedJerick McKinnonLatavius MurrayMinnesota VikingsNFCNFL Week 14 Cowboys Forgotten Star Of The Week Cowboys Rap: Allow Me To Reintroduce Myself Chandler Jones is the Destroyer in the Desert	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3170
__label__wiki	0.605461	0.605461	Music: william ackerman's when the moon sings Friday Posting_A Time From Now_69 CHAPTER TITLE: Working Realistically Within Michael’s Wants & Needs _Sixty-Nine of One Hundred WARNINGS: this chapter: none, Michael_POV DISCLAIMER: Nothing I can say that hasn’t been said already? Not min SUMMARY FROM THE EDITORS: ‘Having no choice, he and Ben had waited, watched and saved so that when opportunity finally did come a’knockin’, they’d be ready....' Michael becomes a great big fucking success Working Realistically Within Michael’s Wants & Needs Six Months Later - Around Two & a Half Years - Pittsburgh From the time he bought his store until it went under was almost two years exactly. Beginning to end, the start of a dream until its demise, and it wasn’t exactly like Michael had been just sitting around waiting for it to happen. Ben had told him that that would’ve been wrong and, actually, he had pretty much figured that out all on his own. Bad, bad karma. But when the For Sale sign went up in the window of the store next door, he just wasn’t that sad either. When that storefront had first come on the market about three and a half years after Michael had opened his comic store, he and Ben hadn’t had the finances in place to swing the asking price, and there’d been no fucking way he would’ve asked Brian for the money. He needed to grow up, to take charge of his own life, to make things happen on his own and anyway, Lindsay had gotten to him first for her gallery so there was no real point. Having no choice, he and Ben had waited, watched and saved so that when opportunity finally did come a’knockin’, they’d be ready. Interest rates were good, they had enough for the down and they could fairly easily swing the monthlys on the loan so…no problem. Sure, there was already all the added expense of visiting Toronto regularly, but it wasn’t like Lindsay and Melanie had moved the kids to California, that would have been a bitch. No…this was doable, he felt it in his soul, that this was how it was supposed to go down. It’d helped that Brian had asked an architect friend of his, living in Seattle, to help with the conversion. They’d drawn up detailed floor plans, emailing them to Jayden, and he’d sent back his design suggestions based on what he knew about these old buildings, Pittsburgh’s building codes, and what he considered to be the more realistic of his wants and needs. Brian said Jayden was some kind of genius and apparently he was because he gave him and Ben just what they wanted with only a few minor redesigns. He even recommended a building contractor and a structural engineer, and the combining of the two spaces into one came off without a single hitch. Alright, maybe there were a couple of hitches, but nothing they’d needed to panic about and maybe it had taken longer than they would’ve wanted, but that was the way it always was with these sorts of jobs or so he’d been told. And Jayden had saved them some serious money because he’d drawn up the plans as a favor to Brian. Funny, but he remembered thinking of Jayden as just another one of Brian’s long-term tricks, one who maybe stayed around a little longer than the others but still…just a trick. When reminded that these men had a life beyond Brian, that they were all accomplished professionals, that they were more than just someone who belonged to Brian for a while, he was always a little amazed. After the conversion was done, when he’d asked Brian if Jayden would come to the Grand Reopening, Brian had told him ‘no’. He’d noticed that Brian looked kind of sad, said he’d asked Jayden, but Jayden had said he couldn’t make it. Brian said he could try asking, if he wanted, but he’d sensed that he shouldn’t. That it was best to just let it go, so he did. They had their Grand Reopening Event on a warm summer Saturday with Emmett’s Dishin’ It Baby naturally doing the catering. Emmett had complained how when doing art openings, he usually had to reign himself in ‘just a tad’, so Michael encouraged him to let his imagination run wild and since he always had been one to let himself run wild whenever encouraged to do so, he did. Except, very little in the way of actual decoration was needed. He concentrated instead on the food and the servers and the consensus was that he pulled off yet another triumph. The servers looked fabulous dressed as their favorite superheroes and not a crumb was left of any of the food or a drop left of any of the drink. Emmett concluded that it ‘just didn’t get much better than that’ and everyone agreed. The large space had been designed with a comic book slash science fiction slash manga theme. No one could walk into Michael’s store and ever be confused about what was sold there. His inventory had expanded to include graphic novels low to high end, manga with a special emphasis on shonen-ai and yaoi, electronic gaming books, and a decent selection of science fiction slash fantasy books for kids and adults alike, and Jayden had conceived of an interior that reflected those changes. Red Cape Comics had become more than a comic book store to Michael and Ben. It had become a specialty book store and of that they were proud. And a great part of their thanks had to go to Justin, who had come into town a couple of weeks early with two of his New York buddies, Jake and Allen. It was their job to paint the walls, floor to ceiling, with muscle-bound, comic-book superheroes, with crystalline, futuristic cloud-cities and with lithe, beautiful manga school boys. They would have done the work for the experience alone, that and for the credit and the opportunity to add the photos to their portfolios especially since food and lodging had been included, but Michael paid them anyway. Debbie had put them up and had fed them better than they’d been fed in too long. She teased them about being so skinny and told them she was ‘gonna fatten you boys up‘. Justin turned to his two friends and reminded, ‘didn’t I tell you so?” And they all nodded chuckling. In coming days, whenever they would tell the story of their Pittsburgh Adventure, they would always conclude with, ‘and swear, we woulda done it for the food alone…ohmygod…for the food alone,’ And always, Allen would add, ‘and I don’t even much like Italian, at least…I didn’t.’ And everyone would laugh. And when at last near the end of a long and beautiful day, when only family and a few friends remained, when a toast was proposed, it was Brian who gave it. He reminisced a little, reminding everyone how nerdy he and Michael had both been when they’d first met at 14 because remembering that made the journey to where they were now all that much sweeter. Living well was the best revenge he assured them, and no one noticed his wink to Justin except Justin. He concluded by walking over to and standing directly in front of Michael, he gave him a sloppy kiss, raised his glass and simply said, “To you, my friend, ya’ done good.” They linked arms and drank the last of their champagne and, for that night anyway, another party was over. Next Chapter: Brian takes his first steps towards becoming a big-time business man although not without his regrets	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3172
__label__wiki	0.893903	0.893903	Browse games 18882 Game Portals GameFabrique All Games - Newest Mario - Contra Rayman Games Doom - Tekken Eroge Games Viewing games 1 to 100 (of 227 games) In Super Mario Bros., the player controls Mario and his brother Luigi as he travels through the Mushroom Kingdom in order to rescue Princess Toadstool. The indomitable brothers, Mario and Luigi are back with their hopping antics in the second sequel to one of the most spellbinding video games in the world, Super Mario Bros. 3. Pokemon Fire Red Mario is super in a whole new way! Combining the finest 3-D graphics ever developed for a video game and an explosive sound track, Super Mario 64 becomes a new standard for video games. It's packed with bruising battles, daunting obstacle courses a.. 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__label__wiki	0.977477	0.977477	7 Games Like Smite Our list of games like Smite features other fast paced third person multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) games for you to play. With MOBA games on the rise Smite decided to change up the genre by shifting the usual isometric perspective into a third person one. This change has made it very popular as an alternative to the larger games in the genre and has helped it propel its player base to one of the largest. Beyond the third person perspective Smite is your average MOBA game as players take control of their own heroes on a number of maps against an opposing team. Maps include a standard game, practice and several custom types to help keep gameplay varied. The heroes that you’ll be using for these battles in Smite are called Gods with inspiration drawn from the mythos of many ancient cultures. The games like Smite that you’ll find below focus on other options with third person perspective gameplay or unique mechanics that are trying to break the mould of what is standard in the MOBA genre. League of Legends (LoL) is the king of the MOBA genre, growing rapidly from a release in 2009 to become the most popular and widely known in the genre. The game stays very true to the original DotA experience but manages to be fairly new player friendly in comparison. Not only has League of Legends seen plenty of success online it has also become one of the leaders on the eSports scene where professional gamers compete for large prize pools. Before every match players will get to select one of t...[Read Review] FreeMacPC Heroes of the Storm delivers Blizzard’s attempt at the popular Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) genre supported by a wealth of characters from other Blizzard franchises to attract countless fans into the arena. With a healthy beta development period before a full release Heroes of the Storm is no exception to Blizzard’s approach to developing high quality games and opts to take the genre in new directions while still catering to the veteran crowd. Often referred to as a hero br...[Read Review] Prime World seeks to offer an extremely unique MOBA experience by building it’s core gameplay around high customisation of characters in the hopes of providing unmatched variety in the MOBA genre from a smaller but more versatile group of controllable heroes. While Prime World exceeds for the most part in creating a unique title and delivering on this goal it’s not without associated cons to the learning curve. The heart of Prime World stays close to the familiar MOBA style gameplay ...[Read Review] Chivalry: Medieval Warfare is a realistic action based game that lets players battle each other in medieval combat. The game launched in 2012 and has proven to be a very successful multiplayer experience. The game is set in medieval times with each map featuring two warring factions. Your experience in Chivalry: Medieval Warfare will mostly be a melee orientated one but does include the standard ranged weapons of the era. Players can jump into the battlefield in either a first or third person pe...[Read Review] LinuxMacPCPS3PS4Xbox 360Xbox One Panzar Panzar is another one of the MOBA games adopting a third person perspective rather than an isometric one. Like many in the genre it’s a free to play experience and promises plenty of depth. Panzar is set in a game world that simply exists for the lust of war. You’ll join in on this world as four ancient races (orcs, humans, elves and dwarves) to battle on behalf of dark gods within a number of grim environments (which are all beautifully presented). This beauty comes from the CryEngine 3 which b...[Read Review] Pirates, Vikings and Knights II Pirates, Vikings and Knights II (PVK) is a free to play action game that uses medieval style combat. The game is actually a modification for Half Life 2 and as such requires a Source game to play (see Steam for the full list of games that meet this requirement). Pirates, Vikings and Knights II focuses on multiplayer gameplay in a team based environment. As the name suggests it follows a war between three different factions, the pirates, the vikings and the knights. Each of these factions has the...[Read Review] FreeLinuxMacPC Guilty Gear 2: Overture Xbox 360 users can get their taste of the action strategy genre with Guilty Gear 2: Overture, a game that belongs to the Guilty Gear series but takes a totally different direction. The games appeal is definitely tenfold for followers of the long running Guilty Gear franchise but don’t let that turn you off if you haven’t even heard of the franchise before as you’ll still enjoy what the gameplay brings. Story wise the game is set half a decade after the first game and features Sol from the origin...[Read Review] PCXbox 360 Games Like Dota, Games Like Smite, Games Like League of Legends, Games Like Dynasty Warriors, Games Like For Honor, Games Like Mount and Blade, Games Like TERA, Games Like Chivalry, Games Like Dragon Nest	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3175
__label__cc	0.680364	0.319636	Co Leinster Home > Europe > Ireland Best Time to Visit Cork, Ireland Co Cork, Europe, Ireland If you’re ever visited the Republic of Ireland, you must have noticed that Cork is one of its liveliest regions. Cork is located in the southwest of Ireland, with its city centre between two River Lee branches. A diverse and vibrant 15 Best things to do in Cork Cork is one of the biggest cities in Ireland and attracts thousands of tourists every year. With its beautiful little highstreet and its cosy Irish pubs, this city has a lot to offer. In this article I have put together Best things to do in Killarney Co Kerry, Europe, Ireland Killarney is a great little town to visit when on holiday in Ireland. The beautiful, coloured houses, the great pubs and of course the breath-taking national park make of Killarney one of the best places to visit in Kerry. But 15 Best Airbnbs in Killarney Are you looking for an Airbnb in Killarney? I have put together the best Airbnbs in Killarney Kerry so you have an easy time choosing where to stay in Killarney. Killarney is a beautiful little town in Ireland and is connected Best hotels in Killarney Looking for a great hotel in Killarney? This list of the 11 best hotels in Killarney will help you to make a decision on where to stay. Killarney is an amazing little town in Kerry with a beautiful national park full 15 best things to do in Tralee For many, Tralee is the gate to Kerry. As Tralee is one of the only cities in the area with a train station, Tralee is the end of the line for many Kerry travellers. But did you know that there Best Golf Courses near Tralee Every year, people from all over the world travel to Tralee for its amazing golf courses with great and wide Atlantic views. But which are the best golf courses in Tralee? And what are the prices to golf in Tralee? Everything you need to know about the Rose of Tralee If you’re not Irish, you may not have heard of the Rose of Tralee. Firstly, Tralee is a beautiful town in County Kerry, in southwestern Ireland.Being in Ireland, it doesn’t by any means lack the beautiful landscapes comprising rugged rocky How to Get from Tralee to Dingle Tralee is one of the most important cities in Kerry and the closest city with a train station to Dingle. This means that many travellers heading for Dingle pass through this typical Kerry town. But how do you get from How to meet Fungie the Dolphin in Dingle Dingle is probably one of the most famous towns in County Kerry. It comprises a unique landscape made of rough giant, rocky mountains, long, sandy beaches, and lots of trails to wander around. National Geographic has called this "one of © Glitterrebel.com by Lieze Neven Glitterrebel is reader-supported. When you buy through links on our site, I may earn an affiliate commission. Buying through my links puts food on my plate.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3178
__label__cc	0.604779	0.395221	Cheerleaders win National Cheersport Competition On February 26, 2016 • By Rashad Milligan The Georgia State Cheerleaders go through a routine at practice. Feb. 15, 2016. Photos by Jason Luong \| The Signal The Georgia State Cheerleaders go through a routine at practice. Feb. 15, 2016. Photos by Jason Luong \| The Signal The Georgia State Spirit Squad helps bring life into the atmosphere of Panther games year ‘round. The team’s genuine passion for the university and athletic program can be credited directly to their head coach Darryl Lyons, who can spotted on the sidelines of any Panther basketball or football game, yelling in support of Georgia State. Team member work as much as any other student-athlete on campus, waking up early and staying up late for work outs and practice in the GSU Sports Arena. A couple weekends ago, all of that hard work paid off. On Feb. 14, the Coed Spirit Squad won the National category at the 2016 Cheersport competition. The team’s score of 79.44 edged out second place Georgia Tech at 78.01 points. The Signal caught the exclusive interview with Coach Lyons on how the competition weekend went and what this victory means for the program. The Signal: How does this team compare to year’s past? Coach Lyons: Overall, we’ve had some great teams. Definitely had some great teams, not to discredit the other teams before, but this particular team. I feel like their the hungriest group I’ve had, consistently. Just a lot of resilience. They really wanted it. I feel like I set them up for success to go into a competition I felt they’ve be strong at and we did it. So I’m very excited. Very, very proud of them. The Signal: At what point over the weekend did you know it was yours? Coach Lyons: It’s hard to say, because I felt like our swagg and mojo weren’t the best on Sunday morning. Saturday morning, I feel like we came in and we were very focused and we were ready, even actually going back to Friday night. Friday night we had practice and I feel like we were just on. We made a lot of heads turn in the practice room. You’re in the practice room with 40 or 50 other teams. People were stopping and watching like, ‘Oh, that’s Georgia State…Yeah, it’s Georgia State.’ So that was a big confidence builder and then Saturday morning, honestly, that’s when I knew we were ready. I felt like they were confident. They knew what they could do and they could just go do it. Of course on Sunday, after our performance, it wasn’t a perfect performance, but I know that the energy level was there and it was great, so I was very pleased. At that point I wasn’t sure what was going to happen with the other teams and the judges scoring. So, I wasn’t completely sure, but once I saw all the other teams in the division I was completely sure. The Signal: Is there any prize financially for any of the students? Coach Lyons: Oh no, the prize is just having the pride of wearing this jacket (pointing to his Cheersport jacket). This is a jacket that I had previously, but they have a jacket that they gave all of the students to wear and it says ‘National Champion.’ I think just the marketing of the brand on Social Media and just in the community, in the cheerleading community, it’s huge, because this is going to make for great recruiting of really good athletes. Most of the kids now that come out of high school, they come out of All-Star programs, where competition is really most important and I want let them to know that when they get to Georgia State- you can have a big school atmosphere, great big games, big athletics and competition too. That way, that gives you the total package- well rounded cheerleader. The Signal: Do you think this victory gave the strong argument that cheerleaders deserve scholarships too? Coach Lyons: I mean…I feel like they should be recognized, yes. I feel like any type of financial backing (would be great)- I mean we get a lot of financial backing already, but more financial backing would be welcomed [laughs].	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3182
__label__cc	0.674789	0.325211	• USA • ST KITTS • ANTIGUA & BARBUDA • DOMINICA RESIDENCY BY INVESTMENT Get a permanent resident card from a foreign country. Obtain a second passport and become a global citizen. IMMIGRATION BY INVESTMENT Discover all of the residency, citizenship and immigration programs Why Investing in Malta is a Smart Idea? For the people who want a second citizenship for themselves and for their families to relocate their personal and business matters to an EU country, Malta’s first EU approved citizenship program, Malta Citizenship by Investment Program is a viable option. This program grants Maltese citizenship for life and it gets passed on to future generations by descent. Malta’s Citizenship by Investment Program is a scheme aimed at high net worth individuals. Also known as Malta Individual Investor Programme (MIIP), the scheme requires a considerable investment. To benefit from this program, applicants must make a minimum contribution of €650,000 to the national development fund set up by the government. They must also, invest €150,000 in government approved financial instruments and commit to a residence in Malta for a minimum of 5 years. The property value for purchased real estate needs to be a minimum €350,000. After one year of residency, naturalisation and Maltese passport are granted to the applicant. This means EU citizenship and availability of living, studying and working anywhere in the EU. Malta got accepted as a member of the European Union in 2004, and is a part of Schengen area since 2007. As at June 2018, the number of applicants in the Maltese citizenship program was just over 1,431, out of the cap of 1800 applications in place for the whole program. Malta Citizenship by Investment may be granted under an amendment passed in November 2013 to the Maltese Citizenship Act, Chapter 188 of the Laws of Malta. 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__label__wiki	0.73917	0.73917	John Cammegh Speech at ASIL Statements on ICT প্রফেসর গোলাম আজমের গ্রেফতারঃ একজন দৌহিত্রীর চোখে (৭ ই ফেব্রুয়ারী ২০১২) আযম’কে ‘প্রিজন সেল’এ না খাইয়ে মৃত্যুর দিকে ঠেলে দেয়া হচ্ছে -আফিফা আযম গোলাম আযমকে ‘প্রিজন সেল’এ মানসিকভাবে নির্যাতন করা হচ্ছে -মিসেস আফিফা আযম বাংলাদেশ সরকারের উদ্দেশে জাতিসংঘের মানবাধিকার কাউন্সিল: ট্রাইব্যুনালে অবৈধভাবে আটককৃতদের মুক্তি দিন সন্তানের চোখে অধ্যাপক গোলাম আযম “أنا اخشى على حياة زوجي” Almujtamaa Magazine مجلة المجتمع الإتحاد العالمي لعلماء المسلمين Professor Ghulam Azam Disseminating his work and thought Home » Uncategorized » “JI did not create paramilitary forces” “JI did not create paramilitary forces” #FreeAmaanAzmi "Salman Al Azami told TRT World that police officers didn’t have an arrest warrant when they went... fb.me/8Jv520s8t 3 years ago We welcome the release of Hummam Qader Chowdhury and request the Bangladeshi authority to release Amaan Azmi and Mir Ahmed as well. 3 years ago UN expert group urges Bangladesh to stop enforced disappearances GENEVA (24 February 2017) – United Nations... fb.me/7C74xRC6r 3 years ago Statement by The Lord Carlile of Berriew QC CBE on the Enforced Disappearance of Mir Ahmed Bin Quasem, Hummam... fb.me/6d5SZ2QNg 3 years ago In memory of Prof Ghulam Azam, a leader of the Bangla Language Movement #internationalmotherlanguageday... fb.me/JMIdW9ok 3 years ago Follow @ProfGhulamAzam Prof Ghulam Azam This article appeared on www.bdinn.com on 30th March 2012 On the 2nd day of hearing of the case brought against the elderly leader & former Aamir of Jamaat e Islami, Prof Golam Azam, his advocate Barrister Abdur Razzak has said that Jamaat has never formed any Al Badr, Al Shams or Rajakar force. This case cannot run because the government has failed to give the reasons for the delaying of 40 years to start the judgement procedure. Since no authentic complaints are against him, the case should be closed. They have no proofs but few paper cuttings. There are no examples in the World where judgement has started after 40 years. In the last 25th March, Barrister Razzak started presenting his logics. He finished the last part of hearing yesterday. On Thursday the favor’s side will give out the hearing and then the decision will be passed. On the 2nd hearing, the aged Prof Golam Azam was brought at the tribunal in an ambulance. He was taken on the 2nd floor on wheel chair. Barrister Razzak commenced the hearing in his presence. He said that in the past 40 years there are no cases, complaints or even any GDs in any of the Police stations in the country. No one filed any cases. If he did any crimes, there would have been cases in the last 40 years. The prosecution could not provide any logic for why this case was opened so late. There are no genuine evidences for supporting the cases against him. No information regarding the formation of Al Badr, Al Shams and Rajakar force by Jamaat e Islami is correct. These forces were not even auxiliary. Auxiliary forces are the ones those operate under the direct command of the Army. On the part of the killing of Chiru Mia, in the hearing, Barrister Razzak announced it ridiculous and said, somebody took the order in an envelope in Dhaka and a group executed that order and no one in the group became criminal but instead, the man blamed is Golam Azam. How can that be? Where are the people who were into the killing? No descriptions of them are given. The first criminals should be the killers. Even if Golam Azam passed the order; he will be the next criminal. Where are the main killers? Since no info on them exits, the whole case is baseless. Prof Golam Azam’s advocate Barrister Razzak further said that starting the judgement after 40 years is completely bizarre. Starting from Nuremberg to former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Cambodia and Hague’s international court; no examples like this exists. In the hearing on 25th March, the tribunal Chairman asked about the judgement of Cambodia. Barrister Razzak said, the war in Cambodia started in 1975 and ended in 1979. But internal war went on for 19 years. Within 3 years from the ending of the war, in 2001, a tribunal was formed with the help of the UN and the judgement initiated. Barrister Razzak added that it is the duty of the government’s side to explain this unusual case to the tribunal. They could not present any logical facts. If they fail to satisfy the logical terms, then the judgement procedure should be closed. At a certain stage, Barrister Razzak gave an example of the highest court of Britain, The House of the Lords. Barrister Razzak added, the government side has given charges against Golam Azam in which no materials were found for the eligibility of charge formation. In the law it is stated that mentioned things must include the name of the witness, where the crime was committed and the type of the crime. In this part, the favor is completely a failure. Prof Golam Azam is the victim of political jealousy and his crimes identified are only for his political statements. At that point, he (Barrister Razzak) raised many examples of War Crimes and said that tribunal at first gets sure on valid proofs that the charge can be put on the accused. Repeating the same incident the government has surpassed the law. Giving reference from 1973, the Barrister said, Jamaat e Islami and Chatra Shangha, in no ways, fall under the definition of an auxiliary force. Jamaat e Islami was a political organization and Chatra Shangha was a student organization. Illustrating different sections of law, he further added, that even Rajakar does not fall under the category of an auxiliary force. He clearly said, Jamaat never formed Rajakar, Al Badr or Al Shams. In 1972, on 2nd August, the back then government formed Rajakar passing an ordinance. The Chief of that force was a civilian appointed by the government. By sdcuk in Uncategorized on April 4, 2012 . ← Bangladesh’s 41st Independence Celebrations: A Marred Anniversary Stop the Witch Hunt against Ghulam Azam → Asif Hossain says: Have Sabr.. inshAllah he will be freed within a few days.. and truth will reveal itself from dark.. রাজনীতিছেলের সন্ধান চেয়ে গোলাম আযমের স্ত্রীর থানায় ডায়রি Complaint filed regarding disappearance Family statement on Arrest of Amaan Azmi (Bangla translation) Official Family Statement on the Arrest of Ex-Brigadier General Amaan Azmi	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3185
__label__wiki	0.583641	0.583641	It’s Going to be a Long Season for the Rangers Written by Jacob Martella, April 14, 2015, 0 Comments The Texas Rangers are already eight games into their 2015 campaign, and while there’s still a lot to be decided over the next six months or so, there’s already one guarantee. It’s going to be a long season. And it won’t be in that sort of “we made it to the Word Series” kind of long season. Currently, the Rangers sit at 3-5 in the first week of action in this nice little lose-one-win-one kind of pattern for the most part. Of course going an even .500 this season would be an accomplishment for many who predicted this team fall flat once again and finish last in the American League West. But for fans of the team, including myself, this predictable pattern will make for a long 155 remaining games. Of course, what will make this season feel eternally long the most will be the injury bug once again. Already seven games in, the Rangers have had to pull three players from games due to injury concerns and two players have already been sent to the disabled list. Starting pitcher Derek Holland, who missed all of last year thanks to an injury caused by his dog (his dog!), lasted only an inning in Friday’s home opener before coming out. Now it’ll be at least a month before he picks up a baseball again, much less rejoins the big league team. That gives grave concerns for fans who thought that last year’s nightmare season of injuries was as good as gone. Instead, it already appears that each game will bring that familiar old thought: who will go down for the season with an injury in this game? It wasn’t fun last year, and it won’t be very much fun this season either. The injury to Holland also brings up another point in why this team will encounter a very long this season — pitching. I honestly think that the hitting and the defense should be fine for the most part. There’s enough there, especially if the bats of Mitch Moreland and Prince Fielder and Adrian Beltre wake up in a big way. But the weakest link for the Rangers is no doubt the pitching. As a team, the Rangers are already 19th in the league with a 4.09 ERA and have given up fourth-most earned runs at 30 (which is tied with fellow division opponent Seattle). Already plagued by the season-ending shoulder injury to Yu Darvish, the Rangers were struggling to fill out the rotation will quality guys. Now the team is going to have to find another person to replace Holland, and I can almost guarantee that guy is going to struggle mightily this season. Of course, maybe this all becomes a moot point? Maybe the bats wake up like they’ve shown the capability of doing this season with that 10-1 win at Oakland last week. Maybe they find a diamond in the rough in the rotation. I know this is all reaching speculation with no firm basis, but hey, it’s going to be a long season no matter how you dice it up. Might as well find something to be positive about eight games in. Tags: Baseball, Derek Holland, MLB season, Texas Rangers Prince Fielder’s Awakening Bat Leading Rangers Emerging Offense If Early Season Form Holds, Alex Rodriguez’s Story Will Take Another Turn More Stories From MLB Rangers’ Lineup Could be the Most Dangerous in Baseball After Injuries Miami Marlins Screwed up Managerial Change	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3187
__label__wiki	0.887227	0.887227	DualSense Controller for PS5 Revealed Final Fantasy VII Remake Now Available to Preload Top 10 Lengthy Video Games To Play While Stuck At Home No E3 Digitial Showcase From Bethesda in June Bioshock: The Collection, XCOM 2 Collection, and Borderlands Legendary Collection Heading to Nintendo Switch Inside Xbox Stream Coming Tomorrow Ubisoft Announces a Month of Free Games Top 15 Sonic Characters You’ve Probably Never Heard Of Top 10 Video Games That Send You Back to School Final Fantasy VIII Remastered Gets Official Character Art by Various Square Enix Artists Red XIII Will Not Be A Party Member In Final Fantasy VII Remake 15 of the Greatest Video Game Easter Eggs March’s Playstation Plus Games Revealed Sony has announced via the Playstation Blog, the sole two games coming to Playstation Plus for the month of March. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered and The Witness are the only games Playstation Plus members will be able to download for free for the month of March. This will be the first time that only two games are available to download as before, PS3 and Playstation Vita games were available but with last month being the final month PS3 and Vita games would be available to download the number of downloadable games has dropped.to two, with both of those two being PS4 games. While the quantity of games has gone done, the quality of games is good with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remasted having an 83 on Metacritic and The Witness having an 87 on Metacritic. Both of these games will be available to download for free to Playstation Plus members from March 5th to April 1st. It is unfortunate that the number of Playstation Plus games has gone down with the removal of PS3 and Vita games, it remains to be seen if this new number of Playstation Plus PS4 games will be permanent or if it will increase in April when the PS3 and Vita games are no longer able to be download, as they will be able to download until March 8th. Either way hopefully the number of downloadable games increases or the quality of the games remains solid. activisioncall of dutymodern warfarePlayStationPlayStation 4playstation plusps4the witness Jacob Porter Framelag's Content Director. When not found writing countdown articles, he can be found playing Cities: Skylines or any other game he is currently addicted to at the moment. It was Red Dead Redemption 2 that made him realize he wanted to be involved in the video game industry in some way but since he's not smart enough to program or develop them he decided to write about them. PSN: GymLeaderJake Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered out now on PS4 Free-To-Play Call of Duty: Warzone Officially Announced and Releasing Tomorrow Nvidia Claims Activision Blizzard Games Were Removed Due to “Misunderstanding” Previous Dissidia Final Fantasy NT: Free Edition Coming to PS4 and Steam Next Rainbow Six Siege Burnt Horizon Launches Today Sega To Release Game Gear Micro In Japan © 2020 FrameLag, LLC. All Rights Reserved PlayStation ps4 xbox one xbox pc	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3191
__label__cc	0.553718	0.446282	Victory for anti- gentrification campaigners in Elephant and Castle News, Jan 17th Plans to regenerate Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre and surrounding areas by development firm Delancey were halted by the council Planning Committee late yesterday night. After 7 hours of discussion, Southwark Planning Committee voted 4 against 3 to reject application for redevelopment. Now committee will meet again on 30th January to vote again for the grounds for rejection. The plans involved demolition of the shopping centre, London Collage of Communication campus, Coronet Theatre and Elephant & Castle Palace Bingo: a local bingo hall frequented by elderly Black and ethnic majority local residents; and construction of new retail space and rented flats. Major concerns with the application included the fact it only provided 33 social rent properties out of 979, gave no guarantees for the independent traders, and its significant negative impact on residents in a vicinity of the development. During the committee meeting, many local residents voiced their concerns. Patria Roman from Latin Elephant said that planning application has failed to address the negative impact of redeveloping the shopping centre on Black and minority ethnic communities. She also highlighted the “social and cultural value” of the indoor spaces at Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre, which held many community-oriented events over the years. Patrick Duffy, representing the bingo hall, said that it gets 7,500 visits a week, and its demolition “will destroy the social lives of thousands of people”. “Bingo has not got the most glamorous image but it’s got value”- he added – but “it is inexpensive, safe, ethnically diverse”. About 50% of customers at the bingo are from African and Afro-Caribbean backgrounds, and it has social benefits for older population & whole families. Delancey responded to local concerns with “voluntary subsidy” of extra London Living Rent homes. The company yesterday submitted a revised 35% affordable housing proposal for Elephant and Castle scheme, of which 10% were supposed to be rented at social rent equivalent, 47% at London Living Rent , and 43% for people earning £60k-90k. Delancey managed to raise eyebrows with their apparent expectation that key workers can share new flats and therefore fulfill high income requirement. The company also declared that “the loss of the Latin businesses does not decimate the Latin community”, but failed to provide any evidence for this claim. The committee meeting met with protests from local community and London College of Communication students, who on Monday occupied LCC in solidarity with local residents. The demo organised by anti- gentrification campaigners yesterday afternoon was attended by many locals wanting to put pressure on the council to reject the proposed plan. Southwark residents entered the council Tooley Street HQ protesting against the social cleansing planning application by Delancey. Many protestors waited until about 1am to see the council rejecting developer’s planning application. Campaigners are calling for more protests on 30th January in order to secure final rejection of redevelopment scheme for Elephant and Castle. In 2014, Delancey registered its Elephant and Castle land holdings offshore. The company’s projected profit from Elephant and Castle gentrification was £154 million. Photo: London Latinxs Video: Up the Elephant Elephant & CastlegentrificationHousingLondonProtestRacism	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3194
__label__wiki	0.623761	0.623761	Concrete Poem Examples By Kevin Casper Poets who are looking to start writing a new type of poetry might be interested in looking at some concrete poem examples on the Internet. Since the visual presentation of this type of poetry is so vital to the meaning that gets conveyed, seeing some concrete poems with your own eyes is particularly important. This article will provide you with a brief background and description of concrete poetry and will then direct you to some excellent resources on the Internet where you can view some concrete poem examples. What Is Concrete Poetry? Concrete poetry is a form of poetry that goes by several names. In addition to concrete, these poems are also referred to as pattern poetry, shape poetry, or visual poetry. The general philosophy behind this type of poetry is that the visual form of the words on the page, the way in which they are arranged typographically, is as important to the poem's intended meaning as the words chosen, the meter, the rhyme, et cetera. In other words, concrete poems are not poems that would be as effective at a poetry reading, as the audience would not be able to see what the poem looked like. These types of work would likely find an art gallery a more suitable mode of presentation, as the patrons could lay their eyes on the work and therefore have access to all the poem has to offer. How to Write a Concrete Poem Free Verse Poem Format Historically, the term concrete poem wasn't brought into the lexicon until the 1950s when some Brazilian poets who called their group Noigrandes held an exhibition in São Paulo and released a manifesto. The intention in making the poems so visually oriented was to integrate the physical words themselves into the poem in a deeper way. Poets like E.E. Cummings and Ezra Pound were considered inspirational to early concrete poets because they experimented with the arrangement of words on the page in their poetry. Some of the most popular concrete poets in the English language are Edwin Morgan and Ian Hamilton Finlay. Where to Find Concrete Poem Examples The following links contain some fantastic concrete poem examples. Some even expand on the theory behind concrete poetry and contain some useful criticism and commentary on the poems that are presented. Court's Concrete Creations - This website hosted by Oregon State University has seven simple examples of concrete poetry. This site would be a great place for the poet new to this form to start, as you get a clear sense of what concrete poems are all about through these straightforward examples. The two poems Sailboat and Dams are both particularly effective. MrsPowell.wikispaces.com- The website Literacy Rules hosts some great concrete poetry by a handful of poets. Check out Morghan Barnes' poem Shoes and Tobias Burgess' lovely poem about a fish. Concrete Poetry in Digital Media - This article makes for excellent reading on the history and digital future of concrete poetry, and the examples used are intricate and stunning. A Gentle Breeze - This lovely poem is hosted on a website for a public school in Florida. The poem is particularly interesting, in that it is presented in both a concrete form and a more traditional text form. Seeing both forms of the same poem allows the viewer to really understand the impact that the visual presentation has on the effectiveness of the poem. Poetry For All Ages While there are unquestionable masters of concrete poetry who receive the same respect in poetry circles as other well know poets, concrete poetry is popular because it can be appreciated by people of all ages. You don't have to be a literary scholar to get concrete poetry, and even small children can have fun experimenting with this simple and intriguing form. If you're still interested after checking out the above examples, grab a pen and paper and give it a shot. You just might discover that concrete poetry is your true medium. Kinds of Technical Writing By Thomma Lyn Grindstaff	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3195
__label__wiki	0.903697	0.903697	Irish Showbiz LA Showbiz UK Showbiz Goss TV Goss.ie Home Royals The Crown creator reveals whether Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s storyline will... The Crown creator reveals whether Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s storyline will make the show The next season is set to drop in November The creator of hit show The Crown has finally revealed whether Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s romance will become a storyline on the series. Creator and showrunner Peter Morgan revealed in an interview that the show will not be focused on any modern day stories within the royal family. Fans will be devastated to learn that Meghan and Harry’s love story and exit from the royal family, therefore, will not make the cut. SOPHIE MUTEVELIAN, NETFLIX “I just think you get so much more interesting (with time),” he told the Hollywood Reporter. “Meghan and Harry are in the middle of their journey, and I don’t know what their journey is or how it will end. “One wishes some happiness, but I’m much more comfortable writing about things that happened at least 20 years ago. “I sort of have in my head a 20-year rule,’ so things in the recent past are strictly off-limits for The Crown,” he added. He also mentioned that the recent Prince Andrew scandal, in which he was linked to alleged pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, won’t make the cut either. “I don’t know where in the scheme of things Prince Andrew or indeed Meghan Markle or Harry will ever appear.” It comes after Netlflix released a spine-tingling trailer for it’s fourth season, where the story of Princess Diana will begin. The show is also already commissioned for a season 5 and 6. Previous articleWATCH: Brendan Gleeson stars as Donald Trump in new miniseries Next articleRTÉ announces Sean O’Rourke will no longer work for the station after ‘golf gate’ controversy Prince Harry’s friend admits he’s ‘heartbroken by the situation with his family’ Meghan Markle and Prince Harry ‘surprised Kate Middleton’ on her 39th birthday Meghan Markle ‘abandons plans’ to become a citizen of the UK Lucie Donlan speaks out about her ‘secret feud’ with Yewande Biala Spencer Matthews begs wife Vogue Williams to finally change her surname Lucy Kennedy encourages her followers to consider adoption – after taking... Irish Showbiz14145 LA Showbiz9240 UK Showbiz7564	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3201
__label__wiki	0.673722	0.673722	Parasitic leiomyomas: two case reports and review of literature Janaki Putran1 & Khaled Khaled1 Gynecological Surgery volume 7, pages383–384(2010)Cite this article Fibroids or leiomyomas are common tumours of the uterus. Very rarely, a subserous fibroid may detach from the uterus and attach itself to other structures. Such fibroids are called parasitic fibroids. We present two such rare cases of parasitic fibroids attached to the sigmoid colon and urethra, respectively. A 39-year-old woman was referred with a feeling of a lump in the vagina and voiding difficulties. She felt the lump gradually increasing in size over the last year. She was, otherwise, in good health with no other medical, surgical or gynaecological problems. On examination, the vulva looked healthy. A firm lump about 3 × 3 cm could be palpated in the lower third of the anterior vaginal wall. The lump was firm, mobile and non-tender on palpation. The lump was excised through the anterior vaginal wall. It was attached to the urethra. There was no pedicle connecting the lump to the uterus. Histology confirmed a leiomyoma. A 52-year-old woman was referred with heavy periods over the last 3 years. She had no significant history apart from being sterilised. On examination, the abdomen was unremarkable. Upon vaginal examination, the uterus was about 12-weeks size. Ultrasound showed a bulky uterus with multiple fibroids. The woman underwent a total abdominal hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-ophorectomy. On laparotomy, a 7 × 5 cm fibroid was found attached to the serosa of the sigmoid colon (Fig. 1). This was easily enucleated. Histology confirmed a leiomyoma. Parasitic fibroid attached to the sigmoid colon Fibroids or leiomyomas are common benign tumours of the smooth muscle of the uterus. They are found in about 20–30% of women above the age of 35 years. They are subserous, intramural or submucus in location in the uterus. Very rarely, a subserous fibroid may detach from the uterus to attach and receive its blood supply from other structures in the abdomen. The commonest source of blood supply for a parasitic fibroid is the omentum. Extra-uterine leiomyomas are very rare. They may arise from the smooth muscle cells in the vulva, ovaries, urethra or urinary bladder. Very few cases have been reported in modern literature. Kelly and Cullen reported 37 cases of parasitic fibroids way back in 1909. Odofin et al. reported a case in which such was removed by laparoscopy [1]. Cases of torsion of a parasitic fibroid [2], ileal haemorrhage [3] and ureteral obstruction [4] due to parasitic fibroids have been reported. Kang et al. [5] reported a case of retroperitoneal leiomyoma but this was thought to be of primary origin rather than parasitic. Several cases of parasitic leiomyoma after laparoscopic myomectomy have also been reported [6, 7]. We present two cases of parasitic fibroids, one of which was symptomatic and the other, asymptomatic. Location of the parasitic fibroid on the sigmoid colon and the urethra are very rare. We thought the fibroid, attached to the sigmoid colon, to be parasitic as there were multiple fibroids on the uterus. With the fibroid arising from the urethra, classifying the fibroid as a parasitic one rather than a primary leiomyoma of the urethra was more difficult. The ultrasound examination of the uterus in this woman showed fibroid changes but no definite fibroids. However, the leiomyoma was enucleated very easily which is why we thought it was probably a parasitic one rather than a primary fibroid arising from the urethra. Parasitic fibroids should be included in the differential diagnosis of a pelvic mass. Odofin O et al (2004) An unusual case of ectopic or parasitic leiomyoma excised by laparoscopic surgery. Int Surg 89:161–163 Brieger GM, MacGibbon AL, Peat BP (1995) Torsion of a parasitic fibroid. Aust NZ J Obstet Gynaecol 35(2):224 Rader JS et al (1990) Ileal haemorrhage caused by a parasitic uterine leiomyomas. Obstet Gynecol 76:531–534 Zaitoon MM (1986) Retroperitoneal parasitic leiomyomas causing unilateral ureteral obstruction. J Urol 135(1):130–1 Kang WD, Kim SM, Kim YH, Choi HS (2009) Three isolated, large retroperitoneal leiomyomas. Arch Gynecol Obstet. 280:499–501 Epstein JH, Nejat EJ, Tsai T (2009) Parasitic myomas after laparoscopic myomectomy: case report. Fertil Steril 91(3):932 Moon HS, Koo JS, Par SH, Park GS, Choi JG, Kim SG (2008) Parasitic leiomyoma in the abdominal wall after laparoscopic myomectomy. Fertil Steril 90(4):1201 There is no actual or potential conflict of interest in relation to this article. Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Colchester Hospital University Foundation Trust, Turner Road, Colchester, CO4 5JL, UK Janaki Putran & Khaled Khaled Janaki Putran Khaled Khaled Correspondence to Janaki Putran. Putran, J., Khaled, K. Parasitic leiomyomas: two case reports and review of literature. Gynecol Surg 7, 383–384 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10397-009-0511-5	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3205
__label__cc	0.588683	0.411317	Doherty Speaks About Drum Corps: Part 2 Post on: July 22, 2008 Stuart Rice Freelance writer Stuart Rice interviews Gary Doherty, the former executive director of Drum Corps International’s OnQ Performance Education division, about his history and his opinions regarding the drum corps activity, changes at DCI and the future of music education. Part 2 (in a three-part series): Marching Standards Stuart Rice: An OnQ press release last December stated that MENC: The National Association for Music Education was to advise OnQ about establishing “educational standards governing curriculum and events.” Halftime Magazine, in its announcement of OnQ Performance Education, described this as an effort to establish “a set of national standards and curricula for marching organizations.” What kind of standards are we talking about? Gary Doherty: Dan Acheson assembled a “blue ribbon” panel of music educators from across the country to discuss these standards: concerns, vision and expectations of marching band units in school settings. The first meeting was held in Milwaukee at the MENC national convention in April. The next meeting is slated to occur the week of the DCI Championships in August. SR: Who will represent DCI at this meeting? GD: Dan Acheson is the chair of the committee. SR: Can we expect standards to come from this meeting? If so, when, what kinds and for whom? GD: This is a multifaceted project. There will be “standards” that educators can use to “measure” the achievement of their individual marching ensembles. The first documents should be available by next spring (2009) although Dan Acheson is driving the calendar for this activity. SR: Why does DCI need to develop educational standards? GD: I think this question would best be answered by the CEO of Drum Corps International, Dan Acheson. SR: How do you see MENC assisting DCI with this? GD: MENC is the “voice of music educators” around the country. Their partnership brings validity to the process. SR: MENC established standards for music education as early as 1994. Why would they change them for drum corps? GD: Standards, like curriculum and pedagogy, is an ever-changing/evolving system of outcomes. The focus for these standards is on school marching bands, not necessarily the drum corps themselves. SR: Standards for marching, flag, rifle and rudimental drumming (all of which DCI inherited) have become somewhat diluted and passé within the now-eclectic activity and are not well correlated among the various corps curricula—to say nothing of what has become of the bugling arts, favored by outdoor acoustics. Does the creative administration of DCI today demonstrate the standardization and consensus needed to present the marching arts to a panel of music educators? Is DCI ready to lobby national standards for the marching arts? Or will this become an “introductory dialogue” that may yield fruit down the road? GD: In my opinion, this will be an introductory dialogue that may yield fruit down the road. SR: Promoting involvement in drum corps remains a challenge for DCI despite its monumental effort to communicate with music educators over the last decade or so. How do you see this relationship being cultivated more productively (beyond the dimension of drum corps music), in the recruitment, retention, and establishment of new drum corps organizations and participants? GD: All relationships rise and fall on communication. In my opinion, each constituency must be given opportunities to speak and to listen. SR: Without DCI’s involvement, how and where can we expect to see an education constituency develop for the activity? GD: That is a good question. My primary mission (my personal one) was to attempt to create a better dialogue between the drum corps activity and the music education community at large. Again, and this is my opinion, without a dialogue and a sense of “community” between the rank and file educators and the “movers & shakers” of the drum corps community, we will all limit our scope and impact on our communities. Check back on July 29 for the third and final installment in this Q&A with Gary Doherty. Stuart Rice is a veteran of 20 marching seasons, serving as a member, instructor and choreographer of marching in junior high, high school, college, drum corps, winter guard and professional settings. Rice’s marching research has been presented at the University of Rochester Visual and Cultural Studies Conference in 1994 and the American Sociological Association Collective Behavior and Social Movements Workshop at the University of California at Davis in 1998. His analysis of Drum Corps International World Championship Finalist drill is published extensively in Drum Corps World magazine. Rice holds a Bachelor of Music Degree from the University of Utah. Tags: Drum Corps Internationaldrum corpsmarching bandHalftime Magazinehalftimemarching artsDCImusic educationGary Dohertymarching musicdci onqonq performance educationdrum corps worldStuart rice Hendrickson Wins CBS Challenge CBS 42 KEYE-TV, a television station in central Texas, showcased 16 local high school drum lines with its fifth annual ... Joy in the Spotlight Being in a small spotlight can flood a person’s heart with overwhelming joy. Now imagine that feeling magnified tenfold or ... World Association of Marching Show Bands in the United States for the First Time For the first time in more than 20 years of existence, the World Association of Marching Show Bands (WAMSB) held ... The Aluphone A new type of mallet instrument has made its way to the field and floor. In less than a year, ... The Road Through Pasadena The New Year. The breathtaking floral floats. The pageantry. And the anticipation of agreat football match-up. For marching bands and ... From Your Neck Up Everyday stress and physical activity tend to build up tension in your neck. Try these tips to reduce the pains ... The College Corps Connection Being a drum corps member brings new insights about how to be a leader. From Halftime Magazine, a print publication and website for the marching ...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3207
__label__wiki	0.504981	0.504981	How to Use Miralax As a Detox How to Consume Amla How to Make an Alcohol Ice Pack The Calories in Skyy Vodka How to Use Benefiber Harvard Health Beat: Intestinal Cleansing How to Take Milk Thistle for Bodybuilding Written by Jonathan Croswell Milk thistle is commonly used by bodybuilders and athletes focused on weight gain as a complement to protein and nutritional supplements. Many believe milk thistle is integral in improving liver function and protecting it from damage that may occur with supplement use. Milk thistle is also touted as a toxin-removing "cleanse." However, milk thistle's purported benefits have not all been proven by medical science, and it does have the potential for uncomfortable side effects 1. Purchase milk thistle in one of the four following forms: as a dried herb capsule, liquid or alcohol extract, tincture or silymarin phosphatidylcholine complex. The latter complex is the most popular form because its high level of silymarin makes it easier for the body to absorb milk thistle. Alcohol extract should not be taken if you are using milk thistle to help cope with liver damage from alcohol. Take 200 to 400 mg of milk thistle 1 to 3 times each day, if you are taking the supplement. If you are taking milk thistle as a dried herb, consume 12 to 15 grams of the dried herb with a meal. Grind dried milk thistle and put it into a cereal, oatmeal or other flavorful food. Many people don't like the taste of the supplement and prefer to disguise it in another food. Conversely, you can bring water to a boil and put milk thistle in it to make tea. If you are using a liquid milk thistle extract, add it to juice or another flavored beverage to make the supplement more palatable. Talk to your doctor and make sure consuming milk thistle will not interfere with any other medications or supplements you are taking. Increased cholesterol and testosterone levels are potential consequences of taking bodybuilding substances, but milk thistle is not proven to help. Milk thistle is not an alternative to seeking professional help if you have liver problems or any other medical condition. If you are using a packaged milk thistle supplement, always follow the manufacturer's instructions. How to Get Rid of Alcohol in Your Body How to Use Dried Ginseng Root How to Take Digestive Enzymes How to Use Apple Cider Vinegar for Weight Loss How Much Milk Thistle to Take Per Day University of Maryland Medical Center: Milk Thistle National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health. Milk Thistle. Updated September 2016. Abenavoli L, Capasso R, Milic N, Capasso F. Milk thistle in liver diseases: past, present, future. Phytother Res. 2010;24(10):1423-32. doi:10.1002/ptr.3207 Salmi HA, Sarna S. Effect of silymarin on chemical, functional, and morphological alterations of the liver. A double-blind controlled study. Scand J Gastroenterol. 1982;17(4):517-21. doi:10.3109/00365528209182242 Seeff LB, Curto TM, Szabo G, et al. Herbal product use by persons enrolled in the hepatitis C Antiviral Long-Term Treatment Against Cirrhosis (HALT-C) Trial. Hepatology. 2008;47(2):605-12. doi:10.1002/hep.22044 Fried MW, Navarro VJ, Afdhal N, et al. Effect of silymarin (milk thistle) on liver disease in patients with chronic hepatitis C unsuccessfully treated with interferon therapy: a randomized controlled trial. JAMA. 2012;308(3):274-82. doi:10.1001/jama.2012.8265 Ebrahimpour koujan S, Gargari BP, Mobasseri M, Valizadeh H, Asghari-jafarabadi M. Effects of Silybum marianum (L.) Gaertn. (silymarin) extract supplementation on antioxidant status and hs-CRP in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a randomized, triple-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial. Phytomedicine. 2015;22(2):290-6. doi:10.1016/j.phymed.2014.12.010 Kazazis CE, Evangelopoulos AA, Kollas A, Vallianou NG. The therapeutic potential of milk thistle in diabetes. Rev Diabet Stud. 2014;11(2):167-74. doi:10.1900/RDS.2014.11.167 Ebrahimpour, K.; Gargari, B.; Mobasseri, M. et al. Effects of Silybum marianum (L.) Gaertn. (silymarin) extract supplementation on antioxidant status and hs-CRP in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a randomized, triple-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial. Phytomedicine. 2015 Feb 15;22(2):290-6. DOI: 10.1016/j.phymed.2014.12.010. Fried, M.; Navarro, V.; Afdhal, N. et al. Effect of silymarin (milk thistle) on liver disease in patients with chronic hepatitis C unsuccessfully treated with interferon therapy: a randomized controlled trial. JAMA. 2012 Jul 18;308(3):274-82. DOI: 10.1001/jama.2012.8265. Rambaldi, A.; Jacobs, B.; Iaquinto G, Gluud C. Milk thistle for alcoholic and/or hepatitis B or C liver diseases--a systematic Cochrane hepato-biliary group review with meta-analyses of randomized clinical trials. Am J Gastroenterol. 2005 Nov;100(11):2583-91. DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2005.00262.x. Salmi, H. and Sarna, S. Effect of silymarin on chemical, functional, and morphological alterations of the liver. A double-blind controlled study. Scan J Gastroenterol. 1982;17:517–21. Seeff, L.; Curto, T.; Szabo, G. et al. Herbal product use by persons enrolled in the Hepatitis C Antiviral Long-Term Treatment Against Cirrhosis (HALT-C) Trial. Hepatology. 2008;47(2):605-12. DOI: 10.1002/hep.22044. Voroneanu, L.; Nistor, I.; Dumea, R. et al. Silymarin in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials. J Diabetes Res. 2016;2016:5147468. DOI: 10.1155/2016/5147468. Jonathan Croswell has spent more than five years writing and editing for a number of newspapers and online publications, including the "Omaha World-Herald" and "New York Newsday." Croswell received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Nebraska and is currently pursuing a Master's of Health and Exercise Science at Portland State University.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3213
__label__cc	0.728304	0.271696	A Snippet The set-up for this — it’s just a transitional piece, but it shows the effects of big magic a long way away, and the way worlds in the Sentinels’ universe connect. And it was fun to write, so I’m posting it here. The old gods had not gone to war with the dark gods in time out of mind. The worldchain had forgotten the price paid for wars between gods. Abruptly, with huge spells of horror and death bursting on the Dalchi fields, rebound magic poured upworld, and … … on Niiadaa, on a deliciously warm afternoon with the clouds towering like castles above the village of Iri, the earth rumbled without warning and ripped itself apart. Molten rock exploded upward. Fire rained up, spurted, gouted, and the village died in a breath, taking everyone with it. A hill bellied up out of the ground, red fire racing out in all directions, and a mountain shouldered its way onto the hill, shoving rivers of rock and crusts and scabs of lava before it. Poisons poured into the air, and the sky turned black, and still the earth kept shaking. The sun vanished, and the forests and the rivers all around with it — lakes sucked back into the earth as if they had never existed, and death spread out in all directions. Seas rose out of their beds and smashed shorelines, pounding them with forty-foot waves and tossing chunks of lava bigger than houses as if they were toys. The sun would not shine again on Niiadaa for weeks — and the snow would start falling in mere days … … while on Povreack, a hurricane that had been moving well off the shore of the most populated coastline suddenly turned inland. It crawled northward, strong and well-defined and vicious, and laid waste to whole peoples and the better part of a nation … … clouds. More clouds. The peoples of the drought-stricken flatlands of Central Hwyr on Cadwa looked up in startled gratitude. Thunder rumbled, which had not been heard in those parts in a dozen years, and moist air curled the dust along the ground and touch cheeks with the gentle promise of rain. The first drops spattered, big as fists, and people cheered, and stood with arms outstretched and faces upturned. Then the skies let loose. But the ground, too parched to drink the bounty it received, filled fast, and flooded fast, and joy turned to horror as torrents ripped across the plains, taking topsoil and houses and livestock and people with them … … across Oria’s northern forests, the sound of rattling wings, individually no louder than the crinkling of a sheet of paper, grew to a roar as millions of millions of cherik beetles hatched after a hibernation of twice a hundred years. Starving, they launched themselves into the sky and swarmed on everything green and growing. Tender plants, budding out, were stripped bare in minutes and the clouds of beetles ascended again and moved on. The plague would last a month, and then the cheriks would dig back into the earth, so deep that men could never find them to destroy them, and lay their eggs, and die. Behind them, much of the northern world would starve that year … Across the globe, observatories went crazy as out of nowhere, asteroids swarmed, ripping through satellites and exploding secret geosynchronous listening posts and smashing in toward earth, trailing debris and fire and destruction. Newscasters rocketed toward their chairs, makeup-less and in shirt-sleeves, cigarettes dangling from their mouths, to shout at the cameras in a thousand languages, “We have just been informed that Earth has moved into an unmarked asteroid belt, and we are being bombarded by meteors. Remain calm … most of these will burn up in the atmosphere –“ But many did not. Some of the meteorites hit like exploding bombs, taking scyscrapers and their inhabitants, hitting with freakish perversion on one person standing in line at a bus stop but missing the ones to either side, and slamming into the ground with such force that the earth shook and the people spared a direct hit were shattered by the shock. Enemies eyed each other suspiciously across borders, suspecting foul play — but not one continent in the world escaped unscathed. … and the magic moved upworld even farther, through Kerras and Frejandur and even Jerrits — but those worlds lay dead and empty, with no one to care about fresh disasters.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3217
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__label__wiki	0.539707	0.539707	Unspoken The Lynburn Legacy Book 1 Random House Books for Young Readers #ad - The key to it all just might be the boy in her head. Reviewers have praised the take-charge heroine and the spellbinding romance. Bound together. This has made her an outsider in the sleepy English town of Sorry-in-the-Vale, but she has learned ways to turn that to her advantage. There has been screaming in the woods and the manor overlooking the town has lit up for the first time in 10 years. The lynburn family, who ruled the town a generation ago and who all left without warning, have returned. A modern, magical twist on the gothic Romance and Girl Detective genres, this book will appeal to fans of both Beautiful Creatures and the Mortal Instruments series. Worlds apart. Kami glass is in love with someone she's never met—a boy she's talked to in her head since she was born. Unspoken The Lynburn Legacy Book 1 #ad - . Now kami can see that the town she has known and loved all her life is hiding a multitude of secrets—and a murderer. Her life seems to be in order, until disturbing events begin to occur. The boy she thought was imaginary is real, and definitely and deliciously dangerous. A sparkling fantasy that will make you laugh and break your heart. Untold The Lynburn Legacy Book 2 Random House Books for Young Readers #ad - Sorry-in-the-Vale is full of magic. The town must make a decision: pay the blood sacrifice, or fight. But kami Glass knows the truth. A modern, magical twist on the gothic romance and girl detective genres, the Lynburn Legacy books will appeal to fans of both Beautiful Creatures and the Mortal Instruments series. It’s time to choose sides. Now the lynburns are back, and Rob Lynburn is gathering sorcerers so the town can return to the old ways. Reviewers have praised the take-charge heroine and the spellbinding romance. On the surface, Sorry-in-the-Vale is a sleepy little town. For kami, this means more than just choosing between good and evil. Untold The Lynburn Legacy Book 2 #ad - . But rob and his followers aren’t the only sorcerers around. In the old days, the lynburn family ruled with fear, terrifying the people into submission by killing human sacrifices for blood and power. But who should that be? as coauthor with Cassandra Clare of the bestselling Bane Chronicles, Sarah Rees Brennan has mastered the art of the page-turner. A sparkling fantasy that will make you laugh and break your heart. Cassandra clare, new york Times bestselling author "A darkly funny, deliciously thrilling Gothic. Kelley armstrong, shiver, new york Times bestselling author "Readers will laugh, and maybe even swoon over this modern Gothic novel. Unmade The Lynburn Legacy Book 3 Random House Books for Young Readers #ad - A choice that will risk not only Kami’s life, but also the lives of those she loves most. New york times bestselling author sarah rees Brennan brings the Lynburn Legacy—her modern, magical twist on the Gothic romance and girl-detective genres—to a surprising and satisfying conclusion. As coauthor with cassandra clare of the bestselling Bane Chronicles, Sarah Rees Brennan has mastered the art of the page-turner. Working with her friends, Kami uncovers a secret that might be the key to saving the town. Who will be the sacrifice? Kami is linked to two boys. But with knowledge comes responsibility—and a painful choice. A sparkling fantasy that will make you laugh and break your heart. Cassandra clare, new york Times bestselling author “A darkly funny, deliciously thrilling Gothic. Unmade The Lynburn Legacy Book 3 #ad - Kelley armstrong, new york times bestselling author “Readers will laugh, shiver, and maybe even swoon over this modern Gothic novel. Melissa marr, new york times bestselling author “Breathtaking—a compulsive, rocketing read. Tamora pierce, new york times bestselling author “Captures the reader with true magic. Esther friesner, author of Deception’s Princess “A laugh-out-loud delight. Publishers Weekly. A strong example of diversity in ya, the lynburn Legacy not only introduces Kami Glass, a half-Japanese teen, but also includes an LGBTQ romance as one of the subplots. The Demon's Lexicon Margaret K. McElderry Books #ad - Sixteen-year-old Nick and his brother, Alan, are always ready to run. So things get very scary and very complicated when Nick begins to suspect that everything Alan has told him about their father, their past, their mother, and what they are doing is a complete lie. Their father is dead, and their mother is crazy—she screams if Nick gets near her. The Demon's Lexicon #ad - She’s no help in protecting any of them from the deadly magicians who use demons to work their magic. Alan is nick’s partner in demon slaying and the only person he trusts in the world. The magicians want a charm that Nick’s mother stole—and they want it badly enough to kill. The Demon's Covenant The Demon's Lexicon Book 2 Margaret K. McElderry Books #ad - She’s learned that her brother jamie has magical powers—and Gerald, the new leader of the Obsidian Circle, is trying to persuade Jamie to join the magicians. Mae has always thought of herself as in control, but in the last few weeks her life has radically changed. Even worse…jamie hasn’t told Mae a thing about any of it. Mae turns to brothers nick and alan to help her rescue Jamie, but they are in danger from Gerald themselves because he wants to steal Nick’s powers. Will mae be able to find a way to save them all from the power-hungry magician’s devious trap? . The Demon's Surrender The Demon's Lexicon Book 3 Margaret K. McElderry Books #ad - When alan is finally possessed as a punishment for Nick’s disobedience, Sin can only watch helplessly as the boy she has grown to love is destroyed. Alan has been marked by a magician and can be tortured as the magician pleases. But no one else has a demon for a brother. But now the market is at war with the magicians, and Sin’s place is in danger. As sin watches alan struggle to continue to protect the demon brother he loves, she begins to see him in a new light. Loyalty leads to catastrophe in the thrilling and suspenseful conclusion to the Demon’s Lexicon trilogy. The goblin market has always been the center of Sin’s world. She’s a dancer and a performer, secure in her place. The Demon's Surrender The Demon's Lexicon Book 3 #ad - How far will nick go to save Alan? And what will it cost them all? No one ever comes back from a possession—ever. Exiled from the market she loves, Sin is thrown together with Nick and Alan—whom she’s always despised. Seventh Born The Witchling Academy Book 1 Entangled: Teen #ad - Murderer. All names hurled at eighteen-year-old Seraphina Dovetail. As sera and barrington grow ever closer, she'll discover that some secrets are best left buried…and fire isn't the only thing that makes a witch burn. Abomination. Curse. To do that, she must be referred into the Advanced Studies Program at the Aetherium's Witchling Academy. As the seventh-born daughter to a witch, in turn, she's the cause of her mother losing her powers and, her life. Abandoned as a child, Sera dreams of becoming an inspector and finding her family. Her birth order, quick temper, and tendency to set things on fire, however, have left her an outcast with failing marks…and just what Professor Nikolai Barrington is looking for. Seventh Born The Witchling Academy Book 1 #ad - The tall, brooding, yet exceedingly handsome young professor makes her a proposition: become his assistant and he'll give her the referral she needs. Sera is quickly thrust into a world where witches are being kidnapped, bodies are raised from the dead, and someone is burning seventhborns alive. Paladin's Grace Red Wombat Studio #ad - Paladin's Grace #ad - Stephen’s god died on the longest day of the year…Three years later, Stephen is a broken paladin, living only for the chance to be useful before he dies. Now the pair must navigate a web of treachery, while a cryptic killer stalks one step behind…From the Hugo and Nebula Award winning author of Swordheart and The Twisted Ones comes a saga of murder, beset on all sides by spies and poisoners, magic, and love on the far side of despair. But all that changes when he encounters a fugitive named Grace in an alley and witnesses an assassination attempt gone wrong. Sweep with Me Innkeeper Chronicles Book 5 NYLA #ad - Thank you for joining us at gertrude Hunt, the nicest Bed and Breakfast in Red Deer, Texas, during the Treaty Stay. The inn and your hosts, Dina Demille and Sean Evans, will defend you at all costs. Your safety and comfort is our first priority. Anyone. All dina hopes is that the guests and conduct themselves in a polite manner. As you know, we are honor-bound to accept all guests during this oldest of innkeeper holidays and we are expecting a dangerous guest. But what’s a holiday without at least one disaster? Or several. By tradition, but during the holiday, and a pilgrim, the Innkeepers welcomed three guests: a warrior, a sage, Innkeepers must open their doors to anyone who seeks lodging. Sweep with Me Innkeeper Chronicles Book 5 #ad - But have no fear. But we hope we don’t have to. Every winter, their intergalactic guests, innkeepers look forward to celebrating their own special holiday, which commemorates the ancient treaty that united the very first Inns and established the rules that protect them, and the very unaware/oblivious people of planet Earth. A charming, from #1 new york times bestselling author, short novella in the Innkeeper Chronicles, Ilona Andrews. Tell the Wind and Fire Clarion Books #ad - Now she just wants to keep her head down, but her boyfriend has a dark secret of his own—one involving an apparent stranger who is destitute and despised. With both halves of the city burning, and mercy nowhere to be found, can Lucie save either boy—or herself? Celebrated author Sarah Rees Brennan weaves a magical tale of romance and revolution, love and loss. Lucie alone knows the young men’s deadly connection, and even as the knowledge leads her to make a grave mistake, she can trust no one with the truth. Blood and secrets alike spill out when revolution erupts. . Sarah rees brennan writes with fine control and wit, and I suspect that word of this magical thriller will pass through the populace with the energy of wind, of fire. Tell the Wind and Fire #ad - Gregory maguire, author of wicked and egg and Spoon In a city divided between opulent luxury in the Light and fierce privations in the Dark, a determined young woman survives by guarding her secrets. Lucie manette was born in the dark half of the city, but careful manipulations won her a home in the Light, and a rich, celebrity status, loving boyfriend. In Other Lands Big Mouth House #ad - Don’t try to smuggle a phone or any other piece of technology over the wall that marks the Border — unless you enjoy a fireworks display in your backpack. Ballpoint pens are okay. There are elves, harpies, and — best of all as far as Elliot is concerned — mermaids. What’s your name?""Serene. Serena?" Elliot asked. Serene, " said Serene. When his class goes on a field trip and he can see a wall that no one else can see, he is given the chance to go to school in the Borderlands. It turns out that on the other side of the wall, classes involve a lot more weaponry and fitness training and fewer mermaids than he expected. In Other Lands #ad - It’s a novel about surviving four years in the most unusual of schools, about friendship, diplomacy, falling in love, and finding your own place in the world — even if it means giving up your phone. He’s smart and just a tiny bit obnoxious. Georgia peach award nomineeflorida teens read award nomineeabc best books for Young ReadersBank Street College Best Children’s Books of the YearA Junior Library Guild SelectionHugo & Locus award finalistThe Borderlands aren’t like anywhere else. Sometimes more than a tiny bit. That is badass. Elliot? who’s Elliot? Elliot is thirteen years old.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3227
__label__cc	0.552446	0.447554	← Supernatural 7.15 – Repo Man The Vampire Diaries 3.15 – All My Children → Spartacus: Vengeance – 2.04 – Empty Hands Posted on February 18, 2012 by Liz \| 8 Comments PREVIOUSLY ON SPARTACUS: VENGEANCE! Naevia’s safe but Crixus is screwed! Agron the betrayer is betraying all over the place! Ashur smacks and Oenomaus cracks! And omg, Glaber has a fantastic ass. The rebels are hiding in the forest from Glaber’s men, who have pursued them from the mines. Everyone’s still and quiet under the leaves, save for Naevia, who is moments away from a weapons-grade freakout. Eventually the pressure is too much for her and she flips her shit, and runs screaming into the trees. Bad move, girlfriend. These dudes have spears and one hell of a grudge, and they are hot on your tail. Mira bolts after them, holding a giant knife, because Mira is a kickass mofo superhero goddess lately. The rest of the rebels leap from their hiding spots and our regularly scheduled session of blood and gore immediately follows. The soldier closest to Naevia drops her with a wicked clotheslined-forearm to the throat, and she goes down like a sack of angry, terrified potatoes. He pauses in his murderous intent to complain that Naevia made him run, and then presumably gets ready for some rape and killing. But no, it is not to be, because HOLY SHIT MIRA. Mira comes flying out of the trees like Spider-man on meth, and pounces onto the exercise-hating guard’s back, stabbing him in the throat about a dozen times in 10 seconds. Damn gurl, you fierce. On the other side of the clearing, the gladiators are slashing through the soldiers like butter through a goose. Between Spartacus, Liscus, Nasir, and Fortis, nearly a dozen men have fallen. Unfortunately, one of the last remaining soldiers gets in a lucky blow to Tychos’ stomach, leaving him as the sole rebel casualty of the day. Liscus doesn’t want to leave his friend’s body to the certain desecration of the Romans, but there’s no time to bury or burn poor Tychos, as more soldiers are approaching. The rebels know they need to meet up with Agron and his men at Vesuvius if they’re going to survive, and they run off into the forest, leaving Tychos’ body behind. Glaber’s leading Albinius and Varinius through the villa, impatiently explaining why he sent his men after Spartacus instead of having them uselessly perform in the arena. Albinius is way too concerned with appearances, and is full of self-righteous indignation over the perceived slight to good Varinius. Varinius just looks amused and cynical, as per usual. I like him a lot, despite my best intentions to see him as an interloping, Ilithyia-groping, villainous jerkface. Glaber’s of the highly logical opinion that it would be a far greater slight to the citizens of the Republic if he was to give up on his search for Spartacus. Come the fuck on, Glaber. Since when has logic and reason ever worked? Besides, as Varinius points out, Seppius has been fruitlessly searching for Spartacus for months now. Sorry Varinius, but Glaber is way more awesome than that little whippersnapper Seppius. You best recognize, fool. Varinius doesn’t want to recognize, though. He wants to know how the fuck Glaber knew Spartacus and his men would attack the mines in the first place. Silly Varinius. The gods themselves told Glaber, of course. Once Albinius realizes it was Lucretia who inspired Glaber, he’s somehow totally reassured that Glaber did the right thing. This is legit the silliest thing I have heard since GWB claimed that Jesus told him to start the second Gulf War. Ilithyia swans in at that very moment, full of vicious smiles and snappy comments about heeding the ramblings of madwomen. Apparently that argument is far from over, no matter what Glaber hopes. Ilithyia continues her catty husbandly backstabbing by announcing that they plan to host a party in honor of Varinius at the villa. Glaber plays along when Varinius accepts the offer, but inside he’s seething with icy rage. SEETHING, I tell you. Later that evening, Illy and Glaber rehash the argument yet again while in the bath together. Glaber is still consumed by his hate for Varinius and his impatience with Ilithyia’s friendliness towards the man. This shitty mood leads him to make some extremely ill-advised comments about how Lucretia has certainly been proving her worth lately — unlike Ilithyia, in his opinion. Oh no he din’t. Ilithyia couldn’t look more shocked and hurt if he’d actually slapped her. OH MY PRECIOUS DARLING. The sole saving grace of this entire painful scene is yet another long, loving shot of Glaber’s magnificent ass as he storms out of the bath, all glistening and wet and perky. UNF. Back in the forest, the rebels continue to flee into the sunset. The gladiators look like they’d be happy to run for a few more days, but Naevia can’t take much more of this, and collapses facedown in the dirt. Liscus is incredibly impatient with her weakness, but even Nasir’s not feeling so good right now. Spartacus agrees they should find a safe place to rest for a while, and Mira drags Naevia to her feet. Liscus won’t let it go, though — he and Fortis complain to Sparty that Naevia is holding them back, and will likely be the death of them all. And besides, they believe Crixus is dead, so what need is there to keep any promises they made to him regarding Naevia? Sparty doesn’t bitch slap Liscus, but it’s a close call. Farther back along the path, Marcus, Ashur, and the rest of Glaber’s men come across the scene of the last battle. Ashur identifies Tychos as being one of Sparty’s men, and the soldiers mangle the body — as Liscus predicted — and hang him from a tree as a warning to others. (Who are they going to warn when the rebels are all ahead of them? Silly Romans.) Ashur gives Marcus a warning of his own: he doesn’t think the soldiers are up to the task of fighting Spartacus and his men. He’s right, too — Roman soldiers don’t have the same kind of intensive training that gladiators do, surely. Yeah, they go off to war, but they don’t spend every single waking moment training or fighting for their lives. Marcus, of course, won’t even consider the possibility that Roman soldiers might not be as badass as mere slaves, and brushes off Ashur’s excellent advice. Marcus, you idiot. Ilithyia’s busy giving her body slaves their instructions for the evening’s party, when to her total surprise, she sees Seppia and Lucretia sitting together in close conversation. Ilithyia apologizes for neglecting her guest, but she’s in for an even bigger surprise — Seppia’s actually there to see Lucretia. Yeah, that doesn’t go over well. Even worse, Seppia’s there to discuss thoughts of marriage with Lucretia, and it’s not just any man she’s got her eye on: it’s Varinius. Lucretia happily promises to entreat the gods on behalf of Seppia’s desires, and Ilithyia is no longer able to keep a sociable smile on her face. Seppia’s too excited by the thought of making out forever with Varinius the hottie to notice that Ilithyia’s moving toward epic bitchface territory, but Lucretia recognizes that face immediately, and the pleased smile fades from her face. Once Seppia takes her leave, Ilithyia unleashes the full force of her disdain onto Lucretia, mocking her as the Oracle of Capua. Her angry rantings about Seppia’s relative unworthiness for a man like Varinius reveal way more than she likely intends to Lucretia, and you can see Luce filing this all away in her mind fortress of epic cunning. She carefully offers to seek the will of the gods on behalf of a different marriage, “one closer to home,” pointing out that both Glaber and Albinius seem to believe this is what Varinius himself wants. Ilithyia refuses to accept Lucretia’s assistance, all but spitting in her former friend’s face. Lucretia admits that all she wants is to regain Ilithyia’s trust and friendship, but Ilithyia’s too hurt and angry to see the truth of Lucretia’s confession. OH GIRLS. Meanwhile, Glaber’s men have returned from the mine with their prisoners. The girls hurry out onto the balcony as the men are led into the courtyard. Lucretia is delighted that her predictions proved correct, assuming that one of the hooded captive men is Spartacus himself. Oh, the look on her face when the captives are revealed: Rhaskos, Acer, and Crixus. YAY CRIXUS I KNEW YOU WERE ALIVE. Ilithyia looks amused and triumphant that Lucretia turned out to be wrong, snarking that at least Lucretia has her Gaul back. Glaber, of course, is furious at the absence of Spartacus, and the news that Marcus and his men are in pursuit does little to appease him. The gladiators are thrown into the familiar cells of the ludus, with defiance from Rhaskos and Acer, but resignation from Crixus. Oenomaus appears from the shadows in the next cell over, and Crixus is simultaneously pleased and distressed to see his old friend in chains. Crixus shares his happy news that Naevia has been found and freed from the mines, but alas, Oenomaus is in no mood to hear tales of love and women, so close on the story of Melitta’s betrayal. Oenomaus makes some veiled references to the uselessness of love and women and trust in general, but Crixus doesn’t care. His Naevia is free and alive and that is all that matters. Aww. The rebels are resting quietly in a secluded bit of the forest. Even in this relative moment of safety, Naevia’s still shaking with nightmares. Mira comforts her for a bit and then walks off to find Spartacus, who is stubbornly refusing to take a rest, preferring to stand endless watch over the rebels. Naevia’s terrified screams draw them back to the camp at a run. They’re under attack from a party of soldiers, and the rebels are at a serious disadvantage, having been taken by surprise. An unfamiliar black gladiator dies first, his blood spraying all over Naevia’s face. And then, horror of horrors, Nasir takes a sword wound to the stomach, and falls screaming. NOOO. That evening, back in Capua, the festivities at the villa are underway, and I get to break out my “it’s orgy time!” tag once again. YAY. Naked slaves are writhing orgasmically to the familiar strains of the wailing orgy guitars, while the guests — Mercato and Magistrate Gallienus among them — look on with glee. Ilithyia is full of pleased self-congratulation at the success of the evening so far, and Glaber is forced to reluctantly agree that things seem to be going well. Varinius makes a dramatic entrance with his entourage: Seppia, Seppius, and an old horrible frenemy, the vile Cossutius. Cossutius is pleased to return to a place where he has enjoyed so many nights of rape and douchebaggery, and gives a regal nod to Lucretia. Ugh, so vile. Seppia’s all full of blushing excitement over the orgy spectacle — her giggles do not seem very well-received by Seppius, who looks at her rather judgmentally, the hypocrite. Glaber takes a moment to make a short speech in honor of Albinius and Varinius, and actually manages to look completely sincere in his ever-so-slightly backhanded compliments and adulation. Argh. I keep meaning to hate him and yet I find myself adoring him more and more as the season progresses. HALP. As the crowd applauds Varinius, Seppia remarks to him flirtatiously about the admiration they hold for him. Ilithyia notes their interaction with a vicious look of distaste on her face, but that’s nothing compared to the murderous look on Seppius’ face. Could this be dramatic twincest foreshadowing? I’m going to go with HELL YES. Glaber has a surprise planned for Varinius and the guests, and it’s a thrilling one. He has Oenomaus, Rhaskos, Crixus, and Acer brought out in chains, calling them Sparty’s “most trusted men.” Glaber then announces that, as an apology for keeping his men from appearing in Varinius’ games, he will hand these men over to Varinius for execution. Immediate execution, right there in the atrium, and at Varinius’ hands. The guests are wildly excited and start cheering for blood. Varinius is not about to be out-statesman’d, and dramatically declines to execute the men that evening. Instead, he’d prefer to share their deaths with all of Capua in the arena. The guests like this idea even better, and Glaber’s too startled by the defeat of his stratagem to say a single word. The exhausted rebels are still hurrying through the forest, and have finally found a source of water. They all bury their faces in the stream and drink, and oh my god, don’t these people know about the dangers of amoebic dysentery? Mira and Naevia drop Nasir by the stream bed, and holy shit he is not looking well AT ALL. Sparty brings him some water, but he can barely drink. Liscus admits that Nasir fought well, but thinks everyone would be better off if Nasir was… eliminated. He likens it to Spartacus delivering Varro’s mercy killing, and Sparty’s measured response to this statement is a wicked right hook to the jaw. The group is now firmly divided — Liscus and Fortis on one side, and Sparty, Mira, Naevia, and Nasir on the other. Sparty won’t even consider the thought of leaving Nasir behind, much less killing him off, and the tense stand-off is broken finally by Naevia’s important point — Crixus survived worse wounds than Nasir’s from his fight against Theokeles. If they cauterize Nasir’s wound, he’ll stand a better chance of survival. Unfortunately, building a fire will draw the soldiers to them like flies on shit, and Liscus isn’t willing to take that risk. Instead of arguing, Spartacus sends Liscus and Fortis ahead to find Agron and the rest of the rebels. He and the girls will stay behind and tend to Nasir’s wounds, and catch up as soon as they can. Damn, Sparty. You are almost offensively noble. You and Crixus really need to get married and have a lot of little gay gladiator babies. I AM JUST SAYING. Back in orgyland, the party is in full swing. The 4 chained gladiators are mostly impassive, having surely seen hundreds of nights just like this. Rhaskos, at least, still has a hint of a pervy smirk on his face. I find myself liking him more and more. Seppius can’t get over their defiance in the face of certain death — how dare Crixus kneel there glaring at his betters? Furthermore, when Seppia coos to Varinius about how eager she is to see them die in the arena, Seppius’ bitchface is back in full force. As retribution for his cousin Sextus, he wants blood and he wants it now. Glaber’s shrewd enough to read this situation perfectly, and sides immediately with Seppius. Varinius diplomatically agrees that one man will be chosen for immediate torture and death, and the rest can die in the arena. Glaber’s got one more scheme up his sleeve — Seppius is not the only person present who lost loved ones that fateful day. Lucretia’s loss was dramatic enough for the gods themselves to intervene and save her life, wasn’t it? Therefore, Lucretia should be the one to choose which man is tortured. Albinius, lately Lucretia’s biggest fan, agrees that this would be the fairest choice, and Varinius can only concur. Of course we’re supposed to assume that Lucretia’s going to choose Crixus. COME THE FUCK ON, we all know this isn’t going to happen. SPOILER ALERT FOR ACTUAL HISTORY: this does not happen. Among much drama and production, Lucretia instead chooses the unfortunate Acer. He’s dragged off shouting and swearing, and the guards beat him down to the cheers of the guests. Crixus looks mildly surprised that Lucretia didn’t choose him, but at the end of the day, he really could not possibly care less. He tells her calmly that he would be gladly give his life in exchange for Naevia’s. Lucretia’s pleased to hear she’s alive, as she can now watch Crixus die in the arena as a pathetic slave and not as a champion. (The best part is when she tells him his name will forever be lost to history.) You have to find her first, Luce. As retribution for his shouting and swearing, Seppius cuts out Acer’s tongue, getting the torture games off to a grotendous start. Each guest has drawn lots, and everyone will take a turn tormenting the bound, helpless Acer. The Roman Republic looks like the least fun place ever, seriously. No amount of orgy madness can make up for this shit. The vile Cossutius steps up next, and slices off Acer’s left manboob. Even more gruesomely, each severed bit is apparently being saved on trays by nearby slaves. Eew. Ilithyia and Albinius are standing off to the side and watching Varinius with fangirlish glee. To Albinius’ surprise, Ilithyia now openly shares his opinions about Glaber’s relative worthlessness compared to Varinius. When he asks her straight out if she wants a divorce, she dissembles by saying that he’s the only one with the power to do so. After a moment or two of consideration, Albinius states that it would look bad for everyone involved if Ilithyia left Glaber while pregnant with his child, and instructs Ilithyia to put the idea out of her mind completely. As he moves off impatiently through the crowd, Lucretia takes careful notice of his anger, and of the furious look on Ilithyia’s face as she watches Seppia flirt with Varinius. INITIATE PLOTTING SEQUENCE! Nasir is unconscious on the forest floor and looks pale and dreadfully near death. Spartacus and the girls have built a small fire, and Sparty’s holding the tip of his sword in it. Naevia tiptoes away to find something for Nasir to bite on, lest he scream and draw the soldiers’ attention, and Spartacus takes a moment to wallow in tears and recriminations. As usual, he blames himself for everything, refusing to accept that the people following him are doing so out of love and honor and of their own free will, and refusing to understand that by taking all the blame, he is robbing them of their personal agency, dammit. (I apparently have a lot of feelings about this, who knew.) Mira agrees — it IS all his fault… that they’re free, for fuck’s sake. Nasir awakens in the middle of their whispered argument. Instead of being terrified for his upcoming crude surgery, he smiles hesitantly and says he’ll now be branded like a true gladiator. YOU GUYS. HE IS SO PRECIOUS. Sparty cauterizes the wound, and Nasir holds back his terrible screams like the bravest little toaster ever. Mira quickly douses the fire with dirt, but it’s too late — shouting men can be heard in the distance. FLEE! Seppia’s up next to take her turn torturing Acer, and she blushes adorably while telling Varinius that she’s never held a sword before — Seppius would never allow her to do so. Seppius watches, his jaw set with rage, as Varinius gets up close and personal with her in the guise of showing her how to hold his sword. (snerk) Glaber slips up behind Seppius with a few measured barbs about how Seppius very obviously doesn’t like seeing Varinius and his sister together. Seppius grits out that he only tolerates the man because of his assistance in finding Spartacus. Glaber’s response is magnificent: “I would have done so as well…. absent attempt to fuck your sister.” Seppius got told, y’all. When it comes down to it, though, Seppia’s unable to torture Acer after all. She giggles nervously, but when Acer raises his bloody, beaten face to stare her right in the eye, she loses her nerve completely, and stammers her apologies to a disapproving Varinius. Ilithyia cannot let this golden opportunity pass her by, and strides over confidently to take the sword from Seppia’s shaky hands. With a calm smile and a snark about Seppia’s “inexperienced hands,” Ilithyia plunges the sword straight into Acer’s stomach, earning the admiration of the assembled guests. Varinius in particular looks pleased as punch, and the two share a significant and horny look before he leads the crowd in a round of applause. My darling Ilithyia, naturally, preens. Albinius is standing alone on the villa’s balcony, and Lucretia walks out to join him, commenting once again on how nice it is to have all of Capua at one’s feet. Albinius isn’t out there to enjoy the view, though — he just wanted some peace and quiet. Lucretia takes this as a remonstration for her interruption, but Albinius didn’t mean to make her feel unwelcome in her own home. And besides, he wants someone to bitch to, as usual. Lucretia turns the conversation toward Ilithyia, assuming it will be a pleasant subject, and is all concern and friendliness when Albinius voices his disappointment with his daughter. Albinius is hesitant at first, but soon warms to the idea of taking Lucretia’s counsel, and perhaps, through her, that of the gods themselves. I have a feeling it’s not just advice that he has in mind… Sparty runs through the forest with Nasir over his shoulder and the girls at his side. Everyone is totally exhausted and nervous, and the sound of a twig snapping under an approaching foot has Sparty reaching for his sword. It’s not a soldier, though — it’s Liscus! Oh fuck, he’s all alone, and has lost Fortis somewhere in the woods while fleeing from more soldiers. Liscus doesn’t think much of their chances, whether alone or together, but runs off with them in search of Fortis anyway. Off in a curtained alcove in the villa, Seppia is weeping quietly, and Seppius is doing a truly miserable job of comforting her. Instead, he coldly tells her that she overreached in her attempts to win Varinius, and has only herself to blame for her humiliation. And then, OH YES AND THEN, he carefully dries her tears, telling her that they’ll leave the party to go home and forget about their troubles together, “in warm embrace.” Oh, and also he kisses her in a very unbrotherly fashion. LIKE A LANNISTER, ACTUALLY. Glaber, of course, sees everything, and files it away for future reference. Unfortunately, there are some other things that Glaber should be paying attention to, things that he misses completely. Things like Varinius and Ilithyia, for example. Varinius is strolling through the villa with an adoring girl on each arm, and sends them away for more wine when Ilithyia glides out of the shadows looking fine as all hell. She’s overheard the crude jokes he was making about the famous Crassus and his apparently tiny cock, and Varinius wants some reassurance that she won’t repeat his gossip in Crassus’ company. Ilithyia’s not making any promises so easily, and wants to know what’s in it for her if she keeps her silence. She doesn’t want favour for her husband, as Varinius assumes, but something for herself. And that something is Varinius. He’s hesitant to get involved with a married woman with so many obligations, and rests his hand on her pregnant stomach meaningfully. Ilithyia skates around the idea of dissolving her marriage to Glaber, and Varinius is hooked — quite literally, as he buries his hand between her legs. They scheme and plot against Glaber as Varinius gets her off up against a column, and he promises to go steady with her if her daddy lets them. OMG. Ilithyia walks through the crowd in a postorgasmic daze, with a beautiful smile for everyone she passes — even the husband she’s just betrayed. She’s obviously looking for Albinius, with the hopes of winning him over to Team Varinius once again, but Albinius is nowhere to be seen. How odd. Oh wait, there he is… off in that bedroom… fucking Lucretia? Man, Ilithyia has gotten a whole lot of use out of her WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK face this episode, hasn’t she. To make matters worse, Lucretia meets her eyes mid-hump. The rebels are reaching the end of their rope, barely able to stagger on through the forest. A small noise stops their progress, and they stop to evaluate the situation. It’s the sound of blood dripping from above them. Fortis has been captured and killed, and hung from a tree as a warning. The rebels turn to run back the way they came, but they’ve already been spotted — it’s Marcus and his men, accompanied by Ashur. Sparty drops Nasir to the ground, leaving Mira and Naevia to his defense. Liscus and Sparty attack the dozen or so men, but Liscus is immediately overwhelmed, and, in his signature move, Ashur stabs him in the back. Sparty’s fighting this battle alone. Were it anyone else, the fight would surely be over in a matter of seconds, but since Spartacus is the most asskickery asskicker ever to kick ass, he hacks each and every soldier to whimpering pieces, even catching Marcus in the gut with a spear. Ashur carries Marcus away from the fight, hoping to finally convince him of the error of his ways. Marcus, stupid Marcus, instead shouts to the remaining soldiers scattered throughout the forest to come and fight, so Ashur cuts his throat. That’ll shut him up. Spartacus kills the last of the soldiers and tries to haul Liscus to his feet. Liscus knows his injuries are fatal, and says he’s through with running from the goddamn Romans. He dies quietly and undramatically. Lucretia heads back into the party, straightening her clothing and her hair, and Ilithyia is lying in wait. She confronts Lucretia, assuming that Lucretia’s assignation with Albinius was motivated by her desire to save herself from censure over Glaber’s failure to capture Spartacus. Lucretia protests that everything she’s doing is only to further Ilithyia’s cause and regain her trust, to heal the rift between them, and Ilithyia finally realizes something very significant indeed. She asks Lucretia if she remembers the things that have happened between them, and Lucretia comes right out and says it — she remembers everything. Ilithyia takes this as an immediate threat, and before Lucretia even realizes the danger, Illy has her by the throat, threatening to bash her head in as she did Licinia’s. The only thing stopping Ilithyia’s hand is Lucretia’s gasped admission that she fucked Albinius to gain his favour… his favour toward dissolving Ilithyia’s marriage to Glaber. And she’s done it all to make sure of a successful future for Ilithyia and her child. ….wait. WAIT. Does this mean Lucretia suspects that the baby is Sparty’s? OMG YOU GUYS. Ilithyia decides not to murder Lucretia after all. Instead, some girlkissing seems to be in order. Glaber sees the last of the drunken guests to the door, knowing nothing of Varinius’ assignation with Ilithyia or of Albinius’ with Lucretia. Before the two men depart, Albinius glances at Lucretia, and tells Varinius they have much to discuss. Glaber then lovingly apologizes to Ilithyia for ever doubting her awesomeness, which Ilithyia accepts with a smug grin. OH GLABER if only you knew. It’s sunrise, and Sparty, Nasir, and the girls are finally within sight of Vesuvius. But just behind them, a large force of men is approaching. Sparty gauges the distance to Vesuvius and makes his decision — the girls must take Nasir to safety, and he will stay behind alone to fight. Oh hell no. Mira’s not leaving your goddamn side, Sparty, how dare you even suggest it? Naevia leans Nasir up against a tree and hovers over him protectively, knife in hand, and Sparty and Mira turn to face the oncoming threat. TOGETHER IN KICKASSERY. HOORAY IT IS AGRON! And all those other duders whose names I have forgotten! There’s lots of slo-mo hugging and relief and manly backslapping. YAYS. Agron totally neglects to cuddle poor wounded Nasir, though. Bad Agron. Next week! A whole fuckton of stuff went down in the trailer but frankly all I took away from it was GANNICUS GANNICUS OMG GANNICUS! I AM EXCITE. This entry was posted in Television and tagged Liam McIntyre, Lucy Lawless, Manu Bennett, Nick Taraby, Peter Mensah, Spartacus: Vengeance, Starz, sword and sandal smackdown, tiny gladiator panties, Viva Bianca. Bookmark the permalink.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3230
__label__wiki	0.796005	0.796005	HNN Exclusive Clip from Anthony Leone’s Hacksaw Puzzle Box Horror – “Atlas of Lore #1 Oregon,” Released Film Review: The Special (2020) Finnish Melodic Death/Doom Unit MARIANAS REST to Release Third Studio Album, “Fata Morgana“ NEW SONG ALERT! Arc Of Life “Just In Sight” Home \| Much Anticipated Thriller/Horror/Mystery Film THE BLOOD THINS By Award-Winning Writer/Director Adrian Roman Much Anticipated Thriller/Horror/Mystery Film THE BLOOD THINS By Award-Winning Writer/Director Adrian Roman Adrian Halen 07/25/2020 Uncategorized The odd, unusual, disturbing story is released, or should I say, “unleashed,” to the general public! Charleston, SC – Shadowmoss Entertainment in association with L.A. Grip Studios has released the much anticipated Thriller/Horror/Mystery film THE BLOOD THINS starring Jessica Bell as Polly Duggin and Kristin Lorenz as Selena Blackburn. Polly Duggin, a young wife and mother, who abruptly loses her husband and young daughter by weird and unusual circumstances begins a quest to discover the true cause of the tragedy. The plot twists and turns as Polly confronts strange visions and disembodied voices. When she starts uncovering the truth, all hell breaks loose. “I read the screenplay and immediately decided that I wanted to help get this film made. So many people are screaming for something different and fresh. This movie checks those boxes,” says Executive Producer, Scott James. “I can’t watch a predictable film, this movie keeps you guessing the whole time,” Film Critic, Georgia Collins. The Movie is now made available through Vimeo on Demand and to rent and buy on Prime Video: www.amazon.com/blood-thins-Jessica-bell/dp/B088T58LGQ vimeo.com/ondemand/thebloodthins Tags THE BLOOD THINS	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3234
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__label__cc	0.597079	0.402921	Oresegun Olumide, The Nigerian Artist Making a Big Splash With His Oil Paintings in Art, History & Culture, Geeky & Smart PH December 29, 2020, 4:15 pm Water droplets slide down the faces of children as they stare directly at what you could easily believe is a camera. In fact, they are all paintings by Lagos-born Nigerian artist Oresegun Olumide. The hyperrealism created in the oil paintings makes his work seem so lifelike that it is hard to believe they aren’t. With over 75.1k followers and counting on Instagram, his work is fast gaining momentum online. Water is a recurring theme in his art because according to a popular adage in his native Yoruba language, “water has no enemy,” Olumide told CNN. READ ALSO Meet Nigerian Oresegun Olumide, A World Class Painter To Ever Grace Planet Earth The use of water gives a translucent effect and, he says, is “why it’s difficult for many people to do.” Olumide pushes himself to create art that his community hasn’t seen before and that is challenging for him. He became interested in art at the age of four and started professionally creating art in 2005, Olumide said. The 35-year-old majored in Fine Art at the Yaba College of Technology , Lagos, graduating with a distinction. Drawing inspiration from his community, he is creating pieces that reflect the lives of those around him. His work, he says, is “a gradual process,” taking around two to three weeks to create individual pieces. “And depending on the intricacy I want to achieve, it can take a couple of months,” he added. Previous article 10 Facts About Pioneer Singer Robert “Bobby” Bland You Might Find Interesting Next article 7 Things Every First-Time Africa Traveler Should Know in Best of Africa, Inspiring This is Oresegun Olumide, The African Painter Who is Inspired by Water in Art, History & Culture, Featured, Geeky & Smart Meet Nigerian Oresegun Olumide, A World Class Painter To Ever Grace Planet Earth More From: Art, History & Culture Buganda Kingdom, The Largest Of The Traditional Kingdoms In East Africa Remembering Dr. George, The Inventor Whose Camera Took The First Images Of Space 10 Facts About Pioneer Singer Robert “Bobby” Bland You Might Find Interesting 7 Things Every First-Time Africa Traveler Should Know	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3239
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__label__cc	0.537363	0.462637	Hong Kong to relax some social distancing measures from Friday Category: Legal 閱讀中文版本 The Hong Kong government announced yesterday that it will ease some social distancing measures as the number of confirmed cases has dropped to low double digits. The new rules take effect on 28 August "unless there are drastic changes to the epidemic situation". Cinemas, beauty parlours and some sports venues will reopen on Friday. In addition, the dine-in services at restaurants will extend from 6pm to 9pm, even though the cap on the number of people remains at two. The government will also lift mandatory mask wearing for outdoor sports and at country parks. “If a group of people go hiking and the physical activities are not that vigorous, I think it’s still better to put on a mask,” said Dr Chuang Shuk-kwan from the Centre for Health Protection. Secretary for Food and Health, Sophia Chan, said the reason the government decided to lift some rules are that the number of daily cases had been "gradually declining" and the officials understand that the public is experiencing "anti-epidemic fatigue". Hong Kong recorded 19 new cases on Tuesday, bring the city's tally to 4710. HR Life	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3242
__label__cc	0.560896	0.439104	Study: Individuals recovering from COVID-19 helpful for Sustained cellular immune dysregulation 3 January 2021, 11:42 am ·4-min read Birmingham [UK], January 3 (ANI): A recent study has determined that Covid-19 patients might be helpful for clinicians to better understand how the unknown SARS-CoV-2 virus acts. According to a study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, many infected patients remain asymptomatic or have mild symptoms. Others, especially those with comorbidities, can develop severe clinical disease with atypical pneumonia and multiple system organ failures. Since the first cases were reported in December 2019, the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 has surged into a pandemic, with cases and deaths still mounting. Ongoing observational clinical research has become a priority to better understand how this previously unknown virus acts, and findings from this research can better inform treatment and vaccine design. The University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers, led by first-author Jacob "Jake" Files and co-senior authors Nathan Erdmann, M.D., Ph.D., and Paul Goepfert, M.D., have now reported their observational study, "Sustained cellular immune dysregulation in individuals recovering from SARS-CoV-2 infection." In a commentary on the UAB study, published in the same issue, Phillip Mudd, M.D., Ph.D., and Kenneth Remy, M.D., both of Washington University, wrote, "The importance of these studies to provide context for the interpretation of immune responses generated by participants in COVID-19 vaccine trials, including how those responses change over time, cannot be over-emphasized. This information will be key in potential modifications to existing COVID-19 vaccines and treatments." The UAB researchers obtained blood samples and clinical data from 46 hospitalized COVID-19 patients and 39 non-hospitalized individuals who had recovered from confirmed COVID-19 infection. Both groups were compared to healthy, COVID-19-negative controls. Importantly, most individuals in the hospitalized group had active SAR-CoV-2 viruses in their blood and were in the hospital at the time of sample collection. All individuals in the non-hospitalized group were convalescent at the time of sample collection. From the blood samples, researchers were able to separate specific immune cell subsets and analyze cell surface markers. From this complex information, immunologists can analyze how each individual's immune system is responding during infection and during convalescence. Some of these results can reveal whether immune cells have become activated and exhausted by the infection. Exhausted immune cells may increase susceptibility to a secondary infection or hamper the development of protective immunity to COVID-19. In addition, the researchers were able to analyze changes over time, in two ways. The first was observing changes in surface markers over time, defined as days since the onset of symptoms for non-hospitalized samples. The second was directly comparing the frequencies of these markers between the first and second clinic visits for non-hospitalized patients who had blood samples collected at two sequential time points. The most surprising finding involved non-hospitalized patients. While the UAB researchers saw upregulated activation markers in hospitalized patients, they also found several activations and exhaustion markers were expressed at higher frequencies in non-hospitalized convalescent samples. Looking at these markers over time, it was apparent that immune dysregulation in the non-hospitalized individuals did not quickly resolve. Furthermore, the dysregulation of T cell activation and exhaustion markers in the non-hospitalized cohort was more pronounced in the elderly. "To our knowledge," the researchers reported, "this is the first description of sustained immune dysregulation due to COVID-19 in a large group of non-hospitalized convalescent patients." For details of the comprehensive look at immune cells subsets during and after COVID-19 infection in hospitalized and non-hospitalized people, see the study, which includes an in-depth characterization of the activation and exhaustion phenotype of CD4+ T cells, CD8+ T cells, and B cells. The B and T cells from both patient cohorts had phenotypes consistent with activation and cellular exhaustion throughout the first two months of infection. And in the non-hospitalized individuals, the activation markers and cellular exhaustion increased over time. "These findings," Mudd and Remy said in their commentary, "illustrate the persistent nature of the adaptive immune system changes that have been noted in COVID-19 and suggest longer-term effects that may shape the maintenance of immunity to SARS-CoV-2." A question now being explored, the UAB researchers say, is whether these observed immunologic changes are associated with symptoms experienced well beyond the acute infection, often described as "Long COVID." Co-authors with Files, Erdmann and Goepfert in the Journal of Clinical Investigation report are Sushma Boppana, Mildred D. Perez, Sangita Sarkar, Kelsey E. Lowman, Kai Qin, Sarah Sterrett, Eric Carlin, Anju Bansal, Steffanie Sabbaj, Olaf Kutsch and James Kobie, Division of Infectious Diseases, UAB Department of Medicine; and Dustin M. Long, Department of Biostatistics, UAB School of Public Health. (ANI)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3243
__label__cc	0.732004	0.267996	Winston & Cashatt Welcome New Associate Attorney , Member News Winston & Cashatt, Lawyers Welcomes New Associate Darren M. Digiacinto Spokane, Wash. – Winston & Cashatt is proud to announce that Darren Digiacinto joined the firm on January 17, 2017. Darren’s practice focuses on bankruptcy, creditor/debtor rights, commercial litigation, and employment law litigation. Darren represents both debtors and creditors in the prosecution and defense of adversary proceedings relating to discharge, in addition to working with creditors to protect their rights and claims. Darren is licensed to practice in Washington and Idaho state and federal courts. He also serves as a Trustee for the Eastern District of Washington Bankruptcy Bar. Prior to joining Winston & Cashatt in January 2017, Darren was a partner at a mid-size law firm in Spokane. Before entering private practice, he served as a judicial clerk at Division II of the Washington State Court of Appeals for the Honorable Judge Marywave Van Deren and the Honorable Judge C.C. Bridgewater. His pre-law background includes serving as a securities-licensed branch manager for a national financial institution. Darren is an active Rotarian, having served in various leadership roles including Club President for the Spokane South Rotary Club. He and his wife Corey are also active members and leaders in the Spokane Enological Society. His passions include live music, snow-skiing, football, and reading. Winston & Cashatt is a multidisciplinary regional law firm that has been serving clients for more than 40 years. An experienced litigation firm, it represents a roster of local and national clients through its offices in Spokane and Coeur d’Alene. Washington State Community Small Business Resiliency Grant Program OPEN NOW UNTIL OCTOBER 28 AT 12PM AFTER you have read the following requirements and restrictions, ... Dear Google, we should talk about inclusivity and business. I understand that there are still a lot (A LOT, a lot) of locations, businesses, and people, that ... The INBA has gone digital launching a new directory app for iPhone and Android We are so happy to bring you a fresh new way to connect with your local LGBTQ community. Find ... Solace, Spokane-built app to help trans people, now available for download A Spokane-designed app to help transgender people with everything from safely navigating day-to-day ... Gov. Inslee appoints 15 members to LGTBQ commission; 3 from Spokane SPOKANE, Wash. — Washington Governor Jay Inslee appointed 15 members to the state's new LGBTQ ... LGBT activists say new bills target transgender youth By Lindsay Whitehurst and David CraryAssociated Press SALT LAKE CITY – At the urging of conservative ... Lunch & Learn: March 2021 Lunch & Learn: February 2021 Lunch & Learn: January 2021 Our members receive special discounts on INBA and other community events, as well as member-to-member discounts on products and services. There are several membership options, choose the one that best suits your business, or join as an individual! Chamber Partners Reach out if you are in crisis: Trevor Project – Crisis support for LGBTQ+ youth: thetrevorproject.org Trans Lifeline – by trans people, for trans people: 24/7 Crisis Text line: 24/7 Sexual Assault Crisis Line: First call for help: Odyssey Youth Movement: The INBA gathers local, national, and international news articles relevant to business and community and sends out a newsletter regularly. We would love to add you to our list of newsletter recipients!	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3244
__label__wiki	0.602497	0.602497	Oct. 17-18, 2018 \| Pathways to Change: Pakistan Policy Symposium Last year, Pathways to Change: Pakistan Policy Symposium, a two-day event jointly organized by the Wilson Center and INDUS, convened expert scholars, academics, and practitioners from the United States and Pakistan to explore Pakistan’s recent achievements in economic, political, and foreign affairs as well as its opportunities to address current and future challenges. Speakers and panelists focused on identifying practical, innovative, and above all actionable policy solutions. The following series of policy briefs, which draw on discussions from the symposium, will be of interest to the academic and scholarly communities; diaspora audiences; business and policy circles; and any general audiences interested in Pakistan, U.S.-Pakistan relations, or international relations on the whole. Introducing the Pakistan Policy Brief Symposium Policy Brief Series The Way Forward for Pakistan-U.S. Relations: A Pakistani Perspective Bringing More Stability to a Misunderstood Relationship Engineering an Endgame in Afghanistan How to Handle Pakistan’s New Hardliners Pakistan’s Path to Competitiveness The Emergence of Pakistan-American Entrepreneurs in U.S. Pakistan Relations	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3249
__label__cc	0.735087	0.264913	Retail Opportunity Investments Corp. Reports 2019 First Quarter Results SAN DIEGO, April 24, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Retail Opportunity Investments Corp. (NASDAQ:ROIC) announced today financial and operating results for the three months ended March 31, 2019. $13.3 million of net income attributable to common stockholders ($0.12 per diluted share) $36.7 million of Funds From Operations (FFO)(1) ($0.29 per diluted share) 97.8% portfolio lease rate at March 31, 2019 (19th consecutive quarter at or above 97%) 30.7% increase in same-space comparative cash rents on new leases (12.4% on renewals) 2.9% increase in same-center cash net operating income (1Q‘19 vs. 1Q‘18) $17.0 million property disposition ($2.6 million gain on sale) $57.0 million of property dispositions lined up for sale $0.1970 per share quarterly cash dividend paid 2019 FFO guidance range reaffirmed ($1.11 - $1.15 per diluted share) (1) A reconciliation of GAAP net income to FFO is provided at the end of this press release. Stuart A. Tanz, President and Chief Executive Officer of Retail Opportunity Investments Corp. stated, “Property operations and leasing continue to propel our business forward. We achieved a record-high first quarter portfolio lease rate of 97.8% and a record-high first quarter same-space cash rent increase on new leases of 30.7%. We also achieved a solid 2.9% increase in same-center cash NOI. In terms of strategic initiatives, we are making good progress with disposing of non-core properties. We sold one property during the first quarter and have three more currently lined up for sale, which all together total approximately $74 million. Additionally, with respect to our initial property densification efforts, the entitlement process is moving forward steadily.” Tanz concluded, “With our accomplishments to date, we are off to a solid start in 2019 and firmly on track to achieve our stated objectives for the year.” For the three months ended March 31, 2019, GAAP net income attributable to common stockholders was $13.3 million, or $0.12 per diluted share, as compared to GAAP net income attributable to common stockholders of $10.7 million, or $0.09 per diluted share, for the three months ended March 31, 2018. Included in GAAP net income for the first quarter of 2019 was a $2.6 million gain on sale in connection with a property disposition. FFO for the first quarter of 2019 was $36.7 million, or $0.29 per diluted share, as compared to $37.0 million in FFO, or $0.30 per diluted share for the first quarter of 2018. ROIC reports FFO as a supplemental performance measure in accordance with the definition set forth by the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts. A reconciliation of GAAP net income to FFO is provided at the end of this press release. At March 31, 2019, ROIC had a total market capitalization of approximately $3.6 billion, including approximately $1.5 billion of principal debt outstanding and an equity market capitalization of approximately $2.1 billion. ROIC’s principal debt outstanding was comprised of $86.6 million of mortgage debt and approximately $1.4 billion of unsecured debt, including $142.0 million outstanding on its unsecured revolving credit facility at March 31, 2019. ROIC’s interest coverage for the first quarter was 3.4 times and 94.6% of its portfolio was unencumbered at March 31, 2019 (based on gross leasable area). DISPOSITION SUMMARY During the first quarter of 2019, ROIC sold Vancouver Market Center for $17.0 million, recognizing a $2.6 million gain on sale. Additionally, ROIC currently has agreements to sell three properties, in separate transactions, totaling approximately $57.0 million. The pending transactions are subject to completion of customary due diligence and other closing conditions. PROPERTY OPERATIONS SUMMARY At March 31, 2019, ROIC’s portfolio was 97.8% leased. For the first quarter of 2019, same-center net operating income (NOI) was $48.4 million, as compared to $47.1 million in same-center NOI for the first quarter of 2018, representing a 2.9% increase. ROIC reports same-center comparative NOI on a cash basis. A reconciliation of GAAP operating income to same-center comparative NOI is provided at the end of this press release. During the first quarter of 2019, ROIC executed 108 leases, totaling 311,657 square feet, including 27 new leases, totaling 72,903 square feet, achieving a 30.7% increase in same-space comparative base rent, and 81 renewed leases, totaling 238,754 square feet, achieving a 12.4% increase in base rent. ROIC reports same-space comparative base rent on a cash basis. On March 28, 2019, ROIC distributed an $0.1970 per share cash dividend. On April 24, 2019, ROIC’s board of directors declared a cash dividend of $0.1970 per share, payable on June 27, 2019 to stockholders of record on June 13, 2019. 2019 FFO GUIDANCE ROIC reaffirms its previously disclosed guidance range for GAAP net income and FFO per diluted share. Year Ended December 31, 2019 (1) Low End High End GAAP net income per diluted share $ 0.40 $ 0.44 FFO per diluted share $ 1.11 $ 1.15 Key Assumptions Acquisitions $ — $ 50,000 Dispositions $ 50,000 $ 75,000 Debt retired $ 50,000 $ 25,000 Same-center cash NOI growth (vs. 2018) 2 % 3 % (1) Included in ROIC’s 2019 FFO Guidance is $0.02 to $0.03 per diluted share of projected expenses attributable to: i) additional interest expense in connection with swap agreements (effective as of January 31, 2019), locking-in the interest rate on the company’s $300 million unsecured term loan through its maturity in 2022; and ii) additional general and administrative expenses as a result of the FASB accounting rule change requiring certain costs associated with leasing activities to be expensed rather than capitalized starting in 2019. ROIC’s management will discuss the company’s guidance and underlying assumptions on its April 25, 2019 conference call. ROIC’s guidance is a forward-looking statement and is subject to risks and other factors described elsewhere in this press release. ROIC will conduct a conference call and audio webcast to discuss its results on Thursday, April 25, 2019 at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time / 6:00 a.m. Pacific Time. Those interested in participating in the conference call should dial (877) 312-8783 (domestic), or (408) 940-3874 (international) at least ten minutes prior to the scheduled start of the call. When prompted, provide the Conference ID: 3398313. A live webcast will also be available in listen-only mode at http://www.roireit.net/. The conference call will be recorded and available for replay beginning at 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time on April 25, 2019 and will be available until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on May 2, 2019. To access the conference call recording, dial (855) 859-2056 (domestic) or (404) 537-3406 (international) and use the Conference ID: 3398313. The conference call will also be archived on http://www.roireit.net/ for approximately 90 days. ABOUT RETAIL OPPORTUNITY INVESTMENTS CORP. Retail Opportunity Investments Corp. (NASDAQ: ROIC), is a fully-integrated, self-managed real estate investment trust (REIT) that specializes in the acquisition, ownership and management of grocery-anchored shopping centers located in densely-populated, metropolitan markets across the West Coast. As of March 31, 2019, ROIC owned 90 shopping centers encompassing approximately 10.3 million square feet. ROIC is the largest publicly-traded, grocery-anchored shopping center REIT focused exclusively on the West Coast. ROIC is a member of the S&P SmallCap 600 Index and has investment-grade corporate debt ratings from Moody’s Investor Services and Standard & Poor’s. Additional information is available at: www.roireit.net. When used herein, the words “believes,” “anticipates,” “projects,” “should,” “estimates,” “expects,” “guidance” and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements with the meaning of that term in Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and in Section 21F of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Certain statements contained herein may constitute “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results of ROIC to differ materially from future results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Information regarding such risks and factors is described in ROIC’s filings with the SEC, including its most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K, which is available at: www.roireit.net. RETAIL OPPORTUNITY INVESTMENTS CORP. (In thousands, except share data) (unaudited) December 31, Real Estate Investments: Land $ 890,184 $ 894,240 Building and improvements 2,262,034 2,266,232 Less: accumulated depreciation 342,696 329,207 Real Estate Investments, net 2,809,522 2,831,265 Cash and cash equivalents 9,649 6,076 Restricted cash 1,545 1,373 Tenant and other receivables, net 47,744 46,832 Acquired lease intangible assets, net 69,062 72,109 Prepaid expenses 2,958 4,194 Deferred charges, net 32,069 33,857 Other 21,857 7,365 Total assets $ 2,994,406 $ 3,003,071 Term loan $ 299,139 $ 299,076 Credit facility 139,904 153,689 Senior Notes 941,796 941,449 Mortgage notes payable 88,264 88,511 Acquired lease intangible liabilities, net 158,907 166,146 Accounts payable and accrued expenses 27,710 15,488 Tenants’ security deposits 7,101 7,065 Other liabilities 37,636 23,219 Total liabilities 1,700,457 1,694,643 Preferred stock, $0.0001 par value 50,000,000 shares authorized; none issued and outstanding — — Common stock, $0.0001 par value, 500,000,000 shares authorized; 114,311,788 and 113,992,837 shares issued and outstanding at March 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018, respectively 11 11 Additional paid-in capital 1,440,754 1,441,080 Dividends in excess of earnings (265,565 ) (256,438 ) Accumulated other comprehensive income 751 3,561 Total Retail Opportunity Investments Corp. stockholders’ equity 1,175,951 1,188,214 Non-controlling interests 117,998 120,214 Total equity 1,293,949 1,308,428 Total liabilities and equity $ 2,994,406 $ 3,003,071 (In thousands, except per share data) Three Months Ended March 31, Rental revenue $ 75,367 $ 71,538 Other income 686 2,857 Total revenues 76,053 74,395 Property operating 11,061 10,478 Property taxes 8,238 7,819 Depreciation and amortization 24,761 25,217 General and administrative expenses 4,276 3,531 Other expense 93 69 Total operating expenses 48,429 47,114 Gain on sale of real estate 2,638 — Operating income 30,262 27,281 Non-operating expenses Interest expense and other finance expenses (15,679 ) (15,457 ) Net income 14,583 11,824 Net income attributable to non-controlling interests (1,333 ) (1,122 ) Net Income Attributable to Retail Opportunity Investments Corp. $ 13,250 $ 10,702 Earnings per share – basic and diluted $ 0.12 $ 0.09 Dividends per common share $ 0.1970 $ 0.1950 CALCULATION OF FUNDS FROM OPERATIONS Net income attributable to ROIC $ 13,250 $ 10,702 Plus: Depreciation and amortization 24,761 25,217 Less: Gain on sale of real estate (2,638 ) — Funds from operations – basic 35,373 35,919 Net income attributable to non-controlling interests 1,333 1,122 Funds from operations – diluted $ 36,706 $ 37,041 SAME-CENTER CASH NET OPERATING INCOME ANALYSIS (In thousands, except number of shopping centers and percentages) 2019 2018 $ Number of shopping centers included in same-center analysis 87 87 Same-center occupancy 97.8 % 97.5 % 0.3 % Base rents $ 50,512 $ 48,593 $ 1,919 3.9 % Percentage rent 84 110 (26 ) (23.6 )% Recoveries from tenants 16,857 15,764 1,093 6.9 % Other property income 595 499 96 19.2 % Bad debt (1) (624 ) — (624 ) N/A Total Revenues 67,424 64,966 2,458 3.8 % Property operating expenses 10,943 10,182 761 7.5 % Bad debt (1) — 79 (79 ) N/A Property taxes 8,042 7,644 398 5.2 % Total Operating Expenses 18,985 17,905 1,080 6.0 % Same-Center Cash Net Operating Income $ 48,439 $ 47,061 $ 1,378 2.9 % (1) In connection with the adoption of the lease accounting standard ASU No. 2016-2, effective January 1, 2019, bad debt is now classified as an offset to revenue instead of being included in operating expenses. SAME-CENTER CASH NET OPERATING INCOME RECONCILIATION GAAP operating income $ 30,262 $ 27,281 Gain on sale of real estate (2,638 ) — Property revenues and other expenses (1) (7,432 ) (5,523 ) Total Company cash NOI 49,322 50,575 Non same-center cash NOI (883 ) (3,514 ) Same-center cash NOI $ 48,439 $ 47,061 (1) Includes straight-line rents, amortization of above and below-market lease intangibles, anchor lease termination fees, net of contractual amounts, and expense and recovery adjustments related to prior periods. NON-GAAP DISCLOSURES Funds from operations (“FFO”), is a widely recognized non-GAAP financial measure for REITs that the Company believes when considered with financial statements presented in accordance with GAAP, provides additional and useful means to assess its financial performance. FFO is frequently used by securities analysts, investors and other interested parties to evaluate the performance of REITs, most of which present FFO along with net income as calculated in accordance with GAAP. The Company computes FFO in accordance with the “White Paper” on FFO published by the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (“NAREIT”), which defines FFO as net income attributable to common stockholders (determined in accordance with GAAP) excluding gains or losses from debt restructuring, sales of depreciable property and impairments, plus real estate related depreciation and amortization, and after adjustments for partnerships and unconsolidated joint ventures. The Company uses cash net operating income (“NOI”) internally to evaluate and compare the operating performance of the Company’s properties. The Company believes cash NOI provides useful information to investors regarding the Company’s financial condition and results of operations because it reflects only those income and expense items that are incurred at the property level, and when compared across periods, can be used to determine trends in earnings of the Company’s properties as this measure is not affected by the non-cash revenue and expense recognition items, the cost of the Company’s funding, the impact of depreciation and amortization expenses, gains or losses from the acquisition and sale of operating real estate assets, general and administrative expenses or other gains and losses that relate to the Company’s ownership of properties. The Company believes the exclusion of these items from operating income is useful because the resulting measure captures the actual revenue generated and actual expenses incurred in operating the Company’s properties as well as trends in occupancy rates, rental rates and operating costs. Cash NOI is a measure of the operating performance of the Company’s properties but does not measure the Company’s performance as a whole and is therefore not a substitute for net income or operating income as computed in accordance with GAAP. The Company defines cash NOI as operating revenues (base rent and recoveries from tenants), less property and related expenses (property operating expenses and property taxes), adjusted for non-cash revenue and operating expense items such as straight-line rent and amortization of lease intangibles, debt-related expenses and other adjustments. Cash NOI also excludes general and administrative expenses, depreciation and amortization, acquisition transaction costs, other expense, interest expense, gains and losses from property acquisitions and dispositions, extraordinary items, tenant improvements and leasing commissions. Other REITs may use different methodologies for calculating cash NOI, and accordingly, the Company’s cash NOI may not be comparable to other REITs. Carol Merriman, Investor Relations cmerriman@roireit.net Source: Retail Opportunity Investments Corp.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3260
__label__cc	0.645084	0.354916	How Cute Ferret-Like Animals Cause Germany $65 Million In Car Damages Each Year A Marten getting ready to ruin this car’s rubber and plastic bits. Image: Abenteuer Auto/YouTube (screengrab) Don’t be fooled by that cute little fluffball in the picture; mention the word “Marder” to any German, and you’ll send shivers down their spine. Marder is the German word for Marten, a little furry animal that crawls into cars’ engine bays and wreaks havoc on coolant hoses, spark plug wires and more, causing tens of millions of euros in damages each year. Tens of millions! Here’s what’s going on. I recently met up with Jalopnik reader Andreas (TheSafetyEngineer) in Bavaria to wrench on his Mazdaspeed 6. While changing a serpentine belt, I noticed Andreas’s car had a random red cable underhood and that it was making this god-awful noise (listen below). Andreas said the noise was coming from his broken anti-Marten ultrasonic device, and that the red cable was a high voltage line meant to shock the little pests. I thought this seemed a little random and odd to install into a sports sedan, but Andreas told me this was a big, potentially-expensive problem in Germany. Then I did some research, and holy crap was he right. Marten Damage Is A Huge Deal In Germany Photo: GDV I called up ADAC, basically Germany’s superpowered version of AAA, and asked for some info on this whole “Marder” issue. The woman over the phone sent me to the Association of German Insurers, GDV, and I found the plot you see above. This column plot shows the number of claims related to Marten damage in thousands (on the left), and the number of millions of euros in damage those claims amount to (on the right). The takeaway is that between 2010 and 2014, these pesky Martens caused over 300 million euro in damage (or about $330 million) through 1.1 million insurance claims. $330 million over a span of only five years! To put that into perspective, check out the table above. In 2012, Marten damage was the third most frequent insurance claim in all of Germany, with 233,000 cases amounting to 64 million euro in damages, according to GDV— bested only by cracked windshields and wildlife-related accidents. And if you’re still not convinced, here’s a plot showing the number of times ADAC (again, Germany’s ‘AAA’) had to send roadside assistance out to help some poor motorist whose coolant hoses and spark plug wires had been torn apart by the little Martens: Yes, that’s over 14,000 roadside incidents every year since 1998, and those usually only happen if the car doesn’t run or drive. Many more incidents are overlooked and ADAC never called. It’s such a big issue that in Stuttgart alone, one third of all parked cars were found to have some trace of Marten infiltration, a finding GDV attributes to the Nature Conservatory Nabu. So yeah, this Marten damage (Marderschaeden) issue is a big deal. They Can Totally Destroy Your Car Martens love to bite through coolant hoses, rubber axle and steering boots, and wiring. Photo: GDV Martens love to chew on rubber and plastic. The most common victims of Martens’ ridiculously sharp teeth are spark plug wires, coolant hoses, wiper fluid hoses, rubber CV axle boots, rubber steering rack bellows, wiring insulation and underhood sound deadening material. Though ADAC says they haven’t seen any cases of brake hoses or tires being chewed up by the animals (thank god), the parts Martens do chew on can completely ruin a car. Once a steering bellow (shown in the picture below) or CV axle boot gets a hole in it from a Marten bite, water and grime will get into the joint, compromising the lubrication and destroying the CV axle or inner tie-rod end in short order, and leading to very costly repairs. The steering bellow (rubber boot) you see in the image above is highly vulnerable to Marten bites, which is why this one has a high-voltage cable going to it to shock the little pests (the high-voltage cable is hard to see in this image). A hole in a coolant hose can cause a car to overheat, crack a cylinder head, blow a head gasket, or even seize—all potentially catastrophic for a car. And driving with a chewed-up ignition wire, ADAC says, can lead to a misfiring engine, meaning unburned fuel will enter the exhaust stream and lead to destruction of catalytic converters, and those things aren’t cheap to replace. Plus, electric and hybrid cars, with their copious wires, are also highly vulnerable to costly damage, and they can catch fire if Martens chew off high-voltage insulation. The worst part of all this is that some insurance plans only cover replacement of the chewed-on plastic or rubber part, and not the resulting damage. In other words, some insurance will only cover the coolant hose, not the blown head gasket; the spark plug wire, but not the blown catalytic converter. So clearly, those huge $65 million-a-year insurance repair costs are conservative, and don’t account for people who don’t file claims, or whose insurance doesn’t cover potentially disastrous resulting damages. Photo: Peter G W Jones/Flickr ADAC says martens used to be extinct in Germany back in the 1950s, as people hunted their precious furs. But now the marten population has swelled to the point where they’re not only in southern German like they were before, but also up north. Not to mention, they’ve adapted to cities, meaning this marten problem is truly Germany-wide. Martens invade engine bays because they are drawn in by the warmth and safety of the enclosed engine bay, or by the smell of urine and feces from other martens. Once inside, they bite into hoses and wires to make space for themselves or just for fun, ADAC says. They also urinate and leave bite marks in plastic and rubber as a way to mark their territory. It gets worst in early summer, when the little critters start mating — a time when they’re highly territorial, and very likely to mark their space with torn cables and hoses. There’s No Really Good Way To Stop Them There’s actually a wildlife biologist name Hans-Heinrich Krüger (the man with the most German name ever) who has done research for car manufactures and suppliers for over a decade to figure out how to prevent Marten damage, GDV reports. He works for a place called the Otter Centre, and he’s been testing all sorts of methods to keep cars safe from martens, including use of hard plastic conduits to protect wires and hoses, closing off the engine bay to keep the animals out, using an ultrasonic sound-wave device to annoy the animals, and electroshock. Other methods to protect cars against these critters, mentioned in the video above, include using wire mesh under the engine bay—martens hate walking on an unstable floor—and cleaning the engine bay of marten feces so other martens aren’t drawn by the smell All of these remedies work to varying degrees, GDV says, but none of them works all the time. Martens get used to the ultrasonic sound (which tends to be damped by the various parts in the engine bay), and they find ways to get past closures. There are also ridiculous remedies that Germans have thought of, like sprinkling dog hair, urine cakes, garlic cloves, mothballs and even human urine on the engine. The problem is, Krüger and ADAC agree, Martens get used to smells very quickly, and these remedies just don’t work. In the end, it seems Germany’s got a major problem with no perfect solution. As GDV puts it: Every driver has to expect that one morning the engine can not be started because of a Marten damage. Annoying but effective remedies against the martens do not exist. The only thing that really helps: a decent insurance. But that quote is coming from the Association of German Insurers, so they would say that. Sr. Tech Editor, Jalopnik. Always interested in hearing from engineers—email me. Cars: Jeep J10 ('85), Jeep Cherokee ('79, '91, '92, '00), Jeep Grand Cherokee 5spd ('94), Chrysler Voyager Diesel ('94) Marderschaeden would be a pretty awesome name for a metal band.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3273
__label__wiki	0.692619	0.692619	CSEduino MyStuff Daddy's Nightmare MC Boards Light From an Exotic Crystal Semiconductor Could Lead to Better Solar Cells Date 2019-03-07 CategoryNewsTagsRutgers.Edu “Rutgers-led team finds a new way to control light emitted by a hybrid crystal Scientists have found a new way to control light emitted by exotic crystal semiconductors, which could lead to more efficient solar cells and other advances in electronics, according to a Rutgers-led study in the journal Materials Today. Their discovery involves crystals called hybrid perovskites, which consist of interlocking organic and inorganic materials, and they have shown great promise for use in solar cells. The finding could also lead to novel electronic displays, sensors and other devices activated by light and bring increased efficiency at a lower cost to manufacturing of optoelectronics, which harness light. The Rutgers-led team found a new way to control light (known as photoluminescence) emitted when perovskites are excited by a laser. The intensity of light emitted by a hybrid perovskite crystal can be increased by up to 100 times simply by adjusting voltage applied to an electrode on the crystal surface. “To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time that the photoluminescence of a material has been reversibly controlled to such a wide degree with voltage,” said senior author Vitaly Podzorov, a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy in the School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers University–New Brunswick. “Previously, to change the intensity of photoluminescence, you had to change the temperature or apply enormous pressure to a crystal, which was cumbersome and costly. We can do it simply within a small electronic device at room temperature.” Semiconductors like these perovskites have properties that lie between those of the metals that conduct electricity and non-conducting insulators. Their conductivity can be tuned in a very wide range, making them indispensable for all modern electronics. “All the wonderful modern electronic gadgets and technologies we enjoy today, be it a smartphone, a memory stick, powerful telecommunications and the internet, high-resolution cameras or supercomputers, have become possible largely due to the decades of painstaking research in semiconductor physics,” Podzorov said. Understanding photoluminescence is important for designing devices that control, generate or detect light, including solar cells, LED lights and light sensors. The scientists discovered that defects in crystals reduce the emission of light and applying voltage restores the intensity of photoluminescence. Hybrid perovskites are more efficient and much easier and cheaper to make than standard commercial silicon-based solar cells, and the study could help lead to their widespread use, Podzorov said. An important next step would be to investigate different types of perovskite materials, which may lead to better and more efficient materials in which photoluminescence can be controlled in a wider range of intensities or with smaller voltage, he said. The study included lead author Hee Taek Yi in Rutgers’ Department of Physics and Astronomy and co-authors Assistant Research Professor Sylvie Rangan and Professor Robert A. Bartynski, department chair. Researchers at the University of Minnesota and University of Texas at Dallas contributed to the study.” 3D-Printed Smart Gel Changes Shape When Exposed to Light Quantum Materials Quest Could Benefit From Graphene That Buckles A Great New Way to Paint 3D-Printed Objects Scientists Have Discovered the Origins of the Building Blocks of Life New Robot Does Superior Job Sampling Blood A Robot and Software Make It Easier to Create Advanced Materials Physicists Make Graphene Discovery that Could Help Develop Superconductors New Unprinting Method Can Help Recycle Paper and Curb Environmental Costs 4D-Printed Materials Can Be Stiff as Wood or Soft as Sponge How Gold Nanoparticles Could Improve Solar Energy Storage About João Alves Father, Maker, Computer Geek and Open Source evangelist +/-18V Isolated DC-DC Converter Dual Supply Output from USB 5V Power Input 2D compound shows unique versatility 60W LED Dimmer for 12V LEDs using 555 Timer A DIY Quadruped Robot With Arduino, 3D Printed, and Lego-compatible Parts Algorithms for Decision Making Jinja2 The site uses cookies to remember settings and statistics. The site uses cookies from Google Analytics to measure site traffic. © 2021 João Alves · Powered by Pelican, Bootstrap Content licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where indicated otherwise.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3294
__label__cc	0.739994	0.260006	A trip to Britain in autumn On September, 16 at 9 pm a very uncommon meeting took place in front of our school. Two classes in their final year, class 10 c and 10 d, set out on a journey to England. After a long and exhausting bus ride of about 12 hours we arrived on the shore of the English Channel and travelled to Dover by ferry. The weather was sunny and it felt a bit like being on holiday. On the other side of the Channel the first change, that could be perceived, was that our bus now had to drive on the left. It felt a bit awkward at the beginning, not only for the bus driver. 😉 Now it was not long until we could check in at our hotel in Eastbourne a typical seaside town only a few metres away from the beach. Although everybody was very tired we went on a first stroll through the town accompanied by two very friendly guides who gave us an impression of the sights and the history of the town. The next day our coach took us to Brighton and all the pupils were allowed to explore the town on their own after they had been informed about some major points of interest. So most of us walked along the pier and had a look at “The Lanes“ a medieval part of the town with cute little shops. At 2 pm we met again and went on a guided tour through the Royal Pavilion built by King George IV, which was built in Oriental and Chinese style. After a short walk through the gardens of the palace, we returned to Eastbourne. Royal Pavilion in Brighton Royal Pavilion in Brighton – 2 Trafalgar Square, London White Cliffs (Kreideküste) Buckingham Palace, London Eastbourne Pier The next day probably was the most exciting day of the whole trip, because we went to London. We started in Greenwich where we got on a boat that took us on a tour along the river Thames. We could see lots of famous sights from the river like the Globe Theater, Tower Bridge, St Paul´s Cathedral or the Tower of London. Finally we got off at Westminster Bridge where we had a look at the Houses of Parliament, London Eye (the famous Big Wheel) and Big Ben, which is being renovated at the moment. We continued to walk along the road and had a look at Westminster Abbey, the famous church, where most English kings and queens were married and also buried. We walked on and visited Downing Street (Home of the British Prime Minister), Trafalgar Square, Buckingham Palace and finished at Covent Garden where the pupils (and teachers) could relax a bit after all or do some shopping for their family or for themselves. The next day our coach took us to Battle, a little picturesque place, where the famous Battle of Hastings took place in 1066. After some basic information on the battle between King Harold and William the Conqueror from Normandy, which changed English history fundamentally, we went for a walk on the battle field and visited the ruins of an abbey that had been built on the site of the battle, but which was destroyed in the 16th century under Henry VIII. Afterwards we went to Hastings for some shopping or just for some fish and chips. Our last day, Friday only left room for a walk to Beachy Head, a wonderful place on the cliffs which gave us superb views of the sea, the lighthouse and the landscape along the coast. Even though the wind was extremely strong and quite chilly we continued our walk and enjoyed it quite a lot. A last time we returned to our hotel, got our suitcases and got on the coach which took us on our 16-hour journey back to Hersbruck. Martina Hezel Autor Matthias ScharwiesVeröffentlicht am 30. September 2018 23. 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__label__cc	0.742198	0.257802	Biblical Apologetic for America's Constitutional Monarcy Pt. 2 Bob Enyart and Doug McBurney continue discussing our Biblical Apologetic, at kgov.com/apologetic, for The Proposed Constitution of America. The founding fathers, the David Bartons of the world, and many Christian educators have been historical revisitionists. They've claimed, wrongly, that God's disapproval of Israel’s demand for a king demonstrates that He is opposed to nations being governed by a monarchy. See though at kgov.com/constitution our proposal begins, "A constitutional monarchy governs America." Listen to today's program to hear, or see the Scriptures at our Apologetics page, documenting that long before Israel demanded a king, God had planned to establish a throne in Jerusalem which the Messiah Jesus Christ would later inherit. Today's Resource: Join Bob Enyart as he explores God's Principles of Government. From Against Democracy where we look at the biblical principles related to the idea of majority rule, to a Representative Republic and its similarities with democracy, to a real Alternative to Democracy, to what a Bible-based Constitution actually looks like, after this series, the Scriptures' principles of governance will permeate your thinking like never before! Or your money back. (Really.) * Denver Post's Shelley Bradbury: In her report, Can a baby be abused in the womb?, a question not unlike, Can a Hispanic be a racist?, which shouldn't have to be asked, Bradbury quotes a CRTL spokesman... Bob Enyart, a spokesman for Colorado Right To Life, said Wednesday he’d be glad to see such prosecutions. "That would be awesome," he said. "If the mother does drugs and her baby is born with an addiction, that is child abuse. We need to love our children and not treat them like disposable trash." Colorado RTL has long pushed to establish personhood for unborn babies, and the issue has been put to the state's voters three times. Even though those who kill unborn babies commit a felony under the state's unlawful termination statute, Enyart said that law doesn't go far enough. "It's as if you killed a man and you were charged with murder, but if you killed a woman you were charged with some kind of property crime," he said. "You could intuitively see the insult, and the disgrace that is, to dehumanize a whole sector of our society."	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3302
__label__cc	0.546207	0.453793	Prudent 15: Ecofin Global Utilities and Infrastructure Trust (EGL) Posted on 30th July 2020 \| By David Stevenson I do not think it is unfair to say that over the last decade we have seen a powerful shift in sentiment towards utility stocks, arguably in a very negative direction. For much of the last few decades, private investors could not get enough of these boring stocks. They paid out a generous dividend, seem to be backed by real assets that threw off lots of cash, and they also seemed wonderfully defensive. But then, after the global financial crisis, something changed. Perhaps because the recovery from the global financial crisis proved so protracted and difficult, investors began to notice that utilities were becoming the subject of intense public attention. The regulators, especially in the UK, noticed this zeitgeist change and also changed their attitudes. Until fairly recently these faceless bureaucrats seemed happy to allow the utility businesses to up charges so that they fund extra capital spending. But customers noticed and utility bills even became the subject of intense general election political scrutiny. How many of us chortled when Ed Milliband talked about price caps, but that amusement soon vanished when a Conservative government introduced a price cap. Arguably the logic behind increasing customer bills to allow for increased capital spending hadn’t gone away. The debate around climate change meant that many utility businesses needed to engineer a reboot of their whole energy infrastructure which would in turn require huge extra expense. But customers, regulators and politicians seemed collectively unwilling to pay. The same seemed also to be true for other utilities such as telecoms and broadband. Sure, we collectively want more next gen broadband and mobile telephony but competition remains intense and most customers don’t seem terribly happy to pay anything extra for the ‘new experience’. Stepping back from this by the beginning of the last decade no one could miss the bigger picture. More investment was needed, but customers were not willing to pay and regulators were not happy to countenance big new spends funded by higher consumer prices. Margins started falling sharply, debt levels crept up inexorably but spending on new capex did not seem to go away. Utilities suddenly became unloved. Their dividends also seemed to be increasingly uncovered by cash flows and investors started to take note, tempted as they were by dazzling, new growth models emerging out of the new technology infrastructures emerging. At the same time as this disillusionment with utilities became pronounced, another alternative claim on investors’ attention emerged. Infrastructure funds. From just a handful of funds during the GFC, this sector has exploded in scale in the UK and now comprises tens of billions of pounds in dozens of funds. What was once seen as alternative is now absolutely regarded as mainstream – see our last note two weeks ago on INPP. This huge growth in investor interest in infra assets has sucked money away from the utility sector. And one can in truth understand why. Many of these infrastructure funds don’t seem massively concerned by operational risk. They have contracted, stable cashflows, backed by governments which can be paid out directly as dividends. In a sense, infrastructure is a de risked version of utility investing. In this new investment model, there is no need to worry so much about say price caps. You just wait for the government backed or mandated cheque to arrive like clockwork. But as the infrastructure space has expanded almost exponentially, these specialist funds have run into a challenge. There is only a limited number of classic public private partnership business models and projects available to suck up all that money – especially as PFI and PPP projects have been scaled back in the UK. That in turn has forced the infrastructure funds to move into classic utility projects – INPP for instance owns the gas network Cadent which is the UK’s largest gas distribution network. This is, of course, a valuable piece of infrastructure but it is also a utilities business and in truth price caps have had some impact on its business model. So, as we head into a new decade, we start to see a convergence, between the boring, unloved utilities sector and exciting, low risk infrastructure investing. The circle is closed and more and more infra specialists find that they are in reality operating classic utility assets. Equally more and more classic utilities operators such as SSE are dumping their customer facing operations and focusing instead on purely infrastructure-based projects. This is the background behind our latest Prudent 15 funds, Ecofin. The lead manager is Jean-Hugues de Lamaze and he has 29 years of experience in equities and utilities/ infrastructure investments. Earlier versions of this fund focused exclusively on utility stocks but over time the managers realised that the bigger opportunity was this convergence of utility and infrastructure assets. Thus, the new version of the fund emerged a few years back with an explicit two-part focus, on both sectors – utilities and infrastructure assets. Currently the portfolio has around 40 equity investments, across a relatively broad remit and is able to invest in: Transport – including roads, railways, ports and airports. Utilities – including generation and distribution of gas, electricity and liquid fuels together with renewable energy. Water & environment – water supply and wastewater together I think this new dual focus makes a great deal of sense. Many utilities have traded at a decent discount whereas many infrastructure assets have traded at big premiums. These two sectors will now converge and Ecofin is a smart way to play this trade, with the discount on the fund slowly tightening over the next few years. In addition, you get access to a concentrated portfolio of real assets, with real inflation protection and a generous, well covered income stream. FUND BASICS At the end of June, the total market cap of the fund was £156m NAV 166p Current discount as at 27th July 2.43% . Over the 12 months ended 31 May 2020, EGL’s shares traded between a discount of 19.4% and a premium of 5.5% and averaged a 7.0% discount. Gearing 14.8% Yield 4% 42 holdings Fees and costs? Tortoise Advisors UK Limited is entitled to a fee of 1% of net assets per annum. This is calculated quarterly. There is no performance fee. The fee is charged 50% against revenue and 50% against capital. The ongoing charges ratio for the year ended 30 September 2019 was 1.68% (FY18:1.99%). The fall in ongoing charges reflects a 0.25% per annum reduction in the management fee which took effect on 5 March 201 Major shareholders: Charles Stanley and Hargreaves Lansdown both at 12%, Interactive Investor at 7%, and AJ Bell at 4.6% What is in the fund? In the table below I’ve pulled out some key metrics on the main portfolio holdings – as you can see you’re getting a truly global mix of assets, mostly large cap, in a sensible mix of underlying sectors, with classic utilities the largest single sub sector. Looking at the biggest holdings in the fund, Enel is a huge Italian energy company, also heavily involved in natural gas. After that comes NextEra Energy which is a major US – Florida based – player in renewable power with over 46,000 megawatts of generating capacity with assets such as Florida Power and Light. Although its legacy business is huge – it’s the largest regulated electric utility in the US domestic home market – it is also the world’s largest generator of wind and solar power. RWE is a German Utility business moving aggressively into renewable power as is its Spanish peer Iberdrola and National Grid from the UK needs no introduction for a UK audience. Portfolio Composition: Geography North America 40% Continental Europe 38% UK 12% Portfolio Composition: Sectors Utilities 24% Transportation 16% Integrated 39% Renewables inc yield cos 21% Largest Holdings Enel 5.9% NextEra Energy 5.2% RWE 4.5% Iberdrola 4.4% EDP 4.3% Endesa 3.9% National Grid 3.7% Exelon 3.2% Spark Infra 3.2% Engie 3% Perhaps a more useful way of understanding how the portfolio has evolved is to look at some of the more recent purchases in the fund. Analysts at Marten and Co recently reported on these recent trades, noting that the manager is currently “favouring toll roads over airports as he expects much faster recovery in road traffic than air travel. Airport companies have been hit by loss of retail income as well as landing fees. With many airlines in trouble, there may be pressure on fees going forward”. Other additions to the portfolio include Atlas Arteria (formerly Macquarie Atlas roads) and Ferrovial, Heathrow’s owner. These are both existing holdings within EGL’s portfolio which have been increased. One other slightly more adventurous addition is China Longyuan Power Group, Asia’s largest wind power producer, which was also added to the portfolio in recent months. Since emerging in its current form in Autumn 2016 – earlier versions included a split capital structure – returns have been strong. In the year to 30/04/20 the NAV TR has gained 25.4% and the share price 66.8%. Over the same period, the S&P Global Infrastructure Index is up +1.5% and the MSCI World Utilities Index has risen +23.4%. The table below sums up the returns to the fund on a year by year basis – the fund has beaten the MSCI World utilities index in all but one year since 2016. In terms of recent numbers, we now have data for the second quarter of 2020 – according to a note by Marten and Co on performance, “NAV performance was very strong in Q2 as a whole, on an absolute and relative basis, and year-to-date the NAV and share price have registered total returns of 1.7% and 3.6% apiece, while the MSCI World Utilities and S&P Global Infrastructure indices have registered returns of -1.9% and -13.9%, respectively, and the MSCI World Index has returned 1.3%.”. And what about the impact of the CoVid-19 emergency? How has this impacted this most defensive of asset classes.? Overall, as you would expect the impact has been muted, if not marginally positive for some businesses in the portfolio. For instance the managers point to NextEra Energy (www.nexteraenergy.com), which says it will be disappointed if it is not able to deliver financial results at or near the top end of its adjusted EPS expectation ranges for 2020, 2021 and 2022. The US energy giant predicts 12% dividend growth in 2020 and around 10% growth in 2021 and 2022. For many other utility businesses such as National Grid it’s a similar steady as she goes story. The Bottom line: dividends and some capital growth First and foremost, I would argue that EGL is a quality equity income play, targeting a dividend yield of at least 4% on its net assets. Crucially that income is largely backed by strong, reliable cashflows. For the year ended 30 September 2019, the trust’s revenue was 5.48p per share, sufficient to cover the dividend 0.86x, with shareholder reserves accumulate dover time filling in the gap. The equivalent figures for FY18 were 4.82p and 0.75x. In December 2019, the board resolved to increase the quarterly dividend by 3.1% to 1.65p per share, per quarter, equivalent to 6.6p per annum. I also like the fact that the fund is diversified geographically, with only 15% of assets in the UK. The foreign investments all strike me as boring, dependable businesses, many of which are transforming themselves from operationally risky utilities businesses into more dependable infrastructure investors. Also, crucially, much of that ‘repositioning’ in businesses such as Iberdrola, a big Spanish player, is in the fast-growing renewables space where Ecofin is building a strong position. There are some risks with this fund though. It is an equity income play and thus its shares can prove volatile and the funds likely long-term returns will be dependent on the strength of the underlying cashflows from the mega cap corporates in its portfolio. Intense pressure form regulators might push those cashflows down, especially if more countries start to adopt stringent price caps. It’s also worth noting that many of the portfolio business boast high levels of gearing, which might undermine consumer confidence. Add up all these factors and it’s quite possible that the fund’s shares might prove more volatile than expected, moving in and out of discounts. As a general rule I wouldn’t be keen to buy this fund on a premium but would absolutely top up if the discount widened out to 5% or more. I personally rate this fund a solid, long term buy. Contact on Twitter: @advinvestor Check out my blog at www.adventurousinvestor.com Executive editor at www.altfi.com and www.etfstream.com Category: David Stevenson, ETFs, Funds, Investment Trust david stevensonFollow david stevenson@advinvestor· There’s a lot of money out there waiting for a home http://www.adventurousinvestor.com/2354-theres-a-lot-of-money-out-there-waiting-for-a-home Every two weeks David focuses on one investment trust to create two crucial lists – the Dynamic 35, and the Prudent 15. The Dynamic 35 will consist of 35 interesting growth-oriented investment trusts. These are funds for the long-term investor who can live with market volatility but wants to grow their capital. The Prudent 15 will contain the best 15 funds for the more defensive and prudent investor who has a more ‘balanced’ view of the markets. 1. Scottish Mortgage 2. Syncona 3. Augmentum 4. Edinburgh Worldwide 5. Hg Capital 6. Witan Investment Trust 7. RTW Venture 8. Aurora Investment Trust 9. India Capital Growth fund 10. The Schroders Asian Total Return Trust 11. Manchester and London 1.BH Global 2.Ruffer Investment Company 3.SDCL Energy Efficiency Income Trust 4.International Public Partnerships 5.Ecofin Global Utilities and Infrastructure Trust	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3314
__label__cc	0.66472	0.33528	Forza Horizon 4 Bug Wipes Some Players’ Car Mastery Progress In Forza Horizon 4, vehicles are like characters in a role-playing game. Players can grind for skill points to buy perks and unlock each vehicle’s full potential. A game update that went live last week wiped many players’ skill trees clean, erasing months of progress. A fix is in the works, but the developers say it could take weeks to implement. Reader Dennis tipped us off to the situation over the weekend, pointing us towards a massive thread about the issue over at the Forza Motorsports forums. According to several players’ accounts, the error occurred following the installation of the May 7 “Series 9” update for Forza Horizon 4. Upon entering the game post-update, some players discovered that the car mastery perks they’d unlocked for their vehicles had been reset. Making matters worse, these players also said that perks purchased with skill points following the update would reset when they restarted the game, making further progress impossible. This is very unpleasant news for the Forza Horizon 4 players who’ve been affected by the bug. The car mastery system, one of my favorite features of the game, is one of the most compelling reasons to play. In order to unlock all of a single vehicle’s perks, players must spend hours driving that specific car, stringing together tricks to earn skill points. With more than 600 cars in the game, that’s a lot of driving. Understandably, the affected players sound upset. The poster of the original forum post wrote, “After today’s update, I’ve lost almost all progress. It’s like I’d done nothing. Any light anyone can shed on this would be appreciated. I’m sick to my stomach right now.” Developers reacted quickly to the issue. On May 8, the day following the bugged update, Forza Support Twitter acknowledged the problem. On May 10, a fix was issued that prevented the issue from affecting any more players and made it so that purchased perks did not disappear upon restarting the game. What the fix did not do is restore skill points to the players who had lost progress. That particular fix is going to take much longer, possibly weeks. From the Forza Support Twitter: We are now working on a fix to return all players’ lost Skill Points. We are expecting this fix to be live with or before the Series 10 update. The Series 10 update for Forza Horizon 4 is slated for release in early June, so the fix for skill points could arrive any time between now and then. In the meantime, players affected by the issue have been awarded 10 Super Wheel Spins for their troubles. Perhaps they can win cars via the in-game prize roulette to keep them occupied until their favorites are restored. Kotaku elder, lover of video games, keyboards, toys, snacks, and other unsavory things. Psydswipe In order to unlock all of a single vehicle’s perks, players must spend hours driving that specific car, stringing together tricks to earn skill points. Are you sure you can’t just use any skill points you earn on any car? Been a while since I’ve played so I may be wrong but I thought when I’d get a car I’ve been able to dump in all the points I already had to immediately give it all the bonus modifiers for driving skills that I wanted. I was actually going to play last night but I had a big system update (hadn’t turned on the Xbox One in a while either) and then a 6GB game update which left me with no time. Of course, now I won’t be turning the game on until it is fixed.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3315
__label__wiki	0.610353	0.610353	Lakers News: Jerry West Praises LeBron James For Health Throughout Career Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA TODAY Sports Lakers News: Jerry West Echoes LeBron James’ Comments About State Of Los Angeles Basketball There have been a lot of comparisons recently between the players of today and those from previous eras. With load management becoming the hot topic, some have looked back in amazement at players from yesteryear playing a high number of minutes for so many seasons and rarely missing games. These days, players seem to get injured at a much higher rate even with the league and teams making a concerted effort to minimize the risks and maximize health and recovery. However, many of those same past All-Star players are paying the price these days as their bodies ultimately broke down. Los Angeles Lakers legend and current Clippers executive Jerry West recently spoke about this. West revealed that he’s fortunate to not be suffering from any lingering ailments from his playing days, via Sam Amick of The Athletic: You know what? I will say that, fortunately, I have nothing. Absolutely nothing. I guess, you know, some bodies react differently to all the stress and pressure put on it. But I think the biggest thing is that today if a player plays 40 minutes, that’s a lot. But I think there were five times in my career where I averaged over 40 minutes a game, and so, again, the era was different. You didn’t play on the same courts all the time, and trust me, those make a difference. To that point, West expressed awe at LeBron James and his ability to stay healthy throughout the majority of his career: You’re playing on the same court, with better shoes. It might have been even easier (back) then if we would’ve had all those things. But as I say, the pressure and strain that you put on your body – some bodies react differently. And we’re talking about these 6-(foot)-10 guys who weigh 250, 260 pounds… You think about the enormous amount of torque you put on your body when you’re that big. I marvel at LeBron James. My gosh, you just watch him out there and how he gets around the court and, more importantly, all the time that he puts in conditioning and I marvel that, at this age, he’s still able to perform. It’s amazing. He pays attention, and he’s dedicated. That’s why he’s lasted so long, and I think, more importantly, why he’s still one of the great players that the game has ever seen. This is something that probably isn’t discussed enough when talking about player injuries these days. The size and athleticism of today’s players is unlike anything the league has ever seen and the amount of pressure put on their joints and ligaments in this sport is unreal. For James to have only suffered his first real injury in his 16th season is absolutely something to marvel at and West — who has seen it all in the NBA — is surely someone who isn’t easily impressed. Lakers News: Pau Gasol Posts Video Of Workout From Knee Rehab Pau Gasol will be featured once again as the primary option in… Lakers Nation News And Rumors Recap: Is L.A Eyeing Lonzo Ball? With the Phoenix Suns’ victory on Thursday night, the Los Angeles Lakers officially have the second worst record in the NBA… Nick Barbarino Brandon Bass Reflects On Byron Scott Motivating Him In His Early Years Of the three off-season acquisitions for the Los Angeles Lakers this summer,… Lakers vs Pacers Preview: Lakers Face The Best In The East [new_royalslider id=”169″] The Lakers have their work cut out for them tonight… Kevin Chan	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3322
__label__cc	0.717797	0.282203	LAMB Knitting Machine Corporation Celebrates 150 Years 1867-2017 Lamb Knitting Machine Corporation proudly celebrates our 150th year of manufacturing knitting machines and associated equipment. In 1867, LAMB started production of the first V-Bed flat knitting machine patented by Pastor Isaac W. Lamb. In those early years, LAMB also manufactured the popular Tuttle Machine, a hand cranked sock knitter under the 1874 patent of Dr. Tuttle. The Tuttle was widely used in hosiery mills into the early 20th century, as noted by Richard M. Candee in his book, “The Hand-Cranked Knitter and Sock Machine”. To commemorate our anniversary, we are excited to announce the development of our new LT150 Circular Sock Knitting Machine, a modern revision of the original Tuttle. With encouragement and assistance from Barry Travis, Candy Terry, Seth Blackwell, Mary Coburn, and Fred Hauck, we are re-engineering the Tuttle concept to give the hobbyist, textile student and textile educator a manually operated knitting machine that will be more versatile and simpler to use than the original Tuttle. We would like to thank all of our customers who made the past century and a half possible. LAMB remains committed to designing and improving knitting machinery equipment and providing exceptional customer service to our customers for years to come. References: Richard M. Candee, The Hand-Cranked Knitter and Sock Machine (Madison: Cottonwood Hill Publishing Co., 2004), p. 171. Contact info: rcandee@maine.rr.com LAMB’s VR1021 Flat Knitting Machine The VR1021 replaces the VR621 and offers a longer needle bed with 10-inches of needles on both the front & back plates. LAMB’s MHAC-6” Multi-Head Circular Warp Knitting Machine LAMB’s first six head circular warp knitting machine, the MHAC-6 is designed for knitting yarns and soft cords and is equipped with a six spool traversing roll-up. CONTACT US for additional details.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3323
__label__wiki	0.850562	0.850562	Less Known Facts Less Known Facts that You Should Know 10 Facts about Margaret Preston Post On: May 26, 2017 By: Agustina In: Arts Home > Arts > 10 Facts about Margaret Preston Have you ever heard about Margaret Preston? She is one of the prominent painters and printmakers from Australia. She was born on April 29th, 1875 and died on May 28th, 1963. She appeared as a leading artist in the beginning of 20th century. Her art depicted modernism. Many of her works feature the aboriginal motifs. If you want to know the details about her life and quest of national art, check Facts about Margaret Preston below: Facts about Margaret Preston 1: the birthplace The birthplace of Preston was located in Port Adelaide. Her full name was Margaret Rose Preston. Her mother is Prudence McPherson. Her father was David McPherson who worked as a marine engineer. Facts about Margaret Preston 2: the nickname Rose was mainly used to call her by the family when she was still a child. However, she started to use her first name Margaret since her 30s. Facts about Margaret Preston Facts about Margaret Preston 3: the life before marriage Preston had to struggle for her family and herself before she married. When she attended the School of Design in Adelaide, she earned cash by giving private lessons to the students. In 1899, she established her own studio. Facts about Margaret Preston 4: teaching Preston taught in two schools in Adelaide. They were Presbyterian Ladies’ College and St Peter’s College. Check Also: 10 Facts about Margaret Calvert Facts about Margaret Preston 5: the famous students Stella Bowen, Gladys Reynell, and Bessie Davidson were some famous students of Margaret Preston. In 1908, Preston’s class was attended by Gladys Reynell and Stella Bowen. Margaret Preston Facts Facts about Margaret Preston 6: the death of her mother In 1903, her mother passed away. In 1904 until 1907, she went to Europe with Bessie Davidson. They had visited Africa, Holland, Spain, Italy, Paris and Munich. Related Article: 10 Facts about Margaret Atwood Facts about Margaret Preston 7: Paris Salon In 1905 until 1906, Preston participated in Paris Salon for it suited her. Facts about Margaret Preston 8: modernism Preston was known as a modernist artist. Henri Matisse, Paul Gauguin and Paul Cézanne were the famous French Postimpressionists who inspired her works. Preston was also interested with Japanese art. Margaret Preston Facts about Margaret Preston 9: a studio Preston and Bessie Davidson decided to lease a studio after coming back in Australia in 1907. Both launched a joint exhibition. National Gallery of South Australia purchased her painting under the title Onions (1905). Read Also: 10 Facts about Lucile Clifton Facts about Margaret Preston 10: the famous works The National Gallery of Australia exhibited Preston’s work in December 2004 until April 2005. National Gallery of Victoria, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery and Queensland Art Gallery also have her collection. Do you have any comment on facts about Margaret Preston? Tags: Australian painter Share the post "10 Facts about Margaret Preston" Related to 10 Facts about Margaret Preston 10 Facts about Michael Kenna Some pieces of information would be revealed in the 10 facts… Read More… 10 Interesting Facts about Mexican Folk Art How far you know the facts about Mexican folk art? Yess,… Read More… 10 Interesting Facts about Merchant of Venice You will find the 10 interesting facts about merchant of Venice… Read More… 10 Facts about Merce Cunningham 10 facts about Merce Cunningham will tell the amazing facts about… Read More… 10 Facts about Memphis Design Movement 10 facts about Memphis Design Movement tell us about the Memphis… Read More… 10 Facts about Megan Coyle Facts about Megan Coyle will be revealed in this article. Coyle… Read More… 10 Facts about Medieval Art Facts about medieval art cover the classify of of art that… Read More… 10 Facts about Michael Rosen 10 Facts about Michael Palin 10 Interesting Facts about Michael Phelps 10 Good Facts about Michael Morpurgo Less Known Facts © 2018	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3326
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__label__cc	0.702153	0.297847	We offer a Free quote long jump design service, get in touch today. Landing Pit Sand Pit Cover Take Off Board Achurch Loddington Chacombe Great Harrowden Sulgrave Sywell Cotterstock Aynho Brafield-on-the-Green Marston Trussell Deanshanger Duston Carlton Purlieus Lower Benefield Weekley Triple Jump Surfaces in Apethorpe You can choose from a number of different surface types for a triple jump surface depending on whether it's going to be used for recreational or professional use. Needlepunch Triple Jump in Apethorpe Synthetic needlepunch turf can be used for triple jump runways as it's a very durable surface type with a sand infill to enhance performance and create a soft running track for kids to use. Polymeric Triple Jump in Apethorpe The EPDM polymeric rubber specification is used for triple jump runways at athletics clubs, high schools and colleges to create a professional quality sports track facility. 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__label__cc	0.539764	0.460236	Lys-d'Or JOIGNEZ LA RÉSISTANCE ET LE COMBAT CONTRE LES SYSTÈMES TOTALITAIRES AFIN DE DÉFENDRE LA CIVILISATION, LA TRADITION, LA LIBERTÉ ET LA MÉDECINE…AVANT QU'IL NE SOIT TROP TARD! Lecture renversée Recension de livres America’s Nazi Secret Essais sur l’imprégnation fasciste au Québec Family of Secrets Le cas Desroby Les faces cachées d’Amir Khadir Martin Bormann Nazi in Exile The Nazis Go Underground Le contre-djihad Le renseignement Secure Freedom Radio with Frank Gaffney La prière du dimanche. Conference d’Andrew Collins: Beneath the Pyramids & The Cygnus Star-Gate Publié le 24 mars 2019 par Lys d'Or Andrew Collins is one of the leading modern researchers on the Giza Plateau and its significance. Among the many people who came forward with theories and original explanations regarding the Great Pyramid and the Giza Plateau as a whole, he belongs in a category of his own. After a few trips to Egypt to do research on the ground at the Giza Plateau, he discovered some kind of entrance to a cave under the Plateau while taking a look inside the Tomb of the Birds, one of the buildings of the site. Accompanied by his wife, he began going down the cave but couldn’t go very far due to poor lightning, bugs and the dimension of the tube. To make a long story short, when he came back several months later to continue research, the opening to the cave had been sealed by proper authorities to protect the site. Since then, Andrew Collins has been very active in sharing his experiences with the public, both in writing and speeches, to make the people aware of this great discovery. In effect, the presence of a cave under the Giza Plateau and its three pyramids could be the proof that psychic Edgar Cayce was right and that maybe what is called the ‘Hall of Records’ is there to be found effectively. But that’s not all. According to the various clues and evidence Andrew Collins could gather and put together, the three pyramids of Giza would be oriented toward, not the stars of the Constellation of Orion as researchers Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval and their colleagues have speculated, but rather the stars of the Constellation of Cygnus. In this presentation, you will be able to see the evidence and the clues on which Andrew Collins relies to say that. It is a matter of personal choice whether you choose to trust either Andrew Collins’ instincts on the subject or Hancock’s and Bauval’s instead. Anyway, that is a fascinating topic and there is no doubt that the discovery of a cave under the Giza Plateau is one of the most important archaeological event of the last thousand years. On that specific point, Collins recalls that he had a few tribulations with the man in charge of the Giza Plateau, Zahi Hawass. The way Egyptian authorities react to new discoveries and to the fact that their authority is challenged is almost comical. Of course these people are defending their jobs and their positions but it is not only that. They are also defending the official version of history, the narrative that has been pushed by mainstream science and archeology about the pyramids for centuries: «they are just a few ‘tombs’». If there is anything that is clear while reviewing Andrew Collins’ research is that the pyramids of Giza are not just a few ‘tombs’. They are part of an extraordinary site that we are just beginning to explore. I bet that it is the very nature of human culture and civilization that we will discover if we are allowed to continue the exploration of this cave underground. I also join an article from Andrew Collins’ website that details the information presented in this conference. If you want to do further research on the subject, besides watching other conferences of Andrew Collins on the web, you can listen to these two-hour interviews he gave on the airwaves of Red Ice Radio in 2010, down below. In order to access the material though you need to be a subscriber. Please folks, take the time to review this astonishing material that could potentially rewrite as a whole what we call ‘history’. THE CYGNUS-GIZA CORRELATION – THE FACTS AND ALIGNMENTS IN PICTORIAL FORM Beneath The Pyramids, Giza Cave System Rediscovered, Egypt’s Underworld Giza’s Cave Underworld Update & The Cygnus Mystery Linked to Giza’s Underworld Ce contenu a été publié dans Archéologie, Architecture, Civilisation par Lys d'Or, et marqué avec ''Chasing Mummies'', Afterlife, Agathodaimon, Albireo, Andrew Collins, Benben stone, Busiris, Constellation of Cygnus, Cosmic Rays, Cygnus X-3, Delta, Deneb, Dyson sphere, Edgar Cayce, Freeman Dyson, Gebel Ghibli, Giovanni Battista Caviglia, Giza Plateau, Glenah, Gobekli Tepe, Graham Hancock, Great Pyramid of Giza, Hall of Records, Haran, Harvey Spencer Lewis, Henry Salt, Horus, Ibis, John Shae Perring, Nigel Skinner-Simpson, Osiris, Red ochre, Richard William Howard Vyse, Robert Bauval, Rostau, Sabaens, Sadr, Saqqarah, Sphinx, Tel Idris, Thoth, Tomb of the Birds, Zahi Hawass. Mettez-le en favori avec son permalien. 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__label__wiki	0.676455	0.676455	HV Towns Chronogram Events Food & Drink Directory Arts & Culture » Books & Authors Book Review: Daniel Mendelsohn \| An Odyssey: A Father, a Son and an Epic by James Conrad Last Updated: 09/27/2017 3:52 pm The memory of father and son circling an airport in a holding pattern starts off Daniel Mendelsohn's brilliant memoir about the winter his father sat in on "Odyssey," an undergraduate seminar Mendelsohn taught at Bard College. His father, a retired mathematician, knew quite a bit about circles, an exacting field that never appealed to his son. But "ring compositions" in Greek literature were circles Mendelsohn grew up to know a lot about. In this same chapter we learn how they operate: as a story progresses it circles back in time again and again, before circling forward again to present action. This backstory illuminates what's about to take place; a classic organization still used today and well illustrated here in Mendelsohn's own memoir. We also learn about a father and son who don't become close until late in life, culminating in the father taking the son's class that inspires them to book passage aboard "Retracing the Odyssey," an educational cruise that follows Odyseus' actual journey from Athens to Ithaca. Upon their return the father suffers a fall and then a stroke. Mendelsohn relates all the book's events in this first chapter called a "Proem," more aptly translated as "before the song." This is the way epic poems like the "Illiad" and the "Odyssey" begin, revealing all that is about to take place before getting started. But why do it here? The reason is, this is not just a memoir but a celebration of Homer's great poem. Throughout we learn not only the nuances and stories of the "Odyssey," but the actual structure as well, illustrated by the author placing his own story in the parameters of the Greek epic. For example, the events on the modern-day cruise (truly the heart of the book) are mirrored with Odyseus' own voyages. And in the end, when his father lays in a hospital on life support, Mendelsohn examines all the references to death and burial that surround the poem's hero. For readers with only a high school acquaintance with the classics all of this can seem daunting, but Mendelsohn proves to be a wonderful teacher. He not only confidently leads you through the ancient text, but he breaks it up with lively students in the actual class who ask the very questions any novice would. And just when you think there's too much Greek going on, the father always shows up to steal the show, even singing American standards at the ship's piano bar. The question is whether a highly educated classics scholar like Mendelsohn will get in the way of telling such an intimate story. But that circles back into the narrative as well. Like the Odyssey, the memoir is Mendelsohn's search for his father and everything he learns along the way. In one of the best scenes, Mendelsohn's class is enlightened by his father's comments on his own long marriage. As the students struggle to understand how Odysseus and Penelope recognize each other after so many years, the father brings up Mendelsohn's "beautiful mother," and explains how a couple manages to stay connected "long after everything else becomes unrecognizable." Now the teacher learns from the student as well. If the "Odyssey" is about any one thing it's about stories, imagined or real, heroic or tragic, all leading to the final words left upon monuments: "the story of the life the body once lived." But this memoir is also the story of another father and son and the stories they created and told each other, like that time they just sat side by side in silence on a plane circling home, heads bent, reading. Books & Authors Odyssey: A Father, a Son and an Epic memoir Daniel Mendelsohn You All Grow Up and Leave Me by Piper Weiss \| Book Review Soul Music at the Woodstock Bookfest Rock Solid Rebirth: A Stone Cottage Rehab in Staatsburg The Green Rush: Legal Cannabis on the Rise 6 Books for Your January 2021 Reading List Putting the NO in Nomination: Dog on Fleas Takes a Stand for Equality Gallery Watch: 4 Exhibits to See in January 2021 Latest in Arts & Culture This Week's Top Hudson Valley Events This week, we offer this list of alluring local activities. By Peter Aaron New Roundup of Hudson Valley Events Feed your soul with this week’s bespoke roundup of creative happenings. Start 2021 Right With These Hudson Valley Events Here are some ideas to distract you—safely—from the mayhem of current events. © 2021 Chronogram Magazine	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3354
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__label__wiki	0.749269	0.749269	Dissertation > Literature > Literary Theory > Literary Creation > Literary Translation Stylistic Evoluation in Chinese Translation of English Chidren’s Literature Author MaYanYan Tutor ZuoMei School Ocean University of China Course English Language and Literature Keywords children’s literature Chinese-English translation of children’s literature stylistic analysis stylistic evolution CLC I046 With the development of children’s social status, children’s literature, which is created for children on purpose, is much concerned. Many scholars are devoted in relative research about children’s literature, especially its English-Chinese translation. However, most studies are focused on detailed and fine points rather than comprehensive and systematic discussion. Therefore, this thesis aims to discuss specific historical stylistic features of English-Chinese translation of children’s literature by means of stylistic analysis from aspects of phonological level, lexical level, syntactical level and graphological level diachronically, attempts to obtain stylistic evolution in English-Chinese translation of children’s literature, and then provides certain translating suggestions according to stylistic features and evolution of children’s literature translation.This dissertation consists of six chapters.Chapter one is a brief introduction to this thesis which mainly analyzes the status of children’s literature and its translation in literary polysystem, relative literature review, and necessity or significance of this paper.Chapter two is a study of children’s literature, which identifies definitions of children’s literature, analyzes its classification, and presents its functions.Chapter three is composed of three parts: status of English-Chinese translation of children’s literature, its significance and its specific historical development through quantitative analysis and qualitative analysis. Approximately, historical development of English-Chinese translation of children’s literature can be divided into five periods: period of Late Qing Dynasty, period of May Fourth Movement, period from 1927 to 1965, period of the Cultural Revolution and period from 1977 till now. Chapter four deals with the theoretic framework of this thesis including definition of style, basic theory of stylistics and four levels of stylistic analysis from linguistic perspective: phonological level, lexical level, syntactical level and graphological level. In addition, this chapter will discuss concrete features of children’s literature translation combined with the basis of stylistic theory.Chapter five is the core of this dissertation. This chapter is mainly devoted to the application of stylistic theory to English-Chinese translation of children’s literature in different historical periods from stylistic aspects such as phonological level, lexical level, syntactical level and graphological level in detail and in system, so as to conclude distinguished stylistic characteristics and stylistic evolution of English-Chinese translation of children’s literature and provide suitable translating strategies on the basis of analysis of stylistic evolution. Necessary materials are Gulliver’s Travels (1906) translated by Lin Shu during the period of Late Qing Dynasty, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1922) translated by Zhao Yuanren during the period of May Fourth Movement, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1959) translated by Chang Jian and Zhang Zhenxian during the period from 1927 to 1965, and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (republication) (2002) translated by Zhao Yuanren during the period from 1977 till now.Chapter six concludes the whole dissertation summarizing stylistic evolution in English-Chinese translation of children’s literature. Meanwhile, certain translating suggestions according to stylistic features and evolution in children’s literature translation are given in order to promote the development of children’s literature translation. On Creation of Children’s Literature of Ehua,I207.8 ShuQun’s Novels in Constructing the Mowrld Young Man,I207.42 A Contrastive Analysis between the Introduction to Tour Resorts and Tour Guide Speech from the Perspective of Functional Stylistics,H315 A Stylistic Analysis of Four Poems Read at American Presidential Inauguration Ceremonies,H315 A Comparative Study on Two Chinese Versions of the Adventures of Tom Sawyer from the Perspective of Skopos Theory,I046 Stylistic Analysis and College English Listening Teaching,H319 A Corpus-based Contrastive Stylistic Analysis of English Corporate Profiles,H315 Functional Stylistic Analysis: Thematic Choice in English-medium Experimental Medical Research Articles,H315 Stylistic Comparison and Analysis between Chinese and American English Entertainment News,H15 An Analysis of the Style and Culture Connotation of Oscar Presentation Speech,H315 The Research of the Fairyland Mode in Children’s Literature, Which is Also Called the "Secondary World" in Literature,I106.8 From the perspective of literary stylistics Comment \,I561.074 From the perspective of literary stylistics \,H315.9 A Corpus-based Stylistic Analysis of War Literature,I712.074 Stylistic Analysis of Sermons of Martin Luther King,I712 A Stylistic Analysis on Three Short Stories of O. Henry,I712.074 Western stylistic analysis of commercial advertising,H052 A Stylistic Approach to Est Texts,H315 Reproduction of Style in Fictional Translation,I046 The Art of Foregrounding in Guliver’s Travels,I561 On Children’s Literature Translation by Lu Xun,I046 Transcendentalism and Dualism: a Philosophical Approach to Robert Frost’s Poetry Study on Formula and Preparation Technology of High Precision Boron/Barium Chromate Delay Composition Study on Memeristor Chaos and Its Application in Speech Secure Communication System The Formal Analysis of J.C. Ransom's Poetry Theory Analysis of County Government Public Crisis Management Problem in Our Country Towards the Intertextuality in A.S. Byatt’s Possession: A Romance Study on the Simplified Phenomena of Characters in Wei, Jin and South & North Dynasty Pursuit of Totality and Construction of Aesthetic Utopia Expression and Purification of Globular Domain of Human Adiponectin in E.coli and Preparation of Its Monoclonal Antibody Comparative Research of Kinship Terms of Hakka and Gan Dialects Separation and Purification of Raffinose and Cottonseed Protein from Cottonseed Meal The Study on Direct Determination of Sodium Formaldehyde Sulfoxylate in Foods Antifungal Activity of Cinnamon Essential Oil against Botrytis Cinerea and the Effect of Cinnamon Essential Oil on Quality of Tomato and Protective Enzyme System of Tomato Seedlings Research on the Choice of Outsourcing Provider of Enterprise Human Resources Management Study of Two-wire Electropneumatic Valve Positioner’s Design Based on HART Protocol A Pragmatic Study of Dialogues in Some of Hemingway’s Short Stories The Analysis on the Late Acceptances of CISG The Interaction of Racl Protein Activation with Endothelial Cell Permeability and Cytoskeleton Reorganization On Black Feminism in Toni Morrison’s Jazz	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3356
__label__wiki	0.866986	0.866986	Know Ma’din Vicennium conference concludes with mega closing ceremony Event Stories Vicennium, the three year-long celebrations marking the 20th anniversary of Ma’din Academy concluded here at Swalath Nagar in Malappuram on Monday early morning with a mammoth gathering of hundreds of thousands of people from various parts of the state, Kerala. Vicennium, the three year-long celebrations marking the 20th anniversary of Ma’din Academy concluded here at Swalath Nagar in Malappuram on Monday early morning with a mammoth gathering of hundreds of thousands of people from various parts of the state, Kerala. The concluding session which began on Thursday hosted 23 seminars discussing various issues that concerns the contemporary Muslim societies across the world and is attended by delegates from 17 universities and 32 countries. Pinarayi Vijayan, the Chief Minister of the state inaugurated the function. In his inaugural lecture Mr. Vijayan said that the efforts Ma’din has taken in uplifting the Muslim society by providing quality education has redrawn the future of this minority community in the region. This has contributed immensely in achieving many of the goals of the sustainable developmental goals for which Kerala is highly praised. He added. The chief minister inaugurated Ma’din Lifeshore, an advanced paediatric and adult rehabilitation centre. H.E Adama Dieng, Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide was the guest of honour of the event. While addressing the gathering Dr. Dieng said that the Ma’din Vicennium celebrations will be remembered for its contribution in peace making process in various communities in India and abroad. He also said that his office in the UN will collaborate with Ma’din in implementing the plan of action for religious leaders and actors to prevent incitement to violence that could lead to atrocity crimes. “It is my firm belief, and that of the United Nations, that other societal actors, especially those with a leadership role, which includes religious leaders such as Sayyid Ibrahimul Khaleel Al Bukhari, have a fundamental role to play in this regard. I believe that religious leaders have both the opportunity and the responsibility to play this role, given their spiritual leadership and influence over so many different and important communities” – the Special Advisor said. Sayyid Ibraheemul Khaleel Al-Bukhari, Chairman, Ma’din academy delivered the Vicennium message. “Muslims have always been a moderate community and theological positions in Islam only support such interpretations of the holy text and prophetic traditions. The minute radical elements among them are actually meant to divert the attention from the real issues community face. The natural calamities such as flood expose how vulnerable human beings are. It is sad to note that human beings who came together when they were in crisis now fight against each other on the basis of caste, class, gender, region and religion. Discriminatory practices of any sort are not solutions for any problem, but they are simply part of the problem”. He also said that a special museum to commemorate Malabar’s long history will soon be opened for public at Ma’din campus. The building work of the museum and research centre is in its final stage and it will become a special centre of excellence in the study of Malabar’s heritage and culture. He declared Ma’din Academy’s plan to commemorate the centenary of Malabar Rebellion of 1921 with various research projects and events. “Ma’din will strive to establish a deemed university to offer world-class education and research through reputed international collaborations by the year 2023” – the chairman said. Kanthapuram AP Aboobacker Musliyar, general Secretary of All India Jam’iyathul Ulema delivered the keynote. Chief minister awarded the Vicennium Erudite Award to H.E Adama Dieng, the Special Advisor to UN Secretary General for Prevention of Genocide and Arabic Language Improvement Forum special award to Sayyid Ibrahimul Khaleel Al Bukhari for his contributions to Arabic Language. The well-known Islamic scholar al-Habib Umar bin Hafiz led the Sacred Retreat and concluding prayer. Ponmala Abdul Qadir Musliyar, Secretary of Samasta Kerala Jam’iyathul Ulema, Dr. Abdul – Fattah Abdul Ghani Al – Awari, Dean of the Faculty of Religion at Al-Azhar University – Egypt, A.P Abdul Kareem Haji, Managing Director of Apco Group, Dr. Farooq Naeemi, State President of SSF, Prof. Sayyid Jahagir, Dept. of Arabic Studies, EFLU delivered the facilitation speech. 400 students who graduated from the Ma’din College of Islamic sciences were conferred with “adani” degree in the conference. It pleases us to get you informed What Happened Recently We create albums in Google Photos. Your love and comments are awaited. Web Desk Ma'din2019-12-31T23:43:54+05:30December 31st, 2018\|Event Stories\|Comments Off on Vicennium conference concludes with mega closing ceremony Ma’din Academy and ‘Educators without Borders’ signed cooperation agreement Madin Academy mega prayer meet goes online Ma’din Academy (registered as well in Ma’dinu Ssaquafathil Islamiyya) was established in 1997 under the Societies Registration Act of 1860, has now transformed itself into a mass movement of smart learning. Know Better About Ma’din Meet the chairman Give Ma’din Academic Mail Quick Visit Girls Only Campuses Health and Rehabilitation © Copyright 1997 - \| Ma'din Academy \| All Rights Reserved InstagramTwitterFacebookLinkedInYouTubeWhatsApp Click one of our representatives below to chat on WhatsApp or send us an email to info@madin.edu.in Support PRD Department Let's chat in detail	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3358
__label__wiki	0.712855	0.712855	Chicago Our Kind of Town “It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago—she outgrows her prophecies faster than she can make them.” —Mark Twain When Mark Twain wrote of “that astonishing Chicago” in Life on the Mississippi , he described a city “contriving and achieving new responsibilities.” It was... Greater Lakes A faint whiff of an odor first experienced in childhood may conjure a host of vivid recollections. Olfactory memory is common to many animals, including fish, where it helps guide navigation, predator avoidance, food acquisition, and reproduction. Chunbo Zhang, IIT research assistant professor, studies the subtleties of olfactory perception, investigating the neural and hormonal mechanisms involved and their roles in species survival. Citizen-Architect The Fresh Moves bus, designed by Katherine Darnstadt and her team, offers a four-wheeled solution to Chicago’s food deserts. Photo: Bob Stefko It’s an early November morning in a crowded Starbucks in Chicago’s Loop, and Katherine Darnstadt (ARCH ’05) is laughing. The sound rises above the hiss of the latte... Design By Chicago Collage graphic created by Ivan Chermayeff www.ivanchermayeff.com In 1937, László Moholy-Nagy founded a cutting-edge design school in Chicago: the New Bauhaus. Rooted in a guiding principle behind Germany’s influential Bauhaus—that intelligent design could improve the world—the school attracted faculty and educated alumni who were iconic figures in photography, graphic design,... One Step Toward the Journey Illinois Senate Democratic Caucus Photo: Brandy Renfro Kwame Raoul is ready for the next step. It’s been eight years since he succeeded Barack Obama in the Illinois Senate as a Democrat representing the 13th District on Chicago’s South Side. And just as now-President Obama moved on after eight years in... Urban Legendaries From Chicago’s South Side to the North, from Armour Institute to IIT College of Architecture, from high schools to skyscrapers, and from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe to Alfred Caldwell to John Ronan, IIT has left an indelible mark on the city’s architecture. The infographic on the following two pages... Einstein with Swim Goggles The man with the short grizzled beard and blue goggles is one of several swimmers doing mid-morning laps in the IIT Keating Sports Center pool. His arms move methodically in the rhythm of the freestyle—stroke, stroke, stroke-breathe. Stroke, stroke, stroke-breathe. These days, his pace is a leisurely one mile per hour. But in 1967, retired chemistry and physics teacher Ted Erikson (CHE ’52, M.S. CHEM ’59) was nearly twice as fast, a human projectile in a harrowing long-distance swim whose record still stands. Activating the Vacant Lot What do community empowerment and a game of tic-tac-toe have in common? An underutilized area redesigned and rebuilt for positive gatherings. Led by Monica Chadha, adjunct assistant professor of architecture, a group of IIT students helped to transform part of a vacant lot as part of their Interprofessional Projects (IPRO)... Slideshow: Chicago - Our Kind of Town Chicago River Come on... admit it. Doesn’t the sight of Chicago’s Buckingham Fountain—no matter how many times you may have seen it—bring a smile to your face and a feeling of pride for the great city we call home? The winter 2013 edition of IIT Magazine showcased photos of many... Slideshow: Their Kind of Town A look at the city of Chicago through the eyes of IIT students. Luke Downen (ARCH 1st year) “The photo is of the John Hancock Center. I love how the structure defines the aesthetic. It is simple, bold, and beautiful,” says Downen. A look at the city of Chicago through... Vice President for Marketing and Communications Jeanne Hartig Chelsea Kalberloh Jackson Marcia Faye Richard Harth Steve Hendershot Michelle McKenzie-Voigt Nancy Niequist Schoon Scott Benbrook Marty Schalm Illinois Tech Magazine is published two times a year by the Office of Marketing and Communications Send Letters to Office of Marketing and Communications 10 West 35th Street, IIT Tower Suite 13D8-2 Download the Winter 2013 Issue	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3360
__label__wiki	0.636835	0.636835	mahoningvalleylanes.com What Is It Called When You Change A Contract? How do you legally amend a contract? What happens to my contract if the company is sold? Can you change a contract after it is signed? How much notice does an employer have to give to change shifts? Can a contract be changed? Can I refuse to change my contract? What is the difference between an addendum and an amendment to a contract? Can you cross things out on a contract? Can I be forced to sign a new contract? How much notice do you have to give to change a contract? What is meant by contract changes? Why would a company keep changing its name? When can a contract be changed? What makes a contract null and void? Does an addendum override a contract? Why is it important to document contract changes? How do you initially change a contract? Is a contract still valid if a company changes its name? Always put a contract amendment in writing and make sure both parties sign and date it. Reference the title of the contract, if applicable; its original parties; and original signing date, so that it is clear what document you are amending. Attach the amendment to the original contract.. Contracts When a Business is Bought or Sold If a business has a major change in ownership, (the sale of a business, for example), part of the terms of the sale may be the assignment of the contract to the new owner. If the business sale documents don’t specify, you might have to look at the contract itself. Once you and the other person or business (‘the other party’) has signed a contract, you are legally bound by the agreement. … However, they are not allowed to change the terms of the contract without your knowledge or consent. Employers must provide employees with prompt notice of any schedule changes. Schedule changes can occur in a smaller than a 14-day window. Most scheduling laws require at least a 24-hour notice, however. There are also tiers based on if the notice is at least 1 day or at least 7 days advance notice. Any proposed change or variation to your contract should be negotiated (discussed) with you. That is, one party cannot legally change the contract without the consent of the other party. Just because an employer wants to change the contract does not mean you have to accept the change. If you don’t agree to the changes, you do have certain rights. A contract can generally only be amended according to its terms, or with the agreement of both parties. An employment contract is no different. You must be given notice of any proposed changes by your employer. In short, an addendum is used to clarify and require agreement on items that were not a part of the original contract – while an amendment changes something that was part of the original agreement. Generally, if you make changes to a contract before you sign it, then return it to the party who drafted the contract, what you have done is to reject the original contract and make a counteroffer in your revised contract. At some stage your employer or you might want to change your contract of employment. However, neither you or your employer can change your employment contract without each others’ agreement. Changes should normally be made after negotiation and agreement. Where changes are made to your contract, employers must give you written notification of the change within four weeks. An unauthorised, one-sided variation is likely to be a breach of the contract of employment, and the fact that the employer has given you notice of the change will not make it lawful. Related Definitions Contract Change(s means any change or modification to the Services or this Agreement, including without limitation, changes or modifications to any Statement of Work, other than Operational Changes. When a company’s name is tarnished by wrongdoing or some other serious problem, it sometimes can’t recover, as customers abandon it. As a result, companies will sometimes change their names to get out from under a cloud of bad press, or association with previous wrongdoing. An employer can make a change (‘variation’) to an employment contract if: there’s something in the contract that allows the change (usually called a ‘flexibility clause’) the employee agrees to the change. the employee’s representatives agree to the change (for example, a trade union) A null and void contract is a formal agreement that is illegitimate and, thus, unenforceable from the moment it was created. Such a contract never comes into effect because it misses essential elements of a properly designed legal contract or violates contract laws altogether. Typically an addendum supersedes that portion of the original contract that the addendum specifically addresses. That’s a general rule. Whether it applies in your situation depends on the details in the contract, addendum and the surrounding circumstances. Contract amendments are also often just as important as the contract itself. Amendments are used to add on forgotten provisions or address a need that became apparent after the contract began. A properly executed amendment is attached to the contract and treated as part of the deal. Minor modifications to a contract can be handwritten onto the document. Clearly write the changes, and sign your initials next to each change, before signing the entire document. If the other party agrees to the changes, the other party will also initial the changes and sign the document. 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__label__wiki	0.667741	0.667741	She Didn’t Want a Pelvic Exam. She Received One Anyway. What was most unsettling to Mr. O’Keefe have been the racial and socioeconomic disparities obvious in his pelvic test education. Mr. O’Keefe’s rotation crossed in between two clinics in Philadelphia. On just one side of the avenue was a pearly white substantial-rise serving people with private insurance, Penn Medication Washington Sq.. On the other aspect was the a lot more operate-down Ludmir Center for Women’s Overall health, primarily for all those on Medicaid and the uninsured. At the private coverage clinic, Mr. O’Keefe stated, health care learners primarily observed as their residents carried out gynecological techniques. At Ludmir, the top quality of treatment was substantial, but Mr. O’Keefe pointed out that learners have been inspired to get far more fingers-on working experience, especially by stepping in to carry out pelvic examinations. “My 1st knowledge executing a pelvic exam was in Ludmir, wherever it is anticipated that health care pupils will do it,” he said. He recalled anxiously maneuvering his hands as he appeared to the resident for advice. “It leaves a bizarre feeling in your gut, because it’s the most noticeable illustration of how there’s different expectations of care depending on your insurance position,” he mentioned. “It’s like a tale of two clinics.” A spokesman for the University of Pennsylvania’s Health and fitness Technique reported the Perelman University of Medicine contains a focused session on wellbeing disparities in its obstetrics and gynecology rotation, and the school’s coverage mandates that students can only perform pelvic exams beneath the direct supervision and at the discretion of an attending or resident health practitioner. The spokesman stated that the faculty “will evaluation this subject to ensure that all sufferers are taken care of equally in accordance with our institutional guidelines and values.” ‘Is this a nightmare?’ For health-related pupils, carrying out unauthorized exams can leave a feeling of discomfort that fades with time. But for the people, the scars can operate deeper, in some cases rupturing their feeling of rely on in well being care providers. A single evening in 2007, Ashley Weitz drove to a Salt Lake Metropolis emergency room, at Intermountain Health care LDS Clinic, struggling from uncontrollable vomiting. She was given an ultrasound and blood function, the common tactic her attending physician ran via a list of achievable ailments. Then he requested if he could operate a examination for sexually transmitted infections. Ms. Weitz declined, outlining that she was celibate and a childhood abuse survivor, and that she chosen to forgo the test. Supply backlink Fossil Fuels Are to Blame for Soaring Methane Levels, Study Shows New Cases Are Reported as Beijing Sets New Rules	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3370
__label__cc	0.648944	0.351056	News Singapore Zendesk Expands Amazon Web Services Support to Make Customer Data More Actionable Lotame Panorama ID Earns Support Throughout The Ecosystem As Industry Grows Closer To Third-Party Cookie Deadline Ampverse Announces New Hires To Coincide With Regional Expansion To Vietnam & Myanmar “Snek Lain Macam” Introducing The New Mamee Monster X Daebak Ghost Pepper PlanetSpark Innovation Centre Launched To Enable Tech Startups Achieve Market Deployment Dable, Content Discovery Platform, Raises US$12M Series C Round For Global Expansion Adobe's 2021 Creative Predictions: Visual, Motion Graphic & Audio Trends SAS Acquires Boemska To Accelerate AI Integration Into Cloud Marketplace & Third-Party Applications Mamee Celebrates 50th Anniversary With Unique Collaboration This new capability from Zendesk provides companies with a near real-time understanding of customer interactions. Native connector for Amazon EventBridge allows easy access to customer experience data across the organization During the recently held AWS Summit 2019, Zendesk, Inc. announced the Zendesk Events Connector for the newly launched Amazon Web Services (AWS) service Amazon EventBridge. The Zendesk Events Connector allows companies to quickly and easily connect customer experience data to the AWS services that developers already use to improve their understanding of the customer journey. Modern customers expect their interactions with companies to be easy, personalized and responsive – all of which relies on accessing and understanding customer data. Built on the cloud, the Zendesk Events Connector is an easy, scalable, and secure way to stream near real-time data changes (events) from Zendesk into AWS. This seamless experience is achieved through Amazon EventBridge, a serverless, highly available, and scalable event bus service that allows applications to communicate with each other using events. “Customer experience teams will no longer be let down by disconnected and siloed systems that don’t share a complete picture of the customer,” said Adrian McDermott, president of products, Zendesk. “We are excited to work with AWS to further the movement towards companies having open access to all data, in a simple, safe and secure manner.” This new capability from Zendesk provides companies with a near real-time understanding of customer interactions. With this data and the power of AWS, companies can build better, more innovative customer experiences by enhancing customer information with machine learning (ML), security and compliance tools, or custom analytics and business intelligence through services such as AWS Lambda, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Kinesis, and Amazon SageMaker. “Customer information shouldn’t only be used to resolve tickets, it should become a part of a company’s competitive advantage,” said Dustin Lawler, VP of Technical Services, Datadog. “By integrating Zendesk into Datadog through the AWS EventBridge, we are able to leverage this important source of data throughout the entire organization in real time.” In November last year, Zendesk announced Zendesk Sunshine, an open and flexible CRM platform focused on utilizing the power of AWS to seamlessly connect all customer data. The Zendesk Events Connector is part of the larger effort for Zendesk Sunshine to further accelerate the ability to free customer data and allow developers to build out functionality with the tools they love – entirely on open standards with the security, scalability, and reliability of AWS at its core. Zendesk Sunshine has already seen over 1,000 customers enable the platform. The Zendesk Events Connector will be available as part of an early access program, starting July 11. More information can be found at zendesk.com/eventsconnector. CxOCON 2019: The Business Influencer Conference Maybank Singapore Appoints MediaOne Business Group As The Digital Marketing Agency For All Its Product Offerings	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3377
__label__wiki	0.526218	0.526218	In (partial) defense of Apple’s HomePod HomePod sound quality beats Google Home and Echo devices, and Siri performed better than expected. Greg Sterling on February 14, 2018 at 3:13 pm Apple’s HomePod is being hailed as the best speaker among the current smart speaker cohort, which includes Google Home, Amazon Echo, Alexa-enabled Sonos and others. But it’s also being heavily criticized, even savaged, for several flaws. The consensus of the criticism basically focuses on two or three main areas: It doesn’t natively support music services other than Apple Music (and iTunes Match). Siri isn’t as “good” as Alexa or Google Home (and there are no “skills”). It won’t work with Android devices (or as a conventional bluetooth speaker). I own multiple Echo devices (Show, Dots, original Echo), two Google Home devices and a Home Mini. I don’t own the Google Max or the Cortana Harman Kardon speakers. I’ve placed the HomePod right beside Google Home and a Ninety7-enhanced Echo Dot in my living room. In terms of sound quality, I agree: it’s not close. It’s hard to go back to listening to music on the other devices after the HomePod, although one could argue whether HomePod has too much bass (believe it or not). Again, I haven’t heard the Home Max. But Apple’s decision not to support Spotify or Pandora natively on the device is regrettable and somewhat coercive. It’s a poor decision that the company hopefully will change later. You can, however, stream music from either of those services through your phone and AirPlay. I’ve been using Pandora, and it works perfectly well. But after having read multiple criticisms of Siri’s capabilities and functionality, I was very pleasantly surprised by its performance. Siri isn’t integrated with calendaring, which is a disappointment. But that could change with a software update. It also isn’t quite as good as Google for answering general knowledge questions. But it was much closer and a much better performer than one might imagine from all the criticism. Local recommendations were a major weakness, although nobody did a great job. Side by side, I asked the Google Assistant, Alexa and HomePod/Siri lots of questions. Among them: How long would it take me to get into San Francisco right now? What’s the weather tomorrow? What’s healthier: spinach or kale? Set timer. What’s the best Mexican restaurant near me? How far is Earth from Mars? Who was the 44th president? Who discovered America? Convert euros to dollars. What’s the best-selling rock album of all time? Who was Shakespeare? What does dilly dilly mean? What’s the oldest fast-food restaurant in the US? Define (multiple words). Did the Golden State Warriors win their last game? Overall, as mentioned, Siri didn’t do quite as well as Google Home. But it did about as well as Alexa. There were isolated questions Google Home fumbled, but it got the most correct. Siri and Alexa were a couple of questions behind, at parity. One might have expected Siri to underperform the others. However, the opposite was true. In addition, Siri is more responsive than Google Home or Echo/Alexa when music is playing loudly. I never had to say “Hey Siri” multiple times to get its attention, as I sometimes have to with the others. The fact that HomePod doesn’t connect to third-party apps (other than through HomeKit) is not a big deal at this point. There are two major problems with Alexa skills right now: The vast majority are worthless, and they’re difficult to discover. I suspect that Apple will ultimately enable third-party apps on HomePod, as it has with iMessage, Maps and Siri on the phone. We can probably also expect that Siri’s full capabilities (e.g., calendaring) will come to HomePod. And Apple should make HomePod accessible to Android users. Given the negative (or ambivalent) coverage and its relatively high price ($349), it’s unlikely that HomePod will gain significant adoption versus its rivals. But price would be much less of an issue if the other complaints were addressed. Postscript: Different testers are getting different results from Siri and coming to different conclusions about its capabilities and performance. The Washington Post’s very negative review, relies in part on a third party study from Loup Ventures. That study ranked Siri as the worst performer of the smart speaker set for a range of questions/commands. I don’t in any way dispute that Google Home outperforms Siri and HomePod across a range of functions. However, there are some strange findings in the study. For example, it proclaims “Siri is particularly strong in Local (where can I find a good cup of coffee around here?) and Commerce (help me buy some new shoes.) queries, handily beating Alexa and Cortana.” I do not agree. Siri relies on Yelp data primarily in recommending local businesses, especially when superlatives such as “best” are used in the request. However I found Siri’s performance in local search to be extremely uneven. Perhaps it’s somewhat better than Alexa and Cortana but it’s definitely not “particularly strong.” Beyond this, there is no “commerce” capability on HomePod. If you ask to buy an item, it doesn’t facilitate an online transaction, as Alexa would through Amazon. Siri will direct you to a nearby store that may carry the item, but it’s not real-time product inventory. And it’s quite uneven across product categories. The Loup study also says, “Some domains like navigation, calendar, email, and calling are simply not supported.” That’s essentially correct. What Loup means by “navigation” is literally send directions to your phone, which Google Home will do. But Siri does report traffic and drive time between your home and intended destination. My testing was much more informal and much more limited than the Loup study. But for the most common smart speaker use cases (see NPR-Edison Research below) the HomePod and Siri will perform at levels that are comparable to rivals. (This was my pleasant surprise.) That’s not to say that Apple shouldn’t work quickly and diligently to improve performance. But the thing that’s going to most deter buyers will be the lack of native support for non Apple Music services and the comparatively high price. Greg Sterling Greg Sterling is a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land, a member of the programming team for SMX events and the VP, Market Insights at Uberall. AmazonAmazon: Amazon EchoAppleApple: SiriChannel: Mobile MarketingGoogle: Google HomeMobile Marketing	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3378
__label__cc	0.506623	0.493377	Landolt-Börnstein - Group III Condensed Matter 1534 Chemical Shifts and Coupling Constants for C10H24Cl3N6P This document is part of Part 1 of Subvolume H 'Chemical Shifts and Coupling Constants for Phosphorus-31' of Landolt-Börnstein III/40 'Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Data', Group III 'Condensed Matter'. Chemical Shifts and Coupling Constants for Phosphorus-31 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Data for Phosphorus-31 Book DOI Chapter DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-32069-9_1536 R. R. Gupta (11) M. D. Lechner (12) V. Gupta (13) Editor Affiliation 11 Department of Chemistry, Rajasthan University, 302004, Jaipur, India 12 Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Osnabrück, 49069, Osnabrück, Germany 13 A-13, Jai Jawan Colony-I, Tonk Road, 302018, Jaipur, India M. Kumar (1) 1 Department of Chemistry, University of Rajasthan, 302004, Jaipur, India M. Kumar (2013) R. R. Gupta, M. D. Lechner, V. Gupta (ed.) SpringerMaterials 1534 Chemical Shifts and Coupling Constants for C10H24Cl3N6P Landolt-Börnstein - Group III Condensed Matter 40H1 (Chemical Shifts and Coupling Constants for Phosphorus-31) 10.1007/978-3-642-32069-9_1536 (Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg © 2013) Accessed: 19-01-2021	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3380
__label__wiki	0.981556	0.981556	Metal From The Inside What Do We Love About Metal? Everything. ROCK HISTORY KING DIAMOND RELEASES NEW SONG, “MASQUERADE OF MADNESS”! on November 8, 2019 November 8, 2019 By sydneyannataylor Yesterday, legendary metal vocalist and connoisseur of conceptual theatrics, King Diamond released his first song in twelve years entitled, “Masquerade of Madness“. The brand new track will be featured on his upcoming record ‘The Institute‘ that will be released via Metal Blade Records in 2020. Listen to “Masquerade of Madness” here: It’s also been revealed this past March in an interview with Full Metal Jackie that ‘The Institute‘ will include two full-length releases and is actually a story set in a 1920’s mental asylum. “I chose that because I think it’s a very creepy scenario, and the thing is that I know that somebody has talked about that, but that’s not the setting, actually. There’s a lot of other things involved, but the setting looks as if it was a 1920’s asylum — that’s exactly what it looks like. And some of the things that go on that we’re gonna show onstage is also things that certainly was going on back then, when medicine was beginning to take a beneficial turn in history and actually being able to help human beings live longer. But there was some experimentation going on, too, that was absolutely gruesome.” says Diamond. Stay tuned for further info to come on Metal From The Inside including ‘The Institute‘ release date, future King Diamond tour dates, and more! See King Diamond on The Institute North American Tour 2019 happening now through December. Find upcoming tour dates below! KING DIAMOND LIVE W/ UNCLE ACID & THE DEADBEATS, IDLE HANDS 11.8 — Worchester, MA — The Palladium 11.10 — Upper Darby, PA — Tower Theater 11.11 — Baltimore, MD — Lyric Opera House 11.12 — Montreal, QC — MTELUS 11.14 — Detroit, MI — The Fillmore 11.15 — Cleveland, OH — Agora Theater 11.16 — Louisville, KY — Palace Theater 11.18 — Chicago, IL — Riviera Theater 11.19 — St. Paul, MN — Palace Theater 11.22 — Denver, CO — The Fillmore 11.23 — Salt Lake City, UT — Rockwell at The Complex 11.25 — Seattle, WA — Paramount Theater 11.26 — Portland, OR — Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall 11.27 — Vancouver, BC — Queen Elizabeth Theater 11.29 — San Francisco, CA — The Warfield 12.1 — Los Angeles, CA — The Wiltern 12.2 — San Diego, CA — Magnolia Performing Arts Center 12.3 — Anaheim, CA — The Grove of Anaheim 12.4 — Phoenix, AZ — Comerica Theatre KING DIAMOND ONLINE Published by sydneyannataylor Philly-based. Lover of metal, concerts, and Alice Cooper. Music Biz Major. Vinyl collector. True Crime historian. Be sure to keep up and connect with Sydney on Instagram @sydneyannataylor and on Twitter @STaylorOfficial. TaggedHard Rock, Heavy Metal, King Diamond, Masquerade of Madness, Metal From The Inside, Rock And Roll, Thrash Metal Previous PHIL CAMPBELL TALKS “TEARS FROM A GLASS EYE” AND WORKING WITH JOE SATRIANI! Next UFO TO CONTINUE “LAST ORDERS” TOUR IN 2020! Enter your email address to have new interviews, reviews, and more content delivered straight to your inbox! Metal From The Inside Podcast Episode 27: Calico Cooper (Beasto Blanco) January 15, 2021 Episode 26: Brian Wheat (Tesla) January 8, 2021 Episode 25: The Loyal Order // In Theory December 31, 2020 Episode 24: Mitch Perry (Mitch Perry Group, MSG) December 4, 2020 Episode 23: Reb Beach November 13, 2020 Episode 22: Damon Johnson October 30, 2020 Episode 21: Robin McAuley October 16, 2020 Episode 20: Tony Franklin October 2, 2020 Episode 19: I'm Here To Interview Black Sabbath September 18, 2020 Episode 18: Keith St. John September 4, 2020 What We’re Listening To: © 2019 Metal From The Inside	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3384
__label__cc	0.706787	0.293213	MetaNumbers 47500 (number) Positive integer 0b10001100 Octal number 0x129abf Hex number 5.012 * 10^7 2^4 * 5 Factorized form Random number 47,500 (forty-seven thousand five hundred) is an even five-digits composite number following 47499 and preceding 47501. In scientific notation, it is written as 4.75 × 104. The sum of its digits is 16. It has a total of 7 prime factors and 30 positive divisors. There are 18,000 positive integers (up to 47500) that are relatively prime to 47500. Prime Factorization Other Arithmetic Functions Divisibility test Base converter Basic calculations Geometrical shape Hash Functions Is Prime? No Number parity Even Number length 5 Sum of Digits 16 Digital Root 7 47 thousand 500 forty-seven thousand five hundred 4.75 × 104 Engineering notation 47.5 × 103 Prime Factorization of 47500 Prime Factorization 22 × 54 × 19 Composite number ω(n) Distinct Factors Total number of distinct prime factors Total Factors Total number of prime factors rad(n) Product of the distinct prime numbers λ(n) Liouville Lambda Returns the parity of Ω(n), such that λ(n) = (-1)Ω(n) μ(n) Mobius Mu 1, if n has an even number of prime factors (and is square free) −1, if n has an odd number of prime factors (and is square free) 0, if n has a squared prime factor Mangoldt function Returns log(p) if n is a power pk of any prime p (for any k >= 1), else returns 0 The prime factorization of 47,500 is 22 × 54 × 19. Since it has a total of 7 prime factors, 47,500 is a composite number. 1, 2, 4, 5, 10, 19, 20, 25, 38, 50, 76, 95, 100, 125, 190, 250, 380, 475, 500, 625, 950, 1250, 1900, 2375, 2500, 4750, 9500, 11875, 23750, 47500 30 divisors Even divisors Odd divisors 4k+1 divisors τ(n) Total Divisors Total number of the positive divisors of n σ(n) Sum of Divisors Sum of all the positive divisors of n s(n) Aliquot Sum Sum of the proper positive divisors of n A(n) Returns the sum of divisors (σ(n)) divided by the total number of divisors (τ(n)) G(n) Returns the nth root of the product of n divisors H(n) Harmonic Mean Returns the total number of divisors (τ(n)) divided by the sum of the reciprocal of each divisors The number 47,500 can be divided by 30 positive divisors (out of which 20 are even, and 10 are odd). The sum of these divisors (counting 47,500) is 109,340, the average is 36,44.,666. Other Arithmetic Functions (n = 47500) 1 φ(n) n φ(n) Euler Totient Total number of positive integers not greater than n that are coprime to n Carmichael Lambda Smallest positive number such that aλ(n) ≡ 1 (mod n) for all a coprime to n π(n) Prime Pi ≈ 4900 Total number of primes less than or equal to n r2(n) Sum of 2 squares The number of ways n can be represented as the sum of 2 squares There are 18,000 positive integers (less than 47,500) that are coprime with 47,500. And there are approximately 4,900 prime numbers less than or equal to 47,500. Divisibility of 47500 n mod m The number 47,500 is divisible by 2, 4 and 5. Classification of 47500 By Arithmetic functions Expressible via specific sums Base conversion (47500) Binary 1011100110001100 Ternary 2102011021 Quaternary 23212030 Quinary 3010000 Senary 1003524 Octal 134614 Decimal 47500 Duodecimal 235a4 Hexadecimal b98c Vigesimal 5if0 Base36 10ng Basic calculations (n = 47500) n×i n ⁄ i n⁄2 Exponentiation Nth Root i√n 2√n 47500 as geometric shapes Radius = n 298451.30209103 28352873698.648 Length = n Space diagonal Equilateral Triangle Triangular Pyramid Cryptographic Hash Functions a1909e0d6464d48ffddb13b0ec34c563 b89aa7f0086a08fb1acdb4da7e3ae2acf0ae3c4f 1be21be131a897dd818547e6db78e24a678bec23fadda6b14b3423438ee59a3f 703a1db2b680d228569b7aef48febdfbbf7eea52fed72b6b813941209b819d9d32d24c60007c43268c5f1706ea42c0d2d34d5ab7dfbd509a690ac87cf678db78 ripemd-160 5b0b571edf2f3c9c549fe01402c76a5b86cefa24 Prime numbers list List of numbers contact[at]metanumbers.com MetaNumbers.com © 2019 - 2021	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3385
__label__wiki	0.660847	0.660847	Wenqiang Cao Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Immunology and Rheumatology Arianna Celis Luna Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Infectious Diseases Bio Arianna I. Celis Luna is a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Dr. David Relman. Her research will investigate the role of the GI microbiome on iron absorption during pregnancy. She aims is to elucidate a functional role for the microbiome during this critical time period by combining metatranscriptomic and metametabolomic data from in vivo samples with biochemical data from in vitro samples. She hopes to shed light on how iron-deficiency anemia, still affecting ~50% of pregnant women in developed countries, can be more efficiently treated or prevented. Arianna received her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Montana State University in 2018. She worked in the lab of Dr. Jennifer DuBois where her research focused on how, at the molecular level, bacteria build iron into the versatile molecule known as heme and break it apart again. Her work examined how these reactions are critical for both pathogenic species, such as Staphylococcus aureus, and the resident bacteria of the digestive tract. Arianna?s work encompasses 6 published papers in journals like the Journal of the American Chemical Society, the Journal of Biological Chemistry, and ACS Biochemistry. She has presented her work in several conferences, including Gordon Research Conferences and the ASBMB Annual Meeting, and at Montana State University as part of the Kopriva Science Seminar Series after receiving the Kopriva Graduate Student Fellowship. Ananya Chakraborty Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Saborni Chakraborty Paulami Chatterjee Qingquan Chen Yik Ling Bowie Cheng Joonseok Cho Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Endocrinology, Gerontology, and Metabolism Eunji Choi Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Biomedical Informatics Cailin Collins Postdoctoral Medical Fellow, Hematology Endocrinology, Gerontology, & Metabolism Immunology & Rheumatology Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3393
__label__cc	0.511832	0.488168	Pick a list: {{#FavLists}} {{/FavLists}} {{/ShowFavList}} {{^ShowFavList}} {{AddLabel}} {{/ShowFavList}} {{RemoveLabel}} Illinois Made Regional Getaways With a vibrant creative arts scene, Illinois has a rich variety of cultural experiences for art lovers. Browse images related to arts and culture in Illinois. Our spectacular lakefront skyline is the backdrop to a lively mix of fine food, fun times, vibrant arts, rich history and a warm Midwest welcome. Browse images of Chicago. Discover the Illinois food scene. The best restaurants in Chicago, Michelin stars, artisan tastes, farm-to-table, local favorites, wine trails and craft beers. Browse images related to food in Illinois. Discover Illinois’s iconic events from Chicago Pride to Lollapalooza. Browse images of events in Illinois. Discover the history, stories and people of Illinois. Visit historic communities, meet American presidents and tour a prehistoric city. 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Governor Pritzker Announces Record Tourism Growth in Illinois Home You are in… Press Releases » Governor Pritzker Announces Record Tourism Growth in Illinois Share 'Governor Pritzker Announces Record Tourism Growth in Illinois ' Governor Pritzker Announces Record Tourism Growth in IllinoisAn additional 3 million travelers visited Illinois in 2018, bringing an increase in visitor spending, tax revenue and local jobs SPRINGFIELD – More than 117 million visitors traveled to Illinois in 2018, setting a new record number of visitors for the state, Governor JB... \| words For Distribution MARLA CICHOWSKI MARLA@TIMEZONEONE.COM CHARITY GREENE CHARITY.GREENE@ILLINOIS.GOV An additional 3 million travelers visited Illinois in 2018, bringing an increase in visitor spending, tax revenue and local jobs SPRINGFIELD – More than 117 million visitors traveled to Illinois in 2018, setting a new record number of visitors for the state, Governor JB Pritzker announced today. Visitors to the state spent $41.7 billion, boosting Illinois’ economy by $2 billion over the previous year, according to data provided by the U.S. Travel Association. This record growth resulted in a 5.1 percent increase in visitor spending over 2017— higher than the national visitor growth rate of 4.9 percent. State and local tax revenue generated from visitor spending jumped 7.1 percent to $3.3 billion, creating an additional $220.8 million for the state and local communities. “From the limestone caves at Mississippi Palisades State Park to summer music festivals in Chicago, Illinois is full of vibrant cities and towns with endless attractions that receive millions of visitors each year. Travel and tourism in Illinois is a $40 billion industry and an integral part of our state’s economy. I’m proud to be governor of the state where visitors can explore ‘amazing,’” said Governor JB Pritzker. The Illinois travel and tourism industry supported 342,300 jobs in 2018, an increase of 5,200 jobs from 2017. Domestic travelers came to Illinois for business (16 percent) and pleasure (84 percent). Over the last 10 years, the number of visitors to Illinois has increased by more than 26 million, with tourism becoming one of the state’s leading industries. This marks the 8thconsecutive year of record tourism growth in Illinois. “Tourism is a critical part of our economy, helping to create jobs and lower taxes,” said Erin Guthrie, Acting Director of the Department of Commerce & Economic Opportunity (DCEO). “From exploring our beautiful state parks to adventures along Route 66, the Land of Lincoln offers amazing experiences to visitors from around the world. I commend DCEO and the Office of Tourism for their work promoting our great state and these record-breaking results.” Illinois Office of Tourism Acting Director, Jan Kemmerling credits the record numbers to successful integrated marketing efforts in 2018 that resulted in a return investment of $271 for every dollar spent in advertising. In June, Illinois Tourism rolled out its new advertising and marketing campaign that will leverage its tag line, “Are you Up for Amazing?” to spotlight new Illinois experiences, near and far. The campaign highlights Illinois destinations from the visitor’s point of view and will also include breathtaking visuals from user generated content. The new ads redefine the word ‘amazing’ with the message, “Amazing isn’t just a place you take yourself. It’s where that place takes you.” “We are thrilled to see this new campaign come to life this summer targeting our Midwest drive markets as well as national advertising to reach more visitors. We are confident these ads will inspire even more people to plan a trip to visit Illinois,” said Jan Kemmerling. “Our goal with this new campaign is to touch our consumers’ hearts and evoke real emotion with the sights, sounds and tastes that are unique to Illinois.” The Illinois Office of Tourism receives domestic visitor numbers from DK Shifflet and international visitor numbers from Tourism Economics. Visitor expenditures, tax revenue and jobs numbers come from U.S. Travel Association. The Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, Office of Tourism manages industry efforts that result in sustainable and significant economic and quality-of-life benefits for Illinois residents. Subscribe to Media Updates Sign up for news on travel and tourism in Illinois and exclusive invites to media events and press previews. 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__label__cc	0.596609	0.403391	Susan Graham MD Cardiology; Cardiovascular Disease Buffalo General Medical Center sgraham@buffalo.edu Professional Summary: I am a cardiologist with a subspecialty interest in heart failure and general cardiology. I am based at Buffalo General Medical Center (BGMC) and the Gates Vascular Institute (GVI), and I care for inpatients admitted to Cardiology Critical Care, Inpatient Cardiology and Inpatient Consultation. I have administrative duties that focus on the care of the cardiac patient at Kaleida Health: I help lead the collaborative efforts of over 50 cardiologists to improve the quality of patient care and patient outcomes. My research responsibility has included serving as a local principal investigator in multicenter clinical trials, and our site has contributed to a number of cardiology research programs over the past 25 years. Our current focus is in systolic and diastolic heart failure, as a collaborative effort with colleagues in internal medicine and cardiology. I am part of the teaching faculty in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, and I am the lead physician for the BGMC training site. In this role, I work with another attending cardiologist to provide oversight and guidance to a team of five cardiology fellows, residents and fourth-year medical students at the BGMC continuity clinic. I also help organize and lead annual continuing medical education conferences through the medical school’s Department of Medicine and through Kaleida Health. Fellowship, Cardiology, Medical College of Virginia (1989) Residency, Internal Medicine, VA Medical Center (1986) Residency, Internal Medicine, University of Minnesota (1985) MD, Internal Medicine, University of Texas Medical School (1982) Clinical Professor, Roswell Park Cancer Institute (2012-present) Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York (2007-present) Medical Director, Buffalo General Hospital/Kaleida Health (2007-present) Research Adjunct Professor, Social and Preventive Medicine, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Social and Preventive Medicine (1994-present) Associate Professor, Clinical Medicine, Cardiology, Medicine, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York (1995–2007) Director, Coronary Care Unit, Buffalo General Hospital/Kaleida Health (1989–2006) Assistant Professor, Clinical Medicine, Cardiology, Medicine, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York (1989–1995) Robert S. Berkson, MD Memorial Award (2013) Buffalo Spree "100 of WNY‘s Top Docs" (2008) White Coat Teaching Award, UB Dept. of Medicine (2008) UB Family Medicine Specialty Teaching Award (2005) Buffalo General Foundation Award (1999) CGF Health System Women in Medicine (1998) Research Expertise: McCann SE, Marshall JR, Brasure JR, Graham S, Freudenheim JL. Analysis of patterns of food intake in nutritional epidemiology: food classification in principal components analysis and the subsequent impact on estimates for endometrial cancer.. Public Health Nutr. 2001; 4(5). Susan McCann, Weiner J, Susan Graham, Jo Freudenheim. Is principal components analysis necessary to characterise dietary behaviour in studies of diet and disease?. Public Health Nutr. 2001; 4(4). Susan McCann, Jo Freudenheim, Marshall JR, Brasure JR, Swanson MK, Susan Graham. Diet in the epidemiology of endometrial cancer in western New York (United States).. Cancer Causes Control. 2000; 11(10). VonFricken K, Karamanoukian HL, Ricci M, Graham S, Slate DM, Bergsland J, Salerno TA. Echocardiographic mass on the mitral valve.. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2000; 14(6). Duffy LC, Zielezny MA, Marshall JR, Byers TE, Weiser MM, Phillips JF, Calkins BM, Ogra PL, Graham S. Relevance of major stress events as an indicator of disease activity prevalence in inflammatory bowel disease. Behav Med. 1991; 17(3). Duffy LC, Zielezny MA, Marshall JR, Weiser MM, Phillips JF, Byers TE, Calkins BM, Graham S, Ogra PL. Lag time between stress events and risk of recurrent episodes of inflammatory bowel disease. Epidemiology. 1991; 2(2). Duffy LC, Zielezny MA, Marshall JR, Weiser MM, Byers TE, Phillips JF, Ogra PL, Graham S. Cigarette smoking and risk of clinical relapse in patients with Crohn's disease. Am J Prev Med. 1990; 6(3). Duffy LC, Zielezny MA, Riepenhoff-Talty M, Byers TE, Marshall J, Weiser MM, Graham S, Ogra PL. Vasoactive intestinal peptide as a laboratory supplement to clinical activity index in inflammatory bowel disease. Dig Dis Sci. 1989; 34(10). Erie County Medical Society, Nominating Committee Professional Steering Committe, Cardiovascular Disease Heart Failure Society of America American College of Cardiology International Society of Heart and Lung Tranplantation	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3395
__label__cc	0.7275	0.2725	Home Biography Instagram Catherine Paiz Age: Marriage, Husband & Net Worth Catherine Paiz Age: Marriage, Husband & Net Worth Sriz The Beauty Queen Catherine Paiz The Canadian model and actress Catherine Paiz is famous for her works with ‘Victoria Secret.’ She is well known for her role in the film ‘Lilin’s Brood,’ ‘Monda Nights at Seven,’ and so on. She modeled for ‘Azzelian Swimwear.’ The Famous Model and Actress Catherine Paiz Today, we are talking about some features of the gorgeous model Catherine Paiz like her bio, age, family, marriage, husband, net worth, height, weight, wiki. So, for more information about Catherine Paiz, stick to the end. 1 Catherine Paiz Bio: Early Life, Family, and Education (Who is Catherine Paiz?) 2 Catherine Paiz: Age, Height, Weight, and Body Statistics (How tall is Catherine Paiz?) 3 Catherine Paiz: Personal Life, Is Catherine married? Who is her husband? 4 Catherine Paiz: Professional Life, Career 5 Catherine Paiz: Net Worth, Salary, and Income (How much does Catherine earn?) 6 Catherine Paiz: Social Media Profiles Catherine Paiz Bio: Early Life, Family, and Education (Who is Catherine Paiz?) The ‘Victoria’s Secret model Catherine Paiz was born on August 24, 1990, in Montreal, Canada. She was raised in Miami, Florida, by her parents and siblings. She has two brothers named Ryan and Josh. She has one younger sister whose name is unknown. Unfortunately, Catherine’s parents’ names and information are not available at the moment. Her parents are Panamanian. Her mother has a hair salon. During her childhood days, Catherine was interested in modeling and acting, and her parents support her in modeling as well as acting. Caroline Cossey Bio: Age, Marriage, Husband, Net Worth, Wiki >> Likewise, Catherine holds Canadian citizenship. She belongs to the white ethnicity. Her religion is unknown. On the other hand, she graduated from St. Louis College. She also liked to play hockey, soccer, and volleyball. Catherine is also a trained swimmer and started playing basketball with her dream boy Austin McBroom. Catherine Paiz: Age, Height, Weight, and Body Statistics (How tall is Catherine Paiz?) The ‘Azzelian Swimwear’s model Catherine Paiz is 29 years old. She lives under her birth sign of Virgo. The beauty queen graces public attention wherever she goes. Her height is 5 feet, 7 inches. She weighs57 kg. Furthermore, Catherine has beautiful dark brown eyes and long blonde hair. Her body statistic is 34-25-35 inches with a slim body build. Paiz manages her body with a healthy diet and physical exercise. She wears 8 (US) size shoes. But her dress size is still under review. So, we will get back to you with accurate data! Catherine Paiz: Personal Life, Is Catherine married? Who is her husband? The Instagram star Catherine is a married woman. She married Austin McBroom, who is a former basketball player. The couple married secretly. They are living happily with their kids. Austin and Paiz met for the first time at a party. After, Austin proposed to Catherine, and she accepted him. Then, the duo started dating in 2015. In 2017, Catherine and Austin were engaged. Crystal Renn, Plus-Size, Age, Height, Body, Career, Boyfriend, Net Worth, Instagram >> Moreover, they were blessed with the first child as a daughter named Elle Lively McBroom, born on May 28, 2016. They have a second child girl named Alaia Maria McBroom on October 17, 2018. But they separated because Austin had an extra-marital affair with another girl. Later on, they again united. Catherine also disclosed that she was pregnant third time by Austin in 2020. Yet, Catherine is focusing on her career as a model and actress. She is spending her time with her husband, kids, and family. Catherine Paiz: Professional Life, Career The 29 years old model Catherine began her modeling career at an early age. She is also known as an Instagram star, fitness model, and TV host. She signed the contract with ‘Victoria’s Secret’ at the age of 16. After she worked for ‘Azzelia Swimwear‘ and ‘Arkadia Miami’ as a VIP manager. The Canadian model Catherine Paiz In addition, Catherine has modeled for some ads campaign. The multitalented model and actress Catherine worked with many films, which made her popular in the film industry; they are ‘Lilin’s Brood’ in 2016 and ‘Monday Nights at Seven‘ in 2016. Moreover, she appeared in ‘You Can’t Have It’ in 2017. The multitalented model Catherine is not nominated for any awards function. So, we wish she will be nominated for any awards function in the future. Catherine Paiz: Net Worth, Salary, and Income (How much does Catherine earn?) The ‘Arkadia Miami’ s model Catherine has an estimated net worth of around $2 million. Paiz also earns money from her professional career as a model and actress. Being an Instagram star, she earns $5,000 – $15000 per post. Clemence Poesy Bio: Age, Height, Family, Husband, Son, Net Worth, Wiki >> Similarly, Catherine’s salary, income, cars, houses are still under review. So, we will get back to you when we find more detail about her properties. Catherine Paiz: Social Media Profiles The world-famous model and actress Catherine is active on social media networking. Catherine has many fans followers on her social media profiles such as; Previous articleIsabella Leong, Singer, Actress, Body, Career & Net Worth Next articleInes Sainz Age: Bio, Marriage, Career & Net Worth	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3396
__label__wiki	0.555698	0.555698	About Modern Luxury Media Lux Studio Social Media Intern - Remote Careers, Atlanta, Chicago, New York, Miami, SOCIAL MEDIA SPRING 2021 INTERN Directly Reports to: MARKETING MANAGER AND VP, SOCIAL MEDIA At Modern Luxury, connection and community define who we are. Reaching an audience of more than 16 million, we are the nation's largest luxury media company offering leading brands access to the most affluent audiences in the most prominent cities across the U.S. Through the power of the Modern Luxury platform including 85+ brands across 22 markets, we deliver powerful marketing solutions allowing luxury brands to connect with their audiences in the places and ways that matter most. SOCIAL MEDIA INTERNSHIP Modern Luxury is seeking Social Media interns to join our team for the Spring 2021 Internship Program. Interns will work closely with the social media team to help prepare, schedule and post content on all of Modern Luxury’s Instagram, Facebook and Twitter accounts. We are looking for someone passionate about social media and our brand. The internship will be fully remote and all applicants MUST be able to receive college credit. Please send resumes to Mercedes Leguizamon at mleguizamon@modernluxury.com. Deadline to apply is December 1st, 2020. ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES Assists the social media team in scheduling both paid and organic content. Brainstorms campaign ideas. Monitor various social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Analyzes analytics to gauge the success of campaigns. Understands the overall concept of the company, including the brand, customer, product goals, and all other aspects of service. Must be eligible for college credit and enrolled in college or university. Please connect with your career center to learn more about your options. This internship is unpaid. Interns are to be available to volunteer between 15-20 hours during the week. Please e-mail application materials to Mercedes Luguizamon at mleguizamon@modernluxury.com with “Spring 2021 Intern” in the subject. Deadline to apply is December 1, 2020. Please do not apply if you are not currently a student. We are the nation's largest luxury media company offering leading brands access to the most affluent audiences in the most prominent cities across the U.S. Riviera Orange County Digital Destinations Mensbook.com © 2021 Modern Luxury	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3399
__label__cc	0.635849	0.364151	Charles James at the Met: An Exercise in Precision, Taste, and Sensuality Charles James with Model (1948) from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photograph by Cecil Beaton, Beaton/Vogue/Condé Nast Archive. Copyright Condé Nast 2014. Charles James is considered the long-forgotten beacon of American couture, a hero to the affluent heiresses (think earlier Auntie Mame types) that characterized the century, though a niche population, at best. Although moody, perverted, and deeply narcissistic, James was a true genius and innovator, creating dresses that way preceded in style what are considered the ‘fresh’ fashions of today’s Roland Mouret and Narciso Rodriguez runway collections. His new Costume Institute exhibition, entitled Charles James: Beyond Fashion, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art gives James’ his deserved recognition and for us, a window into his world. The show begins on the first floor in a dimly lit and newly renovated gallery where a row of delicate bodices and inner workings of James’ gowns (mounted on mannequins) open up to reveal a room filled entirely with James’ most famed dresses, such as the Umbrella, the Lampshade, the Four-Leaf Clover, the Butterfly, etc. There are several cream incarnations of these prototypes, one in vibrant green satin, but the majority being in muted and muddy colors. Surrounding them sit customized computer screens (recent Institute purchases) that analyze every inch of James’ forms, taking them apart digitally to reveal their hidden structures. I tend to believe that technology often detracts from, rather than aids, the experience of examining art on one’s own, and that often this component becomes the focus of viewers, magnetizing them and thereby distracting people from studying the works themselves. So frequently do I personally trade real-life interactions for faceless ones without second thoughts; for me, at least, it’s an immediate, visceral reaction– I will make no overarching generalizations. And yet, at this exhibit, the employment of technology alongside James’ dresses feels oddly fitting, considering that so much of his pieces’ charm and finesse resides not in their superficial outcomes but in every meticulous step demanded for the construction of such dazzling products. I might venture to call it an enhancement, as the screens heighten the elegance of James’ achievements. Etched on the gallery’s mirrored walls are sacred James quotes, full of wisdom regarding his designs and design process and brimming with quintessentially James humor, or so the curators tell us. In this vein, I cannot help but wonder what the couturier himself would say looking back upon this tribute to his opus, his life’s work, interpolated with modern-day mechanics, all bright and shiny, glittering in their quest to attract the eye, but somehow void of anything real and lasting. What happens when you step out from the dark into the light? Aside from having to readjust optically, I did not necessarily come away stirred by the profundity of Charles James’ creations. And I think I should have. Anyway, next I headed to the second location of the show, beneath the Egyptian Wing of the museum. The glamour continued with more gowns, several dowdy hats, and various takes on suits that likely inspired Rei Kawakubo’s futon style coats for Comme de Garçons last year on display. There were even several golden-striped, knife-pleated skirts and dresses that evoke the recent Spring/Summer Proenza Schouler collection. Highlights included one of the first puffer jackets ever to be made, a little-known James invention; his coarse but beautiful preliminary sketches, used as models or outlines for future garments; and several artist books filled with clippings. Leaving this last section, I noted how James seemed to have had an acute understanding of the female body, of each line, form, and shape, and because of this knowledge, he was able to have his dresses push, tighten, and reveal with perfection and grace. This epiphany of mine, however insignificant and obvious, ties in to something that pervades or serves as the foundation for all of James’ designs– his opinion that fashion is a vehicle of eroticism. A statement of his hangs above the entrance to one of the galleries: James remarks that blue jeans, which might be considered quotidian today but were very avant-garde in his time, are highly functional, and because of this are the embodiment or essence of sexual. This casual line actually says a lot about James as a couturier– more than just a maker of clothes, he propelled fashion forward as a prescient or prophetic promoter of the physical and the carnal. For more on James, I suggest reading these reviews, one from the NY Times by Carol Vogel and another in the WSJ by Laura Jacobs. Videos about the show can be seen here. Posted in Museum Exhibitions on May 28, 2014 by mosellekleiner. 2 Comments ← The Magic of the Frieze Art Fair New in Brooklyn: Kara Walker’s A Subtlety* → Tova K says: This is so cool mo! Pingback: VISITING THE CHARLES JAMES AT THE MET: an exercise in precision, taste, and sensuality \| TRK World	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3400
__label__wiki	0.636236	0.636236	Difference between revisions of "Motobecane" Simon (talk \| contribs) m (Link to MBK) '''Motobécane''' was a [[France\|French]] manufacturer of [[bicycle]]s, [[moped]]s, [[motorcycle]]s, and other small vehicles, established in 1923. "Motobécane" is a compound word made up of two colloquialisms stuck together. "Moto" is a slang word for motorcycle; "bécane" is slang for "bike." In 1981, Motobécane filed for bankruptcy, and was subsequently purchased by [[Yamaha Motor Corporation\|Yamaha]] and reformed in 1984 as [[MBK]]; the French company continues to make [[motorscooter]]s, and has no relation to [[Motobécane USA]], which imports bicycles from Taiwan and China, manufactured to their specification under the Motobécane [[trademark]]. In 1981, Motobécane filed for bankruptcy, and was subsequently purchased by [[Yamaha Motor Corporation\|Yamaha]] and reformed in 1984 as [[MBK]]; the French company continues to make [[motorscooter]]s, and has no relation to [[Motobecane USA]], which imports bicycles from Taiwan and China, manufactured to their specification under the Motobécane [[trademark]]. == Logo == Motobécane was a French manufacturer of bicycles, mopeds, motorcycles, and other small vehicles, established in 1923. "Motobécane" is a compound word made up of two colloquialisms stuck together. "Moto" is a slang word for motorcycle; "bécane" is slang for "bike." In 1981, Motobécane filed for bankruptcy, and was subsequently purchased by Yamaha and reformed in 1984 as MBK; the French company continues to make motorscooters, and has no relation to Motobecane USA, which imports bicycles from Taiwan and China, manufactured to their specification under the Motobécane trademark. 2 Bicycles 3 Mopeds 4 Scooters 5 Repair Guides 6 Performance Tuning Guides 7 Motorcycles Most moped companies were short lived enough that the evolution of their logo was slight or never happened. The Motobecane logo is an exception to this as it changed numerous times throughout the evolution of the company. Motobécane was a major and respected manufacturer in the French bicycle industry. The frames on Motobécane's mid-to-upper end bikes were typically double-butted lugged steel made from Vitus or Reynolds 531 steel tubing with elegant Nervex lugs. Thus, they were light, sturdy, and well made. Motobécane finished their frames in exceptionally beautiful and high-quality paints, a practice not often followed in the French bicycle industry. Considered the second most prestigious French bicycle (after Peugeot, whose more durable design they emulated, but ahead of Gitane), Motobécane's mid-range bikes were an exceptional value; the company kept prices reasonable by matching their high-quality frames with lower-priced, but higher-quality components from Japan, at a time when their competitors were putting higher-priced, lower quality French components on their mid-range bikes. Motobécane bicycle models included the Nomade, Mirage, Super Mirage, Super Touring, Grand Touring, Sprint, Jubilee, Grand Record, Le Champion, and Team Champion. In addition to the standard diamond frame bicycles, Motobécane also produced mixte frame versions of their bicycles; the mixte frame Grand Touring had twin lateral stays in place of a Top tube, extending from the head tube to the seat tube, while the Super Touring and Grand Jubilé had a single top tube sloping down towards the seat tube, but diverging into twin lateral stays just before joining with the seat tube. Later mixte Grand Touring models also used this design. Motobécane also produced a tandem bicycle. Vintage French bicycles, including Motobécanes, are often sought out today by experienced riders for their value as a fixed gear or track bike conversion; for others, the unequaled pleasure of riding a vintage, well-made lugged steel bike is its own reward. Buyers should be aware that many French bicycles manufactured before 1980 use the old-style French reverse-threaded bottom brackets, which can be difficult to find, although they are still available new through manufacturers such as Phil Wood, as well as through the used market. However, Motobecane broke ranks with other French manufacturers, beginning in the mid-seventies, by using Swiss-threaded bottom brackets, which are available through the same sources as the French-threaded bottom brackets, and buyers should be aware of the thread difference when replacing their bottom brackets. Motobécane introduced a moped, the Mobylette, in 1949; over the next 48 years, Motobécane manufactured 14 million Mobylettes. Under the name MBK, the company continues to manufacture scooters for the European market. Performance Tuning Guides Converting from stock Gurtner AR Carburetor to a Dellorto SHA carburetor Motobécane manufactured motorcycles from its inception in 1923 until its demise in 1981. Motobécane Club of France Personal Mobylette website Classic Rendezvous: Motobécane Les mobylettes Motobécane Motobecane.jp	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3402
__label__wiki	0.550928	0.550928	$45,000 Budo Whisky Collection Celebrates Japanese Tradition Man of Many, 12 Dec 2020 Modern Japanese martial arts have inspired a great deal of artwork, including a new collection of rare Karuizawa 35 Year Old Whisky from Dekanta. The private label bottlings feature hand-painted street art and is priced at $45,000 USD. Southern Tier’s Pumking Whiskey is ‘Pumpkin Pie in a Shot Glass’ Bushmills Launches the First Edition of Its New “Rare Casks” Series Lark Distilling Co. Unveils $550 PARA50 Vintage Tawny Cask Whisky “Budo” is the Japanese word used to describe the philosophy behind the martial arts, and translates literally into “The Martial Way.” While Budo is traditionally used to describe practitioners of the martial arts, Dekanta is using the term to also celebrate the masters behind the distillation as well as the artwork on the bottles. The artwork takes things a step further, featuring three Japanese street artists painting around three modern Japanese martial arts: Kendo, Karate, and Sumo. The featured artists are FATE and PHIL from the SCA-Crew and TWOONE, a globally recognized artist from Yokohama. As for the distiller, the bottlings are likely to be the last from the Karuizawa distillery, which was closed in 2000. As supply from the now shuttered distillery dropped, the demand has risen, especially as more markets around the world have discovered Japanese whisky. That demand has resulted in some incredible prices at auction. Just this past March, a bottle of Karuizawa 52 Year Old Zodiac Rat Cask sold for $435,273 USD at Sotheby’s London. “This collection has been many years in the making, intended to celebrate the craft of Japanese modern martial arts, and draw parallels between the discipline of their practice and that of artists and master distillers in Japan. With that in mind, the collection has gained new significance in light of a year in which so many sporting, art, and cultural events have sadly been cancelled,” said Makiyo Masa, the Founder and Director of Dekanta. The Karuizawa Budo Collection was made available on November 19, 2020, and was limited to just 128 bottles. Japanese Whisky, Whisky Johnnie Walker Unveils $680 Limited Edition Lunar New Year Release The Macallan is Hosting a Ritzy 6-Course Whisky-Paired Feast in Sydney Rosebank Distillery Returns with an 'Incredible' 30-Year-Old Single Malt Drinks, Grooming The Balvenie Joins The Barber Shop for the Ultimate Cutthroat Cocktail Experience Lark Distilling Co. Double Tawny Dials the Aussie Whisky Experience 'Up to 11'	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3406
__label__cc	0.599814	0.400186	Cognition in schizophrenia: Impairments, determinants, and functional importance Christopher R. Bowie, Philip D. Harvey Recent findings support and add to earlier findings of cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia. Deficits across neurocognitive domains such as attention, working memory, language skills, and executive functioning tend to be moderate, with the most pronounced deficits found in verbal learning and memory. All these neurocognitive domains are related to adaptive and social skills, with executive functions and verbal learning and memory showing more variance across more domains than other neurocognitive variables. Negative symptoms and neurocognitive domains, although correlated, are distinct and have differential pathways of change with treatment. General psychopathology symptoms, such as depression and anxiety, may become important treatment targets as strategies are developed for translating cognitive enhancement to real-world functional performance. Psychiatric Clinics of North America 3 SPEC. ISS. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psc.2005.05.004 10.1016/j.psc.2005.05.004 Fingerprint Dive into the research topics of 'Cognition in schizophrenia: Impairments, determinants, and functional importance'. Together they form a unique fingerprint. Schizophrenia Medicine & Life Sciences Translating Medicine & Life Sciences Social Skills Medicine & Life Sciences Physical Functional Performance Medicine & Life Sciences Executive Function Medicine & Life Sciences Bowie, C. R., & Harvey, P. D. (2005). Cognition in schizophrenia: Impairments, determinants, and functional importance. Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 28(3 SPEC. ISS.), 613-633. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psc.2005.05.004 Cognition in schizophrenia : Impairments, determinants, and functional importance. / Bowie, Christopher R.; Harvey, Philip D. In: Psychiatric Clinics of North America, Vol. 28, No. 3 SPEC. ISS., 09.2005, p. 613-633. Bowie, CR & Harvey, PD 2005, 'Cognition in schizophrenia: Impairments, determinants, and functional importance', Psychiatric Clinics of North America, vol. 28, no. 3 SPEC. ISS., pp. 613-633. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psc.2005.05.004 Bowie CR, Harvey PD. Cognition in schizophrenia: Impairments, determinants, and functional importance. Psychiatric Clinics of North America. 2005 Sep;28(3 SPEC. ISS.):613-633. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psc.2005.05.004 Bowie, Christopher R. ; Harvey, Philip D. / Cognition in schizophrenia : Impairments, determinants, and functional importance. In: Psychiatric Clinics of North America. 2005 ; Vol. 28, No. 3 SPEC. 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__label__wiki	0.672688	0.672688	Results for search "Cancer: Pancreatic". Family Tragedy Has Mindy Kaling Speaking Out on Pancreatic Cancer When actor, writer and producer Mindy Kaling's mom was fighting pancreatic cancer, it was the biggest struggle the family had ever experienced. Swati Chokalingam, a Boston-area obstetrician/gynecologist and Kaling's mom, died in 2012 after getting a stage 4 diagnosis eight months earlier. Now Kaling is raising awareness for the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network (PanCAN) as official b... Cara Murez Cancer: Pancreatic Research &, Development Therapy &, Procedures: Misc. Alex Trebek Dies at 80 From Pancreatic Cancer Alex Trebek, beloved by millions as the calm, authoritative host of 'Jeopardy!' for a record-setting 37 years, died Sunday after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. Trebek's death at age 80 was confirmed by the show's producers, The New York Times said. 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Cancer: Bladder Cancer: Esophageal Cancer: Lung Cancer: Lymphoma Cancer: Misc. Cancer: Ovarian Cancer: Pancreatic DNA Liver 'I Wish I Had Known Sooner': Alex Trebek Issues PSA on Pancreatic Cancer THURSDAY, Oct. 31, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- "Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek is turning his battle with pancreatic cancer into advocacy, partnering with the World Pancreatic Cancer Coalition to issue a public service announcement (PSA) aimed at heightening awareness of the killer disease. The aim of the video PSA is to "help raise global awareness of the risks and symptoms of pancreatic ... Obesity May Be Upping Rates of Pancreatic Cancer Worldwide Rising rates of obesity and diabetes could be pushing up rates of pancreatic cancer across the globe, a new report suggests. Global rates of colon cancer are also on the rise, although fewer cases are now proving deadly, researchers said. 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Alex Trebek Says His Pancreatic Cancer Is 'Near Remission' Long-time "Jeopardy!" Host Alex Trebek may be winning his battle against pancreatic cancer, he and his doctors report. Trebek, 78, is responding incredibly well to treatments and is in "near remission," his doctors said Wednesday. "It's kind of mind-boggling," Trek told People as part of its new cover story. Even though the overall survival rate for pancreatic cance... Blood Test Could Spot Multiple Cancer Types, Researchers Say A gene-based blood test can accurately detect breast, colorectal, lung, ovarian, pancreatic, gastric or bile duct cancers in patients, researchers report. The test uses artificial intelligence to identify and interpret "fragments" of DNA in the blood that indicate the presence of cancer, explained researchers led by Dr. Victor Velculescu. He helps direct the Cancer Biology Program at ... Cancer: Breast Cancer: Colon Cancer: Lung Cancer: Misc. Cancer: Ovarian Cancer: Pancreatic Genetics Screening Aggressive Approach to Pancreatic Cysts May Prevent Dreaded Cancer Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest malignancies, so a new study appears to offer some good news: Early removal of a certain type of precancerous pancreatic cyst may prevent the disease in some people. These cysts -- called intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms -- can cause enlargement of the main pancreatic duct. This duct is normally about 3 millimeters (mm) in diameter. Cancer: Misc. Cancer: Pancreatic Surgery: Misc. Treatment Advances Making Pancreatic Cancer a Less Deadly Disease Advances in chemotherapy and cancer monitoring can dramatically extend the lives of almost one-third of pancreatic cancer patients with tumors previously considered inoperable, researchers report. It's good news for patients with a particularly deadly form of cancer that's been highlighted by the recent diagnosis of "Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. Cancer: Misc. Cancer: Pancreatic Chemotherapy Imaging Devices Surgery: Misc. Therapy &, Procedures: Misc. Survival Pancreatic Cancer Survival Odds Linked to Weight Before Age 50 Need another reason to stay slim? People who are overweight have a greater risk of dying from pancreatic cancer, especially those who are carrying extra pounds before age 50, a new study suggests. "No matter what the age, there was some increase in pancreatic cancer deaths associated with excess weight. But the association was stronger for excess weight me... Aging: Misc. Cancer: Misc. Cancer: Pancreatic Obesity Weight Gain Weight: Misc. Survival Genomics Could Improve Treatment of Pancreatic Cancer It's one of the toughest cancers to beat. But new research suggests that identifying the genetics of pancreatic cancer in individual patients could boost survival for some. The five-year survival rate for pancreatic cancer patients is less than 9 percent. One reason this cancer is so deadly is that many patients are diagnosed at a late stage and often with inoperable tumors. Cancer: Pancreatic Chemotherapy Genetic Disorders Genetics 'Jeopardy!' Host Alex Trebek Reveals He Has Pancreatic Cancer In a special announcement aired Wednesday on the "Jeopardy!" YouTube channel, long-time host Alex Trebek announced he has stage 4 pancreatic cancer, but intends to "fight" the disease. Trebek, 78, said he was concerned about the media reporting his condition inaccurately, so "I wanted to be the one to pass along this information." "Now normally, the prognosis for this is not... Obesity-Linked Cancers On the Rise Among Young Americans As more young American adults struggle with extra weight, they are paying an even steeper price as the rates of obesity-related cancers rise in this age group. Obesity has already been linked to rising rates of type 2 diabetes, heart disease and knee replacements. Now, new research suggests cancer can be added to that list, and the rate of obesity-related cancers is certain to keep cl... Cancer: Colon Cancer: Misc. Cancer: Pancreatic Cancer: Uterine Cancer: Kidney Obesity Weight: Misc. Adding Blood Test for Pancreatic Cancer May Aid Early Detection Using a new blood test for pancreatic cancer alongside the current blood test may improve early detection and help screen people at high risk for the deadly disease, researchers say. The combination approach detects 70 percent of pancreatic cancers with a less than 5 percent false-positive rate, according to the team led by scientists at the Van Andel Research Institute in Grand Rapid... Cancer: Misc. Cancer: Pancreatic Medical Technology: Misc. Screening Suicide Risk Rises Following Cancer Diagnosis A cancer diagnosis can be tough to take, and a new study finds many patients contemplate suicide. That risk is most pronounced in the year following the diagnosis, researchers reported. The risk for suicide among newly diagnosed cancer patients also varies by the type of cancer, they added. "Both cancer and suicide are leading causes of death and present a major pu... Cancer: Lung Cancer: Misc. Cancer: Pancreatic Suicide Is Your State a Hotspot for Obesity-Linked Cancers? What state you call home may have a great deal to do with your chances of developing an obesity-related cancer, a new report suggests. A nearly twofold difference exists between U.S. states with the highest and lowest proportion of obesity-related cancers, American Cancer Society researchers have found. The highest is in the District of Columbia, at 8 percent, and the lowest... Cancer: Breast Cancer: Colon Cancer: Esophageal Cancer: Misc. Cancer: Pancreatic Cancer: Kidney Obesity Cancer: Stomach Chemo 'Cocktail' Embraced as Pancreatic Cancer Breakthrough When researchers announced that a four-drug chemotherapy regimen can add years to the lives of some patients with earlier-stage pancreatic cancer, doctors didn't wait. Trial results were released last spring, and were immediately "practice-changing," said Dr. Hedy Kindler, an oncologist at the University of Chicago who was not involved in the trial. Dr. James Biagi, one of t... Cancer: Misc. Cancer: Pancreatic Chemotherapy Survival Teenage Obesity May Raise Pancreatic Cancer Risk Years Later Obesity in the teen years may increase the risk of developing deadly pancreatic cancer in adulthood, researchers report. The odds for this rare cancer can quadruple due to obesity, the Israeli research team found. Moreover, the risk rises as weight increases, even affecting men in the high normal weight range. "It's been known for some time that obesity can increase an indi... Cancer: Misc. Cancer: Pancreatic Obesity Overweight / Underweight Adolescents / Teens Most People Don't Know if They Have Genetic Risk for Cancer Most people carrying genes that put them at risk for cancer don't realize it, new research suggests. Genetic screenings of more than 50,000 people found that more than 80 percent of those who carry a known gene variant for breast, ovarian, prostate or pancreatic cancer were unaware of their risk. Researchers noted that most people carrying cancer-associated variants in the B... Mary Elizabeth Dallas Cancer: Breast Cancer: Misc. Cancer: Ovarian Cancer: Pancreatic Cancer: Prostate Genetic Disorders Genetics Screening	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3422
__label__cc	0.627102	0.372898	The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim – Nintendo Switch Review Of all the games released on the Nintendo switch, the one I find myself putting more hours into than any other is Bethesda’s Skyrim. I’ve played it before – many, many times across multiple platforms. But the switch version of the game might just be my favorite incarnation of the classic RPG yet… Read More The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim – Nintendo Switch Review Revenge (2018) Review In a lot of ways, Coralie Fargeat’s feature film debut, Revenge, delivers on exactly what that title promises. But look deeper through the blood and guts and this B-movie delivers quite a few surprises… Read More Revenge (2018) Review Bullet Head (2017) Review Paul Solet’s Bullet Head is not the greatest film of all time, it’s not trying to be. But it is one of the most surprising in recent memory. Starring some real talent – and an excellent dog – Bullet Head is worth your time. Just ignore the title. Read More Bullet Head (2017) Review The Best Films of 2017 Better late than never. Here are my top 5 films of 2017 – feel free to argue or disagree! The list is ever changing, so even I might disagree by tomorrow. Read More The Best Films of 2017 American Made (2017) Review 2017 has been a tough year for Tom Cruise. Everyone agreed that ‘The Mummy’ was terrible, after Cruise was the one endorsing it so heavily. But don’t worry! With ‘American Made’ Cruise is back to his absolute best, as the charming and crazy Barry Seal. Based on a true, and insane, story. Read More American Made (2017) Review My Top 5 Films of 2017 (So Far) So far so good; 2017 is shaping up to be pretty fantastic year for cinema. Sure there’s been some duds but there’s also been some sure-to-be future classics too. Perhaps most surprisingly though is the fact that a lot of these aren’t coming from the usual avant-garde places, but rather from big bad Hollywood. Read on, tell me if you agree with my picks, and let me know what your favourite films of 2017 have been! Read More My Top 5 Films of 2017 (So Far) Dunkirk (2017) Review The new film by Christopher Nolan is here. Is it the film of the year? Read More Dunkirk (2017) Review ‘Nobody Does It Better’ – A Roger Moore Retrospective A look back on the life of James Bond himself, Roger Moore, who has sadly passed away at the age of 89. Read More ‘Nobody Does It Better’ – A Roger Moore Retrospective 100 Words or Less – Death Sentence (2007) This is either a gritty revenge thriller, or the weirdest EE advert ever. A winner from Wan The Man. Read More 100 Words or Less – Death Sentence (2007) Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) Review The Guardians of the Galaxy are back! Once again in the trusty and insane hands of James Gunn. The first film was such a surprise. Was it a happy accident or have Marvel done it again? Read More Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) Review	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3428
__label__wiki	0.853027	0.853027	In tough economy, Toyota plant brings Miss. jobs Before Toyota came, Cassius Perry was struggling like many in this hilly, sparsely populated region of north Mississippi that's shed thousands of furniture manufacturing jobs since the 1990s. Th... BLUE SPRINGS, Miss. – Before Toyota came, Cassius Perry was struggling like many in this hilly, sparsely populated region of north Mississippi that's shed thousands of furniture manufacturing jobs since the 1990s. The young father of three went to school to be a barber, but ended up working for a salvage company while he held out hope for something better. This year Perry landed good pay and health insurance when he went to work for a supplier to the sprawling new Toyota plant on the outskirts of the tiny town of Blue Springs. Hundreds have been hired, giving local leaders hope that their area will become another Southern automotive boomtown. The plant is finally set to begin production on Nov. 17, following more than a year's worth of agonizing delays. "It changed my whole life around. I was struggling before I got this job. It made a difference for me, my family, my kids and even my church. I can pay tithing now," said Perry, 22. "The benefits make the difference. I don't want to be 30 and stacked up in medical debt." So far, about 1,250 Toyota employees are already building test cars at the plant, and the company expects to hire another 280 this year. More will come aboard in the future, and dozens of others are employed by suppliers. Production comes at a time when the future is uncertain for many in the state where unemployment has hovered above 10 percent. Excitement over the plant is palpable from the folding tables at the single store in Blue Springs to the halls of the Governor's Mansion in Jackson. "It's a Godsend to us," said Mayor Jack Reed Jr. of Tupelo, the biggest city near the facility with 34,500 residents. "People around here certainly have a little more bounce in our steps now." Officials from three counties spent years working to lure a car manufacturer, watching as other southern communities have reaped the economic spoils of new plant openings. In the past decade, foreign carmakers that opened plants elsewhere have included Nissan in central Mississippi, Toyota in Texas, Kia in Georgia and Volkswagen in Tennessee. Gov. Haley Barbour went to Japan to court Toyota before the Blue Springs plant was announced in 2007, and state officials were glad to sign off on a $324 million incentive package. To illustrate what a car manufacturer can do for an area, Barbour cites a Toyota plant that opened in Georgetown, Ky. in the 1980s. "It literally changed that entire region of the state. It started with only a couple of thousand jobs and now has well over 5,000 jobs," Barbour said in a telephone interview. "My point is, we're just starting to see the effect Toyota will have on northeast Mississippi," he said. Georgetown Mayor Everette Varney said the Toyota plant has spurred steady growth in the Kentucky city since it was announced in 1985. The city's population has nearly tripled since 1990 to 29,000 people, according to the U.S. Census. "Even in the downturn in the economy we experienced growth. Toyota, I mean, we just exploded," Varney said. "They have been tremendous for this city." Analysts say one reason the South is attractive to foreign automakers is because in right-to-work states that are common in the region workers can't be forced to join unions if their co-workers unionize. Nice weather and proximity to customers in growing states are other factors. "They pay pretty good wages so there's not much incentive to unionize. This is why the Southeast is just harvesting new jobs," said Larry Rinek, a California-based consultant with Frost and Sullivan who works with major auto manufacturers and suppliers. The Mississippi plant sits at the edge of Blue Springs, a town of 200 that's little more than a winding, hilly road lined with modest houses, a small post office and Gentry's Grocery & Grill. The same locals sip coffee nearly every morning at Gentry's, where mounted deer hang from the walls and Toyota is a favored conversation topic. The store is packed at lunch with automotive workers. "Things are rolling now," owner Mike Gentry said recently. Toyota has been working with the Mississippi Department of Employment Security to take job applications. MDES recently said that it has collected more than 41,000 applications for the plant, with applicants from all 82 Mississippi counties, 44 other states and Puerto Rico. Blue Spring's leaders are studying ways to improve infrastructure, knowing they can't lure suppliers and other spin-off businesses without sufficient sewer and water systems. A few miles southeast, rental units are in demand in the town of Sherman and investors have snapped up commercial property. But people weren't always so upbeat. Initial excitement over Toyota's announcement in 2007 turned into concern late the next year when the carmaker indefinitely delayed the start of production. The decision came after the economy tanked and Toyota was hit by the largest recall in company history. Production had originally been slated to begin in 2010. The delay was unusual for a company like Toyota, "but given the circumstances, the economic backdrop, it was a wise thing to do," said Mike Jackson, an automotive analyst for IHS Global Insight. People around here got worried, said Blue Springs Alderwoman Rita Gentry, whose brother owns Gentry's Grocery. "At first there was concern that they might not open at all. To be honest with you, I had my doubts. But when I saw how much work they'd done and how much they invested in our community and schools, I knew it would open. They were just being cautious," Gentry said. In nearby Sherman, Red and Phyliss Moore watched business boom at their Big R Drive-in restaurant while the plant was under construction. They opened a second restaurant to handle the overflow of customers, mainly construction workers. But they were soon forced to close the second restaurant when construction neared completion. Still, Red Moore says he has no regrets. "When these things are announced, there's a lot of hype. It seemed like this town was going to be covered up with new people. Those things don't happen that fast," Red Moore said. Some have other concerns. Buddy Cobb, 73, runs a scrap yard in Blue Springs. He's worried about increased traffic and higher taxes to build infrastructure. But he also recognizes that the slow pace of small town life and lack of jobs often force young people to leave. Shrugging his shoulders, Cobb said, "If you don't grow, you die." Many hope Toyota will keep young people closer to home. Toyota has committed $50 million to education in the three surrounding counties. At East Union Attendance Center a few miles from the plant, where there are about 830 students from kindergarten to 12th grade, there's already been a slight increase in enrollment. "We try to use that as a motivational factor to let students know about opportunities here," said East Union Principal Ray Kennedy. There's no need to explain that to Chase Betts, a 25-year-old man from Mooreville, near Tupelo. He looked for jobs all over the South after graduating from a tool and die program at a community college. He eventually took a job teaching high school in Tupelo. Then he found out about Toyota, the best paying job he'd found in the area that matched his skills. About a year ago he was hired in maintenance in the stamping division. "I'm really not fond of being away from home because I'm a very family-oriented guy. It meant a lot for me to able to get a position here 25 minutes from my home," Betts said. "It means a lot to be able to stick around the family." Grand jury probes what Edwards knew about spending Skull, open questions beset NC girl's murder case Southern Baptists elect black pastor to No. 2 post Family of slain Yale student sues university When divorce refused, Orthodox Jewish society acts Man pleads guilty in Baltimore Inner Harbor death	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3430
__label__wiki	0.59552	0.59552	Fun Fact Friday- Eve (from Wall-E) March 31, 2017 amcoope2 Fun Fact- Did you know that the character Eve from Wall-E was designed in part by the same person who designed the iPod, the iPhone, and iMac! “I wanted Eve to be high-end technology – no expense spared – and I wanted it to be seamless and for the technology to be sort of hidden and subcutaneous,” Andrew Stanton, Wall-E’s director, told Fortune. “The more I started describing it, the more I realized I was pretty much describing the Apple playbook for design.” Andrew Stanton Andrew Stanton began working on the ideas for the movie in 2005 and asked Steve Jobs (Apple CEO and majority shareholder of Pixar at the time) for consultation work, and Steve sent him Johnathan Ive. Jonathan Ive and Steve Jobs Ive is a quiet man, but consulted and worked with Stanton on the design, offering his suggestions. So the man who brought us groundbreaking designs like the iPod and iPhones has placed his thumbprint on a small piece of Disney history. Andrew StantonEveEve from Wall-EFun Fact FridayJonathan IveJony IvePixarSteve JobsWall-E	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3432
__label__wiki	0.869262	0.869262	Coronavirus Northern Ireland: Support announced for NI arts and creative sector Communities Minister Deirdre Hargey MLA has instructed officials to put in place immediate and practical steps to help support Artists, Performers and Creative Producers across the arts and cultural sector. The Minister is planning to find ways to support individual artists, performers, creative producers and organisations create work in new ways including digital delivery during this difficult time. Speaking to Newry Times, Minister Hargey explained, “I am exploring options to introduce a new £1million COVID-19 Creative Support Fund which will be a mechanism to support individual artists and institutions. “The funding support will enable them to present work in new and innovative ways in the current climate, helping combat social isolation and wellbeing challenges. I will keep this funding amount under review.” She continued, “I have also authorised a donation of £10k to the Go Fund Me “Bread and Butter” initiative which has been created to support struggling artists which give grants of £200 to artists, to ensure that they are able to pay for food. “This funding will support 50 artists through the initiative.” Welcoming the series of measures already announced by the Arts Council to relax funding conditions and exercise flexibility in respect of existing contracts, Minister Hargey stated she wants to do more to ensure Artists and the sector are supported during these unprecedented times. The Minister said, “I have asked the Board of the Arts Council to act within a matter of days to give immediate security to organisations by rolling over 2019-20 grant awards into 2020-21 thereby enabling the advancement of payments. “This, of course, will need to reflect programme requirements, and it will help provide reassurance and a higher degree of stability. The Council itself will provide further detail.” Minister Hargey also paid tribute to artists, performers, creative producers and those working in the arts and creative sector in libraries, museums, galleries and theatres. “I look forward to a day very soon when the libraries, the museums, the theatres, concert halls, community centres and craft fairs reopen. “Until then, I know we can rely on the arts sector to continue to find creative ways to raise our spirits and touch our imagination during these difficult days, evidenced by the recent pop-up gigs which many artists are hosting on social media,” she added.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3436
__label__wiki	0.825325	0.825325	Part of: Race and Inequality Back to package How and why systemic racism harms the environment by Thin Lei Win \| @thinink \| Thomson Reuters Foundation Thursday, 13 August 2020 18:18 GMT FILE PHOTO: Sitting in an overflow room, Flint, Michigan residents watch a live video feed as Michigan Governor Rick Snyder and EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy testify before a House Oversight and government Reform hearing on "Examining Federal Administration of the Safe Drinking Water Act in Flint, Michigan, Part III" on Capitol Hill in Washington March 17, 2016. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque From tree cover to pollution, racism leads to environmental injustice in U.S. cities and beyond, according to a new paper By Thin Lei Win ROME, Aug 13 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Mass protests over police violence against black Americans has led to renewed scrutiny of the links between racism and environmental degradation. Structural racism in American cities - the unequal distribution of wealth and resources to specific socio-cultural groups - creates vastly different neighbourhoods and can reduce biodiversity, according to a new paper led by the University of Washington Tacoma. Why it matters:- Environmental hazards like pollution and climate disasters often have the severest impacts on people of colour, indigenous tribes and those on low incomes. Examples include the lead poisoning crisis in Flint, Michigan and petrochemical pollution in Louisiana's Cancer Alley. "Racism is destroying our planet, and how we treat each other is essentially structural violence against our natural world," said Christopher Schell, lead author of the paper and an assistant professor of urban ecology at the University of Washington Tacoma. How does this manifest in real life? Tree Cover There are fewer trees and plant diversity in low-income and racial minority neighborhoods in major cities across the United States. For example, areas that were "redlined" decades ago, a policy that segregated urban residential neighborhoods principally by race, have on average 21% less tree canopy. Less tree cover means hotter temperatures and fewer plant and animal species. The same phenomenon has emerged in cities in Canada, Brazil and South Africa, according to the authors. These neighbourhoods also have more disease-carrying pests such as rodents and mosquitoes which inevitably affect human health and well-being, they said. Neighbourhoods with low-income and Black and minority groups also tend to be closer to environmental hazards such as industrial waste or dumping sites than wealthier, predominantly white areas. Take the case of Flint, Michigan where the local government switched its public water source from Lake Huron to the Flint River to reduce costs during a financial crisis. The corrosive river water caused lead to leach from pipes. Decades of proximity to pollution have compromised neighbourhood air quality and the respiratory health of the communities and this may have played a role in how they are affected by the coronavirus pandemic, the authors said. "Recent evidence linking air pollution exposure with COVID-19 mortality risk thus indicates direct links among environmental racism, air quality, and disproportionate death rates for Black and Indigenous communities," they said. "Racist research and conservation approaches must be challenged and redesigned to include justice, equity, and inclusion", said the authors. In the United States, the origins of environmentalism were heavily influenced by white men who expressed racist perspectives in their efforts to protect nature, they added. Their prescription? Bolstering public transportation infrastructure, investing in affordable housing and healthcare, increasing economic opportunities, and strengthening voting rights and access. These issues are rarely considered by mainstream environmental organizations but could reduce carbon emissions, dampen environmental hazards, enhance public health, and expand economic mobility of marginalized communities, they said. Coronavirus reveals 'green apartheid' in S.African cities OPINION: Climate justice is racial justice Sierra Club examines racist past, painful legacy of John Muir (Reporting By Thin Lei Win @thinink, Editing by Tom Finn (Please credit the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers the lives of people around the world who struggle to live freely or fairly. Visit http://news.trust.org) We want to hear from you: what critical stories and perspectives are missing from our coverage of systemic racism around the world? Your responses to our short survey will help shape our reporting. You can submit your response anonymously. If you provide an email address, we may follow up with you for more information. Any information you share with us will remain strictly confidential and will be used only in accordance with our Privacy Statement. Race and Inequality	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3439
__label__wiki	0.544331	0.544331	\| Section: Opinion Bowing out “You can’t win every battle. Sometimes victory comes in form of bowing out gracefully.” – Toni Payne And here ends 38 years of The Visayan DAILY STAR, the paper that most of us grew up with up, at least I did. Not a day passes without an issue of the STAR in our home unless something happens that prevent publication. I started my life outside of Bacolod but when I came back and joined the media, it wasn’t hard for me because I was Rolly Espina’s daughter. I remember one visit in Murcia where four lovely single ladies I met for the first time, chatted me up as if I was no stranger. They asked me how each of my siblings were doing. They told me, they too felt the pain we had, when we lost our mom. I thought they were friends of my parents until they told me they’ve never met my Nanay or Daddy but they were loyal followers of my father’s column in DAILY STAR where he often mentioned events in our lives. And that is one strength of the STAR. It had the power to influence and inspire others. Thus, when Tita Ninfa and Carla offered me the space left behind by Daddy, I did not think twice because I may not have been able to fill his shoes in the last three years, but it allowed me to continue his voice. I am my father’s daughter and though extending his journey with DAILY STAR is quite short, I know that he would have been proud of what I have contributed. When TVDS announced their closure last July, I was thankful that Daddy was not around anymore as I know it will break his heart. I know there have been issues even before the pandemic and I’ve done my bit to help out. However, things worsened when the lockdown ensued and advertisers and street sales that kept this paper afloat disappeared overnight. TVDS established itself as the most credible community paper in Negros and naturally, many believers offered to help and bail out the paper. For some reason, management declined the offer and the last statement they issued was this is just a temporary pause while they re-strategize. My heart goes out to the editorial staff, particularly to Carla, Gilbert, Chrysee, Nida and Sir Allen who spent a lot of years working for TVDS. They devoted their lives to this paper and just like that, they are left out in the field to fend for themselves. I remembered how Toks Lopez and I used to taunt Carla whom we would see typing away past midnight as we pass by TVDS on our way home from a night out. We would call and tell her so but she would just laugh and tell us to stop bothering her. That dedication to her craft can never be questioned, yet like all the others, she is now facing the unknown. But as Payne said, not all battles can be won. Sometimes victory comes when one bows out gracefully and Carla and the rest of the staff just did that – they bowed out gracefully with their pride and integrity intact. Former Gov. Lito Coscolluela posted, “Two media icons in Negros Occidental, gone. But the men and women who gave us the news every day over all those years will not fade away. Bangon!” referring to the closure of ABS-CBN and TVDS. Indeed. It is not the end of the road for them as Carla, Gilbert and Marchel continue to write for national media outlets. Some will be moving forward with other news platform and it wasn’t hard for them because they’ve invested their name in TVDS and for that alone, people will continue to look up to them as credible news source even outside of TVDS. Management said they will make a comeback and it will probably be in digital format. When that will be remains to be seen. However, I was told yesterday that none of their existing staff will return and it may take a while to discover and train journalists that can replace the loss of Carla and the rest of the team that made TVDS what it is. It is not management, nor the company board that made TVDS a credible newspaper that survived for 38 years but their pool of talents with integrity. The closure of Daily Star will have a chilling effect on other community papers here and elsewhere. If the pandemic can bring TVDS on its knees, I can’t imagine what the other papers are doing now to continue to exist, unless they are being subsidized. But more than the loss of the employees, the public is the biggest loser here in so far as losing a source of credible information is concerned. My heart goes out to my TVDS family especially to Tita Ninfa, Carla, Gilbert, Chrysee, Nida, Sir Allen, Marchel, Shiela, Che, Lovely, Maja, Weena, and Tatay Ronnie and I wish you all the best in your journey. But as Paolo Coelho said, “If you are brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.”* Farmers receive food subsidy, cash from DA PEZA okays P95-B investments in 2020 ‘Look into termination of Baciwa employees’ Suga vows to go ahead with Olympics POC to lead volleyball polls	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3442
__label__wiki	0.553589	0.553589	Treasurer urged not to overlook pensioners Colin Brinsden (Australian Associated Press) Treasurer Josh Frydenberg is being urged not to forget pensioners as he puts the final touches on next week’s budget. Peak lobby group National Seniors Australia wants a lift in the pension, changes to how self-funded retirees are assessed, and lower interest rates for people using their home as an asset to draw money against. “If you want to stimulate the economy one of the best places to do it is by giving pensioners more money,” chief advocate Ian Henschke said on Tuesday. “The government needs to look at the seniors sector and make sure they don’t forget them in the budget.” Pensions usually increase twice a year in line with inflation. But because the coronavirus pandemic has plunged inflation into negative territory, that did not happen this month. Pensioners have received two $750 cash payments during the pandemic and the treasurer has indicated there will be more support on October 6. Mr Henschke said increasing the pension would be a start, as would allowing more people on to the pension by adjusting the assets test. He believes self-funded retirees need a break, having lost income with dividends not being paid from shares they hold, and because bank interest is very low. “It’s important that the government recognises that older Australians have paid their taxes and they shouldn’t be prevented from getting a pension or part pension.” Mr Henschke also wants to lower the interest rate for people drawing down on the equity of their home to supplement their income. And he said the pension loan scheme rate of 4.5 per cent was way too high. “I would prefer to see the interest rate for the pension loan scheme set by the Reserve Bank,” he said. He is also calling for more money for home care packages for those people who want to stay in their own home and not go to an aged care home, more so after the impact COVID-19 has had on these facilities. Categories: Finance, Retirement Most Recents ASX ends up as early guidance arrives: Wednesday 13 Jan Industry rails against opt-in superannuation model Will COVID-19 cause a baby boom or bust? Latest snapshot of the coronavirus impact: Wednesday 13 January Disclosure: Wealth Wise Pty Ltd ABN 70 104 359 211 is an Authorised Representative of Fortnum Private Wealth Ltd ABN 54 139 889 535 AFSL 357306 General Advice Warning: This information is of a general nature only and has been prepared without taking into account your particular financial needs, circumstances and objectives. Terms and Conditions.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3443
__label__cc	0.595006	0.404994	‘Grassland 2.0’ seeks to transform Upper Midwest agriculture through perennial grasslands October 22, 2020 By Jacob Grace For news media More information With chronically low and erratic milk prices, Bert Paris has controlled dairy production costs with managed grazing. Photo by Finn Ryan Bert Paris loves dairy farming. After more than 30 years, he’s beginning to transition the farm he operates near Belleville, Wisconsin, to his daughter, Meagan Farrell, who is excited about moving her family home to run it. Despite years of terrible headlines about the dairy industry, farmers like Paris and Farrell are bullish on dairy because, despite chronically low and erratic milk prices, they’ve controlled their production costs with managed grazing. “Grazing, financially speaking, was the best thing I’ve ever done for my business,” Paris says. Paris is a participant in Grassland 2.0, a newly formed collaborative group based at the University of Wisconsin–Madison that is working to create more opportunities for grazing and other types of perennial grassland farming. Paris joins a network of UW–Madison researchers, state and local agency staff, milk and meat processors, citizen groups, and other farmers coming together to seek transformative solutions to the growing number of threats facing Midwest food and farming systems. Well-managed grasslands can reduce soil erosion and nutrient runoff, sequester carbon, increase water retention, reduce flooding and support wildlife while providing an income source for farmers. Photo by Finn Ryan The project is bringing together stakeholders to envision and plan a future of profitable, productive farmland that also provides many of the benefits of the region’s original prairie, such as clean water, healthy soil, biodiversity and resilience to extreme weather. Grassland-based farming practices represent a bright spot in an industry that is feeling the combined effects of low commodity prices, extreme weather events, rising production costs, and limited processing and marketing options. Consumer data suggest that while red meat and milk consumption are declining overall, both grass-fed dairy and meat sales are surging. A multi-decade analysis by the UW–Madison Center for Dairy Profitability found that although grazing-based dairies often produce less milk per cow, the money they save by grazing ultimately increases their profitability. The Grassland 2.0 project is funded by a five-year, $10 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute for Food and Agriculture. The project is based at UW–Madison and includes over 30 collaborators from research universities and producers to processors and farm organizations. According to Randy Jackson, a UW–Madison professor of agronomy who is leading the project, the grant represents an important investment in grazing. “We’re going to need farming practices that simultaneously produce healthy food, support thriving communities, and restore ecosystem processes. Well-managed grazed perennial grasslands do that,” says Jackson. “This grant is a major win for thousands of farmers across the state and beyond, and a major win for citizens of the Upper Midwest, who desperately need incentives, expertise, and policies that promote sustainable agriculture.” Meagan Farrell milking a cow in the milking parlor with her daughter at the Paris Farm in Belleville, Wisconsin. Photo by Finn Ryan The benefits of grass-based systems are many, and they extend beyond farms. According to research by the USDA, UW–Madison, and the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, well-managed grasslands can reduce soil erosion and nutrient runoff, sequester carbon, increase water retention, reduce flooding, and support wildlife such as native pollinators, trout and birds, all while providing an income source for farmers and maintaining investment in rural communities. Municipalities and local governments are also investing in grazing. In 2018, Dane County launched a pilot program offering payments to farmers for converting to grassland-based farming systems. The county has since doubled the program’s budget. At the same time, there are technical and economic challenges to entering and adopting grassland agriculture. To that end, Grassland 2.0 will focus on sharing existing information and grazing resources with farmers. They are also working to expand grass-fed markets, identify policy tools that facilitate managed grazing and perennial land cover, and bring together diverse partners at the local and regional level to explore different approaches to expanding grassland agriculture. “We recognize that for restorative agricultural systems to work, we need to do more than just provide resources and information to producers,” says Jackson. “We need to work with processors, lenders, policymakers and state and federal agencies to confront these challenges to agriculture in a holistic way. 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__label__wiki	0.92816	0.92816	NEWS SUMMED UP NEWS SUMMED UP Promote Your Article If you want to promote your articles mail us at newssummedup@gmail.com IPL 2020: Wasim Jaffer names MS Dhoni as skipper in his all-time IPL team ahead of Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli March 29, 2020 11:48 UTC Former Indian cricketer Wasim Jaffer picked his all-time best Indian Premier League (IPL) team on Sunday (March 29). Jaffer picked Rohit Sharma, current Team India skipper Virat Kohli, all-rounder Hardik Pandya in his playing 11 with MS Dhoni captaining the side. Under the capable leadership Dhoni, CSK won three IPL titles (2010,2011, 2018) and will be looking to equal Mumbai's record of four this season. The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the governments all around are urging people to stay at home. According to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), there are 979 confirmed cases of coronavirus cases in the country and 25 fatalities have been reported. Source: dna March 29, 2020 11:48 UTC Coronavirus \| Migrant workers returning to Balarampur village in West Bengal told to live in trees Coronavirus update: Spain, Italy demand EU help; New Yorkers avoid travel Does Shehnaaz Gill think 'Mujhse Shaadi Karoge' stint was 'big mistake' because of Sidharth Shukla? Subscribe and get summarized news of india to your inbox © 2018 Copyright: NewsSummedUp. All Rights Reserved	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3445
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__label__cc	0.670031	0.329969	Once London’s gateway to the world, today this vast area in the London Borough of Newham is one of the UK’s most important regeneration stories. With a total investment in the area likely to reach £8 billion over the next 20 years, the Royal Docks are re-emerging as a commercial and cultural hub of global significance. The NLA Royal Docks Programme works across the public and private sector to engage wide-reaching audiences with this exciting area of regeneration. It will deliver a broad range of activities including breakfast talks, evening lectures, pecha kuchas and half-day conferences. Events will focus on topics such as waterside redevelopments, transport, infrastructure, culture, community wealth building, economy, innovation, public realm, sustainability and net-zero. The Royal Docks Story exhibition in The Crystal and the associated programme is managed by New London Architecture on behalf of the Royal Docks Team, a multi-disciplinary team that brings together officers from across the Greater London Authority, the London Borough of Newham and the London Economic Action Partnership. Waterside redevelopments Culture & Community Wealth Building Industry, Innovation & Economy Public Realm & Open Space Sustainability & Net Zero PROPOSED UPCOMING ACTIVITY Public Realm briefing, March 2020 Waterside regeneration city dialogue, August 2020 On Location half-day conference, November 2020 See live events here Changing places — Working with the community breakfast talk, January 2020 Innovation in the Royal Docks pecha kucha, November 2019 NLA Night at the English National Ballet, November 2019 The Royal Docks Story, November 2019 Homes for Londoners, October 2019 There are opportunities to become either a Champion or Supporter of this programme. To find out more about how you could get involved in the events and output across our platforms please get in touch with the Membership Team via membership@newlondonarchitecture.org Prices start from £4,250 + VAT for 12 month support. City Hall boost for Royal Docks regeneration Mayor Sadiq Khan’s decision to move City Hall to the Crystal Building in the Royal Docks is a ‘real vote of confidence f... Royal Docks Virtual 'On Location' - Enterprise Zone and Global Gateway Our first virtual 'On Location' event explored the progress made in the Royal Docks over the past few years. Royal Docks Virtual 'On Location' - A New Place for People Our virtual 'On Location' event explored the progress made in the docks over the past few years.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3451
__label__wiki	0.69343	0.69343	AASU threatens economic blockade against Nagaland if ‘encroachment’ of Assam land continues by SMITA BHATTACHARYYA JORHAT , November 15, 2020 8:26 pm The Jorhat AASU delegation on way to the disputed area in Assam-Nagaland border at Mariani. Image credit - Northeast Now The AASU on Sunday threatened to launch an economic blockade against Nagaland if the neighbouring state continues “encroachment” of Assam land. The All Assam Students Union (AASU) said they would not concede an inch of land to Nagaland. A team of Jorhat AASU on Sunday visited Nagajanka, the spot where the Nagaland administration had set up a police camp inside Dissoi Valley Reserve Forest under Mariani Range of Jorhat forest division on November 10. The step from the Nagaland administration triggered tension along the Assam-Nagaland border. The next day, Assam Police set up a camp near the spot to stop further encroachment. Also read: Assam-Nagaland border row: Tension continues for third day Hectic parleys followed between officials of Jorhat and Mokokchung districts with the former demanding Nagaland to dismantle the bamboo and tarpaulin structure as it was constructed on the disputed land. A few years ago, the Supreme Court ruled that status quo be maintained in the disputed areas and no state should make any construction until the conflict is resolved. On November 9, Assam Police personnel dismantled a temporary structure which was reportedly constructed by the Mokokchung district administration. Also read: Assam: Karbi students call for economic blockade of Nagaland Just two days after the dismantling of that structure, the Nagaland administration set up another camp at a place about 200 metres away on a hillock which could house 25 people and had a separate room for rations. The AASU unit flayed the Assam government for its failure to protect the state’s land and criticised chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal, who is also in charge of the home department. The AASU leaders said the Assam CM is behaving like a silent, shy bride (Nimati Koina), even after Nagaland managed to “erect two Border Out Posts (BOPs) at Nagajanka, inside Assam territory”. The AASU team lauded the Assam Police personnel for taking up a confrontational position at the place and firmly holding ground. The team alleged that the Assam police personnel were short of food items and drinking water. The AASU team alleged that 82% of Dissoi Valley Reserve Forest had been encroached by Nagaland and they had also built an RCC bridge and electrified the encroached areas. Jorhat AASU general secretary Dip Dutta said the team had gone to boost the morale of the Assam Police but if the government fails to push back the Nagas, then they would resort to an agitation and if required, an economic blockade.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3456
__label__cc	0.643006	0.356994	DJ Kast, Interview with Megan Switzer and the Basics of the CTD/ Rosette, May 28, 2015 Dieuwertje “DJ” Kast Aboard NOAA Ship Henry B. Bigelow Mission: Ecosystem Monitoring Survey Geographical area of cruise: Gulf of Maine Date: May 28, 2015, Day 11 of Voyage Interview with Student Megan Switzer Chief Scientist Jerry Prezioso and graduate oceanography student Megan Switzer Megan Switzer is a Masters student at the University of Maine in Orono. She works in Dave Townsend’s lab in the oceanography department. Her research focuses on interannual nutrient dynamics in the Gulf of Maine. On this research cruise, she is collecting water samples from Gulf of Maine, as well as from Georges Bank, Southern New England (SNE), and the Mid Atlantic Bight (MAB). She is examining the relationship between dissolved nutrients (like nitrate and silicate) and phytoplankton blooms. This is Megan’s first research cruise! In the generic ocean food chain, phytoplankton are the primary producers because they photosynthesize. They equate to plants on land. Zooplankton are the primary consumers because they eat the phytoplankton. There are so many of both kinds in the ocean. Megan is focusing on a particular phytoplankton called a diatom; it is the most common type of phytoplankton found in our oceans and is estimated to contribute up to 45% of the total oceanic primary production (Yool & Tyrrel 2003). Diatoms are unicellular for the most part, and a unique feature of diatom cells is that they are enclosed within a cell wall made of silica called a frustule. Diatom Frustules. Photo by: Steve Schmeissner Diatoms! Photo by: Micrographia The frustules are almost bilaterally symmetrical which is why they are called di (2)-atoms. Diatoms are microscopic and they are approximately 2 microns to about 500 microns (0.5 mm) in length, or about the width of a human hair. The most common species of diatoms are: Pseudonitzchia, Chaetocerous, Rhizosolenia, Thalassiosira, Coschinodiscus and Navicula. Pseudonitzchia. Photo by National Ocean Service Thalassiosira. Photo by: Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute Photo of Coscinodiscus Diatoms also have ranges and tolerances for environmental variables, including nutrient concentration, suspended sediment, and flow regime. As a result, diatoms are used extensively in environmental assessment and monitoring. Furthermore, because the silica cell walls are inorganic substances that take a long time to dissolve, diatoms in marine and lake sediments can be used to interpret conditions in the past. In the Gulf of Maine, the seafloor sediment is constantly being re-suspended by tidal currents, bottom trawling, and storm events, and throughout most of the region there is a layer of re-suspended sediment at the bottom called the Bottom Nepheloid Layer. This layer is approximately 5-30 meters thick, and this can be identified with light attenuation and turbidity data. Megan uses a transmissometer, which is an instrument that tells her how clear the water is by measuring how much light can pass through it. Light attenuation, or the degree to which a beam of light is absorbed by stuff in the water, sharply increases within the bottom nepheloid layer since there are a lot more particles there to block the path of the light. She also takes a water sample from the Benthic Nepheloid Layer to take back to the lab. Marine Silica Cycle by Sarmiento and Gruber 2006 Megan also uses a fluorometer to measure the turbidity at various depths. Turbidity is a measure of how cloudy the water is. The water gets cloudy when sediment gets stirred up into it. A fluorometer measures the degree to which light is reflected and scattered by suspended particles in the water. Taken together, the data from the fluorometer and the transmissometer will help Megan determine the amount of suspended particulate material at each station. She also takes a water sample from the Benthic Nepheloid layer to take back to the lab. There, she can analyze the suspended particles and determine how many of them are made out of the silica based frustules of sinking diatoms. This instrument is a Fluorometer and is used to measure the turbidity at various depths. Photo by: DJ Kast She collects water at depth on each of the CTD/ Rosette casts. Rosette with the 12 Niskin Bottles and the CTD. Photo by DJ Kast Up close shot of the water sampling. Photo by DJ Kast CTD, Rosette, and Niskin Bottle basics. The CTD or (conductivity, temperature, and depth) is an instrument that contains a cluster of sensors, which measure conductivity, temperature, and pressure/ depth. Here is a video of a CTD being retrieved. Depth measurements are derived from measurement of hydrostatic pressure, and salinity is measured from electrical conductivity. Sensors are arranged inside a metal housing, the metal used for the housing determining the depth to which the CTD can be lowered. Other sensors may be added to the cluster, including some that measure chemical or biological parameters, such as dissolved oxygen and chlorophyll fluorescence. Chlorophyll fluorescence measures how many microscopic photosynthetic organisms (phytoplankton) are in the water. The most commonly used water sampler is known as a rosette. It is a framework with 12 to 36 sampling Niskin bottles (typically ranging from 1.7- to 30-liter capacity) clustered around a central cylinder, where a CTD or other sensor package can be attached. The Niskin bottle is actually a tube, which is usually plastic to minimize contamination of the sample, and open to the water at both ends. It has a vent knob that can be opened to drain the water sample from a spigot on the bottom of the tube to remove the water sample. The scientists all rinse their bottles three times and wear nitrile or nitrogen free gloves to prevent contamination to the samples. On NOAA ship Henry B. Bigelow the rosette is deployed from the starboard deck, from a section called the side sampling station of this research vessel. The instrument is lowered into the water with a winch operated by either Adrian (Chief Boatswain- in charge of deck department) or John (Lead Fishermen- second in command of deck department). When the CTD/Rosette is lowered into the water it is called the downcast and it will travel to a determined depth or to a few meters above the ocean floor. There is a conducting wire cable is attached to the CTD frame connecting the CTD to an on board computer in the dry lab, and it allows instantaneous uploading and real time visualization of the collected data on the computer screen. CTD data on the computer screen. Photo by: DJ Kast The water column profile of the downcast is used to determine the depths at which the rosette will be stopped on its way back to the surface (the upcast) to collect the water samples using the attached bottles. Niskin Bottles: Messenger- The manual way to trigger the bottle is with a weight called a messenger. This is sent down a wire to a bottle at depth and hits a trigger button. The trigger is connected to two lanyards attached to caps on both ends of the bottle. When the messenger hits the trigger, elastic tubing inside the bottle closes it at the specified depth. Todd holding a messenger to trigger the manually operated Niskin Bottle. Photo by: DJ Kast Todd with the manually operated Niskin Bottle. Photo by: DJ Kast Manual CTD fully cocked and ready to deploy. Photo by DJ Kast Here is a video of how the manual niskin bottle closes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrqXWtbUc74 The other way to trigger Niskin bottles is electronically. The same mechanism is in place but an electronic signal is sent down the wire through insulated and conductive sea cables (to prevent salt from interfering with conductivity) to trigger the mechanism. Here is a video of how it closes electronically: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJF1QVe6AK8 Conductive Wire to CTD. Photo by DJ Kast Photo of the top of the CTD showing the trigger mechanism in the center. Photo by DJ Kast Top of the Niskin Bottles shows how the lanyards are connected to the top. Photo by DJ Kast The pin on the bottom is activated when an electronic signal is sent through the conductive sea cables. Photo by DJ Kast Using the Niskin bottles, Megan collects water samples at various depths. She then filters water samples for her small bottles with a syringe and a filter and the filter takes out the phytoplankton, zooplankton and any particulate matter. She does this so that there is nothing living in the water sample, because if there is there will be respiration and it will change the nutrient content of the water sample. Filtering out only the water using a syringe filter. Photo by DJ Kast Syringe with a filter on it. Photo by: DJ Kast This is part of the reason why we freeze the sample in the -80 C fridge right after they have been processed so that bacteria decomposing can’t change the nutrient content either. Diatoms dominate the spring phytoplankton bloom in the Gulf of Maine. They take up nitrate and silicate in roughly equal proportions, but both nutrients vary in concentrations from year to year. Silicate is almost always the limiting nutrient for diatom production in this region (Townsend et. al., 2010). Diatoms cannot grow without silicate, so when this nutrient is used up, diatom production comes to a halt. The deep offshore waters that supply the greatest source of dissolved nutrients to the Gulf of Maine are richer in nitrate than silicate, which means that silicate will be used up first by the diatoms with some nitrate left over. The amount of nitrate left over each year will affect the species composition of the other kinds of phytoplankton in the area (Townsend et. al., 2010). The silica in the frustules of the diatom are hard to breakdown and consequently these structures are likely to sink out of the euphotic zone and down to the seafloor before dissolving. If they get buried on the seafloor, then the silicate is taken out of the system. If they dissolve, then the dissolved silicate here might be a source of silicate to new production if it fluxes back to the top of the water column where the phytoplankton grow. Below are five images called depth slices. These indicate the silicate concentration (rainbow gradient) over a geographical area (Gulf of Maine) with depth (in meters) latitude and longitude on the x and y axis. Depth slices of nitrate and silicate. Photo by: GOMTOX at the University of Maine This is the type of data Megan is hoping to process from this cruise. Categories2015, DJ Kast, NOAA Fisheries Service, NOAA Teacher at Sea TagsCTD, dissolved nutrients, flurometer, food chain, phytoplankton, transmissometer, turbidity, water sampling, zooplankton One Reply to “DJ Kast, Interview with Megan Switzer and the Basics of the CTD/ Rosette, May 28, 2015” R.F. says: Very Informative and definitely a good read. Previous PostPrevious Trevor Hance: Permission to Come Aboard? May 28, 2015 Next PostNext Heidi Wigman: The Trigonometry of Navigation, May 29, 2015	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3459
__label__cc	0.683335	0.316665	Lynn Kurth: The Earth has One Big Ocean, June 22, 2016 Lynn M. Kurth Aboard NOAA Ship Rainier Mission: Hydrographic Survey Geographical area of cruise: Latitude: N 57˚50 Longitude: W 153˚20 (North Coast of Kodiak Island) Weather Data from the Bridge: Sky: Clear Visibility: 10 Nautical Miles Wind Direction: 268 Wind Speed: 14 Knots Sea Wave Height: 2-3 ft. on average Sea Water Temperature: 12.2° C (54° F) Dry Temperature: 16° C (60.8° F) Barometric (Air) Pressure: 1023 mb I’m continually searching for ways to connect what I am learning to what is relevant to my students back home in the Midwest. So, as we left Homer, AK for our survey mission in Kodiak Island’s Uganik Bay, I was already thinking of how I could relate our upcoming survey work to my students’ academic needs and personal interests. As soon as the Rainier moved away from Homer and more of the ocean came into view, I stood in awe of how much of our planet is covered with water. It’s fascinating to think of our world as having one big ocean with many basins, such as the North Pacific, South Pacific, North Atlantic, South Atlantic, Indian, Southern and Arctic. The study of ocean and its basins is one of the most relevant topics that I can teach when considering the following: the ocean covers approximately 70% of our planet’s surface the ocean is connected to all of our major watersheds the ocean plays a significant part in our planet’s water cycle the ocean has a large impact on our weather and climate the majority of my students have not had any firsthand experience with the ocean Earth’s One Big Ocean as seen from outside of Homer, AK Each of the ocean basins is composed of the sea floor and all of its geological features which vary in size and shape. The Rainier will be mapping the features of the sea floor of the Uganik Bay in order to produce detailed charts for use by mariners. The last survey of Uganik Bay was completed in 1908 when surveyors simply deployed a lead weight on a string over the edge of a boat in order to measure the depth of the water. However, one of the problems with the charts made using the lead line method, is that the lead line was only deployed approximately every 100 meters or more which left large gaps in the data. Although not in the Uganik Bay, in the 1930s NOAA began using single beam sonar to measure the distance from a ship’s hull to the sea floor which made surveying faster but still left large gaps in the data. Fast forward from approximately 100 years ago when lead lines were being used for surveying to today and you will find the scientists on the Rainier using something called a multibeam sonar system. A multibeam sonar system sends out sound waves in a fan shape from the bottom of the ship’s hull. The amount of time it takes for the sound waves to bounce off the seabed and return to a receiver is used to determine water depth. The multibeam sonar will allow our team on the Rainier to map 100% of the ocean’s floor in the survey area that we have been assigned. Evolution of Survey Techniques (Illustration Credit: NOAA) NOAA Ship Rainier June 22, 2016 in Uganik Bay off of Kodiak Island NOAA Corps Junior Officer Shelley Devereaux The folks I am working with are some of the most knowledgeable and fascinating people that I have met so far on this voyage and Shelley Devereaux from Virginia is one of those people. Shelley serves as a junior officer in the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Corps and has been working aboard the Rainier for the past year. The NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States and trains officers to operate ships, fly aircraft, help with research, conduct dive operations, and serve in other staff positions throughout NOAA. Here is what Shelley shared with me when I interviewed her one afternoon. Tell us a little about yourself: I’m originally from the rural mountains of Appalachia and moved to Washington DC after college. I lived in DC for about seven years before I joined the NOAA Corps and while in DC I really enjoyed cycling, hiking, cooking, baking and beer brewing. How did you discover NOAA Corps and what do you love most about your job in the NOAA Corps? I went to Washington DC after I received my undergraduate degree in math and worked a lot of different jobs in a lot of different fields. In time, I decided to change careers and went to graduate school for GIS (Geographic Information Systems) because I like the data management side of the degree and the versatility that the degree could offer me. I was working as a GIS analyst when my Uncle met an officer in the NOAA Corps who talked with my Uncle about the NOAA Corps. After that, my Uncle told me about NOAA Corps and the more I found out about NOAA Corps the more I liked it. Especially the hydro side! In the NOAA Corps each of your assignments really develops on your skill base and you get to be involved in a very hands on way. Just this morning I was out on a skiff literally looking to determine what level a rock was in the water. And, later in my career I can serve an operations officer. So I loved the fact that I could join the NOAA Corps, be out on ship collecting data while getting my hands dirty (or at least wet!), and then progress on to other interesting things. I love getting to be part of all the aspects of ship life and being a surveyor. It’s a wonderful feeling knowing that what we do here has a tangible effect on the community and the public because we are making the water safer for the people who use it. NOAA Corps Junior Officer Shelley Devereaux manages her sheets during near shore work in Uganik Bay What are your primary responsibilities when working on the ship? I am an ensign junior officer on a survey ship. Survey ships operate differently than other ships in the NOAA fleet with half of my responsibilities falling on the junior officer side of ship operations which includes driving the ship when we are underway, working towards my officer of the deck certification, working as a medical officer, damage control officer and helping with emergency drills. The other half of what I get to do is the survey side. Right now I am in charge of a small section called a sheets and I am in charge of processing the data from the sheets in a descriptive report about the area surveyed. So, about half science and half ship operations is what I do and that’s a really good mix for me. As a junior officer we are very fortunate that we have the opportunity to and are expected to learn the entire science of hydrography. Junior Officer Shelley Devereaux checks the ship’s radar What kind of education do you need to have this job and what advice do you have for young people interested in a career like yours? You need a college degree with a lot of credits in science and/or math. Knowing the science that is happening on the ship is important to help your understanding of the operations on the ship which helps you be a better ship operator. Realize that there are a lot of opportunities in the world that are not always obvious and you need to be aggressive in pursuing them. Personal Log You didn’t think I’d leave out the picture of Teacher at Sea in her “gumby suit” did you? The immersion suit would be worn if we had to abandon ship and wait to be rescued. Teacher at Sea (TAS) Kurth Hi Mom! Happy Solstice! Quirky but fun: For the past six years I have celebrated the solstice by taking a “hand picture” with the folks I am with on the solstice. I was thrilled to be aboard the Rainier for 2016’s summer solstice and include some of the folks that I’m with on the ship in my biannual solstice picture. Winter Solstice 2015 with Sisu (family pet) and my husband James All Hands on Deck! Summer Solstice 2016 Glass floats or Japanese fishing floats are a popular collectors’ item. The floats were used on Japanese fishing nets and have traveled hundreds and possibly thousands of miles via ocean currents to reach the Alaskan shoreline. The floats come in many colors and sizes and if you’re not lucky enough to find one while beach combing, authentic floats and/or reproductions can be found in gift shops along the Alaskan coast. Japanese Fishing Floats CategoriesLynn Kurth, Lynn Kurth 2016, NOAA Teacher at Sea TagsAlaska, Hydrographic survey, hydrography, Kodiak Island, Lynn Kurth, multi beam sonar, NOAA, Rainier, survey, Uganik Bay 2 Replies to “Lynn Kurth: The Earth has One Big Ocean, June 22, 2016” Mrs. Oltman says: Interesting blog! Enjoy your cruise and learn lots! lynnkurth says: Thanks Sue! It has been a learning adventure of a lifetime…I’m pleased to have a bit of time to prepare to share it with my students this fall and a workshop with other teachers from the Midwest in August. 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__label__cc	0.629559	0.370441	Created with Sketch. Nordic.js Nordic.design 2018 logo-final Go to Nordic.design 2018 🎉 UX, UI, design tools, workflows and more Nordic.design is a international conference all about design with speakers from Airbnb, Framer, Minecraft, Toca Boca and more. A place for design & great experiences Nordic.design will take place at Nobelberget, a new international venue for music, art and food – located just 10 minutes from the city centre. Inspiring speakers Tim Van Damme Head of Design at Abstract Designing a highly-collaborative application for collaborative designers It takes a village to raise a child, it takes a team to build a product. Not just any team, a badass team. You want a diverse group of people with a variety of skills, backgrounds, personalities… To make this work, they all need to have one thing in common: The ability to collaborate in productive and respectful ways. Building a product is just the first step. Launching it, maintaining it, making sure there’s market fit all requires the help from another group of people: Your users. How do you turn your users into fans? How do you convince them to report bugs, share feature requests, and be patient when something is broken? Over the course of this talk, I’ll talk about all these aspects, and what we learned building Abstract ( the team, the company, the product). Tim is head of design at Abstract, a tool focussed on improving design collaboration and transparency inside teams of all sizes. He has previously worked on a variety of products like Dropbox, Mailbox, Instagram and Gowalla. Besides work, Tim also sells photography-inspired hats at Bokeh Life and likes to spend as much time as possible with his wife and 2 daughters, preferably at Disneyland. Learn more about Tim in this interview with Central. @maxvoltarhttps://timvandamme.com/ Molly Lafferty Design Director at This Also Designing for Television We’re not only watching more TV than ever, we’re also using our TVs in new and exciting ways. As more smart TVs and connected devices enter the market, designers increasingly find themselves faced with large screens, unique input devices, and evolving user behaviors. How is our relationship to our TVs changing? What are the design challenges unique to television hardware? And how can we build functional, accessible, and compelling TV experiences? In this talk, we’ll discus emerging product opportunities, explore the design challenges unique to TVs and living rooms, and provide a framework for evaluating the usability of an interactive TV experience. Molly is a product and motion designer based in New York City. As Design Director at This Also, she partners with clients to help shape the next generation of digital products. Molly has lead product vision and strategy for companies including Google and Xbox, and has extensive experience designing cross-platform television experiences including HBO GO. @mollylaffertyhttp://mklafferty.com/ Tobias Ahlin Lead Experience Designer at Minecraft Where’d all the feelings go? In a world where “clean”, “minimalistic” and “time-less” are often used to describe “good” design, without questioning the potential drawbacks of subscribing to these dogmas, how much room is there left to express emotion in design? Are these values really fundamentally good, or are they adjectives like any other, and a matter of taste and context? In this talk we’ll look at how UI design is approached fundamentally differently in games and apps, and what the two camps can learn from each other. Tobias is the Lead Experience Designer for Minecraft in Stockholm, Sweden. He also works as an Industry Leader and is a steering committee member at the digital business school Hyper Island, where he frequently lectures about design, front-end development, and data. Prior to Mojang, Tobias was one of the first designers at Spotify, and was early on responsible for the UI design of all their apps. He later went on to work as a Product Designer and Developer at GitHub in San Francisco. @tobiasahlinhttp://tobiasahlin.com/ Cat Noone Founder of Iris The Irresponsible Designer All too often we as designers speak about our need and position of solving problems for individuals on a global scale. We forget that accessibility must not only be part of that discussion, but arguably at the start. That is irresponsible. A designer’s role is to solve the problem at hand and service the business. But how do we approach our work in a way that ensures an experience is equally as meaningful for everyone—including those who don’t fall into the “typical” category? This talk will explore and try to answer this question in the form of tools, workflow, tools and more. Cat is a designer focused on building products that have large and positive impact. She is the founder and CEO of Iris, a Pretty Cool Mom in Tech™, Techstars mentor, startup advisor. In her spare time, you’ll find her working on side projects and eating cookies while reading a book. @imcatnoonehttp://www.heyimcat.com Krijn Rijshouwer Product Designer at Framer Creating a unified design tool for the modern designer Code and design have been at odds for far too long. Framer is a new kind of design tool, combining the familiarity of visual editing with the flexibility of code. By connecting design and code in a single workflow, Framer aims to catapult designers into a future where code is design. Product Designer at Framer. The next generation design workspace, combining design with the power of code. Previously at Blendle. @krijnrijshouwerhttp://krijnrijshouwer.com/ Willow Mellbratt & Petter Karlsson Play Designers at Toca Boca At Toca Boca, we believe in the power of Free Play. Undirected Play. Play that empowers the individual. We are Play Designers and will share how we bring play into our process and work with kids to develop concepts from their perspective that are inclusive, fun, and at their essence, purely playful. Toca Boca is a play studio that creates digital toys and other playful products for kids around the world since 2011. Willow is a Senior Play Designer at Toca Boca with a passion for bringing play into the design process and always advocating the kid’s perspective. After a Masters in Experience Design, Konstfack, Sweden, she sought out how to explore design research and co-creation practices through working with IDEO, Penguin Books and Doberman. She has been working in the digital Industry since 2003 with a focus on children since 2011. Petter is a Play Designer at Toca Boca with a deep interest in play and participatory culture. As a fond believer of the power of play he co-founded the company LajvVerkstaden which uses roleplaying pedagogic to teach at schools and organizations. He has also been producing the live-roleplaying conference Prolog as well as designing numerous larps played all around the world. Petter joined Toca Boca in 2015 and has since been a Play Designer working with the Toca Life Series. @tocabocahttps://tocaboca.com/ Fredrik Öst Creative Director and Founder of Snask Making enemies and gaining fans Living and working by their 10 commandments Snask have built a reputation for creating bold, visually striking commercial design work, that never takes itself too seriously. More than just an agency they also indulge in a number of side projects; having written an international bestseller (‘Make Enemies & Gain Fans’), launched their own beer (‘Shower Beer’) and co-founded a design festival (’Yay’). At Nordic.Design they'll talk about why you should gain enemies in order to get fans and they'll of course bring their rock band Väg. Snask is a Swedish brand, design, and film agency which ranks among the most sought-after in the world of international design of the past few years. Their work is revolutionary and their appearances cause ecstatic responses in the audience from Google HQ and Stanford University to the biggest creative festivals around the globe. Snask is loud, pink, and filled with confetti, champagne & love. Recently they got on the Top50-list of where creatives would kill to work among Nasa, New York Times and many others. @SNASKsthlmhttp://snask.com/ Tove Blomgren Creative Director at Doberman 5 things to avoid when designing for AI AI is finally happening in the consumer space after almost 100 years of imaginative fiction and failed experiments. As designers, we find ourselves equipped with a set of powerful new tools. How we decide to use them will help shape the future of digital user experiences. Can we do better than annoying chatbots and witty female assistants? Could we use AI to achieve less interface instead of adding to the noise? In this talk, I’ll discuss what to consider when designing for AI - and what to at all costs avoid. Tove Blomgren is the Creative Director in Stockholm for Doberman, an international experience design firm based in Stockholm and New York. She has more than 15 years experience working in digital design, with clients like SVT, Nintendo, SR and NYC Government. @dobermanhttps://doberman.co/ Karri Saarinen Scaling design with systems In the last few years, we’ve seen many of the most successful companies launching their design systems. As designers, we are looking in to systems as a way to guide and handle the increasing breath and complexity of our work. But how do unified design systems help companies like Airbnb to design better experiences? What at kind of glimpse into the future of design are they offering us as digital designers? Karri Saarinen is a Finnish entrepreneur and technically minded designer who driving systematic thinking through design. He is currently leading the design systems work at Airbnb in San Francisco. Prior to that, Karri designed and directed design at at bitcoin company Coinbase, co-founded Y Combinator backed social knowledge management company Kippt and tech education non-profit Rails Girls. @karrisaarinenhttp://karrisaarinen.com/ Sofie Björkgren-Näse Lettering artist Lettering - Designing Analog Letterforms Lettering is the art of drawing letters. Creating letterforms by hand is an art form on the rise and is already a big part of design, both graphic design and art. Sketching and refining letters with a pencil into unique and personal artwork sparks your creativity and brings you a sense of calm. Including lettering art in ads, on products and apparel is a growing market. Sofie is a freelance lettering artist based in Stockholm. She is the creative force and founder of Fia Lotta Jansson Design. She has been fascinated by letters and creating letterforms all her life and decided to dive head first into working as a professional lettering artist in 2012. The analog quality of creating letterings using pen and paper is something that Sofie highly values and enjoys. She is frequently hired for workshops as well as organizing her own. She loves inspiring others to create and draw letters. She has done work for H&M Foundation, Foodly, Personlig Almanacka and most recently Levi’s Nordic. @sofiebnasehttp://www.fialottajansson.com/ Carly Ayres Partner at HAWRAF Interacting with People At HAWRAF, we believe that anything can be interactive. Whether it’s a t-shirt, mirrored poster, or job application, we think that the communications you put out in the world should invite someone to say something back. It's that belief that is at the core of our studio and, in this talk, we’ll talk about how interactive communications resonate just that more with their audiences. We’ll talk about how people want to leave their mark and they want to be a part of that conversation. And we’ll talk about a few ways to do that. Carly Ayres is a writer, creative director, and, most recently, a partner at HAWRAF, a freshly minted design studio based in New York. Born out of Google's Creative Lab, the studio focuses on creating compelling branding, marketing & communications that engage audiences in new ways. @carlyayreshttp://hawraf.com/ Kostya Gorskiy Product Design Lead at Intercom Lessons learned in building bots at Intercom Thousands of articles have been written and millions of words have already been spoken about conversational UI. People seem to love and hate bots. Excitements changes for disillusionment and then excitement again. At Intercom, conversation is the heart and soul of our products. We were experimenting with bots to try to find our own way. And we have a pretty strong opinion now. I’m going to share our findings and tell: - do we really need bots - what people feel about bot’s personality - do bots have manners - why do we call our bot introverted - what our principles of conversational design are and why - what to avoid and what to encourage Kostya is the Product Design Lead at Intercom. Before joining Intercom he was the Design Director at Yandex, the biggest Russian internet company. @k00http://gorskiy.com Alexia Ohannessian Director of international operations at Trello Why is the future of your Product global? How did Trello go from 1 to 21 languages with (almost) no investment? Tips and tricks for designing a localized product. The digital industry is a pretty new industry, the localization of digital products is even newer. Trello is a pioneer in its internationalization strategy, sharing our learnings is very relevant to anyone designing digital tools. We will explain how being global is not just about translating but also about bringing the experience closer to your users to make sure it fits local cultural needs. Alexia is director of international operations at Trello, where she launched the product in 21 languages through an innovative crowdsourcing effort and now manages the international marketing and product efforts. She has previously helped numerous companies create expansion strategies for Brazil. Trello was recently acquired by Atlassian for 425M USD. Alexia has lived and worked in three different continents. She is originally from France and lives in Brazil. @AlexiaO_ianwww.trello.com Conference host: Unn Swanström UX Designer at Doberman UX Designer & appreciated speaker. IT Woman of the Year 2015. Making lovely Internet at Doberman. Organiser of meet-up Designers i Stockholm and previously The Code Pub. @unnderbarhttp://unnderbar.se/ Get inspired & learn Nordic.design is a single track conference with 10 talks per day by internationally renowned speakers as well as rising stars. Are you interested in speaking at Nordic.design? Or do you know someone that would give a really interesting talk? In both cases, don’t hesitate to send us a proposal or suggest a speaker. Send talk proposal 500 designers With over 500 designers and creatives descending to Stockholm for the event, and both structured and informal networking sessions provided, it’s a brilliant opportunity for you and your team to forge new professional contacts and make new friends. Share stories & learn from like minded Nordic.design is created by designers for designers. Our ambition is to inspire and to get inspired, to meet and learn from others and to bring our community closer together. Let’s partner up! 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__label__cc	0.590304	0.409696	Rideau Canal tour Protest tour Parliament Hill Tour Indigenous Tour Chaudière Tour Byward Market Tour Custom Tours & Other Services 2020 Tour schedule About the tour guide Brian McDougall Your tour guide is Brian McDougall, a former public servant, university teacher and long-time activist in Ottawa. He is currently an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Indigenous and Canadian Studies at Carleton University. As a teacher, policy-wonk, trade unionist and social movement activist, Brian has lots of experience with Indigenous issues, anti-racism, women’s rights, anti-war movements, the struggle for gay rights, workers’ rights and other social justice issues. He is a member of local organizations such as Solidarity Ottawa, Stop Windmill, the Worker’s History Museum, and Heritage Ottawa Brian encourages you to visit their websites for more information. Solidarity Ottawa Stop Windmill: Student and Labour Allies for Akikodjiwan Workers History Museum Heritage Ottawa Brian’s passion and enthusiasm for telling the unique stories about peoples’ history in Ottawa make his tours inspiring, often provocative and never boring. “An interesting and informative history of the Parliament buildings, a history you will not learn in the "official tours". The history of the workers, of citizens and their struggles to be heard on the Hill while still visiting all the major buildings and monuments - only seeing them through a different lens. Informative and challenging. A great addition for visitors Continue Reading Lloyd H, 2 May 2015 “I've lived in Ottawa for ages and can't believe how little I knew of our city's past. The tour leader has distilled an impressive breadth of research on these subjects, and in addition to presenting an engaging story, is seemingly impossible to stump for an answer to any related questions! It was time well spent and I'd recommend the tours Continue Reading Meredith K, 21 June 2015 “…Brian exhibits a deep understanding of the array of mechanisms employed in…the settler-colonial agenda and its goal of forcing the indigenous inhabitants into submission and off their land - be it through brutal force or entrapment. In addition, he provides insights into the aboriginal resistance and…the multiplicity of strategic visions, ranging from anti-colonial struggle to collaboration…. But the story does Continue Reading Aurora M, 25 July 2015 “Our guide…was excellent, patient, interesting and able to answer our questions. …Brian brought the story alive by painting a picture of the people involved, their problems, living conditions and the way the British commander organised the whole 200km canal dig and numerous locks. He brought the history of Ottawa into the present day too. A well spent 2.5 hours 5Tudor Rose, 26 September 2015 About our tours All tours are $20 (cash) payable at the beginning of the tour. Each tour runs twice weekly: Protest tours every Thursday and Saturday at 10 AM Rideau Canal tours every Friday and Sunday at 10 AM. The 2014 tour season ends on Sunday November 2nd. All tours are by registration only. Tours proceed rain or shine and begin at the giant spider statue (Maman) in front of the national Gallery on Sussex Drive. Book Rideau Canal Tour Book Protest Tour Peoples’ History Walking Tours We are an Ottawa-based company whose local history tours focus on the lives and experiences of the poor, oppressed and marginalized groups usually ignored in official history. Ottawa walking tours with a difference Our tours examine the struggle for justice, equality and freedom by indigenous peoples, immigrant labourers, skilled workers, feminist and gay activists, organizers of the unemployed, trade union activists and many other "troublemakers". Website design and development: Chapter One Studio	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0034.json.gz/line3468
__label__wiki	0.564314	0.564314	Ending cruelty to Scotland's animals Scotland's animals need you! As Scotland's leading animal campaigns' charity, we are always working on several animal welfare issues simultaneously. As we prepare for the 2021 elections, now is the time to seek a commitment for several of these.That's why we are asking for your help. We are asking all parties and candidates to acknowledge that animals are individual beings not commodities, and that decisions affecting their welfare should be based on evidence and ethics. The only way we can apply pressure to ensure animals are not forgotten is to work now - and we need your help to do that. OneKind is calling for Improved human understanding of companion animal needs It's well known that our companion animals provide us with huge mental health benefits; but it isn't always reciprocated. Animals have companionship and mental health needs too. Companionship and the ability to perform normal behaviour are the least recognised of the five welfare needs. This translates into diminished welfare for some pets: a fifth of dogs are left alone longer than the recommended maximum time, 99, 000 dogs in the UK are never walked, a quarter of dog owners use aversive training methods, 2 million cats live with another cat in social discord, half of rabbits live alone and 10% of rabbits never leave their hutch. OneKind is calling for: A comprehensive public education program around companion animal mental and physical health and welfare needs. Measures to discourage the breeding of animals with exaggerated features. Regulation of the pet trade ‘Puppy farming’ is fraught with welfare concerns. These young animals suffer mental health problems due to lack of socialisation, a stressful rearing environment, separation at a young age, and being transported (often internationally) in poor conditions. They also suffer physical health problems due to inbreeding, disease spread in intensive conditions, and lowered immunity due to stress. Exotic species, such as primates and reptiles, are also in high demand and increasingly traded online. Many of these animals’ needs cannot be met in captivity, and online trading increases the likelihood of their being acquired by people without any requisite knowledge of their needs. OneKind is calling for: A comprehensive regulatory and licensing system for all breeding and transfer of ownership of cats, dogs and rabbits. The introduction of a Positive List of species that are suitable to keep as pets. A commitment to decisions based on evidence and ethics when considering any measures that may affect wild animal welfare Scotland’s wild animals are greatly admired by residents and visitors alike. And yet many of them are persecuted and suffer terribly due to their treatment by humans. These cruel practices are often rooted in tradition and entrenched commercial pursuits. They are enabled by value-laden language: labelling certain animals ‘pests’, ‘vermin’ or ‘non-native’ degrades and diminishes them. It is time for this to change. We must stop allowing treatment of wild animals that would be illegal and considered abhorrent if applied to domesticated animals. OneKind is against the killing of animals. However, if it must be carried out, wildlife ‘management’ must be based on evidence and ethics. OneKind is calling for a commitment to decisions based on evidence and ethics when considering any measures that may affect wild animal welfare. This means: Requiring any wildlife ‘management’ proposal or existing regime to conduct animal welfare impact assessments. An outright ban on the sale, manufacture, possession and use of snares. New legislation to make the ban on hunting with dogs effective and enforceable. A full review of the licensing system, to ensure that all general and specific licenses are evidence based and welfare is prioritised. An end to the use of animals in experiments As with wild animals, animals used in research are subjected to pain and suffering that would be illegal if applied to companion animals. Yet in 2019, in Great Britain, 3.4 million procedures were carried out. 18,000 of them on "specially protected" species: dogs, cats, horses and primates. This practice is unethical and cannot be justified, as it is also ineffective. Animal ‘models’ have predictive failures in toxicology testing, a limited translation to humans, and can lead to adverse drug reactions and clinical trial disasters. OneKind is calling for: Promote rapid development and utilisation of alternatives to animal research. Press the UK government to take action to replace animal testing. Make Scotland a Good Food Nation Our current food system is unsustainable and not conducive to the wellbeing of animals, humans or the environment. As part of the Scottish Food Coalition, OneKind wants to change this to make Scotland a Good Food Nation, with animal welfare at the heart of that concept.. Whatever your diet, animals used for food should be treated with respect, dignity and spared unecessary suffering. Farmed animals represent by far the largest number of individual lives under human control in Scotland, with 1.73 million cows, 6.67 million sheep, 14.9 million poultry, and 319,000 pigs. Each being amongst these millions, who we are using for food, thinks, feels and has their own priorities. An unacceptably high proportion of them do not have good lives, and many endure suffering. They deserve better and we can and should shift the priority from producing animal products cheaply to directly supporting farmers to provide high welfare standards. OneKind is calling for: An end to the live export of animals for slaughter or further fattening. An end to the caging of farmed animals, specifically cages for laying hens and farrowing crates for sows. CCTV to be made mandatory in all Scottish slaughterhouses, as previously committed to by the Scottish Government, and non-stun slaughter to be banned. Mandatory method of production labelling for all animal products. Cephalopods and decapod crustaceans to be recognised as sentient and protected accordingly. Re-evaluation of salmon farming in Scotland Unknown millions of salmon are farmed in Scotland. The number is unknown because fish are measured in tonnes not individuals, an affront to each of them and a problem when considering their welfare. Farmed salmon lead a constricted existence, similarly to their terrestrial counterparts. Their physical health is compromised by the effects of sea lice, disease, poor water quality, and genetic selection for fast growth. Mechanical treatments for sea lice are stressful and can cause injury and death. The alternative is using cleaner fish, who also suffer poor welfare. There are additional welfare concerns for wild marine animals in the vicinity of salmon farms. Of particular concern is the use of Acoustic Deterrent Devices, which are used to try to prevent seals predating on caged salmon but can harm the seals and other animals, especially cetaceans. The Scottish Governments’ goal to double the size of this industry between 2016 and 2030 will only exacerbate these problems, as well as the many negative environmental and social impacts. This goal must be re-assessed and the grave problems posed by salmon farming tackled, as a matter of priority.OneKind is calling for: A moratorium on the expansion of the salmon farming industry until the major problems are addressed. The introduction of welfare regulations for farmed salmon. By supporting our work, you are helping us to raise awareness of these welfare issues, increasing public support for change. Your gifts directly impact on our ability to deliver strong campaigns. As a small charity, your impact is huge. Every pound really does matter and makes a difference in strengthening our campaigns to protect animals. Will you donate to our appeal, so we can demand more for Scotland's animals? For full details on how we process the information you give, click here where you can read our privacy policy. We will never share or sell your details with third parties and you can update your contact preferences at any time by emailing info@onekind.org or by writing to us at 50 Montrose Terrace, Edinburgh, EH7 5DL. Donate now and help us reach £7,500 I would like to give... 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__label__wiki	0.938026	0.938026	Revamped Kishorn Port hosts an offshore titan Diamond Offshore’s Ocean GreatWhite, the largest semi-submersible drilling rig in the world, arrived at Kishorn Port in northwest Scotland in January. The arrival is a great success for the port, as Chris Lo finds out. 15 January 2019, an offshore titan arrived at Kishorn Port on Scotland’s north-western coast. Diamond Offshore’s Ocean GreatWhite, the world’s largest semi-submersible drilling rig, has secured anchorage in the shelter of Loch Kishorn while it mobilises for a drilling contract west of Shetland. For Kishorn Port Ltd (KPL), the joint venture between construction firm Leiths Group and logistics group Ferguson Transport & Shipping that manages the port, Ocean GreatWhite’s arrival is an important moment. Ocean GreatWhite pictured in Loch Kishorn. Credit: Kishorn Port Ltd The rig’s arrival marks the first major contract secured by KPL, a milestone that the company hopes will serve as a launching point to reintroduce Kishorn Port to the offshore industries. Kishorn Port played a prominent role as a manufacturing and fabrication hub in the early years of the UK’s North Sea oil and gas boom, employing more than 3,000 workers at its peak in the late 1970s. But the facility suffered as the east coast became Scotland’s go-to hub for North Sea producers. Ocean GreatWhite’s arrival represents the port’s first contract since 1992, when its dry dock was briefly revived to cast two 2,500t concrete caissons to support the Skye Bridge. “This is the first major contract secured by KPL and hopefully will be the catalyst for the wider engagement of the port and dry dock in the oil and gas sector as exploration and production moves westward into the deeper waters of the North Atlantic,” says KPL director Simon Russell. Kishorn’s dry dock and lay-down areas. Credit: Kishorn Port Ltd KPL was formed by Leiths and Ferguson in 2008 to promote and oversee the regeneration of Kishorn’s neglected yard and dry dock, and to re-engage with the offshore oil and gas sector in the region, as well as marine renewable energy developers. “Major infrastructure works have been undertaken over the last two years,” says Russell. “These include the fabrication of new gate seals; strengthening of the two abutments; a concreted access ramp driven into the floor of the dry dock; cathodic protection of all steel retaining structures; and a full set of dewatering pumping equipment installed and the gates verified by Bureau Veritas. KPL is currently installing safety fencing to the gates and quayside and a dry dock drainage system, including oil interceptors.” Archive photo showing the construction on the Ninian Central Platform at Kishorn. Credit: Kishorn Port Ltd Construction of the Ninian Central Platform at Kishorn is the largest project ever to have been carried out at the site. The project took place during the port’s heyday in the late 1970s while it was under the management of the now-defunct Howard Doris. The project saw the construction of a 600,000t circular concrete gravity structure, 140m in diameter, to form the basis for the Ninian Central Platform, which CNR International now operates in the East Shetland Basin. Construction of the platform involved thousands of workers – locally dubbed the Kishorn Commandos – who were housed on two retired cruise vessels floating on Loch Kishorn. Once completed, the platform was the world’s largest man-made moveable object at the time. Ocean GreatWhite in situ at Kishorn Port. Credit: Kishorn Port Ltd Ocean GreatWhite was towed from Singapore to Kishorn via Las Palmas in the Canary Islands over a five-month period, supported by offshore supply vessel the Alp Defender. KPL director Alasdair Ferguson, who visited the rig in Las Palmas while it was in transit to Scotland, said: “I couldn’t fail to be impressed by the sheer scale of the Ocean GreatWhite. We hope that the berthing and support to the rig at Kishorn will herald a new era of engagement in the oil and gas industry at Kishorn.” “The rig is being mobilised for a drilling contract west of Shetland commencing March 2019,” adds Russell. “Stevedoring and marine support is being delivered by Ferguson Transport & Shipping, one of the two partners of KPL.” Infrastructure upgrades will continue at the port to support the offshore industry. Credit: Kishorn Port Ltd The ongoing infrastructure upgrades are designed to reinvigorate facilities at Kishorn Port, with an eye to securing new contracts supporting offshore operations west of Shetland and in the deep waters of the North Atlantic. Russell says decommissioning operations could also become an important source of business at Kishorn. “It is KPL’s aim to make Kishorn a key west coast hub for oil and gas operators particularly as activity levels increase to the west of Shetland,” he says. “Kishorn Port and dry dock are also looking at engagement in the offshore renewables and oil and gas decommissioning sectors. 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